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NEW WATER PLA { GETS UNDER WAY Alum Distributing Device Is . Put Into Commission & as First Step. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. ‘Washington's worries of the past over water supplies and possible water famines, borne of knowledge that its more than three-score year- old supply line from Great Falls had worked continuously without relief, are nearing an end, as the work of putting in commission the new part of its dual system is going on, to be- gin the service of water to consumers about September 15. When the engineers, the chemists, the laborers, the Inspectors and the examiners, all standing by watching each part of the great, new plant, the major portion of which is included in the new filtration plant at Conduit road and the District line, give the word that the best of water, purified under the most modern methods yet devised, is ready for service, it will be turned into the mains, and half of the heavy burden which has been borne for nearly 30 years by the Mec- | Millan Park plant will be lifted, so will other burdens borne on the shoul- ders of officials responsible for Wash- ington’s water supply, who have had to keep their eves glued to the con- sumption meters during the. heavy drains of Summer months of the past. | Tunneling Through Rock. But such a big plant, which has taken years to build, starting in with tunneling through rock at Great Falls, where the intakes are, and building immense pipe lines, cannot be put in commission swiftly. It means much more than just turning the wheels which operate the big valves. The plant must be put in commission gradually, and inspec- tions made at each stage, and the water finally examined in the dis- tributing reservoirs to see that it carries health and not sickness to the hundreds of thousands who will consume its supply. First, under the big tower in_the immense brick building at the Dis- trict line, chemists and engineers examined the alum-distributing de- vice, which drops the alum down from the tower, which is filled with jt, to the rushing water passing through the big main under it. The proper feed must be made to insure that there is enough of the chemical supplied fo catch and throw to the bottom all of the suspended matter he water. mA‘rter the water passes under the tower, it rushes and churns violently in great mixing basins, running a mad race around the gigantic baffle plates, which splash it in all directions. That part was started yesterday, and that which was passing through was started for the coagulating basins, in the open, basins that will appear when filled like placid lakes. Here the water runs through slowly, requiring six hours to run the gth of one and back the length of another into which is passes. During this operation the suspended matter is gathered up by the globules of alum and it goes to the bottom by its own weight. Holds 15,000,000 Gallcvs. It required the whole of yesterday to fill these basins, which hold 15,000,000 gallons of water, and this morning it will go into the filters. Two fliters Slow Club Founder Pulls a Fast One And Elopes at 17 By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 3.—Miss Olive Potter, 17 years old, who a few months ago organized a “Slow Club” whose announced object was to promote sociability among young folks without petting and drinking, pulled a fast one today. She tele- phoned her parents that she had eloped to Crown Point, Ind., and married Willlam O'Donnell of Chi- cage. Her club is defunct, PROMOTIONS GIVEN THO HEH OFFIGERS Brig. Gen. John M. Jenkins Is Elevated—Col. H. J. Hatch Advanced. Brig. Gen. John M. Jenkins, recently in command of Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., and now in the Orient on leave of absence, yesterday was promoted to the grade of major general, and Col. Henry J. Hatch, Coast Artillery Corps, at San Francisco as instructor of the California National Guard, was promoted to the grade of brigadier general. Gen. Jenkins is from South Carolina and was graduated from the Military Academy in 1887. During the World War he commanded the 30th Infantry of the 3d Division in the Meuse- Argonne ' offensive, and was gased three times in action. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism near Cunel, France, October 14, 1918, where he personally led a reconnoisance patrol through an area raked by high ex- plosives, gas shells and machine gun fire. Previously he had served suc- cessively in Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. In 1913 he took part in the Bagsak expedition against the Jolo Moros in the Philippines, and in 1916-1917 he commanded the 1st Alabama Infantry Brigade on the Mexican border. He has held brigade rank in the Regular Army since August, 1923, Gen. Hatch served in the World War first with the 7th Provisional Regi- ment of Heavy Artillery, then on Gen. Pershing’s staff as chief of the Heavy Artillery Section and afterward com- manded the Railway Artillery of the Second Army. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and the French Legion of Honor. Since his return from France he has served at the War Department, at Fort Casey, Wash.; at Los Angeles, at Fort Mon- roe, Va., and at the Army War College. He is from Michigan and was appointed second lieutenant of Artillery from civil life in July, 1898. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., SEPTEMBER 4. 1927T—PART I. HOOVER MAY STATE U. 5. COAL POLIGY Secretary to Deliver Address at Peace Conference in Anthracite Region. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Herbert "Hoover, official engage- ments permitting, has promised to at- tend an anthracite ‘“peace conference’ in central Pennsylvania on November 7 and deliver an address possibly destined to have far-reaching conse- quences for the coal industry. The conference has been called by the Chamber of Commerce of Mount Car- mel, Pa., and associated civic bodies. It will be attended by miners, mine- union leaders, operators and represen- tatives of the consuming public from all the anthracite towns. In addition to Secretary Hoover, an important participant will be Richard F. Grant, Cleveland coal and iron magnate, who is the man that settled the great an- thracite strike of 1925-1926. Mr. Grant, who now heads the vast Mark Hanna industrial interests in Ohio, also is expected to make a keynote pro- nouncement at Mount Carmel. The proposed conference has several basic purposes in view. One of the principal objects, from the standpoint of the inhabitants of the hard-coal area, is to evolve ways and means for restoring to anthracite some of the valuable markets it Jost during the prolonged strike of two years ago. Consumers throughout the country, long dependent upon anthracite, learned during the strike to use a variety of fuel substitutes. Oil, ga coke and bituminous coal are today burned in household and foundry, where anthracite previously was em- ployed exclusively, and experience in many cases has been such that hard- coal newer again will resume its old place of primacy. At Mount Carmel the promoters of the November con- ference speak of ‘“the anthracite spirit,” which they hope will once again prevail and go far toward effect- ing a comeback for hard coal. Still Seek “Check-Off.” The anthracite region is no less con- cerned with measures for establishing something appyoaching durable peace in the anthracite industry. The so- called “Grant agreement,” which end- ed the latest strike, is responsible for externally amicable conditions be- tween miners and operators. But the men’s failure to obtain the ‘“‘check-off” still rankles, and leaders of the United Mine W ‘rkers of America have by no means : andoned thelr determination yet to achieve it. Authorities reflec- tive of sentiment in operators’ quar- ters are at this time hinting that John L. Lewlis, president of the mine work- ers, is considering the calling of a gen- eral strike of bituminous miners later this year. Such a conflict, it is feared, could easily embroil the anthracite miners. The “check-off,” denied them in the Grant agreement, ostensibly WOMAN POLITICAL LEADER IN GAPITAL t; fxu-.ny as the engin check up engineers =t - n *that are on each to ‘The only time that the ‘water is to the open air from the time it passes into the great in- take at Great Falls until it passes out of the spigots in the buildings of the consumers is when it is passing through the lating basins. The water ' be run through the two filters toda¥, 15,000,000 gallons of it, and then it will pass to the filtered ‘water reservoir, which occupies the space under what, will be the lawn of the plan, fronting on Conduit road, ‘when the plan is dressed up, an opera- tion which already has been started with the laying of a macadam road, from Conduit road to the filter house. Each of the 20 filters has a capacity of 4,000,000 gallons of water a day and it will take two days to fill the filtered water reservoir. If these operations work out, and it was ap- parent yesterday that everything was ‘working smoothly, one of the great turbine pumps, of which there are nine, capable of forcing water through the 48-inch main at 15,000,000 gallons a day, will be started and the first high reservoir at Reservoir and Ridge roads will be filled. Chemists to Test. ‘There chemists will take further samples, to see that it reaches that point in as pure a state as it left the filtered water reservoir. The reservoir &nd the pipe line have been completed for about a year, and the tests will be made to ascertain that there is no pollution along this line or in the reservoir. If it is found all right, then the distribution will be started, but otherwise, it will be flushed back into the Georgetewn reservoir, at Reservoir road and Conduit road. ‘When the First High is ready in svery particular, then the Second High Reservoir, Fourty-fourth and Van Ness streets also a 15,000,000 gallon tank, will be filled, and the same pro- cess followed until the Third High Reservoir, which is the old Reno Reservoir, will recelve its supply. Under the new system the latter reservoir will supply the consumers in the general vicinity of Brightwood and Takoma Park, but it will be near the end of the year before these con- sumers begin to get water from the new plant, as the pipe line along Military road now is in course of con- struction, and will not be completed until near the end of October. ‘When both plants are operating— that is, the Dalecarlia or new plant at the District line and the old Mec- Millan plant—the District of Colum- bia will have a system that will meet