Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1929, Page 17

@he Toening Star WASHINGTON, b. €., TUESDAY, 1929. MARCH 1 COMMISSION SENDS HESSE APPLCATON T0 RETIRING B0ARD \Will Be Considered at Specialg Mecting to Be Held March 21. APPROVAL IS HELD FOREGONE CONCLUSION | Plenty of Time to Pick Successor, | Between Now and March 31, Dougherty Says. | The application of Maj. Edwin B.| Hesse, superintendent of police, for re- tirement was referred by the District| Commissioners today to the Police and | Firemen's Retiring and Relief Board for | consideration and recommendation While the question of a successor is | heing given daily consideration, Com- oner Proctor L. Dougherty, under | hom comes the Police and Fire De- | partments, said ¢ ing today that * between no his suceesso The retiring board, it was learncd, will consider Maj. Hesse's application at its next regular meeting, March Francis H. Stephens, assistant Distrie corporation counsel, who 1s ils chair- man, said he knew of no intention on the part of board members to hold a special meeting. ce Maj. Hesse is secking to retire from cffice on March 31 on account of ill health, it was a foregone conclusion that the applica tion would be approved. In considering it at meeting, the Commissioners disposed of the matter in a comparatively short time. His application was referred, on the motion of Commissioner Doughert together with the report of the boary the time the retiring board acts or by | superintendent’s physical disabilities. of Sun Yat Sen will be he Miss Alice Lee, Judge Paul Linebarger ai CHINESE T0 HONOR EAD, SUNYAT EA Colerful Memorial to Be Held Tonight for Father of Republic. | | | | v's board Altar erected at the Washington Club, where tonight a ceremony in henor | lecture at the university last night on by the Chine: CLARK EVOLUTION THEORY IS UPHELD BY DR CONNOLLY Single-Cell Origin Belief Is Weakening Before Mass of Evidence, He Says. SCIENTISTS FORCED INTO GROUP CONCEPT | Lecturer Declares Hybrid Charac- ters Separate to First Parents’ Forms, BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The theory of the evolution of all life from a primitive single-celled form has not held up under an increasjng mass of contrary evidence, and scien- tific evolutionists are being forced into the concept of the devclopment of species within_groups created as_such | frem the beginning, Rev. Dr. C. J. Connolly of the department of anthro- pology at-Catholic University said in a In the picture, Ieft to right, are [the present status of the evolution . F. Wong. theory. Connolly referred to Clark’s service to | s | | | science ‘in calling attention to the fact | that no missing links have been found | | between major groups, although they { may be found within species. | T | Although an evolutionary concept nd S approximately the position | | taken by Austin H. Clark of the Smith- | sontan Institution in a new theory of {evolution announced last month. Dr. still is admitted by science as offering { the best interpretation of the develop- { ment of life, Dr. Connolly said, and the | weight of evidence seems in its favor, | wealk links have been found. i The rediscovery of the Mendelian law of inheritance early in the twentieth | century, he said, scems to prove that no new characters are introduced into a race by hybridization, but that in the course of time. the hybrid characters separate into the characters of the first ;Airports in Capitals Helped by Governments, U. S. Report Shows. RUM-RUNNING AID Upper, left to right: Policemen C. 0. Rouse and B. R. Campbell of the venth precinct with the bootlegger's car they captured last night in a chase, during which they were forced to race through clouds of smoke discharged from the machine through the medium of a five-gallon pump, shown on the run- ning hoard, which sends oil through the exhaust. Lower: Policeman Curtis Carter, held under liquor charges, after another chase. —Star Staff Photo, RETIREMENT BODY TRAFFIC CONTROL FLETS OFFERS . REVISON PLANNED Capt. Stott Chosen President New System at Dupont Circle ! to Be Installed in ! of Policemen’s As- sociation. 