Evening Star Newspaper, January 21, 1929, Page 2

P SCHOOLS WILL AD CHEST CAMPAICA Art Students Volunteer to Make Posters to Be Given Publicity Unit. Officials of the District public schools will co-operate in every possible way toward making the campaign of the Washington Community Chest, January 28 to February 6, a success, according tc e announcement today by Dr. Frant W. Ballou, school superintendent. Stuaents from the art departments of the various schools have volunteered to make publicity posters for the cam- n, for the distribution of printed informa- tion among the school children to be taken to their homes, and that public school buildings may be used as head- qrarters for several divisions during the campaign, it is announced Reports Are Heard. Indications are that the chest cam- paign will start with a “bang.” accord- chest officials who heard reports ci the special gifts unit for the cam- paign, at a meeting of the unit in the Willard Hotel today. Mrs. Sidney F. erro, wife of the District Com- ner, still Jeads in the number and int of money pledged to the chest. brought out at the meeting. Arrangements for speakers to ad- dress various groups on the Community Chest were announced as follows: Stephen H. Talkes will speak at a meeting of the Retail Credit Men's Association at the Raleigh Hotel to- night | J. E. Jomes will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the Lincoin | Park Citizens' Association at the Bryan Scheol tonight | Harold Marsh, attorney-at-law, will | speak on the Chest campaign at a meeting of the West End Citizens' | Association at the Western Prebyterian | Church, at 1911 H street, tonight. Street to outline Plans. Elwood Street will outline campaign | plans and the purposes of the Com- munity Chest at a meeting of the Joshua Evans group of workers at the Cleveland Park Congregational Church tonight at 8 o'clock. Dr. Kelly Miller, chairman of the committee on colored co-ordination with the campaign, has arranged.a mass meeting and workers' rally to be | held at_the Metropolitan A. M. E.| Church Friday night at 8 o'clock. 'Ad- | dresses wlil be made by Dr. Mordecai 'W. Johnson. president of Howard Uni- versity; Bishop E. D. W. Jones of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and Neval H. Thomas, presi~ dent of the Association for the Ad- yancement of Colored People. Dr. Mil- ler will preside. HOOVER AND PARTY LEAVE FOR FLORIDA * ON VACATION TRIP (Continued Prom First ¥ Would be a popular one. While it has been rumored recently that Mr. Morrow was to continue as Ambassador to Mex- ico in the Hoover administration, the report of his approaching visit to Mr. Hoover in Florida has revived the re- port that the New Jersey man and former partner of J. P. Morgan & Co. is t~ have the cabinet office. V.ien Mr. Hoover came to Washing- ton two weeks ago, the question of a special session of Congress after March 4 was still in the air. It is now defi- nitely regarded as certain that such a session will be called, and the leaders in Congress are making their plans ac- cordingly. Mr. Hoover, during his stay in Florida, will complete his inaugural address, upon which it is understood he has already done some work. His appomtments to the cabinet will not be made public until after he returns to ‘Washington, it is said. MRS. McCORMICK DIES. Widow of Southern Railway Offi- cial Expires at Hospital. Mrs. Katherine Powers McCormick, | Widow of the late James 5. McCormick, | an official of the Southern Railway here, died yesterday at Georgetown Uni- versity Hospital. Mrs. McCormick is survived by a son, Edward J. McCor- mick, and three daughters, Helen C., Mary and Gertrude, all of Washington. Funeral services will be held at her late home, 5515 Connecticut avenue, at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. Requiem mass will be celebrated at 9 o'clock at the Church of the Blessed Bacrament. MERGER MEETING SOON. Final Senate Subcommittee Action | Expected in Few Days. The Senate subcommittee in charge | of the street railway merger question, which has been waiting for Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin to pre- pare additional amendments he has in mind, may be called together within the next few days to take final action on the rewritten merger plan. The amendments Senator Blaine in- tends to suggest would seek to establish certain rules to be followed by the Pub- Jic Utilities Commission in making the new valuation of the railway companies. ‘The Senator has not completed the text of his amendments, but had indicated they will be based on the prudent in- vestment theory of valuation P ich will be turned over to C.