Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1929, Page 17

PATRICK BEGIS | INTENSVE STUDY OF UTLITY LAWS Proposés to Familiarize Him- self With Provisions Be- fore Assuming Post. HOOVER NOMINEE CANNOT TAKE OFFICE UNTIL JUNE General Did Not Meet Members of Commission on Visit to Office. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, nom- inated by President Hoover to succeed John W. Childress as a member of the Public Utilitles Commission, today be- | gan an intensive study of the act of | Congress regulating the public utilitles of the District. | Gen. Patrick called at the executive | office of the commission in the Dis- trict Building yesterday afternoon and procured a copy of the utilities act, in- dicating that he proposed to familiarize | himself with its various provisions be- fore taking office. Even though the nomination ofg Gen. Patrick be con- firmed by Senate immediately, which is considered likely, he cannot take office until June 1, as the resig- nation of Mr. Childress does not be- | come effective until May 31. ! Gen. Patrick did not meet members of the present commission on his visit to the executive offices. Mr. Childress was in New York, and Col. William B. Ladue, Enginetr Commissioner, the other member, was in session with the “two other District Commissioners, con- siderf the District’s budgetary esti- mates for the 1931 fiscal year. Study O'Fallon Decision. Attaches of the commission had be- fore them today a memorandum pre- pared by 's Counsel RI!&P B. Fleharty outlin! his interpretation of the decision of United States Su- preme Court in the St. Louis & firoad ease, which authori- | long road before them before they that current reproduction cost yard stick by which ‘fair value’ be measured.” It is in line with cost the several elements of Hias heretofore in Smyth that there are some, perhaps many, railroads the ultimate value of which should be placed far below the sum necessary for reproduction. Commission Erred. “The of the decision is that the cost of construction, the amount ex- pended in anent improvements, the amount and market value of the d stock, the present as com- pared with the original cost of econ- struction, the probable earning capacity of the property under particular rates prescribed by statute and the sum re- quired to meet operating expenses. It ‘would seem, therefore, that the utilities road before before they can say that current reproduction cost is the yard stick by which “fair value” is to be 5 “In my opinion,- any decision of a commission which on its face shows that after giving due. consideration to all these elements the commission has arrived at its conclusion of “fair value” as a determination of a debatable issue of fact will be upheld by the courts as being in accord with the law of the announ ‘these circumstances, fair value as found by a commission might in a particular case be a sum less than, equal to, or more than the difference between cur- yent reproduction cost and ascertained depreciation.” POLICEMEN ADMIT 20 NEW MEMBERS Discuss Measure Pending .in Con- | gress for Increased Pay in District. ‘Twenty new members were elected to the Policemen's Association at a meet- ing last night in Odd Fellows’ Hall, on Seventh between D and E streets. After discussing measures pending in Congress for increasing policemen’s sal- arles, a resolution was adopted cxpress- ing regret over the recent death of Rep- resentative Casey, Democrat, of Penn- sylvania. A copy of the resolutions was transmitted to Representative Casey's family. Capt. C. P. M. Lord of the thirteenth precinct pointed out that policemen to- day must bring greater experience and abllity into play when coping with the modern criminal and that police sal- aries should be high enough to induce competent men into the force. Notice was given to all members to be present at the Cedar Hill Cemetcry at 10 o'clock on the momln{h:t May 29, when the police section of ceme- tery will be dedicated. Gen. John A. Johnson, former District Commission- er, will be in charge of the dedication ceremonies, at which speeches will be made by Senator Capper, Representa- tive Zihlman and Maj. Gen. W. T. Ne- ville of the Marine Corps. o,pflmry | B sion.” 920 to v | 1928, Mr. | claims makes friends ACCIDENT CHASER SCORED BY AGENT Declares Unscrupulous Law- yer Is Menace to Carriers and the Public. Lawyers who make “ambulance chas- " a business were roundly scored be- fore the freight claim division of the American flway. Association, at its ay, by Oliver G. Brown, the Assoclation of Railway I‘l‘rood men whose injury cases, Brown asserted that