Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1930, Page 15

WASHINGTON D O, SENDER RELATES TALE OF 1902 ARCTIC NOTE JUST FOUND “Baffled but Not Beaten” Words Dispatched by First “Airmail” in Balloon. CAPT. BALDWIN NOW NAVY CLERK HERE Poignant Memories of Month in Ice| Pack Recalled by News From Russia. “Baffled but not beaten.” Closing a piiiful plea for the neces- | Sities for a daring dash to the N.rth| Pole 28 years ago, that message came out of the frozen wastes of the Arctic circle today, too late to help the in-] trepid little band of Americans caught in the ice packs, but not too late to re- veal the romance of the first American air mail. For it was by the earliest American air mail that the message was sent, and true to the latter day traditions of the air mail, the message came through. In a little office of the Navy Depart- ment, where he works now as a cierk, Capt. Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, who, with his own hands, set free the balloon that started the message on its long journey | to the civilized haunts of men, today told of the month of near-despair that caused the message to go forth. The message, in a copper cylinder around which was a copper-wired cork ball, was found yesterday, according to Associated Press report, fast in the ice on the rocky shore of the northernmost section of the island of Novaya Zem- lyal, a Russian isle in the Arctic Circle, by Gregory Nikitin, who is on his way to join a Soviet Arctic expedition in Franz Joseph Land. Poignant Memories Stirred. Baldwin, intrepid explorer of 30 years and more ago. found in the message revived memories of an expedition which he was not allowed to complete. 1t brought back poignantly memories of a month spent in the Arctic pack jce, where the little party of which he was the leader, walted in vain for the messages they seat by that first airmail 1o bring them the precious supplies they Dpeeded to make their dash to the North Pol: and thereby gain everlasting fame and giory. The message found yesterday was one of scores sent out by Capt. Baldwin in June, 1902, while waiting for sup- piles to come to him about 500 miles drom the North Pole. Capt. Balawin was the leader of the Baldwin-Zeigler expedition to the North kole, siartea in the dawn of the twen- ueth century, when the unfathomed wonders of the polar regions were mag- Be.s for the intrepid. It was of the frozen Summer days in the poiar region that Capt. Baldwin spoke today explaining the message whai was found yesterday. “We had just complected establishment of the depots of food, fuel, sleds and clothing along the line in Franz Joseph | land, which we would follow to the! Pole and return by. We had planted all our supplies along the line, our ship, the America, was light, our coal supply was low, many of our dogs had <ied and our sleds had been broken to bits in the rork of establishing the depot. But we were all set for the dash to the Pole-if we could replenish our supplies, “All that June we sent out dispatches by that first airmail. Balloons Carefully Starfed. “The messages went by balloons, the bags of which were 8 to 10 feet in diam- eter, made from hydrogen gas manu- factured in the Arctic. To the balloons, on piano wire, were attached many of these little cork balls, in which were the cylinders containing our messages. Watching for southerly and easterly winds, we set the balloons out from the ship, to carry our message to some | one who would help us. Each of the cork balls, containing a message, was equipped with a releasing device which would set it free to fall in the pack ice or the open water, there to be carried by the vagaries of Arctic currents to civilization—we hoped. The failing of each message so lightened the balloon that it could rise to find high air currents that would carry it farther toward the haunts of men. “Fifteen, in all, of these balloons went out from the America, floating at the edge of the ice pack. From June 1 to June 15 we sent them, winds ever favoring their return to civilization. We waited until June 20—until all hope of our awmail bringing the precious stores we needed had vanished. Then we pulled up anchor from the ice and started back to Norway, our starting point. “It had taken 80 tons of coal to get the "America as far as we had gone. We had only 65 tons left to get back with. Our food stores were sufficient aboard ship, both for men, dogs and the five Siberian ponies, with which we hoped to make the dash to the Pole. “Leaving the farthermost northern point we had reached on June 30, we picked our way through the ice by way of Cape Flora, conserving our precious coal, and burst joyfully into open water when all but three tons of our coal had been consumed. Hoisting our sails, we then had an easy voyage to Hon- | ningsvaag, Norway, where we bought 10 tons of coal and made our way to Tromso, Norway, whence we had started. Two weeks after our arrival at Tromso | our supply ship arived in port with the information