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WASHINGTON, D0 MONDAY, Foening Shae WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Features and Classified JUL TEN CLAIM REWARD | * FORMIDING AREST OF BUSH SLAYERS Court Asked by Family to Select Recipient of $1,000. THREE CLAIMANTS HERE, SEVEM IN PITTSBURGH: Killers Caught on Information De- Col. Sultan Ready to Make Report on Project After Two-Year Study. ‘Decares Construction Feasi- ble and Puts Cost Roughly at $750,000,000. The trail the Forty-niners followed in their quest for gold is the route mapped by Army Engineers as the best ' for the proposed Nicaraguan canal. Returning to Washington after a two-year study of the project at the head of an Army group, Lieut. Col. Don 1. Sultan today said a canal is entircly fezsible from a canstruction viewpoint GOLD TRAIL OF '49 IS URGED AS NICARAGUA CANAL ROUTE | UTILITIES HEADS T0 SEEK TAXI WAR SOLUTION TODAY Keech to Meet With Oper- ators Later in Effort to Avoid Of!iqial Interference. CUT IN STREET CAR PATRONAGE EVIDENT olice Watch Low-Fare Machines Boy Scouts Throng Park in Field Day PAGE B—1 1,200 YOUTHS COMPETE AT GLEN ECHO. SCADOL DESK ROW MAY COMPEL USNG OF OLDFURNTLRE Crane Says New Buildings Will Be Opened on Time Regardless of Delay. WORK ON 21,000 PIECES #ALTS OVER CONTRACT Massachusetts Firm Has Award for Traffic Violations, but Make No New Arrests. He estimated it could be buiit at a| cost, roughly, of $750,000,000, over the | line’ he and his assoclates have de- cided would be preferable. | The proposed’ route, which will be Which D. C. Says Meets Demands, but McCarl Opposes. rived From Several Sources. Girl Made Identification. F’ il Tcn persons claim the reward of £1,000 offercd by the family of Lou Bush for the arrest and conviction o his murderers, the District Suprems Court was informed today by his son, Williom L. Bush, 1417 Pennsylvania avenue, in a petition to be ailowed to pay the fund into comrt and to require the various claimants to satisfy the court as to the merit of their claims. The court-is asked to adjudicate the the reward, and if more then one, then in what shares the fund is to be di- ; vided # Through Atterney M. D. Rosenberg, the son secured an order from Justice James M. Proctor allowing h'm to de- posis with the clerk of the court $971 to await the decision of the court as to the party or parties entitled to it. Sew:n of the defendants reside in Pittsburgh and three in the District. The petitioner de- ducted from the $1,000 award, the cost ot filing suit, $10; ice of local con- testants, $3. and vice of foreign de- fendants, $16, leaving $971 in the fund. Several Claimants Here. The local claimants are Walter I Malone, Chastleton Hotel: Daley Joseph Murphy, 69 L street northeast; Gertrude | 5o Murphy. same add Other claimants are Dixon Bonne: Sedler, Sarah . Edward Crowley and John Halluska, all of East Pit sburgh, Pa. and Walter Monahan and Thomas Mor- gan, Pittsburgh detectives. Louis Bush, retired business man. was shot in his garage in rear of his home. 3534 Fulton street, October 6 last, and died two davs later. William J. Carneal and Frank Mahoney were arrested in Pittsburgh. returned here, me&_ and convicted of second degree murdeér and re serving life sentences. *TIhe son tells the court that Walter 1. Malone, Daley Murphy and Gertrude Murphy claimed the reward for infor- mation given the local police of con- versations with Carneal before and after the assault and asserted this informa- tion led to the capture. A. M. Con- nelly, a Pittsburgh lawyer, made de- mand for the reward, the son says, on behalf of John Halluska and Edward Crowley of East Pittsburgh, who ar- rested Carneal in Pittsburgh. 1o the reward also came from the two Pittsburgh detectives who arrested Ma- honey. Girl Identifies Suspect. 5 Touis Sedler, a clotheir of East Pitts- burgh, and his daughter Sarah-ae alko claimants. Sedler wrote Attorney Ros-| cnberg March 17, last. that = customer Ja® ciscussed the killing in his store aand had said he believed he had seen Carneal in the vicinity. Sedler says he sent to Washington headquarters for a picture of the accused and brought local detectives there to hunt for Carneal. The picture arrived, but was mislaid and a little later, Sedler claims, the customer returned and said | Carneal had been picked up, but there was no one to identify him. The daughter volunteered to make the iden- tification from her memory of his fea- tures in the mislaid photograph, which she did. In a postscript to his letter, Sedler | wrote that several days later, after Car- neal had besn removed to Washington, and his daughter found 2 signed confes- sion, dated “Thurs 30-39," singned by Carneal. It was torn to pieces, but they put them together on a piece of paper They adviced Rosenberg that the name | of the customer was Dixon Bonner, an- other of the respondents. WASHINGTON MAN FINED. James Banester Held on Reckless Driving Charge by Fair- fax Justice. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., July 27.