Evening Star Newspaper, September 26, 1930, Page 17

PROBE IS BEGUN ININJURY OF 21 INBUS ACCIDENT Every Passenger Is Hurt When Car Hits Tree Near Alexandria. > DRIVER AND AGED WOMAN IN CRITICAL CONDITION Blinded by Headlights and Faulty Brakes Are Reasons Advanced as Likely Cause of Crash. Special Dispatch to The ALEXANDRIA, Va., September 26.— An investigation into the cause of the accident at Hybla Valley, three miles south of this city, in which 21 persons were Injured, 12 seriously, late last night, was started by officials of the Richmond Greyhound Lines, Inc., this morning. L. C. Major, Southeastern regional manager of the bus company, ‘who lives here, is in charge of the probe. Eleven of the "~iured persons were still under treatment at the Alexandria Hospital this morning, 2 of them re- ported in a critical condition. Another ‘with serious injuries and 10 others with minor hurts continued their journey Gflt.: after recelving hospital treat- Near Capacity Load. ‘The bus left its terminal in Wash- ington at 10:15 o'clock last night and the crash occurred shortly before 11 o'clock. The vehicle, with a near capacity load, had just traveled over: the Hill, w under construction, and was proceeding ‘when the é-'.fi ;ccurred."" L to accor ‘witnesses. N s 51 from its course hill, the bus failed to take 1 :un:l at the entrance to i, e o section, stood the force impact without even being , Notman Dove, €ity, and Mrs. Wade f New York, who was behind the operator, were most seriously injured. / A score narrowly -escaped death when this bus crashed into a huge oak tree | at Hybla Valley, 3 miles below Alexandria, Va.. last night. bus, including the driver, was hurt. Ten are still patients at the Alexandria Hospital, two in a critical condition, while 11 others were treated and released. The two views show the complete bus of the from the Richmond Greyhound Lines. In the upper pleture, standing, center toward the right, is E. B. Constantine, who, with his son, was first on the scene and aided In conveying the injured to the Alexandria Hospital. @he Foening Stap WASHINGTON, Every person on the | wreckage of the forward part of the r Staff Photos. <% MOVIE TERMS CUT ST OF DRYESTRS 3 ff of nurses were more than two hours tending the in- Neighbors Render First Aid. Mrs. Landon Painter and others of the neighborhood in which the crash occurred rendered first aid, anplying ammonia and aiding those tak-n from the wreck antil they could be taken to E. B. Constantine of . B. Constantine, jr., were when it crashed and were the They removed Mrs. wreck and took her and more seriously hurt to ‘hospital. in the task of conveying 'h:hvkfimm?'to the hospital were W. A. Shaw, Milton E. Davison of Mount Ida, and Lincoln Phillips of 411 Hume avenue, this city. It was Phillips who called police and notified the hospital Fairfax County officers, headed by Capt. Durrer were on the scene soon after the accident, and with Sergt. lawrence Padgett and Patrolmen Cur- tis, McCleary and Elmore of this city took charge of the bt‘l,l ‘tfld the baggage, bich was strewn about. 'Ga\d!l\onl in the interior of the bus showed that almost every seat was torn from the floor. Many of the injured yeceived nose injuries when thrown against the seat in front. Leg in- were also common. Several of the passengers reported they were Thurled ltvern‘ll seats ahead by the force of the collision. Brass Knuckles Found. A touch of humor was injected into the situation by the finding of a pair of brass knuckles and a partially filled pint bottle of what apparently was whisky by the officers who investigated. It was supposed that some of the pas- sengers hastily ridded themselves of these when the accident happened. A list of those injured, with their injuries, follows: jNorm-n Dove, 39, driver of the bus, of Route 5, Alexandria, Va.: fractured skull, chest crushed, severe lacerations; critical. ¥ Mrs. Wade H. Allen, 63, New York: fractured right arm and leg, possible internal injuries; serious. Mrs. Charles Himmler, 42, South Pittsburgh, Va.: lacerations to face and head, body bruises. Elmer Farnsworth, Orlando, Fla.; se- wvere lacerations and bruises. H Modrie Thomas, 27, colored, Marion County, 8. C.: severe lacerations. William Hart, 53, Jacksonville, Fla.; severe cuts. Arthur Murphy, East Boston, Mass.; cuts to face and head. F. C. mammn 50, Herndon, Va.; ons. Davis, 30, Pensacola, Fla.; right leg broken. Qrifin Brooks, colored, Hemmingway, B. C.; severe scalp lacerations and other cuts. Hattie Jefferson, colored, 36, Cen- * tralla, V severe