Evening Star Newspaper, January 11, 1930, Page 16

WO NEAR DEATH I CRASH OF CAR AND MOTOR YL Head of One of Victims Is Driven Completely Through Side Wall of Auto. DRIVER HELD PENDING OUTCOME OF INJURIES AR | | Five Children Are Among Seven | Others Treated in Traffic Accidents. ‘Two youths are at the point of death in Emergency Hospital today following a collision of the motor cycle they were riding with an automobile shortly after 1 o'clock this morning at Pennsylvania avenue and Madison place, which drove the head of one of them completely through the side wall of the car. They are Leslie R. Barr, 21, the driver, and Bernard A. Baumback, 19, both of Ballston, Va. Although Barr’s head was Tammed through the side of the auto- | mobile his condition is slightly better than that of Baumback, who had not recovered consclousness hours after the accident. Herbert L. Lacey, 115 Carroll avenue, “Takoma Park, Md., operator of the car, 1s being held at the first precinct sta- tion pending the outcome of the injuries 10 the two young men. No charge has | been lodged against him. He was ar- rested by Policeman F. L. Rawlinson of the Traffic Bureat Eight Help Extricate Barr. Eight men were required to extricate Barr from the hole his head had torn in the car. They were forced to use a crowbar. The Fire Department rescue squad was summoned, but its services were not needed. Barr and Baumback were on their way home from an automobile service ! concern where both are employed. They were proceeding west on Pennsylvania avenue and Lacey was making a left- hand turn onto Madison place from' Fennsylvania avenue. i The first thing Barr said when he regained consciousness at the hospital was that the automobile was making a Jeft turn. ! Baumback was taken to the hospital | in a passing car, while a taxicab took Barr to medical aid. Physicians treated Barr for a fractured skull, back and left arm, severe lacerations to his head and nose and injuries to his neck. ‘Baumback was treated for a fractured =kull, internal injuries, a broken left Jeg and lacerations to his left hand. ‘The accident, it was reported, was| the third in which Barr has figured this week. In the other two he was not hurt and was not held blamable, it was reported. Seven Hurt in Other Mishaps. Five children and two grown persons were injured in other accidents late yes- terday and last night. Eight-year-old James Waters of 1709 L street northeast was knocked down by an automobile at L street and Bla- densburg road northeast last evening. Edward L. Kneessi of 1214 Pennsylvania avenue southeast, driver of the car, took him to Casualty Hospital, where Dr. J. Rogers Young treated him and said he was_suffering from lacerations to his forehead and that his skull may be fractured. Kneessi was charged with; operating with inadequate brakes. then | Teleased on his own recognizance to ap- pear in Traffic Court today. Coasting in a wagon down a terrace on the west side of Eighth street be- tween G and H streets southwest yester- day afternoon, two small cousins, each 7 years old, were carried into the street and under a truck driven by Edward L. Brooks, colored. 2111 Eighteenth street. ‘The children, Warner Poe, 714 G street southwest, and Eileen Poe, 800 G street southwest, were removed to Emergency Hospital in a passing automobile and treated by Dr. J. E. Lewis of the staff for fractured left legs. Ten-year-old Loraine Esch of 805 Longfellow street was bruised about the legs last evening when she was struck by automobile at Ninth and Longfellow streets. She was taken to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment by Robert E. Wilhelm, 6402 Sixteenth street, the driver of the car. Hit by Taxicab in Garage. James B. Taylor, 22, of 1100 H street may be suffering from concussion of the brain, Emergency HO‘D!flthhY' eicians say, as a result of being hit by a taxicab yesterday afternoon while in a garage at 1240 Twenty-fourth streev. The car was driven by Willlam E. Tucker, 105 C_street southeast. Crossing at Eighth street and Florida avenue last night, George C. Green, colored, 9, of 929 French street was hit by an_automobile operated by Wyatt A. Orchard, 635 PFifth street northeast, who took him to Children's Hospital. There he was treated for a bruised and a broken right arm. Robert Shepherd, colored, 85, of 1862 Mintwood place walked into the side of the automobile of Virginia L. Blakely. 1635 R street, yesterday afternoon and sustained lacerations and a head injury which may prove to be a_fractured skull. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. The accident occurred at Eighteenth and S streets. | CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Texas State Society will hold a dance tonight at Meridian Mansions, 2400 Six- teenth street, 9 o'clock. Short pro- gram will precede dancing, including an addréss by Representative Wright Patman of Texarkana; several songs by Mme. Leslie Coyle, radio_artist, and readings by Miss Blanche Mayes. Mount Pleasant Citizens’ Association will meet tonight at 8 o'clock in Mount Pleasant Branch Library, Sixteenth and Lamont streets. J. Blake Gordon, engi- neer of the District, will speak. Dames of Malta will meet tonight at 822 Twentieth street. James W. McGuire, president of the ‘Washington Lodge of Theosophists, will speak tonight at 8:15 on “The Larg:st Life” at the League for the Larger Life, 1628 K street. Public invited. TOMORROW. ‘Wanderlusters’ hike tomorrow will gtart from Chevy Chase Lake at 2:45 pm. Mr. O'Donnal will lead. A short walk. FUTURE. Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, S. X, presi- dent of Georgetown University, will tend the solemn vesper service tomor row evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Shrine of ‘he Blessed Sacrament, Chevy Chase Parkway, when the Washington Holy Name Union will hold a religious demonstration in celebration of the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus. Red Triangle Outing Club will take a sunrise walk to the Washington Monument and return from Sherman Monument, south of Treasury, followed by breakfast party at Washington Hotel coffee shop. Meet at 6:45 a.m. The Colored Women's Political Study Club, Twelfth and O streets, will hear “Poltical Science as it Bunday afternoon at club parlors, Interested colored women are invited. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1930. AUTO TORN BY | of the automobile shown above in a collisi Below, the motor cycle which Barr and they collided with the automobile. CYCLIST’S HEAD Leslie C. Barr, 21 years old, Baliston, Va., whose head penetrated the side ion last night, is not expected to recover. Bernard A. Baumback were riding when CHEST DRIVE PLANS NEAR COMPLETION Three Groups Make Reports That Preparations Have Advanced for Campaign. Plans for the organization of the Communitly Chest campaign are near- ing completion, the executive campaign committee was advised yesterday in re- ports from three active bodies of the Chest, the executive, the speakers’ bu- reau and the special gifts committee. Chairman John Poole presided at a meeting of the executive committee at | the Cosmos Club, and acknowledged re- | ports from all unit chairmen showing | that organization work is well advanced. Newbold Noyes, chairman of the special gifts committee, announced that sub- committees are being filled and that the unit will be ready to take the field next week. An- announcement on behalf of C. Melvin Sharpe, chairman of the public- ity committee, that the newspapers again have pledged six pages of display casioned applause in the committee. Frank R. Jelleff, chairman of the group solicitation unit, said that his organization 1is practically completed and that it would be organized down to the captains by the next meeting Monday. Key men have aiready been appointed in some of the larger estab- lishments, he said. Merritt O. Chance, chairman of the metropolitan unit, said that his unit is complete with the exception of one divisional chairman, and that he ex- expected to be able to announce a ma- jority of his workers by the next meet- ing on Thursday of next week. Miss B. Gertrude Taft, reporting for William C. Sullivan, chairman of the speakers’ bureau, announced that 43 meetings had been supplied with speak- ers to date and that requests have been received for many more speakers. The bureau has more than 200 speakers available, Publicity Plans Given. Harry Hites, reporting for Mr. Sharpe, outlined plans for distribution of posters, direct mall matter and news- paper copy. Mrs. John Jay O'Connor, chairman of the information unit, said that prac- tically the same members as served last year would be active again for the 1930 campaign. Andrew Landrus, reporting for the auditing committee, said that the same system in effect last year would be used this year. Practical instruction for public speak- ing was given to members of the speak- ers’ committee and others in the United States Chamber of Commerce Building in the form of 7-minute talks by ex- perienced chest campaigners. including Rev. Jason Noble Pierce, Dr. Abram Simon, Mrs. Mary McNeil, Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith and Elwood Street, direc- tor of the chest. William C. Sullivan, chairman of the committee, presided. Work for Common Good. The keynote of Dr. Pierce's address was the happy realization of Washing- ton in finding all its various elements of different creeds and races now work- ing together for the common welfare of the whole community. This, he said, was the great outstanding spiritual functioning of Washington's chest. Dr. Simon emphasized the thought and added his appeal to those large elements of the National Capital who come here from other sections of the country and fail to recognize their obligations to this city while they are living here. The responsibility of all these Government workers to help the Chest in its community service was also stressed by Mrs. Goldsmith, who insisted that giving to the Chest is in reality laying up treasures for the future. Mrs, McNell said that the coming of the Chest was needed to reach the heart of Washington. Mr. Street summarized the points to be covered by campaign speakers and answered a number of questions from those present. ‘The special gifts committee held an organization meeting at 3 o'clock at the Cosmos Club. — Mrs. Ann G. Russell, who recently celebrated her 108th birthday