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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
Appointee of Commissioners
Succeeds C. B. Hunt and
Receives Extra Tribute.
DUTIES MAY BE SPLIT
WITH DEPUTY IN OFFICE
Retiring Officer Given Watch,
Chain and Knife as Surprise
by Department Force.

The District Commissioners yesterday
appointed Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst.
former co-ordinator and chief engineer
Of the District, to the post of engineer
of highways, made vacant by the re-
tirement of G. B. Hunt. The place
carries a salary of $500. Capt.
Whitehurst's old job paid $6.400.
The order promoting Whitehurst
made him engineer Of highways at q
salary of $500 and simultaneously
awarded him a promotion to $500 "as
a recognition of meritorious and excep-
tional services"
Although not mentioned in the order,
it is expected that Capt. Whitehurst
will effect a substantial split of the
duties of head of the Highway Depart
ment with the present deputy engineer.
L. P. Robertson, Whitehurst taking the
field work and Robertson taking the Of
flee work, including Whitehurst's old
duties in co-ordinating the work of the
various Government and private agen-
cies whose work involves cutting up the
streets.
Resignation From Army.
Capt. Whitehurst, formerly an as
sistant Engineer Commissioner, re-
signed from the Army to take q post
with private engineering concern some
years ago. The District, unwilling to
lose his services, created the post Of CO.
ordinator and chief enginee r for him,
intending that it should be classified
as P, 8 $4,000 to $9,00o). The Federal
Classification Board, however, refused
to accept this classification, holding
that the duties were no more important
than those of the engineer of highways
They allocated the position as p. 6
($5, 900 to $6,500). Capt Whitehurst
accepted this classification and was
quickly promoted.
to the maximum grade.
Duties to BE Divided.
The present plans are to leave the
post of co-ordinator and chief engineer
vacant, and split the duties Of this post.
as well as those Of the engineer Of
highways, among Robertson and White
hurst.
Mr.. Hunt was given q surprise re-
ception yesterday, and Capt. White
hurst, in behalf Of the workers in the
Highway Department, presented him
with gold watch, chain and knife.
Mr.. Hunt had been in the District
service more than 40 years, and had
helped develope the street system from
that Of village to that of an impor-
tant metropolitan area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
POLK SCHOOL SCENE:
OF CHILD CLINIC
Project viii Give PsyChiatric
and Mental Hygiene
Service.

The washington Child Guidance
Clinic will be opened September 1 in
the Polk Elementary School, Seventh
and p streets, it was announced today
by Miss Margaret Hagan of the Wash
ington Institute of Mental Hygiene, the
organization which is sponsoring the
clinic.
Arrangements for use of the school
building were completed yesterday be-
tween Harry o. Hine, secretary of the
Board of Education, and DR.. Loren B.
T. johnson OF the Mental Hygiene In
Stitute.
The psychiAtric director will be DR..
Paul ]. Ewerhardt, who has just re-
signed as director of similar clinics in
Providence. Miss Caroline j. Muskat
of Minneapolis will be the psychologist.
Several social workers are to be ap-
pointed.
The clinic will give psychiatric and
mental hygiene service to all District
children under 16 years old and will
cooperate closely with the public
schools.
1t is supported by funds from the
Community Chest. The chairman of
the board of managers is DR.. William
A. White of St. Elizabeth's Hospital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
BURGLARY HALTED
BY PISTOL SHOTS
Woman Chases Intruder
From Her Home-2 HoId-ups
Under Police Investigation.