its demands for water for many years to come, according to the officials, as it has been figured that each plant will only have to work at half its capacity. Three Stand-By Pumps. Of the nine turbine pumps at the Dalecarlia plant, only six will be run in service, three being maintained as stand-by pumps, in case any of the other six fail at any time for any rea- son. While these pumps will be run from bought current while being put in commission, it is expected that the new electric plant on the riverside near the District line will be ready for service about the middle of this month. There will be sufficient surplus water coming down the two conduits to sup- ply the city and furnish enough for water power to turn the turbine gen- erators, which will produce all the cur- rent which the new system will use At a minimum of cost. The old conduit between Great Falls and the District line was drained some months ago, and given a thor- ough overhauling. This work has been completed so that the city has two supply lines running from Great Falls. The two have been so con- structed, in the bullding of the new plant, that if a break occurs in either of them, the water may be switched over to the other and around the break, at several places along the line. People may observe these by-pass gates in the Conduit road, between the District line and Great Falls, the | Mrs. Margaret Wintringham, Former British Legislator, ; Is Luncheon Guest. Mrs. Margaret Wintringham, for- mer member of the British Parlia- ment, was entertained at a luncheon ¢’ :n in her honor by more than 100 outstanding Washington women in the small ballroom of the Willard Hotel yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Mina C. Van Winkle acted as toast- master. Immediately after the lunch- eon Mrs. Wintringham paid a visit to *“ount Vernon. She will leave the city tomorrow. District Commissioner Sidney F. Taliaferro and Senator William J. Harris of Georgia formally welcomed Mrs. Wintringham. Commissioner Taliaferro appeared to please the dis- tinzuished English legislator when he dispelled the popular belief that an Englishman has no sense of humor by telling of his visit to London as a delegate to the American Bar As- sociation convention in 1924. Sena: Harris Speaks. Reminding the women that it was while he was in France that he was appealed to come to the United States and cast his allimportant vote in favor of woman suffrage, Senator Harris declared, “Whatever women a’ empt they will accomplish, and the world will be the better for their efforts. Mrs. Wintringham acknowledged the many compliments paid her, and told of the great pleasure her Ameri- can trip has afforded her. She has paid a visit to the home of Lady Astor, in Virginia. It is understood that Mrs. . ..ringham is again a candidate for the English Parliament. ‘The ballroom was decorated, and in respect to the honored guest all stood at wttention while the orchestr: played “Cod Save the King.” Notables at Luncheon. Prominent personages at the speak- er’s table, some of whom spoke briefly, follow: Representative ~Edith N. Rogers, John Balfour, Mrs. Dewitt Mackenzie, Mrs. James Carroll Fraser, Representative David Kincheloe, Judge Kathryn Sellers, Miss Charl Williams, Mme. Carl Von Lewinski, Dr. Frank W, Ballou and Mrs. Ballou, Miss Jessie Dell, Mrs. Helena Reed. Miss Mary Stewart and Miss Jessie La Zalle. Mrs. Davil Kincheloe interspersed the luncheon with several of her most popular song and whistle numbers. ———— DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Mrs. Mary A. Collingsworth Was Lifelong Resident of City. Mrs. Mary Addie Collingsworth, 59 years old, wife of Willlam Robert Col- lingsworth, and a lifelong resident of this city, died at her home, 701 Flor- ida avenue northeast, yesterday after 4 long jliness. She was a member of the Ladies of the Golden Eagle. Besides her husband, she 1s survived by a son L. Earl Collingsworth; a daughter, Miss Florence Collings- worth, and a brother, Detective Charles E. Warfield, member of the District narcotic squad. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. E. C. Primm will officiate. Interment will be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. histaci e, Man Completes 50-Day Fast. SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, England, Sep- tember 3 (#).—Ricardo 8acco is claimed to have completed a fast of 50 days. Sacco, who has something of a rep- utation as a faster in Great Britain, was sealed in a cabinet of wood and glass on July 16 at the Casino here. It is asserted that he subsisted on six bottles of lemonade daily. He lost would be the men’s new battle cry. Anthracite production, due to dis- turbed conditions in the labor field and to popularizing of substitutes for hard coal, has slumped and fluctuated heavily since the war. In 1921 90,473, 451 net tons of anthracite were pro- duced. In 1922, a strike year, produc- tion fell to 54,683,002 tons. It rose in 1923 to 93,339,009 tons, but in 1925, the first year of the recent srtike, production tumbled to 61,817,149 tons. There was a recovery last year, when 84,437,000 tons were produced, but this Year’s production—based on a total of Toundly 41,000,000 for the first six months of 1927—will register a further decrease. There are said to be in the anthracite area at