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Evening star., 1929-06-27
WOMAN ASKS JURY
TO DECIDE CHARGE
Nurse Held in $500 Bond for
Alleged Assault on Real
Estate Operator.
Pleading not guilty and demandin,

Pleading not guilty and demanding
jury trial through Attorney Joseph
E. Kelly, when she appeared in Police
Court today, Mrs. Mildred H. johnson.
30-year-old nurse of the La Sale
Apartments, was held under q $500
bond for an alleged assault on James
G. Upton, real estate operator of 1897
Ingleside terrace.
venable Baggett, 81, said to be a
travelling salesman, also charged with
aSsaulting Upton, was also held under
q similar bond A charge OF threats
lodged against Baggett at headquarters
last night was nolle pressed today by
Assistant United States Attorney Hobart
Newman.
Friendly with Upton.
According to the womans story,
her husband, Edward S. johnson,
died more than a year ago. Since
that time Upton has been friend
he had helped her to settle her
husbands estate. On January 81 she
alleges that as Upton had aided her,
when he requested loan of 5000 to
save q foreclosure Of q chattel mort
gage on a four-year-old automobile, she
believed it to be no more than proper
that she help him. Upton did not re-
turn the money in spite of her numer-
Gus demands, she said, and yesterday,
in the company of Baggett, she went
to Tipton's office. She received no sat
isfaction there, she said. and threat
ened to appeal to Mrs. Upton, who Is
now In the South. This infuriated
Upton, who swore at me and used vile
language" Mrs. johnson said.
Say Woman Made s'Pass."
Mrs. johnson is said to have made q
pass" at Upton, which failed to reach
its mark. Baggett entered the argument
and declared that he seized a telephone
from Tipton's hands when he attempted
to call the police, but denies striking
him. According to Baggett, Tipton
agreed to meet MRS. Johnson down town
and pay her the money, but when they
left. he secured warrants for their ar
rest. Detective Sergts. c. j. p. Weber
and Howard e. Ogle arrested Mrs. 'ohn-
son and Baggett at the La Sale .rt-
mertS on the warrant
Mrs. johnson said today that she has
lost her position because of the difficulty
In which she Is now involved.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
SM|THSON DEAD
100 YEARS TODAY
Institution Officials Call At.
tention to Romantic Story
of Scientists Life.

Today is the Tooth anniversary of
the death of James Smithson, founder
of the Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian officials took occasion to
call attention to the romantic story CT
the man who gave his fortune to estab-
liSh a great scientific institution in a
country he had never seen, within
whose walls his body now rests.
SmithSon was the natural son OF the
Duke of Northumberland and Earl of
Percy, born in France in l765. Pre-
sumably he remained outwardly on good
terms with his family al Ibis life, but
the social stigma of his ulegitimacy
preyed upon his mind.
Interested in Natural Sciences.
He came to manhood an extreme
liberal in politics with an interest in
the natural sciences. Probably his
first contact with America came
through a half brother, a legitimate
British forces during the Revolution,
taking part in the battles of Lexington
and Concord. This officer was en-
thusiastic over the caliber of the Co
lonial soldiers.
The establishment OF social order,
where title and ancestry theoretically
counted for nothing appealed to the
imagination of Smithson. But he
never visited the New World He de-
voted himself to research in chemistry.
He died in 1929 and was buried in
the Protestant Cemetery at Genoa.
When his will was opened 1t was found
that he had left his entire fortune,
approximately $500, 900, to the Govern
ment of the United States to establish
at washington an institution for "the
increase and diffusion Of knowledge
among men,"
my name shall live in the memory
OF man." he wrote, when the titles Of
the Northumberlands and Percies are
extinct and forgotten"
Body Brought to United States.
His body was brought to the United
States in 1904 in custody of Mr.. and
Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell and re-
inferred in the Smithsonian Institution
Doubtless Smithson's primary con-
scious motive for the beQuest was his
interest in the sciences
But underneath it all was the trace
Of bitter jest over his lot in life.
Under an ornate tomb in Westminster
Abbey sleeps the Earl of Percy. The
stone is chiseled with long list of the
titles and honors Of the great nobleman
including "Custos Rotolorum of the
Counties of Northumberland and Mid
dlesex and all America"
Snithson must have smiled at that
''all America"
With stroke of his pen he made
the bar sinister mark Of honor.
He triumphed in the land where the
ancient line of the Percies had gone
down in ignominous defeat.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
SLOGAN CONTEST WINNER
HONORED AT LUNCHEON
Miss Marian Boyd of Detroit Is
Guest OLA. A. A. at Will
lard Hotel.

