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Washington News The Foening Star WASHINGTON, L MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1929, PAGE 13 SCHOOL BUSINESS MANAGER AT $o,000 - A YEAR SOUGHT Engineer or Architect Famil- iar With D. C. Government and Conditions Favored. §500,000 REPAIR FUND UNDER HIS DIRECTION Officials Say New Place Is to Be Filled by July 1—Applica- tions Desired. An engineer or architect familiar with $he District government and local con- ditions possesses qualifications which awould render him a particularly accept~ #ble candidate for the new $5,000-a- year position of business manager in the public school system, it was made known today at the Franklin Adminis- tration Building, where the tentative #®cope of the position has been outlined. At the same time it was revealed that Mo candidates are under consideration and that school officials are anxious 2o receive applications for the position. The major functions of the new offi- icer have been outlined to include direc- tion of the expenditure of the schools’ ennual repair fund of $500,000, and jurisdiction over the system’s janiterial staff. Created chiefly to aid in the co- ordination of business relations between the District government and the school system, the officer would be an “outcide man” who would make inspecticns of all District school buildings and grounds and who would keep in close touch iwith the various departments of the District government. Must Know Conditions. Commenting on the type of man be- Sieved most desirable, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, said today that while the best man availa- ble will be engaged, the determination of his eligibility will take into account 2 candidate’s familiarity with the Dis- Arict government and local affairs. Dr. Ballou would not say, however, that he “would prefer” a local man for the ition. Dr. Ballou said that a man who per- AND CLEAR Crocuses Blooming in Parks Also Herald Approach of Spring. Rain Thursday Night or Fri- day Predicted After Warm Spell. Old Man Winter and his terrifying elements will be noticeably conspicuous by their absence for the next two days |at least, when Washingtonians will awaken tomorrow morning to see clear skies and a balmy atmosphere herald- ing ths advent of Spring, it was pre- dicted today by Forecaster Clarence L. Mitchell. ‘The weather prophet promised a re- spite from the cold, gray clouds and brisk northwest winds beginning to- morrow, and while no definite prediction was made as to what heights the mercury would rise, it was announced that the sunny skies and mild tem- peratures expected to prevail tomorrow and Wednesday would be enough to re- TWO DAYS OF BALMY WEATHER SKIES FORECAST The first crocuses of the season in bloom in Potomac Park. —Star Staff Photo. mind shoppers that it is high time to begin collecting the Easter finery. Mitchell said that cooler weather and showers would follow the warm spell by Thursday night or Friday. Numerous crocuses, the first flower of Spring, have begun to shoot forth in the parks, it was announced today by C. Henlock, chief of the horticultural division of the office of Public Build- ings and Public Parks. Cherry blossoms show no signs of breaking forth at this time, for an inspection by Mr. Henlock's office shows not a bud cracking yet. KITTY COSTELLO AGREES T0 TALK Unwilling Witness Who Was Jailed Testifies in Alleged Bootleg Case. Arrested here at midnight Saturday on a contempt of court warrant and removed to the Baltimore City Jail as an unwilling witness in an alleged boot- leg case, Kitty Costello, former special prohibition agent, was compelled final- ly to give today the testimony she had succeeded in evading to give since Thursday, before Judge Willlam C. Coleman, United States District Court, in Baltimore. Sought as a witness for Clarence Moseberger and Willilam Cecil, charged with violation of the prohibition law, Miss Costello fled to Washington, where Haps would be in charge of construction for a local building concern might be the per person. Such a_person, Dr. proj ‘Ballou said, would possess all the struc- [ ma Aural knowledge required, would be ex- enced in making building inspec- ons and at the same time would be r with the direction of workmen. ‘The new position of first assistant Ex:flntendem in charge of business ‘affairs, as the business manager prob- #bly will be known, will assume some of the duties now borne by Maj. R. O. ‘Wilmarth, assistant superintendent in icharge of business affairs, would leave rs under Maj. Wilmarth's jurisdic- f and would take over still other yesponsibilities now vested in Dr. Bal- ou, Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant perintendent in charge of white high hools; G. C. Wilkinson, first assistany rintendent in charge of colored s, and Robert L. Haycock, assist- it superintendent in charge of white ntary schools. Direction of the janitorial staff would be one of the du- h now vested in the superintendent’s which the new officer will take ver. The present superintendent of janitors, however, would remain in orce, but & closer watch would be '.hiued on_that part of the sys- ek, Like Kramer’s Duties. ‘The new officer will bear the same grll‘glun to Maj. Wilmarth which Mr. er, as first assistant, bears to Mr. ‘Haycock. The repair fund of $500,000 will be tirely under the new officer’s jurisdic- , and Jepairs to buildings and grounds would be executed by the Dis- drict repair shop on the recommenda- ion of the new officer. 