Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1930, Page 17

-+ BEING PRESENTED . 0l y. > @he Foening Star D.C. SCHOOL NEEDS TO DISTRICT HEADS Ballou and Officials Held in Doubt by Status of 1931 Bill. BOARD OF EDUCATION ASSUMES AGREEMENT Superintendent Cannot Believe House-Senate Deadlock Will Kill Measure Entirely. Headed by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, su-| perintendent, Washington's school offi- clals today are sitting with the District Commissioners at the District Building, discussing the $15,020,801 worth of items sent forward by the Board of Education as the school estimates for 1932. Authorized .by the school board to “advise” rather than ‘“recommend,” Dr. Ballou and his staff are attempting in ‘effect to counsel the city heads on needs which are not even known and which cannot be even guessed at as long as the current deadlock exists on the 1931 bill. In framing its estimates for 1932, the Board of Education op- erated on the assumption that the 1931 bill as approved by the Senate would pass both houses of Congress. i Hence the school needs as estimated for 1932 were based entirely on the assumption that the progress contained | in building and ground and in ad- ministration items of the 1931 bill would actually go into effect. Feels Some Bill Must Pass. Just what the Commissioners could do in the present atmosphere of doubt Dr. Ballou would not hazard in discus- sing the situation with The Star. He was frank to say, however, that he didn’t know just what he and his staff ‘would do in event the 1931 bill failed in the Senate-House deadlock. The loss of the 1931 bill, -he cor‘ended, would be a tragic blow at the school system, which, even at best, is strug- gling for advancement and the loss of & whole year would entail damage Wwhich he would not even estimate. It is Dr. Ballou's feeling that some sort of bill will, by virtue of absolute neces- aity and reason, “have” to be passed. The 1932 figures as forwarded to the Commissioners by the Board of Educa- tion contained several items which of necessity bear close relation to the 1931 funds. There is an item, for instance, of $3,215,000 for buildings, which was prepared on the natural assumption that some sites, carried in the 1931 bill, would be purchased. and ready for structures during that year. The building total also includes funds for | the eonumnuorg( construction sched- | uled to have n begun with 1931 moneys. Similarly, the 1932 estimates contain an item of $917,500 for the purchase of land, which sum is slightly more than twice as much as contained in the 1931 bill. The great increase in the amount. of money requested for land in 1932 is attributed to the fact that there already is an insufficient number of school building sites. Just | what would happen to this item in event the 1931 figure is not carried 1s unknown. Text Book Item May Be Changed. The 1932 figures contain also an item ©f $225,000 for text books and supplies from grades 1 through 12, embracing the elementary, junior and senior hig! schools. This item is $140,000 less than the total text book and supply items carried in two sections in the bill now in Congress. The reduction was made in the estimates on the assumption that the initial funds for the provision of | free text books and supplies for high school pupils would be carried in the 1931 ill, which lists an item of $240,- 000 for that pu: of alone and an- other $125,000 for the elementary school books. With the failure of the 1931 bill only the books and supplies for the | ste first eight grades would become avail- able, and parents of high school pubils ‘would be required to buy these materials for another year. Such a possibility would alter the 1932 text book and sup- ply items. Another doubtful item before the i Commissioners and the school officials | today is the unusually large furniture | and equipment item of $403,159. This item, which is $338,159 more than is requested for the same purpose in the pending bill, was brought-about by the inclusion in the pending bill of an un- usually large number of new school houses, which would be ready for fur- niture by the time the 1932 moneys are being spent. The failure of the pending The Star, would likely result ir a num- ber of completed school houses being useless by lack of furniture and equip- ment. With Dr. Ballou in his difficult role of counselor in the face of so much doubt are Stephen E. Kramer, first as- sistant superintendent in charge of ‘white high schools; Jere J. Crane, first assistant superintendent in charge of school business affairs; Garnet C. ‘Wilkinson. first assistant superintend- ent in charge of colored shools, and Robert L. Haycock, assistant superin- tendent in charge of white elementary schools. .. CRANE COMPANY GIVEN MONEY PAPER CONTRACT Controller General McCarl Rules on Supply Source After Efficiency Bureau Raises Question. Oontract for “supplying the entire amount of paper for making paper money next year will go to the Crane Co. of Dalton, Mass., following de- cisions by Controller General McCarl. The Crane Co. has been making this paper for years, but the Bureau of Efficiency raiced a question this year conccrning the bid of the Crane Co. and it was sent to the controller gen- erai for decision. Chairman Wood of the House appro- Bfllllum committee has introduced a ill in the House to authorize the Government to build its own paper mill. ‘The entire lot, about 1,250 tons, is to cost $1,056,000. MRS: M. A. HOOVER DIES Mrs. Margaret A. Hoover, 88 years old, widow of Lieut. Henry Hoover, Union Army veteran, died at her home, 605 Rock Creek Church road, Saturday after a long iliness. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence to- morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. Inter- bill, as suggested a week ago in | Mutt and Jeff’s antics in The Star comic supplement yesterday furnished the best clue to the police today in the investigation of the great base ball shooting yesterday. Bud Fisher, artist, caught Jeff in the act of train- ing a “BB” gun on an ou.Selder. Upper left: Sam West, outfielder with who insists he heard the whine of bullets. Lower left: A hole in the metal fance, which Clark Griffith says was punched by small boys to see the game. Some of the police believe it might have been caused by a bullet. GROUND IS BROKEN FOR M. E. CHURCH Curtis Turns First Shovel of Earth for Edifice on Ne- braska Avenue. Ground was broken yesterday after- ‘noon.for the new Metropolitan Memorial M. E. Church, to be erected at Nebraska ayenue and.Newark street. ‘The first. shovel of earth was turned by Vice President Charles Curtis. Dr. James Shera Montgomery, pastor of the church, now at John Marshall place and C street, presided and made the introductory address. Addresses were delivered by Resident Bishop William F. McDowell and Bishop Frank M. Bristol. The invocation was delivered by Dr. Benjamin Meeks, new district superintendent of Washington district. A quartet gave several selec- tions and Dr. Charles S. Cole con- ducted the responsive reading. The benediction was given by Rev. Philip C. Edwards. The Metropolitan Memorial Church is the National Church of Methodism h i by resolution of the General Conference in 1852. Plans for the church rapidly are be- ing completed. The sanctuary will have a capacity of 650. The altar, choir, ceiling, archways, aisles, etc., will be altogether ecclesiastical and church- 1y becoming the dignity and character of national Methodism. A new organ will be installed. The sanctuary will be approached by an elevation of three steps; the ground floor will be equipped with assembly room and class rooms, Committees in charge are: Building committee—Dr. J. S. Mont- gomery, chairman; W. S. Dewhirst, H. A. Harding, R. F. Camalier, Dr. A. C. Dr. L. C. Clark, Dr. D. O. 's committee—Mr.. W. 8. Dew- hirst, chairman; Mrs. Bristol, Mrs. Bos- ley, Mrs. A. B. Duvall, Miss Holmes, Mrs. William Lemon, Mrs. Montgomery, :‘IH. Slye, Mrs. Tucker and Mrs. Wash- urn. Ground-breaking committee—A. E. Chaffee, John Q. Syle and Arthur Seitz. REBER, JR., T.RANSFERRED TO MONROVIA, LIBERIA Joseph Ballantaine, Consul Gen- eral, to Leave State Department for Canton, China, Post. Recent changes in the United States Foreign Service include the transfersof Samuel Reber, jr, from the State De- partment to Monrovia, Liberia, as sec- retary of legation; the transfer of Jo- seph W. Ballantine of Massachusetts, consul general, from the State Depart- ment to Canton, China; C. V. H. Engert of California, first secretary, from Caracas, Venezuela, to Peiping, China; Taylor W. Gannett, vice consul, from the State Department to Havana, and Winthrop S. Greene of Massachusetts, third secretary, from Santiago, Chile, to Bern, Switzerland. Rudolph J. Blis of New York, who has been United States vice consul at Havre, France, since October, 1920, has re- signed from the Foreign Service. He served in the Army in France during the World War and at its close was ap- pointed to the consular service. the | WASHINGTON, D. C, HERE’S A CLUE TO THE BASE BALL ‘SHOTS’ T < : HANDY WHEN HE'S ABaWT TO TCH A FLY BALL-AND T'M sl A ceack swet! |Clue to Base Ball “Sniper” Is Found In Star’s Comics “Bullets” Called Tor- pedoes, but Shires, From Chicago, Didn’t Hear. Police today muffed a hot clue to the mysterious “sniper” who is accused of ambushing a trio of Walter Johnson's outfielders during the seventh inning of | yesterday’s Washington-Chicago ball |game in American League Park. While the authorities were arguing among themselves as to whether it was really a barrage of bullets that gave the jumps yesterday to Sammy West, Heine Manush and Dave Harris, unofficial in- vestigators dug up evidence which points the finger of suspicion at a very prom- inent gentleman. The suspect in question