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HARRY B. BRADFORD,
Kensington, Md., is the world’s most famous portrait painter of
fleas and other insects. He has just completed the portrait of a
flea, 62,000 times its actual sine. A reproduction of the painting
ia shown in the inset.
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SAFETY ADVICE
FOR NEW O
GIVEN
Inspector Headley Suggests
Resolutions for D. C.
Motorists.
If you are making up your list of
resolutions for the New * Year, In
spector Albert J. Headley, in charge
t of the traffic bureau of the police
department, has some suggestions.
"In making resolutions for the ,
New Year," Inspector Headley said ‘
in a statement issued today, “for i
1924, include, if you are an automo- ]
bile driver, that you will know the (
traffic regulations and observe them.
"Knowledge of the regulations ’
alone will not prevent street acci- ’
dents, but obedience of the reguia- :
tions will prevent conditions on the 1
streets that make for accidents.
"Resolve that you will be courteous ’
to each other, particularly to the 1
driver on the right. Resolve that 1
you Will not drive into a situation
when your view is obstructed. Re- 1
solve that you will safeguard the 1
pedestrian at the %’osswalk. Resolve J
that you will join the Washington '
Safety Council and be a producer, '
aot of accidents, but of safety." ’
1
HERO MEDALISTS
TO BE PICKED
FRIDAY
Police and Firemen’s Commit
tee Gathering Data for
Times’ Awards.
The committee which will select
the heroes of the police and fire de
partments who will be awarded The
Washington Times gold medals for
"conspicuous bravery in line of duty”
in 1923 'will meet Friday afternoon at
t o'clock in the office of Commis
9 sioner Cuno H. Rudolph, in the Dis
/ trict Building.
It was originally planned to hold
this committee meeting at 3 o’clock
Wednesday afternoon.
Major Daniel Sullivan, superin- I
tendent of police, and George S. Wat
son, chief of the fire department to
day are gathering the list of men |
whose names and heroic deeds will
be brought before the committee Fri
day.
The committee comprises Commis
sioner Rudolph, chairman; former
Commissioners J. Thilman Hendrick,
Mabel T. Boardman and Gen. John
A. Johnston; Charles W. Darr, Odell
l S. Smith and John J. Boobar.
HOOVER TO ADDRESS
ENGINEERING COUNCIL
Secretary of Commerce Herbert
Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia University,
and Dwight F. Davis, Assistant Sec
. rotary of War, will be the chief
I speakers at a dinner Thursday night
January 10, to be held in connection
> with the annual meeting of the
I American Engineering Council of the
’ Federated American Engineering
Societies. Dean Mortimer E. Cooley,
of the University of Michigan, retir
**■ in* president, will preside.
A feature of the week's meetings
will be the public works conference,
Wednesday, January 9. The pur
pose of the conference is to urge the
adoption by Congress of that part of
the Brown plan of government re
organization so far as it affects the
Department of the Interior,
PAINTER MAKES
PORTRAIT DF
FLEA
Insect is Enlarged 62,000;
Times, Showing Every
Line on Body.
By WILLIAM PICKETT HELM.
Harry B. Bradford, of Kensing
ton. Md., has recently finished
painting a portrait of a flea, 62,000
times its actual size. Before turn
ing his talent to the painting of
insect portraits. Bradford painted
portraits of eminent men, among
them having been Justice Brewer,
of the United States Supreme
Court, and Thomas Nelson Page,
author and diplomat. Now Brad
ford paints insects exclusively.
During the weeks that he was
engaged on the flea’s portrait, Brad
ford worked with his eyes applied
to a binocular microscope equipped
with a scale that measured down to
one one-thousandth of an inch. To
the naked eye, this scale looks like
a continuous line. By its aid, how
ever, Bradford counted and repro
duced every hair on the body of
the flea, although the hairs were
less than one millionth of an inch
in thickness. Markings on the skin
or armor were even finer, and it
was necessary to reproduce them
with equal exactness.
After the flea’s likeness was
drawn the colors were applied, true
to life. The most delicate shading
and texture were required. Per
pective was introduced to show
the overlapping of armor-like plates
on the back.
Bradford has made a number of
insect portraits for the Bureau of
Entomology, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture. Some of these
are of Insects much smaller than
the flea and at least one of them
shows on the canvas 100,000 times
the size of the insect in life.
(Copyright, 1923, William Pickett Helm.)
