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Park Police Put Estimate of
Throng at About
150,000.
SENATOR DUFFY LAUDS
YOUTH ORGANIZATION
6e«s Democracy Safe Under Scout
ing Principles—Foreign Visi
tors Amazed by Spectacle.
Four hundred wide-eye foreign Boy j
Scouts from 24 countries and 25.000
of their American fellows, many from
rural districts where Independence
day celebrations are confined to priv
ately exploded firecrackers, sparklers
and maybe a few skyrockets, gave a
throng of Washingtonians a new view
point of the annual Fourth of July
celebration last night.
Virtually all the foreign Scouts were
seeing their first American Fourth of
July celebration, and their reactions
were a source of more interest to many
of the Americans around them than
the fireworks display.
Swelled by the Jamboree Boy Scouts,
the crowd which t#rned out for last
night's celebration on the Ellipse was
estimated to be the greatest in local
history. C. Marshall Finnan, superin
tendent of National Capital Parks,
estimated there were 100.000 in the j
Ellipse crowd, and park police put the |
figure in the Ellipse and nearby park
areas at 150,000.
Seen as Democracy’s Hope.
The Scouts heard Senator F. Rya:
Duffy of Wisconsin tell the grea
crowd that "we need have little fea
* for tile future of America if all c
our young boys could have Boy Scou
training and in their lives carry ou
the patriotic teachings which the
learned as Scouts.”
“Democracy is safer." Senator Duff
said. "when a considerable portion o
its people really believe in those ideal
' Which a Scout holds dear."
Independence day, 1937. finds it
America a democracy which “ha
reached its height of attainment re
cently in our concern for the betterini
of conditions for the unfortunate am
the underprivileged." Senator Duff;
said. It has proved that its dem
ocracy is of a form that can stam
‘'violent strains and periods of distres
When proper leadership is given.”
“This country,” he said, “should b
thankful for the inspired leadershi]
which has guided us out of the gravi
dangers of an economic upheavel.”
The foreign Scouts listened patient'
ly to oratory which few of them coulc
understand, but which they had beer
given to understand was an indiS'
pensable part of an American Fourti
of July. They joined with their fel
low American Scouts in applause wher
Senator Duffy declared that ever;
American citizen on this day “shoulc
rejoice that this Nation was bom, be
cause our citizens have freedom anc
liberties, rights and privileges such a.5
•re enjoyed by no other peoples ol
the world.”
They listened sympathetically when
Interpreters explained to them that
Senator Duffy was calling upon all
American citizens to stand loyal to
their Government in its days of trial
and “to make sacrifices for this Na
tion, just as all of the generations
that have gone before us have been
Willing to do.”
They cheered loudly a hasty trans
lation of Senator Duffy's closing plea
to his hearers: “Treasure our Na
tion; it was wrested from tyranny and
built by democracy. The greatest of
privileges is liberty—a liberty con
ceived in courage, proclaimed by faith,
defended by strength and preserved by
loyalty. This liberty was our heri
tage: we must give it to posterity.
We protect our liberty by our democ
racy. The supremacy of democracy
means the salvation of America. Keep
faith in democracy and democracy
will keep the faith.”
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Declaration of Independence by Rep
resentative McGranery of Philadel
phia, birthplace of that immortal doc
ument, of which the foreign Scouts
knew very well, it seemed.
But they really became enthusiastic
when 100 of their fellow American
Scouts marched onto the field carrying
red flares and marched in procession
before the great crowd. They were
even more vociferous when scores of
Scout colors, borne by Scouts, ap
peared in the massing of colors of
military, veteran and patriotic units.
It was easy to see, however, that
their real enjoyment of the occasion
began when the first rocket of a
magnificent firew'orks display screamed
its way into a clearing sky in which
shone the first star after a night
and a day of intermittent showers
which had threatened for a time to
Interfere with the display and which
had left the Scout camps slippery
With mud and water.
They "ooh-ed” and they "a-a-a
ah-ed" in the most acceptable Ameri
can fashion as the sky blazed and
echoed in the thunder of the sky
pieces and the ground gave birth to
fiery wheels, stars and set pieces.
