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he Foening : WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1935. FEDERAL HEARING NEW LOBBY OPENS || A s Berthe Are OPENSTONORROW FIGHT 10 NAKE |- N “KICK BACK” Bureau of Mines Project in College Park, Md., Is First Case. WAGE RATE SOUGHT BEFORE BIDS MADE Information Involves Practice Under Attack for Several Years in Workers’ Defense. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Climaxing a fight of several years to stifle the kick-back racket, which has robbed labor of thousands of dollars end cost the Federal Government a like amount, the Labor Department tomorrow will hold its first hearing in connection with enforcement of the smended Davis-Bacon act. Newly drafted regulations for administration of the act were sent out a few days Bgo. The case coming before the de- partment tomorrow is that af a Bu- reau of Mines project in College Park, Md., in which determination of the prevailing wage rate for the proposed work has been requested by the con- tracting officer of the bureau before bids are sought. By action of Congress in its closing days of the last session, the teeth of the old Davis-Bacon act, relating to the wage rate to be paid laborers and mechanics employed by contractors or subcontractors were sharpened. The sharpening fol- lowed two general courses, first to broaden the scope of construction work in which the act applies and second to direct that a predetermination of minimum wage rates for all classes of affected labor be made by the Secre- tary of Labor before each contract is made. Public Works Included. In extending the application of the act, Congress made it include public works other than public buildings, painting and decorating, and all con- tracts in excess of $2,000 as compared to a previous minimum of $5,000. By its decision in favor of a pre- determination of wage rates, however, Congress inserted the sharpest tooth in the law and the one which the Labor Department is now preparing to enforce. partment has informed all other de- partment heads that a request for such predetermination must be made | in connection with each contract ad- vertisement. @re being sent out. In its letter of instruction, the Labor Department asks that the contracting officer making the request for wage determination submit extensive in- formation on wage conditions of each craft affected. Such information, it | is suggested, might be obtained from the following sources where the work 4s contemplated: The Building Trades Council, inde- pendent labor organizations, municipal | or local officials, employers’ organiza- tions, individual contractors and archi. tects, the State Labor Department and the local office of the United States Employment Service. Definition for Guidance. For guidance then in determining What is the prevailing rate, the fol- Jowing definition has been con- structed: (a) The rate of wages paid in the locality in which the work is to be performed, to the majority of those employed in the corresponding classes of laborers or mechanics on projects that are similar to the contract work; (b) In the event there is not a majority paid at the same rate, the rate shall be that paid the greater mnumber, providing such number con- stitute 30 per cent of those so em- ployed; (c) If less than 30 per cent receive the same rate, then the average rate shall be paid. With this information made avail- @ble, it is the intention of/the de- partment to hold brief hearings in the locality of the projected work, establish the requested rates and have them included in the contract ad- vertisement with a minimum of delay. In order that this procedure may ot become a “bottle-neck” in which the flow of public works will be Jammed, the department is compiling e list of lawyers over the country who will be acquainted with the pro- cedure and who will serve on a per diem basis only as referee in hearings dn their particular locality. Since public works building is pro- ceeding at a rapid pace at present, about 2,000 cases of wage determina- tion are expected before the end of the present fiscal year on June 30, 1936. Nine such requests were made in the cases of post office projects by the procurement division of the Treasury Department on the first day of the act’s theoretical operation, Specific Exemption. By specific exemption, construction tuinder the works progress program will not be affected by the new pro- cedure, unless it involves construc- tion of “permanent buildings for the Government of the United States or any department of the United States or the District of Columbia.” Intrusion of the kick-back racket into public building operations of the Federal