Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1927, Page 2

/ ATBOLLING FELD Installation of Beacons and Floods for Mail Planes to Begin Tomorrow. Work will begin tomorrow on an electrification project at Bolling Field which will make the Army Air Corps flying base as safe to fly in and out of at midnight as at noon. Revolving beacons, flood lights, boundary lights and obstruction lights, all the property of the Air Corps and valued at $30,000, are being assembled here, first to bring Bolling Field up 1o the highest possible standard as a military flying base and second to as- sist the District of Columbia in main- | aining its relay point on the New | York-Atlanta air mail route, which | opens about November 1. | Without the a ance of the Air | Corps in this respect, Washington either would have to provide the night fiying equipment, as both northbound and southbound planes will “here late in the night, or for privilege of having a stopping point | on this newest and one of the most | important airway Even though no mail plane had been scheduled for Washingto the War Department would have ried out its decision to equip the fiel with night flying facilities. but. understood. orders for exeeuting the | project were given with an eve (o | ng the fleld well fortifled before | service, District Will Benefit. F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secre- tary of War in charge of aviation, al- ready has departed from an iron-clad policy of the Air Corps by granting the use of Bolling Fleld to the Pit. cairn Aviation Corporation of Phila- delphia, holders of the air mail con- tracts for the New York-Atlanta route, on receipt of evidence from the Dis- trict Commissioners that every effort would be made at the coming session of Congress to secure authority and funds for the establishment of an air- port here. Now, the District is an equal bene. ficiary of the lighting equipment which Air Corps pilots of adjacent fields are expected to take advantage of instead of being forced to spend nights away from Washington because they cannot be guaranteed a safe land- ing. The entire project has been given to Capt. Christian A. Schwarzwaelder, Quartermaster officer of Bolling Field, to carry out. The biggest portion of the work will ba the erection of the boundary lights, which will be placed on the entire perimeter of the field. Capt. Schwarzwaelder has 50 of these lights, which will be spaced about 200 feet apart. Each one, how- ever, will rest in a concrete base and the current cables will lie under ground, necessitating the digging up of the entire border line of Bolling Field, which is about 3 miles. Boundary to Be Illuminated. ‘When these are lighted the actual boundary line of the fleld will be bril- liantly illuminated from the air, giv- ing to the night pilot as good, if not a better, idea of the area available for “settling down" as he is able to ob- tain in daylight. Thé boundary lights will stand about 5 feet above the ground in most cases, but toward the south end of the field, ‘which is bordered by a row of trees acting as a dividing line between the fleld's limits and the old steel plant property, they will rise to about 15 feet. Obstruction lights, of about the same power as the boundary lights, which are 40-watt bulbs, will be placed on the hangars, and even the tennis court in front of the officers’ quarters will be degignated. ‘PBhe radio tower at the field, as well as similar towers at the naval air station and the navy yard, already are marked with red lights. ‘The flood lights, six in number, themselves are sufficient to enable a piot to make a perfect landing, as far as visibility is concerned. Each of these burns a 1,500-watt bulb and has a lens 24 inches in diameter. They are mounted on portable stands, and already 12 plugs have been established along the line of hangars, enabling the lights to be carried wherever desired and connected up. One of the lights, however, has been permanently fixed at the engineering hangar, the last one at the soyth end of the fleld. Can Designate Bad Spots. The advantage of the portable lights, according to Capt. Schwarz: waelder, is to enable the night light- ing force to designate to the. incom- ing pilot, by concentrating the illumi. nation, just what portion of the fleld is the best to land on. Frequently a big mud hole develops on a certain section of the fleld, making landings there extremely dangerous. Should a mud hole develop in front of the operations office, which is used the most, all the lights would be concen- trated toward the south end of the fleld, where the ground usually is solid in the wettest weather. The revelving beacon, a powerful searchlight pointed skyward and turn. ing constantly in a circle, will be mounted on a tower on the operations office. This beéacon, of the type used on the transcontinental air mail serv- ice, flashes its rays, into the night and would be the first evidence to an in- coming pilot'’s eye that his port is at hand. An unusual feature is attached to the beacon, which has a lens of 24 inches in diameter. It carries two bulbs and should one burn out, the other automatically lights. At the moment the first bulb gees out, a red light, mounted on the dome of the beacon, goes on immediately, serving notice to the ground force as well as the pilot that but one light is able to function. Lights to Parallel Road. According to the installation plans, the little boundary lights would run parallel with the concrete road at the north end of the field and inside the road—that is, on the field itself— down to the naval air station. Then they would skirt the outer edge of the station’s buildings and resume the line at the sea wall, running south as far as the trees. A sharp left turn would be made, and the lights would go in a line north as far as the railroad tracks, and