Evening Star Newspaper, July 7, 1930, Page 17

Washington News ESTINATES OF 15 CONSDERED TODAY BY COMMISSINERS Appropriation Bill Provisions’Former c Expected to Await Other Matters. POLICE PAY INCREASE IS BELIEVED AVAILABLE Failure of Hoover to Sign Resolu- tion Not Seen as Delaying Salary Growth. ‘The District Commissioners met to- day to complete work on the 1932 esti- mates. Not much action is expected on the various matters involving awards of contracts and reorganizations arising out of the District appropriation bill passed by Congress last Thursday. ‘The city heads have before them two matters on which action may be taken today. One is a series of contracts for new highway construction involving the expenditure of about $2,000,000. ‘The other is a list of promotions in the Police Department made possible by the terms of the appropriation act. ‘The fact that President Hoover did not sign the joint resolution making available the money for the increases in Police salaries will probably not delay the increases at the first pay day, July 15, it was believed at the District Building today. Acting Auditor A. R. Pilkerton stated informally that the terms of the act signed by President Hoover would probably be sufficient to warrant paying the increase out of funds now in the Treasury and taking care of the payment if necessary by a deficfency bill at the next session of Congress. Mr. Pilkerton had not seen the pay increase bill and his final opin- jon will not be given to the Commis- sioners until he has had time to study its terms. Increased pay for 2,049 per diem em- ployes of various departments of the District government will go into cffect CAPITAL YOUTH | Joseph H. Jerman, 16, Fired on at Night at Co- lumbia, S. C. entral High Student Was Returning From Florida Visit. Joseph Hammond Jerman, 16 years | old, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H.| Jerman, 2717 Thirteenth street, died in | the Baptist Hospital in Columbia, S.C., | late yesterday from a bullet wound in the head inflicted by G. H. Priester, filling station operator, according to news dispatches received here. Word of the boy's death was received through a telegram from the hospital authorities | last night by the boy's parents, who| :m’d just returned from a week's motor | rip. Priester, the filling station proprietor, | told police that he was awakened early | yesterday morning by a noise in front of his gasoline station and that he fired to frighten the youth when he saw the latter attempting to remove oil from | the station storage tank. The boy was identified from a card found in his pocket. Left Here in June. The boy's father said today that his son left here Wednesday, June 25, to drive to Florida to visit friends there and that he had at first planned to meet his parents in Charleston, W. Va., last week. The boy had intended seek- ing a position in Charleston, where he | had friends who were going to help him find one. The boy had remained South longer than he had planned, but expected to join his parents later in| this city, after stopping over for a short time in Charleston, W. Va. He had a sweetheart there, his father said. Mr. Jerman today scouted the sug- gestion that his son was attempting to take oil from the service station without paving for it. He believes that when his automobile ran out of oil the youth went to the station, and, failing to arouse the proprietor, decided to try to SLAIN IN SOUTH BY FILLING STATION OPERATOR JOSEPH HAMMOND JERMAN. obtain enough oil to carry him to the next town. Young Jerman last year was a third year student at Greenbrier Military | Academy at Lewisburg, W. Va., but had intended quitting school to work. Prior to going to Greenbrair, he attended Central High School here. ‘Was Given Automobile. He was fond of automobiles, and at the end of the last school session his parents gave him the automobile in which he made the trip to Florida. His father is salesman for a local real estate firm. The parents were to leave Washington for Columbia, S. C., this afternoon, where they' will make funeral arrangements. Both are grief stricken. Besides his parents, young Jerman is survived by a sister, Mrs. Wilma Miles, wife of Lieut. M. E. Miles of Long Beach, Calif. An inquest into young Jerman’s death will be held in the vieinity of Swan- sea, S. C., near Columbia, tomorrow. Meanwhile, Priester, the filling station proprietor, who admits shooting the boy while making an effort to frighten him, is held in the Lexington County Jail. Sheriff Cromer Oswald said there was little likelihood that Priester would be released on bond. retroactive to July 1, under the terms of the appropriation bill. Roland M. Brennan, chairman of the wage scale board, announced that 2,049 men were eligible for the increases which average 17 cents per day. Men now getting less than $6 40 per day will get increases averaging 16 cents and men getting more than $6.40 a day will get increases averaging 24 cents a day. ‘These increases will amount to about $345 a day. Only men who were on the pay roll July 1, 1929, and are rec- ommended by their foremen or depart- ment heads are eligible for the increase. Of the men affected, 790 are from the City Refuse Department, 430 from the Highway Department, 238 from the ‘Water Department, 233 from the repair shop and 200 from the Sewer Depart- ment. ‘The roadway contracts could have been let at any time Congress passed the supply bill, since those items. are always on the “immediately available” list. Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst said today that although all the contracts insist on completion by November 1, the contractors will be given extra time if necessary to complete their jobs on account of the late start. These high- way contracts are usually let in May, and the two months that have been lost were months of excellent working weather, he said. Work on concrete and asphalt roads cannot be satisfac- torily accomplished after freezing weather sets in. DIAL PHONE TONE GETS LOST AWHILE| Company Asserts Machines P’nl-i tered Only a Minute—D. C. Building Operators Say 10. ‘The dial telephone tone, which is the interesting buzz the special operator says you should wait for whenever your fingers get crossed up and she comes in on the line, was lost somewhere in downtown Washington this morning. ‘Whatever it was that happened—and the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. had a rock-ribbed explanation all ready—caused sundry dial users in one branch of the system to finger their phones futilely. The difficulty first was noted at the District Building when, at about 12 o'clock, switchboard operators noted that calls were not going through. The telephone company said that one of the machines faltered momentarily in completing the contact which brings the dial tone, but that the branch was thrown on another machine within one minute of receipt of the signal that something was the matter. Switchboard operators at the Dis- trict Building commented that the dif- ficulty continued for about 10 minutes. Telephone company officials said the trouble did not extend beyond the one branch. 2 ELEVATORS CONTRACT GIVEN GURNEY COMPANY | New York City Firm to Furnish Carriers for Agriculture De- partment Buildings. ‘The contract to furnish elevators for the new Department of Agriculture “extensible building’’ has been let by the Treasury Department to the Gur- ney Elevator Co. Inc., of New York City, for the sum of $156,978. This company was low bidder among 12 who submitted estimates to the super- vising architect of the Treasury, James A. Wetmore. ‘The contract for tearing down the old buildings on the site, bounded by ‘Thirteenth street, Linwood place and" B and C streets southwest, is held by the Nelson-Pedley Co. of Philadelphia, which probably will start wrecking operations on the block before long. The general contract was let June 30. LARGE RAT ATTACKS BABY ASLEEP IN CRIB Father Beats Off Rodent in Half- Hour Battle After Child Is Bit- ten on Head and Arm. Attacked by a large rat while ulee"g in her crib early yesterday, Elizabet Fritter, 5-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David B. Pritter, 3117 M street, was bitten on the forehead and left arm before her screams aroused her jcause of insufficient evidence. TICKET SCALPERS FINED $100 EACH Judge Mattingly Scores Ac- tivity of Two Defendants. Arrests Total Eight. Two alleged ticket scalpers, arrested | at Grifith Stadium July 4, were fined | $100 each at Police Court today by | Judge Robert E. Mattingly, while a| third arrest yesterday was set free be- The men were arraigned under a regulation of the Internal Revenue Bureau, which states that the price for which the ticket is to be sold must ap- pelnr on the slip with the name of the seller, “I think this is the rottenest, dirtiest, meanest thing a man can do,” Judge Mattingly told Martin Kline and Arthur Abrams, both of Philadelphia, the defendants, “I am sorry that the law will allow me to fine you only $100. I wish it was $500." Kline and Abrams were arrested after they had tried to sell a ticket to Policeman E. Barnett of the eighth precinct. Guy Stevens of Baltimore, was released when the District at- torney's office decided there was not enough evidence to carry the case into court. Policeman Barnett also made this arrest. E Guy Stein, 25 years old, of 2005 Eutaw place, Baltimore, was arrested in the vicinity of American League Base Ball Park yesterday afternoon on a charge of ticket scalping, the eighth person arrested on such a charge the past three days. He was arrested by Policeman Barnett and required to de- posit $20 collateral for his appearance. Police of the eighth precinct also arrested eight colored boys on charges of soliciting automobile parking privi- leges in the vicinity of the park, and they were scheduled to appear in court this. morning with the boys arrested there Saturday on similar charges. ‘The seven alleged scalpers arrested Saturday were directed to appear today. FORGERY SUSPECT SEIZED AT DANBURY U. S. Marshals Hold Man Sought for Three Months on Charges Here. Nicholas D. Apostoles, 38 years old, who has been sought by local authori- tles for three months on charges of forgery and passing worthless checks, was arrested by United States mar- shals