Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-30

point where you suspended a few mo-
ments ago, and go ahead?
A. After ! finished talking to the
telegraph company ! called Mr.. Nc
Lean on the telephone. l had bust
ness transaction up with him for the
past year as concerns the building of
an apartment mouse on the site where
my Office Is, and it has neceSSitated
my getting in touch with him on nu-
merouS occasions.
When I called him usually called
him around $50 or quarter of IN
the evening He works in the Depart
ment of Agriculture, goes home on the
cars and has quite a long walk after he
leaves the cars and it has always been
my knowledge that could not get him
on the phone before 6 O'Clock.
At about that juncture Mrs. Camp
bell called in, hurrying Eddie up with
his bath and getting ready for this
Scout meeting, and, incidentally, hop
ped on me for not leaving the tele-
phone alone and coming to dinner.
had one more call to make, to
Mr. Manoukian, and I made that call
bsfore I went to dinner. There had
been some conversation between Ed
die and /, as I remember, between the
conversation with Mr.. Mclean and Mr..
Manoukian. as to reasons for his not
getting ready earlier in the afternoon
when he had been home since 8 or 4
O'Clock -
Takes Edwin to Meeting.
We had dinner and told Mrs. Camp
bell that I would take Edwin up to
the Scout meeting. / finished dinner,
as near as 1 can remember, about z
O'Clock. and asked Mrs. Campbell II
she would go in with us and leave
Eddie by the Scout meeting and so to
a show or a movie. She said, no. she
had to bake a cake, and explained to
me that that was what she wanted
with the cake box. that Sunday was
Mrs. Goodies birthday and that she
wanted to take a cake in the next
morning, and for that reason she would
have to stay home and bake the cake.
I went on outside. and when I went
out Eddie was in his uniform and was
to all appearances ready for the Scout
meeting. I went on out and got into
the machine and started the motor,
and it seems that I sat there possibly
5 or minutes-probably it was not
nearly so long-and / got impatient
and started blowing the horn, and
Eddie came out of the front door Of
the house with his Scout belt, sticking
it in his pocket as he came out. He
said he couldn't get it on.
We left there and drove across the
Highway Bridge straight out Four
tenth street. remember distinctly
slooking at the clock on the United
States Savings Bank. don't know
why it is that we always look at clocks
in different parts of town very rapidly
as We pass them. but can name that
one and the one on the Colorado
Building and the one on r. p. Andrews
on Thirteenth street as being clocks
that / look at very regularly when /
pass them, and it Is very distinctly In
my mind that it was 20 minutes past
7 when / passed the corner OF Four
tenth and u streets.
We proceeded on up to Park road
and turned west on Park road to the
church. I don't know the name OF the
church: it is on the north side OF the
street The Scout meetings are held in
the basement of this church. 1t was
at a time in the evening when the
street was very crowded with machines,
very probably from the fact that the
Tivoli Theater is right on the corner,
and bowling alleys and one thing and
another. At any rate, ! couldn't get
the car to the curb, and / parked
abreast. Several boys were standing
in the doorway. You go down the steps
to the veStibule, and several boys were
standing there. I cut the motor and
got out of the machine and went into
the church, just inside the door, spoke
to Mr.. King and, as remember, made
the remark, Better late than never"
or remark similar to that. am not
at all sure about that, but it is my
recollection that I made that sort of
. remark.
talked to him, don't believe, more
than a minute or two, and went back
out and two or three of the boys were
standing there talking and heard one
of them remark about that "good-look-
ing Hudson" or some such remark.
Went by Home Of Smiths.
I got into the car and drove over to
Sixteenth street, drove out Sixteenth
street to- Hamilton, drove east on Ham
ilton to $40, which Is the home of Mr.,
and Mrs. Roy l.. Smith,, whom I have
known for some time. 1t is also the
home Of Mrs. Marian Stewart, who
testified yesterday.
reached there, as near as can re-
member, at about quarter of or 10
minutes of 8, and stayed there until
about quarter of or 10 minutes of or
maybe 8 o'clock. am not at all posi-
tive about the exact minute of my de-
parture.
had taken a radio up there. AS a
side line sell radios for Arthur F.
Campbell in the town of Potomac.
have sold q nAmber for him, and took
a radio up there on this night. Mr..
Smith was upstairs in the bedroom, as
was Mrs. Smith, Ill. Mrs. Stewart was
in another room, i'll. ! called up and
asked Roy If he wanted the radio up
there or If he wanted 1t down in the
living room. He said Put 1t down
there" 1t was a Fada radio. I took
the holster radio they had on the
table, table set, out and disconnected
machine ana brought fhis radio back
aud set II up. Thsy ultimately de-