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A—14 &% TWO MEN TAKEN IN BANDIT CHASE OF SEVEN MILES Score of Bullets Fly Dur- ing Battle With Police Crew. GAS STATION HOLD-UP IS CHARGED TO TWO Crash of Fugitive Auto at Geor- gia and New Hampshire Ave- nues Ends Thrilling Race. Two alleged bandits were captured early today after a running pistol battle with police that continued for nearly 7 miles from Benning viaduct northeast to Georgia and New Hamp- #hire avenues. About a score shots were exchanged. Four other persons were arrested and held for investigation after one of the alleged bandits escaped when the car in which he was trying to flee after a hold-up was wrecked and he was trailed to a house on Fifteenth street. Hold-up Is Charged. Ralph Jones, 23, and Walter Howell English, also 22, both of the 500 block of Sixth street, were charged with the hold-up of the filling station of Robert Gibson, on Benning road THE A Silver Lining for Jerry FOUND MISTRESS DEAD—NOW HAS NEW HOME. HUSKY brindle bulldog barked and romped this morning before a shuttered old home at 1317 M street where three weeks ago he howled mournfully for 24 hours over the body of his dead maistress, Mrs. Lilian Pritchard. Jerry, the dog, now belongs to Bruce Baty, 15-year-old Boy Scout, 1311 M street, who used to exercise it for Mrs. Pritchard before her” death. Mrs. Pritchard, widow of Senator Jeter. Pritchard, of North Carolina, and once among the Capital's most famous hostesses, died in extreme poverty, her will fid in District Supreme Court shows. With her jewelry in pawn and her valued furniture and works of art sold over the last decade to keep the wolf from the door, she had debts of $500 and mno assets. Home Built By Father. ‘The proud woman, who lived alone in the four-story mansion built by her tather 50 years ago and refused to tell her friends of her financial plight, was found dead of heart disease July 31 by police who broke into the house. She had been dead two days. Jerry had been her sole constant companion for two years. “Just dog,” he strulled up to Mrs. Pritch- | ard’s front door on the anniversary | | of her mother’s death. | “Keep him,” urged Mrs. John Fow- | ler, 1424 Sixteenth street, closest friend of Mrs. Pritchard during her | later days. “I think he'd be lots of company, especially since you're alone so much.” Dog Rough in Play. “He was the wildest thing you ever | knew,” Mrs. Fowler said today. “He | wasn't vicious at all, but he loved to iplay. and he'd almost tear your Jerry “smiles” as he sits in the lap of Bruce Baty, 15, 1311 M street, his ney owner. Three weeks ago he howled mournfully over the body of his mistress, Mrs. Lilian Pritchard. clothes off. | “I bought his license tag for two‘ tric Power Co. plant. years and toward the end of July got The men are alleged to have fled | his 1936 license. That's what I called from the filling station in a stolen | Mrs. Pritchard up about & month | automobile. At the Benning Viaduct |380. When I got no answer, I went | Sergt. Bert Sheldon and Pvts. R. E.| !0 see her and heard Jerry barking. | Blick and Robert L. Rison, in & cruis- | The door was locked. Four police- | ing car, gave pursuit because the | men and four plainclothes men help- ithin | €d break it in. alleged bandits were speeding. Within | d_ v v a few minutes their radio flashed the | “For the first time T ever was in number of the car and told of the|the house. Jerry didn't jump on me. northeast, opposite the Potomac Elec- | and now Jerry accompanies Bruce on | his paper route. George McNeil, attorney, has filed a petition with District Supreme Court asking appointment of an adminis- trator for Mrs. Pritchard’s estate. A society magazine tossed into the trash can by the proud one-time belle shortly before her death and rescued by Mrs. Fowler pictured her on its cover in a gorgeous gown and plumed hat she had worn to luncheon at the White House as bride of the North hold-up. | He took one look at us and disap- | As the police car gained Rison opened fire and succeeded in punc- turing one tire. Joined the pursuit. Hits Parked Machine. At Georgla and New Hampshire | avenues the alleged bandit car crashed ! into a parked machine. The men fled | in opposite directions, Policeman | Baron Soloman, tenth precinct, fol- Jowing Jones, who was captured in a vacant lot nearby. Jones was taken to headquarters