at Danbury, Conn., yesterday and is being held for District police, ac- cording to a radiogram received from Boston today. Apostoles is accused of passing a worthless check to the amount of $150, according to Detective Sergt. Ira E. Keck, who said that the man repr sented himself as a _constituent of Rep- resentative John W. McCormack of Massachusetts. With the aid of a letter, alleged to be fradulent, the accused man is said to have succeeded in passing the worth- less check on a downtown department store and attempting to cash several others at a local bank. Apostoles became suspicious when back officials delayed in cashing his check and rushed from the institution, police said. The man has been sought since April, when he made the unsuc- cessful attempt to pass the check on the bank. Word of the arrest of Apcstoles was contained in a Govern- ment radiogram received here by the War Department from a Government station in Boston and forwarded to the Detective Bureau. CHILD IS INJURED Boy Hurts Head Seriously in Fall Against Sand Box. Byron Lott, 3 years old, of the 1000 block of East Capitol street was suf- fering from head injuries Hospital today following a against a sand box while playing at Lincoln Park Saturday. The child’s parents thought nothing father, who killed the rodent after a battle nearly half an hour. versity He . T atmen ! there the ehfl was returned to her’ from of the mishap until the youngster com- plained of feeling bad yesterday. He was taken to the hospital, where staff BOARD T0 SELECT NEW PROFESSORS Teachers College to Be Staffed and School Budget Considered. District School Board members will meet in special session at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to consider ques- tioons of finance and to act on the ap- pointment of professors for the feach- ers' college, it was announced today. Only six members of the board are in the city, and Harry O. Hine, the board's secretary, today was sending urgent appeals to them to attend to- morrow’s meeting. The board will discuss the 1932 esti- mate, which was forwarded to the Com- missioners early in May, with a view to determining what changes are neces- sary by virtue of the passage of the $9,500,000 District appropriation bill by Congress last week. d Salary Scale an Issue. Among the issues brought to the front by the congressional compromises on the appropriation bill is the question of “step-ups” in clerical and janitorial salaries. The board is also concerned at pres- ent with the allocation of its teacher- college salaries, The board has asked for salaries for eight full professors and two presidents, to be divided evenly be- tween the Wilson and Miner Colleges. In compromise, however, Congress pro- vided money for the eight professors, but restricted the fund for the higher positions, so that the board's original plan to make the present principals of the two normal schools deans under the two presidents now must be altered. Whether this will be done by pro- moting the present principals to the presidency of their respective institu- tions, or whether they will be made pro- fessors in their schools, is the problem confrunting the board. If the latter course is acceptable, the presidents will be brought from elsewhere to Wash- ington. Six May Be Named. Six of the eight professors probably will be appointed tomorrow, it being generally known that the administra- tive officers of the system have given lengthy study to a long list of eligibles. Most of these professors probably will come to Washington from other cities. In its sessions tomorrow the boari will receive recommendations on both the financial and the personnel prob- lems from Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- intendent of schools, who has given much study to the appropriation bill since its enactment. The open session of the board will be preceded by executive meetings of the Finance Committee at 2 o’clock and of the Personnel Committee at 2:45 o'clock. Rev. F. I. A. Bennett is the only member of the Personnel Commit- tee in the Capital at this time, Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle and Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith being on vacation trips. Of the three members of the Finance Committee, Rev. Abram Simon and Dr. J. Hayden Johnson are present, while Dr. H. Barrett Learned is away. BURGLARS COME BACK TO CHINESE LAUNDRY New Padlock Removed and $5 Is Taken From Drawer—Other Burglaries Reported. Revisiting the Chinese laundry at 218 John Marshall place, burglars last night removed the new padlock with which Sam Wah, the owner, had made the door secure against his return from a short absence and also took $5 from the cash drawer. Wah's place was entered by burglars last week. Another Chinese laundry, at 1211 Thirteenth street, was entered over the week end. Chang Lee, the proprietor, found the place had been ransacked, but the burglars failed to get any cash. Irving Zitmore, 3636 Everett street, reported to the police that a $900 stick pin set with diamonds, a $50 watch, clothing and $20 in had been taken from his house within the past two days. Oxon Hill Excursion