Evening Star Newspaper, June 29, 1927, Page 2

Y g TWO OUT-OF-TOWN PRINCIPALS NAMED Wilson Normal and Langley Junior High School Va- cancies Filled. Out-of-town educators have been decided upon to fill the principalships of the Wilson Normal School and the Langley Junior High School, made vacant by the resignation of Miss Anne Goding and the promotion of Henry W. Draper, it was learned authoritatively today. Formal action on the two new appointments was to be taken bY the Board of Education at the final “meeting of the school year, at the ranklin School this afternoon at 30 o'clock. i Favorably Acted On. i The Wilson Normal School will go #o0 a woman and the Langley Junior "High School to a man, both names ‘already having been favorably passed pon by the personnel committee of he board. £ 'The new principal of the Laugley Dunfor High will assume his hew futies July 1, but the successor of Miss Goding will not take office until “September 1, as Miss Goding's resig- imation does not take effect until fthat date. : Selected With Care. i ceptional care has been taken f‘»y”Bn Ferank W, Ballou, superintend- ‘ent, and his assistants in the consid- eration of principals for the two Jschools, it was said at the Franklin +School this morning, and it was added ithat decision to appoint the out-of- itown educators came after a survey ‘svhich took in also the local schools, iwhen it was held that the prospective #appointees had the qualifications de- Zsirable for. the posts to be filled. A quantity of routine business will ‘be cleared up at today's meeting. The reorganization meeting of the board, fwhich probably will be the last until ¢mext September, will be held July 1. ‘CHARGES SMALLPOX . SIGNS ARE IGNORED Trinidad Citizens Name Committee to Confer With Health Officer, Alleging Law Violations. 3 After charges had been made in .open meeting that smallpox quaran- ne placards on Montello street were <being disregarded and persons were going in and out of a smallpox- ‘fested house, the Trinidad Citlezns’ ssociation last night determined to Will Be Retired HARLEY V. SPEELMAN. SPEELMANTOQUIT OFFIGE AUGUST 1 Register of Treasury Will Be Retired for Disability. Woods Is Successor. ‘Walter 0. Woods of the War Loan Staff of the Treasury, whose appoint- ment as Register of the Treasury was announced yesterday by President Coolidge, at the Summer White House in South Dakota, will take office Au- gust 1 as successor to Harley V. Speelman, according to Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. Mr. Speelman, although for the past five years without civil service status, holding a presidential appointment from President Harding in 1922, will be retired for disability under pro- visions of the civil service retirement act, Treasury officials explained. He has been in ill health for some time, and Has been in the service of the Government for 26 years, having come to Washington from the Subtreasury at Cincinnati. Confusion Is Reported. Some confusion concerning Mr. Speel- man'’s leaving his post of duty here existed late yesterday following an- nouncement from the Summer White House “in South Dakota that Mr. Woods had been appointed to succeed Mr. Speelman. When advised of the vestigate alleged laxity in handling #malipox cases and appointed a com- mittee to confer with Health Officer wler. ?olt was voted to request that no imore permits be issued for carnival jcompanies in Northeast Washington. ‘Several smallpox cases, believed to “have resulted from infected persons shere with a carnival recently, have yveloped near the northern boundary the association, it was pointed out. groximlty of the city's refuse plant ‘also was cited as a carrier. #A. C. Ofenstein, Harry M. James and 4 jogey will take the mat- up with the health officer. Mr. Koockogey was elected presi- Jdent of the association to succeed iCharles W. Edwards, who resigned. Marx was elected vice ‘The meeting was held at fthe Wheatley School. . 2 The committee on real estate co: K ns tendered a formal report lool to the stabilizing of values in the Zvicinity. The association’s delegates 3to the Federation of Citizens' Associa- gtions were instructed to oppose the vate development of the Great 1ls power facilities. i The following were elected to mem- ;'t;nhln: (}hnrleh- JJ. Hs r, Samuel regory, Joseph J. Hall, Harry M. ames, L. J. O'Dea, A. C. Ofenstein, rs. Clifton Crim, R. H. Michael, C. 3!“.]. Samuel H. Fenton and P. . Vogel. fAUTO HITS STREET CAR, H PASSENGER INJURED iJames H. Klippert Hurt in Crash, Speeding Driver Arrested Fol- lowing the Accident. “ One passenger was Injured last %Ixht when a street car was struck b F i 3 H Y & speeding automobile at Sixth and streets and knocked from the Sracks. = James H. Klippert, 20 years old, ZBerwyn, Md., received injuries about Z$he left arm and was shocked and ruised, necessitating treatment at asualty Hospital. Leroy Armstead, Allas Royal, 18 years old, colored, HMiriver of the car, is held by police, %ho are investigating the taking of e machine from its owner, Morris Lfi!ldm&n. 4209 Sixteenth street. = The second precinct patrol wagon %a at Eighth and H streets, carrying licemen Charles H. Tucker and Albert Fleischhauer, when the car by them. They pursued, over- Raking the car just as it crashed into the street car. BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Marine Band, ;!l the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock tonight: ““Tannhauser”.....Wagner -.Van Loock “Frombone Solo, Blossoms” Clarke Robert E. Clark. “Three Humoresques, Opus 28 = O’'Donnell Jntermezzo, “A