then another left turn, down the line of hangars, and from hangar No. 1 diagonally across to the guardhouse, along the officers’ “row” and back to the start- ing point. Capt. Schwarzwaelder.is being as- sisted in the erection of 'the lights by Albert J. Murphy, mechanical en gineer of Fort Humphreys, Va., and engineers of the Potomac Electric Power Co. Although it has no bearingson night flying, Bolling Field has just applied the latest color scheme to its radio tower and flagstaff, as recommended by the interdepartmental board which made an exhaustive study into the problem of obtaining the best colors for marking air obstacles. The ar- rangement consists of three broad distinct stripes of black, white and chrome yellow paint. In good weather the black and white stand out the best to warn the airmen, while in bad misty weather the vellow penetrates the poor visibility to. a degree the black and white fails to do. Two hundred diamond-back rattle Workmen have sta to make night landi the fleld will be i : i iticn for use of the air the inaugural flight of the air mail | [nset, Capt. C. A. Schwarzwaelder, in charge of the work. THE S.UNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., AUGUST 28, 1927—PART ation project at Bolling Field heing expedited so that mail planes in November. Washington Star Photos. Popular Impression That 0b- | server Is Unreliable Does | Not Give Him Due. { Dr. Marvin Points Out Differ-| ence Between “Human” and Other Thermometers. The United States Weather Bureau, | according to a widely accepted cur-| rent opinion, is a prevaricator. | In the minds of many there is some concern as to whether the learned meteorologists who unblushingly re- port that the temperature for a Sum- mer month has been normal when everybody knows it has been unpleas- antly cool will be among those whom we shall miss in Paradise. It is one thing to predict fair weather for tomorrow and then have a drenching rain all day. That is a human error and forgivable. But when Dr. Marvin and his aides come out with such an apparently bald-faced whopper as that this past July was only three-tenths of a degree “below normal July temperature—well, it is a matter for the quill of the recording angel. Difference In Measurements. Yet the staff of the Weather Bureau not only makes this bald assertion, but stick to it in the face of reproaches from those concerned with thelr eternal salvation, And it must be ad- mitted that they meake out a fairly good case for themselves. It is one of those matters where two people— or for that matter any number of peo- ple—with conflicting viewpoints may be right. It is all a matter of psy- chology. The mental reactions ot human beings to sensory impressions due to variations in temperature con- stitute a field of research which never has been very adequately explored The Weather Bureau, Dr. Marvin explains, measures weather variations with thermometers—the finest and most sensitive thermometers obtain- able. The man on the street also measures these variations with a thermometer—but a rather crude and deceptive thermometer. He uses his own body. To a mechanical ther- mometer temperature variations are a single reaction—the expansive effect of heat on a chemical element. These can be measured to almost any de- gree of accuracy. Temperature Is an absolute quantity A certain known degree of heat will send up the mer- cury column in a tube a certain nown distance. . But to the human body heat and cold are relative terms. Changes register vaguely in the mind—the nature of the impression depending upon hundreds of other factors, both mental and physical. If the spirits of the human thermometer are de- pressed on a normal July day it may seem unusually cool. If the human thermometer is sick he may shiver while others sweat. Probably no two persons, however cloge they may be to a single mental and physical stand- ard, register exactly the same 0} weather impressions. Subject Is Complicated. The whole subject of weather psy- chplogy, according to Dr. Marvin, 18 so complicated that little is to be galned by discussing it. At one time the Weather Bure#u attempted to give a set of daily temperature figures re- cording the changes of temperature fmpressions on the human skin, as well as those recorded by the ther- mometer. Some delicate instruments were devised to record these changes. The results, however, never were very satistactory—probably hecause no two persons ever have quite the same im- pressions. Temperature, Weather Bureau scien- tists say, is something like time. For | any human being there are two Kinds | of time—the absolute time which is recorded by a watch and the intan- gible, mystical time which drifts through his consciousness. Five min- utes always is the same to the watch. But to the individual there is a vast difference between the five-minute in- terval which slips away unnoticed in the ordinary course of life and the last five minute interval of existence when he is waiting to be hanged. The latter interval may be longer in the individual'’s consciousness than any hour which he has known hefore—and also he may he bothered by the cold slthough it is a hot night Summer Not Unusually Cool. In any event, according to Dr. Marvin, this is not a strikingly cool Summer to the thermometer—and the business of the Weather Bureau is to ‘record thermometer tempera- tures and not human temperatures. Every man on the Bureau staff is himself a thermometer and may reg- ister very differently from the me- chanical instrument by which he | makes his records. But he has to depend on the mercury, not his sen- sory netves. Probably nine out of ten in the District of Columbia that this Summer is cooler | Summer and considerab! |the majority of Summe have experienced here. |a_general impression. all likely that a single individual, un- less he Is