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CAPITAL EXAMPLE 10 NATION IN WISE USEOF TAX MONEY ' Leadersin Congress Proud of > kel Showing for Five-Year Ad- ministration Period. -11'$154,434,316 EXPENDED, 1 THIRD FOR EDUCATION Yast Year's Total $35,663,060, an Increase Consistent With Those of Each Year. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. Leaders in Congress, who have made | an intensive survey of the municipal administration of the National Capital, find 4t an outstanding example for the entire country of a city where the tax- payers get very close to 100 cents in service for every tax dollar. Chairman Simmons of the subcommittee which handles the District appropriation bill emphasizes this. It is the opinion also of Representative Gibson of Vermont, chairman of the special subcommittee which has made a comprehensive sur- vey of the District government, Congress takes personal pride in this fact, be-| ~cause the District government is ex- | clusively under the jurisdiction of Con- gress. Now, how is the tax dollar spent? Daniel J. Donovan, the District auditor, has just completed for Congress a sta- tistical study covering all appropriations for the last five-year period, ended June 30, 1928. The expenditures, by years, is as fol- Jows: In 1924, $23,990,490; in 1925, $29,654,607; in 1926, $31,001,122; in 1927, $34,125,037; in 1928, $35,663,060. This makes a total for the five years of $154,434,316. These figures include ex- enditures from the gasoline tax fund, ut do not include expenditures from water revenue and from trust funds. ‘The gasoline tax fund amounted to $4,131,835. Third for Education. Practically one-third of the entire ex- penditure was for public education. In 1924, 32.6 cents of each tax dollar was spent on schools; in 1925, 31.1 cents; in | 1926, 31.8 cents; in 1927, 32.2 cents, and in 1928, 32.7 cents. For special educa- tion and libraries together the fund each year was less than 1 cent in each tax dollar. So that the total for edu- cational agencies averaged for the five- year period was 33.9 cents out of each | tax dollar. Protection of life and property took the next largest slice out of the tax dollar, averaging an even 17 cents per year for the last five years..- The largest | percentage was in 1926, when it was 138 cents and it dropped to 15.9 cents in 1928. This division of expenditures includes police, fire and miscellaneous costs. Highways took an average of 11.7 cents of each tax dollar. This division includes improvements, maintenance, bridges, street lighting, street trees and miscellaneous matters. In 1924 the ex~ penditures for these purposes was 10.3 cents of each tax dollar, which climbed to 12.5 cents last year. Charities and Corrections. Charities and corrections received over the five-year period 11.4 cents of each tax dollar. This includes munici- pal institutions, private institutions, support of insane and prisons and re- formatories. The lowest amount was in 1925 and 1927, when 10.5 cents per dol- lar was allocated, but last year it was increased to 12.8 cents per dollar. Health and sanitation took 10 cents per dollar per year for the past five- year period. This includes expenditures for the Health Department, sewers, street cleaning, city refuse and other miscellaneous expenditures. The largest was in 1924, when it amounted to 10.6 cents out of each tax dollar, but it dropped to 9.7 cents last year. For recreation the District is paying 6.2 cents out of each tax dollar. This includes the costs of parks and play- grounds, which was 5.7 cents out of each tax dollar in 1924 and 8.2 cents last year. For public service enterprises the cost averages 5.4 cents per dollar for the last five-year period. This includes markets, increased water supply and miscellaneous costs. They averaged 5.4 cents in 1924, 7.4 in 1925, 6.5 in 1926, 6.6 in 1927 and dropped to 1.9 last year. ‘The costs of the general governmen: over the five-year period was 4.6 cents per dollar per year. This includes sala- ries, courts and miscellaneous expendi- tures. It was 5.1 cents in 1924 and 4.9 cents last year, RETIRED TEACHER PAID TRIBUTE IN ANACOSTIA Testimonial Is Given Miss Emma V. Smith, Instructor for Half a Century. Miss Emma V. Smith, retired school teacher, who taught in the James G. Birney School for 481, years, received a testimonial in the auditorium of the school from Anacostia citizens last night, in which school officials and members of civic and fraternal or- ganizations participated. Over 800 people, including many of Miss Smith's former pupils, attended the ceremony, and a committee of 200 residents of Znacostia, under the direction of Horace H. Queenan, presented an elaborate pro- gram. Tribute to Miss Smith was paid by Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant super- intendent of colored schools and a former student in the Birney School. Miss Smith, who first came to Wash- ington in 1868, has seen 50 years of continuous teaching. After a year and a half in