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3591601 SOUGHT FOR POLICE N 193 INDISTRIT BUDCET Increase of $505,651 Over Current Fiscal Year. Larger Force Asked. 100 NEW PRIVATES HELD NECESSARY FOR CAPITAL Captain and ‘Sixteen Lieutenants Also Favored—Armored Cars Item Omitted. Estimates of the sum required to run the Police Department during the fiscal year 1931 call for expenditures of $3,- 591,601, an increase of $505.65' over the appropriations for the 1930 fiscal year. The estimates were made public by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, the District’s budget officer, today. The main items which call for in- creases are personnel, $280,826; erec- tion of a storage building, $155,000, and new site for the first precinct station, §57.560. Under his request for increased per- gonnel, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superin- tendent of the department, asked for sonian Institution Compiles Epic of Iroguois Life. Confusing Legends Trace| Creation of Earth and Man by Mythical Beings. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Recovery of an aboriginal American epic, comparable in beauty and gran- deur of imagery to the Norse sagas or | to Beowulf, is announced by the Bureau | of American Ethnology of the Smith- sonian Institution. This epic, recounting the Iroquois version of the creation of man, is be- lieved to represent the high-water mark of Indian literary genius. While much of the imaginative splendor of the original is preserved in the bureau's literal translation, the lyric and emo- tional flights depend largely on the Iroquois language for their effect. The work is literally the Indian “Book of Genesis.” The m was recovered by Dr. J. N. B. Hewitt of the bureau staff, work- ing at intervals for nearly 30 years, whose translation has just been pub- | lished. The original composition, pre- ceeding by centuries the coming of the white men, was passed on from genera- tion to generation by word of mouth, | since the Iroquois had no written language. ‘The bulk increased by accretiops from each generation, Mr. Hewitt believes. one additional captain, 16 lieutenants, | Apparently after coming in contact with 100 additional privates, class 1; 50 pro- bationary detective sergeants, class A, and 30 probationary detectives of class B. The captain asked for would be assigned to the Traffic Bureau, where the assistant to the superintendent in charge now has the rank of lieutenant. Maj. Pratt plans to have the captain on duty from 8 am. to 5 p.m., and a lieutenant from 5 p.m. until 1 am., and @ sergeant from 1 a.m. until 8 am. Disposition of Officers. adventures of Dehaehiyawakho. familiar to every schoolboy as Hiawatha, but there is a very notable difference between this work of aboriginal creative white missionaries the Indians made an effort to incorporate material from the Bible, but they made such a bungling job of it that the collector has been able to differentiate and discard most such material. Epic Deals With Hiawatha~ The bulk of the epic concerns the He is Fourteen of the lientenants asked for | imagination and the work of Longfellow. would be sent to 14 precincts where lieutenants are now required to work 14 hours a day in spite of the law limiting their work to 8 hours. The reorganization of the Detective Bureau would be effected by adding 50 probationary detective sergeants with additional compensation of $3J0 each per annum and 30 probationary detectives of class B with $240 ad- ditional. Y “The business of theDetective Bu- reau,” Maj, Pratt wrote in support of the jtem, “is increasing to such an extent as to necessitate an officer of commissioned rank being constanily on duty. The assistant superintendent in commad retains supervision over said bureau during the entire 24 houre. He has as his immediate assistants an officer who, during his assignment to the Detective Bureau, holds the mythical cosmic_periods. ‘The New England poet had only a trace gl the story with which to work and e an thought like a white man instead of Indian. Consequently his Hiawatha became a Messiah of the type common in European mythologies. Compared to the grandeur of the original Longfellow's poem is a weak effort, but a first reading of the original is likely to leave any one not familiar with the basic principles of Indian thought confused, figures ordered dreams. ing gods gods he had ereated turned around and cie:;led man, who had not existed pre- vio as the symbolic shift into one another like dis- For instance, accord- to the original, man created the in his own image and then the y. Deals With Three Periods. The epic deals with three great First, a race rank and receives the pay of a captain | of gigantic, man-like