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ENGLSH DALEET SUBEE OF STDY TOLEARN ORGHS American Council of Learned Societies to Fix Begin- nings of Expressions. CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT YALE AUGUST 2 AND 3 Noted Students of Language to Take Part in Lengthy Undertaking. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Described as “one of the largest un- dertakings American scholarship has ever attempted,” the American Council of Learned Societies with headquarters here is about to launch & study of the origin and development of the numer- ous dialects of the English language apoken in the United States. 4 Outstanding differences in speech, it i pointed out, are Tecognized evel where. Thus the man from Virginia and the man from Maine easilv can be told apart by their prounciation and phraseology, and the New Yorker's “oi" makes the city of his origin obvious everywhere. g0 much deeper than this and trace out the minute variations in speech between people from the same State, some of ‘which are quite distinctive, and to de- termine the racial origins of the varia- tions. A preliminary conference will be held August 2 and 3 at Yale University to arrange for the project. Leading Amer< ican scholars of many universities, in- cluding students of dialect, lexico- graphers, phoneticlans, authorities on the English, German and Roman lan- guages, and specialists in linguistics are expected to collaborate in preparing the American dialect atlas. The work, it 1is expected, will require about 10 years. Study English First. Immediate attention will be directed to English dialects in this country, but the work is expected eventually to em- | brace the English language in all parts of North America and also the foreign | language colonles, such as the Pennsyl- | vania Dutch, the French in Canada and Louisiana, Spanish In the Southwest, and the Scandinavians in Minnesota and the Dakotas. ‘The development of the habits of speech will be studied in relation to the history of the settlement of the coun- try. Hundreds of thousands of speech records will be complled in 500 strategic speech centers. The main dialectic di- visions will be traced historically and geographically, according to Dr. Waldo G. Leland, permanent sectetary of the council. The materialmollected in the field will form the basis for dialectic maps. These permanent records are expected to serve many important uses in American education. Several pioneer surveys have been made, the most noteworthy of which are in the archives of the American Dialect So- ciety. There is also historical mate- rial on the migrations of the early set- tlers in many libraries throughout the country. The Modern Language Association | p and the Linguistic Society of America will co-operate with the American Council in the work. Preliminary ar- Tangements are in charge of Prof. Edgar H. Sturtevant of Yale University. ‘Will Consult Experts. “There will be present at the con- ference men who have spent their Iives in the study of the English language,” said Prof. Hans Kurath of Ohio State | University, an authority on American | dialects. “Some will know the great dialect atlas of France and others of similar undertakings in Germany, Italy, Spain and Switzerland. “Not many would mistake a Chi- cagoan for a New Yorker, or a laborer for an actor or college professor while listening to a phonographic record of their speech. The Midwesterner sounds all his r's, many a New Yorker does | not; the former uses the same vowel | in ‘half’ and ‘hat’ while some Bos- tonians and Virginians do not; the former talks in an even drone, while Easterners and Southerners have a more musical intonation. “Differences may be classified within much narrower limits by persons who have many contacts. An alert Chicago Jawyer will know whether the man he is talking to is from the Southern, Central or Northern part of Illinois. A Virginian can tell whether a man has lived in the Tidewater area or in the Valley of Virginia. A language special- ist may be able to make even finer distinctions, but even he has compara- !di;!ellg'c“l‘l:n{:mlnloflnltlun on the. many 2] erences in the our millions. SPesHNaL Speech Habits Imported. “Most of these differences are not due to internal development but are linked up with the dialects of England, Scotland and Ireland. The settlers of this country imported their speech ‘habits, clinging to them or giving them up, in part at least, for the speech habits of their new fellows. The Scotch-Irish, whose old home was in Scotland and northern England, con- tinued to