10 Days. | An association which would present | Free to Consider Names. With the taking of this preliminary step, the Commissioners are more or | less free to consider the numerous names, - from _inside and outside the Metropolitan Police Department, which have been suggested to fill Maj. Hesse's office upon his retirement. “It is natural that we will give first consideration to deserving men in the Police Department,” M gave ‘assurances tod: “That failing, we shall next consider suitable persons in the District. As a last resort, we have the whole United States to choos 10l I think there will be no re trouble in making a final selection by the time the retiring board acts or by | March 31.” Two members of the Senate cxpressed differcnt views today as to whether the | new superintendent of police should | be taken from the ranks or from out- | side the department. | Senator Jones, Republican, of Wash- Ington. and a member of the District | committee, favored selection of a man | from within the deparfment. Senator , Democrat, of Arkansas took the view that the chief of police should be chosen from outside the department. Both Want Sirict Enforcer. Senator Jones said he preferred to sce such an appointment made by ad- vancing some one in the ranks, pro- vided a man can be found in that way who is fully qualificd. He said that if a qualified superintendent could not be found in the ranks it would suggest the need for new men in the ranks. Senator Caraway said he felt that there are always factions within the depart- ament and that a man chosen from the ranks would be handicapped by that situation. Both Senators were strongly of the opinion that the new superintendent should be 2 belie in sirict enforce- ment of the prohibition law. Meanvwhile, active campaigns for se- Jection as police superintendent are by 4ng launched by some of the members of the force who are near the top of the eligibility list and in line for pro- motion, Maj. Hesse's two assistants, Inspector Henry G, Pratt and Inspector William S. Shelby, have strong backing from friends who feel their years of service and experience should be given recognition. /Neither of these, however, 15 making any personal effort to secure &ppointment. Interested in Stott. It was learned today that membe of the Marine Corps are taking m than 2 personal interest in behalf of Capt. William G. Stott of the third precinct. Capt. Stott is an ex-Marine, with expeditionary service to his credit Years ago he organized the constabu Jary forces of the Honduran gover following 2 revolution and recs his ex onal W 0 from American and Hondu ment officials. Mr. Doughi that who have long and the men well should be given special consideration in filling the office, Maj $iesse himself was appolnted from within the department. There are men on the force like Lieut. Edward Ke Capt. Robert E. Doyle and others who Yave come up from the ranks. me Brought In. itt O. Chance, for- shington, was one department al consideration wever, is ot he post for him- time, years ago, minently in men- Chance's The name of Me mer postmaster of W of those from “‘outsi which entered today. C known t self, althou he figured foner, a _canc i. Davison has the 0 wish to see a perintendent of ch with him ¢ office. day. no Tespect e officer from Enginee: candidate. backing of service man police, those ir or Marine SUIT CASE FOUND. Hamilton , wasn't Jost lid in the check ch the style Dougherty § ‘The memory of Sun Yat Sen, father | of the Chinese republic, -will be honored | tonight at colerful ceremonies at the {Washmgmn Club, for which the most | notabie Chinese in the United States { have gathered in Washington today. The body of the liberator and phi- | losopher, who died four years ago this month, r in a erystal casket in the | sion studying the airport requirements of the National Capital approaches the | problem of allocation of the cost, it will | find that in several of the large Euro- pean capitals the national governments provided sites for the original estab- lishment of the air fields. ‘This is shown by data gathered by the Department of Commerce and | which will be available to the commis- |slon 1n its investigation of where and Temple of the Green Cloud at Peking, | how the local airport should be de- but the remains soon are to be moved to | veloped. : | a ‘magnificent tomb cut into the moun- | The Templehof airport in Berlin. for- de at Nanken, which has been | My was a parade ground for the Ger- ribed as the most costly memorial |Man Army. According to the informa- ever erected to a human being. | tion obtained by the Commerce Depart- The observance tonight is of his|Ment, it was turned over to the city an eathday,” which is celebrated in | some funds were provided for grading When the joint congressional commis- | parents. This leaves, he said, the fact | | of mutations due to mysterious changes in the germ cells which are hereditary. ©nce one of these mutations appears and is better adapted to survive in its environment, the course of evolution goes on for a time on the Darwinian line of natural selection, but soon reaches its limits. Inheritance Questioned. inheritance of acquired char- he said, never has been proved to the satisfaction of conservative scienticts. He pointed ous, howev that what seems to be a case of inhes nce of acquired mental character- s has been reported by the Russ:a‘n sychologist, Pavlov, in connection with onditioned reflexes in mice. Pavl Th acter | volve China rather than the birthday. The dead liberator will