and questioned by detectives. Soon afterward Detective Sergts. Leo Mur- ray and Daniel H. Jones located Eng- lish in a house in the 1000 block of Fifteenth street. When they en-| tered the house English attacked them and injured Murray with his fist. Together, however, the detec- | tives subdued him. ! | The fleeing men re- | turned the fire and other police cars | | Mrs. Fowler if he could have the dog. AB.C.UNITPLAN . : " w | Carolinian, who hed just been given peared ":.w Mrs. i’nbchards Tt et b5 oo oot Adopted” by Bruce. | after eight years in the Senate. Jerry was taken by the Animal| “One of the handsomest types of Rescue League, but Bruce Baty asked | .womanhood to be found in this coun- try,” this Washington Mirror, dated Mrs. Fowler arranged the “adoption,” | August 20, 1904, called Mrs. Pritchard. White-Collar List | Of Jobless Shows | D. C. Total 1,447 OUSTERACTIONS Liquor Employes Convicted in Felonies Within Last Ten | Clerks and Teachers Are Hit Hardest, Survey States. Years Must Go. l Clerks, teachers, salesmen and book- | keepers have been hard hit by lack of Recently at Lorton. At headquarters he gave his name | as Thomas Conroy, but he was identi- | fled as English. He was recently| released from Lorton Reformatory after serving a sentence for house- | breaking. | After preferring charges against the | two men, Murray was sent to Emer- gency Hospital for treatment. At the Fifteenth street house four other occupants were detained for in- vestigation. No charges were pre- ferred against them. They gave their names as Reginald Benjamin McGhee, 23; Malcolm Scott McGhee, 26; Woods Eastland Crudup, 22, and Mary Agnes Hook, 22, of 2200 Rosedale street, Baltimore. CHECK ON SENATORS | DUE TO REACH VOTE| La Follette, Pressing for Resolu- tion, Denies It Is Aimed at J. P. Pope. By the Associated Press. Senator La Follette, Progressive, of | Wisconsin, said today he would seek | action on his resolution to prevent any | member of the Senate from repre- senting this Government abroad either | in an official or unofficial capacity. | The young Wisconsin Senator, hop- ing to avoid any misunderstanding abroad because of visits by members of the National Legislature, said the resolution was not aimed at any par- ticular Senator. Senator Pope, Democral, of Idaho, is touring Europe now. He denied before his departure that he was go- ing in any official capacity. “The resolution is not aimed at any particular Senator,” said La Follette. “A group is going to the Philippines very soon (including Vice President Garner) and I am included in that group.” The resolution would give notice by the Senate that any Senator touring abroad does so wholly on his own and without either direct or indirect au- thority from the Senate or any of its committees. BURNT-CORK BANDIT HOLDS UP LIQUOR STORE Escapes in Auto With Two Com- panions After Taking $130 in Southwest Section. His face blackened with burnt cork or soot, a bandit last night held'up Smith’s liquor store, 609 Eleventh street southwest, and robbed the cash register of $130. He escaped in a car with two com- panions, who also had their faces blackened. The bandit entered the store with pistol drawn and ordered Leroy Tay- lor, in charge, to lie on the floor behind the counter. As Taylor com- plied, several customers entered, and were comanded to line up against the wall. SON HELD IN DEATH 72-Year-0ld Man Found in Home, Apparently Slain. Police today were investigating the death of Charles Henry Waters, 72, colored, 1417 Columbia street, whose body was found on the stairway of his home by his son, Charles B. Waters, shortly before 3 o'clock this morning. ‘Waters had a clothes line about his The Alcoholic Beverage Control employment here, as gauged by Board prepared today to bring about records made public by Elwood Street, ouster from the local liquor business welfare director. “several” employes found to have been| The “white collar” office of the convicted of. felonies within 10 years| Public Assistance Division of the Dis- prior to such employment. | trict has been closed for economy At the same time Commissioner |reasons and its 1447 current cases Hazen and George W. Offutt, A. B. C.