Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1931, Page 17

MAY DELAY WORK ON TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL T0 1932 Gotwals Says Drawing of School Plans Is Obstacle to Awarding of Job. ALSO SOURCE OF TROUBLE Association Head Says 87 Children Were Found Infected Since January 1. The contract for the Children’s Tu berculosis Sanatorium, to be bullt dur- ing the next fiscal year on land owned by | the District in Prince George’s County, | Md., will probably not be awarded un-| til the beginning of 1932, in spite of | agitation in favor of an earlier start, Engineer Commissioner John C. Got- wals said today. Maj. Gotwals pointed out that the municipal architect’s office is putting in full time in drawing plans for the various schools and school addi- tions authorized by the current District appropriation act and that he consid- ers this the logical sequence of events. Maj. Gotwals added that even if the municipal architect were to drop the achool work and start in immediately on plans for the new sanatorfum, it Wnurd be impossible to find plans to suit the varying degrees of expert opin-} jon among tuberculosis. physicians. He said that he had given hearings to vari- ous groups, and that apparently the are several cleavages in the expert opin- fon which are irreconcilable. One group wants one-story building: scattered over the property. Maj. Got. ls sees no objection to this, outside of the additional expense, but another p favors two-story bulldings, per- (ma equipped With elevators. Building for Superintendent. One group wants a bullding for the superintendent of the new institution costing $37.000. Maj. Gotwals pointed out that the mew superintendent, if these plans were carrisd out, would be housed more lavishly than a four- star general in the Army. There is a vlding now on the property which would do for the superintendent’s| office, he said, and some of the experts agree with him that this building should be so used. “We are actually working on the plans in & general sort of a way.” Maj. | Gotwals said, “but we cannot get down 10 details until there is more agreement | among our advisers. Meanwhile we are werking full speed on the school build- ings. and 1 intend that work toj| continue. “Perhaps if we get our school build- Ings built. and get rid of ovemmwdmki and portables. we will not have so much of a tuberculosis problem to deal with.” Stalements Are Issued. , Viola Russell Anderson, acting; sccretary of the Tubereulosis Associa-| tion, issued a statement today declaring thgt “since the 1st of January there have | been 87 children diagnosed as having & tuberculous infection at the Health De- partment clinics. With our health schools seriously overcrowded and long waiting lists for each, what are we go- ing to do with this increasing number ‘of tuberculous children? “It is t cally apparent that we are in need of a children’s sanitorium. Just now during these times of poverty and unemployment, plus the daily flon:;e of bacteria received by these children, is already beginning to in- ecreaze the number who are being diag- m as having & tuberculous infec- Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, acting presi- dent of the Tuberculosis Association, ! issued this statement: “When you get more than two physi clans together, medical questions 1 mediately become controversial. sonally, we are not concerned whether | the building goes up in the air or out | over the ground, but we are interested | in securing a sanatorium at the earliest possible moment where tuberculous - children may have proper medical care | and plenty of fresh air, sunshine and | wholesome food. The controversial point | regarding the type of architecture could | be quickly and effectively solved if the | Commissioners having authority over these matters select some one out- standing hospital expert and build the | children’s sanatorium in accordance with the latest modern methods, whether that be up in the air or out over the . ground.” WANTE CONTROL CENTRALIZED. Councll of Social Agencies Advises on Tuberculosis Fight. Empioyment of & full-time director of tuberculosis control by the Health | Department was recommended today by | the Washington Council of Social Agencies, | The suggestion was advanced in a re- port on & hospital and health survey of | ‘Washington made by the committee cn Interpretation of the Health Committee of the Council of Social Agencies under the auspices of the American Public Health Association. Other results of | the survey will be repcrted next week. | Other recommendations included: | “That funds be made avallable for the extension of the medical nursing, héspital and preventive services for tuberculosis control. | ““That special consideration be given 1o the act approved May 13, 1908, pro- | viding for the reporting of tuberculosis | and the examination of sputum. 