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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
Jury CHALLENGE
FILED BY DAYTON
Action Contests Right of
Body to Hear Witnesses
in StrangIing Case.

Dexter Churchill Dayton, 25-year- old
salesman, charged with strangling to
death Miss Marjorie O'Donnell, "a
year-old stenographer, at the Roosevelt
Hotel october 2 last, today filed in the
District Supreme Court a challenge to
the array Of the present grand jury be-
fore whom witnesses were to be heard
In an effort to reindict him on a first
degree murder charge. Dayton was in
dicted shortly after the tragedy, but
through Attorneys Ring & Cobb filed
plea in abatement
United States Attorney Rover recently
announced that he would represent the
witnesses to the present grand jury be-
cause the jury which indicted Dayton
contained in its membership a woman
penSioner of the United States.
Fearing that some of the points relied
on might be considered too late after
an indictment has been returned, Day.
ton questioned the legality of the grand
jury in what is called in law, a chal-
lenge to the array. He claims that the
drawing of the grand jury was i'm
properly conducted; that the names
were selected by the clerk to the Jury
commission and not by the members
Of the commission; that the act of
Congress permitting women to accept
or decline jury service Is upconstitu-
tional as discriminatory and class legis-
lation. He also attacks the right of
women to serve on a grand jury even if
service as petit jurors should be allowed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
DISTRICT WORKERS
HOLIDAY IS URGED
Commissioners Would In
cIude Municipal Employees
in LehIbaCh Bill.

The District Commissioners yesterday
took the initiative in seeking year-round
Saturday half holidays for District gov
eminent employees by request to Rep
resentative Frederick r. Lehlbach, Re-
publican, of New Jersey, to include Dis
trict employees in the bill now before the
House civil service committee granting
these holidays to Federal workers.
Usually the Commissioners wait until
legislation is sent to them for comment
before making any reports to Capitol
Hill, but the new Commissioners decided
to act first Since the bill as written
does not affect District workers, it Is
probable that it would never have been
sent to them for report.
THE Commissioners have the honor
to request" they wrote, "that there be
included within the terms of the bill the
employees of the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia. This could be ac-
complished by inserting after the words
Federal Government the words and
of the municipal government Of the
District of Columbia
ut has been usual for the Congress
to include in beneficial legislation of this
character employees of the government
of the District of Columbia on the same
basis as employees of the Federal Gov
eminent. Examples Of such actions are
to be found in the Redistribution act
and the retirement act"
The bill before the House committee
includes not only employees on the regu-
lar annual salary rolls, but also all per
diem, piecework and hourly employees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
THOMAS MACDEVITT
DIES AT HOME HERE
Leading Construction Engineer, 43
Years Old, Had Been
Ill for Week.

Thomas Francis MacDevitt, AZ years
old, chief superintendent of the George
Lyman Co. of Washington and one of
the foremost construction engineers of
the East, died yesterday at his residence.
4422 Military road, after an illness of
a week.
Mr.. MacDevitt, was taken Ill last
Friday with a slight cold, which de-
veloped into pneumonia.
A native of Philadelphia, Mr.. Mac
Dewitt was technically trained at the
Franklin Institute of that city.
He entered the employ of Cranp &
Co. of Philadelphia as a carpenter ap-
prentice in 1907, and later was with
Warren Moore & Co. of Philadelphia
and the Fleishmann Construction Co.
of New York City, and joined Hymann
five years ago.
During his association with the Hy-
man Construction Co., he had super
vised the building of Mckinley Tech
High School and several smaller pub
lie schools. The Visitation Monastery
at Bethesda, Md. was also constructed
under his supervision.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Genevieve MacDevitt, and five children.
Thre brothers and two sisters, all Of
Philadelphia, also survive.
Brief funeral services will be held
Monday morning at the residence, fol-
lowed by requiem mass at the Church
of the Blessed Sacrament. Interment
will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
TWO PERSONS HELD
ON DRY LAW CHARGE
Wife of Army Corporal Arrested in
Alleged Sale and Possession
Of Liquor.

