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Wants Promotion SCHOOL CLOSINGS | “GNE VACATIONTO 7500 CHLDREN {Year-End Rush Keeps 3,000 t Teachers on Duty, How- ever, Through Friday. MRS. VAN WINKLE ALSO ASKS PERMANENT STATUS. PARENTS INFORMED OF NEW AGE LIMIT l I Fall Enrollments to Be More; Strict, With Kindergartens Primarily Concerned. LIEUT. MINA €. VAN WINKLE. Seventy-six thousand ‘Washington | | 35 w NAVY REWARDS ~ The DR. STEPHENSON FOR QUARTZ-CUTTING PROCESS Receives $2,000 and Assist- ant Gets $500 for Per- fecting Device. Officials Say Scientists Have Already Saved Uncle Sam Thousands-of Dollars. Still in perfection a process for cheap- ly and accurately cutting quartz crystals for sclentific work, today won for Dr. Edward B. Stephenson, physicist at the Naval Research Laboratories at Belle- vue, D. C., & beneficial award of $2,000 from the Navy, and John Schn:ll, his ex“pz!'! machinist assistant, obtained Secretary Adams sanctioned th: bonus for the two investigators and said that shey had been officially awarded for for three years of intensive investi- gation. Dr. Stephenson, who is in the sound division of the 1 Research Labor- DR. _EDWARD B. STEPHENSON. Naval officials explained today that quartz is used extensively at the Na: boys and girls are being released from ‘The latest series of promotions in! 1 atory, was re: d largely for de-| Laboratory here in various lines of re- the Police Department ordered by the the confines of the District’s public! District Commissioners in preparation schocl class rooms today for the Sum- | Ter vacation. The 3,000 teachers, who | for the reorganization of the depcrt- now are enzaged in the rush year-end iment July 1 today .inspired Lieut. business, will remain on duty through | Mina C. Van Winkle, director of the | veloping & new technique for a me- | chanical process for cutting quartz erys- { Mr. Schnell was remunerated for his Mina @ aligning d:vices and his gang saws, | tals to a very high degree of accuracy. | Priday. when the 1930-31 scholastic | Bureau, to renew her plea | year will cloce for them. Concurrent with the closing of gchools, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, sumerin- tendent of schools, issued a statement | today in which he called attention of | perents of children destined to enter school for the first time next Fall to the new age limit for school enrollment. No child whos» fifth birthday falls after November 1, 1931, may enter the kin- | police bureaus. She thinks the director dergarten, in accordance with a legis- [ of the Woman's Bureau should have Jative provision carried in the 1932 | the rank and pay of an inspector. for a .permanent status for her or- ganization. ‘The Woman's Bureau exists by order of the District Commissioners. The police officers doing similar, work. Mrs. Van Winkle wants the. bureau estab- lished by law, and the members given rank and pay equal to those in other members do not have equal rank with | | which increased the cutting caparity many fold over prior methods. Saving of Thousands'of Dollars. ‘The rewards to the two sclentists were made by Mr. Adams upon the recommendation of Capt. Edgar G. Oberlin, technical alde to the Secretary of the Navy, and director of the Naval Research Laboratory, and also recommendation of the radio division of the Bureau of Enginsering, Navy | Department. appropriation act. In accordance with “Yesterday, when promotions came this procedure, the Board of Educa- to members of the police,” Mrs. Van ticn has adopted as it rule for-con- ! Winkle said, “all departments recelved sistency's sake, the same date for first | recognition of their services except the | grade enirances. so that a child whose | Woman's Bureau. ‘There has not been gixth birthdav falls after November 1{a promotion in the Woman's Bureau | Wil be inelligible to enter school in the Fall. in the 13-year history of our bureau Admission In Other Years. | when it should receive equal reccg- | In other years, children whose fitth { Hition with other units of the depart-, and sixth birthdays fell within the Ment month of November were admitted to! ifor 10 years. I think the time has come | spectively. Congress use of pul the schooling of children five years of age and more, was taken at the rec- ommendation of Representativ of the subcommittee of the House Com- mittee on Appropriations. establishment_and maintenan so-called “‘und which children a half years w young as three and gressive city ‘educational systems are ng. ’ t today Dr. Ballou In his statemen! leg station that in_effect this “necessitates the abondonment of the previous. practi for possible & fifth _ birthdays