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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
STOCK OWNERSHIP
HEARING PUT Off
Washington Gas Light Co.
Sale Will Be Discussed
Thursday.

The statement of ownership of the
Washington Gas Light Co., whose stock
was recently bought by Dana Pearson,
a New York broker, and others, has
been postponed until Thursday, when
representatives of the purchasers will
confer with Corporation Counsel VIII
liam w. Bride in his Office at $50 am.
Mr.. Bride was instructed by the Pub
lie Utilities Commission to discover II
any violation of the law forbidding ac-
QUESTION of stock in local utilities by
foreign holding corporations had been
committed in the recent transfer Of the
gas company stock He has been in
communication with Mr.. Parsons at
torneys for more than two weeks, but
the information has not been forthcom-
ing.
Mr.. Bride said today that he re-
ceived telephone communication from
the attorney yesterday afternoon def
nitely promising the statement Thurs
day morning Mr. Bride said that no
promise was entered TO make the state
ment under oath, but that he would not
consider accepting 1t otherwise. If the
statement under oath should not be
would ask the Department Of Justice to
investigate the entire transaction. This
request has already been made, but the
investigation has been suspended at Mr.
Brides request in an effort to save the
expense of an investigation, should the
information sought be Forthcoming
without one.
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Gems, Hidden in Loving Cup,
Included Ring Valued
at $500.
HUSBAND WAS WITNESS
IN GREEN GABLES DEATH
Sneak Thieves and Burglars Arc
Active, With Half Dozen Other
Robberies Reported.

Mrs. Anna Behrens, wife of Louis
Behrens, known also as John Bunny"
in local sporting circles, was robbed of
jewelry valued at $6,25o, most Of which
was concealed in silver loving cup,
either last night or early this morning
when her apartment at 1882 S street
was burglarized, she reported to the
police today.
Behrens was one of the principal
witnesses in the Green Gables road
house shooting about four months ago,
in which Charles Wesley Poutra, who
lived in the same apartment building
with the Berhens, was killed and Joe
House of the 300 block of Pennsylvania
avenue was seriously wounded. Behrens,
who was struck on the head during the
alteration at the Prince Georges
County, Md, resort. was held for sew
eral days by county authorities as
material witness.
Found Apartment Disordered.
Mrs. Behrens told Policeman A. r.
Davis of the third precinct, who in
vestigated the burglary, that she left
her apartment on the third floor of the
building about 6 O'Clock last evening
ing. She found it disordered, and
search revealed that her jewelry was
gone. She Immediately telephoned the
police.
The articles stolen included a plat
mum mounted ring set with 16 small
diamonds, valued at $2,500; a platinum
bracelet studded with IS diamonds and
SapphireS, valued at 81 500: a platinum
mounted ring set with six diamonds,
fO he
valued at $500; a solitaire ring set with
four small diamonds, valued at $500,
and diamond wedding ring, valued at
$3.50.
In making her report to the police.
Mrs. BehrenS authorized a reward Of
$500 for the return of the jewelry.
$40 Taken From Desk.
Police today were investigating half
a dozen petty robberies reported this
morning.
Mrs. Laura E. Warren, 1900 Lamont
street, asked police to recover $40 stolen
yesterday from her desk in the Invest
ment Building.
Theft of a watch and automobile tire
gauge, valued at $50 from a garage
in the rear of 2018 I street yesterday
was reported by Herbert M. Hall, $500
Macomb street.
Valuable papers and SIS in cash were
stolen from Raymond Torillo last night.
He kept the property in a metal cash
box at his home. 4601 Fourteenth
street.
S216 in Apparel Is Stolen.
Using a duplicate key, sneak thief
last night burglarized the apartment OF
Oliver P. Johnston, BIT Third street
southeast, of wearing apparel valued
at S216.
Mrs. Charlotte Moss of Orange, N. j.,
complained that her handbag, contain
ing SIS. was snatched by colored man
yesterday afternoon at Thirteenth street
and Massachusetts, avenue.
Fingerprints may lead to the fdenti.
fication of the person who entered tint
apartment of Mrs. Ida Herman, 1929
Fourteenth street, with duplicate key,
yesterday and took $500 ring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
WASHINGTON DRUGGIST HOLDS
SCOTTISH TITLES LIGHTLY
Duke of Roxburg and Lord
of Sessford Is Native
of Capital.
DR.. H. w. Sessford Inherits
Rank of Nobility Through
Death of Brother.

