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~ The Zoening Shar WASHINGTON, DD = TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 1929. PAGE 17 THREE. INDICTED N GRS DEATH | . FROM OPERATION Louis Hoffman, One of Trio; Named, Now Is Serving 30-Year Sentence. MRS. BROWN CHARGED WITH SHOOTING MATE Assault to Kill Indictment Is Voted Against Her by Grand Jurors. The District grand jury today re- turned indictments against Louis W. Hoffman, Charles W. Parker and Dor- othy King, alias Dolores Monroe, charg- ed as principals in the performance of the illegal operatton upon Eleanor Leh- man that resulted in her death a year ago. For the death of Miss Lehman fol- Jowing the operation at his office, Hoff- man, a physiotherapist, now is serving a 30-year sentence in prison. He orig- inally was indicted on a first-degree murder charge, but was permitted to plead guilty to a second-degree indict- ment. Miss Pearl McCall. assistant United States attorney, who has had charge of the year-old investigation into the death of Miss Lehman, presented addi- tional information to the grand jury | which resulted in Parker and Dorothy King being held, with Hoffman, as principals. Parker Surrendered. Parker surrendered to his attorney last January 3 after another man, be- lieved to have been him, had been brought here by the authorities from Philadlphia. He was released on $1,500 ‘bond. Samuei Wagshal, proprietor of & delicatessen, is out on bond in connec- tion with the case, but no mention was made of him in the indictment. Miss Lehman died March 3, 1928, while being operated on in Hoffman's p . She was taken there’ by the K woman, who told authorities that Miss Lehman had gone there to be treated for a headache. The autopsy disclased that the girl's neck had been broken and Hoffman was held for man- slaughter on the theory that in treating ! GURB ON HEALING ATTEND SERVICES M. Paul Claudel, memory of Marshal Foch. UACK 1S SOUGHT Commission Empowered to her for the headache he had wrenched her head too severely. ) Miss McCall, who was dissatisfled with the coroner's report, made an in- wvestigation when the King woman dis- a] suddenly. She was found in .. Pal n, N. J.. and the story she told 7" to Miss McCall resulted in Hoffman's indictment for murder. 26 Indictments Returned. A total of 26 indictments, including charges of grand larceny, housebreak- ing, joy-riding and assaults with dan-| . gem’weapons, were reported by the jury. grVill.l.il.l'll'ly Lawson, colored, who shot and wounded Policeman Allen Baker of {the sizth precinct on February 12, was “indicted on charges of assault with a 4 ous weapon. ‘The night of the shooting. Baker and three other policemen went to Lawson’s room in tesponse to cries for police. { When they opened.the door at Lawson’s % direction. ithe Negro fired upon them with a shotgun. Baker's arm was near- 1y shot off. Mrs. May C. Brown was indicted for assault to kill and assault with a dan- gerous weapon. She shot her husband, Charles A. Brown, on February 1 as he stood outside of Judge Givens' Police Court. He remained in a serious condi- tion for days following the shooting. Man Accused of Fraud. Charles J. Marchant was indicted on two counts for larceny after trust, it being alleged he got.$400 from two men in a “fake” stock-selling scheme. According to the evidence he repre- sented himself to be the member of an aviation manufacturing concern and sold stock. Other indictments were as follows: Oscar Crutchfield, Willie Johnson, Wal- ter Thomas, grand larceny; Jessie E. Stewart, joy-riding; Jessie B. Stewart, Charles Holt, Luther Chapman and John Spencer Lee, housebreaking and larceny; Sherman Cox, housebreaking; Rudolph Williams and Lester Moore, grand larceny; Joseph A. Lee, joy- riding; Christopher C. Evans, receiving stolen property; Charles J. Marchant, two indictments for larceny after trust: Ernest Berlin Bates, two charges of forging and uttering Treasury checks: ‘Thomas Barnes, depredation on private property end grand larceny; Frank | Jenkins, robbery: Alfred Armstrong, as- sault with dangerous weapon and as- sault to kill; Robert Sloan, assault with intent to kill; William Dodson, James Walter White and Raymond A. Gal- latin, non-support of minor children. LAUNDRY MANAGER IDENTIFIES ATTACKER Accused Man Describes Himself as Employe of District Street Cleaning Department. John Lilly, colored, 26 years old, de- scribing himself as an employe of of | the District Street Cleaning Depart- ment, was identified at the sixth pre- cinct headquarters this morning by Miss Edna Lewis, 25-year-old manager of the Palace Laundry Co. branch at 614} Pifth street, as the man who attacked | her, March 2, while she was alone in | the laundry