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i 5 ! Library { Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian of R TR AT TN B AT, FNBA AN MR A .Mrs. _Frever discussed .also the three avenue, The Poening Star Society and General WASHINGTON, D W EDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1929. . PAGE 17 MEDAL AWARDED TOERCP. KELLY ONCHILD'S BOOK Dartmouth Professor Hon- ored at Session of Library Association. 2,600 DELEGATES ATTEND CONFERENCES Cultural Relations Between U. S. and Spanish and Latin Coun- tries Discussed. The American Library Association’s only award for literary merit, made an- nually to the author of the best book for children, was bestowed _this morning upon Eric P. Kelly, a professor at Dart- mouth College The John Newbery medal was pre sented fo Prof. Kelly by Carrie E. Scott, cheirman of the children’s librarian section, in recognition of his book, “The Trumpeter of Krakow.” The librarians had previously voted on this award, cheosing Dr. Kelly's work because it was named the best on the subject produced | Jast year by an American writer. The medal is named in honor of | John Newbery, eighteenth century pub- | lisher and bookseller, who was one of | the first of his profession to specialize | on children’s books. It is the gift of |COOPER RESIGNS Y. M. C. A L. W. DE GAST SUCCEEDS HIM Turns to Lecture Platform After 21 Years as General Secretary of D. C. “Y.” Successor of De Gast as As- sociate General Secretary Is Not Announced. ‘William Knowles Cooper, fcr 21 years general secretary of the Washington | Young Men's Christian Association, has resigned, effective October 1, it was announced today by Huston Thompson, president of the assoclation and chair- man of the board of governors. Leonard W. De Gast, associate general secretary, will succeed Mr. Cooper s | the executive head of the organization, Mr. Thompson announced on behalf of the board. Mr. Cooper will go on the lecture platform before college groups, clubs and other organizations. He will begin a series of lectures on current events | soon after relinquishing his post next 'all. He will receive an annuity from | the national retirement fund of the Y. M. C. A. when his term of service ends. shall continue to live in Wash- ington and to take an active interest PRUNING OF BUDCE TOAVOIDINGREASE OFSLIDTARATE Commissioners Begin Fram-i ing of District’s 1931 Re- quirements Tomorrow. $53,056,505 DEMANDS TO BE CUT $4,500,000 | 'Depurtmenc Heads to Be Consulted in Reducing Record Figure to $48,500,000. The 1931 municipal budget, which the Commissioners will begin framing to- morrow, will be predicated on con- | tinuance of the existing $1.70 tax rate, t was indicated today at the District | Butiding. The Commissioners, it was said, have been rather firmly convinced by Maj. | Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget | in the affairs of the Y. M. C. A.” Mr. Cooper announced. “As & lay volunteer it will be my pleasure to assist the asso- ciation In every way possible.” Both Mr. Cooper and Mr. De Gst are nationally known in Y. M. C. A. circles and prominent in chureh, social and civic work in the National Capital. Frederic G. Melcher of New York CZ(Y.‘ ‘The scene of Dr. Kell book is laid in | an ancient Polish city, and the hero is | a trumpeter, whose personal fortunes | were involved with important issues of | Polish politics. The presentation featured the third | day of the convention here, which | opened Monday at the Washington | Auditorium for a week of conferences | among more than 2,600 delegates. | Cultural relations between the United | States, Spain and Latin . American | countries was the subject of informal | discussion this morning at a meeting of | the commitice on literary co-operation | with the Hispanic peoples. A number of diplomats_representing these coun- tries addressed the meeting on the | value of books as a medium of develop- | ing friendly relations between America | end its neighbors to the south. Colombian Minister Speaker. Among these speakers were Dr. En- rique Olaya, Minister of the Republic | of Colombia, and Carlos G. Davila, Ambassador from Chile. John T. Vance | of the Library of Congress, chairman of | the committee, introduced the speak- ers. 1 It was said at the session that means will be adopted to bring more Hispanic literature before the North American | reading public and a corresponding ef- | fort made to introduce books from the | United States into the Latin countries. The meeting wes called primarily to | discuss ways for overcoming the differ- | ences in language between the coun- tries involved. It was hoped that this committee, mecting in the National Capital with diplomatic _representati would be | successful in laying down a program of | cultural co-operation between all the | Americas. Another feature of today's meeting, which adjourned at noon'to