Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1930, Page 17

RUM DRIVE GOES 1 AHEADIN CITY AND NEARBY NARYLAND Week End Raids Net Large Number of Prisoners and Two Big Stills. EIGHT EATING PLACES VISITED BY OFFICERS Bome Arrested to Be Arraigned | Here and Others Before Balti- more Commissioner. ‘While the Government moved today to bring into court in Baltimore and Washington a large number of prison- ers arrested in a concerted drive against liquor violators in the National Capital and nearby Maryland over the week end, it was learned that the Federal drive wil continue. Nmeteen raids were staged by Federal officers on roadhouses and alleged speakeasies in nearby Maryland and in Washington simultaneously Saturday night, and two big stills were destroyed yesterday morning, one near Maddox and the other near Leonardtown. Those arrested here were being ar- raigned before United States Commis- sioner Needham C. Turnage and Police Court Judge John P. McMahon. Bond of $500 was being set in each case, while | those in the Maryland jurisdiction will | be arraigned in Baltimore, Stills of Same Size. ‘The two big stills captured early yes- terday morning were found to be of the same size, each one being of 300-gallon | size. At the one near Maddox 110 gal- lons of whisky were found by the raid- | ing officers and 5,000 gallons of mash. At the still near Leonardtown there was about 5,000 gallons of mash, but no whisky. The concerted attack on eight inns and eating houses in nearby Maryland was launched at 7 o'clock Saturday night simultaneously with 11 raids in . Washington by agents here. By strik- ing all places at once the Government captured a large amount of liquor and many prisoners, the exact total of which had not vet been cast up here today, due to the fact that some of the Tecords are in Baltimore and some here. Following their arraignment today be- fore United States Commissioner Tur- nage, Edward Moore was released on $1,500 bond for a hearing before the commissioner next Monday. Joseph Carr was released on $1,000 bond for his appearance Wednesday, June 25. List of Places Visited. The places visited in Maryland by Federal agents and arrests made at each were as follows: Forestville Club, formerly known as the Marlboro Club, located close to For- estyille on the Marlboro pike, where Hugh Lawler, Arthur Stark and Dallas Gastry were arrested. Blue Bird Inn, on the Waldorf road, Southern Maryland pike, where beer and whisky were reported seized and Luella Wiggins and Robert P. Hender- n arrested. , ”"Tom'l Barbecue,” on the Washing- ton Boulevard near Hyattsville, former- 1y known as Colmar Manor, where al- leged whisky was found and Thomas L. Avant and one other were arrested. Rustic Retreat, at Third and Fred- erick avenue, North Beach, where pris- oners were taken into custory and taken to Baltimore. Arrests at Roadhouse. Garden Club Roadhouse, at Meadows, Md., where whisky was seized and Jen- nie Young and Katy Tillman arrested. Maryland Club, on Ager road, near Hyattsville, where both whisky and beer were said to have been seized and Vin- cent Cosimano and Barbara Cosimano, his wife, were arrested. Iron Lantern Inn, formerly Green Gables, where both whisky and b.eer were reported seized and G. T. Bowen, Edward Gross, colored, nddflnvey wil- ms, colored, were arrested. mwllson's Hotel at Marlboro, Md., where Mrs. Florence Wilson was ar- ted. mwhflz Federal agents were busy in other sections of the county Prince Georges County officers raided the Dew Drop Inn, near Oxon Hill, and arrested 13 persons as they were preparing a chicken dinner. Some Sought Escaped. James Watkins, colored, was booked | for operating a club house without a license and maintaining a disorderly house, while James Elder, also colored, was charged with illegal possession of liquor. Both were given a preliminary arraignment before Justice of the Peace Thomas D. Griffith. Eleven other colored men and women were arrested on charges of disorderly | conduct and required to post $100 bonds. A few occupants of the house escaped through windows when the police de-) scended on the establishment. Officers Hepburn, Nichols and Robinson con- ducted the raid. ACCOKEEK SCHOOL TO CLOSE WEDNESDAY Certificates of Graduation and Spe- cial Awards Will Be Given to Pupils. Boecial Dispatch to The Star. ACCOKEEK, Md., June 16 —The Ac- cokeek School will close Wednesday. The principal, Miss Jennie De Wilde, will attend the University of Maryland Summer School. Miss Nancy Blanton, the assistant, will spend her vacation at her home, in Newport News. Certificates of graduation for having satisfactorily completed the seventh grade will be awarded to the following pupils: Esther Louise