Evening Star Newspaper, June 17, 1930, Page 17

NATIONAL NUSELM BATENSION PLANS SOONTOBE DRAWN Passage of Smoot-Elliott Bill by House Authorizes Procedure. $6,500,000 APPROPRIATION FOLLOWS AUTOMATICALLY Only Small Pcrtion of Available Material Is Exhibited Under Present Cramped Conditions. ‘With a maximum appropriation of $6.500,000 authorized by Congress, ar- chitects’ plans now will be drawn for extensions of the nortl} and south wings of the New National Museum which will approximately double the exhibition and office space. Under the Smoot-Elliott bill which passed the House yesterday, it was ex- plained at the Smithsonian Institution, no money is actually appropriated, but the authorization of such an appropria- tion gives the secretary authority to have the plans drawn, and at a future session the amount required within the authorized sum will be automatically appropriated. The present National Museum Build- ing was completed at a cost of $3,500,- 000 in 1911, but long since has been s0 overcrowded with the 10,000,000 or more articles in the colletcions that it now is possible to exhibit only a small ortion of the material, valuable col- ections must be turned away for want of room; corridors are filled with cases containing specimens and office and lab- oratory room is at a premium. More. over the collection is increasing at a rate of more than 200,000 specimens a year. The natural history collection is already the largest in the United States, engaging the attention of approximate- 1y 90 scientists. These are crowded into small offices. Paintings Hung in Corridors. Part of the available space is taken W¥p by the National Gallery of Art for which a separate building s proposed eventually. Now the corridors are hung with valuable paintings- because there is no other place for them. The nat- ural history collection has increased so “rapidly that it had been impossible to study it adequately or afford proper facilities for visiting scientists who wish to make use of the material. Another building proposed for the future is an industrial engineering museum, com- rable to the natural history museum. E‘lzfl the art gallery and the two great museums will form a group on the Mall. Under the charter issued to the Smithsonian Institution in 1846 the secret ‘was required to build a mu- seum_immediately. The result was the old Smithsonian Institution building, ‘which at first was supported entirely from the Smithsonian fund, while the collections increased by leaps with the material garnered by Government sur- veying and military expeditions into the unexplored Western country. Fol#wing the bringing to Washington of carloads ©of specimens after the centennial expe- dition in Philadelphia, in 1876, more reo became necessary and the old ational Museum, now used to house the industrial and historical collections, ‘was built at a cost of $250,000. War Brought Added Material. This soon became crowded beyond history collections. Following the World ‘War the available space was greatly re- stricted by the great mass of historical and military material for which there ‘were no other quarters. The aviation exhibit was relegated to a temporary building, which is still in use. In the Natural History building, it was explained, there are at present 210,000 mammal specimens alone, but Georgetown Law Professor Declared Proposed by Strong Group. IHas Outstanding Record of International Law Achievements. ‘While lacking official confirmation, reports from Geneva that Dr. James Brown Scott of Washington is slated to succeed Charles Evans Hughes as American judge on the Permanent Court of International Justice were ac- cepted as reliable in well informed cir- cles here that are keeping in close touch with the situation at Geneva. Dr. Scott’s nomination has been made, it was said, by the Cuban com- mittee which brackets him with An- tonio Sanchez Bustamente, Cuban judge, who is seeking re-election. Re- ports’ further stated that Dr. Scott either has been or is to be nominated by an American group composed of Elihu"Root, Newton D. Baker and Ro- land W. Boyden of Boston. The latter succeeded Mr. Hughes on the Perma- nent Court of Arbitration when Mr. Hughes resigned. The League of Nations Council has decided that a by-election would be held to select & judge to finish out the bal- ance of Mr. Hughes' unexpired term. ‘The nine-year term on the bench be- gins January, 1931, and plans are that ::hh: same judge will be nominated both es. Dr. Scott is said to have the back- ing of a strong group of nations in addition to American support. World Authority. Regarded as one of the foremost authorities on international law in the world, Dr. Scott is president of the American Institute of International Law and