pronounce all their r's in their new home in Pennsylvania. Wherever they went they took the habit with them and changed this only when they mingled with a nu- merically or culturally superior group of ‘r-droppers,’ as in certain parts of the South. The prevalence of the ‘r’ habit thraughout the Middle West and West is, at least in part, a Scotch- Irish heritage. The Irish who poured into this country by the hundreds of thousands beginning with the middle of the nineteenth century may, how- ever, claim a generous share in fixing the habit. “‘Movements of population have tremendous importance in the shaping -and spread of dialect. The New York ‘ol’ to which the East Side may claim “foist’ rights, has been carried to all parts of the city, to Long Island, New Jersey and up the Hudson by busis ness men and working men, and eom- muters have imported it into the Con- necticut towns along Long Island Sound. This one-time vulgar pronun- | St ciation is fast becoming respectable with the rise of the ‘ol’ speakers to commercial, political and cultural im- portance. Not' a few professors at Columbia University are using it in a somewhat milder form, and ex-Gov. Alfred E. Smith is not the only man ;vf prominence to give it social stand- ng. Interesting Problems. “The .spread of a dialect by inter- communication and migration. the for- mation and spread of class dialects or Ievels of speech as determined by so- cial stratification, the rise and fall of speech habits from one level to dnother through the rise and fall of mémbers But the couneil plans to | | pride, failed to support the merchants |'M. Ayres and Burglar- Takes Cash And Register in Raid On D. C. Newsstand Probably the burglar took the cash register because of the cash, or he may have taken the cash because of the cash register. But cash register or cash, what Albert Horton wants to know is 1 | who he was and where is the | | cash register and cash, not why | he did it. Police of No. 3 precinct would like to know the same thing: meanwhile, some one is in $17 cash and a new cash register. ‘These two articles, the cash and the cash register, were missing early yesterday from a newsstand at Seventeenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue, managed by Mr. Horton, with only a jimmied window to show for it. BUYINGIN DISRIT PLEA BY SUNDLUN Retail Trade Chairman Cites Necessity of Business in The Sunday Stad WASHINGTON, D. C, OFFER SUBMITTED Planning Commission Gets Counter Proposal at Closing Session. DETAILS WITHHELD PENDING NEXT PARLEY Grant and Others of Commission to Resume Negotiations ‘“at Early Date.” Negotiations for purchase of the Pat- terson tract were reopened at a confer- ence of representatives of the heirs and the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission yesterday at the clos- ing session of the commission’s two-day Capital. 1 | | A plea for recognition of Washing- ton’s commercial mart to the extent of appreciating it. as “a commereial eity of | the highest. rank” was voiced over radio station WMAL last night by Arthur J. | Sundlun, chairman of the buy-in-Wash- | ing subcommittee of the. retall trade committee of the Washington Chamber | | of Commerece. | Declaring that while Washington is most often spoken of as a “beautiful” | | clty and reference to it as an “indus- trial” community is rare, Mr. Sundlun contended that Washington's com- mercial industries and retail establish- ments “are on a par with those of other cities.” He pointed out that Washing- on now has more than 500 manufactur- ing plants with an annual production of more ' than $90,000,000 worth of mer- chandise and a retail mart that offers all the modern facilities for buying. Mr. Sundlun declared that Washing- | ton merchants, unlike the shopkeepers | of most other cities, are in competition with dealers of almost every city of fair | size in the country. A Homogenous Population. “Because it is & homogenous city, | Mr. Sundlun told his radio audience, | “Washington has among its populotion | residents from every State in the Unlon, | | ®ho do not quickly give up their busi- ness associations of long standing back home. The Washington merchant knows that he is placed directly in com- petition with stores of other cities and | | he must then be prepared not only to | render service that satisfles, but he must | be prepared to meet the needs of the | | consuming public with extensive sup- | plies and equipment in every fleld, re- | {'membering at the same time that his.