Evening Star Newspaper, September 8, 1929, Page 17

he Sundhy Stad THOMPSON DEATH CHARGE BORNE OUT IN HOSPITAL PROBE ‘Nurses and Doctor Substan- tiate Story Il Woman Left Gallinger Bed. OPERATION PROTEST TESTIMONY DIFFERS Mother's Declaration That Daugh- ter Feared Knife Is Contra- dicted by Physician, After consenting to hear more wit- nesses in the investigation of conditions at Gallinger Municipal Hospital, the medical committee of the Board of Pub- lic Welfare yesterday afternoon ended the public hearings, following exhaust- ive inquiry into the reopened case of Mrs. Nettie B. Thompson, in an effort to fix the blame, if any, for her death at_the hospital several months ago. Despite the fact that the committee previously had characterized as “gossip” a charge that Mrs. Thompson's death was partly traceable to her being per- mitted to leave her bed after the opera- tion in an attempt to escape from the hospital, this phase of the examination assumed major importance yesterday. Testimony by nurses and Dr. James R. Costello, who performed the opera- tion, substantiated the charge that Mrs. Thompson, in a delirious condition, had gone down in the elevator and was found wandering about the first floor clad only in her night clothes. She lost consciousness when borne back to her roon on a stretcher, the testimony declared, and the next day she died. Doctor Sticks to Contention. Dr. Costello stuck to his_contention that the experience undoubtedly w “a contributing cause to the patient's death,” although he admitted he could not say professionally whether she would have recovered from the operation if the incident had not occurred. He add- ed, however, that it was his “hope and expectation” that Mrs. Thompson would | the operation, which reason of a hemor- recover _from proved fatal by Thage. The questions propounded by the com- mittce were the result of the cla made upon the investigating body by Phillip W. Austin, attorney for the two children of Mrs. Thompson. Altiough he was not permitted to question the witnesses produced by the committee, Chairman W. W. Millan, with whom the attorney had clashed at a previous Thearing, consented to allow him to put questions in writing. Most of these Chairman Millan propounded himself, though on several oceasions he eensored the questions and threw some of them out. Through his own witnesses. Mr. Ans- tin established by the testimony of Mrs. Thompson’s mother, s and a that the woman had protested in vain against the opcration. ~ Yet the effect of this was counteracted by contradictory testimony on the part of Dr. Costzllo and attendant nurses. Although the committee went thoroughly into this phase of the examination, the hearing closed with confiicting testimony on this point. Near the end of the hearing, when Attorney Austin handed the chairman a letter he had prepared protesting against the committee’s conduct of the investigation, Chairman Millan declared it a “libel on the committee and only legal process could compel him to t the responsibility of offering it in ev dence.” Mother Takes Stand. Interest in the heari was heig’ ened by the appearance on the witne stand of Mrs. Addie E. Wrigh mother of Mrs, Thompson, whose stors about the experience of her daughter at Gallinger had a palpable effect upon some members of ‘the committee. In faltering tones, Mrs. Wright told the committee how her daughter had pleaded with Judge Kathryn B. Sellers to protect her from undergoing an operation at the hospital, and had con- sented to go there only for the purpose of a physical test in_ connection with the mothers’ pension the jurist was try- ing to obtain for her. Mrs. Wright made the additional charge, as previously printed in The Star, that her daughter, just before the operation, had been compelled to carry heavy trays of food to o‘her patients! in the ward and her own fear to report ; this to the hospital. After these ex- periences, she testified, Mrs. Thompson | told her she would fall upon the bed in an exhausted, nervous state. i No blame was attached to Dr. Cos- tello for Mrs. Thompson's death, either by Mrs. Wright or other witnesses. She said that Dr. Costello had told ‘her sympathetically that for “some un- known reason Mrs. Thompson had been permitted to get out of bed,” as a re- sult of which the patient had suffered a hemorrhage. Mrs. Wright said in reply to ques- tioning that no one had asked her con- sent about the operation. Found Daughter in Coma. “My first knowledge of it was in the morning, when I was told by my son they were going to operate on her in about an hour,t she testified. When she vis- jted het daughter, she testified, she found her in a state of coma. Mrs. Wright told the committee she did not enter a formal complaint about the work her daughter had been com- pelled to do, which caused her to suffer pains in the back and stomach. “I asked my husband what to do about it,” she