Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1931, Page 17

Washington News 73 ARE INDICTED IN 20 OFFENSES | AGAINT DRY LAW Two Women in Grand Jury; List Involving Conspiracy | During 13 Months. SEVERAL ARRESTED IN RAIDS RECENTLY Four Zimbergs Among Those Under Charges—Colored Trio Al- leged Violators. Two women and twenty-one men were indicted today by the District grand jury for conspiracy to commit 200 offenses against the Unit:d States| through the manufacture, sale, trans- orting and possession of alleged liquor | Petucen June I, 1930, and July 1, 1931. | A number of them hav: been appre- | hended and are at liberty on bonds given before United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage. Assistant Unit:d States Attorney Harold W. Ortutt pre-| sented the casé to th> grand jury after | Sergt. George M. Littl> and his squad had raided several of the places where the alleged ring was supposed to oper- at>. Bench warrants will be asked for any not under bond. Four Zimbergs Named. The accused are Harry Zimberg, Abra- ham Zimberg, Joseph Zimberg, Adolph | R. Moder, Frederick Sparaso, Charles E. Mills, John Giovinazzo, Helen Zimberg, Maurice Chitiwalt, Thomas M. Crane, Nick Macchiarella, Rocco Pellicano, Ante- netta Pellicano, Frank Maida, Michael Spinell, Angelo Schiottoriggio, Malcolm S. McGehee, Arthur D. Daniel, jr.; Bruno Cristarello, Domenic J. Musolino, Joseph Amato, James Caparrotta and James Richard Pcsey. The indictment alleges that the defendants in furtherance of the alleged conspiracy manufacture unlaw- fully large quantities of alcohol, brandy, whisky, gin and beer at various places in this District, some designated in the indictment and others being stated as | unknown to the grand jurors. Sale and transporting of the alleged liquor are also charged in the indictment, which sets forth 17 alleged overt acts commit- ted by several of the accused. The earliest of the overt acts is said to have occurred December 19, 1930, with the transporting of 30 gallons of alleged liquor to premises 1616 East Capitol street, the home of one of the Zimbergs, and the last overt act is dated July 1, 1931, and charges that Posey h:d in his ‘possession at 620 L street southeast 525 bottles of the al- Acged liquor. It Isn’t the Why Water Vapor Makes One Hot in Summer and Cold in Winter Shown as Body’s Reaction to Atmospheric Saturation. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. “It's not the heat. It's the humidity.” Such is the curbstone explanation of the unusual discomfort folk experience these hot July days. Next Winter the same persons will declare that it isn't the cold, but the humidity that makes them suffer. Both these explanations are quite true so far as they go, says Dr. William J. Humphreys of the Weather Bureau. But this same “humidity” is one of the trickiest subjects that the meteorol- ogist deals withs and in the final an- alysis n knows just why the amount of water vapor in the air should act on the human system as it un- doubtedly does. The greater the saturation of the atmosphere close to the earth the less can be evaporated from the surface of the skin. It requires heat to change water—in this case the water in sweat from a liquid into a vapor. The heat is supplied by the body. If the water jsn't evaporating the heat is not needed. It stays with the body. That's why one feels hotter when the humidity is high. Metabolism a Factor. But heat is produced in thesbody by the action of metabolism. There is a good deal of evidence, Dr. Humphreys says, that this metabolism itself is partly | a function of temperature. The hotter | it gets on the outside the lower the metabolism, and consequently the less | heat produced inside. Consequently the less the evaporation from the skin the | less heat there is to be gotten rid of.| The two processes, however, may not | balance. | But the lower the metabolism the| less heat energy is present for throw-| ing off the waste products of the body | and so, it is possible, poisons accumu- late and the individual feels sluggish | and downcast. And, of course, the| metabolism can't be allowed to get too low. If it does the heat-producing energy of the physiological process of living itself drops too low and the victim dies. Atmosphere at the water vapor saturation point at a tempera- ture of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, Dr. Humphreys believes, would be fatal to man if continued for any length of time. Such a condition would be practically impossible in nature. It is this sluggishness produced by the lowering of metabolism in response to the greater accumulation of heat outside, unrelieved by the evaporation process, that leads, to the popular mis- conception that humid air is heavier than dry air. As a matter of fact, Dr. | Humphreys says, it is lighter. Water | vapor itself is lighter than dry air,| per unit volume. The person feels| heavier. Everything around him seems to have taken on extra weight. Humid Air Colder. But humid air is less comfortable in | ‘Winter. It makes a person feel colder. | Heat, It’s— face and consequently on body heat—is well enough understood. But the physics of humidity, the special province of the Weather Bureau, itself