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FLYING RUM SQUAD
CAPTURES IUREE
IN MILE CHASE
Alleged Liquor Runners Are
Held for Grand Jury
Investigation.
TIRE SHOT FROM AUTO,
ACCORDING TO FUGITIVE
Montgomery and Joiner Pursue
Machines Across Fields and
Through Ditches.
Captured after a spectacular 20-mile
Chase early teday, three reputed rum
runners were held for a grand jury In
vestigation after a preliminary hearing
several hours later before Needham C.
Turrage. United States Commissioner.
The prisoners gave their names as
Thomas B. Quaintrllle, 26 years old,
first block of N street; IrvJng Rosen
berg, 21, 600 block Kenyon street, and
Alfred Cloud, 23, 3100 block Warder
street. They were released under bond
of $1,500 each.
17. Cases of Liquor Reported.
T. O. Montgomery and R. T. Joiner
of Sergt. George Little’s dying liquor
squad testified they chased one of the
two cars which the three men were
Using through numerous fields and
•cross countless ditches before stopping
the machine at Capital avenue and
Kendall street northeast. It was re
ported to have been loaded with 17
cases of liquor. The other car was
■topped a short distance tarther on.
Montgomery declared he began fol
. lowing the rum-laden machine at a
point on the Crain Highway near the
Bladensburg road. He said it was
driven by Quaintrllle, while Rosenberg
and Cloud were riding in a ‘“convoy”
machine. No effort was made, how
ever, to block the heavy police car.
Both Montgomery and Joiner quoted
Rosenberg as saying he had helped
Quaintrllle load his automobile. The
policemen said Rosenberg told ttyem he
was to have been paid $1 a case.
All Three Ordered Held.
Commissioner Turnage declared this
testimony convinced him the men were
equally responsible. He ordered that all
three be held as principals in the first
degree on charges of transportation and
possession. He overruled strenuous ob
jections of Myron G. Ehrlich, attorney
for the trio. The lawyer argued Rosen
berg and Cloud should be released.
While Quaintrille, like Rosenberg and
Cloud, declined to testify, he told re
porters the policemen had halted him
bv firing five bullets through the rear
jwrtion of his car and shooting off a
PUSH BALTIMORE MAN
AS LABOR SECRETARY
Group Asks Hoover to Name
Maurice Bisgyer to Succeed
Senatorial Nominee.
B? the Associated Press.
Mayor Broening of Baltimore called
on President Hqßver today to urge the
appointment of Maurice Bisgyer, Balti
more social worker, to succeed Secretary
Davis.
The Labor Department head is the
Republican nominee for Senator in
Pennsylvania. No time for his retire
ment from the cabinet has been set.
With the mayor were State Senator
Harry O. Levin and Joseph A. Halprin
of Baltimore, and Rabbi Louis J.
Schwefel and Isaac Cans of the
District of Columbia.
Leaving the White House, they said
the President indicated "very strongly”
that no appointments would be made
in the Labor Department until after
the Fall election.
CIVIL SERVICE LEAGUE
CLUB HOUSE ASSURED
Sract Recently Purchased at Gun
aton Manor, Va., and Land
scape Arrangements Made.
A club house, built on a tract recently
purchased at Gunston Manor, Va., is
now assured members of the League of
the American Civil Service, it was an
nounced last night at a meeting at 1405
H street.
Arrangements have already been
completed for the landscaping and im
provement of the property. Gunston
Manor is situated on the west bank cf
the Potomac River, about 26 miles from
Washington.
The Brookhart pay bill was criticized
by speakers as giving civil service em
ployes in the upper grades a consider
ably larger increase than those in the
lower grades.
800 ATTEND OUTING
AT GLEN ECHO PARK
Mothers and Children Guests of
Annual Affair of Central
Union Mission.
Nearly 800 mothers and children, an
nual guests of the Central Union Mis
aion, enjoved an outing yesterday at
the Glen Echo Amusement Park.
The large party was transported to
the park by seven special cars of the
Washington Railway & Electric Co.
Free tickets to park amusements were
Issued to the youngsters by the mis
sion.
Outing arrangements were made by
John S. Bennett, mission superinten
dent; his wife, Mrs. Bennett, director
of the Federal Union Mission Emer
gency Home for Children, and Mrs.
William H. Ramsey, president of the
Women’s Mission Guild.
ASKS $20,000 DAMAGES
William Davia Charges Oil Com
pany Hose Caused Bad Fall.