Two hold-ups and an attempted
burglary, the latter frustrated when
the intruder was fired upon by his in
tended victim, this morning were be-
ing investigated by police Of the thir-
tenth and second precincts.
Mark D. Rorick, registered at the
Ebbitt Hotel, told police he was the
victim of an armed colored bandit
early this morning. He said the man
held him up at pistol point in the 800
block of Georgia avenue and relieved
him of SIC in cash, a watch and silk
handkerchief.
Police believe 1t was this colored man
who, a short time later, attempted to
gain entry to the home Of Mrs. Alice
Mayer, 1859 Jefferson street, but was
frightened away when Mrs. Mayer,
awakened by a noise at the basement
window, fired two shots from her re-
volver at the man. She reported moth
ing missing.
Walter Wardee, colored, of 1918 w
street, reported to police of the second
precinct that he was held up in front
of 1927 N street last night about 11:15
o'clock and robbed of $28 by three COL
ored men. He told the police he Sas
walking with Leila Smith, a friend,
when he was attacked. He said the
robbers disappeared in an alley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Partly cloudy
tonight and tomorrow; not much change
in temperature; gentle to moderate
southwest winds.
Maryland-Partly cloudy tonight and
tomorrow; not much change in tenn
perature; moderate to fresh southwest
winds.
Virginia-Mos fair tonight and
tomorrow; not much change in tenn
perature; gentle to moderate southwest
winds.
West virginia-Fair, slightly warmer
tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy.
Record for "a Hours.
Thermometers pm, SO; 8 pm, IT;
IL midnight, 70; 4 am, 10; 8 am, IA;
noon, IS.
Barometer-4 pm, 1899; 8 PM,
30.02; IL midnight, 3006; 4 am, 30.O7;
8 am, 30.08; noon, 30.07.
Highest temperature, IS, occurred at
11:15 am. today.
Lowest temperature, SO, occurred at
5 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, IS; lowest, SO.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey
Today-Low tide, 1858 am. and 9:07
pm; high tide, 2:l2 am. and 2:40 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 9:56 am. and
1905 pm; high tide, sos am. and
1897 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose sos am; sun sets
7:20 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 500 am; sun
sets 7:18 pm.
Moon rises 2:08 pm; sets 1853 pm.
Condition of the Water.
Potomac, clear; Shenandoah, very
cloudy.
Weather In Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
Benjamin Murphy Was Slow
Iy StrangIing When Found
In Car Early Today.
PHYSICIANS SURPRISED
VICTIM SURVIVED NIGHT
chauffeur, in Serious Condition in
Hospital, Is Expected
to Recover.

Lying face upward across the front
seat of his taxicab, with his hands and
feet tied and his head lashed to the
steering wheel by a knot which was
slowly strangling him, Benjamin Muir
ply, 26 years old, a colored taxicah
driver living at 1913 New Jersey ave-
rue, was found by workman after
daylight this morning where bandits
had robbed and left him on a lonely
byway on Bellevue road, not far from
the District Home for Aged and Inf1rm
w. G. Clampitt, carpenter employed
IA the construction of a culvert on
Bellevue road happened to swing his
automobile into the byway this morn
ing to turn it around
AS Clampitt's car came to a halt, he
heard faint groans and went to inveSti-
gate.
Murphy was sprawled face upward
IN his cab his back arched across the
narrow top of the front seat. The
drivers feet and hands were dashed
together with tarred rope and his own
necktie had been Topped about his neck
and knotted tightly to the steering
wheel.
Clampitt cut the mans bonds and
fastened for assistance. Police from
No. IL precinct, summoned by q tele-
phone call from Clampltt, tounQ the
colored man had lost consciousness and
took him to Casualty Hospital.
When the victim revived at the hos
pital this morning he was able to give
only broken bits of information.
In a barely audible whisper, Murphy
told police that three men, whom he
could not describe, had stopped him
downtown last night and ordered him
to drive through Anacostia.
Once in the country they seized him
from behind, drove the car into the
byway and robbed him of $50, Murphy
said. Then they trussed him up and
fed.
Doctors expressed surprise that Muir
ply could have survived the ordeal.
He apparently had been in the cramped
position for five or six hours. Had he
struggled to free himself the moose
which bound him to the steering wheel
probably would have choked him to
death.
Murphy, a large. robust man, was in
a serious condition at the hospital to-
day, but doctors predicted he would re-
cover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
MAI. PRATT BEGINS 35th YEAR
AS WASHINGTON POLICE OFFICER
Recalls Day He Traied Pair of Mules Ali Day Afoot
Because Of Poor Transportation

the mules, arrested the thief and rode
one of the mules home under the light
of the moon.
Things are different now, and as his
thirty-f1fth year starts Maj. Pratt is
planning to set up a radio sending sta
ton to broadcast messages relating to
automobiles cruising the entire District
"a hours a day.
Pratt was made an acting sergeant
In 1898 and assigned to the Detective
Bureau in 1900. He was made a de-
tective sergeant in 1908. He entered
the Army In 1917 and was honorably
discharged in 1920 with the rank of
lieutenant colonel. Returning to the
Police Department he was made an as
sistant superintendent in 1922 and
chief Of the Detective Bureau in 1926.
He has hela his present post since April
1, 1929.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
BREWER IS FREED
IN SPEEDING CASE
Dry Agent Gets Nolle Prose-
on Charge of AssauIting
Arresting Officer.

