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dhe Foen 'WITH SUNDAY MORKRING EDITION ny Star. | w ASHINGTON, D, C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1929. * PAGE 17 POLICEMAN'S GUN BLAZES T0 CHECK FLEEING BURGLAR Thief Escapes in Automobile: _ After Dropping Tapestry | Valued at $1,500. BULLETS RAIN ALONG : CONNECTICUT AVENUE | Patrolman Rosenburg Surprises“ Marauder Emerging From Decorating Shop. Fired upon by a patrolman about 4| o'clock this morning as he emerged from a decorating shop at 1536 Con- necticut avenue, an unidentified white man dropped a bundle of tapestry he | had-under his arm, dashed across the avenue to a waiting automobile and escaped in a rain of bullets. Although the policeman, Irving Ros- | enberg of No. 3 precinct, doubts if | any of his several shots took effect, | hospitals of the District were notified | to be on the lookout for the man, in | the event he turned up for treatment. Policeman Rosenberg said he was turning the corner of Connecticut ave- | nue and @ street when he saw the man, a suspicious bundle bulging under an arm. The marauder fled when the | policeman ordered him to halt and | Rosenberg drew his gun, firing several times from a considerable distance. Forces Front Door Lock. Harry Walker, manager of the Valiant | 8hop, said this morning that the tap- estry was made in France and valued at $1500. He said entrance was gained by forcing a lock on the front door, and that nothing else was missing from the place. Officer Rosenberg turned the tapestry over to No. 3 precinct. Jewelry and clothing valued at more than $250 were reported stolen from the apartment of Mrs. Mirande Hodge at 930 Emerson street. The robbery was | said to have n committed sometime | between early yesterday afternoon and | last night. The loot included several | gold rings, some set with diamonds, | and an Elgin octagon-shaped gold wrist watch, | Mrs. Ross Davis of 1900 F street re- ported to police that thieves entered | her apartment by means of a duplicate key some time last night and made away with 20 victrola records valued at 815 and $3 in cash. MAGRUDER “GOLD” SEARCH IS HALTED Relatives Tomorrow Will Ask Jus- tice Wheat to Declare Wom- an Incompetent. Ending temporarily the treasure hunt which brought to light approximately $8,000 in gold, silver and currency hid- den in the abandoned home of Miss Blanche Magruder, aged Georgetown Yesident, receivers in the case today were preparing to report their findings tomorrow to the District Supreme Court. Justice Wheat will hear tomorrow the tition of Mrs. Marie Clark and Mrs. . L. Lamb, relatives of Miss Magruder, that the latter be declared incompe- tent to administer her business affairs. Miss Magruder now is bedridden at the District Home for the Aged at Blue Plains. It is understood the petitioners also | will seek to have Miss Magruder re- Andre Cattaui, attache of Pasha, wife of the Egyptian mini members of the.diplomatic fami er. DIPLOMAT SKETCHES WOMEN SENATE'S DISTRICT COMMITTEE SOONIS | T0 CHART PROGRAM Members Are Expected Back in Capital Next Week, Headed by Capper. EXTENSIVE CALENDAR LOOMS BEFORE GROUP B Real Estate Sale Legislation, Park Plan, Traffic Problems and Other Questions to Be Faced. | matters looming ahead of them, most {of the members of the Senate District | committee are expscted back in Wash- ington early next'week, and probably will determine within a short time | whether to begin studying District | problems during the remainder of the { special session, or whether to wait for With an extensive program of lncfll} the Egyptian legation, sketching Mme. Samy | He is making a series of sketches of woman | | the opening of the regular session in | December. | Among those likely to return within | a few days are Senators Capper of Kan- sas, chairman; Blaine of Wisconsin and —Underwood Photo, | Hastings of Delaware. KING T0 SUPPORT OLYNPI PROJCT fflegards Washington as Ap- propriate Place to Moor Historic Vessel. Senator King, Democrat. of Utah, will support the movement to preserve as a memorial the Olympai, flagship of | Admiral Dewey in the Spanish-Ameri- | can War. While he believes the per- manent resting place of the ship should Senator Blaine is head of the sub- committee which was directed before the recess to make a study of the need for new laws in the District dealing | with the sale of real estate and other FIREMEN'S HEADS Senator Hastings is head of the sub- | committee on traffic, which made plans | before. the recess to study the automo- | blle plrkins problems in Washington this Fall. efinite plans for the work of both these subcommittees