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WARRANTS VOIDED AND TAGS 1SSUED. INDIPLOMATICCASE Wife of Chanceller of Greek| Legation Absolved in Tangle With Maryland Officials. TROUBLE STARTS OVER USE OF DISTRICT PLATES| Hyattsville Magistrate Announces| He Will File Complaint With State Department. Warrants against Mrs. Catherine Koundouriotis, wite of the chancellor of the Greek legation in Washington, for using District of Columbia tags on an automobile owned and operated in Maryland have been voided upon the advice of the State's attorney of Prince Georges County, and Mrs. Koundouriotis has been offered a set of Maryland tags without charge, it was announced to- day in Baltimore at the office of E. Austin Baughman, commissioner of motor vehicles. ‘The warrants were issued for Mrs. Koundouriotis, the wife of Stephen Koundouriotis, during an investigation ‘which followed a complaint that numer- ous residents of Prince Georges County were operating their automobiles with District of Columbia tags, according to a statement issued today by Mr. Baugh- man. Patrolman C. W. Cubbage of the State police was assigned to investigate the complaint, which was made by Justice of the Peace Herbert J. Moffat of Hyattsville. Orders Warrants Voided. In the course of the investigation Commissioner Baughman said the pa- trolman found that one of those operat- ing cars under the conditions com- plained of was Mrs. Koundouriotis. He secured warrants for her arrest at Upper Marlboro, but, upon the com- plaint of the legation attaches, the ad- vice of State's Attorney Frank Parran was sought. Mr. Parran held that the warrants could not be served because of the diplomatic immunity extended under international law. Commissioner Baughman then or- dered the warrants voided and suggest- ed that to avoid complication Mrs. Koundouriotis accept a set of Mary- land tags which are furnished to diplo- matic attaches without charge. It has been indicated that this plan will be accepted ‘The legation chancellor and his wife | have lived for the past six years at Decatur Heights, near Bladensburg. Mrs. Koundouriotis, it was said, is an American citizen. Claimed Immunity. Officer W. C. Proctor of Hyattsville reported that Mrs. Koundouriotis falled to stop at a stop sign on Franklin street at Oakwood drive. When halted by the officer, Mrs. Koundouriotis is said to have claimed diplomatic immunity. While Proctor was examining her per- mit and registration card she drove away, the officer told Mr. MofTat. After conferring with the justice of the peace the officer obtained warrants for failure to have Maryland markers or driver’s permit. No warrant for failure to obey the stop sign was issued. douriotis visited the magistrate’s office to discuss the incident and a heated argument ensued, according to Moffat, who today declared he would file a Jormal complaint with the State De- ‘partment. i COX AND LUHRING WILL TAKE OATH Associate Justices of D. C. Supreme Court to Be Inducted Into Office Tomorrow. Joseph W. Cox, Washington lawyer, and Oscar R. Luhring of Indiana, As- sistant Attorney General, recently con- firmed as associate justices of the Dis- trict Supreme Court, will be inducted into office tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The oath of office will be ad- ministered to the new jurists by Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat. Justice Pey- ton Gordon is expected to attend the ceremony. Following the subscribing to the ju- dicial oaths Justices Cox and Luhring will be extended a welcome by mem- bers of the bar, court officials and other friends who are expected to witness the event. The names of the two new justices were sent to the Senate together by President Hoover, and the nomination of Mr. Cox was acted on in a few days, but the Luhring nomination was held over until the last day of the session. Both have deferred taking the oath of office to wind up matters on which they were engaged. LURAY THREATENED BY FOREST FIRES Drought Dries Out Area Surround- ing Town and Close Watch Is Kept. Special Dispatch to The Star, LURAY, Va., July 31.