Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1929, Page 17

Peni 'WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ng Sfar. CANPAIGN OPENED TOREDUCE NUMBER OF AUTO CRASHES Fifteen Added Temporarily to Motor Cycle Patrol of Traffic Bureau. DRIVE DETAILS DISCUSSED BY. PRATT AND HARLAND Hospitals Treat Only Three Vic- tims of Motor Accident in Last 24 Hours. Promised the co-operation of the courts, the Police Department and the Trafic Bureau today opened an in- tensive crusade against traffic violators with a view to checking the rapidly mounting series of motor vehicle acci- dents. Fifteen motor cycle policemen, picked from the various police precincts, were added temporarily to the motor cycle #Patrol of the Trafic Bureau especially for the campaign and sent out with specific instructions to round up the reckless and careless drivers as well as all others who disregard the traffic signals and flout the regulations. The 15 officers reported to Inspector E. W, Brown, in charge of the Traffic Bureau, shortly before 8 o'clock this morning and were assigned to patrol those sections from which complaints have come of speeding and reckless driving. These men were detailed to the Traffic Bureau at the direction of Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of Dolice. Pratt’s actions, preceded a con- ference with Traffic Director William H. Harland at which the details of the safety drive were discussed. Inspector Brown also attended the conference, and reported the results of interviews he had yesterday with Police Court Judges Given and McMahon, List of Accidents Shrinks, Although the crusade did mnot for- Mmally get under way until this morning, the preparations for it, which served, notice to the drivers that they were to, be watched more closely, apparently had & salutary effect, for the list of acci- dents dwindled perceptibly in the last 24 hours' and hospitals in that ag:od treated only three traffic vic- —_— none of them having been injured A few hours after the campaign opened, Police Court Judge Given, now egu- lations would be prosecuted and fined to the full limit of law. And ‘his edict was borne out the imposition ©of heavy penalties throughout In numerous cases in which drivers or- dinarily were fined $10, Judge Given in- cruu:{u;; amount to qumd showed none customary ncy toward first offengers. % S Detailed Instructions. lations of the trafic regulations | contribute to uddenu.""l"hue ver‘?:nm Ofivi’l.;:."dm" particularly at intersec- | _ Failing to with 5 v ling to comply the right-of. | : to obey the trafic lights and ve Dedestrians the right turns without giving the g proper signal. Weaving in and out of moving trat- ‘While the legal speed limit is 22 miles /an hour, Inspector Brown told the offie cers that the regulations require a driver to slow down to a ‘“reasonable” speed at street intersections, and those who fail to do so should be arrested and jcharged with “unreasonable speed.” He pointed out that Police Court Judges McMahon and Given had informed him | that motorists charged 50 could be held m’l’l‘l: 15 :‘I‘lo‘;‘ le offices reyel TS recruited |4rom the preeincts to aid in the traffic ! regulation enforcement drive are: Dalton | E. Galimore of the second precinct, ‘W. J. Cunnimgham and R. H, Knapp of |the fourth precinct, A. G, Mihill and W. D. Davis of the tenth precinct,| the {W. R. Greenfleld and M. Znamanacek ;of the eleventh precinct, C. D. Cunning- ‘ham and C. L. Smith of the twelfth precinct, F. J. Rowem and F. J, Scoville {of the thirteenth precinct, M. F. Collins, and C. W. Peters of the fourteenth' (precinct, R. A. Cunningham of the !seventh precinct and F. F. Cummins of the ninth precinct. Educational Drive Planned. |, The Police Departmént is making plans for a campaign of €ducation for both motorists and pedestrians. Radio will used. ‘The radio educational campaign is (the outgrowth of an offer of Frank M. ‘Russell, vice president of the National 1 Broadcasting Co., to permit the Police ;Department to use the facilities of ‘WRC for a serles of talks by police and traffic officials on traffic safety. ‘The condition of Charles Kenneth Prancis, 2305 Eighteenth street, victim | Monday night of a traffic crash vhich killed Mrs. Alice K. Henderson, was yeported as “unchanged” at Sibley Hospital today, Prancis is thought to have a frac- tured skull and internal hurts, He collapsed on a train yesterday after- noon while en route to the inquest here in the death of Mrs. Henderson, a ger in his automobile when it it by a taxicab at Twelfth and ‘Water streets southwest. i Three Hurt Last Night. ‘Three injured, none seriously, was 1Jast night’s traffic toll in mishaps re- to police today. Henrletta Sebatian, 21 years old, 1116 Néal street northeast, was trested at Casuslty Hospital after the machine in which she was a passenger figured in & triple collision. She was riding in & «car operated by Victor 8. McCloskey, 23 years old, 135 Thirteenth street north- east, which was in collision at Twelfth street and Florida avenue northeast with a machine driven by Joseph L. Simmons, 25 years old, of Mitchellville, Md. The impact caused the machine | of Stmmons to collide with an automo- bile tenson, ! 