Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1924, Page 17

GUESTS AT THE CONVENTION. J. Bruce Kremer, chairman of the GIRL DANCI Washingtonians dropped thei And echo called the name of Smith. Senator Royal S. Copeland adding his megaphoned voice 1o the volume of sound when Gov. Smith’s pame was mentioned at the convention. Copyright by T. & A. Photos. HOOSIER CANDI in Indianapolis, listening- MAKES NEW PLEA FORTEMANT HERE {Attorney Describes Plight of Pensioned Widows in Let- i ter to Attorney General. Rising again to the defense of ten- @nts in Washington, A. S. Lanier, at- Rorney, has addressed a second letter ko Attorney General Stone, appealing ko the Department of Justice to take Jteps against “a conspiracy believed fo exist here by tacit understanding . lmong certain landlords and realtors #o maintain the exorbitant rentals khat prevail here.” Citing one ‘specific. instance, Mr Lanier says rentals in one apartment ouse have already been raised 60 per cent above the pre-war level, and urther notice has been given that B ther average Increase of 25 per ent would be made upon the expira- ion of their present leases.” Wants Quick Prefit. e apartment house in question,” m:hm?:r said, “is occupied almost lentirely by Army and Navy people, Jind the widows of officers, whose re- Rources in many cases are but little ®bove the margin of their necessary \expenses.” The rise in rentals, it is charged, is “for the purpose of ena- Thling the recent purchaser of this Duilding to unload it at a quick profit ©f $200,000, which is to come out of whe pockets of these tenants. This fmeans that some of them cannot meet Xhis increase at all, or only at a seri- wus lowering of their standards of ivi B ® entor goes into tho problem of ahe situation of the peoble of the District, who “have practically no Fights of citizenship, and are, there- Jore, the wards of the nation, in a qualified sense.” “Furthermore,” he says, “the ma- Jority of the people here are neither employes of the government, or di- roctly dependent upon those who are. 7The inadequacy of the salaries paid Ly the government is notorious, and in consequence most of these people mre living on & margin of $20 to $25 per month, which is gradually being viped out by the ever increasing $ontals. Entitled to Protection. ~How can the government expect Jor get the most efficlent service from is employes when it tolerates the Eistence of a condition that forces | torney, THE BLARE OF BRAS BANDS. It was a day of days at American League Base Ball Park yesterday. bread-and-butter occupations, left word that they were attending funerals of relatives, and thronged to see the league-topping local team break even with the Philadelphia Athletics. This picture was taken just before the start of the first game, when Stafford Pemberton's dancers were entertaining the crowd. Photo by Carl Thoner. PRESIDENT COOLIDGE THROWS OUT THE BALL. A feature of the second game between Washington and Philadelphia yesterday was the tossing out of the ball by the Chief Executive. President Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge and their two sons occupied a box on the first floor of the grandstand. GRAND JURY URGES MISS McCALL AS JUDGE Recommends Assistant U. S. At- torney as Juvenile Court Head in Letter to Coolidge. The regular srand jury. which re- tires next Monday, has asked Presi- dent Coolidge to name Miss M. Pearl McCall, assistant United States at- as judge of the Juvenile Court when a vacancy occurs in that position. A letter signed by the twenty-three members of the grand jury was sent to President Coolidge and reads: “We, the undersigned, members of April term of the grand jury of Criminal Court No. 1 and whose term expires June 30, 1924, would consider ourselves lax in duty if we failed to present to you for your considera- tion for appointment to the position of judge of the Juvenile Court the name of Miss M. Pearl McCall, as- sistant United States attorney for the District of Columbia. “We firmly believe that Miss Mc- Call s vested with all the qualities and qualifications that go toward making an upright and impartial judge. ~ That she merits the high honor is unquestioned; that she would be a credit to the community all agree.” MRS. MARY J. FIERCE DEAD Succumbs at Age of Seventy-Six at Home in This City. Mrs. Mary Josephine Flerce, seventy- six years old, widow of Dr. Willlam W. ierce, and a resident of this city for the last thirty-six years, died at her residence, 25 34 street northeast, yester- day, following a protracted iliness. Funeral services will be held at her late residence tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. Freeley Rohrer, pastar of the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Ar- lington cemetery. Mrs. Fierce, who before her marri: was Miss Bishop, was a native of Wilkesville, Ohio. One daughter, Miss Maude Ficrce of this city, survives her. them into debt, and keeps them in a mental state of demoralization through the ever present fear and anxiety -of not being able to make both ends meet. “Now that you have just brought a suit under the anti-trust laws to break up a conspiracy of certain oil companies to boost and maintain the price of gasoline, it may be you will now find time to invoke these stat- utes in behalf of the people of this city, whose needs are more pressing 2nd’ just as deserving as those of the users of gasoline, even though they have no vote and are not so num- erous,” IDATE KEEPS COOL AT HOME. Senator and Mrs. Samuel M. Ralston, in their home on the Democratic natio nal convention. candidate who is not attending the Madison Square Garden event. The senator is the only Demoeratic By United Pietares. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band, bandstand, today at 5:45 p.m.: John S. M. Zimmer- mann, bandmaster. March, “State Militia Re- view' . Koppitz Overture, ubert,” Suppe Descriptive, “Mountain Life.” Lo Thiere ~Sunrise” | “The " *“Tyrolienne,” “The “A Twilight Calm," “The Evening Hymn,” “Taran- 1 The Opera Mirror,” Tobani “Barber from from Chorus,” ‘Sextette,” “Rigoletto” from “Il Trovatore"; from “Lucia”; “Dance of the Hours,” from “Gloconda”; “Ro- mance,” from “L'Eclair”; “Car- men. Fox trot, Limehouse Blues,” Brahm Hawalian waltz, “Mo-Ana,” Oleson Finale, “It Ain’t Gonna Rain No Mo’ " . Tal “The Star Spangled Banner.” At the Ellipse tomorrow at 5 pm., United States Marine Band, William H. Santlemann, leader; Taylor Branson, second leader: March, “Brooks’ Triumphal.” Sietz Overture, “Festival” Lassen Intermeszo, “Petite Byouterle.” ohm Saxophone solo, “Tyrolienne ariee” ... B Musician Frank Wiblitzshauser Grand scenes from “Siegfried,” ‘Wagner (“Siegtried’s Call” by Musician Adn'lnhksald.ler) Waltz, “Venus*on Earth,” Lincke Marche Slav”....Tschaikowsky “The Star Spangled Banner.’ By the Community Center Band, James Miller, director, at Grant Circle, gonight at 7:45 o'clock. March, “Brook’s Triumphal,” Sei eitz Waltz, “What'll I Do”....Berlin One-step—Selected. Romance, “Adoration,” By One-step, “Oh, Baby,” D Overture, “Comiedy”.......B Vocal solo, “A Kiss Dark” .. ......, . Herbert (By Dods: Fox trot, “The Star Spangled jorowski ey Banner.” In Siam the eighth and fifteenth days of the moon are regarded as sacred and devoted to worship and Test from ordinary labor. There are eighty-one million acres of land east of the Mississippi fit only for tree growth. 5 National Photo. Mrs. Carroll Miller of Pennsylvania, a delegate who seconded the nomi- nation of Gov. Smith yesterday at the convention. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. “EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE; ALL AROUND THE GARDEN.” Miss Bruce Kremer, daughter of Montana state delegation, and Mrs. Genevieve Clark Thompson, daughter of the late Champ Clark, at the Democratic national convention yesterday afternoon. Copyright by P. & A. Photos. NAMES ALFRED EMMANUEL SMITH. Franklin D. Roosevelt, former assistant Secretary of the Navy and once a Democratic candidate for Vice President, placing the name of Gov. national convention yesterday. s N Smith before the Democratic Wide World Photo One of the high points in the Democratic national convention yesterday was the demonstration following the naming of Gov. “Al” Smith as a presidential candidate. The old-time songs and political battle cries, music of the brass bands and screams from sirens continued in Madison Square Garden for an hour and twenty-five minutes. during the height of the excitement. TFhis photograph was taken Coprright by Underwood & Underwood tional convention. The photograph his daughter Catherine, who is “the Electric Ares Visible 150 Miles Will Guide Night Mail Planes Aggregate of 5,279,000,000 Candle Power IMlumination on Route From Cleve- land to Cheyenne. Tlumination candle power will be used on the 1,460-mile stretch between Cleve- land, Ohio, and Rock Springs, Wyo., when the day and night air mail serv- ice across the continent begins July 1. Beacons of 500,000,000 and 5,000,000 candle power will be a feature. Above this night-fiying stretch the planes themselves will carry electric flood lights and emergency para- chute flares aggregating 10,000,000 candle power. These will be used mostly in landing. Second Assistant. Postmaster Gen- eral Paul Henderson is in Chicago this week making final arrange- ments for the opening of the trans- continental air mail, the most spec- tacular feature of which is to be the night fying. J. V. Magee, engineer in charge of {llumination for the air mail service, has divided the night flying section into three units, that between Chi- cago and Cheyenne, measuring 885 miles, being lighted at once and the east and west wings, 335 miles from. Cleveland to Chicago and 240 miles from Cheyenne to Rock Springs, Wyo.. being utilized as the summer wanes ané the days grow shorter. Main Station Located. In the central division main st tions are located at Chicago, Iowa City, lowa; Omaha, Neb.; North Platte, Neb., and Cheyenne, Wyo. At each of these points there have been installed two thirty-six-inch, 500,- 000,000-candlepower electric arc bea- cons and, in certain instances, one eighteen or twenty-four-inch, 5,000,- 000-candlepower incandescent beacon superimposed upon the tower. of the larger arc. One 500,000,000-candle- power beacon