la blen Almee” Schuett Xylophone Solo, “Valse Caprice” ‘Wientawski Wilbur D. Kieffer. herzo, “The Sorcerer's Apprentice” Dukas “May “Lapricclo Espagnol, Opus 34 3 Rimsky-Korsakoff “The Star Spangled Banner.” . By the United States Navy Band at the Navy Yard Bandstand, at 7:30 o'clock tonight: March, “Call Me Henry”......Benter (Dedicated to the late Henry Lans- burgh.) Overturs, “Fingal’s Cave” Mendelssohn xyl:’phum Solo, “Scotch and Irish e (Musician Louis J. Goucher.) Grand Scenes from the opera “Samscn and Delilah”.Saint-Saens Valse, “A la Invitation” Weber-Weingartner Amorican 8ketch. . ..Thurban Rhapsody, “Slavonic’ .Friedemann Descriptive, ““Circus Days" Excerpts from ‘“Rose Marie" “The Star Spangled Banner.” Br the United States Soldiers’ Home Military Band, tomorrow evening, at 5:40 o'clock. March, “Universal Freedom,” Blankenburg Overture, “Militaire”. ... Mendelssohn Entr'acte, (a) “Humoresque”.Dvorak (b) “Argentine Tango”......Rubens Grand scenes from opera “Il Trova- tore” weseesetesane .Veral Characteristic, “On the Farm, appointment of his successor Mr. Speelman said he had not yet resigned. It was disclosed this morning, how- ever, that his reasons for not resign- ing were that he and Secretary Mellon were going over the possibilities of his being retired under the civil serv- ice law, although he has had no civil service status since the appointment by President Harding to the post of register. When appointed he was in ‘he office of the Treasurer of the United States. A decision by former Attorney Gen- eral Stone held that continuous serv- ice of a person who was lifted from the civil service ranks to a presiden- tial appointment entitled him to the benefit8 of the civil service law. Headed Citizens' Group. Mr. Speelman has long been prom- inent in’ civic work in Washington, having been president of the Co- lumbia Heights Citizens’ Association, and a delegate to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Mr. Woods, who has been in the Treasury for four years, was in the Government service prior to the ‘World War, in which he served with the rank of major. in the finance de- partment. He is also a_ veteran of the Spanish-American War and is an expert accountant, having been employed in the office of bookkeeping and warrants of the Treasury De- partment. His home was in Con- cordia, Kans. ~——n THE EVENIi‘TG STAR, WASHING'i’ON, D. ©, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1927 DAVIS AND BRIDE AWAITING BLESSINGS OF VANDERBILTS PRESDENTHOLDS CAVALRY EVEW Mrs. Coolidge Assumes Housekeeping Duties as Miss Riley Is lIl. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. Staft Correspondent of The Star. RAPID CITY, S. Dak., June 29.— From the front steps of the executive | offices President Coolidge today re- viewed five troops of the 4th United States Cavalry, marching through | here on an overland hike of 377 miles, |from Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., to Fort Meade, 8. Dak. Led by Col. Osman Latrol the regiment, which is known everywhere in the West for its record as an Indian fighting out- fit, the horsemen—288 officers and en- isted men—passed before Mr. Coolidge, who saluted the commander and colors and stood at rigid attention through- out the ceremony. Mrs. Coolidge and Col. Blanton Winship, the President’s military aide, stood immediately be- hind Mr. Coolldge. Troops in Fine Trim. Men and horses alike appeared to be in fine trim, despite the fact this is their fourteenth day on the road. They are due to reach Fort Meade late in the week. There was no ad- vance notice of the revie but, de- spite this fact, several hundred towns- people and tourists gathered in front of the high school building, which houses the executive offices, to wit- ness it. Mrs. Coolidge will be compelled to divide her time between play and work for some little time to come. Commencing today, she took over the duties of housekeeper for the Sum- mer White House, to take the place made vacant temporarily by Miss Ellen Riley, who has been housekeep- er at the White House for two years and who has to go to a hospital at Rochester, N. Y., for an operation. Although the Summer White House is bound to be fairly well stocked with provisions and household needs, when Mrs. Coolidge assumes her new duties she is bound, if necessary, however, to go to Rapid City to make a number of purchases, Mrs. Coolidge accompanied the Pres- ident in the automobile and attended to her commissary duties while he :‘Pnt to his desk at the executive of- ce. Garden Not Complete. The vegetable garden near the game lodge does not produce some of the vegetables of which the President and Mrs. Coolidge are fond, such as sugar corn, tomatoes and lettuce and onions, and it has been necessary to purchase these at the stores at Rapid City, as well as berries and melons. It has been explained that the altitude of the Black Hills and the climate prevent these things from thriving. Mrs. Coolidge did not seem to mind it in the least that circumstances com- velled her to change her dally routine, So as to permit her to do her own housekeeping. On the contrary, she appeared to relish the idea and en- tered upon her activities this morning as though she looked upon it more as a lark than actual work. She found time, however, to walk up the hillside in the rear of the game lodge to pick some fresh wildflowers before breakfast, which she placed, in their vases, in the various sitting rooms. Abandons Fishing Trip. The President arose earlier than usual this morning, it having been his intention