Evening Star Newspaper, July 23, 1932, Page 12

A2 #» MOVE TO INSURE [ COVERANENT B BY NEW RERSTER Workers Furloughed for Six Months Would Be First in Line for Positions. COMMISSION TO TAKE CLASSIFICATION WORK Centralization Is Aim in Consoli- dation of Agencies Handling Employes. In an effort to provide employment for Government workers who may be furloughed under the economy act, for six months or more, under the economy act, the Civil Service Commission has set up a new “re-employment register.” under direction of Gov. Thomas E. Campbell, president of the commission, and chairman of the Council on Per- sonnel Administration. i yes connot be placed on this unless they have been fur- d by a_dcpartment for at least Gov. Campbell explained, when such action is taken then THE EVENING STAR, \\"\SI‘II.\’GTOI\ D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1932. CRETARY-WIFE PLAN HOLDS ITS POPULARITY IN CONGRESS More Than Dozen Members Adopt Plan in One Variation or Another With Success. career here, changing her name, how- ever, from Elsie Webster Fay to Mrs. Schafer. Other Instances Cited. Comment of this nature regarding the| Other legislators who have made their more than 12 members who have adopt- | secretaries wives, but kept them as sec- ed the secretary-wife combination fol- | retaries, too, are Representative Dowell, 1o the announcement yesterday of Republican, of Iowa, and Representa- the marriage Tussday in New York of | tive Christgau, Republican, of Minne- Representative Samuel Dickstein, Demo- | sota. crat, of New York, to his secretary, Miss | _ Representative ~Kvale, the only Esele Tevers. Farmer-Laborite in the House, pre- From the Speaker of the House on | served his record for originality by mar- down to some of the latest recruits to ' rying another Representative's secre- the roll call the secretary-wife combina- | tary. Representative Bland, Democrat, tion has been a winner. | of 'Virginia, the loser in this transac- Sometimes they make secretaries of | tion, bicame so discouraged he took a Neatly-typed letters apparently pnve{ the way to the congressional heart, much in the fashion of toothsome cook- el their wives, sometimes they make wives | man to run his office. of their secretaries and sometimes they | marry their secretaries and keep them, too. Garner Heads List. Speaker Garner and Floor Leader | Rainey stand at the head of a long list who are happy in having made secre- taries of their wives. That busy insurgent, Representative La Guardia, Republican, of New York, Jeads those who have made wives of their secretaries. Among others on that list are Senator La Follette, Re- publican, of Wisconsin; Representative Huddleston, Democrat, of Alabama: Representative Boland, Democrat. of Pennsylvania, and Representative Mur- phy. Republican, of Ohio. y Representative Schafer, Republican, of Wisconsin, conspicuous as an anti- prohibitionist, has had the aid of the same efficlent secretary throughout his Representative Dickstein’s wedding to Miss Tevers, his secretary for the last 10 years, took place in the study of | Rabbi Stephen S. Wise last Tuesday. Since then the couple have been stay- | ing at the New York home of the Rep- | resentative. They will sail next week on the Bremen for a six-week tour of ‘Eumpe. ‘The bride is the daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Max Tevers of Brooklyn, and is | some years the junior of her husband, | who is 47. They met when Mr. Dick- |steln made nis first campaign for Con- gress after representing the fourth | Assembly district for four years in the [New York Assembly. As his secretary she has assisted the Representative in | social welfare work on the lower east | side, in New York. He is a member of many Jewish welfare and religious or- ganizations as well as civic and social ies of that city. they will be in line for positions which can be filled only by directicn of the President. Under the economy vacancies is prohibited. special appointment by the President, on recommendation of the director of the Bureau of the Budget, or under other specific Tequirements named in the act. Transfer Is Planned. Workers who may be furloughed for less than six months would go back on iheir own roils if the department found work for them, Gov. Campbell ex- lained. Meantime the Civil Service Commis- sion is laying plans to take over the duties of the Personnel Classification Board on October 1, as authorized by the economy act. Details of this trensfer have not all been worked cut, it was learned, but plans are being discussed, and the gen- eral problems of consolidating the work of the Personnel Classification Board with the commission are being carefully studied. 