Evening Star Newspaper, April 9, 1929, Page 17

EXTENT OFCULTURE OF VANSHED INDAN TRBETO BE HUNTED {Information Buried in Huge { Mounds of Shells at Edge { of Tampa Bay. EXCAVATION IS PLANNED { BY ETHNOLOGY BUREAU Btirling Tells of Discoveries in | Month of Exploration in Area | Once Habitat of Calusa. [ BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ! The strange culture of a vanished People, buried in literal mountains of ®yster and clam shells, is to be exca- Nated by the Burcau of American Ethnology Mathew W. Stirling, chief of the bureau, returned yesterday from Florida Biter a month of exploratory work |mong the shell mounds of the Calusa findians, the warlike tribe who met the #irst Spanish explorers in North {America and were slaugitered by the Bunpowder of the newcomers. Probably dess is known about them, Mr. Stirling | ‘a}'&_. than about any other notable ndian group. i The exploration of the shell mounds s expected to yield many detalls as to Xheir daily lives—what they ate and ow much, how long they lived in one lace and their kitchen utensils. Some { these mounds are about 50 feet high nd hardly can be distinguished from atural hills. They are built up almost gnllrely from the shellfish and bones | [ animals eaten by the people. | Hills Rise in Terraces, ! Pirst, as Mr. Stirling reconstructs the Picture, there ‘would be a little Indian illage ‘at the edge of Tampa Bay. As Rhe “people consumed shellfish they Would dump the sheels n one place ust back of the village. In the course {f a few years a smail hillock would e formed. It would appeal to the ndians as a better place to live than xactly a sea level, so they would level T the too and build houses on it. hey would continue to dump their hells back of their new homes until @nother hill was erected higher than the first. Then they would move up %o the more elevated location and re- peat the process. The result was that these artificial hills rise in terraces from the water’s edge and have an abrupt descent on the opposite side. Kitchen articles, broken pots, etc., were thrown away With the bones and shells and can be found by digging under the surface, Assuming that the eaters of the shell- fish had ordinary human appetites and checking against geological evidence, it ‘will be possible to tell how many per- sons are represented by a mound and &ow long it required to build it, Huge Sand Mound is Found. ‘The most interesting site found by Mr. Stirling was at Palmo Solo, where Was once the largest shell mound on fTampa Bay. These have been quarried Tor 60 years for shells for road building 2nd line making so it now is only about #0 feet high. It evidently required a Jarge settlement to construct such a #mound. Exploring the neighborhood, Stirling ¥ound a different type of mound about 8 half mile inland, evidently built arti- fically of sand, circular in shape, about 18 feet high and 150 feet in diameter, Running for 300 yards from the sand aound toward the old shell mound was 2 sand wall 5 feet high and about 10 et wide. A half mile inland is a fresh- water lake and a canal runs from the mound to the lake. This mysterious &rrangement had a purpose, he believes, and this is one of the problems the bureau will try to solve, |,. The sand mound, according to Stir- ling, was a burial mound. On the sum- \mn at one time stood a mortuary temple, notable in the religious rites. Ehe temple was a large structure ;with a platform about 5 feet high in- ide. Here the bodies of the dead were aid out during the year. Once a year there was a great ceremony when hese bodies were buried at once in the $and moun: This particular mound, Stirling be- ieves, was built up in several layers, )Lflsfiib}y Tepresenting different cuiture }E’riods. He found evidence that Palmo lo was almost exactly on the dividing |dine between the Calusa people and the |‘Timucos, who represented a different ‘fl)l’t of culture. Human Sacrifice May Be Revealed. It is likely, he believes, that the prac- \#tice of human sacrifices will be revealed. Indlans farther West, related to the Calusas, were accustomed, when a | prominent person died, to kill a dozen or more others and lay their bodies beside him on the platform in the mortuary temple. They were not buried together, however. The evidence indi- cates that before burial the bodies were siripped of flesh and sometimes the ! bones were disarticulated, sorted out, knd bound together in bundles. Mr, Stirling plans, he said, to inaug- lurate a systematic research, to extend period of years, covering all . The bureau will try to piece fogether