| | commodities must be- equitably priced. “With these facts in mind,” the| chamber speaker continued, “we busi- | ness men cannot help but wonder why | s0 many of our residents find it nec- essary to go outside of Washington to make their purchases. Money spent in Washington by Washingtonians does not necessarily benefit the commercial houses only; money spent in Washing- ton by Washin ians broadens the !Y of whole community. Every dollar expended out of Washing- ton by its residents is just that much money taken out of circulation here. Support at Home Aids Prosperity. “I¢ more and more of us were to look to other markets for our needs and send our money for purchase to other cities, -there would necessarily follow a certain amount of business depression | which would reflect back into the very homes of those who, either through thoughtlessness or through a lack of civic | of their own city. On the other hand, if every possibie_dollar intended for a purchase by Washingtonians were spent in Washington with our own merchants, that money would circulate | through our local banks, eventually to find its way into the very homes of the spenders.” T "his plea that Washington's posi- tion as “a great American commercial city” be appreciated, Mr. Sundlun told his radio listeners that one of the greatest needs in the development of this appreciation “is the arousing of civic self-consciousness, & distinct com- | munity pride that would awaken the resident of Washington to the fact that | this great Capital is a city of the first rank; that its commercial industries and retall establishments are on a par | with thosdem of gflh"s cmaelu:' o Conclut . Mr.’ Sundlun : “We do vfefl to think of the esthetic development of Washington, but we must not forget that if we want our city to become more attractive, more beautiful, we must develop a certain degree of commercialism as well. The greatest Nation's Capital should be the Nation's greatest city. You can help make it so through trg\w progressive support of its indusf and through the development of your own civic pride in.the commercial standing of your city.” lems to the ;mhx”umfl and also to the sociologist an torian.” Amm those who will participate in the conference at Yale are: Drs. Janet Afken and W. C. Greet and Profs. H. A. V. W. Jackson of | Columbia University, Prof. Edward C. Armstrong of Princeton University, | Profs. R. P. Dougherty, Franklin Edger- | ton, Edwards Prokosch, H. B. Richard- son, E. H. Sturtevant, Rudolph Willard and Karl Young of Yale University, Dr. Stephan Einarsson, Profs. Frank R. Blake and Kemp Malone of Johns Hopkins University; Profs. G. M. Bol- ling, Hans Kurath and G. Oscar Rus- sell of Ohio State University. Profs. Leonard Bloomfield, T. Atkinson Jenkins and C. E. Parmenter of Uni- versity of Chicago. Prof. Miles L. Hanley of University of Wisconsin, Prof. R. G. Kent of University of Pennsylvania, Prof. Samuel Moore of University of Michigan, Dr. Dorothy J.'Kaucher of University of Missouri, . Prof. Milton Metfessel of University of Iowa, Prof. Jess H. Jackson of University of Texas, Prof. Wl iversity of Florida, f Nebraska, Prof. of University of Minnesota, . H. T. Alexander of Queens Uni- verslz. ; Prof. George O. Curme of orthwestern _ University, 3 Joseph Dunn of Catholic Unlveulg, f, Dean S. Fansler of Brown Ut versity, Prof. E. C. Roedder of College of the Oity of New York; Prof. Ina May Greer of South Dakota State Col- lége, Prof. John S. Kenyon of Hiram College, Prof. Otto Muller of Gettys- College, Prof. R. E. Saleski of l:é‘:gmy College, Prof. - Mirlam. R. Small of Wells College, Prof. Helen M. Scurr of Junior College of America, Bridgeport, Conn.; Dr. Waldo G. Le- land, permanent secretary, American Council of Learned Societies: Mortimer, Graves, American Council of Learned Socleties: Percy W. Long of Spring- ‘of & speech eommunity from one social #.laver to another, are ting prob- field, Mass. . meeting. A satisfactory counter propo- sal was submitted on behalf of the heirs, it was said after the conference, BYPATTERSONHEIRS FOR SALE.OF TRACT but details of the plan and the figure | | trading with iis business concerns and | proposed were withheid. The commis- | sioa recently asked the District Supreme Court not to approve the findings of a condemnation jury. setting the value of the Patterson tract at $400,000, but the court has overruled this point. 