Evening Star Newspaper, September 12, 1930, Page 17

WOVE T0 EXTEND NEW YORK AVENUE 10 DISTRICT LINE Highway Officials to Open Bids for Thoroughfare Grading on Monday. OPENING TO SUMMER 1931 TRAFFIC PLANNED Current District Appropriation Bill Provides $40,000—More Sought in 1931 Bill. First definite steps toward the open- ing of New York avenue northeast from Florida avenue to the District line, project which has been in contempl: tion for 10 years, will be taken Monday as soon as highway officials open bids for the grading of the thoroughfare. The current District appropriation bill carries $40,000 for the grading, which, under the specifications, must be com- pleted by April 1 of 1931. District offi- cials hope to obtain an appropriatic in the 1931 bill to surface the thorough- fare and have it open to traffic next Summer. The grading involves 100,000 cubic feet of excavation. Direct Route to Baltimore. The opening of New York avenue will provide a direct boulevard from the "Treasury to the Bladensburg road in the vicinity of the Pennsylvania Railroad overpass. District officials also are planning, it is understood, to pave the ceater of Bladensburg road from this point to the District line, thereby pro- viding & 60-foot paved boulevard to the Maryland line, where it will join the Baltimore Boulevard, which is being widened from 20 to 40 feet. The highway d;p;{tment rfl-:lg;gflsg ening of New York avenue .tyge mo'st important projects undertaken in recent years, since it will provide another main artery of travel from the heart of Washington’s business district to the Maryland line and thence to altimore. % The cost of the project has been kept down due to the fact that a bridge al- ready exists in the line of New York avenue across the railroad tracks. This bridge was erected in 1907 under the Union Station act in anticipation of the opening of New York avenue, but it has never been used. Asphalt Plant in Line. The abandoned District asphalt plant now stands in the line of the approach to the bridge, but this will be razed. Opening of the avenue will be facili- tated, it was pointed out, because the District owns all of the property in the line of the thoroughfare from Florida avenue to the District line. Virtually all of it has been in public ownership for 10 years. ‘The paving of the center of Bladens- burg road from the point where New York avenue will converge, to the Dis- trict line, is believed to be virtually neces. sary in view of the increased traffic this road will have to carry when the ave- nue is opened. The road is 60 feet wide, but the 20-foot unpaved center provides only two 20-foot roadways, one on each side. o panway, beaatificd with center a parkway, beautifie :h. ibs. l:nd flowers. With the steady increase in traffic on this road, however, highway officials abandoned the plan in favor of a wider ‘boulevard. WL INCREASE SHOW IN MAJOR ARRESTS Suggestion of Commissioner Brings Large Number of Felony Arrests. | | @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, Stanley Arnsparger of the Hagers- town, Md., Arnspargers, who crooncd “Vagabond Love and accompanied himself on the piano in an endurance contest which he seems to have won over his audience, has gained his own consent to refrain from contributing to the world's melodies for a while yer, anyhow. Last night at 6 o'clock Stanley was crooning away in the show window of & clothier on Seventh street. Ladies’ and men’s ready-to-wear had been removed to show Stanley to his admirers, men and women whose noses were pressed against the pane and whose enjoyment seemed to spring more from looking than listening to Stanley. The audience halted to look, loitered to wonder and then moved on. A new one took its place. Suddenly there was a mild commotion—Stanley had slumped forward, his taped fingers quivering on the Keyboard. Stanley’s trainer, a fellow who used to condition prize fighters until he got promoted, climbed into the window and dragged Stanley's unconscious form from sight. Later Stanley was revived. Stanley, the crowd was told, had broken the world’s piano-playing endur- ance record by thumping his keys con- tinuously for 163 hours. ~—TUnderwood Photo. BAN ON ADS IN AR ASKED BY DISTRICT Secretary Lamont’s Help Is| Requested Against “Voice From Sky” Piane. / The District Commissioners today sent a letter to Robert P. Lamont, Sec- retary of Commerce, asking for his help | in abating the nuisance of broadcasting advertisements from ajrplanes with voice amplifiers if possible under the Commerce Department’s rules regulat- ing the conduct of airplane pilots. ‘The letter read: “Section 2 of Article X of the police regulations adopted by the Commission- ers of the District of Columbia prohibits | any n within the District of Co- | lumbia from making any noise or outery on any public space for the