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Washington News WAS HINGTON, D. C ., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, @he Foening Star 19: MARKS' TRANSFER MAY MEAN SHIFT Dent Is Sent From Fourth to Replace Him as Holmes Takes Command. PLANS FOR REMOVING 10 PRIVATES STUDIED Changes Proposed Prioy to Peck's Retirement Are Held The first step in a probable reor- ganization of the eleventh police pre- | cinct was taken today by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, with the transfer of Lieut. Sidney J. Marks to the fourth precinct in Southwest Washington. Lieut. Frank M. Dent of the fourth precinct was shifted to the eleventh precinct to succeed him. The transfer of Lieut. Marks comes as a sequel to the retirement of Capt. Charles T. Peck, who officially went on the pension roll today after 36 years of service. Capt. Willlam E. Holmes now is in command of the eleventh precinct. Holmes to Fix Course. How far-reaching the reorganization will be in its scope will depend upon Capt. Holmes. Maj. Pratt said he would make no changes without the recommendation of the new command- ing officer. It was learned, however, that shortly after Capt. Peck filed his application for retirement, plans were under con- sideration to transfer from the eleventh precinct, one lieutenant and 10 pri- vates. All of the proposed changes. with the exception of the transfer of Lieut. Marks, have been held in abey- ance pending & report from Capt. Holmes. Study to Be Made. As Capt. Holmes did not formally take over command of the eleventh pre- cinct until this morning, he probably will make a study of conditions before submitting a report to headquarters. ‘Whether he will recommend any changes s not yet known. Elevated from a lieutenancy to com- mand the eleventh precinct, Capt. Holmes and two other officers who were promoted with him, Sergt. John - W. McGinness, who was made a lieu- * tenant, and Pvt. Archie W. Winfree, who was made a sergeant, were given the oath of office this morning by Maj. Pratt before taking their new posts. Lieut, McGinness went to the third greclnct to take the place left vacant )y Holmes, and Sergt. Winfree was sent to the tenth precinet to replace McGinness. MOVIE PROJECTION WORKERS REMAIN PRODIGY, 13 YEARS OLD, ENROLLS I !Jo ' Youngest Student Ever Ad- mitted at University. { Interested in Outdoor Life, | Youth Doesn’t Like to Be Described as Unusual. A 13-year-old prodigy, John Ignatius Griffin of Brooklyn, N. Y., the youngest student ever admitted to Georgatown University, was enrolled yesterday in the freshman class of the College of Arts and Sciences. He comes to Georgetown from the Brooklyn Preparatory School, a institution, where he entered at 9 3 of age and from which he was graduat- ed last Spring cum magna laude, among the first five in his class. AS FRESHMAN AT GEORGETOWN hn Griffin of Brooklyn Is Although regarded as a prodigy at| — Georgetown, where nis appearance cre- ated & mild sensation among his older classmates, John doesn't look or act the part at all. A thoroughly normal, ro- bust little chap, who is as interested in outdoor play as he is in studying, John | openly displays chagrin at being char- acterized as an unusual type. “Besides,” he said, “I'll be 14 years old next month.” through the grammar school in three and a half years. Likes to Play Tennis. After school hours John likes to play tennis and in the Winter he indulged in ice skating whenever there was ice on the big pond in Prospect Park, at Brooklyn. He is also proficient on the mandolin and piano and was inter- Mother Comes to City. | Coliege authorities were relieved of | the responsibility of caring for the 13- | year-old freshman by the lad's mother, who has come to Washington to main- tain a home for her son during his four | vears at college. They reside nearby at 3338 O street, where can see that John is in bed at 9 o'clock each evening, a rule she rigidly enforces. “We've never regarded John as a prodigy,” she explained yesterday, “and he is just like any other normal boy. He doesn’t spend all his time studying for it comes easily for him and he went through four years of preparatory school without attracting any publicity.” grammar school. alphabet then. His mother went away | for two or three months on a trip after he entered school and upon her return | found John was reading the newspapers and understanding them. He skipped ! John was 6 years old when he entered | He didn’t know his | ested to learn there is a college or- chestra at Georgetown, for which he intends to become a candidate. When a much smalier chap than he now