Evening Star Newspaper, August 3, 1929, Page 2

TELLS OF RENTING: ROOMTO DR. SNOOK ‘Yoman Characterizes Pro- fessor and Girl as One of “Nicest Couples.” COURTHOUSE, Columbus, Ohio, August 3 (#).—The story of the room- ing houss rendezvous used by Dr.| James H. Snook and Theora Hix was'| ntroduced by the State today in the trial of the former Ohio State pro- tuscor for the killing of the 24-year- ofd medical student. Mrs. Margaret Smalley, from: whom Dr. Snook rented the room last Febru- | sry under the name of “Howard| Snook,” told in detail of the occupancy of the quarters by Snook and the girl who was represented as his wife. She characterized Snook and the girl as one of the “nicest couples” that i FORECAST IS FOR COOL TONIGHT AND TOMORROW | Overcast Skies and Rain Indicate Continued Low Temperature After Heat Record. | Continued cool weather is in prospect. | The Weather Bureau’s official ther- | mometer dipped to the 85-degree mark | yesterday after a 10-day visit around | the 94-degree mark, slumped further | to 69 today and promises to hover around a moderate figure. Not since 1921 had Washington suf- fered such a lengthy heat wave. | Overcast skies and rain led the ‘Weather Bureau to forecast continued cool weather for th: remainder of the day and tonight, with indications that the 85-degree maximum reading of yesterday would not be reached. It should be fair tomorrow, the forecast sald, but continued cool. LA GUARDIA TOTAX TAMMANY'S POWER Evangelical | ) THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST OFFGALSATBURIL OF SLAN DERUTY Funeral of Moonshiners” Vic- tim Is Held as Authorities Work to Find Slayer. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICK, Md, August 3.—With officials ¢f the city, county and State in attendence, the funeral se:rvices of Deputy Sheriff Clyde L. Hauver, shot down by moonshiners Thursday after- foon in a raid on a large still, were held at' the officer’s home in this city this morning at 10:30 o'clock. Rev Paul De Lauter, assistant pastor - of the Lutheran - Church, eon- ducted. the ‘services and Rev. Chalmers W. Walck of Grace Reform Church ve the eulogy. The services were largely attended. In the meantime county and State officers redoubled their efforts to bring into custody the large number of men \ 7 a2 BN 19 ARMY ENGINEERS TOILING UP ROAD TO PRESIDENT'S CAMP FEDERAL BUSINESS . TAKENOUTOF CITY President and Eight Cabinet Members Away—Work and Play at Camp. By the Associated Pross. The Government's business was car- ried forward chiefly outside the Capital today, with President Hoover and eight of his cabinet members out of the city seeking relief from the heat. Vice President Curtis and two cabinet members, Secretaries Lamont and Wil- bur, were the only administration offi- cials remaining in Washington over the week end. It was the second big exodus of governmental chieftains from the Capital this Summer. The President, leaving late yesterday, took two of his official family, Post- mester General Brown and Attorney General Mitchell, together with Frank T. Hines, director of the Veterans’ Bureau, on his customary week end excursion to his mountain camp on the Rapidan River in Virginia, enabling him to study while enjoying the cool moun- tain breezes, the problems of their offices. ever lived in her rooming house. Mrs. Smalley’s story included the fact | thought to have been identified with the operation of the still. Lester Clark | of Hagerstown, was arrested yesterday (et on June 14, the day after the girl | Thousands of Italians Will | afternoon and is belived by Sheriff W. | C. Roderic to be the key witness.. He was killed, Dr. Snook paid her for the room, saying that he was leaving the Follow His Standard in | is said to have given information which ’Aayora"y Fray. =m!y lead to the identification of the city. She quoted him as saying his “wife” would remain two days. The [moonther who fired the fatal shot. | Clatk was taken to the scene of the nest day, she said, she went to the | room and found the two keys she had | mountain ambush late yesterday after- given Dr. Snook when he rented the | room. Everything in the room but & | woman’s felt hat had been removed. Glives Account of Arrest. Detective Larry