July 23. OXON HILL, Md., culy 7 (Special) — Wednesday, July 23, has been set by the Oxon Hill Women's Club for an ex: cursion to Annaj It has been de. physicians found him to be suffering a possible skull fragture and bre concussion. J ain | books for the year 19. vision has cided by the club not to spend $100 in 30-31 until pro- been made for their care, D MONDAY, JULY 7, @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, 1930. POLS THEATERDUE FOR RAZING AUE. ], 1S BIDS ARE ASKED i | Treasury Seeks Offers for Tearing Down Block to Make Park. WORK TO BE FINISHED IN 90 DAYS UNDER TERMS View Along Avenue to Be Changed Greatly, Exposing Giant Commerce Building. One of the most noticeable phases of the Government’s building program will get under way about August 1, when workmen start tearing down an entire block of buildings bounded by Four- teenth and Fifteenth streets and Penn- sylvania avenue and E street, to turn the place into a public park. This was disclosed today when the Treasury advertised for bids to raze this block. All buildings are to be torn down and a temporary park estab- lished, consisting merely of level ground seeded In grass. Bids are to be opened on July 15 and, unless there is some complication, 1t is expected the wrecking may start about August 1. This block includes several famous old structures, such as Poli’s Theater, one of several theaters to disappear before the march of the Federal housing program. Ninty Days for Work. The contract will call for completion of the work within 90 days, so that the place will be a park by the end of October. This square of buildings, located at its prominent corner, is in one of the most prominent positions of any fea- ture of the Government building pro- gram plan, and when it is changed into a park will alter the view from Penn- sylvania avenue even more than this view has been already altered by erec- tion of two big buildings in the Federal program. For instance, the leveling of this plot will expose to view from the Avenue the gigantic Department of Commerce Building, which is now rapidly undergoing completion between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, B and E Streets. With the stonework of this building on its exterior completed in the middle and south sections, stone- work on the north end is now rapidly rising, and the great building will pre- sent a majestic picture by the time the new park is made on the site of the old Poli's Theater block. Park Plans Not Complete. But the creation of this temporary park of level grass only is somewhat of a tentative proposition. Complete plans for landscaping this odd shaped plece of ground have not yet been finished. Many studies of the area have been made by the Board of Arc tectural Oonsultants of the Treasury Department and especially by Edward H. Bennett of Chicago, chairman of the board, who is to do the landscape lrcl'lutecture for the. Entire Federal tri- angle. Fountain Is Proposed, One of the proposals made for this! park is a Pennsylvania fountain. An organization known as the Pennsylvania Gift Fountain Association started a movement to place a monumental foun tain bearing the name of the State, to be placed on the great Avenue bearin the same name, at this juncture. Legis- lation to permit the Government to ac cept such a fountain was introduced in Congress, but has progressed no further than the Committee on the Library of | the House of Representatives. Efforts to discover today the status of this as- sociation’s efforts to get the fountain met with little success. Some sort of landscape feature, in- cluding water as an important part, such as a fountain or a pool, has long been considered favorably for this block. In the meantime, until those in charge can complete their plans for eventual landscaping of this highly im- portant corner, the place will be made into what is expected to be a simple, but effective, park of level grass open- ing the vista at that corner and greatly changing the looks of that section of downtown Washington. Fixtures to Be Saved. ‘The Government plans to save sev- eral materials such as electric fixtures, door checks, night latches, door stops and fire extinguishers in all buildings. The contractors wrecking the lot will be required to take over and remove the great bulk of the material. The con- tractors also will fill up the excava- tions, such as cellars, with earth, which is to be free from perishable rubbish and unsuitable material. The fill is to be placed in horizontal layers not over 8 inches in depth and each layer is to be thoroughly tamped, packed or pud- dled as directed, so that no settlement of the earth shall occur. The surface is to be finished with a good layer of top soil, poisoned against grubs and seeded for grass, or sodded in place. Of interest ‘to numerous Washing- tonians who have endeavored with sometimes indifferent success to make a lawn, the Government specifications provide that the grass seed shall be the following mixture: “Sixteen pounds of recleaned blue grass, four pounds of Rhode Island bent grass and one pound t’:r :zhlu Dutch clover per 1,000 square Theater Keeps Stage