Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1931, Page 16

TWO MEN SUFFER SKULL FRAGTURES IN CAR ACCIDENT Girl Also Hurt and Fourth Escapes Injuries as Car Overturns. SOFT ROADSIDE DIRT BLAMED FOR CRASH | Trio of Baby Pheasants Arrives THE EVEN. ADDITION TO PARK BIRDS HATCHED BY HEN. Children Prominent in List of Yesterday's Car In- juries. A 16-year-old girl and two young| men were injured early today, when the automobile in which they were riding overturned on Defense Highway, Near Beverly Hills, Md. ‘The most seriously hurt of the trio was James L. McInerney, 22 years old, 12 Grant circle, who suffered a frac- tured skull. He is at Sibley \Hospital where he was still unconscious several hours after the accident, which occur- Ted about 2 a.m. Joseph Stoner, 20, of 4016 Seventh street, driver of the car, also was lad- Iy hurt, receiving injuries of the same nature as those suffered by Mcinerney. Physicians at Casualty Hospital, where he is a patient, said he was conscious, | however. | Miss Helen Lloyd. 16, of 324 Eleventh street southeast, cut about the head, face and neck, the side of her chest is believed to have -been fractured. She is being treated at Sibley. Ancther young woman, whose name investigators were unable to learn, was riding in the machine, but she escaped injury, ‘The foursome was returning from & dance at Beaver Dam Club, given by s fraternity. The automobile, it was sald, overturned when one of its wheels sank into the soft dirt at the side of the road. Stoner was taken to Casualty by John A. Peters, 4415 New Hampshir: avenue, who also was returning from the dance. Another motorist took Miss | and right | the G _STAR, WASHI IPARTY CHIEFS HIT {21 LAND SAFELY BY BISHOP CANNON FOR WET TAGTIGS Raskob and Smith Cited for| Bringing Dry Issue Be- fore Democrats. METHODISTS ATTEND DINNER AT MAYFLOWER| Church Convention Comes to Close at Continental Memo- rial Hall. i Bishop James Cannon, jr., last night protested against what he termed the effort of Alfred E. Smith and Chairman John J. Raskéb of the Democratic party to have the party take a definite stand against prohibition. ‘The anti-Smith leader in Virginia during the 1928 campaign was a speak- er at an informal ‘“good fellowship” dinner given by leaders of the Metho- dist Protestant Church, who have been in convention session here since Tues- day. The affair was held at the Ma flower Hotel preceding the closing se: sion of the convention and but few of the approximately 2,300 delegates heard his specch | The Methodist Episcopal bishop said efforts of Mr. Smith and Mr. Re<kob to modify the anti-liquor laws shovld be undertaken ‘“not as Demo- crats, but as open advocates of the | | manufacture and sale of intoxicants.” NNOUNCEMENT of the birth of three baby golden pheasants was made | today to Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, by Frank T. Gartside, chief of the park division. Unable to achieve success in hatching the eggs with a pheasant hen, Mr. Gart- side secured the services of an ordinary barnyard hen. Although the pheasant chicks are smaller than ordinary chickens, the mother hen is giving them marked attention. The three pheasants were hatched from a setting of five eggs, and Mr. Gartside has another setting in prospect. When the birds are six weeks old, they will be placed with the .dult! pheasants, now housed in an inclosure south of the reflecting pool of the Lin- | coln Memorial. ~—Star Staff Photo. Non-Partisan Measure. “The eighteenth amendment was not, proposed, supported or adopted as a partisan political measure,” he said. “Why should it now be insisted that the Democratic party indorse this proposed | Smith-Raskob amendment?” ! He referred to Mr. Raskob’s proposal of an amendment giving the States au- thority to determine whether liquor | should be manufactured and sold within their borders “The issue is clear cut,” he continued NGTON. Lioyd and Mclnerney to Sibley. One Child Dies. One child died yesterday from in- TRIAL OF CALHOUN TRAFFIC COMMITTEE Juries suffered in an automobile colli- sion near Acecotink, Va. while four other youngsters were reported hurt in local accidents, one seriously. Two-year-old Jean Gray, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Gray of 2309 Nichols avenue southeast, died at Emer- gency Hospital from a fractured skull Teceived when her father's car was struck by another machine on the Washington-Richmond highway Thurs- day. HALT FORREGESS ST UPGFFGALLY i i Motion for Directed Verdict Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst of Acquittal Is Expected to Head New Capital “The people of the United States have | s a Nation put the brand of the | criminal upon the traffic in intoxicants for beverage purposes in every State and | territory under the flag. The