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Washingto n News" The WITH SUNDAY MORWING EDITION nening Staf. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1929. MMAHON SCORES ‘MOTORISTS' ABUSE 07 BOND PRIVILEGE Holds Ticket Should Be Abol-| ished and Violators Be Taken tq Precincts. WARRANTS ISSUED DAILY | FOR FAILURE TO REPORT | 1 i Magistrate Also Attacks Practice | { of Dealers Requesting Owners to Leave Tags on Cars, Tudge John P. McMahon in Traffic Court_this morning criticised abuse of the privilege extended to motorists by policemen, who give traffic law violators personal bond tickets to appear in court. He declared the practice should be abol- | ished and motorists compelled to go | 10 police precincts and put up collateral. | 1f they are not able to do this they | Bhould be locked up. he said. ] i Aftaches of the court state that be- | tween 50 and 75 warrants are issued every day to bring people to court. who have failed to comply with the order on | the tickets given them by officers. | Scores Practice of Dealers. The magistrate also attacked ‘he | alleged practice of automobile dealers in requesting owners of cars turned in on new machines to leave their license | plates on the cars so that they can | use them without getting dealers’ tags. Tn several cases recently the former owners have been arraigned and fined for failing to turn in the tags when the car was sold. “If I can do any- | thing to break up this practice of the automobile dealers 1 will do it,” Judge McMahon said. The magistrate issued a summons for C. W. Hodges, dealer of 1600 block Fourteenth street, to appear in court after Thomas E. Mitchell, 1010 Massa- chusetts avenue, had been fined for fafling to turn in his tags, i ¥ined on Two Charges. Artie L. Fisher, 20 years old, 3223 N ktreet, was sentenced to pay $20 or serve 10 days for driving without a permit and $15 or 15 days for driving at an unreasonable speed. Fisher was ar- rested on Cathedral avenue last night safter a chase of over a mile at a rate in excess of 50 miles an hour by Police- man E. J. La Force of the seventh pre- | cinet. A charge of reckless driving against Mrs. Gertrude B. Rush, 1200 block of Decatur street, was dismissed by Judge | McMahon. Policeman H. P. Cornwell | of the tenth precinct made the arrest after Mrs. Rush had run into the rear nf & car_operated by Benfamin Keefer | of New York at a traffic light on Six- | teenth street vesterday. LUNCHEON CLUBS BACK REGATTA | Optimist, Lions and Zonta Or-‘ ganizations Pledge Support for Races. A hearty indorsement and pledge of support, for the President’s Cup Re- gatta, to be held here September 13| and 14, has been given by the Optim- | ists ‘Ciub, the Lions Club and the | nta Club, L. Gorden Leech, secre- ry of the Chesapeake and Potomac Power Boat Association, declared yes- terday. Special committees have been appointed by the respective clubs to assist the Tegatta committee in the ar- Tangement of the affair. Active as- | sistance also will be given by the club | | | statement NS, " WYONE STE ELDRIDGE'S REPL SCOREDBY CLARK Omission of Modifying Clause in Denying Flexibility of Hoover Tu n Claimed. Charging Assistant Director of Traf- fic M. O. Eldridge with conveving an erroneous impression in his published vesterday Teiterating the claim that the Hoover uniform traffic code contains no provision for making a left turn at any other point than to the right of the center of the street Iintersection, Charles P. Clark, general manager of the American Automobile Assoclation today brought forth au- thorities to support his claim that the Hoover code left turn rule is a flexible one. Said Mr. Clark: ‘the point of turning is definite and fixed and there is nothing flexible about “Mr. Eldridge says t.’ “In the same paragraph and shortly preceding the quoted sentence, Mr. Eldridge saw fit to set forth a portion of section 38b of the Hoover Code, which, standing alone, would support | his contention, but he refrained from giving the modifying clause which im- mediately precedes the part he did quote. What he omitted is part of the same sentence he includes in his pre- pared statement and reads as follows, “unless otherwise directed by turning markers.” Mr. Clark says Mr. Eldridge “omitted the all-important modifying clause. Knowing Mr. Eldridge to be a close stu- dent of traffic matters, I have no op- |tion other than to believe that he at- | tempted to create a false impression when he included in his statement a sentence reading as follows: ‘There is o place in the code where it says that 2 turn may be made to the left of the | * Mr. El center of the intersection.’ GIRL WHO POSED ASBOY 1S SOUGHT ON THEFT CHARGE Larceny After Trust Is Filed in District. DISAPPEARED FOUR DAYS !Hother of North Carolina Miss De- clares Brentwood Girl Had Masqueraded as Youth. A warrant charging larceny affer Warrant Accusing Her of BEFORE WEDDING DATE; TWONEW AIRLINES WILL OPEN SERVICE * HERE WITHIN WEEK Passenger - Carrying Sea- . planes Will Operate Between | Washington and Saratoga. THREE SHIPS WILL FLY D. C.-NORFOLK ROUTE | Nation's Capital Is Made Terminal for Four Fleets of Commer- cial Craft. ‘The National Capital next week will 1= | MRS.. W, BRADLEY | trust has been sworn out. here for Miss | become the hub for two new passenger | | Wyone Stevens, 21 years old, of 3606 |air lines when Coastal Alrways opens Baker street, Brentwood, Md., who left | service from Hoover Field to New York | home August 14 in a hired automobile, | City and Saratoga, N. Y., and from fonr days before she was to have mar- | Washington to Norfolk, Va., it was an- | ried Charles Bolton, 23 years old. of Knounced today by Carlton E. Moran, | New York City, to whom she had been | president of the Hoover Field operating | | engaged for several years. company. | | The warrant was obtained Saturday | The Washington-New York-Saratoga by David Glassman, manager of Glass- | line will be inaugurated tomorrow aft- man’s Rent-a-Car Co. st 2101 Four-|ernoon, when the first passenger plane teenth street, several davs after Miss | leaves Hoover Pield northbound at Stevens, attired in a cap and knickers, | 3:45 p.m. had rented a car on the representation, | Daily flights will be made, the north- garage employes say, that she would be | bound plane leaving here at 3:45 p.m.. | back with it in a few hours. | arriving at New York two hours later ‘Word from Salisbury. N. C., is to the | and Saratoga in four hours. South. | effect that Miss Stevens is visiting.a bound, the plane will leave New York girl there whom she had met last |8t 9:30 a.m., arriving at Hoover Fleld | Spring while walking on F street down- | At 11:35 a.m., in time to connect with | | town. The girl's parents, Mr. and Mrs. | the new Clifford Ball air passenger line | L. W. Stevens, the former an employe | Operating from Hoover Fleld to Cleve- | of the District repair shop, have asked police to aid in the search for their daughter. Auto Ts Abandoned There. ‘The automobile was abandoned in the North Carolina city. Mr. Glassman was informed by the girl's father, and land, Ohio. | | Operate During Race Season. | | The service from New York o Sara- toga will be operated, Mr. Moran said, only during the racing season at the famous New York track. Four-hour service will be flown ¢grom this city to the garage sent & man to North Caro- | Saratoga, as against approximately. 10 lina yesterday to return the machine. | hours by rail. | In addition to a letter and tzlmlu:‘ Six-passenger closed-cabin seaplanes | from her daughter, in which the giri | will be operated over the line, the route |sald she was “tired of life” 'Mrs. | following waterways, including Chesa- | Stevens has been in telephonic com- | peake Bay, the Delaware River and the munication with the mother of the Hudson River. | North Carolina gir], a Mrs. Rodinhour. | The Washington-Norfolk line will be Mrs. Stevens was told that her daugh- opened some time next week, Mr. Moran lsl;n:;ld fia;l)re:‘e‘:'u%d lh'elw;eli’ to the said. Seven seaplanes and two am- uthern girl, th Inez Rodin- | phibian planes have bee ft ! hour, as & boy, and that she m& visited | tiitwo e m" n the Rodinhour home under this| With the establishment of these two masquerade. Miss Rodinhour informed | jines the