Loudly they laughed and chattered
In a babel of tongues when sputtering
fire grew into the shape of a great
duck, which laid a fiery egg, hatched
it, and waddled across the field with
a baby duck waddling behind. They
Jumped up and yelled when the
Statue of Liberty was outlined in fire,
with two warships on either side
firing skyrockets in salvos from their
turrets. Many of them had seen the
Statue of Liberty on their way to
the jamboree and had no difficulty
in recognizing the likeness. Nor had
they any difficulty in recognizing the
likenesses in fire of George Washing
ton and Franklin D. Roosevelt. And,
with the whole crowd, they came to
their feet, leaping, waving their hats
and screeching in many tongues when
the United States flag was outlined in
fire and a tremendous salvo of star
shells filled the sky with fantastic
lights and rolling thunders in a fare
well salute.
Although last night’s celebration
was in itself one of the showiest in
years, it was not merely the com
munity affair which past celebrations
have been. It became quite distinctly
a Boy Scout affair from the time the
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thousands of boys, suppers hastily
stowed, started "mud marches” from
their camps to the Bllipse.
Scouts predominated on the speak
er's platform, where 13 of them, repre
senting the 13 original colonies, formed
a guard of honor. On the platform
were members of Congress, Federal,
District and civic leaders. Flanking
the platform were the United States
Marine Corps Band and the Drum and
Bugle Corps of Fort Stevens Post,
American Legion.
Melvin C. Hazen, president of the
Board of District Commissioners, pre
sided and the invocation was given by
Rev. W. H. Burgan. pastor of Hamline
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Although large the crowd took ex
ample from the Scouts, being one of
the most orderly in recent years. Police
reported that the vast throng was
moved out without difficulty after the
show other than the unavoidable traf
fic delays.
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^ Scouts Enjoy Holiday Fare of Fireworks, Aquatics and More Rain
The Sea Scouts held their regatta yesterday off Hains Point.
Shown here is a view of the four-man canoe race yesterday
afternoon, won by the craft in the foreground with, a creiv from
t California and Neiv Mexico.
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It was a varied Fourth of July celebration for the 25,000 Boy Scouts encamped around the
Washington Monument area, climaxed by a dazzling fireworks display last night. Here two of the
Scouts are gazing raptly as bursting fireworks make brilliant splashes in the sky beside the Mon
ument-_______ —A. P. and Star Staff Photos.
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Looking for a break in the
rain are Scouts Robert Mc
Afee. Jim Myers and Eddie
Dengler from Iowa.
Active D. C. Social Worker
Succeeds Mrs. Coralie
Franklin Cook.
John R. Pinkett, who has been ac- 1
tive in civic and social welfare work
for years, was appointed by the Com
missioners today as a member of the {
: Board of Public Welfare to succeed
Mrs. Coralie Franklin Cook, who re
signed, effective July 1.
Mrs. Cook had served on the board
for six years. She was appointed
originally in 1931 and received a re
appointment in 1934.
Both Mrs. Cook and her husband.
Dr. George Cook, who died two years
ago, have been active in District wel
fare activities. He served as a member
of the old District Board of Charities,
which was replaced in 1926 by the
Board of Public Welfare. Dr. and Mrs.
Cook played an active part in the es
tablishment of the Industrial Home
School for Colored Children.
Pinkett is the president of, John R.
Pinkett. Inc., a real estate and insur
ance firm at 1302 New Jersey avenue.
He resides at 122 V street.
He is 48 years old and was bom in
Lincolnia. Va., coming to Washington
with his parents in 1900. He was grad
uated in 1907 from the old M Street
High School, since replaced by Dunbar
High School. He worked his way
through Amherst College, being grad
uated in 1911. He has three children
who are graduates of Howard Uni
versity.
Pinkett is a member of the Board of
Directors of the Twelfth Street Y. M.
C. A., treasurer of the Southeast Com
munity House and a member of the
Executive Committee of the Com
munity Chest.
New Public Library Bill
Hearing Set for Tomorrow
Full District Committee Will Meet at 10
A.M. to Consider $2,500,000 Appro
priation for Purchase of Site.
Representative Collins. Democrat,
of Mississippi has arranged with
Chairman Palmisano of the House
District Committee for a hearing on
his bill for a new main building for
the Public Library tomorrow at 10
a m. The hearing will be before the
full District Committee in the old
House Office Building.
