Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1929, Page 12

12 - # LARGE QUANTITES ‘OF LIQUOR POURED OUT HERE WEEKLY Seizures of Contraband in District Run to 25,000 Gallons in Year. FORMER BALL PLAYER CHIEF BOTTLE BREAKER Quality and Quantity of Whisky in Washington Held “Poorer and Less.” Al the liquor confiscated in the Dis- trict—and the quantity runs fo 25,000 gallons in a year—finds its way ulti- mately to a drainage basin in rear of the District’s liquor storehouse on Pennsylvania avenue between Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets. ~And Charles Williams, who as prohibition agent in charge of the place has Xnocked the tops off the bright colored bottles for the past eight years, says that as to quality and quantity the liquors are “poorer and less.” Even 50, he and his merry men have their breaking parties at least once a week and destroy hundreds of gallons of contraband stuff in the seven-day periods. Stored in great basement rooms under the Traffic Bureau and his offices is a large assortment of liquors and as fast as court orders come down Williams and his staff| dump the stuff in the drainage basin in the presence of a United States| marshal Assisting him is James Shaw, who 10 years ago was a member of the pitching staff of the Washington base ball club, & teammate of Walter John- son. Shaw's pitching days are over.| He has sacrificed his speed for control, | and on days when there are bottles; to destroy his easy. effortless swing is the delight of Willlams' eyes. Famons Brands There. The shades of John Barleycorn, as well as the names of many bootleggers, | are to be found in the storehouse base- | ments. Synthetic stuff is there in great. quantity, but also on the shelves are samples of “fire water” to which some fame attached in_earlier days. Lawson’s Scotch from Dundee, John Dewar’s “White Label” “Vat 69" a| Scotch of renown; Frencir- cham- pagnes and wines are on the shelves, awaiting the court’s information that criminal cases resulting from their seizure have been disposed of. When the orders come down Shaw’s pitch- ing arm will turn the contents down the drainage basin. Ninety per cent of the liquors seized in the District of Columbia come from Maryland, Williams has ascertained, and practically all the stuff seized in the District is synthetic corn whisky and gin. Once confiscated, the liquors are taken to the storeroom. A quart bottle taken from a man under arrest, goes on Wiliams® shelves under a label showing the man’s name. address. when arrested, amount and description of whisky, time of arrest and the arresting officer, It is kept until the case is disposed of. It may be used as evidence. Each seizure is indexed and filed away and from time to time Willlams checks the files and the cases involved. When he receives # court order setting forth that a par- ticular case has been disposed of he obtains an order for confiscation and the Mquor in the particular case goes| in the drainage basin. Watches Each Case. His problem for the most part is to keep up with the individual criminal cases and destroy the liquors as they are disposed of. So-called libel orders eovering confiscated whisky in which arrests are not made enable him to take care of as many as a hundred #eizures at a time, and these libel orders account for the great quantity of liquor destroyed at any one time. Approximately 100,000 gallons of liquors have poured down the drain- age basin since 1922. Willlams’ figures for the years, showing the number of gallons of all sorts of liquor destroyed, are: 1923, 7.032 gallons; 1924, 31.720 gallons; 1925, 15,149 gallon: 7790 gallons: 1927, 7,841 gallons; A 14,833 gallons. Thus far in the fiscal i‘ ar 1929 he has destroyed 5,228 gal- ons. In the six-year period, 1,936 court orders have come down authorizing de- struction, of which 24 were libe] orders | containing a large number of seizures. | Confiscated alcohol is not destroyed, but is allotted to official mechanical uses. Aleohol seizures have fallen off considerably in the last several months, due, Williams thinks, to the tighten- ing of restrictions on permits and with- drawals from warehouses. One of the Jargest stills ever captured in the Dis- trict, a thousand-gallon affair, taken recently in a mattress factory on L street, was for the manufacture of | alcohol, Convictions Increase. Williams, who has been connected | with the Prohibition Bureau for 27 years, is of the opinion that convic- tions have been more numerous in the Jast few years. He attributes a gen- eral tightening up of enforcement to ‘more stringent laws, such as the Jones aw. Although his* work is not of an ad- ‘ministrative character, his experience has given him the opportunity to ob- serve first hand the effects of enforce- ment in the District and to form an opinion of the efficacy of prohibition in general. He believes in prohibition. “Is it a success?” Answering the question, he quoted Dr. F. Scott Mc- Bride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, who said that “prohibition at its worst is better than yecense at its best.” Better or worse, he and James Shaw knock the tops off 1l the bright-colored bottles they get their hands on. pam———— i". 