Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1929, Page 17

he #p ening Stae. WITE SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, LIFT REGULATIONS ARE RULED VOID BY POLICE JUDGE Decision Holds Elevator Act Excludes From Control . U. S.-Owned Buildings. DISCRIMINATION ANNULS 4 FORMAL COMPLAINTS Protection of Life and Limb Held Only Proper Purpose | | of Supervision. The Police Court today. in an opinion by Judge Gus A. Schuldt, held invalid the building regulation for the control and operation of elevators because it is | discriminatory in that it excludes ele- vators in buildings own»d by the United States and buildings officially under the control of officers of the United States. The regulation. promulgated April 4, | 1925, is void also, the court Ands. be- | cause it was never duly published, and | no_proper notice given of it i The " court. accordingly. holds “n guilty” the Wardman Construction Co.. | the Wardman Park Hotel Co.. the Wardman Hotel Properties and Thomas P. Bones, vice president. against whom three separate. informations had been ]nleid for violations of the elevator regu- ation. Protection Real Purpose. “It would seem that the regulation of elevators” said Judge Schuldt, | “should be for the protection of life and limb. If this is so, the court can- not understand why any elevator should be exemp: from the provisions of law. | If it is desirable to equip elevators in private buildings with safety devices, the same rule would seem to be neces- | sary for the operation of elevators in public buildings, which have generally, | as much, if not more traffic than pri-| vate buildings. nless specifically ex- emptedU by Congress, public buildings from within the perview of all acts of Congress and_regulations of the Com- missioners. The Court of Appeals has already decided this doctrine in the smoke law, mail, truck and health Judge Schuldt points out that Con- gress, by the act of June 14, 1878, au- thorized the Commissioners to make such building regulations as they deem- ed advisable, and by an act d March 3, 1887, directed the making of such regulations for elevators as may be necessary to protect life and limb. Instead of proceeding under the act of March 3, 1887, which gives them the right, the court points out, to regulate the construction, repair_an doperation of all elevators in the District of Co- lymbia, and prescribe such means of se- curity as may be found necessary to protect life and limb, the Commission- ers under the alleged au- thority given them by the act of June 14, 1878 and exempted Government- owmed or occupied buildings LEGION PARTY TO PAY TRIBUTE TO UNKNOWN| Beveral Wreaths to Be Placed on Tomb by Kings County, N. Y., Organization and Auxiliary. ‘The second annual pilgrimage of mem- bers of Kings Coutny, N. Y., American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier will take place tomorrow morning and at 10:30 o'clock several wreaths will be placed on the tomb at a ceremony. ‘The delegation is due to arrive here at 5 o'clock this evening in charge of Miss Mary Frances Hall, chairman of Americanism committee Kings County American Legion Auxiliary, Brooklyn.! Headquarters will be at the New Ebbit | Hotel. Miss Hall has invited members of the American Legion, American Le- | n Auxiliary, American War Mothers, ld Star Mothers and other veteran organizations to meet the New York | delegation on arrival, and also partici- | pate in the ceremonies. The return trip | ‘will be made Saturday afternoon. 1 ‘The delegation will place a wreath at the grave of Floyd Bennett. who hailed from Brooklyn. The wreaths will be placed by Mrs. Elizabeth Schae- fer, president of the Kings County American Legion Auxiliary. In addition there will be wreaths placed by the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliaries of Kings County: Brooklyn Chapter No. 1. Amer- jcan War Mothers; Bartel-Pritchard Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Brooklyn, N. Y.: Brooklyn Circle, 106th Infantry, Gold Star Mothers of Brook- lyn, N. Y., and one by the Society of Patriotic Women of Brooklyn, N. Y. A short prayer will be offered by | an Army chaplain. and at the con-| clusion of the ceremonies be_sounded by a bugler. The officers of the Kings County Aux- | iliary are: President, Mrs. Elizabeth | Schaefer: secretary. Mrs. F. Scott; | treasurer, Mrs. C. Horn: chairman wel- fare committee, Mrs. M. Casterline, and | chairman of - Americanism committee, | Miss Frances Hall. MASONS. NAME OFFICERS. Rest Temple Managers Selected. Plans on Exhibition. The International Masonic Rest Tem- ple of the Scottish Rite Masons, In and the St. John's Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M. Inc. Grand East at Wash- ington. have elected the following offi- | the | week her wedding ring. WOMAN IS | Edlin, 336 I street, were slightly in-| /CO-ED'S ESSAY ON DESERTING Dream Fled When She Saw Superhuman Demands. Says