be spoken of by his ceremonial name of Sun Chung San, for he now has been sanctified and given a new name, Aliar Erected at Club. Besides eulogies of the dead Jeader, it is planned to pass resolutions urging the United States to withdraw her extra- | territoriality in China. A Chinese altar has been erected at | the Washington Club upon which offer- { ings to the spirit will be placed accord- ing to the Chinese rites. First, there will be an offering of incense and a | parchment scroll, the latter symbolic bf the wisdom of old China and the former | the spread of that wisdom over the | world as incense spreads through the {air. Then will come an offering of | flowers and shrubs, symbolic of de- {mocracy and the harmony of nature. | Then an_offering of fruits and grains | will be placed on the altar as emblems | of the necessities of human life obtained { through labor. These offerings will be }in charge of Dr. S. F. Wong. | Will to Be Read. Dr. Y. J. Huang then will read the of Sun Yat after which, in a | period of absolute silence, those {aking part in the ceremony will perform three Teverences before the altar. These are {low bows, repeated three times in a practically continuous movement. In the course of the ceremony, a gong will be struck 42 tim ‘mbolic of the 42 years that Sun lal for China. The gong represents communication, be- tween heaven and earth, and is sup- posed to command the attention of spirits. § There will be addresses on the life | and work of Sun by C. Y. Cheng, Judge | Paul Linebarger, author of Sun's bio- | araphy, and his international legal ad- vicer for 18 years; and-Chao Chu Wu, | Chinese Minister to the United States. CITY HEADS ORDER TAX CANCELLATION Acting on the recommendation of William W. Bride, corporation counsel, the District Commissioners at a board meeting today ordered cancellation of the taxes charged against the Chesa- ke & Potomac Telephone Co., on its wires and conduits. { e tl t of July 1, 1902, tele- | pt cd 4 per cent {on j otk > companies were their gross earniny er personal tas g The question v filed by the Was y & Electric Co. and the hether and in- able as such, or onal_property franchise roperty and in- This _decision, M 0 the Commission he Court of Appe: inction between those ca " he added, in referring | to the application of the telephone com- pany for cancellation of the taxes ed in the de reported t in lieu of all} ax under sec- | taught mice to run for food at t sound of a bell. With the first genera- tion, this required 300 lessons, with the second 100 lessons, with the third 30 lessons and with the fifth only five. The third chain of evidence which apparently is not holding up, Dr. Con- nolly said, is that offered by the reca- pitulation theory of embryology. It was postulated at first that an individual before birth passed through the adult forms of all its ancestors. This soon was modified to the statement that the embryo passed through the embryor stages of all its ancestral forms. The | draining and lighting. About two years |later the city purchased additional | ground to add to the original area. This field covers 370 acres and is operated as a municipal airport. « Croydon Field Similar. In London the Croydon airfield was a | government training center during the | World War. After the armistice the war ministry continued to operate it as a training center, but allowed commer: | cial planes to use it. Later the military | activities were witiidravn, 1ts opera- | tion is listed by the department as mu- o challel | nicipal and federal, It covers 388 acres, | theory recently has been challenged, Dr. ! ~The development of Le Bourget Field | Connolly said. |in " Paris was_somewhat similar to the | | situation ‘in England, except that the |-army_still uses part of the airport in |'the French capital, but with the two | activitics well separated. Le Bourget | Field consists of 420 acres, but the Commerce Department tabulation indi- | cates an area is to be added for strictly | commercial use. Italy Aids Rome Field. Anatomy Compared. ‘The fourth chain of evolutionary evi- dence, he said, was that of compar: tive anatomy, tending to uphold the re- lationship of different life groups. He pointed out, however, that different in- terpietations recently have been put on many of these points. “The field of paleontology, he said, re- cently has furnished evidence which In Rome about 80 per cent of the |Casts doubt on some of the evolutionary {fund required to establish the Littorio | @rguments. Some of the higher forms, alrport was from private sour | such as the vertebrate fishes, have been | the government gave some assis | found to extend far back in geologic | The airport is commercially operated, | time. Fish fossils have been found in | but s to receive funds from the govern- | Tocks of the Cambrian