0. EMPLOYE HURT IN ACCIDENTAL FALL Neal Johnson Believed to Have Frectured Skull—Other Seri- ous Mishaps Reported. Neal Johnson, 35, of 401 G street, an employe of the City Post Office, sus- tained a possible fracture of the skull and lacerations about the face early today when he slipped and fell down the Post Office steps while lcaving after a tour of duty. | Hadlow, 6216 Seventh street: Washington base ball pitcher, the chief The breakage basin in the rear of the District’s liquor warehouse where thousands of gallons of liguor have been destroyed. Inset: Jim Shaw, former destroyer. —Star Staff Photos. BATTERY F WINS CW.T.C ENNANT Seven Medals Are Awarded John L. Crouch for Training Feats. Battery P, containing 21 Washington boys, yesterday afternoon was awarded the “best battery pennant” for having the best all-around record of any Field Artillery outfit in training in the Citi- zens' Military Training Camp at Fort Hoyle, Md. awarded seven medals for military and athletic achievements while in camp. Capt. Landvoight's Command, ‘The battery is commanded by Capt. Milton J. Landvoight, 1807 A street southeast. The pennant award to the battery and the medal awards to Crouch were made by Col. Leroy W. Herron, commander of the 313th Field Artillery, Washington Reserve Regi- ment, of which Battery F is a part. The Washington personnel of Bat- tery F includes John W. Brightenburg, 411 M street; Harry F. Harper, jr., 3220 Seventeenth street; Robert D. Haywood, 4313 Ingomar street; John H. Davis, 1008 Eighth street; Alan L. Posner, 1629 Columbia road; Robert P. Biglow, 1435 A street; Williard L. Blackman, 3537 S street; Paul J. Bush, 428 Sixteenth street southeast: William J. Conlyn, ir., 2236 Thirty-fifth street, Robert N.| Cron, 3302 McKinley street; John L. Crouch, 3127 N street; Woodrow G. Dermody, 4424 Ninth street: Goron H. Charles G. Kurz, 716 B street southwest; Phiilip Marcozzi, 1325 Irving street; George I. Martin, 1217 Euclid street; Charles W. Morgan, 2500 K street; Elliot M. Murphy, 2526 Seventeenth street; Rich- ard H. Snaders, 2612 Tilden street, and Alonzo M. Thomas, 2112 F street. Crouch Wins Athletic Prizes. Crouch was awarded first. a medal showing that he had qualified as a pistol marksman, C. M. T. C. Next was a medal for first place in the 220- yard dash in the C. M. T. C. track meet, a medal for winning second place in the 440-yard dash, one for second place in the 12-pound shotput event and a medal for first place in the high jump. Then came the medal awarded to each of the six “Red” candidates in the camp. He also was awarded a base ;I]:hlnd bat autographed by ‘“Babe” uth, N MARINE CORPS OFFICERS ORDERED TO QUANTICO | Some Will Go on Duty There Att-‘ er Their Return From Nicaragua. Marine Corps orders .made public yesterday at the Navy Department show that some of the officers soon to be | detached from the 2d Brigade, Nica- ragua, will come to Quantico, Va., for duty. Capt. Claude A. Larkin has just been detached from the Marine base at Quantico and will go on duty at the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla. Second Lieut. William W. Con- way of the Air Service, who has been on duty in Nicaragua. will come to serve at Quantico, as will Second Lieut. Robert B. Luckey. Col. Robert H. Dunlap will come from Nicaragua to Marine Corps Head- quarters here. These officers will go to Quantico from the Central American republic: Capts. Peter C. Geyer, H. H. Phipps and Robert Blake; First Lieuts. Joseph D. Humphrey and James B. Hardie; Second Lieuts. Adolph Zuber, Earl S. Piper, John C. Munn and George H. Potter. COL. DENT TRANSFERRED. Engineer Corps Changes Include Shifting Maj. Elliott. Army ‘orders issued yesterday involvi several changes in the Corps of gineers of special local interest. Lieut. Col. Elliot J. Dent is relieved from duty in the office of the chief of engineers, Munitions Building, effective September 1, and ordered to Fort Humphreys, Va., for duty as executive officer of the Board of Engineer Equipment; Maj. Dabney O. Elliott, now attached to the office of chief of Engineers, in charge of the En- gineer reproduction plant, has been or- dered to St. Louis for duty as assistant to the president of the Mississippi River Commission; Maj. James J. Loving, for- mer Assistant Engineer Commissioner of the District of Columbia, is relieved from duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., and ordered to this city for duty in the office of the chief of Engineers as resi- dent member of the River and Harbor Board of Engineers. Other changes in the Corps of Engi- neers include: Transfer of Capt. Carl e Johnson was removed to Casualty Hospital in_a passing automobile and treated by Dr. Louis Jimal of the staff, where his condition was described as undetermined this morning. Samuel Green, colored, 21, of 1524 _Eighth street, received slight burns and shock early this morning when he touched an underground trolley while employed by the Washington way & Electric Co. in making repairs' at Seventh and P streets. He was re- Em Hospital in