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L3 VICTIM OF TYPHUS GIVES BLOOD TOAID EXPERIMENTS HERE Julian Morris, 13, of Sudiers- ville, Md., Volunteers As- sistance in Disease Study. SCIENTISTS MAKE SERUM AT INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Common Ticks Used in Effort to Ascertain How Dread Malady Is Spread. In their hazardous scientific battle with the dread typhus, for which there is no known cure, research experts of the new National Institute of Health here have received a precious gift in the form of blood from a 13-year-old boy, Julian Morris, of Sudlersville, Md., who was stricken with the mysterious mal- ady. but recovered. is boy, who was iil for about two ‘weeks, with what was found to be genu- ine typhus, came to the Capital recent- 1y and gave some of his blood to science. From his blood two specialists, Dr. R. E. Dyer and Dr. L. F. Badger, who are risking their lives every day in_the laboratory studying the disease, have made ‘“‘convalescent serum,” an amber colored liquid, which is believed to con- tain elements which will help protect the scientists should they become in- fected accidentally in their dafly con- tact with the illness. The convalescent serum from young | Morris’ blood is kept in glass containers at the proper temperature and is now available to be used immediately should & hypodermic needle break or some other accident serve to infect the doc- tors with typhus. The exact nature of the elements in the serum are not known, but the principles of science have proven in the past that conva- lescent serum made from the blood of persons or animals which have recov- ered from disease is effective in attack- ing the cause of that disease in another person. No Cure Has Been Found. No cure for typhus ever has been found, according to Dr. George W. Mc- Coy, director of the National Institute of Health, which was formerly known as the Hygienic Laboratory of the United States. “These doctors who are carrying for- ‘ward research work on typhus are risk- ing their lives every day. There have been several deaths from laboratory experimentation in styphus in various parts of the world,” according to Dr. McCoy. One laboratory worker in the old Hygienic Laboratory worker in the disease about a year ago, but fortu- nately recovered after a period in the hospital. He was given careful nursing, but, as Dr. McCoy explained, he was not cured—he merely “got well.” ‘There is a distinction, Dr. McCoy ex- plained. Experiments are being conducted to determine whether typhus is transmitted by means of the tick. Some of the ticks are allowed to bite guinea pigs which are ill with typhus, and then are al- lowed to bite guinea pigs which do not have the typhus, in an effort to deter- mine the means of transmission of the disease. Young Morris was first found to be 1l of typhus by Dr. C. H. Metcalf of Sudlersville, Md., who diagnosed his case. The diagnosis was confirmed by Dr. R. G. Beachley, Maryland district health officer, at Chestertown, Md., who in turn notified the State health authorities. From there the report came to Washington. Experiment With Ticks. Since the European typhus has been found to be spread by lice, American acientists here are strongly suspecting the common tick of carrying the dis- ease here. The louse has not been so strongly suspected here, as patients have not been in touch with lice. The commoh tick, however, which lives largely on ground hogs, cattle, horses, and particularly on dogs, is a possible carrier of the disease here, they be- lieve. There are plenty of ticks availa- ble, the doctors point out. They have | shock. no trouble in getting a supply from a pack of dogs almost anywhere on near- y_farms. The ticks are taken to & new room in the National Institute of Health which has been fitted up as a tick laboratory. ‘There the ,ticks are bred and fed and infected with typhus in various experiments to determine the activity of the disease. The ticks grow through several stages, taking about two years to grow from one adult to the next generation adult. People who are attacked by typhus, the doctors explained, come down with a sudden severe headache. They have severe pains and high fever. They break out in & rash, and in extreme cases go into delirum, and death. The disease has no connection with typhoid fever. In