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Wash " PUBLIC HEARINGS BEGIN FRIDAY ON - FISCAL RELATIONS Jacobs Announces Scene in Commercial National Bank Building. MAY BE RESUMED SATURDAY AFTERNOGN Civic and Business Representatives to Give Views Exhaustively on Federal Sum. Arrangements for the public hear- ings to be granted representatives of civic and business organizations vitally interested in solution of the trouble- some fiscal relations problem were an- nounced today by J. L. Jacobs, Chi- cago efficiency engineer and tax ex- pert, appointed by President Roose- velt to direct a comprehensive study to determine an equitable basis of Federal participation in the expenses of the District. The hearings will begin Friday at 10 am. in room 208 of the Commer- cial National Bank Building, Four- teenth and G streets, where Jacobs and his staff have quarters. Testimony will be taken throughout the day and into the night, if neces- sary, and also Saturday aftermoon and night, No hearing will be held Saturday morning, in order to give Jacobs and the Advisory Committee the President named to assist him an opportunity to analyze testimony introduced at the initial session. All Witnesses to Be Heard. ‘The Saturday afternoon session, scheduled to start at 1:30 o'clock, will continue until all witnesses have been heard. Jacobs pointed out that represent- atives of the civic and business or- ganizations would be allowed all the time necessary to present their argu- ments, but explained that steps had been taken to expedite the hearings by requesting that briefs be filed in advance of the hearings. He said a number of briefs already had been filed and representatives of the or- ganizations submitting them would be urged to summarize the arguments in these documents during the hearings. Organizations to Be Heard. Organizations expected to have rep- fesentatives at the hearings include the Citizens’ Joint Committee on Piscal Relations, Washington Board of Trade, Federation of Citizens’ Asso- ciations,. . Washington Real. Estate Board and Washington Taxpayers’ Protective League. People’s Counsel Willlam A. Roberts also has been in- wvited to explain his plan for solving the fiscal relations problem. Jacobs said he and the Advisory Committee had made -considerable progress in its study and that in ad-| dition to the voluminous data gathered in Washington relating to the sub- Ject they had collected material in other cities. The Advisory Committee assisting Jacobs is composed of Clarence A. Dykstra, city manager of Cincinnati; George McAneny, president of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York City, and James W. Martin, chairman of the Kentucky State Tax Commis- sion. The Advisory Committee will sit with Jacobs during the hearings. DESTROYER CLAXTON ' HERE FOR NAVY DAY To Be Open to Public Inspection. Coast Guard Vessels Also to Be on Display. *The destroyer Claxton and possibly | several Coast Guard vessels will be at the Washington Navy Yard for the Navy day observance October 27, and will be open to the public. Coast Guard officials said they were topeful the new 2,000-ton cutter Wil- liam J. Duane, which is due to arrive here Wednesday, will be able to stay over for Navy day. The cutter Apache 48 certain to be here, they added. The wvessels here will be dressed in multi- colored flags, in keeping with cus- tom, as orders are out for “full dress At Baltimore, there will be the destroyer Leary and the submarines §-20 and S-10. The destroyer Bab- Bitt will be at Annapolis, and the minesweeper Cormorant will be at Alexandria, Va. Other naval vessels will be scattered tn ports all along the seaboard. Hold-Up of $1,700 In Funds of Firm Frustrated by Girl Cashier Screams, Rout- ing Man W ho Attempted to Seize Bag on Street. The story of how a girl cashier frus- trated an attempt to rob her of $1,700 of her employer's money was to be told in Police Court today. Miss Hester Tongue, 28, of the Du- pont Circle Apartments, cashier for the Allies’ Inn, 1703 New York avenue, was to appear as a witness against George Winfield Bryan, 25, of 1424 Bixteenth street, who was charged ‘with attempted robbery. " Miss Tongue was carrying a satchel tontaining the inn’s pay roll and other funds when & man accosted her during the noon rush hour Saturday at Seventeenth and E streets. When he tried to grab the bag, she told police, she held tightly and screamed for help. The man fled without get- ting the money. A State Department messenger, she #aid, caught the would-be robber and ‘held him for Policeman J. E. Stabler, Miss the incident lightly. It was over very few minutes, she said. -1 clung to the money and screamed