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NEVILS' INAUGURAL PLANS ANNOUNCED Conferring of Six Honorary Degrees Included in | Georgetown Program. Arrangements announced today for the inauguration of President W. Vole- man Nevils, 8. J., of Georgetown Uni- versity at ceremonies tomorrow eve- ning, to which 87 leading American and | foreign universities are sending official delegates, include the conferring of six | honorary degrées. | The - recipients of *these acadenic | honors ‘will be Dr. James Brown Scott, | famous expert on international law;.O. H. P. Johnson, vice president of the Na- | tional Metropolitan Bank of this city; Rev. Thomas B.-Chetwood, S. J., newiy appointed regemt of the Georgetown | Law School: George Donworth, former United States district judge of Seattle, & Wash.; Michael L. Mullaney of Providence,: professor at the Georgetown School of Dentistry, and President Nevils, Unknown to Father Nevils dur- ing an ‘absence from Washington early this week, the university trustees voted to award him the degree of doctor of divinity at his inaugural cerem . | He was not advised of their action until | after his return. Gets Rare Honor. Dr. Scott, who is chairman of the graduate committee of the Georgetown Foreign Service School and chairman of the committee on international law i | { | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, WHERE CAVE-IN CAUSED DEATH OF TWO MEN i Above: Scene of excavation at Four- teenth and K streets, where two lost their lives in a cave-in yesterday after- noon. Rescue workers digging for men believed still buried. Below: Rescuers bringing out one of the injured, found after a half hour’s of the American Bar Association, will | diget receive the degree of doctor of civil and canon law, an academic honor which ) Georgetown has conferred on only three other persons in 140 years. These were Gen. Rosecrans, Marshal Foch of Prance and George E. Hamilton, dean | of its Law School and faculty member for 55 years. Dr. Scott canceled sage for Europe on one of his many foreign missions in order to attend the exercises tomorrow night. Few public or private citizens in this country have been so honored by foreign governments and learned and scientific societies as Dr. Scott during the course of a remarkable career in which he has served as a representative of the United States at every international conference since 1807. He has received degrees from about 10 uni- versities, and is excl professor for seven foreign universit besides nu- merous American institutions, In conferring the degree of master of arts upon Mr. Johnson, Georgetown will do so in tion of the rise of one of its own college graduates to an important place in the financial and civic life of the National ital. Mr. Johnson, who is a graduate of the class of 1881, is & native Washingtonian, the son of E. Kurtz Johnson, formerly president of the old Citizens’ National Bank and prominent here for many years. Mr. Johnson has been vice t of the National Metropolitan Bank since 1910, when the Citizens’ Bank was merged into it. A man with varied interests, Mr. Johnson is ‘also a mem- ber of the finance committee of the Catholic University of America and of the board of trustees of Children’s Hos- pital. He belongs to the Chevy Chase and Metropolitan Clubs and District Bankers' Association, as well as to the Board of Trade and Chamber of Com- merce, in which he has long ben active. Congratulated by Friénds. Last September Mr. and Mrs. Johnson tulations -of their ty-fil anniversary of their have one daughter, tal logy, in which he has specialized. uate_of the class of 1919 1 and is & fellow of the erican College of Dentists. Judge Donworth and Father Chet- worth both are nll:.elve 1%: their own professors, but Fa worth’s prominence in the Fhumophy and his own widely used egal text books earned for him what the Georgetown authorities believed to be 8 merited honor in awal him the degree of doctor of laws. He is the flrl"l‘ x]'e:ent ever appointed at the law school. HOOVER UNDECIDED ON SPECIAL SESSION - FOR FARM'RELIEF ; (Continued From Pirst Page.) greswst following of any man in Ne- raska. “In the main, I am one of his fol- lowers,” he continued. the agricultural and But & do not af wil away- with parties.” ¢ opcerning Hoover’s stand on agri- cultyre Gov. McMullen declared: “I had @& conference a few weeks ago with Mr. ver. I wanted to know whether he meant business about doing some- thing for agriculture. For an r we talked over the table alone. A sald he contemplates, if elected, calling a special session for the sole purpese of _tak u&.t.he agriculture question. He