—The drought continues unbroken at Luray. Showers have fallen all around Luray this week, but within a radius of a few miles of | the town grass and vegetation are so dry that the greatest care must be ex- ercised to prevent fire. Two alarms WASHINGTON, Primo Carnera, Italian heavyweight, came to Washington today for an ex- hibition bout at the Auditorium tonight and incidentally to explain to the immi- gration authorities why he should be permitted to remain in the United States the customary visitor’s six months. In the photo, left to right, Mrs. , Carnera and Leon See, his manager. —Star Staff Photo. CITIZENS T0 AID IN BICENTENNIAL Rhode Island Avenue Body Authorizes Committee to Plan Celebration. Anxious to have their community take a prominent part in the Washington bicentennial _celebration in 1932, members of the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association, meeting in Sherwood Presbyterian Hall, last night authorized the appointment of a special committee to arrange for the celebration within their territory and to offer the assistance . the organi- zation to the bicentennial George ‘Washington Committee for the District. President Thomas J. Llewllyn named George G. Goergens chairman of the committee. Others appointed were Miles Bailey, representing the business men of the association; W. H. Dunn, who is chairman of the association’s Standing Committee on Celebrations; L. M. Clarke, ident of the Wood- ridge Garden Club; Mrs. Eppa Norris, representing the Parent-Teacher Asso- eiation; Mrs. C. J. Bowne, representing women’s clubs of the community; Mrs. W. E. Perry, representing the local Girl Scouts; George S. Dodge, chairman of the Standing Committee on Parks, and W. R. Love. The committee was also directed to urge the improvement and beautifica- tion of the highways, parks and resi- dences so that Woodridge would be a credible east gate to the National Capi- tal when the visitors arrive two years hence. ASSISTANT 1.C.C.CHIEF RETIRES FROM POST Raymond Loranz Receives $400 in Gold and Testimonial in Behalf of Associates. Retired today after more than 36 years’ service, Raymond Loranz, 78 years old, assistant chief of the tariff section of the Bureau of Traffic, Interstate Commerce Commission, was presented with more than $400 in gold and a testimonial in behalf of associates and other friends, in the building at Eigh- | teenth and Pennsylvania avenue. The purse was made up by the employes of the commission and various railroad officials with whom he had come in contact. The purse and testimonial were pre- sented by L. C. Nelson, assistant to the director of traffic, Interstate Commerce Commission, who praised Mr. Loranz’s long and faithful service with the com- mission and spoke of the frequent fatherly advice glven the employes by “the judge,” the name by which Mr. Loranz is affectionately known. Mr. Loranz also was eulogized by Charles H. Bates, local transportation attorney. A hundred or more fellow employes were grouped around and applauded vigor- ously. ‘Replying to the eulogles, Mr. Loranz, who has had four extensions to enable him to continue beyond the usual re- tirement age, declared: “This meeting will recollection as long as I live.” Then, after * expressing his appreciation for the purse and testimonial, he declared he must continue to_work somewhere. “I must_find work. I have worked too long. 1 can't stop, he said.” Mr. Loranz resides at 72 Adams street. He is @ native of Illinois. He began with the commission January 26, 1894, and was appointed to the position from which he was retired today, on July 1, be a pleasant SPIRITUALIST BILL HITBY D.C. HEAD Issue State Paper Holding Present Law Should Re- main Undisturbed. I ‘The Commissioners, in a state paper. issued yesterday, discussed rather ex- haustively the matter of fortune telling and glcrlt\llllsbs‘ but carefully avoided any decision, except to hold that the present laws on these subjects should be allowed to remain undisturbed. According to the present situation, anybody who can present letters from 10 reputable persons showing that he or she has resided in the District for one year and is & person of good moral character can set up in the business of fortune telling by paying a license fee of $25 per annum. The letter of the Commissioners, addressed to the Senate District Committee, was applied to the discussion of a bill introduced in the Senate at the past session of Congress making it an offense, punishable by fine or imprisonment, to “pretend” to tell fortunes, remove spells, etc. Only Pretenders Included. Said the Commissioners: “From the terms of the bill it would seem from the use of the word “pretending” as graph of the license law (the present law) the inference is that bona fide fortune tellers, spell removers, etc., are not to be included within the operation of the bill, but that only those who pre- tend to perform these acts. As whether or not there is any person so gifted as to be able to foretell the fu- ture or to be able to perform any of the acts denounced in the bill, there is considerable doubt. There are a great many persons who believe that certain individuals possess such power, as is evidenced by the fact that so many persons are engaged in this call- ing, and so many persons pyatronize them. Up to Court to Decide. “As at present worded, the bill leaves to the prosecuting officer and to th court the determination of whether or not a fortune teller, soothsayer, etc., is a bona fide fortune teller, etc., W] can, and does, actually