National Capital will be the | the girl's parents today that she Had ' terminal for four passenger air lines, | received a post card from her from connecting this city directly with Cleve- Wilmington, N. C. | 1and, Pittsburgh, New York and Nor- The last word from the missing girl | | was & telegram from Greensboro, v hich | e United States. Three of these lines | will use Hoover Field, while the fourth, | indicated that she was contemplating P 4 % [ iekme & tkin home. A& pm‘m;ll let¥ | the Washington-New York Air Line, | ter from Salibury had asked the girl's | OPeTates from Washington Airport. | mother “to trv and Temember me if Follows New Airway. fate ever brings us together again.”! The Clifford Ball Line, inaugurated | Misp Stevems went on o say that Vihe |tart moct e oo Fleld, follows the | | world holds nothing for me” and that |new Department of Commerce airway, | she was “tired of life.” | now being lighted for night operations, | | The flancee of the missing girl hn;fmm this city to Pittsburgh. From | {been here since a few days after she | pitisburgh to Cleveland the estabiished | |left home, assisting her parents with | gir mail route is followed. The morth- the search. The girl ran away cn sev- | pound plane leaves Hoover Field at ral previous occasions, once reaching 12:30 pm. arriving at Pittsburgh at, | Buffalo, N. Y., before word was recelved | 2:30 and Gleveland at 4 p.m. from her, according to the father. bound, the plane leaves Cleveland at ————— 12:30, Pittsburgh at 1:45 and arrives at | Hoover Pield at 3:30 p.m. | Southbound gers can make con- t ‘6 POI-ICE PRIVATES ‘nec!.lon at thlpl.:cs:?neld for New York | SHIFTED BY PRATT *& S, i o | city with planes of the Stout Alrlins and the Thompson Aeronsutical Cor. Shinanlt Relieved of Motor Cycle poration for Detrolt and Chicago, and Duty in Ninth and Assigned |at Chicago direct connection may be | | made with the Boeing System, operat- to Second Precinct. ing to San Francisco. Hoover Field also is used as a service terminal by the Pitcairn Air Mail Line, | operating from New York to Miami, Fla. | | During & period of three months last | Sixteen changes in assignments of | Bradley started the removal of the house | | short time. L. 7. PHILLIPS. Leader of the newly organized Citizens’ Band, which has been granted permission to march in the firemen’s parade garbed in pa- jamas, in his new garb. —Star Staff Photo. . DESINNENPORT Passes Away in House Re-l moved From Capital at Es- timated Cost of $2,000,000 Mrs. Julis Williams Bradley, well- known in the Capital. where she lived | and entertained lavishly during ‘the | Roosevelt and Taft. administrations.| died yesterday morning st Seaview. Ter- | race, Newport, R. I, in & house which her husband, Edson Bradley, retired broker, had removed from Dupont cir- cle and rebuilt, stone for stone, at New- port, at an estimated cost of $2,000,000. | Mrs. Bradley was 77 vears old and had been in falling health for about| two years. Private funeral services were | belng held at the Newport home this| afternoon, with burial in Woodiawn | Cemetery. Newport. | The Bradley home in the Capital was | known as the old Alexander Graham | Bell house, and stood at the jib-lot| point where Connecticut avenue and, Nineteenth street meet at Dupont | Circle. Business buildings now occupy | the site. Veritable Art Treasure. | The house during the Bradley| tenancy was s veritable treasure house | | of rare and costly art objects gathered | from mll corners of the earth. Chief among the art prizes were the beds| made from the altars of old meme‘ Catholic_churches, richly decorat in | solid gold and precious stones. The spreads for these beds were rich altar cloths taken from the same echurches when the church and state in the Philippines were divorced following the | taking over of the islands by the United | States, i During their residence in the Capital the Bradleys were friends of the late Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, who saw ser- vice in the Philippines and aided the Bradleys in their collection of the treas- ures of the Philippines. Theater Built In Home. | Bullt into the Washington home of | the Bradieys was a theater with a seat- | ing capacity of 500, where amateur theatricals were presented and on Sun- days there were musicales with Mary | Garden and members of the Metropoli- | tan Opera Company as guest artists.