The bill, which authorizes an appro
priation of $2,500,000 for the pur
chase of a site, to be located west of
Sixteenth street and north of Penn
sylvania avenue, and the erection of
an adequate building embodying the
latest ideas in library planning, was
introduced by Representative Collins
January 21, but his absorption with
the District appropriation bill and the
congestion in the District Committee
has prevented earlier consideration of
the bill.
Amendments Proposed.
Representative Mary T. Norton, re
cently retired as chairman of the
House District Committee, referred
the Collins bill to the Board of Library
Trustees. In unanimously indorsing
the bill the library trustees proposed
certain amendments. The principal
one, suggested by Representative Col
lins, was that the bill should be so
amended so as to make the new main
library project eligible for a Public
Works Administration grant. With
the bill so amended and with an allot
ment of P. W. A. funds, it would be
possible to go forward promptly with
the purchase of a site and the erec
tion of the much-needed new main
library building.
The library trustees and librarian
have for 10 years been calling atten
tion to the inadequacy of the present
central library building which has long
since been outgrown, both for proper
service to the public and for the
administration of a library system
which now consists Of 10 branch
libraries and which gives service to
190 public, private and parochial
schools.
Present Building 35 Years Bid.
The present building on Mount
Vernon square was built 35 years ago
for a city of less than 300,000 popula
tion. There were then no branch
libraries. The population of Wash
ington is now estimated at more than
600.000 with a million or more ex
pected. perhaps within a decade. The
building became so crowded by readers
that six years ago overflow quarters
were secured outside. Now the library
annex occupies an entire floor of
17.000 square feet in the old Ford
Motor Building, at Pennsylvania ave
nue and John Marshall place, a mile
from the central library. There all
book ordering, cataloging, and binding
work are done. Even so, both the
central library aad the annex am so
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badly congested as to interfere with
good service.
The recent renewal of activity con
cerning the Municipal Center group
and an auditorium makes the library
officials apprehensive that the Ford
Motor Building is altogether likely
to be demolished at almost any time
to make way for another Federal or
District Building. The Public Library
would scarcely be able to function
if it should lose its quarters in the
Ford Motor Building, as it would be
impossible to bring its business offices
back into the main library building.
The District government has no other
building into which these business
offices could be moved, and the library
has no funds for renting outside
quarters, even if anything large
enough could be found, which seems
doubtful.
In the course of the discussion of
the main library building project, cer
tain citizen bodies have stated, with
out investigation of the subject, that
branch libraries were more important
than a new main library and that the
erection of branch libraries should
come before a new main library. The
library officials are entirely sympa
thetic to the needs of many com
munities, now lacking in branch libra
ries. Indeed, they have often pointed
out that the residents of fully half of
the territory of the District are
without convenient branch library
service. But they also point out that
unless and until Washington has an
adequate main library, in which the
needs of readers who require access
to a large collection of books can be
properly met and still more, one hav
ing space for the administration of
a large library system, it is folly to
build more branch libraries.
PRESIDENT SIGNS ACT
FOR NEW HANCOCK SPAN
The bridge across the Potomac River
near Hancock, Md., which was swept
away during the floods of last year, is
to be replaced. President Roosevelt
today signed an act of Congress au
thorizing the State Roads Commis
sions of Maryland and West Virginia
to construct, maintain and operate a
free highway bridge to take the place
of the destroyed one.
The President also signed a bill pro
viding for representation of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Dis
trict on the annual conference of
senior circuit judges. Heretofore the
local Appeals Court was not repre
sented on these annual conferences.
EMPLOYERS FACE
1C ACT CHARGES
Warrants Issued for Five
Accused of Violating Com
pensation Law.
The Disrict Unemployment Compen
sation Board has begun legal action to
force employers to comply with the
unemployment compensation act, It
was revealed today.
John L. Bischoff, assistant attorney
for the board, said five warrants have
been issued so far against employers
who have failed to make reports and
contributions as required by law. Two
of those named in the warrants ap
peared today and arranged to comply
with the law without prosecution.
The others named probably will face
prosecution in Police Court, Bischoff
said. He said other warrants may be
issued as the investigation of alleged
violations continues.
The District law, tying in with the
unemployment insurance phase of the
Federal social security program, re
quires employers of one or more per
sons, except domestic servants, to file
reports and pay a contribution or tax
on their total pay rolls. This tax
amounts to 2 per cent this year.