NEED BUT 354 D
FDR CHARITY
FUNDS
Only Four Opportunities Are
Left for New Year—sl2,-
966 Goal in Sight.
With the close of the old year
the Uhrwtmas-New Year Op
portunity Fund of the Associated.
Charities finds itself well in sight i
of its goal of $12,966. Seven hun- |
dr«-(j and ninety one individuals and
groups of individuals have con
tributed to this result.
Os the fourteen families consist
ing of fifty children and seventeen
adults, the budgets of al! but four
are now fully subscribed. The re
maining opportunities numbers 9,
-11, 12, and 13, are within sight of
closing. Number 12 needs but $55,
Number 9, $121; Number 11, $134,
and Number 13, $230. This makes
a total of $540 still needed to close I
the fourteen opportunities.
Number 6 was closed this mom- ■
ing with a pledge of SIBO to be I
payable in monthly installment-) of '
sls each. Zion Baptist Church I
sends $26 which was to have been 1
divided equally between 7, 11 and :
13, but 7 is now closed so that the ]
share of 7 goes to the other tw<r
All of the Opportunities are as
sured a happy New Year. Should
any of those still open fail to re
ceive their full quota they will be
provided for from the general funds
Pf ths Assocliusd Charities,
washinMiimes
| MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1923. SECOND SECTION I
DRY’ RAID MAY COST AGENTS’ JOBS
Opposes “Staggered” Hours for Cars
BALL SEES
HARDSHIP
IN PUN
Working Children Would Suf
fer, He Believes—Neutral on
Auto Tax, He Explains.
Senator Ball was witholding his
final decision regarding the pro
posal to have staggered hours for
school children so as to relieve con
gestion during the period of traffic
during the morning and evening.
Julius Peyser, president of the
District of Columbia School Asso
ciation, has indorsed the plan
strongly to the Senator in a letter,
but Senator Ball is inclined to
think that it will work a hardship
on thousands of children who de
liver newspapers and do other
I work during the late afternoon
j and early evening.
Neutral On Auto Tax.
Although taking exception to the
statement that the Inclusion of the
personal property tax in the gaso
line reciprocity tax bill will work a
great hardship upon District auto
mobilists, Senator Ball is entirely
willing to eliminate the tax from
the bill provided the House does
likewise.
He has not yet consulted with
other members of the District Com
mittee on the proposition, but
thinks there will no great opposi
tion to eliminating the tax if the
measure cornea over from the House
in that form.
Senator Ball takes the position
that District motorists are not
overtaxed in comparison with the
motorists of other States, even with
the personal property tax included
in the bill. He therefore is willing
to have the gasoline bill passed
either with or without the tax.
Hearings in the McKellar 5-cent
street car bill will begin early next
month. Senator Ball reiterated to
day. He declared that the Mc-
Kellar proposal will be given a
most thorough investigation.
DEPREITIDN
RULES TD BE
FORMED
Utilities Commission Will Hold
Open Meeting Wednesday,
January 16.
The Public Utilities Commission
today announced that a public hear
ing would be held in the board room
of the District building at 10 o’clock
Wednesday, January 16, to begin
the preparation of rules governing
depreciation of the various public
Utility corporations tn the District.
This will be one of the most im
portant Public Utilities Commission
hearings in recent years, inasmuch
as the final decision on deprecia
tion rules is expected to have a
material effect on future rates
I charged by public utilities corpora
tions of the District.
The commission’s announcement
follows:
“In view of the decision of the
Interstate Commerce Commission
in the matter of jurisdiction over
depreciation charges of the Wash
ington Railway and Electric Corn-
I pany (decided December 8, 1923),
I that said company, together with
its subsidiary companies, is not a
carrier subject to the provisions of
the Interstate Commerce Conimittee
act, and therefore not under the
jurisdiction of that commission
with respect to its depreciation
charges, the Public Utilities Com
mission of the District of Columbia
will hold a formal public hear'n;’ m
the board room (Room 500) District
building, at 10 a. m. Wednesday,
; January 16, 1924, for the purpose
!of hearing suggestions relative to
I the method to be followed for
; formulating regulations governing
I depreciation charges of the various
j public utility corporations in the
| District of Columbia, and the
' methods of accounting therefor.
Manor Park Meeting.
New Year resolutions will be con
sidered hy the Manor Park Citizens
Association, at its first meeting of
the new year, which will be held
at 6210 Third street northwest,
Wednesday evening.
BILL PRICK"®
THE PASSING SHOW
ON FSTREET
I have watched the flying fishes on the
road to Mandalay,
Quite as Kipling has described them.
