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Washington News ing Star | F Society and General —3 WAS HINGTO by, THU RSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1932. PAGE B—1 CLASSFORD DELAYS NAMING NEW HEAD OF NO. 5 PRECINCT cated by Plemmons for Time Being. THREE ARE ELIGIBLE FOR PRESENT PROMOTION Chief of Police Wants to Study Qualifications of Officers Be- fore Making Choice. ction of & successor to Capt. C. L. Plemmons of the fifth police precinct, who retires Monday, will be deferred for several wecks, it was learned today at | police headquarters | The question of filling the vacancy | to be created by retirement of Capt.| Plemmons was discussed at a orief con- | ference between Brig. Gen. Pelham D Glassford, superintendent of police, and Inspectcr L. 1. H. Edwards, personnel | officer, and the decision reached to post- | pone the appointment of a new com- manding officer. A lieutenant will be designated captain to com- | mand the precinct untii the vacancy is | filled Sel Explanation Not Given. No explanation was given for delay- | ing the appointment cf a new captain, | which would have caused promotion of several other me: a private to ser- geant and a sergeant to lieutenant. It was indicated, however, that Gen. Glass- ford, who has just returned from a two-week vacation in tHe South, desired | to examine the qualifications of m(nl eligible for promotion before making any changes Three lieutenar have been certi- fied to the Police Department by the Civil Service Commission as being eli- gible for advancement at this time.; Lie J. W. Pierson, attached to ad- trative headquarters, heads the lowed by Lieut. Richard H.| of the D ctive Bureau tav Lauten of the ninth pre- is third on the list Can Select Any of Three. ice rules, Gen. Glass- | select any one of the three succeed Capt. Plemmons. He however, indicated any pref- Under civil s ford can Discussion of the impending person- es was one of Gen. Glass- es upon his return to remained at his office only e due to the closing of the ch police headquarters \g the removal of a took to his home for of official reports | ention told friends his two- outh had benefitted | had vir- | 1e severe cold which e the trip. PRINTERS VOTE AID T0 IDLE OF CRAFT “Qut-of Work Fund” Started With | $1,000 Appropriation by | most | Washington in Cosmopolitans Honor Graham Edwin C. Graham, chairman of the District active in the Community Chest. receiving from Dr politan Club medal for the most outstanding publi 1931. The medal is awarded annually by the club J. Rozier Biggs the Cosmo- service to Washingtonians in Star Staff Photo. F. (. CRAHAM GETS SUSPECT IS FREED MEDALFORSERVICE N LSLEY URDER Pclice Decide Not to Await Analysis of Blood on Claude Furr’s Shirt. Head of Employment Com- mittee Receives Cosmo- politan Club Award. January 28—Lou- \ County authorities last night re- ! i Claude Furr, 53-year-old laborer, who had been held for several days as a suspect in connection with the killing of Mrs. Spencer Iisley and her ma Mrs. Mina_Buckner, at Mrs., Iisley’s estate at Middleburg, Va. Jantiary 13 After que: ng the man late terday, it was decided not t the report of a blood analysis con- ducted in Washington to determine | whether dried blood on Furr's shirt {was identical with samples of blood of either of the two slain women Furr was arrested Monday night by Deputy Sheriff Paul Alexander, on a warrant charging “aiding and abetting" in the two murders. His arrest lowed a story told by a colored woman that she laundered a bloodstained shirt of Furr's shortly after the murders. When_arrested, Furr is said to have told authorities he had been drinking on the t of the murders and could not remember where he had been ther questioning yesterday brought con- viction of his innocence Yesterday the prisoner's shirt and coat were sent to Washington for technical comparison of the blood on them with the blood of Mrs. Iisley and Mrs. Buckner. Dr. Oscar B. Hunter of George Washington University made the tests. Dr. Hunter's report, made this morn The Cosmopolitan Club’s _distin- guished service medal was presented at a luncheon today to Edwin C. Graham chairman of the District of Columbia Committee on Employment, for the outstanding public service ren- dered by a Washingtonian during 1931 Dr. J. Rozier