purpose of advertising wares or attracting the at- | tention or inviting the patronage of any | person for any vehicle or any business | whatsoever. Within the last few days | an aeroplane has been broadeasting an | advertisement of one of the makes of automobiles over the city of Washing- | ton, and the Commissioners have been | in receipt of complaints from citizens as to the annoyance caused by such roadcasting. “The aeroplane from which the broadcast emanated made no landing within the limits of the District of Co- lumbia, so that no prosecution could be made of the operator of the aero- plane. The Commissioners are of the opinion that it is determimental to the best interests of the people of the Dis- trict of Columbia to allow such meth- ods of advertising, but they are doubt- ful as to just the method of procedure which should be adopted to prevent a violation of the police regulations where they have no jurisdiction over the of- fender. “They would be obliged if you would | inform them whether it is a condition .. PHILLIPS HURT N TRAFFC CRASH Former Soldier in Serious Condition ‘as Result of Automobile Collision. Thrown against a windshield when an automobile in which he was a pas- senger crashed into a parked car early today at Connecticut avenue and Daven- port street, Milford D. Phillips, 27 years old, until recently a soldier, suffered in- juries which physicians said might cause his death. Phillips was removed to Garfield Hospital in the patrol wagon of the fourteenth police precinct. He was treated for a possible fracture of the skull and a broken jaw by Drs. William McFaul; Wiiliam Detwiler and E. Kuhn. The driver, Stanley L. Fant, 27, of 907 Kent place northeast, was taken into custody by fourteenth precinct police on a technical charge of investi= gation after Garfield Hespital physi- cians had dressed lacerations on his legs and chin. ‘Although employed as a taxicab'driver, Fant was driving his own car north on Connecticut_avenue when the accident occurred. His machine smashed into the rear end of an automobile owned by Benjamin Holland of 4707 Connecti- cut_avenue. Police notified Phillips’ brother-in- law, Joseph Oldfield, a Bethesda police- man. They were unable to locate his wife and child, said to reside here. Fant was unable to_explain what caused the collision. Both machines were badly damaged. 2 GEN. MORTON TO'BE GUEST OF VETERANS Former Commander of 29th Divi- of the license granted to pilots of aero- Following the suggestion of Commis- sioner Herbert B. Crosby that more at- tention be centered upen the solution of major crimes and less to trivial of- fenses, members of the Metropolitan Police Department made a substantial increase in arrests for felonies during August, as shown in the monthly report of the department. The report, submitted to Maj. Henry G. Pratt yesterday afternoon by Capt. L. L. H. Edwards, personnel officer, re- veals that of the 8,671 arrests made last month 408 were for felonies, against 291 for similar crimes the preceding month and 363 for August, 1929. Fifteen persons were taken into cus- tody for violating the Harrison narcotic law, 40 for grand larceny, 84 for hous- breaking and 101 for joyriding, the re- port shows, Arrests for traffic law violation num- bered 2,940, as compared with 5,035 during the same period last year, and 7.356 in July. Twenty-nine of the cases were for driving while drunk. Arrests for misdemeanors totaled 2,499, against 2,950 for August, 1929. Prohibition law arrests fell off from 460 | the corresponding period last year to 329 last month, while arrests for drunk- enness numbered 1407 as compared to 1,218 in August, 1929, ‘A sizable decrease in the confisca- tion of liquor is shown in the report, planes that they shall not violate the laws or ordinances of the jurisdictions over which they fly. It would seem that this would be the only method of pre- venting the violation of such laws or| ordinances where the pilot made no landing within the jurisdiction of the authorities enacting such law or regu- lation.” KELLIHER DEATH PROBE IS STARTED Warrant Charging Shea With' mnsl(ughter in Crash Is Issued at Alexandria. | Special Dispatch to The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va. September 12.— | Definite steps toward a complete in- | vestigation into the death of Maurice “Mickey” Kelliher, killed in an auto accident at Four-Mile Run early Sunday morning, were taken yesterday, when Commonwealth's Attorney Albert V. Bryan had a warrant issued charging sion to Be Feted at As- bury Park, N. J. A dinner at which Maj. Gen. Gharles G. Morton, who during the World War was commanding officer of the Mary- land, Virginia, District of Columbia and New Jersey National Guard Troops, will be the guest of honor and principal speaker, will feature a three-day re- union of the 29th Division Association in Asbury Park, N. J, October 12, 13 and 14. More than 8,000 veterans are expected to attend the celebration. Gen. Morton, who is now retired, will cross the continent from his home in Los Gatos, Calif,, to attend the reunion. Representative Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey will be toastmaster at the dinner. Other speakers will be Govs. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, and Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey; Senator Millard F. Tydings of Maryland, Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow of Mexico, Adjt. Gens. Samuel G. Waller of Virginia, and Milton A. Reckord of Maryland; Cols. Fitzhugh L. Minnigerode of the Paris office of the New York Times, and Leroy W. Herron of The Washington Evening Star; Capt. Harold A. Confent of New York, and Representative Fred W. Hartley, jr, of New Jersey. ‘with only 1,832 gallons of whisky fall- ing (o the hands of police last month, | Willlam Shea of Washington, alleged while 3,065 gallons were seized August, 1929. The traffic report discloses that 6 persons lost their lives in the 643 ac- cidents which occurred here in August. DISTRICT RED CROSS AIDS SANTO DOMINGO)| ‘The District Chapter, American Red | Cross, has appropriated $1,000 toward relief work among victims of the hur- ricane which swept the city of Santo Domingo recently. The sum was sup- plemented by $400 in cash from indi- vidual donors in Washington. A large quantity of clothing suitable for the use of the refugees also has been collected here through the local chap- ter and will be forwarded to the affectetl area, SUES FOR $10,000 Spit to recover $10,000 damages from injuries arising out of an_automobile accident was filed in the District Su- preme Court today by Merton A. Eng- lish, an osteopath, of 3317 Sixteenth street. Clifford W. Hurley and Mrs. Mildred E. Hurley of 4910 Seventh street were named as defendants. The plaintiff says that an automobile owned by Hurley and operated by Mrs, ley collided with his machine Sep- 18, 1927, at Gallatin and Thir- teenth streets, resul ‘l:. serious in- cl negligence defendants. Robert L. Williams and guaynmmmm-pm- driver of the death car, with man- slaughter and driving while drunk. The papers requisitioning Shea'’s re- turn here went to Gov. Pollard yesterday and are expected to recelve prompt | action. When sent to Washington, they | will have precedence over the fugitive | charge against Shea, on which he is being held under $1,000 bond pending | a hearing. Earl Garrison, also of Washington, | another occupant of the car, came here Wednesday afternoon and posted $500 | bond for his appearance as a witness when the case is brought up. No papers | have been issued for William McKeever, | the other occupant of the car. The two men of Sparrows Point, Md., who were | in the other car figuring in the collision, also will be cited to court here as wit- nesses when the case is brought up. Steel’s Life Is Doubled. Structural steel make of metal con- taining a very small percentage of cop- per has a greater resistance to corro- sion and cuts down the maintenance cost. In very exposed places such as on shipboard the corrosion after a long and severe test was shown be 4 per cent, while copper-free metal the percentage was from 70 to 90 per cent. The amount of copper entering into this combination is about one-fifth of 1 per cent. Farm Sells for $23,500. LEESBURG, Va., Be!plember 12 (Spe- cial).—J. 8. Heflin of Woodburn, this cou: 3 , has l-r::’eomh RECKLESS DRIVING CHARGE DISMISSED Judge Frees Volunteer Fireman of College Park Department, Ac- cused by Policeman. By a Stafl Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., September 12.—Charges of reckless driving against Edward George Boyer, driver for the College Park Volunteer Fire Depart~ ment, who was arrested while respond- ing an alarm September 5, were dismissed by Judge J. Chew Sheriff in Police Court today when Policeman Frank P. Prince, the arresting officer, was not in court when the case was called. Sheriff Charles S. Early said Officer Prince was of the opinion no session of Police Court would be held today, being Defenders’ day and a legal holiday in Maryland. When the court convened, he was hurriedly summoned from his home, but arrived about 10 minutes after the case had been dismissed, the sheriff said. Boyer's arrest caused a furore in the volunteer fire departments of the coun- ty, and complaints against the officer because of it will be given a hearing before the county commissioners Tues- day. Prince has been sumnioned to appear at the hearing. » Prince reported Boyer drove the fire truck in such a manner as to force a passenger automobile off the road, & one of the oldest The serious accident being narrowly yem LATEST ARCRAFT | DEFENSE WEAPONS. - SHOWN BY ARMY Uncle Sam Gives