| The theater portion of the house was turned over to the British embassy for use of extra clerks during the war and | the rest of the house was closed. It was about six year ago that Mr. from Washington to Newport. Under his personal direction the project was completed in about three years, although | the actual raxing of the house here | was accomplished in & comparatively Mr. Bradiey and a daughter, Mrs. Julie Fay Shipman, wife of the Right Rev. Herbert Shipman, Suffragan Bis- hop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese lly true, committees in the campaign to raise |ridge knows that to be litera ‘directed $10,000, whlch( is u.e:umltcd to be | but the code does say wherever necessary to defray the expenses of the | by turning markers.’” Fegatta. | * My, "Clark quotes the interpretation The co-operating committee of the |of the left-turn provision of the Hoover |Optimists Club will consist of Hugh E.| Code by the National Automobile Phillips, Joseph H. Nicholson and | Chamber of Commerce as follows: “In James 'W. Burch. Dr. George P.|making a left turn vehicles shall pass |Sharpe is ‘chairman of the committee |to the right of the center of the inter- |representing the Lions Club, and MTrs. | section unless otherwise directed.” Spring, Mr. Moran said, 15,000 passen- | 'tevg B M. Rown. from’ Hoover Pield, | chiefly on sightseeing fiights over | ‘Washington. TWO YOUTHS HELD | IN HIGHWAY THEFTS' | House ‘Tarii Bill Provides for of New York, survive. CUBAN PARCEL POST MAY BE RESUMED! privates in the Police Department were ordered by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, super- intendent, today. Pvt. G. W. Shinault | was relieved from motor cycle duty in the ninth precinct and assigned to foot patrol duty in the second precinct. Motor Cycle Policeman W. E. Davis was transferred from the eighth to the ninth precinet. Pyt. D. H. Jones was transferred from bicycle diity to motor ‘Willilam Gude is head of the commit- \1ee of the Zonta Club. Commodore W. A. Rogers and Leech today left Washington to attend the | Gold Cup races at Red Bank, N. J. | with the object of obtaining entries for the regatia here. | In addition to obtaining entries at {Red Bank for definite races, Rogers, and Leech will seek to promote good will toward the local regatta among | the power boat enthusiasts from all | lover the country, who will be in at-| itendance at the Red Bank regatta. | Commodore Rogers is chairman of | the general arrangements committee for the regatta here, and Leech is |secretar yof the power boat assocla- | tion, under the auspices of which the | iregatta is to be held. ‘TAXI COMPANY SUED ~ AS RESULT OF CRASH! Snits Asking for $37,500 Damages | Are Filed by Three Plaintiffs. Suite tolaling $37,500 damages were filed today in the District Supreme Court _against the Black & White Taxi Co. growing out of a collision of ne of its cabs with an automobile at glflv Jersey avenue and H street August 30, 1928. Lily L. Fletcher, described as nan compos, sues through her mother, Nan- nie E. Fletcher, for $25000 damages, declaring that as the result of the col~ lision she now has constant and re- peated attacks of epilepsy and her nerv- ous system has been impaired perma- nently. She was a passenger in the automobile of her brother-in-law, which figured in the collision. Julia K. Embrey, another passenger in the automobile, asks damages of $10,000 for injuries alleged to have been sustained by her when she was thrown against the door of the machine. Her husband, William M. Embrey, wants another $2,500 for the loss of services of his wife and for the expense incident to her injuries. Attorneys Leonard J. Mather and Samuel F. Beach appear for all three Pplaintiffs. P, SRR of New Air Mail Record. Py Cable to The Star. HAVANA, August 23.