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L ] URCETUTIONFEE_ VRGINANSENTER | FOR“OUTSDERS ORATORY COMTES THE_SUNDAY Dies in Doctor’s, Offige SEEK 10 IRV AT BLDNG Fine Arts Group Would Makef | Structure Conform to White Hous: =nd Treasury. DRGBLE ESLAPES DAMACE NSOUALL Commander Says Ship Back in Perfect Trim—Denies Trouble in Storm. D. C. Citizens Declare Chil-'27 Schools Go in Competi- cren From Nearby Statesl‘ tion—Two More in Mary- Should Pay for Education. land Join. Spectal Dispatch to Tha Star. LAKEHURST, N. J, March 3— Comdr. C. E. Rosendahl of the Los Angeles, refreshed after only a few | hours sleep following the thrilling ; home-coming this morning from his ex- perimental training trip to Panama, {Cuba, and return was back at work |2gain tonight Inspecting the giant | dirigible for any possible damage it Convinced that an improvement can ibe made in the exterlor appearance of | | the State, War and Navy Building at| !little expense, officials of the Commis- | slon ot Fine Arts have begun a searcl | through the archives of the State De | partment and the fne art { plan preparcd about a deca The Federation of Citizens' Assocla-| When the organization of the Vir-| tions last night went on record in favor | ginla schools included in The Evening of admitting to the District schools Star's Fifth National Oratorical Con- children from the States upon payment , fost {erritory was completed vesterday 5 " 27 high schools located in five coun- R {tics and in Alexandria_had entered the Refusing to accede to the report of | competitive field. each determined to its cducation committee, which had|send the forensic champlon of their recommended approval of the restric- | State to the contest finals in Washing- ticn now in the District appropriation |ton in May. bill refusing admission to outsiders in; Many cf the Virginia schools are re- the futwe. the federation amended the turning to the contest following their committee proposal so drastically that | participation last year but Fauquier th2 chairmsn, Harry N. Stull, moved to 'County. with six schools. is included | transform the building, vhich is re- i garded by architects as a liscordant | 'note in the stately group of Govern-; ’mrnl-n\\‘nrd st-uctures, to a ouilding in | The camera got only a fleeting glimpse of Col. Lindhergh's cabin plane when it arrived here yesterday afternoon. Jav the whole matter on the table. but faiied T bittc a somewhat nt s vote came after r debate in which the pres tem of accepting pupils from Maryland | Virginia was both attacked and ! Gefended. The proponents of allowing outside children here, however, conceded that the local schools were overcrowded | Debate on Restriction. George C. Havenner declared in {e that “it is an outrage to bar any children out of the schoois.” Charles 1 Stengle declared. “We owe the chil- o1 the Nation the opportunity of g knowledge." but belicved kind of restriction should cred, some future date ought to b fixed to allow the State authorities 10 prepare facilities Mrs. A. J Lightfoot vigorously de- fenaed the resiriction in the appro- priation _bill. She charged persons lived in Maryland and Virginia because “it 1s cheaper to live there.” and then sent their children back into the Dis- trict “beceuse the schools are better herc.” “Let the States take care of tneir own children.” she demanded, and eived the most applause of the eve- ning. Louis Gelbman defended the restric- tion, charging that Washington children were being placed in portable schools while Maryland children were given scats in permanent buildings. Chairman Stuil, defending his repor: declared that it was not so much a matter of funds, as one of “con.inuing 1o have these outside children in our schools to the exclusion of our own children.” 3 The zctivitics of the federation's pub- lic utiliies committee received a vote ©f thanks and of “confidence,” follow- ing a report of tae or hearings by Vice Chairman W. A. Roberis ot the committee. Oppose Sunday Closing Bill. On recommendation of Thomas E. in The Star's area for the first time. | | proper balance with the dignified indbergh and his four companions alighted from the plane after it had been dragged into a hangar and were whisked {might have sustained when it was | tossed about for several hours in a sud- | den snow squall before it could be finally landed in safety. ! The schools of that county, however, have had previous oratorical contest ex- verience as in 1924 they were included in the contest territory sponsored by the Times-Dispatch of Richmond. ‘The 21 other schools are divided ac- i cording to their respective counties, as Alexandria. 