Two persons. one the wife of an
enlisted man at Boiling Field, were TO
be arraigned in Police Court TODAY
following their arrest by two members
OF the vice squad in a raid on the
nome of Corp. Walter Bobbitt, at 629
G street, yesterday afternoon.
Mrs. Bertha Bobbitt, 36-year-old
Wlfe OF Corp. Bobbitt, who is attached
to Boiling Field, was charged with sale
and possession of three quarts of
whisky, while roomer, Kermit Schell,
26 years old, was taken into custody on
a possession charge.
Working on information that the
soldiers at the aviation field were being
supplied liquor, the vice squad sent an
undercover agent to the G street ad-
dress and he succeeded in making a
purchase police say.
Detectives Richard Cox and James
MoStyn obtained a search warrant yes
terday. Schell admitted the officers,
but shouted warning, it was said,
when he caught the CLINT of a badge
beneath Mostyn's coat few moments
later.
Rushing into the basement. Cox and
MoStyn reported finding Mrs. Bobbitt
emptying the last of the contents of a
large container. A subsequent search
reputedly disclosed three quarts of
whisky, however, and Schell and Mrs.
Bobbitt were arrested. A large supply
Of bottles, corks, labels and other bot
Ting paraphernalia also was reported
seized
Mostyn said this morning that he
did not believe Corp. Bobbitt, who was
away at the time of the raid, played
any part in the alleged sale of the
whisky
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
TWO END LIVES
BY INHALING GAS
Bride Of Several Months and
Street Car Motorman Of
Virginia Victims.

A bride of several months and a
middle-aged street car motorman COM
mitted suicide at their homes yeSter-
day by inhaling Illuminating gas.
The woman, Mrs. Grace Virginia
Chapel Weeks, %, wife of James Weeks,
an insurance agent, was found lying
dead on the floor of her residence, at
1911 Nineteenth place northeast, when
her sister, Isabelle Moore, 8-year-old
schoolgirl, returned home from her
studies.
No reason could be assigned for the
young woman's act. DR.. j. Ramsay
hewitt, District coroner, issued GER
tificate Of suicide.
The motorman, Milton Campbell, an
employe of the Capital Traction Co..
ended his life at his home, in Park
Lane, Va, after leaving a note, which
read: Nothing wrong with what was
done today. I leave everything own
to my wife, Mrs. E. v. Campbell. ''
Campbell was As years old. and leaves
a wife and four children.
The mans lifeless body was discov-
cred by a neighbor, Mrs. c. I. Ward,
when she went to pay call on the
Campbell family. Campbell was slump
ed over in a chair in the kitchen and
a strong odor of escaping gas was de-
tected by Mrs. Ward. She forced open
window and summoned the Washing
ton Fire Rescue Squad and Arlington
County police.
Mrs. Campbell was away at the time.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
PLAN GIVEN COMMITTEE.

The major thorougfare development
plan, embodied in report prepared by
the streets and avenues committee of
the Washington Board of Trade, in CO.
operation with other authorities, was
referred to special committee today
when the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission met for its April
meeting. George V. Graham is chair
man of the Board of Trade committee
and has co-operated with Lieut.. Col
u. S. Grant, 3d., vice chairman and
executive officer of the commission; with
Capt. E. N. ChiSolm, jr., its engineer,
and Charles w. Eliot, I'd, its city
planner.
The personnel of the commissions
committee was expected to be named
during the day by Frederic A. Delano,
chairman. Capt. Chisolm explained that
this committee will likely be in session
with the District Commissioners, the
Board of Architectural Consultants and
the Board of Trade representatives. The
question of keeping Thirteenth street
open southwark from Pennsylvania ave-
nue. will again come to the fore, when
this matter is threshed out, in conjunc-
ton with the major thoroughfare plan.
The commission prepared to consider
the proposed new Brookland recreation
center at South Dakota avenue, Otis
street, Queens Chapel road and Eigh-
tenth street, plans for which were
assembled by C.. L. Wirth, landscape
architect of the commission. On the
agenda also is the question of the
future development of the National
Geological Park and its relation to the
Rock Creek and Potomac ParkWaRe
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
MAN TAKES TRAIN WITH DEAD
SON, GRATEFUL FOR D. c. AID
Mother in Florida Grave Would Have
Thanked Good People Here, Says
Earl Walker, Bidding Good-by.