—James Ban- | ester of Eleventh street northwest, ‘Washington, was fined $25 and costs be- fore Justice of the Peace Thomas P. Chapman, jr.. zs a result of a collision in the town of Fairfax yesterday after- neon. ‘According to_testimony at the hear- ing last night, Banester pulled out of a | line of traffic going toward Fairfax, | colliding with a car driven by Edgar W. Stout of Frenchtown, N. J., approach- ! ing in the opposite direction. Stout's car, a borrowed machine, was damaged to the extent oi $135, Banester's car Jess seriously. Banester was arrested by | Traffic Officer A. W. Mills cn a charge | of reckless driving. He was taken to | Fairfax jail and spent the night pend- ing raising the $25. BOY, 5, IS DROWNED IN RAPPAHANNOCK | Fredericksburg Lad Goes Swim- ming Alone in Swollen River. Body Recovered. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. | FREDERICKSBURG, Va. July 27— Five-year-old Luther Conwell, son of Mrs. Carrie Limerick Conwell, was drowned .while swimming alone in the Rappahannock River several miles! west of the city. The body was found several hours later, but efforts to re- vive life with a pulmotor were futile. The boy had asked two playmates to go swimming with him and when they refused went alone. He entered the ! swollen river near the dam where the | current was unusually swift because of “recent rains. His playmates going to the spot some time later discoyered the 'boy's shirt and trousers hanging on a tree stump. The body was found 25 yards away wedged between two boulders. $3,000 Fire in Cattle Barn. MOOREFIELD, W. Va, July 27 (Special) —Fire = of undetermined origin destroyed the cattle barn be- Jonging to H. P. Kelly in the Flats, near here, for tal loss estimated at | $3.000, with $1,200 insurance. All ma- | chinery in the barn and some cnmel food were burned. The blaze was de- tected after midnight by a neighbor, but nothing could be saved. % Claim | fn B { explained in a report to the next Cof gress, dlffers in details from any pre- viously suggested and an’s opinion. Acress its miles of water and jungle, irude boats and wagons comprising a | transportation system created by Cor- | founder | inelius Vanderbilt, the elder, |of the Vanderbilt fortune, transported | from th- East men lured by the gold of the West more than 80 years ago. | claims and decide who is entitled to |Rotting hulks of these boats still dot neers; S. B. Willlams, who was Gen. | the shores. Route Is 173 Miles Long. ‘This route is about 173 miles in | length, of which 70 miles is across | Lake Nicaragua. Between the lake and Greytown, Coast of Nicaragua, the San Juan Val- jley would be followed, but instead of | traversing the tortudus windings of the { San Juan River for its whole distance, would go but part way, then cut straight | across country. On the other side the canal would | follow the Los Lajos River out of the I2ke, then into the Rio Grande, with ]'he Pacific terminus at Brito. Both Los |Lajos and Rio Grande are little more than rivers in name, being dry in sea- n. | "Col. sultan said that at no place iwould it b> necessary to make a cut as deep as that at Culebra, in the Pan- ama Canal. Nor would there be danger of slides, he says, adding that drilling has disclesed solid foundation. A presidential commission’ of which { Col. Sultan is a member will make rec- cmmendations as to the building of the ! canal, the Army man explained, but when it prepares to make its rzcommen- | dations, he added, the question before it will nof be whether a canal is neczs- sary or desirable right now, but what ithe need will be 15 years.from now. both from a commercial standpoint and 1as a matter of military exp:diency. Completion Needs 15 Years. Even when the canal may be author- ized, he said, it will require 15 years for completion, estimating five years for the preliminaries, includ:ng the ne- ! gotiation of the necessary treaties, and |10 years for the actual building. “So you have to guess what the sit- uation will be in 15 years when you ‘get into this matter, and that is going to be difficult,” Col. Sultan said. He pointed out in this connection that in the past the trafic demands on the {Panama Canal were underestimated. is « material | mprovement over others, in Col. Sui- | on the Atlantic-Caribbean | LIEUT. COL. DAN J H The proposed Iilcaraguan canal would | be more than three times as long as| | that at Panama, and would cost about | | twice as much. The commission, in addition to Col. | | Sultan, includes Dean Anson Marston | of the Engineering School of the Uni- | versity of Iowa, who is & past president of the American Society of Civil Engi- | Goethals' right-hand man at Panama, | having been in carge of construction of | the Pacific end of the canal: Roy Finch | of the New York State engineering de- partment, and Col. Ernest Graves, |U. S. A Their work comes under the chief of | engineers of the Army, Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown. Two in Party Left Behind. For about 18 months the engineers | were engaged in mapping the Nica- | raguan territory, and tor the otber 6 