Just across from far Cathay.
I have viewed the crimson splendor on
the flanks of Everest,
As the sun In fading glory dyed the
portals of the West;
But the sight that thrills my vision,
that fills me with content,
Lies some thousand leagues to West
ward of the far-famed Orient.
When the day draws on toward eve
ning, down in Spotless Town. D. C.,
And the flappers strut on F Street;
friend, that’s sight enough for me.
I have watched the dawn uplifting
from the seven mighty seas;
I have viewed the starry splendor o’er
the lofty Pyrenees;
I have sailed in rapt attention through
the tropic moonlight’s thrall
With my pulses all a-tremble at the
beauty of it all;
But the sight that holds my fancy, and
soothes my weury eyes.
Isn’t one of tropic oceans, nor of
star-swept foreign skies.
When the afternoon is fading, and the
sunset does its stuff.
And the flappers strut on F Street;
listen, world, that’s sight enough.
JOHN J. MOFFATT.
PEP UP SOME, CONTRIBS.
Dear Bill: You know, of
course, that 1 have been reading
the Old Column every day dur
ing my long absence from it.
Now, I wouldn't be doing this if
i I didn't enjoy it, would 11 But
look here, those contribs of yours
have got to put more punch and
snap, more pep and spice in
their work. Why, only the other
day I sat in a certain waiting
room reading Heard and Seen,
and I'm a son of a gun if I could
get a single smile out of it. 1
was waiting to have an ulcerated
tooth -pulled. F. J. SCHWAB.
CRAZY COOT’S LOVE ADVENTURES COME TO AN END.
MAYBELLE, YOU ARE YES I HELLO MAYBELLE! WE’VESom MY
IHTELLIGENT? YOO APPRECIATED DARUNC! BEEN LOOKING FOR YOU.
ME WHEN OTHERS DON’T ISO g I'M SO BEN TURPIN AWAITS ME TO
E MARRY YOU! HAPPY 1 AT THE HIM! WS
— J L_J_
YES, SHE ESCAPED A MONTH AGO. HAS A I "THt WORLD'S A STAGE" SAIB SHAKF-K1
I ry F every N ohe L s!e , se£s EH sorrv T s S hl o his-Seer g
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L A F F L E T S.
A nut«*d authority recently naid
that a married man should he in- I
spired by home life. They don't need x
inspiration, friend, they need PKO- j
T ECTION.
We agree with a noted professor I
in saying that kissing is unsanitary j
and. furthermore. If these flappers I
continue using rouge tlies should be g
forced to post "Het Paint” signs on
their faces.
We wonder if those Mexican revolu
tions could possibly be as bad as are |
some of those saxophone concerts
that we hear in the wee, early hours I
of the morning.
An optimist is a musician who «
‘‘There’ll Be A Hot Time In I
Th® Town Tonight,” when a ?
blizzard is raging outside.
We don’t all agree with Mr. Darwin j
who rhjh that man sprung: from -
monkeys hut we miut admit that the j
*•*”’*• do make us look mighty bad at
t,Dl ®*- <M>E H. HOLMAN. |
IF YOU ARE ON THAT RUM
LIST, HERE’S AN IDEA, j
There must be lots of disap- !
pointment that out of 1,400 per j
sons on that rum list the names j
of only 13 are to be made public. !
The disappointment is all the I
worse, too, in view of the fact j
that diplomatic, Congressional |
and social circles were supposed I
to be heavily represented on the |
list. The only way to have the 2
prominent ones in rum-purchas- I
ing mentioned publicly is through j
publicity agents who would take |
to the city editors photographs I
of those feasting upon Hennesy j
three-star cognac brandy. The J
poor boobs who drink cheap !
corn and the synthetic mixtures |
wouldn’t want their mugs in the |
papers. J
“GAS METER’’ THIEF IS
AT WORK IN DISTRICT
A “gas meter inspector,” with
thriving proclivities, has been oper
ating in northwest Washington for
the past, two months, according to I
reports made to police headquar- i
ters. His activities have cost local •
residents about 12.000, it is said. <
Acting under the guise of in-[
spector the thief obtained adrnis -i
sion to the home of Mrs. E. T. O.
eLdpP. 0660 Tenth street northwest.
I FROM MOLECULE TO MONKEY
AND THEN—TO MAN.
We place Dr. Aiea Hrdlicka,
of the National Museum of thia
city, in the tender care of W. J.