lacerations and ‘bruises. Mrs. Courts Baker, Philadelphia, Pa.; ‘broken nose and lacerations to the right ankle. F. U. Doane. Richmond, Va.; bruised lacerations. Brooks, colored, Columbia, | 8. C.; lacerations. Kenneth Hartsell, Kenwood, W. Va; |at the offices of one of the executives Three Local Picture Houses Reach Agreement With Musicians. Curtailed orchestras in Washington | theaters will be signed up under con- | tract in three local . motion picture houses, as a result of a conference in New York yesterday between the Musi- cians’ Protective Union and executives of the large chain theaters involved in controversy. The arrangement, which constitutes a compromise agreement between the fac- | tions involved, brings to a close a dis- | pute that arose more than a month ago by the refusal of the employers to re- new expiring musicians’ contracts in local houses when they ran out Au- gust 31. Under the terms of the ent, musicians at present in the town theaters will remain.on their jobs for a week, or until the conclusion of the current show week. At that time all but 70 musicians, including 12 or- ganists, will go out. Of these, the Fo: Theater will have an orchestra of 21, which is 14 less i the Palace It but 17 at present, and the Earle will' have 18, which is a reduction of 3 men. In addition, the terms guarantee that | at least 12 organists will have employ- ment in the chain theaters, bringing the total to 70. Wage Scale Unchanged. No alteration in the scale of the remain! musicians be made, it was said by John E. Birdsell, secretary of the union, n his return from the New York conference. The local com- mittee, which was acting with the full authority of the local union, was com- posed of Birdsell, A. C. Hayden, presi- dent, and Richard Ashby. z The number of musicians previously employed in the chain theaters was 107, | leaving 37 out of jobs in another week The fhusicians in independent houses were released September 14 when no agreement could be reached between them and their employers. The conference yesterday was held of the chain of theaters involved. Fox Theaters, Inc, Leow's, R-K-O and Warner Bros. were represented. Sympathy Strike Canceled. ‘While the time phase of the contract was not agreed upon at yesterday's con- ference, it is it will at least be for a year. A draft of the con- tract is being at the New York offices of the Federation of Musicians and will be submitted to the local union shortly, Birdsell said this morning. As a result of the agreement between the musicians and their employers, a proposed sympathy strike of all organ- ized union theater employes, which was scheduled to take effect when the or- chestras were released, has been can- celed. . Hebrew Author to Speak. Samuel H. Setzer, who is author of the book “Rabbi Israel Baal-Shem,” will deliver a lecture in Yiddish at the Jewish Community Center Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock. He will discuss the subject of his book, who was one of the outstanding res of Jewish his- tory and the f ler Chassidism. Benjamin Meiman, who is the Wash- ington correspondent for a Jewish lan- | guage newspaper, will be chairman of | the meeting and will introduce ‘T Setzer. 8. C.; cuts on face and legs. shoulder injuries. De Witt ";;wmmn. Hall River, N.C.; ted fiundon. Brunswick, Ga.; Harry York Oity; $roken nose, to face and legs. Alphonzo Patrick, colored, Columbia, 8. C.; cuts on face and leg. James Britt, colored, Lynchburg, Va.; shoulder dislocated and other hurts. Dove, Mrs. Allen, Murphy, Mrs. Himmler, Farnsworth, M » MUCH COOLER HERE GERTIFICATES GIVEN 10 15 POLICEMEN Proficiency Awards Made for Work at Camp Perry , Training Course. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, tocay presented certificates of proficiency to the 15 members of the Police Department who took the police training course the latter part of August | at the Army’s small-arms firing school, | at Camp Perry, Ohio. All 15 officers | qualified, Capt. Walter G. Layman, di- | rector of the school, reported to Maj. | Pratt. Instruction was given the policemen | in the use of revolvers, tear gas weapons | and machine guns. The proficiency certificates were awarded the Iollowl;z: J. G. Austin, Daniel D. Fletcher, ward J. La Forse, Willlam E. McDuffie, Moore, James F. Phelps, Vance V. Vaughan, Edgar L. Warden, Jess R. | Birch, ut. Lloyd E. Kelly, Henry D. | Larey, Sheldon R. McKee, Walter R. Osrom, Arthur C. Poulson and George R. Walbrodt. Capt. Layman especially commended Moore. TOMORROW FORECAST| Showers Tonight Is Weather