Evening Star
- DAUGHERTY JURY IS DISCHARGED; COULD NOT AGREE
- SALE OF GERMAN DYE PATENTS IS UPHELD BY COURT
- SCHOOLBOY PATROL TO GUARD CHILDREN SUCCEEDS IN TEST
The Evening Star's front page of October 11, 1926, carried three stories reaching from a New York courtroom to a Washington street corner. In New York the jury in the conspiracy trial of Harry M. Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, over the release of $7,000,000 in American Metal Co. shares, was discharged without a verdict after some 65 hours, as a minority juror told the judge of duress and vile language behind the jury-room door. The Supreme Court upheld the Wilson-era sale of seized German chemical and dye patents to the Chemical Foundation, defeating a recovery suit begun under Harding. And at the Thomson School, a week after 6-year-old Freddy Grosskurth died at the Gage School, nine boys with white Sam Browne belts and nickel badges tried out the capital's first schoolboy traffic patrol, while early returns from the Star's ballot showed parents overwhelmingly favoring a later school opening hour.
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DAUGHERTY JURY IS DISCHARGED; COULD NOT AGREE
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DAUGHERTY JURY IS DISCHARGED; COULD NOT AGREE
Weary Twelve Dismissed Late This Afternoon After Futile Efforts.
DURESS AND VILE WORDS ARE REPORTED TO JUDGE
One Juror Declares Minority Was Subjected to Extreme Pressure; Asked Advice.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 11.—The jury trying the Daugherty-Miller case was unable to agree this afternoon and was discharged.
NEW YORK, October 11.—Twelve wan and weary jurors this afternoon resumed deliberations on the guilt or innocence of Harry M. Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, in a last effort to reach an agreement, after having the case 65 hours.
Exhibits demanded during the morning indicated that the jurors had not reached an agreement on either of the defendants, who are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the release of American Metal Co. shares amounting to $7,000,000.
Among the exhibits demanded were transportation vouchers, introduced to show that Miller was in New York the day John T. King, late Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, received a fee of $391,000 in Liberty bonds. Of these bonds $50,000 was traced to Miller's bank and brokerage accounts, and the Government contended its evidence showed that Daugherty got $174,000 of them.
Other transportation vouchers asked by the jury were offered by the Government during the early days of the trial showing that Daugherty and Jesse W. Smith, his man-of-all-work, traveled from Washington Court House, Ohio, to New York October 13, 1921—the day on which the fee is alleged to have been divided by King, Smith, Miller and Daugherty.
Jury Is Weary.
With set, dreary faces, the deadlocked jury marched into the jury room this morning, 60½ hours after being given the case. With two full days and part of another of deliberation behind them, the jurors clumped through the corridors with the sullen expressions of men at an unpleasant task which showed no signs of completion. On their way to the jury room the veniremen passed Daugherty and Miller without a glance. The defendants, however, scrutinized the tired faces of the jurors keenly.
When the jury was sent to bed in a hotel last night it had been out for 50 hours after a trial service of five weeks.
Other tribulations of the jury, which took the case Friday night, were illness of one juror and failure to comprehend the relation of the law to the evidence. Delay was caused by the loss of two checks which the jurors asked to see. After a long search the checks were found in a waste basket in the court room. Both checks were for $22,163.81, which Federal Attorney Buckner said were among the most important Government exhibits and related to burned bank records.
Murray B. White, one of jurors, told Judge Mack shortly after 10 o'clock last night that he was ill and that if he had no rest he probably would be unable to consider the case today.
Charges Much Duress.
Twice yesterday the jurors filed into the court room to hear Judge Mack answer questions propounded by them, or to listen to belated instructions on law. Van Ost, the complainant for the minority, voiced his belief in the hopelessness of further deliberations at one of these sessions.
"You have no idea, your honor," Van Ost said, "what is going on behind that locked jury room door. You cannot hear the vile language or understand the duress that is being used. Sooner or later one or more
SALE OF GERMAN DYE PATENTS IS UPHELD BY COURT
The E WASHINGTON, D.C.
SALE OF GERMAN DYE PATENTS IS UPHELD BY COURT
Supreme Tribunal Decides Against Government in Chemical Foundation Suit.
WRITES FINAL CHAPTER TO SPECTACULAR CASE
Action Started by Harding After Disposition Was Ordered Under Wilson Regime.
By the Associated Press.
