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he Foening Sfar. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, IMOTORCYCLE CRASH RUM CAR SFIZURE 1929, PAGE 17 HUSBAND'S DIVORCE ‘BUCHANAN STATUE SET IN PLACE LEGENDUNTANGLED 10 REVEAL GREAT INDIAN STATESMAN Ethnologist Convinced Proph- et, Poet and Philosopher Was Historic Personage. DEKANAWIDA FORMED EARLY PEACE “LEAGUE” Origin and Death of Leader of Tribes of Northern America Hid- den in Uncertain Traditions. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. While the first English settlers were planning their luckless colonies along, the Atlantic Coast a great prophet, poet, philosopher and statesman emerged mysteriously from the forests of South- ern Canada to preach a gospel of peace | on earth and to weld warring tribes of red men into a stone age league of nations. Dr. J. N. B. Hewitt of the staff of the Bureau of American Ethnology has just returned from Northern New York State with evidence to convince him that this man, Dekanawida or “Two- River-Currents-Flowing-Together,” was a historical personage, probably the greatest figure in the history of Amer- ica before the coming of the white men, and one of the great prophets of all history. In seeking material on the actual life of Dekanawida, however, Mr. Hewitt found it so intermingled with legend that it was difficult to distinguish the real man from the supernatural demi- god. He is now translating the Indian philosopher’s final address,to his people in which was summed up the code of ethics for their guidance after he “had fone from among theim and_was cov- ered with bark —evidently his dying instructions for the perpetuation of the system he had established. Born in Sixteenth Century. 1t is fairly certain, Mr. Hewitt says, that the prophet was born near what is now Kingston, Ontario, some time be- tore the middle of the sixteenth century. He is supposed to have been one of seven brothers. Beyond that all is gro- tesque legend until, about the year 1570, he started south on his mission. According to the legends, '\nMr. Hewitt, “omens foreshadowed his birth and portents accompanying this event revealed to his virgin mother that De- kanawida would be a source of evil to her people, referring to the destruction of the Huron Confederation by that of the Iroquois. Hence, his mother and | grandmother, with true womanly pa- triotism, sought to spare their country woes by drowning the infant by thrust- ing it through a hole in the ice. Three attempts were made, but in the morn- ing after each attempt the young De- kanawida was found unharmed in the arms of his astonished mother. “Thereupon the women decided that | it was decreed he should live and re solved to rear him. He grew rapidly to | manhood, and then, saying that he | must take up his foreordained work, | aeparted southward. He paddled a white birch canoe. The first Iroquois he met were a party of refugees fleeing from their chief, who had gone mad. ‘The Indians believed that a madman was endowed with supernatural powers and that the only way to save them- selves when one of the community be- came insane was to flee.” Finds Disciples. The Southern canoes, Mr. Hewitt says, were made of dark bark, and when the Indians saw the great white | canoe coming out of the North they | were ready to accept its occupant 8s a supernatural being. They became the | first disciples of the new prophet. To them he preached his doctrine of | the amicable settlement of disputes or “health and peace, justice and righteousness, order and the force of personality, as the bases of a beneficent commonwealth of peoples.” Apparent- Jy the time was ripe for such a prophet and the gospel of the mys- terious stranger from the Northern forests spread rapidly. Dekanawida, says Mr. Hewitt, evi- dently was a skilled statesman and student of human nature as well as a prophet and preacher. Almost_ alone of historic prophets, he was able to reorganize society in a way to make his doctrines permanent and workable. In the course of years he brought into_his “league of nations” the Mo- hawks, Senecas, Onondagas, Oneldas and Cayugas. At this point, according to Mr. Hewitt, another picturesque fig- ure comes into the picture, a woman named Djigonasen, the Wildcat The ‘Wildcat, apparently an Indian woman of great force of personality, was the chieftainess of the “Neutral Nation,” an obscure tribe of Indians of Iroguois blood. She entered into an alliance with Dekanawida. There are essential features in the structure of the Iro-| quois League which resulted from the | prophet’s philosophy, says Mr. Hewitt, which are evidently the work of this broad-minded stateswoman. Peace Established. | ‘The alliance between Dekanawida and the Wildcat, says