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WAY TOLIFT CURSE OF DEAFNESSINU.S. SOUGHT AT SESSION Finding Handcuffs, She Put Them On—Key Lost for Years. - The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. POLICE PICK LOCK TO TAKE OFF "BRACELET"” FOR GIRL. 11 Nationally Known Savants Says She Will Never Try On | Meet Here to Study Relief Plans. EXPERIMENTAL SURVEY URGED TO CHART PATH, Children Suffering From Auditory Deficiencies Will Be Given Special Attention. Means of lifting the curse of deafness from a largé section of the population are being considered at a meeting of nationally known psychologists, educa- tors, physicists and physicians, which opened this morning_at the National Academy of Sciences Building. The meeting was called under the chairmanship of Knight Duniap, chair- man of the division of anthropology and psychology of the National Re- search Council, to consider the applica- tion of proposals worked out during the past year by research council com- mittees. It is proposed to exhaust the present resources of science in -this national effort to ameliorate, so far as possible, the hard lives of those suffering from both functional and organic deafness, which, it is recognized, not only cause much unhappiness for the victims but | are responsible for mental difficulties. Among the proposals to be considered today is one for the establishment of a central research unit for the study of the social and emotional adjustment of deaf people. This unit, with a med- ical and psychological staff, might be located in Washington, due to the prox- imity of Gallaudet College, which ad- vantage is cited by the committee. The report_also mentions New York, Chi- cago. Boston and Baltimore as suitable locations because of the central loca- tions and university and medical school facilities. | 1 { | House-to-House Visits Urged. It also is proposed to condiet an cx perimental survey of & population group of approximately 10,000 persons of all ages and types, by house-to-house visits, in some medium-sized, interior ecity with a surrounding rural section of di- versified population. Such a survey, it is pointed out, would give dependable figures as to the actual prevalence of deafness in the population and the sort of persons whom it is most fre- quent. Then it would be possible to select subgroups for more intensive studies, such as the relation of suditory defects to age, sex, race, other diseases, climatie conditions, urban and | T Ohe ot . gheat drawbacks, 1 e of e greal Wi It was pointed out this morning, to a national drive against deafness, is that nobody knows just how. big the 1s. Many persons who are somewhat hard of hea are able to get along and go through life with the defect unx'lflscud except by those closely associaf with them. Other surveys are proposed for the public schools, the investigators using a standard method. Such surveys in the past have resulted in some con- fusion hte::t‘.utehe dxflereln‘t:hillumodx ‘were used, so school idren of some cities show 10 times as much deafn as reported from other cities. Young Sufferers Present Problem. ‘The committee is’interest larly in the 5 deficient child. “From birth to 7 years of age,” said the presented this is at the present morning. * a :une e clo;:‘fgoat. ‘With a few e; - l.reexm‘k'.ng’ uhool; !’or the deaf n al age of 7or 8. When we consider the stress now being placed 1R general” deveispment. i secis e nt it seems astounding that there should be such a great gap in our lnnwhdfm We know little about the methods of testing hear- m{l at the-early ages and relatively little of the ce of one, two or three hearing at early general years of partial ages with reference to the later development of the individual.” “It is, however,” the report continues, “that after the ave: deaf child has been in a school for the deaf {for from six to eight years, he can read no better than the average 7 or 8 year old hearing child. It requires about | eight or ten years of instruction in spe- | cial schools to bring the deaf child to the level which ordinary child | reaches in one or two years of schooling. “Blind children relatively are re- tarded slightly in comparison to deaf children. Deafness seems to be many times as great a handicap with refer- ence to development as blindness. There is some indication that deafness re- tards the development of all processes. It would seem an easy task for a per- son with vision to reproduce digits fi memory when such digits are presen visually, but this is practically impos- sible for the deaf child, primarily be- cause of the failure of the associated language processes which make vuunl. memory possible.” To determine the effect of deafness among children, the committee will consider establishing a special nursery school for boarding and day