that it could not get to us through the pack ice No Answer Received. “We heard mothing of our balloon messages. None had been picked up before our arrival in Norway August 1, and it was not until seven months later that the first of the messages was picked up by a Norwegian fishing ship off the coast ot Greenland. “Since then scveral of the messages sent by our airmail have been found and returned to me by way of the Amer- jcan consuls abroad.” Arrived at Norway, Capt. Baldwin found a message from his backer to some to New York for a conference. He had brought back from the Arctic the first motion pictures taken in that frozen area—taken with the aid of de- vices for warming film and keeping it pliable in below-zero temperatures built by Capt. Baldwin. The pictures made the Baldwin- Zelgler venture a financial success, find~ ing wide appreciation here and abroad, and the expedition’s plans for a polar dash the next year were abandoned. Capt. Baldwin, who wrote all the messages in his own hand and per- sonally released all 15 of the balloons which carried them, finds the airplane of today a vast improvement over the crude air mail which breught him his oWn message 28 years late. | | | MR BGe 2w ity ZIEGLER AN 276G c €R . Sy S AEAREST AN 2 COAL A O PES veRTH oF M et SLEDGE, HAY [FeR A7 Above: A copy of the message found yesterday on a Russian isle in the Arctic Circle. It was sent by balloon 28 years ago by Capt. Evelyn Briggs Baidwin (below) of the Navy Department, leader of an expedition which faced death in | the ice pack. —Star Staff Photos. | PARKING PROBLEM FOUND DECEPTVE Fed by Narrow Road- ways, Is Report. | This is the second of a series of ar- ticles on_the troublesome parking and ‘problem in - Washington, with the Tesulls of the studies, and the reco mendations, made in behalf of. the A 1omobile Parking Committee, compri ing variouseinterests of the city. The committee was proposed by (Lieut. Col. " Grant, 3rd. aivector of public buildings and pudlic parks. who aeled as its chatrman. The mext,article will appear tomorrow. BY DONALD A. CIL'AIG. There are few, if any, central dis- tricts in American cities, in the opinion of the Automobile Parking Committee of Washington, so adequately provided | with radial streets connecting the prin- ‘ | cipal residential areas as in the Na- tional Capital. This statement is made as preliminary to the committee’s study of the parkipg and garage problem | here. | “The liberal width of the individual streets,” says the committee, “gives an appearance of freedom which, in fact, does not exist, and which is undoubt- edly the cause of certain laxness of parking control, most notably the tol- | erance of double-line parking.” Furthermore, the committee believes that while individual streets are rela- | tively wide and possess more capacity | for moving traffic than if they were | narrow, they possess no more capacity | for curb parking unless the angle| method is used. | Angle Parking Destroys Advantage. | “Angle parking, however, tends to destroy such advantage as arices from wide streets,” continues the committee’s Teport. After considering the character, in- cluding the area, occupancy and build- ing heights, of the central business dis- trict of Washington, as well as the traffic facilities above mentioned, the | conclusion is reached (1) that govern- mental occupancy in the central busi- ness district presents traffic and park- ing problems such as might be ex- pected In cities of much greater size (2) that future development of govern- mental areas and a. more intensive use of commercial land areas within the central district, even within the present height limits, will greatly increase the | autcmobile terminal problem, and (3) | that street widths in the central dis- trict offer no special advantage, for the roadway area available for traffic move- | ment and parking is relatively limited. | Considering the present supply of parking facilities, it is pointed out that urbs n the central district have a | total length of 252,000 feet, although | naturally not all of this frontage is| available for parking, because of alley- ways, driveways, crosswalks and other physical _conditions, while additional | subtractions have to be made by regula- tions prohibiting parking near fire hy- drants, near intersections, in front of public’ entrances, along certain con gested streets and under similar con- | ditions. It is concluded that the total curb length has a_gross capacity of 16,507 parked cars, but that this total is re- duced by physical and legal restrictions so that the actual usable capacity un-| der oresent conditions is only 10,415 cars in this central area. Further Restrictions Foreseen. “It is to be anticipated,” says the | report, “that increased congestion and | requirements for traffic movement in | the future will necessitate further re»{ strictions.” | The committee therefore considers | the present curb capacity as temporary | in character. It goes so far as to de- | clare