is, | John took dancing lessons in Brooklyn and made several public appearances with other pupils. But they had his pictures in the papers and he didn't lixe that. During the four years at Georgetown the young freshman will pursue a bachelor of philosophy course. When he’s graduated he will still be in his seventeenth vear, the age most fresh- men_are entering. He will be 14 on October 18 With a level head on such young shoulders, John has aiready decided what he wants to be after he leaves college. A surgeon’s career appeals to him, but he admits that is a long time off vet and he might change his mind. John was one of 360 freshmen en- rolled at the college yesterday, the largest class in its history. PLANTDISEASE CUTGOTTON CROP D. C. Neal Tells Conference U. S. Output Was Reduced 2,000,000 Bales in 1929. ‘The 1929 cotten crop in the United States was reduced 2,000,000 bales from | the normal yield by plant diseases, David C. Neal of the Bureau of Plant Industry told the Interamerican Con- ference on Agriculture, Forestry and Plant Husbandry meeting at the Pan- | American Union today. Developments in Possible “Sym- pathy Strike” Await Offi- cial's Arrival. ‘While local union motion picture projection machine operators have re- ceived no cancellation of orders from their national headquarters to walk out in sympathy with musicians when the latter are locked out Thursday and Friday of this week, it developed today that the local managers' association does not recognize that the union men are at work in independent houses this week because of a “truce” agreement These men had been ordered by their national headquarters to continue at work in spite of the fact that musicians were discharged Sunday in the inde- pendent theaters. As a result of a meeting of the Motion Picture Theater Owners' Association yesterday, it is understood a letter was addressed to the projectionists notify- ing them of the managers’ position that the operators were at work because they ‘were under contract to be so. Thus far no man has left his position in the booths as a result of the musicians’ con- troversy. Further developments in the oper- ators’ “sympathy strike” dispute will hinge wpon the arrival here of Willlam J. Herrer, vice president of the Inter- national Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes and Moving Picture Machine Operators. Herrer was here last Friday to arrange for the postponement of the strike pencing negotiations. He is ex-| pected here within a day or so. The musicians in the chain theaters, | which include all the downtown houses, | will continue to work until the com- | piction of the current show week, as| a result of an agreement between the Musicians’ Union and the Managers’ Association. They then will be released because of non-renewal of their con- tract and the failure of the Musicians’ Union to agree to using curtailed or- chestras in two downtown theaters. AMATEUR PILOTS ASKED TO ATTEND MEET HERE Project Is Planned by U. 8. Cham- ber of Aeronautics to Estab- lish National Record. Invitations to sportsmen and amat irplane pilots in all the Southe States to meet in the National Capital October 20, for what is expected to be the first of a series of regional ama- teur aviation meets have been sent out by the United States Chamber of Aero- nautics from headquarters in the Mills Building, it was announced today. ‘The meet is to be held in an effort #o establish national amateur air rec- ords and entrance will be restricted to amateur pilots. Amateur standing will be recognized as less than 200 hours of flying time, the amount required by the Department of Commerce for a transport pilot’s license. BRIDGE WORK AWARDED Philadelphia Contractor to Con- struct Arlington Span Fenders. ‘The Arlington Memorial Bridge Com- There are 27 diseases which attack cotton in this country, he said, the most important of which is fusarium wilt, which is being attacked success- fully by developing immune varieties. No really satisfactory measures have yet been developed for controlling root rot, he said, although something is being accomplished by rotation with grain crops. Revolutionized by Science. Agriculture has been revolutionized in a half century as a result of sci- entific research, said E. H. Shinn of the Department of Agriculture “The agricultural experiment sta- tions,” he said, “are laying the founda- tions for progre: They are factors of far-reaching significance to the so- lution of the farmer's problems and the results attained have amply justified the need for a continuous program of fundamental research.” Standardization of crops through