1 Revision of Law Urged. “That the law regulating the report- dng and registration of tuberculosis and the regulaticns promulgated under its authority be revised in order to con- | form more nearly with present practice | end methods of Health Department | control. | ‘That a larger central clinic be pro- | vided, with additional clinics in differ- ent_sections of the city. ““That us soon as funds are provided. | the work of the children’s contact | clinic be assumed by the Health De- | partment. “That early consideration be given to the need for 24-hour sanatorium care of active tuberculosis in children and for one or more preventoriums for chil- dren, besides the need for additicnal eanatorium care for adults. “That consideration be given to the urgent need for more open-window rooms in schools, to accommodate ap- proximately 10 times as many children @ are now served. More Funds Held Needed. ““That personnel and funds be in- ereased to provide for a continuous and wigorous immunization campaign against those diseases for which generally ac- copted means ord] lmhn;‘u:lnnon are at hand, especially diphtheria. “That there be instituted by the Health Department and the Instructive Visiting Nurse Soclety a more vigorous # program of education on the dangers of | | ' 1 | 5 | | 1 [ 4 The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1931 One man was seriously injured when this automobile went through = recently erected warning barrier at First street and Michigan avenue early today. ‘The driver fell asleep. AUTO PLUNGES OFF AUTHORITY GIVEN ROAD: MANISDYING 10 CUT OFF WATER Two Are Held After New Car Drops 15 Feet Down Bank When Driver Sleeps. One man is at the point of death in the Emergency Hospital today and two companions are being held at the eighth precinct station as the result of an accident in which a machine plunged over a 15-foot embankment at Pirst street and Michigan avenue when the driver fell asleep at the wheel. The injured man is Clifton Randolph Clark, 24 years old, of 1047 Irving | street northeast, who was found. to be suffering from a fractured skull, in- ternal injuries and shock after police extricated him from the wreckage of the car and rushed him to the hospital in a waiting ambulance. Driver Falls Aslecp. William R. Price, 20, who police sa was operating the automobile, and & third occupant, Milton Hurdle, 35, suf- | fered only slight bruises and did not |ing to Capt. Oram, becomes acute only | Both Price | where repaving work is being done | There the remo bout 3 | reveals leakage o'clock this morning when Price fell | pipes installed prior to 1906, which have | 7 asleep at the wheel, police were told. |a maximum life, under most favorable | Y2 a new roadster purchased by | conditions, of 30 years. ago, plunged through | protect the new paving these pipes mu: a fence and dropped over the embanik- | be replaced. require medical attention. and Hurdle live at Kensington, The trio were riding along Md. ‘The car, Price three weeks ment. It was demolished. Officers of the eighth precinct placed | from the water main, whi Price and Hurdle under technical ar- | in the center of the street, to the rest pending the outcome of Clark’s injuries. Both men declared their car ‘was proceeding at a moderate rate of speed when the accident occurred. Woman Is Injured. Contusions of the face and body were received by Mrs. Edward Cunning- ham, 36 years old, of 2808 Windom place, when she was knocked down at Wisconsin and Nebraska avenues by a machine driven by Denny Hughes, 30 years_old, of Woodley Park Towers, a well known attorney Mrs. Cunningham was taken to Georgetown University Hospital by a passing motorist while Hughes went to the fourteenth precinct station and re- ported the mishap. No charges were placed against the attorney. Hospital physicians John Taylor, 54 years old Maryland avenue southwest. for bruises of the forchead yesterday afternoon after Taylor was struck by a hit-and- run machine at North Capitol and M streets. THREE ROBBERIES HERE NET LOOT OF $943.50 Five Rings Worth $203 Stolen From George Keeler's Apart- ment on Sixteenth