Biggs, chairman of the club’s Distinguished Service Medal Committee, who made the presentation said that the committee considered Mr. Graham’s work in reorganizing the Em- ployment Committee and directing its to be the greatest civic service to Washington during the past year. Work Is Praised. “When a chairman was needed for the District of Columbia Committee on Employment last Fall,” Dr. Biggs de- clared, “this man was asked to assume the task, and the manner in which he reorganized that committee, started it to functioning almost 100 per cent from the start and has kept it going toward greater and better heights. constitutes, in the minds of the committee, the most outstanding public service to 1931.” Mr. Graham's work for munity Chest was also cited. Mr. Graham is chairman of the Ad- visory Committee on Co-ordination of Recreation for the District of Columbia. a member of the Council of Social Agencies, the Hygiene Society of the District, the Washington Institute for Mental Hygiene, director of the Amer- the Com- Columbia Union. ters out of work in Wash- | e provided for in an “out- | created yesterday by a| { the Columbia Typo- No. 101 be kept ingtor of-work referendum vote al Union, fund, to monthly upon W solvent by a | sessment of 70 cents each | members, was started | ion of $1,000 from | ] nd. It will be dis- | bursed by a Special Relief Committee, | which will have power to determine | need for relief and to draw up further ations for the distribution. ~The | ution was adopted by a vote of 1,063 | union's general Te to 791 Members having no income, but hav- ing dependen may receive not to ex- ceed $20 a week, and members with no income and no dependents may re- ceive up to $15 a week. No member who affiliated with Columbia Union after December 15 is eligible to receive benefits he fund is created for four months, | the end of which time it is believed itions will have been alleviated so that it is no longer necessary. Last year similar steps were taken, but | it was found at the end of about 13 weeks (he fund Was no longer necessary. | MASTER 1932 MEDAL | T0 BE STRUCK FEB. 4 at Platinum Bicentennial Disk Will | Be Made in Presence of Talkie [ Cameras at Mint. Attended by appropriate ceremony, ! the master medal of the official George | Washington Bicentennial Medal to be | issued by the Government, will be; struck in platinum at the United ates Mint in Philadelphia February 4, it was announced today by the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission. i For the first time in the history of of the mint, talking moving pictures will be made within its walls by news- reel concerns, showing the actual striking of the first medal The pla“-‘ n medal, probably will be presented President Hoover According to officials of the com- mission, the material for this master medal is being secured by the Gov- ernment_at exceptionally low cost, be- cause of the patriotic nature of the medal’s purpose. The medal will be more than 3 inches in diameter, and was designed by Mrs. Laura Gardin Fraser, New York sculptress, whose de- sign was accepted by the ‘Government in a competition Several medals of the same design | but of cheaper medals will be struck | at a later date, to be given as prizes | in national essay and oratory contests in the schools of the country under | sponsorship of the commission. The ceremony February 4 will be attended by Mrs Fraser director. of the Mint, Robert J. Grant and repre- sentatives of the Bicentennial Com- mission here. to Licensed to Marry. FAIRFAX, Va, January 28 (Spe- cial).—A marriage license was issued here to Ernest C. Johnson, 23, Sand-I stone, Va., and Sarah Frances Pierce, 23, West Falls Church, Va, | mess ing, showed the blood stains on Furr's clothing were of the socalled Type 2 This is the same as Furr's blood, and also is identical with that of the two women Furr, a res was held at th suspected co was investig D. C. Sands trator of M ferred with Wa quested them callipg for t ford, colored these be sent country. ican Civic_Association, director of the National Capital Civic Fund, member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trade and of the George Washington Bicentennial Commission and has been prominent in numerous other civic enterprises. He also is a former president of the