Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1929, Page 13

he b ening Stas. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY JUNE 12, 1929. PAGE 13 * CHINESE GUNMEN KILL INFORMER IN DRUG RING EXPOSE Two Are Held for Question- ing in Death of Lee King. THIRD MAN IS SOUGHT FOR PART IN SHOOTING Victim Slain for Revealing Nar- cotic Violations in District and Virginia. Chinese gunmen early today silenced the Iips of one of their race, who had dared to expose to Federal narcotic officials the ramifications here and in Virginia of a thriving drug smuggling trade. Two men were taken for ques- tioning in the case, after tear bombs had been used in their apprehension. Lee King, alias Ching, credited by Federal authorities wi*h much valuable work in the war on drugs, died from the effect of bullet wounds in his neck and abdomen in Emergency Hospital a short time after he had been found shot on the street. ‘The men under arrest are Moy Ping Ding, 32, and Hume Bosing, 22, who gave as their joint address a laundry in the 1100 block of Fourtenth street. | Both are being held at the first precinct station house “for investigation.” A third Chinese is being sought by head- quarters detectives. Tear Bombs Used at Laundry. Ding and Bosing were taken into custody by Detectives Thomas Sweeney, John Fowler, James Kane and Curtis Fowler, who bombarded the laundry building with the tear gas bombs. A .38 caliber automatic pistol was taken from a shelf in the laundry by the de- tectives. A Chinese known as James Lee, said to have been an acquaintance of King, is wanted by the police, who declare a man answering Lee's description rented an automobile resembling one in which King’s assassins fled from the scene of the shooting, on Eleventh street be- tween L and M streets. The car later was found abandoned near the Four- teenth street laundry. A motorist told police he saw King talking with two other Chinese in an automobile parked on Eleventh street, between L and M streets, and & mo- ment later, while driving back up the street, saw King crumple to the side- walk under a stream of lead from the car. The automobile and its occupants sped away. Dispatches from Norfolk, Va., said that King had been used regularly as an informer by narcotic agents and had testified in numerous drug cases there. He was scheduled to appear in other cases in the future. The agents de- clared King had been helpful in the effort to break up drug smuggling in other parts of the country. ‘Wife Says Husband Worried. Olivia Spence, 24-year-old colored wife of the dead Chinese, who lived with him at 1423 Eleventh street, said today her husband had been working for Federal narcotic agents and police members of the narcotic squad. She sald both she and her husband had been arrested last year in a house on Virginia avenue southwest on charges of violating the Federal narcotic law. “Lee had been all upset and wor- ried lately,” the wife said. “He had acted funny, like something was on his mind. He got back only last week from Norfolk, where he had been for three weeks as a Government witness in a narcotic case. “For the last three nights, a strange Chinese known to my husband as Lee Geen, has been coming around to the house around midnight. Last night, Geen came around about 12 o'clock and asked my husband to go with him to see another Chinese, who runs a laundry. He told my husband that they had some business down there. My husband was reluctant to go at first, but Geen finally persuaded him. That was the last I saw of him. “My husband has been working for the Federal narcotic men ever since his arrest last year” the wife con- tinued. “He has been working lately on_ out-of-town cases.” Mrs. King was brought to police head- quarters this morning and later taken to the first precinct station house in an effort to identify the two Chinese under arrest. The wife said she came to this city eight. years ago’' from Buffalo, N. Y., and had been married to King for three years. They had been living at the Eleventh street address only a short time. James Paul Smith of 1113 Eleventh street, chauffeur to Reede Lewis, patent attorney, of 2124 Bancroft place, was the only eye-witness to the shooting. Smith came to police headquarters this morning and told police he was driying his car past the spot where the Chinese was shot when he saw King sitting in an automobile conversing with two other Chinese. He said he drove back past the men and looked over just as King was shot while he stood on the side- walk. Smith said the two other Chinese immediately drove away and left the man lying in a pool of blood. Smith told police he ran over to the wounded man and asked him who shot him. The victim replied, “Chinese gun- men,” mumbled his name and sank into a coma. Smith summoned police and an ambulance and had the dying man removed to the hospital. Smith was unable today to identify the arrested Chinese as the two men seen in the car with King. BUSINESS MEN TO HOLD ANNUAL OUTING JOINTLY The Columbia Heights Business Men's Association, in & meeting last night at 1419 Park road, voted to hold its an- nual outing in conjunction with the Georgia Avenue Business Men's Asso- ciation at Marshall Hall July 24. The association adopted an_entirely new_constitution and voted to_accept the invitation of the Columbia Heights Citizens' Forum for an exchange of delegates at meetings of both organi- ations. The meeting was addressed by W. W. Couliette and W. L. Ford of the Co- lumbia Heights Citizens' Forum, Presi- dent Christopher Lemkuhl and Secre- tary E. W. Cooper of the Petworth Citi- zens' Association, Milton Vollmer and Walter D, Beller of the Georgia Avenue Business Men's Association. (tood Going to Academy. Secretary Good of the War Depart- ment will’ go to West Point, N. Y. tomorrow to address the graduates of the Military Academy class of 1929 and present them with their commis- B8 second lentanante in the Army. Upper: LEE KING. Lower: JAMES PAUL SMITH. SCHOOL SITE VISITED BY WELFARE BODY Committee Investigates Farm Offered by Fleming Newbold for Industrial Training. A committee from the Board of Public Welfare is making an inspection of a 75-acre farm near Annapolis Junction, Md., offered to the District as a gift by Fleming Newbold as a site for an industrial school for white boys. Mr. Newbold made the offer to Commis- sioner Sidney F. Taliaferro and the Commissioners are considering accept- ance of the property. The land formerly was used by the | Asfferican Junior Republic, a boys' or- | ganization, now defunct. The Commis- sioners were asked to take some action on the offer this week as it is under- stood that a Summer camp organiza- tion from Baltimore is endeavoring to obtain use of the property. This same land was offered to the Board of Children's Guardians several years ago, but was declined at that time as being too far from the District. Later, however, the District bought a site for a home for feeble-minded children about a half mile from the Newbold property. Acceptance Urged. ‘The Commissioners have been urged by several interested individuals and organizations to accept the offer. Judge Kathryn Sellers of the Juvenile Court wrote, “I am well acquainted with the situation of this farm and have visited it many times within the last five years., I personally consider it adapted to the use to which the Newbold family wish to dedicate fit. The farm contains a number of well- preserved wooden buildings which would be used until the District is in :n position to erect modern brick build- s. gs. “This land is located within half a mile from the District Training School for the Feeble-Minded. It is easily ac- cessible way of the W. B. & A. and the Was] n Boulevard. I earnestly recommend to the Commissioners that favorable and immediate action for the mecceptance of this generous offer of the Newbold family. \ “You are thoroughly conversant with the pressing need for the establishment of an intermediate training school for white boys and white girls and colored girls to rank with the school maintained for colored boys at Blue Plains. Disposition Delayed. “There has been much delay on the part of the District in disposing of the property known as the Industrial Home School for white children on Wisconsin avenue and the establishment of the proper school for white boys. The ac- ceptance of the land would enable the District immediately to transfer the white boys to this property and to dis- pose of the Wisconsin avenue property, using the proceeds for the further de- velopment of the Newbold school and establishment df schools for white girls and colored girls. “The establishment of this school and the assurance that it would render the same service to the community render- ed by the industrial school at Blue Plains would further cut down the number of boys committed to the Na- tional Training School.” The industrial school property on Wisconsin avenue referred to in Judge Sellers’ letter will be disposed of by the Commissioners partly by sale and partly by transfer to the Navy Department, as authorized recently by act of Congress. The acceptance of the gift also has been indorsed by the Chamber of Com- merce, Columbii Heights Business Men’s Association and the Georgia Avenue Business Men's Assoclation and by several individuals who have writ- ten the Commissioners. PLAN COLORED PAGEANT. Masonic Order Decides on July 4, 1930 for Big Gathering. | Decision to held a world colored Ma- [sonic pageant in Washington July 4, 1930, was reached at a meeting of the cxecutive committee of the Universal Supreme Grand Lodge of the United Scottish Rite Masons, Inc., held at 607 Louisiana avenue yesterday. The pageant will be the first ever held by colored Masons, as well as the largest gathering of colored Masons ever held in this country. The executive committee of Universal Supreme Grand Lodge includes Rev. R. B. binson. supreme grand master; Prof. J. W. Coles, supreme grand secretary, and ‘V'V':ul(nn Taylor, supreme grand treas- Barbed Arrows ol Plants Make Traveling Perilous on Tortu Island. With Thousands of New Specimens. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. From a hell's cathedral of rock-floored desert and impenetrable jungle, where wayfarers are shot with barbed arrows by bushes instead of savage men, a Washington couple has just returned after a six-month botanical exploration. Dr. E. C. Leonard of the Smithsonian Institution, accompanied by Mrs. Leon- ard, brought back from the desert of the northwestern peninsula of Haiti and from Tortu Island, off the coast, ap-| proximately 5,000 plant specimens, many | of which are believed to represent new | species. Mrs. Leonard is the first white woman ever to have spent a night on Tortu Island, and the first in many years to have gone into the inhospitable desert, where she and her husband traveled by donkey and lived in a tent. Hitherto the country has been practically un- known to naturalists. The Washington couple found the black natives a curious lot, but gentle and hospitable. The same cannot be said for the plants, which are among the most savage in the vegetable kingdom. Jumping Thorns Flourish. ‘The desert and the mountain slopes are the home of the “picquant rouge” cactus, probably the most aggressive of the “jumping thorns.” This plant grows about 2 feet high, and is covered with pads about a half inch in diameter, each pad containing several thorns from an inch to 2 inches long. The slightest jar to the bush will cause it to “throw” these thorns with considerable force. This jar might come from the impact of a mule's hoof on the rocks or even the | stirred up by the passing rider. ‘The thorns move in a parabola, going a maximum distance of five of six feet. Shoe leather, says Mr. Leonard, is little protection, since the thorns will pene- trate it as if it were so much cloth. They will penetrate the flesh for an inch. One thorn of an allied species went nearly two inches into Mr. Leon- ard’s leg and had to be cut out. Each thorn ends in an extremely fine point with a small barb, which makes the process of pulling out the dart very painful. . Botanists Dispute Mechanism. ‘The mechanism which operates these cacti is obscure, Mr. Leonard said, ani has caused considerable dispute among botanists. Some have claimed that the plant has something akin to a nervous system, which is extremely sensitive and transmits stimuli, although operating in a different way from the animal nerv- ous system. Others hold that this is not necessary and that the pads are joined to the cactus by a brittle and fragile connection so the slightest jar is suffi- cient to dislodge them. When this hap- pens the structure of the plant is such that they are projected a short distance into the air and gather their penetrat- ing force from the fall. They never travel in any way but a parabolie curve, which would support a purely mechan- ical interpretation. ‘The hands and legs are the special sufferers. When a bunch of thorns pen- etrates the flesh, the pain is intense and the traveler stops to pull them out. Im- mediately he is bombarded by more pads and is forced to abandon the spot. Bodies of the wild pigs which infest the country often are covered with these thorns. Sometimes they penetrate the eyes. These bushes line trails like impene- trable hedges. They make travel at night virtually impossible, because the wayfarer finds his path in every direc- tion blocked by shooting thorns. Even in daylight it often is impossible to avoid them. The cacti spread rapidly and will completely block off a trail which is not used for a few months. ‘The country is the habitat of other "Dr. Leonard and Wife Return| THORN-SHOOTING CACTUS PIERCES EXPLORERS' SHOES MRS. LEONARD. DR. E. C. LEONARD. strange cacti, among them one new species which is about 2 feet in diam- eter at the base and grows from 35 to 40 feet. At the top the branches of these giants droop over, giving a pic- turesque effect. There are also masses of the organ pipe cacti, growing about 12 feet high and adjacent to each other, so0 that they look like the pipes of & thedral organ. One of the commonest varieties is the snake cactus, which coils around the trunks of trees like a mon- ster serpent. Between the coastal downs and the 4 | mountain slopes, says Mr. Leonard, is-a desert of barren rock, which for months will remain lifeless and colorless. But in cups and cracks of the rock are bits of soll capable of supporting vegetation. So, following one of the rare showers at night, a literal miracle takes place. The traveler wakes to find a great mass of color as far as the eye can see, with the brown bushes covered with blossoms. Conspicuous among these are bushes of the lantana family, about a foot high, which grow in long lines, so that when the wind strikes them after a shower it seems like an ocean of gorgeously col- ored wave crests. Practically Uninhabited. ‘The desert region is practically unin- habited, except by a few fishermen who dwell near the "coast. The explorers were treated with the utmost courtesy, but one day some native saw Mrs. Leon- ard combing her hair and was