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12 POLICY REGARDING PORTABLE SCHOOLS DEPENDS ON PROBE Board Requests Municipal Architect for Complete Survey of All Buildings. REPAIR FORCE LIKELY TO GET ASSIGNMENT Architect Harris Says Many Port- I ablcs Ought Not to i Moved Again. The first definite step toward the formation of a new policy concerning the maintenance and operation of portable school buildings in the District of Columbia was undertaken by the school officials today when the request of the Board of Education for a complete and searching inspection of the portables now in use was forwarded to Municipal Architect Albert Harris. Upon the findings of Mr. office concerning the condition of the flimsy frame structures probably will be based the Board of future policy concerning the portables.

In requesting Mr. office to inspect the 75 structures in various sections of the city, Harry O. Hine, secretary of the Board of Education, forwarded to the municipal architect the report of Dr. Prank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, in which he i askbd the board whether it was that desire that portables no longer i required In one community be transferred to another neighborhood for con! tinued service, or whether the new con- I gestions in school population should be housed in part-time classes.

Inspection by Repair Force, 1 Mr. Harris, who recently returned from a trip abroad with Dr. W. M. Mann, director of the National Zoologl- I cal Park here, said today the inspection i probably would be carried on by the re- I pair shop force.

It is this department of I the District government, he explained, which has been thoroughly familiar with the portables through the frequent repairs and moving and resetting up 1 which that office has done in the field of portable schools. Mr. Harris added That the repair shop men probably know already the general condition of most of these frail structures. Speaking for himself, he said, a good many of the portables in such condition now that they ought not be moved The importance of the inspection of the portable buildings was not underestimated at the Franklin administration this morning for the future of these structures in all probability will depend entirely on the finding of the District inspection. When requested for advice on the future policy concerning the portables the school board agreed that an inspection should be made and that any decision concerning future use of the buildings would of necessity have to be made only after the actual condition of the buildings was made apparent by the building experts.

Sought Permanent Structures. In the report which was forwarded to Mr. Harris today Dr. Ballou pointed out that the Board of Education and the school officials individually and collectively made efforts to secure sufficient appropriations for permanent school houses to make it possible to abandon the use of Declaring his belief that neither he nor the Board of Education are responsible for the delay in securing necessary appropriations the superintendent continues: the five-year school building program act been carried out most, if not all, of our portable schoolhouses might have been abandoned by the end of the coming fiscal year. The fact that the five-year building program has not been carried out not only makes necessary the continued use of portables, but also the continued use of rented quarters and the continuous part-time classes in the elementary Current Policy in Force.

During the current Summer the completion of new buildings will release a few of the portables which have been used in certain sections during the past several years. The abandonment of these at their present location, however, does not mean their complete withdrawal from the school system if the current policy of the school officials remains in force. A waiting list of some length petitioning the school board for the establishment of portables now is in the hands of the school officials and if requested inspection reveals the released portables to be in movable condition those buildings will be transferred to new sites. This has been the practice for several years, and it is this policy, in view of the increasingly apparent weakening of the 75 portables, none of which are under II years old, upon which Dr. Ballou seeks the advice of the school board.

Increasing alarm over the existing dangers in the use of portables has been felt by school officials, who witnessed in each windstorm mounting danger to the children. At least four times within the last two school years portable schools have been damaged etther to the extent of having roof sections ripped off or wall boards carried away, and in each Instance it was the merest luck which prevented pupils and teachers from being injured, since the storms struck either during the night or at lunch time. CONDITION OF CAR CRASH VICTIMS HELD IMPROVED Mr. and Mrs. War on Clardy Injured and Burned When Auto Hit Power Pole.

