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Washington News 82,000 D. C. PUPILS BACK AT SCHOOL; GAIN OF 4,000 SEEN Routine Class Work Begins Tomorrow—Two Build- ings Opened. GRADUAL INCREASES TO 94,000 EXPECTED Problem of Non-Resident Stu- dents Will Be Decided Later. Two Schools Bar Them. Vacation for some 82,000 school children ended today when assign- ments to new classes, class rooms and school buildings began at 9 am. in the 174 elementary, vocational, junior and senior high schools of this city. Routine class work, however, will not begin until tomorrow, when the | schedule will continue until 3 p.m. Shorter sessions were held in many of the schools today, ending when the new classes were organized and as- signments of first lessons were made. The anticipated enrollment of 82.- | 000 is based on figures of past years and allows for an increase of aproxi- mately 4,000 pupils. Actual figures, | however, on the first day's enrollment | will not be compiled until the close | of the schools this afternoon and the | reports of principals can be submitted | to the statistical office at the Frank- lin Administration Building. Newcomers Expected. The largest new group expected s, | as usual, new Kindergarten and first grade pupils. Close to 7,500 children | 5 and 6 years of age are in this | classification. Other newcomers will | be transferred from other cities. To offset these two groups were last June’s high school graduates and the pupils whose families have moved away from Washington. Although one new senior high school and grammar school addjtion he Zpening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1935. FHF Vacation Play Days End as Thousands Begin Annual School Grind TWO MEN INJURED AS CAR HTS TAY Judge Hitt Boosts Minimum Speeding Fine From $5 to $10. were opened today for the first time, and another new high school and a junior high school addition are to be ready within the next month, the net gain of 4,000 will continue to | overcrowd the system just as it has | been for a number of years. The physical additions to the system have | fallen steadily behind the enroliment | gains since before 1929. | At Woodrow Wilson High School, on Nebraska avenue between Wisconsin and Connecticut avenues, an enroll- | ment of 500 was anticipated, relieving to that extent Western and Central High Schools. The new plant, which has already cost $1,350,000 and for which landscaping and the construc- tion of an athletic stadium remain to be completed, will have a capacity of 1,500 pupils. The plant-now con- talns 26 class rooms, a large number of laboratories and special rooms, two gymnasiums and an auditorium that will seat 1,200. Nelson New Principal. Norman J. Nelson, formerly assist- ant principal at Western High School, | is the new principal and welcomed his new charges today. Nelson was suc- ceeded at Western by Robert Anderson, formerly statisticlan for the school | system. Applicants for the statisti- cian's post have until Saturday to ask for appointment, the post still being Paul Rivers, 22, of 1207 Emerson street, may have suffered a fractured |neck and his companion, Seymour Casden, 22, same address, a severe arm bruise in a traffic accident on Sherman avenue near Barry place this | morning. The two were riding in a taxicab| and were thrown against the roof | when an autombile driven by Leon Chamberlin, 31, of 3417 Hblmead place, crashed into the rear of the cab, police said. The two were taken to Garfield Hospital by the cab driver. Casden | was released after treatment, while| Rivers was admitted for observation. Speeding Fines Raised. Meanwhile Judge Isaac R. Hitt an-| nounced in Traffic Court he will, ex- cept in rare cases, raise the minimum fine for speeding from $5 to $10. The maximum under the law is $25. Judge Litt also followed up his de-| nouncement of the operation of me- chanically deficient trucks and auto- mobiles by fining Will Zigler and Joseph Butler $25 each for operat-| ing cars with defective brakes. | Two other persons are in hospitals here suffering from injuries received in accidents yesterday and last night. Mechanic Loses Arm. In the only serious accident here, Noah W. Tabor, 35, of 1138 Seventh [Police Sift Mysterious Fac- |: FATAL SHOOTING OF WOMAN PROBED <o | street northeast. a mechanic, lost an Perhags the most confusing task of | arm when pinioned against the win- the opening day was the temporary gow of a Capital Transit Co. bus in assignment of some 500 pupils as- | which he was a passenger, as it col- signed to the new Anacostia High jiged with another bus of the same School, which after October 1 will| company at Twenty-second street and house both junior and senior high school grades. Chester W. Holmes, new