Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1929, Page 17

Woashin . 'WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g’;on News l - @hz an]t "WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, JUL ng Star. PAGE 17 DECAYING TIMBERS | BOYS SMILE AS FOUND IN PORTABLE SCHODL INSPEGTION Today’s Examination Reveals | Some of Worst Conditions Yet Discovered. ENGINEERS’ COMMITTEE NEARING END OF WORK Writing of Reports Will Sturti After Visiting Last Structure This Afternoon. Some of the worst covered since the portable school in- | spection was begun last Monday were found today at the structures adjoin- ing the Petworth and the Park View Schools 2t the northern end of the city. These buildings were among the | last 10 portables to be visited by the | municipal architect’s committee of en- | gineers. The two structures at the Petworth School are of the vintage of 1912, at | which time the first “tempora school- | houses were purchased for the District. One of them, ceilingless and slightly smaller than the “new” buildings pur. chased in 1918, was badly sagged upon its supporting posts, while these timbers | themselves were rather badly decayed. The companion portable, situated just north of this building, showed evidences of having been in even worse condi- tion, for the 6-by-6-inch timbers which supported it. now backed up by new timbers installed by the repair shop, were 5o badly worm-eaten that a kick with a man's shoe could batter a hole into the center of the timber. ‘The rails which circle the building, adding structural strength to the sec- tion of the walls, which are bolted together, also showed signs of rot. Rats of the well-fed breed that fre- quent market houses were found today | to have virtually taken possession of the dark recesses beneath the portables | at the Powell Junior High School. Nearly a dozen holes large enough to admit a man’s fist were discovered in the ground alongside the sub-fills which support the structure, and the janitor of the Powell Building told the in- spectors that scort fellows, wnich get their feed over the Arcade Market across the alley’ | | t scamper about the vard in the evening | and on damp. cloudy days. The Arcade Market, fronting on Fourteenth street, abutes ‘the same alley on which the year of the Powell Junior High School grounds border, although the school building fronts on Hiatt place. In addi- tion to the rats, seven of which have | been caught by the janitor in a single morning, the Powell portable also is weakened by rotting and worm-eaten | support posts. The permanent Powell Building is free of rats, the janitor said. | One of the five portables at the Park View School also evidenced ad- vanced decay in the timbers under its flooring. The inspection will be concluded to- day, when the last of the 75 portables, that adjoining the Filmore School. in Geotgetown, is examined. Follow- ing the inspection of the last build. ing today, John A. Long, engineer in | to take the examination charge of the repair shop, and Harold H. Marsh, chief structural engineer of | the municipal architect’s office, will be- | gin writing their report, which they will present to Albert Harris, municipal | archtect, who in turn will ‘forward it | to the school officials, at whose request | the inspection has been made. TRAVEL 3,960 MILES FOR CLUB LUNCHEONS 27 Washington Kiwanians’ Rec- ords Revealed in Attendance Report at Meeting. To keep a perfect attendance record at Kiwanis luncheons, requiring that | {hey attend at least one luncheon of & Kiwanis club during each week, 27| Washington Kiwanians have traveled a total of 3,060 miles since the first of | the year, it was reported at a luncheon meeting of the local club in the Hotel Washington yesterday. They are Dr. George A. Baker, Z. D. Blackistone, Albert M. Briges, Charles A. Camalier, Merritt O. Chance, Burns C. Downey, James B. Edmunds, FEdwin H. Etz, Peyton B. Fletcher, W. N. | for a job. Freeman, Edwin F. Hill, Bynum E. Hinton, Harry G Kimball, LeRoy O. King, F. Archibald Meatyard, Frank T. Mitchell, Edgar Morris, Radford Moses, | Charles W. Pimper, F. W. Quinter, Wil- liam_R. Smucker, John F. Sheiry, U. Singer, W. F. Smith. Arthur F. Steinberg, George H. Winslow and Claude H. Woodward. Dr, Edwin R. Tilley, A. K. Shipe, Dr. Charles L. Billard and Arthur W. How- ard were installed as new members yesterday. Fifty members of the local club are today éngaged in a golf tournament with members of the Alexandria, Va. Kiwanis Club. SWITCH IS CONSIDERED ON CONNECTICUT AVENUE| equest for Installation Near Fes- senden Street Studied by Capi- tal Traction Co. A letter