fulfill a steadfast wish that Howard be
buried beside his mother at Center Hill,
Fla.
They were provided by a member OF
the woman's board at Emergency Hos
pital, who expressed a wish to remain
anonymous.
The mother of the little family died
two months ago, and the walkers, aban-
doning hope of making go OF 1t on
small truck farm, converted their car
into a rolling house and set out to
make a new home in the East.
Howard became i'll on the way and
was taken to Emergency Hospital after
the Walkers arrived at the tourists
camp. When death came to the youth
his father was unable to defray the eX-
pense of the two nurses who had at
tended him or those incident to travel
and to the funeral.
Social Service in Action.
Social service workers at the hospital
arranged matters for the board member
and the children were put on the train
for Ohio, under the wing of the Trav-
elers' Aid Society, after it had been
learned by telegraph that their aunt
would provide a home for them there.
Numerous others offered to help the
father. telephoning their wish to The
Star and to Emergency Hospital.
Several sent in cash contributions,
and these will either be turned over to
the father when he returns to get his
automobile at the tourist camp or re-
turned to the donors.
Thank them for me, II you can"
Walker said before he stepped aboard
the train.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18

Good people, good people A man
finds them any place he gets to,
guess"
Earl Walker wiped his face with a
blue handkerchief and his big hand
strayed uneasily to the breast pocket
where two railway tickets were tucked
away.
"She could've thanked them right for
me and for my boy" Walker blinked
toward a baggage truck where a small
coffin lay beneath the span Of Union
Station sheds.
She could've, but she's dead, and
now our boys going back to Florida to
be buried beside her"
Walker touched the tickets again
tickets provided by the generosity of
WaShingtonians, one for himself and
one for 15-year-old Howard Walker, who
had died at Emergency Hospital yester-
day morning.
Bids City Farewell.
A moment later a Florida train was
switched into its berth. Walker watched
the baggagemen unload a truck, and
then waved farewell to the city which
had befriended him. That was last
night
Late yesterday Walkers two other
children, Edna, IA, and Earl, jr., Just
turned 3, were sent by new-found
friends here to Warren, Ohio, to live
with their aunt.
The tickets will enable the father to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
SURVEY UNDER WAY
or PUBLIC SCHOOLS
FOR LARGER FUNDS
Facilities and Equipment Be-
ing Checked to Show Con-
greSs Present Needs.
WASHBASINS ARE CITED
AS INADEQUATE SUPPLY
Conditions Should Be as Good as
in Home, Says Official Manag-
ing Business Affairs.

An exhaustive survey of every pub
lie school building in the District is
being made quietly on the orders of
Jere j. Crane, first assistant superin-
tendent in charge of business affairs,
to determine the actual condition of
heating plants, toilet facilities, wash
basins and drinking fountains.
This information, Mr.. Crane revealed
today, Is being sought with a view to
showing Congress the concrete need of
a repair fund sufficient not only to re-
place worn or damaged equipment, but
which, In effect, would provide a needed
virtual reconstruction of the schools in
this direction.
Two Weeks for Survey.
The survey being made by two en-
ployeS OF Mr.. Cranes Office, probably
will be completed within the next two
made daily to Mr.. Crane so that the
data will be in hand for compilation
as soon as the survey is ended,
The inspection, in common with the
survey which The Evening Star made
of school buildings during the past
Winter, c.ready has shown q ridiculously
inadequate number of wash basins for
Tie numper OF pupils accommodated in
given building. Similarly, it is being
shown that there are toilet facilities of
kind that clash with modern stand
ards of sanitation.
AS many of these things are being
brought out it seems almost impossible
that we can undertake to teach char
acter education, good taste or anything
else having to do with decent home
standards" Mr.. Crane said.
Wash Basin Situation.
I'VE should attempt to provide chill
dren with as good conditions in school
as they had at home, if not better, and
when we have an enrolment of 200 to
800 children provided with a single
wash basin for the boys and another
one for the girls, we certainly aren't
encouraging the niceties Of personal
cleanliness.
Estimating that it takes from three
to five minutes for a child to wash his
hands, 1t is certainly apparent that the
school children are not performing that
duty necessary to character training in
the time and with the facilities given
them,' hs added.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
TAKES POISON IN CELL
DR.. Bullock Reconsiders and Is Re
moved to Hospital by Police.

Reconsidering a decision to end his
life, DR.. Douglas Bullock, IS years old,
OF the Arlington Building, Fifteenth
and H streets, called Pvt. Roy P. Kelly
to his cell door at No. / police station
last night and informed him he had
taken poison. He told police he had
recently come here from Rowland, N. C..
Dr. Bullock was treated at Emergency
Hospital and later removed to Gallinger
Hospital, where attendants said today
his condition was undetermined. He
ication.
His wife and mother, both Of whom
reside in Rowland, were notified of DR..
Bullock's condition by police at DR..
Bullockis request ..-,.-.-.. -,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
FIVE WOMEN'S PURSES
TAKEN FROM OFFICES
Thieves Rob Feminine Workers in
Four Downtown Business
Buildings.