Washington Board of Trade. Stresses Work of Clubs. Replying to Dr. Biggs, Mr. Graham lauded the part played by service clubs in the community and stressed their particular importance in Washington, where the people are without franchise. Judge M. M. Doyle, president of the International Federation of Cosmopoli- tan Clubs, addressed the meeting, which |~ was held in the Cariton Hotel. William | recognition L. King, president of the Washington |through his r Cosmopolitan Club, presided. | last year the The presentation of the medals to|Theodore W. Mr. Graham marked the third succes-| for efforts towa sive year of the award. In 1929 the | representation f medal went to Martin A. Leese in trict. BUDDIES RECALL “SPOON WAk” IN SURPRISE RECONCILIATION nt of Mour sville, Va, Leesburg jail while his ction with the murders ed Middleburg, adminis- Iisley's estate, has con- hington police and re- ) print 25,000 circulars arrest of George Craw- suspect. He asked that to all sections of the of civic serice rendered o station WMAL, and dal was awarded to es, editor of The Star, d securing national citizens of the Dis- 1918 Incident Near Paris Regarded by Police Lieutenant and Reporter as One Big Phase of World Conflict. When Lieut. John Fowler, the Po- you horse meat and potatoes, though. lice Department's gun expert, and I was a corporal in charge of the mess.” Willlam George Pollard, assigned to| “Ha, ha" laughed Fowler, “T'll never the police headquarters by The Star, |forget' the time I stole a corporal’s discovered yester- | spoon when he captain ordered him day they fought | out one day.” in the same war, Discovered at Last. “L‘S‘Z,’,’C"f ;n;;\y:L “Oh, you did, did you,” said Pollard, after all, it was a | Straightening up in his chair. “Well, pretty big war. I was that corporal reoer “pol. | Pollard and Fowler, it seemed, had lard . noticing _ a | fought in_the et or e o ey | private war which started shortly after ot A owiers | the mess corporal returned to find O I scawered | Nimself incapacitated by the loss of his they fought in the | PUES spoon. same division—the | _They had settled it on the parade ground outside and later shook hands. 20th. ) o £ “That was the toughest battle.I ran Lstacah,” sighed | into in that war,” admitted Pollard, he&;q‘;’am‘r‘s press | . Yes." agreed’ Fowler, rubbing his headquarters Press | chin reflectively, “it was some war.” W. G. pollara, 8bout 40,000 other Sa guys.” Then Pollard and Fowler discovered EX-UNION 0FFIC|AL }hey were stationed at Fort Vincennes, | lust outside of Paris, on detached duty which included, among_other lhings‘ AGAIN |S lNchTED the chaperonage of mules and horses | { to the front. | i Good Place to Eat. |Dave Evans Is Accused of Embez- “I was there in : 2 et B & | 2ling $33,184 of Operating 1918, said Pollard, | Engineers’ Jooing hae i | gineers’ Funds. Fowler, “I asked | == for duly there be- | cause they fed so well. The District grand ju rein- dicted Dave Evans, lormr?o:%’g;yol the | International Union of Operating En- | gineers, on charges of embezzling $33,- 1 184.10 of the union’s funds. The indictment, which 1s in 12 counts, | charges Evans with embezzling amounts ranging from $100 to $4,765, on vari- ous occgsions, from September 26, 1929, to March 13, 1931. Evans was indicted on the same charge several months ago, but United States Attorney Leo A. Rover said that indictment probably will be nolle prossed. Thirty-seven other indictments were returned by the grand jury in its regu- Justice F. D. Letts, t was a good all right” agreed Fowler, re- garding Pollard with a puzzled frown, “but they sent me there. 1 was a private then and back in my artillery outfit I couldn’t explain how I happened to have so many chickens to go with my potatoes.” “Yes,” said Pollard. “They sure fed | lar report to Lieut. Fowler. ployment Committee, and | e wait” for ! fol- | Fur- | ATOMS ABOUT SUN NOW COUNTED BY STUDY OF SPECTRA Dr. Russell of Princeton Tells Smithsonian Audience How Elements Are Defined. LECTURE IS FIRST IN ARTHUR SERIES Opacity of Earth's Atmosphere Hinders Science's Discovery of Missing Traces. Counting atoms in the atmosphere of the sun, 92,000,000 miles away, now is possible, it was announced here last night by Dr. Henry Norris Russell of | Princeton University, who delievercd the first Arthur