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DISTRICT BILL FIGHT
BLOCKS WORK ON
CAPITAL’S STREETS
Contracts for $2,000,000 in
Construction Cannot
Be Awarded.
HALF OF WORKING
SEASON IS LOST
Estimates Also Are Halted by
Deadlock, Due to Grade-
Crossing Items.
Delay in passage of the 1931 appro
priation bill for the District is having
serious consequences on the highway
and street construction program, it w’as
learned today.
Approximately $2,000,000 worth of
new construction is called for in bids
opened by the District last April and
in a second series of bids, the first of
which was opened yesterday. Another
batch will be opened today and a third
act tomorrow. Awards of contracts on
most of these bids are contingent on
passage of the supply bill. Usually, in
years during which there is a long
session of Congress, the supply bill is
pased in May. In 1928, the bill was
signed by the President May 21, and in
1926, on May 10. In the short session
years, the bill is always signed on or
before March 4. The bids are always
opened and the District ready to let
the contracts to the low bidders as
soon as the bill is signed, so that ad
vantage may be taken of the open sea
son for laying permanent roadwork,
which cannot be done during the cold
months.
Half of Season Lost.
Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, chief
engineer of the District, who has charge
of its highway work, remarked today
that half of the working season already
had been lost. A certain amount of
work still can be done on money car
ried in the 1930 bill, and one of the
contracts for which bids were opened
yesterday will be paid for out of 1930
funds. But the bulk of the work is
tied up by the delay in the passage of
the bill.
The low bidders on yesterday's con
tracts were Phil H. McGuire, who bid
$152,432.50, for work on cement road
ways, out of the 1930 appropriations:
Highway Engineering and Construction
Co. of Delaware, who bid $243,003.25,
for building concrete curbs and gutters,
and the Cranford Co., who bid $86,994, I
for resurfacing streets by the heating
method. The last two bids are for con
tracts to be let for money in the 1931 I
appropriation bill.
Estimates Present Difficulty.
Another difficulty confronting the
highway department is for making up
its estimates in 1932. As an example,
Capt. Whitehurst pointed out that the
House form of the supply bill carries
one grade-crossing elimination job, the '
Senate form another and the highway
department is recommending a third.
Until it is known which one of these
will finally be in the bill any estimates
for grade-crossing work for 1932 must
be guesses based on guesses.
Another bid opened by the District
yesterday, connected with the highway
department’s work, is for construction
of testing laboratories and shops at
Second and Bryant streets, just east of
the pump house of the Bryant street
pumping station on land at present oc
cupied by public playgrounds.
The department's research work is
now done partly in a laboratory in
the District Building and partly on
public ground at First and Canal streets
southwest, W'hich must be vacated soon
to make way for extension of the
Botanic Garden. The low bid for this
work was put in by the Arthur L.
Smith Co., who asked $219,700.
“NUMBERS GAME”
SUSPECTS SEIZED
Police Arreit Four Colored Persons
in Raid on Apartment
as Others Escape.
Four colored alleged “numbers” game
operators were captured by Detective
Sergt. Hubert E. Brodie and Pvts. Ford
James and Hugh Robey this morning
In a raid staged on a colored apart
ment at 44 H street. A number of
patrons leaped from a rear window
and fled over adjoining roofs when the
policemen entered.
Lula Hammond, 30. of the H street
address: Richard E. Wade, 35, of 104
I street: Charles W. Oglesby, 54, of
813 First street, and George Hagin, 38,
of 49 K street northeast, were placed
under arrest and charged with per
mitting gaming.
Hundreds of gambling slips, an adding
machine and S2B in cash, including a
quantity of marked money used by
police informers in making plays after
complaints were made by neighbors,
were seized as evidence.
WILL ASK $671,950
FOR D. C. PARK ROADS
Senator Tydings Plans to Ask Add
ed Sum in Second Deficiency
Bill.
When the second deficiency appro
priation bill reaches the Senate, Sena
tor Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland,
w’ill offer an amendment to add $671,-
950 to the general expenses of the office
of public buildings and public parks
to complete roadways in Rock Creek
and Potomac Parkway.
Senator Tydings also prepared a bill
today to authorize the chief of en
gineers of the Army to make agree
ments with authorities in nearby Mary
land and Virginia for the use of water
from unmetered mains for emergency
purposes in fire fighting. This bill was
referred to the military affairs com
mittee.
