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EXERCISES HONOR JAMES F. OYSTER School Named for Late Edu- cation Board Head Is Dedicated. Tribute to.the late Capt. James F. Opyster, former District Commissioner and for years president of the Board of Education, was paid last night when the James F. Oyster School at Twenty- ninth and Calvert streets was dedicated by school officials and residents of the community the building serves. A framed picture of Capt. Oyster was presented to the school by Norman W. Oyster, his son, and unveiled oy Mrs. Clark G. Diamond, his daughter. Miss E. E. Darneille, principal of the school, accepted the gift in the exercises pr sided over by Henry W. Draper, super- vising principal of the first division, and attended by nearly 300 persons, in- cluding many of the former Commis- sioner’s personal friends and associates. ¥saac Gans Speaks. Speaking ‘or the Board of Education, Ism?c Gmss, member, cited the ideals which made Capt. Oyster one of Wash- ington’s most respected officials and the great volume of constructive work which he accomplished as president of the Board of Education from July, 1907, until April, 1913. Mr. Gans reviewed briefly the conditions under which Capt. Oyster was appointed a member of the School Board, recalling that he and eight other members comprised the first board following the reorganization of the system by the so-called organic law of 1906. Citing Capt. Oyster’s service in public positions, Mr. Gans declared that “it is in the field of public school education where his zeal and administrative qual- ities enabled him to render his most valuable service to the community when measured by the results attained.” “At the outset in 1906,” Mr. Gans econtinued, “the new school regime was confronted with many problems: the choice of a new superintendent of schools, salary adjustments, vexing legal matters, but in the solution of all these Capt. Oyster was a stalwart member. He was, first of all, insistent on a com- pliance with the law, human in his treatment of employes, possessed of one dominating purpose—that of school betterment.” Kramer Represents Ballou. Tribute to Capt. Oyster was paid also by Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent of schools, who repre- sented Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superin- tendent, who was unable to attend. Music was furnished by the Central High School Orchestra, under the di- rection of Ludwig Manoly, 2and by Miss Gladys Price and Miss Edith B. Athey, members of the musical department of the school system, who presented vocal selections. Following the exercises the school was opened for public inspection. The James F. Oyster School was completed two years ago and last night’s ceremony, constituting a dedication, was the first formal function held within its walls during that time. CORONER RESUMES MASSACREINQUEST Chicago Gang Killings Probe May YieIdVStartIing Devel- opments. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, April 13.—Coroner Her- man N. Bundesen reconvened the gang massacre inquest today, and there was the promise of possibly startling de- velopments. Until today there had been no pub- lc sessions of the jury since it was impaneled February 15, the day after seven men were lined against the wall of a North Clark street garage and shot down by machine gunners. The coroner would not indicate in advance what testimony he expeced, but it was known that one witness was to be Maj. Calvin Goddard, an author- ity on firearms, who was retained to study the bullets removed from the bodies of the massacre victims. Police Commissioner William Russell ordered every police captain in Chicago to report at the courtroom at the hour set for the resumption of the inquest. ‘This was unexplained. Two men have been indicted for the North Clark street murders—Jack Mc- Gurn and John Scalisi—and they are held in jail without bond. BRIBE COUNT LEGALITY CHALLENGED BY LONG| Determined Fight in Sernate Indi- cated—Both Sides Rest Until Monday. By the Assoclated Press. BATON ROUGE, La, April 13— Legislators in recess today were asking themselves what the effect would be of the administration effort to halt formal entry in the Senate trial court of further impeachment votés from the House against Gov. Huey P. Long. Senator P. H. Giibert, administration floor leader, indicated a determined fight will be made by the governor's sup- porters in the Senate by his challenge of the legal right of the Senate to re- ceive the second indictment, bribery, because it was voted after expiration of the special term. ‘Without adoption of rules for proce- dure both sides agreed to let the mat- ter rest until Monday night. OSAGE LEASES PROBED. Oklahoma Inquiry Begun by In- spector Assigned by Wilbur. PAWHUSKA, Okla., April 13 () — An inquiry into methods of leasing Osage Indian lands for oil and development was begun here yesterday | by H. H. Piske, Inspector, assigned to the task by Dr. R. L. Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, * Leases on the lands of other tribes in Oklahoma also be investigated, Fiske said, leases on Quapaw Indian holdings and ofl leases on lands of the Pawnees and five_civilized tribes. “If this investigation shows the In- ‘dians are not obtaining the most fa- ‘vorable results frcm present methods ,” Fiske declared. “new meth- T will be instituted. The department ;nmx is interested in protecting the ted, including lead and szinc | kin borne through lanes of troops. Ambassador Myron T. Herrick was accorded full military honors at his funeral in Paris. Picture shows body being DELEGATES THRONG HOTELS FOR D. A.R. Business Sessions to Be Con- ducted in Washingtqn Audi- torium Beginning Monday. To all intents and purposes, mem- bers of the National Societv Daugh- ters of the American Revolutior had taken Washington by storm today. On | the eve of convention of the thirty- eighth Continental Congress virtually all the larger hotels were filled. The congress, to which 3,693 dele- gates from. all the States are formally accredited, meets Monday in the Wash- ington Auditorium for a series of busi- | ness sessions continuing through the | | week. For each delegate there are 10 ialternates and many of the alternates | are here for the congress. ‘The national board of management of the society met this morning in Memorial Continental Hall. ~Behind closed doors, the board considered the applications of new chapters for affilla- tion with the national society, and received reports from officers. These reports will be submiited to the con- gress in detail. Social events, centering the attention of the Washington set as well as visitors, will figure prominently during the week. National officers of the society and members of the congress will devote numerous meetings to the transaction of business and programs commemorating various phases of the membership's activity. In the absence of controversial sub- jects, the election of officers has the outstanding place on the program. The ‘membership on Thursday will choose be- tween two candidates for the office of president general to succeed Mrs. Alfred J. Brousseau, Mrs. Lowell F. Hobart of Ohio and Mrs. Julius Y. Talmadge of Georgia. Each has her ticket of candi- dates for other national offices. The congress will be brought to a close Saturday evening with a banquet at the Willard Hotel. FRAT MEN CONFER ON LIQUOR ISSUE| Delta Tau Delta Chapter at Uni- versity of Virginia Gives Statement. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., April 13. —Beta Iota Chapter of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity is meeting behind closed doors here today ;dtcllxm m:emhall's of the organization’s arcl pter a con- ference which is expected to settle just what, if any, disciplinary action the chapter will be subjected to as the re- sult of its refusal to sign a temperance agreement with the University of Vir- ginia and its breaks over the liquor question with the governing body of the fraternity—the arch chapter. A chapter committee and three mem- bers of the arch chapter are holding the meeting this morning, which will be followed this afternoon by a meeting of the governing body and the entire membership of the local chapter. A final decision is expected this evening. POl of Virginia, who came o Chae: general o who came - lottesville yesterday to investigate the so-called fraternity liquor scandal, re- turned to Richmond this morning after a talk with C. E. Cuddy, president of Beta Iota. Cuddy assured him, he said, that there was no “open drinking in the fraternity house.” Mr. Gibson warned the chapter mem- bers that their fraternity house might be padlocked if it was found they were openly violating the law. He indicated, however, that he had accepted Cuddy’s denial of this charge and that he con- templated no further n. ALEXANDER ORDERS ARMY HEAD RETIRED Dismissal of 37 Officers Seen as Move to Weed Out Po- litical Foes. By the Assoclated Press. THREE BERLIN CABINET APPOINTEES CENTRISTS Adam Stegerwald, Former Prussian | Premier, Minister of Communica- tions and Transportations. By the Assbclaied Press. BERLIN, April 13.