allow the visitors to enjoy Weshington and its many points of historic interest, was a meeting of the hospital library's round table. Some phases of library work | among scrvice veterans were related | 4> the conference by Annie Louise Craigie, librarian of the Edward J. Hines Junior Hospital, Maywood, TIL Miss Craigie said that Western | gtories are the most popular with the | veterans, although poetry is finding increasing favor. However, the former soldiers_are united in the belief that modernistic poetry is “the bunk,” many of them saying blank verse is just another form of laziness. Miss Craigie said that colored patients, although some of them are attracted to frivolous or light booksy are enthusiastic yeaders of all sorts of poetry. Chronicle off Presses. The convention's official publication, {#The Conference Chronicle, came off the presses this morning after members of its editorial stafl had worked through most of last night preparing the “copy.” The current issue contains the Toll of delegates, listing about 2,600, from virtually every important community in the United States and representing Tospital, college, public and other insti- tutional lbraries. - 3 Another highlight of this morning’s | meeting was the publicity round tabl before which various newspaper articles written by librarians were criticized by | Leon Whipple, as<ociate professor of the New York _University's School of | Journalism. He tock into account such | points as captions, layout, type, arrange. ment and general suitability of the con The material covered advertising and that intended for various publications in_addition to newspapers. FElizabeth O. Cullen of the Bureau of Railroad Economics, Washington, was | secretary of the meeting, while Carl L. Cann Library was chairman, ociation will meet tonight at 8:30 o'clock in the Washington Hotel the Washington Public Library and chairman of the active committee on local arrangements, has been busy with plans for entertaining the visitors. afternoon’s entertainment_pro- | lectured Mr. Cooper is a past president of the Rotary Club and Mr. De Gast is secre- tary of the Lions Club and chairman | of the Association of Division Secre- taries of the Community Chest. The retiring general secretary has been in Y. M. C. A. work for nearly 40 years. 'Forsaking a youthful busi- ness career in his native city, Philadel- phia, he was appointed secretary of the Y. M. C. A. in Norristown, Pa. He was | transferred to Brooklyn, N. Y., as sec- Tetary of the “Y" there and again to Springfield, Mass. He came to Washington from Spring- | field on September 15, 1908. It is large- | {1y due to his administrative capacities | Holland, 46 years ago, and he came 10 and his untiring energy that the local | associatlon now is in the front rank. of the larger Y. M. C. A’s In the United | States. His services were recognized by | his appointment as a member of the | National Council of the ¥. M. C. A., the national executive committee of the Federal Council of _Churches, the Commission on Interchurch Reiations and other national church and welfare bodles. | He has traveled extensively and has frequently on conditions | | officer, that the $1.70 levy will produce sufficent revenue to support the unpre- | cedented budget planned for the 1931 fiscal year. And despite its size, this budget will not include some of the | important public improvements ad- | vocated in recent months, but the Com- | missioners are represented as feeling | that the tax rate should not be in- | creased to provide them. ! ! " The new budget will be based on the recommendations of the various depart- | ment heads of the District government | | calling for appropriations totaling $53,- | | 056,505, or $11,461,390 more than pro- vided by Congress for the coming fiscal | year beginning July 1. The Commis- | sioners, “however, intend to_trim this organ- | figure to approximately $48,500,000, the { amount recommended by Maj. Donovan in_his five-year financial program as well as in a recent report on the esti- mates of the department heads. LEONARD W. DE GAST. Commerce, in addition to other izations. Mr. De Gast was born in Ouddorp, America in 1895. He was educated at Mount Hermon School in Massachu- setts. At one fime he was editor of | e L e the Nanticoke, Pa., Daily Herald. He| The Commissioners plan to -follow entered Y. M. C. A. work as a boys'| thelr usual policy in reducing the esti- secretary in Butler, Pa., in 1906 and & served as_general secretary from 1907 | Tates Of the department heads by first to 1908. He then was boys’ work secre- tary and later educational director of the Y. M. C. A. in Springfield, Mass. In 1914 he came here as boys' secre- tary, was promoted to service director in 1918 and to associate gencral secre- | deciding on the total amount for the entire budget and then making the cuts judiclously after conferences