Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1931, Page 17

he Fp WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star = WASHINGTON, - €. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1931. PAGE B—1 NEW RULE PERMITS AUTOS TO GO LEFT OF CAR STANDS Platform Passage Allowed Except Where Signs Di- rect Otherwise. | i ! g [ DRIVERS MUST KEEP } IN TRAFFIC LANES Rig:d Observance Demanded. . ] Free-Wheeling Allowed if Machines Are Tested. ERHAPS the story of Moon, the pedigreed Boston terrier owned by Mrs. E. D. Vosbury of Merri field, Va., will hold out_encour- H agement for those who have the patience to help a dog to rehabilitate. herself. For Moon is learning to walk by | means of a wheel chair specially con- | structed for her by a neighbor, Guy Motorists may drive to the left of McKinney of Merrifield. With the aid street car loading platforms, except|Of & husky grandchild, Prisky, she can even teavel the uneven gravel roads where specifically forbidden, under a g.ound the poultry farm on which she group of important changes in the lives. On a smooth floor or on concrete traffic regulations ordered today by the s‘z“ can propel h‘ersel‘! by :ersfr:"ell’:g! i | at an amazing rate of spee e bids L asiclists adopt- | T in time 10 equal her former skill ed stringent rules governing traffic on 25 chief mouse catcher for the poultry streets marked off into lanes and legal- | bulldings. And day by day the crip- ized free-wheeling in the District, wich | Pled rear legs show signs of strength- the provision that arrangements pe . ening. made with the Bureau of Standards for | an examination of each type of this mechanical innovation so that approsval may be withheld in any case where the | change in gearing constitutes a menace to traffic. | The new regulations provide: »Ve- | s may, with due caution, drive e T ot e Souto Iv¢ | feld ‘mice, and disregarded the com- cept where official signs indicate other- ' mand to move. As the horse gave a wise."” | mighty heave to pull the runners out Permission Not Knewn. | from the dirt into which they had » ¢ | sunk, the lunge sent the dog rolling In justification of this regulation, | to one side, her rear legs hanging Willam A. Van Duzer, new director | limp, apparently dying. of vehicles and traffic, informed the | She was rushed to a veterinarian, Commissioners it was not generally | who said there was no hope for recov- Vertebrae Dislocated. Three months ago Moon suffered a dislocation of the vertebrae when she was hit by a cross beam underneath a portable poultry house that was being moved to & new location. Moon, &s usual, was burrowing frantically for understood among drivers that they ery, and after several days' treatment may pass to the left df safety zones. |and observation advised that she be “It is very desirable,” Van Duzer re- chjoroformed. Moon was not suffering, ported, “in certain places, in order to| - i 58 i clear traffic and to encourage a free | . use of the street, to permit drivers to g0 to the left of safety zones, provid- | ing, of course, these vehicles are kept | to the right ot the center of the street.” | The new provision regulating use of streets marked off into lanes reeds: “Whenever any strest or highway has ! been divided into lanes for traffic a ve- | hicle shall be driven entirely within » single lane and shall not be moved from | such lane except where the line is| 5 :’r:n::”mu not th;n ;,mtfl mhe driver | % iatiloasd it ascerta’'ned that such move- ment can be made safely. Whex&e i I,meeman Dismisse rom ter lines have been painted or indicated | . . . by traffic buttons, no vehicle shail pass | FOr¢e in Liquor Trial Be- 1D the left of such cen‘sr Lne or traf- | 7 fore Grand Jury. iic buttons.” ! Lanes Smooth Ways. “A free and easy riovement of traf- fic,” Van Duzer poinied out, “is best Promo.ed by moving traflic in lanes. In ! order to encourag: drivers te drive in lanes, stveets are now being marked at the more important intersections. The center of the street is indicat>d by solid Former Policeman Orville Stapies, who, according to Prederick A. Schenck, wes dismissed from the Police Depart- ment on perjured testimony, sppeared . iraffic batween | before the grand jury today to complete e A e e Cr itk mee “broken | his statement in connection with linés. The object of this regulation is | g;“trs‘f: r::;enzg S:‘x‘r_‘:k ::;im:fltil:' not to prohibit passing on the wrong | Distric rney’s clice side of the sireet, but to permil passing | officials. o thes left under certain conditions ~ The grand jury also heerd former where broken lines have been placed.” | assistant United States Attorney Joseph The new free-wheeling provision will | Bruce, who remained in the room but a ; | few minutes. “No motor vehicle shall be