from the Capital Traction Co. stating that the compnay had taken under advisement and study the re- quest of the association that a switch be installed on Connecticut avenue near Fessenden street with & view to hav- ing ‘&% asent Bureau of Standards cars operated to and from that point, was reported received last night at a meeting of the Forest Hills Citizens Association at the Methodist Home, Connecticut avenue and Elliott street. It was also reported that a traffic light would be installed at the inter- scction of Albermarle street and Con- necticut avenue within a few days and that similar safety devices would be erected on Connecticut avenue at Dav- enport and Ellicott streets some time in the near future. A committee was instructed to express the thanks of the association to Traffic Director Willlam ‘H. Harland for having the light in- stalled at Albemarle street and Con- necticut avenue. A report will be made at the mext meeting on the problem of permitting police stations, firehouses arid swimming Pools to be erected in areas zoned resi- dentlal. A committee was appointed to make a study of this situation. e “The Eighth Deadly Sin—Innocence” was a subject chosen for discussion by co-eds of Oxford University, England, . xecently. conditions dis- |, s of rats—“big, fat| Henry Sherwin Rupp, former candidate for admission to the Naval Academy, | | and Paul D. Schooler, his substitute in the examination for ‘coior blindness, who THEY ARE FREED were released by police today after charges of an attempt to defraud the Govern- | ment were dropped at the request of the Secretary of the Navy. the examination for him. YOUTHS SET FREE INEYETEST PLOT Rupp and Schooler Complete- ly Exonerated When Navy Department Drops Charges. Charges of ccuspiracy to defraud the United States, lodged against Henry Sherwin Rupp of Long Beach, Calif. and Paul D. Schooler, 1301 C street southwest, when the former attempted to gain entrance to the United States| Naval Academy by having Schooler sub- mit to an eye examination for him, were dismissed today by United States Com- missioner Needham C. Turnage. Complete exoneration for the youths came today at & preliminary hearing before the commissioner, sistant United States Attorney J. W. Pihelly stated that the Navy Depart- ment through is representative, J. H. vlor, chief of the intelligence divi- | sion, had expressed a desire (o drop the charges. Rupp Admits Charge. Rupp admitted he had attempted to pass a physical examination, but had failed to pass a test for color blindness. He then notified &n employment agency that he wished an attendant for a gaso- line filling station and reguested that the prospective employe be sent to his | room in the Portland Hotel. Schooler, who had been serving short senténce at the Occoguan work- house for assault, had applied to the agency for employment and was sent | with two others to interview Rupp. Schooler was selected, and offered $15 in Rupp's stead. His perfect physical condition led to the investigation which ended in their arrest Tuesday. When arraigned before Commissioner Turnage on the charges Wednesday the boys pieaded not guilty and were held under $2,000 bond each. Through the efforts of Senator Shortridge of Cali- fornia, they were released from jail last | night for appearance before Turnage today. Navy Drops Charge. Appearing before the commissioner with Attorneys Milton E. Barrett and George E. Strong, the youths were re- leased as Fihelly reported the charges were to be dropped. | The Nayy Department made the re- | quest, as it said its purpose had been accomplished in preventing 8 recur- rence of the attempt. Fihelly declared the United Stales attorney, the De- partment of Justice and the Metropoli- tan Police also had consented. Following his release, Rupp said he would leave immediately for his home in_California. _Rupp, before leaving Schooler, gave him some money, which | he said he hoped would “tide him over” and prevent him from being forced to | | I i o.