and the man nnq' fled the scene al: ington News The Toening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1936. Swallowing One Steel Bead + A Day Saves Life of Baby Unique Treatment Given to Keep Open Throat Burned by Lye. BY PHILIP H. LOVE. Steel beads, swallowed at an aver- age rate of one a day for the last six months, have saved the life of 20- month-old Robert Fowler in what is described by medical authorities as the first course of treatment of its kind on record in this country. Bobby, whose esophagus was se- verely burned last April 29, when he mistook a can of lye for some- thing more palatable, was near death from starvation when an operation by Dr. James A. Flynn made it pos- sible for him to swallow the first bead. Dr. Flynn, a nose and throat spe- cialist, living at 1511 Rhode Island avenue, learned the technique of the strange treatments while studying at the University of Bordeaux, in France, about 10 years ago. The treatments were originated by Prof. George Port- mann, the eminent French specialist, recently called into consultation in the case of Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hit- ler, who is suffering from a severe throat ailment. Finds Hidden Can. Bobby, son of Tyrus Fowler, a P. W. A. clerk, was playing in the kitchen of his home at 235 G street, when he came across the can of lye. “I don't know how he ever found it,” his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Fowler, said today. “It was hidden in an old, unused ice box, and how he man- aged to undo the catch I can’t imag- ine. “I was in the next room, cleaning up. Suddenly I heard him scream. I ran into the kitchen, and there he was with lye all over his mouth, cry- ing as loud as he could.” Mrs. Fowler rushed the baby to a hospital, where he was treated for | parently well. Back home, however, he refused to eat, and his weight soon dropped from 32 pounds to 15. “He cried nearly all the time,” Mrs. Fowler related. “I knew he was hungry, but he wouldn't take any- thing but water and, sometimes, ice cream. I guess he felt like he was on fire inside, and the water and ice | cream were the only things that gave | him any relief. doctors, but none of them could figure out what was the matter. And all the time he kept crying more and more, and eating and drinking less and less. Throat Closes Up. “Finally, his throat closed up alto- gether—he couldn't swallow a thing, not even a drop of water. I took him to Providence Hospital and the people in charge there called Dr. Flynn. There was an operation, then another, then—well, T think there were one or two more, but I've lost track of them, I've been so upset.” Although Dr. Flynn declined to dis- cuss the case, it was learned that scar tissue forming in the infant’s burned esophagus had caused the organ to contract to such an extent that the walls had virtually healed together. Dr. Flynn's first task was to run an Irish linen thread down the child’s several days and then discharged, ap- | I took him to several | BOBBY FOWLER. It you look closely you will see the string on which the baby swallows the beads. —Star Staff Photo. | throat, through the esophagus and stomach and out of a rubber tube inserted in the wall of the abdomen. | Since then, 26 beads, each slightly larger than the preceding one, have | been placed on the string, the ends of | which are tied together to form a loop. | Starting with a bead about one- fortieth of an inch in length, Dr. | Flynn used one bead at a time, chang- | ing every week or 10 days, depending ;upon the condition of the esophagus, and gradually workiig up to a 1'2- inch bead. Dangerous Cure. | By swallowing each bead about once a day, medical authorities explained, Bobby has gradually enlarged his | esophagus to something approaching | a normal condition. The treatments | probably will have to be continued | for another six months or so, however, before the baby can be pronounced | well. “I was so worried when Bobby swal- lowed the first bead,” Mrs. Fowler said, “that I didn’t know what to do. 1 knew that if the bead made the slightest tear in the esophagus it | meant death. But that risk was bet- | ter than letting him starve to death. | 'July and he's gained back all the weight he lost and he can eat and drink nearly everything he wants, | and—well, I think those beads are wonderful! BISHOP TRANSFERS DR W.ANGIE SMITH Mt. Vernon Place Pastor Requested Change to Birmingham, Ala. Dr. W. Angie Smith, pastor of the Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church South, the national representative church of the denomination, was transferred to the First M. E. Church South at Birmingham, Ala., last night by