Evening Star Newspaper, August 22, 1930, Page 17

ESKIMO ANCESTOR | THPE STHL LIVES | BY ALASKAN RIVER| Dr. Hrdlicka Returns From Kuskokwim Watershed Population”Study. TUBERCULOSIS MAKES INROADS ON SURVIVORS Bcientist Believes Highly Intelli- gent Race Can Be Saved—Cod- Liver 0il Works Wonders. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Discovery of the ancestral type of the Eskimo race, still living unchanged in the watershed of the Kuskokwim River in Southwestern Alaska, was announced today by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, head of the Department of Physical Anthro- of the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. Hrdlicka has just returned from & Summer's work in Alaska, bringing has found the living rep: the ancestors of one of the/ two major groups of the aboriginal North Ameri- can populatibn. Tuberculosis Has Cut Pepulation. Miss Margaret Atchison (left) and Eleanor Flood, ‘Tree Association, watering the J. Sterling Morton tree in SAVING THE TREES IN DROUGHT ! u-nuA-uu' it of the association street. The tree was planted in honor of the father on Sixteenth day by the Nebraska State Society. —Star Staff Photo. GAS CONPANY LI S ENED BYWOOD Head of Washington Concern Refutes Reported Connec+ tion With Outside Firm. financial between the Wi E Co. and the Columl b Co., m: which the lo-t_ concern proposes purchase naf ural gas, was made today G. A. G. Wood, president of the Waishington company. ‘Wood’s statement was made in con- with published - ‘Wednesday be- of any “or otherwise,” ton Gas Light Gas & Electric i, ¢ H i i) il L | i £ g8 ; 3 a ; 1 e i fiias H el b HE it | i i i : | of s i i i i £ 5! 2| g | % g | o5 | § i § £ E é : i EEEE & i g8s ] i ¢ | § ) i B8 i § i e i 1 i i i o E;' EE i : ? § i is e § ] % i z j § g : : | ; £ E g 4T A gi i 4 i f g ; | i g E!gi i : 2 PASSENGERS HOLD UP . TWO TAXICAB DRIVERS One Loses $20 and Another $2 to Colored Men Who Had En- gaged Automobiles. ‘Two taxi drivers were victimised in parate robberies It and last night, one in his early Walter J. Keenan of 2019 N street downtown last night when a colored youth of about 15 en to go to Conf Alexandria. m.mnryem':n&ammm& but notably differentiated from He ?“m Lu Summer’s work as “like finding the head of the skeleton' pre-| Alaska. Finds High Intelligence. was greatly impressed racter of these ‘“‘or is anxious that save them for their own rican citizens. He found & highly inteligent, m::; ‘Wherever he went crowds came to watch his excavations, point out old places, and help with the heavy ‘work. understood, he says, his scientific objective and were quite anx- ous to learn the story of their own an- tinental, Va., just be- ving ' there, the “fare” relieved of $20 at pistol point and es- ennan rted. K reported. John O. Benke of 1137 Seventh street $2 on him when was 4 1o SRS meRUe T A " of stree! Segion 1 so @ifficult of nccess that its | afternoon. R tion bas gone its own way. Dr.| The men waved guns at Benke when surprised to find about 70 | they arrived at their destination and cent pure imo, with only about | he handed over the $2. 5 per cent mixed Eskimo and Russian| Police have descriptions of the three and 5 per cent of other mixtures. 80 | robbers. yesterday afternoon of them by & youth | S LEGION OPPOSES RACE ISSUE PROBE| = Motion Brings Up Allegation| scitea of Discrimination Against Colored Mothers. i mmmmmh‘{' hole pouring ey! from bottle into another. of|GETS 6-MONTH JAIL TERM Legion | the Center Market, was senten All the officers elected at the regular session of the convention in Western High School last week were installed at the meeting. They are: Miss commander; Rev. Dr. A nyder, chaplain, and John Lewis ;n.lll‘th. national executive committee- The delegates voted last week at the third regular convention session to hold the recess session last night, when it was. found they would be unable complete the business of the convention ::’ex:thg original time set for adjourn- Woman Il From Poisoning. Mrs, Gertrude Clemmons, 41 years old, of 117 Second street, was in¢a serious condition from poisoning at the Emergency Hospital . She