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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
AMBUSHED ENEMY
WOUNDS TRUCKER
Thomas C. CaIIaS Recently
Threatened by Former En-
pIoye, Police Told.

Thomas c. Callas, 80 years old, Alb
Third street operator of fruit and
vegetable wagon, was shot and serious
ly wounded in the chest by one of two
unidentified men who apparently lay
in wait for him at the garage in rear
of his home early today. He is in
Emergency Hospital, where his condi-
ton is reported critical.
The shooting occurred about 4 o'clock
this morning when Callas was prepar-
ing to take his truck out of the garage
to go to Center Market to get supplies
for the days business.
Callas, according to police. got only
glimpse of the men, who were stand
ing in the alley. He was not sure
whether they were white or colored
The men fled Immediately.
When shot CallaS ran into the house
shouting, They have killed me-" rela-
tives said Police were summoned and
the man was taken to the hospital in
the patrol wagon.
Callas' wife, Mrs. Sophie Callas; his
two brothers, George c. Callas, who
conducts a restaurant in Georgetown,
and James G. Callas, who operates a
fruit wagon, were in the house.
Police of No. precinct found small
pearl-handled revolver in nearby Union
court, located between D and E and
Second and Third streets, with which
they think the shooting was likely done
They are seeking today to trace the gun
with view to aScertaining its owners
and getting any possible figerprints
from it. The gun was located by Police
men r. M. White and A. C. Paulsen.
One cartridge in the pistol had been
discharged.
Relatives told police today that Callas
had recently discharged man who had
been working for him and that the man
had said he would get him" Whether
revenge, or perhaps robbery was the
motive is uncertain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
Chesapeake Beach Painter
Tip Discovered False in
Murder Case.
BREWSTER RESUMES
WORK IN ARMY STABLE
Board of officers Expected to Dis.
cuss Keeping Soldier Who Gained
Notoriety as Suspect.

Washington headquarters detectives
have followed another unproductive trail
in their search for Herman H. Barrere,
the elusive painter, who is wanted for
questioning in connection with the
murder of Mary Baker.
Acting on information that an itin-
Grant painter, whose description re-
sembles that of Barrere, had been
working on various painting projects at
Chesapeake Beach, Md, the detectives
Yesterday investigated and found that
they had been given another false lead.
The painter was found and besides es-
tabliShing the fact that he was not
Barrere, the Investigators discovered
that he did not even bear the slightest
resemblance to the missing suspect.
Tattoo Marks Are Missing.
Information given the detectives was
to the effect that the painter at Ches
apeake Beach had tattoo marks on his
arm which he concealed by keeping his
shirt sleeves buttoned tight around his
wrists Barrere is known to have a num-
Der of tattooed pictures and emblems
on both of his arms. The Chesapeake
Beach painter, however, was free from
tattoo marks.
A number of reports have come to
police headquarters this week that
Barrere is hiding in the vicinity of
Washington, but some of the investiga-
tors feel confident that he has left
the country. Being native of Louisiana
and conVerSant with the Spanish Ian
guage, it is believed that he may have
gone to Mexico.
Howard L. Brewster, the soldier who
was arrested by Arlington County
on warrant charging him
with the. murder of Miss Baker and
released after being held for more than
a month in the Arlington County Jail,
is back at work in the Army remount
stables.
Brewster Action Undetermined.
Capt. A. r. Boiling, commander of
the Headquarters Company, to which
Brewster is attached, said official steps
had not yet been taken to determine
the soldiers future career. Plans have
been made, however, he explained, to
create a board of Army officers to decide
he should be kept in the service
in view of the notoriety he attracted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
CAPITAL SAVED FROM INVASION
BY DESPERATE COUNTERATTACK
Tanks, Barrages, Gas, Brought Into Play
as Mimic Enemy Force Is Stopped
Four Miles Away.