pupils. The location has not been determined. In- tensive studies will be undertaken of the various methods for communication with deaf persons, such as the use of portable microphone sets, various amplifying devices, and lip reading and training in the interpretation of voice vibrations against the hand. Where mechanical appliances are involved, it is proposed to keep standard sets at the Bureau of Standards. Fitting Deafs Persons Into Jobs to Be Stu . Another committee will work on the problem of fitting deaf persons into jobs where they will not be greatly imndtuppea and the consideration of laws and discriminations against tnem. A special study is to be made, accord- ing to the outline, of the alleged dis- criminations of some life insurance companies against these persons who are hard of hearlog. Methods of train- ing the deaf for jobs ulso will be con- sidered. What some 1nembers of the committee regard as the most impor- tant problem of all, irom the stand- point of deaf persons, is the develop- ment of their intelligence. Says the report: 2 ¥ “The young deal child frequently is thought to be feebic mind:d. If de- vices can be developed which will dis- criminate between constitutional feeble mindedness and zuditory deficiency, it might be possitle to develop an ade- quate training program. “When one realizes the relationship that exists between the onset of audi- tory deficiency and the amount of prog- ress the defective child subsequently makes in a deaf school and the tre- mendous acquisition of the hearing child between the ages of 2 and 5 or 6, with its correlated effects on the de- velopment of all mental processes, it seems highly important that every ef- fort be made to study the possibiiity-ef g ‘Yroblem of the auditorily °.,.‘§' Any More Funny-Look- ing Trinkets. Eleven-year-old Vera Cornwell, M street southeaSt, tried on a new kind | of bracelet last night and police assist- ance was required to remove it. | It all started when Vera and her | little playmate, Joanna Wooten, at whose home she was visiting, were told | that they were not to leave the house due to the cold weather. So, rummaging | around, in search of othef divertise- ment, the girls discovered the posses- sions of Joanna’s father, E. P. Wcoten, 1137 New Jersey avenue southeast, a constable at Mount Rainier, Md. Among the belongings Vera located a pair of obsolete handcuffs and put them on. But they wouldn't come off. The girls, frightened, ran down stairs and explained to Joanna's uncle, W. R. ‘Wooten. He however, needed no expla- nation—he remembered that the key | to the manacles had been lost years | ago. He tock Vera, handcuffed and a bit frigntened, to the sixth precinct station, where he was told to go to detective neadquarters. On their arrival there Lieut. Joseph Morgan, night chief of de- tectives, with the assistance of Police- man E. D. Gemeny of the sixth precinct and Detective Sergts. Eugene Davis and 123 | . VERA CORNWELL. ___—Star_Staft_Photo. Arthur Fihelly, worked for half an hour before they managed to pick the lock. Vera heaved a sigh of relief. This morning Vera is the heroine of the Van Ness School, where she is a pupll in the fourth grade. When asked if she had anything to say for publica- tion she sald meekly, “All I know is that I won't try on any more funny- looking bracelets.” CAPT. FRIED COMES ~ T0.D. C. TONIGHT Will Be Received by President at White House Monday Morning. to_Washington at the direc. tion of the United States lines to re- ceive the commendation of the dent and local citizens at the annual banquet of the Board of Trade for his part in the rescue of the crew of the Italian freighter Florida, Capt. George Fried, of the liner America will arrive at. Uhion station at 10:55 o'clock to- night. He will be accompanied by Mrs. be wel- at the station by acting for the ; 8. E. Redfern , and lines, a dele- the Board of Trade, W evening at the Wil- lard Hotel will have Capt. Fried as a guest of honor. President Coolidge is to receive Capt. and Mrs. PFried at the White House Mtens tha vtk to Washington, ho 3 , how- ever, it is likely Capt. Fried will Teturn to his command on .the America. The tion has an- to visit other cities are :-einc declined on behalf of Capt. Frie More praise of Cept. Fried, Chlet Of- T News, and suggested that Capt. Fried’s achievement be included as a part of THREE FOUND GUILTY OF HOUSEBREAKING | Men Arrested at ‘Seat Pleasant -Are Remanded for Sentence by Justice Kedoy: Louis Seltzer, Henry T. Green and | Ray Noble were convicted today by a | jury in Criminal Division 1 before Chief Justice McCoy of - housel . Fol- lowing the arrest of the men last Feb- ruary at Seat Pleasant, Md., Detective James C. Collins seized two truckloads of alleged stolen goods. Among the articles recovered was property longing to Calvin E. Remberg, whose home, 1300 Monroe street northeast, had been entered February 23. 