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: . SCHENCK INDICTED €Former Policeman Accused ~April 2, sale. ‘riding his motorcycle to answer an WASHINGTON, B, Gl WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1929. PAGE 17 BY GRAND JURY ON of Taking $160 From Three Places. SIX FACE JONES LAW VIOLATION COUNTS Driver of Car With Which Motor| Cycle Officer Buchanan Crashed Is Not Named. Prederick A. Schenck, former police- man of the third precinct, was indicted today by the grand jury on three charges of robbery at the point of a | pistol. February 12 last, it is alleged, he entered the Sanitary Grocery store at 1310 Fourteenth street and took $114.69 from the cash register after | displaying a pistol to Willlam H. Conk- Iyn, the manager. ! February 19, it is stated, he Vlslledl a gasoline filling station at Fourteenth and D streets and after intimidating the manager, Kenny C. Van Meter, took $26.28 belonging to the Standard oui February 20, it is charged, he held | up Russell C. Bennett at 2400 Sixteenth | street and obtained $20.. Forgery Indictments Returned. Four indictments were reported against John H. Fowler and Thomas | N. McCoo, both colored, on_charges of | forgery. 'The men are said to have | rified letter boxes in a number of | apartment houses and to have forged ! the names of the payees and secured the money. | Violations of the Jones-Stalker law | are charged against six persons. Those | accused are: Alfred Pryor, March 16, transportation; Paul Davis, March 12, sale; Willie Kinard, March 26, trans- portatida; Robert E. Shipman, March 31, sale; Charles E. Wood, April 10, transportation, and Charles Beale, ‘Third offense violations of the na- tional prohibition law are charged against Manson Hill and Nathaniel Two Homicide Cases Iznored. ‘The grand jury ignored two homicide cases referred to it by the coroner’s jury. The grand jurors refused to dict Fred L. Lenoir, who was driving an automobile into which Policeman Willilam S. Buchanan crashed while emergency call April 18. The collision occurred at Seventh street and New Hampshire avenue and resulted in the death of the policeman. ‘They also exonerated Enoch Wash- ingion and Reid Johnson, charged with causing the death of John Harris March 20. The grand jurors also ignored charges of violation of the Jones law against Alfred C. Washington, Mary ‘Treadway, Annie Dow, William A. Miles and John Moore. A charge of embezzlement against Velpean O. Tap- ¢y, housebreaking against Carrie J. ‘Thomas and George E. Hoffman and of forgery against John T. Donnelly also ‘were ign L. Other Indictments. Others indicted and the charges against them include: Aaron Godfrey, Beverly Walker and Willlam A. Smed- ley, assault with a dangerous weapon; James Thomas, housebreaking and lar- ceny (three cases); Leroy Jones and ! Harry E. Thomas, housebreaking; Curtis F. Weaver, receiving stolen prop- erty; Robert A.‘Glenn, forgery (two cases): Franklin Bartholomae and David E. Miller, forgery; Joseph E. Par- sons, Lester Holland, Carl Gray and Donald Hoke, robbery; Samuel C. Swartz and John Miller, embezzlement; Ernest E. Nelson, false pretenses; Stew- art K. Hill, nonsupport; George W. Reed and George Maynard, joy riding, and Prank Jones, carnal knowledge. UPRIGHT DEALINGS URGED ON LAWYERS| Justice Van Devanter, in Address| to Club, Outlines Surest Road to Success. Associate Justice Willis Van Devan- ter of the United States Supreme Court, speaking last night at the seventeenth annual banquet of the Carroll Law Club of Georgetown University, advised | not been reflected in workers’ earnings, Mere Man Found Very Mere Indeed By Labor Women Restaurateurs Who Judgc! Waitresses by Form “Unspeakable.” ‘The man who prefers a handmade necktie to the machine-made article 1= an unspeakable, and the restaurant proprietor who won't employ a waitress if she isn't pretty or weighs more than 120 pounds is a menace to soclety. Men are not so smart, any way you take ‘em. These conclusions were arrived at this morning by woman workcrs affiliated with the National Women's Trade Union League, meeting in convention in the Grace Dodge Hotel. /. svmorsium on wages was the order of the day and what resulted was an experience meet- ing, with no one present to ive mere man a break. Willlam McMahon, pres- ident of the United Textile Workers, walked in just as a garment worker hurled a split infinitive at employers generally, but he was not :n humor to take any sides, having just returned from Elizabethton, Tenn., where £,000 rayon workers are on strike. All the members of the League are actively identified with the labor move- ment among women. Several, who spoke this morning, are on leave from their jobs in various trades. Garment work- ers, waitresses, telephone company em- ployes, and others worked themselves into a fine state of vigor and table pounding as they set forth the “in- equalities” of women in industry. Co-ed Waitresses Hit. “If the school teachers and college co-eds would mind their business and quit trying to wait on table, wages | would be better in the waitress busi- ness,” Miss Sarah Green.of Kansas City, vehemently told the delegates. “I'm out of a job right now because I weigh. more than 120 pounds and my figure didn’t suit the proprietor,” she said. “The