Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1929, Page 15

The 1 hening ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION - GIRL SOUGHT DEATH IN BRIDGE PLUNGE, PROBE JURY HOLDS) Ella Hudnall Took Own Life | by 120-Foot Leap, Cor- i oner’s Verdict Rules. YOUTH WHO RECOVERED BODY IS QUESTIONED +39-Year-01d Salesman, Her Friend, | Declares They Separated on Good ! Terms Wednesday Night. Ella Virginia Hudnall, attractive 19- wear-old telephone operator, who plunged 120 fect to her death from Key Bridge, early yesterday, took her held today. Following the verdict. at an inquest at the morgue, Coroner Nevitt issued | a death certificate in accordance with the findings, and the girl's body was turned over to relatives for burial in Virginia. | The last witness to take the stand was Geprge K. Stuart, the youth who recovered the body. Stuart merely Jated what he had already told the police of having heard the body strike the water and his subsequent search for and recovery of it. When asked by one of the jurors if he ever had seen the, girl before or if he had known her in any way he replied in the negative. Friend Tells Story. Rudolph Lincoln Cole, 19-year-old #alesman, of 1367 Meridian place, erst- while friend of the dead girl, told the jury he and the girl had been friendly Tor more than a vear and a half. The boy stated while the girl had repri- manded him somewhat Wednesday eve- ning because of his having danced with other girls, the censure was not in the nature of an argument or quarrel and Heither one took it seriously. He said after he had left her at her home in Tnortheast, after their return from Chevy | Chase Lake, they separated apparently on good term: He said he was the one who had taken the initiative a few weeks ago in | suggesting that they not see each other | so much as had been customary, but sald he did not believe such an act would have caused the girl to become remorseful. Members of the police homicide squad the Potomac yesterday, Above: Rudolph Cole, sweetheart of Ella Hudnall, who jumped to death in photographed gaid today the cas2 as far as the police | as he left the coronor's inquest today. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, J ULY 19, 1929 —— = 'AGE 15 .. BULDING CODE CHANGED T0 GUARD WORKERS SAFETY Mmendment to Regulations Outlines Procedure for Raz- ing of Structures. CURB ON ACCIDENTS SOUGHT BY NEW RULING Two Fatalities in Excavation Last Fall Result in Adoption of Measure, i An accident on October 25, 1928, in which two workmen were killed and two mnjured in the cave-in of a wall around an excavation at” Fourteenth and K streets during construction of a build- ing, bore fruit today in an amendment to the building regulations adopted by the Commissioners. The accident was the subject of a report by the Bureau of Efficiency gt the time, although the new regulation does not follow in de- tail the regulation recommended by that bureau. Procedure Is Outlined. ‘The amendment, which is a new paragraph B to part 8 of section III| of the regulations, reads as follows: “The owner, as well as the contractor | or other persons in charge of the raz- ing or the taking down of a structure, in whole, or in part, shall provide ade- | quate safeguards, as outlined below, to protect the lives and limbs of the work- men engaged therein, and the work shall be under the supervision of a | qualified foreman, who shall remain on the job while razing is in progress; provided, however, that in the razing of all structures the owner or applicant shall include in his application an ade- quate description of the structure to | be razed and the method to be used | in razing same; and in bulldings over | | three stories in' height, or in the dis- cretion of the inspector of bulldings, a ! speclal inspector shall be appointed by | the owner. whose appointment shall be | approved by the inspector of buildings, and whose dutles shall be to see that the razing of a structure is carried on | in full accord with these regulations. The special inspector shail file with | the inspector of bufldings weekly reports of the progress of the work under his | | supervition, and he shall be employed | { for such time as is necessary to super- | FOUR END LIVES IN24-HOUR PERIOD Prisoner Hangs Self in Cell. Woman Dies by Gas—Par- alytic Shoots Self. the United States and part of South America. front, left to right: Willie Kalama, Princess Lel Lehr and nest Kamiki. These Hawailan tourists arrived in Washington today after an auto trip which hasgftaken them to every State in Seated on the auto fenders: Fleeta Tryon (left) and Doreen Tryon. In —Star Staff Photo Man Returns Home To Find Intruder Ransacking House After Chase Joined in by Crowd. Raymond W. Corridon, 1344 Gallatin street, who has been living with his ‘With the death last night of a woman by gas and a man by hanging, the day’s | toll of sulcides here was brought to | four. With & letter beside her in which a | | family at their country place in Upper | Marlboro, Md., for the last month, ar- to find a colored man ransacking the place. v The intruder fled from the hoise, with Corridon iIn pursuit. The chs | rived at his home in town this morning | RUM CAR CRASHES cape, but Police Seize Cargo and Prefer Charges. | Endangering the lives of scores of, | pedestrians in its wild fiight, a liquor- |laden automobile last night sped | through Southeast Washington, at times " AFTERWILD CAhSE Colored Prisoner Is Taken | (Man and Two Women Es-| 302 TRAFFIC CASES MADE IN24HOURS DESPITE BIG FINES Mattingly Regrets Inability to Impose Heavier Speeding Penalties. POLICEMEN ARREST 68 ON FAST-DRIVING CHARGE Judge Lenient in Some Cases of Mitigating Circumstances, Ex- acting $10 and $15. Despite the severity of penalties tm- posed by Judge Robert E. Mattingly for violations of traffic ordinances, the total number of arrests for the 24-hour period ending at 8 a.m. today jumped to 302, of which 68 were for speeding, i the offense for which the furist has ex- acted particularly severe penalties, Mitigating circumstances in some *| cases to appear before him today caused | Judze Mattingly to impose $10 and $1 fines for speeding. but in assessing Ed- ward Simmons $25 on that charge he expressed regret that heavier fines could not be imposed. More drastic _sentences than the maximum fine of $25 for first-offense j speeding ought to be open to the bench for imposition in cases of “flagrant violations,” he declared. Arrests Classified. ‘ Of the 302 arrests. 6 cases-of Teck- _!r5< driving were reported, 1 case of { ieaving the scene after a collision and |1 case of a motorist driving with | dazzling headlights, The remaining 226 cases were classified as miscellaneous and involved the defendants in charges | ranging up and down the list of more than a hundred “must nots” in the book of traffic regulations. John Lee Ward, colored. of the 1400 | block of Massachusetis avenue south- east, the first man arrested in the traffic | drive for operating a motor cycle with- out a permit, who was taken into custody by Policeman L. Christensen of the eleventh precinct, was fined $500, with an alternative jail sentence of Six months on that count and $25 for | speeding. A penalty of $300 or 90 dars in jail { was imposed on John T. Bladen of | Takoma Park. Md. H- was arrested by Policeman E. C. Moore of the thira | teenth precinet BRRTY il |at rate exceeding 70 miles an hour, for driving an suto e ed w : : | I o | foined by a crowd, led to Georgia av | e ik o aniE | e ekt froemied. Tt ho ertedu tEol 8 [ yise the work on the stnucture being| message of affection trailed off info an| iie"and Allison streel, where police |crached into another automcbile and | mobile afier his permit had expired, cus phases of the girls death mainly body. Lewer, right: Irene Hudnall, | | oatar of pullaings. - Neereaary. safe, | Unintclligible scribble as she lapsed into | took the fieeing man into custods. | carcened along the sidewslk for a | Semucl Jacob Zergler, jr., because of the famiiy’s insistence that | Ella's sister, who also identified her | guards shall consist of such props, | Unconsciousness, Evelyn Tomlin of 109| At the thirteenth precinct the man | quarter of a biock before coming o a | s e A she had not taken her ovn life. = |body. | posts. braces, stages, platforms and | Eighth street northeast, 31-vear-old | B3¢ hiS name o8 john Thomes. 28 | cion whon it was abandoned by the | K. P. Greenlow on Mazsa- Last night Cole was summoned | | scaffolding as may be necessary to pro- | waitrcss, was found i | driver and his two woman companions, | Chlsetts avenue last night. who said he suffocated byi don and police disclosed that a suitcase i cquarters and after s ! S police Deatynriery) st iaflce soyere) vide sufficient strength and rigldity 0 { yjym;inating gas in her bedroom by her | had been packed with silverware, Cor- was navigating his automobile at an hours questioning by Lieut. Warren Embrey, night chief of detectives and | Detective John Fowler of the homicide | squad, was released to appear at the hearing at’ the morgue this morning. Detectives sald they were satisfied that | Cole was not with the girl