is dis- tinguished by his short statue, bewisk- ered face and peculiar habits, and his daily activities have gained him national newspaper notoriety. Hist! His Name Is Jeff. He is Jeff, of the well known comedy team of Mutt and Jeff. Grave rumors tonnecting Jeff'’s name with the unsolved “shooting” at Griffith Stadium arose from the fact that the alleged -attack on the Nat outfielders bore a striking resemblance to the air rifle broadside which Jeff directed at his elongated partner in yesterday's comic supplement of The Star. In the paper Jeff climbed on a roof outside a big league ball park and fired a “BB” gun at Mutt as the latter was about to make a sensational catch in the field. The pellet caught Mutt on the neck and the fly ball caught him on the head. much to Jeff’s seeming, or un- seeming, delight. & In the seventh inning of the' local game West, Manush, Harris and & num- ber of other players and spectators were startled to hear what sounded like four shots fired from a point near the score- board in right field. The fielders claim they heard the whine of bullets about them, and Sammy West swears he saw one missile kick up the dust 10 feet from where Harris was standing in right fleld. Stuck Out Inning. “Let's get out of here,” Dave ex- claimed to his colleagues. “This is no place for me'” West and Manush at first were in- clined to agree, but the firing ceased as suddénly as it had begun, and they braved the rest of the inning, albeit with one eye cocked toward the right- field fence. Headquarters Detective Tom Sweeney, who has heard the whistle of bullets about his head on a number of thrilling occasions, is convinced that bullets were flying yesterday out at the ball park. He heard them from his seat in the | grandstand and Tom knows the scream |of a bullet when he hears one, all his admirers assert. Nick Altrock and Bump Hadley also confirmed the bullet theory from the “bull pen.” ‘Torpedoes Suspected. ‘West, Manush and Harris headed for the dugout as soon as the inning was over and reported their experience to | Manager Johnson, who promptly sent | Joe Judge to call out the police reserves | or tear-bomb squad or whatever the de- | velopments demanded. Art Shires, on first base, late of Chi- | cago, did not hear the shots, but one gets used to that in Chicago. Capt. Robert Emmett Doyle per- | sonally assumed command .of the sit- | uation. He hurried to the rear of the scoreboard and found several colored boys who sald they had not seen any- body shooting rifles, but who confessed they had tossed several Fourth of July torpedoes over the right-field fence. “It's all a myth” Capt. Doyle de- clared today. “I don't think there was | anything to it. It is inconceivable that any one with good reasoning would shoot at our good ball players.” But the doughty captain apparently does not know Jefl. AERONAUT 'i'O LECTURE Garber to Trace Aviation History at Meeting of Lodge. An fllustrated lecture on the history of aviation will be given by Paul E. Garber, curator of aeronautics, Smith- sonian ' Institution, before members of Pioneer Council, Independent Order, | Sons of Jonadab, at 8 o'clock tonight in Jonadab Hall, 623 Louisiana avenue. The lecture will cover the high lights in aviation history from the days of | mythology to the” present time. Mr. Garber is an international authority on | aeronautical history. The lecture will | be followed by a musical program and entertainment. NAMELESS BIRTH John Henry Crutcher, a colored boy 3 feet and 8 inches in height, proved quite an enigma when brought into Police Court today for taking money from two white newsboys. “Why are you bringing this kid in Assistant District Attorney, of Detec- tive R. McNeill, when the latter escorted Crutcher before him. “He's 18" ment will be in Arlington Cemetery. Mrs. Hoover had been a resident of this city for more than 60 years. She is survived by three daughters, Miss ‘Margaret Hoover. Mrs. Martha Coxen e B s Mg “I'm 16,” interrupted the accused. “Mister ‘dat boy is 15" declared the mother stepping up from the rear. “What does the birtigcertificate say?” asked Fitzpatrick. The = Acmta® sajd the palireman CERTIFICATE PROVES COLORED BOY IS ENIGMA John Henry, Recently Renamed, May Be 15, 16 or ls:Mlmentl. Cures and Theories as Years, Court Learns. “Indicates 18, but there is no name on it.” | Then McNeill explained how there TWO DRIVERS HELD 0 GRAND JURY IN BELLMORE DEATH Coroner’s Jury Told Medical Corps Corporal Was Steer- ing at “Great Rate.” TESTIMONY REFUSED BY TWO DEFENDANTS Gresham Street Resident Victim of Collision at Rhode Island Ave- nue and Twelfth Street. Drivers of two automobiles which figured in a collision causing the death of Edward Bellmore, 60 years old, of 633 Gresham street, Friday at Twelfth street and Rhode Island avenue, were held for action of the grand jury by a coroner’s jury today. The operators of the cars were Corp. Luther