is better known in Washington as secretary of the Carnegie Foundation for International Peace and professor of international law at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He has been on the faculty of the lat- ter school since its founding and is gl:figemln also of its graduation com- Dr. Scott is absent from Washington at present, being at his Summer home in Annapolis, Md. Friends of his here say that he has made no effort to se- cure nomination to the court at The Hague, but that on sccount of his many services to the advancement of international law and peace, his nomi- mation would be acceptable to many European governments as well as those in the Western Hemisphere. The American _Institute of International Law of which he is the head, has its quarters in Havana, in a palace provided by the Cuban government. Dr. Scott was made president of the organization last year to su Chie! Justice Hughes. Formerly solicitor of DR. JAMES B. SCOTT REPORTED SLATED FOR WORLD COURT SEAT -tion of the American Bar Assoclation, f | fessor also of diplomatic history. WASHINGTON, o DR. JAMES BROWN SCOTT. the State Department, Dr. Scott has rendered many valuable services to the American Government on foreign mis- sions and in connection with the pan- American Union. He was delegate to the second Peace Conference at The Hague in 1907, spe- clal advisor for the State Department on the Joint State and Neutrality Board from 1914 to 1917, and was tech- nical delegate to the American dele- gation at the Paris Peace Conference and also technical advisor at the Wash- ington Arms Limitation Conference. On Conclliation Groups. ‘With numerous services in vari- ous capacities, Dr. Scott was named last year as president of the commis- sion on conciliation between Poland and Denmark and president also of the con- ciliation commission between Switzer- land and Belgium. Besides being a member of the American delegation to the Pan-American Conference at Ha- vana and taking a leading part in codi- fying internationl law for all the Amer- ican republics, Dr. Scott recently was a delegate to the Pan-American Com- mission of Jurists at Rio de Janeiro. For many years Dr. Scott has been chairman of the international law sec- and has been trustee and secretary of the Carnegle Endowment for Interna- tional Peace since 1910. In his capacity with Georgetown University Dr. Scott has been very active in promoting cul- tural relations with other nations, and has been decorated by several govern- ments not only for his special studies but work in gonnection with his special field of international law. He has written extensively, and is one of the few Americans who have lectured regularly before the famous Academy of International Law at The Hague. Besides being professor of in- ternational Jaw and foreign relations of the United States at Georgetown For- eign Service School, Dr. Scott is pro- His home is at 1201 Nineteenth street. MOTORISTS GIVEN OFFER ON PERMITS Lapsed Driving Cards May Be Renewed by July 1 to Avoid Penalty. Motorists seeking to have permits, which have lapsed 90 days or more, re- newed after July 1 will be required to pass the regular oral examination on the traffic regulations, Traffic Director Wil- liam H. Harland said today. Drivers’ permits cost $3 and are good for three years. At the end of three years they must be renewed and a fur- ther payment of $3 made. The money Teceived from this source is spent on trafic lights. it is possible to exhibit only 1400 of them. The total estimate of 10,000,000 specimens would be greatly exceeded if numerous groups were split up into separate items. ‘When the accumulated mass of ma- terial from the patent office was made ! available to the museum a few years ago, it was explained, only the most valuable articles could be accepted for lack of space, and much material illus- trative of the advance of American civilization had to be passed over. ‘The present exhibition halls, it was explained, now are so overcrowded that the casual visitor is apt to become con- fused amid the great variety, and carry away a very indefinite impression of e purposs of the historical and in urpose and in- dumxlecflofll 18 entirely custodial and space is required only for the proper exhibition of the items illustrative of the progress qf American culture. The natural history division, however, is intended not only to furnish as thor- ough an exhibition as possible but to conduct Tesearch work. Thus prac- tically all ingecf investigations must start with the type specimens there. ‘The present natural history bullding eontains approximately 10 acres of floor space, COLORED MAN SHOT j EVADING PURSUERS | Beorge Grigsby Wounded in Ab- {1, domen Entering Home of 'T Lawyer Norton