Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1929, Page 17

Washington News @he Foening Star Society and General WASHINGTON, D. ( FRIDAY, 99 MARCH 1929. PAGE 17 HOOVER DISFAVORS ROTATION PLAN AS DEFINITE SYSTEM Will Fill Army and Navyi Posts ‘Irrespective of Adopted Policy. CRITICISM VOF MOFFETT RETENTION IS RESENTED, Precedent Cited—Fries’ Term Near, End, President’s Action i Eagerly Awaited. President Hoover has no intention of departing irom the policy which calls for the appointment by rotation of of- ficers in the Army and Navy to bureau assignments in the two departments, but while he favors this policy in time of peace for the purpose of acquainting as many officers as possible with the work of chiefs of the bureaus, he is not going to commit himself to it as a set | plan. When the occasion calls for the reap- pointment of an officer to a technical or semi-technical post in the service Presi- | dent Hoover will not hesitate to con- | tinue that_officer irrespective of any | adopted policy of rotation. It has been revealed that the White House resents criticism of President Hoover's recent reappointment of Rear ‘Admiral William A. Moffett as chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics as & departure from the accepted policy of rotation. The White House contends | that there 1s no ground for such criti- cism and can point to precedents in support of Admiral Moffett’s reappoint- ment. In this ¢onnection, it was point- ed out that President Coolidge reap- pointed Admiral Moffett to his second term, as well as Maj. Gen. Lejeune to his second term as commandant of the | Marines. The White House has been | advised of other incidents as well. Fries Action Awaited. | President Hoover is inclined to feel | that there should be no fixed rule for | rotation appointments regarding the | technical or semi-technical .bureaus of | the Army and Navy, where knowledge and experience of a particular type are necessary, in his opinion, to efficient administration. Considerable interest is gow being shown in she forthcoming expiration of the term of Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, as chief of the Chemical Warfare Serv- ice of the Army. The latter’s term ex- pires next week and President Hoover's action toward it is being awaited with more than ordinary interest. Gen. Fries has served eight years on his present assignment. President Hoover has not yet named the two men whom he will appoint to the two vacancies on the Federal Radio Commission, although heen’ learned definitely that Maj. Gen. Charles | McK. Saltzman, former chief of the: Army Signal Corps, has been selected | for one of these places. He will be ap- | pointed as the representative for the commission from the fourth zone, which i comprises the Midwestern States. And his appointment is being withheld until | the other appointment has been de- cided upon. The latter will be appointed to rep- resent ihe first zone, which includes New England and the Middle Atlantic States, and must be a Democrat. Two Not to Be Named. It has been definitely established that he will not submit to the Senate the names of Arthur Batcheller and C. M. Jansky, who were named by President Coolidge for these two vacancies on the commission, but whose nomination failed to be confirmed by the Senate. Gen. Saltzman is a native of Presi-{ dent Hoover's native State, Jowa, and his retirement from the Army came about two years ago, when he was not reappointed for another term as chief of the Signal Corps, because of the ro- tation policy then being followed in the | ‘War Department. ! i FEMINIST LEADERS. HEAR PARIS SPEAKER The vounger women leaders in the feminisi. movement were addressed by Mile. Fanny Bunand-Sevastos, Paris painter. reputedly the youngest feminist in the international movement for the advancement of women's rights, at a meeting under auspices of the National ‘Women's Party, at the party headquar- ters, 21 Pirst street northeast, last night. “In my profession, as in every other field.” Mme. Bunand said, “women do not hold the same footing as men. We first must win the liberty to work.” Dr. James Brown Scott, president of the American Institute of International Law, urged equality between men and women in the making of international law Mary Moss Wellborn of the National Woman's Party discussed feminism in! America as an important phase in in- ternational feminism. Members of the District branch of the woman’s party were hostesses at the meeting. Miss Constance Carpenter of Newark, N. J., presided. $630 LOOT IS REPORTED | TAKEN IN TWO THEFTS| Rings. Bracelet, Children’s Banks and Cornet Are Stolen by Burglars. The theft of two rings and a brace let. two children’s banks and a silver- | plated cornet, toialing $630 in value were reported 1o police last