WOMAN LOSES HANDBAG
WITH $5,042 IN JEWELS
A handbag containing $5,042 worth of
• jewelry and $230 in cash was lost by
Mrs. Esther R. Giffen of the Potomac
Park apartments, at Twenty-first and
* C streets, between her apartment and
Eleventh and F streets yesterday aft
ernoon, according to a report made to
police.
Mrs. Giffen was preparing to leave
the city on a vacation trip when she
missed her bag. Included in the jewel
ry which she lost was a solitaire dia
fmond ring valued at $2,500 and *U
tfher diamond ring worth SI,OOO,
NEW ANIMALS AT ZOO
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POLICE VACANCY
SOON TO BE FILLED
Lieuts. Walsh, Lamb and Ed-;
wards Ordered to Take
Physical Test.
Lieut. John M. Walsh, tenth precinct;
B. A. Lamb, Traffic Bureau, and L. I.
H. Edwards, attached to police head
quarters, were ordered before the
Board of Police and Fire Surgeons
today for physical examination in con
nection with selection of a successor
to the late Capt. Martin Reilly. The
lieutenants mentioned head the eligible
list in the order named. Assuming that
each passes the examination, it is
thought that Lieut. Walsh will get the
call. All three have passed the mental
examination for captaincy, held by the
United States Civil Service Commis
sion, with high marks.
Walsh is 64 years old and the veteran i
in point of age. He has served on the |
force since April, 1894: was promoted!
to sergeant in July, 1906, and to lieu- j
tenant In January, 1922. He has served
In his present assignment since April,
1928.
Others in Line for Promotion.
The promotion of the lieutenant will
leave Sergts. C. J. P. Weber. Detective
Bureau; A. W. Guyer, fifth precinct, and
W. C. Balderson. eighth precinct, at
the top of the eligible list for promo- ,
tion to a lieutenancy. The three top
eligibles among the privates, one of
whom will be promoted to sergeant, are
Paul L. Barnes, first precinct; B. F. Mc-
Allister, third precinct, and William J.
Cunningham, Traffic Bureau.
The Civil Service Commission, accord
ing to the prevailing practice, certifies
to the Police Department the names of
the three men standing highest cn the
eligible list for promotion as a result
of civil service examinations, and the
Commissioners must appoint one of the
three, on recommendation of the major
and superintendent. This rule is fol
lowed for promotions to grades up to
and including captains.
Weber Joined Force in 1902.
Weber is in his fiftieth year and has
been on the force since July, 1902. He
was made sergeant in June, 1912. He
was given an indefinite leave of ab
sence in April. 1918, to organize a police
force at the old munition plant at Gles
boro Point. He resigned in October,
1919, and returned to the force as a
private in July, 1922. He was made a
precinct detective in the tenth precinct
in May, 1924, and a detective sergeant
In November, 1924. He has many cita
tions on his record for clever detective
work.
Pvt. Barnes is 36 years old, and has
been on the force since February, 1921.
There is another promotion to ser
geant due soon, owing to the recent re
duction of Sergt. Odessa Hunt to pri
vate. Assuming that the present Dis
trict supply bill passes In the shape of
the House bill, there will be one more
promotion to a new captaincy in the
Traffic Bureau, and promotions to 16
new lieutenancies to be created so as
to give precinct lieutenants an 8-hour
day Instead of a 12-hour day.
INDIA FRIENDS ORGANIZE
Post of Chairman Left Vacant
Pending Choice of Leader.
The newly founded Friends of Free
dom for India was formed into a per
manent organization last night, with
the office of chairman of the group left
vacant “pending negotiations to obtain
the acceptance of a prominent Wash
ington man,” it was announced today.
Mrs. Myrtle de Montis was elected sec
retary, and Miss Mary E. Henaughan
was chosen treasurer. The meeting was
held at 1336 New York avenue. The
next session of the organization, which
will be for the purpose of drafting a
constitution, will be held in the An
napolis Hotel June 2ft,
Wi)c IBtienitifl pfaf
DOCTORS PROTEST
VIVISECTION BAN
Hearings on Bill Are Expect-i
ed to Be Concluded Before
Senators Today.
Hearings before the Senate District
, committee on the bill to prohibit use
:of dogs in laboratory experiments in
Washington were expected to be con
cluded this afternoon, with the scien
tists and medical men presenting their
final arguments in opposition to the
measure, and with the anti-vivisection
groups reiterating their support of the
bill.
