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s AN Washington News oK) T The Foening Star. WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1929. * PAGE 13 PRESSURE SYSTEM SEEKING “PUNC {A. E. F. Heavyweight Boxing SURVEY LAUNCHED - BY WATER BUREAU Seeks to Ascertain Whether| Plan Will Prove Economical | in Downtown Section. REQUEST OF GOVERNMENT ARCHITECT BRINGS PROBE Department Believes Cost of Pump- ing Project Would Not Be Prohibitive. An_exhaustive survey was started by the District water department today to determine the feasibility of increas- ing the water pressure in the down- town business section which is now served by gravity flow. The department’s initial move was to send _questionnaires to owners of all buildings five stories or more in height in the gravity flow area inquiring into the cost of operation of pumps us>d to provide sufficient pressure on the upper floors of the structures primarily with a view to ascertaining whether an in- crease in pressure is desired and whether it would result in decided economies. Would Minimize Fire Hazard. The study was brought about through & request by the supervising architect’s office of the Treasury for higher water pressire in the area south of Penn- sylvania avenue, which would obviate the installation of water pumps in the new Government buildings and at the same time minimize the potential fire: hazard. Although no estimates have been pre- pared as to the cost of increasing the pressure, it is not believed at the Water Department that it would be prohibitive, since it is possible to connect the present gravity flow area with the Bryant street pumping station. The erection of a new pumping station such as was sug- gested several years ago When there was agitation for the installation of a high-pressure water system in the high- value area, however, it was said, would be too costly and not economically ad- vantageous because of the slight reduc- | tion promised in fire insurance rates. Would Save Expense of Pumps. While the question has not been dis cussed recently with the Board of Fire Underwriters, it is believed at the Dis: trict Building that the insrease in pres. sure that could be affected by connec! ing the gravity flow a with tk pumping station on Bryant _street, should result in a cut in tl surance premiums, aside fr ¢ owners of the high buildings the presen expense of operating pressure pump: Pumping water through the gravity flow mains, it was pointed out, might cause a break in some of the older pipes, that have weakened from infirmities, but Water Department at- taches feel that the gravity flow sys- tem in general could stand the strain of higher pressure. If ft.§hould be de- cided to raise the pressure, an examina- tion would be made, it was said, to locate and strengthen the weak points in advance of a connection with the pumping station. The gravity flow area - includes the section Iying between Sevententh street end Pennsylvania avenue on the west, First street on the east, B street on the south and K street on the north. CHILD SERIOUSLY HURT. Accidentally Knocked Down and Skull Probably Fractured. Little 4-year-old LaVerne Marble of 147 R strect was seriously injured last night when she was knocked to the sidewalk by an unknown colored girl, who accidentally bumped into her. The child was treated*at Children’s Hospi- tal for a possible fractured skull and severe head injuries. | The accident occurred in front of 2016 M street where the girl’s mothcr, Mrs. Lester A. Marble, was visiting friends. As the child crossed the side- walk to an automobile parked at the curb, she was knocked down. Her parent took her to the family physician, | who advised removing the girl to Children’s Hospital, where she was| treated by Dr. F. B. Cogswell of 4815 | Fourteenth street. FALLS IN SHAFT. Carlton Hotel Engineer, Charles| " * A. Rogers, 66, Is Injured. ‘Charles A. Rogers, 66 years old, an engineer at the Carlton Hotel, Sixteenth and K streets, was injured about the head and body early this morning when Jie fell from the first floor to the top of | an elevator, which was standing at the fmscment landing below. He was taken yfi Emergency Hospital and treated for | # possible fractured left rib and lacera- . tions to the face and forehead. His con- tion is believed to be not serious. According to police, Rogers, who lives | ‘st 1916 Seventeenth street, was leaning #ver an open door with the upper part his body in the shaft when he lost “Bis balance and fell. ;%HOTESTS RATE ON FLAX. -fiinnesotn Governor Holds Tariff | ess than House Bill Mistake. ST. PAUL, August 21 (#).