office. Miss Lewis was beaten severely about | the head with a bottle, Her screams | attracted a laundry carrier, and the in- | truder, frightened away, escaped. Sixth precinct police say Miss Lewis also described. clothing found in the possession of Lilly, who lives in the 100 block of Third street southeast, as identical with that worn by her assailant. Lilly was arrested early Saturday night by Policeman Avon Shockey of the Traffic Bureau, and officers R. J. Fraser and J. R. Leach of the sixth precinct. ‘The latter two officers, Te- sponding to a call from the vicinity, say they surprised Lilly after he had broken into a Palace Laundry branch on H street near North Capitol street. Lilly is said to have leaped from a window, fleeing directly into the street where Policeman Shockey was passing. A charge of housebreaking has been lodged against Lilly pending a further investigation of the second allegation. Miss Lewis, who lives at 1628 Trini- dad avenue northeast, has recovered from the attack. Pol say Lilly’s description tallies closely with that given by two white women in describing a colored man who assaulted them under the K street | practic, | services, in many cases, not more help- Fix Standards Holds Or- ganization Meeting. A prodigious task lies ahead of the Commission on Licensure to Practice the Healing Art in the District, which had 1ts organization meeting yesterday. The commission is.called upon to reg- ulate the healing art in all its aspects. More than that, it is given far-reach- ing powers to regulate by definition of standards the education would-be heal- ers must possess before setting up as practitioners. The commission into whose hands these powers have been put by act of Congress is composed of the president of the board of District Commissioners, the district attorney, the United States commissioner of education, the health officer of the District and the superin- tendent of schools. The law instructs this commission to “establish minimum standards of pre- professional and professional education in the healing art” and says that it “may establsih minimum standards for hospitals and for interne training.” It may determine whether pre-profession- al and professional schools or hospitals attain such standards. Ordered to Set up Boards. In order to examine the applicants for licenses to practice the healing art in all of its many manifestations, at the same time safe guarding patients and not discriminating against any cult or type of healer not a regular medical practitioner, the commission is ordered, to set up examining boards for all the vell recognized types of healers and “such other boards of examiners in drugless healing as are necessary.” The types of treatment are specifically de- fined as medicine, osteopathy, chiro- naturopathy and midwifery. In addition to these, there shall be an examination in the basic sciences which are acknowledged to underlie all of the healing arts. These sciences are anatomy, physiology, chemistry, bac- teriology and pathology. The commis- sion is not allowed to issue licenses to practice the healing art to any one who does not satisfy this examining board in the basic sciences that he under- stands the sciences and their applica- tion to the cure of disease. An excep- tion is made in the case of those prac- titioners already established, in order that the law shall not be made retro- active. The act is designed to rid the District in the future of the quacks who up to date have been enabled to take a cor- respondence course (or not, as they saw fit) in one of the more esoteric of the healing cults and then set up as “astral healers” or what not, reaping rich fees from gullible patients for ful than the ministrations of the hex doctors of Pennsylvania. May Appoint Examiners. Under the act any cult may be recog- nized by application in proper form to the commission, and the commission may appoint examining boards for its members. But no licenses will issue to them unless they have had enough education to obviate most of the tragic mistakes possible for ignorant prac- titioners to perpetrate on innocent patients, The commission, which has had but one meeting, admittedly has not started to scratch the surface of its duties. Health Officer William C. Fowler is now on the search for quali- fied personnel to make up the various examining boards. Blanks have not yet even been printed for applications for | licenses. These will quickly be avail- | able, however, and the commission will { get down to real work. Most of the actual work, of course, will fall on the | | shoulders of Dr. Fowler, who is ex- officio secretary-treasurer of the com- mission. For years Dr. Fowler hasj been striving for some legislation