Evening Star Newspaper, May 27, 1930, Page 17

BOMB PROBE TAKES COUNTY OFFICIALS T0 WESTERN CITY Sheriff and Attorney Seek to| Prove Construction of Infernal Machine. FRAGMENTS BELIEVED PARTS OF AUTOMOBILE Materials Examined at Joint Con-| ference of Attorneys in Seat Pleasant Disaster. An effort to prove that the bomb fragments found in the home of John Hall following the Seat Pleasant ex- plosion were composed of materials used for the construction or repair of automobiles is belleved the motive for a trip to Cleveland, Ohio, now being made by Sheriff Charles S. Early of Prince Georges County and J. Wilson Ryon, who is assisting States Attorney J. Prank Parran in the prosecution. Early and Ryon left last night and expect to return tomorrow. Their ex- act destination was not disclosed. Just what information they sought was not revealed, but it was admitted they made the trip in connection with the bomb- ing case. Seek Proof of Construction. Tt is understood that the prosecution is endeavoring to prove that the frag- ments of the bomb now in their posses- sion were made from parts of a Chev- Tolet motor car. Leroy Brady, Wash- ington automobile mechanic, who with his brother Herman was indicted for the bombing, worked in a local Chev- T ekttt mone . tieiboanh e princi ragments of the bom| in the hands of the prosecution were found by several Seat Pleasant boys kR MRS. WRIGHT PATMAN. —Harris-Ewing Photo. Policeman Rescues Wife of Legislator From Blazing Auto Mrs. Wright Patman Is Helped to Street by V. C. Rantsaw. Mrs. Wright Patman, wife of Repre- sentative Patman of Texas, of 3642 Macomb street, was rescued from her blazing automobile last night by Police- man V. C. Rantsaw of the fourteenth precinct. Policeman Rantsaw saw flames shoot- ing from under the hood of the automo- bile while it was parked at Cathedral and Wisconsin avenues. He rushed to the c:l‘ and helped Mrs. Patman to the street. With the assistance of bystanders, Policeman Rantsaw soon extinguished the blaze with the use of a fire ex- tinguisher he obtained from the offices of the Washington Cathedral. Mrs. and turned over to the authorities by ‘The Star. Dr. Charles E. Munroe of the Bureau of Mines, one of the Gov- ernment’s foremost explosive experts, after examining the fragments, said that if they were parts of the bomb, the infernal machine was a most un- usual type. It was also learned today that the fragments were examined at a joint conference between the prosecuting and defense attorneys in Baltimore a few day ago. The conference was arranged in order to expedite the trial of the Bradys, which starts at Rockville Tues- day. Defense Attorneys Magruder, Sasscer and Hall had asked for a day in which to have experts retained by them examine the fragments after they had been introduced in evidence. ‘The prosecution, however, volunteered to let the defense examine the frag- ments before the trial started. The ex- amination was accordingly conducted at the meeting of the lawyers and ex- perts in John Hopkins University. Mrs. Naomi Hall Brady, wife of Her- man, was killed when the bomb went off on New Year day. Her brother Samuel and her sister Dorothy died a few days later from injuries received in the explosion. SCHOOL ADDITION WILL BE DEDICATED Commissioner Ladue Will Present Keys to Burrville Building at Exercises. ‘The recently eomrkud addition to the Burrville School will be formally dedicated at 8 o'clock tonight under the auspices of the Northeast Boundary Citizens’ Assoclation. Dr. James A. Porter, president of the association, will be chairman of the exercises which are to be attended by Commissioner William B. Ladue, who will present the keys of the building to Mrs. Mary A. McNeill, member of the Board of Education. Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou, superintendent, and Garnet C. ‘Wilkinson, first assistant superintend- ent in charge of the colored schools, will deliver brief addresses. Greetings to the enlarged and improved school will be extended by Howard D. Wood- son for the Northeast Boundary Cit- zens’ Association. The exercises will be opened with the invocation by Rev. George O. Bul- lock, who also will conclude the meet- ing with benediction. T. F. Ramsaur 1s chairman of the reception committee. 