Evening Star Newspaper, August 1, 1930, Page 17

HOSPTAL USES CURRENT 0 CUR LOBAR PRELMONA | St. Elizabeth’s Physicians | See Remarkable Results From Heat in Body. { TREATMENT LACKS | | | | Thousands of Lives Annually May Be Saved by Electrical Proc- ess Now Applied. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. | An electrical treatment for lobar | .pneumonia which is almost & specific, promising to save many thousands of lives annually, when it is taken up by general hospitals and practicing physi- cians, is being applied at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital here. While much less effective in bron- chial pneumonia, the results with this malady also have been remarkable. ‘The method, as described by Dr. Wat- son W. Eldridge of the hospital staff, is to pass, through the chest, a high fre- | quency alternating current at approx- imately 1,500,000 alternations a second, using two large tinfoil plates on the front and back. A voltage of about 70 is used. ‘The object is to get heat inside the body. Here the body acts as a resist- ance unit. All other methods of heat therapy consist of applying heat on the outside, which has very little effect on the internal organs. ‘The patient feels no skin sensation, the two electrodes against the skin re- maining cold. ‘When a case of lobar pneumonia is treated within the first 12 hours the re- sult is only a trifie short of specific— that is, cure in every case. Lobar pneu- monia is the type which ordinarily, in five to eleven days, comes to & crisis, When the patient dies or begins to re- cover almost immediately. It has a very heavy death rate. The electrical heat treatment, says Dr. Eldredge, al- most at once breaks down the pneu- | monia process and stops the infection. The crisis comes within & few hours, be- fore the patient’s strength has been depleted by the illness. Crisis About Third Day. Practically the same thing happens with cases first treated after more than 12 hours, but then the breaking down of the pneumonia process is slower. The crisis comes about the third day, instead of waiting, as is ordinarily the case, until the fifth or eleventh day. Here also the patient is much more likely to recover, although there is more possi- bility of a fatal termination. The beginning of lobar pneumonia is o striking, it was explained, that the greater percentage of cases are almost sure to be in the hands of physicians within 12 hours. One moment the vic- tim is perfectly well. Suddenly he is seized by a chill lasting about 20 min- utes, after which a high fever develops. ‘This hardly can happen to any one without the victim knowing that some- thing is serlously wrong and that he had better see a doctor at once. Considerable success has been attained with bronchial pneumonia, although less striking than with the lobar type. | ‘This, it was explained, may be due to the fact that it is more gradual in its onset and may continue for two or three days before the patient realizes that he 1s sick enough to require a physician. Used at War Hospitals. The method used at St. Elizabeth’s is adapted from one devised by physio- therapists and used in a limited way during the war at military hospitals. For some reason it never has passed into general practice. A similar method has been used by Dr. George W. Crile in the Lakeside Hospital at Cleveland, who applied electrodes to cover the liver and the lungs during serious surgical oper- ations to prevent the development of post-operative pneumonia. The St. Elizabeth’s physicians, Dr. Eldridge explained, have been working quietly with this electrical heat treat- ment for several years, but have been cautious about advancing claims for it. The result has been that out of a total of approximately 200 lobgr pneumonia cases among the insane patients there have been only a few deaths. Under the constant observation of the medical staff, of course, it is unlikely that any patient could have lobar pneumonia for more than 12 hours without the condition being observed. Bronchial pneumonia also would be caught up quickly. Rapidity Causes Doubt. The very rapidity of the cures, it was explained, has caused some doubts to be felt as to whether some of the pa- tients really had pneumonia at all. This doubt is overcome by making X-ray ex- aminations of the lungs before the electrodes are applied. The electrical heating method also 1s used, but not with such notable suc- cess, in cases of