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A—16 » DRDER OF RELEASE OF BREWSTER DUE FROM GLOTH TODAY Prosecutor Believes Pris- oner Had No Part in Death of Mary Baker. WARRANT FOR BARRERE ISSUED, THEN DESTROYED Virginia Custom Is to Act Thus to Have Suspect Returned to Scene. Herman L. Brewster, held in the Arlington County Jail on a warrant charging him with the murder on April 11 of Miss Mary Baker, may be re- leased today, it was stated by Common- wealth’s Attorney William C. Gloth. Brewster, a soldier, has been in jall for the past several weeks as a result of an alleged confession, which he afterward Tepudiated. Gloth said that if he could make the Necessary arrangements Brewster would be given his liberty, authorities mow feeling certain that he knows nothing of the murder. The only thing that in- terfered with the man’s release this morning is an agreement that Gloth has with Capt. A. R. Bolling, Brewster's commanding officer, that the soldier would not be turned loose without the officer having been so notified. May Leave Army. It is believed that Brewster may leave the Army as a result of the unfavor- able publicity resulting from his arrest. A murder warrant for Herman H. Barrede, issued several days ago, at the instance of Gloth, was drawn as a re- sult of reports that the former had been seen in the Predericksburg, Va., section recently and authorities felt that they must have some authority to bring him back if he was discovered there, it was stated today by Gloth. The warrant was destroyed when Barrere was not found. Followed Old Custom. Gloth said that he had requested the fssuance of the warrant by Associate Trial Justice Bryan Gordon in accord- ance with a policy that must be fol- lowed in Virginia in order to return a suspect to-the county from some other place, the law providing that such per- sons may not be removed against their will unless charged with some specific offense. Similar warrants have been used in the apprehension of every other person taken into custody for questioning in connection with the crime and are not to be taken as an indication that the authorities believe the persons so ar- rested are guilty of the crime with which they are charged in the war- rants, Gloth declared. COLORED MAN ARESTED ON CHARGE OF LARCENY Beven Instances of Housebreaking Also Alleged Against Thomas R. Watson. Seven charges of housebreaking and | @ charge of larceny of an automobile | ‘were lodged against Thomas R. Watson, 36 years old, colored, of 1238 Houzen | court southwest, by police of the second precinct station this mogning. ‘Watson is said by polie have con- fessed to entering freight cars at the Swift & Co. siding, First and L streets northeast, on seven different occasions and making off with small quantities of meat and also to have admitted to the theft of a machine in which he drove to the siding Wednesday night. ‘The colored man was placed under arrest by a night watchman at the siding, when he is said to have entered & box car Wednesday night, and was turned over to Policemen C. N. Strange and C. R. Bremmerman of No. 2 sta- tion. The stolen car was returned to its owner. ALEXANDRIAN ARRESTED J. J. Langford Held at York, Pa., on Theft Charge. By the Assoctated Press. YORK, Pa., July 12—J. J. Langford of Alexandria, Va., aileged by police to be the key man in a ring of store thieves, was arrested yesterday on a charge of stealing tires from a chain store, where he formerly was employed. Auditors, examining the stock and books of the store, uncovered a shortage of $975 in merchandise. It was said by police that goods were stolen from the local store, then shipped to Alex- andria and sold. DIPLOMAT’S WIDOW DIES | Mrs. Frances Clara Osborne, Living in Paris, Was Illinois Native. PARIS, July 12 (#)—Mrs. Frances Clara Osborne, widow of the American diplomat, Wililam McKinley Osborne, died suddenly Thursday. She was born in Blondesville, 11, and was related to prominent families' in Washington and Cleveland. Burial will be in America. Mrs. Osborne’s husband was consul general at London, England, from 1897 to 1902, it was learned at the State Department today. He d'ed in the latter year. SODALITY FORMED @pectnl Dispatch to The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., July 12—Or- ganization of a sodality was eflected Thursday at a meeting of about 40 members of the new Catholic parish of | @ilver Spring held in the Knights of Columbus Hall last night. Miss Rose Clark was elected presi- dent, Mrs. May Cissel vice president, Mrs. Joseph Weber secretary and Mrs. James J Hanan treasurer. Mrs. J. H. Cissel, Mrs. Thomas Quilter and Miss Marie sultants. Tentative plans were made for a card party to be held in the near future Benediction was given by Rev. T. A. Calnan before the meeting. FOOD SALE FOR FIREMEN Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va. July 12.