| {ney, lost’' his case and was fined $25, | carry his case to the Court of Appeals accept such an offer as the one which had just narrowly escaped causing him serious difficulty. Schooler is looking | CURRENCY DISPLAY LEADS MERCHANT INTO COURT| New dollar bills displayed in the win- dow of a Seventh street store at cut- rate prices of 49 cents each led Edward Franks, proprietor of the establishment, to appear in Police Court today on a charge of advertising his wares in the street. ' Objection to the cut-rate prices was | not, expressed, but it was said that after the attractive display persuaded custo- mers to enter his store the proprietor would inform them that instead of get- ting actual money for 49 cents they would be sold one dollar's worth of merchandise for that price. Franks, who acted as his own attor- but gave notice that he intended to When placed on the stand at Franks' order to testify in the defendant's be- half, a witness was asked if he had ever observed the man attempt to persuade persons passing on the street to enter his store. Instcad of the expected re- ply of “No,” the witness said, “Yes, I have on numerous occasions.” This was one of the deciding factors in the case, when As-| The two young | men were arrested Tuesday after it was learned Rupp had paid Schooler to take —Star Staff Photo. CALISON SUBNIT NEW AIRPORT PLAN | Further Proposed Treatment of Gravelly Point Site Is Covered. | { The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission is to have an oppor- tunity to study a further proposed treatment of a projected airport for ‘Washington at Gravelly Point. Eugene H. Callison, Who prepared a previous plan, today advised The ar that the complete set of finished draw- ings of his design for the proposed municipal airport is to be sent this | week from New Haven to the National | Capital Park and Planning Commission. | Charles W. Eliot, 2d, city planner for | the commission, said today that the new | plans had not as yet arrived. They likely will be studied by the commis- sion” at its meeting during the latter part of this month. The commission already has gone on | | record officially in favor of establish- | |ing an airport for Washington at | Gravelly Point. A previous set of plans by Mr. Callison was submitted to the commission and studied. The set now | on its way to Washington is a further | study in the light of new conditions and gives more details of the proposed expansion. WAR PROFITEERING IS DECLARED ENDED Assistant Secretary Hurley Tells Disabled Veterans Government Is to Even Burden. | | There will be no profiteering in the next war, Patrick J. Hurley, Assistant | Secretary’ of War, promised 75 disabled | veterans of Walter Reed Hospital last night at a dinner given for them by the George Baldwin McCoy Unit of the American Women's Legion at the Mayflower Hotel. “We have come to the conclusion that it is not just to ask one man to die for his country while another becomes rich,” Mr. Hurley asserted. “Your Government is attempting to work out a plan whereby the burdens of war will be borne in an equitable way: In the next war, I can assure you men, there will be no profiteering while other men are dying.” ‘The dinner was the climax of the an- nual outing for the veterans given by the McCoy Unit. The veterans visited s Mount Vernon in the afternoon. Other speakers at the dinner last night in-| cluded Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy | of the District Supreme Court, after whose son the unit was named: Isaac| Gans, Mrs. N. Nock of the American War Mothers; Dr. W. L. Kline of the United States Veterans' Bureau and Chaplain Alfred C. Oliver, jr., of Wal-| ter Reed. . VETERAN IS INJURED IN FALL TO SIDEWALK lling to the sidewalk at First and 'BF:UF,ELKS in an unconscious condition from the effects of gas poisoning suf- | fered during the World War, Joseph | Baddour, 29-year-old war veteran, was painfully injured about the face today When he struck the curbing as he fell. He was revived by members of fire rescue squad No. 1 and taken to Cas- ualty Hospital, where Dr. H. P. Parker of the hospital staff, said his condition | is ot serious. Baddour, who said he is a pickle sales- | man, from North Carolina, when ques-| tioned at the hospital was unable to | remember when he came to Washing- ton and where he was living here. He said he could not recall events in_the immediate past _easily. He told hos-| pital physicians he was subject to sink- | ing spells at frequent intervals. { Police are endeavoring to locate his address in this city. This particular laundry situation is somewhat of & Chinese puzzle, much to the bewilderment of every one in- volved. Mostly it involves 40 persons who left their laundry at 1006 K street = They are puzzling over the reversal of that edict, “No tickee; no washee,” which appears now to be, “Plenty tickee; nevertheless, no washee.” The landlord of 1006 K street, for quite a few weeks puzzled over where his rent was coming from. Then he got a bailiff, who began to puzzle over what he would do with the laundry. He solved the problem by stacking it on the sidewalk. Then it was Sergt. Thomas McGrath's time to do & bit of plain and fancy puzzling. As custcdian of lost an Latest Cfiinese Puzzle