Miss Roher. |Will Become Bride in June and Change Course of Life. Forsaking plans of a career at teach- | ing for matrimony, Helen Roher, grad- uate-elect of American University and a June bride-to-be, has so cleverly de- | seribed the “superhuman” qualities de- | manded of the teacher as contrasted to the “yellow curtained kitchen" of her dreams that she has won with her essay a prize of $50 from the Atlantic Monthly Magazine in a nation-wide contest. Miss Roher, who is a at the College of Liberal taken a prominent part in student life | on the campus, is to be married June 6 to J. Allen Hanes of Hornell, N. Y., at | home of the bride, St. Marys, Pa. | She will receive her diploma of grad- | uation from American University on | Monday and on Thursday of the same | popular senior | Arts and has Power of Teaching. | Describing in her essay the “miracle” + which a “superhuman” teacher is sup- | posed to perform in a schoolroom of 40 children, Miss Roher discusses her | study of pedagogy, the teacher, and de- clares with spirit: “No longer does the hand that rocks the cradle rule the | world * * that privilege has| been inherited by the hand that wields | the scepter of pedagogical wizardry. A | child may have no restraint whatever | at home, no ethical training or example, | but she is expected to make a little gentleman out of him." “I have discovered,” Miss Roher says, “that a teacher must be a superhuman being, with the endurance of Hercules, the wisdom of Solomon, and the adap- | tability of a chameleon, with something of the universal genius added for good measure.” After two years of initiation into the “mysteries” 'of pedagogy. Miss Roher declares in her conclusion: T awake human being. Dream Takes' Flight. “I shall never be a miracle worker such as she must be. So my dream has fled. But one good dream deserves an- other, and now a yellow-curtained kitchen has. replaced a busy, orderly schoolroom in my tomorrow. And, after all, it is easier to plan for one n for forty. I think I'll try that first. Because of the keen competition in the contest in which Miss Rohrer won her prize, she is being congratulated by faculty and students alike for the high honor. The contest was a national essay contest conducted annually by the mag- szine and open 4o all undergraduates of American colleges and universitie The title of Miss Roher's essay ap- propriately is “I Decline a Career and Accept One.” Her essay was written in the course in advanced writing conduct- ed by Dr. Paul Kaufman, professor of | English literature. It was recalled that | a poem written in this course last year by Miss Helen MacLeod, former Central | High School student of this city, won a poetry prize of $108 offered by the Southwest Review of Dallas, Tex., in a competition open likewise to all under- graduate students in American colleges. INIRED AT NNTH AND ¢ Mrs. Ellen Deschard, Two Children and Five Others Traffic Victims. Injured by a street car yesterday aft- ernoon while walking north against a red traffic light at Ninth and G streets, | according to the police report, Mrs. El- len DeChard, 50 years old, of 1260 Pour-and-a-Half street southwest, was taken to Emergency Hospital by a mo- torist and given treatment. She was not hurt seriously. | Virginia Johnson, 5 years old, of 608 Seventh street northeast, and Wilson Freeman, colored, 4 years. old, of 1832 Central avenue northeast, were injured yesterday. The former was knocked down in front of her home by the au- tomobile of Hobart T. Hampton, 155 Kentucky avenue southeast, ~and bruised. The Freeman child was in front of 1827 Capitol avenue northeast when knocked down by the automo- bile of John Allen, 1019 Florida avenue northeast. His right arm and leg were injured. Both children were treated at’ Casualty Hospital. Randolph White, colored, of 1320 U street, and Clifton Reeder, colored, 22, of 4905 Clay street mortheast. pas sengers in the automobile of Nathaniel | jured late last night when the machine collided at John Marshall place and Pennsylvania_avenue with a taxicab driven by Mahlon C. Nesse, 1223 Twelfth street. They were treated at Emergency Hospital. Martha Price, colored, 52, of 2127 Ninth street, stepped from the curb in front, of her house last night into the path of the motor cycle of Traffic Police- man Cleota Langdon. She was treated at Emergency for slight injuries to her |legs, _John McMahon, colored, 37, of 734" Lamont street was slightly cut when his automobile collided with an- jother at Michigan avenue and Six- humbly to realize that I am only a | TEACHING FOR HOME WINS PRIZE __HELEN ROHER. NORTHERN LIGHTS BELIEVED GHOSTS Chippewa Indians in Min- nesota Cling to Old Religion. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The dancing northern lights over the vast evergreen forests are the ghosts of the dead making merry in the holl- day attire of the mysterious spirit land. his is a typical fragment of the picturesque religion, legendry and | social customs of the Chippewa Indians |of Northern Minnesota, an exhaustive | study of which by Miss Frances Dens- | | more is the latest research project. com- |pléted by the Bureau of American | _The Chippewas, among whom Miss Densmore spent much time collecting original data, are among the most color- ful of all extant Indian tribes. Although they long have been in close contact with the white men, they retain most of their primitive customs, though these probably will disappear with another generation. Miss Densmore studied especially child life among them, throwing a new light on the care- ful rearing and education of Indian children. Families, she recounts, had on the average only two or three children. The birth of a child in a village was gen- erally the occasion of a good-humored mock battle for the possession of the infant. father, would assemble at the wigwam prepared to protect the new arrival from all the male members of some other family who would try to obtain®it. A battle would follow with flour and water until every one was wringing wet. If the attackers managed to get the child the father’s family had to ransom it. Protection in Cradle Board. The little one was kept in a cradle board, made saft and warm with moss, | until it was able to walk. This was carried on the mother's shoulders. The little one was treated tenderly and had plenty of toys. Small wooden hoops containing networks of yarn resembling spider webs were hung from the cradle board to catch any evil spirit approach- ing the child. Children usually were spoiled by their fond mothers, who hated to hear them cry, and used to pacify them by letting them suck on hollow pine cones filled with maple sugar. As the children grew older there were many games based on the super-| stitions of the great forests. The most exciting of these described by Miss Densmore was the windigo game, some- what like the Halloween festivities of white children. The windigos were mysterious forest spirits. One boy was chosen by lot to play the part. He made himself look as horrible as pos- sible by tying leaves around his head. Then he hid in a clump of bushes. The other children formed in line, each holding to the other’s belt, with one of the older boys armed with a club as the leader. When they came near the | windigo's hiding place he rushed out with frightful yells and tried to grab one of the younger children and pre- tend to eat it while the others fought him off. Manhood at Age of 14. When a boy was about 14 years old he was initiated into manhood. His face was blacked and he was carried by his father some distance into the forest to a hut in a tree. Here he was supposed to fast for about a week until he received a vision which would indi- cate his course in life. Some prominent object seen in his vision became his good luck talisman. Dreams and visions played a large part in the lives of the hippewas, and some strange incidents were related to Miss Densmore in en- | tire good faith. Old men and women told of haying witnessed objects, such as an American flag, which they never saw in reality until many years later.} Great credence was placed in the dreams of children. When a family was in trouble the little ones were looked upon as oracles who would re ceive information from some mysteri- ous source which would solve the dif- ficulties. Names of individuals were ac- quired from their dreams and were sup- posed to bring good luck. The love-lorn youth among the Chip- | pewas had a hard road, as Miss Dens- more records’ the progress of courtship and marriage. The girls were closely guarded. - If a young man wished to call D C, THURSDAY MAY 19 29, { ! | [30AY REDUGTION N LEAVE CROERED BY TAX ASSESSOR ! |Richards Cuts Maximum to 45, Allowing 30 Off for Sickness. 69 EMPLOYES AFFECTED, MOST OF THEM WOMEN Criticism on Average Considerably Above Other Offices Is Cited in New Rules. An order cutting 15 davs off the leave usually granted to employes of | the tax assessor's office was issued by | Tax Assessor_Willlam P. Richards' office today. The order affects 69 em- ployes, most of them women. According to rules of the District ! government leave may be granted or |not by any department head to em- I ployes in his department. The rules| | prescribe a maximum of 30 days’ kick eave and 30 days' annual leave, a total of 60 days' leave with pay for employe: on the annual salary basis. This mi imum has been in the past allowed to_employes of the assessor's office In a general order sent out yester- day, however, the attention of the employes was called to criticism said to have been directed against the office to the effect that the average leave is | considerably above the average of other | offices. The employes were informed that in_future the maximum of both kinds of leave to be allowed would bz 45 days. Of this, 30 days would be allowed in sick leave and the balance ! in