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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
RAILWAY D|SCLA|MS
BLAME FOR CRASH
Assistant to B. & O. Official
Says BerWyn Probe Not
Completed.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, July 24-The Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad disclaims re-
sponsibility for the crossing tragedy at
Berwyn, Md, Tuesday, although coro-
ner's jury placed the blame upon the
locomotive crew and the crossing
Waterman.
The jury, which met in the Berwyn
Heights station Wednesday, eXonerated
the girl driver of the automobile, which
stalled on the track, and who escaped
when the New York Washington express
crashed into the machine.
The engineer and a student engineer
died in leaping from the cab of the
locomotive as the tank of the automo-
bile exploded. showering the crew with
flaming gasoline.
In an official preliminary statement
late yesterday, F. X. Milholland, assist
ant to the senior vice president of the
Baltimore e. Ohio, said:
THE company's investigation has not
yet been completed and, until it is. we
are not in position to pass judgment
on the case, or comment on the verdict
of the coroner's jury, but so far as the
investigation has gone, it would seem
TO indicate that the railroad company
was not responsible for the accident or
any Of its consequences.
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He did not grow them. nor were the
giant corn stalks of the soil of his
native State, yet A. E. Baird cut two
from a field at the Soldiers Home this
morning and, forgetting his II years,
trudged five miles with them to a news
paper Office. humming That's Where
the Tall Corn Grows"
Less than year at the Soldiers
Home, however, was time enough to
sinstill local pride in the former Hoosier,
who had been an Indian fighter, Klon-
dixie gold miner and Florida land pro-
moter.
Moist from the brisk hike, with so
pounds Of dead weight upon his back
Baird grinned as he appended the IA
foot products of Washington soil.
Dad gum it!' he slapped his thigh.
"They talk about corn in Iowa and
Kansas, but look what we raise in the
District"
Did you help grow it?"
NO" said Baird, just before he hiked
the five miles back, but I watched II
grow!"
Its like this with us old soldiers, u
he went on, cts our corn out there
our chickens, our cows.
ITS our home. guess-and the Dis
trict's our State now"
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the south end contained the study or
library. and the second floor provided
a larger masters bed room. The lower
fo2r at the north was made into a
banquet hall.
| When Gen. Washington died in 1899
the property passed to his widow, who
survived him by only three years. Upon
/ the death of Mrs Washington in 1902
the estate went to Judge Bushrod
| Washington. Judge Washington used
| the bed room his uncle had occupied
| at the south end Of the mansion. Not
/ long after he came into possession of
! the property the judge added a porch
and heightened the first and second
story windows to afford easy access to
the floor and roof, respectively, OF the
porch.
Porch and Cellarway Removed.
This porch. considered out of har-
mony with the architecture of the
whole building. remained as a distin-
! gushing feature of the south end
throughout the years. The disclosure
/ that the porch was a later addition
was made during perusal of letters and
papers of Judge Washington, telling of
/ the alterations
] In making room for the porch the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
AERONAUTIC OFFICIAL
TO WE'D CAPITAL GIRL
Senator Bingham Among Notables
Who Will Attend Adams and
Shorter Wedding.

Porter Adams of Boston and Wash
ington, former president OF the National
Aeronautic Association and now chair
man of its Executive Committee, and
Miss Sue Shorter, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robert G. Shorter of 1912 Kalmia
road, will be married Monday at the
home of the brides parents.
Senator Hiram Bingham Of Connecti-
cut, president of the National Aero
nautic Association, will be best man.
and Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam, in
ternationally known aviatrix of trans
atlantic fame, will be matron of honor.
Following the wedding ceremony,
which will be attended only by imme-
date relatives and friends of the prin-
cipals, the couple will leave Washington
for a motor trip. They will make their
home at Mr.. Adams country residence,
Aero Acres, at Thetford, VT
In addition to his Affiliations with the
National Aeronautic Association, Mr..
Adams is chairman of the Boston Mu-
nicipal Air Board. and is a trustee of
Thetford Academy and Norwich Uni
versity. He is member of the Army
and Navy Club and the Metropolitan
Club of Washington. He also is a
commander in the United States Naval
Reserve, having been on active duty
during the World War.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
MEETING TO SEEK
WAY OF CONTINUING
|CARS TO VIRGINIA
Alexandria and Fairfax-Ar-
Iington Delegations to Be
Heard by Utilities Body.
TRACK elimination
PROBLEM DIFFICULT
Company Laying Rails on Bridge
Which Will Carry Traffic
to Boulevard.