with the heads of the departments affected. In | the case of the Board of Education, however, the Commissioners will ‘return its estimates and allow the school offi- | study of post-war economic and politi- | | Scouts. abroad. He was a delegate to the |tary on October 1, 1922. World Conference on Boys' Work ln; During the Billy Sunday revival Austria in 1923 and to the World Con- | campaign some years ago Mr. De Gast ference of the Y. M. C. A. in Finland in [ was “loaned” to the campaign 1926. His last trip to Europe was in |mittee as executive secretary. He re- 1927 with a greup of college presidents, | cently took an active part in the clergymen and others engaged in & |organization of the local Community Chest and during the subsequent cam- paign was secretary of the metropoli- tan division, embracing 3,000 workers. Mr. De Gast has bcen secretary of | the Washington Lions Club for a num- ber of years and is well known nation- ally in civic club circles, -He is a mem- ber of the City Club, the Chamber of Commerce, La Fayette Lodge, No. 19, F. A. A. M, and the Congregational Church and is president of the Congre- gational Club of the District of Colum- a. He resides with his family at 6216 Eighth street. No announcement has been made as to Mr. De Gast's successor as associate general secretary. MPKINLEY SCHO0L cal problems. Mr. Cooper is a member of the Con- | gregational Church and of the national | committee on missions of that denomi- | nation. He is an executive committee- man of the Washington. Council of So- cial Agencies, the Social Hygiene So- clety and the local and national Boy He is a trustee of .American University, a director of the Federal- American National Bank and a memiber of the Rotary Club. City Chub, Cosmos Club, National Arts Club, Colorado Mountain Club, La Fayette Lodge, F. A. A. M.: 3ons of the American Revo- lution, Columbia Historical Society, the Board of Trade and the Chamber of ANNUAL RIS SHOW * TOBEGIN TONCAT CEREMONY TONIGHT Prizes of Choice Plants Will Be Awarded by Takoma Park Club. |rSpeeches, Music and Recep- tion Feature Dedication Erogram. The annual iris show of the Takoma | Speeches by prominent guests Park Horticultural Club will open to-| z guests, music and an open-house reception will mark at 8 o'clock in the new fire house 3 :,‘,'f%anou avenue, opposite Deanwood | the dedication tonight of the new M- avenue, and continue throughout to-| Kinley High School, Second and T oW, ey ine Db | streets northeast. ark Voluntes - | pu':‘lr:ze;x:t-l::r::nmplm S hew structure | The formal dedicatory exercises will and the hall will be used for staging the | be held in the auditorium at 8:15 show. Prizes consisting of cholce iris|o'clock, while the . building will be plants and lly bulbs will be awarded | opened for public inspection at 7 in_each class. ¢ | 0'clock.: During the period visitors will Iris plants scoring 85 points or highe; have been donted by Homer C. Skeels, | be shown about the big building, the | Y. Morrison, E. W. Sheets. J. A.|various shops and laboratories will be | | dividual group, call for $13,725,000, and the New York City Public| The trustees section of the American | B. Hyslop, C. H. Popenoe, C. C. Thomas and Winn T. Simmons; iily bulbs by | Roy G. Plerce and E. C. Powell. A sub- stantial prize will be awarded the ex- hibitor winning the most points. A cash prize will be awarded for the most artistic bouquet arranged by | clals to make any revisions that may be | found necessary. Approximately $4.500,000 will have to be cut from the estimates of the depart- ment heads to make the new budget { conform to the limitation of $48,500,000, which the auditor has pointed out’ the estimated available revenue in 1931 will provide without a change in the tax levy, and this will be done in a series | of “special meetings of the Board of | Commissioners. The initial session to- morrow will begin at 9:30 o'clock, in the office of Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty, and it is likely that the en- { tire meeting will be devoted to a review of the appropriation requests of the various departments. Advice to Be Lacking. For the first time in many years, the Commissioners will be forced to under- take the estimate pruning process with- out the advice and counsel of Maj. Donovan, who is confined to his home by illness. The auditor's report on the budget, together with his five-year finan- cial program, which treats rather com- prehensively the prospective financial condition of the District in the 1931 | fiscal year, will be used by the Com- | missioners as a guide until his return. | Whera, the reductions are to be made |in the estimates of the department heads to keep the budget within_the | $48,500,000 limitation suggested by Maj. | | Donovan is a question which the Cowm- missioners are expected to each hefore the end of the week. By following the