foretell the futures or the fortune of the seeker for information, or whether the alleged fortune teller is merely pretending to foretell the future. “If it is intended to except from the operation of this bill bona fide fortune tellers, etc., it would appear to be necessary that some test of the skill of the fortune teller be set forth, in order that there may be some means of determining whether or not the fortune teller is really fortelling the future or is merely pretending to do so. “If, on the other hand, it is the in- tent of the bill to brand as fradulent all persons who hold themselves out as able to foretell the future or for- tune of any person, it would appear to be necessary to remove any possible , | doubt as to the intent of the bill. “The Commissioners do not recom- mend the passage of the bill in its present form.” FACES GAMING CHARGE Sixty-five Reported in Place at the Time Are Releasd. Connie James Cimino, 33 years old, of the Parkside Hotel was arrested by Detective Sergts. Hubert E. Brodie and T. C. Bragg, yesterday afternoon and charged with setting-up a gaming table as the result of a raid on an alleged gambling establishment at 218 Ninth street, Sixty-five men who were in the place at the time of the raid were rels after their names were obtained by 1910. were sounded yesterday. 1In the Collins addition on the Lee Highway several acres were burned over before the fire was_controlled. The water supply itself is too limited to be of much avail in fighting fires. A close watch has been kept since forest fires have been threatening the town. JOHN A. WELLS DEAD By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md,, July 31.— John Arthur Wells, 71-year-old retired farmer, died at his residence here early today after a lingering illness. Although he never held public office, Mr. Wells was long active in local affairs. Mr, Wells was the son of the late Horace and Caroline M. Wells, Sur- viving kim are his widow, Mrs. Ida M. Duckett Wells; four sons, Horace, Joseph A., and Joseph P., and Edwin C., and two daughters, Mrs. Maud Buck and Mrs. Carol Wise. Puneral services will be conducted @aturday morning at 9:30 o'clock at St. Mary's Catholic Church. will be in Meunt Carmel Burial ' church members from their outstanding minis the detectd STRAYING AWAY FROM RELIGION HELD CAUSE OF PRESENT DROUGHT Scores of Prayers for Breaking of Dry Spell Offered at Shenandoah Baptist Meeting. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va, July 31.—That the prevailing drought is the result of a great majority of citizens having strayed away from God and the tenets of his religion was the idea professed yesterday and again today by the several hundred Virginia and West Virginia Baptists in attendance at the 1930 session of the Shenandoah Baptist Association, at Berryvill, near here. Ministers from many sections of the two States decried ‘the absence of pews and ters of body es- to | season, there are no more DRECTOROF FARN SOLVESFLY NENACE AT T, ELIABETH Digs Trenches Around Fer- tilizer Heaps and Pours in Crankcase Oil. METHOD KILLS LARVAE IN THIRD STAGE OF LIFE City Health Departments Showing Interest in New Discovery. Are BY THOMAS R. HENRY. St. Elizabeth’s Hospital has been al- most rid of flies with a method devised by D. A. Brodie, farm superintendent, ::mch may have a world-wide applica- on. ‘This consists simply in digging foot- deep trenches about the fertilizer heaps on the 400-acre farm and pouring into them approximately a three-inch layer of drained crank-case oil. The same method could be applied with almost no expense in farm yards and on tie grounds of other institutions. It nas been well known for years that flies lay their eggs in fertilizer heaps, where they hatch into worm-like larvae. Hitherto efforts have been concentrated on the heaps themselyes. Various chem- ical treatments have been devised which kill the larvae effectively enough. All of them, however, have decidedly affected the value of the fertilizer, and farmers have been loath to use them. Studies Life Cycle. Hundreds of millions of flies used to arise from the farm and invade the hospital grounds every Summer and even the best-grade screens could not bar them entirely from the wards and kitchens. When the problem was put up to Mr. Brodie he studied the fly's life cycle and found that the larvae in- variably crawled from the fertilizer piles and burrowed into the soil nearby, where they underwent the third stage in the life of flies, pupation. Here they were wingless and helpless. Then Brodie remembered his experi- nce with a cut worm invasion 20 years when he was superintendent of an agricultural experiment station in Washington. The vast army of insects advancing along a 2-mile front, had been stopped by g trenches, up whose perpendicular sides they could