The Government lost in the Supreme Court today in the Chemical Foundation case. The court sustained the sale of seized German chemical and dye patents, trade marks and copyrights to the Chemical Foundation by the alien property custodian.
The decision wrote the final chapter to one of the largest and most spectacular of the government's postwar recovery suits. The highest court upheld the adverse decision rendered after trial in the District Court at Wilmington, Del.
Sale of the patents was ordered under the administration of President Wilson, while A. Mitchell Palmer was alien property custodian. President Harding directed that suit be filed for cancellation of the transaction, on the ground that the price obtained was inadequate, that the sale was made without authority and for other reasons.
Adverse Decisions Given.
The fight of the Federal administration to cancel the sale of German chemical and dye patents, trade marks and copyrights to the Chemical Foundation, Incorporated, was carried to the Supreme Court after the court in Delaware and the Court of Appeals for that circuit had given adverse decisions.
Pointing out that President Harding had directed the suit to recover possession and that his position had been supported by three Attorneys General, the Department of Justice sought to have the sale set aside on the grounds, among others, that the price obtained was wholly inadequate, that the alien property custodian had no authority to make it, that the transaction was an unlawful conspiracy and that it had resulted in a restraint of interstate and foreign commerce in violation of the Sherman anti-trust laws.
Counsel for the corporation contended that Frank L. Polk had been fully empowered by President Wilson, before the latter went to Paris, to authorize A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, to make the sale privately without competitive bidding to a corporation representing the chemical and dye industry of the country, according to a plan worked out by Mr. Palmer after Congress had provided for the confiscation of the properties, the plan having been approved by President Wilson to Americanize the chemical and dye industry.
Many of the patents, trade marks and copyrights were valueless, they asserted, and the others required large expenditures of money to develop, owing to the practice of the Germans not to disclose in their patents sufficient information to make them workable, thus requiring expensive experimentation.
Actual Value Questioned.
For these reasons it was impossible, it was asserted, to determine the actual market value of the patents or to find purchasers in a competitive bidding. It had, therefore, been determined, with the approval of the President, to turn the properties over to a corporation which would be required to grant the Federal Government the free use of the patents, and would guarantee that all American interests which desired to use them should be granted licenses under like terms.
SCHOOLBOY PATROL TO GUARD CHILDREN SUCCEEDS IN TEST
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SCHOOLBOY PATROL TO GUARD CHILDREN SUCCEEDS IN TEST
Officials Witness Tryout at Thomson—See Need for Later Opening.
PARENTS APPROVE PLAN, BALLOT RETURNS SHOW
All But One of Those Tabulated Favor Starting Hour Change to Avoid Rush.
In the presence of the director of traffic, the superintendent of police and other interested authorities, Washington commemorated the death one week ago today of Freddy Grosskurth at the Gage School by launching its first experiment with schoolboy traffic patrols, designed to insure child safety in school traffic zones.
Although the preliminary test this morning, conducted at the traffic-beset Thomson School at Twelfth and L streets, necessarily was brief, officials who watched the experiment were unanimously of the opinion that had such a patrol been on watch last Monday at the Gage School the tragic death of the 6-year-old Grosskurth boy might have been averted.
Observers of the opening try-out of the patrol system also were impressed anew, with the fact that were the children permitted to attend their classes a quarter, or a half, hour later than at present, the vehicular congestion which now confronts the youngsters just before 9 o'clock would have subsided to a remarkable degree.
Parents Favor Change.
Parents of the school children appear generally to be of the same opinion regarding the advisability of changing the opening hour for schools, judging from the first group of replies received by the school editor of The Star to the special school-hour ballot now being taken by this newspaper.
Out of the swelling tide of marked ballots being tabulated today, only one vote of opposition was recorded against the proposal. It was from Mrs. Ethel D. Jones of 2312 Twelfth street northeast, who complained that the children were "accustomed" to 9 a.m. and it would confuse them to change it. She said she has one child in school.
All the other ballots favored 9:30 as the opening hour, with the exception of two which advocated 9:15 and 8 o'clock instead of the present hour.
Boys Wear Symbols.
All of the Capital's agencies interested directly in the revived campaign for schoolchild safety co-operated today in staging the boy patrol test. Maj. Hesse, Director of Traffic Eldridge and Police Inspector Charles L. Evans were on hand early to represent the municipal government, while C. P. Clark and T. F. Behler, of the local branch of the American Automobile Association, personally decorated the first nine members of the Thomson patrol with their symbols of "authority"—white "Sam Browne" belts and shining nickel badges. The badges were inscribed "Safety Patrol Officer, Elementary Schools."