—The first of & series of four food sales for the ben- efit of the Fairfax Volunteer Fire De- rtment will be held this after- oon at 2 o'clock in J. E. Nickell's yFo AS Unusual Demands Enliven Weather Men’s Careers in Capital. Good Nature and Wisdom Are Combined in Fulfilling Daily Tasks. BY REX COLLIER. The worries of the weather man do not end with the study of meteorologi-| cal reports, examination of instruments and the formulation of forecasts. Besides running the daily risk of in- curring the displeasure of disappointed picknickers, rain-check holders and other victims of the unruly elements, heé must be prepared to meet most un- usual and unexpected demands upon his unvarying good nature. Forecasters Charles L. Mitchell and R. Hanson Weightman of the local ‘Weather Bureau are no exception to the rule, and they have had more than their share of added responsibility dur- ing the record-breaking dry spell just ending. Farmer Comes With Tale of Woe. Recently there came to Mitchell's modest office at Twenty-fourth and M streets a sturdy Virginia farmer whose bronzed forehead was furrowed with., trouble. He had been referred to the Weather Bureau from another division of the Department of Agriculture. “I'm up against it” the rustic stranger explained to the courteo and sympathetic prognosticator. 1 have a large herd of pure-bred cattle down in the Shenandoah Valley and | they are about to die of thirst. We haven't had more than a sprinkle of rain for months. My wells are empty, my cisterns are about the same and now the river itself is going dry.” ‘The caller paused to mop his anguished brow. The forecaster also brushed away a few beads of perspira- tion. Plainly this man was desperate. Could it be he had come to wreck vengeance on an innocent forecaster? Mitchell Parries Question. “That's certainly too bad,” Mitchell commented by way of parrying. “It's worse f{i that,” the farmer replied, savagely. “It's a calamity. If my herd dies, I'm a ruined man. Some- thing’s gotta be done, and quickly.” The forecaster took a deep breath and scratched his head in a perplexed manner. Plainly it was his move now. He wondered if the best move would not be in the direction of an open win- | dow. “I wish I could help you,” Mitchell announced sincerely. “You can,” the farmer declared. “Tell me where I can drive my cattle | to water.” Hard Knot to Untie. Here was one of those unusual and | unexpected situations that all good | forecasters must encounter. Of course, the proper response would be that fore- casters do not keep tab on where the water goes after it has fallen from the | skies. They are not required to check on the aridity of streams or the loca. tion of watering places for cattle. But the present exigency could not be dealt with so easily. Such an an- swer, however justified, would scarcely meet the emergency. The farmer | moved forward in his chair, ready for the official's answer. Suddenly Provi- dence intervened. A recollection flashed through Mitchell's mind of a certain forécast he had completed a few hours before. The forecaster's face broke into a relieved smile. ! Forecast of Rain Is True. “Why you have nothing to worry about,” Mitchell asserted confidently. | “You're going to have plenty of rain | down on your farm within the next 24 | hours. ‘Thunderstorms and everything. | Maybe a cloudburst. I just sent out a forecast to that effect.” | weather reports that are printed T BARRES Eewing CHARLES L. MITCHELL. R. HANSON WEIGHTMAN. like clinch, voiced repeated thanks and bowed himself out of the door. Mitchell has heard no more from the Virginian, but he checked up the next day and learned that the forecast had been fulfilled 100 per cent. “I'd have heard from him if that forecast had proved a failure, however,” Mitchell told friends after the inci- dent. Shows He's No Killjoy. All of which should tend to show tBat the weather man is not a hard- hearted killjoy whose chief pleasure in life is predicting rains on holidays and withholding snow from youngsters with Christmas _sleds. Both of the local forecasters are human beings, with families and happy homes. They are just as much dis- gusted when torrents spoil a double- header as the rest of the city—and probably more troubled than the aver- age citizen when the forecast goes haywire. In_addition to issuing the regular in the newspapers and bulletinized in public places, they willingly make spe- cial forecasts for the benefit of varied interests and individuals. When the home team is playing at Griffith Stadi- um, they answer frequent phone calls from park officials regarding the weath- er prospects. They advise the White House as to threatening conditions over the week end and even tell housewives now and then whether it is safe to hang the family wash out in the back yard. Correct 85 Per Cent of Time. ‘This is all a part of Uncle Sam’s serv- ice to his citizens, none of whom is too humble to receive kindly consideration. The time you feel inclined to criti- cize the weather man for a mistake in calculation, remember that carefully PURCHASE DOUBLES NATIONAL MUSEUM MOTH COLLECTION Half Million Specimens of About 10,000 Varieties Acquired for $50,000. COST FAMOUS, SURGEON MORE THAN $500,000 Dr. William Barnes of Deecatur, Ill., Followed Hobby of Gathering Insects for 50 Years. ‘The life hobby of a famous surgeon who devoted his spare time and money for 50 years to collecting moths and butterflies has resulted in doubling the collection’ of these insects in the Na- tional