a , where his condition as serious this morning. enkins, colored, 40 years old, of 920 Fifth street northeast, was in. jured yesterday afternoon when he fell some 20 feet through an elevator shaft while at work in a building at 336 Pennsylvania avenue. He was employed by a transfer company. The injured men was admitted to Emergency Hos- Fit 1 for teemtment for internalggurts R. Shaw from Fort Lawton, Wash, to Hawali; Maj. John W. N. Schulz from Fort Lewis,' Wash., to Chicago, and Capt. Francis G. Fitzpatrick from Ha- to Vicksburg, Miss. STAYS-IN NICARAGUA. One of the outstanding Marine Corps heroes in Nicaragua, First Lieut. Her- man H. Hanneken, who captured Jairon, the right-hand man of San- dino, bandit leader, is going to stay in the Central American republic when the other Marines depart for home soon. 5 Lieut. Henneken, who has been with 2d Brigade of Marines, is now with the Ni National Guard de- tachment, the native constabulary force, officers at Marine Corps head- _quarters said today. John L. Crouch, 3127 N street, was | | manent and binding for all LE PARADIS CAFE - TOBE“UNLOGKED" Restaurant to Be Reopened Monday—Appeal to Be Heard in November. ‘The stern hand of the law will be lifted from the Le Paradis Cafe. on the third floor of No. 1 Thomas ecircle | Monday morning, when United States Marshal Edgar C. Snyder and Deputy United States Marshal John J. Clark- son “unpadlock” | restaurant will be reopened for busi- | ness. ‘The marshal will remove the locks which were placed on the doors and will tear down any barricades which may have been erected in pursuance of a decree of the District Supreme Court, passed August 4, 1928, holding that the place had become a nuisance within the meaning of the national pro- hibition act and directing that it be closed for all purposes for the period of one year from the date of the de- cree. Speci y, the sale of “set-ups” for drinks was charged. Assistant United States Attorney Harold W. Orcutt, who prosecuted the case against the National Cafes, Inc. proprietor of the Le Paradis Caf Meyer Davis, its president, and Howe ‘Totten, owner of the property, ex- })ll(ncd that the removal of the pad- o which is pending in the District Court of Appeals from the decision of Justice Charles S. Hatfleld, who heard the case and rendered the opinion of the court. Justice Hatfield is a member of the bench of the United States Court of Customs and Appeals and sat in the Le Paradis case to relieve the con- gested condition of the docket of the District Supreme Court. The appeal probably will be reached for argument in November, and the court is expectea to decide whether the injunction against the defendants personally 1s limited to one year, as was the padlock of the premises, or whether it is per- time on those named in it. The case against the cafe was begun March 22, 1927, by the United States, and the opinion of Justice Hatfield was rendered July 31, 1928, the case not having been reached for argument un- til June of that year. The decree of the court for the padlocking was not signed until August 4. ‘The premises, it is understood. will be restored to the defendants, who will have full authority to use them for any lawful purpose so long as the national prohibition law is not violated. Attorneys _ Simon Koenigsberger, Young and Berz represented the Na- tional Cafes, Inc., and Meyer Davis, while Attorney Crandall Mackey ap- peared for the owner of the building. FREE PORTS BENEFIT SEEN BY 0’CONNOR Shipping Board Chairman's Inves- tigation Shows Aid to Mer- chant Marine. By the Associated Press. Chairman O’Connor of the Shipping Board, after a lengthy investigation of the situation, has concluded “that free rom or foreign trade zones, properly ocated in some of the existing ports of the United States, might have a stimulating effect on port growth and foreign trade.” ‘The report points out that the free port has proved successful in Northern Europe, but adds that the geographical and economic position of “the United States is not analagous to that of raw materials from abroad are brought, manufactured and then reshipped with- out duty, the survey cites that they would aid in the development of trans- shipment and consignment trade, and would thus build up the merchant ma- rine. All of these benefits are said to come about as the result of the cll.mmnt.:on of the customs dues in the free port zone. ltp’: pointed out that an analysis of the free port situation in Europe indicates that an excessive number of competing free ports in the same trade area generally tends to defeat their purpose. ORATORICAL WINNERS REACH BUENOS AIRES Party Completes Trip From Pacific to Atlantic on Trans- Andean Railway. James L. Butsch, Washington’s rep- resentative in the Sixth National Ora- torical Coritest, and his fellow orators have reached Buenos Aires, on the At~ lantic gonat of South America, follow- transandean railway from the Pacific on their 12,000-mile prize tour, accord- lnf to a cablegram received by Ran- dol Zh Leigh, director general of the con- test, here y. The party plans to leave Buenos Aires tomorrow for a brief visit Asuncion, returning to Buenos Aires August 10, where it will remain until August 22. On the latter date the ora- tors will sail for Rio de Janeiro, where they will spend the last days of their le message receis . Leigl rried assurance that every is in excellent hout in Fiorida early the doors and the | ck will in no way affect the appeal | to|- the ' somest 15 GIVEN T0 Z00 Dr. Mann Describes Redis- covery of Giant Bird as Event in Ornithology. ROOSEVELTS SHIP RARE COLLECTION TO CAPITAL Pair of Adult Gibbons and Baby Are Captured by Explorers in Himalayan Area. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A living specimen of the imperial parrot of Dominica, largest of the par- rot family and supposedly extinct for the last 50 years, was brought to the National Zoological Park yesterday by Stephen Haweis, Washington artist, who has spent the past six months on this little known British island of the Lesser Antilles. The rediscovery of this glant parrot was described by Dr. William M. Mann, director of the zo0, as “an event in ornithological history.” Dr. Mann also received yesterday afternoon a cable from Harold Coolidge, one of the party which accompanied ‘Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt into unexplored areas of the Himalayas this Spring, that a shipment of rare animals captured by the expedition was on its way from Shanghal and would reach San Francisco August 21. “Bamboo Rat” Is Found. This includes & pair of adult gib- bons and a nursing baby, & Malay and a Himalayan bear, five macaque mon- keys, possibly of a subspecies never be- fore seen in America, and what is de- scribed as a “bamboo rat,” which ap- parently is unknown to science. Ornithologists have been so certain that the giant imperial parrot was ex- | tinet, Dr. Mann said, that it no longer is included in lists of birds of the | world. It is a large parrot, with feath- ers predominantly dark green, but with a purple head, a grayish-purple collar around the. breast and a bronze tail. The feathers are arranged in a “fish- scale” pattern, ‘The reason the creature supposedly was extinct, Hawels said, vupbecllue it has been driven back to a small, densely forested and inaccessible area in the extreme north of the island. ‘This same area also is the home of the last remnants of the Carib Indians in the West Indies. A amall group of them, still racially pure, dwells in the jungle, occasionally coming to the towns with baskets for the market. It is practically impossible for anybody else to enter this area. Great Parrot Was Prize. Years ago, Dr. Mann sald, the im- perial parrot was one of the great prizes of bird collectors, but then only occasional wounded specimens reached the United States to die in a few weeks. This was explained by Haweis as due to the fact that the collectors would first get in touch with the natives, offering high prices for the birds. Even these natives seldom see one and the only way they knew to capture one was to shoot all they saw, in the hope that finally one would fall so slightly wounded that it could be brought to a collector alive. This contributed greatly to the extinction of the bird, which retreated into denser and denser Jjungles. ‘The bird obtained by the artist was I blown out of a tree during a hurri- cane, while a nestling, and is in perfect condition. The Imperial parrot always has been described as fierce and u tamable. Haweis' specimen, however, is tame and friendly. It is probably, Haweis said yesterday, the first of these giant parrots ever to learn to talk and it was taught by another parrot. This was a Bou- queti parrot, also a native of Dominica and only slightly less rare than the Imperial. Haweis obtained a tamed specimen, which already was an ac- complished conversationalist, and plac- ed it in the cage with the young bird. As a result, the latter soon began speak- ing simple words and is adding to its vocabulary. The Bouqueti is a “bright-green bird with a pale-blue head. Pink Frogs Are Given. Haweis also brought back as gifts to the Zoo a dozen specimens of the edible frog, a large, pinkish land frog, which is confined to the Lesser Antilles, and which is considered a great delicacy both by the natives and settlers, with the result that it is fast becoming ex- tinct. Haweis describes it as the most eatable of all frogs, which should be | raised for the market in captivity. He intends to communicate with the Brit- ish government in an effort to have regulations promulgated to save it from extinction. At present, he said. the na- tives know nothing of the habits of the animal and can capture it only during the mating season, when it betrays its whereabouts by its calls. ‘The artist also presented the Zoo with a considerable collection of rare fish from Dominican waters, including the famous armored catfish, which lives on the bottom of the West Indian streams and whose scales have beex modified by evolution into bony plates so that it s practically a true fish wita a shell. He also brought back some peculiar fish which inhabit the pitch lake of Dominica. This pitch lake is the source of some of the world's asphalt supply, and looks like a great black barren mudflat upon which a man can walk without sinking, though it really is liquid. 