Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1935, Page 25

» o G 1) e RAFFIC, TOLL 100 HERE, WITH SEVEN DEATHS IN' AREA Philadelphian Run Down by Hit-and-Run Auto Downtown. fCAPITAL CARPENTER £ KILLED AT WOODSTOCK - S i ¥ [ {Agriculture Employe and Wife, ¢ Clarendon Residents, Die in Collision in Virginia. "‘ Death took no holiday yesterday on ashington streets and nearby high- !\'lys as heavy traffic and rain re- ,ulud fatally for one District resi-| fdent and six other persons, one of ‘whom was killed here. Many others gere injured, some seriously. X In addition a Washington police- iman died today of injuries received ednesday. 1 The Capital's toll for the year iYeached 100 when Anthony Z. Mattis, $36, of Philadelphia, was run down by & hit-and-run driver on Fourteenth street, near Constitution avenue. ¢ Bits of wood, believed to have been | sbroken from a truck, were scattered | ear Mattis when he was found lying | a puddle by a passing motorist and Jaken to Emergency Hospital. He died . from a crushed chest before medical \assistance could be rendered. | * A look-out was broadcast for the driver of an old truck seen near the scene of the accident shortly before the victim was discovered. D. C. Carpenter Killed. The Washingtonian killed. was B. F. | Lyle, a carpenter living at 815 Mas- | sachusetts avenue northeast, who was | crushed to death beneath a beer truck at Woodstock, Va. His wife, Nettie, was injured. | Lyle, Washington-bound after sev- eral days at his Bath County farm, met death when his car collided with the truck on the crest of a hill. Thrown from his machine and pinned under | the overturned truck, he died en route | to a Winchester hospital. nature of Mrs. Lyle's injuries was not learned. John B. Kershaw of Clarendon, Va., | an employe of the Soil Erosion Serv- ice, Agriculture Department, and his wife were killed in a head-on collision near Shady Lane, Va. State police told the Associated Press Earl Campbell, a resident of the cémmunity in which the wreck oc- curred, drove his coupe down the left | side of the road, ramming the front of Kershaw’s new sedan with terrific f8tce. The Kershaws, an elderly couple, were pinned in their machine by the motor, cowling and steering apparatus. Campbell was severely in- Jured. The Kershaws were driving te Lynchburg for Thanksgiving dinner with relatives. Policeman William C. Wrenn, No. 12 precinct, died in Alexandria Hos- pital early today from injuries re- ceived Wednesday when his automo- bile overturned on Mount Vernon | Boulevard after a blowout. Wrenn was 34 and lived at 1907 K street. Mrs. Mary Collins, 2123 K street, suffered several breken ribs, while her daughter Francis, 18, was unhurt in the same mishap. ; The others fatally injured in nearby crashes are: g | 2 Mary E. Otey, 18, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. M. Otey, Roanoke, Va, Samuel J. Fortune, 26, V. P. I. grad- | Wate of 1934, who lived in Charles- gn. W. Va. i Miss Florence Grinstead of Crozet, inia. | Miss Grinstead died in a crash 6 les wes®of Charlottesville. The car, | which her sister Anne also was ng, collided with a lumber truck. jnne was critically injured. Crash at Elliston, Va. iMiss Otey and Fortune were’ killed d two other persons injured when eir car crashed at Elliston, Va. After | eswiping a truck, the machine | tled to a stop, upside down, on| e bank of the Roanoke River. For- | tine, owner of the machine, was thfown into the water. | One of three colored persons struck a hit-and-run car on Benning d near Central avenue southeast | seriously injured. The victim is ph Coleman, 20, of 629 W street. fe is in Casualty , Hospital with a ssible skull fracture. Horace Cole- n, 27, of 2212 Sixth street, and nrietta Lloyd, 30, of 4477 C street @utheast, were slightiy hurt. John B. Beat, 15, of 1305 Tenth | t told police he was struck by a r near Ninth street and New York | nue while riding his bicycle. He+t d the driver took him to a private hysician, but left without making | identity known. The boy was cut hd bruised. Walter T. Kealy, 24, of 1828 G street eived a possible broken jaw when B taxicab in which he was a passenger s struck by a hit-and-run machine Thirteenth and H streets. He was en to Emergency Hospital. Struck by a car that failed to stop ter forcing his machine into a police box, John L. Turner, 28, colored, Q street, suffered a possible skull ture when thrown to the street. p was taken to Freedmen’s Hospital. e accident occurred at New Jersey nue and Q street. tomobile on Morth Capitol street. e was taken to Gallinger Hospital. - of WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1935. Radio Ear Keeps. Prisoners At Lorton Under Close Guard COL. W. OL. W. L. PEAK, superintend- ent of the District of Colum- bia Reformatory at