Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1930, Page 17

DISTRIT BILL FIGHT. BLOCKS WORK ON CAPITAL'S STREETS Contracts for $2,000,000 in Construction Cannot Be Awarded. HALF OF WORKING SEASON IS LOST Estimates Also Are Halted by Deadlock, Due to Grade- Crossing Items. Delay in passage of the 1931 appro- priation bill for the District is having serfous consequences on the highway and street construction program, it was learned today. Approximately $2,000.000 worth of new construction is called for in bids opened by the District last April and in a second series of bids, the first of which was opened yesterday. Another batch will be opened today and a third set, tomorrow. Awards of contracts on most of these bids are contingent on passage of the supply bill. Usually, in years during which there is a long session_of Congress, the supply bill is pased in May. In 1928, the bill was signed by the President May 21, and in 1926, on May 10. In the short session | years, the bill is always signed on or | before March 4. The bids are always opened and the District ready to let the contracts to the low bidders as soon as the bill is signed, so that ad- vantage may be taken of the open sea- son for laying permanent roadwork, which cannot be done during the cold months. Half of Season Lost. Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, chief engineer of the District, who has charge of its highway work, remarked today that half of the working season already had been lost. A certain amount of work still can be done on money car- ried in the 1930 bill, and one of the contracts for which bids were opened yesterday will be paid for out of 1930 funds. But the bulk of the work is tied up by the delay in the passage of the bill. The low bidders on yesterday's con- tracts were Phil H. McGuire, who bid $152,432.50, for work on cement road- ways, out of the 1930 appropriations; Highway Engineering and Construction Co. of Delaware, who bid $243,003.25, for building concrete curbs and gutters, and the Cranford Co., who bid $86,994, for resurfacing streets by the heating method. The last two bids are for con- tracts to be let for money in the 1931 appropriation bill. Estimates Present Difficulty. Another difficulty confronting the highway department is for making up its estimates in 1932. As an example, Capt. Whitehurst pointed out that the House form of the supply bill carries one grade-crossing elimination job, the Senate form another and the highway department _is recommending a_third. Until it is known which one of these will finally be in the bill any estimates for grade-crossing work for 1932 must be guesses based on guesses. Another bid opened by the District yesterday, connected with the highway department’s work, is for construction of testing laboratories and shops at Second and Bryant streets, just east of the pump house of the Bryant street pumping station on land at present oc- cupied by public playgrounds. The department’s research work is now done partly in a laboratory in the District Building and partly on public ground at First and Canal streets southwest, which must be vacated soon to make way for .extension of the Botanic Garden. The low bid for this work was put in by the Arthur L. Smith Co., who asked $219,700. “NUMBERS GAME” SUSPECTS SEIZED Police Arrest Four Colored Persons in Raid on Apartment as Others Escape. Four colored alleged “numbers” game operators were captured by Detective Sergt. Hubert E. Brodie and Pvts. Ford James and Hugh Robey this morning in e raid staged on a colored apart- ment at 44 H street. A number of patrons leaped from a rear window and fled over adjoining roofs when the policemen _ entered. Lula Hammond, 30, of the H street address; Richard E. Wade, 35, of 104 I street; Charles W. Oglesby, 54, of 813 First street, and George Hagin, 38, of 49 K street northeast, were placed under arrest and charged with per- mitting gaming. Hundreds of gambling slips, an adding machine and $28 in cash, including a quantity of marked money used by police informers in making plays after complaints were made by neighbors, ‘were seized as evidence. FOR D. C. PARK ROADS Senator Tydings Plans to Ask Add- ed Sum in Second Deficiency Bill. When the second deficiency appro- priation bill reaches the Senate, Sena- tor Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, will offer an amendment to add $671,- general expenses of the office of public buildings and public parks to complete roadways in Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Senator Tydings also prepared a bill today to authorize the chief of en- gineérs