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DANCING TEACHER
IS HELD IN SHOOTING
OF MAN IN ROOM
Woman Says He Objected to
Her Leaving Apartment,
Causing Scuffle. v
GUN DISCHARGED DURING
STRUGGLE, :3TH ASSERT
Police Declare Wounded Victim
lacks Powder Burns Where
Struck by Bullet.
Miss Barbara Walker. 25-year-old
dancing instructor, was being held at
the House of Detention today while
police completed their Investigation of
the shooting last night of Russel Prince,
23, In an apartment in the 1600 block
of 3 street. Prince was reported re
covering this morning from a bullet
Wound in the wrist and abdomen.
Miss Walker, who lives on Fourteenth
Street near H street, told police that
she and Prince were alone in the apart
ment of Prince’s brother-in-law, Lewis
Behrens, at the tinge of the shooting.
The young woman said she tola
Prince she was going to the school
where she taught dancing, and that he
objected to her leaving the apartment.
A scuffle followed, she said, and she
picked up a gun from a table nearby.
Says He Tried te Take GUn.
Miss Walker told Detective Harry
Cole of headquarters that she brand
ished the gun at Prince >and warned
him she would shoot unless he moved
away from the door. She said Prince
tried to take the gun away from her
and it went off while the two of them
were struggling. A single bullet pene
trated Prince’s wrist and lodged in ms
abdomen. . .. ,
Police investigators said, however,
that there were no powder burns on
Prince to indicate the shot had been
fired at close range. Prince himself told
police the gun was discharged during
a struggle for its possession. He has
not saW whether he wished to press
charges against the young woman, who
is being held for investigation pending
the outcome of his injuries.
Pvt. E. Ti. McHale of No 3 precinct
heard the shot while patrolling his beat
and went to investigate. He found the
wounded man lying on the floor of the
apartment and summoned the Emer
gency Hospital ambulance. #
Poutra Slaying Recalled.
Police say that Behrens, with whom
prince had been making his home, was
struck over the head with a revtdVCT
butt during an altercation at Green
Gables roadhouse in March of 1929.
At that time Charles W. Poutra. an
other occupant of the S street apart
ment, was shot fatally. Tlte murder
ers, believed to be Philadelphia gang
sters. never were identified.
Both Prince and Behrens are well
known in local sporting circles.
Behrens and his wife were taken to
No. 3 precinct station for questioning
and later released. Behrens told police
he wasl eaving the District for good in
a few days.
HALLIGAN ORDERED
TO D. C. NAVAL POST
[Will Succeed Bear Admiral Stand
ley at Assistant Chief of
Operations.
Naval orders published today show
that Rear Admiral John Halligan, Jr.„
now commanding the aircraft squad
ron of the scouting fleet, will come to
Washington about the end of the month
for duty as assistant to the chief of
naval operations. He is to succeed
Rear Admiral William H. fetandley
about September 25.
Admiral Standley goes toi sea to com
mand the destroyer squadron of the
battle fleet. .
Born in South Boston, Mass., May 4,
1174, Admiral Halligan stood at the
head of the Naval Academy class which
graduated in 1898. During the Span
iah-American War he was attached to
the U. 8. S. Brooklyn and served aboard
that craft during the battle of Santiago,
Cuba, and was awarded the special
Meritorious Medal. The Distinguished
Service Medal was given him for his
World War service, during which he
served as aide on the staff of the com
mander of the patrol force of the At
lantic fleet and later as chief of staff
of the commander of the United States
naval force in France.
In July, 51928, he reported for in
struction at the Pensacola Naval Air
Station and qualified as a naval avia
tion observer, later commanding the
aircraft carrier Saratoga. He had held
his present post since Apirl of last year.
SCHOLARSHIPS GIVEN
TO HYATTSVILLE GIRLS
Prince Georges Federation of
Women's Clubs Makes
Awards to Two.
Sr • Stall Correspondent of The Star.
COLLEGE PARK. Md., September 8.
•-Miss Margaret Smith and Miss Re
becca Coffey, both of Hyattsville, have
been awarded scholarships to college
by the Prince Georges County Feder
ation of Women’s Clubs, according to
Mrs. Rudolph S. Allen, pwident of the
federation. Both girls are graduates of
the Hyattsville High School and will
attend the Uhiversity of Maryland.
The federation awards a scholarship
each year, but there were no applicants
In 1929. hence two were given this year,
Mrs. Allen explained.
