Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1930, Page 17

GENERAL NEWS [wamveros ] The Sundy Stae EQUPHENTTAREN | cmmcmeeJNORLDOFSUENCE [HUID EARTrCenTeR acvo pRgEai FOR YEAR MILES BELOW SURFACE PICTURED 10 BE CONSIDERED INNUMBERS GAME; & WILL CENTER HERE 1orie scicneior Denice Conception of RAID BY OFFICERS, @& - - | DURING FORTNIGHT e s BY BOARD OF TRADE 900 AUTOS ENTER | BUSINESS SECTION, SURVEY REVEALS Is Solid Iron. Police Pass Through Maze of Six Doors to Reach “Headquarters.” RUM SUSPECT HELD AFTER WILD CHASE Alexandria Men Pursued Through Traffic at 60 Miles an Hour by Sergt. Little. Having located what ‘uthuflfie.!‘de- scribe as a secret passageway into “the District’s largest numbers game head- juarters,” the police vice squad yester- ay forced entrance through the first of a series of six doors, succeeded in pass- ing the remaining barriers and raided the place, located in the 1600 block of urteenth street. “mmcmsmu:mutu- tivities by the vice and liquor squads which netted five prisoners, one taken after & 60-mile-an-hour chase through traffic; 79 quarts of what they say is liquor, and & quantity of equipment urported to be gaming paraphernalia, Excludlng seven adding machines. The vice squad _arrested Willlam Shannon, 30, of the 2400 block of Thir- teenth street on a charge of permitting gaming, in connection with the raid on the g&lmenth street premises. Seven employes of the establishment were, re- leased after being booked as witnesses. Equipment Is Confiscated. Learning of the location of the door to the geway to the place, \;\ce store near the building and DR. ROBERT A. gnu.mfl INSANTY MOUNTS, SCIENTISTS TOHEAR Threefold Increase in Gen- eration to Be Revealed by Statistics at Session. ‘The United States seems to be getting cragier. Statistics showing a three-fold in- crease in insanity in a generation, ex- pressed in admissions to hospitals per 100,000 population, will be presented at the first International Congress on Mental Hygiene, which will be held here based largely on a vey of mental patients for 1926-27 orced their way through the door of a :mn.u building in the rear yard. They then made their way through a series of halls to the second floor. There they unlocked the sixth of the series of «doors, nv:d:nrauword to the doorman and were itted. Police say they confiscated consider- able gaming material, consisting of “numbers slips” and also took posses- sion of the day’s receipts. The adding machines were taken as evidence. About the same time, Sergt. George M. %uz-a liquor fl‘::‘ge ;onglged spirited chase, pol 3 n‘!’fl an hour, after an alleged Tunning car. ‘The 'drlver of the car, who said he was Mario Matiers, 32, of Alexandria, Va., was captured and taken to the sixth precinct station where he was booked on charges of transportation and on of liquor and speeding. He ter was released on bond of $2,600. The liquor squad picked up Matiers’ trial in the 900 block of N street and pursued him nearly a mile before his car was stopped. As Sergt. Little stepped out of the police machine to search the other automobile, police re- port, Matiers threw his car into gear and sped away. He halted two blocks away, however, and submitted to ar- Test. Alleged Liquor Is Taken. A search of the machine, police said, disclosed 12 quarts of whisky in a suit- case in the rear compartment, 12 ad- ditional quarts in a box and one fim of creme de menthe. Police later searched a room on the second floor of a Tenth street building where they had been informed Matiers and & part- ner were storing liquor. There, they re- port, they found 31 more quarts of assorted liquors. Police are on the lookout for the second man. Little’s squad also chased and mufl another machine suspected of engaged in rum running and con- | g¢re, fiscated what is described as three gal- lons of whisky in the car after the colored driver jumped from the machine and escaped. ‘The abandoned car traveled nearly a half block before it came to a stop at Second and G streets. Later in the day the vice squad ar- rested Julius Strange and Donald Harley, both colored, in a raid on premises in the first block of Plerce n.r:ec ‘They w:r; char, with sale and possession of four quarts In a raid in the 200 qbbtk squad arrested Gorham, colored, on charges of sale find possession of three quarts of iquor. Emma Smith, colored, was_arrested in = raid in the 1900 block of Lee court on charges of sale and possession of four quarts of liquor. Four Others Taken. Raiding a suspected speakeasy at 941 Grant place late yesterday, first pre- cinct police seized a wine still, a quan- tity of alleged whisky and wine and arrested four persons. Augustino Croci, 47, his wife, Teresa Croci, 41, a son, Charles, 18, and Nicholi Santini, 44, were charged with sale and illegal possession, maintaining a ‘:ul.nnoe and illegal manufacture of