2; Arlington County, 7. Prince County, 3, and Loudoun Two More Enter in Maryland. | h the cnroliment in the field of | ginia schools, two more institu- tions of Maryland entered to bring that State's total entry to 27, the first 25 having been enrolled officially last The latest comoetitors from viand. both in Prince Georges County are Oxon Hill High School, | which brings in 15 sturdents of its third {and fourth vear classes under the prin- !cipaiship of J. Wesley Mumford and {the instruction of ~Miss _Mercedes | Waldron, and the Maryland Park High | School of Scat Pleasant. which enters {64 studenis under the principalship of | William D. Himes and the instruction | of Miss Virginia C. Ayers. Ia addition |to the comvetition for the regular |awards of the national contest, the! {students of the Marvland Park School { { will bo competing for a gold medal | which the principal, Mr. Himes, is of- | | fering to his school winner. The Virginia schools enrolled duzing | the weck. and notes on their respec- | ive participation. follow: Al~xandria High School. Alexandria- ELEANOR LEHMANN, Whose death while undergoing a head- | ache treatment given by Dr. Louis W. Hoffman, a physiotherapist, is under investigation by Coroner Nevitt. PATIENT SUCCUMS, INDOCTOR' OFFE Sufferer From Headache Dies | While Being Treated. Autopsy Ordered. Dying on a table in the office of Dr. Louis W. Hoffman, 214 Victor Building, a physio-therapist, during a treatment for headache. Eleanor Lehmann, 23 years old, 30 K street. was taken to the morgue last night, where an autopsy will be conducted today. Dr. J. Ram: Nevitt, city coroner, requested police to investigate the cir- cumstances. 1l was summoned by T. Moncure, principal: Miss Kroes | ln and Miss Margaret Green, | teachers of Englith. The contestants in | this school will be divided into three | groups. each coached bv one of the mombers of the faculty in preparation | for the 0ol finals, in the hope that the comoetition between classes will bring about more keenly developed orators. The Lee-Jackson High School of Alexandria, Miss Agnes Donaldson, Dr. Hoffman ‘The police headquarters report transmitted to hours later said Dr. Hoffman ged the girl's neck and | “made adjustment of head and then gave a second adjustment as usual treatment." M Dorothy King, 832 D street southeast, who accompanied Miss Leh- mann to the office of Dr. Hoffman, Wio, she said, had treated her success- | fully for headaches in a similar man- Treasury Department. John “Russell Pope, a former mem- ber of the commission, prepared the plan for simplification, which was laid before the commission during the war, but never was formally adopted. Mr. Pope's contemplates re- moval ‘of all the “stove pipe” columns which now flank the building on all sides, and extreme simplification of the exterfor to bring it more into line with the Treasury buildir: The State, War and Navy Building was finished and occupled in 1875, aft er a design by A. B. Mullet, then super- vising architect of the Treasury. It Roman Dorie, bullt of Maine and V ginla granite, at a total cost of more than $10,000,000. It occupies an his- toric site, for here in 1799 was erected the first Government building for the accommcdation of the State, War and Navy Departments. On August 25 1814, the old bullding was burned by the British and two brick buildings were subsequently erected on the site Since the erection of the new Navy Building, the old structure has been de- serted by the Navy Department. President Harding is known to lave been dissatisfied with the outward aspect of the old structure and on se flect of the many columns and cor-| nices. | —_ . INO ATTACK | S Marines in Nicaragua Town, VILLAGE EXPECTS ¢ in an automobile which backed up to the machine. BYRD EXPECTS CHIEF DANGER IN FINAL LAP OF POLE DASH Commander Outlines Plans for Hazardous / Journey Into Antarctic, Starting in September. By the Associated Press RICHMOND, Va., clining in an easy chair at the Gov-| ernor's mansion here today, Comdr. | Richard Evelyn Byrd pictured the time | March 3.ZRe-|at the height of 2 miles has lost so much denseness that it requires a great deal of power to take a plane off the ground, and we shall land With at least 1200 gallons of gasoline and 1,0u0 when he would be camped on a station- | pounds of emergency equipment. Our | ary fceberg, 2,300 miles from the near- est_human dweling, on his projected exploration trip to Antarctic regions. " - wing spread of 76 feet will be used,” the Comdr. Byrd said his expedition |y inja ayiator said. In addition, the would sail South in September, 1928.| expedition will carry two single-engine landing speed must be fast.” “For the flight to the Pole a big monoplane, with three engines and eral occasions sought advice on a sim-| He expects to return by June, 1930, | monoplanes of the type used by Cham- | burst into tears. plification to remove the “ginger bread” | though there was a possibility he said, berlin on his Transatlantic flight. Radio | that h ight layed a year. will be used to keep in constant touch L b | with civilization, and an “ice ship” with New Zealand is to be the first stop | Ve s a bowed hull and two projecting tim- of the adventurer and his men. Then | bers to push aside floes is now being comes the voyage for the Ross ice | oonstrycted . barrter, 2,300 miles to the South. | Pifty-four men, including a dozen ex- The main base of the expedition will| perts, will make the trip. Floyd Ben- e at the Bay of Whalen, where|nett, who accompanied Byrd to the Amunsden had his headquarters. | North Pole, will be second in command. “This is 2,300 miles from the nearest| Maps of the polar regions will be made human dwelling—the farthest people and hundreds of photographs taken. have ever lived from civilization.” | Detailed studies will be made of every- Comdr.’ Byrd sald “There we shall | thing encountered and the scientific cstablish a small village. | data brought back to civilization. The “After making camp we shall estab- | frozen area to be explored is larger than lish several sub-bases about 100 mllcsl the apart on the way to the South Pole. | bined high, landing will be difficult. The alr) | LINDBERGH VISITS | CAPITAL WITH FEW AWARE OF ARRIVAL (Continued from_ First Page.) i retary of Commerce for aviation Mac- Cracken, who learned of his arrival from newspaper men, was in communica- tion with Col. Lindbergh several hours later and confirmed the impression that the party dropped in on a pleasure trip. | Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison, also said he knew nothing in advance of the flight. Although Bolling Field authorities | sald that no word had been received of | | the flight to the Capital, a small group of persons were on hand for the arrival. Among these was 13-year-old Abe Mushinsky, who stood de one cabin door with a pen poised expectantly for Lindbergh's autograph. The aviator | had been whisked away before the boy | realized what had happened. He then TINOVIEFF LETTER | | i | | | test to Soviet Became chose the opposite exit, however, md] EXPOSE REVEALED | Story of How Famous Pro-| United States and Mexico com- “The ship is in perfect condition, sald Comdr. Rosendahl, “a nine- sixteenth of an inch cable broke in two, that was all. This is nothing unusual: surface ships in landing frequentiy part hawsers.” Says Trip Successful. mdr. Rosendahl emphatically sza(vzzod that at no time was he in any danger and he added that there was not the slightest similarity to conditions existing in the case of the ill-fated Shenandoah when that dirigible was destroyed in a squall while flying over o “I consider the trip wholly success- ful.” added the commander. “We cov- ered about 5500 miles without ~the slightest mishap. Officers, crew _and. ship behaved as they were expectéd to behave. The only difficulties we en= countered were in taking off and in the land. That was a little awkward. We had to waste a few hours, but what's a few hours in a long trip? Ocean liners, 100, have to waste time waiting for the tide.” The commander said he had kept in constant touch by radio with the sta- tion here and as soon as he was ad- vised tat the squall had subsided be came back and landed. Comdr. Rosendahl freely disjussed the work now going on in experiment- ing on a set of mechanical equipment for handling ships on the ground and in and out of hangars. “Our preatest problem at present.” he said, “Is to substitute mechanica! power for man power in handling air- ships. It takes about 225 men or more now to handle a ship. We have been | building an experimental set here and | we hops that some time in May we | will have it ready for practical use. Dirigibles Best for Distance. “Our greatest need at present is im- provement in terminal facilities for airships. The problems of air ports Logge, chairman of the law and legis- prinzipal, and Miss Frances Cuatt, | ner several times, sirted that the doctor | These will be necessary, for in the \ “Science is the loser so long as therc | for airplanes i rather simple compared lauon committee. the federation op- cs2d any bond issue or Treasury loan | for purchase of parks and playgrounds, as provided in a pending bill, “until more cquitable fiscal relations” should b: established between the Federal and District governments. A measure for regulating bondsmen in the District was approved. Th Lanziord Sunday bill was emphatically oppcsed, uron recommendation of the commitiee that the question “was not subject to legislative enactment.” The federation aiso favored capital punish- ment by voting its opposition to the McLeod bill. which would abolish the death pena'ty in the district Some objections being raised to a vagrancy bill. the measure was racomn- mitted to committee with request for | amendments. ' { When a Pending bill to raise stlartes | of police in th: rict was-brought up ! by Lodge, Del moved, with | some severity in his voice, that the mat- | ter be “recommitted uniil the Gibson | subcommittee of the House has b it | teacher of English. Arlington County— George Mason High School. Potoma: W. H. Thomas, principal; Mrs. Henry Ransom. teacher of history, and D. O'Flaherty, teacher of civics. The third and fourth history and civics classes of 70 stucents are entered in their entirety with Mrs. Ransom instructing «#f the theme. “The Development of the Con- stitutie and Mr. O'Flahcrty coach- ing on “The Present Significance of the Constitution.” ‘Washington-Lee Entered. Washington-Lee High School, Balls- ten. § T. Vandersiice, principal, and | Mrs. Marue Malott, contest chairman. John Bell, a senior in this school, won “he Virginia championship last year when he was a junior, but he wat 4e- feated in The Star finals. He is a contestant again