INSURANCE MAN ESCAPES
WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO
Suffers Only Broken Collar Bone
as Freight Hurls Machine
Down Ravine.
Special Dispatch te The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG. Va., September
B.—Gordon Long, 50, State agent for
the Aetna Insurance Co., escaped with
a broken collar bone and minor cuts
when his car was struck by a Virginia
Central freight train at a crossing on
the Richmond - Washington Highway
within a mile of Fredericksburg.
The train was proceeding at a rate
of 12 miles an hour when the collisslon
occured. The car was picked up on the
cowcatcher and tossed down • ravine
Jmid* the railroad bed.
CAPT. SANFORD WISHES TO END
31 YEARS ON POLICE FORCE
| i Fifth Precinct Commander
I Asks to Be Retired on
. October 1.
Lieut. James Beckett of First
Precinct Is Believed in
Line for Place.
Capt. William E. Sanford of the fifth
precinct, who has more than 31 years
of service to his credit as a policeman
in the District, asked today to be retired
by October 1. This is the second re
quest for a retirement in four days, the
other coming from Capt. Charles T.
Peck of the eleventh precinct.
Capt. Sanford, who was born in Vir
ginia, was appointed to the force July
1. 1899, and assigned to the first pre
cinct. He was transferred to the sec
ond precinct and back to the first pre
cinct in 1902. In 1909 he was promoted
to acting sergeant and sent back to the
second precinct, where, in 1910, he was
promoted to sergeant. In 1914 he was
transferred to the sixth precinct and
then back to the first precinct, remain
ing there until 1920. In 1919 he won
his promotion to a lieutenancy and on
October 1, 1920, he was promoted to
captain and sent to the fifth precinct,
where he has remained since, except
for a few months at the end of 1921,
when he served as captain at the fourth
precinct. His record carries many com
mendations.
IMS’ FUTURE
WILL BE DECIDED
Meeting to Settle Status in
Washington Theaters
Now in Progress.
The future of musicians in Wash
ington movie houses, who have been
fighting for the renewal of their con
tract which expired August 31, may
be decided shortly as a result of a
meeting called in New York today be
tween representatives of the American
Federation of Musicians and Its local
unit and the executives of the large
theater circuits Involved in the con
troversy. The meeting was to be held
in the' office of Joseph N. Weber, pres
ident of the federation.
Although the musicians’ contract,
which was in blanket form between the
organized theater operators tnd the
local Musicians’ Union, expired at the
end of last month, the orchestras have
continued to play in local theaters by
virtue of a truce reached between the
Musicians’ Union and the employers in
New York August 29, which preserved
the status quo of the musicians for a
period of two weeks after August 31.
The truce also averted a .projected
strike of all organized union theater
employes, who had threatened to walk
out if an amicable settlement was not
reached between the musicians and
their employers.
The committee representing the local
union, comprised of A. C. Hayden,
president; John E. Birdsell, secretary,
and Richard Ashby, a member of the
board of directors, left Washington for
New York yesterday to participate In
the meeting today.
The refusal of the musicians to yield
to their demand for renewal of their
contract, which calls for the employ
ment of a specific number of men In
all local theaters, and the unwillingness
of the employers to enter Into any form
of contract nave heretofore resulted in
virtual collapse of negotiations toward
settlement of the dispute.
The large theater chains involved in
clude Warner Bros., Loew’s, Fox The
aters, Inc., and R-K-O.
115-DEGREE SUN MOVES
BOULDgR DAM TOWN SITE
Location Three Miles Further From
River, at 1,400-Foot Elevation,
Is Selected.
By the Auocltted Preis.
A 115-degree temperature at the site
first chosen for the so-far-nameless
town which will house Boulder Dam
workers led the Interior Department
today to change the location.
The department selected a n4w site
on the Nevada side of the Colorado
River, “three miles further back, at
the top of the ridge and at an eleva
tion of 1,400 feet.”
A temperature 13 degrees lower has
been found at the higher site, consid
ered of sufficient advantage to “war
rant accepting of the town site at the
top of the ridge.”
CO U RTTO N DERSpAS E
AGAINST MINISTER
Takes Under Advisement Bigamy
Action Against Danville
Preacher.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va., September B.—The
case of G. L. Hodges, former Baptist
minister, charged with bigamy, is under
advisement by Judge Henry Leigh of
the Corporation Court before whom the
case was tried. A decision is expected
shortly.