artillery wagons and dusty trucks loaded
with human reinforcements.
Above all could be heard the thun-
dering of cannon, anti-aircraft guns,
machine guns and rifles. The Ameri-
can troops, greatly outnumbered by the
enemy forces, waged a decisive strug-
gle from daybreak until late in the
afternoon and had the weary satisfac-
ton of knowing that one of the crises
of the invasion had been passed safely.
1t is expected the enemy will make
a last desperate effort tomorrow to
achieve it's objective of capturing Wash
ington. Baltimore and the Pittsburgh
industrial area. If the final drive fails,
and hopes are high here that it will,
the Reds" as the invaders are called,
will withdraw to their fleet, at anchor
in Herring Bay, and call it quits. Where
upon there will be much rejoicing
among the triumphant Blues" prior
to rehabilitation.
Local Troops at Bowie.
PLAYING a major part in the counter
attack today was the Goth Division,
commanded by Maj. Gen. Anton
Stephan of Washington, and made up
largely of boys from the District of
Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.
Using the maximum fire of all its
weapons. and aided by Company B, 1st
Chemical Regiment, the 29th set upon
the enemy in the front. Gaining the
aid of the 62nd Calvalry Division. 10
the right, the goth Division drove hard
against the enemy lines left of the
center and assisted in the main attack
by preventing diversion of hostile fire
and troops.
While it has been regarded as a
military secret, The Stars correspon-
| dent learned that the Washington bows
are encamped near Bowie, not far from
a certain oval familiar to many of
| them for its pleasant, and sometimes
not so pleasant, memories of the race
season. Fortunately for the war, there
were no race horses in sight to dis
tract attention from the serious bust
| ners in hand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
SERGT. RUSSELL QUITS
CAPITAL POLICE FORCE
Retires After 38 Years and z
Months Service-Friends
Present Gifts.

Sergt Sidney L. H. Russell, SO years
old, of the Harbor Police, was retired
yesterday at his own request after 38
years and months of service on the
police force. He was given a pension
of $3.50 per annum.
His friends at the precinct presented
him with gifts of tobacco, cigars and a
pipe. Russell an dhiS wife live at 1348
Emerson street northeast. He had been
assigned to the harbor precinct for the
last eight years.
TRAFFIC Policeman Joseph Sincovitz
formerly stationed at the corner OF
Seventh street and Pennsylvania ave-
nue., was made a detective sergeant yes
terday and assigned to the automobile
squad. Detective Sergt. Eugene Davis
formerly of the automobile squad, will
replace Sergt. Ira E. Keck on the bad
check squad, now that Keck has been
made a personal aide to Police Com
missioner Herbert B. Crosby. Sincovitz
will take Davis place on the auto squad
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
STRIKING LATHERS
RETURN TO WORK
WITH HIGHER WAGE
LaborerS on Four Buildings
Given Increase From SIP
to $13 Per Day.
UNION MEN QUIT JULY |
AT DEMAND REFUSAL
Status of Work on Four Other
Structures Where Raise Is
Refused Uncertain.

Union fathers employed on a group
of large building projects here, who
went on strike July l, in support of
their demands for increased wage, have
won out in the contest with the employ
ing contractors of four projects and
have returned to work with an i'm
mediate increase from $12 to $13 per
day agreed upon, according to an an
nouncement today by union official.
Lathing work has been resumed by
union tradesmen, it was reported, on
the huge new home of the Department
of Commerce on Fourteenth street in
the Federal triangle; on the remodel
ing project in the Washington Building,
Fifteenth and G streets, which is to be
the new home of Parker-Bridget Co.,
clothierS: on the new dormitory build
ing on the campus of Georgetown Uni
versity. in Georgetown, and on the adj
dition to the store building of Frank
r. Jelleff, Inc, 1916 F street.
The union fathers on these jobs, 1t
is stated, have been given current in
crease of 81 per day in wages. The
strike was called following refusal of
the local Employing PlaSterers' Associa-
ton to accept the demand for $13 per
day, effective July /, and $14 per day,
effective october 1.
While reports from authentic sources
today were that the boost in pay had
brought union men back to their jobs
on the four. projects listed, the status
of the lathing work on four other prof.
ects here was not clear except that the
wage increase had not been granted.
These projects involve construction work
on a church, two church educational
structures and a large commercial
building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
PULLED FROM RIVER
AFTER SUICIDE ATTEMPT
Frank P. Sullivan Gives Despond.
ency as Cause After Police
Rescue.