period, practical- | ment gmi- certain improvements. The L}; ‘l’)‘ILc carliest furnishing any evidence Italian airport covers 660 acres. L The resolution under which the joint| This, he said, would indicate a poly- | Senate and House Commission was cre- | genetic evolution, rather than evolution ated to study the needs of Washington | from a single-celled creature. The gap | directs the commission to make recom- | between vertebrates and non-vertebrates, | mendations as to sites, plans “and suit- | he insisted, never has been bridged. able allocation of costs.” iatrl Fhe commission 15 awaiting reports | *Geosraphic Distribution Is Factor. from the War, Navy, Commerce and | Geographic —distribution of animal Post Office Departments as to what the | and plant forms which first gave Dar- future airport requirements of the |win his clue, Dr. Connolly said, also Government will be in Washington, and | has turned up facts disturbing to the similar data from a municipal stand- | orthodox evolutionist. Darwin, for ex- | point is to be submitted by the District { ample, found among the birds of the | Commissioners. When these reports | Galapagos Islands varieties which evi- |are in the commission will hold hear- | dently were close relatives of those of ings, probably the first week in April. | the South American mainland, but During consideration of the District | which, due to the peculiar environment appropriation bill in the Senate re- |of the islands, had undergone great mod- cently Senator Bingham, Republican, of | jfications. Later studies, Dr. Connolly | Connecticut, in charge of local appro- | said, show that while such relationships | priation matters, expressed it as his| apparently exist, islands show great | personal belief that the Federal Gov-|pnumbers of species without apparent ernment ought te bear the expense of | relationships outside and which seem to constructing an adequate municipal | have originated where they are found. airport, or at least a large share of the | “The scientific world, Dr. Connolly said, | cost. He based his belief on the’feeling | seems to be starting another 10-year de- {that the airport would be used more | hate on the origin of man with such | by persons coming here to transact | authorities as Dr. Henry Fairchild Os- | business with the Government than |porne of the New York Museum of Nat- | locally. ural History saying boldly that the | LANSSchE Or BiDanem fhios Shbeen “ape-man” theory is a myth, while oth- | chairman of the joint commission. ers equally prominent are defending it. The fossil remains of ancient man, | he insisted, extend with absolute cer- | tainty no further Lack than the Cro- Magnon man wh) existed in Europe in the post-glacial pleistocene period from 10,000 to 15,000 years ago. The Cro- Magnon was a man of high mentality ana en artistic temperament, producing James W. Good, Secretary of War, | i type of paintings on cave walls and nd Dwight F. Davis, his predecessor, | engrayings on bones and shells. sre guests of honor at a luncheon given at the Army and Navy Club yes- Neanderthal Man Accepted. Numerous remains of a still earlier {ferday afternoon by Gen. Charles . | Summerall, Chief of Staff, and members : period, the so-called Neanderthal man, {of the War Department General Stafl. generally are accepted :\_lll\()\lgh they are not so well authenticated as the |1t was designed as a ‘wl‘lrnmn to the |new head of the military establish- ; : L ety - | Cro-Magnon skeletons. Even these in- | ment and a farewell to the retiring Sec O O e o 04 ool et with a brain capacity of 1,400 cubic cen- made SUMMERALL IS HOST. Chief of St:\; Entertains War Sec- retary and His Predecessor. | fBan.dits Rob Filling Kindly Leaving Ca ate young bandits, who left re for one of their last held up $50 two ples str s the hold-up excented Middleton of 10 treet southeast, the manager, and Howard R. Moriarty of 1102 Fifth stree his helper, st .thought the robbers were joking, but both soon realized the riou: s of th situation when re- re jammed in their ribs and | their hrcatencd, | Middleton and Moriarty ing newsp hen | walked intc tion. The s et as deserte As*Moriariv lower~d his paper of the men demanded his money. were read- the bandits 1 r Fare for One Victim. I retary. timeters, slightly higher than that of the average present day Australien na- tive, Much has been made, he said, of the brated Piltdown found in gland in geological s of the first “age. ‘This find consists of a skull half of a lower jaw and first and cond molar The jaw is e tremely primitive, while the skull recently has been proncunced sufficient to accommodate a brain capacity of 1,500 cubiccentimeters, about that of th average man of today. The bones were found badly scattered and, Dr. Connolly pointed out, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian ‘Museum does not belicve the jaw and skull belonged to the same individual, while Dr. Gerrit S. Miller of the Smithsonian has declared the jaw to be that of a chimpanzee and the skull that o. a man. The Heidelberg and Pithecanthropus skeletal remains, he said, are too scanty fentific reconstruction, jence knows no znimal ancestors . but it is a_widely accepted working hpyothesis,” Dr. Connolly con- cluded, Station Keepers. K i e - | and sta | replied t stands between me " police say he jokingly ibiting a wallct containing | The man took the bill and then | Middleton and Moriarty were forced at | the point of revolvers to opposite cor- |ners of the room and compelied to empty their pockets. Middleton told | police -he was able to withhold his | pocketbook. The cash register was opened and from its contents one of the robbers took 8 cents and laid it on the counter, pocketing the rest. Directing the attendants to face the wall and not look zround for several minutes. the hold-up 1nen left the and walked down Staples street, wvere described W0 police as young and well dresseds e i GRAND JURY FINDS {List Reported Includes Three ‘! Against Youth Held for Rob- | bery and Larceny. Elmo Williams, alias Muse Grisson, alias Elmore Williams, the youth who is said to have admitted robbing the Earle Theater, was indicted today by the grand jury on two charges of robbe and one of_grand larceny. Williams is said to have secured $2,776 from the safe of the theater October 29 and to have robbed the Peoples Drug Store of more than $1,485 in the pr ding Au- gust. The accused was arrested in Chi- ago. The youth is said to have entered the theater office before the theater opened for the day and when Harry Lohmeyer, manager of the theater, was alone in the office. The young bandit ordered Lohmeyer to open the safe, but the manager in his nervousness was unsuccessful and another employe en- tering the office was immediately cov- ered by Williams’ pistol and ordered to open the sate, which he did. The men | were told not to stir for five minutes while the bandit quietly sauntered from the building. Second Charge of Robbery. ‘The second indictment for robbery alleges that August 14 Williams obtained £€1,485 from David Bell, Jr., an_employe of the Peoples Drug Store. Bell was on his way to the bank with the money, it | is said, when Williams accosted him and forced him to enter a taxicab. where the money was taken from him. The charge of larceny grows out of the meeting of Willlams with Charles | Kemper, a colored porter of the drug company, who had been sent to the bank for change for $70. Williams tn_]d‘ the porter that he had been sent from the store to perform the errand on which he had been sent. The porter surrendered the money to Williams and it was only when he had returned to the store that he learned he had been vic- timized. A total of 56 indictments was re- nd jurors refused indictments in 19 cases. The grand jurors ignored the fol- lowing cases: Edward Thomas, Scott Smith, David H. Dick Alton G. Mc- Lohen, grand Oscar Dorsey and Perman Charity, housebreaking and larceny; Donald E. Yonkers, joy-riding; Robert F. Hofiman, larceny after trust; Louis E. Bradley, receiving stolen property; George W. Phillips, embez- zlement; Raymond _ Stark: carnal knowledge; William L. Whiteside, as- sault with dangerous weapon; Nettie Robinson, Nettie Williams and Roy Bogle, lottery. List of Indictments. Others indicted and the against them include: Gertrude V. Rob- inson and Frank Spears, grand larcen; Frank Spears, housebreaking and lar- : Edwin F. Biggs, James A.Lemo © M. Nielson (three cases), M: McGrough, Jim Brown, Franc in Domico, jJames J” Shanahan, Ruben Williams, AlbertaTay Mary E. Thomas, Willlam .C. Thomas, Estelle Germa Aileen Gray, George Hawkins, Ge vieve Sewell, alias Genevieve Vincent, Della C. Price, Daniel Childs, Addison Brown, James Rhone and Richard H. Epps, robbery; Arthur Wallace, William Robert Boone, houscbreaking and_lar- ceny; David Becker, alias David Bocker, Sherman W. Wilson, house- breaking and larceny; Adolph Taylor and Charles Harris, receiving stolen property; Samuel W r ceny affer trust and James M. Dotson, Raymond Barne: Robert L. Dodson, joyriding; Elmer Tippett, grand larceny and joyriding knowledge: s with intent to ‘Thomas, ault with Charles Edward y Hill, Cyril A. rederick Ham non-support ; or, Annic Campbell and grand larcen Hendrickson, and Prince George Hargrove, Willlam Bernard Foster, Frank Ogdt‘nvl lottery. Falls Down Elevator Shaft. Alphonso Felton, colored, 30 years old, an elevator operator at ‘3023 Four- teenth street, is in a éritical condition in Emergency Hospital with a probable fracture of the skull resuiting from a fall down the elevator shaft from the first floa to the basemont last night. Police were unable to escertain how he walked through