The District of Columbia and the
Btandard Oil Co. of New Jersey were
sued jointly today for $20,000 damages
in the District Supreme Court by Wil
liam J. Davis, 653 East Capitol street,
for alleged personal injuries. Davis says
he was severely injured February 8
when he tripped over a rubber hose
which the company had stretched from
#n oil tank to a basement at 719 East
Capita' «<*v W. Gwynn
Or
BUND MAN SUES SMITH CO.
TO RECOVER $4,300 SAVINGS
Asserts Salesman Traded
Him Worthless Bonds for
Good Securities.
Offered Check as Added In
ducement to Transfer,
He Charges.
Being totally blind, Joseph E. Sexton.
121 Twelfth street southeast, couldn t:
read the words "general mortgage” on
the face of the bonds the salesman from
the F. H. Smith Co. wanted him to take
in exchange for the first mortgage bond
he owned. The salesman said they were
"just as good” as those he had, and
Sexton believed him, the latter says in
a suit filed in the District Supreme
Court.
And so it was not until last year that
the blind man learned the bonds he
had taken in exchange were practically
worthless, and that the $4,300 he had
saved during his working years was
gone.
In an effort to recover the money, so
that Sexton and his wife may have
something to bolster the S6O-a-month I
pension he draws from the Govern
ment, Attorney Samuel M. Boyd to-:
day filed suit in the District Supreme
Court against the Smith company, G.
Bryan Pitts, Samuel J. Henry and
Bryan Pitts, Samuel J. Henry, Daniel j
R. Crissenger and William a Horn, a \
salesman for the company.
Bought Good Bonds Seven Years Ago.
Seven years ago Mrs. Sexton saw in
a local newspaper a Smith company
advertisement which stated that buyers
of the company’s securities had not
experienced a loss in 57 years. With
this statement in mind, she and her
husband decided to Invest their savings
in the company's securities. They
bought good first mortgage bonds, and
held them until November, 1928.
Then the suit filed says Horn, the
salesman for the company, cqme to see
Mr. Sexton. Mrs. Sexton was in a hos
pital, so the two men talked alone.
The salesman suggested that he trade
in the bonds on some more that were
just as good, the petition says. By
way of additional inducement, the
PERSONNEL BOARD
ALTERNATES KEPT
Former Classification Group
Trio Is Assigned to
New Positions.
While complete reorganization of the
Personnel Classification Board has not
yet been effected under the Brookhart}
act, It was learned today that the three !
former alternate members of the board '
have been retained on the staff and
have been assigned to new positions.
The Classification Board itself still
consists of the director of the Bureau ■
of the ‘Budget, a member of the Civil
Service Commission and the chief of
the Bureau of Efficiency, but the three ;
alternates, who had been functioning
as an active board, no longer hold their
old rank. The new head of the active
work on classification, as was recently
announced, is William H. Mcßeynolds,
formerly assistant chief of the Bureau
of Efficiency, who holds the new title
of director of classification.
Ismar Baruch, who had been serving
as a member of the active board, repre
senting a member of the United States
Civil Service Commission, has been
made assistant director of classification.
Capt. Carlos C. Van Leer, who had
been alternate member of the board for
the director of the Bureau of the Budget,
and Victor G. Croissant, who had been
alternate for the chief of the Bureau
of Efficiency, both have been given the
new title of reviewing examiners under
the reorganization.
Paul N. Peck, who had formerly been
known as secretary of the board, now
his become executive officer.
Among the other Important changes
Is the fact that the board now has its
own personnel. Prior to the Brookhart
act, the board operated only on bor
rowed personnel which had been
loaned from the three agencies consti
tuting the board.
Some other changes remain to be
made in the set up of the organization,
director Mcßeynolds said today, but
he Is not ready to announce what they
will be.
MARY RAFF’S CONDITION j
REPORTED IMPROVED
14-Year-Old Girl, Wounded by Ross
Golden, Rallies After Blood
Transfusion.
Although her condition is still de
scribed as critical. Mary Raff, 14-year
old girl shot by Ross Willard Golden,
who afterward committed suicide in the
house at 1121 B street northeast Mon
day, was reported slightly Improved at
Casualty Hospital today.
The girl, who rallied somewhat fol
lowing a blood transfusion Tuesday,
has been resting quietly, hospital au
thorities say, and seems a little
stronger.
GIRL, 15. SUES HUSBAND
TO INFORCE SUPPORT
Parents of Youth. 17, Are Declared
Keeping Him in Idleness in
Mother's Complaint.