this time some 38,500,000 tons of ‘“prepared” coal in storage and unsold. It is largely of the pea size and other dimensions :onflnmonly sold for the household rade. Hoover Potent Factor. Secretary Hoover, since the Depart- ment of Commerce some time ago was assigned the supervision of the Bureau of Mines, has become a po- Upper: Firemen of No. 10 Engine Company making one of the floral side pieces for their float in the Labor Day ade, assisted by members of their lamilies and neighbors. Lower: Members of No. 6 Engine Company working on the big sphere, representing the world, which will sur- mount their float. HEVY CHASE FIGHT ISPUTUPTO STATE tent factor in the coal industry. His interest in it has naturally been ac- tive because of his post in the cabi- net. At the time of the famous Jack- sonville bituminous agreement, the operators, who emerged therefrom less advantageously than they hoped, credited Hoover with the substantial benefits which the miners obtained on that occasion. ‘The Jacksonville agreement, signed in 1924, runs out this year. In the Spring of 1926, when Con- gress was considering the Parker bill for Federal regulation of the coal in- dustry, Secretary Hoover appeared be- fore the House committee on inter- state and foreign commerce. The anthracite peace had been brought about just a few months previous. Addressing the committee, Hoover said: “The anthracite industry has taken the first steps of substantial peace in the industry over a term of years. Our major interest must be in the bituminous industry. If the unionized section of that industry could set up its own mediation board in the same terms as the anthracite industry, I believe Congress would be well justi- fled in suspending any legislative action.” Between the lines of that state- ment some observers in the coal fleld read a readiness on Secretary Hoover's part to advocate, in the gen- eral public interest, permanent Fed- eral measures for preserving the country from the recurring perils of conflict between capital and labor in the fuel industry. (Covyrizht, 1927.) DELINQUENT TAX NOTICES WILL BE MAILED THIS WEEK (Continued from First Page.) which five or six persons are now engaged, and it is desirable to double such force in order to have them to #end out notices. “The law requires listing of delin- quents of last year in the newspapers instead of a pamphlet, as heretofore. Because of this fact, it is desired to use every effort to notify delinquents, with the 1dea of inviting payments and cutting down the printed list. “Last year’s pamphlet listed 23,000 delinquent accounts. During the tax sale over 11,000 parcels were sold, the difference being due to the fact that certain payments were made just prior to the sale and a great many par- cels were bought in by the District. 20,000 Never Called For. “It is our intention to notify as many as possible of these delin- quents, but it will be found imprac- ticable to reach every tax payer be- tween now and the first of December. There are about 20,000 of last year’'s bills that have never been called for and many of these attach to small properties, taxes for which are per- mitted to become delinquent from year to year and upon which no hope of payment can be entertained. “About 2,000 of the delinquent bills are for high-class property located within the old city limits and about 65.000 more are for fairly good class of property located in the suburbs. “It will he the endeavor of this of- fice to reach these first and to notify not only as to overdue payments for valve-operating ~mechanisms being erected in the islands constructed in Conduit road, 30 pounds in weight and is almost too weak togmove. He will ve a meal consisting of chicken broth tonight, last year, but by printed.slip to.call attention to the fact there are other vears of back payments where such delinquencies exist.” Community Assessor’s Ous- ter Will Depend on Official Probe of Work. Citizens of old Chevy Chase, Md., are aroused. They see prospects of in- creased assessments and Increased taxes as a result of the muddle the village political boss is charged with making in his attempt to force the resignation of Willlam Lyles Offutt, assessor. The assessor, incidentally, refuses to resign until there has been a fair hearing. Because Offutt took office space in the District of Columbia to house his few records, nmo suitable quarters be- ing available in Chevy Chase, Md., proper, and then because he had re- duced assessments on 34 lots, as against the expressed wishes of the village political boss, the latter is charged with working through offi- cials of the county to obtain Offutt’s ouster. Offutt has defended his as- sessments and declares that his as. sessments in Chevy Chase in the main are equitable. The village boss and other officials still disagree. See Increased Assessments. At any rate, citizenry of Chevy Chase, thoroughly upset over the situ- ation, declare that in asking the State tax commission to adjudicate the case, officials are merely opening up the way to obtain what they themselves desire—increased assessments on prop- erty there, at the same time escaping the penalty of purely local action. Offutt has been bombarded by offi- cials with demands for his resigna- tion, and though at first declaring he was willing to step out i the