Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1929, Page 17

Uhe WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Foening Star. 'ON, D, C, PAGE 17 ARTIAN STUDIES TRACTION RECORDS | IN PLEA FOR RAISE Vice Chairman of Commission Delves Into Financial History of Line. BACHMAN CONSIDERS AUTO REGISTRATION GAIN | Ttilities Body Launches Into Task of Preparing for Hearing July 22. Preparations for the public hearing| July 22 on the Capital Traction Co.’s | application for a higher fare were start- | ed intensively today at the Public Util- ities Commission. Harleigh H. Hartman, vice chaitman | of the commission, denied himse} to| visitors and plunged into an exhaus- tive study of the operating and finan- cial history of the company since 1917 when car tickets were sold by the strip at the rate of 6 for 25 cent At the same time, Byars McK. Bach- man, the commission’s chief accountant, undertook a research of automobile | registration records in the District, which is designed to show upon com- pletion the effect of the ever-increasing | use of the private automobile on the operating income of the car companics Piled high on Mr. Hartman's desk | are official copies of the Capital Trac- tion Cos annual year books, dating! back to the period before the war. | These books graphically describe the changes that have taken place in the transportation situation in the District and from them the new commissioner expects to find much valuable informa- tion for use in connection with the forthcoming rate hearing. | Growth of Car Use Pictured. | . Mr. Bachman alreadv has obtained most of the data for his study from the office of Wade H. Coombs, super- intendent of licenses of the District, and while a comparative analysis is as yet uncompleted, it has presented him Wwith an impressive picture of the growth of the use of the private automobile. For instance, he found that 7,941 more automebiles were registered in 1926 than in the preceding year, while the increase on January 15 this year was 9705 greater than the total registra- tion for 1928. ‘The purpose of Mr. Bachman'’s study, ft was said. is to show that a higher fare probably will not aid materially the financial condition of the Capital Traction Co., since the Increasing use of the private. car for transportation likely will continue, especially if fares are raised. Attaches of the commis- | sion point out that a 15 per cent reduc- | tion in revenus passengers has followed | cach of the fare increased since 1917 | and there is reason to believe thet a fare raise at this time likely would have | the same effect. In fact, John H. Hanna, president of | the Traction Co., in a statement which | accompanied the application for a fare raise, explained that the private auto- | mobile is responsible for the constant | reduction in business. | | | precipitated a fight. SET NEW | 1 | | | | | who descended to | morning. | —Star Staff Photo. Left to right: P. J. Hoy and Ed Kalinoski, Navy diver: a theoretical new record depth in tests at the navy yard t TURKISH ATTACHE AUTO CRASH FAILS FREED OF ARREST TOHALT D.C. TRP | | | Embassy Officer Is Extricated | Two Teachers Are Undaunted Frem Fairfax Fistic by Accident—Both Are Dispute. Injured Slightly. Halted while driving through Fairfax, | Undaunted by an accident which sent Va., F“irida.v ntlght. lfer‘v;’al l%]fl':(flnfi’ Bey, | (hem both to & Zanesville, Ohio, hospital | second secretary of the Turkish em- g bascy. beoame. involved in A fist fight |1st night for emergency treament and with Deputy Sheriff Wilson Darr and | their automobiel to a garage for repairs, Virgil Williams. State prohibition en- | Miss Cora Bowen and Miss Ella Barker, | fcreement officer, when they placed | school teachers of this city, will resume | e R | a motor trip to their homes here tomor- | According to reports from Fairfax, | # motor trip to 5 | the two officers became suspicious of | Tow, according to dispatches received | a car being driven through the town | today from the Ohlo City. y_some one believed either under the i | influence of liquor or who evidently did | Miss Bowen, daughter of J. Chester | not know much about driving. ~The | Bowen, chief statistician of the Bureau | car and its two occupants were halted, |of Labor Statistics, Department of | it was said, and efforls of the officers 10 | Labor, and niece of Patent Commis- enforce their orders to the driver to re- | 4 port before Mayor Thomas P. Chapman, | Sloner Thomas E. Robertson, and Miss Barker, sister of Miss Adelaide Barker While admitting that he had had an | of the American Red Cross, were in- | encounter with the two officers Djenany | jured slightly last night when their car Bey said today he was certain his