this country it is more preva- lent in its endempic form,’ but in Europe and Asia it is more virulent and the mortality higher. Here the mortality now is estimated to be about & per cent. MODEL AIRPLANE FLYERS IN TESTS! Youths Desiring to Enter 1830 Tourney Are Required to Qualify. A special qualification test for youth- ful model plane fiyers desiring to enter the 1930 District” of Columbia Model Afreraft Tonrnament will be held to- morrow morning from 10 a.m. to noon at the Monument Ground: under the direction of the Model Aircraft League of the District of Columbia. The an- nual_tournament is scheduled to take place August 25 to 29. A flight of five seconds is all that is necessary to qualify a coutestant for class D, the lowest class. The prelimi- nary tests will determine the class quali- fications for each entry and in the tour- nament boys will be required only to compete with those in their own class. Registration in the District of Columbia Model Aircraft League follows qualifica- tion and the boys are then ready to en- ter the big tournament. Additional qualification tests will be held Wednesday of next week at Cen- tral Community Center and Saturday at Macfarland Community Center. Classes of instruction in building model airéraft are held each week day except Monday and Saturday at the Central Community Center. All boys interested in learning to build and fly miniature planes are invited to attend these classes. Pastor-Educator Is Tl GRIFFIN, Ga. August 8 (#)—Dr. Robert. Adams, former president of Presbyterian College at Clinton, 8. C., ~nd widely known Southern minister, is critically ill at a hospital here, INTRAFFIC MISHAPS ¢ Fpening WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, Above: Dr. L. F. Ba Dr. R. E. Dyer of the National Institute of Health are shown experimenting with the “tick” in their efforts to detect source of typhus and develop treat- ment. Below is shown a close-up photo of a box of adult ticks, suspected typhus carriers. —Star Staff Photos. NINE ARE INJURED Woman, 66, Is in Serious Condition at Casualty After Collision. Nine Washingtonians were injured | in traffic accidents late yesterday and last night in the District and nearby | Virginia, one of whom, Mrs. Ruth ‘Wolfe, 66 years old, of 1804 M street northeast, is in a serious condition at Casualty Hospital. Mrs. Wolfe and three companions were hurt when an automobile in which they were riding was demolished in a collision with another machine at ‘Twelfth street and Potomac avenue southeast last night. Mrs. Wolfe suf- fered a possible skull fracture and lacerations of the face and head. i Her h d, George D. Wolfe, 61 years old, received ible fractures of the right leg and ribs, while their daughter-in-law, Mrs. Eva Wolfe, 24 years old, sustained cuts of the face, scalp and right leg. The latter's 4- year old daughter Doris was treated for a sprained right forearm. ‘Woman Driver Is Held. Louis E. Wolfe, 26, who was driving | the machine in which the four people | injured were riding, and Mrs. Ethel | K. Nash, 29, of 1210 Four-and-one-half street southwest, were arrested by Fifth Precinct Policeman Jeff Henry as driv- ers of the colliding cars after the in- jured were remioved to Casualty for treatment. Mrs. Nash later was Te- leased on $300 collateral for her ap- pearance in Police Court on traffic| charges, while Wolfe was dismissed. A Washington couple were injured | when their machine ran off of a turn | in Fairfax County, struck a telegraph pole and overturned twice before coming to a halt. | F. H. Shepherd, 37 years old, of 2029 | Thirty-fifth street, who was driving the machine, was taken to the Alex- sndria Hospital with a crushed left| arm and lacerations of the head, while | his companion, Mrs. Thelma Nolz, 27, of 2112 F street, was treated at the same institution for bruises, cuts and Fails to Round Curve. The accident occurred on 8 curve just south of the Alexandria City line. An eyewitness, E. G. Barksdale, an employe at the Potomac Railroad yards, told Fairfax County police that Shep- | herd's machine falled to negotiate tl curve. A pessenger in a taxicab driven by Leslie T. Hunter, 29 years old, of 1404 Columbia road, was injured yesterday afternoon when the cab crashed into | the rear of an automobile operated by | George R. James, 25, of 1238 P street | noptheast, at