| Mclvin Sharpe of the publicity unit, | The school officials have also arranged | e to Robert V. Fleming. chairman | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON., D. €. MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1929 BOOTH INJUNCTION TWO DAYS REMAN TO SUBMIT ESSAYS Chest Manuscripts Must Be Received by Star by Mid- night Wednesday. Only two more days, tomorrow and Wednesday, remain for entering essays in The Star’s contest for essays on the advantages of the Community Chest in the National Capital, for which prizes totaling $175 have been offered. AN manuscripts must be less than 300 words long and be in the hands of the Community Chest Essay Contest Editor, Star Building, by midnight Wednesday if they are to receive attention by the board of editors of The Star, which will judge the essays. Winners of the prizes of $100 for first choice, $50 for second and $25 for third will be announced in time for the prizes to be awarded at the dinner at the Mayflower 'Hotel, January 28, when the Community Chest's 1929 funds campaign will be formally opened. Elwood Street, director of the Chest campaign, today expressed himself as highly pleased with the way in which Washingtonians have responded to the contest, and pointed out that many val- uable suggestions have been made by those essayists who have made a close study of the workings of the Chest and its possibilities in the administration of benevolences in Washington for the 57 component organizations which form it. “Copies of the winning essays will be placed in the hands of all the group heads in the coming campaign, for use in furthering the drive. We expect considerable help from this source in raising the money necessary for the proper conduct of the chest during the ensuing year,” he declared. “There is no doubt that the contest has stirred up considerable interest in the- homes of Washington in the prin- ciple of Community Chest collection and administration of charity funds, especially where the school children have taken up the writing of essays and received help from their parents and older brothers and sisters,” he added. Blast Injures 12 Miners. ‘WILKES BARRE, January 21 (#).— ‘Twelve men, members of a repair crew, working in Mine of Baltimore, No. 5. colliery of Hudson Coal Co. at East End, were injured today when an ex- plosion of gas followed a squeeze. Washington’s Community co-ordinated. Greater good is expected effort. effort. To further interest in the Star, are eligible to awards. uary 23. Star. Yy Prizes of $175 cAre Offered for Community Chest Essays Through it the city’s giving to charitable projects will be Citizens everywhere are uniting for the great fund-raising These funds are to be distributed to 57 organized charities of the District during the course of the coming year. Star today is offering prizes totaling $175 for the best essays to ba written by Washingtonians on the advantages of the Community Chest in ¢the National Capital. These essays must be under three hundred words in length. All persons in Washington, except employes of The Manuscripts must be submitted to the Community Chest Essays Contest Editor of The Star before Wednesday, Jan- Their merits will be judged by a board of editors of The That essay deemed best will be awarded a prize of $100. Second best, $50, and third best, $25. Be sure and enter your essay early. Do not delay. Chest drive is near. to be achieved with organized coming campaign The Evening ONEOUT OFSFAL AFOULLAW N 1908 Hesse Shows Increase in Ar- /| rests in Five-Year Police Report. An claborate statistical report sum- marizing police activities for the last five years, released at police head- quarters today, reveals that 112812 arrests were made in 1928, sctting a new record and indicating more than one arrest for each five persons in the District. The previous record was set in 1927, when 96,772 arrests were made, closely followed by 1926, with 94,870. In 1925 and 1924, the numbers arrested were 78,017 and 76,399, respectively. ‘The bulk of the arrests last year, as in the four previous years, was for traffic violations. In this respect 1928 also set a record of 48,194 arrests. In 1927, the number arrested was 38,370; in 1926, 42,619; in 1925, 33,110, and in | 1924, 37,917. In a statement accompanying the re- port, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superin- tendent of police, called attention to| the particular significance of the | figures relating to more serious crimes. 