months foundation-drilling has been'in | | progress. Now, with the party out of | | the country, Lieut. W. E. Potter and | |one man were left b to collect | data on rainfall and stream flow. | _'Col. sSultan sailed from the United | States at the head of 25 officers and 275 | enlisted men, end despite the conditions | under which' they worked, the only two | | deaths were drownings. |~ Yeais ago, when the British were at-| | tempting to'control that territory, Lord | | Nelson went in with a party of 200 and | came out with 8 men, i The Americans suffered but little from | malaria, Col. Sultan said. adding that; | their experience is a high tribute to| | Army medical and sanitary regulation. | Quake Peril Spiked. The men were hardly dry from the! time they left until they returned, h!:] said, due to the continuous rainfail. | | "And in the jungles the heavy growth | so effiectively blocks cut the sun, when | | it happens to bc shining, that parties|that the operators might better wait|ajd returning to their bases actually had a | “prison pallor,” Sultan said Earthquakes never will bother the' canal, in Col. Sultan's opinion. At the| time of the Nicaraguan quake, on| | March 31, Sultan immediately got in| touch with his outposts to ask how they | | fared and in return got messages that| | indicated clearly the men thought their commander was indulging in April Fool { horseplay and responded in kind, none | having been aware there was & quake. HEAD OF RAIL SHOP | | Police Charge Car Hit Three Autos in Block—Six Hurt in Other Accidents. William J. Bolin, 68 Bladensburg, Ma., superintendent the Southern Railway shop, Fifteenth and K streets no theast, was arrested last night on charges of driving while drunk and leaving after colliding, after his automobile, police seid. struck three automobiles on Rhode Island avenue northeast near Thirtieth street. Bolin is said to have been en route to work when his car struck the three others within the space of a city block. He was arrested by Po- liceman ; Willlam B. Kuhm of No. 12 station. He was released after de- positing $500 collateral on each charge. Two Women and Child Injured. ‘The automobiles struck by Bolin's car were operated by Miss Mildred Woodward of Millersville, Md.; Ernest ‘Terbec, 2115 P street, and Joseph Mazo, 618 Pennsylvania avenue, police re- | ported. Two women and a young child were treated at Emergency Hospital last night for minor injuries sustained in an automobile collision at Twentieth and M streets. They were Mrs. Jessie Parsons, 19 years old; Mrs. Marion Cortez, 18 years old, and Edward Par- sons, 4 years old, ail of 1210 N street. The automobile in which they were riding is said to have been operated by Celestino Cortez. It was hit by an automobile cperated by Lewis C. Minor, 38 years old, colored, of the 1500 block of Twelfth street, who was charged | at No. 3 police station with reckless driving, according to police. Three Hurt in' Accidents. Emmitt R. Jenkins, 28 years old, of 520 Third street was treated at Emer- gency Hospital for bruises sustained when the automobile he was driving collided with a car said by lice to have been operated by Robert D. Wertz, 700 Sixth street southeast, at Seventh and E streets southwest, yesterday aft- ernoon. Richard Crawford, 37 years old, col- ored, of Portsmouth, Va., was treated at + Freedmen’'s Hospital for lacera- tions on the shoulder and Waverly Crawford, 43 years old, colored, 1345 Wallach place, was giveA treatment at Sibley Hospital for cuts on the knee and hand following an automobile ac- cident at New Jersey avenue and P streets late yesterday. MISSING BOY FOUND ’ ‘Wilbur Obstler, 10, Lost Since Sat- urday, Held in Baltimore. Wilbur Obstler, 10-year-old son of Mr, and Mrs. Max Obstler, 3814 Mor- rison street, missing from his home since Saturday, was picked up by Bal- timore police early today. The boy's father left here for Balti- me! this morning to bring Wilbur back and the femily was looking for- ward to a happy reunion today. ‘The parents received a telephore call from police this morning, telling them boy had been picked up in Eas itimore and taken to the home of his uncle, Mycr Lubman, 3531 Park Heights avenue, Baltimore. Wilbur had given the police in the Monumental City the name of his uncle when asked if he had any relatives, _ = HELD AFTER CRASH years old, of | at | SNYDER APPOINTED : T0 VETERANS' POST IWill Represent Ex-Service| Men in Contacts With U. S. Bureaus. Appointment of William I. Snyder as | war veteran service officer for the Dis- | trict of Columbia was announced today | by the District Commissioners. | This is a position created by the cur- rent appropriations act and the duties of Mr. Snyder will be to represent Dis- trict veterans in their various contacts with the Veterans' Bureau. Mr. Snyder was recommended for ap- pointment by representatives of the American Legion, the Spanish War Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans. | His name was the first on a list of three candidates submitted by the serv- | ice men’s organizations. He