'The “contin- it” fund would remain under Maj. iimarth’s direction and include funds or the purehase of movable equip- t in the schools. Maj. Wilmarth would retain jurisdiction over 1 system purohases. By being relieved of the tion of repair fund and other dlties, Maj. rth, who heretofore has been liged to attempt building inspection d so forth without help, would be given ore opportunity to maintain closer contact with the District purchasing officer and other departments of the District government with which he does cusinu.s for the schools. “Prequently,” Dr. Ballou said today, ‘newly created positions are filled before pney actually are established, but this is one in which we not only have no (definite person in mind, but for which jno applications have yet been made. If 'rsons possessing the general qualifica- jons and the willingness to accept the ipositéon desire to be considered, we mre anxious to receive their applica- jons as early as possible.” ‘The appropriation of the $5,000 salary il become available July 1, by which time school officials hope to be ready to Put the system’s new officer to work. NEW YORK VISITORS HEAR D. C. DESCRIBED Commissioner of Education Cooper Says City Typifies America and American Ideals. The city of Washington, typifying ‘America and American ideals as the Capital of the Nation, was described yesterday in a welcoming address de- livered by William John Cooper, com- missioner of education, to a group of Americanization students and teachers from New York. Mr. Cooper said the pilgrimage here should prove helpful in understanding how a government of the people and for the people actually operates, and pointed out that the historic surroundings should awaken a keen desire to learn of the ideals which brought this Nation into existence. The part taken by women in the busi- ness and political life of America was yeferred to by Mr. Cooper as a very im- portant aspect of democracy and urged that the wife or mother, foreign or na- tive born, prepare herself through eve- ning schools to do her part in the gov- erning of the Nation. Delegate to Science Congress. Augustine B, McManus, senior nau- tical scientist of the United States Hydrographic Bureau of the Navy, is leaving Washington today for the Pa- cifi> Coast, where he will take passage she was finally located after a long search by two deputy United States rshals. She was said to have taken a prominent part in gmnz evidence against the two men Baltimore, as she has done in numerous cases in Washington while working as a special agent. Although she was supposed to have been a defense witness, Miss Costello led in court today that she had bought liquor from the two men at a saloon on Frederick road, where she had gone in company with another agent named Busch. As soon as she stepped down from the witness chair she was taken into custody by a United States deputy marshal and 'is being held pending a decision by Judge Cole- man on the contempt of court charge. The court has not yet indicated what will be done to her for evading its or- der to appear as a witness. GIRL, THROWN BY HORSE, MAY HAVE BROKEN BACK X-Ray Will Be Used in Determin- ing Injuries After Examination Indicates Fracture. An X-ray will be taken at Emergency Hospital today to determine whether Miss Catherine Healy, 18-year-old Trinity College student, suffered a broken back when she was thrown by her horse while riding in Rock Creek Park yesterday afternoon. The young woman was riding on Ross drive about 5:30 o’clock when her horse shied, throwing her. She was placed in an automobile by Policeman Scoville of the thirteenth precinct and taken to Walter Reed Hospital. Lieut. Charles McIntyre, staff physician, gave her first-aid treat- ment and “de;:;ld her removed to Emergency Hospital. A preliminary examination, according to Emergency Hospital doctors, indi- cated that she is suffering from a broken back and a fractured hip. “Trinity College authorities were noti- fied of the accident by police and re- quested to inform Miss Healy’s parents in Atlantic City, N. J. Boy Robbed by YB\mg Bandits. Frank Erwin, 11 years old, of 1503 Third street northeast, was stopped at First and Q streets Saturday night by four colored boys and robbed of $1.40 which he had collected for a local news- paper. The boy told his parents that three of the colored youths held his O PERGE AVERS PANC DIRNGFRE Blaze Breaks Out in Church| Projection Room While Film Being Shown. A stampede was averted among the capacity crowd at the First Congrega- tional Church, at Tenth and G streets, last night when Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor, quieted his congregation from the pulpit after a fire had broken out in the projection booth at the south end of the church, during the showing of the film “The King of Kings,” present- ed in connection with a series of Lenten sermons given in the church each Thursday and Sunday evening. ‘The 1,300 persons in the audience quletly walked out when the lights in the darkened edifice were turned on and except for the disquieting warning of a young man from the gallery who became excited and broke one of the stained windows after yelling “Fire!” and the subsequent fainting of an el- derly woman, practically no disorder was in evidence as the church was cleared. Dr. Pierce described the incident this morning as a mishap which’ often oc- curs in film projection booths and dis- missed the event with the statement that the same thing is liable to-happen at the showing of any film when the highly inflammable material. Becomes | jammed in the machine. “The whole affair would have been devold of disorder had not the excitable young man in the gallery shouted ‘Fire,’ and then proceeded to make a hasty exit through a stained window pane which he broke. Later the man LVING PARASTES HELD BASIS OF NEW TP O 0L VORLD Novel Theory for Recon- structing Ancient Globe. PESTS OF PRESENT WILD ANIMALS USED AS CHECK Dr. Metcalf Points to Marsupials As Proof of Southern Con- nected Continents. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A new approach for reconstructing the map of teh ancient world, with its vanished continents, islands and oceans, is proposed through the Smithsonian Institution by Dr. Maynard M. Metcalf of Johns Hopkins University. He would use the parasites of living animals to rebuild a picture of the environment of their past and a record of their migrations. This evidence, it is pointed out, could be used as a check on the evidence of other sciences on the history of the past and the evolution of species. Many of these parasites studied by Dr. Metcalf are microscopic protozoans whose life history for millions of yea:s has been tied up with that of their host animals. Everything that lives, from man to the earthworm, is the car- rier of parasites, but these creatures are very selective in their hosts—one species often infecting only one species of animal. A subject of contention for many years has been the likelihood that mil- lions of years ago there was a land connection between Australia, South America and Maylasia, possibly a part of the Antarctic continent which is now being explored. There is a general re- semblance among the animals of these three sections. Mammal Fauna Localized. ‘The mammal fauna of Australia is, with a single exception, marsupial—that is, the young are born in an exceedingly primitive condition and carried by the mother in a pouch. There are marsu- pials in Soyth America and Maylasia, but none in the northern hemisphere, except for one modified type. Australia has been cut off from mammal invasion from the outside world for countless centuries, so the marsupial type has re- mained unmodified. The other two sections have been in constant touch with northern invasion, which have modified the type. There are other similarities among the birds and reptiles. This signifies to many zoologists that the fauna, at least of Australia and southern South America, must have had a common origin and have been able to migrate from one continent to the other overland. The other theory is| that the“types developed independently, due to a similar environment, or that all originally were northern migrants. There is geological evidence of a land connection which s not entirely satis- factory, and the zoologists have not been able entirely to prove their point. So the map of this part of the ancient world has remained a mystery. came to me and apologized and offered to &ny for the damaged window. He said his first impulse was to provide a <v{ly of escape for the women and chil- ren.” Miss F. L. Mallory of the 900 block I street fainted in the excitement and after treatment by Emergency Hospital physicians, who responded to a call, went to her home. ‘The projection booth is in the rear of a second gallery and apart from the main part of the church. The machine in the booth is fireproof. The damage was confined to the walls of the booth srd the destruction of five reels of m. Dr. Plerce sald today that the picture would be shown every night this week through Friday. MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE RE-ELECTS DR. RUSSELL Rev. Dr. Charles L. Russell was re- elected president of the National Inter- denominational Ministerial Alllance of America at the closing session of the five-day convention of the Alliance Sat- urday. ‘The_ followin; national officers were elected for the ensuing year: ‘W. A. Gray, this city; Bishop R. C. Grant of Mobile, Ala.; J. W. Robinson, Charleston, W. Va.;, M. R. Geary, Bangor, Me,, and W. C. Brown of Jack- sonville, Fla., secretaries; H. T. Med- W. C. Brown, secretaries; H. T. Med- ford, W. A. Taylor of this city and L. G. Jordan of Nashville, corresponding sec- retaries; M. C. Strachan, New York City, assistant corresponding secretary; Rev. J. H. Jenkins, pastor of Asbury M. E. Church, this city, treasurer; O. G. arms while the fourth took the money from his pocket. Granderson, secretary, and J. C. Olden, chairman of the executive committee. Undersecretary Planning to Resume Practice of Law in Utah. Will Remain in Office Only Until Secretary Stimson Reaches City. Judge J. Reuben Clark, Undersecre- tary of State, has tendered his Tesig- nation in order to resume the practice at the request of President Hoover will continue his present duties until after Secretary Stimson arrives here the lat- ter part of the month and is consult- ed in regard to the selection of his successor. Though Judge Clark has held his present office only since August. 17, 1928, he has rendered many years of valuable service in the State Depart- ment. He served as assistant solicitor from 1906 to 1910, and then as solicitor until late in 1913. He was a member on the President Wilson for Singapore fnd Batavia as delegate from the United | or the United States delegation at the States to the fourth Pan-Pacific Science Congress, the branch of International third Hague convention in 1912, United Research Council, to be held at Batavia | States counsel before the British Claims ond Bandoeng, Java, during May and | Commission in 1913 and «Zune, His wife will accompany. him, - .the United States .deleg@§ion .at .the e member of of law in his native State of Utah, but, JUDGE CLARK RESIGNS POST HELD IN STATE DEPARTMENT JUDGE J. REUBEN CLARK. conference on limitation of armaments in_1921. During the World War he was on duty in this city with the Judge Ad- vocate General's Department and with the provost marshal general, in the or- ganization of the American Expedition- ary Forces and was awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Medal. Now, says Dr. Metcalf, there are no true frogs in either South America or Australia except two species which are known to be recent migrants from the north. The place of the true frogs is taken by the “southern frogs” with striking structural differences, which are distributed in South and Central America, Tasmania, Australia, Papua, the New Hebrides, the Bismarck Archi- pelago and South Africa. Those op- posed to the Jand connection hypothesis have advanced the theory that these southern frogs came from the north, where they now are extinct, following different paths south. A recent school of zoologists claims the probable northern origin of all terrestrial animals, and that similar forms have undergone a parallel evolution instead of having a common origin. Both Have Common Parasite, Both the South American and Aus- tralian southern frogs, Dr. Metcalf Hopkins Professor Advances| Excavation work for the construction of new supports for the M Street Bridge has been started. shovel and drills used in tearing out old material. ! Photo shows steam —=Star Staff Photo. KELLY PREDICTS DRY LEGATIONS Representative Believes U. S. Will Ask Foreign Officials to Observe Law. Representative Clyde Kelly of Penn- sylvania yesterday predicted the time was coming when foreign legations in the Capital will be asked to respect the laws of the United States, including the eighteenth amendment. Speaking at a law enforcement meet- ing at Foundry M. E. Church, Repre- sentative Kelly said: “President Hoo- ver inaugural address was a declaration of war on the outlaw liquor interests. I believe he will give us reasonable en- forcement. I belleve he will make Wash- m}mn a model for the rest of the Na- n. Declaring that most Washington peo- ple earn their living from the Govern- ment, he sald: “They have a solemn obligation to support the eighteenth amendment.” Meantime Clinton N. Howard, chair- man of the National United Committee for Law Enforcement, continued his se- ries of dry meetings at three churches, Memorial United Brethren, Bethany and First Baptist. He praised President Hoover for his pronouncement on law enforcement and touched on the local police chief situation, “Without reflecting on Maj. Hesse, who so suddenly seeks retirement, his successor should be known as a total abstainer,” sald Howard. “No man who violates the law himself or countenances its violation for ‘his accommodation