44 Murders in Five Years. “The department has a record of 44 murders,” the report reads, “having been committed during the period cov- | ered by the report, all but two of which | cases have been effectively cleared up.” The two cases remaining unsolved are that of William H. Jones, a driver for the Black & White Taxi Co., who, while between M and N streets January 14, 1928, was shot by a passenger, and | that of Joseph Woodson, colored, who on December 18, 1928, was found at | 514 Tenth street with his skull crushed. | Reports of robberies total 336 during | the calendar year, 182 of which were with weapons and 154 without weapons. The records show 282 arrests on charges of robbery, with 345 cases of assault with dangerous weapons re- ported and 362 arrests for that offense. “Of particular moment,” the report continues, “is the gradual increase over a period of five years in arrests under charge of housebreaking, indicating that this class of crime is on the in- crease, but indicating also that the department is unusually active in ap- prehending criminals of this type.” The figures show 983 arrests for house- breaking in 1928, 928 in 1927, 894 in 1926, 714 in 1925 and 472 in 1924. The statement also takes cognizance of recent attacks on Capitol Hill against the department’s record in en- forcing the gambling and liquor laws | by calling attention to the fact that| arrests for setting up a gaming table, which is a felony, show a considerable increase for the last three years, where- as arrests for permitting gaming, which is a misdeamor, show a decrease for 1928 as compared with 1927. There were 186 arrests for setting up a gam- ing table in 1928, as against 135 in| 1927 and 58 in 1926. arrests for permitting gaming in 1928, the same number as reported for 1926. There were 510 such arrests in 1927. Liquor Arrests Increase. Turning to the Volstead act the statement shows an increase of 872 ar- rests in 1928 over those in 1927, the greatest percentage of increase being in arrests for illegal possession of liquor and for selling liquor, Arrests for in- toxication increased from 13,812 14,600. In 1928 seizures of liquor were more than double the seizures in 1927, 99,276 gallons having been taken last year, as compared with 42,572 gallons in 192 ‘The number of stills seized declined from 111 in 1927 to 93 in 1928. “Generally,” the statement concludes, “the statistics setting forth the activi- ties of the force during the calendar year 1928 were most gratifying. The | statistics submitted are compiled from !day to day from the morning reports and special reports forwarded to head- quarters by the various precincts and bureaus and their accuracy cannot be questioned.” i e Flu Toll Here W;;el, ‘Ten cases of influenza, the smallest { number since Christmas, 'were reported to the District Health Department to- day. Yesterday 29 cases and one death from the disease were reported. No additional deaths were reported today. four-alarm blaze this morning. out Miss Goodman. covered the Sixth street fire and ran through the building arousing residents when the alarm system failed to work. | to flee in their night clothing. | Glotzbach, Mrs. P. T. Moss and Mrs. L. GIRL, 24, IS FATALLY inspected February 24, 1927, but at the fire marshal's office this morning it was said the records showed they were in- spected April 12, 1928. 1 were on the third floor of the building. They are: Mrs. Lucie Vaugon; Thomas Foren and his wife, Ella, and their two children, Paul, 6, and Maragaret, 2; Thompson, his wife, Mrs. Mary Thom son, and their four daughters, Betty, 7; Doris, 6 month Hamilton others are stopping temporarily with friends in the vicinity. Mrs. Vaugon were carried down a rear fire escape by Sergt. Murchel Lamp of operating a cab on Twenty-fifth street | No. 14 Engine Company. the same company assisted Mrs. Thomp- son from the building. | from a recent accident, hobbled down the fire escape with little assistance. | apartment about 4 am. He ran to the front window and shouted for help be- fore arousing other occupants on the floor. northeast, heard his cries and attempted to scale the front wall of the building in an attempt to reach the children he | knew were on the upper floor. ordered down by firemen when they| reached the scene. SCENES IN TWO (EARLY MORNING BLAZES e in ;';'m?,, sterday morning. Upper right: Lower left: P. T. BURNED IN 4-ALARM FIRE AT APARTMENT (Continued From First Page.) All of -those rescued in yesterday's fire Jules Vaugon and his invalid wife. 2; James E. ; Mary Jane, 4, and Esther, Mr. and Mrs. Vaugon went to the | Hotel after the fire, The Mary Jane and Esther Thompson and Members of Foren, his right foot incapacitated Foren was awakened by smoke in his W. E. S. Tipton, 38, of 658 F street Left to right—Mrs. G. L. Gh‘l'.