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he Foening Sfas. ‘WITK SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1929. LQUORINFORVER JFFDATREFUSED CHARCE DISHISED " Judge Mattingly Throws Dry Count Against Woman Out of Court. HART DECLINES TO TAKE ACTION IN SECOND CASE “Evidence” Obtained by Colored Man Said to Be Federal Undercover Agent. Refusing to accept the affidavit of an alleged undercover man for the pro- hibition department who once had been a police informer, Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court today dis- missed a charge of sale of liquor brought against Ethel Mills, colored. Following the dismissal of the Mills case, Assistant United States Attorney David A. Hart declined to file a charge of violation of the Jones act against Minerva Younkers, also colored. The “buys” in both cases were alleged to haye been made by John Wade, colored, now sald to be regularly employed by the prohibition department. When he was a police informer the police say | he was paid $2 for each “buy.” = Wade reported he had made a “buy” of & pint of liquor from the Younkers woman at her home in Wade's court on July 22, and police of the third pre- cinct later charged the woman with sale, but Hart refused to uphold the ! of “set-ups” was removed this morning when the time expired. graph, Meyer Davis, owner of the cafe, is watching United States Marshal Snyder as he takes away the lock and barrier at the door. charge. He also declined to lodge a charge of illegal possession against Alex Sharp, colored, 1200 block of Lindsay street, who was present at the Wade court premises when the raid was made by Detectives S. F. Gravely and R. J. McCarty. Police charged two gallons of liquor ‘was discovered in the woman's home. ‘When testifying before Judge Mat- tingly in the Mills case, Gravely said he had given Wade $5 with which to make a buy. Later, on the stand, Wade informed the court he had only re- ceived $1 from a policeman, but that he had been given $5 shortly before. Questioned by Judge Mattingly, he be- came confused and the magisirate dis- missed the case. NINE PERSONS HURT, RESUTL OF BRAWLS Disputations Featured by Use of Bricks, Guns and Cutting Implements. Nine eolored persons landed in local hospitals over the week end following plain and fancy disputes which were settled with bricks, guns and various and sundry cutting implements. James Dabner, 27, of South Wash- ington, Va., was treated at Emergency Hospital early yesterday for cuts in< flicted on his face by another colored man near his home. Ernest Juggins, 24, of 1230 Sixth-and-a-half street, was treated at Walter Reed Hospital for gun wounds in his shoulder and right arm received at Takoma Park, Md. Willie Gomillion, 35, of 623 Gordon avenue northeast was treated at Casual- ty Hospital last night for cuts on his upper lip and right hand. He had had an argument with his mother-in-law, Mrs. Rosina Barnes, and after treatment at the hospital he was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge by police of the ninth precinet. James Noel of 2423 Snow court had his cut ear treated at Emergency Jios: pital yesterday afternoon. It was a brick that did it, following an argu- ment at New Hampshire avenue and I street. Another brick ended a rtow which sent Alberta Budd, 24, of r02 Marion court, to Preedman’s Hospital for the second time during the day. Alberta had been treated unce for a wound on her forehead foliowing the first “discussion,” and yesterday after- noon she was back for more treatment with a brick wound received in a second dispute. | | | THE PADLOCK COMES O The padlock ordered on the Cafe Le Paradis a year ago for the alleged sale In the photo- —Star Staff Photo. VAIN SEARCH MADE * FORTHALER BODY |Bureau of Standards Chem- ist Loses Life While Fish- ing in Maryland. | PSR | Without much hope of recovering the {body of George Thaler, 29-year-old i chemist of the Bureau of Standards, po- | lice and volunteer helpers today were i storching the marshes in the Patuxent | River near Solomon. Md., where the young man was drowned vesterday while on a week end fishing party with | several friends from Washington. | A 50-foot depth in the river at that ! point made it impossible to drag the I bottom and the strong currents are b |lieved to have carried the body a con- siderable distance. The only hope of | recovery, it was said, is in the chance { of it being carried into the marshes. | Willard Criswell of 3432 Connecticut | avenue, also a chemist at the Bureau {of Standards. a member of the fishing | party, said that Thaler was drowned when he dived into the river from a launch to retrieve a hat belonging to {another member of the party, which had