Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1929, Page 17

_ @he Foening Sfap [ s wi o WASHINGTON, Dy /G, Wi SDNESDAY, MARCH . 6, 1929. * PAGE 17 PAVING OF MANY STREETS APPROVED BY COMMISSIONERS Gascline Tax Fund Now Available to Pay Costs of Extensive Program. BIDS TO BE ASKED SOON ON PROJECT Southwest Only Section of City Not Named in List Just Completed. ‘The District Commissioners today ap- proved a list of streets to be paved from | money available from the gasoline tax. The money was appropriated for the fiscal year 1929 to 1930, but under the terms of the appropriation act became immediately avaitable. Bids will be asked soon for the work in question, which takes in all parts of the city but the Southwest. The streets to be paved follow : In the northwest section: Wisconsin avenue, M to Water streets; S street, Thirty-eighth to Thirty-ninth streets; Garfield street, Bellevue Terrace to Thirty-ninth street; Veazy street, Thir- ty-eighth to Thirty-ninth street; Win- dom place, Thirty-eight street to Wis- consin _avenue; Forty-second street, Fessenden street to Wisconsin avenue: Jenifer street, Forty-second street to Wisconsin - avenue; Patterson street. Chevy Chase Parkway to Nevada ave- nue; Nevada avenue, Livingston to Rit- | tenhouse street; Tilden street from the end of . the pavement, Con- necticut avenue to Rock Creek Park: Belmont street, Connecticut avenue to Waterside Drive; Waterside Drive, Belmont Road to Allen Place: Sixteenth street, Kalmia road District Line; Hemlock street, Thir- teenth to Fourteenth streets; Butter- nut street, Fifth street to Piney Branch road; Piney Branch road (east side), Van Buren street to Butternut.street; ‘Whittier street, Seventh street to Piney Branch road and Harlen street to Sec- ond street; Third strect, Peabody to Sheridan streets; Quackenbcs street, North Dakota avenue to Fourth street; Roxboro place, Fifth to Eighth streets; Somerset place, Fifth to Eighth streets; Seventh street, Rittenhouse, to Tuck- erman_ streets; Tuckerman street, Seventh to’Eighth streets; Thirteenth street, Longfellow to Madison streets; Montague street, Colorado avenue to Fourteenth street; Allison street, Thir- teenth to Fourteenth streets; Spring road, Rock Creek Church road to Thir- iteenth street; Third street, Rock Creek ‘Church road to Taylor street; Upton street, Thirty-eighth street to Wiscon- sin avenue; Forty-second street, Jenifer street to tary «road; Eighteenth street, Allison to Webster streets; Tun- law road, Thirty-seventh to Beecher streets; Benton street, Tunlaw road to Huidekoper place; Observatory place, Benton street northward to concrete; Eighth street, Tuckerman to Under- wood streets; Towkesberry, Seventh to Eighth streets. Streets in Northeast. In the northeast section: Channing street, North Capitol street eastward; Todd place, Lincoln road to Second street; Second street, Adams to Bry- ant streets; Adams street, Second to Third streets; Fifth street, Franklin to Girard streets; Ninth strezt, Kearney street to Lawrence street; Fiarney | street, Ninth to Tenth streets; Law- rence street, Tenth to Twelfth streets; Randolph street, Twelfth to Thirteenth streets; Michigan avenue, North Capi- tol to Monroe strects; Shepherd street, ‘Twelfth street to Michigan avenue,; Taussig street, Tenth to Twelfth streets Upshur street, Tenth to Twelfth streets; ‘Thirteenth place, Michigan avenue to Varnum place; Twelfth place, Upshur to Varnum streets; Upshur street, Sar- gent road to Michigan avenue; Law- rence street, Fourteenth to Seventeenth streets; Seventeenth street, Newton to Otis. streets; Otis street, Sixteenth to Eighteenth streets; Fourteenth street, Kearney to Lawrence streets; Evarts street, Ninth to Tenth streets; Tenth street, Evarts to Girard streets; Irving street, Ninth to Tenth streets; Frank- lin street, Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets; South Dakota avenue, Rhode Island avenue to Twentieth street; Law- rence street, Twenty-second street to South Dakota avenue; Twenty-second street, Quincy street to Bunker Hill road; Otis street, South- Dakota avenue to Twenty-fourth _street; Perry street, Twenticth to Twenty-second streets; Newton strect, Twentieth to Twenty second streets; Central avenue, Brent- wood road to Myrtle avenue; Twenty- fifth street, Girard place to Hamlin place; Belair place, Hamlin place to Girard place; Girard place, Twenty- fifth street to Mills avenue; Douglas street,. Bladensburg road to South Da- kota avenue; Thirtieth street, Douglas street to Bladensburg road; Thirty- first place, north of Douglas street; ‘Thirtieth street, Channing street south to private property line. Other Northeast Streets. Levis street, Trinidad avenue to Or- Ten street; Orren street, Oates street to Levis street, Queen street, Trinidad avenue