1t was of this case that the jury found the three men guilty. They were remanded for sentence. Assistant United States At- torney William H. Collins conducted the prosecution. —eeeeeeeeeeeeee meeting the hearing deficlency in_this early period with every mechanical aid possible. “Modern psychology ‘attaches funda- menta] importance to the linguistic processes as important factors in de- velopment. When we realize that the ordinary child at the age of 6 years has a vocabulary of between 3,000 and 5,000 words and uses every form of sen- | tence, every part of speech and has the elementary mechanics of the language pretty thoroughly worked out; when we further realize that the child of 8 years is, in comparison with the adult, vir- tually at the completion of his language development except for the addition of more words, we begin to realize some- | thing of the handicap which the deat child has borne. Difference in School Material Cited. “The public schools receive, at the age of 6 in the hearing child, one Who already is very far advanced in the basic manipulation of linguistic proc- esses. The school for the deaf, taking a child at the age of 8, receives a child who has made virtually no progress and at the best adds but a few words a year to the child’s vocabulary, in comparison with the tremendous acquisition of the normal child at the age of 2, 3 and 4. “There seems to be general agreement that the deaf child is apathetic and listless as compared with the average hearing child. There are a host of prob- lems upon which we have relatively little information in regard to audito- |rily defective children.” Studles of the play activities of deaf children are proposed, partly because iplay is recognized as an extremely im- portant factor of education. It also proposed to study the lives of deaf chil | dren in their own homes to see if some method of procedure can be worked out for parents.’ ‘The work is being carried on under the direction of the National Research Council, with a grant from the Laura Speliman Rockefeller Foundation. The meeting this mornin, “Viee- President Dawes, ! widely edbyi'a:f h‘ngcel-u Was opene reau, and Ju OETECTNEIS HORT I FNESAR CRASH Four, Skidding, Hit Parked Machine—Three Women Struck by Autos. Headquarters Detective Henry M. Jett of the automobile squad was injured yesterday when four cars skidded on the icy pavement at Second street and Maryland avenue northeast and collided with a parked machine and with each other, £ 4 The four cars, including that of Jett, were east bound on B street northeast. The leading car skidded as it attempted to make the turn into Maryland avenue and rammed a parked automobile. The others crashed into the wreckage when their tires failed to grip the slippery | street. Jett was the only person injured. He was taken to Emergency Hospital in a passing automobile and treated by Dr. Walter Gladding of the staff. The lower part of his right leg was laid open and the leg may be fractured. He was later removed to Walter Hospital. Jett is a captain in the Re- serve and attached to the 320th Infantry here. Drivers of Other Cars. The drivers of the other cars were | Albert Lowring, colored, 22 years old, of Lynchburg, Va.; Hailee Lowring, colored, 21 years old, also of Lynchburg, and Charles Souder of 1233 G .street northeast. The parked car was owned by Wilson J. Henry of 203 Maryland avenue northeast. W leading three horses along Maine avenue at Four-and-a-half street ‘southwest last evening, John Hannon, 55 years old, of 306 Sixth He Casualty Hospital and treated by Dr. Louls Jimal. He may be injured in- ternally Mrs. Bessie M. Moorehead, 32 years old, of 4518 North Gratz street, Phila- delphia, Pa., was seriously injured yes- terday afternoon when struck at Thir- teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue by & truck operated by Joseph Warren, colored, ,of 1633 Thirty-fourth strect.| ‘Warren was arrested by first precinct police and charged with reckless driving and failing to change the address on his permit. ‘Woman Taken to Hospital. Mrs. Moorehead was taken to Emer- gency Hospital in a passing automobile and treated by Dr. Edward Kelly of the staff for severe lacerations to her head and face. Both feet are badly crushed. Struck at Massachusetts avenue and North Capital street yesterday by an| automobile driven by Thomas F. Queen of 2423 Nichols avenue southeast, Miss Helen M. Garret, 53 years old, of West- chester, Pa., who is stopping at the Grace Dodge Hotel, sustained a com- pound fracture of her left leg. The injured woman was removed to Casualty Hospital in a taxicab and treated by Dr. Jimal. The right arm.of Miss Hattie Shock- ley, 21 years old, of 1750 Sixteenth street, was broken last evening when she was struck by an automobile as she was walking across Fourteenth street at Pennsylvania avenue. Robert Hedrick, 16 years old, of East Falls Church, Va.. the driver of the‘machine, took her to Emergency Hospital. SERVICES TOMORROW FOR HOWARD E. WILSON Assistant Cashier Had Been With Lincoln National Bank . 