said fall in whose month of November, has been followed for some years. “The rul respondingly age and upwa ndmmed“;ob : re puj ein; {;e st grade, Sithout having been in Xindergarten, have been admitted if they have passed their sixth birthdays by November 1. Children whose sixth birthdays occurred during November were examined by the research depart- ment on the request of their parents and admitted or refused admission in accordance with their physical an intel- lectual maturities. Raule for Promotions. “It is understood that promotions from the kindergarten to tiie first grade of children satisfactorily completing the kindergarten course shall be made as ‘heretofore, tions regarding age to be hereafter put into effect in admission to the first grade shal! not apply to the pupils now in the kindergarten who otherwise quel- ify for promotions to the first grade. It is further understood that transfers to the kindergarten or to the first grade from other cities shall comply with the regulations governing admission of chil- dren residing within the Distrigt. “In view of the law governifg admis- sion to kindergarten it will become necessary to Tequire birth certificates or other acceptable evidence of date of birth of children who apply for enroll- ment in the kindergarten as well as in the first grade.” 72-YEAR-OLD MAN. FOUND IN STREAM Blacksmith, Missing All Night, Semi-Conscious When Dis- that children 6 years of rd by November 1 may be the first grade. ' Hereto- covered. Semi-conscious and apparently weak- | ened by exposure, Timothy Edward Bhugrue, 72, of 1223 Vermont avenue, a retired blacksmith, was found shortly before noon today lying in a shailow run of water on a woodlot in the rear of the 5200 block of Conduit road. Ap- parently he had lain there helpless throughout the night. ~ A search was instituted when Shu- ) Mary, called her husband's Mtz Julla V. Malone, 5?27 Con- duitfoad, () inquire if he had stoppad | there 1 Learning S since yesierday ht. hugrue had not been seen morning, neighbor: were enlisted in a scarch of adicining; jvoodlots, which Shugrue was in the habit of roaming in ccmpany with Mrs. Malone's two dogs. Pvt. H. A. Mechem, who lives at 5223 Conduit road end was off duty from Nt precinct at the time, found Shu- e in a ditch, his body partially un- er_water. “The Foicrgenvy Hospital ambulance was summoned and Shugrue removed to that instituticn for treatment. His condition was undetermined this after- nocn. o Shugrue was too weak to give an ex- planation, but there were no marks of “io'ence on his bod: It was reported that Mr. Shugrue had collected $40 for rent of a house on the Ccenduit road section some time yester- cay, but police found no money on him. WOMAN SUES STORE, ASKING FOR $50,000 A suit .asking $50,000 damages was filed today against Louis Gold, Inc., by Mis. Rita Nickel, ‘832 Varnum street, ‘who alleged her privacy had been in- vaded by a& male agent of the store ‘while she wes partly disrobed. Mrs. Nickel said she was trying on a the kindergarten and first grades, re-, cctively: R'?'he legislative action which | Z tock last year limiting the; | blic funds for cducation to 1 y Robert Simmons cf Nebraska, then chairman Mr. Sim- s determined to prevent the mons was_determ! prevent the| ge kindergartens,” in given the rudiments of scho:l education, just as other pro-| ice of examining children | dmission to kindergarten the a practice that les of the board provide cor- | admitted directly to and that the new regula- ! VISITS LABOR FAIR {Crowds See Burial of Live Woman—National Guard Night Is Tomorrow. Approximately 10,000 people attended the Central Labor Union benefit fair and exposition last night at Florida nue and Fifth street northeast, most f them attracted by the sensation of wtnessing & woman being buried aiive, Wife Takes Place. Pauline Firnsndow, who substituted for her husband in the glass-top coffin, was lowered into the ground at 6 o'clock, She remained buried for five and a half hours, until 11:30 o'clock, when the lid was taken off. She ap- parently suffered no effects from her, ordeal. This afternoon at 5 o'clock the stunt | will be repeated, only this time the | husband, Firnando Fee Marshall, as he | s known, will occupy the coffin. He| expects to remain buried for 8 hours. ‘Tomorrow night will be Natios Guard night at the exposition. Al anti-air eraft demonstration, with guns manned by National Guardsm=n, will be a feature. Receipls Are Large. | All the concessions are doing a land | office business and the fair managers | | are rejoicing’ over the fact that the | outlook for raising labor's quota toward | the District of Columbia War Memorial ! is very encouraging. | There will be a special matinee for | children on Saturday, with free access for them to all the assorted amuse- ments. i | | | 1 RITCHIE APPOINTS - CENTENNIAL BODY Fifteen Marylanders Are Named on State Group for 1932 Celebration. | i | { | | | \ | Spec's] Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., June 17.