muscular inflammation and in arthritis. The machine does not raise the actual temperature of the pa- tient, but only of the local area which t is desired to affect. : While the treatment cannot be de- scribed as a specific, so long as it does not produce exactly the same results— that is, cures—in every single case it is about as near & specific as possible without actually being e, St. Eliza- beth’s physicians say. e remarkable results here are expected eventually to extend the method into general prac- tice, and possibly to make an enormous reduction in the death rate caused by one of the greatest scourges of the human race. | | | | | i t ¥ { [, SUICIDE DUE TO GRIEF Woman Believed to Have Swallow- ed Poison Following Mate’s Death. ndency resulting from worry cv?r“me dtllyh of her husband, Mrs. . Tds M. Linkins, 50 years old, 647 Morris street northeast, is believed to have prompted the widow to take poison July 19, which endzld u:e::r death at Casualty Hospital yesterday. Mrs. yl.lnkrm‘ husband, Henry B. Linkins, was a park policeman. Funeral services will be conducted in the chapel at Glenwood Cemetery at 2 o'clock fpmorrow afternoon. G0 TO AIRPORT OPENING Walter Hinton and Miss Majorie Stimson Leave for Coatesville, Pa. Walter Hinton and Miss Marjorie Stinson, National Capital aviation pioneers, are leaving this afternoon for Coatesville, Pa., to assist in the dedi- [ | SENSATION TO SKIN| | | Joseph W. Cox (left) and Oscar R. Li as justices of the District Supreme Court. TWO NEW DISTRICT JUDGES TAKE OATH Oscar R. Luhring and Joseph W. Cox Inducted Into Office With Ceremony. In a court room embowered in flowers and filled to overflowing with friends, Oscar R. Lubring of Indiana, former Assistant United States Attorney Gen- eral, and Joseph W. Cox, Washington lawyer, were inducted into office this morning as associate justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat, ad- | ministered the oaths while Associate | Justice Peyton Gordon sat with him on the bench. The two candidates were seated immediately before the bar of the court and the chief justice calling first on Mr. Luhring asked him to re- peat after him the judicial oath to do equal justice to the’ poor and to the rich. When Justice Luhring had resumed his seat, Justice Cox arose and took a similar oath. At the conclusion of the brief cere- mony the two new justices held & reception and received the felicitations of the large number attending the ceremony. Chief Justice Wheat and Justice Gordon were first to extend congratulations, A number of representatives of the Department of Justice were present as was also Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, former assistant United States attorney general. Members of the families of both of the new jurists had Seats provided within the rail and lawyers, court officials and others over- flowed into the corridor. FEDERAL WORKER FINISHES 50 YEARS Veteran Post Office Department| Employe Retires From Active Duty. Ending more than 50 years' service | in the Post Office Department, Elbridge | P. Rhoderick, 78, one of the oldest em- ployes in the Government service, yes- terday was retired. At a ceremony at the department | fellow workers presented Mr. Rhoderick | with a handsome clock, Second Assist- ant Postmaster General W. Irving Glover presenting the gift to the veteran employe. A native of Frederick County, Md., Mr. Rhoderick went in_his early youth to Tllinols, and from that State was appointed to the Government service, first as a compositor in the Government Printing Office. He entered the Gov- ernment service on December 1, 1873, and set type for the first issue of the Congressional Record printed in that office. On' July 1, 1880, he left the Govern- ment Printing Office to take a clerk- ship in_the office of the Second As-| sistant Postmaster General, division of | contracts, and in that division received | many promotions, becoming, finally chief of the division, & position which | he held for about 10 years. He also has | held supervisory positions in other bureaus of the Post Office Department. Mr. Rhoderick has been granted ex- tensions of service to the lmit of the retirement law. His retirement be- comes effective August 31, but he quit work yesterday, taking’his annual va- service. | Leaving the Post Office Dej labor, E. P. Rhoderick (center] workers, whe vy K by WASHINGTON, D. C, whring (right), who today were inducted —Star Staff Photo. MAN