FIREMEN WIN PRIZE
WARRENTON, Va„ July 6 (ff).—'The
Warrenuton Volunteer Fire Depart
ment, composed of 35 uniformed men
and one truck, was awarded the cup
for the best equipment and apparatus
yesterday at the annual Orange, Va„
firemen’s carnival.
The truck was purchased recently
by the Warrenton department.
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Inquest Dropped in Case of
Karl E. Shaefer After
a Conference.
A scheduled inquest into the shot
gun death of Karl E. Shaefer, 35
year-old Marine Band musician, was
called off today when Coroner A. Ma
gruder MacDonald, after a conference
with the dead man s family, decided to
close the case with issuance of a cer
tificate of suicide.
The inquest had been ordered Satur
day, after Shaefer's relatives insisted
he had shot himself accidentally while
cleaning a shotgun in the bed room of
his home, at 228 Twelfth street south
east.
They withdrew their objections to
the suicide verdict, however, after Dr.
MacDonald pointed out that Shaefer
had removed the shoe and sock from
one foot in order to '•puir the trigger
with his toes, and that the condition
of the wound indicated the gun had
been pressed against his body, just
above the heart.
Mrs. Virginia W. Shaefer, the mu
sician's w-idow. could give no reason
for the act. It was this fact that
caused her to doubt the suicide theory.
Shaefer was to be buried at 2 p.m
today in Arlington National Cemetery
after services at Lee’s funeral parlors.
A coroner's jury, after hearing testi
mony in the fatal shooting of Max
Dichter, 52. during a hold-up of his
store at 127 L street June 22. returned
a verdict placing responsibility for the
murder on "person or persons un
known." Dichter died Saturday in
Sibley Hospital.
POLICE SEARCHING
FOR LOST $11,100
Mrs. Jessie Van Senden Misses
$9,000 in Jewels and
$2,100 Cash.
Atlantic City police were searching
today for a paper bag containing cash
and jewelry worth $11,000, lost on the
boardwalk Sunday night by Mrs. Jes
sie Van Senden, 1868 Columbia road.
Mrs. Van Senden. widow of Herman
Van Senden. Washington loan broker,
said she thought she lost the bag when
the wind blew her hat off.
As she was going out to dinner, she
said, she put the jewelry, worth $9,000.
and $2,100 in cash in the bag. The
cash was in the form of two $1,000
bills and a $100 bill.
On the way to a restaurant, she
said, her hat was blown off and she
chased it. A few minutes later she
noticed she did not have the paper
bag. Police did not report the loss
until last night at Mrs. Van Senden's
request.
BAND CONCERTS.
By the Marine Band at the Tuber
culosis Hospital, Fourteenth and Up
shur streets, at 6:30 o'clock tonight. ,
Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William
F. Santlemann, assistant.
By the Soldiers' Home Band in the
bandstand at 7 o'clock tonight. John
S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaster; Anton
Pointner, assistant.
By the Army Band in the formal
garden at Walter Reed Hospital at
6:30 o'clock tonight. Capt. Thomas F.
Darcy, leader: Karl Hubner, assistant.
Boone Family Group Joins
in Rites Marking Signing
of Constitution.
Dedication of a “Constitution Elm”
on the Washington Monument Grounds
and laying of a wreath at the Con
stitution shrine in the Library’ of
Congress today marked the joint con
vention of the American Order of
Pioneers and Boone Family Associa
tion, celebrating the document's sesqui
centennial.
The convention was scheduled to
close late this afternoon with an in
formal business meeting in the Wash
ington Hotel.
The American elm. growing near
the Sylvan Theater, was given the
organizations for dedication by C.
Marshall Finnan, superintendent of
National Capital Parks, with the ex
planation that a new tree planted this
time of vear would not survive. He
was represented at the ceremonies by
A. H. Hanson, landscape architect of
National Capital Parks.
William Boone Douglass of the Dis
trict. president of the joint convention,
presided at the ceremonies commemo
rating three famous elms—one at Fort
Boonsboro, Ky.. where the first Legis
lature assembled west of the Alle
ghenies; judgment tree elm in Mis
souri, under which Daniel Boone pre
sided as magistrate from 1800 to 1814.
and Constitution elm at Corydon, Ind..
where the Indiana Constitutional Con
vention was held in 1816.