—Fifteen Marylanders, active in patriotic and historic_organizations, were named by Albert, C. Ritchie today as the 's Géorge Washington Bicentennial Commission. The group, autharized by a resolution passed at the last legisla- | ture, will co-operate with the Federal Commission, in arranging the Bicenten- nial Celebration next year. ‘Those appointed to the commission are: 4 ¥ H De Courcy W. Thom, president of the Maryland Historical Society. George S. Robertson, secretary of the Maryland Eociety of the Sons of the American Revolution and treasurer- general of the national organization of { the society. + | _Ernest J. Clark, past president of the {Sons of the American Revolution and past president general of the national | organization of the Sotiety. | James H. Preston, past president of { the Maryland Society of the Sons of the | American Revolution and past president | general of the national organization of | the soclety. Dr. Arthur B. Bibbins, past president of the Flag House Association. J. Alexis Shriver. Edward D. Martin, president of the i Eastern Shore Society. W. Frank Roberts, president of the Baltimore Association of Commerce. J. Spence Howerd, president of the Southern Maryland Society. Samuel E. Shannahan, editor of the Star Democrat, Easton, Md. Heyward E, Boyce, president of the | | | | the Sons of the Revolution. the Daughters of the American | lution. Mirs. Robert H. La Porte, representing ;.hflmb-uhuu of the American Revo- lution. Mrs. Nicholas L. Dashiell, president of ! th Children of the Amefl::n Revoiu- + tion. F |, Mrs. Edward Shoemaker, president of the Colonial Dames. No 1931 Chutch Congress. ‘The annual Church Congress in Eng- Revo- Mrs. Robert A. Welsh, past regent of | . Already, naval officials say, Uncie Sam has been saved thousands of d lars by the new process. The Naval | Research Laboratory has succeeded in doing this h'ghly specialized work in which other concerns have spent thousands of dollars i develop. Dr. Stephenson, who is an expert on sound, particularly underwater sound, has been with the Naval Research Laboratory for several years. Mr. Schnell is now a member of the Naval Reserve force, having previously served in the regular Navy as a chief machinist's mate. His $500 reward came as the result of developing straight mechanical devices, such as holders, materially assisting Dr. Steph- enson in cutting the quartz crystals to a very high degree of accuracy, which cannot be measured by any known micremeter. | | in trying t | search, radio sound and metallurgy. The officials sald that if the Navy was forced to buy all these crystals at com- mercisl sources it would cost an im- mense amount of money and they would not have the high degree of ac- curacy obtained through the Steph: son-Schnell process. Further, they serted, the Navy would not be able to make the small and accurate chatges neaded in research work. Quartz crystals ar> used extensively in commercial and navzl radio equip- ment for control of transmitters, and the Navy was among the first to :ecog- nize the value of quartz crystals for this purposz. Ths offizial pointzd out that the Navy is responsible to & high degree for the defelopment of quartz crystals, from tl earliest dsmonstra- tion of their pa:sibilities by Dr. Cady of Wesleyan University in Connecticut and Dr. Plerce of Harvard. The Navy was the first to investigatz the devalop- ment, which followed at the Naval Re- search Labora] d this work has added greatly 1o technique of cut- Iting and preparing the crystals. Dr. | Cady spent one Summer at the Naval Research Laboratory in examining the problem. o This country’s early use of crystal control in transmitters has contributed to the accuracy of radio transmission and has added to the number. of avail- able channels. For this reasom, the | offictals said, one can hear his radio set |at a given dial setting, without varia- | tion, bacause of the accurate control of | wave length by the crystal. DOG ROUTS BANBIT - PAIR FROM STORE Policeman Arrives Too Late to Save $30 Loot From Cash Register. = T el Alarmed by the barking of their vie- tim's dog, two bandits snatched $30 | from the cash register of a delicatessen at 1039 Bladensburg road northeast early tcday and escaped in an auto- policeman ran up to the scene of the old-up. Their