eastward; Owen place, Montello to Trinidad avenue; Seventeenth street, A to B sireets; Neal street, Bladensburg road to Holbrook street; Newton strcet, Rhode Island to Eastern avenu Myrtle avenue, Central avenue to Wal. dron_street; Evarts street, Twentieth to Twenty-second strects: Summitt place, T street to Todd place; Douglas street, Queens Chapel road to Twenty- fourth street. In the southeast section: Massachu- setts avenue, Eighteenth to Nineteenth | streets; Eighteenth street, Massachu- | setts avenue to D street; C street, Fif- | teenth to Sixteanth strect and Seven- . teenth strect to Massachusotts avenue: D street, Fourteenth to Seventeenth | street: K street, Twelfth to Fourteenth streets; Twenty-fifth street, Minnesota avenue to Naylor road; Nicholson street, Prout street to Minnesota avenue; Fif- teenth street, Good Hope road to U street; U street, Sixteenth street to Fen- dall place; V street, Fourteenth to Six- teenth street; Fourteenth street, V- to W street; Thirteenth street, Good Hope road to Pleasant street; Chester street, ‘W street southward: Pleasant street, Nichols avenue to Thirteenth street: Valley place, Mount View place to High street; South Capitol street, K to Canal street, and Twenty-third strect, Minne- sota avenue to Q street No streets in the south were named for paving. D. C. Woman Gets $128.454. t section KANSAS CITY, March 6 (#).—Mrs., Mrs. Anna Thomas of Washington: one Jacob L. Loose, Kansas City and Wash- ington society woman, yesterday won a refund of $128.454 in inheritance tax paid the Federal Government in settle- ment of her husband's estate. The ruling was_made by Reeves in Federal District Court. | i | | homa yesterday. | Chief; standing, INDIANS PAY HONOR TOMRS DOUGHERTY Chairman of Inaugural Ba!l‘ Becomes Chieftainess “Guiding Star.” } i i | | Seated before a befeathered and stern group of chiefs of six Indian tribes, Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, guiding | | spirit of the inaugural charity ball, be- came Chieftainess “Guiding Star” of {the Pawnee tribe in impressive Ipdian | ritual yesterday. The title was ‘con- | |ferred on Mrs. Dougherty late yes:er-; !day in her apartment at the May-| flower Hotel, and was attended by group of friends and associates who /| worked with her in making the inaug- | ural charity ball the outstanding suc- | cess it became. Chief Shunatona, soloist of the In- dian band from Tulsa, Okla., which played at the ball at the auditorium Monday night, conferred the title on Mrs. Dougherty, making ner a member | of the Pawnce tribe. The ceremony was | impressive and consisted of chanting and praying, while th> chief bathed his hands in incense and prayed that the four winds of heaven will blow kindly | on_the one being taken dnto the tribe. ‘The Indian orchestra, of represenia- | tives of 16 tribes, left Washington today on a world tour, after plaving at the | All States ball at the City Club last | night. N | U STREET OFFICE ROBBED OF CASH National Life Benefit Co. Manager | Tells Police $500 to $1,000 Was Taken Last Night. Theft of between $500 and $1,000 from the office of the National Life| Benefit Co., 1209 U street, last night| was reported to police today by W. T.| Bradshaw, the company's manager. Entrance to the offices was gained by jimmying & door and the money was taken from a strong box in a desk drawer. MINNESOTANS HONOR GOVERNOR AND WIFE and Mrs. Christianson Are Giyen Reception by State* Society in Capital. Mr. Gov. and Mrs. Theodore Christianson of Minnesota were honored last evening by the Minnesota State Society at a reception at the Willard Hotel. The re- ception was planncd as a feature of ! he inaugural period. Receiving with Gov. and Mrs. Chris- | {tianson were Mr. Jusiice Pierce Butler of the United States Supreme Court, Mrs. Henrik Shipstead, wife of the Sen- ator; Representative and Mrs. Newton, Representative and Mrs. Clay, Repre- sentative and Mrs. Goodwin, Repre- sentative and Mrs. Andreson, Repre- sentative and Mrs. Pittinger and Repre- sentative and Mrs. Christgau. Also in the receiving line were the secretary to the President, George Aker- son, and Mrs. Akerson, Prohibition Com- missioner and Mrs. James M. Doran, Pederal Trade Commissioner and Mrs. A. F. Myers, E. Walsh, adjutant general | of Minnesota and aide to Gov. Chris- | tianson; members of the Republican n: tional committee from Minnesota, Sena- | tor McKenzie, Mrs. Manley Fosseen and | Mrs. Bede Johnson, president of the Minnesota_ State Society. | | | DIES AT HER HOME HERE Suntay of Philippine Congress and Native of Virginia. Mrs. Mettie Rollins, a resident of morning at her home, 1611 G street southeast, following an fliness of a month. A daughter, Mrs, Angel Suntay, wife of Representative Suntay of the Phil- ippine Congresy, was in Washington