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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
mrs. RICHARDSON
|. IS STRUCK BY AUTO
Assistant Attorney Generals
Mother, 81, in Serious Con-
dition at Hospital.

Mrs. Electa Richardson, 81 years old
mother of Seth w. Richardson, Assist
ant Attorney General of the United
States, is in a serious condition al
Emergency Hospital today from injuries
sustained when she was knocked down
by an automobile near her home, 543C
Connecticut avenue, last night.
Henry w. Heine, 38 years old, a
building contractor of 2816 Twenty
eighth street, driver of the machine
which struck the woman, was booked
at the fourteenth precinct and released
on $1,000 cash bond.
Autoist Describes Accidest.
Physicians at Emergency Hospital
said Mrs. Richardson was suffering
from compound leg fracture, a serious
pelyis injury, scalp cuts and severe
shocks. An X-ray to determine possible
internal injuries will be made today.
Heine, who took Mrs. Richardson to
the hospital, told police he was pro-
ceeding south on Connecticut avenue
when the accident occurred. He said
Mrs. Richardson, who was on her way
to church, suddenly stepped from be-
hind two parked autOmOblleS directly
into the path of his machine. Heine
said he swerved his automobile in an
effort to avoid striking Mrs. Richard
son, but was unable to do so.
A second woman, Mrs. Pauline For
noroff, 80 years old, of 100 Twenty
fifth street, was seriously injured when
she was struck by an automobile while
crossing the street near her home yes
terday.
Driver Held by Police.
Mrs. Fornorof was treated at Garfield
Hospital for a fractured left leg and
several fractured ribs.
Police later arrested the driver of the
automobile at his home in Virginia
Highlands He gave his name as Guy
H. Shawen. He is being held pending
outcome of the woman's injuries.
Robert P. Seaford, 38 years old, a
real estate man of 1908 Cortland place,
was charged with leaving the scene of
a collision last night after police charge
he crashed into parked machine in
front of 6607 Fifth street.
The damaged car is owned by Mrs.
Jennie Wilson, 1900 Connecticut ave-
nue.. Damage was estimated at $500.
Seaford was released on bond of $500.
TWO HURT IN CRASH.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
PARKED AUTO|ST
SHOOTS AT OFFICER
w. E. Smith, Treasury En-
pIoye, Is Held by Fairfax
Police.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX. Va, March lev. z.
Smith, % years old, of Alabama, a
craftsman in the United States Treas
ury Department, Washington, is in the
Fairfax County Jail today, charged with
shooting at an officer with intent to
kill after Carl Mcintosh of the Fairfax
County traffic police had a narrow
escape from death as result Of an
encounter on the Chain Bridge road
early yesterday.
Fairfax County police have been in
structed to break up petting parties and
vigorously enforce the antt-parklng Law
on public highways within their juris-
diction.
Officer Was in Uniform.
Mcintosh, who with the other police
officers of Fairfax County, wears a dis
tinctive uniform of light blue with black
cartridge belt and leggins. police in
sigma being prominently displayed on
his coat and the visor of his cap, APP
preached a parked automobile and was
met by the crack of pistol shot
Calling out that he was an officer,
he continued to advance, but powder
from a second shot scorched his face.
ACRAA~Ss
through the rear window and received a
third shot through the collar of his
coat
Drawing his own pistol, he then
threatened to shoot unless the driver
surrendered. Smith climbed out of the
car, holding hisehands high and drop
ping his pistol on the road.
Mcintosh escorted Smith and his girl
companion to the county jail. The girl
was released after investigation. In the
back of the machine we're found IL
targets. Smith, who has been in Wash
ington for only few months, is said
to have boosted to the officers of his
craftsmanship with a pistol and the
bulls-eyes of the targets seemed to
bear witness to his skill.
Held for Grand Jury.
He was taken before Justice of Peace
A. c. Richie at Fairfax yesterday and
pleaded guilty, waving preliminary
hearing. Judge Richie held him for
the grand jury which convened today.
Smith states he did not realize McIn-
tosh was policeman and thought he
was being held up.
Sheriff E. P. Kerby stated Smith IS
also liable to charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Possibilities of neutralizing the effects
of strychnine and of bringing patients
out of ether, morphine or amytal anaes-
thesia much more rapidly than normal
are seen from a series OF experiments
just reported in the proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences by Drs.
Wilder d. Bancroft and j. E. Rutzler,
jr., of Cornell University.
These effects, the two scientists re-
ported, were produced in rabbits by in
lection into their blood of small quanti-
ties of a chemical substance, sodium
thiocyanate. This drug was used after
experimental confirmation of theory,
first reported in France nearly rs years
ago. that the effects of various anaeS-
thetics we're produced by coagulation
of protein substances in the SenSory
have specific selectiVe effect on diff
ferent proteins.
The doctors then sought for a drug
which would have approximately the
opposite bio-chemical effect, and used
sodium thiocyanate, which did not ap-
pear to have any harmful effects on
the organism. Some of the results are
reported as follows:
Reflex Return fastened.
A rabbit was given ether until the
plete aneSthesia. After the ether cone
was removed the reflex returned in 270
seconds and the animal stood up of its
own accord in six and half minutes.
After several hours the experiment
was repeated, but the ether was given
one second longer, so that the animal
presumably was in a considerably deep
er anesthetic state. But in the last
minute a small amount of sodium
thiocyanate was injected into vein of
the ear. The lid reflex returned in so
seconds, more than five times as quick
ly as in the control animal. The rab
bit stood up of its own accord in four
and a half minutes.
More striking results were obtained
with the anaesthetic drug amytal, from
which the patient regains consciousness
much more slowly. A control rabbit
rendered insensible by amytal remained
in this state for 4 hours and IA min
utes. Another was given the same
amount of amytal, injected into a vein,
and four minutes after it was COM
pletely anaesthetiZed an extremely
minute amount of sodium thiocyanate
was injected. The lid reflex returned in
Is minutes. Even while the injection
was being made the animal raised its
head and moved its legs slightly.
THE animal never lost conscious
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
GINGELL STILL CRITICAL,
CLAGETT RITES HELD
Man Burned by Kerosene Blast
Remains in Dangerous Condi-
tion-Friend Buried.

