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12 HAlF BI[H[]N LOST BY FIRE LAST YEAR Gov. Walker Gives Figures and Presents Commerce Chamber Awards. —a_sum equi nama Canal— in the United a Walker of “ouncilor: nt to propert This ar ss than the averag er appeared before the awards of bror hamber f 1 the Na cil of the The Albar and for smprisi populat first place Huntington, 1,000 and three, between 2 The fifteenth | convention of « the opened ck the geographical s in the Chamber rectors. the ber's sctors were being selected by the councilors this after- noon Rapid progress in fire prevention ughout the country was reported by Gov. Walker in his address. “Prior to 3 it is doubtful if 50 cha \mh(‘v< of commerce throughout the coun \d fire prevention commit- | include | Miss Louise Beall and Mrs. Dallett fees.” hie said. “In 1923 only 70 Dr. Henning, §. E. Kramer, C.| Wilson. submitted reports. Last year &\'3\15 Dickey, Martin Scranage and the Sixecuitive) Cominlttee Membois were rece J | commander and ‘the adjutant of Kit % 2 Wit virsyol Scores of cities which five years|cCarson Post, No. 2, Grand Army of| The executive committee i ago could not be induced to observe |the Republic. i posed of the following: Mrs. W | Fire Prevention week not are asking | 3r. Mortimer was born March T, Howard Taft, Miss Florence Harding, | for assistance ¢ rial to carry on | 1844, in_Rochester, N. Y. ¥ the governor |of Col. Charles Mortimer . M {of the Tnited States Milit inan, Rey. Anson Phelps by fire an emy, who, while an officer the nville Gude, Mrs. Henry ymmittee of the National 1 whil ve been states show that ttributable to use of inflammable liquids uch as bonfires, stoves undertaken in » the most deaths improper and open fir and fireplaces “Every day burned to death because they f: heed simple precautionary m ich would render themsafe. lker declared. lts of the 1926 contest show a e of 160 1i lost, as compared with the average for the preceding five years, and a reduction of $4,146,282 in property loss The average per capita pared to a number of persons are 1 to es. Gov. In 1926 927 yer cent of all the cities reduced life loss a compared to 70 per cent in .8 per cent reduced property loss as compared to 56.4 per cent in and 28.5 per cent reduced their number of fires as compared to Der cent in 1927. Honorable mention in the contest was given to the following citles, the sovernor announced: Class 1—Philadelphia, Portland, re.; Rochester, N. Y.:"Detroit, Mich. New Orleans, La.; Indianapolis, Ind. rt Worth, Tex.; Seattle, Wash.; irand Rapids, Mich., and Wilmington, Del. Class Britain, Cnm —Pasadena, Calif.; Springfield, Ohio; B: \1' Kee: , Pa.; Bethle- if.; St. Joseph, (hdrl(‘"lo" W. Class Three Cities. Mansfleld, Petersburg, ‘Butler, Pa.; Hagerstown, Md.; and Riverside, Calif. lings, Mont.; Fullerton, Laconia, N. H.; Oceanside, Weston, W. Va.; Torrence, Calif.; Marlow, Okla.; Pekin, Ill; Fre- mont, Mich.; Ardmore, Okla., and Blackwell, OKla. The American committee of the international chamber will hold its seventh annual dinner at 7:30 o'clock this evening at the Mayflower Hotel Delegates to the Pan-American Cor Al Conference ' will be guests. . Lamont Class 3—Yakima, Wash.; Ohio; Mattle Creek, Mich va.; Uniontown, Pa Baton Rouge, La.; Ohio, Lerain, Clas: Calif.; Calif.; P. Morgan chairman of the bo: Motor Car C dent John W. O'L s annual addre 'ral session of the convention to- morrow morning. Committee appoint- ments will be made and the report ot he board of directors submitted. nt of the Metr will sy s of the Bu the meeting ing the prin. an business ¢ Amer Il hold private sessions. Separate sections will hold luncheon meetings tomorrow at 1 o'clock as follows: Agr ure section at the May flower section at civ ' Hote development ‘Washington, surance 1 manufac- the finance at the Washington at the Willard Hotel > Willard. will be held to- o'clock by the of Commercial the Wil- Trade As the May- represer can Union will as the flags of the countries President’s address then ed follow. the meeting, a reception and in the council building. sure. Use Bug Doom and get rid of Bed worth of eorgia of the of Commerce pount was $4,- e loss for rs, he 1 tions will be | LEE S. MORTIV Mortime {u. n of this n of the P O at 140 oele IER. LEE S. MORTIMER DIES | DUETO PNEUMONIA Long-Time Employe of P. 0. De- partment and Union Navy Vet- eran of Civil War Succumbs. nany d a fMice THE _EVENING FLOWER CAMPAIGN Shut-Ins Is Planned Next Week. he annual ‘ashington br: | Flower Guild for the collec | flowers and their charities and shut-ins will open Mon- morning at o Spring drive of th nch of the Natiof Y. W it was announced this morning at a of Mrs. George R. Barnett, president. for the clock on Monday the Sum- of the branch receipt of the openin morning there: — | mer from 8:30 to 11 o’ will be open s until 10 o' the Women's City dens, garden club: lh!lll.ulu\ Monday the Home Freedmen'’s Club, ients at hildren’s 1mong e addition to Mrs. Bar- Willlam Jardine, hon- pro P&xvh’*n Mrs. George Thorpe, first vice president and chirman of the executive committee; John B. Larner, treasurer; Herbert A. Poole, a: tre: rer; M Seymour Walton, cretary, and Mrs, John rresponding secre- recording Wilbur vears altary, vet Greene, eran | : Flower Supply Committee. The flower supply committee is com Wash posed of Mrs. Goodloe Falconer, chair- Mor man;: O. A. C. Oehmle nd Gran- an operation six weeks ago and | ville Gude, vice chairman; Mrs. Henry Apparently recoveri when | Watson, Mrs. H. 1. Rousseau, Miss pneumonia developed, which caused | Margaret Frazer, Mrs, John Bartlett, death. Funeral services will be con-|Mrs. Richard Cutts, Mrs. John Fre- | ducted at 1:30 o'cloc aft-|mont and Mrs. Lewis Stuyvesant. ernoon at the family The volunteer committee to serve New Hampshire avenue, Re t the flower booth at the Y. W. C. | 4 | Engineer Corps of the Army an important part in the laying out Following Mortimer d. Two | Phillips, rector of the Church of the is headed by Mrs. Parker West, chair- Epiphany, officiatin Interment will| man; Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro and |be in Ariington National Cemeter Mrs. William P. MacCracken. where \h‘ Mortimer buried sev- The distribution committee includes eral vi of the city of Rochester. the Mexican War Col. tendered his resignation from Army to engage in railroad engineer- ing in Russia, where he died. played Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter, chairman; mock, Col. U, . Grant, 3d.: Clarence Harding, B. Y. Morrison, Thomas B. Littlepage, L. Stoddard Taylor, M Sidney F. Taliaferro, Mrs, Gilbert Gros- venor, W. R. Beattie, F. L. Mulford, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, O. E. C. Oehmler, Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, Charles the Lee S. Mortimer, at the beginning of | Bell, Mrs. Robert Lansing, Mrs. the Civil War, entered the United|Charles D. Walcott, Mrs. Johasked States Navy and figured prominently | Graham and Mrs. Walter R. Tucker- in the blockade of Southern ports, | man. serving on the U. S. S. Sunflower, Department, in 1921, G. Corozal, Honduras and U. , Lieut. Mortimer, Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, now stationed at Canal Zone; Miss Florence Craigie Mortimer and Miss Lucie E. Mortimer, survive. land, BERLL Showing Honors to S. 8.V Col. Cha -— BERLIN COLONY TO LOSE ITS OLDEST DIPLOMAT Baron Gevers of Holland Noted for Hohen- zollern Family, By the Associated Press. for 2 German capital. zollern family from power. the Socialists, Baron Gevers was especially noted for his independence in showing royal honors to the members of the Hohen- even after their fall He gave a big dinner to the former Crown Prince on his re- turn from banishment in Wieringen. ;J‘h?i affair created such a stir in Hol- an brought into the Dutch Parliament by |ly The Foreign Minister that an _interpel cleverly prevented a row, person.’ ‘Whenever a young Hohenzollern prince visited him he insisted upon escorting him personally to the out- side door, an honor he showed only to royalty. tor's Association Columbia at the annual busines ing following a banquet at the May- flower Hotel Saturday Loomis CONTRACTORS EL_ECT. ‘Warren F. Brenizer was elected president of the Excavating Contrac- of the District of was Merle Cain, treasurer. o the District; missioner H. Ty Dickson and Thelma E. Free- - ‘V‘::h:]n (l;;ldl»;.llt m{ of Chicago and Jeanette | Ernest Johnson mr‘ Catherine Thomas. P e e ST ¢ 4 4 4 b ’ ; our salesrooms. % pricel shown below. You'l A b3 T % Go Di; George C. both of Brief addre: B. Hunt, engineer of ordon, strict. m ry engin , April 2.