Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1929, Page 17

Committee members devising decorations for the Arts Club Bal Boheme to be held at the Willard Hotel, * January 28. The group includes ch Lequer, chairman of the decorating committee; Dr. J. Ryan Devereux, chairman of the executive committee; Henry J. Staley, Willam I. Deming and L. M. Leisenring. — Copvright by Underwood & Underwood. Smoldering ruins of the First Baptist Church at Fort Worth, Tex., after its destruction last Satur- day by fire believed to have been of incendiary origin. Dr. J. Frank Norris, fundamentalist leader, who has been a storm center of the Baptist church in Texas for many years, is pastor of the church. —Associated Press Photo. Cold, but harmless. Los Angeles firemen demonstrating the use of the latest fire extin- guisher, a freezing stream of carbon dioxide gas. It is harmless to clothes or fabrics and puts out a small blaze almost instantly on contact. —Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Eddie Mack, the young collegiate boxer who sprang a sensation in the fistic world the other day by defeating Tod Morgan, junior lightweight champion, in a 10-round bout. The title was not at stake. Eddie, who is a senior law student of Regis College, at Den- [ i AGT T0 PROMOTE SAFETY IN FLYING Engineers Plan to Establish National Chain of Airway Radio Stations. ‘The foundation for establishment of & national network of airway radio com- munication stations to increase reli- ability and safety of aerial transporta- tion in the United States has been laid at a conference of air transport oper- ators and communications engineers, which adjourned following a meeting today at the Carlton Hotel. The chain is to be established upon # co-operative basis by the air mail and air transport companies to maintain communication between airplanes and ground stations and to handle other matters not provided for by the Fed- eral airway communications services, Four Main Points. ‘The conference has begun drafting specifications to be followed by radio manufacturers in producing airpiane radio receiving and transmitting out- fits. These specifications will cover four main points: Pirst. The question of power supply for radio purposes aboard airplanes. Determination will be made of the nec- essary amount of current to be gener- ated aboard the plane for transmission purposes so that standard types of gen- erators may be produced. Second. Acceptable types of radio an- tenna installations for planes. Third. Size of the complete radio outfit and its position in the various types of planes. Fourth. I‘yge of radio control to be installed. The minimum number of controls consistent with proper opera- tion of the outfit must be provided, and it is considered likely that there will be but one control dial, switching irom “receiving” to “transmitting” or to “off.” The question of voice trans- mission or telegraph code transmission also will be decided. Advise on Wave Lengths. The conference also has made de- finite recommendations as to the radio wave lengths to be allotted the airways communications system by the Federal Radio Commission and these recom- mendations have been submitted to the commission for its approval. . Under the agreement reached today a single communications station will be established at Chicago for the use of all these lines and to be installed and maintained by them jointly. Representatives of 95 per cent of the commercial air transport mileage of the country attended the conference, among them Herbert Hoover, jr., son of the President-elect. . At the opening session of the con- ference yesterday the various Federal agencies interested in airplane com- munications were represented as fol- lows: Capt. Frederick C. Hingsburg, air- ‘ways section, Department of Commerce; Maj. R. W. Blair, Army Signal Corps; Comdr. W. J. Rubel, U. S. N, and Comdr. T. A. M. Craven, U. 8. N,, tech- nical adviser to the Federal Radio Com- mission. Capt. Hingsburg Speaks. ; Capt. Hingsburg pictured the chaotic state that might develop if each oper- ator were permitted to develop his own system_ of communication and allotted & separate radio channel. The, conference appointed a technical subcommittee which is to