sal t if a special session was not called it would be a year before the question could be taken uf and another year before any kind of legislation could be put into opera- tion, “There is quite a difference,” the zovernor asserted, “between taking the agricuitural question up before a spe- cial gession of Congress and a con- ference as Gov. Smith prvrom. Gov. Smith would still be a private citizen when he called his conference, which would be powerless. If Gov. Smith knows what he proposes to give the farmers he would not need a confer- ence,” MRS. AUGHINBAUH RITES. Body to Be Placed in Family Vault Tomorrow. ral services for Mrs. Mary A. Aughinbaugh, former local resident, who died at her home in New York City ‘Wednesday, will be conducted in the S. H. Hines funeral parlor, at 2801 Fourteenth street, at 2 o'clock tomor- row afternoon. Mrs. Aughinbaugh, daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Portner Apartments, was a grad the class of 1888, Central High School, later teaching in the Wallach School. Durlnf.het travels with her husband, Dr. William E. Aughinbaugh, she visited all parts of the world. Pallbearers will be three brothers, Paul, Wirt and Wil- liam Douglas, and thi s James Douglas, . W. W, John Wirt. " The body will rest in the family vault in Glenwood Cemetery. b is Quarry Blast Kills. MONTREAL, October 26 ().—Four ¢ | away. He believes it may have an im- ing. Inset: J. W. Jenkins, foreman. He was stunned by a blow from a rock. —Star Staff Photos. DEATHS BY CA\;E-IN AT NEW HOTEL SITE CAUSE DUAL PROBE (Continued From First Page.) said, when the shovel was at that par- ticular spot where the earth crumbled t bearing on the manner in Wwhich undercuts were made. Injured Man Has Chance. At least one of the four injured men, Clifford Jackson, colored, 39 years old, of Pomfret, Md., was in a critical con- dition at Emergency Hospital following his harrowing experience. Burled for fully 20 minutes, his back is belleved broken and he is mfle‘r'l‘l:(u(mm u&e;nhll injuries. At the hosp! was e would recover. Henry Ford, colored, 42 years old, 423 Delaware avenue, Who was also buried for 10 minutes, is suffering (mgkfinflmurmlmuflultm same L N.mv?‘ escaping burial under the tons of earth, Construction Fore- man Jobn W. Jenkins, 30 years old, 1513 Sixteenth street, was struck by fly- timber and rock. He refused hos- pi penter foreman, of Seat Pleasant, Md., was hit in the eye by a shovel during rescue operations. He received first-ald treatment on the scene. In addition to the four dug out, Ber- nard Chambers, 600 Fairmont street; Q. Harley, Clifford Newell and 8. Johnson were reported as missing at 4 o'clock, (or Kiruley, the timei Many Watch Rescue Work. ARMY FLYERS FAL OF EGHT RECORD Test of Barograph Shows Al- titude Reached Was Only - 37,584 Feet. The Bureau of Standards today announced that the: altitude flight of Capt. St. Clair Streett and Capt. Albert 24 W. Stevens at Wright Field October 10, scious when taken out of the debris. Dr. Leon Gordon of mcy Hospital, who attended mh‘m;:. pronounced them dead. earthed bers of the squad worked over him for 20 minutes. His body was taken to the morgue with that of Waters. After the rescue work had been under way half an hour, workmen began to buttress the west wall where the cave- in occurred. Huge pleces of timber were used to reinforce scaffolding placed against the sides of the wall. There ‘was danger of the narrow alley border- ing the wall caving in also and the crowds were kept back by the mlm. Onl ‘workmen assisting in reinforcing the walls was allowed al the 50-foot excavad int. ‘Workmen were di in the hole for two hours in the expectation of other bodies believed buried in -‘gml check-up revealed all r. 1t un WILL WED' SHOPGIRL. Divorced Huibund of Barbara Gug- genheim Engaged at Albany. ALBANY, N. Y. October 28 (#).— The engagement of Miss Betty McCor- mick, Albany nhop,lrl. to John Robert Lawson-Johnson, former husband of doing | Barbara Guggenheim, daughter of Sol- omon R. Guggenheim, the copper mag- nate, was announced here today by Miss McCormick's father, Thomas W. Mc- Cormick.. He sald the date for the wedding had not yet been set. Lawson-Johnson is about 28 years old and was formerly an attache of the British embassy in Washington. men were killed by a dynamite explo- sion in a quarry at Ville 8t. Michel, near Montreal, sald a report received &eore today. -Deteils were -lacking. Three poses of lln{ comes to dress, playing Indian seventh birthday yesterdag [y Michael of Rumania, 1 indulging failed to equal the world record of 38,481 feet held by Lieut. C. C. Cham- plon of the United