Government has been a long- existent problem, resulting at all times in unsatisfactory relations be- tween the Government and contractors end amounting to outright robbery of employes by those of the con- tractors who followed the unscrupulous Ppractices. In an attempt to establish a fair rate of wage for such public work, _ The result, however, was that the ipulous contractors, forcing em- es to turn back part of their wages, able to underbid rzputable build- on public buildings | As its first step, the de- | For this purpose forms | CAPITAL DRY CITY ' Drunkenness Held Greater in Last Year Than Through- out Prohibition. MOVEMENT HEADED BY DR. EVERETT ELLISON W. C. T. U. and Many Other Or- ganizations Expected to Par- * ticipate in Campaign. A new prohibition lobby determined to drive liquor from Washington and make this a “model city” for the Nation has begun work here under direction of Dr. Everett M. Ellison, long a leader of local dry forces. The new organization, known as the United Dry Forces of the Dis- trict of Columbia, has Dr. Ellison as its president and Mrs. N. M. Pol- lock as secretary-treasurer. Its head- quarters are at Dr. Ellison's offices, 1720 M street. Dry organizations already partici- pating or expected to participate in- clude the W. C. T. U, the Anti- Saloon League, the Y. M. C. A, the Y. W. C. A, the Society of Friends, the Gospel Mission, the Central Union Mission, the Sunday School Associa- tion and the Allied Youth and Bible | Society. No National Scope. Officials denied the organization has any national lobbying ambitions, explaining its purpose is to dry up Washington and make city. The United Dry Forces yesterday sponsored & radio broadcast attack- ing liquor for its part in unsafe driv- ing. By December it is expected there will have been meetings, circulars, radio talks and newspaper articles here indorsing the dry bill introduced at the last session of Congress by | Representative U. 8. Guyer of Kansas, after lawyers retained by United Dry Forces had drafted it. It prohibits the manufacture, transportation and possession here of all alcoholic liquors, excepting wine for religious purposes and ethyl alcohol for the making of medicines and disinfectants. It goes beyond the ‘Sheppard act in forbidding even the passage of liquor through the District. Dr. Ellison, who estimated there were only about 100 speakeasies here during prohibition | days, pointed out the bill would drive out some 2,000 liquor dispensaries. ‘The bill also would deny doctors the right to prescribe liquor for medicinal purposes. More Intoxication Noted. “Anybody who has looked has seen in the City of Washington during the last 12 months more intoxicated per- sons than he saw during the entire period of prohibition,” Dr. Ellison de- clared. “Washington should be a model for | police officials used to complain that their officers weculd go out and get perfectly good cases and the courts would find some technical reason to | drop them. “The Guyer bill is the Sheppard act, revised, improved and modernized. It is the Sheppard act with teeth in jt.” He said he did not “feel optimistic” that the Guyer bill would be passed at the next session of Congress. 'RELIEF PROJECTS INSPECTED BY ALLEN Steady Work Given 6,400 on Jobs With Total Cost ,of $3,900,000. Commissioner George E. Allen, Dis- trict Works Progress administrator, today made a personal inspection of a number of projects on which persons from the District relief list now are at work. He had a report showing that proj- ects having a total cost of $3,900,000 are in force, giving steady work to 6,400 persons. The District has sent to Federal officials proposed work pro- jects having a total cost of $13,000,- 000, calculated to give steady employ- ment to all the 11,500 employables on the relief list. Allen was accompanied by William C. Cleary, assistant deputy adminis- trator, and Ross Haworth, adminis- trative assistant to Allen. They visited works at the following locations, most of which were grading or other road projects: Forty-ninth and Quebec streets, Forty-fourth and Dexter streets, Forty-fourth and Newark streets, Forty-ninth and Cal- vert streets, Thirty-third and North- ampton streets, Worthington street and Western avenue, the Takoma re- creation center, Twentieth and Girard streets, northeast, and Lincoln road and Evart street northeast. MRS. FLORENCE KILLEEN ASKS LIMITED DIVORCE Charges Her Husband’s Cruelties Drove Her to Attempt Suicide. Charging her husband's cruelties drove her to attempt suicide, Mrs. Florence M. Killeen, 2800 Chesapeake street, late yesterday asked the Dis- trict Supreme Court to grant her a limited divorce from Edward V. Kil- leen, well