Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1925, Page 17

WHO'S WHO IN BIG LEAGUE BASE BALL IN AMERI Charlie Griner of Jacksonville, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, M. E. Bacon of Jacksonville, bunch at Jacksonville, Fla. Walter Johnson, John McGraw, Teft to righ lark sriffith and Mayor John T. Alsop THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . TUESDAY, APRIL of Jacksonville. PORTRAIT OF LAFAYETTE PRESENTED TO UNIVERSITY. President William Mather Lewis of George Washington University Marietta Minnigerode - drews at right CITIZENS DEFEND BANQUET PLANNED PRESENT ZONE LAW Takoma Park Association Election to High Educationals Pledges Support and Con- tributes for Defense. { T0 HONOR BALLDU Post Will‘Be Celebrated on April 18. Nomination of officers for the en-’ Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent suing vear, selection of a candidate | of schools, for the new citizens' advisory coun- ofl, contribution of funds to protect the present zoning law, and routine b Citizens' Association of Takoma, D, C., last night, in the Takoma Public Tibrary. President Charles H. Spen- cer presided, with S Dennis re- cording the minutes. Those nominated for officers were For president, Charles H. Spencer and Dr. D. N. Shoemaker: first vice presi- dent. Horace W. Whittaker and H K. Hobart: second vice president Mrs. L. B. Burdette and E. L. Culver; secretary, Roy Pierce and E. Culver; treasurer, Frank E. Reppert and Roy C. Pierce; financial secre- tary, Mrs. Horace W. Whittaker and 1. B. Burdatte: delegates to Federa- tion of Citizens' Associations, Jesse C. Suter, Dr. D. N. Shoemaker, H. L. Thornton and L. B. Burdette Printed ballots are to be sent out by the secretary no later than April 25. of S. H. McCrory, chairman: John Barghausen, Thomas Jackson, L. Burdette and A. Jones New members were ‘elected as fol- lows: O. K. Courtney, Louis Dantuono and B. I. Donovan Momey for School. B L S. H. McCrory would soon be proving the grounds Public School John F. Barghausen special committee reported that money available for im- of the Takoma a investigating extension of express service delivery,! reported that at the present time express packages were not delivered heyond the 4400 block on Georgia avenue. The committee was now efi- saged in communication with the main offices, in Baltimore. & | Reports were submitted by Jesse C. Suter and Dr. D. N. Shoemaker, dele- gates to the Federation of Citi Assoclations, on the new city plan and the proposition was plained in detail to the members present. At the conclusion of the discussion George E. Sullivan was clected as the represemtative to be indorsed by the Takoma section. H. L. Thornton reported that prog- ress was being made in securing dedication of land for the extension southward from Takoma Park of ¥ourth and Fifth streets with favor- sble results The attempt to declare the present zoning law unconstitutional in 1he association not only going on record unanimously in favor of the Jaw ag it stands on the statute books today. but pledged its support. and contributions_totaling nearly $100 were collected by H. L. Thornton before the meeting adjourned. The question of bus facilities be- tween Takoma Park and the center of the city was brought to the at- tention of the meeting and referred to the committee on public utilities for report. < The sleeper-hammock used in Pull- man car berths is sald to be copied from the wool network cases in whieh Indian women earry:their in- fants % - chairman of | the | conrts was discussed and resultéd in} ness featured the meeting of the, | | | | The election byard is composed | | official has been | i | {ing brings a dinner Federal other will at auspices be feted of and tha <everal the Mavflower under the Schoolmen’s Club civic organizations at Hotel April 15 in recogni of his recent election president of tha department of: superintendenee of the { on ional Eduacation Association. by the club A statement issued pointed out that the présidency of the department of superintendence. one of the Jargest and most important educational organizations in the coun- try, was given to Dr. Ballou in rec- ognition of his achievements as su- perintendent_of schools in such con- structive schiool advancement as will come from the passage of the five- vear building program, the new com- pulsory education bill and other im- portant pieces of school legislation Man Elected. time in the his- the department of superin- that a Washington school president,” said the statement. “Mr. Davidson held the presidency the vear before coming to Washington. This position is one of great importance, as the annual meet- together about 10,000 of the leading educators ‘of the country ¥or president a man I8 selected who has made some notable achievement in the schopl system he represents.” The central committee in im- mediute charge follows: Dr. Frederic Facrington, general