to go fishing up in the hills, but when he made. his appear- ance he was informed that the trails were bad, resulting from heavy rains last night, and he with considerable reluctance abandoned his plans and decided to spend the morning at the executive office. The President has become interested in tales regarding the abundance of trout in some of the smaller streams up in the hills and he has expressed an eagerness to try his luck at these places. Col. Latrobe, the newly appointed commander of the 4th Regiment Cav- alry now stationed at Fort Meade, this State, a detachment of which is doing guard duty around the game lodge, was a dinner guest last night of the President and Mrs. Coolidge. MRS, A H. EASTMAN CALLEDBY DEATH Widow of Navy Officer Ex- pires at Home Here at Age of 82. Mrs. Anna H. Eastman, 82 years old, widow of Comdr Thomas H. East- man, U. 8. N, and mother of Miss Annie Henderson Eastman, Miss Miriam Maxwell Eastman and Miss Mary Truxtun Eastman, who conduct the Eastman School for Girls, died at her residence 1305 Seventeenth street, yesterday after a short iliness. Following the death of her husband, Mrs. Eastman was employed for 33 years as a clerk in the Navy war records office of the Navy Depart- ment, where she did important work in making maps and compiling rec- ords of the veterans of the Union Navy. She was retired soon after the retirement act went into effect in 1920, but upon special request of the heads of her office was granted an extension of two years in order that she might instruct a successor to carry on her work. Born in Camden, N. J., Mrs. East- man removed to this city when a child with her parents, Dr. Charles O. Max- well, medical director of the United Sgates Navy, and Mrs. Miriam Kay Maxwell. She was a descendant of early Revolutionary ancestors, includ- ing the Maxwell family of Delaware, the Shields family of Mississippi and the Clements family of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Eastman leaves another daugh- ter, Mrs. Joseph Lee Jayne, wife of Rear Admiral Jayne, U. 8. N,, retired; a brother, Capt. William J. Maxwell, U. 8. N., retired; a sister, Miss Fran- cina Maxwell; two grandchildren, John K. Jayne and Miss Anna Max- well Jayne; a great-grandson, Kennon Jayne; two nephews, Dr. Seth Eastman Moore. of California, and Harry Trux- tun Eastman of Milwaukee, and three nieces, Mrs. Frank Bennett, Mrs. Marle Moore Forrest of this city, and Miss Maria Eastman of Milwaukee. Mrs. Eastman was married to Comdr. Sastman in the Church of the Epiph- any 1n 1861 and resided in this city the greater part of the time after her marriage. Comdr. Eastman died in 1888. He served with distinction in the Civil War, being in conimand of the Potomac flotilla. After the war he was in command of monitors on the James River. He also had served as commander of the U. S. frigate Constitution. Mrs. Eastman had long been member and active worker at the Church of the Epiphany. Funeral services will be conducted in the Church of the Epiphany to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Rev. LOWER COLLATERALS MAY AID POLICE COURT Precinct Commanders Are Ordered to Use Own Discretion in Fixing Bonds. Commanding officers of the police stations were directed in a general or- der issued today by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of police, to use their discretion as to the amount of collateral required for the appearance of any offender in Police Court. The order sald, however, that in no case shall collateral be fixed in a sum less than the minimum fine provided by the statute in each case. Heretofore it has been the practice of fixing collaterals higher than the maximum fine imposed by the court, with the result that the offenders usually went to trial, and even if con- victed received in rebate a certain por- tion of their collateral. The order followed the recent action of the District Commissioners in ap- proving certain recommendations of a special committes which studied the congestion in Police Court with a view to improving the conditions. By fix- ing a collateral equivalent to the minimum fine which the offender would receive in court, it is belleved that there will be more forfeitures and the court congestion consequently will be relieved. COURT SETS ASIDE DEED GIVEN UNDER THREAT ‘Would Not Open Doors of Equity to Relieve Felony, However, Judge Holds. Asserting that he would not open the doors of equity to set aside a con- tract the purpose of which was to compound a felony, Justice James F. Smith yesterday handed down an opinion setting aslde a deed of trust on certain local property, together with the note given by Charles W. Tucker and Grayce L. Tucker to James A. Donohoe. The court found that the deed and note were given un- der threats of Donohoe that he would send the plaintiffs’ son to jail. “I am frank to say,” said Justice Smith, in his opinion, directing the issuance of a decree for the plaintiffs, that if it was an original proposition with me, T should decline to open the doors of equity to relieve any person whatever from any contract the pur- pose of which was to compound a felony. It has been held, however, by the Court of Appeals of the District and other eminent courts in this coun- try that fathers and mothers who, un- der threat, execute a contract to save a child from imprisonment are not bound by the rule which ordinarily obtains in such cases. The deed and note are made null and void by the decree, and the prayer of the plaintift that moneys paid in curtailment of the note be returned was granted. Z. B. T. Phillips, rector, will officiats Interment will be in Oak Hill Ceme- Goldman Valse Espagnole, “L’Estudiantina,” Finale, “Will Ya, “Star ‘Waldteufel Huh?"