2 Centralization Is Aim. Some perscnnel of the board may be absorbed by the commission, it is under- stood, but probably not all of it. The | Personnel Cla: ation Board consists | of the director of the Bureau of the Budget, the chief of the Bureau o_tl1 Efficiency and the president of the Civil Service Commission, and is actively ad- ministered by a director of classifica- tion. Under the economy act all work of | the board will be placed under the | commission as a further move looking | toward a centralization of organizations | handling personnel matters. This move- ment has already been carried forward through the President'’s Council on Personnel Administration, consisting of the cabinet officers and heads of im- portant independent establishments, with Gov. Campbell as chairman. Many personnel matters clear through the council now. act filling of except by BOYS’ REGIMENT TO RECEIVE COLORS Department Commander Fraser of Legion to Officiate at Train- ing Schoel. Department Comdr. F. G. Froser of the American Legion was to jresent regimental colors to the boys’ re: of the National Training School for Boys, Rhode Island avenue and Evarts et northeast this afternoon. The cremonies were to start at 2 o'clock with a ball game between the Bunker Hill American Legion and the Training School. Nick Altrock was to umpire. e President Curtis, who had been cheduled to speak, sent his regrets at being unable to be present. There was 1o be a battalion parade. and the speak- ers included D. J. Callahan, member of the board of trustees; James F. Kehoe of the American Legion, Judge Robert E. Mattingly, Isaac Gans and Col. Claude D. Jones, superintendent. Mr. Kehoe is general chairman. i | THREE COLORED MEN DIiE BY DROWNING One Loses Life in Attempt to Rescue Four-Year- 01d Son. Three colored men were drowned here within the past 24 hours. Linton Edmonds, 23, lost his life in Rock Creek yesterday afternoon when he went to the rescue of his 4-year-old son. who had become stranded on a sandbar while wading under the P reet Bridge. and stepped into deep water. The fire rescue squad was sum- moned but could not revive the man. The body was removed to the morgue. The second colored man drowned wi Atwater. 35, of the 2300 block of Virginia avenue, who fell from & harf into the river. His tody was re- covered by the rescue squad. The third drowning was that of an unidentified man, who early today fell off the Washington Gas Light Co.’s pumping station wharf in the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway. The body was removed to the morgue. TWO HURT IN CRASH Mctorman and Passenger Injured as Street Car and Truck Bump. Lurty C. Hauff, 26. of the 2600 block | of Fourth street southeast, motorman on a one-man street car, and a colored womsn passenger were injured early oday when the car and a motor truck ler crashed in the 2600 block s avenue southeast. Hauff received minor cuts and bruises. ‘The woman, Josephine Smith, 50, cf the 2800 block of Sheridan road southeast, Teceived bruises to the leg. but refused hospital treatment, according to police. ' The truck and street car were badly damaged. Castor Green, 37, colored, of the 1000 block of T street, was the driver of the truck, police say. ROOMS OF THREE ROBBED Cash, Watches and a Razor Taken From 16th Street Address. ‘More than $100 in cash, watches and 2 razor were reported stolen from three men rooming in a building in the 900 block of Sixteenth street. Arthur M. Swenson reported $26 in cash, a watch and razor were taken; Tommy Ragusa reported $25 in cash taken, and John E. Thomas $3 in cash taken. Joseph Marks said his room I‘ns ransacked, but nothing was miss- ng. 7 IDR. MARVIN DENIE SHAKE-UP AT G. W. No Medical School Changes Made Beyond Previous Policy Announcement. Reports of wholesale resignations and dismissals on the staff of George Wash- ington University Medical School were denied today by Dr. Cloyd Heck Mar- vin, president of the university. He said the only change in the policy of the school has been the previously de- clared program of expansion to include more emphasis on research work. Three members of the faculty volun- tarily resigned at the close of the term, Dr. Marvin said, and the resignations of three others were requested. The published report said 70 members of the faculty would complete their work this year because they objected to a proposal to ask $2,000,000 of the Rockefeller Foundation this Fall for the purpose of placing additional emphasis n_research work. Dr. Marvin denied the school had asked or expected to ask the foundation for any money. The school, Dr. Mar- vin said, has appropriated $150.000 of its own funds to add to the medical laboratories and materials. He said it will be the school’s policy to strengthen rather than curtail the regular teach- ing program through inclusion of more research work. It was decided, Dr. Marvin explained. to place every member of the staff on a salary or an honorarium basis and as a consequence some of the annual ap- pointments on an honorary basis were not made this year. ARMED BANDITS BIND FILLING STATION MAN Attendant Trussed Up as Pair Takes $10—Taxi Driver Slugged With Bottle. Two armed bandits, who left their victim securely bound. escaped with $10 early today after robbing a filling sta- tion at Fourteenth and Buchanan streets. The two men entered the station shortly after midnight. At the point of a pistol, they forced Lester George Barnes of Silver Spring. the attendant, into a rear room and bound him be- fore robbing the cash register. Elwood Austin, colored cab driver, was struck over the head with a bot- tle early today when he told a colored fare who attempted to hold him up that he had no money. The hold-up man escaped with more than $10 after the assault, Austin told police. Austin was treated at Homeopathic Hospital. ROOSEVELT WILL HEAD PARTY IN ENTIRET Senator McKellar Peclares Presi- dential Candidate Not In- volved in Factions. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt, if elected President, would represent the entire Democratic party, not any one branch, Senator McKellar, Democrat, of Ten- nessee, said in a statement last night. McKellar said he had received a let- ter from “a prominent Republican Wall Street banker” asking whether Roose- velt would become affiliated with the “Young, Ritchie. Baker, Baruch, Glass wing of the Democratic party, or the Hearst, McAdoo, Long contingent.” “I answer unhesitatingly, he is not to become affiliated with any one branch of the Democratic party,” McKellar said “He is going to be the head of the whole party, and he is not geing to be controlled by any branch of the party or any faction in the party. A. 1. SARDO IS ELECTED HEAD OF K. OF C. BODY Other Officers Are Named by Washington Chapter—Conven- tion to Be Radio Subject. Albert J. Sardo was elected chairman of Washington Chapter of the Knights of Columbus at a meeting last night in Knights of Columbus Hall. John M. Tabler was chosen vice chairman, PFrank J. Haske recretary, Dr. John O'Donnell treasurer, Daniel Healy war- den and Rev. Edward H. Roach chap- lain. The chapter is an executive body composed of representatives from each of the five Washington councils. It controls all special events sponsored by the main organization. Tonight at 6:45 o'clock, P. Michael Cook, general chairman of the Commit- tee on Arrangements for the K. of C. golden anniversary convention here Au- gust 14-18, will discuss convention plans over WMAL. BUS TERMINAL MOVED Lincoln Lines, 11th and Avenue, | Now at Annapolis Hotel. The Lincoln bus lines moved their terminal from Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue yesterday to the Annapolis Hotel bus terminal. Other bus companies operating_from the terminal are the Washington Rapid Transit Co, line from Washington to Baltimore, the W., M. & A. motor lines into Southern Maryland and the Wash- -Luray line, ;Tags Curtis’ Auto Found Parked in Restricted Zone | | | Policeman Gives Vice President and Italian Official Tickets | | Vice President Curtis’ automobile was | tagged last night by Policeman C. E. Hansboro of the Traffic Bureau for al- leged violation of trafic regulations | while parked in the 1300 block of F| street. At the same time the same | cfficers placed a ticket on the car of Count Guido Roncalli ¢i Montorio, first secretary of the Italian embassy. The Vice President’s car was said by Hansboro to have been parked in a restricted zone, while the diplomat's automobile was tagged allegedly for dis- obeying an official sign. ‘Asked about the matter at the Capi- tol today, Mr. Curtis said he told his chauffeur to see the authorities about it “just like any other man.” The Vice President said he knew little of the! matter, but understood the car had been parked where police in the past have said it should be. The Vice Presi- dent was attending a show at an F street theater in company with Mr. and Edward E. Gann. was stated at the Italian embassy today that Count Guido Roncalli di Montorio was not present when the car | was tagged. The car, it was pointed cut, bears the license number which has diplomatic immunity. | | | | VIRGINAN FREED - INGASOLINE CASE 'Judge Holds Tank Was Part | of Car—D. C. Man Fined on Similar Charge. c ondent of The Star. NGTON COUNTY COURT HOUS July 23—The first case by the State under the nmew law pro- | hibiting the importation for personal | use of more gasaline than is contained in the regular tank of a motor vehicle was lost vesterday when County Judge B. M. Hedrick found M. Earl Spicer of Winchester not guilty on a charge ot having brought 10 gallons into the State lin an auxiliary tank on the truck he was driving. A similar charge against Garret H. Lamont of Washington re- sulted in & conviction. In the Spicer case it was charged | that he had purchased 10 gallons of | gasoline in Hyattsville, Md., and placed |it in the auxiliary tank. It was tes- | tified that the truck was returning from Baltimore to_Winchester with a load produce. The defense claimed that Byas AR | of the auxiliary tank was connected with the motor of the truck and was there- fore a part of regular mechanism of the truck. This view was upheld by Judge Hedrick, who pointed to the fact that the law holds that gasoline may |be brought into the State only in a | tank connected with the motor as an integral part of the vehicle. | " Lamont was fined $34.25 on a charge | of importing 60 gallons of gasoline in containers that were not connected | with the motor. The State appealed | from the acquittal in the first case and the defendant appealed in the second. TWO ARE INDICTED " ON MURDER CHARGE | Kermit Orndorff and Wayne Me- Ilwee Accused of Slaying Former's Wife. | | Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., July 23—A special county grand jury has indicted Kermit Orndorffl and Wayne (Pete) McIlwee on charges of murdering Orn- dorfl’s wife, Mrs. Frances Nichplas Orndorff. The State also presented the name of Claude Racey, Star Tannery | resident, on a perjury charge after he | made affidavit that he saw and' spoke | to Mrs. Orndorff on or about January | 10 last, whereas county® authorities | claim she had not been seen since De- | cember 29 last. The grand jury, how- 1(\'?1’. failed to indict Racey on the | ground the affidavit was made and ac- | knowledged in Winchester. The Cor- | poration Court grand jury also failed | to_indict him. Trial of Orndorfl and McIlwee has been set for September 6 in Frederick County Circuit Court. Neither has been allowed to communicate with the other since their atrest. Orndorff is in the Winchester Jail, while McIlwee is at the Woodstock Prison. VISIT CATTLE HERDS Montgomery 4-H Club Members In- structed in Judging Live Stock. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 23.