so im- pressed that all the neighbors were called to watch the sight. From that time on considerable audiences would gather whenever she was combing her hair outside the tent, and they some- times would beg her to repeat the process. The jungle country offered difficulties of its own. Practically the only trails were those made by wild goats, and these were arched with vegetation. so that the explorers pursued their studies by moving through vast green tunnels. ‘The chief fauna of the island consisted of domestic animals run wild, including goats, dogs, cats and pigs. HDGE MOSS DI IOk THO WEEKS Served as Assistant Treasury Secretary and as Ken- tucky Representative. Judge McKenzie Moss of the United Siates Court of Claims, former Assist- ant Secretary of the Treasury and Rep- resentative from Kentucky in the | Fifty-seventh Congress, died in Emer- gency Hospital last night. He had been | il about two weeks. Judge Moss served as Assistant Secre- tary of the Treasury from March 3, 1923, until July 13, 1926, when he resigned to assume his dutfes as assoclate judge of the Court of Claims. Born in Christian County, Ky., Janu- ary 3, 1868, he attended public and pri- | vate schools and subsequently was em- | ployed in the Rallway Mall Service from 1888 to 1891. He studied law at Kent Law School in Chicago and was admitted to the bar in 1893. Judge Moss practiced law at Bowl- ing Green, Warren County, Ky., and in adjoining ' counties. He suckessfully contested as & Republican the election of John S. Rhea to the Fifty-seventh Congress, and served from March, 1902, to March 3, 1903. He was an unsuc- cessful candidate for re-election to the Fifty-eighth Congress and resumed the practice of law at Bowling Green. Judge Moss was elected judge of the eighth judicial district in Kentucky in 1909, and was re-elected in 1915, serving until 1921, when he resigned. He was appointed assistant generai counsel for the alien property cus- todian July 13, 1921, and served until January 1, 1922, when he was made general counsel, He resigned from the latter positign Febtuary 6, 1922, to become dep\fty commissioner of internal revenue, in charge of estate and capital tax, in which capacity he served until his res- ignation March 2, 1923. The following day he began as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Judge Moss leaves a son, McElroy | Moss, with whom he resided at 2410 Newark street, and two daughters, Mrs. Eugene Semonun and Mrs. Arthur Howe, both of Philadelphia. Funeral arrangements are being com- Vioted, JETERERR SEEK HOSPITAL LAND. Appropriation of $300,000 to acquire pproximately 23 acres of land south | ] Hos- Pml, is proposed in a bill introduce in the House today by Representative f South Carolina, a member milifary affatre sammittea Jurist Dies UDGE MacKENZIE MOSS. WIFE FACES CHARGE OF SLAYING HUSBAND Domestic Quarrel Ends Fatally When Man Dies of Stab ‘Wounds. Joseph Middleton, colored, 19, was dead of stab wounds today and his wife, Mary Edna, was under arrest on & murder charge following what police say was a domestic quarrel in their home, 1615 Kramer street northeast. Middleton died in Casualty Hospital last midnight, three hours after the altercation. Ninth precinct police said the husband and wife met in the street before their home, exchanged blows and went inside, still quarreling. The wo- man, neighbors sald, was protesting be: cause her companion precipitated a fight in public. The wife was arrested at Thirteenth street and South Carolina _avenue southeast by Policeman W. C. Perkins, while en route, she said, to the home of her mother. FPolice say she threw the knife used in the stabbing over a fence. An inquest probably will be held tomor- Tow. Lynchburg College Graduates 53. LYNCHBURG, Va. June 12 (Spe- clal).—Lynchburg ege today deliv- ered diplomats to a class of 53 graduates, this being the largest class the college has ever had. The address to the class was by Dr. E. E. Snoddy of Transylvania University. Miss Virginia Shackelford, a graduate of Glass High School, Lynch- burg, was valedictorian and John M. Turner, jr, a graduate of John Mare shell High Dishmand, was salutatorian, | 69, of 760 Newton place, who committed Prayerful Attitude Not Reverence, Police Take Kneeling Couple ~ The kneeling, prayerful attitudes of a gathering in the vestry Toom of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, in the 600 block of N street, early this morning did not impress Policeman Van D. Huges and W. F. Bowers of the second precinct, on their nigthly rounds, and they left the vestry room with two of the kneelers who were forced to put up $25 collateral at the second precinct. The policemen, who arrested John Johnson and Ruth Ransom, both colored, allege it was a num- bers game and not reverence, which_caused the kneelers to as- sume that position. To the kneelers' explanations that they were praying for luck, the policemen replied they would need it when they try to get their collateral back in Police Court tomorrow morning. OPEN CRUISER BIDS ATNAVY