..Finkhard Spangled Banner.” tery. Capt. Thomas T. Caraven, U. 8. N.; Dr. ‘W. Glazebrook, Col. Alexander Rodgers and Dr. Robert Baker will be honorary pallbearers. ‘ e During the present heated spell in Cairo public school sessions are held from 7 to 12:30 o'clock in the morn-' ing. R NEGRO SLASHES HIS WIFE, THEN COMMITS SUICIDE Horace Smith Uses Stick to Spring Trigger of Gun With Which He Killed Himself. After slashing his wife with a jack knife, inflicting wounds of such seri- ousness that she is in a critical condi- tion, Horace Smith, 55-year-old colored laborer, 1307 Third street southwest, this morning seated himself in an arm- chair, pointed a shotgun at his chest, stuck a stick in the trigger and fired the gun, dying probably instantly. The wite, Estelle Smith, 29 years old, staggered from' the room, Which was littered with furniture overturned during a quarrel which led up to the final attack, and ran nearly a block before she sank to the ground. She was taken to @rovidence Hospital in the fourth precinct patrol wagon. CHIANG HOPES L. S, WILL BE FRIEND Nanking Leader Has Person- ality of Surprising Force, Interviewer Finds. BY PAUL WRIGHT. By Cable to The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1927. NANKING, June 29.—Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek, head of the Nanking Na- tionalist government, will surprise you, no matter what opinions you hold before you meet him. The chances are vou will have several vivid ideas before you have passed all the doorways and moon gates of his residence, crossed the great paved courtyards and skirted the lily pond, encountering at every turn eager- eyed youths, each with a Mauser in his fist and his index finger on the trigger. All of this helps to create a dra- etting for your interview with foremost military figure, who in the last two or three years has risen from obscurity to a place of dizzy responsibility in this land of 400,000,000 people. You are ushered into a reception hall, where you en- counter a handsome young man, who greets you pleasantly and uncere- moniously. Man of Fine Eyes. It will probably annoy Chiang Kal- Shek as a first-class fighting man to read that he has fine eyes, but it is a fact. They are not the black, impene- trables eyes so many of his country- men have, but are warmly brown. Moreover, they are wide open, appa- rently friendly and they twinkle with amusement. They have a way of look- ing straight at you. Chiang's are eyes of a courageous man, not in the habit of beating about the bush. What he wants he goes after. No evasion is discernible. His conversation is like that. He is asked a question and replies to it seriously, giving the best answer the situation allows. Not once in the half hour we talked did he parry one query by putting another, although as a Chinese he would have had the best precedents for so doing. His answers were brief. Speaks No English. The talk was conducted with the assistance of an interpreter, because, though Chiang studied in Japan and speaks Japanese, he speaks no Eng- lish. An attendant brought green tea of most delicate flavor and a box of big cigars. Over in a corner of the room sat a pair of male stenograph- ers taking down .questions and an- swers in two languages. Probably Chiang has been misquoted and does not like it. ‘We discussed the war and other routine affairs, including his attitude toward foreigners. He repeated his desire for foreigners to come back and carry on, saying the Chinese people are friendly toward us. The facts verify his assertion. This correspondent wandered ev where about Nanking without insult or injury, concluding the people of Nan- king want the Nanking Incident for- gotten, naturally enough. Even sol- diers were uniformly kind. It was extremely interesting to hear Chiang predict the coming elimination of the Russian adviser, Borodin, and the Nankow communists, after hav- ing heard the same prediction for Chi- ang from the lips of Eugene Chen, Hankow foreign minister, a few weeks before. The logic of events, however, seems to side with Chiang Kai-Shek. Chiang expressed his admiration for America, his wish for America's friendship and also his hope some day to visit the United States, LABOR EXEGUTIVE HIT ARBITRATION Denial of Wage Increase on Western Railroads Stirs Opposition. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The latest decision by an arbitration tribunal denying a wage increase to conductors, trainmen and baggage- men employed on 55 Western roads has started a furore among labor ex- ecutives here against the principle of arbitration. L. E. Sheppard, presi- dent of the Order of Railway Cou- ductors, says: “I was opposed to submitting wage disputes to arbitartion in the first instance and I am more emphatically of that mind now.” The railroads, on the other hand, had just begun to despair of the value of arbitration since the wage in- creases were granted for the Eastern and Southeastern roads for the same classes of employes. Board Silent on Decision. The United States Board of Medi- ation, which bas its headquarters here, has declined to commem§ on the decision. In fact, it was peinted out today that Chicago dispatehes last week gave an erroneous im- pression as to the connection of the board with the decision. The hoard merely sets up the machinery for arbitration under the Watson-Parker law and leaves it to the carriers and labor