Ninth and F streets. Mrs. | Mirgaret’ Hillengass, 83 years oid, of 219 Ninth street, was thrown from her sent. \A youthful bicyclist, Thomas McBride, 15-year-old Postal Telegraph messenger of 3834 Beecher street, was arrested on & charge of riding his bicycle the wrong | way on a one-way street yesterday by | Policeman Robert S. Montgomery of the Traffic Bureau, after he had struck | down a woman, McBride was released | on $2 collateral. | The messenger was proceeding in the | 800 block of F street when his wheel felled Mrs. Mary Cott, 52 years old, of 1428 Ames place northeast. Mrs. Cott was taken to Emergency Hospital in a | passing machine and given treatment for bruises of the right knee and fore- head. i Julian Howard, 29, of 1224 Twenty- | ninth street, was treated at George- | town Hospital for minor cuts of the head last night after a machine driven | by Alexander Cole, 24, of 1311 Wisconsin | avenue, ran into a sand bank near Chain Bridge. | e Dr. Vatenberg to Speak. Dr. A. Vatenberg of New York will speak Sunday at Camp Neitgedaiget, in Drury. Md., on the subject of Jewish colonization in Russia. The meeting will be sponsored by the Washington ORY AGENTS PROBE HERRIGKS CLAIMS Former Representative De- clared He Was Working for Man in Woodcock’s Office. Prohibition officials today continued | investigation of the claim of Manuel Herrick, former Oklahoma Representa- tive, held in jail in Baltimore, charged with possession of liguor, that he was a Federal agent. Herrick was taken to jail last night, unable to furnish $1,500 bond demanded after his arrest at a one-thousand-gallon capacity still in the southernmost tip of Maryland Despite assertions he was working under instructions of a man named “Moore” in the office of Amos W. W. Woodcock, prohibition director, Herrick and two other men, one colored, was brought before United States Commis- sioner Harry Azercrombie and charged | with possession of liquor. When arrested he was clad in_blue overalls and was unchaven. Officers said he was tending the boiler of the still for $5 a week and living in a one- room shack. They said he was unable to make good an assertion he could take them to other stills in the vicinity. Herrick’s arrajgnment was continued while investigation was made of his claim he was co-operating with the pro- hibition forces. Dry agents in this ter- ritory doubted his allegations. Herrick represented the eighth Okla- homa. district as a Republican from March 1921, to March, 1923, and dur- ing that period was frequently in the public eye. Following his retirement after a political defeat he charged members of Congress drank openly and ',‘rtlhg. smell of liquor on all sides sickened e. Prohibition headquarters made known today that Herrick applied for a com- mission as a dry agent, but none w granted. An arrangement was made, however, Acuff said, whereby the Okla- haman ‘might furmsh information at his own risk and with compensation or & commission. 3 TAYLOR GRIMES LATEST SAFE DRIVER CLAIMANT Writes M. 0. Eldridge He Was| Granted First Permit in 1903 and It Was No. 13. Taylor Grimes of 3300 Twenty-second street northeast is the latest claimant for veteran automobile driving honors | in the District. Mr. Grimes, in a letter to Assistant Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge, said he had been given his permit in August 1903 and it was No. 13. To prove that all superstitions con- nected with this number are {ll-found- ed, Mr. Grimes pointed out that he has never in his 27 years of continuous driving had an accident or been ar- rested for violating any traffic law. Other veteran operators who have recently come to Mr. Eldridge’s atten- tion are Dr. W. 8. Whitman of 949 Shepherd street, who began operating an electric machine in 1899; Cyrus Morris of 527 Randolph street, who started driving in March, 1902, and Steward D. Chapman of 526 Somerset place, who started driving in 1904 branch of the Icor organization. OF RUM RUNNERS, SMOKE AND DUST SCREEN ESCAPE WHO LOSE CARGO Sergt. Little and Liquor Squad Seize Auto After Mad Chase on Defense Highway. Smoke and dust, through which they fled at 75 miles an hour this morning, screened the escaps of two rum-run- ners, but falled to prevent their car and cargo falling into the hands of Sergt. George Little and members of his_liquor squad. The officers