Turin B. Boone was chairman of the
Committee on Arrangements. The in
vocation was given by Rev. George
Johnson, director of education. Na
tional Catholic Welfare Conference,
and the benediction by Rev. Walter
Franklin Atkinson, pastor of Dumbar
ton Avenue M. E. Church.
Officers elected at a previous meet
ing follow: Douglas, president: Capt.
Joel T. Boone, Dr. William Lowe
Bryan. Charles B. Davenport, C.
Frank Dunn. George S. Luckett, W.
V. MeChesney, George E. Merrifield,
Maj. Gen. David C. Shanks, John S.
Wurts and Fred A. Virkus. vice presi
dents: Miss Ida Jane Ayers, secretary’;
George E. Merrifield. treasurer: Mrs.
James R. Spraker, registrar, and John
T. Landis, genealogist.
The convention banquet at the
Washington Hotel last night was ad
dressed by Representative Bell of Mis
souri. Dr. J. C. Wright, assistant
commissioner of education, W’as toast
master.
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One of Many
HERBERT WILLOUGHBY.
This 8-year-old. boy was
among more than a score of
persons injured by fireworks
during Fourth of July celebra
tions. He was burned when a
firecracker exploded in his
hand as he was setting it off
near his home at 1426 Ames
place northeast. He was
treated at Casualty Hospital.
—Star Staff. Photo.
A. A. A. Reveals Ancient Rome
Devised Rules for1937 Motorist
By the Associated Press.
The American Automobile Associa
tion lifted the hood of traffic history
today and discovered these startling
facts about the vehicular life of
man:
Traffic police, for instance, date
back to 350 B.C., and Roman Sen
ators—irked at the chariot Jams that
blocked the streets—banned down
town parking.
For years a law prohibited Roman
women from driving chariots, but
they wailed so loudly that officials
finally gave In and thereupon issued
the first operators’ licenses.
Caesar was the inventor of one
way streets as well as the originator of
limiting the loads of commercial
vehicles along fashionable avenues.
Chugging into contemporary times,
the fact hunters bumped into many
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early Inventive efforts to fool the
horse with disguised horseless car
riages.
To prevent quadrupeds from bolt
ing at the sight of the automobile, a
man patented a car that had the body
of a horse. Another inventor car
ried the idea to the extreme of putting
a horn in the wooden horse's mouth.
The motor association workers
washed into countless odd mishaps:
Two persons were injured when a
turtle crawled up a driver’s leg . . .
a young deer wrecked a car and killed
three people ... a 7-year-old girl
was hit by an automobile and re
ceived a bruise, while the driver died
from shock.
Strangest of all their discoveries,
said the historians, is the fact that
with a filling station for every mile
of hard-surfaced road, 1,500,000 Amer
icans ran out of gas last year.
TRAFFIC INJURES 13
AS SCORES SUFFER
FIREWORKS BURNS
Fourth Celebration Is Free
of Deaths in Area
of Washington.
BOY’S SKULL FRACTURED
IN ACCIDENT NEAR HOME
Motorist Is Charged With Reck
less Driving—Scoutmaster Hit
on Memorial Highway.
Holiday traffic resulted in injuries
to 13 persons, and fireworks sent
49 others to hospitals with minor
burns, but no fatalities marred the
Fourth of July celebration in the
Washington area, police reported to
day. Last year 14 deaths were re
ported after the Independence day
celebration.
Rudolph Patterson, 3, colored, of
151 N street southeast, was critically
injured when struck by an automobile
driven by Wesley Ransom, 348 N
street southwest, in front of his
home. He is in Gallinger Hospital
suffering from a fractured skull.
Ransom was charged with reckless
driving.
Orr Hamilton, 48. Duluth, Minn,,
scoutmaster, was cut about the head
when hit by an automobile driven
by Joseph N. Garner, 23, of 1439
Foxhall road, on the Mount Vernon
Memorial Highway near the railroad
crossing. Hamilton was treated at
Nava! Hospital. Garner was charged
| with reckless driving by park police.
Automobiles in Collision.
Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Haigh, 1321
Childress street, and their two small
sons and Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Nelson,
Richmond, Va., were slightly in
jured when the automobiles in which
they were riding collided near Pearls
burg, Va.
Adelaide Cooper. 57. colored. 1848
Eighth street, was slightly injured
when struck by a hit-and-run taxicab
at Ninth and French streets.