unions to agree among them- selves as to the neutral arbitrators. The decision itself is filed with a Federal District Court and is binding on both ends unless attacked by peti- tion within 10 days after the award and the law provides that it can be attacked only if the impartiality or integrity of the neutral arbitrators can be questioned. The Board of Mediation is, there- fore, in no sense a party to the arbitrations, and the public interest so far asiransportation rates are con- cerned are supposed to be taken care of by the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. Wage Levels Seen Disturbed. Labor executives are arguing that inasmuch as the wage increase of 7% per cent, which was asked, had been granted for Eastern and South- eastern roads, it will disturb wage levels not to have uniformity. A con- ductor taking a train into Chicago from the West meets a conductor from the East getting higher wages for the same work. To this the rail- ways answer that while the rate of pay by the day may he h'gher in the East and Southeast, the average earnings taken over a year's time and considering certain working hours really amount to a uniform scale nationally. ““We most strenuously dissent from the action of the majority,” say the minority arbitration, in using the financial condiction of the carrfers involved as stated by them in the award as a factor in determining just and reasonable wagecs. In fact, the true interpretation of the view ex- pressed by the maiority justifies the the conclusion that they not only used this condition as a factor, but, in fact, adopted the additional theory that the carriers should be allowed to earn a return of 5% per cent on an as- sumed valuation before the employes are entitled to just and reasonable wages determined by recognized and proper factors.” Question of Fair Wage. The minority also add that decisions of the Federal courts had held that employes ‘“‘were entitled to receive just and reasonable compensation de- termined by comparison with wages received for like services by other em- ployes engaged in the same line of work, even though no dividends were received on stock or interest paid on bonds.” The whole contention comes down to whether the wage increases grant- ed in the Southeast and East compare with the existing wages on Western roads and whether the diminished rev- enues of the Western roads, as com- pared to the Eastern roads, should be a factor—a subject on which there is much room for argument from the viewpoint of labor, and there probably will be considerable of it for months to come. (Copyright. 1027.) o Royal Pair Travel in Seaplane. OTTAWA, Ont., June 29 (#).—Lord Willington, governor generalof Cana- da, accompanied by Lady Willingdon and two aides-de-camp, left Ottawa {or Montreal by seaplane this morn- ng. ENTHUSIASM OF ARMY HEADS BURSTS WHEN AVIATORS LAND Davis and Davison Send Congratulations to Maitland and Hegenberger—Kellogg Praises Latest Air Achievement. By the Associated Press. Enthusiasm among Army officials, held in_check until victory was as- sured, burst the barriers when the definite word came today that Mait- land and Hegenberger had accom- plished their major aviation achieve- ment and landed in Hawaii.. Prior to receipt of the authentic news of the completion of the flight, a premature wave of exultation spread through the War Department, when erroneous reports went through of- fictal circles that the two aviators had reached Honolulu. This feeling was finally dissipated, however, when con- firmation of the reports could not be obtained from outside sources. In Army circles the flight of Comdr. Byrd toward Europe was shoved com- pletely into the background by the success of the two Army flyers, but Secretary Wilbur mentioned the Byrd attempt in his message of congratula- tions to them. Chiefs Send Congratulations. ‘The congratulations and apprecia- tion of the Army were sent to Mait- land and Hegenberger in telegrams from Secretary Davis and Assistant Secretary Davison. “The War Department rejoices in the eminently successful outcome of your flight,” Secretary Davis said. “We are justifiably proud that the perils of another great span of the air have been met and conquered by the skill, courage and daring of officers of the Air Corps. The whole of the Army unites in hearty congratu. lations to Lieuts. Hegenberger and yourself for your flight, which is a valuable contribution to the develop- ment of aviation,’ To Maitland, Assistant Secretary Davison said: “Congratulations. You certainly justified our confidence in your skill and judgment. We are Proud of you.” Hegenberger received this message from the Assistant Secretary: “Congratulations. It was a wonder- ful piece of work and I am delighted beyond words." Secretary Kellogg in a statement id: “I am delighted to learn of the suc- cessful flight to Hawail from Call- fornia of the interpld aviators, Lieuts. Lester J. Maitland and Albert Hegen- berger. In an Army plane the courageous officers have adled to the glory and achievements of the men fn the service, and have played a note- worthy part in the advancement of aviation.” Secretary Wilbur's message to the two men read: “I am delighted with the success of the Army plane in carrying out the plan of our sister service. “I can't help alluding to the fact that, coming on top of the Byrd polar flight and the Lindbergh and Cham- berlin flights, this latest flight again demonstrates the reliability of the air, cooled engine and represents a dis- tinct advance in aviation.” Rear Admiral Moffett, chief, radioed: “The Naval Bureau of Aeronautics wishes to congratulate you on the suc- cessful completion of your flight.” Seen as Opening New Vista. The possibilities of quick com- munication between continental United States and its distant pos: sions and the reliability of new scien- tific instruments guiding long over- seas flights were demonstrated by the flight, Assistant Secretary Davi- son said. The feat, he said, “‘opens up a new vista of communication between American and its overseas posses- slons.” ‘It demonstrates perfection of motors and planes, and underscores the prog- ress made in the development of the earth inductor compass, the radio bea- con and other instruments for aerial navigation “This flight is unquestionably one of the greatest aerial accomplishments ever made. More than 2,400 miles of water separates this continent from Hawail. To cover that distance, and at the same time keep a true cours which enabled the pilots to head die rectly toward a group of islands cover- ing little more than 300 miles from tip to tip, is a major problem in aerial navigation. Had the plane been even 4 degrees off its course, disaster instead of success might have been the conse- quence.” Mr. Davison sald the aviators “did their stuff” they had promised be- gpre departure, “chiefly because they ew their business and had the cour- ge to put their knowledge to the acld st - » naval air j English Match Evaded by Elopement, Is Report. Ceremony at Little Church Follows That at City Hall. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 29.—Having married an American whom she loved rather than an Englishman favored by her mother, Mrs. Henry Gassaway Davis, 3d, who up till noon yesterday was Miss Grace Vanderblit, today awalted the foregiveness of her par- ents, Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbiit. The heiress and the young mining engineer and one of the heirs of the $60,000,000 estate of the late Senator Henry Gassaway Davis, eloped yester- day and were married in a civil cere- mony at noon at the Municipal Build- ing. About midnight they were mar- ried again by an Episcopal ¢eremony at the Little Church Around the Cor- ner. Cornelius Vanderbilt, jr., newspaper editor, and brother of the bride, ex- plained the reason for the haste, the absence of relatives and the lack of announcement of the engafement. English Match Evaded. think that the reason for the haste was that my mother wanted Grace to marry an Englishman,” he said. “I am very glad that she has done what she has done, for Mr. Davis is a fine young man, and they are very much in love with each other. I am sure they will be happy.” Immediately after the wedding in the Municipal Building. Mrs. Davis telephoned her parents. The news- papers say the parents did not answer the call. The New York American to- day attributed to an unnamed friend of the family the information that a church ceremony was necessary be- fore parental forgiveness and bless- ings. From the Municipal Building the couple went to the apartment of the bride’s brother, where Mrs. Davis wrote a note to her parents asking their blessing and expressing her will- ingness to have an Episcopal cere- mony. No reply was received, the papers say. The butler at the Vander- bilt mansion on Fifth avenue sald he was instructed to say the Vanderbilts had no comment to make. Uncle A Witness. At the civil ceremony a Municipal Building policeman and Col. Henry Howell Armstead, an uncle of the bridegroom, were witnesses. The couple were married by Deputy City Clerk J. J. McCormick. The witnesses at the church cere- mony were Col. Armstead and the church janitor. Col. Armstead has an estate at Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, and one presumption is that the honeymoon will be there. Mrs. Armstead Davis, mother of the groom, when told of the wedding in ‘Washington, voiced her approval. Even_while reports of the former Miss Vanderbilt’s engagement to titled Europeans persisted, her ro- .S, PLAYERS WIN IN TENNIS MATCH Tilden and Hunter Easily De- feat English Competitors at Wimbledon, 7-5, 6-3, 6- By the Associated Press. WIMBLEDON, England, June 29. —Willlam T. Tilden and Francis T. Hunter, the: American pair, had a comparatively easy time in winning from' the young Englishmen, Latch- ford and Pryce-Jones, today, 7—5, 6—3, 6—3, thus entering the semi- finals. The match was interrupted by the usual downpour in the third set. Today was doubles day in the Wim- bledon tournament, no singles match- es_being scheduled. Henri Cochet and Jacques Brug- non of France reached the doubles quarter finals by defeating Karl Ko- zeluh and M. Gottlied of Czechoslo- vakia at 6—2, 6—2, 6—3. —_— SOME NOISE APPROVED ON INDEPENDENCE DAY Citizens’ Committee Votes $200 for Purchase of Bombs and Flares. The citizens' committee appointed by the Commissioners to arrange a community celebration of Independ- ence day decided at a meeting yester- day in the boardroom of the District Building that a safe and sane observ- ance should not be void entirely of nofse and voted to spend $200 of its budget of $800 for the purchase of flares and bombs. A subcommittee, composed of James G. Yaden, Edwin C. Graham and Charles F. Carusi, was appointed by Isaac Gans, general chairman of the committee, to buy the $200 worth of explosives and colored lights. Announcement w3s made by Mr. Guns that Engineer Commissioner William B. Ladue had accepted an in- vitation to make his first public ap- pearance at the celebration and make a brief address of wele®me. The ceremonies will be held in the Sylvan