States Navy. The two Army flyers, however, ascended to a height never before reached by two men in an airplane. Their official altitude, as calibrated by the Bureau of Standards, was 37,85 feet. On a recent visit to Washington Capt. Stevens told officials at the War Department that he believed a_record would have been assured on the October 10 climb had Capt. Streett gone alone. m two hxllygrs h:'cxe Dnfl sctennfl: tographic mission and were nof attempting to break the altitude record. Although their barograph showed an unofficial altitudes of 40,200 feet after their return to earth from an exciting journey into the upper atmosphere, calibrations at the Bureau of Standards Ve | showed that reading was far too high. The two flyers were trapped in. their plane when it reached the height of its climb,... the throttle ng as the thermometer registered 75 degrees be- low zero. They were forced to remain aloft until they ran out of !"nuollne over Indianapolis, Ind, in attempting to glide back to their home field near g- ton. They landed in a field near Rush- ville, Ind., without demage to the plane. Work for a Game of Hockey. There are 200 students at the Alaska #flculturll College and School of ines near Fairbanks, Alaska, and it seemed to them that in that .cold country they should be able to get up a game of hockey occasionally. There is an abundance of cold weather in the interior of Alaska, but the heavy snow- fall makes skating more of a rarity. By flooding the tennis courts and keep- ing & committee of students constantly at work to clear the ice, the Alaska col- li"k students have created their own rink. other popular juvenile ? 7 showing that he Is not unlike the youngsters of this countr: American games and sports, He ule‘ 0., WORKERS FACE RETRENENT QU Canvass Information to Be Considered at Conference November 10. : A canvass of the 3,000 per dlem em- ployes of the District government was started today to determine whether they desire to be placed under the pro- visions of the retirement law. ‘The information will be compiled and considered at a conference November 10, between Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer of the District, and heads of the various departments which employ laborers on the per diem basis. 'he original retirement law_enacted in 1920 failed to include the District's 4 ger diem employes in its provisions. jporadic attempts have 'been made since to have its benefits applied to the r diem workers, but some of them ve told the department heads that the retirement law is not attractive to them. According to District officials who have made a study of the retirement act, it would cost the ‘per diem em- ployes generally between $200 and $300 to come under its provisions, and few of them, it was sald, would be able to raise this ‘amount. To reap full advantages of retirement, it was pointed out, the per diem work- ers would be required to make up in cash the payments due since the law became effective in 1920, PARDON SET ASIDE. Former Governor Finds Names on Petition Were Forged. ASHLAND, Ky., October 26 (#).—The }nrdon granted 8. Greene Adkins by ormer Gov. Flelds. was set aside :n Boyd County Circult Court today on grounds of fraud, and unless the high- er courts rule otherwise Adkins will have to stand trial for the murder of his brother-in-law Nathan Deutsch. In 1927 while Adkins was held on a charge of murder of Deutsch, whom he claimed he slew in self-defense, Gov. Fields received a petition bearing the names of 63 prominent Ashland men asking a pardon. He testified that he later discovered the names were forged. when it rated his D. -C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, HOMLATION DAY PROTEST FORLD. Plea for Voice in National Elections Made in Two Radio Addresses. Theodore W. Noyes, chairman of the citizens’ joint committee on District of Columbia national representation last evening at 7 p.m. broaacast over Sta- tion WRC the National Capital's pro- | test against disfranchisement as a pre- liminary to Washington’s observances of election day, November 6, as a “Day of Humiliation.” At 8:30 o'clock Paul E. Lesh broadcast an address on the same subject from Station WMAL. In his statement of the District’s | claim for enfranchisement, Mr. Noyes noted that the observance of election day as an occasion of mourhing and humiliation is planned to remind Washingtonians that they alone of the Americans of the continental United | States are deprived of the right to say who shall be next President and Vice President. He drew a contrast between the endeavors to arouse the enfran- | chised citizens to exercise the right and