Pearce, John Wil- bur Kenlon, David Smith Wilson and Albert Underwood. Gold seal certificates for having read and reported upon the required number of library books will be presented to Lucile Wilson, Susie Penn, Esther Pearce, Margaret Bryan, Blanche Aitch- eson, Louise Jenkins, Richard Vinol, Robert Vinol, John Kenlon, David Wil- son, Joseph Kenlon, Claude Blandford, Mildred Willett, Elmer Pickerel, Etta Penn, Harold Kremer, Keith Kenlon, Virginia Pickerel, Hubert Pearce, Eunice J , Adrian Willett, Ellen Dyke, Irma Willett and Preston Penn. Gold seal certificates for attendance will be given to Margaret Bryan and Harold Kremer. Plain certificates for attendance will be given to D. Gosnell and E. Penn. Rites for Mrs. S. E. Cobb. DANVILLE, Va. June 16 (Special) — Funeral services were held yesterday for Mrs. lda S. Cobb, widow of 8. E. Cobb, esteemed resident of Danville. an excursion, all funds from which will WASHINGTON. D. C, FOUR WASHINGTON THEY’RE OFF! Just to demonstrate the uses to which a steamboat may be put, Miss Betty Cates (top) and Miss Florence Skaddings went off the stern of the City of Washington into the Potomac this morning. On June 24 the management will turn over the steamer to sponsors of the $50,000 drive of Casualty Hospital for £0 tp Casualty's campaign. SENATORS APPROVE PURCHASE OF BOOKS Fund to Buy Vollbehr Collec- tion of Incunabula Is Fa- vored by Committee. ‘The Senate library committee or- dered a favorable report today on the bill already passed by the House au- thorizing not to exceed $1,500,000 to purchase for the Library’ of Congress the noted collection of fifteenth century books known as the Vollbehr Collec- tion of Incunabula, The collection con- sists of 3,000 items, together with tbe copy on vellum of the Gutenberg 42- line Bible. The bill is sponsored by Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut. The library committee also indorsed a resolution passed by the House a month ago, granting permission to the citizens of Pennsylvania to erect an ornamental fountain in this city as a gift to the Ppeople of the United States. The foun- tain is to be placed at an appropriate point on Pennsylvania avenue in con- nection witk some of the Federal im- provements now being carried on, and will be presented through the Pennsyl- vania Gift Fountain Association. The committee also reported favor- ably the resolution of Senator Fess, Re- publican, of Ohlo, authorizing the Sec- retary of War to erect a monument at Manila, in the Philippine Islands, in memory of the late Chief Justice Wil- liam Howard Taft, who at one time was Governor of the Philippine Islands, The resolution authorizes $35,000. BAGGAGE CAR INJURES D. C. RAILROAD WORKER William Raymond, 67, Is Struck by Swaying Carrier While Walk- ing Between Tracks. of 906 Thirteenth street northeast, & railroad employe, was seriously injured ing when struck by a swaying baggage car while walking between the tracks. Raymond, a car cleaner, was said by fellow employes to be unaware of the approach of an engine shunting a bag- gage car to gnother part of the yards and to have ventured too close to the track. He was taken to Emergency Hos- pital, where staff physicians diagnosed his injuries as a possible skull fracture, fracture of the left shoulder and scalp lacerations. STORE STOCK IS USED AS MISSILES IN FIGHT Colored Pair in Alexandria Pelt Each Other With Merchan- dise Before Arrest. Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16.—Pop bottles, canned goods, fresh vegetables, cggs and almost all of the usual stock Saturday night when two colored men selected a local Sanitary Grocery store in which to display their mutual dis- like for each other. Three clerks and a like number of customers hastily quit the premises when the altercation started and hur- ried calls were made for police. When the officers arrived the air s still filled with merchandise and one officer had to make a flying tackle to escape an_upraised pop bottle. The affair occurred at the Sanitary Grocery store at 600 North Columbus street about 9:30 o'clock Saturday night. Detective Sergt. Simms, Sergt. Padgett and Officer J. Bayliss, who answered the call, arrested Mack Holley, 40, colored, of 412 North Columbus street, and Richard Manley, 36, color- ed, of 510 North Columbus street. Hol- ley was charged with being disorderly drunk, disorderly, fighting and de- stroying property were placed against Maniey. Herndon to Have l');xce. On Wednesday evening the women of the auxiliary of the fire department will give a dance in the auditorium of the high school for the benefit of the fire who died Saturday in a local hospital. Mrs. Cobb was a native of Caswell County, N. C., but had lived in Danville ractically her entire life. She was 57 v>ars old and is survived by one daugh- Fiigk 8nd several stepchildren, - department. Mrs. Arthur Hyde Buell is chairman of the committee, with Mrs. George Ramsey Bready, Mrs. Henry Kephart, Mrs. John Hurst, Mrs. J. L. Nachmann and Miss th Reed assist- at the Washington Terminal this morn- | of 'a grocery store were put into use | and fighting, while charges of being ! HERNDON, Va., June 16 (Special).