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| WASHINGTON “TICK” PARALYSIS | INQUIRY UNDER WAY The Sunday St Blast Hurts Child MISSLE IN POLI EXPLOSION HURLED TWO BLOCKS. BY HEALTH SERVIGE Animals Chiefly Affected, but Humans Are Victims Too, Doctors Report. ’ RELIEF COMES QUICKLY IF BUG IS DESTROYED Blood-Suckers Declared to Dis- charge Poison Which May Result Fatally. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A strange paralysis which affects men, sheep, dogs and foxes is under in- + vestigation by the Public Health Serv- ’“Thls malady, hitherto practically un- tnow‘n in medical literature, is-caused v & little animal tick known to ento- mologists as dermacentor andersoni, perhaps the most venomously versatile animal in North America. The paralysis, affecting the motor nerves, starts quite suddenly with a numbness of the feet and legs which causes difficulty in walking, and in & short time it is impossible for the vic- tim to stand. Then the paralysis usual- 1y strikes the hands and arms, and soon afterward the throat and tongue muscles may be affected. In some cases hands and arms lose all sense of feeling. Disease Spreads Rapidly. In from three w':m days t.hA.I ra.lpld;; ead! paralysis causes deal flnntgn‘t.hc heart or the respiratory organs. ut the queer thing about it is that 1t can be stopped at any time before the final stages simply by removing the tick “which is sucking the blood of the vic- tim and recovery is practically imme- diate. Within & few hours the paralysis disappears without any noteworthy after effects. For this reason there have been few deaths of adults, who normal- ly would scratch off such a tick as soon as they felt it. Several children have died. The paralysis is caused only by adult female ticks who suck the blood of their victims continuously for 10 to 15 days, according Yo Public Health Service physicians. The male, who sucks for a few hours and then rests for a while, presumably never is respofisible. This indicates, the investigators say, some t poison being thrown into the m which has a high “threshhold.” Only after a considerable amount has jong into the blood is the resistance ten down so that there is any ef- fect at all. Then the coptinuenee of | Tuppty St the" polsen. - The nvestiga of ¥ e tors {\lve not the slightest clue as to the nature of this poison. Other Diseases Caused. But the paralysis, while it is the weirdest work of dermacentor ander- s "l he Natial Tnstitite | wl a t of Health of bug. It also| ighly ‘Mountain spotted fever, for Col- orado tick fever, whose are quite different and which is not fatal and in some instances for the dreaded , announced by the Service about a m«h-'co.uummmmn years has been extending’ its -ares in the mountain area, at last hu:v#m the thickly populated rural of the cases having been the District of Columbia, Vi , West Virginia, North ( 4 Delaware and Pennsylvania. In the East, however, the causative agent ap- pears to be dermacentor andersoni very close relative, the common dog tick. The two bugs are in- distinguishable. It is unknown whether the dog tick can carry any of the other diseases for which the mountain tick 15 known to be responsible. Primarily to protect the public against spotted fever the capacity of the laboratory at Hamilton, ., is being doubled so that twice the supply of vaccine can be manufactured every year. The laboratory has been taken over entirely by the Federal Govern- ment from the State of Montana and the vaccine will be made available, so far as possible, for the entire country. Already one application has been made {from the East. The manufacture of this vaccine is such a time-consuming, laborious and costly process that it has not yet been taken up by any com- mercial drug manufacturers. Seeking for Secret. With the increased, laboratory fa- cilities the National Institute of Health investigators will make an extra effort to get at the secret of the strange paralysis. ‘Thus far it has been con- fined in the United States to the northern part of the range of the tick in the Rocky Mountain country and it extends northward into British Co- Jumbia where, curiously encugh, spotted fever has not made its appearance. One great difficulty, according to Dr, R. R, Spencer, has been to secure a livé female tick wnown to have caused the paralysis in a human being. A person who finds such a tick on the body is | not likely to handle it tenderly for the sake of science, but to crush it at once. Thus far some specimens have been secured from a fox brought into the laboratory in a dying condition from | the paralysis. Efforts made to transmit the paralysis to rabbits