C. Proffit, 26 years old, attached to the Medical Corps at Fort Humphries, Va, and Hiawatha Sommers, colored, 24 years old, of 2301 N street. Bellmore, it was testified, was riding in his machine, with Proffit at the wheel, when Sommers’ car met the au- tomobile at the intersection. Garrett H. Lamont, colored, of 1118 Rhode Island avenue, president and general manager of the 35 Taxi Cab Co., testified the machine in which Bellmore and Proffit were riding was traveling at a ‘“great rate” of speed when the collision occurred. Lamont sald he was not in position to testify regarding the speed of Sommers’ auto- mobile. Neither Proffit nor Sommers would make any statement before the jury re- garding the mishap. Bellmore, post tailor at Fort Hum- phreys, and Proffit were driving to the nearby Virginia fort shortly before 6 o'clock Friday morning when the col- lision took place. FEDERAL EDUCATION CONFERENCE FAILS Advisory Committee Adjourns Without Making Final Report to Secretary Wilbur. { By the Associated Press. Failing to agree on recommendations for a future policy of the Federal Gov- ernment toward education, the National Advisory Committee on Education has adjourred its executive session here without making a final report to Secre- tary Wilbur. Dr. Charles R. Mann, chairman, said today the steering committee would meet September 14, to consider the con- flicting proposals, after which the gen- eral committee would again be called into session. The proposed recommendations were not made public. Some drastic changes in the relationship of the Federal Gov- the committee for less governmental control over various educational agen- jcles and for an increase in State and local administration. The committee is composed of 51 outstanding educators from all parts of the country. 20 PHEASANT EGGS FAIL Park Officials to Try Again for Nucleus to Stock District With Birds. The Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks is no more disposed than the usual farm wife to count its chick- ens before they're hatched, yet that office feels it was justified in expecting at least one chick from the 20 pheasant eggs put to set some weeks back. Through the setting, park officials hoped to hatch enough of the birds for a nucleous in the stocking of the parks of the District. The eggs were of the Golden Pheasant variety, but failed to the 1ast egg to prove fertile. The Lady Ambherst species of pheas- ant is expected to start laying soon, however, and it is hoped to have more success with the settings next time. Birds of both species are kept in a large enclosure near the Reflection Pool of the Lincoln Memorial, HOOVER BIDS WELCOME TO 4-H CLUB MEMBERS Delegates at White House Today Are Photographed in Group With the President. Members of the 4-H Club who have been in session in Washington at their camp in Potomac Park for the past week were received at the White House today by President Hoover and photo- graphed with him afterward. The members of this club, who are from virtually every State in the Union, were presented to the President by Tepresentatives of 4he Department of Agriculture. The presentation and hand- shakings were in the President’s private offic, but the photograph was taken in the rear grounds of the White House. At this morning's session, the princi- pal address was made by Justice Flor- ence E. Allen of the Supreme Court of Chic. During the sessions various im- portant matters for advancement of the 4-H Clubs throughout the United States have been discussed. The ses- sions will be concluded tomorrow. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CONVENES IN DETROIT Received to Origins of Diseases Are Discussed. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, June 23.—The ailments of mankind, their cure and the theories of their origin were subjected to the | are four boys in the family and the | critical scrutiny of 12,000 doctors to- | birth records of three are complete. fourth contamned all but the name. day as the Eighty-first Annual Conven- tion of the American Medical Associa- | Police assumed this one was John Henry. | tion convened here. The affair was further mixed when just recently been named John Henry and the birth certificate calls him an- other name with age given as 15. Fitzpatrick saw that Defendant Crutcher demanded jury trial to give him time to get the “straight dope on the situation.” He said maybe the case will be turned over to e Juvenile CQourt, but for the time being it will ety o the Dales Ceqer mabediia Attending the consultation are na- | here?” inquired John R. Fitzpatrick.