lecture under auspices | of the Smithsonian Institution. Thus, he said, the amount of any given element there now can be com- puted by interpretation of the solar | spectrum. In the past, this has revealed | to agtronomers what elements were con- | taifi in the atmospheres of the sun | | and®btars. Now it is possible to deter- | | mine the correct proportions y | “Atomic theory,” Prof. Russell said, | “enables us to predict how wide a line would be produced by a given number of atoms, per unit_area of surface, in the atmosphere. In this way it ap- pears that the very strongest lines in the solar spectrum, the H and K lines |in the violet due to lonized calcium, | are produced by an amount of material | comparable to a layer of ordinary air | one-third of an inch thick. The same was proved in principle 50 years ago by Sir Norman Lockyer, who showed by direct experiment that a Bunsen flame {one inch thick containing a small |amount of sodium vapor produced ! stronger absorption lines of sodium | | than the whole atmosphere of the sun Theoretical Relations. “For the fainter lines we may utilize certain theoretical lations between the intensities of lines belonging to groups, called multiplets, of which many houndreds appear in the solar | spectrum. ‘Thus it is found that the faintest visible lines demand only about one twenty-millionth as many atoms for their production as the strongest. | “By adding up the number of atoms | which absorb the various lines of & given element, we can get an idea of the total amount of this element in the 's atmosphere. It is found that the | s atmosphere must consist mainly hydrogen—for its lines are among strongest, although they are ab- | sorbed only by atoms so highly excited that at the sun’s temperature not more | than one hydrogen atom in 10 millions | should be in this state. The permanent | gasses, oxygen and probably helium. | e next in abundance. Vapors of the | metals make up something like 1 per cent of the atmosphere by volume. S elements, magnesium, iron, _silico: | sodium, potassium &nd cal | up 95 per cent of the metals and six | more account for nine-tenths of the | rest In gen sun’s_oute of the al, the composition of the r layers is strikingly similar | |10 the averaj composition of the ! earth’s crust, ‘and still more like a| mixture of terfestial rocks and meteo- | | rites. Why certain elements should be | abundant and others rare is a problem | | whose solution may lead us far into | the atomic physics of the future and | give a clue to the evolution of atoms | | themselves.” Sixty-two Elements Identified. | | Study of the soler spectrum, Prof.| { Russell said, now has led to the identi- | fication in the sun of 62 of the elements | and about a doz:n chemical compounds ““For some elexr&nts such as iron or | magnesium,” he said, “practically all} | the lines which can be produced in the | | laboratory are found in the sun. For | others, such as copper, only the stronger nes appear, and for still others, such | as silver, only the very strongest lines show up in the sun and these are faint | Some similar elements, such as phos- phorus, chlorine and neon, do not ap- pear in the sun at all, The chief rea- son for this is tha we can observe but a part of the solar spectrum., We are | cut off in the ultra-violet by the opacity of the earth'’s atmosphere, due to ozone in the upper layers, and in the infra- red by the absence of photographic ef- fect—which gradually is being remedied by the invention of new sensitizing dyes. | Many of the missing elements have their strongest lines in the ultra-violet and we cannot get at them. “A given element may produce dif- ferent spectra under different condi- tions. When isolated atoms are present we get the arc spectrum. When these atoms are jonized, by the removal of an electron from each, they give an en- tirely different set of lines known as! the spark spectrum. When the atoms combine with one another to form com- | pounds, each compound has a spectrum | of i.s own. Effects on Heat. “The sun is so hot that most com- pounds are decomposed in its atmos- phere and the few which resist are present only in small amounts—yet more than a dozen compounds have been identified. Two of these—oxide of boron and fluoride of silicon—reveal the presence of elements which