Evening Star Newspaper, September 11, 1927, Page 22

it FARFAX EXHIBITS TOBREAK RECORD Fair to Open Wednesday, With Program Feature Each of Four Days. Epecial Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va. September 10.— Th fourteenth annual Fairfax County fair and horse show will open Wed- nesday morning, with the prospect of the largest exhibit of livestock, prod- ucts and domestic arts ever shown in the county. Clifton Laughlin, president of the Fair Association, and R. I. Buckley. secretary, report a widespread interest among non-residents of the o Forty exhibits in the ncedlework de- partment alon are being sent by woman in Ohio. exhibits are expected States. A hundred special premiums will be awarded to winners in each de The home demonstration agent advisory council Frida that special prizes dor .ted by local merchants for the farm and home de partment be awarded local exhibitors onlv, the money priz s given by the from oth Fair Association to be awarded irre- | spective of residence. \Many Free Attractio The fair officials have free attractions every wft_.noon and evening. Therp will be horse racing each day, with a horse show Thurs day and Friday. E. N. Palmer, who is in charge of the horse show, re- ports over 100 entries, includin~ well known horses from Warrenton, Hay- market, Alexandria, Nokesville, Clar- endon McLean, Aldie and Arcola. En- tries closed on September 8, but racing entries are received until the race. Money prizes, amounting to more than $1,500, are being awarded in this department as well as seven silver cups. The 4-H Club work, under Miss Mary Lippard, will hold one or more demonstrations. Each booth 1s design- ed to reproduce the living room of Mrs. Clinton Makely of Centerville, which won first prize in a recent im- provement campaign. Rug Making Demonstration. ‘Thursday from 11 to 4 in this room Mrs. W. L. Keates of Burke will give a demonstration on the making of hooked rugs. Wednesday afternoon Miss Mary MacGowan of Blacksburg, State food specialist, will give a dem- onstration on judging canned goods. Thursday at 11 a.m. Mildred Jenkins nged for ALEXANDRIA September 10 2 s will settle down to routine activity Monday, and clascos will be held for the first time since adjournment June. The preliminary vork of registration, as- signments and the purchase of neces- sa equipment was cor. ‘eted Fri- day. “ormation of a Reserve Officers Training Corps unit will be discussed by students of Alexandria High School, and organization will be efect- ed 1f the required quota of 100 boys can be obtained. Each applicant must be 14 years old or over, and have his parents’ permission to join. He will be required to pass a doctor's exam- ination. All necessary equipment, with the exception of ur'forms, will be issued by the War Department, and an instructor will be assigned unit is formed. Academy will reopen for s Monday. The St. Agnes Epls- 1 School for Girls will open Sep- The Xaverian Brothers’ conducted by the Xaverian and the St. Mary's Catholic hial School reopened early this Episcopal Theological Virginia a the Epis- copal High School, locat ~ west of this city, in Faitfax County, are both due to open on Septembcr 21. The Virginia Home School, which holds lasses for boys and girls of the first and second grades, will open Mbnday. A5 Althea Swain is princlpat. To Plan Activities. Plans for Fall and Winter activities of the Alexandria Chamber of Com- merce will be made at a meeting of the board of directors Monday at 3 pam. The treasurer will make his semi-annual report, and several com- mittees will be asked to report their activities. In adddition to the board of direc- tors, two other units of the chamber will resume work this month. The Retail Merchants’ Club will meet Wednesday and plans will be dis- cussed for the annual convention of the State Retail Merchants’ Assocla- tion next June. That body will hear reports from committees on estab- lishment of a city park and on taxa- tion. Rev. Hugo Blankenship of Em- manuel Episcopal Church of Brad- dock will preach his final sermon as rector of that church tomorrow morn- ing. He will leave here September 15 to become dean of the cathedral at Havana, Cuba, and will be succeeded by Rev. George Vest of Berryville, Va. The vestry will give a farewell reception to the rector tomorrow eve- ning. The children of the Emmanuel Episcopal Church Sunday School pre- sented a program in the church audi- torium last night. City Manager Paul Morton will leave and Elizabeth Pearson of the Forest- ville 4H Club will give a demonstra- tion on tying and dyeing. Thursday at p.m. little Jean Bm? and Mary Ellen Carr of Herndon will give a demonstration on table service. Friday, Edith Cur- tis and Bugenia Buckley of the Clif- ton 4-H Club will bake biscuits for distribution, and that afternoon Eliza- beth Harrison and Virginia Carr will demonstrate baking cup cakes. The judging in this department will be handled by Miss Belle Burke, district home demonstration agent of