principal there, directed the work of making | the temporary arrangements. Pupils at Anacostia will come from the Ran- dle Highlands, Ketcham-Van Buren, Congress Heights, Stanton and Ben- ning Schools. Later others will be| transferred from Eastern, which is | badly overcrowded. Those entering the junior high classes reported 15| minutes early today at the Van Buren | annex, Congress Heightc and Randle Highlands Schools. Eastern High School conducted two separate openings. Since the plant | is not large enough to care for all pupils at one time, half the student body reported at ® am. and will re- main in classes until 12:30 pm. The | other half reported at 1 p.m. and will | remain in class until 5 pm. This| schedule will be followed throughout the year. May Get New Teachers. Provisions have been made for the addition of a number of teachers, but until the actual enrollment by schools can be checked, it was said at the Pranklin School today, the number to be given jobs cannot be determined. Non-resident pupils: were banned entirely today, but provisions will be made for them after the rush of the first few days. Roosevelt and Eastern will accept no non-residents at all this year. On Thursday Central and McKinley will determine whether non-residents may be accommodated. Next Monday Western will decide if 1t has room. Woodrow Wilson will re- ceive applicants from Maryland only. Last year there were 2,470 non-resi- dent pupils in the system. Night schools also will open tonight. Classes in the white schools will open at Central, McKinley and Roosevelt High Schools, Hine Junior High School, Abbot Vocational School and Webster School at 6:30 pm. Classes will be held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. In the colored schools, night classes will open at Armstrong and Car- dozo High Schools, Randall and Gar- net-Patterson Junior High Schools, Phelps Vocational School and the Briggs, Burrville, Lovejoy and Stevens Elementary Schools. After the enrollment of 82,000 to- day, estimated increases are a total of 87,000 tomorrow, 89,000 Wednesday, 89,500 Thursday, 92,000 by next Thursday and 94,000 by November 1. Chicagoan to Lecture. A lecture, “Christian Science, Not s Mere Name, but Absolute Science,” will be delivered by Bicknell Young, C. 8. B, of Chicago tomorrow at & pm. at the First Church of Christ, tist, Columbia road and Euclid ewere killed, three of them nuns, Bunker Hill road northeast. Tabor’s arm was hanging from the shoulder by a small piece of flesh when he was taken to Sibley Hospi- tal, where physicians found it neces- sary to complete the amputation. The bus in which Tabor was riding | | was being driven by Paul W. Baker, 27, who lives at the same address as the injured man. The other bus, which, police say, was making a U turn at the time of the crash, was driven by Curtis G. Mason, 26, of Ballston, Va., driver of the excursion bus involved in the ac- cident on Defense Highway August 20, in which five automobile passengers Benjamin F. Wood, 25, of Benedict, | Md., was injured when his motor cycle collided with an automobile last night on the Bryantown road. Partial reports, compiled by the As- sociated Press, from only 24 States showed more than 80 persons killed in week end traffic accidents. SIX KILLED IN RICHMOND AREA. Traffic Accidents Take Heavy Toll. ‘Woman Dies of Shock. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, September 23.—Six persons died in or near Richmond from automobile accident injuries over the week end and a seventh, a woman, died of fright when she heard the widow of one victim scream at word of her husband’s death. The dead: Ted Burrell, 28, Greens- boro, N. C,, a truck driver, killed in a head-on crash on the Washington- Richmond Highway 40 miles from this city. Crash With Tree Fatal Joseph Self, 28, Bowling Creen, Va., killed yesterday when his ice truck struck & tree near Bowling Green. Mrs. Sarah Andrews, 51, Bowling Green, a neighbor of Self, died of shock on news of his death. Miss Irene Gentry, 22, Philadel- phia, died in Richmond Memorial Hospital from injuries received in a crash here September 8. John A. Tremper, 28, Craddock, Va., died in Memorial Hospital yes- terday from injuries received Satur- day. Found hurt on the Washington Highway, he was brought in by C. C. C. workers. Driver and Companion Held. Zora White, 27, colored, Richmond, instantly killed in a Richmond crash yesterday for which a man was charged as a hit-and-run driver and his companion charged with alding and abetting a felony. E. H. Nichols, 41, of Farmville, killed Saturday when his car struck s tree on Broad Street road, near Rich- mond. jin the room for | tors, Despite Death-Bed Statement of Suicide. Despite a death-bed