offers many delicate problems and contradictions of the popular viewpoint. There are three kinds of humidity, Dr. Humphreys explains, First is absolute humidity—the amount of water vapor per unit volume of space, as the number of grams per cubic foot. This involves the term “saturation point”—the state of space containing all the water vapor possible at a stated temperature in the presence of a flat surface of pure water. By means of this concept it is possible to set up constants for various tem- peratures, which, of course, would not ordinarily be reached except under ex- perimental conditions. But the humidity generally talked about is relative humidity—the ratio of water vapor actually present in a given volume of space anywhere to the abso- lute humidity of the same volume. Thirty per cent humidity, for instance, wouldn't mean that the atmosphere was 30 per cent water vapor. It would mean that per cubic foot, for example, the actual amount of water vapor present was 30 | per cent of the greatest amount possible | |1 a cubic foot at the same temperature | in the presence of a flat surface of pure | water. | Then there is specific humidity, or the | | actual weight or water vapor present pr | unit weight of air. This differs esscn- tially from the other two in that it deals with a volume of air rather than a vol- ume of space. It is this distinction that accounts for many of the misconcep- | tions r-garding humidity. Air Is Free Agent. The air itself, Dr. Humphreys ex- plains, has very little to do with hu- midity. There could be just as much humidity if there were a vacuum. It is gen-rally supposed, Dr. Humphreys finds from the manjy inquiries made of the Weather Bureau, that the afr itself in some way soaks up water like a sponge until it gets as much as it can hold. Actually what happens is that the t:mperature at the surface of the water supplies, in some way, energy by which a liquid is changed into a gas and this gas, in compliance with the gas | laws of physics, rises by virtue of the heat energy pushing its molecules in all directions. It makes very little differ- ence what is present in the space into which it arices. The actual condition of dry air, Dr. Humphreys says, might be compared to a 10-acre field in which one small boy was playing. The relative spacs taken up by the boy would be about the same as that taken up by the dry air molecules. he coming of the water vapor par vould b com- parable, so fer as space is concerned, ;.‘o]; small puppy wandering into the eld. Wet Air Lighter. Water vapor is lighter than dry air It consequently tends to go upward and to expand in all directions, the rate depending on such factors as _Che - WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 1931 WITH SUNDAY MOR! RAILROAD BLAMED FOR BERWYN CRASH WHERE TWO DIED Jury Foreman Refuses to Let Traffic Official Quiz Woman Driver. GATEKEEPER’S VISION CALLED “INSUFFICIENT” Witness Testifies One Barrier Down as Car Started Across Tracks. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BERWYN, Md., July 23.—Criticizing both the manner in which the crack Columbian express of the Baltimore & Ohio was handled and the way in which the gates on the Central avenue grade crossing are manipulated, a cor- cner's jury last night laid responsibility |for the accident which cost the lives | of two locomotive engineers Tuesday on the railroad company, exonerating | Miss Ethel Thomas, driver of the car| which the train struck. After deliberating two hours and a| half the jury framed a verdict, declar-| ing the train crew “failed in using proper precaution in bringing the train {under control, having a view of one- Ihalf mile of the automobile sta” ed on the crossing.” Gatekeeper Also Blamed. | “We believe that the operator of the igates has not sufficient vision- of the road to give the public sufficient pro- tection,” the verdict concluded. Dr. W. Allen Grifith told the jury that L. R. Walters, one of the engineers who leaped to his death when the blaz- ing gasoline from the tank of the auto- mobile poured into the engine cab, died instantly of concussion of the brain. J. Albert Ward, the other engineer, probably died of internal injuries and chock, the physician said. Mss Ethel Thomas. an employe of St. Anne’s Orphan Asylum. whose car she was driving at the time of the ac- cident, insisted she used every precau- n in crossing the tracks. She said she slowed down in passing | some children playing on the road near the tracks. When she reached the cross- ing she slowed down further and looked both ways before starting to cross. Heard No Gong, She Says. The young woman declared she heard no gong and without warning the gates dropped in front of her just as she was crossing the last track, causing her to Foening StaP NING EDITION TAGAB RATEWAR RENEEDWITHELTS BY TV COMPANES City Proper Fee of Diamond and Pro-Tex-U Now Down to 20 Cents. BELL STANDING PAT ON 25-50-75 CENTS Second and Third Zones of Former Two Services Now Same at 40 and €0. Washingtonians were riding more cheaply than ever today as a result of the latest taxicab rate war. The newest battld for supremacy in the matter of low rates was started last week, when the Bell Cab Co., which introduced the flat