Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1931, Page 16

A—16 ¥ THE EVEN S TAR, WASHINGTON, CAR THIEF ESCAPES OVER TOP OF SHEDS AS OFFICER SHOOTS Gunplay Also Used to Halt Alleged Hit-Run Driver on Connecticut Avenue. POLICEMAN ON BICYCLE RECOVERS STOLEN AUTO Unidentified Motorist Stops Flee- | ing Man After Collision With Parked Machine. Chased through the Mall early to- day by a biyycle policeman who fired six shots at him, an automobile thief escaped after abandoning the car, darting through the lobby of an apart- ment house and clambering over the 100fs of several sheds in the rear. The officer opened fire after the thief, find- ing the bicycle was giving the bile a close race, sent a bullet whizzing in the direction of his pursuer. The chase began several urs after a somewhat similar case, in which a motorist fired four shots at an alleged hit-and-run driver following a crash in the 4400 block of Connecticut avenue. itomo- | The shooting began when the automo- | bilist saw another parked machine way Park Policeman C. E. Rabbitt was patrolling his beat on his bicycle about 2 o'clock this morning, when an auto- mobile sped past. He noticed the license number was that of a car which E. C. Manny, 6602 First street, had reported stolen from a Nineteenth street garage about 20 minutes betore car crash and continue into a on its ired at Policeman. Rabbitt yelled for the driver to “hz When the thief. instead of obeying. increased his ecd, the officer started peddling after him After a race through the Mall. the fugitive discovered the officer was gain- ing on him. At New York arvenue and Twentieth street, he leaned from the machine and fired. Rabbitt decided to do a little shooting himself. Apparently, none of the s effect. however, and the abandoned his bicycle and com- mandeered a passing taxicab. His quarry eluded him temporarily by mak- ing a series of quick turns near Naval Hospital. Although he was out of the office: sight only a minute or two, the thi took advantage of the opportunity abandon the automobile. Rabbitt_sighted his quarry again as the man was about to enter an apart- ment house at Twenty-third and D streets. He chased him through the lobby and ov the roofs of the sheds in the rear, but the thicf made his escape. A description of the man was broad- cast to all precincts ots took policeman w0 Shoots at Fleeing Car. The Connecticut avenue gunplay oc- curred shortly before midnight. Noel Leggett, 22, of 1618 Seventeenth street, is alleged to have failed to stop after his car had crashed into a parked ma- chine owned by Fred Munsell, whose address was given as the Shoreham Building Another motorist ordered Leggett to &top but he failed to do so, according to police. The other automobilist opened fire, one of the shots striking the rear of the fleeing automobile. Leggett pulled up to the curb, and the other motorist turned him over to fourteenth precinct policc. He was charged with driving without a permit but Munsell decided not to prosecute him Police repo; learn the the shooti DESCRIBES FLIGHT OVER MOLTEN RCCKS Rev. B. R. Hubbard Shows Pic- tures Made From Plane Ahove Alaskan Volcano. An idea of how it feels to fly over 2 seething mass of molten rock in the heart of a great volcano was conveyed to members of the National Geographic Society last night through the medium of motion pictures when Rev. Bernard R. Hubbard, S. J.. “The Glacier Priest.” showed photographs made by him last Summer froman airplane above Ania chak Volcano in the Alaska Peninsu At one time during the flight, the speaker said. the plane's engine faitered because of fumes and it seemed that the three fiyers would be dashed on to the flery floor of the crater. They escaped by diving until momentum was built up and then streaking for the rim Father Hubbard, who is head of the geology department of the University of Santa Clara. Calif, has made a number of trips to remote parts of Alaska. In 1930 he visited Aniakchak, then dormant, and found that its huge crater was 21 miles in circumference. He predicted that the volcano would erupt within a short time. In May. 1931, the prophesied eruption place. HOLD CHRISTMAS PARTY Some 200 orph: Bureau of Engra of the America Christmas party held for them by the POst in the auditorium at the bureau at noon today. The orphans were selected from the varlous institutions to which the Wash- ington Community Chest contributes and Chest funds were used for the party. Elwood Street, director of the Chest, was in attendance. . Lectures on Rock Garden Flowers. Dr. David Lumsden gave an il- lustrated lecture on rock garden flowers at the meeting of the Chevy Chase, D. C.. Garden