would otherwise be missed because their strong lines are out of reach in the ultra-violet. In the sunspots, which are cooler than the rest of the surface, | compounds appear which are com- pletely dissociated over the hotter parts of the disk “In a similar fashion the atoms them- selves are jonized, under the influence of high temperature and low pressure. Tonization is less above the spots than elsewhere, so that the arc lines are stronger there and the spark lines weak- er. There are three elements, lithium, rubidium and indium, whose lines show only in the sun spot spectrum. At the higher temperatures of the disk they are complately fonized and their strong spark lines are out of reach “Recent advances in the theory of the spectra have informed us just what change happens in an atom when any particular spectral line is absorbed. Some lines are absorbed by atoms in their normal states, others only by atoms which have been “excited” or loaded with energy. The proportion of such excited atoms increases steadily with the temperature. When allow- ance is made for this, and for the different degrees of jonization of differ- ent elements. the behavior of many hundreds of lines which alter in inten- citv in the sun-spot spectrum can be fully explained. PORTRAIT IS HUNG The official portrait of the late speaker Longworth today was hung in the gallery of portraits of former Speakers in the Speakers' Lobby in the rear of the House chamber. The plate on the picture is lettered as follows: “Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, Sixty- ninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first Con- gresses, 1925-1931, by Robert Doblhoff.” Plenty of Fish for the Ball THE AIR WILL BE FULL OF THEM. TRACTION MERGER ALAN UNOPPOSED AT HOUSE HEARING Only Three Witnesses Heard by Subcommittee and All Favor Measure. LARGE CROWD ATTENDS AND OVERFLOWS ROOM Valuation, to Fix Street Car Fare, Expected to Be Ready by March 1. No opposition to the bill sponsored by | the Public Utilities Com low a merger of Washing | hearing held by street car systems was expressed the uti | mittee of the House D: | tee last night LIFFORD K. BERRYMAN, vice chairman of the Decoration Commiitee for the Bal Boheme, to be held at the New Willard, February 8, is “catching” scores of fish with his pencil out of a sea of cardboard. Members of the committee are applying paint brushes, and when the ball is held the air will be full of fish, hanging from the ceiling and swimming in every direction. STODFINE IS URGED FOR HICKS GUARD Officer Held Guilty of Neglect| of Duty in Escape From | Gallinger. The Police Trial Board recommended yesterday that Pvt. W. T. Murphy. ninth precinct, be fined $100 for “gross neglect of duty” in allowing George E. Hicks, “jimmy” theft suspect, to escape from Gallinger Hospital several weeks ago. Murphy was assigned to guard | Hicks when the escape was effected. Testimony _indicated Murphy left Hicks for only a few minutes, during which time the prisoner donned a bath- robe over his pajamas and fled. Hicks was being treated for an injury received when he leaped from the second-story window of a police station. He subsequently was apprehended in an apartment house after the suspicions of tenants were aroused. He Was pres- ent at the trial yesterday. Policeman Cline Exonerated. Charges of striking a colored woman and of making an_untruthful statement to a superior officer, placed against Policeman Luther Cline, third precinct, were dismisscd by the board The colored woman, Georgia Lance, who lives in an apartment in the vicin- ity of Nineteenth and L streets, testi- fied the officer slapped her when he entered her apartment at 2 o'clock in the morning to assist in settling a diffi- culty between Cline’s brother and the woman’s husband Other witnesses, however, _testified Cline did not even enter the apart- ment house, but arrested the Lance woman when she ran to the strect part- ly clothed | Third Case Continued. | The charge of untruthfulness was based on Cline's statement to Capt. Ed- ward J. Kelly, third precinct, that he | had not entered the apartment house. The board, however, found his state- ment was correct | The board yesterday also heard testi- | mony relative to charges of conduct | unbecoming an_officer against Police- men R. A. Williams and