ar- | overturned near Zanesville. rest was due fo mistaken identity. He| First Associated Press dispatches re- claimed that one of the officers struck | ported hospital authorities as believing | the first blow while he was protesting | the women were more seriously hurt, | against being halted, and that he | but Mr. Bowen was advised today by | fouzht back in self-defense becau: “We have practiced strict economy in | operation,” he said. “We have hoped | énd believed that the inroads of the | private automobile would lessen. They | have not. Nor would the most optimis- | tic street railway man forecast when they will, although all are convinced | that future cily growth and develop- ment will continue to depend on high- grade public transportation by street car and bus.” The procedure to be followed at the hearing on the higher fare petition | has not been mapped out, but there | are indications that the commission is not going to consider the com- pany’s legal right to earn a fair re- urn on its valuation as the only fac- tor in the case. The value of the service rendered | by the company, an important ele- ment_taken into consideration by the Interstate Commerce Commission in yate making cases, it is understood. is to be one of the principal factors | weighed by the utilities commission, Revaluation Move Denied. ‘There also are rumors that the com- mmission may order a revaluation of not | only the Capital Traction Co. but the | Washington Railway & Electric Co. as | well in order to check a possible fare | increase at this time, but it was learned authoritatively that such a move is not | now in contemplation. The commission, | however, it was said, may consider the need of a revaluation of the traction | properties, but definite action would not be taken until all evidence had besn submitted in the fare hea A revaluation, it was pol 'would take two years or longer. during which car fares would remain un- changed unless the companies resoried to mandamus proceedings in the court | tn compel an increase pending comple- | tion of the inventory. CAPT. MONTGOMERY TAKES POLICE POST Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, Field Ar- tillery, U. S. A. today officially as- sumed his post as superintendent of the United States park police. At the same time, his predecessor, Capt. M. H dParsons, Cog-t Artill U. S. A, went on leave and took over his temporary | post as general mana: of the Hains Point unit of the Potomac Speed Boat Corporation. A flying service also is conducted 2t Hains Point. under a re- | Juted firm, International Airways, In and Capt. Parsons also will bs connect ed with that organization. Capt. Parsons is on leave from the sorvice until early in the Fall, when he | | reports to the Coast Artillery School, at {'Fort Monroe, Va. Capt. Montgomery His beginning a four-vear tour of duty Sunder the direction of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. director of the Office of Pub- "lic Buildings and Public Parks. | eapiain reported some days ago from Tort Hoyle for duty and has been re. | coiving instructions in his new dutics “grom Capt. Parsons. The Potomac Speed Boat Corporation proposes to inaugurate a ser # Mount Vernon in the near future, # present it conducts a sigh'-seeing serv- jre by speedboat in the vieinity of the Army War College and the Naval Air f Etation, at Anacostia. PORTNER'BUFFET RAIDED. Sergt. George Little and the liquor rquad raided the Portner Buffet on Saturday and arrested three men on charges of illegal possession of liquor. Pred Prancis Saffell, 20 years old; Jacob Henry Dougherty, 26, #nd Ken- neth Brooks, 26, colored, were arrested A search of the premises revealed 13 Guarts of liquor, Sergt. Little said. He was accompanied by G. C. Devoe, *7.. 0. Montgomery and Leo Murray, Tizmbers of the squad. X | would be able to continue their journey | When the Turkish officer finally was | tomorrow. The automobile will be ready | arraigned before Mayor Chapman, he | by that time, it was said. produced his diplomatic card and| Miss Bowen, who has claimed immunity from arrest. A con- | School in Oak Park, IIL, resides during | ference was held and Commonwealth's | VAcation with her father and mother at | Attorney Wilson Farr was summoned |6 West Melrose street, Chevy Chase, he | long-distance telephone that the' two | was not aware that they were office been teaching | WASHING DIVERS SET DEPTH | Hoy, | pressure tank was fed air until within | Bhe Sten SgE e ? FeACHED | Lovercheek, Wyomin | the Navy Yard being on hand. i | test. | to feel a little light-headed from the | ance by telephone to the mayor's office, After Md., the home of Commissioner Rob- ertson. Miss Barker, owner of the au- tomobile in which the two were riding, has been teaching in Indianapolis and is from 144 Twelfth street northeast. satisfying himself that the driver of the car was a member of the Turkish embassy staff, he instructed the officers to release Djenany Bey. MONDAY, JUNE REGORD BY LSE OF SUB SHFETY NG Two Descend to 357 FEET in Navy Air Pressure Tank With Device. 