The American Automobile Association
is host today to 16-year-old Marian
Boyd of Detroit, whose slogan on high
way Identification won her trip to
Washington and took first place over
5000 others submitted in a national
contest.
The young visitor, with her mother,
Mrs. Thomas F. Boyd, will take an ex-
tensiye motor trip to see what has been
done locally in the way Of improving
roadside scenery. Today she was honor
guest at luncheon at the Willard
Hotel and this afternoon she viii be
conducted through headquarters of the
association here.
The contest, in which entrants sub
mitted slogans stressing the need for
improvement of wayside stands, was
sponsored by the New York Art Center.
Miss Boyd has enjoyed a round of en-
tertainment since her arrival here, three
days ago. {
Evening star., 1929-06-27
FIGHT OVER REMOVAL
OF LOADING PLATFORM
Police and Railway Officials Differ
on Traffic Problem Near
MayfioWer.

Removal OF the permanent street car
loading platform In front of the May
flower Hotel, on Connecticut avenue be-
tween L and De Sale streets, was rec
commended today by police of the third
precinct, who say that 1t causes traffic
congestion. It's removal was opposed
by the Washington Railway and Elec-
trio Co. at an open hearing before the
Public Utilities Commission.
Capt. William G.. Stott. commander
OF the third precinct, was called To
the stand by William Leahy, acting as
counsel for the Mayfiower Hotel Cor
poration, which asks that the platform
be removed. Stott said it would be in
the public interest to have 1t removed,
as 1t causes traffic congestion. He said
that taxicabS, however, did park double
In front of the hotel In violation of the
regulation and caused some of the con-
gestion.
Testifying for the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Co., George T.. Dom,
its traffic engineer, said that the plat
form accommodated 400 persons board
ing and alighting from cars between
am. and 10 pm, June 20. He attrib-
uted the congestion largely to illegal
parking OF automobiles between the
platform and the curb bringing with
him list of specific instances in which
he had observed the violations. He
said that on one occasion he had OBJ
served car parked there for two and
three-quarter hours without being dis
t1lrhcd. "a.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Accused of Perjury and Hid
ing Records of Bankrupt
Corporation.
C0NCEALMENT CHARGE
CONTAINS FOUR COUNTS
Other True Bill Alleges He Knew
Rental Debt Item in Liza
bilities False.

Gustave G.. Hertz, former secretary
and treasurer of the bankrupt Con-
solidated Hotel Co., which attempted
to operate the Hamilton Hotel at
Fourteenth and K streets, following the
failure of the Hamilton Hotel Co. In
1925. was indicted today by the grand
jury In two separate indictments charg-
ing perjury and concealment of books
and property of the bankrupt corpora
ton. Hertz was arrested several weeks
ago and taken before United States
Commissioner Needham C. Turnage,
where he was placed on bail of $500
to await hearing on the perjury charge.
The Consolidated Hotel Co. went into
bankruptcy in 1927.
According to the perjury indictment,
Hertz made oath before Margaret H.
Ready, notary public, June 20, 1927,
as to the accuracy of a schedule of
assets and liabilities of the Consolidated
Hotel Co. which was filed in the bank
ruptcy proceedings. Among the LA
bilities was set out an alleged debt to
the Chesapeake Building Co., which
held title to the hotel property, of
$3l9,697.29 said 10 be due as rent Inc
indictment alleges that Hertz we'll knew
that no such rental was due the COM
pany and that the rent due would not
exceed $4,000 and in fact was no more
than $26, 400.
The concealment indictment is In
four counts. The first count alleges
that he concealed from William L.
Browning, receiver for the bankrupt
company, from June 2, 1927, until July
IL, 1927, the company's minute book.
bank deposit book, check book, petit
cash ledger, general ledger and other
property. The second count alleges
that such detention or concealment was
with the intent to violate the general
bankruptcy law. The third count Is
identical with the first except that the
things concealed are denominated
books and records" instead of merely
property" as in the former count. The
same change is noted in the fourth
count, in which Hertz is said to have
knowingly, unlawfully and feloniously"
withheld from the receiver records OF
receipts and disbursements of the bank
rupt with intent to violate the bank
ruptcy laws.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
DRY LAW ENFORCED 200 YEARS 4
IN CENTRAL AMERICAN TOWN
Maya Indians InfIict SO
Lashes for lntoxication
in Village.
Buenos Aires Visitor Tells of
Ancient, LaW-Abiding
Tribe.
BY GRETCHEN SMITH.

