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@he Zoening Staf WASHINGTON, D. “ FRIDAY, MARCH 8§, 1929. PAGE 17 CAPITAL AIRPORT | | " HEARINGS SLATED * FOREARLY AP . Bingham Sends Letters to| Departments and Commis- sioners Asking Reports. OFFICIALS ARE l;RGED T0 ASSIST IN STUDY | “DOBBIN™ FALI Recommendations Are Sought as to Size and Location of Pro- | posed Field. Hearings on the airport needs of Washington will start about April 1. be- | fore the joint airpori commission | created by Congress. In preparation for | the hearings, Senator Bingham, Re- | publican, of Connecticut. chairman of the commission, today wroie the Dis- irict Comm: s end heads of the Commerce, War and Post Oftice | Depariments, asking them for reports | on_the subject The letier asked the following specific stions requirements of this nature, nt and prospective, by your ment. “Recommendations for the of these requirements respecting such specific features in an airport for the District of Columbia as location, size, contour of ground and facilities of com- munication by land and water. “Recommendations embodying & ! gtatement of your department’s views | on the general subject of the need of en airport at the National Capital.” Each of these executive departmen #nd the Commissioners were requested 1o detail an official to st the com- missfon in conducting the hearings 2nd studying the problem. The commission has until December | 15 to report to Congress. and it is not certain at this time whether it will make a report during a special session. atisfying ts DINNER TO HONOR | MAJ. GEN. LEJEUNE Capital Unit of Marine Corps TIeague to Give Farewell | Party Tonight. | Maj. Gen. Jchn A. Lejeune, former commandant of the Marine Corps will be the guest of the National Capital Detachment of the Marine Corps League at a dinner and farewell party given in his honor tonight at 8:30 o'clock at Har- | vey's restaurant. { Many of the men who formerly served | under Gen. Lejeune in his various | campaigns will be in attendance to bid him good-bye and Capt. William C.| Stott of the third police precinct will preside. Capt. Stott served in the Ma- rine Corps 23 years ago during which | time he received commendation from officials of the American and Honduran governments for his work in organizing the national police of Honduras, ‘The Marine Corps League is an or- ganization of honorably discharged Ma- rines. Gen. Lejeune is an honorary: member of the National Capital Detac! ment, He was elected national com- mandant of the league in 1922 for one | vear and has been re-elected at six con- ‘secutive conventions by unanimous vote. | Entertainment has been provided for | the guests, Q. M. Sergt. Miller. baritone | soloist of St. Paul's Church Choir, Al-| exandria. Va.. will be on the program. | Mrs. Stott, wife of Capt. Stott. and Am- brose Durkin of the Metropolitan Police Department, a member of the choir of Epiphany Church, also will contribute several numbers. | After the dinner the younger set a tending will dance. Music will be fur-| nished by the Woodmen of the World | Orchestra. | TRAFFIC VIOLATORS IN FEBRUARY, 5,404 D. C. Police Also Report 208 Per- sons Injured During Month Due to Accidents. Police arrested 5404 persons for +lolations of the traffic regulations dur- ing February, according to statistics prepared by the Traffic Bureau today. During the month there were three deaths, no serfous Injuries, and 208 minor injuries resuiting from traffic accidents. As usual the violators of the various parking rules suffered most, 1,651 being arrested. here were 15 arrests for colliding and failing to_ stop, 16 for driviag while drunk, 107 for reckless driving and 742 for speeding. There were 108 arrests for not having a permit, 112 for not having a registra- tion card and 254 for faillng to change sddresses on permits. DANIELS OPPOSES MOVE TO FACE HARTFORD CASE Jack Daniels, alias “Yano,” under ar- rest in New York for the Hartford Conn., authorities, where, according tc the police, participation in the robbery of a jeweler, is fighting a legal move to surrender him to the Hartford authorities 0 A photograph of the prisoner has been identified in this city as a like- ness of one of the men who arranged for the renting of & room on the third floor of 817 G street early in January, he room being opposite the place of business of the J. C. Jubb. Jewelry Co., where $7.000 worth of jewelry was stolen from a safe the night of Janu- embers of the local safe and homi cide squad obtained the identification and notified the Hartford authorities