anni- versary, still can read bold type. advertising each for the campaign oc- | gain that had come with the successful | same | PUEBLS TRACED BACK TO TO0AD National Geographic Society Solves Mystery Through Tree-Ring Calendar. HH39—not an automobile license number, but the file notation of a precious piece of crumbling timber—is destined to go down in history as a memento of American history as sig- nificant as the Rosetta stone in Egyp- tian annals. This was the gist of an amazing scientific detective story related last evening before members of the National Geographic Society by an archeologist and an astronomer—Neil M. Judd of Washington, and Dr. A. E. Douglass of Arizona, when they told how a tree- ring chronology has been evolved which dates important Indian ruins back to 700 AD. The key already has been applied to 40 of the major ruins of our Southwest States. Mr. Judd first recounted the series of National Geographic Society expedi- tions which explored Pueblo Bonito, found souvenirs of the lives of the peo- | ple who once lived there until the very rooms of the ancient Indian village ruins echoed with their laughter and | their song—but always there remained | the mystery, “When was it occupled.” | Tree Rings Studied. | Dr. Douglass’ study of the 1l-year | sun spot cycle, which affects terrestrial | weather, had led him to study tree | rings for records of these weather vari- | ations. From the timbers of Pueblo | Bonito, and from 5,000 timbers garner- | ed there and at other Indian ruins, he | worked out a tree ring calendar which showed the Pueblo Bonito to have been occupled between 919 and 1130. It was only last Summer that his work of years culminated. For, already, when this season’s expedition went into the fleld a calendar had been worked out back to 1260 A.D. Another chronology of some 500 years had to be “anchored” to that calendar. Was there a gap or an overlap? Many ruins were searched in vain for the missing evidence link, until, at Show- low, in Arizona, & crumbling timber was found that told the story and solved the mystery. Fame Already Bestowed. And that timber was the newly fa- mous HH39. Color slides were shown of the pres- ent day environs of the Indian villages and ruins from which timbers were taken, including Oraibi, the oldest con- tinuously inhabited village in the United States—an Indian village that goes back to_1400 or earlier. Mr. Judd encountered many human adventures among the Indians of today while he was making history of what hitherto had only been prehistoric tra- dition. At one place he found a step- | ladder, one round of which was made | from a timber that was 200 years older | than the next rung. While this was an_example of the conservatism of the Pueblo tribes, he { pointed to another where modernism was indicated by & Yale lock which was attached to a string and hung on a peg outside the door when the owner left his abode. ASKS FREE TRANSFERS AT TRACTION JUNCTION | Brightwood Association Seeks In- | terchange by Companies at Geor- gia Avenue and Kennedy Street. Pree transfers between Washington Railway & Electric and Capital Trac- tion cars at Georgia avenue and Ken- | nedy street were asked by the Bright- { wood Citizens’_Association in a brief i filed with the Public Utilities Commis- | sion yesterday by Willlam McK. Clayton of the association. The petition “aiso asked for a stop on the W. R. E. Co. | cars at Longfellow street and Georgia avenue. The petition says that the association has been negotiating with the two com- panies for five years as to the transfer matter without success. Accordingly the assoclation “directed, ordered and empowered” Mr. Clayton, “by unani- mous and vociferous vote” to lay the maitter before the commission. ! | 1 | IRETIREMENT BILL ENACTMENT THIS SESSIONHOPEFUL of Senate and House Com- mittees, See Prospects. SENATOR SAYS IT'S GOOD U. S. BUSINESS No Pension but Annuity, Which Is ‘Wise Protection of Employes, He Asserts. This is the last of a series of seven articles on the status of proposed meas- ures to liberalize the Civil Service retire- ment law in the interest of Government emploves who are retired or may here- ajter retire. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. Both Senator Porter H. Dale of Ver- mont and Representative Frederick R. Lehlbach of New Jersey, chairmen of the Senate and House committees on the Civil Service and sponsors of the Dale- Lehlbach bill to increase the annuities of retired Government employes, are hopeful that this measure will be en- acted into law and signed by President Hoover before the end of the present long session of Congress. It was passe by the Senate several days ago and is now in the House. “It is a plain, economical business proposition for the Government and a fair insurance investment for the em- ployes,” said Senator Dale, summing up a brief explanation of the measure in an interview with the writer. “My_ experience leads me to belie said Representative Lehlbach, “that it will recelve favorable consideration in the House.” Senator Dale says the public is “apt to get the impression that the bill means a $1,200 annuity to all retired Government,_employes.” “The fact is,” continues Senator Dale, “that, out