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e WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930. P PAGE B_1 FLYING RUN SQUAD CAPTURES THREE. IN 2DHILE CHASE Alleged Liquor Runners Are Held for Grand Jury Investigation. TIRE SHOT FROM AUTO, | ACCORDING TO FUGITIVE Montgomery and Joiner Pursue Machines Across Fields and Through Ditches. Captured after a spectacular 20-mile chase early teday, three reputed rum runners were held for a grand jury in- vestigation after a preliminary hearing several hours later before Needham C. ‘Turnage, United States Commissioner. The prisoners gave their names as Thomas B. Quaintrille, 26 years old, first block of N street; Irving Rosen- berg, 21, 600 block Kenyon street, and Alfred Cloud, 23, 3100 block Warder street. They were released under bond of $1,500 each. 17.Cases of Liquor Reported. T. O. Montgomery and R. T. Joiner of Sergt. George Little's tlying liquor squad testified they chased one of the two cars which the three men were using through numerous fields and across countless ditches before stopping the machine at Capital avenue and Kendall street northeast. It was re- ported to have been loaded with 17 cases of liquor. The other car was stopped a short distance tarther on. Montgomery declared he began fol- lowing the rum-laden machine at a point on the Crain Highway near the Bladensburg road. He sald it was driven by Quaintrille, while Rosenberg and Cloud were riding in a ‘“‘convoy’ machine. No effort was made, how- ever, to block the heavy police car. Both Montgomery and Joiner quoted Rosenberg as nmx he had helped Quaintrille load automobile. The policemen said Rosenberg told them he was to havé been paid $1 a case. All Three Ordered Held. Commissioner Turnage declared this testimony convinced him the men were equally responsible. He ordered that all three be held as principals in the first degree on charges of transportation and possession. , He overruled strenuous ob- jections of Myfon G. Ehrlich, attorney for the trio, The lawyer argued Rosen- berg and Cloud should be released. While Quaintrille, like Rosenberg and Cloud, declined to testify, he told re- rters the policemen had halted him y firing five bullets through the rear rtion of his car and shooting off a e. PUSH BALTIMORE MAN AS LABOR SECRETARY Group Asks Hoover to Name Maurice Bisgyer to Succeed Senatorial Nominee. 85 the Associated Press. Mayor Broening of Baltimore called on President Hegver today to urge the appointment of Maurice Bisgyer, Balti- more social worker, to succeed Secretary Davis. The Labor Department head is the Republican nominee for Senator in Pennsylvania. No time for his retire- ment from the cabinet has been set. With the mayor were State Senator Harry O. Levin and Joseph A. Halprin | of Baltimore, and Rabbi Louis J.{ Schwefel and < Isaac Gans of the District of Columbia. Leaving the White: House, they said the President indicated “very strongly” that no appointments would be made in the Labor Department until after the Fall election. CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE CLUB HOUSE ASSURED fract Recently Purchased at Gun- ston Manor, Va., and Land- scape Arrangements Made. A club house, built on a tract recently ; purchased at Gunston Manor, Va,, is now assured members of the League of the American Civil Service, it was an- aounced last night at a meeting at 1405 H street. Arrangements have already been eompleted for the landscaping and im- rovement of the property. Gunston &anor is situated on the west bank of ¢he Potomac River, about 26 miles from Washington. The Brookhart pay bill was criticized by speakers as giving civil service em- ployes in the upper grades & consider- Lbly larger increase than those in the wer grades. 800 ATTEND OUTING AT GLEN ECHO PARK Mothers and Children Guests of Annual Affair of Central Union Mission. Nearly 800 mothers and children, an- nual guests of the Central Union Mis- sion, enjoved an outing yesterday at the Glen Echo Amusement Park. The large party was transported to the park by seven special cars of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. Free tickets to park amusements were issued to the youngsters by the mis- sion. Outing arrangements were made by John S. Bennett, mission superinten- dent; his wife, Mrs. Bennett, director of the Federai Union Mission Emer- ency Home for Children, and Mrs. illiam H. Ramsey, president of the Women’s Mission Guild. ASKS $20,000 DAMAGES Y7illiam Davis Charges Oil Com- pany Hose Caused Bad Fall. The District of Columbia and the Btandard O1l Co. of New Jersey were sued jointly today for $20,000 damages in the District Supreme Court by Wil- liam J. Davis, 653 East Capitol street. for alleged