rate basis here, re- duced its charges from 35-60-85 cents to 25-50-75 cents. ‘The Pro-Tex-U Cab Co. retaliated vesterday by whittling its “city proBcr"' fee down to 20 cents. Then the Dia-, mond Cab Co. went the Pro-Tex-U concern one better, so to speak, by slashing its prices from 35-60-85 cents to 20-40-60. Second and Third Zones. As sult of this move, the Diamond | and Tex-U firms were on even basis so far as their “city proper” rates ! were concerned, but the latter organ-, ization’s charges for the second and third zones remained at 45 and 70 cents, respectively. However, Pro-Tex-U officials met last night and decided to reduce their second and third zone prices to the same level as the Diamond's. Thus far the rate war is confined to the zone-rate taxis, with officials of the Yellow and Black & White cab com- panies, which operate on a meter basis, declaring they propose to make no reductions. ‘Anonuncement of the cuts by the | | Diamond and Pro-Tex-U_organizations | | was received by the other zone-rate groups with a silence which, in some | cuarters, was construed as an indica- | | tion of an impending struggle. Statement May Be Made. At the offices of the City Cab Co. | for instance, it was said, officials were | not prepared to issue a statement at the moment, but thit one might b: forthcoming before the end of the day. As for the Bell group, it wes said at the office of Leon Brill, jr., president of | the company, that, for the present, at least, the concern is “standing pat.” Meanwhile, the Public Utilities Com- | FEP In Sylvan Theater Festival NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE GROUPS TO PARTICIPATE WITH BAND. PAGE B—1 EXHAUSTIVE STUDY OF CITY TRAFFIC 10 START MONDAY Changes in Signal Lights May Result From Sur- vey of Auto Tides. RHODE ISLAND AVENUE COUNT TO COME FIRST Van Duzer Announces Timing of Stops Will Be Put on Latest Flexible Basis. An exhaustive survey of traffic condi- tions in the District, the results of which will serve as a future guide for {the location of traffic lights and other traffic signals, is to be started Monday, it was disclosed today by William A. Van Duzer, director of the new Depart- ment of Vehicles and Traffic. “The Feast of Si-Ling-Chi,” to be presented at the Sylvan The- ater tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in connection with the third festival pro- gram of the Summer. They are: Sit- ! HIS group of Neighborhood House | players @have leading roles in Traffic checkers will be stationed first along Rhode Island avenue between Twelfth and North Capitol streets, where the network of traffic lights along this stretch is to be changed from the lim- ited progressive to the flexible progres- cive timing system. The traffic count at each intersection will determine the 'w timing ratios. May Eliminate Some Lights. With the completion of the traffic The operetta is under the per-|check on Rhode Island avenue, Mr. Van Duzer plans to station the staff of The Neighborhood House program will | checkers along Pennsylvania avenue | be presented by 100 boys and girls vary- |and from there they will work on the |ing in age from 3 to 17 years, with |other streets in the congested area. No rected by Lena Barghausen. |additional lights, signs or other traffic devices will be installed until the traffic ties. scnal supervisicn of Clara D. Neligh. | dances, | The accompanist at the piano will be ting, left to right, Katherine Twiford | Erba L. Birney, director of music at| and Helen Hutton, and standing, left to | Nefghborhood House. right, Erna Jasper, Margaret Koehler| This will be the first formal outdoor | count is completed. In fact, Mr. Van Duzer indicated that the survey may result in the elimination of some of and Ruth Kaldenbach. The prcgram will begin promptly at 7:30 o'clock, with a half-hour program by the 13th United States Engineers Band from Fort Humphreys, Va. The band will be followed by the speretta and a series of folk dances ¥hich were pres-nted earlier in the year at the White House egg-rolling festivi- apparence of the Fort Humphreys Band | the lights and other signals now in use. Mr. Van Duzer said it would be his policy to install lights, stop signs and other devices only at intersections where conditions warrant them. Con- | versely, lights and signs will be re- {moved ‘where they are not warranted. | The traffic survey will show either the need of signals or the removal of those now in service. |in this city in several years. | “Tickets for the program may be ob- tained 2t the Community Center D:- | partment, the ‘Willard Hotel, the Wash- ington Hotel, the A. A. A. headquarters |end at the Sylvan Theater tomorrow night. —Star Staff Photo. WOMAN WHO USED | The actual work of changing the Rhode Island avenue lights from the Limited progressive to the flexible pro- gressive system will be started July 28 and will take about two weeks to com- plete. The major portion of the job 1s electrical, and will be done by_elec- ricians of the Potomac Electric Power o. TUGBOAT CAPTAIN Latest Type System. OFFICERS GUNFREE INDICTEDINKILLING SR — This also s due to the fact that the | pressure. The hotter it is the more | CTOSSIDE the W mission, it is understood, is keeping