Evening Star Newspaper, June 24, 1930, Page 17

' urday Washington News SENATE APPROVES PAY INGREASE BIL WTHOUT DEBATE Action on Conference Report| Now Goes to Hoover for Final Decision. HOUSE QUICKLY GAVE 0. K. AFTER REVISIONS Policemen and Firemen Will Bene- | fit by Salary Scale as Now : Worked Out. Congressional action on the police and fire pay increase bill was completed today when the Senate, without debate, agreed to the conference report which the House approved yesterday evening. This sends the bill to the White House for the President’s signature. The Sen- | ate adopted the report by unanimous consent on motion of Chairman Cap- | per of the District committee. When Acting Chairman McLeod of the House District committee presented the report to his branch there was no discussion, beyond a request by Repre- sentative Stafford for an explanation of the report. The report was signed by all of fhe conferees, namely: Senate— Senators Capper, Jones, Robsion, Glass and Copeland. House—Representatives McLeod, Beers and Whitehead. The bill as agreed to provides that all policemen and firemen who have served seven or more years will receive immediately the new maximum of $2,400 a year; men with six years’ service, $2,300; men who have served more than , but less than six years, $2,200. New men would enter at $1,900 and reach the maximum of $2,400 by grad- ual increases for five years. Contribution Increased. The contribution of the men to the pension_fund would be increased from 2'3 to 31, per cent of salary. An in- novation in the bill is the provision that 10 per cent of the members of each department who have rendered especial- ly meritorious service could bz paid $5 more per month. The bill gives the Commissioners dis- cretion in fixing the amounts to be paid those already on the retired rolls as well as in future pension cases. The present salary scale for privates is $1,800, $1,200 and a maximum ef $2,100. The superintendent of police and the fire chief each will receive $8,000 a year under the new bill. New Salaries Listed. ‘The new salaries for other officers fol- w: Police Department—Assistant super- intendents, $5.000; inspectors, $4,500; captains, $3,600; lieutenants, $3,050; sergeants, $2,750. Fire Department — Deputy - chiefs, $5,000; battalion chiefs, $4,500; fire | marshal, $5,000; deputy marshal, $3,000; inspectors, $2,460; captains, $3,000; lieu- tenants, $2,840; sergeants, $2,600; super- intendant of machinery, $5,000; assist- ant superintendant of machinery, $3,000; pilots, $2,600; marine engineers, $2,600. assistant marine engineers, $2,460; ma- rine fireman, $2,100. MARTIN C. WALKER, ACCOUNTANT, DIES Native of This City Was Promi- nent in Masonic Activities. Funeral Tomorrow. Martin C. Walker, 56 years old, expert | accountant and widely known in this city, where he was active in the Ma- sonic fraternity, died at his home, 503 B street northeast, yesterday after a long illness. A native of this city, Mr. Walker was educated in the public schools here, in- cluding Central High School. He also attended the Columbia Preparatory School. He had been expert accountant for a number of firms in this city, Chi- cago, New York and Fort Worth, Tex. Mr. Walker was a’member of Daw- son Lodge, F. A. A. M.; Eureka Chap- ter, Royal Arch Masons, and Columbia Commandery, Knights Templar. He was a member of Waugh M. E. Church. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Sophia Mills Walker; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Walker; two brothers, Robert H. Walker and Arthur B. Walker, and five sisters, Mrs. Wil- liam B. Hardy, Miss Rosalie Walker, | Mrs. Henry J. Walther, Mrs. Maxwell ‘Winter and Mrs. McLean Smith. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment will be in Congres- sional Cemetery, with Masonic rites at the grave. SEAWALL’S COMPLETION WITHIN YEAR IS HOPED Bast Potomac Project Expected to Be Finished Unless Caught in Legislative Jam. Completion of the seawall promenade around the fringe of East Potomac Park during the coming fiscal year, un- less funds for this work are caught in the legislative jam, is expected by Gov- ernment officials. 