Five persons were slightly injured
when the automobile in which they
were riding swerved from the Balti
more Boulevard after it was struck
from behind by a bus and crashed
into the home of A. P. Matile at Ber
wyn, Md. The injured, all of whom
were treated at Casualty Hospital,
were George Mikkelson. 30; Mrs. Neva
Mikkelson, 18; Robert Litaker, jr.,
19; Thomas Farley, 22. and Harriet
Herrell, 17, all of Alexandria.
Fireworks Victims.
Among those treated at hospitals
for fireworks burns were;
Arthur Jones. 13. of 403 First
street southeast; Jack Roberts. 11, of
2417 P street southeast: Ruby M.
Brown, 5, of 803 First Street; G. L.
Watts, 47, of 535 Ninth street south
east; R. J. Trumbo, 39, of 208 F
street; Fred Fansalla, 15, of 240 First
street southwest; Dominic Cusato, 15,
of 248 First street southwest: Ceaser
Tonon, 15, of 1416 A street southeast;
James Scott. 18. of 1803 Benning
road northeast; William Corcoran, 7,
of 3118 M street; Edwin Norwood, 27,
colored, of 3622 O street; Elaine Tal
bert, 12, of 1671 Wisconsin avenue.
J. R. Harris, 28. of 1918 Eleventh
street; Dock Burnett. 31. of 2230
Eleventh street; Hyman Sotszky. 26. of
607 Florence street; John Noyes, jr.,
of 1707 Q street: Ruth Davenport. 10,
of 219 Seventh street northeast; Frank
Brudigan, 40. of 316 Maryland avenue
northeast: Francis Sazzari, 15, of
1023 H street northeast; Francis Duke,
12, of 103 Eighth street northeast;
Marvin Chernowsky, 14, of 101 Eighth
street northeast: William Brown, 12.
colored, 102 M street; Ralph Ranrie,
21, Baltimore: Leonard Burke, 31.
of 431 O street.
Marian Clark. 25, Edmonston, Md,:
Fred Turner, 14, colored, 9 DeFries
street; Arthur Warren. 13, colored,
441 College court northeast; Annie
Williams. 10, colored, 28 Patterson
street northeast: M. J. Shebhen. 38.
of 1839 L street northeast; Mrs. Anna
Harding, 46. of 1246 Ninth street;
Dora Kress. 46, of 1255 Ninth street:
Charles Jackson. 14. colored, of 414
New York avenue; William Long, 469
I street; R. H. Mudd, 4724 Third
place; Alvin Miller, 12, of 1745 Wil
lard street.
Grant Carpenter, 13, of 1026 Fair
mont street: Sherrard Tupman, 40, of
640 Hamilton street; Joan Gingell, 9,
of 936 Madison street; Lloyd Lipkey!
17, of 628 G street southwest; Carl
Owens. 11, of 2111 Eighteenth street;
Warer Williams, 24, of 1917 Second
street; Robert Westbrook. 16. Al
toona. Pa.: Joseph White. 15. of 310C
Connecticut avenue; Jack Blake, 10.
of 1732 Taylor street; Eugene Fur
man, 10, of 1300 Howard street; Hu
bert Johnson. 10. of 1920 Sunderland
place; James Murphy, 8, of 215
Twelfth street southeast; Lee Styer..
28, Alexandria. Va., and Randall
Spencer, 24, of 2120 Newport street.
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IN FIREWORKS CASES
37 Others Forfeit Collaterals
After Arrests on Charges of
Shooting 'Crackers.
Accused of discharging fireworks
while celebrating the Fourth of July,
37 persons forfeited collateral and 12
others demanded trials in Police
Court today.
Police said they were swamped with
complaints from citizens annoyed by
the explosion of fireworks over the
holidays. Children who set off fire
crackers were sent home with a warn
ing, but adults were arrested and
forced to deposit $5 collateral.
Among those awaiting trial were
John Garth, Herbert Mason. Walter
Moyer, McKinley Denmark, Theodore
Snyder, Fred Schwaner, Charles P.
Schmettler, Joseph McCabe, Thomas
V. Griffith, Michael Sullivan, Roy
Bradshaw and Emma Henderson.
Police Court judges today faced one
of the busiest days in recent years.
When court convened there were 98
prisoners behind bars and 80 at liberty
tinder bond or collateral nnHtny
trial.