Maryland school she was transferred to the James G. Birney School, where she remained until her retirement by the Board of Education on June 21. She will continue to re- side in Anacostia. > DA A, DENTAL SCHOOL REVIVAL WILL BE BANQUET TOPIC G. W. U. Medical Society Will Hear Noted Speakers at Func- tion Tonight. Members of the George We ‘University Medical Society will discuss the advisability of reviving the dental school at George Wi n University at a banquet this evening in the Hotel ywer. About 300 persons are ex- BUILDING PROGRAM EXTENSION URGED ‘Advisory Council for Another Gallinger Unit and Sewer Mains. The Citizens' Advisory Council, in the course of a long discussion of the five-year financial program of District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan, last night recommended that the program be stretched to include another building for Gallinger Hospital and a sum suf- ficient to abolish all cesspools in the District, 3,417 in number, by extension of sewer mains. * No sum was finally recommended for the Gallinger Build- ing, although $300,000 and $500,000 were tentatively discussed. The build- ing now nearing completion cost ap- proximately $1,000,000. The first two hours of the three-hour meeting were devoted to the Gallinger Hospital program, and the discussion wandered to the terits of governmental provision of hospital care at moderate rates for thcse who, while unwilling to become charity patients, are put to too great a financial strain by costs of treatment at private hospitals. Bridge Discussion Continued. ‘The five-year financial program makes mention of the replacement of two bridges, the Calvert Street and Klingle Ford. Dr. George C. Havenner, chairman of the council, attempted to include Benning Bridge in the program, supported by F. Tracy Campbell. Both of these are from the Annacostia Citi- zens’ Association. When Thomas E. Lodge of the American University Park Association attempted to secure consid- eration for replacement of Chain Bridge during the five years, further bridge discussion was postponed until the next meeting of the council, set for 7:30 p.m. Monday in the boardroom of the District Building. After an exhaustive discussion of the merits of Gallinger Hospital, during which Dr. Havenner invited council members to visit the building now be- ing put up, the council turned its at- tention to the municipal airport, which is not included in the five-year program. Mr. Campbell moved that a sum for be- gianing work on this be included in the program, but Dr. Havenner remarked that this would be useless as there was no legislative authorization for the ap- propriation. The council then adopted a resolution urging the Commissioners to seek passage of the authorization act. Resolutions quickly followed com- mending the- inclusion of two grade- crossing eliminations in the program and urging the Commissioners to seek the elihination of all grade crossings in the District. Schools and Sites. A discussion among Dr. Havenner, Dr. E. E. Richardson and Charles Stengle hten arose over the plan’s in- clusion of cnly $2,400,000 annually for purchase of school buildings and sites and this developed into a discussion of the Benning Bridge. The school mat- ter will be taken up again at the next meeting. At this point members of the fiscal relations committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, who had been meeting jointly with the council, ad- journed, and Edwin S. Hege, a former member of the council, obtained the privilege of the floor and introduced a resolution putting the council on rec- ord as opposed to the enactment of any code regulating the installation of refrigerating machinery and its repairs. After elimination of some of the lan- guage of the resolution, the council adopted it in substance. The adoption of such a code was discussed at a public hearing before the Commissioners last ‘Thursday. EDUCATION ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAS ASSURED Organization Will Be Discussed at Conference Next Year in Latin Capital. By the Associated Press. Dr. Glen Levin Swiggett, organizing secretary, announced today that the formation of an Inter-American Fed- eration of Education Associations was definitely assured and that a prelim- inary organization conference would be held in the Summer of 1930 at a Latin American capital. The movement, spon- sored by the National Education Asso- :g;luon, has been under way for some e. Among the countries participating in negotiations looking to the establish- ment of the inter-American federation are Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, the United States, Uruguay, Bolivia, Colom- bia, Chile, Ecuador, Salvador, Nicara- gua and Paraguay. SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION BILL IS REINTRODUCED Zihlman Asks for Consideration of D. C. Measure at December Session. The bill for election of a school board in the District of Columbia b¥ & popu- lar vote was reintroduced in the House late yesterdey