night. Mrs. Jay H. Sypher of 2310 Connecti- cut avenue told eighth precinct police | her apartment was entered yesterday, and a diamond ring. worth $400. a seal i | i | i ring valued at $20 and a pearl bracelet at 85 were stolen. The second case was reported by Chester Herbert of 233 Eleventh street southeast, who said burglars entered his home and took two children’s banks containing $45 in gold coins and the cornet, he declared. WILDER TO LECTURE. ! lem of finding bargains and getting to { oted t! ;longtng to their unexpected host, they Flies to Shop I | | | | | { | i MISS T. FRANCES SHERIER. —Star Staff Photo. ; CAPITAL GIRL USES PLANE INSHOPPING 1 | i Miss Frances Sherier Finds Trouble in Parking in Baltimore. ! Miss T. Frances Sheriér, 23 years old. | of 5005 Conduit road, has her own so- | lution for the eternal feminine prob- them. Yesterday Miss Sherier felt that she must have a few little things from the store. She had heard of a certain Bal- timore mail order house where bar- gains could be obtained. Being a modern young woman with a multitude of matters to take care of in the short space of a day, Miss Sher- fer went to College Park, Md, and convinced a friend, Howard, S. Behr, that she needed his plane for the trip. Mr. Behr was willing and after a few | hasty preparations the couple started! their flight to the Maryland city. i Unable to Land on Roof. Miss Sherier, who has been studying fiying under the tutelage of Behr, pil- o he ship to Baltimore, planning| to land on the roof of the store where the purchases were to be made. Upon reaching her destination, however, she found that a tangle of radio antennae precluded this possibility, and she vielded the control stick to Behr. The latter, after vainly scanning the immediate vicinity of the store for a suitable landing place, finally came | down in a field on the estate of George ! Vermillion, about one mile away. i Landing safely on the stubble-covered | field, Behr assisted Miss Sherjer from the plane, and in an automobile be-| departed for the store. News of the unprecedented shopping trip spread rapidly in Baltimore, and before long reporters were trailing the fiyers, while police scratched their heads and scanned the statute books for a regulation governing this aerial parking question. ‘Finding none, the police ret the stationhouse to see What, thing, could be done. Located by Reporter. News r_men, meanwhile, had lo- Mrise hr in the | urned to if any-| | | cated Miss Sherier and Bel store despite the fact that neither was | in flying togs. Miss Sherier said tha an alert reporter recognized her wher he saw the fying helmet which she was | carrying under her arm. After making the desired purchms.' Miss Sherier and Behr had luncheon ax guests of the store management and returned to Washington. Behr, who has been conducting a ! training course at College Park, will take & position as & commercial pilot at Hoover Field tomorrow. Miss Sherier said this morning that she made the trip to Baltimore more for the novelty than anything else. She has been flying but a ‘short time, she said, but hopes to become an accom- plished pilot. * . Several years ago she attracted con- siderable attention by swimming from | | Chain Bridge to the Aqueduct Bridge.!p Her time is primarily devoted to music, she sald, flying, swimming and kindred activities coming under the head of | avocations. ] THREE SUSPECTS FREED | - ON DOWNHILL PATH 015 EVEN AS AGE WHEN MAN STARTS Survey by U. S. Public Health Service Cites Exact Statistics. MAXIMUM GROWTH RATE REACHED AT 17/ Systematic Physical Exercise In-‘: creases Height, Weight and Vital Capacity. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A man is strongest at 30. Once he has passed his thirtieth birthday he starts slowly but steadily down hill toward old age. He reaches his maximum rate of growth at 17, but continues to grow, in some respects, until he is 50. Systematic physical exercise in-| creases height, weight and vital ca- pacity. These facts are shown by a survey | just completed by the United States Public Health Service in which exact ! measurements were made of several thousand men and boys in an effort to settle the much disputed question of the relation between age and strength and | growth. Statistics were obtained for ages between 3 and 50. Growth Checked Abruptly. Height, the figures show, rises steadily | and rapidly from 3 to 17, when growth | stops rather abruptly. The child at 3 is slightly more than half as tall jas he will be at the maximum. He weighs only about:one-fifth as much | as hie will when he'is 20. Weight con- | tinues to increase rapidly between 17| and 20, when the maximum rate of | growth is reached, but there is a slight | continuous increase through adult life. Chest measurement rises rapidly until | 