Museum. Congress in the second deficiency bill for the Department of Agriculture ap- lection of Dr. Willlam Barnes of Deca- ur, Ill, consisting of approximately half a million specimens of about 10,000 varieties. Frroprlnhd $50,000 to purchase the col- Dr. Barnes had the most complete | existence of the North| collection in American moths and butterflies, main- taining a large private museum Decatur, which was visited by ento- mologists from all parts of the country. Altogether, it is estimated, he spent more than $500,000 on this collection, sometimes keeping six collectors con- tinually in the field and paying the salary of an expert entomologist in De- catur. Offered to U. S. for $50,000. ‘The surgeon had built a hospital, and intended that eventually the sales price of the collection should be a per- manent endowment for this institu- tion. When he died this Spring the collection was offered to the Govern- { ment for $50,000 or to various wealthy collectors for $200,000. The particular value to the Govern- ment is that many of the moths are from other habits, calling for different methods of control. The presence of type speci- mens in Washington is necessary for the research work of the department. When a new species of insect is de- scribed, the specimen from which the description is made becomes the “type specimen” for the world, by comparison with which identifications must be made. Absolute identifications cannot be made from verbal descriptions or drawings. Many of the type specimens of North American insects are in the British Museum, having first been col- lected in the exploration days and identified as species in Great Britain. Consequently it has been necessary sometimes to send specimens collected here to England to secure exact identi- fication by comparison. Dr. Barnes made several trips to England to com- pare his own specimens with those in the museum collection in order to es- tablish new type specimens, which now come to the museum. i Collection Nears Million. By this acquisition the national col- lection approaches a millibn_specimens, including varieties from all over the world. North America alone has ap- proximately 10,000 varieties, of which only 699 are butterflies and all the rest moths. Varieties often differ in de- tails discernible only to the expert, brought about by differences in environ- ment. When a new pest appears in any {part of the country the first step is to in | among the most destructive of insect | pests, but differ only in slight details| species of very different | HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 12, 1930. RECASTER PLACATES FARMER| DROUGHT THREATENS CATTLE Gun carriage passing along the road in Arlington Cemetery yesterday to the last resting place for Maj. Gen. Wendell C. Neville, commandant of the Marine Corps. —Associated Press Photo. MEXICANS STUDY WASHINGTON PLAN Officials Look for Ideas to Apply in Developing Own Capital City. A party of nine high officials of the Mexican government has just completed a preliminary study of the presenet de- velopments and future plans for Wash- ington with a view to obtaining ideas that may be helpful in the development of Mexico City. Under the guidance of Dr. L. S. Rowe, director general of the Pan-American Union, they visited this week the office of Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., engineer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, who explained to them the plan upon which the City of Washington has been developed thus far and the prospects for the future. In the party were Luls Montes de Oca, minister of finance of Mexico; Senor Don Javier Sanchez Mejorada, director | general of the National Railways of Mexico; Fernando Gonzales Roa, coun- selor of the ministry of foreign affairs; Luciano Wichers, vice president of the Bank of Mexico; Senor Don Roberto Lopez, chief of the department of credit of the ministry of finance; Fernando Dias Barroso, adviser to the minister of finance; Senor Don Gustavo Velasco, secretary of the delegation; Senor Don Ricardo D. Carrion, secretary of the | | direction board of the National Railways | of Mexico. and Capt. Blas Tijerina Car- denas, military aide to the President of Mexico. Capt. Chisolm said that the party of Mexican officials appeared to be very much interested in the plans for the development of Washington and they expressed the hope, after studying the reports, drawings, maps and other records in his office, that they might have an opportunity to return and make a more detailed study of the | Capital City of the United States. “They were seemingly very much pleased with the way Washington is%| being developed,” said Capt. Chisolm. | “Mexico City, I understand, is being | developed according to a plan of its| own, but the officials who have been | studying Washington said that they were eager to pick up any new ideas ! local The farmer's face shone with grati- | kept records show that he is correct tude. There was awe in his eyes. He!in his prophecies about 85 per cent of that might fit into the present plans compare it with Telated creatures in| {hat might f capttal ety the museum to see whether it is not| Tubman were named as