Hodges was arrested living here with
his second wife whom he married laat
January in Lynchburg without having
obtained a proper divorce, according to
the charge.
FORD CARGO* AIRPLANES
BOUGHT BY GOVERNMENT
War Department Contracts for
Four Tri-Motored Flyers at
Cost off 290,000.
Contracts for four tri-motored Ford
cargo planes and for 24 Pratt & Whit
ney “wasp” engines at an aggregate
cost of more than $290,000 were an
nounced today by the War Department.
Contracts with the Detroit Mrcraft
, Corporation for a faat, aingle-englned,
Detroit, Lockheed, transport plane
1 costing $16,637 also was announced.
\ *
| Skull Fractured in Fall.
' Jack Brown, 12 years old, of 915
North Carolina avenue southeast, was
f reported in’a serious condition at Casu
i alfy Hospital today with a fractured
s skull suffered when he fell about 20
t feet from a tree m which hejras play
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CAPT. WM. E. SANFORD,
Capt. Sanford is married and has
three children. He lives at 2520 Elev
enth street. He is much beloved in his
precinct, where for several years he
has staged an annual Christmas party
for youngsters in poverty-stricken cir
cumstances, which of late has grown to
huge proportions. The first thing he ex
pects to do on retirement is to go
hunting in Virginia.
It is expected that the vacant cap
taincy will be filled by the promotion
of Lieut. James Beckett of the first
precinct, although no definite decision
has yet been reached.
NO CAUSE IS FOUND
FOR U. S. FIRE HERE
Engineers Declare Recon
struction of Trade Commis
sion Officers Inadvisable.
As Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, U. S.
A., superintendent of the United States
park police, prepared today to draft his
report on the results of his investiga
tion into the cause of the fire that
gutted the Federal Trade Commission
Building August 30, it was disclosed
that no direct cause of the conflagra
tion has been uncovered by the special
investigators.
Oppose Reconstruction.
Engineers of thl office of public
buildings and public parks have report
ed that it is inadvisable to reconstruct
the burned Federal Trade Commission
structure, located at Twenty-first street
and Virginia avenue, as it has been so
badly damaged by the flames.
This structure, officially known as
Temporary Building No. 4, which has
housed the Children’s and Women's
Bureaus of the Department of Labor,
In addition to the commission, will be
demolished forthwith, if this plan meets
with the approval of the Public Build
ings Commission. Bids are to be opened
shortly by the office of public buildings
and public parks, if this program Is
adopted, it# acting director, First Lieut.
F. B. Butler, U. S. A., said today.
Awaits ‘ Col. Grant.
Part of the federal Trade Commis
sion is now housed in Temporary Build
ing No. 5, just across the street from
'the burned structure, and the remain
der will be placed in Temporary Build
ing No. 6, located at Eighteenth street
and Virginia avenue.
Capt. Montgomery is to draw up his
conclusions based on a week’s investi
gation of the circumstances surround
ing the fire. As Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant,
3d, director of public buildings and
public parks, is at present In West
Point, N. Y„ for the burial of his
mother, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, the
report will not be studied by the colonel
before the middle of the week.
FAMILYON VACATION;
HOUSE RANSACKED
Residence of Charles P. Stone at
Silver Spring Entered in
His Absence.
By a Btafl Correspondent ot The Star.
SILVER'SPRING, Md.. September 8.
—The home of Charles P. Stone, vice
president of the real estate firm of Stone
& Fairfax, was ransacked while Mr.
Stone and his family were vacationing
in Nonqoitt, Mass., the owner discovered
Saturday when he returned here.
Nothing of great value is thought to
have been taken, however, since all
silverware and similar articies were In
storage in Washington.
Entrance to the house was obtained
by breaking a window. According to
Sergt. Guy Jones of the Montgomery
County Police, there was evidence that
the burglars spent some time in the
house. Numerous fingerprints were dis
covered.
Mr. Stone is a personal friend of
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who flew
here some time ago to Mr. Stone’s wed
ding.
AVIATOR IS CHARGE?
WITH TAKING PLANE
Special Dispatch to The Star.
_ LYNCHBURG, Va., September B.
E. I* Brockenbrough, Lynchburg’s best
known aviator, is under orders to ap
pear before a Roanoke County magis
trate at Salem, September 12 to answer
charges of unauthorized use of an air
plane belonging to Clayton Lemon, a
Roanoke motor cycle policeman. It is
charged that the plane was taken from
the Roanoke municipal field.