Mr. Hewitt, re- sulted in the successful establishment of peace among men, so far as their influence extended. This, in fact, has continued to this day. But after the death of Dekanawida his people gave a narrower interpretation to his gospel, with the result that the white men found them very warlike against alll other peoples. The mind of the prophet himself, however, had taken in all the human race to his league of peace, wherein all “should live by being al- ways in oneness of thought and by rea- son to estab'ish whatever you may be working at in the great law.” The departure of the prophet is as mysterious as his coming. When he was a very old man, he called together the chiefs of his federation and addressed hem. £ “So mnow,” he concluded, “I have completed the entire matter. Now I will depart, and_that also will come to pass that here I will cover myself with a piece of bark, so that I will continue 1o hear clearly the progress of the things which I have laid down in ths presence of the human race on earth.” The fate of the Wildcat also remains ‘unknown. Essentially a statesman and teacher of ethics, Mr. Hewitt says, Dekanawida probably’ had a hand in the compo- sition of the requickening address of the Iroquois, which is a highly poetical ritual of comfort to mourners of the dead, embodying one of the highest Teaches of the Indian religion. Mr. Hewitt secured this Summer some of the strings of purple and white wam- bum which were used in connection Wwith this ritual. If Dekanawida ac- tually was its author, he is entitled to nan a high place among primitive poets. o Automobile dealers in Italy want |24 after telling her he did not intend | York sho: finance companies, similar to those in this country, established there. William Norfleet Pope, jr., and his dren’s Hospital, where the boy was trea terday when a dog attacked him. sister, Rosalyn, photographed at Chil- ted for severe lacerations, suffered yes- —Star Staff Photo. BOYBITTENBY DOG 5 SEROUSLY HURT Vain Search Is Made for An mal, Taken Away by Owner After Attack. While 13-year-old William Norfleet | Pope, jr., is recovering from serious dog-bite wounds at Children's Hospital | today, his parents are making an effort to find the valuable English bull terrier which was taken away by its owner shortly after he is said to have attacked the boy yesterday. The boy suffered deep bite wounds to the left shoulder and left side and 14 stitches were re- quired to close up the wound in the left leg. His condition is not regarded | by physicians as seriou: According to the boy’s mother, Mrs. | Irma_Pope, a guide in the Capitol Building, the child was playing with his little 8-year-old sister Rosalyn and several other children on the front steps | of the Nantucket Apartment House at | 1418 W street when the dog was led out of the apartment in the custody of its owner, George McDonald, who lives on the top floor of the apartment. The dog was on a leash. Mrs. Pope said the dog broke away from Mr. McDonald, | made a dash in the general direction of | he children and clung to her boy’s left | side, sinking his teeth deeply into the | flesh. | A milkman who was passing at the | time jumped from his wagon and beat the dog across the head with several empty milk bottles. When the animal was subdued the boy was hysterical and fainted. He was removed imme- diately to the hospital and the dog was taken to Dr. D. E. Buckingham's Vet- erinary Hospital at 2113 Fourteenth street. Investigation disclosed that Mr. Mc- Donald called for the dog last night and removed it from Dr. Buckingham's. In- quiry at the McDonald apartment this morning brought replies that neither McDonald nor the dog was at home. William Norfleet Pope, the boy's| father, is an employe of the Southern Railway. At a hearing before Judge Ralph Given in Police Court this morning the case was postpondd indefinitely pend- ing the outcome of the boy's injuries. WILL OF MRS. ELKINS OFFERED FOR PROBATE Personal Property Which Is Valued | at $268,839.70 Included in Estate. ‘The will of Mrs. Lucy Douglas Elkins, widow of Blaine Elkins, who died at Paris July 2, was offered today for pro- bate in the District Supreme Court, by the National Savings & Trust Co,, the executor named in the document. She owned real estate at Battersea, Canada, valued at $5,000 and had personal prop- erty estimated at $268,839.70, in which is included her interest in the estate of her husband, who was a son of the former United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins. Mrs. Elkins directed that all her jew- elry go to her husband’s sister, Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt, and gave $10,000 to her stepdaughetr, Mildred Kaye. The The remaining estate is to be held in trust