Keeps Police And “Tickee” Holders Guessing Aplenty d _ shorily after this incident. |abandoned property, the laundry lell‘ under his care. M At room 13 in the District Building today he was puzzling over the tickets, which were written in Chinese. But the homicide squad at headquar- ters has the biggest puzzle. What they are puzzling about is the whereabouts of the laundryman. ‘That is quite a puzzle in itself. For one thing, the laundryman in question is known as James Lee, Lee Soorn, Lee Suey and Lee Foo. For another, the laundryman continues to neglect to furnish his address. One reason for that, police say, is the fact that James Lee or Lee Soon or Lee Suey or Lee Foo is wanted as a suspect in the murder June 12 of | Lee King, Chinese narcotic informer. ‘The laundry at 1006 closed its doors | i , | ' | FRENCH CENERAL GOURALD REGENED BY HOOVER TODAY Visit to White House Comes. After Hero Puts Wreath on Unknown’s Tomb. SUMMERALL TO GIVE LUNCHEON FOR GUEST| World War Regimental Command- ers Meet Soldier at Union Station. After visiting Arlington Cemetery, | where he was greeted with a salute | | from the guns of a cavalry detachment | | of Fort Myer, Gen. Henri J. E. Gouraud, maimed hero of the World War, who commanded the 1st Army of France, with whom the American Rainbow Di- vision fought in 1918, was presented to President Hoover at 12:30 o'clock this afternoon. Gen. Gouraud, bearded, genial and smiling broadly, arrived at Union Sta- tion last night with his left hand ex- tended to his “American friends.” His right arm was lost under shell fire at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles. He came to this country to attend the eleventh annual reunion of the Rainbow Division, of which he is permanent honorary president, in Baltimore tomorrow. Greeted at Station. Tast night upon his arrival Gen. Gouraud was greeted by most of the Washingtonians who fought with the famous 42d Division, a delegation rep- resenting the Government and another headed by Ambassador Paul Claudel of | France. | This morning the trip to Arlington, | where he laid a wreath on the Tomb of | the Unknown Soldier, was made with an escort composed of the wartime regimental commanders of the Rainbow Division. ‘They include Maj. Gen. R. Tyndall, Indiana regiment: Brig. | Leach, Minnesota regiment; | Maj. Gen. M. A. Tinley, Iowa regi-| ment; Col. J. M. Johnson, Engineer | regiment; Maj. Gen. B. W. Hough, Ohlo | regiment: Col. Willlam P. Screws, U.| S. A, Alabama regiment, and Brig. | Gen. Henry J. Reilly, in command of | the Tllinois regiment. | Col. Guy V. Henry, commandant of Fort Myer, appointed by Maj. Gen.| Summerall, chief of staff of the Army to represent him, was present at the ceremony. Gen. Gouraud was also shown the tomb of Maj. L'Enfant and the monu- ment to the more than 2,000 unknown dead of the Clvil War. Accompanied by Aides. ‘Throughout the morning Gen. Gou- raud had with him Maj. Georges Thenault, military attache of the Prench embax rice Drouhin and Lieut. Bruno Daru. Following the reception of the gen- eral by the President the entire pagty attended a buffet lunch at the home of Col. William J. Donovan, 1647 Thirtieth street. A dinner tonight at the French embassy will wind up the Frechman's day. Tomorrow he will attend luncheon Gen. G. | at the Army and Navy Club, given in | his honor by Gen. Summerall, and then will Jeave for Baltimore at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Gen. Gouraud’s arrival in Washington recalled the story of the loss of his arm to many of the men who fought under | him. At Gallipoli he was wounded in | | the arm by shrapnel. He was sent to a| base hospital. but the wound became | infected and threatened to keep him out | of action for at least six months. Rather | than endure such a period of inactivity | when his services were needed by his | country, he insisted that it be ampu- | tated that he might return to the front. | |TWO ARE ARRESTED ON LIQUOR CHARGES {One Is Believed to Be “the Man in a Green Hat,” Who Escaped at Capitol. Charges of transporting and pos- ing liquor and speeding were lodged against George Cassidy, 300 block of Seventeenth street southeast, following his arrest today by Policemen F. L. Arrington and T. M. McVearry on Sev- enteenth street southeast. Cassidy is said by police to be the “man in the green hat,” who came into prominence more than a year ago when he escaped from a Capitol policeman who had taken him into custody for delivering reputed liquor to office rooms in the House Office Building. The “man in the green hat,” follow- ing his arrest in the Capitol, was said to have requested