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THE EVENING WITH INSULL FIRM IS BRANDED RUMOR North American Director| Says Corporation Has No Consolidation Intentions. CONFERENCE IS BLAMED FOR STARTING REPORTS | Wall Street Thought Billion»Dnl]ar“ Transaction Was i-n the Making. | Wilson, a member of the| Harley P board of directors of the North Ameri- can Co., public utilities corporation, to- cay denied reports from New York ihat negotiations had been opened to merge” the company with the Mid- die West Utllitles Co., controlled by | samuel Insull of Chicago. The rumors apparently were the out- rrowth of a recent conference between ! Frank L. Dame, president of the North American Co., and Martin J. Insull, brother of Samuel Insull, Mr. Wilson | belfeves. Reports Manufactured. “The reports of a merger were manu- factured out of the whole cloth.” said | Mr. Wilsen. “The North American | Co. is not interested in mergers for ctock purposes. It is interested in de- veloping its own business. “I was notified of the conference between Mr. Dame and Mr. Insull and | it had rothing to do with a merger. The discussion was over an entirely | diffferent subject.” Extensive Holdings Here. The North American Co. has exten- sive holdings in Washington utilities. It had a controlling interest in the Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co. and ~wns about 2,000 shares of the stock of the Capital Traction Co. Mr. Wilson is the principal owner of the Washington Rapid Transit Co., and came into locai prominence through his efforts to bring 2bout a consolidation of the Washing- ton transit companies. In the reports of the merger between | the North American Co. and the In- ulls Wall Street visualized a billion- follar corporation which would exceed in importance the recently-formed Mor- ran-Bonbright food combine, with prop- crtfes extending from New England to! the Pacific Coast. DOMESTIC TANGLE BRINGS | POLICE AND AMBULANCE Golored Couple’s Disagreement Over Board Bill Reported as Fight and Shooting Cause. A domestic disagreement may be jufit: one of those things, or a riot, depend- | ing on the point of view. “Who shot who?” asked a second | precinct policeman as he climbed out | of a patrol wagon in an alley near| First street and Florida avenue about | 10 o'clock th's morning. A second | policeman climbed out. A moment later | an ambulance pulled to a noisy stop nearby. Two uniformed attendants hastily prepared for the ‘“‘victim.” “Mister, there ain’t been no shoot- ing 'round -here,” volunteered a by- stander. “There was a little disagree- ment over there at that house, but nothin's wrong.” “Oh, I see,” said the policeman, mak- ing for the residence of Mattie Mercy, colored. The ambulance attendants| .;hrugged shoulders and made ready to! eave. Mattie told the policeman it was just one of those things. She and her hus- band, Benny, haven't been on such ex- cellent terms recently. They have been estranged, 1n fact, but Benny drops in from time to time. Benny filed notice of leaving this morning after a little visit, but Mattie noted an exception and sald something about a board bill. ‘Whereupon he gave her a forceful shove. A woman neighbor across the alley chanced to view the proceedings. She went to a telephone. In another part of the city a white woman who employs Mattie's neighbor heard some- thing about a terrible fight and a shoot- ing. That was enough. Within 10 min- utes representatives of the law, the medical profession and all the curious were at the door. Benny Mercy had obtained his coat and left. BRAZILIAN OFFICERS HERE FOR INSTRUCTION Three Naval Men Will Take Spe- cial Courses Under Ameri- can Supervision. Three officers of the Brazilian Navy have arrived in Washington and will be under instruction in the American Navy for special courses, the Navy De- partment announced today. The offi- cers arranged to confer with officials of the Brazilian embassy during their | sojourn in the National Capital. Dr. Moncel Ferrara Mendez will taks the course in flight medicine at the United States Naval Medical School here. Lieut. F. P. Cordiero de Farias will be under instruction at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola. Fla., for advanced training in aviation. Senior Lieut. Dorval Reis will join the post-graduate class in steam en- | gineering at Annapolis, M RETURNS TO WHITE HOUSE 1 Newton Pleased With Condition of Son, Hurt in Accident. Walter H. Newton, one of the White House secretaries, returned to Washing- ton today from Minneapolis, where his son, John Marshall Newton, is lying in the hospital with a severed leg as the result of a recent street car acci- dent. The boy's condition is reported