Theater. LAUNCH COMMISSIONED. Craft Built by Harbor Police Goes Into Service. The second launch built by mem- bers of the harbor police precinct dur- ing their off-time was commissioned in service yesterday, it was announced by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintend- ent of police. It was christened the Maj. lliam G. Moore, in memory of thelgggerlntendent of police from 1877 to 3 ‘The first launch built by the harbor precinct force is the Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, which has been in the service for several months. The new boat has been assigned to special work in the Georgetown channel. Henry G. Davis, 3d, and bride, former Grace Vanderbilt. mance with the young engineer thrived. The couple met in Washing- ton a year ago and reports of their betrothal became current: in Wash- ington, where Davis was residing, last May. Neither of their families con- fiymed the rumors. Gen. and Mrs. Vanderbilt were reported opposed to the marriage and declined to issue a formal announcement of the engage- ment, Made Debut in 1918, Mrs. Davis, 27 years old and two years the senior of her husband, made her debut at Newport in 1918 and was presented at the British court in 1920. Reports followed of her engagement to Prince George, youngest son of King George of England; Lord Ivor Spencer Churchill, son of the former Duchess of Marlborough, nee Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt; the Marquis of Donegal, Prince Alexandree Dietrich- stein of Austria, Lord Leopold Mount- batten and Albert H. Ely, jr. Davis is a member of one of the oldest families in West Virginia. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Davis, who were separated several years ago. He is a grandson and namesake of Senator Davis, once Democratic nominee for the vice presi- dency. Davis was graduated from Prince- ton in 1924, later studying mining at Columbia University. He is now iden- tified with the Armstead Ventures, Inc., of which his uncle, Col. Arm- stead, is president. The former Miss Vanderbilt is the only daughter of Gen. Vanderbilt, a director of 20 railroads, insurance companies and banks. She is a de- scendant of Commodore Corneliug Vanderbiit. APPEAL TO COURT AGAINST MERGER Washington Humane Society and Animal Rescue League Differences Outlined. A bill of complaint was filed In Equity Court yesterday asking disso- lution of the merger of the Washing- ton Humane Society and the Animal Rescue League, which was voted at the annual méeting of the former or- ganization April 13. The plaintiff is James P. Briggs, 622 C street northeast, who was the foremost supporter of Rev. C. Ernest Smith, rector of St. Thomas' Episco- pal Church, the former president of the Humane Society, who was ousted at_this meeting after a spirited fight. Mr. Briggs repeats in the bill of complaint the charges made by Dr. Smith at the meeting, to the effect that the session had been packed with per- sons who were not entitled to vote and who were supporters of the mer- ger with the Animal Rescue League. These persons, it was contended, did not have membership cards signed by Rev. Dr. Smith, but only ones which had been rubber stamped with his signature by the secretary without his knowledge. Sees Objects Divergent. The bill of complaint states that the objects of the two societies are divergent. The Humane Soclety, says Mr. Briggs, has for its main object the prevention of cruelty to children and animals and the prosecution of offenders, while the Animal Rescue League puts to death more than 90 per cent of the homeless creatures brought to it or found on the streets. It infringes, he claims, on the func- tions of the pound keeper. The Humane Society, he says, has real and personal property valued at approximately $42,000, while the Animal Rescue League has no prop- erty other than the house which it uses for headquarters. He asks for an_accounting of the funds. The defendants are the two so- cleties, Mrs. Truman G. Palmer, joint president, and John P. Heap, joint secretary. Mrs. Palmer was president of the Animal Rescue League and Mr. Heap secretary of the Humane So- ciety when the merger was effected by putting the two organizations un- der one head. Attorneys for Mr. Briggs are the law firm of Easby- Smith, Pine & Hill and George C. Page. At 0dds With Rescue League. Mr. Briggs is president of the Hu- mane Education Society, an organiza- tion opposed to the destruction of an- Imals, and hence at odds with the An- imal Rescue League. The object of the merger stated at the time was to prevent unnecessarily duplication of efforts and provide for a more efficient organization to cover the whole fleld. Dr. Smith at the time of the meeting insisted that the affair would not end there, but that a fund accounting would be required. Pola Negri Bitten by Poisonous Spider As She Sleeps in California Beach Home | PEEK-A- Tinted Underwear Also Predicted for Male Wardrobe. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 20.