the chronology and sequence of ghe archeological sites as a basis for more detailed study. It is known that the Calusa were ferce fighters, who went about almost naked, but with their bodies ornately tattoed. They wasted no effort on mak- ing friends with the Spaniards and eventually were dispersed. Test Excavations Made. Mr. Stirling made test excavations at Bpproximately 10 sites in the Tampa Bay region and recovered considerable .mrcheological material which will be used as & guide to further excavations. The Calusas, he 'said, evidently had built up no material culture comparable (to that of the Southwest Indians, but . glid make excellent pottery. ! The Florida excavations will be taken Uip in earnest, Stirling said, after a series of studies in the field planned by mem- bers of the staff this Summer. He will study Indian sites on the North Platte Ruver in Kansas and Nebraska. A Frank Roberts plans further study of Pueblo Indian sites in Colorado and Northern New Mexico, and Dr. J. P. Harrington will investigate the Hupl Indians of Northern California. Filipinos on Way to Capital. PVICTORdI:l. Bi hfi., A”Hl'e'w(a'l? hili egation en roul - mgw:?‘a)fi confer with President Hoover and Secretary of War Good, arrived here yesterday on the liner President McKinley. Manuel Roxas, of the Philip- pine House of Representatives, made it clear there would be no statements given out until after the conference at ‘Washington. —_—— A new plant for the manufacture of The average college boy of today is a serious young man who dresses neatly and inconspicuously, minds his own business, leaves liquor alone, and acts like a gentleman. ‘The “collegiate” type of the stage and comic papers —the fellow with the coonskin coat, tumbledown s0X, gaudily decorated fiivver, bad man- ners, given to hard drinking and “necking " — ac- counts for less than 2 per cent of the students. Such is the opin- jon of the presi- dents and deans of men of 300 Ameri- can colleges and universities in re-~ ply to a questionnaire prepared by Prof. Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of men at George Washington University. The purpose of the survey, said Dean Doyle, was “a desire contribute | something toward the correction of what I believe to be an erroneous pub- lic opinion concerning the college man and woman today. ‘Among the replies received were those from officials of Yale, Princeton, Co- lumbia, Tufts, Union, Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Williams, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Leland Stanford, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Vassar, Goucher, Drex- el Institute and Carnegie Institute. ‘The survey shows, Prof. Doyle says, that, in the opinion of college officials, | the student of today has higher “ideals and purposes, does more serious and | better scholastic work, and lives by & { higher standard of moral conduct than {the student of any preceding gen tion in the history of the country.” ‘WASHINGTON, D, (., “COLLEGIATE” WITH SLOPPY SOX. ISHAGGY COAT., BARED AS FREAK Average College Student Is Serious, Dresses Neatly, Shuns Liquor and Necking, Deans Declare in U. S. Survey. ‘The questionnaire also was designed to show any connection between at- tempts to be “collegiate” and drinking, “necking,” neglect of class work, dis- honesty in exam- inations and other ethical problems. ‘The deans were unanimous in their opinion that the “collegiate” as a - rule did not excel inscholarship, sports or other school activities. He is a freak, made up to attract public attention because he cannot get into the limelight by his real worth. Some thought there a decided corela- tion between the “collegiate” type and the problems of drinking and “‘necking.” Officials of co-educational colleges \rere unanimous that the presence of woman students on the campus caused the men to dress neater and behave bet- ter. In many cases, it is pointed out in the replies, the curlous twentieth cen- tury phenomenon who dresses weirdly and drives around in a decorated flivver never has seen the inside of a college. He merely wants yeople to think he is a student, and studies the comic mag- azines for & make-up which has little real basis In any college. High school boys, especially the dumber ones who probably never can get into & real college, also like to dress up in this fashion and sport a flask on their hips under the lmpres:io’x_\ that such is the way to be “collegiate.’ The real college men and women, the replies stated, entertain a profound con- tempt for the spurious type who 50 blat- antly misrepresent them to the public. PRATTTELLS FORCE 0 OBSERVE RIGHTS Enforcement Will Not Be Tolerated, He Says. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, new superin- tendent of police, in the first general in- structions to members of the force since his appointment, announced that illegal and unconstitutional acts under the guise of law enforcement. will not be tolerated. ‘The warning was contained in a gen- eral order brqadcast yesterday after- noon throughout the department. It declared that “every official act of a duly authorized police officer must be in accordance with the due process of law,” and that whatever the action, “it must be indorsed by public authority and sanctioned by the law of the land.” ‘The order also stressed that the de- partment would not tolerate an apha- thetic attitude by police toward the ex- istence of speakeasies, gambling houses or other places where the law is violated. Continued commission of law viola- tions in any territory, it declared, “will be construed by the department as clearly indicative of inefficiency of com- mand and of execution,” and will be fol- lowed by investigation and drastic dis- ciplinary action, Maj. Pratt reminded precinct com- manders particularly that it is their re- : sponsibility to keep in “intimate touch” | with conditions throughout their re- spective territories, and admonished them that they must initiate charges of inefficiency against any policeman who does not measure up to the standard of an officer. “The department,” the order con- cluded, “will not countenance any de- signed attempt on the part of any mem- proper responsibility.” . STUDENTS BELIEVED Trio Missing From Military Acad- emy Possibly Off to Mexico to Join in Fighting. Paul Henderson, jr., 18 years old, and two companions have disappeared from Mercersburg Military Academy, Mer- cersburg, Pa., and Col. Paul Henderson, vice president of the Transcontinental Air Express, believes his son and the others may possibly be on their way to Mexico to join the fighting. The trio was last seen on Sunday. Col. Henderson sald here today that his only clue was & report current on the campus that the three students had talked of joining a Mexican fighting unit. 1:’1:“1 “&‘5‘2 bl 'ljlyin‘ xpe! with considerable e his credit, but his father said today it would be insufficient to warrant his it 3o, i MR, e e other two boys, , Pa., and Franklin Eby, both in_cash, their friends Police of Washington and along supposed route have been asked to on the alert for the adventuresome lllegal Acts Under Guise of | ber of the force to shift or evade his | ON WAY TO WAR ZONE | i=¢ STREET CONTRACT BID CHANGE SLATED Practice of Fixing Prices in Advance on Small Details to Be Abandoned. A new system of bidding for contracts for street pavement and repair work will be introduced by the District High- way Department in advertising for con- tracts for the Spring program of high- way constructiow. Bidders will be re- quired to bid ‘cn every detail of the work, and the practice of the!depart- ment of fixing fflc" in advance on cera tain small details going with most high- way projects wil: be abandoned. In conjunction with this new de- parture, Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, co-ordinator and chief engineer of the District, has drawn up model specifica- tions for all types of highway work and is having them printed in & 175- page booklet, small enough to be slipped into the pocket of an inspectorion the job. In the past specifications have been made up for each job as it came along. Many of these became stand- ard, but no .effort to collect them all has been made before. In the past if au inspector was working in the field on a sidewalk job and was transferred to some other section to supervise a grading job, he would usually have to make a trip back to the District Build- ing for specifications for the new job. Specifications for all jobs are now rinted in the booklet, numbered and ettered, and are to be referred to in contracts by the numbers. The speci- fications follow closely those of the United States Bureau of Public Roads, modified to meet city conditions, as the Public Roads Bureau’s work is princi« pally on State highways. The book is as yet only in proof, but is expected to _be available shortly. The details on which the District formerly fixed prices in advance of letting contracts are such matters as readjusting manholes, cartage for road material broken up. and other details closely associated with the job of lay- new pavements, but not actually included in it. — GIRL RIFLE-EXPERT SHOT IN LEG ACCIDENTALLY Gun Being Cleaned by One of Team- mates Fires, Inflicting Slight ‘Wound, Miss Eleanore’ Milburn, 18-year-old Central High School senior, lndy one of the best shots on the rifle team, was recovering at Garfield Hospital® toda; from :‘pmlhnl wound in the left leg; infiicted by accident late yesterday aft- ernoon during target practice in the school armory. Miss Milburn was standiny i gem g by while teammates guns, small caliber, when the wcl.d'en‘tn e curred. 