Van Skaik put into the record the account of Dr. Snook's arrest and Dr. Oscar W. Brumley, pro~ fessor of veterinary surgery at Ohio State, identified two emotional excitants which the State maintains Dr. Snook gave the girl on the night she was killed. Dr. Brumley sald that one jar was found in Dr. Snook's office and that the other came from the drugroom at the veterinary department of the universit Van Skalk testified that he took Lhe former veterinary professor into custody at his home on June 15, two days after the murder. Later the detective was sent to the New York Central Rifle Range, where the girl's battered body bad been found. He said he discovered in the weeds on the range the girl's broken keyring, from which had been taken Miss Hix's key to the apartment house room, which she sometimes shared with Dr. Snook. The broken ring and the missing key figured chiefly in break- ing down the alibi the former professor ofiered after his arrest and resulted in his alleged confession to city and county authorities. Paul C. Hicks, assistant prosecutor, who conducted the examination of Mrs. Smalley, asked her to look at the de- fendant. Do you Hicks esked 1 knew him as Howard Snook,” she answered and then related that on last February 11 he had rented a room from her for himself “and wife.” The room was not immediately available, she said, and it was not definitely engaged until two days later. Gave Snook Two Keys. { Mrs, Smalley said she saw “Mrs. Snook” only once when she ran into her by chance in the room. She related that later she identified “Mrs. Snook” as Miss Hix. from a photograph. Mrs. Smalley said she gave Snook two keys to the room. On June 14, she con- tinued. Snook infornied her he was leav- ing for Washington Court House, but that “his wife would remain awo days longer. She sald that on June 15 she found the two keys she had given Snook on a table in the room. Mrs, Smalley Cross-examined. Mrs. Smalley said Snook had never fold her he was married, but that in signing the register he identified him- self and the ghl as “Howard Snook and wife.” Cross-examination of Mrs. Smalley was taken over by Defense Attorney Max Seyfert. Seyfert, following out the claim of the | defense that Miss Hix secretly fed Dr. Snook narcotics in sandwiches, asked Mrs. Smalley if she ever saw any sand- wiches about the room which the couple occupled. “No, I never did" Smalley. Mrs. Smalley also denied that she ever found any pop or ginger ale bottles or any traces of luncheon in the room. Veterinary Professor Testifies. Brumley followed Mrs. Smalley. He said he knew Dr. Snook, and that he had been acquainted with Theora Hix since she had come to the veterinary department as a stenographer in June, 1926. “Once of iwice,” he said, he had seen Miss Hix getting into Dr. Snook’s automobile. Dr. Brumley identified two excitants which the State alleges Dr. Snook gave the girl shortly before the killing. A glass jar containing a dry concoction of this kind was, he sald, in Dr. Snook’s office when detectives came there after the killing. A bottle of liquid prepara- tion was identified as belonging in the drug room &t the veterinary depart- ment. Cross examined by John F. Seidel. Dr. Brumley said the bottle contained a sample used in classroom lectures by Dr. Snook. He said it was bought a number of years ago. possibly 15. He did not know whether it had lost its therapeutic value, but did not think it had. Dr. Brumley said he had cautioned Miss Hix about “going out” with mem- bers of the velerinary staff and that she “seemed to take it all right.” Dr. Brumley said that no narcotics were kept in the drug room, but in his desk under lock and key and given out only on prescription. Quizzed on Cause of Death. Testimony for the most part yester- day was devoted to the primary task of "establishing the fact of the killing and the defense attempt to gain from Coroner J. A. Murphy an admissian that would have damaged the State's claim of premeditation in the killing— that the girl may have died from ham- ber blows and not knife wounds, which Snook said he inflicted after he had struck her over the head. Murphy said the hammer wounds might eventually have caused death, but laid the immediate cause