personal injuries. Davis says he was severely injured February 8 when he tripped over a rubber hose ‘hich the company had stretched from sement at 719 East Gwynn BLIND MAN SUES Good Securities. ‘ Offered Check as Added In-| ducement to Transfer, | He Charges. | Being totally blind, Joseph E. Sexton, 121 Twelith street southeast, couldn't read the words “general mortgage” on the face of the bonds the salesman from | the F. H. Smith Co. wanted him to take | in exchange for the first mortgage bond | he owned. The salesman sald they were | “just as good” as those he had, and Sexton believed him, the latter says in | a sult filed in the District Supreme | Court. | And so it was not until last year that | the blind man learned the bonds he! had taken in exchange were practically | worthless, and that the $4,300 he had saved during his working years was| gone. | In an effort to recover the money, so that Sexton and his wife may have .mmethln% to bolster the $60-a-month | pension he draws from the Govern- ment, Attorney Samuel M. Boyd to- day filed suit in the District Supreme Court against the Smith company, G.| Bryan Pitts, Samuel J. Henry and| Bryan Pitts, Samuel J. Henry, Daniel R. Crissenger and Willlam a Horn, a salesman for the company. Bought Good Bonds Seven Years Ago. | Seven years ago Mrs. Sexton saw In a local newspaper a Smith company | advertisement which stated that buyers of the company's securities had not experienced a loss in 57 years. With/ this statement in mind, she and her husband decided to invest their savings in the company's securities. They bought good first mortgage bonds, and | held them until November, 1928. Then the suit filed says Horn, the salesman for the company, came to see Mr. Sexton. Mrs. Sexton was in a hos- pital, so the two men talked alone. The salesman suggested that he trade in the bonds on some more that were just as good. the petition says. By way of additional inducement, the TO RECOVER $4.300 SAVINGS | Asserts Salesman Traded| Him Worthless Bonds for ’ SMITH CO. JOSEPH E. SEXTON. salesman offered Sexton a check for $155.31 to go with the new bonds. Needed Money for Gift. It was almost Christmas time, and Sexton needed some money to buy his| wife a present. Without consulting her, he negotiated the exchange and turned over his good bonds to the salesman, receiving in return the check and the general mortgage bonds. He put the new securities away, and never thought to question their value until his wife read of the first indict- ments secured against Smith company officials by Nugent Dodds, special as- sistant to the Attorney General. Then Sexton tried to get his old bonds or his! money back, but both efforts were fruitless. ‘The petition filed by Boyd says that the bonds Sexton first owned included $1,000 on the Stanley Arms apartment, $2,300 on the Chatham apartment and | $1,000 on the Law and Finance Build- | ing, Pittsburgh, all first mortgage bonds. He traded them for third or general mortgage bonds on the Fairfax apart-| ment, Pittsburgh. The petition says these latter bonds are “practically worthless.” Sexton formerly was employed as a machinist at the Navy Yard, being re- tired in 1922, when he lost his eyesight. He is 62 years old. PERSONNEL BOARD ALTERNATES KEPT Former Classification Group Trio Is Assigned to New Positions. While complete reorganization of the Personnel Classification Board has not yet been effected under the Brookhart act, it was learned today that the three former alternate members of the board | have been retained on the staff and have been assigned to new positions. ‘The Classification Board itself still consists of the director of the Bureau [ of the ‘Budget, a ‘member of the Civil Service Commission and the chief of the Bureau of Efficiency, but the three | alternates, who had been functioning | as an active board, no longer hold their old rank. The new head of the active work on classification, as was recently | announced, is Willlam H. McReynolds, | formerly assistant chief of the Bureau of Efficiency, who holds the new title of director of classification. Ismar Baruch, who had been serving as & member of the active board, repre- senting a member of the United States Civil Service Commission, has been made assistant director of classification. Capt. Carlos C. Van Leer, who had been alternate member of the board for the director of the Bureau of the Budget, and Victor G. Croisant, who had been alternate for the chief of the Bureau of Efficiericy, both have been given the | new title of reviewing examiners under the reorganization. Paul N. Peck, who had formerly been | known as secretary of the board, now hds become executive officer. Among the other important