confer with wver, Colo., believes a ring career might help a struggling young lawyer. —Copyright by P. & A. Photo. U. 5. AERONAUTICS BRANCH HONORED Commercial Aviation Achievements Rewarded by Collier Trophy. ‘The Collier Trophy, one of the most prized aeronautical trophies, which is awarded annually by the National Aero- nautic Association for “the greatest achievement in aviation in America, the value of which has been demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year,” today was awarded to the aero- nautics branch of the Department of Commerce for 1928. ‘The award was made to the person- nel of the branch, it was announced by Senator Hiram Bingham of Connec- ticut, president of the association, “for their outstanding achievement in the development of commercial aviation in America during the yéar.” ‘The cup will be presented to the aero- nautics branch through President Cool- idge, probably before the end of this month. The Collier Trophy, donated by the late Robert J. Collier, first was presentcg l.nh 19}1. This the fourth time in history that the trophy has been presented to the personnel of an organization and the first time it has been presented to any organization for an achievement other than in the air. The personnel of the United States air mail service won the trophy in 1922 and 1923, the first time for flying an entire year with- out a fatal accident, and the second time for demonstrating to the world the practicability of night flying in commercial transportation. The Army Air Service won the trophy in 1924 by virtue of the famous “round-the-world” flight made by Army pilots. GARDEN CLUBS PLANNING FOR EARLY SPRING WORK Preparations Under Way for Hor- ticultural Development—Federa~ tion Elects Board of Officers. With the Spring growing season in prospect, the National Capital Feder- ation of Garden Clubs, composed of clubs in the District and neighboring sections of Maryland and Virginia, have laid plans for horticultural development particularly adapted to this locality nnd[ elected the following officers: Miss Margaret Lancaster, to her third | term as president; Mrs. John Ihlder of | the Georgetown Garden Club and Dr.} R. J. Haskell of the Woodridge Garden Club, vice presidents; Mrs. C. V. Mace of the Burleith Garden Club, treasurer, and Miss Laura Wadsworth of the | Community Garden Club of Rockville, secretary. The federation plans to compile in- formation on various phases of horti- culture for distribution among the gardeners of the vicinity. —_—_—— out the detailed specifications for the guidance of manufacturers. sub- committee, which will act through the National Aeronautical Chamber of Com- merce, which fostered the conference, is composed of Thorpe Hiscock of Boeing Air Transport, chairman; Her- bert Hoover, )r.; Paul Goldsborough, Universal Aviation Corporation: H. C. Lenteritz, Pan-American Airways; E. H. Proctor, National Air Transport, and Federal- radio -authorities .and .10 .work H. J..Walls, Dgpartment.of Comumerce, First to pass Morro Castle in the unofficial New YMk-h-lilV!m race. The steamship President Roosevelt passing the historic landmark at the entrance to Havana Harbor four and one-half hours ahead of the Cunard liner Caronia. The President Roosevelt was entered by the United States Shipping Board in the Ward line service to Cuba to contest the newly organized Winter service of the Cunard line to Cuba. —Associated Press Photo. Comdr. Rexach, one o‘l the leading pilots of Spain, hopes some day to obtain a plane with sufficient passenger space to take his whole family up. The fiyer is shown with his wife and 10 children, most of whom have flown many times with him singly. CITES WOMEN’S WORK FOR “EQUAL RIGHTS” Secretary of National Party De- scribes Advance in Cause of Fem- inism During Past Year. Creation of the Inter-American Com- mission of Woman and recognition of “equal rights” as a national political issue in the presidential campaign were cited today as two notable advances in feminism of the past year by Mabel Vernon, executive secretary of. the, Na- tional Woman’s Party, in her report to the national council of the party, which is helding its first meeting of 1929 at party headquarters here, 21 First street