Slight Improvement was reported today in the conditions of Warren Clardy of 1716 Euclid street, internal revenue executive, and Mrs. Clardy, who were seriously injured early yesterday when their automobile crashed Into a power pole and overturned near Largo, Md. The collision brought down upon their machine a electric line, which caused the car to burst into flames and badly shocked its occupants. Arthur S. Halsey, 45.

of 1336 Quincy street, is still in a critical condition at Casualty Hospital as a result of in? juries received early yesterday near North Chesapeake Beach, when he was run down by an automobile as he rescued a pet poodle dog from beneath the wheels of the car. TOLL ESTIMATED IN 12TH STREET BLAZE Traffic Held Up for Half Hour Until Tire Is Brought Under Fire of undetermined origin in the third-floor quarters of the Brewood Engraving at 611 Twelfth street, caused an estimated damage of 61,000 to the building and machinery before firemen brought it under control, about p.m. yesterday. Traffic was delayed for almost half an hour at Twelfth and streets while the apparatus was in place before the building. SEVENTH PRECINCT POLICEMAN IS ORDAINED AS MINISTER H.

E. Metcalf Preaches on Sundays at Capitol Heights Church. Joined Force After Leaving Air Service When War Ended. From chasing criminals in the seventh police precinct during week days to chasing the devil on Sundays all comes In the life work of Harley E. Metcalf, policeman-preacher.

During the week days Rev. Mr. Metcalf is a policeman attached to the seventh precinct station, while on Sundays he is preaching at the Capitol Heights Baptist Churoh. This he has been doing for some time, but it was not until last Sunday night that he received full recognition as a minister of the gospel, when he ordained at Calvary Baptist Church. The ordination sermon was preached by Dr.

W. S. Abernethy, pastor of the church. Dr. Homer Councilor, assistant pastor, gave the charge, Dr.

H. W. O. Millington the right hand of fellowship and Dr. Weaver the ordination prayer.

Enlisted in Air Service. Rev. Mr. Metcalf has been connected with the police force for some time. His home is in Stanford, N.

Y. He enlisted in the Air Service at the outbreak of the World War and saw service at Langley and Bolling Fields. After the war he joined the Metropolitan police force, remaining for one year. During that time he did patrol duty on street, in Georgetown, where he cleared up several large robberies, for which he received commendation frpm Maj. Daniel Sullivan, then chief of police.

Metcalf remained on the police force at that time for only one year, CITIZEN-SOLDIERS' TAKE UP TRAINING D. C. Has 18 Youths at Fort Myer for Voluntary Summer Drill. Three hundred young men of the District, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New York today were being as the soldiers term it, into becoming soldiers for the Military Training Camp at Fort Myer. consisted of a thorough physical examination for every candidate, fitting uniforms, acquainting each with horses they are to ride and police for the next month.

By nightfall the full contingent, of which 18 are District youths, will have taken up quarters at the camp. Col. Guy V. Henry, commander of the 3d Cavalry, under which organization the citizen soldiers will train for the next month, extended a greeting to the men on their arrival today. He said: young men represent the best in America.

Your coming indicates a willingness to work, and your acceptance by the authorities stamps you aa physically fit, above average in general intelligence and of good moral character. The object of this camp is to develop these attributes in you; to produce a closer national and social unity; to teach you the privileges, duties and responsibilities of American citizenship; to give you the elements of military training, and to demonstrate to the country that camp Instruction of the kind contemplated will develop the youth of America and produce greater national strength, civil and military. your stay, remember the high purposes of the camp. Live up to them. Make new friends, but do not neglect to write frequently to family and friends at home.

Urge them to come and see you; they are always Col. Henry will be assisted during the C. M. T. C.

training period by a staff consisting of Maj. James T. Me- Lane, executive officer; Capt. Mark A. Devine, camp adjutant; Lieut.

C. H. Noble, personnel adjutant; Lieut. C. V.

Barnum, supply officer; Maj. James C. Magee, surgeon; Lieut. R. B.

Bosserman, mess officer; Maj. R. L. Foster, finance and signal officer; Chaplain Albert F. Vaughan, Lieut.