Bishop Edwin D. Mouzon, in mak- ing changes in pastoral appointments in the Virginia Conference at Rich- mond, according to the Associated Press. Dr. J. W. Rustin of Ghent Church, Norfolk, will succeed Dr. Smith here. The local minister succeeds Dr. Clovis Chappell, at one time pastor of the Mount Vernon Place Church. Dr. Smith’s change, he stated today, was made at his request because of the illness of his oldest son. The Bir- mingham church is the second largest in the denomination, having a mem- bership of more than 4,500. Bishop Mouzon's changes, affecting 375 ministers, 293 pastoral charges and 811 churches, were read in Rich- mond last night. Appointments that have been the subject of considerable speculation in Methodist circles involved changes in the pastorates of some of the largest churches in the conference and in the adjoining Baltimore and West Virginia conferences. It was because of the vacancies in these churches at the “top of the list” that such sweeping changes were necessitated, a leading churchman explained. To fill the pastorate of the prominent Centenary Church, Lynchburg, Rev. J. W. Pearson, D. D., was brought from the First Church of Charleston in | the West Virginia Conference. The pastorate of this church had been vacant since the appointment last Spring of Rev. H. P. Myers, D. D,, to the position of secretary of education and promotion on the General Board of Missions, Nashville. Rev. W. C. Gum, pastor of Monu- mental Church, Portsmouth, was ap- pointed to Dr. Rustin’s pulpit at Ghent, Norfolk. To succeed him at Monumental in Portsmouth, Bishop Mouzon assigned the Rev. H. Bernard Lipscombe, jr., of Richmond. Rev. C. O. Tuttle, D. D., pastor of Ginter Park Church, Richmond, for the past four years, was transferred to Rocky Mount and was succeeded by the Rev. C. Fred Williams of Fort Hill, Lynchburg, who was, in turn, suc- ceeded by the Rev. H. P. Riddick of South Hill. Rev. George E. Booker, D. D., pastor of the strong First Church of Char- lottesville for the last three years, was superannuated at this conference and Rev. D. D. Holt, student pastor, who had filled his pulpit since his retire- ment from active service because 11l health, was appointed pastor of church. 337,50 NEW POOL CONTRACT URGED Cammerer to Pass on Extra Work Required in East Potomac Park. Recommendations for award of a contract to the Charles H. Tompkins Co., 1630 Connecticut avenue, for strengthening the foundations of the proposed swimming pool in the rear of the field house in East Potomac Park have been passed along to Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, and Secretary Ickes, by C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks. Finnan also urged that the firm be granted an additional contract for extra work at the pool. These con- tracts would total $37,960. The job of fortifying the founda- tions, in the light of last March’s flood experience, consists of driving an es- timated 9,750 lineal feet of composite piles and 3,300 feet of wooden piles. For this work, $15,873 has been agreed on. The extra work, apart from the pile driving, will comprise sub-drainage for the pool and filters in the machine room; removing obstructions caused by the flood, cleaning all reinforced steel, widening the terraces around the pool, installing fences, cement floors for the field houses, provisions for a first-aid room and changes in the design, incident to the pile driv- ing. The job will entail $22,087. Finnan explained that under the prospective contracts the time for completion has been extended 109 ad- ditional days, which brings the sched- uled time for finishing the job up to May 31—in time for the opening of the next swimming season. While officials were going ahead with these plans for the East Potomac Park pool, they learned that the pile- driving job on the pool in Anacostia Park, at the rear of the field house, had been completed late last week. This, as well as the Tompkins work, has been made possible by & Public Works Administration grant. The Anacostia pool is scheduled to be com= pleted by mid-December. Funds for creation of the two new swimming pools were made available out of the $1,000,000 local park im- provement program, granted last year by Secretary Ickes out of P. W. A. monies. The flood in March held up decided features of the work. —_————— Bar Members to Dine. “But now I've had him home since | 3 DIE, SCORE HURT INMANY WEEK END TRAFFIC - CRASHES Two Injured in Automobile Accident on Richmond Highway. STREET CAR VICTIM IDENTIFIED AT MORGUE Dead Man Was Henry William Cook, 63, Carpenter, Living on Massachusetts Avenue. Three men were killed and a score of persons were