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3 bening Staf. 'WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The WASHINGTON, D. THURSPAY. JUNE 20, 1929. ¥ PAGE 17 DISTRICT TAX RATE REMAINS AT §1.70 FOR COMING YEAR } Denies He Uses Drugs % 1 Levy Fixed by Congress in! 1930 Appropriations Act Same as 1919. REVENUE OF $21,743,000 IS ESTIMATED COLLECTION Legislative Body Takes Away Com- | missioners’ Right to Regulate Toll. The current tax rate of $1.70 will be | continued through the coming fiscal | year beginning July 1. it was announced | todsy at the District Bullding. This | levy was fixed by Congress in the 1930 | eppropriation act. Heretofore, the Commissioners have | determined the rate of taxation, an- | nouncing it in June preceding a new | fiscal year. Congress, however, deprived | them of this function this year by writ- ing into the 1930 appropriation act a clause which stipulated that the “tax “rate in effect in the fiscal year 1929 | on real estate and tangible personal property subject to taxation in the Dis- | trict of Columbia shall be continued | for the fiscal year 1830.” el Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District | suditor and_budget officer, has figured | that the $1.70 levy will vield $21.743.000 | on taxable real estate and tangible personal property. Other estimated re- ceipts for 1930. according to his cal- culations are $2,625,000 from the tax on intangibles. $3.000,000 in miscel- janeous receipts. $1.495500 in water receipts, $1.658.500 from the 2-cent tax | en motor vehicle fuels and $2,230.000 | from the tax on public utilities, banks | and building associations. BURLEITH CHILDREN T0 PRESENT PLAYS Drama Group Program Saturday | Will Be to Raise Funds for Playground Activities, To celebrate the instaliation of & new | play apparatus at Burleith Terrace Playground, and raise funds for the support of Summer activities there. the Chlr:mn'! Drama Group of Burleith will present two plays at the play- gmun Thirty-fifth and 8 streets, next, aturday evening, ning at 7:45 o'clock. The plavs will be “House of the| Heart.” by younger childreh, and “Cinderella Married,” by older girls. The players were coached by Miss; Hester Walker Beall and Mrs. Minnie Frost Rand, and the properties, lighting and facilities are in charge of the chil- | dren, under direction of Dick Creyke and Jack Varela. | The children to take part in “House | ©f the Heart” will be Helen Forester, | Margaret. Pedlar. Lois Barlow, Phyllis/ Frank, Hope Ohler, Eleanor Morris, | Lucy Ohler, Bobby Rands. Loretta Berman, Stanley Scot, Josephine Mur- | phy and Helen Walgren. The girls in “Cindereila Married” will be ifred McLaughlin, Elizabeth Brandes, Lois McCallum, Prances Rands, Lois Forester, Ruth Haskell, Janet | O'Neil and Nina McLa lin. i Supervised play will start at the| .playground Monday and will be from 930 to 11.30 am. and 3 to 5 p.m. in charge of a corps of Western High School girls—Miss Lois McCallum, | Miss Winifred McLaughlin, Miss Lois Forester and Miss Evelyn Sligh. An- other Summer activity of ‘the play- fmund will be a course of expression | easons, to be conducted by Miss Hester Walker Beall. | The play apparatus, to be dedicated | Saturday, is a combination climbing | B horizontal ladder and chinning | r,_designed by Mrs. Rands and Mrs. H. 'B. Travis, and paid for by funds collected by children of the community. It includes 400 feet of galvanized pipe, and is the only apparatus of the kind | in the ctty. W. C. BURTON ADDRESSES| WASHINGTON LION'S CLUB| b | Real Estate Board's Contestant in| National Event Gives Compe- tition Speech. W. Cameron Burton, Washington's representative in a national five-minute | ngcakmg contest at the convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, addressed the Washington Lions’ Club meeting yesterday in the Hotel Mayflower. Mr. Burton gave the same speech which he will deliver next week in Bos- ton in competition with other orators| from the reaity fleld. He was adjudged | winner in a local contest relating to the l.‘dvnnurn of Washington as a place to ve. ‘The club also was entertained by the Columbia Junior High School Quartet. | BOULDER CANYON ACTION BY PRESIDENT EXPECTED Bwing-Johnson Dam Act May Go Into Full Effect To- morrow. By the Assoeiated Press Information at the White House today indicated President Hoover to- morrow would issue the necessary order to place the Swing-Johnson Boul- der Canyon Dam act in full effect. Under terms of the act a six-month | period was provided to enable negotia- | tions with a view to Colorado River Basin States forming a seven-State compact. This time will expire tomorrow. No agreement has been reached and the! law now provides that the States may proceed with a view to establishing a six-State compaet. Arizona has been