88, of 3025 Fourteenth street. | 'Nannie Marriott, 40 years old, 416 G . street southeast also was treated as the | Tesult of injuries suffered when run down at Second and I streets by an au- | tomobile operated by Clarence C. Car- yoll, 32 years old, colored, of 214 Seaton N. Modre, 27 years old, colored, Becond street, esca) serious in- early today when machine ving overturned while he is said | fiyh he | completed the trip here in Fifteen extra motorcycle police, called in from precincts, photographed as they reported to the morning to begin an intensive drive on the law violators. Traffic Bureau this —Star Staff Photo. CITIZENS TO AID AND. C. ZONING Location’ of Firehouses and| Police Stations Will Be Given to Special Committee. Location of fire engine houses, police stations and other public ac- tivitles, which has caused the Zoning Commission and District Commissioners acute problems in the past, will be; turned over to a special citizens’ com- | mittee, to be formed in the near future, the Zoning Commission decided yester- | day. The committee will be made up | eration of Citizens’ Associations, Opera- tive Builders Association and National | Capital Park and Planning Commission, | The committee will serve as an advisory body to the Zoning Commission and the | city heads. Its composition will be an- | nounced later. Its first report is ex-| pected at the next open hearing of the | Zo ission, September 18. | ‘The committee will have before it an amendment to t-: zoning regulations discussed at the last public hearing be- fore the zone body, but not decided. It was to extend the definition of resi- dential zones to include the uses as fire engine houses, police stations, pumping stations, playgrounds, recreation centers and swimming pools. -This was almost universally condemned at the hearing, and the committee will work out a plan Wwhereby the Commissioners may locate activities where they are needed with the minimum of ‘friction from n:arby‘property ownmin‘ n - two specific zon! uests not decided at the last h!lrlnr:qlhe com- mission ruled as follows: Change from 90 to 40 feet the first commercial prop- erty bounded by B, C, Nineteenth and Twentieth streets; denied, Change from residential to first com- mercial, southeast corner of Minnesota avenue and E street southeast; denied. ——e LT. MOORE TO LEAD CAPITAL RIFLE TEAM National Association Announces Choice of Policeman for Camp Perry, Ohio, Matches. Lieut. E. C. Moore, Infantry Reserve Corps, residing at 2054 ‘Thirty-seventh street, well known local rifle and pistol shot, has been appointed by the adju- tant general to captaln the clvilian Tifle team which will represent the District of Columbia.at the national rifie and pistol matches, according to an official announcement made today by the National Rifle Association. The association co-operates with the War Department in sponso: the national matches. They will be held at Camp e Erie, from tem- ber 15, inclusive. > ‘Try-outs for the selection of the District of Columbia team will be held on the National Guard range at Camp Simms, Congress Heights, D. C., be- ginning at 1 p.m. Saturday. The team will consist of the captain and 12 shooting members to be selected on . Yy Columbia “who has no military status is eligible to try for a place on the j team.” National Guardsmen.and mem- bers of any branch of the Organized Reserves may not participate, The course of fire for the try-outs will be 10 shots fired in the standing position at 200 yards, 10°shots rapid fire seated at 200 yards, and 10 shots rapid fire prone at 300 yards. Lieut. Moore is a police officer in the thirteenth precinct. He graduated from the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga., in addition to having served four years in the Marine Corps. | SAVED FROM GAS DEATH. Albert C. Day Found Unconscious by Sister and Man. Albert Claud Day, 24 years old, was i saved from death by gas in the kitchen of his home, 605 Raleigh place south- east, yesterday by his sister, Miss Made- line Day, and Vernon Cornwell, the lat- ter of the 1100 block of Fourth street northeast, who arrived at the house