tone of demands were modifled, he is now standing pat and insists on a hearing. The village boss and others, upset by Offutt’s disinclination to surrender the fort until there has been a hear- ing in the case, have, according to citi- zens of Chevy Chase, Md., now passed the “buck” completely to the State tax commission even in the case of the Offutt ouster demand. Lindsey to Investigate. Lawrence A. Chiswell, supervisor of assessments for the county, has de- clared that his request for the re- moval of Offutt now will depend upon the recommendations of M. J. Lind- sey, the Maryland State Tax Com- mission’s chief inspector. Mr. Lind- sey will visit the Chevy Chase area next week and inspect the assessments already made by Offutt and decide whether they are equitable or not. Upon his decision as to the justness of these assessments will depend Chis- well's action. If Lindsey approves of Offutt’s stand, the assessor will retain his post. 1f they are unjust accord- ing to the State inspector, then Offutt will undoubtedly be dismissed by the State tax commission. Friends of Offutt still insist, how- ever, that the resignation demand was inspired by the village boss when Of- futt had merely refused to give up his office a few blocks over the Maryland line in the District of Columbia, and not until after he had refused, he questioning the authority. or legality of such a demand, were the extra charges of low assessments made against him. o Maj. Low Reassigned. Maj. Bruce A, Low, Quartermaster Corps Reserve, of this city, has been assigned to duty at the Munitions Bullding in connection with military procurement activities. WOMEN ASSIST IN PREPARING FLOATS FOR FIREMEN'S PARADE Tomorrow's Event Preceding Big Ba.se Ball Game. The feminine influence has pene- trated far into the confines of tne Fire Department. All day yesterday, at various engine and truck houses, women of the re- spective communities gathered in un- accustomed surroundings and made paper flowers, arranging them on floats in preparation for the annual firefighters’ parade tomorrow, which will serve as a prelude to the base ball game betwen the police and fire teams for the benefit of the widows and or- phans of members of the services. Presence of the women, many of them accompanied by little girls anxious to help, too, and in most in- stances by groups of small boys will- ing and eager to run errands for their neighborhood heroes, the firemen, rep- resented the desire of the various com- munities to make the parade a success. It will be, in effect, a community pageant, many hands aiding in creat- ing floats which promise to perplex the judges when it comes to selecting the prettiest. . No. 6 Engine Company, on Massa- chusetts avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets, resembled a crepe-paper flower shop yesterday morning. Capt. J. Sullivan sat in the midst of roses and vari-hued streamers and acted as host to the women who visited the engine house and aided in decking No. 6's big float with flowers while the men of the company lugged lad- ders about and did the heavy work. For once the cuspidors, bright and shiny, remained bright and shiny and the firefighters looked as though they were on dress parade. Last of Fire Horses. A memory of yesterday was af- forded at No. 13 Truck Company, on Florida avenue between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets northeast, by a steamer, covered with flowers by the women, which tomorrow \:ill be drawn by the famous equine trio, “Tom, Gene and Barney,” last of the fire horses, who will be recalled for the day from honorable retirement at Blue Plains, and will once again pull the apparatus down the Avenue. Fireman Dwyer of No. 8 Engine Company, who used to drive the big dappled grays, will hold the reins once again, while Fireman Neumeyer of No. 25 Engine Company, once at- tached to “Old Eighteen’s steamer,” will again occupy the front seat. A little girl will be perched above their If You Tire Easily —if you should also have a persistent light cough, loss of weight, some chest pains or hoarseness you may be developing consump- tion and you should lose no time to See a Doctor or Have Yourself Examined at the Free Health Department Clinic 400 15th St. N.W,, Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday at 2-4 o'clock. Friday ovenings from 7:300 o'clock To Prevent Consumption 1. Avoid house dust and impure or close air, day or night. 2. Get all the light and sunshine possible into your home. 3. Avold raw milk, raw cream and butter made of unpas- teurized cream. 4. Eat plain, nourishing food. 5. Get enough sleep by retiring early enough. 