The Public Utilities Commission will
meet soon with a delegation Of repre-
sentatives of civic and governmental
units from Alexandria, Fairfax and
Arlington Counties. Va, in an effort to
find some way to secure a continuation
Of street car service to Alexandria and
points in Fairfax and Arlington Coun-
ties
Earl " Fisher, executiveagecretary of
the commission, has written j. William
May, acting president of the Alexandria
Chamber of Commerce, that the COM
mission would be glad to confer with
such a group to see If the problem can
be worked out.
The lines are threatened with extinc-
ton because of the building program of
the Federal Government, the plans for
which call for closing streets on which
the tracks are laid east of Fourteenth
street.
Trackage Request Denied.
The Utilities Commission has denied
request of the Mount Vernon, Alex
andria & Washington Railway Co. to
brings its cars up into e street by
crossing Pennsylvania avenue at Four
tenth street, and the company Is I'M
willing to stop its cars south of this
point.
The company has filed suit for an in
junction to restrain the Government
from ousting it from its trackage east
Of Fourteenth street without compensa-
ton. and a long series of conferences
between company officials and repre-
sentatives of the Treasury Department,
charged with execution of the building
program, has failed to yield any tangi-
! BILE result. 1t is believed that some
makeshift arrangement will be entered
into until Congress can be asked for an
appropriation to compensate the COM
pany for losing its trackage.
$4,000 Payment Shelved.
It has been said that this would mean
| that the company would go out of bust
ness and remove its tracks, and at one
to pay the company sos, 900 in exchange
| for its promise of departure This.
however. was shelved by the District
| Commissioners
Meanwhile the Federal Government
! is laying out money for shifting the
tracks OF the company at the south
| end OF Highway Bridge The tracks
(! first were moved on to a temporary
| wooden bridge. over which the cars now
run. Now they are being built on the
! permanent bridge, which will carry
traffic over the new George Washington
Memorial Boulevard
This work is actually being done by
the company, but the cost will be billed
! to the Federal Government as part of
the cost of the Memorial Boulevard.
About $4,000 is involved for 200 feet
Of track.
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BODY CLAIMED BY WIDOW
FROM POTTERS FIELD
Unmarked Grave Is Reopened Aft
er Relatives of Robert Schultz,
81, Are Found.

The relatives of Robert Schultz. ST.
year-old inmate of the Blue Plains
Homes for the Aged Poor, who were
sought in vain to save him from a
pauper's burial in PotterS Field follow
ing his death early this month. finally
were located yesterday Today the I'M
marked grave was reopened and the
body of Schultz claimed by his widow
Schultz disappeared from the poor
house July 6, slightly more than six
months after he became an inmate
there. His body was later discovered
on the bank of a river on the grounds
of the home. His death was attributed
to natural causes. Several futile efforts
had been made to locate relations of
the dead man. after which he was
inferred in Potters Field.
A brother and daughter Of Schultz
Charles B. Schultz and Irene Dodd,
we're finally located living on Blair
road. They communicated with Schultz's
widow, who ordered the body exhunled
and transported to Baltimore for
burial.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
WASHINGTON ROLE
PLAYER IS SOUGHT
Commission Wants Actor to
Match Character as Well
as Looks.
If you resemble George Washington, in