and summoned aid, after finding him unconscious. Gas was escaping from five open burners when the sister and Cormnwell arrived, according to police. The stricken man was treated at Casualty Hospital by Dr. J. Rogers Young, after which he was taken to Gallinger for observation. Police Dog Fasts, Mourning Death of “Pal,” Boston Bull “BUDDY. It was mostly give and take be- tween them from the start. As a puppy “Buddy” needed & counselor; in his dotage “Teddy” needed a guide. The young police dog learned from the mature Boston bull, “Buddy” learned not to snap at timid old . ladies, not to lick the fresh paint off table legs or make off with the P ien the' paltce’d to the en the pol log grew full extent of his 2 years, there came a time when he could reciprocate. “Teddy” was getting old. The gray- ing Boston bull had begun to bump be;lg obstructions, his eyes were going Then Ed P. Hachenpert, who ‘works for the owner of the two dogs, M. Berman of 1007 E street, fash- foned a harness for Teddy, tied one end of a leash to it and gave the other end to Teddy's best friend. After that Teddy had a faithful guide, no matter what excitement was brewing on the s .. | But yesterday the elder dog would not come from his kennel when Buddy barked and tugged- at the leash. All day Buddy hung around, ‘watching men administer to his all- ing friend. Last night they carried Teddy away at the.close of his 13 years. Since then Buddy has refused to eat or be consoled, but spends his time roaming an empty back yard, half hoping to find his companion in some hiding place. FORMER NOTE TELLER ACCUSED OF SHORTAGE Garrett M. Van Hoesen, 20, ~dicted Under 18 Counts. In- Garrett M. Van Hoesen, 29, former note teller at the Second National Bank, was indicted today by the grand jury on charges of embezzlement, larceny after trust and ind larceny. He is alleged to have diverted to his own use $1,813.50, which came into his hands in the course of his employment between April 30, 1928, and August 2, 1928. Five different charges are set out in the indictment, three counts being de- voted to each charge to meet the evi- dence of which of the three charges he may be found guilty. Three additional counts, making 18 in all, charge in three different ways the alleged diversion of the total amount sald to have been taken from the bank's funds. April 30, 1928, he is alleged to have taken $101.50; June 18, $100; July 18, $403; July 19, $403 and August 2, $806. BOY HURT IN F;LL. Motorist Rushes Lad to Hospital; Condition Undetermined. While climbing a tree with some playmates in front of his home yester~ day afternoon, 9-year-old Joseph Fox, son of Mr, and Mrs. H. M. Fox, of 1920 ‘Thirty-seventh street, Jost his hold and tumbled 18 feet to the ground. A pass- ing motorist took him to Georgetown Hospital, where he is thought to have & fractured skull. Doctors this morn- ing described his condition as unde- termined. ‘The boy was a pupil at Trinity School. An Army airplane won & race with death from Kelly Field, San Antonio, Tex., to this city just before dusk yesterday when Capt. A. E. Easterbrook, Army Air Corps, landed at Bolling Field in time to reach the bedside of his mother before she died last night at Walter Reed Hospital. Capt. rook recelved notice Tuesday morning that his mother’s con- dition was serious, He left Kelly Fleld in & plane at 2 o'clock the same.after- noon, but was forced down by darkpess '2:‘ lock v ?:‘5., mvu'::' the et at 3 o'clock yesterday morning, yer o 16 hours’ .. members of the’family o?ndn the coun! to be with Mrs. < nl.lmdfilt {Army Officer Defeats Death in Race Through Air to Mother’s Bedside Here came from West Point, N. ¥.; Willlam Easterbrook, another son, came from Seattle. Wash., and a daughter, Mrs, J. L. Collins, wife of an Army captain, came from Fort Benning, Ga. The onl other survivor is & son, Wilfred Easter- brook of Seattle, Wash. Her husband, Col. Edmund P. Easterbrook, chief of Army chaplains, was with his wife when she was taken ill. Mrs, Easterbrook was born in England December 12, 1864. For 30 years shé has assisted -Col. Easterbrook in his work as au Army chaplain. She had planned to accom| were to leave New York yesterday on the .Army transport St. Mihlel, The trip was eanceled when she a week lr7 pany him on an in- | ul spection trip to the Pacific Coast. They | parl SMITHSON DEAD 100 YEARS TODAY Institution Officials Call At- tention to Romantic Story of Scientist’s Life. ‘Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of James Smithson, founder of the Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian officials took occasion to call attention to the romantic story cf the man who