Burned Friday night when a can of
kerosene being used to kindle a fire
exploded, j. Stanley Gingell of Rock
vile, Md, remained in a critical condi-
ton in Emergency Hospital today and
little hope was held out for his life.
The explosion which caused Gingell's
injuries fatally burned Lawrence G..
Clagett. a teacher at the National Train
ing School for Boys. The accident
occurred at the Poolesville, Md, home
of Clagett's mother, Mrs. Mary Clagett
of Salisbury, Md.
Funeral services for Clagett were
held this morning at $50 O'Clock at
the home in Poolesville of his uncle,
DR.. e. W. White. Rev. Guy H Crook,
rector of st. Peters Episcopal Church,
Poolesville, officiated, and burial was
at Petersville, Frederick County. Many
persons from various parts of the county
and elsewhere attended.
AS many Montgomery County police
men as could be spared from duty
attended the funeral. Clagett formerly
was q member of the force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
PUSH REALTY QUIZ,
BROOKHART URGES
Confidence Will Be Restored
When Proposed Laws Are
Passed, He Says.

Announcing that at the next session
of Congress he will urge continuation
of the Senate investigation into real
estate and security financing transac-
lions in Washington, Senator Brookhart
Republican, of Iowa, issued statement
last night in WHICH he expressed the
belief that when the inquiry is COM
pleted and the proposed new laws passed
confidence will be restored and Wash
ington can continue its remarkable de-
Yelopment."
In his statement Senator Brookhart
suggested an investigation of the az
fairs of the Commonwealth Finance
Corporation a number of years ago. The
Senator indicated he thought the in
quiry should be made to ascertain what
Co. may have been with the Common
wealth Finance Corporation.
Wants Others Convicted.
After pointing out that G.. Bryan
Pitts, former head of the F. H. Smith
Co, has been sentenced to serve IL
years in penitentiary, Senator Brook
hart in his statement added:
There are others besides Pitts who
should be made to pay for their crimes
against society and for helping to wreck
business in Washington At the next
session of Congress should aggressively
demand that others guilty of gross
crimes BE- punished. I shall press for
my resolution to continue a senatorial
investigation of commercial crime in
the City of Washington
The bankruptcy of the Common
wealth Finance Co. should be thorough
ly investigated for the purpose of find
ing out who are the guilty wreckers of
this corporation in order to lay the en-
tire matter b,fore the Department of
Justice and grand jury. If this is care
fully investigated we shall find if it was
by the hand of G. Bryan Pitts and of
officials and attorneys for both the
Commonwealth Finance Corporation
and the F. H. Smith Co., that its ruin
was accomplished"
Thousands Hold Stock.
Senator Brookhart said there are
1900 stockholders in the Common
wealth Finance Corporation scattered
throughout the United States.
Senator Brookhart added that "the
investigation should determine why
prosecution Of Pitts and other officials
Of both corporations was stopped in
1924 when the Senate District Com
mittee brought out so much rottenness
in Washington's real estate situa-
ton e"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
JAMES B. LAMBIE ESTATE
is VALUED AT S564,519
Will Directs Distribution Among
Number of Relatives After
Death of Widow.