not climb. They reminded him of the advancing hordes of fly larvae. The only difference was that if the larvae waited in the trench thrown in the path of their advance out the fertilizer pile and into which they were bound to fall, in a few days they would get wings and fly out. Oil Solves Problem. The problem was to kill them before they grew wings. The drained crank- case oil was going to waste, and he tried it as an insecticide. The results ex: all expectations, Morning after morning all Summer farm work- men have scooped off the surface of the oil shovelful after shovelful of dead wormlike forms—flles in the second stage of their life cycle. As a flle is enlarged the trench system is enlarged to surround it. only flies who es- cape are a few slow-mo larvae who by the pupation stage on pile, and considered in connection with the para- | 1 helpless days of pupation. ‘The method has not entirely rid the hospital grounds of flies, but on the first of August, the height of the fly than would be there normally the first of April Fly swatters have e nearly use- less implements. Fly traps still are used about the dairies. For the first time members of the staff can dine on tables set on the lawn outide the cafe- teria in comfort. The psysician in charge of one building said that he has not had 1 per cent of the flles this Summer as in other years, and stated seriously that he believed the farm superintendent has of the most notable scientific discoveries in the history of the hospital. The entire residential section around the hospital 1s feeling the change. Interest Shown in Discovery. ‘The method cannot be expected to eliminate all flies, Mr. Brodie said, be- cause they lay eggs in millions of places, but it can almost entirely check them at the source of the greatest numbers. City health departments aiready are showing an interest in the discovery. One application, Brodie said, will be on farms where flies, hatching in the untrenched fertilizer piles in the barn- yards, have everywhere been an uner- radicable pest. Probably the great majority of the flies which afflict cities come from a comparatively few con- centration points. “The trench,” Mr. Brodie said, “often has been used to check insect invasions, but, so far as I can find, nobody be- fore ever has thought of using it against flies. With us it was simply & case of necessity being the mother of invention. The fertilizer was essential for running the farm, but either the fertilizer or the flies had to go. By striking at the fly in the pupation stage we had the insect when it was defense- less. Folks have been swatting, poison- ing and trapping fiies all over the world for centuries, but they have attacked the fly at the stage where it was best equipped to fight back.” P COST OF EDUCATIORI RISES IN MARYLAND Special Dispatch o The Star, BALTIMORE, July 31.—1It cost 93 cents -more to educate the average county school pupil last year than in 1928, according to & survey completed by the State Department of Education. ‘The average cost without reference to type of school was $54.55 the t shows. The peak, $71.12, was reached in Garrett County, where there are no colored pupils but many one-teacher schools. In Charles County the aver- age cost, $42.60, was lowest. WILL LISTS 31,502),000 timated that not one-fourth of the Baptist communicants of the Shenan- doah district, comprising 26 churches, were in attendance at church services on Sunday last. Admonishing the Baptists to return to their God and draw others with them, the Rev. C. L. Eubank of the Stanley Baptist Church, preached a forceful sermon on the text, “Return to God,” basing his thesis on the writ- ings of the 'R:Ophel- Isaiah. During the course of two-day meeting scores of prayers were offered by cl for the breaking of the Spalding Executor Files Petition to Have Document Probated, Charles A. Spalding, financ; died June 25, Ieft an' estate yerjed 1o excess of $1,500,000, according to the geuum of his_executor, Harold S, 'ming of New York for the propate of his will. He owned real estate assessed at $274,800 and had personal property worth $1,200,000, of which $1 509ach was in securities, $45.000 in cash an $45,000 in household effects and jewelry. l;’u nurmhéhfll are cousins, At rneys B larye appear executor. for the The details reported . of the will's Provisions songe weeks ago. D. C, THURSDAY, Queen of Ball JULY 31, MISS ROSA LEE WOODUL, A student at National Park Seminary, who was chosen queen of the Black and White Midsummer Ball, the Summer social event of the English-speaking colony in Mexico City. Miss Woodul is the daughter of J. R. Woodul, prom- inent mining man in Mexico City. YOUTHFUL ELOPERS TO ROCKVILLE HELD Parents Cause Arrest of Bride, 15, and Husband, 21, Upon Return Here. An elopement to Rockville, where Harold Wallace