Brockenbrough stated here after his
arrest that he did lose the plane, but
he asserted the use was with consent
ol Lemon. He said he used the plane
to demonstrate to a prospective cus
tomer and did it with consent of lta
ownbr.
1 DISCARDED LUMBER FREE
: - AT QUANTICO BARRACKS
1 Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va., September
■ B.—Quantico Marine Corps authorities
. through Maj. J. B. Sebree announced
today that large quantities of lumber,
which was salvaged from the razing
of wooden barracka buildings, erected
i during the war, were available free of
i charge to local residents for firewood
. or other purposes. The lumber is dls
l carded by the Government as new bar
-1 racks rise and was to have been burned,
■ but authorities fear to try that plan
hyiiM, ol nyp.
WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1930. ***
ITHIEVES TAKE S6OO
{AND MERCHANDISE
OVER END OF WEEK
Two Policemen Among Nine
Victims in Series of Rob
beries and Hold-ups.
FURNITURE IS SLASHED
BY APARTMENT INTRUDER
Automobile and Pistol Compose
Loot T&ken From Lieutenant
and Private.
Police are investigating today a series
of week end hold-ups and robberies In
which bandits and burglars obtained
approximately S6OO in cash and mer
chandise, with two policemen numbered
among their victims.
A burglar with a penchant for van
dalism entered the apartment of Stan
ton L. Dorsey at 1820 Clydesdale place
by jimmying a door and made off with
two SSO suits after slashing several
pieces of furniture valued at S4OO with,
a pocketknife.
Dorsey reported the theft yesterday
afternoon when he returned from a
two-week vacation and found his suits
gone and the furniture ruined.
Pried Rear Door Open. ,
The Cleveland Park home of H. C.
Hayes, 3216 Newark street, was entered
in a similar manner, and wearing ap
parel valued at SIOO stolen by a thief
who pried open the rear door of the
residence to gain entrance.
A colored burglar is being sought by
police for the theft of S2OO In cash
from the room of Hyman Kopit. at 1000
Thirteenth street southeast. The man
was seen to leave Kopit’s residence by
a neighbor, who furnished officers with
a description of the robber..
Richard Gatewood of 2232 N street
reported to police that a watch valued
at S3O was stolen from his coat pocket
along with $2 in change while he was
at work in the engine room of the
Washington Gas Light Co.’s plant at
Twenty-ninth and K streets.
William Bunas was accosted by a
hold-up man in his barber shop in the
1000 block of Pennsylvania avenue
early yesterday and robbed of $45. while
a colored man held up Alfred T. Wil
liams of 415 Florida -avenue and took
$3 as Williams was waiting for a street
car at Four-and-a-half and G streets.
Two Policemen Victims.
Luggage and wearing apparel worth
$75 were stolen from the home of Jean
C. Powell, 1917 K street, she told po
lice yesterday. Wolfe Sherer of 913
Fourth street reported to police that
he found S4O missing from the cash
register early yesterday morning when
he opened his store at that address.
Lieut. McGill Grove of the fourteenth
precinct and Pvt. E. C. Moore of No.
13 station were the two policemen who
fell victims of thieves.
Lieut. Groves’ machine was taken
from its parking place in the vicinity
of Forty-second and Albemarle streets,
while Pvt. Moore's .38-caliber police
pistol was discovered stolen when he
prepared to leave .Camp Perry, Ohio,
where the Metropolitan Police Depart
ment’s team participated in the na
tional police pistol matches.
$25,000 ROCKvirLE
CHURCH DEDICATED
New Presbyterian Edifice Opened to
Worship at Morning and
Evening Services.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md., September B.
The new Rockville Presbyterian Church
building, Just completed at a cost of
approximately $25,000, was dedicated
yesterday morning and evening in the
presence of large gatherings.
At the morning services, the pastor,
Rev. Henry K. Pasma. preached from the
topic, “Beautifying the House of God,”
and under the direction of Mrs. Edgar
W. Rogers of Washington Grove, with
Miss Luvy N. Smith presiding at the
organ, the junior choir sang the anthem,
“Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates.”
The congregations of all the Protest
ant churches of Rockville joined in the
evening exercises, which included organ
selections by Percy N. Cox of McLean,
Va.; a vocal solo by Mrs. Harry A.