will have an assistant who will | be appointed later, and a clerk-stenog- rapher, Glen Elizabeth Ogle, whose ap- | poiptment was made today. Both ap- | pointments are effective August 1. Mr. Snyder was born in Wardens- ville, W. Va., November 30, 1897. He | served overseas with the United States | Army and was gassed and wounded in action. After the war he returned to| Washington, and in 1923 was graduated | from_the National University. Follow- |ing his graduation he was appointed an examiner at the Veterans' Bureau, | which position he has held since. He | is a _member of the American Legion, | | the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the | | Disabled American Veterans. His sal- | ary will be $3,000 per annum. | \CAPITAL DRIVER HELD AFTER VIRGINIA CRASH Clarence Marshall Hits Man at Side of Road and Fails to Stop Un- til Caught, Police Say. Clarence Marshall, 200 block of T ! street northeast, is being held by Fred- ericksburg, Va., police in connection with their investigation of an alleged hit-and-run accident on the Fredericks- | burg Highway last night. Melvin Payne, 20 years-old, Falmouth, Va., was seriously injured, it was said, when struck by the machine driven by Marshall while repairing a tire on his own car at the side of the road. Police said Marshall did not stop after the accident, but was pursued by Roderick J. Henderson, 3500 block of T street, and Miss Alma L. Crowell, 1500 bl(\ck} Twenty-ninth street, until stopped near vl-';ederlck.shurg and turned over to police there. PARENTS REGAIN CHILD Florence Linthicum, little daughter of Mrs. Ida Linthicum of 413 Fourth street, was picked up by police and to the Receiving Home yester- is said to have strayed parents’ at church sev- bafore. s2id to be about 5 years and claimed by her sceiving Home in the mother at the afternoody | week. | uation will be the only business bfore | without official interference. | there are almost as many different rate | will be held at the suggestion of Leon ! | J. Brill of the Bell Cab Co. and Al-tctal of contract awards reported since | drivers for speeding and violation of The taxicab rate war marked time today pending two meetings at which some efforts will be made to straighten | out the tangle which has resulted from | indiscriminate rate-slashing in the past | This aftornoon the taxicab sit- | the Public Utilitles Commission. Some | time tomorrow or the next day, People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech will pre- | side at a meeting of members of the | industry in which some effort will be | made to straighten out the rate war Corporation Counsel William W.! Bride was requested early this morning | to furnish the commission with an opin- | ion as to what its power over taxi rates| are. Mr. Bride sald afterward that it} was not a subject on which he could| | speak at a moment's notice and pointed out that his expert on public utilities | matters, William A. Roberts, is on leave. The public utilities act nowhere men- mission has ghe power to step in and ! fix a uniform rate for all cabs or a minimum rate is debatable ground. Will Seek Some Solution. Nevertheless, the commission will en- deavor to find some solution to the present rather chaotic situation, when schedules as there are taxicab concerns More hope of & real solutlon fs ex- pected from the conference of the flat rate concerns with Mr. Keech. This bert W. Jacobson of the City and Stop- | Me Cab Cos. They requested the con- | ference of Mr. Keech by telephone this morning, suggesting that it be held | today. Mr. Keech, however, suggested | until after the meeting of the Pubhc“ Utilitles Commission this afternoon to | see what the commission intends to do. | Mr., Keech will attend the commis- | sion’s meeting. No definite date has| been set for the conference, over which Mr. Keech will preside. Three Drivers Change Rates. “Meanwhile, three individual drivers filed new reduced schedules today, all | of them different. J. B. Carroll of 633 F strect southwest, who previously had a rate of 35, 60 and 85 cents by zones, dropped his rate to 20, 40 and 60 cents. R. Johns of 1003 Twenty-second street sent in a schedule for four zones, but failed to mention the boundaries of the zones. The schedule is 15, 30, 45 | and 60 cents. F. P. Burke of 811 D street north- east contented himself with two zone for which he announced charges of 25 ard 50 cents. He also failed to men- tion the boundaries of these zones, but added that he would make no charge for baggage. None of the larger concerns an- nounced any change of rates, nor is any expected until the Keech confer- ence is held. Favors Low Fares. ‘ Mr. Keech said today that he had no definite ideas to put before the con- ference. He sald that he is in faver of low fares for taxicabs as for all other public utilities and that the public seems satisfled with the low fares now | obtainable. He said he believed that there was room for zone fares and meter cabs both in town and did not ! think that either system should be adopted to the exclusion of the other. He