6. Try to avoid worry. Be cheerful. mind acts on your body. Think kindly. Your Health Insurance A Physical Examination Every Birthday Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis Telephone Main 992 1022 11th:Street N.W. Who have paid for the above bulletin (legal motice), |heard aloft about 30 miles out at sea heads. - The steamer, comparatively small, was the center of attraction yesterday, although the handsome big float prepared by the men of No. 13 truck was nearing completion. Capt. C. F. Sullivan commands the company. The canine mascot of No. 8 Engine Company, on North Carolina avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets southeast, by breed a bulldog, by name “AlL” and by disposition a friend to all men, occupied the spotlight at the engine house yesterday. The dog, seemingly. sensing the excitement in- cident to the decoration of the floats, cavorted around, mutely begging for something to do. Finally one of the men stuck a basket in his mouth, and straightway he went about the neighborhood col- lecting flowers, bringing basketful after basketful back in safety. Capt. Thomas Buckley commands dog and company. Boys Assist Workers. Boys of the neighborhood pitched in with a vim yesterday morning at No. 10 Engine Company, on Maryland ave- nue between Thirteenth and Four- teenth streets northeast, running in- numerable errands and aiding the wom- en and girls of the vicinity in pre- paring an unusually elaborate float. Capt. William Nally acted as host of the occasion and everybody hoped that no alarm would sound. Other companies, too, fell under, feminine sway. Many of the men per- formed their accustomed duties with extra alertness under the eyes of their wives, come to aid in the parade prep- arations, while the good will of the city toward the department was evi- denced by the volunteer workers of both sexes who visited the various houses and the gifts of decorative materials sent in by firms and individ- uals. . GIRL, 8, SAILS FOR PARIS. Takes Doll as Chaperon on Visit to Grandparents. NEW YORK, September 3, (#).— Chaperoned only by a doll as large as herself, the youngest passenger sailing today on the French liner Paris was Miss Muriel Moore, 8 years old, of San Franci.co. She will visit her grandparents, who, she said, have a farm near Paris. Muriel's father is a Seattle business man and her mother is a French woman resident in San Francisco. When she stepped aboard the Paris 10 mothers offered to adopt her on the spot, but Muriel, deftly powdering the nose of her “chaperon,” insisted that she could take care of herself. . PLANE SBUGHT OFF COAST Cutter Reports Hearing Motor 30 Miles From Seagirt Light. NEW YORK, September 3, (#).— Coast Guard officials today were puz- zled by receipt of a wireless message from the cutter Gresham, reporting that an airplane motor had been from the Sea Girt light off New Jer- sey this afternoon. Lieut. R. W, Buckalew, commanding the Gresham, said the sound ‘‘seemed to travel in a circle” but that no plane was sighted because of the low visibility due to fog. The Gresham was ordered to cruise in the vicinity. . Lightning Kills Farmer. BENTON, Iil, September 3 (#).— Syford Payne, 53, a farmer near here, 'hnbltlnta. who have been rm}uut«l Commumty Effoits Promise Success for{ was killed late today by lightning while walking on the State highway near the Franklin County line. Charles Doreys, a companion, was knocked down by the bolt, but was not seriously injured. PARADE WILL OPEN POLIGE-FIRE FETE Commissioners to Review Procession Tomorrow Pre- ceding Ball Game. The annual parade and base ball contest scheduled for tomorrow for the benefit of the widows and orphans of members of the Police and Fire De- partments gives promise of being one of the most interesting feld days staged in the history of the Metro- politan Police and Firemen's Relief Association. The program will start at 12:15 o'clock with a parade of the Fire De- partment, replete with many artistie and attractive floats, from Peace Monument, the line of march being up Pennsyivania avenue to the Ellipse, south of the White House, where it will disband. The parade will be reviewed by the District Commissioners from a stand in front of the District Buflding. The procession, expected to be the largest ever presented as the annual display of fire-fighting apparatus and personnel of the District of Columbia, this year will include also delegations of volunteer companies from Mary- land and Virginia, and will march for- ward to the music of six bands. Numerous floats will picturesquely represent not only the various Fire Department companies in this city, but a large number of business houses as well. Formation of Parade. The formation of the parade, as announced last night by Sergt. A. J. Bargaragni, marshal in charge, will include police escort, colors, marshal and the Marine Band. Then will fol- low a section depicting the “Evolu- tion of the Fire Department,” show- ing hand-drawn, horse-drawn, motor- drawn and airplane apparatus. The State of Virginia, next in line, will be represented by 31 fire companies and four ladies’ auxiliaries. The U. S. Navy Band next will divide the Virginia and Maryland sec- tion, trom which latter State, led by the Annapolis Fire Department, will come 43 companies and two ladles’ auxiliaries. The Fire Department of the District of Columbia section of the parade will be headed by Assistant Marshal Sergt. D. F. Sullivan, and will in- clude 41 floats from as many fire companies in the District and a float from the ladies’ auxiliary. In the merchants’ section, to follow, will be 41 floats, and in the midst of this section, the United States Army Band. Among the features of the whole parade, however, will be 12 comedy floats from as many fire companies. These comedy- floats in the past have been the cause of much merriment all along the line of march. Officials in_ charge of the parade have received word that the oldest volunteer firemart in Maryland, A. G. Burger of Baltimore, will come for the celebration and will march. 