Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1930, Page 17

i ‘ - BEING T00 LIBERAL Most of Di;t—rict—T;rown Open; to Peddiers for Half- Hour Periods. 'COMPETITION IS HELD UNFAIR TO MERCHANTS Established Business Houses Con- sider Placing Pushcarts in Use to Meet Situation. The taxicab war which has sent a host of gaudy-colored cabs scooting ! about Washington under cut rates of | fare will pale into insignificance in the | Jight of what can and may be done| under the new street ven fon | recently adopted by the D: e missioners permitting itinerant peddlers to sell their wares for a half hour at| one time in most of the District area This warning was sounded tcday by ;o less authority than Ringgold Hart.| former assistant corporation counsel of the District, d e more stringent street vend regula.ion which was replaced recentiy by the new | and more lenient ordinance | Mr. Hart, now acting as counsel for | & number ' of established local mer- chants, today told The new regulation, permitting sireet vend- ers to sell their wares on the public " highways for a half hour at a time| i Jocation, would throw the Dis- | irtuaily wide open” to such oper- | ations by sales organizations which need | have no local retail establishment, and | thereby pay no rent or taxes by which | the local government would benefit, Brewinz Two Years. Debate and contenti r the street | vending regulation h: wing for | about two years and t to break | into public limelight since some local | merehants, having retail establishments, | are known to be seriously contemplat- | ing meeling out-of-town competition, | which employs intinerant peddlers, with *“medicine of their own prescription.” “Local merchants of the established character, whom I represent, do not want this situation to develop,” Mr. Hart declare t if the new regula- | tion is permitted to stand it throws virtually the whole town open to sales | by itinerant peddlers for a wide scale | of wares, and local merchants may be compelled to resort to the same sort of selling in order to meet competitio Mr, Hart said certain organizations here, now paying high rent or high | taxes for their retail establishments, were on the verge of adopting this plan unless relief is granted from such “un- fair competition.” Further, it was pointed out, even if the local established merchants did not supplement their regular merchandis- ing with push-cart venders, the town still woulc: be left wide open to any number of out-of-town street vending organizations, which could clutter up the strects with their push carts. “Leniency” Ts Attacked. Mr. Hart, in attacking the “leniency” of the new regulation, declared that it 18 possible, and not at ail improbable, that, unless a more rigid regulation i put into{ orce, street venders would seize upon. the opportunity to place their push carts in streets before | many of the most fashionable residences in Washington, park there for a half hour, then move to another location equally prominent, stay there for a half hour, and then return to the first loca- tion. Such venders, Mr. Hart said, could| gell most anything, from shoestrings,| bananas, collar butions, silk_stockings, knives monkey-wrenches and whatnot, all from push carts parked in front of palatial homes, even in the most re stricted bonton sections of Washington Such a situation, the former cor- poration cot said, would be de- plorable. ““It would be worse the current taxicab war | The whole situation could be avoided he said, by adopting a more stringen regulation, which, whi put pushcart venders out , would restrict _the degree that would not cl Washington with their same time would end tion with local me: the District Gov taxes. on ov competi- nts who support t with their Old Regulation Favored Under the old regulati merchants ask be &gain p itinerant peddlers sell in certain lowed to stop lo places to make a by a customer. The Merchants ¢ soclation du protested to i Tegulation was be Police were se: law and v lateral. When to have c i h local | . local reta The n prohibiting t cart the result, | ers to park and on to park for a all other strect WARNED ON I'MPEDING Miss Mary Stuart Birdsall (left), Jack Day and Miss Betly de Beauvias Star that the Richards rehearsing a scene from “The Rivals,” which will be one of the many | | tractions during the Arts Club's Pot Boilers’ Fair here October 16, 17 and 18. D. . KINDERGARTEN PLAN HELD ‘MESSY' H. L. Gilligan Makes State- ment at Meeting of Board | of Education. Although 2t no time up for formal consideration at the meeting of the Board of Education late yesterday, the pending reorganization of the kinds gartens projected itself into the pro- ceedings long enough to be characterized the messiest thing I ever saw in my life” by Henry