known local sportsman. ‘Through her attorneys, Frank A. couple were married in 1926. ment or & heavy fine was approved. believed necessary, Benate committee investigation was As 8 result of their findings—of buses—the it a model | | the Nation. Under the Sheppard act | i student concerts, g ot e o Lower bunks are low only in relation to the ones above them when the China Clipper, America’s largest plane, takes off. Dorothy Heinz (top) and Virginia Muth occupy two of the 25 berths on the airship. At right ORCHESTRA BIGGER INNEW PROGRAM Majority of Last Year’s 80 Musicians in Personnel, However. ‘The personnel for the National Symphony Orchestra, which has ar- ranged 30 concerts for its fifth sea- son beginning October 20 in Consti- tution Hall, was announced yesterday by George Gaul, personnel manager. The orchestra this year will be slightly larger, its personnel includ- ing a majority of the 80 musicians engaged last year and several new faces. Frank Gittelson again will be con- certmaster. and Bernard Robbins, violinist, will continue -as assistant concertmaster, There will be one new man in the cello section, two new string bass players and a recruit among the trumpeters. The orches- tra will meet with Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor, Monday morning for its first rehearsal in Constitution Hall, Sunday Concert Opener. The first of a series of 12 Sunday afternoon concerts will open the sea- son. A Thursday series, including eight concerts, will start November 7. The 30 concerts scheduled mark the orchestra’s most ambitious season, enly 24 having been given last year. The program this year includes 10 beginning in January. For the first time in the history of the orchestra, it was announced, the players will be placed on a weekly salary basis, instead of being paid ac- cording to the number of rehearsals and concerts. This was made pos- sible by subscriptions raised in a fund campaign last Spring. Personnel Complete. The complete new personnel follows: Violins, Frank Gittelson (concert- master); Bernard Robbins, Nathan | Snader, Alex Levin, Milton Schwartz, Paul Brightenburg, Leo Krakow, Sam Udren, Walter De Lilla, Harry Cher- kassky, S. Welss, Bernard Milofsky, Francois Garziglia, Samuel Goldscher, Antonio Nobile, Charles Granofsky, Jeno Sevely, Walter Nessul, Alfonso Rossi, Ruffino Iula, William Jacob, Herbert Sokolove, Herman Rabino- witz, Jacob Rosenblum, PFritz Balzer, Oscar Levine, Edward Pratt, Stanley Hertzman, George Gaul; violas, Wil- liam Riediger, George ‘Wargo, Hendrik Essers, Samuel Feldman, Carl Hol- zapfel, Esak Cherniak, Jerome Rosen- thal, Herman Rakemann, Anton Pointner. Cellos, Howard Mitchell, William Bernard, Sidney Hamer, Charles Cohen, Mischa Niedelman, Samuel Geschichter, Marcel Ancher, Alberto Martins; bassos, Jacques Posell, Ben- jamin Schlossberg, Irven Whitenack, Frank Eney, Charles Cook, William Lansinger, Lazare Demetry, David Koch; flutes, Harold Bennet{, Kenton Terry, Dominic Iascone; oboes, Harold Gomberg, William Schnable; clari- nets, Gilbert Stange, Charles Darby, Paul Garrett. Bassoons, Leonard Sharrow, Adelchi Angelucci; French horns, Sune John- son, Jacob Wishnow, Attilio di Palma, Dominic Famoso, Nazzareno Cipriani; trumpets, Samuel Krauss, Charles Yukl, Raymond Peters; trombones, Robert Clark, Vincent Squeo, Allen Ostrander; tuba, Thomas Mullikin; tympani, Walter Howe; battery, Car- roll Bratman, Merlin Crawford, George Gaul, "Anton Pointner; harp, Sylvia Meyer; piano and Celeste, Sol Sax. | of jobless insurance but more serious the Clipper is shown as it was towed to a demonstration flight to Washington. Fingerprinting of Job Insurance Eligibles Brings Controversy Members of the District Unemploy- | ment Compensation Board today | clashed over a suggestion that all employes in Washington be finger- printed to insure identification of per- sons eligible for jobless insurance | benefits. Three of the five members declared they had no objection to fingerprint- ing, one termed the plan .“absurd” and one said he didn't think the board | would want to go to all the work and expense incident to fingerprint record- ing. The suggestion had been mentioned only informally as the board started to plan its policies for administration attention was given the idea after an unidentified Federal official sup- ported it. Commissioner George E. Allen in- | dicated he was prepared to wage a fight against the plan if it should be pushed for adoption here. “It’s absurd,” he declared. He also raised a question as to the need of | maintaining a complete card index file on the identity, place of employ- ment, wages and other information regarding employed persons in the Dis- trict. John Locher, president of the Cen- tral Labor Union, employe representa- tive on the new board, said: “I haven't heard any discussion of thes plan in our board meetings. I have no objection to fingerprinting. I am willing to let any one have my fingerprints. I would like to have the fingerprints of some who are in labor unions.” Daniel J. Callahan, who is employer representative, said: “I don't see any objection to the fingerprinting.” Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sul- | tan said: “I have had my fingerprints | taken several times. I see no harm in | that but I would not want to cram something down people’s throats that they don’t want. I don’t think the thing is that vital.” Melvin C. Hazen, president of the Board of Commissioners, said: “I don’t think the board has any idea of going to all the expense and trouble of tak- ing the fingerprints of all employes in the District.” ALLEY DWELLING BIDS TOBE OPENED Two Tracts Under Authority to Be Leased for Com- mercial Purposes. The District Alley Dwelling Author- ity will open bids October 21 for commercial use of two sites of former alley houses which have been acquired by the authority as a part of its alley clean-up program. Propérty on E street between Twen- tieth and Twenty-first streets, near the Interior Department Building, is to be leased for use as a parking lot on a concession basis and there are plans to build an automobile repair shop in | Rupperts court, between Pennsyl- vania avenue, C, Second and Third streets southeast. ‘The authority has reserved the right to reject any or all bids which may be | received, according to John Ihlder, executive director. Protest against use of Government funds for construction of an automobile repair shop on the Southeast property has been voiced by | C. Dick English, who operates an| automobile business near the site. | Fifty-five families formerly lived in houses in the E street tract, then known as O'Brien court, Columbia terrace and Thimble court. Al ex- cept six have been provided other quarters and others are ready to move, | the authority stated. There were formerly five dwellings in Rupperts court and all families there have moved. NEW BUSSES SOUGHT ‘The Washington Rapid Transit Co. today asked the Public Utilities Com- mission for permission to buy four new stream-lined busses from the Twin-Coach Corp., Kent, Ohio, for use in its transportation service. E. D. Merrill, president of the com- pany, reminded the commission that the company previously this year had added three new busses, on March 29, and four others on August 30, and that the total investment in new busses, including those now sought, would amount to more than $103,000. Merrill said the new busses could be delivered by November 15. Detective Loses Cash and Clothes To Home Robber Burglar Takes After Entering Officer’s Residence by Window. Detective Thomas M. McVearry of the fourth precinct needed only to crawl out of bed yesterday morning to begin investigation of a robbery. ‘The detective awoke to find that one of Washington’s more enterprising burglars had entered his home during the night, stolen part of the clothing he had taken off at a late hour last night, about $40 in cash from the pockets of his trousers—and his police badge! The burglar didn’t slight two other occupants of the detgctive’s home, at 1769 E street northeast. Henry ‘Wienecke, brother-in-law of McVearry, found his wallet, containing $80, miss- ing, while Mrs. Emma M. Wienecke lost her pocketbook containing about $5. The burglar gained entrance through a window opening on a side porch. HUSBAND WINS DIVORCE Charles A. Macatee, 3d, Granted Limited Decree. Charles A. Macatee, 3d, of 3825 Legation street, youthful commercial airplane pilot and formerly assistant manager of the Washington Airport, today was granted a limited divorce by District Supreme Court Justice Oscar R. Luhring. Macatee had told the court his wife, Mrs. Doris A. Macatee, 1760 Euclid street, deserted him last March. They were married in July, 1933. He was represented by Attorney Bruce Aitchi- son. Macatee won considerable local recognition for the airplane traffic system he devised at Washington Air- port. Burned Starting Fire. Mary Harper, 32, colored, was se- verely burned about the body, face and arms early today when a can of coal oil she was using to start a fire exploded in the kitchen of her home at 305 K street southeast. She was taken to Casualty Hospital. Accidents Do Happen on Wide Streets n of the picture Conatitu and a car driven bP*Charles W. y ixt Norris, 28, 3609 road, passengers on the buf and $125| Star FE¥ | down Middle River, Baltimore, prior —A. P, Photos, DESIGN APPROVED