the “ambu- lance caaser” still is a menace to car- convention g ting ra Represen has ition to the practice Mm attitude is that legal a “business and not a profes- Commerce Lamont con- ts on in re- is morn- tely $36,500,000 in R a sa valen net earn- ings of nnt—’e‘n.n roads for one month. He described the accomplishment as “remarkable.” “A prompt and fair settlement of for the railroad companies,” he said. . Lamont Evades Speaking. ‘The speaker amused the hearers by saying that one of the prob- lems he finds in running Depart- ment of Commerce is thinking up good reasons for not making speeches. “T was in business 30 years,” he said, “and nobody ever asked me to make a speec;h and nobody wanted to hear me speak. “But now that I have acquired a Government position I recelve on an average three requests a day to lay my. lack of aBllity along speech-making lines. “One of my greatest difficulties,” he declared, “| ot find plausible excuses for declining these invitations.” Investigation Thoroygh. Discussing the importance of the claim agent’s work. Brown pointed out that while the claim business at the outset was regarded by the rallroads as. a defense, the work has grown to be a method by which the roads dis- charge their just obligations. So care- ful are the roads in their investigations now, he said, that the filing of a dam- age suit is the exception rather than the rule. Discussing in this connection the “ambulance chaser” as a menace, Brown invited the freight claim agents to ask the general counsel of their rallroads to be represented at a convention of his assoclation next month at Detroit, when he said the “ambulance chaser” would be the subject of general discussion in the hope of eliminating the practices of unscrupulous lawyers seeking fees through prosecution of unjust claims. ‘The association also heard J. H. But- ler, general manager, department of public relations, rallway express agency. Officers_and members paid their re- spects to President Hoover at noon and were photographed with the Executive. S TRIBUTE TO W. K. COOPER. Church Council Commends His ‘Work as “Y” Secretary. Commendation of the work of Wil- liam Knowles Cooper, who resigned re- unflg as general secretary of the Y. M. C. A, was given at the regular meeting yesterday of the wuhlsrwn committee of the Federal Council of Churches. ‘The flenl committee on Army and Navy chaplains, meeting in the after- noon, directed that a special resolution be drawn u] retudln' he recent death of Bishop Brent, who had been a mem- ber of the committee since its incep- tion, 12 years ago. Special attention A buffet supper was served members sufter the meeting. was given to plans now being prepared for wo‘rk in &uur Reed Hospif ASHI CRACK NAVY PILOTS VIE WITH MARINES IN 100:MILE RACE Curtiss Trophy Honors Rest With Five Flyers in Field of 24. 19 OTHERS TO COMPETE FOR INGALLS AWARD Spectacular Plane Competition Is Expected in Annual Service Contest Here Saturday. ‘The Curtiss marine trophy race, to be run over the Potomac Saturday after- noon from the Anacostia Naval Air Sta- ticn to a point below Alexandria, the most spectacular of all air races, prob- ably will be fought out between five pilots, two of the Marine Corps and three Navy flyers, although there are 19 others listed in the entries officially announced today. ‘The five pilots to whom the race is practically conceded will be in tie fast- est planes in the Navy, fighting ships with a rated speed of 160 miles an hour. They will be piloted by Lieut. W. C. Tomlinson, U. 8. N.; Lieut. Allan Flagg, U. 8. N.; Capt. J. T. Moore, Marine Corps; Capt. A. H. Page, Marine Corps, and Lieut. W. O. Brice, U. 8. N. Compete for Ingalls Trophy. ‘The other 19 compete for the Ingalls trophy. » cup given by Assistant- Secre- tary of the Navy for Aviation David 8. Ingalls, to the pllot of the plane main- taining the best speed in its own race group. In addition, wrist watches will be awarded winners in each of the five di- visions by the Aero Club of Washington chapter of the National Aeronautic As- sociation. The N, A. A. is sponsoring the race. In the next fastest group seven Navy observation planes are entered with the following naval pllots: Lieut. Comdr. C. Halpine, Lieut. W. D, Sample, Lieut. W. G. Maser, Lieut. Dixwell Ketcham, Lieut. A. C. Olney, Lieut. E. W. Rounds and Lieut. J. L. Kane. Four Loening amphibians, entered in the next fastest class, with a Navy speed rating of 115 miles an hour, will be plloted by Lieut. G. McGauley, Lieut. B. Groh, Lieut. Comdr. J. F. Ostrander ;'nd Lieut. Apollo Soucek, all of the avy. . In the next group are the