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3w THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, SPECIAL SESSI0 HELD INEVITABLE McNary, After Hoover Con- ference, Says He Will Not Press Bill Now. (Continued From First Page). be hostile or seeking political advan- tage. ‘The date of the probable special ses- sion is believed to be April 15 by mem- bers of the Senate and House who have conferred with Mr. Hoover. Chairman Hawley of the House ways and means committee hopes to have a tariff bill whipped inot shape by that time, or soon thereafter, for Submission to the House. It is expected that the House will deal with the tariff bill while the Senate is working on a farm bill. The farm relief program includes revision of the tariff so as to give the farmers greater protection for their products. The tariff revision will be in the nature of an amendment to the present Ford- ney-McCumber tariff act. With the Republicans in control, it will continue the Republican theory of a protective tariff. There is no intention of re- vamping the entire law, but of dealing with those.schedules and rates which need ameridment. Efforts will be made to confine the werk of the special session to the two subjects of farm relief and tariff re- vision. Leaders believe this may be ac- complished by the expedient of having only the ways and means committee and the committee on agriculture ap- pointed in the House. If other legisla- tion is proposed, no House committees would, under those circumstances, be constituted to handle it. In the Sen- ate the committees are continuing af- fairs, as the Senate is a continuing body from one Congress to another. May Face Increased Efforts. Mr. Hoover may face a real problem If efforts are made in the considera- tion of the tariff to raise the rates generally and to an undue height. It is expected there will be a real drive to raise the tariff wall higher generally than it _has been in the past. The President-elect, although he is no stranger to Washington and to Congress, has made many important contacts during his stay in Washing- ton. He will enter the White House with the backing of the Republicans generally in both houses of Congress. With the exception of Senators Norris of Nebraska and La Follette and Blaine of Wisconsin, he had the sincere back- ing of all the Republican Senators in the recent campaign. He enters upon his term, therefore, under particularly favorable auspices. The -prospects of success for his first legislative program, which will be revealed when he calls the Congress into special session, are exceptionally good. Mr. Hoover has scheduled no con- ferences for today. He is expected to attend services in the Quaker Meeting House on I street this morning. His guests at dinner tonight are expected to include Senator Couzens of Michi- gan and Mrs. Hert, the vice chairman of the Republican national committee. While no definite date has yet been set for Mr. Hoover’s departure for Florida, it now is expected he will not leave here until Wednesday, and this may be further extended to Thurs- day. He has made engagements for ;vlonday, but not beyond that day sd ar. Donovan Pays Call. Among Mr. Hoover's callers yesterday was Assistant to the Attorney General Donovan, who has been prominently mentioned for a place in the Hoover cabinet. Mr. Donovan would fit in, it is said, either as Attorney General or as Secrctary of War. His possible ap- pointment has been the subject of much comment ni the newspapers, with the expressed opinion in some quarters that Mr. Hoover would select an out- and-out “dry” Protestant for the office of Attorney General. What effect, if any, the opposition to the selection of Mr. Donovan for the office of Attorney General has had has not been dis- closed. Another Hoover caller yesterday was Representative-elect Lankford of the Norfolk, Va., congressional district. Mr. Lankford said after he had seen Mr. Hoover that he had expressed to the | gress. President-elect the hope that he would pick a Virginian for the cabinet, al- though he had made no specific rec- ommendation. He said that he talked with Me. -Hoover about the consolida- tion of the forces in Virginia which have brought Republican victory there in the recent election. Mr. Lankford said he believed that the Republicans had a chance to elect a governor in the ©Old Dominion at the next gubernatorial election. He invited Mr. Hoover to at- tend a celebration on April 26 of the landing of English in Virginia in 1607, and that Mr. Hoover had promised to take the matter under advisement. 