Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1931, Page 17

CUT N EPLESY SHOWN AS PATIENTS ACQURE PELLAGRA Chance Discovery at Georgia State Hospital Opens Way for Possible Cure. VITAMIN DEFICIENCY REDUCES CONVULSIONS Mental Disease Returns, However, on Reduced Scale When Dietary Maladjustment Is Corrected. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Epileptic convulsions may be cut ap- | proximately in half by producing in the | patients the dict-ceficiency disease, pellagra, which is common through the poorer sections of the South. This result is reported by the Public Health Service following an experiment suggested by the chance observation of the clinical director of a Georgia State hospital for epileptics. While pellagra 15 not put forth as a cure for the wide- spread mental disease, the remarkable effects may open a new line of research into the fundmental causes of epileptic ecizures, according to Public Health Service officials. i Discovery Made by Chance. Epileptic patients at the Georgia hospital, according to the report, were being treated by what is known as the ketogenic diet, Which has a very high fat content, but is deficlent in the pellagra preventive vitamin, although the deficiency is not sufficient ordinarily 10 produce pellagra. But one woman patient, evidently especially susceptiblz, did begin to show the characteristic symptoms of this disease. Practically simultaneously the epileptic convuisions, which before had been fairly regular, stopped altogether. She had no seizurs for more than two months. Then her diet was changed so as to cure the pellagra and the convulsions returned, but on a reduced scale.. It was not considered likely that the good effect on the epilepsy was due to the ketogenic diet itself since none of the other patient; on the same diet who did not develop pellagra showed any marked improvement. Also the woman herself had been on the diet for a long time before becoming I of pellagra and it had done little good. Ten Women Used in Test. Then a Public Health Service sur- | geon joined hands with the hospital di- | rector and they proceeded deliberately to alter the diet so that hardly any of the pellagra-preventative vitamin' was left and give it to patients in enough physical condition to withstand the diet-deficiency disease. The out- look of epileptic patients is so bad, the report of the experiment says, that the experimenters felt justified in giving them a less serious disease which might have a good effect on the primary malady. Besides there is a practically certain specific for pellagra if it is not allowed to go too far—yeast, Ten white women were taken as subjects. In every case there was practically a | 50 per cent drop in the convulsions as £oon as signs of pellagra appdarcd. In | cvery case the convulsions became as | numercus as ever—and in one case much more s0o—as soon as the process of i pellagra was halted. Ordinarily, it is | pointed cut, the number of convulsions was kept down with various sedatives. ‘These sedatives were stopped when the signs of pellagra appeared, so that ac- tual contrast is probably greater than is shown by the Public Health Service tables. | stranger and the two men grappled, | he Fp WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, MEANEST THIEF John Sale Had Just Found Job After Unemployment Since Last November. Robber Shoulders Into Room, Takes $7 and Leaves Vic- tim Unconscious on Bed. Not in his 52 years had John E. Sale of 927 H strect gone so long out of employment. Last week was the first full-time he had been able to find since November. At that time Mr. Sale broke his arm and was laid off as the manager of a chain store in Alexandria, without compensation, he said, for the injury. Last night he left the basement room which he rents on H street for a breath of fresh air shortly before 10 o'clock. While strolling, he dropping | in at a drug store on Ninth near G for a soft drink. He pald for the drink from a pocket- | book which contained $7 in bills—the last money he had in the world, since he had settled for his own rant and the board bill of his 7-year-cld daugh- ter Eleanor, who was going to school in Ballston, Va. Man Shoulders Into Room. Shortly after he returned to his room | there was a knock at the docr. Mr. Sale opened it and a strange whitc n ¢ ) MONDAY, A APRIL LEAVES FEW PENNIES FOR WORKLESS MAN JOHN E. SALE. which Mr. Sale could not identify and brought it down over the latter's skull. Semi-conscious, the injured man was dimly aware that the other was empty- ing his pockets. Then Mr. Sale felt himself picked up from the floor and laid on his bed. The stranger then léft. bolting the door from the outside. Hours passed and Mr. Sale, reviving somewhat from time to time, mustered strength