Evening Star Newspaper, May 11, 1929, Page 12

12 JUDICIARY GROUP MAY PASS MONDAY ON REALTY PROBE Brookhart Resolution Calling for Senate Investigation May Be Considered. FINANCING OPERATIONS IN DISTRICT ASSAILED Towa Senator Compiles Memoran- dum to Support Charges of Al- leged Irregular Practices. | | | The resolution of Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa, seeking an inves- tigation of real estate financing methods in Washington, is expected to be con- | sidered by the Senate judiciary com-| mittee Monday morning. - Chairman Norris said the committee wili hold its regular weekly session at that time. and } that the Brookhart proposal prcblbly! would be taken up. The resolution must be acted on by the Senate before an inquiry could be undertaken. and the immediate ques- tion before the judiciary committee will be to determine what report it shail make to the Senate on the proposal. The Iowa Senator is compiling a| memorandum to support the charges he made in his Tesolution of alleged | irregular practices in the sale of real estate mortgage notes and bonds. Al- though Senator Brookhart made a num- ber of charges against the F. H. Smith Co. by name in the resolution. he did not confine his allegations to that con- cern. At several points in the resolu- tion he referred to ‘“real estat> and finance operators in the District of Co- lumbia.” Again, in the resolving clause, the! resolution seeks to have the judiciary committee “make a full and complete investigation of the activities of the real estate and finance corporations of the District of Columbia with respect to the sale of mortgage bonds, first and re- funding mortgage bonds and geueral mortgage bonds upon properties ir the District of Columbia and elsewhere Bk If the resolution should be adopted by the Senate in this form, it would | give the committee a wide scope ir | carrying on its inquiry. | | | FOUR BADLY HURT ASAUTOHITS POLE Victims Taken to Hospital From Scene Near T B, Md. | Other Accidents. Four persons were injured, one seri- ously, ‘yl:zn the au in which ; they were returning to this city from ‘Waldorf, Md., left the road and crashed into a telephone pole near T B, early today. The " wl f taken to Casualty Hospital by the| Prince Georges Coun! 3 Irene Brookman, 22’y © street, is in a serious condition with a fractured left leg’'and seyere contu- sions and lacerations to the thigh and body. The other passengers in car, Mrs. Mildred Montgomery, 28, who lives at the O street address, and Arthur Hal er, 20, and Robert Montgom- ery, 32, both of 623 Eye street north- east, suffered contusions and lacera- tions to the face, hands and scalp and minor body bruises. According to police, Hattenmaker; who was said to have been driving the car, said. he became. blinded by the glaring headlights of an approaching machine, causing him to run toc far to the side and leave the road. The ma- chine crashed headlong into the pole, but did not overturn. - The injured lay helpless for some time before being| picked up by a Prince Georges County police car. W Four persons were injured, two seri- ously, as a result of a collision at Third and F streets about 1:45 o'clock this morning between automobiles driven by ‘William T. Comer, 20 years old. of 3527 Hertford place and Martin A. Hoffman, 923 New York avenue. | Comer, one of those hurt, was booked | by the police on & charge of reckless driving and taken to Gallinger l-loea-i pital, while P. Lynard, 22 years old,| of 3107 Georgia avenue, who accom- panied him, received an injury to huy' skull. He was taken to Emergency Hospital. William Nimnum, 15 years old, of | 803 Ninth street, and David Mooney, | 17 years old, 528 Third street, pas- sengers in the Hoffman car, both in- jured, were taken to Emergency Hos- pital also. The former sustained a severe injury to his head, while the lat- ter'’s hands were in L Dr. Edward Kelly of the hospital staff reported the conditions of Lynard 2nd Nimnum undetermined. Third Battalion Chief Ernest Howard of the Fire Department narrowly es- caped serious injury yesterday after- noon when the driver of his automobile, Pvt. Robert R. Morat, made a_quick turn at Nichols avenue and Morris ruad southeast to avoid a collision with the approaching car of James L. Turn- er, colored, of 1398 Morris road south- east. The chief's car swerved from the; roadway, crossed the sidewalk and| crashed into an iron fence, landing against the brick foundation of a house belonging to Margaret Madigan, 2302 Nichols avenue. It was reported that the accident re- sulted from Turner's alleged failure to give the right of way to the fire chief’s car. He was charged with such an offense and required to post collateral at No. 11 police station James Forrester. 59 years old. T THE __EVENIN( [YOUTH DEFENDED IN FORUM BY TWO COLLEGE AUTHORITIES n Doyle and Prof. John Ridicule Charges of Deterioration. i Dea If Any One’s to Blame It's the Older Generation, Former Declares. Two college authorities came to the defense of modern youth in a forum | discussion on the trend of the younger generation last night in the assembly hall of the Young Men's Christian As- sociation. The session was under au- spices of the interstate convention of the Y. M. C. A. of Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia. Prof. Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of | men of George Washington University, and Prof. Walton Colcord John of American University agreed that the “problem” of youth is as “old as Rome | and Greece” and ridiculed charges that boys and girls of today are worse than | those of previous generations. | Dean Doyle, whose recent question- | naire to leading colleges indicated that | college students are not the jazz-mad | persons they are pictured, declared “the | worst” he could say of the present gen- | eratfon is “it isn't much better than my generation.” The dean ventured the opinion that the bareheaded youths | “who drive along F street in painted flivvers” are not college boys, anyway, | but “foolish counter jumpers and high school boys who want the girls to think they are collegiate.” Part Blame on Colleges. | Colleges are partly to blame for the “unfair pleture” of college students im- printed in the minds of the public. the dean said. He explained that the col- leges publish so-called “college comic: which are “two-thirds sex and one-thi; drinkin, The readers should remem ber that these magazines are “all bunk” and are “caricatures” only, Dr. Doyle stated. Returns from his questionnaire, he said, showed that ‘“college freaks"” are few in number. Dean Doyle listed “seven points” dis- tinguishing modern youth from the | older generation. He said the boys and | girls of today are “franker, more honest, | impatient of restraint, tolerant. studious, | liberal and more wholesomely advised on sex matters.” as compared with the pre- | vious generation. ‘Their frankness. he said, has given them “bad manners,” their honesty has made them ‘“‘disgusted with bunk,” their dislike of restraint has Jed them to ab- | hor “bossing about morals.” their toler |ance has made them broad-minded to- | ward their fellow man, their craving for knowledge has made them “alive in- tellectually,” their liberal-mindedness has induced them to take an interest in politics and their sex knowledge has | prevented many of them from going wrong. Responsibility of Parents. “If fathers,” he concluded, “would take more time off from their clubs and if mothers would spend less' time | at bridge parties fewer children would ' go wrong. Fathers who entertain their s / | | Above: PROF. HENRY GRATTAN DOYLE. Below: PROF. WALTON COLCORD JOHN, friends with liquor served in their homes cannot expect their boys to ab- stain from drinking. I'm tired of hear- ing about the younger generation going to the dogs. If any one's to blame, it's the older generation!” Prof. John said that youth has changed. but denied there was cause for alarm. The “radius of mischief” of the vouth of today has been widened by the advent of the automobile, the telephone and other means of com- munication. he said. He is faced with a more complex threatens to rob him of his individual- ism; he must keep pace with a faster | life and must learn “new symbols of home, society, church and state,” the professor declared. ‘The speakers were introduced by Hugh A. Thrift, who presided. Meet- ings of secretaries of boys’ work, physi cal departments, membership commit- tees, dormitory activities and other in- terstate departments preceded the ses- sion last night. An all-day session of the delegates is being held today. MINISTERS' QUALITY TODAY DEFENDED Bishop McDowell Says They Compare Favorably With Other Professions. Disputing the contention that “theJ best men are not going into the min- istry,” Bishop William Fraser McDowell of the Methodist Episcopal Church last night told a group of ministerial stu- dents ' at American' University that | “purely from an intéllectual point of view the ministry today is in just as and the teaching professions.” Mémbers of the Oxford Fellowship in annual banquet were warned by the bishop that they should first “give at- tention to the mind,” as the ‘“most dangerous man” was the “ignorant good man.” This latter type, the speaker his ignorance, while his ignorance does its fatal work.” ‘Warns Against Neglect. “Use your old car another year.” ad- monished the bishop to the budding young preachers, “but never neglefle to replenish your library. Put more stuff into your head, and you'll get less gas out of it." y Recalling that he had been graduated from college 50 years ago this Bpring, and had served in the episcopacy for 25 years, Bishop McDowell charged the ministerial students with giving earnest attention to the question of -their “human relationships,” as Christian ethics taught the “science of living well with one another according Christ.” “Deficiencies” to Be Watched. The young preachers also were warned by the bishop against “second and third rate approvals,” which might have a tendency to swell the young minister with pride, when as a matter of fact he should better feel 'X‘dcpressed ’ on ac- count of his deficiencies. “If T had not spent my life in the ministry,” declared Bishop McDowell paradoxically with a smile, “I should wish to have spent it in the ministry.” Other speakers included Dr. Lucius C. Clark, chancellor of American