Eddins, 21, and Naomi Johnson, said to be 15 years old, were married Tuesday morning, had an un- hrl:,nty ending for the young couple last night. The parents of the child bride, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Johnson of 517 Park road, accompanied by Detectives James A. Springman and T. C. Bragg, made a surprise call on the couple, who were eating supper in their newly acquired room at 1209 N street. It was because Naomi was a minor and her age had been given as 18 years in applying for a marriage license, that the bride’s parents had decided to have the police take action. Naomi had told her mother Tuesday morning that she was going to visit a girl friend in the country and when Mrs. Johnson met the girl on the street yesterday and learned that Naomi had not her, an investigation was started. ‘The parents walted outside the house when the detectives went in and brought out the young couple. Escorted bz her parents, Naomi was taken to the of Detention, while Eddins was taken to the first precinct station to be held for investigation. Police were in- formed that Eddins is a stepson of a sister of Mrs. Johnson. The bride’s father told the detectives he would go to Rockville today and report the affair to the police authorities there. U.S. TO ASK NEW AIDS FOR WRECKING BLOCK Contracts for Razing Poli's and Other Buildings and Grading to Be Separate. New bids on the work of demolishing buildings in “square 226,” which is the area on the south side of Pennsylvania avenue between Fourteenth and Fif- teenth streets, will be received by the Treasury Department, it was said today. Contracts for wrecking Poli's Theater and the other the block and for grading the property will be let separately instead of in one con- tract as was contemplated when bids for the work were advertised some time ago. Decision of the to let the contracts separately T in the refusal of the low bid of H. Herfuth, Jr, Inc. It was said today that deep cellars are on the property and that considerable grading’ will be necessary to build the land up to the level of the new Commerce Department Building. Rather than leave this work to house- wrecking companies, who ordinarily do little grading work, it was said, the ‘Treasury decided to separate the work. Bids will be advertised immediately, it was said, with a view to having the work start within three weeks. All the buildings in the block are to be razed nmlk the property made over into a park. BALL IS INDORSED BY VIRGINIA DRYS Anti-Saloon League Backs Senator as Result of Answers to Questionnaire. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ARLINGTON COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., July 31.—As a result of the answers received from questions naires sent to the various candidates for the Democratic nomination for the Fed- eral House of Representatives, the Anti- Saloon League of Virginia has indorsed State Senator Frank L. Ball, it was made known here today. Tonight Senator Ball will invade the territory of his strongest opponent, Judge Howard W. Smith, by speaking in-the Elks’ Hall in Alexandria. SUES TO RECOVER DEBT ON APARTMENT HOUSES A. Joseph Howar Files Suit Against Joseph McReynolds to Re- cover $173,460.17. A. Joseph Howar, Southern Building, today filed suit in the District Supreme Court to recover $173,460.17 from Jo- seph McReynolds, 1423 L street. The sum is sald to represent the balance due on & second deed of trust for $250,000, secured on four apartment houses, which was foreclosed July 25. The properties, known as the Winde- mere, Harrowgate, Flagler and Guth- ridge Apartments, were sold to Albert W. Jacobson for $5000 each over the first deed bf trust. Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer appears for the plaintiff. 1930. PAGE B—-1 CORONER' JURY HOLDS WIOW N WLLIAHS KILLING Weakened by Worry, 53- Year-0ld Woman Not Placed on Stand to Testify. HER STORY IS “SAVED” FOR THE GRAND JURY i | | “Confession” Made to Police Con- | cerned Alleged Refusal by Husband of Money. Her strength sapped by worry, Mrs. | Myrtle Lenora Willilams, 53 years old, | sat quietly in a chair at the District | morgue this afternoon and heard read | a coroner's jury verdict holding her for action of the grand jury for the fatal shooting of her husband 10 days ago. Because of her weakened condition and the fact that Mrs. Williams is subject to frequent heart attacks, De- fense Attorneys E. Russell Kelly and H. M. Welch waived their right to place the woman on the stand to give her version of the tragedy in which Claude C. Williams, 55, lost his life. True Side Not Offered. “We made no effort to present the true side of the case at this time in view of the damaging statement Mrs. Williams signed for police in her hys- terical condition immediately after the shooting,” Welch told. reporters