to elevate the standards of the healing profession, and if there is not enough. power to accomplish this in the present] legislation, the commission is'expressly ordered, in the terms of the act, to “report annually to Congress, on the | first Monday in December, its proceed- | {ings under the provisions of this act; | during the next preceding fiscal year, | with recommendations for such further | legislation as may be necessary to pro- |tect the people of the District of Columbia from ignorance and quackery in the practice of the said healing art in the said District.” e A stained glass window as & memorial to the late Lord Darnley in the nave viadvet in the northeast section within the past few weeks. of Rochester (England) recently unveiled by Lord Harris. the French Ambassador, graphed as they arrived at St. Paul’s Church, where services were held today in | athedral was | teenth precinct, and W. L. Hunt, tenth | precinct, FOR FOCH HERE and Mme. Claudel, photo- —Star Staff Photo. CAPITAL OFFICALS PAY HONOR TO FOCK Ffequiem High Mass Is Sung in St. Paul’s, With Notables of Nation-Present. Under the stars and stripes and the tricolor of France, high officials of the Government. and of foreign nations to- day, at noon, paid tribute to the mem- ory of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, at requium high mass, sung in the Church of St. PIHJ.M!'T.l lzmeem‘h’ and Yhsl;‘oeeu. “The occasion, descriptive nor and affection in which 6..!'.heg‘ great Prenchman was held, attracted dis- tinguished _representatives of - .all branches of the Government, who gathered on the day that Marshal Foch’s body was taken to Des Invalides, there to rest beside that of Napoleon. Secretary of State Kellogg, represent- ing President Hoover; Vice President Curtis and his sister, Mrs. Gann; Sec. retary of the Treasury Mellon, Chief Justice and Mrs. William Howard Taft, and the Secretaries of War and the Navy, with high officers of both branches of the service, attended the ceremony. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff of the Army, and Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of Navy operations, were in attendance, as were Gen. Neville, commandant of the Marine Corps, and Maj. Gen. Lejeune, whom he recently succeeded. Claudel Escorts Mrs. Wilson. Shortly before noon Ambassador Claudel, who arranged the service, es-| corted Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the Nation’s war President, to the section reserved for invited guests. They were accompanied by Mme. Clau- del. Ambassadors and Ministers, with their wives, * followed. Outside the church entrance ways were roped off and scores of persons viewed the ar- rival of officers and diplomats. Later these persons entered the church for the service. Ambassador and Mme. Claudel and Mrs. Wilson were seated in the first row, to the left of the altar. Above them, on the left of the altar, hung the Stars and Stripes; on the right the French tricolor. The French colors were displayed on pillars bordering the center aisle. Father Dacey Initiates Service, ‘When the guests had been seated, the service was initiated by Father C. J. Dacey, pastor of the church, who offici- ated as celebrant. Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore presided, assisted by Mgr. C. F. Thomas of St. Patrick's Church, Washington, and Mgr. J.” H. Ryan, head of the Catholic University. Serving as deacon of the mass was Father E. J. Fontaine of Washington and a sub-deacon, Father Chauvat, of St. Matthew’s Church. Others assist- ing were Father O'Donoghue of the War Department and Father Willlam Sweeney of St. Gabriel's Church. D. C. COMMISSIONERS UPHOLD WALKER FINE Policeman Assessed $15 for Leav- ing Post of Duty and Remov- ing Overcoat, The District Commissioners today finally disposed of the charges against Policeman . Luther J. Walker of the fifth precinct, by upholding the sen- tence of the police trial board, assessing a $15 fine against Walker. The board had found him guilty of leaving his post of duty, entering a building, and :’erzmvlng part of his uniform while on uty. Walker was tried twice. At the first trial Policeman Robert J. Allen of the third precinct sought to represent him as counsel. The trial board ruled against this and the case was heard without a lawyer representing the de- fendant. Walker was fined $15, but the Commissioners ordered the case retried before a new trial board. On the sec- ond finding of guilty, Walker appealed, but the Commissioners overruled the appeal and ordered the fine to stand. The alleged violations of the police manual took place November 29, when Walker was stationed on Highway Bridge during the course of construc- tion repairs there. He is sald to have entered the watchman's box and taken off_his overcoat. ‘The Commissioners also ordered two policemen removed from the force for desertion. They were Clyde Huff, thir- EINSTEIN THEORY AND PROOF BARED BY DR. PAUL HEYL Cosmos Club Hears Address by Physicist of Bureau of Standards. [MADE FUTILE ATTEMPT T0 PROVE IDEA WRONG Complicated Equations Offer Sim- plest Explanation of Phenom- ena, He Says. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. How many feet make an hour? ‘This is the sort of question which arises in efforts to picture the weirdly unreal universe postulated by the the- ories of Albert Einstein, Dr. Paul Heyl, physicist of the Bureau of Standards, explained to the Cosmos Club last night. It is yn their apparent contradiction of common sense and habits of thought, Dr. Heyl said, that Einstein‘s concepts of the structure of the universe have aroused most opposition and he warned against allowing these barriers to stand before the weight of scientific experi- ment. He himself. Dr. Heyl said, had been for seven years a skeptic and had made one futile effort to prove Einstein wrong, but finally was willing to admit that the relativity theory, complicated as it is, offers the simplest explanation of observed phenomena. Human Mind Commented Upon. ‘The human mind, he pointed out, is predisposed to considering time and space as separate entities. The former is looked upon as a stationary thing in which one can move in all directions, while the latter is moving like a mov- ing platform on which every one is riding, but which is beyond control. The challenge to this conception offered by Einstein depends upon. factors diffi- cult of observation because they only affect noticeably objects moving at ap- proximately 190,000 miles a second, the speed of light. He offered the analogy of two plat- forms, one stationary and the other moving past, it at the speed of light. On the stationary platform is. an ob- server and on the moving platform is a clock and a circle. To the observer, the circle seems a straight line and the clock stopped. If there were an ob- server on see the same things on the stationary platform. ‘The Einsteinexplanation is not that the mechanism of the clocks are changed, but that time itself, inde- pendent of all mechanisms, changes its rate on a moving system. Time No Longer Independent. Time, in this concept, no longer is independent of its position in space, but is directly dependent on it, revo- lutionary as the idea may be in the light of common sense and hereditary modes of thought. The now universal ly accepted physical law of the trans- formation of energy into heat, he sald, for many years was rejected by many because they believed it was opposed to common sense. Now its rejection would be opposed to common sense. ‘The Einstein theory, Dr. Heyl said, came as an attempt to explain the serious flaws in physical theories which had cropped out early in the present century. Perhaps the most notable of these was revealed by the famous Michelson-Morley experiment, which tried to determine the rate of the earth’s movement through space by the Tate of light moving with the earth and against it. ‘This gave no result and showed that something had broken down between the sciences of mechanics and optics. Three or four other experiments gave the same results, Heyl said. The Einstein theory explained this by postulating different standards of measurement ac- cording to the position and rate of motion of the observer. Gravitation'’s Power Enters. Up to’ this time, he said, gravitation had been universally accepted as an attraction existing between masses which followed exact laws, but which could not be explained. The nearest analogy was with electricity and mag- netism, which followed the same law of attraction. But electro-magnetic at- traction could be cut off by placing a screen in its path, whereas no screen had any effect on gravitation. The mutual attraction of two bodies re- mained the same, regardless of what was placed between them. Einstein, he explained, pointed to a somewhat similar condition in respect to_centrifugal force. Equal masses re- volving at equal radii from a common center are thrown off with equal force, which might indicate a repulsive power in the center. But physicists long since had explained this phenomenon as a property of the bodies themselves with- out requiring any-propulsion. Enstein gave a similar explanation for gravi. tation- property of the bodies them- selves rather than of an attractive force between them. Thus the orbit of the earth’s motion around the sun, he pointed out, could be explained as due to the fact that space itselr became curved in the neigh- borhood of the earth, which was forced