26 MEMBERS ARE ADDED TO TRADE BOARD ROLLS Executive Committee at Meeting Yesterday Ac.s Favorably on Group of Applicants. ‘The executive committee of the Wash- | ington Board of Trade met yesterday and elected 26 men to membership in the trade body. The new members include Edmund M. Barry, Ralph C. Boyd, Arthur A. C. Clark, William H. Clopton, jr.; Willlam de Kleine, James E. Divver. John Paul Earnest, F. F. Espenschied, Ernest F. Gude, Archie V. Hawkins, E. Frank Heim, George E. Keneipp, Thomas V. Lake, Charles R. Marks, John 8. Meaney, Alfred G. Neal, F. Berton Ridenour, Carl G. Rosinski, C. A. 8. Sinclair, Raymond Sparks, Ken- zie W. Walker, George A. Wick, Horace T. Williams, George A. G. Wood and John A. Wood. ANNUAL ROSE EXHIBIT OPENS AT TAKOMA PARK The thirteenth annual rose show of the Takoma Park Horticultural Club opened today and will continue until 9 o'clock tomorrow night in the Com- munity Library Building. The rose show committee is composed of L. W. Kephart, chairman; Mrs. H. 1. Houston, H. W. Warner, Mrs. H. E. Ewing and Mrs. F. J. Hopkins. H. A. Axtell is chairman of the exhibition Patman returned to her home in the automobile. e BREWSTER SANITY BOARD T0 REPORT Medical Experts to Meet To- morrow to Draw Up Findings. ‘The special Army medical board ap- pointed to determine the sanity of Howard L. Brewster, the soldier who has puzzled police and Department of Justice agents with his alternate con- fession and denial of the slaying of Mary Baker, will meet tomorrow to draw up its findings. Brewster remained at Walter Reed Hospital today, where doctors put him through the final steps of a neurological examination. He will be returned this afternoon to the barracks of the head- quarters company to which he is at- tached, and probably subjected to an- other grilling by headquarters detectives and agents of the Department of Jus- tice. Although members of the medical board decline to discuss the results of their observation of Brewster thus far, one of them said he is satisfied that the soldler “knows right from wrong.” Tests have shown, it was said, that he exer- cises normal judgment and does not suf- fer delusions or hallucinations. The medical board is composed of Maj. Charles L. Maxwell, Maj. William C. Porter and Maj. Patrick S. Mattigan. The report of its findings will be sub- mitted to the headquarters office of the Medical Corps. Despite indications that the board may render a finding that Brewster is sane, Washington police officials re- iterated that they do not plan to take any action against,the soldier since the crime, according -to his original confession which he recanted, was | committed in Arlington County. Wil-| liam C. Gloth, commonwealth attorney | of Arlington County also has indicated | that he would not initiate any proceed- | ings against the soldier unless evidence i is found to corroborate some of his statements. COPELAND MUSEUM BILL ADVOCATED AT HEARING Engineering and Mining Project Is Favored for Study by Group of Experts. Establishment in Washington of a na- tional museum of engineering and in- dustry was advocated by witnesses at a hearing today before a subcommittee of the Senate committee on education and labor on the Copeland bill, which would set up & commission of nine experts to study the proposal. It was indicated by the testimony that between $50,000 and $100,000 would be authorized in the legislation with which to make the study and report plans to Congress within a year or two. H. S. Bryant of the Natlonal Museum said the regents of that institution have had the idea of an industrial museum in mind for some time and feel that any such museum would need the present collection as a nucleus. Capt. Brown Given Cross. Capt. Leslie W. Brown, attached to the 15th Infantry at Tientsin, China, has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross by the War Department for extraordinary heroism in action near Carre Ferme, France, November 1, 1918, while serving as captain of Company Division. Argentine Flyer Aided. By authority of the Secretary of War, committee. E. C. Powell is president of the club and W. L. Holt secretary. The horticultural organization met last night in the library to hear an address by Mr. Powell on “Bulbs and Fall Planting,” illustrated with lantern slides. Brazilians Killed in Crash. RIO JANEIRO, May 27 () —An agency dispatch from Pernambuco to- day said that one policeman had been killed and four wounded at Sitio, State of Parahyba, in fighting during the last 24 hours between the police and forces under Deputy Jose Pereiras. Pereiras was reported to have lost' of pardons and paroles, said, however, | pr. it 1 sign had but he many wounded, the figures. 