Evening Star Newspaper, June 19, 1930, Page 17

+ HOUSEHOLDERS WIN IN STORM SEWER FIGHT WITH FOWLER Commissioners Order Health Officer to Withdraw No- tices in Controversy. CORPORATION COUNSEL DECIDES TEST CASE William W. Bride Goes Back Into History of System for Decision. Health Officer William C. Fowler lost his battle to compel householders to connect their drains with stormwater rewers today when the Commissioners formally ordered the health officer’s notices to certain householders, requir- ing the connection, withdrawn. The particular case which settled the matter was that of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Corwin of 2207 Newton street northeast, on which a test was made. When they built their home, it was connected with a sanitary sewer then running through the street. There was no_stormwater sewer. Still later the Highway Department served them with notice that the street would be paved and that if they wanted to do any work involving cutting up the street they must do it at once, as the street }nuflt not be cut after the surface was aid. Stormwater Sewer Laid. ‘Then the District laid a stormwater sewer and paved the street. Shortly on the heels of this the Health Depart- ment served on the Corwins in common with other residents an order to con- nect their downspouts and rain leaders with the recently installed stormwater sewer. This would have made neces- | sary the cutting of a trench from the back of their lot through their cellar, through the sidewalk and out into the center of the street, at a cost of about $600. They appealed to the Commis- sloners, and the Commissioners put the matter up to the corporation counsel. He advised that the notices be with- drawn. Today this was officially ac- complished. The action of the Commissioners means that thousands of householders ‘will not be compelled to make the con- nections. The plumbing inspector had calculated that this would have cost not less than $1,000,000. Corporation Counsel William W Bride, in a long and carefully written opinion, went back into the history of the city’s sewer system and showed that when the act on which the health of- ficer relied for authority was passed, there were no storm-water sewers in existence. All the sewers then were *‘combined system” sewers, taking care of both sanitary drainage and surface rain water., Storm-water sewers, which take only rain water, have been built here for only nine years, and in & sys- | tem comprising about 800 miles of sew- ers, there are only about 20 miles of | storm-water sewers. Designed to Relieve Flood. ‘The particular sewer to which the Corwins were ordered to connect is a lateral brancas of the South Dakota | stormwater sewer, designed to relieve | flood conditions at Rhode Island avenue | and Kearney street, where there is a flow of sometimes as much as 20 inches on the surface of the street in time of rain. While it is proper as a health meas- ure, the corporation counsel found, to | compel connection to a sanitary sewer, | connection with the stormwater sewer | does not necessarily affect the health | of the community. He showed several instances where applications had been made by private individuals for per- mission to connect rafnspouts with stormwater sewers had been refused by the Engineer Department. If the prop- erty owners could be compelled to con- nect, he found, then the Commission- ers could be compelled by mandamus to allow them to connect in every in- stance where they wanted to. As a result he held that the Commissioners | had no power to compel the connection, and advised that the notices be voided. WHEN HIT BY CARS Bimon Miller and Bruce Young Each Treated at Eme-gency After Accidents. Two boys suffered fractured ankles yesterday afternoon in traffc accidents and were taken to Emergency Hospital and treated by staff physicians. Simon Miller, 8 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Miller of 1100 Sixth street, was hit by a car uriven by Mrs Vera Dozer of 1453 Girard street while crossing Georgia aveuue at Gresham place. He was taken to Wwith a broken left ankle Struck down by an automobile while erossing the street in front cf i Bruce Young, 13 years >ld, of 2013 New Hampshire avenue, also sustained a broken left ankle. The driver of the car, Dr. William Meiccr Lane, colored, of 