cer- tified seed was urged by O. S. Fisher of the Office of Co-operative Extension Work of the Department of Agrculture. This can be accomplished, he said, through State seed associations. Mr, Pisher also stressed the value of crop demonstration work by county agents. Last year, he said, there were 256,355 such demonstrations in solls, cereals, legumes, potatoes, cotton and special erops. | Leo Rover's office Demonstration Stations Spread. Agricultural extension in tropical countries should center around the demonstration station, said Dr. Carlos A. Chardon, commissioner of agriculture of Porto Rico. Such siations, he said, are only beginning to develop in the Latin American cour He said that demonstration stations which have b2en operated in Porto Rico since 1923 have gradually spread to the Dominican Re- public, Panama, Columbia and Ecuador and mark the beginning of a practical governmental effort to improve the routine methods of farming in Latin America. Coffee production, he said, volved several research problems which have not been touched. He pro- a union agricultural tropical re- search station located in an important coffee-growing center and supported by all the countries interested in the erop. SAYS WIFE HAS HIDDEN CERTIFICATE OF VALUE Frank N. McDaniel Sues to Compel Restoration of Paper Needed in Negotiating Loan. Alleging that his estranged wife has hidden an adjusted service certificate which he needs to negotiate a loan, Frank N. McDaniel, 1243 B street south- east, today filed suit in the District Supreme urt to compel Mrs. Jessie McDaniel, 28 Quincy place northeast, his wife, to reveal the hiding place of the certificate and return it to him. McDaniel, a World War veteran, al- leges that the certificate was mailed to him February 27, 1925, by the Veterans' Bureau and that his wife, without his knowleage, intercepted and concealed it. Because of the peculiar nature of the certificate, he says, it is valueless to the wife, and she is hiding it from a spirit of animosity. The plaintiff is repre- sented by Attorney Joseph D. Milensky. mission today awarded a $49,000 con- tract to Trieste Earl, Inc., of Philadel- phia, for the construction of fenders at the bascule draw span, which opens up to permit navigation to pass to and from Georgetown. The fenders will serve the double of protecting the expensive draw span from damage by ing crafts and of protecting ships om being fouled when negotiating the bridge passage. The contractor is to start work on this within Catches Heron on Hook. PORT JERVIS, N.Y., September 16 (N.A.N.A.).—Col. Leon Gordon of this city went fishing for fish yesterday and caught a bird. As he was casting his line into the lake, & fine heron came into range and its wing was snared by the hook. The bird was uninjured and after a short time the colonel released it. (Copyright, 1930. by North American News- paper Alllance.) SWINDLE SUSPECT ARRESTED IN HOTEL $136,000 Montreal Bank Fraud and False Race Tips Are Reported. Arrested by headquarters detectives on charges of using the mails to_de- fraud to the extent of $136,000, Wil- llam Mayo Humphries, 47 years_old, was to be turned over to New York postal authorities this afterncon. Humphries was arrested in a room at a downtown hotel shortly after mid- night Saturday night by Detective Sergt. R. J. Cox and Postal Inspector J. H. Collier, following the receipt of a telegram from Herbert Graham, chief of New York postal inspectors, which stated the man was here. Authorities Silent. Although both local detectives and postal authorities declined to discuss the case at length, Humphries is said to have swindled the Royal Bank of Mon- treal out of $136,000. Authorities said Humphries also has been swindling wealthy men by claiming to have pre- mature information on the results of horse races. Humphries, who was indicted by the Federal grand jury of New York July 30 on charges of using the mails to defraud, will be returned to New York upon the arrival at District Attorney of Federal indict- ments from that city. Believed Member of Gang. Postal authorities said that Hum- | phries is one of a large gang of con- fidence men who have been frequent- ing race tracks during the Summer sea- son. The gang, police sald, is belleved to have reaped a harvest of between $100,000 and $200,000. The arrest here of Humphries brought to an end a Nation-wide search vfich began early in July, when he is alleged to have swindled the Canadian bank, LIONS TO SEE HOW DOG ACTS AS GUIDE TO BLIND Sightless Head of Training School Will Make Address Before Club Tomorrow. Under the auspices of the Columbia