blown into the river. The swift current carried both Thaler and the | hat 100 yards down the river and the swimmer became exhausted in trying to | breast the tide. Rescue Attempted. Criswell explained that Thaler did not seem to be in danger at the time and members of the party shouted for him to “take it easy” and they would | pick him up in the boat. He’ estimated 1it took about four minutes to pull up {the anchor, swing the launch around | and get to Thaler, who was still drifting downstream. Before they could rescue | him he went down and did not reap- | pear. Members of the party dived into | the water in futile efforts to locate the body. { After notifying the justice of the i peace and the police at Solomon, who | said 1t would be useless to drag the { river, the party returned to Washington late yesterday. drowning to De Berriz, 1429 ‘They reported Thaler's | P BERLINER FUNERAL TOBE HELD TODAY ‘Famous Inventor to Be | Buried in Rock Creek Ceme- tery This Afternoon. Funeral services for Emile Berliner, famous who died at his home in Wardman Park Hotel Saturday, will be conducted there this afternoon at 5:30 o'clock. Inter- terment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery. The services will be simple, in a | cordance with the wishes expressed by | Mr. Beriiner before he died. An a dress will_be delivered at the services by Harry Franc, a close personal friend. | | Also, in lipe with a request of Mr. Berliner, his daughter, Mrs. Alice B. Lubin, will play on the piano Beeth ven's “Moonlight Sonata,” and _his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Josephine Ber- liner, {ll- play: Chopin'’s “Funeral Mzrch.” Active Pallbearers. Morris Nordlinger, Bernard Harman, Norman_Hertz, Robert Meyer, Dr. Lee | | Wolfe, Dr. Allen Wolfe and Willlam | Heilprin will be ‘active pallbearers, | Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. George M. Kober, Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, | Dr. Edwin Behrend and Harry Franc. Mr. Berliner ‘was_stricken with DI;'I- He rallied until’ lapsing into uncos | sciousness Friday. He was surrounded ‘ by members of his family when the end | came. | Invented Microphone. | In his seventy-ninth yehr, Mr. Ber- liner had become world famous for his inventions and philanthropical work. Principal among his inventions are th radio microphone, which makes broad | casting possible: the flat disc phono- graph record and the gramophone. In recent years he turned his in- ventive genius to aeronautics and was widely known for experiments he had made with the helicopter type of air- | plane. His philanthropic work included large | expenditures of money for child welfare, Three other persons to reccive treat- | Twenty-first street, where the ‘JOUng | 1 which endeavor he had devoted much ment were Ada Hedgeman, 44, of 1031 Cissel alley: John Walker, 21, of 2037 E stree:. and Mary Chism, 29, of 2506 N street. TAXICAB DRIVER ROBBED OF MACHINE AND CASH Two Passengers Take 87 and Drive Away After Hold-up With Pistol. ‘Two young white men, picked up at Massachusetts avenue and D street southeast shortly after 9 o'clock last night by John Kirk Robertson, taxicab driver, turned out to be bandits, ac- cording to a report made by the driver an_hour later. Driving to the 600 block of L street northeast and finding there was no number similar to the one they had given the driver, the men had Robert- son drive themgto other locations be- fore one of them took the wheel, the other displaying a pistol. When Union street southwest was reached Robertson reported, one of the men robbed him of about $7. They then drove off in the taxicab and abandoned it a shart distance from the seene of the hold up. e CALL FIRM BANKRUPT. Creditors File Proceedings Against Sterrett & Fleming. Alleging that the appointment of re- celvers for Sterrett & Fleming, incor~ porated in Delaware and in this city, constituted an act of bankruptcy three creditors of the corporation today asked the District Supreme Court to declare the corporation bankrupt. The peti- tioning creditors are the Taylor-Kor- man Oil Co., the Griffith Consumers Co. and the Fisk Tire Co. They are represented - by Attorney George E. Sullivan. o LIEUT. COL. JEWELL DIES. Retired Officer Served as Veterin- arian in World War. Lieut. Col. Charles H. Jewell, U. 8. Army, retired, died at the General Hos- pital, Hot Springs, Ark. August 1, ac- cording to War Department advices. Col. Jewell was-born at Ithaca, N. Y., July 22, 1869, and ent tered the Armyas a veterinarian in June, 1916. He serv- ed during the World War | | and was re- tired in January, 1022, as a lieutenant colonel. His widow, Mrs. Anna M. ~ewall, is at Hot Springs. chemist had roomed