of the Army to make agree- ments with authorities in nearby Mary- Jand and Virginia for the use of water from unmetered mains for emergency purposes in fire fighting. This bill was referred to the military affairs gom- mittee. WASHINGTO. HURSDAY, The Toening Saf JUNE 12, Society and General 1930. PAGE B-1 NEW ANIMALS AT ZOO Above: The Diana monkey that lizards from Australia. Below: Stump-tail —Star Staff Photo. arrived yesterday. POLICE VACANGY SOONTOBE FLLED Lieuts. Walsh, Lamb and Ed- | wards Ordered to Take Physical Test. Lieut. John M. Walsh, tenth precinct; B. A. Lamb, Traffic Bureau, and L. L H. Edwards, attached to police head- quarters, were ordered before the Board of Police and Fire Surgeons today for physical examination in con- nection with selection of a succes.xor‘ to the late Capt. Martin Reilly. The| lieutenants mentioned head the eligible | list in the order named. Assuming that each passes the examination, it is| thought that Lieut. Walsh will get the call. All three have passed the mental | examination for captaincy, held by the United States Civil Service Commis- sion, with high marks. Walsh is 64 years old and the veteran in point of age. He has served on the | force since April, 1894; was promoted | to sergeant in July, 1906, and to lieu-| tenant in January, 1922. He has served in his present assignment since April, 1928. Others in Line for Promotion. The promotion of the lieutenant will | leave Sergts. C. J. P. Weber, Detective Bureau; A. W. Guyer, fifth precinct, and W. C. Balderson, eighth precinci, at the top of the eligible list for promo- | tion to a lieutenancy. The three top eligibles among the privates, one of | whom will be promoted to sergeant, are | Paul L. Barnes, first precinct; B. F. Mc- | Allister, third precinct, and William J. | Cunningham, Traffic Bureau. The Civil Service Commission, accord- ing to the prevailing practice, certifi to the Police Department the names of the three men standing highest cn the eligible list for promotion as a result of civil service examinations, and the Commissioners must appoint cne of the | three, on recommendation of the major and superintendent. This rule is fol- | lowed for promotions to grades up to| and including captains. Weber Joined Force in 1902. ‘Weber is in his fiftieth year and has| been on the force since July, 1902. He was made sergeant in June, 1912. He was given an indefinite leave of ab-| sence in April, 1918, to organize a police force at the old munition plant at Gles- boro Point. He resigned in October, 1919, and returned to the force as a| private in July, 1922. He was made & precinct detective in the tenth precinct in May, 1924, and a detective sergeant in November, 1924. He has many cita- tions on his Tecord for clever detective Wwork, Pvi. Barnes is 36 years old, and has been on the force since February, 1921 There is another promotion (o s geant due soon, owing to the recent re- duction of Sergt. Odessa Hunt to pri- vate. Assuming that the present Di trict supply bill passes in the shape of | the House bill, there will be one more promotion to a new captaincy in the Traffic Bureau, and promotions to 16 new lieutenancies to be created so as to give precinct lieutenants an 8-hour day instead of a 12-hour day. INDIA FRIENDS ORGANIZE WOMAN LOSES HANDBAG WITH $5,042 IN JEWELS A handbag containing $5,042 worth of jewelry and $230 in cash was lost by Mrs. Esther R. Giffen of the Potomac Park apartments, at Twenty-first and * C streets, between her apartment and Eleventh and F streets yesterday aft- ernoon, according to a report made to police, Mrs, Giffen was preparing to leave the city on a vacation trip when she missed her bag. Included in the jewel- ry which she lost was a solitaire dia- ¢ . mond ring valued at $2500 and an- ether dlamond ring worth $1,000, Post of Chairman Left Vacant Pending Choice of Leader. ‘The newly founded Friends of Free- dom for India was formed into a per- manent organization last night, with the office of chairman of the group left vacant “pending negotiations to obtain the acceptance of a prominent Wash- ington man,” it was announced today. Mrs. Myrtle de Montis was elected sec- retary, and Miss Mary E. Henaughan was chosen treasurer. The meeting was DOCTORS PROTEST VIVISECTION BAN Hearings on Bill Are Expect- ed to Be Concluded Befere Senators Today. Hearings before the Senate District zommittee on the bill to prohibit use of dogs in laboratory experiments in Washington were expected to be con- cluded this afternoon, with the sclen- tists and medical men presenting their final arguments in opposition to the