by Representative Zihl- man of Maryland. for consideration in the December n. The Zihlman bill calls for a board of nine members, three to be elected each year to serve three years. The District Commissioners would divide the District polling precincts, which would be set up in school buildings. resentative Moore, Democrat of Virginia, reintroduced his bill authoriz- ing $10,000 for expenses of a survey and plans for a new bridge to replace the old Chain Bridge across the Potomac west of Georgetown. Of Shoes He Stole If He Is One-Legged a case parked au mobile of Sam Narcisenfeld last 1 will be supplied with foot- or_the rest of he has but case was_stolen on V ‘The . |in its opinion to indicate that had it THE EVENING' ONZONNGISO.KD BY COMMISSIONERS Definition of Residential Areas Would Include Va- rious Civic Structures. ACTION IS DESIGNED TO END EMBARRASSMENT Recommendation May Be Given Public Hearing at Code Commis- sion’s Next Meeting. The District Commissioriers today ap- proved a recommendation of Corpora- tion Counsel William W. Bride that the definition of residential areas under the zoning regulations be changed to include fire engine houses, police sta- tions, pumping stations, public play- grounds, recreation centers and swim- ming pools. The Board of Commission- | ers turned the matter over to the zon- ing commission for consideration and the latter body will probably ‘give the suggestion a public hearing at its next meeting. B Corporation Counsel Bride's sugges- tion is designed to save the District the embarrassment' it has encountered re- cently when trying to locate various governmental institutions in residential Zones. ‘The matter was brought up specifically by -an appropriation for purchase of a site for a fire engine house in the vicinity of Nebraska and Connecticut avenues carried in the appropriation act for the current fiscal year. It is understood that the lot the | Commissioners had in mind for pur- chase is .zoned residential and that they anticipate objections from neigh- bors such as have characterized their efforts to locate a fire engine house at Sixteenth and Webster streets and to move the House of Detention to a structure in the Southwest zoned resi- dential, Recent Cases Are Cited. Mr. Bride held that in his opinion the District may not locate activities such as fire engine houses, police sta- tions, pumping stations, playgrounds, recreation centers, swimming pools and others of like character in residential zones. “In the Western High School case,” Mr. Bride wrote, “the question presented was whether an athletic field was in violation of the zoning regula- tions when located in a residential dis- trict. The Court of Appeals did not pass_directly upon this question as it decided that the field was an adjunct to an educational institution and there- fore permissible under the zoning regu- lations. “In the case of Wimsatt versus Dougherty et al, Justice Bailey of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, specifically held that the Commisisoners had ne power to avoid the zoning regulations by erecting a| house of detention in a residential dis- trict; that its location in such district the Di'rict of. Columbia was subject to and bound by the regulation to the same extent as individuals. “In the case of Quinn versus Dough- erty et al, recently decided by the Court | of "Appeals, the court prohibited the erection of a fire engine house on a part of Rock Creek Park, chiefly upon the ground that the act creating the park prevented its use for any other pur- pose. But the court also usel language been necessary it would have prohibited the erection of such a structure on the ground that all the-property in its im- mediate vicinity was zoned residential.” Three Solutions Offered. ‘The opinion then goes on to discuss three ways of solving the problem. The first would be for the zoning commis- sion to pass a regulation exempting the municipality in its conduct of all rea- sonable activities from the operation of any of the zoning regulations. The second was for the zoning com- mission to amend the regulation by in- cluding in the uses permitted in resi- dential zones fire engine houses, police stations, etc. Mr. Bride states that he believes the commission has power to enact such regulation under authority conferred upon it by the act creating the commission. The third suggestion was that Con- gress should be asked to enact legisla- tion specifically exempting the muni- cipality from the operation of the zon- ing law. Speaking of this suggestion, Mr. Bride said, “I am inclined to think that this is the most sure solution of the matter in the end, if the delay in getting through such legislation will not seriously embarrass the completion of pending municipal activities.” Mr. Bride then went on to recommend the second of his suggestions. “It may be well,” he added, “to first try out the second suggestion, to the end that should it not be unheld by the courts Congress then could be shown that