to call for aid. Two of his windows opened on the sidewalk and he could see hundreds of people passing almost within reach, but could not at- man shouldered inside. The man made several inquiries about | a person supposed to be living there. | Mr. Sale said he had never heard of such a person. | “Never mind,” replied the intruder, closing the door behind him, after your money.” Mr. Sale denied that he had any. g “You're a liar,” sald the stranger, “I saw you open your pocketbook in the drug store just now.” Sale Grapples With Stranger. Mr. Sale swung a blow , “I'm here | | | at the | overturning a chair. Then the man pro- | duced a weapon from his coat pocket | tract the attention of any one. Robber Missed 3 Cents. Some time early today, about 7 hours after Mr. Sale had been attacked, an- nother roomer chanced along the hali- | way and heard a feeble call for help. The injured was was taken to Emer- gency Hospital and treated for a severe scalp laceration and possible fracture of the skull. His condition was not re- garded as serious, although it was serlous enough to loose the job of floor- waxing which Mr. Sale had obtained. “Wel grinned the injured man this morning, “that fellow left he 3 cents, anyhow. I can't understand how he happened to overlook it.” i .. C. OFFICE SITE . SET NEXT PROJECT Building to Cost $4,500,000 Will Be One of Three—U. S. Prepares for Razing. ‘The next structures to be razed in the | be those in the two blocks between tion avenue and C street, the site for the new Interstate Commerce Commis- | sion. | This was indicated today by the Treasury Department, where it was said that as soon as the last plece of prcp- erty in this area has been officially | deeded to the Government a date can be fixed for clearing the whole area. | Already notice to move has been served upon virtually all property own- ers and tenants in the area, with the | latest date for vacating fixed at May 16. The Washington Woodworking Co.. located at Twelfth street and Constitu- tion avenue, is understcod to have asked for more time to move to its new loca- tion, but final decision on its request had’ not been reached today at the Treasury Department. Three Buildings Planned. The Interstate Commerce Commis- sion Building is to be part of a devel- opment stretching from Twelfth to Fourteenth street, from the new In- Indications Are Obscure. H 1t is obviously impractical, say Public Health Service officials, to keep cpi leptics continuously victims of pellagra 1o improve their condition, and the re- | miission of convlusions lasts cnly as long | 8s the dietary discase lacts. In one | case the number of convulsions in a | month almost doubled over the pre«| ternal Revenue Bureau Building to the new Department of Commerce Building. The square also will be occupied by a Government auditorium in the middle and by the Department of Labor at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue. Already wreckers are tearing down all the old buildings on the two other blocks of the area to the east to cle vious record as soon as the patient was | the site for this development. given considerable amounts of t to| The Interstate Commerce Commission offset the pellagra. | part of the building will be probably a The indications of the experiment |little more than a block long, from are obscure. says the report. Science | TWelfth street to a point past Thir- never has found the underlying rea- | teenth street, as Thirteenth street is to F for various types of epiler be closed. | e Will Cost $4,500,000. f the pell « Arthur Brown, jr., of San Francisco e i prel Mamin of | is architect not’oniy for the 1. C. C some obscure effect in the body whien | BUllding. but also for the Department s hostile to epilepsy. e e menon |of Lebor and auditorium, which wil that the physical enfeeblement brouent | 107 & trio of structures tied all into y" the peliagra might fteelt: b |one. The estimate on the cost of the tble. but theoia might itsell be | Interstate Commerce Commission sec- . . ¥ ters point | tion is about $4,500,000. leads 1o | " “Another operation which will follow event without | shortly js the Post Office Department .| project, located directly north of the is| I C. C. site. The Post Office Building ce | will be attached to the north wall of c|the I. C. C. Building and will be con- cave on both the east and west fronts stretching between Twelfth and Thir- teenth streets, from about C street to Pennsylvania avenue. Plans for being drawn by Willlam A. Del New York City. The estimate of cost | for this structure is about $10.300,000. 