8chool authorities had learned today which girl held the load- a plece, since there were several in group. At Garfield Hospital, where Miss Mil- burn was treated by Dr. Marion Bank- ‘head, her injury was found to be slight. oc- not. The girl has been a member of the | rifle team for two years, and . uelp‘:shud in Nation-wide nurksl::ng;fp con Miss Milburn is expected to be tak to her howme, 102 Connecticut uun\f:, Kensington, Md., in the near future, . FIREMEN TAME STUBBORN NAVY WAREHOUSE BLAZE Fire Believed to Have Started From Leak in Sulphuric Acid Container. A stubborn blaze early this | in & two-story brick warehouse at the Dr. Peabody to Address Club. at the railway signal apparatus in the Nether- 5 -lznds employs 1,050 people. navy yard, thought to have ted No. 18, work- 'UESDAY, APRIL 9, 1929, @he. Toening Star * KELLOGG CLEARED INPAYNE DEATH BY DIRECTED VERDICT Justice Siddons Orders Not Guilty Decision in Answer to Defense Move. TRIAL HAD STARTED ONLY THIS MORNING Doctor Testifies That Victim Was ‘Suffering From Myocarditis ‘When Fight Happened. Wilbur Fiske Kellogg, 35-year-old pat- ent .attorney, was exonerated in the District Supreme Court today of all re- sponsibility in the death of Charles F. Payne, who died after a fist fight in the Kellogg apartment, in the 1600 block of Euclid street, May 17, 1928. Justice Siddons directed the jury to bring in a verdict of not guilty after Dr. Joseph B. Rogers, deputy coroner, testified that Payne at the time of his death was suffering from myocarditis and that it could not be determined definitely whether his death was caused by the application of external force. Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, testified that after the fight, Kellogg declared that he had ap- proached Payne on several occasions before the fight and warned him tc cease showing attentions to his wife. Kelloggs Had Been Estranged. ‘The Kelloggs had been estranged for some time. Mrs. Kellogg was at the trial and left the courtroom with her husband and Guy E. Burlingame, for- mer police captain, who had been sum- moned as & witness by the defense. The trial started only this morning. The verdict came as the result of a motion previously made by defense counsel, Lucien Van Doren, after the Government had rested its case. Mrs. Jane Lawrence, who lived in Payne's apartment house, followed Dr. Rogers to the stand and testified that after the fight in the Kellogg apart- ment had taken place she approached the defendant and told him that he had struck a “sick man.” She said, however, that she did not witness the struggle. Dr. Wolfe Also Called. ‘The next witness, Dr. James T. Wolfe, a physician in the neighborhood, testi- fled that he was called in at the Kellogg apartment after the fight and pro- nounced Payne dead. Beyond perfunc. tory testimony, Dr. Wolfe could not re- late any circumstances leading up to or subsequent to the struggle. Lieut. Kelly testified that after the fight Kellogg voluntarily called at police headquarters and made a written state- ment regarding the _circumstances. Lieut, Kelly said that Kellogg said he had called Payne a “home breaker” and warned him repeatedly to break off rela- tions with his wife. Justice Siddons, in making the sum- mation, prior to issuing the directed verdict, scored the prosecution in not presenting evidence sufficient to proceed with the trial and present the case to a jury. ‘The jurist said that if he were a member of a jury and hearing a case such as the Kellogg case, he would be very reluctant to consider the evidence as presented in this case sufficient to convict beyond all reasonable doubt a defendant charged with manslaughter. PRATT REVISES PLANS FOR SUMMONS TO FIRES Commissioners and Police Not to Be Called Out Unneces- sarily. | The District Commissioners and po- lice officlals will not be called out to major fires or disasters unnecessarily under a new plan developed today by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police. The complete plan will be outlined in a general order to be issued Thurs- day by Supt. Pratt. Briefly, it