was found in an unconscious condition her home last night after having allowed several poison tablets, say. . at 1t was comparatively easy to differenti- ate 1) the original B When Dr. Hrdylr:kl noted the ex- valence of tuberculosis he was to find that during the 70 Russians first came up lation Driver of Team Denies His Animal Lurched Into Auto, | While Officer Acts to Aid Victim. ts ravages. ~ ':;. however, that na- remarkable cures, a curious condition %sm-ww-mm SLANDER SUIT FILED TRASH WAGON HORSE IS WOUNDED i - WHENHE COLLIDES WITH TAXICAB |Police in Pittsburgh and Chi- But fault or no fault, Policeman ticles lor | glasses were taken ago. Police trick as] - | Theodore Beckstrom, OF POLICE JUDGES IN LIQUOR STAND Approve Attorney’s Demand for.Better Cases to Try in Court. KRONHEIM TO INQUIRE - INTO BONDING RACKET Threatens to Outlaw Any Associa- tiol Member Found in Col- lusion With' Officers. Assistant United States David A, Hart tod backing of the judges his cam for the instruc- b";’d o to hold ted n ry s law violatar. sy Judge Gus A. Schuldt and Judge Isaac R. Hitt both said today they agreed with Hart that $500 bond is suficlent to hold any liquor law suspect and put the stamp of aj al on Hart's assertion he wants better liquor cases to try before the judges in the Police Bondsmen Under Suspicion. Meanwhile, an investigation of rumors that professional bondsmen have been working in collusion with police, par- ticularly in liquor cases, is promised by Milton Kronheim, president of the Pro- 14 en’s Association of ‘Washington. Kronheim today said he will bring the matter before his bondsma: on of are true, he said. guil y , “the police have not assessed any bond over $1,500.” Trouble Enough, He Says. ';w. Bave enough tm;‘h." he added, “getting money from bootleggers it conditions, without hand- any of it on to police.” today said he doubted if there is any factual foundation to the rumors of collusion between police and bonds- he had heard the cases that will sajd. ‘He cited he refused to insufficient or . ‘Three of these cases ited out: lly entered a public place, e arrunt. Jogally artesied ‘WArTAD Iy 'Ithm;!l'lrrlnt.l,:: for & of Hquor possess! J leimmmo! s gill of liquor. Papers were refused because of the small quantity of liquor and insufficient evidence of commercialism. Ancther Case Thrown Out. Police working on tip that a delivery of liquor was dué at a certain address, followed colored to house, and ON CHARGE OF LARCENY Edward . J. Fitzpatrick, Center Market Employe, Is Convicted of Stealing From Auto. Edward J. Fitzpatrick, employed at six months in jail on a charge of lar- ceny of a coat and a pair of glasses by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court today. Karl &l{zflnll\ of the 2200 block of { Forty-ninth street, from whom the ar- were stolen, sald the coat and from his car two testified they found leep with his h on the stolen coat in the Smithsonian grounds. Fitspatrick told the court t an- other man had asked him to watch the coat. Judge Mattingly told Fitzpatrick if ‘he produce the other man an convince the court that his to| true he would be | ations of the face last night when he . | versity Hospital and given first aid Besides his d | by his widow, Mrs. eatures and Classified right: S. . E. C. Moore, No. 13 precinct, team tain and 2 ‘W. F. McDuffie, No. 6; J. F. Ph'elps, No. 3; V. . Larey, No. 13, and E. ‘Wallrodt, Ne. 1, and D. O. Fletcher, No. R. McKee, No. 11 precinet, feam coach; Lieut. L. E. Kelly, No. 14 ess V. Vaughan, No. . 