Dawson of Rockville; the dedicatory
sermon by Rev. Dr. W. J. McMillan
of the Maryland Avenue Presbyterian
Church, Baltimore, and reading of the
dedication form, in which the congre
gation joined.
At the evening exercises the invo
cation .was by Rev. George C. Minor of
the Rockville Christian Church. Scrip
ture readings were by Dr. Pasma, the
dedicatory prayer by Rev. Bertram M.
Osgood of the Baptist Church and the
closing by Rev. Frank A. Tyler of the
Methodist Church.
The new edifice occupies a site on the
north side of West Montgomery avenue.
It is constructed of Montgomery County
variegated stone and is a decided
adornment to the town. At a cost of
$3,000, a pipe organ has been Installed
and completion of the entire undertak
ing finds the congregation free of debt.
The erection of the hew church build
ing was made necessary by sale of the
old structure to the county commission
ers to make way for Rockville's hand
some new court house and Jail, now
under construction.
CANDIDATE’S SON
KILLED ON CYCLE
Martin L. Bell Dies When Machine
Sideswipes Automobile Near
Hagerstown.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md., September B.
Martin L. Bell, 20, son of Keller D. Bell,
candidate for sheriff on the Democratic
ticket, was instantly killed yesterday
when the l. tor c«cle which he was
riding sideswiped the automobile driven
by G. C. Rinehart of Green Castle.
Justice A. C. Ruthrauff, acting cor
oner, gave a verdict of accidental death.
Bell had borrowed the motor cycle.
Licensed to Wed.
LEONARDTOWN, Md., September 8
(Special).—At the Leonardtown Court
House the following marriage licenses
were Issued; Arthur Adolph Kilburg,
25, and Mildred Elizabeth Hill, 33, both
of Washington, D. C.; William Daniel
Biscoe, 22, and Naomia Fenwick, 21,
both of Valley Lee, Md., and Wilmer
Freeman Owens, 48, Leonardtown, Md.,
' and Mary til) 1 *! 1
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In the npper picture, standing, left to right, Sergt. Harry G. Callahan, instructor of the school, and Pvt. Albert R.
Lamb, assistant instructor, are seen giving some pointers to a group &t new recruits. Below, Chief Clerk Harry Luckett is
swearing in new members of the force. ; —Star Staff Photo.
RULING IS ASKED
ON RADIO CONTROL
Jurisdiction Claimed by Gov
ernment on “Interstate
Commerce” Idea.
By the Associated Press.
The Federal Government Is seeking
to obtain from the Supreme Court be
fore the close of this year a ruling on
its Jurisdiction over radio communica
tion.
Contending that radio broadcasting
is Interstate commerce, the Govern
ment insists the congressional authority
for licensing and regulating stations
was given constitutionally. Two cases
pending before the court challenge this
validity and their use as tests is being
sought.
Power Cut Challenged.
Hie first of these brought by sta
tion WCRW at Chicago, challenges the
authority of the Radio Commission to
• cut its power from 500 watts, which it
had been using for some time, to 100
watts. The case will be reached for
oral argument in November, and the
Government has requested the court
to advance for hearing at the same
time a case brought by the American
Bond St Mortgage jpo. and Trianon,
Inc., operating Stations WMBB and
WOKj at Homewood, 111., near Chicago,
protesting the refusal of the commis
sion to renew their licenses.
The stations announced in September,
1928, that broadcasting would be con
tinued, but the Government brought
suit to prevent it The Federal Dis
trict Court in Chicago prohibited opera
tion without a license, but the Circuit
Court of. Appeals asked the highest
court for Instructions. The operators
asserted they had a property light, of
which Congress could not deprive them
without compensation.
fbopyright Action Sought.
Another radio case before the Su
preme Court seeks a ruling on the lia
bility of hotel owners and others who
reproduce radio programs under the
copyright laws. Gene Buck, as presi
dent of the American Society of Com
posers, Authors and Publishers, and
Desylva, Brown St Henderson, Inc.,
music publishers of New York City,
brought suits against station KWKC,
at Kansas City, Missouri and the La
Salle Hotel there, claiming Infringement
of copyright on a musical production.
They charged the station had broad
cast a copyrighted composition without
permission and the hotel had picked
it up and reproduced it for its guests.