Univer- sity; Dr. A. J. Jackson, assistant pro- fessor of religion; Clyde Williams, new president of the fellowship: Louis M. Young, retiring president. Miss Clari- belle Faton gave a reading, and the American University quartet sang. Gans to Speak Over Radio. Isaac Gans, chairman of the commit- tered at Mayflower Hotel, was knocked down on Connecticut avenue between | and M streets shortly before 3 o'cleck | night by a taxicab driven by Frank | son of street left wrist fractured. He was given surgical aid at Emergency Hos- pital by Dr. Jordan Park Policeman Paul R. Toland, 38 rears old, of 5408 Ilhnois avenue, sus. tained injuries to his legs of falling from his motor ¢: Creek Park about 10:30 o'clock last night. He was given first aid at Walter Reed Hospital. A collision between automobiles driven by- Robert E. Lee, 265 Concord avenue, and C. W. Garrier, Mint Spring, Va., occurred last night at Trinidad avenue and Morse street northeast, resulting in njury to Mrs. J. H. Lee, 445 1 street southeast, occupant of the former car. She was treated at Casualty Hospital. An automobile belonging to Henry J. Beahm, a District fireman, residing at 1016 Forty-fifth street southe: parked at Pennsylvania and Branch avenues southeast about 8:30 o'clock last night, was reported hy the police to have been struck by the car of Edward Hannum, 20 vears old, of 418 H street. Irma C. Beahm, 8 years old. and Louis W. Felk- ner, 20 vears old, of 1331 Montello avenue northeast, the latter an occu- pant of the Hannum car, were injured. They were treated at Providence pital, . tee on retail trade of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, will speak on “Promoting Retail Trade in Washing- ton"” tonight at 8 o'clock from station WMAL. | After a lengthy trial, which changed dignified judicial procedure into com- edy, Detective George C. McCarron was a charge of “parking within 20 feet of an interzection” ismissed on the ground that evidence was insufficient. On the evening of May 2, McCarron, expecting to join other members of the squad, is said to have parked his auto- mobile on Fourteenth street south of Pennsylvania avenue and meeting De- tective Richard J. Cox, started on a tour D. Smith, president of the Policemen’s Association, on a tour of local theaters, parked his car in the same vicinity while e and his wife attended a show. Returning, gt. Smith observed Mc- Carron's car and summoned Policeman A E. Rrown'sf the Trafic Bureau. good taste &s the legal, the medlcali said, was he ‘“‘whose goodness floats | acquitted in Traffic Court late yester- day, when Judge Isaac R. Hitt ordered of suspected speakeasies. Sergt. Milton | BARTIAN AGTON SEXPETED 00N Nomination to Public Utilities Commission May Be Refer- red to Subcommittee. The nomination of Harleigh H. Hart- man, lawyer and lecturer on -public utility problems, to be a member of the Public Utilitles Commission, probably will be referred to a subcommittee for consideration early next week, accord- |ing to Chairman Capper of the Senate | District committee. Senator Capper said today that thus | far he has received no communication | relating to the appointment. The Tec- | ord of Mr. Hartman, as printed in the | newspapers, would seem to indicate he | is competent to fill a position on the | utilities board, Senator Capper said. It is the usual practice in considering | local nominations to refer them to sub- committees to inquire into the quali- fications of the nominee and advise the Senate what action it should take. |~ "Mr. Hartman was appointed by Presi- dent Hoover to fill the vacancy created by the failure of the Senate to confirm the reappointmemt of Col. Harrison Brand. jr. A successor to Commissioner John W. Childress, who has submitted his resignation, has not yet been sent | to the Senate. PROHIBITION TRANSFER IS ATTACKED BY WOMEN | Democratic Law ' Enforcement League Says Change Would Dis- rupt E:‘(isting Agencies. | Opposition to the transfer of the | prohibition enforcement agencies from | the Treasury Department to the De- | partment of Justice, on the grounds | that such action would divide the Coast Guard, the Customs Service and the Bureau of Internal Revenue, is voiced in a resolution passed yesterday by the District of Columbia "branch of the National Women’s Democratic Law En- forcement League. The three agencies “are and should work in perfect harmony to secure best results in enforcing the prohibition law,” the resolution states. The reso- lution was passed following an address | by Mrs. Jesse W. Nicholson, national président of the league. | . The following officers were clected for | the ensuing year: Mr¢. H. W. Hendrick, president; Mrs. Eugene E. Thompson. first vice president: Mre. Ida R. Comp- ton, second vice president; Mrs. J. H Briggs, recording secretary: Mrs, W. M Hurley, corresponding secretary, and Mrs. H. B. Hall, treasurer. Detective, Accused by Sergeant, Wins Acquittal on Charge of Illegal Parking | After due consideration, the poiss- | man arrived at the conclusion that Mc- | | Carron’s automobile was parked within |a_restricted area. A ticket' was not placed in the car, but a warrant was served on McCarron. The wheels of justice began