that he be allowed to step into an office while the policeman waited outside. After a lengthy wait, | the officer entered to find he had es- caped by leaping through a window. Cassidy, when arrested today, was accompanied by Thomas Connor, 300 block of Seventeenth street southeast. He was said to have been operating his }a‘ummobfll at a speed of 30 miles an our. A search of the automobile is said to have revealed 15 quarts of liquor, and according to Assistant United States Attorney David A. Hart, Cassidy and Connor will be arraigned in Police Court,_tomorrow. Pending their appearance before Judge Ralph Given, the men were held at the fifth precinct station. HEAT VICTIM IS BURIED. Services Held for Miss Foley, In- curables Home Nurse. Funeral services for Miss Elizabeth Foley, 45 years old, a nurse at the Home for Incurables, who died from the effects of the heat Wednesday morning, were held at the W. W. Taltavull funeral parlors, 3619 Fourteenth street, this morning. Iawrment followed in St. Mary's Cemetery. Born yln California, in 1884, Miss Foley came to Washington when a child and has resided here since. She had been a nurse at the Home for Incurables for about three years. Her home was at 1673 Park road. Bodies of Flyers Found. ALGECIRAS, Spain, July 12 (®).— The charred bodies of Lieuts. Castro Miranda and Arma Caballeria Esquivas of the Spanish nrmn were found in the wreckage of their plane near Aldeas, in this province yesterday. ———— ‘Norway has fewep~people out of work than a year ago. ° y, and his two aides, Capt. Mau- | le-scarred commanger of the French 1st Army, Gen. Henri Etienne Gouraud p: Ba Soldier by placing a wreath on his tomb in Arlington toda. tribute to America’s Unknown —Associated Press Photo, PETRIFIED BONES SENT 0 MUSEUN Ton and Half in Shipment From New Mexico by Dr. Gilmore. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Approximately a ton and a half of petrified dinosaur bones and remains of | other prehistoric creatures are on their way to Washington from the desert country of Northwestern New Mexico. | They were collected during the past | month by an expedition in charge of Dr. C. W. Gilmore, associate curator of vertebrate paleontology at the National | Museum. | In this desolate part of the San Juan | basin, in the heart of the Navajo In-| dian country, Dr. Gilmore found places | where the ground was literally covered with vertebrae and limb bones of lh!—se‘ long extinct reptiles. The country never had been explored before by arche- | ologists, and it is likely that several of the finds represent specimens new to science. | The area, Dr. Gilmore said. doubt- | {less was & herding ground of dinosaurs n the days approximately 90.000.000 | years ago, when it was a marsh. The bones on the surface, for the most part, were so badly broken up that they were worthless. They are known as “floats,” | valued only because their presence usu- | ally leads to buried deposits in much better shape. Excavations here hardly justified the expectations from the great mass of surface deposits, prob- ably washed down from more moun- | tainous regions in the course of mil- lions of years. Dinosaur Tail Dug Up. Among the bones dug up was one complete dinosaur tail, about 15 feet | 1 long, with all the bones in sequence. | There were also several dinosaur skulls. | Dr. Gilmore also shipped back 20 com- | | plete turtle specimens. Large turtles, differing very little from varieties of today, evidently were very abundant in | | the upper cretaceous geological period | represented by the deposits, he said.| This was near the close of the age of | the great reptiles, when mammals were beginning to appear on earth. | ‘Although most fossil bones are peiri- fied, many of these are of solid agate | with beautiful coloring. This, said Dr. | Gilmore, was brought about by the gradual bleaching out of the bones an the absorption of water containing the agate in solution. As the animal mat ter was lost the agate deposits were left | behind. The process was so gradual that even the cell structure of the | bones was preserved. This, he explained, affords one way | of telling whether a dinosaur 'was & meat or plant eater. The centers of | the limb bones of the meat eaters were all marrow which disappeared entirely, so that they now are solid agate with- | out cellular structure. The plant eat-| ers, on the other hand, still reveal the cellular division under the microscope. In Enormous Numbers. Such deposits, Dr. Gilmore said, in- | dicate that during the Upper Cretaceous period dinosaurs existed in enormous | numbers. A few petrified specimens still Temaining