—The Pan- American Airways announced & new vecord for fast. service between. Lima, Peru. and this city when air mall ar- rived here within five days after bein mafled at Lima. Newspapers dais sugust 14 were received on’ Au- Lust 18, 5 NEW ORDER CHANGES SPECIALIST SELECTION | Ruling Also Provides That Ten Officers Be Given Classified Competitive Status. On the recommendation of the Sec- State and with the concur- retary of padar | rence of the Civil Service | the President has revoked paragraph 1 | of schedule A, which excepted “officers |to ald in important drafting work” in the State Department,-from the re- quirement of examination, and has sub- stituted for it = new provision in_the list of positions which may be filled upon non-competitive examination. The new provision reads: “Specialists in for- eign relations, political, economic and financial, whose proposed compensation is $3,200 or more, and whose training and experience along the lines of their proposed duties meet the standard min- imum quslifications set up in open com- petitive examinations for positions in the professional service for correspond- ing ades.” "fl?el executive order making these changes also provides ly that 10 officers of the State Department “pow holding excepted positions as offi- cers to ald in important drafting work, but whose duties are in fact of a clas- sified competitive character, are hereb‘y given a cl competitive status.” That list includes Willlam H. Beck, as- sistant to the Secretary; Harry R. Young, assistant chief of the Bureau of Accounts; Carlton B. Savage, research assistant; . BB Christie, the Transl ureau; Boggs, pher; Joseph W. research officer; Y‘l‘lsu?z :ummn. sistant librarian; jr, and Elot B. Colter of the visa office and Edward C. Wynne, assistant solicitor. cycle duty in the eighth precinct. Pvt. Emilous Barnett was transferred from foot patrol to bicycle duty in the same precinct. ‘The following transfers, all affecting foot patrolmen, were ordered: J. J. Hennessy, eight to fifth precinct; R. H. Taylor, fifth to eighth; J. W. Mt man, eighth to fourth; M. T. Mullen, eighth; E. R. Franklin, eighth to seventh. FIVE WATCHES STOLEN FROM STORE WINDOW Loss Is Estimated at $64 Dealer in Report to Police Officers. The theft of five watches from a showcase in the store of Max Bass, 113 Seventh street, last night is being in- vestigated by police of the second pre- cinct. The dealer valued the watches at $64.50. Frederick Knopla, 314 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, asked police of the second precinct to investigate his loss of 340 while in & house in the 1300 block of Vermont avenue several I:g.n::o Lewis H. Putnam, 231 ave- nue, appealed to the police to make an effort to recover s suit of clothes valued at $20. He said the suit was taken a room he had occupied at 218 C street. AT AT Two Honored for War Servioe. Silver star citations for. gallantry in action in France during the World War have been awarded by the of ST R Ko try, o ., Tharmas 3 A Rehr, 103d Engineers, by of 3723723 in Seven Months Sets Recor For Auto Output in United States Boania, dumers b By the Associated Press. Commerce Department figures show that the total domestic production of 3,723,723 motor vehicles, including pas- senger cars and trucks, during the first seven months of 1939 established & new. Baltimore Man Tdentifies lulpectl] as Having Taken Baggage From Auto. Two youths, suspected of having been | { implicated in robbing a number of mo- torists on the road between here several Pennsylvania cities, were taken into custody by Washington police to- day when they called at the Union Sta- tion for baggage which, police claimed, was stolen from a Bal ‘business man, It contained more than $3,000 worth of jewelry. /. ‘The a) men gave their names as Dennis Walter Kaczmarek, 24, of Pitts- burgh, Pa., and Howard Lafayette Lindy, 22, of North Carolina. Both were lodged in & cell at No. 6 precinct station house. Lieut. of Detectives James A. Manning came over from Baltimore with Lee Her- vey, president of the General Service Co. of Bllt:dmol!