Smith- Raskob amendment definitely proposes to remove that criminal brand and to | make the traffic Jawful in some States | with all the resulting evils to the Nation which would follow such action | “Will the United States remove the | brand of the criminal which has been stamped upon the liquor traffic? That | is the only single question tod Delegates Leave. | Gray was driving southward when an automobile approaching from the op- posite direction skidded on the wet roadway and crashed into his auto. in Court Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Gray were hurt but slightly, while three other occupants escaped uninjured. Struck by an automobile at Four- teenth and Varnum streets late yester- day, Raphael G. Ehrlich, 12 years old, of 1308 Randolph street sustained a fractured skull and broken right leg. He is repcrted to be in a critical con- dition at Garfield Hospital. The driver of the car, John F. Ellis, 17 years old, of 4413 Fifteenth street ‘was not heid by police. Suffers Minor Injuries. Other children who were hurt in yes- terday’s accident were Mary Ellen Eck- Joff, 3 years ald, of 1202 C street north- | east; Jeannette Gibson, 7, of 1112 L ‘With & motion for a directed verdict Board. ‘The District Commissioners yesterday The delegates were on thelr way home today after attending the concluding convention session last night at Memorial D. “C., SATURDAY. AS LINER PLANE TAKES FIRE IN AR Hostess Averts Panic Among 18 Passengers When Smoke Fills Cabin of Ship. SEVEN CONTINUE TRIP IN ANOTHER CRAFT J. Edgar Hoover and Aide Among Those Aboard—Pilot Wins Praise for Skillful Handling. A skiliful pilot maneuvered a big air liner with 18 passengers and three crew members. to earth yesterday, while a hostess averted panic among the passengers with her reassurances, after the ship had caught fire 1,500 feet in the air en route to New York. The plane, an Eastern Air Transport ship, had left Washington at about 4 o'clock, and bore, among its passengers, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Identification, Department of Justice, and C. A. Tolson, assistant to Mr Hoover, Lands at Edgewood. The pilot, A. C. Komdat, saw the ! emergency field at Edgewood Arsenal, near Aberdeen, Md., shortly after he discovered smoke filtering into the cabin from = fire in the fuselage. The hostess was Miss Elizabeth Westwood. Both were praised by the passengers, seven of whom continued their trip via plane, after the forced landing. “It was a good thing we landed when we did,” Komdat laconically said, after maneuvering the ship into the small field, in a safe landing. Mr. Hoover and Mr. Tolson were among the passengers on the plane who continued their journey to New York in another plane. Co-Pilot Fights Flames. G. J. McDonald, co-pilot on the ship, fought the flames, which appeared on | the outside of the fuselage and on & wing, with & hand fire extinguisher, as | Komdat nosed for the Edgewood field. Aircraft experts were undetermined as to the origin of the flames, and were today investigating the fire. The plane was en route from Rich- | mond to New York and had stopped at Washington-Hoover Afrport, here, taking off at 3:55. way from Baltimore, flying at an alti- tude of 1,500 feet, when smoke was | noticed filling the control room. The smoke entered the cabin, but there was no evidence of alarm among the pas- sengers. Motors Are Uninjured. It was well on its | MAY 16, 1931 OFFICERS CHOSEN TO CHECK ORATORS' TIME FOR CONTEST Rear Admr. W. D. Leahy and Maj. Gen. Fries Are Men Named. Applause Ruled Out Because Each Speaker Is Allotted Only Brief Period. Rear Admiral William D. Leahy | chief of the Navy Ordnance Bureau, | and Maj. Gen. Amos A. PFries, U. S. A, retired, former chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, have been named timekeepers for the National Oratorical Contest finals, to be held in_Constitu- | tlon Hall next Saturday night, it was | announced today. | The announcement was made by | Randolph Leigh, director general of the competition, who reviewed the rules under which the contesants will speak. Each to Speak Twice. | ‘Each competitor will deliver two ad- | dresses, the first a memorized speech | prepared by himself and the other an extemporaneous address on & topic I&vzn him at the conclusion of his first effort, Six minutes will be allowed each speaker for the delivery of his prepared | | oration. Hence, the timekeepers will | | start their stop-watches with the first word of each orator's speech proper and not with the salutation. If, at the expiration of six minutes, a contestant still is speaking, one of the two officers | | will sound a whistle and the competitor | must stop instantly or ped to st place in the official rating. If a | | contestant halts promptly, however, he | will be judged by what he has said up | to the sound of the whistle. Applause Ruled Out. Similarly the timekeepers will count | the minutes against each speaker in the presentation of the extemporaneous speeches. Four minutes will be allowed. Beoause once a contestant launches into his oration the permitted time pro- | ceeds without any allowances what- | soever, the audience will be warned | D. » against interrupting an orator with ap- | Lower: MAJ. GEN. AMOS A. FRIES, U. 8. A. THREE AREINURED MEDIGAL EXPENSE | N SCHOOL ISP ~ PARLEY DIVIDED |Group Meetings Are Held to Tackle Problems From Various Angles. 