beings dwelt on and is on duty in the daytime. “The acting lieutenant is on active duty from 4 p.m. until 12 midnight and a the upper surface of the sky, regarded as_a solid plane. In the sunless and moonless skyland, detective sergeant from midnight to 8 |lighted only by the snowy white flowers am. It is clear in the interests of |of a great tree of light, these creaturcs efficiency and effective service the man |dwelt in_ peace for countless genera- filling this assignment should be of | tions. The aged ohief. in fulfllment 11 rank comparable with the rank of those | a vision, married a young wife, Earth. on active duty in the various precincts h the craft of the fire dragon @he Toening Star INDIAN “BOOK OF GENESIS” RECOVERED AFTER 30 YEARS {Dr. J. N. B. Hewitt of Smith- DR. J. N. B. HEWITT. Below the sky was only the primal sea, also inhabited by man-like beings, the original forms of fishes and water fowl. When they say the lovely maiden Awehai falling through, cosmic space they flew up to meet her and brought her down gently on their backs. Meantime the fishes dived to the bot- tom and brought up earth which which they placed on the shell of a great tur- tle as a resting place for the celestial guest. J Tells of Earth’s Formation. At once she began to walk about tiny floating island, picking up hand fuls of earth and scattering it in ail directions. Thus the $Sland grew un- til she could no longer see its bounds. Shrubs and grasses began to grow, creating the earth. Eventually she gave birth to a daugh- ter, who was courted by many of the man-beings of the sea. The daughter married one of the race of the turtle her, however. She died in giving birth to twins. The grandmother Awehai hated one child and adored the other. She threw the first in the bushes to die, but he was rescued by his father. He set to wo"k to make the earth suit- able for man, whom he was to create. All the time his grandmother and younger brother tried to ruin his work. He carved out rivers so that man would have an easy way of transportation. They put waterfalis in them to defeat this purpose. For the most part the elder brother got the best of things. Finally the grandmother in desperation challenged him to shoot dice for the control of the world. He accepted and won. 1 Legend Confuses Reader. In this legend of creation man bodies | and animal bodies confuse the average | reader, who has difficulty in grasping the beauty of the conception. This, Mr. Hewitt points out, is simply because the reader of European ancestry is not ac- customed to thinking that way. The same apparent confusion runs through all Indian legendry. Dehaehiyawakho after creating men sontinued to make the earth fruitful and pleasant for them. But one day he awoke to find all the creatures which he had created absent. A bird told him his brother had captured them and shut them in a cavern. Before he could free them all his grandmother closed the . Those trapped became demons. who held up the earth. He deserted | WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 192 9, ® SINCLAIR EXPECTED 0 SERVE SENTENCE 0il Magnate Will Not Be Con- fined to Workhouse, Is Report Here. SURRENDER IS LOOKED FOR BY NEXT MONDAY Trial of Albert B. Fall Is Post- poned to October 7 by Justice Hitz. Harry F. Sinclair, New York oil mag- nate, who is expected to surrender Monday to United States Marshal Ed- gar C. Snyder to begin serving a sen- tence of 90 days for contempt of the United States Senate, will be confined in the United States District Jail dur- ing his imprisonment and will not be taken to the workhouse at Occoquan, Va,, it was said today in an authorita- tive quarter. No confirmation of this decision ‘was obtainable, but & prominent court offi- cial pointed out that the law under which Sinclair was convicted directs that he be kept in a “common jail,” and also called attention to the fact that it has been the practice in this District for all contempt sentences to be served at the jail. Chapman Confined in Jail. ! Elverton R. Chapman, the New York broker who defled the Senate, was kept at the jail and recently a local restau- rant keeper was released from that in- stitution after serving a contempt sen- tence for one year, imposed for viola- tion of a padlock injunction. A woman is now serving a sentence of four months for contempt of court. Justice William Hitz of the District of Columbia Supreme Court today for- mally postponed until October 7 the trial of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, which had been svhed-‘ uled for next Monday. Fall is.indicted on a charge of bribery, the Government | claiming that the $100,000 received by | him from Edward L. Doheny, oil mag-| nate of Los Angeles, in 1922 was a bribe and not a loan, as claimed by Doheny. The money was delivered to Fall in| Washington by Edwafd L. Doheny, jr., who was killed a few months ago. Pomerene Iliness Is Reason. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover | told the court the Government was asking for the postponement because of | the illness of Atlee Pomerene, former Senator from Ohio, one of the special | oll prosecutors, who had worked up the | case. Attorney Wilton J. Lambert, who | was of counsel for Fall at the trial of | the Fall-Doheny conspiracy case when the two men were acquitted, will again | represent Fall. It is rumored that At- torney Frank J. Hogan, counsel for | Doheny, will be associated in the de- fense when the case is tried. INDISTRICT JALL Top: Scene in the 500 block of Twenty-first street, where two trees were toppled into yards surrounding homes. Center: The wind tore the fire walil from the top of the house at 318 C street and Miss Dorothy McCoy (inset) was foreed to flee from her room on the top floor when the brick wall cracked. Below: On I street between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth, where a tree blocked traffic. PAGE 17 EXILE OPTIMISTIC —Star Staff Photo. FOR CHURCH-STATE ACGORD N MEXICE Archbishop Ruiz Expresses Hope for Early End of Religious Strife. PRELATE IS GUEST HERE OF CATHOLIC OFFICIAL Thinks Portes Gil’s Exoneration of Church in Revolt Opens Way for Negotiations. Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz, 64-year- old exile from his native land, Mexico, and head of the Mexican hierarchy, talked optimistically today of his chances of return and of the prospects of & settlement by arbiration of Mexico's long-standing church controversy. The little, quick-witted prelate, twice an exile from his country and survivor of the siege of Morelia by de la Huerta forces in 1923, smiled broadly as he told a reporter of his hope for an early end of religious strife below the border. Struggling masterfully with his cred- itable English vocabulary, the arch- bishop spoke eagerly of the recent an- nouncement by President Portes Gil exonerating the Catholic Church from responsibility for the revolution just ending. He thinks the statement opens the way for negotiations between the church and the state with a view to establishing “sincere religious freedom.” Views Good Will as Cure. ‘The archbishop was interviewed at the home of Rev. John Burke, general secretary of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, at 2405 Twentieth street, where he is spending a few days as a guest. From there he issued a statement last night stating that “the religious conflict in Mexico arises from no cause which cannot be corrected by men of sincere good will” and that “the church and her ministers are pre- pared to co-operate with President Portes Gil in every just and moral ef- fort made for the improvement of the people.” Discussing the situation in his coun= try with candor, the venerable Mexican expressed the opinion that the initial step toward a settlement should be = conference between authorized repre= sentatives of the church and of the government. He declared the Vatican stands ready to appoint delegates from the church to such a parley. Archbishop Ruiz manifested no bitter- ness toward those who exiled him. On the other hand. he commended highl; the Mexican president for his statemen! i clearing the church from complicity in the revolution. and said he was sure that “only good will” existed between the g];emmenm heads and the church | offje | Tells of Departure. ‘The archbishop even chuckled good- humoredly as he told how he and five other bishops were escorted to the bor= passage. ‘The full intricacy of the Indian symbol- ism becomes apparent here, Hewitt says. Roughly, the older and younger Throug] during the night. as they are constantly | of the white body, a meteor, he was led called upon to render immediate decis- | to suspect her of unfaithfulness. Re- fons in maters of grave importance.” | solving to cast her out of his dominions, stricted area, lots facing Quintana place, both sides, Betaacn Bith e der two years ago from Mexico City. Seventh streets. “Six bishops and five soldiers,” he iaughed. “We were taken to Laredo, ‘The two other lieutenants would with all her relatives, he tore up tnhe therefore be assigned to the Detective |tree of light, making a great hole in Bureau. Privates Called Necessary. ‘The increase of 100 privates asked for is described as “absolutely necessary” 2s a result of the continuously increas- effective character. New plans for training rookie police- men which will be possible if the de- partment secures the 100 aditional men are outlined as follows: “It is the purpose of this