Lorton, can now “tune in” on any prison break plots which might de- velop at the penal institution. ‘Through a mechanical ear designed and installed by one of the prisoners the slightest sound in any one of the 18 dormitories or other important gathering places in the prison can be heard clearly in Col. Peak's office. The “mechanical ear” also func-9speaking. tions as an entertainment feature for the prisoners and officers. Maude up of three separate receiving units, the set can be tuned in to three * | outside broadcasting stations at the | same time and the prisoners can take quests. Make Reguests to Guard. Suppcse prisoners in a certain dor- mitory want to hear the play-by-play make their requests to the captain of dormitories can be listening to an- other favorite program. Although the set is constructed so th: and employes. L. PEAK. | The loud speaker atop the set | proudly proclaims it to’ be “Station | DCR,” but it does no broadcasting out- | side the confines of the prison, except | through a loudspeaker at Occoquan. | When Col. Peak or Capt. M. M. Barnard, general superintendent of District penal institutions, want to speak to any given point or to all points of the institution, they need | only pick up a telephone, ask the | operator to plug them in and begin If they want to talk to all points at once, they ask to be plugged | into “120.” If they want to speak to | only those prisoners in a certain dor- mitory, they ask for that dormitory. Can Hear All Dormitories. | To learn what is going on in one | | their pick of them. Programs are of the dormitories, the officials just | | selected by the largest number of re- | plug in the “mechanical ear” and listen to a loudspeaker on their desks. The set also conneots:with the din- ing halls, the auditorium, fire house, | the guard house and all other im- The exact | geceription of 2 foot ball game, they | portant points. In addition to its other features, it | the guard. At the same time other contains the fire alarm system of the prison. Another feature of the radio set is that when visitors call, 500 or 600 of at Col. Peak can address every man | them each visiting day, operator has | in the place at one time, his first only to plug in on the dormitory and | broadcast over the station will not be call the man he wants to have the | until Christmas day, when he plans prisoner brought cut by the guard. | to deliver his greetings to prisoners | Formerly a corps of runners had to | | summon the inmates who had visitors. D.C. MANIS SHOT. INNKEEPER BAILED Young Mechanic’s Helper Is| Near Death After Near- by Shooting. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. GREATER CAPITOL HEIGHTS, | Md., November 29.—While Irving Stewart, 23-year-old mechanic’s helper of 627 Twelfth street northeast, Washington, lay near death in Cas- ualty Hospital today, Prince Georges County police arrested the proprietor of the beer garden on the Marlboro pike at which he was shot shortly be- fore last midnight. The shooting climaxed a Thanks- giving party in which Stewart and 11 of his friends participated. After two members of the party told police the proprietor of the establishment fired the shot which lodged in Stewart’s stomach, the officers ar- rested S. Bruce Hoyle “for investiga- tion.” ' Released on Bond. Hoyle denied firing the shot, saying some one standing behind him was responsible, according to Prince Georges County Policeman Elon Turner. He was released on $1,000 bond pending the outcome of Stewart’s wounds. 2 After quizzing the wounded man's 11 friends who were held at the ninth precinct ‘in Washington after one of them, George Marshall, 700 block of Nineteenth street northeast, had brought him to the hospital, Police- man Turner reported the shooting was the outgrowth of an argument over a girl. The 12 men, the officer said, left Northeast Washington in two auto- mobiles early last night to celebrate Thanksgiving by visiting Maryland roadhouses. Their second stop was at | “Bruce Inn,” operated by Hoyle here, according to the officer. Ordered Not to Return. When the argument started, the policeman was told, four or five of the men went outside. They claim Hoyle ordered them not to come back, and shot Stewart in a brawl that fol- lowed, Turner stated. Hoyle claims, however, that he was standing in the doorway when some one behind him whom he could not see fired the shot which hit Stewart. The wounded man’has been work- ing for the Distriet of Columbia Water Department garage for the past few months as an assistant to his father, Stewart, who is employed there. Prior to that he spent several Conservation | months in ‘s Civilian Corps camp, ‘Hoyle was taken before Magistrate Horace Taylor, who released him when his brother furnished bail. driven by Maj. Willlam E. Larned, U. 8.