1 | Fish Hops to New Residence. ‘Water collects in the holes cut by the asphalt_diggers. The fish live in this water. The pitch slowly folds in on the holes, forcing the water to run off over the surface and leaving the fish high and dry. But they are “tough” fish. They immediately start hopping up and down on the surface of the pitch in search of another water hole. Many die before they succeed, but some always manage to hop far enough to land in water again, thus preserving the species. Yesterday was a big day in the his- tory of the Zoo so far as new animals were concerned. Dr. Mann received as a . G. Rogers of Liver- member of the Royal Zoological pool Society, one of the largest of the pigeon family which hitherto has been unknown in captivity. He also received a pair of golden-crowned minahs from New Guinea, the first ever brought into the United States. Both the head and feet of these crow-like birds are a rich gold color. They can be taught to talk. ‘With them came a pair of black and white New Guinea starlings. At the same time came a message from Dr. H. C. Kellers, who accom- panied the Naval Observatory e expedition to the Philippines and who presented a large collection of birds and animals to the Zoo last month, that another shipment of 12 pairs each of green fruit pigeons and bleeding ln::'n pigeons was on its way to Wash- on. Roosevelt Cable Was Surprise. The cable from the Roosevelt expe- dition came as a complete surprise to Dr. Mann. These animals, he said, nv&{:nuy were captured in the remote in r of Upm Burmah, which has been little explored and which was en- tered by one of the expedition. h gibbons, the smallest, hand- and liveliest of the man-like apes, have come to the United States quite frequently in recent years, the a New Guinea pheasant pigeon, | Int respective classes, are shown at the left i ‘winner in the 4 1o 8 year class (at right). in order named. Ruth Reeves, winner of first prize in the 18 months to 4 -year class (second from right): Jackie Fitzgerald, first prize Eugene Heflin and Bessie Marshall, who were adjudged second best in their The contest was held at Rosedale Playground yesterda Y. —Star Staff Photo. D. C. BUYS INITIAL TRACT FOR CENTER Commissioners 0. K. Pay-: ment of $28,000 for 315 Pennsylvania Avenue. | | | | The District Commissioners yesterday authorized the purchase of the first parcel of land of the four blocks on which the Municipal Center will even- tually stand. The parcel in question con- sisted of 4,500 square feet, improved by the business houses of Wah Hing Co., Chinese importers, 315 Pennsylvania avenue. Besides marking the first land purchase for the new center, the pur- chase marked the beginning of the passing of part of Chinatown, includ- ed in the city heads’ plans for the cen- ter. All property between Third and Sixth streets, Pennsylvania avenue and | Judiciary Square, will eventually be bought. The price paid was $28,000, or 112 per cent of the assessed value. The | purchase was made through 'nwmu} | J. Pisher, Inc. The property fronts 25| feet on Pennsylvania avenue, and the building is not thought suitable for any | needs the Commissioners now have for housing departments of their govern- | ment, as it is too small. { Other Property Uses. Other larger properties, however, ! | when baught, will be used at once to house District agencies looking for homes either as a result of present overcrowding or of being forced out of their present quarters altogether by ex- | gulmion of the Federal Government's ilding program. It is understood that negotiations are | being carried on for the purchase of a | second plece of property, which will be concluded in a few days. Actual con- struction work on the new center is not expected to start for at least one year, during which time further properties will be acquired and plans for the new center drawn up. New Tags Approved. The Commissioners, at their board meeting, also approved the new flat-fin- ish automobile tags, which have caused some criticism recently. The tags are for 1930. No varnish has been put on these tags, but the Commissioners up- held a report by George S. Wilson, di- rector of public welfare, to the effect that the new type tags, besides being easier to manufacture than the old, muld last longer and remain more vis- . Mr. Wilson's report was based on an examination of the new type tags by the Bureau of Standards, which reported them “superior in durability” to the tags with the varnish finish. Six policemen were appointed to the | force by the Commissioners. The men are to serve probationary periods of one year each. They are Henry Worken- tine, James E. Dawn, Page O. Mangum, Walter R. Ostrom, Ferdinand P. Martin, Francis G. Pilkerton, GIFT TO MRS. HOOVER. Brilliant Textiles From Guatemala Presented to First Lady. Brilliant textiles woven by Indians of Guatemala have been presented to Mrs. Herbert Hoover as a gift from Senora de Chacon, wife of the President of Guatemala. They were carried to the White House by Col. Miquel