engaged in this particular branch of scientific research, actually remembers whether it was unusually n last than they snakes were killed recently to obtain two ounces of poivon to be used in curing snake bites, i persons | to believe | JULY NEAR NORMAL, WEATHER MAN SAYS: PROVES WITH FIGURES Four Julys Cooler Than Onc This Year; August Sub-Normal The average temperatures for the months of July and August for the past 11 years in Wa: (up to Aug. 23) Four Julys during this period have been cooler than last month, and only one—that of 1925— represented as much as a two- degree difference. The average for July is 77 and for August is 75. August, this year, however, is three degrees below mnormal for the first 24 days, and the cool spell of the last few days may pull the average for the en- tire month lower still, or there may be a compensation this week which will pull the month up to the average. from ‘day to day. But the Weather Bureau has found that, taking the last 50 Julys of which they have rec- ords, the mean temperature has been 77 degrees. During this period there have been 37,200 hours and measure. ments have been taken every hour, For some of these hours the mercury has recorded temperature of over 100 degrees. For other hours it has gone down into the 50s. But add them all together and divide by 37,200 and you get 7. “Human" Estimates. Now the mean temperature for last July was 76,7 and the mean for this past month was 76.4. The tempera. ture this Summer is considerably less than a degree lower than that for the average Summer for the past 50 years. It makes no difference what the man on the street thinks about it. This is what the thermometer thinks about it. ‘When Jones says that we had a cool July he means simply that Jones had a cool July. Aside from the ther. mometer he hasn't any very reliable means of knowing whether or not Smith experienced a cool July. There are certain specific points, according to Weather Bureau scientists, whic! may affect the mass temperature im- pression. There are alway8ggool and hot spells. Events may have con- spired to fix the cool periods in the mind while there has been nothing to fix the hot periods. There is a hu. man tendency, not always justified, to associate coolness and damp weather, “We often hear people say,” said Dr. Marvin, “that the air on a cer. tain day is ‘heavy’ or ‘oppressive.’ Now we all know there are varia- tions in the weight of the air and these are recorded very accurately by the barometer. But we have no way of feeling the changes. Very likely on what people eall a ‘heavy day' the air pressure will actually be lighter than usual,” Thermometers Nearly Perfect. Personally, according to the Weather Bureau chief, he pays no attention to sensory impressions but velies entirely on the recording in- struments. “I cannot tell within sev- eral degrees the temperature of my office at any given time,"” he said. So this year has had a perfectly normal July, after all. And the Weather Bureau is patlent at the jibes of those who disagree, because it knows that thermometers are very nearly perfect and man Is extremely imperfect. = SOLDIERS RUSHED TO AID AMERICANS AT MEXICAN MINE (Continued_from_First Page.) had issued imstructions that every- thing possible be done to protect the lives of foreigners. $100,000 REPARATIONS ASKED. Aunt of Slain Teacher Says Mexican Hospital Sent Her $800 Bill. L.OS ANGELLS, August 27 (#).— Mrs. Jean Garrison, aunt of Florence M. Anderson, California school teacher, who was fatally wounded in a Mexican train attack last Tuesday, aid she had demanded through the State Department at Washington rep- arations from the Mexican government of §100,000 for her niece’s death. Mrs, Garrison said the hospital at Mazatlan, Sinaloa, telegraphed her to- day, asking $800 in payment for treatment of Miss Anderson and prepa- 1tion of her body for transportation the United States. The hody of Miss Anderson passed s the international boundary at Nogales today. A small crowd had gathered to But it is only { watch the transfer of the coffin, in It is not at |closed in a pine bo: from the Mexi- 1 train to an American express car. he body is being brought to Los An- geles. Officials of Nogales, Sonora, across warm or unusually cool a single day last month, There -re.varimlons, of course, the line, said a large federal force had been dispatched in pursui the ban- dits who fired on the trai { from the fields. CAPITAL T0 INVITE BAR ASSOCIATION Burkart Will Head Delegation to Present Bid at Meet- ing in Buffalo. Washington, through President Jos- eph A. Burkart of the District Bar Association, will strive to bring to this city next year the greatest gathering {of legal minds of Great Brtiain, Can ada, France and the United States in the history of the country, through the medium of the American Bar As- sociation, which opens its annual ses- sion in Buffalo next Wednesday. The local delegation, headed by Mr. Burkart, is authorized by the local legal organization to invite the mem- hers of the bench and bar of the United States to hold their annual meeting here next year, in the event that the invitation is extended to the British and ¥rench bench and bar for 1929, or, in event of other plans, then at the time for which it is decided to extend such invitation. Burkart to Present Invitation. The invitation will be presented to the convention by Mr. Burkart with the explanation that the logical place for the convention during the vear that the foreign legal organizations will attend is the National Capital where the heads of the executive, leg. islative and judicial branches of the Government of the United States are located, with the resultant facilities for | entertaining the foreign delegates in the most formal and impressive man ner. Word reached Washington a_ short time ago that Charles Evans Hughes of the