Equipment. The theatrical equipment in Poli's Theater does not belong to the Govern- ment and is at the disposal of the owner, who' has been renting the place since it was purchased by the Govern- ment many years ago. The largest Federal activity in the square is the United States Coast Guard, which will move late this month to the bullding known as Annex No. 1, Pennsylvania avenue and Madi- son place. This organization has sev- eral hundred employes located in the old Cornwell Building, _sometimes known as the old G. A. R. Bullding, at 1412 Pennsylvania avenue, and the Darby Bullding, at the corner of Four- teenth and E streets. The Coast Guard will nearly fill Annex No, 1, which pro- Vides a suitable place under one roof for this organization. The Metropolitan Trafc Bureau of the Police Department, which is located on Pennsylvania avenue, is understood to be planning to move to a location on John May place not far from the Municipal Court, TRAFFIC BUREAU TO MOVE. Offices Are Expected to Be Re-estab- lished in Walker Building. The Traffic Bureau and the office of the director of traffic probably will be moved to the Walker south side of Louis| avenue opposite the Districr. Suprems’ Cours witin she uilding on the | in; ONE DEAD, 12HURT N AUTO ACGDENTS N WD NEAR HERE Norman T, Beaton Dies From Fractured Skull After Crash Near Clinton. FOUR-YEAR-OLD GIRL IN SERIOUS CONDITION Photograph shows progress made on the approach to the bridge from the projected Rock Creek Speedway, which will link the park with the drive about Potomac Park. —Star Staff Photo. C. E COLLIFLOWER HEADS GRAND JURY Coal Merchant Appointed by Justice Adkins to Conduct Investigations of Crime. C. Ernest Colliflower, jr., 47 years old, coal merchant at 1001 Fifteenth street and residing at 1112 Buchanan street, was selected today by Justice Jesse C. Adkins to be foreman of the new grand Jury, which will inquire into all charges of crime during the coming three wmonths. Other members of the new grand Jury are Hudson D. Baines, Southern Railway; Andrew Saul, 2126 Connecti- cut avenue; Miss Dorcthy E. Linkins, 3701 Porter street; Brooks Cross, 113 Tenth street northeast; Mrs. Margaret A. Townsend, 2814 Thirteenth street; Asmus Diekman, 817 Webster street; | Mrs. William B. Curry, 1727 Ninth street; Jesse F. Baggeit, 403 Upshur! street; George A. Emmons, 3122 Thirty- eighth street; Edward C. Jones, 1826 Massachusetts avenue southeast; uel G. Chestnut, 519 Thirteenth t northeast; Benjamin F. Arrington, 1734 Oregon avenue; Willlam D. Mitchell, | 1301 Fifteenth street; Mrs. Minnie W. Courtney, 2814 Thirteenth street; Vester | A. Nelson, 1811 Kenyon street; Jesse | L. Jackson, 34 Q street; Mrs. Coila A. Maholm, 5519 Third street; Robert A. Genau, 825 North Capitol street; Mrs. Marie A. Stulz, 407 Seward square southeast; William R. Pennington, 3236 Fourth street southeast; T. Blackwell Johnson, 28 Quincy place, and Robert Reichard, 1247 Thirty-third street. THUGS DRAW GUNS Forced from his taxicab at the point | of a gun by three men, W. H. Neale, colored, driver for the Try-Me Cab Co., plodded wearily back to his company’s headquarters and told offiicials there that the men hailed him at Third and F streets southwest and made him drive them into nearby Maryland be- fore taking charge of the vehicle. The cab later in the afternoon was found abandoned on Branch road by police of the eleventh precinct station. — next week or 10 days, if was learned | today. This building, which in former years served as the District Building, was un- til recently used by the Federal Gov- | ernment for certain activities of the | Internal Revenue Bureau. The building | is now owned by the District, having | been purchased as part of its program | of acquisitions for the new Municipal Center. According to Inspector E. W. Brown, in charge of the Traffic Bureau, the building could be made ready for use by the Traffic Bureau with a little paint and a few beaver board partitions. He sald that when the building was bought there was an arrangement between the Federal and District governments that the latter would not seek to occupy it for a year. Owing to the urgency of the present situation, as the Commissioners are forced to vacate before August 1. it is thought that this arrangement can be rescinded. If this g{ovu impossible the bureau will probably be moved to the Equity Building, a few doors around the cor- ner on John Marshall place. This build- ing was also bought by the District as part of the new municipal center, but Inspector Brown said it was not very | suitable to the needs of the Traffic Bureau and would necessitate consider- able remodelling. PLAZA HOTELS DOOMED. Area Near Capitol to Be Improved by Clearing Site. Bids will be opened at 3 o'clock this afternoon by David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, for the tearing down of the last of the war-time Government dormitories in front of Union Station to make way for the improvements of the plaza as a park of the Capitol Grounds. ‘There are 13 dormitories, a heating plant and a laundry building remaining and a contract for taking them down probably will be awarded within a few days. Mr. Lynn estimated today that by the end of October all of the dormi- tories will have been removed. Desirous of going ahead as rapidly as possible with beautification of this area, Mr. Lynn also announced today that the work of tearing down the Maltbie Building and the old Arthur School, be- tween street, C street, Arthur place and New Jersey avenue, would start in August. The Maltbie Building is occupled by the Federal Board for Vo- cational Training and by the United States Housing Bureau, which will be placed in other quarters by the Public Buildings Commission. 