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he Foening Sapf [ oo ] | PAGE B—1 BAKER IS INDTED FOR WIFE NURDER BY GRAND JRY Three Children Present, but Testimony Not Required at Inquest. TUESDAY, UNFORN TRAFF LANS FOR NEARBY STATES PROPLSE Report of Conference Urges District, Maryland and Virginia Agreement. VEHICLE CODE FAVORED APRIL 1931. EE 2y WASHINGTON, NEW BUS ROUTES HERE WILL REPLACE STREET GAR LINES D C, 21, s N Memorial Tree Planted HONORED AT CAPITOL. EXTRA POLICE TO ENFORCE NEW PARKING REGULATIONS Three Days of Leniency to Offenders Is Plan ‘of Inspector Brown {Ol' Tomorrow. NEW ACRICULTURE ' BULDING T0 BE " RUSHED BY FIRM Subcontractors Expected to Be Retained by Starrett Bros. & Eken. WASHINGTON Service on F and G Streets| Will Be Changed as Re- sult of Ruling. Special preparations wereé made today plaint after the new arrangements are by Inspector E. W. Brown, in charge of | §iven a fair trial. the Traffic Bureau, to enforce the new Zones Are Listed. three-zone parking regulations, which | In general the first sone. in which v | parking will not be permitted uni T DSome et ooy, | 5730, Tuns along New York avenue from All avallable traffic officers Will be | pifreenth to Ninth streets: K street, assigned to duty in zone 1, where park- | Ninth to Seventh: Seventh street, K to ing is to be prohibited between 8 and | Pennsylvania avenue: Pennsylvania ave- 9:30 a.m. Inspector Brown said he |nue, Seventh and Fifteenth streets, and would have between 25 and 30 officers | Fifteenth street from Pennsylvania ave- PROTEST BY RESIDENTS ROBBERY“OF NEWSBOY WASHINGTON WORKMEN CHARGE IS REPORTED After 9:30 ALSO MAY RECOVER JOBS Company Which Erected Empire State Structure to Complete Project Here. Construction work on the new De- | partment of Agriculture “extensible” building, which has been at a stand-| still for more than a month, following | the faflure of the contracting firm, will| be resumed within a few days, it was| Jearned today et the Treasury Depart- ment. Arrangements have been completed ‘whereby the Metropolitan Casualty In- surance Co. of Newark, which was surety for the Nelson-Pedley Co. of Philadelphia, the contractor, will take over the job 3 The surety company has designated | Starrett Brothers & Eken, Inc., of New York, builders of the Empire State | Building there, to take up the work on | the Agricultural Building. in this area. Signs have been erected throughout he zones indicating the restrictions, and traffic authorities declared there will be no excuse for violations. In- structions will be given the officers, how- ever, not to make arrests until motorists have sufficient time in which to become familiar with the new zones. Three Days of Leniency. Inspector Brown said the period of leniency would not extend for more than two or three days, and after that arrests would be made for violation. Inspector Brown and otber officigls will make personal observa- tions, especially in the area in which parking will after 9:30 o'clock, and study the effect of the new regulations. He believes the movement of traffic will be facili- itated. Trafic officials also plan to observe carefully the public reaction to the change. While there have been a num- ber of protests to-the parking restric- tion between 8 and 9:30 am., thesau- thorities believe there will be little com- traffic | not be permitted until | May Keep Same Mens £ 1 “The subcontractors who started with | Nelson-Pedley, in all probability will be continued by the Starrett company, as MARY BAKER CLUES they have much of their materials al- ready cut. Unless the New York firm should take some unexpected step, however, by which they would import a lot of new labor from outside the city, it was pre- dicted the big construction job would be turned back largely into the hands of local building tradesmen and laborers. Complete confirmation of this policy, however, awaits announcement by the surety company and the new construc- tion firm. Nelson-Pedley compdny, which w in the hands of a receiver, follding court action in Pennsylvania, has been entirely removed from the situation. The Federal Building here, it was ef- plained, had nothing whatever to doj with the failure of the firm, the re-} ceivership resulting from circumstances in_Pennsylvania. Emmet A. Steece, United States con- struction _engineer, representing the! Treasury Department in supervision of | the work, praised the type of construc- | tion which already has gone into the new Agriculture Building. He predicted there was no better work going into any new Federal building in the city. Mr. Steece continues in supervision for | the Government. | The new contracting firm, which will | start_operations on the site within & | few days, has achieved a reputation as | one of the fastest builders of large structures. The Empire State Build-| ing, now the highest in the world, was | raised and mostly completed in 18 months. - If the Starrett Co. bears out its repu- tation for speed, it was predicted, it may | complete the job about the middle of next January. One-third of Total. o ! ‘The building is on the square bounded