after the inquest. “We are saving our story for the grand jury.” ‘The statement referred to by Welch was the one obtained by Detective W. S. Smoot and Pvts. E. H. Hinson and E. C. Rhue of the tenth precinct sta- tion, immediately after the shooting July 21 in the Willlams’ third-floor apartment at 3541 Tenth street. Denial of Money Related. ‘The signed confession to the shoot- ing told of the arrival of the Williarh: in Washington on June 21 last an how the husband had denied Mrs. Wil- liams sufficlent money for household expenses, until finally, driven to des- peration, she had shot him. Williams died Tuesday night in the Emergency Hospital as a result of the shooting. His wife, prostrated by news of his death, was placed under arrest at the home of friends in Arlington County and brought to police head- quarters, where a murder charge was placed against her. The statement, admitted in evidence after much wrangling between As- sistant District Attorney Irvin Gold- steln and defense counsel, was read to the jury by Detective Smoot. Defendant Appears Dazed. Mrs. Willlams sat as if in a daze, touching a handkerchief to her eyes occasionally, as the officer unreeled her story of the and the events leading up to the shooting. In the confession Mrs. Williams ex- plained that her husband and she had come to Washington from Florida ex- actly one month before the shooting, with $300 in his possession. “He had been drinking on and off since our arrival, and he gave me but $7,” the statement read. “On Satur- day he remained away from home the greater part of the day, and when he returned his face was swollen and his eyes were bloodshot. “I told him that I could not live in the attic of this house, as the heat was around 110 degrees. He told me I would have to live there or else find another place.” “I told him I would find another place, but he would have to give me o Iy He again refused and dressed in his best clothing. Then I went into the pantry and in a dish I found his revolver which I had placed there on Saturday, having taken it from his bureau drawer on Saturday, July 19, while he was drinking. “I walked to the door and fired one shot at him. After I saw that he was bleeding I bathed his head and went to the phone and tried to get in touch with police and also a doctor.” Following the inquest Mrs. Williams was helped into a police car and driven glgug}sml‘fiy.,f , where she will be until res for arraignment befe the grand jury. e AUTO FRACTURES LEG OF 5-YEAR-OLD BOY Robert E. Sullivan Treated at Cas- ualty Hospital After Acci- dent on Benning Road. Robert E. Sullivan, 5 years old, of 783 Twentieth street northeast, suffered a fractured right leg yesterday afternoon when he ran into the side of an auto- mobile while playing at Benning road and Twentieth street northeast. He was taken to Casualty Hospital, where surgeons attended him. The driver of the car, Francis N. Mc- Farland, 27 years old, of 500 G street southwest, was to be arraigned in Traffic Court today on a charge of driv- ing without a hand brake. He was ar- rested by ninth precinct police investi- gating the accident. Struck by an automobile at Eleventh and H streets late yesterday, Cornelius Robinson, colored, 30 years old, of 108 Douglas court northeast, was knocked from his bicycle. Robinson was ren- dered unconscious, but quickly revived, and was taken to Emergency Hospital, where he was treated for bruises and dismissed. Bert Horn, 28 years old, of 208 Farra- gut street, was the driver of the auto- mobile which hit the colored man, po- lice reported. Horn was not held. SCHOOL BIDS OPENED By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. - ARLINGTON = COUNTY COURT HOUSE, Va., July 31—The county school board yesterday afternoon opened bids for enlargements to the Lvon Park, Bon Afr, Aurora Hills and Aurora Heights Ele tary Schools, but an- nounced that the contract would not be awarded until a meeting that will | last be held tonight at 8 o’clock. Out of a e number of bids the following were selected for consideration: The Northern Virginia Construction Co., $85,000; C. H. Buchanan, $86,000; T. T. Taylor, $102,000, and J. H. Ben- nett, $83,553. The bids are for all of the additions. Candidacy Registered. By a Stafl Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., July 31.