Garcia Granados, chief of the Guatemalan Air Corps, and Lieut. Carlos Merlen, chief of the mechanical section, who completed a four-hop flight from Guatemala City in 242 hours flying time. The presentation to Mrs. Hoover fol- lowed receptions to the fiyers by Presi- dent Hoover and Secretary Stimson, to whom they were introduced by the Guatemalan Minister, Dr. Adrian Reci- nos. {COLORED WOMEN TO MEET Mrs. Stewart, National Federation President, Principal Speaker. Mrs. Sallie W. Stewart of Evansville, d., national president of the Colored ‘Woman’s Clubs, will be the cipal speaker at a mass meeting to be held by “the District State Federation of Colored Woman's Clubs at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Metropolitan Baptist Church. on R street between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Woman members from all parts of the country are expected to attend. shipment of a complete family of father, mother and child is unp: lented, and if all arrive alive, students of ape fam- ily life will have an exceptio; 0] tunity for observation. It is dangerous to arrive at conclusions on the develop- ment of an ape, Dr. Mann said, me from watching babies in captivity apart from '.hzeolg parents. and most playful of all the bears, but which must be! kept in a metal-lined cage, since it will w and scratch its way through the ‘The Himalayan bear has been in captivity. - O e bamboo. vats, Dr. Maun said, Brob-hly are large subterranean rodents, iving in caverns among the interstices of bamboo roots and seldom seen by man. | can diplomats POLICE SLAY 2 BANDITS. Gun Battle in Apartment House Basement Follows Robbery. KANSAS CITY, August 3 (#).—Two unidentified men were killed and James Dwyer, patrolman. was wounded slightly last night in a gun battle which oc- curred when police corralled bandits in the basement of an apartment house after following them from the robbery of a filling station. Dwyer was shot in the arm when he and two other officers started into the basement after the men. More than 50 shots were exchanged before the bandits fell before charges from riot CURTENALANS HOP FOR HOME NONDAY Luncheon for Granados and Merlen Attended by Many Officials. Coi. Miguel Garcia Granados, fore- most Guatemalan aviator, and Lieut. Carlos Merlen of the Guatemalan air force, who flew to this city from Guate- mala City this week, probably will leave here on the return flight Monday morn- ing, it was announced today at the Guatemalan legation. During the remainder of their stay in the National Capital no formal program has been ‘anged for the two flyers, who were guests of honor at a luncheon given yesterday at the Hotel Mayflower by Dr. Adrian_ Recinos, Guatemalan Minister to the United States. Forty governmental officials, aviators and diplomats attended the luncheon, among_them Roger Q. Willlams and Capt. Lewis A. Yancey, who flew the monoplane Pathfinder from Old Orch- ard Beach, Me., to Rome; Francis White, Assistant Secretary of State; F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, and Maj. Clarence M. Young, director of aeronautics of the Department of Commerce. Latin Ameri- representing all the southern republics were present, head- ed by Ambassador Manuel C. Tellez of Mexico. g President Hoover being not present, & toast to him was proposed by Dr. Re- cinos, responded to by Mr. White, who proposed a toast to President Chacon of Guatemala. Col. Granados and Lieut. Marien, on their return fight, will stop at Mexico City to deliver President Portest Gil a message of good will from President OPENELS SEIZE 2,000 QUARTS OF LIQUOR IN RAID Biggest Haul Since Christmas Also Nets Two Men and Two Automobiles, Nabbing a supposed “lookout” before he was able to pass along the alarm, Sergt. Oscar J. Letterman and his squad yesterday effected the biggest liquor haul since the Christmas season—2,000 quarts—and seized two automobiles and arrested two men yesterday afternoon in the course of a raid on a cigar store at 527 Eighth street southeast. The two men, giving their names as Fugene Brinkley, 30, of the Atlantic Hotel and George Andre, 29, 500 block of Ninth street southeast, were booked at the first precinct on charges of possession of liquor and setting up a gaming table. The automobiles and whisky were seized in a garage said by Letterman to communicate with the cigar store from the rear. Part of the whisky was stored in the rumble seats of the machines, while the remainder, packed in card- board boxes of pints and half gallons, was stacked ‘J"“‘“ the garage walls, the raiders said. A quantity of racing slips was seized. A large sign saying, “Gambling and the Use of Intoxicating Liquors Are Posi- tively Forbidden on These Premises” was tacked on the door between the garage and rear of the store. More -than 200 persons gathered on the sidewalk outside when several patrol wagons drew up to transport the risoners and whisky to the station ouse. Others of the raiding party included Officers Richard Cox, George McCarron and James Mostyn. Sergt. Letterman said he had recelved frequent complaints against the place. GIRL SWALLOWS POISON. TIrene White