26,000 DIE OF FLU’ IN 7 WEEKS IN.U. S., PUBLIC HEALTH FINDS [LEGISLATION TO ERECT FITTING MEMORIAL TO MAJOR L'ENFANT, CHIEF DESIGNER OF CITY, TO BE PRESSED.BY PATRIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS Representatives of 15 Groups to Take Active Part in Drive. WORKING MODEL READY Congressional Hearings Are Expectad to Be Started Early This Week. Representatives of 15 of America's largest patriotic organizations have banded together for the first time to push legislation pending in Congress to erect a fitting memorial to the memory of Maj. Pierre Charles L'Enfant, chief designer of the City of Washington, whose plan of develop- ment_is being carried forward today. The L’Enfant Memorial Association, as the organization is known, consists of the executive officers of the patriotic groups and will be actively represented at the congressional hearings on the legislation which are scheduled to start this week, probably on Tuesday. Tentative plans call for placing the memorial in a great circle immediately west of the Botanic Gardens. At this circle a boulevard from the Union Sta- tion will join the Mall boulevard at a point approximating the rear of the St. James Hotel. This circle is to be one of three on the Mall, the others being located around the Washington Monu- ment and the Lincoln Memorial. Working Model Completed. W. Clark Noble, the sculptor who has been selected for the memorial, has com- pleted a working model, which is on ex- hibition at his studio, 1630 Sixteenth street. This model will be on view at the congressional hearings also. Numerous national celebrities have become members of the L'Enfant Me- morial Association and have contribut- ed towards its success. ‘The hearings to be held will revolve around the measures introduced by Senator Frederick Hale of Maine and Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, asking for an appropriation of $200,000 to cover the expense of the me- morial. The executive committee, which act- ually has this legislation in hand, con- sists of the president of the L'Enfant Memorial Association, Winslow Warren, president general of the society of the Cincinnati, who has associated with him Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, president gen- eral Daughters of the American Revo- lution; Mrs. Henry T. Kent, president general General Society of Daughters of the Revolution; Emest E. Rogers, president general National Society of Sons of the Revolution; Francis B. Culver, registrar general National So- clety of Sons of the Revolution; Her- bert Fairfax Wallace, general secretary National Society of Sons of the Revolu- tion; Col. Thomas Denny, president Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York; John Lenord Merrill, presi- dent_general Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America and president general National League of Huguenot Societies of America; E. D. Guthrie, president France-America Society; Mrs. Charles L. Riker, president Colonial Dames of America;: Mrs. James P. Andrews, president National Society of Colonial Dames of America; Gen. ‘W. Ladd, president general Society of: Colonial Wars; Dr. James B. Igle- hart, president general Society of the ‘War of 1812; Dr. Marcus Benjamin, vice president general Society of the War of 1812 and general historian of the . L’'Enfant Memorial Assoclation; Mrs. Axel Olah TIhiseng, president State of New York Daughters of the Revolution. Committees -Formed. The Washington headquarters is in charge of volunteer workers under the direction of Winslow Warren, president; H. Randall Webb, treasurer; Richard S. Harvey, counsellor, and John Cabell ‘Wilkinson, executive secretary. Each co-operating society has formed a separate committee which will be present at the hearings that will shortly be held on the bills pending in Con- . The executive officials of the soclety have likewise requested the co- operation and active support of repre- sentative men and women throughout the country who are either members of one of the co-operating societies or eligible for membership. Among those who have been invited to join in this association and who have accepted are: Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernathy, Mrs. Arthur D. Addison, Mrs. Charles Stuart Alden, Richard S. Aldrich, Mrs. James Henry