depart- ment to provide for a period of effec- tive training of new appointees after their assignment to patrol duty. * Pri- vates are at first appointed for a proba- tionary period of one year, and where pos , are sent to the school of in- struction for a period of 30 days’ train- ing. The demands for police service are 50 pressing that it is sometimes found absolutely necessary to discontinue the &chool of instruction in order that the men assigned thereto may be utilized for active duty. “‘With the increase of the force above noted it is the purpose of the depart- ment to permit vacancies to accumu- late to the number of 35. Such num- ber will be appointed as a group and will immediately be assigned to the school of instruction for a period of the sky, through which the sun now shines. He threw her and the others through ur“sl “lbyss and then replanted the tree of life. in; v forms of plant and animal life. g demands for police service of an|forms of plant and e chieftain replanted the tree of light. The only ones left in the skyland were the three elder brothers, mythical be- ings, who recur again and again in the They came to earth in_thc Thus ‘Then the great cosmology. brothers might compare with the God and the Devil of the eastern races..But they also are the spirits of Winter and Spring—the concealing of the creatures in the cave being the hibernation of Winter and the opening of the cavern's mouth being symbolic of Spring. The malevolent grandmother may be con- :lutlered a symbolic representation of ate. The epic story of the Iroquoise has various myths symbolic of death and resurrection, themes ever present in the minds of the Indian bards. 5 NEW YORK CAR FARE APPEAL LIMIT NEAR Interborough Must Ask Review of | Case Late Today or Lose Right to Do So. By the Assoclated Press. Unless the Interborough Rapid Tran- sit Co. files with the Supreme Court be- 60 days, during which time they will | fore 4:30 this afternoon a petition for be thoroughly grounded in the funda-|a review, it will lose its last right to mentals of Government, constitutional rights of citizens * * * and other fundamentals of their calling. move to have reopened the recent de- cision of the highest court setting aside | “At the expiration of 60 days of in- | an increase in street car fare in New tensive training, it is proposed to as- | York City. sign them to precinct duty for 15 days. ‘The decision of the Supreme Court They will return to the school of in-|was delivered April 8, declaring that struction for examinations and further the three-judge Federal Statutory instructions, the total training period | Court should not have granted the covering three full months.” Speaking of the recessity for an in- creased number of detectives, Maj. Pratt said that in 1928, 13,741 cases were assigned to the detective bureau for mvestigation. This made so much work, he said, that many cases of seemingly minor importance were nec- essarily neglected. By assigning the 80 probationary detectives asked for to work at the bureau, more time could be spent on assigned cases and addi- tional special squads could be insti- tuted to take care of certain classes of crime and to maintain a constant patrol at night of night clubs, pool- dance halls, etc. Maj. Pratt asked for a three-story garage building for storage purposes which would erable the department to keep in a fireproof building all lost, stolen and abandoned property coming into the possession of the department. The building could be erected, he said, on land now owned by the District im- mediately west of the seventh precinct station house, in Georgetown, New First Station House. The new first precinct station house is asked for having in mind the pos- sibility of the Federal Government taking over the land where it is now situated, on Twelfth between B and C streets. Maj. Pratt suggested land on the south side of E between Ninth and Tenth streets, to be purchased as a new Jocation for the first precinct station. ‘The request for two armored cars has been eliminated from the estimates, and in its place the following language sub- stituted: “The department is also desirous of purchasing two or more high-powered cars for use by the Detective Bureau and prohibition _enforcement ~squad, equipped. if possible, in such a manner as to afford the maximum protection to the officeres assigned to the duty therein” Fourteen motor cycles, one for each precinct as a reserve vehicle, are also asked. Heading an expedition, Prince Sixte of Bourbon has succeeded in crossing the Sahara by automobile over a hither- to unknown route that will bring Paris within 20 days from Agades, French Sudan, the journey heing accomplished in 16 daily stages. company a temporary