30 Years. Funeral services for Howard E. Wil- son, assistant cashier of the Lincoln National Bank, who died at his resi- dence, No. 12 Seventh street southeast, yesterday, will be conducted in St. Mark’s Episcopal Church tomorrow aft- ernoon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be private. Mr. Wilson had been connected with the Limcoln National Bank for the last 30 years and had been assistant cashier for the lakt 10 years. He was known among Washington bankers. FINED AND JAILED. Reckless Driving and Other Charges Hold W. H. Jackson. Charged with reckless driving, having no permit, and parking overtime, Wil- ilam H. Jackson, colored, was ordered to serve 30 days on each of the first two charges and pay $5 on the third, by Judge Isaac R. Hitt yesterday. Jackson protested he had been given a permit, but did not have it at the time of arrest. The Traffic Bureau de- nied a permit had been issued to the man, and sentence was imposed. Jack- son was then led back to the cell to await the patrol wagon. Further investigation revealed that it at the Traffic tt revoked the sentence on harge. cl Reed | | { TOMERCERAGTON LY NEKT VK | Flan Modified by Subcommit- tee Without Blaine Amend- ment Seen Favored. |NUMBER OF CHANGES ASKED BY WITNESSES | Completion at This Session Held Unlikely if New Valuation Raule Becomes Issue, ‘The Senate District committee prob- jably will act on the street railway merger resolution early next week and indications are it will report out the plan as modified by the subcommittee without the - Blaine amendment to establish the prudent investment { method of valuing all local utilities. Senator Blaine, however, is likely to | file a minority report should the com- mittee follow that course, and if the | controversial question of laying down ! a new valuation rule as a part of the merger legislation becomes an issue in | the Senate those familiar with the situ- {ation are doubtful if the merger can | be completed at this session, with only four weeks before adjournment. During the’ public hearing before the | committee yesterday most of the wit- | nesses favored action on the terms of merger as worked out by the subcom- mittee expert, Dr. Milo R. Maltbie, leav- ing the new valuation rule to be con- sidered by Congress as a separate prop- | osition, It is thought that a majority jof the committee favor handling the | Blaine valuation proposal as a separate piece of legislation. Several witnesses yesterday asked the committee to con- sider a number of other amendments, including & clause to require the new company to carry over the accrued de- preciation reserves of the present com- panies. This and other questions raised yesterday will be acted upon when the conmmittee meets again, probably on ‘Tuesday. Chairman Capper of the Senate Dis- trict committee today introduced in the Senate a bill suggested by the Citizens’ iAdvhnry Council, to make several jchanges in the public utilities law, |aside from the merger question. One provides that if the commission finds that any property of a utility, included in its investment 'account, is unsafe, | obsolete or not reasonably necessary, {the commission shall require the re- | tirement of such property. _Another proposed amendment would have the commission exclude from operating ex- p;fisu any item regarded as unreason- | able, |SUICIDE PACT FATAL |John E. Dorsey Dies at Hospital From Gas Inhaled by Pair Wednesday Night. — John Edward Dorsey, 45, died in Cas- |ualty Hospital this morning from the | effects of gas which he and his brother | inhaled . Wednesday, night in their apartment at 65 M street after entering | a suicide pact. The brother, Lawrence ‘to | R: Dorsey, 42, was dead when neighbors | broke down the door of the apartment. ‘When Dorsey's condition grew worse last night, Dr. Lester Neuman was called to perform a blood transfusion, bultl the patient was too near death to rally. Dr. W. C. Duddenhausen of Evans- ville, Ind., & brother-in-law, {s expected here some time today to take charge of the bodies. { Two notes left by the brothers to | their sister, Mrs. Duddenhausen, indi- I cated they had arranged to end their lives together. No definite motive eould unnamed trouble. \WIDE VARIETY OF LOOT IS TAKEN BY THIEVES | Loss of Sleds, Scudder Car and Chickens Is Reported to ‘. Police. Petty thefts, ranging from sleds and @ scudder car to a coop of chickens, | were reported to police today. The two proud possessors of _sleds, Robert Washington and