statement of | suicide, investigators today continued to sift mysterious factors in the fatal shooting Saturday of Mrs. Evelyn Jordan, 23, in a room at 419 New Jersey aveuue southeast. ‘The young wo- man, through some unexplained circumstance, lay bleeding to death almost six hours after police and an ambulance, responding to an alarm of a “shooting” at the address, left on being informed there was “no premises. Two men are being held as wit- nesses at an inquest Wednesday— Fred Taylor, 60, said by police to have occupied the room in which the dying woman was found, and Harry Frye, 37, of the 600 block of Massachusetts avenue, with whom Mrs. Jordan said she had “an argument.” Police Are Sent Away. Mrs. Jordan was not found until shortly after midnight, when she was removed to Casualty Hospital. At 6:30 that evening an anonymous tele- phone call had been received at No. 5 precinct, reporting “a shooting” at the New Jersey avenue address. Two officers in a radio scout car, a headquarters detective and an am- bulance from Casualty Hospital re- sponded. They reported that on ar- riving at the address they were in- formed by a woman said to have been in charge of the premises and two boarders that there had been ‘“no trouble.” Believing it was a false alarm, the officers and ambulance went away. Sald She Shot Herself. ‘The next telephone call said “a fight” had occurred at the address. Returning, the officers found the dying woman. She told them she had shot herself nearly six hours earlier because she had had an argument with Frye and “didn’t want to live any more.” Mrs. Jordan died shortly after her arrival at the hospital of a bullet wound under the left breast. A .32- caliber gun containing one exploded shell was found near where the woman was lying. A note on the window sill of the room said, “When something happens pleare notify my brother, Guy Purdy, or Harry Frye or John Orton.” Occupants of the house said they heard groans issuing from the room shortly after midnight and promptly notified police on finding that Mrs. Jordan had been shot. Mrs. Evelyn Jordan. trouble” on the| , graders. MARINE CLEARED 3 E. G. Fischer, “Tide Forecaster” Inventor, Is Victim of Cancer Dies 17 Years Short of Mark He Hoped to Ob- tain by Exercise. Engineer, Educated in Germany, Was Honored by Franklin Institute. Ernst Georg Fischer, whose remark- able tide-predicting machine aids mariners all over the world, died yes- terday—17 years short of the century mark he had hoped to attain through daily indulgence in vigorous exercise. Since his retirement, amid honors, from the Coast and Geodetic Survey 13 years ago, Mr. Fischer had defied physicians who warned him that his practice of skipping rope, running, rowing and swimming regularly at the Central Y. M. C. A. would imapir his heart. Early yesterday he succumbed at | Garfield Hospital—not from a weak- ened heart, but from a cancer that even his excellent physical condition could not combat. Only last year— before the malignant disease attacked him—nhe told a Star reporter he would continue his gym workouts until he was 100 years old. Invention Brought Acclaim. Mr. Fischer's internationally ac- claimed “brass brain"—an object of wonder to thousands of visitors to the Department of Commerce—won for him widespread recognition. Last year the Franklin Institute of Phila- delphia awarded him the Howard M. Potts Gold Medal for “a lifetime spent with marked success in the design of instruments of precision for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.” Mr. Fischer worked for 15 years to perfect his “tide forecaster,” which has become a monument to his in- ventive ingenuity and mechanical skill. By a turn of a crank this ma- chine can calculate not only the height of the tide at any place and on any date in the future, but can turn back the pages of time and give tidal figures of ancient days. For ex- ample, the machine is capable of cal- culating the state of the tide when Columbus landed at Santo Domingo in 1492, To produce these astounding results the machine must be supplied with certain data on tide cycles, readily obtainable. The machine even has a gadget for taking care of leap years in its calculations. Retired in 1922. The Franklin Institute’s citation pointed out that Mr. Fischer entered the Instrument Division of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1887 and served as chief of this division until his retirement, in 1932. “During this time,” the institute said, “he was responsible for many new designs and improvements in the instrumental design and improvement in the instrumental equipment of the survey. A list compiled for Col. E. Lester Jones, director of the survey in 1922, contains 24, including