to follow the curves of this space, which acted as a “surface of restraint.” In order to sustain this concept Einstein was obliged to go outside of human ex- perience and postulate a five-dimen- sfonal universe, which it is impossible to visualize. Met Experimental Tests. ‘Weird as were the Einstein concep- tions, Dr. Heyl said, they were entitled to the test of experiment and met this test. One of these was concerned with the irregularities in the orbit of the planet Mercury, which varied widely irom the path it should have followed according to the Jaw of gravity. The variation was so great that the late Prof. Asaph Hall and Simon Newcombe of the Naval Observatory, proposed a slight change in the law of gravity it- self. Even with this change the law did not fit. The Einstein theory ex- plained perfectly. The observations of approximately 10 eclipse expeditions, Dr. Heyl said, have sustained Einstein’s contention on the bending of light from a star passing in the neighborhood of a great mass like the sun—that is, following the curvature of space created by the pres- ence of the sun. Last of Proof Apparently Here. ‘The last of the three proofs asked by Einstein, he said, apparently has been rovided. This was that all very dark rlnu in the spectrum of the sun should be shifted very slightly to the ht. It was difficult to determine whether this actually happened because - the measurements Yere so delicate and other factors had moving platform he would | o be considered. But | tific | | in the tumble tournament. WINNING TEAM OF HIGH SCHOOL BOY TUMBLERS Young athletes of the Gordon Junior High School, who yesterday won their match with the Stuart Junmior feam —Star Staff Photo. 'SCHENCK ADMITS 2 HOLD-UPS HERE Formal Charges Made, De- laying Return to Jersey to Face Shooting Trial. Following an admission last night to | Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the headquarters homicide squad, that he 15 the man who held up a Newark, N. J., -garage January 29 and shot a police- man, Frederick A. Schenck, ' former ‘Washington policeman, confessed to two hold-ups here, and he was formally charged with these this morning. Ac- cording . to Lieut. Kelly, Schenck will not be returned to New Jersey until he has been tried for the Washington offenses. Police say Schenck told them he held up Kenny C. Van Meter, manager of a Standard Oil filling station at Four- i police headquarters, on February 18 and escaped with $10. Van Meter identi- fied him today. ‘The second hold-up occurred two days later at the Meridian Mansions Apart- i ments, 2400 Sixteenth street. Russell Bennett, the night clerk, was robbed of $20 about 3 o'clock in the morning by a young man answering Schenck’s description, who forced him, at the point of a revolver, to hand over the contents of the cash drawer. Bennett has not yet been located and conse- quently police have not been able to verify this part of the confession. Elaborates on Confession. Schenck was closeted with Lieut. George E. Kass and Benamin Birch of | Newark for two hours this morning | elaborating on his confession of last {night, but many details of the New Jersey robbery still remained unex- plained. Seen this morning in his cell at the second precinct, Schenck told reporters that "he came to Washington for the purm of surrendering himself and if he not been apprehended in Clar- endon. Va., Sunday, would have come to police headquarters as soon as he had attended to a business matter requiring his_attention. Here After Jersey Shoeting. He has been in Washington three times since the New Jersey hold-up and i shooting, Schenck declared, but it was lonly on the last trip, he thinks, that he was seen and recognized. He has also visited Canada and Chicago and driven through the Middle West, he Police think Schenck confessed to the Washington robberies when returned to Newark to answer charges there of rob- bery, assault with intent to kill and ur{y{;‘\g concealed weapons seemed certain. | | ‘This morning the former policeman admitted that he would not have a “leg to stand on” if brought to trial in New Jersey. He seemed particularly in { llnr of the severity of the New Jersey aw. DECLINES TO INDORSE CANDIDATE FOR BOARD North Capitol Association Has No Favorite for Membership in Utilities Commission. No indorsement of any particular candidate as Public Utility Commission- er will be forthcoming from the North Capitol Citizens’ Assoclation, that body voted at a meeting held last night in McKinley High School, Second and T streets northeast. ‘The association passed a resolution to ask the Public Utilities Commission ! to remove the street car switch at North | Capitol street and Michigan avenue as a menace to public safety. ‘The