1t is probable that the Treasury De- | partment will ask for bids on the Post tate Office Department job to include both g of old structures and exca- for the foundation s proiect is complizated somewhat by the auestion of the tracks of the Mount Vernon, Alexandrix & Wzsh- | ington Railway, which has protested an crder for removal of the rail. LIFELONG GE'ORGVETOWN RESIDENT DIES AT 84 Eliza C. ther Was Dr. Hezekiah Ma- Had Long Been Iil Miss Eliza O. Magruder, 84 years old. !a lifelong resident of Georgetown, died |at her home, 1407 Thirty-first strect, last cvening after a long iliness Miss Magruder was the daughter of work in the Willo the late Dr. Hezekiah Magruder and the Fairbanks. Copper Mountain, Girdwood, | late Mrs. Eliza Fitzhugh Magruder, who Kantishna and Moosc Pass districts. | were among the oldest inhabitants of Four more investigating parties will Georgetown. She was a sister of Dr study the west fork of Chulitna, Valdez | Alexander Magruder, U. S. N.. retired Creek, Talkeetna Mountains and Yetna|and the late John R. Fitzhugh Ma- districts. gruder. whose wife was the daughter of Congress last year made available | Henry D. Cooke, former Governor of the $250,000 for such exoloration, effective | District of Columbia under the old form next July 1. Work is to start as soon | of government here. as weather permits, Miss Magruder formerly made her Results of the investigations will be!home with her sister-in-law, Mrs. J. R made public immediately in Alaska ! P. Magruder, at 3007 Q street, formerl: through a representative of the survey, | the residence of Gov. and Mrs, Cooke who will have headquarters at Anchor- | and a social center of both Georgetown age. Meantime the Anthracity Ridge|and Greater Washington. area has been withdrawn temporarily Funeral services will be conducted by from classification. to h catments for are no of robbing vit K NS ALASKA TO BE STUDIED | FOR MINERAL VALUES Coal Field ject of Survey Fur Will Be Principal Magruder, Whose Sp-cinl Diso Speedi the min logical Si an intensive route of the Principal gruder, Alaska Re ttention will be estigation of the i Coal Field. Six part conduct tt ‘The principal object of the work is|Tucker at Oak Hill Chagel tomorrow | trols, so Harper junior was able to sit|employe at the ncon at 3 o'clock. hasten development of natural re- ' eften Interment will 850 CARS JAM BLOSSOM TRAFFE President Hoover in Tie-up at Tidal Basin Return- ing From Camp. Crowds continued to flock to the public building prcgram probably will Tidal Besin to sec the cherry blo&wmsiwnd yesterday, when 28,560 automobiles | Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, Consti- | passed over the inlet bridge, creating a | traffic jam second only to that of the | previous Sunday, when 34,240 cars set | a new all-time record. | Although United States Park Police | had expected Washingtonians would steer clezr of the Potomac Park section, many machines bearing District license | plates were in the line of automobiles which slowly wound its way around both the basin and the Specedway. Park police and members of the Met- ropolitan force, directing traffic in the area, put the traffic arrangements spon- | scred by Represcntative Frank L. Bow- | man, Republican, of West Virginia, into | effect about 3 o'clock, as the cars grew | in_number. | Traffic reached its peak about 6 o'clock and Representative Bowmzn, re- turning to the Capital from his home | in Morgantown, W. Va., with his mother, | was caught in the flood tide of cherry blossom enthusiasts. President Hoover and his party, re- turning from his Rapidan, Va., camp, likewise encountered the trafic jam. Officers Sent to Aid. Capt. R. C. Montgomery, U. S. A.. su- perintendent of park police, sent Lieut H. H:lm and three policemen to as in untangling traffic in the vicinity of the Washington Airport. Capt. Mont- pointed out tbday that there is bottleneck at the low pit. on the Washington side of the Highway Bridge, which practically cuts the street width | to half of normal. Another bottleneck | on the Highway Bridge, to further com- plicate the traffic problem, he said, is where the false bridge has been put in | to enable engineers to construct the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway un- derpass on the Virginia side. This tem- | porary bridge, the captain asserted, pro- | duces a double curve effect, and is not sufficiently wide to accommodate traffic, | carried on the wider main Highway | Bridge Both Representative Bowman Capt. Montgomery asserted that the so- lution of the traffic_jams at this sea- son of the year in Potomac Park will be by engineering rather than traffic experts. 