Char- lottesville, Va. Saturday has heen designated as Ku Klux Klan day, under auspices of the county Klan, No. 2. There will be a base ball game at 3 p.m. A robed parade at 8 p.m., public speaking, fifeworks and the burning of a cross. —. BAILEYS CROSS ROADS BAILEYS CROSS ROADS, Va., Sep- tember 10 (Special). —The - School League will meet in the school audi- ‘torium Wednesday night. The ad- journed program on landscaping of the campus and a proposed change in the community name will be taken up. “The guild will meet with Mrs. Thur- Jow White Thursday afternoon. The ng. People’s Society will give a ce in the school on the 16th. e Virginia Public Service Co. has extended its lines down the Columbia Pike from W. T. Carrico’s as far as ‘W. L. Clarke's_residence and from there down the Lincoinia road as far as Mr. Howdershell's. COLVIN RUN. COLVIN RUN, Va., September 10| (Special).—The Community and School | Yeague will meet in the auditorium next Wednesdgy night. The league is holding a dance in the schoolhouse tonight under direction of Roland Wheeler and Wiliam Cockrill, proceeds to swell the fund for school e, pairs. The two evening carnivals last Fri- day and Saturday were successful in spite of the fact some of the contests and outdoor attractions were canceled. Gross receipts were around $350. Chairman Bhlrlgy of the State High- way Commission’ has notified H. E. Hanes and J. A. Wheeler that it will be impossible to build the section of the Leesburg Pike between Andrew Chapel and Difficult Run until a defi- nite allocation of funds is made for this purpose. State road forces are now employed on this road, however, topping it with clay and gravel. Berwyn-Branchville. BERWYN, September 10 (Special). ~—Preparations are complete for the opening of the local school Monday. Mrs, M. Powell of Washington will succeed Miss Nelson as principal. Pupils entering school for the first time will be required to show a vac- cination certificate. The meeting of the Woman’s Com- munity Club Wednesday was devoted almost entirely to a discussion and plans for the fair exhibit, which will be taken to Mariboro Monday morn- ing. Articles to be entered should be sent to Mrs. R. P. Hueper Sunday afternoon. _ A chicken dinner will be given by the women of the Methodist Church of Branchville September 22. Tickets ‘will be 50 cents. Mrs. T. P. Allsworth of Riverdale ‘was hostess at luncheon Wednesday to the Branchville Firemen's Auxil- jary, from which she is resigning. The regular meeting of the auxiliary will be held Monday night. Birmingham Chapter, No. 26, Order of the Eastern Star, reconvened Tues- day night, following & Summer recess. The Berwyn district road commit- tee met Tuesday evening at the com- munity center, with Dr. S, S. Stein- berg presiding, and the following members present: W. F. Mulligan, Charles Teske, sr., and Mark Kier- nan. G. P. Bickford was not present on aceount of iliness. Repairs were ordered on the following Berwyn and Branchville roads at the boulevard: Metzerott road, Powder Mill road, Kiernan’s road, old Branchville road, otherwise known as Scagg’s lane; the Edmonston road and Rhode Island avenue. ‘W. F. Mulligan, chairman of the public utliities committee of the Branchville Citizens’' Association, an- nounces that, following a conference with officials of the Potomac Electric Power Co., a check for $1,250 has been sent by them to the trustees of the electric extension fund, Brother Clementius of Ammendale, Judge Fill- more Beall and H. J. Bierman. This sum, with a balance in bank, makes possible a distribution among the original 86 subscribers of $23 per capita. Checks will be sent out soon. Because of the rain Thursday morn- ing the picnic.of the Baptist primary department. was held in the Sunday schog) room of the church, this city tomorrow to attend the na- tional convention of city managers at Dubugque, Iowa. FORESTVILLE. FORESTVILLE, Va., September 10 (Special).—Salem Aid will meet ‘Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. Mark Gallahan, Mrs. A. C. Speight's Sunday school class is giving a lawn festival this evening for the benefit of the Arnon Church missions. At the Grance meeting Wednesday night it was decided to invite the members of all the county granges, together with the members of Poto- mac Grange in Washington and the national representative, Frederic Brenckman, to meet with Great Falls Grange in its annual picnic to Great Falls September 24.. It was also de- cided to invite all the granges to meet here to form a county or Pomona Grange, but no date was decided, this being left to Mr. Brenckman. The committee on Forestville day reported a net profit of $881.32, the largest sum ever cleared at local community benefit. E The school board Tuesday appointed T. J. Dickey janitor at Forestville for next year. T. T. Utterback was given the bus contract from Elkins to Dranesville for the Forestville School, and H. M. Presgraves the bus line from Dailey’s store. The line from McCutchins Corners is not yet con- tracted for. At the school board meeting Tues day, Supt. Hall reported that the oppo- sition to the principal of the Dranes- ville School persists and upon Mr. Hall's suggestion he and Mr. Wood- son and Trustee Ellmore weére appoint- ed a committee to arrange for a secret ballot for the patrons to decide this question. B — BELTSVILLE. BELTSVILLE, Md., September 10 (Special).