annual leave. But if the sick leave taken is less than 30 days. then the i Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institu- | tion. The child’s relatives, led by the | annual leave will be increased so that | the total of the two leaves will be not more than 45 days. | The order provides that in any un- | usual circumstances requests for more than the set maximum of leave will be referred to the Commissioners. Mr. Richards has collected statistics on leave granted in his office during the past five months. These show that several employes have taken more than 40 days’ leave, divided between sick and annual leave. One employe had | 50 days and one 48!;. Mr. Richards, in explaining his or- der, said no private business could be conducted with employes taking so much leave. He said that clerks stay- ing away put an unfair burden on other clerks. This falls especially heavy on the shoulders of the men, he said, since most of the leave-takers were women. The plan is effective until the end of the calendar year 1929. BRIDGE APPROAC WORK IS PUSHED to Traffie, Col. Grant Announces. SOCIETY WILL MEET. ! Mechanical Engineers Will Elect Officers Tonight. The Washington section, American Marking another step in the impos- | ing development of the Washington terminus of Arlington Memorial Bridge, equipment started moving in_today to begin construction of foundations -for the water gate, which will be one of the principal features, and for the park- Society of Mechanical Engineers, will hold its last meeting of the season and the election of officers at 8 o'clock to- night in the Cosmos Club. The nomi- nating committee has reported candi- dates as follows: Rear Admiral H. I. Cone, chairman; . J. Rose, vice chairman: G. F. Wil liams, secretary-treasurer, and members of the executive committee, A. E. Han- son, Harvey Boltwood, J. W. McBurney and A. T. Dupont. L. W. Wallace, executive secretary of the American Engineering Council, has arranged for several members of the council to address the meeting tonight, it was announced. EEEIEE Biggest Grindstone Shown. Belleved to be the largest in the | world, a grindstone 6 feet in diameter | and 14 inches thick was recently shown | in England. The wheel was built in 24 | sections, each a similar grindstone cut | somewhat, in the shape of the keystone | of an arch and joined about a large central hub o form the continuous Ehi ful to avoid certain turns in the road to | the spirit land, or to trust certain spir- its, who would meet and assist him. They spoke with extreme rapidity, punctuating the words with occasional sharp beats on the drum. Miss Dens- more quotes part of an address of an old Indian to the dead body of his daughter, which began: “Your feet are now on the road of the souls, my daughter.” Burial was with the feet to the west, held by tradition to be the direction of the spirit’s journey. This was describ- ed by an old Indian to Miss Densmore as “a place where there was night and day, but during the day there was ab- solute silence. When night came the drums were beaten at some particular spot and the spirits gathered from all directions and danced until daylight.” Grief of relatives at a death was often extreme, causing them to cut | gashes in their bodies. Relatives usually went to a grave at evening and wailed for a long time. A man in deep mourning painted his entire face black. | In less extreme cases he painted black circles around his eyes. In every case it was required that the widow remain in mourning for at least a year. She could not go to any public place, wore ragged clothing, and cut off her hair or wore it unbraided. If she wore any bright ornament the relatives of the dead husband had the right to tear it off. If she remarried within the year they had the right to tear down her | wigwam, “Spirit Bundle” Custom. Another mourning custom was | | | to way approach from the proposed Rock Creek-Potomac parkway. In this connection, it was announced by Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d. director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, that the operations will necessitate closing to traffic Riverside Drive along the Potomac River, from Twenty-sixth and B streets to the road running south of the Lincoln Memorial, thus making Potomac Park traffic detour by way of the memorial. This change will go into effect tomorrow. ‘The Grier-Lowrance Construction Co. of Statesville, N. C., is doing the foun- dation ‘work and Harry P. Grier. jr., of the contracting firm looked over the work today. in company with C. C. Sad. ler, who will be the contractor's Wash- ington representative, and J. L. Barn- ard, vice president of the Super Con- crete Corporation of Washington. The Grier-Lowrance Company has agreed to complete the job in 180 days. Mr. Grier said he is considering using a 24-hour shift of workmen so work can be rushed. He has not vet deter- mined how many men will be used on the job. Into_the foundations for the water gates, Mr. Grier explained. will go 25.