pro- vides that one police inspector shall respond to all alarms of fire above the second and shall use his discretion as to whether other police officials or the Commissioners should be summoned. Police captains now respond on the second alarm to all fires in their re- spective territory. The third alarm calls out the inspectors, the fourth the assistant superintendents and the fifth the major and superintendent of po- lice, as well as the Commissioners. | PEDURERN LECTURER TO DISPLAY SAHARA DESERT VIEWS Miss D. Quincy Smith, Authorized Explorer, to Address American Horticultural Society. At a special meeting of the American Hortlicultural Society to be held tonight in the Interior Building Miss D. Quincy Smith, who traveled by special au- thority of the Italian government through remote sections of Africa, will present the first authorized views taken within the Touareg centers of the Cen- tral Sahara Desert. Miss Smith will lecture on the flora observed on_her trip with Miss Floyd Preston of New' York City. The two women were the first Americans and the fourth and fifth white women to receive ‘official authorization to enter the oasis of Gadames, the most north- ern of the Touareg centers. The lecture will be illustrated with motifon pictures and lantern slides. The public is invited to attend the meeting, which begins at 8 o'clock. i ARMY SERVICE CHANGES. Col. M. Connell, Cavalry, has beenwnrmed from duty at Fort Bliss, Tex., and ordered to New York City for duty with Organized Reserves; Col. William Taylor, Judge Advocate General's Department, from Baltimore to Manila, Philippean Islands; Maj. John F. , Quartermas! vlv)l.ryebeplrtme'nt to the Phil- e ol By B, Spierle inchester and_First. Lieuts, Earl ¥, , | ter, ‘Tan- | that _hunting grounds, the tribal medicine WATER GATE BIDS FOR SPAN SOUGHT Major Step in Arlington Me- | morial Bridge Project Is Being Launched. Another major step in the expansion of the Washington end of the Arling- | ton Memorial Bridge development | about to be launched by the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, under the supervision of its director, Liut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d. Bids now are being sought for the| foundation of the water gate that will| form one of the features in the shadow | of the Lincoln Memorial and for the | foundation for the parkway approach | from B street to the Lincoln Memorial | plaza. Bids for this contract will be | opened a week from tomorrow at the | Navy Department Building. | ‘The water gate, which will be be- tween the parkway approach to the| Lincoln Memorial and the Washington | terminus of the Arlington Memorial | Bridge, will consist of a flight of | granite steps leading from the plaza | to the Potomac River. Here it is con- templated that small craft will have an opportunity to embark and discharge passengers. Underpasses to Be Built. ‘There will be underpasses under both | the approach and the bridge itself to avoid congestion on the bridge and to | permit future traffic from the Rock | Creek and Potomac parkways and from B street to continue into Potomac Park, | without interference with the bridge | traffic, The parkway aporoach, which will be from B street, will rise to the level | of the bridge plaza. Officlals of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks anticipate that construction of the foundations of the water gate and | the parkway approach will take about six_months. ‘The officials declined to set any tenta- tive figure for the cost of this work, preferring to allow prospective con- tractors to work out their own esti- mates. Maj. Mehaffey to Supervise Bids. Col. Grant hopes to be able to ad- vertise for the purchase of granite for the water gate in about a month, and to let the superstrucutre contract some time during this year. Maj. J. C. Mehaffey, in charge of the construction division of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, will have immediate supervision over the opening of the bids for the water gate 'n‘nd the parkway approach founda- ions. “JINX” curiss FAST OVER INDIAN’S HEAD “Spell” Cast by Medicine Man of Chippewas Reinforced by Judge Hitt in Court. The “jinx” placed upon John W. Hayes, a Chippewa Indian, by the tribal medicine man when he left North Da kota several years ago, followed him into Police Court today. According to police, Hayes has been residing in the 1500 block of Ninth street, but has been without lawful means of support of late. He was ar- rested and charged with vagrancy. Arraigned in Police Court, the Indian declared