Polyiechnic _Institute for the Blind, Moirtis S. Prank, blind managing di- rector of the Seeing Eye, will give a talk before the Lions Club at the May- flower Hotel tomorrow. After the meet- ing Mr. Frank will permit Buddy, his famous dog, to demonstrate how a trained dog operates while guiding a blind man. The Beeing Eye, a school for the training of dogs of this kind, is located at Nashville, Tenn., and is the only such institution in the country. Buddy is a German shepherd dog, the type used exclusively for this work. Arrangements for Mr. Frank's ap- pearance were made by Ralph H. Camp- | bell, executive secretary of the Colum- bia Polytechnic Institute, both at the Lions Club mecting and elsewhere in the city. The services of the blind man and his dog were obtained through Joseph D. Keufman of this city, a cousin of Mr. Frank. AUTO INJURES MAN, 63 Girl Accidentally Starts Car as He Is Working Under It. ‘Willilam P. Harper, 63 years of 320 Park place northeast, was l:u'rbuly injured yesterday when his 3-year-old granddaughter accidentally started his automobile while he was working under it. Police said Harper was repairing the automobile in the rear yard of his son’s home at 217 Fourteenth street south- | east when the child, Ethel Harper, who | was playing in the driver's seat, sud- |denly stepped on the starter. Harper was taken to Providence | Hospital, where physicians treated him for internal injuries and bruises about the body. Police said the front wheel of the automobile passed over his chest. Files Bankruptcy Petition. A petition for bankruptcy was filed in District Supreme Court yesterday by the Woodruff Co., cleaners and dyers, 400 Eighteenth _street. i president, H. P. Woodruff, the firm tells the court it is unable to pay its debts. No n‘fmu‘e of assets and liabilities was c | was sued in the District Supreme Court ts | ney of Evanston, Ill, from practicing PUBLIG HEARINES ON GAS RATE CUT STARTTONORRDN Company Proposes to Offer Three Separate Schedules, Each With Reduction. COMPETITION WITH OIL AND COAL IS PLANNED Special Price for Heating Homes Is Feature of New Contem- plated Arrangement. The application of the Washington Gaslight Co. for permission to reduce its gas rates in the District of Columbia | will come on for public hearings before | the Public Utilities Commission at 10 | o'clock tomorrow in the board room of the District Building. Instead of the present rate which is a flat charge of $1 per 1,000 cubic feet for the first 200,000 cubic feet per month, with smail reductions there- after, the company proposes to intro- duce three separate schedules, each offering lower rates. The feature of he new schedule is a special rate for those who wish to heat their homes | with gas, the price being calculated so as to bring gas into direct competition 1\~.uh coal and oil as a house heating | medium, Fixed Charge for 7 Months. This new rate starts with a fixed charge of $1.50 per month during the seven heating months, October to April, { inclusive. Then there is a rated charge depending on the size of the boiler and {the number of rooms to be heated. This charge for the average six-room | brick house will be $5.40 per month dur- ing the same seven months. The con- jsumption charge is 65 cents per 1,000 cubic feet of gas for the first 20,000 feet used per month and 50 cents per 1,000 cubic feet for all used above 20,000 cubic feet. Those who heat their homes with gas will be allowed to include the gas used for all other purposes at these | rates. For this service the minimum bill is $3.50 during the heating months and $1 a month the balance of the year. The regular domestic service appiying to those who do not heat their homes with gas starts with a minimum bill of 75 cents per month, for which the con- sumer is allowed 500 cubic feet of gas. For all gas used in excess of 500 cubic feet the rate is 85 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, Rate for Commercial Use. The rate for commercial use is $1.50 per 1,000 cubic feet for the first 500 cubic feet used per month per 100 cubic feet of maximum hourly rate of use. For all gas used in any one month | in excess of the above amount or not | exceeding 500,000 cublc feet the rate is 85 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, and for | all in excess of 500,000 cubic feet the | rate is 75 cents per 1,000 cublc feet. | In each schedule there is an increased rate provided for those who do not pay their bill within 10 days. The present actice s to charge an increased amount for those who do not pay their bills in 15 days. The company has of- fered no explanation of