J. W. Wofford, athletic officer; Lieut. F. W.

Makinney, recreation officer; Maj. Frederic William Wile, O. R. Capt. William Macdonald, O.

R. and Lieut. Charles A. Burrows, O. R.

public relations officers. TODAY IS MOVING TIME FOR GRANT ASSOCIATES Offices of Director of Public Buildings Are Enlarged, Tenants Change Rooms. moving time for some of the associates of Lieut. Col. U.

S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, with the dawn of a new fiscal year. The outer office, where a variety of visitors wait to see the busy colonel, is being remodeled and enlarged today. The offices of the Welfare and Recreational Association of Public Buildings and Grounds, Incorporated, a few doors away, has been moved to room 1731 in the same Navy Building. Fred G.

Coldren, secretary of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, who has had his office next to Col. secretarial force, has moved to room 1050A In Mr. place, Frank T. Gartslde, head of the park division, will occupy the enlarged office formerly held by Mr. Coldren.

Karl J. Hardy, secretary of the Public Building Commission, is moving to room 1052. DR. H. C.

YARROW BURIED IN ARLINGTON CEMETERY Physician and Q. W. U. Professor Emeritus Is Given Military Honors at PuneraL Funeral services were held this morning at 10:30 at chapel for Dr. Harry Creecy Yarrow, 88 years old.

prominent Washington physician and professor emeritus of George Washington University, who died of heart disease at the Chamberlin-Vanderbilt Hotel, Old Point Comfort, Dr. Yarrow, who served throughout the Civil War and was a lieutenant colonel in the reserves, was burled with military honors in Arlington Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers Included 5 men representing the medical profession and 10 men representing the Military Order of the Loyal Legion, Dr. Yarrow being honorary commander of the local commandery. They were 'Dr.

Sterling Ruffin, Dr. F. R. Hagner, Dr. A.

L. Stavely, Dr. J. D. Thomas and Dr.

H. H. Donnally for the medical profession, and Dr. C. C.

Clark, Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, U.

S. G. H. Powell, Capt F. G.

Pyne, 8. U. 8. Capt. X.

J. Dorn, U. 8. Lieut Col. J.

Miller Ktnyon, O. R. Brig. Gen. Eben Swift, U.

8. OoL F. 8. Hlght, Maj. L.

C. Crawford, U. 8. and Dr. G.

X. Mitchell for the Loyal Legion. i THE EVENING STAB. "WASHINGTON, D. SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1929.

MY 1 POLICEMAN HARLEY E. METCALF. Staff Photo. leaving to attend Crozler Theological Seminary, where he studied for the ministry for one year. He later came to Washington and studied at George Washington University Seminary, and returning to Crozler, remained two i years, receiving his degree.

Reinstated to Force. He returned to Washington last Sum- I mer and in August was reinstated to the police force, again being attached to the seventh precinct. He received permission to do only night duty, in order that he could continue his studies at George Washington University and i also to preach at the Capitol Heights Church. Rev. Mr.

Metcalf intends to remain at the Capitol Heights Church until he can receive a place in some church In i Washington. He said today he would retain his position on the police force until such time as he could devote all his time to religious work. MUNICIPAL CENTER BIDS TO BE SOUGHT Purchasing Committee Prepared to Accept Property Offers at Once. Owners of property in the four squares to be acquired for the building of the municipal center will be asked soon to submit offers to the District government. All offers of property at reasonable prices will be accepted imi mediately.

This decision was reached at the first meeting of the committee on the purchase of the site for the municipal center, held yesterday noon. The squares in question are bounded by Pennsylvania avenue, Third and Sixth streets and Judiciary Square. The committee on purchase is com posed of Assistant Engineer Commls) sioner Layson E. Atkins, chairman; Tax Assessor William P. Richards and Corporation Counsel William W.

