Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1935, Page 21

Washington News TRAFFIC HORRORS CONTINUE. WITH 2 DEAD, SCORE HURT Week End Toll of D. C. and Vicinity Includes C. C. C. Worker, 18. BONES AND BLOOD LEFT BY HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER ‘ Top of Midland, Va., Woman’s Head Sheared Off in Accident Near Bealeton. ‘With two dead in nearby Virginia and at least a score in hospitals from accidents in the District and nearby, week end traffic today had painted its usual picture of horror—a picture of crushed bones, spattered blood and human agony. His head crushed like a shell and pieces of bone and blood scattered over the road, the body of Francis M. Hall, 18, C. C. C. worker attached to the camp at Joplin, Va., was picked up on the Washington-Richmond Highway about four miles below Alex- andria, Va. He was the victim of a hit-and-run driver, police said. So badly torn and crushed was the body, Fairfax authorities believed sev- eral automobiles must have run over the mangled form after the youth had been rendered helpless and pos- sibly killed by the first machine. Hall’s home was at Willard, Md,, it is said. The other death was that of Mrs. Ernest Messick, 41, of Midland, Va. The top of her head was sheared off when the automobile in which her husband was taking the family to church turned over near Bealeton, Va,, yesterday morning. Her head was taken off just above the eyes as it was caught in the partly-opened window of the machine. Breath had left her blocd-soaked body when Dr. George H. Davis, Fauquier County coroner, arrived. Mrs. Messick was the mother of seven children. Two Children Suffer. Two of the children, who were in the car, were wearing bandages to- day, but the sharp pains from their injuries were forgotten in the shock of realization that their mother was dead. The children are David. 10, ‘and his sister Hilda, 16. The boy's worst injury was said to be a deeply- gashed finger, while the girl suffered several cuts about the face. Police said the Messick machine got out of centrol while rounding a curve. Permanent disfigurement looms for 9-year-old Marvin Hayes of Seat Pleasant because his father crashed into & parked car while driving, ac- cording to Prince Georges County po- lice, under the influence of liquor. The boy, Marvin Hayes, was pro- Jected through the windshield like a shot, his face gashed and slashed as it passed over the knifelike edges of broken glass. Frightened into scream- ing hysteria the boy was picked up— his face and features hidden behind rivulets of blood—and sped to Cas- ualty Hospital. He was permitted to go home after treatment. Meanwhile, his father, Richard Hayes, was arrested by Officer R. A. Naylor on charges of reckless driv- ing and driving while intoxicated. He was released for a hearing later this week. The crash occurred on Crystal Springs avenue in Seat Pleasant. - Printer, 74, 3 Victim. “Lying on a cot in Casualty Hos- pital is 74-year-old Chris Hutchin- son, a printer at the Washington Post, who was the victim of a hit- and-run taxi driver, Prince Georges County police report. Hutchinson was knocked to the ground with a sickening thud, his head and shoulder striking the pave- ment with tremendous force. He was left in the gutter, unconscious, police say, as the cab roared away in flight. A quick-witted spectator jotted down the license number of the fleeing taxi and police arrested Raymond P, Are- son of Capitol Heights for questioning. The printer's condition is regarded as grave, preliminary examination showing a brain concussion and a fractured shoulder. Four Charles County colored per- sons were hurt, three of them badly, when a Sunday afternoon motor ride came to an abrupt end near Thorp- kinsville. Their car careened into the trunk of a tree, hurling the four oc- cupants to the ground. At Casualty Hospital it was re- ported that Harold Proctor, 22, suf- fered a fractured pelvis; Maggie Hill, 37, a fractured leg, and Francis Hill, 23, a broken arm. Spencer Brown, 23, was treated for minor injuries and discharged. Five Marines Hurt. Bleeding wounds and broken bones were received by five Marines sta- tioned at Quantico when an automo- bile in which they were riding was said to have crashed into the rear of & truck parked on the Richmond High- way south of Alexandria early todsy. One of the group, Jerome Maisel, 232, was admitted to the Alexandria Hospital for treatment of internal in- Juries. Two others, W. D. McNutt and Edward Raysinger, were cut above the Parker, the fifth, Harold Johnson, was treated for a deep laceration of the right hip. With a shattered right arm, a pos- he Zhening WASHINGTON, .0.P. Junior Women Leaders recording secretary. SCHOOL PROJECTS PLANNED BY ALLEN Work for Men on Relief Rolls to Be Provided by W.P. A. Funds. Commissioner George E. Allen, W. P. A. administrator for the District, has called upen the Board of Educa- tion to submit an additional list of school construction and improvement projects from which a selection may be made to employ men