in Flight. Suffering from & bullet wound in his stomach, George Grigsby, colored, 38 years old, of 621 Rhode Island avenue, staggered into No. 7 Engine Company quarters early this morning. He was taken to Freedmen's Hospital and later police of the second precinct, acting on information given by the wounded man, detalned Lawyer W. Norton, col- ored, of 1613 Tenth street, pending & further investigation of the shooting. Grigsby was “hanging around” the corner of Tenth and Q streets mbout 1 o'clock this morning, when several colored men pursued him. Police be- lieve the men probably thought Grigs- ! by was there for the purpose of ‘“‘spot- ting” bootleggers. Evading his pu suers by entering a house and then doubling back, Grigsby reached the rear door of Norton's residence. Norton failed to get a satisfactory response to his questions when he went to the door, police report, and fired a | pistol. The bullet passed through the door and struck Grigsby in the abdo- men, This system was put into effect July 1, 10203 I'I‘hlu!), the first mln "ll P;l"lgd began July 1, last year. spite of the fact that almost & year has elapsed since the permits have been renewed Mr. Har- lands said there were almost 21,000 per- mits unaccounted for. Making allowances for those who have died, left the District, or given up driv- ing, he said there were probably still from 8,000 to 10,000 persons driving au- tomobiles on permits which had expired. Mr. Harland said his present course was dictated by a desire to penalize such persons and that it was permitted un- der the terms of the traffic act. He said that in all cases where & per- mit is renewed, it will be good only for three years from the date of the old per- mit, regardiess of the date on which it was renewed. This is on the theory that during the interval when the driver ‘was using an expired permit, he had the privilege of having a new permit, though he was subject to arrest for driv- ing on the old one. ' APPROVED BY D. C. HEADS File Favorable Report on Amend- ment Prohibiting Placing of Ob- structions on Shore Line. ‘The District Commissioners yesterday | reported to the House District commit- tee in favor of an amendment to the pending bill prohibiting the placing of wharves, bulkheads or other structures on the shore line of the Potomac River in the path of the proposed Memorial Highway to George Washington, be- tween Washington and Mount Vernon. ‘The bill now before the House com- mittee was passed by the Senate May 28, but according to its terms the Com- missioners are given so much power that they might set up a control over the butlding of wharves in the City of Alexandria. This, they found, might cause an embarrassment, and they ask- ed the House to limit the wide scope of the bill. MEMORIAL HIGHWAY BILL | Jail Trusty Fined For Going to Jail Too Fast in Truck Charles Brent was speeding along Florida avenue at 34 miles an hour in a dump truck when he was stopped by Raymond V. Sinclair, a Trafic Bureau police- man, at Twelfth street northeast. “‘Where're you going?” Sinclair “I'm going %o _jail,” Brent re- lied. “You bet your life your going to jail.” “Of course I'm going to jail. T don't want to be late for lunch.” It then developed that the truck driver was a trusty at the District Jail, serving a six-month sentence for larceny. K Arraigned in Police Court to- day on a charge of speeding, Brent was fined $10 and given a suspended sentence by Judge Ralph Given. D. C. SCHOOL YEAR ENDS TOMORROW 74,550 Pupils Will Be Free for Vacation Period at 3 0’Clock P.M. Approximately 74,550 public school children of the District of Columbia will leave their respective halls of learn- ing on the stroke of 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, going, each according to his own bent, into Summer classes, Sum- mer jobs, or the open freedom of va- cation. Of these, 50,449 are leaving the ele- mentary schools, while 12,437 are going out from the senior high schools. The junior high schools are contributing 10,171 to the influx of school vaca- tionists, while the vocational schools are sending 927 and the two teachers colleges are sending 556. Meanwhile the annual series of senior and high school commencements are being held at varying hours, from yes- terday through Thursday. Three senior high schools are holding their com- mencements tonight. They are McKin- ]:‘y High School, Whose commencement 1l be presided ‘over by Dr, Abram Simon, school board member; Business High School, whose exercises will be administered by Mrs. Phillip Sidney Smith, and Dunbar High School, whose chairman will be Mrs. Willlam C, Mc~ Nell, also of the school board. Junior high school graduations are being held this afternoon and will continue through tomorrow