305-FOOT MARK FIXED IN SALVAGE WORK FALLS Neither Harmed by Experience With Force Held On Two Minutes During Test. The world diving record was smash- | th the aid of the “lung” the| Navy's new submarine escape device, in a pressure tank at the Washington | Navy Yard this morning, Chief Torpe- | domen Edward Kalinoski and P. J.! Navy divers, going to a record coretical depth of 357 feet. The old mark was 306 feet, estab- | lished off Honolulu in the Spring of | 1915, when four Navy divers, among | them Frank Crilley, foremost diver of | the country, were working to salvage | the sunken submarine F-4. i Actually Kaiinoski and Hoy were only | in 6 feet of water this morning when they made their record, but the new th the tank the pressure reached 155 pounds (gauge) per square inch. the pressure they would find 357 feet below the surface of the sea Holding onto weights placed in the | bottom of the tank, Kalinoski and Hoy | ducked under the water in the tank and held on while the pressure, simulating | deep sea conditions at 357 feet was held on for two minutes. | Both men came out, after the usual | decompression period, none the worse | for their experience, and confident that the “lung” would withstand pressures | which would be encountered down as | deep as 400 feet. | Wore Only Bathing Suits. | The most remarkable part of the feat | is that while the divers who went down | 306 feet in their efforts to salvage the | F-4 wore the heavy, cumberson diving suits in use by the Navy, Kalinoski and Hoy wore only bathing’ suits and th small and flimsy-looking “lung” | apparatus. | The record dives were made without | any show, only Frank M. Hobson, a civil engineer 'attached to the Bureau of Construction and_Repair of the Navy Department and Chief Gunner Clarence | L. Tibbals, co-inventors of the “lung” and attendants of the diving school at | Through the glass ports in the sides | of the big pressure tank, which is built | to withstand 400 pounds air pressure, the two men could be seen during thc | “Light-headed” at 75 Feet, | The divers, emerging from the tank. | said that they did not feel any ill ef- | fects from their experience under water | pressures nevery before withstcod by | man_ At about 75 feet under the simu- | lated conditions, they said, they begar pressure, but from then on it was just like any other dive or taking pressurs in the decompression tank. While they were in the tank, under | water, both men were whipped about violently by the ever-increasing buoy- of the oxygen bags of their “lungs.” Chief Gunner Tibbals, who handled the valves and superintended the record attempts of the two divers, was in con- stant touch with the men through a | previously arranged system of signals by | taps on the walls of the tank. Moisture in the Home. The assertion was made that our homes would be much more comfort- able in Winter were the interfor not so | dry. Thermal engineers have assertedy that on a zero day as much as a bath- tub full of water, or from 12 to 20 gal- lons, should be evaporated in a homs | to keep it at the comfort point. Miss Bowen had accepted the invita- | tion of Miss Barker to drive to Wash. ington upon the close of school. Ac cording to the Associated Press, the au- | tomobile skidded in passing another car | on a curve and overturned on a bank. | Both occupants were cut and bruised. | Miss Bowen's father was ready fo take a train for Zanesville this morn- | ing when he received word that his| daughter and Miss Barker were able to | VETERAN. 98 TODA LAST MEXICAN WAR SURVIVOR D. C. Resident Attributes Y. BECOMES proceed. | | | | | | The | Longevity to “Good Care” at Dickson Home. Death of Missouri Soldier Makes Aged Campaigner } Nation's Last. ‘ | Owen Thomas Edgar, mentally alert | and surprisingly strong for his ad- | vanced age, awoke at the John Dickson Home here this morning to celebrate | | his ninety-eighth birthday anniversary and to find himself the last surviving American veteran of the Mexican War. _The next to the last survivor, Wil m Fitzhugh Thornton Buckner, diec sterday at his home in Paris, Mo., | of 101 years. \ T'm still here, but I gue there 1S not much left of me,” sais | Mr. Edgar with his usual good humor. | "You are a pretty vigorous looking man o be 93 years old,” said one of the nurses at the home, which is at 000 Fourteenth street | “If Tam it is.due (o