nu-i reau Notice Following Yes- terday’s Heat Record. Having watched their ‘recording in- struments touch the highest September temperature levels in 49 years, the Weather Bfireau forecasters found en- couragement today in prospects for cooler weather tonight and “much cooler” weather by tomorrow night. Showers are forecast for tonight, with tomorrow fair, but cooler. Temperatures reached 95 degrees yes- terday at 2:30 o'clock, giving the day the distinction of being the hottest September 25 since 1881. At 11 o'clock | this morning the temperature at the bureau wag 89, compared with 90 at the same hour yesterday. CLAIMS WIFE SEEKS TO GAIN PROPERTY Louis A. Jaffe Appeals to District Supreme Court to Halt His Be- ing Sent to Insane Asylum. | Charging that his wife and daughter are attempting to send him to an in- | sane asylum so that they may retain possession of his rightful property, Louis A, Jafte of the 1400 block of Four- teenth street today asked the District Supreme Court to restrain them from interfering with him. He charges that he gave his wife money to buy the Fourteenth street home, with the understanding that she would convey it to him when he wanted it. Now, he alleges, she refuses to do so. Through Attorney Alvin L. Neumyer, the paintiff asks the court m declare a trust in the property for m. COLORED STOREKEEPER ROBBED BY BOLD PAIR Two daring colored bandits held up Allen Oliver, Fourth street, this morning two revolves {implicated in the forgery of the name | D O, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1930. 8 0TV ENPLOVES ILLBE PROOTED Wage Increases for Per Diem ‘Workers Will Add $345 a Day to Pay Roll. Promotions carrying salary increases will ge granted 89 per diem employes | of the municipal government November | attend CAPITAL BUILDING FAGTS 70 BE GIVEN TWO CONVENTIONS Col. Grant Authorizes Four Assistants to Attend Na- tional Meetings. EXECUTIVES OF PARKS PLAN 5-DAY SESSION Capt. E. N. Chisolm, Jr., to Go to Gathering of Society of Civil Engineers. ‘The progress of building up the Na- tional Capital will be brought to the attention of two national conventions to be held in St. Louis., Mo., the end of this month and early next. Lieut. Cok U. 8. Grant, 3d, vice chairman and executive officer of the National Cap- ital Park and Planning Commission, to- day authorized four of his assistants to the national conventions and advise them of the beautification pro- gram here. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., the com- mission’s engineer, will attend the con- vention of the American Society of Civil Engineers, which is to_meet at St. Louis October 1 to 5. Frank T, Gartside, chief of the park division of the Office of Public Buildings and Pub- lic Parks, and C. L. Wirth, landscape architect for the commission, will at- tend the convention of park executives beginning next Monday and continu- ing for five days at St. Louis. The commission expects to keep abreast of park developments throughout the coun- try by this means and to acquaint park | executives elsewhere with what Wash- ington is doing. A. Clyde-Burton, assistant chief of 1 under a schedule worked out today by the Wage Board of the District of | Columbia, ~ These 89 workers were | among 746 who did not receive pay | increases July 1 last when 2,049 of the | per diem workers were promoted. | The salary increases will amount to 24 cents a day for employes Feceiving | more than $640 a day and 16 cents | a day for those receiving less than $6.40. | District’s per diem pay roll. The 746 employes who were not pro- | moted July 1 last had not been on the pay roll for six months. The 89 to get the increases November 1 will have been employed for the necessary six- month period. The remainder of this group will automatically be promoted as soon as their service has reached a period of six months. WOMAN BROUGHT HERE ON FORGERY CHARGE| Mrs. Blanche Virginia Kinlock, 33 years old, said to have resided at a | leading hotel here under the name of | Virginia Hamilton, was brought here from Philadelphia yesterday to answer a charge of forgery. She .is said by members of the police check squad to have admitted her guilt and to have said she had engaged in similar trans- actions elsewhere. Her husband, Ray Hamilton Kinlock, former New York bank employe, was arrested several days ago by local po- lice and committed to jail in default of $5,000 bail on a forgery charge. It is alleged that husband and wife were of John Watson Dwight, wealthy New | Yorker, to a check for $780. The check was deposited in a