—About | 12_members of the Montgomery County | 4-H Agricultural Clubs visited several | of the leading cattle herds of the county yesterday and received instructions from Otto W. Anderson, county agricultural agent, in judging cattle for breeding and show purposes. It was one of & series of such tours of instruction plan- ned for 4-H Agricultural Club members of the county. » COLUNBIAHEGHTS Citizens Would Supplement Police Force With Special Body Under Plan# CITE CROOKS’ INVASION AFTER DOWNTOWN RAIDS Identity of Members of Committee Would Be Kept Secret, Resolution States. The Citizens’ Forum of Columbia Heights is anxious to co-operate with the Metropolitan police in combating crime in its section of the District and today it stood on record as proposing to organize its own vigilance committee to preserve law and order. At a special meeting last night mem- bers adopted a resolution offered by Burd W. Payne, president of the group, which not only called for a campaign against crime, but to promote good gov- ernment. This acticn. explained H. C. Phillips. secretary of the forum, today, is no re- flection on the Metropolitan police, but was merely inspired by Gen. John J. Pershing, who in a recent magazine article advocated such groups in va- rious communities. Cite Gambling Invasion. In the debate preceding the unani- mous adoption of the resolution, how- ever, members cited that the recent gambling drive by police in the down- town areas has resulted in some of these gamblers settling in the Columbia Heights section. They also cited the Garden T-Shop murder. the sejzure of a large still in the 1600 block of Ar- gonne place and recent robberies and hold-ups in their section as grounds for organizing a Vigilance Committee. “Recent events demonstrate the great power of the gangster element.” the resolution sets out, “and the present ! financial depression unquestionably is | aggravated by ill-gotten wealth in the hands of dangerous classes of people. “Washington has many families in financial straits because of expensive and dishonest manipulation of real estate investments. In parts of Wash- ington. individual and class greed un- reasonably overrides homes and prop- erty interests of majorities of peaceful citizens. More Protection Sought. “In general the unscrupulous gang- ster and criminal elements wield an in- creasing power with decreasing safety to refined and respectable elements of society, and, whether from lack of pub- lic support or otherwise, public officials appear to find it less and less possible to protect citizens in their constitutional rights. “The committee shall be authorized to act in its discretion when private rights or public interests appear to suffer serious invasion in violation of lex or of an overwhelming sentiment; and that the committee or its repre- sentatives shall be authcrized to appear before municipal, State or Federal cffi cials, including’ members and com- mittees of Congress.” The forum’s Executive Committee, ac- | cording to_resolution. will select the chairman and vice chairman of the | IVIGILANTES URGED 14,00 TELEPHONES }B‘G AS CRIME CURB IN {WILL SHIFT 70 DIAL e OPERATION TONIGHT Switch From Manual to Auto- matic Control to Be a Matter of Seconds. NO LOSS OF JOBS ENTAILED IN CHANGE Cleveland-Emerson System Is In- volved—Operators to Be Placed in Other Duties. Tonight at 12 o'clock 14,000 tele- phones in the residential section will be switched from manual to automatic control with hardly a break in service. ‘The change will be made in the Cleveland-Emerson system, which oc- cupies a new building at Wisconsin avenue and Warren street. Although the actual change from the old equipment to the new is but a mat- ter of seconds, it involves preparations that have been carried on for more than a year. Dramatic Episode. The placing of a new central office into service is filied with dramatic mo- ments for telephone men. The pre- liminaries include the erection of a new building, installation of new equipment and the placing of additional cable fa- cilities. Final tests are made for weeks and every known chance of error guarded against. Then comes the final signal. A few brief seconds and the old central office cables are cut—hundreds at a time. When this is completed a second signal is flashed and the small blocking tools which have kept the new office discon- nected from the old by blocking out the line relays are swiftly removed. Then it is all over. The operator's “Number, please.” is a_thing of the past to 14.000 people. The dial tele- phone, one of thc marvels of man: ingenuity, has been brought to them overnight. No Loss of Jobs. _ Dial service was introduced in Wash- ington in May, 1930, in the Disirict- Metropolitan-National central offices. | With the Cleveland-Emerson installa- |tion completed nearly half the tele- phones in Washington are on a dial basis. The change from manual to dial service. according to company officials, does mot involve any loss of jobs to telephone employes. ~All unneeded op- erators under the system will be placed in other capacities, and an increased force of specially trained technicians will be required to care for the new equipment. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and cooler tonight: tomorrow fair with moderate temperature; gentle to moderate north- west and north winds. Maryland and Virginia—Fair and cooler tonight: tomorrow fair with mod- erate temperature West Virginia—Fair tonight and to- morrow, cooler tonight Outlook for July 25 to July 30. committee. These two officers will then be vested with the authority to name the members of the groups. ‘The identity cf each committeeman will not be_revealed. The resolution urged that the Fed- eration of Citizens' Associations indorse | the principle of the committee and to | recommend the organizing of similar groups in other secticns of the city. PREPARES TO HANDLE AIR DERBY r"OWDS | | | Washington-Hoever Airport Ar- ranges Parking Space for 10,000 Autos. To handle the crowds expected at Washington-Hoover Airport to watch the start of the Atlantic wing of the National Handicap Air Derby August 21 and three days of flying events preced- | ing the take-off, the Washington Air Derby Committee announced today that | parking areas are being prepared for approximately 10,000 automobiles. Grandstends will be constructed on both sides of the Administration Build- ing at the airport. Tickets for the aeronautical events in the first air meet to be held as a civic | event in the Capital, are to go on sale | next week, it was announced by Ches- ter Warrington, chairman of the com- mittee. The administration building on the | old Hoover Field area will be used as a | first aid station during the meet, the | equipment including an ambulance and “crash truck.” Military units from Fort Myer will patrol Military road dur- ing the meet. Amelia Earhart Putnam and Clif- ford Henderson, managing director of | the National Air Races at Cleveland, | were here yesterday to discuss plans for the coming derby. Mrs. Putnam | also conferred with Senator Bingham of | Connecticut,” president of the National Acronautic Association, of which she is vice president. Norkh( and Middle Atlantic States Generally fair except showers Wednes day or Thursday. Moderate tempera- ture at the beginning of the week, warmer Tuesday and Wednesday, and cooler by Friday. River Report. Potomac clear today. Report for Last 24 Hours. & Temperature. Barometer. Yesterday— Degrees. Inches. 4 pm. . . 92 8 pm. . Midnight oday— 4am. . 8 am. . Noon Highest, 95, at Year ago, 89. Lowest, 71, at ago, 68. 6 pm. today. Year Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Sun, today.... 5 Sun, tomorrow 5:02 Moon, today .. 10:28 p.m. 10:52 am. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1932. Average. Record. January .... 482 355 7.09 82 February ... 2.46 84 March 6:45 91 April . 212 '89 May . 507 June . 284 July . August . September October November December Weather in Various Cities. BUST OF GE;)RGE MASON TO BE UNVEILED SEPT. 27 Marble Likeness Will Honor Fair- fax Man, Author of First Virginia_ Constitution. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va,, July 23.—Gov. Pol- lard announced this afternoon that a marble bust of George Mason, Virginia patriot of Fairfax, author of the bill of | € rights and also of the first Virginia con- stitution, drafted in 1776, will be un- veiled in the old hall of the Virginia House of Delegates at the Capitol Sep- tember 27. Former Representative R. Walton Moore of Fairfax will deliver the address. The bust, a gift of Mrs. Elizabeth Mason Lloyd of Brookline, Mass., will be placed alongside one of Chief Justice John Marshall, unveiled some months ago. FOUR BANDITS SLAIN Nicaraguan Guardia Captures Rifles in Neuva Segovia. Four bandits are known to have begn killed and rifies, ammunition and equipment were captured by a patrol of 10 members of the Nicaraguan National Guard last night, east of Ocotal, in the Nueva Segovia department of Nica- Tagua. The constabulary group was led by Lieut. Jacob Keller, a sergeant in the United States Marines, whose home is at Fairmont, Ind. The news was re layed ‘to the Navy Department today by Lieut. Col. Calvin B. Matthews, U. 8. M. C., who commands the Nica- raguan National Guard, pTemperature. o 8UIH Statlons. * Weather. +ee2 2330wl *r£8pI8IK Clear Cloudy Clear a Cit; i Pt cloudy Baltimore, Md.. 29.76 Clear Birmingham ... 29.98 Bismarck. N. D 20.96 s5... 2974 . 8. o Cincinnati, Ohio 29.92 Cleveland, ' Ohio 29.92 Columbia.’ S C. 29.88 1 Denver, Colo. Detroit. Micl EIl Paso, Tex .. 2992 Galveston. Tex. 29.98 Mont. . 2990 n,' S. Dak. 30.00 Indianapolis.Ind 29:92 Jacksonville,Fla. 29.94 Kansas City.Mo. 29.94 2 Clear Pt.cloudy Clear Pt.cloudy Pt cloudy Clear Pt.cloudy Pt.cloudy maha, Ne Philadelphia . Phoenix, Ariz Pittsburgh, Pa. d, 29 Portland. Oreg. leigh, N. C" 2984 1 122 Clear Cloud: Cloudy 1.34 Clear Cloudy Clear Pt cloudy. Clear (Noon, Greenwich time, today.) Stations. Temperature. Weather. Horta (Fayal). Azores.... 70 Part cloudy (Current observations.) Hamilton, Bermuda. 80 Part cloudy San Juan. Porto Ri ar Ha Cuba. ear 76 Cloudsy Berkley at Rockville, By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., July 23.—Norman Clyde Rogers, jr., 21, of the 3900 block Eighth street, Washington, was held for action of the Grand Jury, when ar- raigned in County Police Court here today on a bigamy warrant sworn to| Ly Miss Janie Berkley, 19, of 1352 Brentwood Road northeast. Washing- ton, and in which she accused him of staging a fake marriage ceremony with | her last January 23. AMY AND FAKE MARRIAGE IPROBE OF PICNIC CHARGE HOLDS D. C. YOUTH C. Rogers, Jr., Denying Complaint of Miss Janie to Face Grand Jury. in Silver Spring, Md., on January 23 and that a man who represented him- self as a justice of the peace performed a marriage ceremony in the presence of another ccuple. Ahout two months ago, Miss Berkiey said, a cousin, Mrs. Salome Lunsford, learned tha: Rogers was married to Mrs. Mary McInerney Rogers, 700 block of Third street northeast, Washington, and