in Hospital, Her Con- dition Undetermined. Irene White, 22 years old, of 1019 Ninth ‘street swallowed poison shortl atter 6 o'clock y evening while seated on a park bench near Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Passersby summoned police' and the girl was sent to Emergency Hospital in the patrol fm&go.p{_ p;e:ll‘nct. W] she was treaf . John Schwarz- man of the staff, who said her condi- tion was undetermin Police a y | the nigh here | land, DEATH O GHENIT DECLARED SUICDE | Coroner Issues Certificate in Asphyxiation of Bureau of Standards Worker. | | Mental strain, said to have been brought on from overwork, is believed to have led Norman W. Metcalf, 31- year-old chemist at the Bureau of Standards, to take his life in a locked gas-filled room used by him as a lab- oratory, yesterday. Corner J. Ramsey Nevitt is expected today to certify to death by suigide. ‘The body was discovered by Theo- dore Columbus, a guard, and Lawrence Kleinschmidt, an employe of the bureau, lying stretched across the floor in the room. Illuminating was escaping from a nearby tube, all the windows were closed and a blanket was wrapped around the head and shoulders of the body. The odor of escaping gas detected across the hall- way from the little laboratory used by Metcalf led to the discovery of his body. Metealf's widow and 4-year-old son, Harold. lived with him at_their home, 6310 Thirty-third street. Mrs. Metcall is suffering from severe shock as the result of her husband’s death. Her mother and father, from Ohio, are here visiting her. dead man’s father was notified and is on his way here from Wisconsin. Metcalf was engaged in ascertaining the mechanism of charcoals, clays and general absorbents in his laboratory research work and this process, it was said, necessitated the constant use of a Bunsen burner supplied with illumin- ating gas as well as a room that was entirely closed and free from draft. An independent gas tube about seven feet in length, which had been connected with another gas outlet, was stretched across the room to a spot near the place where the body was found. Dr. Nevitt has withheld issuing a certificate until he has talked with Met- calf’s widow to determine whether she desired a finding by him or a coroner’s inquest. Metcalf first began his work at the Bureau of Standards in the division of chemistry, under Dr. E. W. Washburn, in July, 1928, and is said to have planned to continue there until next Mareh to take advantage of the Peer- less Clay and Minerals, Inc., scholar- ship awarded him by the University of Illinois, where he received the degree of master of science before coming to ‘Washington. His research studies in working for the bureau was to have been applied by him on his thesis for the "‘fi,’” of doctor of philosophy, which he had | hoped to receive next year at the Uni- | versity of Illinois. He received his | bachelor of science degree from Ober- lin College, Oberlin, Ohio. F. W. LARNER IS DEAD; LONG RESIDENT HERE | Retired Official in Engraving Bu- reau Succumbs at 75—Funeral ‘Will Be Monday. Frank W. Larner, 75 years old, for- mer assistant chief of the wetting di- vision of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, died at his home, 1004 Twen- ty-second street, yesterday. He had been retired from the Government serv- ice about seven years. Mr. Larner was born at Bladensburg, Md., but had lived nearly all of his life in this city. During the Civil War he was a page in the House of Representa- tives, while his brother, William, was page in the Senate. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Alcinda K. Larner: two sisters, Miss Carolyn Larner, associated ith the United States embassy at Madrid, Spain, and Miss Mary Larner of Washington; a brother, Winfield Larner, and two daughters, Mrs. M. L. Carle and Mrs.- M. L. Beck of Wash- Funeral services will be held from his home at 11 o'clock Monday mornings. Interment will be private at Glenwood Cemetery. e LOOKING BACK COSTLY. James Crawford, who had just reached the conclusion he didn’t want to spend last night at No. 3 precinct, reached K street a moment or two later. Crawford was making satisfactory until he decided to look back and count the policemen, whereupon he was felled rather abruptly from in front. It was an electric light pole and not a night stick that Crawford had en- coun! tered. A Crawford, who is 38 and lives in the 3300 block of Nineteenth street, next went to Emergency Hospital, where he was found to be slightly lacerated, and then back to No. 3 ct on a nmkem;m charge—w] he spent J. Nickerson Found Dead. Horace J. Nickerson, 56 years old, who recently came to this ci was found dead in apartment at 1855 Calvert street about 5 o'clock g‘nhtkerdu afternoon his 1 Horace TESTIMONY GIVEN IN CAR RATE CASE Cross-Examination of Wit- ness Will Not Begin Until Company Closes. J. E. HEBERLE ON STAND EVERY DAY OF HEARING Petition for Increage of W. R. & E. to Follow Capital Traction Evidence. People’s Counsel Ralph B. Fleharty expects to begin cross-examination of witnesses for the Capital Traction Co. as soon as each has completed his ex- amination in