38 killed issued a statement denying L F. J. Cadaval of the Argentine Navy, @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, FVENEW SEADOLS ASKED BY BOARD N30 ESTWATES Completion of Three Others Is Recommended in Budget Request. TOTAL REQUIREMENTS PLACED AT 14,829,780 Construction Item Amounts to $4,083,000, With $656,500 for Buying Additional Sites. Recompmendations for the construc- tion of two new junior high schools and three elementary schools to meet the growing demand for additional classrooms in the overcrowded public schools of the National Capital are con- tained in the Board of Education esti- mates submitted to the Commissioners for 1932. As previously announced, the total budget of $14,829,780, as prepared by, school officials, represents an increase of $941,670 over the $13,888110 car- ried for schools in the pending District appropriaion bill as it was reported to the Senate. More detalls of the new estimates were made public late yes- terday by District Auditor Donovan. These details include, besides the new construction which would add 32 much needed class rooms, items for comple- tion of the newly started Roosevelt High School, the new platoon school for col- ored puplls in Northeast Washington and a junior high school for white pupils in the same section. Other recommendations in the school budget of outstanding importance pro- vide for the purchase of sites for a new senior, & new junior high school and three elementary schools, as well as additions to six playgrounds. $4,083,000 for Construction. Of the estimates, it was announced, $4,083,000 is to provide for new build- ings and $656,500 for additional sites, making a total of $4,739,500, as com- pared with $3,693,200 in the pending appropriation bill ‘The new schools provided in the esti- mates are as follows: Junior high school at Eighteenth and Otis streets north- east, to cost $500,000, of which $200,000 is asked to begin construction; & new junior high at Seventh and H streets southwst, also to cost $500,000, of which $200,000 is asked in the new budget; & new 16-room building on the site of the present Giddings School, to cost $275,000, an 8-room building at Connecticut avenue and Upton street, to cost $200,000, and an 8-room build- ing for the Burleith and Glover Park districts at a cost of $200,000. Sites for the two new junior high schools already have been obtained. The elementary school in the Southwest sec- tion would replace the old Jefferson School, long since ready for aba - ment. To provide for further class rooms in the school system, the Board of Educa- tion also asks for additions to a num- ber of the present schools. These in- clude a 12-room addition to Janney School, to cost $200,000; an eight-room addition to the Truesdale School, Te- placing the original four-room Bright- wood School, to cost $140,000; construc- tion of the proposed second wing of Macfarland Junior High School at a cost of $200,000; a four-room additio to the Orr School, costing $80,000; an eight-room addition, with a gymnasium and assembly hall, for the Harrison School, costing $200,000; two gym- nasiums for the Randall Junior High School, $80,000; a connecting corridor between the June and Towers Junior High Schools, $8,000; gymnasium and assembly hall for the Whittier School, $50,000, and & gymnasium and assembly hall at the Broad Branch Road School for $50.000. Requirements Estimated. It is expected that $600,000 will be required to complete the Roosevelt Jun- for High School in 1932 and the Board of Education also asks $100,000 to com- plete the platoon school for colored in the Northeast section and $300,000 for the completion of the w:;ue Junior 00l in the same section. mfi‘ol":hlhln a third of the $941,670 “he increased school budget, or $393,- rovides for the equipment of new b\lfldfllzs that will be completed in 1932. Of this amount $190,000 will be required for the new Roosevelt school, $50,736 for the Deal Junior High School, the