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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
FATHER Is ACCUSED
IN DEATH OF SON
Caroline County Farmer Charged
With Setting Fatal Blaze
in Barn.
Special Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, July "a
Formal charges of arson have been
placed against G. M. Farmer of Caro-
line County, alleged to have been re-
sponsible for q 5000 IRE near Port
Royal on the night Of May 80, in which
his 11-year-old son, Stephen, received
burns from which he died few hours
later. The arrest was made on o war
rant sworn out by F. s. Perry Of Wash
ington, owner Of the farm near Port
Tobacco Bay where the elder Farmer
worked.
The accused Is now in Bowling Green
Jail, but, until his arrest, was under
surveillance Of authorities at his home
where he was treated for severe burns
sustained when he attempted to rescue
his son from the flames.
Knowing that the Perry family was
in Washington, Farmer Is said to have
confessed prompting his son to enter
the barn through q small window to
steal gasoline. An explosion Of the oil
caused by q lighted lantern, set the
boys clothing and building afire. The
father managed to remove the boy
from the blazing harm, bat not before
Aa iaAA hesm eRttasANV buEneM
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
WOMEN ARRESTED
IN APARTMENT RAID
Small Quantity of Liquor OBJ
tanned in Columbia Road
Building.

Executing two warrants obtained for
an apartment which had been under
police observation. members of the vice
squad arrested three women and report
ed Selling small quantity of liquor in
raid at the Carlisle Courts, 140l CO.
lumbia road, shortly before last mid
night.
Detective Floyd A. Truscott suffered
severe cuts of the left hand when Mrs
Marie Inwalls, % years old, slammed
the door on the officers when they
knocked for admission, he reported
Truscott threw up his hand to protect
his face, and flying glass from the door
panel cut his hand. The officer later
applied for treatment at Garfield Hos
pital and was ordered to the police
clinic today.
The door panel shattered. it was an
easy matter for the police to release the
lock on the inside and enter Mrs. In
walls was arrested and charged with
illegal possession of whisky, Mrs Mar
garet williams, % years old, was
charged with operating a disorderly
house and illegal possession of whisky,
and Mrs. Sally Davis, "a years old, was
charged with sale and possession of
liquor. They were booked at the first
precinct station and transferred to the
WOmenS Bureau TO De held Tor ar
raignment in Police Court today.
A 29-year-old clerk was taken into
custody for investigation when found
in the suite of rooms occupied by the
women, but was released soon afterward
by order of Sergt. John r. Leach, COM
mander of the vice squad, after a check
had been made of his story.
PvtS. James A. Mostyn and c. L.
Van Meter accompanied Sergt. Leach
and Truscott on the raid.
The same squad raided an alleged
colored bar room and numbers game
headquarters In the 1900 block of Sew
enth street yesterday afternoon and ar
rested Arthur Dickerson, colored, 50
years old, on charges of sale and pos
session Of whisky and permitting gam
ing.
Police said they found q bar in op-
Grafton with Is colored customers
standing at the rail. The latter were
released after their names were OBJ
tanned as witnesses.
Dickerson, it was said by police, de-
stroyed a quantity of whisky when the
police entered, but one pint was saved
by the officers for evidence. Gambling
slips were also reported seized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
C. N. T. C. WILL STAGE
ANNUAL TRACK MEET
Series Of Encampment Events
Will Take Place al
Fort Myer.

With the staging of the third annual
Parents day track and field meet at
Fort Myer Monday, the Cavalry con-
tingent"o of the Citizens Military Train
ing Camp will begin a series of en-
campment events.
The track meet. which will be held
on the polo field. will bring several
hundred Citizen" cavalrymen into
competition. Medals and trophies viii
be awarded winning contestants.
On Tuesday evening at o'clock the
student Cavalry squadron will stage a
dismounted drill, with various civic
clubs Of Washington as guests. Col.
Harry N. Cootes, Sd, Cavalry, COM
mandant of the Summer training camp,
will direct. the maneuvers.
On Wednesday mourning, as the con-
GLIDING encampment feature of the
week. the squadron, before departing
for the Camp Simms Rifle Range, will
pass in review before Henry L. Slim
son, Secretary of State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
FRIENDS AID GOLD STAR MOTHER
STRANDED HERE TWO DAYS
Return Ticket NulIed After
Her Pilgrimage to
France.
misunderstanding With U. S.
Blamed by Mrs. Allen,
California.