— | WASHINGTON TREE- PLANTING POPULAR | | Bicentennial Group Favors | Nation-Wide Honor to Country’s Father. One of the numerous and most | popular methods of honoring the mem- ory of George Washington on the occa- |sion of the 200th anniversary of his | birth in 1932 is a plan, approved by the | George Washington Bicentennial Com- mission, for planting millions of George | Washington memorial trees all over the | country between now and the year 1932, | Some detalls of this program were made public today by the American Tree | Association, which is working in co- | operation with the Bicentennial Com- | mission, whose headquarters are here |in the Washington Building. | _Charles Lapthrop Pack, president of | the American Tree Association, has just received news that the first tree has been planted in this program, which ‘ is expected to result in the planting of | 10,000,000 trees. | _This first planting is registered in | the name of Edward W. Yiehe, Forest | Hills, Long Island, N. Y. Notifications | have since been received of other plant- | ings in various parts of the country in | this program. ‘The National Council of Gun Clubs will make memorial road- side tree planting its objective. ‘Various organizations are taking part in the program. All the George Wash- ington tree planters will have their names registered on a roll of honor. LEE HIGH LETTERS IN SPORTS AWARDED Principal Vanderslice, at Ballston, | Names Students Winning ‘ Coveted Trophy. William A. Raymond, 67 years old, | Special Dispatch to The Star. BALLSTON, Va, June 16.—The award of letters to the students in ath- letics events at the Washington-Lee High School has been announced by S. P. Vanderslice, principal, as follows: For basket ball—James Gorman, Leon- ard Golden, Lorraine Branson, Nancy DeLashmutt, Lucia Graber, Dorothy Leighty, Estelle Goldsmith, Dorothy Moreland, Esther Murray, Ann Petty and Evelyn Kines. Foot ball—Allen Duvall, William Davies, James Hood, Wingert Harrison, | Roue_Hogan, Frank Scott, Paul Robin- | son, Everett Conner, Allen Willis, Wal- | ter Sauls and H. Gordon Gonyea. | _ Base ball—William Clark, Samuel | Seymour and Carl Wolverton, Track—Howard Crouch, Paul A. Fischer, Pierce Bragg, Gordon Singhas, | Ernest Hagan and George L. Tabor. Base ball and foot ball—Archie Via Foot ball and basket ball—Edward Chewning and David Young. | Base ball and track—Roland Man- ning. | _Basket ball and base ball—Claude Rosenberger, Gordon Ball and Paul Heins. | “Foot ball and track—Clifton Stone- burner and Wilson Goodrick. Foot ball, basket ball and base ball— Harry Chase and Allen Goodwin, Foot, ball, base ball and track—Stan- ley Mortimer. | DOGS BITE CHILDREN {One Is Injured in Leg—Other Wounded in Arm, | Bitten by a dog while playing in the | rear yard of his home yesterday, Vin- cent M. Camtanella, 8 years old, of | 1365 Harvard street, was taken to Gar- | fleld Hospital and treated for wounds fof the lett leg. | . Willlam H. Olmstead, 2 years old, | 1724 A street southeast was tren:l‘l’i ,‘,’; | his father, Dr. William Olmstead, after a dog bit him on the right arm. The | dog was picked up by police of No. § |station and will be turned over to Health Department authorities. Huntington High Graduate. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. HUNTINGTON, Md., June 16—Di- plomas were presented to five grad- uates of the local high school here last week by J. Briscoe Bunting, chairman of the board of education, at exercises in the auditorium. The salutatory was delivered by Kenneth Cox, while the address to the graduates was made by ‘Theodore McKeldin of Baltimore. Miss Mary King received the Milton medal for the best English essay from Samyel —s MONDAY, JUNE 16, RESIDENTS KILLED INAUTO ACCIDENTS Seven Others Are Hurt in Maryland and New Jersey Smash-ups. WOMAN AND BOY DIE IN CAR-TRUCK CRASH Colored Man, Victim of Previous ‘Wreck, Loses Life on Way to Hospital. Four Washingtonians were killed and seven others injured, three critically, in a series of automobile accidents yes- terday in Maryland and New Jersey. ‘Two of the fatalities occurred yester~ day morning when an automobile bound for New York with eight members of a local family was demolished in a collision with a heavy truck on New