this year. e, Vire ginia finals will be held in thé Wash- ingten-Lee auditorium near the end of April. Fairfax County: Cliiton High School, Clifton, J. H te a conclusio! tters ‘&nfi'fi‘u e g:mflg’Summen, principal: Miss Rosamond | Burk= and Miss Crystal Driver, teachers in English. Fifty contestants are en- | tered from this school, which is in the | contest for the first time. Heindon High School, Miss N. | Gregory Edwards. principal, and Mrs. | G. 5. White, teacher of English. This | school is housed now in its new build- ing, its former structure havinz been | destroyed by fire. In spite of that disaster, however, the school *~ternd the contert last year and its representa- | tive, Miss Carle T. Lucas, won the group | contest Twenty-five students repre- 26 FEET TO VICTORY classes are entered this year. Floris Vocational High School, Hern- Harold Greenfield Wins First Con- test Here of Miniature don, Mise Sadie Detweiler, principal and Miss Elizabeth Buek, teacher of Aircraft Match. English. In the contest for the first time this year, this school has entcrcd d by Maj. Gen. Mason M. Pat- rick, B. A, retired, former chief of 57 students Franklin-Sherman High School, Mc- | Lean, Miss Mary M. Snead, principal, | znd Miss Thelma Dunn, teacher of English. This school has entered third and fourth year history classes, and spectal school awards, outside the regular contest prizes, will be offered the Army Air Service, to contribute thelr talents toward the develo { aviation w0 that they might ise devices which wouid sav or span oceans in the field of aero- nautics, an audience of boys last night witnessed the Mitial contest of the Dis- trict of Columbia ministure uircraft to the five students Wi survive the school elimination contests. tourrament, held in the Central High Bchool Auditorium i Contest Well Under Way. Oazton High School, J. Fred Cun- The eontest, 2 fying top competition, was won by Harold Greenfield, 19, ningham, principal. This school al- | ready has held most of its elimination | vhose propeiler device attained an al- titude of 26 feet 10 inches. Richard contests, and its finals, in which its official representative in the coming group tests will be chivsen, will be held next Priday, when a jurv of prominent citizens, vet to be announced, will judge : Maude D. Hobbs, principal, SR At oy e Tad lpiace WIS | Smetex High BeRool-H. Glenn Cun- Conant Emmons was third with s |7i0gham, principal. This school will Teignt of 28 feet 4 meher Jonn pe® | Teduce its field to five contestants and | Lathander, 13 et api B, De- | these will “compete for the right to | Haled Wit o Prince Willlam County Y e eomenene TAUE* | The Bwavely Behool, Manassas, Eil | submequent mects Swavely, principal The six finalista | of this schigel will compete in school finals about April 1 Erovn and Mrs 1t L. Meade, tenchers of Enghish ‘The third and fourth yesr classes and volunteers from the | firet and < peting 4 posed provide for a tsudy of scale relations be- tween the Federal and District Gov- ernments. Tuesday, March 13, it was announced. ‘will be the last day for receiving nomi- nations for election %o the Citizens’ Ad- visory Coun Ury hared the program trick Include” C. P Bcnory, chaitman of the commities of Judges. Allen Moulton, president of the Capiwil Model Aero Clun, Lawrence E ams. chairman of the eommitiee On Bnences, snd Miss Bybll Baker, di- rector of tue communily center depart- ment of the public schools, under whose Buiuicer L Unurnament s being staged | Tiw nest oonwsy of the Wurnsment | YL be Leid on e Monument Grouncs Bl 2 Glak Balurday afternoon, March it sunuunced st last Wi the orations. | Falls Church High School, Miss | ¥ 13, was Bt The vating of | TEPresent the school in fnals 0 be held | fe five winners last night i) March 14 or 15 Haymarket High Bchool —Miss 8, H. | Hindle, principal. and Miss M. I High School A M Wenst principal and teacher of English, en- tering 21 students Loudoun County Lincoin High tiehool, Lincoln White, prineijpal Lovettsille " p Migh Bchool Weotnpeldorph, principsl, and Miss | VENEZUELAN CONDITIONS Aiidied Eyindie. Wacher of Enghsh ARE REPORTED QUIET ’I"li.'*,‘”)uml 15 0 e contest for the westrarg. Migh Bchool —Alex 8. Jene ki, principel, and Miss Gaylord Gib- | teacher of Englsh, entering 29 tudents of its third and fourth year Englizh clas 25 Entered From AMdie, Aldie igh School - B Potts, prin- cipul wnd Miss Allein Hedley and Mrs Isubel Goode, teachers of English entering Uind and fourth year knghsh Clusses of 25 students Juund ML Migh School -Hugh D Mokee, principal, snd Miss Helen Ba- L. A Tiots Following Arrest of Students Are Pur Down Folice Faports reaching Washingon yesler- Gay »a.0 ComGhons I Venezuels hud been serped v elmomt normal ufver a Wrlisriaer lant week ul Curacas keveral policemen wnd cvilians were Bea 1w number wounded, e ye- Junte Wi the clasies between tie potice 04 & erowd on $he siseet ber. temeher of Kuglish, and Mis rhanten had thelr dnception | Gladys Banwll, teachier of civics and Lot 30 siunents on February | English; entering 13 students of tie wecused of making anti. | Uhind snd Jourth year