the municipality had exhausted its efforts to remedy the difficulty and was at last compelled to resort to congres- sional action for relief. In this manner we should be relieved of the necessity of resorting to Congress prematurely should the courts uphold the power of the zoning commission to so amend the regulation.” MORE PROPE.RTY BOUGHT FOR FEDERAL BUILDINGS Offer of $280,000 for Site at Ninth and B Streets Is Accepted. ‘The Government has purchased ad- ditional property in the Federal triangle for its building program by accepting the offer of $280,000 for property at the corner of Ninth and B streets. ‘The lots concerned are numbered at 202, 204, 206 and 208 Ninth street and face Cenftghr ""kc%mThlfyy :re occupied now for the most p: tores. The _offer, nnm:wd through &u Treasury Department, was made on be- halt o{y Mrs. Annie M. Yulee, trustee for the will of her late husband, Charles . Yulee. w'l’hla is another parcel added to sev- eral which the Treasury already has purchased for the building triangle bounded by Pennsylvania avenue, Fif- teenth, Third and B streets. MOSES LULLEY EXPIRES. Rites for Lifelong Washington Res- jdent to Be Held Tomorrow. ago. ‘Mr. Lulley was & member of the Royal 3 ‘nd-ludmnzbun:mmber STAR, The flood now nln‘:lnz out of the Potomac reached a point some 10 feet from the floor of Chain Bridge. one of the bridge piers. The photograph shows the water surging about —Star Staff Photo. TWO ARE ARRESTED INLIQUOR CHASE Auto Containing Alleged Beer and Gin Is Seized After Spectacular Race. Jack Brown and his companion, Con- stantine Nicholson, beth giving their age as 31 and nddresses in the 700 block of Fourth street, were arrested by Sergt. 0. J. Letterman and his liquor squad after a spectacular chase early this morning through downtown Washing- ton. They were charged with posses- sion and transportation of liquor. The car in which the men were arrested was confiscated by police as well as a quan- tity of alleged whisky and gin. According to police. the men were de- coyed to an apartment in the 2100 block of Eighteenth street, where a raid had been conducted. A woman who gave the name of Verna Vallee, 26, was ar- rested on a charge of conducting a dis- ordt:irly house. She was released in $300 nd. was a violation of the regulations; that | bor ‘The activities of {wo men yesterday attracted the attention of Sergt. J. E. Thompson and Prohibition Agent R. C. O'Meara of the sixth precinct. In- vestigation revealed a man sitting at the curb in a parked automobile while the other one canvassed the houses on the street soliciting orders for liquor. ‘When the policemen approached, the men fled. Search of the automobile dis- closed 190 quarts of alleged whisky. The' machine and the liquor were confiscat- ed, but the men had escaped. TWO ARE FOUND DEAD IN ROOMING HOUSE Colored Man and Woman Discov- ered Under Conditions Which In- dicate Murder and Suicide. A colored man and woman were found dead on the second floor of a rooming house at 1025 Eighteenth street this morning in what police believe was a suicide and a murder. The woman was found lying in a bedroom stretched across the bed with a bullet wound in her chest and the man was lying in a hallway near the bedroom with a bullet through his brain and a pistol with five empty chambers clutched in his right hand. ‘The dead couple, Phillip Collins, 21, and Rebecca King, 30, were said by police to have been roomers at the house, conducted by Rebecca Brent, also colored. g Efforts by the fire rescue squad and Dr. Leon Gordon of the Emergency Hos- pital staff to revive the pair were futile, and both were pronounced dead shortly after the arrival of the Emergency Hos- pital ambulance. No reason for the tragedy could be learned by police of the third precinct and Headquarters Detective George Darnall who investigated the case. The_bodies were removed to the morgue and Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt was noti- fled. o ACCUSED ASSAILANT OF OFFICER CLEARED Policeman Denies Improper Re- marks, Blaming Alleged Atnck‘ on Old Disagreement. ,A Police Court jury today cleared Joseph Clemons, 600 block of Maryland avenue, charged with assaulting George Deane, fifth precinct policeman. Driving to Clemons’ home on tember 30, last, Deane is alleged have made improper remarks a group of children, including the de- fendant's _daughter. Awmd!na to Clemons, he objected to the offier’s conduct and Deane threatened to “blow him and his_house up.” Then he struck Deane, he said. Although a group of witnesses de- clared the policeman was intoxicated when he came to Clemons’. home, a fellow officer who saw afterward said it was not true. Deane denied the remarks ‘attributed to him and said an old disagreement was responsible for the alleged attack. EDITOR DISCUSSES NEWS AS PROPERTY Danger to Society Seen if It Is Accorded That Status Legally. A warning against the establishment of any property right in news was sounded this morning at the closing business session of