to be good, but he will have to undergo an operation later when he is a little stronger. Mr. Newton will return to| Minneapolis and be present when this is done. At present he feels very pleased with his son’s condition and is confident that he will recover irom the accident. TRAVELERS AID MOVES. Headquarters of the Travelers’ Aid Soclety were yesterday transferred from the Atlas Building to 1418 I street, in the same bullding with the Community Chest. Mrs. Margaret Ford, executive secretary of the soclety, and Miss Beatrice Hodgson, her assistant, will occupy the headquarters offices, the workers maintaining their present quar- ters at the Union Station. More than 23.000 cases of lost chil- dren, beivildered immigrents. runaway boys and girls. old people who needed lDiagnosis Is Confirmed by Three Years Given Parker on 1927 Swindle Charge in Man Who Figured Eleanor Lehman Death Inquiry Is Sentenced. Charles H. Parker, 34, was sent to the penitentiary for three years today by Chief Justice McCoy in Criminal Division No. 1 following his plea of guilty to an indictment charging the embezzlement of $548.78 while in the employ of the United Artists Corpora- tion in 1927. -He was not indicted until Mey 15, 1929. Parker was arrested January, 1929, on a charge of complicity with Louis W. Hoffman, a physiotherapist, who is serving a term of 30 years for the death of Eleanor Lehman, resulting from an alleged illegal operation. Parker was accused of being respon- sible for the condition of the young woman, which led to the operation. Attorney Bertrand Emerson told' the court that there was a distinct under- standing with the United States attor- ney's office that the latter charge would be dropped on Parker's plea of guilty to the embezzlement indictment. CASE OF LEPROSY FOUND N DISTRIT Physician of U. S. Public Health Service. A case of leprosy, the first in severa years, has becn discovered in the Dis- trict by offictals of the District Health Department. Harry Maldag, 54, & pa- tient at the Soldiers’ Home Hospital, was reported to the Bureau of Con- taglous Discases of the Health Depart- ment yesterday by officials of the hos- pital, ‘who believed he was suffering from leprosy. Health Officer William C. Fowler sald today that the diagnosis had_been confirmed by a physician of the United States Public Health Service, who is an expert on leprosy, and &| physician from the Health Department. | The man was removed last night to the District quarantine station in the rear of the District Jail, and the United States Public Health Service was noti- fied. The Public Health Service will remove him to a leprosarium, probably the one at Carville, La., the only one in the continental United States, Dr.| Fowler said. | Dr. Fowler said that it was not known where the man contracted the disease, but that he had served in the Philip- pines during the Philippine rebellion and on the Mexican border in 1915, WASHINGTON BLDG. TRUSTEES APPOINTED| Harold E. Doyle and Andrew B.| Duvall to Conduct Sale Under $200,000 Bond. | Harold E. Doyle and Andrew B. Duvall were today appointed by Justice Peyton Gordon vice trustees to sell the Washington Building, at Fifteenth street and New York avenue. Spencer Gordon, the third trustee, asked to be relieved from further service in that capacity. The trustees are directed to give a bond of $200,000 and to advertise the date and terms of sale. The court allowed counsel fees to- taling $110,000 for the litigation, which has been before the court for more than a year. Attorneys Covington, Burling and Rublee of Washington, and Dick- son Bitler and McCouch of Boston, as counsel for the National Shawmut Bank, trustee under the first mortgage for $3,300,000, are to divide a fee of $80,000; Hamilton & Hamilton of Washington, representing the Liberty Trust Co., trus- tee under the second mortgage, for $800,000, are allowed $20,000, and War- ner, Stackpole and Bradee of Boston, $5,000. The Liberty Trust Co. is also allowed a fee for its services of $5,000. ‘The decree after establishing the priority of the two mortgages totaling $4,100,000, with accrued interest, faces the claim of James Stewart & Co., the building firm, of $196,297.48 ahead of all other lienors and lessees. An appeal was noted by the tenants and certain lienors from the decree, but as no supersedeas bond is provided it is not expected to interfere with the sale of the bullding by the trustees. COL. WILLCOX, U. S. A., RETIRED, SUCCUMBS Pennsylvania Railroad Physician at Terminal Was Veteran of Two Wars. Col. Charles Willcox, Medical Corps. United States Army, retired, for seve years physician at the Washington | Terminal for the Pennsylvania Rail- road, died in Walter Reed Hospital yes- terday. He had been in the hospital about a week. Col, Willcox was a veteran of the Spanish-American and World Wars. He was placed on the Army retired list | in 1922 after 30 vears of service. Born in Philadelphia in 1865, Col.