Ruth R. Zepp, 15. 1467 Irving street,
nas filed suit for maintenance in the
Oistrict Supreme Court against Mlllaid
P. Zepp, 17, ta whom she was married
June 3 at Rockville. The wife tells the
court that the parents of her husband
support him in Idleness, while he de
clines to take care of her or give her a
nome. The suit is brought by the girl s
mother, Mrs. Emma Lusby. Attorney
. Jean M. Boardman appears for the wife,
who tells the oburt she is without funds
and is unable to work.
SUIT FOLLOWS COLLISION
Alexandrian Sues Owner of Auto
in Accident Last September.
> Norman B. Muddlman, Alexandria,
s Va., has filed suit to recover $50,000,
. In the District Supreme Court from
William F. Anderson, said to be the
s owner of an automobile which collided
B with another car in which he was rid
t lng, September 12, on the Lee Highway,
i The charge is made that the defend
t ant’s car was being opened at 60
i miles an hour. Attorneys Dlener. Flynn
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JOSEPH E. SEXTON.
salesman offered Sexton a check for
$155.31 to go with the new bonds.
Needed Money for Gift.
It was almost Christmas time, and
Sexton needed some money to buy his
| wife a present. Without consulting her,
he negotiated the exchange and turned
i over his good bonds to the salesman,
1 receiving in return the check and the
l general mortgage bonds.
I He put the new securities away, and
I never thought to question their value
| until his wife read of the first indict
; ments secured against Smith company
officials by Nugent Dodds, special as
' sistant to the Attorney General. Then
Sexton tried to get his old bonds or his j
money back, but both efforts were |
fruitless.
The petition filed by Boyd says that,
the bonds Sexton first owned included
$l,OOO on the Stanley Arms apartment, I
$2,300 on the Chatham apartment and j
$l,OOO on the Law' and Finance Build
ing, Pittsburgh, all first mortgage bonds
He traded them for third or general I
mortgage bonds on the Fairfax apart
ment, Pittsburgh. The petition says
these latter bonds are “practically
worthless.”
Sexton formerly was employed as a
machinist at the Navy Yard, being re
tired in 1922. when he lost his eyesight.
He is 62 years old.
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CHARLES W. ELIOT, 2d.
HIGHER POST GIVEN
TO C. W. ELIOT, 2D ;
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Promoted to Post of Planning
Director in Reorganization
of Commission.
Charles W. Eliot, 2d. who has been
city planner for the National Capital j
Park and Planning Commission since;
1926. has been promoted to the more
important position of director of plan
ning. as a step in the reorganization
of the commission to provide for the
Increased activity and rate of progress I
made possible by the enactment of the I
Cramton bill at the recent session of j
Congress. Mr. Eliot’s promotion was I
announced today by Lieut. Col. U. S. j
| Grant, 3d, executive officer of the com- ;
mission.
The position of director of planning
I was provided for in the basic act under
which the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission was organized,
and which was enacted by Congress in
1926. Up to this time, however, the
position has remained unfilled.
In making the announcement today.
Col. Grant said Mr. Eliot had “earned
the promotion by the good work he has
done in his former position with the
commission.”
The action was taken formally by the
commission at a recent executive meet
ing, but was not made public until to
day, on the eve of the commission’s
meeting tomorrow when it will take up
for consideration the preliminary prob
lems arising under the Cramton act for
the enlargement of the park system of
Washington and vicinity.
Mr. Eliot was born in November, 1899,
at Cambridge, Mass. He still regards
Cambridge as his legal residence. He
is a graduate ol Harvard University,
i He is married and has two children,
j The minor position of city planner,
| which Mr. Eliot has held up to this
I time, will probably not be filled for the
present at least.
X-RAY BURNS DAMAGES
DEMANDED OF DOCTORS
Woman Claims $lOO,OOO Injuries,
and Boy, Through Mother,
Sues for $50,000.
Suit to recover $lOO,OOO damages has
been filed in the District Supreme Court
against Drs. Wllltam J Mallory and
John A. Reed, 1720 Connecticut ave
nue, by Elizabeth Green, 2834 Newark
street, who claims to have been se
verely burned while undergoing X-ray
treatments by the two physicians Jan
uary 8 and 10. Her face and neck, she
avers, are permanently disfigured.
Attorney W. Gynn Gardiner appears
for the plaintiff.
Frank N. Wright, 1740 Church street,
a minor, through his mother, Sarah E
Wright, has filed suit against Dr.
i Charles B. Campbell, Farragut Apart
ments, to recover $50,000 damages,
i Through Attorney W. Gwynn Gardiner,
the boy claims he was treated by the
physician for the removal of warts on
his hand in May. 1928. and was so se-
I verely burned from the X-ray treat
l 1 ments that one of his fingers had to
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WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1930. ***
TOURISTS AT AUTO
CAMP ARE SHOWN
TO BE INCREASING
Recommended Hotels and
Inns Listed to Accom
modate Overflow.
