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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
LUNCHEON CLUBS
. BACK REGATTA
0ptimist, Lions and Zonta Or
! CARNATIONS Pledge Support
, for Races.

A hearty Endorsement and pledge Of
support for the Presidents Cup Re-
gatta, to be held here September Is
and IL. has been given by the Optim-
lists Club. the Lions Club and the
Zonta Club, L. Gordon Leech, secre-
tary of the Chesapeake and Potomac
Power Boat Association. declared yes
appointed by the respective clubs to
assist the regatta committee in the ar
rangement of the affair. Active as
sistance also will be given by the club
, committees in the campaign to raise
$4,000, which is estimated to be
necessary to defray the expenses of the
regatta.
The cooperating committee of the
OptimistS Club will consist of Hugh E.
Phillips, Joseph H. Nicholson and
James w. Burch. DR.. George p.
Sharpe is chairman of the committee
the Lions Club. and Mrs.
William Guide is head of the commit
Zee Of the Zonta Club
Commodore w. A. Rogers and Leech
today left Washington to attend the
Gold Cup races at Red Bank, N. j.,
with the object of obtaining entries
Cor the regatta here.
In addition to obtaining entries at
Red Bank for definite races, Rogers
and Leech will seek to promote good
twill toward the local regatta among
Ethe power boat enthusiasts from all
over the country. who will be in at
tendance at the Red Bank regatta.
Commodore Rogers Is chairman or
the general arrangements committee
for the regatta here. and Leech is
Eecretar yof the power boat associa-
ton. under the auspices of which the
regatta is to be held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
SUNDAY TRAVEL PAY
ALLOWED EMPLOYEES
Controller General Makes Ruling
on Status Of Workers Forced
to Leave Sta tions.

Employees of the Government in q
travel status are entitled to per diem
payment In lieu of subsistence for Sun
days and holidays spent away from
their duty station. Controller General
McCarl has held. although absence
from the station be for personal rea-
sons.
Where the question Of leave is not in
volved and the employees duties do not
specify work to be performed on Sun
days and holidays. the employees abb
sence from his station does not inter-
fere with performance Of duties. Nc
Carl held, nor increase the amounts
chargeable against public funds.
The ruling cleared up q point that
has confused disbursing officers of vari-
GUS Government agencies, who have
been uncertain about approving vouch-
ers for per diem payment 10 employees
who leave their temporary duty on Sum-
days.
As q part of the same ruling. Con-
troller General McCarl held that an
employe in q travel status who is re-
called to his headquarters at Washing
ton for q conference at am on .
specified day. before completion of the
official duties for which he was direct
ed to perform travel. may be paid filll
per diem for the day preceding the
conference.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
TWO YOUTHS HELD
IN HIGHWAY THEFTS
baltimore Man Identifies Suspects
as Having Taken Baggage
From Auto.

Two youths, suspected Of having been
implicated in robbing a number OF mo.
florists on the road between here ano
several Pennsylvania cities, were taken
into custody by Washington police To-
day when they called at the Union STA
ton for baggage which, police claimed,
was stolen from q Baltimore business
man. It contained more than $4,000
worth Of jewelry. Il
The arrested men gave their names as
Dennis Walter Kaczmarek, "a. OF Pitts
burgh. Pa, and Howard Lafayette Lindy,
%. Of North Carolina. Both were
lodged In q cell at No. 8 precinct station
house.
Lieut.. of Detectives James A. Manning
came over from Baltimore with Lee Her
yey. president of the General Service
Co. Of Baltimore, who Identified the
youths as having stolen his baggage yes
terday. Hervey said he was. driving
along the road en- route home to Balti-
more when he was hailed by the two
men walking along the highway near
Cumberland, Md.
Hervey told police he picked the men
I'D and drove them as far as Baltimore.
and soon after he let them out Of his
machine, discovered his loss. He at
once notified Baltimore police who, in
turn, communicated with Washington
authorities. giving them q description
of the men, which resulted In their
arrest.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
Moffett Regards
Los Angeles Test
AS Forward Step
Experiment Proved Much
of Military and CONNER
cial Value, Says Chief.