Jersey State Highway No. 25, near ‘Woodbridge. - Those killed were Bernard Zegowitz, 16-year-old son of Frederick Zegowitz, a baker living at 913 Fifth street, and Mrs. Ida Williams of 1910 Sixteenth street, the dead youth's grandmother. Another Fatally Injured, Another Washingtonian fatally in- jured yesterday afternoon was Edward ‘Walker, 35 years old, chief quarter- master in the Navy, who had been as- signed to temjorary duty at the Naval Observatory. ‘Walker was driving his automobile on the State highway between Highland and Ellicott City when it was in a collision with another machine. The injured man was brought to Walter Reed Hospital by C. B. Rosenbaugh of 839 Kennedy street, a passing motorist. ‘The fourth man to die as a result of Sabbath day traffic accidents was John Pitts, colored, of the 1700 block of Sixteenth streeth, who was killed when, already injured in a previous ac- cident, he was catapulted from the car in which his brother was rushing him to a local hospital onto the highway at Valley avenue and Livingston road southeast after the machine hit a culvert. Others injured in the New Jersey ac- cident were Mrs. Margaret Zegowitz, 40 years old, mother of the dead youth, who received a fracture of the skull; Rose Zegowitz, 6 years old, fracture of the skull; Mrs. Eisie Willlams Stepho- nick of 1910 Sixttenth street, compound fracture of the skull; Mrs. Stephonick's 8-year-old daughter, Bernadette, shock; Francis Zegowitz, 8 years old, cuts and bruises; Margaret Zegowitz, 3 years old, shock and minor bruises. Vietims Taken to Woodbridge. ‘The machine was being operated by Mrs. Stephonick, daughter of the woman killed and sister of Mrs. Zego- witz. The machine was so badly wreck- ed that passing motorists had difficulty extricating the bodies and the injured, who were rushed to the nearby city of ‘Woodbridge and admitted to the Perth Amboy Hospital there. All three of the most seriously injured are expected to recover, attendants at the hospital said this morning. The driver of the truck which figured in the collision was Samuel Denox of Philadelphia. Zegowitz, the husband and father, who is employed at the Charles Schnelder Backery Co., left by train for New Jersey yesterday afternoon. The family party was en route to New York State for a week's pleasure trip. Quartermaster Walker was transferred to the Air Station at Anacostia from the U. S. S. Partridge a little more than a month ago, and later was assigned to temporary duty gt the Naval Observatory. Taken to Naval Hospital. Injured about 4:30 o'clock in the aft- ernoon, he was given first aid at Walter Reed Hospital, then transferred to Emergency Hospital and later sent to Naval Hospital, where he died shortly after 5 o'clock this morning of a frac- tured skull. Another accident in New Jersey, near Glenridge, resulted in lesser injuries to Miss Madeline Ensign, radio editor of the Washington Herald, yesterday morn- ing. Miss Ensign was treated at the home of a friend in Glenridge. Miss Ensign was making the trip with Mrs. Peggy Clark, manager of Radio Station WOL. Their machine, operated by Mrs. Clark, who escaped injury, was in collision with another car operated by Charles Luke, Park avenue, New York City. Child Seriously Injured. Walking into the side of a machine in front of the eleventh precinct police station, at Chicago and Nichols avenues southeast, Pauline O'Brien, 4 years old, of 1215 Morris road southeast, suffered possible fractures of the left shoulder and skull and lacerations yesterday afternoon. At Walter Reed Hospital her condition was reported to be seri- ous, but steadily improving today. James H. Willlams, colored, 52 years old, of 1737 Thirteenth street, who was driving the machine, was arrested and then released in gustody of his attor- ney pending th‘umome of the girl's injuries. Pvt. Eugene Gobner, 26 years old, of Bolling Field was treated for minor lacerations at Georgetown University Hospital as a result of a collision be- tween two machines in front of No. 29 Engine Company, at Conduit and Res- ervoir roads. Gobner was riding in a car operated by Pvt. John Kramer, 22, also of Bolling Field. George Krump, colored, 31, of 1734 Corcoran street, was arrested two hours later by seventh precinct police as the driver of the second car in the col- isiol He was charged with “hit-and- run” and operating an automobile with- out a District driver's permit. Krump, according to police, halted his car two blocks from the scene of the accident after striking and wreck- ing Kramer's machine and went to the home of his employer, James Crowley, prominent Chevy Chase real W ] i 1930. Members of Immaculate Conception class HIGHWAY ENGINEER TO RETIRE JULY T