FOR HEALTH FARM | Treasury Group Gives 0. K. to Plan for Institute Structure. Design for the first scientific ani- mal house and laboratory, to be erect- ed on the 45-acre farm near Bethesda, | Md., where the National Institute of Health some day may establish a great health center, was approved today by the Treasury Department Advisory Committee on Architectural Design, Now that the general .plan for the | new and unusual structure, to “house | guinea pigs, rabbits and other crea- tures for experiment, has been ap- proved, the Public Works Branch, Procurement Division of the Treasury, will push forward working drawings S0 as to put the job on the market as soon as possible. No definite date for advertising for bids can be fixed at this time, officials said. $100,000 is Provided. ‘The 45-acre place, which was do- nated by Luke Wilson, retired business man, formerly of Evanston, Ill, from a part of his beautiful estate, Tree Tops, on the Rockville pike north of: | Bethesda, is to be developed first into | an experimental station for the Na- | tional Institute of Health, under an original appropriation of $100,000, which has been available for some time. It is this money which is being used on the first animal house. Possibility that the place may eventually be used as a great medical center for the National Institute of Health has arisen, and those behind the movement are hoping for authori- zation and appropriations. to devel- op it. Instjpute May be Moved. Should such a plan succeed, it might lead to transfer of all the National Institute of Health to its new site in the country, leaving its four admira 7 equipped scientific buildings for ex- pansion of the Naval Hospital ad- Jjacent. This would tie in with the prospect which has been under discussion for some time of having a new Navy De- partment Building constructed some day in that general vicinity west of the present National Institute of Health and overlooking the Potomac River and the Lircoln Memorial, one of the most beautiful sites in the city, opposite Theodore Roosevelt Island, now being developed as & park. GRAFT KNOWLEDGE DENIED BY YADEN Tells City Heads “I Have No In- tention of Meddling” in D. C. Affairs. James G. Yaden, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, notified the Commissioners today, “I do not run a detective bureau” :nd “I have no intention whatever of med- dling in the conduct of the affairs of the District government.” Yaden, who caused a stir last week with a remark about petty graft in the District government, was asked by the Commissioners to give them his facts and to state the source of his information. Yaden replied: “Let me assure you I have no per- sonal knowledge of any graft in the District government.” He said his recollection of his state- ment before the Burroughs Citizens’ Association was as follows: “There is not so very much waste in the government of the District and it is comparatively free of graft. There may be some petty graft in the Dis- trict; two District employes now stand indicted, charged with having ac- cepted graft, and there does not seent to be much disposition to bring them to trial.” Yaden added: “I wish to say to you, however, in & friendly spirit, that I am of the opin- fon (I have no documentary proof of ment have not been investigated as promptly and as vigorously as they might have been.” o BLOOD DONORS LISTED MOUNT RAINIER, Md., October 10.~The Mount Rainier Fire Depart- donated a pint of p save tb of John BIG CLIPPER SHIP HAILED BY GAPITAL ONMAIDEN FLIGHT Airplane for Mait Service to Orient Is Largest Ever Seen Here. 39 PERSONS ABOARD MAKE WEIGHT 20 TONS President Trippe of Pan-American | Discusses Plans for World- Girdling Service. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. While 20 tons of metal and hu-| manity slid smoothly through Wash- ington skies vesterday afternoon in | the first passenger flight of the giant | Pan American Airways China Clipper, largest airplane ever seen here, Juan ‘T. Trippe, youthful president of !hfl‘ 30.000 - mile international airline, | calmly discussed plans for an air transport girdle around the world. Thirty-nine persons were aboard the | huge four-engined flying boat Ilate | yesterday as it left its home Chesa- peake Bay waters for the first time and headed across 40 miles of rolling | Maryland countryside for its public debut over Washington. ‘The China Clipper and two sister ships, now receiving their finishing touches in the Glenn L. Martin plant | near Baltimore, together with only | slightly smaller Sikorsky clippers which now are blazing the trans-| Pacific air trails, soon will be put| to work maintaining regular service | between