—Protests ainst reduction of the flax duty be- the 63 cents a bushel fixed in the ouse tariff bill was voiced yesterday Gov. Theodors Christianson in a legram sent to Senator Reed Smoot | Utah. A tasiff on flax less than the House 1l figure, the govetnor said, would be serious mistake. .He added that in- % eased flax production in the North-)They st would help reduce the periodic sur- us of wheat end potatoes and improve nomic dcondulons in sections now ‘sériously depre L Amp;x!filcl‘?‘s Mm‘fixvfm” vedc: 'mmittee have gte of 56 cents a bushel l{ox ‘The nt tariff is 40 cents. ; ‘BATTERY STORE DAMAGED Zesting Machine Short-Circuit Be- jeved Cause of 14th Street Fire. st a2 $500. was to the rear of g:; En‘x‘flu' although chm“w& ?‘ ‘:Ilght ! 'lh] which m:l :tvi’?&‘ 2216 %L ‘The' discovered by & passerby. Champion Will Be Aided by Army’s Best Medical Skill. Eyes of Returned Veterans Once Turned to West Virgin- ian to Win World Title. Bob Martin, heavyweight champion of the American Expeditionary Force, is back in Walter Reed Hospital again. ‘The West Virginia doughboy is still trying to recover, aided by the Army's best ‘ medical skill, from the constant dizziness—“punch drunk,” the sports writers call it—which resulted from the sluggings on the head received in his many fights during and after the war. During the Summer of 1919, when the boys were pouring back from France, the boxing world looked for another heavyweight champion from the ranks of the men who had learned to fight in the toughest of all rings. The eyes of the returning veterans turned to Bob Martin, who had won the interallied army championship in Franceyalthough he was accepted only with reservations by the Marines, who had a champion of their own. Fought Too Often. But Martin had fought too often and too well. Pitted against the profes- sional pugs, it was not long before he was failing to make the grade. In a few years he had faded from the pic- ture, He was “punch drunk.” ‘When the Marine champion, Tunney, finally stopped the meteoric career of Dempsey, Bob was through and a few weeks later he was a patient at Walter Reed for the first time. He fought Gene Tunney 14 times. “I could beat that kid,” Bob says reminiscently. “He was never popular and the boys used to yell their heads off when I chased him around the ring. I could beat him again if I ever can get back in the ring. But I guess every fighter thinks that he can lick the other guy.” Began Fighting in Army. Bob is Indian-Irish-Scotch-American. He was born in Albright, W. Va., 32 years ago. began my fighting career n Uncle Sam’s favorite Army way back in 1916. I fought once or twice and the boys kept urging me on. I kept knockin’ 'em out, one after the other, until I came to believe I was pretty good myself. I liked to wade in and slug, you know; take a dozen to land one., I never was keen on boxing. My outfit landed in France in September, 1918. I was made drill sergeant and drew down 36 bucks a month. I was too busy helping to fight the Big Fight to give much thought to my fists those days. Then came the armistice. The welfare organizations wanted me to fight for the boys to keep them in good humor and keep their morale high. And I did. I fought plenty. | Elimination bouts were held to decide | WOMAN ENDS LIFE. BY BREATHING GAS| Note Left by Mrs. M. A. Brown Blames Act on Poor Health. ‘The lifeless form of Mrs. M. A. Brown, 35 years old, was found huddled over the gas range in the kitchen of her home, at 4404 New Hampshire avenue, shortly before noon today. Members of Fire Rescue Squad, No. 2, worked over her body for more than an hour, but all efforts to revive her were futile. A note was found beside the woman's body stating that she was dying from ill health. Her 12-year-old son Jimmy, who is a student at St. Gabriel’s School, was. terical when informed of his mother’s death. Her husband, an em- ploye of the Navy Yard, hurried from his work when told of his wife’s death. According to neighbors, Mrs. Brown had been in ill health for some time and had on numerous occasions before threatened to take her life. ‘The discovery of the body was brought about when Ernest Strobel, a neighbor, living at 4406 New Hamp- shire avenue, detected the odor of gas coming from the back yard next door. Strobel said he went first to his own cellar and finding everything in order walked next door and saw Mrs. Brown's body stretched over the gas range in the kitchen with all the jets turned on. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt viewed the body. TWO FACE CHARGES . OF TRESPASSING Men Are Accused of Being Dis- orderly on McCormick-Goodhart Estate on Riggs Road. ‘Two men arrested last.night will be tried in Hyattsville Police Court today for trespassing on the estate of Mrs. McCormick-Goodhart on Riggs , which this Summer is being occupied by Sir Esme Howard, the British Am- bassador. According to police, one of the men attempted to escape’ while being a raigned before a Justice of the Peace and was recaptured only after a foot- race’ through the streets of Hyattsville early this morning. 