L. Gilligan. Officially, the Loard postponed serious consideration cf the problem until its meeting October 15, agreeing, in the interim, to study the plan of the superintendent of schools as outlined | in the report Dr. Frank W. Ballou pre- sented to it yesterday. | The second meeting of the school| board of the year witnessed the reversal of Miss E. A. Hummer, supervising' principal of the seventh division and her | associates, in the rating she had given | & young teacher for her last year's work. Miss Alice Morgan, the teach who last year in ted & pre-pr class in the T SC 1 rated as unsa from receiving a_permanent appoi ment this year. Following her apr to the board, howev ¢ hearing of case was_conducted b the board in which it developed that Miss Morgan had been denied the proper supervision to which she was entitled and that the unsatisfactory rat. given her despite the testimony of Miss H. M. Knighton, her principal, that I work had become entirely satisfact near the close of the last school vea The board's reversal gives Miss Morgan a satisfactory rating and assures her of permanent appointment in the school syst-m. Urges Kindergarten Close. \dergarten problem was f mmanded ing | & dicaing under- : of the class. Ballou explained that the earlier meeting when, in accordance with what he leved were the desires of the agress conferees he recommended the abandonment of all underage kinder- d_that rel f bster continuance in kindergarten s testimony ained to ref for its closi n became aroused immediatel e wanted it knovn that th r kindergarten Las been and tha! the re- xplained Disagreement Over Teachers. » kindergartens cropped out ANACOSTIA NAVIGATION |, ractors Told Prosecutions Will Into Streams. Office said tc that this is ille be undertaken Maj. Joseph D engineer fo the Washingto ir., civil engigeer, Jurisdiction over t declared toda on: stones and earth into the iver or any other similar water are liable to incur pena der the river and harbor act of 1898. Persons dumping this earth have ex- ceeded the bulkhead line at Buzzards Point, which is marked by a seawall on ~the shore line and is the point set by the engineers as the limit of safety for navigation. Contractors ana others have been distributing earth along 1,500 yards in this sres. In warning the Anacostia zed to consult pro- GAS RATE APPEAL ARRIVES 700 LATE Plea to Delay Approval of New Schedules Received by Commission. The Public Utilities Commission has been asked by Joseph W. Cheney, of 2615 Myrtle avenue northeast, to post- pone indefinitely approval of the new rates for gas in the District, which be- came effective yesterday. The com- mission, however, had already given approval to the rates. The letter | petitioning for the postponement asked for a hearing September 29, but it was not received by the commission until September 29, and it was impos- sible to comply with Mr. Cheney's re- quest, Mr. Cheney, who is a compositor in | the Government Printing Office, makes the point that the cent minimum charge is discriminatory against the small consumers, among whom he lists himself, in that' when their consump- tion in any month is less than 750 ic feet the rate at which they are g charged is higher than 90 cents 1,000 “cubic feet which is the rate for domestic consumption, was a Teport at the District he effect that Mr. Cheney ntemplated court action to compel a revision of the rates. This could not be confirmed today. A telephone call | was made put in for Mr. Cheney, but | er the rules of the printing establish- ment, he was not allowed to recetve it. e per P MARINE OFFICER HljRT WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO ht Stitches ‘Wound on Ricahrd al Dispaten to ANDRIA, chard H. Required to Close Head of Capt. H. Jeschke. The Star. a., October Jeschke, well known a member of the iantico Marines, a serious scalp wound last en he is said to have been struck by an automobile near the Army, ne Club, in Arlington | He was brought to the Alex- | R. Custer of | andria ~ Hospital by J. Lorton, Va., st who struck him. were _tequired to nd in Jeschki scalp. Following his release from the hospital, Jeschke was taken into cus tody by local police and later |over to Arlington County author vho released him after brief questi ing. He told police that he could not remember what had happened to him. Custer reported the accident to Ar- lington County authorities and also to local police. He said that Jeschke wandered out into the road in the path of his ¢ Eight local In lowed, it was there are no there are eligible pe tions already in th in reality, the el duates do take as long ns’ for the posi- service and that le normal cedence over all other classes of candidates who never have been in the school system. The School Board approved the