wine. Precinct Detective Raymond B. Car- roll and Herbert G. Wannamaker and Sergt. W. H. Carin obtained a search warrant for the house after under- cover agents said they had purchased a small quantity of wine earlier. Posing as customers, the three offi- cers entered the house and rushed into the basement where they said they found a small still, and 159 one-half gallon jars of wine, 27 pints of wine, a small quantity of whisky, and 10 bar- rels partially filled with e. ‘Early last night the same officers ar- rested James M. Williams, 31, of 1252 Twelfth street; Richard Van Syckle, 56, 1340 Harvard street, and the latter's wife, Mrs. Lucille Van Syckle, 24, when the trio are said to have met the offi- cers on Fourteenth street and sold them six pints of whisky for $30. Willlam’s car was confiscated by the police and the prisoners taken to No. 1 precinet where they were charged with sale, transportation and illegal fon. Two other suspected bootleggers also were tricked by the officers into meet- ing them and were arrested for il- legal possession, sale and transporta- e y were Edward Blake, 39, of 3 Towa circle, and James L. Tarves, 42, of 1242 Columbia road. Three pints of gin were taken in each case. HUSBAND SHOOTS 'BRIDE IN MISTAKE FOR YEGG| Woman Tiptoes Into Hall as Spouse Goes for Revolver and Is Fired Upon. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 26.—Mrs. Philomena Chiarenza thought she heard burglars Wednesday night; roused her husband, Matthew. in a|ing .| to the fact that “queer” ton | were tolerated and considered sur- Just. issued by the Census Bureau. Only 64 per 100,000 were in insane hospitals in 1880, the first year for which such reports were available. At the begin- ning of 1928 there were 221 per 100,000. A mnotable increase in recent years, the statistics reveal, is due to cerebral arteriosclerosis and this may indicate that the American brain, to tast living and intensive economic pressure such as the world never has known be- fore, may have to collapse with g pressure on weakening teries. The rate of State hospital ad- this disease went up 50 in five years from 1922 to 1927. This is distinctly a disease of civilization, many psychiatrists believe, belonging to the same general pattern as the heart and kidney diseases which are ming so prominent in mortality statistics. Appears in Middle Life. Cerebral a lerosis crops _out most frequently in middle life. It is premature senility of the brain and its a,mpt:‘lyng l;ed — to those of the mental breakdown of aged persons. Alcoholic psychoses, sufficently severe to make hos treatment necessary, also in nearly 50 per cent since 1922, but this, it is pointed out, may be due to the effects of bad liquor on the brain cells and is likely to disappear when the drinking habits of the Amer- ican people are on a more stable basis. The census statistics do not reveal significant increases in five years in such major psychotic conditions as de- mentia praecox, involution melancholia, paranoia and manic depressive psy- choses which have been responsible for the majority of insane patients and all %‘ o-wh!ch have increased greatly since Delegates from European countries, it is expected, will present statistics showing a similar trend in their popu- lations, all possibly overloaded from the r eff of the war which largely will disappear with the present s eration. . “Queer” Persons Now Taken In. The situation may not be so alarming | re: as appears on the face of the statistics. it was pointed out at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, whose superintendent, Dr. Wil- liam A. White, is president of the con- gress. At least part of the increase, St. Elizabeth’s psychiatrists believe, is due persons who in a less strenuous S e now are placed in mental hospitals. e ‘The village fool, whose antics used to | cussed provide so much amusement for the gang on the corner, and who was able to take care of himself in a rural en- vironment, is becoming a thing of the past with the gradual passing of the Vvillage. Besides more criminals now are being declared insane. The congress will consider especially the ney major economic problem afford- ed by increasing insanity which is held paramount to that of increasing crime. St. Elizabeth’s Hospital alone, it was said by Dr. H. C. Wooley, clinical di- rector, has approximately 1,000 patients beyond the capacity for which it was intended and similar reports are made by most State hospitals. Hospital Cost Increases. ‘The cost of the 156 hospitals covered in the census report was $91,343,752 in 1927, compared with $75,154,424 in 1922, At the beginning of 1928 there were 294,075 insane patients in these hos- pitals. New York State alone spends approximately $20,000,000 a year on its insane and its hospitals are now over- crowded. According to preliminary an- nouncements of the Congress, there