‘.wlwhoh da.nmaa the youths as having stolen baggage yes- said he was driving ! along the road en route home to Ball more when he was hailed by the two men walking along the highway near i Cumberland, M POISON POWER BLOWER. {Device for Use on Motor Boats to XKill Mosquitoes Is Developed. ‘The United Siates Pflhll'l:n!g’wthm power blower for paris green dust to lu:flm‘:: elimination of thp malarial it at |Service Issues Order Saying At- Repeal of Statute Limiting Importation. | Resumption of parcel post relations between the United States and Cuba are likely as s result of the approval by Senate finance committee Republic- ans of a vision in the House tarift bill rmm the statute limiting im- of Cuban cigars to lots of re than 3,000. The Senate, however, parcel post agreement. Opposition to the repeal has been led by the American Federation of Labor and PFlorida cigar manufacturers. SCHOOLS THROWN OPEN TO INDIAN CHILDREN tendance Shall Be Arranged ‘Where Convenient. g £ g i i 3 é g B g £t 2 ¥ 2 i E P g § £ ? § 5 i i 13 2 L & a CHANGE PROPELLER PITCH FORTESTS Move Is Expected to Give Greater Speed to Navy's Newest Fighting Plane. | F6C-3 single-seater fighting plane prob- | ably will be flown this afternoon at the Anacostia Naval Air Station by Lteut. J. J. Clark, executive officer. Mechanics today were changing the pitch of the noon's record over the 10-mile course. Yesterday afternoon’s flight was made with an experimental propeller pitch setting which failed to give desired re- sults. The change now being made, it is hoped, will considerably increase the speed. The plane is expected to have s maximum speed of 180 miles per our. Later today the plane is to be taken to Philadelphia for several minor ad- justments and painting before it is flown to Cleveland next week for the national air races. Though the ship may not actually participate in any of the races at the Cleveland meet, it will be flown to demoustrate the new cooling process, in which a chemical cooling fluid replaces the normal water system. Small radiators, better stream lining and increased engine ecfficiency result from the change. C. OF C. FINISHES DEATH PENALTY STAND PLANS Special Meeting Will Be Held at Mayflower Hotel on Sep- tember 19. Plans for the special meeting of the Washington Chamber of Commerce on September 19 at the Mayflower Hotel, ‘when the chamber’s stand on abolition of the death penalty in the District will be decided, were discussed at a meeting ay afiernoon of the chamber’s law and legislation commitiee, Judge Mary O'Toole of Municipal Court, chair- man, presiding. ‘The committee has just m};\zlmd . favorable report on the subj ‘will be submitted at the special meeting Mn the form of a debate by prominent ‘members of the chamber on the various phases of the question. Mtendlni the meeting were Judge O'Toole, R. B. H. Lyon, vice chairman; Miss F. F. Greaves, Rev. George M. Dow, John §. Hornbeck, F. B. Hoffman and Dr. L. H. Craskin. TWO WOMEN ARE INJURED WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE Crash Occurs Near Ninth and R Streets—Taxiéab Driver Seriously Hurt in Upset. Mrs. Thomas F. Wagner, 39 years oid, Dwyer, z'ldyun‘ old, of McLean, Va., at Ninth an 5 The Dwyer car and the machine of E. L. Hutchinson, 1530 Varnum street, collided, Johnson receiving an in- jury to her back, while Mrs. Wagner’ b bruised. 'gu:::tl.mhwn,”ynfl of| northeast, ived lmwm ture of ribs early evening when his mu‘omfl.ah:‘toummm Chevy Chase parkway after skidding. $22,000 Bequeathed Charities in Will Of Mary G. Kelly Beguests totaling $22,000 are made to a number of charitable institutions and churches by the terms of the will of Mary G. scores tontans, who died August'16. She directs the American Security & Trust. Co., her executor, t¢ con- vert her entire estate into cash, and, after paying the specific bequests, to surrender the bal- ance to Annabel Hinderliter, an sttorney of the United States ‘Veterans’ Bureau. Among the bequests are $2,000 to Little Sisters of the Poor, $4,000 to Catholic Home for the Aged, $2,000 to St. Ann’s Infant $2,000 to Friendship House, $2,000 to St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, $3,000 to Salvation Army, $2,000 to Colum- bis. Polytechnic School for the lind, $2,000 to Children’s Hos- $3,000 