—Offictal announce- 1 ment was made today of the appeint- ment of three members of the Centrist party to the cabinet of Chancellor Her- mann Mueller by President Paul von Hindenburg. Adam Stegerwald, former Prussian | premier as leader of the Christian | Trade Unions, was named minister of communications and transportations. Joseph Wirth, former chancellor, was made minister of the occupied areas | and Theodore von Guerard, former | minister of communications, minister of | Jjustice. Von Guerard succeeds Erich | Koch, Democrat, who in the interests | of the formation of a stronger coalition | cabinet voluntarily resigned. | The portfolios of communications and occupled areas hitherto have been | joined to the postal and interior min- | istries, respectively. | TWOFOUNDDEAD INCHICAGO AUTO Pair Shot to Death in Alley| HISTORY TEACHERS ELECT PROF. HAYES Capital Director Named Vice President of Middle States Association. Prof. Cariton J. H. Hayes of Colum- bia University was elected president of the Association of History Teachers of the Middle States and Maryland this morning in McMahon Hall, at Catholic University, at the the first session of the two-day convention being held by the organization in conjunction with the soclal science of Washington. The association chose George J. Jones, director of the teaching of social | sclence in the Washington junior and senior_high schools, vice president and Miss Lena C. Van Bibber was elected secrelary-treasurer. Prof. Hayes, for- merly vice president, succeeds Miss Katherine E. C. Carrigan, head of the history department of Atlantic City high schools. The following delegates at large were also chosen: Prof. Roy T. Nichols of the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Maiford D. Melchoir, Girard College, Phiiadelphia, and Dr. Frances More- | gouse of Hunter College, New York ity. Father Edmund A. Walsh, regent of ters of Capone. By the Associated Press. found shot to death, Near Suppesed Headquar- CHICAGO, April 13.—Two men were | slumped face | downward in the rear seat of a large sedan, early today near the alley en- trance of the Western Hotel, Cicero. Officer George Price of the Cicero de- partment saw the automobile parked at the rear entrance of the hotel. Two men stepped out. - Upon perceiving him, the officer said, one cried, “Look out for the cop.” Both fled through a vacant Iot. followed by Price, who fired two | “Some | the Foreign Service School of George- town University, delivered an address on “Soviet Russia and the United States” at a luncheon at 1 o'clock this afternoon, given by the faculty of Cathclic University for members of the ociation. he Present Trend of Social Studies,” | was the subject chosen by Prof. A. C. Krey of the University of Minnesota for his address before the association this morning. The other speakers were Prof. Witt Bowden of the University of Pennsylvania, who spoke on “The Fall of the Liberal Party in England,” and Prof. W. I. Brandt of the University of Iowa, who read a paper presenting Striking Fourteenth Century Ideas.” Last night at a dinner mesting in the Washington Hotel Dr. Samuel E. For- man attacked those who criticize mem- bers of Congress, particularly through cartoons. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- { night. shots at them. ‘The men disappeared and the police- man returned to the car. He found two bodies crumpled on the floor in the rear. One was identified later as Wil- liam Clifford by an automobile license card. Police also said Clifford was one of three men recently tried for the slay- ing of Albert Pratt last Fall, ‘The shooting took place at a hotel formerly known as the Hawthorne Hotel, alleged headquarters of Al “Scarface” Capone, Chicago gangster, who now claims Miami, Fla., as his home. BEER IS CONFISCATED BY MURDER PROBERS Trail of Blood Leads to Basement of Chicago House—Owner Offers Alibi, CHICAGO, April 13.—Michael Mec- Andrews’ body was found in a vacant South Side lot last night, and from it led a blood trail to the basement home of Peter Peoria. McAndrews, a watchman, 45 years old, had been shot in the head. Police who went to the Peoria home said they found the floor had been washed short- ly before their arrival and that it was still damp. Peoria safd he had been out during the evening and that he re- turned just before police arrived. Police confiscated a considerable quantity of beer found in the place. Spanish Flyers at Santiago. SANTIAGO, Chile, April 13 (®).— The Spanish aviators Capts. Ignacio Jimenez and Franeisco Iglesias, who ar- rived here yesterday from Buenos Aires, will continue their South American flight Monday or Tuesday, taking off for Lima, Peru. They have been feted by Chilean officialdom since their ar- rival here. organization which s holding its last hunt of | ~ Quaker Gjr i extended. intendent of Washington schools, wel- comed the teachers last night and Dean E. A. Pace of the School of Education of Catholic University performed a sim- ilar function. AUTO REGISTRATIONS SHOW GAIN FOR 1928 5.0 Per Cent Increase Is Seen in Total of 24,493,124 Recorded in Nation. By the Associated Press. ‘The number of motor vehicles regis- tered in the United States rose to 24.