3 ‘When this project is finished, they said today, it will enable pedestrians to walk in safety from near the Arlington ‘Memorial Bridge, on the Georgetown Channel side of the park, around by way of Hains Point to the United States Engineer wharf, at the foot of Four- teenth street, on the Washington Chan- nel side. . Last year the Office of Public Build- ings and Public Parks completed the section from the United States Engineer wharf down to Hains Point. A safety railing was placed around this and a concrete walk installed. ‘This has now grown to be a favorite walk with many Washingtonian, and the colleagues of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, are anxious to bring this project to a conclusion during the com- ing fiscal year. § DIG THROUGH WALL Thieves at University Park Bore “Three-Foot Partition. Special Dispatch to The Star. BETHESDA, Md., June 24.—Breaking into a ity Park Sat- thi idates for positions on the Metropolitan Acting Chairman McLeod of the House District committee receiving the thanks of the Policemen's Associatien yesterday after the House had approved the conference report on the police and firemen's pay increase bill. Left to right: Frank Varney, president of the Policemen’s Association; Representative McLeod and Sergt. Milton Smith of the Policemen’s Association. —Star Staff Photo, 10 OF 400 PASS IN POLICE TESTS Character Inve s tigation, Final Step, Now Is Being Made. Approximately 70 of the 400 candi- Police force passed the prescribed men- tal and physical tests in the latest ex- amination, the Civil Service Commis- sion today notified police officials. A character investigation, the final step | in the qualification of these candidates, now is being made, and probably will be_completed this week. The examination was conducted by the “Civil Service Commission several weeks ago as a result of the exhaustion of an eligible list from which appoint- ments to the police force are made. Indications are that the new list also will be exhausted shortly after July 1, if Congress passes the 1931 District ap- propriation bill. ‘With the passage of the appropriation bill, as approved by the Senate, the po- lice department will have 68 appoint- ments to make, which would leave but several names on the new list in the event that all of the candidates who passed the mental and physical tests meet the character qualifications. Twenty Vacancies on Roster. ‘There are now 20 vacancies on the police roster, caused by separations, re- tirements and deaths, which will be filled July 1, irrespective of the fate of the appropriation bill. If the bill s with the Senate amendment providing 25 additional men on the force, there will be 48 more positions to fill. Seventecn of these will be created by the promotion of 16 sergeants and 1 lieutenant, as the bill as approved by both the House and Senate provides for 16 additional lieutenants and the promotion of the lieutenant assigned to 0‘.:‘[! traffic bureau to the rank of cap- n. ‘The new “rookie” policemen will start at a salary of $1,900 a year if the police- men’s and firemen’s increased pay bill is passed by Congress, and that appears | to ‘be virtually assured. The present entrance salary is $1,800 a year. Average Is Equal. ‘The recent examination was one of the largest ever conducted for candi- dates for positions on the police force, which police officials believe is indica- tive of the unemployment situation. Al though omly about 70 of the 400 candi- dates passed, officials said this is about the average of successful applicants in prior examinations. Educational qualifications of police candidates are not high, it was said, yet | scores of them fail on the mental tests. A number also fail to pass the physical examinations. Present physical qual cations restrict the age limit of new | plicants to 22 to 35 years, the height | minimum to 5 feet 8 inch:s and the | weight minimum to 145 pounds. { EDSON IS REAPPOINTED | Chairman of Public Welfare Board to Serve Another Term. John Joy Edson, chairman and vet- eran member of the Board of Public Welfare, was reappointed by the Dis- trict Commissioners for a term of six years to begin July 1 next. W. W. Millan and Mrs. Hugh S. Cumming, other members whose terms will expire the same date, also were reappointed for six-year terms. HURT ATTEMPTING T0 STOP RUM EAR Watchman Leaps Aside as Auto Crashes Into Parked Machine. Philip Bachenheimer, 72-year-old watchman, of 523 Eighteenth