members will entertain at & com- | munity card party in the restaurant of | the high school next Monday night. Henry Gilligan, president of the as- sociation, preside Church Mite Box Stolen. DANVILLE, Va., March 26 (Special). —A mife box on a votive stand in the Sacred Heart Catholic Church here, has been stolen. The matter has been re- ported to the police. The thief wrenched the’ box free of its fastenings. The value of its contents is not known. recently at Mount Wilson Observatory, observations have been made on the companion star of Sirius, an enormous- iy dense body whose spectrum should exhibit a shifting 30 times as great as_the sun. Einstein, said Dr. Heyl, is_essentially a monistic philosopher, trying to re- duce all natural phenomena by a single | teenth and D_streets, just in rear of i Policeman in Jail In Arrest of Girl Spurning His Love By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, March 26— Fahart Saba, patrolman, brought Miss Catherine Certich to the station house because she re- buffeted his wooing. Saba, and not his prisoner, was locked up and later fined $10, in addition to being suspended from the force. Just what charge the blue- coated Lothario intended to lodge alealmt, the woman was not made clear. SUSPENSION LIFTED ON §3.13 COAL RATE I. C.:C. Orders Ton Figure Back Into Effect as of Today. The suspension of the $3.13 per ton coal rate from the flelds of Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia to Wash- ington and other metropolitan area terminals in nearby Maryland and Vir- ginia was revoked today by the Inter- state Commerce Commission and that rate, which was set by the commission last July and suspended on protest of local trade bodies and Southern coal operators, goes back into effect as of today, under the commission’s order. ‘Washington consumers of bituminous coal, however, saved from $250,000 to | $300,000 as the result of the suspension, it was estimated today by the Board of Trade. The rate was ordered raised last July from a base of $2.84 and applies to shipments over the Chesapeake & Ohio, Norfolk & Western and Virginian Rail- way. The rate for the Cumberland-Pied- mont Meyersdale district, where the Bal- timore & Ohio mines are located, and the rate from the Clearfield district, served by the Pennsylvania, remain af $2.71, it is announced. The order of the commission is as follows: “Proj rates on bituminous coal, in carloads, from mines in the New River district In Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky, on Chesapeake & ©Ohio, Norfolk & Western and Virginian, to Washington, D. C., and adjacent des- tinations in Maryland and Virginia found justified. Order of suspension va- cated and proceeding discontinued.” ‘The decision ends a long fight by ‘Washington trade bodies and consumers of the District of Columbia aligned with Southern coal operators to keep the former $2.84 rate for coal delivered in the District from the New River district coal mines. ‘The fight was made by the Washing- ton Board of, Trade, the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, the Wash- ington Real Estate Board, the Wash- ington Gas Light Co. the Operative Bullders’ Association, the New River Coal Operators’. Association and the glndlni Gult Coal Operators’ Associa- on. Owners of the flelds affected declared the increase would hurt their revenues, and local consumers contend that the New River coal was particularly fitted to their needs and that the higher rate meant adding an unnecessary en. Sharp Measure Acted Upon. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ANNAPOLIS, Md. March 26—The House of Delegates yesterday passed the bill of Delegate Alfred E. Sharp of | Baltimore, including bill posters and musicianis at hotels and theaters and places of amusement under the hazar ous occupations provided in the Mary- land workmen’s compensation law. HOOVER EXPECTED 0 NAME lENRl]UTi Recess Appointment to Court| of Customs Appeals Held Likely. ' The impression prevails that Presi- dent Hoover will send the nominations | of former Senator Irvine Lenroot of Wis- | consin te be a member of the United | States Court of Customs Appeals to the Senate when it meets in extra session! | next month. There is some likelihood | that Mr. Hoover may give Mr. Lenroot | a recess appointment to this court in| the meantime. { President Coolidge nominated Mr.; Lenroot for this -bench appointment | shortly after Congress convened in the | regular session last December, but !hel session closed before he was confirmed. | The White House has every reason to know that the Senate would have con- firmed Mr. Lenroot’s nomination had it had more time. Mr. Lenroot since leaving the Senate more than two years ago has been