Titles mean little in this day and
time. in the opinion of DR.. Harry w.
Sessford, 141o M street, druggist, who
has inherited both the titles of Duke
of Roxburg' and Lord of SeSsford, -
handed down through generations from
famous Scottish nobility.
DR.. Sessford goes about his business
daily as druggist in a downtown store
and even was somewhat reluctant to
discuss the titles he has inherited, as
the last surviving male Sessford.
The titles were inherited from his
brother, the late DR.. Joseph s. F..
Sessford, who died here last September.
A family Bible, tucked away on a
shelf shows the line of descent through
which the title was inherited.
A native of this city, DR.. Sessford was
educated in local schools and was grad
uated in pharmacy from George Wash
ington University in 1886. He also took
a special course in medicine at George
town. He is a director of the George
Washington Alumni Association.
He is widely known among members
of local organizations, being a member
Of the Association of Oldest Inhabitant:
of the District of Columbia, the Dis
trict of Columbia Society of Natives
the Veteran Druggist Association of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

morning, Miss Louise De Mari, Is, of
Mount Rainier, Md. stepped into the
path of a. second machine and was
slightly injured.
The nishap was the last of a series
of traffic accidents beginning last night
and continuing through the early morn
ing hours in which II persons, includ-
ing Motor Cycle Policeman d. z. CALI
more of the second precinct, who gained
fame last Summer by stopping former
Representative Blanton for speeding,
were injured None was seriously hurt.
The Fire Department rescue squad
was summoned to remove Miss De
Mari to Emergency Hospital. The ap-
tomobile which struck her. according
to the report at the first precinct, was
operated by Miss Jean LeVere, % years
old, of 1006 l. street.
Baltimore in Collision.
Baltimore was hurt when he colhded
with an automobile operated by Bar
nard Bostnick, 30, of 1912 Seventh
street southwest, while he was chasing
a speeder. The fugitive automobile
escaped. The accident occurred last
night at Fourth and o streets.
Bostnick was arrested on charges of
reckless driving and failing to change
the address on his permit. He was re-
leased under bond of $102 for his ap-
pearance in Traffic Court this morn
ing. Baltimore was treated for bruises
and slight decorations to his legs and
body.
Mrs Helen Olivia Merritt, of 26 West
Kensington street, Kensington, Md,
was treated at Emergency Hospital last
night for a bruised foot and shock
suffered when run down at Thirteenfs
and A streets by an automobile driven
by Lewis Wood, 40, of Wardman Park
Hotel. Mrs. Merit is said to have told
police the accident was due to her own
negligence and the driver was not al
! fault
Four Children Among the Injured.
Others slightly injured in accidents
included Charles Cliggman, 8 years old
of $500 street; Gordon Gary, Is years
| old, of 403 Carroll avenue; Carrie vii.
son, colored, 3 years old, Of $40 s
street; Thomas Butler, colored, IA years
old, of TAO Nineteenth street northeast
and Mabel Phillips, colored, 80 years
old.
Beginning tomorrow, Lieut.. 3. A
Lamb Of the Traffic Bureau, will de-
liver lectures on traffic enforcement
and how to give trafIic signals at each
of the IA police precincts. Lieut.. Lamt
win visit each precinct twice and III:
lectures will be delivered at the roll
Ills at o'clock In the morning apc
;cck in the afternoon.
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HAMMOND is APPOINTED
COLONEL IN RESERVES
Former Militia Bureau Chief to Be
Assigned to Duty When
Services Are Required.

Greed C. Hammond of Oregon, for
mer chief of the Militia Bureau, War
Department, with the rank Of major
general in the Army, has accepted an
appointment as a colonel of infantry in
the Reserve Corps of the Army, and will
be assigned to duty whenever his serv-
ices are required. His appointment Is
credited to the District Of Columbia,
where he now resides.
He retired to civilian status on COM
pletion of the tour of duty at the War
Department.
other residents of the District COM
miSsioned in the Reserve Corps of the
Army today are William F. Rosenbaum,
washington Hebrew Congregation, a.
first lieutenant and chaplain; Frederick
X. Hail. 2809 Connecticut avenue, as a
second lieutenant and specialist; Roy
w. Nelson, 1923 r street, as a second
lieutenant in the finance department,
and Merrill D. Burnside, 14lS1Newton
street northeast, as second lieutenant
in the Air Corps. u
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
TRAFFIC LAW VI0LAT0R
FACES LIQUOR CHARGES