Albert Bailey, 2226 First street, whose hopes that the light snowfall yesterday would provide coasting sport, were dashed by the early demise of the snowfall, asked police to- day to help them locate the sleds. Mrs. Mary Moran reported that her child’s scudder car disappeared from her front yard, at 1025 Fourth street northeast, early this week. Wade er, Ida Hughes and William S. Stack, 428 New Jersey avenue, reported the loss of clothing and a watch from their rooms yesterday, while Robert Dworski, 3320 Georgia avenue, reported the theft of a coop of chickens from his store at that address. TASTET RITES ARE HELD. ‘Woman, Retired Patent Office Em- ploye, Lived Here 69 Years. Funeral services for Mrs. Kate S. ‘Tastet, 75, former United States Pat- ent Office employe, who died Mong evening, were held at her residence, 903 Farragut street, Wednesday. In- terment was in Glenwood Cemetery. Mrs. [Tastet was born in Buffalo, N. Y., and came to Washington when she was six years old. She was em. ployed in the Patent Office for more than 40 years, retiring seven years ago. She is survived By two sons, Dr. David W. Tastet and Waldo F. Tastet, both residents of Washington. | Four Appointed as Cadets. David S. McDougal, 1444 Rhode Is- land avenue, has been appointed by the President a cadet at large at the West Point Military Academy, subject to qualification at the entrance examina- tion March 5 next. Similar appointments have been given Seymour E. Madison, Indianap- olis: William A. Cunningham, jr., Fort McPherson, Ga.,, and H. W, L. Curtis, Portland, Oreg. Washington l{;n Commissioned. Earl LaV. Ford, 2032 Belmont road) has been commissioned by the War De- mtment. a captain and specialist in Reserve Corps of the Army, f TO SECOND BROTHER ic:: DAVISON CLEARS D G. INSPECTORS | Building Crashes Not Caused . by Their Failure to Do Duty, He Says. Recent fatal accidents occurring dur- ing tearing down of old buildings and construction of new ones were in no case caused by failure of District build- ing inspectors to carry on their dutles, Assistant Engineer Commissioner Don- ald A. Davisan said today. Maj. Davison, who has executive con- trol of the building inspector's office, said that the fault found with the in- spectors by Ethelbert Stewart, commis- sloner. of labor statistics of the Labor Department, in_a recent issue of the Monthly Labor Review, was based on an entirely false premise. % “Mr. Stewart holds that the building inspectors are responsible for the con- struction methods followed by the con- tractors,” Maj. Davison said. “They have no responsibility, and should nave none. This is the responsibility of the superintendent of construction, and if his methods are faulty, they should be checked up by the engineering inspectors of the casualty companies, who under- write the risks to the workmen. All the accidents mentioned by Mr. Stewart are traceable to construction methods. Cites Example of Work. “To take a simple example of the building inspector’s duties, let us con- sider that the building plan as approved by the inspector’s office force calls for a 15-foot steel I beam to be placed in a ceiling. The municipal inspector sees the beam lying on the floor before being put into place. It is his duty to see that the beam is steel and is 15 feet . The superintendent of construc- tion on the job then has his men put the beam into the -ceiling. It .is then be found, but the notes hinted at some | the bullding inspector’s duty to see that the beam fs put where the plans ap- proved by the office call for it and that it is properly supported, according to the plans. He has nothing whatever to do with the way the beam is 5“2 in place. That is the sole responsibility of the building construction superintendent, checked by the casualty company’s in- (spector. If the beam should fall through careless handling and kill a number of workers the building inspector could in no_contingency be blamed for it. “To take another example, one of the accidents blamed on the inspector’s of- {fice by Mr. Stewart resulted from a eave-in, sccomrmled by the collapse of & wooden shoring, that killed two men. This occurred before any duty on that { particular part of the job devolved upon the building inspector at all. The cave- in was caused by d in the ground on the inisde of the shoring. The workers were ‘squaring up’ holes in which concrete was to be poured. The inspector’s duties did not begin until the concrete was mixed. He was to see that |the concrete was of the proper. ‘mix’ jand was nlaced in excavations in loca- tions called for by the plans, Holds Comparative Death Rate Low. “Mr. Stewart complains of the high risk ta workers in building trades here. Actually, I agree with Mr. Stew- art, because I believe that if a single worker were to be killed in_10 years the