the dissenting State. Recent conferences in Washing- | 'fi: hll:d to work out a plan accepta- to it. PR B S ) Cotton Assumes Duties. Joseph P. Cotton of New York today sssumed his new duties as Undersec- retary of State as successor to J. Reu- ben Clark of Utah, who fook official leave of his associates in the department yesterday afternoon. The oath of office was administered to Mr. Cotton by William McNeir, chief of the Bureau of Accounts, in the pres- JAMES THOMAS HEF) —Star POLICE MAY CURB MOTOR CYCLE USE Board of Surgeons Cites Fa- talities and Damage to Health by Jarring. . JR ff Photo. Resiriction in the use of motor cycles by the Police Department to a few in the Trafic Bureau is expected to follow a report submitted to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, chief of police, by the board of polict surgeons, calling attention to the num- ber of Xccidents and fatalities occur- ring to officers on motor cycles, as well as to the organic diseases caused offi- cers, regardless of accidents, by the constant jarring on the svstem occa- sioned by riding motor cycle: Maj. Pratt said he has sympathized with the view expressed in the report for some time, but action will probably await a report of a special committee asked for in the surgeons' recommenda- tion. The men taken off motor cycles, if the decision is reached to reduce the number, will be placed in light cars, as fast as the latter are added to the equip- ment of the department. Increase in Work. “During the past three years,” the re- port reads, “there has been a steady in- | crease in the work of the surgical de- | partment of the board of police and fire surgeons—so much so that two years | ago it was necessary to appoint an addi- | tional surgeon specialist, and in this connection I have to report that the surgical conditions were and are grow- ing out of all proportion to the medical ‘work. “While this condition with respect to surgery is true in both the Police and Fire Departments, it is, however, most In view of the fatalities and the very dangerous and serious injuries receive by our men, resulting suffering, enor- mous loss of time from duty, and mounting hospital expenses, the board has devoted considerable time to & sur- with the hope that some saving of life, ment of injured men, and saving of | money expended in their care could be effected. Activity of Cycle Group. “Dr. Borden and myself in a study of the matter and a check up from time to time are of the opinion that, while the causes of the injuries are varied, we can- not escape the conviction that by far the most_serious are occurring among the motor cycle group—that is, the ratio for men engaged is far ahead of those out- side. It is noted, too, that the motor cycle group represents the young. active and that in addition to those fatally injured, the nature of the injuries re- ceived js %0 severe as to permanently impair the future usefulness of those who escape fatality. It is noted, also, that there is showing up among the motor cycle group a series of physical damage other than accidents. Three or four cardiac cases came under our ob- sult of jar and strain. As a matter of fact, it was necessary to retire one young man, Roche, with a dangerous heart lesion, which developed very abruptly. “Some months ago the board of sur- zeons called attention to a themorandum to the Commissioners, the major and superintendent of police, and the chief engineer of the Fire Department the enormous increase in casualties with accompanying fatalities, serious injuries, | loss of service, and the enormous ex- penditure of money for the care of those injured. and suggested that a committee be appointed to take up the matter of ing efficiency. many of these accidents could not be avoided. We believe that such study, so far as it relates to the Police Department, will show the motor ferers. newed.” The report is signed by Dr. James J. Kilroy. chairman of the board. This recommendation is re- conspicuous in the Police Department. | suffering, loss of service by the depart- | and mentally alert type of the force, | servation during the past year as a re- | determining whether, without jeopardiz- | cycle group to be one of the chief suf- | HEFLIN, R, DENES USE OF DRUGS AND ASKS JRY TRAL |Says Story Used as Ruse to Escape Arrest After Ac- cident. BOND OFV$1,0})0 ALLOWED | TOSTAND IN POLICE COURT Syringe Found in Car of Son of | Senator Turned Over to Nar- cotics Agents. 