The broadcasting company presented
no defense, but the hotel company-con
tested. *
The Circuit Court of Appeals has
asked instruction as to whether a hotel
company, in reproducing radio pro
grams for the entertainment of its
guests, does so “for profit" and is liable
for damage under the national copy
right law.
GASOUNECANBURSTS
YOUTH BADLY BURNED
Explosion Spreads Flaming Liquid
Over Carrier at New
Windsor.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICK, Md., September 8
Severely burned by flaming gasoline
when a container, which he was carry
ing from an automobile in front of his
home Saturday night exploded, Roland
Wachter, 20, New Windsor, is at the
Frederick City Hospital in a serious
condition.
The entire lower part of his body and
back is burned. He was unable to
account for the cause of the explosion.
Physicians say he will recover.
COLLEGE TO OPEN
Special Dispatch to The Star.
DANVILLE, Va., September B. Strat
ford College, which replaces the old
Randolph Macon School for Girls,
Which closed last Spring because of
financial difficulties, will open its first
session on September 17.
Announcement has been made that
Raimonde J. Aubrey, bass-baritone, di
rector of music at Main Street Metho
dist Church, has been engaged as pro
feasor of voice and director o t the
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Red Cross Chapter
Appeals for Clothes
For Storm Victims
The District of Columbia Chap
ter, American Red Cross, 1730 E
street northwest, urgently re
quests good, clean, light-weight
clothing for men, women and
children to be sent to tornado
sufferers in Santo Domingo.
Please do not send shoes or hats.
Contributions of money will be
gratefully received by the assist
ant treasurer at 1730 E street
northwest.
SCIENTIST TO'BUILD’j
FOURTH DIMENSION;
Dr. Heyl Will Show Things,
“Mind of Man Has Been
Unable to Imagine.”
By the Associated Press. *
A man who weighed the world now
is putting wires together to show how
the figures of the fourth dimension of
space would look to men if they could
visualize the laws of that pet theory of
higher mathematics. *
Dr. Paul R. Heyl, Bureau of Standards
physicist, known throughout the world
of science, said today he had under
taken the new task chiefly for his own
amusement, though his products will
be preserved by the bureau. He de
scribed the work as “making models to
represent things the mind of man has
never been able to Imagine.” The fourth
dimension has been his hobby since
boyhood.
No human being, Heyl explained, has
ever really imagined the fourth dimen
sion of space. He himself recognises
it only in mathematical theory.
What the World Weighs.
The scientist made a significant con
tribution to man’s knowledge of abso
lute facts when he announced last June
after more than six years’ Intensive
study that the world would weigh
6,592,000,000,00(1,000,000,000 tons, rough
ly spoken, more than six thousand mil
lion million million of tons.
“One way of putting it,” he mused
today, "is this: If all the human race
with all its live stock suddenly were
whisked to another planet, the weighs
of the earth would not be reduced by
one million-millionth.”
The 60-:-ear-old scientist grinned at
tlu sugger*ion of explaining the fourth
dimension in simple language, but he
offered:
“A straight line is in the first dimen
sion; theoretically, you make it by mov
ing a dot in any direction. Move that
line and you get a plane figure, such as
a square—theoretically, the second di
mension. 'Move the square in a direc
tion not contained in it, such as up or
down, and you made a cube, a figure
of the third dimension. Move that
third dimension figure theoretically in
some direction which we do not yet
comprehend, even in imagination, and
the result is a figure of the fourth di
mension.”
Three Models Completed.
While he spoke he fingered the three
models now complete. One resembled
a ball of popcorn in which only the
outlines of the grain could be seen—
such a complicated mass of wires it
was. Another looked like a set of tri
angles, all crushed together.
The models varied in size from sev
eral Inches* to more than a foot m
diameter. Heyl has been working on
them in spare time for more than a
year, soldering bjack and white picture
wire together to form the outlines. He
hopes to complete them soon. The
scientist smiled' as he observed that
the significance of his work was “per
haps nothing at all.”
“But this, you see, is my way of hav
ing fun,” he said, adding with a lighter
smile, “I have known more dangerous
hobbies."
Cattle Receipts Lost.
WINCHESTER, Va., September 8
(Special).—John M. Fishpaw, a promi
nent Clarke County live stock dealer,
reported to police today the loss of
about SI,BOO, mostly in checks, in the
vicinity of the County court house here
Saturday night. He had just returned
from Baltimore, where he had sold a i
carload of cattle. Moat of the checks
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Features and Classified
TRAFFIC JAMS TIE
UP CARS IN CITY
Two Are Injured Slightly as
Driver Loses Control
in Rain.
