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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08
GRAND JURY TO RESUME
BOND COLLISION PROBE
Rover Receives Affidavit Charging
Woman Was Urged to C. ange
Attorneys by Bondsman.

The grand jury will resume tomor-
row its consideration of alleged coll
fusion between professional bondsmen
and members of the police force and
between bondsmen and certain lawyers.
Last week the grand jurors heard DR..
James r. Armstrong of the Montana
Apartments, who Is reported to have
told of an incident dating back to 1915
and which shed no light on the present
condition of the bonding business.
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
has received an afidavit in which It Is
charged that q certain bondsman tried
to influence woman whom he had
bonded to select another lawyer after
she had already retained one attorney.
Rover win lay this afIidavit before the
grand jury and has called as witnesses
Margaret M. Price. 408 Sixth street,
who signed the statement; Roselyn b.
Susan, notary public, before whom
the afidavit was sworn to. and Charles
Beavers, IaO Tenth street southeast,
who Is alleged 70 have secured the Hign-
ing Of the paper.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08
DOCTORS BATTLE DISEASE.
Shortage Of Water and Suffering of Sur
vivors Add to Peril Of Injured.

shortage Of Water and Suffering of Sur
vivors Add to Peril of Injured.
SANTO DOMINGO, September 8 Dr.
Santo Domingo, devastated by hurri-
cane last Wednesday, which took more
than 1000 lives, today feared that out
breaks OF disease would cause scourge
as bad as the storm itself.
Insufficient medical supplies, unclean
streets and the lack of food all con-
tributed to a condition which worried
native and visiting physicians. Crema-
ton of the dead continued.
Attitude of the physicians probably
was best indicated in that all are TAX
ing every prophylactic injection pos
sible. With the hospital survey unfin-
ished, more than 1000 storm victims
already have been found to have gam
creme or other infections.
At one camp yesterday more than
1900 persons took anti-toxin innocula-
tons for typhoid. The medical supplies
(COntinued on page Column IL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08
EX-ARMY AVIATOR PLANS
SOLO FLIGHT ACROSS SEA
Monoplane Especially Built for
Transocean Flying Guarded by
Police at Chicago Field.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September ga mono
plane especially built for transocean
living was under police guard today at
Curtiss Reynolds Airport, presumably
IN readiness for a fight to New York
and thence to Europe:
Capt. Roy w. Ammel, Chicago broker
and former Army pilot, SAID ne planned
solo flight across the Atlantlc, put
pas not vet prepared to announce his
sestination nor the time Of his take
oa Az the field 1t was understood
cant Ammel planned to hop to New
York tomorrow.
s. THE plane has a gasoline capacity OF
10 gallons and is equipped with hign-
tbeed motor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08
TWO SHOT IN CAFE

MARION, Ark. September (R.-
Mrs. Harry Kenan, 30. restaurant pro-
prietress, and man known here as N.
r.. Vance, were shot to death today in
Mrs. Kenan's restaurant. Authorities
believed the man killed her and him
self because of jealousy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08
FOUR FISHERMEN DROWN
Motor Boat Capsizes, Plunging All
in Graft to Death.

TILLAMOOK, Greg, September 8 up.
-Four men were drowned yesterday at
the mouth of big Nestucca River, near
Pacific City, when the motor boat from
which they were fishing, capsized.
They were George H. Green, q. ].
Spencer, and Donald DaIrymple Of
Portland, and q man named Graham.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08
DENY TAKING RUM BRIBE
Two Former Canton, Ohio, ohicials
Face Charges.

CLEVELAND, September 8 to-
Edward z. Curtis. former Canton. Ohio
safety director, and Arthur b, Drukeri-
brod. former councilman Of Canton.
today to charges Of accepting realIlar
payments from bo0tIeggers as pay for
protection. The case Is set for trial
next MopdRd
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23
HANGAR SPRINKLER
CONTROLS FLAMES
More Tests of System Are to
Be Conducted Today by
Scientists.