that “experience in the larger | cities leads to the conclusion that grow- | ing congestion will ultimately force the abandonment uf curb Pn!klnz upon the | congested streets of all central business | distric ‘The “natural and probably the inev- itable alternative to curb parking” will be found in garages or spaces located off the streets, the committee goes on to say. In Chicago, it is pointed out, there has been an increase in garage capacity during the last three years in or near the loop district of about 43 per cent. Similar conditions are dis- covered in other cities, “Washington, unfortunately,” adds | the report, “has not been among the leaders in this movement.” Consideration is given, however, to all ruch structures in the businessegrea and o vacant lots now used for free or paid parking. Cite Unfavorable Comparison. Dr. Miller McClintock and Charles W. Eliot, In their investigation of other cities for the committes, discovered that Washington, with its total down- 28-YEAR-OLD MESSAGE FOUND IN ICE gF THE & //tzf 2z REQVIR rf"-\' “7‘?3‘ P Ak D Crowded Government Area | ¢ | unconscious by the impact. QUAR TERE 0 RobAR EXPEDLIPVIN, “ Franz JIrEr LAanp b O =R Wl e - g, ] Baoed Feis ftepsen Aory | oy Searew. ONE DIES, SINLRED INDUALCARCRASH Samuel Jenkins, Sperryville, Killed in Accident at Front Royal. Special Dispatch to The Star. FRONT ROYAL, Va, August 11.— One man is dead, two others are in a serious condition in the Winchester | Memorial Hospital. and a fourth man and two young women are nursing minor cuts and bruises today as result of a collision between two automobiles here last night. The dead man is Samuel Jenkins of Sperryville, Rappahannock County, Va. He succumbed to his injuries, which in- cluded a fractured skull, at 3 o'clock this morning. His two companions, Gene Brown, driver of one machine, and Robert Brown, a passenger, both of Sperryville, were seriously hurt; but it was said at the hospital this morn- ing that they will probably recover. The car in which the three young men were riding got out of control on Royal street and crashed into the ma- chine of Wilts Derslinger, restaurant proprietor of Front Royal. Derslinger. his daughter, Mrs. Howard Henry, and Miss Ruth Peffer, were bruised and scratched, but escaped serious injury. The two young women were rendered Both automobiles were demolished. Jenkins was riding on the front seat and is said to have been thrown against | the metal frame of ¢he windshield, | fracturing his skull. Alleged Fugitive Arrested. Lawrence Devine, colored. of 1428 Morris road southeast was arrested as a fugitive from justice last mght by Oscar W. Mansfield and Howard E. Ogle, headquarters detectives. Police said he was wanted in Baltimore on a charge of perjury resulting from a di- vorce case o 2y of New Orleans, Boston and Los An- geles” as examples, especially in view of the substantially larger volume of vehicular traffic found in Washington. Washington is revealed, says the com- mittee, as “a community of distinctly more than normal automobile owner- ship. Washington has a registration ratio, as shown by a table submitted by the investigators, of three per:ons per car, which is lower than any other city in the group selected for comparison, and is much lower than Baltimore and Buffalo. The number of persons per automobile, according to registration, ir,_the cities in the group are given as follows: Baltimore, 5.7; Boston, 5.5 Buffalo, 3.6; San Francisco, 49; St. Louis, 4, and Washington, 3. One of the factors that contribuie to the large number of cars in Washing- ton, the committee says, is that this city has “no large mass of low-paid in- dustrial labor such as is fopnd in many cities on the Atlantic seaboard.” The population contains a very large pro- portion of Government employes, and it_is declared that “even the lowest rahks have a certainty in compensation which is not enjoyed by employes of similar class in commercial or indus- trial occupations.” Auto Ownership Growth Rapid. The growth in automobile ownership since 1924, says the committee, has been regular and rapid. It draws the conclusion from the facts at hand that “unless there are basic changes which are not now manifest there is every reason to believe that the number of automobiles in use in Washington will increase with regularity, as they have in the past, though perhaps at a re- duced rate. “Under. any conditions,” says the committee’s report, “it is proper to gon- clude that the number of cars in use in 1940 and in 1950 will be far greater than the present, and that the problem of /terminal facilities will be greatly town capacity of 4,078, “compares very unfayorably with the higher capacities intensified in the future rather than lessened. FIVE HELD IN PROBE OF STORE HGLD-UP: TWO IDENTIFIED Alexandria Actor Expected to Be Released in View of “Airtight” Alibi. TWO CLAIM TO HAVE BEEN SWIMMING IN BALTIMORE Shelby Praises Detectives, Pointing Out That All Recent Major Robs beries Have Been