duty of the ballot and the neglect of the more than half million Washing- tonians who, qualified in all respects and meeting all national obligations, are denied participation in the national referendum. Quotes President Coolidge. “President Coolidge,” said Mr. Noyes, “has rightly denounced the voluntary and chronic stay-at-homes as abdicat- ing their sovereignty. not those who refuse to restore to the Washing- tr1ians the soverewnft‘y of which they have been deprived offend as distinctly as_those who thus abdicate?” ‘The inconsistency in denouncing one set of people for failing to vote and at the same time preventing another group from voting springs naturally, sald the speaker, from a gross basic inconsistency between American prac- tice in the District of Columbia and American fundamental principles. Declared to Bear U. S. Burdens. Mr. Noyes in his radio address re- viewed the manner in which the resi- dents of the District are compelled to bear all the national burdens of citizens, while being inconsistently denied the corresponding rights and privileges “which in genuine representative government are with national obliga- tions inseparably wedded.” The Ameri- cans of the District, he said, bear all national burdens, but are denied vital national rights, “Should not the Nation insist,” asked Chairman Noyes, “in accordance with the spirit of the times and in its own vital interest, that there shall no longer exist at the very heart of the body politic this foul abcess of non-Ameri- canism, with its threat of blood-poison- ing? A constitutional amendment is now pending which enables Congress to cure this evil condition. Will not every red- blooded American who hears me to- night petition and demand that this remedy be quickly applied? Will not the people of the United Sta 80 vl,ormuly to the District’s appeal that long before the next presidential election this unjust and hurtful dis- crimination shall be removed.” Cites Move in Congress. Declaring that “no other self-govern- ing nation finds it necessary to main- tain a tyranny at the heart of the na- i . Let n launching his plea, there was pending in Congress & proj d amendment to the Constitution which would enable Con- greu to give to residents of the District he status of citizens of a State for the purpose of representation in the Con- gress and among the electors of Presi- dent .and Vice President.” 5 Mr. Lesh emphasized the argument that “taxation without representation is just as mych tyranny in 1928 as it was in 1776, and it should not be difficult today to establish the principle.” He went at length into statistics showing the size of this city and its contribu-. tion to the support of the Federal Gov- ernment. “We are not only the only political subdivision in the United States which 1s denied representation in national elections,” declared the speaker, “but practically the only such territory in the world,” “If the question is asked, why the principle of self-government in nation- al affairs, applied to the balance of continental United States, should be applied to the District of Columbia, the answer is that the question is wrong. The appropriate question is— why not? ~What reasons are there agalnst t?" “Then it usually occurs to some one to ask ‘why, if the District of Colum- bia should ke represented in the coun- cils of the Nation, was it not so pro- vided from the beginning and in the Constitution. “In the beginning, so to speak, that is, at the time the District of Columbia was carved out of Maryland and Vir- 51111!» there were comparatively no resi- lents of this District. It was not until about 1870 that the population of the District was as large as that of a con- gressional district. Until then, we were not numerically entitled to a represent- ative in the House. Then there was the theory that United States Senators were the am! rs of the States, and they were elected by the State Legislatures. We had no legislature, and therefore no machinery to elect a Senator. Now, by amendment of the Constitution, Sen- ators are elected by the people. It is therefore now but was not until re- genuy practicable to elect Senators ere. Uncertainty at First. “Furthermore, when the Constitution was adopted, it was uncertain that the District would be as large as it is. The provision was ‘not more than 10 miles square’ Under this provision an area of one mile square in which to place the Capitol and’ Executive Mansion and house the Supreme Court might have been set up. “It is not surprising, therefore, that the framers of the Constitution, con- cerned as they were with the solution of problems of practical