SATURDAY Work on Guns and Mounts| Reported Advancing Steadily. While officials at the Washington Navy Yard today reported steady prog- | ress in the construction of guns and mounts for the eight new cruisers now being bullt, interest was directed to the opening of bids Saturday for the five cruisers that are to be built as the first | iot in the recently authorized 15-cruiser program. The new fiscal year, beginning July 1, will not mean any appreciable ad- dition to the Washington Navy Yard force, officials said, but a check-up of figures revealed that the force has in- creased about 75 per cent in the last | three years, until today it approximates 4,900 employes. There are steady additions to the force as time goes on, officials said, depending upon the course of work in the shops, as the Washingtonians turn out the big guns and mounts that will grace the new cruisers. Shipments of the guns and mounts are made as rapidly as they are completed, depend- | ent upon the demands of the ship- builders, Ready on Time. As a general policy the guns are shipped and mounted by the time a new cruiser is sent down the ways, at her launching. Guns and mounts for the Salt Lake City and the Pensacola are now place, officials explained, and guns are now being made ready for the Chester, which is to be launched by the New York Shipbuilding Co. at its Camden, N. J, works on July 3. Miss Jane Turner Blain, niece of Mayor S. E. Turner of Chester, Pa., will act as sponsor at the launching. Another indication of progress in the construction of the eight-cruiser pro- gram is evident at the Navy Depart- ment, with the announcement that Capt, Alfred G. Howe, who has been on duty at the receiving ship at New York, has been detailed to duty in con- nection with the fitting out of the Pensacola, the first in the eight-cruiser program to be launched. Capt. Howe to be in command of the vessel| when it is commissioned, late this year or early next. List of Cruisers. ‘The cruisers in the eight-cruiser pro- gram, which are in varying stages of completion in shipyards on the East and West coasts are: Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Northampton, Chester, Louisvile, Chicago, Houston and Au- gusta. Of the five cruisers to be started as the first in the 15-cruiser program, three are to be constructed in Navy shipyards and two are to be constructed by private shipbuilders. The bids for the five are to be opened Saturday, this date having been set forward to enable navy yards to prepare further estimates on the amounts for which they will be able to do the jobs. The navy yards co: to do the work on the' three cruisers about to be bullt are: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Norfolk, Va.; Mare Island, Calif, and Puget Sound, Brem- erton, Wash, GAS STATION OWNER ENDS LIFE WITH GUN Financial Difficulties Are Blamed for Suicide of Edward A. Creecy, 69. lered available A shot from a 32-caliber revolver ended the life of Edward A. Creecy, suicide early this morning in the office of the Liberty Gasoline Station at 200 Florida avenue, which he owned. Despondent over financial difficulties, Creecy ended his life shortly after 6 o'clock, after telephoning his son, Jud- son R. Creecy, 2230 Minnesota avenue southeast to come to the gasoline station immediately. - Judson Creecy declared his father had worked in his office all night. The son discovered his father’s body on the cement floor, the revolver in his hand and a note nearby. A shot from the gun had plerced the right temple, causing instant death. “Have been going backward for eiht months. I am worrled and all my {n;)ney is gone,” was the message Creecy eft. Dr. H. M. Lowden of Emergency Hos- pital, summoned to the scene, pro- nounced the man dead and notified the coroner, Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, who rendered a verdict of suicide. A plasterer, Willlam Adams, colored, of the 400 block of Neal street, who had been temporarily employed at the gasoline station, informed police he was on his way to the office early today and heard a shot, but, believed it to be the backfire of an gutomobile, paid little attention to it. Arriving at the station at approximately the same time as the son, he observed Judson Creecy enter the office to discover the body of his father, ‘The body was removed to the Hysong funeral parlors to await interment. Mr. Creecy is survived by two sons. Judson and Thomas B. Creecy, both of | Washington. . Accident Suit Compromised. STAUNTON, Va., June 12 (Special). —Upon agreement among counsel for $2,000 plus costs to be awarded the laintiff, the case of R. E. Friend, in- ant, by Katie T. Priend, his mother, against Ethel and Sallie Ruffner of Lexington, was withdrawn from the docket in Augusta Circuit Coutt. Plain- Hff sued for $20,000 for injuries re- celved when a motorcycle ridden by Friend and a youth named Carter, In| trict. They, in response to formal query | pointed out recently that the Commis- EDUCATON BOARD STANDSON FIEURES FOR 191 BUDGET Will Not Submit Priority List to Commissioners, Carusi Declares. CONTENDS D. C. HEADS MUST MAKE CHANGES Action of School Leaders in Regard to Appropriations Is Believed to Be Final, The Board of Education will not transmit a priority list of items to the District Commissioners in their eurrent discussions of the 1931 school estimates, it was indicated today by Dr. Chstles F. Carusi, president of the board. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, may on his own responsibility indicate which, in his opinion, are the more important items on the school budget, but such a list as he may pre- pare, Dr. Carusi said, would not repre- sent in any way the opinion of the Board of Education. Dr. Carusi was asked this morning if the board would prepare a priority list if the Commissioners requested one. He explained that since the board had prepared the 1931 estimates with every | regard to economy, the items included in the budget—specifically those for buildings and grounds—represented in | themselves a priority list culled from a much larger array of needed school system items. Board’s Stand Reiterated. He reiterated the school board’s stand that when the 1931 estimates were sub- | mitted to the Commissioners the board had taken its “final action” in regard to the 1931 appropriations. Any altera- tion of the estimate as submitted by the Board of Education by the Com- missioners before those estimates are transmitted in turn by the District heads to the Bureau of the Budget, Dr. Carusi pointed out, must of necessity be the action of the Commissioners. The Board of Education, during re- cent agitation for more generous ap- propriations for the school system, con- tended that the schools should receive one-third of the total District revenues. In this conviction it was supported by a large majority of the civic and citi- zen organizations throughout the Dis- broadcast by the board, declared their approval of the one-third ratio for the schools. The board has likewise held that when its estimates are prepared they are listed according to the most urgent needs and with a view to econ- omy, and that, further, the Commis- sloners had no right to slash the board’s estimates, but, on the other hand, should transmit them to the Budget Bureau with such recommendations as they may see fit to make concerning the school needs relation to those of other District departments. Donovan Claims Right to Change. On the other hand, Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, budget officer of the District, sloners not only had a right to revise the estimates of all District depart- ments, but are required to do so by a se(étmn of the budget and accounting act. The Commissioners had set in deliberation on the school estimates since Monday, during which time Dr. Ballou has been in attendance with them to furnish information concerning school needs and school administrations which they may need. s CAPPER PROPOSES NEW ALLEY LAW Would Prohibit Dwellings Where Passageway Is Less Than 30 Feet Wide. A bill to provide & new alley-closing law for the District has been introduced in the Senate by Chairman Capper of the District committee. Similar legis- lation was considered but not acted upon in the last Congress. It is prob- able this bill will be taken up at the regular session in December. ‘The Capper bill would prohibit dwellings in any alley which is less than 30 feet wide and which does not run straight through and opens on two of the surrounding streets. It further provides that dwellings erected in fu- ture on any alley or minor street must set back far enough to allow for a 30-1 foot roadway and 5 feet of sidewalk on_each side. Congress passed an alley-closing law for the District a number of years ago, but it became the subject of litigation regarding the exact meaning of its term. The original law contained re- quirements regarding sewer, water and lights, in addition to providing for a minimum width and the requirement that the alley be straight. CHINESE WOI\;I N TO TALK ON ECONOMIC PROGRESS Miss Mary Jen and Mrs. Ying Su Kiang Speakers at Woman’s Party Meeting, Miss Mary Jen of Cnina, founder and president of the Girls' Technical Acad- emy, in Canton, will discuss the eco- nomic advancement of Chinese women at a meeting of the National Woman's Party tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 at the headquarters of the organization, on Capitol Hill, Mrs. Ying Su Kiang, also of China, will tell of her observations on women's participation in the economic life ot China. Mrs. Paul Linebarger, wife of a former judge in China, will be another speaker of the afternoon. Miss Emma Wold of Oregon, treas- urer of the National Woman's Party, will preside at the meeting. Hostesses will be Mrs. Emile Berliner of Washing- ton, D. C, chairman of the District branch of the Woman's Party; Miss Aline Solomons, Miss Laura Berrien and Mrs. Wymond Bradbury, also of Wash- ington, D. C. - . —_— Although he has never had a paint- ing lesson, Hubert Rollett, a Grimsby, England. grocer, has had six paintings accepted by the Royal Academy in the collided with an_automobile on the :l.l;-l,,'n curve at Brands Hill, STORM OF PROTEST OVER ‘DEATH TRAP FOLLOWS FATALITY Citizens Demand Traffic Re- ANN GLENNWOOD WOOLARD. 