as on as they learned of the jewelry rob- bery committed in that city. Robbers who took the $7.000 from the safe of the local firm took quanti- es of explosives there and abandoned hem, managing to rip the safe open without use of the explosives. The safe n the place of business of the Hartford dealers was blown open. When Daniels was arrested in New York, according to reports, the authori- ties there decided to surrender him to the Hartford authorities. He is to be siven a hearing in New York Monday morning, and Detective John H. Fowler of the local homicide and safe squad. will be at the hearing with a witness who saw Daniels in this city. 15-Year-0id Son Speaks Dan- he is wanted for alleged | Firemen of the rescue squad were called it fell down the stairs of a lunchroom. OMMISSION ACTS HORSE 1S RELEASED INCONDUIT PLEA- FROM LUNCHROCM /Sends Lettcrs to Taxpayers Fire Rescue Squad Is Calie Informing Them of Cost of Work. » - \ The Public Utilities Commission to- | day ordered letters sent to the citizens' ! associations in the territories affected by recent requesis of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. for Permission to renew some of its pole: The commission is considering an order to the power company io replace the wornout poles by underground con- duits. if the citizens, who will be called n to bear part of the cost of the recon- struction. do not object. The lettars will contain the commis- sion’s estimate of the cost to each householder of the underground system. The householder is required to pay half the cost of the conduit from the street or alley to the house. The cost esti- mates also include the cost of changing the wir in the house, where neces- sary. The territories affected are those along Montelio avenue northeast from Holbreok street to Mount Oiivet road, Seventh street from Varnum to Bu- chanan streets, Eighth street from Up- shur to Webster streets, Illinois avenue from Webster to Buchanan street, Al- lison sireet from Eighth street to Il- linois avenue and Varnum street frcm Seventh to Eighth streets. The commission authorized the Wash- inglon Motor Ceach Co. to abandon its bus service to Annapolis, effective March 15. ek SO s Good Visits Fort Myer. Secretary of War Good made an of- ficial visit to Fort Myer, Va., this after- noon and was received with the usual honors, including a salite 6f 19 guns and a parade of the Cavalry and Artil- lery units. He made a short stop at the quarters of Gen. Summerall, chief of staff, and attended the regular Friday afternoon riding exhibition of the troop: | bit too close to the areaway. The horse of relie ! colored, of 23 Florida avenue northeast, NCHROOM | FARM CHILOREN [ ARE OVERWORKED SURVEY REPORTS 1,058,666 YOUNGSTERS ABSENT FROM CLASSES More Than Half of Boys and Girls; in Maryland Trucking Dis- tricts Miss Month. | | BY THOMAS R. H RY. 1 The farmer boy, with his coat of tan, | ! enjoys decidedly mixed blessings. i b '"‘}"q::"r’s‘:‘;';’P‘;t:f;‘; Such is the conclusion of experts i - 1of the United States Children's Bureau : {after a'study conducted among ap- “\x'n imately 13,500 farm children in 14 |States, the results of which have just cen announced. Among the childrer included in the study were many on t truck farms of nearby Maryland. i The total number of child farm work- rs. the bureau reports, runs well over | 00,000. While tie piysical and spirit- | { ual advantage of close communion with | | | | ! were offset, by long hours of monotonous | abor, strain on the growing bodies and | serfous interruptions of schooling. “In many a country district,” sa: the report, “enforcement of the school | attendance law is never even attempted. | | Attendance officers are usually appoint- | by the local school districts and. | | sympathizing with the farmers and un- willing to disoblige their neighbors, many wink at disregard for the law. One pocketed the notices to be served . ,on parents until the harvest was ov Lucky to See School. i i “Many country children are lucky if | they are able to go to school at all.