C. B. Hunt Has Had Charge of Street Work Here for 33 Years. C. B. Hunt, District highways en- gineer, who has directed the District’s street work for 33 years, was granted his retirement today, effective July 1. Mr. Hunt is now on annual leave. He came to the District in August, 1890, as an assistant engineer, and two years later won a promotion to engineer of bridges. In 1897 he was made computing engineer. The work of the computing engineer was identi- cal witht hat now done by the engineer of highways, but his title was not changed untii 1903. Served During World War. He has had charge of the expendi- ture of millions of dollars in streets, bridges and grade crossings. All of the District’s grade crossing elimina- tion work has been done under his supervision. While he was engineer of highways the Anacostia Bridge and the Million Dollar Bridge across Rock Creek on Connecticut avenue were bullt. Mr. Hunt is a graduate of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Be- fore coming to work for the District he was employed by the Pennsylvania Rallroad. He is a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and also a member of the Cosmos Club and the Bannockburn Golf and Coun- try Club. During the World War he was made a major in the Reserve of the Engineer Corps, but dfd not see active service. Mr. Hunt is & bachelor. 2015 N street. Robertson May Get Post. He is the son of Gen. Henry J. Hunt, who won fame in the Civil War as the general in charge of artillery at the Battle of Gettysburg. Gen. Hunt later served for several years as commandant of the Soldiers’ Home here, It is believed that L. P. Robertson, who is now Mr. Hunt's deputy and sec- ond in command of the Highway De- partment, will be promoted to fill the vacancy. Mr. Robertson, according to Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, who will probably be allowed to name the suc- cessor by the Commissioners, is an office engineer of extraordinary gability and thoroughly competent to fill the place. SYLVAN THEATER TO GET ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT Bids for Apparatus to Permit Mod- ern Stage Effects May Be Opened Thursday. - ‘The Sylvan Theater in the Washing- ton Monument grounds is to be equipped with permanent electrical apparatus to permit modern stage effects. The office of Public Buildings and Public Parks expects to open bids on ‘Thursday for the supplying of electrical equipment. It hopes to have part of this equipment in place for the presen- tation of ‘“Tempest,” by the Diana Guild Thursday and Friday of this week. Foot light, a spotlight and other electrical effects are expected to be in- stalled. WOMEN'S CLI:JB ON OUTING He lives at R. E. and Pepco Employes Stage Boxing Match. A series of contests, including a box- ing match by two young women, repre- senting “Sharkey” and *Schmeling” respectively, featured the annual out- ing of the Wrepepco Club, composed of woman employes of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., and the Poto- mac Electric Power Co., at Bay Ridge, Md., Saturday. Miss Merdie Hurst was “Sharkey” and Miss Agatha Peak ‘Schmeling” in the boxing contest. Other events in- cluded a_bathing beauty contest, won by Mrs. Bessie Sanford; guessing con- test, won by Mrs. Margaret Crenshaw, and card games, prizes for which were awarded to Mrs. V. Penn and Miss Ann MofTatt. The outing was in charge of Miss Mabel Leftus, president of the club, and Mrs. May Blakeney. YOUTH IS DROWNED Samuel Gray Disappears While Swimming at Eagle Harbor. Samuel Gray, 17 years old, of An- napolis, Md. was drowned in the Pa- tuxent River at Eagle Harbor, about three miles above Benedict, Charles County, Md., yesterday afternoon. Gray and a companion were bathing in the river and the former, according to re- ports, got into deep water and disap- peared. estate_operator, who turned him over to police. Auto Runs Into Ditch. Severe lacerations above the left eye were received by Lucille Stone, 32-y old Veterans Bureau clerk, of 1650 Har- vard street, early yesterday when a car in which she was riding with E. D. Latta, also of the Harvard street ad- dress, went into a ditch near Olney, Md., when it sideswiped another ma- chine, She was given treatment at Casualty Hospital. Four persons were injured when an automobile in which they were riding, with Harry Parker, 28 years old, of the Ventosa Apartments, at the wheel,/was crowded off a Maryland road about; five ‘miles south of Waldorf, Md., by & car which failed to stop. Parker suffered contusions and a pos- sible fracture of the left arm. His wife, Mrs, Beulah Parker, 23; their son Harry, jr., 3, and Mrs. Parker’s sister, Miss Margaret Wisg, 11, were treated at Casualty Hospital. Willard Blackmen, 18 yesrs old, of dents of Benedict, hurried to the scene of the accident and dragged for the body, other residents of the town lend- ing a helping hand. The body was not recovered last night, and the dragging was resumed this morning. 