Street. Cash, jewelry and clothing amounting 1o $943.50 were listed in reports of three burglaries being investigated by the po- lice today. A $250 fur coat, stolen from the home of Frank W. Landvoigt, 508 Whittier street, was the most expensive article stolen Mr. Landvoigt told police his home was visited early last night by a bur- glar who entered by jimmying a window. Clothing valued at $605 and $35 in cash were taken. The money and a portion of the wearing apparel belonged to Mrs. Elizabeth Sierman Five rings wortn $203 were stolen yes- terday from the apartment of George Kecler, 2008 Sixtenth street. Police were told that a burglar who visited the apartment of Annie Contee, 1741 8 street, yesterday, used a dupli- cate key in entering that wearing apparel, valued at $110.50, w taken, treated of 1108 | believed that the District should really | Tex., She told police | ENGLISHMAN PLANS TO TEACH AMERICAN EAGLE FALCONRY Director of Washington Zoo Obtains Bird for Capt. Knight, Lecturer and Naturalist. | | | REVISED LISTINGS 0F U. . ENPLOYES PREDICTED BY DALE 150,000 Would Be Affected by Changes Foreseen Dur- ing Next Session. SENATE UNIT’S CHAIRMAN HELD TO BACK 5-DAY PLAN Proposed Promotion System Likely to Increase Morale, Advo- cates Believe. A revised classification system for | Government employes both in Washing- | ton and throughout the country will be | ! enacted by the next Congress, Senator | | Dale, Republican, of Vermont, chair- | man of the Senate Civil Service Com- | mittee, predicted today. Senator Dale has just returned from a trip to Ver- | mont, I Recalling also the discussion which | occurred during the last session on the | proposal for a five-day week in_the | Government, servio», the Vermont Sen. ator expects the Civil Service Commit tee will be a busy group in the new Congress. While indicating that he probably would favor the five-day week if the subject is revived, Senator Dale !said he believed this proposal would { meet with considerable opposition. Vacancies on Committee, ‘There are several vacancies | filled on the Civil Service Committee, i and it is not likely the group will begin | studying proposed legislation until after the Senate gets down to business in { December. In the meantime, however, | { Chairman Dale will acquaint himself | { with the details of the lengthy report | { on revision of the classification law filed [ just, before the last Congress closed | Until he has weighed the various | changes recommended, Senator Dale is to be —Star Staff Photo Inot predicting just what form of new {law will be passed, but he is confident | Congress will legislate on the subject when it returns. The pending report. prepared under D. C. Heads Approve Action|the subervision of Vwillam H. Mc- iFt]?ynald!. ‘ljl‘e!;c}or of classification, L;j i : Unless Consumers Pay e one ca or by Congress severa Service Bills. vears ago when it passed the Welch act, increasing salaries. It is intended primarily as a guide to Congress in establishing & classification system for S {the 100,000 Federal workers in the field | | services, but the basic changes pro-| posed would apply also to 50,000 un- classified Government workers in ‘Washington. Text of Bill Included. The report contains the text of a sug- | The District Commissioners yesterday gave authority to the Water Department to cut off the water supply of water consumers who refuse to pay bills for | repair of service pipes found leaking. | el ot 3 " gested bill to take the place of the o There is at. present no such authority | §i=ieG B 10 (A€ 8 B e amend- and, according to the Assistant Enqim"r‘ ments. A feature of the report is that Commissioner, the District! collected | it would abolish the oft-debated “aver- iA . |ace provision” governing the extent to only about one-third of the cost of re- | 5% [0 employe may advance within placing these pipes in 1930. Bills Were i hig respective grade of the calssifica- | sent out covering all of the work, but | tion schedule. the balance remained unpaid. The Dis- | The report also recommends a new trict has no authority to assess such | Promotion system. which the framers costs against abutting property in such |Of the recommendations belleve would 2 way that the assessments would be- ;40 more than anything else to increase Coimie &/lien on the property he morale of the Government service. 