Evening Star Newspaper, July 16, 1935, Page 19

he Zoening Star MAN THREATENING SUICIDE HOLDS OFF POLICE TWO HOURS Tear Gas Finally Drives Him From Apartment Onto Balcony. DOMESTIC TROUBLES AND LIQUOR BLAMED Former Aviator Taken to Gal- linger Hospital for Mental Observation. A man armed with an automatic pistol threw the neighborhood on Calvert street near the Shoreham Hotel into a turmoil early today when he barricaded himself in an apartment and stood off police for more than two hours. Tear gas finally drove the man— Edgar W. McBrayne, 42—into the open and he . leaped from a second-story bal- cony of the | apartment at 2401 Calvert street into the arms of police. A former avia- tor and now an employe in the construction divi- sion of the Bu- F reau of Air Com- merce, Commerce * Department, Mc- Brayne had wor- ried over domestic troubles, police were told, and had sought comfort in liquor. Shortly after midnight he had gone out for a walk with his dog and became unruly when he returned to the apartment which he occupies with his mother and stepfather, Mr. end Mrs. Robert Kirkpatrick Noble. Eighth Precinct Gets Call. After her; son had threatened to shoot himself, Mrs. Noble became alarmed and left the apartment. A few minutes after 2 o'clock, the eighth precinct station received a call from a woman informing them & man was about to end his life at the Calvert street apartment. Officers who responded found Mc- Brayne locked in the apartment with Mr. Noble and the dog, a snarling Doberman-Pinscher. When McBrayne appeared on the balcony brandishing the revolver and crowds began to fill the street the police called for rein- forcements. e ot A cordon of a dozen- was thrown around the apartment by Police Lieut. Harry R. Lohman anc a tear gas bomb was tossed through the window of the McBrayne apart- ment. It was about 4 o'clock when Noble slipped from the apartment with the dog, and & few minutes later McBayne apeared on the balcony, choking from the gas but still carrying the gun. He clambered up a fire escape and threatened to kill himself, police said, when he was told to come down. After a while he descended to the balcony and, throwing the gun before him, jumped to the lawn. He landed on his feet and was quickly taken in hand by the police. Automatic Fully Loaded. ‘The automatic was of .45-caliber, police said, and was fully loaded, while three extra clips were found in Me- Brayne’s pockets. McBrayne was taken to the eighth precinct station and booked for in- vestigation. He later was removed to Gallinger Hospital for mental observa- tion. Police said they understand Mec- | Brayne is married and had been drink- ing heavily since his wife went out of town a few days ago. McBrayne was a pilot during the World War and had done some com- mercial fiying at Hoover Field. He once held a transport pilot’s license, but let it expire last year. He has been working in the Airway Construc- tion Division of the Commerce De- partment about 18 months. $300,000 APPROVED \ FOR OIL CASE AIDES Senate Appropriations Group Writes Amendment Into Deficiency Bill. By the Associated Press. Provision for payment of $300,000 in legal fees to attorneys represent- ing the Government in the oil lease scandals of the Harding administra- tion yesterday was voted by the Senate Appropriations Committee. It wrote an -amendment into the second deficiency bill. The money would go to former Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio, and three associ- ates, H. J. Crawford, T. M. Kirby and Frank Harrison. ~ Senator Bulkley, Democrat, of Ohio, told the committee in urging approval of the item that the four men had “given a large part of their time to this particular litigation over a period of about eight years” and had already recovered $5,500,000 for the Govern- ment in connection with the Pan- He said Justice Owen J. Roberts of the Supreme Court, who also rep- resented the Government in the ofl dases, had been paid, though he did not know the amount. PUBLISHER GETS MEDAL Col. Frank J. Mackey Cited by ,Ex-Czar’s Officers. Col. Frank J. Mackey, Chicago book publisher, was presented yesterday with the medal of the Russian Compassion- ate Heart, an order sponsored by an organization of former officers in the Czars army. A, M. L. De Luxem- bourg, former lieutenant colonel of the Imperial Russian Army, made the presentation at the Willard Hotel. The citation was said to be for Col. tion of attacks on communistic-ac- Sivities. K 1,500 Youngsters in ATER, water everywhere | and not a place to swim. | One of 1500 under- privileged children in Wash- ington's hot and teeming central area sits at a source of inexhaustible sup- ply and mourns the lack of a swim- ming pool. The pavement on which he sits is his