street, was slightly injured last night at Nine- teenth street and Goodhope road south- east when a speeding liquor-laden au- somobile sideswiped him as he attempted to stop the car from entering a one- way lane. Police said the rum car swept on into the lane, which is skirted by an exca- vation, and crashed into another car. The driver and a colored woman leaped from the front seat of the rum car. The man escaped into the wooded sec- tion nearby, but the woman was cap- tured after a lengthy foot race by elev~ enth precint police. In the deserted car police found 35 halt-gallon jars of alleged liquor. ‘The woman, who gave her name as Hazel Shellhouse, of the 1400 block of Ninth street, is being held at the pre- cinct for investigation. Bachenheimer said he was standing in the middle of the lane guarding the excavation when the rum machine hove into sight. He said he signaled to the driver to stop, but he stepped on the accelerator, drove straight at him, sped on into the lane, finally colliding with the other automobile. The watchman said he leaped aside and was only brushed by the automobile’s rear fen- der. He refused hospital treatment. Attracted to the scene by the sound of the crash, Policemen C. F. Smith and C. H. Warder of the eleventh pre- cinct gave pursuit. Warder lost the man in the woods and the colored woman was overtaken by Smith. THREE NAMED TO PASS ON LOCAL JUDGESHIPS Senators Blaine, Hebert and Walsh Compose Judiciary Subcom- mittee for Inquiry. ‘The Senate judiciary committee has named a subcommittee of three mem- bers to consider the nominations of Oscar R. Luhring and Joseph W. Cox to be associate justices of the Dis- trict Supreme Court under the law recently passed enlarging the person- nel of the court to relieve congestion. ‘The subcommittee is composed of Senators Blaine, Republican, cf Wis- |consin; Hebert, Republican, of Rhode Island, and Walsh, Democrat, of Mon- tana. Mr. Luhring has been an Assistant Attorney General of the United States for the past five years and Mr. Cox has been a practicing attorney before the local courts for a number of years. ROBBERS STILL FLOURISH Two More Housebreakings Report- ed at Danville. Special Dispatch to The Star. DANVILLE, Va., June 24 —Two more robberies reported to the police yester- day saw the wave of housebreaking and burglaries here unbroken. The home of Kemp Womble was entered Sunday night and two valuable watches -and other jewelry taken. J. W. Mahan reported that thieves stole his billfold containing $24. Po- lice are kept busy working on the nu- merous housebreakings and rebberies. LEAVE TO CHA ‘The mother who left $700 to Fanny Waddy, colored, might very well have warned Fanny against the pocketbook game, a racket so ancient it is almost forgotten. Yet Fanny, not so old in the ways of the world, spent her legacy for a belated lesson. Last Thursday Fanny was on a street car going home to 1915 I street, when a stranger addressed her. He said he was frora out of town and wished to cvening: dwo thiéves Hug:thrisgh 4wo a 3-foot plaster wall to a closet, taking tools valued at $50. J. Cullinane, 4616 Massachusetts ave- nue, owner of the cottage, reported the theft last night to Montgomery County police, here. He said neighbors saw the pair leave the house just after dark Saturday. rent a room at Fanny's home, This seemed all right to the woman, and the two alighted together. Walking along, a colored woman darted ahead of them and snatched a pocketbook from the sidewalk. “Wait!” demanded Fanny's compan- fon. “We saw that first!” The three parleyed there, with the GIRL LOSES OUT WHEN FRIENDS NGE $700 IN BILLS Fanny Waddy, Colored, Expects Division of $2,100 Found in Purse, but Loses Her Own Inheritance. two strangers doing the talking, while Fanny puzzled it out. The upshot was the other woman, logking into the purse, claimed it con- tained $100. She offered to split it three ways, showing Fanny her share—about | $30 in new bills. But th strange woman kept pawing the pocketbook “Here's more,” she said le)(cl{fdly, “in great big bills—$2,100 n all.” . Again the strangers agreed on a three- | way division. But the bills were too big, no one had any change. Then Fanny recalled the $700 in a nearby bank. She hurried off in a taxi, obtained the money, returned and handed