are await- ing the return of these Senators. While the Senate will find its time fully occupled with the tariff bill dur- ing the remaining two or three months of the special session. Senate commit- | tees could hold hearings on other | legislation during that time as a step in preparation for the beginning oI v the regular session in December. ~The will be made at meetings to be held | yembers of the committee will de- tonight and tomorrow night. termine whether they will be able to The 42 parade marshals will meet | start committee consideration of local with Sergt. A. J. Bargagni, chtef mar- | questions while the tariff bill is being Labor Day Parade Marshals to Meet With Bargagni Tonight. Last-minute plans for the annual Firemen's Labor day parade and jubilee debated on the floor. GALLINGER CRITICS ASKED TO APPEAR AT QUIZ TOMORROW {Public Hearing Is Expecied to Complete Testimony in Hospital Probe. HICKLING GIVES DEFENSE OF PSYCHOPATHIL WARD ' Admits Methods Can Be Improved. ‘Wants Drunk and Drug Cases Treated Elsewhere. | With a great mass of testimony from Gallinger Hospital officials and mem- | Lers of the medical staff designed to| | refute recent criticism, the medical | | committee investigating conditions at | }the institution, particularly in the psy- chopathic ward, today issued a call for critics of the hospital to appear with | | whatever testimony they care to offer | | at a public hearing beginning at 10| | o'clock tomorrow morning in the board | | room at the District Building. The police are seeking a man who, l AUTOMOBILE MYSTERIOUSLY WRECKED OUTSIDE INCOMES NEEDED T0 SUPPORT FEDERAL EMPLOYES |Less Than 10 Per Cent of Married Men Interviewed | Live on Government Pay. NONE OF GROUP LIVE IN NATIONAL CAPITAL EImveltigation Was Limited to Men Earning $2,500 or Less With Dependents. Of 506 married men employed by the | Government and recently questioned by | investigators of the United States Bu- | reau of Labor Statistics, less than 10 | per cent of them support their families | without other sources of income. | None Live in Washington. witnesses said, ran away-after this auto- = 11.S fact was revealed in a survey mobile crashed near the Park road entrance to Rock Creek Park early thi | | securitles, the forclosure of mortgages | |and similar subjects. | | | Hastings Heads Traffic Group. be left to the Navy Department and |shal, at 8 o'clock tonight, at No. 2 en- | the President, the Senator indicated he 8ine company. At that session the line | regarded Washington as an appropriate | 0L o The carting (me of each | In addition to the question of real estate financial problems, Senator Blaine also has assigned to him the proposed new code of insurance laws _ Taking of testimony in the Gallinger |inquiry is expected to be completed | with ‘tomorrow’s hearing. Chairman W. W. Millan instructed the members of his committee to be prepared to | spend the day on the taking of testi- | mony if that is necessary. pital, upon which has been heaped | most’ of the recent criticism, compares favorably with such wards in the famous | hospitals of the country, including | Johns Hopkins and Bellevue, in New York, Dr. D. Percy Hickling, District alienist and chief of the department of psychiatry and neurology of Gailinger, told the committee yesterday afternoon. | But Dr. Hickling admitted that there {are many things that can be done to | improve the methods of treating per- | sons mentally diseased. Explains Use of Strong Rooms. “For one thing,” he said, “I would | like to see the drunks and drug addicts | treated elsewhere. Their place is not | with the other patients.” Dr. Hickling explained that the use of strong rooms is an almost universal practice with present-day treatment of psychoses in their more violent forms, and that frequently 1t is found neces- sary to put patient in strong rooms | | nude to prevent their doing injury to themselves with their clothing. | ‘The hospital overseer, | dietitian, superintendent chief clerk, 'property custodian and other minor officials testified yesterday afternoon that while conditions at _the institution in the past have not been up to standard radical revisions in the laundryman, of nurses, | The psychopathic ward at the hos- | place to moor this historic vessel. | Senator King recalled’ that when )|P! was a boy visiting in England he was | taken on ‘board the ship that had been | the flagship of Admiral Nelson in the | battle of Trafalgar. “I shall never forget,” Senator King continued, “the thrill I got as I stood there on the deck where the brave Nel- son fell. To me the frigate stood as a | memorial to the courage of Britain's | sailors and as a symbol of her might on the sea.” Source of Inspiration. Senator King said the Olympia, from which Admiral Dewey directed the bat- tle of Manila, would be a source of equal inspiration to Americans. An interesting story of the back- ground of the offer of Edward W. Harden, now a New York financier, to purchase the Olympia and give her as a memorial to the Nation is related in the Baltimore Sun today by J. Fred Es- sary, Washington correspondent. “In 1898,” he writes, “Edward W.