1 _{Briefly. the recommendation is for a The problem of service pipes, accord- | BUCAY, She Tecolmencation, o for & would enable department heads to rate | employes as “good,” “fair” or “unsat- isfactory.” Employes rated good would advanced automatically one each r to the next higher rate, provided ! Congress provides sufficient funds, until | they reach the maximum rate for their class and grade, as specified in the chedules 1 of the old pavemert in old wrought In order to| The pipes belong to the consumers h is usually | ater meter. Capt. Oram said that he | bear the cost of maintenance of these STREET PROJECTS PRl UG ARE RECOMMENDED pipes. He said he would recommend to | & the Commissioners that the District| pederation Meeting Given Impos- | take over the expense of such main- tenance beginning with next fiscal ing List Affecting Dif- ferent Sections. year. But, meantime, every time a new | pavement is laid, many of these old pipes must be renewed, adding consid- | erably to the cost of the job. Under threat of cutting off the water sup, he believes the consumers will pay the | repair bills. The order is not retroactive, and con- sequently will not apply to any work Representatives of 28 citi ented an imposing 1 eccommended street improvements in | r respective territories at a joint | already done, but only to work to be | done in the future. Pipes laid since 1906 are for the most part lead or steel, he said, and since these have a life of about 100 years, they are seldom found to be leaking when repaving or new paving work is done. BOY HITCH-HIKER FREED WHEN HE FAINTS IN COURT | Released on Personal Bond During | Auto Theft Case—May Get Lib- erty on Traffic Counts. When he fainted in court this morn- ing, the second time in three days, Jo- seph V. Lamonte, 17-year-old El Paso, | hitch hiker, was released from Police Court_on his personal bond by | Judge Isaac R. Hitt. Lamonte toppled over while on the | witness stand Wednesday, and was taken to Gallinger Hospital. He fainted | again today while in the midst of tell- ing Judge Hitt why he happened to take the car of Elizabeth P. McConnell, | 1100 block of Trinidad avenue north- | east. This time the Emergency Hos- | pital ambulance carried him away i Lamonte admiited taking the car on Monday and proceeding on a wild ride ! in which he had several collisions. | Judge Schuldt sentenced him to 60 days in jail on trafic charges Wednesday, and said today that he was considering suspension of sentence. | The boy said that _he ran away from ! a military school in El Paso last month, | the Highways, An American bald eagle from the|though he has a golden eagle, a na- Washington Zoo is to be initiated in |tive of Scotland, with which he hunts and ancient sport of falconry—if the bird is willing. The eagle, christened Miss America, sailing for home from New York to- morrow with it. Capt. Knight, measles and whooping cough. “That five additional trained public ( | b4 flov-p work” time, knows of no instance where an England into the mysteries of the royal |regularly on Salisbury Plain. was obtained by Dr. William M. Mann, | taming Miss America, who had never, director of the Zoo, for Capt. C. W. R.|un'il Knight, lecturer and naturalist, who is| hanaled by & human. who has been pur- | emitting blood-curdling noises is a bit suing the study of falconry for a life- | disconcerting to the casual visitor. Wedlth nurses be added for much of ' American eagle was carried into the | is being r¢ i funt on the forearm of a/map, al-(pawks are empigyed Desir- ing to experiment with this type of bird, he enlisted the aid of Dr. Mann. lisw Capt. Knight is engaged in the pest couple of days, been Miss America is showing herself quite tractable. though her penchant for On the whole { knocked down. Falconry, according to Capt. Knight. Ordinarily ived in England, iceting last night of the committees | on city planning, highways, parks and | waterways of the Federaticn of Citizens’ | Associations. Dr. George C. Havenner president of the federation, presided Assistant Engineer Commissioner Hugh | P. Oram and Charles W. Eliot II, cit planner to the National Capital Park | and Planning Commission, explained the highway plans of their respective Gepartments. The outstanding coming from several asso territories affected, were for the open- ing of New Hampshire avenue north- cast {from Buchanan street t) the Dis- trict line, with a bridge over the Balti- more & Ohio Railroad tracks in that vicinity, and for a bridge over the Bal- timore & Ohio Railroad tracks in the tween Eighth and Tenth streets, to serve pedestrians, including children from the Edgewood