Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1929, Page 15

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO: D. he Sunday Stae C, MAY 19, 1929—P GENERAL NEWS ) RT 1—SECTION BUDGET ESTIVATE T0 BE GIVEN Y FOUR MG EROLPS Detailed Copies Are Prepared for Distribution at Direction of Commissioners. PRELIMINIZ&Y WORK TO START TOMORROW District Heads Plan to Begin Task ‘Without Waiting for Reports From Organizations. Complete copies of the detailed bud- getry estimates of the department heads of the District government for the 1931 fiscal year were prepared yesterday at the direction of the Commissioners for distribution to the Citizens’ Ad- visory Council and Washington's three trade organizations—the Board of Trade, the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Assoclation. In accordance with a custom adopted several years ago, these groups will consider "the financial requests of the various municipal departments and make recommendations to the Com- missioners as to what items should be allowed or eliminated and the tax rate that should prevail in the new fiscal year. These recommendations are taken under advisement by the Commissioners in the preparation of the budget. Does Not Set Precedent. Thke organization will be sent detailed copies of the estimates in lieu of abbre- viated reports, with a view to present- ing them with a more complete picture of the needs of the District. The pro- cedure does not mark a precedent, how- ever, as two years ago, the voluminous documents containing the appropria- tion requests of the departments in de- tail, with the explanations of justifica- tion, were distributed to the four groups. Last year only the skeletonized estimates were distributed. Without waiting for reports from the council and the three trade bodies, the Commissioners have planned to begin work tomorrow on the preliminary bud- get. The first steps will be to deter- mine the total of funds to be allowed, ‘The process of trimming the estimates g the department heads then will fol- w. 1t is practically certain that the Com- missioners keep the budget within $48,500,000, the limitation recommended by Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer. This will mean that more than $4,500,000 will have to be cut from the figures of the various departments. Council May Urge More. ‘The advisory council, however, it was indicated yesterday, probably will recom- mend a budget of $50,000,000 or $51,- 000,000. Dr. George C. Havenner, chair- man of the council, said that in in- forinal conferences the opinion has been expressed that the District can stand a Father Hagen, director of the Vatican Observatory, former director of the Georgetown Ol ‘William Herschel an Other scientists have bservatory, who is seeking proof from oth existence of faimt, mysterious clouds of light. Father Hagen has spent most of his life investigating them. disputed his findings and Rev. Paul McNally, the present astronomers of the ‘The clouds were first noted by Sir Georgetown director, is appealing to amateur astronomers to aid him in his search for more proof. The above photograph shows Father Hagen at his tele- scope in the Vatiean. ANNOUNCE ORDER INORATORY FINALS Chosen by Lot Before Con- testants of Zones Were Known. Following the completion of the con- testant field in the New York and Chi- cago finals Priday night, the order in which the two girls and six boys will compete in the finals of the Sixth Na- tional Oratorical Contest in the Wash- ington Auditorium next Saturday night for the high school forensic champion- ship of the United States was an- nounced here last night. order was determined by lot ‘The even before the contestants themselves were chosen. Fleming Newbold, busi- budget of that size in the 1931 fiscal ness manager of The Star, drew from a year without raising the existing $1.70 tax rate. The council already is on rec- levy in 1931, and an increase P:zenl Government's annual $9,000,000 lump-sum contribution toward munici- expenses. p"lrhex?: is um:n llkflm fi‘lt ni:l: Commissioners, pre] g the ‘budget, will give further thought to the tax rate in 1931. They already have let it become known that they intend to predicate the budget on a continu- ance of the existing levy, and Maj. Donovan has told them that the $1.70 will raise sufficlent revenue to suj a $48,500,000 budget, providing the sur- plus to the credit of the District in the United States Treasury is dipped into generously. Agree on Tax Rate. ‘While the council has given some in- dication of the budget it will recom- mend, none of the other organizations yet has discussed the subject, and will shuffied mass of paper slips numbers which ~ corresponded continuance of the $1.70 | Zones. ord favoring & s the to the contest Only Twe Girls Compete. ‘With only two girls in the finals, lot determined that one of them should launch the contest with the delivery of the first of the eight speeches. She