C. P. Flynn, | third inspection district vice squad. The case was continued for & week because of the absence of important witnesses. | The accusations grew out of a party | the officers are said to have attended | last Summer at & camp near the Poto- mac River. Inspector O. T. Davis presided at the | hearings yesterday. Other members of | the board were Capts. Michael Collins and Jeremiah Sullivan. Assistant Cor- | poration Counsel Chester Gray prose- cuted the cases. BILL SEEKS CONTROL Measure That Failed to Get Through House Is Reintroduced by Blaine. The bill to regulate the sale of se- curities in Washington, which passed the Senate in the last Congress, but failed to get through the House, was re- introduced today by Senator Blaine, Re- publican. Wisconsin, in substantially the same form The bill makes the Public Utilities Commission the agency to regulate se- curities and sets forth in detail the manner in which it shall be done. It was referred to the District Committee. This was one of several bills drafted by the subcommittee, headed by Senator Blaine, the others including the licens- ing of real estate brokers and salesmen and regulation of the foreclosing of mortgages. No time has been fixed for consideration of these bills in com- mittee. GRADUATING STUDENTS TO BE PARTY GUESTS Parent-Teacher Association of Stuart Junior High to Be Hosts. Members of the Parent-Teachers’ Association of Stuart Junior High School will entertain the 99 graduates of the school at a party and dance after graduating exercises tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Certificates of graduation will be pre- sented by Harry O. Hine of the Board of Education. Arrangements for the exercises are in charge of Mrs. L. B. Berryman, teacher at the school. Mrs. T. Bertolini is chairman of the Parent- Teacher Committee, arranging the party and dance. Miss Josephine Bertolini, daughter of the chairman, is valedictorian of the class; Edward Davis leads the boys of | the District were in attendance. the class in rank. Claude Schwartz is principal of Stuart Junior High. Heads 1. 0. O. F. | | | | THOMAS C. METTLER. METTLER ELECTED TOHEAD10.0.F, Becomes 101st Grand Mas- ter at District Session Attended by 600. Unanimously chosen grand master of the Odd Fellows in the District at the annual session of the Grand Lodge last night, Thomas C. Mettler, a mem- ber of Langdon Lodge, No. 26, I O. O. F., becomes the 101st grand master of the organization here Other Officers Named. Other officers elected were Morris L. Dreeben, deputy grand master; Charles B. Lampe, grand warden; Harry L. Andresen, grand secretary, re-elected for the ninth term; James E. Cham- berlain, grand treasurer, named for his ilhird term, and J. Burton Kincer, past grand master, elected as representative to the I O. O. F. Home Association for a term of three years. Mr. Chamber- lain also was named a member of the board of trustees of the I O. O. F. Temple, and W. W. Millan was re- elected grand representative to the Sovereign Grand Lodge for his twelfth term. Mr. Mettler’s election marked a ses- |slon at which more than 600 repre- sentatives and past grand masters of He is assistant to the superintendent to the Pathfinder Publishing Co.. and lives at 2941 Mills avenue northeast. He is a native of Pennsylvania. Grand Lodge to Reconvene. Mr. Mettler is a member of Magenenu Encampment, No. 4. Canton Washing- ton, No. 1, of the Patriarchs Militant, and of Fidelity Rebekah Lodge, No. 7, as well as the Junior Order of Amer- ican Mechanics and the A. M. O. S.| His wife, Mrs. Nettie R. Mettler, also a worker in the Rebekah branch of the order. The Grand Lodge will reconvene at the I O. O. F. Temple at 8 o'clock tonight. U S, RESTS CASE IN'POLICE TRIAL Prosecutor Repeats Charges of Beating by Bremmer- man and Clark. Charges that Policemen Charl: Bremmerman and Hollis H. Clark di erately subjected a group of prisoners to inhuman treatment as the “easiest way” of clearing up a batch of pending cases were made by the Gov- ernment today in its closing arguments at the trial of the two officers for al- leged “third-degree” methods. Justice F. D. Letts, it was said. tends to keep court in session until 1a today so that the jury might retire to consider the assault charges on which the two policemen have be tried