to re- volve in Traffic Court yesterday, when the testimony of Sergt. Smith and his wife was introduced. Defense Attorneys Joseph E. Kelly and Myron G. Ehrlich requested a directed verdict of not guity, but the motion was overruled by Judge Hitt, However, after character witnesses, including Attorneys Denny Hughes, Ir- vin Goldstein, John H. Burnett, Samuel | M. Beatch, John J. Sirica, Detective Cox, Bondsman Milton Kronheim and Willlam E. Ring. newspaper reporter, testified for McCarron's reputation for “peace and good order” Judge Hitt | ordered the chawge dismi: civilization which | G STAR, WASHINGTON. D. €. SATURDAY. SITHSONIAN CETS [SOUGEK 10 SEEK MARE_ COLLECTON | ALTTUDE RECORD OF CANESERELCS ~FOR SEAPLNE ‘Gift of Rev. D. C. Graham 39,140 Feet Reached Over Includes Zoological and ‘ | Ethnological Specimens. \ graphs Show in Rechecking. i Capital Wednesday, Baro- | 'PARTY FACED DANGER PLANE USED IN 1927, OF BANDITS' ATTACK ~ WHEN MARK WAS 38,418 Expedition Into Moupin Region| Wheels to Be Replaced With Pon- Made Despite Menace of War toons for Next Try—American and Brigands. Claims Undisputed. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Atter one of the most adventurous of | recent Smithsonian Institution expedi- | tions a collection of approximately 11,- 1000 zo0logical and ethnological speci- | | mens has been received in Washington | from Rev. David C. Graham, who for | vears has been exploring parts of West- ern' China for the institution. established the new record, with pon- Accompanying the collection came | toons substituted for the wheel landing Dr. Graham's diary, telling of the ex-|gear. _Announcement that the Navs treme difficulties under which it was | pilot had passed all previous altitude | obtained. Most of the specimens are of | marks was made following calibration | 2nimals—10,000 invertebrates and 1,000 and _rechecking of two barographs vertebrates—many of which are new to| which were placed in his plane by the [ the institution. Dr. Graham also sent | Bureau of Standards and the National | approximately 100 ~ artifacts obtained | Aeronautic Association. | from old tombs, which some claim were | Papa Senc: o Pt pre-Ohinese, overiooked by previous ex-| pr o' yiont. Soucek’s filght. can’ be plorers, i - G i tve | Tecognized ‘as an official world record e e Pepuliar natve | ihe Bureau of Standards' readings must | Wrote: “The boy had brought his sister | D¢ approved by the Federation Aero- % a nautic Internationale. The necessary |to Suifu to learn weaving. When he : =% papers have been forwarded to Paris went away, the Chinese sold his sister | PAPers have been forwarded to Parls as a slave. He was poor and could not e : get her back. By selling the garment|NOW Is only a mfl"fl'h"’ ffl"mi{ is ex- to me for $8 he got just enough money | Pected within two or three weeks. to buy her freedom again. He says|_ The flight of Lieut. Soucek gives the he will get me a much better garment | United States an unquestioned claim to | the altitude record. The previous of- | later at a reasonable price.” 4 { S| ficial mark, 38,418 feet, was established ‘The archeological specimens include | by Lieut. C. C, Champlon of the NnV}" such art work as “the right front half of a small dog with a pug nose, the|in July, 1927, in the plane used b: remnant of the face of a pretty woman | Soucek. Lieut. Champion's record, how With earrings and part of a hen with | CVer. was later exceeded by an Ttalian 2 chicken on its back.” The articles| flyer. whose record was not recognized | now are in the hands of various museum | Pecause, it failed to pass g‘;m;‘"l‘; curators for classification. Iarelioy the 10D : Expedition Menaced by Soldiers. Claim Undisputed. For several years Dr. Graham had | | planned a visit to the section of western | China around Moupin, but had been | prevented by the outbreak of local wars. | | Last year he set out despite a war in | | progress between the Chinese and the Lolos, a native tribe, who had cut bridges and fortified strategic points. The expedition was in constant danger of attack from these Lolos. “The expedition,” he recounts, “start- ed from Suifu on Jjuly 4 with 10 coolies to carry the loads, two or three native collectors, a cook and an escort. On the 5th we passed through a robber re- sort which was quite peaceful because the militia had made a raid and exe- | cuted one of the robbers. We saw him | being carried home, escorted by his wife | and others, to be buried after the priest had performed the long ceremony of opening the way to Hades. His blood | had sprinkled the roadway for at least & half mile. ! “On the next day we had an escort | of 10 men and rifles, as the danger from | brigands was increasing. On July 14 the party passed over the Gi-Tsi-Gang pass. At the summit we saw the head of a robber, set up as a warning to others.” “On the 21st,” his letter said, “a Chinese woman, evidently in much mental distress, knocked her head on the ground and told me that three of her children were ecaptives among the Lolos. She had no money to ransom them. These Lolos are a fierce, abori- ginal tribe who live largely by plunder.” Coolies Were Opium Smokers. The refurn journey was