17, after which the rate of growth is | very s.0w, but the maximum is not reached until late in life. { The vital capacity, or air capacity | of the lungs, increases from 3 to 17| in about the same way as height. After | that it begins to decline and continues | through life. Lung air capacity starts! at 3, with only about 20 per cent of | the maximum at 17, while the 3-year- old chest expansion is more than half; as great as that of the young adult. | The greatest increase in vitay capacity | comes between 14 and 17. | Pressure Rises Rapidly in Young. Systolic and pulse pressures rise very | rapidly among children, the pulse pres- sure reaching its highest point at 18 or 19. Pulse pressure gradually falls during adult life. Systolic pressure rises, but very gradually. The diastolic blood | pressure increase is most rapld among chiidren. The relation of physical exercise to growth was shown to be positive ini measurements of approximately 2,000 New York City school boys. One growth was given regular physical training for a few months and checked against a control group, “Growing boys may be expected to show increases in height in the course of a few months,” says the report | “Thus the group not given the special | exercises and requested to take as little exercise as possible, gained on the aver- age about two-thirds of an inch. But the experimental group gained neariy an inch during the four months. “In weight, the boys given the ex- ercises showed an average gain of 33| pounds, while'the control group showed | & gain of two pounds. ‘The study was caried on primarily to ascertain whether gymnasium work would have a definite effect on the posture of boys. An improvement in muscular tone seems unquestionable, since a series of strength tests taken before and after the experiments in- dicated that the boys in the special classes increased more rapidly than other boys of the same ages. All meas- ' urements of posture, however, indk‘a\!l no_difference.” Plat-footedness, the survey showed, pparently was not improved by exer- | jse. The results with blood pressure ' nd pulse rate were unsatisfactory. | ‘The study of the relation between | general physical fitness and strength | was carried on with 2,200 individuals | in New York City between 3 and 65 vears of age. Figures were obtained for the strcngth of the hand grip, push, pull and lifting muscles, lung force and jung fatigue. Pulling Harder Than Pushing. Pull, it was found, starts at about 60 pounds for 15-year-old boys, rises to a maximum at 25 to 29 years, then falls slightly. Push starts at about 70 pounds-and also reaches a maximum at about 29 years of age. Pushing strength appears considerably above that of ulling. Lung force begins at 14 at about 102 millimeters, rises to about 135 as adult life is reached, and after that continues to go up very slowly. Lung| fatigue, measured in seconds, shows practically no relation to age between 15 and 50. 1 IN GAS STATION ROBBERY | Manager Fails to Identify Trio in| Jail Guilty Persons. as | | | Three suspects being held in connec- | tion with the robbery Wednesday night of a filling station at Fourteenth and H streets northeast, were released this morning _following the failure . of Broadus B. Weaver. manager of the station, to identify them. Weaver was held up at the point of a {gun about 8:30 o'clock by two young imen who are thought to have left the scene in a green automobile. The bandits took $87 from one of Weaver's shirt pockets, leaving $60 in the op- posite pocket. A man was arrested yesterdey after- Inoon by Motor Cycle Policeman An- thony Richetts of the fourth preeinct, |who saw him drive by in a car re- “Qutside of lung fatigue, or ability to hold one's breath,” says the report, “we find that all the strength tests rise during adolescence in much the same manner, spurt upward at puberty, reach a maximum at about 30 years and then decline slightly. All the tests show great varjability from person to person at any one age, especially lung force and lung fatigue. The study was conducted by Sur- jgeons Louis Schwartz and Lewis R. | Thompson and Associate Statistician Rollo H. Britten. IMISS M'ATTIE.S.HHOWARD. ARMY NURSE, EXPIRES| T THE Left: Ensemble of navy blue with peach satin hlouse. and wool, with modernistic design in brilliant colors. \INDIVIDUALITY OF STYLE MARKS EASTER COSTUMES ALLEN WILL CALL MANY WITNESSES Policeman Expects Burlin- game, Hesse, Frazier and Others Will Testify. A parade of witnesses rivaling that which appeared at the Burlingame trial regently, will be summoned by Police- man Robert. J. Allen to testify at his hearing before the Police Trial Board next Thursday on charges of unwar- ranted use of firearms. Allen has already requested sub- poenaes to be issued for Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of