} | The 1920 census tells us that 1,058,666 | | country children from 7 to 13 years of | {age, including children living in com- | | munities with & population up to 2500, iwere not in_school. These children | | represented 12 per cent of the children | iof these ages in the communities, or re {latively more than tvice as many as - {'he number of city children of the which %as | ;me ages not in school. | | “Farm work is largely t the country child's inequality of oppor- | tunity, not only because it interferes | with school attendance but because it is ialso the reason for the shorter schoo term in the rural districis. The aver ge rural school term in 1934 was nearly en weeks shorter than the average v term. ] “Children who must sacrifice a cer-| tain amount of time to such emergencies {as bad roads and bad weather, as coun try children always-do. run on a ve narrow margin when the term is only six or seven months and they stay out {of schoo! a month to help on' the farm. | The case of .a 10-year-old white boy |In one of the surveys is illustrative of | what may befall a worker on a home | farm. He had been absent from school | {76 days, or 60 per cent of the term. In | the Fall he had stayed out to pick| cotton, mot finishing "this work until| | January. Then roads and weather were | {50 bad that his parents ‘just kept him home. In February he missed seven days because the ‘creek was up’ and in | the Spring he was ill. It was not sur- prising that he had not completed the first_grade. to Extricate Trapped Blind Animal. The fire rescue squad ‘added another novel performance to its list this morning by extricating a blind horse from a lunchroom areaway t It all started when John Lacy, colored, 54 years old. 75 P street, un- aware that the horse he was driving was biind, drove into an alley alongside of a lunchroom at 79 O street and a tripped over a loos> rein, falling down the steps lending into the lunchroom, and rammed its head through the door window. Lacy and others labored in an effort to release the animal, jammed between the two walls of the arcawey. They pulled and tugged and coaxed, but to no avail. Somebody ad- vised calling the rescue squad. A few moments later Acting Sergt. J. G. Howard. who -has directed many a trying situation, arrived. He looked blame for 11 have to trip the horse up and shove it through the door,” Howard ex- plained. . . With ‘a fireman on each leg. Sergt. Howard gave the command to trip the horse. They pulled the animal through the door and, turning it around, led it back up the steps Lacy and the neighbors heaved sighs 1. The horse belongs to John Balley, who had loaned it to Lacy. The animal was watered and ap- parently is no worse for the experience. Parent-Teachers to Meet. ARLINGTON. Va., March 8 (Special). ~The Parent-Teacher Association of Patrick Henry School will meet here to- mght in the school. WIFE OF Mrs. Michael MacWhit? Brings Youth, Beauty and Talent to Capital. ish to Mother, Gaelic to Father. | | Another charming_personality pos- | sessing the rare combination of youth, beauty and talent, will be added to | Washington's group of diplomatic ladies in the arrival of Mrs. Michael Mac- ‘White, accompanying her husband, the new Minister from the Irish Free State, |the Honorable Michael MacWhite. | The MacWhites have brought with | them their five-year-old son, Eoin, and |an Irish governess, Miss Ailcen Halll- gan. | Although Danish by birth, Mrs. Mac- | White might well pass as a representa- tive of the fairer sex of her husband’s !native land, as she posesses the blue eyes, brown hair and lovely skin for which the Irish “colleer | mous. L] | It was ‘while studying art in Paris i several years ago that Mrs. MacWhite {first met her husband. Onme of the !many bonds of mutual attraction was { their linguistic ability, Mr. MacWhite {having been a' professor of language mn Copcnhagen before the World War and Mrs. MacWhite speaking fluently { French, German, English, Danish and | Ttalian, with also a more than ordinary | knowledge of Gaelic. |+ Fond of Painting. Smartly attired in a gray street frock with a little gray toque to mateh, Mrs. MacWhite, seated in” her apartment at |the Mayflower, spoke enihusiastically of subjects to which she has devoted Lmany years of study and work-—her painting She has studied art since girlhood, and in many parts of ope. but the greater part of her studies were made in Paris and Munich. She prefers land- seapes o other subjects and has en- the scenes in Ttaly sted in what will lie befor me here in America’ Mrs. Mac- | White said enthusiastically, “and am sure T am going to find many splendid new subjects to paint, as this is my first visit to the Unifed Stat After her marriage in Paris, Mrs. MacWhite accompanied her husband to Geneva, where the Minister from the Irish Free State was the representative from his country 1o the League of Na- | tions. | Shown in Dublin Gallery. | Mrs. MacWhite continued her paint- | ing and her studies after the birth of her little son in Geneva. making fre- quent trips from that city to Paris, Where