A number of doctors and Govern
ment experts who delve into the cause
and cure of disease testified against the
hill yesterday afternoon, declaring that
; experimentation on dogs and other ani
j mais is essential in finding ways of re
| lieving the suffering of human beings
; and of animals.
! Miss Mabel E. Orgelman, leading the
■ groups in support of the bill, asked to
I present arguments in rebuttal before
the hearings close.
Dr. Maurice Hall, chief of the zoolog
ical division, Department of Agricul
ture, who told the committee that his
efforts to find a cure for heart worms,
that cause great suffering to dogs,
! would be stopped under this bill, asked
Miss Orgelman yesterday if she would
: favor experimenting on some dogs in
! order to find a cure for a great many
; dogs. Miss Orgelman said she would
not.
Among those who testified yesterday
was Col. W. P. Chamberlain of the
Army Medical Corps, who said that in
the past 25 years the average length
of life has been extended and that the
knowledge gained through experimen
tation on animals has played an im
portant part in lengthening life.
Others who testified as to the value
of research on animals as a means of
I finding cures for disease were: Dr.
; George M, Kober, dean of Georgetown
University Medical School; Col. Ed
ward B. Vedder and Maj. R. A. Kelser,
Capt. Butler of the Navy Medical
School, Dr. John P. Turner of the
American Veterinary Association and
Dr. David Buckingham, a veterinarian.
SAYS TARIFF PLANNED
1 AS AID TO FARMERS
j Tariff Commission Chairman Tells
Women Some Results Dif
ficult to Estimate.
Speaking before the business and pro
fessional section of the Women’s City
, Club last night, Dr. Edgar B. Brossard,
chairman of the United States Tariff
Commission, said the tariff bill now
: pending in Congress and the two pre
-1 ceding legislative measures on this im
■ portant item were calculated to prove
beneficial to the farmers of the country.
Having for his topic "Agriculture and
the Tariff, With Sidelights on the Tar
iff Commission,” Dr. Brossard said that
while it is difficult to estimate what
the increase will be for the consumer
. or what the supply or demand of the
• producer will be, the interests of the
consumers and producers are the same
because producers consume, and con
■ sumers produce.
Renwick W. Dunlap. Assistant Secre
l tary of Agriculture, styling himself as a
l “dirt farmer from Ohio,” depicted how
i farmers of the country would lose the
- market for their products if the tariff
. was removed from the same products
- from other countries and pointed out
l the benefits to be derived by farmers
s from a protective tariff.
; Dr. G. Wright, also spoke on the tar
i iff and the farmers. Miss Florence E.
i Ward presided at the meeting, which
. was held in the garden of the Women's
City Club
WASHINGTON, I). C., THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1930. ♦
SIX RARE IGUANAS,
KIN TO DINOSAURS, |
ARE ADDED TO ZOO
Haitian Reptiles Grow to
Three Feet in Length,
With Horned Heads.
CURIOUS VINE SNAKES,
LIKE PENCILS, ARRIVE
Pair of Australian Stumptailed
Lizards, Whose Heads and Tails
Look Alike, Received.
Six rhinoceros Iguanas—queer reptiles
that are about the nearest of living
creatures to the great horned dinosaurs
that disappeared from the earth mil
lions of years ago—have arrived at the
Zoo.
This iguana is a large lizard with
three horns on its head. When fully
grown it is about 3 feet long. It is
found only in isolated areas in Haiti
and is very rare. It looks like a minia
ture dinosaur. Actually, according to
Dr. William M. Mann, director of the
Zoo, the relationship is not very close,
although these reptiles are of great
antiquity.
Haiti has been cut off from the main
land for a long time and in its sheltered
environment remnants of a very old
fauna have survived. Once the rhinoce
ros iguanas were quite common, but
have been killed off by dogs
wherever the island lias been settled.
Perrygo Obtained Lizards.
The lizards were secured for the Zoo
by Watson Perrygo of the United States
National Museum, who has just re
turned from a collecting expedition in
the West Indies. He also brought back
a large number of Haitian snakes, in
cluding varieties unknown elsewhere.
The most remarkable of these, Dr.
Mann said, are the* vine snakes, crea
tures about 3 feet long and the circum
ference of a lead pencil, who duplicate
almost exactly the color of green loliage
They live in the trees and can hardly
be distinguished from the vines which
lace the Haitian jungles.
It is generally believed. Dr. Mann
said, that there are no poisonous rep
tiles in Haiti, but the vine snakes ap
proach very close to this classification.