Alexandre, Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, Gov. Henry J. Allen, Edward B. Almon, Lars Anderson, Mrs. James P. Andre Mrs. Minnegerode Andrews, Mrs. J. Ogden Armour, Philip D. Armour, Vin- cent Astor, Mrs. W. Vincent Astor, Col. W. W. Atterbury, Mrs. Charles C. Auchincloss, Mrs. Hugh D. Auchincloss. Robert L. Bacon, Mrs. Robert Bacon, Mrs. Albert N. Baggs, Mrs. George F. Baker, jr.; Newton D. Baker, Bernard M. Baruch, Joseph P. Bascom, Robert Cameron Beadle, James M. Beck, Wil- liam F. Beers, Charles J. Bell, Perry Belmont, Mrs. August Belmont, Dr. (Continued From First Page). crew of 6 officers and 70 men under command of Comdr. E. S. Addison, the cutter reached Hoonah on December 19. Majority Prostrated. Dr. Sturtevant, with Charles % Hawkesworth of the Bureau of Educa- tion, assumed the leadership in distrib- uting medical supplies. Seventy-four cut of 75 whites, and 350 out of 380 Indians were prostrated in this little fishing village. Cough syrup, mustard plasters—one thermometer for the entire village—and other medical suplies were left here, and the vessel hastened to Tanakee, where there was no physician nor nurse and where 58 settlers were suffering from attacks of varying severity. After the limited supplies sent by the health commissioner were exhausted, urgent Tequests for more led to distribution here of the ship's supplies. The next day the cutter reached An- goon, where 61 natives and one white woman had been stricken. Here again officers turned to the ship's supplies for medical aid. Reports of the cruise men- tioned the heroic_work at this village of a Bureau of Education nurse and two teachers Reaching Kate, where also the entire population were without a doctor or nurse, the cutter anchored until 10 Alas- kans and 2" whites, nearly all children, were treated. When these influenza patients had been relieved, Dr. Sturte- vant found another task—to treat about a dozen natives suffering with ailments varying from bruised arms to tubercu- losis. He preseribed for them before the cutter turned back toward Juneau. He was officially commended, in the reports made public yesterday, for heroism under arduous and trying conditions. PLANE GAS TANK FOUND. OSLO, Norway, January 12 (A .—A gasoline tank resembling that on the French Latham airplae in which Roald Amundsen and five companions disap- peared into the North last June has been reported found by a fisherman in a remote part of the Lofoten Islands, off Northwestern Norway. Bad weather <o far has prevented authorities reach- ing the place for examination of the wreckage. A life buoy marked “Latham, Paris” was washed ashore last Wednesday on the western side of North Cape. months _earli up at sea and been part of the Amundsen plane. other times bits of wreckage have ‘?hund. l At Some pontoon was picked identified as having been ! Marcus _Benjamin, Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Mrs. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, jr.; William K. Bixby, Mrs. L. Guy Blackmer, David H. Blair, Gist Blair, Paul Block, Mrs. Delos A. Blodgett, Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Ed- ward Bok, Mrs. Rolfe E. Bolling, George | W. Bowerman, Mrs. Benjamin H. Buc- kingham, Mrs. I. Townsend Burden, Mrs. James A. Burden, Mrs. William A. M. Burden, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, Robert S. Brookings, Mrs. Alfred J. Brosseau, Mrs. George Warren Brown, John Stewart Bryan. Senator Capper, Newcomb Carlton, paint it or sturdy table like apply, wear like an new, glowing life B8 i TeES don’t shut it up! Why treat that comfortable old chair, away in attic or cellar? Modernize such things with “Murco “Murco” Paint Products in all their brilliant hues are easy to touch. Come in and have a talk with our experts about paint possibilities. E. J. Murpay Co., Inc. 710 12th St. N. W. Uentral erected here. tigure of Maj. L’Enfant Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Charles F. Ca- rusi, Allen C. Clark, his excellency, Paul Claudel, French Ambassador; Rev. Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, Frederick B. Cole, Ross A. Collins, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Dr. Royal S. Copeland, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Mrs. Charles R. Crane, Richard S. Crane, Patrick E. Crowley, Francis B. Culver, Charles G. Curtis, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, James F. Curtis, Mrs, James F. Curtis, Robert Fulton Cutting, Thomas De Witt Cuyler. Right Rev. James Henry Darlington, John W. Davis, Norman L. Davis, Charles G. Dawes, Frederic A. Delano, ‘William A. Delano. Rev. Dr. W. H. S. Demarest, Col. Thomas Denny, Rev. Dr. Paul de Schweinitz, Mrs, Walter B. Devereux, Mrs. Henry F. Dimock, Proctor L. Dougherty, A. F. du Pont, Mrs. T. Cole- man_du Pont, Mrs. Hendrick Vander- bilt Duryea. George Eastman, Rear Admiral E. W. Eberle, John Joy Edson, Thomas Ewing. ‘Benjamin L. Fairchild, Mrs. Marshall Field, Dr. M. F. Finley, Harvey S. Fire- stone, Hamilton Fish, Haley Fisk, Henry Ford, Mrs. Samuel W. Fordyce, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, Mrs. John Fow- ler, Hugh Frayne, Mrs. James Carroll Frazer, Right Rev. James E. Freeman. ‘William Tudor Gardiner, Mrs. Fred- erick D. Gardner, Mrs. Peter G. Gerry, Charles C. Glover, Charles C. Glover, jr.; Edward F. Goltra, Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant, Lieut. Col. Ulysses S. Grant, 3d; Edwin Graham, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Dr. Thomas E. Green, An- thony J. Griffin, Dr. Gilbert Grosvenor, Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey. Randall H, Hagner, Senator Hale, John Hays Hammond, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Robert N. Harper, W. Hall Harris, Fairfax Harrison, Richard S. Harvey, Mrs. Willlam Randolph Hearst, Mrs. Eli A. Helmick, Mrs. John B. Hen- derson, Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Col. Frank S. Hight, Dr. David Jayne Hill, Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart, Willlam D. Hoover, Charles Evans Hughes, Dorsey M. Hyde, jr. Dr. James B. Iglehart, Mrs. Axel Olaf Ihiseng. Clifton D Jackson, George R. Jack- son, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs. Violet Blair Janin, Mrs. George S. Johns, Rev. Dr. Robert Johnston. Otto H. Kahn, A. Atwater Kent, Mrs. Henry T. Kent, Miss Bessie J. Kibbey. Gen. W. W. Ladd, Thomas W. Lamont, Mrs. Robert Lansing, Irwin B. Laugh- lin, Maj. Gen. John Lejeune, Henry Latane Lewis, Gaston Liebert, Charles P. Light, Demarest Lloyd, Breckinridge Long, Nicholas Longworth, Mrs. Edward E. Loomis, Mrs. Herbert A. Lord, Plerre Lorillard, Frank O. Lowden, David Lynn, Rev. Dr. Francis P, Lyons. Gen. N. William MacChesney, Mrs. J. W. MacMurray, Mrs. D, Hunter McAl- pin, Hon. George McAneny, Charles G. McChord, Cyrus H. McCormick, Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Col. H. H. McCormick, Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mc- Cormick, Vance C. McCormick, Walter L. McCoy, Bishop William F. McDowell, Mrs. Edward B. McLean, Mrs. Alex. Mackay-Smith, Clarence Mackay, Mrs. Charles T. Malcolmson, Mrs. Pierre Mali, Right Rev. Willlam T. Manning, Tench Tilghman Marye, Samuel Mather, Andrew W. Mellon, Richard B. Mellon, Thomas A. Mellon, John Lenord Merrill, Maxime Anatole Aristide Mon- gendre, Orra Eugene Monnette, Rev. Dr. James S. Montgomery, R. Walton Moore, Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs. James Dudley Morgan. Frank B. Noyes, Theodore W. Noyes. Adolph 8. Ochs, John O'Connor, George W. Offutt, jr.; Robert L. Owen. Mrs. Potter Palmer, James Parmelee, Mrs. John S. Parson, John Barton Payne, George Foster Peabody, Gen. John J. Pershing, Mrs. E. Morris de Peyster, Mrs. Frederic A. de Peyster, Rev. Dr. Z. B. T. Phillips, Rev. Dr. Noble Jason Plerce, Rev. Dr. Ulysses G. B. Pierce, Gifford Pinchot, Frank L. Polk, Mrs. Noble Newport Potts, Joseph Pulitzer, Newbold Noyes, up— a stepchild . . . shut Magic.” old friend, and bring to everything they Main 2477 in proposed national memorial to be Ralph A. Pulitzer, Dr. Herbert Putnam. E. Lansing Ray, Mrs. Swalm Reed, Mrs. Ogden Reid, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Right Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander, Gen. George Richards, Mrs. Charles W. Richardson, Harold J. Richardson, Ed- ward F. Riegelman, Mrs. Charles L. Riker, Mrs. Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mrs. Douglas Robinson, John D. Rocke- feller, jr.; Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, Ernest E. Rogers, Mrs. Frank- lin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. J. Roosevelt, W. Emlen Roosevelt, Elihu Root, Mrs. Elihu Root, jr.; Daniel C. Roper, Rev. Dr. J. Townsend Russell. Herbert L. Satterlee, Dr. Willlam Jay Schieffelin, Mortimer L. Schiff, C. T. Schuneman, Montgomery Schuyler, Charles M. Schwab, Mrs. John Shedd, Mrs. John D. Sherman, Rev. Dr. Abram Simon, Mrs. E. Hope Slater, Mrs. DeKay Sloan, Henry T. Sloane, Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman, Mrs. Stokes- Halkett, Edward T. Stotesbury, Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury, Rear Admiral Joseph Strauss, George Parke Street, Silas H. Strawn, Gen. Charles P. Summerall. William Howard Taft, Benjamin Thaw, Mrs. Willlam Thaw, Charles Lewis Tiffany, John Q. Tilson, Mrs, Mary Scott Townsend, Mrs. Richard L. Townsend, Walter I. Tuckerman, Mrs. ‘Walter I. Tuckerman. Mrs. James L. Van Alen, Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt, 3d; Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mrs. Fair Vanderbilt, Mrs. Wwilllam K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. A, Cortlandt Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Cortlandt S. Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Kiliaen Van Rensse- laer, Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer, Samuel M. Vauclain, Rev. Dr. Florian J. C. Vurpillot. J. M. Wainwright, Herbert Fairfax Wallace, Charles M. Wallace, Hugh Campbell Wallace, Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, Allen Wardwell, Winslow War- ren, Mrs. Joseph E. Washington, James E. Watson, J. Randall Webb, Ben T. Webster, George Wedderburn, Ivan C. ‘Weld, Mrs. William T. Weldon, Mrs. James G. Wentz, Harry Payne Whitney, Mrs. Payne Whitney, John Cabell Wil- kinson, Daniel Willard, Mrs. Willlam T. Willett, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood, Rev. Dr. Charles Wood, Mrs. Charles H. Wood- hull, Dr. Hubert Work, Mrs. Adam M. ‘Wyant. Owen D. Young. George Zabriskie, Frederick N. Zihl- man. SLIPPERY CARGO! Fifty Tons of Eels Carried ot Ger- many by Liner Deutschland. NEW YORK, January 12 (#) tons of live eels were aboard the line Deutschland when she sailed this after- noon. They will be used in restocking the Baltic Sea on the German coast. On her last trip the Deutschland car- ried 1,400 minks to help replenish the population of that animal in Germany. ‘The eels, more than 50,000 strong, are being transported in 12 huge vats on the forward deck. They have three caretakers. Lieut, Bowman Transferred. First Lieut. Frank O. Bowman, 29th Engineers, at Fort Humphreys, Va., has been ordered to Auburn, Ala., for duty at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute, to relieve First Lieut. Wilson B. Hig- gins, Corps of Engineers, who is ol dered to Fort Humphreys for duty with troops. . Sergt. Schehl on Retired List. After more than 30 years’ service in the Army, First Sergt. Alexander Schehl, 13th Engineer’s at Fort Humphreys, Va. has been placed on the retired list on his own application, and will proceed to his home. * | Service. D. C. JANUARY 13, - 1929—PART 1. ALBRIGHT, U.3. PARK CHIEF, TO HELP CITY Former Director Mather Is Praised by Officials for Service. Horace M. Albright, appointed yes- terday by Secretary Roy O. West as director of the National Park Service to succeed Stephen T. Mather, resigned because of 11l health, is a lover of Wash- ington and will have an important part in its development as a member of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Mr. Albright, who has been serving as superintendent of Yel- lowstone National Park, and assistant director in the field to Mr. Mather, has been with the service since its incep- tion. Tributes were paid Mr. Mather and also Arno B. Cammerer, associate di- rector, by Mr. Albright, when he took the oath of office as director at the In- terior Department, surrounded by em- ployes of the service, yesterday. Mather Praises Workers. Secretary West, in accepting the resignation of Mr. Mather, expressed regret and referred to “the intensely patriotic, unselfish work that he had rendered the Nation since he came to the Department of the Interior in January, 1915.” In his resignation, Mr. Mather con- veyed praise for the support given him by Congress, the Secretaries of the In- terior under whom he had worked and the employes of the National Park Serv- 1ce, whom he termed “loyal, efficient and untiring in their helpfulness.” Surveying the accomplishments of the past decade in his field, Mr. Mather wrote: “I feel that the dccomplishments of the past 10 years have seen the de- velopment of the national park system into one of real service to the public, as was the purpose when the National Park Service was created.” Secretary West's letter accepting Mr. Mather’s resignation