operated| As Staples left the jury room after on any highway in the District with | two hours cf testimony, he was served cluwk: ?L'kl::fl(ed or gur' «:\:‘v..:'!mTesnl: with a iuh;o;‘:u in & Muneipal Court except for the purpose of suit against him. shifting gears or stopping, or while It is expected that District Attorney being towed, or when sald vehicle is| Leo A. Rover will conclude his pres- equipped with a free-wheeling device | entation of the case this afternoon. He e o Doparimant Vehi- | indicated that only three or four more cles and Traffic.” | witnesses would be called In justification of this rule, Van! Staples was dismissed from the police Duzer wrote the Commissioners force after a trial on liquor charges. K maotce seitite sre now belng mam | catatins Thomes L. Bienom of Toxse, o or vehicles are now sentative Thomes anton of Texas, factured or equipped with free-wheeling | asserted the evidence against Staples devices. _One of the functions of this 'was manufactured and that all of the device is to = ¢tomatically disengage the witnesses for the prosecution “perjured clutch. As our present regulation is ' themselves.” 3 worded, the use of these devices in the George S. Daly. a lunch room pro- District is, therefore, illegal. prietor, and Major Taylor, colored, also were called before the grand jury. They remained but a few minutes INVALID WOMAN HELD FOLLOWING DRY RAID Four Other: Seized by Squad, Which Finds 600 Bottles of Beer and Whisky Favors Free Wheeling. “Inasmuch as the devices are now in general use and most of these devices Are so designed that the driver can easily change from free wheeling to conventional drive, it is believed that the regulation should be so amended ax to permit the use of such free-wheeling devices as may be considered safe. “Some of these devices are neither safe nor satisfactory. It is planned, therefore, if this regulation is approved | by the Commissioners” (written prior | to adoption) “that arrangements be made with the Bureau of Standards to examine each make of free-wheeling and that approval shall be withheid un- less it has been inspected and passed by the Bureau of Standards.” The Commissioners adopted a regu- Jation forbidding parking on the ea:t Ralding a house almost immediately in the rear of headquarters for the third inspection district. members of the dry squad last night arrested four side of Foxhall road between Reservoir persons on charges of lllegal possession and Canal roads at all times, because 'of liquor and seized 600 bottles of beer the thoroughfare is only 18 feet wide and 37 quarts of whisky #nd does not have enough room for free Those arrested were movement of traffic w.th cars parked Scott. 45 vears old. sald to own ‘he on both sid house in the 400 block of P street southwest. where the raid took place One-Way Joseph Michael Homiak, 28 years old The one-way restrictions on P and G Carl W Mauder. 51 years old. and Lil- streets frora Seventeenth to Twenty- |lie Ferguson, colored. 45 years old, all sixth streeis were lfted except on F of whom gave the F street address street between Seventeenth and Nime- | Mrs. Scott, an invalid, was not taken teenth streets because of the removal to the station house because of her in of street car trecks firmities. She was required, however Permiseion for parking on Park road 1o post £500 bond on the illegal pos- hecween Fourteenth and Sixteenth « session charge The place had been streets was altered so that cars may be under investiga'ion for several davs parked on the couth instead of the Prior to the raid north <ide Earlier in the evening two members Another regulation permitted one- Of the squad arrested Mrs. Marian C hour parking on the south ‘side of In- | Hicks, 58 years old. of the 1300 block diena avenue from & am. to 6 pam. in ©f H street northeast on a warrant order to make available for persons de- | charging {llegal possession. Police re- siring to visit the Traffic Bureau ported the seizure of a pint of whisk ing on the north side of Newark & Jar of mash and 17 bottles of beer t, between Connzcticut avenue and Mrs. Hicks furnished $500 bond. and place, was eliminated at al Do, A simitr [ouiclen vas pacts. MRS. McCOY HONORED BY OFFICE EMPLOYES chusetts avenue and @ stree: Co-Workers Mrs. Maude Streets Opens No parking will b> permitted on the ! rast side of Seventeenth street any | time. from Rosedale street to Gale street WOMAN Sl:!ES HOTEL Says Light in Indian Office Give Veteran Worker ““Treasure Chest.” Mrs. Lillie M. McCoy, clerk in the Indian Office. Department of Interior Tripped and Threw Her to Floor ho retired July 31. after 37 years of ervice, was presented wilh a “tres e Margaret Callan, Youngstown, Obio, ' chest” by her associates in the office has filed suit in the District Supreme , who made & suprice visit to her home Court, to recover $15.000 damages from ' noar Post, Va. recently. the Commodore Hotel Corporation for | Besices the “treasure cheit” con- injuries alleged to have been sustained | taining $50 in gold. Mrs. McCoy was while a guest June 30, 1929, She says presenied with a letter from the com- an electric light cord was carelessly left | missioner of Indlan affairs, C. J unguarded and when passing from one | Rhoads, complimenting her on her part of the room to the other her foot | meny ysers of service to the Govern- wis caught nd she was thrown violent- | ment. Mrs. McCoy had served in the to the floor. She is represented by Indian Office continuously since 1900 M Bramhall & McCabe, and prior to that was in field service % it Tht “ihie e A wip to ng w e the D. C. Street Gets Name. ex bome were: B. 5. Garbor, Miss Gar- he sireet running from First stecet ber, Mr. and Mis. Arthur Brown, Mr, o Ganal wasland Mrs. H. W. Shipe wmwmfilwm‘m. Mr. and Unguarded Cor Dog Rides in Wheel Chair BROKEN BACK FAILS TO DISCOURAGE “MOON." but she lay no motion from her hips back. When she was brought home her interest in familiar surroundings, in her children and grandchildren and her “folks” re- vived. Through the kindness of neighboring physician Moon's case was treated by telephone by one of the lead- ing spinal spectalists of the East As the weeks went on Moon was ob- served to have some power of motion | in one rear leg. She developed a fajr rate of speed in pulling herself over the floor by means of her front legs. Her active little body, in spite of her seven years, quivered and strained to join the other dogs when they started out on a run. “Wheel Chair” Built. Enlisting the help of McKinney, neighbor, who is a_genius in achieving | the unusual and difficult, it was decided to bulld her a wheel chair. Various models were tried and discarded before one was developed that proved satis- factory. The one which has finally been completed is built on the principle of a baby walker. Moon has gradually become accus- to back and turn. The other dogs on the place have been much interested in the ‘strange behavior of their former leader, so it was decided to enlist this interest to good purpose, and one of Moon’s grandchildren was harnessed up tandem fashion. Moon is the daughter of Champion District Boss, well known Boston terrier. which was on several occasions judged | give slight additional rain today, the | the best dog of all breeds at WasMington | mercury is not expected to go much | 9€nt dog shows. ANDREWS ESTATE VALUED AT $176%6 Income Trusts Set Up for| Son and Daughter- in-Law. Mrs. Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, who died August 7 at Seminary, Va., left an estate valued at $177,656.83, ac- cording to the petition of her cxecutors, Robert E. P. Kreiter and the Ameri- can Security & Trust Co. for the pro- bate of her will, Her copyrighted pagesnts, which were produced with her for civic, re- ligious and patriotic purposes, are given to Marie Moore Forrest. Manuscripts, notes and correspondence not in the hands of publishers are given to Mrs. ! Seymour Ludlum of Philadelphia. The son, Eliphalet F. Andrews, is to have the furnishings of the studio at 1230 Sixteenth street as well as the fur- nishings of the studio at Vauxcleuse with all other tangible personal prop- erty Cash beguests of $100 each are made to the children of her brothers, Capt. Karl Minnigerode and Col. Fitzhugh Lee | Minnigerode. Robert E. P. Kreiter, one of the executors, is to have $500. Mrs. Andrews explains that she has already made provision for her son and daughter-in-law and also for a sister, | Lucy, so leaves the remaining estate in trust to Kreiter and the trust company They are directed to pay the son a montHly sllowance of $150 for life and $100 monthly to the daughter-in-law A sister, Anne Gibbon, is to have $50 per month for life of the estate is to be among the chil- dren of the son and daughter-in-law. BOY SCOUT BAY CAMP T0 BE CLOSED AUG. 16 Present Season Called Best Yet in 18-Year History of Work on Chesapeake Shore Camp PRoosevell, Boy Scout camp overlcoking Chesapeake Bay, between Chesapeake Beach and Plum, Point, has its final contingent of Scouts there for his season and will be closed for the r on August 16, it is announced This year, the thirteenth in which the camp has been operated, is reported.to be the most successful of any in the hist-ry of the camp. New cabins are being added to the equipment ai Camp Wilson at Burnt Mills, Md., where Scout groups spend week ends. The stiff will continue at Camp Wilson until September 15. The be available throughout the r troop encampments, it is Courts of honor and review are held at Camp Wilson each Saturday night PEACE NEGOTIATIONS REOPENED BY CANTON By the Assoc P HONGKONG governments August 11.