rtance at that time, failed to provi for that future time when the District of Columbia should be a political subdi- vision containing more people than any one of the seven of the sovereign States of the United States, and when, by changes in the other machinery of our Government, it should become as easy and convenient and logical to elect Rep- resentatives and Senators of the le in the District of Columbia as for the people in the several States. The debates | and other utterances and writings of the framers of the Constitution have been most carefully searched during the sev- eral years that our proposal has been pending, and it can now be said that there was not a l{lllhle uttered by any of the founders of our Government in- consistent with anything for which we are asking, and much was said to indi- cate that there was no thought of de- priving citizens who should reside within this Federal district of any of the ordinary incidents of American citizenship. District of Columbia Population. ‘The population of the District of Co- lumbia now ex hat of seven States. I think this becomes of more significance when we consider what States these are. Not only do these include such Western States as may have future growth greater than ours, such as Nevada, with New Mexico, with 360,000; and Idaho, with 431,000; but it includes settled Eastern States, such as Delaware, with 323,000, and Vermont, with 362,000. In the 10 years from 0 to 1920 Vermont 1 fell back from 355,000 to 352,000; Dela- ware gained only from 202,000 to 223, 000; whereas the District of Columbia galned from 331,000 to 437,000. This 1928. INTERNATIONAL LIONS- CLUB LEADERS MEET HERE TODAY Expansion and Policies to Be Discussed—Coolidge Visit Planned. Dedication of Plaque on Un- known’s Tomb Will Oc- cur Tomorrow. International leaders of the Lions Club movement convened here today to consider plans for extension of Lionism | into the “main streets” not only of America, but of many other nations as well. A score of prominent business and professional men from far-flung parts of the United States, comprising the | administrative board of Lions Inter-| national, otherwise known as the Inter- national Association of Lions Clubs, | met in executive session at the May-| flower Hotel this morning to discuss | future policies and lay plans for a broadened scope of activity. The program for the two-day con- ference, according to Melvin Jones of Chicago, ' international secretary gen- eral, calls for consideration of plans for foreign extension work, Americanization, boys’ work, community welfare, care of handicapped children, uplift of youths' | morals, aid for the blind, etc. nearly 1,500 clubs in five countries, with | an aggregate membership of 61 000.| There are 25 clubs in Canada, 2 in| China, 1 each in Mexico, Cuba and | Alaska. { The board meeting was called to| order by Ben A. Ruffin of Richmond, | Va., international president, who has| just completed a swing through several | Southern and Midwestern States in the | interest of the Lions’ “bulwark of good citizenship"—exercise of the right to| vote. He will make a report to the meeting on the results of this trip. To Visit Coolidge. Sessions will be held this afternoon and tomorrow morning at the May- flower. Tomorrow at noon the visitors will be received by President Coolidge at the White House, where a photo- graph will be taken. An 1mgresslve phase of the program will be the dedication in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock of a bronze plaque in memory of the Unknown Soldier. Delegations of Lions and their families from a num- Yer of nearby States and the District of Columbia will join in the age to the tomb. Robert L. McKeever, presi- dent of the local Lions Club, will pre- side. The plaque, designed by Arthur B. Heaton, local architect, will be placed in a case in the memorial room, through the courtesy of the War De- partment. The visiting officers will be guests of the Washington Lions Club at a ban- quet tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock in the Mayflower. Thomas W. Brahany will be toastmaster. An entertainment program will be provided. Arrangements for the meeting arein d | charge of a local committee consisting of Dr. George T. Sharp, chairman; Mr. McKeever, Secretary Leonard W. De Gast and Past Presidents Prahany and William C. Miller, ‘Those here for the meeting include, in addition to Mr. Ruffin and Mr. Jones, FO-THOSEMWRCHR SERVICEIDIREIR COVRIRY L A Above: Memorial plague which the Lions International will dedicate at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Center: Benjamin ‘A. Ruffin, president