Stranded in Washington for two days
after visit to the Shell-torn battle
fields of France, a Gold Star mother
from California today obtained trans
portation home
The mother, Mrs. Lena Irwin Allen of
Beverly Hills, lost possession of a return
railroad ticket through a misunder-
standing with War Department officials
She explained she went abroad on a
Government-f1nance pilgrimage with
numerous other mothers, who were de-
pr1ved OF sons in the World War.
Mrs. Allen left the main party in
Paris so she might make a more ex-
tended tour of Europe. She said she
agreed to forfeit the return passage to
the United States, but was told she
would be permitted to retain a return
ticket from New York to California.
After exhausting all the funds she pos
seSsed to obtain passage, Mrs. Allen
was required by War Department off,
Gals to relinquish the railroad ticket
On coming to Washington and ap-
pealing to War Department officials,
Mrs. Allen was told the situation was
unfortunate. but there was nothing the
Government could do about the matter.
The action of the New York subordi-
nate, who recalled the return ticket,
was upheld.
Col. w. r. Gibson, chief of the admin
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
NEW DOWNTOWN
CENTER MARKET IS
VIRTUALLY ASSURED
Company Negotiates With
New York Capital and Pro-
posaI Laid Before Dealers.
BUILDING PLANNED
NEAR nth AND G
Another Movement Favors Loca-
tion Between 9th and 10th and
New York and I.

A new Center Market in the down.
town retail area today became virtually
assured.
With the old Center Market, which
has been operated for years by the
Government, scheduled by law to be
vacated by next January /, the Down.
town Market Co. has concluded nego-
tiationS with a firm in New York City
to finance the new project and is now
putting the proposal up to the dealers
of Center Market to fulfill their part
of the agreement.
Previous pledges on the part of the
dealers of Center Market have been
duly recorded, officials of the Down.
town Market Co. say, and they antic-
ipate early conclusion of the necessary
contracts with dealers. The company
is officered by a committee of 10 deal
ers in Center Market.
Agree i'm Principle.
The project is to be financed by
George w. Loft and associates sof New
York City, 1t was announced by Harvey
D. Jacobs and Walter M. Bastian, coun-
sci for the Downtown Market Co. A
contract has been drawn between the
New York interests and the Downtown
Market Co. and has been agreed TO in
principle.
The plan Is to purchase q block of
land within a radius of five blocks
from the intersection of Eleventh and
@ streets" and erect thereon a building
containing adequate reasonable facili-
ties as public market designed to &C
comodate the business of the dealers
in Center Market or their successors"
Leases for Five Years,
The Downtown Market Co. has agreed
to procure leases for a term of i've
years in the new building from rs per
cent of the dealers in present Center
Market at rental rates of not more than
S45 per month for section Of an I'M
refrigerated stand and $50 per month
for section of refrigerated stand.
Each of the dealers Is also to deposit a
sum of at least six months rental as
security in the case. This six months
rent is to be paid in escrow In some
bank or trust company in this city, to
be known as the trustee, but the rent
is to be credited to the last six months
of the lease
Meanwhile another movement to
build a center market was reported un-
der way. John Thorne of New York
said his corporation was Assembling"
land In the square bounded by Ninth
and Tenth, New York avenue and I
street for a center market, and as soon
as all land could be acquired would pro-
coed to build new center market.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
MACNEIL is ENDORSED
FOR D. C. LEGION HEAD
o'Brien Favored for Vice Com
mander at Meeting Of Co.'S
tello POST

DR.. B. O. MacNeil of. quentin Roose-
welt Post, American Legion, was in
dorsed for the office Of department COM
mander, District of Columbia Depart
ment of the American Legion, by the
Costello Post. meeting last night Rich
ard A. O'Brien of Costello Post was in
dorsed for senior vice commander of
the department. The department on
GERS are to be elected at the annual con-
ventions Of the department In Western
High School, August Is, IA and, is.
Costello Post also Endorsed Madison
Hill of Victory Post for the Nofice of
national executive committeeman to sue
coed Paul j. McGahan.
The post elected the following dele
gates to the department convention:
Richard A. O'Brien, Thomas Walsh,
Alfred A. Piedmont, Thomas A. Co.'S
tello, william F. Franklin. Charles
Cohen, Rev. Francis J. Hurney, E. B.
McCabe, James v. By1ne, j. H.
Halper. Harry Smith, Henry Jet, Al
Stearns and Joseph Smith.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
NOISE OF HAMMER
FO|LS SAFE ROBBER
Police Arrest Man Alleged
Caught in Act of At
tempting Theft.