—The rival Canton and Nanking were unoffic’ally veported today to have reopened negotiations for peac”, with Nanking suggesting conference at Shangh: Th' C: itediy had moci- JMed t i ace terms and had decided not to insist upon the resignation of Chiang Kai-Shek as head of the Nan- king government. This was the princl- pal point of the Cinton°se program when the Southern govirnment organ- ized and defied Neoking about three months azo Gen. Ho Chien, governor of Hunan Province, who comumands fiv: bacly equipped divisions, was rported to have resignation as governor g faction. Official Canton reports said Kwangsi troops. allies of the Cantonese, had reached Kivang. Hunan, and that thelr gen ral. Pei Chung-si, had established headquarters at Yungchow, nearbs. Hunan Province nominally is Nanking territory onese $166,700 School Job Let. Contract for comstruction of a unit of the Macfarland Junior High School at & cost of $166,700 today was awarded | to Lee Paschiall of Richmond, Va., by | the District Commissioners. The work will include construction of 10- class at first in a semi-coma with | Final distribution | £00L WEATHER DUE UNTIL TOMORROW 1Slightly Higher Temperatures Expected to Follow Respite From Heat. :STORM BLINDS DRIVERS | | | | Residents Complain as Inadequate Sewers Fail to Carry Off Water. The cool wave which. came out of the northwest late yesterday to give Washington its promised “definite break” in the long run of high tem- peratures, will continue through night, with a maximum forecast of | scarcely over 70 degrees. The Weather | Bureau also forecast “somewhat warmer” day tomorrow | Washington's relief came in with a { violent thundershowers, Street floods in | two quarters, two automobile accidents | which involved serious injuries to one | man, and interrupted electrical service | to one or two suburban communities | { oceurred during the storm, which drove | tomed to this strange outfit and learned ' the mercury down from 94 degrees to | & minimum of 67 degrees | rain. | More Rain Forecast. | At 7 am. today the official reading | was 68 degrees and at 8 it stood at { 69 degrees. Thanks to the lingering { clouds, which, the bureau believes, may | higher than 70 degrees. | The 1.03 inches of | during the storm yesterday night followed a fall of .02 early yesterday. This fotal of L0 | Inchas.” the bureau reported, leaves a { deficiency of about 6 inches below th2 | normal rainfall since January 1. Most of this deficiency, however, is the “hangover” of the drought and was carried over from January and Feb- ruary. Since March, ths rainfall has been “practically normal,” the bureau | satd. n which fell and last of an inch Weather to Be Seasonable. In predicting “somewhat warmer” | weather for tomorrow the forecaster said he did not mean another heat wave was headed for Washington. The outlook is merely for seasonably higher temperatures than toda Residents of Thirteenth street, Dela- ‘field place and Arkansas avenue, in th ! blocks bordering that triple intersection. were perhaps the greatast sufferers from yesterday's ramn. Inadeguate sewers the curbs to flood cellars, ruin front yards and strand parked automobiles. When the water subsided, a thick de- posit of ‘mud covered sidewalks, lawns, Vehicles and cellar walls and floors. According to Eaward E. Caldwell of 1232 Delafield place, floods in his neigh- borhood are regular consequences when- |ever & heavy rain falls. He has fre- | quently complained to the District au- thorities, who, he said today. explain the sewers in the neighborhood are too | small. No s.eps have been taken, how- { ever, to replace them. he said. although the condition has existed for about five years. Yesterday's flood was the second of the season, and it. like others. de- | posited sewage and slime for a distance of a block morth on Thirteenth street and a half block from the intersection on both Delafield place and Arkansas avenue. Pifth and Ingraham streets suffered a similar flood, but the damage was not so great. Autoist Is Injured. Albert Smith. 