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Secretary Mellon holding trowel at the laying of the corner stone y pital at northeast. terday for the monies. Massachusetts avenue and Eighth street Standing behind the Secretary are Sena- tor King of Utah, who made the principal address, and Representative Zihlman of Maryland, master of cere- new Casualty Hos- Al Smith ready —Star Staff Photo. Flags that carry messages. The battleship California, flagship of the United States battle fleet, breaks out her array of signal flags during flag-hoisting exercises. POLICE WARNED AGAINST GAMBLING Capt. Stott Tells Men to Stay Away From Establishments After Complaints. What he termed “a friendly warn- ing” to his men to shun gambling es- tablishments was issyed yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock roll call by Capt. Willlam G. Stott of the third precinct. Capt. Stott said: “I am informed that some policemen visit gambling places. If you do, let your conscience be your guide for you may find me there.” i Capt. Stott declared today he has re- ceived a complaint from a resident of his precinct that one or two policemen have visited resorts where games of chance were under way. He does not know whether the report is true, he #ald, or what was the mission of the officers if they did enter the places. He explained that by telling his men they might find him there, he meant he might follow them. More than 200 places of vice in his precinct have been raided in the past nine months, Capt. Stott asserted. ‘Two men were arrested and charged with hookmaking yesterday afternoon by sixth precinct police when they raided 219 Seventh street. In the cigar store there the raiders found a crowd of men watching the resuits of the races being chalked up on a black- board. ‘The men arrested gave their names to police as Earl Heil, 29 years old, of the 600 block of Harvard street, and Alex Weinstein, 38 years old, of the 1300 block of North Capitol street. Heil and Weinstein were released on $2,000 bond each to await the trial of their cases. 'SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH HELD AID TO WELFARE J. P. Morgan in Address Outlines Work Accomplished in Pro- moting U. . Prosperity. Scientific research has contributed | more to the welfare and prosperity of the United States than any other | factor, J. P. Morgan, manager of the marketing counselor'’s staff of the | McGraw Hill Publishing Co., declared | in an address at a luncheon of the Washington Advertising Club in the National Press Club yesterday. It is rare thing, the speaker said,| that the position of an organization cannot be improved by research. The Department of Commerce, whose work deals so much with research, is held! of greater value to business men thyoughout the country than is any other Government department, he said. Mr. Morgan emphasized, however, that research to be of the greatest advantage must be done along sclentific lines and that the sense of proportion in doing it should not be lost. “Advertising,” he said, “has always applied research, though in many dif- —Wide World Photos. “FOOD FADDISTS,” TOPIC. Speaker Discusses ‘“Capitalization” of Teachings on Diets. Modern food “faddists,” who, she said, attempt to capitalize their teach- ings with regard to diets, were criti- cized last night by Dr. Mary K. John- stone, of this city, in addressing a meet- ing of the District of Columbia Osteo- pathic Association in the City Club. Dr. Felix D. Bwope spoke on “Dia- thermy and Its Relation to ®steopathic Medicine.” The assogiation went on record as favoring passage of the diploma mill bill and appointed Dr. Albert H. Par- ham to represent the group at a meeting called next Saturday night by the Chamber of Commerce to discuss plans for securing such legislation. LUDLOW IS BOOMED FOR D. C. COMMITTEE Correspondent in Capital for 27 Years Will Take Seat as Representative, Louis Ludlow, for 27 years a resident of the Capital as newspaper correspon- dent and author of several books, who won one of the three upsets for the Democrats in the next Congress by capturing the House seat for the seventh Indiana distict, is being urged for one of the three Democratic vacancies al- ready in prospect on the House District commiitee. Mr. Ludlow knows Washington thor- oughly, has always taken a keen inter- est in the development of the Capital, and during his campaign gave many il- lustrated lectures on “Washington—the Enchanted City.” Because of his knowledge of District affairs and needs of the expanding municipality and his acquaintance among residents here, it is felt by friends that he could render efficient services as a member of the District, committee. There are indications that besides the one Republican and three Democratic vacancies on the District committee al- ready assured in the next