school teachers are not | waitresses, and if they don't stay ou of the business they'll have us all in | the bread line.” Attracting considerable applause, Miss Green warmed to her subject. “Two years ago I was in Glacier Na- tional Park and the people were admir- ing the pretty Dutch waitresses at the inn,” she related. “I found that every | one of them was a country school| teacher. I wanted to kill every one of | them before I left.” Men who prefer the handmade neck ties were put on the block during a dis- cussion of the effect of seasonal and part-time employment on _earnings. Miss Rose Schneiderman, president of the league, suggested that the time has come when woman workers should de- mand a guaranteed tenure of employ- ment such as school teachers enjoy. It was suggested, however, that an em- ployer cannot guarantee jobs when he has no way of determining the demand for the article he is manufacturing. Part-time Workers Discussed. For example, said Miss Mary Engle- man of New York City, the increasing demand of men for the handmade ties had caused a reduction of from 30 to 40 per cent in average earnings in the necktie industry in New York State in the last five years. Mai ‘women and others seeking extra money take home plecework, she said, and the regular worker assigned to the machine is de- prived of that much labor. “And the effect of changing fashions,” | said another worker, sighing. “There was a time when the shoe trade was considered stable. But will a woman wear last season's brown oxfords? She will not. She has to have pink. and while the factory is readjusting its ma- chinery to make pink shoes the worl ers are idle. Miss Lillian Herstein of Chicago Fed- eration of Labor, asserted t women spould ask the question “what fashion” and determine whether there is any esthetic value in changing modes. ‘The consensus was that the situation resulting from changing styles in shoes obtains throughout that part of in- dustry catering to women’s Wwear. Prosperity Not Seen. The prosperity of the country has insisted Miss Ethel Smith of Washing- | ton. Men's earnings have increased in the last five years, but women's have decreased, she said. Miss Herstein ‘wanted to know why. “It is because men e brought from their Garden of Eden days the idea that women ought to be protected?” she asked. “The employers say women are not as regular in their work as men, that they have to be at home when their family has iliness. But why stay home when others are sick? Can't a| child or husband give Aunt Sarah a hot-water bottle?” Earnings Half Those of Men. The women could not satisfy them- selves why they earn less money, hut they were armed with an impesing ar- ray of figures and reports to show that such is the case. Miss Herstein quoted from Massachusetts, Illinois and New* York reports to show that women wage earners in industry received on an aver- age of 55 per cent of the weekly wage earnings of men. The women took the position that no accurate check on unemployment could | be had until part-time workers were taken into account. Company pay rolls the members to put upright dealings their practice of law before every-| thing else, since it was the surest road | to_success. | The banquet. which was held in the | Hamilton Hotel, was attended by morc | than 50 persons. Besides Justice Van Devanter the guests of honor were Rev 1 Thomas B. Chetwood, §. J., regent of | the Law School, and Prof. Michael| Doyle. Assistant Dean Hugh J. Fegan | was unable to attend. The dinner marked the retirement | ot the officers of the club for the past vear and the installation of those re- cently elected. The officers for the coming school year are William O'Neil, chancellor; Ted Heffron, vice chancel: lor; James J. Winters, controller; J. J. O'Connor, recorder and_secretary, and | Paul Albis, censor. The retiring offi- | cers are J. Herbert Walsh, chancellor; Matthew O'Callahan, vice chancello; | William O'Neil, recorder and secre- | tary: John J. Curry, controller, and | Wiiton Steinbauer, censor. Donald Stumpf of the fourth-year class was toastmaster. BRAINARD QUITS MARINES| FOR CURTISS AIR SERVICE | Major to Become Vice President, in | Charge of All Opera- tions. Maj. E. H. Brainard, chief of Marine Corps aviation since March 1, 1925, is resigning from the service, the Navy Department announced today, to be- come _vice president of the Curtiss Pl ing Service in charge of all operations and schools. In making this snnouncement the department sald that Ma). Brainard has requested leave beginning next Monday to continue to the end of the month. About June 1 he will take up his new duties, the first of which will consist of inspection visits to the various fields, studying ethods employed. The famous “Casey” Jones is president of the company, which is a $6,500,900 corporation with 20 fiying fields now in scperation.and 20 more planned. do not show this division of labor, they said, and it was on the part-time worker they placed most of the onus. POLI ] | CEMAN INJURED IN MOTOR COLLISION Emmett E. Saar Knocked Off His | Cycle—Two Others Seriously Hurt in Traffic. Of 12 persons hurt in traffic nccl-' dents yesterday afterncon and last night, only three suffered injuries re- garded as serious. One of the latter, Emmett