BY the Associated Press.
The experiments carried out by the
dirigible Los Angeles In launching and
recovering airplanes in widair are re-
garded by Rear Admiral william A.
Moffett, chief of the Naval Bureau OF
Aeronautics, as great step toward the
extension Of the usefulness OF alrsnps.
THE experiments, made at the naval
air station at Iakehurst, N. j., this
week with different planes and pilots,
showed that airplanes could hook on
to an apparatus suspended from the
airship while in flight and then unhook
and resume flight.
aside from the military values"
Admiral Moffett said, "the airship can
serve as refueling and repair base for
airplanes. The airplanes can be used
for delivering and discharging mail and
passengers to and from commercial
ships"
The admiral said the achievement
was not q stunt" and its results will
be reflected in the two new rigid air
ships which are being built at the
GOODYEAR Zeppelin factory at Akron,
Ohio, for the Navy"
The new dirigibles, each Of $500, 900
cubic feet capacity, are to carry q small
squadron Of fghting planes, ON q plat
form inside their hulls. Admiral MOI
felt. said q special type OF plane may
be developed to be carried by airships.
He added, however, that airships would
never be in the class Of aircraft car
riers on the water, because of limited
space for repair shops and reserve
suppliess
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
ELDR|DGE' REPLY
SCORED BY CLARK
Omission of Modifying Clause
in Denying FIexibiIity of
Hoover Tu~n Claimed.

Charging Assistant Director of Traf-
fic M. o. Eldridge with conveying an
erroneous impression in his published
statement yesterday reiterating the
claim that the Hoover uniform trafiic
code contains no provision for making
left turn at any other point than to
the right of the center of the street
intersection, Charles P. Clark, general
manager OF the American Automobile
Association today brought forth au-
thorities to support his claim that the
Hoover code left turn rule Is q flexible
one.
Said Mr. Clark: "Mr Eldridge says
the point OF turning Is definite and
fixed and there is nothing flexible about
it,
'In the same paragraph and shortly
preceding the quoted sentence, Mr..
Eldridge saw At to set forth a portion
of section 38b of the Hoover Code,
which, standing alone, would support
his contention, but he refrained from
giving the modifying clause which inn
mediately precedes the part he did
quote. What he omitted is part of the
same sentence he includes in his pre-
pared statement and reads as follows,
"unless otherwise directed by turning
markers"
Mr.. Clark says Mr.. Eldridge omitted
the all-important modifying clause.
Mr.. Eldridge to be close stu
dent of traffic matters, I have no OPP
ton other than to believe that he at
tempted to create a false impression
when he included in his statement q
sentence reading as follows: There Is
no place in the code where it says that
a turn may be made to the leit OF sne
ridge knows that to be literally true,
but the code does say wherever directed
by turning markers.
Mr.. CLARK quotes the Interpretation
of the left-turn provision Of the Hoover
Chamber of Commerce as follows: I'm
making a left turn vehicles shall pass
to the right of the center Of the inter-
section unless otherwise directed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
CUBAN PARCEL POST
MAY BE RESUMED
House Tariff Bill Provides for
Repeal Of Statute Limiting
Importa ton.

Resumption Of parcel post relations
between the United States and Cuba are
likely as o result Of the approval by
the Senate finance committee Republic
ans Of provision in the House tariff
bill repeating the statute limiting i'm
portation Of Cuban cigars to lots Of
more than 5000. The Senate, however,
has yet to approve the repeal.
Cuba allowed her parcel post conven-
ton with the United States to expire
because the privilege of shipping cigars
by parcel post to this country in lots
of less than 5000 was denied her.
Congressional Endorsement OF the pro-
posed repeal, in the opinion Of some
Republican Senators, undoubtedly would
lead to resumption of negotiations be-
tween the two countries for q new
parcel post agreement.
Opposition to the repeal has been led
by the American Federation OF Labor
and Florida cigar manufacturers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
OFFICER GETS MAN
DESPITE DUCK|NC
Wrenn and 200 Pound Col.
ored Prisoner Dragged From
Canal by Fellow Policeman.