for the past year | with Wayne Harrison of Palestine, Tex., | who is now on a vacation. From M i De Berriz the address of Thale | mother was obtained. and Criswell wired | her last night at Caimar, Towa. | Early today no word had been re- | ceived from Calmar. While it is possi- ble it is not the correct home address. | | Thaler had been receiving letters from | his mother postmarked at Calmar’. { Criswell said that J. O. Burton, an- ards, and a man whom he did not know joined Thaler on the fishing trip. They drove Thaler’s car and arrived at Solo- mon Island about 7:30 o'clock Saturda evening. Soon after arriving they me another four-man fishing party and, joining that group, rented a launch. The members of the other party were unknown to them. . The drowning took place about 2 'o'clock yesterday afternoon. Thaler had expressed a desire to go in swim- ming, it was said, and when the hat was blown into the river, he took off his trousers and jumped in after it. According to De Berriz, the young chemist had been living here about a year and was of studious habits. He was negaged as a chemist in the de- partment of enamels at the bureau. De Berriz is a language teacher at Mc- Kinley High School during the regular term. Seven Killed by 0ld War Shell. WARSAW, Poland, August 5 (A)— Seven farmers were killed yesterday by explosion of shell they found on the old battlefield at the village of Latnice, near Lemberg. They unscrewed the fuse cap to take off the copper parts and the explosion followed. Several other per- ; sons were injured. other chemist at the Bureau of Stand- | | time and effort. 'STORE OWNER IS FINED ON CHILD LABOR CHARGE Arraigned in the Juvenile Court this ulating the employment of minors | Harold Offterdinger, proprietor of the “Country Store,” 4449 Connecticut ave- nue, was fined $25 and the sentence suspended by Judge Mary O'Toole. The children, said to have been em- ployed at the “Country Store,” were Thelma and Jack aggil, 15 and 13 years old, respectively, of Kensington, Md.; Louise Worrell, 15 years old, 711 Seventh street southwest; Arthur Harry, 14 years old, 3500 Alton place. They testified that they usually worked from about 5 o'clock in the afternoon until midnight. The boys said that they re- ceived no salary from Offterdinger, but collected about $20 a week in tips, the girls receiving $5 a week salary and about 89 in tips. None of the children are entitled by law to work after 7 o'clock and Jack Riggil, being only 13 years old, would be unable to get a per- mit to work. ETURNS MAJ. SOMERVELL R Maj. Brehon Somervell, District | Engineer for the War Department for the Washington area, today returned to his desk, following a two weeks en- campment with the 343d _Engineers, organized reserves, the District of Columbia outfit which has been at Fort Humphreys, Va. | A new fund to be entitled “un- claimed monies of deceased patients of Veterans' Bureau hospitals (trust funds)” was proposed today by Con- troller General McCarl to b2 set up in the Treasury in order to establish it against future claims. The proposal of McCarl was made to Director Frank T. Hines of the United States Veterans’ Bureau, who said that he had been unable to find any person legally entitled to some money belonging to a patient, John F. Berry, a bureau beneficiary, who died at Walter Reed Hospital, July 30, 1928. “It frequently happens,” sald McCarl, “that patients in veterans’ bureau hos- (pitals, die, leaving ‘a small amount of % “Unclaimed Money Fund,” Holding Sums Left by Veterans, Is Urgcd by McCarl sonal funds in the possession of the g\eerdlul officer in charge. It devolves upon the bureau. to dispose of such monies, paying same to the person who is found to be legally entitled thereto.” Difficulty had been encountered in several cases, the director said, and where small funds were left they had been held indefinitely in the special deposit account of the disbursing clerk. Berry_ left $18054. Hines asked if it should be handled clerk, but McCarl suggested the new fund in the Treasury Department and a system of accounting whereby the Veterans' Bureau, the Secretary of the Treasury and the General Accoun Office would keep up with the fund an its status. - inventor and philanthropist. | | morning for a violation of the law reg- | by the disbursing | f TRAFFIC VIDLATORS GIVEN SMALL FINES RS ARRESTS DROP Minimum Penalties Imposed on Majority to Face Police Judge. |DAY’S LARGEST SENTENCE IS ASSESSMENT OF $25 Average Payment- of Those Found Guilty Is $10, Low Limit Fixed by Law. The accession of Judge John P. Mc- Mahon to the Trafic Court bench for the first time since the beginning of the safety crusade was marked by the ' imposition of minimum fines on ap- proximately 75 motorists today. The number of arraignments was the mini- mum since the opening of the cam-; paign. Judge McMahon imposed his most severe penalty on Timothy W. Temple, 3200 block of Thirteenth street, who was charged with second offense speed- ing. Temple, arrested by Policeman G. M. Patton, was ordered to pay $25. Convicted of first offense speeding, the majority of defendants arraigned were fined the minimum penalty of $10. Continuances were granted to three defendants arraigned on charges of reckless driving. 