local bank to the wife’s account and was drawn upon to its full amount, having been passed upon by a New York bank | as genuine. It was not until Dwight received the check with his monthly statement that the forgery was detect- ed. . Mrs. Kinlock was photographed and fingerprinted today and tomorrow she | will be arraigned in Police Court. OPINION R Power Commission's Authority Re- stricted to Features of Navigation. Attorney General Mitchell gave the Power Commission today a Justice De- partment opinion that its authority over hydro-electric projects on non- navigable tributaries of navigable streams was restricted to such features as relate to navigation only. The decision_sald “the commission is conditions (except the 50-year limita- tion upon the terms of the license) which, in its judgments, are not neces- sary or appropriate to fully utilize the waters of the tributary in the protection or development of navigation on naviga- ble waters into which such tributary empties.” The decision will end the practice of the commission to include in the license | aid | The increases will add $345 a day to the | W not required to insert in a license any | the park division of Col, Grant's office, who is in close touch with recreational activities in the city, will attend the convention of the National Recreational Association at Atlantic City, beginning October 5. Col. Grant anticipates that his aldés will glean much valuable information from attending thess conventions, to in the progressive expansion of Washington, Y.W.C. A. CONFERENCE AT KAMP KAHLER Final Sessions Will Be Held in Washington Monday After- noon and Evening. ‘The 1930 Fall setting-up conference of the Young Women's Christian Asso- ciation will open tomorrow at Kamp Kahlert, Md.,, where sessions will con- tinue through Sunday afternoon. The final sessions will take place in this city Monday afternoon and evening, the closing event being the annual Fall dinner of the association for staff and volunteer workers in this city. Saturday'’s program at Kamp Kahlert, which will be attended by a large group of officials and members of the local staff, will open with an hour of wor- ship, to be led by Miss Hettie P. Ander- son, general secretary of the Washing- ton association, followed by a talk, “Peaks to Scale,” by Mrs. Thomas Ed- win Brown, president of the Y. W. C. A. board of directors, and “World Out. look,” to be discussed by Mrs. Harry E. Franz, Miss Tania Stadnichenko gnd Miss Heloise Brainard. Pabst, secretary of the business and professional women's department, speak on “Convention Actions,” ‘That Stand.” On Sunday Mrs. Irving W. Ketchum, secretary of the general education de- partment, Y. W. C. A, will address the assembly, and Miss Mary M. Burnett, the newly installed music secretary, will conduct a music service of worship. ‘The Sunday afternoon session will be featured by a talk by Miss Eleanor Richardson, general secretary of the Baltimore Y. W. C. A. ‘The delegates to the Kamp Kahlert sessions will return to the city late Sunday afternoon. | CHARGES ABANDONMENT By & Staft Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., Septefn- | ber 26.—Accusing her husband of | abandonment, Mrs. Helen A. Halloran, | 18 Wine avenue, Hyattsville, has filed suit in Circuit Court here for a di- | vorce from Matthew Valentine Hal- | loran, also of Hyattsville. Through Attorney €. Marvin Peach, the wife tells the court her husband left her about September 14, 1927. The couple were married in Hyattsville June for a project on a non-navigable tribu- tdry all the conditions of the act ap- plicable to projects in navigable waters. Seminary of Holy. 3 , odrie Thomas, Davis and Moull still Pprtients at the hospital Ia hz. drawer India by the Holy Brother Theodore (left) of Hazleton, Ga., and Seattle, Wash., last night were tendered a farewell at the F Brookland. The fwo missionaries are Foreign Mission Society, the only Catholic foreign mis- | was sion organization in eity. They sail from New York tomorrow. and 25, 1921, and have one child. Mrs. Hal- loran asks the permanent custody of the child. | MISSIONARIES INDIA BOUND ’ Rev. Edward Massart of to Miss Bertha | will | and | | Dr. Grace G. Purse on “Foundations | TAKE REINS OF SORORITY l front: Mrs. Peggy Gertrude Campbell, vice president. Back row, left to right: Mrs. Gertrude Norris, corres) Mrs. Betty Clagett, sergeant at arms, secretary. Newly elected officers of the Alpha Chapter of Beta-Chi. Left to right, Raynor, treasurer; Mrs. Mable Campbell, president, and Mrs. ponding secretary; and