Graphing in the waters Of tbe Chesa-
peake IL Ohio Canal. ct the foot Of
Potomac street in Georgetown, Police
man w. C. Wrenn and q 200-pound
colored man. whom he had sought to
arrest, were pulled from the canal last
night by Wrenn's fellow officers from
No. precinct and members Of a Fire
Rescue Squad.
Wrenn got his man. who was later
booked rs Joseph william Hipkins. but
lost the evidence on which he hoped to
convict him of transporting liquor. He
overlook Hopkins after a brisk chase at
the brink Of the canal and the struggle
which ensued plunged them both over
the 10-foot embankment into the water.
where It continued while excited spec
tators called the police and rescue squad.
wrenn said the chase began when he
spied Hipkins proceeding down the
street with a suspicious package under
his arm. wrenn decided to investigate
but just about that time Hopkins de-
cided to run. The chase was on. 1t
covered several blocks and ended at the
foot of Potomac street. The policeman
said the big colored man smashed a jar
he believed contained liquor and threw
a similar jar into the water just as the
former caught up to his quarry, breath
less. The tussle began when the two
met and developed into q water battle
While hostilities continued in the
water, q colored man and woman. who
police say was Major H. Taylor. %
years old, and Muriel Harris. 81, threw
rope to their colored ally 50 he could
effect his rescue Meanwhile, though
neighbors were busy and so were the
telephone wires. and in q few minutes
the screeching sirens of the Fire Rescue
Squad and police reserves from the
seventh precinct warned Hipkins of his
approaching fate.
When the Smoke" had cleared away
Hipkins and his two would-be rescuers
were on the way to q cell in the sew
enth precinct station and Wrenn was
en- route to his house to get some dry
clothes.
The finale saw Hipkins held at the
station house on an assault charge
after the release of his colored
friends" and the return Of Wrenn to
his post, somewhat refreshed by his
sprint and plunge"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
Committee, Meeting Again
Today, to Give Out Nothing
Until Work Is Over.
REPORTERS BARRED
=. FROM INSPECTIONS
Psychopatbic Division Visited, but
Plans as to Wards Are Not
Given Out.

The lid o. secrecy was cismcei down
tighter than ever today ,;pon tire &C.
tivities of the medical committee Of
the Board Of Public Welfare IN con-
nection with It's inquiry into conditions
ct Gallinger Municipal Hospital.
Although the members OF the com
mittee were TO meet at o'clock 20
make their second personally conducted
tour Of the institution. st. YVES said In
their behalf that no information would
be given out to the public until the re-
suits Of the inquiry ere reported 10 the
District Commissioners.
Psychopstbic Division Seen.
The committee Yesterday visited the
psychopathic division of Gallinger.
which has come in for special criticism,
but George S. wilson. director OF the
Board of Public Welfare, declined TO
state what wards would be inspected
today He explained that the commit
tee did not know what 1t would do In
advance of today's meeting.
I'VE don't want any reporters ac-
companying U.S." he added. They
would only prolong matters and we
would never get through" Members Of
the committee. when questioned about
the results OF Yesterdays inspection.
said the committee had determined tn
div,Ilee nothing except what is con-
tanned in the final report 1t is to make
at the request OF the Commissioners.
Judge Sellers Return.
Judge Kathryn 3. Sellers of the Ju-
venile Court. whose criticisms Of Gal
linger precipitated the present inquiry.
will not return to Washington until
September 3.
whether she will be heard by the
medical committee or be invited to put
in writing any information bearing on
her charges is matter not definitely
determined.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
Holds Ticket Should Be AboI-
: ished and Violators Be
Taken to Precincts.
WARRANTS ISSUED DAILY
/ FOR FAILURE TO REPORT
Magistrate Also Attacks Practice
! Of Dealers Requesting Owners
f. to Leave Tags on Cars.

Judge John p. Mcmahon in Traffic
Court this morning criticised abuse of
The privilege extended to motorists by
policemen, who give traffic law violatorS
personal bond tickets to appear in court.
He declared the practice should be abol-
tshed and motorists compelled to go
to police precincts and put up collateral
.If they are not able to do this they
should be locked up. he said
Attaches of the court state that be-
tween so and rs warrants are issued
every day to bring people to court who
have failed to comply with the order on
the tickets given them by officers.
Scores Practice Of Dealers.
The magistrate also attacked the
alleged practice of automobile dealers
in requesting owners Of cars turned in
on new machines to leave their license
plates on the cars so that they can
Use them without getting dealers tags.
In several cases recently the former
owners have been arraigned and fined
for failing to turn in the tags when
the car was sold. IF can do any
thing to break up this practice of the
automobile dealers l will do it," Judge
Mcmahon said.
The magistrate issued a summons for
G. w. Hodges, dealer of 1900 block
Fourteenth street, to appear in court
affar THOMAS E. Mitchell, 1910 MaSSa-
chusettS avenue, had been fined for
failing to turn in his tags.
! Fined on Two Charges.
Artie L. Fisher. 20 years old. 1928 N
street was sentenced to pay $40 or serve
10 days for driving without permit
and SIS or Is days for driving at an
unreasonable speed. Fisher was ar
rested on Cathedral avenue last night
after a. chase of over a mile at a rate
in excess Of so miles an hour by Police
man E. j. La Force of the seventh pre-
Cinct.
A charge of reckless driving against
Mrs. Gertrude B. Rush. 1900 block of
Decatur street. was dismissed by Judge
Mcmahon. Policeman H. F. CornWell
of the tenth precinct made the arrest
after Mrs. Rush had run into the rear
pf car operated by BENJAMIN Keefer
OF New York at a traffic light on Six
teenth street yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
TAXI COMPANY SUED
AS RESULT OF CRASH
Suits Asking for $37, 500 Damages
Are Filed by Three
Plaintiffs.