8 Phillip A. Jackson, 1200 block of R street, one of the three charged with reckless driving, was arrested fol- lowing a collision yesterday, in which | Policeman W. G. Handley of the sec- ond precinct sustained cuts and bruises. Judge McMahon ordered the case con- tinued when informed that due to his injuries, Handley was unable to ap- pear in court to testify. Arrested by Policeman W. B. Kuhns on Wisconsin avenue yesterday, Leo | | Warring, 2500 block of K street, pleaded | inot guilty to a charge of driving while drunk when arraigned in Traffic Court and demanded a jury trial. i Pifteen persons were injured, two of | them seriously, in a series of week end ! traffic accidents reported to police this { morning. ! Bernard Canter, 21 years old, living | at 212 Fourteenth street northeast, is in a critical condition at Casualty Hos- fplhl as the result of injuries suffered { early yesterday morning when run down | by a hit-and-run driver at Eighth street { and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. He | | received a fractured skull and severe cuts and bruises to the head and face. Police were furnished a description of the driver and machine, but had not {located either this morning. Eight-year-old John Helgenberg suf- fered right leg injuries last night when run down while walking across the | street in front of his home, at 619 Six- : teenth street northeast, by an automo- | bile operated by George W. Myers of 1109 I street northeast. The child was taken to Casualty Hospital, where his | condition this morning was reported as | undetermined. Policeman Is Injured. I Myers was taken to the ninth pre- | cinct station house and released after ! questioning. Policeman W. C. Hanley, 30 years old, attached to the second precinct and i living at 1633 Q street, was treated at i body bruises received yesterday when the machine in which he was riding and driven by Policeman J. M. Wilson, 27, of the same precinct and residing at 13030 Wisconsin avenue, was in collision at Twelfth and Q streets with a car perated by Phillip A. Jackson of 1214 R iisen and | n and Jackson® escaj unin- jured and the latter was rmsed on 1825 collateral after being booked at the (second precinct station on a charge of | reckless driving. | Policeman W. E. Grimes, 48 years! |old, "of the eleventh precinct, = was treated at Casualty Hospital last night or lacerations to the right eye, suf- fered when run down on Alabama ave- ! nue near Eleventh place southeast by | an automobile which he attempted to stop. He reported the machine was driven by Lester Mull, 28 years old, ot 3330 Brothers place southeast. Mull, who also was treated at the| hospital for bruises sustained when | thrown forcefully against the steering wheel of his machine when it struck | | the policeman, was held at the eleventh precinet station on charges of driving while drunk and assault with an auto- ! mobile. Two Women Are Hurt. Miss Tamara Block, 29 years old, and her sister, Ella, 25, both of 930 Emer- son street, were injured painfully last night when run down as they alighted {from 'a street car at Second and H {streets northeast by an automobile driven by Daniel A. Murphy, 44 years old, of New York City, who was ques- tioned by police of the ninth precinct and released. Five colored persons were injured slightly yesterday when the machine in which they were riding struck a telephone pole on Benning road near Twenty-first stréet northeast. ‘The injured are: Matthew West, 18, of 2623 Sheridan road southeast, driver of the car; Ernest Short, 22 years old, 2633 Sheridan road southeast; James Simms, 17, of 2549 Pomeroy road north- east; Gus Simms, 20 years old, and Ash- ton Dockett, 19, both of 2625 Nichols avenue northeast. All were treated at Casualty Hospital for minor body bruises. Marie Long, 18 years old, colored, of 55 Q street, was treated at Casualty Hospital for deep lacerations to the | right knee, suffered yesterday when the | machine in which she was riding and 'operl',ed by Willlam H. Carter, 22 years old, colored, struck a telephone pole jon Bladensburg road at Twenty-eighth street fortheast. Carter escaped un- injured. Child, 6, Is