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only to be thrown off the track by the
smoke screen.
This mornings load" included 20 or
more flve-gallon tins OF alcohol and
several cases Of half-gallon jars OF
alcohol and whisky. Nearly all the
liquor exploded with the crash.
Prohibition Agents Rufin Brantley
and Carl o. Spiess Of Waldorf, Md. had
chased the car at high rate of speed
from outside the District line, and were
pursuing it west on Michigan avenue
northeast. when they we're Joined at
Tenth street northeast by Officers w. c.
Grooms and w. B. Yates, fifth precinct.
The three automobiles sped along the
avenue through Catholic University
grounds at about rs miles an hour.
Brown apparently lost control of the
machine as ha rounded turn near the
west end Of the university campus. po-
lice said, and it crashed to the south
curb, shearing off an 8-inch tree trunk
and careening about 20 feet into another
tree, where it exploded. The driver.
pinned behind the wheel, was unable to
get out.
Besides the cargo Of liquor. the boot
leg car carried dealers license plates for
Maryland and Pennsylvania as well as
District tags police said
Waite this morning only answered L
don't know" to nearly all police ques-
tionS.
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AUTOIST "ESCAPES' INTO DISTRICT
AND PENALTIES ARE DOUBLED
Fined Here After Hard Chase, Then Auto Is Seized
Bond by Prince Georges Constable.

Police on charges of speeding and dis
orderly conduct.
The court overruled defense coun-
sells motion to dismiss. the District
charges on the ground the arresting
officer had no authority in the District.
Neal was fined $25 on the speeding
charge and later SIS more was assessed
on the disorderly conduct charge by
Judge Ralph Given.
Neal was released by District police
last night on making bond and this
morning drove to Hyattsville in an ef-
fort to have Blanchard drop charges
against him in one jurisdiction, the
officer said. Instead Meals automobile
was held as collateral in Maryland on
charges of exceeding 60 miles an hour,
reckless driving and endangering the
life Of pursuing officer.
Neal was seeking to dispose Of the
District fines before returning to Mary
land to face the charges there.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
AIR CORPS OFFICER
UNVEILS MEMORIAL
Lieut.. Col. B. K. Yount Soon to
Assume Command at
Boiling Field.

One of the last official acts of Lieut..
Col. Barton K. Yount, Army Air Corps,
as commander of Rockwell Field, Coro-
nado, Calf, prior to his departure to
take command of Boiling Field here
was the unveiling of a memorial
plaque to Maj. William r. Reanl. Army
Medical Corps, at the field hospital.
The plaque, according to report re-
ceived here, was designed by Mrs.
Yount. Maj. Ream was pioneer
flight surgeon. who was killed In an
airplane accident August "a, 1918.
Col. Yount is expected to arrive next
month to take command of the local
Army flying field from Maj. Howard c.
Davidson.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
$80,0OO,OOO LOAN SOUGHT
Treasury Will Sell 91-Day Bills,
Secretary Announces,

The Treasury will sell s8o,000 900 in
91-day Treasury bills to the highest bid
ders submitting proposals to the Federal
Reserve banks up to pm. next Mon
day, Secretary Mills announced yester-
day.
The bills will be dated July 27 and
mature October 26, when they will be
redeemed at face value. The money OBJ
tanned will be used to retire $5l,550,000
Of maturing bills and to meet other
Government expenses.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
D. C. RED CROSS SEEKING
DONATIONS OF CLOTHING
Appeal Is Issued Particularly for
Children Of Jobless-Stock
Is Depleted.

Faced with heavy demands for cloth
ing, particularly for children of the
unemployed, the District of Columbia
Chapter, American Red Cross, today is
sued call to the public to help out
the situation by donations of clothing.
New garments will be most welcome -
the call said, land any used articles of
clothing, in good condition, will be ac-
ceptable also.
owing to the heavy demands made
on us in filling the needs of the un-
employed, our stock is depleted, and
more than ever now we ask your CO.
operation in supplying clothing to the
needy.
If possible, We would appreciate
1880 E street, or If you wish us to call
for them, telephone National $500,
Branch 244."
Evening star., 1932-07-21
WOMAN RIDER HURT
WHEN CAR HITS HORSE
Passenger in Auto Also Injured
by Imract-Animal, With
Broken Leg, Is Shot.