fare increase from 5 to 7 cents. Under the rules of the coutt a petition for a rehearing | must be filed within 25 days. Early next week the mandate of the court will be issued, commanding the lower court to act in accordance with the April 8 decision. After today the only procedure open to the Inter- borough, should it decide to attempt to prevent the decision being made final, would be by satisfying the court there was good reason why it had not filed its petition within the time allowed by the rules. . Admiral's Death Shocks England. | PORTSMOUTH, England, May 3 () —Inhabitants of the town of Gos- port were shocked yesterday at news of the death of Engineer Rear Admiral Willlam G. Mogo, deputy major of Gos- port, who was found dead on the beach at Stokes Bay, near Gosport, with a bottle contalning a poisonous mixture at his side. The rear admiral, who was 68 years old, had a distinguished naval carcer and retired in 1919. His body was discovered by a woman passing along the beach. He had left his home here Wednesday afternoon. COMMUNITY CHEST SURVEY PLANNED Will Determine Number of Organ- izations in Each Division for Next Campaign. Plans for an immediate survey of the city by the division secretaries of the Community Chest, to determine the number of churches, citizens’ associa- tions, fraternal and other organizations in each division, were made at a meet- ing of the division secretaries at the Y. M. C. A. yesterday afternoon. L. W. De Gast, president of the secretaries’ | association, took this action at the sug- gestion of Elwood Street, director of the Community Chest. Washington is being divided for the next campaign according to the divi- sional maps to be used by the Census Bureau, although in several instances census divisions are combined in the Community Chest division. The secretaries will make a careful study of the new maps and of their territories, with a view to determining the number of teams to be placed in each division. While all the divisons were not assigned vesterday, territory was allocated to 15 of the secretaries as_follows: No. 2, Chevy Chase division, Miss Anna J. Keady; No. 3, Cleveland divi- sion, F. L. Dawson; 4 and 5, Potomac division, Miss Jean S. Cole; No. 7, west end, C. E. Fleming; No. 8, mideity, E. A. Drumm; Nos. 9 and 25, central division, Rev. Lawrence J. Shehan; Nos. 10 and 24, North Capitol, Mrs. Mar- garet Ford; No. 11, Iowa division, Maurice Bisgyer; No. 12, Dupont divi- sion, Miss Bertha Pabst; No. 13, Kalo- rama_division, Mrs. Walter S. Ufford; No. 15-b, Petworth division, Miss Saida Hartman; No. 16, Piney Branch, Miss Florence Dunlap; Nos. 18 and 19, Ta- koma division, Mrs. Frank E. Weedon; No. 27, southeast, Miss Lydia Burklin; No. 28, southwest, Mrs. Clara D. Neligh. Other divisions are to be assigned later. High Sch To Make Fire protection has its indisputable value, but when you have so much of it that the property which it safeguards is rendered useless, something has to ‘be_done. The school authorities are asking for $62,000 in their 1931 -estimates for additional stage equipment which will render the stages at Central and unbar High Schools usable. he District of Columbia fire marshal had ruled that the stages-m these auditoriums should be equipped With fireproof steel curtains on the basis that the auditoriums were theaters in _every sense of the word. Consequently, at the reguest of the school board, Con- Authorities Ask $62.000 Appropriation € ool Stages Fit for Us lgrvss appropriated $100,000 for the in- stallation of the curtains. The steel curtains subsequently were put in by the municipal architect at a cost of $91,000. In installing the steel curtains, how- ever, it was necessary to cripple the facilities for manipulating the other stage equipment and, too, the new cur- tains necessitated the purchase of cer- tain new drapes. Naturally there wasn’t enough money for this additional equip- ment and the school authorities now need the $62,000 to purchase electrical apparatus, counterweight systems and new drapes, so the stages, protected against fire since last Fall, may be used again. ” U..S. IS HELD ABOVE CHILD LABOR LAW Attorney General Mitchell ! Says Act Is Not Applica- ble to Government. The new child labor law of the Dis- trict of Columbia “is not applicable to minors employed in the Government Printing "~ Attorney General Mitchell has decided. In an opinion for President Hoover, the Attorney General implied that the law did not apply to any establishment of the Federal Government. Reviewing the statute the Attorney General states that, in his opinion, pri- marily the child labor law was a local regulation reported to Congress as a companion measure to the compulsory school attendance law. An