‘lhlclgt Mi | He was | Upper left: Firemen fighting the spectacular blaze at 922 Fourteenth street Scene outside the apartment house at 21 Sixth street northeast, where Miss Carrie Goodman was fatally burned in a Inset: F. A. Weismuller, fireman, who carried Moss and William Clemmer, who dis- Some of those forced) Alice fI Photos. Lower right: NEW LICENSE LAW REAI]@ STUDY | Committee Completes Revi- sion of Tax Measure After Four Months. 1 Revision of the District’s license tax | law was completed today by the com- mittee of District and Federal Govern- ment representatives that undertook the task more than four months ago at the | request of Representative Gibson, chair- man_of the District subcommittee of | | the House. The committee’s report, a volumi- nous document, with its recommended changes in the license tax law, will be considered by the Commissioners at their semi-weekly board meeting tomor- row, and then forwarded to Mr. Gibson. Changes made in the license tax law by the committee are said to be the most exhaustive and far-reaching ever made in any District legislation. The committee’s recommendations were framed, it was sald, with a view to making license fees more equitable. The new schedule of fees proposed is un- derstood to be based in accordance with the cost to the District of making in- spections of various types of business. It also includes a number of new busi~ messes which have come into existence in recent years and are not now re- quired to pay a license fee. There were 467 | By the Associated Press. wrote the last of his three novels, Since January 1 there have been 45 deaths and L556 cnsel"pomd. Chamber.” were “God Head,” his first novel, which LEONARD CLINE. NOVELIST, IS FOUND DEAD IN STUDIO Wrote Third . Novel While| Serving Prison Term for Killing Friend. Author Freed After 10 Months | of Year Sentence for Manslaughter. NEW YORK, January 21 of Leonard Cline, novell to | released from jail last July, was found in his Greenwich Village studio yes- terday. he had been dead five days. diseas death. The medical examiner said Heart was indicated as the cause of Cline came to New York from his farm near Williamantic, Conn., a month ago. ing in which the author had his quar- ters, in the region of his heart at a party at which night. seen alive. Helen Todd, agent for the build- said he had complained of pain he was host last Tuesday ‘That was the last time he was Last July Cline was released from a Connecticut prison where he served 10 months of a year's sentence for man- slaughter for the slaying of his friend, | M Wilfred Irwin, ndver{ died of a shotgun wound after a party at Cline’s farm. The author main- tained the shooting was accidental. Nevertheless, he was indicted for first degree murder. ising man. Irwin In the midst of trial he pleaded guilty to manslaughter. While serving his sentence Cline ‘Dark Previous works published LEONARD CLINE. had a degree of success, and “Listen g During his incarceration he turned to the study of theology. Before he devoted his time to novel writing, Cline was employed as & re- porter and critic on newspapers in Chi- cago, Detroit, Baltimore and New York. He was a frequent contributor magazines. His wife, Mrs. Katherine G. Cline, was potified of his th at the home of her parents in #§troit, | | ! By the Associated Press. to | part; HEARING IS HALTED Writ to Remain in Effect Until Friday, When Suit Comes Up Again. LONDON, January 21.—Injunction proceedings brought by Gen. Bramwell Booth were adjourned until Friday when they came up in Chancery Court this morning. | The temporary Injunction which re- | strained the high council of the Salva- tion Army from electing a successor to Gen. Booth will continue in effect until the next hearing. ‘The proceedings were brief. W. A. Greene, representing Bramweil Booth, said that it had been agreed to let the matter stand over until Friday to give the other side time to prepare evidence. Mr. Greene said that it had come to his notice that one of the defendants had issud a document containing some observations on Bramwell Booth’s action in commencing the proceedings. This doubtless was issued with the best in- tention, but he could not help thinking that it would do nothing but harm. “There are obviously in this matter questions of great legal importance.” he said, “particularly as the general is the sole trustee of large and valuable properties and the matter will have to be regulated sooner or later.” The general's action, he continued. was taken on legal advice and was in no wise actuated by personal motives It was necessary that the constitutional position be made clear. Attorney Gavin Simonds, council, agreed that it was for the uch better to have nothing sald to embitter the controversy. Appeal has been made to Mrs. Bramwell Booth to halt the proceed- ings. AR BOMBARDMENT SCATTERS REBELS Guatemala Reported Rapidly Returning to Normal After Uprising. By the Assoclated Press. GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala, January 21.