Mrs. Mildred Mohon. %. of the $500
block Of Twenty-second street north
cast, was severely injured last night
when a morse she was riding along a
bride path in Rock Creek Parkway
was struck by an automobile operated
by Miss Helen L. Montgomery, 27 of
the $500 block of street.
Mrs. Dora Montgomery, So, mother
of the driver, received injuries to the
knees when thrown forward in the au-
tcmobile from the force of the impact.
The horses leg was broken and at the
request of its owner J. H. Pate. oper-
ator of a riding academy. it was shot
by Park Policeman j. F. Connolly.
Both Mrs. Mohon and Mrs. Mont
gomery were treated at Emergency
Hospital Mrs. Mohon was said to have
received injuries to the shoulder, ribs
and knee. She was riding with party
of friends when the mishap occurred.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
LOSES 2. HENS; FINDS $40

PINE BLUFF, Ark, July 81 R-
On the basis of his latest experience, C..
E. Lee, a hatchery operator here, Is
willing to have his hen roost robbed
any night in the week.
Upon visiting the hen house yester-
day he discovered that two pullets-
worth about so cents each-were miss
ing.
But on the floor lay . SO bill, pre-
sumably dropped by the thief.
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ELECTRIC WORKER HURT

Joseph E. Allen, 81. Of the 800 block
CT H street, an employe of the Potomac
Electric Power Co.. was given flrst-aid
treatment today after he had come in
contact with a high-tension wire while
working in the 2700 block Of Rhode Is
land avenue northeast
He was taken to Emergency Hospital,
where his condition was said to be not
serious.
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store and started down the areaway
With Lancaster in pursuit.
Help Me. I've Been Shot"
Disregarding Lancaa-er's order to
halt, the fugitive wheeled around the
corner of the building and started down
an alley, with the other policemen
shooting after him. Lancaster fell,
police reported. as he turned the cor
ner into the alley
With the policemen in pursuit, the
co,ored man jumped fence and
darted into the back yard at $40 Keefer
street. Occupants Of the premises,
aroused by the shooting, heard the
fugitive cry Help me; I've been shot!"
As he dived through the glass Of a
basement window.
TIE colored man ran through the
basement and Jumped through the glass
Of an opposite window. He crawled
under the front porch. tore hole
through the wooden grating and es-
caped to the street.
The second coIored man, who had
either left the store before the police
party arrived or had escaped through
window undetected, jumped from the
shadows near the rear of the store and
climbed on a roof Moore followed him
onto a roof at CAT Kenyon street and
was about to shoot when several resi-
dents of neighboring house stuck
their heads from a window in his line
of fire.
The colored man disappeared and
as Moore ran after him he tunbled
to the roadway. His condition was
said to be improving at the hospital
today. Police removed the injured po-
licen,en to the hospital and sent out
a lookout to hospitals for the wounded
fugitive
Lancaster, who was school teacher
IN Mississippi before he was appointed
to the force in 1924. is married and
the father of two children. Moore is
one of the departments crack shots
and was appointed to the force in 1928.
The burglars took only few ciga-
rettes from the pharmacy. One of them
left his shoes and bag Of coins which
he had collected in the store
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Charles Neal, pursued by Maryland
,As..r eoakinc IN arrest him on q speed

Charles Neal, pursued by Maryland
officer seeking to arrest him on a speed
ing charge, made a costly escape" into
the District Jurisdiction last night.
For instead Of stopping at the Dis
trict Line. as Neal apparently antici-
nated. Constable Paul NJ. Blanchard of
Prince George County Police followed
Tor almost 20 blocks into Washington.
The Maryland officer testified in
Police Court today that Neal was max
ing at least go miles an hour when he
crossed the District Line. Blanchard
told Judge Gus A. Schuldt that the
fugitive stopped his automobile sud
denly on two occasions in an effort to
wreck the police automobile.
When Blanchard finally overhauled
the motorist, he testified, Neal resisted
arrest. Blanchard held the man, how
ever. and turned him over to District
Evening star., 1932-07-21
BABY'S MOTHER HELD
Investigation of Child's Care Or
dered After Man Gives It to Police.

Mrs. Laura Stephens. 33, of the 13oo
block of Four and Half street south
west, was held at the House OF Deten-
ton today while a police investigation
was being conducted regarding the
proper care Of her year-old baby, Mar
guerite Stephens, who was carried to
the fourth precinct police station by a
man last night and later removed TO
Gallinger Hospital in a patrol wagon
Shortly after the baby had been taken
to the station house by man who
gave the name Of Will Thomas. Mrs.
Stephens appeared at the station to
report its disappearance and was taken
into custody. Preparations were under
way at Gallinger today to give the
baby a physical examination and to de-
termine If it is suffering from MANU-
triton.
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TWO IN GAS STATION
BOUND UP AND ROBBED
Bandits Escape With $s5 and
Watch Taken From w. s.
Pumphrey and Helper.