SIGHTSEEING CONCERNS
REPORT LESS TRAVEL
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Smaller Hostelries Find 1930 Busi
nes* Under That of Last Year.
Rail Trips Shorter.
The Washington Tourist Camp in
Potomac Park has housed 6,199 more
! persons so far this year than it did
for the same period in 1929. But while
the camp is running its daily registra
tions to new heights, the majority of
the hotels which normally would re
ceive a good share of the tourist
patronage report decreases in the num
ber of guests they accommodate.
Registration figures at the tourist
camp show that from January 1
through last night 25,314 persons had
been registered and that 7,329 automo
biles had stopped at the reservation.
! Prom January 1 through July 15, a
year ago, the records showed that 19,-
115 persons, riding in 5,390 cars, were
registered.
The camp's business is looked upon
with particular favor by its operators
i by virtue of the fact that 40 additional
| cabins, which were erected last Fall, to
bring the total to 112, together with a
| “pavilllon” containing 20 “apartments,”
i each capable of accommodating from
one to four persons, frequently ,are taxed
to capacity. The camp authorities
maintain a list of hotels, inns and room
ing house, to which they refer their
overflow tourists. Besides the cabins
and the “pavilllon,” the camp’s tenting
space, where visitors set up their own
equipment, frequently is crowded.
Meanwhile most of the smaller hotels
report a falling oft in their business this
year. This complaint is upheld, too, by
most of the larger sight-seeing com
panies, who declare their business is
anywhere from “slightly below last
year’’ to “rotten.” The railroad com
panies are carrying a good many pas
sengers, but there is a tendency this
Summer toward shorter trips, while the
Pacific Coast trade shows a decline.
The larger hotels alone are maintain
ing a pretty level standard of business,
they point out, due to the more or less
steady nature of their clientele.
The American Automobile Associa
tion has not yet begun its study of
tourist traffic Into Washington for the
current season, but its spokesmen to
day expressed the opinion that there
is probably less road traveling this year
than last. One of the agencies ap
proached today, however, pointed out
that last year was a particularly fruit
ful year in the tourist field, so that a
reduction from its standard this year
would not represent the acute situation
the quoted figures imply.
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Unhurt in 3-Story Fall.
Falling from the third-story window
at his home last night, Francis Reed,
colored, 25 years old, of 625. K street,
escaped without injury.
Reed was sitting in the window when
he lost his balance and toppled to the
sidewalk below. 'He was rushed to tire
Emergency Hospital in an ambulance, |
but was found uninjured at that lnsti-
I tution and was returned home.
j
! Connally Declares
| Soda Squirters
Are Not Anemic
I
Remarks Directed at Art
! Shires, Not Intended for
|
Ace and Si of Cisco.
At a cosy little luncheon at the
Capitol recently, Senator Tom Con
■ nally of Texas, seeing Art (the Great,
Whataman and Whathaveyou) Shires,
Nat flrst-sacker, blow out his chest and
clinch his horny fists, became so en
thusiastic about Shires as to compare
: him with some of the other voters of
| Texas, notably soda-squirters, to the
: marked disadvantage of the latter,
i Today he publicly regrets that.
! Not that Shires is not all he claims to
be, and more, maybe—no, even a
Texas Senator would not be so brash
as to doubt the greatness of Art.
It is upon the subject of soda
squirters that the member from Texas
has had his mind changed, in no un
certain terms.
At the Capitol luncheon a few weeks
ago Shires, Sam West Fred Marberry
and Lloyd Brown of the Nats were the
guests of the Texas congressional dele
gation. Bhires and Senator Connally
spoke.
Explained Horny Hands.
The former proclaimed hir horny
hands came from guiding a plough
share through Texas gumbo.
Senator Connally, after a casual in
spection of the hands, remarked:
"If Art Shires hadn’t had to work
in the garden when he was a boy he
might have been an anemic soda
squlrter.”
The speeches were widely published,
and down in Cisco, Tex., where men
are men and so are soda squirters, there
arose two of the latter, Ace Elliott and
Si Korkalltz by name, who have let the
Senator know there is plenty of good
red blood and brawn in the mighty
right (or left) of the soda squirters. at
least in Texas.