when &ht:" met death, { Saw Girl Walking Alone. Previous reports that a man had been seen leaving @ strest car from which | the girl dlighted at Thirty-fourth and M streets yesterday morning just before walking across Key Bridge to her death were discounted this morning when detectives were informed by Julius Marcey, nephew of a White House liceman and proprietor of Marcey's airy in Clarendon, Va. that he saw the girl walk from th» car across the bridge alone. He told police she be- came lost to sight when she approached | the middle of the bridge and he saw nothing more of her. The girl's body was identified at the Morgue late yesterday by Mrs, May Yost, with whom she had boarded for more than a year at the former’s home, 707 Tenth street northeast. Identifica- tion was brought about through descrip- tion of the body printed in The Evening | Star. The body was recovered from the river near the Virginia shore by Stuart, who was sleeping in & canoe near the spot where the girl Janded in the water. Stuart heard the girl's screams and the splash and hurried to her side. He said she strug- gled fiercely in the water, scratching his right arm as if attempting to pull away, and overturned his canoe. said he lost his hold on her coat and she disappeared from sight. Stuart hur- ried to Thirty-fourth and M streets and told his story to Policeman W. E. Lawson of the seventh precinct, who held him for questioning. After his re- lease, Stuart returned to the spot and, after paddling around the vicinity in his canoe for more than two hours, found the body floating under a bridge span near the Virginia side. Family Doubts Suicide, Members of the dead girl's family, in- cluding her mother, Mrs. Annie Hudnall of Lyon Park, Va.; two sisters, Irene and Georgia, and a brother, John, from Baltimore, gathered last night at the home of a married sister, Mrs. Mary Spilman, a nurse at St. Elizabeth’s Hos+ pital, Jiving at 3010 Nichols avenue southeast, insisted the girl had been sither pushed or thrown from the bridge to her death and refused to accept the suicide theory. K “Ella was always so cheerful and was the kind of a girl who never worried over anything,” said Irene, an older sister emploved as a bookkeeper at a large downtown department store and living at 1410 S street southeast. “We were out together the other night and Ella was dancing and having 8 good time and seemed to be in the best of spirits. Of course, she went around pretty steadily with Rudey (as they referred to Cole), but she had just recently told him that they would not go together so much, but would be just good friends. She and Rudey used to quarrel quite & bit, but I don't think Ella took him seriously enough to Worry herself into commitiing suicide over him or any other man,” the sister con- cluded. \ ‘The younger sister, Georgla, who was treated at Casualty Hospital on June 23 for poisoning, was especially inusist- ent that her sister had met with foul t lay. P Xieither the police nor any one else can ever convince me that my sister took her own life,” said the 17-yegr-old girl, who also is a telephone operalor. Cole’s Father Upset. James F. Cole, father of young Cole, was considerably upset at his home last ht over his son’s name being brought, into the affair. “I'm sure he had nothing to do with her death,” he said. “He didn’t even know it had happened until I informed him over the phone and told him to g¢ down to police headquarters and tell ‘what he knew about it. “I knew he had the girl out Wed- nesday night, because I saw her sitting out in front of the house about mid- night, when he came home to change his clothes to go to work. He went to work at 12:30 in the morning. He told me he took the girl home in Northeast.” The famous sale of wines at the Hos- pice de Beaune, on the Cote d'Or, in France. recently netted over $87.900. compared with® $17,000 for the 1927 BELIEVE DEAKYNE assistant chicf of Army Engineers, is likely to become the next chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning | Commisston, according to opinion pre- vailing in service circles. Edgar Jadwin, thé chief of Army Engi- neers, slated to retire on August 7, when he | reaches the statutory retirement age of 64 years. Deakyne has become thoroughly fa-| miliar with the duties of the office of the chief of Army Engineers, having | been on duty in the Munitions Build- He | ing in that capacity since June, 1926. | Gen. Deakyne will reach the retirement | age on December 29, 1931. that Deakyne will become the next head of the Engineer Corps point to the fact national defense