begun August 6. Dr. Graham notes in his diary that all his coolies were opium smokers, and it was a problem every morning to get them up in time to smoke their opium and get an early start on the road. On the 10th, he writes, they passed many ruins of towers and fortresses, and that nearly every town was walled as a pro- tection against the Lolos. Stopping at a Chinese city. his collectors were not allowed to collect insects outside the gates after sundown because of danger from the fierce tribesmen, who had burned more than 10 houses in the neighborhood the day before. A few days later the party reached the town of Fu-Lin, where they spent several days at the house of a friendly Lolo, through whose help they were able to make anthropometical measure- ments of some pure-blooded tribesmen, and also obtained two sets of Lolo armor which are probably more than 200 vears old. This armor, according to Dr. Walter Hough, curator of the de- | partment of anthropology. now is unique |in the United States, and constitutes |one of the most valuable recent acces | slons to the National Museum. |’ Leaving this town, the party made a | hard trip across the Da-Shiang-Lin pass with an escort of 23 Chinese soldiers and on the east side of the mountain were met by another military escort. . On August 25. Dr. Graham notes in his diary, “nearly 100 brigands robbed a caravan and were pursued by | soldiers and militia, the battle continu- | ing_until about noon.” ‘The remainder of the return journey was made by raft constructed of bam- boo poles strapped together. On this trip the party made a lucky escape from four men with rifles who ordered them to stop. The party arrived at Suifu, its starting point, on September 2. In the course of the expedition Dr. Graham covered more than 800 miles on foot. Following official announcement late yesterday that he had established a new altitude record by climbing to a height of 39.140 feet over this city Wednesday, Lieut. Apollo Soucek, U.| S. N., is planning to go after the world's altitude record for seaplanes, it was learned today. In his next attempt, which will be made within a month, Lieut. Soucck will use the same plane in which he old record by 722 feet, more than meets | the 100-meter requirer ent and gives him an undisputed claim to the title For his attempt to break the world altitude record for seaplanes Lieut. Soucek will use the same plane. with no changes other than the substitution of float for wheels. The present world altitude record for seaplanes was made by Lieut. Champion in the same plane July 4, 1927, when he reached an alti- tude over this city of 37,995 feet. DS HEAD OF WOMEN'S LEGION Election of President and Other Officers Closes Convention. | Mrs. Edward C. Shields was elected president of the American Women’s Legion at the closing session of the tenth annual convention in the National Red Cross Building yesterday afternoon. She succeeds Mrs. George N. Thompson. Other officers elected are: Mrs. Acheson F. Hassan, first vice president; Mrs. J.S. Corcoran. second vice president: Mrs. Douglas E. Win- stead, third vice president; Mrs. Edwin S. Bettleheim, secretary, and Mrs. John L. Tompkins, treasurer. Four Addresses Made. Addresses were delivered by Rear Ad- miral Frank S. Schofield, who urged support of the Navy; Miss Dorothy F. Willlamson, assistant fleld director o the American Red Cross, in charge of work at Walter Reed Hospital; Mrs. William Shannahan, president of the District of Columbia War Mothers, and Capt. Watson*B. Miller of the Amer- icar. Legion. ‘The organization adopted resolutions requesting each of its members to com- mit to memory “The American’s Creed” and to stand at attention whenever the when “The Star Spangled Banner” is played. | "Other resolutions were adopted to send letters of sympathy to the fam- ilies of the members of the organiza- tion who died during the past year, including a letter to the family of the late E. Lester Jones. Twa Letters Read. Letters were read at the meeting by Mrs. Thompson, the past president, from Mrs. Willlam Corcoran Eustis, founder and first president of the American Women's Legion, and from Mrs. James W. Wadsworth, the second president of the organization. Music was furnished by the United States Marine Band. Rev. H. . D. Sterrett delivered invocation. Announcement was made that the organization will hold its annual memo- rial services at the cross in Arlington Cemetery on Memorial day. PLAN FOR MASS MEETING ON LAW ENFORCEMENT FOURTH GALLAUDET FASHION SHOW HELD Kendall Green Campus Scene of Gathering When Dresses Made by. Studénts Are Exhibited. Association Will Hear Jones, Stalker and Rover. Officers Re-Elected. Service Plans were discussed for a mass meet- ing on law enforcement to be held at Foundry M. E. Church on May 26, at the annual meeting of the Citizens’ Service Association of Law and Order at University Club, Seventeenth and I streets, yesterday afternoon. Speakers are to be Senator Jones and Represen- tative Stalker, co-authors of the Jones- Stalker act, and United States Attorney Rover. Officers were re-elected as follows: Rev. William S. Abernethy, president; Rev. Harvey Baker Smith, vice presi- dent; Dr. Everett