E. Saar, 33-year-old member | of the Park Police force of Seat Pleas- | ant, Md., was treated at Casualty Hos- pital for a fractured fool and lacera- tions to his knees and elbows sus- tained in & motor cycle accident, while the remaining two were at Casualty today, following & collision of two cars yesterday afternoon at Fourth and K streets northeast. John _Dessey, 57, 822 Kentucky | avenue southeast, driver and lone ocen- pant of one of the cars, was reported in & fair condition today, as was Mrs. R. C. Robinson, 44, of Raven, Va. a | passenger in the second machine. Five { other occupants of the latter automo- bile, including a_5-month-old baby, all { of Raven, were given first aid for minor injuries and dismissed. Saar _was riding his motor cycle across Benning Bridge yesterday after- ncon when he was hurled to the pave !ment in a collision with a motor truck driven by Robert F. Brooks, 20 years old, of the 1500 block of D street south- -ast, employe of the Potomac Electric Power Co. Five-year-old Harold Banks, colored, 1413 T street; Howarl Willlams, 12 years old, 216 G street: Andrew Nowak, 18 years old, Oxon Hill, Md,, and Annie R. Hoper, colored, 39 years old, of the 2000 block of Elevemet. were oth- eers hurt in traffic L | burn, Richmond, Va., | PHILADELP. “TIME TEMPLE" IN WASHINGTON IS PROPOSED BY WATCHMAKERS Building to Be Erected Here at Cost of $1.,000,000 Woul d HOUSC HOI’O— logical Library. Plans to erect in Washington a $1,000,000 “Time Temple” are under consideration by the Horological -Insti- tute of America, it was announced at the annual meeting in the National Academy of Sciences Building this morning. . A survey has been undertaken, was revealed, to determine the feas! bility of securing funds for such a building and also for an endowment on the institute, which now functions as a member of the National Research Council. The building, as contemplated by the institute, would contain a great horo- logical library and masterpieces of the watchmaker's craft and would be in- tended as a national educational center for the science of borology. $80,000 Collection as Nucleus. Members of the institute this morn- ing had their first opportunity to view the collection of 30 watches value at $80,000, from the estate of the late James Ward Packard, automotive en- gineer and inventor, which would serve as a nucleus for the exhibit in the proposed time bullding. it ‘These watches represent the finest achievements in making_accurate and complicated timepieces. Several are 53- jewelled watches. One., an astronom- ical watch of incredible intricacy, is valued at $7,000. It not only keeps track of the seconds, but tells the day, week, month and year, the mean solar time and the apparent solar time, and the time of sunrise and sunset each -day. Changes Automatically. The watch changes automatically at the end of each month, making the | correct adjustment at the end of 30, 31 or 28 days, and automatically adds a day for leap year. When the back is opened a miniature sky is shown dotted with gold stars and the mechan- ism changes the positions of these stars with the season. The institute plans an agressive cam- paign for endowment, new members and public interest. Its chief function at present is to certify watch makers after standardized examinations for the protection of the public against in- competent workmen. BUILDING ON WAY INWOMEN'S HONOR World War Work Commem- orated in Red Cross Struc- ture Nearing Completion. Exterior construction of the new building of the American Red Cross, raised in honor of the women of the World War, is now practically com- pleted. The contractor, Charles H. Tompkins Co., which is doing the work, under direction of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Pub- lic Buildings and Public Parks, said to- day that the plastering work is well along, and after it dries the work of placing the interior marble will be be- gun. Red Cross officials said today that dedication of the new building will take place early in December, coincident with the annual meeting of the central committee of the American Red Cross. This new structure, which is on the north side of the square bounded by Seventeenth, D and E and Fighteenth streets, is one of three projected to form a quadrangle under plans of the National Capl!t Park and Planaing Commission. The national headqusriers of the American Red Cross are on Seventeenth street and projected plans call for & new building ‘to replace the temporary office structure now c¢n D street. A fourth building on the west side of the square is proposed to complete th quadrangle, forming one of the features of the area bounded by New York ave- nue, B and Seventeenth streets, called by Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, “the triangle of the amenities.” CIVITANS ADVISED 0 AID COMMUNITY Social Ends Placed Second- ary by Convention Speaker. Officers Elected. Obstacles to be, overcome by service clubs are primarily those of indiffer- ence, improper organization and Jack of co-operation with administrative headquarters, Clarence L. Harding, a trustee of Civitan International, said yesterday in an address before a con- vention meeting of Civitans from the Chesapeake district at the La Fayette Hotel. * "The speaker stressed