it over, But there was still difficulty with the change. The two strangers said they would go_to a nearby store and get, the change—Fanny was to wait for them. Fanny waited. That was Thursday. Yesterday she told her story to poflee. TUESDAY, The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 24, 1930. TEN MLLION LEFT FOR SHAKESPEARE MEMORILIND.C. Folger Will Assures Library and Museum Building Support Here. ELIZABETHAN THEATER INCLUDED IN PROJECT Rare Collection of Books and Art Objects Provided by Late New Yorker for Capital. Further detalls in connection with the museum now under construction adjacent to the property of the Con- gressional Library were published yes- terday 'in the will of Henry C. Folger, who was chairman of the Standard Oil Co. of New Yotk. As filed in New York, the will leaves -approximately $10,000,- 000, a world-famous Shakespearean collection and the museum to house it as a gift to the United States “for the promotion and diffusion of knowledge | in regard to Shakespeare.” The museum building s rapidly near- ing completion, and is to rank as an outstanding addition to the newer pub- lic buildings in the National Capital The will places administration of the collection in the hands of the trustecs of Amherst College. Relatives Are Named. In compensation for the services of | the trustees they are directed to take out of the income of the Shakespeare fund and pay to Amherst College one- fourth of the annual net income until such a share amounts to $250,000. No matter what the income, a minimum of | $100,000 is to be paid the college an- nually. Out of the remainder of the in- come life annuities totaling $90,000 are | to be paid to Mrs. Folger and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Folger. The fund itself is to be maintained by the trustees in an amount not less.than $10,000,000 for maintaning the museum, which will be klmlwn as the Folger Shakespeare Memo- rial. The gift to the Nation consists of the entire Folger estate after payment of the following specific bequests: $50,000 each to Mrs. Mary Folger Wells, a sister, and Stephen L. and Edward P. Folger, brothers; $25,000 each to a nephew and five nieces. Folger Collection to Be Instalted. ‘The will directs that within three years the Amherst trustees shall in- stall and establish the Folger collec- | tion, which consists of books, pam- phlets, documents, pictures, art objects and other items :ehtll}xb to Shake- speare as a permanent library in wme building here. " The library rii to be kept open to all students of Shake- speare. The library building is to be a .om- bination of “reading room, exhibition gallery and a reproduction of an Eliza- bethan theater. The building was d signed by Paul P. Cret of —hilace phia, architect for the Pan-American Building in Washington. Alexander B. Trowbridge of Washington is the as- soclate architect, ‘The exterior of the building is to be of pure white marble, the architec- tural motif to be in harmony with the Congressional Library and the United States Supreme Court Building, near which it will stand. ‘The interior is to be of Tudor Gothic style. The structure will be approxi- mately 216x112 feet in size. It will be only structure in the hali-square between East Capitol strest and an alleyway to the south, Second and Third streets. The building will be surrounded by carefully = arranged | landscape treatment. WILLIAM SMITH WILL IS FILED Estate Approximating $80,000 Is Divided Among Daughters, Wife and Associates. ‘The will of William Smith, owner of the Capital News Co., who died June 20, has been filed for probate. He owned real estate assessed at $31,000 and had personal property estimated at $45,000, in addition to the value of the business, according to the petition of Lucien H. Mercier and James A. Soper, his ex- ecutors, for the probate of his will. His daughter, Helena Smith, is given $20,000, a six-carat diamond ring and 40 per cent of the residue of the estate after the payment of specific legacies. Another daughter, Kate Smith, gets $10,000 and a like share of the residue. Josephine Van Horne Sprague, a friend, in repayment of cash advances and !services in operating his business, is to have $20,000, an automobile, the busi- ness and the property at 720 New Jer- sey avenue, with garage