7 The men are Joseph E. Greene of BOB MARTIN BACK IN HOSPITAL H DRUNK" CURE BOB MARTIN. —Star Staff Photo. the heavyweight championship of the A. E. F. There were some good scrap- pers in the outfit and the going was far from easy. But I was going great and nobody could stop me. I kept knockin’ them out as fast as they came. Knocked Out Fay Keiser. “Fay Keiser and I reached the semi- finals. We fought for the champion- ship and I knocked him out in the tenth round. From that it was but a step’ to the interallled army championship. Boy, those were great days!” Bob closed his eyes and relaxed. The muscles that had stiffened during his recital relaxed, too. His sudden anim: tion died down. He had borrowed a moment from the glory and excitement of days gone by and was paying for it now. The swift picture of cheering thousands, of battle, of strength, of victory faded and in its place he saw the grim present and the grim years ahead. There is no greater tragedy than that of a strong man made sud- denly helpless. The arc lights in a fight ring ai brilliant and white, but they cast a correspondingly long shadow. “Fight- ing Bob” Martin is certainly in fits shadow now. The man who fought to keep up the morale of the boys of the A. E. F, who gave them and Uncle Sam the best that he had for the sheer love of the game, is having a tough struggle to keep up his own morale. Doctors at Walter Reed are doing their best to restore his health so that he can find work and help support his wife and five children, whose only financial support now is Bob's monthly compensation check allotted him by the United States Veterans’ Bureau. Bob's oldest boy is Bob Martin, jr. 'm bankin' a lot on that ki He's a big boy for his age and smart as a whip. Have I given him any instruc- tions in boxing? I should say not. ‘That kid knows more now than I ever did. I only hope that he gets a better break than I did. He's a good kid. 17 DAYS! DROUGHT WAY END SOON Warm and Showery Weather Forecast—Bureau Records Broken by Dry Spell. ‘Washington has had no rainfall for the past 17 days. the longest August droughts ince 1892, when a dry spell jof the same duration was experienced, the records at the Weather Bureau here showed today. In figures, the 17 day drought together with the previous scarcity of rain means that the Capital has had a rainfall of only 2.14 inches from July 1 until midnight last night, while the normal fall for that period ; is 7.36 inches. ‘The present drought might be broken tomorrow night, however, for forecast- ers believe the slightly warmer tem- perature due to reach the city tonight and the cloudiness scheduled to reach here tomorrow, will bring showers by tomorrow night. Weather Bureau records show that all of the rain which has fallen here since July 10 fell in two showers, with .28 inches July 22 and .85 inches Al t 3. The remainder of the 2.14 inches since the first of July fell during the first 10 days of that month. Mean- while no rain sufficient to record itself has fallen since August 3. Consulting the bureau’s records, of- ficials listed several similar dry spells for the months of July and August. In 1881, that 62-day period had a fall of only 2,74 inches. Other light rain fall totals for the two months were 3.76 inches in 1893, 4.14 inches in 1894, 3.53 inches in 1900, 4.39 inches in 1902 and 4.07 inches in 1909. These railfalls are considered light, in view of the fact that 8.72 inches is ths normal fall for the full two months. The Weather Bureau officials it out that while the current drought is comparatively long, it is not neces- sarily the most serious dry spell of the year 'round. October and November, they say, are the driest months on the calendar. One of the longest :.r.y spells on record was registered in 1884, when only 2.88 inches fell during August, September and October combined. —_— BUS DRIVER ‘INVITED OUT’ BY POLICEMAN IS FREED Testifies Officer Tried to Take Him From Vehicle by Force Upon Being Arrested. Landover, Md., and Colman Hicks, 1200 | tak, block of Pennsylvania avenue southeast. oot in ik“d'mmp‘l‘"ld""‘; two women in a parked car inside o Langley Park, Mrs. McCormick-Good- hart's estate. Foliceman Reese and Constable Ralph | w Brown say that while Langley Park, '.heyyme attracted to the car by the sound of Lhoulnf and A When they came within sight of the machine, the officers say, the men threw several bottles at them. The women were not arrested. Police say that the men were so dis- orderly when taken before Justice of the ace Moffat 2 tsville -that he or- £ o et n Hicks 1it a cigarette throw it a tres] Park_was the Gor HOOVER RECEIVES |U.S. T0 ESTABLISH VETERANS OF 80TH - LARGEST AIR MAIL AT WHITE HOUSE ““Blue Ridge” Division to Close Reunion With Program Tonight. ARMY FLYERS “STUNT” FOR FORMER