said, “and he replied there was nothing that could be done.” “We were afraid it would only make more trouble;” she said. A young student nurse, Miss Martha G. Wright, on duty at the time of Mrs. Thompson’s escape from the Yoom, testified that she was the sole attendant nurse for more than 20 patients in the same ward. Mrs. Thompson was alone in a spe- cial room. That evening it was nec- cessary to give her a blood transfu- sion, owing to her critical condition, following the operation. Her brother, Herbert Wright, furnished a pint of blocd. - Shortly after midnight Miss Wright, the nurse, said she had been informed bin'.he interne on duty. that Mrs. Thompson was asleep and that she could perform other necessary duties. “Believing she was asleep,” Wright testified, “I was gone about five minutes, When I returned, I qunddMu. Thompson had gotten out of bed.” She relatéd how she had notified others on duty. “I asked the elsvator boy why he had taken her down- stairs,” she testified, “and he wculdn’s answer me.” N Out of Bed Only Five Minutes. Miss Wright insisted the patient was not out of bed for over five minutes, that she was found wlnderlns about the admittance ward in a delirious eondition. _“She became unconscious Man Involved in Gallinger X-Ray Charge is Side- 8.7 Artist. IAte Glass While in Jail and Wants More, District Physician Avers. willie Kinard, colored prisoner at the District Jail, who was disclosed last night as the central figure in the “razor blade diet” feature of Gallinger Municipal Hospital investigation, is & professonal side-show tack-eating artist and now is hungering for more broken glass. i These revelations from the hospital | and adjoining jail bring to light the career of & young man, just turning 20 years of age, whose apparently tough stomach has suffered no ill effects from a diet including all sorts of odds and ends, such as glass, sharp metals and, he claims, even razor blades. The fact that Kinard is now in jail | on sentences of violating the traffic la while awaiting trial on further charges | in an indictment for violating the pro- hibition law, have paled into the com- monplace af the jail, where his asso- ciates have become keenly interested in the glass-eating proclivities of their fellow soner. Ate Up Light Bulbs, The whole matter bobbed up first, it was learned, when the prisoner one | day asked the jail physician, Dr. Morris | Hyman, if he could have some glass to | eat. Dr. Hyman said heeeouldn't un- | | derstand the man’s request at first, but {on investigation found reports that the | man already had been eating some | { electric light bulbs. The matter was { brought to the attention of Maj. W. L. Peake, superintendent of the District Jail. Satisfied that the man was of sound | mind, Dr. Hyman and Maj. Peake de- | cided to have the stomach of the man | examined at Gallinger Hospital, and | with the prisoner's consent this was | accomplished. | Kinard is understood to have been | quite proud of his accomplishments, and | 1stead of being worried about himself was more than willing to demonstrate | his prowess. In fact, he was eager to Show | his ability to swallow glass or metal in | front of an X-ray machine, which would | show the processes of swallowing and nt of the glass or metal. In | cording to Dr. Hyman, who said last ‘night he had recommended the ex- | | amination and was present at the time, | the prisoner actually requested some | { razor blades to chew up and swallow. Thi~ wvas denied him. but he was per- &' o swallow two paper clips, ac- ; to Dr. Hyman. \ Hemler Witnesses Proceedings. It was in this manner, according to | | the jail officials, that the colored pris- | { oner came to Gallinger Hospital, where the proceedings were witnessed also by Dr. William F. Hemler, former X-ray spocialist at Gallinger, the witness who | brought the razor-blade matter intd the | open_before the medical committee of | | the Board of Public Welfare investigat- | {ing the hospital. Dr. Hemler objected | to the methods used and claimed before | °rd. | the committee it was he who prevented | swallowed one at a time. {a messenger going out for razor blades | to be fed to the patient. | | Dr. Edward E. Kapian, now X-ray | | specialist at the hospital and successor | |of Dr. Hemler, conducted the examinu- | tion in the new X-ray department of | the hospital. In addition to the three | | doctors, Kaplan, Hemler and Hyman, | there also were present at the examina- tion some technical attendants, it was learned. | Charges by Dr. Hemler that razor { blades were ordered for the prisoner !were denied emphatically yesterday by | both the Galilnger Hospital X-ray head, Dr. Kaplan. and the jail physician, Dr. | Hyman. They both characterized the WASHINGTO TACK-EATER ASKED HE BE FED RAZOR BLADES, DOCTOR SAYS DR. EDWARD E. KAPLAN. —Star Staff Photo. matter as a scientific examination, and on account of the