now are more hospital beds occupied by in- sane patients than by victims of all other maladies combined. The effect of prohibition on the in- sanity situation is admitted by the Cen- sus Bureau in its explanation of the alcoholic psychoses statistics. “These increases in most parts of the country show,” the report says, “that in spite of the national prohibition law there has apparently been during the last few years an increasing prevalence of al- coholism. It must be recognized that the first admission rate largely is influ- enced by other factors as well as the quantity of alcoholic liquor consumed. An especially important factor is the quality, and there has been a deteriora- tion in the quality of the liquor which has been available in recent years. It is probable that the increase in the first admissions having alcoholic psychoses is due largely to the increased consump- tion of inferior liquors. Occasional ex- cessive drinking brings many cases to the hospitals.” Committee for Congress. ‘The following local committee for the world congress was announced yester- : Frederic A. Delano, chairman; Mrs. Anne Archbold, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, Dr. H. E. Barnard, H. Bullis, Princess Cant Robert V. Fleming, Dr. John Foote, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Dr. Gilbert H. Grosvenor, Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, Dr. ‘As he went for his revolver she tip- toed into the hall to investigate. Matthew did not hear her leave the room; saw & dim figure; fired. Mrs. Charenza—bride of five months— 15 in critical condition from the wound. Vernon L. Kellogg, Col. J. Miller Kenyon, Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Dr. John C. Merriam, Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Rev. Wi C. Nevils, John Barton Payne, Poole, Dr. . | secretary; | arine Seven Important Conferences Are Planned, to Cover Wide Range. BIOLOGICAL MYSTERIES OF LIFE TO BE STUDIED Dr. Millikan to Discuss Cosmic Rays, Which May Tell Story of Earth’s Creation. For the next two weeks Washington will be the center of the world of science. An unusual number of first announce- ments of important scientific discoveries will be made at the three-day session of the National Academy of Sclences, the senate of American science, which opens tomorrow. The first session will be devoted to the biological mysteries of the nervous system which underlie the whole sub- ject of human life and behavior. Francis G. Benedict of the Carnegie Institution of Washington will explain why think- ing is hard work and people get tired without moving a muscle. Simon Fle: ner of the Rockefeller Institute will out- line recent research work on the effects on the human nervous system of the filterable viruses, the smallest known forms of life, which are responsible for such diseases as infantile paralysis and the dreaded rrot fever. Other speakers will discuss the queer be- havior of the tubercle bacillus, the ar- chitecture of living cells, the hearing of fishes, the nervous mechanism re- sponsible for hearing, and electrical re- actions in cells which probably are re- sponsible for life. . Rays May Explain Creation. On_Tuesday Dr. Robert A. Millikan and I. 8. Bowen of the California In- stitute of Technology will discuss significance of recent cosmic ray experi- ments. These rays are the mysterious extremely short waves from outer space which are continually bombarding the surface of the earth and will go through a foot of solid lead, the existence of which was discovered by Dr. Millikan. They may tell the story of the creation and disintegration of matter through- out the universe. Richard C. Tolman of the same institution will describe the effect of the annihiliation of matter on the wave length of light coming count- less millions of miles through space from the spiral nebulae. More light on the deductions to be drawn from the celebrated Michelson- Morley experiment on the speed of light in relation to the movement of the earth through space, upon which is based the Einstein theory of relatively, will be given by Dr. Charles E. St. John of the Mount Wilson Observatory of the Carnegle Institution. ‘Tuesday afternoon members of the academy will turn their attention to the new planet just discovered beyond Nep- tune and the indication of other planets from the i rities in the orbit of Uranus which must be caused by the gravitational pull of bodies further in Other speakers will range mil- ns of years into the past when iron deposits were laid down by tiny bac- teria, when it creatures related to the modern 1! roamed the earth and when strange, mollusk-like crea- tures crawled on Cambrian beaches. ‘The academy meetings will be fol- lowed at once by those of the American Geophysical Union, composed of geo- physicists, meteorologists and oceanog- raphers. The of the