gave his fortune to estab- lish a great scientific institution in a | country he had never seen, within whose walls his body now rests. Smithson was the natural son of the Duke of Northumberland and Earl of | Percy, born in France in 1765. Pre- sumably he remained outwardly on good terms with his family al lhis life, but the social stigma of his illegitimacy preyed upon his mind. v Interested in Natural Sciences. He came to manhood an extreme liberal in politics with an interest in the natural sclences. Probably his first contact with .America came through a half brother, a legitimate son of the earl, who served with the British forces during the Revolution, taking part in the battles of Lexington and Concord. This officer was en- thuslastic over the caliber of the Co- | lonial soldiers. ‘The establishment of a social order, where title and ancestry theoretically counted for nothing appealed to the imagination of Smithson. But - he never visited the New World. He de- voted himself to research in chemistry. He died in 1829 and was burled in the Protestant Cemetery at Genoa. ‘When his will was opened it was found that he had left his entire fortune, approximately $500,000, to the Govern- ment of the United States to establish at Washington an institution for “the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men."” . “My name shall live in the m of man,” he wrote, “when the the Northumberlands and Percles are extinct and forgotten.” Body Brought to United States. His body was brought to the United States in 1904 in custody of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell and re- interred in the Smithsonian Institution. Doubtless Smithson’s primary con- sclous motive for the bequest was his interest in the sciences. But underneath it all was the trace of a bitter jest over his lot in life. Under an ornate tomb in Westminster Abbey sleeps the Earl of Percy. The stone is chiseled with a long list of the titles and honors of the great nobleman including “Custos Rotolorum of the Counties of Northumberland and Mid- diesex and all America.” Smithson must have smiled at that “all America.” ‘With a stroke of his pen he made the bar sinister a mark of honor. . He triumphed in the land where the anclent line of the Percies had gone down in ignominous defeat. SLOGAN CON'}EST WINNER HONORED AT LUNCHEON Miss Marian Boyd of Detroit Is Guest of.A. A, A. at Wil- lard Hotel. The American Automobile Association is host today to 16-year-old Marian Boyd of Detroit, whose slogan on high- way beautification won her a trip to ‘Washington and took first place over 6,000 others submitted in a national contest. ‘The young visitor, with her mother, Mrs. Thomas F. Boyd, will take an ex- tensive motor trip to see what has been done locally in the way of improving road-side scenery. Today she was honor guest a luncheon at the Willard Hotel ‘and this afternoon she will be conducted through headquarters of the association here. The contest, in which entrants sub- mitted slogans stressing the need for improvement of wayside stands, was sponsored by the New York Art Center. Miss Boyd has enjoyed a round of en- tertalnment since her arrival here, three days ago. < FIGHT OVER REMOVAL OF LOADING PLATFORM Police and Railway Officials Differ on Traffic Problem Near Mayflower. Removal of the permanent sifeet car | 2 loading platform in front of the May- flower Hotel, on Connecticut avenue be- tween L and De Salle streets, was rec- ommended today by police of the third precinct, who say that it causes traffic congestion. Ils removal was opposed by the Wushington Rallway and Elec- tric Co. at an open hearing before the Public Utllitles Commission. Capt. Willlam G. Stott, commander of the third precinct, was called to the stand by Willlam Leahy, acting as counsel for the Mayflower Hotel Cor- poration, which asks that the platform be removed. Stott said it would be in the public interest to have it removed, as it causes traffic congestion. He said that taxicabs, however, did park double in front of the hotel in violation of the re;uh‘ tion and caysed some of the con- gestion. Testifying for the Washington Rall- way and Electric Co., George E. Donn, its traffic engineer, said that the plat- lemory titles of | obse: WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1929. * CREATION CURVES BACK 10 [TSELF, SCIENTISTS REVEAL Huge Lenses Pick Up Evi- dence From Nebulae 30 Sep- tillion Miles Away. NO-BOUNDARY EARTH IS TRIVIAL EXAMPLE Dr. Francis G. Pease and Milton Humason Make Observations at Mount Wilson. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Two Carnegie Institution astronomers have looked into space further than man has looked before—approximately 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles. They could not look this distance with their own eyes even with the aid of the most powerful of telescopes—but they looked with the enormously more delichte artificial eye of the spectro- scope. As a result of what they observed in these far realms of space they have presented concrete evidence that all creation curves back on itself, just as does the surface of the earth, but in an enormously more complicated fashion. ‘These observations came from Dr. Francis G. Pease and Milton Humason, working with the 100-inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory. ‘The observations were announced by the institution yesterday with an inter- pretation by Dr. Edwin P. Hubble, the discoverer of the nature of the spiral nebulae as “island universes.” The nebulae are the most distant objects in space from the human observer. Pease and Humason observed that the farther away. they were the faster they seemed to be moving, attaining veloci- ties indicated on the astronomical in- struments of from 3,100 to 4,900 miles per second. Appearance of Velocity. But, says Dr. Hubble, this is only an apparent velocity depending on the position of the observer, and when the proper formulae are applied to it con- crete evidence is obtained of the actual nature of space itself, beyond which is nothing. “Since the surface of the earth has & definite area but no boundaries,” says Dr. Hubble, “it must necessarily be curved. This is a trivial example, but it offers a simple analogy. If the uni- verse has & finite volume but no bound- aries, as indicated by the theory of relativity, then space itself must be curved, The universe is so large, how- ever, that curvature in a relatively small volume may be reciable. An investigation of the matter demands TVal over as & volume as possible. This is what Mr. Humason is attempting in his study of nebulae with the 100-inch reflector. The tele- scope is the largest in existence. Nebu- lae are the largest and brightest objects in the sky, hence they can be observed at the greatest distances. “The method employed is to analyze the light of nubulae with a spectro- graph and to study the photographs of the spectra thus obtained. Even the brightest of the nebulae require long exposures with the spec iph an for the faintest that can studied the exposures may run into weeks. Spectra of some 40 of the brighter and herice nearer nebulae had previously been accumulated, largely h the shifted to the red of the normal positions, and these shifts were interpreted as veloci- ties in the line of sight, away from the earth. Such shifts, either toward the red or toward the blue, are constantly being observed and studied in the spectra of stars where they are known to be caused by motion in the line of sight. Among the nebulae, however, ioward'the red and the orriaia Wi e nding velocities of recession ave mm; times those found for the sf ‘The greatest velocity found was about 1,100 miles per second. Distance and Speed. “Recently, after the distances of many nebulae had been determined, it was discovered that these velocities of re- cession were correlated with the dis- tances. The farther away a nebula is the faster it seems .to be traveling, always from the observer. The few velocities of approach were very small and were restricted. to the nearest nebulae. % p “The reliable data were restricted to nebulae not more than 7,000,000 light years from the earth (approximately 4,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 miles), and that for every million light years of distance (approximately ~600,000,000,- 000,000,000,000 miles) there was a shift to the red in the spectra of nearly 100 m per second. The outstanding velocity of 1,100 miles per second be- longs to a nebula whose distance is not definitely known except by the shift in the spectrum, “Mr. Humason's investigations furnish tests of this correlation among much more distinct objects. He concentrated on clusters of nebulae—huge organiza- tions averaging more than a million light years in diameter and each con- taining several hundred individual nebulae, This procedure offers two advantages: The distances of clusters are determined far more accurately thart distances of individual nebulae, and among the many objects of different luminosities in a given cluster he could select the very brightest ones to investi- “The first definite results, reported a few months ago, gave a red shift in the spectra of N G C 7619, the bright- est nebula in a cluster in the constella- tion of Pegasus corresponding to a ve- loclty of 2,400 miles per second away from