morning and tomorrow after- noon. 11-YEAR-OLD D. C. Edward Nightingale, jr., an 11-year- BUTCHER CUTS SELF 'xnile Slip Results in Serious In- jury to Man’s Abdomen. Aaron Goldstein, 60, proprietor of a | buteher shop in the 1900 biock . of Seventh street, suffered a severe cut to Tis abdomen when a knife with which |father, before leaving for the | he was carving meat slipped from his | promised 1 to Emergency | call you.” here his condition is said to| ~Years pased. The tie between fathr grasp. - He was taken Hospital, be serious, old ‘student of Columbia Junior High School, looked on the world from & parlor car window, undaunted by & 5,000-mile trip on his “own” to Alaska. ‘The story behind this trip began six years ago. At that time, Edward Earl Nightingale, a meehanic, found it im- possible to ‘ply his trade in Washing- ton. But Alaska, & virgin country, had need of men skilled in manual crafts. “When I have made a start, -orh"',:'!;le Fai 3 his 5-year-old boy, “I will and son, challenged by ,me YOUTH STARTS 5,000-MILE TREK TO ALASKA Edward Nighiingale, Jr., Travels Alone to Keep Six-Year Rendezvous With Father. tante, remained constant. Then last month the “call” came. FEdward left the Uplon Station yes- terday for Chicago, the first stage of the 16-day trip to Anchorage, Alaska, where a six-year rendezvous will be kept. On_his journey Edward will be di- rected by agencies of the Travelers’ Atd Nw’irdh local address was at 1743 F street, where he lived with his grand- parents. ‘When asked if he were anxious to see Alaska, Edward laughingly renlied, D€, TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 1930. WOODSON PLEADS } GUILTY; RECEIVES BYEAR SENTENCE Arrested in- Liquor Shooting,‘ Indicted by Speciat Jury. DEFENDANT TAKEN AT MARKET STAND| Admits Having Wounded Police- man Raymond Crack on Night of February 12. Leroy Woodson, 26 years old, who | was arrested this morning and charged | with the shooting on February 12 of | Policeman Raymond Crack of the Ar-| lington, Va., County force, entered a plea of guilty, when arraigned before Judge Walter T. McCarthy in Arling- ton County Circuit Court and was sen- tenced to eight years in the peniten- tlary. An additional sentence of one year was assessed on a charge of trans- porting liquor with a pistol in his pos- session. This sentence is to run con- currently. Woodson's sentence set a record in admihistering justice in Arlington County. Arrested early this morning in ‘Washington, he was indicted by a spe- cial grand jury and sentenced at 12:30 o'clock. His companion, Harry Sweets, who was driving the car at the time Crack was shot, also pleaded guilty to transporting liquor and was given a sentence of six months plus a fine of $5 and eosts. Sweets has been in jail since shortly after the shooting apd will be credited with this time on his sentence. He is still suffering from a bullet wound in the neck which he re- ceived on the night of the chase. When arraigned before Judge Mc- Carthy, Woodson entered a plea of guilty and said he did not desire coun- sel. When he started shooting, he said, he was merely attempting to frighte Off his pursuers, but when he saw that he had hit Crack, he threw his gun away. As a result of this statement, Crack was placed cn the stand and declared that Woodson had fired directly at him twice and that the first bullet missed its mark, The officers who arrested Woodson at Center Market today say he told them he “got his fill” of rum running on the night of February 12, when Officer Crack, shot through the face, refused grimly to give up the chase and kept firing into the rum car until he pitched from his motor cycle. Car Abandoned. ‘The wounded officer succeeded in putting one of his bullets through the gasoline tank of the rum car and sev- eral others took effect in the body. Sweets, the officers charge, was hit in the neck during the exchange. When loss of blood rendered Crack unconscious after he had ridden two miles while wounded he tumbled from his motor cycle just as several fellow officers joined the chase. After being lald up for several weeks, Crack re- turned to duty. The gasoline leaked out of the rum car at Shady Side Camp, 20 miles be. low Alexandria, and the two bootleg- gers abandoned it and a cargo of 100 gallons of corn whisky, supposedly mak- ing their way into Washintgon. W n was returned to Arlington County this morning and a special grand jury impaneled to investigate the case. When arrested by Detectives H. K. Wilson of Washington headquar- ters and James D. East of the Arlington County police Woodson was selling vegetables at Center Market. ‘Woodson was otherwise known as George C. Moore, 300 block of C street southwest. ‘The officers say he informed them he went into