After receiving final instructions from Principal C. K. Finckel of the Thomson School, the boys were divided into groups and placed on sentinel duty at three specially hazardous points—previously determined in a police survey. These "danger spots" were at the intersection of Thirteenth and L streets, at Twelfth and K streets and at the entrance to an alley midway of the block on Twelfth street, between K and L.
Guide Young Across.
The boys, properly impressed with the importance of their tasks, did excellent work in preventing younger boys and girls from crossing traffic lanes at any point but the plainly marked corner cross-walks. The patrolmen did not attempt to direct the motor traffic, but stood alertly by with their collected charges until a safe opportunity to pilot them over the intersection presented itself. Then they would hurry the book-laden youngsters across the street and return quickly to their original posts.
There was no dashing of thoughtless youngsters across the middle of the traffic arteries in the vicinity of the Thomson School today. Pedestrians, young and old alike, took due notice of the new order of things and made their passages in careful fashion at authorized crossing points.
The particularly dangerous corner at Twelfth and L streets was presided over by a regular uniformed member of the Police Department. Maj. Hesse, Inspector Evans and Director Eldridge studied carefully the heavy flow of traffic past this intersection and agreed on the spot that "boulevard stop" signs should be erected on L street so as to prevent east and west bound motorists from plunging headlong through the heavy southbound traffic on Twelfth street from the direction of automatically controlled Massachusetts avenue.
Drivers Are Reproached.
Maj. Hesse more than once found it necessary to reproach drivers seeking to cross Twelfth street for cruising over the cross walks in their efforts to break through the southbound vehicle line. Stop signs should relieve this condition and give the young pedestrians added protection, he believes.
The facilities of the Boy Scout organization were offered school officials today in carrying out the schoolboy patrol program. L. C. Drake, local Scout executive, advised Superintendent of Schools Ballou that there are sufficient Boy Scouts in every elementary school to form the nucleus at least of the special patrols. These boys, Mr. Drake pointed out, are thoroughly trained in the rudiments of safety work and well fitted to serve efficiently on the schoolboy patrols.
The boys composing the Thomson patrol included James Wetzler, Jack Sparrow, Frank Nugent, Elmer Powell, Leroy Ridgley, Edwin Eggers, Sherwood Mason, Raymond Townsend and George Spann. Most of them are pupils in the sixth grade.
The boys will take their stations each morning at 20 minutes to 9, serving until two or three minutes after the opening hour, again at 5 minutes to 12, at 10 minutes to 1 and at 5 minutes to 3 o'clock. They were spurred to greater in- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
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Daugherty, Miller and the American Metal Company money
The two defendants were among the most prominent figures of the Harding administration. Harry M. Daugherty had been Harding's campaign manager at the 1920 Republican convention and then his Attorney General; after twice being the subject of federal corruption investigations, he was forced by Coolidge to resign in 1924. He was born in Washington Court House, Ohio, the town from which, according to the vouchers the jury asked to see again, he and Jesse W. Smith traveled to New York on October 13, 1921. Thomas W. Miller served as Alien Property Custodian from 1921 to 1925, and the charges grew out of the effort by Germany's Metallgesellschaft to overturn the wartime confiscation of its interest in the American Metal Company. The Star's account sets out the prosecution's money trail: a $391,000 fee in Liberty bonds to John T. King, $50,000 of it traced to Miller's accounts, and $174,000 that the Government contended reached Daugherty. Those sums are the Government's contentions as reported during a deliberation that ended without a verdict, not findings of the court.
How the case ended for Miller
The hung jury of October 11, 1926, did not end the prosecution. Miller was convicted in 1927 on two counts of conspiring to defraud the United States government, a verdict that necessarily came at a later trial after this panel was discharged. He served 18 months in prison, was paroled in 1929 and was pardoned by President Herbert Hoover in 1933. Seen against that outcome, the scene the Star describes, with exhibits on both defendants still being requested on the third day and Van Ost protesting the pressure on the minority, shows how far apart the first twelve jurors remained. The article itself does not say which way the majority leaned or which defendant divided them.