over-eagerness of the patient to demonstrate his prowess, a most interesting scientific curlosity. So_far as could be learned at the jail, Kinard, the glass eater, never suf- fered ill effects either from the two | paper clips he ate at the examination, nor from the other diets of chewed-up glass, tacks and razor blades, which “he clajms to have swallowed. X-Ray Failed to Show Harm. ‘The X-ray examination of the man's stomach failed to show any ill effects at the time of the examination, Dr. Kaplan said, and there have been no ! further bad effects following the mat- ter, which happened some time ago, ac- cording to Dr. Hyman at the jail. ‘The fluorscope through which the three doctors observed the process of swallowing the two paper clips enabled | them to see exactly what happened. Both Dr. Kaplan and Dr. Hyman said the patient took the two paper clips | into his mouth, and with his strong teeth, chewed them up by bending into a small ball. He then swallowed this ball of metal, and it could be seen de- scending from his mouth to his stom- ach. When he asked for razor blades, these scientists stoutly maintained he was denied them. The paper clips had been enough demonstration, they thought, and were sufficiently safe, judging from the appearance of the | man's stomach as it was seen through the fluorscope. As for eating razor blades, it could not be learned what brand of blades Kinard prefers. But he is said to brag that he easily eats them by chewing them into small bits, and then rollin; the bits into a ball, which he swallows. | Foreign Objects Common Problem. Foreign objects in the stomach are a common problem for X-ray special- ists, it was leaned, and the files of X-ray laboratories over the country are filled with peculiar pictures of stomachs containing strange articles. Dr. Kaplan said he had taken numer- ous pictures of strange things swallowed while at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, from whence he came to Washing- ton.' He showed in a scientific book vesterday a reproduction of a human stomach in which there were several silver - teaspoons, which a nurse had They had churned around in the stomach until tiey had neatly “nested” together. ‘The paper-clip-eating_ prisoner the District Jail claims that his career as a side-show artist started when a smal boy. when he saw a freak eating glass. He said he started practicing, and later learned to chew up many other things. Kinard 1s in jail on sentences for reckless driving and having no permit. He gave his occupation as a chauffeur. He was born in Oklahoma, he said, and it was there he learned to eat glass. He claims the glass particularly is wholesome for him, and he has been asking for more. PAY ROLL BANDIT STILL AT LARCE Police Lack Clues in Hunt for| Robber Who Escaped With $2,400. The young white man who yesterday morning held up the cashier of the Natalie Salesroom, Inc., 3308 Fourteenth street, at pistol point and robbed him of the firm's pay roll, amounting to $2.400 in cash, was still at large last night, and police had no clue other than his description. According to Kenneth Frisbie, the cashier, he was entering the lobby of the building which houses the sales- room when a young man stepped up to him waving a gun. He took the satchel containing the money, which Frisbie had just obtained from the Riggs bank branch nearby and, order- ing Frisbie to “run up those stairs,” escaped. The hold-up oceurred short- ly before noon and the robber escaped unnoticed in the passing throngs. Frisbie, who lives at 5520 Wisconsin | avenue, said that he and the hold-up man were the only two in the lobby when the robbery occurred. He de- scribed the bandit as being about 28 years old, of medium height and build, wearing a reddish-gray suit. Police are without clues. Policemen W. H, Bell and L. C. Arion of the tenth precinct, arrived on the scene about 5 minutes after the rob- bery. The case is being investizated by Detective Tom Sweeney of the central bureau. FIVE PERSONS INJURED WHEN AUTOS COLLIDE Cars Come Together at 25th and K Streets—One Driver Has Three Broken Ribs. Five persons were injured in a auto- mobile accident last night when a car driven by Harold Lee Allwine, 1330 New -York avenue, collided with that of William O. Hern, 23 years old, 2145 I street, at the intersection of Twne ffth and K st Mrs. Wilma Irene Peck, 25 years old, also of 2145 I street, was reported to be in an undetermined condition at Emergency Hospital, while Hern, the driver, suffered three fractured ribs and a laceration of the Mrs. | Peck’s hushand, Asa Templar Peck, 25 years old, and two young children, Jackeline and Sonia Peck, five and two years, respectively, were reported to be suffering from minor lacerations and from shock. Allwine, who was alone in his car, was_reported to be uninjured. All the injured persons were taken to the hospital in a passing automo- BUILDING