the seventh annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the Press Club, by M. Koenigsberg, president of the Kay News Service. Quoting from the Supreme gourt and the Geneva Conference in 1927, Mr. Koenigsberg declared emphatically that despite news reports to the contrary, the Geneva Conference did not recognize any property right in news. He warned that establishment of news as a com- modity might place in the hands of mo- nopolies power inestimable. The estab- lishment of a property right in news, he observed, would allow the owner of the property wherein news originated or the original writer of news the privilege of i‘;llppll;emng it, distorting it or destroy- g it. “Governments might be overthrown, the world kept entirely in the dark as to what is going on, stock markets and all other news-producing agencies might be muzzled to produce an effect of havoc,” he declared. The Sunday paper was described as a_department store of literature and ever-growing as the interests of man expand by W. G. Vorpe of the Cleve- land Plain Dealer. He addressed the editors this morning on the subject “What Shall We Do With Our Sunday Papers? Are We Ready for a Change?” Tribute to Stone. At the close of this morning’s session the resolution committee presented a resclution expressing the society’s sor- row at the loss from journalism of Mel- ville A. Stone. In another resolution the society de- nounced the Minnesota newspaper gag law and empowered the board of di- rectors to take what steps might be necessary, even to the extent of retain- ing counsl, to aid the Minnesota news- papers and the Chicago Tribune in their fight against the law. Another resolution authorized the president of the society to appoint a committee to make a study of the British Institute of Journalists, partic- ularly with reference to the old-age pension question. President Hoover had as luncheon guests today at the White House a number of the editors. ‘They included: Walter Harrison of the Daily Oklahoman, Oklahoma City; T. J. Dillon of the Minneapolis Trib- une; E. 8. Beck of the Chicago Tribune, Paul Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, William Allen White of the Em- poria (Kans.) Gazette, Clarence Dickey of the Kansas City Journal-Post, Charles D. Segner of the Chicago Eve- ning Post, Henry T. Claus of the Bos- ton Transcript, Casper Yost of the St. Louls Globe Democrat, Sam Williamson of the St Paul Dispatch. Chain Systems Approved. Chain systems of direcily owned newspapers were discussed favorably by Hmurst Knox, general ‘xin;;:,uerwut the newspapers, an y W. How- ard, chairman of the board of the Scripps-Howard newspapers, at _yester- day afternoon’s session. They declared they saw no menace to American journalism in the growth of chain sys- tems of directly owned papers. The, news department of a newspa- per has no obligation except that “which it first owes to the reader— that the news shall be complete, ac- mgmmd unnlrtm.‘" muNB' Wiley, manager of Times, told the editors. T He declared that only weak news- papers are dominated by their business offices and that such a ‘situation gen- erally prevails when their news de- partments do not produce a well rounded aspect of the news of the day. ‘The old-age benefit plan of the Brit- ish Institute of Journalists was out- lined by Percy §.. Bullen, American correspondent of the London Daily Tel- ;grn%g 'I'hed t:}llk drew a of estions ang ere was considerable discussion of the lda,pt.lon of such a plan in America. The discussion was led by the St. Louis Editor Says Lindy Closely Checks Copy Of “Ghost Writers™ th was- de- X~ Col. Charles A. Lind cted yesterday Ik ecutive editor of the Brooklyn, Standard Union, ebfore N. Y., | Wi the American | Mexico, Central Narrating His Feats the | mandan but his stay in that city Adams BALTIMORE ISSUE. ON AIRPORT WORSE THAN WASHINGTON Gravelly Point Problems Are Dwarfed by Problems in in Maryland City. BOARD OF TRADE SENDS DELEGATION ON TOUR Project, When Completed, Expect- ed to Cost About $10,000 Per Acre. ‘The problems facing Washington in the construction of an airport at Gravelly Point are dwarfed by the difficulties which stand in the way of the city government of Baltimore, which has begun to build what will be the Jargest airport in the country, a dele- gation from the committee on aviation of the Board of Trade and two Army engineers decided yesterday after in- specting the plans and werk already completed at the Maryland city’s plant. The Baltimore airport, which when completed will be considerably larger than that planned for Washington, is | located on a far less advantageous site and because of the topography the construction must be at a much greater cost, Despite all this, however, Baiti- more has floated a bond issue of $2,200,- 000 and the State Legislature has authorized two millions more for the further development of the project. The delegates of the Board of Trade were accompanied on their trip to Baltimore by Maj. Brehon Somervell, District