Evening Star Newspaper, April 30, 1929, Page 17

‘The Foening Star WASHINGTON, j TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1929. PAGE 17 UNDBERGH T0 G D.C. AIRPORT GROUP TELLING THE TIME THROUGH AGES NOW TWELVE INDICTED UNDER JONES LAW, SWAN BOAT READY FOR NEW SEASON THOUSANDS OF D. CHILDRENTO JOININ VIEWS ON PROBLEM b | SHITHSONIAN UNIT: INCLUDING WOMAN HEALTH DAY EVENT | Bingham Asks Flyer to Help} Commission in Study of Facilities. LONE EA(;LE N CAPITAL ON OFFICiZL BUSINESS Confers With Government Lcflders; About Air Trans*m’. Lines of Which He Is 1Aa¥iser. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is sched- uled to appear before the joint airpert commission at the Capitel this afternoon to give its members the benefit of his Judgment in considering the problem of | adequate airport facilities for Washing- | ton. Senator Bingham, Republican, of Con-"l necticut, chairman of the commissiol has been anxious to obtain Lindbergh's views and requested him to confer with the commission during his present stop in Washington. | The commission virtually completed its hearings, but has not arrived at any final decision as to the size and kind of | airport the National Capital should | have. It also is uncertain at present | whether the commission will be ab! to report at the present session or in December. It still is awaiting techni informatioh being collected by engin and other experts. { Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, who flew here alone late yesterday afternoon in a | Cessna cabin monoplane, will take off | this afternoon or tomorrow morning for | an unannounced destination. Lindbergh said that he is here on duty | in connection with his post as technical adviser to Transcontinental Air Trans- | port, Inc., which is preparing to inaugu- | rate a national air passenger service, and as adviser to Pan-American Air-| ways, operators of mail and passenger | lines between the United States and | Latin American cggntries. ! Silent on Mud Splashing. “Though,Lindbergh hasyad nothing to | Eay to newspaper men aboll the episode | which ocourred e du qflg his last | visit aboyt 10°days pgo, When his plane splashed ‘mud and ‘water over a smalil crowd of admirers who had gathered to meet him, he has indicated to friends | that he regretted the incident and news- paper reports which followed it. 1 He has told his friends he did not realize the blasts of his propellor were |* spattering bystanders as he taxied away from them three times during his brief | visit. i Col. Lindbergh 1s technical &dvis™r to | the .aeronautics branch of the Depat- ment of Commetce and in this capacity he said that he would be in conference | today with William P. MacCracken, jr., | Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. ‘Withholds Destination. Further than this, Lindbzrgh refused to discuss his plans. Asked when he | expected to leave, he answered rather indefinitely “some time this afternoon | or toworrow,” adding, as to desti- | nation, “that, of course, I do not care to s Col. Lindbergh, discarding the fiying suit, helmet, goggles and parachute which he habitually wears when flying his own Curtis open-cockpit plane, flew in ordinary business Airter la“ 3 own in a soft spot of “dolling. Fi=ld nanics struge ger nim o, | Peld for. his | that Lieut. | ns officer at Dy eloek | 1 Louis M. Merrick, th2 field, order that and prepared for AT KROLL FUNERAL Services at Home Will Be Con- ducted by Rev. Paul Schearer Tomorrow. ment - Building, | plant | meetings The clepsydra, timepiece used by the Greeks and Romans, on exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution, Star Staff Photo. GARDEN EXPERTS T0 GVELECTURES Members of 19 State Feder- ations Meet Here Tomorrow and Thursday. Federations, representing indirectly more than 30,000 men and wWomen garden club members over the country, will meet here tomorrow and Thursday under auspices of the National Capital Pederation of Garden Clubs to form a national council. Miss Margaret C. Lancaster, president of the local federation of clubs, is chairman of a committee planning for the conference. Meetings will be held in'the Y. W. C. A. Building, Seven- teenth and K streets, and during the conference members will hear lectures | by eminent horticulturalists and have the opportunity of viewing many attrac- tive gardens in the city. Work of the garden clubs in the sev- eral States, extending as it does to co- operation in the conservation of native plant material, reforestration, preserva- tion of wild flowers, clean-up campaigns and similar enterprises, has grown in scope so that members have decided upon establishment of national head- quarters, the function of which will be to disseminate helpful information and correlate the work of the various State groups. Morrison {o Lecture. A feature of the conference will be a lecture on the breeding of narcissus by B.