playground, but the curb is not the boundary and trucks and cars are whizzing by a few feet away. | Parking by fireplugs is prohibited but what's a kid to do but sit and hope. A few blocks away, at the 614 E street Y. W. C. A, is a swimming | pool, showers and all, where this | youngster can splash with his play- mates~as soon as $750 is raised to pump water into the tank and fix up the premises. Speed Urged in Funding. More than one-third of the neces- sary fund had been raised today, but backers of the movement, including out that each Summer day without swimming facilities in the area was increasing health and delinquency hazards. Bert Sheldon, police officer and chairman of the Optimist Club's Boys ‘Work Committee, brought to The Star today a $25° club contribution. A check for $10 was sent by Mary Massie Dunlop, 2101 Calvert street, to the Central Neighborhood Council, which also received donations of $5 each from H. P. Somerville, managing director of the Willard Hotel, and Miss Miriam F. Sherman, 1725 Sevec- teenth street. Miss Sherman said she considered the campaign “one of the best moves of recent date in the District” and that she hoped “this pool can be reopened very soon to the many children in that area.” Miss Mary J. Hughes, All States Hotel, 514 Nineteenth street, sent $2 to The Star, Will Furnish Coal Supply. * Morris D. Marlow of the Marlow Coal Co., 811 E street, yesterday made Children Eager for Pool During Summer. the Central Nelghborhood Council of | . khe eIl of “Bocial Agencies, ap- | ealed for quicker response, pointing ASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1935. New Stratosphere Radio Tested in Blimp Central Area Suffer the equivalent of a $90 donation by offering to supply all coal necessary to heat the pool and showers. Cash contributions totaling $3 were received by The Star, which gave $100. It was suggested by backers of the movement that merchants might follow Marlow’s example of giving gifts “in kind.” Towels, soap, laundering service and about $21 worth of alum, chlorine and soda for chemical treatment are | required. Sheldon, in presenting the $25 | Optimist Club contribution, said swim- | ming pools “appeal to the normal in- terests and impulses of the growing him to go with his friends, thus to the noisy, hot streets and the in- evitable street corner ‘gang.’ “To many underprivileged boys, habitual cleanliness means a new | aspect on life. Properly supervised, wholesome recreation is your best crime preventive. It is, when cou- pled with a swimming pool, your best health safeguard and your best char- acter builder. When a boy or girl becomes adapted to the discipline of the swimming instructor’ or play- grounds instructor he or she has | something workable to fall back on in the game of living. Children at play are not problems in disease, Jjuvenile delinquency or crime.” to reopen the pool, Sheldon, an ex- perienced worker with boys’ problems, sald it was “a legitimate call upon the city and upon the heartstrings of all lovers of children—and who s not?” Two Junior League girls, whose names were withheld temporarily, vol- unteered to Miss M. Edith Coulson, secretary of the Central Neighbor- hood Council, to serve as lifeguards during the swimming periods for girls. Both have passed the necessary tests. Miss Coulson believed the Red Cross would furnish additional free life- guard service. PARALYSIS SPREAD T0CITY IS DENIED Health Officers See No Con- nection Between C:ses Here and Epidemic. District health officers saw no con- Dection today between the three new cases of infantile paralysis reported here last week and the outbreak be- lieved to be spreading from North Carolina into Virginia. Dr. James G. Cumming, assistant bealth officer in charge of the com- municable disease division, declared that local residents have no cause for alarm and that only eight infantile paralysis cases have been reported since the first of the year, or about the normal average. One of the cases reported last week, which proved fatal, may or may not have been infantile paralysis, Dr. Cumming said. Another of the three was brought here for treatment from nearby Maryland. Officials of the United States Pub- lic Health Servier less optimistic, however. Dr. QfR. Williams, assist- ant surgeon gefpral, was quoted by the Associated | as’ saying that 11 new cases ¥ ginia yesterday peared to be spreading this way. “Without a doubt the disease spread into Virginia from North Carolina,” Dr. Williams said. “It follows traffic. With three new cases in ‘Washington last week, it apparently is moving into the District.” The 11 new cases reported from Vir- ginia yesterday brought the total number for that State to 126 since June 1. ARMY BILL WAITS House leaders today awaited a Iull that would permit them to bring to the floor a measure accelerating pro- motion of several thousand Army officers. The measure has passed the Sen- ate, has been approved by the House Military Committee, and has been granted & rule for cousideration on the floor with two hours’ debate. It appeared unlikely the legislation could be taken up Lefore next week at least. L] L] SAFETY CAMPAIEK BEGUN BY COUNTY Prince Georges Aroused by Accident in Which Three Were Killed. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., July 16.—As police pushed their probe of the fatal accident which cost three lives near Beltsville Sunday, State authorities today moved to advance a traffic safety .campaign in response to de- mands from Prince Georges County residents. The requests are incorporated in petitions which, it was learned, were circulated even before the crash oc- curred in an effort to obtain more police protection against reckless driv- ing on the Baltimore Boulevard at Berwyn. Unable to increase their force on the boulevard, State police heads have improved the equipment avail- able for the patrolmen by assigning passenger automobiles to some of them, it was announced. The cars, it was pointed out, not only will enable the officers to patrol the road in bad weather, when motor cycles are practically useless, but also will make it easier to catch speeders, particularly at night. Three such cars have been sent to the Laurel sub- station, headquarters of the State troopers who patrol the boulevard. Ormond W. Phair, president of the county school board, who lives in Laurel, believes more police and heavier penalties for speeders are needed. B 700 TO ATTEND REUNION Arrangements Made for 2d Divi- sion, A. E. F., Gathering. its have been made ten- Arrangement tatively for the annual reunion of the gomm Association, A. E. F, in ‘ashington Approxi- mately 700 veterans are exnected ‘to attend, it was announced today by ‘Curtis Hodges, executive director of the Greater National Capital Com- mittee of the Board of Trade. Capt. Frederick Israel, U. 8. M. C,, 3432 Patterson street, is secretary of the association and is making the ar- gmoas: iy boy and provide an opportunity for | Capitol Building and the House and | offering a direct counter attraction | SENATE APPROVAL OF DEFICIENCY BILL 1S EXPECTED SOON Measure, as Amended, May Be Under Consideration by Next Week. FUNDS ARE SANCTIONED FOR NEEDS OF DISTRICT Committeé Responds to Pleas, Adds $59,120 for Health Service Work. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The Senate is expected to pass the second deficiency appropriation bill as amended in committee yesterday to meet urgent needs of the District Health Department and containing other important changes for park and public building purposes. It may not be taken up, however, before next week. Responding to the plea of District officials, as presented by Senator King, Democrat, of Utah, the Appro- priations Committee added $59,120 to the bill for personnel to enable Health Officer Ruhland to carry on an ade- quate program to safeguard public health this year. Other outstanding Senate amendments were: An advance to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission of another installment of $800,000 toward the program authorized in the Cap- per-Cramton act for the purchase and development of a park and play- ground system. Funds advanced . by the Treasury under that act are paid back later by the District Government. G. A. A. Site Picked. Authority to build a new General Accounting Office on the square di- rectly east of the Senate Office Build- ing, instead of the House proposal to remodel and enlarge the old Pensin Building in Judiciary Square. Appropriation of $150,000 from the District water fund to replace pumps | in the McMillan Park filtration plant. An amendment making $2,550,000 available to allow Architect of the | Capitol Lynn to extend the air-con- ditioning system to cover all the Senate Office Buildings. At present | only the House and Senate chambers and a few committee rooms are air- cooled. For all governmental purposes, Lhel deficiency bill as reported by Senator | Adams, Democrat, of Colorado, calls | for $297,505,251.31, an increase of | $73,000,000 over the House total. Most of Health Funds Approved. Senator King’s amendment for the Health Department requested $61,240, of which the committee approved all | but $2,120. If the House conferees concur in the emendment after it| passes the Senate, Dr. Ruhland will | be able to go forward this year with | his program of preventive work, in- | cluding the development of a field nursing corps and an extension of | school health inspection. Efforts to combat the spread of tuberculosis will