—The local grange will re- sume regular meetings next Tuesday evening. Applications for new mem- bers will be accepted at that time. Mrs. Sam Beall and her daughter, Miss Florence Beall, were hostesses to the. Guild of St. John's Episcopal Church last Friday evening in the Parish Hall. The Woman’s Community Club will meet Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Sarah Brandon. The Aid Society of Emmanuel Methodist Episcopal Church South will meet at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the home of Mrs. H. T. Converse, for their first Fall meeting. Funeral services were held Thurs- day afternoon for Mary Ella Roby, 16- year-old daughter of O. W. and the late Grace E. Roby, at the Liberty Grove Methodist Episcopal Church. Burial was at Union Cemetery. After an {ll- néss of one day she was removed to Montgomery County Hospital, whera she died two days later. She was a member of the senior class at Fairland High School. HYATTSVILLE. HYATTSVILLE, Md., September 10 (Special).—The engagement has been announced of Miss Naomie Elizabeth Connick, daughter of Mrs. Marie H. Connick, to Vincent Alphonsus Sheehy, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Vincent A. Sheehy of Hyattsville, the wedding to take place September 19. James A. Hickey of Hyattsville has been reappointed a deputy den and has subscribed to the oath of office before Summerfield D. Hall, clerk of the Circuit Court for Prince Georges County, at Upper Marlboro. Construction of concrete roadbeds and sidewalks on Olive and Shepherd streets has been completed, and prop- erty owners have been notified that the mayor and Town Council will levy assessments against them for the work at the regular monthly council meeting Monday night at 8 o'clock in the council chamber in the Municipal Building. A total enrollment of about 700 is expected when the Hyattsville Ele mentary School opens Monday. Forty- five enrolled Wednesday in the first grade. and about this many more doubtless will enter this grade Mon- day. Both the Olive Street and Spen- cer Street Schools have been cleaned and made ready for the reception of pupils. The Olive Street School will use for the first time this Winter a newly installed heating plant. First, second, second, third and fourth grade pupils will be housed in the Spencer Street School and those of the fifth, sixth and seventh grades in the Olive street building Assignment of teach- ers has been announced by Mrs. Hon- tas M. Sturgis, supervising principal. An enrollment of approximately 650 Is expected when high school reopens THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, NEWS NOTES Material for extension of the white way electric lighting system on King street from Patrick to Harvard streets has been shipped to the Vir- gginia Public Service Co., and Instal- lation of the light poles is expected to start next week. Commandant Ernest Duerr and Mrs. Katherine Duerr, who have been in charge of the local chapter of the Salvation Army two years, will re- main here another year, according to an announcement made at the field officers’ conference at Richmond, which has just closed. It was pre- viously announced that they would be transferred. ‘The First Baptist Church Sunday School will hold special programs in all its departments tomorrow begin- ning at 9:30 a.m, Lodge Women to Meet. Silver Moon Council, No, 15, Daugh- ters of Pocahontas, will meet in Car- penters’ Hall Monday night at 8 o'clock. The degree team will stage a review practice. Herndon Council will be the guest of the local council September 26, and the local degree team will confer the work on several candidates. It has been announced that the local Pocahontas and Red Men will join the varlous tribes of Washington and Northern Virginia for an all-day picnic at Point of Rocks ‘Wednesday. John Higgs was elected patrol leader of Troop No. 126, Boy Scouts of America, of Second Presbyterian church last night. Other officials named are Morris Raywood, scribe; Raymond Wells, junior assistant scoutmaster; John Strauss and Daniel R. Stansbury, jr., assistant scout- masters, One hundred and fifty members answered the annual roll call of Po- tomac Lodge, No. 38, fndependent Or- der of Odd Fellows, last night. Alex- andria Canton, No. 1, Thursday night, held its first business meeting since early Summer. Marley Encampment, No. 6, will meet Monday night. Lib- erty Rebekah Lodge, No. 16, will meet Tuesday night. J. Nelson Anderson, president of the Baltimore conference of Epworth Leagues, will address the Fall rally of the league of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South tomorrow night. The engineers’ band of Fort Hum- phreys, Va., will furnicsh music for the last community band concert of the Summer at the municipal swim- ming pool grounds Tuesday night. A committee appointed by “Alexan- dria Post, No. 24, American Legion, is arranging plans for the American Legion style and automobile show, which will be staged in the Armory {l:“ the week beginning September F. Clinton Knight, past commander of Alexandria Post, No. 24, American Legion, was elected department vice commander at the ninth annual con- vention of American Legion posts of \'h‘(klnlu. at Newport News, Va., this weel GROVETON. GROVETON, Va., September 10 (Special).