Bureau of Standards scientists today
kindled the third fire in a new hangar
in the bureau grounds in a series of
tests to determine the efficacy of auto
matte sprinkler systems to control
hangar fires. Two fires were started
yesterday, one resulting In failure when
the hangar and an obsolete airplane
obStinately refused to burn with SUM-
cient Vigor to set on the Sprtnklers.
In test yesterday afternoon, how
ever, there was real conhagratton in
the hangar when fire reached the gaso-
line-filled tanks of an ancient Army
Voight observation type plane in the
hangar for test purposes. The Sprinklers
went into action, dropping a screen of
water completely around the plane, eX-
ttnguiShing the fire in the wings and
fuSelage and holding under control the
flames from the burning gasoline.
1t was pointed out that the purpose
of the water sprinklers Is not to ex-
tinguish gasoline fires, but merely to
control the flames and prevent their
spreading until chemical equipment can
be brought into play.
Two tests were on today the first,
as were the two yesterday, being start
ed by a gasoline blow torch placed on
work bench so that its flame played on
the wooden hangar wall. The second
test involves fire caused by a solder
ing iron land on the fabric Of an air.
plane wing.
One Of the striking features of the
tests is the collection of condemned and
decrepit Army and Navy airplanes as
sembled so that actual conditions OBJ
tanning in a hangar fire may be dupli-
Gated.
Resurrected from airplane dump
heaps, they have been patched together
by an Army rigging crew into sorry
of the trim planes they once
were. Missing struts are replaced by
lengths of two by four lumber and other
makeshift repairs have been made.
The tests are to continue until April
80, II separate fire tests being sched-
uled to determine the effectiveness of
various sprinkler combinations. All the
expenses of the tests are being met by
private capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23

The United States branch of the
Police Court is the first local tribunal
to put into effect the recent decision
of the United States Supreme Court
authorizing the trial of any criminal
case before a jury of less than IL per-
sons when counsel on both sides and
the defendants personally consent.
Fireman William Caps is being tried
before IL jurors on a charge of liquor
violations and because OF the absence
of one member of the jury panel all
parties consented to proceed with the
trial.
The Supreme Court rendered its de-
cision April IA in the case of John
Patton and others, charged with con-
spiracy to bride a Federal prohibition
oficer. The question Of the validity Of
such trial in felony case was certified
by the United States Circuit Court of
Appeals for the eighth circuit to the
United States Supreme Court for de-
cision. Justice Sutherland rendered the
opinion of the highest court in the
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23

Hit 0verruIes Plea for Di.
rected Verdict on Illegal
Search Count.

A motion for a directed verdict Of
acquital was overruled today by Judge
isaac r. Hit shortly after Sergt.
Oscar j. Letterman of the police vice
squad was arraigned in Police Court
on a charge of illegal search in con-
nection with recent raid.
Judge Hit announced his ruling aft
er more than an hour of pickering be-
tween opposing counsel. j. Russell
Kelly and Joseph Kelly, attorneys for
the defendant, insisted that their
client was within his rights in search
ing the apartment of Mr.. and Mrs
Eleck Harmon, at 1881 S street, on
March %.
U. s. Counsel Heard.
Charles B. Murray and Walter M
Shea, assistant United States attor-
neys, argued that the act under which
Letterman was charged had direct
bearing on such cases.
In his opening statement to the
jury Murray said he would prove Let
terman and the members of his squad
had forced their way into the Harmon
apartment without a search warrant
and conducted a careful hunt for liquor.
He added the defense contention that
Letterman entered the apartment in
searching for one Eddie Croghan would
not stand up when witnesses had teSti-
fed that "the top of the radio and
dresser doors were opened in search for
a man."
Defense Is Outlined.
Kelly, in outlining the defense case,
said five one-half gallon jars Of whisky
had been found IN the Harmon apart
ment, together with a jar of caramel
coloring matter sufficient to color 1000
gallons of liquor. He said witnesses
would testify that person in the Har-
mon apartment had been overheard
telling a man leaving the apartment he
should not have been permitted to buy
whisky be; ause he was drinking. He
said he would prove complaints had
been made against the Harmons. He
also announced plans to call a group
of character witnesses.
Testimony of Witnesses.
The first witness, George Billiard
chief OF personnel of the Bureau Of
Prohibition, submitted copy of the APP
pointment of Sergt. Letterman as 9
FeGeral prohibition Officer.
Lieut.. L. 1. H. Edwards, personnel OH.
Ger of the Police Department, the next
witness, told of Sergt. Letterman's du-
ties and declared he was an efficient
officer.
United States Commissioner Needhan
G. Turnage, the last witness before the
noon recess, said he had issued no war.
rant for the raid on the Harmon apart
ments. He added he had known Let.
terman for years and considered him g
good officer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23
COURTST1IP NEW, BUT ALIMONY
AND TRIAL MARRIAGES ARE OLD
Facts Are Explained at Annual Meeting
of Catholic Anthropological
Conference at C.. i.