M. Ellison, recording secretary; Horace L. Stevenson, treas- urer, and Thomas Jarvis, executive sec- retary. Two new members elected to the ‘The fourth annual fashion show of the classes on clothing and art at Gal- laudet College was held before a large gathering at Chapel Hall, on the Ken- dall Green campus, yesterday. Seasonal and evening dresses made by the stu- dents during the college year were on exhibition. | Dances accompanied the showing of | the seasonal groups of costumes, cloth- ing for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter being exhibited with appropri- ate dancing. Autumn was portrayed by Mary Ross and Katherine Buster in the “Dance of School Days.” They were followed by Lois Butler, in a whirling movement under the title of “Jack Frost Dance.” Miss Ross appeared again in “The |Dance of the Roses,” and was accom- ipanied by Ida Hanson in “The Dance of the Evening.” A feature of the exhibition program was the signing by Velma Brassel of uisiana, a master signmaker on the Cannon, jr., and Dr. L. E. Kress. GETS 30 DAYS IN JAIL. ccial Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., May 11,—James Dolan, orchardist of near Oldtown, this county, was sentenced to 30 days in jail in People’s Court vesterday on a charge of driving while intoxicated. ‘The case grew out of the collision of Dolan’s truck on April 8 with the coupe of former County Road Director Ra: dolph Millholland, who suffered a fra¢ tured skull in the aocident. He took an appeal and gave bond in £500. He was | nationally known educator of the deaf, a visitor at the college. The exhibition of art work done by Lieut. Soucek’s record, exceeding the | flag of the United States passes or| board of directors were, Bishop Jame: MAY 11, 1929, Stogsdall nd M uls, are receiving i Nellie B. appointed vice co paratory to bein, (left), and Margaret Warner, both of g sent to foreign posts. ! MANY N CPTAL PLAN TOMORRONS MOTHER THBUTE iPatriotic Bodies to Hold Im- pressive Ceremonies at Tomb of Unknown Soldier. SECRETARY OF_WAR AND FRIES TO SPEAK Tract Dedication in Rock Creek Park, Gift-Making and Wear- ing of Flowers Features, Massachusetts, struction at the State Department pre- ¢ —P. & A. Photo. e id WINDOW SMASHERS GET S50 N FURS 'Quartet Makes Escape i Auto—Policemen Nearby Uraware of Robbery. | With two policemen not a block | distant, four men smashed with a ! wrench both show windows of the store tof H. Zirkin & Sons, furriers, at 821 | Fourteenth street, about 4 o'clock this {morning, hastily seized furs valued at $600 and sped away in an automobile. leaving behind them goods worth sev- eral thousand dollars. The robbery was executed but a few minutes_after Policemen M. B.Paync and C. S. Waddle of the first precinct had passed in front of the place. “I pulled a box at Thirteenth and G streets. about 10 minutes was told of the robbery,” Payne said today. _“Neither Waddle nor I could I have Been more than a block away | when' the theft occurred.” Although no description of the rob- bers has been obtained. fingerprints | were discovered and it is hoped that {the men may be traced. The _only man who saw them is John A. Flagg of 1117 K street, employe of a restau- rant next door. Flagg told Headquar- ters Detectives Howard E. Ogle and C. J. P. Weber that he had a fleeting glimpse of them as their car shot up Fourteenth street and turned west on I street. He knows they were four in number. Inside one of the show windows of the store was found a large wrench wrapped in a piece of blanket. Officers believe the robbers watched the police- men on the beat until .they turned {the corner, then drove out of a sids | street or alley to the front of the store. ROBBERY NETS $172 - AT V STREET HOM Gold Watch and Cash Are Also Stolen From House in Southeast. ‘The home of John W. Hedrick. 68 V street.. was entered last night and $172.50 taken from a dresser in a rear room on the second floor, while mem- | bers of the family were sleeping. Police were told that the front door had been left. unlocked. Loss of a gold watch valued at $50 and $200 in cash was reported by Eliza- beth McCarthy. 1308 O street. She said the timepiece and cash were taken from an I street southeast address a week ago. Frank Statkus, giving his address as 4117 Chesapeake street, last night re- ported he was robbed by two uniden- tified colored men. The bandits heid him up in rear of 3049 M street, he stated. and took $27.60 from him. J. H. Hackenberg, who said he was with the Western Union Telegraph Co. in Atlanta Ga., learned something of the penny-matching game while in this city yesterday. He made the acquaint- ance of two men, walked to Delawair avenue and D street northeast and en- | gaged in a game that netted the stangers $110. | l Board Appoints School Teachers. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. May 11 (Special) —The City School Board has elected teachers for the Fredericksburg public schools for the next session, there being five new teachers in the list. The new teachers are Miss Margaret Wil- liamson. Miss Mary M. Dickinson, Miss Mabel King, Miss Dorothy Ball and Miss E. Waring Long. With the ex- ception of the last two all the new teachers are from this city. Guy M Hall of South Hill will be superiniend- | ent of the local schools next year and | Miss Ethel Nach will be principal of the | elementary school. | | later and | Verdict Set Aside | POLICEMAN POLICEMAN ALLEN CLEARED IN APPEAL Commissioners Set - Aside Guilty Verdict for March 15 Shooting. ROBERT J. ALLEN. The District Commissioners yester- ! day set aside a verdict of guilty against | Policeman Robert J. Allen on charges of unwarranted use of his revolver and conduct prejudicial to the good order and reputation of the police force, and annulled the order entered by the po- | lice trial board removing Allen from the force. Allen had been found guilty by the board in the shooting of James A. Frazter, colored. March 15 ‘The action of the Commissioners yes- terday will have the effec out the charge against the officer. No new trial will be ordered. Allen was never suspended. even after the findin | of -guilty. and he will now continue his work at the third precinct free from the cloud which has been hanging over him. Allen’s defense before the trial board was that he had been warned over the patrol communicating system on the night of the shooting that there had | been a stabbing on his beat, and that when he saw Frazier running he called |to him to halt, thinking he was in some way connected with the stabbing. Frazier kept running, and to enforce his order Allen fired at him, hitting him in the leg. The trial board, however, found him guilty on both specifications. Allen filed an appeal through Attor- neys Cromelin and Laws. and the Com- missionens sustained the appeal by their action yesterda . | I DOUBT DROWNING RUMOR. Police Search Tidal Basin for Man Reported as Suicide. Police today discounted reports circu- lated last night that an unidentified man was seen to leap into the Tidal Basin near Fifteenth and B streets. The harbor police and fire rescue squad dragged in vain throughout the night for the body as crowds stood by watch- ing the powerful headlights play upon the surface of the waters. Robert F. Whaley of 1900 S streot, reported to park police that while driv- ing around the Basin last night, his headlights showed a man in shirt sleeves poised upon the three-foot guard rail, apparently about to jump inte the vater. Whaley told police that the man subsequently plunged into the water and disappeared. W;d-Drive;a Six;ens on Air Ma:;l Pl;ncs Emergency Aids at Landing Fields of wiping | Airmail pilots on the New York-lby Pilot Johnny Kytle, who flies the tlanta night run are equipping their | night mail on the Atlanta-Richmond planes with a wind-driven siren for section of the line. Kytle has found it emergency use and to request the turn- | exceedingly useful in cases of emer- ing on of floodlights at fields where | gency, especially when he is forced to they intend to land. it was announced |go down at an emergency field because today by G. M. Willis, local field super-~ | of bad weather. Use of the sirens will intendent for Pitcairn Aviation, op- | be restricted to distress calls or requests i Dedicated to the glorification of motherhood, sons and daughters of the Capital and the Nation will join hands tomorrow to pay tribute to the women who bore them. | Mothers will wear flowers and receive | gifts of all sorts as sentimental signs of the esteem in which they are held | by their offspring. Organized patriotic | bodies plan a large and impressive cere- mony at the Tomb of the Unknown | Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. ! While this ceremony is going on, an- | other group, the Universal Alliance, pledged to the service of mothers of the j world, will dedicate a_six-acre tract in | Rock Creek Park on which it is planned to raise in impressive white stone an everlasting memorial to motherhood and a fountain of aid for the mothers of the world. |~ Secretary of War James W. Good | and Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries will speak at the gathering in Arlington tomor- row at 3 o'clock. This gathering will be national in scope, mothers coming from practically every State in the Union to find glorification in one more tribute to the symbol of the sons who gave their lives in the World War. Other cabinet officers, Senators and Representatives, high-ranking Army, Navy and Marine Corps officers, and the Tepresentatives of a score or more patriotic organizations will take part in the exercises. War Mothers to Take Part. The American War Mothers and the Cengressional Club will take a leading part in the cemetery ceremony. Two Gold Star mothers will lead the pro- cession through the aisle of honor, { which will be formed of War Mothers bearing flags of gold. silver and biue, and through which the dignitaries who | are to take leading parts in the cere- mony will pass. The leaders of the procession will be Mrs. Charles Mc- Groarty of Falls Church, Va. whose son, Stephen, was killed in- the battle of Belleau Wood, and Mrs. Clara Son- neman, mother of Hart Sonneman of Washington, who was slain by machine gun fire before St. Mihiel. The Gold Star mothers will be fol- lowed by Mrs. Thomas Spence of Mil- waukee, president of the American War Mothers, and