If you resemble George Washington, in
features, here is your chance to play
the stellar role in a great historical
pageant. Fame-but hardly fortune
awaits the successful applicant.
The George Washington Bicentennial
Commission is looking for double
to take the part of the First President
in the pageant that is being planned
for next June on the grounds of the
Washington Monument. Any one who
thinks he meets the qualifications Is
eligible to enter this contest. In can
wasting the Nation for the ideal charac-
ter to take the role, the commission
will extend its search into every walk
of life.
Nation Wide Search.
While the Bicentennial authorities
believe it is not impossible to find some
where in these broad United States a
man who meets all the physical quail
fications, they realize it is quite another
thing to match George Washington in
all those personal characteristics which
make for one. and only one, George
Washington. So quite liberal allowances
will be made in that respect.
1t is stipulated in advertisements that
will be distributed throughout the
country, that the man the commission
is looking for to take the part of the
Father of His Country must have Q
knowledge of surveying. understand
farming and, in case of emergency
know how to lend hand in directing
a revolution.
Already it was said Q prominent Gov
eminent official has been suggested for
this coveted role, but the commission
does not intend toNmake decision until
il has canvassed the entire country.
Other Players Wanted.
The pageant is to be one Of the
largest ever attempted in the United
States. A cast of 5000 persons. repre-
senting all sections. will take part in It,
In addition to George Washington,
there will be portrayals OF those other
"immortals,' Thomas jefferson. A]exan-
der Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Charles
Carroll of Carrollton. the Lees of Vir-
ginia and other giants of the Revo-
lutionary period. AS in the case OF
Washington, every attempt will be made
to have the representations as true to
life as possible.
Maybe. if your mirror does not re-
feet the features of Washington, a
Henry or an Adams or Franklin will
serve the purpose just well.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
ROVER TO CONTINUE
GAMBLING CASES IN
SPITE OF REvERSES
Refusal of Two JurieS to Con-
vict Defendants Not to
Halt Prosecutions.
WARRANTLESS RAIDS
FORMED TRIAL BASIS
Four More Accusations to Be Heard
in Courts Here on Next
Wednesday.

The refusal of two juries in Police
Court Yesterday to convict alleged
gambling cases made by headquarters
detectives on warrantless raids when
Choking for couple of fellows" will
not result in the dropping OF the re-
naming caSss, United States Attorney
Leo A. Rover announced today, after q
conference with his assistants, Wllbert
McInerney and Frank Adams, who mad
conducted the prosecutions.
Rover declared he is in accord with
the decision OF Judge John P. McMa-
hon that the raids were legal, and that
his decision to order the papers in the
cases was based on an opinion Oh the
District Court of Appeals in the Groce
case, in which it was held that officers
had the right to enter a public place
where they suspected law violations were
being conducted, and to make arrests
if such violations proceeded in their
presence.
Cases Set Wednesday.
Four of the remaining cases will be
get down for next Wednesday, Rover
said. for jury trials, and the RESPONSE
bility put up to the jurors. These cases
are against Jaabe Enrich and Joseph
A. Sullivan. arrested at 500 Tenth
street, Frank G. Davis and Joseph
Lewis. arrested at 518 Tenth street:
Morgan G. Wilson, arrested at 7O2
Ninth street. and Gustave B. Rinehardt,
arrested at 1880 H street.
Rover's announcement came as
something of a surprise. as it had been
felt in some quarters that dismissal OF
the other cases was almost certainty.
in view of the severe blows struck at the
warrantless raid system yesterday.
One Verdict Directed.
First. Judge Ralph Given directed a
Police Court jury to return verdict OF
not guilty in the case of Louis Palumbo
who. with William Baroni, was charged
with permitting gaming at 408 Ninth
street. The police, it was pointed out,
had not produced sufficient evidence to
prove Palumbo was connected with the
alleged gambling establishment.
Later in the day another Police Court
Jury acquitted Baroni.
The Jury which heard the Bsroni
case deliberated little more than hall
an hour before returning its verdict.
Five women were on the jury:
Shortly thereafter jury in Judge
McMahon's branch of Police Court
cleared Steve j. Nichols and Thomas
Simon, 9l5 Ninth street, despite the
fact Simon had admitted the previous
day that he operated a gambling estab-
lishment. Warrantless raids on places of
this kind previously had been upheld by
Judge Mcmahon.
Charged Illegal Entry.
Harry Whelan, attorney for Nichols
and Simon. conceded gambling had been
permitted at the Ninth street address,
but maintained the raiders entered the
building illegally.
Judge Mcmahon, on the other hand,
held the police had not violated the
mems constitutional rights by entering
the establishment without a warrant.
The presence of peepholes and barred
doors gave the police good reason to
believe the law was being violated in
side, the Judge pointed out.
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Claim Hottest L. S. Office
Spelering Census Employees Housed in One-Story
Annex to Temporary Buildings-Waling to
Bet on Discomfort.