of the clubs. Below: Melvin Jones, secretary-treas- urer. Ray L. Riley, Sacramento, Calif., first vice president; Earle W. Hodges, New York, N. Y. second vice president; Julian C. Hyer, Fort Worth, Tex., third vice president; Irving L. Camp, Johns- town, 'Pa.; Benjamin F. Jones, Newark, Del, and Willlam A. Westfall, Mason City, Iowa; Past Presidents Dr. W. B. Wells, Riverside, Cal¥, chairman of th= board of governors; the following direc- tors, Vincent C. Hascall, Omaha, Nebr.; H. Jameson, Tulsa, Okla.; Dr. M. M. Nielson, Salt Lake City, Utah; G. H. Hastings, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Hor- ace 8. Kerr, Columbus, Ohio; Arthur C. Call, Anderson, In Carl E. Croson, Seattle, Wash., and Albert Thornton, Tampa, Fla., and these district gov- ernors, Clarence W. Whealton, Mary- land-Delaware-District of Columbia; W. T. Shepard, Virginia; Otis L. Gil- | plane’s | York, which erided at Mines Fieid here Charles H. Hatton, Wichita, Kans.; C. | I that. YANKEE DOODLE TOPS AR RECORDS Harty Tucker’s ~Monoplane Hops to West Coast in 24 Hours 51 Minutes. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Octobe: 26—A monopoly on transcontinental non-stop air records was held by Harry Tucker's trim little Lockheed-Vega monoplane Yankee Doodle today, following the successful flight from New yesterday afternoon. The Yankee Doodle, with Capt. C. B. D. Collyer, co-holder of the around- the-world travel record, at the controls’ and Tucker in the passenger seat, set & new East-to-West non-stop record of 24 hours 51 minutes when it came to earth. The previous record of 26 houts 50 minutes was made in 1923 by Lieute. John McCready and Oakley Kelley. With Art Goebel, Pacific fiyer, at the controls and Tucker aboard the cigar- shaped craft flashed to an astonishing ’Wesl-lo-Ea%t record of 18 hours 55 | minutes a few weeks ago. The flight | was from Los Angeles to New York, and the flyers later announced a new { and shorter route had been discovered, | which, with a brisk wind at the ship's | tail, accounted for the fast time. The course of both flights lay over McKeesport, Pa.. Columbus, Indianapo- | s, Terre Haute, Ind.; Wichita, Albu- | querque and fhrough the San Bernar- dino Mountafn pass. The West-East flight was the only | successful non-stop hop ever made, | while vesterday's flight was the sec- ond non-stop flight westward across | the continent. | Conquers Elements. The latest successful flight for the { fleet little monoplaneé was a decisiv> victory over adverse wind, fog and rain above the Alleghenies and again over the Rocky Mountains that threatened |to send it down short of gassoline be- fore the goal was sighted. The Yankee Doodle, after success- fully battling the head winds of the Alleghenies in September, was forced down at Prescott, Ariz., when the west- | ern winds wasted away the ship’s gaso~ line supply. At that time the plane was racing westward in the transconti- nentall non-stop derby of the national alr races, held here. “We left with 525 gallons of gas this time,” Tucker said. “In flying over the Allegheny Mountains near Bellefonte, {Pa, we ran into the worst fog I ever | have seen, and I have flown a lot. We couldn’t see the wing tips. We had to | circle around and try another pass through, and we lost an hour. We could have made it in 24 hours in spite of the headwinds if it hadn’t been for 90 Minutes’ Fuel Left. “When we started through San Ber- nardino pass I knew we were all right, and it was as good as over.” The pass is a cleft in the San Bernardino Moun- tains, the last range before the flyers more, West Virginia; Dr. A. S. Haines, Pennsylvania, and Albert E. Burling, New Jersey. MOTHER OF TWO BAILED ON PROHIBITION CHARGE Third-Offense Illegal Possession Is Laid to Mrs. Tessie Richards. Mrs. Tessie Richards, 1300 block of C street, sald to be the mother of two children, ' was remanded to the grand jury under $2,000 bond today following her arraignment before Judge John P. McMahon in Police Court for third- offense illiegal possession of liquor. Po- lice say there are three other cases of gflrn-uflem possession pending against er. The woman was arrested in a raid by Sergt. O. J. Letterman’s vice squad yesterday after Policeman M. A. Ander- son obtained a ‘“buy” from here on October 20. Mrs. Richards was first convicted July 26, 1927, and fined $50 or 30 days. Her seccnd conviction, dated January 7, 1928, was followed by a sentence of $200 or 30 days. On the current charge she pleaded not guilty. Attorney Ber- trmu Emerson appears for Mrs. Rich- ards. 45 TEACHERS’ COLLEGE STUDENTS COMING HERE Guests of Education Association Will