1 | | | | | AR ADMIRAL WILLIAM Runway at Stuart Junior Fails Under Load. Taking their lead on the suggestion Workmen Hurt When Faulty| of Secretary of the Interior Wilbur that group financing of all the ramifica- | tions of medical care constitutes an A weak board in a wooden runway, by which wcrkmen carry material up to the construction in progress on the Continental Hall, during One passenger opened a window to of acquittal expected as soon as the |officially set up a committee “to handle Government completes its case, the matters which will have to be considered | trial of five persons charged with a in connection with the District of Co- blackmail conspiracy against Capt. and | lumbia traffic act approved February | Mrs, Clarence C. Calhoun will be Te- |27, 1931." | sumed Tuesday. | The Commissioners had spent several In announcing the somewhat lengthy week end -d’o’umment Justice Jesse | Weeks gathering together the member- C. Adkins explained he must sit in an- ship of the new committee. other case ‘during the interim. The Herbert C. Whitehurst, district | trial _began of last week. has been delayed yby the cross-exami- engineer, was named chair- | nation of a half a dozen defense at- torneys. Mrs. Calhoun alone was ques- tioned almost three days. ! i | Membership Completed. Other members are Willlam H. Har- which & report by the Committee on Findings was read. Dr. A. N. Ward, president of the Western Maryland | College, chairman of the committee, | read the statement, declaring that “we | have become too much concerned with theology and too little concerned with religion, and in our effort to co-ordinate | all religlons it may be that we have | grown indifferent to any. In the world | of Methodism we seem 1o have lost the method.” | He said the economic situation has disturbed the church as well as the Nation, “and crowds out our capacity as a Christian community and has brought forth no leadership in these let the smoke out, and the draft ecvi- dently aided the fire, but no flames were visible until after the landing. The motors of the creft were un- damaged. The pilots of the ship are credited with several thousand hours fiying. They said the ship could have gone farther, perhaps, without being lost, but added it was a good thing that a landing field was available. “Nobody has any idea how it started,” Komdat said. “All we can do is to report, ‘Cause unknown.’ The motors are separated from the rest of the ship |and were not damaged at all.” i Mistrial Pleas Overruled. street, and Robert Hinton, colored, 5, of 1730 Sixth street. They received only minor cuts and bruises. The Eckloff girl was run down by truck at Twelfth and G sireets north- | Justice Adkins yesterday overruled | two defense motions for mistrials. The first was offered by Charles W. Arth after Samuel W. Hardy, a Department f Justice agent, asked how he knew cast, and was taken to Casualty Hospi- tal for first aid. A taxicab hit the Gib- son child in the 10000 block Thirteenth street. She wes treated at home. Rob- ert Hinton walked into the side of an auto in the 1700 block Sixth street and was struck by the rear bumper. He went to Freedman's Hospital. Two colored people, Mary Davis, 25, of 469 K street southwest, and James Posey, 28, of 802 O street, suffered cuts and bruises when an automobile in which they were riding crashed into a street car trolley pole near Nicholas avenue and Horner place southeast last night. Both were take tal and treated by staff physicians. ENGINEERING COUNCIL DISCUSSES RELIEF Old-Age Pensions and Aid for Job- less Also Subject of Study. Unemployment reserve funds, unem- yment and old-age pension systems ere discussed today at a meeting of e administrative board of the Ameri- can Engineering Council in the Cos- mos Club. The group advocated abandonment of the plan for topographic mapping of the country under which the States have been required to match Federal appropriations. The organization fa- vored calling upon the Government to bear the entire expense because of the weak financial position of some of the Btates pl Indian Becomes Pilot. NEW YORK, May 16 (#).—Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian of Calgary, Alberta, received a commercial pilot’s license today. He expects to engage in fur trading by air in the Northwest Territory. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF, TODAY U. 8. Grant School Par- Association, Powhatan Ho- Meeting, Shepherds Washington Hotel, 8 p.m of Bethlehem, Dance, Tennessee State Society, Wil lard Hotel. § pm C;' Club, Columbus Univer- 'er Hotel, 8 pm n to Casualty Hospi- o | W. Clark Noble, one of the defendants, .was_a sculptor, recited a newspaper headline reading “Sculptor Wrathfully Quits Motherhood Memorial Drive.” | “Arth contended Hardy had been \guilty of misconduct by reading from a clipping which had not been placed | in evidence. Torn Contract Identified. A short time later, Richard L. Mer- rick, another defense attorney, asked Hardy whether he was convinced of the guilt of the defendants when he swore out complaints against them. Hardy answered in the affirmative, whereupgn Irvin Goldstein, the prosecutor, in- uired whether the agent still thought 30. "I do,” Hardy responded. Merrick then made the second mistrial motion. Earlier in the day Hardy testified James F. Bird, one of the defendants, tore in half an alleged blackmail agree- ment between the defendants and the | Calhouns after two depuly marshals appeared. Hardy identified the muti- lated contract. It stipulated the de- fendants would refrain from publishing charges derogatory to the Calhouns in exchange for $30,000. The paper bore the signatures of Noble and his wife Bird, Mrs. Anna Hillenbrand and Stephen Armstrong, jr., the other defendants, had not signed the agree- ment. SHORE TAX APPEAL | | Capital Man Seeks to Set Aside Levy of Nearly $200,000 Made ! by Revenue Bureau. Frank Shore of the 1200 block on New York avenue, now in jail for con- | tempt of court growing out of a liquor case, has filed 8 petition before the Board of Tax Appeals for relief from | nearly $200,000 additional tncome taxes, | penalty and interest, levied against him by the Bureau of Internal Revenue e bureau, after investigation charged that from 1921 to 1929 Shore had failed to pay certain income ta: and formally notified him of a le of $194,140.77 land, director of traffc: Capt. R. C. Montgomery. Office of Public Buiid- in> ~nd_Public Parks; Asst. Supt. Ernest W. Brown, commanding the aranic Bureau: Earl V. Pisher, ex- ccutive secretary of the Public Utilities Commission, and_Assistant Corporation Counsel Edward W. Thomas. Under the new traffic act effective July 1, the office of the director of traffic is abolished and a new Depart- ment of Vehicles and Traffic is set up. ‘William - A.- Van -Duzer, Tetiring - dent of the American Road Builders’ Association, has been appointed engi- | neer in charge of the new department. | Commissioners Given Power. Under the terms of the new act, the Commissioners, instead of the chief | traffic_official, are given power to ini- | tiate trafic regulations, and & revised traffic code is expected to be prepared, | embodying most. of the applicable rules | recommended by the so-called Hoover Conference for Uniform Trafic lations. The department will also be in charge of registering the titles to all automobiles, the preliminary work for which must be complete by next Jas uary 1, when this phase of the law g0es into effect. COMMiSSIONéRS ousT SUSPENDED POLICEMAN Action of Trial Board Is 'Uph!ld| in Discipline Case Against A. C. Swortzell. Policeman A. C. Swortzell, who was suspended last March by the Police Trial Board for conduct prejudicial to discipline, was disc d today. Actlon was taken by the District Commission- ers, who approved findings of the board, Policeman Charles N. Birkeight, who has patrolled the river front for many years, probably will be retired May 31. He was scheduled for retirement June 30, but asked the date be advanced. Policeman Joseph A. Stranley, twelfth precinct, already has been retired. Re- tirement also has been requested by Policeman John C. Hesse, thirteenth precinct. R. A. Chambliss, Traffic Bureau ex- | aminer, has White House permanently. He has been substituting at the Executive Mansion, WIFE ASKS ANNULMENT Catherine E. McMahon, 17, through her next friend, Henry H. Lorleberg, days competent to meet the situation Pilot Wins Praise. Stuart Junior High School addition, was blamed for injury to three work- men on the job yesterday in a verbal report, by Benjamin R. Pleet, inspector of the wcrk, to Assistant Municipal Architect S. B. Walsh. The runway is | outstanding problem for the profession | and allied institutions, the Committee | on the Cost of Medical Care today broke up into group meetings to consider these problems from various angles. |~ An idea of the enormity of the gen- | eral problems facing the conference was |obtained from the declaration that temporary