and guinea pigs, who receive readily the :romd fever . organism, failed completely. Evidently these ani- mals are immune from any bodily changes due to the queer poison. The next step will be to work with some animal known to be susceptible—proba- bly the dog. Experiments in British Co- = =av: ghow thet the paralysis can be transmitted to the dog under laboratory conditions. Some Unknown Factors. It is not known whether every female tick, even in the limited range of the paralysis, is capable of producing and transmif the poison. There may be, it is poin out, some hereditary factor. Some bugs may be carriers, just as some human beings are diphtheria or typhold | custody on liquor charges yesterday by the Public Health Service | members of ‘Inspector T. R. Bean's vice | ! connection with the shooting. PIECE of metal weighing a quarter of a pound, hurled two blocks yester- day by & powder blast set off by workmen clearing the scene of Poli's Theater, at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, struck down 12- year-old Louise Grotlisch, standing outside the National Theater. ‘The missile first hit the ghow window shown in the photo and glanced off to the abdomen of the child, the theater with her mcther, Mrs. Vi nue, Silver Spring, Md. The metal di at Emergency Hospital discharged the c! who was standing in line to buy tickets ictor E. Grotlisch, 9016 Woodland ave- not penetrate the flesh and physicians hild after an X-ray examination. The blast also threw a rock through an eighth-story window of the Willard Hotel. D. J. Hugh whose shop window was broken, is shown in the photograp! —Star Staff Phot 23 ARE ARRESTED ON RUM CHARGES Officers Seize 38 Pints of' Liquor as Evidence Against Prisoners. Twenty-three persons were tak'n into squad. Thirty-eight pints of assorted | liquors were seiz'd as evidence against | the prisoners. . N. O. Holmes and Detective H. G. Wanamaker staged the outstand- ing nldwo( the day when they took six men inf and re three quarts of street. Tllsgal possession charges were placed by Holmes and Wanamaker it Cecil M. Littleton, 30, of 430 G street; Aloysius Brown, 54, of 614 Sixth street; James L. Woodhouck, 19, of Fort Humphreys, and Abraham Jacob Kroon, 30, of 1813 Otis street northeast. Two others were booked for disorderly conduct. James Francis Birnstein, 23, of 417 Sixth street, was also charged with llegal ession when vic> squad officers raided 416 Sixth street and confiscated five quarts of alleged whisky. A total of 27 charges were placed | against the 23 persons, the majority of whom were colored. The counts filed included sale and possession, sale, illegal possession, breaking glass in the street, disorderly conduct and traffic. | RUM OWNERS FLEE CAR | Police Scare Pair Away From 96| Half Gallons. Frightened by the appearance of two policemen off duty, two men fled from & rum-laden car parked in front of the Michigan avenue gate at St. Elizabeth's Hospital -and- escaped on foot yesterday afternoon. The machine and its load of 96 half-gallon jars of liquor were seized and taken to No. 11 precinct station. Pvts. C. F. Smith and M. W. Hangar, who searched the auto and discovered the whisky after the two men fled, #aid they were driving along Michigan avenue southeast in the former’s ma- chine when the two occupants of the rum car sighted them and ran. SHOT IN ALTERCATION o= | Colored Man Is Cornered in Apart-| ment House by Pursuer. Following an altercation and a chase through the streets of “Foggy Bottom” early last night, Clinton Lewis, colored, 37 years old, 710 St. Marys court, was cornered in an apartment house at 2316 F street and shot by his pursuer. Lewis was taken to Emergency Hospital, where his condition was said to be “undeter- mined.” Police are searching for Willlam Car- ter, colored, 2424 Virginia avenue, in Births Reporte;:l. The follow! the ~Hea ing birth« have been reported to ith Department in the last 24 haurs. Alber( ‘and Verna M. Potter. girl twins. Wesley G. and Benita Harris. girl Rudoiph H. and Evelyn M. Schilke. girl David G. and Prances L. Coran. girl Chevaller J. and Gertrude R. Junkin, girl. Eugene R je F. Brickman. girl. Earl F. and Frances H. Potter, girl. Maxweil 8. and Ids E. Sherman, boy. Jesse J. and Ida M. bo: carriers. It also is not known whether the poison is continuously secreted by the tick or whether it is something chemically ted in the salivary It also is not kno vold iy ol a y falls an gl:nlhle to rise however it st les. 1t either dies or recovers automati the tick, having had a full meal, falls off before the poison has reached the vital 5 B vt 1 dous. sheco 100 “children have been ith Africa