now on re- | tiet rolis. President Roosevelt has already ap- proved 175 such projects and author- ized the expenditure of $289,799. The money, however, has not yet been placed at the disposal of Commis- sioner Allen, who said today at least part of them will get under way as soon as the General Accounting Office gives its approval. Request for the additional projects was made in a letter to Dr. Frank W. Ballou. superintendent of schools, from Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, Dis- trict auditor. Dr. Ballou has placed the subject on his docket of business to be presented to the Board of Ed- ucation at its regular meeting Wed- nesday. Allen explained today that the sup- plemental list will be used solely for the purpose of absorbing relief clients in the W. P. A. work program. ‘The choice of projects will be determined by the needs for jobs in the various areas of the city. In addition to the 175 projects al- ready approved and awaiting funds, about 25 others are pending. These were submitted to the National Emer- gency Council for transmission to the Allotment Board and sutsequently to the President, but no action was taken on them when the original 175 were approved. Dr. Ballou has not yet begun com- pilation of the new list, but it is ex- pected to be ordered by the board and will be drafted under direction of Jere J. Crane, first assistant su- perintendent of schools, in charge of business affairs. —————————————— — seventh street and Minnesota avenue southeast, police said, by an auto- mobile driven by Lemuel A. Dennison, 67, of the 2200 block of Fairlawn ave- nue southeast. Dennison was booked by police on & charge of driving an automobile with a defective hand brake. Meanwhile three other persons in local hospitals were hanging between life and death and temporarily spared from intense pain only through merci- ful nature, which had kept them un- conscious or semi-conscious. Adam Abraham, 36, of 1014 I street, in Freedmen’s Hospital, where Satur- day night physicians succeeded in stopping the flow of blood from a deep gash in his forehead. X-rays, sched- uled to be taken today, were expected to show whetber he has a skull frac- ture as well as to indicate what chance he has for recovery. Struck at Ver- mont avenue and R street, Abraham lay unconscious and unidentified at the hospital until yesterday. In Casualty Hospital lay Mirian E. Gray, 15, of Hyattsville, Md., still un- conscious and her scalp cut to the bone as a result of being struck Sat- urday night by an automobile near the Hyattsville Post Office. X-rays will show whether she has a skuil fracture, and only time will show whether she will live. Likewise, Robert C. Montgomery, 16, struck Fridsy night by s atreet car Perry, 20, of the 4400 block River road, was held in the Fairfax Coun- ty, Va, Jail- today on charges of reckless. driving and operating = The newly elected officers of the Junior Republican Women of the District, who are planning a meeting tomorrow at 2:15 p.m. at the Na- tional Republican Club at Sixteenth street and Scott Circle. Everett Sanders, secretary to former President Coolidge and former chairman of the Republican National Committee, will speak. Any interested young women are invited to attend. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Edward E. Colladay, president, and Mrs. Cooper B. Rhogdes, vice president. row, left to right: Mrs. H. G. Edmonds, Program Committee chairman; Mrs. Waldo A. Clark, corresponding secretary, and Miss Alice Mary Dodd, Back ~—=Star Stafl Photo. Slaying Figures MORRIS C. BECK. DETECTIVE EARL BAKER. HAMMOND MANSION ‘MAY BE EMBASSY French Government Reported Considering Purchase of Kalo- rama Road Residence. An attache of the French Embassy said today the embassy is interested in purchasing the elaborate home of John Hays Hammond at 2221 Kalo- rama road, but that no definite agree- ment had been reached. ‘The attache stated embassy officials had examined the Hammond house and agreed that it would serve their purposes better than present em- bassy on Sixteenth street. He said if the deal for the acquisition of the Hammond home does not materialize, they will look elsewhere. The present is held not large MEETING OF WARDMAN TRUSTEES PERMITTED SUNDAY DETECTIVE LAUDED Demolition of Calvert Street Bridge Begun FOR SLAYING A OF BANDTCANG Three Held as Blackface Robber Suspects—2 Others Sought. DYING MAN TOSSED FROM FLEEING AUTO Companions on Dash to Escape Are Hunted—Attempt to Get Money for Bride Fatal. A coroner’s jury today commended Detective Earl Baker of No. I pre- cinct for his “coolness, courage and good judgment” after the officer told how he killed a desperate bandit ~ar- rying a sawed-off shotgun in & rom full of patrons at the Blue Belle Bar« becue, 2335 Bladensburg road northe east, early Sunday morning, .nd then returned to pay his check. The verdict completely absolved the officer from blame in the death of Morris C. Beck, 30, leader of the no- torious “black-face” Rang of robbers which has preyed on liquor stores ard restaurants