Public Sam- ple of Welcome That Awaits Winged Invaders. {ANNUAL DEMONSTRATION { PRESENTED AT ABERDEEN Heavy-Caliber Machine Guns, 3- Inch Guns and 105-MM. Guns Fired at Targets. Uncle Sam gave the public a sample of the sort of welcome that awaits any winged would-be invader of the United States at the Aberdeen, Md. proving grounds yesterday. Their muzzles pointed high in the air, | the best guns that have been developed for repelling the air invader sent fu: lade after fusillade of solid and ex- | plosive shells into the sky at little saus- | sage-like targets towed as high as four | miles in the heavens, and when the tar- | gets came down they presented a sad | | picture of what an air-invader would | j rescmble had he been so brash as to| fool with the anti-aircraft defenses of | { the United States, H { It was all in play yesterday—that's | | why the biggest guns of the Army were | | silenced for about an hour while observ- | ers along Chesapeake Bay shooed out of range a harmless party of fishermen who kad selected a spot for their sport | just below where the Army gunmen were planning to explode several hun- dred pounds of explosive shells. Target Shooting in Earnest. But the play was in deadly earnest so far as the ‘“sleeve” targets, towed by airplanes were concerned; as the tat- tered remnants of those targets, floating do’:"l’:. fully attested. e shoot] esterday, —_— ing e y, for public o on, culminated nearly a month f secret testing of various forms of anti-aircraft weapons, and opens the way for more tests that are to continue, in secret, until November 15. Thorough exhibitions of the manner in which an air invader would be dealt with by the coast defenses in time of war, both in day and night warfare, were given by the forces of the Coast Artillery, the Ordnance Department, the Corps of Engineers and the Air Corps. o Yesterday morning the 30-foot red ‘sleeve” targets, barely visible to the naked eye thousands of feet in the air, were the objects of attack by guns rang- ing from the new big machine guns shooting half-inch slugs of copper and steel and requiring only one man to operate them to the big 105-millimeter guns with gun crews of nearly a dozen men. Searchlights Used at Night. Last night it was at white “sleeves” the Army shot ai, brought into the range of the naked eye easily by 800,000,000 - candlepower searchlights which cut ribbons of daylight high _into the velvety-black sky. 4 The same program of firing was used in both the day and night tests, ‘The first guns shot were two .50-cali- ber machine guns capable of firing 500 slugs a minute apiece, mounted together and operated by one gunner in & tur- ret mounted on a fast truck. This weapon is one of the most mobile units of the anti-aircraft development and can pour a veritable hail of metal into the path of a fighting or bombing plane. The gunner fires with the aid of stereoscopic sight, developed from the old stereoscope which in the “gay 90s" was a part of the paraphernalia of every parlor, used to give depth to the pic- tures depicted on post cards, These stereoscopic sights are among the newest developments of anti-air- craft warfare. The human vision, ex- perts explain, is not capable of retain- ing the all-important depth in sight for ithe distances required to fire the big machine guns, so the stercoscopic sight is supplied to round out the picture of the target for the gunner, Tracers Reveal Markmanship. ‘Tracer bullets every fifth shot in the ammunition belt provided spectators yesterday with means of telling just how well the gunner was faring with his target. The gunner, in his small turret, operated the firing mechanism of his two guns with his feet, turning for direction with one hand and rais- ing or depressing the gun muzzle with the other. The next demonstration was with a four-gun battery of these .50-caliber machine guns, which, operated sepa- rately, poured 2,000 siugs a minute at the fluttering target. n the big guns were put in action, a four-gun battery of mobile 3-inch anti-aircraft guns, capable of firing 25 shells apiece every minute. ‘Their muzzles pointed high’ in the fair at the nearly invisible target at the end of a 2,000-foot towline behind an airplane, they sent explosive shells screaming high into the sky, the burs of the shells leaving little white patches of smoke silhouetted against the dark target to show when the shells hit. The 3-inch gun battery in action sets up a continual and almost deafening roar as it fills the sky with rapid- bur.lsf'ln‘ shrapnel and high-explosive shells. Big Guns in Action. The final show was given with the big 105-millimeter guns, set in perma- nent mounts and capable of propelling shells as high as 40,000 fect into the air, at the rate of about 15 shells a minute per gun. A two-gun battery was trained on the target and the biggest