Club Monday at the resi- dence of Mrs. Alfred Fisher, 3843 Gar- rison street, who was assisted by Mrs. Paul Anderson. ed they were unable to ity of the man who did s were guests of the g and Printing Post Legion at the annual | Horse Show Champion ERMAID, owned by Mrs. William Jeffries Chewning, daughter of Senator James Couzens of Michigan, with Robert Robey up. The Chewning horse was declared champion of the first indoor show of the season of the Riding and Hunt Club las NATIVES PROFFER " FOUNDLINGS GIFTS |Society Piles Presents High Home and Work Shops to Be | | | About Tree for Delivery to Children Today. Boys and girls of the Washington Home for Foundlings are benefiting to- day from the annual Christmas party of the Society of Natives, which was held last night at the Washington Club, where the members piled gifts of toys and food high about a Christmas tree. Business interrupted the Christmas spirit of the society only long enough for James C. Du Hamel, historian, toan- nounce the organization's tentative plans for the celebration of the George Washington Bicentennial. On Friday, February 19, the society will conduct & special “George Washington night,” at which time at least one speaker will discuss the first President and patriotic songs will be sung. Th> speaker at that meeting will be announced later In April, on either April 7 or April 14 the socicty will make a bus excursion to Wakefield, Va. The date, he ex- plained, is being chosen to mark the anniversary of the laying of the corner- stone of the District of Columbia. At least one other pilgrimage will be ar- ranged to a point of historic interest and the society will be prepared to en- ter floats in any of the Bicentennial parades which will be staged. In these the society will depict scenes from Washington's life, including his sur- | veying activities, his inauguration and his_participation in the laying of the cornerstone of the Capitol. Direct | descendants of the original proprietors of Washington lands will participate in | the float scenes, under tentative plans now being formed. Recads Paper on Washington. Mr. Du Hamel also read the second paper of his series on the life of George Washington. He recalled the fact that Washington's great-grandfather was the first of the Washington settlers in Vir- ginia; that Washington’s grandfather built the house on Bridges Creck and that his father crected the house at Wakefield on Popes Creck, where the first President was born. The next paper which Mr. Du Hamel will pre- sent, he said, will embrace Washing- ton’s life from his boyhood to Mount Vernon its celebration last . the s membership sang stmas carols after each person had placed gift of “a toy, & potato or an apple” at the foot of the tree. Mrs Johan C. Kondrup, as chairman of the Christmas Tree Committee, directed the Yule celebration, and today she is conducting the transier of the society’s gifts to the foundlings’ home, in ac- cordance with the soclety’s annual cus- tom. “Silent Night” Is Sung. The Christmas program was con- cluded with the singing of “Silent Night” in a darkened auditorium that glowed only with the colored lights of the Christmas tree. Others participat- ing in the special meeting's prepara- tion were Mrs. Mark C. Bullis, chair- !man of the Reception Committee, and | Hodge, who presided at the tea table | when 'refreshments were served. As- sisting Mrs. Kondrup with the Christ- | mas tree phase of the program were | Mrs. Lisle Lipscomb, Mrs. Frederick Umhau, Miss Clara Bright and Frank Dowling. The meeting witnessed the presenta- tion of gifts to Mrs. Ella C. Robinson, chairman of the Entertainment Cora | mittee for the past five years, and Miss Emma Bright, veteran recording sec- | retary of the society, in recognition “cf devoted service to the society.” Mrs | Robinson received & crystal necklace |and Miss Bright was given twin can- | | delabra, | The entertainment program included | songs by the Hyattsville Presbyterian | Church ~ Quartet. The singers were | Mrs. Freda Phillips, soprano; Mrs. | Margaret Hayre, contralto; Charles | Starke and George France, bass. Mrs. Mary Willis recited a Christmas poem. | Mrs. Robinson was pianist for the sing- | ing of the Christmas carols. | The next meeting of the society will | Ve held January 15. HOLD-UPé BELIEVED FRUSTRATED BY ARREST OF T Police Act Upon Learning Plant and Two hold-ups were believed frus- trated in the making last night with the arrest by Detective Sergts. Larry O'Dea and Frank O. Brass of two men seid to have been planning to rob the Colonial Ice Cream Co., in the 600 block Pennsylvania avenue, and the ‘Goodacre lunch room, 933 Ninth