attached, where the business is conducted. She also is to have 20 per cent of the residue of the estate. ‘The Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital and Providence Hospital each is to have $2,500, and St. Mary's Cath- olic Cemetery is given $1,500 for the care of the graves of the testator and his mother. Bob Hummer, an employe, is left' $2,000 in recompense for many hours of overtime work, and Iva Vaught, a malid, is given $500. ‘The testator explains that no pro- vision is made for his wife, Lottie Y. Smith, because of an agreement by which she received $21,000 and is to have a portion of the proceeds of the sale of two houses. EMPLOYER DESERTED HIM, SAYS CHAUFFEUR Threw Luggage From Machine and Left, Floridan Asserts in Com- plaint to Police. C. B. Claxton, who gave his address at the Central Union Mission as Frost- proof, Fla., compl to the .police today that the hospitality of a man who gave the name of Dr. R. H. Miller of Los Angeles broke down at a crucial stage in their association, Claxton said he affiliated himself with Dr. Miller at his home several go as a chauffeur and drove the aytomobile by a circuitous route to the National Capital. Yesterday, Claxton averred, his employer threw his luggage from the machine while he, Claxton, was inside a filling station, leaving him to his own resources, which were few. expressed a desire to return to his Frostproof. and his wife baby, but said he was without m!’ orange grove The picture shows the result of the miscalculation of Thomas 0'Gier Hutson, avenue, Washington, student fiyer, when ville. The landing gear caughi into high-tension through the top of the car of Henry escaped injury. PLANE HITS AUTO INDIVE OFF WIRES Student Flyer Has Narrow Escape in Crash at Con- gressional Airport. Following a collision late yesterday | evening with telephone and power lines| along the Rockville Pike at Congres- | sional Airport which flipped his plane | over like a leaf and hurled it nose | first into a parked automobile, Thomas | ©O. Hutson, 29 vears old, of the Poule- | vard Apartments, 2121 New York | avenue, today is making arrangements | to complete his student pilot's course | with & view to obtaining a nrivate, and | then a commercial, pilot's license. | Though many pilots have lost their | | lives in far less serious accidents, Hut son crawled out of the cockpit of his badly damaged plane uninjured ang | was able to report for duty &s usual! at midnight last night at the Wasi ington Gas Light Co. plant st Twent; sixth and G streets. Flying Solo. Hutson was flying solo in prepara- tion for his examination for a pri- vate pilot’s license. He had already made two §ood landings and was com- ing in fer a third when he noticed that he was high and probably would over- shoot the fleld. He pulled open the throttle and attempted to climb out of the fleld for another landing. The wires were high, however, and the landing gear struck them, throwing the plane completely over. The propeller slashed open the roof of an empty parked car belonging to IHenry Leno- vitz, proprietor of a grocery store on the pike opposite the field, and the | plane came to rest upside down witn | the nose on the roof of the car and | the tail on the ground. Hutson was hanging head down in his safety strap. Coolness and quick thinking on the student pilot’s part probably saved his life, it was said. When his wheels struck the wires he instantly switched off the moior ignition and swept his goggles off his eyes. Cutting off the ignition probably prevented a fire, which would have destroyed the plane and probably killed him before he could escape, in the opinion of observers, Wires Snapped. The plane snapped the high-tension lines of the Potomac Electric Power Co., cutting off power delivery to Rock- ville, Gaithersburg and other neigh- boring towns for approximately 45 minutes. Practically all the lines of the Chesapeaks. & Potomac Telephone Co. also were broken. Hutson made his first solo flight last Thursday after dual training under Lieut. A. S. Reynolds, United States Marine Corps Reserve, manager of Con- gressional Airport and chief instructor for the Smith-Reynolds Flying School. After he had unfastened his safety belt and dropped from the cockpit of the plane, Hutson said that he at- tempted to climb out of