by another can maintain the respect and support of the men under him. man under Maj. Hesse who shares the responsibility for the reign of lawless- ness, bootlegging and gambling that has prevalled in Washington under consti- tutional prohibition cannot be trusted to do & good job as his successor. The policy of this administration should be to put only known dry officers on the job of drying up the National Capital.” TESTOF A GfiEAT BELIEF TEXT OF LENTEN SERMON Dr. Brown Tells Hearers to Stand Out Like St. Paul Against Unbelievers. “We should meet the test of a great belief and stand out like St. Paul in the points out, have & common protozoan parasite which is entirely absent from the Old World except in Australia and in the New World has extended north only to the southern coasts of North America. These parasites of the southern frogs, he says, “indicate seemingly be- yond question that the Australian and American _southern frogs are related, and also that they arose in the southern aemisphere and passed by some southern route from one to_the other of their southern habitats, It might be possible, however unlikely, that the southern frogs of Australia evolved from very different ancestors in a way parallel to that of the South American southern frogs. But no one can for a moment believe that along with the parallel evolution of the American and the Australian hosts there was also a par- allel evolution of their opalinids to such a degree that almost or quite identical species of parasites are found in these frogs in South America and Australia.” Most mofonlcal geographers, he points out, have postulated both an eastern and western southern land connection, authough some have reconstructed the ancient map with a great northern land mass, Arctogea, where most life origi- nated and from which it was dispersed south by the Isthmus of Panama to South America, by way of the Maylasian Islands to New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand, and by way of the Isthmus of Suez to Africa. Arctogea would have struggle among unbelievers,” the Rev. Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of the Foundry Methodist Church said in his noon day Lenten sermon at the First Congregational Church today. Dr. Harris sald that we should foster a greater love for Christ, for that is the center in soul of Christianity. Dr. John Weidley, pastor of the Luth- eran Church of Reformation, presided and offered the invocation. 600 QUARTS SEIZED. A 12-mile chase of a truck, from Silver Spring, Md., to an alley in rear of 1416 P street, netted Maryland State police 600 quarts of whisky yesterday. The driver escaped. The Maryland policemen, Charles Barnes and Joseph Nolte, reported that they started the chase at the police substation in Silver Spring. The driver, an unidentified white man, jumped from the truck after damaging a garage try- ing to get the machine inside. ‘The truck and liquor were turned over to agents of the Internal Revenue Bureau. frogs must have occurred before the toads got into southern South America. There 15 geological evidence of what was probably a shallow sea cutting the present South America in two during the middle tertiary period. The present been comprised of most of the land mass of Europe, Asia and North Am- erica, with northern land connections. There is no evidence, he says, that the southern frogs ever existed in this hypothetical Arctogea. At least they are not there today, and this particular protozoan parasite also has disappeared completely. Now the southern frog— 1t is nearer the toads than the frogs— shares the parasite with other southern toads. It is reasonable to belleve that if these amphibians ever were in Arctogea these parasites would have spread to the other toads which are still living there, The disappearance of both from the north and their simul- taneous reappearance in the south, he belleves, would be too great a co- incidence, Thread Validates Evidence. Thus, such a slender shred of evidence as the minute parasite of a toad ap- parently validates the picture of van- ished lands in the far distant past. Dr. Metcalf even is able to date roughly the geological picture, Thus there are more southern frogs in South America than in Australia and they are more diversified. This indicated that they For several years he was on the faculty of George Washington Univer- sity as professor of The impression prevalls that he may be appointed to an important post in .the foreign diplomatic .service, - e AP R A (e originated in the western continent or in Antarctica and migrated to Australia. But there also are lots of true toads in South America and none in Australia. They also are common in the north. .So' the migralipn of the southern ' » eq s TR e Argentina, Chile and Patagonia were cut off from Brazil and united to Antartica. The northern frogs could not have gotten across