Betrayed by the metallic notes Of a
hammer as it rose and fell against the
door of a safe, John w. Lloyd, 22-year-
old colored bootblack, of the 1900 block
of Kingman place, was captured by
police of the first precinct and head
quarters detectives early today and
charged with breaking into two stores
in the Evans Building, 1400 block New
York avenue.
Lloyd was released only recently from
the District Reformatory, at Lorton,
Va, where he served five-year term
for housebreaking. He completed his
sentence on May 26 last.
The bootblack, according to the police
report, was caught in the act smashing
haberdaSher, on the ground floor of the
Evans Building when police and detec-
tives rushed into the establishment
and cornered him before he had OPP
portunity to make a break for safety.
Lloyd also confessed to having robbed
the Columbia Photo Supply Co., next
door, few moments before, 1t was
said.
TranSOm Glasses Smashed.
Entrance in both cases was gained
by smashing the glass from the transom
above the front doors of the two stores.
night Waterman, making his rounds
of the building about o'clock this
morning, heard the noise of q hammer
crashing on steel. Cautiously searching
the premises, he located the source of
the sounds and saw a colored man
laboring over the safe in Neuman's.
An alarm was flashed to police head
quarters and Detective Sergts. H. A.
Cole and w. c. Curtis were dispatched
to the scene, while PvtS. Orion L. Curtis,
Frederick r. Rabil and H. z. Davis were
sent from No. / precinct.
Lloyd, 1t was said, was beating open
the safe beneath an electric light In
plain view Of the front doorway and
the officers rushed into the store and
surrounded him after being admitted
with pass key by the Waterman. The
colored man surrendered without q
struggle.
Neuman had left the main door of
the safe open upon closing his store
last night and the intruder had nearly
broken through the steel inner door
when apnrehended. The safe was used
principally for the storage of ledgers
but also contained q negotiable bond
Stamps and Money Found on Man
A search disclosed that the Columbia
Photo Supply had been broken into and
the cash register robbed One hundred
postage stamps and $3l.98 in cash
said to have been taken from the money
drawer, was found in the bootblack's
pockets. The stock had not been dis
turbed.
Lloyd was lodged in a cell at the
f1rst precinct on two charges of house.
breaking. He will not be arraipned In
Police Court until an Investigation int
ms ACTIVITIES since he was released from
the reformatory is completed,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
Baby Swallows Pin
AS Parents Dress;
Operation Planned
X-Ray Locates Object in
Body of David Carter,
8 Months Old.

Staff surgeons at the Episcopal Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital were prepar-
ing this afternoon to operate upon
David Carter, months old, of 1913
Carroll street southeast, in an effort
to remove a safety pin which the child
swallowed early today.
The child obtained safety pin while
his parents were dressing His father,
Dozier Carter, rushed the baby to Cas-
ualty Hospital where 1t was found that
and his removal to the Episcopal Hos
pital was advised. X-ray photographs
were taken to locate the safety pin and
an operation was to be performed this
afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
ALLIED DRIVE BEGUN
12YEARS AGO TODAY
Every Fourth Man in Western
Front Onslaught Which Beat
Germans American.

Twelve years ago today the Allies
launched q concerted attack on the
Western Front, which was eventually
to dislodge the Germans from their
almost impregnable positions and de-
eide the outcome of the war.
Twelve years ago today nearly l.
900, 900 Allied soldiers left their hiding
places in the Villers-Coterets Forest
under cover of the dawn and delivered
to the enemy a shock from which he
never recovered.
Every fourth man of the Allied
troops, consisting of Highlanders,
Canadians, Italians and many other
nationalities, was an American, men
of the ist, I'd, Sd, 4th, Yankee, Key
stone, Red Arrow, Rainbow, Liberty
and other Divisions.
The Allied troops assaulted by frontal
attack As enemy divisions. They took
trenches lined with machine guns and
went through devastating artillery fire,
captured 10000 prisoners and 400 can
non and started the big push that
was to demoralize the German army.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
HIT
WEAKL|NG BIDDERS
Leaders Confer Here on
Move to Reduce Irresponsi-
BILE Estimates on Jobs.