- 000 to 30,000 feet of concrete pile and 5,000 to 6,000 cubic feet of concrete. It will be necessary to move some 50,000 cubic yards of dirt in the process of the work, as it is planned to bring up the work to the level of the Lincoln Memorial Plaza and the Arlington Me- morial Bridge. The present road, just west of the Lincoln Memorial, is well below the level of the Lincoln Memorial Plaza. Mr. Bernard will furnish concrete for the work, and it is expected that 9,000 cubic yards will be needed. Another phase of the development went forward today as Westcot! Nursery Co. of Falls Church, Va., col tinued to move nine elm trees from the vicinity of the Lincoln Memorial to make way for the work on the founda- tions of the water gate. These trees are being moved to a point to the north, on the propesed Rock Creek-Potomac Parkway. Col. Grant hopes to be able to let the contract for the stone for the water gate proper in a short time. BANQUET IS GIVEN FOR CHORUS GHOIR p(of ICEMAN'S QUICK WIT AVERTS POSSIBLE LOSS OF LIFE IN FIRE Twelve Members of First Congre- gational Organization Are Awarded Gold Medals. Upper: Tree being removed from area where imposing water gate will stand. Lows foundation eonstruction. Left to right: J. L. Bernard, Harry P. Grier, ir. and C. C. Sadler. | | | | { financial budget has 1 000,000, CITY HEADS FIX DISTRICT BUDGET AT $48,000,000 Sum Is Approximately $500,- 000 Less Than Suggest- ed by Donovan. PARE DOWN ESTIMATES OF MUNICIPAL HEADS Requests Would Exceed Revenue and Wipe Out Cash Operat- ing Fund. ‘The limitation on the District's 1931 been tentatively the Commissioners at $48.- approximately $500,000 less than suggested by Maj. Daniel J. Don- ovan, auditor and budget officer, it was learned today at the Distriet Building. ‘The figure was decided on soon after the Commissioners began consideration of the estimates of the municipal de- fixed by | partment heads whose recommenda- tions for 1931 would take more than $53,000,000 to provide. It is these es. timates the Commissioners are paring down to form the District budget. Maf. Donovan advised the Commis- sioners that the District could support 2 budget amounting to $48,552,000 in 1931 by dipping generously into the surplus revenues credited to the muniei- pality in the Federal Treasury, but pointed out that the funds requested | by the department heads totaling 8! 056.505, would exceed the revenue avail- abllity for 1931 by $1.983.505, and en- | tirely wipe out the District’s cash op- erating fund. A budget restricted to | $48,500.000, he explained. would leave | $2.500.000 in the free cashing operat- Contracting officials supervising —Star Staff Photos. | Peonies Arriving | For Annual Show To Rise From Dead Animation in Blossoms Riverside Drive to Be Closed Suspended by Storage 24 Planes Entered in Curtiss Temperature. | Flowers literally risen from the dead | will be on display at the national ex- | | hibition of the American Peony Society, | which will be held in the Willard Hotel | in conjunction with the annual exhibit | of the American Horticultural Society | early in June. Although the exhibit is nearly a | month away, flowers which actually will be entered in the prize competition al- ready are being received in Washington. Furthermore, according to Dr. Earle B. White of Kensington. Md., chairman of the local committee, they probably will be placed on exhibition as fresh as if they had just been plucked from the garden. This is due in part to a strange power of suspended animation in the blos- soms themselves. They are being sent to Washington as buds, just beginning to show color. As soon as they are received they are placed in dry storage at a temperature of from 34 to 36 Fahren heit, just enough to keep them from freezing. Here they will be left until the day before the show. All the time the buds will be expanding very slowly into blossoms. When they are taken from storage | they will appear diy, withered and life- less. Placed in water in a warm room | | they soon will “come to life again.”| none the wores for their 30-day en- | tombment in the refrigerator. | Keeping peonies fresh for a month | | after cutting, says Dr. White, is a| | fairly common ~practice. One West- ern grower by a secret method, he says, | |is_able to keep them fresh for six | | months. so that he has blossoms cut | |in the Spring on his table Thanksgiv- | ing day. | The cold storage flowers now being | received are from growers between | Washington and New York who wish |to enter the competition for early| varieties. Washington is near the | Southern edge of the peony zone, and |if it_were not for the ability to keep | the flowers over long periods the only | early flowering varieties would come | from New England. | Local growers who wish to exhibit in | the novice class, says Dr. White, but who fear their