| have been transferred to other di- Board chairman, declared the rule is| visions. “too harsh” and proposed an amend-| Records compiled by Mrs. Marjorie ment to be considered at the next|Clark, division secretary, shows the session of Congress. h | “white collar” relief clients include They believe sufficient protection to | 734 clerks, 227 teachers, 142 salesmen the industry and the public would be and 119 bookkeepers. afforded if the period was limited to| Others listed included 91 account- five or even three years after convic- ants, 89 typists, 35 registered nurses, tion. 43 engineers, 15 dieticians, 22 graduate “When a person has satisfied his | nurses, 26 practical nurses, 60 steno- debt to society and has a good record graphers, 15 lawyers, 17 printers, 18 thereafter for a reasonable period, I| artists, 4 actors, 4 reporters, 1 male believe he should not be deprived of | artists’ model, 17 translators, 13 musi- a means of unemployment,” said Of- futt. “However, habitual criminals should be definitely barred from any explain the men must be discharged or given other work in which they will not handle any alcoholic bever- ages. LEADS TO SENTENCE D. C. Man Also Fined in Traffic Cases After Hitting Officer at Arrest. An alleged assault on a policeman and nine traffic charges led to sen- tences totaling 90 days in jail and fines of $51 against Nathaniel N. Vann, 29, 410 Cedar street, when he was arraigned in both Police and Traffic Courts yesterday. Vann was arrested Thursday night by Policeman Lewis B. Peters of the eighth precinct, on charges of un- reasonable speed and no lights. When he stopped Vann at Georgia avenue and Piney Branch road, the policeman said, Vann declared he could not be locked up, whereupon he struck the policeman on the head with a flash- light. After his arrest Vann was charged, in addition to the offenses for which he was arrested, with assault, dis- obeying an official sign and having improper tags. Later investigation revealed there were five parking war- rants out against him. He was given 90 days on the assault charge by Judge Robert E. Mattingly in Police Court and fined $51 in Traffic Court by Judge John P. McMahon. COURT MATCHES DIRECT METHODS OF DEFENDANT Sam Brown, colored, a defendant in Traffic Court yesterday, does not be- lieve in beating around the bush. Sam pleaded guilty when arraigned before Judge John P. McMahon on charges of operating without a per- mit, improper lights and a defective horn. After the policeman had told his story the court asked the defendant whether he had anything to say. “Yes, sir,” replied Sam. “All right, what?” the judge asked. “How much?” Sam replied. ‘With just as much directness, Judge McMahon replied, “$35 or 35 days.” CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TOMORROW. Meeting, Mercantile Club, Hamilton Hotel, 1:30 p.m. Party, Lafayette Hotel, 5:30 pm. —— connection with the liquor business.” | Employers of the group concerned | are to be called in by the board to| ASSAULT ON POLICEMAN | neck, one end of it lashed to the bannister. Examination showed the " . elderly man had a cut in his scalp Tobacco Bill Signed. and that one eye was discolored. Cor-| President Roosevelt today signed the oner A. Magruder MacDonald or-|bill establishing and promoting the dered an autopsy. The son, mean-|use of standards of dlassification for while, is being held pending the out- | tobacco and creating an official to- come of the investigation, bacco inspection service. cians, 1 sculptor, 2 physicians, 2 | architects, 2 dentists, 1 mortician and 2 publjcity agents. 104,300 ATTENDED SUMMER CONCERTS Early Disposal of Barge Promised as Figures on Symphony Audiences Are Told. | Announcing that the total attend. |ance at all the concerts of the Na- tional Symphony Orchestra at the Watergate, near the Lincoln Memorial, during the Summer season was 104,- 300, C. Marshall Finnan, superintend- ent of the National Capital parks, sald yesterday the barge which ac- commodated the musicians will be moved immediately. The barge is the property of the Navy, having been brought here from Norfolk, Va. Just what disposition is to be made of it depends upon the outcome of negotiations between the naval authorities and those of the National Symphony Orchestra, Fin- nan said. The superstructure, with the sounding effects, was constructed with the aid of Federal Emergency Relief Administration workers, di- rected by William Haiber, engineer of the National Capital parks, who drew up the design. ‘The park authorities are anxious to have the barge moved without delay, inasmuch as ther is a gangway from the shore line to the craft. At the present time it is easily accessible, Finnan said, and might possibly be damaged by intruders. Finnan pointed out the public gave its patronage equally well on Sun- days and Wednesday evenings, the two occasions each week on which the ar- chestra was heard since July. There were 52,000 on Sundays altogether, and the grand total for Wednesdays was 52,300. CAMMERER TO START INSPECTION TRIP TODAY Park Director Will Join Senate Committee for Tour of West- ern Reservations. Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, prepared to leave Washington today for an in- spection trip to the Western parks. The director will go first to Chicago and Thursday will meet the Senate committe investigating parks and monuments of the Nation and ac- company the members westward. A. E. Demaray, associate director of the National Park Service, is now back at his desk here, following & long in- spection trip of Western parks. He will be the acting director in Cam- ment funds, also plans to go West to inspect parks, Indisn reservations other agencies, officials said. NEGROES SLIGHTED BY SECURITY ACT, ELKS' GROUP TOLD Provision for Domestics Is Lacking, Says Colored Woman Attorney. INEQUALITIES LIST TO BE SUBMITTED Educational and Economic Con- gress Session Discusses Diffi- culties of Women. Strong criticism of the new social security act as discriminative against Negroes was developing further today at an educational and economic con- gress sponsored by the colored Elks organization. Dr. Sadie Mossell Alexander, colored attorney, from Philadelphia, told last night's congress session in the Garnet- Patterson Junior High School the act was unfair to her race because it lacked provision for domestics. She estimated 92 per cent of all employed Negroes were domestics. A Committee on Findings, headed by Judge William C. Hueston, assist- ant Post Office Department solicitor during the Hoover administration, was to report today on alleged in- equalities of the act and recommend the appointment of a commission to work for inclusion of domestics in the benefits accorded by the pension plan. Difficulties of Women. The economic difficulties of colored women workers—factory hands, house- |hold servants, etc.—were the subject of discussions conducted this morning at the congress’ third session. Pro- posing possible remedies for discrim- ination against colored women, race leaders reviewed opportunities for fe- male employment and mentioned sev- eral types of special aid supplied by relief agencies. The forum was led by Mrs. Blanche Armwood Washington, formerly a county superintendent of public in. struction in Florida. Topics included “Opportunities for Negro Women in Organized Labor,” “Opportunities Offered by F. E. R. A. for Training and Employment of Colored Women,” “Nursery Schools—A Help to Women in Iudustry,” “National Youth Ad- ministration.” Miss Nannie Burroughs, president of the National Training School for Negro Girls, told last night's meeting that “unless the women of the world give to the race the highest type of man and womanhood, it will be im- possible for it to carry on its work.” Development of Races. Asserting that women had a deeper sense of spiritual values than men and, therefore, were more responsible for race progress, Miss Burroughs de- clared races were not “built upon wealth and power” but were “devel- oped by the fireside and in the educa- tional institution.” “If the Negro race is to live in the civilization of this time the women will have to produce men and women who are to be educated in the eco- nomic and social order,” Miss Bur- roughs said. Other speakers, including J. Finley Wilson, grand exalted ruler of Negro Elks, and Perry W. Howard, Repub- lican national committeeman from Mississippi, protested alleged discrim- ination against Negroes by bus com- panies and hotels and scored the dis- franchisement of race members in some Southern States. Wilson said “the nation cannot survive” if Negroes are barred from the polls. ‘The Congress planned to petition the Interstate Commerce Commission to include in its bus regulations provisions guaranteeing equal treatment to col- ored passengers. Negro bus travelers are subjected to discomfort and refused proper accommodations, the conference was told. Baccalaureate