torpedo planes, the Martin Navy bombers, with a high speed rating of 110 miles an hour. They will be piloted by Lieut. G. D. Townsend. Lieut. W. J. Slattery, Lieut. P. W. Woods, Lieut. H. L. Hop- ping and Lieut. W. E. Cleares, all of the Navy. Three Training Planes Entered. In the slowest group only three train- planes are entered, and the pilots are as follows: Lieut. M. Browning, Lieut. J. H. McKay and Lieut. Comdr. Q. Morgan. P The race will be run over a diamond- shaped course, marked with four big yellow-and-black checkered pylons, the home pylon bel on a barge in front of the Anacostia Naval Air Station, and the pylon marking the other end of the 10-mile stretch at a point near the mouth of Piscata Creek. Two in- termediate pylons are being installed. ‘The planes will take off at two-minute intervals, the training planes taking off first and the other classes aceording to rating, the fighting planes being last to leave the water. The big trophy for which the race is to be run was moved from the Navy Department today to the Anacostia Naval Air Station, where it will be on display. PAINT CONTRAGTOR | |Charles Pangle Pleads Guilty to Failure to Provide Workers’ Compensation. The n:l‘t%: - Nkol: for oloulun to ‘com| 'orkman’s Compensa- I-lonpk’ct in the District occurred tode: with the appearance in Police Court of Charles g‘nfle. painting contractor, who pleaded guilty to failing to obey the order of the deputy commissioner. He will beuununeeg‘:;w. 'l'hiwlnl' makes e & m um sentence of one geo:.rl imprisonment and a fine of $1,000. In addition, & judgment against Pangle for almost $5,000 has been awarded Deputy Commissioner R. J. Hoage by the District Court of Alex- andria, Va, where Pangle lives. A penalty of $775 also has been assessed for failure to obey the order of the deput; commhlionlrr directing him to e compensation. w’{'he injury in question occurred De- cember 3, 1928, at 1438 Gallatin street. Carl Spitzinger, employed by Pangle, suffes a spine fracture and broken elbow in & fall from a I 3 :ln le was found not to have sub- se er Hoage Inted compensation due Spitzinger was com- puted to be $4,600, plus hospital ard doctor bills. Legal proceedings were begun when Pangle refused to pay. - MRS. ANNA P. WESTCOTT EXPIRES AT AGE OF 81 Daughter of Late Charles E. Drake, Chief Justice of U. 8. Claims Court, Was Missourian. Mrs, Anna P. Westcott, da the late Charles E. Drake, chief justice of the United States Court of Claims under President Grant, died at her home, in the Westmoreland Apartments, 2122 California street, yesterday. was 81 years of age. Mrs. Westcott was born at St. Joseph, Mo., and was brought to Washington by her father when he became a United States Senator from Missouri soon after the Civil War. She had since been a resident of this city. Mrs. Westcott was the widow of'Charles 8. Westcott of Philadelphia. She was one of the original members of the Church of the &ov:nmt and also of the Washington jub. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Edwin Bullard Ide of Wellesley, Mass., and two sons, Charles D. and Horace H. Westcott of this city. Funeral services will be held at the Church of the Covenant, Eighteenth and N streets, tomorrow at zmr.m. In- terment will follow at Philadelphia he b ! AWAITS SENTENCE = hter of | She | ening Stas. WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION GTO! LOAN SHARK PROBE ORDERED BY ROVER AFTER COMPLAINTS DG, i Goldstein Is Named to Look| Into Situation for Grand Jury Survey. {STRONGER LOCAL LAWS LOOM AS POSSIBILITY | Small Finance and Loan Organiza- tions Reputed to Be Charging Extortionate Interest. As the result of a number of com- plaints which have reached his office, United States Attorney Leo A. Rover has decided to have the grand jury; make a survey of the “loan-shark”| situation in Washington. He has ap- pointed Assistant United States Attor- ney Irvin Goldstein to conduct the in- vestigation and the latter will look into the complaints already on file and such others as may be submitted to him. According to the complaints received, excessive rates of interest are being charged by small finance corporations and loan companies under the guise of fees and commissions. Rover thinks that the grand jury should look into the matter and if no.presentments should result at least that body might recommend additional legislation which would make such excessive interest ex- actions a Federal offense. Should such legislation be passed, Rover explained, his office would be in & position ‘to ask for indictments for wm&hcy when officers of corporations are involved in the