William S. Pumphrey, manager of a
gasoline station at Kansas avenue and
Taylor street, and James Keebler. his
helper, were held up at pistol point last
night and robbed of $85 in cash and
watch valued at $25 by two men, who
tied their hands and feet and escaped
from the station.
Pumphrey, shortly after the robbery,
managed to wiggle his way from the rear
room where he and Keebler had been
left. He then called for help, and
Milton Reed, 1900 block of Rhode Is
land avenue northeast, liberated the
two men.
Pumphrey gave police . description
Of the men. He resides in the $500
block Of Ninth street and Keebler lives
in 1900 block Of First street.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
DRY FORCE EFFICIENCY
IS HELD UNIMPAIRED
10 Per Cent Cut in Funds Will
Not Reduce Results, Col.
yrooJ,o,l/ Arronr,ag
W oodcock Announces.

Efficiency Of the prohibition enforce
ments corps will be unimpaired although
Congress reduced its funds 10 per cent,
Amos W. Woodcock, prohibition direc-
tor believes.
Reduced personnel will make up the
major part Of savings necessary, he
said yesterday. Already number of
agents and Investigators have been
given indefinite furloughs. This will
continue until the force mas been cut
per cent, as contrasted with al in
crease Of 500 new agents approved last
year by Congress.
There was an increase of $4,000 in
the number of cases made by Federal
agents last year. The total rose from
$4,000 to 10000.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
Conductor Kills Self.

BOWLING GREEN, KY, July 81
R.-R L. Cole, a conductor for the
Louisville & Nashville Railroad, today
committed suicide by shooting himself
at his home here. Cole had been in q
Memphis hospital and returned home
today. He was respondent over ILL
health.
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One Shot Through Body by
Fellow Officer, One Tum-
bIes Off Roof.
TWO FUGITIVES ESCAPE;
ONE STRUCK BY BULLET
Burglars Get Only Cigarettes
When Surprised by Emergency
Squad in Pharmacy.

One policeman was accidentally shot
through the body by feilcw officers early
today and another fell off a roof on his
head during an attempt by an emergency
squad to capture two colored men sur
prised in a pharmacy at 320l Georgia
avenue.
Both fugitives escaped although one
was hit by bullet just before he dived
through the glass of two basement VIM
dOWs.
Pvt. H. N. Lancaster, &c. Of No. 10
precinct was critically wounded by a
Evening star., 1932-07-21

bullet IRON a SerN-
ice revolver, which
entered his back
and passed out on
the right side Of
his chest. Another
officer. Pvt. Byron
M. Moore, 36, also
of No. 10 precinct,
may have suffered
a skull fracture
when he tumbled
from a porch onto
some rocks in a
roadway.
Lancaster was a.
mitted' to Garfield
Hospital end Moore
to Freedmen'S Hos
pital.
Police renorted
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CAPITAL WILL GET
|. POWER FROM DAM
AT SAFE HARBOR
Contract Made to Provide
City With Third Independ-
ent Source of Supply.
SCORES WILL GET JOBS
BUILDING NEW LINK
Plan Believed to Spell Finish of
Proposal to Erect Big Plant
at Great Falls.