23, of Baltimore. was the most seriously injured of the “weather tims He recelved a severe cut on the face when an automobile driven by William B. Powell, 40, of Glencarlyn, Va., skidded into his machine in the midst of the downpour near the John | Paul Jones Statue at the foot of Seven- teenth street. Mr. Powell took the in- | fured man to Emergency Hospital. where | Dr. John Sugrue, nerve specialist. cou- | pled a severed nerve in Smith's arm Patrick Barnes, 36, a Philadelphia salesman, was overcome by the heat just before the storm broke while walk- ing on I street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets. He was treated at Emergency Hospital and transferred to Galfinger Hospital Drives Into Excavation. James A. West of 1531 Park road narrowly escaped injury. when. blinded by the rain, he drove his automobile into an excavation at Eleventh and Girard streets. The machine. hauled out of the pit by the rescue squad, was only slightly damaged | Suburban communities also suffered from the wind and rain. Bladensburg was flooded. Several automobiles were stalled near the jail huilding. High water at College Park also delayed traffic. Trees uprooted along the De- fense Highway slowed up traffic until | they were cleared away within two hours Laurel was without electric power last night following the disabling of its power line during the height of the storm. and telephone service at Damas- cus, Md., was interrupted Highway Bridge was jammed for a short time when several automobiles were forced to halt as water was blown into their ignition systems. A Icng siring of automobiles stalled a half hour or so along the Washing- ton-Baltimore boulevard near Johnson avenue &t Hyattsville, during the rain The sireet at *boulevard and John- s avenu: was turned into a veritable Inke WIFE BEATER. SENTENCED TO SERVE NINE MONTHS Colored Man Knocked Down Police- Who Intervened—Fined $10 on Drunkeness Charge. { man Charged with bealing his wife and hitting & policeman, Harvey S. Carpen- | ter, colored, 1200 block of Girard street, was sentenced to nine months in jail by Judge Ralph Given in Police Court yesterday. A $10 fine was added when Carpenter faced Judge Robert M tingly on a drunkenness charge. Carpenter struck Policeman Ow:n E. Duvall. twelfth precinet, on the jaw when the latter endeavored to stop him from beaiing his wife. The wife told Judg: Given Carpenter had been drunk for several days and had treated her in an iohuman manner. She was cov- ered with bruises, She said her hus- { i band would not let her get out of tllr‘ hous: and she ved he would have killed her had the policeman. at- tracted by her screams, intervened. T0 REMAIN IN°CITY AND FLOODS STREETS, to- | ] The bureau recorded 1.03 inches of caused water to rest 18 inches out of | ihe left arm and other cuts on | Wreck in Which Boy Lost His Life . wyn DELEGATES G0 10 SEE MT. VERNON Here After Cleveland Parley, | 100 Leaders Tour City Before Departure. | | Here for a brief stop en route to { their homelands from Cleveland, where {they participated in the world confer- |ence ‘of the organization, more than 100 foreign Y. M. C. A. leaders today {took time to journey to Mount Vernon to pay fribute to America’s first Presi- The delegates of the Y. M. C. A. from foreign couniries, many of them making | their first visit to this country, were to {spend several hours at the Washington | shrine before returning to the city to | prepare for their departure for New | York at 5 o'clock. The delegation arrived here yesterday | evening and immediately began a tour {of places of historic interest, under the guidance of a local Reception Com- | mitted. headed by John W. Hardell and Page McK. Etchison, religious work di- irector of the Washington Y. M. C. A. Prior to the Mount Vernon trip the | foreign delegation paid a visit at noon |to_the White House, where they were greeted by President Hoover. This morning the group was enter- i tained at breakfast at the Calvary Bap- |tist Church and had lunch there as guests of woman members of the con- | gregation, under the leadership of Mrs. Arthur Feelemeyer and Mrs. Allie Bax- {ter. An_inspection of the Washington {¥.'M. C. A. was included in a sight- Iseeing trip about Washington this | morning. i The delegation represents 39 foreign | countries. | TRAFFIC LIGHTS CHANGED Flexible, Progressive Control Plan Carried Out at Six Corners. In line with the program of chang- ing the present Washington traffic light | signal system to the new flexible, pro- | gressive control, the District Commis- sioners today authorized the Potomac | Electric Power Co. to change apparatus | at_six intersections |~ The corners involved are: Twentieth | street and Massachusetts avenue. Twen- |dy-first street and Massachuseits ave- nue, Massachusetts avenue and Q street | Twenty-second street, and Massachusetts | avenue, Twenty-second street and Q | street and Twenty-second street and P | street, | Al timing equipment required will be furniched by the District i BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band, this | evening at Walter Reed General Hos- pital at 6:30 o'clock. William Stan- | nard, leader, conducting; Thomas Darcy, second leader. March, “Entry of the Gladiators™”. Pucik Overture, “Poet and Peasant” Suppe | Characteristic, “Woodland Whispers,” | Czibulka | Selection from “H. M. S. Pinafore." 