descriptions fit those of three men who have robbed merchants in many sections of Washington during the past few weeks. Police have broad- cast & lookout for the men and their machine. Alone in Store. Leon Goodman was alone in his store hortly after midnight when two men | came in and ordered cigarettes. When Goodman turned to wait on them the pair produced guns and waved him into his residence in the rear of the store. Goodman's dog_began to bark fur- iously as soon a3 he saw the intruders, and the merchant's wife cried out for assistance. The two men fled and were followed to the front door the Goodmans and their pet. The merchant called to Policeman J. T. White of the Traffic Bureau, who was standing on & nearby corner. White ran to the store, but was oo late to stop the bandits. Grocery Ransacked. Burglars last night made an unsuc- cessful attempt to rob a safe in & grocery at 3511 Twelfth street north- east. The manager, Louis Negimont, found the combination of the strong box broken off when he opened for business, but the contents of the safe were undisturbed. The store was ransacked and an un- determined quantity of groceries stolen. Entrance was gained by breaking a rear window. TOTALS SHOW FALL IN FOREIGN TRADE Favorable Balance of 23- Million Revealed by U. 8. Figures foy May. By the Associated Press. America's foreign trade balance dur- ing May was_$23,000, Commerce Department placed exports during the month at $205,000,000 as against $320,034,000 in May, 1930, and imports at $182,000, 000 against $284,683,000. For the five months ending May 31 exports totaled $1,129,767,000 e $1,781,016,000 and imports $936,028,000 against _$1,485,642,000. ‘The May exports were the smallest since October, 1914, when they totaled ¥ i Maryland Trust Co. and treasurer of 336,000 TWO BURNED BY BLAST Sewer Gas in Manhole. Injures * Electric Company Workers. Prancis Cleary, 21, of 2616 Pennsyl- vania avenue, and James Chapple, of 506 F street northeast, were burned about the arms, neck and face yester- dress in 'a booth at the stor: last Af)rll‘hnd will not be held this year, because | day when sewer gases exploded *while when the door was opened by a sales. man while several other customers stood neatby. She sald the salesman de- ‘manded; without provocation, that she Jeave the store. The suit was brought tiarough Austin F. Canfield. inone of the bishops is willing to invite to his diocese. A plan for the reor- jganization of the on a repre- sentative basis is u; discussion the convocation, and it is possible that @ meeting will be held nexy year. in it g::ymwm manhole a Ths two men, pital and sent te their homes. A “reports today o WAITRESS' DEATH 1S HELD SUICIDE Coroner’s Jury Told Woman Took Poison. When Dis- appointpd in Love. | A coroner’s jury at the District Morgue returned a verdict of suicide today in | the death of Mrs. Mildred Hall Namey, | 88-year-old waitress who died Sunday | Mobile driven by a confederate just &S | afternoon in George Washington Hos- }pml after swallowing a large quantity of & drug. She was found in a state of coma in her room at the Ambassador Hotel Saturday. Testimony to the effect Mrs. Namey took her life because of disappointment in a love affair with a District police- man was given by Mrs. Jennie P. Vite, 1011 H street, a friend of the dead woman. Dr. Maurice Protas, who was called in on the case, told the jury death was due to slow poisoning. He said the woman took a dose of the drug twice the amount required to normally kill a person. ‘The coroner’s jury returned s ver- dict of accidental death in connection with the electrocution of Floyd Hill, 25, colored employe of the Capital Traction Co., who was killed yester- day when he came in contact with a conductor rail at Nineteenth and F streets. The jury was informed Hill lost his balance while working in the excava- tion, siriking his head against the third rail. He was dead upon arrival ;tumemncy Hospital a short time 3 BREAKS JAIL TWICE WITHIN TWO WEEKS Man Pries Apart Bars and Is Cap- tured, Then Escapes Delpifie Shackles. liberty .for the second time within weeks as a result of escapes from n Jall and fthe prison b the Occoqua: | wharf here, Norm&n C. MacIntyre, 26, of the 1700 block M street, was ht y. MacIntyre, sentenced in Police Court two weeks ago to serve nine months at the Lorton m(orpn;wry for pass- his home early Saturday, nized him from the description cast by Lorton officials, and MacIntyre was taken to the prison whar! and shackled.in irons to pre- vent another escape. A heavy ring was ced on each and connected by a went to the wharf late yesterday to SAUNDERS IS BANKRUPT trong chain. Immigration