to & sev- ered artery. The State has maintained that after rendering her unconscious with the hammer, Dr. Snook, “with premeditation” slit her throat. It is know this man?” replied Mrs. Dr. | in behaif of Mrs. Ruth B. Pratt, Rep- necessary, under Ohio law, to prove premeditation to obtain conviction of first-degree murder and the death pen- alty. Receiver for Tire Firms Asked. LYNCHBURG, Va., August 3 (Spe- cial) —W. M. Murrell, jr., R. J. Lewis and H. C. Adams have filed suit in the Circuit Court *ere against the Conven- fent Paymeit Tire Service and Automo- tve Service Corporation, asking ap- pointment of receiver for the two con- cerns. “Brightest Boy” To Tell on Radio How Victory Feels By the Assoclated Fress. NEW YORK, August 3.—Wil- bur B. Huston of Seattle, Wash., winner of the Edison contes’, daylight time) from he York studios of the mt’. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, August 3.—There are 392,225 foreign-born Italians in New York City and 410,721 whose parents were foreign born. That's cne reason why Tammany Hall is snapping into action, deploying its forces and getting set for a devastating fight against| Fiorella H. La Guardia, who was| grudgingly handed the nomination for | mayor of New York at the Republican | city convention, Representative La Guardia is & formidable campaigner. His verbal at- tacks can raise blisters like the bull | whip. For months he has been inde- fatigably at work, fanning up his Latin | leglons, from bootblacks to bank of- | ficials. { Greenwich Village Boils. Greenwich Village is already at the boiling point and handsome chromos of Mr. La Guardia are appearing in Italian restaurants and shine parlors. He has a solidified strength among the Italian population and among the non-Tammany rank and file, which, under his shrewd and sagacious leade:- shi, ought to stack up one of the heavi- | est political engagements this city- bas { seen in years. | Although the conservative Republic- an lenders in years past put over Seth Low, George McClellan and John Purroy Mitchel, all silk-stocking can- | didates, they made but = feeble effort | | | resentative in Congress. Mrs. Pratt is wealthy, an allmnae of Wellesley Col- | lege, conservative and able, but also, soclally arrived, The last s added as a disqualifying phase, for party man- agers pow find in social leadership a political bar sinister. Compelled to make . a choice, the rock-ribbed section of the party chose the former Socialist and recalcitrant, wha has been dealing them misery for years. It seemed their only chance 1o beat the dapper and insouclant Mr. Walker. Was in U, Consular Service. | Born jn New York City in 1882 and reared in Arizona, Mr. La Guardia entered the American consular service in 1901. Until 1906 he served at va- rious European posts, returning to New York City as interpreter at Ellis Island. In 1917 he was elected to Con- gress. In his first campaign he kicked over the party traces and has been doing so ever since. He entered the war and became a major in the Amer- ican air service, receiving two decora- tions from the Italian government. In 1921 he was defeated for the nomination for mayor, but was again elected to Congress in 1922. In this and the campaign of 1924 he definitely allied himseM with the La Folletie Re- publicans, received their indorsement and also enrolled in the Socialist party, | receiving the nomination of that or-| ganization. His campaign was marked by flery denunciations of the old| guard. For the second time he was/| read out of the Republican party, | but was back again in 1926 and_was ! elected to Congress after a bitter fight. | He became the idol of the Ttalian population and of the left wingers of | both the Republican and Democratic | parties. His victory last Fall was easy. Mr. La Guardia is a tireless foe of the eighteenth amendment. His pub- lic beer-brewing performance in Wash- ington a few years ago was typical of his aptitude in dramatizing his views, and also of his gift for catchng pub- lic attention when he wants it. Who- ever wins in this forthcoming election, the drys lose, as Mayor Walker and | Mr. La Guardia will find nothing to | argue about so far as prohibition is | concerned, | (Copyright. 