this shallow sea. When it was wiped out and they could proceed southward the Antarctic land connec- tion also must have been wiped out, so that they could not spread to Australia. Hence the reconstruction of the ancient map from the testimony of this single toad parasite gives an approximate clue to the time the southern land connection disappeared. A parasite of a South American fresh water crustacean, Dr. Metcalf points | te out, enables the geographer to show that the shallow sea cutting South America in two was north of southern Brazil. Study of parasites can clear up the point as to which animals originated in South America and which are immi- grants from North America in com- paratively recent times. Only a start has been made, Dr. Metcalf points out, in this method of reconstructing the past. A particularly rich reward. in this line, he believes, may be obtained from a study of the parasites of the approximately 1,500 species of white ants which are scattered all over the world. They probably have more parasites of a certain kind, he says, than all other animals combined. Another line of approach he suggests is through the insect and fungl para- sites of plants, many of which restrict themselves to a single host. Al Phat=tapst Any I Glad to Know Gun Pressing Side Was Meant for Another Augustus S. Brailer told police last night he was glad to learn it was, just another case of mistaken identity when a masked stranger, emerging from the shadows in the rear of the Brailer home, 326 Adams street northeast, pressed & pistol against his side and looked him over carefully. ‘“You're not the man,” remark- ed the stranger, just before he pocketed his gun and disap- peared. . Brailer, who could make no ex- planation other than that ad- vanced by the intruder, said he had no personal enemies and that there was no attempt to rob him. ‘The man was tall, wore a dark suit without an overcoat, and had a slouch hat pulled over the mask across his eyes, Brailer said. Brailer, when accosted, was on the way to his garage to get his automobile, he explained. SEVEN ARE HURT BY AUTOMOBILES Woman,‘55, Knocked Down by Car, Refuses Hospital Treatment. Sophie Asha, 55 years old, and Paul a, 5 years old, both of 524 Four- eenth street northeast, escaped With slight injuries last night when they were knocked down by an automobile at'Fourteenth and F streets northeast. ‘The woman refused hospital treat- ment. The boy was treated by Dr. Louis Jimal of Casualty Hospital for abra- slons. Police say the automobile was driven by George F. Johnson, 1200 block of D street southeast. Driver Arrested. Robert Wilson, colored, 942 T street, and Leroy Clayburn, colored, 1426 Dun- can street northeast, were both injured when struck by automobiles. Wilson, the more seriously injured of the two, is in Garfleld Hospital with a possible fracture of the spine. Willlam C. Diggs, 435 Buchanan street, sald by police to be the driver of the car which struck Wilson, was ar- rested on a charge of reckless driving. ‘Woman Cut About Head. Mrs. O. C. Dresser of Arlington, Va., was cut about the face and head when an automobile collided with the ma- chine she was driving, wrecked it and sged away. The accident occurred in the Department of Agriculture grounds at 8:30 o'clock Saturday evening. A Department of Agriculture guard heard Mrs. Dresser’s screams and pulled her out of the smashed machine. She was taken to Emergency Hospital and her cuts dressed. A passing automobile gave chase to the hit-and-run car, but was outdis- tanced. Mrs. Dresser obtained a license number which the police are checking. Two Women Slightly Hurt. Florence Meade, 31 years old, 916 Third street southwest, and Mart] Jones, 60 years old, 930 Third street southwest, both colored, were injured slightly this morning when the auto- mobile in which they were riding col- lided with another operated, police say, by Theodore J. Proctor of Camp Springs, Md., at Third and G streets | St southwest. The women were removed to Emergency Hospital in an ambu- lance and treated for minor lacerations. Traffic at Upshur street and New Hampshire avenue was delayed for a short time last night when a Washing- ton Railway & Electric Co. trolley was derailed when struck by a bus of the ‘Washington Rapid Transit Co. No in- juries were reported. Both vehicles were damaged slightly. EPISCOPAL LAYMEN CONCLUDE MEETING Several States Are Represented at ‘Three-Day Church Confer- ence Held Here. Several States were represented at a conference Friday, Saturday and yes- rday at Washington Cathedral for laymen of the Episcopal Church. It was presided over by the Right Rev. Thomas C. Darst, Bishop of East Carolina and hairman of Episcopal Church's national commission on evangelism. sessions were held under auspices of the College of Preachers. It was the fourth of a serles of lay conferences being held during Lent. Among