Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1929, Page 15

Wéshington News @he Toening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1929. PAGE 15 TASK OF PREPARING DISTRICT' BUDGET STARTED Y BOARD $4,500,000 Expected to Be Cut From $53,000,000 Es- timates of Departments. TWO0 WEEKS NEEDED FOR WORK, OFFICIALS SAY| Commissioners First Will Fix Total, Then Divide Amount Among Groups. ‘The task of preparing the District’s | 1931 financial budget was started this | afternoon by the Board of Commission- | ers and Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor | and budget officer. The budget will be based on the | recommended needs of the municipal | department heads, whose estimates for | the 1931 year amount to more than | $53,000,000. The Commissioners are ex- pected to trim this figure about $4,500,- 000, however, in keeping with the sug- gestion of Maj. Donovan that the budget not exceed $48,500.000. No actual trimming of the depart- mental estimates is expected to be done by the Commissioners in the initial ses- sion. It is their intention to first fix the amount of the total budget and then makeunllounons to the various depart- ments. School Needs to Be Studied Closely. Special consideration will be given the estimates of the Board of Education, it | was indicated, in view of the recent | agitation to have the school items go to the Budget Bureau without molesta- tion by the Commissioners. While the Commissioners do not propoese to fol- Jow such & procedure, they plan to re- turn the school estimates to the board, if cuts are found necessary, and permit school officials to make the revisions. ‘The budget-making work will take .at least two weeks, it is believed at_the District Building. It will be done h a series of conferences between the Com- | \GIRL SPELLER, 10, WHO BEAT 26.000 RIVALS, REACHES CAPITAL “I'm Going to Try as Hard asT I Can, and if | Win, I'll Be Happy,” She Says. Represents Indiana County That Produced Last Year’s i National Champion. | | ‘Winifred Church, 10 years old, who defeated 26,000 rivals for the graded | school spelling championship of St.! Joseph County, Ind., arrived in Wash- | ington this morning. determined to do | her best in the national spelling bee | here tomorrow afternoon to keep the | national title for her home county. She is the youngest of 21 contestants repre- senting sections from Maine to Ne- braska. “I'm going to try as hard as I can” said Winifred at the Hamilton Hotel. “Try, try, try—that 1s my motto, and if I can’ win the championship for St. Joseph County again this year I'll cer- tainly be happy.” ‘The national championship was won last year by Miss Betty Robinson of St. Joseph County. Both girls were chosen local champions in a contest held under the auspices of the News- Times of South Bend, Ind. Eager for Contest. Bright eved and eager for the contest, which will be held at the auditorium of the new National Museum at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon, Winifred posed for her picture today and then “rested up” for the banquet, which will be held at the Hamilton Hotel tonight for the con- testants. During the forenoon she chatted about the contest at home and her prospects tomorrow afternoon. “Every time I see a boy or girl at the hotel,” she said, “I wonder whether I'li have to spell against them tomor- mv.nh ,I'm nervous, of course, but not much.” WINIFRED CHURCH. —Star _Staff Photo. of the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., and 19 associated newspapers. ' Names of Contestants. ‘The names of the spellers and the newspapers they represent are as fol- lows : Anna Catherine Green, the Courier- Journal; Miss Mary Elaine McCarty, Detroit News; Teresa Chiaravalleti, New Britain (Conn.) Daily Herald; Hazel Semelisky, Albany Evening News; Chapin Fay, Worcester (Mass.) Tele- gram-Gazette; Margaret Sullivan, Jer- sey Observer; Winifred Church, South Bend News Times; Mary Bennett, Grand Rapids (Mich.) Press; Teru Hayashi, Atlantic City Press; Margean Huff, Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal; Lois Chamberlain, Waterbury (Conn.) Republican and American; Viola Strbac, Milwaukee Journal; Ruth Kirkpatrick, Buffalo Evening News; Irene Olson, Des | Moines Register; Hartford (Conn.) Times: Margaret Carlson, Memphis Press-Scimitar; Mary Josephine Souza, New Bedford (Conn.) Standard; Rose Nelson, Portland (Me.) | Evening Express; Winifred Yarnell, | Carlisle (Pa.) Sentinel; Virginia Hogan, ‘Won Over Boy 15. In winning the championship of her | county, Winifred defeated a 15-year-old | boy, who went down on the word “orientation.” | _ Winifred is accompanied by Mrs. | Ethel Carter, teacher of the 6A grade at the John F. Nuner School, where | Winifred is a pupil, and Miss Louise | Omaha World-Herald. and Albert Gome, | Burlington (Vt.) Free Press. Dean Woods to Preside. Dean G. B. Woods of American Unl- versity will preside at the contest to- | morrow. The judges will be Rev. Shera Hess, representative of the South Bend | Montgomery. chaplain of the House of Times-News. missioners and the departmental heads. The first meeting originally was sched- | uled last week, but was postponed on | account of the illness of Maj. Donovan, ‘whose advice and counsel are regarded as indispensable. The auditor returned to his desk this morning and notified Commissioner Dougherty that he was prepared to proceed with considera- | tion of the budgetary estimates. Only Two Copies Available. Although 1t had been planned to loan | coples of the complete estimates of the | department heads to the Citizens’ Ad-| visory Council, the Board of Trade, | Chamber of Commerce and Merchants | & Manufacturers’ Association for their review and recommendations, it de- | veloped today that only two copies were avalilable. were turned over to| the council and the Board of Trade. It was inted out at the District Building t! the Advisory Council and the Board of Trade were the only or- ganizations that had requested copies of the 1931 estimates. Dorsey W. Hyde, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, however, said it has been the practice of the Commissioners to send the cham. ber a copy of the estimates without an_annual request. | It has not been decided what will| | Representatives: Ma). Gen. Henry T.| part in the contest tomorrow are typical | Allen and William C. Deming, chalr- | f America. They not only come from | man of the Civil Service Commission. many sections of the country, but they | The pronouncers. who will give the represent in their ancestry the different | words to the spellers, will be Prof. C. races and nationalities which go to|E. Hill of George Washington Univer- make up American life. has been arranged under the auspices ' Baltimore City College. ‘The 21 boys and girls who will take RAIN'FAILS TO HALT BORAH COMPLAINS BUILDING EXERL'ISE! AGAINST BIG ARMS Internal Revenue Structure’s Military. Establishments Are Corner Stone Laying to [ Largest in History, Be This Afternoon. Senator Says. Despite prospects of rain, the Treas- | By the Associated Press. ury Department proceeded today with | Complaint against the “heaviest mili- | QFFICER IS THROWN INPURSUING AUTO on Charge of Reckless Driving After Chase. DECLARES CAR REEKED WITH ODOR OF LIQUOR Policeman Says Machine Swerved at 70-Mile Speed, Causing Him to Leave Road. A speeding automobile, reeking with the odor of liquor, crowded Officer H. W. Brown of the United States park police off the road early this morning and caused him to be thrown against a tree near the Virginia end of High- way Bridge. Brown was slightly in- Jjured. As a sequel to the incident, George H. Blair of the 200 block of Twelfth street southeast, was locked up at the fifth precinct station charged with reckless driving. In his official report to Capt. P. J. Carroll, Officer Brown, describing the chase, told how his quarry eluded him, after he had been thrown, on a side road to Alexandria. The report then continued: Tags Tssued to Blair. On looking up the tags on the ca Brown found they were issued to Georgi H. Blair of the 200 block of Twelfth street southeast. He and a companion Mary Krichavsky, | went to Blair's house, where they found | fleld Hospital early yesterday when the | him In bed. He was identified and locked up. The back of his car, found in front of the house, was sell saturated with corn whisky, but there was none |in_the car, Brown said. car on lower Fourteenth street south- | FROM MOTOR CYCLE 'Brown Arrests G. H. Blair, | | | drill at Griffith Stadium this morning. (CADETS OF CENTRAL (PEN ANNUAL DRILL 'High School Companies As- sembled Today in Competi- tion for Victory Flag. With Central High School compantes scheduled to march upon the field first his morning in the forty-second annual ‘Washington high school cadets began their forty-second annual competitive Above: One of the first companies being | inspected on the field. Below: Edna May Miller, one of the Central High rooters. —Star Staff Photo. ——ar Sar “hdle, CRITENTON HOWES DELEGATES CONFE |Forty-sixth Annual Parley | Welcomed to City by Com- missioner Taliaferro. | | | V Delegates to the forty-sixth National | Florence Crittenton Conference, repre- | | senting 65 Florence Crittenton homes; igh school cadet competitive drill, ma- | throughout the country, were recelved | terial tribute was paid to Alvin W. Mil- | by President and Mrs. Hoover at the | ler, Central principal, who died at Gar- | white House today at 12:30 o'clock. following the first business session of | | National Flag was hung at half-staff | | from the far corner of the American | the conference in the Grace Dodge League ball park. | Hotel. | __The High School Brigade Band strode | The delegates, about 95 in all, were | onto the field at 8:15 o'clock to assem- | weleomed to the city by Commissioner | | The officer said he saw the speeding | ble at the base of the flagstafl for the | Taliaferro. color-raising ceremony. “The _Star Responses were made by e | Mrs, Thomas E. Robertson, president | west early