is Miss Lucille - Fletcher, - Brooklyn high school girl, who won the right to rep- resent the New York City.region in her finals Friday night. The only other girl on the program, Miss Elizabeth V..Corey of Portland, Oreg., champion of the Northeastern zone, came Very near to closing the contest which her sistér orator is to launch, for the drawing placed her zone in seventh place on the other contestants will speak in following order: m;::e‘: !::m.rd Butsch of St. John's College, champion of The Star zone, second. Lee Miller of Maywood, Il dchlm- not do so until the coples of the de- | pion of the Chicago region, 3 rtmental estimates are received from | Beverly Chancellor of Stanford, Ky.. pa; the District Bullding. It is generally | cham) accepted, however, that all of them are on one detail—that should not be increased. Dorsey W. Chamber of Commerce, said yesterday Ho Hyde, secretary of the | champion f the Southern zone, fourth. pwwp oflmm of Kansas City, Ben the tax rate | champlon of the Midwest zone, fifth. PFinch of Kalamazoo, Mich., of the Eastern. zome, sixth. ‘Wilbur ‘Thibault of Portland, Oreg., that as soon as the official copy of the | champion of the Pacific’ Coast zone, estimates arrive, it will be turned over | Jast. to the committee on District finance, ‘These eight.contestants, who repre- taxation and assessment, for study. Ru- | sent the United States’ best high school dolph Jose is chairman of this group. | orators from Portland, Me., to- Portland, Hyde pointed out that it was this com- mittee which last year urged the Com- missioners to preEnre a five-year finan- cial program sim drawn up by Auditor Donovan. O {he " Mexican . Guif, Washingto! ar to the one recently | widely scattered.territory as that from which they themselves hail. the Canadian border to ., and from % n followers from: just as Foremost The Board of Trade and the Mer-|among the followers of the contest this chants and Manufacturers’ Association | year is the national’ champion of last also plan to turn the estimates over 10 | year'’s meet, James R. Moore of Som- committees for consideration. SHOT DURING QUARREL. Colored Man Is Slightly Injured. Suspect Vanishes. Lazarus Hargroves, colored, 28 years | old, of 943 Fourth street, was shot and slightly injured in the head late yester- day afternoon during an altercation in a house in the 1200 block of I street southwest. Hargroves was removed to Emergency Hospital in No. 4 precinct patrol and treated by Dr. Edward Kelly, ‘who said the wound was not serious. erset, Ky., who compe! national finals last Spring and in the internationals in the Fall: come here with Chancellor. the ever to attend a contest ‘meet here. Through the New York Times, contest sponsor in the metropolis, 500 members of the Prudential Life Insurance Co. personnel will attend the méet as the Saturday. Similarly, the Kansas Star is considering bringing 125 rooters ted here in. the He will Large Contingents Coming. Plans are being made now for two of largest ‘out-of-town contingents’ feature of their visit to the Capital next City for young Swofford, that paper’s entry. Police were told the injured man had | Whether the 125 come or not—and if been in & quarrel with Delfus Butler, | they do, theyll come in a sbecial train— also colored, 28 years old, of the 1200 | Swofford will have his most ardent sup- block of I street southwest. When of- | port in Elliott Norquist, likable ‘lad ficers from the fourth precinct arrived | who represented that region in last at the scene they were unable to find | vear's contest and who in that compe- Butler. titlon won second honors. Although none of them has notified Randoloh Leigh, contest director gen- eral, when he will reach the Capital. HIT BY AUTO; BADLY HURT Joseph C. Wilkinson, 69, Suffers Leg and Rib Fractures. Knocked down yesterday afterncon while crossing Eleventh street at North Carolina avenue southeast, Joseph C. ‘Wilkinson, 69, of 1013 North Carolina avenue southeast, suffered a fracture of the left leg, several fractured ribs and severe bruises. Fifth precinct police arrested Joe Petro, 46, of 323 Ninth street northwest, as the operator of the automobile, on a chage of reckless driving. Petro raised $500 bond. Wilkinson was treated at Casualty Hospital by Dr. A. M. McDonald. On;-Foot Forest Found. What is believed to be the most re- markable forest in the world has been found on th west coast of Africa. Al- though the trunks of the trees are as much as 4 feet in diameter, they at- tain the height of only 1 foot. No tree bears more than two lcaves, which attain a length of 6 feet and breadth of 2 feet. The forest covers a table- Jand 6 miles in width, _ | . the first of the orators probably will be hepe Wednesday. - On previous years the boys and girls have begun arriving four days before the finals, while some —specifically young Moore, last vear's champion—have poppsd into Washing- ton the morning of the