same sum for the North- east Junior High School, $17,741 for the proposed colored platoon school and $15544 for the Gordon Junior High School. . The 1932 estimates call for the pur- chase of grounds for additions to play- grounds at the Addison, Johnson, 8. J. Bowen, Giddings, Jones and Ambush Schools, and also for elementary school sites in the vicinity of Foxhall road and Calvert street, in the vicinity of the Keane School, which will be replaced with a larger building; a junior high school site in the vicinity of the Sim- mons School, replacement of the Bates road site purchased with a four-room extensible elementary building, a site for a new senfor high school to be con- structed north of Brightwood and an- other site in the neighborhood of the Armstrong High School. The Board of Education has asked for a $59,567 increase for the care and maintenance of schools, the total being $866,479, which includes provision for caretakers and employes at the new schools. This in a measure explains the need for the increase sought. Salaries Item Increased. new item in the estimates requests SXZA4.47D for remodeling the Columbia Junior High School, the Obbot Voca- tional School, old Business High School and the Morse Elementary School. Although no increased salaries for school teachers are sought by the school board, the estimates for salaries of teachers and librarians total $6,566,700, which represents an increase of $294,700 in 159, Increase of 93 teachers over the e . GeNools on Aucll 16 Mst 15 asked in the estimates, necessitated by the opening of additional class rooms. Fifty-eight new elementary class rooms which gre to be opened in 1932 will E. 360th Infaniry, goth | OVeE the House 193] bill. now a student at the Air Corps Tech- nical School at Rantoul, Ill,, will serve with the First Pursuit Group at Sel- fridge Field, Mich,, from July 17 to August 20 and then take a course of instruction at the Air Corps Tactical School at Langley Fileld, Va. Rum Search Waivers Asked, LANSING, Mich., May 27 (#).—All liquor law violators paroled from Michi- gan prisons are being requested to sign | waivers permitting officers to search their homes. In making this announce- ment, Arthur D. Wood, commissioner or refusal to no action. that signing affect on his ymployment of 17 new teachers s&;lr&; ':ccmu rincipals, while the new high and junior high schools will necessitate the employment of 86 teach- ers, but the total additional teachers, it was explained, will be reduced by changes of assignments among existing TS, u‘scl‘xlfeen new clerks also are sought in the next budget, as well as changes in the status of present employes to provide seven new administratives and two new teaching principals. For the maintenance of the Com- munity Center Department $50,000 is asked, an increase of $5,000. The board also estimates $10,000 as an annual ap- ation until each reference libra; schools has at least $2,000 wo: B 90, S4T30 (RGED FOR Y STREES IN TS0 ESTIATES $250,000 to Start Work on Calvert Bridge Included in Total. $1,800,000 EXPECTED TO COME FROM GAS TAX Arlington Memorial Span and Tri- angle to Require Greater Paving Expenditure. Expenditures totaling $4,773,076 for street and road improvements, includ- ing $250,000 to start work on the Cal- vert Street Bridge, are recommended in the 1932 estimates submitted to the District Commissioners from the high- way department, details of which were made public today. Of this amount, $1,800,000 is expected to be derived from the tax levied on gasoline sales, which will be used in general improvements and repair work. Last year's appropriation for this sort of work, met through the gasoline tax, amounted to $1,978,400. In submitting his estimates, Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District co-ordinator and chief engineer, recommends $1,- 475,000 for street repairs and repaving, an increase of $300,000 over the ap~ propriations of last year. This increase, 1t was explained, is required to replace old concrete bases found to be inade- quate. Bridge Approaches Covered. ‘The Government's plans for the Ar- lington Memorial Bridge approaches and its building project on the triangle south of Pennsylvania avenue also call for increased expenditures in paving. Capt. Whitehurst has asked for $100,000 to repave the