80! and | Main Artery for South. | Capt. Montgomery said that the main | artery of traflic for the South. passing | through the Capital, must find its way northerly end of East P c Park, which is an island. Traf- | fic returning from Florida at this period adds to the confusion, he said, and as further complication the park traffic intersects this through stream The traffic began in earnest about 9 | oclock yesterday morning, reaching its | cimax in the late afternon and con- | tinuing until about 8 o'clock. Capt. Montgomery traffic generally this year has been | greater than ever before, but is unable | to assign a reason for this Duc to the heavy congestion around the Highway Bridge, great numbers of motorists took advantage of the Military road, on the east side of Arlington Na tional Cemetery, utilizing that thor oughfare to Rosslyn, Va., and Key Bridge, i an effort to avoid the jam Military road was extensively used yes- terday, lessening the congestion in the | Potor Park area NAVY PILOT’S SON, 10, FLIES DUAL CONTROLS Lieut. Harper's Bn;' Goes With Father on Week End Trip to Hampton Roads. has noticed that | Lieut. C. . Harper, U, S. N., on du at the Anaccstia Naval Air Station, be lieves the younger generation i3 going | to fiy and that it might as well learn to fly young. He is applying his philoscphy to his 10-year-old son, and the boy,| acting @s a navigator and co-pilot, ac- companied his father on a week end | trip to the Hampton Roads Naval Air | Station, returning to Anacostia today |~ On the trip the boy plotted the course after fashions of his own and once or | pires in Palestin | upon, the Jews living in every part of | FREIGHTER I.S DESTROYED JEWS PAY TRIBUTE ' TOMRS, GOLDSMITH AS DRNVE OPENS Washington Woman Honored for Weifare Work Among Members of Her Race. AMERICAN JEWS TO RAISE FIVE MILLIONS FOR AID Capital's Quota Is $60,000—House- to-House Canvas Will Start Tomorrow. { Washington Jewry last night hon- ored Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, for| | years a leader in welfare work for her {Tace, when 500 friends gathered at a |banquet at the Mayflower Hotel to {mark her sixtieth birthday anniversary {and heard tribute to her labors. Linked with the celebration was a | presentation of the cause of the United | Jewish Campaign for Eastern Europe and | Palestine, in which she is an ardent worker, and the announcement that $18,000 had been subscribed here in the past week toward the $60,000 which is the Capital's quota of $5,000.000 being raised nationally. Among the princi- pal givers were Mrs. Cora Berliner, $2,- 1500, and Paul Himmelfarb, $1.000 A city-wide canvas of Jewish homes | |in the interest of the drive will start| | tomorrow. Personal solicitation of funds | | was purposely omitted from last night's | | program. Joseph D. Kaufman, toastmaster, out- lined the manner the drive would be conductzd and called upon the prin- cipal 'speakers, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, | rational chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, | and Morris Rothenberg, chairman of the American Palestine campaign. Sad Plight Is Pictured. Rabbi Wise described the sad plight of the Jews in Eastern Europe and de- clared that the American Jews cannot now withdraw their support and sym- pathy in the economic crisis that is sweaping Europe. “It would b: an act of cruelty to withdraw now after we have spent $100,- | 000,000 to rescue the millions of Jews | of Eastern Europe from destitution,” he clared. “We can't afford to do it. It| would stamp American Jewry with ob- loquy it could never live down.” Rothenberg told the gathering that the upbuflding of a Jewish home in Palestine is an essential step to solving the Jewish problem. “What hangs like a dark cloud over the Jewish settlement in Palestine, y to break at any moment and en- | gulf the Jewish work, is a financial | and economic breakdown.” he said. | “This perilous financial condition has | isen because of the greatly reduced | amounts which Palestine has received | in the last year, particularly from the United States. Appeals to Raclal Pride. “The werk of building the Jewish na- i tional home is bound up with the honor H { of the Jewish pecple. Whatever trans:. has its repercussion | the world. A breakdown of our work | in Palestine would not only be a stag- | gering blow (o the brave pioneers in | Palestine, it would not only be a set- | back to Jewish hopes everywhere, but it ! would also seriously affect the prestige of Jewis! woerld, particularly in America.” Harold H. Levi, chairman of the local | campaign, pointed out that the drive here was the first appeal in several years to Washington Jewry and that he was assured that the effort would be greeted with success. He paid high tribute to Mrs. Goldsmith as “the most | charitable woman who has ever lived | among us.” | Isidore Hershfield, co-chairman of the drive, urged that the splendid tradi- | | tion of generous giving established by | { Mrs. Goldsmith be carried on by all | | those present, Dr. Abram Simon of the Eighth stree | temple paid