the { you have taken of me here, veteran His _daughter, 1812 Park road, N THOMAS EDGAR. Modest about his own achi:vements, Mr. Edger does not like to talk about his part in the Mexican Wa when reporters come to e write him up." ood care Born in Philadelphia. aid the | Born in Philadelphia June 17, 1831, Mrs. Philo L. Bush, | arrived with flows | and candy, and more flowers and cancy | were brought to his room by attendants | | 3{ the home in celebration of his birt ay. city undil h> enl ouibreak of the war with Mexico. served as a private on the United States frigaie Potomac 2nd on the frigate | Allegheny. Coming to Washington in 1861, or as | he describes it himself, “at the outbreak of the rebellion.” he was employed at the Bureau of Engraving and Prinvng and worked there for 21 years. Then he went to the Columbia National Bank, where he worked for 31 years. He wns retired from tho bank in 1919 A Great Joker. “Mr. Edgar is a great joker,” said one of the nurses this mornng. “He en- joys his meals, never missing any. He eats everyihing—roast beef, pork, lamb, vegetables, fruits and lots of sugar and jcandy. He has a very sweet tooth, and H.F. HARDING HELD .Defendant Waives Prelimi- nd he is shv | | | | | Mr. Ecgar worked as a printer in that | ted in the Navy at the | He | with Harding. Harding is said to have likes, too, to keep candy on hand to and then wen. to live at the John Dick- give to others | son Home. Since he suffered an attack of | For many yi grippe about a year ago Mr. Edgar has | in church worl e Waugh been taking his meals in his room, but | Methodist Ipiscopal Church as soon as he comes into the corridor every day to [he came to this city and taugh: a Sun- set his clock and watch by the grand- |day School class for year: father clock there and he frequently| The death of Mr. Buckner, next to goes (o the library to select books and |the last Mexican War survivor, came magazines he w.shes to read. unexpeciedly soon after he arose at 6 Although his eyes are rapidly fail-|o'clock yesterday morning. From 1871 ing, he is siil able to read with the|lo 1912, when he retired, he had been aid of a magnifying glass. a banker at Paris, Mo, where he spent Seeing this morning the press dis-|most of his life after the war. He cele- patch from Paris, Mo, telling of the|brated his 101st birthday last Janu- death of Mr. Buckner; next to the last | ary 27 survivor of the Mexiran War, he called | His health had been generally good it to the attention of the attendants at |and he had been able to be out and the home and ssemed pleased he has | around his home almost every day =ince survived to be the Iast mageon the, list | his reiirement from busincss. Only las of the veterans of that eol Friday he walked downtown. s Mr. Edgar was active | einct In this way, both men inside the tank were | able to tell those outside just how things were going with them inside. Lung Is Ascending Device. Chief Gunner Tibbals, after the men had emerged from the tank, declared | that the “lung,” primarily an escape apparatus, could not be used with any measure of success in actual diving and salvage work. “It is an ascending, not a descending device,” he said. “The | experiment today proves conclusively | that men can come out of submarines at a depth of 350 feet or more and ascend to the surface without ill effects, | provided they follow the simple in- structions for ~decompressing them- selves on the way up. The deepest previous test for the ! “lung” in actual submarine escape was made last Winter, when Navy divers escaped from the’ reconditioned Navy submarine S-4 225 feet waters off Key West. in Florida | ONGIRL'S CHARGE: nary Hearing for Alleged Attempted Assault. Waiving a preliminary hearing after pleading not guilty, Harry Francis Harding, 23 years old, of the first block of New York avenuc, was held for the grand jury on a charge of attempted | criminal assault, following his arraign- ment in Police Court toda; Assistant United States Attorney Irvin Goldstein said today that a 15- year-old girl, Mary Leonard Grace, 2028 Thirty-seventh sireet, complained to | police of the fourteenth precinct, aceus- ing_Harding of attempted assault. Che declared that on Saturday night party, including herself, Harding, Robert Roe, two other girls and another man, went to a local hotel to dance. After dancing they went to the apart- ment of Roc, temporarily residing at the hotel. Arriving at Roe's rooms, the girl de- clared they were served liquor. The rest | of the party left the room, leaving her | trempted to assault her, but after being | severely braten, according to police, she managed to escape and fled trom the hotel. Detective J. W. Casey and Policrman | T. W. Patterson