flowers will be gone by | June 7, should cut them at once and | take them or send them to the Termi- | nal warehouse, at Eleventh and E | streets southwest, where they will be | preserved until the morning of the show and delivered at the hall. 0il From Nova Scotia's Shale. Nova Scotia’s extensive oil-shale de- | posits, which are said to contain high | | percentages of oil, are to be exploited | as soon as the extraction plant which | is now being built at New Glasgow is | completed. | indifference, has been studiously avoided AIR TROPHY RACE LEAVES 0UT 13" Marine Event Saturday Afternoon. ‘The number 13, variously regarded with favor or disfavor, but seldcm with by Navy and Marine Corps pilots en- tered.in the Curtiss Marine trophy race, which is to be run Saturday afternoon over a 25-mile course, stretching from the Anacostia Naval Air Station to a point below Alexandria. The 24 pilots in the race have taken numbers up ta 25. and the number 13 is conspicuous by its absence from the entry list. Aviation experts are regarding with considerable interest the first practical test of the new motor cowling developed in the past year at the laboratories of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley Field, Va, in race competition with planes not equipped with the cowling. Generally regarded as adding consid- erably to the speed of the plane whk‘hl has it, all eyes are turned on the; Curtiss Hawk fighting plane, which | Lieut. W. G. Tomlinson, U. S. N., will pilot in the race. It is the only plane entered which has the new cowling| installed. and this fact has given Lieut. ing fund. Changes Request for Funds. The reduction in the auditor's sug- gested figure of $48,500,000, was done by increasing by $500,000 the amount to be sought in the urgent deficiency bill to be submitted to Congress in Decem- ber for the acquisition of the site for the municipal center and the erection of two high temperature incinerators for the destruction of combustible refuse. In other words, the Commis- sioners intend to seek just as much money for these two projects as origi~ nally contemplated, but to do it in an- other way, which in effect will transfer the $500,000 from the 1931 budget to the 1930 fiscal year, and maintain the equilibrium of the expenses of the Dis. trict government for the 1930 and 1931 fiscal year. ‘The estimated cost of the site for the municipal center is $6,500,000, and it has been planned originally to seek $3,000,000 for the purchase of a por- tion of it in the 1930 deficiency bill, leaving the remaining $3,500,000 to be carried ‘in the 1931 budget. The two high temperature incinerators, it is estimated, will cost $850,000, $500,000 of which, under the original plans would have been sought in the 1930 deficiency bill, and the balance of $350,000 to be provided in the 1931 budget. Just how the Commisisoners intend to apportion the $500,000 additional to be included in the deficiency bill between the two pro- jects has not been revealed. Make Progress With Budget. Considerable progress has been made by the Commissioners in the daily budget making meetings which started Monday. The estimates of all of the administrative offices and a number of departments have been reviewed and trimmed down where reduction was found necessary. These include the budget requests of the executive office, the plumbing inspection department. the superintendent of the District Building, the assessor’s office, the license bureau, the coroner’s office, the super- Tomlinson some edge in the wagering on the race. The Hawks. or fighting | planes, are generally conceded to have | the race tied up. Five are entered, and the outcome of the race is expected | to be decided by them. | Plans for broadcasting the various | phasés of the race to the spectators | were completed today_ with announce- | ment that Lieut. C.” R. Brown, U. S.| N.. will be at the microphone to keep the audience apprised of all the details | of the race—who is leading, the speed | and distance traveled and other data.| The four pylons. around which the racers will fly, ‘have been placed on| intedent of = weights, measures and markets, and the highway department. It is understood that the estimates of the highway department, which the Commissioners considered in conference with Capt. H. C. Whitehurst. co-ordi- nator, were not materially affected by the pruning process. School Estimates Next Week. ‘The estimates of the Board of Educa- tion. the largest individual group, will not be reached before the early part of next week, it was said. If the Com- missioners find that a reduction is necessary these estimates will be re- turned to the school board for revision. barges and anchored at the course | boundaries along the Potomac. Race| pilots will be busy at Anacostia sta- tion until race time getting their planes in shape and the motors tuned up. HEALTH EXPERTS ARRIVE Two members of