Miss Margaret Dougherty, recording —Star Staff Photo. LINDY BUST FUND DONORS WARNED Better Business Bureau Asks Investigation of Testi- ~ monial Move. The Better Business Bureau of Wash- ington has advised its members not to contribute funds to what is known as the Lindbergh Testimonial Committee before investigating the purpose and foundation for these contributions, Louls | Rothschild, director, announced today. Investigation by ‘the bureau, it was reported at the bureau, disclosed that the Lindbergh Testimonial Committee, with John W. Cunningham of Suite 800, the Woodward Building, as its ex- | ecutive secretary, sent out a circular | letter to a number of prominent Wash- | ingtonians, “cordially inviting them to serve as a member of the Executive Committee at the presentation by this organization of a life-size bronze bust of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh to the Smithsonian Institution of Washing- ton at a date to be announced later.” The investigation, it was added, dis- closed that the name of Senator Claude A. Swanson of Virginia, a Smithsonian regent, was used in the letter, men- tiol him a schairman of the com- mittee which wquld make the presen- tation to the itution. At the office of Senator Swanson it was learned the Senator had ordered his name with- drawn entirely from the affair, Taken Up With Abbott. ‘The matter was submitted to him, it was sald, and he in turn took it up with Dr. Charles G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian. Dr. Abbott said he had not com- municated with Cunningham and had written to Senator Swanson that he knew nothing of the project. If such a presentation were planned, Dr. Abbott, said, the proper procedure woulé be first to obtain the consent of Col. Lindbergh, and he said that as far as he knew Col. Lindbergh was igno- rant of the project. ‘The circular letter, carrying Cun- ningham’s name and address, read in | part: | " “An invitation to participate in this event is being extended to a limited number of prominent citizens, whom to make a contribution to defray the {cost of the undertaking, which cost will amount to approximately $5,000, o be pro-rate¢: among 25 to 30 mem- bers of the Executive Committee. An appropriate inscription will be inscribed upon & plate which will be affixed to the bust, commemorating the date and the occasion. Plans for Big Events .“The committee plans to have the presentation ceremony attended by notables from every walk of life and to make it an outstanding event of the year. Your presence and hearty co-operation are respectfully and ur- gently requested in order to make this undertaking a memorable occasion, one appropriate and fitting to the character and attainments of the person whose likeness will be presented to the in- stitution now possessing the airplane in which he flew to glory.” Cunningham, a man of about 45 years, asserted today that he had been misrepresented and that publication of correspondence, which he intended to bring about, would “clear the mat- ter_up.” Cunifingham said he had a quantity of correspondence from Senator Swan- son, including letters quoting Dr. Ab- bott, all of which would prove that the project was in good taste. The re- sponse from persons to whom letters had been sent was “most favorable,” he said. He added that contributions had been received, but declined to name the amount. Cunningham sald that the basis of his idea for a Lindbergh memorial was a novel camera, which photographs with such faithfulness that it is easy for a sculptor to make a bust or statue from the photograph. The Lindbergh bust, he said, was fashioned by a Chi- cago man. WIFE ALLEG.ED THREATS Mrs. Atlia A. Seymour Sues for Limited Divorce. Charging that her husband pointed & gun at her and threatened to shoot her on at least two occasions, Atlia A. Seymour today asked the District Su- preme Court to grant her a limited divorce from her husband, Willlam S. Seymour of the 600 block of Ninth street. A correspondent is named. The plaintiff says they were married Septem 11, 1928, and separated in January, 1929, when, the wife says, she could no longer stand her husband’s conduct. Attorney Henry M. Fowler ap- pears for the wife. Alleges Assault. Miss Fern Myers, 4300 block of EIll- cott street, filed suit in the District Su- preme Court yesterday for $25,000 dam~ ages against Wilson Greenlee of the 5500 block of Thirty-ninth stree. north- west, alleging that she had been as- saulted on September 27, 1929, near Bethesda, Md. The plaintiff, through Attorney James T. Crouch, alle