Failure of Harry Friedman, 80 years
old, of Baltimore, to pull over to the
curb" yesterday afternoon led to ms
arrest on two charges Of violation OF
the LIQUOR laws and two others for fall
ure to observe traffic regulations.
Charges of transportation and pos
session were placed against Friedman
when search disclosed 16 five-gallon
Jars of alleged alcohol in his automo-
bile. Additional charges OF reckless
driving and failing to exhibit his drivers
permit also we're made. Bond OF $4,000
was given for his appearance in court
today.
Policemen Watson Salkeld, jr, and
Thomas r. Heide of the twelfth pre-
cinct. who arrested Friedman, reported
they hailed him in the shopping district
and ordered him to drive up 70 tne
curb for violating a traffic regulation,
Eut instead of complying he continued
% drive on until oyertaken by the
policemen at Third and K streets. His
suspicious actions led to the search, II
= p stated.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
D. C. COURT ADOPTS
FLAT FILING SYSTEM

Upsetting a practice Of more than Sc
years, the justices of the District SUI
preme Court have directed Frank E
Cunningham, clerk of the court, to
adopt the f1at-filing system for all court
papers, beginning August l.. The pur-
pose of the new system is to do away
with the bulky folded papers and ex-
hibits and to adopt a uniformity In
size OF all legal documents. The order
does not apply to papers filed In the
Probate Court.
After August the clerk is authorized
to refuse any document offered for i'll
ing which is not on white legal cap
paper inches wide and Is inches
long, unfolded, and without backing
IF there be more than one sheet, they
shall be fastened only at the top. On
the front page is to be shown the name
of the cause and the nature OF the
pleading.
The order of the General Term chang
ing the method of filing reads:
TT is ordered that paragraph Of
law rule IA be and the same hereby Is
amended so as to read as follows:
"The initial pleading, motion or paper
filed by plaintiff. defendant or an IN
teryenor, whether resident or non.
resident, shall have added to the usua
caption thereon the name and street
post Ottlce ADDRESS OF LIle parry VI
whose behalf the same is filed. The
address so stated shall be deemed con-
elusive of the fact in that regard II
the cause in which filed until another
and different written designation o.
address shall be filed in the cause
which later address shall then be glver
like conclusive effect.
Every pleading, motion or papel
from the beginning to the end OF TN,
cause offered for filing shall shov
in the caption thereof the number ant
title of the cause, including. the di
vision of the court in which filed. Tn
name and street post office address o
the attorney offering the same TO
filing shall appear after his signature
Ali papers rendered to the clerk TO
filing Shall be on opaque white lega
cap paper approximately 8 inches wild
bv i3 inches long, unfolded: wlthou
backing sheets ore covers. and con
sisting of more than one sheet shall
be fastened at the top.
"Pleadings, motions or papers no
conforming to the above requirement.
shall not be accepted for filing or filed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
.ALDR|DGE HOLDS
|. TO ACCIDENT STORY
Maintains Mcdonald Was
Shot When Brother Tried
to Take Gun From Hand.

Still held incommunicado in his cell
at the third precinct station house. AL
fred Scott Aldridge, 20-year-old colored
youth arrested Sunday in connection
with the serious wounding of Policeman
Harold j. Mcdonald of the third pre-
cinct at Seventeenth and @ streets Fri
day morning, stoutly maintained today
that he shot the policeman accidentally
when his brother, Albert, attempted to
grab a gun from his hand. Mcdonald
who was reported resting comfortably at
Emergency Hospital and is believed by
physicians to be on the road to recovery
shot and fatally wounded the prisoners
brother, Albert, before he slumped, I'M
conscious. to the ground after a gun
battle with the desperadoeS at the G
street corner.
Broke Down Under Grilling.
The arrested man had steadfastly de-
MED having fired the shot which injured
Mcdonald until yesterday, when, after
several hours grilling by Lieut.. Edward
j. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad
he admitted firing the shot accidentally
Aldridge had previously maintained that
while he was present at the scene of the
shooting, his dead brother, Albert, had
fired the shot that felled the policeman
Police got onto the trail of Aldridge
Sunday afternoon after a visit to his
rooning house at 502 Twenty-second
street, where two guns were found. An
other visit to the room of his brother al
2037 L street netted recovery OF four
guns, one a .38-caliber automatic with
four empty magazines. An exploded
shell found near the spot where Nc
Donald was shot fitted one OF the empty
chambers in the recovered' automatic.
When confronted with the automatic
and the exploded shell Aldridge broke
down and confessed having shot the po-
iceman.
Mcdonald was shot as he followed
the two Aldridges out of his automobile
early Friday morning preparatory to
taking the men to a police box after
having placed them under arrest on
suspicion of having robbed Kenners
Pharmacy at Seventeenth and Q streets
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
PENNSYLVANIA is HELD
ON MANN ACT CHARGE

