Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1930, Page 12

T ALLEGED “BUCKET | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, JULY MEETING TAKES UP THE EVENINC 19, 1930. | A—I12 DROUGHT RELIEF | * ) BINGHAM REPORT ' PROMISED BY MAIN CONNECTIONTO DL, Imnfediate Construction at| Chevy Chase Circle De- cided by Commission. RAIN ONLY CAN SAVE DRASTIC SERVICE CUT Prince Georges and Montgomery May Be Limited Drastically in 12 Days. i i Slight relief of nearby Maryland's| water shortage was in sight today, but rain remained the only factor which | can do more than delay imminent dras- tic curtailment of consumption. The Washington Suburban Sanitary ( Commission, which serves the 50,000 residents of this area with water, au- thorized vesterday the immediate con- struction” at Chevy Chase Circle of a connection between its mains and the District of Columbia water _system ert B, Morse, chief engincer of the | on, said today the work of ng the connection will begin early Monday morning and that the Disirict should begin pumping water into the Maryland nfains at this point by Wed- | nesday night. Daily Allowance Limited. Because of its location in the fourth higih service area of the District, where pressure is at its lowest, but half a million gallons of water can be spared daily to Maryland at this point, Mr. Morse said he was informed. { This amount, added to the million | gallons per day the commission is tak- ing through the connection between the two systems on Rhode Island ave- | nue at the Maryland State line, will put | g off for only two or three days the ex- haustion of the supply in the Sanitary Commission’s reservoir at Burnt Mills. It is estimated that if the new con- nection is put in use Wednesday night, the cutting in half of the water con-i sumption in the sections of Montgom- ery and Prince Georges Counties ad- jacent to Washington must take place | not. later than 12 days from today and probably sooner. At that time there will be no more ‘water in the reservoir and the supply ! for the two counties must be pumped directly from the Northwestern Branch and from the District’s mains. Public Appeal Formulated. ‘The Sanitary Commission formulated an appeal at a meeting yesterday, to the people it serves to use extreme care in conserving water. It pointed out that the principal waste is by sprinkiing lawns and that thi® should be discontinued until the present short- age in past. Letters to all fire departments in the arca, requesting them to refrain from using water in their practices, were sent out yesterday. Meanwhile the supply of water yin the Burnt Mills reservoir sank nearly a foot yesterday, while the flow in the Northwestern Branch, which feeds the Teservoir, continued to dwindle. The statement issued by J. Darby Bowman, secretary to the commission, for the sanitary body, indicated that the flow of water in the Northwestern Branch is but one-eighth normal—the lowest for seven years. Use May Be Curbed. Mr. Bowman pointed gut that 5,750,- 000 gallons of water are being consumed every day, while the average consump- tion is 4,000,000. Unless this high figure is cut shortly, he declared, the commission will promulgate drastic regulations concerning the use of water. Mr. Morse said he would apply at the District Building sometime today for a permit to tear up the street for the laying of the secend connection, which will be at Western avenue and Runnymede street. The work will be done at the com- mission’s expense and all that will be required of the District, he said, will be to have an engineer of the Water Department present as an _inspector. ‘The distance between the two mains is 30 feet. LOTTERY PLAYER IETIME TO MEET DETECTIVES Boy Jumps When Sister's Numbers Are Placed in Wrong Hands During Raid. If the figures 425, 810, 129, 729 and 431 spell a win in the big “numbers” lottery, at the same time they will spell ;‘{;xt to nothing in “Sister Martha's” ife, Just after a Florida avenue barber shop had been raided today and just before Detectives Brodie and Bragg ar- rested 21-year-old Henry Myers, col- ored, 600 block of Morton street north- east, for alleged violation of the lottery law a very small colored boy dashed in, out of breath. “Sister Martha wants to play these he cried, thrusting a slip containing the numerals into Detective Bragg's hand. ‘Boy,” said Bragg, “do you know who Iam?” If the boy didn't know, he must have Jumped at a conclusion. “At any rate,” Bragg said, “that boy certainly could jump.” WOMAN SAVED FROM GAS Found Semi-Conscious in Kitchen by Husband. Apparently despondent over a major operation two months ago which left her in §1l health, Mrs. Mary Alice Davis, 20 years old, of 1119 I street, made what police describe as an unsuccessful at- tempt to end her life at home early last night. Martin Davis, her husband, walked into the kitchen and found his wife seated beside a stove with gas flowing | from two open jets and a gas oven. She | was semi-conscious. & Fire Rescue Squad No. 1 ‘and the Emergency Hespital ambulance were summoned to the scene and Mrs. Davis was propounced not serious after treat- ment. She remained at home, PIN TAKEN FROM BABY Operation at Children’s Hospital on David Carier Is Success. An