in Washington for the past several months. Meanwhile police were seeking a man and woman said to have been confed- erates of Beck. Three alleged mem- bers of the gang were under arrest and face robbery indictments. Saw Bandit Enter. Detective Baker voluntarily took the stand this morning and explained how | he happened to stop at the lunch room for a sandwich and a cup of coffee after being relieved from duty at No. 1 precinct at midnight Satur- day. The officer was eating his lunch at a table at the back of the room crowded with at least 50 other pa- trons, when he saw the bandit come in and train a sawed-off shotgun on the cashier, Helen Keoman, of 1119 | Owens place northeast. Baker edged through the crowd as the bandit pulled the cashier Xmm| behind the counter and ordered her:| to open the cash register. The girl, however, had already set the automatic lock and the robber called on a waiter to open the strong box. “Open it up or else,” ordered the gunman. The waiter explained he did not know how to open the register. ‘Waited His Chance. ‘Meanwhile, Baker was maneuvering into position and fingering his gun in its holster. The detective explained he was afraid to shoot the bandit lest & muscular reaction tightened his fingers on the double triggers of the shotgun and loose a murderous blast into the crowd. Failing to open the cash register, the bandit picked up the box and started for the door. Then Baker saw the shotgun was trained toward a vacant | part of the store and opened fire on the robber. The first shot crashed into the wall near the head of a pa- tron seated at a table, the latter testi- | fied. while the second shot struck the | bandit in the back. | The robber dropped the gun and | cash register and dashed for the door, I‘ with Baker in pursuit. The detective shot at a cdr in which the bandit | jumped as the machine drove away at a high rate of speed. Baker followed in his old automobile, but lost sight | of the fugitive car. Found Bandit Dying. He did not see the car again, but found the dying bandit lying in Bla- densburg road near the District line, where he had been dumped by a companion in the speeding auto- mobile, Baker took the man to Casualty Hospital, where he died shortly after, stubbornly refusing to make a state- | ment. Baker then returned to the | lunch stand and paid his check of 35 cents. Sought Gift for Bride. Police were told Beck was trying to make a stake for his bride of a few weeks. He was believed to have been with & woman and another man on the night of his death, although the latter two were not seen by Baker. Beck recently was paroled from Lorton Reformatory after serving four years for robbing a bank mes- senger. Detectives of the robbery squad said he was a leader of the gang which frequently used blackface make-up during its forays. 1t was Baker, who, in 1930, subdued an intoxicated youth who was trying to force a young woman to marry him by threatening her life with a gun. A year prior, Baker climbed over the roofs of several houses sniffing the smoke from their chimneys un- til he detected the odor of whisky and captured a big illicit still. On at least two occasions Baker was the center of a small riot when {Finnan Reports Progress in he made arrests and unsuccessful at- tempts were made to free the pris- oners. Gold Is Removed With Appendix of Federal Worker Remembers Swallowing Crown 3 Years Ago. May Be ‘Hoarder.” Conflicting emotions may make Charles G. Senseney’s convalescent bed an uneasy one as he lies today In Garfleld Hospital. Yesterday surgeons, operating on Senseney for appendicitis, extracted the appendix—plus one gold crown. ‘Today he weighs the value of the “discovery” as & partial payment on the operation, against’ possible appre- hension for gold hoarding. The metal has increased in value the last three years, Senseney Internal Revenue [aY is an employe of- the ‘Workmen beginning the task of demolishing the old Calvert Street Bridge today. Photo taken near Con- necticut avenue end of structure, NEW AL ROAS TOBEOPENSUON Parks Program in Capital. Marked progress is being made in construction in the National Capital parks, C. Marshall Finnan, the park chief, said today. He disclosed the newly built highways on the Mall are about ready for public use, that the central abutment for the new low- level bridge near P street in Rock Creek Valley has been poured and | that the highways at the hemicycle at Arlington National Cemetery's east | entrance will be thrown open to the | public, now that the new bronze gate has been erected. No parking will be allowed on the newly built inner-road in the Mall, Fipnan said, as these highways are narrow and were constructed solely for park purposes. The new high- way in the line of Ninth street, run- ning across the Mall, is already open to traffic. Four Highways in All The Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture has super- vised the construction of the Mall highways. Just what the situation will be on parking on the two outer roads will be determined