80 Acres in Tract. ‘The Patterson tract is an area of about 80 acres of oak forest, lying on the north side of Florida avenue and just west of Gallaudet College. Its ac- quisition has been suggested for park and playground purposes, both in Con- gress and by others interested in the development of the city. Corcoran ‘Thom, representing the trustees of the tract, and Joseph I. Weller, on behalf of the heirs, went into conference with the commission. The meeting was described as an amicable one, and negotiations are ex- pected to be resumed by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, vice chairman of the commission and its executive officer, and other members of the commission at an early date, looking to acquisition by the Government of the tract. Francis Hill, Washington attorney, representing several land owners in the vicinity of Buzzards Point, conferred with the commission on the proposed industrial development of that area and laid his ideas before the body. Ad- ditional studies are to be m by Capt. E. N. Chisholm, jr. slon's engineer, particularly with refer- ence to raflroad trackage in the area, the crossing of streets and the streets that may have to be closed, under the program. Docks and Warehouses., The construction of docks on the water front and warehouse facilities is contemplated, as an outgrowth of the development program. Capt. Chisholm ndicated that the commission hopes to be able to draft the proposed legislation on this subject for presentation to Congress, probably at the December session. An agreement has been reached with Maryland authorities on the paving of the ‘area at Sixteenth street and the District line, where the proposed north portal will be constructed as a magnifi- cent entrance to the city. ‘The commission received a report from its city planner, Charles W. Eliot, 2d, on the recreational system of the National Capital and proposed exten- sions of the playground program. The commission failed to reveal the con- tents of the report at this time, how- ever, preferring to give the matter further attention. MISSING VETERAN IS FOUND DEAD Soldiers' Home Resident Is Believed to Have Taken Own Life ‘With Cord. John Bruning, 66 years old, missing from the Soldiers’ Home Hospital since July 16, was discovered dead late yes- | terday in & wooded ravine in the insti- tution grounds. Circumstances indicated suicide, ac- cording to police, and Coroner Ramsay Nevitt sald that he would issue a suicide certificate today. ‘The body was discovered by George Wykoff, a resident of Soldiers’ Home, lying in the ravine at the base of a large tree. A short length of sash cord was found loosely tied to a limb of the tree, and a similar cord was around the man’s neck. The loose ends of the ropes were frayed, which led police to believe that Bruning climbed into the tree, placed the cord around his neck, tied it to the limb and jumped. strain, they say, broke the rope. A broken neck was given as the cause of death. Following_the- discovery of the body ‘Wykoff notified hospital authorities, who in" turn summoned the homicide squad and tenth precinct police. Lieut. Edward J. Kelly of the homi- cide squad sald that Bruning entered the hospital on July 8 for examination betore being committed to the home. He was reported missing July 16. He was born in.Hamburg, Germany, and served as a nfaster sergeant the United States Artillery. He is survived by a son, Albert Brun- ing of Chicago, Il , | Blanche V. GUARD QUTFT OFF | FOR FT. MO Anti-Aircraft Regiment- to| Practice With Electrically Controlled Guns. Looking forward to two weeks of in- tensive training. scientific instruction and practice with modern anti-aircraft | guns, the 260th Coast Artillery, Anti- Afrcraft Regiment, District of Columbia | Natlonal Guard, sailed from the Sev- ' enth street wharves aboard the North- land of the Norfolk & Washington Steamboat Co. early yesterday evening for_Fort Monroe. The regiment is commanded by Maj | Walter W. Burns. A kitchen outfit and | & truck supply train preceded the main part of the regiment on the trip. to have everything in order for the arrival. | Practice this year will be with modern electrically controlled anti-aircraft guns, which the men will inspect and handle for the first time. One of the batteries | of the regiment operates huge search- | | lights for locating airplanes at nieht | This battery will-do much of its nctu:! | | training at night, while those actual | handling the guns will do the greater pert of theirs in the day. | 200 in Regiment. The regiment consists of three bat- teries of anti-aircraft troops, a head- | quarters battery and a medical detach- | ment, totaling 200 officers and men. The following will command the in- dividual units: Battery A, Capt. Louis M. Gosorn; Battery B, Capt. Lyman E. Morris; Bat- tery G, Capt. Robert T. Daly; Head- uarters Detachment, First Lieut. Wil- am