transactions. The “loan shark” law is now a purely local statute, the prosecutor pointed out, since it places prosecutions under it in the hands of the District Commis- sioners_ and a conspiracy indictment could not be predicated on it. ‘The prosecutor declined to make pub- lic the exact nature of the complaints which have been submitted nor the names of the corporations and individ- uals said to be involved. el T PLANS COMPLETED FOR MEMORIAL DAY Flags and Poppies Wili Be Put | on Graves of American War Dead in Arlington. Flags and popples will be used in decorating the graves of America’s war dead in Arlington Cemetery Memorial day, according to plans completed today by the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Day Corporation, Department of the Potomac. School children of the District have been requested to contribute flowers, which will be collected by trucks of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps. Flowers also will be donated by the White House mhaunuem'.:e Botanic ?-rden and the Department. of the graves will be under the direction’ of Willlam F. the G. A. R. Memorial Day ation. The Girl Scouts of the District will distribute the flowers and the Boy Scouts will place the flags. One hundred and twenty-five Boy Scouts of Indiana also are coming to Wash- to assist in the decoration. They will distribute the poppies. As a prelude to the Memorial day ceremonies, the Costello Post of the American Legion will hold services on the front lawn of the District Building Saturday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock. Crosses like those which mark the graves of the soldiers buried in France will be ereck‘d..l(ot the exe'rlclm d;‘yw.d which & program pla; on the ).l%‘cklm chimes in the Church of the Epiphany. e T CRUM IS HONOR GUEST AT FAREWELL DINNER Princeton Alumni Association Will | Honmor G. W. U. Athletic Di- rector at Fete Tomorrow. “The Princeton Alumni Association will be host at a farewell luncheon at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Army and Navy Club in honor of H. ‘Watson (“Mau Crum, for several years director of athletics at George Washington University, who goes to Allegheny College to take over a sim- ilar post next Fall. honor will be John van Ryn, formerly of Princeton and now a member of the Davis Cup tennis team. Mr. Crum will give an address. Res- ervations have been made for a large number of Princeton alumni. MRS. THOMAS BURIED. Chatham Courts Services Conduct- ed by Rev. Harvey Dunham. Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Ann | Thomas, who died Saturday, were con- | ducted at her residence, in the Chat- ham Courts Apartments, yesterday aft- | ernoon. Rev. Harvey Dunham, pastor ::. .xuhm Presbyterian Church, offi- Pallbearers, associates of her son, Richard W. Thomas, in the old Morton Cadets, were Charles P. McCurdy, J. W. Carr, P. M. Garnett, Joshua Evans, J. W. Franzoni and C. M. Robinson. i Music was rendered at the aservices | by a quartet from the Welsh Society of | Washington, of which Mrs. Thomas | was & member. FRED C. BALL DIES. Funeral Services Will Be Conduct- ed Friday Morning. C. Ball, 50, who for a number of conducted a bird store at 336 Indiana avenue, died Providence Hospital last night after a short illness. l‘;lle d:“ widely known among lovers of rds. Mr. Ball was a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and belonged to LaFayette Lodge, F. A. A. M. He also was & member of the Carpenters’ Union. Funeral services will be conducted in the funeral pariors of - Bong Friday neral of at 11 o'clock, Another guest of | WEDNESDAY, Society énd General MAY 1929. 22, HOWARD CARL AND EDWIN McLEOD. BOYS STUDY STARS WITH HOME LENSES Auto Wreckage and Porthole Glasses Bring Hope to Young Astronomers. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Gray-bearded astronomers from the | great universities, gathered in Wash- ington at a professional meeting the | other day, discoursed learnedly of cep- | heid variables, parallaxes and nebulae. Seated among them, listening intent- ly to every word, was a frail little boy of 14. This third-year Central High| School student was a fully accepted member of that small brotherhood. By reason of his enthusiasm, his ingenuity | and his infinite patience, his eyes also had looked far into the mysterles of | the starry heavens; had seen the sur- face of the moon grow from a smooth yellow disk into a glamourous place of lofty mountains and great valleys; be- held Saturn crowned with its rings and watched Mercury expand from a hardly distinguishable point of light into a moon-like crescent. But Edwin