the huckster business imme- diately after the rum chase. “I've been buying vegetables Southern Maryland for my “trucl Woodson said, “and_bringing them to Washington to sell. It was a good busi- ness and I only wanted a chance to make good at it.” Officers Disabled. Orack recovered from his wound after several weeks in the hospital. He was riding with his companion, Arlington County Policeman C. Wayn Carr, now of .the State force, when they sighted the rum gar near Key Bridge. in BOARD WILL CLOSE SCHOOL BUILDINGS RATED DANGEROUS But Expects Commissioners First to Approve-Fire Marshal’s Report. SPECIFIC CLASSIFICATION OF DEFECTS IS DESIRED Carusi to Bring Up Issue Tomor- row Following Criticism of Members of Body. The Board of Education stands ready to close any school house belfeved to present dangerous fire hazards when the District Commissioners adopt the recommendation of their fire marshal and so notify the- school board. Dr. Charles E.*Carusi, school board presi- dent, will take this view in a statement make at tomorrow's published report of the fire marshal. Commenting specifically on the fire marshal’s contention that he had noti the schools annually for 11 years, and that “nothing has been done about if Dr. Carusi explained today that it was not until the school board on May 7 refused to accept the fire marshal’s re- port without his specific listing of hi: proposed improvements as “emergency, “necessary” and .“desirable” that the fire chief made any specific recom- mendations at all. Made Yearly Estimates. He explained further that each year he rd has included items of “ap- proximately $150,000 to permit improve- ments recommended by the marshal, and that each year this item is elimi- nated by the District Commissioners as one of the first items to fall in the pruning. ‘When, at its May 7 meeting, the board returned the fire marshal's “re- |port of annual inspection of public schools of the District of Columbia” to its author with a request that the mar- shall classify the fire needs according to their degree of emergency, Dr. Carusi March, 1926, in calling for the cate- gorical classification of not only the fire needs, but also the Health De- partment recommendation. The school board president said the | Health Department since that time has | classified its recommendations, but that | the Fire Department has persisted in forwarding reports of conditions in school buildings without expressing ex- | pert cpinions as to whether the needs | for improvement were emergencies, | necessities or merely desirables. Board Is Accused. The fire marshal's second report, classifying the needs and dated June | 10, has been received by. the board and will be considered tomorrow. Mean- while, the fire marshal’s third annual report, in which the board was accused of “doing nothing,” was given the news- papers Saturday for publication Sunday. In his statement to the board tomor- row, Carusi will point out that in pre- paring the school estimates for 1932 the school board forwarded to the Com- missioners its regular estimates for the educational needs of the school system, together with the request that the Com- | missioners themselves add to its total the amounts they believe necessary to afford protection to the schools as rec- ommended by both the Fire and Health Departments. This procedure was followed because of the fire marshal’s delay in making specific recommendations to the board in time for the school group to complete its estimates by May 5, the date set by the Cqmmissioners as the ‘“deadline” for District department estimates. Commenting on the schools today, Carusi said that the board has a cholcs either to continue using its older schools and portables or to close them, and it will close them whenever the Commis- sioners themselves the | marshal’'s recommendations and notify the board to that effect. Base Ball Team Plans Dance. COLVIN RUN, Va, June 17 (Spe- cial) —The Colvin Run base ball team is giving a square dance Saturday night in the Colvin Run school house for the benefit of the team’s treasury, LAY “GRAF” WREATH ON STATUE [yt “Sure! Who wouldn't be? My fatier owns " { Germ: fied the school board of fire hazards in | cited the board’s resolution adopted in. here, either to the detriment or benefit see a change in this robot. annually, has been replaced. Oscar C. the work. PAGE B—% WERD CERATODS INHABI DEPTHS OF NORTH ATLANTI National Museum Reoeives Danish Ship’s Data on Somée of World’s Queerest Life.: Local residents who have felt that the kiosk on Pennsylvania avenue at Thirteenth-and-a-half street has not been accurately telling the temperature of Washington's reputation, today may Its thermagraph, taken out for reconditioning Rauh, supervisor instrument