open safety pin which was swal- lowed by David Carter, 8-month-old son of Dozier Carter of 128 Carroll street southeast, early yesterday morn- ing was extracted by Dr. Joseph Horgan late yesterday at Children's Hospital. ‘The child’s condition is said to be sat- istactory. ‘The child was first removed to Cas- ualty Hospital when his parents dis- covered that he had swallowed a safety pin, and he later was transferred to the dents reported to police yesterday after- overturned by a hit-and-run automobile overturn. street southeast, received a possible skull | | | i | | | S ARE INIRED N TRAGFC MHAPS Young Couple in Automobile | Overturned by Hit-and- Run Machine. Six persons were hurt in traffic acci- noon and last night, including a youth-| ful coupje injured when a car in which they re riding was sideswiped and in the Soldiers’ Home Grounds, | George W. Grant, 17, of 638 Park road, suffered severe body bruises and fractured right ankle while his com- anion, Margaret Petrola, 16, of 662 gark road, sustained bruises of the arm and leg. They were treated at Soldiers’ Home Hospital. Grant told police a big machine at- tempted to pass him at breakneck speed and sideswiped his car, causing it to The speeding automobile con- | tinued on. Four-year-old Helen Suggs of 507 B fracture and bruises of the body and legs last night when felled by a taxieab at Sixth and B streets southeast. She was taken to Casualty Fospital by the | cab driver, Dewitt N. Littlefleld of 2M Bates street. Contusions of the forehead and shock were sustained by Willa M. Hicks, 40 years old, of 1808 Connecticut avenue | last night when an automobile oper- ated by James L. Hall of the 1800 block K street knocked her down at Connecti~ cut and Florida avenues. She was taken to_Emergency Hospital for treatment. Edwin F. Cannon, 22 years old, of 1233 B street southeast’ was taken to Casualty Hospital with two fractured ribs, bruises and shock last night after | a machine he was driving was in a col- lision at Second and C streets with a truck driven by Dennis Marshall of 1850 Ninth street. Mrs. Minnie J. Walsh, 37* years old, of 3038 O street was injured last night | when a machine forced her car off the street on Wisconsin avenue near Nor- ton street, her machine crashing into a trolley pole. Mrs, Walsh was treated at George- town Hospital for cuts of the right hand “Q" lzmee. possible internal injuries and shock. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED Local Ad Club Men to Play Bnl‘ti-‘ more Golfers. The Advertising Club of Washing- | ton has accepted a challenge of the ! Advertising Club of Baltimore to a | golf match, which will be played at | the Indian Springs Club, Four Corners, Md., Tuesday. Gagnett Lee is local | chairman in charge of arrangements for the affair. Members of the local club desiring | to enter the match may do so by phoning District 9093, or applying to room 1244 in the National Press Build- ing, the office of the club. Prizes are | to be awarded to winners. Luncheon | will be served at the Indian Springs | Club Tuesday afternoon at 1 n'clock.j | | \SCHOOL COHTRAEI’ LET Thq District Commissioners yesterday awarced a contract for construction of | the Alice Deal Junion High School to the National Construction Co. of At- lanta, Ga., for $463,700. The firm was the low bidder for the job. The new school is to be located in the Fort Reno secilon on the north side of Davenport _street, between Howard street and Emery place and Thirty-eighth place. Upper: Raiding officers searching files and desks in their seizure of “evidence.” They are, left to right: Gus Cerimele and Harold Scott, deputy United States marshals, and Detective Sergt. George Weber. Lower: Maurice Edrich, a salesman for the Perry & Co. firm, the only man taken in custody in the raid on the establishment’s offices in the Washing- ton Building. —Star Staff Photo. TWO GYPSIES HELD AFTER HARD CHASE Chinese Restaurant Keeper Says Pair Took $190 Cash From Him. The gypsy trail which led a squad of Washington detectives to a couple of gypsy girls they were trailing yesterday was long and arduous, if weary muscles and travel-stained clothing ever spelled hardship. As a traveling companion, the de- | tectives took along a Chinese restaurant keeper, James Der, who was anxious to overtake the fugltives, no matter how many hurdles they led him over. The Chinese had 190 reasons to urge him on, all of which were $1 bills. The detectives, a shade less enthusiastic, were nevertheless anxious to bring the girls to Washington, several -persons here having questions to ask them. Had Told His Fortune. ‘The girls, James said, had told his fortune. They gave him a rosy but inaccurate future, however, having tailed to mention that he was to suffer a financial loss and then would take a long journey. In Arlington County yesterday morn- ing the detectives, Arthur T. Fihelly, N. S. Hodkinson, R. J. Cox, James J. Springmann and B. C. Kuehling, got wind of the gypsies, about 30 of them. The gypsies, however, had never heard of the two girls, unless, of co s they were the pair who left in & my caravan for the mountains fear the Shenandoah Valley. The mountains near the Shenandoah Valley, the detetcives learned when they got