act of 1920 was en- acted, to have the assistant chief ad- vanced to the chie’s chair when the senior officer ;vacated his post. was true, they say, in the case of Maj. Gen. Lansing H. Beach, who as chief of Engineers had Brig. Gen. Harry Taylor as his assistant. came Chief of Army Engineers, and his assistant was Gen. Jadwin, who later became chief. Charles W. Kutz, now on duty at Schoflield Barracks, Hawail, as senior colonel, will become the next assistant chief of engineers. William B. Ladue, the Engineer Com- missioner of the District of Columbia, will bezome the senior colonel stand a good chance of being raised to chief of Army Engineers in a few years, under the age limit law in 1934, so that under this arrangement, and if precedent is followed, Col. Ladue would be in line for the post of chief of Army Engineers at that time, probably hav- hilgh;ervcd in the interim as assistant chief. velopment of Washington, as the prob- able chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which ‘T‘ Just now officlo Many important projects are pending before the commission, so Deakyne will have an important, task if Army officials and the White House decide that he is to preside over the commission’s affairs for the next two years and four months. Gen. De: e a nt at the eerlnfi‘u i of Application in 1893. served the Government in various parts of the world. at 2312 Tracy place. Slaughter of Hopewell, Va., former as sistant to the president of the Tubize WILL BE PROMOTED Army Officers of Opinion He — Will Succeed to Post of Gen. Jadwin. Herbert Deakyne, Brig. Gen. now Maj. Gen. and the present ochairman, is As Gen. Jadwin’s assistant, Gen. Policy to Advance Assistant. Army officers who are of the opinion hat it has been the policy, since the b ‘This Later, Gen. Taylor be- Officers consider it likely that Col. In this event Col. and Kuts Slated for Retirement. Col. Kutz is slated for retirement Gen. Deakyne is in a god position to posted about the prospective de- tting its “second wind.” he chief of Army Engineers is ex- the commission’s chairman. that Gen. Born in Delaware, December 29, 1867, 4 He grad in 1917 and also was He Gen. Deakyne makes his home Slaughter Is Named to Post. NEW YORK, July 19 (#—B. G Artificial Silk Co. lD( ':‘r’nerlc‘mm{hdel- today was elected president, suc- 2,":3;“ Wy L. Coursen. Mr. - Coursen, who has been head of the company for more than six years, is retiring, it was announced. . KELEHER DENIED BAILIN APPEAL Justice Robb Says Gambling Case Petitioner’s Reputa- tion Is Not Good. John B. Keleher, well known in sporting circles, must remain in the District Jail pending the action of the District Court of Appeals on his appeal from the sentence of eight years and nine months imprisonment and a fine of $7,500 imposed on him by Chief Jus- tice McCoy for setting up a gaming table by having a place where bets rould be received on the result of horse races and where cards might be played. Justice Charles H. Robb of the Appelate Court today denied the application of Attorney T. Morris Wampler to admit Keleher to bail. Wampler appeared as counsel for the prisoner after Attorney Daniel Thew Wright, who conducted the defense, had withdrawn from the case. Reputation Not Good. In the course of his opinion denying bail, Justice Robb said: “In the present case it is quite apparent that petition- er’s reputation as a law-abiding citizen is not good. Presumably the refusal of the trial court to admit to ball was based upon facts disclosed at the trial. In the light of all the circumstances, I am constrained to the view that should the petitioner be admitted to bail and the judgment of the trial court should be affirmed there would be grave danger 3’“ petitioner would flee the jurisdic- ion.” Fine Paid in Maryland. Keleher in his petition had declared that he had only been once convicted in Maryland for gaming in 1922 and had paid a fine of $1,000. Assistant United States Attorney Willlam H. Col- lins in opposing the ball filed with the :&urt Keleher’s record in this jurisdic. n, 4 He pointed out that Keleker was ar- rested May 30, 1905,-on a charge of permitting gaming and fined $10; August -2, arrested on a disorderly charge aud fined $10; January 13, 1911, arresied on a disorderly charge and fined $3; April 20, 1915, arresied on gaming charge, no disposition; arrested June 20, 1921, on charge of accepting bet on horse race, no disposition; ar- rested May 2, 1923, for setting up & gaming table, but not pressed when Court of Appeals held search improper; September 3, 1926, arrested for gaming, no