be an essential part of the plan. | From Beaumaris, Ontario, where he is vacationing, Dr. Willlam Charles White, president of the District Tu- berculosis Society, seat the following telegram to Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, director of the society: “I do not believe that there is a citizen of the United States that does not desire to see the Capital City a model of health administration. The President with his keen interest in SCIENTISTS PLAN TO SEND AUTOMATIC DEVICE UP 20 MILES IN PILOTLESS BALLOON. It in the stratosphere. BeloW, tested the apparatus, and Lieut. Comdr, Karl W. Lange. ¥ % The small object hai “from the blimp Enterprise is an automatic rattic transmitter intended for use Yo right: Leroy L. Stockman and B. W. Brown ef the Bureau of Standards, who LOATING high over the Bureau | be connected up with the transmitting | pends upon the instruments reaching | of Standards in the Goodyear blimp Enterprise this morning, two radio experts of the bureau staff made first tests of an automatic combined recording and trmsmm.m:i device for stratosphere exploration | with pilotless balloons. The device, in its present form, con- sists of a combination aneroid barom- eter and 5-meter transmitting set, with a device whereby the records made by the barometer are automatic- ally and instantly transmitted to the laboratory below, where they are au- | tomatically recorded. Later it is expected that other me- | teorological recording instruments can set, s0 that weather forecasters may have a continuous picture of condi- tions in the upper atmosphere. This, it was explained, was a co- operative experiment of the Bureau of Standards and the Weather Bureau. ‘The Bureau of Standards is especially interested in obtaining automatic cos: the necessity of stratosphere balloons | carrying men, with all the attendant dangers. It is hoped to send these balloons to heights of about 20 miles. Free balloons of the type commonly | used by the Weather Bureau will be used. At present the value of any re- | cordings made with such balloons de- social matters must desire this also. Each Senator and Representative must desire it as a matter of pride and because it is their residence for part of each year. It cannot be done with- out a reasonable allowance by Con- gress. If evér there was a time to forget any irregularities in presenta- tion and to do the right thing it is now. With the best of health officers, the confidence and co-operation of the Medical Society, all voluntary agencies and citizens’ associations, the goal of good health administration can be attained at oace with the ratification of the extra sum asked by the Health Department and the Com- missioners. With such.free expend- iture by the Government in every other field, it is unthinkable that Con- gress will refuse the pittance asked | D for by all the citizens of the District. I send this letter to aid Senator King, the constant friend of good health in the District, in his valiant fight and to encourage Dr. Ruhland in his great effort.” Repayments $300,000 Anuually. ‘The park development fund will be paid back to the Treasury at the rate of $300,000 a year under the District P. W. A. loan lsw, which fixes that limit on park reimbursements as long as the District is making other reim- bursements on public work loans. The provision for a new General Accounting Office on Capitol Hill is & recognition .of the request made to the Senate committee not to make an ex- penditure on the old Pension Building that would precluie its removal at some later time to make way for a new District Supreme Court structure. Court officials, representatives of the Department of Justice and agencies that deal with development of the National Capital told the Senate of plans for grouping ail District courts in Judiciary Square and urged that the General Accounting Office be given adequate facilities elsewhere. One suggestion was that the Federal Government take over from the Dis- irict the Pennsylvania avenue front- age of the Municipal Center site for a General Accounting Office. The committee, however, agreed with the Ultimate Cost $11,150,000. McCarl took the view that his agency is an adjunct of the legisia- 2 B MOTOR CYCLIST, 13, ISFATALLY INJURED Six Other Persons Are Hurt in Traffic Accidents in District. A 19-year-old boy was fatally in- jured and six other persons were hurt in traffic accidents in the District yes- terday. The d youth, Samuel E. Shep- erd, 3122 Fifteenth street northeast, died in Sibley Hospital from a skull fracture received when he was thrown from his motor cycle at Truxton Circle, North Capitol street and Florida avenue. Traffic Toll Now 62. The boy’s death increased the traffic toll since January 1 to 