she has exhibited in the Spring REE STATE | WINS SUCCESS AS PAINTER | | “Normal progress in school is de-' ipendent on regular attendance, so that | ichildren who habitually stay out for! | farm work fall behind in their classes. | Besides, some farm-working children | are oo tired and listless to do the re- quired work when they go back to| { school.” i E ENVOY ‘Work Long Hours. | More than two-thirds of the farm {children in North Dakota, the survey showed. were absent from school because .of farm work. Thirty-five per cent of the boys missed at least a month. In the Colorado beet-growing districts half | {the boys and one-third of the girls | were absent, due to work, between three (and four school weeks. More than half {the farm children in the Maryland trucking districts were absent from school a little more than a month. Of the 22 children in the Eastern Shore district_studied who had been absent | {for farm work 60 or more days one was | |an_11-year-old girl. { Children often work surprisingly long hours in the fields, the survey reveal | Probably the worst conditions w | found in the Colorado beet fields, where ' | children were reported “screaming and | | erying because they are all tired out— | |50 tired they don't want (o eat and go | Tight to bed. The children’s hands are | joften cracked with cold and their fin- | gers sore and bleeding.” | Four Russian children, for example, | were found wha had worked among the beets five weeks in the Summer averag- | |ing 14!, hours a day. Together with their mother they cared for 51 acres, | | while 10 acres is the average for a man. | A 14-year-old girl was working 14 hours | ia day. An 8-year-old Mexican girl | | Worked 10 hours a day for 12 weeks. On | i the grain farms of the Middle West boys | | of 6 and girls of 10 were reported driv- | ing hay forks, picking and husking corn | and in some cases loading and unloading ; wagons. In addition they herded cattle, | | mended fences and picked stones from | | the fields. In some of these operations ! the child was obliged to use both foot | and hand levers and manage four or | more horses. Some of the work is de- | cidedly dangerous. | “Herding cattle,” says the report, “a | task often given to children under 10 | vears of age, means that the child is' alone on the prairies, on foot or on | h;)rs‘chack. for long hours in the heat | T of the Summer with the possibility of MICHAEL MACWHITE. | being: thrown from. horscback o at- | lacked and trampled on by the cattle” exhibitions of the Paris Salon. In ad- Migratory Lot Hardest. dition, her paintings have been shown| The hardest lot is that of the migra- | with exhibitions held throughout vari- | tory child farm laborers who go from ous parts of England by Sir Joseph Du- | the cities with their parents. following veen, and one of Mrs. MacWhite's | the harvest from district to district. In | painfings is now fo be seen in the:most cases they must Work in the fields Dublin Municipal Gallery. | for 10 hours or more and are housed in Little Evin. MacWhite, a sturdy. bright | unsanitary shacks. They lose much | litle fellow, has _the distinction | school time. 1 of coming from Ireland to the United States with a very scant knowl- | fects of excessive farm work on the edge of English. He speaks French|bodles of the children. A report of | fluently, explaining that it is because | another survey is made, however, which | he was born in Switzerland, where he |shows that “although farm wor spoke French most of the time. He | vides for an abundanc says he speaks Danish to his mother, | ercise in the open air, and Gaelic to his father, but that he | girls do not develop symmetrically. finds both languages very much more | Farm work seems to over-develop the difficult than French, He is still rather | major or fundamental muscles while | dubious as to whether the day will ever | the finer, or accessory muscles, are neg- | arrive when he will prefer speakinglected. Young men reared on farms English to French, | tired more easily than young men rear- “We will remain in the hotel for a ed in cities. Farm boys in the Army little while,” said Mrs. MacWhite, “but | camps were slower to respond to play as soon as we have time to look about | stimuli and reached the point of fatigue | | a bit, T hope to establish my own home. | more quickly than city boys in activi- | T am bringing many personal belongings | ties that required the use of the whole with me, including some of my paint- % ings. Later on I may exhibit some of | “Staying away from school to work on my work