prac- | ticing law in Washington. | _ It is not thought likely, however, that | President Hoover will renominate Henry G. Glassie of Maryland for the new judgeship created for the Supreme Court | of the District of Columbia. Mr. Glassie was nominated for this bench post by President Coolidge, but the Senate ad- journed before he was confirmed. There | are several candidates for this place, prominent among them being John Lewis Smith, former president of the Bar Association of this, city, who was | mittee for the District and the local bar association at the time Mr. Coolidge ap- pointed Mr. Glassie. The local bar association has rein- | dorsed Mr. Smith, but the local Repub- lican State committee has not yet taken any action. The latter is understood to be awaiting the return of Samuel J. Prescott, Republican State chairman. It has not been determined yet whether President Hoover will make this bench appointment before the spe- cial session of Congress starts. This seems to be true also in the case of filling the vacancy on the Public Utili- ties Commission of Washington. There are & number of candidates for this place, among them being Col. Harrison Brand, who wasgrenominated by Presi- dent Coolidge for another term on the commission, but who failed to be con- firmed by the Senate. UNDER BOND OF $2,500. Washington Man Charged With Robbing U. S. Consul. Charged with, robbery on the com- consul to Montreal, Granville Robert | Simmons, 300 block of E street, was held under $2,500 bond pending grand jury action when arraigned in Police Court today, According’ to Lakin, Simmons ac- costed him at Thirteenth and I streets and invited him to visit his apartment. Mistaking Simmons for an acquaint- ance, Lakin accepted. Reaching the hallway of the apartment, he was rob- bed of his watch and purse, Lakin de- clared. On the following day the defendant is said to have offered to “sell back” the watch and made an appointment with Lakin. Detective Sergt. Howard Ogle accompanied Lakin to the scene and arrested Simmons. Pu_ch Trees in Bloom. LYNCHBURG, Va., March 26 (Spe- cial) —Commercial peach orchards in this section are in bloom, the trees hav- ing grown rapidly during the recent warm spell. Last year the trees were in full bloom April 3. Early cherry, plums and apricot trees are also in bloom. Bombing Planes Set to Leave Bolling For Dakota Today to Blow Up Ice Jam Undef orders from President Hoover a formation of three Army bombing planes was concentrated at Bolling Fleld today to leave for Bismarck, N. Dak., to blow up an ice jam in the Missouri River, which is threatening the safety of inhabitants for many miles along the valley. ‘The bombers will leave Bolling Field today unless fog and bad weather over the mountains is considered too thick for them to get through. Reports early today were unfavorable. ‘The big planes are carrying heavy law. Thus he now has provided a single law for optics, mechanics, gravitation, electricity and ‘magnetism. Monism, he said. is the order of the day in scien- philoso) o bombs supplied from the Army ord- nance th!hel %:lrdeen, Md., and wll} carry r ve cargo on one of the lonm;we-ume lx?ghu of the kind at in this country, The formation will be under com- mand of Capt. Willis H. Hale, stationed in the office of the chief of the Army Air Corps. The planes will be piloted by Lieuts. M. Huggins and Casslus H. Thomas and Master Sergt. Stewart C. Smink. The two_lieutenants, flying twin- | motored LB-5 bombers, arrived at| Bolling Field at 6 o'clock yesterday | evening from Langley Field, Va. Sergt. | Smink arrived here at 7:20 a.m. wdxyl from Aberdeen in a new LB-7 bomber, equipped with air cooled motors. e ice jam which they are to bomb is reported to be 19 miles long and is said to be growing longer and deeper 3 bourly. indorsed by the Republican State com-; plaint of Harry M. Lakin, United States | oy, AIRPORT SPONSORS SEEK 1932 SESSION OFNAA.AND RAGES Ambitious Program Is Map- ped Out by Two Committees of Trade Board. PLANS ARE OUTLINED FOR TACKLING TASK Maj. Davison Is Assembling Data Compiled on Survey to Be Dis- cussed by City Heads. Opening of a large airport in the Na- tional Capital in 1932 to the accompani- ment of the National Aeronautic Asso- ciation convention, a huge aviation ex- position and the national air races forming a part of the bi-centennial celebration of the birth of George ‘Washington, was the goal set today by the executive committee and the spe cial aviation committee of the Board of Trade. Lawrence E. Williams, flying head of the Board of Trade's aviation commit- tee, today announced that he expects between 150,000 and 200,000 visitors in the Capital for the opening of the air- port and its -attendant attractions. Full