| Willcox- attended Yale University, re- celving a Ph. D. degree there, and later was graduated in medicine from the | University of Virginia. He was a member of the Army and Navy Club of this city. He is survived | by his widow, Mrs. Jane A. Willcox, | 2017 Q street; a daughter, Miss Ctrq-‘. line Willcox, and a son, Arnold A. Will- ' cox. Funeral seryices will be conducted in | Arlington Cemetery Monday at 2 pm. | SORORITY ENDS SESSION | WITH BANQUET TONIGHT| | Executive Council of Washington | Chapters Entertained Delegates | at Wardman Last Night. The annual convention of the Sigma | Epsilon Sorority will close tonight with a banquet and dance at Wardman Park Hotel. This afternoon the election of grand officers was scheduled. The ex- ecutive council of the Washington chapters entertained the delegates at dinner last night at Wardman. POLICEMEN REASSIGNED. Six transfers of assignments in_the Police Department were ordered by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of po- lice, effective 8 a.m. Monday. Motor Cycle Policeman F. R. Tierney was made a foot patrolman in the sixth aid in locating relatives, persons who had lost money or tickels and others of a_ sgmilar nature, were aided last year by the Travelers' Aid, and indica- tions aré that the number aided will pass the 25.000 mark this year. Travelers' Ald workers are on duty at +4b¢ Palon Station 24 hours each day. ’ precinct. The other changes, all in- volving foot patrolmen, are as follows: BOARD IN SPECIAL | MEETING T0 PUT BUDGET IN SHAPE Estimates for Playgrounds and Parks System Before Body. MUNICIPAL CENTER SITE PURCHASE ALSO WEIGHED Session Is Held Before Commis- sioner Leaves on Vacation. The final touches were being put on the District's estimates for the 1931 fiscal year at a special meeting of the Board of Commissioners today. The city heads are considering the estimates of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission for purchase and up- keep of the park and playground sys- tem. Plans for purchasing land for the new municipal center were also to come up for discussion, and a com- mittee was being organized to repre- sent_the District in negotiations for purchase of $3,000,000 worth of prop- erty in the area between Pennsylvania avenue and Judiciary Square, Third and { Sixth streets: The money was made available by a recent act of the pres- ent special session of Congress. The extra meeting was called as Commissioner Sidney F. Tallaferro leaves on vacation Monday. He is making a three-week motor tour through Virginia and a stay at a New | Jersey ocean resort. Proctor L. Dough- | erty, president of the board, is to leave when Mr. Taliaferro returns, but the dates for the vacation of Engineer Commissioner Willilam B. Ladue have not been set. He has a mass of work before the Public Utilities Commission this Summer. Daniel E. Garges, secre- tary of the board, has been on vacation all this week. D.C. APPRECIATES VEHICULAR EFFORT Civic Representatives Pass| Resolution on Virginia Reci- procity for Delivery Cars. | Resolutions expressing appreciation of the efforts of business and- civic leaders of Northern Virginia to secure the com- mercial vehicle reciprocity recently granted to District of Columbia delivery trucks operating in Virginia were| passed last nighp at a meeting of a joint committes representing eight trade and civic organizations from both Jurisdictions. Particularly commended were the Chambers of Commerce of Arlington and Fairfax Counties, the city of Alexandria and the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers’ Assoclation. Members of the joint committee in- cluded Jerome Fanciull, Commercial Motor Vehicle Owners’ Association; Will Org, Washington Chamber of Commerce; Charles H. Frame, Mer. chants’ and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion; George Offutt, jr., Washington Board of Trade; John McGill, jr., Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers’ Association; Guy N. Church, Arlington Chamber of Commerce, and Thomas R. Keith, Fairfax Chamber of Commerce. Charles W. Darr, president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, yesterday wrote Gov. Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, expressing the *sincere appre- ciation of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and the citizens and business men of the National Capital.” The letter further states that the relations between the District and Vir- ginia have always been cordial and that | the granting of reciprocity will furnish & new impetus to those groups inter- ested in the development of the North- ern Virginia area. WORKERS ARE HOSTS TO ARMY OFFICERS Employes of Public Buildings and| Planning Commission Offices Tender Luncheon. Employes of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks and of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission gave a luncheon yesterday afternoon in the War Department cafeteria annex at Eighteenth and C streets as a farewell to Army officers being detached from Washington duty and as a greeting to officers who have recently come on duty. Guests of honor were Maj. Carey H. Brown, engineer of the commission; Maj. 8. M. Corbett, of the Army Medical Corps, sanitary officer of the office, and Capt. M. H. Parsons, who has just left the post of superintendent of the United States park police. These officers are s00n to go to various Army assignments in different parts of the country. The incoming officers who were guests of honor were Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., who is to take Maj. Brown's place, and Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, who has just taken over the duties of superintendent of the United States park police. Mrs. Brown, Mrs. Corbett and Mrs. Parsons were likewise guests at the luncheon. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks and executive officer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, delivered a brief address, in which he praised the work of the outgoing officers and welcomed those who are assuming new posts under his Jurisdiction. Various co-workers of the officers delivered brief eulogies. EXCURSIONISTS THRONG TO CHESAPEAKE BEACH G. A. R. Veterans Are Amang Guests at Bay Outings—Sunday Schools Picnic. More than 1,000 .excursionists are vis- iting Chesapeake Beach today on three outings, given by Phil Sheridan Wom- an’s Relief Corps, No. 12, and the Presbyterian Sunday Schools of Hyatts- ville and Riverdale. The relief corps has as its honor guests veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, who are being taken to the resort on special coaches and treated to a picnic luncheon, Mrs. Addie W. Hickman and S. W. Mawson head the ticket committee. E. Helen Te;nple is_president of the corps. D. M. Diver, second to first precinct. J. E. Lowry, tenth to second precinct; Thomas O'Donnell, tenth to third pre- cinct; E. F. Brown, third to tenth pre- cinct; P. W. Nicholson, sixth to Aff precinct, th music and pi gram. . C. Moon is in charge of the Hyattsville Sunday School outing and D. W. Worley is is charge for the Riverdale school. Athletic events, swimming, fishing, crabbing, boating, are on the pro- 4 STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, SATURDAY. GR BUR RUSH WORK ON NEW CURRENCY The Bureau of Engraving is working at full speed on the new small size currency, which goes into circulation on July 16. ted photographers to make pictures of the work on the new bills, Upper left: Secretary Mellon inspects new small size currency. Hall of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Upper right: Packing the new small size currency at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, in Washington. “Go by the portrait,” urges the Treasury. denomination will bear a distinctive portrait to assist in identifying the bills. Lower left: Printing the new small the $5 and Alexander Hamilton on the $10. Lower right: Numuering the currency. tive portrait. size currency at the bureau. ¥ JUNE 29, 1929. CAPITAL TRACTION WINS TAX DISPUTE Corporation Counsel Disal-| lows $11,000, Charging | lllegal Assessment. The District Commissioners and the Capital Traction and Washington Ral- way & Electric Cos. today reached l" settlement of a dispute involving $11,000, sought to be taxed by the| District as part of gross revenues. The total amount in dispute was | $196,000, which the companies declined | to pay because it included $11,000 in | interest of Federal and municipal bonds | owned hy the companies. A recent court ruling held that the District could not tax Federal, State or mu- nicipal bonds. Corporation Counsel Willlam W. Bride submitted a lengthy opinion to the Commissioners holding that the assessment as far as it in- volved interests in these bonds was improper. The Commissloners accepted $185,000 cwed by the companies since they declined to pay the assessments. ‘The same question has arisen on the 4 per cent tax on gross earnings of banks. Following the action on the street car case there will be further settlements in the cases of the banks who have either paid the assessment under protest or who