Bruised. Maude Jewell, 19-year-old colored girl, living in the rear of 520 New Jer- sey avenue, was treated at Providence Hospital fqr painful body bruises, suf- fered yesterday when run down at One-half and M streets southeast by an automobile operated by John Walters of 624 I street southeast. Her condition was said to be not serious. Six-year-old Elizabeth Orton of 4035 Branch street northeast suffered severe body bruises and shock when the ma- chine in which, she. was riding and op- erated by her father, Willlam Orton, 41 years old, was in collision with an- other car yesterday 7 miles beyond Seat Pleasant, Md. j e Policeman ‘Is Scalded. Pvt. John J. Fitzpatrick of the third | police precinct was. treated at Emer- gency*Hospital late yesterday afternoon for scalds received at his home, Girard street northeast. He was carry- ing a pail of hot water to the upper floor of his home, he explained, when he stumbled and fell, scalding his right leg and foot. Fitzpatrick was able lelvi the hospital after recejving treat- men Scene at the J. E. Dyer Co. warehouse In Georgetown when firemen first arrived yesterday o fight a four-alarm fire which caused damage of $25,000. "WAREHOUSE SWEPT BY A-ALARM FIRE Grocery Company’s Loss From Blaze Is Estimated at $25,000. Pire of an undetermined origin late yesterday swept the wholesale grocery building occupied by J. E. Dyer & Co. at 3330 M street and brought four alarms before it was put under control. Damage was estimated at $25,000. Acting Fire Marshal C. G. Achstetter said today that the interior of the structure almost was destroyed by the flames and considerable damage Te- sulting from water was suffered by food- stuffs in an adjoining building, which for a time also was threatened by the blaze. The first alarm, which was turned in about 4 o'clock, was followed by three additional alarms, which brought Fire Chief George S. Watson to the scene, 12 fire companies and 2 truck com- panes in addition to a number of police | reserves, who formed a guard to main- tain order among the large crowds attracted to the blaze. Foodstuffs Ignite Quickly. Indications were that the fire started near the center of the second floor of the twa-story brick and frame structure | and had gained considerable headway before the arrival of the first detach- ment of firemen. The tiers of boxed Emergency Hospital for painful leg and | foodstuffs quickly ignited and the blazz | spread throughout the first floor, giving rise to huge clouds of dense white smoke from the assorted edibles. o The business is conducted by Robert F. Dyer, president of the firm, and co- owner with his brother, Edward Dyer, sons of the deceased founder. The owners said most of the stock loss was covered by insurance. Traffic Is Disrupted. According to Fire Chief Watson, the damaged structure was erected about 10 years ago after a fire had destroyed th previous building. Considerable traffic congestion wa: occasioned by the blaze when, in ad: tion to attracting hundreds of motor and pedestrians and jamming streets for several blocks in the vicinity, traffic on the Key Bridge was temporarily halted and routed over the Highway Bridge at ‘Wisconsin avenue. Machines headed for this city from Virginia met with a similar difficulty at the other end of Key Bridge. e $300 DIAMOND RING TAKEN BY THIEVES Wearing Apparel and Cash Also Enumerated in List of Robberies Totaling $818.89. s A diamond and turquoise ring, val- ued at $300, headed a list of stolen roperty, valued at $818.89, for which he police have been asked to search following week end thieving. Jean De Pingre of 1801 F street said the Ting was taken from his home on Saturday. Mrs. Hattle Griffin of 1502 P street said $200 worth of wearing apparel was taken from her tailoring establishment at 1449 P street late Saturday night. Motor truck accessories, valued at $125, were reported stolen from the American Ice Co. property, at 38 L street north- east. Brooke Brewer, manager of the gasoline service station at 1621 Four- teenth street, told police that four tires, worth $10, were taken from the service station some time Saturday night. Lionel K. Lewis of 1015 N street re- ported the theft of clothing, valued at $55, and $2 in cash from his apart- ment Saturday night. Fischer’s Lunch- room, 1521 Fourteenth street, lost $41.89 in cigars, cigarettes and pennies to thieves, who entered the establish- ment through a skylight. D. C. MAN TO PRESIDE. Miner Normal School Principal to Conduct Interracial Parley. J. A. Turner, principal of the Miner Normal School, will preside over the annual interracial conference at Co- lumbia University, New York, begin- ning tomorrow. ‘The meetings of the conference will be held in the Horace Mann Auditorium and the principal addresses be made by Dr. W. W. Alexander of Atlan- ta, Ga.; Dr. James Weldon Johnson, secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Willlam H. Kilpatrick of Teachers’ Col- lege, Columbia University, and Mr. The musical program will be fur- nished by the Tusk Institute Quar- tet, Mrs. Charlotte Wallace Murray and John Work, director of the Fisk Uni- nnlg Singers. _The conference is Summer msidered the chief activity of the ‘sesslons. 