anti-aircraft shells now in use were sent whining away into the sky at the target. Bursts of these shells 'shnwcd. to the visitors at the proving grounds yesterday and last night, some fine marksmanship on the part of the gun crews handling the big guns. On exhibition, but not fired in yester- day’s exhibition, is the newest gun re- ceived at Aberdeen, a 37-millimeter ma- chine gun, which is capable of firing 100 explosive shells, weighing about a pound and a quarter, every minute, with a range of better than four miles. The shells for this gun are equipped with a highly sensitive explosive cap, de- signed to explode the projectile on im- pact with any part of a plane. On exhibition also was a varied array of devices used in spotting the target and directing the fire of the big guns. There were cinematic spotting instru- ments, which, ‘for purposes of research give experimenters with the big guns accurate and detailed records of each shell fired on & motion picture film. The “brains” of the 3-inch gun bat- tery is the fire director, a small box, mounted on a truck, which is able to move with the guns and which per- forms mechanically the varied jobs of ‘mathematics necessary to the fire direc- tion. With this director are several aids, one a height-finding instrument, which, trained on the target, computes the height of the object to be fired at through mechanical calculation and tells the sun crew the direction of the target and the angle at which it is to be fired. | ! {land already in public ownership can FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930. ALLEY REMOVING Capital Park and Planning| Commission Will Consider Proposed Armory. Legislation designed to abolish the undesirable alley-dwelling situation in Washington, the site of the proposed | National Guard Armory and other prob- Jems will be discussed by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which will hold its September meeting on Friday and Saturday of next week. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., in outlining the program for the two-day meeting today said the commission will direct its attention to highway changes that have been consideved by the District | Commissioners, | Cousider Bridge Approach. The commission’s staff and the Dis- trict highway department have been making tentative studies and estimates with reference to an improved approach to the Highway Bridge. The plans are understood to entail underpassing and road facilities to permit traffic coming from Virginia to travel easily into Po- tomac Park and relieve the Fourteenth street congestion near the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. ‘The project for carrying cross streets under the Mall to avoid grade crossings when the four roads are constructed from the vicinity of the Capitol to the Washington Monument area will be up | for discussion, Capt. Chisolm said. | The commission’s opinion will be sought, advising the thoroughfare plan of main streets in the city. The pro- | posed change is brought about by new conditions and new developments. Adjustments will have to be made with reference to the highway system and the Fort drive, which will link up the circle of Civil War forts surround- ing Washington. The staff of the com- mission has been in conference with the District Highway Department on | this problem and a report will be laid before the commission. Park Report Scheduled. A progress report will be made by C. L. Wirth, the commission’s landscape architect, on the results of his visits to various park systems in the eastern section of the Nation, to collect figures on the cost of these projects, so that the District park system may be ex- panded economically. Mr. WirtR will not have his report in final shape for about two months. Capt. Chisolm will lay before the com- mission his findings so far on the in- quiry into the location for Washington's National Guard armory. Capt. Chisolm and Mr. Wirth have been requested to co-operate with Maj. D. A. Davison, Assistant Engineer Commissioner; Capt. Hugh P. Oram, his colleague, and A. L. Harris, municipal architect, in the con- sideration for a suitable site. The commission will be asked for a suggestion on the annual report, which it must approve. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, vice chairman and executive officer of the commission, will present the tentative draft of the report. A supplement to the commission's publi- cation, relative to plans and studies, has been prepared under the direction of Charles W. Eliot, 2d, director of planning for the commission, and this will likewise be presented to the com- mission. Georgetown Library Considered. The location of a library for the Georgetown section will be taken up by the commission when it tackles its heavy post-Summer agenda. A tenta- | tive plan for the proposed location of this library has been worked out, the Government desiring to ascertain if be utilized for this purpose. Sketch plans will be submitted to the commis- sion. Inquiry will be directed again into the proposed alley dwelling bill, under which Washington's alleys would be gradually eliminated. The staff of the commission has been working with the District Commissioners to ascertain if a satisfactory legal solution for the problem can be reached. Land purchases will be considered by the commission, but, in accordance with its system, information on these is withheld for publication. STREET CONTRACTS LET Awards Corson & Gruman Get DAMAGED BY LETTERS, $22,000 SUIT CLAIMS| Realty Corporation and T. R. Bond in Action. ‘William Lanham of the Colorado Building filed suit in the District Su- preme Court today to recover $22,000 damages from the Bay Ridge Realty Corporation and Thomas R. Bond, with offices in the Bond Building, alieging that his reputation had been damaged by letters said to have been written to operators of the Colorado Building and by other alleged actions. ‘The plaintiff seeks to recover $10,000 for statements allegedly made in each of the two letters, and asks the court for $2,000 damages, claiming that the defendant entered his office on August 1 and carried off his property through force of arms. He is represented by At- torney Thomas H. Patterson. ESCAPE ATTEMPTS OF TWO ARE FUTILE lFlying Tackle Halts Prisoner and Second Collides With Police Lieutenant. Several escapes marked efforts of po- lice to arrest two men last night. Earl D. Baker and Charles A. Cart- mill, second precinct policemen, ‘were | in a police car at Sixth and Q streets | when they noticed an automobile, one | of the occupants of which was wanted PAGE B-—-1 CAPITAL MUSICIANS ARE ASKING PUBLIC Above: Soldiers at the Aberdeen, Md., proving ground testing the new Army .50-caliber machine guns used for air- craft defense. Below: The 105-Mm. guns firing at towed targets during the tests yesterday. —Wide World & Assoclated Press Photos. DISOWNS '32 FETE FUND PLEA IN‘AD Commission Member Sur- prised at Appeal for $2,000 Investor. The George Washington Bicentennial Commission today disclaimed respon- sibllity for a newspaper advertise- ment calling for a “gentleman of pleasing manner and good dress” to inivest $2,000, without security, in “fur- therance of a patriotic work connected with the 1932 bicentennial celebration.” The advertisement was carried in the “Help wanted” columns Wednesday. An investor “of pleasing manner and good dress, and lacking an inferiority complex, who can meet as equals, Sen- ators, Congressmen and wealthy per- made in advance,” was called for in the advertisement. Representative Sol Bloom of New | York, co-director of the 1932 celebra- tion, A. K. Shipe, member of the local bicentennial committee, joined today in disclaiming responsibility for or interest in the investment plan advertised. Speaking for the national committee, Mr. Bloom stated the national commis- sion has nothing to do with “any com- mercial, money-raising or other plans of a materialistic nature.” He declared “no one has a right to collect any money for or make any investment® in anything connected with the official bicentennial celebration.” Mr. Shipe said the local committes had no knowledge of the plan advertised and that the reference to the bicenten- | unwarranted.” | _ The advertisement was inserted by | Robert Lloyd of the Denryke Building. | Mr. Lloyd told The Star he had been | gmployed by the George Washington Memorial Association, to assist in rais- ing funds for completion of that edifice, the foundation of which is at Sixth and B streets. Mr. Lloyd said he had been engaged in this work for about a year, and that the project had reached a point now where it was necessary to obtain an investment with which to carry on the promotion work. BROWS ARE WRINKLED BY HEATING PROBLEM| | 1 Question of Central or Two Sep- arate Plants Puzzles Office of Public Buildings. irated here only yesterday, sons, with whom appointments will be | | nial celebration was “unauthorized and ! in connection with a fight earlier in the | TOBOVCOTT SHONS Circulate Petitions Pledging Signers to Insist Upon “Live Music.” SYMPATHETIC STRIKE THREAT STILL STANDS Owners' Representative Assures Theatergoers Picture Houses Here Will Not Be Dark. In furtherance of its fight for the preservation of “living music” in the theaters of Washington, the Musicians' Protective Unfon, local of the Ameri- can Federation of Musicians, today is circulating throughout the National Capital petitions opposition to “canned music.” The members of the union are so- liciting names of persons for enroll- ment in the Music Defense League, who sign up under the pledge “I will not patronize any theater that does not use adequate living