an open door of the shalt, o6 INDIGTMENTS | charges | {61,000 to each retiring policeman was | organized last night at the sixth pre- |cinct and officers were clected. The | s Retirement Association, al- |ready has 600 members and the roster |is expected to contain 1,000 names K\\ifhln a few weeks, | precinet was chosen president. The fol- lowing other officers were elected: lOlw Hauschild, assigned to the as- | Police Court, vice president; J. Stanley | Davis of the first precinct, secretary, |and Willlam Wagner of the’tenth pre- | cinet, treasurer. | oThe retirement fund is to be financed | by dues of $2 each month. Except in | cases of retirement caused by injuries |incurred in the line of duty, the pay- ment of the retirement bonuses will be deferred for a year to allow the ac- | cumulation of the fund. If a member of the association ze- signs or dies the dues contributed by him will be refunded. | A similar organization in the Fire | Department has been in existence for the past three years and $40,000 has | been paid to retiring members. ' PROMISE OF ICE CREAM RETURNS GIRL, 6, HOME ' | Lost, She Forgets Address, but| Tells Name and School She Attended. A promise of an ice cream cone yes~ terday afternoon persuaded- 6-year-old Mary Williams to tell where she went to schcol and brought about her return to her home at 322 C street southeast, where her mother and grandmother were just on the point of enlisting the ald of police. Mary left the kindergarten of the Brent School yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock and lost her way. When she reached Pennsylvania avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets southeast she met Policeman F. W. Marble of the fifth precinct, who took her to the sta- tion house. There she was questioned, but refused to tell the officers who she | was or anything about herself. | receiving home, where the gift of an | orange and the promise of an ice cream | cone elicited the information that she {was Mary Willlams and attended the | Brent School. The child, however, had | forgotten her address. Officials of the | home telephoned the school, found out | where she lived and called her grand- | mother. The grandmother explained | that the family had recently moved from Georgetown and Mary was not yet { familiar with the vicinity of her new | home, * 'FALL DOWN BASEMENT STEPS PROVES FATAL , 2 | Mrs. Ruby Culbretta, 18, Dies as Result of Injuries Sustained Four Days Ago. 612 A street southeast, died last ‘eve- | ning at Casualty Hospital as a result of {a fall down the basement steps of her home four days ago. She felt no ill effects from the fall at |the time, police were told. Yesterday and ordered her removed to Casualty. {Dr. J. Ramsay Nevitt, District coroner, Eb‘hlled a certificate of accidental death. | She was an expectant mother. ion, which is called the Po- | Capt. Willlam G. Stott of the third | sistant _corporation counsel's_office at | | mitting the free flow of traffic in and Within a period of 10 days Wflliami T. Harlan, director of traffic, expects | to have in operation at Dupont Circle | a new system of traffic control, with 20 lighting signals, designed primarily for the safety of pedestrians. i Similar systems, he said today, are | to be installed in due time for Thomas and Jowa Circles, both of which con- stitute serious problems in the direction of vehicular as well as pedestrian trnl-i fic. These lights already have been | ordered. At Dupont Circle the situation is ag- gravated by the necessity of affording ! pedestrians safeguards at 10 street in-: tersections, yet at the same time per-! around the circle. “For a long tinfe we have been con- sidering the problem at Dupont and Finally she was transferred to the | Mrs. Ruby Culbretta, 18 years old, of | ;Dr. A, D. Butz of 428 Eighth street | ; southeast was called in to attend her | Thomas Circles and I believe this new system, which has been . worked out, will prove satisfactory to all concerned,” said Mr. Harlan. “At Dupont Circle | there are so many children and nurses | with baby carriages that something | must be done to make the crossings | safe for them, We are bearing in mind particularly the rights of pedestrians.” Twenty lights will control traffic under the new system, Harland said, these being placed at intersections entering the circle and at intersections inside the circle. Practically the same idea will be carried out later at Thomas and Iowa Circles, especially with re- rd to the latter, which is a park. A green signal will be the first in- dication, flashing for a period of 45 seconds, when automobile traffic will e uninterrupted in_its flow in and around the circle. This period is of sufficient duration to permit a driver {to make a complete turn of the circle if necessary. | Then an amber light will come on| | with