changes is the fact that the board now has its own personnel. Prior to the Brookhart act, the board operated only on bor- rowed personnel which had been | loaned from the three agencies consti- tuting the board. Some other changes remain to be made in the set up of the organization, director McReynolds said today, but mu lis b:ot ready to announce what they wl 3 MARY RAFF’S CONDITION REPORTED IMPROVED | 14-Year-01d Girl, Wounded by Ross Golden, Rallies After Blood Transfusion. Although her condition is still de- scribed as critical, Mary Raff, 14-year- old girl shot by Ross Willard Golden, who afterward committed suicide in the house at 1121 B street northeast Mon- day, was reported slightly improved at Cusualty Hospital today. The girl, who rallied somewhat fol- lowing a blood transfusion Tuesda: has been resting quietly, hospital au- thorities say, and seems a little stronger. GIRL, 15, SUES HUSBAND T0 INFORCE SUPPORT| Parents of Youth, 17, Are Declared | Keeping Him in Idleness in Mother's Complaint. Ruth R. Zepp, 15, 1467 Irving street, nas filed suit for maintenance in the District Supreme Court against Millard P. Zepp, 17, to whom she was married June 3 at Rockville. The wife tells the court that the parents of her husband support him in idleness, while he de- slines to take care of her or give her a nome. The sull is brought by the girl's mother, Mrs. Emma Lusby. Attorney Jean M. Boardman IR‘DQH'E for the wife, who tells the cburt she is without funds and is unable to work. SUIT FOLLOWS COLLISION Alexandrian Sues Owner of Auto in Accident Last September. Norman B. Muddiman, Alexandria, Va., has filed suit to recover $50,000, in the District Supreme Court from William F. Anderson. said to be the owner of an automobile which collided with another car in which he was rid- ing, September 12, on the Lee Highway. The charge is made t] e defend- CHARLES W. ELIOT, 2d. HIGHER POST GIVEN T0C. W.&L0T, 0 Promoted to Post of Planning Director in Reorganization of Commission. Charles W. Eliot, 2d, who has been city planner for the National Capital | Park and Planning Commission since | 1926, has been promoted to the more important position of director of plan- ning, as & step in the reorganization of the commission to provide for the increased activity and rate of progress| made possible by the enactment of the Cramton bill at the recent session of | Congress. Mr. Eliot's promotion was announced today by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the com- mission. ‘The position of director of planning | was provided for in the basic act under which the National Capital Park and Planning Commission was organized, and which was enacted by Congress in 1926. Up to this time, however, the position has remained unfilled In making the announcement today, Col. Grant said Mr. Eliot had “earned the promotion by the good work he has done in his former position with the ! commission.” The action was taken formally by the commission at a recent executive meet~ ing, but was not made public until to- day, on the eve of the commission’s meeting tomorrow when 1t will take up for consideration the preliminary prob- lems arising under the Cramton act for the enlargement of the park system of Washington and vicinity. Mr. Eliot was born in November, 1899, at Cambridge, Mass. He still regards Cambridge as his legal residence. He is a graduate of Harvard University. He is married and has two children. The -minor position of city planner, which Mr. Eliot has held up to this | time, will probably not be filled for the present at least, X-RAY BURNS DAMAGES DEMANDED OF DOCTORS Woman Claims $100,000 Injuries, and Boy, Through Mother, Sues for $50,000. Suit to recover $100,000 s has been filed in the District Sudner:::ecourl against Drs. Willlam J. Mallory and John A. Reed, 1720 Connecticut nue, by Elizabeth Green, 2834 Newark street, who claims to have been se- verely burned while undergoing X-ray TOURISTS AT AUTO CAMP ARE SHOWN T0 BE INCREASING Recommended Hotels and| Inns Listed to Accom- modate Overflow. SIGHTSEEING CONCERNS REPORT LESS TRAVEL | Smaller Hostelries Find 1930 Busi- | ness Under That of Last Year. Rail Trips Shorter. The Washington Tourist Camp in Potomac Park has housed 6,199 more persons so far this year than it did for the same period in 1929. But while the camp is running its daily registra- tions to new heights, the majority of the hotels which normally would re- celve a good share of the tourist g:tronm report decreases in the num- r of guests they accommodate. Registration figures at the tourist camp show that from January 1 through last night 25,314 persons had been registered and that 7,329 automo- biles had stopped at the