measure, and with the anti-vivisection groups reiterating their support of the bill, A number of doctors and Govern- ment experts who delve into the cause and cure of disease testified against the bill yesterday afternoon, declaring that experimentation on dogs and other ani- mals is essential in finding ways of Te lieving the suffering of human beings and of animals. Miss Mabel E. Orgelman, leading the groups in support of the bill, asked to present arguments in rebutial before the hearings close, Dr. Maurice Hall, chief of the zoolog- ical division, Department of Agricul- ture, who told the comittee that his efforts to find a cure for heart worms, that cause great suffering to dogs, would be stopped under this bill, asked Miss Orgelman yesterday if she would favor experimenting on some dogs in order to find a cure for a great many dogs. Miss Orgelman said she would not. Among those who testified yesterday was Col. W. P. Chamberlain of the Army Medical Corps, who said that in the past 2 years the average length of life has been extended and that the knowledge gained through experimen- tation on animals has played an im- portant part in lengthening life. Others who testified as to the value of research on animals as a means of finding cures for disease were: Dr. George M. Kober, dean of Georgetown University Medical School; Col. Ed- ward B. Vedder and Maj. R. A. Kelser, Capt. Butler of the Navy Medical School, Dr. John P. Turner of the American Veterinary Assoclation and Dr. David Buckingham, a veterinarian. SAYS TARIFF PLANNED AS AID TO FARMERS Tariff Commission Chairman Tells ‘Women Some Results Dif- ficult to Estimate. Speaking before the business and pro- fessional section of the Women's City Club last night, Dr. Edgar B, Brossard, chairman of the United States Tariff Commission, said the tariff bill now pending in ‘Congress and the two pre- ceding legislative measures on this im- portant item were calculated to prove beneficial to the farmers of the country. Having for his topic “Agriculture and the Tarilf, With Sidelights on the Tar- iff Commission,” Dr. Brossard said that while it is difficult to estimate what the increase will be for the consumer {or what the supply or demand of the producer will be, the interests of the consumers and producers are the same because_producers consume, and con- sumers produce. Renwick W. Dunlap, Assistant Secre- tary of Agriculture, styling himself as a “dirt farmer from Ohio,” depicted how farmers of the country would lose the market for their products if the tariff was removed from the same products from other countries and pointed out the benefits to be derived by farmers from a protective tariff, held at 1336 New York avenue. The rext session of the organization, which will be for the purpose of drafting a constitution, will be napolis Hotel June 25, Dr. G. Wright, also spoke on the tar- iff and the farmers. Miss Florence E. Ward presided at the meeting, which Ly T S e et TS | States SIK RARE IGUANAS, KIN 0 DINOSAURS, ARE ADDED T0 Z00 Haitian Reptiles Grow to Three Feet in Length, With Horned Heads. CURIOUS VINE SNAKES, LIKE PENCILS, ARRIVE Pair of Australian Stumptailed Lizards, Whose Heads and Tails Look Alike, Received. Six rhinoceros iguanas—queer reptiles that are about the nearest of living creatures to the great horned dinosaurs that disappeared from the earth mil- lions of years ago—have arrived at the Zoo. This iguana is a large lizard with three horns on its head. When fully grown it is about 3 feet long. It is found only in isolated areas in Haiti and is very rare. It looks like a minia- ture_dinosaur. ~Actually, according to Dr. William M. Mann, director of the Zoo, the relationship is not very close, although these reptiles are of great antiquity. Haiti has been cut off from the main- land for a long time and in its sheltered environment remnants of a very old fauna have survived. Once the rhinoce- ros iguanas were quite common, but they have been killed off by dogs wherever the island has been settled. Perrygo Obtained Lizards. The lizards were secured for the Zoo by Watson Perrygo of the United States National Museum, who has just re- turned from a collecting expedition in the West Indies. He also brought back a large number of Haitian snakes, in- cluding varieties unknown elsewhere. The most remarkable of these, Mann said, are the vine snak: tures about 3 feet long and the ference of a lead pencil, who dup! almost exactly the color of green foliage They live in the trees and can hardly be distinguished from the vines which lace the Haitian jungles. It is generally believed, Dr. Mann