B and C streets, Thirteenth and teen-and-a-half streets southwest. It is only about one-third of what eventually will be the completed exten- sible building. Congress authorized $5,- 750,000 and two blocks of land were obtained, the one on which the new construction is going up, and the one immediately to the west, facing Four- teenth street. Eventually the other square to the east is to be purchased. When work stopped more than a amonth ago, about 350 men were em. ployed on the building. The new con- tractor probably will start operations with about the same number within a few days. As soon as the job is under ! way. however, it was iniimated the! Starrett Co. may double this number to speed up the work. DISMISSAL OF SUIT, ‘Widow of Former Senator~Granted Motion Because Plaintiff Failed to Sign Paper. | | | Because Mrs Beatrice Henderson“ Whelean failed to sign a suit against Mrs. Mary F. Henderson, widow of John | B. Henderson, former Senator from | Missouri, in which she was joined as| plaintiff with the W. P. Lipscomb Co. | 1o enforce a mechanic's lien of $20,- | 640.49 against property at Sixteenth and | Lamont streets, Justice Jennings Bailey today granted Mrs. Henderson's motion to dismiss the bill The court, however, permitted Attor- neys Tobriner & Graham, representing the .ipscomb firm, to amend the bill or to dismiss it as to Mrs. she did not file an affidavit verifying the bill. The order of the reads defendant in t bill are correct Leave will be givs the plaintiffs to amend their bill in t! manner sought in their brief and to file an affidavit of Mrs. Wholean verify- | | | ing the bill or dismiss it in so far as she is concerned.” Mrs. Henderson was represented by Attorney George E. Edelin G. W. U. SINGERS GIVEN PART IN SCOUT PAGEANT | |ot Wholean if | | |t “motions justice” “I think the contentions of the | e motion to strike the | | SUSPECTS IN MURDER BELIEVED BARREN Woman Names Man, Who Will Be Questioned in Murder Here. The long dormant investigation of the Mary Baker murder mystery has been revived as a result of new information given to Inspector Willlam S. Shelby, chief of detectives. A preliminary check up, however, has about convinced de- tectives that the lead is about as worth- less as hundred of others they followed up in an effort to solve the ~crime. Goes to Baltimore. Capt. Edward J. Relly, chief of the homicide squad, and Detective Sergt. John Flaharty spent several hours in Baltimore late yesterday questioning a woman who was said could possibly throw some light on the murder. The woman'’s story did not make a favorable impression on the detectives, but they intend to run down the details. Information given Capt. Kelly was to the effect that the Baitimore woman had been on an automobile trip with a Washington man shortly after’ Miss Baker's body was found April 12, 1930, and had acted suspiciously when the crime was mentioned. Woman Names Man. The woman gave the detectives the name of the man and he is to be inter- rogated: The description of the man is said to correspond with that of the man seen by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh R. Wood struggling with Miss Baker in her i parked car near Seventeenth and B |every citizen’s duty when called to ac- streets on the afternoon of April 11 1930. The man is said to be a sales- man | Arlington County authorities denied reports they had sent two officers to Fredericksburg, Va., to interview a man held in jail there for an alleged assault on a woman near Oak Grove about three week: ago. Miss Baker was a native of Oak Grove. |EIGHT-STORY GARAGE PLANS ARE DRAFTED | New Structure Will Be Erected at Corner of Twelfth and E Streets. Plans for the construction of an eight-story garage building at the north- west corner of Twelfth and E streets at an_ estimated building cost of about $250,000 aze being drawn for the own- ers of the Washington Garage Co., Inc., it was revealed today. The property would be leased for a long term of years from the owner of the site. who is represented by the C. Heurich Realty Co. The property subject to negotiations has a frontage 85 feet on E street and 140 feet on Twelfth street. The proposed buliding would have a stone exterior in the first two stories. with brick above The concern, which has been in busi- ness here for 12 years, now operates a wo-story garage at 1212 E strect and has a service station on the northwest corner of the intersection. AT HOLD-UP CLEARED Two Youtts Grilled in Richmond on Jaynes Slaying Here Fail to Answer Descriptions. Richmond, Two youths, arrested in investigation Va., and held there for {in connection with the murder of Mrs. Colorful Festival of Nutions Spon-| sored Next Week at Constitution Hall by Girl Scouts of City. Elizabeth S, Jaynes In the Garden T woppe hold-up on April 8, were rve- ligved of suspicion in the case late yes- tefday, following their questioning by Headquarters Detectives George Darnell The Glee Club of George Washington | and Robert J. Barrett, who went to the University will participate in the, Virginia City after the two had been Czechoslovakian episode and in the | arrested. finale of the pageant in the forthcom- ' ing Pestival of Nations, it was announc- ed today by the directors of the presen- tation. which will be staged in Constitu- The detectives said the youths, who were arrested on another charge by Richmond authorities, but later held for possible identification in connection tion Hall next weck under auspices of | With the Washington murder, did not the local Girl Scouts. {in any way answer the description of Dramatic scenes in the productlon will | the two men who entered the tea shop, be enacted by The Troubadours, who are | shot the cashier and escaped. Tehearsing this week in the Washington | 2 g uditorium. P Ane ot e teatures of the testival win| CORNELL MOVIE PLANNED be the Mexicin episode, in which the | Mexican stage band, under the direction | of Sophocles Papas, will participate. Ray 8. Ashbery, fleld representative of the Cornellian Councll, now visiting Cornell University alumni throughout the Nation, will be the guest of the Cornell Club of Washington at a smoker in the University Club at 8 p.m. Thursday night. Mr. Ashbery will present motion pic- tures of the Cornell University campus. A. E. Conradis, president of the Wash- ington club, will preside, \ Visitor Dies Here. Mrs. Catherine Maher, ?0 years, ‘olld' Poughkeepsie, N. Y., who_was visit- 'I)l her mephew, John Talbot, 5210 Pifth z the street, died suddenly today of a attack while in the front yard nue to New York avenue. am. parking will be allowed in this area for an hour. Zone two, in which parking will be permitted for one hour from 8 am. to 6 p.m., is bounded by L street and New York avenue from Eighteenth to Fourth streets; Fourth street from New York avenue to I street; I street from Fourth street to Massachusetts avenue and Sixth street; Sixth street from | Massachusetts avenue to Constitution | avenue: Constitution avenue from Sixth to Fifteenth streets; Fifteenth street | from Constitution avenue to New York avenue; Pennsylvania avenue from Fif- | teenth to Seventeenth streets; Seven- | teenth street from Pennsylvania ave- nue to G street; G street from Seven- teenth to Eighteenth streets, and Eight- | eenth from G to L streets. The third zone, in which parking will be permitted for two hours from 8 a.m to 6 pm. runs up Fourteenth street from L to N streets; down N to Twen- tieth street; down Twentieth street to F street; up F street to Seventeenth strect, and down Seventeenth street to | Constitution avenue. JURY SHIRKERS Tells Trade Board “Intelligent | and Experienced Jurors Are Essential to Justice.” Those experienced business men and | others of special qualification who de- | liberately shirk jury duty on pleas of self-interest first were taken to task |last night by Justice James M. Proctor | of District Supreme Court. Speaking impersonally on the subject | in an address before a largely attended | meeting of the Public Order Committee of the Board of Trade, Justice Proctor | administered a rebuke to those who complain about the quality of juries and yet refuse to accept such service them- selves. “Because of the complicated and tech- nical types of cases that are coming before the courts today,” Justice Proctor | said, “intelligent and experienced jurors are essentlal to assure justice. Intelligent Must Accept. ! “This means that the intelligent and | experienced among the citizens must ?clcxepv, Jury service willingly and cheer- | fully “You cannot get such qualified jurors | by going out on the highways and by- iwnu and picking up only those not busily engaged in their own pursuits. | "*To the busy man who says of jury services ‘Let George do it it is all very | well until he comes into court as one | involved in a highly complicated litiga- | tion, 'and then he soon sets up a howl about the quality of the jury that de- | cides his case.” Justice Proctor declared that it was | cept jury service willingly. Further, he | said it is a privilege. “Here,” he added, “is & wonderful opportunity to the citizen to be called to have an actual part in the | administration of justice. It is my be- | lief that the jury is as important as the judge, if not more so. “Don’t leave it to George to do, for you will find some day, if you do, that | George is sitting on the jury because of his insignificance and because he was | one who had nothing to sacrifice in | accepting the servict and was glad to get the $4 a day for his jury duty.” Justice Proctor made the point also that in accepting jury service a man indirectly was serving his own inter- ests, declaring that the peace of a per- son's own home and the stability of his | business were at stake in the adminis- tration of justice. Justice Proctor, recently appointed to the District bench, was guest of honor | at the trade body meeting, and received | tributes from Charles W. Morris, Claude Owen, Ben T. Webster, George Offutt and Joseph A. Burkart. Oppose Police Consolidation. ‘The committee unanimously voted against a proposal that the various police forces of the National Capital be consolidated. A committee headed by Joseph McGarraghy, in opposing the suggestion found that no economles could be expected from consolidation; that there was no substantial duplica- tion of work, and that specially trained men were needed to properly police the parks. It held that officials charged with responsibility over properties and the enforcement of certain regulations should have control over their policing and enforcement. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of pub- lic buildings and parks, registered defi- nite opposition to the plan, for the rea- sons found by the committee. Ward H. Marsh, director of the Greater National Capital Committee, and A. C. Case, chairman of the com- mittee, told of plans for boosting Wash- ington as a tourist Mecca. President Offutt of the Board of Trade announced the appointment of Odell 8. Smith as chairman of the Pub- | lic Order Committee for another term. | The following committee officers were reappointed: ~ Mr. Burkart, first vice chairman; John T. Bardroff, second vice chairman; Harry Dean, secretary; Dr. A. Magruder Macdonald, assistant secre- tary, and Charles J. Waters, 8. C. Cis- sell and Harrison Emhardt, treasurers. John Lewis Smith submitted & report on crime statistics. POLICEMAN JACOBS DIES OF PNEUMONIA and Several Children Are Listed as Sur- vivors. Wife PROCTOR REBUKES | FILED AGAINST PLAN Potomac Heights and Foxall Vil- lage Accommodations Are Revised. / Two new downtown bus lines will | soon be functioning as a result of or- ders adopted late yesterday by the Pub- lic Utilities Commission. One of them will operat: from Fifteenth and K | streets to Potomac Heights and Foxall | village. The other will replace the Capital Traction Co.'s street car service jon F and G streets west of Seven- teenth street. The route for the former line has not been fixed, but will be arranged late This line is a result of the application of the Washington Railway & Electric Co.’s request to abandon its service from | Thirty-fifth and Reservoir streets to | Potomac- Heights. Suburbs Protest. | Citizens in the Potomac Heights and Foxall Viliage sector protested the aban- donment, and suggested instead an ex- tension of the line to the downtown section. The commission granted the request of the citzens. ‘The new line will leave Fifteenth and K streets every morning at 7 o'clock and make half-hourly trips to Potomac Heights, Between 9 o'clock and 4 in the afternoon the headway will be reduced and one trip will be made per hour. Thereafter from 4:15 to 6:16 p.m. the service will again be on a half-hour schedule, and from 7 to 10 o'clock at night there will be one bus per hour. Serve Same Territory, ‘The Capital Traction bus line, for which four 23-seat street-car type busses have already been purchased, will serve approximately the same territory as the F and G street car lines, except for the addition of a loop around the White House and State, War and Navy Building. The route of the new line will be: Starting at Twenty-sixth and F streets, east on F street to Twenty-fourth street; south on Twenty-fourth street to E street; east on E street to Twen: ty-second street; north on Twenty. second street to F street; east on F street to Seventeenth street; north on Seventeenth street to Pennsylvania ave- nue; along Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth _street; south on_Fifteenth street to E street; west on E street to Executive avenue; flong Executive ave- nue to State place; along State place to Seventeenth street; north on Seven- teenth street to G street; west on G street to Virginia avenue, and along Virginia_avenue and New Hampshire avenue to the terminus. There will be a basic 10-minute head- way, except in rush hours. when the headway will be 5 minutes. An owl service will also be run throughout the 24 hours. 'LEGION TO REVISE BALL TICKET SALE Policemen Will Not Sell Admis- sions to Mardi Gras Here. | The Columbia Mardi Gras. a gala | entertainment and ball to be staged | here June 6 under auspices of Wash- | ington Police Post. No. 29, American Legion, will be given as scheduled, under plans for the,sale of tickets which meet established regulations of the Metropolitan Police Department, according to announcements today by William H. McGrath, post commander. Revision of plans for the sale of tickets was found necessary due to a police regulation which prohibits mem- bers of the force from engaging in outside business for prof. The post was to receive 20 per cent of the re- turns from the sale of tickets. Confronted with a reminder of this regulation, issued by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, Comdr. McGrath called on members of other local legion posts to proceed with the sale of the tickets. In letters to com- manders of the other legion posts, Mr. McGrath stated: “In order that no veteran, who is a member of the Police Department and this post will place himself in a posi- tion to violate any rule, law or regula- tion of said Police Department, I have requested every member of the Police Post_to return the tickets sent to him. “You will, of course, realize that without the help of its menfSers the post will be unable to carry out its 1 P Rather