the depart- ment; Inspector Louis J. Stoll and Capts. Guy E. Burlingame, W. J. Stott and William Sanford. He says he will subpoena many others. Frazier Star Witness. Allen says that the star witness will | be J. A. Prazier, colored, the man Allen | is accused of having shot last Friday without justification. Many of the wit- nesses will appear for both prosecution and defense. Among these are Inspec- tor Stoll, who investigated the charge against Allen. Allen claims that Stoll made his in- vestigation without first hearing his side of the case. Capt. Stott, Allen's commanding officer at the third pre- cinct, who presented the ' charges against him, also will be called by Allen as a character witness. Capt. Burlingame, another prospec-| tive character witness, is the man whose | police methods Allen denounced when | the captain was on trial recently in connection with letters he was alleged | to have’writfen to a Washington palm- ist. Allen stated frankly at the trial that he did not like Burlingame. Contends Shooting Was Justified. Frazier will be used by both the de- fense and the prosecution. Allen says he is confident Frazier will support his version of the story that he had justi- fication for firing. Chief Clerk Harry M. Luckett of the Police Department sald today that the request for the subpoenaes has been re- celved and that they would be served. None of them has yet been lssued, how~ ever, PRIVATE ORDERED DISMISSED BY BOARD Hufimnn.‘ Found Guilty of Unbe- coming Conduct, Ousted From Police Force. Private B. H. Huffman, fourteenth precinct, was ordered removed from the force by the Police Trial Board yes- terday, it was announced today, on being found guilty of unbecoming con- duct and making a false statement to a superior. According to the testimony. Huffman engaged in an altercation with three acquaintances and received a black eye. He is sald to have explained to'Capt. Bremerman, his commanding officer, that he had been struck by a stranger. FAINTS IN POLICE COURT. | | silver and gold sequins of minute pat- | | | ' Washington Shops Dis Spring BY GRETCHEN SMITH. I A continued trend toward the hml-i nine, with a diversity of styles, lnbnm‘ and colors, aiming to supply an in-| creased demand fér individuality of | style, are outstanding features of the“ Spring fashions ‘which' probably will | make their first formal appearance on | Easter Sunday. . ‘Washington 3hops have made a plr-] ticular effort to please customers by bringing from the fashion centers of | word_in feminine accessoreis and ap- | parel from smartest bags of water-snake | skin to evening frocks of starched chif- ; fon, perhaps one of the season’s newest | contributions to the fabrics for Spring. | Ensemble suits of silk fabrics and combinations of silk and cloth, flat crepe one-piece dresses and printed crepes are considered the smartest cos- | tumes for street wear. | Flowered chiffons, heavily beaded, solid colored chiffons and a new ma- terial known as souffle de soie are some of the materials used in the lovely party gowns which are being shown in be- | wilderingly beautiful displays in the‘ | leading shops. { A delectable creation of peach souffe de sofe for formal: evening wear is made with a decollete surplis bodice | and numerous small flounces at the hip-line featuring the new peplum ef- | fect. The accentuated long back drape orevails on this model, the hem line reaching as far as -the ankle. The | starched chiffons, which are made over | satin, give an effect of exquisitely fine | organdies and are particularly suitable | for warm Summer days. Beaded Flowered Chiffons. Flowered chiffons are cleverly bead- | ed and introduce a refreshingly new feature in that-long popular model. the beaded evening gown, by outlining the motif with brilliantly colored beads. One particularly handsome gown is & figured branchinini. print chiffon with a black background, the flowered design of which is heavily studded with rhine- stones. Incidentally, it appears that the smartest figured chiffons this season, particularly for the older woman, fea- ture the black backgrounds. Other flowered chiffons feature beadings of crystal in brilliant colors, as well as tern. In all of these beaded gowns :he flowered motif of the gown is outlined with the beads. One shop has introduced a distinc- tive evening ensemble. which shows a gown of flowered chiffon worn with a taffeta silk jacket, featuring the “mei design as the chiffon. The jacket, which | is made with a flowing back cape ef- fect and long flowing sleeves, would be gsp?cll“y appropriate for a ‘tall, slight i gure. Styles for the coming season will re- verse a long-established custom in per- mitting street frocks for the afternoon to be worn sleeveless, while the evening dinner gown, particularly