| Harden, a youthful Chicago reporter, and John T. McCutcheon, a budding cartoonist of the same city, had an| ambition to make a trip around the| world. They were without means, and | the trip as they dreamed of naturally presented its problems. “But one of them remembered that Frank A. Vanderlip, & former financial writer on the Chicago Tribune, was| e RS Jadcs of tne various' events | 0F the Districk. on which mush work of the day will meet at 8 o'clock to- | %28 done in commtiee 1 Lig O i morrow night at the District Building | 878 but which did not pass. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. under the direction of Dr. Frank Gib- | son, chairman of the judges committee. ‘Wide Variety of Bills. At the present time there is nothing | Sergt. Bargagni will attend that meet- | pofore the Senate committee on the ing also, and will advise the judges as | qipect of the to the proper procedure in seiection of prize winners. While these plans are being made entries for the parade continue to col in. One of the latest to be received wi from the fire company at Holloway Ter- | recess quest! merger, the old Congress having ad- journed without taking action on the| revised plan of consolidation the com- mittee had worked out. Since Congre ed for the Summer the merger fon has been discussed at intervals race, Del,, which is bringing with its 30 | 5 ‘connection with the rate case before men and single piece of apparatus, a band that was organized only 12 weeks ago. gWusmngwn fire companies are put- ting the finishing touches on their floats for the parade. Among those which nearing_completion today are: No. 1 truck, No. 22 engine and No. 4 engine. Engine company No. 8 is putting its best efforts this year in a comedy float, with which they are determined to en- tertain the length and breadth of Penn- sylvania avenue. —e M’FADDEN TO GIV OUTBOARD TROPHY Regatta Officials Redouble Efforts | the Utilities Commission. During the regular session the Sen- ate District committee will have before it from time to time a wide variety of other bills, considered in previous years, but left unfinished. There are three such bills relating to the work of the Park and Planning Commission, name- 1y, the Cramton measure to authorize the George Washington Memorial Park- way along the Potomac from Mount Vernon to Great Falls and to provide for the development of other park areas in and around the Capital; the bill to regulate the exterior design of private property fronting on the more important Federal structures and the bill to authorize abandonment of pro- posed highways rendered unnecessary by changes in the highway plan. Several members of the District com- mittee, including Senators Jones of J)mposrd street railway | | conduct of the intsitution have been | | made in the past year and the hospital | | now conforms with the best standards | of municipal hospitals. All denied ever | seeing a bed-bug in any of the wards. | They admitted that a few roaches have appeared from time to time in the | washrooms. kitchens and such places. but never have invaded the wards and | are exterminated as fast as they are | found. Nursing School Rules Strict. ‘The nursing school at Gallinger is above the average of hospitals, Miss Katherine Moran, superintendent of nurses, told the committee. Rules are strict, she says. She told of suspend- morning. | —— | 'CAR CRASHES INTO TREES IN PARK NEAR HIGHWAY Unidentified Man Deserts ltolen‘ Machine After Wreck Early This Morning. An automobile driven by an unidenti- fled man swerved from Park road 500 feet beyond the Park Road Bridge into | Rock Creek Park about 4:30 o'clock | this morning and crashed into two | trees, uprooting one and badly damag- %fl the car, which came to a halt on its side. ‘The automobile was stolen last night from Mrs. Bessie A. Datlow of 1213 Girard street. It was the second time the car had been taken. ‘When the wrecked automobile came to a halt after its careening dive into | the trees. a man was seen by Lester C. Pate, 3810 Livingston street, and John A. Dillon, 4115 Wisconsin avenue, to | leap into the woods and disappear. So far as Park Policeman G. R. Shib- ley,.who investigated the accident, could determine, no one was injured. BOND'S SUCCESSOR T0BE NAMED SOON Secretary Mellon Understood to Have Virtually Decided Upon New Man. | __—Star Staff Photo. MODEL AIRCRAFT PROGRAN MAPPED Ten Indoor and Six Outdoor| Events Are Listed for | District Tournament. With the approach of the second an- | nual District of Columbia Model Afl-} craft Tournament, to be held Septem- }ber 3, 4 and 6, youthful model airplane | 1ll'llke!'