committee of the meteorological section for the study of the effects of solar radiation on the earth’s weather will be presented by Dr. H. H. Kimball of the Weather Bu- Prof. C. F. Marvin, chief of the bureau, will discuss the week as the unit of time. In the geodesy section Dr. Paul D. Heyl of the Bureau of Standards, who has been engaged for several years in an effort to obtain a more accurate weight of the earth by a gravitation measurement in an un- derground chamber, will describe tke rogress of the work. Tides raised on e surface of the earth will be dis- by Harlan T. Stetson and methods of precise measurement of time, such as are necessary in scientific ex- periments, by Alfred L. Loomis. Sea Mysteries Revealed. Unsolved mysteries of the depths of the sea will be discussed by the section on oceanography. C. S. Kempfl will tell the scientists of the Navy's project to chart the bottoms of the great oceans by echo sounders. The cgrmnm of in- ernational polar research, planned for the year 1932-33, will be ribed by H. U. Sverdrup, and there will be re- ports of the voyage of the ill-fated, non- magnetic ship, Carnegie, of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, destroyed by an explosion in Samoa last year. The Geophysical Union meetings will be followed next week by those of the American Meteorological Society at the Weather Bureau. The scientific meetings will be con- tinued during the week by the In- ternational Congress on Mental Hygiene, the American Psychiatric Society, the American Soclety for Study of the Feeble Minded and the Seismological Society of America. The first three, holding joint meetings through the week, will bring to Washington several thousand delegates from all over the world. The Seismological Society of America, concerned with the study of earthquake phenomena, will meet Mon- day and Tuesday at the Bureau of . ndards and Georgetown University. JUNIDR LEAGUE ELECTS MRS. CHASE PRESIDENT Others Chosen at Annual Meeting, but Duties Will Not Begin Actively Until Autumn. The Junior League of Washington | held its annual elections Friday in the Junior League club rooms at 1900 Q street, when Mrs. Howland Chase, 3rd, former first vice president, succeeded Mrs. Sydney Thomas as president. Mrs. Cary Travers Grayson, wife of Rear Admiral Grayson, U. 8. N., was elected first vice president; Miss Anna Carter Greene, second vice president; Miss Sallle Hews Phillips, recording Elise H. Alexander, cor- responding secretary, and Miss Kath- Dunlop,_treasurer. ‘The new officers of the league will . | not begin to actively function until the return of society in the Autumn, and Mrs. Thomas will carry on with the fimmn'n program, which is practically closed. Luther H. Reichelderfer, Admiral Charles E. Riggs, Dr. L. S. Rowe, Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger, Rev. Dr. Anson Phelps Stokes, Frederick C. Walcott, Dr. and Mrs. Ray Lyman Wilbur. +| proaching 60,000 degrees than BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A lquid earth-center 2,000 miles be- low the surface, at a temperature ap- centrigrade +Yag. piciired. befors posed of oxygen, was picture lore the American Physical Society meeting here yesterday by Dr. A. A. Bless of the University of Florida. Bless denied the commonly held con- ception of geologists that the earth's center s solid iron. The actual mass of the earth as determined by gravity measurements, he expained, is much greater than would be the case if it was composed entirely of the same ele- ments that make up its crust in ap- mxlm-uly the same proportion. This led to the iron-heart theory, since a allg:lm l:!fl solid lirv:ln w‘e&‘ )?t‘e center WO ve the require 3 Dr. B‘}eu insisted that the same extra welfilz would be provided by the action of intense heat on the atoms of the common elements of the earth's surface. By a temperature of 60,000 degrees they would be intensely excited, collide with each other at high velocities, and be- come “ironized” by knocking off each other’s electrons. Hence, the atoms would be ed closer together, since much of bulk of matter is due to the spaces between electrons, and there would be a sufficlent increase in weight to account for the weight of the world. Iron Theory Impossible. The “iron-heart” theory holds that during the millions of years while the and more earth was cooling from a gas to & solid | the mass, the iron, being the heaviest ele- ment, naturally sank to the center, leaving very little mixed in the outer crust. This is impossible, Bless con- tends, because if iron acted like that in very hot bodies all the iron in the sun would sink to the center. It is generally admitted, he said, that in the beginning the earth was torn from the sun in & gigantic tide raised on the sun’s surface by the passing of another star. Then the earth would be com- posed of the same materials