tui- tes for non-resident pupils at ng also. These rates, with the increase or decrease over la: s _costs, foll .78, hools, 5.52 junior high schools, $15.40; elementary increase of schools, $69.68, de- crease of $1.84 ectal schools, $93.78, close the | turned | school | | pervisors, |ect and th | cie decrease of $2.06; vocational school $133.68, & decrease of $23.46, and nig! schools, $10.36, decrease of 54 cents, The question of the school system's right to supply free ext books to night school pupils was considered on recom- mendation of Dr. Ballou. The super- intendent pointed out that this que ) first-grade work into those vacan- | tion had not been brought out before already have been made public. | and indicated that 1f night schools The board sccepted the report for study | Were to receive free text books in- until the October 15 meet | sufficient funds probably would be At this point, however, Mr. Gilligan | found. Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president ed Ballou on the transier of f of the board, suggested that he and 1d, third and fourth grade teachers | Mr. Gilligan, lawyer members of the | to vacancies in the fifth and six grad pointing out that normal school gradu- | If it can be consirued the night pupils ates, even those first on the eligible list, | are entitled to the books, he sald a were receiving no appointments. He | supplemental estimate will be forwarded developed the fact that this was part |to Congress. ¢ of the general shifting of teachers| Two colored teachers were given pe necessitated by the transfer of kinder- 'mission to engage in chiropractic wor garten teachers to grade work. | after school by the board yesterday “Honestly, I think this is the messiest | At the same time the Personnel Com- The cor including the pri- the various teacher ndent's con- s Teport, rity schedule of didates, the superin rence with Frank H. Stevens, assistant corporation counsel, and the genewl shif of teachers in the service 1o | ¢ only those prof ally eligible to te | Charge, Along With One for Reck- board, would study the bill for a ruling. | thing I ever saw in my life retorted with evident bitterness. “And it's all because some of our wonderful legislators up on Capitol Hill think they know more about kincergartens than our own educational experts do!” Continuing, Gilligan asserted his be- Hief that normal school graduates, who ic of this illegal practice, Ma). Ar- El;l\:,ll'clnd Mr. Merrick say they desire to have this practice stopped before further damage is done, and promise @sosecutions if necessary. completed their work when the law af- forded them priority over outside can. didates for teaching positions, should be given first consideration pver every- " Gilligan | mittee was instructed to study the situ- | | transfer of four of the portable schools ation in general wih a view to adopt- ing a policy forbidding teachers to en- gage in other professions in their spare time. ‘The Board of Education ordered the which have been in service at the Park FIRM ORGANIZING HERE 70 INSURE TEETOTALERS ONLY Group of Capital Prohibition Followers Base Plan on Experience of Britons. NON-DRINKER IS HELD BETTER POLICY RISK| $100,000 Stock Subscriptions Al-| ready in Hand—Company Is Ready | to Incorporate in District. Working on the theory that a man| who doesn’t drink is a better life in- surance risk than the man who does, ! a group of men prominently identified | with the prohibition the | Capital and in othe! the | country have formed an or n committee for an innovatio the American insurance field, the “American | Temperance Life Insurar of the District of Columbia.” Under the present plans of the co poration, s described by its founders | as ready now for incorporati e | and which, it is expected, will | selling life insurance policies to tee- totalers only within a short while, Stock Being Sold. | Stock is being sold throughout the} country, its founders stated today, ap- proximately $100,000 having been sub scribed to date, more than enoug incorporate. with a capital $500,000 in the District. Jerry A. Mathews, local attorney, member of the committee of 12 m sponsoring the organization, both fi ancially and morally, today said each | of the members of the Organization Committee has subscribed $1,000 toward perfecting the organization and getting the company on its feet, the money. to be returned to them in the form of stock later. Stock is being sold at pres- ent through a “wholesale mail cam- paign,” he said, but “later we expect to put agents into the field to dispose | of the stock.” Seek $1,000,000 Capit Mr. Mathews said the goal concern at present is a capitalization of $1,000,000. Applications are in hand for more than $1,000,000 in insurance, | he declared, all ‘of them su