con- | gripped the forecaster's hand in a vise- the time. FOUR ARE INJURED INTRAFFIC MISHAPS Traffic Bureau Suffers Leg Fracture. Four persons, including a policeman, were hurt in a trio of automobile acci- dents in Washington and nearby Mary- land yesterday afternoon and last night. The officer, Pvt. Avon Shockey, 37- | year-old motor cycle policeman attached | to the Traffic Bureau, received a frac- | tured right leg when an automobile | driven by Joseph R. Smith, colored, 22, | of 424 Elm street, collided with his | motor .cycle at Colorado avenue and ! Piney Branch road. | Shockey was rushed to Walter Reed Hospital, where the fractured limb was | reset by Army surgeons. Smith was Lot ‘ held. | Two Hurt—Driver Sought. | Their automobile sideswiped by a hit- and-run machine on Georgia avenue ex- tended at North Woodside, Md., Blanche C. Blevins of 1667 Monroe street and | Spurgeon L. Beaver of 3601 Connecticut | avenue suffered lacerations about the head last night. | George G. August of 31 Warder strect, | who was driving a car behind the auto- | mobile operated by Beaver at the time | of the mishap, obtained the license number of the hit-and-run car and gave it to police. The injured pair were given first-aid treatment by Dr. W. R. Haynes of Silver Spring, Mrs. Emma V. Triepel, 63 years old, | of 3439 Mount Pleasant street, suffered cuts of the forehead and abrasions of | the right leg yesterday afternoon when | she walked into the side of an auto- | mobile driven by Frank F. Clarkson of 1530 Rhode Island avenue, at Eleventh and G streets. Mrs. Triepel was taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment. | Woman in Serious Condition. Mrs. Ruth W. Bagnall, 31, of 236 Massachusetts avenue northeast, was| released from the Women'’s Bureau yes- | terday, where she had been held pend- | ing the outcome of injuries suffered by | { Mrs_Catherine Mathews, 60, of 323 B | reet southwest. when Mrs. Bagnall's car struck her Thursday at North Capi- tol street and Massachusetts avenue. Mrs. Matthews is still reported to be in a serious condition at Casualty Hos-| { pital. TWO HURT ON HIGHWAY. Autombile Overturned by Hit-Run store at Fairfax. It will be given by the women of the north end of town and will be in charge of Mrs. E. R. Hol- brook. Cake, ple, rolls, chicken and all supplies for Sunday dinner will be on sale At the quarterly meeting of the aux- fliary Wednesday afternoon, members decided that each section of the town would be responsible for holding one sale. The ladies are anxious to swell their treasury to assist the firemen in mee the $1,900 note on the engine which is due in August. The secretary r instructed to ask Mrs. HyXN. Clarke draw up new by-laws. [ Driver in North Woodside. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., July 12.—A ! man and a woman were injured las! midnight when their car was over- i turned by a hit-and-run automobile on Georgia avenue extended, in North Woodside. They Were Miss Blanche C. Blevins 1ot 1667 Monroe street, who required two stitches in her scalp, and Spurgeon | L. Beaver of 3601 Conneticut avenue, the driver of the machine, who sus- | hour schedule of the Fourtee: WOMEN TO START | IR DERBY HERE Motor Cycle Policeman of National Races Ending at| Chicago Scheduled by Aero- | nautic Officials. By the Associated Pres: CHICAGO, July 12.—Starting points | for contests in the national air races | to be held at Curtiss-Wright-Reynolds Afrport at Chicago from August Semptember 1 _were announced yester- day by Maj. R. W. Schroeder, contest director, and Maj. Luke Christopher, secretary of the Contest Committee of the National Aeronautical Association The Eastern Woman's Air Deby will start at Washington, D. C. From the National Capital the girls will wing southward to Atlanta, thence westward, skirting the Gulf of Mexico, and north- ward up the Mississippi River Valley. Seattle, Wash., was named the stari- the point for the Men's Western Derby and Miami, Fla., for the Eastern Derby. El Paso, Tex, will be the take-off point from "the Southwest for . men flying planes of 500-cubic-inch piston displacement, while Easterners flying planes in that class will leave either from Hartford, Conn. or Boston, Mass. Los Angeles will be the starting point of the Non-Stop Derby, which Will offer prizes totaling $12,000. The Woman's Western Derby will take off from TLong Beach, = Calif. Control_points have been designated at San Diego, Phoenix, Tucson, Douglas, El Paso, Roswell, Lubbock, Amarillo, Wichita, Kansas City, St. Joseph, Des | Mofnes, Madison and’ Elgin. CAR SCHEDULES VARIED Non-Rush Hour Service on Four- teentk Street to Be Reduced. Several changes in the non-rush nth street n Co. in- In service recentl: ordered by the Public Utilities Gom. mission will be put into effect Monday. Under the new arrangement cars wili be routed between the hours of 9 and 3:30 pm. on week déys from Four- teenth and Decatur streets to Eighth and F_streets northeast by way of Union Station; from Third and Sheri- dan streets to the Navy Yard, and rom akoma Park =t Monument. i ey After 7 o'clock in the evening o week days and all day Sundays: ang holidays, cars on Fourteenth street will be