RECORD 5 BROKEN HERE Work on Internal Revenue Home Is Now 14 Months Ahead of Contract. Such rapid progress is being made | on the new Internal Revenue Buiiding that construction is now 45 per cent complete, and it is likely that the building may be completed 14 months ahead of contract, or by July 1, next year, These unusual developments were dis- closed last night when it was learned from Neal A. Melick, construction en- gineer for the Government, that the project is going forward with a speed probably never before approximated in construction work for the Federal Gov- ernment, 1,000 Men at Work. At the present time about 1,000 men of many building trades are employed on the gigantic structure, which covers the equivalent of about four city blocks, from Tenth to Twelfth, B to C streets, adjacent to the Post Office Department Building. These men are employed by the James Baird Co. of this city, gen- eral contractors, or their subcontractors. T. W. McKnew, vice president of the company, is in charge. ‘Tomorrow morning experts will start to work installing a $50,000 pneumatic tube system, which is to take the place of many messengers. The tube system will be interwoven throughout the big building and be equipped to carry messages and documents between all important offices. Some idea of the size of the building can be obtained from the amount of material of given kinds. For instance, there are 30 miles of slate base to be placed around the walls next the floors in each room and corridor. Roofiing Tiles Arrive. Plasterers are at work all over the laying the ably start in about 45 days, to Mr. Melick. ‘The building. under the contract of the James Baird Co., dated January 21, i e, S e o com| 3 Contract for elevators for the building hes been let by the Treasury for $279,000. The also let a contract for now well ilding, Most of Revenue at | - | lowing a piece of cloth -{ joini trusf rented - D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, CITIZENS RESENT AT TAX CONCLAVE Failure of Commissioners to Name Federation Mem- ber Irks Group. fl STENGLE EXPLAINS ATTITUDE OF BODY Committee Chairman Holds District Is Not Entirely Represented by Delegation. Keen resentment has swept the ranks of organized citizenship of the District, it was learned last night, as a result of the failure of the Commissioners to appoint a representative of the Fed- eration of Citizens' Associations to the delegation which will represent Wash- ington at the annual conference on taxation of the National Tax Associa- tion which convenes tomorrow at Saranac Lake, N. Y. Charles 1. Stengle, chairman of the federation’s committee on fiscal rela- tions, declared ‘that the delegation as now 'constituted is mot “entirely rep- resentative.” since organized citizenship is as vitally concerned over the Dis- trict's tax problems as the groups represented. Gives Feelings of Members. “Members of the federation with whom I have talked,” Stengle said, “feel badly over the lack of recognition shown the citizens' associations by the Commisisoners in the sclection of dele- gates to the conference.” Stengle pointed out that the federa- tion was not represented in the dele- gation which went to the tax confer- ence in Toronto last year, and did not seek representation fhis "year, that the Commissioners “would not overlook organized citizenship.” The delegation is expected to seek the support of the tax association in bringinz about a more equitable policy of fiscul relations between the Federsl and District Governments and for this reason Stengle’s committee is particu- {larly interested in the proceedings at | Ssaranac Lake. An effort also will be | made to have the association choose Washington as its 1930 convention city. Page Heads Delegation. Thomas Walker Page of the Brook: |ings Institution, and a nationally | known tax expert and economist, heads | the District_delegation. Other mem- bers are: William P. Richards, tax assessor; Joshua W. Evans, jr, chair- |man of the municipal finance com- | mittee of the Board of Trade; William | L. Beale, head of the real estate de- partment of the American Security and Trust Co.; Robert V. Fleming, president of Riggs National Bank; Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary {of the Washington Board of Trade; |Edward ~ F. Colladay, ~Republica { national committeeman ' for the Dis !trict; John J. Bardroff, assistant tax { accessor, and Frank J. Coleman, who \as chosen 1o represent organized ; labor. Evans Not to Make Trip. Mr. Evans will be unable to make the trip with'the delégation this year. He said last night that he had just returned from a vacation and found that several unexpected matters had turned up during his absence which would compel him to remain in the city during the time the conference will be in session. The delegation will leave {ton today. The conference | tinue through September 15. Sessions { will be held