Solved. Five men are now being held as sus- pects in the $1,200 hold-up which was staged late Thursday afternoon as gwo employes of the McCrory 5 and 10 Cent Store at 416 Seventh street walked out of the establishment on their way to the bank with the day's receipts. Henry J. Mechlinkski, 26-year-old Bal- timore plumber, and Thomas Ellam, 24 years old, of 3 S street northeast, were placed under arrest yesterday and are being questioned at police headquarters this afternoon by Detective Sergts. ‘Thomas J. Nally and Louis M. Wilson. Several persons who were passing Mc- Crory's as the hold-up took place were to see the men today in an effort to connect them with the crime. Arrested in Baltimore. Mechlinkski is said to be a close friend of John Irving, 24 years old, and Elmer Bennett, 28 years old, both of Balti- more, who are said by detéctives to have been identified by a number of persons as having participated in the robbery. Ellam was taken into custody by Precinct Detective W. B. Satter- thwaite of No. 9 station after a shoot- ing in the 1000 block of Third street northeast Saturday night. Mechlinkski was arrested by Balti- more police at his home early yesterday and was returned here for questioning by Detective Sergt. H. K. Wilson. Irving and Bennett contend that they were in swimming near Baltimore at the time of the robbery and did not leave the beach until 10 o'clock Thurs- day night. However, three colored taxi drivers and a Southwest druggist have identified them as having been in Washington that night. I the face of this identification, and the fact that Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Put- nam of 103 Eighth street southeast pointed out Irving as one of the men they saw drive away from McCrory’'s after the hold-up, Detectives Nally and Wilson are confident they have at least two of the four bandits in custody in Irving and Bennett. Callan Has Alibi. What appears to be an airtight alibi nas been established by James'W. Cal- lan, 23-year-old Alexander actor, and his release is expected shortly. Inspector William S. Shelby, chief of detectives, praised highly the work of Wilson and Nally on the McCrory case and pointed out this morning that all four of the major hold-ups staged here during the past month have been solved. ‘Three men are being held for the grand jury in the $4,000 hold-up of Gilbert - Hyatt, a messenger for the Mount Vernop Savings Bank, on August 1, while one of that trio has been charged with robbery in connection with the $2,200 hold-up of Benjamin Burch, a collector for the Lord Balti- more Filling Station, on July 13. The identity of the three men who robbed Miss Eleanor Page, assistant cashier at Children's Hospital, of the hospital's $7,000 pay roll on July 31 has also been definitely established, accord- ing to Inspector Shelby, and “lookouts” for their arrest have been broadcast, CHESAPEAKE BEACH FERRY AUTHORIZED! Interstate Commerce Commission Allows Route to Trippe's Bay. The Chesapeake Beach Railway ri ceived permission today from the Inter state Commerce Commission to estab- lish a new ferry service across Chesa- peake Bay from Chesapeake Beach to Trippe's Bay, on the Eastern Shore. The Claybourne-Annapolis Ferry Co. now operating over a parallel line op- posed the Chesapeake Beach Co.'s pro- | ject, but the Maryland Land Public Service Commission refused to make any recommendation. The Chesapeake Beach Co. expects to expend $1,085,000 on the construc- tion of vessels and in the erection of term:nals. William V. Hodges, trustee in control of the railroad’s securities, has arranged the financing. The commission’s order requires the Chesapeake Co. to begin rendering service on or before January 1, next. THEFT FROM PARKED CAR BRINGS 360 DAYS IN JAIL Judge Ralph Given today issued & warning for thieves that steal from parked cars lo beware of Police Court. He sentenced a man Wwho admitted stealing clothes valued at $25 from a car to 360 days in Jail. “This,” declared Judge Given, “is the most widespread crime in the District. This type of thief is hard to catch. It is getting so one cannot leave an au- tomobile on the street for 10 minutes without having either a tire stolen or something taken from inside the ma- Cchine. It is serious and I intend to give as heavy a sentence to such per- Sons as the law will allow.” James Brown of Baltimore, who police said was recently released from Ihe Atlanta Penitentiary, was sentenced to a year in jail. He was arrested by Policeman G. R. Walbrodt of the first precinct. He admitted taking clothes from the machine of Matilda F. Adams, 1825 F street. POLITICS GOING ON AIR National Broadcasting Co. Lists Program for Coming Campaign. The National Broadcasting Co. will inaugurate a series of weekly political discussions of questions before the voters in the elections this Fall, Mon- day night, August 18, when Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee, will speak from 8 o'clock to 8:30. following Monday, &nlflr Stmeon