operated between Fourteenth and Decatur streets and Eighth and F streets northeast by way of Union Station, and between Takoma Park and Navy Yard. e present rush hour schedule will not be disturbed. line of the Capital Tractio volving reductions CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dinner, the Wanderlusters, club hot Franklin Park, Va., 5:30 p.m. - FUTURE. tained cuts to his head. They were treated by Dr. W. R. Haynes of Silver Spring. Lawn fete, grounds of Nativity Chapel, Fourteenth d‘# A eets southeast, an some known creature which has ex- tended its range. Scarcely a_week goes by without some such call on the collection. Recently a rush order came in for identification of a caterpillar which was raising havoc with the avocado crop of Cuba, and which had the pecul- iar habit of cutting “shingles” out of the leaves and sewing them together into a roof over itself. Concealed by this green roof, it moved freely over the surface of the leaf, protected by its own enemies. tion cases, it was identified in a few minutes as a known pest which was trying to adapt itself to a new food supply. Otherwise a lengthy study would have been necessary before the creature could have been identified. BRIDGEMAN'S DEATH Albert Canter Expires at Hospital Shortly After Falling at Ar- lington Memorial Span. A coroner’s inquest into the death of Albert Canter, 31-year-old apprentice bridgeman who died in Casualty Hos- pital yesterday afternoon from injuries sustained when he fell while being hoisted by a derrick on the Arlington Memorial Bridge earlier in the day. will be held Monday morning at 11:30 o'clock, Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, District coroner, announced today. Canter is said to have lost his balance Wwhen the scoop in which he was riding tilted. He made an unsuccessful effort to clutch a chain to prevent falling and fell 30%feet to a barge. His head came in contact with a_ projection which pierced his skull. He was treated by Dr. A. H. Pike of Casualty Hospital and by Dr. H. A. Wood, physiclan for the Phoenix Bridge Co. Canter came here from New Hamp- shire to work on the bridge 4nd resided at 321 East Capitol street. MISS BEALL DELEGATE TO FRATERNITY MEET Will Attend Kappa Kappa Gamma National Convention, to Be Held July 18-25. Miss Winifred Beall of George Wash- ington University has been named dele- gate to the Kappa Kappa Gamma National Sorority Convention to repre- sent the local Gamma Chi Chapter. The conclave opens at Mackinac Island, Mich., July 18, and continues through July Miss Beall is_prominently connected with the local Y. W. C. A., in addition to her active membership in the local chapter of the sorority. She is a mem- ber of the Woman’s Athletic Association board. She also is a member of Hour Glass, woman's honorary sorority. GIRL PUT ON PROBATION ON BAD CHECK CHARGE Lucille Singleton, alias Baker, year-old Virginia girl, was placed on probation for a year by Judge Isaac R. Hitt at Police Court yesterday after being convicted of cashing a bad check. The check, said to have been on a bank in Rockingham, N. C., was for $50. It was given to a local merchant. Bhe was arrested by Headquarters De- tectives Ira Keck and B. W. Thompson. 22- By consulting the collec- | |LANSBURGH EMPLOYES PICNIC AT CHAPEL POINT J | Twelfth Annual Quting of Depart-| ment Store Force Made by Steamer and Autos. | _Leaving Washington on the steamer City of Washington this morning at 9 | o'clock, employes of Lansburgh & Bro. athletic events and games this after- noon at Chapel Point, Md., incident to the twelfth annual picnic under the auspices of the Mutual Relief Associa- tion of Lansburgh & Bro. In addition to those going by boat a number made the trip in automobiles. The games and other contests were arranged to get under way at 1 o'clock. | Arrangements have been made for tak- ing motion pictures of the various events. The principal event on the card \Is an obstacle race. Music on the boat | Orchestra. Those in charge of arrangements in- clude Thomas H. Mullenberg, president of the association, general chairman; | Miss D. Pratt, chafrman grounds; Gil- bert Bogan, games; H. Darby, refresh- ments; S. Hall, tickets; C. Hamm, | prizes; A. S. Taley, publicity; A. Shortt, transportation, and M. Kahn, entertain- | ment. UNEMPLOYMENT LESS IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY| | Noted by Social| Service League in Monthly Report. | Improvement Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 12—The un- | employment situation in Montgomery |County, so far as the Social Service | League is concerned, has been greatly improved by the usual heavy Summer ! farm work, according to the monthly | ireport of Miss Irma Mohr, executive | | secretary, submitted at the July meeting of the organization. At the end of May, so the report | showed, 80 family cases. due largely to | unemployment, were dropped by the league, and unemployment, the report stated, was not a problem among the | 24 new family cases added during June. Mental incompetency was stated by Miss Mohr to be the cause of most of the unemployment cases now under | the care of the league. A statement by Miss Mohr that the New York office of the Family Welfare Association of America had recently sent several prospective social welfare workers here o observe the work of the | county league was interpreted as a tribute to those in charge of the league’s activities in the county. Miss Estelle T. Moore, formerly presi- dent ot the Montgomery County Federa- tion of Women's Clubs, was re-elected chairman of the Home Welfare Com- mittee and Thomas C. Kelley of Darnes- town was made chairman of the Pub- licity Committee. Merchant Dies, MARTINSBURG, W. Va, July 12 (Special).