“Y., Morrison of Washington in the auditorium of the Interior Depart- Nineteenth and * F tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock. Business meetings will be held in the mo gs and Thursday evening an informal dinner will be given for members at the Cosmos Club, Madison place and I street. The speaker will be Knowles Rlyerson, director of foreign introduction, Department of Agri- culture, Among those invited to attend the are representatives of the American Horticultural Society, the horticultural societies of New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, the National Horticultural Magazine, John C. Wister, president of the American Iris Society; Mrs. E. A. S. Peckham, John Scheepers and Montague Free of t Brooklyn, Botanical Museum; Mis. n Wangner, editor of the American Home, and ive Hyde Foster, { writer' on garden topics. Stansbury Lodge will be in charge of | the Masonic funeral arrangements for | €xpected to be represented by their | “Col ” William A. Kroll, assistant clerk of the District Supreme Court in charge Leaders to Represent Clubs. ‘The following local garden clubs are | president. Battery Park, Burleith, Chevy | Chase, D. C., and *Chevy Chase, Members of 19 State Garden Club ! Ma; of issuance of marriage licenses for the | Rockville, Georgetown, Hyatisville, Ta- | past 18 years. Services at his late home, | koma Park, Woodridge, Potomac Land 122 Maple avenue, Takoma Park, Md. 'scap: and Garden Club, Lyon Park, Va. will be held tomorrow morning at 10 National Capital Dahlia and Iris So- | o'cleck by Rev. Paul Schearer, pastor | clety, Garden Club of the Forest and | of the Takoma Park Presbyterian | Piney Branch Rose and Garden Club. Church, assisted by Rev. Thomas C.| _Assisting in arrangements with Miss Clark, former pastor. Interment will be | Lancaster are the following additional ot Bock Creel Gemetiry. {officers of the local federation: Mrs. | sand dials. The active pallbearers will be Walter P. Plumley, C. W. Bonnette, George Randall, Frank A. Dunkin, Clinton R. Colvin and Charles B. Coflin. “Col.” Kroll is sur d by his wido Margaret Kroll: a son, Willlam ; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Ti betts of Dover, N. J.; two sisters, Mrs. J. M. Wiland of Meyersdale, Pa., and ur a sister-in-law, Mrs. John Kroll maconing, Md., 2nd a niece, Miss June Wiland of Meyeisdale, P, WIDOW MARRIES WEEK AFTER MATE'S DEATH Mrs. Dorsey, Whose Husband John Thider and Dr. R. J. Haskell, vice presidents; Miss Laura A. Wadsworth and D. C. Throgmorton, secretaries, and | | Mis. C. V. Mace, treasurer. On the ar- rangements committee are Mrs. Truman | Abbe, Mrs. Whitman Cross. Mrs, H. Hol- lerith, Mrs, John_Ihider, Mrs. Richard | F. Jackson, Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe and | | Mrs. John Otto Johnson, registrar, | | \GOES ABROAD TO STUDY | CHEMISTRY IN FARMING| 1 | A search for the latest and most re- | liable information that {Europe can | give regarding the application of chem- |istry_to agriculture will be made by { Dr."C. A. Brown, assistant chief of the | Bureau of Chemistry, United States De- partment of Agricuiture, who sails for England Thursday as semi-official rep- rosentative of the department. Dr Brown plans to spend a year in travel | and invesiigation in England and 10 other countries on the continent. He will IS0 ck material for the completion of his bLiography of Fred- erick Accum, the C man chemi and will cond h for data relating of chemistry in Greece. Killed Self Here Week Ago, Weds Divorcee in Reno. Just one week after death severed the ties of her first marriage the former Mrs. Margaret M. Dorsey of this city. widow of Dr. John 8. Dorsey mitted suicide Monday of last week s married again in Reno, Nev, and today is honeymooning with her new | husband, Tolla R. Boswell, jr., of Easton, | Pa., in the State to which she had gone | to obtain a divorce. | Boswell was granted a divorce from Mrs. Dorothy Hoag Boswell yesterday just five minutes before the marriage | ceremony with Mrs. Dorsey Was per- who com- Tialy, Egypt o Hoover Is Indicted, But Not the Hoover Of Executive Fame Herbert Hoover was indicted today by the grand jury. He is colored and also is known as Her- bert Hoover Wilson and is accused )t housebreaking, | ile was employed by the Grif- | 1h Coal Co., and is accused of | aking into the office &t one [ the company's yards. April 7 oand stealing a $5 pair of eye- glasses belonging togéohn J. Phil- formed. The death of Dr. Dorsey made | | the completion of his widow's court ac- | learned of th physic tion unnecessary, She suicide of the *Washington from dispatches Saturday. With the former Mrs. Dorsey are her | three children, whom she had requested | be_given into her custody by the court | {Exhibit Shows Many Devices | for Determining How Day Is Passing. ’ COLLECTION GOES BACK | TO OLD SHADOW STICK Sun, Water and Sand Dials Dis- played as Predecessors to Mod- ern Accurate Clocks. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. With devices collected from all parts of the world, the story of time is being | reconstrueted by the Division of Me- | chanical Technology of the Smithson- ian_Institution. | The record extends from a stick | placed upright in the snow by the| Montagnais Indians of Canada, who | could read time crudely from the angles of the shadow, to the latest improve- | ments of American clock and watch | makers and the determmation of time to the thousandth of a second by the Naval Observatory. The earliest time-telling method, ac- cording to the Division of Anthropology which is co-operating in the exhibit, ! was by observation of the shadows by specific natural objects, such as trees | and rocks When men began to settle | in communities the need arose for a | standard time for everybody. This re- | sulted in the first “town clocks”—tall | shafts ‘in some central location’ the | | position of whose shadows at different ! hours and seasons was observed with some accuracy. The Egyptian obelisk, | dating abaut 1500 B. C., 69 feet high and weighing 200 tons, probably was an early example, serving alfo as a commemorative shaft to some god. Steadily ¥mproving Dials. From this point on, the collection ' contains a steadily improving line of | sun dials, many of which displayed | grezt ingenuity. Besides the large sun | dial set in gardens or public squares, | pocket instruments comparable to mod- | ern watches came into use during the | middle ages. These appeared in Ger- | many during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A pocket dial consisted of two_surfaces, one marked with hour | symbols, hinged at one end and con- nected at the other by a thread. When | the device was opened and placed in | the sun, the time could be told by the position’ of the threads shadow on the ! bottom surface. The accuracy depend- | ed greatly on the fineness of the thread. | Some of these pocket dials were quite | elaborate, combining a compass and | marked with star signs and tables by | which the carrier could interpret the| | thread’s shadow according to the sea-| son. All were cumbersome compared | with the heaviest of modern watches. | The fact that they were worthless at| night carly led inventors to seek some | other way of telling time. The most primitive method used in the exhibit of the direct ancestry of the modeyn clock was the sinking dish, | dating bick to 4000 B. C. It consisted of a brass dish with a tiny hole in the bottom, which was placed in a pan of water. Tt would fill and sink in a fairly uniform time interval. An attendant watched it constantly. Every time it| sank he emptied and replaced it, at the | same time striking a gong to denote the time, { “Water Thief” Comes Along. From this Greece and Rome came to clepsydra, or “water thief.” A uniform stream of water through a funnel fell | into a brass cylinder in which was a | | wooden float with an upright pole at- tached to it. The pole was marked | with time symbols. As the water rose | lin the cylinder the pole protruded far- | | ther and farther above the surface and | the time was read from the marking | The next step was to attach a pulley with a lead weight to the ascending and descending pole. This pulley was used to turn the hands on a dial, so that time could be read from a dis-| tance. In the pulley was the germ of the clock idea. The water clock told time with reasonable accuracy under | | uniform conditions, but it was greatly | affected by changes in temperature. Julius Caesar in one of the Gallic cam- | paigns flew into a rage one morning when he found the cylinder of the; clepsydra in front of his tent was a| mass of ice. On hot Summer days the | water evaporated too quickly, Sand Dials Next Device. i S0 the water clocks were replaced by | ‘The flow of sand was just | s uniform as thatsof water and was not changed by temperature. It was| not so easy to operate a dial mecha- nism by the flow of sand and sets of | them were necessary for the ordinary operations of life. The exhibit contains tiny dials set for bolling eggs and an- other which old-time clergymen used to keep on their pulpits to time their sermons. Some were quite elaborate, as one set of four mounted in a revolving | frame, which was used in fourteenth century Germany. The inaccuracy of the sand dial is revealed by modern tests of this instrument, which show | that the flow through the different dials was not uniform by from two to eight minutes. e principle of the modern- clock is credited to Gallileo, who observed a| swinging chandelier in a cathedral at and timed the swings with his pulse, finding that the time of each swing was