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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 6, 1926—PART 1 PARK ACQUISITIONS ACTION IS EXPECTED IN NEXT FEW MONTHS ___(Continued from First Page.) sion, together with such information as to the status of the building project, so that the commission may decide what it will do. Question One of Expense. This Is_one of the things which among others, points to the poss | bility of getting the Patterson trac which, although some distance aw would provide a much larger play ground and recreational space than| justjce the one contemplated at the Ninth| oy and E streets siteq But the question FOUR BIG FEDERAL BUILDINGS WILL BE BEGUN HERE SOON (Continued from First Pag WITH ORATORS ON TRIP TO MOUNT VERNON ON THE SYLPH WOMEN IN ROBBERY GASE GET 15 YEARS Colored Defendants Receive Maximum—Other Cases in Criminal Court. FEDERATION NAVES| COMITTEE HEADS Mrs. Rufus Dawes to Take Charge of International Relations Work. ' ! —— | “fire-traps. Officials of the bureau have estimated that a saving of be- tween 25 and 30 per cent of the cost of collecting the Government's taxes could be effected by concentration of the work in one building, instead of scattering it in ten, some of them more than a mile apart. The income tax unit now has half a dozen buildings—Annex No. 1, at the corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Madison place; Annex No. 2, at Fourteenth and B streets; Building Stafford, in Criminal Divi erday sent Ruth Mills and Robinson, both colored, to the BY CORINNE FRAZIER. Staff Correspondent of The Star. ATLANTIC CITY, June 5. Rufus Dawes of Evanston, IlL inlaw of Vice President Dawes, appointed chairman of the Depart- ment_of International Relations of the General Federation of Women's Clubs at the post convention session of the new board of directors today. Mrs. Dawes will succeed Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, whose two-year term chairman expired. Mrs. Frederick G. been in charge of headquarters news service at Washington, was appointed press and_ publicity chairman of the General Federation by the board of directors. It is possible that Mrs. Weitz will eontinue to make her head- quarters in Washington. Mrs. John R. Dawes of Ridgeway, will serve with Mrs. Weitz ant chairman. A permanent board of trustees to have charge of the foundation created at the recommendation of Mrs. John D. Sherman, president, in her biennial report, for the purpose of collecting and administrating funds donated for general federation work, was ap- pointed. Also al funds raised by the organization as a_whole or by outside contributors for sp projects will be handled by this board, the personnel of which will not change with cach new administration. Six to Be Trustees. Six women will serve on the board of trustées with the general federa tion president as chairman of appointees named tod: Robert J. Burdette of Pasadena, C: Mrs. Florence . Floore of ¢ vborne, Tex., Mrs. Samuel Martin Inaman of Atlanta, Mrs. Jessie Spafford of Rock- ford, 1il, Mrs. Joshua Hodgkins of Marfanna, Wis., Mrs. L. L. Blanken- burgh of Philadelphia. Other depirtment heads who were appointed after a meeting of the board are Mis. Walter McNab Miller of St. Louis, as chairman of publit welfare: Mrs. William R. Alvord of Michigan, department of American citizenship; Mrs. Maggie F . de partment of American home; Mrs. William Blackman of Orlando. Fla., department of applied education: Mrs. L. A. Miller of Colorado. department of finance; replacing Mrs. Samuel Martin Inaman. Heads Music Divisi . Eugene B. La homa, waus appointed chairman of music division of the fine arts de partment, transferting her division of Indian affairs where she served Nt chairman. San Antonio, Texas, was chosen by the executive committee as the city fn which the 1928 biennial will bo held, Grand Rapids, Mich.. was chosen for the 1927 council meetin; One si t change W in department organization by exec- utive committee, as a result of rec- ommendza the special com- Weitz, who has a: Mr m_ of Okla as uss The division of Indian affairs fo merly under the department of w fare, was transferred to th ment of American citizer Mex bers of the executive hourd declared the change was thought advisable in order that this div emphasis upon its work to the Indians full rights tleges citizens in States, Mrs. H. A. Atwood of California was reappointed to the chairmanshij, of this division. Tells of 6,5000,000 Homes. and the priv- Uni s the an home, taken as the keynotc of the biennial were stressed in 1k closing session of the convention terday. Reports of the most comprehe home equipment survey, which ever been made by any in America, conducted pervision of Miss Marie L. Obenauecr of