maker (at left), and William C. McConnell, instrument maker, Weather Bureau, inspected JOHNSON INDICTED | ONMURDER COUNT ;Colored Man Is Accused of Shooting Another After Brawl. indicted today for murder in the first degree in connection with the death of Marcellus Washington, N street southeast, Johnson is said to have shot Washington outside the place, April 26. Elmer Hayden, a patlent at Walter Reed Hospital, is charged with grand larceny in an indictment reported to- day. He is said to have taken a hand- bag containing jewels valued at $175 belonging to Miss Martha A. Montgom- ery, supervisor of the occupational therapy department. The bag was in her desk May 15. The jewels later were the identification of a diamond, which had been sold. Faces Car Theft Charge. Okey Risner, a young white man, 1= accused of grand larceny. He is said to have rented an automobile from the Hertz Drive It Yourself Co. here and to i have driven it to Hassetts, Ky., where he was arrested. Larceny of an automobile belonging to the Dulin & Martin Co. is alleged against Leo J. Moran. The car is said to have been taken February 18. An- other similar charge against Moran was ignored by the grand jurors when it de- veloped that the car had been taken in Maryland and not within the Distriet. ‘The grand jury exonerated Stanton ‘W. Smith, colored, who was accused of causing the death of Robert Poindexter, also colored, June 8. He used a pocket- knife during a fight at 66 Pierce street after he had been attacked by Poin- dexter. The grand jurors also declined to indict Louis E. Murray and George E. Lee, charged with violation of the national prohibition act, and James R. Sothoron, accused of forgery. Others Indicted. Others indicted and the charges against them include: Wjlliam H. Chap- man, forgery (two cases); Kenneth L. Frye, forgery (three cases); Lee N. , Bernard Mahoney and Josepl Mahoney, false pretenses (three cases); | Ralph Nickson and Roy Graham, vio- lating national prohibition act; Richard A. Crymes, J h Martin and Robert Duffel, assault with dangerous weapon; Raymond Bird, assault to commit carnal knowledge; Ollle Scott, William S. An- derson, Frank V. A. Loring, John A. Gillette and George M. Jordon (four cases), housebreaking and larceny; Walter J. Martin and Raymond L. Howard, housebreaking; Orris C. But- ler and John E. Howder, non-support; Maurice E.- Morton, robbery: Thomas Salter, joy-riding: Fred Thompson, Vernon J. Hilderbrandt, Thomas L. Mattingly (2 cases), Edward S. Kauf- man, Francis O. Beall, George E. Mitchell and John W. Wilson, grand larceny. BLAND HOME ROBBED Sorority Pin and Two Rings Loot of Week End Burgla: A burglar entered the home of Judge Oscar E. Bland of the United States Court of Customs Appeals, at 2950 Ma- comb street, during the week end, and made off with three pleces of jewelry. ‘The loot consisted of a sorority pin edged with diamonds, valued at $150: an insignia ring, and a dinner ring. The robbery was discovered yesterday by Mrs. Bland. Entrance was gained by forcing & rear door. William Carl Johnson, colored, was | also colored. | | Following a brawl in a restaurant at 86 | recovered and Hayden arrested following | AUTOPSY ORDERED - INWEILLS' DEATH Former Orchestra Conductor Found Near Rock Creek Park Lodge. An autopsy will be held today to de- termine the cause of the death of Charles Raymond Weills, 54 years old, retired pharmacist and one-time con- ductor of the Harrisburg, Pa., Sym- phony Orchestra, who was found dead near ‘the lodge in Rock Creek Park last night. A bottle containing, a sleeping potion was found in his pocket, Weills lived with his son, C. Raymond Weills, at 1324 Park road, The son said his father appeared in good spirits when he left home in the morning for a walk through. the park. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt, who will conduct the autopsy, advanced the theory Weills had been affected by the heat. « The son could ascribe no reason for his father hklngl his life and declared he was certain his father had died of natural causes. Mr. Weills left home at noon to walk through the park to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ruth Hilland, at 2755 Macomb street. He did not return for dinner at 7 o'clock. Since his retirement from business, Mr. Wellls said, his father appeared in excellent health and had no financial worrles. Walking was a favorite pastime with him. Park police had noticed the man at 5 o'clock reading a newspaper while seated on a bench in the shade and had no reason to become suspicious. Mr. Weills_also is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edith June Weills, and a brother, Willlam E. Weills, who lives in Philedelphia. THREE MEN ARE INJURED While Two Others Are Victims