this morning traveling about | Spangled Banner” was played while the | of the Washington Florence Crittenton 45 miles an hour. Highway Bridge. “T called to him to stop, which he did, and I stopped against his running board,” said Brown's official report. He said ‘all right, officer’ and at the same time took a poke at me. Then |he stepped on the gas and set sail then on the field to * sgain. I ducked his blow, kicked my motor off and took up the chase. There was a very strong odor of corn whisky. The contest | sity and Dr. Francis A. Litz of the but having the curtains up, I did not Capt. Samuel Wertleb, was the fir: get & chance to see what was in the back of the car.” Tells of Striking Tree. The chase led to the vicinity of Po- tomac Yards. The officer’s report re- vealed that at this point, the speeding motorist “made several attempts to run me off the road, and at a speed of be- tween 65 and 70 miles an hour.” The officer charged that at one point the driver pulled sharply to the left when he was drawing alongside, throwing him off the road into a ditch. “I went over the handle bars and fence, striking a tree with the left side of my back,” Brown said. EXPLOSIVE STORES | Pred Hess, U. S. A, band instructor, | sounded taps, the banner was lowered Giving chase, he | flag was hauled smartly to the peak of | Home, and by Robert S. Barret, si- | | picked up the car on the south end of | the stafl. Then, while Master Sergt. N Gritten dent of the National Florence Critten- | ton Mission. ‘ Addresses in Program. PATRICK 70 TAKE - UTILITIES BOARD ~ POSITION JUNE T | Confirmation by Senate Is | Expected to Be Voted This Week. DECLARES NOMINATION BY PRESIDENT SURPRISE Retired Major General Returns From Series of Lectures at Yale. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, appoint- ed by President Hoover last week to suc- cced John W. Childress as a member of | the Public Utilities Commission, an- | nounced today he would accept the posi- ::on if the Senate confirms his nomina- on. | “I regard the appointment as a civic | duty,” he said. “and will accept it, of | course, if it is confirmed by the Senate. | Letured at Yale, | Gen. Patrick returned to Washing- ton yesterday affternoon from New | Haven, Connccticut, where he gave a | scries of lectures at Yale University. He was at Yale when his appointment |to the commission was announced av | the White House. Gen. Patrick sald his selection by | President Hoover to scrve on the com- mission came as a distinct surprise, and that the first news concerning it was contained in a telegram from The Eve- ning Star. No comment was made by Gen. Pat- i rick on the public utilities in Washing- ton and his familiarity with the prob- lems facing the commission. Confirmation Expected. The Senate is expected to confirm Gen. Patrick's nomination this week as | well as the nomination of Harleigh H. Hartman, who was named by President | slowly to half-staff, where it hung | solemnly against the leaden sky in | tribute to the principal who scarcely three weeks ago had urged the boys in for Central.” ; Company F First in Field. | Centrar's Company F, under Cadet Following these addresses, the confer- | ence, which interests itself in the care | of unmarried mothers, was addressed | by Miss Katherine F. Lenroot of the Federal Children’s Bureau, and by Miss | A. Madorah Donahue of the child wel- | fare division of hte Board of Publi | Walfare of the District of Columbia, .| who touched upon various phases in | the work in connection with the care of | the mothers and children. | Reports of officers of the National Florence Crittenton Misslon and a “round table” discussion is a feature of the meeting of the organization this | atternoon. company to take the field in the dril | It maneuvered for 30 minutes in the | chilled air while three Army officers | compled its rating from the field. The three officers, the judges of the drill | which will continue tomorrow, are Maj. | Thompson Lawrence: U. S. A.:. Capt. | Alezander R. Bolling, U. 5. 4. and | Pirst Licut. Easom J. Bond, all of the ‘Ir:";mry' [Beore many othef companie: Committee Plans Routine Business. | had marched to the field rain began s a preliminary to the regular con- falling and wWithin an hour the drilling | yertion P rograe: The cetiirat extensio | cadets were slipping, sliding on thc| ccmmittee of the conference held - | soggy fleld as they “fopped” full leng.h | meeting yesterday morning for the con- on the grass in their extended order | guct of routine busimess. Yesterday | afternoen the delegates attended serv- | companies which | jces at the Washington Cathedral and drilled this morning were: Company G, | jater went on a tour of inspection of *Capt. Sidney Blotnick; Company the Florence Crittenton Home on Con- g-pt. N{ubien EO"}&“Y: cgmpnny » | duit road. apt. Marion E. Meyers; Company B, | pgst night following a supper of the | Capt. T. L. O'Brien; Company E, Capt. | g g:fles,glhey were ':ddrpsfcd by Miss Norman Pressler: Company