The story of small town in Central
America. which for over 200 years has
practiced prohibition, the violation of
which law carries penalty of so lashes,
has been brought to Washington by
Sonora de Soto Hall, wife of Maximo
de Soto Hall, editor Of La Prensa. one
of the leading newspapers of Buenos
Aires. Sonora de Soto Hall was brought
up in Guatemala, where the ancient
tribe OF Maya Indians still flourishes in
parts of the country, unsurpassed as a
law-abiding, hard-working race Of
people.
I'm the little town Of Santa Catarina
Ixtahuacan," said Sonora de Soto Hall,
prohibition has been strictly enforced
for over 200 years. Not a drop of
alcohol is permitted within the pre-
cincts OF the town and so far as ]
know. this law has never been violated.
II resident wants to drink, he may
leave the town and get. what he wants
in the neighboring village, but woe to
him II he dares to return to Santa
Catarina intoxicated. The penalty Is
so lashes In the plaza of the town."
Chief Furnishes Self.
do many persons drink outside OF
the town." Sonora de Soto Hall was
asked. The sonora smiled.
ouiy OIl ouiludy nIgnJS 90 Lne IN
dians want to drink" she replied cal
though very few ever return to Santa
Catarina intoxicated, humorous story
is related there in regard to this sub
ject. The mayor. or chief of the VII
lage, was reading out the names Of
those who had violated the prohibition
law and were to receive the so lashes
as punishment. After calling out the
names of two or three of the village
men, he loudly read his own name. The
old chieftan had come home drunk the
night before and with deepest humility
had inflicted upon himself the punish
ment of the so lasl1es.
There are very few criminals among
the Indians of Santa Catarina," con-
tinued Sonora de Soto Hall. Recently
a visitor, interested in legislation and
punishment of law violators, requested
that he be shown the village jail of
Santa Catarina. When he was taken
there not person was to be seen. Have
you no criminals?' the visitor inquired.
Yes" was the reply, I will show you
one who is a notorious murderer To
his astonishment, the visitor was taken
to some fields, where man was hard
at work. That man. his guide ex-
Evening star., 1929-06-27

planned, murdered man several years
ago He was sentenced to toll the
fields of the murdered mans widow
to work for her and to help take care
of her family until her small son is
grown and is able to do the work of
the family. In addition, he Is an out
cast in the village. He is obliged to
live alone--he cannot see his own fam
lily and no one in the village will
speak to him. but he Is continually
pointed out in scorn as being MUIR
derer and criminal
Night Visitors Barred.
Another curious custom Of the VIII
lage," continued Sonora de Soto Hall,
SIS the prohibition of strangers to re-
main in the town after 8 o'clock at
night. Every stranger is forbidden
under pain of death to remain in the
village after nightfall. Once or twice
foolhardy visitors have attempted to
violate this law, and have met with
the fate which has been threatened
them.
with all these original customs and
laws, the Mayan tribe of Santa Catarina
are a fine, outstanding, hardworking
people. For generations, they have kept
themselves aloof from the rest of the
world, obeying their own laws and the
laws of Christianity, and frowning se-
verely upon intermarriages of their peo-
pie with outsiders. They are an agricul-
tural people. but also make many beau
tiful blankets, and the loveliest silk cos
tunes are dyed and made by the women
Of the tribe"
Sonora de Soto Hall will remain in
Washington for a few days, after which
she and Senior de Soto Hall will leave
for Havana, which will be the begin
ming of a contemplated tour of South
and Central America, which they expect
will carry them over q travelling period
of year and half before returning
to their home in Buenos Aires.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
MRS. D. P. SUMMERS 1
WINS DIVORCE DECREE
Husband Was infatuated with One
Woman After Another,
She Says.

Mrs Dorothy Peake Summers of 1917
Webster street, today was awarded an
interlocutory decree of absolute divorce
against Irving B. Summers by Justice
Wheat In Equity Division 8. The wife'R
bill charged Summers with having de-
serted her on two occasions for other
women.
Summers was described In his wife's
suit as having become infatuated with
one woman after another. 1t was alleged
that In the Summer of 1928 he went
to North Beach, Md, remaining away
several months. A reconciliation was
effected. the court was told. upon
Summers promise to thereafter de-
port himself in considerate manner
toward hsi wife, but the wife averred
this promise was broken In the Spring
of this year. and he again commenced
to associate with women. The wife
charged that while Summers made con-
siderable money, she nevertheless was
deprived of the necessities of life and
lost considerable of her personal saw.
ings as a result of the defendants ex.
travagance.
The two were married in this city,
May 81, 1926, and have no children,
according to the bill
Attorneys Raymond Neudecker and
William G. Ashford appeared on behalf
OF Mrs. Summers.
Evening star., 1929-06-27