The pocketbooks of five women were
stolen from downtown buildings yester-
day afternoon.
The heaviest loser was Irene Kushner
of 4319 Fifteenth street, whose purse
containing $35 was taken from her desk
in the Investment Building, at Fifteenth
and K streets.
At the willard Building, Nellie BlosSer
reported the theft of her pocketbook
containing 81 and Elizabeth Wall the
which she had EOS.
An undetermined amount of money,
valuable papers and key were taken with
a pocketbook belonging to Doris Reidel
at the Albee Building, while Miss Ida
Packer had stolen from her Office, at
1406 G street, a purse containing $40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
MAI. H. D. OFFUTT GOING
TO HOSPITAL IN DENVER
Other Army officers Shifted
Among Posts in This Country
and Dependencies.

Maj. Harry D. Ofutt, Medical Corps,
at Walter Reed General Hospital, this
city, has been assigned to duty at Fitz-
simmons General Hospital, Denver,
Colo; Maj. T. r. McCarron, Infantry,
has been transferred from Tacoma,
Wash, to Fort Lincoln N. OAK; Mai.
T.. c. Phelps, Infantry, from Fort Ben
ming, Ga, to Tacoma. Wash; Capt. T.
C. Thorson. Infantry, from Fort Ben
ming, Ga, to tn. North Carolina State
College of Agriculture at Raleigh; Mai
Don G. Moore, Dental Corps, from the
General Dispensary, this city, to the
Philippines.
Capt. H. A. Tribolet, Infantry, from
Fort Adams, r. l., to Fort Benning, Ga;
Capt. j. M. Hamilton, Field Artillery
from the University of Missouri to Fort
Warren, Wyo.; Capt. C. G.. Holmes
Field Artillery, from the Ohio State
University at Columbus to Fort Warren
Wyo; Capt. A. M. Post Field Artillery
from Fort Bliss. Tex, to Fort Warren
Wyo; and the following named officer:
are ordered to the General Staff Schoo
at Fort Leavenworth, KanS.: Maj, M
B. Navas, Infantry, at Fort Smelling
MINI; Maj Harold Thompson, Cavalry
at Fort Bliss, Tex; Maj F. 7. McCabe
at Boston; Maj. c. A. Stokes, Infantry
at Charleston, w. Va, and Maj. T. l.
Thurber, Field Artillery, New Yorl
City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
SENATE COMMITTEE DOUBTS NEED
OF CRIERS IN D. c. SUPREME COURT
Members Indicate Purpose of Abolishing Office and
Increasing Number of Deputy MarshaIs.

The necessity for having criers in the
District Supreme Court was questioned
by members of the Senate subcommittee
in the hearings on the District appro-
priation bill, with indications that
thought was given to doing away with
these attaches and increasing the
number of deputy marshals. There are
seven court crierS.
Senator Bratton of New Mexico ques-
toned Deputy Marshal Callahan as to
the possibility of having the deputy
marshals assigned to each court room
act also as criers. and Callahan testi-
fled it could be done. Testimony was
given that the large number of processes
to be served require the deputy marshals
to work long hours.
Justice Frederick L. Siddons told the
subcommittee it is a mistake to assume
that the only functions of the crier is
to open court and announce adjourn
ment. Justice Siddons explained that
the deputy marshal in each court room
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18

stays outside the bar, while the crier's
position is within the bar, near the wit
ness chair and the jury. In the
criminal court rooms, he said, it is
frequently necessary to assign several
deputy marshals.
Justice Siddons said that if the men,
bers of the committee could see the
size OF the court rooms, they would see
how dangerous 1t would be to leave any
one of them, even the civil jury divi-
sions. with only marshal-one deputy
marshal"
Senator Bratton suggested that if the
marshal were furnished additional
deputies, would not that serve the
court just as well, and also aid the
marshal in his other dutieS?"
Il think So" Judge Siddons replied,
IF an additional deputy marshal could
be instructed to do those things that
the crier has been accustomed to do.
There is no question about that Of
course"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
HEADS ARE NAMED
IN TRAFFIC SURVEY
Col. Grant to Be Chairman of
Group Seeking Permanent
Congestion Solution.