west side of Fourteenth street and all of Fifteenth street from B street to Pennsylvania avenue and all of E street from Fourteenth to Fif- teenth streets, incidental to the triangle program. Another $168,500 will be needed for widening B street to 80 feet from Fourteenth to Seventeenth streets, in connection with the approaches to Ar- lington Bridge. These expenditures are based on a supposition that Congress Wwill provide 40 per cent of the cost from Federal funds. No increase is asked for the street maintenance fund for the year. The $87,500 «estimate in that item is the same as the amount used last year. Another provision of $250,000 also is asked for continuing the work on the Klingle Valley Bridge on Connecticut avenue. This project was started with a similar sum last year and is not to be completed for another year, Calvert Street Span Project. The $250,000 estimate for the Calvert Street Bridge, one of the main thor- oughfares leading to Cleveland Park Chevy Chase, is a new item in the imates. 1t is estimated that approxi- mately $1,000,000 will be required to modernize the bridge, over which the cars of the Capital Traction Co. operate, If the estimate is allowed, work on the improvements will start this year. Another bridge item in the estimates E\ml\;;: 375‘.00% for reconstruction of e aw fenders on the il Highway Continuing its policy of eventually doing away with all the grade crossings which take an annual toll of life, the Highway Department is asking for $135,000 to construct a viaduct over the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks cross- ing Monroe street northeast. The rail- road will pay one-half of the cost of construction. Other items in the estimates in- clude $300,000 for street and road im- provements and repairs, which are to be met by special assessments on the tax- payers residing on those thoroughfares. This is the same amount as provided in the 1931 appropriations. A $5,000 estimate is made for condemning cer- tain streets, roads and alleys and an- other $5,000 for the maintenance of wharves. This latter estimate is a de- crease of $10,000 in the 1931 appro- priations. For construction and repairs of side- walks and curbs on streets around pub- lic reservations, the Highway Depart- ment has recommended $20,000, which is the same amount previously expended. “GUN-TOTING” BILL PASSED BY HOUSE McLeod Measure Designed to Con- trol Sale and Use of Pistols in District. The McLeod so-called “gun toting” bill, to control the possession, sale, transfer and use of pistols and other dangerous weapons in the District of Columbia, which provides penalties and prescribes rules of evidence, was passed by the House late yesterday. It now goes to the Senate. In explaining the need for this legis- lation, Acting Chairman McLeod of the House District committee, in charge of the bill, said: “Our committee has given considera- tion to various bills introduced in past sessions of Congress to regulate the sale, use and possession of firearms. There is urgent necessity for the pas- sage of this measure, as at the present time there is a lack of control over the sale of pistols and other dangerous Weapons. ANy person can now secure the delivery of'a revolver upon the pay- ment of the price without any inves- tigation having been made as to the purpose for which it is desired, the character of the purchaser or the frame of mind in which the purchaser may be at the time of purchase. “The use of revolvers in the com- mission of crime has grown to such an extent that it is no longer an unusual occurrence to have a crime committed by an armed person, and in order to suppress the further spread of this practice it is believed essential that in addition to the punishment which may be prescribed for the particular crime which has been committed that there should be an additional penalty if such crime is committed by an armed person “The Commissioners of the District and the major and superintendent of the Police Department assure your com- mittee that there is a very real need for this legislation.” Will Address Travelers' Aid. Dr. William Allen White, head of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and president of the International Congress for Mental Hygiene, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the