They have fangs but, so far as Is known,
no poison glands. They are in the sus
pected class. Mr. Perrygo also brought
back several Haitian boas, tile largest
snakes of the island, and some yellow
lined snakes.
The collection which arrived Monday
also included two turtles and several
Haitian doves and quail of varieties
rare In collections.
Zoo Gets Opossum.
The Zoo also received Monday a
murine opossum from South America,
a marsupial the size of a rat. This
creature sometimes comes to the United
States in bunches of bananas and al
ways arouses a controversy as to what
it is.
The zoo received this week a pair of
Australian stump-tailed lizards, which,
like the rhinoceros iguanas, seem to be
living relics of a distant past. This
lizard has a fiat tail and a flat head,
and it is difficult to distinguish between
head and tail. This is the first time it
has been exhibited in the United States
It is found only in isolated sections of
Australia, and many native legends
have grown up around it.
Diana Monkey Is Added.
For the first time in years a Diana
monkey has been added to the collec
tion. This is one of the rarest monkeys
in captivity. The last one in the Zoo
was killed by a visitor who fed it
laurel leaves. It Is a small monkey with
a white beard which lives in great
troops in the treetops of West Africa.
Although by no means rare. Dr. Mann
said, it is difficult to capture alive and
the country where it Is abundant is
seldom visited by animal collectors.
A remarkable attribute of this little
bearded monkey is its voice. It seems
to sing like a bird. This may be an
unconscious imitation of the birds
among whom the species has lived so
long in the jungle treetops.
Dr. Mann also received as a gift from
the United Fruit Co. two Costa Rican
deer and a wild pig.
The bird collection has been increased
by two Venezuelan jays, large deep
green birds of the crow family, three
African tri-colored starlings and two
toucanets. The tri-colored starlings
which are found only in East Africa,
are colored with purple, yellow and
black and are some of the most striking
creatures in the collection.
TRIO GIVEN 10 DAYS
ON FIGHTING CHARGE
Hoover Herbert, Beatrice Harris
and Charles Johnson Take
Sentence in Police Court.
Hoover Herbert, Beatrice Harris and
Charles Johnson, all colored, were sen
tenced to serve 10 days in jail each
when brought into Police Court today
after having engaged in the “worse
fight” Policeman M. A. Kelly of the
sixth precinct “had ever seen.”
After the officer had told of the fight
in the home of Herbert on Missouri
avenue the defendants were called upon
to tell their sides of the situation.
“I reached the scene a bit late In
the scrap,” Policeman Kelly said, “but,
your honor, there were bricks scattered
over the floor of the house and a large
pile neatly placed in the front hallway.”
“What wore those brick-bats doing
there?” queried Judge Gas A Schuldt.
“Just for emergency, your honor.”
said Herbert, the host, who appeared to
have come through the melee with the
least damage. “You see, I was ex
pecting the visitors.”
FIRED ON, MISSED, SAYS
ENEMY SOUGHT REVENGE
Frank Ricks, Alleged Dry Viola
tor, Believed Assailant of Stephen
Gauzza, Thinks Latter Informer.
Accused of giving police information
which resulted in the arrest of Frank
Ricks, 40 years old, of 515 Allison
street, Stephen Gauzza of 255 Rock
Creek Church road was fired upon by
a man said to be Ricks during an al
tercation at Rock Creek Church road
and Upshur street early last night, ac
cording to a report made to the tenth
precinct station by Gauzza.
Gauzza told police investigating his
report that Ricks charged him with
“tipping” off police and causing his
arrest on a dry law violation and then
fired at him. The shot missed and Ricks
fled, Gauzza stated.
A warrant was $o be procured for
Ricks' arrest today, police say, . _
WASPS RECRUITED
j BY MILLIONS TO
SAVE PEACH CROP
Deadly Foe of Fruit Moth
Seen Able to Check Wide
spread Destruction.
TWO OTHER PESTS
SLASHING PROFITS
Department of Agriculture Ex
perts Believe War of Insects
Will Solve Problem.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
An army of millions of tiny wasps is
being recruited by the Department of
Agriculture to take the field in defense
of America’s peach crop.
The enemy Is the oriental peach moth,
which has been especially destructive
in the last two years and is described
by Dr. A. L. Quaintance of the Bureau
of Entomology as “the black beast of
American entomologists,” since it stub
bornly refuses to be killed by poisons.