IS FOUND DEAD AT HIS NEIGHBOR'S Verdict of Suicide Given in Death of John T. Cassidy, Ex-Navy Mate. John Thomas Cassidy, 5301 Potomac avenue, Potomac Heights, was found dead on the front porch of a neighbor's house this morning with what Eflhce belleve to be a self-inflicted bullet wound in his heart. A Navy service revolver lay beside the body. Cassidy, a retitred Navy chief f: - machist’s mate, who was 59 years old to- day, had been, according to police, in a despondent mood. Mrs, Mildred Cassidy, his wife, told police today that her husband in a nervous state last night. She sald they went to bed at their usual time, but that Cassidy, some time before 5 o'clock this morning, got up and dressed and went out of the house. She said she waked up at 5 o'clock, and, finding her husband had gone out, went in search of him. She found his body on the front steps of a neighbor’s porch, at 5311 Potomac_avenue. Mrs. Cassidy told police her husband suffered a nervous breakdown about three years ago and recently has been wrought up over the plans of the city for changing grade of Potomac avenue and cutting off five feet of the plot in front of his houss for street widening. Coroner Nevitt issued a certificate of suicide, WEST POINTflVACANACIES LISTED BY DEPARTMENT | One in District, Five in Maryland and Eight in Virginia Are Announced. Members of Congress from 45 States and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia have been requested by the Secretary of War to fill vacancies in cadetships at the United States Mili- tary Academy accredited to them in time for the entrance examination in March and the admission of those found qualified, July 1, 1931. The list shows 1 vacant cadetship to the credit of the District of Columbia, 5 to the credit of Maryland (2 in the fifth dis- trict and 1 each in the first, second and fourth districts) and 8 to the credit of Virginia, 1 each to Senators Swanson and Glass and in the first, third, sixth and eighth districts and 2 in the fifth district. MAN FOUND DEAD IN BED AFTER 3-DAY ABSENCE Coroner John Viersala Died of Natural Causes—Balti- more Relatives Called. Declares John Viersala, 40 years old, of 604 | D “street, was found dead in his bed room yesterday when friends became suspicious at his three-day disappear ance and went to his Toom to investi- ate. B Policeman J. K. Baker of the sixth | precinct station broke in the door after Viersala's lifeless body had been seen lying on the bed. The man apparently had died a natural death, Dr. J. Ram- say Nevitt, District coroner, deciared. Baltimore relatives of the man were to come here today to confer with Dr. Nevitt regarding the case. It has not cation” for his last month of active | been decided whether to perform an | mission, which contains approximately autopsy. ENDS LONG FEDERAL SERVICE pariment yesterday after more than 50 rs’ ) was the recipient of felicitations from his m"' also presented him with s clock. Flanking Mr. Rhoderick are W. |it could comm! Assistant Postmaster General, who Federal made the presentation, | area surrounding Washington. The two TOTAL OF 2000 RETURNS NOW IN FOR PERSONAL TAX Between 25,000 and 30,000 Delinguents Expected to Be Listed by Assessor. FLAGRANT CASE_TO BE TAKEN IN COURT TEST Warning Through Publicity Would Result in Prompter Filing, Is Belief. A e With today’s early mail included, ap- gl.'oxlml'ely 30,000 personal tax returns ve been filed with the District asses- sor since yesterday, when the time limit for filing declarations of tangible and intangible taxes expired. All returns received through the mail which do not bear the date of July 31 will be subject to penalty under the law. Deputy Assessor C. A. Russell estimated there would be between 25,000 and 30,000 relinquents this year. The augnrented office force, which remained on duty from 8:30 o'clock in the morning to 5 o'clock in the after- noon yesterday to take care of the final rush, was equally busy today sorting approximately 15,000 additional returns received through the early morning mail. There was a continuous stream of tax- payers in the office yesterday, with ad- ditional belated arrivals today. Bills will be sent out in September for personal taxes on the basis of re- turns in the month just ended. Deputy Russell said all delinquents who have failed to declare their personal tangi- ble and intangible property will be sub- ject to the 20 per cent penalty. 