of some 1,600 annuitants now |on the roll, less than one-fourth of them draw the maximum of $1,000, about one-fourth draw a half, or less, of that amount, and the other half fall between $600 and the maximum, the average for all being less than $750.” Senator Dale then went on to ex- plain that the present bill increases the maximum annuity from $1,000 to $1,200 and the amounts recelved by other an- | nuitants proportionately. Annuity, Not Pension. “The public is apt also to get the im- I pression that the annuity is a pension,” | continued Senator Dale. “The fact is that the employes are paying now the total cost, and if the extremely liberal estimates of the Government actuaries are ever reached in deferred liability, the Government will then pay only about one-fourth of the cost, whereas the saving by increased efficlency is estimated at some six times that cost— if it ever comes—so that it was stated in 1924 by one of the Government ac- tuaries that had the total expense been {borne by the Government that year the saving would even then have been in excess of $800,000 to the Govern- ment. “When the increased efficiency of the employes in service, because of height- ipation of the old-age annuity, is con- sidered, it cannot in any sense be call- ed a pension and it is in fact scarcely possible to find even an element of philanthropy in the system—it is a plain, economical, business proposition for the Government and a fair insur- ance investment for the employes.” After expressing his hope that Con- gress will act favorably on the measure at this session, Representative Lehlbach said there were some misconceptions about its purpose and the underlying theory of the retirement system. “The purpose of the bill, as intro- duced by me and indorsed by what is known as the joint conference on re- tirement,” said Mr. Lehlbach, “is, first, to increase the maximum annuity from $1,000 to $1,200, carrying with it, of course, proportionate raises all along the line. This applies to the annuitles of those already retired as well as those who will retire in the future. “The bill also provides for voluntary retirement at somewhat earller ages, after 30 years of service, than the age: now fixed in the law. In the course of committee deliberation and the perfec- tion of the bill before its report, there may be embodied some other incidental provisions, but the purposes above stated are the major ones sought to be ac- complished by the legislation. Cost to Treasury. “It must be borne in mind that an appreciable cost of the retirement sys- tem is borne by the Treasury. The actuaries have figured out what, under the existing provisions, it will require, and accordingly for two years appro- priations have been made of $19,950,000 annually. Of course, with an increase of the benefits and their enjoyment at an earlier age, the cost of the retire- ment system to the Government will be materially increased, and this increase must be annually appropriated for. “Should the earlier policy of simply borrowing the money for annuitles and withdrawals from the contributions of active employes be continued, the liabil- ity of the Government would be multi- plied to such an extent that the cost of the system would be a staggering burden to future generations. “The contention that because there exists an appreciable cash balance in the retirement fund, sometimes errone- ously called a surplus, the system is not costing the Government anything, is a fallacy that has been time and again exposed. “The annuities are computed by a mathematical calculation, which based upon length of service and amount of salary, but in making such computation all salary in _excess of $1,600, under the pending bill, will be disregarded. It is obvious that conse- quently those in the higher ranges of salaries will receive benefits propor- tionately less to the amount of their contributions than those in the lower ranges of salary.” At the end of the last fiscal year June 30, 1929, there were 16,501 annu- tants on the roll. The numbers receiv- ing various rates of annuities, accord- ing to the commissioner of pensions, were as follows: Less than $100.. 10 127 Between $900 and $999.96 Maximum annuity of $999. ‘More Than 1,700 January 1. f Dale and Lehlbach, Chairmen | | ened interest in their work and antic- | is | Baptist Church. A FLEETING SIGN OF SPRING ON THE MALL The Stafford Pemberton dancers made merry with the January warm weather at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool yesterday just before the west winds ushered in a declded drop in temperature. DISAPPROVE FIRE TRUCK CRASHBILLS Commissioners Hold District| Not Liable for Firemen’s | Negligence. ‘The theory that the District of Co- lumbia is not liable for the negligence of employes of the Fire Department was used by the District Commission- ers today as the basis of two unfavor- able reports on private bills for the re- lief of persons suffering losses in col- lisions with Fire Department vehicles. In one case James M. Ganley claimed $7,264.10 to cover damages to his milk truck, which was demolished in a col- lision with a fire truck at Thirty-sixth and O streets November 29, 1928. In the second case, J. Linwood Johnson claimed $600 for the destruction of his roadster on September 2, 1922. This was parked at the curb and No. 24 en- gine, responding to a fire, itself caught fire. The flames caused the driver to lose control of the engine and it crashed into Johnson's roadster, demolishing it. The unfavorable reports were sent to Congress today in response to requests for comment on the two bills by the House District committee. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATRONS ARE URGED Forest Hill Citizens Adopt Resolu- tion Asking Appropriation by Congress. A resolution urging appropriation by Congress for the provision of matrons for all elementary schools in the Dis- trict was adopted by the Forest Hill | Citizens’ Association, meeting Thursday night at the Methodist Home for the Aged, 4901 Connecticut avenue. The secretary of the organization was in- structed to direct a letter asking con- sideration of the matter to the Com- missioners. It was announced that a communi- cation had been received from the Dis- trict Commissioners saying that more adequate lighting facilities will be in- stalled on Broad Branch road from ‘Wisconsin avenue to Rock Creek Park. In answer to a plea of the associa- tion that a police booth be located at Connecticut avenue and Davenport street to supervise traffic during school recess hours, Superintendent of Police Pratt informed the association that, while such a booth could not be estab- lished, an officer would be assigned to patrol the territory in question and look after the safety of school children. RECEPTION TO BE HELD. Eastern Presbyterian Program to Honor New Members. A communion service and reception of new members will be held tomorrow morning at the Eastern Presbyterian Church. In the evening Dr. A. E. Bar- rows, the pastor, will speak on “King- | dom Boundaries.” The Missionary Soctety will give a luncheon Fridsy from 12 to 1:30 p.m. Community sewing ~will be held Wednesday from 10 am. to 4 pm. In the evening the Goodwill Bible Class will hold its monthly meeting. CENTRAL UN.ION SERVICE. The regular Sunday evening service at the Central Union Mission, 613 C street, at 7:45 o'clock tomorrow, will be conducted by W. W. C. Bittings of the West Washington Baptist Church. Monday night, and each succeeding night next week at 8 o'clock, services will be conducted at the mission by delegations from the following churches: Monday night—Kendall Baptist Church, Tuesday night—Epworth M. E. Church, South. Wednesday night—Calvary Thursday night— ‘The First Congregational Church. Fri- day night—The Metropolitan Baptist Church. Saturday night—The Francls Asbury M. E. Church. Special services will be conducted to- morrow by the mission at the work- house at Occoquan, Va., with Roy Palmer as speaker. Portuguese Cabinet Resigns. LISBON, Portugal, January 11 (#).— The cabinet of Premier Jose Vicente de Freltas resigned late last night. The cabinet, formed last July, suc- ceeded that headed by Col. Jose Vicente de Freitas, who had formed a govern- ment in April, 1928. Annuitant, official publication of the association, George G. Hoover; assist- ant secretary, Edmund Murphy; treas- urer, John B. Dickman, sr. Since the position of the League of the American Civil Service was stated in an earlier article in this serles, further word has been received from Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, presi- The number of annuitants on the roll | dent of that organization, which is ask- January 1, 1930, was in excess of 1,700. The numbers receiving various amounts ing & minimum annuity of $365 and other important changes in the Dale- were about in the same proportion as | Lehlbach bill. six months ago. In addition to the various organiza- tions of active employes that are work- This league was organized by Mrs. Worrell and _other _employes Wwho thought the officers of the National ing for the liberalization of the pres- | Federation of Federal Employes, headed ent retirement law, there is the Na- by Luther Steward, was taking too con- tional Association of Retired Federal |servative an attitude, Employes. This organization is satis- “We do not believe in compromising,” fied to give its approval for the present | says Mrs. Worrell in a communication to to the Dale-Lehlbach bill. the writer. “We know our needs and At the head of the body of retired | will continue to ask until they are employes is John M. Kline, president. granted. We do not belleve in asking ‘The other officers are as follows: First | for a little this year and a little more vice president, Dr. Henry A. Johnson; second vice president, Mrs. Emily L. next year ad Mfinitum, but rather in asking for what we actually need Nourse; secretary and editor of the aad stopping when we receive it.” Burglar’s Voice May Aid Woman To Identify Him Robber and Victim Have Spirited Conversation in Theft of $119 Savings. If Mrs. Lillian Chernikoff has a true ear she may be able to identify the burglar who robbed her home, at 300 E street northeast, after the two of them had hela a tense conversation in the darkness early this morning. Although the man held s pistol | pressed against her body, Mrs. Cherni- koff sought for a time to conceal the whereabouts