Engineer of the War Depart- ment for the Washington area; E. D. Schmidtt, of the United States Engi- neer office, and Maj. Donald A. Davi- son, Assistant Engineer Commissioner for the District of Columbia. The party was met at the Baltimore Municipal Building by Charles W. Groob, Balti- more city engineer; F. K. Duncan. of | his office, and John H. Kahl, chief deputy sheriff of the county. Taken To Site. After examining maps and blue prints of the field and having explained to them the magnitude of the task of building a field on the scale proposed, they were escorted by Mr. Grobb to the city tug and taken seven miles down the Patapsco River to the scene of the operations. According to Mr. Grobb, the airport will cover 966 acres when completed. More than 75 per cent of this land is under water and must be filled. Al- though the land fronting the river wes | of little value before it became known that it was wmt‘td l;;' ot‘;:’e city, it had be purchased for $5,000 an acre. m't‘hisp land must be leveled and the balance filled and a retaining wall erected around the whole area. It is hoped that most of the earth for the | filling will be obtained from silt from the river bed, which is being dredged. The completed airport will have a| 30-foot channel zl&ngsil‘l‘ie and facilities to accommodate shipping. s It has not yet been decided of what material the runways will be construct- ed. They will radiate in six directions and will be 500 feet in width and nncl is to be 3,000 feet long. To Cost $10,000 Per Acre. The total cost of the project when | completed, with runways, hangars and other necessary buildings, is estimated by Mr. Groob as close t acre, but this figure must depend on the changing requirements of aviation, he pointed out. -r‘r’: cost will be reduced, he declared, by the plan of the city to lease a large portion of the area to industrial con- cerns. A special section has been set aside for this purpose. Only half of the 966 acres is being improved at present. The development of the remainder will come with addi- tional funds. Mr. Groob said that $1,700,000 already has been allocated. There are three ways of reaching the fleld. One is by trolley cars. Another is by two highways which will touch the edge of the airport and the last is by the river. Logan Field adjoins the property purchased by the city govern- ment, and while the airport is under constructk;g. it is plannd to make use of this field. The delegates of the Board of Trade who made the trip included Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary; Lawrence ‘William, chairman of the committee on aviation: D. A. Slosser, J. E. Smith and Frank N. Chase. They were accom- panied by Lieut. Walter Hinton. Ready to Resume Hearings. The joint Airport Commission is ready tojnsume hearings at 10 o'clock Monday morning, with several aviation experts scheduled to testify how the airport problem has been handled else- where and to give their advice regard- ing the proposed air terminal for Wash- ington. The commission invited Edsel Ford to give his views, based on the experi- ence of tMe Ford Co. in aviation, but Mr. Ford telegraphed he would not be able to visit Washington at this time. He, suggested the name of another wit- ness, who, he said, would communicate with the commission. Among the witnesses expected to tes- tify Monday are Maj. Clarence Young, director of aeronautics for the Depart- ment of Commerce, who recently in- spected the leading airports of Europe, ;;\d mlm{’ Gardner, w‘;xlg nls;: wiPX‘I ive expe! imony regarding airpo; developments. The commission also is expecting one of the pilots in the air mail service to tell the commission what fog and other weather conditions mail pllots have observed in flying into- Washington. Another witness will be Maj. Harry M. Horton, president of Congressional Airport. Inc. Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant Engineer Commissioner, is expected to report to the commission on Monday the result of his study of a number of airport sites in the Maryland suburbs north and east of the city. F. B. Rentshler of the Aeronautics Chamber of Commerce send word that he could not be in Washington Monday to testify. —_———— ADAMS GOES T0 BOSTON. Secretary of the Navy Adams left this mot for Boston :l{ a business trip that w keep him away from Wash- ington for nearly a week. He is a ranging to witness the launching of the B e e ™o Seave. e ways new _cru :It.'m New York Navy Yard Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. While in New T i B g o . de E: - t of the New York Navy Yard, will be brief. o A S a a to be given by Justice Vanity Show Postponed. until Fall of the van- Postponement to | ity show to have been held April 22 to wrote | 26, under at Hairdressers of the Washington Cosmetologists’ -Asso- announced by Miss E. | Upper: GERALD O. BELL, JR. Lower: BENJAMIN FELTON. DRIVERS CLEARED IN DEATHS OF BOYS Two Victims in Week of Auto! Accidents Were 2 and 13 FORCED T0 EARTH FROM 35,000 FEET