|the mother told how John Henry had | tionally known figures in the medical rofessicn, prominent scient'sts and a Pmn of general practitioners. A large collection of scientific and technical exhibits, scores of papers on special phases of medical practice and nu- merous lnflm-": &emcguans 'hl\;e be:ln arranged to a loctors in investi- t] the 1line of the world. SRS lnitnl” sesslon ‘The Ini was opened at 8 pm. tadew, ! MONDAY, erriment to education are being advo- | cated, with the general sentiment of TO PRODUCE PHEASANT | e JUNE 23, 1930. % PAGE B-1 RICHARDS DENIES D. . ASSESSMENTS WILL BE LOWERED Only 300 Out of 70,000 Own- ers Appeal Following Sales Below Tax Mark. PERIOD, LIKE THAT OF INFLATION, MINOR Hearings to Be Given by Tax As- sessor Probably at Beginning of Next Week. Assessments on real estate will not be decreased as a result of the sale of soms parcels at less than the assess- ment figure, William P. Richards, tax assessor, said today. Mr. Richards was commenting on rumors that the depression would force down the levels of assessments, since the law requires the property in the Dis- trict to be assessed at 100 per cent of its value. He said that the assessment never quite equals the value and that in pe- riods of inflated prices the assessment lags below sales prices, and in periods of deflation, the assessment rises above. The matter is not of great impor- tance at this time, he said, as only 300 appeals have been filed by the 70,000 real estate taxpayers this year. This compares with 4,500 in 1914, the maxi- mum year, and about 300 last year. These appeals will be heard probably beginning next week. Counterbalancing appeals for reduc- tion in assessment, Mr. Richards point- ed out that there were also appeals for ircreases. The latter type come from those whose property is about to be bought or condemned by the Govern- ment, in order to bolster their case for a higher condemnation award. The class of cases to which the as- sessment appeals board lends the most sympathetic ear, Mr. Richards said, is where there is an_inequality of assess- ment, so that one block is assessed con- siderably higher than the surrounding blocks, for no convincing reason. He added that a general reduction of as- sessments would help the taxpayer not at all. The result of this would be that in order to yield the same amount of taxes, the tax rate would have to be raised, and the property owner would pay the same amount in the long run. psar KICK FATAL TO MAN, INQUEST ORDERED Three Others Said to Have En- gaged in Brawl Held for Coroner’s Jury Decision. A coroner’s inquest will be held to- morrow into the death early last might of Thomas Carter, colored, 27 years old, of the 1400 block of C street south- east, who was beaten and kicked to death during a 1 in an alley be- tween Fourteenth and Fifteenth, South Cax;ollm. avenue and C streets south- east. Shortly after Carter's death, which occured while he was being taken to Casualty Hospital, police of No. 5 pre- cinct, arrested Eugene Groves Cynders, colored, 28 years old, of the 1000 block of Third street southeast, said to have admitted Beating Carter with a brick and kicking him. Cynders is quoted by police as saying he, the dead man and several others were drinking at the e. Two of Cynder's half brothers, Joseph and Walter Bennett, young col- ored men, were arrested in connec- tion with the killing after Lieut. Ed- ward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, found a knife in an alley in the | rear of their home. All three men are being held for the inquest. Cynders said he did not know Carter lns iLth‘“ the latter attacked him with & knife. STRAIT-JACKET SHED ON WING OF PLANE | “Daredevil” Leifus Performs Haz- ardous Stunt in Face of High Wind and Engine Fumes. Bound in a strait-jacket, lying across the wing of an airplane circling over the Mount Vernon Airways Pield, near Alexandria, Va., yesterday afternoon, J. B. Leifus, circus “daredevil,” freed him. self within two minutes, though ham- pered by a 100-mile-an-hour wind and half-stifled by the exhaust fumes from the engine. It was the first time Leifus ever had attempted the release in the air and is thought to be the first time it has been done in this part of the country. He was put into the strait-jacket before the plane took off and was stowed in the forward cockpit of a plane piloted by E. W bertson. A. H. Mettee, in the cockpit with Leifus, lifted him out onto the wing and tied his feet to a strut to prevent him falling to the ground in case he rolled off the wing while struggling out of the jacket. After Leifus had freed himself he crawled back into the cockpit and the plane landed. A parachute jump then was made from an altitude of 2,200 feet by Pvt. Fred Lee, U. 8. M. C, from Quantico, Va. Civil War.Bomb Blows Off Hand Of Boy at Play Special Dispatch to The Star. CUDIKBERLAb.r:'tD. Mld;d J;‘!ne ’33‘— Russell Lyl T, A , in Timmins Hospital here where he submitted to the amputation of his left hand, which was shattered by the explosion of a Civil War bomb. His_condition is good. The Lybarger family resides in the country, near Bedford, and for the past 13 years used an old Army shell for a door stop. The young man was attempting to chisel dirt out