J. Heale; Medical Detachment, Capt. Stewart M. Grayson. Lieut. Heale will be camp adjutant. Maj. Frank O. Scofield, Coast Artil- |lery Corps of the Regular Army, is senfor instructor for the encampment. Maj. Robert E. Guthrie, 61st Coast Ar- | tillery Corps, U. S. Army, is director iof training in charge of the camp training activities. Staff Sergts. Charles F. Buck and John Waldron, Regular Army instructors, have also been as- signed to the encampment. Air Raid Protection. | ‘The 260th is the regiment that would | be assigned to guard the Capital from air raids in event of war, making the maneuvers of the District Guardsmen a matter of particular interest to per- sons following national defense prob- lems, Army officers say. Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, command- |ing officer of the District National | Guard, will make an inspection of the camp this week. An orchestra composed of members | | of the 260th Drum and Bugle Corps, in | | charge of Sergt. Lovelace, played dance | | music on board the boat last night | | during the trip down the river. The Coast Artillerymen left just a | few hours after the departure of the destroyer Upshur, carrying the 2d Fleet Division of the 1st Battalion, United States Naval Reserves, drawn from Washington and Baltimore, for two weeks’ cruise and maneuvers on the New England coast. BESe ASKS $50,000 DAMAGES. Dant Files Suit for Alleged Personal Injuries, Blanche V. Dant, 1320 Belmont street, has filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $50,000 dam- ages from Richard M. Rosenberg, 1332 t, for alleged personal injuries. she was knocked down by ile of the defendant January | vn Ninth' street between H and | I streets. As & result of the injuries, | she tells the court, she has been pre- vented from carrying on her occup: tion as a press feeder. She is repre sented by Attorneys James A. O'Shea, | | John H. Burnett and Anna L. Cooke. | Washington, With 400 Conversations Per Person, Is Busiest Telephone User | Americans ‘are’ the champion tele- phone talkers of the world and Wash- ingionians out-talk the rest of the ited States. compiled of public - yesterday b; striking’ per capita for whole. - ‘'While ‘there were 224.7 tele- phone conversations per ita in this country, Washington tel e users made 400 calls for each person or 78 per cent more than the average for the whole country. Last year Washington telephone users made 200.000,000 calls, according to the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. Canads ‘with 2215 convensations for each person was the only other country with more than 200 telephone eapita. The closest European rival Denmark, but it had only 136.8 calls per person. LIy calls per | telephon: WAS Increditable as it may seem among the leading European powers, Germany reported only 35.5 telephone conversa- tions capita, s com, with 28.6 and lg.alr lorp‘mut Bflma France, nation, but they r development. In many countries both in Europe and South America with mil- lions of people but fewer hones than are in the District of Columbia which is now served by 153,715 tele- phones. Out of a total of 30,990,304 telephones in service in the world on January 1, 1928 ng,pmxlnuu!y 60 per cent or 18,522 were in_the United States. On the same date Europe had 8,623,407 es. Du the year 1927, the total number of telephones increased 1,883,743, about one-] of which wez in this country. Uppe! ing for Fort Monroe late yesterday. SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 28, 1929—PART 1—SECTION 2. r: Members of the 260th Coast Artillery, District National Guard, leav- Lower: One of the leave-takings that marked the departure of the Naval Reservists on the destroyer Upshur yesterday morning. —=Star Staff Photos. HEARINGS ON HIGHER CAR FARE TO BEGIN TOMORROW MORNING Request for 10-Cent Rate Is Based on Present Valuation, but Is Met With Rerouting Suggestion. Renewing an issue of months’ stand- ing, the open hearings on requests of | both of Washington's street rlflw!