— The Examiner says that while Pola Negri, Polish film star, was sleeping at her beach home Sunday night, a :ollono\u spider bit her on the fore- iead and two physicians were called to treat the wound. The actress had .lo'l.l'z Wwith the exception of a s ing on her forehead a. ‘marks of burng ca: treat: ments According to Miss Negrl, she was awakened about 5 o'clock in -the LADUE TO DECIDE LONING ON MERITS Former Engineer Commis- sioner Bell’s Policy of Tak- ing Vote Changed. & Col. Willlam B. Ladue, the Dis. trict’s new Engineer Commissioner, to- day cast aside one of the policies of his predecessor Lieut. Col. J. Frank ling Bell in the conduct of the public hearings of the Zoning Commission— that of taking a standing vote_of the proponents and opponents of a pro- posed change in zoning. Instead of “counting heads.” Col La due announced that it would be his policy as chairman of the commis- sion to determine the cases on their >wn merits, and that arguments rather than the formality of having interest. ed property owners indicate their nu- merical strength were desired. Col. Ladue's decree came in re. sponse to a request by Edwin S. Hege, recorder of the Citizens' Advisory Council that the opponents of a pe tition under consideration proposing the rezonihg of Connecticut avenue on both sides between Legati. Livingston streets from residen first commercial area be called upon to rise and show their numeriecal strength in comparison with the num- Per of proponents present at the hear- ng. Merits Only to Decide. “I will have to overrule that sug- gestion,” responded Col. Ladue. “The questions before the Zoning Commis- sion will be determined on their merits and not by the counting of heads.” Often when Col. Bell served as chairman of the commission, it was his practice to expedite the hearings by taking a standing vote of those opposing and favoring petitions for a change in zoning. Col. Ladue's new policy, it was pointed out, prob- ably will prolong the commission's public hearings. Edward F. Colladay, who represent- ed the owners on the west side of Connecticut avenue between Legation and Livingston streets, who petitioned for a commercial zoning for the prop- erty, explained that an extension of business establishments in that sec- tion is’'needed to meet the rapid resf. dential development. Clyde D. Gar- rett, who represented one of the prop- erty owners on the sast side, also spoke in favor of the change. Opposition to Change, Opposition to the change was regis- tered by Fred S. Lincoln, ?!. E. Ad.:l‘nl. Mr. Hege and a half dozen others who live in the neighborhood. Mr. Lincoln denied that there is a need at this time for the creation of an additional commercial area in the territory in- volved in the petition for rezoning, while Mr. Adams expressed the belief that a change probably would depre- ciate residential property values in the neighborhood. Mr. Mege also declared that Chevy Chase is already *“bountifully” sup- plied with business zones, and that a rezoning of the avenue between Lega- tion and Livingston streets “would almost surely be the beginning of two apartment houses, deteriorating into tenement houses, thus impairing their value and at the same time adversely affecting the desirability and value of all residence property within the square.” Nine other proposed changes in ing are being considered by the mmission, chief among them being a petition for the rezoning of the west side of Thirty-fifth street between S and T streets from residential to first commercial area. *Col. Ladue was elected chairman of the commission at an executive meet- ing which preceded the public hearing. TRACTION SURVEY BEGUN BY ENGINEER First Merger Step Made by Feder- ation of Citizens’ Associa- tions in Capital. Charles Hansel, consulting engineer of New York and Washington, with offices in the Transportation Building, has initiated a survey of Washington transportation agencies for the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations, with & view to bringing about a merger, it was announced today by Clayton Emig, acting chairman of the federa- tion’s public utilities committee, The survey, according to Mr. Emig, will be the most exhaustive ever mads, and be more complete.in its detail than the investigations two years ago of McClelland and Junkersfeld. Mr. Hansel's report, he said, will outline the transportation problems of the Capital Traction, Washington Rail- way & Electric and the Washington Rapid Transit Companies, reveal their financial condtions and recommend a basis on which a unified operation can be brought about. The cost of the survey, announced as $5,000, will be paid by the federa- tion’s utilities committee. Mr. Emig, however, declined to reveal the source of the fund. Mr. Hansel's investigation was sanc- Uonsd by the federation at its final regular meeting of the season last month, following a report by Mr. Emig of the anonymous offer for financing it. MRS. WALDRON BRIDE OF PROMINENT RUMANIAN Weds Andrei Popovici, Secretary of Legation, and Couple Leaves on Honeymoon Tour. Mrs. Marion Bishop Waldron of this city and Andrel Popovici, secretary of the Rumanian legation, were mar- ried by Judge Robert E. Mattingly at 11 o'clock today at the Municipal Court. Following the ceremony the bridal couple returned for a few minutes to the legation, off Sheridan Circle, from where they left on a motor trip to New York. In Philadelphia ‘they in- tend to have a church wedding in the Orthodox Rumanian Church. Mrs. Popovicl is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frederick Bish- op, who are at present in Los Angeles. The secretary has been a resident of this city for several years and assist- ed in the entertaining of Queen Marie during her brief stay here. Present at the ceremony today were Prince Mihail Sturdza, Counselor of the legation; George Boncesco. finan- clal counselor; George Anagnostache, attache of the Rumanian legation; W. ‘W. Bride, corporation counsel of the District of Columbia, and Mrs. Bride. e e B0OO SHIRTS NEXT. that men's shirts next be of the peek-a-boo va- th brightly tinted underwear " said arbiter. . “Out-