disposition; arrested October 23, 3 1926, for Tllegni pocseseion of Nquor, no| _Policeman Robert . Allen, arralgned disposition; arrested December 17,1927, | in Police Court following his eighth ar- on possession charge, ho disposition. iy TRACTION FIRM IS SUED. Truck Driver Asks $30,000 Dam- ages as Result of Collision. ‘The Washington Railway & Electric Co. is named as defendant in a sult to recover $30,000 damages filed in ‘the District, summ Court by Isaac Chap- 33 avenue northeast, for alleged personal injuries. The suit grows out of a collision of a street car and & motor truck driven by Chapman .at Maine avenue and Four-and-a-Half street southwest December 15. The plaintiff declares he suffered a con- gmi':n of the m,m other injuries. e is represen Wood and James P. | the portions of the building being taken | | down or removed to insure the safety | | of the workmen employed. Orderly Razing Demanded. | Nu’ { structure and proceed downward. | wall, beam, column, or the like, sup- | porting any load shall be disturbed or { weakened until such load is entirely | | removed. / All masonry walls shall be | removed, unit by unit, and in a man- ner approved by the inspector of build- | ings. All loosened material and debris | shall be removed from time to time so | s not_to accumulate in such quantity | or such weight as may overload any | floor. platform or scaffold. Plain or | reinforced concrete structures shall be | razed in such sections and such man- | mer as is approved by the inspector of | buildings. “No structure or portion thereof be- ing demolished or declared to be dan- | gerous under the provisions of section 1, part 1, of the building regulations shall be thrown, pulled or blasted un- less special approval is given by the in- spector of buildings upon application, in writing, by the owner or his agent, to o so. “All material and rubbish apt to pro- duce dust must be kept wet or covered to prevent tis being blown about by the wind.” FIVE FLYING SCHOOLS RATED BY GOVERNMENT Receive Approval by Aeronautics Branch Under Bingham Amend- ment to Air Commerce Act. ‘The first five flying schools in the United States to receive official ap- proval by the aeronautics branch of lge Department of Commerce, under the Bingham amendment to the air com- merce act, providing for rating of civilian air schools, have been certified for various types of student instruction, it was announced today. The Embry Riddle Flying School of Cincinnati and the Airtech Training School of San Diego, Calif., have been approved for training of students for licenses as transport, limited commer- clal and private pilots’ licenses. ‘Parks Air. College, Inc,, of East St. Louis, Ill, is rated for transport and limited commercial instruction. Thel Aero Corporation of California, at Los | Angeles, is given a limited commercial | and private rating and the D. W. Flying Service, Inc., Leroy, N. Y., is approved as a limited commercial school. The schools are rated under the ne law as to adequacy of the course, of in- struction, suitability and airwe es5 of equipment and competency of in- struction. The examinations are made and ratings listed only at the request of the schools themselves. The rating of civillan schools is intended to im- prove the quality of student instruction throughout the country and to reduce the number of flying fatalities. ALLEN AGAIN IS CLEARED IN POLICE TRAFFIC CASE Policeman, Arrested for Eighth Time on Minor Charge, Is Exonerated. | rest on a minor charge, was exuneu&: {restaurants. Coroner Nevitt said he had i fleld of the fifth precinct, Coffman was Duius Desmond Coffman, 39 years jold, of 1631 § street, a barber, hanged “Razing shall begin at the top of the | himsef, using his shirt as a noose, in | general ransacking. & cei at the fifth pre ct station, | where he was being held on a charge | of ntoxication, Windows Are Closed. Harry and Louis Tomlin of 1110 Rob- inson street sowthwest. who were calling | upon their sister, broke down the door of her room when thev detected the odar of gas and faund her iying across her bed. clothed in a night dress. The | Fire Department. rescue squad and the Casualty Hospital ambulance were sum- moned, but it was too late, The windows and door of the room where she was found were tightly closed. The woman apparently had written until she lost consciousne: when she fell across the bed. The letter was addressed to a man | who, police say, had recently become| reconciled with his wife and with whom she was in love. The woman came to this city several years ago from her home in Millville, N. J. Since