must represent thou- sands of animals. But about this time | they disappeared quite suddenly. The | fanciful explanation that they were ex- terminated by the tiny mammals suck- ing their eggs, he says, probably has little validity. The extermination prob- ably was very gradual and brought about by the change of marsh land into desert, thus depriving them of their food supply. For some unknown rea- sons, the reptiles could not move fast enough to escape these changes. ‘The territory explored, Dr. Gilmore said, is rich in fossil trees, some of these also solid agate, which are found in fantastic forms. They underwent ap- proximately the same process as the dinosaur bones. ‘When the specimens reach Washing- ton they will be cleaned and efforts made to piece them together. Then they will be checked against similar bones of known species. Dr. Gilmore also explored a strange cave in Southern New Mexico, in the bottom of which the complete skeleton of an ancient gilant sloth was found. This cave was a natural trap fof ani- mals, but it is so difficult to enter safely that the Smithsonian explorers gave up their work. It consisted of a small opening in the mountain side, barely large enough to admit a man. which leads to a sheer drop of 120 feet into the blackness of the heart of the mountain. Tunnel Attempt Fails. The difficulty of letting themselves | down with ropes was so great that the Smithsonian party tried without success to dig tunnels to the interior. Another shipment of bones of extinct animals is expected soon from Dr. J. W. Gidley of the department of vertebrate paleontology, who is hunting for the remains of upper pleistocene mammals in Central Idaho, Oregon and Wash- ington. For several years reports have been coming into the museum of large deposits of bones of animals which ex- isted about 25,000 years ago, of special interest because this is the time when human beings may have made their first appearance on the American Con- tinent. Dr. Gidley will be on the look- out for human artifacts, such as spear or arrow heads, among the bones of the extinct elephants, camels, bison and horses. SN o T Hitchcock Leaves Hospital. CHICAGO, July 12 (#)—Raymond Hitchcock, stage comedian, has been discharged from a local hospital, where he was rushed several weeks ago fol- | | | lowing a heart attack during a per- . formance., Veteran Pilot Dead CAPT. WILLIAM E. LUCKETT. COMMERCE EDIFIGE GETS FIRST STEEL +Skeleton of Big Structure Will Begin to Rise From Foundation Soon. Steel for_the gigantic Department of Commerce Building has begun to arriv three derricks have been erected and put to work and before long the skeleton of Washington's largest Federal build ing will begin to rise from its founda- tion between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, B and E streets. The first pieces of steel to reach the site are “billets,” or flat, thick pieces of steel, which fit on top of the con- crete foundation, and upon which the steel columns will be fitted. Other early arrivals are grillage beams, heavy structural steel pieces to be used in bridging spaces between various parts of the foRndations. Columns soon will be here, and from hen on it is expected the huge build- ing, which is to be longer than the United States Capitol, soon will begin to_take shape. From 12 to 15 derricks, the largest | | number_ever employed on & building in the Nation’s Capital, will be placed | in operation at once by Koch & Co., subcontractors for the Consolidated Engineering Co., general contractors. Steel is expected to roll into Wash- ington at the rate of about 4,000 tons a month, according to contract with the American Bridge Co. The steel is com- ing from Ambridge, Pa. ANTI-BLUE LAW BODY APPEALS TO HOOVER President Is Asked to Disregard Request for Sunday Closing in Capital. Opposing the efforts of the Lord's Day Alliance to gain President Hoover's support for a Sunday. closing law for the District, the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws today sent a telegram to the President asking him to @sregard the attempt “to foist blue laws upon the voteless residents of the Nation’s Capital. The telegram, signed-by Prof. Henry Flury, president of the anti-blue law organization, was sent from Clementon, N.J. It was made public at the asso- ciation’s headquarters here. The “blue law” opponents also ask President Hoover to grant them an au- dience, as he did in the case of rep- resentatives of the Lord's Day Alliance. | A committee of Washingtonians is being selected to go with officials of the association to the White House. CARNIVAL Tb BE GIVEN. Arrangements