English clusses CChe BLd Bl Sl Wetertora Migh bBchool- 8. A Wes- whln, prineipsl, and Mise L. W, Wen were ar- | Gon, tewcher of Engheh; entering 10 Bia - | students of Uie third wnd fourth year Fortrers | classer ! U were sed s bwve be- | Adhburn High Bchool Chives M Y prowlient Samiiler bie | roe, princival and Miss Frances Taylor Wlepnioue wnd olwr pubiic | wather of Englieh . entering 40 sty were Ued up by & sirike dn | dents of the third and fourth yesr iy WA e stugente und dock | Enelish classes ¥ ot Shualie Ao wadkad but L Peuguier County — L gosernnent Lae 8ppointed & uew | Wairenton High Behool - PR vrefect and & new cuiel of poiice, the * Smith, prineips) Miss Anne ‘Townsend Jaert reid u ot English, snd Miss 1 K. Gui " ) o, by Puerus | twisted Miss Lehmann's head twice and | that she coubled up, bleeding from the | mouth. | Dr. Hoffman last night declared that he called Dr. A. W. Valentine, a physi- | | Caolina avenue | Miss Lehmann lost cian, «f 610 North southeast, when consclousness. Dr. Valentine stated he “believed she dicd of dilitation of the heart,” because blood was issuing from the mouth. | “1 didn’t examine the body or touch | it.” Dr. Valentine said. “I do not know anything about Bhe case except that | Dr. Hoffman called me by telephone and urged me to come directly to his office. When I got there the woman was dead.” Miss King said that Mlss Lehman, who was employed as a stenographer at a film exchange on G street, came to her.shortly before 8 o'clock at her place 6f employment in a restaurant and complained of “a terrible head- | ache.” Miss King told her that she had obtained relief from Dr. Hoffman and at her request, she said. took her to the doctor's office in the Victor Building. Miss Lehmann's father stated that sh:» | had suffered from sinus trouble and had | visited a nose and throat specialist at various times. He sald she decided to | seek other treatment when she became | discouraged at slow progr ! | | covering. CITIZEN TAKES MAN AT STORE SHOWCASE Charges He Detected Prisoner in Attempt to Tamper With Sidewalk Display. Quick action on the part of John C. Iseli, 26 Todd place northeast, resulted in the capture early this morning of Vincent Don Rogers, 20 years old, Ar- lington Ridge, Va, who was held for investigation after Iseli had taken him lo police headquarters and said he de- tected him breaking into a display case in front of the Raleigh Haberdasher Subsequent Investigation by Detective 8ergt. C. J. P. Weber indicated that dis- play cases in front of Golds and Meyers, nearby establishments on F street, had been broken open. The young man was wearing a coal said to have been taken from the case at the Raleigh Hab dasher and a scarf be d to have been taken from the showcase at Meyers' Shop Irell was walking with his wife along F street when he sald he observed tw young men tampering with the show care in front of the Raleigh Haber- dasher. One of the men looked up and whistled as he approached Tell- ing his wife that he believed there something suspicious about their ac tions, he seized one of the men as the other man ran away DENIES RIFi’ IN CHURCH. NEW YORK, March 3 (4% — Protexis agalnst the admission of the Rev. Dr Albert Parker Fitch, former Congrega- tional minister at Charleton Collegs, Nortifield, Minn, to the Presbytenn nunistry, on_the ground that he de clined o aMrm the virgin birth of Chirist, are “certainly no indication of a ‘nft’ in the church,” Dr. Howard Duftield, moderator of the Preshytery of New York, sald in a formal state- ment today. Fort McHenry Bill Passed. n of $81,678 1 restoration of Fort ax 6 nattonal park would be authorized under a bill which wes va Ly the Menate Friday The House elready han sovroved the bill and it_nov. to_the White House An appropr ing out the Henry. Md lund, feacher of history and civies 15 students of the fourth-year civies Cluss and volunteers from other classes entered Fauquier Tnsttate, Warrenton, I L. Kemser, principal Calverton High Behool Payne, principnl and teacher of Iing Hsh, entering 21 students of the third and fourth year English clussen Beslton High School 11 M e {son, principal, und W. A Vhit tewchier of English wnd Vistory, enter ng 44 students of w)l clusses, Teempglon High 8choal, Reminglon A 8 Purcell, principsl, Miss K Norton, tencher of Wistory, and Miw Caroline Parkinson, teacher of Kng feh, entering 17 students of the third and fqurth year clars:: Marchall High School, Mershall - W G Coleman, prineipsl, and Miss Bue \'!ml”l teacher of Knghish, entering third yewr Distory class and plcked students from other classes, making & Winl entey of 20 students, [ Mis Miss Lenn C. 4] Do Not Share Fears of Citizens. | By the Associated Press. | MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 3 W. J. Crampton, collector of costums at Puerto Cabezas, reports that per- | sons in that vicinity have bzcome very | uncasy over rumors that the rebel Gen. | Sandino plans to attack with a large | force. There are now 87 Marines at| Puerto Cabezas and their officers do | not believe that an attack will be made Puerto Cabezas is an important cen- ter of the lumber and