which now can be detected by the spectroscope in the outer layer of the sun and very little iron would be found. Actually, he insisted, the amount of iron detected in the sun is about in the same proj as it is found on the earth’s surface. There is not enough to account for the vastly additional amount necessary for an iron center. Bless also insisted that while the heavy iron was supposed to be sinking, the elements heavier than iron would sink also. These in- clude the radio-active elements, radium and uranium. It now is generally ad- mitted that they are confined to the crust. If they were concentrated at the center, he sald, they would generate ACTION ONDISTRT MEASLRES ASKED Hearings on Taxi Regulation and Education Board Bills Slated. ‘The Senate District committee will be asked during this week to take action on four measures on which hearings have already been held, and will also hold he: on two additional bills. On Tu afternoon at 2 o'clock the committee will consider the bill to enlarge the powers of the Public Utilif Commission ity to te the taxicab business, on whrlgxmlvulmu taxicab groups have asked to be heard. ‘The Capper bill to provide for election of the Board of Education by the people of the District will be taken up at a public hearing at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon. ‘The measures on which arguments have been heard, and which Chairman Capper plans to lay before the com- mittee for decisions during the week are: The bill limiting the power of the District Supreme Court reviewing decisions of the utilities comm! the street railway merger resolution, the proposed loan for deviopment of the Municipal Center and the Howell prohibition enforcement bill. ‘The Senate appropriations committee is expected to meet in executive ses- sion tomorrow morning to consider the District appropriation bill, on which the District subcommittee, headed by Chairman Bingham of Connecticut, has been at work for several weeks. GOV. RITCHIE GETS BID TO SHAD BAKE Members of District Committee and < City Heads Also Invited. Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, members of the House and Senate Dis- trict committees and District and Baltimore municipal officials have been invited to attend the anual shad bake of the Washington Board of Trade May 24 at Sherwood Forest. ° Among those to whom invitations have been issued are the three District ‘Commissioners, the three assistant engi- neer commissioners and Mayor Broen- ing of Baltimore. Arrangements for the affair are go- ing rapidly forward under the direction of Herman Carl, chairman of the shad- bake committee, and an elaborate pro- gram of entertainment is sched- uled. Transportation to Sherwood Forest will be by automobile and bus. Each person attending the shad resented with 35 souve- niers, donal by manufacturers and merchants. CONFEREES TO RESUME RETIREMENT PARLEYS Senate and House Members Seek to Adjust Differences Over Civil Service Bill. Senate and House conferees on the civil service retirement bill are expected to meet this week in another effort to ust the differences in the form in which the measure the two branches of Senate members of the conference have held a number of informal ses- sions in the last two weeks to study the new_ plan of retirement eml in the House amendments, but indications are that this week they will resume dis- cussion of the question with the spokes- men for se. No intimation has been given, however, to the probable outcome of the such h“lted that fl:fl earth never would Investigations of earthquake waves, he insisted, indicate that below approxi- mately 2,500 miles the earth’s substance becomes liquid in a highly compressed state. He pointed out that the tem- perature becomes progressively higher as one goes toward the center. continues all the way at the same rate & temperature of 60,000 de ‘would be obtained 2,000 miles below the sur- face. At a comparatively short dis- tance, he said, the temperature would become so high that molecules, cal combinations of atoms of various elements, would be decomposed, release gasses, and that at the end the atoms themselves could not remain stable in the intense furnace. Under this theory, he said, the earth center would contain about 55 per cent of oxygen, in keeping with the amount of this element that would have been contained in the material torn loose from the sun, judging from the present composition of the sun’s outer The ionized elements, he would weigh approximately 15 grams a cubic centimeter compared with a weight of 3.2 grams a cubic centimeter on the surface. Composition Unrevealed. Dr. L. H. Adarhis of the Geophysical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington insisted that spectro- scopic analysis of the composition of the sun did not penetrate sufficiently below the surface to reveal what was e original