1920.) Widow Gets Estate. LYNCHBURG, Va., August 3 (Spe-| clal) —Property valued at approximate- 1y $25,000 is bequeathed to Mrs. Frances Josephine Frost, widow, in the will of the late D. C. Frost, probated in the Circuit Court here. The will is dated March 10, 1928. E. M. Frost, an attor- ney hel nd son of the testatory, quali- fied as executor. Mr. Frost was general mumzér of the Lynchburg Traction & 0. “TALKI TO THE GRAF noon where officlals again went over the ground. Up until this time 10 men have been taken into custody. Two men, William McPherson Miller, Hagerstogn, sald to be the owner of the still, and Waverly Bennett, Hagerstown, are at liberty on $2,500 bond each. Charles Lewis, at first thought to be the moonshiners’ “tip-off” man, has been released with- out bond for lack of evidence. Others in custody are Lester and Norris Clark, Hagerstown: Paul and Floyd Williams, North Carolina; Russell Bennett, Hagerstown; Lloyd Lewis and Oscar McAfee, near Foxville. According to information given out |t the sheriff’s office six brothers were invulved in the operation of the still. They are the two Williamses, the two Clarks and the two Bennetts, the name | Clark being an alfas. BRITTEN OPERATION HALTS SHP AT S Wife of Representative “Not Too Well” After Treatment in Midatlantic. By the Associaied Press. SOUTHAMPTON, August 3.—The great liner Leviathan of the United States Lines was stopped on her eas! bound trip dead for nearly sn hour in midocean while Mrs. Fred A. Britten, wife of the chairman of the House of Representatives naval affairs committee, underwent an emergency operation for appendicitis. 1t was learned today when the Levia- than docked here that Mrs. Britten had fallen suddenly and gravely ill_while the liner was in Midatlantic. Physi- | cians_decided an immediate operation was imperative, and Capt. Cunningham agreed to bring the ocean mammoth to a halt during the operation, which was performed in 52 minutes by Drs. | Frank Stewart and A. McNamara. Mrs, Britten was declared to be “not too well” after the ship had docked today. She remained aboard the Leviathan ! and will be removed to a sanitorium ashore only when the ship sails, Paul W. Champman, head of the company which recently purchased the United States Lines, was aboard the Leviathan when she haited in order to assure Mrs. Britten's safety during the operation. | ARREST TWO WOMEN IN PROBE OF BOMBING Prisoners Identified in Arson Case, Chicago Authorities Declare, By the Associaied Press. CHICAGO, August 3.—Two women, whom county prosecutors said had been identified in an arson case, were ar- rested last night and held for question- ing today to determine whether they were associated with the ring of alleged bombers who were seized several days 2g0. The women are Mrs. Bertha Amster, 54, and Mrs. Evelyn Sugar, 27, mother of a 22-month-old baby. Prosecutors said the two were ar- | rested on information supplied by one of the 17 men seized in the bomb in- vestigation, Eight of the 17 have been formally charged with mnutututln{, possessing and selling explosives fllegally and were to be arraigned today in fel- ony court. Mrs, Amster and Mrs, Sugar have been identified by one of the men as having set fire to the butcher shop of Nick Casselli, brother of Mike Caselli, one of the suspected bombers, who is being held, prosecutors stated. ZEPPELIN | crash here last night was identified by | | [ | { DIVORCE SUIT WRIT VIOLATION CHARGED Von Steinner-Goltl Ordered to Appear at Contempt \ Hearing. Fom (he 5:30 Bdition of Yesterday's Star. Justice Peyton Gordon of the District | Supreme Court today signed an order | requiring Atbert von Steinner-Goltl, 514 | Tenth street, a manufacturing jeweler, | to show catse next Wednesday why he i should not be adjudged in contempt of | court for alleged violation of an injunc- { tion issued against him July 30 restrain- | Ing bim from prosecuting & suit for di- vorce in Alexandris, Va. against his 5‘&’1 Mrs. Alma Desio von Steinner- L In a petition exhibited to the count | Moday through Attorneys Raymond Neu- | decker and Willlam C. Ashford, ihe wife states that Von Steinner-Goltl vio- lated the injunction by appearing in the Corporation Court the morning fol- lowing the