northeast. ‘Through efforts of the Woman's Party the Inter-American Commission of ‘Women was created by the Pan-Ameri- can Conference at Havana to study the status of women in the Americas and to recommend ways to improve their condition to the next conference, the executive secretary explained. The council meeting here, at which Mrs. Clarence M. Smith of New York is presiding, assembled 13 other national party officers from all parts of the United States. The Washington member is Mrs. Harvey W. Wiiey. ‘The District of Columbia branch of the Woman's Party, of which Mrs. Emile Berliner is chairman, will enter- tain the council at dinner tonight in the national headquarters. — PRIZE FOR RED HAIR. Girls Given Chance to Compete at Food Show. The girl adjudged to have the redest hair among those at the Food Show tonight will be awarded a prize, the | Retail Grocers’ Association, which is sponsoring the show at the Washing- ,ton Auditorium this week, announces. A daily baby contest is also a feature of_the show. Despite the cold weather, a record- breaking crowd attended the show yes- terday. Miss Eleanor Wolff, 2926 Bladensburg road northeast, won a ham in the drawing last night. Each day one is given away by one of the firms ~exhibiting at the show. MRS. ELVIRA MARTIN DIES. Lynchburg Resident Survived by Husband and Daughter. Special Dispatch to The Star. LYNCHBURG, Va., January 15.—Mrs. Elvira Martin, 66 years of age, wife of Willlam E. Martin, died at Virginia Baptist Hospital Sunday evening, death resulting from pneumonia. Mrs. Martin is survived by her hus- band, a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Martin Sprinkle of Reidsville, N. C.; two broth- ers, James L. Coshran of Wilmington, Del., and J. W. Cochran of Evingtan, and three sisters, Mrs. M. V. Quinn, Mrs. J. g. Martin and Mrs. C. S. Dodd, Lynch- urg. PLANS LINEN SHOWER FOR SIBLEY HOSPITAL Woman's Guild to Discuss Plans for Annual Event at Meet- ing Thursday. Discussion of plans and the setting of a date for the annual linen shower for the benefit of Sibley Hospital are on the program for the next meeting of the Woman’s Guild of Sibley Memorial Hos- pital, which will be held Thursday morning at 10:45 o'clock in Rust Hall, Sibley Hospital nurses’ home. Dr. H. B. Wilson, director of the -Junior Red Cross, will be the speaker. Luncheon will be served at 1 o'clock in Hamline Church. Mrs. William M. J. Howard, Mrs. Charles Duehay, M Major Robb, Mrs. Louis Lieb, Mrs. E. J. Wolcott, Mrs. O. H. Hillman, Mrs. Frank Welch, Mrs. H. B. Brooks and Miss Mary Godfrey. Mrs. Fred J. Leon- Circle, will give a group of dialect read- ings. ~ ""The megsng 1s open to the public, and every one interested in hospital work is invited. Numr;}lanned for Monkeys. SUKHUM, Russia (#).—The Moscow Institute has established a monkey nursery for the purpose of obtaining animals to aid in experiments with can- l;er, tuberculosis and other diseases, The resent.monkey . pop! 42, ¢ Smith is chairman, assisted by Mrs. B. | ard, member of the Chevy Chase Guild | KILLS LARGE EAGLE. Maryland Man Catches Big Bird in Steel Trap. Speclal Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., January 15.— Napoleon B. Funk reports the killing of a large eagle in the Thorn Bottom vicinity below Wardensville after it had devoured two large white ducks belong- ing to him, He set several traps around the bones and feathers of the fowls, and later a large brown eagle was found in the traps. The eagle was dispatched with a shotgun. It measured 7 feet from tip to tip of wings and weighed 11 pounds. It will be mounted. ARLINGTON SHERIFF PLANS TAG DRIVE | Thousands Believed Without 1929 Plates as Last Day of Grace Nears Close. Special Dispatch to The Star. } CLARENDON, Va,, January 15.