that when he was planning to leave the country of his fathers his tribesmen objected. When “Chief” John voiced his intention of heading for new ‘man cast a “jinx” upon him, he said. Judge Isaac R. Hitt assumed the role of assistant medicine man and imposed a sentence of $200 or 60 days for va- grancy. Unable to post the fine, the Indian stepped back to the dock, pass- ing Officer W. D. Haislip who pressed the_charge. ! “Tll get you, yet,” Hayes is said to have threatened. O remark, Judge Hitt spend an addi. i verhaering the ordered the “Chief” to - tional 24 hours in jail for contempt of court, Sl INSTRUCTS IN SPEAKING. Southeast Comaunity Center Ar- ranges Classes for Beginners. ‘The Public Speaking Club of the Southeast Community Center has ar- ranged, under the Community Center Department of the Public Schools, a short instruction course in the proper placing of the voice and in the art of making extemporaneous speeches. Six lessons will be given, beginning tomorrow: night at 8 t{c)otc: m?: n«:g- tinuing, once a weel rougl e middle of May, at the Southeast Cen- . Hine Junior High School, Seventh and C. streets southeast, under the in- struction of Ruth Kentzler, University of Wisconsin. 4 ‘The president of the Public Speaking Mrs. Reid K. Middleton, ‘the lessons will be free of that the course will be of value e in business or in social work desires assistance in the use of and = | | \ 1 | | | Left: One of the cells at the District | | jail, where Harry F. Sinclair, under the | terms of his sentence for contempt of | the Senate, will serve the three months. | Right: The dining hall at the jail | where all prisoners, on entering, eat | their first meal. Sinclair’s picture is in | the_inse CYRIL OF BULGARIA CUESTOFECATON | Prince, Here, Is Entertained by Staff. on Two-Day Visit Prince Cyril of Bulgaria, brother of | King Boris and heir apparent to the) Bulgarian throne, arrived in Washing- | ton yesterday. He is leaving tomorrow | for New York, whence he will sail for | Bulgaria May 1. He.is staying at the Hotel Mayflower during the brief visit. | Today he lunched at the Bulgarian le- gation as a guest of Minister Simeon Radefl and the legation staff. ‘The prince is completing & six-month tour of the United States, most of his time having been spent in Detroit in- specting the manufacture of American automobiles. He is extremely interested | in motoring and aviation and hopes to stir up interest in the latter subject on | his return to his country. | The prince speaks English, which he | learned in his travels in this country. | He didn't know a word of the language | when he landed here. | Last night the prince was guest of | honor at a dinner given by Mrs. Hamil- | ton Fish, wife of the Representative | from New York. | | COL. GEORGE H. CHASE | DIES OF HEART ATTACK | | Former Army Officer and Steel Company Executive Is Taken by Death. Col. George Howland Chase died of a heart attack at his home, 1632 Rhode Island avenue, early today. He was 62 years old. Col. Chase was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, class of 1885, and was for many years asso- ciated with the Midvale Steel Co. of Philadelphia in a scientific and execu- tive capacity. He was a resident of Europe for about five years before: settling in Washington. During the war Col. Chase served in the Army and held the rank of colonel in the United States Reserve Corps at the time of his death. He is survived by a widow and son, G. Howland Chase, 3d, with whom he resided in this city. J.F. OYSTER PICTURE GIFT TO D. C. SCHOOL Presentation to Be Made Friday Night in Presence of Dis- trict Officials. A picture of the late Capt. James F.| Oyster, former District Commissioner and president of the Board of Educa- tion, will be presented to the James F. Oyster School, Twenty-ninth and Cal- vert streets,'at 8 o'clock Friday night, by:Mrs. Clark G. Diamond and Norman F. Oyster, daughter and son of the for- mer District official, respectively. presentation exercises will be attended by Dr. Frank W. Ballou, su- perintendent of schools; Robert G. Hay- cock, assistant superintendent in charge of elementary schools, and other school officials. Commissioner Dougherty also is expected to be present on behalf of the Board of Commissioners. Following the presentation, which will be made by Mrs. Diamond, the picture will be unveiled by Mr. Oyster. At the conclusion of the exercises, the school will be opened and lighted while rep- resentative work of “the pupils will be placed on exhibition during an open house reception. . b Capt. Oyster was appointed 8 