BRYAN. The famous Nebraska-
Floridian has been fighting Dar
winism with deadly aim. Now
Dr. Hrdlicka comes along with
the confession that human be
ings were originally “cousins” to
the ape family, but somehow or
other developed just a little
faster mentally until they out
class the apes in having cake
eaters and bobbed-hair flappers.
But Brother Bryan will get all
het up over the statement that
both tne apes and their cousins,
the humans, probably originated
in “the state of a simple mole
cule.” This all happened some
thing like a million years ago.
From molecules we have become
“poor fish.”
| RADIO .
I Oh! greatest thing of any age,
2 You have wrought a golden page
In the Book of Life Itself.
i You have caused bright smiles to
ripple
i From shut-in faces, blind and crip-
I Pie.
God grant you ne’er know the
shelf.
EDWIN F. ROWLES.
IN THE HALL OF NAMES.
Fred Lamp and Bernice Fevers
| were married in Gridley, 111,
| It’s a cinch that when Fred goes
| out at night it will be dark in his
I home.
j My Irish friend has been drink
| ing heavily during the Cliristmas
I holidays. The other night he
5 imagined he saw a deformed mon
| key on the foot of his bed and
I spoke thusly:
I ‘‘lf (M see a monk he's in a divil
j of a fix, and if Oi don’t see a
' monk I’m in a divil of a shape.”
| BY JINGO.
THE STAMP LANGUAGE.
“SAN TOY” would like us to
I print the stamp language. A
I number of similar requests were
j received lately. We printed it
? long ago, but have no copy. Will
I some contrib forward us a copy ?
AMONG THE MOVIES.
“The Man Life Passed By” had
I answered “The Call of the Can
• yon.” ‘Why Call It I>ovc?" he
j cried, and shot himself just “West
« of the Water Tower,” while the
I “Big Brothers” of “Fashion Row"
| yelled “Going Up” as they caught
! the elevator to the basement to
I play Mah Jongg with “The Hum-
I ming Bird.”
EDDIE O’BRIAN.
“ADMIRER” writes that “the
! gang” would like to have JULES
j BACKENHEIMER write more
| of his stories and jokes for the
? column.
| FOR 192 J,.
I The old year has gone.
Vet old friends remain
I To send greetings iih of yore;
| I front you may bank In
5 Old dame fortunes' smiles
I And find much happiness in •.fore.
HANK HAWKINS.
yesterday. Shortly after he left
she found that about S3OO in jewelry
also was gone.
Other victims of the ‘“inspector”
are J. H. Taylor, 744 Irving street
northwest, jewelry worth SSO; Louis
Mills, 713 firesham place northwest,
watch worth S6O; Mary A. Mason’
'750 Howard street, two watches,
worth $100; Shadrach D. Brown,
1 1835 Sixth street northwest, dia
j mond and other jewelry, worth
j nearly S4OO. and Louis C. Jenkins,
■ 327 East Capitol street, jewelry
worth SIOO, ~
NEW YEAR
WELCOME
PLANNER
Various Unique Methods of
Celebration Here Will Rival
Former Times.
The ceremony of watching the
old year out and the new year in
is one which has become a pretty
nearly universal habit during the
centuries since the invention of
the calendar.
The extent of the celebration
has usually been limited only by
the ingenuity and energy of the
citizenry. In former days it was
the custom to watch the old year
expire through the bottom of the
flowing bowl.
Revelry Planned—Unofficially.
This custom, too, became a habit,
and is one which has been found
hard to break. And though it will
be broken —officially—tonight in
Washington, there will nevertheless
be a spirited display of revelry on
the part of the National Capital from
late tonight to later.
There will be more solemn observ
ance in the churches of the city,
which have been decorated for the
watch-night services.
Tere will be no general community
celebration of New Year in Wasn
ington tonight, but in every other
respect the? celebnation will rival
that of any year before the great
drouth. There will be more indi
vidual celebrations than in former
years, and the Washington citizenry,
it may be remarked, is displaying a
remarkable talent in devising meth
ods of bidding the qld year farewell
in unique fashion.
Churches To Be Active.
Those of more solemn mind, who
regard the birth of a new year as
a serious occasion and one to be
observed with befitting solemnity,
will gather in their places of wor
ship.
Others, who look upon the advent
of a new calendar as an occasion
of welcome relief from the monot
ony of every other day, will seek
joy in the lairs of the climbing cov
er charge.
Between these extremes will be
the quieter family celebrations —
more or less quiet until the stroke
of twelve bids the family dishpan
and long handled spoons arouse
the echoes.