MacLeod, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis G. MacLeold, 1347 Girard street, saw these celestial transmuta- | tions only after he had made his own | 6-inch telescope out of the wreckage of an automobile and the glasses from two ship’s portholes. He and his friend, Howard Carl, son of Mr. and Mrs. Her- man F. Carl of 1844 Ontario place, worked together on their telescopes, as- sisted at times by two other Central High students, Willlam Sparks, 1436 Fairmont street, and Edward Harper of the Clifton Terrace Apartments. Telescopes Are Costly. ‘Telescopes, even the poorest, are ex- pansive. When MacLeod and Carl first became interested in astronomy two years ago they despaired of being able to purchase instruments. But both had mechanical turns of mind, and ‘when physicists at the Bureau of Stand- | ards, who had taken an interest in the | boys, gave them a few hints on making | their own glasses, they went to work with a will. MacLeod completed first, a| 4-inch_refractor telescope made from | an achromatic lens rescued from the | dump by one of the Bureau of Stand- ards’ staff. The lens was so badly scratched that it was practically worth- | less, Disappointed in his telescope, the boy ‘looked about for other materials | and found the glasses from two ship | portholes. With these he set to work | to make a mirror for his projected 6- inch instrument. ‘The grinding of a telescope glass is one of the finest and most difficult of all mechanical operations. The had the two 6-inch glass disks, each an inch thick. One was cemented to a firm foundation and used to grind the other to the desired contour. This grinding of glass by glass, with a thin coat] of carborundum between the two disks, had to be done entirely by Then came the really delicate ?art of the operation—polishing the lens down to a fineness of approximately 1/100,000th of an inch. T is done with a fine dustlike substance which will not scratch the glass. It is a task that taxes the skill of Bureau Stand#rds experts with their instruments for fine measurements. When it comes to the final touches, telescope-makers discard | their instruments, however, and sense | the approach to the desired fineness of | finish with the tips of their fingers. | This is what MacLeod did. It is a| faculty that seems to be born in some persons of high mechanical ability, but the average workman would make a terrible bungle of such a job. Father Helps in Mounting. ‘Young Carl's father, who owns an automobile repair shop, came to the rescue of the boys in the next operation, ithat of mounting the glass. He had some cars which were beyond repair and w parts were due for the junk heap and the young enthusiasts helped themselves. A rear axle was trans- formed into a mounting. Brake bands were utilized in making the mechanism for raising, lowering and turning the glass to the desired spot in the heavens. The next step was to secure a piece of pipe discarded by a builder, fill it with cement and mount the whole in- strument on it. Then the base was| placed on the proper angle of the axis | of the earth required for accurate tele- scopic ‘observations. The work pro- ceeded with only one major accident. The first glass was nearly completed after months of work, when MacLeod | poured some cold' water on it and it | cracked through the center. He was | obliged to do the work all over again | with a new plece. The two boys then | co-operated on a telescope for Carl and now Harper is making one. MacLeod'’s telescope is placed on the roof of his house. There the boys spend many hours on clear nights. They keep track of the astronomical magazines for predictions of happen- ings in the heavens, the movements of planets and of variable stars. Often they remain on their housetop observa- tory until the early morning hours. Just now, MacLeod said, the | | | | | | are J. Willlam Lee'’s "':tchml the planet Saturn, which' is | Helen L. Bing the best position for observation at | | naked eye and the real nature of which | i | be | of astronomy. He points out proudly ~——Star Staff Photo. 