Edward Leroy Bricker, 20 years old
who was a clerk in a store in Carlisle,
Pa, and Mrs. Elsie Agnes Shank, 20
years old, mother of tive children and
the wife of Clyde A. Shank, a
Carlisle electrician, were picked up here
this morning by Detectives William j.
Du Busky and William A. Messer
Bricker was arrested and charged with
violation of the Mann act.
The prisoner was taken to Police
Court, where he entered a plea OF
guilty to the charge and was held fol
the action of the grand jury. Clyde
Shank came here and Interested the
detectives in his search for his wife
telling of her having left home July 4
It developed that Bricker had per-
suaded the young woman to come here
with him.
Bond was fixed for the appearance
of Bricker at 81 500. Mrs. Shank re-
turned to Carlisle today with her hus-
band, having been fully forgiven FOL
leaving home with Bricker.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
COMMISSIONERS AWARD
THREE SEWER CONTRACTS
Logan Pingree Company and Will
liam Kelly, Jr., Successful Bid
ders for Construction.

The District Commissioners today
awarded three contracts for sewer con-
Struction as follows:
To the Logan Pingree Co., z street
and Twenty-fifth place, service sewer,
northeast, $2,066.61; Thirty-f1rst street
service sewer, between Military road and
Nebraska avenue, 81 ,864.62.
To William Kelly, jr., South Dakota
avenue sanitary and stormwater sewers
in Myrtle avenue, northeast, between
Central and South Dakota avenues.
$6,894.20.
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S1,3&,371 ADDED
TOD.C. COFFERSBY
TAX ON GASOLINE
Mai. Donovan's Figures Show
Fund Has Mounted ConsiS-
tentIy During Five Years.
REACHES HIGHEST PEAK
IN LAST FISCAL YEAR
Increased Consumption of Gasoline,
Officials Believe, Is Due to
Increase in Cars.

Revenues derived from the 2-cent tax
on gasoline showed an unprecedented
increase in the fiscal year ended June
80, according to a report submitted to-
DAY to Maj. Daniel j. Donovan, District
auditor and budget officer, by Chatham
M. Towers, collector of taxes.
The motor fuel tax, the report
showed, added $1,336,371 to the Golfers
of the District, or $183,93o more than
in the preceding year. The previous
largest increase was recorded in the
1926 fiscal year, when the gasoline tax
revenues exceeded those of 1925 by
$162,298.
Tax Mounts Consistently.
Figures compiled by Maj. Donovan
show that the gasoline tax fund has
mounted consistently in the five years
it has been collected. The total for the
1925 fiscal year, the first year In which
the tax was imposed amounted to
$778,651. In 1926 the amount jumped
to $94l 949, and the following year 1t
passed the 100000 mark, showing a
total of Sl,057,850. In the 1928 fiscal
year the tax produced 81, 142, AL, reach
ing its new high peak in the last fiscal
year just closed.
The increased consumption of gaso-
line District officials believe is due pri-
marily to the evergrowing number OF
automobiles in operation. Records in
the office of Wade H. CoombS, super
intendent of licenses show an increased
registration of $500 motor vehicles
since the first year of the gasoline tax.
Registration Increases.
According to the records of MI
Coombs, 169 $50 vehicles have been reg
istered thus far for the 1929 calendar
year, while the total for the entire IL
months of 1928 was 146, 143. The total
registration in 1927 was 132,500 and in
the preceding year 1t was 1913 APT. In
1925, the initial year of the gasoline tax,
114,217 vehicles were registered.
Since the gasoline tax fund, which Is
used for highway maintenance and i'm
provements has provided increased reve-
nueS for these purposes, the mounting
tax also is reflected in the assessments
against AUDITING property owners for
street Improvements.
The assessments represent one-half
of the cost to a width of 40 feet, the
balance being paid by the District.
The assessments, according to Audi
tor Donovans records, increased from
S22,468 in 1925, when the gasoline tax
was first collected, to $339,913 in the
last fiscal year. In the 1926 fiscal year
the assessments amounted to 1892,
in the following year $193,483 and In
1928 s260,390.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