at the Saranac Inn. | "The delegates who represented the ‘Washing- will con- LACK OF DELEGATES: feeling | 1929 PART ' 1 PAGE 17 attorney as Bruce, Judges Given, McMahon, Schuldt, Five judges of the Police and Municipal Courts yesterday gave Joseph C. Bruce, retiring chief assistant United S gned to Police Courls, an unusual farewell when ‘he resigned yesterday. tt and Mattingi In the photo, left to rizht BENNING SCHOOL PROJECT, MODEL Tract Will Include 3- Unit Plant. | | will be one Definite plans for what of the most modern school *“commui tics” of the United States are b: formulated by District school officia in connection with the development of the 42-acre tract on Benr road northeast, pu chased recently as a site for three sciwols for colored pupils. Construction ~n the three-unit plant is expected to bogin next Summer when riated funds for the new fiscel year will become avai The proposed school co include a new junior hi platoon school and a hea v will h school, ed wh the on Junior High er Building admitted) rectly designed for the which is required by a health and its location never was considered by school officials as conducive to the of a school for tubr- H n. But the school | was confronted with the transferring the school there was no alternativ | nounced at that time t! {of th~ colored healtr | Toner Building woul | expedie: The new health be similar in d: school now maintained for i land in addition to the adequats ing facilities the school will hav= | cated to its use a conside | of the 42 for the children who are fighting | advances of tuberculosis. With congressional authority t school, Faced with the il | whit> divisions. | need of additional school f: | colored children in the n | tion of the cf | tion re ies for | District at last year's conference made | jan exhaustive study of { relations question with the assistane {of the tax experts and economists, and |after returning submitted to the Com- | missioners a comprehensive report recommending a return to the 60-40 division of expenses between the Dis- trict and Federal Governments as the FALL FROM LADDER IS FATAL TO CLERK Edgar Weiser, 40, Tumbles 20 Feet to Areaway in Front of Home. Descending from the roof of his front porch, where he had been repairing a window, to get out of the rain, Edgar Weiser, 40 years old, of 241 Fifteenth street southeast, was almost instantly killed about 5:30 yesterday evening, when the ladder slipped and he fell 20 feet to an areaway in front of his home. He was taken to Casualty Hospital in an automobile of Max Gerewitz’s, 1515 C street southeast, but failed to regain conf,cmusness and died shortly after- ward. His wife, Mrs. Minnie Weiser, was in the kitchen when she heard their daughter, Mary, 11 years old, scream, and running to the front door she saw { her husband on_the ground. Luther A. Binkle, 251 Fifteenth street southeast, was sitting on the front porch of his home watching ‘Weiser and, according to his version, the ladder slipped on the cornice of the roof and caused Weiser to tumble to the walk. The ladder was broken to pieces by the fall. ‘Weiser was employed as a clerk at the ‘War Department and is survived by his wife and two children, Mary, 11, and Edgar David, 1 year of age. Physicians say he suffered skull and internal injuries. |COFORED MAN FAILS IN SUICIDE ATTEMPTS “Forty years in this world is just forty years too many,” said James Wat- kins, 30, colored, of 5 Dewey street, Hyatlsville, Md., when questioned as to why he swallowed broken glass from a crushed milk bottle and attempted tohlnEhlmlelf'flhl iece of cloth, in the Bladensburg Jail, t night. ‘Watkins was a sentence for reckless driving and last night he broke a milk 'bottle and a swal- itity of the gl tied a to the bars of his cell, and knotting the end around his neck jumped from his cot and attempted to hang himself. His actions were ob- served by a fellow prisoner in an ad- ing cell and with the ald of a ty the man was cut down. He was taken to Casualty Ilospital oy No. 1 Rescue Squad of Prince Georges County, where he was treated. Physicians at the hospital say he is suffering no ill effects and his condi-" tion is not Members of the reacume squad._ were ‘a fractured considering the fiscal C chool will be_built on the enning road site. The municipal architect now is study: ing the platoon type schools of other cities with a view to incorporating in the new colored platoon school all the finest features which_experience has developed elsewhere. When completed the structure will relieve congestion in the Lovejoy School at Twelfth and D streets northeast, and will also offer school facilities to the residents of Kingman Park, the new residential community for colored people adjoin- ing the school site. ‘Will Relicve Congestion, Ferhaps the greatest rel ent congestion in the scho 1 east Washington will be afT d b) new junior high school which is 1o be built on the 42-acre tract. At ent there are four colored jun schools in the District: The the southwest, the Franci: fourth and N stree the Garnet- Patterson at Tenth street and Vermont avenue and the Shaw at Seventh street and Rhode Island avenue. With the completion of the new junior high school on the northeast tract, relief from congestion will be afforded the schools in that section of the city by taking from them the - eighth grades for installa new structure. The buildings whicl would benefit by this relief Lovejoy, Pay Logan. 