general course of long continued | . Eagar Adiyn Carter. boy. cile_ Smith, bo; and Mary E. Watson, boy. nd Bertha M. Joseph and Juanits Reed, boy. United States, outside of the Northern ‘There eported finding whisky at 714 Sixth i 24 SEIZED IN RAID “No Gambling” Sign in H Street Place Fails to De- ceive—3 Charged. The police vice squad’does not belleve in signs. Last night anyhow, the lquli dec a sign was all wrong. Raiding an establishment on the third fioor of the building at 1012 H street, which had a sign reading “No Gamb- ling Allowed,” conspicuously placed in the room, the vice squad, headed by Detective F. O. Brass, arrested three men on charges of permitting gaming and booked a number of others as Gov- ernment witnesses at No. 1 police sta- on. A quantity of alleged gambling paraphernalia and $135 in cash was also taken in the raid. The thres men charged with it- ting gaming and their occuj as given the police were: Wilbur Dorsey, 34 years old, 48 H street northeast, machinist; Joseph M. Costello, 35, of No. 8 I street, pressman, and William J. Gaffney, 33, of 828 Twelfth street, féal estate dealer. Bond for the release of each was placed at $500. Twenty-feur men were taken to No. 1 in patrol wagons. Two policemen of the squad gained entrance to the H street establishment. One of the offi- cers slipped out and admittted Detec- tive Brass, who was accompanied by Officers T. M. McVearry, C. and J. K. Baker. Seeing the number of men in the es- | tablishment, a call was put in for addi- tional officers and Officers E. O'Meara, J. Palmer and C. 8. Dwyer re- sponded. The establishment was elaborately equipped with electric bells, a bell on the top floor ringing when the door leading into the place from the street was opened and closed. During the rald a woman called the establishment by phone and asked to talk to Dorsey, one of the men arrested. Several of the raiding officers conversed with her, one replying “Mr. Dorsey is very busy.” Among many signs on the wall of the establishment were: “‘Open day and night,” “Open at noon every day,” “Minors not permitted in this room,” “Bolsteron d profane language objectionable,” “Do not ask for credit.” ————e STORE CLUB TO DINE Group Schedules Annual Banquet April 11. The Twenty-year Club of Woodward & Lothrov’s Department Store, com- posed of persons employed by the firm for 20 years or more, will hold its an- nual banquet in the Washington Hotel on the evening of April 11. There are at present 128 members, and 12 new members are to be initiated this it is announced. The committee in charge of the ban- quet includes the following: Mrs. M. Cornelius, chairman; L. H. B. Robinette, printing; C. F. Gray, tng; Miss M. V. Roche, publicity: Miss Ada Reed, decoration; Mrs. 8. Fischer, in- vitation; J. A. Buete, entertainment and music; H. E. Mockbee, invocation; Miss E. Roney, Miss J. Brayton, Miss J. Sam- mond, J. O. Moque, T. E. Jasper, W. A. Trotter, reception; T. Langley and Miss P. Walker, transportation. ETCHER AT EXHIBIT Robert Nisbet to Attend Display of His Own Works Here. Robert Nisbet of South Kent, Conn., Twenty-Year exhibit this afternoon, it is announced. Mr. Nisbet recently was awarded a $1,000 prize at the Spring exhibit of the National Academy in New York. U. S. EMPLOYES TO DINE Union No. 2 to Mark 15th Birth- v day Anniversary on Tuesday. ‘The PFederal Union No. 2, Pederation of without sigving the ‘ member of the Ni Federal will celebrate its fif- dinner teenth anniversary with a ‘Tuess day at 6:30 pm. in the All Souls' Church, Sixteenth and Harvard streets, BY CAMING SQUAD /D. C., SUNDAY OFD.C. WHOLESALE BUSINESS IN 1323 Bureau of Census Sets Fig- ure in"Preliminary Tabu- lation Data of 1930. FOOD AND TOBACCO TOP LIST WITH $63,681,095 Group of 313 Employs 4,469 Per- sons With Pay Roll of $7,992,921. Business transacted by 313 whole- salers proper in the District of Colum- bia during the year 1929 totaled $115,- 843,350, according to a preliminary tabulation of the data collected in the Census of Distribution during 1930, and released today by the Bureau of Census. The total amount of business done by all establishments in the Capital en- gaged in the wholesale fleld during 1929 was $237,139,187, the census reveals. Food and Tobacco Lead. ‘The preliminary report of the bureau states that of the 313 wholesalers proper operating in Washington, 125 are engaged in the food and tobacco busi- ness. These wholesalers handled 55 per cent of the total volume of wholesale business transacted during 1929, or a total of $63,681,095. The second trade group in importance is the hardware, electrical, plumbing and sporting goods business, in