of the fourteenth pre- were summoned and arrested Harding, charging him with assault. Roe was also taken into custody as a | United States wiiness and later released under $200 bond. Guides Service Meeting. An organization mesting of the Guides Service of the District of Col- umbia will b> held at future head- quarters of the organization, 935 New York Avenue at 6:30 o'clock fonight, John C. Hall of the Washington Tour- ist Camp will conduct a discussion of the future by-l and my the nrnnlnun’ COLORED CROWD | officer’s assailants today | stitches in the scalp. A group of the members of the Omnibus College, now at the tourist camp in Potomac Park. Left to right, sitting: Marie Pugh, Colorado; Flossy Bayne, Texas; Louise Robb, Missouri; Flo Dial, Oklahoma; Mildred Metzger, Kansas, and Standing: Marge Townsend, Arizona: Dolores Wolfe, Nebraska; Sally Newell, Tennessee: Marie Maud Madelene, Oregon, and Mary Taliaferro, Arkansas. Carrol Pittchers, Tow: 17, - 1929 | 1 { —Star Staff Photo. BEATS POLCEHAN Officer Is Attacked While Arresting Leader After Dance Hall Fight. When he attempted to place one of their number under arrest for disorder- | ly conduct early this morning, Police- man_Herbert M. Smith of the eighth | precinct, was attacked ‘and beaten by | a crowd of colored men in front of a | dance hall at Twelfth and U streets. | As they fled he fired two shots into the air fo intimidate them, but failed to halt them. Police, however, are ex- | pecting the apprehension of one of the when it is thought he will apply at some hospital for treatment of the scalp wound in- flicted by Smith's baton, Three Stitches in Scalp. Smith was treated first at Freedman's | Hospital- by Dr. John West for a badly bitten right thumb and a gash on his head, caused by a heavy blunt instru- ment. It was necessary to take three | Later he went to Emergency Hospital and had his thumb treated again before going to | | his home at 2515 Thirteenth street. The altercation occurred about 1| o'clock this morning. Smith was pa- | | trolling his beat through Temperance court when a man ran up to him and | told him that there was a fight at the dance hall. When he arrived the fight CHINESE CHARGED WITH KING DEATH CLAIMS HE SUFFERED FROM “STAGGER FEVER” | Instituting a defense plea that he was.| afflicted with “stagger fever,” Jack Hal- lins, colored, a deaf mute from Balti- more, escaped conviction on an intoxi- cation charge, when arraigned before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court today. Arrested by Policeman R. E. Williams of the second precinct, Hallins appeared in court, but was forced to exchange notes with a probation officer in order to_inform the judge of his plight. In his note, Hallins said: “Your honor, I was stricken with fever when 16 years old and have been unable to hear or speak since.’It is true that I walked like a drunken man last night, but a staggering manner comes over me when it gets dark. It is staggering fever. I have been arrested numerous times by that same mistake, but a good | doctor will tell you the truth.” | Dismissing the charge, Judge Schuldt | ordered him to return to Baltimore and attempt to get treatment. Coroner’s July Implicates James Lee and Lee Din at Murder Inquest. 1 After hearing meager evidence of the was over, but a large crowd of colored | Slaying early Wednesday morning of | men was in front. | Lee King, Chinese Federal narcotic in- | “I picked out the ringleader and |former, in the presentation of which, laced him under arrest,” Smith said, | Police apparently withheld showing | He twisted and tried to hit me with | their complete hand, a coroner's jury | | jJumped me. IHEAT PERIOD CONTINUES. his fists and then the whole gang 1 went down. It was| while we were on the ground that my | prisoner bit me on my right thumb. I| hit him on the head several times with | my baton and then managed to get to | my_feet. “I grabbed him by the collar and trouse: and started to hustle him to the patrol box. Just then some one | hit me on the head from behind. The | force of the blow knocked me down. | By the time I could struggle to my feet again the crowd was a block away. 1| fired my revolver in the air twice, but | it didn't do any good." Irving Lubon of 2544 Seventeenth | | street, who was driving past, took the | officer to the hospital in his car. | this afternoon brought in a verdict that the Chinese was killed by James Lee | and Lee Din, said to be professional Chinese gunmen. Assistant United States Attorney J. V. Connoly, who appeared at the hear- ing for the Government, said he was afraid to put all his witnesses on the stand because he thought it would | greatly hamper police in their attempt to apprehend the killers, and to impli cate certain wealthy Chinese of Was ington, who are thought to have em- | ployed men who did the shooting. | Not a single Chinese was present at | the inquest, either as witness or spec- tator. Only two witnesses took the | stand. The first was Dr. Nathan N.