1811 Apparatus on Display. An anclent plece of fire apparatus expected to be on display in the pa- rade will be the Columbia fire engine, in use in this city from 1811 to Civil War days. It will be drawn by mem- bers of the Association of Oldest In- to don hetmets and red shirts for the occasion. Twenty-nine silver cups are to be awarded as prizes for floats, decorated cars and paraders, as follows: For the best decorated float (com- petition open. to all participating in the parade), two prizes; for the Dis- trict of Columbia fire company with the best float, three prizes; for the company with the largest number of decorated cars, open to all, one prize; for the organization with the greatest number in line of march, with band, two prizes; for the organization with the greatest number in line of marsh, without bapd, two prizes; for *he lest float of a voluateer company or ladies’ prizes, and three prizes for the best auxiliary, two prizes; for the ladies’ auxillary fire department, presenting the best appearance and largest num- ber in line of march, three prizes; for the best decorated automobile, two prizes; for the unit coming the great- est distance to participate in the parade, two prizes; for the best deco- rated fire apparatus, two prizes; for the company making the best appear- ance in line of parade, three prizes; for the volunteer company with the most ancient fire apparatus, two prizes, and three prizes for the best business floats. The judges are Willlam J. Brown, C. W. Gill, E. J. Murphy, S. E. Grant, J. H. King, C. Melvin Sharpe, Lester C. Pate, Isadore Shah, Col. Fred Cook, W. D. Miller, O. R. Lewis, D. C. Crain, S. M. Selinger, H. J. Wells, Albert Steinem, J. J. Bell, Leo Calla- han, Samuel Schwartz, S. Mitchell, John Blick, W. Scott, Isaac Gans, W. H. Allerger, G. Fred Wohl- farth, F. W. White, Benjamin J. Harlan, Charles W, Darr and Dewey Zirkin. Traffic to Be Continued. There will be no suspension of either street car or vehicular traffic for the parade. North and south bound traffic over Pennsylvania ave- nue will be permitted whenever such crossing can be made without serious interference with the passage of the parade. Such traffic, however, will not be allowed to form congestion by assembling. Parking of vehicles on streets com- prising formation area will be pro- hibited after 10 o'clock in the morn- ing and on the north side of Penn- sylvania avenue, between First and Fifteenth streets and on both sides of Fifteenth street south of Penn- sylvania avenue to Ohio avenue after 11 o'clock, until after the parade. Arrangements have been made by the recently organized Ladies’ Auvil- lary of the District of Columbia Fire Department for feeding visiting fire- men, a cafeteria for this purpose to be maintained at No. 3 Engine House, on New Jersey avenue between D and E streets. At 1:30 o'clock the gates will be opened at the Griffith Stadium and the United States Marine Band, under the adirection of Capt. Taylor Branson, will entertain with a concert until the gong sounds for the opening of the ball game at 3 o'clock. The Elks' Clown Band will also be heard. The two teams will be given time to prac- tice prior to the opening of the game. There will be entertaining features also during this period. Nick Altrock will. be *on the job,” according to President Clarke Griffith, and he will [ join in with the other entertainers in amusing the spectators. At 2:50 o'clock a flag-raising ceremony will be staged, in which every one present will participate. Orphane to Be Guests. Between 200 and. 300 orph: this city will be among the guests s of { g MAN'S BODY FOUND: DAUGHTER 1S JALED Alleged Confession to Evan: gelist Results in Murder Case Probe. By the Associated Press. REIDSVILLE, N. C., September 3. —~A day and a half of excavation of packed-down soil in a dark basement under a residence here, shortly be: fore noon today, definitely brought to a head a murder mystery with the finding of the body of J. Smith Petty, once an overseer in a local cotton mill, and who has been missing for about a year. The gruesome find confirmed a story told to the Bev. Thomas F. Pardue, an evangy'sYy that Petty had been killed. It lqided Mrs. Alma Petty Gatlin, brid¢ of two months and daughter of the dead man, in the county jaill on a charge of murder. She was arrested soon after the body was found, and this afternoon Coroner Wharton summoned a jury, and after a brief hearing the young woman was ordered held to the grand jury on a charge of first degree murder. Search Lasts Two Weeks. As a result of the inquiry and find- ing of the body, an lnvexngiflon is be- ing conducted in an effort to ascertain whether or not more than one person might have been implicated in the killing. Up to tonight, however, Sheriff J. F. Smith said no other ar- rests had been made. He said that a report that Eugene S. Gatlin, chiet of the Reidsville fire department, hus- band of the girl, had been held in technical arrest pending investigation, was in error. The search and investigation was undertaken two weeks ago, Solicitor Gwyn of Rockingham County and Sherift Smith said today. The story told by the minister, that a young woman had come to him after one of his revival meetings and confessed slaying