have declinea to pay because they thotight tne assess- ment was illegal. Although no exact figures as to the amount that will probably be in dispute in the latter case are available, Mr. Bride said that he believed it would run into the tens of thousands ‘D( dollars. BRIG. GEN. G. C. SHAW GIVEN COAST COMMAND, Many Other Changes in Personnel of Army Announced by War Department. Brig. Gen. George C. Shaw, recently promoted and now at Fort Benning, Ga., has been assigned to the command of the 6th Brigade, at Fort Rosecrans, Calif.; Maj. John E. Mort, Field Artil- lery, has been transferred from West Palm Beach, Fla, to Tampa, for duty with the Florida National Guard; Capt. Arthur B. Wade, Field Artilles from Pittsburgh to West Palm Beach; Maj. Arnett P. Matthews, Dental Corps, from the Army War College, this city, to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Maj. Harry C. Peavey and Capt. John B. Mockbee, Dental Corps, have been ordered to the Army Medical Center, this city; Capt. Ray T. Maddocks, Cavalry, from Fort Riley, Kans, to the German Cavalry School at Hanover, Germany. The President has accepted the res- ignation of Second Lieut. Mortimer E. Sprague, Cavalry, who recently gradu- ated from the West Point Military Academy and is now on leave of ab- sence at Ridgewood, N. J. Technical Sergt. Joe B. Sharp, Com- pany B, 8th Infantry, at Quantico, Va., has been ordered to Stockholm, Swe- den, as a member of the international free rifle team and subsequently will attend the small arms matches at Camp Perry, Ohio. ANACOSTIA RESIDENT OF MANY YEARS DIES Otho Samuel Pumphrey Was Born in Prince Georges County in December, 1844. Otho Samuel Pumphrey, for many years in business in Anacostia and one of the oldest residents of that section, died at his home, 2116 Nichols avenue, yesterday. Mr. Pumphrey was born in Prince Georges County, Md., December 17, 1844, He was a member of the Anacostia Lodge of Masons. He is survived by his | widow, Mrs. Eleanor Addison Pumphrey; | four daughters, Mrs. Charles Walsh, Mrs. Elsle King, Miss Sarah Pumphrey and Miss Florence Pumphrey, and a son, SBamuel Watkins Pumphrey. Funeral services will be held at his | Anti-Saloon late residence Monday. Interment will be in Congressional Cemetery, ‘With Assistant Secretary Henry Herrick Bond (seated) he is shown the new bills by Director The portrait of George Washington will appear on the §1 bills, Abraham Lincoln appears on | Learn to identify the denominations by the portraits. “Learn the portraits” advises the Treasury Department. Each denomination of the new money will have a distinc- The Treasury Department permit- Each | —Associated Press Photos. Youth Stops in Capital En Route To Los Angcles on Roller Skates Angus MacLennan, who is 22 years old and never broke a record, came coasting into Washington yesterday on his roller skates, fresh from the garden on Madison Square. Angus is leaving almost immediately for Los Angeles, where he hopes to lay claim to something profitable in the way of roller skating endurance records. It gives Angus no qualms to reflect that this is his thirteenth trip from coast to coast, even though all that mileage includes no previous experience at_transcontinental roller skating. Where Angus halts for rest or re- freshment, there he parks his skates, Conscientiously, he returns to them, taking no westward step unshod. In addition, Angus leaves the record of his footprints, or wheel marks, rather, in the various city rooms he en- counters. Also, he is saving the worn- out roller wheels as evidence. Angus, who left Madison Square Garden June 15 at conclusion of the six-day roller skating race there. ex- pects to reach Los Angeles ere snow flies. Of course, they have no snow in California, Angus explained—his re- m;\;k was only a figure of speech, he said. Angus will go by way of St. Louis, Albuquerque, N. Mex., and, incidentally, the strip of untrammeled desert that lles between Flagstaff, Ariz, Needles, Calif. Sand in large quan- tities, Angus says, is harder on roller skaters than vegetarians. gus’ parents live at :IG West GOULD'S WET VIEWS HELD UNIMPORTANT Leader Says Senator “Made Himself Ridic- ulous” in Public Statement. In the opinion of F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, Senator Gould, Republican of Maine, who wrote & grape juice com- pany that he had used its product with “some very fair results,” cannot exert “any influence worth while either for the wet side or the dry side.” McBride commented on the Gould letter in a statement yesterday in which he charged that Gould had “pretended to be a dry while a candidate for the Senate.” “Tt is a good thing,” he added, “that the people of