BY IGE ON GOGGLES Lieut. Apollo Soucek Might Otherwise Have Made New Altitude Record. REACHES TEMPERATURE OF 57 BELOW ZERO Navy Flyer in Air 40 Minutes. Flight Is Executed for Trial Purposes. His goggles frozen over with a film ice which blinded him, Lieut. Apolio Soucek, engineering section of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, was forced to carth at the Anacostia Naval Air Sta- tion yesterday afternoon after fiying to an altitude of 35,000 feet in the Wright Apache Navy plane in which Lieut. C. C. Champion established a world’s & tilade record of 38,418 feet on July 25, 1977, Lieut. Soucek encountered tem- peratures of 57 degrees pelow zero at thA top of his climb, as indicated by an autmatic recording thermometer. . Hud it not been for the formation of ice which he could not clear from his goggles, Licut. Scucek’s flight might | have resulted In the establishment of !a new zaltitude record, as his motor was | functioning perfectly, and he was still climbing in the rare, cold air when he caught the last glimpse of his instru- ment panel. Lieut. Soucek tock off with 45 gallons of gasoline in his tanks, and was in the air only about 40 minutes, the little plane reaching the top of its climb with- in 25 minutes after he left the field. Navy officials planed the flight for trial purposes, it was announced. The pilot was not as heavily clothed as is cus- tomary for altitude flights, wearing nothing under his fur-lined flying suir, as he expected to be in the extreme cold of the upper air only a few min- utes. He reported upon landing that he was comfortable throughout the flight. The plane used by Lieut. Soucek was especially equipped for the flight of Lieut. Champion, which resulted in es- tablishment of the present world alti- tude record. Owing to this special equip- ment, which includes supercharging equipment to compress the thin air and iver it to the carburetor at normal Years Old. { tus, the plane | fiving purposes, Inquests into the deaths of two boys from injuries sustained in traffic acci- dents were held at the District morgue today and in each case the verdict was that the death was accidental. Both were struck by automobiles op- | erated by colored men, and both drivers | were cleared by the verdicts. The latest death was that of Gerald | Owen Bell, 2 years old, of 910 D street | southwest. He died at Emergency Hos- pital this morning from meningitis fol- lowing an accident Wednesday in front | of his home. The car was driven by ! John Parks of Scuth Washington, Va. | Police have been unable to find a wit- ness to the accident. Parks was taken | into custody upon receipt of word of | Gerald’s death at Emergency Hospital. | ‘The boy was the son of Mr. and Mrs. | Gerald G, Bell. His father is employed | at an Atlantic & Pacific tea store, at | 1755 Columbia road. | Thirteen-year-old Benjamin Felton | of 1525 Upshur street was knocked | down and fatally injured about noon and V sireets in front of the St. Pauls | Parochial Schocl, where he was a stu- dent. He died an hour later at Emer- gency Hospital. | Robert Morton, 24 years old, of 1807 | Thirteenth street was held by po- | lice of the eighth precinct as the driver | of the car. He told the officers that the boy ran from behind a parked automo- bile and he was unable to halt his ma- chine. The boy had been a pupil at St. Paul's for two years, and would have graduated next year. He entered the school from the West Public School. Teachers at the academy said yester- | day that he was well liked by his fel- low students and teachers. He played on the school base ball team. Benjamin’s father, Hendrix Felton, a | general contractor, at present in Cali- fornia on business, has been notified of hilts son’s death, and is en route to this | city. Five Persons Injured. Five persons were injured, one seri- ously, in traffic accidents reported toj police this morning. ¢ Hattie Priedman, 28. of 3100 Con- necticut avenue, is in a serious condi- tion at Emergency Hospital as the re- sult of being struck yesterday by an| automoblie operated by Mrs. Eugene Crawford, 2955 Tilden street, in front of her home. ! Harry Bricker, 58, of 2504 Four-| teenth street, suffered a possible frac- | ture of the skull when the automobile in which he was a passenger and driven by Richard E. Dowell, 1358 C stmel[ northeast, was in collision at Thirteenth and B streets northeast with a car op- | eratetd by Joseph H. Ramsey, 1123 B street southeast. Bricker was removed to Casualty Hos- pital in a serious condition. Golden Robinson, 28, colored. living at 1410 R street, was slightly injured when he is said to have stepped from the rear of a parked automobile into the path of a machine operated by Clarence W. Lewis, 45, colored, 462 O street. Robinson was treated at Freedmen's Hospital. Auto Runs Into Tree. Mistaking the accelerator for brakes, which he attempted to apply, Clarence H. Jackson, 37, of 1922 N street, jam- med his car into a tree at Connecticut | avenue and Calvert street