828 Seventh street northeast, took the boy to Emergency for treaimont. . Fumes Overcome Woman. ‘Mrs. Mary McAllister, 40 years old, of 1332, North Capitol strest, was over- come by the fumes of a disinfectant | | | Tuesday night. Misses Ruth Bohannon and Belle Morgan, who will dance on the steamer City of Washington during the benefit moonlight trip for Casmalty Hospital —Star Staff Photo. AGENTS PREPARING FOR DRY CHANGE Enforcement. By the Associated Press. Evincing concentration on prohibition | enforcement with only 10 days remain- | ing before it takes jurisdiction from the 1 Treasury, the Department of Justice announced today the receipt of reports showing special legal activity on behalf | OCONNOR NAMED BATTALION CHEF Fire Captain Promoted to Vacancy Left by Davis’ Death. The District Commissioners yesterday promoted Capt. Edward O'Connor of the Fire Department to the post of battalion chief to replace the late Bat- talion Chief P. R. Davis, killed in an accident in the Rudolph & West fire last Friday. O'Connor is known as one of the of the Volstead law in several sections. | most popular men in the department. No mention was made of the impend- | He spends most of his off-duty time ing transfer of authority, but the ac- | working for its interests, and recently tivity of the department's legal staff | has given much time in an effort to Emergency | home, | was emphasized. As a result of a number of raids in Kansas, the announcement said, 44 in- dictments have been returned by the grand jury against 125 persons and corporations charging them with con- | spiracy to violate the dry law. It pointed out that the United States Court in the Southern district of West Virginia had indictments before it at its last term charging 238 persons with vio- | lation of the liquor law. Of the 170 convicted there, 116 were sent to the | Atlan‘a Federal Penitentiary and 64 to county jails in Southern West Virginia. | The number sent to the Atlanta pen- itentiary, the department said, was be- lieved 10 be the largest ever sent from a single district during a term of the United States Couri. It added that | some of those prisoners ordinarily would | have been sent to the industrial re- formity for the first offenders, at Chil- licothe, Ohio, except for the fact its| capacity already has been exceeded. DRY LAW DEFENDANT | IS GIVEN 900 DAYS Sentenced After Conviction for Six Violations Covering Period | of Six Years, Arthur (Honey) Mason, colored, con- victed by a Police Court jury several | weeks ago for six violations of the pro- hibition law, received one of the stiffest sentences ever imposed for such infrac- | | tions of the law in the police tribunal | | when Judge John P. McMahon meted ! |out a 360-day sentence and 540 days | more in lieu of $1,500 in fines, yester- | day. committed cover a period of three years | Court attaches feel that while the sen- | tence appears to be unusually heavy upon first examination, it is not un- | usual as the defendant was convicted |of five charges of second-offense pos-| The offenses Mason is alleged to have | secure passage of the bill increasing the salaries of policemen and firemen. He is president of the City Firefighters' Association, O'Connor_was captain at No. 1 En- gine Co., K street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. He takes command of the second battalion. He jolned the department in April, 1897; he was promoted to assistant tillerman in July, 1900, to assistant foreman July, 1903, 10 lieutenant July, 1904, and Cap- tain November, 1910. His brother, Thomas O'Connor, has been a battalion chief since 1918 and commands the fire_school. “The Commissioners yesterday ap- pointed Sister Euphrasia Markham of Georgetown University Hospital, a mem- ber of {he nurses’ examining board, to take the place of Miss Catherine Moran, superintendent of nurses at Gallinger Municipal Hospital, whose term expires July 1. Sister Euphrasia’s term is five years. A contract for construction of con- crete roadways, curbs and gutters was awarded to the Warren F. Brenizer Co. for £122,000. This money is in the cur- rent appropriation bill, and the con- tract will not be afected by the prospective failure of the 1931 bill, o RETAIL FOOD PRICES CONTINUE TO DECLINE Bureau of Labor Statistics Reports Drop of Less Than 1 