Exercises. Baccalaureate exercises for college students supported by Elks’ scholar- ships who graduated this year will be held at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church at 11 am. tomorrow. Rev. Charles Wesley is to deliver the bac- calaureate sermon, while Rev. George Avant, Elks’ grand chaplain, will pre- side. The program includes music by the Elks’ Grand Temple Chorus. A meeting of the Elks’ Scholarship Alumni Association, Judge Hueston presiding, will be held at 9 a.m. Mon- day 4t the Metropolitan Baptist Church. The educational and economic con- ference is a preliminary to the Thirty- sixth Annual Negro Elks’ Convention, which begins tomorrow with a bathing beauty contest at Carrs Beach, memo- rial services at the grave of Henry Lincoln Johnson, a band concert and evening religious services. LIQUOR STORES TO STOP CASHING RELIEF CHECKS Agree to Take Away Temptation to Workers to Spend Money for Drink. Members of the Exclusive Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association have de- cided to stop cashing emergency re- lief checks given relief clients by the Distrit Government. The purpose is to take away the temptation of relief clients to buy drink with their relief allowances for food, clothing and other necessities, District Government. Elwood Street, welfare director, said there had been something of a “prob- lem” in this regard, particularly con- cerning men paid off at the District wood yard. He asked the liquor dealers for advice. Manuel H. Davis, secretary, informed Street yesterday the association by resolution had decided to stop cashing such checks. Each member is asked to post a notice of the rule. Davis suggested that grocery stores President Andrew Jackson rushed from the White House 100 years ago today to watch the Grasshopper engine pull the first railroad train into Washington after a breath-taking two-hour trip from Baltimore, 40 miles away. Yesterday the yellow steam puffer, which drew a two-car train until 1893 and can still move under its own steam, went on exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, where workmen are shown installing the old Awaxwork figure of Joseph West, who drove the original He had only one square foot of space to B. & O. locomotive, officially known as the Atlantic iron horse on its first trip to the Capital, will be put in the engine. EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1935. stand in while he operated the throttle, reverse lever and brake. D.C. ON COURSE OF RECORD PLANE Six Seaplane Marks Object of Flight Being Made Today. Attempting to establish six world seaplane records for speed and dis- tance with loads, Brig. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commander of the General Headquarters Air Force. took off from Langley Field, Va., at 9:45 am. today in a new, high-speed Martin B-12-W bombardment airplane to fly two laps of a triangular course, with its cor- ners at Bolling Field, Floyd Bennett Airport, N. Y., and Langley Field. Gen. Andrews will fly the 12427 miles without relief. ing a copilot, but is accompanied by Staff Sergt. Joseph G. Moran, crew chief in charge of the big bombard- ment airplane, as mechanic. Moran formerly was stationed at Bol- ling Field and was transferred to Langley Field last Spring, when the G. H. Q. Air Force was established. Ship Flies at Ceiling. Official crews composed of repre- sentatives of the-National Aeronautic Association, the National Committe for Aeronautics ®nd the ‘Weather Bureau have been stationed at Bolling Field, Langley Field lnd‘ Floyd Bennett Airport to check the progress of the flight and to conduct the official timing. The flight is being made at near the extreme ceiling of the bomber and the big ship is not expected to be visible to the naked eye when it passes over Washington on its two laps, at about noon and midafter- noon. Varied Records Sought. ‘The records sought by Gen. An- drews are speed without load for 1,000 kilometers, or 621 miles; speed without load for 2,000 kilometers, or 1,242.7 miles; speed for 1,000 kilom- eters with pay load of 500 kilograms, or 1,102 pounds; speed for 1,000 kilometers with pay load of 1,000 kilo- grams, or 2,204 pounds; speed for 2,000 kilometers with pay load of 500 kilograms, and speed for 2,000 kilo- meters with pay load of 1,00C kilograms. All six records now are held by the United