1n connection with the improvement of the plaza the street railway com- nies will be required to remove their racks from Delaware avenue between the station and B street and from B street between Delaware avenue and First street east. New tracks will be laid on C street from Delaware avenue to first east and on First street from B to the station. The tracks on C street will be lowered into s depres- sion between New Jersey and la- ware avenues in order to leave an un- | obstructed view of the Capitol from the | entrances of Union Station. It is not known definitely just when this track work will start. @ Congress also has just appropriated money to embellish the architectural appearance of the Senate Office Build- t the corner of Delaware avenue eet to make plans for the puaze it conform to improvement TWO-DAY FAIR WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR DISTRICT Prediction Made for Moderate Summer Temperature Also in Virginia and Maryland. Moderate Summer weather, with the temperature hovering around 88 degrees, in will prevail today and tomorrow Washington and nearby Virginia and | Maryland, the Weather Bureau forecast today. The local report predicted fair today and tomorrow, with steady easterly winds. A slight drop in temperature is expected tonight. The overcast weather of yesterday, un- relieved by thunder showers in suburban sectors, raised the humidity to the op- pressive level of 62 degrees. The high- est_ temperature mark was 92 degrees. One heat prostration was reported. Henry Levi, 63 years old, formerly of Alaska, was overcome by the heat and taken to Gallinger Hospital. His local address is not kno EDWARD DONN, . NAMED ARCATECT Selected as Consultant for Terminal Building on Memorial Boulevard. Edward W. Donn, jr., of Washington, has been selected by the Fine Arts Commission for recommendation as the consulting architect for the Terminal Building of the Mount Vernon Boule- vard at the Mount Vernon end of the highway. The recommendation has gone forward, it was stated today, to Thomas 'H. MacDonald, chief of the Bureau of Public Roads, who is expected to give it his approval. The Terminal Building is to be de- signed so as to harmonize with the home of George Washington, the so- cllgz_l MAmD° ion House nnMoun:eg:ggnn. . Donn is an expert on uc- tion of buildings in the old Virginia colonial style. He is the architect who been chosen by the Wakefleld Na- tional Memorial Association to design tr2 reproduction of the house in which George Washington was born, which is soon to be erected near the shore of the lower Potomac River in Westmoreland County, Va. One of the features of the Mount Vernon terminal of the Memorial Boulevard will be a large parking space for automobiles, which will accommo- date at least 2,500 cars. The surround- ing area will be landscaped under the direction of Gilmore G. Clarke of New York to conform to the general appear- ance of the Mount Vernon estate. Mr. Donn's office in Washington is at 1920 K street. WALTER JOHNSON, JR., PITCHES IN GAME Appears on Mound for First Time Since Auto Injured Him. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. BETHESDA, Md,, July 7.—While his famous father was piloting the fast- traveling Nats to a hard-fought vic- tory, Walter Johnson, jr, achieved an important triumph himself yesterday. He demonstrated his ability to pitch again for the first time since he was struck by an automobile several months ago. ‘The youthful Walter took the mound for the first two innings for the Be- thesda Juniors, in the Capital City League. He was under strict orders from Walter, sr., not to do any batting and had to leave the game when his turn came at the plate. The manager’s son was injured when struck by an automobile while skating in front of his home, in Alta Vista. He sustained two broken legs and at first it was feared the injuries would end his promising base ball career. THREE TAKEN TO COURT ON DRY LAW CHARGES One Fined $75, Others Plead Not Guilty and Demand Trials by Jury. Two alleged dry law violators pleaded not guilty and demanded jury trials at Police Court today, while a third re- celved a sentence of $75 fine or 45 days for possession from Judge Robert E. Mattingly. Sergt. George Little and his liquor squad seized two automobiles and ar- rested two persons after short chases. Mitchell M. Altine, 21, 1137 Tenth street, and Albert T. Wesley, colored, were held for jury trials, charged with possession. Police seized three half gallons of whisky in the latter case, while they declared Altine broke two