the fact that Civitan® Clubs are organized for civic service rather than soclal ends, and urged his listeners to ‘“sell Civitan to others and so perpetuate the ideais of good citizenship, for which it stands.” Another speaker before the luncheon meeting _was Blanche Yurka, leading lady in Ibsen's play, now at the Belasco Theater, who paid a tribute to the playwright, expressing admiration for Ibsen not only as a writer but as a man and as a deep student of sociology. After luncheon the Civitans went into business session to elect officers and hear a’ message of greeting sent by James Nelson McLean, president of Civitan International. Reports were returned from presi- dents of the clubs of Washington, Bal timore, Annapolis, Richmond, Norfolk, Hunaker, Abingdon and St. Paul, upon the work that each of the organi- zations was doing for the improvement of the community. Officers elected by the convention were Dr. Morris Townsend, Washington; R. C. Thompson, Abingdon, Va.; Claude M. Baine, Norfolk, Va., and C. H. Ash- district gover- nors; B. J. Wiegard, Annapolis, lieutenant governor, and Ernest Reul sen, Washington, district secretary- treasurer. ‘Those elected to represent the Chesa- peake district at the national Civitan convention at Atlanta, Ga., this June were Dr. C. D. Curtis, delegate, and Harold Tschubi, alternate delegate. HIAN'S WIDOW SUCCUMBS AT AGE OF 55 Woman Dies in Capital, Where She Made Her Home for Near- ly Forty Years. Effic May Davis, widow of Ralph E. Davis of ~Philadelphia, died &t her home, 3417 Fourteenth street, yesterday. Mrs. Davis was born in Wheeling, W. Va., December 18, 1863, and had been a resident of Washington for more than 38 years. Mrs. Davis is survived by a son, Howard R. Davis of Washing- ton; and four daughters, Mrs. Joseph F. Davis, Mrs, R. D. Browell, Mrs. C. C. Moberly and Miss Mina E. Davis. Funeral services will be held at the S. H. Hines Co., funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street, at 2 o'clock tomor- row. Interment will follow in Cedar HUl Cemetery, INJUNCTION ISSUED ON SHORE PADLOCK Tire Shop Owner, Employes, One a Woman, Named in U. S. Writ. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover and Assistant United States Attorney Harold W. Orcutt today obtained.tem- porary “padlock” injunctions in the District Supreme Court against Frank Shore, owner of premises at 1223 New York avenue -and proprietor of a tire shop at that address, as well as against James H. Heall, Harry Shore and Mae Money, said to be his employes. Seve eral alleged violations of the liquor law | are set forth. | Pending hearing of the case the court also issued personal injunctions against Shore and his employes preventing them from soliciting or receiving orders for the purchase of intoxicating liquor, from what is said to have been a large clientele of the chief defendant. ‘This phase of the national prohibition law for an injunction, which might be termed “ambulatory,” has never before been invoked in this jurisdiction, it is stated. This part of the injunction covers not only the premises, but the entire District, it is stated. The petition for infunction sets forth € | the details of three raids at the prem- ises 1223 New York avenue, where on one occasion several truckloads of al- leged liquor were seized by the raiding :fl:cn. Otmy'edn le:' days ago another was stay and several truckload: of alleged whisky were taken. Y SPACE FOR TAKERS - OF GENSUS SOUGHT 180,000 Square Feet Will Be Needed for Bureau, Says Senator Smoot. | | | lics | The problem of finding office space | for the thousands of additional workers | to be employed by the Census Bureau | the latter part of this year, for the tak- |ing of the 1930 census, was tackled to- | day by the Public Buildings Commis- | sion, but no decision was reached. Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah, chairman of the commission, said the bureau would require about 80,000 | square feet of space for the temporary expansion of the bureau during the cen- sus period, which would be equivalent to about four-fifths of the size of the De- partment of Justice quarters. He said the commission would have to make a survev of the Government’s housing situation before deciding what arrange- ments to make for the Census Bureau. ‘The normal working force of the cen- sus unit at the present time is located in one of the temporary structures on | the Mall. | The commission devoted its entire | session today to discussion of the needs | of Federal hureaus for rearrangsment | for office accommodations. \RETIRED POLICEMAN, A. ). \'DONALD, DEAD 1sarved on Capital Force, Part of Time at White House, From 1879 to 1924. Alexander J. McDonald, retired police- man, died at his home, 1368 pgerry lace, early this morning, after a long HieDonald, a nats cDonald, a native of New Richmond, Wis., was born May 6, 1850. He served in the 5th United States Cavalry and was discharged at Fort D. A. Russell, So!'l:{enr:cx u:lyfl.l‘ ]nh D?cernber, 1869, ng to this city shortly after receiv- ing his discharge. . He was appointed in the Police De partment September 17, 1879, and w an active member of the force until shortly before he was retired, November 1, 1924. He served as a member of the White House police squad during the Roosevelt administration and also filled a (l!;lnl‘l‘ at lhe’ French embassy. e 1s survived by four daughters, | Misses Mary E., Josephine, Prances and Marie McDonald, and a son, J. A. Mc- Donald, a retired policeman. The de- ceased was a member of the National Union and Police Relief Assoclation. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday morning at Sacred Heart Church. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. STALEY QUITS ARMY. Resignation from the Army of Second Lieut. Walter G. Staley, of this city | has bzen accepted by President Hoover. Licut. Staley, an Infantry officer, has Brooks Field, Tex. He was graduated from Western High School in 1923 and from West Polnt in June, 1928, been on_duty with the Air Corps at! POLCENENPEAE BOOKE SUSPECTS TOCURBGANBLI Officers Keep Close Watch on | Establishments in First Precinct. DRIVE WILL EXTEND OVER ALL OF DISTRICT Patrons May Be Called Before the Grand Jury to Testify for Government. Picketing of suspected bookmaking | establishments by uniformed officers has been adopted as the Police Department's | latest weapon to force these places out of business, it was learned today. The picketing campaign, started | Thursday on a small scale by Capt. F. S. W. Burke of the first precinct, in which most of the alleged bookmakers have their establishments, will be ex- tended as soon as additional officers are available. _Already, howevet, according to Capt. Burke, two of the places at which police pickets were stationed have closed rather than have the uniformed officer standing guard at the entrances, scrutinizing patrons. Plans Grand Jury Action. Capt. Burke revealed that it fis planned to continue picketing the estab- lishments until they either close volun- tarily or until sufficient evidence is gathered by the police to present to the grand jury. The officers on picket duty have been instructed to make note of the names of all persons they Tecognize who frequent these places with a view to summoning them before the grand jury as Government witnesses when proper evidence has been obtained | against any suspected bookmaker. Although the picketing campaign has been comparatively brief, Capt. Burke said the pickets have turned over to him “a fairly substantial list” of names | of recognized patrons of the establish- ments. “It is possible,” he said, “that 1 some of them will be summoned before the grand jury.” Only four of the suspected bookmak- ing establishments in the first precinct | have been picketed since adoption of { this method of attack, because Capt. { Burke has not had sufficient men avail- ;nbl.e to assign to other places where he ,hns reason to suspect that handbooks are being made on the races. The four places were in close proximity to each other in the downtown business section. Two Remain Open. { One of the establishments which closed soon after the police picket went on duty at the front door was on I street near Fourteenth street. The other was on G street between Twelfth and | Thirteenth streets. The pickets, how- | ever, have not yet succeeded in forcing the other two places to close. One is located on.Fourteenth street between G and H streets and the other is on Thirteenth street, near Pennsylvania avenue. ! While picketing has been resorted to | in the past to force suspected speak- easies_and disorderly houses to close, Capt. Burke said he believed it to be the first time that the plan has been adopt- ed against bookmakers. The success thus for, Capt. Burke said, indicates that it may be the most effective weapon used against the bookmakers. Numerous raids, Capt. Burke pointed out, failed.to close bookmaking estab- lishments. In many cases, he said, the places reopened soon after the police m'ghlm' keting paign, h e e picketing cam , however, he believes, will make it embarrassing for persons to frequent the establishments, particularly when they know they may be summoned before the grand jury. Even after the places close, Capt. Burke said, the police will keep a close check on the proprietors to learn whether they reopen in another loca- tion, and if they do, picketing will be resumed. FREEDOM OF PORT ABUSE DESCRIBED i Lowman Says Difficulty Lies in Finding Status of Officials. Abuse of the “freedom of the port” regulation, in the opinion of Assistant Secretary Lowman of the Treasury, i caused by difficulty in determining who “other high officials: of this and for- eign governments may be.” ‘In a letter to Senator Vandenburg, Republican. Michigan, Mr. Lowman said that United States Senators and Representatives have been admitted un- ‘der this classification when returning from foreign missions. The letter wi in reply to a suggestion by the Mic | igan Senator that a statutory ban be placed on the practice of according freedom of the port. Senator Vandenburg declared he could see no reason “why there should be any ‘freedom of the port' for any returning American travelers except in reciprocal necessities of diplomatic | usages.” His views are shared by manv | at the Capitol and a move against the practice is under consideration in Con- 'SPEAKER PICTURES | D.C.70 YEARS HENCE | Park and Transportation Facilities of Capital Are Discussed by Elliott. The transportation -and park facili- | (ies of Washington 70 