.! of the city and vicinity are re- | vealing their interest by their entrance | | into the meet. Final classes being held this week at Central Community Center and E. V. Brown Community Center un- der the direction of John Willlams will | add 100 boys to the list of entrants for the various indoor and outdoor events :o! the tournament, which will be held i under the auspices of the District of Columbia Model Aircraft League. | There will be 10 indoor events and 6 outdoor events for every class, and the entrants are rated according to seven made at the request of the Personnel Reclassification Board. The result of the survey was made public in the Au- | guest number of the Labor Review. ‘The investigation was limited to men earning $2.500 or less and haviag a wife and at least one other dependent Another report contained in the same publication indicated that the Gove ment pays a better average wage to its employes under the $2,000 grade than does private enterprise. Wives Contribute Earnings. ‘The married men who were inter- | viewed for the purpose of the survey live in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Chi- cago and New Orleans. Many of those { who found their salaries insufficient for their needs, the report showed, had an- other income either earned by them selves in spare hours or by their wives {or children. From 49 to 69 per cent, however, were found to have expenses greater than their total incomes and shed further th little | consequently were being pu and further into debt daily. hope of ever becoming solvent. From 15 to 32 per cent of the wives of these Government employes Work outside their homes and earn enough to help their husbands stay out of debt This 15 particularly true, the statistics show, in Chicago, where income from other sources amounts to 32 per cent ot the total revenue. In New Orleans the Federal salary is 78 per cent of the to- tal family income. Many Children Working. Of the cases studied, the men had outside employment in from 15 to 33 per cent of the cases, and the children in_many of the families were working The survey revealed that in many instances relatives contributed money | classes, from Ace down to class F. In- and clothing to the support of the door events will < ~ | family, which often was found to be ek Lo By Tuesday, Sep- | jiing”in cramped quarters in undesir- ! . and Friday, September 6, at | aple portions of the city, because of ’;van am. at Macfarland Community | }ou’er rents or in order to save car- enter. The program of events for fare. | September 3 includes: Helicopters, | The investigators reported that dental | hand-launched sclentific, baby ROF and ' gadly needed and that the Hocesotic. ‘ROF flying true scale. Events for Sep- | of life were used sparingly. | tember 6 include: Hand-launched | = Secretary Mellon is understood to | gliders r%u duration and distance (three POLICEMAN FIRED ing three nurses recently for staying out past the hour when they were sup- posed to return. One of them she re- fused to allow to return, she said, be- cause she was the ringleader. She ad- mitted that some of the girls might “but_not if I know anything | For infractions of the rules about the hospital, mistreating patients, | neglecting patients or failure to per- form any of their duties the girls re- | | ceive reprimands, she said. | She declared that the hospital under | | her regime has been kept spotlessly | clean, that there is ample linen, well | | Jaundered, and that in the rooms the linen is changed daily while in the | wards it is changed anew for every | patient and generally changes are made | Mr. Bond, who has supervision of | the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and the Bureau of Internal Revenue, | pians to renew the practice of law in Washington and Boston. Secretary Mel- |lon and other officials and employes of the Treasury Department attended a dinner last evening at the Congressional | Country Club in honor of Mr. Bond. Robert H. Lucas, Commissioner of In- ternal Revenue, was toastmaster, and Secretary Mellon was among those who spoke in appreciation of the Assistant