at the time of her mother's death, after an absence of 10 years. Mr. Suntay has been conferring with congressional committee here on tariff matters. Mrs. Rollins was a native of Stafford County, Va., where funeral services and interment will be held Friday afternoon. She was a member of the Second Bap- tist Church here. Inaddition to her husband, Euge Rollins, and Mrs. Suntay, Mr is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lil- lian Cannon of Falls Church, Va., and son, Clinton R. Rollins of Washington; two sisters, Mrs. Minnie Chewning and Mrs. Anna Ewers. both of Washington, and three brothers, Montgomery Hud- Mother-in-law of Representative | Washington for 20 years, died early this| Mrs. John Allan Dougherty being adopted by the Pawnee Tribe of Okla- | Left to right, sitting: Chief Shunatona, Mrs. Dougherty, Curley | Knife Chief, Chief Roaring Thunder and Son of Dog Chief. | —sStar Staff Photo. | INAUGURAL GUESTS LEAVING FOR HOME Fireworks Display Scheduledl to Be Held Tonight, Start- ing at 8 O’clock. Washington was slowly returning to | its normal post-inaugural condition to- day. Under the rays of a bright Winter | Sun, in decided contrast to the drab weather of inaugural day and yester- day, workmen were tearing down the | long stretch of sodden wooden stands | f the court of honor and on two sides of the Treasury Building, hindered in their work by thousands of S0ggy news- papers, which had served as temporary covering from the rain of ihe inaugu- ral. The classic colonnades of the shel- tered pagoda-like structure in which Herbert Hoover took the oath of office on the east front of the Capitol, were eing teken down, and the white and blue structure in which he sat Monday aftcrnoon to review the parade slowly was vanishing from in front of thz ‘White House. K ’ F o Meanwhile the final groups of the scores of thousands of visitors who saw the inaugural and the parade down | Pennsylvania avenue turned toward the | Union Station and home, deploring the weather which made March 4 an un- forgettable day, but satisfied with the quadrennial spectacle. Others departed to their homes by automobiles, joining the thousands who had traveled the homeward path late Monday and yes- terday. Gun to Signal Start. The fireworks exhibit, which"® was scheduled by the entertainment com- mittee for Monday night and was’ post- poned for the past two nights because of bad weather, will be held at 8 o’clock tonight, the entertainment committee of the general inaugural committee an- nounced. The exhibit, for which $3.000 has been spent, and which will include pyrotechnic pictures of Herbert Hoover | and Charles Curtis, wjil be held on the Monument grounds”” A warning gun will be sounded at 7:50 p.m. to signal the beginning of the exhibit. While Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, chairman of the, inaugural committee, preferred ‘to wait longer before issuing a formal statement on the inaugural and the part Washington's citizens played in the spectacle, he called at- tention to the fact that the exhibit of | Washington “past, present and future” is being held open in the Washington | Building today, tonight and tomorrow. This exhibit, inaugural committee offi- cials pointed out, is of general interest to all residents of the city, and contains a comprehensive display of the program of improvement of the Federal city, to- mether with representations of Wash-| ington as it had been in the past and | its growth to the present. E. C. Graham, chairman of the en- | tertainment committee, told Col. Grant that more than 25,000 persons visited | the exhibit during’ the inaugural. Tue committee is considering sugsestions that the collection of maps. drawings, models and other objects interpretative of the city made made into perament exhibit. Finance Outlook Hopeful. As returns continued to come in from sale of grandstand seats, souvenir pro- grams and souvenir medals, the inaugu- ral committee was more hopeful that the return to guarantors might approxi- mate 100 per cent. Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, general chairman of the in- | augural charity ball committee, expected today to Teceive reports on sale of tickets from the debutante committee, | Headed by Miss Bina Day Deneen, and the store committee, headed by Mrs. Cabot Stevens. A final tabulation of the amount received, Mrs. Dougherty sald, cannot be made until complete returns are in from the tickets sent out throughout the country. Of the amount raised. $5,000 is to go to each of the police and fire department funds for widows and orphans. The balance will be given to the Community Chest. !VAUDEVILLE FEATURES SCHEDULED FOR BALL Headliners at Local Theaters to| Entertain Guests of Motion Pic- ture Projectionists Tonight. Several vaudeville headliners playing engagements in local theaters are billed for entertainment numbers tonight at the eighteenth annual ball of the Mo- tion Picture Propectionists, Washington Local, No. 224, to be held from 10 to 2 o'clock at the Washington Auditorium. Al theatrical organizations in the 2ity are co-operating with the commit- tee in charge. In addition to orch tras from several motion picture houses, a number of individual stars will per- form, including Johnny Marvin, radio soloist. The decorations erected during the inaugural ceremonies here will be left in place for the ball tonight. The high light of the entertainment prcgram will son of Wachingion and John H. and Judge Albert L.