which 48 wholesalers re- ported a total of $16.561,452 net sales during that year. Of these 21 were en- gaged in the electrical goods business, which includes radios. Other trade groups in order of im- portance, according to the report, are the automotive business with 21 estab- lishments and volume of sales of $9,904,211 and the metals and minerals (except junk and scrap) business with 9 establishments and net sales of $4,403,711. $7,992,921 Paid in Salaries. The 313 wholesalers employed 4,469 men and women, paid them $7992,921 in salaries and wages, and carried & stock at the end of the year whose cost value amounted to $8,767,219. Of the 313 classified as wholesalers, 293 are wholesale merchants, 13 are commission merchants, 4 are cash and carry whole- salers, ope a co-operative buying asso- clation, one is a drop shipper and one is a wagon distributor. A census of manufacturing activities in the District of Columbia for 1929 re- veals that there were 546 establish- ments employing 9,683 wage earners, the value of whose products amounted to $88,642,562. The census, which cov- ers manufacturing and printing and publishing establishments, showed the number of wage earners and the value of products represent an increase of 3.9 and a decrease of 19, respectively, as compared with 9,319 wage earners and products valued at $90,389,537 reported %{mv, the last preceding census Gi W. WOMEN DEBATE VISITORS TO DRAW Minnesota Team Contends for State System of Unemployment Insurance. Engeging in . their first contest nllmfill man’s team, George Wash- ington University’s women debaters last night argued the male team from Carleton College, Northfield, Minn,, in a no-decision contest at the university. ‘The question for debate was: “Resolved, |Thl! the several States should adopt { systems of unemployment insurance.” In agreement upon the necessity for unemployment insurance, the teams differed as to the proper method of D. Scampd administration. The Minnesota speak- ers contended for State legislation, the National Government could provide the only adequate relief. Representing George Washington re Louise Falligant, Elizabeth Reeves and Hilda Hi while Atherton Bean, John Whyte and Stanley Stevens com- posed the visiting team. Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, wife of the dean of the ided as chairman. . Man, 70, Dies of Burns. John Alexander Barnes, colored, 70 years old, of 1018 Howard road south- east, died at Providence Hospital this morning of burns received a week ago when his clothing caught fire while he was burning some trash in the back yard of his home. { University, pr Hospital as Having ‘The anouncement reads as follows Station, Miami Valley Hospital. Organization Detachment, F. A. i while the local debaters argued that | Junior College of George Washington | MOR G, MARCH PRINE WILL SEE CHERRY BLOSSOMS ON VISIT IN APRIL Brother of Japanese- Em- peror on Honeymoon to Stay Here Six Days. TREES HEAVY WITH BUDS | DUE TO OPEN SHORTLY | Pink Tinge Expected by End of ‘Week—Should Be Perfect at Easter. A veritable bower of Oriental blos- soms, 7,000 miles from his beloved |Japan, will welcome Prince Takamatsu, second brother of Emperor Hirohito of | Japan, when he brings his bride to Washington for a visit from April 15 to. 21 on the year-long honeymoon | which has taken™ the member- of the | Japanese royal family to the principal | centers of the world. Prince Takamatsu undoubtedly will find the single blossoms of the Japa- nese cherry trees his country gave Washington in 1912 in full bloom, and may also see the double blossoms of the trees around Hains Point in their Springtime profusion of eolor. By the end of the present week, the cherry trees circling the Tidaj Basin are expected to be showing a goodly tinge of pink buds, for Charles Hen- lock. chief of the horticultural division of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, says but a few good warm days are needed to bring forth the dainty blooms. Ready for Easter. ‘Two weeks from today—Easter Sun- day—there will be the usual parade of vehicles around the Tidal Basin, as countless Washingtonians and visitors view the pretty spectacle of the trees of old Japan in full glory. As the dou- ble blossom trees usually bloom about two weeks later than the single blooms, with favorable weather they will be out when Prince Takamatsu reaches the city. Prince Takamatsu has recently been to England, to repay the visit of Prince George to Japan last year. The member of the Japanese royal house will visit & number of American cities and his tour in this country is described as the first time that & member of the