eloquent tribute to the life | long service of Mrs. Goldsmith. He said | that her greatest contribution was | teaching Washington Jews to give freely to charitable causes. Mrs. Goldsmith, as the final speaker of the evening, voiced her thanks for the demonstration of her fricnds and added her plea to those of the previous speakers that the amount sought for European relief and Palestine be raised quickly “as ties of blood bind us closely to our brethren in Europe.” t | IN WILMINGTON BOAT FIRE $200,000 to $400,000 Loss Esti- mated—Other Shipping Suffers Damage. The passenger steamer, City of Wash- ington, of the Wilson Line, was burned to the water line, and the State of | Drlaware, her sister ship, was damaged | with other boats when fire broke out on | ships at the foot of Fourth street, in the Christiana River, at Wilmington, Del., yesterday. The small freighter West River, like the City of Washington, burned to the water line. A barge, laden with skins | for a Wilmington morocco plant, also was burned. Unofficial estimates of the damage varied from $200,000 to $400,000, a good share of which was borne by the Wilson Line, which runs passenger steamers | into Washington. The City of Wash- | Ington last Summer plied the Potomac River south from this city. Both she and the State of Delaware have been running between Wilmington and Philadelphia John Smith of Beverly, N. J., member of the West River crew and only person on the scene when the fire started, e pressed belief that fire followed an ex- plosion in the acid cargo of the West River. BOYS RESCUED AS CANOE CAPSIZES IN TIDAL BASIN Two boys were rescued today in the Tidal Basin, when the canoe in which they were paddling around, viewing the cherry blossoms, capsized. The boys, Robert Dixon, 16 years of age, 3729 Jocelyn street, Chevy Chase, and Robert Dannevella, 16, address un- known, were paddling the canoe near the Outlet Bridg: when it capsized. Pyvt. Thomas P. Fogarty of the United States park police saw their plight and | |twice had a fist in on the dual con- trols, it is said. The flight was made in a privately-owned cabin monoplane beside Harper renior, who acted as his counselor and ssverest critic, immediately went to the boat house for id. Howard Grantham, operator of the Rev. John Temple and Rev. F. Bland | equipped with side-by-side dual con-|swan boat, and Owen W. Shelby, an it house, went to the rescue in a fast t. Both boys re- fused hospital | Woodsome, h_communities throughout the | ! Motorists: Stop, Look and Listen! 20, 1931. ening Slaf [ cenerst vews | * #24 NEW PARKING REGULATIONS IN EFFECT WEDNESDAY. to 6 p.m. /4 — fg § [ERERY ONE 1, outlined by small dashes, bars parking from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. and allows one-hour parking from 9:30 l.nm' Zone 2, surrounded by the solid black line, allows one-hour parking from 8 am. to 6 p.m. Zone 3, marked by the large dashes, allows two-hour parking from 8 am. to 6 p.m. Zone 1 runs along New York avenue from Fifteenth to Ninth streets; K street, Ninth to Seventh; Seventh street from K to Pennsylvania avenue; Pennsylvania avenue, Seventh street to Fifteenth street, and Fifteenth from Penn- sylvania to New York avenue. Zcne 2 is bounded by L street and New York avenue from Eighteenth to Fourth street; Fourth 5tre‘ét from New | York avenue to I street; I street from Fourth to Massachusetts avenue and Sixth street; Sixth street from Massachu- setts avenue to Constitution avenue; Constitution avenue from Sixth to Fifteenth street; Fiftcenth street from Consti- tution avenue to New York avenue; Pennsylvania avenue from Fifteenth to Seventeenth street; Seventeenthwstreet from Pennsylvania avenue to G street; G from Seventeenth to Eighteenth street 5 Zone 3 runs up Fourteenth street from L to N street; down N t> Twentieth street; down Twentieth to F street; up | F to Seventeenth street; down Seventeenth street to Constitution avenue. Eighteenth street from G to L. WEEK END TRAFFIC COSTS YOUTH LIFE Motor Cycle Tire Blowout Fatal to C. B. Woodsome. Boy and __Man Injured. youth was killed, a boy hurt seri- ously, and a man was the victim of a hit-and-run driver in traffic accidents over the week end. Crashing into a tree when a tire on his motor cycle blew out, Chadbourne B. | 19 years old, stepson of Chief of Police Henry Haddaway of North Beach, Md., was fatally injured at Blair road and Van Buren street, yes- terday. Police north on Blair road when the tire blew out, catapulting the machine over a slight embankment and into the tree. He dicd a short time later at Walter Reed Hospital of 2 skull fractuge and nal injuries. Woodsome lived at Fairmont strect. He is survived by his mother, Minnic C. Haddaway; a step- sister, Miss Alice Haddaway: a brother, Curtis Woodsome, and