Maine now have had the oppertunity to find the real attitude of this, their senatorial representative, especially in view of the fact that he will come up for re-election next year. “It is very clear,” he said In his state- ment, “that any Senator, who would make himself so ridiculous as to order grape mash from the Fresno Vineyard Co., of St. Louis, and then write them a letter in which he states that he had obtained ‘some very fair results’ and who followed that letter by stating that while he is from a prohibition State he does not hesitate to say to them that he opposes prohibition, but does not find it policy to be too outspoken, etc., can- not exert any influence worth while either for the wet side or the dry side.” McBride declared the Senator had made a “100 per cent wet record” this year in Congress by voting against the Jones-Stalker bill and amendments to increase penalities for prohibition vio- lation. HAS DRY LAW PLEDGE FOR LOYALTY SUNDAY | Anti-Saloon League Asks Cl'nu-clml :i.xl and Sunday Schools to Unite for Prohibition Enforcement. The Anti-Saloon League today made public a pledge to be read tomorrow in churches and Sunday schools co-operat- ing with it in “Loyalty Sunday” ob- servances. It reads: “In common with other Americans and lovers of liberty throughout the Nation, on this day we pledge our sup- port to the President of the United States in his efforts to establish law observance and maintain law enforce- ment. We promise to help promote respect for law by obeying it ourselves and ercouraging its obedience by oth- ers. We accept our responsibility to support vigorous enforcement for those who will heed no other appeal.” The league’s program also calls for the reading of & quotation from Abra- ham Lincoln calling for the teaching of reverence for the laws in schools and churches. An Broad street, Burlington, N. MAJ BROWN ENDS ning Commission Engineer Monday. An outstanding career in the im- provement of Washington was brought to an end today, when Maj. Carey H. Brown of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army closed his desk at the Navy Department for the last time as engineer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and as assistant director of the office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. Maj. Brown goes on leave immediately, and will report to his next station of duty b.tween August 20 and 31 to take the 1929-31 course at the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leaven- worth, Kan. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, and executive officer of the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission. announced recently that Capt. E. N. Chisholm, jr., who has been in his office for some time, will succeed Maj. Brown as engineer of the commission. Capt. Chisholm has been learning that work, under the tutorship of Maj. Brown, for some time, and is scheduled to assume the post Monday. Plans Week at Arundel. With his family, Maj. Brown will spend the first week of his leave at Arundel, near Annapolis, Md. Then they will go to Pocono Lake, N. J., for a vacation until August 1. Followin, this, Maj. Brown and his family wi drive by automobile to Fort Leaven- worth, stopping off at the major's old home. at Zanesville, Ohio. Maj. Brown has been closely identi- fied with the development of Washing- He was As- ton for nearly a decade. | nt Engineer Commissioner from Fel ry 1, 1919, to September 1, 1922. Then he was assigned as director of civil and military engineering at the Engineering School at Fort Humphreys, Va., where he served from September, 1922, to July 15, 1925, when he was ordered back to Weshington. Upon his return to the National Capi- Maj, Brown was detailed as as- tant director of the office of public buildings and public parks, and upon the creation of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in 1926 was appointed engineer of that body. During his term as Assistant Engi- neer Commissioner Maj. Brown had a major part in putting the new zoning law into effect. He was concerned with the prepa- ration of the original maps and regula- tions, and when the Zoning Commission was established he served as its execu- tive officer from the time the regula- tions ‘were put into effect until his de- parture from Washington, fheatil ey yaiiiend IR Four Get Commissions. Commissions in the Reserve Corps of . the Army have been issued by the War iDepartment to Floyd B. Olcott, 1811 Wyoming avenue, as a captain and specialist; to Richard G. Kieffner, 835 Rittenhouse street, §s d lleu- tenant of Infantry, and to Samuel Kahn, Gallinger Hospital, and Robert E. Moran, 1536 Fifteenth street, as first lleutenants in.the