8 | Deanwood, Burrville and Smothers. The seventh and eighth grades in thes: schools total approximately 800 b and girls, according to officials of di visions 10 to 13. “It will be the purpose of the school administration to make these three school buildings very beautiful from the architectural point of view,” Garnet C. Wilkinson, first assistant superintendent of schools in charge of divisions 10 to 13. “It is to be remem- bered that they will be located on land bordering upon the extension of the Potomac River parkway that now is | being built around the city. “A study is being made of the plans and specifications of the Hendley School at Winchester, Va., to determine whether this model of structure might not be used for the junior high school to be located on the Benning tract. “The three buildings will be so lo- cated upon the site as to make it pos- sible for us to develop our grounds with terraces, lawns and shrubbery, and they will be located also to permit the lay- ing out of suitable playgrounds for the junoir high school pupils, the elemen- tary pupils in the platoon school and the health school.” BOY'IS HIT BY CAR. Ten-year-old Lincoln Sharp is in a serfous condition at Casualty Hospital as a result of injuries suffered last night when he is said to have run from be- hind an automobile in front of his home at 617 D street northeast, di- rectly into the path of a moving auto- mobile which police said was driven by Max Hermann of 1221 Orange place northeast. The boy was treated by Dr. Lewis Jimal of the hospital staff, who sald he suffered severe lacerations to the face and body in addition to pos- sible fracture of several ribs. His con- POLICEMAN IS OFFERED WHISKY AND CACHE KEY But Accused Man Enters Plea of Not Guilty When Charged With Pos ere, Mr. Cur s the k | 1 | | | is the whisky and to the garage.” Police- s Ci of the fourth unlocked the garage and inc half gallons of liquor. He | called the patrol wagon and later es orted the speaker, Alphonzo B. Cook, precinet, where a sion was booked against a i5 said he-'was walking down an in the 1000 block of Sixth street st earl, y morning when he saw & man h a package under his 'm standing necar a garage door, As 1e approached the m: s sald to have uttered the above specch. In court yesterday Cook pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial. Judge Gus A. Schuldt fixed his bond at $500. D. . JEWS UNITE Fund to Be Used in Palestine. h $20000 as a goal Washington in a determined effor full share of the relief tunate members of thelr ricts there. being or- gh this week, hoped to vas but to centinue ng that time it i e city y by ¢ | mostly by a popular appeal e press and circular letters. $1,000 Already Raised. Of the $20,000 sought $1,000 is al- dy in hand, contributed last Sunday con at a mass meeting in the Communi Tnited Stai sual success, > Jewish Commun er unde ve direction of Louis E. Spiegler. The Evening Star also will receive contributions, either cash or checks payable to the treasurer of the fund, and will make daily acknowledgments of the contributions. Rudolph B. Behrend is chairman of the local executive committee, while the 1 following vice chairmen have accepted Isidore Hershfield, Mr: Ogus, Charles J. Stein, Ra fel and Rabbi George Silv 0,000 Sent Daily. in: on of the e funds and the pressing need n is apparent in the $50,000 ng sent from New York he of the Palestine Relief Fund, ent of the are expected to par A mecting to arrange final details of the drive has en called for tomorrow night at the | Jewish Community Center. The canvass here will be confined | Jews, while the general public will be reached through. publicit | CAMPFIRE GIRLS AGAIN HONOR MISS HUGHES | National Board of Directors Has Election at Omaha, Closing Conference Sessions. By the Associated Press. OMAHA, Nebr., September 7.