To them the Senator suggested that
it was not their physiques, but their pay
checks that are anemic, compared with
1 the fat one Shires commands, adding
further balm:
"Be it far from me to cast any as
pertions upon the ancient, honorable
and gentle occupation of soda water
dispensing. If such were the situation,
the p#t would be calling the kettle
black, for one of the first jobs I ever
had was dribbling drinks over the soda
fountain at Eddy, Tex.
Remarks Not Personal.
Further, Senator Connally said:
"You must not, in all fairness, take
any personal umbrage at my remaxks.
They were not directed at you. But
you will agree with me that to be an
anemic soda-squlrter would be un
pardonable?”
For the personal benefit of Ace and
Si, Senator Connally said:
“The tone of your letter and the bel
ligerent attitude proves that neither of
you is anemic.”
In . closing Senator Connally promised
that the next time he is in Cisco he
wants to visit the durg store where Si
and Ace hold forth, to see what sort
of fountain offerings they could con
coct that would be more cooling than
i their offering via the United States
Postal Service.
BOYS WATCH SCOREBOARD FROM STREET COUCH
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These youngsters are daily fans at The Star scoreboard, where the Western games of the Nationals are being re
produced. Tiring of the long stand before the board they h ave improvised a “resting” place of newspapers on the pave
ment. — Star Staff Photo.
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FIRST LADY GREETS CHILDREN
AT MOUNTAIN SCHOOL CLOSE
Mrs. Hoover and Two Guests
Make Trip to Dark
Hollow.
15 Complete Year at Insti
tution Founded by
President.
The little school house on the side
of the mountain at Dark Hallow, Presi
dent Hoover’s camp on the Rapidan,'
which was built last Winter with funds,
furnished by him and a few of his
friends, will close for the Summer to
morrow, and Mrs. Hoover went there
today for the purpose of congratulating
the handful of mountain children who
completed the first session.
Mrs. Hoover, accompanied by Mrs.
Staik McMullin of Palo Alto, Calif.,
who has been a White House guest for
some time, and Miss Mildred Hall, one
of the White House social secretaries,
motored to the Dark Hollow school
today. They left the White House at
9 o’clock, expecting to arrive there
about 1.
It was Mrs. Hoover’s intention to
return to the White House tonight, but'
her parting word was that she and her
companions might change their minds
and spend the night at the camp.
No Ceremony Planned.
No ceremony was arranged for the
closing, of this school or in honor of
the visit of the mistress of the White
House. Mrs. Hoover Is understood to
have requested this. ‘ She and the
President have been greatly Interested
in the establishment of this school
house in a section where schools were
few and far between and where little
thought had been given, to education.
Also they have been interested in the
first year's progress of the school, and
because of this Mrs. Hoover wanted to
be on hand to personally speak to those
boys and girls who finished the first
year. Also she wanted to congratulate
Miss Christina Vest, the young Ken
tucky girl, who had been the teacher,
for efficiency and her painstaking work.
When this school house opened its
doors early in the Spring more than
20 pupils were enrolled. Two of the
MAN IS ARRESTED
ON GIRL’S CHARGE
David Crockett of Groveton
Taken in Alexandria on
Father’s Warrant.
| Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va., July 17 David i
Crockett, 35 years old, of Groveton 1
I was arersted yesterday afternoon in i
I Alexandria and turned over to Sheriil
T. P. Kirby cf Fairfax on a warrant
sworn out before Juvenile Judge A. P.
Ritchie by Walter Sisson of Franconia.
The warrant charges a statutory offense
against Louisfe Oladys Sisson, 14-year
old girl, who disappeared from the
front of the Franconia Baptist Church
Sunday afternoon In company with a
man in a large green automobile and
who was returned to her home at 4
o’clock yesterday morning by Mrs. Etta
Padgett of Franconia.
Both Crockett and Louise Sisson are
now in the Fairfax Jail. Sheriff Kirby
states that they will probably be given |
a hearing tomorrow belore Judge
Ritchie. , ,
Crockett was arrested about 4 o clock
yesterday afternoon at King and Alfred
streets, Alexandria, by Patrolman
George Wilkinson of Alexandria, to
gether with Prohibition Inspector Vlreil
Williams and Haywood Durrer, captain
of the Fairfax County police. Crockett
denied that ht took the girl away Sun
day and said that he has not been with
her at any time during her absence.
Crockett operates a filling station on the
Richmond, road at Groveton. Louis-
Slsson woried as a waitress in his lunch
room until about two weeks ago. Then
she became friendly with Mrs. Etta
Padgett, on whose front porch she was
reported found at 1 o’clock.