injured, eight seriously, in traffic accidents in the Washington area during the week end. The Dis- trict'’s traffic death. toll, meanwhile, reached 70 for this year. The body of a man who was struck | by a street car on Benning road north- east near the power plant Saturday afternoon was identified yesterday at the District Morgue as Henry William Cook, 63, of 405 Massachusetts avenue, a carpenter. He was the seventieth victim of the year. He died of a frac- tured skull upon arrival at Casualty Hospital. James H. Schamel, 24, of 23 T street northeast, motorman on the car, will appear at an inquest, the date of which will be set later, police said. Oscar Bushey, 45, merchant, and Willie Cumberland, 27, both of Cherry Hill, Va,, were injured seriously in a collision of two automobiles on the Washington-Richmond highway, 20 miles south of Alexandria last night, Two Fatally Injured. In the same accident, John Turner, 25, colored, and Odel Smith, 27, col- { ored, both of Swedesboro, N. J., were | injured fatally. They died early today at Quantico Marine Hospital, where | victims of the crash were taken. In- | quest was set for today at Occoquan. | Two other men also were injured, | Joseph Dandridge, 28, colored, Pauls- | boro, N. J., and Stanley Smith, colored, | | Swedesboro. They were riding in the New Jersey car, which started to pass another machine and sideswiped the automobile carrying the two Vir- ginians. The New Jersey car was go- ing north, the Virginia car south. Two men sustained serious injuries | when a passenger car and a trailer- truck collided at Pennsylvania avenue and Third street. They are Garnet M. Knott, 22, and John C. Ross, 23, both of Herndon, Va. Knott received a| severe cut on the neck, Ross was hurt | about the back and head and had pos- | sible internal injuries. They were taken to Emergency Hospital. The truck driver, Robert Ward, 52, | of Baltimore, was not injured. He was | operating a large truck and trailer | owned by the Horton Motor Lines. Police did not hold him. Mrs. Florence O'Rourke, 54, of Hol- Iywood, Calif, was bruised and cut when the car driven by her daughter, Jean, 24, collided at Fourteenth street | and Pennsylvania avenue with an | automobile driven by ‘Albert J. James | of Anderson, S. C. James was not held. Three Brought to Hospital. Three Washington colored men were brought to Casualty Hospital | early today suffering from serious in- juries received in an accident on the road between Camp Springs and | Meadows, Md, They were Carlton | Holcomb, 20, of 1265 First street | southeast; John Buchanan, 20, of | 1200 Pirst street southeast, and An- drew Taylor, 18, of 65 N street south- east. Motor Cycle Officer L. S. Hensley arrested James W. Burwell, 26, col- | ored, of 74 O street, taxicab driver, on reckless driving charges, after an accident in which Gussie Harsyni, 50, of New York City, was injured. The | officer said the driver, going the wrong way on Fourth street northeast, a one-way street, leaped from the moving cab when Hensley tried to stop him. The driverless machine rolled on to the corner of Fourth and F streets northeast where it crashed into & tree. The passenger was treated in Casualty Hospital for abrasions to both knees. Others Injured. Four other people were injured here yesterday: Richard Fitzgerald, 8, of 517 Second street southeast, who sus- tained a fractured leg when struck by | a car on D street betwen Second and Third streets southeast; Richard Miller, 14, of Silver Spring, struck at Sixteenth and Emerson streets by an automobile while riding his bicycle; Floyd Bilbo, 7, of 1227 O street, hit by & car at Eleventh street and New York avenue, and Reynold Valentine, 12, colored, of 1024 Fourth street, struck by an automobile while he was roller skating. All four were treated at hospitals, None of their injuries were serious. Nick J. Zinne, 48, of Colesville, Md., was injured slightly when an auto- mobile he was driving was in collision on the Colesville road last night with a machine operated by Miss Mary Tin- man of Silver Spring. Zinne was taken to the Washington Sanitarium and Hospital for treat- ment. Miss Tinman escaped unhurt. Four persons were injured when their automobile skidded out of con- trol and overturned on the Leesburg- Washington Highway near Leesburg yesterday. The injured, treated at Loudoun County Hospital, were Thomas Roberts and Miss Mary Coppadge of Church Hill, Md., and Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Jarrell of Hyattsville. Roberts and Miss Coppadge were in an unde- termined condition today. The other couple suffered minor injuries. The automobile overturned after it struck a soft shoulder on the