section attending the Crosby-Noyes School. Thomas J. Llewellyn is chairman of Parks and Waterways Committee, and Maj. A. M. Holcomb chairman of the City-planning Com- m recommendations, | tions in the | it The following groups were represented at the meeting: American University Park, Anacostia, Brookland, Burroughs Central, Columbia Heights, Chevy Chase Conduit Road, Congress Heights Dahlgren Terrace, North ark, Forest Hills, Georgetown, Glover ark, Hillcrest, Kenilworth, Manor Park. Mid-City, Mount Pleasant, Petworth, Randall Highlands, Rhode Island Ave- nue. Richmond Park, Takoma Park Trinidad and Washington Highland Citizens’ Associations, and the American Association of Engineers, Progressive Citizens’ Association of Georgetown and Society of Natives MAN HIT BY FIRE CAR ESCAPES WITH BRUISES ‘The Fates were kind to F. A. Engle, 58 years old. of 333 Sixth street south- cast last night. Felled by a speeding fire chief’s car, Engle suffered nothing worse than body bruises and a possible rib frac- ture. The high-powered roadster of Bat- talion Chief Ernest Howard, with Pvt. H. R. Morat at the wheel, was racing to a fire when Engle walked into the path of the machine at Delaware ave- nue and D street southwest. Morat made a desperate effort to avoid striging the man, but Engle was He was released after first-aid treatment at Providence Hos- ital. P'The fire turned out to be a_small blaze in the machine of Samuel Paclcw: and caused only slight damage. The | company JFAGE . Easter Cheer for Hospital Patients JUNIOR LADIES' AID BRINGS FLOWERS TO GARFIELD. ROUP of social service workers of the Junlor Ladies’ Aid, in new uniforms, delivering Easter lilies to patients in Garfield Memorial Hcspital. Left to right: Mrs. Robert H. McNeil, associate director; Evelyn Howe, debutante; Edith Hoffman, social service director, in old-style uniform; Edith Edson, debutante, and Adelaide Harley.| CLAINS BIG RETURN ON ARLINGTON GAS Kephart Says Company| Earned 15 Per Cent in 1929 on $124,000 Valuation. | Additional data in support of the| campaign in Arlington County, Va., for | a reduction in domestic gas rates were | gathered at the Public Utilities Com- | mission today by C. I Kephart, secre- | tary of the Arlington County Public { Utilities Commission. Mr. Kephart is directing the fight in Arlington County for lower gas rates, and Monday, with George Douglas, wili | appear before the Virginia Corporation | Commission in Richmond when it be- | gins public hearings on the protest of the Lyon Park Citizens' Association against the existing rate schedule. Claims 15 Per Cent Return. Mr. Kephart said he would show the ) virginia Corporation Commission that | gas distributed in Arlington County at | $1.50 & thousand cubic feet is manu- | factured in Washington at 35.2 cents, | which, coupled with overhead expenses, interest and depreciation, would not| run the actual cost above 50 cents. The | Rosslyn Gas Co., which serves Arling- ton County, is a subsidiary of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. and purchases the gas from them at a cost of 60 cents a thousand cubic | feet. Mr. Kephart also will show that the Rosslyn Co. in 1929 earned a return n(l approximately 15 per cent on its 1920 valuation of approximately $124,000. The principal objection” to the exist- ing gas schedule in Arlington Count: Mr. Kephart said, is the $1.50 domestic rate, which drops to 90 cents for gas consumed in excess of 2,500 cubic feet. The average domestic consumption in the county, he explained, is about 2400 cubic feet. so that the average consumer does not benefit by the secondary 90- cent rate. Will Stress Cost and Return. | Mr. Kephart raid he would devote his testimony before the Virginia commis- sion to the cost of producing gas, the rate of Teturn of the Rosslyn Co. and relevant incidental features. Mr. Doug- las, who is in charge of the Report Bu- reau of the Valuation Department of the Interstate Commerce Commission, will testify on the valuation of the Ross- Co. All of the information gathered by Mr. Kephart with respect to the cost | of ‘manufacturing_gas was obtained | from th> District Utilities Commission, as the Rosslyn company does not manu- facture gas, but buys it from the parent | In collecting the data he | was assisted by B. McK. Bachman, chief | accountant of the commission, and his assistant, J. Donald Murray. THREE ARRESTED | IN THEFT SERIES| Trio Taken at Clothing Shop Be- lieved Linked With 20 Other Burglaries. The arrest of three men