death rate would be far too high. But, comparatively, our accident rate here 1s very low. We have had $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 in building operations going on here every month recently, and I am certain that it will be found that our accident rate com- pares favorably with that in any city with a similar activity.” Maj. Davidson said he had incor- porated these views in a lengthy re- mrg‘ zg Engineer Commissioner William B. Ladue, BILL URGES CHANGES IN PERKWAY PROJECT Measure for Rock Creek and Poto-| mac Connection Reported by | Senate Committee. Slight changes .in the boundaries of the Rock Creek and Potomac connect~ ing parkway would be authorized by a bill ~favorably reported by Senator Smoot from the Senate Public Buildings and Grounds committee. A similar measure is awalting action in the House. It has been found, the committee re- ! ported, that to reach the external boun- darles of the parkway at certain points, expensive properties would have to be acquired. ‘These parcels are at such a distance from the bluffs bordering Rock Creek that it is not deemed essential to acquire them. It also has been found that there are certain other tracts not included in the present taking lines,| which it is important to acquire to carry out the parkway plan. The bill would authorize the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commis- slon to sell certain small areas and ac- quire certain other parcels, without changing the ultimate cost of the project. ‘ —_—— PAY UNDERWOOD HONOR. | House Committee Adopts Resolu-| tion Deploring His Death. ‘The House ways and means commit- | tee today adopted a resolution express- ing regret over the recent death of former Senator Underwood of Alabama. | A copy of the resolution and an ex- pression of “tenderest sympathy” also was sent to the Senator’s widow. %, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1929, INDIGATIONS POINT | [ reest ssxmane o season o svoor voor 1 () RADIO STATIONS Cold weather of the last few ice skating., Park police today decided ing pool the sport. arrivals on the ice. THREE IMPORTANT MEASURES TOPASS Bills for Permanent Improve- ments Here Will Go Through, Gibson Says. Three particularly important meas- ures looking toward permanent public improvements for the District of Co- lumbia will be-passed at this session, Representative Gibson, chairman of the special subcommittee which has been making an extensive survey of local af- fairs, said today. One of the three measures is authori- zation ‘for immediate acquisition of the four large squares north of Pennsyl- vania -avenue to Judiciary Square, east and west of John Marshall place, as a site for the new municipal center. Mr. Gibson emphatically believes that the entire four squares should be acquired at once, and he is reliably informed that this measure will' meet with no objec- tion from the Budget Bureau or the White House. Two other major building measures which are co-related should be passed at the same time, Mr. Gibson feels. One of these is the Simmons public school building bill for a lump sum ap- propriation to permit school sites to be bought and school buildings to be erect- ed whenever and wherever they are needed without being tied to definite locations under a five-year building pro- gram. The other is Mr. Gibson's own bill for expansion of the Public Library facilities to all parts of the city under a similar lump sum’ appropriation, and which especially emphasizes the desir- ability of having~ library wings with separate outside entrance included in school building plans. Indications are that all three of these measures will be passed through an agreement of House and Senate leaders at the present session of Congress. QUESTION MARK AWARDED RECORD FLIGHT HONORS Officially Certified for Its Six-Day Test in Refueling While Flying. ‘The six-day flight of the Question Mark, which began a month ago to- day, has been officially certified as the American refiueling-in-flight endurance record for airplanes, it was announced today by the National Aeronautic Asso- clation. ‘The announcement followed a report from the Bureau of Standards that ex- amination of the barographs carried on the Question Mark shows that the plane flew without interruption for 150° hours 40 minutes and 14 seconds. All the records dealing with the flight have been sent to Orville Wright, chairman of the contest committee of the association, at Dayton, Ohio, for his signature, after which they will be sent to the Federation Aeronautique Internationale, at Paris, for certification as the official world record. days was of sufficient thickness for skaters and hu With a forecast of colder weather tonight, thousands are expected | to join in. The photo above was taken this morning and shows a few early Below: Mr. and