Mrs. Louise Manghum, Fairfax County
superintendent of public welfare, who
questioned the girl yesterday morning
at the Jail, succeeded in winning her
confidence. The girl who had previous
ly refused to say where she had been
or with whom she went away, is said j
to have told Mrs. Manghum that she
had been with Crockett, that she loved |
him and that she had been away with
him on several previous occasions dur
ing the past three months. She knew
that Crockett was a married man. Upon
receipt of this information, Kirby com
municated with the girl’s father yester
day afternoon and with Judge Ritchie.
Crockett had been under police suspicion
before they received the alleged collab
oration from the girl herself. Kh’tw
and his deputies lr J tried to locate him
Thursday night at his place of business
In order to Quest * i him.
Commonwealth Attorne* Wilson M
Farr when questi. >ed as to the penalty
for conviction of a statutory offence
against a m' v ir stated that the law
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I MISS CHRISTINE VEST.
pupils were adults. Only 15 of them
stuck it out and completed the first
year’s course. It will be to these that
Mrs. Hoover will this afternoon address
her*words of praise and encouragement.
Five of One Family.
Ray McKinley Burraker, the 11-year
old “Hill Billy" whose call at the Presi
dent's camp last Bummer resulted in
arousing the interest of the President
and his wife in the education, or at
least the lack of education, of the young
folk of Dark Hollow, is among those
who attended regularly and completed
the first year of school. Two of his
sisters and two of his brothers did
likewise.
President Hoover is understood to
have thought something of visiting.the
school With Mrs. Hoover, but business
in Washington prevented him from
leaving at this time. He has visited
the little building a number of times,
however, during his week end vaca
tions at his fishing camp, which is only
a few miles away, and he has been
kept advised in some little detail as to
the progress of the school. The Presi
dent hopes to go to his camp this
coming week end. In event the Senate
should adjourn tomorrow through
Monday it is thought likely that he
will riot lose much time getting away
from his desk and hurrying to the in
viting cool and quiet of his mountain
retreat.
POLICE SEEK TAXI
MAN IN WILD RIDE;
Four Charges Pending in
Fairfax Against Driver
in Accident.
Special Dispatch to The Btar.
FAIRFAX, Va., July 17.—Charges of
reckless driving, driving while drunk,
colliding and resisting arrest have been
placed against Milton S. Redmond of
Washington, taxi driver for the Dia
mond Cab Co., by Fairfax County po
lice, following a wild ride last night
along the Lee Highway through the
town of Fairfax.
A warrant, sworn out by Sheriff E.
T. Kirby and Deputy Sheriff Paul Her
mann. was this morning sent to the
Washington police, who were requested
to arrest Redmond at his home on
Twenty-first street near O street and
turn him over to Virginia authorities.
About dusk last night Deputy Sheriff
Hermann started pursuit of the car
about 5 miles below Fairfax. He said
the car was traveling at 60 miles an
hour and careening from side to side.
At the junction of the Lee Highway
and the Little River pike, 1 mile west
of Fairfax, the taxi went into a ditch
after colliding with a car occupied by
Leonidas F. Summerall. attorney for
the Federal Prohibition Bureau, and
his wife of 3446 Connecticut avenue,
Washington.
Mr. Summerall's car was damaged,
but the occupants were not Injured be
yond being badly shaken up. The taxi
overturned, the driver being the only
one of the four occupants injured. He
was picked up in an unsconscious con
dition and taken to Emergency Hospital
In Washington by a passing motorist,
where he was treated for scalp wounds
and later discharged. Redmond’s
brother, William, one of the three pas
sengers in the taxi, stated that Red
mond’s father is a resident of Fairfax
County. So far the father has not been
located. Bernard Ready and Clyde
I Wilson Waller, both of Washington,
I also were in the taxi. Officer Hermann
, said that he fired three shots at the
speeding auto in an effort to bring it
to a halt. The taxi is being held at the
Fairfax Jail for damages to Summer
all's automobile ,
14 years of age and gives her consent
the maximum penalty which can be
imposed is 20 years. If the girl does not
consent punishment may range from
death down to 10 years.
No charge has been placed against
Louise Sisson, but she is being held at
her father's request as an incorrigible
child. Shefiff Kirby stated that such
a charge ia sufficient to warrant the
juvenile Judge in Imposing a sentence
Society and General
LOCAL AUTOMOBILE
INSURIP LOW
Only Two in 13 Representa
| tive Cities Have Cheaper
j Rates Than Washington.
Out of 13 representative American
cities only two have lower insurance
rates than Washington on automobile
liability insurance, according to M. O.
Eldridge, assistant director of traffic.