the field for another landing for fear that he would overshoot the field boundary into the Rockville road, endangering the lives of motorists. His attempt to clear the field, he said, would have succeeded but for the height of the wires along the edge of the road. FOUR ARE ARRESTED IN TWO RUM RAIDS Three Men and Woman and Quan- tity of Beer and Liquor Are _Seized. Three men and & woman Wwere ar- rested and a quantity of beer and liquor seized in two ralds, four blocks apart, by Fifth Precinct Detectives F. L. Ar- rington and T. M. McVearry late yes- terday. Emma Smith, 58 years old; Eugene Talbert, 56 years old, and Charles Sweeney, 37 years old, were arrested in a raid on a house in the 200 block of EJeventh street southeast. The woman was charged with possession and re- leased on $500 bond. The men were charged with sale and possession and released on $1,500 bond each. Four gallons of alleged liquor were seized. In a raid in the 200 block of Seventh stréet southeast John Byroads, 38 years old, was arrested and charged with sale of beer and possession of 35 gallons. He was released op $1,500 bond. ESCAPES WITH CLOTHING | Clerk Pursues Robber, but Halts: When Threatened With Shooting. Holding a clerk at bay with a pistol, a_ thiefs yesterday escaped from the Sears Roebuck Co. store on Bladens- burg road with four suits of clothing. The clerk, Oliver Maxon, chased the man but was forced to halt when the fugitive threatened to shoot him. Maxon m;l‘;l:hed police a description of the Tobber, i Alberta Nichols, Jay Shields and others he attempted to gain altitude yesterday electric feed wires, Lenovitz, shown sitting on the plane turning the plane upside down. A Boulevard Apartments, 2121 New York at the Congressional Airport, near Rock- The propeller went wing, near the automobile. The flyer —Star Staff Photo. | ) | I | | f Representative Edith Nourse Rogers Of Massachusetts wearing the smock in which she appea on the ficor of the House several WARNER THEATERS THEFTS CHARGED T0 THREE YOUTHS Police Believe Several Mount Pleasant Robberies Are' Now Solved. With the arrest yesterday of three young colored boys, self-styled of the “Black Cat Gang,” by Policeman R. J. Murphy of No. 10 precinet, police believe they have solved a series of robberies in the Mount Pleasant section. The boys, Phillip Smith, 16, 600 block of Harvard street; Lawrence Scott, and Robert Thomas, 15, of the same block, have been charged with five cases of housebreaking. They ars being held at the District Receiving Home, while | police thoroughly investigate their ac- tivities during the past thrce months. The boys were charged with robbing the following places: Two Sanitary Grocery Co. stores, at Eleventh and Kenyon streets and Ninth and U streets; | the Thrift Shop, in the 2400 block of Eighteenth street; the Leader Market, Eleventh street and Park road; the U Street Market, at Sixteenth and U streets, and half a dozen vacant houses, which constitute one charge. Police said the loot, which consists of cigarettes, canned goods and electric lighting fixtures, is valued at several hundred dollars. Policeman Murphy is attempting tq obtain a warrant for the arrest of a store proprietor in_the WILL BE INCREASED Building to Replace Apollo, at 624 H Northeast—Will | Seat 2,500. Expansion of the.chain of Warner Bros. neighborhood theaters in Wash- ington is expected to be started shortly under plans which call for the replace- ment of two existing houses with newer and larger theater buildings, it was learned today. Tentative plans have been drawn for the construction of a new house to re- place the Avenue Grand, located on Pennsylvania avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets, but just where the new building will be erected, officials of the company could not say today. Official announcement of plans for the construction of a new house to re- place the Apollo Theater, 624 H street northeast, however, was made today by John J. Payette, general manager of the | Washington Warner Bros. circuit. The new house, being designed by Rapp & Rapp, New York architectural firm, will have a seating capacity of 2,500, with a balcony. The house will be equipped with provision for talking pictures and will have a modern acoustic system, Mr. Payette reports. | The new house also is