royal family has paid such an extensive visit to_the Uni States. Records in the office of Public Build- ings and Public Parks show that in 1909 the municipality of Tokio present- ed to the City of Washington 2,000 Japanese cherry trees “as a token of the high esteem which was held by the people of Tokio ‘for the people of the United States.” Department of Agri- culture experts found, upon arrival of the trees in Washington in January, .1910, that they were infected with root- gall worms and other insect pests and certain fungous diseases and as a con- sequence the trees were burned. Second Gift Accepted. ‘The city of Tokio made another ship- ment of trees in February, 1912, and this arrived here the month following. There were some 3,020 trees in this shipment and these embraced the sin- gle pink, single white, large double- deep pink, double greenish-yellow and other varjeties. As this lot was in splendid shave, it was immediately planted, most of the single-flowering variety being placed in West Potomac Park, while the double blooms were pignted in East Potomac Park, in the vicinity of Hains Point. Mrs. William Howard Taft personally planted the first tree in the presence of the Japanese Ambassador and the then | First Lady of the Land invited the Vis- countess Chinda to plant the second tree. These trees have now been suit- ably marked by Col. Grant’s office. | Records of the office of Public Build- |ings and Public Parks show that the | Japanese cherry trees first began to | bloom in abundance in 1924 and they | are likely, with good conditions, to con- tinue to bloom for a great number of ears to come, as the life of a Jap- | anese cherry tree is placed at 40 years. Some live longer. | Mr. Henlock says that the cherry trees this year are laden down with a bumper crop of buds, so that there should be a profusion of flowers. This will be his last year endeavoring to tell an anxious public when to expect the blooms, for he retires from the Govern- ment service on March 31 and from the post of White House gardener, due to the statutory age limit. Thief Takes $65 Watch. Entering the home of Virginia G. Sloane, at No. 16 Sixth street north- through an unlocked door, a burglar stole a watch valued at $65 last night. Squalling Air Corps Item! Announcement Describes New Equipment From Blue Eyes, Wrinkled Fuselage and Weak Landing Gear. There is a squalling new item of Air Corps equipment, with biue eyes, Vear, ; wrinkled fuselage and weak landing gear, undergoing scrvice test at Fairfield | Air Depot, near Dayton, Ohio, according to an announcement received here at the office of the chief of the Army Alr Corps, Date, February 12, 1931, Fairfield, Ohio. Equipment Name _Type Description of Trouble, Part No., Name of Defective Part, and _Recommendation or Remarks girl, received 10, 1931, “Child girl / number ! , A.C.,No.X1, Xg (compl , by the Pairfleld located at the Miami Valley Hospital. A careful inspection and test disclosed follow- ing unsatisfactory features in the article as sub- mitted. The fabri¢c of the fuselage is wrinkled in a for service test 9:44 p.m., February at Alr Depot Detachment, of places and the finish is not standard olive drab. ‘The landing gear is of very light construction and it is belicved that it would buckle under the stress of a hard landing. ‘The navigation lights are both blue and it is considered they will tend to produce considerable vicinity. confusion and uncertainty to other craft in their ‘The engine runs smoothly, but does not develop rmal load or sufficlent power for carrying the noi for proper maneuverability. Under certain flight conditions, this article emits a high pitched noise which would be detri- mental to the nerves of thos: exposed to it for any appreciable time. APP] to all similar equipment. § BURTON F. LEWIS, Captain, Air Corps, Chief Inspector. It is believed that the characteristics eompm;led of above aré not uncommon | visk A. L. ), Major, Alr Corps, Commanding. 29 22, 1931, Drators Advance in Contest | GIRL AND BOY WIN SCHOOL FINALS. INNING clear victories over their schoolmates in intra- school competitions, two stu- dents in the District of Co- lumba and Virginia have advanced an- other round in The Star area elimi- 'x:tlom of the National Oratorical Con- st Mary Louise Reges has been qualified as the Sacred Heart High School repre- sentative in the finals of the private and parochial district and Woodrow Wilson De Ford is announced as the contestant who will compete for the Lincoln High School, Lincoln, Va. in the Loudoun County finals. Miss Reges, a_sophomore, 15 years of age, carried off first honors in the Sacred Heart meet with her oration on “Lincoln and the Constitution.” Second place was won by Miss Kathleen Crow- ley, who on ‘James Madison and the Constitu " Misses Jeanette Gil- bert, Mary Alice McCarthy Mary Virginia McHanon were the others com- peting. Rev. P. C. Gavan, pastor of Sacred Heart Shrine, presided. The winner has been active in as a member of the basket ball and tennis teams at her school and has served as treasurer of her class. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Reges of 3339 Seventeenth street northwest. Following her graduation in June of 1933 she plans to attend Trinity College in Washington. Young De Ford is 18 years old and a sophomore at Lincoln High School. In the school meeting he spoke on “The Birth of Our Constitution.” De Ford i MARY LOUISE REGES. ~—Star Staff Photo. is the president of his class and has been prominently identified with public speaking contests in the school and community. He is the son of Mrs. Mon- roe Flippo of Hamilton, Va. De Ford plans to study dentistry after his gradu- ation from high school. BURNS DETECTIVES 10 PROBE SHOOTING Private Investigators’ Work to Center on Finding of Stolen Automobile. The Burns Detective Agency joined the homicide squad yesterday in in- vestigating the shooting of James- H. Lane, 42-year-old Washington Railway & Electric Co. conductor-motorman, who was seriously wounded Wednesday night, when he grappled with one of two bandits who attempted to rcb him. Stolen Car Considered. ‘The detective agency's probe, which is in the hands of Benjamin Gunner and his assistant, E. N. Ritenour, cen- tered around a stolen automobile which was found at Burroughs place and Trenton street southeast, just a block from the scene of the shooting. ‘The car, according to the Burns oper- atives, was reported stolen on the day of the shooting by A. B. Price of Rich- mond, Va. The gasoline tank was empty when the machine was found, and it is believed the robbers abandoned it im- mediately after the shooting. It was found Thursday by Policeman C. R. Sidnor of the eleventh precinct. ‘Willilam F. Cole, 25 years old, of Standardville, Va., was questioned in connection with the shooting for more than an hour and half yesterday by | ° Sergt. John Flaherty, chief of the homi- cide squad, and Sergts. Carlton Tally and Charles E. Mansfield, members of the squad. Lane in Grave Condition. Cole, who declared he knew nothing of the shooting, is béing held at the sixth precinct police station. When he was taken to the Traffic Bureau, it was said, he attempted to strike Policeman Id E. Johnson, who arrested him. Police also are investigating the story of a colored man, who says he saw two men, both armed, acting suspiciously in the- woods near Oxon Hill, Md. The colored man said the two men were gathering leaves with which to make a bed. Police will conduct a search for them tomorrow and if the men are found they will be questioned in con- nection with the Lane case. Lane, the father of four children, still was in a serious condition at Casualty Hospital last night. He lives at 507 Daniel street, Colmar Manor, Md. ' CITIZENS GET CHANCE T0 AID CLEAN-UP Four-Week Drive Planned to Beau- tify Capital From April 20 to May 20. Four opportunities will ve presented to the citizens of the District to do their bit toward the success of the 1931 clean-up campaign. ‘The period from April 20 to May 20, the duration of the campaign, is to be divided up into four significant weeks as follows: Paint week, April 20 to 27. home week, April 27 to May 4; garden week, May 4 to May 11, and community ‘week, May 11 to May 18. By this month of intensive campaign, the committee hopes to stimulate busi- ness, provide temporary jobs for the unemployed and beautify and improve the city as a gesture of welcome, it was said, to the crowds of tourists who will come here during the 1931 Bicentennial. Garden week, for example, will fea- ture the campaign of the Bicentennial Garden Committee, which is working in conjunction with the Clean-up Cam- palgn Committee to develop the city g'e gardens for 1932. During this week two silver prizes will go to the winners of the garden contest. Palnt week sig- nificantly means “paint up” and simi- larly, during home week, emphasis will be pll&ed tm‘l molnldltln‘lz‘llnt otdho;n;‘e.s. attractive types of furniture and orna- ments to beautify the home within and without. Community week, which will conclude the official campaign, will munities, under direction -of _citizens’ associations, to clean up vacant lots and other public. eyesores which now detract from the orderly. appearance of the city. 17-YEAR-OLD AVIATOR, RECORD-HOLDER, HERE