by the National Savings & Trust Co., with directions to pay the net in- come to her parents, James S. and Sally Douglas, during the life of the survivor. On the death of the survivor it is pro- vided that the trust shall terminate and the property be distributed equally among her brother and two sisters. Mrs. Elkins is survived by her father, James S. Douglas of Alexandria; her sisters, Harriet D. Wallace of Middle- burg, Va, and Eliza D. Stevenson of Alberta, Canada, and a brother, Janies S. Douglas, jr., of Alexandria, Va. The National Savings & Trust Co., with Harry C. Yarrow, jr., and Frances M. Barney, asked the court to admit to probate the will of Dr. Henry C. Yarrow, who died July 2 at Fort Mon- roe, Va. He is survived by a son, Jol.n Yarrow of Los Angeles. Dr. Yarrow'| owned no real estate, but had personal prfi’pmy worth $51,155.83, the court is old. By the terms of the Yarrow will spe- cific bequests are made to a number of friends and relatives and $1,000 is given to the Children's Hospital. The remaining estate is to be held in trust by the National Savings & Trust Co. for the benefit of the son John and the latter's wife, Alice E. Yarrow, in survivor the income is to be paid td George R. Yarrow and Caroline Y. Edwards in equal shares. Wife Sues for Maintenance, Mrs. Julia P. Lee, 2030 Bennett place northeast, has filed suit for maintes cce against Benjamin Eighth street northeast. married November 25, 1920, and the YOUTH DROWNED BY UPSET GANOE Lionzy Brown of Park Lane, Va., Viictim of Accident in Potomac. Lionzy Brown, 18 years old, of Park Lane, Va.,, was drowned in the Potomac shortly after 8:20 last night when a canoe occupied by himself and a com- panion capsized just beyond the circle of illumination cast by electric lamps on Anchor Inn, a recreation float anchored in midchannel below the Three Sisters. Brown, who was unable to swim, came up several feet from his craft after the mishap threw him into the water, and his companion, Vernon R. Payne, 17 years old, also of Park Lane, could not locate him in the few mo- ments before his frantic struggles sent him beneath the surface. Divers Recover Body. The accident might have gone un- observed on the float, where some 15 canoeists and swimmers were loung- ing, but for Payne’s cries. Canoes and boats were quickly launcher, and when they reached the scene the occupants began to dive for Brown, aided by two flashlights. After 15 or 20 minutes of diving M | the 12-foot water, Brown was brought to the surface and removed to the float by J. B. Lyon, 23 years old, of 1221 Hamilton street. A few minutes later Capt. Will Rey- nolds, veteran river man, and Police- man Charles Birkigt of the harbor pre- cinct, who was patrolling the river, ar- rived with a pulmotor and tried to | resuscitate Brown while waiting for Fire Rescue Squad No. 1. Restoration Efforts Vain. The firemen were unable to revive Brown, though they labored almost an hour and a half, assisted by Drs. G. S. Lyddane and J. A. Kennedy of George- town University Hospital. Dr. Lyddane then pronounced Brown dead and the body was removed to the District Morgue in the police launch. Payne told police the canoe rolled | over when he moved from his place in the bow to recover some matches in the bottom of their craft. Brown is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Noble L. Brown: four brothers and a sister. He was em- ployed in_a cement plant with his father at Rosslyn, Va. WORLD WAR VETERAN DIES AT NAVY HOSPITAL Myron Hamilton Adams, Who Was Decorated for Service, to Be Buried in Arlington. Myron Hamilton Adams, 5605 Four- teenth street, a veteran of the World War, died at the United States Naval Hospital after a long illness yesterday afternoon. He had been a patient at the hospital for almost a year. Mr. Adams was born in Washington in 1882, and prior to the World War had served three terms of enlistment in the United States Navy. While in naval service during the war he was awarded a decoration for “meritorious” service in preventing the sinking of a captured German submarine by one of the crew. Before his present illness he was a clerk in the Post Office Depart- ment for six years. Surviving him is his mother, Mrs. Francis L. Adams; his widow, Mrs. Cecelia Adams; four sons, Myron, 1 Leroy, Francis and John Adams, and a sister, Mrs. Allen L. Scribner, all of this city. Funeral services will be held at the Tabler funeral home, 928 M street, fol- lowed by interment the Arlington National Cemetery morrow. The hour will be announced later. FRANKENFIELD RITES. U. S. Weather Bureau Meterologist Buried in Arlington Cemetery. Funeral services for Dr. Harry C. Frankenfield, principal meteorologist at the United States Weather Bureau, were conducted at