D. Fess, recently selected - man of the Republican National Com- mittee, will make the first radio talk kY. . o e rmost representatives of American political life, Republican and Demo- crat, will alternate for the programs, MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 1930. JAMES THOMAS COX, JR. B0Y 45 FATALLY INURED N CRASH Six Other Persons Injured in Accidents in Which Cars Are Overturned. Four-year-old James T. Cox of 5239 Fifth street was fatally injured yester- day afternoon and six other Washing- ton persons suffered minor hurts when three automobiles overturned in a trio of accidents in nearby Virginia and Maryland. pital last night with a fractured skull received when. a car driven by Miss Betty Wilson, 25, of 812 Kennedy street, failed to negotiate a curve on the Georgetown-Leesburg pike, near Great Falls, Va. Four others were injured in the same mishap. blood for an unsuccessful transfusion in an effort to save the youngster’s life after having been treated for lacera- tons of the legs and arms. His mother, Mrs, Catherine Cox, 29, was admitted to the institution for minor leg injuries. slight hody bruises were sustained by Catherine_Cox, 2-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cox, while Miss Wilson, daughter of Police Capt. James E. Wil- son of the ninth precinct, also received bruises. Mrs. Sadie Krouse, 28, of 612 Mary- land avenue southwest, was injured out on a highway near Fairfax, Va., the car overt§rning when the tire gave way. Passing "motorists rushed her to Georgetown Hospital, where she was treated for a broken left arm and cuts of the right arm. Her condition is said to be not serious. Severe injuries were suffered by Wil- liam Woodward, colored, 30 years old. of 3123 Eleventh street, when his car struck a concrete culvert on the Rock- ville pike near Bethesda, Md. George- town Hospital attendants reported that the * man received a possible skull fracture when the machine turned over after the crash. | Police Investigate Taxi Driver's Story and Suspected Roadster Is Halted and Searched. An intensive search for a Maryland roadster believed to be bearing the body of a dead man in the rumble seat was halted yesterday when Fredericksburg, Va., police notified local authorities that they had stopped the machine, but_found no body. The hunt was instituted early yes- terday when an excited taxicab driver irushed into detective headquarters and reported that the occupants of a ma- chine carrying a dead man on the rear floor had stopped in Washington and asked the way to Richmond, Va. Several hours after Washington po- lice dispatched a headquarters car to scour the city and nearby Virginia for the automobile word was received from Predericksburg, Va., that the au- tomobile had been stopped and searched. A man was lying in the rear seat, but he was only aslecp. A’ “lookout” for the car was broad- cast by local police when Russell G. Flynn of 606 I street, reported that a passenger he drove from Ninth street and Mount Vernon place to Thirty- {first and O streets had told him that the occupants of a Maryland machine |gave him a “lift” from Fourth stteet | and Eckington place northeast, but put him out at Ninth street when he in- quired about an apparently lifeless form lying on the rumble seat floor. JUMP VICTIM’S DEATH HELD SUICIDE BY JURY Coroner Cnl;;‘ Fatal Injuring of Gallinger Hospital Inmate, John St. Clair. Inquest Into A sulcide verdict was returned by & coroner's jury today at an-inquest held into the death of John St. Clair, 32 years old, of 333 G street southeast, who died Saturday afternoon from injuries suffered when he leaped from a second- floor window at Sibley Hospital on August 3. St. Clair was admitted to Sibley Hos- pital on July 30 for treatment of a minor illness. He jumped from the window of his private room while his nurse was out of the room and received serious internal injuries. St. Clair was removed to Gallinger Hospital, where he died. Funeral serv- ices will be held from his residence at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. TWO MEN ARE ACCUSED IN GAME OF NUMBERS While on their way to police head- quarters today from Congress Heights, where they had arrested John Williams, colored, 32 years old, on a charge of connection with a numbers game, De- tectives Hubert E. Brodie and T. C. Bragg noticed a colored man standing at First and M streets southwest, & bag he was holding arousing their suspicion of something in need of vestigating. ‘Hand me that bag,” said one of the detectives, and the colored man made a quick response. The latter was surprised, however, when told he was under arrest, remark- ing: “I thought you was my boss.” Slips nuefi to have represented plays amoun to approximately $600 were found in the bag, and the colored man, who gave his name as Arthur Washington and his address as 1412 Carrollburg place southwest, was booked on a charge of an alleged violation of the gambling law. The child died at Georgetown Hos-| The boy’s father, John Cox, 30, gave | when a front tire of her machine blew | MAN WHO CLAIMED HE WAS ASSAULTED 1S SHOT T0 DEATH Clifford Borneman Declared He Had Been Robbed on Honeymoon Trip. BELIEVED MURDERED; INQUEST TOMORROW Coroner Refuses to Accept Theory of Suicide—Attack in July Caused Controversy. Special Dispatch to The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., August 11.