H, Capt. Cwendoline Albee of Boston, on “Ho Gall G, Gedges, and Company O, Capt. | 1o Interest_ the Public in Florence David Krupshaw. | Crittenton Work,” and by Miss M. E. Hoover to fill the vacancy on the com- mission left by Col. Harrison Brand, jr. Ceon. Patrick, however, cannot take cfice until June 1, as the resignation Mr. Childress, whom he succeeds, does t become effective until May 31. Childress is chairman of the commission, but it does not necessarily mean that Gen. Patrick will succeed him in this post, as the commission clects its own chairman. RETIRED ADMIRAL, R. M. BERRY, DEAD Was Native;{en—t;;;n and Served on Board Macedonian in Civil War. SCORE OF PERSING. HORT 4 CEIEN Ten Injured—Result of Two Collisions — Other Week End Traffic Casualties. | More than a score of persons, in- e cluding five passengers of a Maryland ,hAr;;wuneement wumma:!edh?:‘y at B i, i e Navy Department e death yes- Coach Co. bus, were injured M 8 o qay st Tryon, N. C., of Rear Admiral scries of traffic accidents reported to!pgopert M. Berry, U. 8. N., retired. In- police this morning over the week end. ' terment is to be in Arlington Natlonal The bus passengers, none of whom Cemetery at a time to be announced later | Other School Groups Listed. Luther. | was injured seriously, were hurt_when | the bus, operated by Nicholas E. Young Admiral Berry was born in Henry be done if the chamber and the Mer- | plans for laying of the corner stone of | tary establishments in all history” | chants’ and Manufacturers’ Association | | of Ballston, Va., was in collision with| County, Ky., January 28, 1846, and ap- | Following the luncheon lull in the | —_—t | insist on coples of the estimates at this time. In the auditor’s office, it was explained, it would take considerable time to prepare additional copies. —_— e E. W. CLAPPER’S HOME VISITED BY BURGLARS Apparel, Watch and $10 Taken at | Massachusetts Avenue Address. | Store Is Robbed. | the Bureau of Internal Revenue Build- ing, Twelfth and B streets, late this afternoon. A feature of the ceremony will be the large copper box to be placed inside the corner stone, which will include many documents and articles of interest | for future generations should the build- ing ever be torn down or destroyed. It | is one of the largest boxes ever to be | sealed inside a corner stone. Dr. Pierce to Give Invocation. | The program for the affair calls for | the invocation by Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, introductory remarks by Sec-| ‘Burglars entered the home of E. W. ! Clapper, 1707 Massachusetts avenue, | Saturday night and stole several pieces | of apparel, a watch and $10 in cash, | according to a report made to police. | Breaking a glass panel from a rear | door, burglars gained entrance to the | store of Abraham Sherman, 1647 Sixth | street, late Saturday night. They stole | $16 from the cash drawer and $4 from | a small bank. | Loss of a gold watch, initialed | “F. J. M.,” valued at $25, was reported by Mrs. Fannie J. Morton. She said the timepiece was taken from her room in the hotel. Joseph Devoe, 1764 Kalorama road, told police that burglars visited his tailoring establishment there Saturday | night, taking three suits of clothes. | Norman Harris, 2338 Eighth street, | asked police to make an effort to cap- | ture an individual who stole $6 from | him while he was asleep. | CONSULAR CHANGES. Carlton B. Hurst Is Transferred to . Budapest. Recent changes in the United States | foreign service include the transfer of | Carlton B. Hurst, District of Columbia, consul general, from Berlin to Budapest, Hungary; Gabriel B. Ravndal, South Dakota, consul general, from Hamburg to Berlin; Edward B. Crocker, 2d, Mas- sachusetts, third secretary, from Buda. pest to Stockholm; Alexander B. Ma- gruder, ~Maryland, counselor, ~from Stockholm to Lisbon; S. P. Tuck, New York, first secretary, from Constanti- nople to Budapest; Lester Maynard, <alifornia, consul, from Havre to Stutt- sart; Paul Mayo, Colorado, third secre- tary, from Brussels to Havana: C, W. Perkins, Maryland, vice consul, from | Vienna to Danzig: Orlando H. Massie, Virginia, vice consul, from Niagara Falls | family, alarmed by the striking, sum- | Infantry, from Fort Thomas, to Halifax. Albert M. Guptill, vice consul at Nan- | Companies. The lightning did not start | Rarey and First Lieut. Lewis A. Day, | king: Timothy V. Hartnett, vice consul @ fire, but the bullding was damaged to | Infantry, from Fort Benning, Ga., t0 | at St. John's, New Foundland. and Carl | W. Baker, Falls, have resigned their commissions. LIEUT. FUNSTON RESIGNS. Enter Private Business. Second Lieut. Frederick Funston, jr., U. S. Infantry, son of the late Maj. Gen. Funston, who captured Aguinaldo, isader of the Filipinos during the in- surrection in 1900, has resigned his commission in the Army to engage in | private business. Lieut. Funston was graduated from the Military Academy in 1927, and for a time was attached to | the 30th Infantry at San Francisco. In March last, at his