were maintaining an early vigil on Defense Highway, near the bridge at Lanham, Md., when the rum car and a companion machine sped by on their way into Washington. After a bit of maneuvering, m Little managed to get in t the convoy car and close to heavily- laden rum-runner. In a few miles the fugitive machine swerved into a dirt road off the highway and pointed for the District. The dust and vapor which billowed behind the lead automobile all but forced the officers off the road on sev- eral occasions. They managed to hang b Several persons, who witnessed. the on, however, and near Kenilworth the bootleggers abandoned their car and fled under cover of the dust. The car, equipped with a smoke- screen apparatus, was loaded with 216 bait llon jars of corn whisky and GOTWALS URGES ROCK CREEK ‘ROOF TOMITIGATE ODORS Doesn’t See Any Reason for Parkway, but Road Could Top Cover. LEVELING AND PAVING OF BED IS PROPOSED Attempt to Check Up Sewage Lines to Stop Leaks Would Cost Too Much, He Says. Roofing over of Rock Creek from about Q street to the Potomac River | was put forward today by Engineer Commissioner John C. Gotwals as a so- lution of the problem of sewage in the creek, Maj. Gotwals inspected this section of the creek yesterday in company of Lieut. Col. U.'S. Grant, 3d, and came away with the impression, he said to- day, that the section referred to was “a chasm between two ash dumps.’ As for the Rock Creek Potomac Park- way, which eventually is expected to thread its way along the bed of the stream from Potomac Park up into Rock Creek Park, Maj. Gotwals said he couldn’t see for the life of him why any one would want to travel down there. But if the demand for this boulevard persists, then it might well be put directly on top of the roof he proposes to put over the waters of the creek. Realizes Controversial Nature. Maj. Gotwals said he realized he was discussing a highly controversial sub- ject, but that was no reason for him to hesitate in expressing his views, even if they do not meet those of Col. Grant, who is strong for the boulevard. The day chosen for the inspection was in many respects unfortunate, as far as impressing any one with any beauty that may be said to lie in this section of the creek. The prolonged drought had reduced the flow to a mere trickle. formed everywhere, casting the stench; of decaying sewage. Maj. Gotwals Db'l served all of this critically. Other Aspects Fail to Please. The terrain had other aspects that| did not please him. There were storm- water sewers emptying into the creek. These were bone dry, but underneath the sewers there was a trickle of sew- age, escaping into the creek probably from private drainage lines or from leaks in other parts of the regular sani- tary sewer system. The banks are exceedingly steep. To build a boulevard by the side of the stream, it appeared to his engineering eye, would mean expensive cutting back of the banks in order to reduce the slope to a pleasing curve. “What 1 would do right now, if I had the money, would be to put work- men on the job of altering the grade of the stream so that there is an even flow from Q street to the river. I would level off he bed and pave it with round cobble stones. This would do away with the chain of poois in which water stagnates and bacteria breed. Odors Would Be Killed. “The action of the water in bubbling over the cobble stones would be to aerate it—to give it the oxygen which it needs, and which now is being con- | sumed by the sewage bacteria. This of itself would kill the awful odors that{ now persist in this section of the creek. “If we never get anything more than this done, the situation will be greatly improved,” he said, “but I think the roof over the stream is the only final | answer, In order to Keep sewage out | of that stream it would practically mean tearing Washington apart. Sewage gets Pools of stagnant water hadp in not only from our system, but from private drains and other mysterious sources about which we know nothing. Changing our own sewer system by itself would be an enormously expensive job. As to the other, nobody knows how much expense we would run into after we once started. Cites Stream in St. Louis, “The objection to putting the boule- vard over the roof would be that it would be higher than the present pre- posed boulevard, and traffic would