Represent Nearly All Countries in World. | Forty-five students of the Interna-| tional “Institute of Teachers' College, Columbia University, will be guests at the headquarters of the National Edu- cation Association, 1201 Sixteenth street, tomorrow morning. The students of the institute, under Dr. Milton C. del Manzo, will make their annual pilgrimage to Washington to observe conditions at educational | institutions here. The students will arrive at the N tional Education Association’s hea %nrf.ers at 8:30 am. and remain there in a group conference until 10 a.m. The members of the institute represent rrlctlcluy every civilized country on he face of the globe. Among those making the trip will be representatives from England, Pales- tine, Japan, Haiti, Ger ly, India, the Philippines, Latvia, China, Korea, West Africa, Bolivia, France, South Africa, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and Chile. When Men Carried Muffs. Until late in the eighteenth century in England fully as many men as wom- | en carried muffs. The purchase of two handsome muffs and the prices paid are found in the wardrobe account of Prince | ! Henry of Wales in 1608. Durt the reigns of Charles I and' Charles very curious “double muff” { was worn. This provided a separate covering for each hand and was taken in the form of a long, loose cuff at-| tached to the coat sleeves. With the coming of William of Orange, men car-| ried small muffs attached by a cord to, a button on the coat or suspended from | a ribbon around the neck. About 1760 | both men and women carried them gen- | erally, but 25 years later the custom | was a dead one as far as men were con- | cerned. ! means that having once ouum?{nd' such long settled Eastern States, it is uniikely that we will ever again have a lesser population than do they. “And in | addition to this, New Hampshire in 1920 | had only 443,000, having gained 13,000 in 10 years. It seems very clear that in | 1930 we shall exceed the population of | New Hampshire and Utah and will then | exceed in population nine of the States. | “Since we are putting up our share of the money, should we not have our share of the decision as to how it % to be spent? The people of the Dis- trict are willing to assume their share in the conduct of the Nation's affairs. ‘[ Not only we, but the Nation, is the loser because we do not help govern it. | “Let us resolve not to let election day | come again without an effort to get back our lost heritage of self-Govern- ment. The citizens' joint committee, of which Mr. Theodore Noyes is chairman, will continue jts effort, and it solicits the help of all civic organizations of the District.” DRIVER IS CLEARED IN FIRE CAR DEATH; SPEED CURB URGED (Continued From First Page.) then pulled dows fin"fréfit of No. 3 Truck Co. at Fourteenth street and Ohio avenue, and looked in to see whether that apparatus had left the quarters. Upon discovering that the house was empty he proceeded to the regular stop, in front of the Potomac Electric Power Co., at which point five people alighted, the two last ones being the young women who were struck by car, Didn’t Hear Siren. Preceding Henage on the stand were ant, Md.; Mrs. Mary B. Kiester of Fair- fax, Va.,, and Mrs. Susie A. Gormley of Branchville, Md., all employes of the Potomac Electric Power Co. of which the Washington Railway & Electric was operating, is a part. All testified they did not hear the siren of the ap- proaching chief's car, or of the fire department rescue squad which fol- lowed but a short distance behind. It was also testified by all of them that there were several windows open in the car, two of which were on the rear platform, from which direction the apparatus was approaching. Mrs. Stephenson said that she turned around from her position on the plat- form and saw the foremost car as it swung to the right of the street car. She screamed and the door was im- mediately closed, she said. More than 10 minutes of time was taken up by Coroner Nevitt and attorneys in per- suading her to differentiate between minutes and seconds. She at last de- cided that the minutes she had used all through her testimony were meant to be seconds. Mrs. Stephenson and Mrs. Kiester both testified they were experienced drivers. The former stated the auto- 50 miles an hour. Mrs. Kiester did only that it was going “very fast. Henage has been operatihg a street car for the past 12 years, he said. Wolter Describes Crash. Wolter was among the number of witnesses who described the accident to the coroner’s jury yesterday. He told how his car, operated by Pvt. William Jaeger, was on the way to a and struck the two young women as the speeding machine swerved around the left side of the street car because the way to the right was blocked. Other witnesses who saw the crash said the two girls stepped in front of the fire apparatus when it was so close hat it was impossible for the driver either to stop or swerve. Technical experts who made measure- ments stated that the young women had been thrown for a distance of 152 feet. Jaeger is under technical arrest. He await the outcome of the inquest. He is represented by counsel, as are the familles of both Miss King and Mrs. Connick. An assistant district attorney and assistant corporation counsel are also present at the hearing. 