Leaders in the construction industry
met here today to broaden activities
looking to the elimination of irrespon-
sible contractors who injure the indus
try by failure to complete jobs on which
they are the low bidders.
A group representing more than q
score of groups affiliated with the
building industry met in the Munsey
Building with A. e. Horst of Rock
Island, H., and Philadelphia, who Is
president of the Associated General
Contractors, and discussed the work OF
the Bureau of Contract Information
Inc, which Is maintained in Washing
ton as clearing house on information
about contractors.
Purpose Of Bureau.
The purpose of the bureau Is to
gather performance records of con-
tractors and make them available to
those within the industry who have
contracts to let. Plans looking to the
establishment of cooperative local
credit bureaus in the larger cities,
which would forward information about
local conditions to the Washington
Office, were tentatively approved by the
Associated General Contractors at q
board meeting here in April. The meet
ing over which Mr.. Horst presided, and
which will continue tomorrow, ap-
proved promotional details suggested by
e. j. Harding, assistant general man
ager OF the association.
operative plan is designed to curtail
loose credit practices. He said the
plan has proved successful in several
cities and predicted that the Allied
Building Construction Industries would
sanction the large-scale activity at its
Chicago meeting later in July.
Way Irresponsible Work.
Construction men in Washington and
cities throughout the country have
waged war against irresponsible con-
tractors who shut out competition by
making low bids and then fail to COM
plete the work through lack of proper
financing, forcing bonding companies to
take over the construction work. The
plan which contemplates making the
National Capital q clearing house for
information about the performance
records of contractors Is expected to
minimize the effort Of the irresponsible.
Members Of the presidents cabinet of
the Associated General Contractors who
are attending the meeting included Col.
George B. Walbridge Of Detroit, Fred
erick L. Crawford Of New York, Alan
Jay Parrish of Paris, Ill, and W.. A.
Bechtel of San Francisco. Members Of
the Philadelphia building chapter OF
the association, headed by w. M. Bas-
sett, chapter president, and s. M. Will
liams of Washington, who is manager
of the Bureau of Credit Information in
the Munsey Building, were guests at the
meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
PEDESTRIAN is INJURED
ON LEAVING PLATFORM
Man Walks Into Rear of Auto;
Hurts Declared Minor at
Emergency Hospital.

william Jackson, colored, AZ years
old, of 1417 Dunn street northeast, Suf-
fered minor injuries last night when he
stenped from a street car loading plat
form at Ninth street and New York
avenue and walked into the rear of q
machine operated by James A. Barry,
80 years old, Of 3647 Eleventh street.
Barry drove the man to Emergency
Hospital. Jackson was dismissed after
treatment.
Seven-year Kenneth burberry Of
22OS Nichols avenue southeast was
taken TO Providence Hospital with pos
sibIe fractures of the skull and jaw
and abrasions of the body last night
after being struck at Nichols avenue
operated by n. Gibbons. 2s. Of Fort
Foote. Nd.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
THINK MOONSHINERS
SET BLAZE IN HOME
Liquor Makers Blamed for Destruc.
ton of House of Mail
Carrier.
specia' Dispatch 70 The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, July 18.-Fred-
erick County police today were inveSti-
eating destruction of the dwelling of
Henry Shirley, rural mail carrier, at
Dehaven, in the northern section of
the county, on the theory that the fire
was set by moonshinerS, who believe
Shirley had been giving officers tnfor-
nation relative to their alleged opera
tons in the mountains, according to
the sheriff's ONCE.
Shirley and his family were not ut
home when the fire was discovered
at am. having gone to spend the
night with relatives in West Virginia,
and knew nothing Of the fire until
they returned the following morning
and were dismayed to see only the
smoldering embers. The only personal
effects saved were the clothes they
wore. A sum Of money also was de-
stroyed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
GIFT PRESENTED WALSH