member of the school board July 1, 1906, when the public school em WaS reorgan. ized. One year hg 3 in which BRIDGE REPAIRING PROGRAM STARTS Spring Improvement Plans Are Pushed, With New Work to Be Done. . ‘The bridge department of the Dis- | trict- today began its annual Spring| bridge rejair and improvement pro- | gram. The reflooring of the Park Road Bridge over Piney Branch was started, | as well as an extensive bridge paint- ing campaign. Plans also are in prepa- ration for a new concrete floor on the Anacostia Bridge, to cost slzo,ooL | Curbs on the Park Road Bridge are | to be raised to keep automobiles fr a: | leaving the roadway and crashing into | the rail. A new asphalt surface will| be laid on laminated planks. The bridge department also revealed thot a new delay will prevent the com- | pletion of the work on the Chain Bridge | Rooring for at least three weeks. | Lumber for the remaining span and a half of the bridge which has not| been refloored and covered with traffic | treads, has not been delivered, and| should it reach Washington within the next week, the work will not be re- sumed until the Park Road Bridge floor is finished. WHITE HOUSE AIDES GETNEW QUARTERS Offices Being Prepared West End Basement for Correspondence Units. n Conversion of the basement of the | Executive Office at the extreme end of | the west wing of the White House into | an office room was commenced today. N. P. Severin & Co., of Chicago, whose bid of $15,225 for this work was the lowest of seven, is doing the work, and according to the contract, the job must be finished within 40 days. ‘When the basement has been re- modeled the correspondence force and the telephone and telegraph force will be transferred there and the main portion of the space now occupled by the correspondence force will be altered so as to afford a suitable office room for Walter H. Newton, one of Mr. Hoover’s secretaries. Other Changes Proposed. The alterations will also include | transferring the pressroom from the right of the main entrance to the op- posite side, thereby furnishing addi- tional space. The inside room at the end of the main lobby, which was used as a cabinet room during the Roosevelt | administration and the first year of the Taft administration, is to be done away ]“lblll’)l by throwing it into the general obby. In the plans for these alterations the only provision made for adding any improvements to the President's private office is the installation of a venti- lating system. President’s Working Schedule. Mr. Hoover is now following a defi- nite working schedule and is at his desk either in the executive office or his living room on the second floor of the White House virtually every night. This industry on his part necessitates stenographers working after the regu- lar _hours. PAGE 17 HARRY F. SINCLAIR TOBEND. 3000 AND SOMETHING IN JAIL Maj. Peake Says Oil Magnate Will Be Just Like Any Other Prisoner. QUESTION OF DUTIES PUZZLES OFFICIAL Capitalist to Eat Baked Beans, Bread and Tea Off Tin Plate for First Supper. The expected arrival at the District Jail next. month of prisoner No. 9,000 and something in the person of one Harry F. Sinclair, multi-millionaire oil man, already has begun to set things abuzz at 200 Nineteenth street south- cast, and today Maj. W. L. Peake, super- intendent, was besieged with a battery of newspaper cameramen and reporters. In response to the score of queries, foremost of which was: “How will Sin- clair be treated, and what will he do?” Maj. Peake made it plain that the dis- tinguished prisoner ~ will receive the same treatment and be required to com- ply with the standard rules governing the behavior and conduct of prisoners, and will be accorded no special privileges. The major, however, was admittedly perplexed when, after stating that Sin- clair, like all other prisoners, will be assigned to duties for which he s best qualified, was reminded that there were no ofl wells in the jail. He dismissed the chiding good-naturedly with the reply that there undoubtedly would be found some congenial work in which Mr. Sinclair could qualify. Procedure Is Outlined. Maj. Peake outlined the procedure to which the millionaire will be required to submit on entering the jail and the routine he will follow while an inmate Ofllhe iXthitlutlon. mmediately upon being admitted the prisoner will be laken'to a large room adjoining the main corridor of the jail rotunda and searched. He then wil be assigned to a cellroom, which he will occupy either temporarily or permanently, depending upon whether he is detailed to a