States, having been estab- lished last year by Boris Sergievsky, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and Edwin Musick in the Sikorsky S-42 flying boat at Bridgeport, Conn. O Lot ROOSEVELT ORDERS 8-HOUR-DAY LIMIT W. P. A. Executive Offices Here Say - Edict Not to Change Operations in District. ‘The Federal and District govern- ments must see to it that no one engaged in public works employment shall work more than eight hours a day, according to an executive order issued today by President Roosevelt. “This will not affect the District at all,” William C. Cleary, assistant deputy administrator for the W. P. A, in the District, sald when informed of the order. “We are not working anybody on our jobs over eight hours & day.” In the order the President specified that it shall have precedence over any previous order dealing with the eight- hour day on public works. NEW NAVY PLANE TEST T0 BE HELD HERE SOON The first plane produced at the Naval Aircraft Factory at Philadel- passed in March, 1934, for upbuilding the Navy, will come to Washington He is not carry- | Sergt. | Advisory | Stamp Shortage Curtails Action of | Traffic“Spotters” Brown Says Effective| Police Campaign Also Reason. A shortage of stamps has led to temporary curtailment of operations of the 200 volunteer “spotters” who were named several months ago to ald in the traffic educational campaign | by reporting motorists who violated regulations. | Lack of appropriations for stamps | {and forms to be sent to motorists were given by Maj. Ernest Brown as two principal reasons for the cux-“ tailment. The police superintendent added, however, that another reason is the | success of the present traffic safety | campaign by police who arrest the | traffic offenders. The latter campaign began its sixth week today. | 'FARM BUYING HELD BETTER BY WALLACE Purchasing Increases as Disparity | of Prices Is Narrowed, Sec- retary Asserts. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 24 —Secretary of Agriculture Wallace declared yes- | terday that the disparity between the prices of agricultural and other com- modities has been narrowed and that the national economic emergency has been relieved by increased farm pur- chasing power. In an article written for Editor and Publisher, newspaper trade weekly, Wallace said that in 1934 farmers had | left for living expenses after payment of operating costs $3,260,000,000. He | added: “In other words, the income avail- able to spend on automobiles and tractors, newspapers and radios, cloth- ing and furniture and so on down the list, had more than doubled be- tween 1932 and 1934.” He estimated that this year will bring an increase in farm income of approximately $2,000,000,000, or about 40 per cent above the 1934 level. “With most of the unwieldly, price- depressing surpluses disposed of,” said ‘Wallace, “the time for drastic reduc- tion is over, and the time for con- trolled expansion, for continuing ad- justment is here.” COERCION IS CHARGED TO GILLETTE RAZOR CO. Trade Commission Alleges Iliegal Measures to Force Resale Prices Fixed by Company. By the Associated Press. The Federal Trade Commission is- sued a citation yesterday charging the Gillette Safety Razor Co. with using illegal coercive measures to force job- bers, wholesalers and retailers to charge uniform resale prices fixed by the company. The citation alleged the company kept track of all shipment of its prod- ucts and refused to sell to dealers who did not apply the fixed prices. ‘The Gillette company was given un- til September 27 to show cause why a cease-and-desist order should pot be issued. NATION TO MARK DATE President Signs Resolution for Constitution Observance. Nation-wide observance of Constitution’s 150th anniversary is as- sured under a resolution approved by President Roosevelt. The measure, signed at the White House yesterday, provides for appoint- ment of a Sesquicenteanial Constitu- tion Commission to prepare plans for observing September 17, 1937, as the historic document’s official birthday. A fund of $1(,000 also was provided. Man Asks Divorce. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 24 (Spe- cial) —Isaac A. Smith has filed suit in Circuit Court here for an absolute WOMANSUCCUMBS 10 AUTO INJURIES AS 3 ARE SAVED Three Washington Autoists Are Pulled From Burn- ing Car. FOUND UNCONSCIOUS IN WRECK AT WESTMORE Hit-and-Run Driver Sought After Serious Injury of Boy, 2, on G Street. Mrs. Isabel A. Flora, 45, of 6616 Piney Branch road, wife of Charles W. Flora, member of the legal staff of the controller general's office, died early today in Walter Reed Hos- pital of injuries received Monday when she is reported to have walked into the side of an automobile at Piney Branch and Blair roads. Three Washingtonians were saved from death about 2 am. today when they were pulled unconscious from their blazing automobile, which had run off the road, hit a tree and caught fire at Westmore, Md Miss Alma Klaus, 32, of 916 Ritten- house street; Miss Barbara Lee Ed- wards, 27, of 1667 Monroe street, and Louis M. Gouriou, 1510 Twenty-first street, were knocked unconscious in the mishap. They were pulled from the burning car by three Washing- ton men who drove up shortly after- ward, and were taken to George- town University Hospital, where they are under treatment for various injuries. Three Rescuers. Their rescuers were Vernon Lyon of the Stoneleigh Court Apartments, & member of the staff of Brookings Institute; Walter Millett, 2620 Thir- teenth street, an official of the sales | station, numbering 17 in all. ~—Star Staff Photo. BLAST AT POST CAUSED B COLS Utilities Engineer Reports Transformer Explosion Circumstances. Failure of a portion of the coils in the transformer in front of the Post Building was indicated today by Fred A. Sager, chief engineer of the Public Utilities Commission, as a first cause of the explosion there August 14, which injured several persons. The explosion might have been pre- | vented, however, had a circuit breaker | in & transformer at the Treasury De- | partment, attached to the same net- work of power lines, worked properly, Sager reported to the commission. Because the Treasury switch was not “kicked off” by the short circuit in the Post transformer, he found, power was fed back into that plant through the Treasury unit. . Sager recommended a change in the type of insulation employed in transformers with a view to prevent- igg explosions where there is a short circuit in the coils. He also suggested -strict mainte- nance of all protective devices at places not owned by or controlled by the power company, such as those at the Treasury, which is owned by the Federal Government and not subject to power company control. If this is not done, then separate high-tension cables should be installed to feed such plants, he added. Investigation of the whole case, he said, showed circuit-breakers at the Post operated, as well as those at the power company and its H street sub- The one at the Treasury was found to be the only one not to operate promptly. No definite reason was assigned for the failure of the coils in the Post transformer. GLASS CHALLENGED T0 DEBATE SERIES Announced Opponent Mails Letter ‘Which Is Ignored by Vir- ginia Senator. force of the Southern Dairies. and Leo Hochstter of the Chastleton Apartments. Miss Klaus, who was driving the car which caught fire, is believed to have gone to sleep at the wheel and lost control. She suffered a broken left arm, cuts about the face and body and shock. Miss Edwards suffered cuts about the head, arms and legs and shock. Gouriou suffered fractures to the arm and leg, severe cuts about the eyes and face. All were reported to be only semi-conscious at the hospital. The injured tric had attended a dinner at Braddock Heights, a resort near Frederick, «Md., and were en route to Washington when the mis- nap occurred. Their rescuers said when they arrived on the scene of the accident, about a mile west of Rock- ville, they found a crowd of people standing around but no one making a move to aid the injured trio. Child of 2 Injured. Meanwhile, Washington police today were seeking a hit-and-run driver who late yesterday struck and seri- ously injured Victor Leo Brown, 2, of 203 G street, while the boy was play- ing near his home. The child was treated at Casualty Hospital for severe head injuries and transferred to Chil- dren’s Hospital, where his condition today was said to be improved. Two Baltimoreans were slightly in- turned over and caught fire after first striking a parked truck and an elec- tric light pole in the 3100 block of Rhode Island avenue northeast—after their machine had been sideswiped by a hit-and-run automobile. ‘The driver, Woodrow Crabson, 26, and