auditor’s formula this would be com- paratively simple, as he has set forth in his five-year schedule the total ap- propriations which could be allocated the various departments and not exceed $48,500,000. $13,725,000 Asked for Schools. The school estimates, the largest in- i Maj. Donovan, in his program, allocates $12,723,000 to the schools for the 1931 fiscal year. In the case of highway improvement, however, the estimates total $4,457,580, whereas the auditor’s program allows $4,645,000 for- this work. The auditor’s allocation for the police and fire departments also excceds the appropriations requested. The estimates of these two departments amount to $6.155,891, while the five-year program allows $6,680.000. On the other hand, the health and anitation allocation in the five-year TWO BEAUTY POTS 1IN GARDENS OF GEORGETOWN Among the gardens thrown open to the public yesterday were those of| Mrs. Walter Peter, 3027 S street (above). and Mrs. John Thider, 2811 P street (lower). Mrs. Ihlder is shown in her garden. —Star Staff Photos. | GARDENS ATTRACT SCORESOF VISTORS Favorable Weather Brings Out Large Crowd at An- nual Showing. i | | Under blue skies and a bright sun,| | which put at rest the gloomy weather predictions made earlier in the day, hundreds of gardening enthusiasts yes- terday afternoon crowded the streets of Georgetown at the opening to the public of a score of the most beautiful gardens in- that section, under auspices of the Georgetown Garden Club. Arrangements had been made to post- | pone the opening ‘until today in the event of rain, but by 2 o'elock the last threat of bad weather had disappeared, | and a crowd of machines and pedestrians were crowding the stteets and sidewalks. In many gardens, the owners appeared to welcome their guests at the entrance and presided over the serving of tea. Visitors' Praise Gardens. Tn addition te residents of the (1. RELINQUISHES LIUOR 10 COUNTY “Green Fomatoes” Seized in Potomac Yards Cause of Brief Controversy. After a controversy involving author- | ity over a refrigerator carload of “green tomatoes,” which turned out to be whisky, Federal prohibition agents to- day relinquished their claims to Sheriff Howard B. Fields of Arlington County, who will take charge of the liquor at GEORGETOWN BUYS HACRE TRINGLE 'Straightens Propoéed Line | | Board Acquired for Glover- Archbold Parkway. Capital, the guests included many visitors from Baltimore, Wilmington, Pittsburgh, Chicago and places through- cut Virginia and Maryland. Enthusiasm was shown by the visitors for the gardening attainments of the people of Georgetown, and high appreciation was expressed for the hospitality extended. Although final ticket sales have not yet been recorded by the club, Mrs. R. M. Whitehead, chairman of the organization, declared that 1200 visi- tors: between the hours of 2 and 6 would be a conservative estimate. The.| | proceeds derived from the exhibition will be expended for various civic pur- poses. The gardens on -exhibition included several kinds of landscape gardening, as well as both rock gardens and sunken gardens and some intimate little gardens planned and worked en- tirely by their owners. Oulst.andmz'| in this latter class were the gardens | of Miss Madeleine MecCandless, 1524 Thirty-third street; Miss S. A. Sort- well, 3410 Volta place, and Mrs. Wal- lace’ Radcliffe, 1675 Thirty-first street, Co-operating with the National Capi- | tal Park and Planning Commission in | | preserving the natural beauty of West | Washington, Georgetown University CHURCH PROPERTY OFFERED AS SITE FOR BUS TERMINAL First Congregational Loca- tion Proposed Among Others at Meeting. PROMPT CONSTRUCTION OF STATION IS URGED Speakers Also Urge Attractive Structure to Meet Trans- portation Need. The First Congregational Church at Tenth and G streets, where President Coolidge worshiped when he was in Washington, was offered as one site for a proposed union bus terminal for Washington at a public hearing called to consider the question of building such a terminal today by the Public Utilities Commission. The offer was made by James R. Ellerson, jr., sales agent for the property. Other locations suggested were the Hud- son Hotel, 1329 H street; Convention Hall Market. Fifth and K streets: the square bounded by Tenth, Eleventh, H, and T streets: northwest corner of Twelfth and New York avenue; the plot bounded by Pennsylvania avenue, Ninth, Ténth and D streets, and E street be- tween Eighth and Ninth streets. Bus Operators Express Views, All of the sites were submitted by real estate men who argued for the merits of their respective sites. The meeting was then thrown open for discussion by the bus operators, but only two of them accepted the invitation of the commission to express their views. These were R. H. Norton, vice president of the People's Rapid Transit Co.. a subsidiary of the Xfitten-managed