course, to refusal for various reason Othér members of the organ committee are Edwin C. Din superintendent of the National Tem- perance Bureau and affiliated with a large number of prohilition organiza tions; Representative Homer W. Hall Illinis; Rev. A. J. Barton, president of the National Conference of Organiz tions Supporting the Eigh Amendment; Representa Lo McFadden of Pennsylvania, chairman | of the House Banking Committee; As- | sistant Secretary of Agriculture Renick W. Dunlap of Ohio; Dr. Everett M. E lison, practicing physician here; Walter C. Balderston, loc M. Kile, Washix economist; Arthur G. McCall, chi soil investigations, Bureau of Che and Soils, Department of Agric and William E. Mooney, local tractor and builde oups in jons of e Co ton, _agricul con- rning explained | I nization is based upon the experience of British life un- derwriters, who have, he said, that the abstainer from alcoholic erages is a better non-abstainer, a condition adds, has caused the life insurance r for the non-abstainer to be higher than that for the abstainer. TO BE APPRAISER Will Serve With Arlington Coun-| ty Appointee on Parkway Project. Charles W. Eliot ning of the Nat al Park and Planning Commission, or Capt. Chisolm, jr. engineer, will commission’s _ representative board of appraisal to serve Arlington Cou Va. Board of Su-| in development, of the ! George Washin: Memorial Parkway. | Licut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, vice| chairman and executive officer of ector of plan- N be the on the| with the the commission, explained today that he will confer with his two associates and | determine which can handle the post the better. Eliot has been ill recently and Capt. Chisolm is in St.. Louis attending the convention of the American Society of , Civil Engineers Upon his return to the city Col. Grant will call a conference and discuss the situations 1 th Mr. Eliot and C: Chisolm | have been actively engaged in prep ation of plans for the George Wash- ington Memorial Parkway, which will | be on both southward for several miles from Gre Falls. ‘The shoreline of Arlingtc County ‘is to be included in tk board of appraisal discuss iand values relative te th gram. The Arlington County, and that of Col. Grant Va., app choc 1 | third man to serve on the board. |DRIVER TO FACE COURT ON SMOKE SCREEN COUNT| less Driving, Follows Five- Mile Chase. Charles S. Lee, colored, 26 years ol of 338 W street, was scheduled for a raignment in Police 3 swer to charges of re driving and operating a smoke screen, h- were filed against him by Motor Cycle Po- licemen R. E. Burton and C. L. Smith of the Traffic Bureau, following a 5-mile chase early yesterday. Lee was taken into custody last night on a warrant sworn out for his arrest by Burton and Smith after the colored man is said to have eluded capture | twice, forcing the officers to abandon their pursuft of his machine by using a smoke screen. The two policemen picked up Lee's trail, they said, after he had_ escaped the first time and were again forced to| halt their motor cycles to avoid wreek- ing them when a second smoke screen | was laid down. The chase, sometimes reaching & speed of more than 60 miles an hour, View chool to the preperty officer of the | the officers said, was waged over Con- District for final disposal, thus removing 'necticut, Georgia and New them for all time from the scope of use avenues. 'as class rooms. The reckless driving chin ' said to be “he secopd piaced againj LEADERS Division majors of a membership campaign launched by the Washington Chamber of Commerce include those Standing are (left to right)) H. A. Brooks and Darrell P. Aub, while seated are (left to right) Ernest shown above. J. Spitzer, George E. Keneipp and Mrs. Marie C. Rogers, OF CHAMBER MEMBERSHIP CAMPAIGN —Star Staff Photo. [GIRL FOILS ESCORT’S £, 0F C. APPOINTS [ | SUICIDE ON AUTO<RIDE | ported yesterds | a guest at the | Bottle Struck From Hands of John | GRU“P FUR DRIVEJ‘ 7. Long by Miss Rose Mangan. | | Who Drives to Hospital. 1 Apparently despondent, John J. Long, years old, of 1238 Twentleth street, attempted to end his life last night by | drinking a portion of the contents of a bottle of poison while on an automo- | :bile ride with Miss Rose Mangan, 23, of 2400 Thirteenth street, according to | |pol:ce. Miss Mangan told police they | The Washington Chamber of Com- | were driving in the Northwest section merce, now formulating plans for a|of the city when Long drew a bottle five-year expansion program, has select- gf_mlmi:an ég’em :;:; sr}"ock!tt n:d“b;sw £ & group of eEbENE ke, | his hands before he comld drain. the Thomas P. Littlepage was chosen col- contents, police said. 1 onel of the team organization, with Ed- Miss Mangan drove Long to Walter Thomas P. Littlepage