1t is not planned to bring wholesale court action, Mr. Russell explained. The tax assessor’s office will single out some very flagrant delinquent who deliber- ately refused to file a return for court action. Such a case, Russell said, would be given wide publicity as a warning, which, he believed, would be sufficient to cause all delinquents to make their payments promptly in September and March, thus avoiding the cost of court proceedings in addition to the 20 per cent penalty. W00DS FIRES RAGE OVER LARGE AREA 1 Near Waldorf Ablaze and Government Farm En- croached On. Spreading with alarming rapidity, lgreys:l M!Mde&scl!k{ed'secmmr of ince jes unty kept practi- cally all the volunteer firemen, register- ed crew men, and forest wardens busy all yesterday afternoon and last night battling flames that burned over 12 square miles of brush and woodland, threatened a public school building near Waldorf, and encroached on the United States Animal Husbandry Farm at Beltsville. Appeals for help broadcast from Washington radio stations brought out) hundreds of residents of the District of Columbia and nearby communities to join the ranks of firefighters who battled more than 12 hours before extinguish- ing the Beltsville blaze. Although some of the newly pur- chased land of the Department of Agriculture’s 2,300-acre farm at Belts- ville was burned over, the farm itself was never seriously threatened, accord- ing to B. F. Brandon, husbandryman in charge. ‘The fire was first noticed about noon, apparently having started several hours before. Successive calls for help be- tween that hour and 7 p.m. brought out the volunteer fire companies of Mount Rainier, Bladensburg, Cottage City, Brentwood, Riverdale, College Park, Ber- wyn, Berwyn Heights, Laurel, Branch- ville, Capitol Heights, Greater Capitol Helghts, Bowie, Seat Pleasant, Rock- ville and Bethesda. No. 10 engine company from Washington also re- sponded. Schoo! SLIGO PARK ROAD BIDS ARE ORDERED One-and-Two-Tenth Miles Author- ized at Eastern End of Valley. Advertisement for bids for the con- struction of 1.2 miles of road which would open up the eastern end of Sligo Valley for park use was authorized yes- terday by the Maryland-National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission. This is the first step in the park de- velopment program planned for Mont- gomery County in line with thegeneral stem of parks for the metropolitan principal Montgomery County links in the chain of parks are Sligo and Rock Creek Valleys. Negotiaticns are under way for the acquisition of land which would_permit the opening up of the Rock Creek tract by road building. The land on which the road in Sligo Valley is to be built was donated by several owners. Funds for the work are to be drawn from the treasury of the planning eom- $110,000, partly raised by taxes and partly appropriated by the State of Maryland. Bids for the road construction are to be received on August 14 at 11:30 o’clock in the morning at the offices of the commission in the Tower Building, Washington. Plans and specifications were drawn under the direction of Chief Engineer Irving C. Root. They were submitted to the commission last week and referred to J. Bond Smith, general counsel, for approval as to their legal aspects. Upon receipt of & favorable report from Mr. Smith yesterday the commission or- dered the advertisement for bids in the Maryland News and the Montgomery County Press. ‘The proposed road is in two parts, paralleling each other on east and west sides of Sligo Creek. The portion on the west side is to run from Maple avenue to Blair road and that on the east side from Maple avenue to Mis- sissippi avenue. The specifications call for an 18-foot slag surface with 5-foot earth shoul- ders on either side. Bids for the work must _contaln estimates for grading and draining, as well as for the actual build- ing of the road, according to Mr. Root. The commencement of park develop- ment in Montgomery County is entirely independent of the Cramton act. The commission has not yet decided whether it will participate in the financial pro- visions of the measure, nor has any def. inite plan been formulated by which it itself to repayment of loan in case such particip: tion was authorized. FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, Features and Classified 1930. “A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL.” \ Youngsters from the Masonic and Eastern Star Home as they set out