stand- ard S-meter base bars, standard half- second pendulum, tide gauges, arti- ficial horizon, interferometer, geodetic "~ ERNST GEORG FISCHER. level, tide-predicting machine, transit micrometer, 12-inch direction theo- dolites, astronomical transits and pres- sure sounding tube.” On the day of his reticement Mr. Fischer went through a roPe-skipping routine in his office to show his agility. Educated in Germany. Mr. Fischer was born August 6, 1852, in Baltimore, but at the age of 2 he went to Dresden, Germany, where he attended elementary schools and studied and worked as an en- gineer until 1870. Then he returned to America, taking up private en- gineering practice until he joined the Coast and Geodetic Syrvey. He was a member of the Philo- sophical Society, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Cosmos Club and the Society of Washington En- gineers. His wife, Mrs. Julia Frances Lawson Fischer, died in 1915. He re- sided with friends at the Franklin Park Hotel. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Sergeon’s Funeral Par- lors. Interment was in Rock Creek Cemetery, PENNSYLVANIA SLASHES CRACK TRAIN SCHEDULE Running Time to New York Will Be Cut to 3 Hours and 45 Minutes Sunday. The Pennsylvania Railroad will inaugurate 3-hour-and-45-minute serv- ice between Washington and New York, beginning Sunday, it was an- nounced today. This schedule will be followed by the crack Congressional and will mean a reduction of 30 minutes in the running time under that before the electrification of the line. Along with the cut in the time of the Congressional, that of other pas- senger trains will be lowered also. The Congressional now makes the trip in 3 hours and 55 minutes. Be- fore electrification the running time was 4 hours and 15 minutes, 1—Eugene Francis, 6 (right), is being shown the “ropes” on his first day at school by his big brother John, 8, and Selma Packer, 9. It's Eugene's first day. 2—Miss Elizabeth Hazard, teach- er, starts the day off right for her kindergarten class by telling a good story, 3—Mildred Bladen, who led the parade to the new Woodrow Wilson igh School. Classes didn't begin until 9 o'clock, but Mildred ar- rived at 7:30. Here she is waiting for her future classmates to show up. 4—John Bruett, 13, acts as monitor and passes out the new textbooks to his fellow fifth- —Star Staff Photos. INFATAL SHOOTING Coroner’s Jury Holds Guard at Bellevue Used Gun in Line of Duty. A coroner’s jury this afternoon de- clared Marine Corps Pvt. John F. Whitmore used his pistol in perform- ance of duty Saturday, when he shot and killed John Donald Moriarty, 25, | while the latter was seated in an au- tomobile inside the entrance gate to the Bellevue Magazine. This decision exonerates Whitmore in so far as civil authorities are con- cerned. OLD TUBERCULOSIS HOSPITAL'S PLACE INBUDGET UPHELD Allen Urges Funds Be Given It for Entire Next Fis- cal Year. PETITIONS TO CONVERT TO OTHER USES ON FILE | Hazen Holds Building Unsuitable and Wants to Concentrate on Glenn Dale. Society and General PAGE B—1 SUPPLENENT AID HELD REQURED BY LOW RELEF WAG Commissioner Allen Faces Problems Accumulated in Absence. WAITING WORK INCLUDES SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM Elwood Street Already Receiving Petitions for Extra Help, but Holds Up Action. Appropriation of funds for continued | operation of the old Tuberculosis Hos- pital, Fourteenth and Upshur streets, for the entire next fiscal year, was recommended today by Commissioner George E. Allen. ‘The question is at issue in framing of a tentative budget for 1937. now before the Commissioners, and arose because of oetitions to convert the property to other municipal purposes after the new tuberculosis hospitals at Glenn Dale, Md,, are finished. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen is convinced the location of the old hos- pital is not suitable to its use and de- sires to centralize tuberculosis hos- pitalization at Glenn Dale, except for terminal cases at Gallinger Hospital. He has been considering an appro- priation for continuing its operation only until January, 1937, figuring the effect of its abandonment wouid be known before that time. Need for Old Plant Seen. ‘The Fourteenth street building must be operated up to September 1, when the new adult tuberculosis hospital is | cer George C. Ruhland and Dr. J. Winthrop Peabody, general superin- tendent of tuberculosis hospitals, both | contend the old plant will be needed | after the new buildings are opened. Medical leaders say there should be at least one bed for each death for proper tuberculosis control; some say there should be two beds per death There are some 600 deaths per year here from tuberculosis. When the adult tuberculosis hoepital at Glenn Dale is finished, there will be 400 beds in that building, and with completion of additions to the Children’s Sana- torium at Glenn Dale that plant will have 300 beds. There are 125 pa- tients under care at Gallinger Hos- pital. 