Colonel of Team Having 4 Majors | and 24 Captains. | ward Doring Bliss as lieutenant colonel | Reed Hospital, where he was giver | first-ald treatment and dismissed. SMITH RECEIVER HEARING DELAYED ations, divided into four | be directed by the four g majors: H. A. Brooks, George p, Ernest J. Spitzer and Dar- r Each major will be as- sisted by six team captains. The four majors and 24 team captains | will hold a luncheon meeting tomorrow | at noon in the Willard Hotel to consider | immediate expansion steps. Rudolph Jose, chairman of the general cam- paign, will be the guest of honor. | ac |Attorneys for Company Noti- TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS fy Wilmington Court They HURT 3 SLIGHTLY Need until October 17. Mrs. Eleanor M. Scarborough Lac-' ne hearing of an application for ! temporary receiver for the F. H. erated About Head in Auto- i sy g originally set for this F in Wilmington, Del., has been post- Truck Crash. = | poned until October 17 at the request | of attorneys for the com who ad- | vised the court they could not be ready Minor cuts and bruises were suffered | to proceed with their case before that three persons in traffic accidents re- | date. afternoon. Representative Alan T. Goldsborough Mrs. Eleanor M. Scarborough, 60 |of Maryland, who represents James E. years old, of the 1700 block Seventce Thompson of Church Hill, Md.. an in- | Teet, received lacerations of the head | tervening petitioner, said attorne: when a truck collided with her auto- |the plaintiffs consented to the post- mobile at Seventeenth and K streets. | ponement with the understanding that | She was given first ald treatment at|the case would not be heard on that| Emergency Hospital and dismissed. date If the trial of criminal charges Police reported the truck- was oper gainst officials of the company should ated by Robert Morris, colored, 36, under way in Washington at that t 1000 block Th t street Mr. Goldsborough said the pe- ther ¢ was held by_police. itloners expect to call several men Heinz My New Yorker, | from the Department of Justice as A., Was | witnesses, and that they will not be cvcle | available if the criminal trial is on. I ith an-aut driven by | The petition for receiver rests on il E. Howard of 2612 Myrtle avenue | three principal _allegati that of- northe: at Seve and Potomac | fefals of the Smith company exchanged cets. Myer was given medical atten- | §4,000,000 in bonds, worth intrinsically tion at Emerrency Hospital. at least half of the par value, for worth- | An_automooile collision at Eleventh | jecs securitios of the Maddux. Hote! and E streets northeast sent Eugene : 3 ] Armstrong, 4 years old, of Forrestville, | vy ioat n January, 1930, the New t and bruised lided with an a: Vir { denied a reques | who urged that present | against_apartment developments along of the Potomac River, | i | ing that he Md., to the office of a private physician with lacerations of the head. The child was riding in a car driven by Robert Stevens, 24, of the 400 block Pennsyl- vania avenue, when it was in a collision with another operated by James R. Cuff of the 300 block Shepherd street. ‘The drivers escaped injury KING CALLS ON CROSBY; CONFERENCE IS DELAYED | Senator, Finding Commissioner at Zoning Hearing, Postpones Budget Discussion. Senator William H. King, the rank: Democrat on the Senate District ommittee, called on Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby erday. Senator i is distrubed over the nounting District budget, and has con- ferred with Dr. Luther H. Reichelder- fer, chairman of the Board of Comm! When he cal esterday, however, the latter was sitting as a member of ng Commission in public hear- e has been quoted recently as say- | York law firm of Donovan & Raichle | was paid a grossly excessive fee in the | sum “of $250,000 to defend G. Bryan Pitts and other officers, and that T. | L. Weed, now president of the Smith | company, refused to use the proceeds | of & $250,000 indemnity bond to pro- | ceed against Pitts. | Goldsborough is associated with the law firm of Hastings, Stockley & Mor- | 7is in the case. 'FIRES DAMAGE HOMES ' OF SERVICE OFFICERS| | Flames Extinguished at Residences of Majors in Army and : Marine Corps. | Fires of undetermined origin yester- | | day afternon damaged the homes of two service officers, Maj. Davis B.