of an opening of the sup- posed empty shell when it exploded. It proved to have been a loaded bomb, made of iron an inch thick, 8 inches long and 4 inches in diameter. The report was heard nearly a mile away and the smoke arose above the roof of the house. The explosion tore a large hole in the ground. It is supposed the shell was brought from Gettysburg in the sixties by a member of the family of the late Joseph W. Tomlinson, who owned the and who Fve Thanlnsiea] Saminsrry, | YEGGS GET §1.200 BY NITRO BLAST Safe Blown at Service Sta-| tion on East End of Penn- sylvania Avenue Bridge. Yeggmen used a heavy charge of nitroglycerine early today to blow the | front out of an office safe at the Minute | Service Station, on the east end of | Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge southeast, escaping with $1,000 cash and $200 in | checks, the station’s week end receipts. | The work appeared to have been that | of experienced men, probably two of them, since they managed to blast open the safe without breaking the windows. Police believe one man worked in- side while a companion or companions kept a lookout on the street. No tools or equipment were left on the premises. The intruders probably muffled the explosion with a blanket which they took with them. The electric wire which exploded the charge were still in place. The robbery was discovered this morning by the manager, George M. Carrico of 1007 E street northwest | when he opened for business. The yeggmen gained entry by picking the lock on a side door and jimmying a second set of bolts. Several passersby and the officer on the beat reported they saw a large blue sedan cruising in the vicinity about midnight. The car passed and re- turned to the vicinity several times, Police of No. 11 precinct and head- quarters detectives are investigating. A search was made for fingerprints, JAIL NO PLACE FOR KING, JUDGE SCHULDT RULES Orders Dan O'Brien, “Hobo Sov- ereign,” Released After Guilty Plea on Drunk Charge. “The place for a king is not in jail,” said Judge Gus A. Schuldt after Dan O'Brien, 68-year-old self-styled king of hoboes, promised never to get drunk again and was released in Police Court today O'Brien was arrested in the 1200 block of New York avenue last night when Policeman L. W. Leeper of the first precinct found him stretched upon the sidewalk. “The “king” told Judge Schuldt, aft- er entering a plea of guilty, that he just felt a bit drowsy and sat down on a doorstep to take a nap. “I'm in the city doing research work on the unemployment situation, your honor,” O'Brien told the magistrate. ;‘l.'i/e also examined the eonditions of alls.” “If you don't stop drinking you will get plenty of time to examine the con- ditions of jails,” warned the judge. WOMAN, 47, ENDS LIFE BECAUSE OF ILL HEALTH Miss Lillie E. Hercus Dies in Home of Self-Inflicted Bullet Wound, Coroner Reports. Miss Lillie Evelyn Hercus, & stenog- rapher, 47 years old, despondent because of continued ill health, last night went to a packing room on the top floor of her home at 901 Virginia avenue south- west and ended her life with a bullet. Earlier in the evening Miss Hercus said she was going to her bed room to take a nap, and when she fafled to return, her niece, Miss Catherine Just, went in search of her, finding her dead on the floor, a pistol beside the body. Miss Hercus had spread a piece of matting on the floor of the pacing room, possibly to prevent the blood from stain- ing the floor. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt conducted an investigation and gave a certificate of suicide. MASONS INAUGURATE DIVINE SERVICE SEASON Open-Air Sermon Series Arranged. Rev. John C. Palmer Preaches Under Treaty Oak. ‘The ninth season of divine services, a | series of open-air sermons arranged by the Masons of the District of Columbia, Wwas inaugurated yesterday afternoon on Temple Heights. In accordance with custom, the grand chaplain of the Grand Lodge, Rev. Dr. John C. Palmer, preaching under the Treaty Oak, delivered the inaugural sermon. Dr. Palmer addressed a gathering of ;’evenl hundred Masons and their fami- les. —_— REID LEAVES HOSPITAL Pronounced Cured After ‘Weeks of Hiccoughing. Charles W. Reld, 32-year-old black- smith, of 1348 Girard street, was re- leassd from Casualty Hospital yesterday as cured after two weeks of continual hiccoughing. The paroxysms did not occur at any time Friday or Saturday and hospital authorities ordered his release as soon Two The scene which greeted employes of the Minute Service Station at the east end of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge when they opened the office this morning. —Star Staff Photo. INQUEST ORDERED IN DAVIS' DEATH Dies of Injuries Sustained May 31—Series of Auto Crashes Hurts 11. J. Ramsay Nevitt at the District Morgue tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock into the death of Edward Carl Davis, 20 years