a e engine. The fiexible progressive system is con- In a separate indictment Moder and | Dantel are accused of having in their | sston June 16, 1931, a quantity of | s, dried peaches, frult jars, liquor s and other pzraphsrnalia in- tended for the manufacture of intoxi- ! cating liquor. Sale of the alleged prod- uct is charged in another count of the indictment and a third count alleges the poss-ssion of intoxicants Two of the other alleged conspirators are separately indicted for the manu- facture of alcohol and the possession of intoxicants May 30, 1931. ‘They are Sparaso and Cristarello. Violation of the national prohibition | law is also charged in an indictment | against Leon E. Lynn. He is alleged to have transported a quantity of corn liquor July 3 end to have had the same in his possession. William E. Terrell, Leonard Winston and Samuel Sullivan, all colored, are charegd with violating the liquor’ law, ! in transporting and possession of in- toxicants. RADIO TRAFFIC CAR T0 BEGIN SERVICE; New Police Unit to Patrol Streets on Lookout for Mechan- ical Defects. A new radio squad car, assigned to the Traffic Bureau, will begin“a 24- “hour patrol service tomorrow morning. at 8 o'clock, Inspector E. W. Brown announced today. Inspector Brown said the new radio car is to be on the lookout for me- chanical deficiencies in automobiles on | the strets. For instance, he explained, if one of the policemen in the patroling ma- chine notices an automobile driving along with defective lights, the motorist will be taken to the Traffic Burezu and warned. A second offender will face a Police Court judge on the charge. The patrol car also will be on the lookout for faulty horns and brakes. The automobile also will respond to 21l traffic accidents in tne city and make a detailed report of the mishaps 10 the bureau. The car will carry a policeman skilled in photography to taks pictures of all serious traffic accidents. Inspector Brown is now having six policemen of the Traffic Bureau in- structed in photography by Ira Gul- lickson, the official police photographer. | The pictures are to be taken, Inspec- | tor Brown explained, only in accidents | where there is conside le proeperty <amage or personal injury. e NINE IN ONE FAMILY ATTACK 7 OFFICERS Three Jeffccats Are Arretfed Afterx Free-for-All Fight in Which ‘Wemen Take Part. By the Associated Press. NORTH, S. C., July 23.—Seven| county cfficers and nine members of the Jeficoat family, living ncar here, en- gaged in a free-for-all fight today be: fore the officers finally quicted the af fair and arrested three of the JefIcoats. Ab Jeficoat, described by officers as an'escaped convict fram » North Caro- lina prison, was shot in th2 leg during the melee. None of the others was se- riously injured. Ab, Jake Jeffcoat and “Kid” JeTcoat, sll wanted by th: officers on various charges, were arrested. The officers had gone to the house to take into custody Jake Jeffcoat, who had been allowed to leave the State penitentiary several months ago to visit his_sick mcther. When the seven officers went to the atmosphere laden with water vapor | water vapor is created, because of the does not take up moisture so_readily | energy supplied for breaking losse the from the surface of the skin. The re-|gas molecules from the liquid. Water sult probably is that the clothing be- | vapor constitutes only a very small | comes damp, although not necessarily | fraction of.the whole atmosphere, but | enough £o to notice it. Damp cloth- | the theoretically possibe —saturation ing is a better conductor of heat than | point goes up _very rapidly with heat. Efforts to start the car were futile, | Clos¢ Watch on the rate war she salld‘ and two men mage ?In unsuc- | - Snemen tnen urged et to teave e REICHELDERFER AIDS car, and she got out without assistance, she testified. Miss Thomas told the dry clothing. by the body has a better chance to escape. The metabolism may not be able to increase fast enough to conpen- sate in heat production. It is notable, Dr. Humphreys points out, that in dry, cold air the skin on exposed parts cf the body has a scaly, mealy appearance, while on a day of high humidity it is moist and of a greater compactness throughout its thickness. The dry, mealy skin is a poor conductor of heat away from the body. The wet skin may take it away too fast for an exact balance to be maintained. The physiology of humidity, Dr. Hum- phreys explained, still is quite obscure, although the main fact—that of its effect on evaporation from the skin sur- So the heat produced | At 92 degrees Fahrenheit it might con- cefvably constitute 5 per cent by | volume, not weight, of the atmosphere | near the surfice. At 40 Fahrenheit | it would drop down to less than 1 | per_cent. | * Fortunately for living things, the greater the amocunt of water vapor with increasing heat the more certain |1s the automatic process by which the | condition is relieved. Being lighter | | than the rest of the air, it rises, con- vection sets in and a thund | results. “This takes the water |out of the air and the process starts | all over again. The more water vapor | the more likely the thunderstorm. The | hotter it is the greater the amount of water vapor. It