composition of the earth. He said that the highest temperature possible for the earth's center under lwt“: 210.023 it at very much less. mates plac af ; By glellll of electrical discharges equivalent to weak lightning discharges | tailed in gasses he has produced a physical condition which seems to approach that of the interior of stars, Dr. E. O. Hulburt of t&ee Naval Research l.:ll;; physicists. Ordina; the atoms of gasses excited by electric- ity produce light. This is because the valence electrons, or odd electrons in the outer shells of the atoms, are agi- tated by the discharge. The light from each element produces a different produced discharges of jportion to other clements | s Dinner Meeting Tomorrow Will Be Devoted to Plans for Capital. ZEPPELIN TERMINAL IS AMONG PROJECTS Municipal Airport, Representation and Bridge Replacements Are Among Proposals. Projects of vital interest to the Dis- trict in almost every phase of its life will be considered and plans for their furtherance discussed by committee chairmen, officers and directors of the Washington Board of Trade at a din- ner meeting in the Willard Hotel to- morrow evening at 6 o'clock. The meeting was called by President George Plitt to map out a schedule of the board’s activities during the year 1930-1931. ‘The trade body’s admin- istrative year ended two weeks ago, when a new president and board of di- rectors were elected and committee chairmen appointed. eomw for consideration by the ittees have been listed and will be presen i h more de- programs activity will be formulated. Platform Is Outlined. The list of suggestions embodies what might be called the platform on which the trade body sta: inds. With few exceptions, this platform is Bositon in he pash on pulc questions position e past on public que and includes the following jects: Americanization wvorro g Hulburt 15,000 volts in hydrogen, helium, oxy- ! schools. instead gen and nitrogen and of differ- ent spectra for e.uc: dmm« only a single continuous for all of them. At the intense heat of the mterior of a star it is believed that all elements are stripped of their un- balanced outer electrons which pro duce their characteristic light, so that there be no difference in their spectrums. EXTENSION OF LIFE OF MARKET SEEN Moore Believes It Will Be Open “for Some Time” After January 1. Confidence that the Center Market will be allowed to continue in opera- tion “for some time” after January 1, 1931, is expressed by Representative R. Walton Moore of Virginia, as a result of whose insistence the decision was reached to have it remain open until the site it occuples is needed for the Federal building program. Representative Moore emphasizes that it is to the financial interest of the Government to keep the market going s long as possible, because the revenue | B! from its operation exceeds the cost of maintenance. He points out that the President already has recommended an appropriation to continue it until the first mentioned date, and if the land is not needed by the Government for new construction on that date, there will be no difficulty in an additional ap] tion deficiency bill neg{vgnee.embe Som: a the re- ‘This market by July 1. resolution was referred to and reported by the House District committee, but at the suggestion of Mr. Moore, it was re-referred to the committee and the committee now is asked to amend it so as to provide that the market shall not be discontinued until it is definitely de- termined when the land will be n and then only after 90 days’ notice. It is, of course, obvious that in view of the value of the market to con- sumers of the District, it should not be nit;undoned until there is a real neces- sity. WOMAN IS BEATEN BY COLORED MAN Alleged Counterfeit Dime Refused in Deal for Tobacco, Mrs. Pecker Tells Police. Attacked by a colored men when she refused to accept an alleged counter= feit dime in payment for a plug of chewing tobacco, Mrs. Nettie Pecker, 42-year-old storekeeper of 49 G street southwest, suffered loss of two teeth, bruises of the face and cuts about the left arm yesterday afternoon. Mrs, Pecker was treated at Emergency Hospital by Dr. F. G. Pfanner and re- turned to her store when physicians pronounced her condition not serious. The woman told fourth precinct police investigating the case t the man became enraged when she turned down the dime he gave her after buyin; the tobacco, and struck her severs) times with his fists, and then ran from S0 ot kel S Bl cinc vi ' name and iption. 