0GAN ORDERED TO JAPAN. Naval orders made public today an- nounce that Capt. Joseph V. Ogan, who has been on duty in the Navy Dei;‘n- ment since August 20, 1927, will e Washington about the middle of No- vember to assume the post of naval at- tache of the American embassy in To- kio, Japan. Capt. Ogan has had several tours of duty in Washington, having served in the National Capital from 1916 to 1918, and again at the department in 1923 | and 1924, WILBUR IN BOSTON. BOSTON, October 26 (#).—Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur arrived here today to deliver several political addresses and to attend' “Navy day" Mrs. Marie B. Stephenson of Seat Pleas- | Co., one of whose street cars Henage |* mobile was going at between 40 and| not attempt to fix the speed, saying |, fire at the Department of Agriculture | ¥ | air when the ship landed. | There were no jagged rents in the }n-sm's fuselage this time, nor broken windows, as there had been when the | “hip landed on Mines Field in the derby | light. Tucker, in_keeping extra fuel | to the motor in the September dash, ‘mpted to throw gasoline cans out e ship with almost disastrous re- | | . When he climbed from. the plane yes- o i shears iy he exhibited a pair of tin a s of tin strips behind his | *ockpit seat. Instead of throwing cans | out. he had cut them up. ‘The ship left Roosevelt Field at 4:16:35 n.m. Eastern standard time Wednesday, {°nd came to a stop here Soon after ° onm. Pacific Coast time. It was sight 4t Wichita and Albuquerque. HOME SWEPT BY FIRE. Trank Ernst Bungalow Damag to Extend of $6,000. Fire swept the frame bungalow of Prank Ernst, 5422 Cathedral avenue, shortly before noon today, with damage ers.t‘i:uted by the owner to be more Mrs. Fannie C. Ernst, who was at home with her 5-year-old daughter. detected the fire and called Mrs. J. P. Cochran, next door neighbor, 3426 Cathedral avenue, who summoned the Fire Department. Meanwhile, the Cochran home was menaced by the flames, and Mr. and Mrs. Cochran thereupon started play- I!rge-"nrden hose on their dwelling to It appears that Java has its burglar problems just as other countries, for it is said that thieves in that countrv use fireflies in their dark lanterns when on their marauding expeditions. Firc- flies in Java are large and luminous. i LAUREL ENTRIES FOR TOMORROW. PIRST RACE—Purse, $1.300; 2-year-olds 6 furlongs. rowler Pagan Laddie Lindy Over Bahfieerted Mavor Walker ... un' Ha A Altitude Sheshera Littl rdess Jttle Captain. Beau Wracl Blandris & Audley Parm entry. SECOND RACE—Purse. $1.300; claiming year-olds and up: 1 mile and 70 yards. Purple Pirste 112 Warrior Bold Valentino ....... 112 Obtain ¥ 1107 Acrostic i & : 107 Priedjof Nansen'. Nevermore . 12 Purse. $1,500; 6 furlongs 106 Prince of Wales 108 Henrietta Wildair 112 Sinsletoot F THIRD RACE— Virginia Handicap; all ages. B S sobin n of Johi ©On, Susanna Bobashela FOURTH RACE—The Spalding Lowe Jen- king Handicap: $10.000 added: 2-year-olds e. 124 100 1 Voltear_(R. Peternell) aSun Broom (J. Bejshak) Friar CUff_ (L. McAtee) Dail (L. Fator) i The Nut (A Roberison) Leo, Marine (W, Garner) & Sagamore Stable e 5 Waiter 9. Saimont K. T FIFTH RACE-—The Washi: 425,000 added: 3-year-old: Dangerous (no boy) . Stranger (0 Burkei mel (W Qarner) ... igernon (no boy) . rincess Wilson e ton Handicap up; 1% miles rusader " Walla) o lsman (1, Pichon) 8 Display (J. Maiben) . Mike Hall (L. McDermott) .. & Walter J. Sals 3 § Walter J. Saimon entry. ¢ Seagram entry d Audley Fa: rson Livingston entrs SIXTH RACE—Purse. $1.800; the Pennsyl- vania; 3-year-olds and up: 1 mile. Wellet Yehtea onker Lebey . ixtreme . £ 118 Sun Porward exercises at the Charlestown Navy Yard | tomorrow. = He went directly to th~ navy yard, where he was given a salut® of 10 guns. Later he inspected the Constitution, nQw in process of recon- struction. SEVENTH RACE—Purse. $1,300; claiming 3-year-old: id up: 1% miles. .10 AD Ahm, 2 « 107 *Dy 3 *Ju Alits D ther clear;