yesterday for an outing at Glen Echo. All the amusements there were at their command, nor was the inner man forgotten. —Star Staft Photo. BOY OF 11 DROWNS AS 3 FAL RESLUE Accident in Anacostia River Under Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge Ends Swim. Unable to swim and losing hold of a length of rope to which he was clinging beneath the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge this morning, Paul Edwin Au- gust, 11 years old, of 3915 Illinois avenue, was drowned in the Eastern Branch of the Anacostia River before the eyes of three helpless companions. Police of the harbor and eleventh precincts brought the body out of the water early this afternoon and removed it to the District Morgue. One fireman attached to No. 8 Engine Company was taken to Casualty Hospital for injuries received while he was diving in efforts to locate the body. He is Pvt. L. A. Knight, who sustained cuts on both feet from broken glass in the water. According to the boy's companions, ' Kenneth and Phillip Swann, brothers, 9 and 12 years old, respectively, of 643 East Capitol street, and Preston Mai mon, who gave an address on A street southeast, they had gone down to the river on the Anacostia Park side shortly after 9 o'clock. Making their way out to the first trestle over the steel girders, the boys disrobed, and with the aid of a length of rope, descended to the water, They sald Paul was unable to swim, but was splashing about in the water at the end of the rope. When he lost his grasp, they said, they tried valnly to rescue him, one iof them being almost drowned in the They swam back to the attempt. 5 Hurriedly donning their cloth- trestle. ing, they ran away, one stopping for a | moment at a gas.filling station at the south end of the bridge to say that “a_boy had drowned.” Joseph Burke of No. 5 N street south- east, an attendant at the filling station, said he did not see more than the one boy. who dashed away immediately and | without leaving his name or the name of the boy who was drowned. C. Miller, a colored laborer, of 4409 | Lane place northeast, who was in Ana- costia Park at the time of the drown- ing, said he had noticed the boys bath- ing in the river, and saw that one of them, who appeared to be smaller than the others, was not swimming with the group away from the trestle. As he watched, however, he sald, this boy let go of the rope and seemed to drift away on the surface of the water to- ward the others, but sank before reach- ing them. For some time after the arrival of the rescue squad and members of the eleventh and harbor police, officers were unable to disclose the identity of the drowned boy. His clothes, a khaki shirt, pair of trousers, and pair of sneaks and socks, together with & peaked sun headpiece, were the only means of iden- tification they had. Police reported that the boy had been staying with his grandmother, Mrs. Sarah J. August of 107 Seventh street southeast, The Swann brothers, when they left the scene of the drowning, went directly to her and told her of the tragedy. Police of the fifth precinct were notified and took the boys to the bridge, where they identified the cloth- ing. EIGHT NAVY GUN FACTORY EMPLOYES ARE RETIRED Workers in Cold Metal Shop Ter- minate Service Under New Law Provisions. Fight employes of the cold metal shop, Naval Gun Factory, are being re- tired today in accordance with the new civil service retirement law. ‘The men to be retired from the va- rious trades are J. G. Funk, buffer and G. W. Snyder, boilermaker; X ‘Wilson, cartridge casemaker; C. F. Winkelman, coppersmith; W. S. Stetson, sheet metal worker; C. A. Lyons, coppersmith; J. A. Kraus, boiler- maker, and J. E. Brenner, sheet metal worker. Tribute was paid to the long and faithful services of these employes by H. LeLaurin, master mechanic at the cold metal shop, who praised the “ex- cellent service records and nundm! in the communities in which they live.” L Policeman Cornwall’s Loss. Policeman H. P. Cornwall of the fourteenth precinct reported the loss of a bundle of laundry valued at $75 this morning while driving to work over the Lee Highway from his home in Falls Church, Va. Cornwall said the bundle, composed of children's clothing, drop- ped out of his car somewhere between Falls Church and Rosslyn. Officer Steps on Nail. Endeavoring_to halt his motor cycle, Motor Cycle Policeman Miles Znane- nacek of the Traffic Bureau stepped on a and was taken to