reservation. From January 1 through July 15, a year ago, the records showed that 19,- 115 persons, riding in 5390 cars, were registered. The camp's business is looked upon with particular favor by its operators by virtue of the fact that 40 additional cabins, which were erected last Fall, to bring the total to 112, together with a “pavillion” containing 20 “apartments,” each capable of accommodating from one to four persons, frequently are taxed to capacity. The camp authorities maintain a list of hotels, inns and room- house, to which they refer their overflow tourists. Besides the cabins and the “pavillion,” the camp's tenting space, where visitors set up their own- equipment, frequently is crowded. Meanwhile most of the smaller hotels report a falling off in their business this year. This complaint is upheld, too, by most of the larger sight-seeing com- panies, who declare their business is anywhere from “slightly below last year” to “rotten.” The railroad com- panies are carrying a good many pas- sengers, but there is a tendency this Summer toward shorter trips, while the Pacific Coast trade shows a decline. ‘The larger hotels alone are maintain- ing a pretty level standard of business, they point out, due to the more or less steady nature of their clientele. The American Automobile Associa- tion has not yet begun its study of tourist traffic into Washington for the current season, but its spokesmen to- day expressed the opinfon that there is probably less road traveling this year than last. One of the agencies ap- roached today, however, pointed out t last year was.a particularly fruit- ful year in the tou fleld, so that a reduction from its standard this year would not represent the acute situation the quoted figures imply. Unhort in 3-Story Fall. Falling from the third-story window at his home last night, Prancis Reed, colored, 25 years old, of 625,K street, escaped without injury. Reed was sitting in the window when he lost his balance and toppled to the sidewalk below. 'He was rushed to the Emergency Hospital in an ambulance, but was found uninjured at that insti- tution and was returned home. Connally Declares Soda Squirters Are Not Anemic Remarks Directed at Art Shires, Not Intended for Ace and Si of Cisco. At & cozy little luncheon at the Capitol recently, Senator Tom Con- nally of Texas, seeing Art (the Great, | Whataman and Whathaveyou) Shires, Nat first-sacker, blow out his chest and clinch his horny fists, became so en- thusiastic about Shires as to compare him with some of the other voters of ‘Texas, notably soda-squirters, to the marked disadvantage of the latter. Today he publicly regrets that. Not that Shires is not all he claims to be, and more, maybe—no, even a Texas Senator would not be so brash as_to doubt the greatness of Art. It is upon the subject of soda- squirters that the member from Texas has had his mind changed, in no un- certain terms. At the Capitol luncheon a few weeks ago Shires, S8am West Fred Marberry and Lloyd Brown of the Nats were the guests of the Texas congressional dele- gation. Shires and Senator Connally spoke. Explained Horny Hands, ‘The former proclaimed his horny hands came from guiding a plough- share through Texas gumbo. Senator Connally, after a casual in- spection of the hands, remarked: “If Art Shires hadn't had to work in the garden when he was a boy he might have been an anemic soda squirter.” The speeches were widely published, and down in Cisco, Tex. where men are men and so are soda squirters, there arose two of the latter, Ace Elliott and S1 Korkalitz by name, who have let the Senator know there s plenty of good red blood and brawn in the mighty right (or left) of the soda squirters, at least in Texas. ‘To them the Senator suggested that it was not their physiques, but their pay checks that are anemic, compared with e fat one Shires commands, adding lurther balm: “Be it far from me to cast any as- pertions upon the ancient, honorable and gentle occupation of soda water dispensing. If such were the situation, the p#t would be calling the kettle black, for one of the first jobs I ever had was dribbling drinks over the soda fountain at Eddy, Tex. Remarks Not Personal. Further, Senator Connally said: “You must not, in all fairness, take any personal umbrage at my remaiks. treatments by the two physicians Jan- uary 8 and 10. Her face and neck, she ;‘;le ";v %ermlnenlly disfigured. rney W. Gynn Gar pears for the pIAIGHT. o Frank N, Wright, 1740 Church street, a minor, through his mother, Sarah E. {Wright, has filled suit sgainst Dr. Charles B. Campbell, Farragut Apart- ments, to recover $50,000 damages. | Through Attorney W. Gwynn Gardiner, the boy claims he was treated by the