|Fielding H. Hudson, both of stafford | County. be an impersonation contest, in which participants will be made up to re- semble film favorites, | of a framework of upright logs to which PREHISTORIGY. 3. GRAVEYARD NOW BEING EXCAVATED M. W. Stirling, Chief of Bu-| reau of American Ethnology, Digging in Florida. | 1 WEEDEN ISLAND SCENE OF ANCIENT CEMETERY Three Levels of Geological Strata Will Permit Fixing Time' of Operations. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. One of the most mysterious of pre- | historic American graveyards is being excavated this month by Matthew W. Stirling, chief of the Bureau of Ameri- | can Elhmflo‘gy& G This ancient ceme! Weeden Island in Tampa Bay, near St. Petersburg. and apparently r:onta_ina‘ graves dating from two cuiture lc\elsj‘ one on top of the other. This h\dic_? | that two peoples, one very primitive and the other comparati ‘modern, | had villages on approximately the same | spot at . different Ll‘yi'nes and used the rying ground. | sm’;“le\cb:r;rk s started in 1923 by Dr.| J. Walter Fewkes, former chief of the bureau, assisted by Mr. Stirling, but the excavators found themselves caught in the Florida real estate boom, with the | island being staked out in building lots and flooded’ with Winter tourists. So they left the excavations only partly | complete_and with the puzzle of the two peoples still unsolved. The graves, ! burled remains of the village and the numerous . artifacts found with . the | skeletons are expected to furnish valu- | able clues as to the history of this part | of the continent before the coming of 1 Columbus. | Four Types of Mounds. The island now is in a comparatively wndhccondinam with brush-overgrown mounds covering the buried archeologi- cal treasures. Four types of these | mounds have been found, it is stated | at the Bureau of American Ethnology. The first type is composed mainly of mollusk shells and probably were built up of the refuse of the Indian kitchens. Another type is classified as a domi- ciliary mound, and the indications are that these were used as the sites o houses which were frail structures made tery is located on | | were tied sticks for the sides, the roof seing thatched with palmetto leaves and the whole building raised a few feet above the surface of the ground. These mounds are so close together that they merge into one another, indicating a | settlement with a large population. | Still a third type of mound covers the ‘ remains of the religious structures. The fourth type are the grave mounds, in which the most valuable finds are ex- pected because of the Indian custom | of burying choice material with lhe‘ dead. There are three geological strata in ' this graveyard, which will enable Mr.| Stirling to fix approximate dates for the successive operations. The upper- | most, or modern, was formed by blown | sand and penetrated by roots of trees. It contains no skeletons and evidently | has been built up since the site was abandoned. In the second strata, just | below this, the shallowest burial was | slightly more than 4 inches below. the | surface, and skulls and skeletons are found to & depth of 3 feet. Skeletons in Bundles. The skeletons in this first strata oc- ¢ cur in bundles, destitute of covering of any kind and apparently hastily depos- ited in their graves. It appears at first | sight as if they were buried standing ! up, but this was due to a peculiar In- | dian custom of distorting the bones | before interment. The skulls are be- | lieved to have.been painted vermilion. The' people ‘who are responsible for | this first layer of graves, according to Bureau of Ethnolopy experts, probably were very similar to’ the West Indian | natives at the time ¢ ‘lie coming of | Columbus, although it is probable that they had left the site some time before | white men first visited Florida. ‘The graves in the third strata belong to a much more ancient people. Their identity is one of the things Mr. Stir- ling wants to determine. There is some evidence that they were close kin to the early inhabitants of Cuba. The theory is that there were two waves of