said, that there are no poisonous rep- tiles in Haiti, but the vine snake proach very close to this cla They have fangs but, so far as is known, no poison glands. Tl are in the sus pected class. Mr. Perrygo also brought back several Haitian boas, the largest | snakes of the island, and some yellow- lined snak The collection which arrived Monday also included two turtles and several Haitian doves and quail of varieties rare in collections, Zoo Gets Opossum. The Zoo also eived Monday a murine opossum from South Ameri Dr. in bunches of bananas and al- ways arouses a controversy as to what it is. ‘The zoo received this week a pair of Australian stump-tailed lizards, which, like the rhinoceros iguanas, seem to be living relics of a distant past. This lizard has a flat tail and a flat head, and it is difficult to distinguish between head and tail. This is the first time it | has been exhibited in the United States 1t is found only in isolated secticns of Australia, and many native legends have grown up around it. Diana Monkey Is Added. For the first time in years a Diana monkey has been added to the collec- tion. This is one of the rarest monkeys in captivity. The last one in the Zoo was killed by a visitor who fed it laurel leaves. It is a small monkey with a white beard which lives in’ great troops in the treetops of West Africa. ASthough by no means rare, Dr. Mann said, it is difficult to capture alive and the "country where it is abundant is seldom visited by animal collectors. A remarkable attribute of this little bearded monkey is its voice. It seems to sing like a bird. This may be an unconscious imitation of the birds among whom the species has lived so long in the jungle treetops. Dr. Mann also received as a gift from the United Pruit Co. two Costa Rican deer and a wild pig. The bird collection has been increased by two Venezuelan jays, large deep green birds of the crow family, three African tri-colored starlings and two The ~tri-colored starlings, which are found only in East Africa, are colored with purple, yellow and black and are some of the most striking creatures in the collection. TRIO GIVEN 10 DAYS ON FIGHTING CHARGE Herbert, and Charles Johnson Take Hoover Beatrice Harris Sentence in Police Court. Hoover Herbert, Beatrice Harris and Charles Johnson, all colored, were sen- tenced to serve 10 days in jail each when brought into Police Court today after having engaged in the “worse fight” Policeman M. A. Kelly of the sixth precinct “had ever seen.” After the officer had told of the fight in’ the home of Herbert on Missouri avenue the defendants were called upon to tell their sides of the situation. “I reached the scene a bit late in the scrap,” Policeman Kelly said, “but, your honor, there were bricks scattered over the floor of the house and a large pile neatly placed in the front hallway.” “What were those brick-bats doing there?” queried Judge Gas A. Schuldt. “Just for emergency, your honor,” said Herbert, the host, who appeared to have come through the melee with the least damage. “You see, I Was ex- |introduce it to the United States. WASPS REGRUITED BY MILLIONS TO SAVE PEACH CROP Deadly Foe of Fruit Moth Seen Able to Check Wide- spread Destruction. TWO OTHER PESTS SLASHING PROFITS Department of Agriculture Ex- perts Believe War of Insects Will Solve Problem. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. An army of millions of tiny wasps is being recruited by the Department of Agriculture to take the fleld in defense of America’s peach crop. The enemy is the oriental peach moth, which has been especially destructive in_the last two years and is described by Dr. A. L. Quaintance of the Bureau of Entomology as “the black beast of American_entomologists,” since it stub- bornly refuses to be killed by poisons, It started its destructive career in Washington, but has spread over the en- tire country east of the Mississippi dur- ing the past 25 years. The insect is generally supposed to have been intro- duced from Japan with the first ship- ment of Japanese cherry trees. Before that it had been unknown in the world and how it got there is one of the mys- teries of entomology. 