this decrease in the days of grace. STOCK BROKERS SUE FOR PAYMENT BY CLIENT J. & W. Beligman & Co. Charge Capital Man Declined to Pay for 200 Shares. Robert E. Stein, 523 Thirteenth street, yesterday by J. and W. Seligman & Co., 729 Fifteenth street, for $4,759.75, | | which they allege is the balance due | |them on a stock market transaction | handled through the Seligman Co. ior Stein, The _plaintiffs, through Attorneys Richard H. Wilmer and G. Howland Chase, state that on June 16, 1930, they purchased in their capacity as stock- brokers 200 shares of the common stock of Warner Bros., Inc., for Stein at his request. ‘The cost of the stock, plus PAGE B-1 CANDY SE LLERS FOR THE ARMY CIRCUS Above: Young women who have been selected to sell candy at the Army Cir- cus to be held at the War College Sep- tember 25, 26 and 27. Front row, left to right: Beverly Rittenhouse, Laura Barkley, Ann_ Griffin, Mary Trumbull and Barbara Bristol. Back row, left to right: Lila LaGarde, Norma McIntyre, Louise Hickman, Ruth Mackay, Mar- jorie Simonds, Nancy Lesh, Mary Schwartz and Mary MelIntyre. Below: Gen. Pershing’s famous war horse Jeff with Miss Virginia Lawrence, one of the covered wagon actresses. ANACOSTIA GOLF COURSE PLANNED Construction of $30,000 Project Will Be Completed by May 1. Construction of a nine-hole, $30,000 golf course in Anacostia Park near the Eleventh Street Bridge will be started immediately. This decision was reached yesterday by the board of trustees of the Wel- | fare and Recreational Association of | Public Buildings and Grounds, Inc., & | corporation headed by Lieut. Col. U. S. | Grant, 3d, director of public buildings | and public parks, which has super- vision over recreational activities in the parks. The board thrashed out the whole matter, which has been pending for some time, and decideq that finances are in order to proceed at once so that the new golf course for citizens of the Southeast might be put into commission by May 1 next. | The nine-hole golf course will be so constructed that it can be extended to an 18-hole course later, if warranted. As F. W. Hoover, the association’s gen- eral manager, has now a number of bids before him, previously called for, the awarding of a contract will follow a discussion with the bidders, to ascer- tain if there is any difficulty in getting the greens started this Fall. Construction of the golf course will mean that part of the public gardens of the Anacostia region, near the Penn- sylvania Railroad, will have to be abandoned. Mr. Hoover explained that the gardens were permitted on the park land this year on condition that only crops maturing early would be sown. Under the program, the board di- rected that a field house, alrcady con- structed, be improved inside, but Mr. Hoover made it plain that there will be no remodeling of the structure. Gas facilities were installed and it is now necessary tric lines to the building. that this will be done during the Winter season. to extend elec- | It is expected | col totaled $9,830, which sum, they allege, Stein neglected to pay. After several unsuccessful attempts to secure ent, the petition states, the teF 801d the stock on the open Mar- and now seeks to collect from Stein the difference ($4,759.75) between the price paid for the stock and the figure it brought when sold. DETECTIVES RAISE FUND T0 SEND FAMILY HOME | Man and Two Children Stranded Here After Pickpocket Takes $30 From Him. A happy father and his two small | children, stranded here without funds yesterday, are on their way to visit an ill mother at Philippi, W. Va, after headquarters detectives took up a col- lection for their railroad fare. Joseph Day and his children, Rose, 13, and George, 10, sought police as- sistance after they arrived here Sunday and found the father's pocket had been icked of $30. Pl ey went first to the Travelers’ Ald Soclety at Unfon Station, who turned them over to the Receiving Home. De- tectives here heard his story and col- | lected $24 for their fare home. | |HOOVER TOLD GERMAN | FOREIGN POLICY IS SANE | Dr. Walter Simons, Su- ’ preme Court Judge in Berlin, Calls on President Here. Former ::I‘;llc, discussed the political situation of Germany and interpreted the recent election results during a call on Presi- dent Hoover today. The noted German statesman was accompanied to the White House by Dr. Otto Kiep, charge d'affaires of the German embassy. Dr. Simons told the President that the recent elections in his country will naturally effect internal changes, but will not involve any changes in the for- elgn policy of his country. Charges Illegal Suspension. The