that the assault was committed aga her will and without provocation and that news of the assault was circu- lated her friends and that she bruised, humiliated 6° the sponsors of this project are asking | DAVISON T0 STUDY CODE OBJECTIONS Will Get Builders’ Request to Modify Refrigerator In- stallation Rules. Complaint of the Operative Builders’ Association that the District code for installation of refrigerating machines contains “practical difficulties” hinder- ing compliance with its provisions, will be referred to Assistant Engineer Com- missioner Donald A. Davison, who is studying an earlier complaint, made by manufacturers of one machine, it was announced today by Maj. John C. Got- wals, -Engineer Commissioner. co;['ha builders seek revision of the e. Maj. Gotwals, who as District En- gineer Commissioner would be the log- ical one to initiate any change in the law if he saw fit, said he was not familiar with the situation, as the public hearings held on the subject took place before he was assigned to his present post. He will await Maj. x;.vmm'u‘ report, umthe htt«: eno:‘ charge of preparing the presen e and is familiar with it. Maj. Davison said today the same objections now being made to the code as it relates to mutiple unit installa- tions were made at the public hearing, but that the Commissioners decided the interests of public safety required ex- treme strictless in guarding dwellers of apartment houses from poisonous gases used as refrigerants. The sub- }ect m lnmhue.‘:‘eqmrlnl two tubes or_c: e refrigerant gases, one inside the other, Maj. Dfl{mn said, was one of the cardinal features of the code, and he would be strongly opposed to l.;ny nwdlg:utinn e said it Wi n_ has the model code of mm to govern refrigerating devices, and that it should :e maintained with all possible strict- ess. Maj. Davison admitted that some in- stallations mace since July 1, when the code became effective, do not comply with the provisions of the code. This is because, he said, plans for those in- stallations were already on file before July 1, and the passage of the code could not affect them. The provisions of the code will be rigidly enforced on all installations the plans for which were filed July 1 or after, he said. RIDING HEI..D CAUSE OF FAT MIDDLE AGE Walking Would Prevent Corpulent Waistlines, Says Kiwanis Club Speaker. Corpulent waistlines, feared and la- mented by the middle aged of both sexes, are entirely due to the modern tendency to ride rather than walk, Wil- liam C. Green, former international Vvice president of the Kiwanis Club, said in an address yesterday at the annual ladies’ day luncheon held at the Hotel glluubhington by the Washington Kiwanis Mr. Green, an attorney from Minne- apolis, Minn,, is temporarily in Wash- James B. Edmunds, president of the club, presided. The luncheon was given in honor of the wives, sisters and woman members of families of Kiwanis, and a large number attended. A gift was presented to each. Sidney's Mayflower Orchestra presented several musical se- lections and two numbers were sung by William F. Raymond, tenor. A silver cup was presented to Vincent Callahan by the Kiwanis bachelors in honor of the newly arrived member of the Callahan family. “Y” OFFICIALS ASK HUNT FOR FRED R. WHISTON Young Man Left Emergency Hos- pital, but Did Not Return to Association Building. A pajama-clad youth who stalked out of Emergency Hospital Wednesday afternoon, presumably to return to his roan;“ns thenlfi{é . C. A.,u\‘vn being sought by pol ay at the request of “Y” officlals, who reported that no word had been heard of him since he left the hospital. ‘The lad is Fred R. Whiston, 20 years old, of Beechhurst, L. I, who checked in at the Y. M. C. A. on Tuesday. Whiston walked to Emergency Hos- pital on Wednesday to receive treat- ment for an infected toe. He was clad only in a pajama coat, brown trousers and shoes without socks. A check-up made by Paul L. Brindle, associate business secretary of the Y. M. C. A, showed that the youth had re- ceived’ hospital treatment and left the institution soon ird saying he was going bagk to hi He never returned. A search of Whiston’s room riealed $17 in cash, a quantity of new cloghing and letters iden! .be PAGE B-1 CONTRACT 1S LET FOR POLICE RADIO TRANSMITTING SET Bids for Receiving Equip- ment Will Be Examined on October 10.. LATEST TYPE APPARATUS CALLED FOR IN PLANS Service, Covering Territory Within 50 Miles of Capital, Will Start Late in November. Definite steps for establishment of the Metropolitan Police Department's