California and China. In the near future, Trippe revealed as the great fiying boat circled abova Washington at an altitude of nearly 4,000 feet and at a speed of 160 miles per hour, plans are expected to reach completion for spanning of the At-| lantic through joint British-American | operations. When this is done, he| pointed out, air transport operations | completely around the globe will have | become an accomplished fact. Accepted by Airways. Yesterday's flight followed imme- diately the acceptance by Pan-Ameri- can Airways of the new China Clip- | per from its constructors. Thirty-three | newspaper men and aviation leaders | from Washington, New York, Phila- delphia, Baltimore and Detroit were ‘Trippe’s guests on the flight, in mand of Capt. Edwin C. Musick. Musick, chief pilot for “Pan Am,” was in charge of the first trail-blazing flights across the Pacific during the past Summer. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who played a large part in the drafting of specifications for the air giant, flew down to Baltimore yesterday morning from New York to make a final in- spection of the clipper, but took off again for home before the arrival of the flight party and spectators. Lindbergh previcusly had flown the giant plane in the early stages of its completed the performance require- ments set up by Lindbergh and other heads of Pan-American Airways, it will have to better 27 world and Amer- ican aircraft records, establishing rec- ords in five categories which no air- plane ever before has attempted. The frst of the new records is ex- pected to fall on Monday when the base with a pay load of about 22,000 pounds—greater than any airplane ever has lifted to an operating alti- tude in an official flight. On Tuesday the China clipper is to be flown to New York for official in- spection by officials of the operating company, after which it will go to Miami for a series of grueling tests in hurricane-swept Caribbean waters. It may reach the Pacific Coast by No- vember 1 in readiness for inaugura- tion of service to China. Bid for Air Supremacy. Flight guests arriving at the Mar- tin plant, on Middle River, northeast of Baltimore, found the new clipper tied to a float beside the launching ramp, its giant 130-foot wing dwarf- ing everything in the vicinity. The ceremony over, the long line of crew members and passengers filed aboard through a doorway in the side of a hull as large as a small river steamboat and found deeply-cushion- ed, luxurious seats in a large saloon and four smaller cabins. Although seats have been provided for only 48 persons aboard, the China clipper, with a maximum pay load capacity, actually could lift into the air 130 passengers having an average weight of 170 pounds each; could climb with them to an altitude of 18,000 feet, or well over three miles, and could carry them at a maximum speed of 179 miles per hour. Using only 65 per cent of the horsepower of its four engines, the clipper can main- tain a cruising speed of 157 miles per hour. Circles City. Only 21 minutes after the clipper, with its cargo of 39 persons, had left the water of Middle River it crossed the District of Columbia boundary and began a series of three graceful, leisurely circles around the downtown section of the city. Although, to those aboard, the great ship seemed to be moving very slowly, it oyer- hauled & waiting photographic air- plane flying a parallel course so tapidly that the smaller plane ap- peared to be standing still. Throughout the flight a continuous running broadcast was sent from the plane to ground stations for rebroad- casting to listeners in all parts of the country. A completely equipped kitchenette, lavatories with hot and cold running water, full-length berths for 18 passen- gers, a large saloon with three long, deep & half dozen large individual chairs and a table, and dressing rooms are among the passen- Separate radio and chart rooms near the captain’s bridge and pilots’ com- addition to a crew of six under com- | tests. Before the China Clipper has | clipper will take off from the Martin | PAGE B—1 MAN NEAR DEATH AS BLOOD SEEPS FROM TORN VEINS Internal Organs Horribly Ruptured When Hit in Back by Car. WIFE SWOONS DECIDING AGAINST AN OPERATION Doctors Say He Cannot Live. Pedestrians Badly Cut Crossing, Streets. Badly battered, his abdomen filled with blood, Harry Ghant, 44, of 44 1 street, writhed in pain in Casualty Hospital today as death waited to claim another traffic victim. Ghant was hurled 10 feet or more while crossing at North Capitol and H streets last night and struck the pavement with such force that vir- tually all his internal organs were torn apart. Doctors at Casualty say he