3537 S street, was also treated at Cas- ualty Hospital for injuries received when he fell from his motor cycle at North Beach, Md. Max Pischer, 36 years old, of 1354 Emerson street, and Hyman Woods, colored, 20, of 117 Third street south- east, escaped with minor cuts and shock when a truck driven by the former crashed into an electric light pole at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue southeast early today. They were treated at Casualty Hospital. Struck by an automobile driven by Frank Norris, colored, of 1432 S street, while playing in front of his home, Walter Easley, colored, 4 years old, of 116 Twelfth street was treated at Chil- dren's ———— s, 'HICCOUGHING PATIENT | night. | Commerce Lloyd Kern and Louis Welsh, resi-| C. B. HUNT. BAR ASSOCIATION LIBRARY MUST 60 Supreme Court Justice Office Forces Transfer of Old Legal Volumes. ‘The Bar Association library, where justices and lawyers have pondered over law decisions contained in the thou- sands of books belonging to the associa- tion, is scheduled for eviction from the third floor of the court house, where it has been located for many years. David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, with two of his assistants, con- ferred today with United States Marshal Snyder concerning the al- terations to be made in the build- ing to provide an additional room and offices for the justice and his secretary. There are already eight court rooms and space ad- Jjacent to the chambers of Chief Justice Wheat for the eighth justice. The offi- cials are convinced that the only avail- able space for the ninth justice his court will be the space now given ov‘er to the library of the Bar Associ- ation. One of the rooms now used by the library was occupied in 1893, when the District Court of Appeals was first organized as a court room. That tri- bunal was then transferred tc larger accommodations in the rooms now oc- cupled by United States Attorney Rover and his assistants until the erec- tion of the new building for the appel- late tribunal. The passing of the law library out- side the Court House will be a setback, both to the lawyers and the court, due to the delay incident in locating ref- erence books. At present it takes but a minute to dispatch a deputy mar- shal to the library when court or law- yer desires to read a decision on a point raised during a trial. SHOWING IMPROVEMENT Casualty Hospital Surgeons Re- port Charles Reid Likely to Re- cover From Nervous Attack. Still hiccoughing, but able to rest for longer periods daily, Charles Reid was believed recovering¥at Casualty Hospital from the nervous malady which attack- ed lum more than a week ago. Reid, a blacksmith living at 1348 Girard street, enjoyed a long sleep last | Although he began to hiccough | again on waking, the paroxysms came at longer intervals and had decreased in_violence, attendants said. Doctors say the patient should rid| himself of the ailment entirely within | the next few days. INSTALLMENTS SALES OF AUTOS HOLDING UP Department Returns From Finance Companies Show Lead Over Outright Deals. Installment selling of automobiles in the United States continues to hold up in volume during this year better than do sales on outright payment. Commerce Department returns from finance companies assisting such trans- actions show that credit sales of used cars during April, amounting to 161, 604 machines, exceeded the 1543843 cars sold in similar fashion during the same month last year. New cars financed for installment purchase during the same month num- bered 340,555, against 378,790 in April, 1929. COUNTY FIREMEN PLAN Arlington-Fairfax Group Meet To- night in Jubilee Event. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALLSTON, Va, June 16.—The con- vention and jubllee committee of the Arlington-Fairfax Counties Firemen's Association will hold a meeting tonight at the Cherrydale fire house to plan for its annual event to be held at Fort Myer Heights from August 11 to 16, inclusive. Clayton C. Donaldson, general chair- man, announces the following as the personnel of his committee: George Frank Allwine, Randolph F. Koester, John R. Mossburg, John A. Spates, Wil- liam D. Topley and Walter U. Varney. ¢ 18 GIRLS RECEIVE DIPLOMAS TONIGHT Exercises Will Be Held at Immaculate Conception High School. Commencement exercises of the Im- maculate Conception High School for Girls will be held tonight in the parish auditorium, Eighth and N streets, when 18 