District Supreme Court was asked yesterday to restrain Secretary of the Treasury Andrew J. Mellon from suspending Paysoff Tinkoff, an attor- | man on a charge of disorderly conduct. before the Treasury Department. Tinkoff said that he was illegally sus- pended by Mellon from August 29 to June 4 next, POLICE BREAK U COMMUNIST SESSION One Man Is Arrested and Is Re- leased on Personal Bond After Trial. Fourth precinet police last night broke | up a so-called Communist meeting in uthwest Washington and arrested one Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court today took the personal bond of James Watson, colored, 22 years old, of New York, whom police said insisted on blocking the sidewalk at Four-and-a- half and E streets after the crowd had been ordered to disperse. The leader of the meeting, whose name police refused to divuige, was ar- rested by Detective R. J. Barrett and held for a short while under a charge of investigation. Barrett declared that the Commu- nists insisted on having a street meet- ing after permits had been denied mem- bers of the group by police. The de- tective and some of his men broke up the crowd a short while after it had collected. It was the Communists’ first meoeting since ) r Many of Wat. low Communists appeared in court today to testify for | the colored man. Each was carefully | questioned by Judge Mattingly as to his | or her “connection with the Bolsheviki | in Red Russia.” Finally, the magistrate granted Defense Counsel Charles Ford's request to take Watson’s personal bond. YOUTH HURT IN 1921 NOW SUES FOR $25,000 Permanent Injuries Claimed After Auto Accident When Plaint- iff Was 9 Years Old. The American Ice Co., 1320 F street, was sued for $25000 in the District Supreme Court today for damages aris- ing out of an accident nine years ago. The suit was filed by Milton M. Dimmette, through his next friend, Nellie B. Dimmette of 6227 Ninth street. The plaintiff alleges that on November 14, 1921, he was 9 years old and was struck by an automobile while crossing Georgia avenue. He alleges that the machine was being driven by William H. Small of 638 Park road; that it was owned by George N. Grant of the same address, and that it was on the business of the ice company. Dimmette, through his attorney, R. H. McNeil, claims he suffered injuries which will remain with him through Ilife, CROWD WITH GUN Fusillade of Bullets Over Heads Sends Throngs Scurrying to Shelter. A Chinese laundryman who fired a terrified pedestrians and motorists at Fourteenth street and Thomas Circle early last night was subdued by second precinct police and charged with carry- ing concealed weapons, discharging fire- arms and intoxication. He was Charles Jong, 44-year-old proprietor of a laundry at 1333 Thir- teenth street, who emerged from his place of business and disturbed the peace of Thomas Circle. Police said the man, using a power- ful automatic pistol, suddenly opened fire, sending leaden slugs riccocheting from nearby homes and whistling over | the heads of pedestrians and passing automobiles. Pedestrians scurried for shelter and autoists increased the speed of their machines. ‘When Policemen C. E. Strange, O. H. Tucker and O R. Van arrived at the ome time ago | scene, responding to at least a dozen | calls from residents of the section, they found Jong standing in front of his | laundry with the smoking pistol in his hand. After a several hour stay in a precinct cell, Jong quieted down somew] and he was released on $50 collateral to in Police Court on the three today. PLANS MADE FOR REPAIR OF MONUMENT ELEVATOR Mechanic Expected Today by Air- plane to Readjust Machinery Now Out of Condition. C An elevator mechanic may be brought hcre from New York today by airplane to make adjustment to the huge lift inside the shaft so that the Washing- ton Monument will be able to receive visitors again, possibly tomorrow. Public Buildings and Public Parks officials explained today that a me- chanical defect has been discovered in the self-leveling device and none of the elevator firms here were equipped to remedy the defect. ‘The monument has been closed for a week for repairs to the elevator. New bearings, cables and additional adjust- ments were made as part of the regular overhaul period. The shaft was ex- pected to be reopened today. Kelly-Springfield Official Dies. NEW YORK, September 16 — Thomas 8. Lindsey of Yonkers, N. Y., vice president of the Kelly-Springfield Tire Co., died of a heart atlack here last night. He was 55 years old. CHINESE TERRIFIES ARLINGTON BRIDGE - GRADING BIDS OPEN Approach to Cemetery Is Ex- | pected to Be Begun