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Colored Man Held After Police Follow Circuitous Accident Trail. Police cruising downtown streets in radio scout cars were run nearly dizzy last night in a "hide-and-seek" con test with an alleged hit-and-run driver accused of hitting three auto mobiles and a pedestrian. The hunt ended with the capture of Prank W. Haines, 29, colored, 1400 block of V street, as he sat in a parked sedan in an alley off the 2000 • block of Fourteenth street. Police said he had borrowed the car from a Woman. He was held on open charges pending further questioning today. Haines was arrested by Policeman H. S. Montgomery and A. L. Argo. A broadcast from the twelfth pre einst, giving the description and license number of a car involved in a hit-and-run accident involving minor 1 property damage, started the hunt. Then came successive radio flashes, Montgomery said, that an automobile answering the same description struck another car at New Hampshire and Vermont avenues; a pedestrian at Six teenth and Vermont avenue, and an other machine at Seventeenth and V streets. The injured pedestrian, Harold G. Waters, 46, of 3640 Sixteenth street, was treated at Garfield Hospital for shoulder bruises. Another accident seriously injured Harry E. Pryor, 27, whose address was not known. Both his legs were frac tured and he received a brain concus sion when struck at Sixteenth street and Morrow drive by an automobile , which police said was driven by Irving Washington, 35. colored, 1100 block of S street. He W'as taken to Walter Re?d Hospital and later transferred to Emergency. »-*-- - - M___ Gets G. O. P. Post i WOMAN SENATOR ASSUMES DUTIES HERE. I ■ — ' ■ "i State Senator Marion E. Martin of Bangor, Me., who • has been appointed, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee. She will be in charge of women’s ac tivities of the party organ ization, Chairman John Ham ilton announced. —Undenvood & Underwood. Labor Exchanges. Labor exchanges have been estab lished throughout Belgium and full details of vacancies are announced by radio every morning at 9. SIR WILLMOTT LEWIS ADDRESSES GROUP World's Big Problem Is One of Peaceable Change, Says Eng lish Correspondent. B» the Associated Press. WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va.. September 16.—Sir Willmott Lewis, Washington correspondent for the London Times, told men of the Com mittee of One Hundred last night that the problem confronting the world is that of finding a method of peaceable change. Sir Willmott addressed the annual banquet of the men from all over the country who, with Winter homes In Florida, join for a reunion in the North each Summer. Meanwhile, the ladies of the com mitteemen gathered at a dinner of their own, arranged by Mrs. C. R. Landback of Philadelphia and Mrs. Frank E. Jaynes of Wabash, Ind. Sir Willmott, outlining the rapidity of world change since inception of the industrial revolution, which he termed a conquest of man over the forces of nature, said: “Prior to that time people of Europe bred with the amazing consistency of the Belgian hare, died just as rapidly and population remained static. With the industrial revolution people recog nized the importance of sanitation and the death rate began to diminish." He said the nations have been able to handle the resultant local changes in economics and laws governing the social set-up. but asserted thus far no positive means has been devised to cre ate workable law's between nations. -• APPOINTMENT SYSTEM FOR BOARD APPROVED Present Method of Selecting Edu cation Unit Members Upheld by P.-T. A. Approval of the present method of appointment of the Board of Educa tion and opposition to the merger of the Community Center and the De partment of Playgrounds was voted last night at a meeting of the Central High School Parent-Teacher Associa tion. The meeting was held at the home of Mrs. Prentiss D. Sale, association president. 1428 Whittier street. Plans for the year were announced, including a mother-daughter banquet in November, a father-son dinner in January and the annual card party in December. The group also laid plans for a membership drive to start the first week in October under direction of Mrs. I. M. Tashell. -—• Political Village Planks. HILL, N. H., September 16 (/P).— There are plenty of planks for both parties in Max Israel's political vil lage here. Max owns a lumber lot in which the prepared timber is so laid out that it forms avenues. The avenues are named for political figures. The Republican avenues include Landon, Moses, Murphy, Knox and Bridges. The Democratic streets are Roosevelt, Gamer, Farley and Reed. CIVIL WAR HERO’S BODY TO REST IN ARLINGTON Remains of Gen. Krzyzanowski Will Be Moved Prom Brook lyn on October 11. The body of Brig. Gen. Wladimir Bonaventura Krzyzanowski, Civil War hero of Poltfh extraction, will be moved from a cemetery in Brooklyn, N. Y„ to Arlington National Cemetery on October 11, in a ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary of his death. Services honoring the memory of Gen. Krzyzanowskl will be sponsored 3v the National General Krzyzanowskl Memorial Committee. Rites will be held at Union Station when the body arrives from New York City and after ward at Arlington. Gen. Krzyzanowskl came to the United States in 1846 at the age of 22. He Joined the Union army as a pri vate at the outbreak of the Civil War and rose rapidly through the ranks. Co-incident with these memorial services, the Polish National Alliance will sponsor ceremonies throughout the country on October 11, in cele | bration of the 150th anniversary of the formation of the Constitution, planning a dinner here that night at the Wardman Park Hotel. "■■■ ■■■■•-— . 30-Mile Visibility at Pole. SOVIET NORTH POLE CAMP (by radio to Mascow), September 16 OP).— Clouds were high today and visibility was about 30 miles. The temperature was 0 4 of a degree above aero. Fahren heit. and the barometer stood at 30.03 inches. The position of the camp was * 86 4 degrees north latitude and 0.30 east longitude. TRICO Radiator Covers complete the beauty of well furnished and decorated rooms, prevent radiator smudge and provide proper humidity. Rea sonable prices — convenient terms. Estimates without obli gation. FREDERIC B. BLACKBURN 1700 Conn. 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