Per Cent in Month. | By the Associated Press, Retail food prices are still falling, although the decreases on May 15 as compared to the month ending April 15 were slightly less than three-fourths of 1 per cent. Figures made public today by the Burcau of Labor Statistics showed de- creases in 22 food articles, including a precipitate decline in cabbage of 26 per | cent.” Such staples as pork chops, eggs, flour and navy beans fell slightly, Oranges, onions and potatoes increased while asleep in her home early this | session and one count of maintaining | in price. morning. The disinfectant had been used in her home last night. She was unconscious when found this morning. She was taken to Casualty Hospital. Her recovery Is expected. MISS DULIN WINS SPELLING | " BEE SECOND TIME THIS YEAR George I. Kelley Is Runner-Up and Robert M. Flake Third | at Mount Pleasant Library. For the second time this year, Miss Elizabeth Dulin of the All States Hotel won the monthly spelling championship contest for the District of Columbia, conducted under the auspices of the Capital City Spelling Club. The con- test was held lasi night in the Mount Pleasant Branch Library. George 1. Kelley of 4501 Georgia ave- nue was runner-up in the competition, losing out to Miss Dulin on the word “chuff.” ‘The winner was presented with a book of poems as first prize. At the end of one month she will be required to defend her title of cham- plon speller of the District against all | a nuisance. Immediately after the sentence De- | fense Attorneys Bertrand Emerson and John Sirica noted an appe: McMahon fixed bond st $2.500. , and Judge | BOY CUT AT PLAY Jugular Vein Exposed by Gash From Saw in Shrubbery, Francis Burns, 8 years old, of 44 Bry- ant street, had a narrow escape from death last night. The boy ran alongside of a hedge near M. Flake of 3603 Thirteenth street | Miss Alicia Mooney, 14 years old, of | 2550 University place, who won the | contest in April, ran fourth in last night's competition. K. W. Krause pronounced the words at the bee. Some of the words mis: were howel, single and skirreh, the lat- ter being missed by all remaining con- testants when it was pronounced. The next spelling match will be held in the Mount Pleasant branch library July 16. A list of the first 250 words to d | stolen | his home and was gashed in the throat by a steel saw sticking from the shrub- bery. A three-inch wound was in- flicted in his throat and his jugular | vein was exposed and barely ‘missed | being severed | He was taken to the office of a private | physician and treated. His condition | was pronounced not serious, Theft at Bureau of Standards. Six aluminum wing tanks and eleven fuel tanks, valued at a total of $75, were yesterday from the airplane | hangar at the United States Bureau of | Standards yesterday, according to a re- port made to polic Hold-Up Nets Robber $23. be presented at this bec may be pro- cured by applying to J. F. Haverty, sec- Held up by a colored gunman while | walking on B street near Third street retary of the Capital City Spelling Club, | southwest last night, John R. Brown 65 Waldon avenue, Clarendon, Va. EI- |of 216 C street southwest was robbed THURSDAY, JUNE 19, | 1930. CITY PLAN EXPERT TOTELL CONCLAVE ABOUT WASHINGTON Charles.W. Eliot, 2d, Leaves for Conference at Denver. TRIANGLE PROGRAM TO BE EXPLAINED Exhibit Prepared by Partridge to Be on Display During Sessions. The National Oonference on City Planning, to be held Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of the coming week at Denver, Colo., will learn a great deal about the developments going forward in Washington. Charles W. Eliot, 2d, citv planner of the National Capital +e¥ ard Planning Commission, left the «ay for Denver, prepared to de- an {llustrated lecture on Monday .c on the National Capital and ‘o daln the exhibit that he is taking . him from Washington. Mr. Elfot will participate in a sym- osium on clvic centers throughout the ountry. Shortly before leaving for the West, Mr. Eliot explained to The Star that Denver has a fine civic center, now in progress of developm.ent in the down- town section. The commission’s city planaer proposes to_tell the National Conference on City Planning that “the Washington region is the civic center for the Nation.” He will devote atten- tion to the