at an exhibition which is to|the farm sometimes is defended on be held in New York of paintings by | the ground that tarm work provides Trish artists.” valuable training. The social and MRS. ! confronted | of the official stand in front | White House, from which President Few data were obtained on the ef-|c ACTORS 1 “Take My Advi Robert Ball and Howard Harlan. NEARS END OF TASK Reports of Committees Expected to Be Given Meeting Tomorrow. Are at The Inaugural committee moved slow- y toward the end of its task today. Odds and ends of the task which the committce from fis formation three months ago were being cleared up, while chalrmen were mak- ing final reports prior to the budget luncheon scheduled for tomorrow at hich a definite idea of the financial aspects of the inaugural may be ob- tained. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, chair- man of the inaugural committee, was preparing a statement in which he is cxpeeted to set forih the accomplish- ments of the committee and express his thanks publicly for the aid of Wash- inglonians who worked _diligently to make the inaugural a succ Com- plete reports of sales of grandstand seats are expected to be made tomorrow. 20,000 Given Rooms. | Mrs. Virginia White Speel, chairman ! of the housing committee, was com. piling a report which is expected to show that more than 20,000 visitors to the city were placed in rooms in pri- vate homes during the inaugural period and that Washington took care of the visiting thousands without any indica- Hon of profiteering. Only four or five instances of at-' empted extortion were uncovered by the committee and the individuals re- sponsible were crossed off the list of those offering rooms. Col. Grant, it is known, is satisfied that the inaugural committee acquitted itself well. Workmen today had removed the roof of the Hoover and his official party viewed the parade. This stand, one of the first to b taken down, is expected to be out of the. way early next wes With the removal of the circus stands in the block from Thirteenth to Fourteenth streets, Pennsylvania avenue will re- sume its normal character next week. Stands on the east side of the Treasury Building were almost all removed and workmen were to start tearing down tiie scuth stand late today. General Meeting Next Week. With a general meeting of commit- ee chairmen scheduled for next week he committee will go out of existence. 1f the expected 100 per cent return to guarantors is made, the inaugural will be considered to have been a complete success in so far as Washington's pav- ticipation in the event is concerned. even though bad weather interfered with the normal progress of affairs. The only item in which the inaugural committee participated which is stiil functioning is the Washington exkibit in the Washington Building, at Fifteen‘h street, G street and New York avenue, which is still in progress. PLAN LINE ‘EXTEN7$I0N. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 8.—An ad- dition of approximately eight acres to the corvorate limits of Mount Rainier is provided for in a bill introduced in the House yesterday by Delegate Wil- liam F. Keys of Mount Rainler. He explained that the bill would au- thorize the extension of the town line to the District line on the west, to take in a triangle of land, which should be A part of the town. t t moral value for growing boys and girls of almost any work, providing it is no too hard or injurious, especially wor that is done to assist parents, cannot be gainsaid. Much of the work that farm children do is not educative in | any other sense.” | “Children who do & reasonable amount of farm work suitable to their years and under the supervision of their parents,” the report concludes, “are But what of the overworked “Until the individual farmer is con- | rted to the importance of education he should be compelled by law to send his child to school. The school must take an important place in the life of the rural community. Too often rural) teachers neither understand nor are in- | terested in rural life, and are not pre-; pared for educational leadership in a rural district. Farm parents must be | educated in regard to the importance | of training and recreation if the coun- try child 1s to be given a fair chance. The welfare of children on farms is, bound up with the economic welfare of the farmer. If he is trying to make a living on a farm that cannot be ex- pected to yleld adequate returns, the sooner he abandons farming the better. The standard of living for the farmer will be raised and the