—Isaac Snyder, 38, senior member of A Snyder & Co., merchants here, died at a local hospital Thurs- day after a week’s illness which fol- lowed a period of ill health. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. A. Snyder; one brother, Perry: two sisters, Mrs. Isaac Smith and Goldie Snyder. Burial will be made from Jack Lewis funeral par- | department. store joined in a program of | & is being furnished by the Night lek\B lors, lg: El:t mmo;:' met, Balti- more, ., af Lm. (daylight savings time), Friday. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair with mod- erate temperature tonight; tomorrow fair and warmer followed by local thundershowers late tomorrow after- non or night; cooler Monday, gentle northernly winds becoming southernly. Maryland—Fair with moderate tem perature tonight; tomorrow increasing cloudiness and warmer, followed by thundershowers tomorrow afte: noon or night; cooler Monday, dimi ishing northernly winds southernly. Virginia—Fair tonight and possibly tomorrow except local thundershowers late tomorrow afternoon in extreme west and north portions, slightly warmer tomorrow; diminishing northerly winds becoming southerly. West Virginla—Fair and continugd warm in north portion tonight. Tomor- row increasing cloudiness followed by thundershowers in the afternoon, cooler tomorrow night. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m.,, 92; 8 p.m., 85; 12 midnight, 77; 4 am, 72; 8 am,, 70; noon, 78. Barometer—4 pm., 29.72; 12 midnight, 29.7. 8 a.m, 29.86; noon, 29. Highest temperature, 93, occurred at 4:15 p.m. yesterday; lowest temperature. 68, occurred at 6 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 79; lowest, 68. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 3:28 am. and 4 p.m.; high tide, 9:03 a.m. and 9:35 p.m. Tomorrow—Low tide, 4:11 am. and 4:39 pm.; high tide, 9:42 am. and 10:15 p.m. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 4:52 a.m.; sun sets 7:35 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises 4:52 a.m.; sun sets 7:3¢ p.m. Moon rises 9:14 p.m.; sets 6:11 a.m, Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Condition of the Water. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers, clear this am. Weather in Varlous Cities. g Tem 29.69; 8 pm, am., 29.81; Stations. Abilene, Tex Albany, N, ¥ Birmingham Bismarck. Cleveland, O} bi hio. 30. 8°C El Paso. 23 Galveston, Tax. Helena, Mont.. Huron,' 8. Dak. Indianapolis.Ind Jacksonville,Fl: Kansas City. Los Angeles Loutsville, 2 Clear Cloudy - Bt.cloudy and M Portland, Oreg Raleigh, 'N_ C. 20, Salt Lake City. 3 San _Antonio. .’ 30.00 San Diego, Calif 20.82 San " Francisco. 30,02 t. Louis, Mo.. St. Paul,’Minn. Seattle, 'Wash okane, W clear Cloudy . Cloudy ime, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather London, England 52 Clear i 4 Clear rance. ) Tance. Stockholm, Gibraltar. (Noon. Horta (Fayal, Azores 68 (Current observations.) Hamilton, Bermud; 78 Havana, Colon, Can: Cloudy NAME USED IN ERROR Financier Says He Was Not Party to Advocating Tariff. LONDON, July 12 (#)—E. R. Pea- cock, Canadian-born financier, an- nounced today he was not a party to the recent manifesto in favor of greater interempyre trade by means of a tariff against foreign products, issued over the signatures of a number of leading bank- ers. Mr. Peacock’s name was used In error in published accounts of the manifesto. Clear Clear Clear me. today.) Part cloudy P, 5 art cloudy uba Toudy al Zone Licensed to Wed at Fairfax. FAIRFAX, Va., July 12 (Special).—A marriage license has been jssued at the clerk’s office in Fairfax fo John F.| French, 32, of Washington, D. C., and Mary Agnes Cullinan, 32, of Washing- ton. French fs a fingerprint expert A license was issued to Donald L. Ham- mer, 28, of Gettysburg, Pa, a motion picture operator, and Rhoda L. Buters- baugh, 23, of Waynesboro GETS POLICEM Torrance Sent to Fourth Pre Policeman B. R. Torrance of the| eighth precinct was summarily trans- ferred to the fourth precinct today on acogunt of the way in which he con- d_himself in making an arrest for a traffic violatlon two days ago. He will be brought before the Trial Board on charges of conduct prejudicial to the reputation of the police force. Benjamin Shapiro explained to Ji Gus Schuldt in Police Court last Thur: day that he had found his car ticketec | for being parked inside a cross-walk A large crowd was gathered around the car, and when he got in and tried to drive off, he found that somebody had removed the distributor. An Army offi- cer in the crowd explained to him that had bee: a policeman n tampering with the car, s becoming | Traffic Defendant. FOUR CONSIDERED INONDIETTEST DEVELOPS THEORY ON ANENA CAUSE Remarkable Change in Blood of Dogs Shown in Pellagra Experiments. NEW VIEWS ARE RESULT OF CHEMISTS’ RESEARCH Had Not Suspected Previously Something in Food Might Produce Malady. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Some forms of anemia may result from a specific chemical factor in diet. Chemists of the National Health In- stitute, as the old Hygienic Laboratory now is known, are seeking such a factor in onions as a result of recent entirely unexpected results of a heavy onion diet on dogs used in pellagra experiments. When onions were added to the ordi- FOR NEVILE POST Butler, Feland, Fuller and Russell in Line for Marine Corps Command. By the Associated Press. Four outstanding soldiers of the sea, one of them among the youngest major generals in Marine Corps history, were under consideration today to succeed Maj. Gen. Wendell C. Neville as com- mandant of the corps. The four officers, in the order of their rapk, were Maj. Gens. Smedley Darlington Butler and Logan Feland and Brig. Gens. Ben Hebard Fuller and John Henry Russell. The highest rank- ing officer, Gen. Butler, also was the youngest. ‘He will be 49 at the end of | this month. | Al four have had service in the | turbulent Caribbean and all have envi- able war records and numerous decora- tions and citations. |~ Gen. Fuller is now acting command- | ant. His experience and rank and his familiarity with the duties of the post, since he was assistant to Gen. Neville, who died ‘Tuesday, were considered strong reason for his selection. At one time Gen. Fuller was secretary of state, | police, war, interior and navy for Santo ; | Domingo. Gen. Butler gained Nation-wide pub- | licity when, as director of public safety | of Philadelphia, he set out to “clean up” | the city. He now commands the Ma- | rine Barracks at Quantico, Va. Gen. Feland is in command of the Marines in the Pacific. He is a veteran of service in Cuba, Porto Rico, Santo | | Domingo and Nicaragua. He, like Gen. Fuller, would be retired in 1933. Gen. Russell has becn American high issioner in Haiti since 1922, sides his Haitian service, he has had ‘ duty in China and Santo Domingo. MAN’S DEATH BRINGS CHARGE OF MURDER ,‘Susrect in Girl Quarrel Slaying Caught After Battle. Following the death of Dennis Col- lier, colored, 36, of 411 Elm street, at | the'Emergency Hospital early today, po- |lice of No. 2 police station placed a | charge of murder against Condee Har- tis, colored, 26 years old, of 1529 Ver- | mont_avenue. | Collier expired at 4 o'clock this morn- ing from a bullet wound in the abdo- men. Harris is said to have shot Collier during an altercation over a girl. Po- liceman Francis R. Ash @ the second precinct, placed Harris Winder arrest after a running gun battle. Harris is reported to have fired three times at the officer, who returned the volley, but none of the bullets took effect. The colored man was captured | when' caught in the act of burying a | revolver beneath the steps of a home one block from the scene of the slaying. Coroner J. Ramsey Nevitt has called an inquest into Collier's death for 11:30 |o’'clock Monday morning at the ‘Dis- trict Morgue. WOMAN CHASES BURGLAR AND CAUSES ARREST of Gun Policeman Answers Screams Mrs. Jennie Jones Running Barefoot From Home. 1 Pursued for more than a block by a screaming bare-footed woman, when discovered in her bed room last night, | Thomas Hardy, 35 years old, colored, of | 1036 Cissell's’ Court, was arrested by Policeman W. L. Brown of the seventh | precinct station ~ and charged with housebreaking. Mrs. Jennie Jones, 45 years old, of | 3069 M street, mother of six children and wife of an invalid, was preparing to retire Jast night when a colored man walked into the room. aken by surprise, the intruder fled with the woman close on his heels. Mrs. Jones screamed for a policeman and Pvt. Brown joined in the chase nd overhauled Hardy at Wisconsin avenue and M street, Germany Is Chilly. BERLIN, July 12 (#).—After a long period of warm weather Germany is experiencing a chilly mid-July. It is rainy and cool in Berlin and in parts of the Black Forest last night the temperature slumped as low as d | AN TRANSFERRED cinct Following Dismissal of | Shapiro, according to his story, then went into'a telephone booth to make a complaint to the superint>ndent of the | police force, but before he could- call Torrence yanked him out and took him to the station, where he was required | to put up $7 collateral on three park: ing charges. The officer admitted tam- pering with the man's car and Judge Schuldt returned the collaterai and dis- | missed all the cases without comment. | Maj. Henry G. Prat!, superintendent of police, waited for Shapiro to come in and make a complaint, but Shapiro did not show up. Ho, therefore, sent an inspector yesterday to inquii> of Judge Schuldt whether the story reported in the papers was correct. The judge confi the story and Torrence was ordered ferred. | ! conditions nary diet of the animals at the rate of approximately half an ounce to each two pounds of body weight, remarkable | changes took place in the blood. The {number of red blood cells fell sharply, 'iwm\ an