James B. Lambie, prominent mer-
chant, who died February 2, left an
estate valued at 1854, Is, according
to the petition Of the Union Trust Co.,
his executor, for the probate of his
will. He owned real estate in the Dis
trict assessed at $188, SAB, property in
Florida valued at $40980 and land in
New York State estimated at $6,740.
His personal estate is estimated at
1923, 151.25.
BY the terms of the will his widow,
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Lambie, is to have
the household effects, $4,000 in cash
and life annuity of $4,000. She will
also have the use for life of the Florida
After her death, the Union Trust Co.
is directed to make distribution of the
estate among number of relatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
|ROCK CREEK SHIFT
FOR AUTO ROADWAY
PLANNED AT BRIDGE
Engineers Developing Park
Boulevard Project Under
QStreet Span.
SAME PROPOSAL MADE
FOR M STREET PASSAGE
Wider Highway Needed for Motor
ists-May Eliminate Expensive
Construction Jobs.

The bed Of Rock Greek will be moved
over to the westward in order to make
room for the development of a motor
road in the valley near the @ Street
Bridge, and engineers are considering d
like plan near the M Street Bridge, with
a consequent saving Of the cost of two
new bridges.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, director OF
public buildings and public parks, said
today that a wall is being constructed
on the east side in the shadow of the
Q Street Bridge out in the stream, so
That the road may be wide enough at
that point for cars passing under the
bridge. The action of the water, rush
ing down the valley, is expected to wash
away the west bank of the creek, but
this Will do no harm, Col. Grant ex-
planned.
DOuble-Deck Bridge.
Col. Grants Office is working in con-
junction with the District engineers on
the program for the new bridge at P
street, which has bearing on the
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway prof.
ect. The possibility of constructing a
double-deck bridge at that point, to
care for street car and motor traffic
spanning the valley, is being considered
Originally the Office of Public Build
ingS and Public Parks considered con-
structing a bridge across Rock Greek
in the vicinity of P street and carrying
the motor highway down the west bank
of the waterway, under the M Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue Bridges, cross
ing over to the east bank at X street
over a new bridge to be built there, so
that the valley project might link up
with the Arlington Memorial Bridge de-
velopment.
May Eliminate Bridges.
Under consideration now is the pos
sibillty of eliminating these two creek
bridges and having the parkway road
way travel all the way down from @
street, entirely on the east bank of the
creek. To do this. it would be neces-
sary to move Rock Greek over at NJ
Street Bridge and possibly also at Penn
sylvania avenue.
The engineers may shift the bed of
the creek at M street by building n
wall such as IS now being constructed
at @ street, but they are anxious to
see how the road will stand up at the
@ street point.
Col. Grant explained that at @ street
the road is comparatively straight in
the Rock Greek and Potomac Parkway,
but at M street there is a turn in the
creek, which increases the difficulty
there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
GUILTY PLEA ENTERED
IN CARD GAME KILLING
Ernest Carroll to Be Sentenced
Later in Death of Albert
A. Galbreath.

Ernest Carroll, colored pleaded guilty
today to murder in the second degree
when called for trial before Justice
Luhring in Criminal Division to an
swer an indictment for murder in the
first-degree in connection with the
death of Albert A. Galbreath, white
man. He was remanded for sentence.
The tragedy occurred February 16 at
CAROLS store, ITO L street, following
a disagreement over a card game. Car
roll reported to the police that he had
been robbed and Strewed a number of
81 bills about the body of his victim
and in his hands. Later he confessed
to police that he had shot Galbreath
after quarrel.
George E. Mcneil appeared for the
prisoner, while Assistant United States
Attorney James F. Hughes represented
the Government.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
C0R0NER'S JURY HOLDS
AUTO DEATH ACCIDENTAL
Miss Ethel F. Blair Exonerated in
Killing of Colored Woman on
Connecticut AYenue.