chairman; | Harold E. Warner, principal Hine | Junior High School, general secre- | tary; A. C. Monahan, formerly spe- cialist, Unfted States Bureau of Edu- cation. chairman on publicity; Arthur D. Call, secretary American Peace Society, chairman on speakers; Thomas W. Sidwell, Sidwells’ Friends School, chairman on finance; S. E. Kramer, first assistant superin- tendent of schools, chairman on tickets; Dr. Henry Grattan Doyle, professor of romance languages, George Washington University, chair- man on invitations; J. W. Crabtree, secretary of the National Education Association, and S. D. Shankland, secretary, department of superin- tendence, National Education As sociation, committee on arrange- ments, General Committee Named. In addition, a large general com- mittee has been appointed. compris- ing one hundred of the leading repre- | sentative men in the District both in local and national affairs. Among | the members are such men as Isaac Gans, Willlam Knowles . Cooper, United States Commissioner of Edu- cation John J. Tigert, Dr. E. G. Dex- ter, supervisor of rehabilitation serv- ice, Veterans' Bureau; Dr. Vernon Kellogg, secretary, National Re- search Council; Charles W. Darr of the Lions Club; Earl W. Barnhart, head commercial education division, Federal Board for Vocational Educa- tion; William L. Radcliffe of the Rotary Club and president of the Radcliffe Chautauqua system; Charles M. Pimper of the Newcomers Club, James T. Lloyd, president of the Board. of Education: D. I Callahan, First D. C. “This is the first tory of tendence » accepting a copy of the Ary Schaeffer portrait of Gen. Lafayette, painted by Mrs. ndrews for the university library. Miss Marguerite Daly in center and Mrs. An- Washington Star Photo, BOY try. calling on President OUTS OF PHILADELPHIA VISIT THE WHITE HOU Coolidge yesterday afternoon. At least, here are a few of the big chaps in the game, all photographed in one Wide World Proto. MEMORIAL SERVICE AT PEARY Lieut. Comdr. Richard B. Byrd. jr. U. S, N., who has been selected by the Secretary of the Navy to arrange the Navy's part in the Donald Mac- Millan expedition to the Aretic. GRAVE. Dr. J. Howard Gore of the National Geographic Society placing a wreath on the grave of the discoverer of the North Pole. The, ceremony Cemetery yesterday marked the anniversary of Admiral Peary’s di Arlington National overy. Thots Natio " 7, -:1925; HEAVILY GUARDED, V(,”il‘yk‘!_fl. GOES TO DEATH CELL. The bandit, convicted of murder and sen tenced to be hanged, starting for the Wethersfield, Conn., jail, after sentence was pronounced in court Hartford. Chapman, wearing a cap,’at extreme right. at Coprright by I. & A. P! ROOSEVELTS SPEED THE ADVANCE AGENT OF HUNTING TRIP. Kermit and Theodore, who soon are going to India to hunt lions, bidding good-bye to George K. Cherrie, their advance agent, aboard the steam- “hip Homestead. Troop 97, many of the lads being classed among the crack Scouts of the coun- Copyright by Harris & Ewing BOARD OF TRADE ADDSiFlyers Are Saved, After Crash in Air, ! 170,000 OBTAIN VIEW By Parachute and Skillful Piloting 15 T0O MEMBERSHIP Directors Consider Suggested Ar- bitration Method for Adjusting District Rent Controversies. Georze B. Christian, jr.. secretary to the late President Harding, was among the 15 new members elected to the Washington Board of Trade at a meet- | ing of the directors of the organization yesterday. The directors considered the sugges- tion of the Washington Association of Building Owners and Managers to form an arbitration board to adjust rent con- troversies, and agreed that the plan as suggested . was not the one to bring about the desired results. The directors gave a vote of thanks | to the George 'Washington University for its work in explaining Washington to visiting_ students. ~ William '~ Mather Lewis, one of the directors and ‘the president of George Washington. Univer- sity, declared that 150,000 students would visit Washington during the year. The members elected are: George B. Christian, jr.: Claude C. €olley. Ra'ph A. Cusick, L. A. Finn, Jogeph William Kinghorne, Earl L. Lane, Floyd R. Mil- ler, Dr. L. B. Norris, Edmund P. Page. T L. Sayer, John W. Scott, Norveil H. Stearn Sweeney and Robert Y. Tabler. Col. Guiney Ordered to Chicago. Col. Patrick W. Guiney, Quarter- master Corps, has been detailed as commandant of the Quartermaster Intermediate Depot, at Chicago. He will relieve Col. Clyffard Game, Quartemaster Corps. former member of the Board of Edu- cation; John Poole, Capt. Julius I Peyser and Ernest Greenwood. This committee will meet Friday at 4 pm. at the Mayflower Hotel to compiete plans_ for the hanquet. Thomas M. Stearn, John A. | | | ! A parachute and skillful pilot- ing yesterday saved the lives of two Marine Corps aviators whose planes collided in mid-air near the Quantico -flving field while on a formation flight Quartermaster C. V. Mix: and Quartermaster