cannot live—that the life now left in his body is merely hanging by a thread. The car struck Ghant in the back. The impact, witnesses told Casualty physicians, was so terriffic that the man was lifted from his feet and fell forward into the street with a thud Unconscious when picked up, Ghant was rushed to the hospital by a pass- ing motorist. Consciousness came | back during the ride, however, and Ghant was able to walk into the fios- pital. But his face was ghastly white He was groaning with pain. Blood streamed from a gash on his forehead. Beads of perspiration trickled through the blood. He had an unquenchable thirst. Kidneys and Spleen Ruptured. On the operating table doctors mac a hasty examination. They found in ternal hemorrhages. The kidneys an: spleen had been ruptured, possibly the liver, too. Doctors agreed an operation migh save Ghant's life—but the odds wer stacked against him. He did not eva have an 80-to-1 chance. Mrs. Ghant was summoned. 8! was told the decision. Terrified, &! | nervously paced the hospital floo Finally she decided. There would b no operation. Then she swooned She, too, had to be treated for shock Police said the car that struck Ghant was driven by Wilmer G. Far- | ran, 23, 528 Eleventh street southeast. | ©One of the latest traffic victims to | reach Emergency Hospital is J. Harold Miller of Pittsburgh, Pa., who was in- jured when a motor cycle he was rid- ing collided with a truck in Arlington County, Va., at the intersection of Lee Botevard and Glebe road. The truck was operated by Elvin W. Sill, 815 Fourteenth street southeast. ‘The Clarendon rescue squad rushed | Miller to the hospital. Doctors said | he has a possible fracture of the skull, face lacerations and body bruises. On a bed in Gallinger Hospital is | Boyd Uncle, 68, of 1219 K street south- east, another traffic victim, who can- not move a muscle in his body without the shock of pain. He also was struck while crossing the street, but his con- dition is not regarded as serious. Right Shoulder Dislocated. Uncle has countless wounds from the accident almost over his entire body. His left eye is badly bruised. Just over the eye on the temple was a gash with three stitches pulled together. From the left side of his neck to his left shoulder is a hemor- rhage under the skin, which has dis- colored. The skin is black and blue. His right shoulder is dislocated and swollen. The left hip is badly scratched and bruised. Uncle was struck about 4:45 p.m. yesterday at Twelfth street and Penn- sylvania avenue southeast. The car, according to police, was operated by Clarence L Rivers, 32, 1718 L street northeast. Altogether there were 30 traffic acci- dents in the District in the 24-hour period ending at 8 o'clock this morn- ing, but injur 2s resulted in only 16 of these cases. The other involved property damage exclusively. Aside from Ghant and Uncle, the 1ist of 16 injured included 7-year-old Patricia Quinn, 1515 D street south- east. She was hit by a car driven by Carl C. Mann, 24 years old, 1112 Oates street northeast, as she crossed the street in front of her home. Her in- juries consisted principally of cuts on the forehead, knee and ankle. After treatment at Casualty she was re- moved to her home. Man Gashed by Collision. Casualty, however, has under treat- ment another of the 16 victims—John ‘W. Nelson, 38, 2502 Perry street north- east, who was riding in a car which collided with another machine at Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast about 4:45 p.m. yes- terdsy. Nelson has a deep gash in his scalp, a broken collar bone—painful injuries which will keep him in the hospital for several days. Police reported Nelson was & pas- senger in a car driven by Homer H. Cummins, 2426 Otis street northeast. The other machine was operated by Joseph R. Luber, jr, of Catonsville, Md. The third pedestrian to meet with ah wccident in the street in the 24- hour period was Ina Thompson, 35, 1326 MaJsachusetts avenue. Accord- ing to the police, she was crossing against a traffic light at Fourteenth and ™ streets, when struck by a car driven by Eugene C. Hise, 50, 350 Church street, Cherrydale, Va. At Emergency Hospital she was treated for a possible fracture of the left ankle. Knee May Be Broken. Another pedestrian, Frances Phil- lips, 68, is in Emergency Hospital, suffering from a cut on the scalp, a fractured rib and a badly bruised knee, which may be broken. She was said to have been outside a crosswalk at Dupont Circle, about 10:30 o’clock last night, when hit by a car driven Chase, Md. The Census fureau reported today an increase in the death zate from sutomobile accidents in United States for the year ended September precedin