years hence were envisioned last night by Charles W. Elliott, member of the National Capital | rark and Planning Commission. in an illustrated lecture at the Jewish Com- munity Center. The. speaker pointed out that the future expansion of ihe Capital rests in a large degree on development of a | transportation system. He described a layout of streets, with three traffic lanes, one overhead, eliminating of all intersections. Mr. Elliott predicted that the future growth of the Capital would follow the rivers. He limited his remarks to parks and transportation and did not antic- | ipate the structural development, . RUNAWAY CURE D OF CIRCUS AND WANTS TO GO HOME New Jersey Boy Quits as Usher, but Loses Ticket and Asks Aid. Prefers Mother, Sisters and| | Brothers to Animals and the Road. ‘The lure of the “big top” proved too strong for 15-year-old Victor Wames, who left his home in Camden, N. J, to join the Wallace-Hagenback Circus. Home tles, however, proved stronger than the circus lure, and today Victor, after a plece of hard luck he believes is without parallel, was in tears, and said his mother needs him at home and that he wants to go there to help her. The Travelers Aid Soclety is try- ing to fix things up for him. Leaving home a week ago Sunday, Victor got a job with the circus as usher. Temporarily the excitement of the crowds and novelty of the circus | kept him from thinking seriously of | home. Has His Hard Knock. Last night when the circus got ready to leave Washington, however, Victor decided there is no place like home. In attempting to go home, however, lies the hard luck story. Drawing $10, his pay for one week's | work' as an usher, the boy went to | Union Station, where he purchased a ! ticket for $4.90. He then waited around the station for train time, but when he reached for his ticket he found that it was gone. Reaching in his pocket, he tound that he lacked by the sum of $1.40 the price of another ticket. He thereupon went to the Travelers’ Aid desk in the station for help. Miss Julia Slaughter, Travelers’ Aid worker at the station, took him in tow and had him VICTOR WAMES. taken to the Receiving Home for Chil- dren, 816 Potomac avenue southeast, to be cared for until his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Wames, could be communi- cated with and arrangements completed for his return journey to is home. Circus People Kind. LZ2fore coming to Washington the young adventurer went to Bridgeton, N. J.; Wilmington, Del, and Atlantic City with the circus. He states that the circus people were kind to him and in sympathy with him, as a homesick boy, when he expressed his desire to return to his parents. His work as an usher, however, was efficient, the cir- cus people, according to the boy’s story, wanting him to remain with them until they disbanded in the Fall. Young Victor has two sisters and five brothers and today feels that he had rather see them and his parents than all the circuses in the world. THEVES AL TO T B IQUOR STOGK Rob Druggist of Nine Pints, Overlooking Ten Cases of Choice Whisky. ‘Thieves who entered the drug store of Alfred E. Feldman, at 2150 Penn. sylvania avenue, last night, were fright- ened away after takin ints of pre- scription whisky, overlooking 10 cases of choice liquors stored in a cabinet. Feldman tol less than $50. According to police, the thieves used a crowbar to batter open the liquor cabinet, in which the nine pints were stored and pried the door off its hinges. Police believe the robbers were fright- ened away before continuing their quest for additional booty. Mrs. Robert Wills of 1509 R street re- ported to police that thieves forced the rear door of her garage and made away with automobile blankets and robes velued at more than $200. She fur- nished police with the description of a suspect. Police are searching for thieves who entered the gasoline filling station of Clifford F. Peters, at Vermont avenue and R streets, and stole $55 from the cash register. Peters told police the robbers had effected an entrance by the use of a duplicate key. police the total loot was GRL SEOUTS TAKE 2000 BFT HOME Mrs. Henry H. Flather For- mally Presents It for Use | as -Headgquarters. A studio home and grounds at 1825 M street, recently juired for approxi- mately $20,000, was formally presented | to the Girl Scouts of the District of | Columbia ‘fof use as a new headquarters by Mrs. Henry H. Flather at exercises in the residence last night. ‘The home was designed and built by an artist, who obtained much of the in- terior paneling and furnishings in Italy, while the grounds ‘include an elaborate garden. = Acceptance on behalf of the Girl | Scouts was made by the Leader’s As- sociation. It was announced at the exercises that Mrs. Flather also has contributed $10,000 toward th estab- lishment of a permanent Summer camp for Girl Scouts in nearby Virginia on condition that a similar sum be ra‘sed. This latter amount is already partly in hand, according to Miss Dorothy Greene, director of Girl Scouts here. in announcing a donation of $2,509 from Julius Rosenwald of Chicago. A tenative site for the camp has been selected on the summit of the Shenandoah range of mountains, at an altitude of 2,500 feet and located about 10 miles from Luray, Va. Girl