—Miss Florence Hughes of New York City, to- day was re-clected chairman of the Na- tional Campfire Girls' board of directors for the third time, at the executive meeting, which closed the conference here. { Prof. Jay B. Walsh, also of New York, {was named second vice president, and | Prof. Joseph B. Raycroft of Princeton | University was named third vice presi- dent. A new treasurer, Dr. Myron T. Scud- der of New+York, was elected. Lester . Scott of New York was renamed sec- retary. The first vice presidential va- lcancy will be filled by the executive committee in November. At that time the 1930 convention city will be deter- mined from among three cities, Boston, Des Moines and Minneapolis. \d a half gallon | LI EFFORT through | | to 'a group of from 250 to 300 leading | CALLAHAN BARES | 1[}escription of Fifth Annuall Industrial Show Is Broad- | cast Over WRAL. The fifth annual Industrial Exposition, ich 15 to be held in the Washington | Auditorium beginning October 21, under | sponsorship of the Washington Cham- | ber of Commerce, was described last| evening in a radio address by D. J. Callahan, broadcast through station | WMAL. { Pointing out that in Washington and | vicinity there is produced annually a | | total of articles of trade well in excess of $100,000,000, Mr. Callahan said that | the industrial ex n is designed to present a graphi cture of activiti in the Washi area, com ial ar as well as gov- ntal pressed the opi: more than 100,000 persons st the city's “annual show window.” Printing Stands at Top. Deseribing the comparable medium whole commun city of Washingt han suggested that s ington does not ap] fi ro r. Calla- uperficially Wash- | 1 to the average | | | folks know that the centering of so man terests and ac tional in- require however top in_v: cause of this fact a will be educational ites window—the industrial exp “Both in and out of office work is conducted on a scale scarcely approacl where else in the world. Accordingly, a business show will be an integral part of the Industrial Exposition. Na tional manufacturer and local pro- ducers, in addition to their individual , will contribute to a model office modern items of equipment. Speed contests, through champion and suitable trophies reat Group Disp! | vear’s Indust groun displays will be on a scale never possible before. Typical of 1 be the exhibit of the Builders | Washington's productivit; | innumerable diversified wares of the cit: industry and commerce will be on | fany of these products will surprise even some who pride themselves on | knowing their city. “For four years the Indus tion, Washington’s shop win proved an adequate means of br the individual citizen and industrial and commercial Washington face to face to their mutual advantage.” 'MERSER DISPOSAL Senate District Committee Will- ing to Consider Further Plans for Consolidation. Having indicated since their return t the city that they would give careful consideration to.any further plans that may submitted to them looking to a street railway merger. members of the Senate District committee probably will mark time on the question until the repular session starts in December. Senator Vandenburg, Republican, of Michigan, one of the committee mem- bers who took an active part in the merger proceedings in the old Congress, said yesterday that if a revised plan comes before the; committee he would seek the advice of Dr. Milo R. Maltbie for his personal guidance regarding it. Dr. Maltbie was the expert employed by the committee last year to‘recommend changes in the original plan. Senator Capper. Republican. of Kan- sas. chairman of the committee. will wait to see what progress the Utilities Commission makes on the revised basis of unification it has submitted to the companics. Senator Capper said he has expressed to Gen. Patrick, chairman of the commission, his satisfaction at find- ing that the commission is working on the problem. He did not go into a de- tailed discussion of the merger problem. r Police Reports Acdting Sergt. Leo Murray and his {liquor squad were temporarily checked | 1n & raid yesterday morning when they | found the desired “evidence” tied to the | leash of a fierce and vociferous dog. According to Murray, they captured Charles Lee, colored, near his home in Bryan's court, with a package. This led to'a search of Lee's premises, which proved futile until one of the members of the squad happened to approach the no invitation to Fierce Dog Guards “Evidence” in Raid, After Seizing Owner come out, for the police say that he rushed to the end of his leash quickly. barking furiously and snapping his teeth. Murray looked back at the deg's “anchorage” and saw that part of it appreared to be a case of whisky. Policeman T. O. Montgomery pried the beast to one side with a long pole while Muray cut the case loose. Lee appeared in Police Court a few hours later before Judge Gus A. Schuldt and demanded a jury trial on a charge of possession of liquor. He was held on & $500. bond. | electrical i to the entire patrol force. ing of the lights tvpe MAY BE DEFERRED| POLICE EMERGENCY SIGNALS PLANNED FOR WASHINGTO Maj. Pratt Asks for Estimate on System Classed as Better Than Radio. ENTIRE PATRUL_FORCE COULD BE SUMMONED Light Arrangement May Be Used With New Teletype Now Being Installed. _Installation of a system of electric signal lig ich would flash to at- tract the attention of policemen in cases of emergency is under