then she had been employed in several cafes and been informed the woman had been: married, but was separated from her husband. . | The body of Coffman was found | dangling from the upper bars of his | cell, with his toes just touching the| floor. The arms of the shirt had been | knotted around his neck. He was dis- covered by Policeman L. A. Craig, who | told his superiors that he had visited the cellroom 15 minutes previously to| give another prisoner a drink of water and that. Coffman then had made no attempt to end his life. Arrested on Sister's Request. According to Lieut. Richard Mans- arrested on complaint of his sister, Mrs. Nellie Florence Stump of 513 D street | southeast. Mrs. Stump is said to have | informed the police that she wanted | her brother arrested to keep him out of trouble while he was intoxicated. Before lodging Coffman in the cell his belt and necktie were removed, as is customary as a precautionary meas- ure. The hanging was performed so| silently that none of the prisoners in | adjacent cells knew what had happened. The Casualty Hospital ambulance was summoned. Dr. P. A. Stebbins of the hospital staff ‘pronounced him dead. Cérl Stump, brother-in-law of the dea man, told police that Coffman is sur- vived by one son, Jack Coffman. of St. Augustine, Fla. Paralytic Kills Himself. Hopelessly paralyzed for the past two years, Willlam Stanley Ray, 58 years old, of 4212 Thirty-seventh street ves- terday afternoon carried out threats of suicide by sending a bullet through his right temple. . e otte that of Fila Vir- ‘The_other case was ginia Hudnall. Inquests resulted in suicide verdicts in the Hudnall and Coffman deaths, while the coroner issued certificates in the other cases. . PLANES TO 'MAKE TRIP. Three Naval Machines on Wil- liamsport Airport Program. ‘Three Navy planes from the Ana- costia Naval Air Station will leave this city tomorrow morning to participate in the dedication of a new municipal airport at Willilamsport, Pa. They will join four observation planes from Boll- ing Field, which left yesterday to assist in the dedication of an airport at testimony _following _Ju bert E. M-mu:"xy'. refusal to e, & | Johnstown, P, i In his decision Jugr Hitt declared | <The Navy planes will be piloted by that Policeman F. L. McCallister of the | Lieuts. Alford Williams, J. J. Clark and third precinct, who patrols the same | Hiady. in’Pennayivanin. 4 Hown by oh Al pa s 'm‘canG.WThomu d L king his car improperly in front of &: niynower Hotel, had waited . and Lieuts. - ter Maltland, Leland S.° Stranathan and Louls M. Merrick. cused ‘Allen of et loading platform and the curb, declar- iny have more to do them.” certified the case to Judge Hitt and m"fie’o%mmm of Li case e near icense London. Cochrane on. Aflnmnfihfldfihm Porto iiun Auditor Is Named. President Hoover today appointed Leslie MacLeod-of Massachusetts, as au- ditor of Porto Rico, eeding Fred- erick G. who recently re- g are being erected on two brothers about 10:40 o'clock. | ridon’s clothing. his wife's apparel and other household effects, rugs had been rolled up and piled in ‘the front room on the first floor and the stage set for & Thomas is being held at the thir- teenth precinct pending a more thor- ough examination of the house before charges are placed. SEEK HOSPITAL AID FOR WAR NURSES {Women’s Legion Post Moves to Assure Care for Feminine “Veterans” in Future. Looking to the future when & large portion of the 36,000 women who saw service during the World War nurses and yeomanettes may require hospital care, the Jane A. Delano Post of the American Legion—one of the few women's posts in the organization, passed a resolution last night advocat- ing the provision of quarters for women in all Veterans' Bureau hos- pitals to be conducted in the future. Miss Marietta H. Plerson, welfare offi- cer of the post, introduced the meas- ure, which was passed without a dis- senting vote. * The post will present the resolution at the annual convention of the Dis- trict of Columbia Legion, to be held here in August, and if it passes that body it will be brought before the na- tional Legion conclave at Louisville in October. Present Provisions Ample. No recommendation was made con- cerning the present hospitals, as it is recognized by the women that provisions at present are sufficient to meet the re- quirements of the woman veterans, those now in the disabled class num- bering about 1,900 and the actual num- oer hospitalized ranging around 216. The recommendation, the women of the Delano Post emphasize is designed purely for the future needs. Of the 1900 women receiving compen- sation today for disabilitics received as a result of their service either here or overseas, the majority are suffering from physical illness, nervous disabilities or wounds received in accidents. Three of them who are living today carry scars from enemy fire. 5 ‘These three, all of whom served as nurses, are Miss Beatrice McDonald, who lost an eye when an enemy bomb exploded back of the British lines; Miss Isabel Stambaugh, injured by shell fire from an enemy plane near Amiens, and Miss Eva Jean Parmalee, who was wounded In the face during s night Tald and) was cited for her extreme bravery in remaining at her post de- spite her wounds. 