meeting. While in WAghington, the six boys and the two g will be entertained at various 1t s which will be.an- nounced )11‘.:" be:hu week, lfi:l’ t,hel; program n mi out. © The: are expected to remain here through next Sunday evening before departing for their homes. Separating them, they will meet again in June at Jack- sonville, from which port they will embark together, under the guldance and tutelage of Dr. and Mrs. Glenn Swiggert, internationally known throughout Bouth America for their thrdee-month tour of the world “down under.” Overcrowded London. At the last census bétween 600,000 and 700,000 people in London were living over crowded to the extent of more than two to a room, and of these close on to 150,000 lived more than dhree 4 10 & voom. LAy L Sl 24 PLANES SEEK TROPHY SATURDAY Flyers Will Compete for Cur- tiss Marine Award at Anacostia. Twenty-four planes from naval air stations along the Atlantic Seaboard have been entered in lh§ five flight classes of the competition for the Cur- tiss Marine trophy, which will be held next Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Anacostia Naval Air Station, it was announced yesterday at the station. The President, the Vice President, members of Congress, the diplomatic corps and the Army and Navy in Wash- ington are among those to whom invi- tations to occupy reserved seats have been issued. Lieut. Comdr, D. C. Wat- son, commanding the station, yesterday announced that the.air station will be thrown open to the public during the race, but that the rved seat sec- tion would be held for those holding invitations. Before the race, two other attractions "\ll be staged by Navy fiyers. At 2:30 o'clock & Ford transport plane will take the air from the station and five men will descend from it via the parachute route. - At 2:45- o'clock, Lieut. Alford J: Williams, crack speed flyer of the Navy and the first man to accomplish the outside loop in a plane, and Capt. Tex Rogers, U. 8. Marine Corps, will give an exhibition of stunt flying. Seven Prizes Posted. Seven prizes will be' competed for by the 24 pllots in the Curtiss Marine Trophy, which is a fixture for which tmplk]y,}'whkhuol'!‘ a fixture for which crack Navy pi compete every year, there will be the cup m?l:n by Ar;gunl. Secretary of the Navy for Aviation In- galls, to the pilot of the plane which maintains the best speed for which it is rated by the Navy and five gold wrist watches donated by the Hamilton Watch Co, to the winners in each of the five plane divisions. A detachment of 30 Marines will be on hand to handle the traffic and seat- ing arrangements. Music will be fur- guh;d by the United States Marine and. Entries in the five divisions of the race are as follows: Training planes—Lieut. Miles R. Browning, Lieut. James H. McKay, and a third entry whose pilot has not been named. ‘Tarpedo- planes—Lieut. G. D. Town- send, Lieut. William J. Slattery, Lieut. P. D. Woods, Lieut. H..L. Hopping and Lieut. W. G. Cleaves. Amphibian planes—Lieut. C. McGauly, Lieut. B. Groh, Lieut. Comdr. J. E. Ostrander, and a fourth, whose pilot has not been named. Observation planes—Lieut. Comdr. Charles G. Halpine, Lieut. W. D. Sample, Lieut. W. G. Moser, Lieut. Dixwell Ketcham, Lieut. Alfred C. Olney, Lieut. J. L. Kane and Lieut. E. W. Rounds. Pursuit planes—Capt. J. T. Moore, U. 8. M. C; Capt. A. H. Page, jr., U. 8. M, C.; Lieut. W. O. Brice, U. S. L . Allan Flagg and Lieut. . ‘Tomlinson. Judges of the race will be: Porter Adams, former president of the Na- tional Aeronautic Association; Ma). Clarence Young of the Department of Commerce and Dr. George Lewis. Maj. Luke Christopher of the United States Army Reserves will be referee. The race will be run off under the direction of Admiral Willilam A. Moffet, chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics. OCCUPANT OVERBOARD AS CANOE CAPSIZES Police Boat Rushes, but Dr. Frank- lin Swims With Boat to Raft. While canoeing shortly before dark Inst night, just off Hains Point, Dr. W. A. Franklin, 61 years old, 2013 New Hampshire avenue, fell into the Potomac when the light craft capsized. The doc- tor, attired in a bathing suit, gathercd together his clothes, which had bzen scattered on the water, and swam with his canoe in tow to a nearby raft, occu- pled by three fishermen. At the raft Dr. Pranklin righted his canoe and returned ashore, none the worse for his wetting. Some one mean- while had telephoned the harbor pre- cinct police and the police boat, Maj. Hesse, was dispatched to, the scene. The doctor, however, declined medical lrehllment and returned home in a taxi- cab. ‘The fishermen on the raft were Jesse | Belt of 834 Eleventh street northeast; | Frederick Tate of Colmar Manor, Md., and Jean Croshen of 830 Eleventh street northeast. They sald the canoe had turned over about 40 feet sehere Lhelr saty rid e G ASTRONOMER ASKS AMATEURS HELP FOR COTEMPORARY Georgetown Director Urges Scientists to Search for Light Clouds. REV. PAUL A. McNALLY CONVINCED THEY EXIST Sir Isaac Roberts Denies Existence of Mysterious Objects in Sky. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. For the sake of an old man, who has spent a lifetime studying the glories of the heavens and who is approaching the end of his work, bitter at the thought that observations he is sure are correct are questioned by his co- temporaries, Rev. Paul A. McNally, director of the Georgetown University observatory, yesterday appealed to ama- teur astronomers to search the skies for certain distant, faint, mysterious clouds of light. Father McNally himself is convinced that they exist and that he has seen some of them. He wishes to make the ‘Georgetown observatory a clearing house of such observations in an effort to clear up one of the most disputed points in astronomy. Speaking before the American Asso- ciation of Fixed Star Observers at the National Academy of Sciences Building yesterday, Father McNally explained that in 1811 Sir Willlam Herschel, mest celebrated of all observers of the sky, listed 52 of these mysterious objects and gave their exact positions in the heavens. Apparently nobody else saw them at the time, and the dispute did not arise until a half century later, when the British astronomer, Sir Isaac Roberts, tried to check on Herschel. He found only eight of the 52 and denied the existence of the others. This caused Edward Barnard of the Lick Observatory, whose star charts have re- cently been published by the Carnegie Institution of Washingten, to come to the defense of Herschel on the grounds that such a great astronomer ‘couldn’t have gone 5o far Wrong. Sought Vainly for Evidence. Barnard, however, had tried to get evidence in vain by photographing the heavens. He kept quiet about the nega- tive results of his plates, but Father McNally examined them last Summer and found that they showed nothing. The next person to take up the work was Father Hagen, former director of the Georgetown Observatory and now director of the Vatican Observatory. He entered the work, Father McNally sald, without any bias in favor of Herschel, but was surprised to find the mysterious clouds of light in almost the exact positions where the English- man had found them a century before. After checking his observations he pub- lished them a few years ago. ‘Then ls(rol'lol'ne;":E a;l :\ller !h;e:lol'ld began disputing indings, ause th; have been unable to find the same things. This, Father McNally said, the old astronomer resents and his letters to the Georgetown observatory reveal an increasing bitterness and belief that his lifework has ended in failure. He has sent to Georgetown the entire col- lection of his sky maps showing the location where he claims he saw the nebulous areas. Meantime, the widow of Sir Isaac Roberts has entered the controversy, strangely enough in oppo- sition to the position of her husband. She has sent Georgetown a file of his charts for checking against those of Father Hagen in the belief that the cause of the difference will be found. There seems little doubt, Father Mc- Nally said, that such areas exist although they can be detected through the tele- scope on very clear nights after the observer has been in the dark for a time. Although the camera can detect objects in the heavens far too faint for the human eye, these patches cannot be photographed for some unknown reason. Every sort of device has been | tried for photographing them but the resulting plates show no result. Father Hagen himself has falled repeatedly and even.Prof. Hubbell of the Carnegle Institution, discoverer of the island universes, has been unable to get any ord. i Urged to Search Skies. Father McNally urged that persons with telescopes take advantage of clear nights to search the skies by the Georgetown charts. There are various dark areas in the sky, he said, which seem to be of the same nature but ! more intense. These also dify the camera. Some have held that they are great masses of dust or meteoric ma- terial which shut off the light from the stars in some areas. These can be found quite easily. But although they seem dark when viewed through a high-powered glass, they seem lighter than the surrounding sky. By first concentrating on these, he pointed out, it will be easier to detect the less tense Herschel areas. These are quite extensive and fade out gradually into the clear sky. ‘The great swarms of meteors offer exceptional opportunities to amateur observers, said Prof. Charles P. Oliver, who urged that any seen while taking variable stars observations be recorded. From those visible to the naked eye, he said, there is a very rapid increase as fainter and fainter magnitudes are ob- served through the telescope until they begin to fall off just as rapidly as they have risen. There is no way to deter- mine, he said, whether a fainter meteor is further away from the earth or smaller than the brighter