A verdict of accidental death was re-
ported by a coroner's jury at an inquest
at the Morgue today in the case of
Annie Thompson, so, colored, of the
800 block of Twenty-third street, who
was killed Saturday afternoon in a
traffic accident at Connecticut avenue
and r street.
The verdict exonerated Miss Ethel
Frances Blair, 26-year-old Government
employee of 23O1 Cathedral avenue.
driver of the machine which killed the
woman.
Two small colored children who were
crossing Connecticut avenue when the
accident happened were slightly in
jured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
DIES ON BIRTHDAY
Special Dispatch to the Star.

Special Dispatch to the Star.
CHESTERTOWN, Md. March 49,.
Mrs. Sarah Newcomb. widow of Samuel
Newcomb, died here at the home OF her
adopted daughter, Mrs. Clarence Fowler,
Her death occurred on the anniversary
of her eighty-first birthday.
Her husband for many years was
among the leading agriculturists Of the
county.
Funeral services will be conducted at
the home of Mrs. Fowler today by Rev.
DR.. e. A. Sexsmith, pastor of Christ
Methodist Protestant Church. Burial
UAu be in Chester Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
To Address Property Owners.

SILVER SPRING, Nd, March is
Especially DIR. F.. L. milford, horti-
cuiturist of the Department of Agri-
culture, will address the members of
the Woodside Park Property Owners
Association at its monthly meeting to-
morrow night in Grace parish hall on
the subject of Garden Arrangement
and Care" Members of the various
civic organizations in the community
have been invited to attend the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
$4,000 DAMAGES ASKED
Death Of Passenger of Car Line
Laid to Accident.

Sarah Burns, 300 Florida avenue, ad-
ministratrix Of the estate of Susie
Price, today filed a suit in the District
Supreme Court to recover $4,000 dam
ages from the Washington Railway g.
Electric Co. Susie Price was a pas
senger on a car of the company May ~
last and. it is claimed was thrown vio-
lently to the side and floor of the car
and sustained injuries from which she
died July 10. The accident occurred
on Fourteenth street between @ and II
streets. Attorneys C. Chester Caywood
and Daniel Partridge, Sd, appear for the
administrative.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
Drug Halts Anaesthesia
Recovery From Ether, Morphine and Amytdl Hast
ened and Death From Strychnine Solution Pre-
vented by Sodium Thiocyandte Given Rabbits.

ness" the investigators report. latter
the first injection Of sodium thiocyanate
and from that time on 1t gradually
gained in strength"
Fatal Dose COunteracted.
Then a rabbit was put to sleep in II
minutes with an injection of a morphine
solution. More than four hours later
the animal was in such a deep sleep
that it showed practically no resistance
TO severe mauling. When it was lifted
by the ears at this time it gave one
feeble kick The next morning it was
awake. but quite weak.
Then another rabbit was given prac-
tically the same amount OF morphine,
and as soon as the sleep became very
definite sodium thiocynate was in
jected Tt became conscious in eight
minutes and was able to sit up with
out any trouble, but was in a dull
stupor. An hour later it lapsed back
into Inconsistencies, but was quickly
restored by a small amount of the drug
In four hours it fought violently against
being lifted by the ears. So far as
the two investigators could determine
the animal never completely lost con-
seriousness after the first injection.
Then a rabbit was given an injection
of a strychnine solution which produced
commissions. The animal cleo IN eight
minutes Then another rabbit was in
jected with sodium thiocynate and
seven minutes later the same amount
of strychnine was administered. The
commissions appeared and finally one
was so severe that it knocked the rab-
bit down. After this they were less
violent and the animal appeared to
have recovered completely in 20 min
utes.
Injection Prevents Shock.
~ The fifth experiment was with the
llttle-understood phenomena OF ana
phylactic shock, caused by the injection
of some specific foreign substance into
the body. The animal protected by an
injection of sodium thiocyanate ap-
peared to suffer no i'll effects, while the
control rabbit had a severe shock.
In the National Academy OF Sciences
report the investigators offer no spec
ulations as to the possible significance
of the results of these experiments in
medicine. but con1ne themselves to
statement of the theory and what &C
tllally took place with the laboratory
animals.
But they state that Sodium thiocy-
nate should alleviate and perhaps
counteract any disturbances due to
coagulation of the nerve proteins."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
BANDIT STRIKES WOMAN
rs Cents and IS Car Tokens Too
Little for Robber.