100 Women Won Decorations. More than 100 women have been decorated for bravery “in action” or under shell fire. Another resolution, which was nat in shape for presentation last night, is: ex- pected to be up for consideration before the Jane Delano Post in the near fu- ture, and, if passed, probably will be pre- sented at the National Legion conven- tion. It advocates thrslfl:ln of the nurses with a war record on same status as the emergency officers reference to their permanent disability retirement. Rcently a bill was passed permitting emergency officers to receive retirement pay for permanent disability. ‘The nurses wish that law amended to include members of their corps, who, they say, were under the same restric- tions and regulations applied to officers during the war. Ontario Official’s Slayer Hangs. HAILEYBURG, Ontario, July 19 (). —John Ivanchuk was hanged district jail here for the murde{ e af | who escaped. In the machine 96 quarts of liduor | was reported found with a funnel and | a bottle of caramei such as is used in | coloring whisky. The identity of the | driver is believed to have been discov- | ered through tracing the license number | of the car. It was found to belong to a local automobile renting agency, where it was learned that the man had fre- | quently hired cars there in the past, sometimes keeping them several days. At the Traffic Bureau. charges of transportation and illegal possession. { reckless drivinz and leaving after col- liding were entered against Henry B. Raines, who is said to have hired the ear. Police also fald that Raines' driv- tng_permit had been suspended. | " "The machine was sighted chortly after 8 o'clock last night by Policemen | W. D. Davis and Foster Rowen. of the ‘Traffic Bureau, | Bridge with no rear light. | mediately started in pursuit. | the officers, the driver accelerated his speed. The machine roared up Eleventh street 1o K street, then west a block io Twelfth street, north another block and back again into Eleventh street. | The chase proceeded north on Eleventh ‘They im- Eleventh streets, then east on E street | doned. As the driver attempted to make the turn into E street his car crashed into | an_automcbile operated by Irving B. Shelton, of the Stanhope Apartments, then, following & wavering course, ran up onto the sidewalk as several | pedestrians jumped for their lives. then back again into the street, where it was brought to a halt and the man and two women jumped out and ran. could not stop thelr machines in time to_prevent the escape of the fugitives. Shelton’s automobile, struck a glanc- ing_blow by the other car, was only slightly damagsd. No one was hurt in the collision. SIX AGENTS ADDED 10 U. S. DRUG FORCE | Customs Bureau Sends Five to Eu- rope, One to Shanghai to Guard Against Smuggling. | By the Associated Pres Assignment of six new inspectors to foreign ports to aid in checking narcotic shipments to the United States was an- nounced today by the Customs Bureau. Five of the new agents, it was said, will be assigned to European duties and one to Shanghal. This follows action of the bureau in recently transferring an inspector from Manila and several native helpers to Shanghai. ‘The action of the bureau, the bureau sald, would increase the effectiveness of the foreign forces in furnishing infor- mation as to proposed attempls of smugglers to bring narcotics into the United States. One of the - favorite methods, the bureau said, was for smugglers to ship consignments of nar~ cotles from one foreign country to an- other through the United States snd replace the drugs by other merchandise while the goods were en route through this coutnry. the foreign The effectiveness of forces, it was said, recently was shown when Mrs. Ying Kao, wife of the Chi. nese vice consul in San Francisco re- turned from abroad. nts in China had reported that she had nearly 3,000 tins of opium in her