—Ap- parently slain, Clifton Borneman, young farmer, who a month ago reported he had been attacked, robbed and left unconscious for 30 hours, while prepar~ ing for a belated honeymoon, was the center of another inquiry today. Borneman's body was found yesterday on the farm of Henry Hirsch, an uncle, with whom he and his bride had been living, a shotgun charge in his breast. The shotgun was found 35 feet away with both barrels fired. Coroner John W. Anderson said he could not accept a theory of suicide. After the alleged attack, friends of Borneman accused county authorities with apathy. Officers said at the time that Borneman's marriage to Jane Tall of Baltimore, had been opposed by her parents. , Borneman’s report that he had been knocked unconscious for 30 hours after being stopped on the road July 5 | stirred a controversy between his friends and Anne Arundel County authorities. ‘While Borneman lay ill at his home, Charles L. Tate, a friend of the family, declared the county officials were apa- thetic in their investigation. Subse- quently Sheriff Michael Carter ques- tioned Borneman, who denied that he had been seen between the time of the attack and the time he was found un- | conscious the next day. He also insisted he was robbed of more than $300 with which he was about to start on a belated honeymoon, and his friends later produced evidence of the cashing of a $300 check. The attack came four days after his mar- riage, July 1, to Miss Jane Tall, which was reported to have been opposed by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Tall of Baltimore. Henry Hirsch, an uncle with whom Borneman and his wife were living, found the young man’'s body in the | the home. Borneman, who was 30 years old, had left the house about 9 am. without breakfast and gone to the home of Frank Hill, Negro farm- hand, where he got the shotgun, owned by Mr. Hirsch. Putting two shells in it, he told a boy at Hill's home that he was going to shoot squirrels. After one search had been unsuccess- { ful, Mrs, Borneman heard a shot in the woods and Hirsch and Hill began an- other search that resulted in finding the body. Borneman, according to his uncle, had crawled about 35 feet from the place where the gun was found be- fore he died. The coroner was notified and went to | the Hirsch farm, accompanied by his | son, Dr. Albert L. Anderson, who pro- nounced Borneman dead. The body was moved to an undertaking establishment | here, and Coroner Anderson decided to { hold an inquest Tuesday or Wednesday. A. Theodore Brady, State’s attorney tend the inquest. SLAYER OF GIRL DIES OF WOUNDS | Expires Fredericksburg—De- clares Both Had Tired of Living. in Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., August 11.—Earl G. Turner, 42, Sylvania In- | dustrial Corporation’ worker, who shot and killed the woman he loved, Miss | Margaret Limerick, 20, Fredericksburg waitress, Friday, died at the Martha Washington Hospital here shortly after last midnight. Turner, after shooting the girl, turned the pistol on himself and fired two shots into his head. He said both he and the girl were tired of living. -He was married and had a wife and son living in Phila- delphia. Turner admitted shooting and killing the girl when he was first taken to the hospital, and while he never lost consciousness, he later seemed to be under the impression that she had not been killed. He kept asking nurses to tell the girl that he did not mean to shoot her. Efforts to locate relatives of the man have so far failed, and the body is being held at an undcrtaking establishment until some message can be received from his widow or some of his kin. The double tragedy occurred on a | road five miles from Fredericksburg after the man and girl had been out in his car all night. | Ascension Picnic at Bowie. BOWIE, Md., August 11 (Special) — The annual picnic of Ascension Church will be held on the town hall grounds here next Saturday. Various interesting features are planned. woods about a quarter of a mile from | notified the coroner he wantec to at-| @ WESLEY W. WERBACK, JR. FATALY SHOGKED * BYELECTRE DAL TBoat Builder, Wading in Six Inches of Water Is Elec- trocuted. Wesley W. Werback, jr., 28-year-old | boat builder of 2512 Q street, was clectrocuted yesterday morning at | Edgewater Beacn, Md., when he waded iinto shallow ‘water with an electric |drill in his hands to make some re- | pairs to a speedboat anchored in South | River. Funeral arrangements had not been completed today. Drill Declared Insulated. The 6 inches of salt water in which young Werback was standing when he dropped must have grounded the