Emergency Hospital for treatment. The ap occurred at Fifteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue late yesterday. Expects August | By the Associated Press. July, 1930, passed into history today with preliminary figures at the Weather Bureau indicating it was the hottest month ever recorded. ‘While reports from all of the weather stations have not been analyzed, a com- pilation of temperatures registered at the larger stations shows it was hotter for a longer timé and over a larger area than in any previous period since temperature records were established. From July 4 to July 30 not a single day passed without a temperature of 100 or hotter being officialy registered at some place in the country. This was exclusive, Weather Bureau officials said, of such points as Phoenix and Yuma, Ariz., where 100 is a Summer common- place. August Opens With Heat. ‘The coming of August brought no sign of relief from the crop-devastating |and water supply menacing drought which also has set a record for duration and extent of territory affected. k_ The July hot spell was the worst the South ever experienced. Fort Smith, Ark, with 17 days of temperatures of 100 or higher, set the pace for the Na- tion. Shreveport, La.,, with 12 days of century marks, was second, and Little Rock, Ark., and Lincoln, Nebr., tied for third with 11 days each. In July, 1901, the previous record month for torridity in the United States, Fort Smith had 13 days of 100 or higher, and Shreveport had only three. Last month Memphis had eight days in the 100 class and only three in July, 1901. Huron, S. Dak., had nine this July and six in 1901, while Nashville scored nine and five, respectively. Doubts “Weather Sharks.” Displaying the traditional conserva- tism of the Weather Bureau, J. B. Kincer, chief sgricultural metorologist, said predictions of amateur “weather | sharks” that August will be another | scorcher are “a bit premature.” “August usually averages s shade cooler than July,” he said. “I will say that the prospects of there being an- other speH like the recent one are very unlikely and there is some consolation in that.” While the drought continued its un- challenged sway over vast agricultural JULY HOTTEST MONTH IN U. S. HISTORY OF WEATHER RECORDS Bureau Cautious in Making Forecast, but Generally. sections, reports of water shortages, disease and forest fires were added to the conquests of parched flelds and damaged or ruined crops in areas where there have been no generous rains for weeks on end. Light rains and thunderstorms offered temporary relief in some sections of the South and Southwest. New Reporis of Heat. From the Northwest, however, where three successive heat waves that in- tensified the effects of the drought had their origin, came reports of rising temperatures. In zections hardest hit, wells and sp/ings were drying up, with farmers forced to sell their live stock at the | present low market prices. In_ others, |animals were suffering from lack of | water, pastures were burned and stock was being fed on Winter food. The State Board of Health in Ken- tucky estimated the water supply for one-third cf its population was ex- tremely limited. ~Water was being hauled to some communities. Four times the number of typhoid cases were reported for this July as for the month a year ago, with infant diarrhea greatly increased. Watch Forest Fires. Large forces of men patrolled forest fires in Pennsylvania to keep them under control and away from the crops they threaten. Community water sup- plies were depleted in some parts of the State. At Hanover the city council said | if a serious fire broke out one day, citi- | zens would go without water the next. i Forest fires raged in Western Mon- tana and Northern Idaho. Winds approaching tornado propor- tions and thunderstorms broke the heat wave in F‘Br!s of the South, although the drought continued to stalk parts of Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Kentucky. A tornado in North Central Louisiana had damaged buildings in 10 towns and resulted in at least one death. A .hailstorm increased the damage to corn and cotton near Atlanta, Ga., and one woman was killed by lightning. ‘The Memphis region and the Missis- sippl Delta had no relief from high temperatures as the drought completed its_seventy-fourth day. Pastures and hay crops were in as serfous a condition in Ohio as corn, which in some places had been irre- parably damaged. Live