—The Labor day picnic held on Groveton Field netted approximate- 1y $200. L. A. Popkins, riding as knight of Groveton, wom_ first place in the tournament, E. L. Popkins fin- ishing second, J. A. Stonell, third, and John Tyler, fourth. The charge to the knights was delivered by E. H. Allen of Newington, past master of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows. At the coronation ball in the evening. Fred Birrell of Alexandria delivered the ad- dress. Mr. Popkins glrned his honors over to Charles ichardson, who crowned Miss Irene Pullman as queen of love and beauty. The other maids of honor were Mrs. Earl Popkins, Miss Theresa Boyd of Alexandria and Miss Margaret Van Pelt of Mount Vernon. The farmers’ horse race was won by Happy, owned by Miss Theresa Boyd and ridden by Robert Woolf of Alex- andria. There were 20 entries in the trap shooting contest managed by Plerce Reld, and one of the features of the day was the winning of this tournament by Paul Wease, a 12-year- old boy, who made a perfect score. He won the first prize of $5. Second prize of $3 went to Charles Linton and third of $2 to Kenneth Blunt. There were athletic events for the children in the afternoon. Dancing in the eve: ning lasted from 7:30 to midnight, The regular meeting of the Com- munity Club was held Tuesday eve- ning in the schoolhouse. Committees in charge of the Groveton day and Labor day picnic reported. Monthly services will be held at the Sacred Heart Catholic Chapel Sunday at 9 am. The home of A. E. Albrect at Me. morial Heights was destroyed by fire last Friday morning. The Alexandria Fire Department responded, but owing to lack of water was unable to check the flames. The occupants were away at the time. The hunting season for blackbirds and squirrels opened last week, but there has been less gunning in the local marshes than in many years. There is a closed season on reed birds this year. Plans are being made for the annual Mount Vernon District Fair to be held in October ‘at the Woodlawn Com- munity House. A. R. Harrison and Miss Irene Pullman represent Grove- ton community on the District Fair Board. At the meeting of the school board Tuesday it was voted to continue pay- ment of tuition in the Alexandria tity schools for elementary pupils from New Alexandria, in Mount Vernon dis- trict, providing the parents paid trans- portation charges on the street car. A delegation from Mount Vernon District, including Messrs. Allen and Nevitt of Accotink, Smith ot Fran- conia, Pickett and Reid of Groveton and others, attended the school board meeting to protest against the action of the board in assessing Mount Ver- non and Lee district, $22.50 per pupil registered in Lee Jackson School at West End, especially in view of the fact that the school was not accredited last year. The board explained that the school had been located at West End in order that it niight serve as a Joint high_school for both Mount Ver- non and Falls Church districts, that Fall Church district had bonded and taxed itself to the limit allowed by law to construct the building at a cost of $47,000, that the only charges assessed on Lee and Mount Vernon districts were their proportionate share of the cost of upkeep of the bullding, exclu- sive of the cost of instruction, and that the only thing required to make the school an aceredited high school this coming year was the provision of a sclence laboratory and equipment, for which there were no funds avail- able in Falls Church district. Upon motion of Mr. Allen, Mr. Haislip was instructed to loan $500 from the Mount Vernon district school fund to Falls Church district, the money to be used to outfit a science laboratory and to be paid back by Falls Church district in two years. The school board accepted the bid of A. W. Smith for the repair of schools in Mount Vernon district. AURORA HEIGHTS. AURORA HEIGHTS, Va. Septem- ber 10 (Specialh=-The Aurora Heights Civie Association will hold its third flower, fruit and vegetable show at the James Monroe School Friday eve- ning. Rating homes for the home Im- provement contest will be done by Prof. ¥. L. Mulford on or shortly after September 16. The absence of trash and growing weeds will add much to the individual home rating it is pointed out. Prizes are offered for Monday. Aside from Prof. K. J. Mor- ris, principal, wWhose duties will be purely administrative, there will be 26 on the fagulty, the best appearing place at the time of judging and for the greatest im-| provement on the entire place dur- ing P — FAIRFAX. FAIRFAX, Va., September 10 (Spe- cial).