Members of the tenth precinct po-
lice station yesterday afternoon pre-
sented Capt. j. M Walsh of the sixth
precinct with an easy chair as a token
of congratulations upon his recent pro-
motion from lieutenant to captain.
Capt. Walsh until recently was a
lieutenant at the tenth precinct, being
promoted and transferred to the sixth
precinct upon death of Capt. Martin
Reilly.
The ceremony was attended by Police
Inspectors Louis J. Stoll, who made the
presentation and A. j. Headley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
WHOLESALE PRICE DROP
CONTINUED DURING JUNE
Labor Department Computation
Shows Buying Power of 1926 Dol
lar Was $1.152 in June, 1880.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Wholesale prices were shown yester-
day by Labor Department computation
to have continued during June the de-
cline which has been in progress for
nearly year.
The index representing the composite
fall OF $50 different commodity prices
was fxed for June at 86.8, which COM
pares with S9.l for May; 96.4 for June
a year ago, and 100 for the average of
the year 1926.
Based on these figures, the DEPART
ment said, the wholesale purchasing
power of 1925 dollar was $l.l52 in
June Of the present year.
Farm products, which, as a group,
showed a price fall of nearly Az per
cent from May of this year to June,
were the most seriously affected, though
there was slight increase In wholesale
prices for eggs, veal and lamb.
Foods as a group were / "a per cent
lower on the wholesale market in June
than in May, butter, cheese, beef, NUT
ton, coffee and flour being among the
most affected articles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
HENRY HICKMAN DIES
FROM AUTO INJURIES
Toms Brook Resident Struck by
Car Driven by Harrisonburg
Dentist at Winchester.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va, July 1S.-Henry
Hickman, 30, Toms Brook, Va. was in
stantly killed last night at Middletown,
near here, by an automobile driven by
DR.. Walter T. Lineweaver, dentist, Har-
risonburg, Va, who was returning from
winchester with his family, where
they had attended a meeting of Vir-
ginia Rotary Club executives.
Hickman, visiting at the home of
@. II. Borden, relative, had alightecl
from truck and a short distance away
had stopped to pick up his cane when
the Lineweaver car struck him. His
neck was broken and both legs frac-
tured
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
MRS. COLE BADLY HURT
is Struck by Automobile While
Crossing Road in Maryland.

Mrs. Ethel Cole, As years old. of $40
Longfellow street, is in critical con-
dition today in Providence Hospital,
the result of being struck by an auto
mobile yesterday afternoon near Forest
Vile. Md. She was hit by machine
driven by Ernest Perry, 30 years old,
of ForestvilIe, an employe of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Perry reported the accident to JUS
tice of the Peace Thomas d. Grtfhth
Mt Forestville and also sent a report
to the State commissioner OF motor
vehicles.
Mrs. Cole, while walking across the
Maryland Club Hill road, Is said to
have become confused and to have at
tempted to turn back.
Friends Of Mrs. Cole, who were with
her, brought her to Providence Hos
pital in their machine which was
parked nearby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
Virginia Population
Increases 1O8,888;
Maryland, 1868

Census figures released today
showed that the population of Viz
ginia increased 10s,sss persons be-
tween 1920 and 1880. The total
population figure for the State was
given at 2,41S,o75, or a a. per cent
increase In the 1o-year period.
Maryland's population total in the
last census was 1,625,279, showing
an increase of 1858 persons, or
12.1 per cent. The West Virginia
total showed the greatest increase,
1871 per cent. The population of
that State now is 1,72S,510, with q
growth Of 264,s09 in the past 10
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18

istrative division of the Quartermaster
Corps. cited a section of the act of
Congress, authorizing the expedition,
which read: In the case of any mother
or widow wilfully failing to continue
the pilgrimage Of her particular group,
the United States shall not incur or be
subject to any expense with regard to
her pilgrimage after such failure"
IT am pleased" Mrs. Allen wrote War
Department officials, ito refer you to
Senator Jones of Washington and Sen
ator Dill of Washington, who have known
better reference should be-Block A,
Row %, Grove 2, SuresneS, France"
Mrs. Allen was telegraphed funds to
finance her trip home, by California
friends.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18
PARKED AUTOS LOOTED
Theft Of Cameras and Valise Re-
ported to Police.

A vest pocket camera and valise
valued at SIS were stolen from the ma
chine Of Mrs. Mary r. Forbes Of Co
VIVA, Calf, In front Of the Congressional
Library last night.
TWO cameras. valued at 500, were
stolen from the automobile of Arthur
B. Gardiner, l03 C street southeast,
while the machine was parked in front
of the Bureau of Printing and Engrav-
ing yesterday afternoon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-18

The two gypsy girls who told James
Der's fortune failed to tell him he was
to have a financial reverse. although
they must have suspected something
like that was going to happen to James.
The Chinese was seated on O chair
behind the counterAof his restaurant, nj
lAs4 II street ncrthese yesterday when