for the last three weeks Attacks Bremerman. Assistant United States Attorney Wil- liam A. Gallagher centered his attack on Bremmerman as the leader in the al- | leged assault on Thomas McKeever Williams, 17-year-old colored uth, who, the Government claims, fell un conscious from a blow at Bremmerman hands. “This indictment is not against all the police of Washington,” Mr. Gal- lagher said. “Not every policeman would act as Bremmerman did or as Clark did in_standing by or taking a part.” The Government attorney attacked in- the truthfulness of much of the testi-| mony given by the two defendants and otlier police witnesses and sought to | show from the conflicting evidence be- fore the jury that the seven or eight colored boys were as consistent, in their testimony as were the police. | Attacks Alibi. Gallagher attacked also the “alibi established by Clark on one occasion by repeating testimony of other wit- nesses Mr. Gallagher stressed evidence tend- ing to show the officers were worried about the Department of igation into third-degree d had warned witnesses, whom they | thought under obligation {p them. not | to reveal anything about "their treat- ment The two policemen are charged sepa- rately in \hree counts each in an in- | dictment alleging they used a “danger- ous weapou” in the assault on Wil- liams. This weapon was either a stick | contends, although blackjacks also fig- | ured in the testimony given during the | trial. MRS. HOOVER WILL PLANT ELM TREE AT G. W. U. | Formal Acceptance Will Be Made by Dr. Marvin at Ceremony Tomorrow. Mrs. Herbert Hoover will plant an elm tree, the Bicentennial gift of the | Elmira College Club to George Wash- |ington University. on the university grounds tomorrow. Mrs. Hoover is an honorary member of the club. Mrs. Clinton O. Ward, the club presi- dent, will be in charge of the tree- planting ceremony, and formal ac- ceptance will be made by Dr. Cloyd \H‘eck Marvin, president of the univer- sity. Seymour Lowman, Assistant Secre- | tary of the Treasury and a trustee of Elmira College, will participate, as will Miss Esther E. Hart, a charter member of the club, and Miss Cynthia A | Crocker, its youngest member. CHICAGO COUPLE DANCING 1,328 HOURS WINS CAPITAL MARATHON Pat Stapleton and Harriett Fornell Take 55-Day Contest as Rival Pair Slumps—First Prize $1,500. Pat Stapleton, 24, and his 22-year- old partner, Miss Harriet Fornell, both of Chicago, who have slept on their feet- and shuffied and staggered about an inclosure in th: Washington Audi- torium basement for the greater part of the last two months, were hailed “dance marathon champions” of Wash- ington at 4:55 this morning with the collapse of a rival couple. ‘The limp form of Joe Wick, 31, dimin- utive flagpole sitter, of St. Louis, had slipped a moment previously from the supporting arms of his partner, Miss Marge Kovac, 21, of Bayonne, N. J., who could no longer summon the strength to hold him upright. While a few attendants and scattered hangers-on of the large throngs which have attended the contest nightly raised a cheer, Miss Kovac sought to tug the prostrate dancer to his feet and, failing, collapsed at his side. An official eliminated Wick with the count of five, commenced when his body slumped to the floor, thus disquali- fying the team and deciding the “championship.” The couple to win third place—Isral Kremer, 24, of Toledo, Ohio, and Miss Rita Cordeau, 22, of Washington— dropped out Tuesday morning. The couples, chained together at their wrists, had lurched and tottered blindly | about the inclosure, going “squirrelly” at intervals since the management cut down on their rest periods Friday night. The contest was officially closed after it had been in progress 1,328 hours or something over 55 days. At the first the dancers were allowed 15-minute rest periods hourly, but these periods were shortened in the final stages. For the 24 hours prior to last mid- night, spectators said, the two couples had been allowed but 24 minutes rest. Dr. Louis P. Levitt of Washington, chief of the medical staff, declared none of the contestants had suffered any “permanent” ill effects from the long grind. He said theirs was a “normal” reaction to fatigue, and nothing had developed which a few days of rest could not remedy. ’ It was said the winning couple