Washington's rate for public liability,
$5,000 to SIO,OOO damage, which is the
average policy, is s2l per year. The
rate in New Orleans is sl9 and In
Indianapolis sl6. The rate for $5,000
property damage is sll in Washington,
$lO in Detroit and $8 in Indianapolis.
I The costliest city, from an automo
; bile insurance standpoint, is New York,
where the corresponding public liability
: rate is $lO3 and the property damage
I rate S3O. Other cities where the in
surance rates are higher than those in
, the District are Philadelphia, Provi
dence. Buffalo, Cleveland, Chicago, Bal
timore, Atlanta and Los Angeles.
The figures, according to Mr. Eld
! ridge, are based on the fact that Wash
! ington enjoys a low accident and fatal
i ity rate, and that the rate is on the
i decline. In a list of 18 cities, he point -
| ed out. Washington has had a lower
I fatality rate for the past four years.
The latest figures, for June, showed
that Washington was still the safest
city, from the point of view of traffic
fatalities, among the 18.
LATIN GOVERNMENTS
i ASKED TO MEET HERE
j -
Inter-American Conference of Ag
riculture to Be Held Sep
tember 8-20.
All governments of Latin America,
members of the Pan-American Union,
I have been invited by the Secretary of
I State to send delegates to the Inter-
American Conference of Agriculture to
' be held in this city September 8 to 20,
I 1930, under the provisions of a spe
i rial act of Congress approved April 14,
j 1930.
By special direction of the President
the following will represent the United
States Government at the conference:
Dr. A. P. Woods, director scientific
work. Department of Agriculture; Dr.
B. T. Galloway, pathologist. Depart
ment of Agriculture; Dr. William A.
Taylor, chief Bureau of Plant Industry,
Department of Agriculture; Dr. Niles A.
Olsen, chief Bureau of Agricultural
Economics, Department of Agriculture;
Dr. John R. Mohler, chief Bureau of
Animal Industry: George M. Rommel,
industrial commissioner. Savannah,
Ga„ formerly animal husbandman. De
partment of Agriculture; Dr. William
Crocker, Boyce‘Thompson Institute for
Plant Research, former chairman of the
division of biology and agriculture of
the National Research Council; Dr.
Carlos E. Chardon, commissioner of
agriculture and labor, San Juan, Porto
Rico; Dr. Carl A. Alsberg, director Pood
Research Institute. Stanford University,
California; Dr. Robert A. Harper, vice
president and chairman Tropical Plant
Research Foundation Board: Depart
ment of Botany, Columbia University,
New York City, and Leon M. Lstabrook,
assistant to director of scientific work.
United States Department of Agri
culture.
Mr. Estabrook has been designated
I secretary to the American delegation
of this conference and any Information
relative thereto may be obtained by ap
plying to him at the Department of
Agriculture or through inquiry at tfie
Pan-American Union.
TRADE BOARD TO STUDY
SITE FOR AIRSHIP PORT
Technical Check to Be Made on
Hybla Valley Tract—Asked
by Dr. Eckener.
The Washington Board of Trade,
through its Aviation Committee, will
take an active part in the technical
study of the Hybla Valley tract, near
Alexandria, Va.. requested by Dr. Hugo
Eckener and his American associates
in their search for an American inter
national airship terminal, it was an
nounced today.
Lawrence E. Williams, chairman of
the committee, and Robert J. Cottrell,
secretary of the board, are to confer
with Federal aviation officials today in
an effort to obtain the use of meteoro
logical instruments which must be
installed at Hybla Valley as a part of
the study.
The board also will assist officials of
the Washington Air Terminals Corpo
ration, owners of the Hybla Valley field,
in assembling data and estimates on
existing railroad facilities and the ex
tension of a railroad siding to the field.
■ ■ , ; •
Players Have Excursion.
The Westminster Players, a group
which was organized seven years ago
under direction of Ernest L. N. Kahlert,
went on an excursion trip last evening
on the steamship City of Washington.
The outing was arranged by a commit
tee of which Irma L. Gordon was chair
man and Kathryn Talts and Margaret
PAGE B-1
MW DECISION
ON BROOKHART ACT
HAILED AS LIBERAL
Ruling Gives Pay Raise to
Workers Missed by
Welch Law.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
EMPLOYES SATISFIED
Speakers for National Federation of
Federal Employes and Civil
Service Group Pleased.
Controller General McCarl’s decision
Interpreting the Brookhart pay raise
! act was generally hailed in Washington
today by the rank and file of Govem
: ment workers and their representatives
j as a liberal decision.