those in attendance were John W. Arrington, Greenville, 8. C.; David W. Fuller, Montgomery, Ala.; Eric Gibbert, Glendale, Ohio; Lewis D. Learned, Providence, R. L; W. ler, Augusta, Gt Leon C. Philadelphia, Pa.; Harry W. o lin P. Spencer, Springfield, Il.; H. F. Vanderlip, Co- lumbus, Ohio; Harris Wofford, Johnson rence R. Lee, Edwin N. Lewis, Dr. Wil- lg'gm C. Sturgis and F. C. Wallace of N ha | the ceremony. Col. Grant will be ac- ROYAL BAND PLANS 10 TOUR AMERICA Belgian Guardsmen to Stop in Washington, Embassy Announces. Officials of the Belgian cmbassy an- nounced today that plans are under way to make Washington one of the stop- ping places for the symphonic band of the Royal Belgian Guards, now en route to America for a three months’ good will tour. The band will play in all parts of the United States and a number of Canadian cities before it leaves for ‘home. ‘The embassy lacked definite informa- tion where the band will play here, offi- cials declaring that the place and date for the proposed concert in Washington have not been fixed. ‘The t _reat inilitary band from Europe to visit this country, the band consists of 80 musicians, by Capt. Arthur Prevost, and dates from the Belgian war of independence, nearly 100 years ago. King Albert, in a cablegram by the Belgian embassy for tra: to Capt. Prevost, cxpresses his personal interest in the tour with a wish for' its success. ‘The itinerary, made public by the em- y, begins at New York, March 19, with engagements on the four succeed- ing days at Orange, N. J.; Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. The band then will play at Richmond and Hamp- ton, Va., March 24 and 25, and pro- ceed to Canada Ly way of Atlantic City, New Bedford and Boston. In Canada it will visit Montreal, Que- bec, Toronto, Ottawa, Three Rivers, Sherbrooke, Hamilton and Vancouver. After completing part of its Canadian program it will play at Buffalo, Mem- phis, Pine Bluff and El Dorado, 3 Abilene, Dallas, Houston, San EL ‘Tex.; Los Angeles, San , Seattle, Tacoma; Laramie, Wyo.; Denver, Colorado Springs, Kansgs City, Omaha, Des Moines, Milwaukee, Chicago, South Bend, Grand Rapids and Detroit. The tour will end with concerts in Cleve- land, Schenectady and Albany. INAUGURAL COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN T@ ASSEMBLE Grant to Call Meeting to Wind Up Business—Hoover to Be Given Medal. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, chairman of the inaugural committee, expects to call & meeting of committee chair- men within a few days to furnish re- ports to enable him to wind up the business of the committee and permit it to go out of existence. Whether this meeting will be held this week was not known today. of the week for Y. ‘The main business the committee will be the presentation at noon Wednesday of a souvenir gold medal to President Hoover at the White House, as the official gift of the committee to the New President. This medal was to have been presented March 4, but lack of time prevented received n companied to the White House by a group of committee chairman. With the White House stand entirely cleared away, workmen were busy to- day tearing down the stands in Lafayette Park and in front of the e, War and Navy Building. The stands in front of the District Building, were being taken apart today for packing. $1,000 DIAMOND STOLEN. Ring Included in Loot Carried Away by Safebreaker. A $1,000 ring, which Miss Gladys Jackson had placed in her employer's safe until she could have a loose dia- mond tightened, was part of the loot obtained by thieves who knocked the combination from the safe Sunday after they had gained entrance to the store of Clifford C. Fawsett through a rear door. About $5 in pennies and quarters also was stolen. Miss Jackson, who is employed as cashier by Fawsett, said she put her ring in the safe last Friday, when she noticed that the setting d become loose. She lives at 1920 S street. The store is located at 1357 Wisconsin ave- nue, Three Attacked by Dogs. A young woman and two children were attacked and bitten by dogs yester- day, their injuries are not serious. Those bitten, according to police, are Cather- ine Witt, 18 years old, a nurse at Emerg- old, 690’ street, and lvin Adams, colored, 5 years old, 2300 Ainger avenue southeast. . Camps Seek Sheet Music. ‘The District Chapter of the Red Cross has received an appeal for piano sheet music_from nearby Army camps. The Red Cross will receive such gifts at its headquarters, 821 Sixteenth street, or ;v.fl.lLeouecc them if telephoned at Main ), Ark.; Antonio | ¢, orchid-flowered small of Agriculture Parking space has been depatiment for UNONEDVERNDE PRAGE KELLORE FFORTS AT EAC Common Understanding Vital Necessity, He Tells Pan-American Board. Is BRAZILIAN AMBASSADOR CITES WORK FOR AMITY Resolution of Gratitude and Good Will Toward Retiring Sec- retary Is Adopted. There