own request, he was detailsd in’ the Air Corps and assigned to duty and instruction at Kelly Field near Houston, Tex., tioned there up to this time. Although h's future line of business has not been disciosed here, it is known that it has retary of the Treasury Mellon, address by David2 H. Blair, commissioner of Internal Revenue; music by the United States Marine Band, and. benediction by Right Rev. C. F. Thomas. It was expected the ceremonies would not take much longer than half an hour, begin- ning at 4:30 g'clock. A small platform has been buflt facing the southwest corner of the building, where the stone was to be laid. The list of articles to be included in the copper box was growing at an | early hour toda; Among the con- | tents will be: Medallions of President Hoover, Sec- |in a world of apparent peace was voiced | last night by Senator Borah of Idaho | Eover the National Broadcasting Co.'s | radio hookup. ‘The Idahoan, who is chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee, de- clared that “step by step, for the last 10 years, while talking of disarmament anl peace, while professing to want peace, there has been fastened upon the world the heaviest military establish- | ments in all history.” “There are more men uder arms at the present time,” he sald, “than at the | beginning of the World War. Humanity | escaped from the World. War bleeding | and mangled and carrying & great tax burden, a tax burden which meant and still means hunger and disease to mil- lions of men, women anc children. Truly, in the language of a French | statesman, the Versailles treaty was a continuation of the war. It has been waged just as it was waged prior to No- vember 11, 1918, but waged in a way | scarcely less deadly in its effect upon millions of human beings.” Senator Borah centered his words al- | most entirely on the theme of arma-| | ments and declared “there has not been | a conference in Europe during these 10 | years since the World War but has been retary Mellon and Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. There will be a Bible, Constitution of the consular agent at Ocean | P iPassxng of Horse Bri : | Son of Aguinaldo’s Captor Willl United States, Declaration of Independ- ence, a silk flag of the United States, the last tax law of 1928, copmtgfl il Congressional Directory, laws au!honz-: Washington's daily newspapers, ing and appropriating the money for the building, a history of the building | (including the names of Government officials who contributed of their skill) and a badge of the internal revenue | special intelligence unit engraved with the name of the chief, Elmer L. Irey. Cover s Arranged For. Arrangements have been made for setting up & canvas cover over the stands in case the rain makes it neces- sary. The buflding has a frontage on B street of 452 feet, a depth of 410 feet, extending to C street; a_ volume of 16,000,000 cubic feet, an effective floor area of 672,000 square feet, giving space | for approximately 4,500 employes. Lightning Hits Radio Wire. Lightning struck a radio wire on the building occupied as store and home by the family of Louis Dubow, 421 E street northeast, during the storm yes- terday afternoon. Members of the moned No. 3 Engine and No. 1 Truck the amount of $25. rendered practically ineffective by rea- son of this war spirit.” “I am one of those,” he continued, “who do not believe that the human | family can definitely carry the load | which is being piled upun it under pres- ent policles, under tne theory that | everything must be adjusted, if adjust- “ed at all, from now until the crack of doom in the light of results and pro- nouncements of the World War. Un- less there is to be a change of attitude, a change of view from which approach | these public questions, I do not see how | | this burden is to be diminished.” Vi ARMY CHANGES LISTED. Department Announces Transfers of Officers to New Posts. Col. Thomas A. Roberts, 6th Cavalry, has been transferred from Fort Ogle- thorpe, Ga., to Manila, P. I; Lieut. Col. George W. Ewell, Quartermaster .Corps, | from Fort Mason, Calif., to the Panama | Canal Zone; Maj. Karl C. Greenwald, | Field Artillery, from National Guard | | duty at Pikesville, Md., to the Philip- | pines; Col. Willlam H. Waldron, 10th | Ky, to| Capt. George H. | Fort Hayes, Ohilo; | Fort George G. Meade, Md. Reduction 1 The passing of that noble animal, the horse, which has caused so many changes in_municipal activities in re- cent years, has been taken official notice | of by the Bureau of Efficiency in a | detailed recommendation presented formally to the District Commissioners today. An investigator for the Bureau ngs About n Size of Tree Boxes! height of the box has been reduced to 6 | | feet. This was a step in the right | direction, but the box could be further | reduced in helght and still adequately serve its purpose. It is recommended that 4 feet be fixed as the standard | helght of tree boxes.” and has been sta- | | discovered that the principal reason for | No