was likewise doubtful as to what the power of the Public Utilities Com- mission was over taxicabs, but thought that some satisfactory arrangement would probably result from the industry itself without any official prodding. Meanwhile traffic policemen were con- tinuing to keep a close watch on drivers of the various cut-rate taxis as a result of complaints that some of them wer: driving faster and with less care tha before the fee-slashing competition began. No Arrests Since Saturday. Although this surveillance resulted in the arrest Saturday of several cab parking regulations, no such arrests have been made since then. Despite the complaints, however, many Washingtonians continue to6 pat- ronize the cut-rate taxis instead of the street cars, riding to their places of business for next to nothing by the simple expedient of dividing the price of a 10, 15 or 20 cents cab between two or more persons. While officials of the two street car companies declined to discuss the sit- uation, it was understood a noticeable decrease in the number of car and bus riders had resulted from the competi- tion offered by the taxis. Cab drivers continued to practice— inaugurated when the price-whittling contest began—of cruising along street car routes in an effort to pick up fares. MAN, MEMORY LAPSED, IS HELD AT HOSPITAL Walks Into Gallinger Hospital Un- able to Tell Name or De- tails of Self. A man who gave his name as Leech- | ner Dashbach of Oakland, N. J. but| who said he was unable to recall any | other details about himself, was being, treated today at Gallinger Hospital. He walked into Emergency Hospital about 2 o'clock this morning and com- plained of being il Questioned by Physicians, he said he was unable to recall who he was, where he came from or how he happened to be in Washing- ton. or a driver's permit gave T a address, he said "the identification was ccrrect. His age was given as 31. ’ recinct police sent the man toT(‘;:‘;finger ‘Hospital, after questioning m!!"‘hyb';l‘:l‘:’r;s et the latter institution said there was nothing to indic the man had been injured, and he d'd not seem to have boen dri g. He is in- der close observation, while police are endeavoring to communicate with rela- tives in the New Jegsey town, I | not include Federal aid for ot | Polytechnic Institute, Twel above was made during the swimming races SO TN FOR PUBLIG WORKS Let Brings Figure for Year to $2,455,355,476. | SERIES OF PETTY THEFTS REPORTED TG POLICE Roomers Released in $135 Robbery, Search Finds $75 on Woman, Theft of $135 left hidden beneath a (Week’s Sum of Contracts tnbieciotn in his home, at 916 D street | McLaurin, Colored Disharred! | tions taxicabs, and whether the com-| southwest, was reported to police today Frank A. Dennison. Two roomers weore arrested, but released Susie Selby, colored. 23, was arrested last night at 48 H street on a charge | of stealing $75 from beneath the pillow | of William Johnson. John L. Mason, a Public and semi-public works con- first precinct policeman, reported find- tract awards totalling $49,247.328 were reported last week to the public works action of the President’s Emergen: Committee for Employment, it was an- nounced today by Fred C. Croxton, acting chairman. This brought the December 1, to $2.45 76. Early this month $129.616,304 worth of contract awards was reported. This figure included $79.811,857 worth of contract awards made in June for Fed- and other State Lighway con- struction in 37 States. The Federal and and cther State highway con- struction contract awards are reported once a month, and account for the larzer figure for one week in each month. The figure for last w 6. does r State highway construction awards. | ‘The amount reported last week covers 420 projects in 41 States and the Dis- trict of Columbia. A complete list of the projects in the District, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia follows: District of Columbia: District Train- ing School, $130,000. | Maryland: Baltimore. addition to Arlington School. $199,877; addition to $879.815; addi- $193,000: $149.100: tion to Gardenville School, addition to Govans School, Annapolis, addition to high $50,000; Cambridge, grade school, $35 000; Frostburg, improvements and e tension to water supply system, $200 000; Salisbury, addition to high school, $100.000; Vienna, high school, $14.000. Viiginia: Falls Church, water sy: tem, $100,000; Suffolk, remodeling law building, $23.000; paving streets, $11,000; paving work, $6,300. ! est Virginia: Huntington, dredging in Ohio River, $76,415; Wheeling, pav- ing bridge and sidewalks. $89,661: Wayne County hospital, $850,000. GEN. BROWN FETED AT FORT HUMPHREY Has Luncheon at Engineers' Mess After Inspecting Organ- ized Reserves. Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of En- ineers, United States Army, who today nspected the Organized Reserves' camp at Fort Humphreys, Va. today was a guest at luncheon at the Engineer mess at the camp following the inspection. The luncheon was given by Col. E. H. | Schulz, C. E., commandant of the En-| gineer School, and the commanding officers of the four Reserve regiments— Lieut. Col. Harrison F. Brand, West Point class of 1914, recently District of Columbia_Commissioner of Public Util- ities, commanding the 343d Engineers from the District of Columbia; Col. Redfield Proctor, former United States Senator and former Governor of Ver- i mont, commanding the 3224 Vermont Engineers; Col. John Carmichael, chief engineer of the Western Maryland Rail- way, commanding the 375th Engineers from Maryland, and Maj. H. F. Bucher, personnel expert at a Pittsburgh de- partment store, commanding the 23d Engineers of that city. About 150 Reserve officers attended the luncheon, at which Gen. Brown made a short address. Training activities inspected by the officer inciuded pontoon bridges, pistol practice, aerial photography, camou- flage, horsemanship, map maneuvers, river crossings and the Engineer regi- ment in combat. Col. Robert R. Ralston, chief of the military division of the office of the chief of Engineers, accompanied the general. JURY FREES WOMAN ON DRY SPY’S EVIDENCE | Fail to Convict Second Time on| Testimony of Discharged . Informer. Another Police Court jury declined today to credit the testimony of Wil- liam A. Varner, discharged police in- former. It returned not guilty ver- dicts on charges of sale and illegal possession of whisky, placed against Vera Lee, colored, Thirteenth _street near R, through tie efforts of Varner and mmbars of the police vice squad. © festiicd he twice bought from the Les woman and that . 2 ] ‘on of whisky in an arc of the Lee woman's room. ‘The jury deliberated less than 15 minutes before returning its decision. \ ‘ ing the money in the woman's posses- sion. More than $30 in cash was stolen by an unidentified man who ransacked the apartment of Mrs. Renna Comy, 8t 705 Eighteenth street. Clothing valued at $35 and a certifi- cate of marriage was reported stolen vesterday by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lusk of 218 C street. FOUR ARE INJURED IN AUTO COLLISION One of Victims May Die of Hurts Received in Crash Near Laurel. Four persons were injured. one seri- ously, in an automobile collision Sun- day night, 2 miles north of Laurel. Md., on_ the Washington-Baltimore Boule- vard. David McCullough, 640 G street southeast, who with his wife was re- school, | turning to the Capital after a visit with | recieq him. friends in Baltimore, suffered injuries that may prove fatal. He was taken to St. Agnes Hospital in Baltimore. Mrs, Clarence Sullivan of Baltimore, whose son, Vernon Sullivan, also of Baltimore, was driving the Washington- bound car, received bruises about the knees. Mrs. McCullough and Sullivan were not hurt. i In the other machine, bound for Bal- | timore, Dorothy Lovedoll and Margaret | Williams, both colored, of 1780 Willard | street northeast received minor cuts and | bruises about the head. They were treated and sent home. Nelson N. Lyles, | | c lored, of 1219 Girard street north- | west, and driver of the car, escaped in- jury with three other occupants, Rufus Briscoe, Lewis Cook and Carrie Butler | of Georgetown, all colored. |~ state ‘police said Lyles swerved his machine into the path of the car com- ing from the other disection when a third auto came out of a filling station | driveway unexpectedly. Traffic on the | busy highway was held up by the crash nearly an hour. TABLET T0 B ' GEN. BUTLER TONIGHT Veteran Marine Corps Legion, In-| cluding D. C. Members, Plan | Ceremony at Quantico. Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, U.'S. | M. C., will be presented with a tablet | commemorating his service to the Ma- rine Corps tonight at Quantico., Va., | Marine post by the Veteran Marine | Corps Legion. The veterans, from | Washington, will go to the post on the Wilson Line steamer City of Washing- ton. which will leave its Seventh street dock at 5:30 this afternoon, and will be met at the Marine base by the post /band and Welcoming Committee. Fol- lowing the presentation of the tablet a boxing show will be presented. | The Legion, which is composed of veterans of the corps from the Civil War to the recent Nicaraguan cam- paign, will be led on the trip by its | national commandant, Col. Frederic M. | Wise, U. S. M. C,, retired. Edward A. | Callan, U. S. M. C., retired, national adjutant of the American Legion, is in | ‘charge of arrangements for tonight's even! |GEN. FRIES TO ADDRESS CLUBS ON COMMUNISM | Authority on Russia Will Speak| Before Protestant Meeting ‘Wednesday. Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, retired, | formerly chief of the Chemical War- | fare Service, U. 8 A., and an author- ity on Russia and her communistic program, will address an invitational meeting of the National Order of Prot- estant Clubs in Odd Fellows' Hall, 218 North Columbus street, Alexandria, Va., Wednesday at 8 pm. His subject will be “Communism.” Other speakers on the program will include Dr. William McDougall, who will make talk on “Real Ameri- canism.” The meeting is one of several which have l:fm ‘P‘g‘n;‘:‘d by the order in connection expansion program, A1t was announced. 