| Wills, U. 8. M. C,, retired, at 2359 Ash- | mead place, and Maj. E. W. Savage, vU' S. A, at 1931 Kenyon street l | The flames started on the third floor | of the Wills' residence, and destroyed | clothing and furnishings valued at ap | residential | Nichols avenue and Halley place south- ator King would not disturb Gen. | €IC 1gs valued Crosby, but sat beside him and watched | Proximately $3.000. The fire was dis- of the hearing. At one|cOvered by Gus Chapin, the Wils e ske s | chauffeur, and was placed under con- time he asked 4 auestion of Rngeod | trol soon after he summoned firemen. | of his clients. He left before the meet- | A short time before a fire had broken | ing was over without having conferred | Out in the basement of Maj. Savage's h Gen. Crosby. Senator King said | home and caused damage of approxi- today that he would probably visit| Mately $500. Smoke pouring from a Gen, Crosby tomorrow basement window attracted the atten- i . tion of a neighbor, who notifiled the = Fire Department. The Savage family TRAFFIC ON H STREET " Fifeimen” battied for 10_minutes to RESTORED TO TWO-WAY extinguish the flames. The damage was largely confined to the front of the Widening Completion Increases Fa- cilities—Parking Limit Put | basement and the first story. on Tenth Btreet. Following the recent widening of street the District Commissioners day restored two-way traffic on H street o 575 amenvy Tule for eastbo stead of the traffic which had prevalled for R POLICE SEEK GIRL, 17 Broadcast Disappearance of Pauline CHANGE IN ZONING PETITIONS REFUSED Commission Rejects Re- quests After Objection of Residents. The Zoning Commission, in execu- tive session today, declined to make changes in zoning classifications of property, which would have permitted the construction of apartment houses in two sections which nearby home owners declared shouid be preserved as_private residential areas. ‘The commission rejected the petition of owners of the large triangular area bounded by Sixteenth street, Arkansas avenue extended, and Upshur street, bordering on the projected Piney Branch entrance to Rock Creek Park and also change of property bounded by Harvard and Eighteenth streets, Adams Mill and Quarry roads and Summit place, where an apartment projects also was contemplated. Opposition Was Raised. ‘The former petition was opposed by the Piney Branch Citizens’ Association, restrictious upper Sixteenth street be preserved, and the latter was opposed by a group of owners of dwellings in the section near Rock Creek Park. The zoning of the site of the New Shoreham Hotel, on Calvert, street west of Connecticut ' avenue, was changed from residential and first commercial classification to residential 40-foot B area, which would prevent the con- struction of wings on either side of the present building, as contemplated as a possible future development, due to the side-yard restrictions of the goning classification. Other Changes. The commission approved the follow- ing changes: Interior lots in the square bounded by N, M, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets, from residential C area to second commercial 60-foot D area; property on the southwest corner of Twenty-third and N _streets, from residential C area to second commercial 60-foot D area; property on the north- east corner of Nineteenth and N streets, from residential 90-foot C area to first| commercial 110-foot D area; property at 1206 ard 1208 Fifteenth street, from residential C area to first commercial 90-foot C area: property on north side of O street between South Capitol and Half streets southwest, from_ residential B area to second commercial 60-foot D area. Alter Massachusetts Avenue. Square 2500, in the vicinity of Massa- chusetts avenue and Sheridan Circle, from residential B restricted area to residential A restricted area; property to the northeast of Reservoir and Foxall roads, from B restricted area to resi- dential A rostricted area; property at Twenty-ninth and Calvert streets, from first commercial to residential 40-foot C area; lots 2 and 802 in square 2637, near 1901 to 1727 Taylor street, from A restricted to A semi-re- stricted; property on the northwest cor- ner of Bladensburg road and Morse street northeast, from residential B area to first commercial C area, and property on the northeast corner of st, from first commercial C area to residential A area. DRIVER HURT WHEN COUPE TURNS OVER Colored Man Receives Only Minor ! Injuries as Car Knocks Down Po- lice Call Box and Smashes Up. Henry Edwards, colored, escaped with a few scratches this morning, when his light coupe overturned and Seventh and Q streets, bowled over a police call box and folded up like an egg- crate following a collision with a bus. Edwards, who is 22 and lives in the 400 block of M street, was taken to Freedman's Hospital, treated for minor scratches and bruises and sent home. The Capital Traction Co. bus was golng west on Q street, while Edwards, the lone occupant of his car, attempted to cross the Intersection going south on Seventh. The impaet rolled the coupe over the curb at the southwest corner of the intersection. ‘The bus was undamagzed on it was injured. It was and no one operated by