62. Five of those hurt were victims of an accident involving three cars on Riggs road northeast near the District line. Richard B. Gardner, 19, of 1114 Monroe street, was the driver of a car, police said, that sideswiped the auto- mobile of Robert E. Spillman, 40, of 626 Gallatin street. Gardner's car then ran into the automobile of Everett C. McCleary, 26, of 5415 Gardner lost two teeth and was cut about the face, while McCleary and three passengers in his machine, Loretta McCleary, 22; Holmer Dyer, 35, and Evelyn Dyer, 30, were cut and bruised. All were treated at Walter Reéd Hospital. Two-year-old June Frain, 810 L street southeast, received an injury to her knee and body bruises when struck Dy the automobile of Samuel A. Woods, 34, of 1711 East Capitol street, near her home. She was taken to Casualty Hospital. ——e OFFICERS STUDY BATTLE Street Car Target For Egg Thrower; 810 Fine Assessed Just ‘Prank,” Defendant Declares, Appearing Before Given. Throwing eggs at a street car from the rumble seat of an automobile was not the type of prank that appealed to Policeman W. P. Barnes of the sev- enth precinct, hence the arraignment in Police Court today, on a charge of throwing missiles, of a man giving his name as John J. Raymond, 21, of 3000 block, Georgia avenue. He was fined $10 by Judge Ralph Given. Barnes told the court that the egg- throwing episode took place yesterday on M street in Georgetown. The de- fendant said he intended no harm, and the whole thing was just a “prank.” e LABOR PUTS BOYCOTT ON ST. LOUIS BROWNS To Shun Games Here Because Ushers and Bartenders There Are Not Recognized. Because the owners of the BSt. Louis American League base ball club have refused to recognize the unioni- zation of ushers and bartenders in Sportsmen’s Park, their home fleld, they have been placed on the “unfair to organized labor” list. The Washington Ceniral Labor Union, meeting last night, heard & telegram read from the Theaters-and Amusement Employes’ Union, Local No. 19,905, of St. Louis, explaining the situation. The St. Louls local already has boycotted both St. Louis base ball clubs and the park has been picketed since early in the season. ‘The Central Union voted to notify appear at Griffith Stadium. PARKING CURB ADOPTED By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., July 16— PAGE B—1 APPROVALIS GV BL T0 RECULATE . BEAUTYSHOFS Four Other Measures Are Voted by House Sub- committee. STANDARDS ARE FIiXED FOR PARLORS’ OWNERS Examination and License Fees Would Be Required of All Practitioners. Despite the opposition of the Com- missioners, the Public Health Sub- committee of the House District Com- mittee ordered a favorable report to- day on a bill to protect the women of Washington who patronize beauty parlors and hairdressing establish- ments. Four other measures, minor in character, also were approved. Three would license Drs. Arthur B. Walker, Ronald A. Cox and Park Chue Chan to practice the healing art. - The other would empower the health officer to authorize the opening of graves and the disinterment and re- interment of bodies in cases where death had been caused by ecertair contagious diseases. The Commissioners had submitte | an adverse report on the bill to regu late the so-called beauticians an hairdressers on the ground existin law gives them ample authority t control the operators and’employes o. all such establishments. The sub- | committee, nevertheless, insisted in- creased powers as provided in th bill are necessary to public health an safety. The bill is far-reaching in scope, # it not only defines beauty culture, bu sets up certain rigid standards whic must be met by the owners and prac- titioners in all beauty and hair- dressing parlors. All operators and employes o beauty shops or schools would be re- quired to be registered by the Healt! Department and pass an examinatio: as to fitness to practice. A health cer- tificate would be a prerequisite for th: | issuance of a license. No apprentic —Star Staft Photos. | the ground safely after the balloon itself has burst. Pilot balloons will | not attain sufficient height. Further- | more there is a period of necessary delay which may render the observ- ations useless for actual forecasting. | would be licensed without six months’ training in a registered beauty school The registration fee would be $5 for | beauty shop owners, managers and | teachers, $2 for operators 4nd mani- curists, $1 for students or apprentices | and $50 for schools of beauty culture. | Annual renewal fees would be $5 for shop owners and managers and school instructors, $2 for operators and mani- curists and $25 for schools. This bill, as well as the four other measures favorably reported, will b considered by the full District Com- | mittee