Frank p. Sullivan, "a years old, of
the 400 block of Kentucky avenue
southeast, was rescued from the Eastern
Branch by harbor police this morning
after he tried to end his life by leap
ing from the Anacostia Bridge.
Sullivan, formerly a fireman at
Emergency Hospital, told police he was
respondent because he could not find
work. He was taken to Gallinger Hos
pital
B. T. Stull, Ali Fourth street north
east, veteran draw operator at the
bridge, noticed the man leap from the
west railing of the bridge. At the same
time Stull saw the harbor police near
ing the bridge and summoned their aid.
Harbor police cruised near the point
where Sullivan disappeared beneath the
surface and when he reappeared threw
him a life preserver. Sullivan refused
to take hold of the life preserver, and
police were forced to hook his cloth
ing with graphing iron and haul
him into the boat.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
BY REX COLLIER,

FORT GEORGE G.. MEADE, Md,
July 16.-Complacent Washington little
realized how close it came to being
captured today by merciless army OF
foreign invaders, who landed secretly a
few days ago near Annapolis and, but
for the valiant defenses of doughboys
entrenched in this sector, would have
taken the Capital ere now.
Bringing into play a fearsome fleet
of snorting tanks and mile-wide barrage
OF toxic gases, defending forces OF the
Third Corps Area pushed the enemy
back at a threatening bend in the line
and succeeded in restoring the original
30-mile front
military stratagem by which tank
regiments and chemical forces were
rushed to the front under cover OF
darkness paved the way for the deadly
counter-otfensive today and saved the
Capitol and the White House from a
repetition of the scenes of 1914
AS the tide of invaders was turned
PACK the enemy lines had advanced to
the vicinity of Millersville, within four
or five miles of the District line. II
was close shave for the Nations
Capital
Situation Still Critical.
And the danger is not yet over, &C.
cording to the military strategists di-
recting this first great war" In which
Regulars, Organized Reserves and, Ma
tional Guardsmen of the Washington
area have competed since the rea
conflict of 1918.
1t was supposed to be all play, OF
course, but to war" correspondents
escorted to the front line trenches
today it looked enough like war tt
deserve the appellation made famous by
Gen. Sherman.
Overhead there zoomed combat
planes engaged in thrilling dog fights
and over the rough terrain below
rumbled huge tan6s of postwar design
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
Births Reported.

Matthew and c. Ruth Mills, twins (bo
md Crib.
Roberto D. and Margery c. Metendez boy
Rtdgely w. and Louise Axt, boy
BENJAMIN and Rose Eanet, boy.
Kenneth and Emma c.. Sterner. boy.
BENJAMIN F. and Ann English, boy
Francis A. and Virginia Norris, boy.
Bernard and Gertrude Goldstein. boy.
John H. and Phyllis A. Stockman, boy.
Herbert E. and Rose NJ. Rich, boy.
Eddie G.. and Leila l. Jones, girl.
Lloyd c.. and Anna NJ Balkan, girl.
Manuel and Dorothy Hyman. girl.
william A. and Agnes Skinner, girl.
David L. and Ethyl Kendall girl.
Ingvald r. and Frances Enes, girl.
Harvey b. and Eva A. Bolton, girl
Earl j. and Adelena Robinson, girl
Henry and Roberta Davis, boy.
Ossie and Ruby Coleman, boy.
Elmore and Jaunita Southern. boy.
Solomon and Alice Carter, boy.
Roy and Dora Fuller, girl.
Harry and Grace Branch, boy.
George and Margaret Cole, girl.
Frank S. ard Estelle Guy, girl
Edward and Ophelia Lancaster, boy.
Elmer D. apd Nellie WisemRn. boy
George and Elaine Houser, boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
GIRL SU|TOR SHOT
RALLIES SLIGHTLY
TRANSMISSION From Father
Aids, Though Condition
Still Critical.

Mary Raft, the 14-year-old girl shot
py Ross Willard Golden, who after
ward committed suicide in the house
at 1921 B street northeast Monday
afternoon, was still in a critical con-
dition in Casualty Hospital today.
The girl rallied somewhat following
a blood TRANSMISSION yesterday after
noon, the blood having been taken
from her father, Charles j. Raft, 923
Ninth street northeast While reported
resting somewhat better today, it is not
known yet whether she will recover.
The girl was shot by Golden in a
jealous rage after she is said to have
leased him about another man"
After shooting the girl, he shot his
sister. Lula Mills, 40. Golden then
turned the gun on himself.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
Number of Subpoenas Issued
by Senate Subcommittee,
but Names Not Given Out.
MORTGAGE MATTERS
WOULD BE REGULATED
Inquiry Set for Tomorrow, Is Ex-
pected to Be General
in Nature.