— Gardiner Coale, prominent nepzbm:m leader, and member of the Republican State Central Committee for Prince Georges County, has filed his candidacy for re-election 'to the committee with the Board of Election Supervisors, Sam- secretary to the board, uel A. erflwl, » 2 PHILANDER C. KNOX, JR. KNOX CONVIGTED ON CHECK CHARGE Judge Mattingly Imposes 90- Day Suspended Sentence on Former Senator’s Son. Philander C. Knox, jr., known as “Tippy,” son of the former Senator and Secretary of State, was found guilty of glving & bad check and received a suspended sentence of 90 days in jail from Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Po- lice Court today. RETRED WORKERS T0CETINCREASED ANNOITS SOON 18,000 Are Involved, but Checks of Many Will Be Delayed by Work. 400 NOW ARE READY TO BE MAILED OUT Time Is Required to Re-Examine and Compute Thousands of Fig- ures, Officials Explain. Several hundred retired Government employes will begin to receive checks within the next few days carrying for the first time the increased annuities Tecently granted by Congress when it ;?:sbed the new civil service retirement There are 18,000 veteran Federal workers on the retired roll, but the Pension Bureau will not be able to make out all of the checks on the in- creased basis in August because of the necessity of re-examining and working out a new computation for each of the thousands of annuitants. The new law became effective as of July 1, and a force of workers has been engaged busily since that time fn determining for each individual on the retired roll the additional amount ai- lowable under the new law. 400 Checks Now Ready. It was estimated today that approxi- Knox, who gave his address as Wild Rose Shore, Md., was arrested last night by Headquarters Detective B. W. Thompson upon complaint of P. N. Childs of the 800 block of Ninth street. The latter reported that Knox had given him a worthless check as part payment for a motor boat engine. After a hearing today Judge Matting- ly scored Childs for “his manner of testifying” and for “bringing to court a case which should have been and could have been settled on_the outside.” Knox told Judge Mattingly .that on July 1 he gave Childs, an old motor on which he was allowed $150 and a post-dated check for $279 in ex- change for a new boat engine. The check, Knox said was dated July 15 and was given Childs with the under- standing that the latter would not cash it until “his quarterly dividend check should be received.” The de- mately 400 checks are read: mailed out with the ll’\cl'tu!e:Y lu‘?d:(e, :nd '.he”omerxzu will receive their in- Teases as raj “;flf"mpl? ug y as the computations retired employes will monthly checks, bl{l thmen:;lluvleeul:g annuity has not yet been computed will continue to be paid at the old rate. It mp]t:;e t\;ll'u-ee montl‘;s. it was said, to e re-exa 18,‘0:)0 annuity pnyanrt::.uon s Wwas explained, however, that IWho do not get the increased I&"H\’lfi; mn{efllnwly Wwill receive the difference between the old and the new rate from July 1, whenever their new annuity is glelermlned. In fixing the new compu- tions the pension authorities started with the oldest cases on the retired roll. Average Last Year $760. The average annuity duri past year under the old low has pee bt fendant declared Childs attempted to cash the instrument before he had banked his check. Since that time, he said, he had returned the engine to Childs and had offered to make Trestitution. An attempt was made after the trial to have the suspended sentence set aside in an effort to clear Knox’s name of the charge. Judge Mattingly agreed to dismissal of the case if istant District Attorney John R. Fitzpatrick would sanction it. The latter refused to give his consent to such action. “I am convinced that this man gave a bad check,” said Mattingly. “But at the same time I don't place much credence in the testimony of the com- plaining witnesses.” POLICEMEN SUBDUE MAN AFTER BATTLE Patient on Way to Sanitarium At- tempts Escape on Georgia Avenue. ‘While on his way to Washington Sanitarium from Winchester, Va., Charles Arthur, 30 years old of Colum- bia, S. C., leaped from an automobile in which he was riding with his wife and two Winchester policemen as the car approached the District line on Georgla avenue. While passing through ‘Washington the patient’s conduct had become s0 alarming the ‘other members of the party were unable to quiet him. Two police of the thirteenth precinct, W. T, Ctorm and E. C. Moore, came to the assistance of the Wi ap: for his hip pocket. Trying to beat him to the draw the police pulled out their pistols in an effort to frighten the man into surrendering. Arthur drew a stone out of his hip pocket instead of a pistol and a lively fight started after the police put their own pistols back in the holsters. Arthur was finally subdued after kicking the policemen severely. Leut. A. H. Davis accompanied the | two Winchester policemen, William Schnelder and Aulick Gibbons, the rest of the way to the Washington Sani- tarium. The injured policemen were given first aid treatment at Walter Reed Hospital, i WOMAN FLYER TO BRING INVITATION TO PRESIDENT Blanche Noyes Due Tomorrow With Floral Piece Asking Executive and First Lady to Races. Blanche Wilcox Noyes, one of the country’s leading woman pilots, will fly here