and not part of the building. | since every man, woman and child is | The workmen were carrying a 400- an actual or potential consumer of | medical service, "every consideration of |Pound stone window sill on a wheel- |the problem must therefore be based barrow, and the weight of the load {on & clear conception of the medical | proved too B {necds of this vast army of 123,000,000 | The gectdent. ceomrron: vair ot C: | American consumers. spector was at lunch, he reported, and It was estimated that 2 per cent of cse consumers are disabled by ilness | p7 ,h time e e ey The | Mr. Waish sald that the contract | the | in an “average” day of the year. “There are many voices, in Congress and in the church, in the press and in the pulpit,” Dr. Ward asserted, “but no leadership has yet becn found capable of taking the chaotic conditions which signalize our times and bringing them | Resides the Washington officials, the others who continued to New York by plane inciuded R. J. O'Donnell, At- lanta, Southern representative of the Publix Theaters; Jack Farrington of | conference meetings early today were | | held under the individual chairman- | ships of William Darrach, Alphonse M. | Schwitalla, W. §. Rankin and Lewellys F. Barker. | A general session was to follow at 11 | and its accompanying bond lay respon- sibility for the safety of 'urykm!nwnn the contractor, in this case the William P. Rose Construction Co. of Goldsboro, This is the second accident to been transferred to the | Nassau, Bahamas: Miss Marion McRac of Baltimore. her father, Parker Mc- Rac, and Alien S. Lund, Los Angeles attorney. On landing at Newark Airport they were enthusiastic in their praise of mdat’s maneuvers to keep the fire under EAR-CHEWER CLAIMS:KO control while making & safe landing. Court Gives Him 115-Day SentenceT ROADDEBI: TAkEN for Mangling Stranger's UP AT CONFERENCE Auditory Organ. E. Brooke Lee Was into line with the purposes and plans | of the Almighty.” NOT VICIOUS, DRUNK,’ | Insists Discriminated Against. A stranger refused to give Pa‘rick | County Gordon, 55, a cigarette when the two met on Fourth street last nigh’, so Gordon chewed the man’s ear 1o & pulp. He was arrested soon after the attack. charged with assault, drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and today was sent to jail for 115 days when he pleaded guiity to all the accusations in Police | Court. Sidney Lucas, 49, said that he was strolling down Fourth street near | Pennsylvania avenue with a newly lighted cigarette in his mouth when Gordon acosted him. “Gimme & cigarette,” demanded the latter. “I haven't got one,” Lucas replied. “You have one in your mouth. So you lied to me, huh,” answered Gordon as he lunged in Lucas’ direction. He fastened his teeth onto Lucas’ right ear and the latter screamed loudly. Policeman R. D. Edwards, at- tracted by the velling, rushed to the s cene and with the help of a bystander finally unfastened Gordon's grip on Lucas’ ear, but not until the organ was badly mangled in the unloosening. “You're viclous,” Judge Schuldt told Gordon. “No, I'm really very good natured. sald the defendant. “I was merely | drunk. That's all.” H BY a Staff Correspordent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., May 16.—The explanation given yesterday by Howard Bruce, member of the outgoing State Roads Commission, and Willlam A. Codd, the commiision's auditor, as to the reason for the difference in the treatment of Montgomery County and the 13 other counties owing money to the road body, falled to alter his opin- fon that Montgomery County was dis- criminated against, Maj. E. Brooke Lee, Montgomery Democratic leader and member of the new Roads Commission, declared today. “In the case of all the counties,” Maj. Lee stated, “the State Roads Commis- slon controlled absolutely the 1931 State road construction funds and similar credits could have been made by the State to Montgomery County as were made to the 13 other counties as of Jan- uary 1, 1931, with equal equity in each instance.” Maj. Lee conferred with Mr. Bruce and Mr. Codd for more than an hour in Baitimore yesterday afternoon. Fol- lowing the conference he gave out the statement that Mr. Bruce and Mr. Codd advised him that the indebtedness of $1.023,128 of 13 countles, not including Montgomery, to the State Roads Com- mission was charged off against 1931 | State road construction funds because | the commission previously had been fur- | nished with security in the form of DORMAN ESTATE TOTALS | $120,347 FOR PROBATE Nine Heirs Are Named in Will of | Late Capital Woman—Money i Placed in Trust. { Through Attorney L. A. Gravelle Shore appealed to the Board of Tax Appeals. In his petition he declares the commissioner of internal revenue has falled to allow the petitioner a de- 1411 Rhode