Hearings on a bill introduced by SEN
ator Blaine of Wisconsin to regulate the
foreclosure of mortgages and deeds of
trust in the District of Columbia and on
other matters relating to the real es-
tate business in the District will be be-
gun before the subcommittee on insur-
ance and banks of the Senate District
Committee at 10 am. tomorrow. The
hearing will be held in the Senate Dis
trict Committee room in the Capitol.
Senator Blaine is chairman of the sub
committee. The other members are
Senators Vandenberg of Michigan, Kean
and Baird of New Jersey, Glass of Vir-
ginia and Tydings of Maryland.
Authorized Last Year.
The Senate last year adopted a reso-
luton introduced by Senator Brookhart
of Iowa providing for full investiga-
ticn into the sale of real estate mort
gage notes, and bonds in the District
of Columbia. The hearing, which be-
gins tomorrow, is under the authority of
that resolution.
Senator Blaine prepared and had
passed through the Senate bill to
! regulate real estate agents in the Dis
trict of Columbia, which sets up a
board to license real estate agents. This
bill has not yet been acted upon in the
| House. Another bill introduced by Sem
ator Blaine, but which has not yet been
| acted upon in the Senate, proposes the
enactment of blue sky law" for the
! District of Columbia.
| SubpOenaes Are Issued.
| While the hearings tomorrow are ex-
| pected to deal particularly with the
| Blaine bill to regulate the foreclosure
| of mortgages and deeds of trust in the
District it also will be somewhat general
in nature, it was said today A number
of subpeonaes have been issued fol
witnesses to appear at the hearing to-
morrow, but Chairman Blaine has not
made public the list of those sub
| peonaed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
CHARGE DISMISSED
AGAINST POLICEMAN
Complainant Fails to Back Up AL.
legation About Unauthorized
Use of Firearms.

Charges of unauthorized use of fire.
arms filed against F. o. Brass, third
precinct policeman. were dismissed to-
day by the Police Trial Board.
The case was thrown out after James
Thomas, colored, the prosecuting wit
ness, declined to testify on the grounds
that he might incriminate himself He
already had sworn to statement in
which he charged Brass with shooting
him in the arm in the 800 block of
Twenty-fourth street. July 3, as he
was alleged to have been attempting
to escape in a rum-laden automobile
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
MAN SEIZED FLEEING
LIQUOR-LADEN AUTO
Prisoner Bound over to Grand Jury
for Possession of SO Half
Gallons.

William Marshall, colored, 400 block
of Neal place, arrested last night by
Policeman H. M. Smith of the eighth
precinct for transportation and posses
sion of So half-gallons of liquor, was
bound over to the grand jury under
the Jones-Stalker law In Police Court
today.
After following Marshall for several
blocks, Policeman Smith attempted to
stop the man at Third and T streets,
only to see Marshall leap from his
machine while it was still in motion
and take to his heels" Smith caught
the fugitive after a two-block chase,
while the abandoned car crashed into a
garage.
Smith reported finding whisky in the
car. A search of Marshalls residence
revealed cache containing 1873 quarts
of whisky, Smith declared.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
SCREAMS MAKE THIEF
FLEE WITHOUT PURSE
Colored Woman Says Youth Used
Shoe as "Club" While Try
ing to Rob Her.

Using a shoe as a CLUB" while he
tugged unsuccessfully at the purse in
his victims hand, an unidentified COL
ored youth was frightened away empty
handed by the screams of Mary Will
liams, colored, 600 T street, whom he
was attempting to rob, early last night.
The woman told police she was at
tackled b. the would-be purse snatcher
in the hallway of an apartment house
at 1742 u street.
She said she held tightly to the
purse, although the blows from the shoe
stunned her. Her screams finally fright
ened her assailant away.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
MAI. ARTHUR, JR., MAKES
ENGINEER DISTRICT TRIP
West Point Graduates Accompany
Official on Inspection Tour of
Washington Area.

Maj. Joseph d. Arthur, jr., acting
district engineer for the War Depart
ment inthe washington area, has Just
completed his first inspection trip
through the engineer district. He was
accompanied by small party of West
Point graduates.
They made the trip on the district
engineers boat, Chicago. The inspec-
ton trip included the Potomac River
rart of Chesapeake Bay and the Rap
L-hannock River.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
PURCHASE OF THREE
D. C. LOTS APPROVED
Commissioners Act on Acquisitions
for Municipal Center at $4,000,
$29,103 and $26,Sf0.