the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau—Dr. Justo F. Gonzalez, | professor of hygiene of the University | of Montevideo, and Dr. Joao Pedro de Albuquerque, quarantine director of the Brazil department of heaith—arrived in ‘Washington last night for a conference with American officials. The visitors were greeted at the Union Station by Dr. Mario G. Lebredo, vice director of the Pan-American Sani- | tary Bureau, and Dr. John D. Long and Dr. B. J. Lloyd of the United States Public Health Service. | | ‘Officer Breaks Down Door of Included in the school estimates, which exceed - $13,000,000. are supple- mental items totaling $1,101,000. The supplementals, however. were not sub= | mitted as additional school needs, but for the purpose of substitution in case of necessity. Before the Commissioners complete he preparation of the tentative budget | they expect to receive recommendations from the Citizens’ Advisory Council, the Washington Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade and Merchants and Manufacturess' Association as to the total the budget should carry as well as the tax rate in the 1931 year. It is a foregone conclusion, however, that all of these organizations will not urge a change in thespresent tax rate of $1.70. on which the Commissioners are predi- cating the 1931 budget. APARTMENT THIEVES ‘RENEW’ WARDROBES | “Family Wash,” Valued at $50, Is Among Apparel Stolen in Series of Burglaries. = ,, { cers to manage the rest temple: teenth street northeast. He was given | on a girl he talked first to the older ‘spirit bundle.” A lock of hair | Rev. R. B. Robinson, supreme grand master: Edward Love. grand master and treasurer: C. L. Smith, grand financial secretary. and James H. W. Howard. chairman of the finance com- mittee The building will house a library, au- | ditorium, rest and lodge rooms. and all Masons will be welcomed. Plans and specifications for the structure are on exhibition at the St. John's Masonic Hall, 1819 Tenth street. SUMMER SCHEDULE MADE. Early Summer schedule of trains to | damages against the Capital Traction | and from Chesapeake Beach becomes effective Saturday. Week-day trains will leave the District line for the Beach at 9 and 10:30 am. and 2:30 and 5:40 p.m., returning to the city at 6:35 am. and 12:30, 2:30 and 7 p.m. Saturday trains will leave the Dis- trict line at 9, 10 and 11:30 am. and 2:30, 5:40 and 8 p.m., returning at am. and 12:30, 2:30. 6, 8 and 10 p.m. Sunday trains will leave the District line ai 9:30 and 11 am. and 2, 2:30. 4:45 and 8 p.m.. returning at 12:30, 3, 6.8 and 10 pm Road improvement at the Beach have been completed in preparation for the opening of the resort. A new two-way bridge ove: the Beach eanal has been “~mnleted. | first aid at Freedmen's Hospital. Sarah Hawkins, colored, 22, of 1505 P street. njured her wrist yesterday afternoon when knocked down near Iowa Circle by the car of George Wrenshaw. River- dale, Md. Her injury was treated at Garfield Hospital. WINS $3,500 DAMAGES. Passenger on Car in Collision Is Given Verdict. Ada L. Murray, 1419 Q street, today | was awarded a verdict for $3,500 Co, and the Bellevue Dairy Farms Co. | by a jury in Circuit Division 2, before | Justice Hitz. The Woman was a passenger on a car of the traction company December 5, | 1926, when the vehicle was in collision | with' a_truck of the daity company at Seventh street and Rhode Island ave- nuc. Attorney Alvin represented the plaintiff. Steel Record Climbing Up. During 1928 the per capita steel con- sumption in the United States reached 959 pounds, representing an increase of 124 pounds over the preceding year and a record that has not been exceeded since the days of the World War, L. Newmyer members of the family who lived next | to the door of the lodge. If they liked | his_appearance they would admit him | to_the center of the lodge, which was reserved for the voung people where he could: talk to the girl in a low tone. | But she could not go out walking with | him. | If he came to call late in the | when the fire had burned low, | mother or grandmother would stir the ; fire, light her pipe. and remain up until the visit was concluded. She never took | her eyes off the couple. Sometimes a | suitor would play a “courting flute” out- | side the wigwam, but the girl could not | | 8o out to him Deer Killed for Parents. | If his intentions were serious he killed | a deer and brought it to the girl's par- ents. If they liked him they asked him | to stay and help them eat it. This was | considered approval of an engagement, and thenceforth he was alloweu to come and go with more freedom. Jealousy among girls' over a desirable suitor was a marked feature of Chippewa life and ‘hmmullmgs were frequent. The “gold | digger” got a short shrift. One popular | wav of putting her in her place was to | duck her in a mud hole. Death was looked upon as a short but difficult journey to the land of departed spirits. "At a