banana trades, where about 500 Americans and 3,500 Nicaraguans find employment. “Since Marines opened their campaign | for pacification of Nicaragua, they have | lost to the forces of Sandino only n|x1 | rifles and pistols, according to an of- ficial statement issucd by Marine head- quarters here today. { “During the past year the state-| ment read, “Sandino has obtained from Marines in Nicaragua a total of about six rifles and pistols, These weapons fell into the hands of Sandinistas inci- dent to the capture of two Marines, who lost their command and were cap- | tured by Bandino, later to be released. “The seizures also were incident to | individual casualties among Marines in | contacts with the enemy. From a plane | which ' made a forced landing last | Winter and was Immediately burned, | Sandiné obtained two machine runs It is certain that the burning of the plane rendered these weapons uselese “Last Winter in an encounter, the dinistas obtained a Browning afo- ic riffe from Marines. The bolt of this rifle was removed before it fell into their hands. “The above statement covers all weapons which could possibly have fall- | en into the rebels’ hands.” C. E. PLANS REVUE. Eastern Presbyterfan Society Will| Present Comedy Two Nights. A musical comedy, “Folderol will | be presented undeg the muspices of the | Christian _ Endeavor Society of the | Eastern Presbyterian Church, in the | church Tuesday and Wednesday eve- | nings, at 8 o'clock, Mlss Ethel Betts is | dramatic director, Miss Dorothy Red- dish, director of music, and Miss Maud Reddish Duncan, assistant director and accompanist for the production. ‘The cast: Willlam Magee, Marion Paull, Harry Nalley, Colburn Beall, Kermit Reddish, Hugh Paull, Edward Miller, Meda Blake Sherman, Dorothy Reddish, Dale Dyer, Thelma Bishop, Mary Burns, Charlotte Parater, Greta Willlams. Marion Fick, Elleen Connor, Lucille Wilson, Hazel Miller, Mary Kirby Hutchinson, Norma Willtams Loughery, Gladys Wilcox, Julla Fick, Charles Loughe: Charles Guest. Bennett Wood, Gorden Robertson, Elmer Smith | and Kenny Williams, | W. P. Halliday Dien. MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 3 () W P Halliday, 63, pre‘ident of the Mem- | phis Hotel Co. and founder of the | Halliday Grain Co. of Catro, 1L, died nere today. | who, during the past fited by the advices con trom this office, are re Conmissi mothers rep bahy feeding given ther Write: “Hon of Colunbia dresses of the neio maothe Comm and sign. )" event of a forced landing we shall be is a large, unexplored area in the able to hike to a food supply. | world,” Byrd said. “This trip is pri- “The final flight to the Pole will ofimtlnly for scientific purposes, and I re. the most hazardous. In addition to the ' gard whatever hazards encountered radio we shall use a kite to kecp !n|justified by the increase in man touch with the last base. As the South knowledge which the expedition will Pole is on the last plateau, 1,000 feei make possible BYRD LAUDS NEW VIRCINIA AR LAW Is Model States, Flyer Tells Assembly. FRANGE AND SPAN AGREEONTANGIRS Rule - for -Other Control of Police and of In- ternational Zone Goes to Spanish. | i | | | By the Associated Press PAPI, March 3.—Spain is given control of the police of Tangiers and of the international zone surrounding that city under an agreement with | France signed today after 18 months jof negotiating. | By the Associated Press, RICHMOND, Va, March 3.—The General Assembly of Virginia today passed laws regulating aviation in honor of Comdr. Richard Evelyn Byrd. who addressed the assembly and pre- sented Virginia with two flags carrled on his famous exploits. One an American flag carried on his North polar trip and the other a Virgiuia State flag, which he carried over the Atlantic. “Virginia’s laws governing aviation are model laws which other States would do well to adopt,” the command- er sald. Under the bill passed, the State cor- poration commission is authorized to make rules covering all phases of fly- stand and held to 1t firmly until ing. One provision states that no civil | both France and England let it be afrcraft shall be flown without a State |known that they would insist upon Spain had asked that the city and | suburbs be incorporated into the Span- ish puotectorate in Morocco, taking this stand immediately after the surrender of Abd El Krim on the ground that hostile intrigues and an intensified con- traband traffic in arms had Dbeen largely responsible for Spanish diffi- culties » was supported by Italy in this Public Is Published. By the Associated Prees. LONDON, March 3.