her father and disposing of the body, first brought to them at that time, they said. The preacher’s story did not give any clue as to where the body might have been hiddden, and the search assumed the aspect of a hunt for the proverbial ‘“needle in a haystack.” There were those in the community who, as talk went its rounds, scouted the minister's story. For days the hunt was carried on, but with many believing that Petty, known to have disappeared at times for weeks and months, had merely gone away again. Body Is Exhumed. Last Wednesday, the solicitor said today, a semi-official inquiry was held. At this inquiry enough information was gathered to warrant Sheriff Smith and his staff of deputies dig- 8ing in the basement of a house oc- cupied by a-man named John Price, but which until last March was occu- pled by the Petty family. Yesterday morning Sheriff Smith and three deputies went to the house. They began digging in the basement. ‘‘he search was fruitless until this morn- ing, when they tackled a pile of coal stacked in one corner of the basement. The coal removed, they began mov- ing the dirt under it. It was the hardest sort of back-breaking work, but when they had reached a depth of lbon!t ;;eet aflm of clothing was encountered. reful diggi: n disclosed the body, i m-’ Exhumed, the body, although d composed, still was recognizable as that of Patty. “There is not the slightest doubt the body s that”of Petty said Sheriff Smith this afternoon.” FEDERAL EMPLOYES TO LAUNCH ATTACK ON ACT§ OF BOARD (Continued from First Page) and E. C. Hooper, Local No. 262. On Monday, the opening day of the con- vention, the program will be merged largely with the Labor day celebra- tion arranged by San. Antonio trade unions. Sessions of the executive council, composed of National President Luther C. Stewart; National Secre- tary-treasurer Gertrude M. McNally and nine national vice presidents, were in progress yesterday and today. This body, which governs the or- ganization between conventions now held biennially, reviewed the pro- gram of convention business as it has been formulated so far, and let it be known that it considered the improvement of classification admin- istration as an item of outstanding significance. The council considered an invitation for the federation, to affiliate with the Federation Interna- tionale des Fonctlonnaires et des In- stituteurs and will present the pro- posal to the convention for its in- dorsement. This organization'4s an international body comprising the government employes of the British Isles, the countries of continental Eu- rope, ustralia and New Zealand, and it afliation is effected it will estab- lish an official contact between gov- ernment workers of the United States and those of foreign lands. On Monday a Labor day parade will be held in the morning and will be followed by the opening session of the convention in this city’s million- dollar auditorium. In the afternoon President Steward will be the prin- cipal speaker at a Labor day fete in San Pedro Park. The address of wel- come at the morning sion will be made by Acting Mayor Phil Wright, to which response will be made by Dan F. Connor, president of the San Antonio employes’ organization, who is well known to Government work- ers who have attended other conven- tion gatherings. Among the gpeak scheduled are Maj. Gen. Erpest Hines, commander of the Sth Corps Area; Maj. Gen, W. D. Connor com- manding general of the 2d Division: Senator Morris Sheppard, Senator E. B. Mayfield, Representative Harry Wurzbach, Representative John N. Garner and Representative Claude B. Hudspeth. Business sessions will get under way Tuesday and continue through Friday. ——————— men who die elther from natural causes or from accident while in ac- tive service or after retirement. re no paid officers, and. from ginning the association ‘ has been conducted without overhead ex- pen: Each vear a committee representing the police and fire dnpmn?ont and representatives of the various civic organizations, is appointed to arrange committee in charge of affalr is composed of u:.e of the firemen and policem District Commissioner Taliaferro will toss out the ball, and from then on the game i firemen are prepared to battle to the finish to win the coveted silk flag. ‘The winner of the contest will presented with the flag by Col. Ladue, Engineer Commissioner. The association making the fleld day possible {s one of the oldest in the United States, having been or- ganized in November 16, 1869, Its purpose i-.to give immediate relief of a fin nature to the widows and orphans of policemen and fire- Odell S. Smith, chalrman; Rudolph vice chairman; Harry F. Allmond, secretary; Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, treasurer; Dr, Frank E. Gibson, Charles W. Darr, Martin A. Leese, Edward J. Murphy, Charles J. Waters, Mrs. Thomas F. Walsh, Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, Chief George 8. Watson, Lieut. Mina Van Winkle, Lieut. Howard S. Fisk, Capt. Charles Demonet, Dr. A, M. M ald. W. Pearce Prescott, Maj. Daniel J. ward R. Pearce, Assistant Sp Henry G. Pratt, Inspector H. J. Stoll, !il:.lldt %‘;‘.on;‘y' Lieut. |lflehld J. y, . A. J. Bargagni, Sergt. D. F. Sullivan, Robert L. Pritchard, Chief A. J. Sullivan, retired; Harry M. Luck- ett and Inspector W. 8. Shelby. t