I For the National Federation of Fed
: eral Employes, Miss Gertrude McNally.
; vice president, declared this morning
, that the McCarl decision came as a
; great relief, because, she said, in view
| of McCarl’s decision on the old Welch
! act, “many Government workers were
| worried" as to what his decision would
) be on the Brookhart act.
Ruling Held "Unusually Fair.”
“We like it very well.” said Miss Mc-
Nally. "The ruling is unusually fair.
We feel the controller general has inter
preted exactly the spirit of the act.”
For the Civil Service Commission,
which asked McCarl to interpret the
legislation, C. C. Hathaway, personnel
: officer, characterized the decision as
I “liberal.”
i “Every one I have heard from so far
i is very well satisfied,” declared Hath
j away. “The controller general’s de
, cision seems to be a very liberal con-
I ception of the act. He has gone Just
1 ; as far as any one could reasonably ex
! I pect him to go in interpreting the
! law.”
In the Treasury Department, which
is the largest organization of the Fed
; eral Government, general satisfaction
; appeared to be prevalent today as a
‘ result of the decision. Frank A. Blrg
! feld, chief clerk of the department,
1 said he had not yet received his official
’ copy, but from first reports he was
favorably impressed with the decision.
All employes who have expressed them
: selve# to him, he said, “seem to be
pleased.” So far, he reported, no ob
jection nor protest had been registered.
i Act Is Now in Effect.
The interpretation of the controller
general places responsibility for grant
ing the increases upon the various
departments and establishments without
, any action whatsoever of the Personnel
, Classification Board, it was learned. The
act is in effect and the controller gen
. eral’s decision is adequate for the de
partments to prepare their pay rolls
[ ior July 31 tc. Include the Increased pay
, for thousands of Government workers
' from the date of July 3, when the act
went into effect.
The controller general in his decision
answered a great many questions To
tne general effect that all those per
sons who failed to receive two-step pro-
I motions under the Welch act in 19M
j ore now to receive their equivalent, re
-1 j gardless of deserved and earned promo
| tions in the meantime.
POLICE SEEK Six
MISSING PERSONS
John and Richard Curry, 10 and 8,
| Disappear From Seventh Street
’! Southwest Home.
: i
Police today were looking for six
j persens reported missing from their
j homes, the list including two young
j boys and four young women,
j John and Richard Curry, I*o and 8
j y~ars old, respectively, sons of Mr. and
i Mrs. Frank Curry. 509 Seventh street
southwest, have been missing from their
home since 8 o’clock last night. Their
parents are unable to account for their
absence, stating today the boys have
never before stayed away from home
overnight.
Mrs. Curry said both were dressed
in khaki trousers and John wore a blue
shirt and Richard a white one. John
has dark hair and blue eyes and Rich
ard light hair and blue eyes.
Among the young women for whem
the police are maintaining a lookout
are Mamie Humphreys, 22 years old, re
ported missing from her home in the
600 block of A street northeast since
July 1; Essie Coberth, 20 years did,
missing from 1000 block of Fourth street
southeast since yesterday; Erna Parcell,
17 years old, missing from 1400 block
of Harvard street since June 22, and
Elizabeth M. Dovel, missing from 900
block of I street since Tuesday.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
GIVEN 30-DAY TERM
Police Court Officials Indignant in
Belief Drunk Defendant Is
Trying to “Kid.”
Christopher Columbus was arraigned
in Police Court today for being diMnk,
and court officials became quite indig
nant because they believed Columbus
was trying to “kid them” about the
name.
Judges have about.run out of pa
tience with prisoners giving wrong
names during the past several months,
as they have had almost every notable
from "Julius Caesar” to "Herbert Hoo
ver” at one time or another before
them.
“Drunks seem to delight in giving
these names,” said Clerk Charles Dris
coll.
Columbus drew a 30-day jail sen
tence. The man refused to change his
name under repeated questioning from
both Judge Ralph Given and Driscoll.
"What is your name?” was shouted at
Columbus at least five times, and the
defendant received each one without
batting an eye, sticking to his original
claim that he really was Christopher.
Columbus was arrested last night In
West Seaton Park by Policeman T. Ma
son of the sixth precinct.
SANITY TEST REQUESTED
George C. Nelson, under a life sen
tence at McNeil Island Penitentiary in
Washington State, but temporarily at
Howard Hall, at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital,
has applied to Justice Peyton Gordon
of the District Supreme Court for an
inquiry into his present mental status.
He says he has recovered his mental
balance and wants to be returned to
the penitentiary to resume his sentence. \
Justice Gordon has directed that a
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