Khyllchn for the removal of warts on is hand in May, 1928, and was 80 se- car was being at 60 ttorneys Diener, Flynn or the: pIatntier, verely burned from the X-ray treat- ments th-:. , one of his fingers had to o ovesren They were not directed at you. But you will agree with me that to be an anemic soda-squirter would be un- pardonable?” For the personal benefit of Ace and Si, Senator Connally said: ““The tone of your letter and the bel- sigerent attitude proves that neither of you is anemic.” In.closing Senator Connally promised that the next time he is in Cisco he ‘wants to visit the durg store where Si and Ace hold forth, to see what sort of fountain offerings they could con- coct that would be more cooling than their offering via the' United States Postal Service. | Fii ment.. BOYS WATCH SCOREBOARD FROM STREET COUCH These youngsters are daily fans at The Star scoreboard, where the Western games of the Nationals are being re- | produced. Tiring of the long stand before the board they have improvised a * ting” place of newspaj on the pave- P P ar Staft Photo. | AT MOUNTAI Mrs. Hoover and Two Guests{ Make Trip to Dark ]‘ Hollow. \ | 15 Complete Year at Insti- tution Founded by ‘ President. | | The little school house on the side of the mountain at Dark Hallow, Presi- dent Hoover's camp on the Rapidan, | which was built last Winter with funds | furnished by him and a few of his! friends, will close for the Summer to- today for the purpose of congratulating the handful of mountain children who completed the first session. Mrs. Hoover, accompanied by Mrs. Stark McMullin_of Palo- Alto, Calif., who has been a White House guest for some time, and Miss Mildred Hall, one |of the White House social secretaries, motored to the Dark Hollow school today:- They left the White House at | 9 b':“:lolck, expecting :to arrive there al . It _was Mrs. Hoover's intention to return to the White House tonight, but her parting word was that she and her | companions might change their minds and spend the night at the camp. No Ceremony Planned. No ceremony was arianged for the closing. of this school or in honor of the visit of the mistress of the White House. Mrs. Hoover is understood to have requested this. - She and the President have been greatly interested in the establishment of this school house in a section where schools were few and far between and where little | thought had been given to education. Also they have been interested in the first year’s progress of the school, and oy on ally speal 0se boys and alrhpmn finished the first ear. Also she wanted to congratulate iss Christina Vest, the young Ken- tucky girl, who had been the teacher, for efficiency and her painstaking ‘work. ‘When this school opened its doors early in the Spring_more than 20 pupils were enrolled. Two of the morrow, and Mrs. Hoover went there | FIRST LADY GREETS CHILDREN ; N SCHOOL CLOSE| {Only Two in 13 Representa- Fé‘f'%‘r‘ MISS CHRISTINE VEST. puplls were adults. Only 15 of them | stuck it out and completed the first | year's course. It will be to these that Mrs. Hoover will this afternoon address her*words of praise and encouragement. Five of One Family. Ray McKinley Burraker, the 11-year- | old “Hill Billy” whose call at the Presi- | dent’s camp last Summer resulted in arousing the interest of the President and his wife in the education, or at LOCAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANGE IS LOW tive Cities Have Cheaper | Rates Than Washington. | Out of 13 representative American | cities only two have lower insurance | rates Washington on automobile | liability insurance, according to M. O. Eldridge, -assistant director of traffic. ‘Washington’s rate for public Hability, $5,000 to $10,000 damage, which is the aves policy, is $21 per year. The rate New Orleans is $19 and in Indianapolis $16. The rate for $5,000 property damage is $11 in Washin y $10 in Detroit and $8 in Indianapolis. The costliest city, from an automo- bile insurance standpoint, is New York, where the corresponding public lability rate is $103 and the property damage rate $30. Other cities where the in-| surance rates are higher than those in the District are Philadelphia, Provi- dence, Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Bal- timore, Atlanta and Los Angeles. The figures, according to Mr. Eld- | ridge, are based on the fact that Wash- ington enjoys a low accident and fatal- decline. In a list of 18 cities, he point- ed out, Wi has had a lower fatality rate for the past four years. The latest figures, for June, showed that Was] was still the safest least the lack of education, of the young folk of Dark Hollow, is among those | who attended regularly and completed | the first