radio broadcasting service were taken today with the award of a contract for the transmitting equipment. Bids for the receiving sets are to be opened October 10. The plans and specifications call for the latest type of transmitting and re- cetving apparatus, which will give the ‘Washington Police Dv&an.mem the most modern broadeasting equipment of any used by the various police de- partments throughout the country. The transmitter will be placed in the tenth precinct station house, and all broadcasting will be done by remote control from the department's broad- casting studio in the Walker Building, at 463 Louisiana avenue, where police headquarters is now located. The sta- tion will transmit on the special police short-wave channel of 2,410 kilocycles frequency with a power of 300 watts, The call letters will be WPDW, 16 Cars to Have Sets, Recelving sets, tuned to the broad- casting station, will be installed in 16 police cars, one in each of the fourteen precincts, and the other two in ma- chines assigned at headquarters. Police detailed to these cars will be in con- stant communication with headquarters, 8ix all-electric stationary receivers also are to be placed at strategic points in nearby Maryland and Virginia for the use of police officials in these sec- tions who have promised to co-operate 3 sets in police * head- quarters in Fredericksburg, Va.; Arling- ton County, ,Va.; Marlboro, Annapolis, Rockville and Laurel, Md. With recelving sets located at these points the Washington Police Depart- ment will cover territory within a radius of 50 miles of Washington, enabling it to call upon the assistance of police in these sections to ald in the search for criminals who escape from the District. Service Starts in November. Establishment of the broa: service has been wud in em James L. Kelly, who designed the en- tire system and made arrangements for the co-operation of police unaommmnu in d and Vi ia. gress ap] u;x:{ud $18,500 for the equipment, ns have been made to start the broadcast service the latter part of No~ vember. The station will be in tion continuously. Radio has been used in police work in Detroit, Chicago and Cleveland for & number of years. At the present time 40 police departments scattered from coast to coast have adopted radio as an auxiliary in, police work. St YOUTH IS ARRESTED WHEN MOTHER DIES Colored Prisoner Returned Home on Hearing News—Accused of Store Robbery. David Alonzo Robinson, colored, 15 years old, of 2318 M street, who eluded police for three days, risked a chance of arrest this morning and came home when he learned his mother had died. He got no further than the doorstep, however, before detectives arrested him. David, police said, went into hiding after he is alleged to have robbed the store of James Hayes, 3320 M street, on two occasions. He also is said by police to have stolen & bicycle and disposed of it by tossing it into the Potomac River. Police are fishing for the bicycle now. When detectives learned of the death of the boy's mother, they stationed themselves in front of his home. David soon arrived at the house and was taken to the nearest precinct. DETECTIVE'S HAND CUT WHEN BOTTLE EXPLODES Charles H. Warder Was Carrying Confiscated Beer to Auto—Colored Man Is Arrested. Detective Charles H. Warder of the police vice detail, suffered a severe cut of the left hand yesterday afternoon when one of the several bottles of beer he had just confiscated in a raid ex- ploded in his hand as he was carrying it to a waiting police car. Warder was removed to Casualty Hospital by & fellow officer, R. A. Wil- liams, where one stitch was taken by Dr. Joseph D. Rogers to close the wound. Booker T. Hunter, colored, 30 years old, of 4443 A street southeast, was ar- rested in the rald and charged with illegal possession of’ the beer. MAN FINED F.OR CURSING AND DRIVING WIFE OUT Joseph L. Neeley Also Accused of Striking Brother-in-Law in Home. Accused of striking his brother-in- law and cursing his wite, Joseph L. Neeley, 35 years old, 1400 block of I street southeast, was ordered to pay fines of $30 or serve 30 days by Judge g‘ul A. Schuldt in Police Court to- y. ‘The man became angry with his wife and her brother immediately after re turning home from work last night. He struck the brother, Mark I. Win- rh. and drove the woman and chil- iren from the house in their night clothes, the court was told. . AID IN VOTING BY MAIL | Residents of the District vote in West Virginia may ewm‘ sistance in casting thetr ballos in m:‘a‘mw:“wéi mnsmlu,mofln Mr. Gall is an in of A