Why the Harding government tried to undo the patent sale
The Government's suit, filed in the federal District Court for Delaware, alleged that domestic manufacturers who had built monopolies under wartime conditions feared German competition after the war and conspired to obtain the seized patents at nominal prices for themselves or for a corporation they controlled. The Supreme Court's record shows that the Foundation paid the Custodian $271,850 in all, and that Francis P. Garvan, then Alien Property Custodian, was elected the Foundation's first president, so that the official selling the patents also headed the buyer; that overlap helps explain why the Justice Department pressed charges of conspiracy and inadequate price. Both lower courts, however, found that no unlawful scheme, combination or conspiracy had been shown and that there was no deception or fraud. The Supreme Court's decision, delivered by Justice Butler, came on the same day the Star went to press, which is why the paper could call it the final chapter.
What the ruling meant for American chemistry
The Foundation's lawyers spoke of a plan to Americanize the chemical and dye industry, and the Supreme Court's own account explains why that mattered. When the war began, most of the dyestuffs used in the United States were imported from Germany or made under patents owned by Germans; once imports stopped, numerous plants were built, and by 1919 chemicals, dyestuffs and medicines were being produced at home in large quantities. The Chemical Foundation was set up to administer about 4,500 seized German patents tied to synthetic organic chemicals and related pharmaceuticals, licensing them to American firms, and its proceeds were spent on scientific and medical research and on scholarships. By sustaining the sale, the Court left those patents with the Foundation and its licensing system rather than returning them to the Government, settling the question that the Harding administration had reopened.
Where Washington's schoolboy patrol came from
Washington's experiment drew on a model already in use elsewhere. School safety patrols began in 1920 with the Chicago Motor Club and the St. Paul Police, and the Sam Browne belt and badge pinned on the Thomson boys had been introduced in St. Paul by Sgt. Frank Hetznecker and became the patrol's standard emblem across the country. The movement's founding principle was that patrol members had authority over the children crossing the street but none over vehicles, which matches the Star's description of boys who did not try to direct motor traffic but held their charges until a safe gap appeared. The presence of the local American Automobile Association branch at the Thomson School also anticipated what followed: the patrol movement took hold nationally in the 1930s under AAA sponsorship, and from 1931 Washington itself hosted yearly rallies culminating in the National School Patrol Parade.
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DAUGHERTY JURY IS DISCHARGED; COULD NOT AGREE
WEATHER. (U. S. Weather Bureau Forecas Showers this afternoon and t tomorrow, not much change i perature. Temperature-Highest, 73, a p. m. yesterday; lowest, 60, a a. m. today. Full report on pa Closing N. Y. Stocks and Bonds No. 30, 113. Entered as second c post office, Washin DAUGHERTY JURY IS DISCHARGED; COULD NOT AGREE Weary Twelve Dismissed Late This Afternoon After Futile Efforts. DURESS AND VILE WORDS ARE REPORTED TO JUDGE One Juror Declares Minority Was Subjected to Extreme Pressure; Asked Advice. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 11. - The jury trying the Daugherty-Miller case was unable to agree this afternoon and was discharged. NEW YORK, October 11. - Twelve wan and weary jurors this afternoon resumed deliberations on the guilt or innocence of Harry M. Daugherty and Thomas W. Miller, in a last effort to reach an agreement, after having the case 65 hours. Exhibits demanded during the morning indicated that the jurors had not reached an agreement on either of the defendants, who are charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the release of American Metal Co. shares amounting to $ 7, 000, 000. Among the exhibits demanded were transportation vouchers, introduced to show that Miller was in New York the day John T. King, late Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, received a fee of $ 391, - 000 in Liberty bonds. Of these bonds $ 50, 000 was traced to Miller's bank and brokerage accounts, and the Government contended its evidence showed that Daugherty got $ 174, 000 of them. Other transportation vouchers asked by the jury were offered by the Government during the early days of the trial showing that Daugherty and Jesse W. Smith, his man-of-all-work, traveled from Washington Court House, Ohio, to New York October 13, 1921-the day on which the fee is alleged to have been divided by King, Smith, Miller and Daugherty. Jury Is Weary. With set, dreary faces, the deadlocked jury marched into the jury