| Smiler of 1912 Sixteenth street, who | performed an operation on King at Emergency Hospital Wednesday morn- | ing a_few hours before his death. Dr. | Smiler testified that King, in reply to a iqursunn as to the man who shot him, | fracture of the skull. His condition was |1s expected for the next few days | C. Reynalds, pastor of the Wi | tomorrow and Wednesday for the bene- | | from 5 pm. to midnight. { Northeast Masonic Temple, Eighth and | ton Hotel. replied “Lee Jim.” | Headquarters Detective Joseph F. | Waldron detailed to the jury the cir- | cumstances of the shoofing as con- | tained in a statement by Joseph P.} Smith of 1113 Eleventh strect, the only eyewitness. In the statement it was asserted that Smith saw three men drive down Eleventh street and stop their car on the car tracks between M and N streets. | They got out, exchanged a few words | and’then one 'of them pulled a revolver | and started shooting. Waldron told how the police, by trac- ing the automobile license number, found it belonged to a car hired by a man answering the description of James Lee, who is said to have operated a laundry in the 1000 block of K street. Olivia Spencer, colored, wife of the dead Chinese, toid police of Lee Din's connection with the case, Waldron testified. She told him, he' said, that | Din came to their home at 1423 Elev- | enth street about 12:30 o'clock Wed- nesday morning and that her husband | went “away with him. The shooting | occurred minutes later, _ No immediate relief from the heat fs | in view for the Capital, the Weather | Bureau said today. The weather will continue fair for the most part both to- | night and tomorrow and no heavy rain A warm wind, mostly from the Southwest, will prevail today and tomorrow. | CITY NEWS IN TODAY. The League of the American Civil | Service will meet tonight at 8 o'clock | in the Washington Hotel to discuss | pending legislation. | The Business Women's Council will | hold its weekly meeting at the Church | of the Covenant today. The feature of | the evening will be a play presented by | the comrades’ class of the Keller Memorial Lutheran Church. Rev. Fred sley M. E. | Church, will have charge of the Bible | study period. | BRIEF. A lawn party will be held today. fit of the church, on the Nativity Church grounds, 6000 Georgia avenue, P. G. SAUER DIES.* Peter G. Sauer of 1316 Four-and-a- | Half street, a lifelong resident of Wash- ington, died at Providence Hospital Sat- | urday. He had been in ill health for | several years. | Mr. Sauer was born in this city June | 7, 1843, and in his younger days was | engaged in the printing business. Sur- viving him is a nephew, Frank C. En- | glehart, with whom he resided. | Funeral services will be heid from | the residence at 9:30 o'clock_tomorrow | morning. Interment will follow in St Mary's Cemetery. 2 The Washington Review, No. 4. of | the W. B. A. will hold a 500 and bridge party tonight at 8:30 o'clock at 1750 Mas:sachusetts avenue, The Admiral Geory George Dewey Naval Auxiliary, U. 8. W. V. will meect at F streets northeast, at 8 o'clock this | evening. FUTURE. The American Gold Star Mothers will meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Hamil- | | Wilkins, | gregational Home at 1290 Crittendon A lawn fete will be held at the Con- street, tomorrow from 6 to 10 p.m. The Citizens’ Forum of Columbla Helghts will meet tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Wilson Normal School, Eleventh | and Harvard stree A lecture will be given Thursday at 8 pm. at the United Lodge of The- ! osophists, Hill Building, Seventeenth | and I street, on the subject: “Creation | or Evolution.” i The last monthly luncheon of the | local chapter of the Soclety of Amer- | will be held Thursday at 12:30 pm. in | the Army and Navy Club. Maj. Edmund regulations | L. Daley, vice president of the post, will speak. i |$20 Wager to Drive Liquor Truck Lost, | | NINE ARE INJURED INAUTO ACEIDENTS Woman, Pinned Inside Sedan as It Overturns, Is Freed by Rescue Squad. i | i | Nine persons were hurt in automo- | bile accidents in and near the District | yesterday and early today. One wom- | an was pinned inside an mr:umsd} sedan and had to be released by mem- | bers of Fire Rescue Squad No. 1. | The last accident occured at 3 o'clock this morning, while the car was being turned around on Foote street at Forty- | hackers. | Proposes to have stopped. SIMMONS 10 SEEK 10 DO-AWAY WITH TAX] PARKING ZONE House