triangle program, to the Union Station plaza_expansion, to the Arlington Memorial Bridge construction and other major features of Washing- ton's public activities. ‘The exhibit that Mr. Eliot is taking | from Washington is that prepared by William T. Partridge, consulting archi- tect of the National Capital Park and Planning’ Commission, and exhibited in color sometime ago at the Corcoran Art Gallery in conjunction with the meeting of the American Institute of Architects here. The exhibit portrays the develop- ment of Washington from the very be- ginning and is expected to be on dis- play for & week or more at Denver. Dr. Miller McClintogk of the Erskine Bureau for Traffic Research of Har- vard University, will speak on_ Monday before the convention on traffic prob- lems in generdl, but on the Washington parking problem in particular, Dr. McClintock recently completed a survey for the commission on parking condi- tions here and is now engaged upon a study, seeking & solution of them. Gilmore Clarke, consultant to. the Bureau of Public Roads, Department of Agriculture, on the construction of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, will speak on model motorways. Mr. Clarke had ® large share in developing the Bronx-Westchester program in the New York City area. HEAT WAVE CLAIMS TWO PROSTRATIONS Prospects Are That Mercury Will Reach 90s, Weather Bu- reau Reports. The decidedly warm spell, blamed for two heat prostrations here yesterday, is expected to prevail through tonight and tomorrow, with little change in tem- perature. The Weather Bureau, however, re- ported today's extreme at noon some five points above that of yesterday's, and there is prospect the mercury will reach the 90s later today. ‘The maximum temperature in Wash- ington yesterday was 88 degrees, and the low extreme this morning was 65. Gentle southwest and west winds are predicted tonight and tomorrow. The heat yesterday afternoon over- came Mrs. Florence P. Edwards, 30 years old, of 3710 Twenty-fourth street While she was shopping in a midtown store. She was accompanied to Emer- gency Hospital by her husband, revived and allowed to go home. Hugh Howard, colored, of 453 Wash- ington street fainted from the heat yesterday afternoon while on the side- walk in front of his home. He was treated at Gallinger Hospital and dis- charged. GAS ACTION DELAYED The Public Utilities Commission met today, but took no action on the new schedule of rates filed by the Washing- ton Gas Light Co. No action is expected to be taken for some time, After the meeting Chairman Mason M. Patrick explained that the schedule was filed conditionally upon passage by Congress of a bill to merge the com- pany with its subsidiary, the George- town Gas Light Co. Until Congress does this, the commission will pay no atten- tion' to this rate schedule. Seventeen sorrowful old gentlemen gathered in & bare hall at 1412 Penn- sylvania avenue yesterday afternoon. It wag the final meeting of Lincoln Post, G. A. R., in the quarters where the members have assembled every week for a quarter of & century. Portraits of stately, bearded generals were piled against te wall. Almost 70 years had gone by since those who at- tended the meeting followed those leaders over the smoke-swept fields of the Civil War. Next month they will meet in the Army and Navy Union Hall at Eleventh and L streets, far from the historic Avenue down which these men marched in the great victory parade when they came home from War. It was & very brief meeting. Routine reports were read. There were the routine inquiries for the sick. Nobody had the heart for much more at this farewell gathering. ere were too mény memories assoclated with the old quarters. When they first came there the members of the post were in the prime of life, their children still in MOVING FROM OLD QUARTERS | SADDENS MEMBERS OF G. A. R. Lincoln Post to Meet Hereafter at Eleventh and L, After Quarter of Century at 1412 Pennsylvania Avenue. VICE SQUAD RAID . ON'DOE” WARRANT - UPHELD BY HART |Woman Is Arrested After Finding of Whisky and Home Brew in Home. ATTORNEY HOLDS POLICE : HAD RIGHT TO SEARCH Mrs. Wysong Says Beer Was Made for Use of Her Family. Assistant District Attorney David A. Hart at Police Court today upheld the action of Sergt. Oscar J. Letterman’s vice squad last night