at its regular meeting tomor- row at 10:30 am. If approved by the full committee, they will be placed or the House calendar in time for con- | sideration Monday, the next regular District day The need of continuous upper air records is augmented by the new In addition to reporting out the five bills the subcommittee voted to mic ray records from the stratosphere. | If the device works out according | to expectations it will dispense with | methods of forecasting with which the | ho1q hearings on two other measures bureau now is conducting experiments. | referred to it for consideration. One These depend upon a constant knowl- | js designed to provide for prevention | edge of upper air conditions which | of plindness in infancy by use of are believed to control the vagaries | prophylactic against inflammation ot ;or weather near the surface of the |the eyes of a new-born child. The earth. ducted by L. L. Stockman and B. W. Brown of the Optics Division of the Bureau of Standards. RELIEF WORKERS' UNION IS REFUSED D. C. Organized Labor De- clines to Sponsor New Organization. ‘Washington organized labor, as rep- resented by the Central Labor Union, refused last night to sponsor the organization of workers now on relief rolls in order to demand union wages and hours for them. ~ A resolution calling for organization of relief unions was presented by the delegation of N. R. A. Union, No. 91, headed by John L. Donovan and Miss Jessica Buck. When it was offered, Clyde M. Mills, vice president of the Central Union and a member of the N. R. A. Labor Advisory Board, de- clared the motion out cof order and a heated debate followed, in which the delegates appealed from his ruling. ‘The final vote was 42 to 32 against the resolution. Mills held that the organization of workers on relief should first be sanc- tioned by the American Federation of Labor and might interfere with the freedom of existing international unions. When the appeal was made from his ruling Robert E. Lester assumed the chair and limited debate o the proposal. Miss Buck, Donovan, L. E. Sullivan, representing the painters, decorators and paperhangers, and Louis . Tuckman of the carpenters spoke in behalf of the proposal. 0SBORN T. TAYLOR DIES; FOUNDED VENICE BEACH Osborn T. Taylor, colored, retired| clerk at the War Department and at his Summer home. versity Law College. e organizer of two groups 8- ton, the John H. Wright Lodge f Pellows, and the Aurora House- The tests this morning were con- | | other would amend the act regulating the practice of optometry by exempt- | ing physiclans and surgeons licensed under the laws of the District for the practice of medicine and surgery. It also would exclude persons selling spectacles who do not attempt to adapt them to the eyes and who do not practice or profess the practice of op- tometry. ‘The date for the hearings will be | Aixed later, WORRIED WIVES FIND BROWN IS NO HELP Their Husbands Will Have to Go on Meeting Bad Women in Course of Duty. Police Chief Ernest W. Brown has no solution for the problem of the “broken-hearted wives” of young de- tectives who complained that their husbands “are forced to get mixed up with all kinds of ruthless and bad women in their duties.” An anonymous letter was received by Maj. Brown yesterday. It closely paralleled a similar complaint sent to Mayor La Guardia of New York. Mayor La Guardia, like Maj. Brown, was forced to admit there was very little he could do about the situa- tion—so long as the husbands re- mained good detectives. A philanderer on either police force, it was said, is apt to find himself separated from his official duties in shert order. The wives asked that older men who are immune to “the bitter in- fluences which face our young men” be assigned to duty which brings them in contact with women of the underworld. CHILD HEALTH CAMP RESIDENTS GET SHOES Many Found in Need, So Kiwanis Club Has Measurements Taken, Gives Order. ‘The Kiwanis Club yesterday came to the relief of many at the Children's Health Camp of the Tuberculosis As- sociation, Thirteenth and Allison streets, after Stephen Talkes, chair- man of the Institutional Entertain- mient Committee of the club, discov- ered during a visit at the camp that many of the boys and girls urgently needed shoes. One gift for_a few shoes had already been received from Miss Frances Dysinger, leader of the Lutheran Inner Mission in charge of the Sunday school at the camp. President Harold Marsh of the Kiwanis Club came with Mr., Talkes during the lunch hour at the camp yesterday and brought with them a representative of a shoe firm. The latter took the measure of all the children in need of shoes and then the Kiwanians gave him the order to de- liver the new shoes immediately. - .