early today | when it was in collision with a Nickel Boy, 6, Strays LOST IN CHURCH. HE GOES WINDOW SHOPPING. STANSBURY LUSK. Stansbury Lusk, 6-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufus S. Lusk, was lost for two hours yesterday “somewhere on Ninth street” because he failed to tell any one his name and address, but he remembered instructions about cross- ing streets on the green traffic lights and thus escaped accident. While his parents and a detail of police were scouring the vicinity of St. Patrick's Church, Tenth street between F and G streets, for him, following his disappearance from a Holy Thursday service there, Stansbury was searching for his parent: But his search was as futile as theirs and soon he gave it up as a bad job and calmly proceeded'to do a thorough | job of window shopping along busy sec- tions of Ninth street. A number of policemen and a radio- equipped police car were called into ac- tion meanwhile, but it remained for Pvt. Julian Yost, patrolman on the beat.” 1o solve the matter. “I know just where he will be found,” he told the worried parents. “He must have gone over to Ninth street, where there always are children, and will be |1 found looking in the store windews.” | Twenty minutes after he heard of the | case Pvt. Yost turned the boy over to | his parents, Mr. Lusk informed the | Police Department today in commend- ing the patrolman. Stansbury became separated from his | mother during the 4 o'clock service and | left the church trying to find her. The | Lusks reside at 1717 Thirty-seventh street. WOMAN ASKS $15,000 FOR INJURIES IN TAXI Goldie Hollen, 1458 Columbia road, to- day filed suit in District Supreme Court to recover $15,000 damages from the Nickel Cab Co. and the City Cab Co. She says she was & pas- senger in a City cab October 10 last cab, and that she sustained serious in- She is represented by Attorney —Star Stafl Photo. |Communities Here, in Nearby ' Virginia and Maryland | Communities in Washington and con- tiguous counties in Maryland and Vir- Will Compete. | ginia will compete in a garden contest | sponsored by the Garden Committee of |the George Washington Bicentennial | |for 17 silver trophies which the com- | mittee will award in connection with | beautification for | 1932, | One of the silver trophies will be | awarded to each of the five communi- |ties in Washington showing the most | beautiful lawns and plantings, and one | will be given the community showing | the greatest improvement in lawns and | plantings. These six awards are for the | | white munities. Three will go to colored communities |of Washington; one each to the two showing the mosf beautiful lawns and | plantings, and one to the community | showing the greatest improvement. i ‘The prizes, it was said. will be com- peted for in 1931 and 1932, and possibly 11933. They will remain in competition until won twice by the same community. Award in Contesis Nearby. In addition to the loving cups to be | given to communities within the city, | awards will be, made in Fairfax and | Arlington countles, Va., and Mont- gomery and Prince Georges counties, Md. A trophy will be given the com- munity in each-county showing the begt lawns and plantings, and another for the community in each county showing | | the greatest improvement in lawns and plantings. Donors of cups for the white com- munitiés in the city include the Evening Star, the Washington Post, the Wash- ington Herald, Barber & Ross, William A. Gude and A. Eberly & Sons. The three cups for the colored communities will be awarded by the National Benefit Life Insurance Co., Try-Me Taxicab Co. and George J. Adams, executive secre- | tary of the George Washington Bicen- tennial Garden Committee, which is sponsoring the contest. The contest will begin on May 1 each year and will terminate on September In additicn to the above prizes, the committee will award a prize of $50 in gold to the person or persons submit- ting the best suggestions for improve- ment of tree strips in Washington and | its environs. “Tree strips,” it was explained, are the areas controlled by the superin- tendent of trees and parking, lying between the sidewalk and the curb in public streets, in which trees are, or may be, planted. Cheatham Heads Judges. Suggestions, which must be in writ- |ing, will be received by the committee |at room 507, District Bullding. Gen. B. F. Cheatham of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, will head the com- mittee of judges in the garden