Medical Corps. and | SERVCENCAPTAL | Chisolm Will Become Plan- | THREE CAR DRIVERS FACE RUM CHARGES |Men, Machines and Nearly 400 Quarts of Alleged Whisky Are Seized. Three alleged rum runners and as many automobiles, together with nearly | 400 quarts of alleged whisky, were ‘sclzed last night in Southeast Wash- | ington by- Sergt. George M. Little's | special liquor squad. Pinkney Andrew Earnsnaw, 24, of the 400 block Maryland zvenue southwest, was captured at Eleventh and M streets southeast after a chase. Earnshaw was charged with reckless driving and pos- | session and transportgeion of 24 quarts of alleged corn whisky. According to police, Earnshaw, after being pursued for several blocks in his machine, brought his car to a halt, leaped out and attempted to escape on foot. He was taken after a short chase. A short time after their first capture. | | Little and his men, George Murray and | T. O. Montgomery, gave chase to a car which’sped by them in the vicinity |of the Navy Yard and arrested Ralph | Valentine Payne of the 1600 block East | Capitol street on charges of failing to | exhibit an operator's permit and trans- | portation and possession of 288 quarts | of alleged whisky. Police said Payne pulled up to the curb and surrendered. The - squad shortly before midnight took into custody Cephas A. Bank, 26, colored, living in the 2600 block of Sheridan road southeast, cn charges of transportation and possession of 48 quarts of alleged corn whisky. RANKIN URGES HOOVER TO ENFORCE ALIEN BARS EDctlues so;:o;c; Immigrants An- ! nually Enter U. S. II- legally. | i By the Associated Press. Representative Rankin, Democrat, Mississippi, appealed yesterday to Pres- | ident Hoover to use his power “to put |a stop to the influx of foreign immi- | grants now coming into the United States in violation of our laws.” Rankin said the Department of La- bor estimated that more than: 200,000 aliens were entering the country un- lawfully each year. “Those who come in violation of our | laws are from the criminal elements, as | & rule,” he said. “They come with the intention of violat: our laws to get here and many of them manifest the same disrespect for all other laws after they arrive. From this class of aliens are recruited our bootleggers, our gun- men and our gangsters, who are today defying constituted authority in every conceivable way." THOMAS WEST REPORTS LOSS OF PURSE AND $40 Pecketbook Left on Store Counter Taken While He Was Absent. Burglars Invade Homes. A pockethook containing more than $40, papers and an automobile driver's permit was left on the counter of an upper Seventh street store yesterday ternoon by Thomas West, 1012’ Min- nesota avenue northeast. When he missed the packetbook and returned to the store, be later reported to the police, he discovered it had been taken during his short absence. He asked police to investigate, 4 A duplicate key worker gainea en- trance to the apartment of Milton Car- ter, 1409 Eleventh street, during the absence of occupants yesterday and stol watch and chain from a bureau drawer. ‘The stolen timepiece and AGCOUNTING OFFICE WARNS OF RISK IN SALARY ADVANCES Monday to Be Awaited in Va- rious Departments Where Service Ends Today. EASY TO OBEY LAW, IS INTERIOR VIEW Some of City Employes Will Be Paid Ahead of Those En- gaged Sunday. With Government pay day ranging from Friday to Monday, tne General Accounting Office pointed out today*that all disbursing officers who pay in ad- vance of service rendered are taking a decided risk. “No advance of public money shall be made in any case whatever,” reads the language of section 3648, Revised Stat-* utes of the United States, it was pointed out in the office of Controller General McCarl. Employes of McCarl's office will not be paid until Monday, after they have eompleted in full, not only the actual service, but the time—for the 15 days for’ which they get paid do not expire until Sunday night. Of course, none in the controller general's office will work tomorrow, but the time will not expire until tomorrow night, 2nd they will then be paid the next morning. The controller general be- lieves in following his own advice in regard to handling the accounts of his own office. Legal Language Plain. The law in the matter further reads: “And iIn all cases of contracts for the performance of any service or the de- livery of articles of any description for the use of the United States paymént shall not exceed the value of the serv- ice rendered, or of the articles delivered previously to such payment.” Certain qualifications are made in the law, concerning “public engagements” of officers of the United States, and the pay of military and naval service