Agent Charles E. Franiis | of the ASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1931 N SHAPRO S DENED. ACQUTTAL VERDIT Y ADKIS RULNG by Defense as Prosecution Closes Its Case. 75 WITNESSES CALLED IN REAL ESTATE TRIAL Title Company President Is Last to Testify, Telling of Deal Involving $100,000. A motion for a directed verdict of acouittal for Jaeob B. Shapiro, chargsd with fraudulent use of the mails, was denied today by Justice Jesse C. Ad- kins in District Supreme Court, Like in the first trial of Shapiro, held last December, the defense moved that the case be thrown out becauss of n defective indictment. verdict of acguittal by Justice Peyton > | Gordon, the indictment charging false pretense being beld faulty because the transaction made the basis of the case had been improperly set forth. Hidden Trust Charged. In arguing the motion today Alvin set forth that the evidence introduced the defendant intended to defra home purchasers by selling them prop- erty which was encumbered by ground trust, for which the defendan! assumed obligations. after the Government closed its case, three witnesses testifying at this morning’s session. Shapiro went on trial last Wednes- day before a jury of eight men and four women. The Government is seek- ing a conviction on an indictment in 12 counts, charging that more than 30 persons were induced to buy property which had a first trust. and to give 2 trust which they thought was a second encumbrance, but which was a tbird i trust, because of an alleged hidden trust. 75 Witnesses Called. The Government presented evidence from approximately 75 witnesses, many of whom were purchasers of property from the former Shapiro company. of which the defendant was president. A number of former Shapiro employe: ranging from sales managers to office boys, were called by the prosecution as witngsses. The salesmen recited how they sold property which they believed had only one trust, and clerks identified letters sent by the defendant through the malls to the home buyers. This mail matter, Assistant United States Attorney John W. Fihelly drew from these witnesses, was written sc purchasers would not discontinue pay- ments, or take steps to prevent Shapiro from selling other under the same allegedly frau ‘The Government closed rather dra- matically, with Louis E. Breuninger, president of the Real State, Morigage & Guaranty Title Co., on the stand. The witness testified as to how his com- pany had loaned Shapiro $100,000 and received as security the properly in- volved in this case. This transaction was closed in October, 1926, the de: fendant agreeing to pay the debt off in monthly installments of $833.33. Holds Payments Defaulted. Mr. Breuninger testified Shapiro fell behind in payments. Extensions were granted him, he said, but when thg de- faults continued he sald he was forced to call Shapiro into conference. The witness quoted the defendant’s explana- tion as to why he did not meet the { obligations as “I intend to pay, but. I ' m_unable to meet it at this time.” ‘The loan finally became involved in court litigations and the witness testi- fled a settlement was agreed upon. On by Mr. New. myer, the witness admitted his com- En’ dttempted to collect $16,164 in terest. and commissions on this loan, and because of this fhe defendant Pl T, - cipal had never been paid by the de- fendant, and therefore "his company never received the $4,000 agreed uj as the comimission fee. He also tes- tified that after the suit had been filed, Shapiro’ came to his office and apolo- gized for having taken the matter to |UTILITIES FOUGHT BILL WITH $21,000 Two Oregon and Washington Com- - panies Estimate Cost of Cam- paign Against Grange Bills. \ B7 the Associated Press. The Federal Trade Commission was informed today that the Pacific Power and Light Co. and the Northwestern by immigration authorities and ice | toda; by J. Butler ‘Walsh, special attorney for the com- | mission. ¢ Platt’s letter said committees were the electrical industry. -|S. S. BERMUDA PARTIALLY i’fiom Club. DESTROYED IN DOCK FIRE Blaze - Still ' Smoldering—Bridge and Superstructure Burned. “Hull Intact. 