contest. | Judges of the “strip” contest have not |yet been announced. Officers of the committee include, besides Mr. Adams, C. Melvin Shi , chairman; Mrs. Pred- ‘rr\ck H. Brool vice chairman, and Miss Margaret C. Lancaster, secretary. | A staff of horticultural experts, mem- bers of the committee, will endeavor the celebration in l Cleveland | % Alvin L. Newmeyer to break into the second-| The Washington Rapid Transit Co. is stablishment conducted by Jack | named as defendant in a suit to recover . at 913 D street, is expected by | §20,000 damages filed by Eva E. Row, 4 police to clear up more than 20 bur- | gherman Circle, for injuries alleged to glaries in the past thres months. | have been sustained when a conductor The men were taken by Patrolman|on a bus closed the door of the vehicle car caught fire at Delaware avenue snd E stréet southwest, George Walrodt of the first precinct. | They identified themselves as, James | Davis, alias Walter Smith, painter, 29 | years old, residing at a hotel; James Victor Flint, bellboy, 21, 900 block of L street. and William Earl Rice, black- smith, 25, 110 block of Eighth street. Clothing shops and restaurants were the victims, and today, Precinct De- tective J. A. Mostyn was going over a list of burglaries with Davis in an effort to determine the scope of the reputed operations of the trio. The burglaries thus far reported cleared up were: Restaurant, 1405 L street; Mount Vernon Cleaners and Dyers, 910 New York avenue; Dikeman's Sandwich_Shop, 609 Fifteenth strect Fashion Shop, 501 Ninth street, which was entered twice; Bell Clothes Shop, 941 Pennsylvania avenue, and the Pres- to_Lunch Room, 517 Ninth street. Mostyn said that all the men would be charged with housebreaking. ~Davis, who talked freely, is reported to have a police record. Commissioned in Reserve., James H. Windsor, 3501 Thirteenth street, has been commissioned by the War Department, a captain in the Ordnance Department of the Reserve Corps of the A - on her hand December 4 last. She was attempting to board the vehicle, she says, when it was suddenly started, and she grabbed the door to keep from being thrown to the floor, and her hand |to answer all questions concerning the care and cultivation of gardens, it was sald. Among them are Dr. . _R. Beattie, Bureau of Plant Industry, De- partment of Agriculture; R. W. Dunlap, Assistant Secretary of the Department of Agriculture; C.Lanham, superintend- ent of trees and parking in the District |of Columbia; R. W. Rogers, Maryland | Park and Planning Commission: T. B. | Symons, University of Maryland; Nolan Ryerson, Bureau of Foreign Plant In- troduction; H. B. Derr, Fairfax County, was caught. She is represented by At- torney Crandal Mackey. and M. M. Shoemaker, University of Maryland. OFFICER’S DEBUT AS VICE SQUAD OPERATIVE LEAVES HIM VERY ILL|MARRIAGE LICENSE Liquor Which He Sampled to Be Analyzed; Raid Results From Detective’s Visit. Detective C. P. Flynn's debut as “un- dercover operative” for Inspector T. R. Bean's vice squad left him some 1ill effects yesterday after he had made a “buy” in an alleged speakeasy in the 1200 block I street southeast. Flynn sampled the contraband, ac- cording to Sergt. N. O. Holmes, and later became very sick. The officor had to be take ome and placed under ihe care of sician. ‘The vice squad, however, raided the establishment later in the day on in- formation obtained by Flynn and ar- rested James Lueul tgm‘?n. 39. El- liott was mzu Wi legal posses- sion of two lon".lhlaxy and re- leased #n $500 bond N Samples of the liquor Were to be turned over to the Police Dgpartment chemist today for an analy: PAY ROLL ROBBERS BELIEVED T0 HAVE ESCAPED ON TRAIN Theory Put Forward After Discovery of Stolen Sedan Near Station. POLICE BELIEVE HOLD-UP WAS CAREFULLY PLANNED Car TUsed in Robbing People's Drug Workers Was Stolen Week Before. The three hold-up men who robbed two Peoples Drug Co. employes of a $6,500 pay roll Wednesday are believed to have driven to Union Station in the “big blue sedan” in which they wer. seen to leave the scene of the robbery. The theory that the men left the city by train was put forward by police to- day, following discovery of the car, still bearing the fraudulently obtained license plates, parked near Union Station. The machine bore no marks that might lead to the identification of the robbers. The automobile was found on the Union Station Plaza by Officer Matthew Chymlko, sixth precinct, who is de- tailed at Union Station. It had evident- 