street. Members of the hold-up and robbery squad at police headquarters were “tipped off” by underworld contacts and one of the men was taken into cus- tody near the ice cream plant. while + the sccond was arrested at his home, in - + ¢ WO MEN ON “TIP” of Plans to Rob Ice Cream Restaurant. the Southwest section of the city. The prisoners were booked at de- tective headquarters for investigation and questioned, but no charges placed against them. They will be looked over by recent hold-up victims for identification purposes at “line-up” to- | night. Sergt. O'Dea, chief of the newly or- ganized hold-up squad, declared today ;ihac charges of conspiring to stage a | Tobbery may be placed against the two {men if they are not identified in any | oiher ceses. t night. tar Staff Photo. WILL DEDIGATE AID FOR COLORED BLIND Formally Opened This Afternoon. Dedication exercises for the Harriet HORSE SHOW TLE| WON BY HUNTER OF RS W CHEWNNG Mermaid Takes One First,| One Second, a Third and Places With Team. BALTIMORE SCHOOL WINS | AGAINST 28 ENTRANTS End of Season After Series of Competitions. BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, Jr. Those equine prima donnas, the thor- oughbred and halfbred hunters, shone | forth here last night in a show as bril- | liant and longer than a dress rehearsal of the 29 acts of “Ziegfeld Follies.” A crowd of 400 spectators gathered at the Riding and Hunt Club to see the | show Every type of leaper, from colts to seasoned timber-toppers, traversed the tanbark of the hunt club's ring at| Twenty-second and P streets last night. When_the performances were totaled, Mrs. Willlam J. Chewning's Mermaid was awarded the championship of the show in reward for onc first, & second, a third and membership on the hunt team which placed second. The show championship, a new feature of these events, will be awarded on each occa- | sion to one horse selected by the judges. | At the end of the season the horse | scoring the most wins will be declared series champlon and receive a cup. Had Other Winners. Mrs. Chewning also was in the rib- | bon with Golden Girl, which took a second: her colt, second in the lead- out class for suitables, and Bean Beetle, winner of one class and awarded the red in anothe The first class out was for 3-year- olds and under suitable to become hunt- | ers. Miss Persis Myers' Ticonderoga was adjudged best in the lead-out di- wsion, ‘Mrs.Chewning's vy second | and Mrs. Francls Plumme; Royal | Pleasufe third. There were 16 horses in the event. T ine rode into the ring in the second class, a hack and huntcr competition. The quarters were de- | { cidedly cramped for exhibitton of the horse, but at.least this eve red away more than 1ts share | | Tubman Aid to the Colored Blind, the first organization of its k ed in the District, will take place this aft- ernoon at 1416 Eleventh street at 4:30 o'clock First establis steps for the formation o organization, which has fc the establishment of work colored blind and a resi omeless blind as ilpless were insti Through the co of interest making it possible to open the f planned group of workshops in which the biind mignt obtain employment The first shop, a laundry, was opened ir May, and through the Summer four blind persons were employed. But the enterprise was not sufficic well patronized to make it a financial suc- cess, and as a consequence a drive was inaugurated during the past Fall months to secure funds for carrying on t < of the organization. and to ma sible the purchase of the b 1416 Eleventh street The organization received its guest in residence on November Named after an aged colored wo Harriet Tubman. for many vears slave and later helpful in aiding other colored persons to secure the dom, the organization includ board of trustees, Dr. Ala Locke of Howard University Corpening. supervisor Feder: for Vocational Education: F Campbell. executive secretary C Polytechnic Institute for the Miss_ Hattie L. Maddux, John Meshaw and Miss Charlotte E. Hunter, executive secretary. PART-TIME WORKERS GET $4,050 TODAY $2.,700 Paid 200 Yesterday on | Jobs Found by Local Com- pring mittee and Chest. { Payment of $2700 in wages vester- day will be followed up by the disburs ment of an additional $4.050 today among the 500 men who received their first jobs in months through the ef- forts of the District of Columbia Em- ployment Committee and the Commu- nity Chest. The 200 men who worked on Govern- ment projects in Rock Creek Park re- | ceived their money yesterday—$13. each for five six-hour days—and the | remainder, day. The money is being supplied by the Community Chest through the Em- ployment Committee, but paid out by | disbursing offices of the Office of Pul lic Buildings and Public Parks and the took | Mrs. Frederick Yates and Mrs. Steuart | District government, Their foremen on the jobs expressed | Bratification at the way the men have | | applied themselves. “They took pride | in their work,” said Frank H. Gartside, who had charge of the work, “and there was little shirking. I only wish we could keep hundreds on | jobs.” | New groups will be started to work | Monday. BUS DRIVERS GET BONUS AS SAFE-DRIVING AWARD | Washington Rapid Transit Rewards Employes for Caution of Last Six Months. Bonuses are being paid today by the | Washington Rapid Transit Co. in recog- nition of careful driving by the com- | pany’s bus operators, many of whom | have driven the big busses for 2,000 | hours withoui serious accident. More than a third of the drivers entitled to the bonus, which will go to those who have had no serious ac- have had no accidents of any sort. Only two will not participate in the bonus. The system was inaugurated in 1929 and has proved an incentive to safety operation of the company's busses. The company, & member of the National Safety Council, is co-operating with the council in an intensive campaign for safe driving among its employes. BLOW ROUTS BANDIT Lunch Room Manager Resists Hold- up and Youth Flees. An unsuccessful attempt to hold up Chris Sorris, manager of a3 lunch room at 1616 Fourteenth street, was mado to- |day by an unidentified colored youth. | The intruder held his hand in his coat | pocket as though he had a pistol and |demanded the restaurant’s receipts. \ Sorris struck him and he fled. employed by the District | government, are to receive their pay to- | permanent | Co. | cidents during the last half of this year, | of the huge list of 163 entries recorded | in the show en considerable weeding out had fone the Hechter Riding School timore had won the cup and blue | Him. Mrs. Chewning’s | S Tunner-up under R Clark's ride and Maj. W. ok the vellow with his Rile ihe lady's hunter contest ¥ning scored. riding her own and Miss Elizabeth Martin | o bring in | for second. | Robert Humpk try was third. | led another class, the © trial, when Mrs. Frank took the walk, trot, canter lead jumps on her Willowbrook. The Fort Myer horse show team won | the red with Miss Kiebourne, Lieut. C. | H. Noble up, while R. H. Norton's High Ccmpression was_third Washington drag hounds hunters were tested in the fifth division, which was won by Mrs. Chewning. on Bean | Bectle; Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim, on | nz Red, second, and Maj. Grimes * of the hunt, third, with Nancy | Merm mond Srimes Che Shamrock isses were witnessed | by a ishing crowd. which | dwindled not from boredom but from | exhaustion with the over-long program. Bean Beetle placed second to High | on in the open jumping and | ourne was third. Bobby all three winners of the Xt ‘class, Dr. Humphrey’s Royal Tent | first, Mrs. Chewning's Golden Girl sec- | ond and her Mermaid third | Kle y rode | Ernst ANGIENT WEATHER CLUES IN ROCK AND TREES BRING HONOR Dr. Douglass of Arizona and Dr. Antevs of Sweden Given Smithsonian Prizes. MAY SOLVE CYCLIC VARIATION PROBLEMS| Bestowal of Awards by Chief Jus- tice Hughes Followed by Re- search Accounts. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The weather of the distant past, | recorded in the annual rings in wood | due to tree growth and the annual clay | deposits left by the waters of retreating : glaciers, may give science a definite clue to cyclic variations in the weather of today. ‘The developers of these two ancient “calendars” last night received through the Smithsonian Institution the 1931 | Research Corporation prizes of $2.500 | each. The awards went to Dr. Andrew Ellicott Douglass of the University of Arizona, who has worked out the tree | ring chronology to more than 1,000 vears before the Christian era, and Dr Antevs of the University of Stockholm, who developed the clay varve method of reading the story of the distant past. Following the bestowal of the awards | by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes chancellor of the Smithsonian Institu tion, both scientists described their lat est Tesearches in these fields. Both methods provide an instrument which | science has not had before—an exact record of the most essential characteris- tics of weather over vast periods. Weather Cycle Evidences. Dr. Douglass. who found that the width of tree rings varies exactly witn rainfall in a given species and a given location, has analyzed by refined mathe- | matical methods approximately 000 measures made on Arizona pines and | found evidence of weather cycles inti- 11-year sunspot | e cycles have re- | cycle. Nearly the sa cently been found by Dr. Charles G.| Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian | Institution, in variations of radiation | coming from the sun itself. “Eleven” appears to be the key num- ber in the variations of the world’ weather, but the relationship is extrac dinarjly complicated. These disturbances on the surface of the sun known as sunspots run the range from mimmum | through maximum activity to the in 11 _years. The we cycles found by Dr. Douglass appe the great majority of cases to bo two or three times 11 year | longest tree records were found giant as of California. Dr. | d one record which ontinuously to 1300 BC 1100 BC. and about a dozen xtend a break to 200 B.C These records revea! a hitherto unsus- pected weather cycle extending for ap- proximately 100 years. Dr. Abbot has found approximately the same thing in the sun’s radiation. There were other cycles of halves, thirds, quarters and fifths of the d pot cycle of 22 years and 6 months. | Pines Traced to 700 A.D. | The records of the Arizona pines have been extended back in continuous series, Dr. Douglass explained, to 700 AD. by aid of beams from pre- historic 11 No single tree. of | course, covers any such span, but the ring chronology can be extended back, | through overlappings, from living trees | to the oldest timbers and bils of charcoal that can be found. These pines show long weather cycles of approximately 28 and 100 years, shorter cycles apparently related to the sun-spot cycle, and one which varies between 9 years and 6 months and 19 years. Still another cycle of Maj. George S. Patton's crack hunt ridden by Fort Myer officers, cap- tured the cvent for trios of that type: | Mrs. Chewning’s team was second and | Mrs. William G. Hill's third. | The silver cups which went to class | winners were donated by Senor Don Orestes Ferrara, Cuban Ambassador Edgar L. G. Prochnik, the Austrian | Minister; Senora Don Ramon Pad { second secretary, Spanish legation: Lieut. Col. M. Robert Guggenheim Claude Owen, John Finerty and the Riding and Hunt Club, BATES NAMED HEAD OF RAILROAD GROUP Washington Transportation Club Elects Officers at Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting. te Charles H. Bates, Southern Pacific Railroads will he; { Transportation Clu He was elected counsel for the and Union Pacific ad the Washington b for the next year. at the twenty-sixth annual meeting in the Raleigh Hotel Thursday night, when the following slate of officers was chosen with him: foioeme W. G. McDermo Woodward & Loth Gent. F. E._Pennington, Missouri Pacific, second vice president. L. H. Curry, ‘special representative Washington Railway & Electric Co, sec. retary-treasurer. ’ Executive Committee strong, vico tt, traffic department, hrop, first vice presi- general agent —Robert B. Arm- : Dresident Los Angeles shib Co.: James C. Petty, man- ager Firestone Tire & Rubber Co ; C. B, Buck, vice president Merchants' Trans 8¢ Co. 5. F. Harper of E. F. Sons Co.; W. H. master ‘mechanic Capital Trasiare Y, B Blaiklock, master mechanic Wash- ington Railway & Electric Co.; Fred Grimm of Kendall Oil Co.: 'G. A Geiser, freight representative Baltimore & Ohio, and D. T. Connors, freight rop. resentative Pennstivania, e outgoing officers, headed by M. J. Boylan, were felicitat eir ad- | ministration, A T Harry Karr, president of f | = | ington Passenger Assocmuon.h:pnv{(':s?n favor of merging the two organization; ! A silent toast was drunk to the mem- { ory of D. M. Fisher, who died June ¢ The annual dinner wi - BTy I was set for Feb: o HENDERSON RITES HELD Funeral of Retired Merchant Con- ducted From Residence. The funeral of Richard Wilson Hen- derson, retired F street merchant, vsho died at his home, 3500 Macomb street, Thursday, was conducted at the resi- dence this afternoon, with Rev. Dr. C. Ernest Smith, rector of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church, officiating. Inter- ment was in Rock Creek Cemetery. Mr. Henderson, who was 75 years old, ,retlred about 8 years ago. He was widely known in this city and a mem- ber of a number of organizations here, among those heing the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Celumbia. the Board of Trade and Masonic bodies. |75 pre | flowed found in the tree growth is one of | half the sun-spot period, 5 years and | 6 months. By means of tree rings in ancien timbers, Dr. Douglass announced. i now has been possible to date exac istoric ruins in the Southwes ern United States, ‘The chronology also gives a clue to the de- cline of these sites of ancie for many of them were bui fore the great drought