2 | stencil. E GIVEN | | Spectal Dispatch to The Sta Staff Photo. i CRAND JURY GETS *TEST PAPER THEFT | Attorney, to Answer School Charge. | Sylvester McLaurin, disbarred colored | attorney, charged with larceny from | the District in connection with the al- | leged removal of an examination paper of his niece from the files of the school administration in the Franklin School, was held for grand jury action under bond of $500 by Judge Robert E. Mat- | tingly in Police Court today. A " janitor testified that McLaurin! came to him several times and asked | | to be allowed to enter a safe in which | are kept examination papers of candi- | dates for clerical positions with the | school administration. It is said that! McLaurin’s niece, Willi M. McLaurin, was one of those seeking a position, Each time the colored janitor refused McLaurin’s request, he said, and on one occasion the attorney gave him a dol- Iar, telling him to buy some cigars and | “keep quiet.” Captured in Trap. | Finally, after telling his employer | about the matter, the janitor was told | to give McLaurin a key to the files He said the attorney took the key, cov: ered his hand with a handkerchief and opened the files. He then removed | an examination paper of his niece | which he also had covered with the | | handkerchief and took it to an ad- joining rcom, where police. who had Secreted themselves in the buflding, ar- Meanwhile, investigetion was under | way at the Franklin School Administra- | tion Building to determine how Mc- | Laurin secured a copy of the official | clerical examination papers. It was explained at the Franklin| Building that the examination blanks carrying the questions and suit- able blank spaces for the writing of the answers, are mimeographed in the | clerical ' service room of the schoo! | administration offices. Every copy run | off cn the mimeographing machine is sent to the office of the board of | examiners together with the original | The stencil is immediately de- stroyed and the exemination blanks are | sent at once to the room in which the | examinations are taken. As soon as| the examination is over. It was pointed | out further, all additional copies of the, blanks are’ destroyed and the filled-in | papers submitted by candidates are | filed in safe-filing cabinets. Thought One of Originals. Although the paper which it is be-| lieved by Pollce McLaurin sought to substitute for the failing examination paper of his niece has not been final- ly identified by Howard P. Long, examiner, as one of the official ex- amination’ blanks, Mr. Long said he is saw it when it was taken from Mc- same issue. According to school officials, Mc- Laurin_had told Carter he'd ‘recog- nize” the examination papers he sought “as soon as he laid eyes upon them.” McLaurin, it was explained today, al- ready had appeared at ihe examining board offices to protest 2gainst the low grade his niece received, and he was shown her papers. about to put the papers away, McLaurin, the rubber band which bound ihem to- gether be placed in a certain way. Long recalled this when Carter told him that McLaurin said he would be abie to rec- ognize the papers in the case. ALEXANDRIA-FAIRFAX PADLOCKING CASES UP U. S. Judge to Hear Complaints Against Property Alleged Used in Rum Sales. ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 27.—Three Alexandria cases are set for hearing be- fore a special session of the United States Court for the Eastern district of Virginia here today and tomorrow, with Judge Luther B. Way presiding. The first padlock cases to be tried in this vicinity will be heard tomorrow when injunctions will be sought by the Government for the closing of the Tri- angle Barbecue and Service Station of Fairfax County, just west of Alexan- Smith at 111-117 South Pitt street. Both applications are based on the grounds that Federal agents purchased liquor at the places. The injunctions are sought against Bernard P. Brooks, who operates thc Triangle Barbecue and Service Station and W. D. Duncan and Walter Smith at the Pitt street address. Smith, how- ever, is reported to have no connection with the sale of liquor at the buflding leaesd by him. | The case of Robert F. Downham, whe | 1s seeking to restrain the City Counci | Mass. | partment_order. convinced it is one of the originals. He | Laurin and he has seen it since and | says it is identical with othtrs of the | When Long was | Mr. Crane said today, was insistent that | dria, and a building leased by Walter | A dozen new school bulldings will have to cp:‘g in September without new furniture less th> present tangle of i protests and counter protests over a | furniture contract award which has drawn an adverse ruling from Con- Lro'llcr General McCarl is straightenzd out. It was revealed at the Franklin Ad- ministration Building today that work on 21000 pieces -of furniture, begun unfer a signed contract that now is challenged, has stopped. Unless this work can be resumed, Jere J. Crane, school business manager