music.” Although the campaign was inaugu- John E. Birdsell, secretary of the local union, said that approximately 500 names have been received at the headquarters of the union. This, however, he explained, can hardly be construed as an adequate indication of the extent and effect of the campaign, since it has just begun. “We expect through this method to impress upon the minds of the employ- ers that this is not only a fight for the retention of musicians in theaters, but a battle to provide what the public de- mands.” The Music Defense League is not s new organization. It was created by the American Federation of Musicians soon after the debut of talking and musically synchronized moving pictures, and the campaign has been in progress through advertising in nationally read magazines and periodicals. Strikers Are Defied. ‘With the sympathy strike of all or- ganized union employes in Washington theaters scheduled to take effect with the “lock-out” of the musicians next week, A. Julian Brylawski, president of the Motion Picture Theater Owners’ Association, reiterated today the pre- paredness of his organization to meet a walk-out. ‘Without disclosing to what method the employers would resort to keep the motion picture houses open, Brylawski said, “We have not yet laid all our cards on the table, but we can assure the public that Washington theaters will not be dark.” In commenting on the symg-t.hy strike ordered by the national head- quarters of the Projectionists and Stage Hands' Unlons to take effect in e National Capital, Brylawski said he failed to understand why similar strikes were not ordered in other cities in which contracts for musicians were not_renewed. “In Philadelphia and Camden, for instance, I read today that orchestras are out of the theaters because of non- rencwal of contracts’ he said. “But no order for a sympathy strike of other theater employes was issued. If the unionists expected to get wider pub- licity for the cause of the musicians by ordering a strike in the Capital of the United States, which is certainly less of a union cily than any other, then they will meet with disappoint- ment.” . Sympathy Strike Order Stands. No rescission of the order for a sym- pathy. strike has been received at the local of the Moving Picture Machine Operators’ Union today. As the situa- tion now stands, they must follow na- tional headquarters’ instruction to “walk out if no agreement satisfactory to the musicians is reached.” Although the contract between the Musicians' Protective Union and the Motion Picture Theater Owners’ Asso- ciation, which was in blanket form, ex- of | mond B. Murphy, Rhode Island avenue, and Thomas Elam, night. Started to Precinct. ‘The police immediately arrested both of the occupants of the machine, Ray- 300 21 years old, 24 years old, of 3 F street northeast. Baker got into Murphy’s machine and started driving to the precinct, while Cartmill followed “with Elam in the police car. They had gone but a short distance when Murphy jumped out of the mov- ing machine and began fleeing on foot. Baker gave chase, bringing Murphy down with a flying tackle of the type he had learned to make as a foot ball player. Murphy's car and drove away when Cartmill went to the aid of his fellow policeman. Collided With Lieutenant. Elam reached Fifth and M street: where the automobile he was drivin collided with a machine driven by Lieut. J. T. Wittstat of the second pre- cinct. Elam then attempted to escape on foot, but was overtaken by Wittstat. He subsequently was charged with reckless driving, leaving the scene of an accident and assault. charged with operating a car without Baker, one of the newest men in the department, figured prominently The question of central heating of { pired August 31, a two weeks' preserva- {he Federal Government buildings in| tion of the status quo of the musicians | the vicinity of the Pan-American Build- | in local theaters was agreed to at & con- Meanwhile, Elam leaped into Murphy was | | ing and the whole subject in general XKK | causing wrinkled brows around the Of-| fice of Public Buildings and Public Parks these days. It may be necessary to have two heating plants, one for the | northern group of buildings and an- other for the southern. ‘The problem is brought about by the desire of the Pan-American Union to bulld its $1,000,000 office building at Eighteenth and B streets, now occupied by temporary building No. 6. In this temporary building, which is soon to house the Federal Trade Commission, is located the central heating plant for the surrounding Government buildings, radiating like the spokes of a wheel. ‘Temporary building No. 6 must come down to make way for the Pan-Ameri- can Union office structure, probably | some time during the coming year. | . The Navy and Munitions Building is heated from the present central heating plant in No. 6. and while this Winter | is taken care of, the problem is where | to have this heating system in commis- sion for the Winter of 1931. The whole matger is being given care- | ful study by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public | parks, and his associates. WOMAN IS BURNED in the rescue of Miss Annie D. Jen- | nings, young nurse threatened with | death by Howard Carson Tuesday. | Firemen, who put out a fire yesterday Baker crawled across an ironing board bridge from a house next to the Carson home, entered the room where Carson was holding the girl a prisoner and overpowered the youth. Canon of St. Paul's Dies. LONDON, September 12 (#).