6,000 Cases Held Unreported. Dr. Ruhland contends there are some 6,000 tub2rculosis cases here not reported. The number registered | is about 6,000. His proposed tuber- culosis case-finding campaign, he be- lieves, will reveal many cases needing hospitalization. culosis hospital next year and for some | increase in its staff, Dr. Peabody has proposed $196,000 for the 1937 budget. e, ' PLEADS INNOCENCE OF LOAN CHARGES Whitmore and two sailors, who were | with him at the time of the shooting, were scheduled to face a naval court of inquiry this afternoon appointed by Rear Admiral Joseph R. Defrees, commandant of the navy yard. The sailors are R. F. Burton and R. Bak- ken, first-class radiomen, stationed on duty at Bellevue. Gun Used in Line of Duty. Jacob Rubin, first person arrested in a drive by Corporation Counsel E Barrett Prettyman against violators of the “small loans” act, pleaded not guilty when arralgned before Judge Walter J. Casey in Police Court today. The case was continued to October 2 In requesting the continuance, Jeff Lichtenberg, attorney, announced his client reserved the right to demand a scheduled to be finished. Health Offi- | For continuation of the old tuber- | The jury held the gun was used by jury trial and file any preliminary Whitmore “in the performance of his | motions by October 2. It depends on duties according to regulations issued ' circumstances whether his client will by the commandant of his post and | eventually select a jury trial, the law- approved by the Secretary of the | yer said. Navy.” 3 Rubin, who operates the United Lieut. George C. Wright, officer of | Finance Co., 943 New York avenue, the day at the magazine when the |contends he is not operating a small shooting took place, testified on the | loan company. stand that Whitmore had told him| In the two cases on which Rubin that he had started to hit Moriarty | was arraigned, it is stated by his at- on the head with his pistol when some | torney that Edward M. Curran, assist- one hit his arm and the gun was ant corporation counsel assigned to accidentally fired. the prosecution of all such cases, of- Whitmore did not take the stand.{fered to permit Rubin to settle last Lieut. Wright was questioned during | week because the loans were made the inquest as to the orders under | prior to the September 15 deadline set Supplementary relief must be pro- vided numercus families on the relief | rolls, whose needs cannot be covered by the “subsistence” wages under the works program, Ccmmissioner George E. Allen declared today on his return from vacation. Allen started at once to wrestle with a number of relief problems that arose in his month's absence on a trip to | the West Coast. Effects on the de- mobilization of transient relief, delay in starting the free school lunch pro- gram and the questicn of shortening | hours of work for thore engaged in | the Works Progress Acministration system were being studied. | Allen. who is relief administrator and works progress administrator for | the District, said the granting of supe | plementary relief to workers in ‘t new employment program is a problem” that was recognized mo | ago. | Supplementary Aid Required. “Members of large fam in the lower wage brackets W. P. A. program cannot get by and must be given suppl tary relief,” he declared. “If F rules forbid use of Federal relief or works grants for this purpose, then it will have to be met otherwise. “The problem is there and must be met.” Elwood Street, welfare stated last week he was receiving petitions for extra aid, but had to withhold action until the Commis sioners planned new measures. “The Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration has notified us that their fulds are not to be used for supple- mentation,” he said, “and asked us not to use our local funds the problem would be met, uld not say until he made further study of details, he said. W . the past m transients, Allen voiced c new transients co funds and ineligible new works program or regul trict relief, Arrivals 120 Per Day. Director Street had reported last week that new transients had beex arriving here at the rate of more | than 120 per day. No new transients could be added to the Transient Bue reau list after last Friday midnight. The transient program is to be com- pletely deinobilized by November 1 by transfer of cases to work rolls or to C. C. C. camps, or by being sent back to their homes. Arrangements care here of this as their sent back