Suits totaling $37,500 damages were
filed today in the District Supreme
Court against the Black & White
Taxi Co. growing out Of a collision of
one of its cabs with an automobile at
New Jersey avenue and H street August
80, 1928.
Lily L. Fletcher, described as non
compos, sues through her mother, Nam
ME e. Fletcher, for $4,000 damages.
declaring that as the result OF the COLI
lision she now has constant and re-
peated attacks of epilepsy and her nerv-
Gus system has been impaired perma-
nently. She was passenger in the
automobile of her brother-in-la which
figured in the collision.
Julia K. Embrey, another passenger
in the automobile, asks damages OF
$4,000 for injuries alleged to have been
sustained by her when she was thrown
against the door of the machine. Her
husband. william M. Embrey, wants
another $500 for the loss OF services
of his wife and for the expense incident
to her injuries.
Attorneys Leonard ]. Mather and
Samuel r. Beach appear for all three
plaintiffs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
is POLICE PRIVATES
SHIFTED BY PRATT
Shinault Relieved Of Motor Cycle
Duty in Ninth and Assigned
to Second Precinct.

Sixteen changes in assignments OF
privates in the Police Department were
ordered by Maj. Henry G. Pratt. SUPER
intendent, today. Pvt. @. w. Shinault
was relieved from motor cycle duty in
the ninth precinct and assigned to foot
patrol duty in the second precinct.
Motor Cycle Policeman w. e. Davis was
transferred from the eighth to the
ninth precinct. Pvt. D. II. Jones was
transferred from bicycle duty to motor
cycle duty in the eighth precinct. Pvt.
Emlous Barnett was transferred from
foot patrol to bicycle duty in the same
precinct.
The following transfers. all affecting
foot patrolmen, were ordered: j. j.
Hennessy. eight to fifth precinct; r..
II. Taylor, NTH to eighth; j. w. Mussel-
man, eighth to fourth; M. T. Mullen,
fourth to eighth; E. r. Franklin,
eighth to third; G. e. Kelly, third to
eighth; G. B. Mcdonald, eighth to
fourteenth, and F. w. Steele, eighth to
seventh.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
FATHER AND II CHILDREN
LEAVE FARM FOR CITY
Quebec Farmer En- Route to Water
bury, Conn.,, Hopes to Better
Conditions for Family.

n sissiIlon Of saint Christine, Baaot
County, Quebec, with his family. in
GLIDING II children, 10 boys and z girls,
have arrived here en- route to Water
bury. Conn. where they will live.
Bisaillon is leaving his farm after "a
years of toll with the hope OF finding
improved conditions in waterbury. He
intends finding work, for himself and
some of his family in the cotton mills
and other manufacturing plants there.
ct have nothing to lose" said Baisail-
Ion, "for after "a years Of toll on the
farm I have nothing to show for all
NV labors. And, besides, felt that ]
should give my children q chance to
make more Of their lives than I have"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
BOARD @. KS LOAN
FOR 4 CARGO SHIPS
American Export Steamship Com
pany Plans to Operate Vessels
in Foreign Trade.

BY the Associated Press.
The Shipping Board today approved
a loan OF So, 900, 900 to the American
Export Steamship Co. OF New York for
the construction Of four new cargo YES
sells to operate in the North Atlantic
Mediterranean-Black Sea trade.
The action was taken after the Inter
departmental Board had approved the
loan in so far as mail-carrying contracts
were concerned.
The company applied for the loan
shortly after the enactment of the 1923
merchant marine act, but pending ap
prevail by the Interdepartmental Board
the Shipping Board took no action until
notified that the former had no objec-
ton.
The Export Co. took over q line for
merly operated by the Merchant Fleet
Corporation, consisting Of about Is YES
sells in the acknowledgements
trade.
The loan represents three-fourths Of
the total estimated costs of the four
ships.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
$4,000 Bequeathed
Charities i'm Will
Of Mary G.. Kelly