committee on Invitation for the forelgn bench and bar had informed President Charles 8. Whitman of the American Bar Association that it was the desire of the bench and bar of England and France that the invita. tion to attend the American Bar As- sociation convention be for not earlier than 1929. The local bar association accordingly laid plans for the convention in Wash- the period when the es would be entertained, The Invitation will be a reciprocal act of courtesy for the visit which the American Bar Association paid to Lon- don and Paris in 1924. American at- torneys returned from that trip glow- ing with gratification at the reception tendered them, A garden party was given in their honor in the grounds of Buckingham Palace by the King of England: the various inns of court entertained at banquets and dinners in London, high dignitaries of the British Hmpire con. ducted varlous receptions and func- for them, and then they went to for a short period of what was described as magnificent entertain- ment. Wish to Reciprocate. It was understood at the time that the American Bar Association«would not accept such honors without the privilege of returning the compliment, General plans for the entertainment of the erstwhile hosts, accordingly, were drawn up. At the conventlon this week it is expected that these plans will crystal- lize and that the invitation will be extended to the foreign barristers and solicitors to meet in the seat of gov- ernment of this Natlon in 1929. Here, it is planned, a reception by the President in the White House grounds could be given, the justices of the United States Supreme Court could assist in the general scheme of entertainment and all the agencies for the proper reception of visiting attor- neys from Canada, England and France could be brought into activity. In addition, the visitors could inspect at first hand the working machinery of the Government of the United States. These are the reasons for the selec- tion of Washington which will be urged by Mr. Burkart. Washington Delegation. In the Washington delegation at- tending the American Bar Association conventlon in Buffalo with Mr. Bur- kart will be Julius I. Peyser and John Lewis Smith as delegates, and Jesse C. Atkins, William C. Sullivan and Charles F. Carusi as alternates. Fred 8. Tyler, resident vice president of the American Bar Association in Washing- ton, also will be in the delegation. Former Justice J. Harry Covington and Levi Cooke will accompany the local attorneys to Buffalo, where they are scheduled to read papers before the convention—the former on the use of the word “attorney” and the latter on the proposal to change the date of March 4 as Inauguration day. Charles V, Imlay, A. Coulter Wells and James Brown Scott are others who will ac- company the local delegation. . CHILD DIES IN FIRE STARTED AT PLAY; TWO OTHERS BURNED (Continued from First Page.) children could be seen, terrified amid the flames, even too frightened now to scream. Their clothing was burning. She screamed at them to jump into her arms, Mother would catch them, Don't be frightened. She commanded and she lmnlored.T}II"nrm hands ran in ey, too, ur; little tots to jump. & Sl Child Jumps From Barn. Robert—he’s the older—came near the open door some 15 feet above the ground, The little fellow held back, burning. The mother pleaded; Robert jumped. The mother caught him to er hreast. The flames from his clothing seared her face and arms and neck, but she didn't know it. Robert was out of that barn. But Richard! More pleading. More commands. The baby, standing rigidly, refused to move. Finally the little face turned black before the hysterical mother's eyes and the baby fell out of sight into the flames. ‘The mother stood screaming while the barn burned. She stared at the E‘yre which had claimed one of her abies, and so she was found by Harvey Clapp, son of former United States Senator Moses E. Clapp, and the Roberts’ nearest neighbor. He had seen the flames and had run the three-fourths of a mile to help. Some- body called for the nearest volunteer fire departments, and in a few min- utes the Fort Humphries company and the Mount Vernon apparatus re- sponded, They were handicapped, however, by insufficient water, and di- rected their energies toward saving the surrounding outbuildings, which were threatened and even were be- ginning to burn, Insurance Had Lapsed. ‘When the barn was leveled and its ashes had cooled sufficiently, the wreckage was hunted for Richard's body. It was located finally. The work of searching the wreckage was assisted in by a score of neighbors, who had come to the Roberts place when they saw the distant smoke and heard the fire sirens of the respond- ing engines. Mr. Roberts heard of the tragedy when he was nearing home after his older son had been taken to the hos- pital, His wife was sent to the in- stitution later, The loss of barn and stock was made heavier, close friends of the stricken family said, by the fact that the insurance recently had been al- lowed to lapse. There is a third child in the family, Sue, 4 months old. JOSEPH A, BURKART. FIELD DUTY ENDED BY D. G, ENGINEERS Regiment Completes Two- Week Training on Battle- fields of Civil War. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. FORT HUMPHREYS, Va., August —After two weeks in the feld going over the Civil War battlefields, the 343d Engineer: Reserve Regiment, commanded by Col. John Stewart, re- turned here and was placed on the in- active list today, having completed its perfod of feld training. This regi- ment consists of 47 officers, all from Washington. The officers of the regiment reported here on August 14, and immediately began packing its train for the move- ment to the Shenandoah Valley, where it spent its two weeks, under the in- struction of Capt. Harris Jones, United States Army Engineer Corps, and assistant director of the office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, and Lieut. George K. Withers, 13th United States Engineers, stationed at this post. Study Jackson Campaign. enlisted men of the 13th 1tes Engineers were assigned to the reserve regiment to serve with it in the field and to handle the motor truck train, which carried the equip- ment. The officers traveled in their private cars. The first camp was pitched at Win- chester, Va., where the officers spent their time in studying the campaign of Jackson. They left that camp Sat- urday a week for Endless Caverns, where they spent the night in pup tents, and on Sunday moved on to Staunton, where they remained until last Thursday, working out war prob- lems in the Civil War area in that vicinity. , Last Thursday they went to Orange, by way of Lexington, and remained at that place the night before they re- turned to this post, to be relieved from active duty. Major Fractures Arm. During the trip, Maj. Roy Bessey fractured his arm during a base ball game, ‘The officers reported that they were lavishly entertained by the people in the Valley during their trip, C. R. Stark, 3d, a member of the District High School Cadet Brigade, acted as bugler for the regiment on the trip. MARVELOUS GOLF GIVES BOBBY JONES TITLE THIRD TIME (Continued from ¥irst Page.) gave future generations of golfers a mark to set their sights for. Hf great scoring record included a 78, made in a round when he wus on the verge of elimination by Maurice McCarthy, young Georgetown student. With that single exception he won under wraps. Two Great Shots. In his final exhibition today he made the two greatest shots of the play, one rewarding him with an eagle and the other yielding a birdie. On the second hole, calling for an exact- ing second shot, he sent a midiron whistling straight to the cup. At the ninth he placed a long spoon inches from the cup f6r an eagle 3 on an up- hill hole, 512 yards long. In the final struggle, which was at first only shadowboxing, later a good preliminary battle and finally a knock- out, Bobby had five birdies and an eagle agalnst three birdies for Chick. The runner-up, however, did not play bad golf, and against a man playing with more respect for par he would have made it a contest. His “‘sour dough” putter behaved very well, and at intervals asked no quarter from the far-famed ‘*‘Calamity Jane,” a putter which has often answered Bobby's ap- peal for help in a golf crisis. First Hole Halved. Bobby gave no indication with his first shot of the day that he was about to “burn up” the course with his fourth round of the week under 70. His opening tee shot landed in the rough. He was out of the high grass in time to halve the hole and he ran into no more trouble until the eighth, when he found the hank of a trap. This did him no harm, for he got a par there also. In between, he won the third with a par when Chick was in trouble after he had scored a birdie at the second, and he added another birdie at the fifth. The sixth and seventh were halved in par. Bobby won the ninth without opposition when he scored an eagle and Chick picked up. At the tenth, Bobby had a birdie, but the tables were turned at the eleventh when Chick got the birdie. They matched birdie fours at thir- teenth and halved the fourteenth in par. Jones won the fifteenth at par, but Chick took the sixteenth in par figures. It was Jones' first hole over par. After halving the seventeenth, Jones found par good enough to win the elghteenth and leave him 6 up. Evans Wins 21st Hole. The nineteenth and twentieth were halved at par and Chick won the twenty-first with a par 3 when Bobby could’ not get close enough. The twenty-second was halved in pars and Evans took the twenty-third with 3 to Jones’ 5, one over par. Evans was then only 4 down. The short twenty-fourth was halved, and Jones wWon the twenty- fifth with a par 4 and the twenty- sixth with a par 3. Chick was in serious trouble from the tee and al- though Bobby also was in the rough, he chipped close enough to get down in_one putt. Jones has made the 6 ninth hol», which was twenty-seventh this afternoon, practically a par 4 for him with his long second shots through- out the tournament, and he won it when he scored his birdie and be- came 7 up. A half at the twenty-cighth and — e e _____ ENGINEERS TO RETURN TODAY BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY, Staff Correspondent of The Star. FORT HUMPHREYS, Va. August 27.—Hardened, tanned, and even thoroughly chilled by the unseason- ably cold weather which they experi- | enced, the 121st Regiment of En- sineers, National Guard of the Dis- .rict of Columbia, which has been taking its fleld training here for the past two weeks, will give to those | nometown folks who happen to be along Pennsylvania avenue tomorrow morning an exemplification of the transformation worked on the citizen soldiers after a period in the field. They know that they compare favorably with the Regular troops, be- cause Col. John W. Oehmann, com- manding the regiment, was told so yesterday by Maj. Finch, attached to the Regular engineers at Fort Humphreys. They know :t also be- cause of the excellent drilling per- formed on the parade ground today, when the annual competitive drill was held, and the men executed move- ments of all kinds before the eyes of a hoard of Regular officers, composed of Lieut. H. C. Wolfe, adjutant of the | post; Lieut. G. E. Galloway and Lieut. A. T. Akerman. . Company I, commanded by Capt. Clarence Shields. won the trophy, this being the second successive time that it has captured the treasured pen- nant. The drill was a close one, some of the commands being handi- capped by a large number of recruits, and some of them with newly made junior offleers. KEach company was marched on the parade ground while the 