for restau- ! ‘rnnt wear, will be worn with long, | tight-fitting sleeves. The very long side and back drapes are outstanding fea- | tures in all chiffon gowns and the buyer of one prominent gown shop stated that the famous house of Patou SPRING FASHION PARADE WILL Center: Evening gown showing new peplum #fieci with flounces. Right: Sporis outfit with tunic of rayon play Latest Creations of Paris and New York for Trade. wear are very smart. A profusion of bows used in trimming both blouses and dresses are also a new feature of the Spring’s fashions. One buyer who has recently returned from Paris says that all the big houses of the French fashion center are striv- ing to achieve an individuality of de- sign in every model produced by them. | Hitherto it has been customary to produce several models of one popular design, but many customers, objecting to this similarity of style, have begun patronizing the small dressmaking es- tablishments where they have been able | to secure greater individuality of style.| contents were learned on good authority. | mari Paris and New York the latest and last | For this reason the larger wholesale | It had been almost a foregone conclu- | gown houses both of Paris and thi: country are striving to give all model: the “dressmaker touch” formerly foun only in productions of smaller houses or individual dressmakers. Novel Sport Dresses. “London trade suits” are the “defnier eri” in tailored sults for street wear. | One jaunty little model, a three-piece | tirement board yesterday afternoon and | ensemble, features a tweed coat of gray with an overtone, of orchid, a “dress- maker” blouse of orchid and a striped tweed skirt. b Prom Paris come some strikingly novel sports dresses of wash velvet and Ik combinations. The sleeveless tunics |'of white wash velvet are cleverly em- | broidered in colorful designs of sport scenes. One tunic, for instance, pic- tured a series of polo games; another displayed boating scenes. These wash velvet tunics or blouses are worn with pleated crepe de chine skirts of bright colors. Separate blouses are indispensable items this Spring and are much bow betrimmed and in a variety of colors. One of the latest colors is “‘capucine.” from the Paris house of Patou, and is shown in four different shades of nas- urtium. The popular georgette street frock of last season is to be very much re- placed this season by gowns of flat crepe. One of Washington's leading houses, which is specializing in the flat crepe street frock, is showing a model | from Vionnet in a combination crepella and flat crepe in a lovely shade of pale green which positively sings of Easter and flowers and green growing things. An Agnes model of black crepe com- bined with shadow lace displays a nov- | elty design of lace. placed fan-shaped upon the skirt. PFunny little “mutton chop” sleeves lend a distinction to this dress, which is to be worn for very for- mal afternoon affairs. HUGE SHIP TRANSFER SIGNED SHOW in Paris is showing all skirts as long as nine inches below the knee. To, ! show that this style has not yet been | Intoxication Defendant Taken to Hospital for Treatment. Edward P. Christman, 1600 block of Gales street northeast, fainted in the | Police Court dock this morning while | awaiting arraignment on a charge of Veteran Who Was in Service on Italian Front During the World War. Miss Mattie S. Howard, 58 years old, American Author to Give Address e | morning, however, the man arrested by Here Wednesday. | Richetts was lined up with two other suspects, and although Weaver said his | sembling the one seen near the gas| | station at the time of the robbery. This | Appearing for the first time in Wash- ington as a lecturer, Thornton Wilder, | prominent American author, will discuss the growth and philosophy of his novel, } “The Bridge of San Luis Rey.” at the Central Community Center next Wed- appearance was similar to that of one f the bandits, he did not think he was the man for whom police are searching. Vienna Eats 30,000 Horses. nesday. Mr. Wilder recently was selected to ponclude the Francis Bergen memorial geries at Yale. His novel, which now is In its sixteenth printing, was awarded the Pulitzer prize of 1928. The presentation of the author by the Community Institute of Washington concludes the 1928-1929 season of the nrganization VIENNA (#).