Mrs. William Poppe, 11 Girard street northeast, who Ohl“' the police and tried out the ice last night. PAGE 17 WILL CONSTITUTE INAUGURAL CHAIN | Largest Broadcasting Facili- ties Ever Assembled for One Event Arranged. |, TWO SYSTEMS PLAN TO SEND SIMULTANEOUSLY Hoover's Address May Be Heard in Far-Disfant Parts of World as Soon as Words Are Uttered. The Hoover-Curtis inaugural a month from next Monday will go “on the air” with the largest concentration of radio | broadcasting facilities ever assembled for one event, the inaugural committee announced today. Preparations are un- der way for enlisting the services of the 58 stations associated with the National Broadcasting Co. and the 42 stations forming the Columbia network. The present understanding of the inaugural committee is that the inaugural cere- monies will be broadcast simultaneous- ly over both systems, and that WRC of the N. B. C. chain and WMAL of the Columbia system will be the key stations has given the Capital iis rarest that the surface of the Lincoln re —Star Staff Photos. POLICE LIFT BAN -~ ONPOOL SKATING Ise Found Sufficiently Firm ; to Permit Enjoyment | of Sport. | ‘0ld man Winter's grip on the re- | flecting poo! of the Lincoln Memorial | was firm enough today and the United | States Park Police issued the long- | awaited announcement that skating on the pool would be permitted.. But the skaters didn't wait for the permission. Nearly a score of them were on the pool last night and there were no casualties. Many gathered on the pool this morning to take advantage | of one of the rarest of spérts in the Capital. From the office of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grand, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, came the announce- ment this morning that the pool would be inspected this afternoon, and, if weather conditions warranted, the pool departed tonight, to get a better sur- face for the skaters. ‘There is a thin layer of snow on the pool at present. from yesterday's light fall and the skating is not of the best. ‘Weather forecasts will be watched care- fully by the park police, to see that the skaters get the best possible attention and at the same time to see that the skaters are kept off the pool in case the cold weather should abate and the ice become dangerous. ice this morning was from 2 to 4 inches thick, and was regarded as per- fectly safe for the skaters. A close check on he thickness of the ice will be kept. At one point yesterday afternoon the ice had been broken, but this was sufficiently frozen this morning to hold | several men. With the forecast for slightly colder weather, the park police exgected hun~ dreds to turn out for the skating this afternoon and tonight. SMALL AMOUNT OF GAME BAGGED BY DUCK HUNTERS Duck hunters, whose guns were silenced yesterday at close of the 1928-9 season, bagged an unusually small amount of e, though great flocks of migratory birds haunted open waters of ‘tehe Chesapeake Bay and its tribu- taries. Overmuch- fair weather, according to the best sporting abilis, induced the birds. to remain shyly in the offing, where they refused to venture within gunshot of coverts along shore. Hunters of adjacent communities supplied Washington's tables with thousands of rabbits during the season past, the price’ per rabbit going at one time as low as 15 cents. prie later went to 35 cents as rabbits be- came scarce. A telephone call to police headquar- ters early this morning that there was a shooting at 1457 Park road, in apart- ment 109, brought about the arrest ona charge of disorderly conduct of Ken- neth MofTett, 31 years old, of 1448 Park road, who, police allege, is the author of the summons, Detective Arthur T. Pihelly was rush- ed to the place in the police car. He rapped peremptorily on door of the apartment and was admitted by Miss Mary Johnson, who lives there. Inside were three men and another young woman. “Where's the shooting?” Fihelly de- manded. ‘The resolution recalled that Mr. Un- derwood had once served with distinc- tion as chairman of the ways and means committes, “What shooting?” was the reply. The detective explained and was in- formed that nothing of the kind had happened there, but that Moffett had \ & ] Fake Report of Shooting in Apartment Is Made After Caller Is Asked to Leave been there earller in the evening and had been_requested diclosed, Fihelly declared, that M had entered an apartment across the street after leaving Miss Johnson's apartment and in the lobby had made a telephone call. Then he told three different persons in the building that a shooting had occurred across the street. Arrested, Moffett denied calling the police, although he admitted to Pihelly that he had told of the “shooting.” Moffat was fined $25 by Judge John P o e S iy, 22 pl guilty er] luc declared that he