b , and ex- amination of her trunks at San Fran- cisco proved the information correct, [a——— Charges Slander in Greek. Declaring that he was slandered in Greek and that the bystanders under- stood that , Alexandros Pappa: 900 has filed suit to re- cover $10,000 damages from Peter Garoufes, 2900 Eleventh street. Pappes had been employed by the de- fendant as a clerk and the latter had accused him of dishonesty, causing him in the | to suffer humiliation and to lose a num- | lumbia road, ber of friende. it is asserted. Attorney ard A. Block appears for the plain- crossing Anacostia | Secing | | street to Pennsylvania avenue, E and' | about a block where the car was aban- | ‘The speed at which the two officers | were traveling was so great that they Raymond s, | reported the takin | excessive rate of speed. He was fined | $25. ™A $50 fine was imposed on Fred W. | Weitzel, 1600 block of Twenty-ninth | street, for second offense speeding. He was_apprchended by Policemen J. A. Hopkins and W. B. Wheeler when traveling at 40 miles an hour. Gets Light Sentence. Mitigating circumstances in a -few | cases led the magistrate to fix the pen- | alty at $15. George Hillman, first | block of D street. southwest, who raced | a police patrol wagon in | lieved his brother w: | among those who received a lis en. | tence, He was arrested by Policoman |C. A. Stroble and H. H. Dull and fined £15. Russell B. Cole, arrested by Policemen V. V. Vaughn and D. E. Gallimore as a i speeder, informed the court that he “must have been insane,” as he was operating his automobile in violation of the law, as he and a friend observed the officers following them. “Assuming that you were insane,” remarked the | court, “I will dismiss the charge on the grounds of insanity.” Eight Hurt in Crashes. Eight persons were injured in traffic accidents yesterday afiernoon and last night, one of them later being arrested on a charge of reckless driving. While going north on Fifth street Jast evening an automobile driven by Alfred P. Hall, 45 vears old, of 1457 Park road was in collision at P street with an- other machine operated by Bert Smith, colored, 52 yrars old, of 429 Hollidge court. Both men suffered slight lscer- ations, and Hall was arretsed and lodged in a cell at the second, precinct. He afterward was released under $300 for his appearance in Police Court today. As he stepped from his automobile at ‘Thirteenth and F streets last nl?ht Her- | man Blott, 29 years old, of 16251, North Capitol street reported to first precinct | police, another car passed so close that one of the wheels went over his left | foot. The driver did not stop and Blott does not think the driver knows he struck him. Blott was taken to Emergency Hos- pital in a passing automobile, where he was treated for the injury to his foot. | Physicians said & bone may be frace tured. Two Children Slightly Injured. Yesterday afternoon two children re= ceived minor injuries when they ran into the sides of moving automobiles. The first such accident occurred at 3:30 o'clock in front of 1008 N street. Billy Parker, 3, of the N street ad- dress, suddenly daned out into the street and bumped into a car_driven by Henry M. Pruitt of 1137 Seventh street northeast. Pruitt teck the child to Emergency Hospital where he was treated by Dr. C. B. White of the staff for a bruised foreheaa. Prederick L. Martin of 4817 Thirty- sixth street wes driving along Sixth street southwest, near G street, about an hour later, when 6-year-old Carl Breedon of 502 Seventh street southwest ren into the side of nis machine. The child’s scalp was laccrated slightly and the wound was treated. Others injured include Leon Goldman, 29 years old, of 1338 Seventh street: Willlam Ball, colored, 52 years old, of 642 Brewer court northeast, and John Pinkney, colored, 57 years old, of 105 Reeves court. Their hurts were slight. THEFT OF WATCH, MONEY AND CLOTHING REPORTED Three Individuals in Various Parts of City Relieved of Valuables, They Say. Elizier Slegel, 1101 G strest south- east, yesterday reported a theft per- petrated in his home the past week. Property taken, he stated, included $7.50 in gold, material for dresses and a gold watch with gold bracelet at- tached. E. Contee, 333 Q street, g of $35 and his au- tomobile driver’s permit by an uniden- tified individual early last evening. The money and permit, he sald, were taken from a room at the swimming pool at Dunbar High School, First and O streets. Abbie King, apartment 216, 1628 Co- rted the loss of wear- Pncs were siolen from her sparts es were stol om during her i ai &'e D)