in searching the home of Mrs. Sarah E. Wysong, 50, 2143 K street, on a “John Doe” warrant and arresting the woman for possession of liquor after reporting finding a half- pint of whisky and 38 bottles of home brew. In his information paper Letterman | declared that he secured & search war- | rant for the Wysong home after Joseph | Beach, an informer, swore that he| | bought five drinks of whisky “from an | unknown man 5 feet 7 inches in height, about 32 years old, on June 13.” ‘The sergeant said that his men dis- | covered 38 bottles of “home brew” and | & small quantity of liquor in a half- | gallon jar in the ice box. They de clared that at the time of her arrest Mrs. Wysong admitted owning the | liquor. Three cartons of “mason jars, | which upon opening smelled strongly of liquor,” were found on the second fioor, police’ said. “We found empty whisky bottles with the oder of liquor in three rooms,” Let- terman said. Hart declared seeing nothing unusual about the case, saying the police had a perfect right to search the house after obtaining the warrant. “As Mrs. Wysong was the only one about and admitted living in the house she was charged. It is up to the court to decide whether or not she owned the | liquor. In my estimation it was a vali arrest, and the case is going to court,” Hart announced. Mrs. Wysong, who said that she served as a veomanette in the Navy during the World War, said the beer was made for the use of her family, and added that the small amount of liquor had been in the refrigerator “since goodness knows when.” Her husband, William H. Wysong, has been in the employe of the Government for 35 years, The case was up this afternoon before Judge Jchn P. McMabon, with Attorney Harry Whelan as defense counsel. 'MAN SHOT FLEEING FROM GANG EXPIRES Attempt to Break in House for Refuge Fatal to George Grigsby, Colored. Shot Monday night, when he at- tempted to break into a Tenth street residence to escape from sev ored men pursuing him, George Grigs- | by, colored, 38, of 621 Rhcde Island | avenue, died at Freedman's Hospitel early today. Grigsby was wounded by Lawyer W. Norton, colored, 49, of 1613 Tenth street, who was arrested at his nome by second precinct police today for the coroner’s inquest, which has been set for 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the District Morgue. According to police, the colored gang thought Grigsby was a police informer who had “turned them in.” Norton fired through the panel when Grigsby did not give him a satisfactory explanation of why he was trying to break in. ICRASH FATAL TO BOY IS PROBED BY CORONER An inquest is being held by a cor- oner’s jury at the District Morgue this afternoon into the death of James Clay. colored, 11 years old, of 1521 Co- lumbia street, who was killed last night when an automobile struck a bicycle on which he and Orville Ridgley, col- ored, 12, of the same address, were rid- ing. The two youths were crossing the intersection of Rhode Island avenue and R street when the car, driven by Joseph W. Blackistone, colored, 42, of 42 R street, collided with them. 'The Clay boy was pronouticed dead trom a broken neck and fractured skull upon his arrival at Freedman's Hospital, while Ridgley was treated for shock. Blackistone was arrested by police of No. -2 precinct and held for rhe in- quest. 1 col- Appomatox were almost affairs of yes- terday. Time has moved very rapidly. From meeting to meeting the gathering has been smaller. There have been more graves to decorate every Memorial day. The old hall has become very home- like with its pleasant and sad associa- tions. The pathetic disorder of age has | grown upon it. And yesterday was the end. Lincoln Post still has 31 members. Some of them do not get. away from home very often any more. The attendance of more than half of them was unusually large. But the members are calmly accepting the fate which has sent them away from their old gathering place and ex- pect to meet for many years yet in the new_quarters. “When the Government tells you to get out that's all there s to it,” as one of them expressed it. What is to happen to the other posts —four white and one colored—is not known yet. Some of them are expected to join” with Lincoln Post in the new quarters. ‘There are still 130 members in the The Fire Rescue Squad and