Bride. The District has available $3,000,000 appropriated from its cash surplus by the special session of Congress for the purchase. No priority will be observed in the squares to be purchased by negotiation, and offers from property owners in any square will be received. The work of acquiring property Is ex- I pected to last about a year before any construction work can begin. The first building expected to be put up will be in the northwest square and will house a court building with space lor the municipal, police and Juvenile courts, and also for the offices of the recorder of deeds and registrar of wills.

Where negotiation fail? to secure properties at what the Commissioners consider a reasonable price, condemnation proceedings will be instituted. NAVAL RESERVISTS ON TRAINING CRUISE Group of 100 Sail Away for Trip Through New England Waters. With everything shipshape and in seaman-like order, 100 Naval Reservists of Washington and Baltimore left the navy yard today on the destroyer Abel P. Upshur for a two-week training cruise in New England waters. Both the Washington and Baltimore contingents were on board early and the destroyer cast off promptly at 11 According to Lieut.

Comdr. R. 8. Field, U. 8.

regular officer in command of the boat, she will dock tomorrow night at Newport, R. 1., and then for the succeeding days will cruise off the New England coast, using Menemsha Bight, on the Island of Marthas Vineyard, as a base. Reservists to Man Ship. The Reservists will man the ship and to all practical effects their officers will be In command. During the last few days of the cruise they will take part, In target practice off Marthas Vineyard.

The Washington contingent, commanded by Lieut. H. E. Richardson, U. 8.

N. comprises five officers and 46 men. In the Baltimore force are four officers and 45 men, commanded by Lieut. C. G.

McKinney, U. 8. N. R. The entire crew for the cruise consists of 12 officers and 125 men, the additional officers and men being in the regular service and assigned to the Upshur.

Others in Official List. Other officers from Washington on board are Lieut. P. V. Thompson, Lieut.

(Junior Grade) J. M. Fewell, Lieut. (Junior Grade) B. M.

Coleman, Lieut (Junior Grade) J. E. Sullivan. The following Baltimore officers are making the cruise: Lieut. E.

N. Aubrey, Lieut. A. P. Williams and Ensign H.

M. Jones. Beside Lieut. Comdr. Field, the officers are Lieut.

M. C. Hutchinson, U. 8. and Lieut.

B. J. Dayton, U. 8. GROCER FINED IN COURT.

Officer Alleges Han Was Arrested Thrice on Sanitary Charge. Samuel Felfer, 700 block of Park road, appeared in Police Court today on a charge of maintaining insanitary conditions in his grocery store, pleaded not guilty, but was ordered to pay SSO by Judge Ralph Given. The court Invoked a heavy penalty as a report of Health Inspector R. J. Clements alleged that Felfer had been arrested on tyro occasions last year and once this year, but forfeited collateral when he failed to appear In court.

According to the testimony, police had complained of the conditions In the store and alleged that the. Ice box, display windows and shelves were covered with debris. 1 COST OF LIGHTNING AT POWER PRICES WOULD BE LITTLE Single Flash Represents But One One-Thousandth of Kilowatt Hour of Current. MARKING BY BOLT FORMS PECULIAR PHENdMENON Bureau of Standards Makes Study Cause and Effect of Storm Accompaniment. BY THOMAS R.

HENRY. Lightning flashes are dirt cheap-400 of them for a penny at current prices of electric current. A single flash generates approximately 1,000,000 kilowatts, but it lasts only three hundred-thousandths of a second. So it represents only eightthousandths of a kilowatt hour, the basis on which bills for electric current are figured. Such is the conclusion from a study of lightning phenomena at the Bureau of Standards, undertaken as a basis for better protective devices.

The study delves into some of the obscure phases of the behavior of lightning, such as the queer antics it plays when it strikes an object and the Images it sometimes leaves on human bodies, which have given rise to many popular superstitions. There is nothing mystical about lightning, the report points out, although it occurs in so many forms, and some of the factors are so obscure that an entirely clear explanation is, impossible. Even the cause is not cer- talnly known, but lightning generally is believed to result from upward currents of warm air meeting descending water drops and breaking them up into smaller drops, thus producing electric charges which, after they have accumulated for a time, are sufflclent to account for the electrical effects in most violent storms. Are Visible. A single flash Is over so quickly that the eye could not follow It.