2 p.m. This is one of the most beau- tiful objects in the heavens when seen through a glass, with its series of rings around it, which are invisible to the | still is obscure. Not Interested in Moon. ‘The moon is reserved for those nights when there is nothing else worth look- | ng at. Many of the craters, those great, | deep valleys which are the distinguish- | ing features of the lunar landscape, can | e seen clearly and checked with those | mapped by astronomers. The boys kept | long vigils last Fall, when the earth | was passing through the Leonid meteors. They counted 15 of these falling stars in one night, but they were not con- fined.to any particular radiant of the sky, as the observers had expected. ‘The night of the total eclipse of the moon they got up at 1 a.m. and ob- served continuously until 5:30. MacLeod's present ambition is to | photograph the moon through his /| homemade telescope and to interest other high school boys in the study that it is a cheap hobby. The only | part of his instrument he bought mt the eyeplece. He attends all astronom- ical meetings and, as he says, “make | friends with anybody I can at the Bu- reau of Standards or the National Re- search Couneil.” Until last Winter he intended to make astronomy his life work. Then he attended a lecture at the Carnegile Institution which inspired him in an- other direction. Now he is collecting material to make a Tessler coil of the same type used in some of the Car- negle experiments, which. will produce a 41 -foot spark. He is confident he can_make anything he sets his hands to. His telescope, ‘he says. has:one- fourth the power of the 12-inch one at the Naval Observatory. Meanwhile, another group of bovs in | ‘Takoma Park, students at the Wash- ington Missionary College, also are building a telescope which they plan | to set up on the college campus. They | became interested in astronomy through a_course given in connection with the | physics department and were impressed | with the adequacy of the old instru- | ment which had served the college for years. They also are grinding their | own lens and constructing their own mountings. FORUM FAVORS WAR ON SCREENS | Vote Letter of Commenda-' tion to Policeman Rouse | of Eleventh Precinct. | Declaring that police officers have | been intimidated as the result of the |in the vicinity while on a surveying ex- recent fatal shooting of the driver of | an auto operating a smoke screen, the Columbia Heights Citizens' Forum, meeting at the Wilson Normal School, last night, went on record favoring the increased efforts of the police to subdue the smoke-screen menace and urged the | Commissioners to support the Police Department in this campaign. The association also voted a letter of commendation to Policeman Clyde O. Rouse of the eleventh precinct, who re- cently figured in the fatal shooting of an automobile driver using a smoke screen. The action commended his pursuit in the face of the smoke. | An expression of appreciation to the | Columbia Heights Business Men's Asso- ciation for its campaign of advertising, which has gained added recognition for that section of the city, and a resolu- tion providing that delegates be named to attend meetings of the Business Men's Assoclation were adopted. A resolution opposing erection of po- lice stations or fire engine houses in dis- tricts zoned residential was passed. ‘The secretary was authorized to send to the Board of Education a letter re- questing reconsideration of the retire- ment of Dr. E. G. Kimball, principal of the third division of the public schools. In answer to a communication from the Trinidad Citizens' Association re- questing indorsement of a resolution re- cently passed by that body protesting against excessive assessments on prop- erty owners for widening and repairing of thoroughfares, the Forum referred the matter to a committee. In discussing next year's meetings it was decided to send a letter to the | Board of Education requesting contin- ued use of the Wilson Normal School | for meetings. Mrs. Ida Kepler, secretary of the Co- lumbia Heights Community Center, was given a rising vote of thanks for her work as assistant secretary of the Forum for the past 11 years. President C. 8. Easterling presided. ‘Widow Unable to Find—Will. Mrs. Martha E. Huguely has asked the Probate Court to grant her letters of administration on the estate of her husband, Edwin W. Huguely, who died May 11. The wife says she has n unable to locate a will. The husband owned real estate worth $37,126.04 and had personal property of $68,478.45, ac- cording to the wife’s petition. Besides the widow, Huguely is survived by two | police, when Louis Weiner, the driver, | he explained, d | one of those injured, in attempting to Attorney H. Winship ! pass a car ahead of him, hit an ap- ! which have long confronted Govern- daughters, Mildred W. Knollman Wheatley appears for the widow, HODESON' BODY FOUND WITHCANDE Father Lashed Self to Craft, in Vain Effort to Save § Son. The grim picture of a world-famous engineer coolly weighing the chances of saving his own life and that of his young son in the face of almost certain death was being