stock was being sold on glutted markets and production of dairy products seriously impaired. COLORED SUSPECT IS GIVEN 360 DAYS Assaulting Police, Carrying Weq;-f ons and Bringing Stolen Prop- 1 erty to D. C. Charged. | Elmer Lancaster, colored, of Phila- delphia, whom headquarters detectives arrested last night as a suspicious | character, was sent to jail for 360 days from Police Court today when Judge Robert E. Mattingly declared him guilty of assaulting police, carrying concealed weapons and bringing stolen property into the District. ‘The colored man when stopped by police was found to have a loaded re- volver as well as & razor and claimed to be a Philadelphia policeman on vacation. The arresting officers, De- tectives Arthur T. Fihelly and N. S. Hodkinson, did not believe the story and when they attempted to place him in the police car “he tore into them with both his fists and feet,” it is said. | “Why did you strike and fight the officers?” questioned Judge Mattingly, eyeing Fihelly's cut and bruised face. “It is simple, your honor. I didn't want to get locked up,” the defendant answered. ' “Well, you spend 90 days in’ the jail or it.” Police discovered that the revolver that Lancaster carried was stolen from @ Philadelphia detective several months ago. Lancaster denied having knowl- edge that the gun was stolen, declaring that he bought it from a second-hand store for $23. He was sentenced to 180 days for bringing it into the city. GARAGE WO.RKER HURT Colored Employe Is Caught Be-l tween Elevator and Door. Ernest Smith, colored, 25 years old of 1338 Fifth street, employed in a garage at 613 G street, was injured last night when caught between an elevator he was operating at his place of employment and & door. PFiremen of Rescue Squad No. 1 re- d took him to Emergency he was LEGGE TO CONFER AT INDIANAPOLIS Farm Board Chairman Will Urge Acreage Adjustment for Wheat in Several States. By the Associated Press. Chairman Legge of the Farm Board left for Indianapolis last night to carry the gospel of acreage adjustment into the soft red Winter wheat belt of the East Central States and to the white wheat regions of the Pacific Northwest. After conferring with growers of In- diana, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and Missouri at Indianapolis today, he will go to Chicago for conferences with of- ficials of the national wheat, cotton and live stock marketing groups. He will be joined there by Secretary Hyde and they will go together to Caldwell, Idaho, on August 8; Pendleton, Ore., August 9; Portland, August 10; Spokane, Wash. Au]{u.lstz 11, and Bozeman, Mont., Au-; ust 12, Unlike his campaign jn Kansas and the hard Winter wheat States of the Southwest, the chairman will not have the problem of surplus exports to deal with in his Indianapolis conference. There is a domestic demand for all the soft Winter wheat produced. HEART ATTACK FATAL TO FRANK E. ADAMS Fire Rescue Squad and Emergency Hospital Ambulance Summoned in Vain to Tenth Street Home. Seized with a heart attack early this morning, Frank Edward Adams, 46 | years old, died at his home, 1100 | Tenth street, before medical aid could reach him. Adams, who has suffered with heart | trouble some time, was taken ill short- ly after he and his wife arose. The fire rescue squad and Emergency Hos- pital ambulance were summoned, but s stafl from the hospital pronounced the man dead upon his ar- e J. N > “.'“muy evitt, District cor- PAGE B—1 LGHT RAN GO0 0.C, BUTFALS TO ADWATER SUPPLY Temperature May Not Go Beyond 85 Today—Normal Rest of Month. CROPS NEARBY RECEIVE SLIGHT PRECIPITATION Sanitary Commission Getting 500,- 000 Gallons More Daily From City Connection. With the quarter of an inch rainfall of last night having sent the mercury down to 67 degrees, relief from the re- cent heat wave will continue, at least through tomorrow, according to the Weather Bureau. A maximum of per- haps 85 degrees was predicted for this afternoon. While a partly overcast sky helped keep down the temperature today, the mercury continued to climb slowly from a low level this morning. Tempera- tures of from 70 to 85 degrees will pre- vail tonight and tomorrow, according to the bureau. Although the slight rain helped cocl things off, it helped but little in re- lieving the severe drought conditions in this area. Showers Along Coast. ‘The showers, the Weather Bureau re- ports, were confined to & comparatively narrow strip along the