\yl compantes for higher car fare will start before the Public Utilities Commission at 10 a.m. tomorrow, in the board room of the District Building. The location was chosen in prefer- ence to the regular hearing room of the commission, on the first floor of the District Building, on account of the size of the crowd expected to attend. Should these estimates be too generous, the hearings will ]prob;bly be moved downstairs in the later stages. ‘The petition which started the pres- ent case was filed by the Capital Truc- tion Co. June 13, but the case really goes back to another petition filed by the same company, a year almost to the day before that—June 14, 1928. ‘The company is now asking 10 cents cash, with a sale of tokens at four for 30 cents. The present rates are 8 cents cash, six tokens for 40 cents. Shortly after the traction company's petition was filed, the commission made the Washington Railway & Electric Co. a party to the proceedings, and later it, too, flled a petition seeking the same fare as the traction company. Awaited Congress’ Action. The traction company’s first petition, to which the W. R. & E. Co. also was made & party, was considered at long- drawn-out public hearings, but in Octo- ber, 1928, the commission decided that, since there was pending in Congress legislation which, if passed, would merge the twb companies and result in a saving great enough to allow a guar- antee not to increase fares for two years, any action on the case should be postponed until Congress adjourned March 4 last. Congress took mno action and the terms of the merger agrecment under which ‘the legislation had been intro- duced expired June 1. Two weeks later the company sgain asked for higher fares. ‘The petition was based on the allega- tion t the company was : ': less than a fair rate of return on ved the stated that, April 30, 1029, it per cent on its valuation, and during the calendar year 1928 but 3.59 per cent. There is no known decision as to ex- actly what percentage shall be con- sidered a “fair” return for a utility company to make on its valuation, but the car companies are thought to favor 17 per cent, as this was the figure men- tioned in the original draft of the mer- ger_agreement. The Potomac Electric Power Co. whose rates are fixed each year by | agreement with the commission, is al- lowed to earn 7'% per cent on its val- uation, plus one-half of any excess over this mp the other half going | mucuedh 4| Resiattons, ward new rate reductions. The Wash- ington Rallway & Electric Co. in its petition, also claimed to be making less than a fair return. * Rerouting Question. ‘The course that the hearings that begin tomorrow may take depends on a number of considerations. The Public Utilities Commission has recently given indications that, even if the companies make out their case that they are en- titled to greater earnings, no car fare increase will be allowed unless the companies endeavor to effect operating- cost savings by re-routing their lines and using each other's tracks where necessary. Reciprocal use of trackage is already in effect in a few places, such as Union Station Plaza. The commission recently ordered an investigation into possible savings by rerouting without an actual corporate merger, and the work has been pushed rapidly forward. The commission has also given notice that it is investigating the probable effect on the companies’ earnings of other rates of fare than those asked by the companies. Should the commission desire to-com- plete these investigations before act- ing on the case the outcome may be considerably delayed. N Shortly after receipt of the Capital Traction Co.'s. petition, the commis- sion wrote to both companies, asking their respective attitudes on a cor- porate merger at this time, and also asking them. to submit plans for a merger, if they had any to offer. This both companies declined to do. The Capital Traction Co. said that any new merger negotiations at this time would be “futile,” and the Washing way and Electric Co. said be of “doubtful utility.” First Major Case. The care fare case will be first of major l.meqmnee to be handled by the present civilian personnel of the commission, joners Harleigh H. Hartman and Mason M. Patrick. It is ted to be fought bitterly. Trhe case_for people be ey Wit Mok Glayion, rep: A ayton, Federation of Citizens and Assistant Corpora- tion mnun:l Robert E. Lynch. C. ‘Thomas 1, and George E. Hamilton, chairman of the board, will. argue for the Capital Traction Co., and S. R. Bowen, vice president, for the Washington Railway and Electric — Fish With Wings and Fins. - The butterfly fish from West Africa have large wings as well as fins, and jump three or four feet out of the water, then alight and glide along the surface. Itisa gvoflu sport on the West Coast to shoot at them with revoivers, but they ul‘&fl’ ey would to- \are Rail- | GENERAL * CHILD:6, 1S KILLED UNDER AUTO TRUCK l‘Driver Is Arrested Pending Inquest Scheduled for To- morrow Morning. James William Manning, colored, 6 years old, of 1224-A Carrollberg street southwest, was almost instanty killed late yesterday afternoon when his foot slipped as he tried to mount a moving motor