the earth. The cluster appears to be al u distance of 25,000,000 light years (about 15,000,000,000,000,000,000,- 000,000 miles), hence the relation be- tween distance and velocity agrees with that found among the nearer nebulae. Coma Berenices Nebulae. “The new results concern, three nebu- lae in a smaller cluster in’the constel- Iation of Coma Berenices about, four degrees from the pole of the Milky Way. The distance of the cluster is of the order ‘of 50,000,000 light years or twice that of the cluster in Pegasus. Although the nebulae are among the brightest in the cluster they appear so faint that the res ran up as high as 49 hours. A study of the spectra m indicated red shifts corre- form accommodated 490 persons board- | Humaso ing and alighting from cars between 7 aun. ‘t‘l’l‘: 10 pan, June 20. He attrib- congestion lar, to automobi] ”al became 11l | he sponding to velocities away from the ;:rg?onl; 4,900 ‘miles second DRY LAW ENFORCED 200 YEARS I IN CENTRAL AMERICAN TOWN; Maya Indians Inflict 50 Lashes for Intoxication in Village. Buenos Aires Visitor Tells of Ancient, Law-Abiding Tribe. BY GRETCHEN SMITH. ‘The story of a small town in Central America. which for over 200 years has practiced prohibition, the violation of which law carries a penalty of 50 lashes, has been brought to Washington by Senora de Soto Hall, wife of Maximo de Soto Hall, editor of La Prensa, one of the leading newspapers of Buenos Alres. Senora de Soto Hall was brought up in Guatemala, where the ancient tribe of Maya Indians still flourishes in parts of the country, unsurpassed as a ltw-Tbldln', hard-working race of people. “In the little town of Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan,” said Senora de Soto Hall, “prohibition has been strictly enforced for over 200 years. Not a drop of alcohol is permitted within the pre- cincts of the town and so far as I know. this lJaw has never been violated. If a resident wants to drink, he may | leave the town and get. what he wants in the neighboring village, but woe to him if he dares to return to Santa Catarina intoxicated. The penalty ir 50 lashes in the plaza of the town.” Chief Punishes Self. “Do many persons drink outside of the town?” Senora de Soto Hall was asked. The senora smiled. “Only on Sunday nights do the In- dians want to drink,” she replied. “Al- though very few ever return to Santa Catarina intoxicated, a humorous story is related there in regard to this sub- ject. The mayor, or chief of the vil- lage, was reading out the names of those who had violated the prohibition law and were to receive the 50 lashes as punishment. After calling out the names of two or three of the village men, he loudly read his own name. The old chieftan had come home drunk the night before and with deetpest ‘humility had inflicted upon himself the punish- ment of the 50 lashes. “There are very few criminals among the Indians of Santa Catarina,” con- tinued Senora de Soto Hall. cently a visitor, interested in legislation and punishment of law violators, requested that he be shown the' villlage jail of Santa Catarina. When he was taken there not a person was to be seen. ‘Have you no criminals?’ the visitor inquired. ‘Yes,” was the reply, ‘I will show you one who is & notorious murderer.’ To his astonishment, the visitor was taken to some flelds, where & man was hard at work. ‘That man,’ his guide ex- PAGE - 17 SENORA DE SOTO HALL. plained, ‘murdered a man several years ago. He was sentenced to toil the fields of the murdered man’s widow— to work for her and to help take care of her family until her small son grown and is able to do the work of the family. In addition, he is an out- cast in the village, He is obliged to live alone—he cannot see his own fam- ily and no one in the village will speak to him, but he is continually pointed out in scorn as being a mur- derer and a criminal.’ Night Visitors Barred. “Another curious custom of the vil- lage,” continued Senora de Soto Hall, “is the prohibition of strangers to re- main in the town after 6 o'clock at night. Every sf is forbidden under pain of death to remain in the village after nightfall. Once or twice foolhardy visitors have attempted to violate this law, and have met with the fate which has been threatened em. “With all these original customs and laws, the Mayan tribe of Santa Catarina are a .fine, upstanding, hardworking people. For generations, they have kept themselves aloof from the rest of the world, obeying their own laws and the laws of Christianity, and frowning se- verely upon intermarriages of their peo- ple with outsiders. They are an agricul- tural people, but also make many beau- tiful blankets, and the