have virtually decided upon a successor | fiights allowed for gliders— to Henry Herrick Bond, who retires as co for di Assistant Secretary of the Treasury on September 1. It was said at the Treas- ury Department today that the name of Mr. Bond's successor probably will be made public this week. | flight 3 only will unt lis- tance), hand-launched dynamic, sea- plane (ROW) scientific, ROF fuselage and ROP scientific. Outdoor_events will occur at Bolling Field on Wednesday, September 4, at 9:30 am., and will include: ROG fuse- lage, seaplane (ROW), hand-launched scientific for duration, hand-launched scientific for speed (over a 264-foot | course) and power other than rubber | and helicopters. In response to urgent requests from! A spectacular chase of & mile last entrants all over the city, the following night. during which two colored men rules and requirements are announced | fired from their speeding sedan upon & by the committee on rules for the tour- | motor cycle officer who pursued them. } nament, of which Mr. Williams is chair- | ended at Georgia avenue and Fairmont | man. These rules follow the rules made | street, with the recovery of a stolen | by the Third National Playground Mini- | automobile belonging to Miss Lucille AT BY CAR THIEVES Motor Cycle Officer Recovers Miss +Stone's Sedan After Spec- tacular Chase. Washington, King of Utah and Sackett | on Tuesdays and Fridays. moved to a private home or institution, where she may be cared for with her funds. She was taken to the District Poor Farm, after consistently refusing aid from her relatives, who supposed her to be penniless, it is declared. The old house on Thirty-fifth street, near Georgetown University Hospital, where Miss Magruder had secreted an unsuspected hoard of savings over a period of many years, had been cleared of its broken-down furniture, ancient furnishings and trash and the doors and windows have been locked and barred. The furniture was stored yes- terday in a warehouse. A. K. Shipe, attorney for the rela- tives, said today he will take steps to have the ramshackle dwelling torn down in the interest of health and safety. At the same time further search will be made for possible other caches of_money. ‘Workmen, acting under direction of Mrs. Clark and W. B. Wrignt, receivers in the case, yesterday made a super- ficial examination of the littered back ard of the house in a vain effort to ocate an old well reputed to have been used by Miss Magruder as a hid- ing place for some of her funds. It is understood a more systematic explora- tion will be made later when every fiulre foot of ground will be dug up ith pick and shovel. AMBASSADOR MORROW This was the same Vanderlip who was | destined to become president of the National City Bank of New York and a figure of international note. Go as “Paying Guests.” “Mr. Vanderlip had under him in the Treasury the Revenue Cutter Service, now the Coast Guard, Harden and McCutcheon petitioned their friend to send them on a cruise aboard the first cutter making for the Orient. The old McCullough happened to be bound in that direction and the two young men | were taken as ‘paying guests.’ “It so happened, however, that the McCullough arrived in Chinese waters on the eve of the battle of Manila Bay. Admiral Dewey, commanding the ‘American squadron, was authorized to draft any American vessel useful to him, whether armed or unarmed. “The McCullough, then at Hongkong, with the two civillans aboard, was or- dered to Manila and arrived in time to take part in the battle. “As the battle raged she fired her little guns as gallantly as the biggest vessel. There was no putting the pas- sengers ashore, nor did they want to go ashore. They were eager to see the fight. They were put to work and it was the most thrilling day's work either ever had or ever has done. Harden Makes Offer. “The years went by and Harden be- came a ‘man of great wealth, just as did his friend Vanderlip. Not long ago Harden read in the newspapers the Navy was about to junk the cruiser of Rentucky, have been in Washington during the recess. to Obtain $10,000 Needed for Expenses. ANIMAL COLLECTION ARRIVES AT Z00 Live Species From Tibet Gift of Col. Roosevelt, Jr., and Har- old Coolidge. With additional entrants coming in daily for the President’s Cup Re- gatta, to be held on the Potomac River September 13 to_14, officials of the Chesapeake and Potomac Power Boat Association, which is sponsoring the event, have redoubled their efforts to obtain the full amount of the $10,000 needed to defray costs of the regatta. Bernarr MacFadden, New York pub- lisher, will sponsor and provide the trophy for the free-for-all outboard mo- tor race, the committee in charge an- nounced today. A telegram has informed local offi- | The entire live-animal collection of the Kelly-Roosevelt expedition, which recently returned from a collecting trip ON VACATION IN MAINE Joins Family at North Haven Lindberghs Are Expected to Visit Group. Olympla, that had served as Dewey's flagship and had led the American column into the engagement that de- stroyed Spanish sea power in the Pa- o c. | “Mr. Harden's sentimentalism was By the Associated Press. NORTH HAVEN, Mc., August 29.