-A, of Pelham, N. Y. Maj. Larned ‘and his 14-year-old son and daughter were shaken up but refused hospital treatment. The Larneds are visiting at 3703 Thirty- fourth street. colored, 1809 Thirteenth street, received a possible skull fracture when the car in which he was riding collided with another at mfll ‘was involved Creek parkway | New Jersey and New York avenues. :30 yester- | He was taken to Gallinger. A number of other persons were hurt in Maryland and Virginia acci- dents as slippery roads made ‘driving Shot at Inn IRVING STEWART. HUNDREDS T0 GET JOBS ON'PROJECTS $400,000 to Be Spent by W. P. A. Here Indorsed by McCarl. Work for several hundred men on reliet rolls will be provided on jobs at the National Zoological Park, the Army Medical Center and the Na- tional Training School for Boys under a $400,000 W. P. A. program which todey received the approval of Con- troller General McCarl. Most of the work will be done at the Zoo, on four projects with an ex- penditure of 6334,938 for improvement and general repairs. The Ilargest single item, $229,632, will provide for construction of new buildings and new animal cages, as well as repairing some of the old equipment. Other ex- penditures itemized for the Zoo are $56,602 for repairs to drains *and sewers, $24,872 for construction and Tepair of roads and walks and $13,- $17,604, tree planting and landscaping, and $9,802 for painting the interior and exterior of the main building. ‘Two separate projects are provided for the National Training School for Boys on the Bladensburg road. One of $18,491 will provide principally for the main athletic fleld and total program will provide for $419,064, so that the amount ordered released by Controlle; General McCarl will re- quire the Commissioners to effect economies of $19,064 in carrying out NEW TAX SOURCES WEIGHED IN STUDY 10 DECIDE NEEDS Report Being Drafted—Big- ger Lump Sum Wins United Support. READY APPROVAL FAILS ON'$7,000,000 INCREASE District Trucking Association Ac- cepts Gas Boost and Weight Levy if Expenditures Are Proper. Behind closed doors. the District’s Special Tax Committee struggled to- day with a report for the Commis- sioners showing the need of additional | funds to meet increasing expenses of the municipal government, and how | new sources of revenues. The report will be based on a com- prehensive study of the District’s iflnnncm situation in the period cov- ering the fiscal years from 1920 to 1936 inclusive. After a lengthy meeting, the com- mittee put over until tomorrow pro- posed final action on its work. The committee said it had drafted the skeleton form of a tentative partial report on its studies and that this would be reviewed at another session | scheduled for 10 am. tomorrow. Members said they had no.statement | to make meanwhile. Detailed Analysis. Figures released by the commitiee | last week were interpreted by some | to show the need of more than $7,~ 000,000 a year additional in revenue. | Some members of the committee, how- ever, were not satisfied this would be | the ultimate finding and determined to make a more detailed analysis. The committee as a whole, how- ever, is convinced of one thing— | that the lump sum Federal payment toward the expenses of the District should be increased above the present $5,700,000. Gas Increase Weighed. heritance tax and an increase in the | gasoline tax from two to three cents |a gallon were the four proposals the Commissioners instructed the com- mittee to study. Proir to today’s meet- ing, it was reported committee mem- they should recommend as to taxes | needed. In the meantime the District Truck- ing Association, Inc., urged the Com- missioners that it be permitted to present its views to the committee regarding new taxation. The organi- zation pointed out that after an ex- haustive study of the motor vehicle tax treatment in the District, it ap- proved both a weight tax and an increase in the gasoline tax, “provided that satisfactory guarantee could be had that the revenue would go for those purposes for which it should be expended.” VETERAN IS ACCUSED IN CRISFIELD DEAT Son Backs Wife's Claim That Man Used Chisel to Kill Husband. By the Associated Press. CRISFIELD, Md., November 29— State's Attorney F. Kird Maddrix to- day had statements from a woman and her son in which, he said, they claimed the woman's husband was slain by a chisel wielded by William Powell, 40- year-old World War veteran. The dead man is Arthur A. Dize, 40, whose body was found Monday in the house occupied by his wife, Grace L. Dize, 40; her son, Charles Dize, 19, and Powell. He spent the week end with his estranged wife and Powell. Maddrix announced late last night that the woman and the boy had placed the blame on Powell. Powell had denied any connection with