What actually is seen are chains of from three to 40 flashes with brief intervals between them which the eye cannot grasp. This accounts for the sensation which almost invariably follows a flash. Thunder, the report explains, probably is due to the heating and consequent rapid expansion of the atmosphere along the path of a lightning flash. Thus a path through the air about a foot in diameter and a mile long, traversed by 1,000.000,000 watt seconds of electricity would be heated to about 650 centigrade, and the expansion against the colder air outside the path naturally would be accompanied by an ear-splitting crash. Why the lightning bolt is luminous is not clear, since the actual heating of the atmosphere of the path Itself Is sufficient to cause only a very faint luminosity.

The light probably is due to the ionization of the air. "When persons are subjected to direct lightning says the report, "the result is nearly always fatal, although Instances have been recorded of extraordinary escapes from what seemed to be direct strokes. The injuries inflicted consist of electric shocks of greater or less severity which may be combined with burns, and in some cases tearing of the flesh, apparently by an explosive action of the discharge. Burns by lightning frequently assume fantastic forms, and cases are reported where images of various kinds were imprinted on the body. That such burns happen to be the image of anything doubtless Is a matter of chance.

Influence on Images. "Their origin is probably in surface discharges over the skin or in the layer of clothing damp with perspiration next to it. This layer, especially in thunderstorm weather, affords considerable inducement to a discharge to follow it, and the resulting heat, or burning by ultra-violet rays, might cause almost any kind of image to be imprinted. First aid treatment for injuries by lightning is the same as that for other electric shocks and bums. Artificial respiration, if administered in time, doubtless would prevent many deaths which result from the fact that nine-tenths of such acidents occur in isolated places.

Insulating or semi-insulating material receives a discharge the damage is usually severe and of an explosive character. Trees are frequently blown to splinters. Brick and stone work sometimes are demolished locally and pieces thrown 100 feet or more. Damage seems to depend somewhat on whether the material Is externally wet. Prior to rainfall the damage is most extensive and afterward it becomes less.

Trees struck when thoroughly wet in many cases show only a small piece of bark stripped off here and there, the remainder of the path along the trunk being barely traceable by slight superficial damage, while trees struck when dry externally are almost Invariably stripped or splintered from top to bottom. cause of damage of this sort is generally attributed to the formation of steam at high temperatures within pores of the material, all porous material exposed to air being known to contain more or less moisture. It is possible, however, that under the high current intensity of a lightning discharge some of the material itself is decomposed, with the formation of gaseous products such as hydrogen, oxygen, hydrocarbons, ions and electrons. When hydrogen changes from the ionic state, as in water, to the gaseous state at atmospheric pressure, the volume occupied at ordinary temperatures Increases about 1,300 times. Hence a capillary tube in wood filled with moisture at ordinary pressure- would be subjected to an Internal pressure greater than 1,300 atmospheres.

This would be equivalent an explosion of dynamite and ample to account for the explosive effects of lightning. There is also to be considered the electrostatic repulsion between the electrons traversing the pores, which may be very Hoover Oversees Office Remodeling Inside White House Drawing upon his experience as a practical engineer, President Hoover is personally supervising the work of remodeling the White House executive offices. The work on the lower, or casement, floor is complete and the workmen are about to begin on the main floor. The lobby is to be greatly enlarged by the removal of the partition which now separates it from the old cabinet room, which has been used as a waiting room in recent years. The present pressroom will also be Included in the enlarged lobby, and a new and larger pressroom will be provided on the opposite side.