1 Sullivan | Waltz, “Vienna Beauties”. ......Ziehrer “Old Folks at Home" Foster-Roberts March, “Colt's Armory . Smith “The Star Spangled Banner.” BY the United States Navy Band. this evening at the United States Capitol at 7:30 o'clock. Charles Benter, leader Charles Wise, assistant leader March, “Parade Flag Blankenburg Overture, “The Flying Dutchman.” Wagner Russian Fantasia,” Levy Solo for cornet Musician Birley Gardner Duet for flute and clarinet, “Lo, Hear the Gentle Lark” Bishop Musician William Meyer, flute; Musician i Charles Brendier, clarinet Grand scenes from the opera Traviata’ Xylophon: solo, Regiment” { Musician Louis Goucher Excerpts«from “Countess Maritza.” Kalman ‘Weymouth Chimes, Howgll ‘La Verdi Dance of the Toy .Green Chime solo, Musician_Roy Watson Tone poem, “Les Preludes” Anchors Aweigh." “The Star Spangled Banner." By the United States Marine Band this evening at the United Statss Vet- erans' Hospital at Mount Alto at 7 o'clock. Tayler Branson, leader; Ar- thur Witcomb, second leader. March, “Sons of Uncle Sam”. ... McCoy Overture, “Orpheus’ Offenbach | Valse caprice, “Lady Hamilton".Jenesco | Solo for saxophone, “‘Beautiful Colo- rado De Luca Musician Kenneth Douse Selections from “Sons o' Guns, Swanstrom Herbert Volistedt “Alda,” Verdi Marines' hymn, “The Halls of Monte- Liszt i | Intermezzo. “Al Presce Waltz, “Jolly Fellows”. . Hymn and triumphal march, zuma. The Star Spangled Banner.” | By the United States Soldiers' Home Band, this evening at the bandstand st £:30 o'clock. John 8§ M. Zimmerman, | bandmaster: Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “Under the Stars and Stripe: | Losey , Overture, “Die Frau Mnisterin” (“The | . Mistress™) P ol Irish rhipeodie, “Erin, Oh, Erin.* i Victor Herbert Excerpts from the Irish musical com- | _edy “Bilesn". .. .........Herbert | Trombone comedy, suite, “The Flower of ltaly,’ | waltz tefano Pinale, “1 Found & Million Dallar Mmy in the Five and Ten | hut et Saansica pangied Baner, last night at Fifth and Rittenhouse streets. lided with a machine driven by Paul L. Blackmer. - CONRAD RICHTER RITES Hains Point Tea House Manager to Be Buried Tomorrow. Funeral services for Conrad Richter, 59, manager of the Hains Point Tea House, who died yvesterday after a brief illness, wiil be held at his residence, 1305 Gallatin street. tomorow at 2 pm. Interment will be at Prospect Hill Cemetery. Mr. Richier came to Washington from Germany 35 years ago. He was & member of the Lutheran Church of | the Incarnation and of the New Jeru- | salem Lodge of the Masonic Order | _Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Minnie Herbert Richter, and a son, Bertrand L. Richter. HOSPITAL PATIENT DIES AFTER FALL Mrs. Isabell Walden Found Dangling From Window. Had Fractured Skull. Mrs. Isabell Walden, who was in- jured in a plunge from a third-story window at Sibley Hospital yesterday vhen she slipped from the grasp of a nurse who found her dangling at that institution skull and internal injuries early today. Mrs. Walden, who was 56 vears ol and lived at 1036 Otis street northeast, tied two sheets together and attempted to lower herself to the ground after | “hearing” thst several previous patients had died in the room she occupied, police were told Miss Phyllis Pyler, a student nurse, heard Mrs. Walden remove the screen from the window and rushed into the | room. She found Mrs. Walden hanging | from the Jedge with the improvised rope dangling beside her and attempted to | pull the patient back into the room The woman proved too heavy for her, however, and" slipped from her grasp, dropping to the pavement low. An inquest into the death of Mrs. Walden, who had entered the hospital | a few days before for diagnosis of an illness which had not been definitely defined, will be held at 11:30 o'clock ! tomorrow morning at the District Morgue. Ten chilren survive her. AWARD OF TROPHIES AT REEDER AUG, 22 Boys' Club Camp Will Close With Elaborate Program of Exercises. Camp Reeder. the Boys' Club of Washingion _camp on the Wicomico River near Rock Point, Md.. will close for the season, with an elaborate pro- gram of exercises, Saturday night, Au- | gust 22. Many parents are expected to be on hand for the presentation of trophies. The final contingent of boys to stop st the camp left Washington yesterday. Joe Helser will receive a free scholar- ship to the leaders’ training camp at New York University Summer Camp. Mr. and Mrs. Foster Reeder will be honor guests at a banquet. Mr. Reeder gave the camp site to the Boys' Club of Washington. C. Burrows and L. Hayman won highest honors in the senior boys divi- sion at an athletic meet held by the contingent which recently returned from the camp. J. Ackland and H. Gordon won out in the intermediate division while honors in the midget class went to D. Xander and R. Good- son. A. Hamilton