said, in part: “Es- pecially noteworthy has been the man- ner in which you have brought about installation of adequate public utility facilities in the national park, through inducing private capital, without hope of immediate financial return upon their investments and in the face of grave hazards, to undertake this work. Absolute confidence in your administra- tion has been shown also by Congress in appropriating larger sums each year for park work. People Awakened by Him. “Under your splendid leadership the people of the Nation have been awak- G, | ened to the beauties and possibilities of the national parks and the necessity of conserving these areas for all time.” Mr. Mather, descendant of a New England family, is a newspaper man who went into the borax business, made a fortune, and then devoted his ener- gles to upbuilding the National Park Like the man who succeeds him as director, Mr. Mather saw the service grow from an idea to one of the important bureaus of the Govern- ment. The two men—Mather and Albright— have yet another bond, for both were born in California and both were edu- cated in the University of California. Mr., Mather is a classmate of Repre- sentative Mrs. Florence Kahn, and at- tending his alma mater at that time was the late Franklin K. Lane, who became Secretary of the Interior and brought his friend, Mather, into the department with him. Mr. Albright’s wife—the for- mer Grace Noble—was his classmate at the University of Califotnia, and they have two children, Robert Mather, aged 10, and Marian, 7. Five Years on New York Sun. Mr. Mather spent five years as a re- porter on the New York Sun, but left the newspaper business to become a magnate in borax. He contributed substantial sums to the Government for building up the park service, for when he saw that Congress was hesitant about spending money on & project he thought necessary, he gave from his own purse. In inducing wealthy Americans to become _interested in the park move- ment, Mr. Mather rendered yeoman serveie to the Natlon. He has been par- ticularly active in working for estab-) lishment_of the Shenandoah National | Park in Virginia and the Great Smoky ! Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina. The service was created by Congress August 25, 1916, and has continued to grow. Mr. Mather, sensing the im- portance of the new mode of transpor- tation, threw open national park gates to automobiles. Early in the life of the service, and shortly before illness forced his retirement, he had under consideration a program to permit commercial airplane concerns to land ih the national parks. Awarded Gold Medal. The recipient of several honorary degrees, Mr. Mather was awarded the gold medal of the National Institute of Social Sciences in 1926, and the Uni- versity of California, from which he graduated in 1887, conferred upon him in 1924 the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. He is a member of the So- clety of Mayflower Descendants, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sigma Chi Fraternity, American Chem- ical Society, and several other organi- zations. He is a member of the Cosmos and National Press Clubs in Washing- ton, as well as of others in Chicago and New York. ‘When Mr. Mather went to Chicago to vote early in November, he suffered a paralytic stroke that affected his left side. He has since been confined to a hospital there, and, while his friends in the park service have been advised he ILET US SOLVE YOUR HEATING PROBLEM Over 600 Installations WASHINGTON Oomati( OIL BURNER “*Oil Heating At Its Best” In the past 5 years we have installed over 600 Oil-O- Matics in Washington homes, and these owners are enjoying healthful, comfortable heat, our convenient payment plan. HEATING regardless of the weather, automatically maintained without work or worry. 