Island avenue, has asked District Supreme Court to annul her marriage to William E. McMahon, U. 8. Field Artilleryman, Fort Myer, Va The girl said she went through a duction for marria ceremony with McMahon Caroline V. Dorman, who died May 3. left an estate of $120,347.09, according to a petition of the National Savings | & Trust Co. executor, for probate of her will. She owned real estate as-| ordinary and necessary Dance, Women of Mooseheart, Legion, Columboia Chapter, No. 368, Moose Hall, T414 1 street, 8:30 p.m Card party. benefit Colonial Beach Fire Department, 2523 Thirteenth street, 8pm Play, “Golden Days” Y. W. C. A Barker Hall, Seventeenth and K strects, 8 pm. Card party, Sacred Heart Home, 1600 Monroe street northeast, 8:15 pm. Meeting, League for the Larger Life, 1336 1 street, 8:15 pm. FUTURE. Annual joint memorial exercises, U. 8. Grant Circle, No. 1, and Abraham Lincoln Circle, No. 3. lies, G. A. R. ;olundl of U. 8 Capitol, tomorrow, pm. Hike, Wanderiuster Club. to meet at Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania svenue southeast, tomorrow, 2:45 pam. Hike. Red Triangle Outing Club, to meet Bar 'Ngn 10, Cabin John car line, pm. business expenses incurred during the years 1921 to 1929, inclusive. He asks the board to find “that the commissioner erred in determining the total benk deposits of the petitioner represented net taxable income.” April 4 without the consent of her parents at Annapolis, and that this is illegal under Maryland law. After the ceremony, she said, she returned to her parents’ home and McMahon went back to his post at Fort Myer. Attorney F. sessed at 343475 and had personal Ictters of guarantee. No such letter furnished by Montgomery County He said the securing letters lacking in Montgomery's case beca: the Board of County Commissioners. like the State Roads Commission, ha occur on this job, the first involved the gg{:lpfl;fl'f lh:‘ooden mold into which cre as Ing poured. Nobody w .. al said that aithough the Dis- trict admits no labllity, the inspectors are under instruction to be very care- ful about the safety of the work, not only as regards its final form, bus also as regards its stability during construc- tion. A detailed written report has lbete_n requested, which will be made | o'clock, at which reports would be ren- | | dered.’ “This “afternoon’s session will | leave the conference open for discussion of the different problems and the com- | mittee will adjourn at 5 o'clock. ;HOOVER LATIN POLICY | |PRAISED AT INSTITUTE| Fr OUTH IS URGED TO JOIN REPUBLICANS | = ench Cabinet - Parliamentary YQUNG S Form of Government in South America Favored. ;Rep"lentltivo Lankford Seeks Re-| cruits to Serve Under Hoover and Drop Sectional Prejudices. | By the Assoctated Press RICHMOND, Ind. May 16.—Praise | of the Hoover administration’s policy toward Latin America was expressed at the Earlham Institute of Polity here |, An invitation to youthful voters of | today by Dr. James Brown Scott, secre- | the South to join a party “not torn | asunder by internal strife and bicker- | tary of the Carnegie Endowment for | 2un International Peace. | ing” was tendered last night in a radio | “The visit of President-elect Hoover | address by Representative Lankford, | to Latin America did more than .ny‘flebubflmn. of Virginia. He urged |other event to bring the Americas | &bandonment of sectionalism in favor | closer together,” Dr. Scott declared, of “aggressive, constructive, two-perty | “If the Latin Americas are invited to | competition. Europe and accorded marked prefer-| Representative Lankford described the | ences,” he sald, “they are likely to be | influence of the South in mnational ) weaned away from their more indiffer- | affairs as “dwindling,” and added: I ent neighbor on_the north.” can now see no present-day outstanding | Dr. Jesse S. Reeves, professor of po- | party principle that should bind us litical science at the University of | effectively and so permanently to one- Michigan, spoke in favor of the cabinet- | party control.” | parliamentary system of France. Dr. He promised young Southerners a | Reeves said the congressional-presiden- | “hearty welcome” in a “happy political | tial system in Latin America generally | family,” led by President Hoover. had resulted in executive control of government, and frequent revolutions | have been attempts to overcome this | RAPID HECOV.ERY—MADE BY SENATOR SWANSON The three-day session of the insti- | tute will close tonight. Virginian Suffers Slight Attack of Indigestion at Conference '$50 DAMAGES GIVEN FOR ILLEGAL ENTRY on War Polictes. Alexandria Policemen Must Pay for Allegedly Alter- ing Warrant. | _Senator Claude Swanson of Virginia | Was recovering at Emergency Hospital today from an attack of indigestion which he suffered yesterday afternoon | while attending a meeting oi the War Policies Commission at the Senate Office Bullding. Dr. William M. Sprigg. the Senator’s | physician, said it was & slight attack of indigestion, and at the hospital this morning it was said his condition was By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va.,, May 16.