1y been there since the day of the rob- | bery, according to police. Stolen From Warren E. Hunt. The car had been stolen from Warren E. Hunt, 2551 Seventeenth street, while parked at 1869 Mintwood place, on Tuesday night, March 24, a week be- fore the robbery. Reconstructing the crime in theory, police have reached the supposition that the “three small, dapper men™ had planned the robbery weeks in ad- vance; that one of their number, or an accomplice, went to the District Build- ing late in March, procuring the license plates used on the car at the time of the robbery, under the fraudulent name of Frank Lutz, 1628 Sixteenth street, and that the car was stolen after the purchase of the plates. Employes at the drug warehouse, near which the hold-up occurred, had seen the three men lingering about the alley for several weeks previous to the hold-up, but had thought nothing of it, as many strangers were constantly in the vicinity. Crime Well Planned. With the stolen car, a sedan, parked nearby: with positive knowledge the two hold-up victims returned shortly before noon each Wednesday with the warehouse pay roll and with knowledge of train schedules which enabled them to make their quick getaway, the rob- bers course was mapped out in advance, police believe. The two drug employes, Edwin W. Edmonston, a buyer, and Seymour Stoutenbourgh, assistant warehouse manager, had just returned from a downtown bank with the pay rcll at about 11 o'clock when they were con- fronted by the three men. Two leveled guns at their victims, while the other searched them and got the pay roll. Then all three made & dash for the car and sped away. Police in a patrol car 200 yards from the scene of the robbery were given a wrong address over the radio and con- sequently arrived on the scene after the bandits had escaped. NEW PLAN AWAITS DISTRICT JUSTICES Supreme Court Will Rece: Begin Expediting Trials and Motions, Then ‘The Easter recess of the District Su- preme Court began today and will con- tinue until next Friday. when all the civil justices will hear for the last time a general list of motions, preparatory to the adoption of the “Cleveland™ method of expediting the work of the court, which gces into effect April 13. Begirning on that date, Justice Jen- nings Bailey will take jurisdiction of all pending motions, except motions for new trials and motions growing out of the bankruptcy of the firm of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey. Justice Adkins will handle all Swartzell motions and each trial justice will on motions for new trials held fore him. Justice Bailey will hear motions five days a week, instead of PFridays only, as at present. He will also act as assignment justice and will supervise the work of Assignment Commissioner Fred C. O'Connell in keeping cases ready for the trial justices. Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat has announced the new assignment of the | justices to take effect.April 13. Five justices will be available to hear law cases and two to dispose of equity pro- ceedings. Three justices are assigned to criminal courts and two to the con- demnation proceedings. The name of Justice Stafford does not appear on the new nt and it is expected he will devote the inter- val before May 1, when he becomes eligible to retire, in closing up matters pending before him. Justice Bailey is named as motions and assignment justice. Chief Justice Wheat and Justice Cox will continue to handle condemnation cases and will also be assigned to Circult Division 1. Justice Siddons will preside in Circult Division 2 and Justices Luhring and Proctor, in Circuit Division 3. Justice Proctor will also be assigned to Equity Division 1, and Justice Adkins to Equity Division 2 and Criminal Division 2. Justice Gordon will continue to pre- side in Criminal Division 1 and Justice Luhring in Criminal Division 3. Equity justices, it is understood. will hear only ty cases, and jury trials, not criminal, will be handled by the five justices assigned to the law courts. Rl RUSH IS UNDER WAY Clerk Kept Busy Yesterday and Today, but Expects Biggest Crowd Tomorrow. “The Court House took notice today of its surest sign of Spring—a line of couples seeking marriage licenses. There was brisk work, yesterday and this morning, for the clerk in charge, Mrs. Maud Rynex, and she anticipates more tomorrow. Yesterday 35 licenses were issued, a substantial increase over the previous day, but not up to the total expected before today's books are closed,