Archie W. Paschal, were in a practice formation flight when in some manner not yet d. termined the wing of Paschal plane crashed into the tail of Mix's ship, damaging the stabilizers and rudder to the extent it immediately fell downward out of control. Mix, unable to make a safe landing, jumped and opened his parachute, settling down on the field unin- jured. The plane fell in the river a total wreck. In the meantime Paschal, with adamaged wing, was skillfully ma- neuvering his plane into the ‘field for a safe landing, which he ac- PLANS ARE COMPLETED FOR AD CLUB BANQUET Secretary Davis and Japanese Am- bassador Will Be Honor -+ Guests at Mayflower. Plans have been completed for the annual banquet of the Washington Ad Club next Tuesday at the May-| fower Hotel. The guests of honor| wilt be Secretary of Labor Davis and Tsuneo Matsudaira, the Japanese ambassador. Sydney M. Selinger is chairman of the banquet committee. The entire ballroom of the hotel will be decorated in cherry blossoms in honor of the Japanese Ambassador. Hundreds of gifts have been se- curéd from big manufacturers and local merchants to be given away at the banquet. Competitive prizes have also been received. Roland 8. Robbins, manager of Keith's, will have the entertainment complished with apparent ease. He was given an ovation by the spec- tators on the ground, however, for sticking to his ship when he could have jumped at the first impact. The planes flown by the two men were Vought E-9's light ebserva- tion and advance training plane. The maneuvers were being held preparatory to an exhibition sched- uled at Camden, N. J., in connec- ion with the launching of the aratoga. Quantico sent 18 planes today and Quartermaster Mix .and Paschal were amonsz the pilots. Seven planes from the Naval Air Station at Anacostia,also flew to Camden this. morning. Report of the collision was made to the Marine Aviation headquar- ters here yesterday and it was added that a complete investiga- tion would be made latef to de- termine the cause of the acciden BAND CONCERT. United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra, Stanley Hall, today at 5:45 o'clock. John S M. Zimmermann, bandmaster. March, **For the Freedom of the A e Zamecnik Overture, “Sky HIgh". .. Taylor Entr"Acte, (a) Indian love song, “Pale Moon” .. Logan (b) Song of the Far East, *“The Lotus Dream, Schroeder Scenes from the pera, “Ma- dame Butterfly .. Pueccini Fox Trot, “Cheating On Me,” Pollack Waltz, “I Wonder What's Be- scome of Sally?” Ager Finale, “Maybe You Will, Maybe You Won't” Rose “The Star Spangled Banner.’ son will be toastmaster. Following the banquet there will be dancing. program in charge, and Roe Fulker- [ Merrls -Kafka 4s-president—of tle club. | OF RARE DOCUMENTS | Pierpont Morgan Library Collec- { tion of Original Manuseripts and Drawings Attracts Throngs. By the Amsociated Press. NEW YORK. April Director E H. Anderson of the New York Public Library: announced today that 170,000 persons had attended the four- month _exhibition there of the Pier- pont Morgan library collection of rare toriginal manuscripts and drawings, The _ exhibition closes tomorrow. It has brought the greatest public resporse of any exhibition ever held at the library, according to Mr. Anderson. Scores af priceless orig- inals, from. Milton Paradise Lost, book- ¥, .on dowrn through Dickens' Christmas - Carol¥wito Kipling's “Brushwood “Boy,»*fliing 50 cases, have been on ofib jon. The daily _strt of visitors was led, numeriaaly #¥ least, by Thack- eray, Diokens.‘Keats and Shelley “fan”* JPhe Robert Burns delega- tion furnfsked a devoted member in = little “gray-haired Scotch woman, who came all the way from West Virginia to pore for two days over the clear, bovishly legible scripts of “Auld Lang Synme,” “Highland Mary” and “Scots Wha Hae W{ Wallace Bled. J. P. Morgan, owner of the collec- tion, joined the patrons to get his first glimpse of his collection dis- played entire. The various works had previously been accessible only singly in the vaults of his private library. * Library observers themselves found budding writers hovering studiously over cases containing work of the great masters. After thoughts of the literary giants, as revealed by interlinear" corrections and changes in their original copy, were seen to recelve detalled attention. More than 6,790 PuBITE, private and side | charged passage Lauty. Mr. Cherrie will make all preparations for the hunting trip. Copsright by P. & A. Photos CHICAGD VOTING ON RAL PURGHASE Proposition of Municipal Ownership and Subways Up to Citizens. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 7.