Any one who doesn't think that a
one-story annex to the temporary
buildings housing the Census Bureau
workers is the warmest spot in the
Government establishment likely can
get bet.
Situated in the middle Of a yard
having top layer of cinders-never
noted for their cooling properties-the
long low structure has a reputation for
heat in surroundings where heat is
commonplace.
At 80 yesterday morning the tenn
perature there registered a liberal 88
which was a shade above the highest
mark shown in the adjacent tempo
where the headquarters of the census
is maintained. A nearby temporary
building also is used by the bureau.
"a Overcome In Afternoon.
Throughout the main building the
temperatures ranged from 81 to JUS
about 88 in one wing on the seconc
floor, but, in the language of those
qualified to know, that's nothing" II
has been as high as 81 this year. anC
once last year it was said to have
reached l04.
Tuesday afternoon "a employees of thu
bureau were treated in the emergency
room after being overcome, eight being
affected to sucn an extent that 1t wa!
necessary to carry them on stretcher'
to receive attention. That is not un'
common, 1t was said.
The employees were dismissed at
o'clock that day, when the thermom
eters which are distributed around tn,
bureau showed from SO to 95.
The temporary buildings are three
story structures and the top floors suf
Ter most in the afternoon, although
| yesterday morning the readings on TIT
! three floors were about uniform, run
ming between IS and 81.
There is a boy who goes hourly t
each of the thermometers. takes a read
| ing and then furnishes the data to thu
chief clerks office. in order that thu
| workers may be dismissed when condi
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
BUILDING MACHINE
EXPORTS INCREASE
Construction Programs of Foreign
Governments Aid American
. Factories.

Expanded construction programs I'M
dertaken by foreign governments as
measures of unemployment relief were
reflected in an increased demand
abroad for American construction ma
chinery during the past year, the Com
merce Department said today.
Exports of this type of machinery
from the United States during 1880
continued on the upward trend which
has been in evidence since 1925, Of
fetal statistics indicate The total
shipped last year was valued at $16,-
$1,000, as compared with $16,370,000
in 1929.
The Commerce Department report
showed Canadian purchases amounted
to $4,710,000, a slight increase over
the total of $4,6s0,000, established in
1929.
Shipments of construction machinery
and equipment to Chile amounted to
S2,115.0 900. or 2la times greater than
the total of the previous year.
Soviet Russia boosted its purchases
of this class of goods from 81, 160, 900
in 1929 to S1,500,000 in 1880.
Greece purchased equipment valued
at 81 400. 900, as compared with total
of $283,000 In the previous year.
France. Great Britain and Italy also
showed gains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
SUSPECT ADMITS PART
IN CAPITAL HOLD-UP
William H. Collier, Is, Is Captured
at Fathers Residence in
Milestown, Md.

Taken into custody at his fathers
home in Milestown, Md, William Her
bert Collier, 18. alleged to have partici-
pated in the hold-up of William Saun-
ders at Georgia avenue and Roxboro
place two months ago, was brought to
Washington yesterday by Detective E.
F. Lewis, thirteenth precinct.
Collier is said to have admitted to
police that he was with companion
now serving time for the affair. when
the hold-up took place and that his
share of the loot was so cents.
The prisoner told of shots fired at
him while running from the scene,
and said he continued running until he
was able to find hiding place. Later
he made his way to Southern Maryland.
Police are holding him while they in
vestigate to learn If he participated in
any other robberies.
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tions warrant All this with batteries
of electric fans hard at work.
Whimsically enough. the census work
ers won't benefit by the air-cooling tnat
hereafter will be incorporated in the
new Government buildings, for they VIII
be located in Commerce Department
Building, that was built before the
question of air-cooling was raised. the
Bureau of Internal Revenue. which also
had employees in temporary buildings at
one time, is another built without TINS
facility. To have installed air.coonng
in these two buildings after their erec-
ton would have required an expenditure
put at about 100000.
Secretary's Suite TO Be Cooled.
In Commerce, arrangements after
ward were made to cool the suite occu-
pied by the Secretary and a section
used for industrial purposes.
The other new buildings in the trl-
angle will be cooled, however. Where
combined the plant can be installed Tor
around $500, 900. To establish separate
systems would cost double.
The idea of cooling the offlces was
said to have been raised only after the
matter was brought forcibly to atten-
ton by instances in which it was nec-
sary to dismiss thousands of workers
because of the hot weather.
The coolest place to work In the
Government establishment is the Of
flee of President Hoover. There the air
is cooled, washed and maintained at an
average of "a degrees. Only small
plant was necessary there, and the cost
was but a fraction of that for one OF
the large buildings.
incidentally, on the top floor of the
Treasury Building. where architects and
engineers are busy planning the COM
forts in the new buildings they are
working in quarters that they'll dare
any one to tell them are not the hot
test. 1t was 83 there at 1890 yesterday
with the fans going
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
.TAXICAB OVERTURNED
IN DOWNTOWN CRASH
jeff Van, Driver, Slightly Injured
Occupants of Other Auto Es-
cape Harm.