904 | Turner. INFANT BURNS HANDS. 21-Month-Old Boy Sticks Both in Cereal Being Cooked. Bobby Corish, 21-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Corish, 9 Fifth street northeast, was treated av Casual- | ty Hospital yesterday for scalds received | to his hands as a result of putting them |in a container in which his mother was | cooking a cereal for him. |, The child was in the kitchen, where his mother was preparing his food, and | when her attention was attracted in | another direction he thrust one hand into the hot cereal, quickly putting in his other hand in an effort to extricate | the first one. | Mrs. Corish hurried the child to Cas- | ualty Hospital, where Dr. J. Rogers |gave fist aid. The child was returned | home after receiving treatment. JADWIN TO LEAVE Good Announces His Succes- sor Will Not Be Appointed Before That Day. Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of engineers of the Army, will retire for age Wednesday, and Secretary Good has announced that his successor will not be appointed before that day. Sur- Irnce indications point to the promotion |of Brig. Gen. Herbert Deakyne, assist- |ant chief of engineers, but there has | been no official admission to that ef- fect, and friends of Brig. Gen. Thomas | H. Jackson, president of the Mississippi | River Commissiol | have not abandoned hope. The ap- | pointment of either Gen. Deakyne or | Gen. Jackson as chief of the corps, ‘wnh the rank of major general, would leave a vacancy in the grade of briga- | dier general, for which at least 0 o | colonels of the corps would be eligible. | Included in that list, the leading names mentioned as possibilities, in the | order of their seniority, are Col. < | Charles W. Kutz, former District Ergi- neer Commissioner, now commanding | the 3d Engineers in Hawaii; Col. Wil- |liam B. Ladue, present Engineer Com- | missioner of the District; Col. William J. Barden, division engineer at New York. City; Cdl. Edward H. Schulz, division engineer at Cleveland; Col. Harry Burgess, Governor of the Pana- |ma Canal Zone; Col. George M. Hoff- man, division engineer of the North- east division, with station at New | York; Col. Sherwood A. Cheney. in | charge of the defenses of Boston Har- bor; Col. Harley B. Ferguson, division engineer at Cincinnati; Col. William \'P. Wooten, military assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War; Col. Earl I. Brown, division engincer at San An- tonio, Tex., and Col. Edward M. Mark- ham, commanding Fort Humphreys, Va. WOMAN RECOVERING FROM GAS EFFECTS Mother Reported to Have Made Two Attempts to Take Life in 48 Hours. Mrs. Edna Donoghue, 30-year-old mother, was today recovering at Gal- linger Municipal Hospital from the ef- fects of gas poisoning said by police to have been self-administered in her sec- ond attempt within 48 hours to end her life. She was found in an unconscious condition in the bathroom of her home, 1117 Four-and-a-Half street southwest, last night with a tube from a gas jet in her mouth and the gas turned on. The night before she was discovered in a similar condition as the result of tak- ing an overdose of sleeping powders. She was revived on both occasions by members of the Fire Rescue Squad and treated at Emergency Hospital. After treatment at that hospital last night she was transferred to Gallinger Hos- pital for further treatment and observa- tion. - Her 6-year-old son David is being cared for at the Neighborhood House, at 470 N street southwest, by Mrs. J. P..S, Neligh. Mrs. Neligh had just left the woman’s house last night to put the boy to bed and when she re- turned, in less than an hour's time, found Mrs. Donoghue missing. search of the house revealed the bath- room door, locked. When the door had been broken down the woman was found. lying on the fioor. : According to police, Mrs. Donoghue has been suffering from melancholia. ‘Woman, 84, Hurt in Fall. Miss Mary Edwards, 84 years old, re- ceived a severe injury to her head yes- terday afternoon as a result of a fall down the stairway of her home, 630 ‘Webster .street. She was taken to Cas- ualty Hospital and treated by Dr. J. Rogers Young. The physician found her sufféring from possible internal in- juries, in sddition