was the father of a year-old son. Rogers admitted on direct examina- Rogers' bond was set at 81,000 by| tion that he was married September 23, Police Judge Charles A. Woodward, | 1929, by a justice of the peace at Clar- and it was announced that the case | endon, Va, He denied that the cere- would be presented before the grand |mony at Silver Spring had ever taken jury in November. | place and declared that he had never Miss Berkley testified that Rogers, | proposed marriage to Miss Berkley, that whom she said she met last September | he had ever purchased a license to at a barbecue stand on Rhode Island | marry her or that she had ever signed and Shenandoah Rivers | avenue northeast, drove her to a house 2 marriage license. NATION IN CRISI LAUDED BY ADAMS Mountain Road Dedication Crowd Told Achievements From Modest Beginning. The crisis the Nation is passing | through is “the world's grandest experi- ment,” Secretary Adams said today in an address delivered at the dedication of the Cadillac Mountain rcad in Acadia National Park in Maine at noon. He told his audience that “nowhere else have we so perfect a composition of sea and forest and mountain, each ever changing with the mcod of nature,” as in Acadia National Park. Accom- panied by Admiral William V. Pratt, chief of Naval Operations, the cabinet officer went to Maine to represent President Hoover at the dedication cere- | monies. Three destroyers_of the Scouting | Pcree, the U. S. S. Bainbridge. Tillman |and Goff, were at Bar Harbor, Me during the ceremonies. Great Nation's Start. During the address Secretary Adams said: “In a couple of hundred years, Ifrom the beginnings of a few simple | stout-hearted adventurers, we have built | this Nation, now seething with problems and g-ing, Heaven knows where, at { fearful spced. We have built an’ in- | dustrial machine so perfect and so intricate that it was the admiration and wonder of the world. We are staggered to find that this machine whirls itself {to destruction if it cannot be run near | full speed. | “We have a political problem so vast. ia country so encrmous, with interests 50 diverse and divergent, that our fine form of government creaks and groars under the strain. We have a sccial | problem too vast and intricate and | difficult for knowledge cr analysis. At {least, we know that America has aban- |doned its old simple pleasures and | virtues and adopted in places a race for riches, a mad desire for rapid-fire pleasures arnd white lights, mixed with | sane and noble motives and people in a Pproportion no one can guess or state. | Gangsters and Children. “We have gangsters and hard-living classes, and the world's finest boys and girls, mixed together and whirling along toward results we can only hope |to be good. I do not despair. On the contrary, this is the world's grandest | experiment. I only want to ask: What { better thing can be offered to this great country of ours than this op- portunity to come back to its old moor- ings; to nature, to simple inspiring pleasures, and good ways? “Here, people must think justly and nobly before they plunge on fo the end. “I hold that you have preserved for our people the best revelation of the | meaning and lessons of nature; God's greatest gift to mankind, AUTO BULLET HOLE PUZZLES OFFICALS Driver Says He Was Fired on En- tering Soldiers’ Home—Shot- Riddled Car Gone. Two conflicting reports of what is be- lieved to have been the same shooting incident—one that a passing automo- bile was fired upon by a liquor car being chased by police, the other that the automobile figured in a gun battle with another machine in another sec- tion of the city—were being investi- gated today by second and tenth pre- cinct police. Nick Carrulli, 633 Hamilton street. told tenth precinct police he was turn- ing into the Soldiers’ Home grouncs | from Michigan avenue about 1:30 am. | today when a car with a smoke screen | in operation sped past and the occupant | fired a shot at him. The bullet im- bedded itself in the right side of Car- rulli’s car near the rear, he said. The machine from which it was fired. he added, was being pursued by another autezobile. A short time later, second precinct police received a report that a bullet- | Tiddled car had been abandoned in the 1100 block of Eighth street following an exchange of shots with the occupants of another machine. Capt. Hugh Grove, | second precinct commander, sent a policeman to the scene, but the supposed bullet-riddled automcbile had been re- Officers who participated in the | liquor chase, in which the fugitive auto- mobile made its getaway after being pursued about 10 miles, told Capt. Ira | Sheets, tenth precinct commander, they did not fire at the car. They joined the chase, they said, after the machine with the smokescreen had been followed Iinto the District by Maryland police. | The other officers likewise did not fire, they said. WEDDING ANNOUNCED Marriage of Couple in 1930 Told | by Relative. The marriage on December 27, 1930, | of Miss Margaret Elizabeth Connors to John Edwards Cormley, was announced last night by the bride’s sister, Mrs. J. Allen McNeal. Mrs. Gormley, a former George Washington University student, is_the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. George W. Connors. Mr. Gormley is a senjor at National University Law School. The couple was married in Annapolis, Md. They are living at the Knowlton Apartments. Road Equipment Is Sold. LURAY, Va, July 23 (Special) —The sale of road machinery held here this week by the Board of Supervisors brought $370.12. The original cost of the machinery sold was around $6,000. Four trucks were sold, ranging in price from $14 to $106. The board turned over a part of the road machinery to the State on July 1 for the price of original cost of which was reserving one truck for the fire | 4 $4.050, $30,000, ‘mmcm.hm ‘Hot Dog’ Price War Spreads to Barber, Ice Cream Trade Quarter Haircuts and 25- Cent Ice Cream Adver- tised at Winchester. Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va, July 23—Fol- lowing the “hot-dog” price war, which was warmly welcomed by many lunch counter diners recently, other price wars broke out this week, precipitated, it was said, to encourage people to spend their money, if they have any. Several bar- ber shops which had been charging 35 cents for haircuts with no extras included dropped to a quarter, and neck shave included. Another shop has gone one better, announcing 10- cent shaves, 20-cent haircuts and spe- cial haircuts for children 10 cents. Some of the plate-glass-front shops, however, still chng to the old prices, in the hope of making a living serving an established clientele. Another price war broke out in the ice cream business, which had become sluggish. Numerous establishments have sprung up, advertising homemade ice cream at 23 and 25 cents per quart. Former prices had been 35 and 50 cents per quart. Competition was re- ported keener in the ice cream business and the price war more spirited than that among the barbers. Some of the ice cream places were advertising curb service and also selling double-deck cones for 5 cents. GUARDSHEN LEAVE FOR CAP RITCHE Silver Spring, Laurel and Hyattsville Units Depart for Training. War-time scenes were re-enacted in | fcur nearby Maryland towns today. when the National Guard companies at Silver Spring, Kensington, Laurel and Hyattsville shouldered their equipment, bic friends and relatives farewell and then entrained for Camp Albert C. Ritchie, at Cascade. Md., where they begin their two-week training course this £fternoon with other units of the Maryland National Guard. A special train left Laurel early this morning. moved on to Hyattsville, Sil- ver Spring and Kensington and then sped onward toward Camp Ritchie with more than 200 Guardsmen from the four communities in Prince Georges and Montgomery Counties. It was anncunced today that Col. D John Markey, commander of the Ist In- fantry, with' which the four nearby ccmpanies are affiliated, has issued invitations to the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts and cther service clubs in the two counties L0 attend Veterans' day at Camp Ritchie on July 31, when a parade and review will be held in honor of Maryland men Wwho have served with the United States | in any” of its wars. _Invitations~have also been mailed throughout the two counties for the annual military ball, to be given by Col Markey and other officers of the Ist Infantry at the Monterey Club next Saturday night. THREE CITIES SEEK LEGION CONVENTION Richmond, Bristol and Radford to Vie for Honor of Being Host to 1933 Meet. By the Associated Press. ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 23.—Spir- ited bidding for the 1933 State depart- ment convention of the Virginia Amer- ican Legion is presaged for the forth- coming 1932 meet here July 31 to Au- gust 3. Posts in Richmond. Bristol and Rad- ford have instructed their delegates to press their invitations for the 1933 ses- sion Richmond posts, the city of Rich- mond and the Richmond Chamber of Commerce have joined hands in their effort, and Mayor J. Fulmer Bright, a Legionnaire, plans to attend the 1§32 convention here to extend Richmond’s invitation personally. The Harvey-Howe-Carter Post of Radford. with the support of local pro- fessional and business men also has laid plans to campaign for the 1933 convention there. Radford Legionnaires also point out that only once heretofore has South- western Virginia been given the oppor- tunity to entertain the veterans. The Bristol Chamber of Commerce also has by formal action indorsed efforts of the James C. Brewer Post to obtain the 1933 meet for Bristol. HEARING ON PARDON PLEA OF SLAYER IS TUESDAY North Carolinian Is Serving 20- Year Term for Murder of Clarksville Officer. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., July 23—The peti- tion for a pardon for Garland Smith, young North Carolinian, who is serv- ing a 20-year term in the Virginia Peni- tentiary for murder in Mecklenburg County, will be given a public hearing by Gov. Pollard next Tuesday after- noon at 3 o'clock. Smith _was _convicted of shooting Deputy Sheriff Bernard Puryear and Mack Tuck, Clarksville town sergeant. After three trials he was acquitted of the charge of killing Puryear, but is still under sentence for the murder of Tuck. It has been brought out in the were killed by one load, g and the Kensington, | POISONING OF 400 YIELDS NO CLUES Only Haif Dozen Left in Hos- pital as Employers Exprese Shock and Regret. HEALTH EXPERT FAILS TO LOCATE BAD FOOL Outbreak at Marshall Hall and in Veterans’ Camp Still Believed Due to Ptomaine. The cause of the ptomaine poisoning outbreak that sent approximately 400 picknickers to hospitals Thursday night remained a mystery today, with Health Department bacteriologists continuing their analyses of specimens of the food Iealen by the victims. ‘Though the analyses were progressing rapidly, Dr. Edward J. Schwartz, assist- ant health officer, under whose direc- tion the