drill, which was plugged into a 110-volt line on. shore. Neither Werback's father nor his brother, who were on the shore nearby, saw ihe drill touch the water before be was stricken by the current. They said the drill apparently was well | insulated. | The father, Willam Wesley Wer- back, and a brother, Clarence E. Wer- back, rushed into the water after the young man and carriéd him ashore. Dr. Frank Leech, also of Washingten, was unsuccessful in his attempts to re- | vive Werback. | Dr. Louis M. Hopkins, coroner, pro- | nounced the death accidental. Was at Beach for Week End. |* Young Werback had gone to Edge- water Beach with the other members of his family and a party of friends to | spend the week end. In addition to his father and broth- er, young Werback is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mildred Werback; a sister, Mildred Werback, and his mother, Mrs. Clara E. Werback. A native of Detroit, Werback moved here with his family about 12 vears ago. He attenced school here and later studied naval architecture for several years in New York City. He had been | building boats here for several years | prior to his dgath. 'GEN. PATRICK BACK ' ‘FROM SON’S BEDSIDE Called to Detroit by Lieut. Patrick’s Illness—Other D. C. Officials Returning to Duties. ‘With the return of two officials this morning and a third expected later in the week, the District government was apparently celebrating old home week today. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chair- man of the Public Utilities Commission, returned after a few days spent at the obedside of his son, Second Lieut. Breame C. Patrick, who was stricken with ap- pendicitis in Detroit. Lieut. Patrick is well on the way to recovery, the general reported on his return to the District Building this morning. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent | of police, aiso was back at his desk | after a week at the convention of the International Association of Chiefs at Duluth, Minn. Radio, tele- type and crime statistics were the prin- cipal matters of discussion, he said. Duluth was extremely hot and the sur- rounding country parched and burned by drought, he said. Dr. William C. Fowler, District health officer, who has been recuperating in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., from an operation, will return to Washington this afternoon. Acting Health Officer Edward J. Schwartz will drive his chief over to his home. Dr. Fowler expects to spend a few days at the seaside before returning to work. J. S. BARNES DIES Brother of Mrs. Mark Reid Yates| Expires in Baltimork. John Sellers Barnes, 49 years old, | clubman of Philadelphia and a_brother of Mrs. Mark Reid Yates of this city, | died Saturday at Baltimore, after a | brief illness. | Besides Mrs. Yates he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Geraldine Sargent Barnes, and another sister, Mrs. G. A. Johnston Ross, of Honoluli Bring Labo Domenco Caputo's fly-trap is founded on the supposition that the fly who walks nto a fly trap because of the bait insists on flying out again. Caputo hopes to patent the apparatus tself. The bait, he said, is a matter of individual choice. Personally, Caputo prefers fish heads. Learned of Flies in Naples. Caputo learned something of flies in his native city of iTaples, Italy. He has built traps for them since, but none so good as his latest. The fly. Caputo said, can scent the bait a long way, and comes quickly. He then walks under the edge of Caputo's trap, Investi the bait, and flies up- ward In a circle. ‘That's where Caputo’s mechanical ingenuity cames in. Circling upward, SO R e fiy cl upward as far as pos- Sible 'from "the baits and there fnds | SILLY FLY HABIT PROMPTé WOEKER TO INVENT INGENIOUS APPARATUS| { charging him with failure to support Trap Based on Desire to Soar After Inspecting Bait May rer Riches. a tiny aperture through which he squeezes. He can't fly any further, because he's inside a box of screen wire. Whether the fly can't find the entrance, or whether he'd rather stay in the trap than pass the bait again, is of no importance to Caputo. Trap Works. The important thing is the trap works. Sitting on Caputo's front porch, at 323 I street northeast, while Caputo’s wife and five children looked on, the g:}: netted . hundreds of flies in a few rs. If the bait had been stronger, Caputo sald, he would have gotten all the flies in the community. As it was, most of those in the neighborhood came to Caputo’s door. Caputo_says if his invention is a go he may be forced to give up his job the freight Y Police | PAGE/, -B—1 CANPBELL HEARIG IVILVES UNIQUE QUESTON OF VENUE Guiteau Fight for Life After Garfield’s Death Only Sim- ilar Case in D. C. Record. FRIDAY IS TENTATIVE DATE FOR RESUMPTION Counsel for Accused Man Declares No One Knows Where Mary Baker Was Killed. A question of jurisdiction such as has not been raised in a District case since the assassination of President Garfield may result from efforts to remove Herbert