The enlargement of the lobby is made possible by the removal of a portion of the clerical force to the basement floor, which has been remodeled with windows facing an West Executive avenue. CITIZEN SOLDIERS ARRIVING AT FORT MYER NEW PLANES ARRIVE AT BOLLING FIELD Details of Experimental Observation Ships Are Guarded Military Secrets. Two new experimental Army observation planes, equipped with radial aircooled engines, are at Bolling Field today en route to Kelly Field, San Antonio, where they will be subjected to flying tests. The planes Bre smaller than the conventional type of Army observation ship, and are among the first of this class ever to be equipped with air-cooled engines. Details of the planes are carefully guarded military secrets, under the general policies adopted last year by the Army and Navy, Departments governing new types of airplanes.

Known as XO-14 and XO-15. The planes are known as the XO-14 and XO-15, the standing for the for i and the numerals show that the planes are the fourteenth Rnd fifteenth typep In the line of Army observation ships. One, of the planes was built at the Douglass plant in Santa Monica, where many of the standard type observation planes now in the service were produced. The parts were shipped to the Air Corps material division at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, for assembly and the plane was flown from Dayton to this city. The other ship Is a Keystone product and was built at Bristol, and flown here.

Powered With Wright Motors. Both planes are of the light observation class and are powered with Wright Whirlwind J-6 motors. Each plane carries a pilot and observer. They are to leave Bolling Field for Texas at 8:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, making several stops en route. The Air Corps expects delivery soon; of two additional experimental type observation planes which will be without parallel in any military air force In the world.

They will be powerful twin-motored capable of speeds of 180 miles per hour or better. Two of the planes have been contracted for and are being built by the Pokker plant. In these planes the motors will be built into the wings, and the fuselage will be so faired into the wing structure as to become almost an integral part of the wing. The landing wheels will be retractable, folding up Into the wings so as to reduce air interference. An all-metal type of observation plane has been undergoing tests for some time.

It is a two-seater Thomas-Morse biplane with a radial air-cooled engine. This plane has been assigned to duty with one of the Western observation squadrons during the trial period. PATIENTS UNHARMED. Ammonia Fumes Stopped by Hospital Engineer in Gas Mask. Ammonia fumes escaping from a damaged pipe In the refrigerating plant at Mount Alto Hospital, 2650 Wisconsin avenue, resulted last night in a call for Fire Rescue Squad No.

2. The pipe had been repaired, however, before the firemen arrived. George Satterfield, an engineer at the hospital, donned a gas mask, supplied from equipment at the institution, and made the repairs. Because the refrigerating plant is located in a separate building from those which house the patients, none was affected by the fumes. ZOO FLAPPER FANS HERSELF huge elephant of the Capital Zoo, cool the warm weather by flapping her ears.

flapped her ears to cool off the photographer aa he wae Melting hU picture. St A. Photo, Above: Recruits of the Military Training Camp reporting to CoL Guy L. Henry at Fort Myer morning. Below: Two of the are introduced to kitchen police duties.

Left to right: John P. Stankilwitz and James Rose. Staff Photo. JUSTICE OFFICIALS MAY MOVE EARLY Commission Says Space in Southern Building Will Be Available in August. The Department of Justice will be able to move into the Southern Railway Building at Thirteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, early in August, members of the Public Buildings Commission said following a meeting of the commission in the office of Chairman Smoot, today.

The railway company, it was said, expects to move its personnel into the new Southern Railway Building by the end of this month. The old Southern Railway Building on Pennsylvania avenue, which was bought by the Government as part of the triangle program, contains a total of 210,000 square feet. The Department of Justice at the present time is using 145,000 square feet of space In several buildings. If all units of justice are placed in the Southern Railway Building there would still be a considerable amount of space for some other governmental activities. Senator Smoot said the commission would begin a survey Monday to determine what other agency is to be placed there.