year of school. Two of his sisters and two of his brothers® did likewise. i President Hoover is understood to | have thought something of visiting.the | school with Mrs. Hoover, but business | in Washington prevented him from leaving at this time. He has visited the little building a number of times, | however, during his week end vaca- tions at his fishing camp, which is only a few miles away, and he has been kept advised in some little detail as to the progress of the school. The Presi- dent hopes to go to his camp this coming week end. In event the Senate should - adjourn tomorrow through Monday it is thought likely that he will not lose much time gefting away from his desk and hurrying to the in- viting cool and quiet of his mountain retreat. | MAN IS ARRESTED ON GIRL'S CHARGE David Crockett of Groveton Taken in Alexandria on Father’s Warrant. | Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va, July 17—David Crockett, 35 years old, of Groveton | was arersted dyzmrdny afternoon in | Alexandria and turned over to Sherifl | T. P. Kirby of Fairfax on a warrant | sworn out before Juvenile Judge A. P. | Ritchie by Walter Sisson of Franconia. | The warrant charges a statutory offenze against Louiss Gladys Sisson, 14-year- old girl, ed from the | front of the Franconia Baptist Churcn Sunday afterncon in company with 1 | man in a large green automobile and who was relurneg to her home at 4 o'clock yesterday morning by Mrs. Etta | Padgett of Franconia. Both Crockett and Louise Sisson are now in the Fairfax Jail. Sheriff Kirby states that they will probably be given | a hearing tomorrow before Judge | Ritchie. 5 | Crockett was arrested about 4 o'clock yesterdsy afternoon at King and Alfred streets, Alexandria, by Patrolman George Wilkinson of Alexandria, to- zether with Prohibition Inspector Virgil Willlams and Haywood Durrer, captain | of the Fairfar County police. Crockett | denied that he took the girl away Sun- day and said that he has not been with her at any time during her absence. Crockett operates a filling station on the Richmcnd g road at Groveton. Louise Sisson worled as a waltress in his lunch room until about two weeks ago. Then she became friendly with Mrs. Etta Padgeti, on whose l(mn;, pgrch she was reported found at 1 o'clock. elp:l's, Louise Manghum, Fairfax County superintendent of public welfare, who questioned the girl yesterday morning at the jail, succeeded in winning her confidence. The girl who had previous- 1y refused to say where she had bee or with whom she went away, is sald to have told Mrs. Manghum that she had been with Crockett, that she loved him and that she had been away with him on several previous occasions dur- ing the past three months. She knew that Crockett was a married man. Upon receipt of this information, Kirby com- municated with the girl's father yester- day afternoon and with Judge Ritchie. Crockett had been under police suspicion before they received the alleged collab- oration from the girl herself. Kirby and his deputles b- I tried to locate him Thursday night l~t h:‘:‘hoe of business o quest! 1 him. mco!:g\e;u;aneflth Attorney Wilson M. Farr when questi: ied s to the penalty for conviction of & statutory offence against a_miror stated that the law nroviAse #hed o the gir] e at lesct | Special Dispatch to The Star. | County. 8o far the father has not been POLIGE SEEKTAXI MAN N WILD RIDE Four Charges Pending Fairfax Against Driver in Accident. in| 1 FAIRFAX, Va., July 17.—Charges of reckless driving, driving while drunk, colliding and resisting arrest have been placed against Milton 8. Redmond of Washington, taxi driver for the Dia- mond Cab Co., by Fairfax County po- lice, following & wild ride last night along the Lee Highway through the town of Fairfax. A warrant, sworn out by Sheriff E. | T. Kirby and Deputy Sheriff Paul Her- mann, was this morning sent to the Washington police, who were requested to arrest Redmond at his home on Twenty-first street near O street and turn him over to Virginia authorities. About dusk last night Deputy Sheriff Hermann started pursuit of the car about 5 miles below Fairfax. He said the car was traveling at 60 miles an hour and careening from side to side. At the junction of the Lee Highway and the Little River pike, 1 mile west of Fairfax, the taxi went into a ditch after colliding with a car occupied by Leonidas F. Summerall, attorney for the Federal Prohibition Bureau, and his wife of 3446 Connecticut avenue, ‘Washington. Mr. Summerall's car was damaged, but the occupants were not injured be- yond being badly shaken up. The taxi overturned, the driver being the only one of the four occupants injured. He was picked up in an unsconscious con- dition and taken to Emergency Hospital in Washington by a passing motorist, where he was treated for scalp wounds and later discharged. Redmond's brother, Willlam, one of the three pas- sengers in the taxi, stated that Red- mond’s father is a resident of Fairfax located. Bernard Ready and Clyde Wilson Waller, both of Washington, also were in the taxi. Officer Hermann said that he fired three shots at the speeding auto in an effort to bring it to a halt. The taxi is being held at the Fairfax Jail for damages to Summer- all’s automobile. . 