Officially, Washington will ob
serve the New Year as in former
days. The President and Mrs. Cool
idge will continue the White House
custom of holding a reception on
New Year Day. The reception will
begin at 11 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing with the arrival of members of
the Cabinet and diplomatic corps.
At 11:20 o’clock the Supreme Court
will be received, followed ten min
utes later by members of the Sen
ate and House of Representatives.
The army, navy, marine and na
tional guard officers will be re
ceived at 11:45. From 12:05 to 12:20
o’clock the Executive aides to the
Cabinet members and chiefs of the
Government bureaus and agencies
will be received. They will be fol
lowed by representatives of sixteen
military organizations. Members of
the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion are asked to assemble at the
east steps of the State, War, and
Navy building at 1:15 o’clock to
morrow afternoon.
Public Admitted.
Following a brief luncheon period
the public reception will begin at 1
o’clock, and will continue unti 2:30.
It is expected that nearly 10,000
people will attend the White Hous?
reception, as was the case last
year, when a long line of waiting
citizens, formed four abreast, was
turned away upon the conclusion of
the reception.
The chief center of revelry to
night will be in the big hotels.
The New Willard and Wardman
Park hotels alone will divide 2,500
guests between them, this number
of reservations having been made
days ago.
Cover charges at Washington
hosteleries and cases are reaching
record high marks this year. There
will be a cover charge of $lO per
person at the Les Paradis Case.
Reservations for 300 persons were
exhausted weeks ago.
L’Aiglon To Open.
The opening of the L’Aiglon Case,
at Eighteenth street and Columbia
road northwest, will be one of the
features of the New Year Eve cele
bration tonight. All of the 500
reservations here have been taken.
Forty workmen have been at work
all night and today to complete
the place.
The historic Ebbitt Hotel will be
the goal of 500 guests. A supper
UJpuUnuad oa 15J I
lali-washington]
I HOME TOWN PAGE)
Season’s Worst Storm
Wfll Usher In
1924
The New Year will come to
Washington on the crest of the
worst storm of the season.
Winter in earnest is sweeping
down from the north along the
Atlantic seaboard, and snow,
followed by blustery, bitter
weather, is due here tomorrow.
The Weather Bureau fore
casts rain tonight and tomor
row morning. Later tomorrow
the rain is scheduled to change
into snow, followed by much
colder weather.
f The temperature tonight will
continue mild, but freezing
weather will follow tomorrow.
The winds will continue mod
erate and shifting today, but
3 tomorrow will begin to blow
i strongly from the storm area
r to the Northwest.
Temperatures far below zero
! have been reported from
f Northern States, with zero
I weather far south into Kansas
j I and lowa. Temperatures of 26
1 degrees below zero were re
-7 ported yesterday from Helena
s and Havre, Mont. It is the out
-5 skirts of this cold wave which
. will engulf Washington.
LOVE WBTI
■OS IIP II
1 COURT
■ ■ Merrill Sherman Accused of
Assault on Sweetheart Fol
lowing Argument.
i
t Unavailing efforts to patch up a
‘ broken engagement, police believe,
caused Merrill Sherman, 3715 Thir
t teenth street northwest, to forcibly
■ evict his former sweetheart from
his automobile early yesterday. He
also is alleged to have beaten her.
Today, as a sequel, Miss Ethel
o Limerick, twenty, the girl in the
s case, has numerous bruises on her
p pretty countenance, and the young
man is locked up awaiting trial for
assault. He was arraigned today
and demanded a jury trial. He was
t released on SSOO bond,
i Sherman and Miss Limerick, ac-
- cording to the police, went for an
< automobile ride yesterday. There
- was an argument, it is said. When
the machine reached the girl’s
b home. 3020 Dent place ncrthw’est, it
is alleged she was pushed out, fall
ing to the sidewalk. Unconscious,
Miss Limerick was discovered by
b her brother, who removed her to
Georgetown Hospital. She returned
*• home this morning.
r Policemen J. E. Burke and J. C.