It started its destructive career in
Washington, but has spread over the en
tire country east of the Mississippi dur
ing the past 25 years. The insect is
generally supposed to have been intro
duced from Japan with the first ship
ment of Japanese cherry trees. Before
that it had been unknown in the world
I and how’ it got there is one of the mys
j teries of entomology.
It was detected by Department of
Agriculture scientists and described as a
new species. Japanese entomologists
had not known of its existence, but were
able to identify it in their own country
by the descriptions received from Wash
ington.
Native Champion Arises.
It is not a native of Japan. Near
relatives are found in southern Europe
and North Africa, and now the peach
moth itself has been identified there, but
entomologists are convinced that if it
was a native of the Mediterranean
region it could not have remained un
known so long, since the insect life of
this area has been extensively studied
for years. There is some evidence that
it originated in Australia.
In its original home it apparently has
been kept down very effectively by some
natural enemy, and the ordinary pro
cedure would be to find this enemy and
introduce it to the United States. But
the entomologists do not know where to
look.
Now, says Dr. Quaintance, a native
champion has arisen. It is a tiny, fly
like wasp which for generations has
subsisted on another American insect
pest, the strawberry leaf roller. Where
ever this wasp has come in contact with
the peach moth it has turned upon it
avidly, causing great destruction of the
pest.
Unfortunately, says Dr. Quaintance,
; the wasp is not very abundant, having
l been kept down by the limited food sup
ply afforded by the strawberry leaf
: roller. At the New Jersey station of
the Bureau of Entomology an effort is
■ being made to rear hundreds of thqu
, sands of the insects, to be turned loose
’ in peach orchards all over the country.
! The difficulty is to find food for the
. young wasps. It is impossible to find
i enough strawberry leaf rollers to feed
great hordes of them. Experiments are
in progress to find some other insect
food of which an unlimited supply can
be raised upon which the moths can be
“weaned'' until the entomologists are
willing to turn them loose.
Bait Placed for Moths.
Another offensive on a big scale
1 against the peach moth is being tested
1 out in two 500-acre orchards in north
• ern Georgia and southern Indiana.
Beside each tree is placed a pole from
which is suspended, on a level with the
topmost branches, a quart fruit jar
baited with molasses and fruit juices.
These are expected to trap the moths
; by the thousands. The jars will be in
spected twice a week and the moths
and other trapped insects counted.
The peach moth was especially de
structive last year. This year the
Bureau of Entomology already has re
-1 ceived a great number of complaints of
its attacks on the twigs.
Besides the peach moth, says Dr.
Quaintance, two unusual insect pests
are causing considerable destruction In
the District of Columbia and nearby
States this year. One is the grape-vine
flea beetle, a small, steely blue beetle
1 which scoops out the live tissue in grape
buds early in the Spring. It has been
known in this area for many years but
: seldom is sufficiently abundant to
cause trouble. Apparently, Dr. Quain
tance says, it usually Is kept down by
some delicate balance of nature against
which it barely survives. A very slight
upsetting es this balance, perhaps some
1 condition which obtained last Summer.
1 may have resulted in the survival of
great numbers.
The other is lachmus abietis, a large,
dark brown aphid which feeds on ever
greens, especially the decorative Norway
spruce. Ordinarily It Is abundant In
the northern evergreen forest belt, but
seldom comes so far south in any great
1 numbers. This year numerous com
' plaints have been received from District
1 gardeners.
While it is a disagreeable pest. Dr.
; Quaintance said, it is not Immediately
; dangerous and can be controlled by
spraving the trees with a nicotine sul
: phate solution. The abundance of this
anhid, he believes, also Is due to some
1 slight upset in the balance of nature
which ordinarily keeps It down.
The destructive Japanese beetle ap-
I parently is well under control in the
i District of Columbia, but is far from
i eliminated, according to the Bureau of
, Entomology. An expert is soon to be
’ sent on a 4-vear expedition to Japan,
- Australia, North Africa and southern
, Europe to search for some natural para
. site of this beetle.
Extra Duty Given
Three Policemen
On Loafing Count
A new system of punishing po
licemen for trifling offenses by
i extra hours of duty—instead of
cash fines —was introduced by the
trial board yesterday and three
policemen were sentenced to 15
1 extra hours of traffic duty when
c convicted on charges of “hood
-1 ling.” The term in police par
-1 lance means loafing on the Job.
f Pvts. E. C. Helms and W. I.