It was indicated that the prohibition unit might be moved into the same building with the Department of Justice, but this will not be definitely decided until the proposed survey is completed. There has also been discussion of placing the new Federal Farm Board In the railway building, but this also is subject to the survey. PROHIBITION MEN REARREST MARTIN Colored Man, Recently Dis; missed in Death, Was Driving Rum Truck. James J. Quinn, assistant prohibiton administrator, and several of his agents Wednesday night arrested Edward Martin, colored, of Washington, dismissed recently for complicity in the death of Dano M.

Jackiey, prohibition man, killed when his auto was forced off the road during a wild early morning chase after Martin. Martin was seized on the Washington-Baltimore Boulevard, driving a truck said to have contained 24 cases of alleged liquor. He was released under $1,500 bail for a hearing Thursday by United States Commissioner Henry N. Abercrombie in Baltimore. Martin was first arrested following the death of Jackiey, May 14.

He was accused of being the driver of the automobile which the car was pursuing and which was maneuvered so that the pursuing machine was forced from the road and overturned. Aaron Tractenberg, garage owner here, was cited for comtempt of court Tuesday because he declined to testify before the Federal grand jury in the case. AUTHOR OF CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT DIES Thomas 7. Geary, 75, California Ex-Congressman, Serving From 1890 to 1895, Born in Boston. Thomas J.

Geary, 75 years old, a former member of Congress from California, and noted as the author of the Chinese exclusion act, died home in Santa Rosa, early this morning. Born in Boston, January 18, 1854, Mr. Geary moved to California with his parents at the age of 9. He was admitted to the bar in 1877 and practiced law in Santa Rosa, Calif. In 1882 he was elected district attorney for Sonoma County, which office he held for two years.

Mr. Geary was first elected to Congress in 1884 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John J. De Haven. He was re-elected successively to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses, serving from December, 1890, to March 3, 1895. His most notable work in that body was the framing of an act for the complete exclusion of Chinese immigrants from the United States.

Upon the expiration of his term in Congress Mr. Geary resumed his law practice in Santa Rosa, where he has since resided. OLD RESIDENT DIES. Mrs. Frances H.

Block Came Here From Baltimore at Age of 3., Mrs. H. Block, 77 years old, and a resident of this city nearly all her life, died at her home, in the Embassy Apartments, 1613 Harvard street, yesterday. Bom in Baltimore, in 1852, Mrs. Block was brought to Washington at the age of She is survived by her daughter, Mrs, Ruth Block; a sister, Mrs.

and four brothers, Isaac, Aaron and Evan Hartstall, all of this Cit FUneral services will be held at her late residence at 2 tomorrow. Interment will follow thf WaMipVl ton Hebrew Cenftteiy. POLICE CAPTURE 4 HUM SUSPECTS IN MIDNIGHT CHASE 11 Three Other Seizures arid Arrest of Three Women Mark Activities. TWO FLEE AS AUTO IS BROUGHT TO STOP Barrel of Alleged Whisky Dog Dp When Trapdoor Is Found in Lunchroom. A midnight chase that landed 72 quarts, two prisoners and an automobile last night capped a series of forays over the city by police liquor squads that had resulted in three other seizures and the arrest of three women.

In one of the liquor raids a barrel hidden beneath a floor was dug up by the police. Cruising in the vicinity of Pennsyl- Vania and Kentucky avenues southeast late last night on the alert for any cargoes from Southern Maryland, Sergt. George M. Little and Pvts. Leo Murray, T.

O. Montgomery and George C. Deyoe, members of the flying liquor squadron, sighted a coupe occupied by four colored meq. Pulling alongside the suspected car. a member of the squad called to its occupants to pull to the curb.

Instead of complying with the command, however, the driver, who proved to be Robert Johnson, 20 years old, of the first block of Jessup street southeast, according to the police, started in the direction of Lincoln Park at a 50-mile clip. Two Make Getaway. It was not until the speeding car reached the vicinity of Twelfth and streets southeast that it came to a stop and two of its occupants fled. Johnson and James Richard Coates, 21 years old, Jfl of the 1200 block of street southeast, the latter sitting on some packages, 1 were arrested when the packages were examined. I know what was In the packages," Coates protested, in an es- fort to talk his way to freedom.