em- ployed at such distant stations that the pay could not otherwise be regu- larly effected unless money was sent in_advance. But there is still another risk that Government officers take in paying in advance, it was pointed out at the Gen- eral Accounting Office. On the standard Government “payroll for personal serv- ices” approved by the controller general and in use by all offices in the Federal service, the personnel officer must form- ally certify to the disbursing office, that the services for which the pay is being made have already been completed. The language reads: “I certify that the within payroll in sheets, is corect; that it appears from the records of my office that the persons named thereon were legally appointed, and each has per- formed the services required by law and regulation during the period mentioned: that such services, except as otherwise indicated in the column of ‘remarks’ have been performed under my super- vision, and that no person whose hame appears on the within payroll is paid for i any period of absence in excess of that allowed by law.” Easy to Obey Law. A sharp commentary upon the whole situation was offered from the office of the disbursing clerk of the Interior with some emphasis: “You can say for the Interior Department that the uisbum.ntl office finds it just as easy to obey the law as to violate the law.” ‘The only large and important Gov- ernment departments and establish- ments which are waiting until Monday to pay off are the Treasury Department, Interior Department, War Department and General Accounting Office. Some city employes will be paid today and some of them e to wait until Monday for their pay checks. For those employes whose duties do not call for labors on Sunday, their month’s work will be completed at 12:30 p.m. today and they will be paid. But for policemen, firemen, guards at the Dis- trict jail and other institution workers who must perform Sunday duty, pay day will bs Monday. COL. GRANT'S AID ASKED FOR AMATEUR ATHLETICS Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. director of the office of public buildings and public parks, was asked today by Avery Brundage of Chicago, president of the Amateur Athletic Union, to lend his as- sistance to the proposed new District of Columbia Association. Mr. Brundage has written to Col. Grant advising him that “the clubs in the District of Co- lumbia are about to form a district of their own, distinct from the South Atlantic Association.” The president of the Amateur Ath- letic Union praised Col. Grant and his | assistants for the aid given in conduct- ing the track and field championships of the South Atlantic Association held here on June 15. Mr. Brundage as- serted that the local representatives of the union were well pleased with the | assistance given. LEWIS D. DARE DIES. Lewis D. Dare, 76 years old, 1337 Gal- latin street, retired clerk of the War Department and a resident of this city for 35 years, died at his home yester- day, following a short illness. Mr. Dare, who came to this city from Zanesville, Ohip. was retired from the ‘War Department in 1918, following 25 years' service with the Government. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Anna Dare: a son, Edward Dare of Chicago, ant sister, Miss Mamie Dare, who re- sides in Zanesville. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 10 o'clock at the residence. {ntement will be in Fort Lincoln Ceme- ery. HOSPITAL ENGINEER DIES. Melvin A. Kelly, 46 vears old, of Cot- tage City. Md., for the past 10 years chief engineer of Emergency Hosoital, died in the hospital last night. . Mr. Kelly was active here in several fraternal bodies. including Almas Tem- ple of the Mystic Shrine and Universal Craftsman’'s Council, No. 22. He also was a member of Waverly Masonic Lodge of Baltimore. Mr. Kelly is survived by his widow, an 8-year-old son and a sister, Mi Carroll Zink of Baltimore County, Md. Funeral services will be conducted at the latter'’s home Monday. Interment ‘will be in Druid Ridge Cemetery. BUYS 299 PLANE ENGINES Contracts for 209 airplane engines for the Army Air Corps, which will cost approximately $2,000,000, have been spproved by Assistant Secretary Davison. Of these engines 180 are Pratt & chain were valued at $20. John H. Doyle, 3016 V street, told gollfle that a burglar was in in his home hursday. Entrance was galned through a rear door, Doyle told thel 2::!::' and $33 taken from a bureau AN Whitney “Wasps,” which are 500-horse- power, super-charged, air-cooled en- gines for use In pursuit planes; 65 are Curtiss water-cooled motors for obser- vation planes and 54 are Wright 300- hersepower, air-cooled engines for use in transport planes.