Hysong's funeral home, 1300 N street, this afternoon at 1 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Wi 8. Mayo officiated. Interment was in Arlington etery. Dr. Frankenfleld died in Emergency Hospital Monday from injuries sus- tained when run down by an automo- bile while crossing Vermont avenue near H street July 22. He was 67 years old and had been connected with the He was considered a leading expert the bureau’s river and flood work. Good May Reopen Pier Question. Secretary Good has informed May Walker of New York City that ne will reopen, the question of the ex- show that such extension can be made INJURIES KILL SON OF NAVY OFFICIAL Walter Hall, 16, Ran Into Pole on Blair Road Sev- eral Days Ago. 233 TRAFFIC A}{;ESTS ARE MADE IN 24 HOURS Maj. Pratt Stresses Need of Acci- dent Prevention in Message to Precinct Captains, ‘Walter Nicolai Hall, 16-year-old son of Walter D. Hall, chlef of the enlisted personnel division of the Bureau of | Navigation, Navy Department, died Monday at the Washington Sanitarium, Takoma Park, Md., of injuries sustained three days before when his motor cycle skidded on Blair road and crashed into a pole. death today. When examined shortly after the accident, which occurred near the in- tersection of Emerson street, the bay w : thought to have been not seriously: injured. His condition became worse, however, on Saturday night and an operation was performed. Internal in- jurles proved fatal. His death was the fifth in Washing- ton since the traffic safety eampaign started about five weeks ago. There were none during the first 29 days of the campaign. The total of traffic fatalities for 1929 is 51, 233 Arrested in Day. ‘The report of the precinct police and the special traffic squad of motor cycle officers for the 24-hour period ending at 8 o'clock this morning disclosed a total of 233 arrests—48 for speeding, 1 for reckless driving, 1 for driving while drunk, 1 for blinding headlights and | 182 for miscellaneous offenses. In a message to precinct captains yes- terday Maj. Henry G. Pratt, chiel of police, stressed the need of accident prevention. “Accident prevention is an important police duty,” he said. “Almost all acci- dents are avoidable. Safeguard the pe- destrian and be on the alert for the reckless _driver.” Maj. Pratt also called the attention of the precinct captains to the neces- sity for strict enforcement of the regu- lation against the use of signal devices on automobiles except to give adequate warning of danger or of the vehicle's | approach. Less Than 50 Appear. An increasing tendency on the part | of ‘motorists arrested on minor charges to forfeit collateral rather than face the prospect of heavy fines and long hours of phvsical discomfort while awaiting_trit. is becoming evident in Traffic Court. Despite a total number of 170 names being listed on collateral records, less than 50 persons appeared before Judge Gus A. Schuldt today. The majority of those who put in | their appearance were charged with speeding, reckless driving and failure to possess a permit and charges of a similar nature that would lead thel i court to order attachments issued de- manding that they be brought to trial if they attempted to forfeit. | In cases where fines would be ap- | proximately as severe as the amount of | collateral which they posted, and if | charged with such offenses as would allow forfeiture, many motorists evade trial through this method. Ralph K. Barnes, arrested by Police- man J. A. Wheeler for speeding on Conduit road at 40 miles an hour ,was fined $20 in court today. A similar | penalty was impose on Leonard M. | Hawks, 900 block (i Emerson street, | also arrested by Wheeler for speeding at 40 miles an hour. Sentence Suspended. Lawrence E. McCuilough was released under a suspenled scntence of $25 when convicted on & eharge of failing to give the right of way to vehicles of the Fire Department. He was arrested by Policeman J. Sincavitz. Walter Bell, colored, 17 years old, taken into custody by Policemen R. V. Sinclair.and K. P. Greenlow when driving on U street yesterday on a charge of failing to possess a permit, was rgleased under a suspended sen- tence ©f $25. He is to be an ex- perienced driver, and Judge Schuldt deemed the offense not serious, under the circumstance: Two young women arrested on speed charges Were allowed to give their per- sonal bonds not to repeat the offense when -they. appeared before _Judge Schuldt today. They were Miss Lenora Valentine of Columbus, Ohio, who was arrested by Policeman A. H. Poole, and Miss Elsie Casey of Hyattsville, Md, arrested by Policeman J. T. White. Injured in Collision. An automobile driven by Christy A. Brown, 2029 Connecticut avenue, mak- ing a turn near the east entrance to