the green, warning drivers that ! five secons pedestrians will ve | the right of way. out while the red comes on with the | amber, giving pedestrians the right of | way for 18 seconds. This time is sub- | ject to change, being fixed at present | to give ample opportunity for a person | to walk slowly acros sthe intersection. | They may cross at any point, as auto- | mobiles *must remain stationary during | | this period. At the fourth indication, |the amber light goes out, leaving the |red light on for five seconds. This is' ‘a warning to pedestrians that auto-| | mobile traffic will again go on. ‘The new system, when installed, will be given a thorough test under these | conditions. If necessary the time limits | for the various lights will be changed. Mr. Harlan described the plans for the control of traffic at Dupont Circle | l’be(ore the members of the Dupont Cir- | cle Citizens’ Association at a meeting of | the association yesterday afternoon in the Mayflower Hotel. He said today that the Traffic Bureau is to issue cards and charts before the system is in- stalled so there would be no lack of op- portunity on the part of the public to become thoroughly acquainted with the way it is supposed to work. | ORDERED TO COLLEGE. Eight Army Officers Assigned to| Take Instruction. Eight officers of the Quartemaster Corps have been ordered to this city to take a course of instruction at the Army Industrial College, Munitions Building, effective in August. They are Capt. George A. Bentley, at Chicago; Capt. Harry R. Springer, at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.; Capt. John A. Nelson, at Camp Holabird, Md.; Capt. Lewis B. Douglas, at Brooklyn, N. Y., and Capts, Charles O. Thrasher and Lee W. Card and First Lieut. Francis V. Fitz Gerald, at Philadelphia. Mary Meeker, 25-year-old er of Arthur Meeker of Chicago, | vice” president of Armour & Co., was ymarried here yesterday to Ambrose C. , Cramer, 2d, who two years ago was divorced by the young woman's older | Grace. Without advance notice, the cere- | mony was performed by Rev. James T. | Marshall, pastor of Georgetown Presby- terian Church. Earlier in the day Miss Meeker and Cramer and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meeker, her parents, had reg- {istered at the Mayflower Hotel. Mary Meeker was her sister's flower girl when Grace and, Cramer were mar- ried in 1916 at a fash which culminated a Cramer, whose age was given as 37, served with the French before the United States entered the World War and then transferred to the American Army, in which he became a lieutenant. The first Mrs, Cramet ohtained a di- vorce two years ago on & charge of de- | | Chicago Heiress Weds Older Sister’s Former Husband in Surprise Ceremony sertion and shortly afterward she mar- | ried Francis Vernon Lloyd, Philadelphia | society man. She is said to be on the | Pacific Coast. Two children born to ! | Cramer and his first wife become, | | through yesterday’s marriage, step- | children of their aunt. Cramer be- comes the brother-in-law of his former wife, Advices from Chicago were that the marriage was entirely unexpected, al- though it was known that Cramer and Mary Meeker had been friends for sev- eral years. He is said to have fre- quently visited the Meeker home. Friends of the bride understood she had decided on a career. Two years ago e and her brother, Arthur Meeker, . rented a studio in Chicago and she had been devoting much of her The green light goes | s SPRING WEATHER USHERS IN' GREAT BUILDING ACTIVITY Millions Involved in Federal Projects Under Way or Planned in Capital. COMMERCE STRUCTURE PROGRAM IS PUSHED Specifications in Hands of Contrac- tors Seeking to Bid Upon Job. Spring weather is ushering in what probably will be the greatest Federal building activity in the history of the National Capital, involvng millons of dollars. Wth a few huge projects already un- der way, contracts will be let soon for others, more land is to be acquired and cleared of old buildings, to make way | for the new, monumental Washington of the near future. Many squares of ground are under condemnation pro- ceedings by court for acquisition by the Government. From now on the number of work- men employed on Federal projects here is expected to mount until it reaches a large total in the Summer, but con- tractors say they are not ready for an influx of laborers now, and have all they need. Steady progress is being made on foundations for the largest project of all, the Department of Commerce, anc bids will be opened on March 27 for the big contract to build the super- structure. Specifications have been in the hands of contractors wishing to bid for several weeks. The cost of preparing a bid on such a job total: thousands of dollars. The work of driving piles and laying foundations up to the street level for the