particular job. After assignment to the cell, which is only 6 by 8 feet in dimension, and lighted and ventilated by a small window in the top of the cell, about 9 by 12 inches, he will be taken into the prison shower room with three other prisoners and given a bath. Shortly after the bath, the evening meal is to be served. The first eve- ning Sinclair will share the jail fare of baked beans, bread and tea off a tin plate, and drink out of a tin mug, with the rest of the prisoners, in the long dining hall off the rotunda, in view of the execution chamber. Next Meais May Be More Cheerful. Maj. Peake pointed out that if Sin- clair was assigned to detailed duty, the next day, the succeeding meals would be eaten in a dining room designated for that class of workmen adjoining the kitchen. The latter dining room is more cheerful in its environment, and has separate wooden tables, accommo- dating about 50 men each. In any event, the meals at the jail will be served with- out the table linen and other luxuries to which the millionaire has been ac- customed. After the evening meal the prisoner will retire to “his cell or dormitory, where he will be permitted to read the newspapers or magazines, until 9 o'clock, at which hour all lights must be turned out and the tiers and corridors, except in the rotunda, darkened for the night. | During the Summer months the prison- ers arise at 5:30 a.m,, dress, clean their jcells and get ready for breakfast. The breakfast consists of a cereal with milk and sugar, and coffee with cream and bread. The first morning in jail, immedi- ately after breakfast, the prisoner is fingerprinted and sent to the superin- tendent’s office for interrogation with a view to learning his qualifications for assignment to duties. While Maj. Peake said that the first question he would ask Sinclair prob- ably will be “can you operate a type- writer,” he indicated, that beyond a few perfunctory queries, as to the pros- oner’s general education and mental fitness, he had not determined the ex- nctl line of questioning he would follow. BOOSTER OUTING SET FOR JUNE 7-10 M. & M. Association Planning Steamer Trip on Potomae and Chesapeake Bay. ‘The annual Washington booster out- ing of members of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association will be held June 7 to 10, on a chartered steamer making a trip on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay, according to plans decided upon by the outing committee, of which William E. Russell is chair- man. The business men on this frolic will visit a number of points of interest, in- To meet this situation the corre- spondence force has been divided into shifts, which requires only two hours work at a time on the part of any individual stenographer. PAUL WILSTACT-!. AUTHOR, TO ADDRESS D. A. R. GROUP ‘Will Lecture Saturday Night on Mount Vernon and Other Historie Points on Potomac. A lecture on Mount Vernon and other historic points on the Potomac will be given by Paul Wilstach, noted author and traveler, at a meeting of the dele- gates and members of the Thirty- eighth Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution, held in Memorial Continental Hall cluding Old Point Comfort, Norfolk, Ocean View and Annapolis, and ar- rangements are being made for fishing, golfing, bathing and other sports. Gen. Anton Stephan, president of the association, has announced the follow- ing subcommittee chairmen, who are arranging for phases of the outing: William E. Russell, chairman of the executive committee in charge; Beit Olmsted, commissary committee; Mark Lansburgh, entertainment; Charles Frame, itinerary; A. J. Sudlun, sou- venirs; L. A. Payne, tickets, C. H. Dike« man, concessions, and J. E. Collifiower, publicity. This will be the twentieth annual outing of the association, which has the double purpose of advertising Washing- ton as a business center and serving as an enjoyable outing for members and friends of the association. A steamer will leave Washington Friday after- noon, June 7, and return the follo ing Monday morning in time for bus ness. ‘The board of governors of the asso- ciation will hold their monthly meet- Saturday night at 8 o’clock. ing in the office of the organization in The Star Building at 2:30 o'clock Fri= amous | day. the Salt e City, which will te mhnedulgme time in the Chosen to Command New Cruiser. Capt. Thomas R. Kurtz is the first officer named to command one of the fleet of 10,000-ton cruisers now built. He was assigned yesterday to be com- Fall, prob- October. Kurtz now is assistant chief of of Navigation. ably in Ca