—The diplomatic colony is about to lose its oldest mem- ber, Baron Wilhelm Gevers of Hol- vears accredited to the llation however, by erting the dinner had been given by B: aroness Gevers, “who is a private night. L, elected ~ secretary S were delivered by highway ant Engineer Com- . Whitehurst and J. B. eer for Rufus 8. Lusk presided. Marriage Licenses. Richmond HECHINGER PLUMBING IS NEW FIRST QUALITY Welmeg and Florence Harth, Dunbar 6f Baltimore and Em- magene . Honiah o o Fhomas M. Dickabn and Tholni s nderer, Following the close of the Civil War he came to Washington and entered the Government service in the Post Office serving until he retired Although advanced in years he was unusually active until recent Three childre: meet- DECISION ON HAYNES EXPECTED AT ONCE Mellon May Act Within 24 Hours on Retention as Permanent Prohibition Chief. arles The future of Roy A. Haynes, acting commissioner of prohibition, may be settled within 24 hours. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon is expected shortly to make public his decision as to whether he has made Haynes the permanent prohibition commissioner or appointed another. Some indications point to the re- tention of Haynes, but officials at the Treasury continued today to refuse comment. Recently Secretary Mellon admitted that the opposition to Haynes was about as ample as the support. Thousands of letters and telegrams have poured into the Treas- ury on the subject. Senator Willis of Ohio, always a Haynes supporter, again stormed the administration gates Saturday, insist- ing that Haynes be made permanent commissioner, since he was the choice of the real dry sentiment of the coun- try. It is known, however, that there is substantial dry sentiment stubborn- opposed to the appointment of Haynes. Senator Willis saw both President Coolidge and Secretary Mel- lon in behalf of the Ohioan. Senator Fegs also has insisted Haynes be con- tinued in power. Haynes has had a checkered career, having been demoted with the appoint- ment of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Andrews, but made “acting prohibition commissioner” of the new Prohibition Bureau. Deaths Reported. Harry B. Kauffmann, 55, U. . Veterans' Bureau : Jnmp! Kcrnxnn 18, Pro; Mary F. Barnes, 69, 909 \l Treno D. Coiton: 78, 122 rt H. 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Toilet outfit . 0 BEGIN MONDAY Distribution to Charities and on of distribution to 8:30 o'clock at the A., Seventeenth and K streets, meeting of branch officers at the home A flower booth in charge of members Floral donations from members of private gar- and florists will be Hospitals Freedmen's Hos- LINKED BUILDINGS PROPOSED IN NEW TRIANGLE PROGRAM Page.) (Continued from feeders, this congestion wili Increase unless adequate attention be given to the distribution of traffic at this point. “In connection with this develop- ment the Commission of Fine Arts suggests that the street cars be removed altogether from Fifteenth street and that the from Pennsylvania a teenth street to New Yoi Ample Open Courts. “5. In regard to the treatment of |the triangle itself, east and west | streets may be disregarded as open | streets. Provision for the necessary ge of vehicles and pedestrians : ccured, as in the case of th Lotvre and other buildings in Par by ing passages through the buildings themselves. ‘This will en- able buildings to be created of a size commensurate with the digni of the Government and its function: These bulldings should have ample open courts treated so as to give two fronts {0 the buildings—an interior front and an exterior front. The courts should not be used for the parking of automo- biles as is mow customary in public building courts, or for the erection of subordinate structures, which disturb the serenity of the urts thems On the contrary, the landscape t ment ehould be developed In high de- gree. “Certain ue by Four: < avenue, north and south streets must be carried from Pennsylvania avenue through the Mall; for ex- ample, Fourteenth street, Twelfth street and Ninth street. arge areas so created ‘Within the opportunities are given for the development courts such as those of the Pal Royal in Paris, the Louvre and other monumental struetures of that city public The plans for the new buildings have as et not been ted to the Commission of Fir with the exception of the central por- tion of the building for the Depart- ment of Agriculture, the plans for which provide for the completion of a bullding approved by the temporary commission which preceded the crea- tion of the Commission of Fine Arts “This commission therefore suggests that pending the passage of the De- ficiency bill the best interests of all concerned will be subserved by the consideration of a general plan for the treatment of the entire area from Third street