of Automobiles. Emory C. Grimes, 58 years old, of the 900 block of Maryland avenue north- east, was treated at Casualty Hospital late yesterday afternoon for & lacera- tion of the scalp and shock, having been injured as a result of a street car knock- ing him down at Pennsylvania avenue and Third street. He was able to go home after treatment. Motorman Sher- wood Smith was in charge of the street car. William Hutchinson, colored, 72 years old, residing at 204 D street southwest, late yesterday afternoon stepped from the east curb in front of 729 North Capitol street and was knocked down by the automobile of George W. Mose- dale of Mount Rainier, Md., and his left arm injured. He was given treat- ment in the first ald room at Govern- ment Printing Office. George Whiteley, 70 years old, of 1255 Oates street northeast, was knock- ed down on the street near his hee 1ast night by the automobile of Norman B. Kaufman, a neighbor, and his leg id arm hurt. Kaufman took him to Casualty Hospital. SO MRS. TUBB HANGS SELF Mrs. Catherine Tubb, 41 years old, of 504 Oglethorpe street, who served in the World War as & yeomanette, hanged herself yesterday at Gallinger Hospital, where she had been under mental ob- servation _since June 2. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt issued & certificate of suicide. ROYAL RAMBLERS PLAY WAY TO FREEDOM ON TRAFFIC COUNT Russ Kepper and Four Companions Give Concert in Police Station While Officer Debates on Charge. Striking up with “We're in the Jail House Now” and other popular airs, Russ Kepper's Royal Ramblers of radio fame played their way to freedom after their arrest for a traffic violation here yesterday. Kepper and his four companions were n route from Radio Station WISV, at el - A wreath, dropped from the German dirigible Graf Zeppelin at Asbury Park, N. J, on its way home from Lakehurst Naval Air Station to | s Vernon e to thwix homes n was placed on the statue of Baron von Steuben in Lafayette Square ay afternoon. The wreath was dropped from the Graf in connection with ihe annual congress of the National Soclety of the Sons of the American Revolu- tion, who had 1t brought here for yesterday's ceremony. In the photograph, left | He ordered them to- follow nim (o (re to right, are: Baron Wollgagy Putlitz, secretary of the German embassy: A. A.| fourtcenth procinet. Hoffman, color bearer; F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War; Josiah A Van Orsdel, Frank B. Steele, John T. Finley and J. C. McGrew. Hagerstown, Md., when R. A. Cunning- ham, a Traffic Bureau motor cycle po liceman, saw them pass a red light at ‘Wiscons'n avenue and McComb street. Arriving at the precinet, ‘the young | mur-icians tuned up their hanjos, guitars | House Blues,” “The Vagabond Lover” and other favorites began to emanate from the station house. Meanwhile Cunningham was debating on whether to_charge Kepper with speeding. ‘Thelr 45-minute jail nouse concert over, the musicians promised to dedi- cate & song to Cunningham and Desk Sergt. Beach when they appear on the program at WJSV Monday. Whereupon Cunningham abandoned the idea of preferring a speeding charge. Instead, Kepper was charged with passing a red lJ:dht and forfeited $3 in Police Court ay. Kepper and his companions were at- tired in overalls, blue shirts, red ban- —=Star Staff Photo. and violigs. The strains of “The Jail 'danas and wide-brimmed straws. IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS' One Knocked Down by Street Car FISH USE LIGHTS IN SEA’S DARKNESS Some Swallow Food Three Times Their Own Weight, British Zovlogist Declares, BY THOMAS R. HENRY. In the dark depths of the North At lantic dwell some of the world's queerest creatures, Dr. Austin H. Clark of the National Museum has just received the scientifio reports on the great mass of material garnered from the ocean deeps by the Danish ship Dana in 1922, which was distributed to zoological laboratories in several countries for study. Weirdest of all are the ceratoids, de scribed by C. Tate Regan, zoologist of the British Museum. These are fishes which live in the deeper ogean, provided with luminous bulbs by which they probably communicate with each other, see their way about and possibly attract their prey. Dr, Regan found three spe- cies in which the males are all dwarfs attached to and growing as part of the bodies of females four to six times their own size, each an individual animal, yet living as one animal. It is a condi- tion hitherto unknown to science. Apparently, says the report, both are born as individuals, Early in life the male bites loose a flap of skin of the female, usually near the head, and hokds it tightly between his lips until the flap and his fongue grow together, | Thenceforth the