■ Dalglish arrested Sherman about an
b hour later. At the Seventh pre
i cinct Sherman told the police that
1 Miss Limerick struck him in the
■ face, it was stated.
f He is said not to have made
! denial of the girl’s charges,
t
PARKING CHECK
i DOWNTOWN IS
i SOUGHT
)•
District Committee to Favor
i Fifteen-Minute Limit Zone
i* in Report.
o
? A non-parking zone extending
* from' K to F street, from Seventh
5 to Seventeenth street—a zone in
f which parking would be limited to
fifteen minutes—probably will be
recommended by the Senate Dis
! trict Committee in its report about
) traffic conditions here.
r Senator Ball, chairman of the
" committee, is strongly inclined to
i favor this plan, he said today. He
r will present it to the Senate Dis
’ trict Committee for approval at its
next meeting.
Absolute prohibition of parking
J within the congested area would
discriminate against thousands of
automobilists who have no chauffeurs
in Senator Ball's opinion. He be
’ lieves that a fifteen-minute limlta
, tion on parking will permit any
one to transact business briefly in
( a store or office and impose no
hardships that are not outweighted
by the benefits which will follow,
j Senator Ball also favors a traffic
police force of 160 men, or approx
imately 110 m'ore than are now on
the force. He also would relieve
the street railway from paying the
rsaUuia* erotism* polioenwu. ,
"or raid
STIRS IIP
ROW
Agents Who Searched Polish
Envoy’s House Face Loss
of Jobs.
Dismissal, or at least a severe
public reprimand, now looms for
two of the members of the squad
which ten days ago raided the
premises of Dr. V. Sokolowski,
attache of the Polish legation, on
a “John Doe” warrant. The raid
ers were seeking to confiscate the
$35,000 cache of liquor which
Dr. Sokolowski had stored in the
basement of a Columbia road
apartment house.
Apology Is Expected.
In addition it was hinted today
by State Department official* that
an apology would go out to the
Polish minister for the “unwar
ranted invasion’’ of the home of a
member of his staff. The govern
ment at Warsaw had cabled the
Polish minister to make a report on
the whole affair with a view to
either censuring Dr. Sokolowski or
demanding an official apology.
Another new development in the
case is the assignment of two de
tective sergeants—Edward Kelly
and Arthur Scrivener to assist
District Attorney Peyton Gordon in
the investigation of the rum ring
conspiracy. These two, District At
torney Gordon, Assistant District
Attorney Presmont and two other
officials conferred at great length.
They refused to say what was dis
cussed.
Witnesses in the conspiracy were
called before Major Gordon today,
while Assistant District Attorney
Presmont was sent out on another
case —at the District morgue—indi
cating that his connection with the
case is more of a myth than a fact.
Morgue cases are routine matters.
Warrants Denied O’Shea.
James A. O’Shea, counsel for
twelve of the defendants in the con
spiracy, intimated today that he
would file papers of a startling na
ture when he has had time to re
view the warrants which thus far
he has been denied.
United States Commissioner
George H. Macdonald again today
refused to let O’Shea see the orig
inal warrants upon which his cli
ents were arrested. O’Shea said
that this action of the commissioner
was without precedent.
How Agents Were Tricked.
The “inside’’ story of how Naomi
Middleton, youthful office employe
of the Scarborough-Murphy-Lamson
syndicate tricked George Golding,
agent of the Special Intelligence
Section of the Treasury Depart
ment, into giving her an opportunity
to destroy the list of the ring’s
customers is as follows:
It seems that the ’phone rang
while the Federal officers were in
the Continental Trust building
suite. Miss Middleton was told to
answer the ’phone, and Golding
picked up the extension, hoping to
hear a customer use a code num
ber.
Instead Miss Middleton hurriedly
warned the calling party “Destroy
the list. The secret service men
are here’’ and with that the phone
was hung up. Such is the story
of how the “special investigator"
let the most valuable evidence in
the case slip out of his hands.
HELD IN SI,OOO BOND
ON JOY-RIDING CHARGE
Pleading guilty to a charge of
joyriding. James H. McDonald was
held for action of the grand jurv
on SI,OOO bond by Judge John P.
McMahon, in the United States
branch of Police Court today.
McDonald admitted taking from
in front of 1215 K street northwest,
the automobile of Raymond I.'
Gasper. He was arrested by De
tectives Howard and Salkeld.
CENTRAL CmZENS NAME
FRANCIS D. RYAN PRESIDENT
Francis DeSales Ryan was elected
president of the Central Citizens As
sociation at a meeting last night
P. J. Callan, who also had been
nominated for the post, declined to
contest.
Robert A. Dore was elected dele
gate to the Federation of Citizens
Associations, and John McMahon
was elected to succeed Robert Mc-
Makln. who is leaving the city. The
election was made necessary by the
resignation of President Donovan
who had held that office for eight
years.