local injunction hearing and obtaining his decree on grounds of desertion. She states that he changed his counsel in Virginia at the last mo- ment, hiring & new lawyer to try his case. The court is further advised that the term of the Corporation Court has not expired in Alexandria and Von Steinner-Goltl may yet stay the oro- ceedings or have the decree vacated. By the terms of the injunction the husband was restrained from ing any steps in connection with his divorce suit until further order of the District Supreme Court. - Counsel for Mrs. von Steinner-Goltl stated that the bond required by the injunction was immediately given. Von Steinner-Goltl, the petition stated, noted an appeal from the injunction order of the Jocal court and was al- lowed five days within which to file such answer as he cared to make to the wife’s petition for the injunction. e |THREE MEN KILLED | IN 2,500-FOOT FALL New Yorkers and Clevelander Die as Plane Crashes on Con- necticut Estate. By the Assoclated Press. GREENWICH, . Conn., August $.— One of the men killed in an airplane police today as Ambrose Monell, son of the late Ambrose Moneli, founder of the National Nickel Co. His home was in New York City. Monell was accompanied 5 of Cleveland, Ohio, and the -pilot, of New that Monell and Grundy had started on a week- end trip, leaving the Arkmonk Airport, st ‘Arkmonk, N. Y., last evening, in a biplane owned by the Barrett Airways Corporation. e plane, when at an altitude of 2,500. feet, was seen to suddenly. bank as its motor stopped and then went into a tailspin. A moment later it ‘The bodies of the three oc- Auslria'n Caplain Is Ordered Hung For 1915 Slaying By the Associaled Press. BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, Au- gust 3—The long arm of the law reached out across 14 years and the wreck of an empire today to sentence Capt. Pirc, formerly of the Austrian gendarmerie, to be hanged for shooting a Jugoslav farmer in 1915. Capt. Pirc was shown by festi- mony to have shot the farmer, Marco Dijilic, without trial, on suspicion of spying while the Austrian armies were occupying the northern of Serbia n 1915. Djilic, while hunting for a lost horse, entered the gen- darmes barracks, where he was captured and shot by order of Pirc. Diilic’s relatives began suit im- mediately after the end of the Wwar and the trial ended only re- cently. Capt. Pirc appealed from the decision. {MARYLAND TO ENFORCE FLYING SAFETY LAWS Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, August 3.—Penalties for illegal flying in Maryland will be enforced under an act of the last ses- sion of the Maryland General Assem- bly. which became effeciive on August 1. ‘The regulation and licensing of pilots in this state now is in charge of the Maryland Air Commission, which re- cently wi ppointed by Gov. Ritchie. Members of the commission Dr. Hugh H. Young, chairman; Capt. Charles A. Masson, Clarence W. Wheal- ton of Salisbury, Benjamin H. Brewster, 3d, Brooklandville, and Lieut. Comdr. DeWitt C. Ramsey of the Naval Acad- emy. EXWARLORD SLAYS PRNCE HSIEN KAl |Chang Claims Accident, as | . | Youth Dies of Bullet Wound in Tokio. | Br the Associated Press. TOKIO. August 3.—Prince Hsien Kai, 2]l-year-old cousin of China's former boy emperor, Plu-Yi, died late Priday | night of wounds received the preceding night from a pistol held by Chang Tsung Chang, former Shanfung, China, war lord. The youthful Manchu had been to call on Chang and was standing in the garden of the Japanese hotel where Chang lived at Beppu, Island of Kiushiu. Chang claimed he was handling the pistol in his quarters above when it went off accidentally, hitting the prince. Authorities are investigating the acci- dent story. Death came at 10:50 p.m. while Chang and other Chinese stood beside his bed. His body is bein? held at Beppu until members of his family arrive and arrange for its disposal. ‘The prince was the szventeenth son of the late Prince Sisu, uncle of the boy emperor. The family of refugees from Republican China all live at Dairen, Lisotung Peninsula. ‘The atmosphere of mystery about the slaying deepened today. There was another version of the affair current, that it was not Chang. but his secretary who held the revolver which