10 REST JULY 4 Philadelphia Invitation Only One President Might Accept. President Hoover has a number of in- vitations to speak at Independence day celebrations in various parts of the country, the District of Columbia being included, but it is thought doubtful if he will accept any. Present indications are that he and Mrs. Hoover will go for an outing in some isolated part of the country nearby and seek rest and enjoyment rather than indulge in Fourth of July oratory. ‘The President, however, has not made up his mind. It was sald in his behalf today that if he does accept any one of the Fourth of July invitations it will be the one from' Philadelphia, which Gathering ih front of Independence Hal gathering nt of In lence in that ecity. The Prul‘:lee:z believes that with the Independence Hall as a background and the general nature of the Philadelphia celebration a splendid opportunity is afforded for a message to the world, but he has not as yet reached any conclusion. Colladay Extends Invitation. The invitation to speak in Washing- ton was extended informally today by Edward F. Colladay, Republican nation- al committeeman from this city, who is chairman of the Independence day celebration committee for Wasl and Edgar C. Snyder, United States marshal, Who called at the White House and extended the invitation through Secretary Akerson. The latter was ad- vised that the local committee is ar- ranging an appropriate observance of Independence day and that they would be happy to have the President make an address during the exercises, to be held at the Sylvan Theater. Mr. Akerson advised these callers that the President had indicated that he would not accept any invitations for that day, but that if he did, it would be the one from Philadelphia. May Go Fishing. Among some of the other invitations was one from Senator Wagner of New York, to address the celebration to be held in front of the New York City Hall in honor of the 20,000 or more men and women, who have become naturalized citizens of this country dur- ing the past year, and the one from the Southern Editors’ Association, to ad- dress their convention in Asheville, N C. It is not improbable that if the Presi- dent finally decides to not speak any- where on Independence day and to u{e advantage of the opportunity for rest and diversion, he will go to one of his two nearby fishing preserves and mix angling with resting in the open. CAPT. MAJOR IS SENT TO POST AT HAMPTON Navy Air Information Section Director Is Assigned to Tactical School. Capt. Harold C. Major of the Marine Corps, who has aided materially in placing naval aviation on the news map, in his capacity as head of the information _section, yesterday was directed in Navy Department orders to report for duty at Hampton, Va. Capt. Major will leave Washington on June 28 to go on duty to the Air Corps Tactical School, Langley Field. Capt. Walter H. Sitz, now on Guty at Marine Barracks, Quantico, is scheduled to relieve Capt. Major as far as the technical information phase of work is concerned, but it is planned to ass! an officer for duty in the news section. The department not yet has picked & man for this job. During his three-year tour of duty as dispenseer of information of naval aeronautics Capt. Major has had a hand in some of the biggest naval news stories concerning' flying that have | “broken” in the past few years. VISITING HOSPITAL MEN MAKE TOUR OF CAPITAL Surgeons and Executives En Route/ to Convention at Atlantic City Tomorrow. Sixty surgeons and hospital execu- tives representing 26 nations, here on a sightseeing tour of the Capital, prior to attending the International Hospital Congress in Atlantic City tomorrow, were recelved by Judge John Barton Payne, chairman, and the staff of the American Red Cross at national head- quarters yesterday. The party, which is making its headquarters at the May: flower Hotel, is being conducted by Dr. W. H. Conley of New York, mem- ber of the American Hospital Associa- tion board. The party wil go to Baltimore today to visit Johns Hopkins Hospital, after which they will make a stop at Phila- | delphia before going to Atlantic City. Included in the party are a numb- of celebrated surgeons, hospital admi- istrators, hospital architects and d tinguished writers on medical subjec AN S Brandywine Women Elect. | BRANDYWINE,. Md., June 12 (Spe-| cial) —Mrs. W. T. McPherson has been elected president of the Woman's Club of Brandywine, with Mrs. Harry Lusby, vice president; Mrs. Dyson, director; . F. DeS. Canter, recording secre- last six years, and 5o great is the de- landscapes that he has ry; Mrs. Bowers, COITeSpON: sec- retary, and Mrs. H, Blandford, treasurer, J. o e HOOVER EXPECTED lief as Girl Is Killed by Automobile. MAJ. FRANKS ABSOLVED OF BLAME IN MISHAP | Coroner’s Jury Returns Verdict of Accident as Reduced Speed Limit