than have the humiliation of stopping our affair and have it said that a Legion post has failed to keep its faith with the public, we are solicit- ing your aid. We will sacrifice the commission_which was to be paid to the Police Post and turn over the full 20 per cent commission on every ticket sold by a member of your post. “Here it is in & nutshell—20 tickets to a book at $1 each. On every book sold by a member of your post, your post will receive $4 and the member will receive $4. Further information can be obtained by calling at our office, Room 832 Washington Bullding, Fif- teenth street and New York avenue. “I hope you will give us your whole- | hearted support.” DRESE.I; FOLLOWS CLARKE New Skipper to Join Los Angeles. Former Chief Prepares for In- spection Board Place. Lieut. Comdr. Vincent A. Clarke, jr., commanding the naval dirigible U.S.S. Los Angeles, is coming on duty at the Navy Department. The new skipper of the Los Angeles will be Lieut. Comdr. Alger H. Dresel,. who has been under instruction aboard that craft. The Navy Department announced to- day that Lieut. Oomdr. Clarke will be on temporary duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, and will later be ditional aviation member of spection and Surve: ‘The change is Navy Department. take place imme- Policeman Harry L. Jacobs of the | eleventh police command, died at Emer- | gency Hospital this morning of pneu- | monia, Jacobs, who resided at 512 Sec- ond street southeast, is survived by his widow and several children.i A brot) |of the decensed died in Berryville, Va. |a short time ago. . The deceased was a native of the vi- cinity of Berryville and was in the em- | ploy of a local railway company at the time of his appointment to a_position in the Police Department, June 329, 1918. He was bosn January 8, 1884, diatel naval 1y, officials said. Lieut. .2;._ Drese] Annapo: 1 is a native of Com!¢ AS LEGISLATION BASIS Joint Consideration by Three Com- missions of Other Matters Asked. | Special Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG, Va,, April 21.—A report | of the preliminary conference of repre- | sentatives of. the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Commissions on Uniform Motor Vehicle Laws and | Traffic Regulations, which was recent- ly held in Washington, has just been made public. Agreement was unani- mous that uniformity is especially de- | sirable because of the interest in these jurisdictions and due to the large num- | ber of visitors to this territory from other States of the Union. The conference recognized as a de- | sirable basis for uniform legislation the | uniform vehicle code, proposed by the | National Conference on Street, and | Highway Safety, approved by the Na- ! tional Conference of Commissioners Uniform State_Laws and indorsed |the American Bar Association. Other Manuals Approved. | It likewise recognized the model | |4 A sturdy young walnut tree, grown from a seed from one of the Mount Vernon trees, was planted on the west slope of the Capitol Grounds yesterday as a memorial to George Washingion by the Boy Scouts of America and the Wash- ington Bicentennial Commission. Representative Bloom of New York and municipal traffic_ordinance, the man- | James E. West, Scout execut! {ual on street traffic signs, signals_and | *— ko WAR ON COAL UNIT isirable basis for furthering uniformity ! | |in other detajled phases of traffic con- {trol and regulation. | . After consideration of the outstand- |ing problems, representatives of three { jurisdictions were unanimous as to the | desirability of the following proposals, | which they agreed fo recommend to their respective governmental authori- | ties where not already in effect. i The drivers' licenses system with ex- amination. following, so far as prac-| ticable, the uniform operators’ and chauffeurs’ license act; the certificate of title or anti-theft system, based as| far as practicable on the uniform | | motor vehicle anti-theft act; periodic | examination, under public supervision of the physical condition of motor ve- hicles; uniform rules of the road and other legal requirements governing ve- | €rs of Washington in their decision to | hicle operation, based as far as prac-| sell coal by a 2,000-pound unit in the ticable on the uniform act regulating | Distritt of Columbia have done so trafic on highways, and to promote | “with a thorough realization that they | ease of understanding, using where pos- | have been violating the law.” Repre- sible the terms and arrangements of |Sentative Robert Crosser of Ohio, re- that act; conference of the highway | iterated today that he will lead a de- | authorities of the three jurisdictions| termined fight in Congress for enforce- | | with a view to furmulating the basis{ment of the mandate of Congress that for uniformity n vehicle size and|“coal shall be sold by the long ton,| weight requirements. consisting of 2,240 pounds.” | and Highway Safety as affording a de- | Ohio Representative to Lead; Fight to Force Dealers to | Use Ton Prescribed by Law. | S | Emphatically declaring that coal deal- | AS DIRIGIBLE COMMANDER | Other