- 493,124 last year, the Bureau of Public Roads announced today, placing the in- crease over 1927 at 1,359,883, or 5.9 per cent. The figure, based on State registration reports, covered automobiles, taxis, busses, motor trucks and road tractors, but did not include 148,169 trailers and 117,946 motor cycles. The owners paid the States and the District of Columbia an aggregate of $322,630,025 in license and registration fees, permit charges, fines and other taxes and penalties, an increaes of $21,568,893, or 7 per cent, for the year. State highway funds profited by $208,- 880,272, local road funds by $60,399,109, and State and county bond funds by $31,825,911. RIEGEL ASKS EARLY QUIZ. E. C. Riegel, director of the Wash- ington Consumers’ Guild, yesterday wrote to Hugh M. Frampton, chairman of a committee of the Federation.of Citizens’ Association, appointed at its last - meeting to investigate charges made by Riegel against the federation end its president, Dr. George C. Havenner, asking mpt and public investigation into the charges. HEAD RIDING AND HUNT CLUB avenue In the center of Fra) MANZD GVES P T0.S. OFFLS \ Mexico City - Hears Other Rebel Leaders Preparing to Flee Over Line. (Continued From First Page.) troops were sighted. A Topete trocp train was observed shuttling back and forth between Del Rio and Cananea, two rebel points to the south, but no soldiers were seen on it. A semi-circlé of camp fires could be seen in the south of the garrison late last night, however, and the fed- erals in the Naco garrison kept on the alert for a possible attack. Cavalrymen and infantrymen of the Mexican federal garrison were victorious in a battle near here with a detach- ment of rebels yesterday. The federal detachment composed of 90 cavalry- men and 100 infantrymen went out on a sortie and surprised-the rebel group on the No?nles road. Backed up by fusillades from the infantrymen the loyal cavalry charged into the rebel camp. After a few minutes of furious fighting_the rebels surrendered. Gen. Lucas Gonzalez, loyal commander at Naco, announced that the rebel casual- ties were 22 dead and wounded and that the remaining 40 revolutionaries had been captured. They were brought to Naco where they became a part of the federal garrison, Artillery Pieces Set Up. A battery of American field artillery under Lieut. Thomas Gunby was estab- lished at Don Luis between Bisbee and Naco, Ariz., yesterday. Four pieces of artillery were set up and pointed toward Mexico. Two American 3-inch guns have been mounted here for the defense of the American town in the event it is ) subjected to Mexican fire. ‘These forces, together with a cavalry patrol unit'and 18 American fighting planes, make up the American defense until the arrival of about 1,500 United States troops which are either on their way or under orders to entrain for the border here. | TWO UNDER TECHNICAL ARREST. Rebel Generals Villareal and Madero Arrive in El Paso. EL PASO, Tex., April 13 (#).—The vebel generals, Antonio Villareal and Rual Madero, arrived here yesterday un- | der technical arrest after they had en- tered the United States near Fort Stock. | ton, Tex. They will appear before in migration officials to request permission to remain in this country. MANZO TO FACE INSPECTORS. | | Surrender Brings Report Sonora Move- | ment Is Disintegrating. | NOGALES, Ariz, April 13 (#).—The fsunender of Gen. Francisco R. Manzo, one-time second in command of the | Mexican revolutionary forces, to Amer- ican immigration officers here last night, was followed by the spreading of reports | along the border that the rebel move- | ment was disintegrating in Sonora, its | last stronghold. Manzo and his personal staff of 15 officers crossed into Arizona after re- ports had been circulated that he had | been stripped of his command and threatened with court martial for dis- | playing alleged sympathy to the Federal cause after his failure to capture the | loyal city of Mazatlan. The general and his staff were taken into custody by immigration officials, but Manzo was permitted to go to’his home and be with his family during the He was seen conferring with American lawyers at his home. Manzo and Gen. Benito Bernal, his chief of staff, were ordered to appear before American immigration inspectors today for a decision as to their right to remain in this country. Reports from Nogales headquarters said Manzo had been court martialed. ‘These followed declarations from Agua Prieta, a rebel point, that he had sought to withdraw from the revolutionary movement after federal Gen. Jaime Car- rillo had repulsed Manzo's rebels at Mazatlan. Manzo refused to affirm or deny the report that he had been court martlaled. CONGRESS MEMBERS FLOCK TO CAPITAL (Gontinued From: First Page.) | of the bill. i In general, the measure will provide for a