1 Arraigned in Police Court this morn- | ing on the charge of operating an auto- | mobile while under the infiuence of | drugs, James Thomas Heflin, jr., son of the Alabama Senator, pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial. His bond of $1,000, furnished after his arrest fol- lowing a collision at Seventh street and | Pennsylvania avenue last night, was permitted to stand. Heflin freely ad- mitted that he had been drinking be- | fore the crash, but insisted that he was | not addicted to the use of narcotics /| and was not under the influence of a| drug yesterday. | The police are holding a syringe. | | found in Heflin's car and have turned | over to the narcotic division of the | Treasury Department for analysis a bottle purported to contain _tonlc. Meanwhile a private physician, who is said to have prescribed a dose of drugs for Heflin. several days ago informed the police that the young man had | epresented himself as'a “Mr. Thomas” | and had been suffering from nervous trouble ! The charge was lodged against Heflin |when he told Policeman Claude C.| | Shelton, on traffic duty at Seventh| | street and Pennsylvania avenue, the | policeman reported, that his unsteady | condition was due to an overdose of a drug. Later at Emergency Hospital, | | where he was taken for examination, he | | said that he had not taken a dose o the drug since Tuesday. He also told | hospjtal attaches that the same day he went to a private physician, gave him an injection of a narc He told, the doctor, he asserted, he was “Mr. Thomas.” Car Strikes Truck. i Heflin's car struck the rear of a| truck driven by Roy C. Bragg of Alex- | andria, Va. The damage to both ma- | chines was slight. Heflin was taken to Emergency. Hos- pital, where he was examined by Dr. Gribovsky of the staff. The physician | diagnosed his condition as “possible | drug poisoning.” Young Heflin told newspaper men to- day that he merely pretended to be under the influence of a drug in the ! hope that he would not be charged with | driving while intoxicated. “Instead of letting me go with ‘tha explanation,” Heflin exclaimed ruefully | today, “the ‘darn fools charged me with | operating a car under the influence of drugs.” He explained that he tried the same | thing while a student at the University | of Alabama. He had been placed on| | probation by the university authorities | | ¢ | and was afraid of being forced to leave school if caught intoxicated. Story Wouldn't Worx. “I was caught drunk at a foot ball game. My friends told me to say that| I was drunk from drugs. I did and got away with it. Last night my first im- pulse was to do the same thing, but my story wouldn't work on the Washington ol g “Here’s the way it happened,” Heflin recounted today, I hadn't had a drink | from April 13, which was a few days| after the trouble I had when I arrived |in New York from Panama, until June 10. Yesterday morning, however, I be- | gan drinking grain alcohol about 10| o'clock. I must have drunk about half | a pint during the day. | “My car was being repaired in a ga- | rage at Fourteenth and L streets. Al | little before 4 o'clock they telephoned | me to come for it. I wasn't half as drunk as I have been and driven with- out any trouble. Everything went along all right until I got to Seventh street. There was a big truck in front of me. | The cop switched the trafic signai | without warning and the truck came to | an_ abrupt halt. I jammed on the | brakes, but I couldn't stop in time. The driver and T got.out and he said that |1t was his fault. I was about to get 1in my car because I was in a hurry i\n get back home to get a drink when | the policernan walked up and smelled | | my breath. I told him I had taken -i | drug and he said 'so_vou're a drug ad- dict and took me off to the hospital.” A Golden Stream. The Gulf Stream is laden with gold. | but there is no process of extracting it that is commercially practical. It has | been estimated that at the lowest fig- ure the stream carries $900,000,000 worth of gold past a given point in the | course of a year. The gold content per| |ton of water is s0 low that it is not profitable to undertake to recover it. \TO SAI { ] ‘ AR S ‘;Has Distinction of Being One of Three Women on Board of Association. 1 [ | Dr. Butts, McKinley High, Asked to Accept Subchair- manship of Committee. Selma M. Borchardt, teacher at’ Business High School, will sall from New York tomorrow for Europe to at- tend the third biennial conference of the World Federation of Education As- sociations. The conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, July 25.to August 4. Miss Borchardt is a member of the board of directors of the organization, which is com) d of representatives of 42 nations of the world. She has the distinetion of being one of the three women in the world to be elected to the board. Miss Borchardt aiso is chairman of the organization’s important section on social adjustment rough education. discussion at the f¢ confer- ence. The work of this section has in- ence of Becretary Stimson, wh to the city, and 0 has ouwl cluded a study of attendance laws, which has a comprehensive program for | CONFERENCE | i T | | SELMA M. BORCHARDT. Dr. Frances Moon Butts, teacher at McKinley High School, has been asked Miss Borchardt to serve ‘as sub- irman of a committee in commercial education in view of her extensive re- search on' this subject, which flwfi. mmd the child labor 8 prominent place on the program of the Geneva conference, t intendent of schools, this mornin | TRAFFIC | ON 16TH STREET IN RUSH' occuples MLLE. REINIE CLAUDEL, Daughter of the French ambassador, emerging from a swimming pool yesterday. | & A. Photo. | TEAGHERS PROTEST EXTRA HALF HOUR Dr. Ballou Refuses Comment, but Will Make Formal Report to Board. Protests against the lengthened high school day by the Teachers' Union of the District of Columbia, which believes the additional half hour, which the Board of Education recently imposed on | the schedule, unnecessary and unfair to | Traction Co. for an increase in car fare o | teachers, pupils and parents, was re- | from the present rates to 10 cents cash, ceived by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- 8. Dr. Ballou declined to comment other than to say he would make a formal report to the board at its June 26 or July 1 meeting. Dr. Ballou explained, | however, that the Teachers' Union pro- | test was the only objection received by school officials against the 9-to-3-o0'clock day in the senior high schools. In the resolution presented to Dr. Ballou the protest included the follow- ing reasons: “The Washington high schools rank, | high in college preparatory, business and technical accomplishments. Since | this standard has been reached with | jon in the s T e ot s piin | had ita differetioss of opiniod fn the test against this action as being un- necessary. “Since the value of sunshine ‘to the growing child eannot be overestimated. we rrmut this action, which would deprive the children of a period of sunshine. “Children participating in extra cur- ricular activitjes, such as cadets, do not now have sufficient opportunity for rest before beginning their home work, there- vey as to_the causes of this condition | because of his drinking, he declared| fore we protest this action which would | Pos tpone the startnig of the after- school aetivities to a later hour. “The school day was lengthened without consulting those most con- cerned, the parents and the teachers, therefore, we protest this action as being undemocratic. “The working day of the teachers hak been lengthened without addition- al compensation for the teachers, there- gore_ we protest this action as being un- air LIGHTS GO OUT Timer in Fire Engine House Gets Stuck, but Motorists Are Not Halted. Traffic on Sixteenth street moved without regard for traffic lights this morning during the early rush hour. It motorists had waited for the red lights in the section north of Florida avenue to turn green, some of them would have waited half an hour. Assistant Traffic Director M, O. Eld- ridge explained ‘that the timer clock which governs these lights, located in a fire engine house on Fourteenth street near Kenyon street, had become | lJlmek, and this was not noticed at the | time. When the mechanism was put back into working condition, it was found that the lights still would not function, and then it was discovered that somebody had put the relay panel at Sixteenth street and Florida avenue out of commission. This was quickl, repaired and traffic resumed its normal flow, i de sl B C. OF C. WILL SPONSOR ECONOMIC HEALTH DRIVE }MISS BORCHARDT. BUSINESS HIGHq;?Inm Contest Throughout Coun- | LFOR GENEVA try to Reduce Losses Caused by Sickness. By the Assoclated Press. A national health contest to check economic losses caused by disease and premature deaths has been undertaken by the Chamber of Commerce. Community effort throughout the country, it is intended, will be placed on a yearly competitive basis. Aside from the humanitarian aspects of public health, the national chamber estimates that “the money loss in this country from sickness through lost wages, salaries and reduced productive effort, plus the cost of necessary care, aggregate $2.250.000,000 -a year. The total capital value of lives now lost “from causes which are known to be preventable,” it said, “is estimated to be more than $6,000,000,000 annually.” Local chambers of commerce which are members of the national organiza- tion will be eligible to compete for the prizes, w] classes of cities, arranged according to populations. bl i e WATSON IS TRANSFERRED. | ti Lieut, Comdr. DeWitt C. Watson, commanding the Naval Air Station at Anacostia, D. C., received orders today to join the VS Squadron 2B with the battle fleet. This squadron is attached to the aircraft carrier Saratoga. His successor at the Naval Air Sta- tion will be Comdr. Archibald H. the War Col- has been . OVERCOAT, BEDDING