reason is stated in the report for the placing of tree boxes around young | the selection of 4 feet as the proper | saplings set out in Washington's streets | height, nor, indeed, does any reason | was to protect them from the hungry |a2ppear why the trees on horseless horses who used to fill in their regular |streets should be protected at all. | meals by munching the tender bark | _The report, which was written by T. of the young trees. | P. Wilson, states that if the size of the “For ‘many vears,” the report reads, | boxes were reduced and they were made “a 7-foot box ~d in order to by prison labor at the Lorton Reforma- protect the trees from damage by horses, | tory g!n District would save $2,035 \ REPORT SOUGHT Senate Acts to Reduce Fire Hazards in District of Columbia. l The Senate this afternoon passed without debate a resolution offered by Senator_Copeland of New York calling on the District Commissioners to report to Congress whether existing regula- tions in Washington ~re adequate for the safe storage of e: ' ~ives and in- flammable materials and also what rules the District has regarding fire escapes and other safety precautions on public buildings. Although the resolution contained no reference to the disaster in the Cleve- land Clinic last week, the New York Senator told his colleagues that since that tragedy all American cities have been somewhat concerned over precau- tionary measures and he thought it was proper that the Senate should find out_how Washington is safeguarded. ‘There being no objection, the resolu- tion was adopted immediately. It fol- lows: “Resolved, that the Commissloners of the District be requested to report to the Senate regarding the rules and regul: tions in force requiring the opening out- ward of the doors of all public buildings, the application of fire escapes, the care of explosives and inflammable materials, and other similar matters relating to public safety; also that they indicate if legislation in these matters is necessary to safeguard the citizens of Wash- ington.” BOOSTER TRIP GROUP WILL MEET TOMORROW Final Plans for Potomac and Ches- apeake Cruise Will Be Made by Committee. ‘The committee in charge of the an- nual “booster” trip of the Merchants & Manufacturers’ Association, June 7 to 10, will meet tomorrow afternoon | at 2:30 o'clock in the offices of the as- sociation to formulate final plans for the outing. The “boosters” have char- tered a steamer to take them down the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay They will touch at Annapolis and Old Point Comfort. The commiitee includes William E. Russell, chairman; Charles Frame, Bert Olmstead, Mark Lansburgh, Louis Payne, M. D. Rosenberg, R. P. An- drews, James E. Collifower, Gen. An- ton Stephan, Dr. M. G. Gibbs, Frank V. Avalear, Louis Levay, A. A. Auth, P. M. Dorsch, E. W. Harper, M.’ A. Leese. S. M. Selinger, A. J. Sundlun, Joseph Kaufman, Ford Young, Robert Buckley and Isaac Gans. s LOSES $80 MATCHING. 1t cost Frederick K. Cooney of Cam- bridge, Mass., just $80 to visit the Washington Monument yesterday after- noon. Cooney, here on a sight-seeing visit, became interested in a penny-matching contest in the lavatory room of the monument offices and he accepted an invitation to try his luck with two strangers. Cooney later told police his luck was terrible and that when his losses totaled $80 he suspected there was something wrong with the pennies used by his ermnanione, 4 drill, Eastern and Western High Schools | were to drill. : | " These are Company A, Capt. E. Mar- | shall Grinder; Company C, Capt. How- | ard R. Lady; Company D, Capt. Frank U. Rodger; Company B, Capt. Fred P. Fisher, all of Eastern; Company M, Capt. Howard Bler; Company H, Capt. { Edward W. Snowden; Company G, Capt. Louis F. Lucas; Company K, Capt. Franklin A. Thomas, and Company F, Capt. J. L. Pimper, all of Western. | ~The remainder of the 29 companies | will go on the fleld tomorrow morning | and afternoon and the drills will culmi- nate at 5:15 tomorrow in the award !of the flag of victory to the winning | coomognny by Secretary of War James W. Good. P |PALESTINE APPEAL " WORKERS ASSEMBLE ‘Encounging‘ Reports Are Made by Team Captains as Drive Turns Half-Way Mark. An enthusiastic meeting of volunteer | workers in the United Palestine Appeal | |last night at the Jewish Community Center marked progress in the $35,000 drive. Encouraging reports from team cap- tains brought the total raised near the /510,000 mark. Isidore Hersfield and | Louis E. Spielger, drive leaders, called | upon the workers to put forth strenu- ous efforts this week so the quota may be attained by Sunday. night when the | campaign is due to end. | Harry T. Kellman of Baltimore spoke {on the progress of the Palestine drive !in the Monumental City. | The drive teams will meet again at a luncheon tomorrow at the Jewish Com- munity Center. \ | ROANE FORFEITS BOND. Man Fails to Appear to Answer to | Charge of Gaming. David Roane, 1855 Seventh street, | forfeited $50 collateral when