his grandmother, Mrs. Alice B. Curtis. Running_from behind a parked auto- mobile at Florida avenue and Holbrook street northeast yesterday, Francis Shade, 14 years old, of 1400 H street northeast was struck by an_automobile driven by Hubert Hoskins, 709 Newton street. The boy was trcated at Casualty Hos- pital for a fractured right collarbone and injuries to his ribs. His condition s serious. = Rudolph S. McCondia, 23 years old, of the 800 block of Eighth street, received slight cuts and bruises yosterday after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver at Third and Rhode Island avenue, while crossing the street. He was treat- ed by a private physician. Six other persons were hurt slightly over the week end. DROUGHT INJURES DOGWOOD DISPLAY | Many Red Buds, Small Pines and | today by the defense as the trial of 13| Cedars Around City Also Killed. The drought last year not only se- riously affected many flowering dogwood trees in this vicinity, but also has killed off many redbuds and small pines and cedars, according to P. L. Ricker of the Department of Agriculture, who is president of the Wildflower Preserva- tion Society. A survey of the situation by Mr. Ricker has disclosed that throughout the woods in this neighborhood some of the oldest and finest flowering dog- wood trecs were killed by the drought. This will curtail to a certain extent the gorgeous flowering dogwood display which cach year follows blossoms. For several years the Wildflower Preservation Society and the Garden Club of America, through jts Commit- tee of the National Capital, have been waging a campaign to save the dog- wood from ruthless destruction. Much good has been accomplished, it is felt by these two organizations, but even more care will be needed to save the trees this year, on account of the loss of the old trees by drought. Many seedlings of both the cedar and pine have also died throughout this section, Mr. Ricker reported. e larger ‘trees of these species, however, with deeper roots, were able to survive. The dogwood 'blooms are opening now, Mr. Ricker explained, but they are still green, and small. When they will open wide, into the white blossoms that create a fine display, especially in Rock Creek Park, depends entirely upon the weather. If it should stay warm, and. there should be some rains, they will bloom in about 10 days or two weeks, Mr. Ricker thinks. Mol & Fined for Shooting Craps. FAIRFAX, Va., April 20 (Special).— Four colored men were arrested yester- day in Fairfax by Sheriff E. P. Kirby and Deputy Sheriff Henry Magarity and fined $25 and costs each by Mayor Chapman on charges of shooting craps. Kirby claims that frequent complaints had been made to him of gambling in the colored settlement. The men were Jemes Brooks, Edward Butler, Stephen P and Vernon Murray, saild Woodsome was driving the cherry | The | delson, | CAPITAL OPENS |Barrage Dispensed With Due to D. A. R. Convention. Balloons Sent Up. | \ | NEW YORK STOLEN CAR SPOTTER IS WITNESS. | | | The 1931 clean-up campaign got un- der way today but without the salvo | of artillery that had been intended to precede it. At the last minute the com- | mittee, of which Frederic A. Delano is chairman, decided that, out of courtesy | to the Daughters of the American Revo- | lution, it would be better not to fire off anti-aircraft guns on the Monument Lot | because so many members of that so- | ciety were in session at the annual con- | vention nearby. Otherwise, the start was quite offi- | cial. Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, | president of the Board of Commis- HEY call him “Eagle Eye Gus" | sloners, was at the Monument Lot when because he has recsvered 197 |five toy balloons filled with hydrogen stolen automobiles within the | were released to mark the start of the past year, but his real name is | campaign. Each balloon carried a brief August Schalham and he’s a | message offering the finder a five-dollar New York policeman. A machine stolen | credit for merchandise or labor, to be here about a month ago was recovered | used only for merchandise purchased or | by the sharp-eyed Gothamite and he | labor employed within the District of | was asked to come here to testify in|Columbia. The credit is to be extended | the case. —Star Staff Phote. | personally by George J. Adams, execu- | | tive secretary of the Campaign Com- = mittee. ACENTISATTAGAED Lawyer f 13 Men and|paint. garden seed or the like, or the | a ye OF labor be painting or clean-up work, the womafl on Tl'ail Charges ?:l}é‘afier.