of her husband’s savings of $117, which lay in a paper bag be- neath her pillow. ‘The man would not be put off, how- ever, and escaped with the money. This morning police brought a colored sus- pect before Mrs. Chernikoff, and the woman listened intently while the man protested innocence. Not Yet Identified. Not having seen the intruder, she was uncertain about the identification, although police expected to question the suspect further today. Mrs. Chernikoff, who lives above her husband’s grocery, was awakened about 3 o'clock by a stealthy footfall beside her bed. “Who is it?” she demanded. The man moved closer and thrust a gisml ;nlmt her body. to shoot and assured him her money | was in the cash register of the grocery downstairs. - | “No, it isn't” the man replied, still | holding the pistol in place. | Hands Money Over. Becoming fearful that he would shoot, Mrs. Chernikoff reached under her pil- low and handed over the bag of money —$110 in bills and $7 in silver. ‘The man took the money and fled down the steps to the street. As soon as he left the room Mrs. Chernikof’s screams brought her husband and their children, but none of them had a chance to get a look at the intruder. He had gained entrance by breaking the lock on a rear door. Four other burglaries reported to th: police over night were under investi gation today. Mrs. Margaret Scott, 1827 Florida avenue, told police of the eighth precinct that the door of her a ent was jimmied during her ab- sence, the intruders stealing $25 in gold, four rings and & small sum of money of foreign countries. House Is Ransacked. Beulah Jetter, 1719 Second street. another victim, reported to police of | second precinct that burglars gained entrance to her home through a rear basement window. The house was ran- sacked and a revolver and $1 stolen. Burglars who visited the residence of Robert E. Bayne, 5224 Che last night failed they wanted and left without taking anything. Police think the intruders probably were looking only for money. A jimmy was used by a burglar to gain entrance to the apartment of John E. Maynor, 1406 Eleventh street. talking machine, wedding ring and three fountain pens were stolen. The stolen property was valued at $25. FAVORABLE ACTION SEEN ON DALE BILL Between Leaders Interested in Measure. Early and favorable action by the House on the Dale bill to liberalize the civil service retirement law was forecast today after conferences between party leaders interested in this legislation, which has already passed the Senate. Chairman Snell of the rules com- mittee, who was criticized last year for delay in calling up the special rule on this measure, ordered by the rules com- mittee, said today, “I personally have no disposition to delay action on the retirement bill."” Chairman Lehlbach of the House civil leves mpt, and fa can ha:mon this measure if the friends of the Government employes are willing to be reasonable and not expect too much. He admitted that the Dale bill as passed by the Senate has the best chance of being enacted, be- cause it represents about all that the Government, workers can expect at this time. In this opinion Chairman Lehlbach is supported by Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the joint conference on civil service retirement legislation, who has advised the various units through- out the country that this is their one chance and that all should support the Dale bill. Subsequently, he said, fur- ther corrective legislation might be enacted. BURKETT RITES MONDAY. Navy Officer Killed in Crash to Be Buried in Arlington. Burial services for Lieut. Eugene Fleld Burkett, U. 8. N., killed in an airplane crash_near ‘Diego on January 7| will be held Arlington National Cemetery Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock, with full military honors. In making this announcement today the Navy Department asserted that Chap- lain Sidney K. Evans, U. 8. N, and Rev. Dr. F. F. Porter, pastor of the | Passage Forecast After Conference | iitd —Star Staff Photo. SRGHTWOOD BODY INORSESELAYTON Committee Will Ask Hoover to Name Him People’s Utility Counsel. Willlam MCcK. Clayton was unani- mously indorsed for the position of peo- ple's counsel on ‘the Public Utilities Commission at & meeting of the Bright- wood Citizens’ Association, held Brightwood Junior High School last night. The Ctll“flcl“ol‘ls of Mr. Clayton and his work in public utility matters dur- ing the past 20 years were referred to by several speakers, who paid tribute to his efforts on behalf of local residents. It was at a meeting of the association 0 that he introduced the advocating the appoint- ment of a public utility commission. He is chairman of the public utilities committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, chairman of the same committee of the Brightwood Citizens Association and has for many years been a representative of the association before the Federation of Citizens’ As- sociations. Mr. Clayton's name will be presented to President Hoover by the follovging | committee: Elmer Johnson, chairman; | E. G. Bogardus, H. E. King, A. 8. Casa- | nova and Charles W. Ray. Back Shelby and Kelly. ‘The association also went on record | as expressing