he failed | |to appear in Police Court today on a | | charge of permitting gaming. | ‘The Seventh street premises were | | ralded late Saturday by Officers W. R. | Laflin and W. E. MacEwen of the Eighth | | precinct, who are said to have discov- A. | ered dice and blackjack games in prog- ress. Roane, police say, is under indict- ment for setting up a gaming table. Daniel Brooks also was arrested in the raid. He forfeited a similar amount. According to Laflin, 55 colored men | were found in the establishment and taken to the Eighth precinct for ques- tloning. They were released. DRY DRIVE DISCUSSED. ‘The National United Dry Committee | prepared to continue the “dry up Wash- ington” campaign at a mass meeting at the Shiloh Baptist Church last night. Clinton N. Howard, national chairman of the committee, was the speaker. Mr. Howard commended the action of a Washington pollceman who re- cently killed a suspected rum-runner near the Anacostia Bridge, and re- ferred to the incident as the ‘“shots heard around the world.” Mr. Howard also spoke vesterday morning at_the Govans Methodist Episcopal Church in PalHmnre, [RUFFIAN ATTACKS ~ WOMAN WITH BRICK Miss Ciffo, Knocked Down and In- | jured, Saved From Robbery by Two Watchmen. Struck on the back of the head with a brick and painfully injured, Miss An- geline Ciffo, 26 years old, of 62 C street, was saved last night from prob- able severe handling and robbery by the timely appearance of two watchmen employed at the Government Hotels, while she was walking North Capitol | street between C and D streets, Miss Ciffo had been at a drug store, made a purchase and was on her wa: home when she was dealt a blow on her head, knocking her down and in- juring her knee in addition to cutting | her ear. Screams of the woman attracted the attention of the two watchmen and they | went in pursuit of the unidentified col- ored man, but failed to overtake him. Miss Ciffo went to Emergency Hospital in a taxicab. She was able to go home after receiving first aid. | . Detectives J. C. Collins and John Wise, assisted by police of the sixth pre- | cinct, conducted an investigation. They | were ‘unable to obtain a description of | the colored assailant. |GUILD PLAYERS TO GIVE 'MEMORIAL BENEFIT FARCE “Good Morning, Sheik,” Presented Three Nights Here and at Norfolk. A farce entitled “Good Morning, | Sheik!” will be presented by the Father Hurney's Players Guild of St. Patrick's rectory Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs- day evenings. Orme Libby will be featured in a speaking role and will be suported by Elizabeth Gorman, Alice Cush, Rose Fitzpatrick, Maurie Ely, Jane Roberts, Cliffe Yeomans. Billy McClure and Earle Grimes. Alice Cush, long known for her activities in the players’ produc- tions, will appear for the first time as managing director. is musical director. The performance tomorrow night will be given for the benefit of memorials to the late Harry A. Hegarty and Emma Gillett, both lawyers. The subsequent performances will be for the benefit of the high school scholarship fund of the St. Patrick’s Academy Alumnae Asso- ciation. The Players’ Guild will leave by boat for Norfolk, Va., Friday night to give matinee and évening performances for the benefit of St. Mary's Church in that city. SRR WBRIDE HITS REPORTS. Claims that prohibition” costs $1,000,- 000,000 a year are described as “98.2 Bride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America. ‘As_ a_matter of fact,” he sald in a formal statement, “enforcement appro- riations represent a paying investment [stend of an expense loss. The en- forcement records in many States will show that fines collected often amount to three or four times the total enforce- ment cost.” . Wasehington Railway & Electric Co. | pointed to the Navy from Kentucky and bus, driven by Jerry A. Amos of Lenox, was graduated from the Naval Academy 4., at Thirty-first and M street. The | in 1866. During the Civil War he served injured, all of whom returned to their | on board the Macedonian in the Sum- hemos after receiving treatment at|mer of 1864, in pursuit of the Confed- Will Be| Arthur McCreigh by | per cent pure bunk” by F. Scott Mc-: rgetown -University Hczpital, are: Mey Turner, 22 years old, of Brook- N. Y., Gladys Ramsen, 21, of cach, Conn.; Helen Branigan, 1, N. J.; Charles H. Wilson, | and Mary Gisson, | 4 Iy They were all ted for minor cuts and bruises. ‘ ive more reons were injured, one when the machine in which 2 riding was in collision at Second street and Massachusetis ave- nue, with a truck belonging to the Standerd Oil Co. and operated by James Anderson, 35 years old, of 747 Tenth street southeast. | Woman Seriously Hurt. | trene Grifith, 28 years old, of 1930 K street, the mdst seriously injured, | was one of the passengers in the car driven by Crandon Folwell, 30, of 2423 | Fiftcenth street southeast. She suf- fered a fractured left arm in addition |to numerous painful body brutses and shock. The other passengers in the machine, | cable Morris, 