immigration into Florida in prehistoric times, one from the north and an earlier one from the West Indies, which even- tually was absorbed by the northern- ers. No object of European manufacture | has yet been found in the Weeden | Island graveyard, which indicates that | the culture being studied by the exca- vators was strictly American and had disappeared before the white men came. The earlier excavations of Mr. Stirling have brought to light many implements made of shell and a few of bone. Per- haps the most numerous of the shell ! utensils are the drinking cups made of conch shells, the lip being artificially smoothed and the spire formed into a handle. These cups, containing what was known as “the black drink,” were placed on the graves. There is considerable evidence that the prehistoric Indians were cannibals. The majority of the skeletons had been stripped of flesh gefore burial and the bones done up in bundles. In some cases only a skull can be found. Frag- ments of charcoal are found scattered through the, mounds, possibly after hav- ing been used to roast the victims. The most valuable clues, however, are expected to come from the pottery fragments which are found throughout the mounds. Evidently the people had achieved some artistic culture, for the human heads modeled on some of their bowls are among the best prehistoric | ceremic decorations. There are also | excellent geometrical designs. Each | pot thus far feund has had a hole | punched in its bottom. This was a customary procedure when a vessel was | buried with its dead owner, in order | “to let out its spirit.” Fodd and or- ganic matter still is found in them. In some cases a bowl is found pressed down closely on a skull, giving the im- pression that there might have been modified urn burials. MAN AND WIFE HELD ON LIQUOR CHARGES Appearing before United States Com- missioner Turnage yesterday, Angelo Bovello and his wife, Mrs. May Bovello, of Clifton Terrace Apartments, who e arrested Saturday on liquor rges, were held under $2,000 each. Federal agents, who conducted the raid on the Bovello apartment, in which, they claim, was found 24 quarts of choice liquors, say that a list of 500 persons living in various sections of the eity was discovered. Many of the names | listed were of local prominence, police! say. | . F G GIVEN PEN l | OVER REINS Upper left: The new Secretary of War, James W. Good, subscribing to the oath of office, administercd by John B. the department. sworn in by R. M. Reese, chief clerk of . Randolph, assistant to chief clerk of Right: Arthur M. Hyde, new Secretary of Agriculture, being the department. Lower left:" Scene at the Department of Justice as hundreds of employes bid farewell to the retiring Attorney General, John G. Sargent. Right: Ray Lyman Wilbur, the new Secretary of Interior, at his desk today. —Star Staff and Associated Press Photos. | i | | | USEDTO SN BL Coolidge Relic Is Memento of Two-Year Fight for “Di- ploma Mill” Measure. The pen with which former President Coolidge recently signed the “diploma | mill” measure. designed to place mini- | mum _requirements on educational in- | stitutions conferring degrees under in- corporation here, has been presented to the Washington Chamber of Commerce, | which for two years has been active in | urging enactment of the law. | The pen, accompanied by a letter | from Everett Sanders, secretary to the former President, was received by the | chamber late yesterday and will be treasured by the organization as a me- | mento of l%e long fight which it and | other local organizations made against | institutions fraudulently conferring de- grees. In a resolution adopted last night by the directors of the chamber, Col. Wil- liam O. Tufts and other members of the committee on universities, colleges | and private schools, which acted for the chamber in the matter, were lauded for | their determined efforts. Investigated by Chamber. The chamber made an investigation of the “diploma mill” situation follow- ing disclosures made by The Star and Miss M. Pearl McCall, assistant United States district attorney, concerning the inadequacy of incorporation laws of the District, which permitted the legal granting of degrees by institutions re- gardless of absence of reasonable pre- scribed courses of study. | A subcommittee of the chamber, | headed by Dr. Charles F. Carusi, presi- | dent of the Board of Education, drafted a bill which was introduced in Con- ress, and, after amendments, was finally adopted. Numerous local organ- izations and Miss McCall supported the measure. “The final enactment of this neces- sary piece of legislation,” the resolution adopted by the chamber directors states, | “makes possible the cleaning-up of a | situation in the District of Columbia | which has been a blot on its