bottles on the windshield of his car be- fore they were able to intervene, Charles Douglas, colored, whom Po- liceman C. W. Sine of the Trafic Bu- reau arrested after a short chase, was sentenced. The policeman discovered three half-gallons of liquor in the ma- e. Douglas also received & $5 fine from speeding. %, | Judge Ralph Given for TRIAL FOR KILLING 0OF YORK BEGINS John Borum, John Logan and Milton Guy Charged With Officer’s Death. John Borum, John Logan and Milton Guy, all colored, were placed on trial Justice Jesse C. Adkins. on an indict- ment charging them with murder in the first degree in connection with the killing of Lamar Watson York, a pro- hibition agent, April 12 last in Brooks court, between O and P, First and North Capitol streets, It is the first capital case of the new justice. The morning session of the court was occupled in an effort to secure a Jury of 12 persons satisfactory to the Pprosecution and to the defense, One of the inquiries propounded to pros- pective jurors was whether any of them had subscribed to a fund which The Star raised for the relief of the widow and children of the slain officer. None of the panel had made subscriptions. Two women and one man in the jury |box at the time declared they had | prejudice against the use of liquor, but admitted a prejudice would not inter- fere with reaching a verdict on the law and the evidence as heard in the court. The panel of 26 jurors serving in the court was exhaustd by noon and Justice Adkins directed the summoning of a special venire of 100 names for tomorrow morning, to which time the trial was adjourned. Killed April 12. Assistant United States Attorney Wil- liam H. Collins is conducting the prose- cution, while Attorneys James A. O'Shea and John H. Burnett appear for Logan, Bertrand Emerson, jr., for Guy, an Peter R. Richardson for Borum. York was shot to death the morning of April 12. Armed posses of police and mohn:mon agents arrested Borum and gan the next day. York was returning to his shortly after midnight, after going off duty, when he trailed a car which he suspected had “smoked screened” him several times previously. The car went into Brooks court, back of First and P streets and York parked his own machine outside. According to conflicting stories told at the time, the prohibition agent found the car standing in front of a house. | Its two colored ' occupants apparently had either abandoned it, or were mak- ing a delivery. He seized the car and sounded the siren for police aid. At _the inquest W. T. Burroughs of 221 B street testified that York had asked him to call the police. Burroughs was in the habit of parking his car in an alley garage. He said a colored man wamed him not to call. Says Spurned Bribe. After the arrest of Borum and Logan | police quoted them as saying York was shot after he had spurned a bribe to release the car. When the prohibition | agent sounded the siren a small crowd | congregated about the car. Another | witness testified two men approached him and one asked for a cigarette, | When the agent reached in his pocket | for a package one of the men was said to have shot him. ‘The bullet passed through York’s head, resulting in almost immediate home taken to Freedman's Hospital. Borum was arrested in a house on T street near Thirteenth. Detective Sergts. Tom Sweeney and Joseph F. Waldron of the homicide squad, aided by a number of police and Federal agents, broke into the house. Lieut. Edward J. Kelly and three prohibition agents, with a Maryland State policeman, arrested Logan in a house in Sunderland, Md. York was the father of two small children. NATIONAL CONCERN BUYS SHENANDOAH APPLE FIRM Strasburg Company to Be Operated as Subsidiary of Pur- chaser. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., July 7.—Officers of the National Fruit Product Co. have announced that the Shenandoah Apple Products Corporation, Strasburg, Va., acquired last week by the former com- pany, will be operated as a subsidiary. The deal was effected by an exchange of preferred stock and purchase of the common stock for cash. Officers are: Frank Armstrong, sr., president; Joseph U. Dellinger, vice president; J. B. Jones, treasurer; Frank Armstrong, jr., secretary, and they. with E G. Grab form the board of director: R. N. Koblegard is president of the Na- tional PFruit Product Co. which oper- ates large plants in Winchester and Waynesboro, Va.,, and two in Martins- burg, W. Va.,, with distributing depots in Washington, D. C.; Glassboro, N. J.; Birmingham, Ala,, and in the New Eng- land States. Vaudeville Planned. HERNDON, Va,, July 7 (Special).