—Chicago voted today on municipal acquisition and extension of the surface and elevated railways and construction of a sub- way, a 0.000.000 project. A 40- vear period is provided for payment for the properties out of .the earn- ings of the lines For the street railwavs $162.543.554 would be paid. for the elevated $§ 600.000 and for 465 miles of exten- sions to those systems $268,301.000 would be appropriated A start on construction of §% miles of subwaysx would be made with the approximately $40.000.000 already available from the city's. share of street railway earnin . Two Plans Submitted. Two propositions were submitted today, one to acquire the lines and the other to create a municipal board of control to operate them The election ended a hard nonpar- tisan fight of several weeks, during which scores of meetings nightly heard proponents and opponents of the venture. Sponsoring the plan, Mayor Wil- liam E. Dever rallied to its support more than 300 civic orggnizations. while three former mayors who sat for a quarter of a century prior to Dever's assumption of office—Catter H. Harrison, E. F. Dunne and Wil- liam Hale Thompson—Iled fn organ- izing opposition Opponents . of the proposition of the ordinance would saddle upon Chicago municipal ownership with political mismanage- ment and grafting. boosted fares and expenditure of above $1,000,000,000 and possession of properties already vir- tually antiquated, and which, within the life of the ordinance, would be junked. Brief for Plan. In favor of the plan it was said Chi- cago's transportation is seriously In- adequate, that the growing city must be provided for, that fares probably would be reduced under it, and cer- tainly not increased, despite the bet- tered service; that congestion in the downtown district would be elimi- nated, and that expiration of the sur- face line franchises in 1927 would make it virtually impossitle to in- terest adequate private capital for development and would result in re- celverships for the surface lines. Under the proposed ordinance, a board of nine, under the supervision of the city council, would operate the properties, three members to be ap- nointed by the holders of securities which would be issued to pay for the properties, three by the mayor, with the city council's approval, and three by agreement with the mayor's ap- proval necessary, however. Engineer Going to Détroit. Lieut. Col. Elliot J. Dent, Corps of Engineers, at Nashville, Tenn., has been ordered to Detroit, Mich., for parochial high school | students visited the exhibition. more than 50 schools and colleges being 'identified groups _that come. from out- the city. ‘PHONE VALUATION DECISION IS NEAR Utilities Body May Decide Is- sue Tomorrow—Figure Around $19,000,000. | i i | The Publi¢ Utilities Commission | may be ready tomorrow to announce | ifs inding of the present value of th property of the Chesapeake & tomatc Telephone Co. and upon decision hinges the | whether there will of hearing tn consider a that question of public a | phone rates The time today to commission will mest some g0 over again the ma of figures from which the value of th property will be determine Eng neer Commissioner Bell said. how a decision was not likelv today cause William McK. Clayton, reprs senting the Federation of Citizens Associations, had asked for time until tomorrow to file an answer to the brief of counsel for the company. $19,000,000 May Be Fixed. Repofts emanating from the Dis trict Building for the past week have indicated .the mew valuation will be close to $19,000,000, which would be only a slight advance above the val- uation-as carried on the commission s records. prior to the recent valuation hearing. The company is seeking to have fi= value fixed at $25,000.000, but it ha been indicated that the commissior plans to follow principles that will | result in reducing the figures of the company on several large items en- tering into value Among the uncertain items which | will have a far-reaching effect on the final decision are the following: Hos much should be subtracted from re- production cost for depreciation: how much should be allowed for going concern value; what assesment should be accepted for the real estate own by the company, and what should he he BANQUET LIST CLOSED BY SOCIETY OF NATIVES About ‘250 Guests Expected to At- ténd Annual Function' Eve- ning of April 15. The guest list for the annual ban- quet of the Saciety of Natives, o he held on the evenlig of Wednesdas April 15, has_been closed. There will be about 250 present, it was an- nounced today. The celebration is on the anniversary of the founding of the District of Columbia Representative William R. Coyle of Pennsylvania will come from Beth- lgr-em to attend the banquet. Local civic leaders, including Cuno H. Ru- dolph, president of the Board of Commissioners, and Col. J. Franklin Bell, Engineer Commissioner, have accepted invitations. Right Rev James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash- ington, will deliver an invocation snd probably will speak on the signifi- cance of the celebration. A program of entertainment has been arranged Jobn Clagett Proctor will preside and Fred A. Emery will act as toa master,