the death, but has been charged formally with murder. Maddrix said investigators had found a chisel with a blood-stained handle, blood stains on a towel-and a mattress and a pillow case which bore blood stains. The State’s attorney said Mrs. Dize and her son would be released under bond as material witnesses, N —— VETERAN FILE CLERK, “UNCLE ALBERT,” DIES 45 Years’ Service With D. C. Su- preme Court Without Loss of Day Recently Observed. Albert J. Farley, venerable colored file clerk at the District Supreme Court—“Uncle Albert” to hundreds of It was only a few days ago that he celebrated 45 years of continuous service at the court, during which he did not miss a single day from work. Several years ago he initiated the “flat filing system” now used in keep- ing records of the court. Funeral arrangements are awaiting arrival here of his son-in-law, Harry Burley, well-known singer. REV. HUBERT SWEENEY TO CONDUCT NOVENA A novena in- honor of the Im- ‘maculate Conception will begin to- morrow at the Immaculate Conception Church, Eighth and N streets. Ser- mons will be preached twice daily by Rev. Hubert Sweeney, C. P., at the 12:15 p.m. mass and.at 7:45 pm. On Sundays he will preach at 10:15 and 11 o'clock: masses. Sunday at 5 pm. the Washing- ton Catholic Radio Hour will present Rev. Ignatius Smith, who will preach on "cr_x{m‘- Civilization Captures | the money can be raised by tapping | Higher taxes on public utilities, a | work tax on motor vehicles, an in-/ bers were not in agreement as to what | or the amount of additional revenue | i L L " “Bociety and General PAGE B—1 SUSPECTS' ALIBIS INLYNCH SLAYING BEING CHECKED Stories of Two in Shooting of Switchboard Operator Are Gone Over. TAXI DRIVER IS SOUGHT TO CLEAR UP MYSTERY “Slight Impression” Found on Death Gun—Suicide Theory Turkey dinners were served to more :han 56C persons at the Good Samaritan House yesterday. Above are TURKEY BATTERED BY CAPITAL HORDE | Thanksgiving Festivities In- clude Sacred Services | and Diversions. ' The Capital was back at work to- | day after a quiet Thanksgiving—and badly battered turkeys were in family | | ice chests, awaiting a second appear- ance. A cold, heavy rain, starting about | the time thousands were making their | way from church. kept a good part | of ‘the city indoors after the dinner hour, but despite this, foot ball games, | | races and motion pictures, principal | | items on the entertainment program, f were well patronized. | | Officialdom was scattered from such | widely separated points as Warm Springs, were President Roosevelt pre- sided at the Thanksgiving board, to Wake Island, a dot in the Pacific, where Secretary of War Dern and Mrs. Derni passed the day. Party at White House. The White House was alight, how- | ever. The President’s daughter, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boeftiger, with her husband, entertained a small party. | The principal celebration was at the | Willard Hotel, the Navy relief ball | having as honor guests Secretary of | the Navy and Mrs. Swanson. The annual Pan-American mass at St. Patrick’s Church brought out many members of the diplomatic corps from the Southern countries, and afterward the distinguished guests were entertained at luncheon by the pastor, Msgr. Cornelius F. Thomas. Unforgetable for Derns. Secretary and Mrs. Dern had an unforgetable day. En route home from the Philippines on the cruiser Ches- ter. they put in at Wake Island, where before only one white woman—wife of a member of the air base installation crew—had ever landed. The base is maintained by Pan-American Airways for its San Francisco-Manila service, and the only inhabitants are the crew. A radio to the War Department told of the event. The China Clipper, winging by from Guam to Manila, brought in the “makings” for the din- ner, which included turkey, fresh to- matoes and Ice cream. Hundreds of persons were fed by relief agencies here and representa- tives of the Animal Protective Asso- ciation went through alleys and around dumps, leaving food for stray dogs and cats, Crumbs also were put out for birds. CHRISTMAS SHOPPING PROCEEDING BRISKLY Shop-Mail Early Committee Head Pleased at Trend Ob- served Here. Christmas shopping is proceeding briskly in Washington stores, John J. Hasley, chairman of the Shop Early- Mail Early Committee of the Mer- chants and Manufacturers’ Associa- tion, reported today. Expressing gratification that shop- pers “have arrived at the conclusion that early Christmas shopping is the most_satisfactory way to solve their in meeting the new earlier display of full holiday mere chandise stocks has accelerated dis- EG S0 shown a few of the little ones who enjoyed the feast. Mills all set to enjoy the Thanksgiving meal. No. 3, a slice of pumpkin pie proved the most tempting to