GONE hich will be awarded for five | \TILTIES GROUP * WILL MEET TODAY | Citizens’ Federation Commit- 3 tee to Discuss Plea for Car Fare Increase. The public utilities committee of the | Federation of Citizens' Associations will | meet at 5 o'clock today in the office of | William McK. Clayton, Victor Building, | to discuss the petition of the Capital | | four tokens for 30 cents. The com- | mittee will discuss a report to be pre- | sented to a special meeting of the fed- eration in the boardroom of the Dis- | trict Building at 8 p.m. Saturday to deal with the question. Meanwhile the date originally set for the public hearing before the commis- sion on the company’s petition has been | changed from July 22 to July 20 on Te- | quest of People’s Counsel Ralph B. Fle- harty, who told the commission he had previously arranged to be out of town on July 22. The hearing will start at 10 a.m. in Room 102, District Building. Although the utilities committee has \ | past concerning the proposed merger of | | the street railway companies, it is be- | lieved that the committee will present | | a solid front in opposition to the re-| | quested car fare increase. It is ex-| | pected that the action today will be to | request the federation to give Mr. Clay- | ton, the committee chairman, authority | to represent it at the hearings without | | Instructions. This _would allow him | | a free hand to follow up the situation | | and act as he saw fit 'POLICE STILL DRAG FOR KAPLAN BODY | Harbor Force Continues Search of River Bed for Drowned Schoolboy. Police of the harbor precinet and several individuals were still e d | today in dragging the Potomac ver at Widewater, six miles above Cabin | John, for the body of Bernard Kaplan, 16-year-old Tech High School student, who was drowned yesterday. Kapland, who lived at 1334 Four- teenth street, left school with six fel- | low students yesterday to go swimming. | After the boys had been in the water | for some time, young Kaplan ap- parently developed cramps, and called | | to his companions for assistance. He | | became exhausted and sank before aid | reached him. A companion of the drowned boy, | Walter Ward, 17 years old. also a Tech | student, living on Conduit road, an- | swered Kaplan's cries for help, but his | effort to save his fellow student was | futile. ‘When the boys failed to find the body of their companion, they swam ashore and called for help. |POLICE REPORT THEFTS; Prowlers, Purse Snatchers, House- breakers Busy During Night. A series of minor thefts were re- ported to })ol.h:e today. the overnight activities of backyard prowlers, purse- snatchers and housebreakers. On two occasions the family clothes- lines were deprived of their hangings, at the homes of John W. Hurley, 721 Otis place, and Abraham Lilienthal, 727 Otis place. An overcoat was taken from the yard at 1510 Fuller street. A young colored man is reported to have snatched a purse containing $5, a rosary, eyeglasses and keys from Mrs. Thomas B. Lornett, 2512 Q street, near Massachusetts avenue and Twenty- first street, and to have departed in an {old automobile. A duplicate key worker visited the home of Peter A. Gordon, 900 Butter- nut street yesterday, during the family's absence. The house was ransacked and robbed of bedding and wearing apparel valued at $116. Lydia Haupt, 1619 L street, reported the theft of a purse containing $25. driver's permit and i registration card, from a locker of a Connecticut avenue dusiness house. DANCE TO GET WELL! CHICAGO (#).—Dancf thing for the older generat to gle its head over in the jungles ah: Mc_%: the doctor’s n for wi you, reports illiams, member of the isn't some- siong doc! out dancing for the ill, and if the pa- tient is too feeble, the doector does the dances himself. P . Davis to Present Trophies. Secretary of Labor Davis has ac- cepted an invitation to present the trophies runner-1 PROBLEMS OF LIFE UPONINTERPLANET SHIP ARE “SOLVED Treatise on' Methods of Liv- ing in “Etherodrome” Wins Prize for D. C. Scientist. BIOLOGICAL FACTORS | OF VOYAGE CONSIDERED Noel Deisch Is Given Honorable Mention by Astronomical | Society of France. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | Can human beings ever navigate empty space to the moon or any of the | planets? Noel Deisch, 3201 Nineteenth street, | has been awarded honorable mention by | the Astronomical Society of France for | & theoretical solution of some of the | outstanding difficulties in the way of | conquering the millions of miles which separate the earth from its nearest planetary neighbors. Deisch's work was submitted in com- petition for the Esnault-Pelterie prize established two years ago to be awarded for scentific sadvances toward the so- | lution of this problem. He considered | chiefly the biological and biochemical | factors, which will be encountered. Problem Is Divided. The problem naturally divides into | two parts. One concerns the mechani- cal means of propulsion out of the | earth’s atmosphere and through empty! space, Theoretically ‘this is not impos- | sible through the use of a reactor-motor | or continuously discharging rocket. | ‘This is described as providing the most | efficient use of energy for propulsive | purposes known to man and its use has :fien demonstrated in rocket lutm'no-" es. : Once a ship propelled by this princi- | ple had been shot ‘to the outer limits | of the earth’s atmosphere, its naviga- | tion through space with no resisting | medium would be compartively simple. | Practically, of course, the difficulties are | such that the experiment would be im. pdos!lhle in the present state of knewl- edge. Deisch proceeds on the assumption | Scientist Rewarded — NOEL DEISCH. JUVENILE COURT 10 MOVE MONDAY Arthur ~ School Bench Until House to House Permanent Is Built. Juvenile Court will be moved from New Jersey avenue and C streets, to the Arthur School, B street and Arthur place, Monday, Judge Kathryn Sellers announced today. The operation will be undertaken by trucks from the Bu- reau of Mines. The Arthur School, which was tem- | porarily placed at the disposal of the Juvenile Court through the co-opera- tion of Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superin- tendent of schools. and the Board of Education, will be occupied only until Congress provides a new building for the court. Moving to its present location on July 1,°1925. under Judge Sellers, the court has been able to function more economically in almost- every reSpect than in the old building, at 203 I street, where it was formerly located. Judge Sellers declared that since oc- pying the building, which is now be- | ing vacated, the court has saved the ‘ux'}noyers cf the District well over 00. that the “etherodrome” has been per- fected mechanically and comes to the | second part of the problem, whether it | would be ible for human beings to | remain alive under the conditions of sucn a voyage. Here again he finds it | MONOPLANE IS TESTED FOR REGULAR SERVICE | Deisch, theoretically poss’)le, unless entirely unsuspected factors were encountered. an inventor and a Catholic University graduate, who majored in bwlo'ry‘i!m deeply into the effect of the e Daily Life on World Cited. “It seems certain,” he says, “that there is nothing inherent in the consti- tution of the cosmic spaces, and quite probably nothing by way of ‘contamina- tion' that would in a positive way baffie an excursion out to the worlds in the sky. We need only to look at the striking example of our own planet, which is nothing more than a great etherodrome carrying us forever passengers on a tour through the wilderness of intersteller space, and all with so little incident that it seldom occurs to us that we are daily sweeping h hundreds of thousands of kilo- meters of the astronomical world.” Bus the practical difficulties are great. In order to leave the earth’s atmosphere the star ship would have to be relatively light .and its load- computed to a fine degree. The crew and passengers would be inclosed in an air-tight compartment. They would require a constant supply of oxygen to live. Humans aboard continually would inhale oxygen. soon exhausting the normal supply in the air-tight chamber, and exhale poisonous :;rbnn dioxide, which soon would kill em. Possibility of Breaking Covered. Hence, it would be necessary for the ship to carry oxygen and some means of absorbing or breaking up the carbon dioxide. Some day it may be possible to break up the carbon dioxide into pure oxygen and carbon as soon as it is ex- haled, so that the air can be used over and over again as long as necessary. Deisch says this is too far beyond pres- ent possibilities. The expedient of car- rying enough oxygen in compressed or liquid form in containers, he believes, would be impractical because of the great weight. ‘The solution he offers is to carry the oxygen solution, preferably as a solution of hydrogen peroxide. Then it could be released as needed by means of a chemical reagent. Deisch figures the weight of hydrogen peroxide necessary to supply nxyg:n for one man for 24 hours. under the probable conditions of exertion which would obtain on’ such a trip, as 3,332 grams, compared to 13,620 grams of oxygen compressed in a t]‘,glinder.’ e would get rid of the poisonous carbon dioxide by carrying a supply of the lightest material ctical for ex- tracting _this from the air—calclum oxide. Deisch provides other chemical agents for getting rid of the noxious F“H which would be produced inside he compartment, such as carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulphide, ete. Pressure Would Play Part. But even with their breathing at- tended to, the human beings shut up in the air-tight compartment would be in a precarious position, The air in- side would exert a tremendous pressure inst, the walls, which would not be offset by any pressure outside. This would be partly attended to in the design of the ship. The walls could be lightened, he points out, by the demon- strated fact that men, after a period of acclimatization, can live comfortably at half the ordinary atmospheric pres- sures. The pressure could be reduced by increasing the proportion of oxygen in the air. Deisch also deals with the gmblemn of temperature and humidity ywsiltgshcwry chgnlclll u:nenns. a proper insulati system he belleves ‘that the human !fodten them- selves would act as furnaces to keep the temperature of the air-tight com- partment comfortable. It has been Rat-Killer Shoots, Hits, Draws Crowd, ::ur ronment on the human system. | | High Speed 6-Passenger Craft One of Bix of Washingtox-New " York Air Line. After & non-stop flight to this city from Sti Louis, at, an average speed of | 147 mi an hour, the first of the | Washin I‘l‘;“!w Yo&k Air Line's new fleet of -speed six-passenger mono- planes, which will reduce the running time between Washington and New York to a minimum of 70 minutes, is undergoing tests today preparatory to | going into. regular service on the line. ‘The plane, one of the fastest com- ajrcraft ever built, was flown by Pilot Pete Branson, who landed late yesterday afternoon at Washington Airport, leaving a few minutes later for New York. The ship has a um;peed of 177 miles per hour. It is first. ;’x{gwn Nurdeymdkfor'uu on f.hegvuh- -New York passenger route. ‘The three planes are sister ships of the one in which Herbert Fahy, former Washington military and commercial fiyer, recently broke the world solo en- durance record by staying in the air over Los Angeles nearly 37 hours with- out refueling. Branson's non-stop flight from St. | Louis yesterday afternoon completed & transcontinental “ferrying” trip with the new plane from the factory in Los Angeles. He was accompanied by James | P. Brown, representing the company | which built the 425-horsepower radial | air-cooled motor with which the plane is equipped. GEN. ELLES VISITS GOOD. British War Office Representative to Call at Several Posts. Maj. Gen. Sir Hugh J. Elles of the | British war office paid his “respects to | Secretary Good today at the War De- | partment, He is in this country to | visit various mflitary posts and will in- | | spect Fort Meade, Md., tomorrow to | witness the aetivities of the tank school, in which he is much interested, as he was commander of the British Tank Corps in the World War. Gen. Elles will visit the Military Academy at West Point June 27. generally assumed, he says, that the temperature of empty space is ex- tremely low. But this may not.be strictly true. There can be no tem- perature, strictly speaking, where there is no matter. Lack of Gravity Problem. But even with these considerations attended to, the sky voyagers would be in plenty of trouble, from a biological standpoint. They would be outside the | effects of gravity inside the machine | and the human mechanism depends in many ways on gravity to keep function- ing. Deisch concludes it probably would be necessary to produce the effects of gravity by some other means. This could be done by centrifugal force pro- duced by keeping the etherodrome in A constant state of rapid rotation just like the earth. Deisch considers the dangers to the physical organism arising from con- stantly changing pressures and the external dangers, such as storms of tiny meteors moving faster than rifle bullets and tearing holes in the air-tight cham: ber, and the unknown electrical condi- ! | tions in space, which may inctude streams of electrons of sufficient density to produce X-rays when they strike the hull of the ship. which would be dan- gerous to the crew. Sheds Tears, but Rodent Gets Away Christopher Silver, being the rat ex- terminator, did quite a bit of shooting at ‘- °ts. Yesterday afternoon he shot at one. Christopher hit the refrigerator. That released ammonia fumes. They eddied about the basement and com- menced to seep upstairs. Whereupon waiters and guests commenced to file hmmllv from an inn at No. 5 Dupont circle. ‘Then some one ealled the fire rescue After that & crowd gath- ‘When. the fire- men came, they had to elbow into the basement. One whiff and they denned gas masks. pl% by her’s bul ipe, Y p] the crowd outside grew in size. Vel ular traffic on the circle came to a vir- tual standstill. ‘When ext en e CONERESS PASSED ONLY G CENTER NEASUREFORD. . Passage Due to Efforts of Chairman Simmons, Who Went Direct to President. HOUSE FAILS TO PASS AIRPORT APPROPRIATION Measure to 'Improve Retirement