graduates will receive their diplomas. The graduates attended a communion mass yesterday said by Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the church, who later was their host at breakfast. The General Scholarship Alumnae Award was won by Genevieve Finzel. Lucretia Riccucci received the John Shugrue Memorial Award for modern languages. After the diplomas are con- ferred by the pastor, Rev. Francis X. Cavanaugh will deliver an address. The graduates are Nora Cahill, Helen Cogan, Caroline Dixon, Efleen Finneran, Genevieve Finzel, Dorothy Harper, Helen Hayden, Mary Mahaney, Helen O'Connor, Marian Richter, Lucretia Riccucci, Catherine Ryan, Nora Ryan, Edna Sheehan, Margaret Stevens, Louise Sweeney, Grace Willey and Dorothy Zeaman. RELIGION AND SCHOOL DECLARED LINKED Impossible to Disassociate Them, Catholic University Faculty Member Tells Graduates. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md,, June 16.—That it is impossible to disassociate religion and education was emphasized by Dr. George W. Johnson, prominent member d|of the faculty of Catholic University, addressing the graduating class of Maryhurst School at closing exercises last night in_St. Jerome's Catholic Church here. He said that the value of parochial schools had long been recog- nized. Dr. Johnson declared that it was_appropriate that the school was holding its exercisse on the Feast of the Holy Trinity and expressed the hope that the graduates apply in life the lessons they e learned from the study of the Blessed Trinity. ‘There was special music. Rev. An- drew J. Carey, pastor of St. Jerome's, presented the certificates, Benediction was pronounced by Rev. L. J. Fealy, pastor of the Church of the Holy Re- deemer of Berwyn, Certificates were presented to 13, as follows: Robert Thomas Anson, Theodore Al- bert Bosma, Edward Tarbell Dyer, Rob- ert George Fuerst, Richard Neal Jar- boe, Leonard Ferdinand Keegin, Wil- liam Francis Lawrence, John Noble Wilson, Clara Cecilia Hall, Mary Agnes Manuel, Amy Robertia McNally, Gladys Mary Ann Rice and Catherine Eliza- beth Weikinger. Penmanship awards went to William Francis Lawrence, Mary Agncs Manuel, Amy Robertia McNally, Gladys Mary Ann Rice and Catheris Weikinger, erine Elizabeth 2 MARTINSBURG MEN KILLED IN COLLISION Three Others Injured When Auto and Motor Cycle Meet Head-on on Winchester Pike. Special Dispatch to The MARTINSBURG, W. Va., June 16.— Twe men were killed, one instantly, when their motor cycle collided with an automobile at Pikeside, several miles south of this city, on the Martinsburg- Winchester pike late Saturday night. The dead are Adrian Hutzler and Al- vin Mongan, both about 24, of this city. Marjon Laise of Bunker Hill, driver of the car, was serlously injured. Lalse lost several fingers as the result of the crash and his wife and two children suffered numerous lacerations and shock. The cyclists were en route to this city when the accident happened, the head-on collision occurring along a level stretch of the road. Hutzler, who was riding tandem, was thrown high into the air by the impact and kiiled instantly, while Mongan suffered a punctured lung and fractures of both arms and legs. He died in a local hos- p"';)]: yesterday. e collision resulted in almost tof demolition of both machines, Hutll':l‘l. Mongan and Laise were rushed to this city, while treatment was given Laise's family at a house nearby. Several oc- cupants of a machine following the wrecked car and who witnessed the !L:.-gedy also required treatment, it was Breaks Ankle in Fall. Willlam Jose, jr, 24 years old, of 1728 Park road, fractured ‘nis lefs shioe yesterday when ne fell 16 feet to the :;o‘l‘x‘r;d h:hlle painting the porch roof me. " He was t - i T reated at Emer- PAGE BAN ON PRISONERS IN' CLERICAL J0BS AT JAIL IS SOUGHT Funds Asked in Budget for Creating Two New Sal- aried Positions. B—1 HANDLING OF RECORDS IS POINT AT ISSUE Possibility of Collusion With In- mates of District Prison Is Given Stress. The District Commissioners today re- newed consideration of the 1932 finan- cial estimates of the Board of Public Welfare, giving special attention to an item for the creation of two new cleri~ cal positions at the District Jail to relieve prisoners who are now doing important clerical work. Jail officlals are not satisfied with the present system of using prisoners for the office work, because of the possi- bility that carelessness on their part could result in the release of prisoners before the expiration of their term. No special cases of this kind have been discovered, it was said, but officials do not believe it is a good plan to place the handling of prison records in the hands of other prisoners and thus pave the way