1IOW | By the.Associated Press. June 17— ‘The first trial ended with a directed ‘W. Newmyer, chief of defense counsel; | \ by the Government failed to show that | The motion was entered immediately | b Dew "'Céiuses'f"c’réél/;, S lurniv HIGHWAY, BRIDGE UPSETS TRAILER, | © casualties resulted when this N‘tnlleramclempperuriythk morning on the temporary roadway at the Virginia end of the Highway ‘was undamaged. Bridge. The accident was attributed to the morning dew. The trailer ~—Star Staff Photo. HAYNES 1S MOVED O GELL AT LORTON Former - Banker One of 24 Prisoners Transferred to District Reformatory. | Harry V. Haynes, 55-year-old former | president of the Farmers & Merchants | National Bank, was one of 24 prisoners | who clambered into patrol wagons at | the Dictrict Jail y to bs trans- ferred to Lorton Reformatory near Oc- coquan, Va. where Haynes is to serve four and & half years for violations of the banking act. Haynes' term "began when he was sentenced Friday by Justice Peyton Gordon in District Suprems Court, but his removel to.the District Reformatory { ¥as held up pending the arrival at the jail of the certificate of sentence. ‘The prison party entrained at Union Station shortly after noon in charge of Deputy Marshal ‘R.” 8. Glascock, at- tached to the reformatory, and arrived at Lorton an hour later. Duties Undetermined. Sixteen of the prisoners were sent to | the work house to serve terms under a | ear for lesser offenses, while the for- mer banker and seven others, including six_colored men, were committed to the Reformatory for terms ranging from one to five years. Officials at the Work House were un- ble to say what duties will be assigned Haynes. heavy labor, however, 1s fl:flr'u': wmm will b'e'“lh ellow Jowed to see visitors on the first and third Sundays of each month. ‘The other white man to accompany Haynes to the’ Reformatory today was James H. Tiller, alias James H. Thorpe, viciton for men had besn sent up on housebreaking and larceny charges. Guilty on 14 Counts. ‘Three patrol wagons conveyed the | prisoners to Union Station, and a simi- | ar number of prison vans met the party at Occoquan, Va. Justice Gordon sentenced Haynes a week after & jury found the former banker guilty on 14 counts of violating banking sct. -Officials the national said the prisoner would be eligible behavior at the | parole _on good | R who Haa hewn ‘&€ 1 ynes, W) n bes i under bond following his lnd.\:tme:t’. iwu committed temporarily to the jail 'WAIV for ent RARAOA ES HEARING | IN WIFE SLAYING Donald W. Sagle of Washington Charged With Shooting in ‘Richmond.’ . Special Dispatch to The Btar. RICHMOND, Va., June 17.—Donald ‘W. Sagle, the young -“Washington car- ter, charged with shooting and kill- ing his wife, Mrs. Agnes Sagle, 20, at her home:. here May 3, and who then attempted suicide by surning the gun upon: himself, will face the grand Jury at the July term of the Hustings Court, OUNTY BUILDING - d | McKay, resident physician of the Lau: itarium, the_bride | OFFICERS TR DEAN'SSUIT TO GET BRIDE IS DELAYED {Court Refuses Demand of Girl’s Parents That Action Be Dismissed. Continuing the case for & month, Jus- tice Jennings Bailey of District Suj Court today refused to dismiss habeas corpus proceedings brought by William Harper Dean, jr.. 21, son of a prominent official of the United States Chamber of Commerce, to obtain the companion- ship of his Bv:lge B ustice ey vised Aubrey St. Clair Wardwell, attorney for the peti- tioner, to instiiute an action in Mary- land in the interim. Milton W. King, e Hotel, parents of Elizabeth Love Dean, 19, granddaugh- Tax Appeals. haa sisied the settion s, the petition should be thrown out of court. ) Charges Bride Is Detained. ‘Young Dean yesterday instituted pro- ceedings in which he alleged Mr. and Mrs. Burnett had, against the will of his bride of six months, removed the girl from her husband and detained her from returning to_his home. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett in an answer today charged they had semt - their daughter to a cenitarium in Laurel, Md., on the adyice of physicians be- h'.j:lg ’n l;rnlmn “They were . pa! al ex= penses at the sanitari - w‘ls s week. adequat supported their eb;mnflt to e parenta they had not un- lawfully detained their daughter, but had followed medical instructions in an effort to save her life. Doctors’ Statements Offered. Mr. and Mrs. Burnett charged Dean was arrested for driving while drunk and colliding, and was sentenced to 10 was married. They also alleged he, too, swallowed poison about five weeks after his marriage, and was placed in a nurs- ing home for treatmient. Several affidavits from physicians were attached to the answer. Dr..J. A. rel San! swore L is & pa- tient at the Laurel Sanitarium, suffer- ing from a nervous breakdown, involving more or less complete mental disor- ganization and suicidal attempts.” He added that while the girl was con- valeseing satisfactorily, any interference at this time might have disastrous con- LOCAL COMPANIES SUBMIT LOW BID H. Herfurth, Jr., Inc., and Hech- ’inger Seek to Clegr New Post Office Site. H. Herfurth, jr., Inc., and the Hech- inger Corporation, both