— Thirty thousand horses were consumed by Vienna last year says the National Butchers' Assoclation. Many Austrians assert hs flesh Is more nourishing than beef and some restaurants serve it exclusively, Be- sides it costs less thas, beelf. veteran Army nurse, who, with her sis- | ter, Miss Anna Howard. was one of the | 100 American nurses who served on the | , Italian front during the World War, jdied at her residence, in the Coolidge Apartments, 3100 Wisconsin avenue, yesterday after a long illness. Miss Howard and her sister came here a short time ago to see about war com- pensation adjustments. Funcral services, with solemn high requiem mass, will be conducted in St. Ann’s Catholic Church tomorrow morn- ing at 9 o'clock, with three former serv- ice chaplains officlating. Rev. Willlam McGuire will be the cclebrant, Rev. Gerard Schellinger deacon and Rev. Robert Froelichs subdeacon. Interment ' will be in Arlington Cemetery, intoxication. Falling to the cement floor of the cell he suffered slight lacerations of the head and was taken to Gallinger Hospital for treatment. Five others were locked up for alleged intoxication, while 15 arrested posted collateral for their appearance in court today. Average fines ranging from $10 to $25 were imposed on the majority of those arraigned. | Contract for Replacement Sewer. The District Commissioners today awarded a contract to the Warren F. Brenizer Co. for the construction of the Seward square rcplacement seoor. in the vicinity of Fifth street and | Pennsylvania avenue southeast, at a price of $5.999.07,3 | | entirely acceptable to American women. those living El Paris have compromised with their desire to be ultra-smart, at the same time retaining the popular short skirt line, by having Patou make thelr gowns five inches below the knee. Huge Bow at Hip. A recently arrived model from the | new Paris house of Maggie Ruff was an evening gown of romance purple taf- feta, the skirt featuring a very low flair and a huge bow on the hip. with a new square neckline with tailored, reveres and a rhinestone ornament at: one side. ! Evening wraps for the Spring season ! are of transparent velvet, some heavily beaded by outlining the figured velvets | with ds, or others in plain velvets combined with trimmings of chiffon. An exact copy of a street frock from Claire Amy of Paris, formerly with Molyneux, is of a figured silk crepe, featuring a_bewildering design of checks. This model emphasized the fact that checks both in silks and cloth for street | i of Ni Scene in the office of Chairman T. V 0'Co~nr of the Shipping Board ye ere the contract was signed for the 1 tates Lines and the American Merchant ork, for $16,300,000, By the side of Mr. O'Conner sits Mr. Chapman. for investigation by ninth precinet pos MERCHANT FLEET CORPORATION CUTS PAY ROLL HEAVIY Many Washington Employes to Go as Economy Move Goes Into Effect. 0’CONNOR Is DIRECTING REDUCTION PROGRAM Desire to Rednce Operating Costs 25 Per Cent Is Given as Motive for Step. Some 600 employes of the Mcrchant, Fleet Corporation, many of them on duty in Washington, will find them- selves jobless in a short time, it was learned today, and the movement directed by a retrenchment program already is underway. ‘This program is dictated by a des to secure economy in the operating overhead of ‘the corporation. T. V. O'Connor, chairman of the Shipping Board, who ascumed the presidency of the Fleet Corporation a few weeks ago, | 1= directing the program. 25 Per Cent Cut Wanted. | ‘The program is understood to call |for a cut of 25 per cent in the cor- | poration’s expenses and is occasioned | by recent disposition of the United fi;fles lines and the American merchant es. The propossd reduction does not in- clude the operating force of the United States lines maintained in New York, as « this group, representing an annual pay roll of some one million dollars has i been absorbed by P. W. Chapman, Inc., of Chicago, the purchaser of that | service. The retrenchment program already is | well under way. for reductions in force —_Star Staff Photo. | have taken place in the offices of the —— _|controller and treasurer of the corpora- ’HESSE RE'I’IREMEN-I- {tom “C%" Gupieation. m opérating. ax- 15 URGE | rangements for the various lines owned | by the Government and operated by Full Pension Recommended, | private agencies, it was explained, is | vital factor in bringing about the re- With Physical Disability Given as Reason. | duction. 2,446 Employes in AlL The Merchant Fleet Corporation has :a total of 2,446 employes, scattered ail {over the world to attend to the far- i flung shipping business of the Nation, |and the retrenchment program con- | templates a 25 per cent reduction in | the full force. The exact number of | employes in Washington affected by the | reduction has not been determined. The corporation’s overhead expense | for last year is represented as totaling $3,500.000, and this, also, is to be cut 25 per cent. As the executive officcs of the corporation are in Washington, 706 are employed here. ) BY BARD 1 | The Police and Firemen's Retirement | ! and Relief Board has recommended that Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, superintendent of | Original plans call. for a 20 per cent