Griggs, second precinct, and J.
I H. Dellinger, fourth precinct, were
the ones given the extra duty. The
1 idea was originated by Inspector
Louis J. Stoll, who said that fin
-5 ing policemen often worked more
» punishment on their families
s than on the guilty officers,
i Pvt. J. L. Oppet, fourth pre
-5 cinct, was fined SSO for staying in
a store too long when he should
C have been on duty In the street.
AFTER BATTLE WITH A DOG
i lii ,i ' j|||j|r*
Roy Glover almost lost an eye In a battle with a dog today. Here he is at
Casualty Hospital for repairs. Left to right: Dr. J. Rogers Young, the injured
boy and Miss Beulah Higgins. — Star Staff Photos.
FIREWORKS SHOW
IN FOURTH PLANS
Display at Monument Being
Prepared by Celebration
Committee.
An elaborate display of fireworks at
the Monument Grounds has been j
planned as the outstanding feature of
the community celebration of Independ
ence day in Washington, for which ar- ;
rangements are being made by a com
mittee appointed by the District Com
missioners under the chairmanship of
E. J. Murphy.
Tentative arrangements also have
been made for a daytime program of pa
triotic exercises at many recreation cen
ters in the city, in addition to the usual
strictly community celebrations.
Subcommittees are being completed
by the various chairmen in charge of !
the details of the celebration. A. K. I
Shipe, chairman, and Luther Linkins,
vice chairman, of the fireworks commit
tee, are working with Lieut. F. B. Butler,
chairman of the grounds committee, to
insure a highly successfu' display.
Charles W. Darr, chai'man of the
committee on decoration of the city,
will have working on his committee
Martin A. Leese. Georgf Plitt, Mark
Lansburgh and other leading citizens.
George Plitt heads a new committee
appointed yesterday by the chairman,
E. J. Murphy, to investigate the possi
bility of adding a definite recreational
program for young people on the
Fourth, the committee to include also
Charles W. Darr. Dr. George C. Ha
venner, Mark Lansburgh, Capt. Charles
J. Painter, Mrs. Susie Root Rhodes
and Lieut. Butler.
Gen. Anton Stephan has been invited
to become chairman of the committee
on military participation for the cele
bration.
Chairman Murphy will call a meet
ing of the executive committee for next
Wednesday morning at 10:30 o’clock,
when all chairmen of subcommittees
w'lll make reports of the progress of
the details for the 1930 celebration.
Members of the executive committee
present at a meeting held yesterday at
the Franklin Administration Building
were E. J. Murphy, Miss Sibyl Baker,
Charles W. Darr, E. C. Graham, George
C. Havenner. George Plitt, Miss Etta
L. Taggart, Lieut. F. B. Butler, A. K.
Shipe. Capt. Ray C. Montgomery. E. C.
Snyder. Brig. Gen. F. R. Keefer and
Capt. Charles J. Painter.
BURGLAR GETS 25 CENTS
Dime and Penny Are Overlooked in
Laundry Robbery.
A burglar who broke into the laun
dry of Sing Lee. at 207 Seventh street
southeast, was hardly repaid for the
risk or trouble he took last night.
The thief, according to police, gained
access by smashing the glass in a side
window and made his way to the cash
drawer. There he found—a quarter,
dime and penny. .
The money drawer later w'as found
in the alleyway outside, with the dime
and penny jammed in one corner of
the till.
Weather Stops Spanish Flyers.
SEVILLE, Spain, June 12 (JP). —Bad
weather forced Lieut. Carlos Haya and
Capt. Cipriano Rodriguez to abandon
last night an attempt to break the
world endurance flight record over a
closed circuit. They had started the
flight yesterday morning.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.
Card party. Women’s Benefit Asso
ciation, club house, 1750 Massachusetts
avenue, 8:30 p.m.
Free studv class. ’’Fate and Free
Will,” United Lodge of Theosophists,
Hill Building, Seventeenth and I streets,
8:15 p.m.
Lecture “Christian Science Demon
strable Spiritual Truth,” First Church
of Christ, Scientist, Columbia road and
Euclid street, 8 p.m. Lecturer. Cyrus S.
Rogers, C. S., of San Francisco, Calif.
Lecture on television, meeting of the
Electric League of Washington, audi
torium of the Potomac Electric Power
Co., 8 p.m. Lecturer, Dr. C. Francis
Jenkins, inventor of television.
FUTURE.