Subcommittee Chair- man Is Having Survey Made by Efficiency Bureau. BELIEVES MOVE TO AID IN HALTING CONGESTICN Stands at Hotels Are Different, He Says, Adding This Does Not Mean All of Block. Chairman Simmons of the House sub- committee on District appropriations is bhaving a study made by the United States Bureau of Efficiency regarding exclusive parking privileges in the streets of the National Capital, which is being given to taxicabs, busses and Mr. Simmons said today that as soon as he has the data, he will introduce a resolution to stop granting exclusive rights in the street to any private concern, company or individual. ‘This is one of the major pieces of legislation to which Mr. Simmons will devote his energies in the December session of Congress. His detailed study of municipal affairs, traffic congestion on the highways and streets of the Dis- trict has convinced him that this is one of the outstanding abuses which he In this way, he believes. he will be performing an important public service toward reliev- ing traffic congestion. Mr. Simmons explained that the sit- uation in regard to taxi stands at ho- tels is different because under a Su- preme Court decision, hotels are grant- ed a reserve space for their own con- veyances, to allow ingress and egress of their patrons. He emphasized, however, that this does not mean surrendering one side of a street or a eity block to taxicabs and hackers to serve the pa- trons of the hotel. BOARD T0 DISCUSS UTILITY.STOCK SALE Deal to Be Sifted to Find if fourth street northeast. The rear wheels got off the road and the machine rolled over an embankment, holding Dolly Barret, 35 years old. of Seat Pleasant, Md., a captive until the rescue squad came. Responding to the call, some three miles from squad headquarters, firemen found that the woman'’s foot, project- ing through a window, was caught un- der the automobile as it lay on 1its side. She was extricated and removed to Casualty Hospital in the ambulance, where she was treated for an abrasion of the left foot and a possibly fractured ankle. Fourth Occupant Bruised Slightly. The machine was operated by Paul Hallock, 29, of 715 Eighth street north- east, who escaped injury, as did Leon McCoy of Arlington, Va., owner of the automobile. Hallock, was slightly cut and bruised, but declined hospital treatment. Of the seven others hurt, Ann Louise Baicar, 4 years old, of Bladensburg, Md., perhaps was the most seriously injured. She suffered a possible frac- ture of the skull, a broken leg and lacerations about the scalp and neck | when_ hit by an automobile. The child was brought to Casualty Hospital by the rescue squad at Bladensburg and treated by Dr. Louis Jimal. Russel V. Lewis, 300 block H street, alleged driver of the car, was arrested | by Constable Gasch, on a charge of | reckless driving. Another 4-year-old child, Arthur Genna, 731 First street, was injured | seriously yesterday morning when | struck by an automobile operated by | William Konstonis, 615 New Jersey ave- | nue, while crossing First street near his home. The child was removed to Sibley Hospital, where he was treated | for scalp lacerations and a possible | 0 undetermined today. Two Other Children Hurt. Two other children, Hilda Boswell, 11, 4314 Alfbama avenue southeast, and Joseph Shanahan, 2 years old, of 1227 | C street southeast, were slightly cut and bruised yesterday morning when hit by an_automobile as they were crossing Alabama avenue near Ridge road south- | east. Both were treated at Sibley Hos- pital. The car was driven by Albert Weuss, 3724 Ninth street. Mrs| May Lizzo, 20, 335 H street northeast, was brought to Casualty Hospital yesterday afternoon following an automobile accident near Laurel, Md. She was admitted to the hospital for treatment for a possible fracture of the skull. Police learned no further details of the accident. | Maud Pointer, colored, 26, 2618 Con- | necticut avenue, was injured early yes- terday afternoon in an_automobile ac- cident near Clinton, Md.. She was brought to Casualty Hospital and treated for concussion of the brain, and lacerations - about _the fa Russell colored, of Norfolk, Va.. received a fractured nose in the same | acciden:. . Marriage Licenses. Albert P. Hurst, 24. and Annie M. Wiley. 28; Rev. Hugh T. Stevenson. George Hamilton, . and Georglana But- ler, 23; R John Richard. e . TN Nt o Rev B, H. seiton Willlam Cypress, 27. and Thelma E. P T e Louts A. Bangerter. 31, Elkhart, Ind., and Clara Virts, 29, Vienna, Va Rev. Fred Holloway. Roy M. Andriesen. 