there, were full of about 300 gypsies, none of whom had heard of the girls in question. Automobile Sighted. Back the weary policemen turned to South Washington, Va., and there glimpsed several gypsy automobiles going out of town rapidly. From one of them, the detectives were informed by a native, a pair of girls had just alighted and started across country. The officers also started across country, making fair progress except in the briar patches and stony thickets. The search went on, and at nightfall the Arlington County police were as- sisting, but the girls were still at large. Several hours later about 10 o'clock, one of the pair, her red-and-green dress damaged by much running through the undergrowth, showed up in a gypsy camp under surveillance and was arrested. ‘This girl, Mrs. Ada Mitchell, 22 years old, fell into the hands of police short- ly before her alleged companion, Miss Mabel Stanley, two years younger, met a like fate. Money Not Recovered. The Chinese, although he did not cheer up any when his $190 could not be located, was certain he recognized them both. An hour after they told his fortune, he said, he discovered his money was missing from his hip pocket, a mystery which deepened in view of the fact that he had been sitting down most of the time. Another alleged victim, Mrs. Mary Curtin of 2254 Eleventh street, had ac- companied the police in their travels through Virginia. She said the Mitchell ‘woman was the same who told her for- tune and then stole $38 from her. The girls were being held for investi- gation today while ‘police continued their questioning with & view to clear- ing up several similar complaints of theft within the past few weeks, PLANMMEMORIAL RITES Barry Farms Association to Honor Dead of Organization. ‘Twenty-four members of the Barry Farm Citizens” Association who have died in recent years will be honored | at memorial services to be held tomor- row night at the St. John Methodist Church on Stanton road southeast. Herbert Jones, exaldter ruler of Co- Jumbia Lodge, No. 85, of Elks, will be the principal speaker. A special pro- gram of music has been arranged. The committee in charge will be composed of E. S. Hoffman, chairman; John Chinn, Levi Brown, Albert Bumbry, W. F. Richards, Samuel Hawkins and ,Joseph Lieut. Matthias B. Gardner, opera- tions officer at the Anacostia Naval Air Station, who ranks today as the Navy's foremost acrobatic pilot, had a new sensation added to his long list of Navy fighter almost threw the plane out of control, it was learned today. Lieut. Gardner was requested to go through a demonstration of upside- Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hospi- tal. The boy was finally removed to Children’s Hospital, where the delicate cperation was performed. downflying in the little fighter for the beneiit of the movies. He made one i flight during which pictures were made |from another plane. ‘Then an automatic camera was lashed CAI\;IERA STRAPPED TO ACROBAT’S PLANE TAIL NEARLY CAUSES FALL Lieut. Gardner, Navy Stunter, Finds Craf(‘Behaving Queerly While Obliging Film Men. : pictures looking forward along the plane to show what the sky and world look like to a pilot flying in the ‘inverted position and during acrobatics. Lieut. Gardner took off-and climbed experjences this week when a motion- ! up from the field. Then, with the picture camera lashed to his special | camera grinding away, he rolled the plane over. It began to misbehave seri- ously and he righted it quickly. One more attempt was made and the plane again behaved queerly. Hastily he righted it and came in for a landing. The added weight of the camera on the tail, coupled with the air resist- ance of the camera and the disturbance it - caused in the slip-stream flowing SHOP” RAID STAGED: - THREE UNDER BOND Files of Perry & Co., Brokers, Searched After Complaint by Brazil Consul. |WARRANTS ARE ISSUED i FOR FIVE ALTOGETHER | Assistant U. S. Attorney Gallagher Orders Clerical Staff Released After Brief Questioning. Armed with warrants charging vio- lation of the bucket shop law, a squad of deputy United States marshals and headquarters detectives under Assistant | United States Attorney Willlam Gal- | lagher late yesterday raided the Perry & Co. brokerage establishment in the Washington Building. One man, Maurice Edrich, who said he was a salesman, was arrested and released on - $5,000 bond by United States Commissioner Turnage, and the fim’s files were seized. Two girl clerks, a girl telephone operator and two male office employes were ques- tioned briefly and allowed to leave the establishment. Fred Langhorst and Norman Genero were surrendered to Commissioner Turnage this morning by their attorney, Frank Sprague Perry. Both pleaded not guilty and were released after they had posted $10,000 each for appearance before the commissioner at-10 a.m. July 25. Edrich will appear before Turnage at the same time. Other Men Desired Not Found. Other men named in the warrants who were not found in the Perry Co. offices at the time of the raid yester- day, but who are being sought today by the police, are: W. L. Perry, Ivan Fuller and a person known only as Allen, - The warrants were sworn out before Commissioner Turnage on the com- plaint