nav her an "honor price" comparable
to modern alimony.
While polygamy was possible, he said,
1t must have been confined to the pow
erful chiefs. The first wife always re-
NAMED head of the household. With
secondary wives trial marriages OF
year. always celebrated in May, were
practiced. If any children were born
during the year the marriage became
permanent.
Theoretically, he said, the father was
absolute head of the household and
could sell his children and secondary
wives, but not the first wife. He coulo
make an advantageous contract with
out consulting her, but both the first
wife and the grown sons had to be con-
suited before he could enter any agree
ment disposing of property OF the
family.
Actually, he said, the ancient Celtic
family was a much more complex insti-
tuition than merely husband, wife and
children. There were families within
families with a decreasing responsibility
for the behavior of members according
to the degree of relationship.
Brides Bargained For.
Among the ancient TeutonS, said DR..
Paul G. Gleis, professor of German lit
erature at Catholic University, wooing
was practically eliminated, although
there are occasional instances of the
of women. Brides were
bargained for between families, DR..
Gleis said, but in practice this was far
different from wife buying. 1t was only
late in the Middle Ages, he pointed out,
that love becomes a prominent element
a~,SA iNIfe
Is presumed not to have been an essen
tial element in marriage. If the wife
happened to love the husband 1t was
fortunate, but not necessary.
The ancient German family life, he
said, seems to have been almost ideal
and this picture comes out clearer and
clearer as the original sources, espe-
cially ancient Icelandic literature, are
consulted. Polygamy was tolerated but
not approved. Wife and husband were
almost perfect partners, fighting and
together.
There is also little doubt, he said, Of
the exposure of the aged and of I'M
wanted infants to perish in hard times
and of the rare selling of children into
But these harsh features, he
said, become of little significance COM
pared with the high morality and de-
votion of most families.
Marriage by purchase, but with the
bride fixing the purchase price and ac-
cepting or rejecting offers, is the prac-
lice among the Nootka Indians of the
Pacific Coast. said Rev. Vincent Kop-
pert of Mount Angel College, Oregon.
Rev. DR.. John M. Cooper, professor
If anthropology at Catholic University.
presented the various theories of the
origin and early history Of the family
among primitive peoples, pointing out
that these still were subjects Of much
conjecture which could only be cleared
Up by years of research.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23
STUDENT RESCUES
GIRL FROM ATTACK
Tackles CoIUed Man Who
Attempted to Drag Young
Woman From Porch.