121st Engineers Rand. led by Meyer Goldman, played martial airs. Presentation of Trophy. When the last company had exe- cuted its program the entire regiment was marched on the field and lined up in company-front formation. Capt. C. Earl Smithson, regimental adjutant, walked to the center front of the line and then turned right to face the commanding officer of Com- pany E, directing him to march his command to the front and center. There Col. Oehmann presented the trophy and directed that it be tied to the staff of the unit's guidon. He took occasion, before the entire regiment, to compliment Capt. Shields highly on the showing made by the company, but told the other com- panies to work hard to capture it next vear. If E Company repeats again the pennant will become its perma- nent property. The entire regiment then was passed in review in honor of the judges, and the officers and men of Company E were the subject of con- gratulations in their quarters, where they held open house. Company C. commanded by Capt. Willlam F. Jorgensen, marched to E Company's street, where the latter command was called out and lined up, whereupon the former company gave it formal military congratulations by present- ing arms, which salute was returned in military fashion. Company C was a close second in the contest. The official percentages as turned in by the judges follow: Company E, $1; Company C, 78; Company A, 68: Company D, 66; Company B, 59, and Company F, 58. Vislts to City. This afternoon was a holiday in camp, as all of their field engineering duties are completed, and all they now have before them is the movement back to their home station. Most of them went to the city to seek a place of warmth before coming back to spend the night in the chilly barracks to prepare for the homeward-bound trip. There is another important feature ahead tomorrow, to which the officers and men are looking forward, and that is pay day. Maj. James F. Lusby, National Guard finance officer, said that he would pay the engineer vegiment in camp before they leave tomorrow, so that when the men ar- rive at the armory all they will have to do is to deposit their packs in their company rooms and leave for home and rest, to prepare to return to their civilian occupations. Orders have been issued for all the remaining equipment in camp to be nacked, and the regiment to be ready to board the busses which will carry them back to Washington by 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. They are expected to arrive at Tenth street and Pennsylvania avenue at 11:30 o'clock, and there they will debark. Th column will be formed on Pennsyl- vania avenue, with its head resting at Ninth street. Col. Oehmann said that this would be the only opportunity for the people to see the returning troops on the march, They will be taken from there to the armory, the line of march being east on Pennsylvania avenue to the Peace Monument, north on First street to B street, and east on that thoroughfare to North Capitol street, thence to the armory at D street. Capt. Shields gives much of the credit for the success in the competi- tive drill to the officers and non- commissioned men under him. They are: First Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, Second Lieut, H. C. Espey, First Sergt. W. H. Clements, Staff Sergts, G. A. E. Rheinbold and Baxter 8mith, Sergts. E. G. Wheeler, E. D. Andrus, G. E. Cotava, P. H. Skinner, R. H. Hart, G. B. Martin and E. L. Borlik, The officers of the regiment were hosts to their friends and relatives and the regular officers at the post at a dance last night in Harris Hall. GUARD ENDS FIELD TRAINING. i Various Units Are Returning to the District Today. Having completed their annual periods of training in the field, all of the units of the National Guard of the District of Columbia will return to the city today from various parts of the country. They will be paid off at their respective armories, and will be re- leased from active duty, to begin, this week, thelr armory training for an- other year. The 121st Regiment of Engineers will return from Fort Humphrey, and this largest branch of the local militia will be dismissed promptly, so as to be out of the way before the other units begin to arrive. By motor bus from Camp Albert C. Ritchie, at Cascade, Md., Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding, will come the 20th National Guard Divi- sion, composed of the militia of this city, Maryland and Virginia. Gen. Stephan has been directing the train- ing of the division staff at that camp. He will be accompanied by Lieut. Col. Peyton G. Nevitt, division adjutant, whose permanent station is in Wash- ington with the District Guard. From the Cascade camp will arrive also the 29th Military Police Company, commanded by Capt. Claude Burlin- game, and the 29th Division Head- quarters Troops, commanded by Maj. Kdward H. Grove, and the camp quar- termaster, Capt. F. F. Bernsdorff, these outfits to report this afternoon at the North Capitol and D street armory and Company A, 372nd Infan- try, Capt. Arthur C. Newman, com- manding, to report at the Twelfth and AFTER TWO WEEKS' FIELD DUTY Arrival of 121st Regiment in City to Be Followed by Parade—Company E Wins Trophy. armory at Water and O streets south- west. Another detachment of troops. taken from the commands, returning from | their annual encampments, will move | out of the city at 3 o'clock this after- noon by train. It is the rifle team to represent the District of Columbia | National Guard at the annual rifle | matches to be held at Camp Perry. Ohio, beginning tomorrow. The team is composed of Capt. | Clarence S. Shields, Company E, 121st Engineers, team captain; Capt. Fletcher F. Bernsdorff, Quartermaster Corps, range officer; Staff Sergt. Alex- ander J. Thill, Ordnance Department. Capt. Just C. Jensen, Ovdnance