A taxicab operated by jeff Van, 1926
Twelfth street, overturned shortly be-
fore noon today in a collision with an
other automobile at the busy intersec-
ton of Thirteenth and E streets.
Van, driver for the Diamond Cab Co.,
was only slightly injured, however. He
was treated at Emergency Hospital for
cuts caused by flying glass. His passen-
ger, G. H. Alder, 1928 Twelfth street.
escaped uninjured.
Mrs. Henry j. Hunt, At, of 4605 Lang
drum Lane, Chevy Chase, was the oper-
ator of the other car. Neither she nor
Mrs. w. j. Warder, 1909 DeRusSey
Parkway, Chevy Chase, who was riding
with her, was injured.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
Occoquan Prisoner
Asks Police Here
To Return Cane

Having served half of a six
month sentence at Occoquan on
bad check charges, Jesse Cum
ningham Silly of Denver has
asked police headquarters by let
ter to return the malacca cane he
left there.
Silly explained he abandoned
his walking stick because when
he left headquarters he wasn't
wa king. He extended greetings
to Detective Bernard w. Thomp-
son, chief of the check squad,
and closed with a wish Thompson
is still wondering about, in view
of the hot spell:
Hope you are enjoying these
fine Summer days!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-24
MOTOR TITLE FEE
|. METHOD DEFENDED
Van Duzer Says Payment by
Check or Money Order
Offers Protection.

Answering a complaint that currency
is being refused as payment of the 81
fee for issuance of the new certificates
of title for motor vehicles, Traffic Dr.
rector William A. Van Duzer explained
today that check or money order is
preferred for the protection of both
parties, but denied that any one had
authority to refuse currency when
rendered either by letter or in person.
In letter to The Star. N. A. Ohm
stead OF 1920 Porter street stated that
when his personal representative at
tempted to make cash payment of his
fee at the Department of Vehicles and
Traffic, he was informed that the ap-
plication would have to be accompanied
by check or money order for 81 before
it would be accepted either in person
or by mail"
A. A. A. Members Turned Down.
Making inquiry of the American
Automobile Association. Mr.. Olmstead
wrote, he was told that members of
that organization also had been SINH
larly turned down.
Mr.. Olmstead suggested that this
practice was unfortunate in view of
the departments efforts to complete
the job of titling the cars in the Dis
u.Se az VAC SoAAcoI POooADlc udtc.
Mr.. Van Duzer pointed out today
that check or money order becomes
the motorists receipt when paid to
the District. This form of payment,
he added, protects the District in cases
where absent-minded persons write
| that they are paying the fee but neglect
to attach the 81 bill.
Notice on Application.
"All 81 States which have automobile
title law" Mr.. Van Duzer said, bear
| a notice on the application for title
similar to that on the Districts ap-
plications.'
Mr.. Van Duzer referred to a provision
on the reverse side of the District
application, stating: do not send post
| face side says, do not send cash."
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lows the mansion before the alterations.
original cellar entrance had been
changed radically. As Gen. Washing
ton built it, the entrance was through
a small vestibule. with peaked roof,
similar to the entrance on the north
side. Judge Washington eliminated the
vestibule and substituted fiat sloping
cellarway.
Windows Made Early Size.
The old vestibule had left its marks
on the side of the building, to guide
modern architects in the restoration
work. The vestibule at the north was
used as model. The long windows
, were shortened to their original size
and the scars Of the alterations care
fully obliterated by fine craftsmanship.
When the Mount Vernon Ladies AS
ISOLATION came into possession of the
mansion in 1858, after a long struggle
the building was in a sorry state Of
decay. The broad, columned front
porch had sagged to such an extent that
wooden props had been used to shore it
up. Since becoming the custodian of
the property the association has APP
piled itself diligently to the process of
restoration, until today the mansion
appears exactly as it did in its hey-day.