pleced together today by fishermen along the Chesapeake Bay following the finding of Carey V. Hodgson's body this morning with the two middle fingers of his left hand lashed fast to the.tie rope of the canoe in which he and his 10-year-old son, William, were swept to their death Sun- | day afternoon. ‘The crew of the Steamer New Berne found the-canoe and body drifting on the bay this morning about 20 miles below Annapolis. Putting out in a small boat, they found the man's left hand lashed to the canoe, but no trace trans- of the o wing story of what been reconstructed by Cor- M. Hopkins of Annapolis ds of Mr. Hodgson: - one of the ‘most distin- guished rs in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, left Washington last Saturday, with his wife and son, to spend a week end at Bay Ridge, Md., about 4 miles below Annzpollg‘! Mother Makes Struggle. Shortly before noon Sunday he and William put out from shore in their canoe, a non-sinkable craft. They were clad only in bathing suits and intended to go for a short ride before dinner. When they were about a mile all;t I;:: sll;ore a mdgcnn storm ‘ble' ) . Hodgson, who was wai at the pier with a group of xmggc'. saw her husband point the nose of the canoe toward shore just before the storm broke. The anxious group on shore watched in silence as the man and boy strug- gled desperately to make headway against the wind, which was increasing | steadily in force. For a few brief minutes they watched and saw that, despite their efforts, the two were grac ually being driven out into the bay. Then a driving rain,set in and the father and son were soon lost to view. The story of what took place in the storm-tossed canoe from that time on is one of conjecture, based on the mute idence found on the boy this morn- 8. evi iny Knew Vielence of Squalls. It is known that Hodgson was well aware of the violence of ‘the sudden squalls which blow over the bay region, having once charted all of the waters pedition for the Government. Fishermen belleve that Hodgson | struggled -until his strength was spent to keep the nose of the canoe headed into the wind, only to realize at last that his efforts were futile in the face of the storm and tossing waves. They believe he saw but one slim chance left—to lash his left hand to the non-sinkable canoe, leaving his right arm free to hold his body above water. The fishermen point out that had the storm been of short duration this strategy might have prevailed and that the coming of calm weather would have found the man and boy still alive and able to climb back into their canoe. Father Took Only Chance. Apparently Hodgson took this one re- maining chance—and lost. Instead of being & brief squall, the storm raged for 24 hours, and sometime during that period the end came. ‘There is nothing to indicate whether | the father was drowned first, leaving the boy to slip from his lifeless arms, or whether a toss of the waves caused the ‘man to lose his grip on the boy, and, being lashed to the canoe, was un- able to swim out and recover him. How long they clung to life will never be known, but deep marks on the father’s | left wrist, where he had wrapped the cord around, showed that his effort to stay with the canoe was a gruelling one. ‘The steamer New Berne put the body ashore at the mouth of the Severn River, and it was brought from that point’ to Annapolis on a submarine chaser. After an inquest, the coroner returned a verdict of accidental death. Arrangements were being made today the bring the body back to Washington. Hogdson, who was 48 years old, made his home here at the Valley Vista Apartments. FIVE KILLED .IN SMASH-UP. Two Other Youths Hurt When Car Goes Through Railing. REVERE, Mass, May 22 (#).—Five youths were injured fatally and two others less seriously hurt, when their automobile crashed through a uuas and rlun(ed 50 feet to a railroad here late yesterday. ‘The dead were: Jackie Davis, 15; Elliot Sandler, 15; James Simjimian, 17; Barnet Stein, 17, and Arthur Sochat, 15, all of this city. ‘The accident occurred, according to | i proaching machine, i PAGE 17 BUREAU SEEKING ADDITIONAL REES INNEN PROGRAM Plans for Next 10 Years in District Result of In- vestigation. WASHINGTON’S EXPANSION TO CONTROL PLANTING Beautification to Require Minimum of 2,700 Plants Annually, Report Says. A 10-year program of tree planti or the District was reeommer?nlied g; he Bureau of Efficiency in & report to the District Commissioners today. The bureau has for some months been in- vestigating the office of the superintend- ent of trees and parkings, and the pres- ent report is one of the