—The Rev, Willlam Charles Edmond Newt bolt, 86, for 40 years a canon of St. Paul's, died today at his home in Amen Court, in the shadow of the cathedral dome. afternoon in_the automobile of Mrs. Lydia Mary Flint, 40 years old, of 503 | Tenth ~ street southeast, administered first-aid treatment for slight burns of | the face and arms, which the woman | received when she attempted to put out | the fire herself. | A passerby saw the blazing machine in front of the Flint residence, and | turned in a fire alarm. Fire fighters made short work of the flames with chemical equipment, and then treated Mrs. Flint's burns when she refused to g0 to a hospital. HELPLESS MOTHER WATCHES AS DAUGHTER IS KILLED BY AUTO Vivian Fox, 3 Years Old, Two Hurt When Vivian Fox, 3 years old, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glendon Fox, 610 I street, died in Emergency Hospital last night from injuries sustained a short time be- fore when struck by an automobile Totaling $41,410. ‘The District Commissioners today awarded two contracts for road work to Corson & Gruman, local contractors. A contract for surface treatment of macadam streets and roads was award- ed for the price of $34,230. A contract for surface treatment of gravel road :fi.atneumlmdldnlnflaof operated by Wi inson, colored, 2024 Tenth street, at Sixth and s 5 ‘The child is sald to have broken away from her mother and run in the path of the car while crossing at the inter- Hospital by m u;m Nater who was {hhud under arrest to await an inquest is afternoon. Mrs. Fox, the child's mother, made a Is Run Down by Machine. Car Strikes Post. desperate effort to save the little girl, but was handicapped in her attempt to catch her because of carrying a younger child in her arms at the time. * ‘Two others were slightly injured in automobile accidents yesterday after- noon when an automobile operated by Landreville Ledoux, 513 Seventh street southeast, ran into a lamppost at South Carolina avenue and Seventh street southeast. They are Ledoux’s mother, Mrs. Ida Mae Ledoux, 65 years old, and Ledoux, bath of Hos- son, ference in New York, August 28. It was thought that this extension would result in the formation of some settle- ment of the dispute. The complete col- lapse of negotiations in New York Mon- day, however, virtually constituted a termination of attempts to reach an agreement, NO DATE YET SET FOR CARSON TESTS Accused Man Remains in Jail After Threatening Young Woman With Pistol. While authorities have agreed to sub- ject Howard Carson to a mental exami- nation, with a view to his possible trans- fer from the District Jail to a hospital, no date as yet has been set for the test by which it is hoped to determine if Jie was sane when he threatened a young woman roomer with a pistol and stood off police from his father's home at 60 S street Tuesday night. Carson is being held in default of $10,000 bond on a charge of assault with intent to kill Miss Annie D. Jen- nings, 25-year-old trained nurse. He waived a preliminary hearing in Police Court Wednesday after his father, O. F. Carson, had asked the judge to have his mental capacity tested The young man stood off a heavy de= tail of police and detectives while he pleaded with Miss Jennings to “give up the other man.” DANCING TEACHER POSTS $2,500 BOND.IN DRY: CASE Barbara Walker, 25, Pleads Not Guilty to Charge of Selling Liquor. Barbara Walker, 25-year-old New York dancing teacher, was released un- der $2,500 bond today when she pleaded not guilty in the District Supreme Court to an_indictment charging her with the sale of liquor. Miss Walker, who lives in the 800 block of Fourteenth street, was already under $1,000 bond for her appearance in Police Court on September 7 in connection with the shooting of Russell Prince, local sports- man. She was indicted Tuesday by the grand jury on the liquor charge, the day after her arraignment in Police Court on the charge of shooting Prince. ‘The man was shot Sunday night in his it on S street. Miss er told police he was shot accidentally during a le for possession of a pistol. he produced the pistol after she sttempted to leave the apart- ment against his will,