loveliest silk cos- tumes are dyed and made by the women of the tribe.” Senora de Soto Hall will remain in ‘Washington for & few days, after which she and Senor de Soto Hall will leave for Havana, which will be the begin- ning of a contemplated tour of South :’1‘:]? centn:hmefiu 'rge.h they expect carry them over a traveling period of a year and a half before returning to their home in Buenos Aires. THREE IN HOSPITAL AFTER PAINT BLAST More Seriously Affected of 15 Gas Victims May Be Out Today. Three of the 15 men, employes of the Potomac Electric Power Co., who were partially overcome by gas fumes in the laboratory of the plant at Four- teenth and OC 'streets lat yesterday machine tal today. ying ignited ¢ Hoapital physloians s, o8] P 3 ver, the m&:&m of the men has Pomibly leave s sttution 1ate 008Y. eave : ‘The men, S. Moulden, 18 years old, of Riverdale, Md.; Kenneth Hoffstetter, 18 years old, of the 300 block of M street southwest, and L. I Tudge, 24 years old, of the 1400 block of Good Hope road southeast, were the most seriously affected by the gas fumes. ‘The men were taken to Emergency Hospital by members of the fire rescue "i‘,’;"‘ immediately after the explosion, which caused considerable excitement, but did little damage. As soon as the mumhlnnmvmm thel:yu: ‘were work- caug] e empl fire extinguishers and which was stationed across the street was summoned. Theexunzolthedmlrmuu- mated at comparatively few dollars. ‘The 12 other men affected by the ect escaping- gas. fumes were sent to their homes after first aid treatment. ENCAMPMENT WILL OPEN WITH PARADE TONIGHT Veterans of Foreign Wars Will March on Pennsylvania Avenue at 6:30 This Evening. ‘The annual encampment of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars will open with a parade tonight at 6:30 o’clock, beginning at Twenty-fifth and M streets. Various patriotic and fraternal organizations will participate. Moving along M street to Twenty-sec- ond street, thed| e will proceed south on the latter thoroughfare to Pennsyl- vania avenue, thence along the avenue back to M and Thirty-first streets, north on -first to R and west on R stret and .to the reviewing stand at ‘Western High School. ‘The principal sessions of the encamp- ment will be held in the auditorium of Western High School. Charles H. Reilly, past department commander, is to be marshal of the parade. second, represents the velocity shift at the distance of the cluster. “This interpretation would be a re- markable confirmation of the correla- tion previously found. It would justify the use of the red shift in spectra of isolated nebulac as indications of dis- tance and would furnish definite quan- titative data for a discussion of the curvature of space. “There s still the possibllity that the third nebula really belon to the cluster, In that case the significance of the correlation would have to be thoroughly re-examined for the range in the three velocities, 1,800 miles per second, 15 much greater than we have o family or a distant ltnn(erh:vhu hap- the line of pens to be in | of this uncel tions rushed for the fire engine, | | WOMAN ASKS JURY ! Nurse Held in $300 Bond for Alleged Assault on Real Estate Operator. Pleading not guilty and demanding a jury trial through Attorney Joseph E. Kelly, when she appeared in Police Court today, Mrs. Mildred H. Johnson, 30-year-old nurse of the La Salle Apartments, was held under a $300 bond for an alleged assault on James C. Tipton, real estate operator of 1897 Ingleside terrace. Venable Baggett, 27, sald to be a traveling salesman, with ‘Tipton, was also held under bond. A charge of a similar 3 et BIgSe was e prossed. odey b Y v e ‘prossed it United States Attorney Hobart e, she T lp him. Tipton did n‘;?fi- turn the money, in spite of her numer- ous demands, -sald, and yesterday, in the company of to ton's office. She received no sat- isfaction there, said, and .threat- ened to l'g‘];ell to Mrs. Tipton, who is now in South. “This infuriated Tipton, who swore at me and used vile language,” Mrs. Johnson said. Say Woman Made “Pass.” Mrs. Johnson is said to have made & tt, she went and pay her the money, but when they left, he secured warrants for their ar- rest. Detective Sergts. C. J. P. Weber and Howard E. Ogle arrested Mrs. "ohn- son and Baggett at the La Salle It ments on the warrant. iid today that she has use of the difficulty Mrs. Johnson lost her position in which she is now involved. i e S Maj. Brehon Somervell Returns After Coast Tour. An intensive course in beach erosion from first-hand experience has just been completed by Maj. Brehon Somer=~ vell, War Department engineer for the Washington area, who returned today from 4 