tomorrow from Chicago to de- liver to President and Mrs. Hoover a floral invitation to attend the National Alr, Races at Chicago August 23 to Sep- tember 1. ‘The invitation is made of a new type of rose named for the President at a recent flower show sponsored by the Department of Agriculture. The President and Mrs. Hoover are to receive the pilot at the White House shortly after her arrival at Hoover Field, where she will be met by the officers mated, unofficially, as $760. Un of the computations are complet:%‘.ll: is difficult for officials to say what the average annuity will be for the coming jear under the new law, but it is be- lieved it will be about $890. The law, which went into effect 1, establishes a mew retirement plan under which eventually the annuity of each employe will bear a relation to his salary, whereas under the old law the provides for'a annuity of $30 a year for each yelhrsé: service, up to 30 years, making a total basic annuity of $900. To this is to be * added whatever annuity can be pur- chased with the amount accumulated to the credit of the employe from his own contributions the retirement fund. A deduction of $1 a month is to be made from the contribution of each employe to help meet the cost of the basic $900 aanuity, the balance required for the basic annuity to be contributed by the Government. This, in sub- stance, is the plan advanced in the House by Representative Lehibach. The law as passed provided further that in no case shall an employe receive less under the new law than he would have me‘"zdm under &)ime former method of computing annuities, as provided in the bill of Senator Dale of V‘:mrmnnk PUMP TO RELIEVE LOW WATER PRESSURE Emergency Connection With D. C, Water at Chevy Chase Circle Has Been Obtained. Following reports that the sure in some of the mmm Chevy Chase, Md., dropped so Jow Jast night that residents had df araw- ing water on the upper floors of their homes, Deputy Chief Engineer Harry R. Hall announced today that permis- sion had been obtained to pump water through the emergency connection with the District water system at Chase Circle between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m, This is expected to relieve the low pressure troubles in the Chevy Chase Section, Mr. Hall said. Previously the District authorities had only allowed the Washington Suburban Sanitary Com- ‘mission to draw water from that point at night. The pressure in the Mary- land system was lower last night than at any time during the current emer ger_x\_(;:r Mr. Hall said. le commission hopes to and start using a thlrdpzmerge:d;&{enu- nection with the District system at Sil- ver Spring tomorrow. GRACE PERIOD ON DOG TAGS EXPIRES TOMORROW Round Up 01_1—0,000 Pets Looms as Owners Fail to Apply for New Licenses, The 30 days of grace which Pound- master W. R. Smith extended to dog owners in the district to enable them to purchase new tags for their pets is up tomorrow and a general round-up is in prospect for the some 10,000 dogs of the Eagle Wings' Flying Club, the flying unit of the local wzmen's'cuy Club. ‘The club is composed of elght women and two men, who have been studying for several months and who will receive their diplomas in ground | old tags expired July 1, work before the end of August. Mrs. Noyes was one of the woman pllots in the “powder puff” derby in connection with the National Air Races year, and will compete in the coming Chicago races. GAS BLAST FELLS WOMAN Victim of Corcoran Street Explo- sion Unconscious 45 Minutes. Lighting & match close by a leak in the gas pipe of her kitchen stove, Mrs. Maude Miller, colored, 38 years old, of 1630 Corcoran street was knocked un- conscious in the explosion that resulted this morning. Members of the fire rescue squad suc- ceeded in reviving Mrs. Miller after working for 45 minutes, and she was taken to the ncy Hospital for further attention. Hes eendition is not lth still without their tags. The dog population in the District is roughly estimated at 20,000, or at least that reFresenls the dogs which were tagged last year. Although the only about half e dog owners have bought new ones. - BROWN IS HOST TO FORCE Traffic Bureau Leader Rewards Of- fice for Extra Work. Inspector Ernest W. Brown, com- mander of the Traffic Bureau and as- sistant superintendent of police, was host at an ice cream party for mem- ' bers of his command who worked late last night in preparation for moving into the bureau's new quarters in the 400 block Louisiana avenue. Considerable work is required to get the files and other office equipment in readiness for the change Saturday and many of the Traffic Bureau attaches were required to work late last night. Just before dismissing his aides for the night Inspector Brown sent out for ice cream “all around” and an imp: party was staged. i