did not recall having made the telephone call. He testified that his father had been ill and his wife was also sick. This, he said. had |of caused him worry and he was not ac- countable for his acta. et ndreds turned out for | V. would be flooded after the skaters have | to leave. Inquiries | in the national network. In addition negotiations are under way between the committee and engineer representatives of the broadcasters to send out the ceremonies and Mr. Hoover's inaugural address on the short waves, which are below the broadcast band in the radio spectrum and which are claimed to travel tremendous dist . to the inaugural several men ve in the affairs of the civic cele= bration will broadcast addresses on the cel these are Prederic and David Lawrence, writers; Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3rd, chairman of the inaugural committee; Assistant Postmaster General Glover and Gen. Anton Stephan, chairman of the parade committee. Col. Grant is | scheduled to talk for an hour the eve- |ning of February 12 from station WMAL, while Mr. Glover will deliver an address the evening of February 14 from the same station. The Army Band will play before and after both addresses, While no definite arrangements have { been made for television transmission { of the scenes incident to the inaugural, {arrangements for such fransmission are junder way. and it is possible that owners of television apparatus may receive pic- tures and the words of Mr. Hoover through the air as he delivers his in- augural address. ‘The inaugural committee today an- nounced that three concerts at which nationally known artists will appear have been scheduled for March 2, 3 and - 4. On Saturday night, March 2, a promenade concert, ox’en to the public, will be held. On the following two days - concert lectures with prominent artists aiding Charles Colfax Long, lecturer, | will be held," the third at Continental | Memorial Hall and the second at a place to be named later. There will be an admission charge to the second and third concerts, at both of which Mr. Long will speak on Washington as an aesthetic and historical. center. Chairman E. F. Colladay of the com- mittee on reception of governors has announced that 16 State executives. | have accepted invitations to attend the | inaugural and take part in the parade. A reception to governors will be held at the Willard Hotel the evening of March {3, with admittance by card only. Fully as many more State executives are ex- pected to answer in the affirmative the | committee’s invitation to attend the inaugural. Virginians Coming. Gov. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia will have an impressive escort of mili- tary units from the Old Ddminion in i the parade March 4. Gen. Stephan an- nounced that the following units from i Virginia have been allotted places in the 1 procession: Richmond Light Infantry | Blues, Richmond Howitzers, Richmond | Grays, Monticello Guards, Petersburg | Fife and Drum Corps. Bands will ac- company some of the units. In ad | tion places have been allotted other | units, as follows: John Marshall High | School, Richmond, one company and band; Veterans of Foreign Wars, ladles” auxiliary: Women's Overseas League, | Military Order of the World War, Mili- | tary Order of Foreign Wars, National Sojourners, Disabled American Vet- | erans. | _ Bids for the grandstand on Lafayette iSquare will be opened February 4. Meanwhile work on the official stand in front of the White House already started. ‘ Mrs. Virginia White Speel, chair- man of the housing committee, will speak over radio station WMAL tomor- row night at 8:45. She will emphasize that g lquarters can accom- all visitors applying, with a guarantee that quartecs for il nave met the specifications of the inspection committee. Additional contributions to the in- augural guarantee fund were received today from the foliowing: Jcseph I Weller, $50; Myron A. Hofer, $25; Morris Plan Bank, $200; Dr. L. F Davis, $50; Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co, $10C i { IWORK STARTS AT ONCE ON GEORGETOWN UNIT Contract Awarded Tompkins Co. for Medical and Dental School. Construction of the new $1,000,000 medical and dental school for - town University will begin immediately, President W. Coleman Nevils announced today after signing a contract with (l;'e Charles H. Tompkins Co. of this city. The contract calls for completion of the building by September 15. Since foundations have been excavated at the Reservolr road site there will be no de- lay in getting the work s Dedication exercises will be held on June 9, during commencement week. Presiden sald the trimm! building site is on a plateau Reservoir road near the Gl way. It will be approached tes . 'hen completed medical-dental building will be the best equipped in the East,.