have trouble going under the bridges. But since this would be in the center of the bridges, where they are highest, I do not think there would b= sc_much difficulty. Although the present pro- posed level for the boulevard would be lower than mine, the traffic on that would strike the bridges at their lowest point.” Maj. Gotwals pointed out that there is a similar situation in St. Louls, where a stream through the center of the city was eventually covered over, after long and heated debate, at & cost of $12,- 000,000. AUTO RUNS WILD, CRASHING IN YARD| Machine Hits Parked Car, Goes Up Steps and Turns Over. | Several persons narrowly escaped pos- sible serious injuries today when an automobile driven by an unidentified man struck car parked the 200 block of Tennessee avenue,’ swerved across the street and ran up a flight of steps leading into a front yard and turned over. accident, declared the machine was be- ing driven at an excessive rate of speed Police of the ninth precinct arrested Harry L. Prissell, 43 years old, a soldier, attached to the headquarters company here. No charge was placed against the man pending an investigation. He told police he was riding in the automobile with a man he did not know by name. The driver left the scene before arrival of_police. Frissell was taken to Casualty Hos- pital, where physicians examined him and found he was uninjured. He then was removed to the precinct. The car in which the soldier was riding came to & stop in the yard of the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. Thoman, at 224 Tennessee avenue. The other machine damaged was owned by G. M. Hooe and was parked in front of his home, at 219 Tennessee avenue. A set of license plates in addition to those on the car were found beneath a seat. Both machines involved were badly demaged. e Endres’ License Issued. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., August 8 (Special).—A marriage license has been issued here to Karl H. Endres, 26, 3404 E street southeast, and Mary F. Wenzl, 21,, 307 F street northeast. AUGUST 8, Sia i General News 1930. HOT SPELL DRAWS SCORES TO GARFIELD WADING POOL The children of the Southeast sec in the wading pool at the Garfield playground, Second street and Virginia avenue. These photographs were made at the playground yesterday. —Star Staff Photos. tion are making merry these warm days | TAX DATA REFLECT DISTRCTS GROWTH Sum of $142,000,000 Levied Against Realty From 1923 to 1931. ’ The growth of the District and the accompanying inevitable increase in property values in the last eight fiscal years is reflected in statistics compiled today by Tax Assessor William P. Rich- ards, showing that real estate assess- ments in this period were designed to | produce nearly as much revenue as in the 42 preceding fiscal years between 1880 and 1922. _According to the tabulations, taxes amounting to $142,000,000 were levied against real estate in the fiscal years from 1923 to 1931, inclusive, whereas the assessments from 1880 to 1922 were calculated to yield $150,000,000. Taxes on personal property also have had a corresponding increase. Prior to 1902, Mr. Richards’ figures show that the personal property taxes smounted to about $100,000 & year. The following year, however, the taxes jumped to $500,000, and have grown steadily since that time, reaching $6,500,000 in the 1930 fiscal year. Improvements Factor. Improvements in downtown busincss property, coupled with the home de- velopments in the outlying sections, Mr. Richards said, is largely responsib the increased assessments which pro- duced the high tax yleld in the :nstl efght years. The full value assessments which started in the 1923 fiscal year also were a contributing factor to the higher as- sessment figures, he pointed out, as was the change in the fiscal Telations policy between the Federal and Dis- trict governments, which were on a 50—50 ‘basis prior to 1921, 60—40 from that year to 1924 and a $9,000,000 lump- sum contribution from that time to the current fiscal year, when the amount was raised to $9,500,000. The reduc- tion in Federal assistance, he said, nes essarily placed a heavier burden on Dis- trict taxpayers. The population increase, together with the act of Congress of 1902 revamping the personal property tax schedule, Mr Richards_explained, is responsible for the steady