John Heater. | <@ L3 Stuck at Tunmel, “Winnie Mae,” on Way Here, Rerouted By the Associsted Press. The late Wiley Post's globe- circling airplane Winnie Mae found a passage it could not navigate 'on its last trip. En route to a final landing at the Smithsonian Institution Rere aboard a freight car the Winnie Mae stuck at the entrance of a tunnel near Baltimore. Institu- tion officials were advised the ship and car would be rerouted to Washington <through West Virginia. D. C. PENAL HEAD STILL UNSELECTED |Board Discusses Successor | to Barnard—Several _Advanced. Appointment of a new general superintendent of District penal in- stitutions to take the place of Capt. M., M. Barnard when the veteran penal head is retired, was discussed again today at the semi-weekly meet- ing of the Board of Commissioners, but sgain no action was taken. Some time ago, the Board of Public Welfare after a canvass of the fleld of candidates, recommended to the Commissioners appointment of Harold E. Donnell of Baltimore, now Mary- lend State prison superintendent. Donnell had been given the Maryland post under a Democratic administra- tion, but continued ip office after the induction of Gov. Harry Nice. Last Tuesday five members of the welfare board appeared before the | Commissioners to urge action 6n their recommendation. Commissioner George E. Allen, who has supervision over the welfare and penal insti- tutions, was absent, and the other two CommisSioners declined to act. Allen has taken the position that Capt. Barnard is the best man in the country for the position and has re- fuced to do anytning to hasten his vetiroment. It was understood . after today’s meeting that he adhered to this view. For many weeks, the Com- missioners have been receiving in- dorsements for the appointment of Col. Willlam L. Peak, now superin- tendent of the District Reformatery. at Lorton, Va. Recently there has been support also for Capt. Thomas M. Rives, now superintendent of the District Jail It has been said that the Commis- sioners have formed a “very favorable Impression” of the ability of Capt. Rives, byt the board has given no in- dications of what decision it may reach, or when. The Commissioners today received and “noted” a communication from the Mid-City Citizens’ Association which protested against the appoint- ment of “outsiders” to positions un- der the Board of Public Welfare, or elsewhere in District service. FORMER PASTOR DIES Rev. U. S. Thomas Served With Centennial Baptist Church. No. 1, Clinton Lane, Jimmie Means, Sam Williams and Jack No. 2, pretty little Hope Scott tries out the cranberry sauce first. —Star Staff Photo. 1., AGENTS QUI HLLEEN SLAYER Mrs. Maddox Is Questioned in Probe of Interstate Racketeering. Mrs. Lillian Maddox, 35-year-old paramcur and confessed slayer of Edaward V. (“Eddie”) Killeen, was questioned yesterday by an agent of th2 Feceral Bureau of Investigation | in connection with the intensive sur- vey which the “G-Men” are making of interstate rackets. Officials of the department refused, | nowever, to divulge what. if any, knowledge the woman who killed the reputed overlord of Washington gam- bling in his Brookmont, Md., home last Saturday has of racketeering op- eration of this nature. Ignore Wilson Case. | _ They did disclose, though, that Mrs. Maddox was not questioned concern- ing any possible connection Killeen identity” murder of Allen B. Wilson r.ewspaper route agent, who was killed | by gangsters at Takoma Park, Md., more than a year ago. It was further learned that the woman was not questioned concerning | the activities of the Tri-State gang. { It had been rumored in several sectors | that Killeen had & “tie-up” with the Tri-State gang. | | Mrs. Maddox's attorney, granted the lrequest of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation for permission to question the woman and he accompanied the agent when he called at her cell in the | Rockville Jail, where Mrs. Maddox has been held without bail since the Kil- leen killing. Self-defense to Be Claim. The survey of interstate recketeering was launched by the Federal agents several weeks ago and is being waged on an intensive scale throughout the United States, the “G-Men” having authority to investigate rackets of an interstate scope. Attorneys for Mrs. Maddox are pre- paring for the presentation of evi- dence showing that the woman shot her lover in self-defense during a drunken brawl at the Brookmont home, and also that Kiil:en had made :‘venl previous attempts against her e The preliminary hearing on the murder charge which has been placed the Montgomery County Police Court next week. RETIRED ELECTRICIAN, JOHN A. FUSE, DIES District Repair Shop Employe, 75, ‘Was Resident of Washington Since Childhood. John A. Fuse. 75, retired electrician of the