Beouests totaling $4,000 are
made to a number of charitable
institutions and churches by the
terms OF the will Of Mary G.
Kelly. school teacher, known to
scores Of prominent Washing
tonians, who died August Is. She
directs the American Security &,
Trust Co., her executor. to con-
vert her entire estate into cash,
and, after paying the specific
requests, to surrender the bal
ance TO Annabel Hinderliter, an
attorney of the United States
Veterans Bureau.
Among the requests are $4,000
to Little Sisters of the Poor.
$4,000 to Catholic Home for the
Aged, $4,000 to st. AIMS Infant
Asylum, $4,000 to Friendship
House, $4,000 to st. Vincent's
Female Orphan Asylum, $4,000 to
Salvation Army, $4,000 to Column
bis. Polytechnic School for the
Blind, $4,000 to Children's Hos
pital, $1,000 to st. Matthew's
Catholic Church. $1,000 to Mrs.
William H. Gsrrigan, Fort Smith,
Ark; $4,000 each to Eilene
Moran, Blanche J. Bimont, both
Of this city, and Anne Henderson
OF New York.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
Warrant Accusing Her of
Larceny After Trust Is
Filed in District.
DISAPPEARED FOUR DAYS
BEFORE WEDDING DATE
Mother Of North Carolina Miss De.
clares Brentwood Girl Had
Mssqueraded as Youth. =.

A warrant charging larceny after
trust has been sworn out here for Mis-.
wyone Stevens. 81 years old, Of 36Ot
Baker street. Brentwood. Md. who left
home August IL in hired automobile
four days before she was to have mar.
ried Charles Bolton, % years old, OF
New York City. to whom she had beer
engaged for several years.
The warrant was obtained Saturday
by David GlaSsman, manager Of Glass.
mans Car Co. at 2i01 Four.
teenth street. several days after Miss
Stevens. attired in a cap and knickers
had rented car on the representation
garage employees say, that she would be
back with it in a few hours.
Word from Salisbury. N. c., is to the
effect that Miss Stevens is visiting. a
girl there whom she had met last
Spring while walking on F street down
town. The girls parents, Mr.. and Mrs
L. w. Stevens, the former an employe
Of the District repair shop, have asked
police to aid in the search for their
daughter.
Auto Is Aba nd0ned There.
The automobile was abandoned in
the North Carolina city. Mr.. GlaSsmar
wss informed by the girls father. and
the garage sent man to North Caro-
lima yesterday to return the machine.
In addition to a letter and Telegram
from her daughter, in which the CIR
said she was tired of life" Mrs
Stevens has been in telephone COM
with the mother OF the
North Carolina girl, a Mrs. Rodinhour
Mrs. Stevens was told that her daugh.
ter had represented herself to tn,
Southern girl. Miss Edith Inez Rodin
hour. as a boy, and that she had visited
in the Rodinhour home under thi.
Miss Rodinhour informed
the girls parents today that she hat
received post card from her from
Wilmington, N. C.
Tired Of Life" Letter Says.
The last word from the missing girl
was a telegram from Greensboro, which
indicated that she was contemplating
taking q train home A previous let
ter from Salibury had asked the girl.
mother Ito try and remember me il
fate ever brings us together again.
Miss Stevens went on to say that "the
world holds nothing for me" and that
she was tired of life"
The flancee of the missing girl has
been here since q few days after she
left home, assisting her parents with
the search. The girl ran away en- sew
eral previous occasions, once reaching
Buffalo, N. Y, before word was received
from her, according to the father.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
SCHOOLS THROWN OPEN
TO INDIAN CHILDREN
Service Issues Order Saying At
tendance Shall Be Arranged
Where Convenient.

By the Associated Press. s.
The Indian Service today issued an
order saying that wherever Indian chill
dren can ind places In public schools
they are to attend such schools instead
Of being enrolled in institutions created
especially for Indian education.
The Indian Service in issuing the
order declared that q number OF States
now are ready to assume the response
bility of educating the Indians. In
some States where school funds are
not large and where the Indian Is not
q taxpayer the Federal Government will
be asked to pay buttons for Indian
pupils.
The Secretary Of the Interior, under
the law, is authorized to make and en-
force such rules and regulations as may
be necessary to secure the enrolment
and regular attendance Of Indian chill
dren who are wards OF the Govern
ment in schools maintained for their
benefit or in public schools.