Travelers' Aid So- clety to be held tomorrow at 12:30 o'clock at the Burlington Hotel. Dr. White will speak on “The Commitment Laws of the District of Columbia Re- garding the Insane.” e TUESDAY, MAY CONGRESSMEN 27, 1930. GIRD FOR HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT e | i ,;%a R Representative Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania is showing Repre- top, sentative R. A. Green (left) and Representative Edward E. Browne, the grip that has won him many horseshoe pitching battles. ship belt. leader, displaying his “hold.” Wisconsin, He has a champion- Bottom: Representative John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, Republican floor They are among more than a score of Senators and Representatives who will have it out during the next three days for the horseshoe pitching champion- ship of Congress. —Star Staff Photos. CHINESE NOT BOTHERED BY POLICE CONTINUE CARDS DURING RAID Nonchalant Hip Sing Tong Men, Forced to Regard Vice Squad, Give Names as “Charlie.” It was a very disinterested group of | playing seriously, became slightly hot Chinese, who quietly played cards at|under the well known collar. “See here,” he said determinedly, Hip Sing Tong headquarters, on lower | .o ni™this Dlacer Pennsylvania avenue, last night while the police vice squad searched the premises, arrested one man, and seized 205 quarts of Chinese liquor. And strangely enough, say the police, most all of the unperturbed card play- ers answered to the name of “Charlie.” The squad, headed by Sergt, Oscar J. Letterman and armed with a warrant, first visited the headquarters of the On Leong Tong, at 335 Pennsylvania avenue, and after a thorough search were convinced it was bone dry. On the fourth floor, however, the raiders reported they found considerable gaming equipment, but that none of it was in use. was seized. No one was arrested. At Hip Sing headquarters, at 325 Pennsylvania avenue, Sergt. Letterman encountered one highly important dif- ficulty. No one seemed to be desirous of the monicker “head man,” and to clarify the situation some one had to be just that. ‘The squad wandered in among the concentrating players. “Whats your name?" was the ques- tion the raiders put to most of the 15 men. “Charlie,” was the answer. Letterman, now thoroughly con- vinced that Chinese take their card Moments elapsed and then one of the men, apparently through with his card playing and ready now to consider the raiding proposition, arose from a table. ‘The police say he admitted being the proprietor of the place. “Well, what's your name?” demanded the police. “Charlie,” sald the man—and the police—well, they just arrested him Over at the first precinct station the man was booked as Charlie Lee. He was charged with sale and possession of liquor. OFFICERS TO.BE ELECTED Officers will be elected and brief re- ports of the year's work given at the annual meeting of the Social Hygiene Soclety of the District of Columbia, which will _be held tomorrow at 12 o'clock at Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K streets northwest. Presentation of the film “The Gift of Life” will be one of the | features. ‘The event is open to the pub- lic, but because of luncheon arrange- LAWMAKERS STAGE : HORSESHOE DEBATE Members of Congress From Three States Clash on Way to Pitch. In the cloak room of the House of Representatives— Clyde Kelly, from Pennsylvania, with heat—I assure you the gentleman from Florida is all wrong on this question. R. A. Green, from Florida, softly— Perhaps so, perhaps so, out that's the way we've always done it down in my country. Edward E. Browne, from Wisconsin— Gentlemen, I believe you're both wrong. Here, let me show you! And Mr. Browne, as though to settle conclusively a debate that threatens to steal the congressional show, took from the hands of Mr. Green a— Horseshoe! Tlustrates Best Method. “This,” declared the gentleman from Wisconsin, “is the most approved man- ner of pitching a horseshoe.” And he grasped the iron slipper halfway be- tween toe and heel and made a feint to throw it down the corridor. And so progressed today an argument unique in the annals of Congress. Sub- ject: The surest method of wrapping 215 pounds of semi-circular iron around a peg 40 feet distant. ‘The question will be settled definitely, perhaps, tomorrow, Thursday