34, of 4202 Twelith street and Dolly Mintzell, 32, 1433 Columbia road, were treated at Casualty | Hospital for minor cuts and lacerations | and Folwell was treated at Sibley Hos- | pital for lacerations to the face. An- | Gerson, driver of the truck, also escaped | with minor hurts. Thirteen-year-old Dorothy Coleman, colored, of 2135 Ninth street, was in- jured about the left leg, when run down in front of her home by an automo- | bile operated by William H. Hyson, also colored, of 720 Rock Creek Branch ! road. | Father and Son Injured. Little 6-year-old Charles S. Schwartz, jr. of 2419 California street, and his father were treated at Sibley Hospital for minor cuts and bruises suffered when their automobile was in collision at North Capitol and M streets with a machine driven by Dulle M. Logston | of 1018 Eighteenth street. | seven-year-old Bernard Auth, living at 401 Sixteenth street southeast, was Sseriously injured about the head and body when struck by an automobile op- erated by H. P. Pryor, sergeant major of the Marines and drum major of the Marine Band, at Sixteenth and D streets southeast. The child was treat- | ed at Gallinger Hospital. | “John F. Ryder, 63 years old, was in- | jured about the body when run down by a Capital while crossing the s | street and Pennsylvania avenue. | was treated at Emergency Hospital. Motorcycle Policeman Z. R. ‘Wright of the thirteenth precinct was treated |at Walter Reed Hospital for scalp | Wounds suffered when he fell to the | ground from his motor cycle, which skidded in front of 1310 Delafield place while he was chasing a speeder. Collides With Street Car. James Williams, 26 vears old, colored, suffered serious injuries to the face and | head when the bicycle he was riding, was in collision at North Capitol and N streets with 8 Washington Railway & Electric Co. street car. Williams was |taken to Emergency Hospital where { physiclans said he may have a fractured skull. Four-year-old Elizabeth Thomas, living at 2147 Young street southeast, was painfully injured about the face | and head when she is said to have run | from behind a parked automobile at Thirteenth street and Massachusetts avenue southeast into the path of a | machine driven by Randolph Johnson of 2614 Evarts place northeast. The child was treated at Casualty Hospital. v treet at Seventh He T Traction Co. street car | erate steamers Florida and Tallahassee. He was commandant of the Naval Station at Charleston, S. C., and the sixth naval district in 1904-5. He was commandant of the Navy Yard at Pen- sacola and the eighth naval district fol- | lowing that duty. Amiral Berry became commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard and of the fifth naval district in 1906 and he was retired January 28, 1908. He was commander of the United States naval unit of the University of Michigen during the World War. . IRON CONTRACTORS’ BODY TO INSTALL OFFICERS Association to Meet at Banquet To- night at Hamilton Hotel. Speaker Announced. Installation of newly elected officers will feature the second annual banquet of the Iron Contractors’ Association af Washington, to be held tonight at the Hamilton Hotel. Officers to be in- stalled include E. Schmid, president: L. F. Otto, vice president: Jacob H. Gichner, treasurer, and Ross H. John« son, secretary and general manager. Attended by representatives of vir- tually all the iron and steel contracting shops in Washington, as well as rep- resentatives of the Master Builders Association, Builders Exchange and building trade associations, the ban- quet is to be addressed by Thomas F. Carshee, organizer of the Nationa! Association of Ornamental Iron and | Bronze Manufacturers. Plans are to | be discussed looking toward the achieve- | ment of greater co-operation between builders and the various building trades. |CLASSIFICATION OF WELLS | IS APPROVED BY WILBUR By the Assoclated Press. . Secretary Wilbur today approved a recommendation of the Geological Sur- vey that input wells which are those through which gas or air is pumped | underground to force ofl out, be classed | as_commercially productive. The classing of such input wells as productive will affect the amount of royalties paid the government from oil taken from the public domain. as such royalties are figured on the total number of wells active during the month. | " The secretary said he approyed the recommendation because it was & step toward conservation. | — |GOVERNMENT WINS PACKERS’ SUIT DECREES By the Associated Press. ‘The Government finally succeeded in the Supreme Court today in its efforts to give effect to the consent decree en- tered in 1920 aimed to confine the pack- ers exclusively to the meat-packing in- dustry. v, The court ordered the California Co- operative Canneries removed from the controversy. When the canneries were permitted to intervene in 1924 the de- cree was suspended, and has not since been in effect. By removing the can- neries from the case the Government ! will be enabled to have the decree made effective.