—A ver- | dict of $50 damages against four mem- |bers of the local police force was re. | The Senator had staried io leave the turned by a jury in Corporation Court committee room when he fainted, but property estimated at $76,872.00. | not known until this year that the By terms of the will the entire estate | CQUDLY owed the State approximately is to be held In trust to provide a life | $275.000 for work done from 1925 annuity of $20 a month to Spencer through 1928 |V | Ton of six Marine Corps fighting planes, | "0 %A, “RED DEVILS” LEAVE Marine Flyers to Participate in " e Airport Dedication. Eisie Possers 31, Chica The “Red Devils” of fiying fame left | Louts C. Briges, 52. Rochester, N._ Y., and the Marine ‘Corps post at Quantico, |%isabeth B, chmid. 51. Allentown, Pa.. Rev. this morning to partic: ence & Van Wie. 45. and Ethel Falk- pre-dedication exercises of the Ployd | inbure. 38 Rev. Sam H. Kornm Bennett Airport, which 15 to be dedl- | pAo'rs, Jeckwn. 30 and Riley cated a week hence as the municipal | i . King, 40. rport of New York City. The squad- | 6, Rev. 3. H. b Joseph Donohue appeared for the girl. | e - Marriage Licenses. Fleming D. Shaw, 21. and Catherine M. | Legr. 18 Rev. J. E Jaimes, ann Newman, 3; | nd Lydis T. Hunter, | uni er, 27, and Allcegene N, Jarrett. 1, erguson. 28, Leagus ALa Glennie B Coman, 33, La N.C Rev. R N Ed under the command of First Lieut. Lawson H. M. Sanderson, arranged to | T2 arrive at the airport at 10 o'cleek this | “a) morning, the time set for the pre- | er, dedication exercises. e Thirteen Navy planes, attached tc the | Afian F Afrcraft €couting Porce, werc to join | Herbert & Wen, the Marine rps planes in the New N Yo't X P i % Charles { e Richard rd E. Brown. 24. ry 23. Rev. William A. Murphy. Edward ‘Dubham. ‘26, a 2. 23, both of Baitimor rds. Fleich- Alam_ L, i . M. Rev. | Poore. k) 30. and Mae Lun Yer. ., Abernetiry 36, and Meiggdes Gioris, ‘Amon. | Thompson, be distributed equally among Naomi Dorman, Harry M. Ellis and Edne R. E. Young, all of Columbia, G Smith, Montreal, | Y Lake, N. 1344 North Car 4 gnl avenue northeast, and his sons, harles J. and Edgar A. Dorman. At _the death of the last surviving beneficiary the estate is to be distrib- uted among the descendants of Naomi an, Harry M. Ellis, Caroline E. E. Smith. Edna R. E. Young, ar D. Thompson, Jerome B. Dorman and Laura Dorman. Marriage Licenses Issued. UPPER MARLBORO, Md.. May 16 (Special) —Marriage licenses have been issued here to the following: Harry F. Mulleneaux, 45, and Alice J. Bow- man, 42, both of Washington; Fdward A W“’ 21, and Blanche Gibson, 3 of Capitol Heights, Md. | Hall, 1337 Fifth street, for faithtul| — - POOR CURBING FOUND | services. The remaining income is to| Contractor Must Replace 200 Feet on Sixteenth Street. ‘Two hundred feet of curbing, under construction by the Highway Engineer- ing & Construction Co. of Delaware, along Sixteenth street north of the Tiger Bridge, has been condemned as unsatisfactory by the Highway Depart- ment and must be replaced by the con- tractor. The curb costs about 60 to 75 cents per linear foot. According to Deputy Highway Engi- neer L. P. Robertson, when the wooden forms were removed from the curb it was found to be ‘“honeycombed,” a term meaning that it was rough and uneven, & defect caused by insufficient d of the wet cement under w roughness was de- 1 m?-mhb. revived quickly after being picked up by Secretary of War Hurley and others. | “After " resting _awhile, Senator | walked to his office. His family being in a suit by Earl Dodd and wife, in { which illegal entry into their home was | | alleged. | _The jury only took 50 minutes to bring in the verdict in the suit for $5.000 damages, which had been filed against Detective Sergt. Edgar Sims, Sergt. Lawrence Padgett and Patrol men Allie Jones and Charles Curtis. | Yesterday’s suit followed 2 decision | rendered by another jury April 28, | which decided that the warrant used by the,,DsO“C:h m fin e:hm'th g to ‘Washington Hospital. read 607 Sou red street, the home | of the Dodds, from 609 South Alfred | Michael J. Lane, Washington attor- street, thereby giving the plaintiffs the ney and mayor of North Beach, Md. basis for gnm ge suit. The alleged |underwent an operation for appendi- raid was made Sunday, March 22, while | Citis at Georgetown Hospital yesterday. Mr. Dood was at church. Dr. Frederick R. Sanderson, who per- Attorneys Frederick L. Flynn and formt:fl thed openr.:o:, c‘r:‘d it u:;: .