is one of nature’s automatic defense mechanisms. BETTER WEATHER 5 FORECAST HERE Continued Comfortable Tem-i perature Today and To- morrow Predicted. ‘Washington was a comfortable city again today, after a combination of heat and humidity had caused two prostrations yesterday. And the Capital probably will con- tinue to enjoy moderate temperatures today and tomorrow, according to offi- cials of the Weather Buteau, who pre- dicted that the mercury will not act so temperamentally as it has recently. Thundershowers Probable. Partly cloudy weather was forecast for tonight and tomorrow, with but little change in temperature. Local thundershowers were considered prob- able, however. The maximum temperature yesterday was 90 degrees, recorded ot 6 p.m. Al- though the Lumidity was somewhat lower than it had been previously, it still was above normal, it was said at the Weather Bureau. Temperatures were moderate today and a pleasant breeze took the edge off the sun's heat. Two Men Overcome. Those overcome by yesterday’s heat were Clarence Haltenstein, 23, of 1006 Pennsylvania avenue and Sylvester Jackson, 22, colored, address unknown. Haltenstein was prostrated while working on the demolition of the old Potomac Electric Power Co. building at Fourteenth and C streets, while Jack- son was overcome while at work on a flatboat near the navy yard. Both were treated at Emergency Hospital. I e — POSTAL REVENUE GAINS CHEER BUSINESS HERE June Receipts $443,065, Com- pared With $425,518 During Same Month Last Year. ‘Washington post office officials were enthusiastic today over local business conditions as reflected by postal re- celpts. Their optimism resulted from dis- closure that the revenue of the local post office so tar this month was about equal to that of the same period last year. 'Receipts here in June were $443,- Msw compared with $425,518 in June, 1930% The Junc figures were regarded s indicative of the new trend. In every other month this year prior to June there had heen a slight decrease as Jeffcoat home, Jaks refused to leave. None of the Jeffcoat family fired, * officers said, but all engaged the officers in fist fights, even the voman members of ths household taking & hand in the scrap. compared with the same month last year. Officials also anticipated that the ex- tension in the limit of the size of par- cel-post packages, soon to into ef- fect, would stimulate use of the mails. HUNT FOR THIEVES GOES T0 RICHMOND, Two Who Took Narcotics| Here Believed Traced to Capital of Virginia. Search for the two drug thieves who | held up the proprietor of a drug store at 3704 Fourteenth street last Sat- urday night, leaving him bound and gagged as they fled with approxi- mately $100 worth of narcotics, turned | to Richmond today. The theory the robbers may be hid- | ing in or near the Virginia capital| was reached after a box of narcotics | was found under the North Ana Bridge on ‘the Washington-Richmond High- w Among the drugs contained in the box was a bottle of heron, bear- ing the label of the pharmacy which was the scene of Saturday’s robbery. Richmond police believe the same bendits staged two hold-ups in a drug | store in that city recently, visiting the establishment for the first time about a week ago and returning Tuesday. Consequently, the Virginia authorities | have asked Inspector Frank S. W. | Burke, chief of the Washington Detec- | tive Bureau, to forward descriptions of the men who robbed the Fourteenth street pharmacy. | In that robbery, Lonnie T. Queen, 45- | year-old proprietor of the establishment, Was ordered to turn over his supply of | narcotics, the hold-up men spurning his offer of money. After the bandits had fled, Queen wiggled out of h's bonds and notified the police, but no trace of the fugitives was found. . HOWARD PRESENTS PLAN FOR HOME MORATORIUM Proposal Would Extend Five Years’ Mortgage Payment on Residents. By the Assoclated Press. Representative Howard, Demq Nebraska, today presented whagcr;t-: termed “the Howard plan” to President Ho’le;fr. i e plan suggested a Cve-year exten- 31‘9‘: ‘!o:] the un:z Q?r fla\ymem. or‘ 031‘& principal amoun all mort, v g gages on “My plan for a moratorium on mort- gages,” Howard sald, “is so simple that even a French diplomat could not find any German ghosts inside it.” Howard said he also had urged the President to have the Agriculture De- partment take quick actioa in an effort to eradicate grasshoppers, which are now plaguing large arcas in the North umL | Wesh { jury she had been driving “almost four { months.” F. H. Lorent, the gateman, who has been stationed at Berwyn only a month, told how the Columbian Flyer “blew all the way from Branchville.” He admit- ted the gates formerly did not work in unison, but said the equipment was in perfect working order Tuesday after- noon when the tragedy occurred. He did not sce any car on the road when he started lowering the gates and was | surprised to see the machine driven by Miss Thomas stalled between them a | | moment later. Man's Story Varies. Edwin C. Yost declared Miss Thomas was_driving up the road about 35 miles an hour. One gate was down and the other just missed the top of her car as she drove under it, he testified. Andrew A. Mothershead, who