to be provided | with an extra wide screen for the pur- | pose of exhibiting magnified and “three- | dimensional” films. The building will have an air-cooling system. | Additional land for the structure was acquired recently. o ‘Writers’ Rendezvous Meets, ‘The Maryland Branch of the Writers’ Rendezvous met at Silver Mill, Md. Grace Kalel presided as hostess. There were. talks, readings and recitations by Mary Estelle Duke, Mary Daugherty, and a musical program by Bion Daugherty. It was announced that President E. J. Irvine has been invited Mount Pleasant section said to have acted as a “fence” for the gang. Fargsmg FIRE DEPARTMENT ANTICIPATES PARADE Meeting of 90 Prospective Judges to Be Held in District Building. ‘The Fire Department is beginning early its preparations for the Labor day parade. A meeting of 90 prospective Jjudges will be held at 8 o'clock tomor- row night in the board room of the Dis- trict Bullding. Dr. Frank E. Gibson, in charge of judging the parade activities, will address the meeting. Sergt. A. J. Bargagni, marshal of the fire parade, said there has been a phe- nomenal increase in the number of or- ganizations to participate, and consider- able difficulty is expected in awarding the prizes. Rules to be followed in judging the entries will be studied at tomorrow's meeting. ATHLETE LOSES BOND IN FALSE REPORT CASE Beverly Lee Smith Forfeits Col- lateral After Confessing Hold- Up Story to Be Untrue. Collateral of $25 was forfeited in Po- lice Court today by Beverly Lee Smith 22-year-old athlete of Washington and Lee University,«charged with making a false report of a robbery. Smith told James E. Springman, a headquarters detective, a motorist had held him up at pistol point at Four- teenth and L streets last night and robbed him of a pocketbook, suit case and top coat. Springman, however, found the lost articles at a drug store nearby. Smith then confessed his story was untrue. to Valparaiso University, Indiana, to re- cite original poems. Police reported Smith suffered in- juries in a fall at a New York fraternity house recently. BARBERS’ SOAP PROBLéMS OVER; NEW GUN SHOOTS ALL DIRECTIONS ‘The barber shop shampoo will be reatly simplified, for the barber any- how, if the trade takes to the rotat- ing liquid soap atomizer which was patented yesterday by Jacob Robinson, colored. b Being a barber himself, Robinson provided for everything but a means of keeping the soap out of the customer’s eyes y!!'hf device is mounted ¢n a swivel above the basins—the same basins which some customers strangle them- selves in—and squirts soap in 2ny di- rection. basin )& served and the eved of the necessity of cuj for soap after ‘Thus barber is walking to :Recently Patented Device Mounted on Swivel Over Basins With Trigger to Deliver Material Where Needed. he has succeeded in convincing his cutomer that he needs a shampoo. While the barber stands easily with his finger on the trigger of Robinson's pneumatic soap gun, the customer ducks his head into the basin and comes up, head down, for a spray of the aro- matic liquid. Robinson is making a model to set up in the barber shop where he works while he dickers with the manufacturers. ‘The Robinson shampoo soap gun, as the patent technically descril it, 18 ‘a_swivel-mount unit for rotation about "mfil i:lxh to enable the dispensing f directions. @ Rol I:IM that that told the story better than he 15, of the 700 block of Harvard strect, | LIQUOR SALE COUNT: Dry Agents Report Seizure of 1 Intoxicants at Office After Raid. FOUR FACE TRIALS ON MURDER CHARGES Two Chinese and Two Colored Men Are Accused in First- Degree Bills. Dr. Nelson D. Brecht, 609 Twenty~ second street, was indicted today by the grand jury on charges of sale and possession of liquor. He is at liberty under bond of $1,500 following his ar- rest May 27. Prohibition agents reported that they Visited the office of the physician May 7 and May 17 with requests for liquor prescriptions and were told that the doctor's book was exhausted. As they were about to leave, it is claimed, Brecht told them he had some liquor which he could let them have. They reported they made purchases and then obtained a search warrant and reported the seizure ot a quantity of intoxicants. The indictment is in four counts and alleges sale and possession on