“:’:- W. Lindsay Carne represented the | cessful and Teported the pal = plaintiffs. = s | gressing satisfactorily toda: S SO NI PR Dr. Balthis to Preach. tometry Board. MEADOWS, Md., May 16 (Special). —Dr. J. H. Balthis, presiding elder of the Washington District of the Balti- of three years, and Dr. more Conference of the M. E. Church | was reappointed for a sii South. will preach at Forest Grove | e District/ Commissione Sivireh Somoteow. morning. IR ey a1 l | after leaving his office. MAYOR UNDER KNIFE h r term by yesterday. FOWLER TRIPLES BUDGET ESTIMATE FOR HEALTH WORK Increése Largely Due to $600,000 Item for Conta- gious Disease Hospital. ASKS IO_ADDITIONAL SCHOOL INSPECTORS 1933 Total Reaches $1,201,150, as Compared to $448,960 Appro- priated in 1932. Dr. Wiliam C. Fowler, District health officer, asked for nearly threc times as much money for the needs of the Health Department in 1933 as is carried in the 1932 appropriation, ac- cording to figures released yesterday by District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan The increase is largely due to the in- clusion of an item of $600,000 for a new contagious diseases hospital, a project which Dr. Fowier has been urging many years. | Seeks 10 Additional Inspectors. | { Arother increase for which Dr. Fow- {1°r has long been battling is in the per- {sonnel for the work of medical and {dental inspections of school children Dr. Fowler succeeded in obtaining &n increase of 10 for this service in the current fiscal vear, but no further in- crease for 1932. He asks for 1933 ten additional medical inspectors, a super - vising nurse, 12 nurses, 2 dental preparatory operators, and a clerk, whose salaries add up to $52,580. E-- tablishment of two additional dental clinies is also strongly urged. Dr. Fow- ler defends these estimates by saying that the health examination work is at present entirely inadequate. Asks $4,000 Per Bend. As for the contagicus disease hos- pital, the estimate is made on the basis of a construction cost of $4,000 per bed for an institution of 150 beds, with an additional $60.000 asked for maintenance. An institution of 150 beds will be ample for the needs of the District for some years to come, Dr. Fowler reported. "The proposed hospital would be located on land al- ready owned by the District on the reservation with the Gallinger Munici- | pal Hospital, District Jail and erema- torium, Total Estimate, $1,201,150. In all, the estimates for 1933 for the Health Department’s work amcunt to $1.201,150, as compared with an ap- propriation of $448,960 for 1932, Civic and trade leaders, at their recent con- ference with the Commissioners on the estimates, seemed all agreed that on account of the lean financial year ahead of the District Government, the estimates for some departments should be held down, but that the work of the Health ent should not be curtailed. It is not believed, however, that this will operate to save the extra items asked for. commissioners have already considered the Health Department’s estimates, but under the rules of budgetary procedure, their de- cisions as to which items to eliminate are not made public. [THE WEATHER l St AR ik District of Columbia, Maryland, Vir- ginia. Pair tonight; tomorrow increas- ing cloudiness, probably followed by showers and cooler in the afternoon; moderate southwest shifting to north- wast or north winds. West Virginia—Generally fair tonight tomorrow incressing cloudiness and cooler, probably showers. Record for 24 Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 81; 8 pm., 76; 12 midnight, 65; 4 am., 62; 8 am., 65; noon, 79. Barometer—4 pm. 29.78; 8 pum, 29.84; 12 midnight, 29.91; 4 am,, 2991, 8 am., 29.92; noon, 29.88. ighest temperature, 82, occurred at 5:30 p.m. vesterday. Lowest temperature, 59, occurred at 6:30 am. today. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetie Survey.) Today—Low tide, 1:27 am. and 2:12 p.n.: high tide, 7:08 am. and 7:37 p.m Tomorrow—Lew tide, 2:05 am. and | 2:54 p.m.; high tide, 7:48 a.m. and 8:18 pm. The Sun and Moon. Today—Sun rose 4:56 am.; sun sots 7:13 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises 4:55 am.; sun ats 7:14 p.m. Moon rises 4:05 a.m.; scts 6:36 p.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted on-- 1f hour after sunset. Rainfall. Comrlrltiwe figures of the monthly rainfall in the Capital for the first five months against the average are shown in the following table: 1931. January . Stations. Abilene. Albany. Atlanta, Atiantic € Baltimore. Tex.... 2 Y0 298, G 30. M. | out of the city. he went to the hospital | E! Pa: 223223228 BIAIBIIBILSIRE: BuubsnusIuuLy ek English pedestrians using highways at night are wearing hats and mackin. toshes in vivid colors to escape b:in Tun down by autolsts. .