Two motorists, who were injured
slightly when their car overturned yee
, terday afternoon, were the only auto-
I mobile casualties reported here in a
day marked by one of the heaviest
movements of motor vehicles recorded
I this Summer, with three traffic jams
j furnishing the climax,
j A 22-year-old driver was arrested on
j charges of operating a car while drunk
and leaving the scene of an accident
| after a machine allegedly driven by him
crashed into two parked autos on Ver
mont avenue.
Robert E. Schwitz, 18 years old, of
444 H street, and Miss Gertrude Cran
ford, 18, of Marlboro, Md., suffered cuts
and bruises when Schwitz was blinded
by a driving rainstorm on Sixteenth
street near Walter Reed Hospital and
lost control of his machine. The car
swerved sharply and overturned.
Two Ai% Thrown to Street.
The two young people were pitched
into the street and had to be carried
to Walter Reed Hospital for first aid
treatment. They suffered only cuts and
bruises, however, and soon were re
moved to their homes.
An automobile that crashed into a
Capital Traction Co. street car at Ninth
street and Pennsylvania avenue about
a half hour after Capt. Dieudonne Coste
and Maurice BeUonte, the French flyers,
passed the spot on their way to their
receptions at the French embassy and
the White House caused one of the
worst tie-ups ever seen on Pennsylvania
avenue.
The impact caused the street car to
drop its plow, and another car, attempt
ing to push the stalled electric train
out of the intersection, knocked it off
the tracks. Street cars lined up from
Peace Monument to the Treasury De
partment and from Center Market far
up Ninth street, blocking the paths of
hundreds of motorists.
SO Minutes to Untangle Jam.
Four traffic policemen, working under
the direction of Lieut. Milton D. Smith
and Sergt John Fondahl, spent 30 min
utes in smoothing out the tie-up. The
motorist whose automobile struck the
street car and caused the trouble was
arrested and charged with failing to
give the right-of-way. He gave his
name as Clair C. Barnett, 22 years old,
of Melroy, Pa., and posted $5 collateral
at the Traffic Bureau to v obtain his re
lease.
Two other serious jams occurred
when the French airmen landed at
Bolling Field and at Highway Bridge
and the Washington Airport, where a
demonstration of a new midget automo
bile was presented.
George Cox, 22, of 1318 Tenth street
was arrested for driving while drunk
and leaving the scene of an accident
last night after a car, said to have
been driven by him, crashed into the
parked autos of Romero W. Horad,
1736 Vermont avenue, and James B.
Rhyne. 1102 Ninth street, on Vermont
avenue.
Cox is said to have fled, but was cap
tured and returned to the scene by
bystanders. He was to be arraigned in
Police Court today.
GUEST TAKES SIBO
Police Seek Taxi Driver Who
Turned Thief After Drinking.
Police were searching today for a
taxicab driver who accepted an invi
tation to attend a drinking party in
the room of Gilmer F. Haines of Wil
lard, Ohio, guest at a hotel near Union
Station, and left some time later with
SIBO of Haines* mony while his host
was sleeping.
Haines told police of the sixth pre
cinct that he and the cab driver fell
asleep after consuming a quart of
whisky, and he discovered the theft
when he awoke and found the taxi man
gone, t
Kan Found by Track Diet.
Max McKee, 40 years old, whose ad
dress is unknown, died at Casualty
Hospital a few hours after he was
found lying unconscious beside the
Chesapeake Beach Railroad yesterday
morning.
The man’s body wm found in Mary
land. about 800 fed from the District
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DISTRICT INCREASES
CONSUMPTION OE
WATERIRINGYEAR
m‘
Additional Amount Equals
Combined Gain From 1925
to 1929.
DAILY AVERAGE IS PUT
AT 82,081,380 GALLONS
1,470 Meters Installed and 5,041
Removed and Replaced, De
partment Reports.
The consumption of water during
the fiscal year ended June 3 was 29,-
960,705,000 gallons, an increase .of $,-
108,513,440 gallons over the preceding
year, according to the annual report
of the District Water Department made
public today.
This increase, the report states, is
equal to the combined increase of the
four years, 1925 to 1929. The reason
given for the enormous increase in the
report is that it is largely due to the
lifting of certain restrictions qn lawn
and sidewalk sprinkling which had been
strickly enforced prior to the comple
tion of the new supply conduit to the
Dale Carlia plant.