consider- ation by Maj. He intendent of po! terday that he had asked the District department to prepare an estimate on the cost of such a project. The lights, under Maj. Pratt’s plan, uld be placed on all patrol boxes and ed at other strategic points ughout the rict and connected 0 that the mere turn of a switch at police headquarters would flash a signal The flash- would indicate to a that an emergency existed and that he was expected to communi- cate with his precinct station at once. Pependable as Radio, Working in conjunction with the new teletype communication system soon to b2 installed by the Polic Department, Maj. Praty said he believed these lights would be just as effective and perhaps more dependable than radio, which has been adopted by the police departments to establish ontact with policemen in emergencies. ‘Through the teletype system, Maj. Pratt pointed out, it will be possible to automatically communicate simul- taneously with every police precinet. i3 emergency arose which required the attention of px in any sec- tion of the District, he explained, or- ders would be broadcast over the tele- system and the flashing light turned on. By the time police- achzd a telephone to call the rs would be quip uned to the t lice headqua Reports of cs, automobile thefts, tied periodically to all patrols, enabling them to be on the lookout for persons wanted by the police a few minutes after a descrip- tion has reached headquarters. Reserves Dishanded. The use of radio in these cities also ¥ c need of reserves at the N cmergency ick. perhaps, as ieves that the T with the tele- a marked im- present system of munication between headquarters and the precinct stations. Telephones are now used for this purpose, and a delay often occurs when it is necessary to transmit a message to all of the pre- cincts, the operators at headquarters being required to call each precinct. The new system of communication, however, probably would not permit a reduction in the reserve forces at the on houses, except in the outlying incts, the patrol forces arc zed. as no intention f 1 qu b ement in ths Sticks to Foot Police. While motor patrols cover two and hree times the territory of a foot pa- trolman, Maj. Pratt does not believe | they would be as effective in the busi- I ness and residential sections as & pa- | to observe more closely. | motor patrols now in use in the subur- | ban precincts have been tae source of | considerable trouble to th- department | because some of the men assigned to them took too many liberties while ‘free jancing” over a large territory. Maj. Pratt, however, points out they | have been a decided success in these territories, and as soon as funds are forthcoming the 24 horse-mounted men iin the outlaying precincts will be re- placed with motor patrols. Complete motorization of the patrol force might make it possible for the present patrol force of 530 men to | cover “the District more thoroughly, Maj. Pratt sald, but the resuits prob- ably will be less effective. The present plan of the department, he explained, is to motorize the outlying precincts, thereby making more foot patrolmen available for the thickly populated . CLOTHING NEEDED FOR THRIFT SHOP Appeal for Children's Wearing . Apparel Is Made to Meet Greater Demend. A plea for more children’s clothes was issucd last night by the Thrft Shop, child welfare benefit, at 804 Tenth street. Since reopening of the shop on Sep- tember 1, there has been more of a demand for children’s things than could be supplied by the stock on hand and donated since the opening. With schools starting throughout the city scon, customers of the Thrift S"flg have been creating a demand whicl cannot be met, it was explained, and the supply committee is appealed to in order to build up the stock. A stairway to the new apartment - stairs over the shop was compl last week, and it is expected a mew sales room will be made ready for the public Yefore long. ‘The Thrift Shop is operated as a permanent activity for the benefit; of the Children’s Hospital, the Child 1- fare Society, the Children's Cot y Hohe, the Prenatal Clinic of Columbia Hospital. H Representatives of these organizations on the board of management includle: Mrs. James Alexander Lyon, for e Children’s Hospital; Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, the Child Welfare Sociéty; Mrs. Charles Russell Train, the CI dren's Couniry Home; and Mrs. B: Mohun and Mrs. Reeve Lewis, for ghe Prenatal Clinic of Columbia Hospital. Mrs. Dougherty, who has been made honorary chairman of the shop, is leav= ing soon for China in the interesty of child welfare work, and a new chai: mll be chosen at the first meeting of g to Gallinger j dition was said be regarded as|dog house in tke rear. tion, gerious, Bk The, te needed oo is now housed in A, (Continued on Twentieth Page) quarters in the National Press Building. Hospital for & oile. o