Washington, D. « head of the Research Bureau, were given by Maggle W. Barry of Tex of the Department of the Home. 6.500 American homes, cludes detailed information type and adequacy of equip this entire group In that part of Miss Obenauer’s re- port covering the second quarter of the home equipment survey she sug- gests that the material now available i~ suflicient for the department of the American home in conference with co- operating agenc to use as a basi for fo: tnz programs of work and vesearch that will develop methods of correcting some of the inadequacies of home ecquipment which make home- making ste of woman's energy. This ion was put before the vention by Mr : as the lo; next step for enlarging the de- nt's program, and sux of opinion in the delegate that such a follow-up program he inaugurated in order that work of the home survey commit migkt be of some constructive under the su- nd in- s to the ent in Report on Rural Life. Tn citing the inadequacies found in rural homes it was declared that in one rural district more than 200 farm- houses were discovered where run- water and electricity were sup- d for the pigs and other live stock, ile the home itsclf lacked either. videntl <aid Mrs. Barry, “to rural minds people are just while ‘pigs is pork.” Miss Florence Ward, in charge of home demonstration work in the North Atlantic States for the Depart- ment of Agriculture. who makes her headquarters in Washington, ad- diessed the convention, stressing the tmportance of stimulating interest in lome economics and pointing out Avays in which the clubwomen could #dd in accomplishing this end. She jreceded her speech with a message from the Secretary of Agriculture, ex- pressing his appreciation of the work dy done by the general federa- tion during the past year in encour- sging the efforts of the home demon- “stration division of his department. Dr. Louise Stanley, chief of the Bu- aeau of liome Economics of the De- Emrlmem of Agriculture, also was ex- fected to speak before the convention Vesterday, but was unable to be pres- ent. Her subject was to have been nutritfon. Other Speakers on Topic. Among the other speakers on the program of the department of the an__home were Mrs. Mary k< Woolman, who spoke on tex- Edith McClure Patterson, ed the home budget; Miss who emphasized the im- nsurance for the home; Mrs. May Dickinson Kimball, the cre: ator of mothereraft, and Mrs. Frank G. Gilbreath, whose subject was “Fa- tigue and the Home.” Declaring that four things, more than any physical cause, produced fatigue in the business of home mak- ing, Mrs. Gilbreath named ‘worry as the most fatiguing factor, working under emotional or nervous pressure as the second, friction third and monotony fourth. In discussing this last point, Mrs. Gilbreath said “any home maker who has a backgrou of business life knows that there, less nonotony -in homemaking thws who' disc Alice La portance o from the | _{ment Printing Office will be used, it organization it was the! C, at Sixth and B streets southwest; Building No. 5, Twentieth and ¢ streets; the Pettus Building, Nine- teenth street and Virginia avenue, and the premises at 462 Loufsiana avenue. Units Split Up. The prohibition unit occupies por- tions of Bullding C, at Sixth and B streets southwest; premises 1418-22 Pennsylvania avenue, the Graham Building, 14th and E streets, and the Treasury Building. . The miscellaneous tax unit also is in Building C, the accounts and col- lections unit is in Temporary Build ing No. 5, at Twentieth and B streets; the oftice of the solicitor of internal revenue is in the Interior Building, and the offices of the commissioner 4 ant commissioner, the intelli- gence unit, the division of supplies and equipment and the appointment division are in the Treasury Building. The new Department of Commerce headquarters will be situated just south of the proposed new home for the Department of Justice, which is destined to replace Poli's Theater at the corner of Fifthteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. The Justice Bullding was not mentioned in yes. announcement of initial esti- The Department of Com- faces expiration within two vears of its present lease ¢n the pri vately-owned building at Nineteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. The owners have indicated their reluct ance to extend the lease further. 