road. Crash- ing into a telephone pole, the car was demolished. EXHIBIT PLANNED The Capital Homecraft Club will meet tomorrow night at the home of George V. Gadde, 4535 Forty-third place. . - The club is planning an exhibit of the work of its members during the Postal -Telegraph Co., ork ave- nue and Fifteenth street. Boy Swims to Side as Companion Goes Down Second Time. Unable to swim and sinking for the second time in wind-tossed Chesa- peake Bay, Harry Lochner, 39, of 1310 Massachusetts avenue, was hauled by his hair from a watery grave yesterday three miles off Solomons Island. The thrilling rescue was effected by 17-year-old Harry Rinnier, also of the Massachusetts avenue address, who swam 100 yards through the waves to the side of the sinking man after Lochner had tumbled overboard from a fishing boat. Harry, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gus Rinnier, Lochner and several others were guests of W. M. E. Power on a fishing party yesterday. Power, a contractor, employs Harry as a carpenter’s apprentice, and the elder Rinnier and Lochner also work for him. When the party arrived at the fish- ing area a high wind was kicking up some big waves. They decided it was too rough and got in the anchor to return to shore. Young Rinnier and Lochner were aft taking in their hines when the boat rolled suddenly and pitched Lochner overboard. The young carpenter’s helper kicked off his shoes, donned a life preserver and leaped into the bay. He swam back toward the man who was floundering in the waves. kR g HARRY LOCHNER, D. C. Man Drowning After Fall From Boat . « Rescued by Youth, 17, Who Leaps Into Bay HARRY RINNIER, —Star Staff Photos. Rinnier, a strong swimmer, reached | Lochner's side as the latter sank the | | second time. He dived beneath the ;;urfuce and grasped the man by the | | hair, Rinnier was able to support Lochner until the boat came alongside and took | them aboard. Lochner was semi-conscious, and his | | lungs partially filled with water. The | men pumped the water from his chest and gave him artificial respiration. Lochner was returned to his home on Massachusetis asenue, but last night seemed to suffer @ relapse, and a physician ordered him to Sibley Hos- | pital. He was reported recuperating there today. Young Rinnier remained in bed to- day, his mother said, suffering from a slight case of exposure. Of Rinnier, Lochner said: “If it hadn't been for that boy, I wouldn't be here today!" UNIONS' DISPUTE STILL UNSETTLED Controversy Continues Over Discharge of Three Vet- eran Employes. A long-standing dispute between layers, Masons and Plasterers’ Union here and the local of the Stenogra- phers, Typists, Bookkeepers and As- sistants, over the discharge of three veteran employes, allegedly for “union activity,” approached its seventeenth month today, little nearer a solution than the day it started. The three employes, Charles Dough- erty, & bookkeeper who had worked in the international office of the Bricklayers' Union for 24 years, and Prank Duerwerth and Benjamin J. McNally, both of ‘whom had been em- ployed as clerss in the same office for 10 years, were discharged July 5, 1935, the day signed the Wagner labor act, creating the National Labor Relations Board. The discharge followed by only a few minutes a call on officials of the bricklayers’ union at 815 Fifteenth street by a committee from the office workers' unions, which included E. J. Tracy, president of Local 11773, and Frank Weikel, financial secretary, dur- ing which the restoration of pay cuts made several months before was dis- cussed. Dougherty was chairman of the unit of the office workers' union in the bricklayers' union office and col- lected dues. McNally and Duerwerth were among the older employes who belonged. Since the three employes were dis- missed, President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, with which the bricklayers’ and the office workers' unions are affiliated, and J. F. Dewey, a conciliator from the Labor Department, interceded un- officially with officials of the brick- layers' international here in an effort to have the men reinstated, but with- out success. Harry C. Bates, president of the bricklayers, is a member of the A. F. of L. Executive Committee. Tracy is employed in the office of Maj. George L. Berry, co-ordinator for industrial co-operation. Tracy declined to make any com- ment on the case today. After the special meeting in August, 1935, the matter was referred to the Central Labor Union. It is understood to be still in the hands of the C. L. U. LABOR BACKING CITED 34 State Federations Roosevelt, Berry Reports. George L. Berry, president of labor's Non-Partisan League, said yesterday that 34 State Labor Federations had indorsed up to now the re-election of President Roosevelt. BAND CONCERT. By the Army Band in the auditorium at 6 pm. today. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy conducting: ‘Turkish March” _______Moussorgsky “Funeral March of a Marionette,” Support Solo for cornet, “Carnival of Venice,” Clarke Ralph Ostrom, soloist. Serenade from “Cockney Suite,” Ketelbey Fox trot, “Love, What Are You Doing to My Heart?”.... Waltz, “Amaryllis”_ March, “Saint Julien” the international office of the Brick- | President Roosevelt | Gounod | Business “Blind Alley” for Women, Asserts Hrdlicka Scientist Tells Young Churchman Happiness Hopeless There. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, one of the world’s leading anthropologists and a student of humanity, living and past, since 1891, told a group of young churchmen yesterday that the mod- |ern woman has brushed aside hope of happiness in the mad pursuit of | business success out in the world of | men. | “I say they are trying to find happi- ness in a blind alley,” the Smithson- ian Institution scientist remarked of | the woman of the 1930's to the mem- | bers of the Adult Forum at Mount | Pleasant Congregational Church. ' “Many women are working today | | just because they envy the ability of | employed women to buy their own clothes. They believe 1t will be excit- | | ing to get away from home and be | | financially free. “We are concerned about the women | themselves. In this search for hap- | piness she is demoralizing herself. | | She is not seeking truth. She is not | | being normal. She will soon be just | | like the butterfly with all the brilliant | ;color rubbed off.” . POLICE HOLD TRID INS] 400 HOLD-UP Confess Robbing Meat Mer- chant Near Market, Of- ficers Say. An 18-year-old white girl and two colored men were to be questioned in additional robberies today after they confessed, police said, to the $1,400 hold-up of an O Street Market mer- chant Saturday night. The girl is a former employe of the robbery victim, Israel Orlove. The girl, police said, admitted she planned the robbery with the colored men and drove to the scene with them in a car. She insisted, however, that she did not get any of the loot. Detectives who arrested the trio said the girl was angry because she | believed she had been “double-crossed™ by the man described as the robber who held a gun on Orlove. ‘The girl told police she worked as a hostess in a restaurant at Eighteenth street and Columbia road, where one of the colored men was employed. The young woman, police said, admitted she told the man that Orlove was accustomed to bank his receipts late Saturday night. Harris was said to have taken in another colored man as the gunman. ‘With the three when they drove to the robbery scene, police said, was the girl's sister-in-law, Police arrested the sister-in-law as & witness, but said she was “an inno- cent victim” and knew nothing of the robbery plot. The colored hold-up man was said to have asked Orlove for a match as he left the shop. The robber then stuck & gun against the merchant's body, taking a bag containing $1,400, Orlove said. The young woman and the two col- ored men denied they got any money from Orlove. The case was solved by Detective Sergts. Robert Barrett and Elmer Davis and Detectives Tom Sweeney and Curtis Trammell. ‘The residence of the pioneer Wash- ington family of Pierce, for whom the mill in Rock Creek Park is named today has a new occupant in C. Mar- shall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks. Constructed in the Dutch Colonial style, the home henceforth—under the policy of the National Purk Serv- ice—will be the official residence of the superintendents of Washington's parks. The superintendents of the various other national parks, such as Yellowstone and Yosemite, have homes in the perks, furnished by the Gov- ernment. Mr. and Mrs. Pinnan and their three children have just moved into their new official But the house is being renovated is much tofn up, 80 that—for the present, at Pioneer Pierce Mill Residence, Renovated, Finnan’s New Home least, they are not “at home” to their friends. The residence is known as the Joshua Pierce Homse, and is located in Rock Creek Park, off Klingle road. Old Isaac Pierce purchased the site of Pierce Mill about December, 1794, and by 1801 the wheel of the mill was grinding out meal for Washington- jans. His son, Joshua Pierce, who later became known as a horticultur- ist of wide renown, constructed the house, and the garden attracted vis- itors from near and far. Joshua Pierce is credited with giv- PLEA OF GULTY ENTERED BY TEAR Smoke