Important Matters. It was also agreed at this meeting | that there are other important matters calling for joint consideraticn by the three commissions with a view to still further advancing uniformity in traf- fic laws and regulations and that the | next joint meeting should be held about | June, 1931, after the adjournment of | | Congress and of the Maryland General | Assembly and well in advance of the| next meeting of the Virginia Legis- lature. The representatives at the conference were: District of Columbia, H. B. | Crosby, chairman; E. W. Brown, W. | H. Harland, George H. Offutt and H. C. Whitehurst; Maryland Commission, H. M. Lucious, chairman; A. B. Barber and L. G. Sasscer; Virginia Commis- sion, J. Fred Birrell, chairman; Frank L. Ball of Arlington County and Wil- bur C. Hall of Loudoun County. MRS. EMMA TYNDALL FUNERAL CONDUCTED. Native of Berkeley Springs Is Laid to Rest There—Rites Here Are Held at Church. Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Florence Tyndall, 67 years old, who died Saturday at her home, 1724 Sev- enteenth street, were held yesterday afternoon at the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, with Rev. Francis Alan Parsons, Tector, cfficiating. Burial was in the family plot in the Greenway Cemetery, Berkeley Springs, W. Va Mrs. Tyndall was a native of Berke: ley Springs and was a daughter of the late Augustus and Mary R. Johnston and a granddaughter of Col. Sam John- ston, C. S. A, and of Rev. James I. Brewer. One of her ancestors was the Colonial Gov. Johnston of Maryland, a cousin of Lord Baltimore. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. M. Luther Dicus, Washington: Mrs. Hugh P. Reed, Forest Hills Gar- den, Long Island, N. Y. and Mrs. Jo- seph L. Fay, Boston and Washington; & son, Mark Tyndall: her brothers, Jo- seph, Samuel and Willlam Johnston of Washington and R. E. L. Johnston, and Thomas C. Martin, & half-brother, of Denver, Colo.; a sister, Mrs. Mary E. Austensen of North Chevy Chase, Md., and three grandchildren. BOND AVERTS PADLOCK Dry Pledge for Place Opposite Po- lice Court Exacted. Justice Jennings Bailey has allowed Margaret May Price, 408 Sixth street, to post & bond of $1,000 to guarantee there will be no future violations of the Natlonal prohibition act on those prem- ises, which are directly opposite Police Court. The court had granted a re- quest of United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and Assistant United States At- torney Harold W. Orcutt to padiock the premises for one year, but suspended its operation on the giving of the bond. Attorney John Lewls Smith appeared for the defendant. PILOTS SAY FOG DUE Airmail Men Describe Storm Mov- ing Up From Carolinas. Alr mail pilots on the Eastern Air Transport pun through the National Capital reported bad weather on the way up the -coast last night and early today, which, they thought, would reach the Capital’ {Au this afterrioon or tonight, probably bringing rain, fog and low cetling. He-v? fog was encoutered by the pilots in the Carolinas and Georfll. causing the first delays in mail flights in many days. The fog belt moved north steadily throughout the night. He points out that the Constitution | itself gives Congress specific authority to “fix e standard of weights and raises the ~question | | Whether “we be governed by the agency of organized society or shall each in- terest be allowed to do as it pleases.” In discussing the question of the unit of weight for the sale of coal in the District of Columbia today, Representa- tive Crosser said: Quotes Dealers. “Further investigation has convinced me beyond any doubt that the disregard of the act of March 3, 1921, by some of the coal dealers of Washington has been with a thorough realization of the fact that they have been violating the law. That I am fully warranted in making this statement is shown by the statements issued recently by different | dealers. One dealer’s circular says: “Two thousand pounds of coal cannot be sold in the District of Columbia as | a “ton,” because the legal ton here is 2,240 pounds.’ “Another’s circular uses the follow- | ing language: ‘It is most important | that you do not refer to_this new 2,000-pound unit as a ton. Forget this word ton until such time as we can get Congress to give us the net ton of | 2,000 pounds.’ Mandatory instructions | are then given to retailers as to their | procedure when a customer inquires| about ‘the price of a ton of coal.” This company says to its retailers: ‘You must | say: “We have discontinued selling coal | by the ton. We are now selling coal | by the unit of 2,000 pounds. The price of & 2,000-pound unit is, etc.” Charges Law Violated. “No thoughtful person can read the | language contained in these state- | ments without seeing clearly that those making the statements realized fully that they were making a great effort to | satisfy themselves if not the public that they had evaded the plain mandate of the'law. That mandate is contained in the following language of the act: “Section 8 * * * ‘Coal shall be (not may be) sold by the long ton, consist- | ing of two thousand two hundred and | forty pounds.’ “Now this mandate of Congress may be denounced by the dealers as unrea- sonable and so forth, but until it is changed it is the law. To argue that | other States provide for the sale of | coal by the 2,000-pound ton, and there- | fore local dealers are determined to sell | coal on the same basis, notwithstandine the act, which has been quoted, is a bald nnemeb to uphold anarchy. We would soon®*have no law observance if such a notion were to be upheld. Refers to Constitution. “The statute in question may be very distasteful to some coal dealers and may irritate them very much, but that does not justify them in assuming that they can decide what shall be law for the people of the District of Columbia. The Constitution does not say that the coal dealers of Washington shall have power to fix the standard of weights and measures. Paragraph 5 of Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution does say, however: * ‘The Congress shall have Jpower to * ¢ * fix the standard of welghts and measures.’ “The question is, shall we be govern- | , are shown planting the tree.—Underwood Photo. Reichelderfer Tells Purpose of Clean-Up Which Starts Today BY LUTHER H. REICHELDERFER, President of the Board of Commis- sioners of the District of Columbia. ‘The 1931 clean-up campaign, which began oificially today, and which will continue until May 1% 1931, deserves co-operation from every resident of this city. The three purposes of the cam) to stimulate business, to increase employment and ' to beautify Washington for 1932—are worthy of consideration. Residents of the Nation's Capi- tal, secure in the knowledge that they reside in one of the most prosperous and beautiful cities of the United States, have only to lend their support to such civic efforts as the present clean-up campaign in order to assure the continued improvement of the communities in which they make their homes. MOTHER WATCHES * TRUGK KL EAD Four Others Receive Minor Injuries in Traffic Accidents. With her horror-stricken mother looking on, Doris Roberts, 3 years old, of 25 L street northeast, walked into the pgth of an approaching truck while | cressifig the street in front of her home late yesterday afternoon and was killed. The accident was one of five in which youngsters at play were struck by auto- mobiles. The other victims, however, escaped with minor injuries. Leroy Page, colored, 32 years old, of 1437 Church street, who was driving the truck which ran down the Roberts child, took her to Sibley Memorial Hos- pital, where she failed to respond to treatment and was pronounced dead by Dr. John McLean. Police of the second precinct station took Page, a driver for the Vogue Dry Cleaning Co. at Third and I streets northeast, into custody after a test of the truck’'s brakes. He was to appear fore a coroner’s inquest at the morgue is afternoon. The child was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willilam Roberts. The father is & taxi driver, and there are five young brothers and sisters. ‘The other four children hurt yester- day were Winifred Curry, 11, of 1122 street southwest; Cariton Mc- Cobb, 10, of 217 E street; Chris Gordon, colcred, 13, of the 300 block Fenton street, and Paul Bush, colored, 4, of 1227-A Carrollburg street southwest. MRS. JOHN R. MINTER HIT FATALLY BY AUTO Wife of State Department Aid Had Been in Hospital in Massa- chusetts.. thi Mrs. John R. Minter, 36 years old, wife of the principal economic adviser of the Western European Division, De- partment of State, was fatally injured yesterday when run down by an suto- moblle in Carlisle, Mass. Mrs. Minter had been under treat- ment at Lunt Hospital for a nervous disorder since early in March. Police sald she threw herself in front of the machine. They reported that just be- fore she was hit she darted into the path of another automobile, the driver of which was able to avoid her. ed by the agency of organized society or shall each interest be allowed to do as it pleases? Shall we have law or ‘The Minters had been living in Pitts- {burgh before they came to Washington over a year ago when Mr. Minter re- anarchy?” ELECTRICITY KILLS MAN joined the State Department. Before leaving the service Mr. Minter had been assigned to Brazil, South Africa and othier foreign posts. They have a 3-year-old daughter. (The home is at the Kew Gardens, 2700 Q street. TWO CLAIM INSOLVENCY bankruptcy Filorin, 2 Coroner Says Janitor Died as Arm S Touched Live Wire. David Green, colored, 42 years old, & janitor at 1901 Columbia road, was accidentally electrocuted late last night while in & stationary washtub in the basement of the apartment busiding. Howard Turner, head janitor, found Green’s body in the tub about 3 o'clock this morning and summoned the police. 