killed Prince Hslen. Chang, however, * i sumes responsibility.” “GRIFF” RETURNS FROM HOSPITAL Upper lefi: Part of the detachment of En, from Fort Humphreys paus- ing for = slight rest in the elimb up the Biue Ridge Mountains to the President’s camp at the headwaters of the Rapidan River in Virginia. The troops will at- tempt to make passable the road lead- ing to the camp. Upper right: A view of the mountain- ous terrain through which the troops pushed their motor trucks. Below: Another brie? halt along the tar Staff Photos. HUSTON IS MODEST ON EDISON VICTORY 16-Year-0ld Boy Has No Idea He Will Be as Great as Famous Inventor. By the Associzted Press. WEST ORANGE, N. J., August 3.— | Selected from among the youth of the | Nation as the protege of Thomas A. { Edison, 16-year-old Wilber B. Huston has no fllusions he ever will be as gréat & man as the famous inventos. Displaying great modesty after an- | nouncement of his winning the Edison | scholarship, he said: “I wish to correct thc erroneous im- pression that any one can be selected |as successor to Thomas A. Edison. I |am not foolish enough to think I ever | can be as great as he is.” | The son of Bishop S. Arthur Huston {of the Episcopal diocese of Olvmpia, Wash, made s mark of 92 in the | searching Edison questionnaire to which |the 49 competing youths were sub- jected. He was the last to finish. | Retains Modest Bearing. He retained his modest and amiable bearing in the face of & barrage of | questions from newspaper men. He has never been a Boy Scout, or s member of the Y. M. C. A, he told them. His hobby is collecting specimens of marine biology. He was on the fenc- ing team of Lakeside School, at Seattle. He has never smoked. His favorite reading is biography. He was revealed by the questionnaire as one who would sacrifice comfort for success, but not honor, health, happi- ness, love, riches nor reputation. He thinks a lie permissible “in case of serious trouble, pain and grief and you do not benefit yourself in any way.” As to the future of the automobile he believes it will become subordinate to the airplane as a means of transporta- tion, to be used only for short distances. He predicted the electrification of air- planes. Surprised at Victory. “Are you surprised that you won?” he was esked. “Very much so.” was the reply. As winner of the scholarship, he will receive tuition in the Massachusetts In- stitute of Technology for four years, the school of his choice, with all expenses paid by Mr. Edison. He intends to study chemical engineering. In announcing the resulis of the ex- amination, President S. W. Stratton of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology, one of the judges, announced that the contest was so close that four scholarships for free tuition also were awarded. They went to Charles H. Bru- nissen of West Reading, Conn, who plans to go to Sheflield Scientific School; James Seth of Santa Fe, N. M., who is going to Leland Stanford University; Bernard Sturgis of Butler, Ind, who is to Massachusetts School of Teehnology, and Ivan A. Getting, son of the Czechoslovakian consul mn _Pittsburgh, who has not yet decided what college he will attend. ‘Huston will be the guest of Mr. Edi- son at his home here for two days. He will then return to Seattle and in the Fall he will begin his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. PROTEGE OF EDISON DESIRES CAREER OF CHEMICAL ENGINEER ___(Continued Prom First Page.) Institute of Technology and some day . “As to Mr. 5 be impossible, and I am not so foolish as to thipk that. tate, but T Toune, &l the questions toaeh lalr, foun ns and worked until the last 10 minutes of my time. I wish more boys could have the l:mt opportunity that I am going to ve. Copyright, 1929, by NANA. . HUSTON TO BROADCAST. e T e e | 1851, Mr. Berliner Plans for reduction of the mounting Post Office deficit have been under dis- cussion between the Executive and Mr. Brown for some time, while the At- torney General took with him reports on the recent Leavenworth Penitentiary convicts’ riot aad on conditions in Federal prisons. Sugar Tariff Considered. The proposed sliding scale of sugar tariff duties was another subject to which the President allotted part of his