male is entirely a para- site on the female, stops growing and receives all his sustenance through the arterial system connected with his part- ner by way of the graft. This graft between the two fishes is almost as per- fect as is produced artificially with trees. | Outer Skin Continuous. “The outer skin of the two fishes” says Regan, “is continuous, so that it is impossible to say exactly where one begins and the other ends. Microscopia examination of sections of a strip of the tissue connecting the male and female ceratias shows that the male and female are completely blended, the highly vas- cular fibrous tissue of the outgrowths of the male being continuous with the skin of the female. In both the genera) direction of the fibers and of the small blood vessels is longitudinal—that Ia leading from one fish to the other—an it seems almost certain that the blood vessels of the two fishes are continuous and that the male is nourished by the female. The male has a well developed heart and gills, so that it does not de- pend on the blood of the female for oxygen, but only for nutritive materials, The small, capillary-like vessels of the tissue connecting the two fishes receive arterial blood from both and the veins from them run (o both fishes. “The reason why the ceratoids, alone among vertebrates, have males of thiy kind is evident. They are necessarily few in number in comparison with the more active fishes on which they prey, and they lead a solitary life, floating about in the darkness of the middle depths of the ocean. Under such cir- cumstances it would be very difficult for a mature fish to find a mate, buf this difficulty appears, to have been gote ten over to some exient by the males after they are hatched and when they are relatively numerous by attaching themselves to the females if they are fortunate enough to meet them, and remaining attached throughout life. “In all probability the males are in. capable of free development and the great majority of them fail to find a female and perish. Another suggested possibility is that the post-larval fish that find and become attached to fe- males develop into males and those that do not into females.” Living in a region of almost complete darkness, these fishes are obliged to furnish their own light. This is pro- | Vided by a transparent bulb into which secreted a luminous substance of | some kind. In some species this bulb | s attached to a cord growing out of the head four or five times the length of the fish and which it can control freely in the water. In one species the light cord was attached to a protruding bone and with the bulb on the end was a bone hool “It might well be termed,” he sald, “a complete angler.” The the~ ory is that the light serves as a bait for other fishes, who, when they dart at it are caught on the hook and drawn to the mouth by means of the cord. Some fishes of this family found e the Dana collection have distensible jaws and stomachs, so that they can swallow fishes three times their ovg length and many times as heavy. Tm is & necessary provision, because thi teeth are so arranged that once & lars fish is caught in the mouth it is i possible to Telease it and the ceratg must swallow it, whether or no, A other variety was found with teeth o the top of its head. The Dana material, Dr. Clark sai®, is proving one of the greatest contribus tions ever made to the knowledge of life forms in the ocean deeps, where highly specialized equipment is necessary for any creature to live, and shows adapts ability of organisms to their environe ment in extreme forms, TWO MORE SEIZED IN LIQUOR RAIDS William K. and Audrey Hood Are Arrested as Result of Week End Drive, ‘Two more prisoners were taken yesterday as a follow-up on the wesg end liquor raids by Federal prohil tion agents, as many defendants cam tured in that concerted drive throughv out Washington and in nearby Mary- land. were being brought before United States Commissioners for arraignment. The two prisoniers are William K. Hood and Audrey Hood of 1114 Abbey place, one of the places raided Saturday night by Federal agents. No arrests were made at the time of the raid, but the Hoods were arrested late yesterday. United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage. pegan hearings yesterday afternoon. on the cases developed in the District of Columbia, and United States Commissioner Supplee. heard the cases in timore. ~ Commissioner Turnage fixed bond in a few cases and will hear more today, setting the dates for hearings to start next Wednesday and to continue through to Monday. At Baltimore, Thomas L. Avant, pro- prietor of Tom's Barbeque at Colman Manor, was held in $2,000 bail. and other defendants in $1,500 beil fur hegping June 24, .