opinion of a former Attorney General is cited to show that an act of Congress passed in 1914 regulating the hours of em- ployment of females in the District of Columbia “makes no reference to the Government of the United States and ! therefore is not applicable to the em- ployment of female help by the Gov- ernment.” Concluding the opinion, the Attorney General says: “The same considerations apply here, and it may be remarked that if the statute were held applicable it would apparently accomplish nothing of substance. The hours of labor re- quired, by existing regulations, of minors in the Government Printing Office are no more arduous than those which the statute would permit. “The Civil Service Conmimission ex- amines and certifies minors (messengers and apprentices) appointed in the Gov- ernment Printing Office, and, by regu- lations, which have the force of law, prescribes minimum requirements with Tespect to age, education, and physical condition equaily as high as those of the statute. Many of the appointees come from distant States. “It could not reasonably be intended that, upon arrival here, they shall be re-examined by .the department of school attendance, sitting thus in re- view upon the determination of the Civil Service Commission. Altogether the statute seems peculiarly inappro- priate of application to the PFederal civil service. My opinion, therefore, is that the act of May 29, 1928, is not applicable to minors employed in the Government Printing Office.” SENATE CONFIRMS WILBUR AS JURIST Appointed to Ninth Circuit by President—Other Nomina- tions Approved. The Senate late yesterday confirmed the appointment of Curtis: D. Wilbur, former Secretary of the Navy, to be ; judge on the ninth Circuit Court of | Appeals. At the same time the following other nominations were ratified: Chagles McK. Saltzman of Iowa, and William D. L. Starbuck of Conecticut, ,!{) be members of the Radio Commis- sion. Lawrence M. Judd of Hawail, to be governor of Hawail. John M. Goldsberry to be United States attarney for the northern digtrict O ) B ZONING APPEALS GRANTED, 8 DENIED Requests for Changes Heard at Public Hearing Last Wednesday. The Zoning Commission yesterday ap- proved eight and denied eight other requests for changes in zoning fieard at the public hearing last Wednesday. The commission set 10 am., June 5, as the date of its next hearing. All ap- plications for changes in zoning to be heard at this time must be in the hands of the commission not later than May 25. At this hearing the commission again will consider an amendment to the regulations allowing construction of fire engine houses, police stations, pumping stations and other municipal structures in residential zones, Changes Granted. ‘The changes granted by the cam-i mission_yesterday were: From' second commercial 90 feet D to industrial 90 feet D area, the square bounded by R, S, Half and First streets southwest. From residential 60 feet B to first commercial 90 feet C ‘area, rear parts of lots on the west side of Fourteenth street on both sides of Parkwood place. From residential 40 feet B restricted to first commercial 40 feet C area, the rear off the Park Theater property, Fouteenth street between Buchanan and Crittenden streets. . From residential 60 feet A to resi- dential 40 feet A restricted area, the strip of residential 60 feet A area on both sides of Massachusetts avenue from Macomb street to the District line except from Forty-eighth to Yuma streets. From residential 40 feet C to first commercial 60 feet C area, the south- west corner of Davenport and Forty- first streets. From first commercial 40 feet C to ! residential 40 feet A restricted area, the first commercial strip on both sidés of Eighteenth street between Otis and Randolph streets northeast. From residential 40 feet A restricted to first commercial 60 feet C area, par- cel 155-186, fronting Mills avenue, about 100 fest south of Rhode Island avenue northeast. From second commercial 40 feet D to residential 40 fect B area, lots on R street between Fourteenth and Six- teenth streets southeast. Petitions Denied. The following petitions were denied: From residential 90 feet C to first commercial 90 feet C area, the east side of Twentieth street between R and S streets. From first commercial 60 feet C to first commercial 90 feet C area, the corner of Massachusetts avenue, Fourth and C streets northeast. From first commercial 60 feet C to first commercial 60 feet D area, 647 to 659 H street northeast. From residential 60 feet B to first commercial 60 feet C, the northeast corner of Fourth and G streets north- east. - From residential 60 feet C to resi- dential 90 feet C area, the parts of 3620 Sixteenth street that lie more than 100 