educational | reputation and which has retarded the development of the National Capital as | a great center for research and higher | education. Credit for Success. “While the effort has had the whole- hearted support of leading public, pri- vate and civic agencies, its successful culmination is due in the largest p: to the unremitting efforts of Col. Tufl and the members of the chamber’s com- mittee on universities, colleges and pri- vate schools. For this unique achieve- ment, Col. Tufts and the members of his committee have earned the appro- bation of the citizens of Washington.” The chamber directors fast night also adopted & resolution praising Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, chairman of the official inaugural committee, and members of his organization for “the splendid serv- ice which they have performed for the National Capital in perfecting a type of inaugural celebration which sets a Briand Answers Kellogg Message Over Peace Pact By the Associated Press. Foreign Minister Briand of France, in a message to Secre- tary Kellogg, sald he was deeply touched by the friendly wording of the telegram of March 2 in which Mr. Kellogg said he felt the ratification of the anti-war treaty by the French Chamber of Deputies was due to the foreign . minister's personal influence and was a cause of happiness to him because the pact had been rati- fied by Prance before his term of office ended. “I am glad that the practically unanimus vote of the French chamber,” telegraphed M. Briand, “can bear witness to the Ameri- cen people of the confidence placed, in France, in the general pact for the renunciation of war, the thought from which it ema- ha{E! and the hopes which it per- mits.” MEMORIAL GROUP 10 GIVE BREAKFAST [Victory Fete Is Planned To- morrow by Local Jeffer- son Branch. A victory breakfast will’ be given at the Willard Hotel tomorrow morning by the Washington branch of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, which has raised all but $2,000 of the $50,000 which was Washington’s quota in the |drive for funds for the purchase of Monticello, the historic mansion which was once the Virginia home of Thomas Jefferson. According to Mrs. Rose Gouverneur Hoes, chairman ‘Washington branch of the foundation, the proceeds of tomorrow’s breakfast | will materially reduce the balance. On the coming Fourth of July at a meeting of riends of Monticello from all parts of the country, Stuart G. Gib- boney, president of the Thomas Jef- ferson Memorial Foundation, hopes to burn the remaining deed of trust on the, property, as it is expected that the $22,- 000 still owing on the property will have been raised by that date. The |night but did not hear him shoot him- |G, movement to raise funds was started in Washington six years ago by Mrs. Min- nigerode Andrews, who with Mrs. Hoes, was one of the prime movers in the effort. An interesting feature of tomorrow's breakfast will be the passing of the of the | FIXES 1923 RATES ONINSTALLING GAS Body Approves; Schedule Assessing Half i Cost on Customers. The Public Utilities Commission yés- terday approved a schedule-of charges for 1929 for instailation of gas services. | "The customer is required to pay one- | half the cost of connecting the service | irom the mains in the strects. The new | schedule approved calls for slight reduc- | tions in most of the charges, which are arranged according to the character of | | street service required to be cut for lay- | ing of conduits and the size of the pips |used. The charges for the Georgetown Gas Light Co.’s connections, for the first | time, were made slightly lower than those for the Washington Gas Light Co., on account of the fact that most of the Georgetown Co. vices are laid in less congested ter: 'y, which does not call r as much labor as work in the con- | sted sections. The commission accepted the resigna- tion of Mrs. Julia Williams Bubb, who } has been an employe for seven years. | She recently married and is going to New York to live. The route of the Washington-Win- | chester bus line was ordered changed to | { make the bus go west on Pennsyivania avenue to Fifteenth street, north on ifteenth street to F street, east on F street to Fourteenth street and south on Fourteenth street to Highway Bridge. The busses formerly turned around on Pennsylvania avenue opposite the Wil- | lard Hotel. | | | | WOODWARD HELD VICTIM OF SUICIDE | | 1 | Corener's Verdict Given in Case of Man Found Shot in Roem DATHS ARE GIVEN G00D AND HYDE AS CABINET MEMBERS 1} {War and Agriculture Posts Filled by Inductance Cere: monies This Morning. SEVEN OF HOOVER’S APPOINTEES IN OFFICE Floral Tributes and Attendance of Fricnds and Notables Mark Two Occasions. Standing beside the United States { flag, with a background of floral trib- utes from