167.5 Gallons Per Capita.
The daily average consumption was
82.0M.380 gallons, being 8,500,000 gal
lons daily in excess of that of the pre
ceding year. The greatest consumption
for one day was 102,500,000 gallons on
June 30, 1930, and the smallest 65,800,-
000 gallons on December 29, 1929. The
per capita consumption was 167.5 gal
lons.
The total length of trunk main and
extensions laid aggregated 15.74 miles,
principally in 8-inch mains. During
the yea.r 1,476 water meters were in
stalled on new services and 5,041 de
fective meters were removed and
replaced. A total of 95,611 water serv
ices were in use at the close of the
fiscal year, Os which 81,381, or 85.1 per
cent, were metered.
Financial Report Not Mads.
The financial report of the depart
ment is not ineluded in its annual re
port, as this always is made part of
the report of the auditor of the District.
There is a cost report, however, which
states that the net operating costs to
taled $1,046,569.21. Os this mainte
nance and operation took up 51 per
cent and extensions and Improvements
49 per cent. The total cost of the es
tablishment up to and including June
30, 1930, is given at $7,714,888.25.
TWOTOBE RELEASED '
IN DROWNING PROBE
Police Fail to Find Body of Man
Reported to Have Jumped
Into River.
Two men held In the reported drown
ing of a man said to be Wallie Gill, 49
years old, in the Potomac River near
Key Bridge, early yesterday, were to be
released by seventh precinct police this
afternoon unless the body was recov
ered or unless additional evidence
pointing toward the drowning was re
vealed.
Harbor precinct police have dragged
the river almost continuously without
result since Robert C. Marcey, 31 years
old, of Cherrydalee, Va., and Howard
Conrad, 50 years old, of Chevy Chase,
Md„ notified police that Gill leaped
overboard from a.boat in whicta they
were rowing about the river.
Lieut. J. J. Burke, acting captain of
the seventh precinct, said that unless
there are new developments in the case
today he will free Marcey and Conrad.
The two men were arrested for investi
gation alter the former telephoned po
lice that Gill had jumped from the
boat.
Both told conflicting stories regard
ing the drowning, Marcey aaying that
Gill suddenly became ill and deliber
ately jumped from the boat near the
new Memorial Bridge, while Conrad told
police the drowning occurred off the
gas plant, nearly one mile up the river
from the bridge.
Neither man could supply police with
Gill’s address, while a check-up of the
company where Marcey and Conrad
said Gill was employed also proved un
availing, officials of the firm telling
officers they had never heard of the
man.
FIVE ARE INJURED
IN STREET BRAWLS
Two Colored Men Ara Hurt Serious
ly, Being Stabbed Near Heart
in Fights.
Street brawls sent five men, three of
them white, to hospitals yesterday with
injuries ranging from severe knife
wounds to minor cuts.
Two colored men are reported crit
ically hurt—Charles Wilson, 24, of Lin
wood, Md., lying at Emergency Hospital
with stab wounds near the heart, while
Augustus Bradley, 45. of 1137 Fifth
street is at Freedmen’s Hospital with
similar cuts.
Wilson was stabbed in a fight with
another man near his * home, while
Bradley was said by police to have been
stabbed during an altercation with a
brother, Eugene Bradley, 37, of Newark,
N. J., who is under arrest at the sec
ond precinct on an assault charge.
Three white men—August Hocker. 20;
John Shorter, 21, and Martin Quinn.
27, all of Fort Myer, Va.—were treated
at Emergency Hospital for slight cuts
received when beaten with bottles and
bricks during a brawl with colored men
at Four-and-a-half and H streets
southwest.
TRUCK DRIVER ROBBED
Reports He Was Knocked Uncon
scious by Colored Touth.
Knocked unconscious by a colored
youth, who struck him with a heavy
stick, Arthur Welch of 1245 E street
southeast, a driver for the Metropoli
tan Coat A Apron Supply Co., reported
to police that he was robbed of his
pocketbook containing* $lO early today.
Welch told officers of the tenth pre
cinct that he drove his truck into a
parking place at Fourteenth street and
Park road about 6 o’clock this morn
ing and was about to step from the ve
hicle when the youth attacked him,
stole the pocketbook and made off with
two colored companions, who van