District Repair -Shop and a resident ‘of this city since childhood, dled yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Greenberg, 712 Otis place, after a short illness. Mr. Puse was a member of the Asso- ciation of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. A native of Baltimore, he came to ‘this city with his parents when 5 years old. He was retired from the Repair might have had with the “mistaken | | State Senator Stedman Prescott,| against Mrs. Maddox will be held in | Is Discounted. A thorough check of the “alibis” | of the two men under arrest in cone | nection with the mysterious shoote | ing of Miss Elizabeth R. Lynch, Po- | tomac Electric Power Co. switchboard | operator, was being made by investi gators today. A taxicab driver was hunted as police traced the movements of Wil liam A. (Dutch) Kappel, 34, friend of the dead woman, who said he found the body of the 35-year-old| brunette when he called at her home| at 918 Fourth street northeast early ‘Wednesday. Kappel, according to detectives, says he took Miss Lynch home about mid- ]nighc Tuesday and after she refused {to let him enter the house, where | he also lived, boarded a taxi at Fourth and H streets northeast. | Claim fo Have Geme to “Club.” After picking up Leo Cullen, 31, at | 718 Fourth street northeast, the other !man held, Kappel is quoted as say- | ing he rode to a “club” near Twelfth |street and New York avenue. The pair | allegedly stayed at the “club” until | 6 a.m, Wednesday. Before he took Miss Lynch home, however, Kappel was seen quarreling with the woman in a Northwest res- taurant, police have been told. Miss Lynch is said to have left the place alone. According to Kappel's account of his movements, he went back to the { Fourth street house and discovered Miss Lynch on the kitchen floor with a bullet in her head. A .38-caliber { revolver, which Kappel admitted own- | ing, lay near the woman’s feet, and a smashed chair was nearby. | " There were a few bruises on Miss | Lynch's legs, indicating she might have : engaged in a struggle during which the | chair was broken, police pointed out, and the wound in her cheek bore no powder marks. This latter fact leads police to believe the fatal shot was fired from a distance. Detectives said Kappel told them he could not remember the name of the taxicab. Taxi Driver Sought. Indicating he was dissatisfied with Kappel's story, Detective Chief Frank S. W. Burke has ordered his men to contact every taxi driver in Washing- ton in an attempt to find the one who may throw some light on the case. “I want to check his (Kappel's) story,” Inspector Burke told reporters as he issued the order. Meanwhile, fingerprint experts were trying to match up a “slight impres- jon” found on the gun which took the ife of the telephone operator. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald ! has discounted a suicide theory in the case and members of the police homi- cide squad are convinced Miss Lynch was murdered. No date has been set for an inquest. SR 'ADVANCES IN OIL PRODUCTION TOLD | Use of Water Under Pressure to “Squeeze Out” Dry Wells Related. | By thaAssociated Press. | BALTIMORE, November 29.—New | scientific uses of old principles promise | to increase the output of United States | oil wells by between 50 and 100 per cent. Dr. Morris Muskat of the Gulf Re- search & Development Corp., Pitts- | burgh, today described to members | of the American Physical Society how | & new method of watér-flooding what | had been considered “dry” wells eould | bring them bhck into production. However, he explained In an inter« view, about 50 per cent of the Na- tion's vast oil reserve can probaktly never be pumped above ground be- cause of the way in which it is dis- | persed through oil-bearing rock, just | as a sponge can never be wrung com= | pletely dry by squeezing it. | Dr. Muskat explained to the society, gathered here for its Fall meeting, | some of the mathematical problems involved in estimating how much oil | can be recovered by flooding it with water. The method consists of pumping | water down an old or a new well |at a pressure of 2,000 pounds per square inch and forcing it against the | oil remaining in the ground, much as a piston will force a liquid out of a tube ahead of it, or compress it, As the water permeates through the oll-bearing rock it drives the oil ahead of it toward outlet wells nearby from which it can be pumped to the surface. “This method is an expensive one, compared to the old gusher or pump- ing wells, but is practical in fields where high-quality oils are obtained,” Dr. Muskat said. “It also provides a tool and experience in using it, for future application in developing our oil resources,” he added. DEMANDS JURY TRIAL | D. C. Man Accused of Negligent Homicide.