friends, James W. Good of Towa was formally inducted into office as Secretary of War at the War De- partment this morning at 9:30 o’clock. Shortly afterward, Arthur M. Hyde, former Governor of Missouri, tock oath as Secretary of Agricultue and seven of the eight new men chosen by Pres- ident Hoover for his cabinet were ready to take over the reins, the only absentee being Henry L. Stimson, the incoming Secrefary of State. The oath of office was administered to the new War Secretary by John B. Randolph, veteran assistant chief clerk of the department, who acted in a sim- Jar capacity for former Secretaries Taft, ‘Wright, Dickinson, Stimson, Garrison and Baker, and most of the principal { Army officers since the Spanish War. Dwight F. Davis, retiring Secretary of War, stood beside Secretary Good dur- ing the ceremony and Mrs. Good and some personal friends were nearby. Among others in attendance wers Assistant Secretaries Robbins and Dav- idson, Gen. Summerall, Chief of Staff: Representatives Cole, Dowell, Ramsey- and Thurston of the Iowa delegation friends from Iowa. Many Witness Hyde Oath. Secretary Hyde received the oath, ad- . ministered by R. M. Reese, chief clerk of the Department of Agriculture. This ceremony, too, was witnessed by a large gathering. The retiring Secretary, Wii- liam H. Jardine, was the first to grasp Mr. Hyde's hand, exclaiming: “God bless you, Arthur.” Mrs. Hyde and a daughter were among those présent at the ceremony. Follow- ng his induction into office, Mr. Hyde made this statement: “I undertake this task with full reali- zation of its difficulties but determined to do my ‘level best’ to effectuate the agriculture policies of President Hoover. I believe in those policies. They are sound and constructive. They will achieve a larger measure of prosperity for the farmers of America. “I shall strive to co-operate with ail thosz whose public duty or private in- terest are elements in the problem of the farm. I hope also to have their assistance. We are starting from today. Past differences of opinion have no place in the present situation and should not be permitted to hinder or delay tha accomplishment of all that may con- structively be done in aid of American agriculture.” Five Take Cabinet Oaths. Five of the Hoover cabinet were sworn in late yesterday, Charles Francis Adams of Massachusetts, Secretary of the Navy, heading the induction list, taking the oath of office at 2:45 o'clock. In most cases the cabinet officers of the Coolidge administration were on hand to extend good wishes to the in- coming advisers of Mr. Hoover. Under the glare of arc lights, the center of a rim of cameras, Mr. Adams was sworn in at the Navy Department by Alexander J. Doyle, private secre- tary to former Secretary Curtis D. Wil- bur. Good-naturedly the new cabinet officer submitted to the commands of the cameramen, both still and motion picture and “talkie” records of the cere- mony being taken. Former Secretary Wilbur was an interested spectator at the ceremony. When a photographer said: “Mr. Sec- retary, please face the camera more.” Mr. Wilbur laughingly said: “Who is Mr. Secretary?” While the pictures were being taken. high ranking officers of the Navy waited in an adjoining room, ready to greet their chief. Walter F. Brown took the oath at the Post Office Department late in the after- noon as Postmaster General. A. T. Davis, chief clerk of the department. administered the oath of office, and Harry S. New, retiring Postmaster Gen- eral, participated in the ceremony. At the Interior Department, Dr. Ray Lvman Wilbur was sworn in to suc- ceed Roy O. West. by W. Bertrand Acker, the department's chief clerk. The at 606 D Street. A coroner’s jury this afternoon certified | that James Clement Woodward, 56 years | | old, committed suicide. The man’s body | | was found yesterday morning in his bed at 606°D street. There was a bullet | | wound behind the right ear. |, Arrested shortly after the discovery of | the shooting, Charles Nauck, 45 years lold, of the D strect addr | police he slept with Woodward Monday | | self, was released as a result of the | verdict. | Witnesses _testified that Woodward | had been drinking heavily and on sev- | eral previous occasions had threatened | | to kill himself. . The suicide was first discovered about 5, who told | retiring Navy Secretary did not parti- cipate in the swearing-in of his brother to a post in the Hoover cabinet, saying that the new Interior Department Sec- retary must “fight his own battles.” New Attorney General. Attorney General Willlam D. Mitcheil was sworn in after he had spent most of the day before the Supreme Court 1 his capacity as solicitor general of ited States. 