confidence in the Metro- politan Police Department and in As- sistant Superintendent of Police Wil- liam 8. Shelby and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, head of the homicide squad. On motion of H. B. Landgraf, the association adopted a resolution favor- ing the locating of a new center ket north of Pennsylvania avenue, as provided in the Capper bill. The contemplated removal of the Brightwood post office to larger quar- ters brought the appointment of the following committes to confer with offi- clals of the Post Office Department Col. L. G. Nott, chairman; A. W. Fos. ter, Charles W. Ray and A. C. Haight. To Urge Paving. ‘The paving of Madison street from Ninth street to Georgia_ avenue will again be urged before the District Com- missioners. Expressions of regret for the death of Mrs. William V. Cox, daughter of the last mayor of Washington and widow of the late W. V. Cox, a president of the assoclation years ago, and also a past resident of the Washington Board of le, and for the sudden death last week of' Mgr. Francis X. Bischoff, rec- tor of the Church of the Nativity at Brightwood, also a member of the asso- clation, were passed. ‘The following were elected to mem- bership: _Charles E. Combs, William C. Fewell, Robert S. Wilkins, Bailey A. El]:dnnn and George Raymond Wil- elm. ‘The retention of the large tract of land comprising the estate of the late Willlam V. Cox for national or District at a future date, was disc ussed A | by the association. A committee was appointed to confer with Lieut. Col. . 8. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, on this. The com- mittee is Wiliam McK. Clayton, H. E. King, L. F. Randolph, Charles W. Ray and John Claggett Proctor. Announcement was made that 250- candlepower electric lamps will be in- stalled in the near future at street in- tersections on Kennedy street between Fifth street and Georgia avenue and on nhouse street between Blair road and Georgia avenue, with 60-candle- aour lamps between street intersec- lons. Charles W. Ray presided and D. Wilson was lecr:tlryA b TWO MORE SITES ADDED FOR MUNICIPAL CENTER C Street Property Purchase Au- thorized for $17,150 and $22,260. The District Commissioners yester- day authorized purchase of Lhoypmp- erty at 317 C street for inclusion in the municipal center site. It will be bought from Edward P. Schwartz, Inc., for $17,150. The Commissioners also or- $56°C strect rom e Macouby Bansh & . Marbury Stant Co. at & price of $22,260. % = QUOTA CLUB ELECTS. Miss Eleanor Eckhardt to Head Group During 1930. ‘The Quota Club of Washington held its annual election of officers last night at the American Association of Univer- il{ty Wohrfxen !club!l;:l:se. nlqdrs 'Mnfle oore Forrest, re resident, pre- sided at the meeting. o » The newly elected officers are Miss Eleanor Eckhardt, president; Misses Frieda Kenyon, Janet Lake and Julia Stevens, vice presidents; Miss Alvina Jacobson, treasurer; Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest and Mrs. M. K. Hume, directors. PLAN SPECIAL SERVICE. Baptist Home for Children to Be Subject for Meeting. A service in the interest of the Bap- tist Home for Children will be con- ducted at both the Sunday school and preaching s_tomorrow at Fifth Baptist Church. The speaks A First Baptist Church, will officiate. pallbearers will be Lieut. J. J. Clark, Lieut. W. M. Dillon, Capt. Harold C. Major of the Marine Corps, Lieut. E. C. Ewen, Lieut. L. Harrison of the Naval Construction Corps and Lieut. R. S. Whitehead, Hilton Jackson and C. C. the board of trustees and Mrs. Julian Dowell of the board of lady m'nafm. The a:\flux:n from wnmh&m' be present_an take part e Dr. John E. Briggs will night on “Living the Straight Life.” at DRY WASHINGTON ., IS DEMANDED BY TEMPERANCE BODY Dr. Clarence True Wilson Pic- tures Disillusionment in Nation’s Capital. SUGGESTS MODIFICATION OF FOURTH AMENDMENT Tradition That “Man's Home Is His Castle” Covers Too Much Ter- ritory, He Thinks, | Any doubts that any one may have entertained as to the support of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Pro- hibition and Public Morals to the movement to make Washington the Nation's model “dry” city are remov:d by Dr. Clarence Trus Wilson, general secretary of that organization, in an ar- ticle in the current Collier's. Dr. Wilson, picturing the disillusion- ment awaiting thoss “Christian men and women who come . . . to the Capital of their coursry for rest and comfort that they may return to the fight strengthened and invigorated,” de clares: “The hid-ous fact remains Washingtcn, the capital of dry America, govern:d directly by a dry Congress, buys and drinks liquor. What sort of an example is that for the rest of us> Two exceedingly simple answers to th-se good people must be made: Washing- ton must be made bone-dry, and Wasn- ington can be made bone-dry.” Dr. Wilson proposes several steps that might be taken to accomplish this pur- pose, one of them being possible “modi- fication” of the fourth amendment. Discussing this phase of the program and the difficulties confronting officers who must have scarch warrants befor> entering private homes, the writer in | states: Old Tradition Distorted. “That ancient