The District Commissioners yesterday
approved purchase of three lots for the
new Municipal Center The purchases
has taken over the duties formerly
performed by Assistant Engineer Com
missioner L. E. Atkins, transferred to
Alaska.
Lot ST, in reservation 10, was bought
from Catherine l.. Thicker and Charles
E. Cough for $1,000; lot 80. in square
$50, from Amy Gauvreau. for 29,103:
and lot A, reservation 10, from the
National Florence Crittenton Mission,
for $26,910.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
AIR DEATHS ARE FEW

Navy reports showed today that for
each death in an airplane accident
naval aviators flew l,0l5,OOO miles IN
the last fiscal year.
NAVY planes flew a total Of 100000
hours. and there was one death for each
145OO hours, IS compsredz with e,773
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
One-Eyed Auto Hit
As Menace on Road
In Judges Lesson

Judge Gus A. Schuldt's black
board lesson to motorists in Traf-
f1c Court today dealt with defec-
tive lights.
THE one-eyed auto is danger
GUS" said the court, and ito ap-
preaching cars it often has the
appearance of motor cycle and,
as result, not enough clearance
is allowed, causing collisions.
Keep your light lit"
Motorists were reminded that
"33 persons have been killed and
1858 injured" in automobile ac-
cidents in the District during
1890.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
MRS. HYDE IN HOSPITAL

Mrs. Arthur NJ. Hyde, wife of the
Secretary of Agriculture, today was adj
mitted to Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore. 1t is reported Mrs. Hyde
will undergo a minor operation. She
is expected to be in the hospital about
three weeks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
LEGION MEETS TONIGHT
sergt. Jasper Post to Elect Dele
gates to Convention.

The Sergt. Jasper Post No. ID, Ameri-
can Legion, will hold its monthly meet
ing tonight at the Thomas Circle CLUB
1926 Massachusetts, avenue.
The following delegates will be duly
elected to attend the department con-
vention at Western High School August
1915: Ferdinand G.. Fraser, Thomas
J. Frailey. Edward L. Marthill, John j.
Orlosky. Frances @. Mcdonald and
Joseph j. Malloy. :,
Comdr. Ferdinand c.. Fraser will pre-
side
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-16
TAXI INJURIES VETERAN
r. L. Lucas, Soldiers Home In
mate, Passenger in Collision.

HaIei THsseHger IN CoIIIsIOH'
r. L. Lucas, 86-year-old inmate OF
Soldiers Home, received decorations OF
the head and Commissions of the rlght
hip today when a taxicab in which ne
was riding was in collision at Ienth
and Q streets with an automobile opeI-
ated by James r. Smith, 81 years olo'
of Landover, Md.
The cab was driven by Lacoste COG JOG
bold, 80 years old, a driver Tor Lne
City Cab Corporation. Lucas was re-
moved tn the Soldiers Home Hospi'ai
and treated by DR.. II. NJ. williams.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-10-11

There might be more enthusiasm
over the report that Mayor Walker Is
to head the movie industry II 1. were
known for certain he would write the
gags.
There is always the danger that if
Haywood Broun Is elected to Con-
gress he might feel impelled, merely
because he is . writer, to be author
Of many bills.
With one party in Turkey fayorinr
the fez and the other the derby for
the national top-piece, 1t is a simple
matter for q candidate to
his platform by throwing his hat In
the ring.
Legionnaires attending the conyen-
ton IN Boston are looking so pros
porous that 1t would not be amiss to
call them now 'in-the-doughboys."
\ X X
The millionaire who attributed his
success to golf probably is the sort
who could swing his clubs to ad.
vantage.
A movement is on foot in Vimou.
tiers, France, to erect q statue to the
inventor Of Camembert cheese. Ma.
tives there are understood to be
strong for It.
Copyright. 1880. NEA Service, 1nc.)
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-10-11
The Hot Dog, 1805-1930
Isl. Paul Dispatch)

est. Paul Dispatch)
America has taken many European institutions and
adapted them to its needs. Some Of these borrowed in
situations it has improved upon, and not the least of
these is the hot dog.
The United States, therefore, has a vital interest in
and twenty-fifth birthday Of the Frankfurter. The
creator Of this wel-known sausage was one Johann
Georg Lahner, who deserves q sort of Immortality for
his contribution to the ~gustatory joys Of life. Those who
have q bent for nomenclature will be interested to
know that the inventor named his product after the
German city where he had learned the butchers trade.
This. no one can deny, was a beautiful sentiment nobly
expressed.
The American improvement on the Frankfurter was
its insertion, with plenty Of mustard, between the halves
Of a bun. BY this experiment the Frankfurter was
transformed into the hot dog, a typically American
institution. This Viennese product has been so thor
oughly assinailated into American life in the course of
years that its European antecedents had been quite for
gotten. America is grateful for the reminder.