Evening Star Newspaper, April 5, 1929, Page 27

BOARD APPOINTED First Move Taken to Admin- ister Act of Last Session of Congress. ‘The District's first move to administer the act'passed at the last session of Congress, conferring power on. the Dis- trict Commissioners to settle claims against the District in sums not exceed- ing $5,000, was meade today when Cor- poration Counsel Willlam W. Bridesap- | « pointed a board to consider claims com- ing under the law. Assistant Corpora- tion Counsel Francis H. Stephens is chairman of the board, the other mem- bers being Assistant Corporation Coun- sels Willlam H. Wahly and Robert E. Lynch. This board will writé to all claimants coming under the law for a full descrip~ tion of their claims, accompanied by ail documentsgnecessary to establish them, and will then pass on the validity of the claims. If the board believes the claim is good, it will report to Corporation Counsel Bride, who in turn will report to the Commissioners, who have the final word in settlement of the claim. An enormous task faees the board at the outset of its career. Mr. Bride es- timated that there aré about 1,500 claims coming under the law which are pending, about 90 per cent of thess are claims for feturn of assessments levied under the Borland law, which assessed one-half of the cost of the work of paving streets against adjacent prop- erty owners. Recently the Court of Appeals set one of the assessments aside, and a great many of the claims against the District are believed to come within the same category as the case decided by the court. The validity of each claim must stand on its own basis, however, as In many cases Borland law assess- ments are legal. Some idea of the task before the claims board may be gleaned from the fact that it is not possible to zend a circular letter to the claimants, but an individual letter must be pro- vided for each, as the facts in each case, as understood by the District's | legal department, are made part of the letter asking for ‘full information from | the claimant, Dresden 1kes New Opera. Declared to be the most charming | musical comedy of the nineteenth cen- tury, “The Barber of Bagdad,” by Peter Cornelius, was recently produced in the State Opera at Dresden, Germany. The work is said to be full of genuie poetry and pure humor. ‘Ohio Good Roads Federation says not | Jess than $150,000,000 will be required | to put the roads of the State in good condition. | FRANCES MAE SNYDER, Twenty-year-old stenographer of Pitts- burgh, who is engaged to marry the youthful Pirate outfielder. ‘ARMY DAY’ OBSERVANCE INDORSED BY KIWANIS Resolution Commends Membership to Study of Value in Time of Peace. ‘ A resolution’ indorsing the obsery- ance of Army day tomorrow was adopt- ed by the Washington Kiwanis Club at its luncheon meeting in the Hotel Washington yesterday. The resolution commends the mem- bership of the local Kiwanis Club and other Kiwanis Clubs “to an intelligent study of the Army requirements and the value to the country ol the Army in time of peace.” Another resolution was ndonted ex- pressing regeret over the recent death of Ivan C. Wald, member of the Wash- ington Kiwanis Club and president of the Washington Chamber of Commerce. Announcemept was mmde that O. | Sam Cummings, president of Kiwanis International, will speak at a- joint meeting of the 13 clubs of the Capital Kiwanis district here April 29. It also was announced that on April 30 the local Kiwanis Club will place a plaque on the Treasury Building commemorat- ing the sizning of the Webster-Ashbur- ton treaty between the United suu- and Great Britain. Edgar Morris, president of the Wuh- ington Kiwanis Club, presided. - Hurricane Hits Banana Grove. BOGOTA, Colombia, April 5 (#).—A hurricane which struck the banana region of Santa Marta Wednesday was reported to have destroyed 1,000,000 banana plants with a loss. of $500,000. now CRAC Graham Style Get bran Nature’s way—all the time in all the wheat food you eat—start Wheatswotth | ADE WARR. AED. ¥.5. o1 with KERS Whole Wheat, { price of $35 . ! ’ | Permission to Stay in Germany for Oue Trip to America Will Be Made in Middle of May asd the Other in June. By the Assoclated Press. > , Germany, April 5.—The Zeppelin Construction Co. yesterday made formal announcement that the Graf Zeppelin would make two flights to America, one about the nrid- dle of May and the other early in June, Only about three days will be spent In the United States on the May flight. Only a lmited number of passengers will be accepted, since the purpose of the flllht h primarily for observation and. testi ‘The dl sible on - April 22 will start & passenger gl:hn of two and a half days over the Western Mediterranean and thell will make a 12-hour flight to na and other Austrian cities. -Some 315 longest Summer days will be de- voud to fiights to Silesia and East Prussia. Technical preparations are stfil incomplete for the round-the-world flight tentatively set for early in Au- gust. It was announced that the press monopoly no longer would be effective on flights of the Grat Zeppelin. Duration of Cure Is | ' Requésted. [ By the Assosiated Press. BERLIN, April 5.—Kurt Rosenfeld, Boelalist member of the Reichstag, has submitted to the cabinet and the Prus- sian government & new appeal in be-: Rl half of Leon Trotsky, in which the |Ql latter asks permission to come to Ger- many only for the duration of & cure, The former Soviet war commisar, who ‘is in exile in Constantinople, declared his readiness to submit himself to an examination by physicians appointed the German' government a ingness to le after uonnrlnt Ml health if a permanent visa granted. The appéal concluded wlth [} statement that an early decision would be appreclated. Cuts Hair Too Late, Fined. For cutting the hair of a ‘customes after 8 p.m., James Rimmer was re- cently fined in a lwthg:n, England, court. Rimmer's plea that his was one-man business and because of injuries he could work only a few d 8 week did not avail, & Ensembles ilk Dresse 97 ] 13 to 52! .Over 150 different styles in a group remark- In Fashion’s Favorite Shades! 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