“mp“‘n goal will be a little Discrepancies to Johnson. the three purposes of the clean-up campaign are to stimulate business and employment, and to_beautify Washing- ton for the George Washington Bicere tennial celebration, next year. If the balloon finders cash their credit and spend the money on merchandise or labor, that will be a partial realiza- tion of ambitions numbers one and two, and, should the merchandise bought be | The’ campaign is to be divided into four weeks. Today is the official open- ing of Paint week, following which come Home week, Garden week and Community week, in the order named. MAN SHOT AND 5 GET Efforts to impeach Herbert Johnson, & Federal prohibition agent, and principal witness for the prosecution, were made men and a woman, charged with a | STAB WOUNDS' IN ROWS | liquor conspiracy, was resumed in Dis- ! o1t Bugrenss Conrt, Two Victims in Critical Condition Myron G. Ehrlich, of defense munsr‘l.% After Altercations—Police Hold | drew from the witness the statement i e i | that he had signed an afidavit in a| T nmcitcomes | padlocking injunction suit in which he | | alleged he had bought a half-gallon of alcohol from Alfred Mendelson in a store at 3442 Fourteenth street, Novem- ber 26, 1929. Johnson had testified a moment before that this transaction oc- | | curred near Thirteenth and Euclid | streets and that the money was paid to | Mendelson through a man he knew only |as “Bingham.” Johnson declared he believed both of his statements to be true at the time he | made them. He made no other ex | Planation of the discrepances. The witness was cross-examined con- cerning various other alleged purchases | of illegal contraband from the defend- | ants over a period of several months. | Ehrlich, T. Morris Wampler, James A. O'Shea, Charles Ford, Harry Whelan |and George S. Nathen alternated in | conducting the cross-cxamination. The trial was resumed early today after the three-day adjournment neces- sitated by the illness of Andrew Lebolo, | & member of the alleged ring. | _ The other defendants, in addition to | | Mendelson and Lebolo, are Ida Men- Roy Beasley, Harry Kushner, Corbin Shields, Jake Learner, Thomas McNichols, Jack Baum, Frank E. Baker | Eugene L.’ Saunders, Earl Harbin, Ed- | ward T. Croghan and Roy Ahearn. Gus Jones, 40 years old, colored, was eported in a serious condition at Emer- gency Hospital today with ghree bullet wounds in his body, receivid, he told police, during a quarrel with his son- in-law, Robert Coleman, 23, colored. The shooting gccurred last night in front of Jones' home, 616 Third street southwest, where Coleman also lives. Coleman fled following the shooting. Five persons, two white and three colored, suffered stab wounds yesterday uring a fight in front of the home of Margaret Jackson, colored, 216 Clarks | court southwest. The most seriously wounded was Moses Bunter, 36, colored, 131 P street southwest. Three of the others, John Rock, 36, Soldiers’ Home; Charles Barnes, 45, colored, 1244 Second street southwest, and the Jackson woman, suf- fered only minor wounds and were held by police pending the outcome of Bunter's wounds. The other man in- volved, Charles Quigley, 36, of 496 G | street southwest, who also was wounded slightly, was not held. | MAN,i 65, DIES BY GAS Rug Stuffed Under Door, Bath Room Heater Jets Found Open. Her_ attention attracted to the bath room by the odor of gas late last night, | Mrs. May Harrison, 1330 Massachusetts avenue, found one of her roomers, Wil- liam M. Steele, 65-year-old engineer, dead. Gas was flowing from the open burner of a heater, a rug having been stuffed under the door in an effort to prevent its escape into the hallway. A physician from Emergency Hospital examined the body pronounced life extinct. lice of the ¥esepd precinct conducf an investigation ang reported the death to Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt. J. W. BEAN BEQUEATHS $5,000 TO AID HORSES James W. Bean, well known turfman who died April 12, left $5,000 to the ‘Washington Humane Society for the purchase and disposing of horses that ve served their usefulness, but if re- habilitation is possible the fund may be used #or that purpose also. He also gave $5,000 for the perpetusl care of the family burial lot in St. John's Cemetery at Forest Glen, Md.. and $2,000 to the Shrine of the Sacred Heart for masses. | The remaning estate, the value of which is n%t dise is left abso- tutely to his widow, Mrs. Bdith E. Be dead man’s name formerly was son and that he formerly resid Canaseraga, 'N. Y. name to Steele 20 were told. L. R. N. Y., was notified He changedihis years ago, p Thompson,. Livol of his father PAGE B—1 INCINERATOR BIDS MAY BE REJECTED BY COMMISSIONERS Exact Fate of Project in Doubt as McCarl Writes Letter to Officials. MAJ. DAVISON DECLINES TO REVEAL CONTENTS All Correspondence Regarding Project XKept Secret by Officials. Fear was expressed at the District Building today that all bids for the construction of two incinerators will have to be rejected, the