Charges of speeding and Of assaulting
the policeman who arrested him were
nolIe pressed by the Corporation
Counsel's office today against Prohibi-
ton Agent Randolph Brewer, following
his arrest last night by Policeman G. o.
Rouse of No. IL police precinct at
Minnesota avenue and Hunt street
southeast.
Rouse said he arrested the dry agent
after pacing his machine for several
blocks. He charged Brewer tried to
resist him. The Federal man was
escorted to the precinct station, where
he was required to leave $50 collateral
on assault and speeding counts.
The Police Court office Of the district
attorney declined to make out papers
in the case because, 1t was explained.
the policeman expressed a wish not to
prosecute. When the agent appeared
in Traffic Court for trial, Judge Gus
A. Schuldt was informed the corpora
ton counsels Office had entered nolle
PROSE- in the case.
Brewer proved to the satisfaction of
officials that he was hurrying into the
city to answer an emergency summons
from a superior of1cer pertaining to his
work as dry agent
In September of 1927 Brewer shot and
killed Charles p. Gundlach, 73-year-old
Maryland farmer, at Leonardtown dur
ing a liquor raid A Federal court in
Baltimore subsequently cleared him of
all charges In connection with the affair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
MAN, "SOBER AS JUDGE"
JAILED BY MAGISTRATE
Comparative Plea Fails to Save
columbus" From $40 Fine
for Drunkenness.

Columbus Mack, colored. arraigned
in Police Court yesterday morning for
being drunk, swayed from side to side
and told the court that he was as sober
as the judge" He was fined $40.
The colored boy, who said that he
was -four days out of de South was
arrested early yesterday by Policeman
r. E. Williams of the second precinct,
who found him staggering up Sixth
street. He was brought Immediately to
court. 1t was obvious that he was still
intoxicated when brought before Judge
Ralph Given.
How do you plead to being drunk"
asked the clerk.
I'm sober as the judge" said Mack.
What do you mean by getting SO
drunk?" reprimanded the magistrate.
Nov, judge, don't bawl me out"
pleaded Mack, IT can't stand much
more. My nerves are going back on
me-"
"All right, pay $40 or go to jail"
The judge told bailiff to see that
the man remained in the Police Court
jail until he was sober enough to be on
the street once more.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
Deaths Reported.

The following deaths have been reported
TO the Health Department in the past "a
Miriam Radcliffe, ST. 1926 18th st..
Richard Kohne, 70, q. 8. soldiers Home
James w. Barnes, "a. St. Elizabeth's Hos
Martha RuddIesden, 70, Nome for Aged
and Inhrm.
Elizsbeth r. sksen. "a. 1851 Park. I'd.
John r. King. ST, s25 w st. ne.
Ida NJ. sinkins. 90, Casualty Hospital
Hazel l.. johnson, So. GEORGETOWN univer-
Fannie v. Apperson, Q. GeorEetown Uni
Sarah Coleman. IS, 2323 champlain ut.
Claudia Davis. IS, 2035 18th st.
Charles z. Miller. 90, Gallinger HOSPITAL.
Freddie Fleming, e, 636 Orleans pl, ne.
1nez Harris, "a. qallinger Hospital,
Lille NJ. Taylor, 8, Geiltnger Hospital:
Beta Williams, 3 Childrens Hospital.
Esther Fisher, months, Freedmen's Hos
5ital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
YOUTH FALLS IN RIVER.
SAVED BY COMPANION
Unable to Swim-Loses Balance
While Walking Along Ana
costa Sea Wall.

Tumbling from the sea wall on the
west side of the Anacostia River last
night, Stanley j. Probst, 10 years old
of 1910 D street southeast, was saved
from drowning by q companion, John
H. Gakin, az years old, Of the same
address.
The two men were strolling along
the river bank when Probst, who can
over. Gakill, fully clad, dived into the
water and hauled the youth ashore
and instructed passerby to summon
the Fire Rescue Squad and the Casu
atty Hospital ambulance.
Probst was given first-aid treatment
by the fire and hospital units and then
carried to his home by Gakill. Probsts
condition was pronounced not serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
MAI. PRATT ORDERS
POLICEMEN SHIFTED
Five Privates of Third Precinct
Transferred and Others Or
dered to Fill Posts.