3. L. Warden, No. 3. _,lnk row: J. G. Austin, No. 2; W. R. Ostrom, No. 7; A. C. Poulsen, N HARTGETS BAGKN] [z o ron o oo v PAGE B-—-1 FEDERAL AGENTS 0 BEGIN STUDY IN DRY ENFORCEMENT Woodcock Puts 'Webster Spates and H. M. Dengler in Charge of Instruction. SCHOOLING TO FOLLOW IN TWELVE DISTRICTS High Standard of Force Plan to % W R. Birch, No. La Force, No, 7 champion, FRIENDS RALLY TO GIVE BURIAL TO CENSUS GIRL IN TRAGIC END Fellow Workers of Marjorie' Anderson Send Body Back to Santa Rosa, as George- town Hospital Cancels Bill. A notation was scrawled in red ink by & Census Bureau clerk today across the employment card of Miss Marjorie Anderson: 2 “Died August 20 at Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital. “Funeral August 21 at V. L. Speare’s parlors, 1009 H street. “Returned to Santa Rosa, Calif., on 7:05 pm. train, August 21.” That record, like innumerable others in the Capital's vast files, skeletonized & human story. Puts Trousseau Aside. Back in Santa Ross last Winter Miss Anderson was cetang together her trousseau during off hours from her school teaching. She put the trousseau ;.mle when an airplane crash killed her ncee. l'l':eee family conferred—Marjorie must have a change of scene. They got to- ther the money somehow for a ticket mtk;xmmewlnmmwmn t L\ At her in the review section of the Census °3: Miss Anderson proved aj LT S i s 3 She and several new-):nmd chums lived at 1523 3 ther®, two weeks Miss ment’s d of Marjorie Anderson was il of complete. and Wednesday she died at Georgetown University Hospital. Miss Anderson left no money for the doctor, lot‘fin‘;mm for funeral ;x; or for long home. Bu B e R o 2 'S ent Guernsey and Jm. & committee 'was organized. Hospital Cancels Bills. canceled her bill The PEDESTRIAN INJURED BY PASSING AUTOMOBILE Receives Treatment in Hospital for hesntion-iWomnn Slight- ly Hurt by Car, Frank Pasero, 40 years old, of 710 Third street northeast, received lacer- WOUNDED PRISONER REPORTED IMPROVING Man, Who Was Shot After Attack- ing Guard at Occoquan, . Likely to Recover. Authorities at Gallinger Hospital re- todaj condition of pris- was struck at Thirteenth and I streets by an automobile operated by Paul M. Connors of 4223 Eighth street. Pasero was taken to George Washington Uni- ‘Wednesday 3 ved and said that ‘would recover. Moore was rushed tution has greatly im- in all probability to the local insti- & critical condition when treatment. ¢ Mrs. Annie Hilbus, 60, of 1136 Sixth street, escaped with minor cuts when & machine driven by Miss Mazella M. Hamilton, 17, of 1337 Madison street, hit her as it was being backed out of a patl place at Seventh street and New York avenue late yesterday. Mrs. Hilbus was taken to a. nurb{ drug store for treatment®and then sent home. VETERAN DIES - Aubrey B. Wisener Succumbs at ‘Walter Reed Hospital. Funeral services for Aubrey B. Wise- ner, 33 years old, World War veteran, who died at Walter Reed Hospital yes- terday, will be held tomorrow afternoon, at 2:30 o'clock, at the home of his mgther, Mrs. Ella Wisener, 1515 Park mld!"e Interment will be at Glenwood Ty. Mr. Wisener, a native of Washington, served with the Army in France during the war, enlisting in 1917. er, he is survived Helen 8. Wisener; F. Graham, and . Tyres, whe to use his gun in self-defense when the colored man rushed him un- and ¢ut him about the head and neck with aknife or piece of glass. The instrument used in the attack street he cut with a knife on April 21. colored man attacked\ another guard several months ago with a shovel. T RICHARD HAMILTON, 78, ‘TO QUIT ASSESSOR JOB District Employe for 86 Years to Retire on Pension of $100 at End of Present Month, a sister, Mrs. Neil three sons. FRIENDS SUSPECT FOUL PLAY : ; IN INVENTOR'S Theodore Beckstrom, Swed- ish Authority on Water- ways, Missing 8 Days. ocago Asked to-Aid With -Search. Police in Pittsburgh and Chicigo were asked today to ald in the search for widely known inventor, who has been missing .m'.‘b:l apartment at 2000 H street trom may have trom is 50 years old and is said to & woman in New also has become alarmed He is 6 feet 3 inches receive a pension of der the operation of s B DISAPPEARANCE |3 present salary is $1,860. Short Shorts Banned in Puebla. PUEBLA, Mexico, At 22 o Any man on the &nfltmt%u- than their very short shorts. \PRINTERS HONOR ROBERT H.ALCOR Avoid Blunders That Cause Spates, famous land ity foot ball plnyer?‘::yd Dengler, who formerly was an instrue conduct the school. Check Presented in Apprecia- | setes tion of Work for Retirement Law Liberalization. Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the Joint conference on retirement, Dresented last night with a check by members of printing trade unions in Government em; in tion of e, el s session. Last July 3 Alcorn was lauded work in connection with the Representative Ernest W. Gibson of Vermont on the floor of the House of Representatives. representin the | givision of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and Clyde M. Mills, presi- dent of the Columbia Typographical a‘-mnd. the award being announced after his arrival. —_—— ST. GABRIEL’S CARNIVAL 24 agents will conduct when they have completed the course. v TO BE OPENED BY PARADE ;' a Three Bands and Decorated Floats to Take Part in Industrial < Procession Monday. An industrial parade, including three bands and decorated floats, Tt tive of more than 50 Wash n busi- ness houses, will mark the opening of St. Gabriel’s carnival, to be held at Grant Circle, Petworth, Monday night. The march will m under way at Georgia avenue and 'k Creek Church road at 7 o'clock and will p: along New Hampshire avenue to Gi Circle, thence to Illinois avenue, to Sherman Circle, and south on Seventh street to ‘Webster street, ending at Grant Circle. ta- | rotation ‘The carnival will run every night un- Proceeds 4 il September 6. derived from its operation will be used to further the new church building fund. W. P. WWHORTER DIES SUDDENLY, AGED 62 Resident of Capital 40 Years, Was Employe of Washington Rail- way & Electric Co. ‘W. Preston llcwh?rwl. & resident of Washington 40 years, died suddenly last night at his residence, 3040% R street. He was 62 years old. ‘The son of Dr. and Mrs. Willlam David McWhorter, Mr. McWhorter was a native of Fairfax, Va. He had long been employed as a mechanic with the ‘Washington Rallway & Electric Co. He was a member of the National Union Association and the Christ Episcopal Church. Besides his widow, Mrs. Lulu Newlon McWhorter, formerly of Falls Church, Va, he is survived by a son, Malcom David McWhorter; a daughter, Mrs. Louise Gathgene, and a grandson, David Gathgene. Two brothers and three sisters survive. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. w%hhmvmhn!wmmmnd his wife, Alice. THEODORE BECKSTRO! The court fold White fo make his FOUIY- SO, cholce between a 60-! sentence, which jwould make him for pardon in He also is an ;20 years, and a life term, pardonable patents to his e and published | in 15 it author, h-vin" itten ars. several books, his most prominent work Whrt: was in something of & quan- P"AF the time of Beckstrom's diap- | 0.sar genaiy. Thus White, who is 34 e e 's -year 3 us , W] police he had Yo oider freedom 236 pounds. authority several marine rance, his friends told old, made certain of at Een in eun&unhuu with - been ini B Jevaat Svention: e ‘Bviden '&mfi m&umn'fi"':‘ ;““”"""’" & pardon, even W IWIFE SLAYER TAKES 60 YEARS, WITH LIFE AS ALTERNATIVE Possibility of Pardon Sooner Fails to Sway Zacheus White, Who Sees Freedom at 94. ‘The prossed some months ago, however. Attorneys James A. O'Shea and John tt re) ited er. to explain “I shall want to everywhere I go and learn their to enforcement activities 80 that I will not have opportunity to see, to hear and to think.” SHARTZER IS AWARDED PARK WORK CONTRACT Will Grade, Fill and Seed Poli’s Theater Block After Present Buildings Are Razed. A contract for grading, filling seeding the block on Pennsylvania ave. nue between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets has been let by the Treasury De- mmen: to G. H. Shartzer of Dayton, 0. For the time being, at least, the cart is in front of the horse, because Shart- zer cannot begin work until the site is cleared of the Poll's Theater Build- ing and other buildings, and contracts for this work are still pending. Shartzer conftracted to grade the block and prepare it -\uubl‘ conversion into a park for $5,900. H. Herfurth, Jr.,, Inc., is the low bidder for the work of m%m , with a bid of $9,870. n on the Ia Chpeciadsoon, 1t Detng the Hope of the soon, e m’l‘numy to have the site cleared this SCAFFOLD FALL HURTS PROVE FATAL FOR MAN Guy Conrad Dies at Hospital After Injury While Working on Engraving Building. Internal injuries which Guy Conrad, Rt e SR b T Tatal séveral hours later when be died at the Emergency § Conrad,