said, delivery of the required furniture may be delay- ed beyond the time limit which would allow instllation before the equipment actually is needed. The delay. how- cver, does not threaten the opening of the sorely need schools. May Use Old Equipment. “We'll open the buildings,” Mr. Crane declared, “if we have to equip them with soap boxes and bridge tables. If the stuff is not delivered, though, we could, at the last minute, haul in a lot of discarded old-fashioned furniture. But this course would be bad, because that type of equipment has to be screwed down, and the new wood floors would be permanently marred. The furniture we are awaiting is of the new type, movable desks and chairs.” The contract muddle, it was ex- plained, is another controversy aris- ing from the award of the contract to any but the lowest bidder. On recom- mendation of the school authorities, and following their own review of the case, the Commissioners signed a contract with the Derby Desk Co. of Gardner, While two other concerns en- tered lower bids on the job, the Derby Desk Co., it was explained, was the lowest firm complying with the speci- fications. Other Bids Lacked Samples. The two lower bidding firms, Mr. Crane said, failed to submit samples of their' furniture, but gave a promise that the order they proposed to deliver jto the District schools would meet the specifications in every respect. Because, Crane pointed out, the submission of samples is a definite part of the speci- fications and has been for years, and since all previous contracts have been let on this basis as well as all other factors, the contract was awarded to ' the Derby Desk Co.. wkich did submit ample furiture complying with every item of the specifications. The controller general, however, ruled that samples are not necessary if the fina] order that is sent to the District schools is made up of furniture complying with the contract specifica- tions. Challenges McCarl's Power. The authority of the controller gen- eral to check contracts was challenged today by Mr. Crane, who cited an ear- lier decision involving & Treasury De- He asserted that the budget act of 1921 states that the con- troller general “shall report to Congress every contract made by any department or establishment in any year in viol tion of the law.” “And that,” Mr. Crane contends, “is ::h:” limit of the authority given Mc- Mr. Crane added that the General Supply Committee of the Treasury De- partment, which purchases materials and supplies for virtually all Federal agencies, always demands the submis- sion of sanagles and awards its contracts on that basis, Injunction Possible. It was reported at the office of the | controller general today that his ruling on the appeal filed by the Derby Co. Was not yvet ready. It was asserted that Mr. McCarl had not “promised” it at any specific time, but when the con- sequences of serious delay were pointed * out, it was explained that “we prob- ably can get that decision out in a day or tw If the awaited ruling is adverse to the Derby Company, which has purchased | the necessary raw materijls and actual- ly has begun manufactur of the furni- | ture on the basis of the Commissioners’ contract. Mr. Crane said he anticipated the filing of an injunction to prevent the award of any new contracts. This procedure, he said, would bring about serious delays and might yet result in children “using soap boxes” for desks. The schools involved in the tangle are the Deal Junior High Sciool, the Gor- don Junior High School additions, the Brown Junior High School, the Powell Junior High School, the Stuart Junior High School addition and the Congress | Heights, Young, Anthony Bowen, Crosby Noyes, Deanwood, Whittier, Lafayette and Mann (elementary) Schools. PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS | TO CONFER IN NEW YORK Means\of Preventing Spread of Infantile Paralysis Sought by Doctors. Asst. Surg. Gen. C. E. Waller and Surg. W. T. Harrison of the Public Health Service went to New York to- day to attend a conference of health directors of several States with a view to preventing further spread of infan- tile paralysis. K Dr. S. W. Wynne, city health officer of New York, and Dr. Thomas Parran, jr., New York State health officer, in- vited to the conference the health di- rectors of Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Ohio, Maryland, Rhode Island, Delaware and Pennsylvania. WOMAN DIES AT AGE 79 Special Dispatch to The Stas FRONT ROYAL, Va., July 27.—Mrs. Mary F. Ballard, 79-year-old widow of John M. Ballard, died at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Herrell at Marshall. She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. J. Frank King of Washington, D. Mrs. 8. D, Fix, Mrs. E. Barr Samsell, both of this place, and Mrs. Herrell of Marshall. of Alexandria from interfering witr him in the erection of a gasoline sta- tion at King street and Russell road 118 being heard today. Funeral services will be held from the home of her daughter at Marshall tomorrow afternoon with interment in the Marshall tery.