33 Commerce Offices. The Commerce Department now is housed in ‘33 different buildings, some of which are not f. 1t is pay- ing more than $65,000 a year in rent for its administration building alone. Other buildings housing parts of the department include the Hurley-Wright ghteenth street and venue, the Bureau of group at Sixth and B streets . Tempor Building D at th sireet and Missouri avenue southeast, the octet of Coast and Geo. detic Survey buildings at New Jersey avenue and B street southeast, the Patent Office Ninth and F streets, 17 Bureau of Standards structures, the old Land Office Building and the Interior Department. Work on the central portion of the Department of Agriculture building will be facilitated because the site already is available and the plans for the addition are ready. The con- necting link between the separate wings will form a complete architec- tural unit. Because of its artistic de- in conformi with the res mainder of the structure. the new portion will not provide the most ad- vantageous use of space affore 4 a simpler edifice. The new e building, estimated for ury, will be of large propor- ifficient to meet the office { space deraands of the various bureaus |and divisions of the department, now scattered in rented structures nearby. The appropriation for the Govern- Ly the is understood, to {known as the old Y just west of the new print shop. It has been proposed that addition | costing approximately 000 be erected on this site, cnabling the public printer to vacate the old office at the corner of North Capitol and 11 streets and replacé them by modern, fireproot buildings. List Of Projects. Following are the cit it is planned to start work on new Federal buildings this Summer, if Congress approv with the esti- mated cost of the buildings and the appropriation which will be asked for thi ear's work acquire what is le Laundry site, in which | 1st appro- tion. $75.000 100:000 100.000 | Durargo | Branfor. | Coeur ¢ i Moust Carme D . 1a. Culo’, Conn : Alene, Tdaho TR (court 100.000 30.000 5 30,000 130.000 100:000 100000 £0.000 150.000 00,000 00.000 110.000 75.000 : 360 ! Las 'Vegas, . 151000 1 800000 500,000 { Yonk | Wil | Jam | Akr Fremont. Ohio Lewistown. Pa.. /10 ! | Mc Rocks, Pa.. | Lancaster. 8. €. 0. Chamberlain. S. 175,000 108:500 85.000 75.000 54.000 90,000 800,000 195.000 Madison, W 150.000 v 40,000 40,000 100.000 250.000 18,000 | Se | Williamson, i 90,000 Marine cago Marine ool o s 600.000 { Marine “Fogpitai. vannah, Ga. ... 18,000 Sites to Be Purchased. The program covers the purchase only this year of sites in the cities listed below. Buildings were author- ized for them in 1913. The amount of the appropriation to be asked and the cost of the completed buildings are included in the table. Appropriation Cost of forsite. building. San' Pedro. Calif. $60.000 $680.000 Metropolis, T.. .00 15.000 75000 Poxton. Til... 00 15.000 80.000 Wwyandotte, " Mich 30000 110000 st Lomis. Mo. (0 butlding | 500,000 1,100.000 10000 65000 2.278.000 dfield., 1.600.000 260,000 wark, Wil o 5.000 oras Pa 75.000 0:000 Donora. Pa; Olyphant. Pa.. 80,000 85.000 ‘Waynesburg, 1 75.000 The first year's program also | calls for appropriations for sites for | buildings at Chicago and Pittsburgh, at $3,975,000 and $2,050,000, respec- tively! of $30,000 for a quarantine station site at New Orleans; $20,000 for an assay station sit at Seattle, and $65,000 for a courthouse site at Des- Moines, and $35,000 for a site at Mont- clair, N. J. In the last two places appropriations were asked for im- mediate construction of buildings. Birmingham, Ala., would get addi- tional office space, $325,000; Memphis, Tenn., extensions to postal substation, Paris, Tex., additional stor- ¥0. L Hospital. " Chi- # . 233.000 City. e Savre, Pa Tamagua. P: and Memphis projects, however, is estimated at $425,000 and $325,000, respectively, and the aditional funds necessary will be asked for next year. in any other occupafion. Monotony, for the most part, is not in our work, but in the mind of the worker.” Final reports from the headquar- ters maintenance fund committee in- dicated that more than $11,000 had heen- raised by volunteer subscrip- tions during the 10 days of the con- vention. This amount, added to the amount _already subscribed, brings the total well past the $22,000 mark, according to Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, chairman of the maintenance fund committee. Among the pledges received yes- terday was one from the Susan B. Anthony Foundation at Washington, given in memory of their founder. Upper: Lower, the contestants enjo; Inset: At Mount Vernon, left to right—Mi: D. C.; Comdr. John T. G. Stapler, Miss Helen Bylond of New York, Miss ng a ride dow Miss Myrtle Posey in an attractive pose. Ann Hardin of Louisvill e, Ky.; Herbert Wenig of Hollywood, Calif.; Miss Myrtle Posey of Washington, ita Bearman of Minneapolis, Minn., and Thomas P. Cleary of Philadelphia, Pa. the Potomac aboard the Sylph, Secretary of the Navy Wilbur's yacht.. | | | RESERVES PAY HONOR *POWI_ZR TO THRILL WITH WORDS |HAMMOND IS HOST TO LIEUT. COL. SCOTT Smoker, Supper and Inscribed Tes- timonial Show Appreciation