INCAMPBELL TRIAL Defendant’s Arraignment to Make Plea Will Take: Place Tuesday. TRIAL DATE SETTING IS SEEN NEXT WEEK Police Gathering Up “Loose Ends” of Investigation Into Murder of Mary Baker, Herman H. Barrere, at one time the principal figure in the Mary Baker murder case, probably will be used as a prosecution witness in the trial of Herbert M. Campbell, real estate man of Arlington County, Va., who is under indictment for the slaying, it was dis= closed today by William H. Collins, as- sistant United States attorney for the District. Plea Set for Tuesday. Collins, who will prosecute Campbell, has completed preparations for his are ralgnment in the District Supreme Court Tuesday morning, when he will plead to the indictment. Campbell is now at liberty under $30,000 bond, but Collins has not indicated whether the Government would oppose the granting of n new bond. Collins and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad of the Detective Bureau, have kept in close touch with Barrere since his release from. the Arlington County Jail last July, and will be able to produce him 88 & witness if it is found necessary. ‘The itinerant painter is said to be still in Philadelphia, where he went after Arlington County authorities withdrew the murder warrant issued for his arrest last Summer, when he was picked up in Montreal, Collins said he had not definitely decided to place Barrere on the wit- ness stand, and that his plans depend- ed entirely on the defense. “If the defense makes any move toward shift- ing the case on Barrere,” he declared, “I will, of course, use him as a wit- ness.” Trial Date to Be Set. ‘The date for Campbell’s trial, ac- cording to Collins, most likely will be set following his arraignment Tuesday. Collins pointed out, however, that the condition of the Criminal Court docket makes it impossible to begin the trial before the middle of November. Lieut. Kelly is continuing his inves- tigation of the Baker case, running down what he describes as “loose ends,” but said he has failed to uncover anything of importance which would have any bearing on the trial of Campbell. As a result, Collins declared that he would be forced to base his prosecution chiefly on the testimony of the ballistics ex- perts, who have reported that the gun turned over to Arlington County au- t.!:)kflties was the one that killed Miss er. MAN SOUGHT HERE FOR CLUE TO HEIR Youth Who Drove With Baby to Foundling Home Here in 1896 Is Wanted by Law Firm. The law firm of Mohun & Elliott is again searching here for a man believed to have information which may identify the heir to a $300,000 legacy left by William E. Emery of Fleming, N. J. The person sought was a young man when, one evening early in’ 1896, he went in a carriage with a male in- fant to Washington Hospital for Found- lings, then at 1715 Fifteenth street. The infant, whose mother was secretly mar- ried and kept the birth a secret from her father, Willlam Emery, is the heir if alive. A year ago James E. Nicholson, jr., & Baltimore awning merchant born in & Washington: foundlings' hospital, ad= vanced the belief that he was the heir. He had been adopted by a Baltimorean, who died several years ago. TRICK WITH $10 BILL EXPENSIVE FOR BOY Delivers Groceries and Change, but Waits in Vain for “Purchaser” to Give Him Cash. The boy who was delivering yester- day for Charles Schnelder’s grocery at 1400 E street southeast had never heard of this trick played with a $10 bill, Hypothetically speaking, a customer telephones an order for delivery--with the request of change for a ten, The boy brings it and the order, handing = both over. - 5 e customer says he must the $10. A door closes on him end gt boy waits; after that he waits on. i he inquires and finds the customer does ' * not live there. X was said, Schneider's boy mever heard of the trick—that is, d never heard of the trick before, s . The boy heard of it first on Ten nessee avenue southeast. He gave. man $9.02 and a bundle of gro coming to 98 cents for the inf PHI ALPHA DELTA MEETS Legal Fraternity Holds First sion in New House. _Plans for the new. season lined by Taft Chapter of Law School at the first 3 Joseph E. Carey of the James E. Murphy, jr, justice’ of | aided by the alumni, have fun P dance in the near future. The I Thomas'G. Kelliher, house | - George N. Everhart, 22, street. PRISONER IS STRICKEN Former Bank lmpltv:yu to Be Oper- Appendicitis. of 3331 N Delt Law Fraternity in the G was held last night in the new. of the orgartization at 1741 g alumni, formerly supreme vice just of the fraternity, attended the ing. chapter, presided. The membership of Taft T 20-room structure which is their o and plan to entertain at & T 8ng the former residence of Mrs. Leonard, is under the suj i BANKRUPTCY Creditors Say J.