De- partment, who has trained the team; First Lieut. Thaddeus A. Riley, Com- pany E. 121st Enginee: First Lieut. Bdward A. McMahon, Headquarters and Service Company, 121st Engineers; First Lieut. Hugh Everett, Company A, 121st Engineers; Second Lieut. Henry C. Espey, Company E, 12lst Engineers; First Sergt. Hugh E, Riley, Company K, 121st Engineers; Staff Sergt. Baxter Smith, Company E, 1218t Engineers; Sergt. George M. Votava, Company E, 121st Engineers; Sergt. Willlam R. Lane, Company E, 121st Engineers: Corpl. Lewis Hayes, Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery; Corpl. Prescott J. Blount, Battery A, 260th Coast Artillery, and Corpl. George B. Campbell, Company C. 121st Engineers. The team is scheduled to return on September 18 and, according to those familiar with its shooting abilitles, it is expected to bring back a number of the prizes in its matches against the Regular Army, Navy ,and Marine Corps, as well as teams representing the National Guard of other States. “TRIANGLE" 1S SEEN INHEADLESS BODY Woman ldentifies Corpse as Husband’s, but Fingerprints Disprove Story. By the Associated Press. 4 NEW YORK, August 27.—Finger- prints tonight destroyed the identifica- tion of the nude, decapitated body found in a thicket near Flushing, as that of James Marmaroy 26, Ozone Park, Queens. Mrs. Helen Marmaro had identified the body as that of her husband. She admitted to detectives that Marmaro twice had been arrested and they found his fingerprints in police records bore no resemblance to those of the dead man. Husband Disappeared Monday. Mrs. Marmaro said that her husband had disappeared Monday. With the Marmaro identification exploded, detectives began all over in their effort to learn who the victim was and how he met his death. Motive for the killing still appeared obscure to the police today. A thin ray of light, however, was thrown on the background of the crime with the finding of a human tongue dangling from a thorny bush near the spot where the body was found yesterday. Love Triangle Seen. That and the imprint of a trim pair of woman's high-heeled shoes in the soft mud near the place led police to form the tentative theory that a love triangle to which the slain man was a party and concerning which he had injudiciously talked might be the key to the motive. An abandoned stolen automobile found nearby and a tree stump which police mysteriously sawed close to the ground and took away for examination are believed to be material for clues. It was reported that human hair had been found clinging to the tree stump. Search was still going on tonight for the missing head. SEVEN SWIM ASHORE FROM BLAZING BOAT Crew of Coast Guard Cutter Leap to Safety, Fearing Gaso- line Explosion. By the Associated Press, BALTIMORE, August 27.—Seven members of the crew of a Coast Guard patrol boat stationed at Arun- del Cove leaped overboard and swam for their lives when a freakish gaso- line fire late today caused a slight ex- plosion in the vessel's engine room and threatened a 500-galion fuel tank. The fire started in gacoline floating on the water, licked its way to a dock alongside which the 75-foot cut- ter lay, and swept to the boat. Al- though the blast aboard ship was of sufficient strength to blow off a hatch cover, the huge fuel tank did not ex- plode. An elghth Coast Guardsman was able to leap from the cutter to the dock before flames cut off escape on that side. The others took to the water in a mad spring to get clear of the boat before the big tank should explode. The blaze was extinguished in_time, however. It was thought that a hot rivet dropped by repairmen working on an- | other boat may have ignited the gas- | oline. PAYMASTER MURDERED; $5,000 IN CASH MISSING Body of Victim Found in Parked Car—Clue to Slayers Is Lacking. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 27.—Robbers today boldly murdered Judson Pratt, eonstruction superintendent, as he sat in his automobile in broad day- light, and fled with a §5,000 pay roll he_was carrying. Pratt's body was found slumped over the steering.wheel of the ma- chine by a patrolman who went to investigate the reason the car had been parked in the center of the roadway in an isolated section of the Bronx, There was one bullet hole in the right temple. The murdered man, who was 38 years old and recently married, had left the Manhattan offices of T, H. Rhodes & ('v.. about 10 o'clock with the pay roll which was destined for employes upon a building operation only a few blocks away. The spot in the Bronx where his hody was found is several miles from his destination. About 11:25 a'clock the patrolman U streets armory. By special train in the afternoon will return the battalion of 260th Coast Artlllery, which has been taking its Chick's gift of the twenty-ninth ended the match and decided the champion- ship, training at Fortress Monroe, Va., its new organization as an antlaircraft battery. This eutfit will go to pou the | farmers for who made the find 20 minutes later sald the ear was not there. _— In six years the Government has dll!flbll(:ld more than covered late tonight. dresses of the men were ngt available tonight. . ( WILL ROGERS GETS "J0B' IN CONGRESS Becomes “Representative at Large” at Press Club’s Program Held Here. Will Rogers, cowboy, humorist, actor, author, traveler, statesman, philosopher and ex-mayor of Beverly Hills, Calif., was appointed to and in- stalled in the office of “Congressman at large for the United States of Amer- ica”™ by the National Press Club last night 1n the Washington Auditorium before an audience that taxed the hall to capacity. The addition to the popular enter- tainer’s long list of titles was con- ferred upon him in connection with a reception tendered by the club in his honor while Mr. Rogers is in the city participating in the filming of a forthcoming motion picture, “A