1t was reported by police and Coroner Nevitt that Green’s death probably was due to.his arm coming in contact with & poorly insulated wire, a burn on his arm showing where the contact ha A petition in voluntary has begnefiled by Paul F: ed to ‘be adjudged b ys he owes $2,507.94 and of 87 6ther Bills Returned Include Lar- ceny and Violations cf Liquor Law. Albert Clifford Baker was indicted today for murder in the first degree In connection with the death of his wife, Anna May Baker, April 2. Thre grand jury charged he shot and killed his estranged wife when she refused to return to him and the three children, Mrs. Baker had left her husband and he was residing with the children in & basement room at 807 O street. The wife was accustomed to visit the place in the husband’s absence and care for the children. He returned home the afternoon of the tragedy and finding his wife there renewed his request for her return. She refused and they quarreled and the woman was shot in lh;{)l;;sen'ce of the children. e inquiry before the grand jury Mrs. Ida L. McPherson, a sister of the dead woman, testified that Mrs. Baker had told her a few days before the kill- ing that Baker had remarked that the wife had only two more days to live and that he also had only that time left. ‘The three children, Victor, Albert and Jack, were present at court when the grand jury beard the case, but were not required to give their testimony. Baker surrendered after going to Vir- flrfill to visit a brother and is now in Robbery of a 14-year-old news mer- chant is charged in an indictment rc- ported against Charles Pinkert. He is said to have accosted Charles E. Lid- dington, 3724 Twelfth street northeast, who was selling magazines near Eighth street and Michigan avenue northeast, and to have taken $1.60 from him. The robbery occurred March 26 and the boy said 50 cents of the money belonged to him and $1.10 to the magazine agent. Grand larceny of $44 from a Govern- ment clerk is durfed against John W. Sweeney, who is said to have taken the money from the purse of Miss Gertrude L. Butts January 3. _Another woman clerk saw Sweeney take .the money, it :;Ja rept:ruge lm'inzxe :u arrested in an jacent rtment of e pa Agriculture Harold Birks, father of two children, is charged with violation of the Mann act. He is accused of transporting a young woman from Connecticut to Nor- folk, Va., and to have stopped here on the return trip, but was apprehended when the woman applied for a position, Others indicted include Maurice 'A. Strinck, grand larceny; James Jackson, John T. Beers, Jcseph W. Wilkinson and Charles A. Brooks, ing and larceny; Joseph E. Brooks and Wil- bur Young, violating national prohibi- tion law, and Jesse Hyatt, Robert A, Nea‘l and Norman H. Smith, non-sup- port. The grand jurors declined to indict Robert C. Johnson, charged with gczullebrn‘l’dng and larceny; Frank C, wler, destroying private property, and Albany B. Thompson, gun’d HAUL OF RAIDERS USED AS EVIDENCE ' Samples and Stamps Admitteri in Trial of 14 Alleged Memucrs of Liquor Ring. Samples of alleged alcohol. spurious Federal revenue stamps and gin, essence seized, in the headquarters of the al- leged whisky ring in the 3400 block of Fourteenth street, were introduced in evidence at the District Supreme Court trial of 13 men and a woman cl with conspiring to violate the prol tion law. James R. Kirtland, an assistant Unit- ed States attorney, prevailed upon Jus- tice Oscar H. Luhring'to permit intro- duction of the lease on the premises and other documents, regardless of the objections of defense counsel. Kirtland explained he intended to show the build- ing was used in violation of the eight- eenth amendment. Defense lawyers ar- gued the search warrant failed to give the raiding squad authority to seize documents They entered exceptions to the court’s ruling ¢ Justice Luhring took under’ advise- ment a request by Kirtland that he be permitted to produce secondary evi- dence proving a search warrant had been issued for apartments in the 1400 block of Newton street, occupied by certain of the defendants. The prose- | cutor explained the warrant had been lost. Defense attorneys contended it would be improper for the court to al- low presentation of anything slezed in the apartments unless the search war- rant could be found. Walter Martin, a Federal prohibition agent, identified the various Govern- ment exhibits. The defendants are Ida Mendelson, Alfred Mendelson, Roy Beasley, Harry Kushner, Corbin Shields, Jake Lerner, Thomas McNichols, Jack Baum, Frank E. Baker, Eugene L. Saunders, Earl Harbin, Andrew Lebolo, Edward T. Coghan and Roy Ahern. | CONVERSES WITH THIEF LOOJING ADJOINING ROOM Victim Thought He Was Her Huse band Until Failure to Reply Aroused Suspicions. Mrs. John Campbell of 1807 California street carried on a one-sided conversa- tion with a burglar yesterday while he was robbing the apartment of & gift watch, fountain pen, change purse and other belongings. Mrs. Campbell was in another room and supposed the intruder was her hus- band. She heard moving about and chatted until the lack of response aroused her suspicion. Mrs. Campbell then entered the bed- room in time to see & stranger dart from the door and flee down the cor- ridor. She was able to furnish police ::fly & meager description of the T. Sunday School to Elect. BALLSTON, Va., April 21 (Special).— The Sunday School Board of the Ball- 5, el e, i Bk ¢ o Therg, will als0 be an election of pfficers.