A colored man who, it Is thought, may
have been implicated in a previous at
tempt at assault was captured after a
struggle early today by George Wash
ington student who ran to the rescue
when the man followed 16-year-old
Dorothy Burns and tried to drag her
from the front steps Of her home, at
1913 Varnum street.
Miss Burns, a student at Central High
School. was returning home on the
street car about 12:45 o'clock this morn
ing after visiting her sister. She left
the car at Fourteenth and Varnum
streets and as she did so a colored man
alighted behind her.
Miss Burns quickened her pace and
walked the remaining two blocks to her
home, and as she mounted the front
steps the man, who was following, seized
her from behind. The girls screams
attracted William Brainin, 10, of Capitol
Heights, Md, who was passing.
Student Makes Tackle.
The university student made a flying
tackle at the man and they grappled
and rolled on the Burns lawn. Mean
while, the girls father, James A. Burns
was aroused by the commotion and
rushed out in his bathrobe.
Mr.. Burns also laid hold of the prison.
er and while neighbors gathered at the
scene one ran and telephoned No. 10
precinct station.
Prvts. D. F. Donoghue and D. j.
Murphy we're sent in the police car
and found an excited group around
Brainin and the colored man, who was
still struggling.
At the precinct the man. said by po-
lice to have been drinking, gave his
name as Dellie Clark, 35 years old, of
@ street near Thirteenth street.
Police expect to confront him today
with Miss Helen Teawalt, 10 years old,
of 408 Shepherd street. who was fol-
lowed on her way home from work
early yesterday and seized by an I'M
identified man.
Has Scratches on Face.
When arrested early today Clark had
scratches on his face, mouth and neck,
police said. They were informed by
Miss Teawalt that she had scratched
at the face of the man who attacked
her In beating him of.
The girl could not say if her aSSail-
ant was white or colored man.
Police were unstinted in their praise
of Brainin's prompt action, and declared
the young man undoubtedly had risked
his life.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23
FURL 0NG FUNERAL RITES
HELD AT GEORGETOWN
Jesuit Brother Had Been III at
College Infirmary for
Past Year.

Services were held in Dahlgren Chapel
at Georgetown College this morning for
Brother Richard Furlong, S. j., 81 years
old, who died Monday night in the COLI
lege infirmary after q years illness.
Rev. DR.. w. Coleman Nevis, s. J..
president Of Georgetown University.
chanted the Office of the dead, followed
by the funeral mass which was said by
Rev. Francis x. Delaney of ST. Francis
Xavier College, New York City, who was
Brother Furlongs pastor. Interment
followed In the faculty cemetery at the
college.
Affectionately known to the faculty
and students at Georgetown as Brother
Dick" the deceased had been in charge
OF the students dining hall and college
store for the last Is years. A native
of Philadelphia, born August z, 1862,
he entered the Jesuit order at Fred
erick, Nd, in 1881.
He is survived by two brothers, who
live in Philadelphia, and the following
neiceS and nephews: Mrs. H. A.
Weston of Lansdown, Pa, and Miss
Margaret Furlong of Philadelphia; Jo-
seph McIllvain Of Philadelphia and Jo-
seph E. McGahan of Jenkinstown, Pa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23
MASSACHUSETTS GROUP
TO HAVE EASTER DANCE
Affair Will Commemorate Patriots
Day, Bay State Celebration.
Program Is Arranged.

The Massachusetts Society will hold
it's Easter dance tonight at the Ward
man Park Hotel to observe Patriots day,
a Bay State celebration.
A short program will be given, in
GLIDING a talk by Rep1 esentative VIII
liam P. Connery, jr., on Patriots Day
and several numbers by the Imperia'
Male Quartet.
Sanford Bates, superintendent of Fed
eral prisons, who is head of the society
will preside. Among committee chair
men in charge are Mrs. John A. Cham
berlain, Mrs. L. D. Gibbs, Miss Eleanor
Carleton, Louis w. Hart, William T
Simpson, John H. Springer and Robert
H. Kempton. Guest tickets are In
charge of George A. Herman, secretary
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23
POOR FUND STOLEN
FROM LOCAL CHURCH
Box Taken Last Night, Is Report
to Police-Home Robbed of
Hunting Equipment.

The poor box of st. Thomas the
Apostle Church, at Twenty-seventh
street and Woodley road, was rifled and
an undetermined amount of money
taken last night. The robbery was dis
covered by Rev. Thomas A. Walsh, who
made a report to the fourteenth pre-
cinct station.
Hunting equipment, valued at 1855,
including an $500 shotgun, was re-
ported stolen from the home of Mrs.
Estelle Harris of 1886 Dumbarton ave-
nue. last night. 1t is believed that en-
trance was gained with a duplicate key.
Three rings, worth $3.50, were taken
from the apartment of Dorothy Burgett,
at 2701 Fourteenth street, according to
a report made to police of No. 10 pre-
cinct last night.
A pocketbook containing several dol
lars in change, a fountain pen and
other articles was stolen from Miss
Olive Huguley, daughter of DR.. j. w.
Huguley Of 2443 Nichols avenue south
east, while at the Zoo on Monday, 1t
was reported to police of No. II pre-
einct yesterday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23
T|NDALL RETENTION
IS URGED IN BILL
Capper Measure Would Con-
tinue Veteran District
Official in Service.