funeral all the relatives would gather about the dead persoh and | tell him, one after the other, to be care- keep a was cut from the head of the dead person and wrapped in birch bark. On | the night of the burfal the relatives | built a fire, took this spirit bundle to | the flames and sat around all night | talking. This was repeated four con- | secutive nights. i | The spirit bundle of a child was made | | by its mother. She carried it on her back as she went about the camp, or set | it upright in the wigwam, placing food before it as though it were a living thing. Sometimes she placed the child's clothing in a cradle board and carried that for a year. ‘When a woman kept the spirit bundle of her husband she treated it as if it were the habitation of his spirit, lay- ing food before it and placing it beside her at night. At first the bundle was small but it grew larger as she wrapped around it whatever she obtained that was new and valuable, such as cloth- ing, blankets or beadwork. At the end of the year sh~ took this on her back and went to the lodge of her husband’s relatives, asking for her freedom. If she had heen frivolous or indiscret they would ire her to carry the pack still longe If they were willing to release her the spirit bundle was un- rolled and the aiticles given to the husbang's relatives. Then they painted | the woman’s face, gave her new cloth- | ing. and decl er free to marry again. | Apartment to Warn Sleeping Couple. The annual banquet in_honor of the | chorus choir of the First Congregational | Church was held last night in (h"‘ church dining rooms in appreciation for | the service voluntarily performed by the hoir during the past year. Twelve members of the choir were awarded gold medals for not having missed either a rehearsal or a public performance® of the choir during the | year. | Two of these received the medal for | the second time—Robert, W. Metcalf and | Lathrop E. Smith. The others were Charles F. Hyde, Mable Owens, Florence | Corkum, Robert B. Hobbs, Don A.| Tha alertness of Policeman Harben Waite, Claude R. Hanan, Lillian A.| N Lancaster of the tenth precinct Blaze Damage Coqfined to Kitchen, but Occupants Driven to Street. Peters, F. Imogene Sanborne, Stanley B. Covert and Marion B. Harrison. Honorable mention was bestowed upon Miss Emma Charters, Miss Joan Steven and Jesse Nussear. Mrs. Ruby Smith Stahl is to continue as director of the choir, the pastor, Rev. Dr. Jason Noble Pierce, announced. Part of the program consisted of a skit, “Children at the Circus,” by Miss Katherine Fowler; vocal duets by Mr. and Mrs. Prancesco Della-Lana, and a one-act, play. Mrs. Stahl was presented a basket of American Beauty roses by the choir. All British army officers employing soldiers to drive their cars must in fa- Aure insure the men against accidents. | probably saved the lives of occupants |of an apartment at 3700 Thirteenth | street where fire, said to have been | caused by a short circuit in an electric | refrigerator, caused apartment tenants |to_flee in their night clothes early | teday. | |~ The fire, which soon was under con- | trol, did little damage. According to police, | | the blaze was | | confined to the kllchenRol an apart- |~ | ment_occupied by Muth _and | his wife, Mrs. Maura E. Muth. Lan-| | caster. “ho discovered_the fire while | patroling his beat in the vicinity, said | | he was_forced to break down the of Mugl's apartment in order to arouse | door | the sjeeping couple. The policeman | Several Washington residents report- ed to the police today that burglars or sneak thieves have replenished ward- Tobes at their expense. William J. Hodges, apartment 112, 1401 Columbia road. reported the un- willing contribution of his family wash, valued at $50. It was taken from the apartment house after it had been de- livered. An intruder entered the apartment of James Woods. 521 U street, yester- day afternoon by breaking a rear win- dow. Woods reported the loss of two suits of clothes, a hat and a pistol, | valued at $50. John R. Goetz, 101 B street south- east, reported the loss of a suit case :lnd base ball uniform, taken from his | parked automobile. Miss Ada Guista, 11322 Rhode Island avenue, informe | the police that a pair of silk hose, three handkerchiefs and a folding cam- {era, valued at $27, had been taken POLICEMAN H. N. LANCASTER. | further was compelled to restrain Mrs. | Muth from jumping from t Ec:nnd—[ story window of her apariment when she ‘became hysterical. None of the occupants were injured and all returned w*n the blaze was extinguished. I grose— - Golohew, 615 Florence st from her home yesterday. A coat, valued at $100, was stolen | Tuesday night from a garage in the rear of 1225 Good Hope road southeast, according to Mrs. Thomas Moran, the owner, who reported the burg'~* of a pocketbook, left by A in 2 public telephone boo'h, & reporied. She said the pocketbook tained $1° Loss nes theast, was o a