1t was detected by Department of Agriculture scientists and described &s a new specles. Japanese entomologists had not known of its existence, but were able to identify it in their own country by the descriptions received from Wash- ington. Native Champion Arises. It is not a native of Japan. Near relatives are found in southern Europe and North Africa, and now the peach moth itself has been identified there, but entomologists are convinced that if it was a native of the Mediterranean region it could not have remainad un- known so long, since the insect life of this area has been extensively for vears. There is some evidence that it originated in Australia. In its original home it apparently has been kept down very effectively by some natural enemy, and the ordinary pro- cedure would be to find this enemy and But {h(-}\ entomologists do not know where to 0ok. Now, says Dr. Quaintance, & native champion has arisen. It is a tiny, fly- like wasp which for generations has subsisted on another American insect pest, the strawberry leaf roller. Where- ever this wasp has come in contact with the peach moth 1t has turned upon it avidly, causing great destruction of the pes Unfortunately, says Dr. Quaintance, the wasp is not very abundant, having been kept down by the limited food sup- ply afforded by the strawberry leaf roller. At the New Jersey station of the Bureau of Entomology an effort is being made to rear hundreds of thou- sands of the insects, to be turned loose in peach orchards all over the country, The difficulty is to find food for the young wasps. It is impossible to find enough strawberry leaf rollers to feed great hordes of them. Experiments are in progress to find some other insect food of which an unlimited supply can be raised upon which the moths can be “weaned” until the entomologists are willing to turn them loose. Bait Placed for Moths. Another offensive on a big scale against the peach moth is being tested out in two 500-acre orchards in north- ern Georgia and southern Indiana. Beside each tree is placed a pole from which is suspended, on a level with the topmost branches, a quart fruit jar baited with molasses and fruit juices. These are expected to trap the moths by the thousands. The jars will be in- spected twice a week and the moths and other trapped insects counted. The peach moth was especially de- structive last year. This year the Bureau of Entomology already has re- ceived a great number of complaints of its attacks on the twigs. Besides the peach moth, says Dr. Quaintance, two unusual insect pests are causing considerable destruction in the District .of Columbia and nearby States this year. One is the grape-vine flea beetle, 'a small, steely blue beetle which scoops out the live tissue in grape buds early in the Spring. It has been known in’ this area for many years but seldom is sufficlently abundant to cause trouble. Apparently, Dr. Quain- tance says, it usually is kept down by some delicate balance of nature against which it barely survives. A very slight upsetting of this balance. perhaps some condition which obtained last Summer, may have resulted in the survival of great numbers. The other is lachmus abietis, a large, dark brown aphid which feeds on ever- greens, especially the decorative Norway spruce. Ordinarily it is abundant in the northern evergreen forest belt, but seldom comes so far south in any great numbers. ‘This year numeronus com- plaints have been received from District gardeners. While it is a disagreeable pest, Dr. Quaintance said, it is not immediately dangerous_and can be controlled by spraying_the trees with a nicotine sul- phate solution. The abundance of this anhid, he believes, also is due to some slight’ upset in the balance of nature which ordinarily keeps it do The destructive Japanese beetle ap- parently is well under control in the District of Columbia, but is far from eliminated, according to the Bureau of Entomology. An expert is soon to be sent on a 4-year expedition to Japan, Australia, North Africa and southern Europe to search for some natural para- site of this beetle, pecting the visitor FIRED ON, MISSED, SAYS ENEMY SOUGHT REVENGE Frank Ricks, Alleged Dry Viola- tor, Believed Assailant of Stephen Gauzza, Thinks Latter Informer. Accused of giving police information which resulted in the arrest of Frank Ricks, 40 years old, of 515 Allison street, Stephen Gauzza of 255 Rock Creek Church road was fired upon by a man said to be Ricks during an al- tercation at Rock Creek Church road and Upshur street early last night, ac- cording to a report made to the tenth precinct station by Gauzza. Gauzza told police investigating his report that Ricks charged him with “tipping” off police and causing his arrest on a dry law violation and_then fired at him. The shot missed and Ricks fled, Gauzza stated. A’ warrant was o be procured for Bicks' arrest today, police say, Extra Duty Given Three Policemen On Loafing Count A new system of punishing po- licemen for trifing offenses by extra _hours of duty—instead of cash fines—was introduced