uniform. From this discov- ery of the time-keeping value of the pendulum the construction of clocks spread through Germany and Italy. The earliest were huge timepieces set in the towers of town halls or cathe- drals, often decorated very elaborately. From this point the exhibit shows a steady succession of better clocks, many of which have been loaned by Grorge . Kernodle of Washington, long an enthuslastic clock collector. These in- uch curiosities as a Japanese {clock of 1590. The hour and minute ans ar {8 marker moves up and down. Under | this system of timekeeping the 24-hour period was divided into two parts, night and day, each 8 hours long. There was a series of vertical plates, one for each season. In Europe one of the earliest was the Dutch chamber clock, which combined the germ of the modern alarm | clock, a gong sounding continuousiy when a certain time was reached. An- other iz the bird-cage clock of Eliza- bethan England, and another a Freuch iron clock, whose dial revolved to meet the hands, which remained stationary. Some Cases Valuabie. Until early in the nineteenth century clocks in the United States either were {imported or made by individual clock- (makers who had learned their trade abroad. Sometimes they contracted only to make the works, the purchaser {hiring a cabinetmaker to complete the job. Some of the artistic designs turned at 2560 Rhode Island avenue northeast, Dr. Dorsey was found dead in his bed lips, the yard man@ger. whess e seomed, Apil 22, st § inlmld Hitte and Reuben Ro: non-support ! on a vertical plate, on which | Four Alleged Violations of Act lonored—Two Accused of Possession. EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE MADE IN ANOTHER CASE| Subscriptions Said to Have Been | Secured in Durchase of Library Home. { One white woman, two white men | and nine colored men were indicted to- | day by the grand jury on charges of | violating the Jones-Stalker law. Four | alleged violations of the act and two | alleged violations of the national pro- hibition law prior to the passage of the new act were ignored by the grand jurors, Matilda di Domenico is charged with | sale and posscssion of liquor. She is alleged to have conducted a restaurant | in the 400 block of Eleventh street and to have sold quantities of rum to mem- bers of the vice squad March 14 and 16. Others Are Accused. Tally Day and Bryant McMahon nre‘ accused of transporting and possession. | They are said to have been occupants | of an automobile which was seized by | Detectvie R. J. Barrett March 19 in an | alley between Third and Four-and-a- half streeis southwest, n which there were reported to be 96 quarts of allcged liquor, Others accused of Jones law viola- tions include William C. Johnson, Ed- | ward C. Ashton, Warren P. Hawkins, Arthur Sanders, Edward Jackson, Prank Green, Walter Harris, James O. Brown | and John Brown, all colored. The grand jurors dropped another | charge against James O. Brown and also_ignored charges against Clarence E. McCormick, Thomas Moore and Thomas H. Clatterbuck of Jones law violations and dismissed older charges | of violating the national prohibition | act against Ruth Landon and Eliza | Burns. A charge of robbery against | Lemuel M. Hamlet and of false pre- ' tenses against Sal Sepe were also ig- | nored. ! Embezzlement Charged. An indictment charging embezzlement was reported against H. Allen Tenney in connection with subscriptions secured by him for the purchase of a home for the National Library for the Blind. Others indicted and the charges| against them include: Frank Johnson, | John Stevenson, Hazel Hill, grand lar- ceny and joy-riding; Joseph Jones, joy- riding: Howard Simms and Ulysses Jen- kins, larceny: Lester Jackson, Elmer W. Johnson, William Gibson, housebreak- ! ing; Odell Knuckles, Frank W. Hicks' and Walter M. Robbins, robbery; John | Lilly, asshult with dangerous weapon: Geneva Harris, Marie Smith and Ella | ‘Tennyson, robbery: David Rones, setting | up gaming table; May Sullivan, Ray- | jolating | anti-narcotic law, and Francis Smith, HURT FLEEING RAID. While a raid was in progress, James Hamilten Hunter, colored, 52 years old, either leaped or fell last night from a second-story window in the rear of 1640 Kalorama road, fracturing his skull, Police of No. 8 precinct said Hunter, who lives at 501-A Twenty-third street, was one of several men playing black jack. Officers found the injured man in an adjoining ailey and had him re- moved to Garficld Iospital in a passing automobile, Hospital attendants said his tion was undetermined this morn condi- . B on the cabinet, which added a touch of color to colonial households. * A long line of American clocks was presented to the collection by the New Haven | Clock Co. Some of these, such as the ‘tumbersome “wagon-spring clock,” were constructed to ryn 30 days without