Phila- delphia Rapid Transit, and L. C. Major, of the Greyhound Lines, both repre- senting companies with extensive inter~ E antle bHus lines. r. Horton said he had come to liste and not to falk, but that he had been much interested in the sites offered. Mr. Major said that, after canvassing the sites, he felt sure he and Mr. Hor- ton could get together and agree to run zh::i; t;;:sses into one terminal, airman John W. Childre _Public Utilities Commiion ald tu‘h: commission had power to route all in- térstate busses in Washington to any bus'terminal it chose, and that although he could not predict the ruling of the commission, “undoubtedly,” if a suitable terminal were agreed to by the bus ap- erators, the commission would use this power and compel all interstate busses to s']t:‘(;,p there. “There is no question in my mind but that these busses should be got aiect Mr. itgg;es e esse C. s, Tepresentin e Board of Trade, said this body :‘a‘s strongly in favor of prompt construction of a proper bus terminal, and would render any- co-operation possible, Earl V. Fisher, executive secretary of the commission, read a comprehensive Teport as a result of his study of the question, which included a recent visit to Pittsburgh and Chicago. Summing up the necessity for a union terminal here. Mr. Fisher's report said: “An attractive terminal is without doubt the best selling agency for bus transportation. A storeroom with a few benches does not attract and does not suffice. A person contemplating a trip does not know the type of equipment. he or she is to be transported in, but if the terminal is attractive, a prospec- tive passenger will .have purchased g;:mspormuon before the arrival of the s. “One of the strongest arguments for the terminal to the lrs\'ellngg public, as well as the bus operators, is that with a common terminal, such as the rail terminal in this city. a traveler can get information and will not have to ‘be referred to two or three different loca- tions in a city, such as is now done in most of the cities I have visited, par- ticularly in Pittsburgh. I wish fo im- has purchased the triangle of four acres Potomac Yard, Va. aceording to Wil. | that straightens out the line of prop- | liam C. Gloth, commonwealth attorney, | erty recently acquired by the commis- who participated in the discussions. " “!sion to extend the Glover-Archbold Gloth declared that the car, which | ; the Federal prohibition _authorities | PATkWay through the Foundry Branch wanted to bring to the District of Co. | Valley West of Georgetown College at | lumbia and unload into Federal ware- Canal road. president of the Georgetown Garden Club. The home of Alexander Kirk, situated at the corner of Wisconsin avenue and R street, furnishes one of the old landmarks of Georgetown. This garden was thrown open after special permission had been cabled by Mr. Kirk, who is counselor of the American em- houses here, be taken to an ice com- | # * pany warehouse near Alexandria for | Vhile the Georgetown acrease is des unloading. The car was en route from | tined to become the new home of its | Hollandale, Fla., to Newark, N. J. | Law School, the purchase of the grounds | bassy at Rome. Evermay, at 1628 Twenty-eighth street, the home of Mr. and Mrs. La- mont Belin, ‘and rented in their ab-| }uddrrssvs by Senator Bingham of Con- | Sition of the site for the municipal in operation, with students giving dem- | program is more than $1,500,000 under onstrations 3 2 | the appropriations requested. pindi of the actual school-day | "1 {8P6¢" the outstanding projects to 3 ’ | be provided in the 1931 budget, it was The auditorium program will include | indicated, will be the complete acqui- necticut. Commissioner Taliaferro and | {Enter And completion of the constric- a girl or boy over 12 years of age by the club. For the best specimen of iris stalk, J. Marion Shull of Chevy Chase, Md., will give a plapt of his tropic’ seas iris. The show committee is composed of | E. L. Crandall, chairman; C. G Far-| well, Mrs. Andrew Bunten, Mrs. Charles W. Flora, Charles H. Spencer and Z | Brsatras Simon of the Eighth Street | Temple. Dr. Simon was president of i the Board of Education when plans for the new McKinley High School were being completed. ~Representative Sim- mons of Nebraska also was invited o jattend the exercises, but absence from 1 the Capital today to attend the fu- includes a tea at the Public lock, when the chil tion will be enter ospital library’s com. guests al another Lted General Hospital will be Walter mittec in the Libray Sescion Tomorrow Morning. ‘The third general session of the con- vention wil o'clock tomor- re Roosevelt.” be fellowed by Charles Moore, author of the “Family Life of Grorge Wash- ington.” and by David Lawrence. editor e United States Daily. Mary Rob- < Rinehart, the author, together with the winner of the Newbery medal, are expected to be honor guests at the session is set Saturday morning, when committee on resolu- rd and the new offi- sented to the delegates. 