Some Time in Fall. Work on the pretentious approach to |ru.ulhde of bullets over the heads of ' the Arlington Memorial Bridge from | Arlington National Cemetery of the Vir- ginia area will be brought a step nearer when bids are opened soon for the grad- ing work that will form the basis for the memorial avenue. President Hoover and his colleagues on the Arlington Memorial Bridge Com- mission propose to begin the grading work this Fall. Under this phase of the program, 110,000 cubic yards of this will be excavated out of the slope that leads from the Boundary Channel Bridge, now nearing completion on the Virginia shore up to the cemetery. Sev- eral knolls and rises in the land will be cleared away so that the projected avenue will lie on the back of a ridge, | commanding an extensive view. rial avenue so that an easy grade will stretch from the Virginia shore of the Potomac River up to the entrance of Arlington National Cemetery. The Memorial avenue or parkway will be 260 feet wide and will be built west- ward from Boundary Channel to the memorial entrance to Arlington Na- u:lnr Cemetery, inside the present east wi Excavated material from the Virginia slope is to be deposited on Columbia Island so that that wilderness can be transformed into a land of rare beauty in keeping with the plan of the commission sanctioned by the Fine Arts Commission. SLAYER SUSPECT MOVED | BY GEORGIA GUARDSMEN Escaped Colored Convict Taken to County Jail, on Charge of Killing Police Chief. By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, September 16.—John Wil- lie Clark, escaped colored convict, charged with slaying Police Chief Joe Ben Jenkins of Cartersville, was re- moved from that city yesterday to the Fulton County Jail here by National Guardsmen. Guardsmen sent to Cartersville to protect. the colored man were withdrawn on order of Adjt. Gen. Homer C. Parker. They were dispatched there Sunday at the inquest of Cartersville authorities, but encountered no trouble in removing | Clark and two companions said to have | been with him when he killed Jenkins { more than a weck ago. | Clark was captured Sunday | Chattsworth. ~Officers wounded twice in the chase and took him to jail | at Cartersville. near OLD AGRICULTURE BUILDING CORNER STONE IS AMONG MISSING Woreckers Unable to Locate Any Trace of Stone and|Xichen of her home yesterdsy ater- Records Are Being Searched. Missing—a _corner stone, dated 1868. ‘The old Department of Agriculture Building has been torn down, and to the amazement of every one, so far no corner stone can be found. Constructed in 1868 this old building has ever since housed the Secretary of Agriculture, and it was fully expected, when it was torn down there would be found a cornerstone, with perhaps some interesting documents. As the wreckers progressed with the destruction job, however, no corner stone was found, and search began in Government, records, and among old- timers in the department to ver any traces of one. The officlal records were searched. Memories of some of the oldest em- ployes were jogged, but still no clues. So the matter remained today & mys- contractor. ‘The old building, of brick, with its big gilt letters, “Department of Agriculture,” has been entirely torn down and the view | of the magnificent new marble Depart- ment Building is now opened up to the Mall. Only part of the stone founda- tion remains, and contractors say the cornerstone is not among them. ‘The search still is going on, and na- tive Washingtonians whose memory goes back to early days are being asked to see if they can help in finding it. Some persons think it \lnl!ke?y that such an important Government bulld- ing as that to house the Secretary of Agriculture, a member of the Presi- structed without the traditional corner- stone. 1t is proposed to construct the Memo- | CAMPBELL TO CALL ON PISTOL MAKERS TODENY GUN MARK Counsel Reveals Plan to Have Manufacturers Say Bullet Link Is False. GODDARD’S STATEMENT WILL BE ATTACKED Ballistics Expert Declares Slugs From Different Weapons Have Individual Scratches. Plans to introduce testimony by manufacturers that any number of Ppistols might leave the same identifica- tion marks on bullets, were disclosed today by Charles Henry Smith, counsel for Herbert M. Campbell, under indict- ment in the slaying of Mary Baker. Smith declared officials of the Rem- ington Firearms Co., which made the Tevolver owned by Campbell, had agreed to come here to testify for the de- fendant. should he ultimately be re- moved to Washington from the Alex- andria City Jail and placed on trial. The attorney predicted their testimony would