rushed to Miss Thomas' assistance, along with Mr. Yost and Mr. Lorentz, claimed the locomotive was “rocking sideways” as In Radio Address Says Employment Is Sure Business Stimulator. Commissioner | “The surest way to stimulate busi- ness is to increase employment,” Com- missicner Luther H. Reichelderfer as- serted last night in an address over Station WRC indorsing the Midsummer job_campaign. “The consuming power of the public may be measured directly by its pur- chasing power.,” Mr. Reichelderfer said, “but the fact that today the banks are full of money, that credit is extremely cheap, does not indicate that every one is plentifully supplied with this financial commodity. “The money, or credit which is stored | | i | i {Grand Jury Exonerates Mrs. Tillie Belle Wilson in sidered the very latest development in traffic light control, .and trafic off- cials believe it will materially mprove i conditions and_expedite the flow of trafic on Rhode Isand avenue. New | timing apparatus, installed in signals, iwill permit a varaition in the timing William Owens, 70, Formally Accused of Murdering Shooting of Escort. Mrs. Tillie Belle Wilson, 23, 500 Third | Murder in the first degree is charged street, was exoncrated today by the against Willlam Owens, 70-year-old tug- grand jury of shooting her escort, Lzon- | boat captain, in an indictment reported ard Hoffman, with the pistol of Police- | today by the grand jury. He is accused man Charles B, Kimball of the twelfth | of killing 14-y<ar-old Elsie Louise Bry precinct, May 29 last. Hoflman, Who| ant who was shot five times at her was not seriously injured, assumed all | home, 456 M street southwest, July 6, blame for the shooting. | when' she refused him a kiss. The girl Three different versions of th affair | Jived for several days in a hospital. were given, it is stated, in explanation | H.r married sister, Mrs. Viola Ger- of how the young woman hippened to | trude Campbell, was alse shot three have the policeman’s pistol. Kimball | times by the enraged suitor as she w and another officer, it was stat:d, had | nessed the climax of her young sister's stopped the Hoffman car for speeding, | alleg-d affair with Owens. and while they were talking about giv- | Owens, according to testimony given ing a ticket fo Mrs. Wilson, who Was | to police, is said to have engaged Elsie driving, the other officer went away, | to drive his automobile and their asso- leaving Kimball alone with the coupk. | ciation is said to have develop:d an af- Kimbl is said to have entered the car | fection for the child by the elderly man. and to have dropped his pistol on the On the day of the shooting Owens and | Elsie L. Bryant, 14. Iat each intersection, so a proper sllow= !ence can b2 made for the movement lof trafic between short and long | streets, One timing master timer now_controls the of the lights on Rhode Island avenue botween Twelfth and _ First Istreets. The lights at North Capitol treet and Rhode Island avenue are in- i dependently controlled, but they are to ibe cut into the new flexible progres- | sive sysiem. | Wide Ratio Possible. _With only one master timer on the | limited progressive system, traffic ofi- { clals have found it impossible properly to regulate the timing ratio at different mntersections to permit traffic to flow as £moothly as possible, because of the dif- | ference in the length of the blocks. The | flexible progressive system, which pro- vides a sccondary timer, in addition to the mastor timer, permits a wide variance in the timing ratios at each it approached the crossing, showing the engineer was applying the brakes. |in the banks'is powerless to benefit | business until it is placed at the dis- car seat. Mrs. Wilson picked it up. it was stated, and while aiming at the his wife are said to have gone to th> girl's home t> give her some money the William H. Conroy, an investigator | for the motor vehicle commissioner’s | office, sought to question Miss Thomas, | but was blocked by J. Fred Keefauver, | foreman of the jury, on the ground that such questioning would admit a | lot of irrelevant testimony. After the verdict had been rendered Mr. Kee- fauver apologized for not permitting Conroy to interrogate the witness, say- ing he thought the man represented the American Automobile Association. Kenneth D. Heinbuck of Berwyn as- serted that on June 25 the gates were posal of the consuming public. The | only manner in which this credit may be transferred to the consumer is through the medium of employment. ‘The only way that industry can create | markets is by first creating jobs.” TWO YACHTS FINISH TRANSATLANTIC RACE policeman struck her esot. man had promised and whan she re-| ] used his Tiquest for a kiss, Owens is Harrison Exonerated. | reported to have begun firing. i The grand jury also exonerated Nel- |~ He is said to have shot the girl twice | son Harrison, 35, who was accused of | and then to have turned the weapon | the killing of Charles T. Brandenbur® on the sister. Reloading the pisol he | July 10 while examining a pistol in | s reported to have fired three more an automobile. Harrison recently plead- | shots into the prostrate body of the ed guilty in Police Court to stealing |girl, Mrs. Owens is said to have warned | the pistol which had figured in the|the girl about her alleged intimacy | fatal shooting and was given a term | ywith her husband. t in_jail. | * Harry C. Robertson, driver of a sight- Harrison, Brandenburg and a third | seeing car, was indicted for an alleged party are said to have been Visiting 2| criminal assault on an 18-year-old girl, intersection. The traffic count on Rhode Island avenue will not only show the number of cars using this thoroughfare. but also the volume of cross traffic. So, in fix- ing the new timing ratios, Mr. Van Duzer will be in a position to make proper allowance for tne cross traffic, allowing more time for traffic crossing at. the busy intersections, such as Seventh street and New Jersey avenue, than at the less congested intersections. MUMPER AND CASEY not working in unison and he wrote a complaint about them to the railrcad company. The verdict, so adverse to the rail- road company, was rendered in the company’s own freight and passenger station here, which had been loaned for the inquest, Jusiice of Peace Francis A. Shipley acted as coroner. Attcrneys Lansdale G. Sasscer and Clay Espey appeared for Miss Thomas and the orphanage. Wnile Ghe jury was deliberating & group of reporters in the station checked th> time between the start of the warn- ing bell and the time the train arrived at the crossing, and found it to be 50 seconds. KIWANIANS HEAR ARMOUR Club Professional Landfall and Highland Light Ar-| rive in England 4 Days After Winning Craft. By the Associated Press. PLYMOUTH, England, July 23.—The | transatlantic racing yachts Landfall and Highland Light raced up Plymouth har- bor today to §inish second and third in the 3,000-mile voyage from Newport, R. I, the scratch boat, Landfall. finish'ng 10 minutes ahead of her smaller rival. The unofficial times were 4:20 and 4:30 pm. (11:20 and 11:30 a.m. East- ern standard time ‘The race was won Monday by the 52- foot yawl Dorade, designed and sailed h{l ofllh‘xs hstaephzln_lsdo( Scarsdale, N. Y. She finished in 17 days 14 minutes. Addresses Luncheon Meeting. | ™ 454111 is owned and sailed by Paul professional golfer of Hammond of New York and gave away ssed | over 13 hours’ time allowance to D. E.; Wolfe's Highland Light. The latter therefore will gain second place on cor- rected t'me uniess some of tha six boats to which she gave allowances come in to_defeat her. The sailing time of the two yachts was approximately 19 days 22 hours, Landfall is a 71-foot ketch, while Highland Light, 61 feet 8 inches long, is sloop rigged. Congressional Sandy Armour, Congrc};sional Country Club, addre: members of the Washington Kiwanis Club at their regular w-ekly luncheon me-ting today in the ‘Washington Hotel. Mr. Armour witnessed the presenta- tion th Fred Schutz, a member, of a pair of shoes, a priz> offered by another member of the club making a hole-in- one. Mr. Schutz succeeded in doing this recently on No. 6 hole. 155 yards, at Indian Spring Golf Club. COCKATOOS BACK'IN CAPTIVITY, BIRD ACT RESUMED AT CARNIVAL Ted Flaps Back to Coop From Treetop and Lee, Low in Spirits, Follows Suit. down in a shade tree above their coop, mooning about and eyeing their fellows in_ceptivity. Sparrows worried the big birds and they got scant nourishment from leaves and twigs which they chopped at with their beaks. Fed up with freedom, hungry and tired, they flew back to their mistress, Mme. Bessie, who had followed them about constantly for 48 hours. Last night the cockatoo act was back on the bill, Ted and Lee, in harness ag2in, meekly rang chimes, marched to music and went through the routine which. they mastered many years ago. . 1t was their first taste of liberty and Mme. Bessie doubts if they will try it & Seventeen years of capivity proved ay for Ted and Lee, o mg:kdlaol which made a break for liberty Monday from a carnival n::nst Third street and soul 3 Ml’l{‘d“w:an“&e first to give up, flapping heavily back to his coop yesterday morn- rom tree top. Lee, de- nel S T e pieits, followed sult severa] hours 3 The two won their freedom while being fed by an unwary attendant. They S e 1, e St a time celel &lghu over Go it gs. £ bodies' heavy for un- “But nflr m‘y number of speakeasies and while exam- ining the pistol it suddenly exploded in Harrison’s, hands, the bullet striking and killing Brandenburg. Harrison had been held by a cor- oner's jury for manslaughter. The “grand jurors also refused to indict Melvin R. Arnold and John A. Heil, joyriding; Garland E. Weaver, embezzlement and larceny_after trus Robert Johnson, assault; Emma Holl ver and Winnie Carrington. violating liquor law; Harrison P. Mosby, violat- ing Mann act; Ralph T. Harper. grand larceny; Daisy Finley, assault, and Clement Jackson, joyriding. 