Five privates of the third police pre-
cinct were shifted to other precincts
at O'Clock Yesterday morning under
changes recently ordered by Maj Henry
G. Pratt. superintendent of police. Pvt.
j, B. Waddell also was transferred from
the fifth to fourteenth precinct and
changed places with Private F. S. Mar
shall.
Those transferred from the third and
the precincts to which they are now
attached are: Privates r. E. Cannon to
eighth, Emmett Sullivan to twelfth,
T. E Marquis to twelfth, Ohio
A. Johnson to ninth and L. H.
Gentry to second. The men ordered
from other precincts to take their places
at the third were Pvts. r. w. Hopkins,
eighth John Scheuring, twelfth; r. H.
Taylor twelfth; c. w. Hinton, ninth,
and L. E. Cline, second.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02

Mai. Henry G. Pratt. superintendent
of police, began his 35th year of service
as a policeman yesterday. He started
as a private attached to the seventh
precinct. In those days there was
little in the way of public transporta-
ton, and policeman were pavement
Founders in fact as well as in name.
Mai. Pratt recalls q time when there
was q report of pair of mules stolen
from near what is now Walter Reed
Hospital. He was able to take horse
car to Fourteenth and Park road, and
walked the rest Of the way to the scene
of the theft. When he got there, he re-
ceived q Tip" that the mules could be
arrived there, his next tip was to the
effect that the mules were on q farm
near Marlboro. So he set out (still
afoot) for Marlboro. There he found
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
MRS. SHEPHERD SUES
Cruelty and Non-Support of Two
Alleged of Printing Employe.

Malvina r. Shepherd, said to be a
telephone operator at Casualty Hos
pital, has filed suit in the District SUI
preme Court for limited divorce from
Frederick H. Shepherd, an employe of
were married March /, 1925, at Wau-
kegan, ILL.,, and separated March /,
1929. Mental cruelty and refusal to
support her and the child are alleged
by the wife. Efforts at a reconciliation
have proved futile. she tells the court.
Attorney Raymond Neudecker appears
for the wife
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
Dolores Del Rio to Wed.

SANTA BARBARA, Calf, August
2 CD.-An application for marriage
license was filed here yesterday by
Dolores Del Rio, Aim star, and Cedric
Gibbons, motion picture art director,
whose forthcoming marriage next
Wednesday was announced in Los
Angeles Thursday by the actress.
Miss Del Rio gave her age as "a
and Gibbons said he was 40.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
CIVIL SERVICE TESTS
Bureau Of Agricultural Economics
Board Needs Helpers.

The United States Civil Service Com
mission has announced that the Bu-
reau of Agricultural Economics OF the
Department of Agriculture is In need of
assistant and associate warehouse ex-
aminers and that applications for the
places viii be accepted by the commits
sion until August 80. Entrance salaries
range from 81, 500 to $3,700 year. Full
information may be obtained from the
commission.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
SODALITY ON OUTING
Members of Union Enjoy Excursion
to Chapel Point.

An excursion to Chapel Point, Md,
aboard the Wilson Line steamer City
of washington, was made today by the
sodality union. The party left the
Seventh Street wharves at 9 O'Clock.
Benediction will be held at 3 O'Clock
this afternoon in the historic old st.
Ignatius' Church, overlooking Chapel
Point, and dinner will be served in Wills
Hotel.
The committee in charge Of arrange
ments includes Miss Mary Mattingly.
Miss Elizabeth Milovich, Miss Catherine
Mcmahon and Mrs. Anna Donnelly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
HUSBAND AND WIFE ASK
COURT TO CHANGE NAME
Isaac and Tessie Lisansky Allege
Pronunciation Difficulties in
Petition for "Lisann."

Tessie S. Lisansky, 1910 Wisconsin
avenue, a school teacher, and her hus-
band, Isaac. have fled joint petition
in the District Supreme Court to change
their names to LiSann. The peculiar
juxtaposition Of liquid and sibilants
renders the name Lisansky difficult to
retain and pronounce, the court is in
formed, and causes the teacher and her
husband great Inconvenience and en-
barassment. Mrs. Lisansky also points
out that as teacher she is "in con-
slant association with Subnormal chill
dren of tender age and that the con-
slant struggle to impregnate their minds
citation of her present name results in
great annoyance, loss of time and pro-
fessional efficiency"
Attorney Louis B. Arnold represents
the petitioners.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
Child Hurt in Fall.

While playing on a porch at her
home, 725 Twelfth street southeast,
yesterday afternoon, Elizabeth A. Craw-
ford, 5 years old, accidentally fell to
the ground and was severely injured.
She was treated at Casualty Hospital
for possible fracture of the skull and
shock. Her condition was reported
serious.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
BOY CYCLlST HURT
James Hammond, IL, Hurled to
Street in Collision With Auto.