of P. Nabuco de Abreu, Brazilian eonsul at Norfolk, Va., who charges he received correspondence from the local firm in connection with the alleged pur- chase and sale of 40 shares of United Gas stock. Specifically, the warrants charged conspiracy to *violate sections 869A, 869B and 869C of the District code, which cover the charge of con- ducting a bucket shop or of “bucketing” a stock transaction. Following his_arrest Edrich was ar- raigned before United States Commis- sioner Needham C. Turnage. He pleaded not guilty and his bond was fixed at $5,000. He was committed to the Dis- | trict Jail and and was released on bail late last night. The raiding party which swooped down upon the five-room suite in mid-" afternoon yesterday was accompanied b Louis Rothschild, director of the Better Business Bureau, to whom De Abreu, the Brazilian consul, appealed when he suspected the Perry company, with which he had entered into the United Gas stock transaction. The raiding officers included Gus Cerimele, Harry Allen, Harold Scott, Clarence Swann and Thomas East, all deputy United States marshals, and Harry K. ‘Wills, George Weber and B, C. Kuehling, D. C. headquarters detectives. The raiders met by appointment at the New York avenue entrance to the Washington Building. Before going to the Perry Co. offices on the fifth floor, however, Gallagher and Rothschild stepped into the Postal Telegraph Co. office on the ground floor to telephone the concern in an effort to determine whether the men whose names ap- peared on the warrants were in e Perry sulte at that time. Rothschild Telephones Firm. Rothschild made the call in his own name, asking first for Mr, Perry, then for Fuller, Genero and Langhorst. As he was told, one by one, that the men he sought were not in, Rothschild nod- ded negatively to Mr. Gallagher, who sat at his side. S “Well, this is Mr. Rothschild of the Better Business Bureau speaking. I wanted to talk with the members of the firm about a complaint we have re- ceived from a man in North Carolina,” the Better Business Bureau director ex- plained. “Whp are you?” After a brief silence, during which the Perry Co. end of the line was speak- ing, Rothschild asked: “Your name is Johnson, eh? Are you a member of the firm?" Another brief silence and Rothschild answered: “Oh, you're just an employe, eh? Well, I want to come up and see you anyway.” After the interval, 1A which “Mr. Johnson” was speaking, Rothschild said: “So it won't do me any good to come | up, you say? Well, it won’t do me any harm either, will it?” Another interval and Rothschild re- plied: “Oh, you'll throw me out if I come up, you say? Well, I'll be right up. Good-bye!” Turning to Gallagher, Rothschild ex- plained: “He says if I come up he’ll throw me out. He says he is a Mr. Johnson, an employe, and that the firm members are not there.” Arrest Man Leaving Office. “Let’s go up!" Gallagher decided, and with that he and Rothschild, accompag nied by the squad of officers, entered the elevator for the fifth floor. Just as they turned the corridor to approach the Perry Co. suite a man walked out of the Perry Co. office door. He was placed under arrest and declared he was Edrich. Stationing men at each of the five doors to the suite, Gallagher, ac- companied by Rothschild and arresting officers, entered the main door to the suite. They found two girl clerks in a well appointed reception office. From that room they entered another lux- uriously appointed office, behind which were three plainly furnished rooms. In the first of the rear three offices was a telephone switchboard, presided over by a girl operator, and in the last of these Tooms was the “boiler factory”— the battery of telephones over which, the raiders charge, the firm conducted most of its_business with residents of | Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania and | North Carolina towns and cities. The ralders began & systematic search of the offices, going through every desk and filing case in the -establishment. On a desk in the handsome inner office was found a calendar memorandum pad on which was written the name of the fictitious North Carolina resident Rothschild had claimed he represented. With the notation was‘a memorandum “refused” and the name “Johnson” was jotted down alongside the note. Girls Are Questioned. Mr. Gallagher questioned the girl employes briefly and announced for them ‘that they had been employed re- cently through an employment agency and knew nothing of the nature of the firm's transactions. He took their names and addresses so that he might commu- nicate with them later and permitted them to go home. The girls told Galla- sher that their salary was due them yesterday. Asked if they would recognize mem- bers of the firm, the girls replied that théy would and told Gallagher that the firm members been in the offices just a few minufes before the raiders entered. | Disputes Under ani!