Is Asked. | A verdict of accidental death was | found by a coroner’s jury this afternoon in the case of 8-year-old Ann Woolard, 4514 Connecticut avenue, who was fa- tally injured early last night, while crossing Connecticut avenue near the intersection of Albemarle street, and whose death was followed by a storm of criticism of traffic conditions in that vicinity by residents. Witnesses testified that the driver of the automobile which injured the girl, Maj. Wyatt G. Franks, U. S. A, was driving at a moderate rate of speed when the child darted suddenly into the path of his car at a point more than 150 feet from the crosswalk. Offi- cer Homer Tutt of the fourteenth pre- cinct told the jury that he had tested the car's brakes after the accident and found them in good condition. | Eye-witnesses testified an_automo- | bile was making a left turn into Con- |necticut avenue between Maj. Frank's machine and the girl, obscuring the Army officer’s vision, with the result that he apparently was almost upon | the child before he saw her. “Death Trap” Is Charged. Several prominent residents of the community, among them A. J. Mont~ gomery, editor of the American Mo- torist, and Lloyd W. Patch, a patent at- torney, describe the half-mile of Con- necticut avenue on either side of Albe- marle street as a death trap for pedes- trians, four of whom are said to have been killed in recent years. ‘The District Commissioners and Traf- fic Director Harland have been ti- tioned to reduce the 30-mile speed limit in this vicinity and post a traffic offi- cer at the intersection until a traffic P:dl.‘: can be installed, Mr. Patch said Y. ‘The Forest Hill Citizens’ Association was represented as favoring these rec- ommendations. At the point in ques- tion, Connecticut avenue sjopes souti- ward, offering an inducement for mo- torists to s up and making it diffi- cult for them to halt abruptly, Mr. Patch pointed out. Threaten Congressional Action. Citizens announced that if no im- mediate action is taken by District au- g:;lfluu.mmwfllbepmnmw gress. Both Mr. Patch and Mr. Montgomery said that traffic relief measures at this intersection had been repeatedly sought without result. The little girl was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Woolard of the Ponce de Leon Apartments. The par- ents were informed she was crossing at the intersection when the accident befell her. The child was dragged for some 30 feet beneath the automobile, bystanders said. She was removed to Emergency Hos- pital and treated for a fractured skull and internal injuries, but died shortly before midnight, after doctors had waged a valiant fight for her life. NYE MAKES PLEA FOR BETTER SCHOOLS | Stresses Particular Need in Chevy Chase in Address Before Home and School Association. Senator Nye of North Dakota entered a plea for better school facilities in the District of Columbia, particularly in the vicinity of Chevy Chase, in an ad- dress before the Home and School As- sociation in the assembly room of the Methodist Home, Connecticut avenue and Elliott street, last night. ‘The Senator pointed out that it was doubtful whether any city in the United States had fallen so far behind in ade- quate school facilities and equipment as ‘Washington, due to inadequate appro- priations. He suggested as a remedy that the association send a committee before Congress at the regular session his Fall to point out the existing defi- clencies and ask for better school facili~ ties in the vicinity of Chevy Chase. He also advocated the abolition of portable schoolhouses as being both impractical and unsafe. TAFT, FULLY RECOVERED, TO LEAVE FOR CANADA Chief Justice Looks for Restful Va- cation, but Plans to Review Several Cases. By the Associated Press. Fully recovered from the ailment which sent him to a hospital, Chief Jus- tice Taft reserved railroad accommoda- tions to leave late today for his Summer home at Murray Bay, Canada. All of his household, except Mrs. Taft, who remained in Washington to accompany the Chief Justice, already is installed the Summertime home. Feeling much benefited by the Hos- rlm treatment, the Chief Justice is looking forward to a restful vacation, during which, however, he will not be free of the cares of his high office. He will undertake, before his return to ‘Washington, a review of a number of cases now before the court, and will give attention to other court business while enjoying the friendships he has built up at Murray Bay. BLACK RESTING BETTER. Senator’s Wife Says Patient Ap- pears to Be Improved. Senator Black of Alabama, who re- ‘ntly underwent an operation at Wal- r Reed Hospital, today was reported 2 be “resting better.” Mrs. Black, who is constantly in at- iendance, said that the patient’s tem- perature was normal and that he ap- peared to be improved. Although the operation, which re- vealed a well developed goiter, was more serious than at first anticipated, the Senator's condition, hospital officlals raid, was entirely satisfact . One td two months will be required for his full Tecovery.