major results of l;:: mves;tenuom number of trees to be planted in the period should be deurmmgd by a survey of the tree needs of the District, the report recommended, and a part of the text was given over to de- :fil;_ivb!l;ll the method of conducting the Change Recommended. Several new policies In the departs ment were recommended, the order of the installation of streets, after the sections to bec‘;‘irnhmd shall be at least 75 per cent built up. At present new planting depends large- 1y upon requests filed by residents or de- velopers of territory. This should be abandoned, the bureau recommended. Speaking on this point, the report says: ‘The control which the MIE‘B thus permitted to exercise over the new plant- ing program does not meet adequately the tree needs, nor does it give due consideration to the development of the city. Certainly no one yer or street is entitled to more consideration than any other, and the mere formality of gmgfi: request. gnuld mnot be allowed Tmine where trees T ol au estimates the lar an- nual needs of the city for new trees at 2,700, based on the fact that ordi- narily 12 miles of new curbs are con- structed annually, requiring 1,200 trees, and that at least 1,500 trees are needed annually to replace trees removed for various causes. The number of replace- ments needed in_the future is also ex- Dopuiation” and 15’ cxpesica to roach . _an e to 1,800 by 1936. = . Needs Large. During the next five years, reau finds, tree needs will also be ab- normally large owing to the five-year street improvement program, hich contemplates the construction of proximately 30 miles of curb lhu.t 1929-30, and 24 miles annually in the three succeeding fiscal years. In addition to these requirements. there is need for replacement of ap- proximately 20,000 silver maples, which in the opinion of the superintendent of trees and parkings are unsatisfactory for street use. If the present rate of setting out trees, 3,000 per annum, is followed, the bureau says, in 10 years the arrers of trees will be 12,000, and accordingly somewhere between 4200 and 4,800 trees should be planted each for 10 years. The exact number certained ‘The _repo) that no action be taken immediately to replace the silver maples, but that they be re- placed gradu: as they die or are re- moved for other causes incidental to the growth of the city. MISS MARY E. HALL DIES; LONG RESIDENT OF CITY Funeral Services to Be Conducted ' Tomorrow, With Burial in Rochester, N. Y. Miss Mary E. Hall, resident of this city for many years, died at Emergeney Hospital early this morning. She had been in ill health for several years. Miss Hall was born at Bangor, Me., January 29, 1870, and later moved with her family- to Rochester, N. Y., where she remained until the death of her parents. She came to Washington and took charge of the Y. W. C. A. lunch- room that opened in 1905 and also was employed for several years in the D. A. R. Museum. She resided at 1627 Ho- bart street. She is survived by a brother, Herbert L. Hall, and his son, Lincoln Hall, of Chicago. Funeral services will be conducted at the S. H. Hines funeral home, 2901 Fourteenth street, at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Rev. Mark Depp, pastor of Calvary Methodist Church, will officiate. Interment will be in SISTER MARY JOSEPHINE FIFTY YEARS IN SERVICE Sister Mary Josephine of the Visita- tion Convent of Georgetown, celebrated her golden jubilee at the convent to- day in commemoration of her entrance into the convent 50 years ago. Mass was celebrated by Right Rev. Bishop John J. McNamara and the jubilarian sermon was preached by Rev. John Gip- prich, 8, J., of Georgetown College. Sister Josephine is the daughter of the late Michael and Anne Hines of this city and the sister of Mrs. Charles H. Clark and Paul Hines, also of Wash- ington. Mass was celebrated in the convent ‘The Pope sent the jubilarian Sister Josephine's niece, Sister M. Cecilia, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Clark, also is & member of the Visitation Order. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard A. Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam A. Petzold and Thomas T. Pet- 20ld of Detroit came to Washington for the ceremony. —— PLANS FOR EDUCATION OF CHILDREN BY MAIL By the Associated Press. Plans to provide educational facilities partment. Secretary Wilbur said the correspond- ence courses would provide instruction rimary and secondary school grades and would be supplied through the Bureau of Education. The service, , will be an attempt to overcome some of the disadvantages ment employes sent to