4 s PLANS MEDICAL COURSE Miss Florence Brookhart, Daughter of Senator, to Enter School. Miss Florence H. Brookhart, of Senator and Mrs. Smith wd'mf hart of Towa, is preparing medical school of George W University this year. Miss Brookhart, who has been taking & pre-medical course at the university, has received notice that she has quali- fled for entrance to the medical school. When she graduated from high school PR R was one - dents of her class. e Encouragement of the Model Arplane Club and the sclentific study of aero- m_}lgeu. bringt national air races, the National Aero- nautical Association convention and the International Air Exposition. One bridge replacement annually. Study of Community Chest problems. An analytical survey of illiteracy and degrees of illiteracy among white and m of the gence of the o budy ot Jocal delt ency and estab- Inqu and es lishment of a special court to handle delinquents in passing them through the Police Court as at present. +Ask Memorial Stadium. ‘The location in Was of the Roosevelt Memorial in h&"?:m of a A satistactory celebration of George Sa fact celel o Washington's birthday in 1932 so that the people of Wash! will be pro- ‘which "msonl‘ltube incide: lc‘fi‘ol . badly icident 4 Pmle:flflo 'L,f. the “Buy In -.mmxm. o “ Campaign.” 8w A satisfactory smoke nuisance law. Needed improvements in the men’s compensation code. A survey of the fire hazards in Wash« gm as compared with those in other An insurance code for the District. ‘A ortgage foreciosute ia orec! w. A suitable armory for the { of Washiglon as the mos. pepia i as ‘most capital in the world. 7 A lishing & loan indebtedness for the Dis- ly with regard to the particularly Municipal Center financing. ‘The Moore bill providing for a com- to study fiscal relations be- the Federal and District gov- 3 A l?g:'urm budget of needed items o, needed 1 for the District. ‘Want National Representation. National representation for the peo- P equate apmoriat paris lequate approj on for the of the N-Nnnplg Capital as embodied in the Cramton bill. Formulation of some plan for the proper development of the north side of Pennsylvania avenue, so as not to be out of harmony with the Federal buildings on L!(xe lsfi)uth llde.“ of medical | practitioners. llinger Hos- The enlargement of Gal pital and the study of the question of commitment of insane persons. A thorough _investigation of the burden on the District imposed by the commitment of insane persons to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, who come to Washington from all parts of the country. A survey of the cost of hospitalization to persons of moderate means. vention of the use locally of in- fllxl?bk xu-ny flm. -year ding program. A larger ice force. Increased salaries for policemen. e SCOUTS DISAPPEAR Two Boys Unheard From After Leaving for Camp. Packing their camping equipment and Riggs oad: James Prodnomime, 13 peats , James Prudhomme, 13 years old, and his brother, Tom, 10, left their home at 4213 Seventh street at noon ymemby and have not been heard from since. Police of the District, Maryland and Virginia were brought into a hunt for the two youngsters last night when the boys failed to put in an appearance at the camp. ‘The boys have had considerable ex- perience camping out, their mother told police, and had remarked several ing here for 1932 of the :llggemvemene of the approach to Key ! Study of the present trend of estab- | * MISS HANNAH ANDERSON, 5508 Broad Branch road, photographed at the Shenandoah Valley som Festival, where she rep: District of Columbia.—Star Staff Photo. VICTIMS OF AUTOS INCLUDE VISITORS & .| Frank J. Stillman of California | Unconscious in Hospital Soon After Arrival. Frank J. Stillman, who was struck by an automobile at Connecticut ave- nue and Q street at noon yesterday, was still unconscious at Emergency ital last night and little hope is for his recovery. Mr. Stillman arrived in Washington from his home in Glendale, Calif., only a few hours before the accident. called on relatives at the Apartments, Connecticut avenue and California street, and shortly afterward, while attempting to cross the Q street intersection he was hit by an auto- mobile, said to have been driven by George Elefsaides, 21 years old, of 1415 gahtrlesg The driver was arrested and el of Mr. Stillman's injuries. ‘Three other accidents were re] during the last 24 urs. Howard Quade, 9 years old, of 635 Eighth street northeast, escaped serious injury when an automobile driven by Wiliam J. Long of 1505 Gales street northeast, ran him down at Eighth and H streets northeast. He was taken to Casualty Hospital and later dis- charged. Miss Elizabeth McGarry, 23 years old, of 5908 Fourth street was struck by a taxicab driven by Eugene F. Snaken- of Clarendon, Va., on Fifteenth treet. She was taken being truc: by tomob! ted sf an automobile operaf by M Kober 38, of 1408 © street northeast. The accident oc- curred in the 1300 block of B street northeast. REICHELDERFER PLEDGES BEST SERVICES TO CITY Commissioner Delivers Brief Ad- dress as Honor Guest of G. W. Alumni. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, presi- dent of the Board of Commissioners, pl his best services to the people District, whom he said are so situated that they ‘“can neither hire nor fire” their Commissioners, in a brief e T ety ation o Tge n University, ‘whose honor guest he was at luncheon in the La Fayette Hotel yesterday. Commenting upon the new ition he holds, Dr. Reichelderfer that the very fact District citizens have no voice in the Commissioner’s selec- tion makes him and his associates on the board more appreciative of the re- sponsibilities borne by the offices they hold. He asserted that for the present his slogan will be “stop, fook and listen” in the administration of his official duties. In the same talk, the Commis- times recently that they would like to go to North Carolina to camp. —— e HEARINGS TO CONTINUE Small Loans Bill Testimony by Op- position to Be “Interesting.” Hearings are to continue tomorrow before the judiciary subcommittee of the House District committee on the small ioans bill, by the Russell Sage Foundation, which proposes to legalize a rate of 3% per cent a month on loans up to $300. resentative Lampert of Wisconsin for a special tomorrow for the opposition and promised that he would .. some . “very wlw sloner expressed pride in his associa- tion with George Washington Univer- sity, which he attended more than 30 years ago. Besides Dr. Reichelderfer, Dr. John A. Foote, president of the District Medi- cal Society, and Dr. Courson B. Conk: lin, secretary of the society, also were guests of the alumni association. The guests were presented by Dr. Oscar Ben- wood Hunter, president of the general alumni association. TACOMA BUSINESS MEN HERE FOR C. OF C. SESSION Party Is Making Good-Will Tour of U. 8. and Will Visit 19 Cities. Making a good-will tour of the United States, 40 prominent business men of Tacoma, Wash., are arriving here today to attend the annual con- vention of the United States Chamber of Commerce. ‘The is to visit 19 of the lead- ing cities and will talk with various e morn- ing gives a breakfast to the Wash- Fiist. On Tuesday_ evéning "they. Wil guests. give a banquet at the {uu P. C. Brewer, president of the Tacom: Schoolboy Patrol Measures Traffic for Parking Com- mittee. EXPERT WILL ANALYZE RESULTS OF RESEARCH Col. Grant Heads Group Formed to Solve Downtown Terminal Facilities Problem. More then 9,000 passenger auto- mobiles enter the downtown business section at Pennsylvania avenue and Sixth street from 8 am. to 6 p.m., ac- cording to a_count made by members of the schoolboy patrol for the auto- mobile parking committee, which is making a study of the traffic conditions and business. gestion at this point, between 8:30 and 9:30 am., more than 1,500 automobiles passed the intersection. The afternoon peak was reached between 4:30 and 5:30 o'clock, when it was found that l'l'lc'g liming nun;a: ere made ese pre ary s were e gubllc last night by Charles W. Eliot, d, city planner of the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission and vice chairman of the joint parking committee, which is headed by Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks. 7,200 Used One Thoroughfare. . In a count of the heavy traffic on nth street it was found that more d cars used this trict. data, gleaned at 54 intersections This the city, through the of the Study Fund Being Raised. ‘The automobile parking committee is seel He | trict in d police pending the outcome | tor, soe {r3 mwo{umm raising & fund X mmmnudu priesmgen NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE WILL HOLD FESTIVAL Floral Procession and Coronation of May Queen Will Be Features. ‘The twenty-eighth annual Spring | festival of Neighborhood House clubs, pended in furthering the communit; ‘welfare work of Neighborhood House. v SHORT GAS MEASURES BRING FINES TO THREE Filling Statfon Employes Assessed $200, $100 and $100, Respective- 1y, on Inspector’s Evidence. Court yesterday on two charges of giv- ing short measure of gasoline to a mo- torist, while two others were given fines of $100 in lleu of which they are 60 days’ freed to lom each for the same offense. Police arrested Paul J. Craven of a Lord Baltimore station on Eleventh ‘complaing. of Tnspector A, 3, Garries comp! of 3 that he had pur gasoline that tested short of the amount for which he paid. Once, Carrice stated, he bought five gallons of gas which was 120 ounces short, and on another oc- casion to be 80 ounces less than standard. H. N. Lear, employe of a Lord Balti- more station at 3313 M street, was fined $100 after he was alleged to have given & measure 102 ounces short, while Roger Herow, employed at the same station, failed to give Mrs. Florence Vanderhoof 20 ounces for which she had paid. He received a similar fine. SLASHED IN HOLD-UP E. Nos Comeau Says One of Two Colored Men Used Razor. SlasMed on the left wrist with years old, 1706 P street, escaped as the colored men fled without taking any money. Oomfiummnm’, # i