to St. Matthew's Catholic_Church, $7,000 to Mrs, ‘Willlam H. Garrigan, Fort Smith, Ark.; $2,000 each to Eilene Moran, Blanche J. Bimont, both of this city, and Anne Henderson of New York. PAGE 17 SECRECY CLAMPED - DOWNTIGHTER ON GALLINGER PROBE Committee, Meeting Again Today, to GivevDut Nothing Until Work Is Over. ]REPORTERS BARRED FROM INSPECTIONS !Psychopatbic Division Visited, bat Plans as to Wards Are Not Given Out. The lid of secrecy was clamped down tighter than sver ioday ':pon the se- tivitiex of the medica’ commitiee of the Board of Public Welfare in eon- nection with its fnouiry into conditions ot Gellinger Municipa! Hospital. Although the members of the eom- OFFICER GETS MAN i s tour of the institution, it was aaid in | | their behalf that no information wonld {Wrenn and 200-Pound Col- ' ve given out to the public until the re- " Z sults of the inquiry sre reported to the { ored Prisoner Dragged From District. Commlsnonem: Canal by Fellow Policeman. peychopathic division of Gallinger, peake & Ohio Canal, st the foot of | Board of Public Welfare, declined to Psychopathic Division Seen. . which has come in for special criticism, Potomac street in Georgetown, Police- | State what wards would be inspected ‘The committee Yesterday visited ‘he Grappling in the waters of #he Chesa- but George S. Wilson, director of the today. He explained that the commif- tne | msn W. C. Wrenn sand s 200-pound colored man, whom he hsd sought to srrest, were pulled from the canal last night by Wrenn's fellow officers from | No. 7 precinct and members of a Fire | Reseue Squad. Wrenn got his man, who was later booked as Joseph Willlam Hipkins, but lost the evidence on which he hoped to convict him of transporting liguor. He overtook Hipkins after a brisk chase at | the brink of the canal and the atruggle | which ensued plunged them both over the 10-foot embankment, into the 4water, | | where it continued while excited spec- | | tators called the police and rescue squad. | |~ Wrenn said the chase began when he | spled Hipkins proceeding down the L | street with a suspicious package under his arm. Wrenn decided to investigate | but just about that time Hipkins de- | cided to run. The chase was on. Tt | covered several blocks and ended at the | | foot of Potomac street. The policeman | said the big colored man smashed & jar he believed contained liquor and threw s similar jar into the water just as the | | former caught up to his quarry, breath- | less, e tussle began when the two | met and developed into a water battle. | While hostilities continued in the | water, a colored man and woman. who | police say was Major H. Taylor, 22 | vears old, and Muriel Harris, 32, threw | & Tope to their colored ally so he neighbors were busy and so were the | telephone wires, and in a few minutes | | the scieeching sirens of the Fire Rescue | Squad and police reserves from the seventh precinct warned Hipkins of his | | propeller in preparation for ihe tests | approaching fate. | |in an effort to better yesterday after- ‘When the “smoke” had cleared away Hipkins and his two would-be rescuers | were on the way to & cell in the sev- enth precinct station and Wrenn was | en route to his house to get some dry | clothes. ‘The finale saw Hipkins held at the | station house on sn assault charge | | after the release of his colored | | “friends” and the return of Wrenn to | his post, somewhat refreshed by his sprint and “plun {FATHER AND 17 CHILDREN | 1 | could | Further speed tests of the new Navy | effect his rescue. Meanwhile, though. | | tee did mot. know what it would do in | advance of today’s meeting. | “We don't want any reporters mc- companying us” he added. “They would only prolong matters and wes , would never get through.” Members of | the committee, when questioned about. the Tesults of vesterday's inspection, said the committee had determined tn divuige nothing except what, is con- tained in the final report it i to make at the request of the Commissioners. Judge Seller’s Return, Judge Kathryn B. Sellers of the Ju- venile Court, whose criticisms of Gal- linger precipitated the present. inquiry. will not return to Washington until Sepiember 3. ‘Whether she will be heard by the medical committee or be invited to put. in writing any information bearing on her charges is a matter not definitely determined. 