Bob Buck Flies to Capital for Sightseeing Tour—Brings Father Along. Bob Buck, 17-year-old holder of the transcontinental airplane record for Jjunior pilots, arrived at Washington- Hoover Alrport Newark, N. J, at 6 o'clock yesterday evening for a week end visit to the Capital. He brought as Emenlen his father, Dr. H. O. Buck, of Elizabeth, N. J,, and Dr. R. J. Allen of Virginia Highlands, Va., who will be host to the Bucks during their t. i ‘The Bucks, father mg son, expected feature an |Tul y; | organized effort on the part of all com- BUSTRUGK CASH PROGEREPORT U Coroner Will See Driver To- day Before Findings Are Made Public. Dr. C. A. Ransom, coroner for Fair- fax County, Va., will report his - ings tomorrow the collision be- tween an interstate bus and a truck, in which three persons were killed and 11 others were injured, on the Wash- ington-Richmond Highway near Fort Humphreys early Priday morning. ‘The coroner went to Emergency Hos- pital yesterday afternoon and ques- tioned John McCall, driver of the bus, which was owned by the Great Eastern Stages. McCall, who lives at 1114 Fourteenth street, was still toc dazed to tell a coherent story of the crash, Dr. Ransom said. McCall Goes Home. Later, however, McCall, who received a broken arm and cuts in the smash-up, became stronger and decided to leave the hospital. He returned to his home, where the coroner planned to question him again today. ‘The accident occurred on an 18-foot culvert about a mile from 1 Witnesses testified the istance across the culvert when the crash oc- urred. 2 The bus, which was en route to Nor- folk, Va., from New York, strugk the cement wall of the culvert, c across the culvert and came to a halt in a ditch. Its side was ripped off, and the seats on which the three passengers who were killed were sitting crumpled like so much cardboard. The truck also Teatiering ils cargo of eges and pouliry sca c: of for some distance. Three Virginians Killed. ‘Those killed were Mrs. Ruth Dudley, Newport News, Va.; Ray A. Morris, Portsmouth, V: nd Lloyd B. Mitchell, Norfolk, Va. Their bodies were claimed by relatives and were sent to their re- spective homes. Dr. Ransom said he would recom- mend to Wilson Farr, district attorney for Fairfax County, that the culvert be widened. There is a 10-inch curb on esich side of the culvert, he pointed out, and this decreases the width of the cul- vert by nearly two feet, with the result that it is difficult for two vehicles of the maximum legal width of eight feet to pass each other. . CITY TO PARTICIPATE IN TUBERCULOSIS WAR Dr. Joseph A. Murphy Heads Capi- tal's Campaign in Nation- ‘Wide Drive. ‘Washington will have its part in the new Nation-wide offensive against tu- berculosis, to be launched during April by the 1,400 organized associations af- fillated with the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, chief medi- cal examiner for the public schools, is to be in command of the Washington campaign as chairman 6f the general committee created by the local Tuber- culosis Association, the first meeting of which will be held at 12:30 o'clock on Wednesday at the Y. W. C. A, Seven- teenth and K streets, to which the leading health workers of public and private agencies have been invited by Dr. George M. Knber, president of the association. Dr. Talliaferro Clark, assistant sur- ice, known nationally as a specialist in this fleld of health work, is to voice keynote of the campaign for early liagnosis. Also short talks are an- nounced by Assistant Superintendent of Schools Stephen Kramer and by As- sistant Superintendent G. C. Wilkinson on the special needs of the high school age in the prevention of tuberculosis. The problem of children in industry and how best to protect them from dis- ease will be presented by Dr. Viola Rus- sell Anderson, acting secretary of the berculosis Association. SUNRISE SERVICE SET BY KNIGHTS TEMPLAR Grand Commandery to Assemble| at Arlington Cemetery on | Easter Sunday. A Knights Templar Easter sunrise memorial service will be held under the auspices of the Grand Commandery ton Nlt?n‘l"lll U:I{l m“‘:l‘:’ohuwmmg“ Axlln{; Easter Sunday, The constituen have been ordered to assemble in fujl Tems plar uniform at the west gate'of the cemetery at 6:45 o'clock. and the pro- cession will move at 7:10 o'clock to the Amphitheater, where the service will be held. Music will be furnished by the United States Marine Band. f » pet and other ests a to icturesqu 1 be under Shackle! to go on & tional Capital for Newark tol were issued grand cap!f + geon general of the Pubiic Health Serv- | B RESURFACING PLAN WOULD CUT TAXES ON ROAD REPAVING Davison Urges