Officers of the city-wide committee di-
recting the traffic survey recently pro-
posed by the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission were announced
today. They include Lieut.. Col. U. s.
Grant, Sd. chairman; Charles W. Eliot,
I'd, vice chairman: Frank r. Jelleff,
treasurer, and Edward D. Shaw, sec
rotary.
The major trade and civic organiza-
ton of the city have lent their support
to the project, and the Washington
Board of Trade, the Washington Cham
Der of Commerce and the Merchants &
Manufacturers Association have pledged
their financial aid. Today, the last
named association began solicitation of
funds.
The idea of the survey originated at
conference called by Col. Grant, execu-
tive officer of the planning commission,
to consider Washington's traffic prob
lens. Besides the organizatinos named
representatives of the Federation of
Citizens Associations attended.
Plan Permanent Relief.
It was decided that q comprehensive
survey would be necessary to formulate
q scientific plan of permanent relief
and that the study should be under
taken at once, so as to take care of the
SURF W dAloC Will
the completion Of the triangle develop
ment project.
The National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission has secured as techni-
cal director of the survey DR.. Miller
McClintock. chief of the Erskine Bureau
for Street Traffic Research of Harvard
University, who is nationally known
for his studies of parking problems in
other cities.
Primary attention will be given In
the survey to the central congeSted dis
trict and special consideration devoted
to the problems Of business and govern
mental areas and their interrelation.
The purpose of the study Is to col
lect and analyze facts which will serve
as a basis for q comprehensive automo-
bile storage plan for the District, en-
bodying the following factors:
Factors Considered.
The design of immediate parking reg
ulationS in such q manner that avail
able curb parking areas may be of
maximum service to business and gov
ernmental activities.
The organization of enforcement
machinery with respect to personnel
and function in such a manner as to
obtain firm, consistent and equitable
enforcement of such parking regula-
tons as may be found necessary.
The development of a policy and
plan with respect to off-Street automo-
bile storage facilities in both the gov
ernmental and business areas in such
a manner that the street system may
be used to its fullest capacity in the
future, and that there may be a re-
moval of the present handicapS upon
convenient and economical automobile
use of the central district.
In view of the pressing character of
the problem, and especially in view of
the building programs under way at the
present time, 1t was decided that it was
highly desirable that the results of the
study be made available at an early
date and that the field studies be con-
Quoted not later than May Is in order
that the completed plan may be avail
able within the following 80 days.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
CIVICS TO BE TOPIC

BY a Stan Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, April 49,
The Mellwood Women'S Club will spe-
cialize in civics during the coming year
under the leadership of Mrs. F. E. Nc
Manus, it was announced following a
special meeting of the club at the home
of Mrs. Frank Scrivener yesterday.
Mrs. C.. Frank Mcguire was elected
delegate to the State Federation of
Women's Clubs convention next month
Chairmen of departments and commit
tees were named
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
BOY IN HOSPITAL AFTER
ATTACK BY RABIED DOG

Attacked by dog while playing near
his home yesterday afternoon, Theodore
M. Decator, 10 years old, of 5128 Fulton
street, was taken to Emergency Hos
pital and treated by a staff physician
for wounds of the right side. His
condition is reported to be undeter-
mined.
The dog was sent to the District
Pound and found to have rabies after
an investigation by police Of No. Z
precinct disclosed that the animal had
attacked its owner Brady D. Lodge of
Sis Conduit road, on Saturday and
that Lodge had to be treated at Mount
Alto Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
STUDENTS HURT IN CRASH
Five From Rosselle, N. j., in Car
as It Skids in Park.

Five students of the Rosselle, N. j.,
High School were slightly hurt last
night when the automobile in which
they were riding skidded and over
turned In Potomac Park.
Those injured were w. Ebbetts, II,
of Kenilworth, driver of the automo-
bile; Hazel George, II, and Marian
Britain, IT, both of Garwood E. j.
Pragley, II, and Joseph Bartholomew,
10, both of RoSselle. They were treated
at Emergency Hospital for minor cuts
and bruises and released.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-18
APPOINTED JUDGE
John E. Nottingham Named by
Gov. Pollard.

Snecial Dispatch to The Star.
RICHMOND, Va, April 18-John E.
Nottingham, prominent attorney of
Nassawadox, in Northampton County,
was yesterday appointed judge of the
Thirty-f1rst Virginia Judicial Circuit by
Gov. John Garland Pollard.
Mr.. Nottingham was the choice of
the bar of the counties of Northampton
and Accomac, which comprise the
thirty-first circuit.