M. Campbell to Wash- ington in the slaying of Mary Baker, it was indicated today. Friday has been set as the tentative date for a hearing before J. Barton Phillips, United States commissioner, in the Alexandria Corporation Court’ to determine whether Campbzll shall be removed from the Alexandria City Jail to the District Jail on a warrant charg- ing him with slaying Miss Baker April 11 “in the District of Columbia.” William H. Collins, an assistant United States attorney in charge of the case, declared today that the recent ruline of Federal Judge D. Lawrencé Groner in Norfolk that the Federal warrant for Campbell’s removal constituted a prima facie case convirced him that the de- fense would have difficulty in again raising the venue issue. He added that should this question be advanced the Government would be in' a position to produce witnesses to testify that Miss Baker was slain in this jurisdiction. Garfield Case Recalled. ‘The prosecutor revealed that in the entire history of jurisprudence in the District an exactly similar question of venue never has been raised before. He said the closest case was that of Charles Jules Guiteau, convicted here of slaying President Garfield. The President was fired on at the old Baltimore & Poto- mac_Railroad Station by Guiteau, July 2, 1881, He died mn a New Jersey Hos- pital, September 19, the same year. Following Guiteau’s conviction his attorneys took the case to the court of Appeals, basing their fight on the con- tention that although the Chief Execu- tive was shot while in Washington, ths defendant should have been tried in New Jersey because he died there. The tribunal ruled, however, that the fatal wound was inflicted in Washington, tgus giving local courts jurisdiction in e tase. Collins pointed out that witnesses had | informed authorities they saw a man | struggling with Miss Baker in a parked automobile at Seventeenth and B streets. These persons said Miss Baker ghastly expression on her face she might have been shot or’lktlu at that time. Pigtol Shots Reported. He also “stressed statements of wit- nesses that they had heard three re- ports which sounded like pistol shots shortly after the car in which the strug- gle occurred was driven away. “I am convinced that we will be able to prove at the proper time that Miss Baker met death in the District,” Col- {lins deélared. “I feel certain we shall succeed in cur efforts to remove Camp- bell to this city. He will be piaced an i trial as soon as possible,. probably in October.” Charles Henry Smith of Alexandria, councel for Campbell, insisted the pros- ecution would be unable to prove where the crime took place. “Unless %hey can establish that.” Smith said, “they have lost their case before it starts. That is the cardinal principle on which all trials *are based. A tree which falls in the wilderness be- yond the earshot of man makes no sound. A murder committed cut of sight and beyond the earshot of man cannot be solved.” ‘The defense -attorney has insisted that the prosecution has nothing tan- gible against Campbell or any one else, “and doesn't even know where Miss Baker was killed.” EMBREY PARTNER IN ROBBERIES SOUGHT | Youth Bandit Accidentally Men- tions “We,” Telling of Crimes Here. | | Headquarters detectives today were searching for an accomplice of Paul Calvin Embrey, 20-year-old leader of the bandit trio charged with the rob- bery of a Mount Vernon SaVings Bank runner, after Embrey is said to have in- advertently mentioned an assistant in the 30 or more robberies he has ad- mitted perpetrating in recent months. Headquarters Detective Sergt. Hubert Brodie, in charge of the investigation of Embrey’s activities, said that during Embrey’s tour of the city to point out the homes he robbed the youth men- tioned “we” in his explanation of the robberies. | Questioned as to what he meant by “we.” Embrey replied it was “just & habit of his to use the word” and de- clared that he worked alone during the robberies. FORGERY CH;\RGE ADDED TO NON-SUPPORT CASE Arrested to answer an indictment his minor child, Worthington- Merrill Remson, 23 years old, giving his address as 31 K street, learned of additional charges of forgery filed against him when he reached police headquarters. Remson, who recently returned from a trip to Knoxville, Tenn., is alleged to have forged the name of his brother-in- law, to two checks for small sums and passed them upon Joseph V. Wil- liams of 301 C street and Douglas Loye, 1331 K street. 2 Questioned by Detective Bernard W. ‘Thompson, chief of the police squad, Remson is said to have admil the forgeries and to have said he the checks because he was out of em- ployment. Shoots S:{ Accid;t;lly. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. in a barbecue ,-H. E. Clark accidentally shot the first finger of his rhl: hand. The nearly’severed “finger. The Prince Georges County rescugf squad, under Chief H. - ard, rohdered first aid, later the man to Dr. Leonard Hayes of ths- ville for treatment. -