was awarded first prize at an amateur night performance Frank Gordon was adjusted the cleanesi boy in camp during the past two week OVERCHARGED $2,314,751 United Fruit Overassessed for 1923 and 1925 to 1928. An overassessment of $2,314,751 in taxes cf the United Fruit Co. of Boston for 1923 and 1925 to 1928 was reported | today by the commissioner of internal | revenue. An overassessment of $239.555 for the | Standard Tool Co. of Cleveland, for the vears 1917, 1918 and 1920 also was re- ported. COST OF LIVING Food Prices Drop 13.8 Per Rent Al By the Associated Press An estimate that the cost of living in the United States is 6.5 per cent cheaper now than at the start of the current vear was made today by the Department of Labor. | Returns from 51 cities on food prices and from 32 cities on clothing. rents. | fuel, light. house furnishings and other |items were made the basis of the esti mate. During the first six months of 1931, 1t was said, Yood prices dropped 13.8 per | centy house furnisiings 6 jperieent, fuel i > ¢ from | the windowsill by her fingertips, died | from a fractured | THAN IN JANUARY, U. S. FINDS | | | ARTER DOWNING, 8-year-old son of a patent attorney, died early today from injuries sustained in this wreck An automobile operated by William Downing, the boy's father, col- FORMER ATTRNEY OF CAPITAL BURIED 'Philip T. Dedge Dies at Rye, ! N. Y.—Prominent as *Capitalist. Philip T. Dodge, 81, New York capi- | talit and former Washington patent | citorney, for 37 years president of thel Mergenthaler Linotype Co., was buried | at Rye, N. Y. today. He died gt his! Rye hore, Sunday. Mr. Dodge, the sen of the late Wil- | liam C. Dodge, who lived at 116 B street | southeast for many years, was connected | | with the attorney firm of Dodge & Sons | ! here before going to New York. He was born in Fond du Lac, Wis. Educated Here. He received the degree of bachelor of {laws from Columbian College, now | George Washington University. in 1873. Besides his connection with the Lino- | type Co., he was president of the Inter- | national Paper Co.. Columbia Grapho- | phone Co. and 'the Indian River Co. | and a director of the American Paper | | Exports, American Surety Co., Atlantic | Coast Steamship Co, Bank of New York & Trust Co., Champlain Realty Co., Continental Paper Bag Co. Fifth Avenue Coach Co., New York Trans- portation Co.. Royal Typewriter Co. and the St. Maurice Lumber Co. He had been a member of the Metro- | politan Club of Washington and of tha | | Metropolitan, Union Leegue, Engineer New York, Republican, St. Andrew's | Golf, Rockaway Hunting, . New York | Yacht and Larchmont Yacht Clubs of | New York. He retired from active business five years age. . Brothers Capital Residents. o He is survived by a brother, Willlam W. Dodge, and a half brother, Horace | A. Dodge, both members of the Wash- ington firm of Dodge & Sons, and a sister, Jennie M. Dodge, also of Wash- | ington. as well as his son, Norman, now president of the Mergenthaler Co. Edward J. McQuade, president of the | Liberty National Bank here and a di- | rector of the Mergenthaler Co. was one | of the honorary pallbearers. MAN GETS 18 MONTHS FOR WEAPON-TOTING' Lee Miller Receives Second Term for Hitting Ex-Sweetheart From Judge Given. Determined to put a stop to the | eurrying of firearms by private individ- | uals in the District, Judge Ralph Given | today sentenced Lee Miller, colored, 25, to.serve a year and six months in jail when Miller was arraigned for carry ing a revolver. Miller received another sentence of 30 days when his former sweetheart testified that he struck her inf the face several times last Saturday. Police, looking for Miller on & com- plaint from the girl, approached him as he was standing on a .U street cor- ner yesterday. The officers said that they. saw Miller toss a 45 caliber re- volver to the ground. Judge Given said that a very severe sentence was imposed because “this thing of every one and any one carry- | ing firearms must stop.” ELLIPSE PARKING LIMIT REDUCED TO TWO HOURS Comstibatton ) Avaue: -Gt ter All-Day Use of Auto- ists. The parking limit around th> Ellipse loday was cut down to two hours, by order of Lieut, Col. U. S. Grant. 