It was mostly give and take be-
tween them from the start
AS a puppy Buddy" needed a
counselor; in his dotage Teddy"
needed a guide.
The young police dog learned from
the mature Boston bull. Buddy"
learned not to snap at tin1id old
ladies, not to lick the fresh paint off
table legs or make of with the
neighbor's hens.
When the police dog grew to the
full extent of his 2 years, there came
a time when he could reciprocate.
Teddy" was getting old. The gray
ing Boston bull had begun to bump
into distractions, his eyes were going
bad.
Then Ed p. Hachenpert, who
works for the owner of the two dogs,
M. Berman of 1907 Z street, FASH
ioned harness for Teddy, tied one
end of leash to it and gave the
other end to Teddy's best friend.
After that Teddy had faithful
guide, no matter what excitement
was brewing on the street. But
yesterday the elder dog would not
come from his kennel when Buddy
barked and tligged at the leash,
All day Buddy hung around,
watching men administer to his all
ing friend Last night they carried
Teddy away at the close Of his 13
years.
Since then Buddy has refused to
eat or be consoled, but spends his
time roaming an empty back yard.
half hoping to find his companion
in some hiding place.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
EDUCATORS OFF TODAY
FOR ATLANTA SESSION
Washington Delegation Headed by
Miss Grosvenor, Association
President.

Members of the National Education
Association and of the Education Asso-
ciation of the District of Columbia are
leaving this afternoon, at $40 o'clock,
on the Southern States Special of the
Seaboard Air Line for Atlanta. where
the annual convention of National
Education Association will be held.
The Washington delegation, which is
headed by Miss Edith Louise Grosvenor.
president of District of Columbia Edu-
cation Association, includes Harry Eng
lish, director of the District association,
and Miss j. Anna Tennyson. secretary
of the local education association. Rep
resentatives Of the Bureau of Education
of the Interior Department are accom-
panying the Washington delegates.
DIR. William John Cooper, United
States commissioner of education, will
address the convention at Atlanta, and
expects to return to Washington with
the delegates from this city.
Evening star., 1929-06-27

second, represents the velocity shift at
the distance of the cluster.
This Interpretation would be a re-
markable confirmation of the correla-
ton previously found. 1t would justify
the use of the red shift in spectra of
isolated nebulac as indications of dis
tance and would furnish definite guam
titative data for q discussion of the
curvature of space.
There is still the possibility that the
third nebula really belongs to the
cluster. In that case the significance
OF the correlation would have to be
thoroughly re-examined for the range
in the three velocities, 1900 miles per
second, is much greater than we have
any present reason to expect In single
cluster. Fortunately the 100-inch re-
fiector Is sufficiently powerful to register
the spectra of at least 10 or is other
nebulae in the cluster and when these
are obtained Tin the course of the next
two years) 1t viii be possible to tell
whether N @ g 4665 Is one of their
family or a distant stranger who hap
pens to be In the line of sight.
Regardless of this uncertainty, how
ever, the observations are highly im-
portant in their own right Mr.. Huma-
son has brought phenomena Of new
order to the attention Of physical
science. The data, moreover. concern
very remote, almost unknown, regions
OF space and they appear to offer OBJ
servationai evidence on the structure OF
the universe itself." u 49, nv
Evening star., 1929-06-27
FORMER NOTE TELLER
ACCUSED OF SHORTAGE
Garrett M. Van Hoesen, 90, In
dicted Under 1S
Counts.

Garrett M. Van Hoesen, 90, former
note teller at the Second National Bank,
was indicted today by the grand jury
on charges of embezzlement, larceny
after trust and grand larceny. He is
alleged to have diverted to his own use
$1,813.50, which came into his hands in
the course of his employment between
April 80, 1928, and August 2, 1928.
Five different charges are set out in
the Indictment, three counts being de-
dence of which of the three charges he
may be found guilty. Three additional
counts. making 18 In all, charge in three
different ways the alleged diversion of
the total amount said to have been
taken from the banks funds.
April 30, 1928. he is alleged to have
taken s101.50; June 18, 800; July l8,
$403; July 10, $403 and August 2, $806.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
ENCAMPMENT WILL OPEN
WITH PARADE TONIGHT
Veterans of Foreign Wars Will
March on Pennsylvania Avenue
at $50 This Evening.