14 years of age and gives her consent the maximum penllt{ which can be imposed is 20 years. If the girl does not consent punishment may range from death down to 10 years. No charge has n placed against Louise Sisson, but she is being held at her father's est as an_incorrigible child. She by stated that such a charge sufficient to warrant the uvenile _Jydeg in_ imposing & sentence | | industrial | partment_of Agriculture; city, from the polnt of .view of traffic fatalities, among the 18. ' LATIN GOVERNMENTS ASKED TO MEET HERE, Inter-American Conference of Ag- riculture to Be Held Sep- { tember 8-20. All governments of Latin America, ' members of the Pan-American Union, have been invited by the Secretary of | State to send delegates to the Inter-| American Conference of Agriculture to| be held in this city September 8 to 20, ! 1930, under the provisions of a spe- c::'a‘n act of Congress approved April 14, | By special direction of the President the following will represent the United States Government at the conferenc: Dr. A. F. Woods, director scientific work, Department of Agriculture; Dr. B. Galloway, pathologist,’ Depart- ment of Agriculture; Dr. Willilam A.| Taylor, chief Bureau of Plant Industry, Department of Agriculture; Dr. Niles A. Olsen, chief Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Department of Agriculture; Dr. John R. Mohler, chief Bureau of Animal Industry; George M. Rommel, commissioner, Savannah, Ga., formerly animal husbandman, De- Dr. William Crocker, Boyce Thompson Institute for ! Plant Research, former chairman of the division of biology and agricuylture of the National Research Council; Dr. Carlos E. Chardon, commissioner of agriculture and labor, San Juan, Porto Rico; Dr. Carl A. Alsberg, director Food Research Institute. Stanford University, | California; Dr. Robert A. Harper. vice president and chairman Tropical Plant Research Foundation Board:; Depart- ment_of Botany, Columbia University, New York City, and Leon M. Estabrook, assistant to director of scientific work, United States Department of Agri- culture. Mr. Estabrook has been designated secretary to the American delegation of this conference and any information relative thereto may be obtained by ap- plying_to him at the Department of Agriculture or through inquiry at the Pan-American Union. SITE FOR AIRSHIP PORT Technical Check to Be Hybla Valley Tract—Asked by Dr. Eckener. ‘The Washington Board of Trade, | through its Aviation Committee, will take an active part in the technical study of the Hybla Valley tract, near Alexandria, Va., requested by Dr. Hugo Eckener and American associates in their search for an American inter- national airship terminal, it was an- nounced today. Lawrence E. Williams, chairman of the committee, and Robert J. Cottrell, secretary of the board, are to confer with Federal aviation officials today in an effort to obtain the use of meteoro- Made on logical instruments which must be: ol installed at Hybla Valley as a part of the study. The board also will assist officials of the Washington Air Terminals Corpo- ration, owners of the Hybla Valley field, in assembling data and estimates on existing railroad facilities and the ex- tension of a railroad siding to the field. Players Have Excursion. The Westminster Players, a group which was organized seven years ago | ity rate, and that the rate is on the | ¥ IWCARL DECSION ON BRODKHARTAC HALEDAS LIBERAL Ruling Gives Pay Raise to Workers Missed by Welch Law. TREASURY DEPARTMENT EMPLOYES SATISFIED Speakers for National Federation of Federal Employes and Civil Service Group Pleased. Controller General McCarl’s decision interpreting the Brookhart pay raise act was generally hailed in Washington today by the rank and file of Govern- ment workers and their representatives as a liberal decision. For the National Pederation of Fed- eral Employes, Miss Gertrude McNally, vice president, declared this morning that the McCarl decision came as a great relief, because, she said, in view of McCarl's decision on the old Welch act, “many Government workers were worried” as to what his decision would be on the Brookhart act. Ruling Held “Unusually Fair.” “We