—The Parent-Teachers Associa- tion will meet Monday at 3:30 at the home of Mrs. J. U. Kincheloe. The pre-school circle will hold weekly meetings every Saturday afternoon this Fall with the children present. The Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce will meet in Falls Church Tuesday night. ‘The Girl Scouts resume their weekly meetings today at the home of Rober- deau Allison. They will plan the work of the year and their participation in the county fair next week. Woodmen of the World meet in Cavaliers Hall next Tuesday and the Daughters of America Wednesday. Mrs. Charles Smith, former assistant secretary, has been made recording secretary of the Daughters in place of Mrs. Fannie Perls, resigned. ,Mrs. Wilson Darr will entertain the Volunteers class of the Methodist Sun- day school Monday night. The Labor day entertainment and dinner given by St. Mary’'s Catholic Church at Fairfax Station was suc- cessful, over 1,200 attending. Net pro- ceeds exceeded $1,000. This is for the benefit of the entire parish. Work on the bowling alley in the clubhouse of the Knights of Wesley has been started. Two alleys are be- ing built downstairs with alcove room at the rear. These two alleys cost $2,400, exclusive of the cost of the building itself. A room is being added upstairs to hold an additional pool table. Most of the work is befng done by club members. Sanitation Survey Made. R. G. White has completed his sur- vey of the sanitation of the town of Falls Church. Four hundred and thirty-three premises were inspected with 156 follow-up visits. Water samples from 12 wells were mailed to the State laboratory and sev- eral found polluted. Mr. White re- ported one typhoid case in the county, J. P. Chinn, near Oakton: one dip- theria, B. B. Davis, near Tysons Cor- ners, and two mad dog scares which proved unfounded. Miss Mary Gill, trained nurse from the State oard of Health, Feports a total attendance at the gounty tuber- culosis clinics of 72, of which 4y were positive cases. Ther® were 13 sana- torium recommendations. As three of the latter are charity patients, the Board of Supervisors at Miss Gill's re- quest appropriated $10 aplece for a six-month period, the remainder of the $14 monthly payment for each patient at the Piedmont Sanatorium to be raised from private subscrip- tions. At the quarterly conference at the Methodist parsonage Monday, R. E. Bérry of Andrew Chapel was elected charge lay leader. Two vacancies on the Board of Trustees were filled by the election of James M. Sanders of Andrew Chapel to take the place of D. J. Wiley, deceased, and Paul Allder of Pender in place of Charles Stew- art, deceased. Rodolphus Robey was elected lay leader at Fairfax and F. M. Allder at Pender, E. Mack Wiley Sunday school superintendent at Fair- fax and F. M. Allder at Pender. Stewards for Fairfax are E. M. Wiley, H. B. Derr, Miss Edna Jerman and John M. Whalen. At Pender, F. M. Allder and Alvin Birch were made stewards. At the school hoard meeting Tues- day, W. H. Ellmore handed in his resignation as trustes from Drains- ville district, as his daughter has ac- cepted a position on the faculty at Floris. he board made several changes in the teachers’ covenants from the committee’s recommenda- tions. Teachers will be given pay for the holidays at Thanksgiving, Wash- ington birthday and Easter. No. hol- iday will be given on May 30, and school will close May 31 instead of June 4. Teachers’ institute has been changed from Monday, September 19, to Friday and Saturday of the first week. Miss Josephine Howard of Falls Church was appointed super- visor of one and two room schools at $1,500 a year. Miss Howard and Mrs. Salome Saffer, also of Falls Church, presented their applications. Request for School. A delegation from Cartersville, in Drainesville district, asking for a school and presenting a list of 30 scholars was referred to Mr. Hall and Trustee Ellmore. They promised the use of their church as a classroom. The board voted to prohibit sales- men and solicitors from all schools unless provided with permits from Mr. Hall, o. k.’d by the principal. Carroll Shreve of Falls Church asked consid- eration of the bill of $2,500 still owing him for work done last year in Falls Church and Providence districts. He was promised relief at the December meeting. The residue of the book fund money was transferred t6 the county fund and used to pay salaries of Mr. Woodson, Miss Gaynor and Mr. Seal, owing sincé July 1. The chairman was directed to accept service in the chancery suit of Stuart vs. Eskridge, pending in the Circuit Court, to clear the title to the old school property at Hatmark, recently sold to H. H. Anderson. A reversion- ary’ clause in the old deed gave the property to the heirs of the original