doctors from Emergency Hospital were called out this morning to rescue 7-year-old Bobby Pieri, 215 K street northeast, after he had become wedged in the crotch of a tree. Just to show that it was nothing more than an accident, Bobby climbed the tree again to pose for this photograph. —Star Staff Photo. VOTE ON VETERANS, MEAS@E BmBK[D Proves to News Camera ' Plans for Adjournment by Men He Is Still Cham- Middle of Next Week | pion Despite Misstep. Believed Upset. ‘Slips Meaniiitlle | To Bobby, but Tree | | Requires Crowbar ‘The one thing that Bobby wants un- | derstood, clearly and unmistakably, is that he's still by all odds the best tree climber in the “Viaduct Gang" He | stands ready to prove it at any time on any tree. This morning’s misfortune, k plained, is one of those carel Efforts to get agreements for final votes on the veterans' relief bill and the rivers and harbors measure failed in the Senate today, clouding the pros- pects for an early adjournment of this session. Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- vania, killed a proposal by Senator | McNary of Oregon, the assistant Re- publican leader, for & vote today on the veterans' bill. Reed said he favored Even Bobby Jones, he pointed out, looks up and dubs a chip shot now and then. It all came about because one mem- | ber of the gang found a bird’s nest in the street this morning. It was unani- mously agreed among Bobby and his friends that the street is no place for a that beset the path of all champions. | many prov to others that he wanted more time than would be presented by today's debate to discuss the legislation. This left the rivers and harbors measure before the Senate and Chair- man Johnson, of the commerce com- vote. 'The controversy over the amount of water to be allowed from the Great Lakes for the Tllinols waterways route remains to be settled before this bill can come to a_showdown. While overwhelming support is evi- dent for the veterans relief measure, Reed said he belleved two days of de- bate necessary. His stand was believed to have disrupted plans for an ad- journment by the middle of next week. The end of the week was regarded 8s the earliest possible date for ending the protracted meeting of Congress. HIGH SCHOOL GROUP AIDES AT BOYS’ CAMP Y. M. C. A. Retreat on Rhodes River on Friday. A group of junior counselors, most graduates, will assist the staff of senior counselors this year at Camp Letts Y. M. C. A, vacation retreat for boy: on the Rhodes River, which opens f the season tomorrow. Personnel of the auxiliary staff was announced today by James C. Ingram, boys’ director of the Y. M. C. A. and director of the 200-acre camp. All the appointees are experienced campers, and & number have served at Camp Letts in previous years, ‘The group will include: William Rhodes, Willlam Fry and Joe Curtice, all of whom were at Camp Letts last year in a supervisory capacity; John Haines, master swimmer and member of the “¥Y" Leaders’ Corps: Comley Rob- inson, member of the Woodward School swimming team and an officer of the Hi-Y organization; Watkins Claytor, captain of the Woodward School swim- ming team and president of the Wood- ward School Hi-Y Club; Robert Mason, Episcopal High School graduate and all-around athlete, of Charlottesville, Va., and Henry B. Lee, another Epis- copal High graduate and & veteran camper, All the boys at Camp Letts will be divided into groups of seven, and each group will be under the constant per- sonal supervision of a comp counselor, Directoggmgram stated. The:;flor counselors will number approsfhately a dozen. They will be college-trained men from_various lead- ing universities of the East, Midwest camp program, from athletics to wood- craft. leave for Camp Letts early tomorrow The first group is now being formed at the Y. M. C. A. boys' department, 1732 G street. Maccabees Hold Excursion. An excursion was held aboard the City of Washington last night by the Mount Vernon tent and Eureka Hive of Maccabees. Sidney Haas, com- mander of the tent, and Willlam B. Severe, assistant grand commander of the district, were In charge. They were assisted by Mrs. Ethel M. Allen, commander of the hive, and Mrs. Jose- phine Jenkins, lieutenant commander. ons, but was so opposed | mittee, moved to bring it to an early | Junior Counselors to Join