plan readver- |tised and the work delayed at least & year. The exact fate of the bids could not be learned with certainty. Acting Engineer Commissioner Donald A. Dav- ison Tefused to discuss the subject until after the Commissioners have made & decision. Controller General McCarl is known to have written the Commissioners a letter with respect to the bids. The letter arrived Saturday and today was referred to Corportaion Counsel Wil- liam W. Bride for a legal opinion, but Maj. Davison ordered its contents kept secret. Sees Important Question. “It's & very important question for the Commissioners to decide,” he said, “and I'd rather not say anything about it_until after the decision is made.” The specifications were prepared by Metcalfe & Eddy, engineers of Boston, especially retained by the District for the purpose. Bids were opened March 17 and were then sent to Boston for Metcalfe & Eddy to inspect and make a report recommending the lowest ac- ceptable bidder. Since then there has been a good deal of correspondence, all of it kept secret. There was a letter from Mr. McCarl to the Commissioners asking for informa- tion on the bids and a reply from the Commissioners. Bidder Complains. ‘There also was some correspondence from Metcalfe & Eddy, on the basis of which, it is reported, the Commissioners were ready to reject all bids. Then came the McCarl correspandence. The Controller General's Office is reported to have become interested when one of the bidders complained regarding the report that the Commissioners were going to reject all bids. Meanwhile, more than a month has elapsed since the bids were opened, and apparently no action has been taken toward letting the contract. This sit- uation is so unusual, with the District making every effort to rush all of its work under contract to help alleviate the unemployment conditions, that the belief is steadily gaining ground that the contract will not be let, at least until the present bids are ruled out and new ones advertised. 'GIRL’S RIDE STARTS SEARCH FOR TRIO | Marguerite Gendreau Tells Police She Was Kidnaped on Con- | necticut Avenue. . Police today were seeking three men, it was reported, forced a 14-year-old girl to accompany them on an auto- mobile ride last night. The girl—Marguerite Gendreau, 2940 Newark street—told police she was walk- ing on Connecticut avenue near Ca- thedral Mansions, when a car drew up to the curb and one of its three oc- cupants asked: “Is your name Mar- guerite?” When she replied in the affirmative, Marguerite said, the men jumped out, seized her and forced her into the ma- chine. They had driven only a short dis- tance, she related, when one of them asked her surname. When she told them, she added, they permitted her to leave the automobile, which had reached the neighborhood of the Shore- ham Hotel. One of the men, Marguerite said, was about 45 years old, had grayish hair and wore a gray suit. The second, who was about 21, had red hair and was garbed in knickers and a red sweater. The other, who was about 22, had chestnut hair and wore a tan suit. GOVERNMENT BUSINESS ATTITUDE TO BE TOPIC Electrical Guild Session Opens ‘With Addresses by Johm M. Gries and Others. ‘The United States Government's at- titude toward certain trade practices and business agreements was expected to receive special consideration at the first annual meeting of the Electrical Guild of North America, which was to convene in Wardman Park Hotel this afternoon 2t 3 o’clock. ‘The opening session was to be fea~ tured by addresses by John M. Gries, chairman of President Hoover's Con- ference on Home Building and Home Ownership; Victor H. Tousley, d secretary of the International ciation of Electrical Inspectors’; C. E. Greenwood, commercial manager of the National Electric Light Association, and H. H. Broach, president of the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. 5 ‘The guild will hold a banquet at the hotel tonight at 1 o'clock. Ofto 8. Beyer and L. 1. MacQueen are to be the speakers. Tomorrow a meeting of section managers is to be held, fol- lowed by a business meeting to include reports of officers and chairmen of guild committees tomorrow afternoon. MACKALL ESTATE VALUED AT $76,891 Executor Asks Probate of Will Left by Woman Who Died March 27, Sarah Somervell Mackall, who died March 27, left an estate valued at $76,891, according to the petition of her executor, Louis M. Weld of Meym. 1. dale, Pa., for the probate of her owned real estate assessed at $26,- She 891 and had personal property of It was reported to police that the [$50.000. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Mar- garet M. Weld of Meyersdale; a brother, Upton B. Mackall, 447 Decatur street, and es and nephews. _Attorneys Daniel’ 'w Wright and Philip Ershler e o