for collusion between the prison clerks and other prisoners. ‘With a turnover of a thousand pris- oners or more a month in the jail pop- ulation, it was admitted that it would be a comparatively simple process for a prison clerk to favor another prisoner by crediting him with extra days of service in making up the record cards. The chance of discovering the tam- pered records, it was said, also would be cult. George 8. Wilson, director of public welfare, pointed out that the jail rec- ords are important legal documents, and that it is the desire of jail officials to put them in the charge of clerks over whom the District would have con- trol as an employer. Hence, the Com- missioners have been asked to approve an item for inclusion in the 1932 bud- ‘let 12' the employment of two salaried clerks. ENROLL ST. MARY’S HOLY NAME SOCIETY Parishioners Hold Impressive Cere- mony in Rockville Grove, Adjoining Church. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 16.—Impres- sive ceremonies in the grove adjoining St. Mary's Catholic Church here yester- day afternoon marked the inauguration of Holy Name work in St. Mary's parish. The occasion was the enrollment of the Holy Name Society recently or- | ganized ‘wmong the members of St. Mary's Church and the solemn exer- clses were attended by several hundred members of the numerous socleties in the archdiocese of Baltimore, which comprises Maryland and the District of Columbia, and others from various parts of the country, the District of Colum- e V. J¢ M. McNamara, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore; Mgr. Peter L. Ireton of St. Ann's Church, Baltimore; John F. McCarron arch- diocesan president; Caesar L. Alello, president of the Washington section of the Holy Name Union, and Rev. Charles R. O’'Hara, pastor of St. Mary’s Church, were the speakers, and upon the con- clusion of the ceremonies Bishop Mc- Namara officiated at solemn benediction, Father O'Hara presided, introduced the speakers and called the roll of the members of the new branch and Mgr. Ireton officiated at the acceptance of the Rockville society into the Holy Name Union of the archdiocese of Ba! timore, Willlam E. Morgan, president: Louls J. Ryan, vice president; Leland L. Fisher, secretary; J. Hampton Jones, treasurer; Jacob Poss, marshal, and Rev. Charles R. O'Hara, spiritual ad- viser, are the officers of St. Mary's branch. PARK POLICEMAN HALTS RACING CAR WITH GUN Former Marine Pistol Expert Pune- tures Tires to End Chase Around Memorial. A merry-go-round motor chase early yesterday morning around the Lincoln Memorial that ended only when Park Policeman Ignatius Connole succeeded in puncturing three tires of the fiee~ ing automobile with a volley of well- almed shots had its aftermath in Po- lice Court today when a man identified as Wilson Levi Parker of the 1100 block of Eleventh street was arrainged on a charge of driving while drunk. The prisoner pleaded not guilty to the charge, demanded a jury trial and Was released under $500 bond. Policeman Connole, former Marine pistol expert, was attracted to the vi- cinity of the memorial about 2 o'clock in the morning by the noise of a/car circling the imposing edifice at high speed, with the driver “yelling like a wild Indian," according to his report to Capt. P. J. Carroll today. Connole endeavored vainly to over- take the careening car in its circuits of the memorial, and finally began firing at the tires. Not until three tires and Will Open Badge Bids. Bids for 350 badges for elevator con- ‘The rat is common in practically every Bart of ihs wogid, ductors in the public buildings here are to be opened Wednesday by the Office of Fublic Buldings -aod Public Parks- a mudguard had been punctured did the car stop. The officer said he had to enlist the aid of James R. Penny- field and Prank W. Tompkins, who had assisted in the pursuit, to subdue the prisoner. POSTMASTER DEAD Theodore F. Gaver Expires at Hills- boro of Pneumonia. Special Dispatch to The Star HILLSBORO, Va., June 16.—Theo dore F. Gaver, postmaster at Hilisboro for the past 30 years, diedfthis morne ing at his residence from pneumonia He was 85 years of age and a native and lifelong resident of Hillshoro, Prior to his being postmaster he owned and operated the Hillsboro woolen mill for 35 years. He had been a member of the Arnold Grove M. E. Church for 60 years. He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Mamie W. Danlel of Washington, D. C. C. D. Gaver of Danville, d a daughter, Miss Elizabeth Gaver of Was] n, D. C. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock from the residence, Rev. O. C. Mitchell, assisted by Rev. I a Michael, officiating. Burial will be e Hilishorg Cemelery, %