SOLDIERS Harlan Wood Asks All to Help in Drive for Passage of Hos- pital Bill, President Hoover today was host at the White House to several hundred World War veterans of the 80th or Blue Ridge Division, who tonight will end their four-day tenth annual reunion in the Capital ‘The veterans left Bolling Field, where Army flyers gave them a stunt flying exhibition this morning, and gathered at the White House, where they met nd were photographed with the Chief Executive. i ‘This afternoon, they are holding their final busincss session of the reunion and { tonight will have the annual division |ball, in the ballroom of the Raleigh Hotel, reunion headquarters. Yesterday afternoos the veterans, who were drawn from the Virginia. West Virgin: aryland area for serv ice overseas, were guests of the soldlers at Fort Myer and saw a cavalry monkey drill in the riding hall the post. Wood Asks Hospital Aild. A plea for the able-bodied and able- minded veterans outside the District to compensate for the voteless condition of those who reside in the District by putting forth every effort possible to secure the passage of the veterans' hospital bill now pending in Congress, was made by Harlan Wood, former commander of the District department of the American Legion at the annual banquet of the 80th Division held last night at the Raleigh. ‘Wood told the veterans of the efforts being made by the Legion and other service organizations in the Capital, without a voice in the affairs of the Government, to further all projects for the betterment of the conditions of the wounded World War Veterans, the or:h-nx and widows of the war and to take care of the growing needs of all others left in unfortunate circumstances by the ravages of the conflict. Gen. Wells Is Toastmaster. Maj. Gen. (Briant Wells of Washing- ton acted as toastmaster at the banquet. Maj. Hugh Obear of Washington, who served with the 320th Infantry of the division, addressed the banquet, as did Representative Russell L. Leech of Pennsylvania, the Rev. Edward A. Wal- lace of Manhattan Beach, N. Y., na- tional chaplain of the division, and Ed- mund Erke, secretary to Representative Stephen G. Porter of .Pittsburgh. District department, Veterans of For- eign Wars’ Drum and Bugle Corps, at- tended the banquet in full regalia. TWO WOMEN CONVICTED OF THEFT OF GARMENTS Larceny of Coats From Lansburgh Store Brings Fine of $50 for Each Defendant. street, and Agnes Henderson, 1400 block {of Girard street. both 25 years old, i were found guilty of the larceny of two coats from Lansburgh's department store, by Judge Robert E. Mattingly {in Police Court this morning, and eack sentenced to pay $50 fine or serve 90 days. outside the store by Policewoman Alice Barrett, when Miss Sydow is alleged to have walked out wearing the coat which she had been trying on. After the girls had been convicted of this larceny and the judge had referred both to the probation officer on recommendation of the policewoman, Miss Henderson was found to be wearing another coat which had been reported missing from the store. They were brought before Judge Mattingly again and sentenced. THREE CHARGES FACE _ SUSPECTED VIOLATOR Man Accused by Police After Con- fiscation of Alleged Beer and Wine. ‘Three charges of violation of the prohibition law were placed against Lee Di Giuseppe, 50, of the 400 block of Tenth street this morning by police. (The cases were continued until tomor- row, when the man appeared before Judge Robert. E. Mattingly in Police Court. Following the purchase of alleged liquor by Policeman H. G. Wanamaker, of the first precinct, from DI Giuseppe on the second floor of a house located in the 400 block of Tenth street, Police- man D. Mansfield, also of the first cinct, entered and arrested the man. A search of the premises revealed 1,500 bottles of alleged home brew, 10 gal- lons of alle wines, and 80 gallons of alleged mash. The man was taken to the first %reclm:l, where he was placed under $3,000 bond. The police say that two patrol wagons were required to take the confiscated to the station. Di Gluseppe is charged with sale and ‘on of liquor and with possession of materials for the manufacture of IN HANDS OF RECEIVER. Court Action Taken Against In- diana Street Railway. * ND, Ind, Auf 21 (A). ‘Whit! 4% Myrtle Sydow, 3100 block of Warder | U The women were arrested yesterday ! SERVICE INWORLD North and South America to Be Joined in Extensive Network. POST OFFICE LEADERS PLAN TO LINK LINES 'Regnln Four-Day Route, Which Would Replace 13-Day Schedule, Is Contemplated. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The largest air mail service in the world is to be established by the United States. It will link North and South America and may be in operation with- of in the next few months. The Post Office Department is plan- ning to build the new service by con- necting existing ailr routes and taking advantage of new lines that are being started in South America through the ald of American capital. There has been sharp competition between Euro- peans and Americans for possession of the air lines and it is believed that by reason of the influence of the Wash- ington Government in extending air mail contracts, the American companies have the upper hand. ‘The plans call for a regular four- day service over routes which hereto- fore required a minimum of 13 days. All Lines Would Co-Operate. Alr mail to South America will be ' developed, however, by co-operation be- tween steamship lines and air mail com- panies, especially since it is thought that the air mail will stumulate com- merce between the two continents and thus there will be enough business for all concerned. ‘When the network of foreign air lines is completed, it is expected that light cargo and mail will be carried. In view of the fact that parts of South America are relatively inaccessible by rail, the i dispatch of air mail and freight to ! central points there to be relayed by Xlummublle will make it possible for j many regions to be brought in_closer touch with American markets for all kinds of goods. Development of fast steamship lines is likely to follow the extension of the air routes, because with a quickened means of communication, the demand for American products rea- sonably may be expected 1o rise. ‘The American Government's present alr mail service to the Pan-American countries is less than a year old, but in that time the American lines have covered more distances than those ofl | the European countries which pioneered in South America. One of the Ameri- can companies, according to informa- tion at the Post Office Department, car- ried more than 100,000 pounds of regu- iar and special air mail between the United States and Latin America this year. base for the relaying of mail for South America is to be established at Miami, Fla, thus connecting with air lines within the United States. Air Companies Get Ald. It is a curious coincidence that the aviation companies are getting their assistance from the American Govern- ment today in exactly the way in which | advocates of an American mercnant rine pleaded for help in the last 30 If the proposal had been made the aviation lines to foreign coun- tries be subsidized directly by the Amer- ican Government, it never would have i received the sanction of Congress. But 1in recent years the shipping industry has been successful in persuading Con- | gress to give what is known as indirect iaid, especially in the letting of con- tracts for the carrying of mail. Other governments have for a long time prac- ticed this form of subsidy, but it wa not approved in the United States until the last three years. Now the aviation | industry is gefting the benefit of that principle and it is a foregone conclu- sion that the American countries would not have been able to get financial help if they could not have had the benefit of air mail contracts. Harry New, former Postmaster Gen- eral, has gone into the aviation busi- ness, and Paul Henderson, who, until a few years ago, was Assistant Post- master General, now is a prominent figure in the aviation world. It is considered likely that the Post Office Department will become a training school for executives and that from it will ‘be drafted from time to time of- ficlals to take charge of aviation proj- ects of various kinds. ‘The Post Office Department's ex- perience with the air mail, both inside and outside the United States, will make it a center of aviation knowledge, particularly as it relates to the move- ment of commerce. Other branches of { the Government will be concerned pri- marily with the regulation of traffic in the mechanical sense and with the in- tensive research in airplane and engine building. The American Government is aiding the aviation industry much as it orig- inally did the railroads. 2 (Copyright, 1929.) o DRAMA GUILD ADDS FOUR TO BOARD OF GOVERNORS Members Chosen for One-Year Term—Meeting Planned .to Ar- range for Coming Season. ‘The election of four new members of the board of governors of the Com- munity Drama Guild of Washington, to serve for one year, was announced today. The new members are: Mrs. Fulton Lewis and Dr. de Witt Crolssant, who represent the guarantors of the guild, and Mrs. Maude Howell Smith and Robert M. Miller, jr, who represent the membership. Other members of the board of gov- ernors include Cuno H. Rudolph, Judge ma i | CUB. Paul INDIAN LYRICS ARE PUBLISHED IN NEW COLLECTION OF SONGS Miss Frances Densmore Re- cords Native Papago Music With Phonograph. ———— Considered Valuable Contri- bution to Aboriginal Amer- ican Literature. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. “In the great night my heart will go out, Toward me the darkness comes rat- tling; In the great night my heart will go out.” ’ An important contribution to aborigi- nal American literature is contained | in a collection of Iyrics obtained by Miss Prances Densmore of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution among the Papago Indians of Southern Arizona. ‘These lyrics, with their English trans- lations, have just been published by the bureau. The Indian originals were obtained by Miss Densmore by means a phonograph, with which she recorded the native songs, some com- paratively recent and some from the earliest history of the Papagos, whom | Miss Densmore describes as “a gentle, agricultural tribe.” ‘The lyrics differ strikingly from most Indian songs because their emotional tone and subtle imagry is preserved in literal translation, while many of the others defy translation and, in the white man’s tongue, become flat and monotonous. Some of the Papago songs, however, have a close resem- | blance to modernistic poetry, whilé | others bear a curious likeness to some of the spirituals which originated among | Southern Negroes. ‘Typical Lyries. Typical of the former are lyrics, “Sunrise” and ‘“Sunset, their weird imagry: “The sun is rising, At either side a bow is lying, Beside the bow are lion bables, The sky is pink, That is all. “The moon is setting, At either side are bamboos for making, Beside the bamboos are wildcat bables, ‘They walk uncertainly, That is all. “The sun is slowly departing, It is slower in its setting, Black bats will be swooping when the | sun is gone, ‘That is all. “The spirit children are beneath, They are moving back and forth, ‘They roll in play among tufts of white eagle down, ‘That is all.” ‘The type of the spiritual is shown in such songs as the following, collected by Miss Densmore: “Yonder lies the spirit land, Yonder the spirit land I see, Further ahead, in front of me, I see a spirit stand.” “The Owl Woman.” Some of the loveliest of the Papago lyrics were obtained by Miss Densmore from an old lady known as “the Owl Woman,” who claimed that they were dictated to her by the spirits of the :mnndmwbeuudinkelunl ess. At night, she said, the spirits of the old-time Papagos come forth from their arrow- | FRANCES DENSMORE. graves and go to the spirit land, along a road not far from the village, which they alone can see. They first revealed themselves to- her after the death of her husband, about 40 years ago. Then they took her to the spirit land in the evening and brought her back in the early dawn. From a high place she looked down on a thickly populated |land traversed by black waters, beside | which the dead children played and where the spirits danced all night. When the spirits had taken her many times to their abode they decided that she should be taught certain songs for the cure of sickness. She has now, she told Miss Densmore, received a hundred of these songs from individaul spirits who come back to her a few days after death, but she can remember only a few of them. But the unlettered old woman, talk- ing with the spirits of the dead, evi- dently has a touch of original genius, ich is displayed in occasional verses h an unearthly touch, as: “A white mountain is far at the west; {: }s‘hn%s“bclutlflxl: as brilliant white arches of light bending down towa M the elrthlg' Another Example, The Indian lyrics are full of striking imagery, such as in the verse: “White feathers along the edge of the world, Downy white feathers are moving be- neath the sunset and along the edge of the world.” “From the west a white wind is com- ing out, g out, . Stand there and look, it is not near, It is bes:;ie the ocean, there you will see it, By the reflected light of the sun yow will see it.” “Green rock mountains are thunder- ing with clouds, With this thunder the vills is shaking. The water will come down and I will float on the watery Afterward the corn will ripen in the fields. to the west the great ocean is singing, The waves are rolling toward me, covered with many clouds. Even here I catch the sound. The earth is shaking beneath me and I hear the deep rumbling.” “A cloud on of Evergreen Moun- tain is I.I"IA,‘p are shaking, Under the mountain the horns of the child-corn are glistening.” Officer’s Houdini Trick Is Downfall Of Liquor Carrier Rivaling the late great magician Houdini, who on occasion could pull a rabbit out of his shirt, | Clarence Lutz, policeman of the 1 third precinct, last night stopped | | a man and pulled a half-gallon | | fruit jar out of his shirt. This bit of magic resulted in the hold- ing of Robert Jackson, colored, 52 years old, 2400 block of Phil- lips court, at the third precinct with a charge of possesion of liquor against him. | Lutz said that at a late hour last night he saw a man come out of a