truck and he was thrown beneath | the rear wheels. One wheel passed over his head and body. The driver, Lawrence Chatman, also colored, 24, of 320 I street southwest, was lodged in No. 4 precinct. The accident occurred as the truck was passing ihrough an alley in the rear of the child’s home, Chatman told po- lice he was unaware of the boy’s pres- ence until he felt the wheel pass over him, but thought he had tried to climb on a side step just over the rear wheel. The Casualty Hospital ambulance was summoned and Dr. H. J. Konzel- man of the staff pronounced the child | dead on his arrival. The body was re- | moved to the District Morgue pending | an inquest set for 11:30 o'clock tomor- | row morning. Private David R. Thompson, 29 years old, attached to No. 5 precinct, was thrown from his motor cycle and slightly injured yesterday afternoon when 'his machine was in a collision with a street car at G and Fifth streets southeast. Policeman Thompson was taken to vi Hospital and treated for scalp lacerations and bruises about the body, then returned to his home, 2431 Girard street northeast. The trolley was operated by Motor- man Robert C. Altwell, 920 Massachu- setts avenue. Jules Morel, 12 years old, of 1527 | Massachusetts avenue southeast, was treated at Casualty Hospital yesterday afternoon for minor injuries to his left mobile truck on East Capitol street near 1230 D street Sernard R. Randolph, northeast. ROBBERY CHARGED BY TWO WOMEN Joseph A. Ward, Clothing Store [ Credit Manager, Is Held Under $5,000 Bail. Joseph A. Ward, 26 years old. of the | 1000 block of M street, credit manager | of a woman's clothing store in the 700 | 1ate yesterday on two warrants charg- ing r’t’:bbery lynd held at No. 1 precinct in $5,000 bail, following complaints of two women that Ward had exacted payments on their credit accounts by ihreats. ‘Ward was booked at headquarters on one rol im{g; sworn to by Miss Verniece Clark, who alleged that he came to her home Friday, posing as a “district attorney, told her to come to his place of busi- ness and there made her give him a check for $54.44 and took & wrist watch from her, saying he would have her sent | to Occoquan uniess she complied. Bond was fixed at $5,000 by Assistant District Attorney Walter M. Shea, $2,500 in each | case. No. 6 precinct by Dorothy Brown. col- | ored, o? 1513 Fourth street, who charged | she went to Ward's office Thursday to pay him $2 on account and that Ward fook the $2 and $5 more that she had in her purse by intimidating Ther. Headquarters Detectives C. H. Tram- mell and J. E. Kane investigated the charges and made the arrest. ‘They were informed that Miss Clark made out the check under coercion without sufficient money on deposit to cover it. |CAPT. W. S. EICHELBERGER | RETIRES IN SEPTEMBER Second Senior Professor of Mathematics in Service of Navy. Is ths‘ g:'lv!'l six professors of has been on duty for D eally a1 s service at the Navai Observatory here, will retire for age r onsogamb' He has been tory ruary 14, 1900, and is the second senior professor of mathematics, Capt. Thomas Jefferson Jackson See of the navy vard, Mare Island, Calif., being his only senior. Born_in Maryland September 18, 1865, Capt. Eichelberger entered the Navy on February 10, 1900, from Con- nect He has spent only eight months at sea during his naval career and has held the rank of captain since September 18, 1! Capt. Eichelberger has been "’f‘&',‘i. in mathematical studies in rel to the heavenly e instrums feld of | foot received when he ran into an auto- | Eleventh. The truck was operated by | block of Seventh street, was arrested | 3 Thirteenth street, | The second warrant was sworn out at | of ‘William 8. Eichelberger, one o 5 in bumne{mchamben. which NEWS - PAGE 17 PLAN OF REROUTING CARS IS REVEALED IR & EREPORT Scheme Now Before Utilities Body Aims to Speed Up Trolley Service. SUBURBSTVOULD BENEFIT, BY IMPROVED SCHEDULES Plan Effective September 15 If Commission Sanctions Change. The Washington Railway & Electric Co. has drawn up a comprehensive plan of rerouting on its major lines to pro- vide improved car service principally | for the rapidly developing sections of the District and nearby Maryland, it was announced yesterday at the Public Utdlties Commission. Although the new routing scheme had been in contemplation by the com- pany for several months—long before the commission threatened to bring about a unified operation of the car lines by & general rerouting and the ioint. use of tracks—the announcement | that it was formally before the com- mission for approval, came as & pre- lude to