—A new chapter in the so-called “Zinovieff letter sensa. tion,” which was credited with defeal ing the MacDonald Labor government in 1924 and which recently cropped up with that of big dirigibles. When we have solved that, the dirigible will be- | come of the greatest benefit in trans- | oceanic flying. “The airplane. in spite of the great flights of Lindbergh. Camberlin and Comdr. Byrd., can never be i for flights of more than a thousand miles. It will never be a successful transoceanic carrier. The dirigible i again in Parliament and the press through dismissal of employes of the foreign office, will open here tomorrow, when the Sunday Observer will' print a long letter purporting to show how the now famous missive first became public. | Thomas Marlow, formerly editor of | the Daily Mail, is suthor of the letter to the O One of the | constantly recurring questions in the Iwml-publlc discussions of the incident s how the Daily Mail obtained pos-l session of the letter and speculation the only practical long-distance air carrier.” | BREAKS LOOSE IN STORM. Five Men Reported Near Death When | Dirigible Was Lifted by Squall | LAKEHURST. N. J.) March 3 (P).— | After pacing through s . 4.500-miie | jaunt as gently as a pony, the Navy | dirigible Los Angeles -suddenly kicked | €p its heels like an Army mule toda and for more than seven hours | concerning its appearance at the pey- | balked all attempts to stable it in its chological moment when the MacDonald | home hangar. government was facing a general! pDyring that fractious period lives clection. Phslabt NS | were endangered when! the ship's maia “Zinovieft incident” fnvolved 'a Steel Cable snapped and five sailor: | e et e the alleged communication to British Jerked alo - oy Communists by Gregory S. Zinovieg, | CUnging to an outer handrail of th: | advocating that a Social Tevolution he g“_‘e‘g‘:;-“"m their bodies suspended fomented in England. The commision | ‘ : | which_recently recommended dismissal | o e C""'“S’,"'nmz - |of J. D. Gregory, assistant undersecre- | el ol A tary of state, after finding that he was involved in speculation in foreign ex- change, cleared him of any ulterior mo- The protest to the Soviet government again: tive in signing the letter “in the a scence of the secretary of state” an found that Sir Eyre Crowe had tako ! full responsibility for the sending of tha protest. Marlowe writes the Observer that h iirst heard of the letter, which was pub- ing crews took their positions as d Ship cruised about waiting for a prop.- p | tous moment to run her nese inie | the coupler on the masthead. It was not until 3:35 am. that {was crcided to attempt a landing ¢ | the surface of the fleld and the grous lines were dropped. The shid was e lished in the London Press on Satur- Those Washington Mothers “The Well-Nourished Baby,” sent free to them ners at the District Building, hecause The Medical Society here has prevailed upon the Commissioners to deny us the daily lists and addresses of the new istered at the Health Otfice who will now be deprived of the 1 orequest that the dady list and ad vear of Health Fducation, or Federal license. The commission has power to regulate establishment of all civil flying fields in the State. “I think Virginia is the first State to appropriate as much as $25.000 for the carrying out of an aviation program."” | the brother of Virginia's governor said. | “I recefved a telegram from Harry .| Guggenheim, president of the Daniel Quggenhelm Foundation for the ad- vancement of aviation in New York, and he agrees that this is the best law yet passed in any State.” In establishing a chain of alrports around the State it is planned for the locality to furnish the land, which is to be conditioned by the State high- way department, assuring minimum cost and the proper kind of flelds. The Federal Government will ight the flelds | CITES CONGRESS SPEED. Curtls Tells President How Legis- lation Has Been Pushed. Senator Curtls of Kansas, Republican leader in the Senate, told President Coolidge yesterduy that never before, in a long session of Congress, had such rapld progress been made i disposing of measures on the legislative calendar. Benator Curtls pointed to the early passage of the appropriation bills, the approval of the allen property bill, and | the intensive study In both Houses of farm rellef and food control bills, as indicating the speed of Congreas. six vears, have bene- tained in our pamphlet, juested to write to the complete education in Wby our pamphfet. isstoners of the District | | rs be restored to the Bu CNtte your reasons Bureau of Health Education 1464 Columl | have & pre ann Seen Here in Jersey Car Said mate |m | e notified polive maintenance of an international regime | 48y, October 25, 1914, on the preceding Wednesday evening when he found a in the city and suburbs. Finally Spain e ! accepted n French suggestion that she | message on his desk from an “old and onderant part in police ac- | trusted friend.” The message read: tivities, And thas be able o net againet | “There is a document in London which vou oughf to have: it shows the rela- arms smuggling to the Rifans and s e twee t BB b o ropaganda against Spanish prestige. | tions betw e Bolsheviks and Brit- Lyir " v P 55on | Ish Labor deaders. The prime minister A conference which will be held soon in’ Paris will give England and Ttaly | (then Ramsav MacDonald) knows all opportunity to approve today's agree- about it. but is trying to avold publica- ment and settle the question as to tion It has been circulated today to Italy's participation in the administra- | the foreign office, home office. admiralty tion of Tangiers. and the war office.” CAPITAL