investigation was being made was unable to say when they would be completed. Meanwhile, he said, Dr. John E.Noble the Health Department bacteriologist directing the analyses, had not de- termined what item on the excursionists menu was responsible for the outbreak The hospitals, whi-h were taxed be- yond their capacities Thursday night when the ill picknickers were brought here from Marshall Hall aboard the Mount Vernon and Marshall Hall Steamboat Co.’s Charles Macalester, had returned to their normal routines. Only half a dozen of the victims remained under treatment. The outbreak occurred following a luncheon served on an outing held by employes of the Chestnut Farms and Chevy Chase Dairies. Twenty-five veterans also were sickened after eating some of the food, which was sent to the bonus camp at Thirteenth and D streets southwest when it was found the picknickers would be unable to consume it. Hospitals to Be Clear. The six victims still in hospitals were | divided between Georgetown and Emer- gency—five at the former and one at the latter. All were expected to be discharged before the end of the day. Health Department officials have had | the co-operation of the two dairies in their investigation, it was said at the District_ Building The Police Department and the vari- ous hospitals were praised for their handling of the emergency, not only by officials of the dairies, but by the press and the general public as well, The rush on the hospitals began about 6:30 pm. Thursday, when the Charles Macalester pulled into the Seventh Street Wharf with the 400 victims aboard—some of them unconscious, all more or less in pain. All available am- bulances and police automobiles, as well as private cars and taxicabs, were pressed into service to rush them to Fospitals. In a statement issued last night, Henry N. Brawner, jr., president of the Chestnut Farms Dairy, declared the food was prepared with the greatest care and that he and other officials of the two companies “‘cannot understand” what caused the outbreak. Shocked by Outcome. The statement follows: “We are shocked over the unfor- tunate results of our picnic Thursday. We do not know what caused the ill- ness of so many persons, but we are making every effort to find out. We have turned over to the Health Depart- ment samples of the food and all the information we could gather, Our men are giving Dr. Fowler their fullest co- operation. | “We have been giving these annual outings for 10 years and this is the | first time there has ever been anything ‘hkc this happen. We cannot under- {stand it. There was some suggestion of | not having the outing this vear, but | our emploves have had so much en- | joyment from them in the past that we | decided to go ahead. The food was | prepared with the utmost care, just as |it was for our other picnics. “On behalf of our companies, I |should like to thank the hospitals, | physicians and nurses who so efficiently aided our emploves and their guests.” FORT HOYLE FOOD TESTED. | Cause of lliness of 50 C. M. Members Sought. Samples of food served at the Fort Hoyle, Md, mess Tuesday evening, which made ill 50 members of the C M. T. C. stationed there, were being analyzed at the Walter Reed Medical School today to determine the nature of the poisoning. While the wholesale illness has been almost definitely attributed to ptomaine poisoning, an official of the school said a peculiar thing about the epidemic was that none of the victims became ill until Wednesday morning, many hours after the food had been con- sumed. Ptomaine, it was pointed out, generally takes effect in much less time Less than a dozen of the youths who were taken to the camp hospital Wed- nesday were still confined today, and none of these is said to be seriously ill. Fort Hoyle is located near the Edge- wood Arsenal, at Edgewood, Md., about 20 miles northeast of Baltimore. There are 448 members of the C. M. T. C. in training there, most of them from Baltimore and Northern Maryland. The camp instruction is confined to field artillery work, the youths are receiving training from officers of the Sixth Field Artillery Regiment. Officials of the camp said all of the stricken civilian soldiers dined in the same mess hall. The food served to them was the same variety which was eaten by the rest of the camp. It was not the type, it was said, which could easily become tainted. CAROLINIAN LOSES ARM IN TRAIN ACCIDENT HERE Falls From Door of Coach at Sev- enth Street and Maryland Avenue Station. | | 1 | kAR -4 Gurney White, 36, of Mount Vernon Springs, N. C., had his left arm cut off just above the wrist yesterday when he fell from a Scuthern Railway train as it started to move away from the station at Seventh street and Maryland avenue southwest. White, said to be owrder of several farms near Mount Vernoe Bpmngs, was taken to Emergency Hospital, where an amputation was perfermed. His condi- tion today was said to be good. He told police he was standing in the door of a coach while the train was stopped at the staticn. He said he lost his balance and fell when the train started, his arm falling under the wheels. White had been in Washingtton ! several days on business, it was said. WATER SHOW PLANNED Neptune's Corps of the District Red Cross Chapter will stage a water car- nival and exhibition at Fort Myer, Va., at 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, it was announced today. On the following night the same group of 20 experts will put on a water show for Boy Scouts at McKinley Pool.