Federal Farm Board with wide powers and a revolving fund at its disposal for loans to co-operative agen- cles and stabilization corporations which would act when called upon by com- modity groups to help in periods of price slumps. Pian of Stabilization. The idea would be to have the sta- bilization _corporations, controlled by co-operatives, buy in an overcrowded market when prices are low and sell Should any losses result they would be charged to the revolving fund, but these would be largely offset by profits from other sales, in the opinion of the bill's sponsors, which would be turned back into the fund. - As for the tariff, no indication has come from the ways and means com- mittee as to what changes are being planned in the law which has been on the statute books for more then six years. President Hoover favors a lim- ited revision, with the majority of the changes in favor of farm products, and Republican leaders. also hold to this view. Whether they will be successful probably will not be known until the Senate gets its hands on the bill. ‘Whether the Senate finance commit- tee will be prepared to report the meas- ure within a week or two after it passes the House is doubtful. Chairman Smoot_belfeves it will be unnecessary to hold extensive hearings on the meas- ure before reporting it, inasmuch as the House committee went into the question | exhaustively at public hearings in Jan- , uary and February. Predictions have been made, however, that the Senate group will be at least a month at its hearings from dissatisfled interests that ordinarily follows House action on a structure readjustment. By the Assoclated Press. PAECAE IR A. Watson Armour Resigns Place. CHICAGO, April 13 (#)—The resig- nation of A, Watson Armour as vice president of Armour & Co. packing house was announced yesterday. Identi- fied for 26 years with the packing busi- ness, Mr. Armour was forced to relin- quish his duties because of ill health. He was a cousin of the late J. Ogden Armour. He will remain a director of the company. BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band Orchestra st Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o’clock this evening. .| March—*“Adolph” .. Overture—“Vaudeville” . .. Koppif Morceau—“The Legend of a Rose” Reynard usical ‘comedy—“The «....Monckton Fox Trot—“Eappy Humming mrg;" llis”. . FOR EXTRA SESSION| as to his ideas about certain features | ! when the price situation improved. | study in view of the general clamor for | FLYER WHO BEGAN AIR CAREER AT 14 ENTERS GEORGETOWN Youth, 20, With Two World Records, Has Flown 1,000 Hours. Taking Course in Foreign Service—Plans to Keep Up Aerial Racing. | Alfred 8. Reynolds, 20-year-old avia- tor of Los Angeles, who began a mete- oric career in the air at the age of 14, when he was known as the world’s youngest “stunt” flyer, has entered Georgetown University to prepare for a permanent career-in foreign service. Since this reckless youngster began flying when still in boy’s breeches, he has tacked up two world records to his credit, besides more than 1,000 hours of actual flying time. While other stu- dents spend their recreation time on the ground, Reynolds keeps his hand in practice by flying around Washington. He broke the Chicago-New York speed record for ships under orsepower on October 29, 1927, with the official time of 7 hours and 54 minutes, his actual flying time being 6 hours and 54 minutes, but the flight, which was checked by the Western Union Tele- graph Co., made no allowance for the change from central to standard time. On the same flight he made the fastest time ever made by a plane under 170 horsepower by averaging slightly over 150 miles per hour between Buffalo and Syracuse. Reynolds has flown with a number of well known aviators, among whom are Martin Jensen, who made the Dole | | ALFRED S. REYNOLDS. flight over the Pacific and recently established a new solo flight record, and Joe Crosson, who was the hero of the Wilkins expedition over the Arctic. ‘While studying at Purdue University, Indiana, recently, Reynolds became in- terested in the School of Foreign Serv- ice at Georgetown and decided to enter upon a foreign career. He is a mem- ber of Delta Chi Fraternity. A couple of years ago Lieut. Al Wil- liams of the Navy, former holder of the speed record for the'air, graduated from the Georgetown Law School, doing some of his best fying while & student there. Reynolds has no intention of giving up air racing and is arranging to have a plane of his own in Washington. INCREASED SCHOOL FUNDS ADVOGATED | Brightwood Group Would Add $3,000,000 for Buildings and Grounds. last night went on record fayoring ad- ditional appropriations for public school | buildings and grounds in the District. The resolution, which was unani- mously adopted. provided