trip that took him from Florida to New Hampshire. Maj. Somervell is @& member of the board recently ap- pointed by Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of Army Engineers, who studied the beach erosian problem along the Atlantic seaboard. “,h:a’}or eogl;‘rx:ll l:tudied Qh:mbelch e n_a cola, Jacksonville, in North Carolina, at Long Branch, N. J.; the New beaches and those :emlou the North Shore of Massachu- REPORTS STORE THEFT. Sylvan Powdermaker, man: fi::“‘ Jow Co. store at three d.llnl’ld been stolen from T of the Seventh that were HERTZ IS INDICTED IN JURORS' PROBE OF HOTEL FAILURE. Accused of Perjury and Hid- ing Records of Bankrupt Corporation. CONCEALMENT CHARGE CONTAINS FOUR COUNTS | Other True Bill Alleges He Knew Rental Debt Item in Lia- bilities False. Gustave C. Herts, former secretary and treasurer of the bankrupt Con- solidated Hotel Co., which attempted is|to operate the Hamilton Hotel at Fourteenth and K streets, following the failure of the Hamilton Hotel Co. in 1926, was indicted today by the grand jury in two separate indictments charg- ing perjury and concealment of books and property of the bankrupt corpora- tion. Hertz was arrested several weeks ago and taken before United States Commissioner Needham & C. Turnage, where he was placed on bail of $7,500 to await hearing on the perjury charge. The Consolidated Hotel Co. went into bankruptey in 1927. According to the perjury indictment, Hertz made oath before Margaret H. Ready, a notary public, June 20, 1927, as to the accuracy of a schedule of assets and liabilities of the Consolidated Hotel Co. which was filed in the bank- ruptcy - proceedings. Among the lia- bilities was set out alleged debt to the Chesapeake Building Co., which 10 DECIDE CHARGE ;= held title to the hotel property, of $319,697.29 said to be due as rent. The indictment alleges that Hertz well knew that no such rental was due the com- pany and that the rent due would not exceed $30,000 and in fact was no more ,400. The concealment indictment is in company, from June 2, 1927, until Ji 12, 1927, the ‘company's minute book, bank deposit book, check book, petit cash ledger, general ledger and other property. The second count alleges that such detention or concealment was with the intent to violate the general bankruptcy law. The third count is identical with the first except that the thing concealed are ' ted “ and records” instead of merely “property,” as in the former count. The is noted in the I ipts and disbursement Tupt with intent to viojate the bank= ruptey Jaws. MRS.D.P.SUMMERS - WINS DIVORCE DECREE Husband Was Infatuated With One ‘Woman After Another, She Says. threa at headquarters | Co STUDIES BEACH EROSION. ot Mrs. Dorothy Peake Summers of 1517 Webster streef, today was awarded an interlocuf decree of absolute divorce w 'B. Summers by Justice i h:iau ‘m:i hnv\n‘“‘d'e‘ cl ers - serted her on two occasions for other ‘women. Summers was described in his wife's suit as has become infatuated with one woman another, It wis alleged that in the Summer of 1928 he went tion was lected, the court was told. upon Summers’ promise to thereafter de- port himself in a con: save the defendant’s exe ravagance. ‘The two were married in this city, May 21, 1926, and have no children, according to the bill. Attorne Raymond Neudecker and William C. Ashford appeared on behalf* of Mrs. Summers. EDUCATORS OFF TODAY FOR ATLANTA SESSION Washington Delegation Headed by Miss Grosvenor, Association President. Members of the National Education Association and of the Education Asso- ciation of the District of Columbia are leaving this afternoon, at 3:40 o'clock, on the Southern States Special of the Seaboard Air Line for Atlanta, where the annual convention of National Education Association will be held. ‘The Washington delegation, which is headed by Miss Edith Louise Grosvenor, president of District of Columbia Edu- cation Association, includes Harry Eng-~ lish, director of the District association, and Miss J. Anna Tennyson, secretary of the local education association, Rep- resentatives of the Bureau of Education the Interior Department are - the Wu“hlnmnhn delegates. o] ATKINSON GIVES CUP TO BASKET BALL TEAM Optimist Cagers Receive Award at Meeting for Winning 115-Pound Championship Title. Dr. Wade H. Atkinson presented a silver cup to the Boys' Club Optimist basket ball team, which won the city championship in the 115-pound class last Winter, at the weekly meeting of of the Optimist Club held in the Ham- {iton Hotel last night. ‘The delegates to the Internaf 1 convention, held in Tulsa, m.,“::; Bireh a1 on the mmmtkn. A The convention, which invited to meet in Wi %o 1033,