Maintenance Division Repair Routes at Low Figures. ESTIMATE IS $2 T0 $4 COST PER SQUARE YARD quh Avenue, Morris Road and Thirty-Third Street Held Worth Salvaging. Relief for owners of property alon, suburban roads from high n-;menl: for paving under the revised Borland | law, will be possible if a scheme devised by F. M. Davison, cngineer in charge of maintenance for the District Highway Department, is carried into effect. Mr. Davison has suggested a lump sum appropriation of $50,000 for use in his division for the construction of low cost country roads. Normally the di- vision of which he has charge does no road building, confining itself to keep- ing in trim the roads and streets built by the contractors under the suj v sion of the construction division. Some of these roads have gone past the' hope of repair, but to let contracts for their resurfacing would cost $2 to $4 per square yard, and the abutting properties would have to be assessed jfor half the cost under the modified Borland law. Asks to Save Roads. Mr. Davison's proposition is that his division be allowed to go into the busi- ness of repairing some of these roads, which could be saved by work of maintenance division, at a cost not to exceed 75 cents per square yard. is still much higher than the main -| nance costs on roads which are not be- yond repair, which are kept up at costs ;-wnmn;mmzowue::?:-ppum An_example of the kind of road that would be rebuilt by the maintenance division, if such an appropriation were available, is Utah avenue from Thirty. road to Indian lane at & cost of about 60 cents per square yard. Lists Gravel Route. Another example, cited by Mr. Dav- ison, is Morris road southeast from Nichols avenue to Poxeroy nue southeast from Pennsylvania avenue to Benning road. A third example is Thirty-third street from Alabama avenue to_ Gainesville . | street southeast, which, ith Capitol street northeast. The streets mentioned as now in bad 'mpe will probably be allowed to re- main the way they are until the Dis- trict considers whether the adjacent property could stand the assessments necessary for resurfacing by contract. The work that would be e tenance division would be nll:'h ‘t'l'lrg& :olt of a completed high-grade Highway Engineer Herbert C. White- hurst is favorably inclined toward the Davison plan, and funds for a start on it will probably be placed in the next District budget. PAVING MAPPED. Capitol Area Routes to Be Surfaced This Year. A program of paving and ing streets that run through or around)the new portion of the Capitol grounds wiil be carried on this Summer under supes- vision of the District hway depart- ment, in co-operation with Architect of the Capitol Lynn. i First street northeast, from B street to the Union Statfon, is to be widened from 35 feet to 56 feet, since it is to carry double car tracks to take the place of the tracks to be removed from Delaware avenue. D street, which extends across the center of the Plaza from New Jersey avenue to B street east, is to be widen- ed from 32 to 40 feet. C Sireet to Be Moved. The portion of C street which Hes in the Plaza area will be moved 8 feet north of the present street line to con- form to the plans for beautification of the north front of the Senate Office Building. The program also calls for new pav- ing on Delaware avenue from B street to Union Station and on that part of New Jersey avenue adjacent to the Plaza, but without changing the width of either of these streets. Will Pave at Plaza. It is also planned to lay paving this Summer on a portion of the new diag- onal boulevard across the Plaza from Union Station, which Congress recently decided to name Louisiana avenue. The ving work on the new avenue this Summer will stop at New Jersey ave- nue. This boulevard eventually will be cut through to meet Pensylvania avenue west of Second street. There is a possibility also that some repaving may be done on the semi- circular driveways in front of Union suuon. but the extent of this work Pl pected to be started early in July. GLEE CLUB TO SING Miss M. M. Burnett to Direct Eliza- beth Somers Singers This Week. The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club will prese*_ch its fourth annual Spring cert Thursday evening in Barker Hall at the Young Women's Christian As- sociation, Seventeenth and K streets. Miss Mary M. director of music at the Y. W. C. A, will direct the singing. 1 Miss Fjeril as guest soloist and Miss Alta Smith, contralto, will sing an obbligato number. Staunton Commandant Speaks. Last year's attendants and prospec- tive ca tes for enrollment at Camp Terra Alta, W. Va., boys' Summer recre. vice. | eon di- y