grantor rather than to the school board. At the supervisors’ meeting Wednes- day, Mr. Cranford of Lée district pro- tested the construction of a county road across his property, which he says was done without his consent. The case was settled by glving Mr. Cranford title to the abandoned county right of way, plus $50. A delegation was present petition- ing the board to complete the road to Fairfax Station from its present terminus at the Catholic Chapel to the raiiroad tracks. The residents of the village have raised $500 to build the road from the forks on top of the hill, and Father Habets gave a pledge of $150 additional for this section. W. 8. Hogér, jr., stated that his friends might give up to $1,000 to com- plete the road to the bridge. Mr. Larkin and Mr. Hoge made an ap- pointment to inspect the road and de- termine the exact amount necessary to complete it. Mr. Probst, secretary of the Farmers' Service Co. pre- sented a petition in behalf of the 120 members of that organization.asking for a passable road to the freight sta- tion In all weather. The State returned to the county $203.60 due on bounties for hawks killed, as returned by the department of game and inland fisheries. The bia for printing the board’s semi-an- nual statement was awarded to the Fairfax Herald. o CENTERVILLE. CENTERVILLE, Va., Septémber 10 (Special).—The State road engineers have started construction of the new bridge over Bull Run on the Center- ville-Manassas road, half a mile east of the present bridge. At the adjourned quarterly confer- ence of the Southern Methodist Church, held on Labor day at Fairfax parsonage, Mrs. Fannie Harrison and B. T. Gentry were electéd stewards of the Centerville Church, with Mrs. Har- rison as lay leader and as superin- tendent of the Sunday School. The board of supervisors Wedn: day continued for two months the ai pointment of Middleton Compton as special road officer for this district. CIVIC PROBLEMS TOPIC. Following organization of the In- dian Spring Park Citizens’ Assoclation another meéting was held Thursday at Blair schoolhouse. Lacy Shaw, Capt. Lord of the thirteenth precinct and Thomas Clagett of the Suburban Sani- tary Commission spoke on street ex- tensions, taxes, bus service, water, lighting and other subjects of commu- nity interest. The membership was increased to 40. Maj. E. Brooke Lee, speaker of the Maryland House of Representa- tives, will address the next moyugl, urgday 1n Ogto - #he first Th D. C. SEPTEMBER NAVY 11, 1927—PART 1. FLYERS ARE SUBJECTED TO MIND AND BODY TESTS Lieut. Comdr. Davies, Flight Surgeon, Puts Pilots Un- der Strict Scrutiny. Aviators at Anacostia Sta- tion Must Submit to Fre- quent Examinations. A policy of rigid medical examina- tions for naval aviators on duty in Washington has been inaugurated at the Naval Alr Station, Anacostia, D. C., with the object of curbing “po- tential crashes” brought about by mental and physical fatigue and any other condition of the pilot's mind and body which can be characterized as “stale.” Pilots attached to the Anacostia station are subject to professional scrutiny by Lieut. Comdr. W. W. Davies, flight surgeon of the air base, once a week, while airmen on duty in the Bureau of Aeronautics and who use the Anacostia planes for local and cross-country flying, must line up be- fore the station’s ‘“medico” once a month. All other naval aviators, whether on the active list and from other stations or on the reserves, can Dbe prohibited from taking the air from Anacostia if Dr. Davies believes they are unfit for air duty. The “Schneider Test.” Orders for the close check-up on the physical welfare of the naval airmen were promulgated by Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the Bu- reau of Aeronautics, upon the recom- mendation of Lieut. Comdr. Homer C. Wick, commanding the station, and Lieut. Comdr. Davies. The success of the experiment is expected to- bring about similar inspection at other naval | air_stations throughout the country. By an examination lasting only a | tew minutes Lieut. Comdr. Davies is able to tell whether a pilot is a “po- tential crash.” This examination is known in naval air parlance as “a Schneider.” It is the ratio between the circulatory and nervous mecha- nisms, and the conclusions are reached by the following test: The blood pressure and pulse of the pilot are taken. Then he lies down for five minutes and the blood pressure and pulse are recorded. He is told to stand quietly for two min- utes while they are again recorded, after which he exercises by jumping up and down for 15 seconds and an- other ‘“reading” of the ' pulse and blood pressure is taken. This is com- pared with all other findings; If the pilot is in perfect health the scale or chart will show an “18.” No one can make a higher grade. The mini- mum is “8" and an airman who reaches this figure is just under the line. Below “8” a pilot is “stale, has no faculties, thinks slow! and, in other words, stays on the ground wntil he can make a higher