Nettled by gaining only IS cents and
Is car tokens when he held up Mary
Atkinson. colored, of 2907 Georgia ave-
nde, last night, a colored bandit struck
his victim with his fist and fed, police
reported.
The woman. who is employed as a
maid by Swager Sherley former mem
Der of Congress, 1900 Upton street, re-
ported she was on her way to work
when confronted by the colored man
and white companion in the 2a0o
block Of Upton street.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
Peggy Ann Hoover
To Be With Father
For Sixth Birthday
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Peggy Ann Hoover, grand
daughter of the President, will
celebrate her sixth birthday to-
morrow with her father, Herbert
Hoover, jr., in Asheville, N. c.,
who has not seen her for six
months.
Plans were made at the White
House today for Peggy Ann and
her brother, Herbert Hoover, Sd,
to go to Asheville tonight.
The father of the two children
has been convalescing from an
illness in ASheHille since last
october. Joan Hoover, who is
only a little over 6 months old,
will remain at the White House
where the Hoover children have
been since before Christmas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
WOMAN HELD IN CUTTING
Victim, Arm Almost Severed, May
Not Survive.

Arrested after she is said to have
almost severed mans arm with a
razor, Sadie v. Carter, colored, IS, was
held under $4,000 bond in Police Court
today pending change in the victims
condition at Emergency Hospital.
: Police said that Thomas E. Cook, COL
-ored, 1900 Twenty-eighth street, whom
they found in a pool of blood in a
boarding house on Thirtieth street near
X on Saturday, was not expected to
live. When the policemen entered the
room, they found the Garter woman
hiding razor in the stove, they said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
PEDESTRIAN RUN DOWN
ON DEFENSE HIGHWAY
Auto Mechanic Sustains Severe
Cuts on Head in Accident
Near Lanham
Rx a STAFF corresnnndent of 1rh. Sta,

By STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
LANHAN, Md, March 16.-Struck by
an automobile while walking along the
Defense Highway near Blythe's garage,
Charles C. WEIGH. 28-year-old automo-
bile mechanic. was severely cut on the
head last night.
He was taken to Casualty Hospital,
Washington, by Gilbert E. Edgar of
Gambrillo, Md. alleged driver Of the
car which struck him. After having
his wounds closed by several stitches.
WEIGH returned to his home. Edgar
reported the accident to police at
Bladensburg.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
Gas Oyercomes Driver.

Emerson Parker, colored, 16 years old,
1921 Thirteenth street, was overcome by
carbon monoxide gas last night while
putting his car in a garage in the rear
Of his home. The youth, not seriously
by members Of a fire rescue squad.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
TWO HURT IN CRASH.
Wife and Son of Quantico Officer
Injured as Car Overturns.
BY a Stan CORRESPONDENCE of The sta

By staff Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 16.-Mrs.
George Hall, wife of Capt. Hall of the
son sustained serious injuries when the
automobile driven by Mrs. Hall left the
Richmond highway near Woodbridge,
Va, about 90 miles below this city, and
overturned late Saturday.
Mrs. Hall suffered broken ribs and her
son received broken leg. After first
aid treatment at the Fort Humphreys
base hospital, they were transferred to
Walter Reed Hospital in Washington.
State Officer Clark investigated the &C
cident.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
Incendiary Suspects Sought.

Police are searching for two men said
to have ignited paper they stuffed in
the windows of the THYME Bottling
Co. garage, 1857 Wylie court northeast,
yesterday.
Firemen responding to the alarm ex-
tinguished the blaze. Damage was
slight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-16
POST OFFICE ROBBERS
OBTAIN 1900 PENNIES
Burglars Enter Combined Post Of
fee and Express Station at
Springfield, Va.
stat Correspondent Of The Star.

BY a stan CORRESPONDENT OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, March 49,
Robbers who broke into the combined
Southern Railway station and United
States Post Office at Springfield, Va,
near this city, would do well to visit a
penny arcade. The robbers obtained a
sack containing 1900 pennies.
Report of the affair was made to
local police yesterday. Entrance to the
building was obtained by forcing the
door with an iron obtained from a
railroad track.