opportuuiiies en- joved by his family increased by any- thing that tends to restrict the number of low grade farm operators™ THE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SPRING PLAY g * a three-act comedy, is the Spring play for Central High School. nature is not denied, the bureau Workers | jum of the school tonight, tomorrow night and the evenings of March 15 and 16. The cast, left to right, front row: Bet [ Tound that in thousands of cases these | Cgon. Ruth Leon, Margaret Hillihan and Virginia Rand. s Back row, left to right: Theodore Tiller, Joseph Darizansky, | WORK SPEEDED UP “IN PRODUCTION OF - SWIALL CURRENCY Bureau Stops Printing of Large Size Paper Money. | | | | i | | 4,900 EMPLOYES ARE NOW WORKING AT FULL TIME i 14 of 17 Presses for Handling New Bills Have Been Installed and Are Now 1. Operation. E ‘The Bureau of Engraving and Print- 3 ing has stopped printing the large size paper money, which is to be replaced July 1 by a new and smaller size. All money presses at the bureau now are working only on the small size cur- rency, it was said teday by Directer Alvin W. Hall. The few remaining large bills which have not yet been completed are being run through the final numbering and sealing process and { will be finished next week, Mr. Hall said. In the meantime production is being speeded up on the small money, addi- tional personnel has been added. and a few more will have to be taken on from time to time, it was said. The only 1t will be given in the auditor- Star Staff Photo. INAUCURAL EROUP Yones nans oosts PARK COMMISSION Sale of Extracts, Judge Given Says The more legitimats, if less pal- atable drinks are enjoying a grow- ing popularity here, as the Jones law makes itself felt on the whisky traffic. Judge Ralph Given, of Police Court declares there is evidence that various brands of extract, with alcholic content are being used, and that these can be procured in nu- merous stores over the city. On the other hand, arraignments on intoxication charges showed a sharp decline. The jurist said that hundreds cof bottles of extract are being openly dispens>d. They have a wide range of alcoholic content and ostensible uses, Judge Given said. MRS, PRIVIM ROOM AT HOSPITAL URGED Movement Begun to Erect Tablet to Child Wel- fare Worker. A memorial to the late Mrs. Dorothy Hellman Primm. who died last Novem- ber, is proposed for Children’s Hospital. and her friends here are inaugurating a movement today, on the anniversary of her wedding and birth, to endow a room at the hospital in her name and to erect there a bronze memorial tablet Mrs. Primm was active in child welfare work. Plans for raising the money which it is hoped will be sufficient for this pur- pose already have been completed. To- day a letter has been sent to those who knew her and her work. “Years of close association,” says tb tetter, “have disclosed to Mrs. Primm's friends a character so unselfish and a personality so directed toward helpful- ness to others that we feel the influence for a good which she exercised should not end with her life. Contributions Asked. t the time of her death the con- scientiousness of & real loss was 5o gen- eral among her host of friends, former classmates and associates in her many personal contacts that we feel they will welcome this opportunity to give con- tinued expression to the work she did among children during her life. “We are inviting contributions to this fund hoping to receive an amount suf- ficlent to endow a room. However, the form of the endowment will depend upon the amount received. “We want the memorial to be shared in by all of Mrs. Primm’s friends and trust that you will join us no matter how small your contribution may be. Any amount will be welcomed. Checks may sent to the treasurer, Mrs. Edna Carr Bowyer, 4715 Piney Branch road, Washington, D. C.” Officers Are Listed. The officers of the endowment fund are: President, Ednah Robinson Ker- win; vice president. Gladys Strong Hell- man; secretary, Mary Walker Delano: treasurer, Edna Carr Bowyer; executive committee: Maria Bisset Culbertson, Louise Belote Dawe, Agnes Wacksmuth | Getsinger, Frances Carter Reeves and yrtle King Werner. he members of the advisory board are: Rev. Dr. William S. Abernethy, Mrs. Byron F. Andrews, Ephriam P. Bowyer, Miss Anne M. Goding, Miss | Rose Lees Hardy, Frank J. Hogan, Dr. Harry H. Kerr, Dr. Lois Meek, Walter D. Middlekauff, Mrs. Elmer E. Rogers, Miss Alberta Walker and Dr. William Allen Wilbur. | employes, however, who are to be added will be those with civil service status who have had