Scouts of the District have voted to name the projected recreation center “Camp Mayflather,” in honor of Mrs. Flather, whose first name is May. When completed it will accomodate about 150 girls at one time. This Summer’s contingent of Girl Scout outing parties will be accommo- dated at the present camp, situated about 10 miles west of Harrisonburg, Va., pending completion of the new quarters. . DOYING GETS NOMINATION. Canal Zone Man Named for Presi- dent by Engineers. W. A, E. Doying of the Panama Canal Zone has been placed in nomination for the presidency of the American Insti- tute of Electrical Engineers, subject to election at the annual meeting of that body here May 14 at the Cosmos Club. | Others who have been nominated in- clude W. A. Danielson, major, Quarter- master Corps, vice chairman; G. L.| Weller, Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- | phone Co., secretary and treasurer; W. ! H. Fellows, Potomac Electric Power Co,, and G. W. Vinal, Bureau of Standards, members of the executive committee, | e o . Business Club. to Go Fishing. The annual outing and fishing trip | of the American Business Club of Washington will be held Saturday and Sunday. . Club members and their guests, head- ed by Ralph S. Fowler, president of the | club, will leave the University Club at 2 pm. turday and drive to Piney Foint, MdY returning Sunday night, NEW DEFECTS SEEN IN MUSEUM DOME Engineers Supervising Re- pairs Find Roof Faulty—Im- provement Is Ordered. Another defect has been discovered in the New Natfonal Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, whose dome is now under repair to prevent it from collapsing. * Engineers have discovered that the entire roof graded system was not hold- ing up and that a new scheme for cal Off the water was necessary. ‘The supervising architect of the ‘Treasury, in charge of construction and repair of Federal buildings, has opened bids on the job and received only one bid, from Frank L. Wagner, Inc., of this city for $5,055. The bid is under consideration by the board of awards, but contract has not yet been let. ‘The New National Museum is a build- ing of comparatively recent construc tion, but serious flaws began appearing a few years ago. The arches support- ing the dome began spreading to such an extent that engineers testified be- fore a congressional committee that the structure was not safe, as there was danger of the dome falling into the ro- tunda, more than 80 feet below. DARK FUND RASE. SOURHT BY GRAN Appropriation for 1931 Totals $3,563,320 in Budget Es- timates He Submits. A 66 per cent increase in the city’s | annual expenditure for park purchase, maintenance and improvement was asked by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, in charge of public buildings and parks, in his estimates of expenditures for the 1631 fiscal year, made public yesterday. Col. Grant asked for an appropriation of $3,563,320, as aganist an appropria- ;lfialn of $2,139,400 carried in the 1930 The item for purchase of park and playground land remained unchanged at $1,000,000. Among the larger items asked were: Construction of a field house, East Potomac Park, $231,000; construction - of two bathing pools, $300,000; development of the Takoma Park Recreational Center, $116,000; building seawalls and other improve- ment work in the Rock Creek-Potomac Parkway, $500,000: improvement of Foundry Branch Park. $96,000; im- provement of Meridian Hill Park, $100,- | 000: roads and grading in Anacostia Park, $50.000. For the program of sports in the various parks Col. Grant asked $40,000, ! including $5.000 for band concerts. The amount set out for Rock Creek would include a new entrance to the parkway at Florida avenue and col pletion of four roads to serve as. ap- proaches to the Arlington Memorial Bridge, now under construction. A temporary bridge in the line of P street would be constructed at a cost of $20.- 000 and two and a half miles of road- way in the park would be lighted at a cost of $3,000. MAY CHANGEWREATH. Fine Arts Commission Acts to Save Memorial. ‘The Fine Arts Commission is taking up with the Pennsylvania State Art Commission and Charles Grafly, sculp- tor of the Meade Memorial, located in the Botanic Gardens, the question of changing the bronze wreath on the monument. Officials believe the bronze is causing discoloration of the memorial. HONORS FOCH’S MEMORY. Services Sunday Next in Episcopal Church, Knoxville, Tenn. KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 8 (&) — Memorial services for the late Marshal Ferdinand Foch, commander of the allled armies in the World War, will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church here next Sunday morning, with former service men participating. Senator Lawrence D. Tyson, com- mander of the 30th United States Di- vision, under Foch, will come from Washington Saturday night to make the principal address, U. . CONCILIATORS PREPARED T0 TAKE PART IN WAGE ROW Labor Department Workers Are Keeping in Close Touch, Says Kerwin. BUILDERS ASK SMOOT TO STUDY QUESTION Trade Unionist Editor Declares Negotiations Between Factions Progressing Satisfactorily. Federal conciliators of the Depart- ment of Labor are preparing to take part, in case their services are request- ed by the disputants, in the efforts to settle the present wage controversies be- tween the building contractors and the building trades employes of Washing- ton, which threaten to increase the cost materially of the Government's $50,- 000,000 building program and of all fu- ture public and private building in the District. Hugh L. Kerwin, director of the United States Conciliation Service, sald this morning that representatives of the Labor Department are keeping in close touch with local developments, with the possibility in view of assisting in settle- ments satisfactory to both sides and to | the public. Danger to Future Work Cited. 