'SUNDAY TRAVEL PAY ALLOWED EMPLOYES Controller Genersl Makes Rnling | on Status of Workers Forced ! to Leave Stations, Emploves of the Government in & travel status are entitled to per diem payment in lieu of subsistence for Sun- days and holidays spent awayv from their duty station, Controller General cCarl has held, although absence from the station be for personal rea- so1 ns. Where the question of leave is not in- volved and the employe's duties do not specify work to be performed on Sun- days and holidays, the employe’s ah- sencg from his station does not inter- fere “with performance of dutles, Mc- Carl held, nor increase the amounts chargeable against public funds. The ruling cleared up & point that has confused disbursing officers of vari- ous Government agencies, who have been uncertain about approving vouch- | ;'ho leave their temporary duty on Sun- | days. | Quebec Farmer En Route to Water- ‘ ko’}i‘l,,' 3:,5,2,:{ t}}ffmm h:,{,‘:,“:{,;:f":,} | employe a travel status wl s Te- ! bury, Conn., Hopes to Better | ‘?.:’,."2 to his h:.dq\nmr‘l :t ‘Washing- ! i £ Fi ily. 'or & conference a am on s e s - s RS S S MONTREAL, August 23 ().—Jaseph | oficial duties for whic rach A Bt Cliriotine, Bagot | 6d 10 perform travel, may he paid 8 Tl | LEAVE FARM FOR CITY | S0 teate thols termporacs dury oo Sume | County, Quebec, with his family, in- | cluding 17 children, 10 boys and 7 girls, | have arrived here en route to Water- | bury, Conn., where they will Ilive. | Bisaillon is leaving his farm after 24 years of toll with the hope of finding improved conditions in Waterbury. He intends finding work for himself and some of his family in the cotion mills and other manufacturing plants there. “T have nothing to lose,” said Baisail- lon, “for after 24 years of toil on the farm I have nothing to show for all my labors. And, besides, I felt that I should give m: & chance to make more of N Moffett Regards | Los Angeles Test As Forward Step £ |Experiment Proved Much of Military and Commer- icial Value, Says Chief. By the Associated Press. The experiments carried out by the dirigible Los Angeles in launching and recovering airplanes in pnidair are re- garded by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Naval Buresu of Amm"‘:'t 'v:n'mmm‘m- of airships. week with diffe: pilots, showed that airplanes could hook on to an apparatus suspended from the airship vhllemh;h fl‘llm. and then unhook ‘military values,” “the airship ?; and repair base lanes can be used The injured man was treated at Emer- | be gency Hospital by Dr. John Schwarz- man, his coridition being reported unde- 2 / y children their lives than I have.”! step toward the | 6 |per_diem for the day preceding the conterence. 'BOARD 0. K.'S LOAN FOR 4 CARGO SHIPS | American Export Steamship Com- pany Plans to Operate Vessels | in Foreign Trade. By the Associated Press. Shipping Board foday approved of $6,900,000 to the Alpnpenfl.fl Steamship Co. of New York for the construction of four new cargo ves- sels to operate in the North Atlantie- Mediterranean-Black Sea trade. ‘The action was taken after the Infer- departmental Board had approved the loan in 50 far as mail-carrying contracts were concerned. | | _The companv applied for the loan shortly after the enactment of the 1928 merchant marine act, but pending ap- proval by the Interdepartmental Bosrd the Shipping Board took no action until lao‘tnifled that the former had no objec- Export Co. took over a line for- - merly operated by the Merchant Fleet Corpora! consisting of about 25 ves- sels in the Atlantic-Mediterranean The loan represents three-fourths of the total estimated costs of the four The & loan Export. YOUTH IS WOUNDED | Mysterious Shot Pierces Left Shoul- ' der of Boy. A bullet fired by an unknown person last night through the left shoulder of he was passin, Harris of Grace Atrways made o successful fight yesterday from this city to Quito, capital. mmmueogmm - moun= g