the public hearing before the Publie Utilities Commission on the company® vequest for an increase in :;rurlz oR 1l the street car lines in e city. Mr. Fleharty is busy working over the evldenoe'lntroduced thus far by the company’s first witness, J. E. Heberle, with the assistance of J. Louis Martin, his statistical aid. His questions, how- ever, will not duplicate the ground eov- ered by Commissioner Harleigh H. Hartman, who h&s inquired very minutely into the wompany’s capital and operating expense accounts, Testifies Four Days. Mr. Heberle has been on the wit- mness stand all of the four days on which the hearings have been held thus far. He will still be there Mon- day when the hearing is resumed and Jjudging from the exhibits stacked be- fore him for introduction and the list |of questions left unanswered pending further studv. he will be on the stand at least a week more, Mr. Flaherty and William McK. Clayton, counsel for the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. have both re- served cross-examination until all Mr. Heberle's evidence is in. Should these two go into the same details on other lines that Mr. Hartman did as to cap- ital account and operating expenses, it might very easily take still another week for the first witness in the case to_be heard. Following Mr. Heberle there will be other witnesses for the Capital Trac- tion Co., although none of them will have as much testimony as he. Then will come the entire case of the Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co., which lfsu’-x’om' petitioner for the increase in es. Accountant Next. Next will come, probably, Byers McK. Bachman, the commission’s sccountant, and testimony from the commission's staff on probable results of fares other than those sought by the companies and probable savings from rerouting of lines and joint operation of tracks, and then arguments on the case. All 82%| of this is very likely to consume several months before a decision is reached by the commission. The commission early today incor- porated into the present case, the E:Ll!lnn of residents of Woodley road to ve the Woodley road bus line of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., re~ routed s0 as to travel on Connecticut avenue j:stead of Woodley road, and also a petition by the Glover Park Citizens’ Association asking that the Burleith bus Jine of the same company be extended and that street car service on Wisconsin avenue be improved. . LEGION REPORTS INSANE CROWDED New Jersey Patients, With Wait- ing List, “Crawl Over Each Other to Bed.” Over-crowded conditions of New Jersey State institutions for the mentally ill are such that patients have to crawl over one another to get into their heds, the American Legion said today in & statement pointing out that in nearly every State there is a waiting list for admittance to Government hospitals. The Legion said it was working with the State authorities throughout the Nation ahd with the Veterans’ Bureau to determine the acute need of addi- tional facilities in Government hospitals adequately to care for the increasing load of mentally sick World War vet- erans. William J. Ellis, State Commissioner of Institutions and Agencies, at Trenton, ‘was quoted by the Legion as saying his department was gravely concerned over the situation as more than 11,000 mental patients were being cared for in State and county hospitals which have a rated capacity of less than 9,000 patients. He said New Jersey was attempting to meet, the condition but at the Grey- stone Park State Hospital there are 40 per cent more patients than existing space would allow to be cared for and serious over-crowding exists at other State hospitals in which disabled veter- ans are cared for. WASHINGTON MEN GIVEN RESERVE COMMISSIONS Maryland and Virginia Citizen Soldiers Also Receive Rank- ings in Army. Commissions 1n the Reserve Corps of the Army have been issued by the War Department to Pendleton Edgar, £90 Twentieth street, as a first lleutenant and specialist; Edward D. Crockett, 962 Florida avenue, as a second lieuten- ant of Infantry; William A. Kehoe, 5304 Seventh street, as a second lieutenant in the Medical Administrative Corps, and James M. Henderson, 910 Decatur stréet, and Austin J. Naylor, 3532 Connecticut avenue, as second lieutenants in the finance department. » Similar commissions have been issued to Henry M. Lowden, Gaithersburg, Md., as a first lieutenant, Medical ; to John C. Hughes, Kensington, Md. and William E. Warfleld, Damascus, Md., as second lieutenants of Infantry; to Lloyd B. Kidwell, Ballston, Va., as a second lieutenant, Coast Artillery, and to Duff Green, jr., Fredericksburg, Va., as & second lieutenant of Cavalry. ADAMS FUNERAL HELD. Funeral services for Mrs. Barbara Handy Adams, native of this city, who died at her home in Tulsa, Okla., Mon- day, were conducted in the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament, Chase, today at 9 o’clock, foll brief serv- ices at the residence of brother, Charles Handy, 5611 Nevada avenue. Interment was in Mount Olivet Ceme- Mrs, Adams is survived band, Willlam H. Adams, ; 0 h-;mm from "'”E i