Congress, there is likely to be a general over- hauling of the personnel of that com- mittee. | Mr. Ludlow is a former president of | the National Press Club and is now a member of the board of governors. He was given a luncheon-reception in honor of his victorious return from the campaign in the Press Club yes- terday. ! His election is the first instance of an active correspondent going out of the press gallery directly to the floor of Congress. At the Press Club reception, President J. Fred Essary introduced Strickland Gillilan, who in turn introduced Mr. Ludlow. . Wales’ Power Station Huge. | The huge hydroelectric power station, | which will supply power to all of North Wales was opened recently at Maentp- wrog, Wales. was $10,000,000. The huge reservior | was created by the damming of the River Prysor, and covers lands on which ferent guises—always research.” A demonstration in mental telepathy was given at the luncaeon by Frank ‘Winkler, flourishing farms, dwelling houses, an The cost of the project | __THE EVENING At right: Bobby Jones, king of golfers, and Gov. for their “match” round at Atlanta. Spectators were surprised when Senator Pat Har- rison's score card showed a lower score for the governor than the champion. —Wide World Photos. STAR, “WASHINGTON;- D. Interior of the old Conduit Road Public School fitted out as a branch of the Public Library. Miss Mildred A. Page in charge. AVIATOR’S ILLNESS HALTS NON-STOP HOP Canada-to-Cuba Flyer Descends at Key West Due to Stomach Disorder. By the Associated Press. KEY WEST, Fla, November 28— Having flown entirely across the United States from north to south, only to miss his actual goal by a mere 90 miles, Leonard S. Flo, who started from Walkerville, Ontario, to Havana, Cuba, today looked forward to continuing his trip to the Cuban capital, and planned a return non-stop flight. Landing here late yesterday when a stomach disorder forced him to abandon his non-stop attempt, Flo was taken to a hospital, where it was found caffeine tablets, taken to ward off sleep, had disagreed with him. He was ordered to bed, but instead went to a hotel, where he immediately retired and hung out a “Do not disturb” sign. The aviator left a note to newspaper men before he turned in last night, briefly stating that he would fly to Havana this morning, where he would plan a non-stop flight back to Walkerville. 5 Flo started on his flight to Cuba at 11:07 o'clock Monday night. He took a direct route, and was not sighted until he passed over Atlanta yesterday morning. Two Killed, Two Hurt in Crash. SHAWNEE, Okla., November 28 (#). —Mr. and Mrs. Curry Oston Davis of lOXI Hill, Kans., were killed, and Mr. and | Mrs. Frank Perry of Eldorado, Kans., | seriously injured when their motor car ran off a bridge near Tecumseh, Okla., | historic _chapel and other buildings stood. The three generators hav total capacity of 18,000 kilqwatts, / \ | last night. home ol fields, vice president of the university, delivered an address. The branch library was opened yesterday, with —Star Staff Photo. REAL ESTATE DEALER ADJUDGED BANKRUPT John L. Barr Lists His Assets at $2,306,289 and Liabilities of $2,743,814. Explaining he was unable to satisfy deficiency claims amounting to $85.500 growing out of the foreclosure sales of two apartment houses here, John L. Barr, Washington real estate dealer and attorney, residing in Chevy Chase, Md., has filed a voluntary bankruptey petition in"the Federal Court at Bal- timore, listing assets at $2,306,283 and liabilities at $2,743814. On order of Judge Morris A. Soper he was adjudicated a bankrupt and the case was referred to Arthur D. Willard, referee in bankruptcy, at Fred- erick, Md., due to a vacancy now e: isting in the refereeship caring for bankruptcy cases in Montgomery County. The suit was filed through Edward _Stafford, local attorney. Mr. Barr's assets, it was set forth, consist of real estate, most of it lo- cated Washington, valued at $2,204,163; notes amounting to $48,850 due on open accounts, $330.62; in. surance policies, $1,300; vehicles, $328; books and incidentals, $100, and $63 in_cash. The liabilities, mostly due Washing- ton banks and trust companies, con- sist of secured claims amounting to $2,221,300.90; unsecured claims of $507,419.21; notes, $11840, and taxes due District of Columbla, $3,254.37. . Robinson’s First Office Burns. LONOKE, Ark., November 28 () The building in which United States Senator Joe T. Robinson began his law practice, 30 years ago, was destroyed The two couples were on |early today in a fire which swept a 3 e & a double honeymoon tour of the Okla- part of the business district, causing a four years ago and the Democratic vote ' will continue, respectively, in the offices damage of $50,000, ’ ’ C; WEDNESDAY, 'NOVEMBER ' 28, 1928 5 The landing pier at Amapala, Honduras, the