previous experience in the bureau, Mr. Hall said. The new employes will be printers’ assistants. At present the number of employes— all working full time—stands at about 4,900 at the bureau. Fourteen of the seventeen numbering and sealing presses for handling the mall currency have been installed and are in operation. The last three of the Iot, which were all bullt to special or- der, have been shipped and will be set up as soon as they arrive. STUDIES NEW LAWS | Members Feel 70th Congress Passed Legislation Bene- | ficial to District. Engravings Being Completed. | The presses are humming now on all | the new notes up to the size of the — | twenty-dollar bill, including the one, ! two. five, ten and twenty dollar bill Engravings are being completed for the higher denominations, and as soon as these are ready for the presses the higher bills will be printed. The de- mand for these, however, is so much smaller than for those under $20, tha* no difficulty is expected in running off all that will be needed in a short time. In the case of some of the largest bills, for instance, the presses will be able to turn them out so fast that in a few days an entira year's supply will be finished. The higher denominations are for $30, $100, $500, $1,000 and $10,000. Work on Bank Program. Progress also is being made on the program for handling the new small size national bank notes, which will be engraved on a standard form for all banks, leaving a space for the name of each. There are now about 7,000 na- tional banks in the country, each of which has plates of iis own in the vaults of the bureau. These are all to be sup- planted in the process by the new small style.and size. When the national bank currency will be ready for distribution | has not as yet been announced by the | Treasury Department. but it is known that it will be considerably later than July 1. when the regular currency will 20 to the public. SOCIETY PAYS HONOR T0 GEN. SUMMERALL 1st Division Group Presents Leader With Insignia of Rank. Legislation of particular interest to the District of Columbia, passed the ! seventieth Congress occupied the atten- | tion of this morning's deliberations of | the National Capital Park and Planning | Commission, which began a two-day cession at the Navy Department Build- ing. Commission members discussed the cight acts of major importance affect- |ing the commission. The Capitol plaza improvement legislation, the municipal center on the north side of Penns vania avenue near the Capitol, the bathing pools authorized at a cost of | $150.000 each, to be located in the! city’s recreational centers; the act au- thorizing the commission to acquire rights, in land, and to lease buildings on land: the act for the realignment of Michigan avenue in the vicinity of Trinity College, the plan for which was worked out by the District Com: missioners in co-operation with the com. mission; authorization té change the | boundaries of the Rock Creek and Po- | iomae Parkway, and construction of ths new House Office Building. Acling as a spokesman for the com- mission, Maj. Carey H. Brown, its en- ineer, said the commission feels that very great deal of beneficial legis- 2tion was passed during the last se: ion of Congress through the efforts of the District committees, the public building and grounds committee and other interested committees of the Sen- ate and House. Chairman Capper of the Senate District committee and . Chairman Zihlman of the House Dis- trict committee, are members of the commission. At this afternoon's session the com- mission_was to give audience to Capt. P. St. J. Wilson, chixf engineqr of the Sureau of Public Roads, Department f Agriculture, and E. W. James, chief | of the bureau’s design division, to ex- plain the status of the Mount Vernon Highway project and the plans for the Virginia approaches to the Arlington Memorial Bridge. now being constructed icross the Potomac River. AUTOIST IS ARRESTED FOLLOWING COLLISION Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff, United States Army. who during the World War commanded the famous ist Division, was honored by the Dis- | trict chapter of the Society of the Firs: Division last evening by the presenta- tion of the insignia of the high ra { recently conferred upon him by Con- | gress. Gen. Summerall was awarded th rank of full general of the Armies, anci is the sixth officer in the Nation's his- tory to attain to the rank. ; On behalf of the Society of the Firs' | Division. Brig. Gen. Frank Parker, of ](he War Department general staff, pre- | Young Woman, Injured in Crash, | Is Given Treatment at sented to Gen. Summerall a set of gen- eral’s siiver shoulder stars. He describ- Oliver Boush, colored. 