31, and Alice B, Stark, 24, both of Roches N. Y.i Rev. Charles Enders. Killian E. Kendrick, 25. »nd Margaret E. vavme 35 me ah s st 1 Five Years and $5.000 Fine Are Faced Vernon Claude Green, former Balti- more policeman, faces a five-year jail sentence and a fine of $5,000 or an addi- tional five years today because of a lost wager. Green is said to have been offered $20 to driveé a truck load of liquor to ‘Washington, but was to get the money | only if successful. He lost, ‘ | Policemen J. D. Martin and J. R. Jen- sterday, | Martin Jenkins the truck on Sixteenth street 3 led by a suspected convoy ear. nursued thet convoy while trailed the larges vehicle. i Reaching the top of a long hill, the driver of the truck leaped out, permit- ting the vehicle to roll backward for several, yards, to stop only after rolling across the lawn of & private residence and knocking down a tree. After a short chase Jenkins captured Green and returned him to the truck. A search disclosed 72 quarts of alleged liquor, police say. Martin captured the | ican Military Engineers for this season | kins of the thirteenth precinct observed | occupants of the con.oy car, who gave their names as Nick Russel and John Gleason of Baltimore. Green was charged with transport- ing, possessing and reckless driving. o S A fourth occupant, Marie | | Harmless, and Florence L.| Anti-Merger Act Was Violated. ! The Public Utilities Commission will | meet at 2 p.m. today to discuss the re- cent sale of stock in the Washington | Gas Light Co. to New York financiers. :The commissicn is interested in the stock sale only in case it should violate the terms of the so-called “anti- merger” act, which forbids any local utility to sell, or any foreign holding corpcration to buy, directly or indi- 1ectly, capital stock of local utility com- panies. This was repealed as far as it applied to street railway stock if the stock purchase were to be made to effect a merger of street railway com- panivs, but is still in force with respect to_stock in other concerns. It is understood that the recent sale of gas company stock was to individuals. This does not violate the law. But ! should it turn out that the individuals who made the purchase did so in the interest of a foreign holding corpora- tion, the commission would have power to dissolve the local corporation on ap- plication to District Supreme Court. Commissioner Harleigh H. Hartman said that the commission had intended to discuss the matter at their meeting iast Saturday, but were so busy on other things that it was not men- tioned. The subject 1s expected to be gone into at some length today. JULY FOURTH TORPEDO HURLED INTO RESIDENCE of Report Premature, Though Celebration Activi- ty Brings Police Bulletin Plan. A premature Fourth of July torpedo, hurled through a window at the home of Thomas W. Mason, 512 Sheridan street, shortly before noon yesterday, is reported by the police to have landed against Mason's back, but discharge of the torpedo caused no serious injuries. It is the intention of Maj. Henry G. Pratt, chief of police, to issue a bulletin to members of the force later in the week calling attention to the provisions of the regulation governing the sale and discharge of explosives during the ap- proaching holiday season. Several varieties of fireworks are ex- cepted in the matter of enforcement of the regulations. They include sparklers, torches. box fire, fountains, dip sticks. non-poisonous “snakes” and colored lights. |MME. PROCHNIK, INJURED | IN CAR PLUNGE, IMPROVES | | { Mme. Edgar L. G. Prochnik, wife of the Austrian Minister, and her 7-year- old daughter Patricia, who were in- jured Saturday night when their auto- mobile, driven by the Minister, plunged down an embankment near Falls Church, Va., were reported much im- proved today. The little girl will be confined to bed for several weeks, a fractured ankle necessitating her foot being in a plaster cast, but Mme. Prochnik’s injuries were not so severe as believed at first. Mr. Prochnik said his wife was able to get up this morning, but would be confined to her home for several days. She suf- fered contusions of the chest, but an examination revealed that no ribs were fractured. Marie Janich, the little girl's maid, it was explained, suffered the most pain- ful injuries. She received a blow in the abdomen, the Minister said, when Shek was thrown probably against a rock. Mr. Prochnik said the accident was due to a blowout of the right front tire. Another machine was approaching them on the road and he swerved his car into a gully to prevent a collision. Patrick J. McMullan a Suicide. Patrick J. McMullan, 54 years old, of 5423 Thirteenth street took his own life Friday afternoon, a coroner’'s jury decided today. McMullan was found seated in a chair in the gas-filled kitchengpf his home. Several witnesses testifiec " that McMullan had been in All healtn for some time,