for the carnival to be given by Holy Comforter parish on the school grounds, Fifteenth and East Cap- itol streeb.] .ax'l’y 22 to August 1 have been completed. A cunm':nue of parishioners headed by Rev. Joseph M. Denges are com- pleting the details for entertainment events. CAPT. W. E. LUCKETT | CLAMED BY DEATH | Heart Attack Proves Fatal to Civilian Pilot of Yacht Mayflower. The first serious illness of his T4 years, yesterday was fatal to Capt. Wil- | liam "Edward Luckett, for more than | half a century a pilot on the Potomac | River, and official civilian pilot of the Mayflower, the presidential yacht, from the time it was put into commission un- {til it was retired. He died of a heart attack at his residence, 408 Sixth street | southeast, yesterday afternoon. Capt. Luckett complained of feeling ill early vesterday, and was treated at | home by a physician. He was listening | to base ball scores over the radio when {he died. Only a moment before he | had asked his wife to bring him a | glass of water and then fell over on a | bed while she was in an adjoining room. the Potomac,” Capt. Luckett was affec- tionately called Capt Hll" Luckett by | rivermen and notables. Knew Many Notabies. He became intimately acquainted { with all Presidents from Roosevelt to | slightly. He also knew many visiting | the Mayflower as he piloted it down the | Potomac. Among them were King Al- | sponded; Marshal Foch, Admiral Beatty and others. A keen observer of men, Capt | Luckett could readily describe the per- | sonalities of the many famous persons | with whom he was acquainted. King Albert of Belgium had been described | by him as “very democratic and a royal | good mixer.” Likewise, he is said to Known as the “Grand Old Man of | | Coolidge and knew President Hoover | AUGMENTED FORCE WILL BE CONTINUED * ONTRARFIE DETAL Sharp Decrease in Auto Acci- dents Features Campaign by Police. 'ARRESTS FOR 24-HOUR PERIOD MOUNT TO 329 | | | 73 Alleged Speeders Are Taken as | Officers Wage War on Violators. The 15 Traffic Burcau detail lice, swhose service ad of motor cycle po- June 27 ha been marked by a sharp reduction of au- tomobile accid retained in This was Bureau today, the first 16 only 86 pers hurt, 4 fat period prece e th iolations during L 8 o'clock this Accidents Show Decrease. Against t balanced hours, wh: over that four pers yesterday and ea 2ts appeared before Judge speeding. The most was_imposed operating on dead speeding. Judge S total of $135. It w than 1 | dignitaries who had been passengers on | bert of Belgium, with whom he corre- | mony, Putnam wz | of 34 miles an h | informed Sinclair he was | girl to a doctor for treatment | _ sinclair, however, said have made comments on the traits ex- | D hibited by other notables. During his many years of service Capt. Luckett had piloted practically every type of ship on the Potomac. He was pilot of the U. S. S. Olympic when | it conveyed the body of the Unknown Soldier fo Washington. He also piloted the cruiser Memphis when it brought Col. Charles A. Lindbergh here after the latter's famous transatlantic flight. Capt. Luckett several times had com- mented on the striking contrast of the two occasions, referring to the sadness and solemity upon the occasion of the return of the Unknown Soldier and the gavety existing when Lindbergh came ere. Capt. Luckett was born here Decem- {ber 20, 1854, and had resided here all his life. He was educated in the public schools and soon after being graduated from high school began as apprentice pilot. | Service in Navy. His knowledge of the river gained for him a pilot’s license at the age of 20 years. His early service on the wa- ter included a brief period in the Nav; He knew the river and its many land- marks so well that he never had to use a sounding-weight or a light of anv sort in piloting ships on the darkest nights. Capt. Luckett's first command of im- portance was the old excursion boat George Leary, which ran between piloted the Mary Washington on her excursion trips to Quantico. Afterward he was captain for a numbcr of years of the Washington, which plied between | here and Norfolk. Capt. Luckett’s services were immedi- ately sought when the Mayflower was put in commission. President Roosevelt | was the first of the Presidents to make | trips on her and Roosevelt children be- came great favorites of the veteran | captain. z In later years Capt. Luckett taught | Quentin Roosevelt, who gave his life in | France, many principles of piloting and | navigation. Capt. Luckett took the Mayflower down the river on her last trip after President Hoover had ordered the ship | placed in