—Official announcement was made today that the cities of Quetzaltenango and Realhuleu, taken over by rebel forces last week, were reoccupied by government troops today without fighting. By the Associated Press. GUATEMALA City, January 21.—An artillery bombardment today paved the way for an advance by government troops into the part of Mazatanango still held by rebels. The city was partially in the hands of loyal troops and rebels were also driven from the City of Salama. Airplanes using bombs and machine guns were believed to have demoralized the insurgents so that the government infantry was able to take over part of Mazatanango including the railway sta- tion. Many insurgents were seen 10| fall in the strafing to which government ‘airplanes subjected them. Rebels in the northern part of Salama handed over their arms after their | leaders had fled before an advance by loyal troops. ! ‘The cities of Quezaltenango nnd: Totonicapan were negotiating today for the surrender of the rebel leader Marciano Casado, who released the forces under his command. The government was announced to be dominating the situation, with the re- public rapidly returning to normal. MELLON REPEATS DRY FUND STAND | TO BISHOP CANNON; _(Continued From First Page.) _ not lag because of the lack of a more adequate program “than is possible with present appropriations.” In telegram Bishop Cannon objected to the stand of Mr. Mellon. The bishop in yesterday's statement said he was “in full accord with what I understand to be Secretary Mellon's position that a larger appropriation should be made to the Department of Justice to enable it to handle more ex- peditiously indictments against prohi- bition law offenders.” Glass Proposal Approved. “Moreover, I heartily approve the pro- posal of Senator Glass to appropriate $250,000 for the work of the commission proposed by President-elect Hoover. But these appropriations for the Department of Justice and the survey commission would not fn my judgment minimize the desirability and the importance of placing at the disposal of the Secretary of the Treasury the proposed additional sum of $25,000,000 to be applied as he may determine after careful considera- tion.” KLOSS FUNERAL RITES. Daughter of Hyattsville Doctor Passes Away. Miss Augusta A. Kloss, 27 years old, of Hyattsville, who died Thursday at the Maryland State Hospital, Spring- field, Md., was buried this morning in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Services were conducted at 10 o'clock in Jasch's fun- eral home in Hyattsville. Miss Kloss was the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Waldemar Kloss of Banner street, Hyattsville. She was born in Belleville, Ind., and had lived in Hyatts- ville since childhood. Recently she was employed in the Treasury Department. Besides her parefits she is survived by relatives in St. Louis. SCANLON RITES HELD. Funeral services for Michael D. Scan- lon, base ball ploneer and former head of the old Nationals, forerunners of the ‘Washington Base Ball Club, who died in Georgetown University Hospital Fri- day, were conducted in St. Patrick's Catholic Church today at 9 o'clock. {ntormem was in Mount Olivet Ceme- ery. Mr. Scanlon, a lifelong resident of this city, was born October 27, 1847. He served in the Union Army. He was widely known among the “old timers” in base ball and maintained an active interest in the game up to the time of his death. e L Croatian Headquarters Raided. ZAGREB, Croatia, January 21 (#).— Acting on orders from the Belgrade vernment, the !xmce today raided the eadquarters of the Croatian Peasants’ taking possession of the cash box and archives and sealing the doors. This s in line with the new govern- ment’s determination to disband all op~ position political organizations. | | | | BRINGS NAVY PROBE Two District Men Are Vic- tims of Canal Zone Tragedy. Drowning of two Washington naval officers, Capt. Ralph Griswold, com- manding officer of the 9th Destroyer Scouting Squadron, and Chief Pay Clerk Arthur S. Wrenn, and three enlisted men when a Navy gig collided with a barge off Balboa, in the Canal Zone, yesterday, was under investigation from two sources today, according to Asso- ciate Press dispatghes from the Canal Zone. A probe of the affair is being made by a board appointed by Rear Admiral Frank H. Clark, in command of the American destroyer squadrons, and by canal officials. The enlisted men drowned were Cox- swain Fred W. Sweinberg of West Orange, N. J.; Seaman Herbert D. Mc- Dowell of Jacksonville, Fla.,, and Fire- man Earl D. Tibbetts of