The annual encampment of the Vet
Grams OF Foreign Wars will open with a
parade tonight at $50 o'clock, beginning
at Twenty-fifth and M streets. Various
patriotic and fraternal organizations will
participate.
Moving along M street to Twenty-sec-
ond street, theAparade will proceed south
on the latter thoroughfare to Pennsyl-
vania avenue, thence along the avenue
back to NJ and Thirty first streets, north
on Thirty-first to r and west on r
street and to the reviewing stand at
Western High School.
The principal sessions Of the encamp-
ment will be held in the auditorium of
Western High School. Charles H. Reilly.
past department commander, is to be
marshal Of the parade.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
THREE IN HOSPITAL
AFTER PAINT BLAST
More Seriously Affected of
IS Gas Victims May
Be Out Today.

Three Of the Is men, employees of
the Potomac Electric Power Co., who
were partially overcome by gas fumes
in the laboratory of the plant at Four
teenth and @ streets lat yesterday
when a paint-spraying machine ignited
were still confined to Emergency Hos
pital today. Hospital physicians said.
however, the condition of the men has
improved to the extent where they may
possibly leave the institution late today.
The men, s. Moulden, 18 years old,
of Riverdale, Md; Kenneth Hoffstetter,
l8 years old, Of the 800 block of M
street southwest, and L. I. fudge, "a
years old, of the 1900 block of Good
Hope road southeast, were the most
seriously affected by the gas fumes.
The men were taken to Emergency
Hospital by members Of the fire rescue
squad Immediately after the explosion,
which caused considerable excitement,
but did little damage. AS soon as the
machine on which the men were work
ing caught fire employees rushed for
fire extinguishers and the fire engine,
which was stationed across the street
was summoned.
The extent Of the damage was esti-
mated at comparatively few dollars
The IL other men affected by the
escaping gas fumes were sent to their
homes after first aid treatment.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
Army Officer Defeats Death in Race
Through Air to Mothers Bedside Here

An Army airplane won a race with
death from Kelly Field, San Antonio,
Tex. to this city just before dusk
yesterday when Capt. A. z. Easterbrook.
Army Air Corps, landed at Boiling Field
in time to reach the bedside of hts
mother before she died last night at
Walter Reed Hospital.
Capt. Easterbrook received notice
Tuesday morning that his mothers con-
dition was serious. He left Kelly Field
in a plane at ? o'clock the same after
noon. but was forced down by darkness
at Muskogee, Okla. Leaving Milskogee
at O'Clock yesterday morning, the flyer
completed the trip here in l6 hours
flying time.
Other members OF the family made
hurried trips from various parts of the
country to be with Mrs. Easterbrook.
A son. Ernest Easterbrook, a cadet at
the United States Military Academy,
Evening star., 1929-06-27

came from West Point. N. Y: William
Easterbrook, another son. came from
Seattle. Wash, and daughter, Mrs. j.
L. Collins, wife of an Army captain,
came from Fort Benning. Ga. The only
other survivor is son, Wilfred Easter
brook Of Seattle, Wash. Her husband,
Col. Edmund p. Easterbrook, chief of
Army chaplains, was with his wife when
she was taken Ill.
Mrs. Easterbrook was born in England
December II, 1864. For 80 years she
has assisted Col. Easterbrook In his
work as an Army chaplain. She had
planned to accompany him on an In
spection trip to the Pacific Coast. They
were to leave New York yesterday on
the Army transport st. Mihiel The
trip was cancelled when she became III
q week ago.
Funeral services will be held In Ar
lingtofi National Cemetery at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
SAVED FROM GAS DEATH.
Albert c. Day Found Unconscious
by Sister and Man.

Albert Claud Day, "a years old. was
saved from death by gas in the kitchen
Of his home. COS Raleigh place south
east, yesterday by his sister, Miss Made
line Day. and Vernon Cornwell, the lat
ter of the 100 block of Fourth street
northeast, who arrived at the house
and summoned aid, after finding him
unconscious. Gas was escaping from
five open burners when the sister and
Cornwell arrived, according to police.
The stricken man was treated at
Casualty Hospital by Dr. j. Rogers
Young, after which he was taken to
Gallinger for observation.
Evening star., 1929-06-27
REPORTS STORE THEFT.

Sylvan Powdermaker, manager of the
Kay Jewelry Co. store at 407 Seventh
street, today reported to police that
three diamond rings valued at $500 had
been stolen from the store.
Powdermaker furnished police with
description OF the jewelry stolen, but
said he suspected none. Headquarters
Detectives @. j. p, Weber and Howard
sQgie we're assigned 70 the case.