grade. Eyes Are Examined. At regular, frequent intervals Lieut. Comdr. Davies puts his pilots through a series of tests to determine if their eyes, a most vital agency in flying, are in perfect condition. After de- termining that the interior of the eye is clear and the length of vision and color-discriminating ability are satis- factory, the flight surgeon tests the pilot for *“‘depth perception.” At one end of the “dark room” in the recently enlarged ‘‘sick bay” at the air station is a little table with two black posts, abou: 10 inches high, resting vertically in wooden founda- tions. They stand out clearly against a white background. One of the posts is movable, forward and backward. LIEUT. COMDR. DAVIES. Twenty feet away the pilot sits in a chair with two long strings in his hands, the other ends of which are attached to the movable post. His duty is to pull the movable post up to a position parallel with the stationary one. Some aviators are unable to detect how far back or forward the movable post is from the stationary one and after maneuvering with the strings for a while express satisfaction that the two are parallel. Upon inspect- ing the machine closer, they find they have been 5 or 6 inches away. Those flyers who are in good condi- tion can, according to Dr. Davies, bring the movable post within the | fraction of an inch from the station- ary ome. The maximum error per- mitted is an inch. Over that space there is something wrong. The depth perception test is of great assistance to the pilot in landing. His altitude recording _instruments cease to be of much service to him at 50 or 100 feet in the air, as their prin- cipal purpose is to record “thousands of feet up.” Depth Perception. As an airplane glides in for a. land- ing it must level off at a dsitance 5 or 10 feet above the ground or water and then ease down gently to the sur- face. If the pilot's perception ability is poor, he may fly straight into the ground or the Water, as his eyes are u;’rmble to tell him it is “time to level oft Once a year the Navy aviators what is known as . . Aviation No. 1” and what is known in the Army as a *“609.” This is a thorough examination from the top of the head fo the bottom of the feet and if an airman falls down on this test his future career as a military aviator is in danger. The Army gives the similar test to its pilots once every six months. However, Dr. Davies is empowered to submit a pilot to the “No. 1" examination whenever he thinks the occasion arises. gives its N. M. S. Knocked Down by Street Car. Thomas Clancy, 77 years old, 214 John Marshall place, was knocked down by a street car last night be- tween Third and Fourth streets on Pennsyivania avenue, sustaining a lacerated scalp and brulses about the body. He was treated at Sibley Hos- pital.and removed later to Gallinger SCHOOL HAS BANDS. Berlin “Gymnasium” Is First in Germany to Have Orchestra. Correspondence of the Associated Press. BERLIN. — The School of Berlin claims the honor of the first orchestra in Germany made up entirely of students. While in gen- eral music is fostered in Germany as in few countries of the world, the “gymnasia,” or high schools, do not know the American institution of the high school band er orchestra. Bismarck High School pas started two bands. One is a symphony or- chestra of 30 members, conducted by Principal Walter Kuck, the other a jazz band of six, led by Assistant Principal Lichtenberg. WARRENTON. WARRE. Va., September 10 (Special).—H. C. Groome of Warrenton has published through the Old Domin- ion Press, Richmond, Va., a book of local history entitled “Fauquier Dur- ing the Proprietary,” covering the territory from the Indian tribes and first explorations, until the settlement of the litigation over the Fairfax lands, when feudal tenure was finally abol- ished in America. Much detall is given on land grants, early settle- ments, roads, taverns, churches, parishes and the organization of the county, which was separated from Prince Willlam in 1759. A car containing filve men and two women was wrecked about 2 miles from Warrenton Monday at 3 a.m., and two of the passengers were se- riously injured, Nelson Ennis, who died a few hours later in the Fauquier Hospital, and Mrs. Dorman Ennis, who will recover. The driver, Joe Bryant, was held on charge of man- slaughter. Mrs. John Lake, 83 years old, was thrown from a car in a collision at Morrisville Monday and rolled down an embankment, but was not seri- ously hurt. The car was driven by | her niece, Miss Nancy Lake. At the assoclation meeting, lately held at Orleans Baptist Church, a number of aged persons in the neigh- borhood attended. Among them were Mr. and Mrs. Mason Payne, each over 90, who lived near Orlean all their lives. County records show that Mr. Payne and his wife, was was Miss Roberta Payne, were married in 1858, Owing to shortage of funds for con- tinuing public school work in this county on the hasis of last year, the board has decided to discontinue all truck lines