later, Finnan said, but he is now under the impres- sion that parking will be permitted only on the outer side of the outer drive. Altogether, there are four highways running from Third street to Fourteenth street in the Mall, ex- cept where structures stand in the way. A one-hour parking limit has | recently been enforced in the Mall. Finnan said the elm trees, which will | line the new highways, will be planted | this Fall. Inasmuch as the contract has already been let for this work, he anticipates this program will be ini- | tiated in a couple of weeks, when the trees defoliate. The elm trees are to be of the same general size and height and are expectéd to be a major fea- ture of the whole Mall development, affording a central vista from the Cap- itol to the Washington Monument. Holly Hedge Planned. Bids will be opened at 11 am. on Friday, in room 1615, Navy Building, for furnishing plant material and planting adjacent to the Memorial ap- proach drive to Arlington National Cemetery. This includes the planting of a holly hedge. By next March, if all goes well, Fin- nan hopes to have the new low level bridge, now under construction at P street, in operation for the public. Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, the District highway engineer, expects to be able to have the park drive between P street and K street in Rock Creek Valley open for public travel by November 1. The concrete base has been con- structed and the surfacing remains to be completed, but this job is expected to be finished shortly. The new valley parkway drive is looked upon as a great aid for traffic movement, but the park authorities are confining its use to passenger vehicles. It will be possible for motorists to travel rapidly from Constitution ave- nue to P street when this new drive is placed in commission. DELTA CHI TO MEET - Fraternity to Observe Founder's Day. Founder's day exercises of the Delta Chi Fraternity at Georgetown Uni- versity will be celebrated tonight by & joint meeting of alumni and active members at the new home of the Gorgetown chapter, 2316 Nineteenth street. Dedication of the new chapter house will be combined: with a cele- bration of the founding of Delta Chi on October 13, 1890, at Cornell Uni- versity, Membership in the Wash- Star D. C, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1935, alumni chapter is open to all the fraternity’s former members now living in the city. INSTITUTE TO MEET Electrical Group to Hear Better- Lighting Promoter. Joseph F. O’'Brien of the Westing- house Lamp Co. will be guest speaker at & meeting of the Electric Institute of Washington in the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. suditorium tomorrow at 8 pm. motion manager, ploneers in the sight” movement Norman H. Baines of will preside at the Ex-Prisoner 21007, Who Paid Penalty, Now Seeking Job Served Term for Drunk Driving and Leaving After Colliding. Ex-prisoner 21007 would like a job. Ex-prisoner 21007 has just com- pleted serving 90 days in the District Jail for driving while drunk and leav- ing after colliding. Today he is free, his debt to the laws of man and of human safety paid. Three small children, ranging in age from 3 to 7 years, are dependent upon ex-prisoner 21007. In hissearch for employment he offers a record as clerk, salesman and merchandising agent in several local concerns. He was holding one of these jobs when the incident occurred which transformed him into prisoner 21007. To help in the support of the three youngsters, their mother being dead, he was driving a taxicab at night and on Sundays. On July 28 he drank some beer; later his taxicab collided with another machine and he drove away when the other car owner de- manded $25 damages. Police caught him later and placed two charges against him. The judge sent him to the District Jail for 90 days. At the jail he worked as a clerk. ‘The three youngsters were told their father “was going away—to New York—he wolld be back soon.” He is back now, but without employment, his driving permit revoked and his other job gone. In the cause of safety, to aid in discouraging others from making the same mistake he made, prisoner 21007 participated in a Star Safety Cam- paign broadcast from the District Jail. Any one desirous of offering a job to | ex-prisoner 21007 may do so by com- municating with the city editor of The Evening Star. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SPEAKER IS HEARD Lectureship Board Member Talks on Its Message to World in Need. A lecture on “Christian Science: Its Healing Message to & World in Need” was delivered yesterday afternoon in Constitution Hall by Richard J. Davis, C. S, of Chicago, Ill. Mr. Davis is a member ot the Board of Lectureship of the Mother Church, the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Bos- ton, Mass. He was introduced by Bernard C. Duncan. This lecture was under the auspices of First, Second, Third and Fourth Chruches of Christ, Scientist, of this city. The lecturer said in part: “In the last few years we have been witnessing a world-wide expression cf mass mesmerism and fear, in what every one calls a great depression. But no matter how aggressive its ex- pression, no matter how near it has seemed to touch our lives and our af- fairs, Christian Science has enabled us to stand, and to adjust our think- ing under difficult and unusual cir- cumstances “Measuring. life and happiness largely in terms of matter, it is not surprising to find human beings the world over engaged in a frantic con- test or competition for things, ma- terial things. It has always been quite the usual thing to measure a man’s success and position by the amount of money he has in the bank or by the personal property he pos- sesses. In fact, we hear much today about what is called the acquisitive instinct, meaning that man hasa nat- ural 1nstinct to acquire and store up things. “Centuries ago, Christ Jesus uncov- ered the false basis of that material fmpulse in His parable of the rich man and his barns, and He declared that ‘a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance ,.o( the things which he g possesseth.’ 'REQUIEM MASS Rites to be Held for Attache of Polish Embassy. A requiem mass for the late Bohdan , attache of the Polish Em- bassy, will be sald Wednesday at 11 am. in St. Paul's Church at Fifteenth on his way back to Washington from a two months’ vacation tour. The ~Star Staff Photo. PROBE TOMORROW INKILLINGOF BRIDE Police Find Shotgun in Auto of Culpeper Man Held Here. of Mrs. Willie Mae Wood, 21, forced | by W. H. Reaguer, 50, Culpeper, Va., undertaker, to accompany him to a | A coroner’s jury will cpen an in-| quest tomorrow into the brutal murder | room in a dcwntown hotel here, where | Society and General AUDITOR REVEALS 5 MILLION BUDGET INEREASE FOR . Figure for 1937 Set at $45,- 000,000—Goes to Bu- reau This Week. NEED FOR ADDITIONAL REVENUE IS ANTICIPATED Bigger Lump Sum Will Be Sought—New Taxes Also Seen. ‘The District of Columbia’s new 1937 budget will be between $45,000,000 and $46,000,000, an increase of about $5.« 000,000 from the current approprie ation of $40,746,935, Daniel J. Donoe van, District auditor, revealed today. This figure is about $4,000,000 less than the original estimates submitted by the several departfnent heads. ‘The revised figures will be transe mitted to the United States Budget Bureau this week, probably late in the week, to allow the auditor’s office to make a final check and to submit the revised schedules to the District Com missioners for their approval. Meanwhile, District officials are searching for means to raise the ade ditional revenue which will be required to care for the increased schedule of expenditures. A part of the gain will be sought through an increase in the lump sum appropriation from Con= | gress, but officials believe new taxation |also will be necessary. Bigger Lump Sum. Commissioner Meivin C. Hazen last year sought a large lump sum ape propriation, asking for $8500,000, which is close to average Congres- sional grant over the last 10 years, but Congress slashed the fund to $5,« 700,000 in the current appropriations, Corporation Council E. Barrett Prettyman is chairman of a special committee created by the Commise sioners some time ago to search out | her throat was cut early Saturday. | Police revealed today they found a |loaded double-barreled shotgun in | Reaguer’s automobile, a circumstance which seemed to indicate Reaguer left his home in Culpeper prepared for | a showdown with hte girl, who only | three weeks ago married another man. Anna O'Bannon, 17, cousin of the |slain woman, said the middle-aged | undertaker threatened to kill Mrs. | Wood unless she consented to give up her husband, but added that she sup- posed at the time Reaguer was “jok- ing.” - These threats were made, the girl said, after Reaguer picked them up at a bus stop in Culpeper, where they were waiting to return to Mrs. Wood's home near Fairfax, and brought them on to Washington over their protests. The O'Bannon girl occupied a room adjoining that in which Reaguer was Mrs. Wood. Doctors at Gallinger where Reaguer is being held under | the inquest tomorrow. He was to be | brought to police headquarters in the | morning to be fingerprinted, photo- |graphed and questioned. Police said they as yet have ob- tained no statement from the prisoner. Police said one blade of a small pocket knife found near Mrs. Wood’s body had been broken while the woman was being murdered, and the throat-cutting was completed with the second and smaller blade. This was the knife, police say, with which Reaguer tried to end his own life by opening his arteries. Mrs. Wood, wife of Herbert Ran- ment employe of Fairfax, was to be buried tomorrow afternoon in Cul- peper, the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fletcher. Miss O'Bannon is a student at a local business college, who had been visiting Mrs. Wood at her home in Fairfax. The two girls had gone to they met Reaguer. SCHOOL RATING SYSTEM REPORTS DUE TODAY Plan for Teachers to Be Dis- cussed at Meeting of Board and Personnel