her State wo! left to de imum hc A as res L. Hopkins, Federal W. P. A. head, witi union labor. The old rule was a min- imum of 120 hours a month. In the District those on the new program ing about 140 hours a director, be made s who cl Bitter Fight Waged. Organized labor has waged a bitter | fight against the rule nationally, claiming it would drive down wage | scales in private fields. The security wages here range from $45 to $79 per month. | Allen several times has taken sides with union labor in District issues. He withheld announcement cf any de- cision as to reducing working hours, pending a careful review of the situa- tion. which Whitmore was working and also under what conditions he would have a right to fire a gun. The officer said orders required persons in automobiles to have Belle- vue identificaticn tags and gave the right to a guard to make an arrest if necessary. The regulations also permit, Wright said, the firing of a pistol in self-defense, to prevent the escape of a prisoner or where a per- son has committed a felony. George Holroyd, 633 Eighth street northeast, civillan worker at Bellevue, told on the stand of riding on the running board of Moriarty’s machine to the gate. Holroyd Tells of Shooting. Holroyd said Whitmore had opened the second section of a double gate sufficiently to permit the automobile to rass and then went over to the car to quesion Moriarty. It was shortly after this that the shooting occurred. Burton told of being at the gate. Bakken, the other sailor, said he was unable to remember anything. Comdr. Francis H. Webster, Medical Corps, U. S. N, said that upon exam- ining Burton and Bakken he found them under the influence of liquor suf- ficiently to make them unfit for duty. Deputy Coroner Christopher J. Murphy testified that an autopsy per- formed on Moriarty had showed his blood contained only two-tenths of 1 per cent of alcohol. Dr. Murphy stated it took 2 per cent alcohol in the blood to make & man drunk. Prior to the inquest, L. C. McNemar, an attorney in the office of the judge advocate general, who said he had been sent to represent Whitmore by the Secretary of the Navy, told Cor- oner A. Magruder MacDonsld the case was strictly military and that civil authorities had no jurisdiction. Dr. MacDonald contended, however, that civil authorities do have jurisdiction. Assistant District Attorney Samuel Baech likewise expressed the view that civil authorities had jurisdiction. Beach’' sald that in the event Whit- more were held and then indicted by s grand jury, it might become neces- sary to issue & writ of mandamus to have him turned over to civil authori- tles for trial, | by Prettyman before prosecution would begin. He said Rubin preferred to | stand trial. The two cases involved alleged loans of $75 to Miss Gladys Pantaze, 308 Second street southeast, on September | 14, and $150 to Raymond Wise, 127 | Eleventh street northeast, on April 2. In the first instance, it is claimed, the borrower agreed to repay $103 in six months, and in the second $216 in a year. Exonerated PVT. JOHN F. WHITMORE, Shown today at the inquest. —Star Staff Photo. Iy The free lunches prepared at a cen- tral kitchen for service to needy school | children was financed last school year out of emergency relief grants. Shift- ing of this cost to the District's grants for the W. P. A. program has been pro- posed in a project sent to Federal of- ficials, but this is one of the programs caught in the jam at Federal head- quarters. Food supplies have been or- dered, out of District relief appropria- tions, but funds are not available for personnel. 'THREE HURT FLEEING FROM BURNING CAR Trio Injured After Controller Box Bursts Into Flames as Re- sult of Short. Three passengers on a street car at Pennsylvania avenue and Jackson place were injured today while mak= ing a hurried exit after the controller box of the car burst into flames as the result of a short circuit Oscar H. Hecht, 51, of 1740 Euclid street, was treated for a possible frac- ture of the left ankle; Mrs. Anna Windsor, 43, of 3517 Holmead place, was treated for contusions of the left knee and arm, and Charles E. Smith, 18, of 3314 Military road, treated for burns to his left hand. Smith was burned when he placed his hand on the control, while Hecht and Mrs. Windsor were injured when they fell while alighting. All thres were treated at Emergency Hospital. OWNING STILL CHARGED John Albert Hyder, 71, colored, 600 block of Fifty-sixth street northeast, was arrested early today on charges of possession of a still and violation . of the liquor tax act. The police liquor squad raided his home and found two stills, one of 50 and one of 200 gallon capacity. The police destroyed 1,000 gallons of mash,