suspected house, and when he ordered the man to stop he only increased his pace. Final- 1y he caught the man and seeing what he believed to be the top of a jar protruding from beneath the man’s shirt front, he gave a yank and pulled out the half- gallon of al whisky. MRS. WILLEBRANDT TELLS OF MISUSE OF GRAPES Farm Board Informed of Question- able Processes Which Might Con- flict With Prohibition Laws. By the Associated Press. At the request of officials of the Cali- fornia grape. industry, the Federal Farm Board has heard from Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt a recitation of ?uentlonlble processes of grape manu. [acture which might conflict with the hibition laws. ‘Board members said wever, they had no intention of tak- ing any steps as a result of the in- formation. Mrs. Willebrandt, who, formerly was Assistant Attorney General in charge of prohibition, told the board of her contact with processes by which some grape beverages are sald to become coholic in content after purchase. ‘The board has arranged for a $9,- 000,000 loan te stabilize the 1929 crop of raisins and fresh grapes. One Dumb New Y;rker. A, N. Y., August 21 (#).—Mrs. T. Wilcox of Cheyenne, Wyo., is con- vinced residents of New York city need to know more about their State. Cash- ing a check here, she received some of the bright new notes of the Cuba Na- tional Bank. In New York city she tendered a 85 riote to the conductor of a Fitth avenue bus. He told her it was against the rules to accept foreign money. 2 McAdoo Stops Off in On Transcontinental Hop to New York Willlam Gibbs McAdoo, recently be- come a Skv Lines magnate, has taken to the ai* ..mself, with a private plane here yesterday hour-22-minute the night ‘who NINE CONVICTED ONTHEFT CHARGES Sentences Suspended Due to Inability of Woman Plain- tiff to Attend Trial. Nine colored persons arrested last week on charges growing out of the theft of money from the home of Miss Blanche Magruder, aged spinster, 1304 Thirty-fifth street, but now residing at the Home for the Aged and Infirm, were arraigned and convicted in Police Court yesterday. Judge Robert E. Mattingly sentenced one man to a year in jail and the other eight men and women to six_months, but owing to the inability of Miss Magruder to come to court and testify, he suspended the sentences in all of the cases. Neighbors reported to the police that mysterious visitors were frequenting the house almost every night, which brought about a search of the premises that re- vealed $400 that the spinster had hoarded in a bureau drawer and in vari- ous places in the house before her de- parture to Gallinger Hospital, and, sub- sequently, to the home, following her collapse last Summer from the heat on the street near her house. The police watched the house for several days and arrested the nine people on charges of housebreaking. Those who received six months in jail, with the sentence suspended, were Ellen Davis, 3261 Scott street: Mary Robinson of the same address, Edward Alonzo Thompson, 3224 't ave- nue; Thomas Slater and William Wood, addresses unknown; Bruce Brown, Ada Brown and W. H. Brown, 3220 Prospect avenue. James Lee, 927 T street, was given suspended. OFFICERS TRANSFERRED. Capt. Ernest A. Reynolds, Quarter- master Corps, has been transferred from Fort McDowell, Calif., to San Francisco; Capt. Willlam B. Yancey, Infantry, from the Panama Canal Zone to Fort Ontarfo, N. Y.; Capt. E. L. Lewis, In- fantry, from Hawalil to Fort Plattsburg, N. Y.; First Lieut. Irvine L. McAlister, retired, from duty at the Oklahoma Military Academy, at Claremore, to home; lem Ue‘lrl‘l,. flmldun 'ns‘kl s Coast’ Arti m onroe, Va., to the wm"p?olnc Military Academy. National Capital country, set the big Lockherd-Vega down on Bolling Fleld early yesterday afternoon and took off for New York shortly before noon today. The lh:p is one‘::mngn‘:: ot:e pleasure cral e ln'hhhg;t.hnkmwhmtnm- continental records. Mr. McAdoo is not IcAdoo is heavily interested in Southern Lines, Inc., an airplane hmm concern operating lines in the 1 year in jail, with the sentence ! MUNICIPAL CENTER FUND MAY BE CUT TOREDUCE BUDGET Hold Project Would Not Be Jeopardized by Move, as $3.000,000 Is Available. |COMMISSIONERS PLAN TO MAKE LUMP CUT Estimates Carry $500,000 for Courts Building, Which Will Not Be Pared. ‘The reduction of nearly $2,000.000 in the District'’s financial budget for the 1931 fiscal year to bring it down to the $46,000,000 allocation of the Bureau of the Bufiget probably will not affect any of the various municipal departments, it was learned at the District Building | today as the Commissioners prepared to undertake the pruning process. ‘The Commissioners, it was indicated, plan to make the cut where it will hurt the least, and this can be done only by the elimination of a large lump-sum