to the injury to her | n, and other eligibles | A Chapter of Central High THREE WOMEN HURT {Machine Fails to Turn at| Curve, Crashing Through Bridge in Virginia. Three Washington women were in- jured early this morning when their automobile failed to negotiate a sharp turn on the Shenandoah Valley Pike, crashed through the guard rails of Cedar Creek Bridge, near Winchester, Va., and plunged down a steep em- bankment. I Mrs. Alice Che: daughter, Miss | Mildred Cherot, th residing at the Congressional Apartments, and & companion, Miss Billle Portch, 19, of 1026 K street northeast. were removed to the Winchester Hospital, where phy- sicians say their injuries are not serious. Mrs. Cherot is suffering from injuries to her chest, while her daughter suf- {ered only slight lacerations and minor bruises. Miss Portch was injured about the back and also is suffering from cu's and bruises. | _ Unacquainted with the sharp curves near Cedar Creek Bridge, Mrs. Cherot. | who is reported as having been driving the car, sped straight ahead instead of | making a sharp curve and crashed through the bridge rail. The machine turned over several times, landing final- 1y on the bank of the stream under the bridge. The women said some time elapsed | before their cries for help were heard bl‘;l a passing motorist, who summoned aid. | PECUNIARY MOTIVES CHARGED TO WOMEN | Enforcement League President Declines to Join Reform Movement. rot. her 19, bo In refusing an invitation from Mrs. ' Charles H. Sabin act on the National Advisory Council of Women's Organization for- National Prohibition Reform, Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, of Chevy Chase Md., president of the | National Woman's Democratic Law ‘Enmrcemrm League, declared women ‘op{msed to national prohibition are being actuated by pecuniary motives. “I know the women throughout the | country are more anxious to reform the bootleggers’ victims than they are for | prohibition reform, and the only women ;opposed to national prohibition are | women who have some pecuniary mo- | tives,” Mrs. Nicholson declared in a letter to Mrs. Sabin. “May I ask, why you as national Republican committeewoman sup- ported a ‘dry’ President last Fall if you entertajned the same views then that you do at present? Who is back of your movement and who is financ- ing same and why? I know there are not enough women throughout the Nation who want booze returned that they are not willing to finance so huge an undertaking.” |FRATERNITY CONVENES | FOR NATIONAL MEETING More Than 125 Delegates Here for Delta Sigma Nu Gathering at Mayflower. More than 125 delegates of the Delta Sigma Nu Fraternity, from all parts of the country, gathered for the open- ing of their national convention at the Hotel Mayflower this morning. C. R. Draper, alumnus of McKinley High School and national president of the fraternity, called the opening session to_order. The convention, which will continue in session through next Saturday, is composed of delegates from 47 chapters and 23 States. Plans for the entertain- ment of the convention have been worked out with the aid of members in chapters at Washington High School in Arlington County, Va.; Balti- more, Md., and Winchester, Va. Alpha Epsilon Chapter of McKinley Manual Training School and pha Sigma School are acting as hosts to the visiting delegates. ROOF GARDEN FEATURE. Batya Bath-Eini, Russian actress, will appear in a dramatic recital on the roof garden of the Jewish Com- munity Center, at 8 o'clock, tomorrow gght. it was announced by the center ay. Mly&l Bath-Eini, who has played in many prominent European cities, never before has performed in Washington, and in her recital tomorrow she will present & noufllol readings in Yiddish and Hebrew. her recitals and read- she pleads for a revival of spirit- y and idealism in the Jewish race. —Star Staff Photo. | SURVEY COMPLETE FOR 820 MILES OF BAIN OF POTOMAC Final Report Will Show Po- tentialities of River Development. 1 FIVE PLATS ARE MADE OF FLOODED LOCALITIES 166 Channel Cross-Sections Com- pleted to Determine Water Capacities. During the two months riod in which the survey of the Pamrgeac River basin, authorized by Congress, has been going forward, the force of Maj. Brehon Somervell, Disttict engineer for the War Department for the Washington area, has completed about 820 miles of the preliminary profiles and surveys on which to" base further work in as- certaining irrigation, flood control, hydroelectric development and naviga- tion possibilities. The field work is ex- pected to be completed this year, with the exception of a few small surveys. . E. J. Merrick, jr., civil engineer, who Is directly in charge of the field work, sald today that river profiles have been completed on 320 miles on the Shenan- doah River, 155 miles on the South Branch of the Potomac, 105 miles on | the Great Cacapon. 