of Services for Corps. An embossed testimonial was tendered Lieut. Col. John Scott at « supper and smoker held in his honor by the Organized Reserves of the Dis- trict of Columbia at the Willard Hotel last night, in appreciation of his work in interests of the organization for many years. The guest of honor leaves this month for Fort Leaven worth, Kans,, to be an instructor. The testimonial was presented by Lieut. Col. R. E. B. McKenney, and inscribed as follows: n hearty and lasting appreciation for his splendid and untiring activi- ties in promoting the education and efficiency of the Organized Reserves, District of Columbia, on the occasion of his transfer to another station. The meeting was presided over by Lieut. Col. Joseph F. Randall, Air Service, chairman; and the members of the committee included: Col. Leroy ‘W. Herron, Field Artillery; Lieut. Col. 8. Goodacre, Finance; Lieut. Col. Isaac Welll, Ordnance; Maj. R. H. ‘Wilmer, Coast Artillery; Maj. A. L. Anderson, Quartermaster Corps; and Capt. R. C. D. Hunt, Cavalry. The musical entertainment which followed was contributed by the Army Musical School, led by Manuel Comulade, and by Ambrose Durkin, and Harry Angelico, soloists. PICNIC PLANS MADE. Society of Natives’ Annual Outing to Be Held June 19. Entertainment features, sports and games, with prizes, will be among the attractions at the second annual pic- nic of the Soclety of Natives, District of Columbia, at the Joaquin Miller cabin, Rock Creek Park, Saturday af- ternoon, June 19, from 1 until 6 o'clock. Busses will leave Mt. Pleasant street and Park road (end of the Mt. Pleasant car line), to convey the pic- nickers to the proper place, beginning at 1 pm. and Milkhouse Ford 1:20 p.m. until 6 p.m.; then every 40 min- utes until 7:20, which is the last trip from Milkhouse Ford. Luncheon will be served upon ar- rival at the grounds and refreshments later in the afternoon. Mrs. J. C. Kondrup of 3012 Cam- bridge place in chairman of the picnic sommittee. SIREOE e DUGGAN IN MARTINIQUE. Argentine Aviator Makes Hop From Porto Rico Via Guadeloupe. PORT OF FRANCE, Martinique, June 5 (#).—Bernardo Duggan, Ar- gentine aviator, en route from New York to Buenos Alres, arrived here at 4:40 p.m. today from Basse.Terre, Guadeloupe. Duggan left San Juan, Porto Rico, this morning. < CHIEF LURE IN ORATORY CONTEST Popular Response in Big Event Exceeded Expecta- tions—Measure of Interest of Pupils Is Shown by 1,800,000 Entrants. “The excitement of a large scale contest and the_power to thrill with the spoken word—these are the basic reasons for the widespread interest in the national oratorical contest, which this vear has become international as wel Thus Randolph Leigh, organizer and director of the contests, expressed himself in revueing the recent con- 3 x0,” he continued, “few people believed that the contest, even -if it reached into a number of States, would assume truly national proportions, or that it could grip the imagination of the public. And yet in that time the movement has swept forward until public speaking has be- come a major sport in the secondary schools of America, and the con- tagion has spread to England, France, Canada and Mexico, as well. In prac- tically every community in which a contest is held the crowd of enthusi- asts exceeds the seating capacity of the meeting place. Brass bands, school yells and widespread public interest—these are now the regularly expected accompaniments of these competitions. Scope of Movement. “The scope of the movement is by itself enough to excite interest. Ap- proximately 1,800,000 boys and girls in schools from Puget Sound to ¥lor- ida Keys have participated in the con- test. The plan of the project has been broadened so as to include jpnior as well as senior high schools, and even in localities: where there is no active newspaper sponsor the schools are permitted to enter the contest and are given fair repre- sentation in {t. “But mere bigness could not keep interest in the contest keen. The thrill of that greatest of the arts—the art of quickening the emotions by the spoken word—is really the great fac- tor in its drawing power. “The project is planned not merely to instruct and entertain, but also to thrill. True oratory is mot a matter of cold statistics. It is not a matter of moving the arms or the legs or the lips, or even the eyebrows, but of moving the audience. Precisely that is what the successful contestants do—they move their hearers! “The reports from the final meet- Ings in various newspaper territories and from the still more hard-fought regional finals as well as the final contest Friday night all bear witness to the capacity of the speakers to thrill their hearers. “There have been two other factors, less conspicuous but by no