mounting tax on personal property. Law Not Properly Enforced. Up until 1902, Mr. Richards said, the tax assessor operated under an act of 1877, which was never properly en- forced, with the result that the Distriot lost large sums in revenue every year. In fact, the report of the treasurer and the assessor back in 1879, Mr. Richards sald, made the following comment on the tax collection situation: | “Many persons make an annual re- | jturn and proclaim at the same time it is done only to avoid the 50 per cent penalty fine and that they do not pro- pose to pay the tax for the reason that 80 much is outstanding and so many of their friends and other citizens have heretofore paid no attention to the law or have in some way evaded it.” ‘The act of 1902, Mr. Richards said, provided for an assessment of the gross earnings of public service corporations, bank and trust companies, which aug- mented the small collections on tan- gible personal property in the pre- ceding years. And again in 1917, he pointed out, Congress paved the way for still greater personal property tax revenues by prescribing a tax on in- tangibles, which is now producing nearly $3,000,000 a year. FIRE IN RADE) STORE Fire of undetermined origin late last night wrecked the establishment of the Rellable Radio Co., 2445 Eighteenth street. Nathan L. Glaser, proprietor of | the establishment, occupying an apart- ment on the second floor, was awak- ened by smoke, but not before the fire had gained headway. 1o for | JACOB SHAPRO DENES CHARGES ‘Real Estate Operator Enters Plea of Not Guilty to Indictments.- | A plea of not guilty was'entered to- day by Jacob Shapiro, president of the Joseph Shapiro Realty Co., when he | was arraigned before Chief Justice | Wheat in Criminal Division 1 on two | indictments charging false pretenses | through the sale of real estate, said to | | have been affected by “hidden trusts.” | | His counsel, Alvin L. Newmeyer, was | |given until September 1 to withdraw | | the plea and demur to the indictments | | Shapiro was -allowed to continue at liberty on bail of $10,000. ‘The indictments charged false pre- tenses'in the sale of premises 1718 Irv- ing street, to Walter Frisbie, a Govern- ment clerk, without making known the existence of a “hidden trust” for $4,000 on the property, and a similar alleged false pretense in connection with the sale of premises 1716 Hobart street, to Dr. W. Calhoun Furr, which is said to have had a “hidden trust” of $2,500 on the property. ‘The Government was represented at the arraignment by Assistant United States Attorney William A. Gallagher. CAPT. . 5. ROOT DIES OF INJURIES Coast Guard Officer Suc- cumbs After Being Hit by Taxi Here Tuesday. Capt. Charles S. Root, 56 years old, officer in charge of the Intelligence Section of the United States Colst| Guard here, died in Casualty Hospital| this morning of injuries sustained when he was struck by a taxicab while cross- ing the intersection of Massachusetts avenue and Sixth street last Tuesday morning. A delicate operation had been per- formed late Wednesday in a vain effort to save the life of Capt. Root. He was suffering from a fractured skull, con- cussion of the brain and lacerations of the face. James I. Brooks, colored, 25 years old, of 4 Bellvue street southeast, driver of the cab which felled Capt. Root, was arrested by officers of the sixth precinct and has been held pending the outcome of the captain's injuries. He will be taken béfore a coroner’s jury at 11:30 o'clock tomorrow morning at the Dis- trict Morgue. Capt. Root was born in Connecticut on January 5, 1874, and went to sea at an early age, in an old-fashioned square-rig sailing vessel, after which he served on mer- chant vessels and it was while he w attached to these vessels that he learned engineering. Capt. Root was qualified both as an officer fitted for line and engineering duty in the Coast Guard, and on June 18, 1930, he celebrated 30 years of creditable service in the Coast Guard. During the World War Capt. Root was engineer officer on the transport ship Martha Washington. During the hurricane which inundated the city of Gavelston, Tex., 1900, he rescued more than 40 perfons who were near drowning in the streets of that city. For this feat of heroism he was award- ed the Gold Life-Saving Medal of Honor. Capt. Root made his home in Wash- ington, at 1315 Clifton street. He is a}rvived by his widow, Mrs. Charles S. oot. Big Still and Mash Seized. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., August 8. —One man was arrested and a 1,000~ gallon still and large quantity of mash seized yesterday when Prince Georges County Officers Hepburn, Nichols and Robinson raided a farm on the Crain highway near here. The man arrested was a foreigner, and police were un- successful in their efforts to learn his ;mu"ne. He is being held in the county a |Battery Park Resident Had Vainly Sought Arrest Yesterday. |Complainant Charges He Lost Money Through Alleged Misrepresentation. | bR . Voluntarily appearing before Prince | ‘Georges County Police Court at Marl- | boro this afternoon, James R. Walsh of Battery Park, Md., surrendered on & charge of false pretenses preferred | by George Erb, 82-year-old resident of Soldiers’ Home. Walsh was immediately arraigned before Judge J. Chew Sheriff, | Dleaded not guilty, waived preliminary hearing and posted $500 bond pend- | ing the action of the grand jury. ‘Walsh spent several hours yesterday afternoon attempting to get himself arrested, but could not find a police | authority who had the warrant agaiast | him. In appearing before court today the man kept his promise to Judge Sheriff to return to the county volun- tarily to answer the charges. Erb claims the man misrepresented the status of an insurance corporation in which he was selling stock. The war- rant alleges that he obtained $1,000 from Erb after making misleading statements concerning the stock. The warrant for Walsh's arrest was issued Wednesday night by States At- torney J. Frank Parran and given to Deputy Sheriff A. W. Hepburn for serv- ice. Hepburn took it to the Bethesda substation of Montgomery County po- | lice, and one of the officers went to the man’s home but he was out. | | Knowing he could not give bond in| Montgomery County and not wanting |to be held in jail, Walsh yesterday journeyed to Marlboro with Clay Plum- | mer, a bondsman, prepared to surrender |'and’ give bond. Sheriff Early informed him, however, that he did not have the warrant for his arrest and suggested he go to Capi- tol Heights, where the Police Court | ! clerk could issye a duplicate werrent. MAN VOLUNTARILY SURRENDERS ON FALSE PRETENSES CHARGE GEORGE ERB. Arriving at Capitol Heights, he found that James W. Lauderdale, clerk, had left, however. Judge J. Chew Sheriff did not know where the clerk could be located untif* Police Court convened again this morning at Marlboro. Walsh accordingly promised to return to the county seat today. According to Louis Rothschild, secre- tary of the Washington Better Business Bureau, Walsh induced Erb to invest $3,000 in the Insured Savings System, Ing a Delaware corporation, sald to have been promoted by Walsh. The soldier claims Walsh misrepresented certain banks as being financially in- terested in the corporation, and prom- ised enormous profits to those who in- vested in its stock. While trying to sell him stock in the corporation, Walsh gave an elab- orate p-ni in celebration of the vet- eran's eightieth birthday, Rothschild says. The warrant for Walsh's arrest was issued in Prince Georges County be- cause one payment of $1,000 is alleged to have been made to the promoter at the PFirst National Bank of Hyattsville, Wwhere the soldisr had an account. e serving for five years | PAGE B—1 CAPBELL HEARNG RETURNS CASE 10 WEEK LD STATS Defense to Have Opportunity to Offer Rebuttal to War- rant of Prosecution. U. S. JUDGE HOLPS WRIT PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE Attorney Says Government Prob- ably Will Not Reveal All Tes- timony Against Suspect. * With practically the same situation existing as a week ago, oppising coun- sel today perfected plans for a new hearing soon before J. Barton Phillips, an Alexandria United States Commis- sioner, on the removal of Herbert M. Campbell to Washington on a charge of slaying Mary Baker. Federal Judge D. Lawrence Groner ruled on the points of law involved in Norfolk yesterday and then sent the case back to Commissioner Phillips aft- er listening tq arguments by Callom B. Jones, an assistant United States at- torney representing the prosecution, and Charles Henry Smith, counsel for Campbell. As the hearing before the commis- sioner Wednesday