— Dwight W. Morrow, United States Am- bassador to Mexico, arrived from Mex- ico City yesterday for a vacation at his Summer home here. Mrs. Morrow and two of their three daughters, Constance and Elisabeth, have been here for two months. Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, the other daugh- ter, and Col. Lindbergh, who passed lnrt of their honeymoon yachting trip n this section of Penobscot Bay, are le.%md to complete the family group JAILED ON RUM CHARGE. Clarence Walters Sentenced by Judge J. Chew Sheriff. By a Staft Correspondent of The Slar. HYATTSVILLE, Md., August 20— Clarence Walters of Lanham, Md., yes- terday was sentenced by Police Court Judge J. Chew Sherifl to three months in jail and fined $50 on liquor charges. He' dismissed similar charges against' Clarence’s. brother, Joseph Walters. Clarence was charged with manu- facturing and possession. The former count was dismissed, but he was fined and imprisohed on the latter. stirred. He could not believe the Navy would deliberately turn over to the wreckers one of the most interesting relics in the country. “It occurred to him he might be per- mitted to buy the old Olympia at a reasonable price, not as a ship on which | he might sail the seas, but as a man- | of-war which had helped make his- tory and had a right to be preserved as Old Ironsides had been g{mrved and as the old frigate Franklin was preserved. “Mr. Harden, with these sentimental motives, approached Charles Francis Adams, of the Navy, with an offer to buy the Olympia, then to give it to the people of the country,” e FAMILY WINS' TITLE. Father, Two Sons and Nephew, Hawaiian Polo Champions. HONOLULU, August 29 (#).—The polo championship of the Hawaiian Is- ds was in the hands of a single family .today, as the result of a vic- tory by the Maul team here. B'flll(e Maui four, made up of Edward nephew, all of Maul Island, defeated theOahu Blues yesterday, 12 to 1, in an extrs Baldwin, his two sons and a|borhood. cials that the trophy would be for- warded in a few days. Conrad C. Smith, commodore of the power boat association, today expressed the hope that the remainder of the $10,000 sought. can be raised in the next few days. MAJ. PEAK IMPROVED. Superintendent of Jail Confined With Infected Foot. Maj. Willilam L. Peak, superintendent of the District Jail, is confined to his home with an infected foot, but ex- pects to be able to return to duty within a few days. The infection started several days ago from a ringworm irritation, and for some time Maj. Peak's condition was re- garded as serious, it was learned today. Prompt treatment by physicians stayed complications and today the superin- tendent's condition was reported as much improved. in Tibet and French Indo-China, ar- rived at the National Zoological Park last night. The collection contains a family of gibbons—mother, father and 6-month- old baby. This is probably the first mother-and-baby exhibit of these apes ever seen in the world, according to Dr. william M. Mann, director of the Zoo. The collection is a gift to the Zoo from Col. Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and Harold Coolidge, a relative of the Roosevelt family. & The Zoo was also given a pig-tail macaque, & Malay bear, four Rhesus monkeys, a bamboo rat and a Himalayan bear, joints gift_of Roosevelt, Coolidge and Dr. Robert Wheeler, Boston, Mass. “The gibbons,” Dr. William Mann, Dr. Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent of the hns?ltal‘ has attended all of the hearings of the investigating committee and has aided Mr. Millan in his ex- amination of the witnesses. LAWYER SUES WARDMAN COMPANY FOR $100,000 Claims He Fell Into Unlighted, Unprotected Ditch, Walking From Garage to Hotel. Suit to recover $100.000 damages for alleged personal injuries was filed. to- day in the District Supreme Court by Webster Ballinger, a lawyer, 917 Fif- teenth street, against the Wardman Real Estate Properties, Inc, and the Wardman Realty & Construction Co. Ballinger says his injuries resulted from a fall into & ditch in the rear of the Wardman Park Hotel. Ballinger tells the court he had been keeping his car in the Wardman Park Garage for eight years and was walk- ing from the garage toward the hotel after leaving his car December 12 last, between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening, when he fell into a ditch which had been dug across the cinder path leading from the garage to the hotel. The ditch, he claims, had been left un- lighted and unprotected in violation of building regulations. He is represented | Secretary's services. Others who at- | tended the dinner were Director Alvin Printing, W. H. Moran, chief of the secret service; F. G. Awalt, deputy con- troller of currency: Edward T. Clark, and Robert N. Miller of Washington |and Arthur G. Ballantine of New York. Guests, including other employes of the Treasury, numbered about 200. | . it | Cemetery Committee to Meet. Special Dispatch to The Star. BLADENSBURG, Md., August 29— A meeting of the committee of the Greater Bladensburg District Citizens' ‘Asfioclmon in charge of the repair and | beautification of historic Evergreen Cemetery here will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at the home of Mrs. Richard Schuler, River road. Plans for further- ing the work will be discussed. | ature Aircraft Tournament, which is to | be held this year, October 18 and 19, | 1s that the distance from the inner face of the propeller to the opposite hook connection must be 15 to 20 inches and the greatest overall dimension must be | not more than 30 inches. The rule for | outdoor planes is that the distance from the inner face of the propeller to the opposite hook connection must be mnot under 20 inches and not over 36 inches, and the greatest overall dimension must be not more than 48 inches. This lat- | ter ruling does not necessarily apply to| | those planes having “power other than rubber.” | . Further information, if needed, may be had by applying at once to the office of the District of Columbia Miniature Aircraft League, in the Community Center Department, Franklin Admin- istration Bullding. Stone of the Chastleton Apartments, 15 minutes after she had reported the loss W. Hall of the Bureau of Engraving and | at Louisville. The rule for indoor planes | to No. 8 precinct. The fugitives escaped Although Policeman G. W. Cook heard the report while it was being tele- phoned to the precinct, he left the station house a moment later on his motor cycle, noticed a machine he sus- pected of running rum and set out after it without knowing it was Miss Stone's automobile. Several times, the officer said. the chase was perilously near ending in a wreck as the machines careened around corners. After a number of shots | directed at him from the fugitive car had gone wild, the occupants leaped out while the machine was still rolling and escaped on foot. The abandoned automobile rolled over the curb and halted without appreciable damage. Later, when the car was re turned to the precinct, Miss Stone's EDWIN DENBY ACCLAIMED GENIUS FOR REWRITING Washingtonian First Ameri- can Commissioned to “Jazz” Up German Operetta. chauffeur identified it. Officer Cook said the two colored fugitives left no whisky in the auto- mobile. Police have found no trace of them since. SUPPE'S CLASSIC THEATERS TO LHAIN Show Houses in New Mexico, Wyoming and Colorado Are Acquired. irector of the Zoo, said, “are priceless. geu of a Prench official in Indo-China for more than four years, they are the first of their kind known to breed in by Attorney George P. Lemm. . DARRAGH RITES HELD. journey under the care of the ship's “hos'n.” Huge Pet Dog Is Vindicated Second Time After Neighbors Object to His Barking For the third time in as many months, Rags, huge 150-pound Chesapeake Bay dog, was vindicated in Police Court yesterday when his mistress, Mrs. Pearl J. Orler, 1877 Newton street, appeared before Judge Isaac R. Hitt to answer a complaint made by neighbors that her pet. gud disturbed the peace and quiet of the vicinty by his loud barking. Accusations that Rags was a dan- gerous and viclous animal that walked the streets unmuzzled were dismisse by Judge Ralph Given several weeks 8go, when it was said that the canine, in pursuit of a stray cat, tore through a screen in his mistress’ home and until had terrorized the neigh- the feline could not be described as roaming through the streets unmuzzled. hout the tion of Rags the names of Policeman Thomas C. Bragg and G. E. Hyatt, 3318 Nineteenth street, have a] in the complaints. In the first charges Mrs. Hyatt was the woman who said she had been attacked and her story was corroborated by Bragsg. % Y::urd!y'l trial was the result of a complaint made by the policeman and Hyatt who alleged that on the night of d | July 20, the dog had barked for more than 30 minutes, which interrupted the peace of the neighborhood. Inspector Hugh McDermott of the Was] ton Humane. Socfety testified that Rags was a well behaved animal, as did many neighbors, although their testimony was contradicted by others, who also said bu they were acquainted with the dog's of | character. 