means to be overlooked, in explaining the suc- cess of this movement. These are the school teachers and the news- papers, which, when working to- gether, have limitless capapeity for accomplishment. In thousands of schools teachers have given mot merely hours but days, and even weeks, to directing and selecting con- testants. This work, for the most paprt, has been carried on after regu- lar school hours, and often at great peprsonal sacrifice on the part of the | teachers. “There is hardly a congestant who will not gladly admit the valuable assistance given by his teachers in the matter of general advice, sug- gesting reference books and above all constant encouragement for the pupil to keep plugging at' it so as to do his best. The contest has been an eye-opener to me as the extent to which teachers will labor outside their regular routine (often very heavy by itself) to urge their pupils forward. I like to think that it has also caused the pupils to more fully appreciate their teachers as a resuit of the public acknowledgment by so many boys and girls of the debt which they owe to their teachers for giving them the initial urge and the just as important follow-up encourage- ment in the contest. “‘On the part of the newspapers the contest represents a totally new jour- nalistic departure. The newspapers which are financing and conducting these contests are no longer content with discussing better and more intel- ligent citizenship as an abstraction. ‘They are inviting the schools to co- operate with them in encouraging such citizenship by making the study of governmental principles (senerally regarded as a bore) dramatic and alive with the zest of competition and school rivalry. “I believe that we are merely on the movement. The school and the press, the two indispensable factors among self-governing people, realizing their mutual responsibilities and striving to co-ordinate their efforts—what a team they can become and what results they can achieve! In a land where every man, through the ballot, can make his thinking (or lack of it) felt, what is more important than that all men be encouraged to think aright? ————————m HIKING FASTER WINNING. In Indiana Four Days After Leav- ing Chicago for New York. Special Dispatch to The Star. KENDALLSVILLE, Ind., June 5.— George Hasler Johnston, hiking faster, stopped off here this afternoon for a half hour's rest before continuing on the next lap of his attempt to walk from Chicago to New York in 30 days without eating. Thousands greeted him along his route. He left Ligonier this morning and expects to spend tonight at Waterloo, walking about 40 miles today. A 50-mile stretch of dirt roads in this section has slowed up his pace considerably. Johnston has lost 12 pounds since starting his endurance test, but his physician, Dr. Peter Lersch of New York, says he is in ex- cellent health. Johnston seems to be suffering no pangs dp\hunger. This is his fourth day of fringes of the possibilities of this| TO YOUNG ORATORS AT HIS RESIDENCE _(Continued from First Page. ! plon, had been elected president of | the club to succeed Robert Sessions, 11925 oratorical champion. Miss Helen Bylund of New York City was elected | secretary and treasurer. Anxious to show the Constitution Club members all of his treasures, Mr. Hammond conducted them on a per- sonal tour of his private office, on the walls of which are hung hundreds of pictures of celebrities, all autographed and bearing friendly messages to the popular mining engineer. Miss Nat- alie Hammond charmingly aided her father in entertaining the club mem- bers. Thanks to the unusual courtesies extended by Comdr. John T. G. Sta- pler, detailed by the Secretary of the Navy to accompany the orator and their party of friends on the Mount Vernon trip, the day on the river and at the tomb and home of Washington was acclaimed by the group as the most pleasant of their lives. House Buffet Luncheon. A buffet luncheon and high tea were served on the Sylph and both Comdr. Stapler and Comdr. Whiting, in charge of the Sylph, urged the mem- bers of the party to inspect the yacht ‘“‘as if it were your own property Points of interest on both banks of the Potomac were pointed out by Col. and Mrs. C. Fred Cook, The Evening Star representatives, who acted as hosts. A complete photographic rec ord was made of the trip by Star photograhers ‘When the party arrived at Mount Vernon they were given the liberty | of the grounds and spent two hours | in seeing the various houses. Guests On Yatht Trip. Those in the party included Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cleary, parents of Thomas Cleary, Philadelphia finalist; Walter Capelli, in_charge of the oratorical contest in Pennsylvania; Herbert We- nig, the 1926 champion; Miss