1s_opposed in the elec- heduled for Saturday PERU LECTURE THEME, What the three great historical periods of Peru ha chieved, and the rela- ticnship between the two Americas to- day, formed the central theme of a lec- 1 given yesterday by Mrs Frank Barrows Freyer, wife of Capt Freyer, U. S. N., before the members of the commercial and fechnical group of the S| al Library Association, and il- Justrated by 150 colored lantern slides. & Pelle, representing the Takoma Park Horticultural Club, and Maj. Louis C Voight, president: H. H. Votaw, vice president; 1. H. Ware, secretary; J. S. Burrows, treasurer. and Ch-sler | Waters, H, C. Heffner, C. M. Kiefer, | 0.'W. Youngbiood and H. A, Morrison, | representing_the Takoma Park Vol- | unteer Fire Department. | Members of the exhibition committee | {of the Takoma Park Horticultural Club iere C. C. Thomas, president; Roy G.} Plerce, secrelary, and E c. Jpn’xlrl. | chairman. The judges will be J. Mar- in the A jion Shull and Ms. John Inlder. ;gfl",',',.""..v|x'1m;;1nl(f.‘ e =" | Smallwood Mockbee will offer solos upon McKinley's new pipe organ. The North Capitol Citizens' Associa- tion, one of the active citizen groups which sought the school building, will attend the exercises in a body. | neral of Representative Casey of Penn- | sylvania was expected to make it im- Frank | possible for him to appear. Dr. chools, ¢\ W. Ballou, superintendent of - | will preside over the exerclses, - | Music will play a prominent part | In the auditorium exercises. ‘The Tech | Symphony Orchestra, under direction of Dore Walten, will give a_concert, while former Tech students will return to present musical solos. Leonard Davis, who two years ago reached the finals'in the Atwater Kent radio audi- | = geographical divisions of the Latin American republic 2 In concluding, Mrs. Freyer pointed | out the fact that the barrier of distance | which formerly made it _impossible for | people of North and South America | to understand each other’s problems and | habits is now speedily being removed | by greater traveling facllities—the many HOLD FIRST-AID CLASSES. and rapid steamship lines, as well as travel by airplane, and that the diffi-|Firemen Are Being Instructed by culties of communication are being | Reéd* Grose. overcome by radio, thus opening the | way for the people of the two conti-| The District of Columbia Chapter, uents to remove (he only Yemaining | American Red Cross, is holding a class barrier themselves -thelr imagined dif-|in first aid for the firemen of the Dis- | terences. { trict_under the instruction of Inspec- | "“In reality.” she said, “it has notltor Ben Gammage at 821 Sixteenth | been our differences but our distances|street, the Red Cross headquarters. | which have separated us. The time|Examinations will be held~ tomorrow. | has come for us to think of ourselves ! The course started Monday. | not as North Americans or South Amer-| Another class in first aid is being | icans, but as Americans.” given by the District of Columbia Following the lecture, Mrs. Freyer en- | Chapter for the firemen of Chevy Chase tertained at tea in honor of the libra- [and Takoma Park at Takoma Park. It rians at her home, on Massachusetts | started today under the instruction of £ JAngpector Ira Lee Law. | mended for appropriation in the de- and Mrs. Gertrude | tion of twe high-temperateure incin- erators for the destruction of combus- tible refuse. Deficiency appropriations will be sought at_the regular session of Con- gress in December to purchase a por- tion of the municipal center site and to start construction of the incinerators. The cost of the municipal center site is estimated at $6,500,000 and the incin- erators at $850,000. For the municipal center land, $3,000,000 is to be recom- ficlency Dbill, leaving $3.500,000 to be | carried in the 1931 budget. Of the | amount for the incinerators. $500 000 1s to be reauested in the deficiency bill, leaving $350,000 to be provided in the | 1931 budget. | — {PENCIL-WRITTEN WILL OFFERED FOR PROBATE | | Mrs. Sophia V. Harris Disposes of | Estate in Document Outlined on Menu Card. Mrs. Sophia Vogt Harris, who died | May 13, left as her last will a document | written in lead pencil on the reverse | side of a menu of the Washington Sani- tarium at Takoma Park, Md., December 12 last. The paper was offered for pro- bate by her husband, John T. Harri “The will directs that with. he excep- tion of bequests totaling $6,700 the en- tire estate is to go (o the husband. The value of the estate is not disclosed. The specific bequests include $1,000 to the Washington Home for Incurables, $1,000 each to Minnie Vogt Connor, Frank W. Connor, sr.; Frank W. Connor, jr.; Wil- liam M. Connor and Annie B. Schlen- ther. Daisy Roih, a