3d. director of Public Buildingé and Public | Parks. At the same time he directed | that both sides of Constitution avenue in that region should be opened for all- | day parking, and instructed the U. S. Park police to place signs insuring that | | the park drives, connecting the Ellipse ' with Constitution avenue, except the road prolonging Sixteenth street, be made one-way thoroughfares, out of the park. The Sixteenth street extension will be a two-way street. Col. Grant explained that this inove | had been made to eliminate very dan- gerous conditiens at Fifteenth and| Seventeenth streets arising from the | widening of Consti’ution avenu ! i "IS‘ LESS VNOW Cent as Fuel, Clothing and Sag. | and light 5.5 per cent. clothing 4.6 per cent, and .1 per cent. Articles | in the miscellanecus group dropped | only 0.7 per cent. prices bac | of June, 1920, | clothing could | cent cheaper | The next la food prices. wi cent, follcwed | 395 per cent. | The re | smaller, | . & reduction of 46 jy house furnishings i) : 3 | meeting of the Public ‘mission. PATEN LAWYERS SON FATALY i NAUTO SUASHP Carter Downing, 8 Years Oid, Dies After Two Cars Col- lide at Corner. YOUTH 1S HELD PENDING INQUEST BY CORONER Impact of Crash Throws Both Machines on Lawn of Nearby Home. Injured in an automobile collision ss than half a block from his last night, Carter Downing, 8-year-old son of William Webster Downing, well- known patent attorns died from a fractured skull at Walter Reed - tal early tod He lived at 520 Rit. tenhouse street. Five others, includ! the boy's mother and a younger ther, were slightly hurt in the weceident, which occured when a car driven by Paul Leslie Blackmer, 20 years old. of 7059 Blair road, crashed into an automobile opergted by Mr. Downing. Blackmer was held by police of the thirteenth precinct pending an inquest to be held by a coroner’s jury at the District Morgue tomcrrow at 11:30 am, Cars Thrown Inte Yard. The attorney and his family were returning from a church social before 10 o'clock when Blackmer's machine struck their sedan at Fifth and Rittenhouse streets. The impact threw both automobiles across the wvement and into the front yard of & e. Downing's wife, Mrs. Lucie Downing, and his youngest son Wade, escaped with minor cuts and but Carter was unconscious and suffer- ing from severe head wounds when removed from the wrecked car. Black- mer and two comj Earl Farr, {r.. 15, of 530 Peabody street, and Wil- N. Dove, 17, of 601 Oneda received minor cuts and . ‘The attorney, who is 38 years old, was the only occupant of either machine to escape unhurt. Motorist Lends Help. A passing motorist, James Gallagher of 630 Cecil avenue, Riverdale, Md., carried Mrs. Dowaing and her two sons to Walter Reed Hospital where they | were given medical attention by Dr. Lieut. Ralph Plew and Dr. Roger H. Albee. Carter died at 4 o'clock this Farr was removed to the same insti- tution by Charles J. Sterner of 525 Rittenhouse street, and given first-aid treatment by Dr. Linwood Heige, 1410 Cedar street. STREET CAR STOPS Two Wisconsin Avenue Loading Points Combined—New “us Halts Ordered. Locations of several street car and bus stops were ch: yesterday at a Utilities Com-~ The commission combined the south- bound street, car stops in front of the Alban Towers Apar.ments on Wisconsin enue and at the south side of Garfield street on the same avenue. The new loading point will be at the north side of Garfield street. Two new stops on the Woodley road bus line of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. were established on Cathe- dral avenue at Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth streets, westbound. The westbound stops on Cathedral avenue at Thirty-fourth and -fifth streets were combined. The new stop will be between the two intersections. Petition for abolition of a street car top for southbound traffic on Seven- teenth street near I street was denied because of the popularity of the corner with the publie, The commission ruled Emerson Insti- tute students should be entitled to 3 cent carfare. COMMITTEE INDORSES CEMETERY PARK DRIVE Road Would Connect With Com- modore Barney: Circle, An- nouncement Says. A proposed park drive that would connect with Commodore Barney Cir- cle, skirting along the fence line of the Congressional Cemetery, to link up with the park drive along the Anacostis River, today received the approval of the co-ordinating committes, comprising interested Federal and District gov ment agencies. Announcement of the indorsement, was made by Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., the committee's chairman, who is engineer of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. A study prepared by the commission's staff for the projection of Maryland avenue in the vicinity of the National Arboretum was referred to M. C. Hazen, District surveyor, for examination. He is expected to report back at the next meeting of the committee. Many streets will have to be closed in the arboretum area, and the committee de- sires to draw up plans at once. SUES ON ASSAULT Woman Charges Furniture Agents Beat Her. Minnie Meeks, 3549 S street, today street, for alleged assault by the company. She says that siding at 3039 Q street March 23 was assaulted, beaten and by agents of the defendant and was so injured as to appear for the plaintiff. VETERANS PLAN TRIP of