Soldiers’ Home late yesterday afternoon, collided with the car of Albert A. Gal- breath, 20 K street, resulting in in- jury to Richard E. Bell of Brentwood, Bell, whose head was cut, was given surgical aid at Soldiers’ Home Hospital. Twelve-year-old Jack Hardee, 3328! M street, riding on the handlebars of | sylvania avenue and Eighteenth street southeast. He was gl}\;en f{","“' treat- ment at Emergency Hospital. Mrs. Wysttg A. Orchard, 635 Fifth street northeast, was driver of an au- tomobile that knocked down Jeremiah Burrell, colored, 68 years old, of 911 S street, near Florida and Rhode Island avenues, early last night and injured [ Police received a report of his(agents in a drive to break down the the bicycle of a companion near Penn- | material. By next Summer Maj. Pratt yesterday afternoon, was injured when of 12-ounce material. the wheel collided with the motor| truck of H. E. Davis of 808 A street! his right hip. Physicians at Freed- men's Hospital gave the necessary eatment. e menna M, Borger of the 1300 da; her family physiclan for a posyslb.rz fracture of the left arm as the result of the upsetting of the car she was driving near Pierce Mill in Rock Creek Park. Park lice who made the investigation said the car was owned by Miss Borger's father, Frank A. Borger. — “GODWIN’S OATH” TRACED Godwin’s oath, says the Pathfinder, equal shares, and on the death of the | Weather Bureau in this city since 1898. |is the proverbial name of a false oath. Godwin was ear] of the West Saxons in the time of Edward the Confessor, and he was accused of murdering Prince Alfred, the King's brother. While din- block of Delafield place was treated to-, i 1l RECORD IS MADE HERE DURING JULY Total of 69 Autos and Trucks Confiscated in Drive by # Federal Agents. HARD BLOW TO LIQUOR TRAFFIC, DR. DORAN SAYS Prohibition Situation in District Characterized as Being “‘in Pretty Good” Shaper All records for the number of auto- mobiles and trucks seized for viola- tion of the prohibition law were broken for the District of Columbia during the month of July closing today, it was learned from Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran. A total of 69 automobiles and trucks have been taken this month by Federal transportation facilities of the rum runners’ game. ‘The cars were captured by agents operating under Willlam Blandford, deputy prohibition administrator for this city, with offices at prohibition headquarters. The confiscation of this number of automobiles, which is an average of more than two a day for the entire month, Dr. Doran said, “has dealt a hard blow to the transportation end of the bootlegging business in the Na- | tional Capital.” ‘The prohibition situation in the Dis- trict of Columbia Dr. Doran character- ized today as being “In pretty good shape.” ‘The cars confiscated from bootleggers included a strange assortment. There were small cars, medium-sized cars and large cars. One of the most unusual pieces of transportation captured was a converted job, which the rum run- ners had made by taking one of the | best known of the higher-priced au- | tomobiles, cutting off the passenger body and putting on a truck body. This | gave the rum-runners a vehicle with | both large carrying capacity and hlgh‘ HOOVER T GREET | CILT.C SOLDERS 830 Pennsylvania Youths Will| Salute President at White House. ‘The Infantry Battalion of the C. M. ! T. C.. at Fort Washington, Md.—Penn- sylvania boys, 830 strong—will parade | along Pennsylvania avenue this after- noon and then form ranks in the south grounds of the White House to pay their respects to President Hoover, their commander-in-chief. ‘The battalion is being brought to ‘Washington on board the U. 8. S. Gen. H. D. Rucker, and two Navy boats. With its 40-piece band, the youth- ful infantrymen are to arrive at the | municipal dock, at the foot ofg Twelfth street, about 2:30 o'clock under com- | mand of Maj. A. M. Patch, 12th In- fantry, camp commander, and Maj. Hugh J. Cunningham, 393d Infantry, of Woxford, Pa., commander of the . M. T. C. battalion, Reserve officers | who are superintending their training will accompany the party. President Hoover will receive the con- tingent near the south portico of the White House and greet the eight “Blue” candidates, young men who are com- pleting their final year of C. M. T. C. training. Arrangements have been made to re- cord the ceremony in motion pictures and by sound-movies. Later in the afternoon the party will be guests of a Washington theater and at 4:15 o'clock the camp band will broadcast over radio station WRC. LIGHTER SUMMER WEAR SUGGESTED FOR POLICE Maj. Pratt Recommends Future Provision to Relieve Members of Force From Discomfort. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, has recommended that a lighter weight coat be purchased for members of the department for Sum- mer wear. have to be deferred, however, until next year and in the meanwhile policemen have been ordered to keep their uniform coats buttoned even during the warmest days. The present uniform coat for Spring, Summer and Fall, is made of 14-ounce | Meridian Park. hopes to have these replaced by coats He has reminded members of the force, who sought to go “unbuttoned” during hot days, that they had agreed to keep their coats buttoned year if the roll-top collars were adopted. That was an agreement made with Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, his predecessor, the present superintendent said. SAMUEL M. WATSON DIES. Samuel M. Watson, 68 years old, 424 Seventeenth street southeast, an em- ploye of the Department of Agriculture 25 years, died at his residence yes- terday afternoon. He had been ill three years. . Mr. Watson had resided in this city 40 years, coming from his home in Stafford County, Va. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sallie A. Watson; three daughters, Mrs. Edna M. , Mrs, Grace B. Hutton and Mrs. Lucillia Wil- liams of Washington, and a son, A. Watson, also of this city. Funeral services will be held at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. He be buried in Congres- sional Cemetery. Brilliant Hardware Shops. The flair for color in the home has or | ing at Edward's table, and, according to | been the means of transforming the tradition, while in the very act of deny- house furnishing and hardware store ing any part in the p-ince's death, God- 320 | tension of "the piers in the Hudson |win was seized with a fit which caused ‘They were |River if he has any new evidence to |his death three days later. The Normans started the story that wife charges that he deserted her July |into the river instead of into the New | Godwin choked to death because of his port her longer. She is repre- by Attorney D. Edward Clarke, to su) sent re line as proposed, without material to t‘e navigation of the river mflnm wmmm.pn false oath. At any rate, this incident and the fabulous .report of it gave rise to the expression ‘Godwin’s oath.” into a beautiful bouquet. With ranges in blue, gray and white washing ma- chines in a variety of color and cooking utensils in all colors and shades, a veri- table rainbow effect is the result. Ad to these the cooking utensils of silvery aluminum and others of dark blue and you certainly have a garland of gayety. d | that she sustained ACTION TO DEFEAT WIFE'S MOVE LOST Court Rules Jeweler Cannot Seek Virginia Decree Before D. C. Suit Is Heard. Workmen yesterday set in place the memorial to President Buchanan in Below, left to right: Charlotte Schuler and her fathér, Hans Schuler, sculptor of the bronze figure, who were interested spectators when the statue was put on its granite pedestal. —Star Staff Photo. B, HARDY DIE LONED.C RESIDENT Well Known Business Man Succumbs After Long lliness. William B. Hardy, 65 years old, Dis- trict agent of the Home Life Insurance Co. of New York, died at his residence, 119 Fifth street northeast, today after a long illness. Mr. Hardy had been connected with the Home Life Insurance Co. since 1911, after holding important positions with several other insurance companies. He was active in civic, business, fraternal and church circles. He was serving his third term as a director of the Washington Chamber of Commerce; was a member of the Southern Society of Washington, the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia and the Stanton Park Citi- zens' Association. He also was prominent in Masonic circles, being & member of Federal Lodge, No. 1, F. A. A. M.; Eureka Chap- ter, No. 4, Royal Arch Masons; Colum- bia Commandry. No. 2, Knights Temp- lar, and of Almas Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Hz was a charter member of the Gavel Club and a member of the Caravan Club. In addition, since coming to this city, he had belonged to several athletic clubs, including the D. C. League of American Wheelmen the Washington Cycle Club, the Columbia Athletic Club, the Masonic Bowling League, Knights of Pythias Bowling League and the Waugh Church Bowling League, in addition to taking an active interest in various forms of athletics at the Young Men’s Christian Association. Other organizations with which he was affiliated included the Knights of Pythias, in which as a member of the Grand Lodge at the time of his death he held the title of grand master of the exchequer, and Capitol Forest, No. 104, ‘Tall Cedars of Lebanon. Mr. Hardy came here from Richmond, Va., in 1885, and was a native of Staun- | the ton, Va. In November, 1898, he married Lu- cretia Walker, daughter of Maj. and Mrs. Samuel H. Walker of this city. He leaves his wife, two sons. Samuel Walker Hardy and William B. Hardy, jr., and a gil"ughter, Mrs. Warren Shantz, of this Y. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. SCHIECK RIFLE WINNER. Allen C. Schieck, 1003 Kennedy street, in training with Company D, Citizens’ Military Training Camp, at Fort Howard, Md., won highest honors in rifle-shooting contests at Fort George Meade recently, it was an- nounced today. Each' year the winner of this contest is awarded a bronze medal. Schieck is attending the White class or third- year course at Fort Howard. ASKS $10,000 DAMAGES. Mrs. Katle Hoffman of New Brighton, Pa., today filed suit in the District Su- preme Court to recover $10,000 dam- ages from the Washington Railway & Electric Co. and the Taylor-Korman Oil Co. for alleged personal injuries. She says she was a passenger on a car of the traction company November 5, 1926, when the car was in collision with an oil tank of the other defendant at Sixth and H streets northeast. She asserts nent injuries as the result of the collision. Attorney Gyfln L. Newmyer appears for the plain- v GARAGE ZONING PETTIONS RENEWED Hearing Asked on Right to | Build Car Places for Apart- ment Tenants. An urgent appeal for a hearing on a proposed change in the District zoning code to permit construction of garages in apartment houses for the sole use of | tenants of such buildings, without the | necessity of obtaining consent of ad- joining property owners as now_ requir- | ed, was filed with the Zoning Commis- sion today by the Operative Builders’ Association. This is a renewal of the petition orig- inally filed last September, when the commission, after considering the case, declined to order a public hearing on the proposal. The Builders’ Assoclation takes the position that basement garages in apart- ment houses for the use of tenants can be so constructed as to be neither dangerous nor unsightly and that there- fore one or more adjoining property owners should not have the power, through refusing consent, to block the placing of such conveniences in apart- ment buildings. In the petition filed today. Rufus S. Lusk, executive secretary of the associa- tion, points out that the ever-increasing traffic congestion in Washington is a vital reason for the change in the zon- ing code, since the housing of tenants’ cars in apartment buildings would re- move many cars now parked over-night in _streets. Maj. Donald A. Davison, executive of- ficer of the Zoning Commission, said to- day that the commission had declined to grant a hearing on the proposal be- cause there had been but one case in the past year in which garage facilities in an apartment house were blocked by an objecting adjoining property owner. Mr. Lusk says one important case is sufficient at least to warrant considera- tion of the problem at a public hear- ing. He declares that the present regu- lation is not in the public interest, that it places an unwarranted restriction on | e use of property for no logical reason. | DR. F. G. VOSE EXPIRES. Six Weeks’ Illness Fatal to Harris & Ewing Employe. Dr. Frederick G. Vose, 634 Fourteenth street northeast, a retoucher for Harris & Ewing, photographers, died at his residence yesterday after an illness of about six weeks. Dr. Vose, who was 42 years old and ia native of Maine, lived in Florida { for many years before coming to Wash ington four years ago. He was a grad- uate of the National Chiropractic School in Chicago, and a member of the National Chiropractic Association. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Serena S. Vose, and two children, Mary and Bobby Vose. Funeral services will be held in the Nevius funeral home, 924 New York avenue, tomorrow at 2 p.m. Interment will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. FILING TO BE CHANGED. ‘The flat-filing system will be put into operation tomorrow in the office of. the clerk of the District Supreme Court. The new system applies only to new proceedings. All papers in cases now pending are to be backed and folded as at present until proceedings in those cases are concluded. ‘The new cases are to conform to the recent order of the justices of the Dis- trict Supreme Court directing the clerk to refuse to file any paper which is folded and backed. CASE EXPECTED TO SET LEGAL PRECEDENT HERE Mrs. Von Steiner-Gotl Calls Claim of Alexandria Residence Fictitious. That a husband who is sued for ab- solute divorce in the District may not B0 to Virginia and there attempt to divorce his wife before her suit can be tried on its merits here, was the gist of a decision by Justice Gordon in Equity Court today, when he signed an injunction restraining Albert von Stein- ner-Goltl, manufacturing