and Salary Laws Held Over for Action in Fall, The only important legislation for the District of Columbia passed in the extra sesslon of Congress, which was signed by the President several days ago, authorized the expenditure of $3,- 000,000 from the accumulated surplus to the credit of the District in the Federal Treasury for acquisition of a site for the new municipal center north of Pennsylvania avenue to Judiciary Square between Third and Sixth streets northwest. The passage of this measure was due to the initiative and determined efforts of Chairman Simmons of the House subcommittee on District appropria- tions, who saw in this way an oppor- tunity not only to save a considerable amount for District taxpayers in ac- uisition of this property, but to expe- alm the erection of the new municipal buildings which will dominate the development of the north side of Penn- sylvania avenue just as the Federal building program wipes out eyesores on the south side of the Avenue. ‘Went Direct to President. When the Budget Bureau expressed an unwillingness to send in this esti- mate Chairman Simmons went directly to President Hoover and had confer- ences with House leaders, both Repub- lican and Democratic, with the result that, the President directed the bureau to submit the estimate and the pro- posal went through the House by unani= mous consent. This measure was urged as an emer- gency, because several units of the Dis- trict government have been ordered out there are several buildings on the site for the new municipal center which can be used for emergency housing for District activities until the new munici- pal center has been erected. Fail to Pass Airport Bill The joint resolution sponsored by the Joint: Cony nal rt, Commis- sion, after extensive hea 3 Col. Charles A. Lindbergl greatest aeronautical engineers -of the ess, In order that the National Capital might be provided | with a model airport equal to any in the world, adequate for the needs of Government departments as well as the District municipality and commercial aviation, was allowed to fail in the House, where the first effort was made to have it approved. House members, particularly on the Democratic side, in- sisted that they should be told the exact location which it was proposed to acquired under the $500,000 appropria- tion of Federal funds which the resolu- tion authorized. Representative Under- hill as a member of the joint commis- slon, stated the attitude of the commis- sion was hat it desired o have funds available o acquire whatever site could be secured -most advantageously, and that no site would be selected until after the appropriation was made, so 28 to avoid having the price on land run up bI Teal estate speculation. Up to the day of adjournment it was hoped that ob- jection would be withdrawn, so that this measure might pass under unani- fous consent, but Minority Leader Garner stated that there were too many Democrats who insisted upon knowing just where the money would go before they agreed to a $500,000 Federal ap- propriation. Salary Action Held Over. ‘The Senate civil service committee made a start during the special session on measures to improve the retirement and salary laws for Government em- ployes, but action was not obtained in the Senate. Both bills remain on the calendar, however, for early action in the Fall. One is the bill to lberalize the retirement law and the other is to correct. inequalities in the Government pay scales established last vear. Under a resolution which the Senate passed during this session the District committee will make a study in the Fall of the need for new laws to regu- late the sale of stocks, bonds and mort~ gages on real estate or otherwise, and to govern foreclosures on deeds of trust and mortgages. Another development during the ses- sion was the ngmpoul of Senator Kean, Republican, ew Jersey to have the Senate District committee study auto- i does not plan to begin this study until the Fall. : GRANT IS SEEKING SITE FOR COLORED GOLF LINKS Transfer of Course From Present Area Must Precede Construc- tion of Arlington Bridge. ‘The Office of Public Buildings and Public_Parks, under the direction of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, is stus the problem of moving the colored course, in the vicinity of the Lincoln Memorial. Transfer of the golf course from that area will be made necessary by the construction work for the Arling- ton Memorial Bridge plaza and parkway approach and the construction of the ater gate, Ofclals of Col. Grant's' office are contemplating the construction of two holes on the north side of B street at ‘Twenty-sixth, to permit additional fa- cilities for colored golfers, as a tem- As yet, the construc- ork, now being pushed by the Lowrance Co. of Statesville, N. C., now ern