and Fri- day, when more than a score of Sena- tors and Representatives engage in a tournament to determine the champion horseshoe-pitcher of Congress. Courts have laid out on a plot near the House Office Building and the first matches will be played tomorrow morning. When the competition has been narrowed to four Senators and four Representatives the scene of action will be shifted to Grifith Stadium. Here, from 11 a.m. to noon, will take place something new in the history of the grand old game of barnyard golf. For the first time a horseshoe-pitching contest will be broadcast. The National Broadcasting Co., with all its stations tuned in, will have an announcer at each peg. The United States Navy Band will take over the mikes during lulls in the battle, Entries Are Pouring In. ‘While the legislators are having it out their secretaries and other members of their staffs will play for the cham- pionship of the “Little Congress.” Entries were pouring in today. Jim Preston, in charge of the Senate press gallery, will handle details of the Sen- ators’ section of the tournament, and L. M. Hopping, secretary to Representa- tive McLeod of Michigan, will manage the Representatives’ event. Judges for the finals will be named later. Due to much activity in the Senate and consequent uncertainty as to which of the horseshoe pitching members of that august body would be free to take part in the tournament, Preston wasn't able today to give a definite entry list. He was confident, however, that the Senate would put up a fight with the House for the title. ‘The following Representatives had given in their names to Hopping: Re- publicans, Fred D. Johnson, Nebraska; E M. Irwin, Illinois; Homer W. Hall, Illinois; Roy O. Fitzgerald, Ohio; Carl G. Bachman, West Virginia; Thomas Hall, North Dakota: Clyde Kelly, Penn- sylvania; Willlam E. Hess, Ohio; Rich- ard N. Elliott, Indiana; Fred A. Hart- ley, jr., New Jersey; Leonidas C. Dyer, Missouri; John L. Cable, Ohio, and Ar- thur M. Free, California. Democrats—R. A. Green, Florida; W. W. Arnold, Illinois; Henry T. Rainey, Illinois; M. C. Tarver, Georgia; Thom- as MacMillan, South Carolina; Louis Ludlow Indiana; W. A. Ayers, Kansas; Arthur Greenwood, Indiana; Hatton W. Sumners, Texas, and Gwynn Williams, Texas. The “Little Congress” entries include: Republicans—H. F. Bresee, James D. Herman, Robert F. Klepinger, John Robsion, Howard F. Sedgewick, Ralph B. Pratt, E. A. Drake, Ed Waterfleld, Ivan Hedin, Ray Nedrow, C. C. Schilling, E. C. Wagner, W. Manley, Bob Davis, Don Fassett, D. B. Groff, Fred L. Syler, Fred Mack, L. M. Hopping and J. R. McCuen. Democrats—Tom Walsh, John Thames, Maj J. G. Simms, George Y. Harvey, Herbert Pillen, Elmore Whitehurst, J. B. Pruitt, J. Lambert, H. A. Patum, C. ments reservations must be made be- | Herbert Bonner, Ralph Lozier, § fore 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. They r&“ be made by calling Metropolitan B. Barker. G. W. Doyle, Ken Romne; chlLNether!. L. J. Trefren and D. CONTINUE SEARCH FOR CAPT. FENWICK INLOWER POTOMAG Bodies of Richard Klimkie« wicz and Owen Whitcomb Found Yesterday. GROUP MET DISASTER IN SATURDAY’S STORM Lone Survivor, Unable to Swim, Describes 24-Hour Stay in Waters of River. Search for Capt. Arthur Fenwick was continued along the lower stretches of the Potomac River today, following the recovery late yesterday of the bodies of two of companions, who were drowned when their speed boat sank off Cobb Island during the storm Saturday afternoon. ‘The bodies recovered yesterday were those of Richard Klimkiewicz, 17, 132 Twelfth street northeast, and his broth- er-in-law, Owen D. Whitcomb, 33, of 5737 Thirteenth street. Rivermen carry= ing on the search for Capt. Fenwick, Maryland State oyster inspector, ex~ pressed the fear that he, too, had been drowned. ‘The sole survivor of the ill-fated cruise_of the speed boat, Mary Lucy 1I, is Francis D. Klimkiewicz, father of Richard. The survivor was the only member of the party who could not swim and when the boat went down he apparéntly had the poorest chance of coming through alive, the others being uipped with regular life preservers, while he was forced to desend upon two seat cushions to keep afloat. Believes Signal Misinterpreted. “When the boat sank,” Klimkiewicz said, “I grabbed two