would receive $1,500, with $500 and $250 going to second and third couples and a “con- solation” prize for the fourth. or a policeman’s billy, the Government | | _Only three witnesses | They were Chairman Maso | of the commission | lam F. Ham of tr | way & Electric Co. of the Capital Trac | the bill | Chairman Black of | asked to hear from ar | the bill. There w | ent; so large, moved from the committee roon caucus room | flowed. Nobody aros: | Mr. Black seemed | peated his invitation so he adjourned to the to oppos: he b Will Wait One Week. he told aper i to wait a week and t | opposition develops | bill favorably to | Committee | The bill was exp committee by Gen. Patr 3 asked a few questions, but th do principally phrasing of t Later plann merged company cc | the “start, the aggregate the merging companies. but lat securities could be | of the commission | The bill excuses from payment of th | ing policemen and the cost the tracks. It does r | reduced fare, although the f | fixed the 8-cent fare for a m ot exceed, sec - | two years. | s i Valuation Under Way. | Gen. Patrick expla | sion by saying a.valua | the valuation, whi | and ready for hea | He said the m | anybody out of employment, but, or | contrary, new work expected to | dered by the commission & | changing tracks and the | would give added emp! Among those in | william McK. Clayt Federation of Citiz | Brice Clagett, a m, lawyers which repi like probably Transit Co. of the North owner of Railway & Electric Co. |~ Several members of the staffs of !1ocal operating companies | federation also attended the meeting Wil jority ngton 'MYSTERY CLEARED IN TRAFFIC DEATH Man Who Died of Injuries After Arrest Identified as Penn- sylvanian. | SEHG L | Mystery surrounding the identity of | the man who died of a fractured skull early Monday after being held at the { first precinct police station on an in- toxication charge for more than 24 | hours was dissipated today, when finger | prints on file here since 1917 revealed he was Charles E. Llescavage of New Philadelphia, Pa Arrested last Friday as williams, 38, of Pottsville, Pa, the was locked up until the following when his condition was called to the attention of Capt. William E. Holmes, commander of first precinct po= lice. Noticing a scar on the back of the man’s head, Capt. Holmes ordered him removed to Gallinger Hospital, where an X-ray examination revealed he was suffering from a fractured skull. He cied the next morning. Investigation refealed the man was struck by an automobile on January 19, a few days after his release from the District Work House, at Occoquan, Va., where he had served a term for drunk- enness. He was treated at Casualty Hospital but gave his name as Charles E. Glea- son. Following his death the driver of the car which hit him—Walter R Ellis, 30, of Cheltenham, Md.—was ex- onerated by a coroner’s jury. While his body lay unclaimed in the morgue, his fingerprints were taken for comparison with those on file at va- rious identification bureaus. His original prints were found to bave been taken in 1917, when he en- listed in the artillery at Columbus, Ohio, for service in the World War. After communicating with the dead man's father, Simon Llescavage, at his home in New Philadelphia, officials of the Veterans' Bureau announced they would take charge of his funeral Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery. DISABLED AUTO YIELDS LIQUOR, TWO MEN SEIZED Officer Reports Discovery of 167 Half-Gallons in Car Under- Charles E. going Repairs. Two men were arrested by Traffic Officer J. E. Bennett last night when, the officer reported, he found a disabled automobile which they were having re- paired contained 167 half-gallons of whisky. Car and cargo were confiscated. The men identified themselves as Richard Robinson, 22, of the first block of G street southwest, and Leon Addi- son, 35, of the second block of H street southeast. Officer Bennett noticed the car parked at Third and H streets. A new coupe was confiscated yester- day and the driver arrested on a charge of illegal possession after the man allegedly delivered half a gallon of alco- hol to Sergt. R. C. Spieth, third inspec- tion district liquor squad. The man said he was George Harkins, 27, of the 100 block of Twelfth street. He was re- leased under $500 bond.