Haverhill, Mass. Four other occupants of the gig, which was returning shortly after 4 am. to the U. S. S. Whitney, saved themselves. ‘They were Capt, William J. Giles, com- mander of the tender Whitney, and Seamen Walter C. Rowell, Albert W. Gatewood and James P. Powers. Barge's Position Misjudged. With a relief crew supplanting the regular crew of the gig, which had been sent to their ships some time earlier for overstaying their leaves ashore, Capts. Griswold and Giles were being returned to the Whitney after having | spent the evening in Panama. It was dark as the gig swung out from the pier. The canal tug Mariner, with a tow, was coming along the center of the canal about 300 yards from shore. Towing lights were burn- ing on the tug, but, according to those who escaped from the sunken gig, the coxswain of the gig apparently thought the barges were behind instead of alongside the tug. ‘The survivors said no one aboard the gig saw the barges until they were about 30 feet from them. Then, they say, a man cried to the coxswain, “Look out! There's a lighter alongside Just after leaving the pier Capt. Giles had ordered the gig's speed cut to half because a bearing in the boat's engine was burned out. Hearing the cry of warning, the coxswain swung to port but the gig struck the barge o the starboard bow. All of the gig passen- gers were thrown overboard. Capt. Giles, a strong swimmer, car- ried Wrenn to the tug and hel get aboard, but efforts to revive the pay officer failed. The motor whale- boat of the submarine rescue ship Fal- con, responding to calls for aid, picked up the body of Capt. Griswold. The bodies of Wrenn and Capt. Griswold were taken to the Gorgas Hospital to await word from relatives. Rowell. one of the survivors, said that after being thrown overboard collision he grabbed the side of the gig and clambered aboard. Another man came up alongside, he said, and, put- ting his foot over the gunwale, he told the man to take hold of it and pull himself up. The man did and then caught hold of the handrail of the en- gine room. The rail broke loose and the man disappeared in the water. Marine Code Violation Charged. Gatewood and Powers managed to swim to the Falcon's whaleboat and were taken aboard. Members of the tugboat crew charged that the gig was proceeding on the wrong side of the canal channel and sald that the tug was running on its regular schedule with all proper lights burning. Capt. Griswold received the Navy Cross during the war for his services as commanding officer of the transport Kroonland. He wss 48 years old. Griswold Here Nine Years. Capt. Griswold, a nafive of Pennsyl- vania, was appointed to the Naval Acedemy from Massachusetts, receiving For nine years, up to September 1 last year, he had lived at 2435 Wisconsin avenue, where his widow, Mrs. Ethel Sharp Griswold, and two daughters, Misses Nancy and Elizabeth Griswold, now reside. Chief Pay Clerk Wrenn, a native of ‘Washington, was the son of A. C. Wrenn, Bureau of Engineering, Navy Department. In addition to his father, ‘Wrenn is survived by his widow and a 20-month-old son, both of whom are ill_with influenza at Fall River, Mass. It is expected the Navy will expedite the return of the two officers’ bodic= ¢~ the Capital and that military servic will attend their burial at Arlington Na- | tional Cemetery. FRATERNITY PINS STOLEN. Enter Store and Rob Jeweler of $300. Thieves with a “fraternal complex” yesterday morning entered the jewelry store of Abraham Burnstine, 927 G street, and escaped with a case of fra- ternity pins valued at $300. Entrance was gained by breaking a show window. A box of silk stockings, valued at $100, Burglars » | Obliged to attend a meeting of the ways in the | his commission in the Navy in 1902 | * dpo "y oides. PASSENGERS SAFE AS CRAFT GROUNDS 90 Are Transferred From Liner Stranded on Bahama Coral Reef. Two Washingtonians Reported Taken Off Grounded Ship By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 2 Among the passengers transferred from the Dollar Line steamer President Garfield, which went aground on a coral reef off the Bahama 1slands, were Miss E. M. Hand and W. H. McCaninay, both of Washington, who were en route to San Francisco. Efforts to identify Miss Hand McCaninay here were sful today By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 21.