Staff at| of them local high school students or | and South. The senior counselors will | have charge of specific phases of the | The intial contingent of boys will| bird's nest, even a used one. After some consultation it was decided to restore the nest to the tree whence it came, Caught in Crotch. The job of climbing naturally de- volved upon Bobby. With the nest in one hand, he scrambled up the tree and | placed it where any homeless bird might find it. Then he started down, and that is when the trouble began. In the lowest crotch his foot slipped and a knee became firmly lodged be- tween the branches. Bobby struggled with all the might of his seven years, | but he could not climb up or down. | Pinally the Pire Department rescue | squad and the Emergency Hospital am- | bulance was called. Two firemen start- | ed to saw off one of the limbs, but it | soon became apparent that one of | Bobby's legs was thereby placed in seri- | ous” jeopardy. | Glad to Accommodate. 1 Finally, with crowbars, the tree was | | pried apart and Bobby released. The newspaper photographers arrived a little late, but found Bobby most obliging. To accommodate them and to show that, after all his mishap was nothing more than a slip, he ‘climbed the tree again and posed for a photo- graph. But one thing more remained—the determination of Bobby's last name. | Bobby knew, but frankly admitted that he couldn't spell it. One of the gang | suggested that it started with “a P or something.” Finally his sister came to | the rescue, The name, she said, was | Pleri, and the family lived at 215 K street northeast. | Fraternity Convention Meets. Members of the Alpha Tota Kappa | Fraternity opened a three-day conven- tion at Wardman Park Hotel this morn- | | ing. Tomorrow will be devoted largely to sightseeing and the day's entertain- ment will be climaxed with a dance in the gold room of the hotel tomorrow | night. A business session has been scheduled for Saturday and the con- vention will close that night with a banquet at Wardman Park at 7 p.m. sl vl Ask; éeurch for Ring. District police were requested by Moe | D. Leipzig of New York City today {to aid in a search for a $2,000 dia-, mond ring, left in the wash room of | a Pennsylvania Railroad Co. train on which he came to Washington from New York this morning. PAGE_B—1 YACHT, DISABLED IN BAY, RESCUED BY WASHINGTONIAN Engines Broken Down, Smiles Near Destruction When Towed In. HUBERT BURROWS, WITH LAUNCH, SAVES GUESTS Exhausted by Storm, Rescuer Fails to Learn Identity of Yacht Owner. Tossed in the storm-swept waters of Chesapeake Bay for 12 hours yes- | terday when the engines of the pleas- ure yacht Smiles becames disabled, 12 passengers, four of them women, «nd & crew of 4 were rescued oy a smaller launch after an eight-hour oattle in | which both boats were all but capsized. The rescue was effected by Hubert Burrows, an insurance agent with offices in the Washignton Building. who was fishing in a sheltered cove when he observed the plight of the disabled | yacht. Steering his small motor launch into the rough waters of the bay, Burrows maneuvered close to the yacht, but was forced to steer clear when the pleasure tossed by the gale-lashed bay, crashed into his launch. Burrows sald he made more than 20 efforts to steer alongside the yacht, only to crash. After several more attempts he said he realized the danger of a col- lision and steered his craft upstream. He then released a tow line, allowing it to drift down with the tide until passengers on the boat were able to reach it. ‘The tow line was secured to the yacht and the smaller launch, its motors strained by the weight of the larger ship, made its way slowly into the shel- tered Annapolis Harbor. Burrows said the women on the boat ran about the wave-washed deck of the yacht hysterically screaming dur- ing the entire battle, adding that it was all the crew could do to keep them from falling overboard. “Several times during the rescue,” Burrows said, “the yacht was nearly grounded on the shore. Once it tipped dangerously, but members of the crew managed to right it again. My little boat was tossed about like a match stick and I was hampered by water which was washed over my engine con- tinuously. “When I got them gll safely ashore at Annapolis, the women were sutfering from