re- winding. The invention of the watch came shortly after that of the pendulum | clock by Dr. Robert Hooke in England | in 1660. He had observed that a wheel, pivoted at the hub and oscillated by & spring, obeyed the same law as a pen- dulum. He first used a pig's bristle as | a spring. For the first time there was an instrument which would tell time | s of its position. i continued ~expensive and | me until 1875, when Jason R. | Hopkins of Washinglon patented a waich movement which he believed could be sold for 50 cents. A company was formed which expended $250,000 before it failed. A cb’ "3 watch, con- sisting of 58 parts, whs'Tnvented three | years later by D. A. D. Buck of Wor- | cester, Mass.,, and was sold for $4. From | this time on the progress was rapid | toward the dollar watch. The cheap watch, eccording to Ci ittman, cu- rator of the division of mechanical technology, s America’s one great con- tribution to the science of time-record- ing instruments. A long series of watches obtained from the United | States Patent Office is shown. | Primitive methods of telling ime are | still found throughout the world, the| The crudest of these s | of a knotted rope made of | ibit shows. the burning twisted strands of grass, the time re- | quired to burn between the knots be- | ing the standard interval. In some parts of China natives still burn at; night the “gong heung,” or time in- censc. This consists of a stick approx- imately 16 inches long made of pressed wood dust mixed with niter. The lergth of the sticks is regulater for the chang- ing seasons so that exactly five of them will burn during the hours of darkness. Among South American Indians and in the South Sea Islands both light and a time measure are furnished by burning “candle-nuts” strung togethe on a shaft of palm od. ‘They have a waxy nposition and the standard time interval is that required to burn ] t. The time candle, with hour y ed on the wax, was u in ancient England. The time lamp, by which the prégress of the hours was calculated from the rate at which oil burned, was in use until comparatively recently in some places, The use of this last device was given its death blow by the invention of .the radiant-fas watch for telling time at night. e this, about the only de- vice for telling time in darkness was a burning lamp placed behind a vertical shaft marked with time symbols ar- ranged according to the rate at which the oil burned, Time was d by the shadow of the ofl on the shaff, A curious method still in use in some parts of Korea is to keep track of the time by the rate tobacco burns in a pipe, The time required to empty the bowl is the standard interval and the SWANBOAT BEGINS a ! tresh plant, out, now are very valuable, such as the official timekeeper must smoke con- X The Child Welfare Society swan boat has been made rcady for the Summer season on the Tidal Basin and will begin regular trips tomorrow. —Star Staff Photo. TRIPS TOMORROW Trim Craft Provides Joy 1or§ Children at Tidal | Basin. The swanboat of the Child Welfare Society is being made ready at its| wharf, at the foot of Seventeenth street, on the Tidal Basin, and will start its e: cursions this Summer about the pictur- { esque lake at noon tomorrow, May day. | The trim little craft, which has been | { in storage all Winter, has been taken cut and completely overhauled, re- painted and now is almost ready to be put into- operation. The swanboat w: donated by The Evening Star News- paper Co. The installation of the outboard mo- tor which drives the pontoon boat has been improved over last year and the three pontoons, affording adequate afety for the passenger load, have been fastened securely. ~ Workmen today were completing the job of fastening on the seats and putiing on the new top. The last touch to be given will be ihe mounting of the figure of a white | swan on the prow, from which the boat | gets its name. Sullivan Again is Skipper. The craft is operated for the benefit | of the child welfare clinic of the Child Welfare Society, located at Chil- | dren’s Hospital, and it continues its| excursions around the Tidal Basin dur- | ing the Summer and up into the Fall, | as late as the weather will permit. | The skipper this year will be the| same as last year, Joseph Sullivan, who had a perfect record for the safety and comfort of his passengers. | | Wharf Is Improved. The Swanboat voyages will be in-| creasingly attractive this year by. rea- {son of the fact that it will sail from | a_much-improved place -on the shor The new Tidal Basin boathouse, con- structed by the Government in the form of a colonial building, faces pic- turesquely southward from its location | near the foot of Seventeenth street and | the. Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool | fountain. The Swanboat wharf is di- rectly in front of this new boathouse. TRINIDAD CITIZENS RAP ASSESSMENTS Association Claims Unfair Burden in Cost of Widening Ben- | ning Road. Expressing the belief that Benning road northeast is primarily a gateway to the city, and its widening a benefit to the entire District, the Trinidad Citi- cens' Association, meeting in the Wheatley School, last night went on record as protesting against the wide range of assessments to adjoining prop- erty holders for that improvement, and appointed a committee to present their claims before the courts and District Commissioners, i It was the opinion of the organiza- tion that taxes for the work now fm- posed on r lents within a six-bloe area of the roadway was Imposing an unfair burden on many small property holders who would receive small benefit from the improvement. tee appointed by George J. Cleary, president, is headed by James e Nealon, chairman, and L. M. McVearry, secretary. William McK. Clayton was reindorsed and W. A. Roberts indorsed for the existing vacancies on the Public_Util ties Commission. The citizens official expressed their ' appreciation to the architects’ advisory council for its wori in regulating the architecture of the new Se: Roebuck & Co., store now being constructed on Bladensburg road. It was voted that the District health officer be advised of an alleged nuisance caused. by the storage of piles of old tin cans outside the Mount Olivet road Other resolutions adopted requested the proposed northeast branch Public Librdry be located north of H street, and asked the removal of the. comfort station at Fifteenth’ and H streets northeast, as a matter of traffic safety. . New members were elected, as fol- lows: Mrs. Bertha Militzer, Willlam Richard, Morris Chipreck, Mrs, L. A. Kent, C. H. Baker, Willlam Lowder, Arthur E. Beesly, William F. Beckwith, ea Island, near Bournemouth, England, which was the sits in 1907 of the first Boy Scout camp organized by Gen. Baden-Powell, is preserved by its woman owner as @ sanctuary for ‘The commit- | Held for Checks JEAN CALIMESE ROBINSON. Star Staff Photo. TEACHER DETAINED ON CHECK CHARGES Mies Jean C. Robinson Says She Is Confident of Being Cleared in Courts. ccused of having passed a worthless check for $5 on James Kanakas, 1419 N street, who has a business place at the Ninth and C streets bus terminal, Miss Jean Calimese Robinson, a school teacher of 212 Grant street, Cherrydale, Va.. today was lodged in the House of Dotention Detective Ira Keck of the police check squad. who arrested her in Virginia where she was in cus- tody on ancther check case. After Miss Robinson had been sent to the House of Detention a second bad check charge was preferred against her, the charge involving the giving of an alleged worthless check on a Strass- burg, Va., bank for $16 at Wocdward & Lothrop's in connection with a purchase she is reported to have made. Miss Robinson was questioned by the local detectives about two months ago, when, it is stated, complaint of a chec! transaction was made against her, but she was not arrested. she said she had heard of reports of other checks she was said to have given in Virginia, but declared she had ‘nolhmg to fear from a court investiga- {tion of them. She also said she was | confident of being cleared here. Miss Robinson, teacher of | grades in the coun | Chapel, rear Vionna, Va., was taken |to the county court at Fort Myer | Helghts, Va., where the court gave her five days’ in which to scttle the com- plaint, it appearing that she had not |been given the required legal notice about the transaction. three % e s Carnes Il in Prison, MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., April 30 (#)—Dr. Richard Binion, physician at Clinton S. Carnes, former treasurer of the Southern Baptist Home Mission Board, serving a five-to seven year term for embezzlement, is suffering from a | “bad case” of tuberculosis and has been confined in the prison tuberculosis hos- |, pital for two weeks. ‘This morning | school at Andrew | the State prison here, today sald that | FHER WL STDY ML BS EPD ;Commission Secretary to Make Inspection Trip Special Programs, Emphasiz- ing Benefits of Outdoor Piay, Will Be Held. MRS. HOOVER TO GREET MAY BASKET-BEARERS Dental and Physical Examinations to Be Given at Hygiene Stations, Schools and Hospital. One hundred thousand children are expected to join tomorrow in a city- wide demonstration and celebration of May day and Child Health day. Spe- cial programs, eémphasizing particularly the benefits of outdoor play, will be he'd at every playground in the city. Early tomorrow morning Mrs. Hoover will be presented with a May basket by five small children, in pursuance of the custom inaugurated five years ago when the celebration of May day as Child Health day first was sponsored by the American Child Health Association. Three girls and two boys will go to the