retirement. His last official trip on the river was as pilot of the Nitro, bringing powder from the Vir- | ginia’ Capes to the Indian Head Prov- ing Grounds about a month ago. Capt. Luckett is survived by his widow, who was Miss Blanche Ger- trude Adams, to whom he was mar- | ried in 1895, and a sister, Mrs. Willlam Grinder of Indian Head, Md. Capt. Luckett was a member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columblia, the District of Columbia Society of Natives, was treas- urer of the Southeast Washington Cit- izens' Assoclation and active in the Masons, belonging to the Andrew Jack- son Lodge, Alexandria; the Knights Templar and Almas Temple of the sShrine. Funeral services will be conducted in Gawler's chapel, 1750 Pennsylvania avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Thomas Turkington will officiate. ~ Interment will be in Con- gressional Cemetery. Linguist Who Woed Widow in Four Languages Takes Wooed in four languages—English, Russian, Lithuanian and Polish—Mrs. Martha Pulaski, 35-year-old widow, of Winding Gulf, W. Va., listened, loved and lost. Acting on a complaint by her, local police today sought her Washington suitor, known only as Raymond Mills, 45 years old. His only local address was given as a downtown hotel. Mrs. told Headquarters De- tective Frank Varney that Mills came to her home in Winding -Gulf some weeks ago and laid siege to her heart in the four Her $5..000 and FIECS He talked so mflidly and so fluently, she said, that he had persuaded her to part with $5,000 to invest in Washing- ton real estate before she realized what was happening. Mills returned to Washington. Last week Mrs. Pulaski sent her brother, Walter Chesman, to him with the money. Mills received the brother in a hotel room here, took the money and excused himself for a moment. He didn't come back, Now Detective Varney is looking for him, armed with a warrant charging | 1alse pretenses. ‘Washington and Norfolk, Va. Later he| “No, and you don't of a doctor to te is sick, Putnam | Schuldt ‘released h | bond. | Police officials expressed grat | today at the work of t | cycle men under the he precincts {and brought the mounted detail up to 31 men, patroling the streets and high- | ways in" 8-hour shifts of from 8 to 10 men. | Traffic Mishaps Decline. | Traffic mishaps for the 24 h ing this morning too over the previous d cidents, one of them s ported ‘to police last morning. dria, Va., was still in a ser tion at Emergency Hi when run down at Ninth T streets by an automobile operated by Alfred Pare of 609 Elliott street She was treated by Dr. J. E. Mc in of the hospital staff, who said she suffered a possible fractured skull, internal in- juries and possible fractura of both gs. atharine A. Crouch of 1918 Penn- sylvania avenue was treated at Em- ergency Hospital for a possible fracture of the right arm and lacerations to the hands and fingers, s ed last nigh when the mach passenger and | Crouch, same ad was at Twentieth and K streets. |operated by William A. | Vienna, va. Child Ts Slightly Injured. Seven-year-old Joseph Pa | Church street was slightly | the arms and body last night |down on Seventeenth street between Q fand Church streets by an automobile driven by Benjamin K. Fort of 4401 Ellicott street. The child was treated at Emergency Hospital and later ‘Martha Lewis, 65 Six-and-a-Half ' street | slightly injured about head and |body when struck at Sixth and D streets southwest by a machine operated | by Richard Crakle, 22 vears old, of 221 Rhode Island avenue northeas She was treated at Emergency Hos- pital and later taken home. | n_ collision a car of w southwest the was PARK CONCERTS SET. Army Band to Open Schedule at 26th and Irving Monday. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant. 3d. dircctor of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, today announced the schedule of park concerts for the com- g;ggwcek, with concert hours from 7:30 | y-sixth and Irving streets northeast, Army Band. ‘Tuesday—Twelfth street and Michi- gan avenue northeast, Navy Band. Wednesday—Sylvan _Theater, Monu= ment grounds, Army Band. Thursday—Sylvan Theater, ment grounds, Marine Band. Friday—Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, Twenty-seventh street be- |tween M and N streets, Community Civic Band. Monu- Justice Sinnott Improved. Justice Nichqlas J. Sinnott of the United States Tourt of Claims, who has been seriously ill at his home at 105 West Bradley lane, Chevy Chase, Md., since Sunday, was considerably improved this morning, members of his family said. He is 58 years old. It was said at his home he is ill with heart k;s‘ ease,