Screen and Assault Charges Carry 3 to 15 Year Sentences. Already under sentence for from four months to two years’ imprison- ment for conspiracy to violate the internal revenue laws, George F. (Teddy) Tear, 24, pleaded guilty be- fore Justice Peyton Gordon in Dis- trict Court today to operating a car with & smoke screen and assault with a dangerous weapon. He had been scheduled for trial, but unexpectedly changed a previous plea of not guilty to one of guilty. The smoke screen and assault charges carry possible sentences of from 3 to 15 years. Tear was remanded to jail by Justice Gordon pending sentence. Both crimes were committed while ‘Tear was at liberty under bail pend- ing the disposition of his appeal in the conspiracy case. Pursued and Captured. The assault indictment followed an alleged effort by Tear on the morning of April 2 to wreck a pursuing police car. Policemen William Thompson and Irving Lubore, first precinct, reported that they sighted two speeding auto- mobiles at Third street and Indiana avenue and gave chase. Apparently determined to prevent the officers from catching the leading car. Tear, in the second machine, allegedly made re- peated efforts to force the police ma- chine into electric light poles and trees along Constitution avenue. He finally was captured at Fifteenth street and Constitution avenue, Captured After Release. Following his arrest in this case, he again was released on bond and on August 28 was captured by Inter- nal Revenue agents after allegedly op- erating & smoke screen during a high- speed chase through downtown Wash- ington. Tear also is under a charge of as- sault with intent to kill in the shoot- ing several months ago of Joseph O’'Brien during a reputed bootleggers’ war. That case has not been acted on by the grand jury. The conspiracy trial last March in which Tear was convicted was the largest, in number of defendants, in the recent history of the local courts. Tear and 16 others were found guilty of operating a huge liquor ring here which disposed of hundreds of thou- sands of gallons of illicit spirits. That case was taken to the Court of Ap- peals on the question of the legality of the trial jury, which included sev- eral Government employes, subse- quently held by the appellate court to be ineligible for such service. ILLNESS OF DELANO MAY PREVENT SPEECH Uncle of President Had Been Scheduled to Address Demo- cratic Rally. Tllness may prevent Frederic A. Del- ano, President Roosevelt's uncle, who resides in Washington, from making his maiden political speech, which was scheduled to be delivered at a rally of local Democrats tonight at 1500 Rhode Island avenue. Delano, who is chairman of the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Commission, has been confined to his bed more than a week. It was said at his office today that there is little likelihood he will be well enough to leave the house for several days. Mr. Delano has never taken any active part in politics. The rally was arranged by the Democratic Women's National Council, of which Mrs. Authur Condit is president. DR. HRDLICKA TO TALK Will Discuss Results of Work in Aleutian Islands. Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physi- cal anthropology of the Smithsonian Institution, will lecture under joint auspices of the institution and the Anthropological Society of Washing- ton in the auditorium of the new Na- tional Museum at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow on the results of his Summer field work in the Aleutian Islands. There will also be an exhibition in ing hundreds of trees and plants to the city and supervising their plant- ing. Some of the elms, junipers and other trees in Laf! Park are said to have been plan{id under his super- vision. the museum foyer of skeletal material and artifacts collected by Dr. Hrdlicka. One of the notable of his finds was the human skull yet known from the new world. FIFTH MARYLAND DISTRICT CLAIMED. FOR DEMOCRATS Roosevelt Majority Will Be Above 15,000, Party Chiefs Think. GAMBRILL RE-ELECTION * ALSO TERMED CERTAIN Republicans Are Half-Hearted i Stating Opinion Landon Can Win There. This is the fifth in a series of % articles on Maryland politics, BY WILL P. KENNEDY, Stafl Correspondent of The Star. | BALTIMORE, October 19.