seat cushions, one under each arm. At first all of us floundered around together, but grade ually the others were carried away by the wind and tide. Richard was the last one I saw, and I waved for him to swim ashore. He was a good swimmer and I thought he could make it, but I am afraid he misunderstood riy [ signal as an appeal for help, and that he exhausted himself trying to get back préomiy For 24 hours the elder Klimkiewicz clung desperately to his two cushions and was tossed and battered by the waves and the driving wind. Never for a moment did he dare relax, knowing that death awaited him if one or both of the cushions should slip away. But he did not become panic-stricken and waste his strength in futile struggles, for “death,” he said, “loses its sinister aspect when you stare it in the face for hours, and I soon became composed.” Through the long hours of darkness he drifted—and prayed. When dawn broke the storm had subsided, and the current carried him in close to shore, Hair Turned White. “At times,” he said, “I felt almost as though my feet could touch bottom, so close was I carried to the stream's edge. And then, when it seemed I was surely safe, the river would sweep me out into midstream. A few strokes would have curlegn me ashore, but I never learned hai swim, It was this, his friends believe, that caused his brown hair to turn white. As the day wore on and he drifted mile after a mile without sighting & ship, Mr. Klimkiewicz said he began to fear he would lose his mind. “To steady myself,” he explained, “I began to sing ‘The Cradle of the Deep’ and other hymns. Later I counted nume bers out loud and argued with myself, Anything to pass the time.” Finally at 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon, after he had been in the water 24 hours, he was picked up by fishermen and taken ashore at Stratford, Va. He returned to his home here yesterday. Richard’s body was found in a trap net, and brought back to Washington in a Naval plane. The body of Whit- comb was floating near the upper end of Cobb Island. The party started out Saturday morning to take the speed t to & Summer cottage on St. Georges Island. ‘They were about 15 miles from their destination when the storm broke. ADAMS SCHOOL T0 BE DEDICATED Haycock to Preside at Exercises Scheduled for 8 0’Clock Tonight. The John Quincy Adams School, latest and most pretentious of the Ca ital's elementary school houses, will dedicated formally at 8 o'clock tonight in exercises presided over by Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent in charge of elementary schools. Ma/. D. A Davison, Assistant Engi~ neer Commissioner of the District, will present the building in behalf of the municipal government to the school authorities. Dr. H. Barrett Learned, vice president of the Board of Education, will accept the building for the school board, while Miss M. Florence Gore, principal of the new school, will accept it on behalf of the organization. Miss Rose Lee Hardy, assistant superintendent in charge of elementary instruction, will deliver an address. Rev. John C. Palmer, pastor of the ‘Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, will open the meeting with the invocation, while Rev. George F. Dud- ley, rector of St. Stephen’s Church, will intone the benediction. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, will deliver the dedicatory address. ‘The United States Navy Band will play and the John Quincy Adams Glee Club will sing. ‘The John Quincy Adams School was completed in January and first classes were moved in just before the begin- ning of the current semester. SMOKE SCREEN BLINDS RUM SUSPECT PURSUER Policeman W. R. Greenfleld Forced to Abandon Wild Chase and Be Treated at Hospital, A suspected rum car escaped In a thick - smoke screen at Fifteenth and H streets northeast early today after a three-mile chase from the Distriet line on Benning road. Noticing the sagging springs of the automobile, Policeman W. R. Greenfleld of the eleventh precinct started in pursuit. Belching clouds of smoke the auto- mobile careened crazily along Benning road at a high rate of speed. At Pif- teenth and H streets Officer Greenfield was forced to abandon the chase when the smoke from the car temporarily blinded him. He was treated at the police clinic and sent home. 14