to Fifteenth street. This will include the establishment of the fundamental principles above outlined, . The Commission of Fine Arts spectfully suggests that the ave between B street, Pennsylvania avenue, Fourteenth street and Fifteenth street, be treated as a unit; and that there be no separation along D street of the building intended for the Depart- ment of Justice and the building in tended for the Department of Com- merce, but that necessary passage ways shall be provided through the single building to occupy that entire area. Economy of Space Seen. “8. The Commission of Fine Arts calls your attention to the fact that under the plan herein outlined not 1l the dignity of the buildings be promoted, but also a great economy of space will result by reason of the fact that the upper floors will be con- tinuous and the various Government activities can have adequate ex- pansion without being confined within the narrow limits imposed by separate buildings of comparatively small size. In this way unequal expansion of the various activities of the Government can be provided for. Such expansion will not be possible if the buildings are in small units. Moreover, there will be economy in reducing the num- ber of facades, which should have spe- clal treatment of a high class. In creating greater frontage it will be possible to attain simplicity, which fs, after all, the fundamental essential of a dignified structure. The Commission of Fine Arts has prepared sketch plans for such a treatment as is herein suggested, and the commission will be pleased to cuss these plans with the representa- tives of the Treasury Department.” Many of the essential features of the plan were recently discussed by the Fine Arts Commission with the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. The former body now has before it plans for the Internal Revenue Building at Tenth and C streets, which are not yet approved. Plans for other Government structures in the triangle have not been laid be- fore the Fine Art¢ Commission. Some months ago Secretary Hoover made it known that the new Com- merce Department building is to have parking space within its walls for all TSERITEAINAET cE3m EEsEEETELC E3EENEEIN arauu REEIRNIREEEELAEE ISRNRENDL EEINASERTSTCIAINNNASELEENT P £ soft water. £ with the work. £ new delivery car. route shall be | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., MONDAY, MAY 2, 1 FINDS OFFICER HELD LEGALLY IN ASYLUM Appeals Court Refuses to Authorize Release of Lieut. Comdr. Trielby, Retired, of the Navy. fficer is still in the Government serv his care and protection while incapacitated and un- | able to act for himself by reason of mental derangement are the concern and duty of the Government and his commitment to St. Elizabeth's Hos- pital by the Navy Department is au thorized. The District Court of Appeals in an | opinion by Justice Robb announced | | this view of the law today when it | reversed the decision of Justice | Hoehling of the District Supreme Court, who had held that a retired naval officer could not be eommitted to a hospital without his consent. The lower court had ordered the dis A retired naval | charge of Lieut. Comdr. Charles I Triebly, retired Medical Corps, U. on a writ of habeas corpus, raising the question of the legality of his detention under commitment from the Navy Department. The Govern ment appealed. The appellate court case is controlled by the United holds that the the decision of tes Supreme Court in the Tyler case relating to a retired officer. There the Supreme Court said: “It is impossible to hold that men | who are by statute declared to be a part of the Army, who may wear its uniform, whose names shall be horne upon its register, who may be assigned by their superior officers to specific dutfes by detail as other offi- cers are, who are subject to the rules and_articles of war, and may be tried not by jury, as other citizens | are, but by a mil court-martial, | for any breach of who may finally be dismissed on such | trial from the service in disgr: still not in the military are of the opinion that retived officers are in the military service of the Gov- ernment."” Triebly, according to istart United States Attorney Bu haw, who conducted the Government's case. is in the Manhattan Hospital for the Insane in New York and will prob- ably be brought back to St. Eliza- beth's Hospital » the automobiles used by the depart- ment and its employes. 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