in part of the thirteenth centt ) evidently had & profound effect on th Vi e of the inhabitants. Th Dr. Douglass pointed dently helped bring about tions_ which led to their downfall cutting off woods. Every portion the tree-ring chronclogy back to AD. has been covered by many mens, Dr. Douglass announced Extends Glacier Records. Dr. Antevs chronology goes further into the past. He no gaged in following the histo retreat northward of the glacier which covered most America _as far south as Long Is- land. Every Summer this glacier melted to some extent and the water into fresh-water s, CArTy- ing with it debris which has been bound up in the ice. This sank to the bottom, but the heaviest sank first, forming a layer, while the lighter par- ticles remained in suspension in the water all Summer and only went to the bottom when the water came close to the freezing point. The result Wwas| that each year's deposit was marked | off from that of the next year by a thin strata of different color. The layers varied in thickness in accord- ance with the temperature of the Sum- mer and, consequently, the amount of water released by the heat from the glacier, ) _ The great glaciers, Dr. Antev's studies show, retreated very slowly. Thus it required approximately 5.000 years for it to move northward from the vicinity of Hartford, Conn,, to St. Johnsbury, Vt. Approximately 24,000 vears was consumed in the retreat from Long Island to Northern Quebec. At the start it moved at an average rate of about 240 feet a year. The lakes into which the melting waters flowed long since have disap- peared, the waters filled with deposits. Their locations are revealed by road cuts, by rivers cutting through ancient sites, etc. When such a location turns up the clay varves can be measured with great exactnes Dr. Cottrell Paid Tribute. Before the prescntation of the awards tribute was paid to Dr. Frederick G. Cottrell, head of the Fixed Nitrogen Laboratory of the Department of Agri- culture and former director of the Bu- reau of Mines, who is responsible for the existence of the Research Corpora- tion. In 1911 Dr. Cottrell and his as- sociates offered their invention for the electrical precipitation of suspended particles, which had great commercial importance, to the Smithsonian Insti- tution for the benefit of science. The institution itself could not undertake the development and later a non-profit- sharing corporation for development of patents was organized. This corpon; tion has since financed impomg scientific researches besides making awards to individuals who have made iscoveries. mPrevpouln:u':sdlwards have been to Dr. John J. Abel of Johns Hopkins Uxéh versity for his work on ductless glr:n s, Dr. Werner Heisenberg of the Univer- sity of Leipzig for ‘\)Ls contribution to much is en- of the last great of North | High | January D. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1931. Scientists Get Awards | HIEF JUSTICE HUGHES, chancellor of the board of reg Smithsonian Institution, is pictured above (ce guished sclentists, to whom he presented award night for outstanding contributions to science. The scientists are Andrew Ellicott Douglass (left), director of Steward Observatory, Uni- versity of Arizona, and Dr. Ernest Antevs of the University of Stockholm, Sweden The men received the gifts, donated by the Research Corporation of New to York, for their work on studies of tree rings and glaciaticn in North America THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Cloudy with occasfonal rain tonight and tomorrow; slightly colder tomorrow night; mod- erate southwest winds, Maryland—Rain tonight ably tomorrow morning; colder in west portion tomorrow afternoon Virginia—Increasing cloudiness, prob- ably followed by rain tomofrow and in extreme west portion tonight; slightly warmer in southeast portion tonight colder in extreme west portion tomor- row afternoon West Virginia—Rain probably tomorrow m west portion tomorrow Report for Last Tempe Deg and prob- tonight ng, colder fternoon, and in 24 Hours. Barometer Inches 30 20 30.18 30.11 30.05 30.05 ago ago 4 pm aipiil. Midnight 4am 8 am. Highest Lowest 56 49 41 36 . 56 . 63, noon 36.4:00am Tide Tables (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. 