New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland coasts. Inland corn and tobacco crops, almost irre- parably damaged, were untouched. ‘The rainfall for the District during the past month, Weather Bureau sta- tistics reveal, was slightly less than two and a half inches, considerably below the normal monthly figure. Measure- able rain fell but eight times, also & subnormal figure. While no positive assurance can be given, Weather Bureau officials said, Washington and nearby sections will probably now enjoy a protracted spell of normal Summer weather. Nor did the rainfall benefit nearby Maryland's water supply to any appre ciable extent, T. Howard Duckett, chair- man of the Washington Suburban Sani Commission, reported this morning. Using Third Connection. The commission expected, however, to increase its supply by several hun- dred thousand gallons during the next 24 hours through the use of a third emergency connection with the District’s water supply. The connection, located on Georgia avenue at Silver Spring., was completed late yesterday and turned on for ex- perimental purposes. The pressure in the two systems at that point proved so nearly equal that the Maryland system was not able to obtain much water, Mr. Duckett says. Today, however, the Sanitary Com- mission believes it can obtain possibly 500,000 gallons through this connection by shutting off certain valves now sup- plying Takoma Park, thus reducing the Maryland pressure on Georgia avenue. The commission plans to furnish Ta- koma Park entirely with District water if sufficient amount can be obtained in this way through the Georgia avenue connection. ‘The pressure in the Chevy Chase sec- tion, which has been the lowest in the sanitary district for several days, caus- ing numerous complaints, picked up considerably last night, Chairman 'GREECE THANKS U. S. FOR FRIENDLY TOKEN American Felicitations on Inde- pendence Centenary Bring Warm Appreciation. | | | | ‘Through the United States Minister at Athens, the Hellenic government offi~ cially has expressed its “profound grati- tude to the President of the United States, the House of Representatives and to the American Government, for the sympathy which has been shown to- ward Greece on the occasion of the eentenary of independence and for the friendly sentiments which the American people do not cease to show on every occasion toward the Greek nation.” In a message to the American Minis- ter at Athens, the Hellenic minister of foreign affairs said that “the manifes- tations of Sympathy toward Greece shown in the American House of Rep- Tesentatives on the occasion of the cen- tenary of Hellenic independence have created a deep impression in all political circles and upon the public generally. ‘These marks of friendship. particularly the recollection of the historic motion of January 19, 1824. and the fact that the United States of America was the first foreign state to recognize Greece as an independent nation, have given to the Greek people a new occasion to manifest their profound gratitude to- ward the great American Republic.” HIT-AND-RUN CHARGE Mrs. Evelyn B. Mackall Given Hearing in Trafic Court. Mrs. Evelyn B. Mackall, 52 years old, of 3401 Woodley road, was to be arraigned in Traffic Court today on a hit-and-run charge growing out of an accident at Georgia avenue and Ken- nedy street yesterday afternoon, in which a machine driven by Mrs, Mackall struck the emergency car of the thirteenth precinct station. Policeman J. J. Antoine, driver of the police car, said he gave chase after the accident and caught Mrs. Mackall, wife of a drug store proprietor, after a chase of two blocks. Capt. V. P. M. Lord, commander of the thirteenth precinct, released Mrs. Mackall on her personai recognizance for appearance in court. “SUICIDE” IS HELD Man Announces to Detectives He Intends to Kill Self. A 28-year-old whit> man, who walked into the Detective Bureau last night a few minutes before roll call anu an- nounced to a group of sleuths thst he intended to commit suicide, is being held for observation at Gallinger Hospital. The man told police he was John Jay Sparks of the 400 block K street, but hospital officials say they recognized him as a man by the name of Collins of East Falls Church, Va. Collins, or Sparks, informed the de- tectives that he was going out to hang himself, but he was aded. Shortly afterwards he said he belleved he would “end it all in the river.”