P(iLICE IOIN Marlows relates how to put himself in ‘TORCH MURDER’ HUNT communication with other friends, with the result that on Friday two separate | coples of the letter were obtained, one personally delivered by a friend and the | other coming by mail P TSRO Marlowe says he communicated cop- les to other London papers and inti- s that the coming of this to the of the foreign office dectded Sir | to Resemble Suspect | Eyre Crowe to publish the documents i {officlally. The editor exonerates Greg- | in Killing. |ory. t s Marlows contends that but for his | {action publication of the Zinoviefl letter | Washington police were ordered to be | Would have been delaved until after the ! on the lookout last night for Dr. Lows | Slection to avoid harm to the Mac- 3 L | Donald government { Ci@ment Schmidt, wanted by Bernards- | He concludes his letter with the opin- vifla N. J. authorities in connection {lon that publication of the missive had WRR the “torch murder” of Margaret | A1 offect ubequaled In the whole = = oy b e ory of general elections, saying, “No Hgesn, 40-year-old governes, follow=1 g0t ovent that 1 have ever heard of lag a report that a man answering his | has produced such a divect and definite description had been seen on Kenyon | feaction fn the public mind.* street Friday night tn CAPTURE DUAL HONORS| responding to the deseription broad- east of the ear i which the suspect Western Maryland U. Defeated in Argument on Military } N1 Soper, | 15 belleved to have fled On his way to dinner, 1913 Corcoran street, observed a man whose physical appearance and dress | with that of the fugitive, at-| tempting to move out from & congested parking place between two ears i n | coupe beaving « New Jersey tag, the - S A three mmbers of wiich, he e e R called, were “3117 - Which are also th iy o . Y tak- o o 2 s ing both contests 1 a dv st Chroo Duubece of o dlosnae’ W8 | WEalbra Maryimid URIVorslto; oug. Revs Mi. Soper observed the man particu- |86 HUrst Hall on the Amorioan Univer- larly because of the difficulty he V\'fi‘i'\"“ campus here, and another at West- having In extricating his car from the crowded parking place. Upon his ar- vival home he noticed a photograph and read a description of Dy, Schmidt | o owspaper, Which corfespanded %0 o ] o closely to the wan he had seen th i[ The At Oy peenive| e in of & dirty cveam color | A Nere consisted of William Warner O eniin n brown | Willls Delaplain and Hlake By, They | Al qosupauEl were pitted agatiat G Kdward Shriver | 3 WD Eaton and 3 Faul Lambertson [0 Western Mwivland. , The dechsion LAWYER IS ACCUSED. [here was by ane’ fudge” e baul K- | fmett of the Department of Agric lI""H" | i 0 member of Delta Sigma Ko, w- | Uonal debating fraternity Protection | | minater, Md., simultaneously | Fach school defended both sides of | the same question, “Resolved, that Amertean private investments should not be given military protection by the United States Government.' CHICAQO, Mateh 3§ () Willlam Soott Blowart, former assistant State’s | | Dechion at Wostiminstor was by attormey, Who has acored & number of i notable successes since he left the pros Ole 0 TR0 10 ane of the judges I favor Of Amerioan University. The American | eoutor's aMee (OF Private practice, Was | University affiomative team At Weat- olted taday fo1 contempt of court upon | minster consisted of Hugh Speer. Roland | allegations of intmidation of witnesses | Rice and Fred Oarpenter rowing out of (he murder (rial W | Phe preslding offiver here was Arthue which D Avmante Rongeitl was sen- [ 8 Flenuntng, debate eoach fop Amerl- tenved to the eleotilo chaly, van \'un.n,h,. 4 | storm. | Senate Body to Begin In pulled down to earth and the ground crew, pulling on long ropes and tug- ging on handrails that run around the base of the cabin. began walking it toward the hangar. At half the dis- tance the storm broke with a force that it was almost impossidble to stand against. Five Carried in Air. The great dirigible careened under the sudden blast of wind and snow. tore loose from the hands of the ground crew and shot upwards throngh the It happened so quickly that flie saflors who had been dragging (n the handrail automatically tightened their grip instead of locsening it. As the +hip rose one of them drooped at a height of 20 feet, and the others swung in midair, their dangling legs blowing in the wind. It was learned later that =t elevation of 200 feet sailors in the ship risked thelr own lives to lean far out the cabin windows and drag in iheir comrades. The man who let go 0 feet suffered slight infury to « and was taken to the air stat bay. ESCH TO BE CONSIDERED. ¥ To- an morrow, The Senate interstate commerce com- mittee agreed yesterday (o begin actual consideration of the nommation of John J. Bsch, Wisconain, as a membder of the Interstate Commerce Cummis- Son I exeoutive session OmOrTow morning. Determined opposition to the dons firmation of b\'t\ has been matntatned in hearings before the commitiee by Senatars from the Southern eval fields because of his vote in the lake cango | coal rate case. 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