that in addi- tion (o the sum necessary to provide for current expenditures of the public school system for the year 1931 that there shall be added $3,000,000 for ! buildings and grounds, provided the total is not in excess of one-third of the total revenue of the District. The association &lso - favored the proposition that the District Commis- sioners transmit to the Federal Budget Bureau estimates as proposed by the { Board of Education, with recommenda- tions by the Commissioners as to maximum to be allowed, as in the light of other needs of the District the Board of Commissioners deems proper. | These are the_two proposals on which | school authorities are sounding out sen- timent. The following were elected to mem- bership in the association: Daniel J. Foley, Albert M. Snapp, Sam Pittle, Dora Wolf, James Di Martino, Mr. and | Mrs. George R. Proudley, Joseph | Roaner, Louis Spectre, George Levin, Samuel Frankel, Mrs. Elsie Mickelson, Clarence W. Swain, Joseph R. Bridges and Earl F. Webb. John Clagett Proctor, vice president of the association, was selected as its representative on the Memorial day committee in charge of the services at Battle Ground Cemetery. The District authorities will be re- quested to advise the association re- | garding the plans for the extension and improvement of Concord avenue, west | of Georgia avenue. On motion of H. B. Landgraf the as- sociation voted approval of the sugges- tion that the old reservoir on Sixteenth street be transformed into a sunken garden. Acting President L. F. Randolph ap- | pointed a committee composed of A. C. | Haight, chairman; H. B. Landgraf and {H. E. King to investigate the advisa- bility of establishing a loading safety zone with buttons between the Bright- wood Post Office and No. 22 Engine Company on Georgia avenue. The association accepted an invita- tion of the Odd Fellows’ Band to give a public concert, under the auspices of Brightwood Lodge, at an early date. The following committee was appointed to complete arrangements: L. F. Ran- dolph, chairman; A. Y. Casanova and E. W. Foster. Elmer Johnson reported on the re- cent poll for commissioner on the board of the District Public Utilities Commis- sion and the indorsement of Willlam McK. Clayton for the position. Mr. Clayton is a vice president of the asso- ciation. The committee in charge of his campaign is composed of H. E. King. Fimer Johnson, C. E. Bogardis and A. Y. Casanova. n Brightwood The meeting was held i Bank Building. BRITISH REGéNCY NEEDS SEEM OVER, KING BETTER By ths Assoclated Press. LONDON, April 13.—It now appears that there will be no necessity for a regency. King George's improvement has been so rapid that it was stated authorative- ly today that he probably would leave Aldwick, where he is staying at Craig- ‘weil House, for Windsor about the third week in May, which is before the gen- eral election. In that case, should the result of the election necessitate a change of govern- ment, the King easily could motor to London, a distance of only 25 miles, to attend any necessary official business connected with the change of govern- ment or other affairs and return to Windsor the same day. These plans. of course, it was said, are all tentative depending upon the King'y strength. TWO BOYS PAROLED. Judge Given Counsels Theft Case Defendants on Making Good. Judge Ralph Given in Police Court today discussed the detrimental effect of persons who hinder the efforts of prebationers by reminding them of their others.' Placing two 17-year-old Virginia vouths, convicted of the theft of a small amount of merchandise, on probation, the court declared: “Go out, get a job, and make good. 1f some busybody comes around telling that you were convicted of an offense, don’t lose heart, but just get another Job.” The boys, one an orphan, are saif have stolen various small articles two stores on Seventh street. Rev. J. T. Maybury Is Re-Elected. T, isnymxr'yhi’ fifl'm“ i jected superintendent of the Washing- Iphia_ district of Nazarene /o0ds | Churches yesterday at the annual con- ition here. ‘license The Brightwood Citizens' Association’ conviction and .relating the facts 10 [y id to from | Pleld SAVING DOGWOOD INDORSED BY HYDE: |Department of Agriculture Head Praises Efforts to Protect Tree. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M.! Hyde today placed the approval of the| Department of Agriculture on the cam- | paolgéx for protection of flowering dog- we 1In a formal statement Secretary Hyde praised the beauty of the tree and rec- ommended that. people of the vicinity aid the movement “by helping to main- tain and increase the attractiveness of | our suburban and country roadsides.” | “The United States Departmcat of | Agriculture,” said Secretary Hyde in his | statement, “is heartily in sympathy with | the efforts being made by the Washing- ton committee of the Garden Club of America and the Wild Flower Preserva- tion Society for the protection of the flowering dogwood. { “The flowers are the most showy and[ attractive of any of the native flowering | trees. For planting along roadsides and on th¢ home grounds they make a most | attractive display, which may be en- hanced by a few well placed trees of the pink dogwood or of the redbud. “The people of the District of Colum- | bia and adjoining parts of Maryland | and Virginia can aid materially in this conservation movement by helping to maintain and increase the attractive- ness of our suburban and country road- sides.” The approval of the Secretary of Agriculture was warmly welcomed today by those behind the campaign to pre- vent the dogwood in Washington and vicinity from destruction which recently threatened it. ‘The displays afforded by blossoming trees are considered this year to be among the most beautiful ever afforded, as the trees in most instances are fuller of bloom than usual. The campaign for preservation of the | tree is being carried into the schools| and through many phases of Washing- | ton life in an effort to put a complete | itop to any breaking or stripping of the | rees. MILITARY STUDENTS ASSIGNED TO POSTS Will Take Up Duties After Com-; pleting Instruction Courses in July. Military students at the Army War | College, Washington Barracks, who will | complete their course of instructfon in July yesterday were notified of assign- ments to other stations and duties after their graduation. Col. Lucius C. Bennett is assigned to the 5th Infantry at Fort Williams, Me.; Col. F. V. S. Chamberlain to the 13th Infantry at Fort Adams, R. I.; Col. Wil- lis P. Coleman to the 8th Infantry at Fort Screven, Ga.; Col. John W. Joyes, Ordnance Depariment, to the command of the armory at Springfield, Mass.; Col. Frederick C. Kellond and Lieut. Col. James B. Woolnough, Infantry, to the | Panama Canal Zone; Col. Charles F. Martin to the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss, Tex.; Lieut. Col. Arthur E. Ahrends, Infantry, to Portland, Oreg.: Lieut. Col. Benjamin M. Bailey, Field Artillery, to Fort McPherson, Ga.; Lieut. Col. Alden F. Brewster, Field Artillery, to Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo. Lieut. Col. Thomas W. Brown, Infan- Henry T. Bull, to the 6th Cavalry at land Case, Ordnance Deaprtment, to the War Department. Lieut. Col. Robert M. Danford, Field Artillery, to Honolulu, Hawaii; Lieut. Col. Kinzie B. Edwards, Cavalry, to Fort Sill, Okla.; Lieut. Col. Francis C. Endi- cott, Infantry, to the Militia Bureau, War Depcriment; Lieut. Col. Walter S. Fulton, Infantry, to Honolulu; Lieut. Col., John P, Hasson, Quartermaster Corps, to the office of the Assistant Sec- retary of War; Lieut. Col. Francis W. Honeycutt, Field Artillery, to the Pan- ama Canal Zone; Lieut. Col. Clarence Lininger to the 3d Cavalry at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt.; Lieut. Col. Leslie J. Lieut. Col. Dorsey R. Rodney to the 4th Cavalry at Fort Meade, S. Dak.; Lieut. Col. Wildurr Willing, Corps of Engineers, to St. Paul, Maj. Frank S. Bes- son, Corps of Engineers, to St. Louis; Maj. 8. G. Brown and Maj. O. W. Gris- wold, Infantry, to the War Department: A 1 A. Hardigg, Quartermaster Corps, to the Munitions Building, this city Maj. Davenport Johnson, Air rps, to the office of chief of the Air Corps, War Department; Maj. Edwin H. Marks, Corps of Engineers, to the office of the chief of Engineers, Munitions Building; Maj. John B. Maynard, Coasi Artillery Corps, to the Virginia Agricul- ;;xral College, Blacksburg;: Maj. rt , Chemical and Maj. Edward S. Witsell, Depart- Warfare Service, to the War ment. Boris Leaves Berlin for Sofia. 13 (P).—King Boris of for Munich today en try, to Fort Benning, Ga.; Lieut. Col. | Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.; Lieut. Col. Rol-| McNair, PFleld Artillery, to Fort Sill; |d THEATER ROBBER. 15 GIVEN 12 YEARS Elmo Williams Sentenced for Robbing the Earle and for Other Offenses. A 12-year prison sentence was im- posed today on Elmo Williams, alias Muse Grisson, the lone bandit, who staged a daylight robbery at the Earle Theater October 29 last, escaping with $2,776. Willlams had pleaded guilty in court to two indictments for robbery and one for grand larceny, his efforts having netted him more than $4,000 last Fall. He was sentenced to four years on each indictment by Justice Frederick L. Siddons in ‘Criminal divi- sion 2 of the District Supreme Court. For his robbery at the Earle Theater Williams was arrested last December in Chicago after a Nation-wide search in which Department of Justice agents as- sisted. He was brought back here by Detective Thomas Sweeney and con- fessed