DR.. william Tindall, veteran District
oficial, who has become an authority
on municipal affairs through 81 years
of service, and who faces automatic re-
tirement in August under existing law,
would be retained under a bill intro
duced in the Senate yesterday after
noon by Chairman Capper of the Dis
trict committee.
When the bill was brought before the
District committee late yesterday Com
missioner Reichelderfer said he and
Gen. Herbert B. Crosby had discussed
the matter informally since coming into
office and expressed the belief that no
one in the District would voice an OBJ
lection to passage OF the bill.
Case Regarded as Unusual.
Commissioner Reichelderfer said the
former Board of Commissioners was
technically justified in the position 1t
took, but he described DR.. Tindalls case
as a Every unusual one" and one that
probably would not arise again in the
next rs years. After expressing his own
view DR.. Reichelderfer said:
Some people think Gen. Crosby Is a
military martinez, but they are wrong.
for he has taken deep interest in this
case
Engineer Commissioner Ladue de-
scribed Dr. Tindall as "a mine Of in
formation on the history of the District
government" and man we would like
to see retained"
Early Action Expected.
DR.. George c. Havenner. president of
the Federation of Citizens Associations,
and Grover w. Ayres also Endorsed the
bill. The committee is expected to take
action within a few days.
DR.. Tindall's service began even be-
fore the present form of District gov
eminent was established. For many
years he was secretary to the Board of
Commissioners and is now head of the
municipal Bureau of Information.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-23

Courtship is comparatively new In
the world, but alimony and trial mar
riages are very old, and monogamy
is practically universal, 1t was explained
at the annual meeting of the Catholic
I Anthropological Conference at Catholic
University yesterday.
The days program was taken up en-
tirely with discussion Of the family
among different peoples.
While in theory the husband is abSo-
lutte owner of the wife in India, said
DR.. Biren Bonnerjea, professor OF Hin
dustani at the Holy Cross Foreign Mis-
sion Seminary, in practice she is mis-
tress of the household and the equal
partner of her spouse. Evils Of infant
marriages, he insisted. have been great
" exaggerated, since they are only cere-
monial in nature.
While polygamy is permitted, ne
said. 1t is practically non-exiStent In
India. Thus the last census showed
only 1908 married women per 1000
males. Except among the very wealthy.
he said, a man seldom takes another
wife unless the first is childlesS, and
even then a child usually is adopted.
Sons, he said, are considered necessary
by the Hindu religion to save the par
ents from damnation.
Marriage Governed by Stars.
The Hindu marital ceremonies, he
pointed out, are governed on every hano
by the positions of the stars, and none
would think of marrying without the
services of a professional astrologer.
Marriages can be performed only In
Courtship is practically unknown in
China, Shi-Lin- Chao of Johns Hopkins
University told the conference, and the
Chinese regard the Western custom as
absurd. They characterize it as tax
ing a kettle of boiling water of the
stove to COOL" while the Chinese mar
rage is setting a kettle Of cold water
on the stove to heat" The Oriental
system, he insisted, results in just as
happy and devoted partnerships.
Monogamy is also the rule in China,
he insisted, except among the very
wealthy, but polygamy is legal: Few
can afford more than one wife: ano
there are not enough women to go
around. Under the Chinese system, he
explained, the family is the police pre-.
cinct, school district and parish, and
is the foundation of all the national
institutions. The sun Is considered the
father of all life, and the parents as
partaking of the quality OF the sun,
whence arises ancestor worship.
Irish Family PatriarchaL
The ancient Irish family was patri-
archal, said Rev. James A. Geary, IN
structor in Celtic languages at Catholic
University. Dowry and bride price, he
said, constituted an equal exchange.
Divorce was permitted the husband II
the wife was childless or to the woman
if he brought another wife into the
house, but in the latter case he had to