by the trial board yesterday and three policemen were sentenced to 15 extra hours of traffic duty when convicted on charges of “hood- ling.” The term in police par- lance means loafing on the job. Pvts. E. C. Helms and W. I Griggs. second precinct, and J. H. Dellinger, fourth precinct, were the ones given the extra duty. The idea was originated by Inspector Louis J. Stoll, who said that fin- ing policemen’ often worked more punishment on their families than on the guilty officers. Pvt. J. L. Oppet, fourth pre- cinct, was fined $50 for staying in a store too long when he should have been on duty in the street. {appointed yesterday by the chairman, AFTER BATTLE WITH A DOG Casualty Hospital for repairs. boy and Miss Beulah Higgins. FIREWORKS SHOW IN FOURTH PLANS Display at Monument Being Prepared by Celebration Committee. An elaborate display of fireworks at | the Monument Grounds has been planned as the outstanding feature of the community celebration of Independ- ence day in Washington, for which ar- rangements are being made by a com- mittee appointed by the District Com- missioners under the chairmanship of E. J. Murphy. Tentative ~ arrangements also have been made for a daytime program of pa- triotic exercises at many recreation cen- ters in the city, in addition to the usual strictly community celebrations Subcommittees are being the details of the celebration. Shipe, chairman, and Luther 3 vice chairman, of the fireworks commit- tee, are working with Lieut. F. B. Butler, chairman of the grounds committee, to insure a highly successfu’ display. Charles W. Darr, chai'man_ of the committee on decoration of the city, will_have working on bis_committee Martin A. Leese, George Plitt, Mark Lansburgh and other leading citizens. George Plitt heads a new committee E. J. Murphy, to investigate the possi- bility of adding a definite recreational program for young people on the Fourth, the committee to include also Charles W. Darr, Dr. George C. Ha- venner, Mark Lansburgh, Capt. Charles J. Painter, Mrs. Susie’ Root Rhodes and Lieut. Butler. Gen. Anton Stephan has been invited to become chairman of the committee on military participation for the cele- bration. Chairman Murphy will call & meet- ing of the executive committee for next Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock, when all chairmen of subcommittees will make reports of the progress of the details for the 1930 celebration. Members of the executive committee present at & meeting held yesterday at the Pranklin Administration Building were E. J. Murphy, Miss Sibyl Baker, Charles W. Darr, E. C. Graham, George C. Havenner, George Plitt, Miss Etta L. Taggart, Lieut. F. B. Butler, A. K. Shipe, Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, E. C. | Snyder, Brig. Gen. F. R. Keefer and | Capt. Charles J. Painter. BURGLAR GETS 25 CENTS Dime and Penny Are Overlooked in Laundry Robbery. Roy Glover almost lost an eye in a battle with a dog today. Here he is at Left to right: Dr. J. Rogers Young, the injured U —Star Staff Photos. Boy Dog Victim Wins Admiration For Courage Six-Year-Old Describes Attack in Which He Is Slashed About Face. Six-year-old Roy Glover, jr., scarcely 3 feet in height, but very courageous, was slashed about the face and almost suffered the loss of an eye, when at- tacked by a dog in the rear of his par- ents' residence, at 306 H street, this morning. The child displayed remarkable forti- tude, and at Casualty Hospital, where he | was taken after being rescued by two | women, his mother and the owner of the animal, he described his experience as nonchalantly as if it had been a |lark. With his left eye swathed in bandages, his right eye gleamed as the little fellow animatedly described what | happened. | " “We had a mop in the window the other night and it fell out,” he said. |“Daddy put it in the window to dry. Mother asked me to get it this morning " land went after it.” “I climbed over the fence and the dog was sleeping on the back porch. He was a great big black dog. He waked up and ran after me.” Attack in Coal Shed. At this point, the child sighed and took a little hand out of his blue over- alls to indicate the size of the dog. “Did you run?” he was asked. “Yeah. I got in a coal shed. There | was a great, big plank in front of it, you know, to keep the coal from comy- ing down. I didn't think the dog could get in. But, he did. I sure did holler.” Roy's cries brought Mrs. Glover and the owner of the dog and they succeed- ed in dragging the animal from the little figure, hardly larger than the dog. Mrs. Glover took her child to Casualty Hospital in & taxicab and hos- pital physicians found that the left eyelid had been slit across its width and entirely through. The eyeball was however, and physicians sight wouid not be im- paired. He was bitten in three or four places on the left cheek and on the left arm. Unaware of Dog. Roy's parents share a two-story resi- dence with another family and live up- stairs, Mrs. Glover told hospital physi- cians that she used the front yard and the other family the back. The back gate was locked this morning and Mrs. Glover said that neither she nor Roy knew a dog was on the premises. The nurse who bathed Roy's face fell in love with him at sight. She said she had never seen such courage in so | young & child. “He says his father is a steel worker and I guess that's where he gets his nerve,” the nurse said. A burglar who broke into the laun- dry of Sing Lee, at 207 Seventh street | southeast, was hardly repaid for the | risk or trouble he took last night. The thief, according to police, gained access by smashing the glass in a side window and made his way to the cash drawer. There he found—a quarter, dime and penny. The money drawer later was found in the alleyway outside, with the.dime and penny jammed in one corner of the till. ‘Weather Stops Spanish Flyers. SEVILLE, Spain, June 12 (#)—Bad weather forced Lieut. Carlos Haya and Capt. Cipriano Rodriguez to abandon last night an attempt to break the world endurance flight record over & | closed circult. They had started the flight yesterday morning. CITY NEWS IN TODAY. Card party, Women's Benefit Asso- ciation, club house, 1750 Massachusetts avenue, 8:30 p.m. Free study class, “Fate and Free will,” United Lodge of Theosophists, Hill ‘Building, Seventeenth and I streets, 8:15 p.m. Lecture, “Christian Science Demon- strable Spiritual Truth,” First Church of Christ, Scientist, Columbia road and 3 BRIEF. | Mrs. Glover planned to take Roy home this afternoon. “You won't be going near that dog again, will you, son?” the child was asked. “No, sir. I sure won't.” ON TAXICAB BILL Question of Utilities Commission Powers to Come Before Senate Committee Today. The Senate District committee yes- terday afternoon considered the bill to define the powers of the Public Utilities Commission over taxicabs, but did not come to an agreement as to what the bill should provide, and decided to take it up again tomorrow. Senator Robinson, Republican, of Kentucky, who was designated several weeks ago to study the measure, re- ported yesterday that he thought the bill should be confined to the question of requiring financial responsibility, leaving out for the present the provi- sions to give the commission authority to regulate rates. Chairman Capper and Senator Cope- land of New York conferred with Sen- ator Robsion about the detalls of the Euclid street, 8 pm. Lecturer, CyrusS. Rogers, C. S., of San Francisco, Calif. Lecture on television, meeting of the Electric League of Washington, audi- torium of the Potomac Electric Power Co., 8 pm. Lecturer, Dr. C. Francis Jenkins, inventor of television. FUTURE. Picnic, local alumni of University of Michigan, home of Mrs. Alfred Newbold, Silver Spring, Md., Saturday, 4 p.m. Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Frater- nity, Hotel Gordon, tomorrow, 12:30 pm. Card party. home board of Bethany Chapter, O. E. S., home of Mrs. Nellie H. Howes, 2011 F strect, Saturday, 8 pm. Meeting, District Chapter, American War Mothers, Hamilton Hotel, tomor= bill, but deferred final action until the Friday meeting of the committee. BUS PASSENGER SUES Bess M. Hafner Asks $26,000 forj Injury in Collision. The Washington Railway & Electric Co. and Henry C. Merriam, Army and Navy Club, were sued jointly yesterday afternoon for $26,000 damages by Bess M. Hafner, 1706 Surrey lane, for al- leged personal injuries. The plaintiff says she was a passenger in a Bur- leith bus of the traction company which was in collision with an_ auto- mobile of Merriam January 3, 1929, at Seventeenth and K streets and sus- tained serious injury by being thrown against the seat in front of her. She is re] nted by Attorneys Mason, Wfim, IS PRIVATE MARKET'S SPONSORS BELIEVE SUCCESS ASSURED Officials of Company Push Proposal to Build Structure. CENTER MART TO CLOSE JAN. 1, UNDER DECREE President Signs Legislation That Provides for Vacating Site. for Federal Building. With the bill which calls for closing of Center Market not later than Janu- ary 1 signed, officials of the Downtown Market Co. are more intensive on their proposal to erect in the retail area of Washington a great structure to house the dealers now in