was to all intents and purposes a mere conference be- tween counsel and the magistrate, the new proceedings may result in an ex- haustive airing for the first time of all the evidence possessed by both sides. While no date for the new hearing has been set, it probably will be held dur- ing the latter part of next week. Rules for Rebuttal. Judge Groner ruled that the warrant under which Campbell is being held in i the Alexandria city jail is in itself prima facie evidence to justify removal of the prisoner to Washington. He also decided, however, that the defense should be given an opportunity to pro- duce _witnesses before Commissioner Phillips to rebut the allegation of the prosecution that the slaying occurred in the District instead of in Virginia. Asked whether the judge's decision would be likely to result in a complete disclosure of the Government's case before Phillips, William H. Collins, as- sistant United States attorney, de- clared today that this was possible but improbable. He added the prosecution would only produce witnesses who pos- sessed information differing from that of the defense witnesses. “As I interpret Judge Groner’s rul- ing,” Collins said, “we were upheld in our original argument that the warrant is prima facie evidence to justify the removal and the defense was iold it might rebut this presumption. They I?lave' possessed that privilege all the me.” Defense Is Confident. Smith said the decision meant the s | prosecution would have to participate |in a preliminary hearing, “which they | have been attempting to avoid.” E declared he would be able to prove Campbell was not with Miss Baker when she met death. He expressed confidence that he would block the re- moval. -~ Saying that he was certain Campbell never %ould be actually placed on trial, Smith revealed that “should the re- moval be gained, an indictment ob- tained against Mr. Campbell and a trial started, we will be in a position to dis- credit the testimony of ballistic e: perts who have promised to testify for the Government.” The defense lawyer said Campbell would obtain his own ballistic experts should a trial ever result. ° DAWSON FUNERAL IS HELD AT CHURCH Associate Chemist of Bureau in Agriculture Department Is Buried in Arlington. Funeral services for Louis E. Daw- son, associate chemist of the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, United States Department of Agriculture, who died in Garfleld Hos- pital Wednesday, were conducted in the Eldbrooke Methodist Episco- pal Church, River and Murdock Mill roads, this aft- ernoon. Interment was in Arlington Cemetery. Mr. Dawson died after & brief illness. ceived his education and the degree of bachelor of science in chemical engi- . neering at the University of Illinois in 1920. He began his career as chemist be- fore graduating as a factory control and research chemist for the Western Cartridge Co. at Springfield, where he worked in their smokeless powder plant. In June, 1918, he enlisted as a private in the Chemical Warfare Serv- ice and worked in the research divi- sion in this city until receiving his discharge as junior grade master en- gineer in September, 1919. Mr. Daw- son returned to the University of Il- linois to receive his degree the following year. After graduating, he returned to the Chemical Warfare Service and was stationed at Edgewood Arsenal doing research work on the production of chemical warfare materials. In July. 1922, he was transferred to the carbohydrate division of tie Bu- reau of Chemistry, now the Bureau of Chemistry and Soils, where he had been engaged in chemical and chem- ical engineering research pertaining to problems of sugar and starch produc- tion, especially in connection with util- ization of farm waste. Many pieces of nove! laboratory apparatus and experimental equipment which he designed now are in daily use. Mr. Dawson was a member of the American Chemical Society and formerly was an abstractor for “Chem- 1cal Abstracts. Mr. Dawson. McGay Heads Philatelists. WORCESTER, Mass., August 8 (#).— The Society of Phulwlk:w:merlclns. composed of stamp collectors, in iis thirty-sixth annual convention, Which was opened here yesterday, elected Dr. H. P. McGay of Cleveland as president and E. W. Heunsinger of San Antonio, Tex., vice president. Miss Helen Hussy of lt:memmu was named a delegate at rge.