objects un- less actual paralax measurements are made, such as those formerly used to determine the distances of the nearer stars. It 1s especially important, he insisted, to get a better picture of those in the immediate neighborhood of the ecrth. The fate of so-called novae, or new stars, after they have declined in bright- ness was discussed by Dr. W. H. Steavenson, former president of the British Astronomical Society. These are stars of which two or three appear in a century, mount in a few days to th~ brilliancy of the planets, so that they are the brightest objects in the sky, and then fade out of sight. This phsnomenon is ‘supposed to be due to stellar collisions or explosions which happen centuries before the light which tells the story reaches the earth. ‘The more recent novae, Prof. Steaven- s <aid, have been identified from photographic plates taken before their appearance as very faint stars. He has compared them after their great de- «elines end find that they go back about where ‘they started from. From then on th~v k-rd'y change at all. I e were papers by B. P. Garasi- movi: of linrvard University on an ob- seure typ: of variable stars, and by Dr. i. W Drown on the progress of the oceuitation campaign. Yesierday afternoon the astronomers visited the Georgetown University Ob- atory and the Bureau of Standards. n ended last night with a . A8 AR CRASH INJURES TINY PLANE'S PILOT A. 0. Younger of This City Has Broken Leg After Plunge Near Rockville Pike. A. O. Younger, Washington agent for the Heath “Parasol” planes, is at Gar- field Hospital with a broken leg, cuts on the head and other injuries, as a result of an air crash near Congres- sional Airport, on the Rockville pike, where he was keeping_ his plane, early yesterday afternoon. Younger’s condi- tion is not considered serious, hospital officials said. Others Gave Warning. According to Maj. Harry M. Horton, president of Congressional Airport, he and other flyers about the field warned Younger against going int6 the air with his tiny machine yesterday morning. “I've never seen him fly, and I did not know he could fly. He does not have a pilot’s license, nor is his machine licensed,” Maj. Horton said. “He in- sisted upon going up, however, so we gave him the best instructions we knew for genlnl up and landing, and off he went.” Those around the field at the time Younger took off say he barely cleared a large clump of trees at the far end of the Congressional Airport runway. He circled around for a while with the machine apparently under control, then swung down the fleld with the wind, got past and wheeled the ship for a landing into the wind. As the plane wheeled, it ‘seemingly lost speed and rolled over and fell into a nearby field. Owned By Younger. Maj. Horton emphasized that the plan€ is the property of Younger and has no connection with Congressional Airport. It has been stored there, Maj. Horton sald, for some time. ‘The plane itself has been flown be- fore by an authorized test pilot. D.C. POLICE SFIZE G TILLS N RAD Containers Still Warm, but Lawrence Street House Was Deserted. Six 10-gallon stills. were seized by twelfth precinct police last night in a raid on a_ vacant house in the 900 block of Lawrence street northeast. Although the containers were still warm from a recent “run,” the prem- lslesdm deserted when the officers ar- rived, They destroyed 22 barrels of mash and confiscated a quantity of dried peaches and plums, apparently used by the distillers in manufacturing some strange brand of post prohibition brandy. According to Lieut. J. W. McCormack the house bore evidence of having been in use by bootleggers for a long period of time. The plumbing for the gas burners beneath the stills and the water cooling apparatus was elaborately are ranged for the convenience of the dis- tillers. The residence was partly fur- nished, upstairs and down, with beds, chairs and tables, and lace curtains were in place on the front windows. The other officers who accompanied Lieut. McCormack on the raid included Precinct Detective C. A. Berry and Policeman W. M. Rosson. CAR GOES OVER BANK, Dufty and Pvt. Smith of Walter Reed Hospital Victims. Two soldiers were injured when a machine in which they were riding went over a 25-foot embankment near the Kalmia road entrance to Rock Creek Park late yesterday. The ma- chine was badly damaged. ‘The injured men, Corpl. John Duffy, 22 years old, of Walter Reed Hospital, suffered a dislocated shoulder and body bruises, while his companion, Pvt. James Smith, 22, also stationed at Walter Reed, escaped with minor lacer- ations and bruises. ‘The accident occurred while the car was going up an incline on the West Beach drive just off Kalmia road. AWNING FIRE PUT OUT. Flames Threaten on Three Floor Levels of Chastleton. Firemen extinguished blazing awnings on three floor levels at the Chastleton Apartments, Sixteenth and R streets, jast night while many of the occupants :ient- about their affairs unaware of the aze. About four of the awnings on the Six- teenth street side of the apartment were burned. It was thought that a cigarette thrown from above had ignited one of the lower awnings, which spread the fire to_the others above it. Engine Companies 9, 7 and 1 respond- ed, in charge of Battalion Chief B. WERVER, gt vy iy Corpl. TWO SOLDIERS INJURED |« ‘l RUINS OF TINY PLANE AFTER CRASH l This is what happened to a tiny “parasol” airplane yesterday when it crashed at the Congressional Airport. A. O. Younger, agent for the plane, sustained a broken leg and lacerations of the head. warned Younger that he had not had sufficient experience to fly the plane. The airport authorities said they —=Star Staff Photo. Crowd Sees Women In Lively Fight Enacted in Auto PairWith Man Companion | Required to Deposit $5 at Police Station. Two young women fought in an automobile of a man friend yesterday afternoon before a large ring-side crowd on Eleventh street near E, the fistic_encounter being ungoverned by the Marquis of Queensberry rules. ‘The final decision in the bout, which ended in a dash for liberty by one of ; the women in a taxi, was rendered by the desk sergz4nt at the first precinct station, who required all three to post $5 each as collateral on disorderly charges. The women gave their names as Lilllan Katherine Sweeny of the 200 block of C street southeast, whose dash down Pennsylvania avenue was inter- rupted by a bicycle policeman, and Inez Wade, 25. of the 200 block As- cot street. Harry Hunt Carpenter, 45, of the 4200 block Twelfth street, who protested his only part in the bout was that of peacemaker, bore the only visible mark of an encounter. He exhibited a very black eye, but stoutly maintained he had received it in another fight several days before. IASHINGTON M INURED N CRASH George A. Crook Is Seriously Hurt as Auto Leaves Defense Highway. Injured in an automobile accident on the ?fifflfifi Hl"tgw’y 5 ::‘ues&%m AXA- napolis, Md., late yesterday, e A Crook of the 1100 block of conn:c'ticut avenue is reported to be in a critical conditfon at Emergency Hospital at An- napolis, suffering from a fractured skull and a broken right arm. According to a dispatch Crook was re- turning to Washington after attending the crew races between Harvard Uni- versity, University of Pennsylvania and the Naval Academy. An unidentified companion, who is.said to have been driving the automobile, attempted to pass another machine, lost control and ran into an embankment on the left side of the road, according to the report. Passing Car Is Halted. Halting a passing car, after the acci- dent, the unidentified man, who is said to have escaped serious injury, placed Crook in the car and returned to the hospital at Annapolis, where the injured man is sald to be still unconscious. After obtaining treatment for Crook, the man disappeared and late last night had not been found, according to An- napolis police. Milton Kronheim, jr. 1764 Lanier place, son of a Washington bondsman and a studenf at Staunton Military Academy, Staunton, Va., escaped serious injury in an automobile accident on the Lee Highway, in which Thomas Casper Keithley, 20, of Wilmington, Del, a third-year student at the acad- eniy, was killed, according to dispatches received last night. The cause of the accident was un- explained, .but the car is said to have swerved from the road, when six miles from 'Stsunton, ran down an embank- ment and turned over in & wheat field, and Kronheim, who was riding in the Tumble seat, is reported to have re- ceived a broken collar bone and a laceration above the eye. The youth is sald to have returned to the mili- tary academy only a short time ago, as he was suffering from injuries re- ceived in an automobile accident while in Washington for the Christmas holi~ lays. Robert Austin of Plainfield, N. J. and Graydon Powers of Haddon Heights, N. J., students at Fishburne Military Academy, Wayneboro, Va., who were sald to have been in the machine when the accident occurred, received only slight injuries, dispatches said. CONDEMNATION ASKED FOR SITE OF BUILDING Land Owners Want Prices in Ex- cess of Appropriation for Purchase of Properties. ‘The New House Office Building Com- mission, meeting in the Speaker’s office yesterday, passed & resolution asking the Department of Justice to enter into condemnation proceedings to acquire all privately owned land in the two squares south of the Capitol between B and C stréets and New Jersey and Delaware avenues, as a site for the new House Office Building. ‘This action was taken because the architect of the Capitol, David Lynn, has been trying ineffectually to acquire this property through private negotia- tions directly from the owners. He re- ported to the commission that it was im- possible to buy any of the property within the appropriation made by Con- gress. The owners are asking from 115.95 to 397.885 per