room this morning, 60½ hours after being given the case. With two full days and part of another of deliberation behind them, the jurors clumped through the corridors with the sullen expressions of men at an unpleasant task which showed no signs of completion. On their way to the jury room the veniremen passed Daugherty and Miller without a glance. The defendants, however, scrutinized the tired faces of the jurors keenly. When the jury was sent to bed in a hotel last night it had been out for 50 hours after a trial service of five weeks. Other tribulations of the jury, which took the case Friday night, were illness of one juror and failure to comprehend the relation of the law to the evidence. Delay was caused by the loss of two checks which the jurors asked to see. After a long search the checks were found in a waste basket in the court room. Both checks were for $ 22, 163. 81, which Federal Attorney Buckner said were among the most important Government exhibits and related to burned bank records. Murray B. White, one of jurors, told Judge Mack shortly after 10 o'clock last night that he was ill and that if he had no rest he probably would be unable to consider the case today. Charges Much Duress. Twice yesterday the jurors filed into the court room to hear Judge Mack answer questions propounded by them, or to listen to belated instructions on law. Van Ost, the complainant for the minority, voiced his belief in the hopelessness of further deliberations at one of these sessions. " You have no idea, your honor, " Van Ost said, " what is going on behind that locked jury room door. You cannot hear the vile language or understand the duress that is being used. Sooner or later one or more
SALE OF GERMAN DYE PATENTS IS UPHELD BY COURT
The E WASHINGTON, D. C SALE OF GERMAN DYE PATENTS IS UPHELD BY COURT Supreme Tribunal Decides Against Government in Chemical Foundation Suit. WRITES FINAL CHAPTER TO SPECTACULAR CASE Action Started by Harding After Disposition Was Ordered Under Wilson Regime. By the Associated Press. The Government lost in the Supreme Court today in the Chemical Foundation case. The court sustained the sale of seized German chemical and dye patents, trade marks and copyrights to the Chemical Foundation by the alien property custodian. The decision wrote the final chapter to one of the largest and most spectacular of the government's postwar recovery suits. The highest court upheld the adverse decision rendered after trial in the District Court at Wilmington, Del. Sale of the patents was ordered under the administration of President Wilson, while A. Mitchell Palmer was alien property custodian. President Harding directed that suit be filed for cancellation of the transaction, on the ground that the price obtained was inadequate, that the sale was made without authority and for other reasons. Adverse Decisions Given. The fight of the Federal administration to cancel the sale of German chemical and dye patents, trade marks and copyrights to the Chemical Foundation, Incorporated, was carried to the Supreme Court after the court in Delaware and the Court of Appeals for that circuit had given adverse decisions. Pointing out that President Harding had directed the suit to recover possession and that his position had been supported by three Attorneys General, the Department of Justice sought to have the sale set aside on the grounds, among others, that the price obtained was wholly inadequate, that the alien property custodian had no authority to make it, that the transaction was an unlawful conspiracy and that it had resulted in a restraint of interstate and foreign commerce in violation of the Sherman anti-trust laws. Counsel for the corporation contended that Frank L. Polk had been fully empowered by President Wilson, before the latter went to Paris, to authorize A. Mitchell Palmer, alien property custodian, to make the sale privately without competitive bidding to a corporation representing the chemical and dye industry of the country, according to a plan worked out by Mr. Palmer after Congress had provided for the confiscation of the properties, the plan having been approved by President Wilson to Americanize the chemical and dye industry. Many of the patents, trade marks and copyrights were valueless, they asserted, and the others required large expenditures of money to develop, owing to the practice of the Germans not to disclose in their patents sufficient information to make them workable, thus requiring expensive experimentation. Actual Value Questioned. For these reasons it was impossible, it was asserted, to determine the actual market value of the patents or to find purchasers in a competitive bidding. It had, therefore, been determined, with the approval of the President, to turn the properties over to a corporation which would be required to grant the Federal Government the free use of the patents, and would guarantee that all American interests which desired to use them should be granted licenses under like terms.