—Re- { porting that but 3,700 persons had ob- | tained their 1929 auto tags up to noon | today, as against 6,000 at closing time last year, Sheriff Howard B. Fields { declared that he would show no mercy | after midnight tonight flaunting the 11928 license plates. As the time for use of the 1928 | plates expires today, Sheriff Fields and |J. V. Turner, in charge of their issuance in this section of the State, | were looking for a last day rush of applicants, but they did not materlize. Up to noon less than 50 had been issued. ‘Turner has been issuing the tags at the courthouse each day since Decem- iber 15. He will close his office promptly at 4 o'clock today, and those desiring tags after that time will have tp apply at his Falls Church office. Sheriff Fields said that he and hi deputies would be on the lookout early tomorrow morning for users of the old tags, and that “my best friends will not be able to offer excuses good enough to get them out of paying a penalty for Zeglect.” | to motorists caught on the county roads H —Copyright by P. & A. Photos. CHEST IS INDORSED BY CITIZEN GROUP Stanton Park Association, Follow- ing Address by Rufus Lusk, Ap- proves Community Charity. Addressing the Stanton Park Citizens’ Association, which met in Peabody School, Fifth and C streets northeast, last night, Rufus Lusk discussed the Community Chest, and was advised that the plan would recelve the sup- port of the association and that $10 would be contributed to the fund. The Cramton bill and its provisions for the establishing of parkways and playgrounds were advocated by George C. Havenner, president of the Federa- tion of Citizens’ Associations. He ad- vised the assoclation it would be profitable to use surplus funds to carry out. the project rather than let them accumulate in the Treasury. The mat- ter was referred to the assoclation committee on parks. Dr. Robert W. McCullough, former president of the Trinidad Citizens’ As- sociation, stated that a business di- rectory for each section of Washing- |hi ton was heing compiled in order that residents might become familiar with trade concerns of their neighborhoods. An investigation of general fire alarms was advocated by the association in an attempt to devise some plan which would reduce the possibility of all fire apparatus being called to one section, leaving other portions of the city with- out ample protection. WOODMEN HOLD SERVICE. New Officers Installed by Hyatts- officers of the Washington and ville Camp. Special Dispatch to The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md, January 15— These officers of No. 11648, Modern Woodmen of American, were installed last night by Maryland District Deputy H. G. Moore of Baltimer: H. H. Schnede, soncul; Willilam T. Casey, adviser; A. C. Moon, banker; C. F. Glass, clerk; | John A. Door, watchman; Willlam H. Carlton, secretary; William Albee, escort; L. C. Clark, cheif forester; Dr. Guy W. Latimer and Dr. H. T. Willis, physicians; John B. Platz, trustee for three years; Willlam H. Carlton, trustee for two years; William Albee, trustee Intercession, New York City, Decem- annual meeting of the 2, wmissions. dor one year, and R. J. King, auditor, 3 N’Gi’s little cousin at the Bro: the 19-month-old gorilla there, was ladder when this photo was taken. a chimpanzee to tussle with. nx Zoo has a playmate. Jimmy, playing with a ball on top of the When he tires of the ball, he has —Cepyright by P. & A. Photos. BID OF $6,782,000 MADE FOR BIG LINER Shipping Board Receives Offer for | Leviathan Among Proposals Opened Today. By the Associated Press. A bid of $6782,000 for the liner Leviathan appeared when the Shipping Board today opened the offers which had been made for purchase of the | United States Lines and the American | Merchant Line, 1 | Six bids were received for the Mer- | | chant Line, consisting of five ships, and | fone was received for the United States | | Lines, consisting of six. There were two | offers for the two lines combined. | . The P. W. Chapman Co. of New York submitted a bid of $16,082,000 (for the two lines combined. Their joffer for the individual ships of [these lines was: Leviathan, $6,782,- 000; the Republic, $1,000,000; the George Washington, $2,000,000; the America, $2,000,000; the President Hard- ing, $1,000,000; the President Roosevelt, $1,000,000, and $460,000 for each of the five ships of the Merchant line, Ameri- can Trader, American Banker, American Merchant, American Farmer and Amer- ican Shipper. The bid contained a clause agreeing to operate the lines for DUTY ON SHINGLES 1S ASKED IN BRIEF Second Set of Witnesses on Metals Is Called by House Committee. By the Assoclated Press. Calling its second group of witnesses on the metals