2g Attorney General, John , was present to hand over ob office, and at the conclu- sremonies Mr. Sargent nted with a grandfather's is principal assistants and Mr. Mitchell made the on was clock from hi bureau chiefs. | speech of presentation, and the retiring official accepted with a short speech large autograph book to receive the |7 o'clock yesterday morning when Nauck | The new At y v v o tures of those present and to be | came to’the nearby plumber shop of |in by Chartes B sgcé,"bcc‘,?;e: peeleboier. later placed permanently at Monticello. Crippled Children Aided. DES MOINES, Iowa, March 6 (&) — | Superintendent of Schools J. W. Stude- | Henry Pahlow and remarked that “Clem | | has committeed sui L Obregon's Widow Wires Hoover. NAVAJOA, Sonora, Mexico, March 6 ment clerk, and assistant chief clerk of the department. ‘The ceremony was attended by offi- | olals of the department, Edgar C. Sny- |der, United States marshal; Mrs. 1 Mitchell and others. Mr. Sargent left new .high standard for all similar oc- pLaker yesterday announced a gift of | (P)—Marie Tapia de Obregon, widow |last night for his home in Ludlow, Vt. casions in the future.” The chamber especially commended | the Washington exhibits in the Wash 'ington Building for the place which ii gave Washington as a gommunity in the inaugural pageant. DR. CLARENCE T. WILSON TALKS ON IMMORTALITY | TImmortality was described as “a vital subject for every man's daily life” by Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary f! the Board of Temperance, Prohibition | and Public Morals of the Methodist | Episcopal Church, at a luncheon of the Washington Round Table in the Uni-'of his name or past «as identified only | moned, and took him to | after Dr. I. Rutkoski of Emergency Hos- | There Dr. Rutk {pital had_questioned him for an_hour | be suffering {rom amnesia versity Club yesterday. mstead of evolution denying immor- tality, it remains for persons believing | in evolution to explain why they do not | believe in immortality,” Dr. Wilson | said in the course of his address. ' In the latter connection he said, in substance, that if evolution is anf eternal process and if matter or energy[ are never destroyed that it does not seem reasonable that man’s life stopsi at the grave, Dr. E. M. Ellison, presi- dent of the Round Table, presided. £250,000 to the independent school dis- trict of Des Moines for erection of n[ uilding especially designed and equipped rippled and otherwise handicapped | children. The gift was made by Dr.| |end Mrs. D. W. Smouse of Los Angeles.'and just manner.” of President-elect vesterday sent a Alvaro Obregon, telegram_to Pres- ident Herbert Hoover in Washington urging him to view the Mexican r lutionary situation in an “impartial Youth, 20, Suffering From Temporary Loss of Memory, A 20-year-old youth who, police re~ ported, found himself on F street at 9 o'clock last night with no recollection and a half, suggesting names and ad- dresses. At last, the young man remembered | the name “Elsie,” and finally the sur- name “Love.” Through Miss Elsie Love, Western High School student, living at | 30221; R street, he was identified as | Lacey C. Zapf, jr., of 3417 Quebec street. Zapf walked into a drug store at 1354 ' F street last evening, according to po- lice, nni told a clerk he was taken sick ' Is Identified by Girl while crossing the street remember anythi Emergency charge of Dr. J. E. Le and could not t h ski pronounced " decided that lost his As soon as the doctor the youth had temporarily memory he began the slow process of trying to discover the youth's identity by suggestions and questions, finally succeeding. Miss Love aided in localing the parents and the vouth was allowed to go home with them. ekl was unabl> (o ¢ f the temporary lapse. 4 Dr. Rut the cause of Secretary of Commerce Robert Pat- | terson Lamont took the oath of office | shortly after 3 o'clock yesterday after- | noon, succeeding William F. Whiting 1of Holyoke, Mass. Present at the cerc- ‘mmli(‘s, in addition to the assistant i secretaries and other officials, were Mr. Lamont's two daughters, Miss Gertrude Lamont nad Mrs. Chauncey Belknap. _The oath was administered by Edward Libbey, chief clerk of the department. Mr. Whiting left last night for his home | in_ Massachusetts. The new Secretary of State, Henry L. Stimson, is now en route to the United | States from the Philippines and will | reach Washington the latter part of the month. In the meanwhile, Secretary Frank B. Kellogg will remain in the . | post. As Secretary Mellon of the Treasury | Department and James J. Datis of th- {Labor Department—hold-overs fror | the Coolidge administration—took oat!s of office when they entered the cabin~ they did not take oaths at the beginni~ of the Hoover regime yesterday. A children’s memorial building wi! be the first building erected on the 100- acre Episcopal Cathedral site, Phila- delphia, 4