He was held on charges of illegal possession and transporting. Similar charges also were filed against Johnson, additional charges being that he had no permit and reckless driving. Car and liquor were seized and the prisoners held for court. Investigating reports of the handling of liquor in the lunchroom of George Sydney Daily, 52 years old, at Twentyfifth and streets, Sergt. O.

J. Letterman and Richard Cog, G. C. McCarron and J. A.

Mostyn, members of the liquor and vice squad, yesterday afternoon staged a raid there which they reported netted them a quantity of liquor. Questioning of those in the lunchroom had failed to bring an information so Cox and McCarron went to a rear room' where empty boxes were stored, removed the boxes and found a trap in 'the floor. Then the two officers removed a small quantity of earth and found the end of a pipe; Two feet below the end of the pipe they unearthed a barrel, which contained approximately 20 gallons of what the police termed Quarts as Evidence. Sixty quarts taken from the barrel were held as evidence, the remainder being destroyed. Daily was held' on a charge of illegal possession.

A second raid conducted by the squad yesterday afternoon was in the apartment of James DeHaven, colored, 39 years old, second floor of a house in the 1800 block of Ninth street, where, it was reported, the police found a young white woman seated at a table on which there was an empty glass. While there a second young white woman appeared. DeHaven was arrested on a charge of illegal possession while the women were held for investigation. They were booked as Mary Smith, 25 years old, of the 200 block of Upshur street, and Marjorie Hayden, 36 years old, of the 300 block of street northeast. The latter explained to the police that she had entered the apartment by mistake, saying she was a dressmaker and was looking for a patron to give a fitting.

Both women were taken to the House of Detention. Six quarts of alleged whisky were found secreted in a compartment over a china closet in one of the rooms. Police held it as evidence. Cecelia Shorter, colored, 40 years old, was arrested by the squad in her home in the 900 block of Sixth street yesterday afternoon. Seizure of eight quarts of liquor was reported.

She was held on charges of sale and possession. QUARREL WITH GIRL COSTS YOUTH $25 FINE Schuldt Imposes Reckless Driving Appear in Traffic Court. An attempt of a young man to drown his sorrows following a dispute with his friend" in drink ended today in Traffic Court, when he appeared befdVe Judge Gus A. Schuldt on a charge of reckless driving. Lewis N.

Lairn, 1437 Monroe street, arrested by Policeman F. L. Rawlinson, Informed the officer, the latter said, that after the altercation with a young woman he had purchased a bottle of beer in an attempt to forget the affair. Judge Schuldt ordered him to pay a fine of $25. Laixn was one of approximately 50 defendants who appeared In Traffic Court on charges of violating the traffic laws today.

Collateral lists bore the names of 121 others who were arrested, but forfeited their security rather than appear to face trial. Judge Schuldt continued his plan of imposing fines of dollar a for violating the speed regulations. JAPANESE OFFICER HERE. Lieut. Gen.

Matsui Visits Hurley and Summerall. Lieut. Gen. I wane Matsul, Japanese army, formerly chief of the intelligence section of the Japanese general staffi visited the War Department this morning and paid his respects to Acting Secretary Hurley Summerall, chief of staff. He ls making a six inspection tour of Ada, Europe and the United States.

TWO QUAKES RECORDED. i Georgetown Seismograph Estimates Disturbance Miles South. Two, heavy earthquakes were recorded late yesterday on the seismograph at Georgetown University. were estimated by Director Tondorf to hop. been in same locality about 4,680 miles south of Washington.

The second. began about 4:47 pjn. ancLc6ntinued several hours, with the msanum shocks at 0:17 pm. The firstiMrita at 9:30 and reached its maximum at 9:55 a.m. 11.