nurse, is given $200 | and Mrs. Martina Waple $500. husband is also named as executar. | Claims of Jurisdiction. Because it was discovered in Potomac Yards in the county, Sheriff Fields earlier today contended that he should take possession of the contraband. un- load the liquor and store it in Virginia. On the other hand, Federal prohibi- tlon authorities, backed by national headquarters in_this city. were insi: ing on taking charge of the refrigera- tor car and bringing it to the District for unloading. Alf Oftedal, assistant commissioner, declared the car should be taken carc of by the Federal agents. The Government had known of the shipment, he said, but while a confer- ence concerning disposition of it was going on in Washington this morning, Oftedal sad the sheriff assumed charge. Dr. B. H. Rhees, head of the special agent force in the Prohibition Bureau, went to the scene with an assistant at 0on. Similar to Richmond Haul. The shipment is similar to a big haul of whisky seized at Richmond, Va., eariy last month, disguised as tomatoes. Railroad officials at the yard first discovered the shipment when the odor of whisky seeping through the walls of & refrigerator car led to the concealed liguor. An_inspector making his rounds at| 9 o'clock last night detected the odor and made a report to J. J. Kelly, yard master. The seals of the car were smashed and an _investigation revealed the car fully loaded with cases marked “green tomatoes,” one of which was leaking whisky. Six Arlington County policemen were guarding the car this morning, The carload of “green tomatoes” seized at Richmond, which also proved to be whisky, had been shipped from Hollywood, Fla., and was consigned to Newark, N. J., according to records at prohibition’ headquarters. NOTED FLYER TO SPEAK. Lieut. Hinton to Describe “Lost World" to City Club. Lieut. Walter Hinton, who covered 26,000 square miles of the Amazon River Valley by airplane and lived for two years with the natives, will give a pro- logue to the showing of the picture “The Lost World” at the City Club to- morrow evening at 8:15 o'clock. The picture is being shown through the courtesy of Robert Smeltzer, local manager of First National Pictures. ‘The Lieut. Hinton will tell of his experiences ' meeting of ungle, 4n the South American J | Aits in with the Government's plans to | Sence to Mrs. Ruth Pratt, member of | develop this section into one of 'the | Congress, was one of the most elaborate | most_beautiful links in the chain of | §ardens on view. An array of box and rkways to surround the Capital. Ac- | view of the entire city added to the quisition of this property by George- | attractions of the garden. Facing Ever- | town University, which is just south of | may was the "home of Mr. and Mrs. | press on the bus operators that in cities ‘where terminals are operated the result has been a decided stimulus to bus transportation by having an at- tractive terminal.” Tells of Other Cities. Mr. Fisher's description of the bus ;:;l:lnll situation in other cities fol- Chicago—A union motor coach ter- minal company operates a building 100 feet deep with a 70-foot frontage. Busses enter from Wabash avenue and come out on Twelfth street. They are at no time parked on the street for loading. Unloading is done in front of the main entrance to the terminal and busses leave for a service garage prohibition | its medical center under "construction lon Reservoir road, is the first step taken by the university looking to the | eventual removal of its Law School from | the building it has occupied since 1892 | | at 806 E street. Property Increased fo 93 Acres. The _additional 4 acres increases the Georgetown property in West | Washington to 93 acres, one side of | which_will abut the Government park | from Reservoir road to the vicinity of Canal road. It will also enable the university to provide another entrance to its grounds when Arizona avenue is extended through the parkway. While the plans for the new Law School building will not mature for {some time, it is known that President | W. Coleman Nevils is contemplating the | construction of a building similar to old | Independence Hall in Philadelphia, one {of the most beautiful types of early | American architecture to be found in | this country. Planning Commission Gratified. ning Commission, according to Maj. Carey H. Brown, its engineer, is very pleased over the purchase of the four- acre triangle by Georgetown. Although !the Government did not actually need {the land in question for the extension of its park plan, its acquisition by the university fits in with the plans of the | commission to _preserve- the natural beauty of the Foundry Branch Valley and_property immediately adjoining it. The board of regents of Georgstown | University will hold its annual meeting during the June commencement, and at this session President Nevils