Porothy Raichert, 18, were pinned beneath the overturned car and were pulled from under it by an attendant at a nearby gasoline station. They were taken to Casualty Hospital, where the young woman was treated for burns about the legs and Crabson for injuries to his side. They were re- leased from the hospital. Driver Disappears. The hit-and-run driver kept going west on Rhode Island avenue after the accident. The Crabson machine had skidded and traveled out of control for about 150 feet, police said, before crashing into the parked truck. Morris Fox, 63, of 3312 Reservoir road, chief operator for the Postal Telegraph Co., suffered cuts and bruises and possibly a jaw fracture today when struck by a one-man car at Pifteenth street and Pennsylvania javenue. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. The street car was operated by Thomas Young of Rockville, Md. police said. Richard R. McClellan, 12, of 317 Third street southeast, narrowly escaped serious injury yesterday when a door to an automobile in front of him was opened, causing him to fall By the Associated Press. Randolph Leigh,, announced oppo- nent of Carter Glass for the Virginia Democratic senatorial nomination from his bicycle under a truck in the 1300 block of Wisconsin avenue, He escaped with bruises, police said. Driven by Aviator. next year, today challenged Glass to| The driver of the automobile in the & debate on the question of whether | accident in which Mrs. Flora was in- the Senator is a “supporter of Presi- | jured was Capt. Wililam C. Taylor, dent Roosevelt.” an aviator, of Takoma Park, Md. The challenge reached the Senator’s | Funeral services for Mrs. Flora will office in the morning mall before |be held Monday at 2 p.m. in the Glass arrived for work. But at his hotel, Senator Glass said: “Just say I don’t care to take any motice of Mr. Leigh.” “I invite you to debate with me in Lynchburg, Alexandria, Norfolk and Richmond on the following topie: ‘Re- solved, that Senator Glass’ record from 1933 to date entitled him to be enrolled as a supporter of President Roosevelt,’” the Leigh challenge read. NORTHUMBERLAND LIST OF NOMINEES IS GIVEN Qualified Democratic Candidates Are Announced for Fall Election. Special Dispatch to The Star. HEATHSVILLE, Va., August 24—A B. Garner, chairman of the Northum- berland County Democratic Commit- Takoma Park Baptist Church. Her death was the third resulting from injuries received in District traffic accidents since the traffic safety campaign began about five weeks ago. One other death oc- curring in the period was from in- juries received in January. A total of 14 deaths occurred dur- ing the five weeks immediately pre- ceding the campaign. TWO $5 FORFEITURES ON SANITARY WARRANTS First Returns on 23 Actions Al- lowed on Recommendation of Corporation Counsel. The first two returns in 23 war- rants issued recently against eating places for insanitary conditions in their the | today Uowing list | Places of business have resulted in b 'qu.m;,m D?:::f.fi‘ g Yo | the forfeiture in Police -Court of $5 the Fall election: each by George Mastosian, 2028 Rhode Senate, R. O. Norris, jr., of Lan-|Island avenue northeast, and Christ caster County; House of Delegates, | Hulls, 1900 Fourth street northeast. Northumberland and Westmoreland | The forfeitures were on recommenda- Counties, Charles E. Stuart, Montross; | tion of the corporation counsel’s office. treasurer, Carroll J. Rowe, Heaths- Mastosian was charged by Inspector ville; commissioner of the revenue, | Edward P. Goodwin of the Health De- J. 8. Hudnall of Heathsville; sheriff, | partment with having an unclean J. E. Anderson, Heathsville; Common- | cellar and kitchen floor. The same in- wealth’s attorney, Daniel Weymouth, |spector charged Hulis and his two J. E. Anderson, Heathsville; common- | brothers with insanitary floors, steril- Heathsville; county clerk, H. M.|izer and garbage can. The case members of the | against the brothers was nolle prossed. Walker, Heathsville; Board of Supervisors, Wicomico dis- trict, Ira D. Hinton, Browns Store; Fairfields district, Dr. R. L. Hudnall, Heathaville district, H. W. Gill; district, Alfred Allen, Lew- isetta; justice of the peace, T. Bouldin, These are the first vel issued several da of Dr. George C. Ruhland, health of- ficer, against insanitary conditions in ‘public eating places throughout the eity.