—Presle’ dent Roosevelt will win the fiftih Maryland district, comprising six} counties and part of Baltimore, withs a majority of upwerd of 15.000 votes | and Representative Stephen W. Gam-} brill will be re-elected by about the | same figures, according to the best! judgment of Democratic party leade ers in the district. | Republican workers throughout the. district half-heartedly express an opinion that Gov. Alf M. Landon will carry the district and that Roscoe C. Rowe, the Republican candidate for Congress, may pull through with a “slight lead"—but even the latter does not sinces believe so, himself. In Biltimore City Candidate Rowe, who is State’s attorney for Anmne Arundel County, hopes to cut Gam- brill down to not more than 1500 majority. The Baltimore votes in the fifth district are in wards 21, 23 and 24; ward 18, precincts 4 to 8 and 14 to 16, and ward 25, precincts 10 to 16. These gave Gambrill, two years ago, 7,342 to 596. The Baltimore Sun poll shows these wards are about 3 to 1 for Roosevelt, and Gambrill is reasonably satisfled he will get about* the same vote. The colored vote is expected to be | & large and unknown factor in this | campaign. Rowe expresses confidence that no matter what the colored vote | does elsewhere in Baltimore, it will | be rounded up for Landon and him- self in these wards. In one or more of these, however, there are few, if | any, colored votes—as far as is known | ward 24 hasn't a single colored voter. The Balitmore section of the fifth | district is largely the Curtis Bay and | Locust Point area. Gambrill est | mates conservatively that he will come | out of Baltimore with a lead of 4,000 | to 5,000. | Poll Shows Roosevelt Lead. The Baltimore Sun poll in the six counties of the fifth district shows a very definite majority for Roosevelt, ranging from 2to 1to 3 to 1. The effect of the Young Democrats | and the Young Republicans in this campaign is awaited with interest. In the fifth Maryland district the Young ’Demosrnts are better organized and | more “active. Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Oxon Hill, has | taken a special interest in organizing | these voters. Annapolis being the home town of the Republican candidate, he is ex= pected to get a substantial vote there | and throughout Anne Arundel Coun- | ty., which went to Gambrill two years ago, 7,697 to 886. Gov. Nice and Rowe are to close the campaign with a rally in Annapolis the night of Noveme ber 2. But Annapolis may be depended on to give Gambrill good support, because his most effective work in Congress has been of continuing benefit to the Naval Academy and in bringing large appropriations to Annapolis. Early in his service he got $250,000 for s boat house and he also had the par of the band increased and put throug1 a special annuity retirement plan for civilian instructors at the Academy. He also prevented the post-grad- uate school from being removed from Annapolis to the University of Calie fornia at Berkeley. The maintenance of that school alone, with the pay of | officers, most of which was spent in Annapolis, amounts to about $1,000,« 000 & year. Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee will help to round up the Annapolis vote for Game brill this week at a rally in which he will emphasize the value of Game brill's services as third ranking Demoe crat on the Naval Committee. In Anne Arundel County, which last time gave him 7,697 votes, Game brill expects to win with a majority of about 5,000, while Rowe's best hope is to hold Gambrill down to 1,500, Calvert an Even Split. Calvert County seems like a rather even split, with Gambrill likely to win by a scant majority, although Rowe claims he will win it by 600. Last time Gambrill received 828 votes in the county. Charles County always has been Republican, although two years ago it | gave Gambril 804 votes. It may go about 700 to 800 Republican, although the Baltimore Sun poll shows it is Democratic. Rowe thinks he will carry the county by 800. Walter Mitchell, veteran Democratic leader, was made a judge and is out of politics. Howard County is Gambrill's home county—and some Republican leaders whisper that he will not carry it. Gambrill expects to have a majority of about 1,500—two years ago he got twice as many. Prince Georges County, where the Democrats gained 2,100 on new rege istration, bringing their book ma= jority up to 7,100, is conservatively es« timated to give Gambrill at least 4,000 majority. Rowe admits he expects to lose it by about 1,000. St. Marys County probably will go to Roosevelt by a small majority and Gambrill may win by 400 to 500. Rowe claims it by about 400. There is a peculiar situation there. Henry Breckenridge's name was entered for presidential nomination in the pri- mary as a protest, and he polled over 800 votes. Some of this anti-Rcose~ velt feeling still prevails. Some of the Republican workers profess to believe Landon will ge: a majority vote in Anne Arundel and St. Marys, Calvert and Charles Coun= ties. The ts are inclined to concede only County—with &£, Marys close.