last night and | suffered severe lacerations. He was treated at Emergency Hospital and later removed to his home. A man whose identity was not estab- lished was treated at Providence Hes- pital after another crash. —— STATE GROUP ENTERTAINS | Secretary and Mrs. Adams Guests of Massachusetts Society, The Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Charles Francis Adams were guests of honor at a reception and dance given last night at the Mayflower Hotel by the Massachusetts Society of Wash- ington. Several high-ranking officers of the Navy were present. George R. Farnum, Assistant Attorney General of the United States, and president of the so- clety, with Mrs. Farnum, headed the receiving line. There was dancing and a program of entertainment, luding musical selections by ¥Fred East, Will Raymond, accompanied by Robert Thomas; Rich ard Mansfield, cartoonist, and cabaret OFFICERS 0 densities, and special oil-cooling appara- is not used for regular and yesterday's trial flight was one of the first which has been made in the plane for some time. DERED TO SERVICE SCHOOLS Several From Washington and Vicinity Are Included in Army Assignments. Army officers stationed in all parts of the United States have been directed by the War Department to take the course of 1929-30 at the Geperal Serv- ice Schools at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., beginning August 31 next. Included in the list of students are the following-named officers stationed 0 $10,000 an ' yesterday while playing at Fifteenth , in this city and vicinity: Maj. Stanley L. Scott, Office of Chief of Engineers, and Capt. Frank A. Heil- man, at Fort Humphreys, Va., both of the Corps of Engineers; Capt. William S. Rumbaugh, S:gnal Corps, .Munitions Building; Lieut. Col. James A. Ulio, Ad- jutant General's Department, War De- partment; Capt. Ernest H. Burt, Judge Advocate General's Department, War Department: Maj. Oscar A. Eastwold, Chemical Warfare Service, Munitions BEuilding; Lieut. Col. Augustus F. Danne- miller, Infantry, at Georgetown Univer=- sity: Maj. William R. Woodward, Field Artillery, on duty with Organized Re- serves in this city, and Capt. John B. La Guardia, Corps of Engineers, with the Federal Power Commission, Depart- ment of Interior. Other orders include the acceptance of the resignation of Capt. Hiram B. Ely, Ordnance Department, effective May 2; the transfer of Maj. Howard Eager, Field Artillery, from Fort Bragg, N. C,,! to the War Department: Maj. Pearl L. Thomas, Cavalry, from the Philippines to Fort Myer, Va.; Maj. Montgomery T. Legg. Finance Department, and Maj. Ralph I. Sasse, Cavalry, from the War Department to the Military Academy at West Point; Maj. Charles W. Thomas, jr., Infantry, from the Army War Col- lege. this city. to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.; Capt. J. H. B. Bogman, Signal Corps, from Harvard University, Cambridge, to the office of the Assistant Secretary of War, and the relief of Licut: Col. Louis C. Duncan, U. S. Army, retired, from duty in the office of the Surgeon General of the Army. FOUR ARE ACQUITTED OF GAMBLING CHARGE Trial Before Jury Lasting Three DPays Ends in Verdict for Defendants. Wilbur L. Dorsey, Jack Stem, Bart Kennett, colored and Emmett Johnson, colored, last night were acquitted of a charge of setting up a gambling estab- lishment at 705 O street. The men had been on trial for three days before Chif Justice McCoy and a jury of 10 men and 2 women in Criminal Division i. The jury returned its verdict after ae- liberating until 9:30 ©'s!ack last night. Dorsey was not reprezented by coun- sel at the trial becaule Attorney T. Morris Wampler was enghged in another court and the accused dvclined the offer of the justice to name #n attorney for him in place of Wampier. Stein was represénted by Attornev S. McComas Hawken, while the colored men were represented by Attorfiey Harry T. Whelan. Assistant Urnited States At- torney William H. Collins conducted the prosecution. ‘The courtroom was crowded when the verdict was reported and the deputy marshals were kept busy to prevent & demonstration. The friends of the ac- cused gathered around them outside the courtroom and congratulated them on the verdict. P MRS. N. T. CURRY DIES. Former Teacher Will Be Buried Monday Afternoon. Mrs. Nettle Tompkins Curry, 62 years old, who formerly taught in several of the colored schools here for a number features. piA i L T e S Man ia Cell Attempts Suicide. Aurlrented last night and taken to a fi,,“ > second precinct after a quarrel home at 920 L Benjamin Cul- e at street, 1::: 3 hang- se- of years, died in Johns Hopkins Uni- versity Hospital yesterday, where she had gone for treatment. Funeral services will be conducted at her residence in this city, at 419 Q street, Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock. I:m-mmt will be in Woodland Ceme- Ty. Mrs. Curry is survived by her mother, Mrs. Mary E. Arnold; a sister, Miss Laura G. 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