White House with the gift of flow- ers, revising the old English custom of hanging the May basket on the door- knob and leaving it to be discovered later by the recipient, by waiting to be received by the PFirst Lady. The gift will represent the thanks of the chil- dren the country over for the presidens tial proclamation of May day. The five children who will present the | basket on behalf of the children of the | city are Mona Laurent, 12; Rosamond and Jacqueline Krah, 12 and 10 years; | David Barker, 7, and Bobby Kaem- merer, 4. Play Activities to Lead. on $170 Fund. Cetermined to obtain first-hand in- | formation on the financing, ggrauon {and regulation of model motor bus i’(en‘n!nals in other cities, ,the Public Utilities Commission today decided to spend $170 of the $240 balance in its contipgent fund to send Earl V. Pisher, ':xecuu\'e secretary, on an inspection Tip. The trip was planned several weeks | ago and subsequently canceled, due to | a ruling of Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer, which prevented the Commissioners from contributing sev- cral hundred dollars of District funds toward the expenses. At that time John W. Childress, chairman of the com- | mission, intended to accompany Fisher. Rather than abandon the trip en- tirely in view of the importance he at- tached to it, Chairman Childress took the question up again with the commis- sion, and as a result Pisher was dele- gated to go alone, and visit as many cities as possible with the $170. An extensive itinerary had been mapped out for the original trip, but Fisher announced he would be forced to condense it materially to keep within the $170 allotment. He expects to leave the latter part of the week. Information gathered by Fisher will used by the commission in pushing Ilts campaign for the erection in Wash- | ington of a ‘uniéon bus depot for the | lines engaged in interstate transporta- tion. As soon as Pisher returns Chair- man Childress said the commission | would call a public hearing of all op- erators of motor bus lines coming into ‘,:Nasmmizlon to discuss plans for the erminal. AIRPORT SITE URGED BY CITIZENS’ GROUP |Randle Highlands Association Backs Area Near District Line and Suitland Road. An area of land'lying between the | crete road to Suitland, Md., one-half mile from the District of Columbia- | Maryland line and embracing four se | arate tracts, was proposed for acquis | tion as the municipal airport last night | by the Randle Highlands Citizens' A: | School, Twenty-second and Prout treets southeast. Robert Robinson, member of the as- soclation, proposed the resolution which merits of the Suitland site for an air- | port were set forth. Mr. Robinson cited | the clevation of the land as valuable through its height above fog levels. The land includes the Providence Hospital fgrm, the Cary Co. tract, the Harris tract and a smaller farm.” In all, Mr. Robinson said, 500 acres could be ac- quired and conditioned at low cost.' Besides the airport proposition the association considered at length the 1931 street-paving estimates for its lo- | cality. Placing it first on its list of | streets in need of improvement, the as- ciation agreed to seek the paving of | Naylor road southeast from Good Hope | Hill to Fairlawn Park. The assoclation | agreed the second most urgent street improvement was Q street southeast. The street at present extends on through the 2500 block, making it nec- essary for the pupils of the Orr School classrooms or elss take a roundabout route several blocks longer. i Willilam Gaph presided over thie meet- ing. \Aviation Repair Base Planned Here For New York-Atlanta Mail Route This city will become a repair base on the New York-Atlanta airmail line next week as a result of the doubling of airmail service between Washing- ton and New York beginning Monday. Pitcairn Aviation, Inc., operators of the line, will station a mechanic at Hoover Pleld and will keep a reserve mail plane there for use on the line. Though Hoover Field is to be used for storage and repair work, Bolling Field will continue to be used as the operalions base for the line. Under the new program four planes will de- part from Bolling Field daily for New York-or Atlanta, ‘Th: night schedule will continue as at present, the southbound plane arriv- ing here at 11 p.m. and the north- bound plgne m. The 7 am, taking off for New York on the refurn’ trip at 6:45 pm. Sunday will mark the inauguration of Sunday flights on the local airmail line, the change of schedule from “daily except Sunday” to “daily” having been necessitated by a vast increase in the amount of mail handled on the™lne. The double daily schedule is to begin Mcmdlj Sunday marks the first anniversary of the New York-Atlanta airmail route. During that time the amount of mail carried each month has increased 200 per_cent. { Doubling