Picnic, local alumni of University of
Michigan, home of Mrs. Alfred Newbold,
Silver Spring, Md., Saturday, 4 p.m.
Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Frater
nity, Hotel Gordon, tomorrow, 12:30
pm.
Card party, home board of Bethany
Chapter, O. E. S., home of Mrs. Nellie
H. Howes, 2011 F street, Saturday, 8
p.m.
Meeting, District Chapter. American
War Hamilton Hotel, tomor-
BStajua.
Society and General
Boy Dog Victim
Wins Admiration
For Courage
Six-Year-Old Describes
Attack in Which He Is
Slashed About Face.
Six-year-old Roy Glover, jr„ scarcely
3 feet in height, but very courageous,
was slashed about the face and almost
1 suffered the loss of an eye, when at
! tacked by a dog in the rear of his par
i ents’ residence, at 306 H street, this
morning.
The child displayed remarkable forti
! tude, and at Casualty Hospital, where he
was taken after being rescued by two
women, his mother and the owner of
the animal, he described his experience
as nonchalantly as if it had been a
lark. With his left eye swathed in
bandages, his right eye gleamed as the
little fellow animatedly described what
■ happened.
“We had a mop in the wnndow the
' other night and it fell out," he said.
“Daddy put it in the window to dry.
Mother asked me to get it this morning
I and went after it.”
"I climbed over the fence and the dog
was sleeping on the back porch. He was
a great big black dog. He waked up
and ran after me.”
Attack in Coal Shed.
At this point, the child sighed and
took a little hand out of his blue over
alls to indicate the size of the dog.
"Did you run?" he was asked.
“Yeah. I got in a coal shed. There
was a great, big plank in front of it,
you know, to keep the coal from cony-
Ing down. I didn't think the dog could
get in. But, he did. I sure did holler.”
Roy’s cries brought Mrs. Glover and
the owner of the dog and they succeed
ed in dragging the animal from the
little figure, hardly larger than the
dog. Mrs. Glover took her child to
Casualty Hospital in a taxicab and hos
pital physicians found that the left
eyelid had been slit across its width
and entirely through. The eyeball w r as
not touched, however, and physicians
said the boy's sight would not be im
paired. He was bitten in three or four
places on the left cheek and on the left
arm.
Unaware of Dog.
Roy's parents share a two-story resi
dence with another family and live up
stairs. Mrs. Glover told hospital physi
cians that she used the front yard and
the other family the back. The back
gate was locked this morning and Mrs.
Glover said that neither she nor Roy
knew a dog was on the premises.
The nurse who bathed Roy's face fell
in love with him at sight. She said
she had never seen such courage in so
young a child.
"He says his father is a steel worker
and I guess that's where he gets his
nerve,” the nurse said.
Mrs. Glover planned to take Roy
home this afternoon. “You won’t be
going near that dog again, will you,
son?” the child was asked.
“No, sir. I sure won’t.”
DECISION NOT MADE
ON TAXICAB BILL
Question of Utilities Commission
Powers to Come Before Senate
Committee Today.
The Senate District committee yes
terday afternoon considered the bill to
define the powers of the Public Utilities
Commission over taxicabs, but did not
come to an agreement as to what the
bill should provide, and decided to take
I it up again tomorrow-.
Senator Robinson, Republican, of
Kentucky, W’ho was designated several
weeks ago to study the measure, re
ported yesterday that he thought the
bill should be confined to the question
of requiring financial responsibility,
leaving out for the present the provi
sions to give the commission authority
to regulate rates.
Chairman Capper and Senator Cope
land of New York conferred with Sen
ator Robsion about the details of the
bill, but deferred final action until the
Friday meeting of the committee.
BUS PASSENGER SUES
Bess M. Hafner Asks $26,000 for
Injury in Collision.
The Washington Railway & Electric
Co. and Henry C. Merriam, Army and
Navy Club, were sued jointly yesterday
afternoon for $26,000 damages by Bess
M. Hafner, 1706 Surrey lane, for al
leged personal injuries. The plaintiff
says she w'as a passenger in a Bur
leith bus of the traction company
which was in collision with an auto
mobile of Merriam January 3, 1929, at
Seventeenth and K streets and sus
tained serious injury by being thrown
against the seat in front of her. She
Is represented by Attorneys Masorii
0O»KUa»& McAttS. _
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PRIVATE MARKET’S
SPONSORS BELIEVE
SUCCESS ASSURED
Officials of Company Push
Proposal to Build
Structure.