figure prominently in the trial. Intricate Details to Be Bared. “These men,” Smith said, “will go into the intricate details of the manu- facture of pistols of the type turned over to the authorities by Campbell. They will explain that machine boring, & process in general use, often results :’nml:xulctflrde\;pll;:lflon of markings on e rom an; D‘;’fli‘»&n y number of ointing to the fact that Campbell’s pistol had been identified by Col. (phlvm Goddard, noted ballistics authority of Northwestern University, as the weapon from which the slugs which killed Miss Baker were fired, Smith declared the manufacturers would take issue with Goddard’s report on the theory that it would be impossible to definitely say any one pistol could have been the weapon which scarred the bullets. Goddard Disputes Maker’s View. Goddard, retained by the Government to examine Campbell’s pistol, based his conclusions on tests consisting of firing other bullets from the revolver and comparing the markings with those on the fatal slugs. He has said the marks left on bullets by different pistols never correspond. Smith added he still believed there was a possibility that he might suc- ceed in blocking Campbell’s removal here for trial at a hearing to be con- ducted in Alexandria Saturday by Federal Judge D. Lawrence Groner of Norfolk. Meanwhile, Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, announced a thor- ough investigation had revealed there was no truth to reports called to the attention of authorities last week that a Colmar Manor automobile salesman knew who killed Miss Baker. He said he had questioned all of the persons involved in the rumors and had ob- tained no information of value. DOWNTOWN STREET CUTTING IS HALTED District Highway Engineer Acts to Aid Christmas Shopping. Capt. Herbert C. Whitchurst, Dis- trict highway engineer, today warned all plumbers, public utility companies and District government cepartments that no permits would be issued in the congested downtown section for work involving cuts to street surfaces, ex- cept that of an emergency nature, be- tween December 1 and January 3. Furthermore, all work in progress by virtue of permits issued before Decem- bhim | tery to departmental officials and to the | s MILAN, Italy, Septe The sculptor Riccardo Ripamon dent's cabinet, would have been con-|here yesterday at the age of near g:x best known works were “‘Jus ber 1, must be hurried along so as to be finished by December 10. ‘The ::‘w:“vu made to free the streets possible entanglements during the Christmas shopping season and the holiday interval immediately afterwards. Many complaints were made to %:g.. ‘Whitehurst last year that it was - cult to enter certain stores on account of telephone wire drums lying on the sidewalk and piles of dirt heaped up :heu underground work was being lone. The number of cuts made in the streets for the underground work showed a substantial reduction during the past fiscal year, due to the policy of co-ordinating the werk and requir- ing permits to be issued from a central office, according to statistics released by the District highway engineer today. During the fiscal year ended June 30, 1929, there were issued 14,381 per- mits for cuts to the various agencies except the Sewer and Water Depart- ments, which did not do their work under permits until last year. The fiscal year ended June 30, 1930, showed the number, including permits issued to the Sewer and Water Departments, reduced to 13,200, a net reduction of 3,870 permits. This reduction was ob- tained in spite of a large increase in the number of permits issued to the Potomac Electric Power Co. for work incident to relaying its power lines to allow it to move its substation cut of the triangle to be occupied by Federal - buildings. VERDI CT OF SUICIDE Deputy Coroner Certies Mrs. Spiv- ock Took Own Lif A certificate of suicide was issued by Deputy Coroner Joseph Rogers in the case of Mrs. Pearl vock, 65 years old, of the 800 block of Delafield place, who was found dead in the gas-filled ‘The body was discovered by her son- in-law, Marxwell Sherman, when he arrived home from work. He sum- moned the Fire Department Rescue ad, which worked over the woman for nearly an hour. Her husband, Morris Spivock, could give police no mo- tive for his wife’s act other than she had been ill for several months. New York Swelters. NEW YORK, September 16 (#).—On the wings of a tardy heat wave, tem- peratures rose in New York today to 80 degress at 10 o'clock (E. 8. T.) The humidity was oppressive, rising to 91. Aged Sculptor D mber 16 (). — it died 81, Tor” and “Waterloo and Cada" -