Mrs. Pdrter H. Dale of Vermont, president of the Congressional Club, carrying wreaths to place on the tomb. Mrs. Spence will preside and will present Mrs. Dale, who will speak for the Congressional Club. _Gen. Fries will speak on “Mothers and | Civilization.” ~ Secretary Good's subjeet | has not been announced.. The United | States Marine Band will furnish the | music, Representative Clifton. A. Wood- rum of Virginia and Herman Fakler will , 8lve vocal solos and Mrs. Gertrude Lyons {will give an interpretation of ‘Taj Out of the Night the Bugle Blows.” Will Lead Flag Salute. The salute to the flag will be led by Col. James A. Moss, director general of the United States Flag Association. { The invocation will b delivered by Col. Edmund P. Easterbrook. chief of chap- {lains of the Army, and the benediction will be pronounced by Capt. Charles A. | Dickins. chief of chaplains of the Navy. | Staff Sergt. Frank Witchey. who sound- cd taps at the burial of the Unknown Soldier, again will blow the call over the tomb. Fort Myer troops will act as ushers and will present each person at the ceremony with a carnation, the | flowers later to be placed on the Un- ! known Soldier’s tomb. At practically every church in the Capital, some part of the service to- morrow will be set aside for the paying of tribute to mothers. The imminence of Mother's day was marked in the House today by an address by Representative Bowman of West Virginia, who paid tribute fo motherhood andalled to the attention of his colleagues the presence in the | gallery of Miss Anna Jarvis. who. he explained, is responsible for the modern | Mother’s day observance. Day for Retrospection. “Mother’s day should be a day of retrospection.” he said, “a day whea memory with gentle and affectionat hands halts us in the mad rush of th strange and complex age and lezas us | back over the wandering pathway to the | homes of our youth. At this time we | should forget our apparent, indifference to mother and turn our thoughts fo | mother’s love for us. It is divine; it 18 { eternal. No human power can quench | its fidelity. In our sorrows and dis- | tress it grows more radiant. In our failures it grows stronger in the infinite bonds of sympathy. Like a star in the heavens, it shines brighter on nights | that are the darkest. Prison bars can- not divert it; the gallows cannot cheat it. and the grave cannot destroy it. This is our heritage.” In explanation of the observance, he said: “A little more than a quarter of & century ago. a loving mother was buried on the sloping hillside of a cemetery at Grafton, W. Va. A daughter stood by the open grave. ~The last words had been spoken. Tfle book of mother's life was sealed. The grave had woneits victory. Out of the sorrow and grief there came a mere idea to console the broken heart of this daughter. Here on the hillside of West Virginia beside the newly made grave of a mother was born the great movement of Mother's day., which was destined to sweep into every clime where langauge is spoken and touch the indifferent hearts of multitudes with the fond memories of mother. That daughter was Miss Anna M. Jarvis, who today honors the House of Representativ with her presence in the membes gallery. ‘This idea did not create a new rev. erance: neither did it ordain a new love: nor institute a new devotion. It simply gave expression to our love for mother and recognized her irrepressible love and_influence in the Ife of the Nation. Within a short space of a few years, the Mother's day movement reached every section of the United States, been recognized and pro- claimed by the Governors of 48 States and by 'a joint resolution of Congress designating the second Sunday of May as Mother’s day.” 1,000 QUARTS SEIZED. Activity of the police liquor road squad under command of Sergt. George M. Little, other members being Pvts. T. O. Montgomery, Leo Murray and | | | 1 | i | i | erators of the line. ’lor landing lights, it is understood. ‘The first of the sirens on the Wash- ‘The sirens used are somewhat similar ington section of the line was heard |to those used on fire engines, though here last night when Pilot Donald | the tone is more even and not so harsh Johnston came in to land at Bolllnk"l‘ht apparatus is mounted on the left Field at 11:15 o'clock Southbound from | landing gear strut and is driven by a New York to Richmond. The siren has | small pmruar about a foot long which a clear penetrating note which can be | onerates in the slip-stream of the air- heard four or five miles and quite aplane propellor. A manual contro! is i he students during the college year was found not gu on a fallure-to-sto) in the college art laboratory., e s i charge. crowd assembled to watch him come in.| provided so the pilot may stop or start The siren is an innovation introduced | the siren. George C. Deyoe, the past week resulted in seizure of about 1,000 quarts of corn Iquor and 4 automobiles, One of the cars was equipped with a smoke screen. In two instances of seizure of cars and liquor. Serft Little's squad par- ticipated in exciting pursuits. There was no shooting by either the police or alleged rum runners. The seized cars and liquor are held as evidencs. 1