is no more important work to be done today than to insure the closest possible understanding between all the governments and peoples of America, in the opinion of Secretary of State Kellogg, who addressed at noon today the governing board of the Pan-American Union, of which he is chairman. The occasion was the acceptance of a resolution of gratitude and good will adopted by members of the board, representing the other na- tlons of this hemisphere, on the eve of Mr. Kellogg's departure from the position of Secretary of State and sec- retary of the board. The resolution of appreciation was adopted by the Ambassadors, Ministers and charge d'affaires of the other re- publics of North and South America and was presented to Mr. Kellogg in an appropriate speech by the Ambas- sador of Brazil, S. Gurgel do Amaral. Friendship Ties Strengthened. ‘The period of your incumbency,” said the Brazilian Ambassador, “has witnessed the marked strengthening of the ties of friendship and mutual con- fidence that bind the republics of the Western Hemisphere to one another, and it must be a source of great sat- isfaction to you to know how much you have contributed toward this zr_erl: end.” e resolution was engrossed and in- closed in a case of Turkish morocco leather. In accepting it, Secretary Kellogg said, in part: “The four years during which I have had the privilege of presiding over your deliberations have been eventful ones in the history of pan-American rela~ tions. The many conferences of a pan-American character held during this veriod, and especially the Havana conference of 1928 and the Confer- ence of Conciliation and Arbitration ot 1929, have set a new standard in the forward march of pan-American unity. “To me there is no more important work to be done today than to insure the closest possible understanding be- tween the governments and peoples of America. This understanding should express itself not only in complete mu- tual confidence, but also take the form of positive constructive efforts to pro- mote co-operation in the solution of the problems common to all the repul- lics of America.” Secretary Kellogg was th> recipiert or many warm personal congratulatio: ::.lrlac end of the brief mesting of the Text of Resolution. The resolution adopted by the boz::l was as follows: he long 1 Frank B. Kewms held the office of chairman of the gov- ing 'd of the Pan-American ful in strengthening the pan-American spirit .of unity and co-operation, but has also inspired in every member of the board a deep and enduring sense o: personal esteem and affection, ‘Therefore be it resolved by the Am- bassadors, Ministers and charge d'a: faires of the republics of Americ.. members of the governing board of th: Pan-American Union, to record in the minutes of the board the expression of their appreciation and gratitude for the eminent services rendered by Mr. Kel- logg and to express the hope that du: ing the coming years he will constant! recall with a sense of well earned sati: faction the great services which he h: rendered not only to his country, b: also to the cause of pan-Americanism.” BURGLARS ENTER HOME AND STEAL WRIST WATCH Maj. Luxford Reports Loss to Po- lice—Fifty $1 Bills Taken From Another Residence. Maj. Overiman C. Luxford, 501 Quincy street, told- police last night that his home had been entered through a front window by thieves, who stole a gold wrist watch valued at $40. Detectives o?tnned fingerprints from the window glass. Chong Lee, a Chinese, living at 1216 Thirteenth street, reported his home entered by some one who picked a lock on the rear door and stole a revolver, a phonograph, records and Chinese orna- ments. He estimated the value of the stolen property at $35. A package containing 50 $1 bills, a $5 gold plece, a necklace and some silk hosiery were stolen from the resi- dence of Mrs. Mamie Stricley, 4828 Eighth street, last night. Police also were advised of the theft of two watches, one from James S. Cole, 1357 Meridian street, and the gtu:ert from William Connors, 1633 Sixth reet. CABINETWOMEN VISIT AMARYLLIS SHOW TODAY Mrs. Hoover Will Be Greeted by Society Leaders at Exhibition This Afternoon. Wives of cabinet members and their guests are attending the sixteenth an- nual Amaryllis Show in the Department of Agriculture greenhouses today as guests of Secretary and Mrs. Arthur M. Hyde. Mrs. Hoover is expected to visit the show this afternoon and many lead- eanAhl:lmanmmywulumzn to_greet her. More than 9,000 visitors at the show i S TR Stein, 8 years | yesterday ra nthe atendance far ahead of f any previous record. A party of 20 from Ohio attended, while visitors from 14 other States were registered. One of the novelties of the show is an amaryllis, _unusually lnddeegmdmwlor.nhlm VS I N e aar v W Wi 9 a.m. until p.m. lnflm Department greenhouses, Fourteenth and B streets, until Thursday night. reserved in m%