28 years old, of | ed Gen. Summerall as the emblem Trenton, Tenn., is under $300 bond on | bearer of the 50.000 men who fought a charge of reckless driving as a result under the Ist Division standards at of a collision last night at Eleventh | Soissons, St. Mihiel and in the Meuse- and E streets northeast, in which Miss | Argonne offensives. Margaret Fainter, 26 years old, of 24| Gen. Summerall stood at atfention New York avenue northeast, was in- ; while Gen. Parker fastened the epaulets jured. {of four stars to the shoulders of his Miss Fainter was a passenger in a car | civilian clothing. driven by George A. Maschauer of 920 “The expression of regard.” said Gen B street northeast. Her companion took | Summerall, “means more to me than her to Casualty Hospital, where she was | any other honor I could receive and is a treated by Dr. Louis Jimal of the stafl | reward which comes solely through the for shock, possible internal injuries and | services of members of the First Divi- lacerations to both knees. | sion. . —- “The exercises were held at the POL'CEMAN DISMISSED | Colonial Hotel. Music was furnished by '« | the United States Army Band. oty | rc-;n. Sumlm(l‘ull g national president " " i of the assoclation. Gen. Parker, retirin; Policeman W. L. Hunt, tenth precinet. | badiGent of the District Chapter, i - was ordered dismissed from the force | = by the Police Trial Board for desertion | o ;\';‘;f'f“i.'td, N G — yesterday, it was announced today. Private’ Claude Evans, second pre- | x ' = COURT ORDERS HEARING IN PROPERTY LITIGATION cinct, was cleared of a charge of having al used unnecessary force to enter Involving Washington Build- Casualty Hospital. E. Connell, both of the seventh pre- | cinet, were exonerated on minor | Case | charges of being late and falling to| | pull a box, respectively. HOOV& By the Associated Press. » President Hoover's cabinet might well be called the cabinet of sportsmen, for | almost every one of the eight new mem- | bers is a devotee of some sport in his | spare time. The Chief Executive himself an ar- dent fisherman, should find much in common with two of the new members, | Ray Lyman Wilbur and Arthur Hyde, heads of the Interior and Agriculture Departments, respectively, for both are disciples of Izaak Walton. Dr. Wilbur prefers to angle for trout. but Secretary Hyde is willing to try for any species of the finny tribe. Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of {he Navy, is one of the foremost yachts- men of the country. He was the owne) af the yacht Resolute In the old days r's Cabinet of Sportsmen Ta Fishing, Yachting, Golf and Tennis building in an attempt to make an| arrest. Pvts. E. L. Taylor and C. i ing Is Set for April 15 Before | Justice Gordon. ke to Justice Peyton Gordon, in Equity D: vision 2, today set for hearing Monday,’ April 15, ths litigation involving the Washington Building, at Fifteenth and G streets, and directed the trustees to | conlinue until after the completion of | when Sir Thomas Lipton used to bring | that hearing their efforts to find a pur- over his latest mcdels tograce for the ¢haser of the building at private sale. ko etk | The public auction, which had been di- Riding and tennis are the choice of | rected in the event of a failure to find Henry I. Stimson, who has been se-|® Pprivate purchaser. was deferred by lected to head the State Department, | the order of the court. Since his residence in Manila as gov- The litigation began several months ernor general of the Philippines, he has 880 When the holders of the second played tennis almost every day. | trust sought foreclosure proceedings. Another boating enthusiast is Post- | Later the Shawmut National Bank of master General Brown, who, however, | Boston, trustee under the first trust, confines himselt to motor boats. | Joited in a request for a sale and met Attorney General Mitchell likes golf | With opposition from other claimants. but would rather take motion pictures Justice Gordon appointed Harold E. of wild life in the great open spaces. Coyle, Andrew Duvall and Spencer The new War Department head, | Gordon as trustees and directed them James W. Good, professes to have no| to seek a private purchaser for the | favorite hobby, but his friends say he | building. free from all incumbrances, evotes much time to the study of po-|and transferred the claims to the fund itical economics. 0 be realized from the sale, g T4