co-operation in the plans for an international air exposition was prom- ised the Board of Trade today by Fred- erick R. Neely, general manager of the National Aeronautic Association, speak- ing for the association. General Plans Outlined. Williams also announced today that the proper applications would be made and inducements offered to bring the 1932 National Aeronautic Association convention to the Capital and to obtain the national air races for the opening of the airport. The executive committee of the Board of Trade yesterday outlined the gen- eral plans for the avtion committee which include specifications for an original unit for the airport to be 3,000 feet wide and 6,000 feet long. Action of the executive committee yesterday followed the report of Robert 1J. Cottrell, executive secretary of the Board of Trade, who has just completed a tour of three big airports with As- sistant Engineer Commissioner D. A. Davison. Maj. Davison is assembling the data he gathered on the tour and is prepar- ing for conferences on the matter with his superiors and associates. Later in the week, Maj. Davison will take up the matter with Engineer Commissioner Ladue and after that may make a re- port of his tour to the full Board of Commissioners. Hearings Due to Start Soon. Hearings on the airport are expected to startyin about 10 days, when the per- sonnel of the joint congressional com- mittee gathers here for the speéial ses- sion of Congress. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, author of the resolution which created the committee to study the airport situation at the last session, | already is in the Capital and making | plans for the hearings. The board’s aviation committee will be hosts to the District Commissioners, { the assistant secretaries for aviation, the officials of the N. A. A. and others on April 18, at informal dinner at the ‘Willard Hotel, when a motion picture, “The History of Aviation,” loaned by Frederick B. Patterson, will be shown. There will be a luncheon meeting of the aviation committee to work out | plans for the airport proposition on Fri- | day at noon at the City Club. MAYFLOWER T0 60 TO PHILADELPHIA | Will Join the Fleet There—De- parture Is Expected Week From Today. 1 { | The presidential yacht U. S. 8. May- flower is scheduled to proceed to Phila- delphia for decommissioning, probably a week from today. While definite orders have not been issued, vet it appeared certain at the Navy Department that the Mayflower will depart Arom the Capital early next week. The crew of the vessel which President Hoover has ordered decommissioned is now engaged in taking various articles belonging to the vsesel from storage in Washington and placing them aboard the craft. Naval officials explained today there are special facilities at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for decmomissioning vessels. They made plain that the Mayflower is not being stricken from the rolls of the Navy, but will join the idle fleet of des‘tmyex’s and other craft at Philadel- a. The U. S. 8. Sylph, official yacht of the Secretary of the Navy, will proceed to Norfolk, Va. at a date yet to be determined. Secretary Adams has or- dered the Sylph disposed of by sale or otherwise. Officers said that there are now only three yachts on active duty in the serve ice—the U. S. S. Isabel, which is on duty with the Yangtse patrol in China: the U. S. 5. Nokomis and the U. S. S. Niagara, both on survey duty. PUBLIC BUILDING OFFICE CHANGES ARE ANNOUNCED F. W. Hoover Takes Post Vacated by Capt. Parsons—Gill Will Succeed Him. Changes in the Office of Public Build- ing and Public Parks were announced today involving three executives. Frank W. Hoover has resigned as head of the building division to take over the post of general manager of the Welfare and Recreational ~ Association of Public Buildings and Public Grounds. Inc. Mr. Hoover succeeded Capt. M. H. Pare sons, U. S. Army Coast Artillery officer, whose resignation was recently ane nounced due to the press of other duties. Capt. Parsons is superintendent of the U._S. park police force. James F. Gill, formerly chief of the supply division, succeeds Mr. Hoover as head of the building division. Mr. Gill's place as head of the supply division is taken by Sumpter J. Oliver. A Boys Fight, One Goes to Hospital. A fight with a 14-year-old boy last evéning resulted in a trip to the hospital for John Sikken, 13 years old. of 2101 N street. Police report that John was struck on the head with a brick. He was removed to Emergency Hospital in a passing automobile. Dr. J. E. Lewis of the staff treated him for lacerations to his scalp and then sent him home, fight took place at Twenty-slxfl" | and Pennsylvania avenue,