shock. They were taken to a nearby hotel and bundled n heavy blankets. I was so excited I even failed ul]q get the name of the man who owned the e Burrows said he did learn, however, that the Smiles had recently left New | York and was making its way to An- napolis. The owner told him the craft was worth $100,000. | |OFFICIALS HAVE PART IN BUNKER HILL DAY Celebration of Revolutionary War Event Planned by Massachu- setts State Society. Led by high officials of the Féderal Government and more than a score of members of Congress, the hu- setts, State Society has arranged for a celebration of Bunker Hill day (a legal holiday in Massachusetts), at Olney Inn, at Olney. Md.,, Saturday. Sanford Bates, superintendent of Federal pricons, who is president of the Massachusetts society, will be in charge of this outing of the society, which in- cludes a bus and auto parade, outdoor games, cards, patriotic exercises, a chicken dinner and dancing. Representative Fletcher Hale of New Hampshire will review briefly the his- tory and lessons of Bunker Hill. The bus and automobile parade leaves Washington at 2:30 o'clock and the field day is to start as soon as Ol- ney Inn is reached. Prizes are to be awarded for winners in the various games. Dinner is to be served at 6 o'clock, followed by dancing. The committee on arrangements in- cludes George A. Hernan. chairman; ‘William T. Simpson, Dr. Horace P. Per~ lie, Mrs. John A. Chamberlain, Louis W. Hart, Charles F. Sharkey, John H. Springer, Mrs. Patrick J. Murray, Miss Eleanor Taleton, Raymond E. Manning, Miss Loretta H. Ryan, Miss Jessie L. Williams, Miss Barbara W. Butler, Miss Ruth M. Noyes, Miss Harriet M. Che- ney, Robert H. Kempton, John Andrews and Miss Alida A. Baker. PRINCES BACK FLYERS Wales and Brother Have Entries in Important Air Race. | LONDON, June 19 (#).—The Prince of Wales and his brother, Prince George, have entered rival airplanes for the King's Cup races around Britain on July 5, but neither prince will fly. ‘The Prince of Wales' airplane, a Hawker Tomtit biplane, which has drawn No. 33, will be piloted by Squadron Leader Don, the prince's air chauffeur. Prince George’s alrplane, a fast cabin monoplane, called the D. H. Hawk Moth, will be piloted by Flight Lieut. . H. Fielden, another of the Prince of Wales' pilots. It is No, 74, BALLS FROM Badge System for Caddies sirable Youths From Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, U. 8. A. superintendent of the United States Park Police, today warned pur- loiners of golf balls from the city's| various links that plain clothes men of his force are on watch for the culprits. Now that school vacations are here vigilance is to be redoubled, and at the practice course for drivers at the east and west ends of the polo field in West Potomac Park, the captain there has just been established a badge | system for the caddies. “This has resulted in the elimination by the Park Police of many boys of undesirable character who formerly loitered about the course on the pre- explains, good, DETECTIVES TO GUARD GOLFERS’ BOY PURLOINERS Introduced to Stop Unde- Loafing on Course. sult of their golf courses,” The captain avers many promising drives in Potomac Park disappear by way of some small boy's pocket, to be sold later for the price of ice cream. One group of boys taken recently in Rock Creek Park had in their collec- tion 38 balls, while another boy was apprehended while attempting to sell a , serviceable golf club to a player for 50 cents. The petty thief of the golf courses in the parks causes the Park Police as much annoyance these days as any other phase of Park Police work, Capt. Montgomery said today. Most of ‘gl loitering about the publie tense of working for the players, .| thieves, he explained, are young boys. | Montgomery said. “A number of truants | Officers are put into golf togs or plain \were taken to Juvenile Court as a re- | civiliap clothes, ¢ comers. | mer C. Helm, president of the club, pre- |of $23. He furnished police of No. 4 shird place was awarded to Robert| school and gray gust beginning to show | Department of the Potomac and they sided at last night's affair, i precinct with & description of the man. | Dancing. guessing contests and other about their temples. Gettysburg and!are going to “carry on.” games were included on the program.