jeweler, of 514 Tenth street, from prosecuting a suit for absolute divorce in the Corporation Court of Alexandria, Va., against Mrs. Alma Desio von Steinner-Goltl of 211 | E street northwest. Wife Filed Suit in 1928, Mrs. Von Steinner Goltl filed suit i | Equity Court August 14, 1928, mrt = | absolute divorce, naming a co-re- |spondent. The husband answered the bill on August 22 of the same year, setting up the claim that he was a Tesident of Virginia. On July 1 last, according to a recent petition filed by Mrs. Von Steinner Goltl, the husband Iexhlh".efl a bill for absolute divorce, Ibased on the grounds of desertion, to | the Corporation Court of Alexandria, a i Untied States marshal serving Mrs. Von | Steinner Goltl with a copy of the sum- | mons at her home in this city. Calls Residence Fictitious. In her petition for the injunction Mrs. Von Steinner Goetl alleged that her husband’s claim to residence in Vir- ginia was fictitious and that he had only spent some nights there after giv- ing up his apartment in this city. She {averred that the parties, while they re- sided together as husband and wife, at no time ever lived in Virginia. She further stated that if he were not re- strained from prosecuting the divorce !action she would lose valuable rights by |a decree being entered against her. The order signed by Justice Gordon at the instance of Attorneys Raymond Neudecker and William C. Ashford, counsel for the wife, provides that until further order of the court von Steinner- Goetl, his agents and attorneys are pro- hibited from proceeding with the suit 1 rhe Baspand arry e husband, through Attorney H: A. Grant, noted an appeal {from the action of the court to the Court of Ap- | | | | |THREE DOORS FAIL | TO BLOCK RAIDERS i Electrically Controlled Barriers Are Battered Down and Three Men Seized. Sergt. Letterman and his squad bat- tered their way through three elec- trically controlled doors yesterday after- roon into expensively appointed rooms at 808 Twelfth street, which, a warrant charged, were used as a gambling and bootleg establishment. Three men were arrested on charges of sale and possession of intoxicants, maintaining a nuisance, setting up a gaming table and conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws and were held overnight at the first precinct in de- fault of $7,500 bonds each for appear- ance in Police Court today. The men described themselves as Milton Yudelevit, 23, 1200 block of Crittenden street; Joseph Caruso, 42, 3700 block of Ninth street, and William Hammond, 32, 1200 block of Sixth s!.r_:_;t. e occupants of the place, police say, destroyed all but a small qufgflty of whisky and beer while the raiding party was making its way through the barricaded doors. A police agent had frequented the place, operated in the rear of a clothes pressing establish- ment, for more than a week and turned over racing slips and confiscated whisky to_the raiders, Sergt. Letterman said. The rooms, one containing a black- board, on which were posted the names and winners of various horse races, were furnished with divans and easy chairs and were large enough to ac- commodate many, according to arrest- ing officers. Sergt. Letterman was accompanied on the raid by J. A. Mostyn, Richard Cox’' and George McCarron. Two restaurants, said to belong to | Herbert W. Ferguson, 43 years old, were {also visited by Sergt. Letterman and his squad yesterday afternoon, one in | the 1600 block of Park road and | other in the 3700 block of Georgia ave- nue. | Ferguson was arrested on a_charge jof sale and possession of 18 gallons of whisky and later released from the ;lsg;i&l;n precinct on bonds totaling KATHERINE BEVANS FREED OF VAGRANCY CHARGES Case Is Dismissed on Grounds of Insufficient Evidence as De- fense Wins Plea. Insufficient evidence led to the dis- missal of a charge of vagrancy lodged against Katherine Bevans, former sweetheart of Frederick A. Schenck, one time policeman, now serving a jail sentence for robbery, when she ap- peared in Police Court today before Judge Ralph Given. Raiding her apartment in the 1600 block_of Connecticut avenue 10 days ago, Detectives R. J. McCarty and S. F. Gravely of the third precinct, where Schenck formerly was detailed, arrested the woman and charged her with vag- rancy and for maintaining a disorderly house. The latter charge probably will e nolle prossed. The vagrancy charge was dismissed when the defense attorney, Myron G. Ehrlich, introduced a motion request- ing dismissal. Salesman Files as Bankrupt. Samuel Vigderhouse, a salesman, 451 Randolph street, has filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. He lists his debts at $5402.66 and estimates his assets at $2,300. Attorneys Peyser, Edelin & Peyser appear for the \