feet north of Oak street and front on Sixteenth street. From residential 60 feet restricted to residential 60 feet C area, 1610 Mon- Toe street. From residential 40 feet A semi-re stricted to residential 40 feet B e - tion at San Ildefonso, From first commercial 40 feet'C to | residential 40 feet A area, the flrst; commercial strips on both sides of | Sheridan road southeast. "TWENTIETH CENTURY | ' CLUB NAMES LEADERS ' Mrs. G. F. Bowerman Re-Elected President—Members of Board of Directors Chosen. Mrs. George F. Bowerman was re- clected president of the Twentieth Cen- | tury Club at its annual meeting yester- | day at the National Press Club. The | first vice president, Mrs. Will C. Barnes; second vice president, Mrs. Walter W. Husband, and recording secretary, Mrs. | Sidney H. Thompson, also were re- elected. Other officers elected were: Corresponding secretary, Mrs. Geoffrey Creyke; treasurer, Miss Jane Randolph Young, and assistant secretary, Mrs. Frank R. Rutter. The following were elected to the board of directors for two years: Mrs. Glenn S. Smith, Mrs. Ernest R. Mc- Comas, Miss Joy L. Webster, Miss Mysa |H. Hendley and Mrs. Francis M. Goodwin. Mrs. Louis W. Laudwick, Mrs. Stanley Sears, Mrs. Lawrence J. Potter, Mrs. H. A. Haywood and Mrs. John C. Wilson | were clected to membership in the club. Reports from the club officials dis- | closed that there were 456 members and | that the club had on hand $3,126.32. It was decided that the club hereafter | would make its contributions to the | | Community Chest instead of giving to | | individual organizations. | It was voted to hold the meetings | hereafter in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A.| | Building, instead of the National Press | | The business and parliamentary law | sections are having a picnic today at | the residence of Mrs. Edward Clifton Thomas, Kirkside, Silver Spring, Md. On Saturday, May 11, the literature and art sections will have a picnic at the residence of Mrs. Frederic E. Farring- ton, and on May 23 there will be a picnic of the section of education at the | home of Mrs. Thomas W. Sidwell. Mrs. | Eugene Byrnes announced a meeting of | the music section May 21, at which she said there would be “Spring music.” Mrs. W. W. Husband announced a meet- | ing of the international outlook section | on Monday afternoon at the Y. W. C. A. when P. J. Stevenson will speak on | | “South Africa, the Land of Contrasts.” | COL. J. B. GOWEN MADE BRIGADIER GENERAL Col. James B. Gowen, United States | | Infantry, stationed at Fort Hayes, Co- | | lumbus, Ohio, has been promoted to the | |grade of brigadier general to fill the | vacancy caused by the retirement of | Brig. Gen. Michael J. Lenihan because of age. Gen. Gowen is from New York, was graduated from the Military Acad- emy in 1898 and served in the Infantry in the Philippines, Alaska, Panama, | France and as executive officer of the Army War College, this city, from June, 1919, to June, 1923. He was brevetted for gallantry in ac: P. I, in Decem- ber, 1899. During the World War he was chief of staff of the 38th Division | and later was attached to the training | section of the general staff at head- | quarters, A. E. F. He is an honor grad- | uate of the Army School of the Line, we Army Staff College and the Army ar need of periodic health examinations, at its twin city, Barmen. there was no _epidemic, although the sousce of infection not been found, POSTIVE CANGER CURE LA HT Dr. Warner Advises: Early Operation, X-Ray or Ra- dium Treatment. The man who claims a positive cure for cancer is either a fool or a faker, Dr. John Warner, Washington surgeon, de clared last night at the public meeting of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia. “You may be sure,” he continued, “that the man who advertises some cancer nostrum has only got a gold brick. No medicine, Indian herb or otherwise, is going to reach it.” Dr. Warner emphasized that the only treatment of cancer with any prospect of success was by early operation re- moving the “wild cells” entirely or by X-ray or radium treatment which would kill them without injuring normal cells. | President Foote's Address. Placing value on a child as a child, said Dr. John Foote, newly elected president of the society, is something comparatively new in history. Through the ages, he pointed out, there is hardly a single child picture except as a mem- ber of a family group or with a halo around its head in a religious picture The attitude toward the child, he pointed out, was partly responsible for an enormous infantile death rate, some- times running as high as 50 per cent during the first year. Sewers of great cities were plugged up with infant | bodi Thousands perished in “baby | farms,” where they were sent with no expectation that they would live. Due to the great advances in science and the changed attitude toward the child, Dr. Foote pointed out, the present century is “the age of the child.” Much of the transformation, he said, was due to physicians. Stresses Work of Medical Society. He stressed the work of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia for pure milk and pure water in this city. Before that, he said, many families con- sidered it practically impossible to keep a child alive in Washington during the Summer because of the heat. Now there are less deaths in Summer than in Winter. , Such infant scourges as smallpox, tuberculosis and diphtheria have been almost eliminated. The society was presented a gavel made from timber from the birthplace of Dr. Walter Reed by Maj. Gen. Mer- ritte W. Ireland, surgean general of the Army. Dr. William A. White, superintendent of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, spoke of the relations between the public and the physician and Dr. Coursen B. Coklin, secretary of the society, stressed the Bridge Applications Approved. Approval has been given by the War Department_to the application of the Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Rallroad Co. for permission to convert its drawbridges across Quantico Creek Tex., where we were received graciously by the American consul. I have been in the United States ever since, except for a trip to Rome last year, when I reported to the Holy Father on the Mexican situation.” The experience was not a novel one, he pointed out, as he had been exiled in 1914 for five years during the Car- ranza uprising. Fifteen other bishops were exiled with him at that time. It was in 1923 when de la Huerta rose against Obregon, that Archbishop Ruiz heard the voice of machine guns and the whine of bullets over his house. He was under siege in his home in Morelia for three days, during which 8,000 sol- diers under Gen. Estrada fought des- perately in the streets for possession of the city. Asked for Blessing. “I found out who won on the third day from a wounded man who stumbled into my residence,” the archbishop said. “He was bleeding at the wrist and had a handkerchief wrapped about his hana. I asked him whether he was a Federal or a rebel and what he wanted. He said he was a rebel and that victory had come to his army. “He asked me for a blessing, but re- fused to accept first aid for his wrist. Then he said his captain was lying in the throes of death across the street, and would I sent a priest to administer the last rites to him. I complied. “He seemed very happy, and I asked him why this was so. “‘Ah!" he explanied, ‘I am quite happy because my superior officer has told us ‘we may loot the town for two hours!" “That is the philosophy of some of POWER CO. ACTIVITY SHOWN AT HEARING | California Group's $100,000 Ex- penditure Partly for Legishtive Representative, Witness Says. An annual expenditure of $100,000 by the Light & Power Association of California, including the maintenance of a legislative representative at Sac- ramento and a $25,000 to $30,000 con- tribution to the California Taxpayers® Association, was disclosed yesterday by its secretary, James Pollard of Salinas, before the Federal Trade Commission. Pollard and A. E. Wishon of Oakland, the secretary between 1923 and 1927, were witnesses at the commission’s in- stigation into publicity activities of California public power utilities. They testified as to the expenditure of funds by the association and its part in the State referenda on the water and power act in 1922, 1924 and 1926. u'l'he :ssodn"hunn is composed of executives of eight power companies of the State. Pollard testified that the financial transactions of his organization were kept “in a single ledger,” and addea that he “had received one volume when he took over his office from Wishon showing the receipts and disburse- ments.” He sald this was kept by him for several months and then “disposed of.” and Chopawansic Creek, near Quantico, Va., into fixed bridges. g L Fever Sweeps Ruhr District. BERLIN, May 3 (#).—An outbreak of typhus fever was reported today from the Ruhr district. There were 50 cases and 1 death at Elberfeld, with 10 cases It was sald Pollard testified that Elmer P. Brom- ley of Los les had been main- tained at the State capital as legis- lative representative. He said Bromley was paid a salary and traveling and living expenses while at Sacramento. Dus the 1927 legislative term, Pol- lard declared, Bromley was paid $7.000 for expenses, and that during the first four months of the present session he had received $4,500. Bromley was not uired to render an accounting for expenses, d added. ¢