Committee. Reports of the rating system for teachers in the public schools are to be received today by the Board of Educa- tion and its Personnel Committee at a special meeting in the Franklin Ad- ministration Building., ‘The reports are the outgrowth of a series of hearings held last Winter and Spring at the request of the Teachers’ Union. They objected to the present rating system of five classifications and asked that a simplified plan be adopt- ed classing all teachers with “satisfac- tory” or “unsatisfactory.” Mrs, Marion Wade Doyle, now prgs- ident of the board, was chairman of the personnel committee when the hearings were held. She has been suc- ceeded as head of the personnel group by Robert A. Maurer. e e €0CO SOLO TO SAN DIEGO HOP BEGUN BY M’GINNIS Anacostia Air Station Executive Officer Set Record Last Week in Flight From Norfolk. Lieut. Comdr. Knefler McGinnis, -| executive officer of the Naval Air Sta- tion at Anacostia, was winging his way today over Central America in a big Navy patrol plane from Coco Solo, C. Z., toward San Diego, Calif. He took off at 6:30, Eastern stand- ard time. from Coco Solo. He laid & course northwestward from the Canal Zone and planned to take the shortest route over Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala and Mexico and on to San Diego. Last week Lieut. Comdr. McGinnis set & record in fiying from Norfolk to 'Coco Solo in 17 hours and 33 minutes. n found with his wrists and arm slashed | beside the almost decapitated body of | Hospital, | guard, said he will be able to attend | dolph Wood, State Highway Depart- | Culpeper Friday with Mrs. Fletcher | and were returning to Fairfax when | | possible new sources of revenue and Commissioner George E. Allen has suggested a diversion of the gasoline tax from road and highway maine tenance to general fund purposes. Allen’s suggestion, however, has | met with considerale opposition, | many citizens and trade organizations voicing their objections. | Inheritance and income taxes also have been suggesied and have been | submitted to the Prettyman Commite | tee for study. Education Board Cut. In making the $4,000,000 reduction | in the original budget, more than half of this was cut from the schedule of the Board of'Education, much of it in proposed new construction. Dono= van explained that some cuts were made by all departments It is anticipated turther reductions will also be made by the Budget Bu- reau before the list of requests for funds is sent on to ‘he President for inclusion in his annual budget mese | sage to Congress in Jaauary. Last year Congress held hearings | on the proposed new District budget | before it was made public and befors it had been officially submitied to | Congress by the President. Many local officials and the Federation of | Citizens’ Associations objected strene uously to the procedure. They argued that under the circumstances the hearings had to be closed to the pube ‘nc. This year they hope to have open hearings so that any interested citizen or group may have an oppore | tunity to give views on contemplated | appropriations and expenditures. Under Treasury Department regue lations, once the budget goes to the Budget Bureau its contents are kept | confidential until after the President transmits it to Congress. WOMAN IS FOUND OVERCOME BY GAS Expectant Mother, 30, Revived After Hour's Work by Doc- tors and Firemen. Mrs. Hilda Moran, 30, was found overcome by gas today in the kitchen of her apartment at Tilden Gardens, 3900 Connecticut avenue. She was treated by firemen and Emergency Hospital ambulance physicians and was said to be recovering. Residents of the Tilden Gardens, & co-operative ownership enterprise, smelled escaping gas about 7 am. and notified the janitor, Henry Burley, 50, colored. Burley entered Mrs. Moran's apartment and found her lying face down on the kitchen floor. All gas jets on the stove were open. Burley said Mrs. Moran apparently bad tope pled from two chairs arranged face to face, with a quilt spread over them. It took rescuers more than an hour to revive the young woman. Physie cians said she is an expectant mother. Mrs. Moran left a note addressed to her husband, Preston W. Moran, book« keeper for the Robert E. Anderson Plumbing Co., 809 Maryland avenue northeast. Moran refused to reveal its contents. They have no children. They own their apartment. JURY HOLDS TRAFFIC FATALITY ACCIDENT, A coroner’s jury today declared ac- cidental the traffic death of Harry Ghant, 54, of 44 I street, who was fatally injured last Wednesday night when struck by an automobile at North Capitol and H streets. He died Friday night in Casualty Hospital after undergoing agonizing pain from internal injuries. ‘The jury’s verdict exonerated Wil- mer J. Farran. 23, of 528 Eleventh street southeast, driver of the auto- mobile which struck Ghant. Although Ghant was conscious after being taken to the hospital, doctors almost from the beginning held doubt- ful his recovery upon noting his in- tense pain and indications of rup- tured internal organs. r