The Potomac Electric Power Co. re-
vealed today it had taken steps to make
available to Washington and vicinity
the vast resources of two combined
hydro-electric and steam plants along
the Susquehanna River in the vicinity
of the Maryland-P Pennsylvania line as
a means of preventing a possible inter-
ruption in service.
The disclosure was made in a COPY
OF contract recently entered into b.
tween the company and the Consoli-
dated Gas g. Electric Light & Power
Co. Of Baltimore. filed with the Pub
ic Utilities Commission by william F.
Ham, president of the Washington cor
poratlon. The contract calls for an
electric interconnection between Wash
ington and the Safe Harbor- Baltimore
Hydro-Steam System.
Will Cost 800, 900.
The interconnection, it was said. will
cost approximately $500 000. OF this
amount S590,000 will be used for erect
ing and equipping new substation in
the District of 60G00-kilowatt capacity
to step down the voltage from 100000
to 1890 volts. The rest will BE- needed
for the construction of 23-mile trans
mission line from the new substation TO
Ellicott City, Md, the nearest point to
Washington Of the 230,000-yo!t line OF
the Safe Harbor Co.
The project Will give the company
an additional source of electrical sup
ply entirely independent OF its own gen.
Grating plants, and aid in relieving the
economic situation by providing work
for scores of men. 1t also IS believed
to har JaI Art47y Nl1- II Non
of the company to build hydro-e.ec-
trio plant at Great Falls.
Will Open Next Year.
Service over the new intercCnnection
is expected to begin not later than
october /, 1888. 1t viii give the COM
pany three independent sources Of sup
ply, thus assuring a dependabLIty Of
service.
The Safe Harbor Power Cooperation,
which is associated with the Baltimore
corporation. has a water-poWer devel-
opment at Safe Harbor on the Susque-
hanna River with a present installed
capacity of 10000 horsepower. in ad-
diUion to the Pennsylvania Water g.
Power Co., having a water-power de-
velopment at HOLLYWOOD, miles down
stream from Safe Harbor with a
present installed nyQro-Steam capacity
OF 10000 horsepower
President Ham said his company had
been influenced in making the contract
largely by the manifest advantages Of
an additional source of electrical sup
ply independent of its own generating
plants. With the present Benning
plant. with an installed capacity of
100000 kilowatts, and the new plant
now contemplated at BuzzaTds Point,
with an initial installation of $4,000
kllowatts, the company, he declared,
will have three independent sources of
supply.
Because of the many varied uses to
which electricity is now put" Mr.. Ham
said, The Potomac Electric Power Co
recognizes its responsibility in doing
everything possible to prevent the an
noyances and hardships that result
from any interruption in its service"
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that Lancaster was hit when, pursuing
a fugitive, he around the corner OF
the pharmacy into the line OF fire di-
reCted after the colored man by several
cnicers, According to police, it was i'm
possible to tell who fired the shot which
hit Lancaster.
The burglars were seen in the store
b. PatrOlman Jesse Hasty, who te,e-
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pllOllEu lLt PIE
cinct. Lancaster,
who W.s actinG
sergeant. went to
the scene with
PVtS. A. G. Mihill,
F. A. Peacock,
Moore. R. T. Good
win, J. B. Jones
ard w. B. Bare
fco-
The H9lice had
tut arrived in
radio cars and the
patrol wagon and
ere arracg ng
themselves about
the builGirg wl'o-'
Cne burglar leaped
through a trans3m
- the side of the
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PILGRIMAGE PLANNED
D. A. r. Sponsors Trip to Old
Landing Camp.

A pilgrimage of Sons and Daughters
of the Republic to Old Landing Camp,
Port Tobacco, Md, sponsored by the
District Chapter of the Daughters of
the American Revolution, will take
place Saturday afternoon. An invita-
ton to ell D. A. r. members in Wash
ington and Baltimore to attend was ex-
tended today by Mrs. Harry c. Grove,
State regent.
Miss Elizabeth Molott Barnes, State
chairman, and Mrs. E. P. Sutton will
be hostesseS.
Evening star., 1932-07-21
SAFE BATTERED OPEN

Etrong Box Yields $21O in Rob-
berry of Office.
Robbers last night battered open a
safe in the Office of the Anheuser-Busch
Co., Inc, So E street southeast, and
escaped with $210.
The robbery was discovered this
morning when employees of the COM
pany reported for work. The thieves
gained entrance by forcing door.
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Forgotten-By His Own Choice