Texas Steer.” For nearly two hours presentation of the commission, a handsome parchment scroll, the comedian kept the house in an up- roar with his gags. ranging from his recent operation to the forthcomini presidential boom. With respect to the latter subject, Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, was spotted in the audience and cautioned not to take that ‘choose’ too seriously, don't give up your job until y sure of something better.” after the and 1 are Ashurst- Introduces Rogers. Louis Ludlow, president of the préss club, presented the scroll after a brief addr d Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona, also a former cow- boy, introduced the honored guest of the evening. In his presentation speech Mr. Ludlow declared that a committea of lawyer members of the club—Har- vey D. Jacobs, Frank J. Hogan and Jerry A. Mathews—examined Article 10 of the United States Constitution and concluded that “all powers not ex- pressly reserved to the Fedes ernment are to be exercised by ti: tional Press Club." This legal opinion gave the club thority and machinery to carry out desire—to do something for Mr Rogers since his separation from the mayoralty of Beverly Hills. Tentative plans to run him with President Cool- idge blew up with the famous *‘choose i announcement of the Executive, Mr. | Ludlow said, so it occurred to the members that while a good many of the States have congressmen at large there is no congressman at large for the entire Nation. It therefore was de- cided to create this office under the powers delegated the ciub by the Con- | stitution and have Mr. Rogers as Its occupant. The position carries a sus- pended salary of $1 per annum. Breaks Senate Precedent. Senator Ashurst, in introducing the new “official” declared that ‘‘no words of mine could add to or enhance the shining fame of Will Rogers.” He said he decided to purposely limit his remarks as he was not in the Senate where “we talk for hours without hesi- tation, preparation, manuscript, re- flection or remorse.” The bonored guest of the evening was plainly “offended” and ‘“hu- miliated” as he arose in response to the “honor” that had been conferred upon him. “I regret this humiliation tonight.” he declared with a scowl. “Back home in Oklahoma my folks beat it into me from childhood to try and live a life so that I never would become a Con- gressman. That I failed, I want you to know and I consider it as being a shame, as you do." Prior to coming to Washington, the speaker said, he had read in the pa- pers about the city’s tribute to Walter Johnson, which, he added, has ereated much favorabla comment throughout the land. When he learned his pres- ence was desired at the Auditorium he said he “thought they were going to give me a loving cup full of money, but what do 1 get—a sheepskin—giv- ing a sheepskin, to a cowboy. We've got over a milllon people who have got sheepskins and haven't got a sheep and during the time it took to get the sheepskins, they didn't teach them how to get a sheep.” Soft Job in Black Hills. Nevertheless, the guest of felt constrained to thank the Press Club for its efforts and then he added: “The best ones of the Press Club are out counting the fish that Coolidge catches, while the ones left here are kind of riff-raff. I can imagine no bet- ter assignment than laying on a bank on one of thuse Black Hills creeks with pad and pencil waiting for some- thing to land. The only way one of them will get a news beat is to be sharp-eyed enough to detect the sex of the fish as it is pulled out of the water." Thanking Senator Ashurst for his introduction of him, Mr. Rogers said: & you remember ‘Boulder Dam? Well, this is the bird that talked that down. What was he trying to do? He was trying to keep water away from us poor Californians.” While the speaker was talking his words were being broadcast, and his appearance was terminated at this point_to permit the introduction of Ann Rork, Louise Fazenda and Doug- las Fairbanks, jr., film stars; George Marion, a veteran actor; Richard Wal- lace, director of the picture now being made here, and Sam Hardy, former musical comedy star. With the microphone shut off, Rogers, whe was prohibited by his phonograph contract to entertain over the radio, opened up on his inimitable gags. Talks About Operation, He charged the purpose of the as- semblage was to advertise office space in the new National Press Buillding, which was built from “money saved out of our gridiron dinners given to kid Coolidge.” However, he took the side of the club in the matter, and advised “any kind of a public or busi- ness man to rent at least one room,” adding that “Coolidge was so leery of it he had Steans take two.” Then he switched to his recent operation, requesting the “ladies who have had operations to stay and let’s talk this thing over.” He declared his doctor heard he had a very good season last year and that his “pleas- ant ailment” had developed into “something else.” While in Washington Rogers said he had met people “that were smart enough to vote, I believe.” He then told of his visit to the White House last year, praised the President's sense of humor and lauded Mrs. Coolidge. Pointing out Secretary Hoover, he declared that when four or five States get into trouble or the whole Nation needs help, “they get him to do the work. He's America’s family phy- sician,” Gen. John J. Pershing also was singled out of the audience and eulogized. Both were given an Bva- tion by the audience. et TWO SOLDIERS DROWN. Canoe Capsizes in Colgate Creek, Near Camp Holabird. BALTIMORE. August 27 (@.— Pvts, Milo Sernsen, 40, and Michael Anderson, 24, both atiached to the Quartermaster’s Detachment at Camp Holabird, were drowned today when their canoe capsized in Colgate Creek, byt .;:" ona’h 4 not been re nderson’s had_no B 58 i The home ad- honor