1t also was learned today that officers of the Master Builders’ Association have asked Senator Smoot of Utah, chair- man of the Public Buildings Commis- sion, to interest himself in the matter, in view of the fact that increased wages for the various building trades em- ployes would add a big sum to the cost of the Federal bullding program in this city and doubtless would require in- creased appropriations. Edwin H. Rosengarten, president of - the Master Builders Association, in his recent letter to President Hoover warn- ed against the danger of building op- erations in the District being hampered or brought to a standstill by the in- creased cost. ‘That there is any possibility of this was denied today by John W. Colpoys, editor of the Trade Unionist and a for- mer conciliator of the Department of Labor. ‘With a compromise agreement already signed by the contractors and the rein- forced concrete rodms C continuing between the builders and other classes of employes. The:differ- ences between the employers and cement fimshers were being considered at a meeting this afternoon. The workers are asking an increase from $1.121; an i hour to $1.25 an hour. Says Few Oppose Raise. Mr. Colpoys said there had been no feimai Hevonde Bulding, 43 reported Fe- venue Bul , a8 Te- cently. He had been informed, he said, that no rodmen were at work when the supposed walkout took place, and that the men went to work later when a new scale had been agreed upon. Only a small percentage of the local builders are opposed to the proposed wage increases, according to Mr. Col- poys. He added that the negotiations are progressing satisfactorily and early | agreements are expected. Commenting on the statement of Mr. Rosengarten in his letter to President Hoover that the increases demanded by the union men would hamper the Gov- ernment program and are not justified in view of the high wages agreed upon three years ago and the decreased cost of living, Mr. Colpoys said: Five-Day Week Is Involved. “The unions connected with the build- ing trades would have asked this in- crease to meet the present high stand- | ard “of living regardiess of whether | there was a Federal building gram. ‘The possibility of delay in tl pro- gram is simply being used by the con- i tractors and builders as a false claim of patriotism to cover their desire to | evade giving the workmen a living | wage.” { An important feature of the con- troversy is the union demand for a five-day week. This has greatly com. | plicated the efforts to reach new agree- ments in the place of those with half a dozen unions expiring within the next few weeks. ‘The agreement between the emplay- ing plumbers and the union employes | expired day before yesterday. While | no new agreement yet has been signed, | it was learned today that the employers have yielded on several important points, " including the request of the workmen for an increase from $11 to $12 a day. It is probable that a 50-cent increase will be granted at once and an additional 50 cents in two or three months. A five-day week is being asked by the marble setters, in addition to a wage increase from $12 to $13 a day. No wage increase is being asked by the tile setters, but they are demanding a five- day week. The cut stone workers, whose agreement expires June 1, are asking ‘for a wage increase from $12 to $13 a day and a five-day week. TEMPLARS TOITEND SERVICES TOMORROW | Ascension Day Sermon at Calvary Church Expected to Be De- livered by Dr. Abernethy. The Grand Commandery and con- | stituent commanderies of Knights Tem- plar of the District of Columbia will at- tend Ascension day services at Calvary Baptist Church, Eighth and H streets, tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The | pastor, Rev. W. S. Abernethy, is expect« ed to deliver the sermon. The Templars will assemble at New Masonic Temple, Thirteenth street and New York avenue, at 7 o'clock and lines of march will be formed under direc- tion of Past Commander Edward P. Hazleton, inspector general. HITS USE OF TROOPS. k. . Federation Head Says Rayon Strike Demands Tolerant Treatment. William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, urged the 5500 men and women on strike in Elizabethton, Tenn., to refuse to enter the rayon mills until State troops are removed from the town. Reiterating his objection to the send* ing of militia to Elizabc*hton -by Gov. Horton of Tennessee, Green, in a state- ment yesterday made known the text of a telegram he sent Gov. Horton in protest and declared that tre grievance that caused the strike at Elizabethton “could be settled in five minutes by tolerant, fair-minded reasonable men,”§