schedule, the House ways and means committee today received further requests for changes in tariffs on steel products. The committee had 100 representatives of the industry to hear in two days, because it fell behind its program yesterday. Although the wood schedule will not be taken up until next Thursday, a brief was filed with the committee by the tariff committee of the Cedar In- dustry of Washington, Idaho requesting a duty of 25 per cent ad valorem on shingles and cedar lum- ber, now on the free list. Oregon and Since 1922, when the present tariff law was written, the brief declared, more than half the cedar mills of tie 250,000, a period of 10 years. Gibbs Bros., Inc., and J. H. Win- chester, Inc., both of New York, com- bined to offer $10,000,000 for the two lines, except the President Harding and President Roosevelt, in place of whicn they offered $25,000 each for the ships Monticello and Mount Vernon, which they agreed to recondition at a cost of $ H e e A Washington and Lee Alumni to DEFENDANT TELLS JUDGE WIFE TRIED TO POISON HIM Colored Man Sent to Hospital for Observation After Hearing by Schuldt. Testifying in his own behalf after being arrested on complaint of his wife for making threats, Phillip Turner, col- ored, today told Judge Gus A. Schuldt. “great flames” shot from his mouth at night as a result of poison concealed in food prepared for him by her. ‘The wife, Mrs. Gussie Turner, testifled Rer husband had threatened to kill her, declaring she was attempting to poison m. Turner denied making any threats. It was revealed the man had been injured in a fall some time ago, and Judge Schuldt ordered him sent to Gallinger Hospital for mental observa- tion. OFFICERS TO BE NAMED. the class at the T Meet Saturday. The annual meeting and election of Alumni Association will be held Satur- day afternoon at 1 o'clock at the Carl- ton Hotel. Faculty representatives from the school are expected to attend the meet- ing and address the members. There are 135 local members of the organization. A program of entertainment will be pro- vided by the arrangements committee, omposed of Edmund_D. Campbell, Madison P. Cole, F. B. Potter, W. Wise Kelly, Fred P. Guthrie and Hunter G Osborne. . e A Scottish National day service will be held at the Episcopal added, United States tariff protection to foreign production and foreign competition and gives employment preference to foreign and Oriental labor over the American workman.” tist Church will hold annual banguet commemorating the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the banquet are: Northwest States had been forced into bankruptcy, while the remainder are nearly bankrupt. Since the removal of the shingle tariff in 1913, it said, the cedar industry has sustained an average yearly loss of 16 per cent, while British Columbia shingle production has gained 399 per cent, Calling attention to the duty of $1 a thousand feet on cedar logs, the brief said American manufacturers admitted the fairness of this duty “provided a fair tax is imposed on shingles and ce- | dar lumber.” As the tariff now stands, the brief the log tax affords ‘“actual | VAUGHN CLASS TO HOLD ANNIVERSARY BANQUET Thirty-Eighth Annual Affair Will Be Given at Raleigh Hotel. The Vaughn Class of Calvary Bap- its thirty-eighth Raleigh Hotel tomor- ow evening at 6:30 o'clock. The speakers are A. R. Hall of In- diana, Willlam Knowles Cooper, Dr. W. S. Abernethy, pastor of the church, and Dr. H. J. Entertainment will be provided by the Harmonlous Quartet and Miss Rosa Lee Allen in dialect stories. Everett will be toastmaster. ‘ouncilor, class teacher. w. W The class was founded In 1889 by F. W. Vaughn with 5 members and Lee | now has an active membership of 600 men, with more -than 5,000 former members located in all parts of the world. Dr. E. inal will be present. C. Rice, one of the orig- 5, is still an active member and The committee chairmen arranging Charles H. Cooke, general: Dr. G. S. Barnhart, toasts; J. C. Vick, supper; W. H. Newton, re- ception: ment: Hugh Smith, publicity; John W. Smith, invitations; printing C. C. Hutchinson, entertain- George A. s g. Twenty-four of the 32 active bishops ‘hapel of the ' of the Methodist Church attended the board of foreign