Myrtle Posey, The Star’s entrant; Miss Ann Hardin, Louisville, Ky., orator; Miss Guita Bearman, Minneapolis orator; Miss Helen Bylund, New York City or- ator; T. E. Lewls, Philadelphia Bul- letin; Edward O. Wenig, grandfather of young Wenig; Mr. and Mrs. John J. Kuhn, aunt and uncle of Wenig; O. J. Bue, Chicago Daily News; Mrs. A. N. Bearman, mother of Miss Bearman; John Aiso, companion of Wenig; Rob- ert Sessions, Arthur Glenn Andrews, companion of Sessions from Alabama: Fanny May Baldridge, Miss Hardin's coach; Frances Dickson of Kansas City Star; Mrs. W. Bylund, mother of Miss Bylund; Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Schart of Brooklyn, friends of Wenig, and Miss Rose Stryker, guest of Col. and Mrs. Cook. Today the same group will ns- semble early and go on an intensive sight-seeing trip of the city. This afternoon they will be guests of The Star at a luncheon at the Willard. Tonight some of the orators wiil leave the city, while others, including Wenig and Also, plan to prolong their visit until late next week. Sl Persia will build a paper-making &!:nt. costing $400,000, to supply paper its government printing office. i | proper out of the sewer and let it foi- | week | sonnel will be considered. | at proposition of labilit that might be incurr and expense | d, «nd not on | the question of obtaining more grourd | for the same amount of money in the Patterson tract. But it seems very | probable, it w ted, that some part of the Patterson ‘tract will be ac. quired this yes Another project which is reaching ere it i ative to ac- | quire it if the park system is to| progress along the well laid program | is that of Foundry Branch in Georse town. It was pointed out that it ix necessary to get this land promptly to carry out the park program, which takes in the Glover and Archbold parkways, west of Burleith. Unless the lower end of the Foundry Branch valley from Reservoir road to the river is acquired, it was pointed out it will destroy the effect of these two valuable parkways,'which were dedi ed to the Government. The. importance of acquiring the lower end of this project will be brought strongly to the attention of the commission. it was said, and its need pointed out. The acquisition of this land would zive a park drive- way in Georgetown from Massa- chusetts avenue to the river. The val- ley 18 now dry, as Foundry Branch,| the stream which originally ran down | the valley, passes through au 12-foo sewer which serves this section. But d restoring its original con- t is the plan to take the branch valle dition, low its original course, leaving the piping only for the purpose of carry ing off the sewage of the sectio! 1f thig scheme is followed there will be an open stream in this project as there is in Rock Creek, and it will be open all the way to the river, except | for a small by-pass to carry it under the Canal road and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Funds Are Inadequate. Full information is being collected for the commission on these projects | 1o give the members intelligent in formation in alloting the expenditure of the $600,000 fund allowed this year, and it is now expected that much of it will be used on these projects. While it is expected that some in- roads can be made on their projects in the way of acquiring them for the governmentai park system, neverthe- less it was pointed out that the com- paratively small fund allowed by Congress for this purpose is not nearly enough to buy them. but the hope is expressed that those whe have them will either retain them until funds become avuilable, or per- haps that public-spirited eitizens might be interested in them to the extent of purchasing some parts of them and holding them until the Government money hecomes avallable in the course of a few years of ap- propriations. When the National and Planning Commis it will have prac; its new personnel under the re- organization present, and at that time it is expected that the question | of the employment of salaried per- Capital ion meets next ally all of Sylvi of the site ordered condemned will be | o3 (% 0 handled wholly on the merits of the | jery 3 Park | v 15 veurs each for rob- The court explained that it felt e strained to ¥npose che maximum pen. Ity because the women have criminal records and were conducting a disorderly house in South Washing ton, where men were enticed and robbed. pecific charge was the robber. from leo Lagana January John' Me] tenced to rland, colored, was sen- five vears in the peniten- tiary. He cut the throat of Gertrude I N also colored, with a r: April 6, but the jury did not find gullty of assault to kill. Get Six Years Apiece. Raymond Ball and Michael M. d “alla, young white men, convicted on charges of housebreaking