cent in excess of assessed valuation. The rates asked for this land south of the Capitol, much of it undeveloped, is much higher than was asked for the W. quire¢ as a gite for the Supreme Court land east of the Capitol recently ac- GADET COMPANIES TOBEGIN CONTESTS F of Central to Be First on Field at Stadium Tomor- row Morning. The forty-second annual company competitive drills of the Washington High School Cadet Corps will swing into its two-day stride at 8:35 o'clock tomorrow morning at Griffith Stadium, when the first of 29 units takes the field for its half-hour of maneuvering in a bid for the victory flag. ‘The drills will continue until Tues- day afternoon when the entire brigade will be reviewed by Secretary of War James W. Good, who also will present the awards to the victors. Company F of Central High School under command of Cadet Capt. Samuel ‘Wertleb, is scheduled to drill first to- morrow morning. It will be followed by seven other Central companies be- fore the drills are adjourned for lunch- eon. Schedule For Tomorrow. ‘Tomorrow's schedule is as follows: Company G, Capt. Sidney Zlotnick, 8:45 am.; Company K, Capt. Albert Orlosky, 9:15 a.m.; Company A, Capt. Marion E. Myers, 9:45 am.; Company B, Capt. T. Loehl ‘Brien, 10:15 am.; Company E, Capt. Norman Pressler, 10:45 am.; Company H, Capt. Gail G. Geddes, 11:15 am. and Company C, Capt. David Krupshaw, 11:45 am., all of Central High School. Luncheon. Company A, Capt. E. MarShall | Grinder, 1:15 p.m.; Company C, Capt. Howard R. Lady, 1:45 p.m.; Company D, Capt. Frank U. Rodger, 2:15 p.m.. Company B, Capt. Fred P. Pisher, 2:45 p.m.; all of Eastern High School; Com- pany M, Capt. Howard Bierer, 3:15 p.m.; Company H, Capt. Edward W. Snowden, 3:45 p.m.; Company G, Capt. Louis F. Lucas, 4:15 p.m.; Company K, Capt. Franklin A. Thomas, 4:45 p.m., and Company F, Capt. James L. g.rllllpe:. 5:15 pm, all of Western High 00l Schedule For Tuesday. ‘Tuesday’s schedule of companies, the commanding officers and the time they march cn the field, follows: Company I, Business High School, Capt. Melvin M. Payne, 8:15 am.; Com- pany A, Capt. E. Edward Everett, 8:45 am.:. Company G, Ceapt. Howard M. Biggs, 9:15 am.; Company B, Capt. George O. Weber, 9:45 am.; Company C, Capt. Edwin C. Cox, 10:15 am; Company F, Capt. Herbert J. Lidoff, 10:45 am., and Company H, Capt. Roland A. Linger, 11:15 am, all of McKinley High School. Luncheon. Company G, Eastern High School, Capt. John M. Riecks, 1:15 p.m.; Com- pany E, Business High School, Capt. Millard G. Bowen, 1:45 p.m.; Com- pany D, Central High School, Capt. John M. C. Betts, 2:15 p.m.; Company E, McKinley High School, Capt. Mor- ton M. Dodge, 2:45 p.m., and Company L, Western High School, Capt. Minor Jameson, 3:15 p.m. Besides the silk flag, now fringed with the streamers of the cadet units which have won it in the years gone by the famous Allison Nailor Medal also is at stake in the two-day drills. The medal will be presented to the captain of the winning team to be worn by him for a brief period. Subsequently he will be presented with a copy of the original medal to become his own property. GIBSON TO ADDRESS TRADE BOARD DINNER Report of Subcommittee on Police Statistics Also Feature Tomorrow Evening. Representative Gibson of Vermont is to speak tofmorrow evening at a dinner of the public order committee of the Washington Board of Trade in the Raleigh Hotel. One of the features of the meeting will be a report by John Lewis Smith, chairman of a special sub- committee on police statistics. Among the other speakers will be E. C. Snyder, marshal of the District, whose subject is to be “‘Crime and Some of Its Modern Aspects”: Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant Engineer Com- missioner of the District; Maj. Cary H. Brown of the office of public buildings and public parks, Capt. H. C. White- hurst, District co-ordinator, and Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police. SELECTING DELEGATES FOR CHURCH CONFERENCE Washington Representatives Pick- ed for Congregational Churches’ National Council. Dr. Moses R. Lovell, pastor of Mount Pleasant Congregational Church; Dr. Jason Noble Plerce, pastor of the First Congregational Church; Dr. D. Butler Pratt, dean of the School of Religion of Howard University, and Norton M. Little are voting delegates from Wash. ington who will attend the biennial meeting of the National Council of the Congregational Churches to be held | in Detroit, May 28 to June 4. There will be 660 voting delegates in attend- ance. The delegates are elected by the District associations and State con- ferences of the churches in all States L A SR - TR AR LB of the Union and in Alaska, Hawaii and Bren ) A, A a e s ad e S Adat R Ay SIS P PAGE 15 SENATE GROUP TOSTUDY REALTY PROBEON TUESDAY Biaine Subcommittee Wil Consider Brookhart Resolu- tion for First Time. MATTER OF PROCEDURE WILL BE FIRST OBJECTIVE Chairman Checks Laws to Deter- mine What