is expected {to take up the questioh of extending the development plan of the university to establish eventually all its depart- ments in the immediate vielnity of the | coliege campus. | Secretary Hyde to Address Club. | Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. | Hyde will address the Men's Club of Foundry Methodist Church at the an- nual banquet of the club to be held in the church banquet hall Friday night, { beginning at 6:30 oclock. Officers for the ensuing year will be clected by the club at this the final the season. Reservations are being wej\*:fl by E. J. Febrey, ‘The National Capital Park and Plan- | | Herman Hollerith, of which the gard | possessed an atmosphere distinctly i own. One of the most unusual gardens opened was. perhaps, that of Mrs. Anne Archbold, 3905 Reservoir road, which | was noted for its drives and impressive landscape effect. Those mentioned are {only a few of the more outstanding of the many notable examples of garden- | ! ing on exhibition. 1 Georgetown Club. The members of the Georgetown Club who opened their homes to the | public yesterday are Alexander Kirk, 3308 R street; Mrs. C. G. Warden, 3214 S street; Mrs. Fernando Cuniberti, 3224 | R street: Mrs. Wallace Radcliffe, 1675 Thirty-first street; Mrs. Herman Hol- lerith, 1633 Twenty-ninih street; Mrs. | Ruth 'Pratt, 1623 Twenty-eighth street; | Mrs, F.S. Bright, 2723 Q street; Mrs. R. F. Whitehead, 1524 Twenty-eighth street: Mrs. Dean Acheson, 2805 P | street; Mrs. John Ihlder, 2811 P street; | Miss Bentley, 2018 P strest; Miss | Bertha Looker, 1312 Thirtieth 'street; Mrs, Henry Leonard, 3038 N street: | | Mrs. E. R. Finkenstaedt, 3028 N street: Mrs, Walter Peter, 3027 N street; Miss | Katherine Dougal, 3030 P street; Ms. | Alvin Dodd, 3300 O street; Miss Made- {leine McCandless, 1524 Thirty-third | | street: Miss Frances Sortwell, 3410 | Volta place, and Mrs, Frank West, 3406 R street. The out-of-town gardens be- long to Mrs. Anne Reservoir road, and Miss Weaver, 2405 Wisconsin avenue. ! RITES FOR COL. HUNTER. Retired Army Officer Buried Today in Arlington. Funeral services for Col. Alfred M. Hunter, 65 years old, U. S. A., retired, | who died in Walter Reed Hospital Sun- day, were conducted in Arlington Ceme- tery today at 11 o'clock. Interment was in Arlington with full ‘military honors. Col. Hunter made his home here at 2141 Wyoming avenue. He held a sil- ver star citation for “gallantry in action” against Spanish forces at Santiago, Cuba, July 10, 1893. ; For having attended school eight years | without missing a day, Robert Browne of Ballyvally, Ireland, has been pre- sented a gold medal, 1 | 1 | immediately after all passengers have alighted and baggage unloaded. The building is a two-story-and-basement structure, built to accommodate 10 additional stories, with concessions 1 cluding a restaurant, drug store, haber- dasher, news stands and barber shop. Madison, Wis—The bus terminal in the basement of a new office building accommodates 15 lines. Expenses are prorated among the lines in accord- ance with the number of bus miles operated into and out of the terminal. Cleveland, Ohio—The terminal is at Ninth and Euclid avenue, wher2 busses are loaded under roof. Tt is used by about 75 per cent of the bus companies. Akron, Ohio—This city has an unde; cover terminal owned and operated by the Northern Ohio Power & Light Co. It was formerly a street car shed. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Conditions _are iden- tical with Washington. There are numerous terminals, the busses park- ing at the curbline for 10-minute periods and store buildings are used for waiting rooms. The Greyhound Lines utilize a 2-story building, while the White Star Lines have a similar terminal. Individual operators have spaces allotted to them in the streets, The order of the traflic director per- mitting 15-minute layovers is strictly enforced. Pittsburgh s dissaysfied with the present situation and a eity ordnance is in prospect to force bus operators to set up a suitable terminal. Newark Conditions Chaotie. Newark, N. J—Traffic conditions are chaotic, with apparently no action to be taken by the city authorities to regulate busses, other than to provide parking space in the streets. Busses on long interstate trips either terminate at Newark or pass through to New York, stopping a few moments in front of the terminal building, while all local busses seem to be constantly on the move, most of them terminating at the tube station. Traffic conditions within a radius of three or four blocks of this station durimg the day are the worst Mr. Fisher has ever seen. Dismissal Is Upheld. The District Commissioners yesterday upheld the action of the Folice Trial Board in dicmissing Pvt. F. H. Rags- dale, twelfth precinct, frcm the force, Regsdale had been convicted of intoxi- cation and showing disrespsct to & supenjor officer,