-! Act Will Be INREASE N STAF OF PLANNIN BOARD Members Consider Purchase! of Land to Enlarge Park System of Capital. GUARANTEES REQUIRED FROM STATES DISCUSSED Design for Proposed Pantheon and | Zone Change Suggestions Are Given Commission. Reorganization of the staff of the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission as a result of the enactment of the Cramton act, which” will greatly speed up the purchase of land for the park system of Washington and nearby sections of Maryland and Virginia, was considered at a second executive meet- ing of the commission this morning in the conference room at the Navy De- partment Building. “It is necessary,” explained Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3rd, executive officer of the commission, “that when the com- mission undertakes to purchase land to enlarge Washington's park system in quantities two or three times as great each year as heretofore, some increase in the organization of the commission’s stafl must be made. The details of this question were .considered by the com- mission at its meeting this morning and will be announced later.” Another subject which was before the commission is the proper interpre- tation of the guarantees required by the Cramton act from the States of Maryland and Virginia or subdivisions thereof, and from private individuals and the divison of cost of the land to be purchased and added to the park system in accordance with provisions of the new law. As for the States, it was agreed that appropriations by the Legislatures would be adequate guaran- tees, but the question of guarantees from _political subdivisions and from individuals was taken under considera- tion for later determination. Purchases Considered. The commission spent a great part of today as well as yesterday afternoon considering purchases of and for parks, playgrounds, recreation centers, etc., but as usual this part of the procedure will be kept secret for the present. Horace Peaslee, local architett, laid before the commission a design for a proposed pantheon to be erected some- where in Washington, was prepared by students at Cornell University. The commission took it under consideration and authorized Mr. Peaslee to thank the students for their work. Charles W. Eliot, 2d, who was recently promoted to f the position of director of planning, presented to the commission suggestions for changes in the zoning regulations. He called attention to the fact that the Fine Arts Commission recently sug- gested regulations to guide buflders and architects in the erection of structures in Washington under the control of the District Commissioners, in accordance with the Shipstead act, which controls the appearance of private buildings on the north side of Pennsylvania avenue along the Mall and along Rock Creek Park. Mr, Eliot proposed that regu- lations be issued in a convenient form for the use of architects and so as to make clear the different requirements for different areas. He went into some detail of a technical nature on this subject. Zone Suggestions Taken Up. Certain suggestions regarding pro- posed limitations of the commercial zone and changes in the application of height regulations to various buildings, also made by Mr. Eliot, were taken under advisement by the 'commission for study ‘and later report. Col. Grant, Capt. E. N. Chisolm, en- gineer of the commission, and Mr. Eliot, presented at the meeting various phases | for the fiscal year that ended June 30 last. Conrad L. Worth of the staff of the commission, who Tecently spent some- time visiting different cities throughout the country and studying their recrea- tion systems, presented the result of his studies with special attention to their application in the improvement to con- ditions in Washington. TREASURY CREATES NEW APPEALS BOARD, Handled by Division in Charge of Charles Stevenson. | A division of appeals and protests has been formed in the Customs Bu- reau, it was announced by the Treas- ury, to handle new business which has arisen under the new tariff act. ‘The division will be under Charles Stevenson, now supervising _customs agent, at Tampa, Fla. It will handle protests from importers regarding rates and from organized labor relative to imported commodities alleged to have been dumped into the United States and sold at an unfair price in com- petition with American industry and labor. In addition it will handle all matters relating to countervailing duties, bounties and other subjects. Another subject which will be han- dled by the division is the administra- tion of provisions of the new tariff act which authorize the Secretary of the ‘Treasury to pass upon appeals and protests by American manufacturers, producers or wholesalers, whether im- ports are valued too low or assessed at too low a rate of duty. Cards to Decide Sheriff Race. HERKIMER, N. Y., July 19 (#).— Daniel F. Strobel and Fred Sawer are good friends and each wants the Re- publican nomination for sheriff of Herkimer County. So by three games of high, low, jack they are to decide which shall quit. There are seven other candidates. Building itself were aware that any- thing unusual was in progress and they :lwlll‘d interestedly from their office loors. W. W. EASTERDAY ENJOINED. . NEW YORK, July 19 (#).