Legislation Is Necessary. The Brookhart resolution, seeking to have the Senate order an_investigation of the activities of real estate and finance corporations in the District, will be considered at a meeting of the subcommittee on banks and insur- ance of the Senate District committee at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning, it was announced late yesterday. This will be “the first meeting of the subcommittee and Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wisconsin, chairman, said it probably would be confined to discussion of the procedure to be fol- lowed in considering the resolution, It will be an executive session. While waiting for the subcommittee to convene, Chairman Blaine has been looking into existing laws of the Dis- trict to determine what new legis- lation may be needed here velating to the sale of securities and the fcre- closure of mortgages. The Senator said yesterday it was not likely that at this first meeting the subcommittee would get around to discussion of legislation. Senator Brookhart's resolution asked that the investigation cover the sale of mortgage bonds, first and refund- ing morrtgage bonds and general mortage bonds upon properties in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the results to be reported to the Senate, together with any new legislation that may be deemed necessary. The resolution for an inquiry has not yet been acted on by the Senate, but is now in the hands of the Blaine subcommittee for a report as to what action the Senate should take. The Blaine subcommittee will make fits recommendations to the District com= mittee, presided over by Chairman Capper, which will then make a re~ port to the Senate. The members of Senator Blaine’s subcommittee are Senators Vanden- berg, Republican, of Michigan; Sackett, Republican, of Kentucky; Glass, Demo- crat, of Virginia, and Tyson, Demo= crat, of Tennessee. NOMINATION ACTION IS PROBABLE TUESDAY Subcommittee Will Meet This Week to Decide on Hartman and Patrick. ‘The subcommittee on utilities of the Senate District committee probably will meet Tuesday or Wednesday to consider the nominations of Harleigh H. Harte man and Gen. Mason M. Patrick to be members of the Public Utilities Come mission of the District, Senator Capper, chairman, said yesterday. Senator Capper renewed his statee ment yesterday that the subcommittee will receive and give careful considera- tion to any information that residents of the District may submit regardi qualifications of the nominees. He saif that thus far the only protest that has come to him was the letter of E. C. lulleg;l of the Washington Consumers’ uild. OLD “ANSBERRY HOUSE” LEASED BY INGALLS Assistant Secretary of Navy for Aviation Will Occupy Wood- land Drive Place Two Years. ‘The old “Ansberry house” at 2839 Woodland Drive has been leased for two years by Assistant Secretary of Navy for Aviation Ingalls, and will be occu- rud by him as soon as the present lease expires in October. The house received its name from Judge Timothy T. Ansberry, former Representative from Ohio, who lived in it for many years. At present the struc- ture is owned by the Ambassador to Switzerland, Hugh Wilson, who oecu= pled it after Judge Ansberry. The next tenant' was Jonkheer Van Schuylesbergh, attache of the Nether- :;25: legation. Frank Frost now lives ‘The house is of stone and stucco con- struction, standing well back in its spacious grounds and overlooking Rock Creek Park. The lease was executed through the firm of Sandoz, Inc. STROKE ON CAR FATAL. John B. Monder, 55, Pronouncsd a Victim of Heart Disease. Slumping unconscious in his seat o a street car early list night, John ©. Monder, 55 years old, of 1428 Nor a Capitol street, was removed from tie car at Sixth street and Florida aven: to Casualty Hospital in the ambulance :helre he was pronounced dead on fr- val. Dr. John Collins of the hospital stz = who examined the stricken man, s ’'a he died from a heart attack. Coron . J. Ramsay Nevitt was informed th-°t Monder had been a patient sever2l times previously for a similar heart ail- ment. No inquest will be held. ARREST ENDS SEARCH. Florida Man Is Taken Here on Embezzling Charge. A seven-year search which coverc: the entire country was believed ende: here last night with the arrest of Josepi: I. Johnson, 49, of Jacksonville, Fla,, sai : to be wanted in Pittsburgh on a charg of embezzling $1,500. Headquarters D.- tectives E. E. Thompson and Thom. Nally made the arrest. Jol n was takén into custody : his apartment in the 2600 block of Co: necticut avenue, where he was lvir while occupied as an advertising salc man here, the detectives said. ‘The prisoner was booked at poli headquarters as a fugitive from justi then lodged at the first precinct pen ing word from Samuel H. Gardner, dis - trict attorney of Allegheny County, F. : cited as the complainant in the case. The Philippines has a war on quaci s e ciapuies bt — TRl —