CUNRlSE on the morning of Deem
~ Der 4, 1900, in the sleepy little
town of Vigan in the Philippines. The
town is held by "a men of Company B
of the Thirty third United States vol
unteer infantry. operating against the
insurgent General Tino. Also it is a
supply depot where are stored 10000
rations for the campaign and hos
pital in which lie some 156 sick and
disabled soldiers.
Tino has a force of $50 men. He
will steal into the town under the COW
er of darkness. Then when reveille
sounds and the American soldiers turn
out, without arms, to answer roll call
they will be met with a leaden hail
from the insurrectos' rifles. But the
plan doesn't quite work. Outpost No.
of Company B discovers the Fill
ipinos stealing into the town and opens
fire. Immediately the fight. is on.
Capt. Charles Van Way rushes forth
and takes command. At one place he
stations Private Joe Epps and Private
Smith. His orders are. Don't let
them get across here. Hold them.
d-n it. If they ever get in. they've
got me cut off," And Private Epps
and Smith held them"
The inSurrectoS were repulSed. but
snipers fingered. and from time to
time poured in a CALLING fire upon the
Americans. One group behind
churchyard wall was especially an
noying to Private Epps. Finally he
went to Captain Van Way and said.
81 want to go and get those fellows
behind that wall" "All right" re
piled the captain, take the men you
need and get them OUT
AS it turned out, all the force Pri.
vate Epps wanted was one man-Pri-
vate w. o. Trafton, a big Texan,
Creeping along cautiously, they locat-
ed their quarry. Before the enemy
knew what had happened. Epps was
on top Of the wall and shouting down
at them in Spanish and English both
to throw down their rifles and get
their hands up in the air. To Pri-
vate Trafton he shouted orders as
though that individual was a whole
company. anG the Texan let loose .
typical Texas whoop. The insurrectos
dropped their guns and hoisted their
hands. There were IL riflemen and
four others armed with bolos. all of
whom Epps herded into camp as prls-
oners. Eight Americans and over 100
insurrectos were killed at the battle
of vigan. Their were 40 prisoners TAX
en-more than half OF them by one
NAH.
Epps was voted The Congressional
Medal of Honor for his feat. But when
he got back to this country he delber.
ately dropped out of sight. Finally
"a years later he was discovered In
Muskogee. Okla. and there at great
gathering in a ball park the medal
was pinned on his coa.. 2
t@l 1881 Western Newspaper Union.p
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de la Metairie, notary public from Fort From
tenac, standing beside La Sale, helped to draw
up and to attest the legal document by which
La Sale declared these to be French possessions
Next they wrote ON leaden plate. Ludovi-
Gus Magnus regant' and buried the plate at the
foot of the column. This done, they made some
further records, then the whole battered group
stood close together, and sang in a chorus harsh
from excess of their feeling, the swelling
torrent of the melody Vexilla Regis.
1.-THE Frenchmen must have been as glad to
see the Gulf as Xenophons hardy soldiers once
were glad to see the blue of the Euxine When
at last. red as great fre-tinged ruby. the sun
had dropped to rest in the melancholy marshes
and savannas to westward and the night wind
brought over the glitter of the phosphorescent
sea the faint hushed voices of breathing waters,
the voyagers lay down beside their canoes,
aware that they had seen in all probability, the
greatest day of their tumultuous lives. Low
waves Tapped at the shore and muttered an
adagio refrain, the occasional clangor of distant
sea-birds drummed in the night, and one by one
the blue tropical stars burst out in fiery
splendor.
ia Sale had attained his goal"
1t had been long trail which he had fol-
lowed since that far-off day when as a school
boy in Rouen, France, he had read of other
explorers and adventures and had thrilled to
the tales of their exploits in the places which
had previously been marked on the rude maps
of the time sierra incognita." In those 80 years
his life had been one of many hardships, of
many high hopes, of many disappointments. But
in his makeup was the tough fiber of soul which
had carried him through all of this. the fiber
that justified the title given him by an early
American biographer-"The Undespairing Nor
man."
Educated for priesthood in the Jesuit order,
La Sale soon found that the restlessness in his
blood would never allow him to be happy in
that role. The result a journey in
his early twenties to Canada where his BROTH
er a prst in the Seminary of st. Sui
pice. Through the influence of this brother, he
received a grant of land near Montreal,
seigneury which he named La Chine. The name
was signifcant-already he was dreaming Of
finding the undiscovered northwest passage to
China, the goal of many an explorer before him.
So when the Indians told him of great south
western river which flowed into the "Vermil-
lion sea" his quick mind grasped this as the
route of the .long-sought passage to the Orient.
and he determined to follow the river. So he
sold his seigneury to obtain funds for an expe-
dition and in July, 1869, the first of his long
wanderings through the interior of the North
American continent began. That trip carried
him up the st. Lawrence along the south shore
of Lake Ontario, among the villages OF the
IroQuois, On to Niagara, along the south shore
of Lake Erie and then south through what is
now the state of Ohio until he. in all probability
reached the Ohio river. But desertions among
his followers forced La Sale to go back to
Canada so his first expedition was something
Of failure.
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PATRIOTIC SONGS

The songs that thrill Americans,
patriotic selections written by in
spired composers, will be played in
the February National Al club pro-
gram of the National Farm and
Home Hour by the United States
Marine Band.
The concert will be another pro-
gram in the series by the Marine
Band on Learning to Know Amer
ica's Music"
Beginning with 1.-THE Star-Span-
gled Banner" the renditions will
swing through America" and the
lively strains of Dixie" These will
be followed with Yankee Doodle"
America the Beautiful" Columbia
the Gem of the Ocean," Hail Column
bia," and a more recent song writ
ten when the United States Army
was moving to the European battle
front, "Over There"
The programs are designed to ac
quaint and familiarize the $4,000
All club members of the United
States with the music which is typ.
ica of America.
Each month an additional concert
will he provided by the Marine Band
On March ) Americas hymns and re
ligious songs will he featured. The
programs are broadcast over coast
forecast network.