3.34am 2am Yea 41 ¥ Tomorrow 424am 11:01am 4:04 pm 4:52pm 10:58 p.m 11:50 p.m The Sun and Moon. Rises. Low Sets 4.48 448 2:10 am, Sun, today 7 Sun. tomorrow Moon, today Automobile half hour aftel 14pm T sunset. nches h to date) Average. Record 355 709 '82 6.84 884 913 10.94 10.94 10.63 1441 Capital (curre Month. Bhimio 1931 156 Februar March 91 April 89 ‘00 August 1110 September .. October November Decembs Weather in Various Cities. SN ol 1eup, mps to be iighted one- cloverleaf is one of the most unus in the cars can turn ar B Rev. ‘g9 awarded a 01 War Department for gallantry in action —Wide World Photo. MT. VERNON ROAD PAVING COMPLETED Concrete Is Poured Stretch at South End of Highway Bridge. The last stretch of paving was pou on the Mount Vernon Memorial Bot vard yesterday afternoon near the e of Highway Bridge to complete the actual traffic suiface of this great new artery connecting the National Capital to the home and tomb of Father of His Country at Mo Vernon Much more work remains to be done on the boulevard in the way of land- 36 scaping. which will require most of the Winter, it was said at the Bureau of Public R Motor only on between Alex non, the r andria and the public cn’ for some oceurred recently of Highway Bridge The last part of the paving w pouring some asphaltic concrete great cloverleaf grade separatior South end of Highway Bridge is allowed. however. etch of the boulevard nd Mount Ver- art between Alex- hington being closed to This northern part was me until a traffic jam at the Virginia end ‘Thi al traffic features in this section of th country, providing for the separation of grade and handling of traffic so irection ream CITED FOR (:?ALLANTRY crossing a traffic G: H. Carpentier, Formerly of Washington, Gets Silver Star. George H. Carpentier of St Church, Johnson City. Tenn formerly of Washington, been silver star citation by the has at Chateau Thierry, France, July 26, ___|1918. while serving as a first lieutenant and chaplain of the 117th Sanitary n. 42d Division, A. E. F. haplain Carpentier,” said the cita- tion. “worked his way along the front lines under terrific enemy artillery and machine gun fire and in addition to 2dministering to the wounded. located —— our own and the eenemy lines and com- ady ea cloudy ' A dy leston ago. 11) SC 3 tisville Fla .7 Cloudy Rain . Clear Clear Rain San Dieko. Calif 30.02 Clear San_Francisco.. 30.14 St. Louis, Mo... St. Paul. Minn’ Wash Was] WASH., D. C. Cloudy . Rain Clear Rain Clear Cloudy . Cloudy (7 am., Greenwich time Stations London. England.... Paris, France. Vienna, Austria Berlin,” Germany today.) Zurict Stackh; G Sw olm, G . Azores Part cloudy observations.) o Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Hemilton, Bermu Havana, Cubc Colon, Canal Zone . Births Reported. Grover C. and Bele Brich, twins, boy and irl “Edward J. and Kathleen Slatters, boy. James L and Margaret Gordon. boy. William F. and Mary H,_Mevers. boy John R. ‘and Lillian A ‘Thomas. boy. Richard and Lille Daniels. boy George D. and Beulah Roberts. boy. Wesley and Bertha Whipty. boy Douglas W. and Mabel Herbert, boy. Joseph and Mary Dalena. girl Frank and Molife Sigelman. girl Edgar H. and Gladys Hamiiton. girl David L. and Margaret Riordan. gil. John D’and Mildred E, Pulliam. irl Thomas K. and Ruth E. Wynkoop. sirl. William L. and Dorothy F. Cann. irl. Stanley A and Blonch Charles E. and_Amy V Woodrow and Georgie Wavne ‘and Margaret Wilson. girl John V. and Helen H. Pittman, girl. David and Elva Neale. pirl, Vincent and Julia_Russo. boy Samuel and Etta Whitker, twins, boy and girl. Herbert_and Cleoohia Palmer. girl. Joseph . and Sadie E. Taslor. boy. Walter S and Martha Creek, boy William E. and Mammie Hatton. boy. James and Annie Campbell. boy. Willlam and Effie Burns, boy. Charles and Mary E. Duncan, boy. Norman and Mabel Monroe, boy. Edward and Josephine Haves, boy. Thomas and Mary Harrod, girl. Harold and Ruth Wilson, girl. the theory'ot matrix mechanics and to Dr. Bergen Davis of Columbia Univer- sity for his contributions in the field of atomic physics. Before the presentation of the awards last night, Dr. Charles G. Abbot, sec- | retary of the Smithsonian Institution, entertained at dinner at the Cosmos Club in honor of the two recipients, Chancellor Hughes, Dr: Cottrell and of- ficers of the Research Corporation, re- gent- of the Smithsonian and Assistant Secretary Wetmore, s 5 ire. Weather. | g0\ b municated that important information to the battalion commander.” When he was commissioned in the rmy Chaplain Carpentier resided at 9 M street, this cif th. 25. and Robbie Linder. 32 D’ Battle Willert. 44. Brooklyn. N. Y Brooklsn B. Traviesas va Va ey and Rev d Mary Pevton, . and Ruth E. 22 John' I Brown. 20, and Irene Carter., 20 Rev. L. H. Schi Leroy R. Stan: Florence E. Grey Poore. Eugene C. McKim. 21. Sparrows Point. Md.. and Sophic S. Lilbacka. 18, Sparrows Point Rev. A F_Poore Ge T. Lewis. 34. and Jane Lankford. 43_ Rev. George 3 Robert Harrell 31 v George Lucas Pearl K. Rosson. 40 dline M g Joseph C._Peed. 19. and Evelyn T. Reldy. 