each of the dates—May 7 and May 17. Four Face Murder Counts, Violation of the national prohibition act is also charged in an indictment against Russell Prince, Prank J. Ma- gruder and Leonard Duffell, who were arrested February 10 following a raid on the second floor of premises 2408 Fourteenth street. Two Chinese and two colored men were Indicted for murder in the first degree. Lee Din and Lee Soon are charged with shooting to death King, another Chinese, June 12, 1929, near Eleventh and M streets. King was said to have been a narcotic informer, The men were indicted some months ago by a jury, the validity of which was .attacked and United States At- torney Leo A. Rover decided to resub- mit the case to the present grand Jury, Amos Mungo, colored, is accused of causing the death of Spofford Black- well, also colored, by shooting him at 1820 Kendall street northeast, April 20. William Carter is said to have shot { to death his wife, Marion Carter, May |9, at 1639 Tenth street. No Case Is Ignored. The grand jury reported 18 indict- ments without ignoring a single case that bad been submitted. Others in- dicted and the charges against them | include: John Crawford, non-support; Jantes liams, and Arthur Montgomery, alias James Jackson, robbery; Edward Cham- bers and John Leonard Wright, grand larcen; Willie May Gordon, . James Sheehan, Harry F. Ismer, Donald E. Insley and Frank J. Trine, housebreal ing and larceny; Tasso Stafford, bribery; Richard G. Brooks, Carl Crawferd and Simon P. Stewart, assault with danger- ous weapon; Booker Hansborough, as- TWO YOUTHS DROWN IN ESCAPING HEAT One Disappears Suddenly After Having Been Playing in Water ‘With Friends. Seeking relief in the water from yes- | terday's heat, two colored youths found death instead. Walter Bullock left his home, at 1717 Thirty-fourth street, to g0 swimming in the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal near Forty-first street. He played with companions in the water for & while and then sank from sight. His body was recovered by Po- licemen D. O. Hayes and C. R. Spring of the harbor precinct, who dragged the channel. The second youth, Frank Henry, 12 years old, of 716 Nineteenth street northeast, went down while swimming In the Eastern Branch, off the foot o M street northeast. body was brought up and taken ashore by Warren and Archie Hughes of 807 Tenth street northeast. Efforts of doctors to revive the boy failed. Certificates of death by accidental drowning were issued by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt in both cases. DINNER GIVEN IN HONOR OF HERMAN F. CARL Herman F. Carl, who served as chair- man of the Board of Trade's shadbake recently, was the guest of honor last night at a dinner tendered by the mem- bership committee at the Kenwood Country Club. George Plitt, president of the trade body, praised Mr. Carl on the marked success of the shadbake held at Sher- wood Forest. He then presented Mr. Carl with a handsome fishing set Fred Smith, vice president of the Floyd Davis Real Estate Co., was se. lected to be chairman of the 1931 Mid. winter dinner. He will start organiza. tion work soon for the dinner, always the outstanding event of the year for Board of Trade members. Mr. Smith was chosen by a unanimous vote af the suggestion of Mr. Plitt. Jerome F. Barnard, membership com. mittee chairman, presided. Among the guests were Maj. Donald A. Davison Thomas Littlepage and Maj. Hugh Cram An interesting program was presented by performers of the Edith Reed Enter. tainment Bureau. Among the _enter. tainers were Ruth Bohannon, Frances Willlams, Dorothy Skinner, Marcia Browne, Katherine Hillyer and the Brahms Trio, composed of Loraine Esputa Bentley, Adessa Ehrhart and Miss Hillyer, with Jewell Downs acs companying. Music was provided by Eddie Ward's Orchestra. More than 100 members attended. 13-YEAR-OLD TO WED LEONARDTOWN, Md. June (Special) —Two _marriage licenses were issued at the Léonardtown court house today as follows: Lewis Pranklin Burch, 19, Sandgates Md., and Helen Louise Quade, 13, Laurel Grove, Md. John Tubman Hall, 58, and Mary Cornelious Miller, 32, both’ of Leonard. town. —— Tariff Talk on Air Tonight, Senator Harrison, Democrat, of Mis« ver”Ehe "Fadio tomjaht at 8.30 o¢lock er £ astern standard time, over ine-Calums bia chpin, {