—Wilen W. Stewart, allas W. W. Easterday, ex- convict and assoclate of “Nicky” Arn- stein, yesterday was temporarily en- joined with nine others from further sale of securities by Supreme Court Justice Humphrey. Deputy Attorney General Wohl al- leged the defendants conducted a so- called securities business, with offices in New York and at 1411 New York ave- nue, Washington. He said stock pur- chased by customers was in no instance delivered and that more than $50,000 was stolen from the public in two months. Calling the scheme the boldest stock swindle he had investigated this year, he said complaints from diplomatic corps members were among those re- The rald was conducted quietly and was unapparent to_the hundreds of | passersby on New York avenue, Fif- teenth street, and G street at the time. Chicago's new planetarium, the gift on the tail of his plane just in front [across the tall control surfcces, was Only the occupants of adjoining offices < Biax Adler, is the first in Americal of the stabilizer and adjusted to take blamed for.the trouble. the Washington fifth floor of celved. Two of the defendants restrained, Harry Greenhaus and Charles H. Greenhaus, brothers, were arrested at their homes late last night on charges of using the mafls to defraud. The tiniest of three lion cubs which recently arrived at the Washington Zoological Gardens has been placed under the care of Mrs. William M. Mann, | wife of the superintendent, who hopes to raise him on the bottle like a human child. —Underwood Photo. WAY T0 END LABOR DISPUTES SOUGHT Need to Avért Trouble Like 1,200 Hospital Patients]| Garfinckel Building Row Seen by Contractors. “Imperative 'need” for a method to settle jurisdictional disputes among building trade;unions, such as resulte in a strike of employes in the construc tion of the Julius Garfinckle Building at Fourteenth and F streets, was reiter- ated today by the president’s cabinet of the Associated General Contractors, in meeing here in the Munsey Build- ng. The Garfinckle case was not me: the difficulty which aros: when union carpenters and metal workers disagreed as to which group should do certain work is regarded as typical of minunderstandings which lthe contractors termed “costly and use: less.” A. E. Horst of Rock Island, IIl., AI’IJ Philadelphia, president of the ciated General Contractors, said that Jjoint_conferences of representatives of the National Association of Building ‘Trades Employers and the building trades department of the American Federation of Labor, which have been in progress for four montlis, probably would present for final approval plans for adjuticeting such disputes at a meeting in Atlantic City July 28. Commenting on buliding conditions generally, Mr. Horst said that a “drastic decline” of 47 per cent as compared with last year has heen noted in the volume of residential building in the first six months of 1930. Among the! contributing factors to this condition, he said, are the unregulated activities of speculative builders, lack of proper pro- vision for supplying second mortgage financing on a conservative basis at low cost, lack of organization of legitimate home builders and other residential con- appraisal practices. MRS. FLORA REDFIELD’S FUNERAL RITES HELD Wife of Retired Government Em- ploye Had Been Resident of ¥ Capital Since Girlhood. Funeral services for Mrs. ' Flora Frances Redfield, 66 years old, wife of Harry J. Redfield, retired Government employe, who died Thursday| at her residence, 124 Melrose avenue,| Bethes- da, Md, were held this afternoon at the funeral home of S. H. Hines Co. Rev. Henry Wooding, pastor of the Eckington Presbyterian ~Church, offi- ciated. Interment was in Congression- al Cemetery. Mrs. Redfield, a native of Ohio, had resided in Washington since childhood. She was continuously active in the wel fare activities of the Eckington Presby- terian Church, being a manager of the Presbyterian Home. She married Mr. Redfield in 1887. Besides her husband, she is survived by two sons, Walter L. of McLean, Va., and Arthur H. of this city. LAUDS AL AUTO BAN Automotive Association Congratu- lated for Removing Old Cars. ‘The Washington Automotive Trade Association today was congratulated by Assistant Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge for removing 765 unsafe automobiles from the streets. “During the past few years’® Mr. Eldridge wrote, “we have condemned a few cars which have been picked up by the police on account of their unsafe mechanical condition, but your associa- tion is in a position to go to the bottom of| the problem and prevent a lot of these old wrecks from getting into the hands of persons who will continue to operate them on the streets.” Heads Round Table DR. EVERETT M. ELLISON, ‘Who y was elected interna- tional of the Loyal Knights of the Round Table at fha rowos=tioy in Miiwzukee, Wis, 'HUNDREDS SEEKING VETERAN BENEFS | Canvassed Personally by | Contact Men. | || Veterans of the World War are be- | sieging the regional office of the United States Veterans’ Bureau to ob- | tain benefits granted by the last ses- sion of Congress. So great has be‘eome the pressure that it is likely, accord- ing to officials in charge, that addi- | tional help may have to be shifted to this branch of the work. Application blanks are on file at the { office, located at 1540 I street, and rep- | resentatives ot the bureau aré on hand | to expiain to the vetérans their rights in the matter. 