or two of the smaller incandescent beacons will be mounted on mobile platforms for flood light- ing the surface of the fleld. The boundaries of each field will be out- lined, either with incandescent lamps or fiashing acetylene gas beacons, the wind cone will be illuminated and all buildings, radio plants or other obstructions outlined with light. In the exact center of each fleld will be a brilliant red mushroom cluster,, low enough for the wheels of the ‘airplane to pass safely over, and in between the above main ter- totaling 5,279,000,000 minals are divisional fields, every twenty-two to twenty-five miles, as follows: _In Tllinois—North Aurora, McGirr, Franklin Grove, Rock Falls, Cordova; in Iowa—Dixon, Atalissa, ‘Williamsburg, Montezuma, asoner, Des Moines, Eriham, Casey, Atlantic, Oakland; in Nebraska—Yutan, Wahoo, David City, Osceola, Central City, Grand Island, Shelton, Kearney, Elm Creek. Lexington Gothernburg, Pax- ton, Ogallala, Big Spring, Chappell, Dix; in Wyoming—Pine Bluff and Burns. These total thirty-four. At each of these is an eighteen or twen- ty-four-inch, 5,000,000 - candlepower incandescent beacon, and boundary limitation acetylene flashes. Every three miles, in between main and divisional fields, have been in- stalled acetylene flashes on six-foot platforms. Last August, during the night-fiying experiments, these flashes were mathematically located along the compass line of flight. Experi- ence proved, however, that these could be better utilized if placed a little ways off the compass line and actually located in the center of a field which could be used for landing in case of emergency. The result is that there is actually a landing field every three miles along the 885-mile route from Chicago to Cheyenne. Revolve Around Horison. The big 500,000,000-candlepower beacons are set one-half of one de- gTree above the horizon. They revolve completely around the horizon three times a minute and are visible for 150 miles. The 500,000-candlepower incandescent beacons, set also one- half of one degree above the horizon, make the circuit every ten seconds and are visible for at least 100 miles. The acetylene beacons of 5,000 candle- power are visible nine milés and flash 150 times a minute. Cleveland and Bryan, Ohio, and Rawlins and Rock Springs, Wyo., are divisional fields, each equipped with one 5,000,000-candlepower incandes- cent beacon revolving on a fifty-foot tower and two beacons on the ground, together with radio, supplies, etc. In between the above points, about every 25 miles apart, are emergency fields, each equipped with one 5,000,000-can- dlepower tower beacon, illuminated ‘wind cone, telephone, etc. These fields ville te: ley, Walcotville, Goshen, Lakeville, La Porte and McCool; In Tilinois— BLIND DELEGATE BRINGS CHARMING “EYES.” M. F. Healy of Iowa is the only blind delegate to the Democratic na- State Senator shows him being led to his seat by eyes” of her father. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. YOUR BONUS Questions That Bother You Will Be Answered in This Column. Address: Room 722, News De- partment, The Evening Star, c. ‘Washington, D. Q. My husband is a wWar veteran. About three months ago he disap- peared, leaving me as the sole sup- port of a two-year-old son. I am unable to locate my husband. Is there any way I could collect a share of his compensation?—Mrs. M. M. A. Unfortunately, there is no way in which you or your son could actu- ally collect the bonus which is due your husband. Of course, he may file an application naming you or your son as beneficiary.WIn that event you or your son would be entitled to the proceeds of the policy upon his death. But since you do not know his present whereabouts, and he may have met with foul play, it would be well for you to secure an application blank and file it as a dependent, who is entitled to the benefita. Q. I am a widow, my husband having died after discharge from disabilities incurred in the mili service. I am now recetving $35 per month as compensation for his death. I will thank you to advise me if I will be entitled to receive a bonus; if so, will it in the form of an {nsyrance policy or cash?—Mrs. R. H. A. You are entitled to the benefits of the adjusted compensation act. You did not give me all the dates of the service your husband rendered so I can only approximate the amount you will receive to be about $500. This sum will be payable to you in ten quarterly cash installments of $50 each, beginning March 1, 1925. Under a recent act of Congress you are entitled to a small increase in the amount of compensation you are now receiving from the United States Veterans’ Bureau on account of the death of your husband. If you do not receive this increase within the ONE OF VIRGINIA'S FAIREST BOOSTS “NATIVE SO! Mrs. Walter C. Fain of Norfolk, known as one of the most beautiful women of the Old Dominion, at the Carter Glass headquarters in New York, where she acts as hostess. next sixty days write to the United States Veterans' Bureau and ask for it Q. I entered the service July 5, 1918, and served until May, 20, 1919. On the latter date I was discharged and immediately received an appoint.