16, Rev. Edward J. Nester Samuel ‘Schapiro. 24. Balttmore. Md . and Hattie M . 22. of Baltimore Rabbi J. Rev. J Rawbrigs. 22. and Rebecca Smith W.D. Jarvis Peter C. Laugls Pa. and A G Chaconas, 21, Rev. 'John Papamcalaon Deaths }ieportea. Tmogene H. Svkes, 83, Home for Aged end Tafirm arargaret H. Duvall, 78. 1457 Park rd Georse E. Ellis 1709 Lamont st Limer C. Dant. 57. 427 Q st Harrs E° Wills, 43; 611 §th st. ne Walter T Conléy 42, Emervency Hospita! Cecil L._Meyer. 27. §t. Elizabeth's Hospital George E. Bowles, 18, National Homeopathic Hospital Lulu M. Vermillion, 10, 705 Minnesota ave. ne Hattie B. Pulliam. 64. 18 Defrees st. Bessie Waring. 46. 715 Kenvon st Dorothy G. Bell. 16, 925 E st. Joseph Henderson. 6. Children ontzomery Washington W Hospital nkin | 28. and Norma E. Powell .G, REPUBLICAN OPEN CLUB HOUS L ON T6H TRE Colorful Hous e warming Marks Formal Occupancy of Former Embassy. HOOVER REPRESENTED BY WALTER H. NEWTON Fess, Lucas, Mrs. Yost, Prescott and Others Take Part in Reception. The new cl. Capital Reput vest corner Rhode Islan the scene of a ¢ undred their friends and Among those Republicans count; sonal bhouse of ican Club, attended were pron Simeon D. Fess the Republican Robert Received by Prescott District arge Purchased Year Ago. ital Republica quarters of the s ers' Association, the | Republican State Voters Republican Women of the Young Republicans and the Hoover a | Curtis Republican Club. bership of those organizations was well represented at last night's cel JURY AND SEh.IATE PROBES OF SHORT SALES ASKED Thomas of Oklahoma Blames Dic in Security Prices on ‘‘Bear Raids.” the Associated Pres Investigation by bot tration and the Senate - selling operations on the stock ex- changes was asked vesterday by Senator Thomas, Democrat Oklahoma. He blamed the dec prices of securities “bear r t ar ket broug! stocks shor His two re: committees with ate. ~ One would F PresidentHoover General Mitchell jury to inquire i The other proposed Banking Committ gation of the extent binations have sou prices of securities Thomas said “the whether right or wrong of the fall of i viduals, - corporations panies.” MUST USE OLD TICKETS Park Palice_QUrmbleT: Adopt Trip licate Tags Until July 1. The United States Park Police will t unable to adopt the new triplicate svs- tem of parking tickets before about Jul 1, Capt. R. C. Montgomery, U. S. A., endent, explained today, pe ut that the present suppl printed tickets must first be used The park police make out their par ing tickets in duplicate, the superinter ent explained, and have alw a practice 10 follow up tie d the ticket. Collateral i: offenders at the vario: | cincts, the v District B th ions were t action to to inve: to which com- to beat down ntry believe police | Lands Bill Hearing Delayed. | The House Public Lands Committec decided yesterday to defer until Feb ruary hearings on the public lands biil | formulated by Presid=nt Hoover's cor | missfon. Chairman Evans, Montana, was instructed to confer with the Sen- ate Public Lands Committee on an ex- act date. DIARY OF ACTIVITIES IS EVIDENCE AGAINST PAIR HELD IN ROBBERIES ’Laundry and Delicatessen H old-Ups With Toy Pistol Aic Charged to Two Men. ‘Two men, alleged to be bandits and who are said to have used a toy pistol and kept a diary of their activities, were being held by police today. The pair—Donald Bowes, 21, of 921 Ninth street, and Lee Langley, 39, no permanent address—was arrested Wed- nesday by Lieut. Horace Lineburg and Detective Jess Birch, both of the first precinct. Lineburg and Birch made the arrests in Bowes’ room at the Ninth street ad- dress. After taking Bowes into cus- tody they waitd until Langley came to the room and then placed him under arrest. Both men were booked on rob- bery charges. The toy gun and the diary were found in the room. according to Line- burg. Although Bowes previously had denied parL;.?pation in any hold-ups, | the lieutenant said, he admitted two | such robberies when confronted with the diary. Bowes, according to Lineburg, ac- knowledged having held up Mrs. Rosa Hunter, manager of a Palace Laundry branch at 1845 Fourteenth street, and a delicatessen at Connecticut avenue and L street. The laundry hold-up was perpetrated Wednesday night at the height of the business rush and the other robbery the previous night Bowes’ reason for using the toy pistol. he told police, was that he “didn't want to hurt anybody.” His diary, it was said, listed the places already held up by the pair, those scheduled to be rob- bed and those visited by other ben: The victims of other hold-up men were listed, he explained, so ‘that he and his companion “wouldn't pick a ho! ! spot.” % -,