1 Veterans Being Canvassed. ‘The 1,200 patients of the Veterans’ { Bureau located in three hospitals here, Walter Reed, Naval Hospital and St. Elizabeth's, are being personally can- vassed by contact men from the bureau in the hospitals in order to see that each receives the full benefit of the new law. Already several hundred applicants have appeared at the regional office on I street, and the number is expected to increase. The same situation exists at the 53 other regional offices of the bureau throughout the United States, accord- ing to Col. George E. Ijams, assistant director of the bureau. So thoroughly prepared has the bureau been that Col. Ijams expects | benefits to begin before another month | passes. Expenditures to Increase. | Additional balm for war scars pro- | vided in the new act will amount to about $25,281,000 by the end of next of the annual report of the commission | tractors and the existence of unsound | year, it is estimated, and it will in- crease yearly, reaching about $80,570,- 000 during 1935. These sums are in addition to the half billion dollars now being spent by the Veterans' Bureau. About 156,000 former soldiers made eligible for relief for the first time since the war ended will share the new bounty by the end of 1931. They will increase in number annually, reaching about 380,000 in five years. The new act provides that any hon- orably discharged veteran now dis- abled shall receive an allowance from Uncle Sam. Previously he had to dem- onstrate that his infirmity was the re- sult of war service. The only condition for receiving the relief is that the dis- ability be permanent and not the re- sult of willful misconduct. “We are doing everything humanly possible to get the benefitss to the vet- erans without delay,” Col. Ijams said. The new bill does not provide for additional personnel for administration of the act, although it lays a gargan- tuan new task upon the shoulders of the Veterans’' Bureau. Details Wait on Hines. Some administrative details cannot be worked out until Director General Hines, already named administrator of | veterans’ affairs, is confirmed. He then will take the reins of the veterans’ administration, co-ordinated headquarters of all Federal govern- mental relief for war veterans. His bu- reau will be the largest single Govern- ment administration agency in the Na- tion’s history. RESIDENT OF CAPITAL HEADS ROUND TABLE Dr. Everett M. Ellison Elected In- ternational President at Mil- waukee Convention. Dr. Everett M. Elll 1720 M street, widely known physicii of this city, was elected international president of the Loyal Knights of the Round Table, at the annual convention of that or- ganization in Milwaukee, Wis., yester- day. Dr. Ellison is past president and or- ganizer of the Washington Round Table and has long been interested in its activities. Its motto is: “He who sele'ks to 'se‘rve others best serves him- An ardent supporter of the eighteenth amendment, Dr. Ellison was an officer of the Citizens' Service Association for Law and Order, immediately after it was founded here some years ago. He has remained active in the organiza- tion, which some' time ago transferred its headquarters to the offices of the Anti-Saloon League here. Dr. Ellison also has long been active in the Young Men's Christian Associa- tion. He is a member of the board of the Y. M. C. A. here and one of the medical examiners in the physical de- partment. He is a member of the staff of George Washington University Hos- pital. He has been active also in other ON ANCIENT INCAN CITY 1S PUBLISHED Connecticut Senator Finds Time to Prepare Archeo- logical Data. LIMITED EDITION'S COPIES COST $50 EACH Discoveries in Exploration of Ruined Capital Are Set Forth in Detail. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Prof. Hiram Bingham, archeologist and explorer, has not been submerged completely in the career of the senior Senator ‘from Connecticut—nor have the subtleties of tariff schedules pushed out of his mind altogether the mystery of the cloudland graves of the virgins of the sun. Senator Bingham's final report and scientific findings of his three expedi- tions in 1911, 1912 and 1915 to the ancient Inca city of Machu Plechu has just_been issued as a monograph of | the National Geographic Society. It is a profusely jllustrated volume of 238 pages published in a limited edition of 500 copies priced at $50 each, for the use of specialists in archeology. It is doubtless the highest priced !literar product which has yet come from the pen of a member of th> Senate. Minute Details Printed. In this book he brings together ail the minute details of his discoveries in | the ruins of this strange, ancient city, 1 18,000 feet above sea I in the cloud- | washed Andes peaks, ceat of a high | aboriginal civilization, which is con- | sidered one of the greatest finds in New World archeology. Hitherto his accoynts, published by the National Geographic _Society, have been frag- mentary, The present book contains the Senator's conclusions and much new material. ‘The ruins of this old city, of which there was no record, were found by Senator Bingham on a narrow ridge between two precipitous Andean peaks, the walls still standing, but overgrown with a tangled thicket, in the midst of a