40 miles on the Monocacy, 125 miles on the main Po= tomac and 75 miles on various small { creeks, which include the Opeguon, An- | tietam and Back Creeks. Dam Sites Studied. About 50 potential dam sites are to ,b. studied and preliminary surveys have been completed on 22 dam sites jand 10 reservoir basins, Mr. Merrick | explained. Five plat surveys of towns which are flooded by a freshet were | made, with a view to laying definite plans for flood protection those lo- ! ca!lx_ues, he engineers and surveyors under | Mr. Merrick’s direction have taken 166 | channel cross-sections to determine the | water capacities of the various streams | " Rbout 000 ut 1, miles of river profile work jremumed to be done, Mr. Merrick pointed out, and this job is expected to be completed by the end of this month. Detail surveys of the potential dam sites will next be taken up. The parties have worked as far south as Waynesboro, Va., as far west as Keyser, W. Va., and as far north as Chambers- burg, Pa. There are some 14.500 sqgare miles in the whole Potomac River basin, Mr. Merrick said. and 2290 miles of this drain into the tidewater section of the valley. Eleven thousand five hundred and eighty square miles of this are situated above Chain Bridge, | the main part of the present survey ! being north of Washington, H 35 Men at Work. There ‘are 35 men engaged in con- | ducting the survey, for which Maj. Gen. | Edgar Jadwin, chief of Army engineers, | authorized an additional $150,000, on | the basis of a preliminary report, made | under the direction of Maj. Somervell, | showing that there were possibilities in further study of the area. One camp is { located on the Monocacy River above Frederick, Md.. while the other is now placed at Alaska, W. Va,, on Patterson street. Maj. Somervell and his aides are now engaged in writing survey reports on the York and Patuxent Rivers as a re- sult of studies that have just been com- pleted in those basin: i | i i =, | FOR SAFETY ZONE ;Foreut Killt_’lf ze;sk Stopping Area at Connecticut Avenue and Albemarle. | With a view to determining the ne- | cessity for placing a safety zone the | street. car stop at Connecticut avenue | and Albemarle street, scene of a num- : ber of recent traffic accidents, Col. Wil- |liam B. Ladue, District Engineer Com- | missioner, represented the Public Util- Htl‘e’s Commission at the public hearing ay. ) .- A committee of the Forest Hills Cit- {izens’ Association appeared before Col. iLadue and requested the safety zone as a double measure of safety, having already been promised by the Traffic Bureau that a control light would be established at the intersection. George W. Shoecky, superintendent of trans- portation for the Capital Traction Co., who also was heard, explained that the traction company had no objection to the requests of the citizens’ association. The Forest Hills citizens were repre- sented by George Esch, president, and | L. A. Carruthers, chairman of its traf- fic committee. They cited several ser: ous automobile collisions at the inter- section as reason for extra precaution being taken for safety, particularly of pedestrians. TWO BOYS FOUND GUILTY IN APARTMENT ROBBERY One Is Sent to Industrial School for Year—Second Case Continued. Arrested on August 1 by Officer J. A. Springman of the detective bureau and charged with larceny of about $600 in money and jewelry from the apartment of William Kaplan, 1832 Seventh street, Joseph Edwards, 14 years old, 300 block of Bryant street, and Frederick Doug- las Barnes, colored, 12 years old, of the 1900 block of Twelfth street, were found gullty before Judge Mary O'Toole in the Juvenile Court this morning. Barnes was sentenced to one year in the Col- ored Industrial School, Blue Plains, D. C, and the case of Edwards was continued for two weeks for investiga- tion by the probation officer. According to the police, the boys ad- mitted going into the apartment of Kaplan July 9 by entering an unlocked vacant apartment next door and walk- ing across a skylight which connects the two, then entering the former \through ‘a window. They took a bag containing about $500 in cash, a wrist watch and some rings from a bureau drawer. The boys said they bought bicycles and clothes with the money and gave the jewelry away. —_— Swift Pace Wins Swimming Race. ROME, August 5 (#).—The classic “across Rome” swimming race from Riso ento to Fluviale Bridge was won from 20 competitors yesterday by Gambi Gianni of Ravenna, who covered the distance of a little more than 3 miles in 41 minutes 10 seconds.