first scene to greet President-elect Herbert Hoover on his Latin American good will tour. For his first stop of the tour, the battleship Maryland anchored six miles out in the Gulf of Fonseca, and a launch carried the party to the pier. George Cretziano, the Rumanian Minister, presenting Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of George Washington University, with the “Star of Rumania,” a decoration awarded by co-operation in educational matters. NEW $3,000,000 POWER UNIT IS BEING BUILT Potomac Company Benning Plant to Increase Washington Facilities. Increased facilities for serving Wash- ington with electric power are moving rapidly to completion at the Benning steam plant of the Potomac Electric Power Co. Construction work is under way, according to the quarterly report of the North American Co., controlling the power company, on a new unit at Benning to cost nearly $3,000,000. A new generator of 30,000 kilowatts capacity, together with new boilers anc auxiliary equipment, is being installed at a cost, including the building ex- tension, of $2,815,000. The capacity of the Benning plant will be increased by the new construction to 178,000 kilo- watts, which will be in operation in June, 1929. Company officials are con- fident that the new unit will be ample to care for the electric power needs of Washington for several years to come. The new structure to house the ad- ditional machinery will be of hollow concrete blocks on steel framework, MAINE VOTE IS GIVEN, Official Returns Give Hoover-Curtis 98,744 Plurality, 5 AUGUSTA, Me,, November 28 (#).— Hoover and Curtis received a plurality | j of 98,744 votes over Smith and Robin- son in the national election in this State November 6, according to official returns announced today. Approximately 70,000 more Maine citizens voted than in 1924. More than 41,000 Republican votes were cast over was double that rceorded in 1024, his government for Mr. Marvin’s —Wide World Photos. The Georgetown University R. O. T. C. drilling in the Thanksgiving day program held on the campus yesterday, at which Dr. Edmund A. ‘Walsh, Singing of college songs by the university glee club also featured the occasion. Star Staff Photo. COLUMBUS SCHOOL OF LAW ORGANIZED K. of C. Instjtution Formed in 1912 Is Merged Into New Organization. ‘The Knights of Columbus Law School, formed in 1922 as a feature of the na- tional program of the knights to pro- vide free education to all World War veterans, has been merged into a new organization to be known as Columbus University School of Law. ‘The officers of the new university are Charles W. Darr, president and chairman of the board of trustees; An- thony J. Scullen, vice president and vice chairman of the board; Charles A. Everett, secretary of the board, and John E.-Burns, D. A. Fenning, Walter I. Plant, John B. McGinley and Francis J. Helmet, trustees. For the present the new university will continue at its present location, 1314 Massachusetts avenue, where it shares quarters with the Knights of Columbus Evening School, which will continue under the deanship of Francis J. Helmet as an evening school offer- ing courses in high school and com- mercial subjects. Columbus University School of Law will continue the policy of co-educa- tion, which was established by its pre- decessor, and will likewise continue the requirement of a minimum of four years high school work as a prerequisite for enrollment for the three years’ course, leading to the degree of LL. B., which carries with it examination privileges for admisson to the bar of the Dis- trict of Columbia. A course, calling for a year's post-graduate work, and lead- ing to the degree of LL. M., will be in- stalled at the beginning of the next Fall term. Willlam E. Leahy and Sefton Darr of dean and vice dean, about —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. The Empress of Japan robed for her recent coronation with Emperor Hirohito at Kyoto, ancient capital of Japan. She is the first Japanese Empress to be coronated with the Emperor and share his throne. WILL HANDLE ESTATE. Baltimore Woman Is Appointed Committee for Aunts, 95 and 97. Justice Peyton Gordon today - ap- pointed Miss Anne Price Craighill of Baltimore as committee of the person and estate of Miss Martha ¥irginia Berry, 97, and Miss Lucinda Alice Berry, 95, who recently were adjudged jof unsound mind by a jury before | Chief Justice McCoy ~The bond of the | committee for the estate of the former was fixed at $8,000 and for the latter at $16,000. Miss Craighill is the daughter of Mrs. Anne Berry Craighill, who was reared by the sisters, and has power of at- torney from the elder sister, by which she has attended tu her business for six years, and a similar authority from the younger sister for several months. Attorney Samuel F. Beach, who rep- resented relatives