Department of Commerce has been proceeding _satisfactorily according to Treasury Department officials super- vising the job of the Consolidated En- gineering Co. Unless some unforeseen circumstances should occur, it is ex- pected that this contract may be fin- ished around the middle of May. This contract is for $1,160,000, and has engaged the services of a mass of machinery, motor trucks and men. Hoover Interested. Bids on the superstructure will be analyzed and if the low bidder proves responsible it is hoped that the Treas- ury may be able to let the contract so onerations may start almost as soon as the foundation workers are out of the way. The total cost of this building. which is to be longer than the Capitol Building ,is $17,500,000. President Hoo- ver is especially interested in this part of the Government building program. Steel is arriving daily and being put in place on the foundations of the In- ternal Revenue Building, under a con- tract which now totals $6,004,000 with the James Baird Co., Inc., of this city. Derricks are to go up, and within a few days steel columns will arrive. The building, to be in the area bounded by Tenth and Twelfth, B and C streets, has been authorized by Congress to cost $10,000,000. Agriculture Project Advances. ‘The Department of Agriculture proj- ect, which is divided into two phases, is making progress, according to reports. The administration building, which is to connect the two white marble wings, has been almost half completed by the George Hymans Construction ~ Co., which is working under a two-year con- tract for $1510,000, and probably will be finished by April, 1930. The Stand- ard. Engineering Co. is busy on & $115,~ 000 contract for mechanical equipment. A larger part of the agriculture project involves the so-called extensible building, which is to be b Pposite the present headquarters. To ob- tain the site condemnation proceedings are underway. The Government is con- demning what is known as squares No. 263 and 264, bounded by Thirteenth, Fourteenth, B and C streets southwest. Plans have been completed at the su- pervising architect’s office at the Treas- ury for construction of the extensible building to cover both blocks, and as soon as the Government gets title, it is expected contracts will be let for tear- ing down buildings on at least one block. Eventually Will Cover Third Block. It is expected the first block on which old buildings will be torn down to make way for the extensible building will be No. 264, bounded by Thirteenth street, Linworth place, B and C streets. Even- tually the extensible building is expected to cover also a third adjacent block on the cast, bounded by B, C, Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. But this block will not be condemned and razed for the present. Work also is under way and expected to increase shortly for construction of the addition to the Government Print- ing Office, at a total cost set by Congress not to exceed $1,250,000. The Rust Engineering Co. is busy on foun- dations under a contract for $825,000, with 540 days from November 16, 1928, to complete the project. The Virginia Engineering Co., Inc., also has a con= tract for $97,000 for mechanical equip- ment. ‘Two large areas in the so-called Fed- eral triangle, bounded by Pennsylvania avenue, B street and Fifteenth street, are uider condemnation proceedings, and the Government hopes to get title when this process is completed. One of these areas is between Ninth and Tenth streets and is for the Ar- chives Building and a surrounding “shell” building. The other section of land under condemnation lies between Twelfth and Thirteenth streets, B street and Pennsylvania avenue and is the site for the Interstate Commerce Department Building and a home for independent offices of the Government, Meantime architecty, are preparing preliminary sketches for the following additional _ buildings, on which the Treasury Department will submit esti- mates to Congress: Department of Labor, Interstate Commerce Commis~ sion, independent offices and Depart- ment of Justice. Plans have not yvet been completed for the Archives Builde ing. MRS. ROSA BLONDHEIM IS CLAIMED BY DEATH Funeral Rites for Lifelong Re: dent Will Be Conducted Tomorrow Afternoon. Mrs. Rosa Blondheim, 59 years old, widow of Elins Blondheim and a life- long resident of this city, died at her home, 1725 Kilbourne place, yesterday after a short illness. She is survived time to a study of interior decorating. Immediately after the ceremony yes- terday the wedding party left for an unannounced destination... Rev. Mr, Marshall did not know their plans, Ny by two sons, Oliver and Earl Blondheim, Funeral services will be conducted at the rosidence tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. Interment will be in the Washington Hebrew Cemetery, (