of this city, are low and second low bid- ders, respectively, for the job of wreck- ing buildings on the site of the new Post Office Department, Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, Pennsylvania avenue rtment will con- "iuffr the bids and the Board of Award Herfurth’s bid was $8,450, while that of He jer was $11,722. o mtf $ The other J. D. Myers Co. this city, $1a7e; ‘ ANSFERRED AT NAVAL AIR STATION Lieut. Comdr. Robertson to Come Here From Panama to Assume Flight Surgeon’s Duties. Lieut. . Carl J. ¥ .mirlml |+ "URGEQ,AS'_UBRA_RY poval i i “" Committés to’Prooure Use at Silver Spring Seleots preme | days in jail about two weeks after hel PAGE B—1 A OF NEW UNTS OREANZED LY 1 lDouhIe Protection to Be I Given Part of High-Value District. ADDITIONAL BATTALIONS FORMED. IN DEPARTMENT Chl:ngu Made in Personnel to Care for Service—Other Promo- tions Planned. Beginning July 1 double protection from fire will be available in certain sections of the high-value downtown district, according to plans of Chief En- gineer George S. Watson of the Pire De- partment. Two new districts, the sixth and sev- enth, will take the place of the present central battalion arca. Two chiefs will answer each alarm in thess districts, night or day. This will relieve the dep- uty chiefs of the necessity of answering all first alarms, which has heretofore been the practice, and will give them more time to attend to their executive duties. The deputy chiefs, however, will continue to answer all second and other multiple alarms. New Fire Districts. The new 6th Battalion district will comprise Engine Companies 2, 6 and 16; Truck Company No. 3 and Rescue Squad No. 1. Battalion chief’s head- quarters will be maintained at No. 2 | engine house. ‘The new seventh district will be made jup of Engine Companies 3, 4, 13 and 14, Truck Companies 1 and 10 and th~ Its headquarters will be at No. 14 Engine House. Until the new engine house at Thir- teenth and K streets is completed, Deputy Chiefs C." E. Schrom and John Carrington, who will be promoted from battalion chiefs July 1. will have their headquarters at No. 2 Engine House. Then they will move to the new house. Personnel Changes. B. W. Weaver and A. C./ Buschcr will be battalion chiefs of the new sixth district. Capt. John R. Groves, who will become a battalion chief July 1, will succeed Buscher in the fourth dis- trict, which he now commands. Cap!. L. L. Woolard, the other newly- promoted battalion chief, will take com- mand of the new seventh district, aleng gieth Capt. :‘.)s. Haight, No. 9 Engine mpany, who will be designated ac battalion chief. = Many other promotions and changes in the department will be announced later when the results of a civil service promotion examination. held yesterday by the Civil Service Commission, have been'h transmitted to the Fire Depart- men! CAMP LETTS TO HOLD SUMMER SCHOOL Play as Well as Study to Be Com- pulsory at Rhodes River Resort. A Summer school invested with va- cation attracticns designed to make studying a_ pleasure has been arranged for Camp Letts, the Y. M. C. A. shore resort for Washington bcys on the Rhodes River, near Annapolis, which opens Friday. In this novel schol, play. as well as study, will be compulsory. Weather per- mitting, the clagses will be held beneath the big pine trees, which form a grove cl;‘er?;ed blll'lgl.! ofn:hh: river, and lnl‘!‘b wi al 'matic, geography, history and grammar will be regular pe- riods for swimming, base ball, tennis, boating and other sports. ‘The school, to_be conducted under A . M. C. A, is desi 'marily for boys of the sixth, seventh and who want to make up advance themselves in eighth grades deficiencies or their studies. James J. King, headmaster of the Woodward Schcol, will be in charge of he isting him will grad ity of Virginia. and Wilbur D. Bailey, assistant principal cf the Chuckatuck, Va., hgh school and formerly assistant religious work di- rector of the Washington Y. M. C. A. ‘The camp will be in operation for two weeks before the Summer school be- gins. The course will start July 1 and continues for six weeks. .| WORKMAN IS INJURED AS POLE SNAPS IN TWO Laborer Hurled 25 Feet to Ground. Treated for Bruises and Scratches. ‘Walter Tayl when a tele and fell, lbout):: g , & laborer, employed Sam- uel Wall, 2006 L lMp the pole when it snapped at the bot- by . . A. B. G treated him for a bruised left Im scratched left hand. He lives at 656 Milwaukee place southeast. CLANS TO 'BE GUESTS Dr, E. 8. Hendry will be the host to the Scottish socleties of Wi wal outing Saturday. suburban home, on the Vir: BODY TAKEN TO HOME . Pittsburgh. § 15 i ¥ ] ? H i L fg L H ,li i