opposing the adjudi- —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. AMENDING SALARY LAWIS INDORSED Smoot Indicates Congress May Clear Up Present Inconsistencies. The outlook for amending the Gov- ernment employes’ salary law:at the coming session of Congress appeared brighter today when Senator Smoot of cation, consented to the appointment of Miss Craighill, who was represented by Attorney James E. Burroughs. TWO ARE SENTENCED FOR GRAND LARCENY Young Men Hailing From Win- chester Said to Have Confessed to Series of Robberies. Charles Milton Rush and John Henry Lillis, each 21 years old and both of Winchester, Va., who, police say, have confessed to a series of hold-ups and robberies in four nearby States, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and carrying deadly weapons before Judge Ralph Given today in Police Court. They were sentenced to 360 days in jail each on the-latter count and held for action of the grand jury under $1,000 bond on the former. The convictions came after Headquar- ters Detectives Connors and Wise told of finding a loaded revolver concealed on each of them when they were taken into custody in a poolroom on First street. An automobile, which the young men admitted stealing, was parked out- side the poolroom, police said. The defendants refused to make a statement when invited to take the wit- ness stand in their own behalf. According to police, the boys con- fessed to staging hold-ups of filling sta- tions in Winchester, Front Royal, Laurel and Hagerstown. They are also said to have stolen an automobile in Martins- burg, W. Va,, and another in Philadel- phia. FLYERS ARE ARRESTED. Owner of Plane and Pilot Held as Liquor Runners. MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa, November 28 (M) —Milo R. Hilton of Des Moines and Leonard Carothers of Cedar Rapids, his pilot, today faced arraignment on a charge of transporting liquor by air- plane, When officers seized Hilton's plane here last night they found 500 bottles of liquor which they valued at $4,000. Hilton came to Des Moines last Spring from Akron, Ohio, where he had been an excavating contractor. He said then he had decided to go into the airplane business. He carried papers showing him to be a student pilot. Utah indicated he was in favor of cleating up inconsistencies resulting from the rules followed in putting the increases into effect. Senator Smoot said he had not gone into the question in detail, but had learned that there were certain incon- sistencies in the way the salary law has been interpreted. He said he would not S| if the necessary amendmelnt.s ‘were made at the coming session of Congress. One of the questions involved deals with the manner in which persons in the higher grades of the professional and clerical services were given in- creases under the new law. Another feature of the legislation likely to be amended:is the “relative position clause” which provided in sub- stance that employes should be given the same relative position within their grade under the new law that they held under the old salary law. The diffi- culty grew out of the fact that in a number of the grades the new law pro- vided for six salary steps instead of seven under the old law. This was done by cufting off the two bottom steps and adding one at the top. Be- fore the law was put into effect the controller general's office rendered a decision setting forth a mathematical formula for determining how each em- ploye should be placed under the new law. Representatives of the employes’ organizations have contended that under the rules adopted a number of the workers did not receive as much of an increase as Congress had in- tended. It was indicated that the process of amending the law to .iron out the in- consistencies may mean reductions from the increases that were received by some of those in the higher grades of the professional and clerical services. UNION RULE DOMINATES. ROME (Special).—In Italy every one, no matter how humble his occupation, is expected to belong to some o1 tion of his Imlll.slr’yn o: vocation. tate organizations are in turn grou syndicates which will ultimately form important links in the governmental organization of fascist lynsuuat state. The latest to are the shep- herds of the Castelli Romani; that is, of the towns in the neighborhood of Rome. The vocation of shepherd is traditionally a lonely one, but hence- forth the Roman tenders of sheep and goats will meet and discuss “technical, financial and commercial problems of the industry,” according to the organ- izers. Besides protecting the interests of the shepherds, the association is ex- ‘These Carcthers had pavers as a transport pilot. i pected to aid them in the disposal of their products, such as .cheese, meat, skins and wools

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