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In 1908 Mr. Albright went to the University of California, and was graduated in 1912, In 1914 he took law courses at George- town University, concentrating on min- ing law. Assistant Attorney on Parks. Coming to Washington in 1913, Mr. Albright was employed in the Interior Department ahd was assistant attorney dealing with national park matters. When Mr. Mather became assistant to the Secretary in charge of national parks in January, 1915, Mr. Albright was assigned to him as assistant. Dur- ing 1915 and 1916 Mr. Albright concen- trated on obtaining legislation to create the National Park Service. In the Spring of 1917, when Mr. Mather was appointed director of the new service, Mr. Albright was made assistant di- rector. Having served in that post for a little over two years, Mr. Albright resigned in July, 1919, to become superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and field as- sistant to the director. While in the Yellowstone, he assisted in entertain- ing two Presidents, and, in addition, has been the host of President-elect Hoover. CALIFORNIA PLEASED. Colby Praises Albright and Mather for Park Work. SAN FRANCISCO, January 12 (#).— William E. Colby, chairman of the Cali- fornia State Park Commission, who knows both men intimately, expressed his pleasure that Horace M. Albright had succeeded to_the post which Stephen T. Mather was forced to relinquish. “Mr. Albright understands the moun- tains as well as any one,” said Mr. Col- by, “and knows at first hand the needs of the park service. As Mr. Mather’s right hand man, he has handled some of the most difficult problems. “ By reason of his long service in the fleld, his perserverance in promoting the interests of the park service and his high standing with members of Lack of Skating Ice | In Midwinter Cited, | First in 20 Years For the first time in 20 years Washington, this Winter, has been without skating up to the middle of January. Officials of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks declared yesterday that. the city has always had some kind of skating facilities out-of-doors in January in that time, and, unless Jack Frost is accommo- dating between now and the middle of February, the Capital will wit- ness its first skateless Winter for almost a quarter of a century. On the Reflecting Pool yesterday a skim of ice covered only one por- tion, and officials insist that there must be three inches of ice there before the public will be allowed to skate. On the Tidal Basin six inches of ice are required. Another rendezvous for skaters in the parks is at the Pierce Mill Pool in Rock Creek Park, whore two_inches of ice are required before official sance tion will be given. 14 Mexican Insurgents Slain. MEXICO CITY, January 12 (#).—The ‘War Department tonight reported that 14 insurgents and five agrarians had been killed in a conflict near the village of Tesistan, Jalisco. The dead include the agrarian chief, Felix Nieves. The insurgents were dispersed. Congress, he is the man best qualified to become director of National Parks. He has appeared many times before congressional committees to explain park problems and needs. “Mr. Albright, who is a lawyer, has | the MARYLAND FLYING BILL BEING URGED Present Plans Call for Forming State Commission to Examine Pilots. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, January 12.—Bills de- signed to regulate interstate flying in Maryland are being prepared for intro- duction in the Legislature, it was | learned here today. Maj. W. D. Tipton, commander of Maryland National Guard Air Corps, and other fiyers, will be con- sulted for views. According to present plans, there would be established a State examining commission, composed of two aviation authorities 'and a_civilian. _ All com= mercial pilots transacting business in the State would be qualified and licensed by the commission. ‘The “barnstormers.” Pay Your Bills Start the New Year with a i (lean Slate $540 $4 $1,200 $100. $6,000 $500.00 It is not necessary to have had an Ac- count at this Bank to Borrow. THE MORRIS PLAN BANK Under Supervision U. S. Treasury turned down many attractive offers to leave the park service and practice his profession. In taking the position of dg\ecwr he is making a personal sac- Tifice.” 1408 H STREET, N. W. The Byrd Expedition IsMaking History Fast —and the thrilling exploits of these un- daunted explorers into the unknown of the Antarctic is being sent by Com- mander Byrd himself for exclusive publication in Washington in he Star In addition to the “official” reports, Russell Owen, The Star’s own corre- spondent accompanying the expedition, is sending his interesting stories as plans go forward for the dash to the South Pole—over frozen vastnesses upon which the eye of man has never rested; and in flights into the veiled mysteries of the ages. You'll want to follow Commander Byrd and his companions step by step as they wing their way and blaze their trail to the coveted goal. Read The Star for the authentic Byrd news