50 Are Indicted. Fifty indictments were returned by the grand jury, including the follow- ing: Ralph® E. MacMichael, embezzle- ment; Thomas O. Massey, James R. Brichtman, George Harrison Cash, John Arthur Lewis and James Hill non-support; Cree B. Johnson, Ernest Nelson, John Harris, John T. Breaks, Albert H. Withers, Robert T. Withers, James E. Brown, Henry Robins, George Sheffey, James C. Ellis, George Smith, Clement Jackson, Morris Samuel Valentine and Ralph H. Kirby, joy riding; Cree B. Johnson and William L. Joynes, grand larceny; Ernest Howard_Barefoot, Edward Haley, Wil- liam Reed, Joseph Haas, Grace Moragne, Harry Clay Exum, Dolly Strothers, _Eugene Humphries and Samuel Ross, housebreaking and larceny; John Gatterson, assault with dangerous weapon; Corliss H. Bowen, Roy D. Smith, Charles Wood, Lee Robinson, Lawrence C. Newman, James H. Pleasant, Joseph Jackson and Isiah Hood, robbery; Perry Duckett, John Peterson, Mildred Dennis, Vernon Davis, Leonard Checchia and Walter Jones, assault with dangerous weapon; Max Miller, false pretenses; David L. Russell and Hazel M. Chinn, abortion, and Walter Franklin, embezzlement larceny after trust. HEADS THREE MILITIAS ‘The War Department has extended Federal recng'nltlng for all military pur- s to Brig. Gen. James C. McLana- m Maryland National Guard, recently promoted from colonel and placed in command of the 54th Field Artillery Brigade, composed of Field Artillery or- ganizations of the Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania National Guard. Cen. McLanahan is a native of Mary- land and was educated at Princeton University and the University of Mary- iand. He entered the Maryland Na- tional Guard as a_first lieute int of Field Artill fi 1915 and served as a lleutenant 1 in the World War. whom he is alleged to have lured into | his car July 17, on a promise to aid | her in securing employment. The girl }L‘ said to have told the police that | Robertson accosted her and asked if | she wanted to tour the city, but when | driver got into conversation with her Pennsylvania seeking work. She stated she accompanied him to a theater and after the show it was into the cab to return to her hotel. to an isolated spot and attacked. She is said to have identified Robertson after his arrest on her description. |KING GEORGE MAY OPEN. BIG AUSTRALIAN SPAN Be Installed to Carry Out Program. By the Associated Press. SYDNEY, Australia—If King George is willing, he will stand in Buckingham Palace some time next year and cut a plece of ribbon in Sydney. ‘The ribbon will be stretched across the entrance to the Sydney Harbor Bridge, now under construction and looked upon as the greatest engineering feat ever attempted in Australia. If the King approves the program, elaborate electrical gearwire and wire- less will be installed to make the long- distance snipping possible. ‘The King's voice will be carried 12,- 000 miles by radio and the sight of him speaking into the microphone by tele- vision, according to plans now under consideration. DEATH BLAMED ON HEAT Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., July 23.— Heat was given as a contributing fac- tor in the death of Edward Hiram Kearns, 74, retired railroad conductor, He had gone berrying near the being ill when within ‘& few night. home and complained of lh,:“retllmld.- He died rs. He was a native of Mineral County, W. Va. but spent most of his life here as a railroader until retired scveral years ago. Surviving are the widow, three sons and one daughter, will be made here Friday. told she did not have the price, the | and learned that she was here from | raining and she was persuaded to get# Instead, she claimed, she was driven { Elaborate Electrical Gearwire May | at the home of a son near here last ORDERED DISMISSED !Trial Board Recommends Two Po- licemen Be Dropped From D. C. Department. Dismissal of Policemen E. A. Mumper jand J. W. Caséy, both of the fourtn precinct, on charges of conduct unbe- coming an officer, was recommended yesterday by the Trial Board. Mumper recently was arrested om charges of possession and transporta- tion of liquor, after his automobile over- turned near Ellicott City, Md. Casey was called before the board as a result of an automobile accident. No one was injured in the mishap, which ‘occurred at Sevent® street and Massa- chusetts avenue, but Casey is said to have left the scene without revealing his identity. Trial of Policeman Wallace J. Mid- dleton, twelfth precinct, charged with conduct prejudicial to the good order jand discipline of the Police Depart- ment, was postponed until next Wednes- day because several witnesses failed to appear. 5 Middleton was arrested in connection with the recent “on-the-spot” slaying :nl Jack H. Cunningham. Although he was cleared of any complicity in this :case, he was suspended because of de- velopments indicating he may have been involved in racketeering activities here. Cunningham'’s widow appeared before the board, but refused to answer any questions. DIRIGIBLE HALTS HERE Ship Is Making Good-Will Tour of Country. On a Nation-wide good will tour, a dirigible owned by a shoe-manufactur- ing company arrived at the Washington Airport toda: rpol y. Officers of the ship include Ma thur G. Wadsworth, chief pilot; William J. McCracken, co-pilot, and Lieut. Harold Miller of Langley Field, Va. The dirigible is 138 feet long and 36 feet in diameter. It is filled with helium gas and powered by two 83-- ho wer Simens-Halkse motors. It will fly 65 miles an hour. Flights were taken today bv C. B, Dulcan, vice president and general man~ Ar- Lieut. | ‘Burial [ager of the Hecht Co.; Harry Ullman, James ig'm and Jack Rosenberg. / .o