— Under the direction of Mrs. E. M. Arm- field, president of the Women's Auxil- iary of the Fire Department, a vaude- ville entertainment will be given in the school auditortum of Herndon, on July 16, for m&m:‘n; of the Herndon Fire Departms . Arthur Hyde Buell is chairman of the in Criminal Division 1 today before | death. He was pronounced dead when )y tol. 1P Wihston told and means ' had ‘mond, Child Struck by Car When With Father—Local Woman Hurt in Baltimore. A toll of 1 life and 12 casualties was taken by traffic accidents yesterday in & series of mishaps occurring in the Dis- trict and nearby Virginia and Marya land. Three of those suffering from in~ Juries are reported to be in a serious condition. A fractured skull received by Norman T. Beaton, 26 years old, of 62 K street, when a car in which he was riding crashed into a telegraph pole near Clin- ton, Md., rday afternoon proved fatal yesterday, when he died at Cas~ ualty Hospital, 5 Beaton was riding in a machine driven by Harold E. McCarthy, 34, of 1300 Taylor street, who told Maryland State police that a machine approaching from the opposite direction forced him off the road and into the pole. McCarthy 1escaped with a fractured knee. Four-year-old Teresa Andrews of 310 C street was still unconscious at Emes gency Hospital today with injuries sufe fered yesterday when an automobile driven by R. W. Beeskow, 25, of 1420 M street, struck her at Eighth street and Mount Vernon place. Condition Serious. ‘The child, according to second pre- cinct police, was walking with her father when the accident occurred. She was rushed to Emergency, where her condi- tion was said to be serious today. Beeskow was arrested and later released in rustody of friends. Mrs, Lilllan May English, 28 years old, of 324 Taylor street, was seriously urt in a Baltimore collision last night, a taxicab crashing into a machine driven by her husband, Herman Eng- ylish, 30, a salesman attached to the local office of the Prudential Life In- surance Co. Mrs. English was hurled to the side- walk by the impact when the cars ran together at Eager and Fallsway streets, The cab driver was arrested on an assault charge after Mrs. English was removed to Mercy Hospital, where she was treated for severe head injuries. Her husband escaped with minor hurts. John Hurley, 32 years old, and Rosa Stringfellow, 34, both of 908 New York avenue, were hurt when an automobile in which they were riding overturned near Fairfax, Va. The former is suf- fering from severe back injuries at Emergency Hospital, while his come panion escaped with slight lacerations of the face. € A bruised left foot, lacerations and contusions of the body were sustained by Patricia Reeves, 4 years old, of 1421 8 street southeast, when she walked into the rear fender of an automobile driven by W. T. Scott, colored, 19, of 322 & street, at S street and Nichols avenue southeast. Officer Thrown From Motor Cycle. Precinct Datective J. J. Tolson of No, 11 station placed the girl in his ma- chine and drove her to Providence Hos« pital, where 'she was treated and later permitted to leave the institution. John 8. Snyder, 19, of 1006 Jackson street, northeast, was cut about the fore- head in an accident early yesterday afternoon, when a machine he was driv- ing was in a collision with a street car of the Washington Railway & Elec~ tric Co. at Fourth and R streets, Sny- der was taken to Garfleld Hospital. Park Policeman J. F. Grove, 42, re- ceived lacerations of the legs, right arm and body last night when hurled from his motor cycle when it collided with an automobile operated by William Manville, 16, of 5625 Daniels road, at Military road near Beach drive, in Rock Creek Park. He was treated at Walter Reed Hospital. George W. Critch of Hopewell, Va., was arrested by third precinct police and charged with failing to give the right of way after an accident in which ee colored men were slightly hurt Seventeenth street and Rhode Island avenue. He posted $25 collateral. ‘The men injured gave their names as Tennis Mackey, 30; Homer Fries, 35, and Geoffrey Fries, 35, all colored, of 311 Park court southwest. They did not require hospital treatment. Mrs. L. Nathanson, 42, of 1000 block Tenth street, sustained cuts and bruises when an automobile in which she was riding collided, with another car at assachusetts avenue and North Capi- tol street. Mrs, Nathanson was treated at Sibley Hospital and dismissed. 4 $2,000 IN GOLD TAKEN AT OFFICE Dentist's Safe Is ‘Robbed of Pre- cious Store, but Bandits Miss ! Other Valuable Metal. i Blasting open the safe of Dr. Robert J. Rothstein, at 1616 K street, yegg- men stole approximately $2,000 worth of dentists' gold and also ransacked the office of Dr. J. P. Willlams, 2034 Clagett street northeast, where they made off with several pairs of forceps and a gold upper bridge valued at $60. A double charge of nitroglycerine was used by the thieves to crack the strongbox at Dr. Rothstein’s office. The robbers overlooked a steel box con- taining several thousand dollars’ worth of other metal, police were lnlld. i No finger prints or other clues eoul be found by police investigating the two thefts. ADMITS BURGLARIES Youth Is Held to Grand Jury. Gets Two Years for Pistol. Willard Winston, arrested yeste: admitted robbing two Chevy Ol homes upon his arraignment in Police grand jury under $5,000 bond. Judge Robert E. Mattingly ordered him to mlx for two years for carrying a re- volver. ‘The suspicious actions of the 17-year- old boy caused his arrest after he had alighted from a_taxicab in_downtown ‘Washin by Policeman F. 8. Mar- shall of the first precinct. The police- man searched him and discovemed the " ™k come to va,