which carry high school pupils only. Trucks transporting elementary grades will be run as usual. The sixth annual Ada community fair will be held at St. Andrew’s mis- sion house, near Marshall, Septem- ber 24. W. Alwyn Ash of the staff of the Fauquier Democrat and Miss Annie Bells Pearson, both of “Warrenton, were married September 3 by Rev. D. M. Brown. Marriage licenses have been issued here to the following couples: Robey Helfin, Louis, Va.. and Miss Ida ver; W. F. Abernethy, Hickory, Va., and Miss Maude E. Rector; James A. Cooper, Belaeton, and Miss Emma J. Cooper; John H. French, The Plains, and Miss Roralie M. Budd. Thomas Willson Meetze, who was fatally injured by the collapse of a bridge on which he was working near Fredericksburg, died in the hospital there and was buried at Gainesville. He was born in this county 56 years ago, his parents having come from South Carolina, but had lived for some years in Stafford. He leaves his wife, who was Miss Cora Maddox, and five brother: Robert M. Meetze, The Plains, Va.; George W. Meetze, Wash. ke WIngs- NO-NOX GAS pulls that smooth HE magic of power in motoring comes from an efficient motor fuel. The modern motor must be properly fuel --Otherwise annoying knocks. Gulf No-Nox Motor Fuel stops knocks, pings or detonations in the motor«- this insures an efficient engine-~developing maxi- mum power. Gulf No-Nox more Motor Fuel is Non-Poisonous and no No-Nox Motor Fuel is priced three worth it. GULF REFINING COMPAN x Bismarck High | BRENTWOOD. BRENTWOOD, Md., September 10 (Special).—The Brentwood Volunteer Fire Department held their regular meeting Tuesday evening. Applica- tions for membership from Raymon Czarra and A. A. Vaughn were receiv- ed and will be acted upon at next meeting. The fire company voted to acquire, it possible, from the town of Brentwood, a plot of ground in Bart- lett Park at Henry street and Park avenue on which to erect a new fire- house. The plans approved call for a building of concrete blocks 43 by 80 feet. A committee was appointed to prepare for an oyster roast to be given November 5 on the proposed new site for the firehouse. A party for the fire company, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of its incorporation, wiil be held Septem“er 30. The women's auxiliary had their meeting Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. L. V. Moxley. They have arranged to take charge of the program for the fire- men’s birthday celebration. The mayor and council met with the mayor and council of Mount Rainier Thursday evening at Dewey and Thirty-fourth streets to consider means of connecting Dewey street with Thirty-fourth street. On Friday evening a demonstration was made of the new tractor and grader by a representative of the company from which it was bought and a special meeting of the council was held that evening to decide whether the ma- chine was of practical use on the streets of the town, some difficulty having been experienced thus far in its operation. The regular meeting of the mayor and town council will be held Tuesday evening. The Philathea class had its regular meeting Friday evening at the home of Mrs. J. O. Holbrook. BERRYVILLE. BERRYVILLE, Va., September 1, (Special).—A. Francis Osborne of New York, son of Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Os- borne of Berryville, and Miss Mary Morriesey of “Richmond, Va., were married September 4, in New York. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the large barn on the farm of Mrs. R. D. Johnson near White Post, Sun- day morning. Prompt action by men on the farm saved eight valuable Jjumpers owned by Capt. Ewart John- son from being cremated. E. W. Roller, agricultural teacher at the Boyce and Berryville High Schools, and Miss Margery Weller of Staunton _were married _‘Tuesday Franklin Page Yowell of Boyce and Miss Mary Elizabeth Greenwalt of Winchester were married Tuesday in ‘Winchester. CAPITOL HEIGHTS. CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Md., Septem- ber 10 (Special).—Washington Subur- ban Sanitary Commission is complet- ing the laying of water and sewer mains here. A carnival will be held on the fair grounds here next Friday and Satur- day nights, under auspices of the town, ‘vith the co-cpera ‘*n of vari- ous civic organizations, ¢} irches and other groups. Clinton G. Light is chairman of the committee in charge, Mrs. Mary V. Boyington, secretary. and Henrv Roth, treasurer. - Those attending the carnival will vy'e for the most popular and beautiful girl, who will be proclaimed Miss Capito! Heights. At the monthly mesting of the ayor and town council Monday night, Mayor Thomas J. Luckett will seek the passage of a town law to make it mandatory upon magistrates to impose fines in cases of intoxica- tion. He will recommend more rigid requirements as to Londs of persons released in cases of violation of town ordinances, and will urge the council to take $1,000 from the town's rev- en..s to be used exclusively for graveling of town roadwa