item. While no intimation was given as to what Jump-sum item is in mind, it is believed that the $3,000,000 for complet- ing the purchase of the municipal site is the one under consideration. Would Not Jeopardize Center. ‘The shunting of the $3,000.000 municipal center item, or the major portion of it, to the suplemental esti- mates which the Budget Bureau said the Commissioners could submit in ad- dition to the regular budget, it was pointed out, would in no wise jeopardize the municipal center project, since the $3,000,000 already appropriated for the land will enable the acquisition of nough property for the first unit to be erected—the courts building, which will house the police, juvenile and municipal courts and the office of the recorder of deeds. The regular estimates carry an item of $500,000 for beginning the construction of this building and there is no intention of the Commissioners to_remove this when the paring begins. By shifting the $3,000.000 land item to the supplemental estimates there is a 1 possibility that a delay might result in | acquiring the entire four-square area | selected as the center site, but District Icmcllla are represented as feeling that it would not be serious, and they would rather have such a situation than cut 4he estimates of the department heads, Which already have been reduced to the minimum. Congress Recognizes Need. As Congress has recognized the need of the municipal center and provided | $3.000000 to acquire & portion of the site, there is a feeling at the District Building that it would not refuse to ap- propriate the additional $3,000,000 for purchasing the remainder of the prop- { erty even though the item should go to the Capitol in the form of a supple- mental estimate. Aside from obviating a reduction in the estimates of the department heads, the transfer of the municipal center land item to the supplemental estimates would make it necessary to use a por- tion of the accumulated surplus rev- enues to the credit of the District in the Federal Treasury. If left in the budget when it is cut to $46,000.000, it was explained, the surplus would re- main untouched, as Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer, has estimated that the revenue avail- able for the 1931 fiscal year will sup- port a $46,000,000 budget. ‘There is little likelihood that definite steps to reduce the budget will be taken until early next month, when Commis- sloner Proctor L. Dougherty has re- turned from his vacation. The budget in fts final form is not due at the Bud- get Bureau until September 15, and the Commissioners - will have nearly two weeks after Mr. Dougherty comes back to lop off the $2,000,000, as decreed by ihe Budget Bureau. TRUST COMPANY HOLDS FUND FOR MISS HOWELLS Denies Woman Accused of Fraud Has Safe Deposit Box at Institution. ‘The Washington Loan & Trust Co., against which an attachment was re- cently issued by the District Supreme Court to see if the company held any funds belonging to Miss Elzina Howells, accused of breach of a contract to buy securities for Lilllan Gerard and Irene Biggs, nurses, of the Toronto Apart- ments, has announced that it holds $667.83 belonging to the woman. Miss Howells is in jail in default of a bond for $25,000 fixed in Police Court on a charge of larceny after trust. The com- pany said there is no safe deposit box in the name of Miss Howells in its es- tablishment. The two nurses seck a judgment for $5,900 against Miss Howells, to whom they say they intrusted that amount for investment. Miss Howells sent them on a zr‘:&w Europe, which was paid for by a dishonored check, it was stated. ACTIVITIES OF THIEVES REPORTED TO POLICE Chevy Chase Playground Among Places Entered, With Loss of a Few Tools. ‘The Chevy Chase Playgrounds, Forty- first and Morrison streets, was one of several places visited by sneak thieves early yesterday. The building on the playground was entered by removing hinges from a side door, but only a few tools were reported missing by the care- taker, Willlam M. Groves, 1212 B street northeast. The theft of $70 worth of tools was reported to police yesterday by Louis Mancuso, 208 C street. He said they were stolen from 4545 Linean avenue. A suit of clothes and a stickpin were stolen yesterday from an apartment at 1937 Fourteenth street during the ab- sence of James Kent, the occupant. He placed his loss at $35. AMOS ‘N’ ANDY IN D. C. Famous Comedians Will Broadcast Over WRC Tonight. Amos ‘n’ Andy, popular black-face comedians, will be heard in W in person over Station WRC beginning tonight, Frank M. Russell, vice presi- dent of the National Broadcasting Co., announced today. ‘The two radio stars, known to listen- v night, wpt 'hl‘“:lm bl 10 every exce) ys, from to 10:15 o'clock, They have inaugurated & brandgiew network ‘based on a eoz_eptbfi of & comic strip for