hardwood forest. -On his last ex- pedition his party undertook the enor- mous task of chopping down the forest completely and clearing away the under- brush so that the city presented about the same appearance, except for the fallen roofs, as in its last days about | the time of the Spanish conquest- of the Incan Empire. Pieces Scraps of History. Its existence, presumably unknown to the Spaniards, since they make no direct reference to it, presented a mystery which the ‘Senator now has gone & long way toward solving by plecing together scraps of history and legend which fit with his archeological findings. He sought te determine the nature of the ancient inhabitants. Obviously the building of this city had been the labor of many years. The stone walls of the houses and defenses, secure enough to have stood for so many cen- turies, were put up without cement of any kind by exact fitting of the stones together, often by hand-chizeling of concave and convex surfaces. The work would have required great numbers of strong laborers. But the burial caves about the efty yiglded only the skeletons of women, ew infants, and a small number of underdeveloped males. These could not have been the builders. Then the so- lution of the mystery came to Sen- ator Bingham, he explains in this re- port. He had come upon the myste- rious “University of Idolatry” of Inca legends, or- rather the final refuge of the virgins of the sun. The Inca peo- ple were sun worshippers. The lovli- est maidens of the land were selected 'as attendants of the Inca. In the caves of Machu Picchu they found their last resting places, togéther with their personal ornaments and some of their pets. The men presumably were priests of the cult, described as “the most humane of the religions of ab- original America.” The bodies of the builders and early inhabitants had dis- appeared. Last Stage of History. But these burials probably re- sented only the last stags of the city's history. The spot, it is belleved, may have had some ancient sentimental significance for the Inca people. But, according to the Teport, the city itself probably was built by the defeated fol- lowers of Pachacuti the Sixth, last of an Inca regime which continued for 60 generations after the king had been slain in battle. They found here an ideal place of security where they were able to start anew, protected from at- tack by the deep canyons, high peaks and treacherous glaciers as well as by the elaborate system of defenses they erected. Here, he thinks, they and their descendants dwelt in peace and prosperity for approximately 500 years, conquering their harsh mountain en- vironment with a system of terraced fields and gradually extending their range into more fertile territaxv. The city finally was abandoned as a fapital, due partly to a change in climate which dried up the water suppites, when_its people established the ne Inca Empire, which laster for 300 ye#ts. and fipally was overthrown by tne | Spaniards. After the Incas had eslab- lished their new capital the old eity, difficult of access, was reduced to a religious center. Seat of High Civilization. But in the days of its glory, the ex- cavations of Senator Bingham indicate, it was the seat of a high native ecivil- ization. The houses were of stone, each a story and a half high, many of them with gable ends constructed with timbers, with narrow streets and stair- ways of rock. There were 100 of these stairways in the city, ranging from 150 steps to two or three steps. From.the ¢ty into the valley a system of well constructed roads, each three or four feet wide, extended. The people developed all this ma- sonry and engineering largely without machinery. They knay only the use of the lever and inclined plane. They had no wheels and had not discovered the secret of the arch. But they made strong suspension bridges over - the mountain streams with fiber ropes. The trepanned skulls found in some graves show that they had developed a technique of brain surgery, the vi tim probably being partially anesthe- tized by chewing cocoa leaves. Usually these delicate operations were fatal. Some skulls were found with four or five holes in them, showing that the owners had survived thus often the hands of the surgeons. & They were a peaceful people, but well protected against invasion by high walls across the ridge in front of the ‘city and a system of inner defenses. 'The only weapons were slings and clubs. They had developed an art of metal- organizations of this city. Dr. Ellison is a native of Tennessee. Guggenheim Flies From Cuba. RALEIGH, N. C., July 19 (#).—Harry F. Guggenheim, United States Ambas- sador to Cuba, arrived here Thursday night by air from Havana. The Am- bassador, who left Havana Wednesday movnine. was on his way to Washing- ey = * ~= #nd landed here on rektier. lurgy and could make bronze adapted to various uses. Their masonry re- mains one of the wonders of the world. Their terraced fields were a marvel of engineering. The expeditions were under the joint lusrglcel of the National Soclety and of Yale University, e Senator Bingham was a member of the faculty. The vast amount of material collected called for years of study béfore :he nl:ax conclusions could ke -made rom