CENTER MART TO CLOSE
JAN. 1, UNDER DECREE
President Signs Legislation That
Provides for Vacating Site,
for Federal Building.
With the bill which calls for closing
of Center Market not later than Janu
ary 1 signed, officials of the Downtown
Market Co. are more intensive on their
proposal to erect in the retail area of
Washington a great structure to house
the dealers now in Center Market.
WHile the financing of this project
has not as yet been concluded, officials
of the company said today they were
“very confident” that the matter would
be successfully concluded, and that a
new building would be erected by pri
vate enterprise to house the merchant*
who will be forced to vacate Center
Market.
The legislation signed by the Presi
dent sets January 1 as the date for
vacating the market. Plans for the
Archives Building, which is to be placed
on the site, are being developed in the
office of the supervising architect of the
Treasury Department, and legislation
authorizing the switch of the Archives
structure from another site to the
market site now is before Congress for
approval, in the second deficiency bill
just reported out of committee. It is
expected to be approved.
The Archives Building previously had
been authorized by Congress for other
sites, and a limit of cost has been
placed at $6,900,000. Already $1,000,000
is appropriated and available, and it is
expected that the Treasury will go
ahead as rapidly as is consistent with
proper planning. The Archives struc
ture is to be a large collonaded build
ing, of majestic architecture, with its
principal front to the south, facing the
axis of the Mall.
CAPPER BILLS PASS
FOR ADDED JUDGES
Measures Still Require House Ac
tion to Relieve Local
Courts.
The prospect for relieving court con
gestion in the District became brighter
j yesterday afternoon when the Senate
I passed without debate the Capper bills,
! authorizing two additional justices for
the District Supreme Court and two
more judges for the District Court of
Appeals.
The bills still require House action,
but since similar measures have been
reported favorably from committee in
the House, there is a good chance for
action by that branch of Congress be
fore adjournment.
Attorney General Mitchell went to
the Capitol several weeks ago to testify
in support of these bills, telling the
Senate judiciary subcommittee that he
made a personal study of crowded con
ditions in the District Supreme Court.
Local lawyers and court officials also
presented statistics to show the ac
cumulation of court work.
As a result of these hearings, the
committee strongly recommended the
bills to the Senate and when they
were reached on the call of the calen
dar yesterday they went through with
out objection.
G. W. SUMMER LISTS
OPEN TOMORROW
Registration Will Be Preparatory
to Start of Various School
Sessions Monday.
Registration for the 1930 Summer ses
sions of the George Washington Uni
versity will open tomorrow and classes
will start Monday.
In Columbian College, the School of
Engineering, the Graduate School of
Letters and Sciences, the School of
Pharmacy, the School of Education, the
School of Government, the Division of
Library Science and the Division of
Pine Arts will be a nine-week term,
extending from June 16 to August 16,
and a six-week term, from June 30 to
August 9. The Summer session of the
Law School is divided into two terms,
the first running from June 16 to July
30 and the second term from July 21 to
September 13.
Registration for all schools of the
university, except the Law School, will
take place in Corcoran Hall, Twenty
first street between G and H streets,
the hours for registration being from
8 a m. to 12 noon and from 2 to 6 p m.
Students may register for the nine-week
term up to June 20 and for the six- week
term up to July 3.
Students w f ho were not regularly reg
istered in the university last semester
must secure a permit to register from
Prof. Harold G. Sutton, director of ad
missions. Those coming from other
colleges and universities must present
a certificate of good standing.
Registrations for the Law School will
take place in Stockton Hall, the Law
School Building, Twentieth street be
tween G and H streets, tomorrow and
Saturday between 10 and 1 and 3 and 6.
Approximately 130 courses will be
offered in the Summer sessions.
The department of public speaking
Ls offering a course jointly with the
department of sociology, designated a
“Forum in Social Problems.”
TAILOR SHOP ROBBED
Burglar Enters by Smashing Lock
on Rear Door.
After smashing the lock from a rear
door, a burglar entered the tailor shop
of Samuel Brockman, at 1141 Tenth
street, last night and stole wearing ap
parel valued at $35. Brockman told
police of the second precinct that he
suspected a former employe.
Twelve dollars in cash was stolen
from a money box at the store of Abram
Butt, 831 Sixth street southwest, ac
cording to a report made to police of
No. 4 station. Entrance was gained by
forcing; open a rear window, police re-