the public hearings on the ap- plication of the local street car systems for a higher fare which open tomorrow | in the District Building. F Street Area Affected. The plan affects all cars passing through Connecticut avenue and F street, where the headway would be in- creased and more uniform than at present. It involves the Mount Pleas- ant, Georgetown, Thirteenth and D streets northeast, Lincoln Park, Wis- consin avenue and Cabin John lines of the company. Increased service under the new rout- ing would be provided for Friendship Heights, Alta Vista and other communi- tles on the Wisconsin avenue. line; Mount Washington and other points on the Cabin John line and the sections served by the Mount Pleasant and Thir- teenth and D street lines. | Wililam F. Ham, president of the company, said the scheme could be put into effect about September 15. He pointed out that its chief feature is the co-ordination of car service in fhe busi- ness section between Dupont Circle and Fifth and F streets in sharp contrest 10 the present “independency” of the lines serving this area While the communities Wisconsin avenue line greatest improvement. in the rerouting scheme. it also will pro- vide better service to the northeast sec- tion in the territory ‘adjacent to the | Thirteenth and D streets line, and pro- | duce at the same time a direct service |from Mount 'Pleasani to the Court House, as well as a quicker route to | the Capitol, Library and Senate and House Office Building:. Better Service Possible. Friendship Heights would get the benefit of two more cars ‘an hour, one of which would start at Alta Vista, thus giv] the latter community an addi- tior car an hour. The cars from Friendship Heights would then operate on a 10-minute instead of a 15-minute headway as at present. Alta Vista cars would have a 20-minute instead of & 30-minute headway. In addition, these two stations would have a Rockville csr every hour the non-rush periods and every half hour in the rush . No change in the number of cars per | hour is planned on the Cabin John line, although the plan calls for a change in schedule which will give the cars from Mount Washington a 10 and 20 minute headway instead of a 15-minute head- way as at present. The Cabin John cars would . ntinue to run on a 30- minute head ..ay Likewise on the Georgetown line the present schedule will be revised to give a straight 10-minute headway. although two cars less would be operated every hour. Three additional cars an hour would be put on the Mount Pleasant | line, however, providing a three-minute headway. Cars on the Thirteenth and D street line would operate on a straight 5- minute headway instead of 8 minutes as under the existing schedule. Lincoln Park cars would continue to operate on their present 5-minute headway. Six of these cars come from Georgetown every hour and another six from Mount Pleasant via the court house. ‘The change would decrease the num- ber of cars now operating to First and E streets southeast, putting them on & straight 10-minute headway instead of an 8l,-minute headway under the exe isting schedule. With the change in routes, First and E streets southeast would become the eastern terminus of the Tenleytown lines. The First and E streets terminus is now one leg of the Mount Pleasant line. AIR CIRCUS HELD FOR LEGION BAND Pilots Race and Stunt in Program | for Costello Post's Drum and Bugle Corps. served by th will get the service under § Airmen gave a variety of thrills yes- terday at the air outing and circus. held at Hoover Pield under the auspices of the Vincent .B. Costello Post, No. 15, American Legion, for the benefit of its drum and bugle corps. Walter Shaeffer, air mail pilot of the Pitcairn Aviation’ Corporation: Roger 8. Scott, Lieut. Charles W. Carneal and Lieut, Howard S. Behr, transport pilots, exhibited some stunt flying, while Chies Petty Officer William S. Scott of the | Navy, and James Clark, civillan pro- fessional, displayed the latest in chute jumping. Two Klemm low: monoplanes, described as the of the aircraft, raced around the Arl- ting in Carl morning and in this feature. ‘The Overseas Drum and Bugle Corps of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Vincent B. Costello Post Drum and Bugle Corps and that of the Victory Post, No. 4, American Legion, furnished the music. Scow Always Right Side Up. A scow that can be capsized for dum) 1ng and that can hold s load on whiche ever hold or deck happens to be upper~ most when in dock is being upeum the city of Seattle, Wash. Dumping effected by flooding certain of the “:u':l are along either side. e