District of Columbia and the Military
Service Legion of the District He also
is a member of the Harmony Lodge OF
MaSonS.
Active in the old District of Column
bia National Guard, DR.. Sessford belong
ed to the staff of the old I'd Battalion.
D. C. National Guard, and due to his
extensive service in military ranks, was
elected an honorary member of the old
National Fencibles.
DR.. Sessford is the son of the late
Dr. Joseph S. SesSford, who was con-
nected with the old National Intelli-
gencer, publication, famous here many
years ago. The family came to the Dis
trict in 1920.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
CITY ALTERS RULE
TO HELP LOADING
Commissioners Answer Ap-
peal of Merchants for
Street Privilege.

The amendment to the traffic regu-
lations recommended by the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association, allow
ing double parking in certain cases
without the necessity of having the
parked vehicle attended, was adopted
by the District Commissioners today
The effect of 1t is to allow double park
ing for the purpose of unloading goods
and passengers, provided the vehicle
parked does not impede trafnc. The
amended regulation reads:
Traffic Not to Be Blocked.
can vehicles must park within six
inches of the curb where there is space
available, and if no space is available
within reasonable distance a pas
senger vehicle may stop parallel and as
near as practicable to parked vehicles
only long enough to actually take on
or let of passengers, and CONNER
cial vehicle while actually engaged IN
loading or unloading merchandise, pro.
vided that such vehicle while so parked
will not unreasonably impede or in
terfere with traffic"
Old Rule Strict.
The old regulation after the words "a
reasonable distance" read:
"A vehicle may stop parallel and as
near as practicable to parked vehicles
only long enough to actually take on OF
let of passengers or to load or unload
merchandise, If said vehicle is constant
ly attended by licensed operator"
In forwarding the regulation to the
Commissioners for adoption, Trafnc d.
rector William H. Harland wrote:
properly handling traffic is that OF
double parking of commercial vehicles,
as well as passenger automobiles. How.
ever, If business is to be transacted and
merchants are to make deliveries OF
their goods, believe that the regula-
ton should be so modified as to permit
double parking where such parking will
not seriously impede or interfere with
traffic"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
STREET CLEANERS FIGHT

A fight between two colored street
cleaners as to who should sweep UP q
pile Of debris at New York avenue and
Eighteenth street yesterday landed one
OF them in Emergency Hospital and
the other In q cell at the third precinct.
Willie Robinson, 40 years old, Of No.
z Hanover street, who got the worst OF
the argument, did not recover con-
SERIOUSNESS for several hours after arriv-
ting at the hospital. He Is said to be
suffering from decorations to his face
and head. The man under arrest g
Louis williams, "a years old, OF 6l7
T street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09

The Trafic Bureau will not issue
learners permits to persons learning to
drive automobiles on Saturdays through
out the remainder of the Summer sea-
son, it was announced today by Inspec-
tor e. w. Brown in charge of the bu-
reau.
Since the beginning Of the half
Saturday holidays, Inspector Brown
said, so many applicants for both
drivers and tkarner's permits have been
coming to the bureau on these days that
It has been physically impossible to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Learners Permit Applicants Banned !.
On Saturdays by Traffic Bureau Head

examine all Of them. Approximately 100
applicants were turned away last Sat
urday, after waiting considerable time
for an examination.
Inspector Brown believes If the appli-
cants for learners permits are kept
away on Saturdays 1t may be possible
for the bureau to examine those who
apply for regular permits. Learners
permits are issued to persons learning
to drive. After they qualify in the driv-
il.g test and pass the examination on
the traffic regulations regular permits
re issued.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-09
Lawyer Is Honored.

MARTINSBURG, w. Va. July (Spe-
ciaD Attorney Clarence E. Martin,
thi; city, has been made a Knight of
st. Gregory, by order of the Vatican.
The honor was suggested through the
offices of the president of Catholic Uni
versity, Washington, for which Mr..
Martin Is counsel, and In recognition Of
his professional services to that insti-
tuition
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Files Bankruptcy Petition.

Benjamin weitzman, 931 louisiana
avenue, has filed a petition in volun-
tary bankruptcy. He lists his debts as
S4,475.63 and estimates his assets at
$2,397.45. He is represented by Attor-
ney Samuel v. Gusack.