Center Market. Wiile the financing of this project has not as yet been concluded, officials of the company said today they were “very confident” that the matter would be successfully concluded, and that & new building would be erected by pri- vate enterprise to house the merchants who will be forced to vacate Center | Market. The legislation signed by the Presi- dent sets January 1 as the date for vacating the market. Plans for the Archives Building, which is to be placed on the site, are being developed in the office of the supervising architect of the Treasury Department, and legislation authorizing_the switch of the Archives structure from ~another site to the market site now is before Congress for approval, in the second deficiency bill just reported out of committee. It & expected to be approved. The Archives Building previously had been authorized by Congress for other sites, and a limit of cost has been placed at $6,900,000. Already $1,000,000 is appropriated and available, and it is expected that the Treasury will go ahead as rapidly as is consistent with proper planning. The Archives struc- ture is to be a large collonaded build- ing, of majestic architecture, with its principal front to the south, facing the axis of the Mall. CAPPER BILLS PASS FOR ADDED JUDGES | Measures Still Require House Ac- tion to Relieve Local Courts. The prospect for relieving court con- gestion in the District became brighter | vesterday afternoon when the Senate passed without debate the Capper bills, authorizing two additional justices for the District Supreme Court and two more judges for the District Court of Appeals. ‘The bills still require House action, but since similar measures have been reported favorably from committee in the House, there is a good chance for action by that branch of Congress be- fore adjournmen Attorney General itchell went to the Capitol several weeks ago to testify in support of these bills, telling the Senate judiciary subcommittee that he made & personal study of crowded con- ditions in the District Supreme Court. Local lawyers and court officials also presented "statistics to show the ac- cumulation of court work. As a result of these hearings, the committee strongly recommended the bills to the Senate and when they were reached on the call of the calen- dar yesterday they went through withe out objection. G. W. SUMMER LISTS OPEN TOMORROW Registration Will Be Preparatory to Start of Various School Sessions Monday. Registration for the 1930 Summer ses- sions of the George Washington Uni- versity will open tomorrow and classes will start Monday. In Columbian College, the School of Engineering, the Graduate School of Letters and Sciences, the School of Pharmacy, the School of Education, the School of Government, the Division of Library Science and the Division of Fine Arts will be a nine-weck term, extending from June 16 to August 16 and a six-week term, from June 30 to August 9. The Summer session of the Law School is divided into two terms the first running from June 16 to Ju 30 and the second term from July 21 to September 13, Registration for all schools of the university, except the Law School, will take place in Corcoran Hall, Twenty- first street between G and H streeis, the hours for registration being from 8 am. to 12 noon and from 2 to 6 p.m. Students may register for the nine-week term up to June 20 and for the six-weck term up to July 3. Students who were not regularly reg- istered in the university last semester must secure a permit to register from Prof. Harold G. Sutton, director of ad- missions. Those coming from other colleges and universities must present a certificate of good standing. Registrations for the Law School will take place in Stockton Hall, the Law School Building, Twentieth street be= tween G and H streets, tomorrow and Saturday between 10 and 1 and 3 and 6. Approximately 130 courses will be offered in the Summer sessions The department of public speaking is offering a course jointly with the department of soclology, designated & “Forum in Social Problems.” TAILOR SHOP ROBBED Burglar Enters by Smashing Lock on Rear Door. After smashing the lock from a rear door, & burglar entered the tatlor shop of Samuel Brockman, at 1141 Tenth street, last night and stole wearing ap- parel valued at $35. Brockman told police of the second precinct that he suspected a former employe. ‘Twelve dollars in cash was stolen from a money box at the store of Abram Butt, 831 Sixth street southwest, ac- cording to a report made to police of No. 4 station. Entrance was gained by for open a rear window, police res i Rkl il