old, of 1111 Potomac avenue southeast, who died at Casualty Hos- pital yesterday afternoon of injuries suffered May 31 in an automobile col- lision at Fifteenth and V streets south- east. Davis sustained a fractured skull, lac- erations of the scalp and internal in- juries when the car he was driving crashed into another operated by Charles A. Little, 16 years old, of 1808 ‘W street southeast. A fellow passenger, Alexander Dickerson, 20, of 1123 Poto- mac avenue southeast, escaped with minor hurts, while Little, who was rid- ing alone, was uninjured. While Davis’ death was the only fatality reported to police yesterday, 11 other persons suffered minor hurts in a series of traffic accidents in the District and nearby Maryland. Two Children Injured. Helen Fowler, 7 years old, and her 8-year-old brother, Francis, of District Heights, Md. we.e injured when an automobile driven by Pvt. James Street- man of the Army War College struck them as they were taking an afternoon stroll near their home. Streetman took the children to Cas- ualty Hospital, where the girl was re- ported today to be suffering from a possible skull fracture and a broken leg, while the boy was treated for shock and slight bruises. The girl's condition was said to be not serious. Maryland State Policeman W. T. Booker arrested Streetman afier the latter reported the accident to the fifth precinct station here and took the sol- dier before Justice of the Peace Thomas D. Griffith, at Forrestville, where he was charged with reckless driving and re- leased on $100 bond. Earl E. Godfrey, 10 years old, of Wheaton, Md., sustained a fractured right leg and Sam Corso, 12, of 1509 Thirty-third street, was bruised about the legs yesterday when an automobile driven by a colored woman struck a telegraph pole near Wheaton, caromed | off and hit them. They were treated by a private physician. The driver, Elsie Wheatley, colored, 27 years old, of Olney, Md., who was op- erating a machine owned by Raymond C. Frazier, colored, 41, of Olney, was ar- rested and charged with driving with- out a license and reckless driving. Frazier, who was riding in the car, was ;:hlr(ed with permitting reckless driv- ng. Lose Control of Car. Two motorists, Clarence Leland, 26, of 1129 Potomac aevnue southeast, and Robert Thornton, 24, of Anacostia, D. ©C., were hurt when they lost control of their cars. They were taken to Casual- ty Hospital for ‘treatment. Leland suffered severe lacerations of the leg when his automobile struck a tree at Eleventh and G streets south- east and 22 stitches were required to close the wound. Thornton’s car crashed into a fire hydrant at Nichols avenue and M street southeast and he sustained head injuries. A taxicab driven by Ashton Nixon, 45, of 1230 Euclid street, struck Fred- erick Sander, 6, of 127 Rock Creek Church road, inflicting minor hurts, for which the boy was treated at home by a private physician. The mishap oc- curred near the boy’s residence. Cut by Flying Glass. Three colored residents of Bethesda were cut by flying glass and were treat- ed at Georgetown University Hospital early yesterday morning after the ma- chine in which they were riding crashed into a parked car on Bradley lane, Maryland. They gave their names as Alice Brown, 19; Selma Wade, 21, and Mar- shall Brown, 20. Brown, the driver, was arrested by seventh precinct police and turned over to Maryland author- ities, who charged him with driving with dead tags. A collision at Third street and Vir- ginia avenue southeast resulted in in- Jjuries to John E. Warren, colored, 9 years old, of Silesia, Md. The boy was treated at Casualty Hospital for lacera- tions of the face when a car driven by his father, John R. Warren, 33, collided with another driven by en: 20, of Baliston, Va, T Young, WREATH PUT ON TOMB OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER Honor Guard Escorts Members of District Department to Scene of Exercises. While nearly a thousand mem the Disabled American Veunmb:;'tgi World War paid silent tribute at the convention of the national organization at New Orleans the District department placed a wreath on the Unknown Sol- diers’ Tomb at 10 o'clock this morning. The District department members were escorted to the tomb by an honor guard, furnished by the 16th Brigade. The wreath was placed by Dr. W. L. Kline. Colors were furnished by Mrs, Adelaide Grant, past president of the Federal Post Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wi as he ed strength from his un- usual iliness, uffe his first at- and v:{a memne Tacnta) fap 10 dave, ‘The executi the affair was composed of J. A. f J. A. R. N. Werner, Michaé! Hanley, Charles Hatmin and Amas Devfe, An inquest will be held by Coroner . - sel committee in charge of Ashi, LUHRING AND COX NAMED BY HOOVER 10D.C. JUDGESHIPS Two Nominations to Supreme Court Are Sent to Senate Today. ACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH ACT OF CONGRESS Luhring, Assistant Attorney Gen- eral, Was Former Representative. Cox in Local Practice. President Hoover today sent to the Senate the nominations of Oscar R. Luhring and Joseph W. Cox to be asso= ciate justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Mr. Luhring is at present Assistant Attorney General, a position he has held for five years, and was for two terms a member of the House of Representa~ tives from the first district of Indiana, The appointments were forecast in The Star Saturday. Mr. Cox is a native of Virginia, but has been practicing law in this city, where he graduated from the old Co= lumbia Iaw School, for 30 years. Mr, Cox was one of three members of the local bar recommended for appointment to this bench by the District Bar As- sociation. The naming of these two justices to the local Supreme Court is in compli~ ance with the act of Congress, signed by the President last week, creating two additional judgeships in this court. The act of Congress also created two additional members for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, It is thought doubtful if the President will be in a position to appoint the latter for the next two weeks. Alfred A. Wheat and Jesse C. Adkins recently appointed by President Hoover to be, respectively, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the District, to suce ceed Walter I. McCoy, retired, and as- sociate justice of the same court, called at the White House today to pay their respects to President Hoover. CANOEISTS RECOVER BODY OF VOELKER Painter Drowned While Swimming in River Near Chain Bridge Friday Afternoon. Recovery of the body of William W. Voelker, 49 years old, a painter of 363 K street southwest, who was drowned while bathing in the river near Chain B"}’:fi ;;wm?rldll‘y lue;nolon. Was Te- por e police early last evening, about 48 hours after the accident. Charles M. Barker, jr., 17 years old, of 518 Fifteenth street southeast an Robert Wallach, 19 years old, of 1446 E street southeast sighted the body while canoeing. They dragged it ashore and notified the police. Policeman Charles M. Birkigt, who had participated in the search for the body all dn{ Saturday and most of yes~ Vherd it was dentind by g Kiawell where it was ident y F. L. Kidwe of the Painters'’ Union. Voelker and two companions went to the river Friday afternoon for a swim, the former disappearing beneath the surface of the water as soon as he Jumped in. Friends made unsuccessful efforts to rescue him. Bruises on the head of the dead man are believed to have been caused by rocks in the river. Police say the place where the drown- ing occurred is perhaps the most dan- gerous and treacherous part of the Po- tomac. Coroner Nevitt viewed the body at the morgue and gave a certificate of accidental death. NEWSPAPER PERILS HELD STRONG AS EVER Proposal to Tax Ad Receipts in Louisiana Is Condemned by Chase Osborne. By the Associated Press. SAULT STE 1E, Mich,, June 23, -—Dangers to the newspaper profession 'appear as imminent now as ever be- fore,” Chase 8. Osborne, former Gover- nor of Michigan, told members of the National Editorial Association today. The editors are on a Great Lakes trip following their convention in Mil- wmikee.m “In Ohio,” said Mr. Osborne, “an edi- tor who exposed crookedness is mur- dered. In Chicago a reporter who knew too much aobut the criminal layout is shot to death. In Minnesota a news~ paper is suppressed exactly as a Mus= solini would do it. All this in our own prideful America. “The last attack is even insidious and capable of hurt. The freak pajama Governor of lnuushn-, Huey Long, pro- cent on the re- ceipts grossed from the sale of adver- tising space. There is no justice and no ]pretedent for such robbery. Never theless, he might set a fashion if news- paper folk are not alert.” NEW PARACHUTE RULING Aeronautic Chief Requires “Rig- ¢ gers” to Be Licensed. New regulations announced toda; the Department 5 packs, repairs or is Ch"dl'd with the maintenance of approved t; para- chutes must obtain from m aero- nautics branch of the department s parachute rigger’s license. 78 The riggers’ licenses will be issued only to those who pass tests of thefr ability to properly inspect, repair, pack and care for parachutes, according Clarence M. Young, Secretary of O'om- me‘{ce“ror L.:ero‘r::tuté:a. pplicants m at least 18 year: old. In addition to the e;nm: ination the applicant must rouu- all necessary equipment for repair work or repacking and must be able to show he has packed 20 or more rachutes which have been satisfacto: or_drop tested. e The license will remain in effect for two years, but may be revoked or sus~ pended for incompetency. It may be renewed for an additional two years on proof that the holder has tendered vice under his license for at ieast ked at least 25 o mu i packed a parachuf "’3 satisfe tested during were time his lHeense was in «font