tradition that a man's home is his castle covers too much moonshining in the District of Columbia as well as elsewhere. Criminals who sneer 2t our Constitution, who violate its sacred amendments, who brew and distill, who buy and sell liquor, who drink and serve drinks, have no right to the protection of that old tradition. “Officers of our Government—Ilocal and national—may smell the mash which is being cooked in stills behind the doors of private houses. They may have utter personal conviction that the laws of their country are being defied behind closed portals. But they may not enter that door and do their duty unless they have clear and sworn proof that liquor has been sold on these prem- ises. Thus are our conscientious officers of law balked, their morale weakened.” Dr. Wilson rues the day when the protection of the fourth amendment is destroyed, but he argues: “But there is nothing in the Consti- tution which is meant to protect those criminals who ara usirg a small part of it as a clock for their nefarious pur- poses, who are perverting the law of our land to shield them from the righteous anger of those who uphold it. The fourth amendment wes never intended to render inviclatc that home wherein our officers have every right to suspect that law is being violated. If neces- sary, tharefore, it should be modified s0 as to prevent the sacred protection of the household from shielding violation of the Nation's Ccnctitution. A well founded suspicion, based on outside evi- dence, not inside, should be ample to warrant a writ of search.” No Local Enforcement Law. Dr. Wilson springs what he calls a “surprise” on his readers by informing them that there is no local enforce- | ment law in the Capital since the Shep- act was superseded, in all but a sections, by the Volstead law. Therefore, there are only 40 local police- men of the 1,312 on the force available for prohibition work. The entire force should be made available for enforcing the dry act through such a law as that already proposed by Senator Howell and recommended by Attorney General Mitchell, he says. Another court is needed here to dis- pose of liquor cases “and the time has come when severer sentences should be imposed upon minor bootleggers.” The law, writes Dr. Wilson, “should be more liberally interpreted by the courts, but if this is not to be done, it is still pos- sible, no doubt, for Congress to make use of language which will indicate its purpose. Dr. Wilson reveals that he can to a store “on H street” d buy whisky labels and whisky bottles, and he be- lieves severe penalties should be visited upon such merchants. He thinks there should be a school for dry agents and officers in order that they should come into court with convincing cases. He also advocates the proposed Sheppard law, making the buyer guilty with the seller of illicit liquor. “Hill” Not Bone Dry. As to actual conditions in wet Wash- ington, Dr. Wilson states that “the downtown section of Washington has always been considerably wetter than ‘the hill,’ ” although he states in another portion of his article that “the fact is that on, under and around the hill whereon our National Legislature sits pondering legislation—actual and pro- posed—to enforce the eighteenth amend- ment liquor is sold and bought.” He states that “in society the old- time aristocrats, who are numerous in ‘Washington, are in the main abstain- ing, while the tables of influential social leaders are becoming increasingly d It is the newly rich who still drink, many of them apparently with nervous anxiety to do the fashionable thing.” The diplomatic immunity enjoyed here presents a hard nut to crack, ac- cording to Dr. Wilson, who draws an in- teresting picture of the situation. “The diplomatic receptions are very wet, as a Tule; just as wet, in fact, as the guests desire them to be. As one Canadian said, ‘If you don’t empty your glass it won’t be filled again. If you do empty it, it will be filled immediately. “The whole matter is at the discretion of the guests. At a reception not so long ago, given at the legation of one of the Latin countries, several servants were kept constantly busy filling glasses which had been emptied, the prevailing drink being champagne. But it was noticed that most of the drinking was being done by the Latin nationals, not by visiting Americans, many of whom : seemed to be content not to sample the champagne at all, while others tasted it gingerly by way of experiment.” Foreigners Laughing. The article states in conclusion that “Washington must have her own strin- gent prohibition law. We must unseat those faithless officers of our Govern= ment who, in violation of their oath, patronize bootleggers. What a laughing stock we are to visitors from a foreign shore, who, visiting our Capital that they may return to their homes to tell their countrymen what manner of peo= r'.l:e l}v!e“ are, find alcohol in Washington | —_———— Travels Long Way to Marry. TORONTO, January 11 (P).—A jour , ney of thousands of miles is a trifi, un- der some circumstances. Paul Geerling has come from the Dutch East Indies Satant Trolessor ‘of posier Bt e of unmmf of Toronw.p s s “I would have come farther if mece essary,” he said.