SCHOOLBOY PATROL TO GUARD CHILDREN SUCCEEDS IN TEST
The only evening paper n Washington with the Associated Press news service. Saturday's Circulation, 97, 370 Sunday's Circulation, 108, 361 Associated Press. TWO CENTS. SCHOOLBOY PATROL TO GUARD CHILDREN SUCCEEDS IN TEST Officials Witness Tryout at Thomson-See Need for Later Opening. PARENTS APPROVE PLAN, BALLOT RETURNS SHOW All But One of Those Tabulated Favor Starting Hour Change to Avoid Rush. In the presence of the director of traffic, the superintendent of police and other interested authorities, Washington commemorated the death one week ago today of Freddy Grosskurth at the Gage School by launching its first experiment with schoolboy traffic patrols, designed to insure child safety in school traffic zones. Although the preliminary test this morning, conducted at the traffic-beset Thomson School at Twelfth and L streets, necessarily was brief, officials who watched the experiment were unanimously of the opinion that had such a patrol been on watch last Monday at the Gage School the tragic death of the 6-year-old Grosskurth boy might have been averted. Observers of the opening try-out of the patrol system also were impressed anew, with the fact that were the children permitted to attend their classes a quarter, or a half, hour later than at present, the vehicular congestion which now confronts the youngsters just before 9 o'clock would have subsided to a remarkable degree. Parents Favor Change. Parents of the school children appear generally to be of the same opinion regarding the advisability of changing the opening hour for schools, judging from the first group of replies received by the school editor of The Star to the special school-hour ballot now being taken by this newspaper. Out of the swelling tide of marked ballots being tabulated today, only one vote of opposition was recorded against the proposal. It was from Mrs. Ethel D. Jones of 2312 Twelfth street northeast, who complained that the children were " accustomed " to 9 a. m. and it would confuse them to change it. She said she has one child in school. All the other ballots favored 9: 30 as the opening hour, with the exception of two which advocated 9: 15 and 8 o'clock instead of the present hour. Boys Wear Symbols. All of the Capital's agencies interested directly in the revived campaign for schoolchild safety co-operated today in staging the boy patrol test. Maj. Hesse, Director of Traffic Eldridge and Police Inspector Charles L. Evans were on hand early to represent the municipal government, while C. P. Clark and T. F. Behler, of the local branch of the American Automobile Association, personally decorated the first nine members of the Thomson patrol with their symbols of " authority " - white " Sam Browne " belts and shining nickel badges. The badges were inscribed " Safety Patrol Officer, Elementary Schools. " After receiving final instructions from Principal C. K. Finckel of the Thomson School, the boys were divided into groups and placed on sentinel duty at three specially hazardous points-previously determined in a police survey. These " danger spots " were at the intersection of Thirteenth and L streets, at Twelfth and K streets and at the entrance to an alley midway of the block on Twelfth street, between K and L. Guide Young Across. The boys, properly impressed with the importance of their tasks, did excellent work in preventing younger boys and girls from crossing traffic lanes at any point but the plainly marked corner cross-walks. The patrolmen did not attempt to direct the motor traffic, but stood alertly by with their collected charges until a safe opportunity to pilot them over the intersection presented itself. Then they would hurry the book-laden youngsters across the street and return quickly to their original posts. There was no dashing of thoughtless youngsters across the middle of the traffic arteries in the vicinity of the Thomson School today. Pedestrians, young and old alike, took due notice of the new order of things and made their passages in careful fashion at authorized crossing points. The particularly dangerous corner at Twelfth and L streets was presided over by a regular uniformed member of the Police Department. Maj. Hesse, Inspector Evans and Director Eldridge studied carefully the heavy flow of traffic past this intersection and agreed on the spot that " boulevard stop " signs should be erected on L street so as to prevent east and west bound motorists from plunging headlong through the heavy southbound traffic on Twelfth street from the direction of automatically controlled Massachusetts avenue. Drivers Are Reproached. Maj. Hesse more than once found it necessary to reproach drivers seeking to cross Twelfth street for cruising over the cross walks in their efforts to break through the southbound vehicle line. Stop signs should relieve this condition and give the young pedestrians added protection, he believes. The facilities of the Boy Scout organization were offered school officials today in carrying out the schoolboy patrol program. L. C. Drake, local Scout executive, advised Superintendent of Schools Ballou that there are sufficient Boy Scouts in every elementary school to form the nucleus at least of the special patrols. These boys, Mr. Drake pointed out, are thoroughly trained in the rudiments of safety work and well fitted to serve efficiently on the schoolboy patrols. The boys composing the Thomson patrol included James Wetzler, Jack Sparrow, Frank Nugent, Elmer Powell, Leroy Ridgley, Edwin Eggers, Sherwood Mason, Raymond Townsend and George Spann. Most of them are pupils in the sixth grade. The boys will take their stations each morning at 20 minutes to 9, serving until two or three minutes after the opening hour, again at 5 minutes to 12, at 10 minutes to 1 and at 5 minutes to 3 o'clock. They were spurred to greater in - (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.)
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