—Her 90 passengers transferred to another ship, the Dollar liner President Garfield was hard aground today on a coral reef in the Bahama Islands. The passengers, with their baggage and the ship's mail cargo, were taken by the Pan-America to be landed at Nassau, Bahama Islands, today. The Pan-America went to the assist- ance of the President Garfield when the ship sent out an S O S call at 7:25 am. yesterday. The Dollar line was informed today that the steamer was undamaged and that in all_probability it could be re- floated, pick up its passengers at Nas- | sau, where they were taken by the res- | cue ship Pan America of the Munson |line, and continue its journey around the world. Robert E. Duff, operating manager of the Dollar line here, said the officers and crew of the President Garfield, numbering 150, had remained aboard their ship, which was not taking water and was in no immediate danger. When Capt. T. P. Quinn of the Presi- dent Garfield sent out his S O S the Pan-America, which was nearly two hundred miles away, headed for the position of the stricken ship, arriving | alongside in _midafternoon. Both the President Garfield and the Pan-America left New York last Thurs- day, the Dollar liner starting on & world cruise and the Pan-America on her regular run to Nassau. ‘The President Garfield, a twin-screw steel steamer, built in 1921, is of 10.558 gross tons, 502 feet 1 inch length and 72-foot beam. COMMISSION TO FIX BOULEVARD ROUTE Course of Mount Vernon Road Ex- pected to Be Decided To- MOITOW. The route of the new memorial boulevard from Washington to Mount Vernon is expected to be decided ‘at a | meeting of the executive committee of the Bi-centennial Commission at the Capitol tomorrow and to be approved at a meetifg of the full Bi-centennial Commission at the White House on Thursday. President Coolidge is chairman of the commission, which is arranging for proper observance of the 200th an- niversary of George Washington's birth, in 1932° The commission is composed of distinguished men and women from all parts of the country. | At the meeting of the executive com- | mittee today in the office of Willlam i Tyler Page, clerk of the House, who is | also executive secretary of the com= mission, two surveys of alternate routes for the Memorial Boulevard were sub=- mitted by Director MacDonald and En- gineer Wilson of the Bureau of Pub- lic Roads, which, under the Memorial | Boulevard act, will have charge of con= structing this great highway to Mount Vernon. The so-called river route along the Virginia bank of the Potomac to Mount Vernon is generally favored by the Bi- centennial Commission and by the Commission of Fine Arts, and probably will be the route decided on. Owing to the fact that several mem= bers of the executive committee were | and means committee the session today ! was brief. The executive committee wiil meet again tomorrow, at which time it |is expected to pass upon the route »f | the memorial boulevard. The duty of | the bi-centennial commission is merely | to select the route under the act of | Congress which authorizes construction of the boulevard from the Arlington Memorial Bridge to Mount Vernon. |SUSPECT ARRESTED ON LARCENY COUNT Offered Free Rides in Plane to In- | duce Purchase of Stock in Air | Firm, Police Claim. | Alleged to have offered free airplane | rides as an inducement to prospective investors in an aeronautical association which he professed to be organizing, | Charles J. Marchant of New York City was brought here last night from Char- lotte, N. C., on & warrant charging him with larceny after trust. He is being held for a hearing in Police Court. He is charged specifically with the conversion of $200 received from Thad- deus DeVall, 1526 Fourteenth street. ‘The police charge that Marcnand, representing himself as a stock sales- man for a proposed aviation concern, took prospective buyers to a nearby flying field and there entertained them ‘The young man was arrested in Charlotte upon information furnished by Detectives H. A. Cole and Clarance Talley, who investigated his activities in_Washington. Pollce say the man under arrest was known here as J. C. Reeva, and in Charlotte as James Madine, JED GIDDINGS RITES HELD AT RESIDENCE _Funeral services for Jed Gittings, as- sistant secretary of the Merchants’ Transfer & Storage C in Maryland Masonry, Takoma Park Sanitarium Saturday, were conducted at his late residence, on the old Georgetown road, near Be- thesda, this afternoon. Interment was in Glenwood Cemetery, with Masonic rites at the grave by the Bethesda Lodge of Masons. Honorary pallbearers were Judge Robert Peter, George P. Sacks, E. E. Williams, C. B. Buck, J. H. Griffith and Joseph Redding. A. A. Condon. Lewis Keiser, Leroy Gaddis, Walter Bogley, C. A. Lindstrom and R. J was taken from the store of Isaac Ber- man, 1784 Florida avenue, yesterday morning. thieves entered by break- ing a skyljfat. e Service were the active pallbearers. Mr. Gittings' grandson, Horace K Whalen, a cadet at the Uniled States Military Academy, attended the funcral services,