accompanying remarkable in- jcrease in the number of white blcod cells. The reticulated red blood cells, supposed to represent a very early evo- lutionary type, and which ordinarily make up less than 1 per cent of the blood cells of a dog, rose to as much as 10 per cent of the whole and then fell. The white cells fall rather sharply after the preliminary rise. The observations were made by Dr. W. H. Sebrell, who is working with dogs to determine the relative richness in the hypothetical pellagra preventative vitamin of all foodstuffs generally available in the Southern States. Dogs Fed Balanced Diet. | Dr. Sebrell uses dogs in these experi- ments, because the “black-tongue” dis- ease, brought about in these animals by diet deficiencies, is considered anal- jogous to pellagra in humans. Before ! feeding the onions the animals were on (& standard balanced diet which has | been demanstrated to keep them in per- | fect health and which' contains a plen- tiful supply of liver. Addition of the onions was the only change, and Dr, | Sebrell can attribute the remarkable | changes in the blood to no other agency. Hitherto there has been no suspicion | that anemic conditions may have been {due to something in food, rather than to a lack of something. Apparently the standard diet contained everything | necessary to prevent anemia, and the onions added the causative principle. ‘ Ordinary amounts of onions had no effect. The changes in the blcod count —careful blood counts had been made before feeding the onions—were appar- !ent only when the ratio of about an jounce to two pounds of body weight was treached. They were progressively se- vere with increases in the onion diet. Difference in Blood. | It must be remembered, Dr. Sebrell said, that this peculiar behavior of the | blood may be confined to dogs whose blood composition differs somewhat from that of man. There is no evi- dence that onions would produce an {anemic condition in human beings. Even i’ similar efforts were produced, it would be necessary for a man to eat at | least a pound of onions a day for sev- eral days before there could’be any bad results, Probably nobody eats that |lies in the implications of a chemical principle producing such remarkable | blood changes in short order and the | passibility that this may be widely dis- tributed in nature. If this is the case, it would help clear up one of the obscure problems of the biochemistry {of the animal body. There are various sorts of anemias, and some forms until recently were practically incurable. Then it was found that inclusion of specified amounts of liver in the diet i had remarkable effects in restoring the blood count to normal So the chemistry of the onion sud- denly has become of extreme interest. One of the great chemical advances of modern times was the discovery of the |vitamins. It is thecretically possible that Dr. Sebrell's dogs may have opened ,up another chapter in research—the hunt for the “anti-vitamins.” The Na- tional Health Institute is especially anxious not to criticize the onion as an article of human consumption, because in any reasonable amount it remains a healthful addition to the diet. Be- sides, many things which affect dogs have no effect on humans, and vice versa. Dogs, for instance, cannot be inoculated with various serious human diseases. Not Changed by Cooking. Whatever the chemical principle in the onion is, it apparently is not changed by cooking. The onions used were of the best quality purchased on the Washington market, and the some results were obtained with raw and cooked vegetables. While the chemists are at work, Dr. Sebrell has returned to his peliagra work. The object is to find an easily obtainable regular diet for the rural Southern family. Dried veast is a powerful preventative of the disease, but it is “medicine.” Once the victim has been cured by it, he goes back to his old diet. and soon has a relapse. Some common food rich in pellagra preventative would be much better. PACKERS’ CASE HEARING TO BE HELD OCTOBER 7 Armour many. ‘The importance of the observation and Swift Concerns Ask Modification of 1920 Con- sent Decree. Justice Jennings Bailey of the Dis- trict Supreme Court gesterday set for hearing October 7 the applwation of the Armour and Swift paciing groups for a modification of the consent de- cree of February 27, 1920, by which the packers agreed te aivorce their business from unallied wdustries. Jus- tice Bailey recently o.erruled a motion of the two wholesale grocers' concerns to dismiss the petition of the packing interests before a final hearing on the motion. The packers claim that the changed in modern merchandising justifies the application to modify the terms of the decree. Counsel for the Government as well as for the packers and the wholesale organizations con- curred in the order fixing the date for the hearing. B. Y. P. U. TO MEET HERF Capital Selected for 1931 Conven tion by Delegates. SAN FRANCISCO, July 12 (#).—The board of managers of the Baptist Young People’s Union uf America yesterday se- lected Minneapolis as the 1932 conven- tion city. Milwaukee was a contender for the convention. Washington was se- lected for the 1931 gathering.