- ment as an Army field clerk. Can 1 claim credit for military service up to July 1, 1919°—W. 8. G. A. Your credit for military serv- ice runs only to the time of discharge from the military service. In other Sllowable for the served as an Army fleld words,' no credit time you clerk. Q. During the war I served as a yoeman first class, in the paymaster's department. I want to come back to live in Washington and would like to know what steps to take to secure a position with one of the depart- ments administering the bonus law? —L. D. W. A. If you desire to work in Wash- ington with either the War Depart- ment or the U. S. Veterans' Bureau write to the Civil Service Commission for an application blank to secure an appointment. . My brother entered the service June 27, 1918, and served at Camp Taylor until April 28.,1919. He died the following July, leaving four sis- ters, of which I am the oldest. How much is his estate entitled to receive? Must an application be made for the benefits?—Mrs. A- L. N. A. Under the law sisters are not entitled to any benefits as dependents of deceased veterans. Only wives, children, mothers or fathers in the order named are entitled to any bene- fits of adjusted compensation in the event that the veteran dies or has died before signing ar application. Q. I am the legal guardian of a veteran, mentally incompetent, who is in a hospital near this city. = Shall I make application as his guardian? What will I do about fngerprints? Many thanks for your help—H. J. F. A. As the legal guardian, make out and sign the application to which Your ward is entitled. If possible, get fingerprints. If it is impossible, send in the application blank with- out the fingerprint. Get the finger- print if you can, aa it will expedite the settlement of your ward's claim. Harvey: in Wyoming—Federal, La- ramie, Bosler, Rock River, Medicine Bow, Walcott, Cherokee, Wamsutter, Bitter Creek and Salt Wejls. Each plane flown at night will be equipped with the usual navigating lights, green to the right, red to the left and white in the tail.’ At the tip of each lower wing will be 250,000- candlepower headlights, supylied from a twelve-volt battery, the cur- rent being generated direct from the main crankshaft. One headlight is for distance and the other for flooding. Powertul flares attached to miniature parachutes can also be released, the Darachute sustaining the light in its slow descent and at the same time shielding the pilot from glare. MRS. MARY D BELT DEAD. Suffered From Long Illness—Fu- neral Tomorrow. Mre. Mary D. Belt, eighty years ojd, widow of John W. Beit of Prince Georges County, Md., died at her residence, 1016 Léth street. yesterday, following a long ness. Funeral services will be at Trinity Church, Upper Marlboro, Md., tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. Interment will be_at the church cemetery. Mrs, Belt had made her home in Prince Georges County before coming to this city about a year ago. Copyright by Kadel & Herbert SHIPPING BOARD GETS NORFOLK ARMY BASE Coolidge Orders Transfer From ‘War Department—Subject of Controversy. President Coolidge issued an exec tive order today transferring the No§ folk Army base from the War De partment to the Shipping Board. The property at the Norfolk Army base was constructed during the war at a cost of approximately $17,000,000, and the Shipping Board has been en- deavoring several years to get pos- session of the valuable piers and otar equipment Subject of Controversy. Strong protests were made by the board when the War Department put the property up for sale some time ago. The city of Norfolk and others made offers for the property, one of which was $5,000.000. _The Depart- ment later abandoned the plan to sell outright _and decided to lease the docks. Further protests were made. and recently the House committee in- vestigating the board, when apprised of the state of affairs, went on record as opposed to any other disposal of the property than its infmediate transfer to the Shipping Board. Th: committee authorized Chairman O'Connor to advise the Secretary of War to this effect, and the action of the President today was made on the advice of the Secretary. R T D. C. NAVAL RESERVES DUE HOME TOMORROW Special Dispateh to The Star. QUANTICO, Va., June 27.—Om last leg of their annual cruise, members of the United States Naval Reserves of the District of Columbia. battalion arrived here last gichi aboard U. 8 S. Eagle No. ye M. J. Nichols commanding. This morning the entire ship's com- pany went on the Marine Corps rific range here for small arms practice All of yesterday morning they spent in the Vicinity of Tangier Island at target practice. The men, consider- ing the small time they have been on the work, made some excellent scores. The vessel left Cape May, N. J., at 4 o'clock Wednesday morning and made a fast run down the coast, an- choring in the bay that evening. The ship will leave Quantico early tomor- row morning and is due to -dock at her berth at Water and O streets southwest about 9 o'clock, When the officers and men will be placed on the inactive Hst for another,year. the the 56, O