like it very well,” said Miss Mc- Nally. “The ruling is unusually fair. ‘We feel the controller general has inter- preted exactly the spirit of the act.” the Civil Service Commission, asked McCarl to interpret the gislation, C. C. Hathaway, personnel officer, characterized the decision as “liberal.” “Every one I have heard from so far is very well satisfied,” declared Hath- away. “The controller general's d cision seems to be a_very liberal col ception of the act. He has gone just as far as any one couid reasonably ex- pect, him to go in interpreting the . In the Treasury Department, which is the largest organization of the Fed- eral Government, general satisfaction ippeared to be prevalent today as a result of the decision. Frank A. Bt!'(t feld, chief clerk of the department, said he had not yet received his offictal copy, but from first reports he was favorably impressed with the decision. All employes who have expressed them- selve® to him, he said, “seem to be leased.” So ‘far, he reported, no ob- tion nor protest had been registered. Act Is Now in Effect. The interpretation of the controller general places responsibility for grant- ing the increases upon the various departments and establishments withcut any action whatsoever of the Personusl ification Board, it was learned. The act is in effect and the controller gen~ eral's decision is adequate for the de- ‘prepare their pay rolls ior July 31 tc include the increased pa. for inds of Government workers from the date of July 3, when the act went into effect. ‘The controller general in his decision ans, a great many questions 1o tne general effect that all those per- sons who failed to receive two-step pro- motions under the Welch act in 1923 ure now to receive their equivalent, ve- gardless of deserved and earned promo- tions in the meantime. POLICE SEEK SIX MISSING PERSONS John and Richard Curry, 10 and 8, Disappear From Seventh Street Southwest Home. Police today were looking for six perscns reported missing from their homes, the list including two young boys and four young women. John and Richard Curry, 10 and 8 y.ars old, respectively, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Curry, 509 Seventh street southwest, have been missing from their home since 8 o'clock last night. Their parents are unable to account for their absence, stating today the boys have never before stayed away from home overnight. Mrs. Curry said both were dressed in khaki trousers and John wore a blue shirt and Richard a white one. John has dark hair and blue eyes and Rich- ard light hair and blue eyes. Among the younz‘ women for whom the police are maintaining a lookout are Mamie Humphreys, 22 years old, re- ported missing from her home in the 600 block of A street northeast since July 1; Essie Coberth, 20 years dld, missing from 1000 block of Fourth streeg southeast since yesterday: Erna Parcell, 17 years old, missing from 1400 block of Harvard street since June 22, and Elizabeth M. Dovel, missing from 900 block of I street since Tuesday. 1. CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS* GIVEN 30-DAY TERM Police Court Officials Indignant in Belief Drunk Defendant Is Trying to “Kid.” Christopher Columbus was arraigned in Police Court today for being d1unk, and court officials became quite indig- nant because they believed Columbus was trying to “kid them” about the name. Judges have about. run out of pa- tlence with prisoners giving wrong names during the past several months, as they have had almost every notable from “Jullus Caesar” to “Herbert Hoo- ver” at one time or another before | them. “Drunks seem to delight in giving lhlelu names,” sald Clerk Charles Dris- coll. Columbus drew a 30-day jail sen- tence. The man refused to change his name under repeated questioning from both Judge Ralph Given and Driscoll. - “What is your name?” was shouted at Columbus at least five times, and the :::zndmz reeelvi’d ue:chwogeu wéthmn ting an eye, sticking origingl im that he really was Christopher. - Columbus was arrested last night in ‘West Seaton Park by Policeman T. Ma- son of the sixth precinct. ¢ SANITY TEST REQUESTED George C. Nelson, under a life sem- tence at McNeil Island Penitentiary in ‘Washington State, but temporarily at Howard Hall, at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, has applied to Justice Peyton Gordon under direction of Ernest L. N. Kahlert, went on an excursion trip last evening on the steamship City of Washington. The outing was arranged by a commit- tee of which Irma L. Gordon was chair- man and Kathryn Talts and Margaret are Porvn wana wenmt of the District Supreme Court for an the penitentiary to resume his sentence. Jmtfi: Go has trec:fd that & . Byt