to the robbery and the two other offenses for which he was sentenced today. ‘Walking into the Earle Theater office early in the morning, Williams seated himself at a desk opposite Harry Loh- myer, manager of the theater. He drew a pistol and demanded that Loymyer open the office safe. The theater manager was so nervous he ‘could not work the combination, he told police, and just at that time, Wayne Birdsall, his “assistant, entered the office. Wil- liams forced the assistant manager to deliver the contents of the safe ond then warned the men to walt five minutes before giving the alarm. Loh- myifr fainted while telephoning the police. The other robbery charged against Williams involved the hold-up of an employe of the Peoples Drug Stote August 14 last. It netted him $1.485 David Bell, jr, the employe, was on his way to a bank to deposit the money when Williams accosted him at Thomas Circle. He forced the man into a taxi- cab and robbed him at the point of a pistol. On August 1 he worked a clever ruse i upon Charles Kemper, a colored porter for the Peoples Drug Store. Kemper had been sent to a bank to obtain silver change for $70 in bills. Williams intercepted him, telling him that he was wanted at the store immediately and that he would get the change for him at the bank. Believing Williams was an employe at the store, Kemper turned the moncy JAPANESE 60TO, STATESMAN, DIES Former Foreign Minister Con- tinued His Active Career to End. By the Associated Bress. ‘KYOTO, Japan, April 13.—Count Shimpei Goto, former foreign minister, died here today. The 73-year-old statesman, who had continued his ac- tive career to the end, was stricken with cerebral hemorrhage on April 4 while on a train coming here from Tokyo. _Count Goto was probably the most distinguished politician in Japan who had never held the premiership. He did hold many cabinet posts and his failure to attain to the highest was ascribed to his contempt of party meth - ods and favoring of direct action. His elevation to the rank of count was one of the few honors marking the recent enthronement of Hirohito. He visited the United States three times and was a friend of President Herbert Hoover, Elihu Root and other distin~ guished Americans, Count Goto was educated at Rome and in Germany as a physician, but his career. ranged from being the first president of the South Manchurian Railway, a semi-government undertak- ing, ‘to the foreign ministry, His administration of Formosa was chiefly remarkable for his drastic so- lution of the opium problem. He received his first cabinet portfolio, that of communications, in 1908 and later held the post of home minister. In 1918, while Japan was at war with Germany, he became foreign minister and to his lot fell the difficult task of deciding the Japanese attitude toward the former German colonies and con- cessions in China, Whi("l had been cap- tured. He was known as a man of great action and advocated outspoken, if not always open, diplomacy for Japan. Countess’ Play Is Sm_:cen. BUDAPEST, Hungary, April 13 (#).— Countess Margot Bethlen, wife of the premier, last night, produced for the first time her new drama, “The Gray Dress,” and achieved an instant suecess, The entire diplomatic corps and lead- ing_members of the government and nobility attended. The countess intends to take the play to America. —HAVRE DE GRACE ENTRIES . FOR MONDAY. (Horses Listed According to Post Positions.) FIRST RACE—Purse. $1,200; - vear-old colts and seidings: Ata furionEs: Yeoman ... Wrackell Peace Boy' 18 Pro Tem Dr. Jim Cl& 5 Star Patic MRS oo Uptown Moon Birick . Partisan aDress Saip ... Lahor .. Voodoo . aH. P. Whitney entry. SECOND RACE—Purse. §1,406; the Eclipse; 3-year-oids; 5's furlongs B <3 rken 1 1 Rubicon . Fair Betn ' Port Harler Aquastella, . 05 » Baron Ki Sun Broom Leu a Dreadnaight 1 a Samuel Ross entry. b Eastland Farm Stable entrs. THIRD RACE—Purse. $1.200; cl i 3- vear-oids and up; § furlonge. Ot T . 113 Blandris . 110 a Contemp! - 118 “Greenock . cite. . a Eastland Farms Stable entry. FOURTH RACE-- SO The Harford longs. ¢ Leucite ... The Heathen ¢ Mowlee . Boba Shelll My Sis . Handica Tyear-olds and upr '8 1 Contemplate .. Poly ... Jock ;. b Cloudy " Charmartes Runda-Le . Pagan Laddie a Kopeck e Night_Lifs ¢ Donnay a George D. Widener entry. b Samuel Ross entry. ¢ Rancocas Stable entry. dE. B. McLean ent; € Sagamore Stable Ty, entiy. RA vear- CE—Purse. $1.200; claiming: 4~ and up; 1. miles. Rockslide . Milaria 144 sCockril *George De Mar! 1 arry Beai 110 Dr. Rankin SIXTH RACE—Purse. $1.300; claiming: 4~ sear-olds and up: 1% miles. n of n A War Eagle 04 b Baron King 2 Lady Marie s *Lucie Ann . Pelligrino . SEVENTH RACE—Purse, $1,200: claiming; 0 route. to Sofia, his capital. Rumors of m marriage to a German denied at the le- siror