unc La . received each six ye in the penitentiary. They were convicted o breaking into the store of George FPaul Monck Jangary 4 and stealing 5 and two gallons of alcohol. They b into the store of Gurnie O. Junuary 15 and stole a quantity liquor, and Februa entered place of Giles M. Jones | Lewis Harris. colored, will | five years in the penitentia: | riding and grand larceny tion with stealing, May omobile valued Mayflower Taxicab spen? e for in connec last, an au 100 from the and Sightseeinz | as one of the means of improving the | Service. Louis K. Siggins, white, convicted of forgery and uttering in connectior with passing three bad checks, was sentenced to three vears in the peni tentiary. Similar sentence was imposed on Henry Wade and Richard Johnson, both colored, for assault with a dan- gerous weapon in shooting, April 11 last, at C. H. Brad ley and stealing an automobile April 10 of Fred M. Wimer. Court Charges Perjury. Melvin Gray, eolored ault with a dangerous weapon March 14, on Charles A. was sent to the penitentiary for three vears. The court stated that witnesses for the accused had perjured themselves at the trial, which had the result of a longer sen tence being imposed than probably would have been ordered had the told the truth. rd J. Brice, colored, who Apy stole the automobile of George 1. Huber, will spend three vears in the penitentia Max F Jume | with @ knif | Colbert, an, convicted of viola- tion of the national prohibition law, November 23, 1923, was sentenced to ¢ a fine of $100 or serve 90 days in jail. Horace W. Prime, a young white man, who pleaded guilty to three charges of housebreaking and larceny., s sentenced to five vears in the penitentiary, but was piaced on pro | bation Oakton Graduates Honored. Special Dispatch to The Star, VIENNA, Va., June 5.—Commence ment exercises of the Oakton High One of the | most important positions to be filled | tha time will he that of city| planner, who will have direct charge | of preparing plans for the develop- ment of the city and its environs for the commission to approve and hold out as a general scheme to be ad- hered to. Gen. Jadwin to Be in, Charge. Maj. Gen. Harry Taylor, chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and chairman of the commission, will retire on June 26, and will relinquish this position to his successor, the new chief of Engineers, who will be Brig. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, now as- sistant chief of Engineers. At the meeting Gen. Jadwin has been in- vited to be present, in view of the fact that he will automatically be- come a member of the commission as soon as he assumes his office as chief of Engineers. At that meeting also will be Frederick Law Olmsted of Brookline, Mass.; J. C. Nichols of Kansas City and Milton B. Medary of Phila- delphia. also a member of the Na- tional Commission of Fine Arts, all eminent city planners provided for in the new act. Frederic A. Delano, another of the additions to the com- mission, under the new act, and ap- pointed as the representative from the District of Columbia, also pro- vided for in the law, will not be pres. ent at the next meeting, however, School were held in the school audi torium last night. Miss Audrey Reid gave the salutatory: Miss Roma ( upp, history: Miss Dora Clarke, { Paul Johnson. will, and Miss | Stuntz, valedictory. Special music | was given by the chorus of the high | school. State Senator Frank L. Ball | delivered the address. Diplomas were | presented by Herbert William hool | trustee for Providence distric -ad- uates besides those mentioned were rginia Allison, Julia Caton, Bessie Clarke, Nellie Fouche, Alda Furk- houser, Marjorie Madison, Ethel Mick- elson, Sydna Wiley, Percy Finks. John Miller and Lester Poole. Miss Wiley was the recipient of a bronze medal presented in the Lincoln essiy contest. « s Commissioend in Reserves. Jackson W. Wisner, Rockville, M has been commissioned by the War Department a_first lieutenant of In- fantry, and Ward W. Caddington, Silver Spring Md., a second_lieute- nant of Infant; both in the Reserve Corps of the T because of his absence from the country. These members recently were appointed by President Cool- idge, but the other members hold office on the commission by virtue of their officlal positions in other branches of the Government “Morrisplan’’ Your Vacation RE you going to the mountains —seashore—abroad? Or have you no vacation plans because you can't afford them? Borrow $100 to $5.000 for this or any other worthy purpose. A monthly or weekly payment plan is arranged for you. You will gain in health, happiness and increased efficiency. THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision of U. S. Treasury 1408 H Street N.W. connection with -