4 captivity.” re shij from Indo-China . m“f-r'fi.'{fon mpdp?)d‘mu o the United | Services Are Conducted in Lee's 9 ates, “completing the transcontinental Sons’ Chapel. Funeral services for Samuel M. Dar- ragh, 54 years old, secretary-treasurere and general manager of the printing establishment of Gibson Bros., Inc., 1312 Connecticut avenue, Tuesday, were con- ducted in the chapel of J. Willlam Lee's Sons, 332 Pennsylvania avenue, today at 11 o'clock. Interment was in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Darragh was active in many organizations here, including the Cham- ‘ashingtol e e e Wasningion, Typotheine: of le, 'y City Club, Columbia Country Club and & number of Masonic bodies. VISCOUNT GREY UNHURT. NEWTON HALL, England, August 29 (P).—Viscount Grey of Fallodon, British statesman, narrowly escaped death late yesterday when the famous Scots Ex- press missed his motor car by a few feet at Fallodon Junction grade crossing, Ngrthumberland. he quick-thinking chauffeur grabbed the emergency brake just in time to stop the car. The in crashed into flig I street, who died at his residence, 4514 | European Press Is Enthusias- tic in Comments on Work Done in German. A new genius has appeared on the horizon of German poetry and music, word from Darmstadt reveals. He is & young American—Edwin Denby, son of Charles Denby of 2329 California street, this city, and nephew to former Secre- tary of the Navy Edwin Denby. For the first time an American poet was commissioned by the Hesslan State Theater to rewrite the book and lyrics of a cherished German classic, Suppe’s “The Beautiful Galatea,” in a lighter Americanized vein, Such a con- write in his own hnfiue, goetry is therefore ‘more remarka. le in that it was done entirely in German and was produced by the State. Opfin Co. at Darmstadt with great ac- claim. The German press was_enthusiastic in its gomments and the Paris Herald had_the following to say: “Edwin Denby, American lpoct. sup- plied the German book and lyrics in a brilliant production of Suppe’s classic operetta, “Beautiful Galatea,” at the opening of the Hessian State Theater, Darmstadt. It bemfn'l evening to celebrate the olpen of an interna- tional art exposition, the house was For the first time an Amer- EDWIN DENBY. man theater to ‘jazz up’ & German classic and the experiment turned out a success. “Scintillating dialogue and delightful Iyrics, adroitly fitted to the charming melodies of Suppe, were enthusiastically applauded. No one guessed that these engaging pyrotechnics represented an amazing Jinguistic feat as well—the feat of a young American writing perfect German " % Mr. Denby was born in China less than 30 years ago, where he received the early part of his education. Since then he has lived in America and Eu- rope, pursuing his studies in Germany and Austria, principally in Vienna. His ican hadjpeen commissioned by & Ger- | Superior, By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, August 29.—Fox West Coast theaters today assumed control of 20 show houses in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico, included in the formation of & Rocky Mountain di- vision of the Fox theater holdings. Harold B. Franklin, manager of the chain, who announced the purch: left here for a tour of the new prop. erties, situated in Chevenne. Wyo. Fort Collins, Trinidad, Longmont, Loveland, Canyon City and La Junta, =$¥OIM and Las Vegas and Las Cruges, . Mex. DEATH OF MRS. MOXLEY. Mrs. Juliette Perkins Moxley, wife of David N. Moxley of Miami, Fla., and a former resident of Washington, died August 21 in Miami, according to word received here today. Mrs. Moxley's death followed a brief illness. ‘Two brothers, Rudolf and John P. Evans, and a sister, Mrs. Marie A. Seddicum, all of Washington, and a nephew, Paul C. Seddicum, vice consul in Cardiff, Wales, survive her. Funeral services were held at the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables, Rev. A, P. Carey officiating. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemetery in Miami. — e As the result of the sting of a bee parents are now on the shore of Lake [on his nose, a farmer boy at Erkelenz, the Thileland, died recently.