James Hammond, II years old, Of
GIT Roxboro place, escaped with minor
head injuries yesterday afternoon when
an automobile driven by Gerald Bar
tholomew, 35 years old, Of 1918 Con-
necticut avenue, struck his bicycle and
hurled him to the street The accident
occurred near the boys home.
Hammond was taken to Walter Reed
Hospital and later was sent to Emer-
gency, after which he was allowed to
return to his home. The car driver
was not held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
Champion Commuter Still at It.

CHATHAM, N j., August (P)-Ad-
Olson H. Day, champion commuter Of
these parts, has started his sixty-second
year as daily train passenger, Sundays
and holidays excepted, to New York. He
is bank official, and remembers the
days of gced-burning stoves and kero-
sene lamps in the cars.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
LISTED ONE-WAY STREET
Commissioners Order Classics
Thoroughfare in Northeast.


The District Commissioners today
named B street northeast between
Maryland avenue and Third street a
one-way street for eastbound traffic
only. This was made necessary be-
cause of the installation of two-way
traffic lights at the intersection of
Maryland avenue and B street and
Third street, where six trafic arteries
converge.
dalton of Director Of Traf1c William H.
Harland. Inspector Ernest w. Brown, in
clnrge Of the Police TRAFFIC Bureau,
concurred in the change, but added:
However, am of the opinion that con-
sideration should be given looking to
the installation of a three-way traffic
signal at intersections of this character
instead of establishing one-way streets"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
BAD CHECK IN PAYMENT
Drug Store Reports swindle Per
petrated on Delivery of Goods.

A message was received at Morgan's
drug store, Thirteenth and p streets,
yesterday afternoon requesting the de-
livery of an order for a jar of cold cream
toothbrush, aspirin tablets and tooth
paste to man at house in the 1900
block Of Twenty-eighth street. the
sender Of the message asking that the
porter be given change for 500.
The man received the package and
change and gave the porter a check
for $40. Police were told the check
was worthless.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
GIRL GETS 80 DAYS
Convicted Of shoplifting by Judge
Mattingly.

Carrie Parker, alias Carrie Eubank,
colored, was sentenced to serve 80 days
In jail by Judge Robert Z. Mattingly
when convicted Of Shoplifting at Police
Court yesterday.
A floorwalker Of a large downtown
department store testified that he saw
the girl take q dress from a store
hanger and place it in shopping bag
which she carried on her arm. A
search revealed not only the dress, but
a pocketbook as WELL
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TO-DAY.

Carnival, Brightwood Rebekah Lodge,
Georgia avenue and Taylor street, to-
night.
FUTURE.
Lawn party, Petit Auxiliary No. g.,
q. S. w. ", Sixth street and North
Carolina avenue southeast, Monday and
Tuesday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02
UNDER NEW CONTROL


The District Commissioners today
transferred control of the Smallpox
Hospital from the health officer to the
superintendent of Gallinger Municipal
Hospital. The hospital Is built on the
same reservation rs Ga1linger and the
change was made in the interests OF
simpler and better administration.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-02

The coolest recorded locality is in
Northern Siberia, where the mercury
drops b 80 degrees below zero.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-05-17
Lark Woman Is Dead
After Long Illness

Mrs. Minnie B. Thompson, Al, wife
Of Theodore G. Thompson, Lark, died
in this city at 1l:l5 o'clock last night.
She had been ill over a period Of two
years, apparently from the after ef-
fects Of a delayed appendicitis opera
ton. She entered a local hospital
several times in that period, spending
five months at n time and came
here again December q for treat
ment.
Funeral arrangements are for serv-
ices Monday afternoon at Lark, some
minister of the Adventist church to
officiate.
Mrs. Thompson wa a native of
Iowa and a brother, John Culver. still
lives there. Arrangements for the
funeral are being held up pending
word from him and from a sister,
Mrs. Norma B. DeLong, of st. Paul.
Mrs. Thompson was twice married.
She leaves seven children by her first
marriage, Gladys. Leola, Grace. Thel-
ma, Glenn, Herbert and Harold
Brown. and three children by her Sec
ond marriage. Luella, Theodore G. Jr.,
and Melvin Thompson. Her mother.
Mrs. Dora Culver, lives at Carson and
a brother. Fred Culver is a resident
of Lark, while. another. Ralph. lives
at Mott. Another sister is Mrs. John
Stevenson, OF Flasher.