week end. He invited Chairman Smoot. author of the plan which the Senate finance committee is to consider, to visit the camp tonight and tomorrow. The Senator, who made public his proposal shortly before the President’s party left, announced that he would 20 to the mountain retreat it he could get away from Washington today. His plan calls for automatic reduction in raw sugar duties within a scale of 1 to 3 cents a pound as the New York price of refined goes up or vice versa, and is advanced as a means of checking runaway markets damaging to con- sumers which might be attributed to the tariff. President Hoover has been represented by friends as being favorablv inclined toward the idea of protecting both producers and consumers in the sugar tariff schedule if a way to do so can be worked out. Seashore and mountain resorts had attracted most of the other six cabinet officials. Secretary Stimson, who has been kept close to his desk at the State Department during recent weeks by the ese-Russian situation and the naval disarmament discussions, went to the mountains, but refused to reveal his destination because he was desirous of complete privacy. Secretary Good went to Portland, Me., while Secretary Davis decided to spend the week end with his family at Atlantic City. N. J. Secretary Hyde was attending the agricultural conference at, Baton Rouge, La. Secretary Mellon followed his usual week end plan of going to his home near Pittsburgh, Pa. Only one of the cabinet officiais went away for a somewhat extended stav, Secretary Adams leaving for two weeks on_the Massachusetts seacoast. Because of the decision of the: Presi- dent to remain in Washington, none of the cabinet officials, except Secretary Wilbur, who returned several weeks sgo from a month’s inspection tour of the West, has been away from the city this Summer for more than two weeks. Attorney General Mitchell recently re- turned from a two-week visit to his family in the Minnesota lake region, but most of the other cabinet chiefs have not had an opportunity for trips of even two weeks' duration. RADIO FORUM TOPIC iByron Price and Robert Barry Ge on Air From WMAL at 9 Tonight. Byron Price, chief of the Washing- ton bureau of the Associated Press, and Robert Barry, Washington corre- spondent of the New York Evening ‘World, will discuss the art of collecting and distributing news in the Nation's Capital at 9 o'clock tonight over sta- tion WMAL on the National Radio Forum conducted by The Star and :gongred by the Columbia Broadcast- g Co. Mr. Price will discuss the work of the press association serving hundreds of newspapers scattered over the coun- try, while Mr. Barry will describe the tasks of the special correspondent. Both outstanding newspaper men of long experience, the speakers will emphasize the need of speed and sc- nnulcye" in gathering and disseminating o T X EMILE BERLINER, FAMOUS INVENTOR, DIES AFTER STROKE ___(Continued From First Page.) high death rate among babies, which he traced to the dangers of raw milk. He was instrumental in establishing milk standards, which were accepted in modified form by all the large cities of the country. He was president of the ‘Washin, ‘Tuberculosis Association for flve years and wrote a number of pamphlets on health topics. Early in this century he also wrote & small book. entitled “Conclusions,” along religious and philosophical lines. He attributed his success to his agnos- ticism, but was careful to differentiate betwen this and atheism. In explana- tion, he declared that in terming him. self an agnostic, “I mean that I do not know.” With this intellectual humflity, he was convinced that one could learn far better. He advocated the study of ast y as & cure for egotism and confessed that he had a particular lik- In% that sclence, at_Hanover, Germany, May 20, was luated from School, Wolfenbuttel, in 1865 and came to the United States five m’l later. Friends of his father gave his first start in Washington and he was wont to brush sside the rigors of his earlier years wita the assertion that they were no worse than others experienced. He marpled Cora Adler of ‘Washington in 1881. They had thre€ sons and three daughters. BAND CONCERT. HE’ the United States Soldiers’ Home