police, be retired for physical “"‘"“""-rm’f"","‘,fl“ufi, L r;:;x.lz.omht dL*a { posal o es an L r!mmmendl!lon“he American Merchant Lins yesterday, may go before the Commissioners to- | wjth the formal signing of the contract, | day or at the board's next meeting Tues- | an additional 5 per cent reduction has day. e et tha it ti Although the decision of the board | 2406, 1 e isposing of it varl- has not been formally announced, itsous shipping lines under the merchant ine act. The function of the fleet corporation |15 to be administrative, it was said. in ion ever since Maj. Hesse made his re- | view of the steady advancement. toward quest. for retirement March 12 that the iprl\'PlP ownership of the erstwhile Gov- board would grant it. The pension rec- | srnment-owned lnes. nm}v‘n:nfl';d }I‘! $2.600 per annum. which ! - . B is half of the major's pay as an active | s 'STREET MAKES PLEA Hesse Appears. | Maj. Hesse appeared before the re- FOR co_OPERA'HON iestified that he had broken down physi- | (‘:l;!]lly :andt :lu{ umzle h? pértom t:r portant duties of office as he i cess, | et theg;shon;ld h‘f g"“‘a ‘.Tem Work Is Vital to Success Two members of t oard of Police ‘ells Boys' Surgeons, Dr. James J. Kilroy and F. Y. | sp“k" Tel ¥ Williamson, supported Maj. Hesse's | Club. | statement with medical evidence. They sald that Maj. Hesse had been over- | | worked, having had only 10 days off. in- cluding sick and annua. leave, since his | appointment as major and superintend- | ent in October, 1925. | Thlel:duous tmture of the duties he | is called upon to perform and the fact % | that he is subject to call 24 hours .J;:,‘,:‘,‘,’{’,*;,,“;,‘;g ), g day made it imperative for the best In- | Jact” nicht. The Boys' Club is one of | terests of Maj. Hesse's health and the the member agencies of the chest best interests of the Police Department | Stressing the point that “team work™ that he be retired, the physicians as- s essential in any endeavor, Mr. Street erted. | said: | .The problem of selecting Maj. Hesse's | fiiliar circumstances ‘that to play the | successor may receive some lnenuunl‘.me of life one should not flinch and at the regular meeting of the Commis- | should hit the line hard. This is still | sloners today. but there is a large!good advice. To play the game of life docket of routine business before the | efectively—for all life is more or less city heads, and any extended discussion | of a game—the player must, indeed, be | probably will be reserved for Tuesday's courageous, hardy, loyal, willing to take | meeting. No new candidates for the job | withe , B | ithout complaint the chances of that appeared today, 20 being already in the | game as they come. field. Of these 10 are in the ranks of |~ “In addition to these individual the Police Department and 10 out- virtues it is now demanded that he who siders. | plays the game of life must be a good Inspectors Henry G. Pratt and Wil-‘t”m worker. In basket ball it is not liam S. Shelby and Walter G. Ferguson ' enough that the player be a good basket. | of the. Secret Service now are considered | shooter or strong guard. In addition | the favorite candidates in the order to that he must obey the signals and named. be one of an effective unit of five | players, each working for the good of the team rather than individual play- lers. The same thing is true of everv jother game, such as foot ball or base ball. Team work is essential to suc- ‘cess and the individual prospers as | through team work his team prospers.” 1 CONTINUANCE GRANTED. | Colored Man Faces Charges of Lot- The importance of “team work.” or proper co-operation between individuals, to make life_and things a success was | stressed by Elwood Street, director of the Washington Community ‘Chest, in tery Law Violation. Arrested yesterday on charges of vio- lating the anti-lottery law, Nathan Bar- ton, colored. 47, of the 1100 block Twenty-third street, was granted a con- tinuance until March 26, in Police Court | today. | "Sergt. George Little observed Barton |at Ninth and T streets yesterday, car- | rying a package which police suspected | contained liquor. A search revealed lot- ] tery slips and $50 cash, police say, which | were being taken from a branch estab- lishment of a “‘number game” operator to the main office. YOUTH IS WOUNDED. IBullet From Pisto] Strikes Colored Boy in Leg. ‘While Eugene A. Paj tt, colored, 18. of 818 Twelth street northeast, and Harry Saunders, colored, 18, of 803 Ninth street northeast, were playing i with an . automatic pistol last evening ‘he gun went off, wounding Papscott in he right leg below the knee. r of the Government-own. He was treated at Casualty Hospital nes to Paul W. Chapman, Inc.. by Dr. Louis Jimal. Saunders was heid »Asmc,led Pross Photo. lice, but was released before midnight.