of the mail service on the' local line is partly in response to the demand for increased service and partly to make closer connection with mail | Southern Maryland roed and the con- | sociation at its meeting in the Orr| the association adopted, in which the | to walk through ravines to reach their | Play activities will be the leading feature of the May day-Child Health ! day program this year. It is estimated that 70,000 white school children, 20,000 | colored, 4,000 parochial and all the non- 1 school children who can be gathered up 1 will participate, | ‘While the children are being given | denlal and physical examinations at i¢linics, the importance of sunshine and play in the development of healthy children will be explained to the par- ents by speakers from medical and dental societies. Children will be examined at all the child hygiene stations in the city, at tmany of the public schools and at the | Children’s Hospital. The examinations { at the hospital will be held from 1 to 4 o'clock. . From 10 to 12 c'clock ex- aminations will be held at the follow- ing school: Force-Adams, Brookland, Baneroft, Pea y, Johnson, Takoma Park, Ed- {monds, Woodridge, Petworth = and Henry, Examinations will be given at the same hour at the hygiene stations at 330 G street, 480 E street southwest, 900 Maryland avenue northeast, 1205 IPenn:ylVlnlu avenue southeast, 5327 Georgia avenue, 1201 Talbert sareet southeast and 2012 Rhode Island ave- nue. On Friday examinations will be given ‘at the Wheatley School from 10:30 am. to 3 pm. Hearing tests Will be held at the same school at 9:30 o'clock Thursday morning. Dr. Schwartz Is Chairman. Additional examinations- for colored children will be held at 11 a.m. tomor- row at Montgomery, Miner Normal and St. Cyprian's Parochial School. They | also will be examined at the hygiene INL{:tiluns named and at Children's Hos- | pital | " Dr. E. J. Schwartz, assistant health ofiicer of the District, is again serving as chairman of the May day-Health Iday commiitee. Assisting him will be i Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, in charge of the physical examinations at all health centers, and Dr. Stephen C. Hopkins, chairman of the committee on oral hygiene and public instruction of the | District of Columbia Dental Society. | More than 100 members of the dental society have volunteered their services for the examination and treatment of the teeth of poor children, and will give this service in their own offices. Dr. Viola Russell Anderson, director | of child health education of the Asso~ ciation for the Prevention of Tuberei-~ {losis, will make the rounds of the schools and health centers where the ! examinations are to be held. 2 Junior League Is at Work. Junior League members are actively supporting the program, having offered their cars to convey the children to and from the examination centers. Mrs, Walter Edge, wife of the Senator from New Jersey, also has offered her car for this purpose. Other members of the Junior League who have registered in- clude: Mrs. Dunlap, Mrs. Eugene Smith, Miss Louise Claytor and Mrs. Buttler. 3 The Potomac conference of the Seventh Day Adventists has announced ldh:!t it also will observe Child Heaith ay. The Adventist elementary schools. in Washington, Takoma Park, Arlington, Capital Heights, - Vienna, V; and Spencerville, Md., will be ’closed to allow the pupils to take part, M C. P. Sorenson, educational sec- ry of the Potomac conference, will | have charge of the program, which will | begin at 10 a.m:- Addresses will be mad> | by Rev. W. F. Martin, president of the | Potomac conference, and Prof. J. P. Neff, educational superintendent of the | Columbia Union conference. Queen to be Chosen. A May queen will be chosen from the school that has received the greatest percentage of gold stars and with the children who have recelved gold stars, will form the court. The gold stars will be awarded to children who have cor- rected all physical defects during the year. While athlctic contests are in progress during the afternoon, under the direc- | tion of Mrs, A. W. Truman, a free clinic will be conducted in thée sanitarium under the direction of Drs. A. W. Tru- man. the medical superintendent; D. E. Davenport, C. H. Wolohon. G. H.' John~ son, R. L. Runk and Hollis Russell. CRANDALL RITES ‘HELD. Funeral Services Are Conducted at ‘Washington Residence. Funeral services for Milton R. Cran- dall, veteran employe of the City Post Office, who died at his home, 5010 Arkansas avenue, Sunday, were coti~ ducted at the residence this afternqan, with Rev. Dr. H. Mankin officiat Interment was in Glenwcod Cemetery. Mr. Crandall was 67 years old. H» planes on the New York-San Francisco line, which will go on a double lchedulvl was the father of Harry M. Crandail of the Stanley-Crandall Co., opmm' of a chain of theaters, i