Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1929, Page 15

- @he Foen ° 'WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Staf. Society and General LVING CONRADES WL PAY HOMAE TODEADHERCE President’s Address in Am- phitheater Will Sound Key- note of Observance. STATUES THROUGHOUT D. C. BEING DECORATED | Three Services to Be Held by Vet- erans at Tomb of Unknown Soldier. Assembling on the consecrated ground of Arlington National Cemetery about the two tombs that mark the resting place of America’s Unknown Soldiers, surviving veterans of all wars will unite tomorrow in paying homage to the memory of departed comrades in arms President Hoover's address at the main exercises in the great white am- hitheater adjoining the Tomb of the Inknown Soldier of the World War will sound the keynote for national ob- servance on this forthcoming Memorial day. Final preparations were completed to- day for the procession of the Grand Army of the Republic and other vet- eran organizations who will march to Arlington and there divide their par- ticipation in various programs. Else- where in the city and at various ceme- teries where soldiers of former wars are buried patriotic groups will ‘gather to pay due honor to the Nation's heroic dead. Monuments Being Decorated. Already Washington's statues and DOING THEIR CHRIST A new Yule tree around which th ter was placed in Sherman Square this planting the trec: at the left is Charles sion, office of Public Buildings and Pul senting the District government. Parade to Arlington Will Get Under Way At Grand Army Hall Organizations participating in the procession to Arlington will assemble in front of Grand Army Hall at 9 o'clock and at their re- spective stations on Pennsylvania avenue, Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets. | At Arlington the procession WASHINGTON, AS PLANTING EARLY]| national festivities of this year will cen- morning. Miss Alma Chesinut is show Henlock, chief of the horticultural di blic Parks, and to the right are G. H. Collingwood of the American Forestry Association and Clifford Lanham, repre- —Star Stafl Photo. | Preparation Made for Next 1. G HARTMANN TAKES UTILITIES OATH OF DFFICE ON FRIDAY Swearing In of Gen. Patrick Is Expected by Next Week. BUSY CALENDAR AHEAD OF NEW COMMISSIONERS Revaluations Under O'Fallon De- cision Probably Among Early Undertakings. Harleigh H. Hartmann, whose ap- pointment as a member of the Public Utilities Commission was confirmed by the Senate yesterday, will take the gath of office in Toom 102, District Building, at 10 am, Friday. The oath will be administercd by Frank E. Cunning- | nam, clerk of the District Supreme | Court, Maj. Gen. Mason S. A, retired, whose was confirmed yesterday, will be orn in a later date, not yet set. It cannot take place Friday, however, as Gen. Patrick was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Chairman John W Childre: resigned. Mr. Childress’ | resignation _takes effect midnight Fri- | day, and Gen. Patrick may_ take the oath sometime Saturday or Monday. One Month Term. Gen, Patric appointment, accord- ing to the law governing the terms of | public utility commissfone: is for one | month only. He was appointed to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Childress, | whose ‘term would have ended June 30. | It was said at the White House today, M. Patrick, u. appointment al: MCARL EXTENDS EMPLOYE LOAN T0 PERSONNEL BOARD Controller General Holds Pay May Continue Until Congress Acts. SMALL GROUP LIMITED TO SERVICE UNTIL JULY 1 ! New Decision Voids Ruling May 3| That “Borrowing” Workers Was Illegal. ‘The Personnel ssification Board was given a new lease of life today by Controller General McCarl, who, in a decision to Gen. Herbert M. Lord, director of the Bureau of the Budget | and head of the board, ruled that the pay of board personnel loaned from executive departments and establish- | ments may continue until the whole matter of personnel for the board can be_submitted to Congress. While the controller general will al- low the rank and file of loaned em- ployes to remain with the board until Congress decides the question, the de- cision today limited to July 1 of this year the service of a small group of employes who had been employed b; different departmenis and cstablis mets specifically to be detailed for work at the board. Board Had Faced Dilemma. The board faced a dilemma June 1, when, under a previous decision by McCarl, May 3, it would have been il- WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 192¢ DEAD ENGINE BRO I uninjured today after a crash across t POLICE BURIAL PLOT SECTION DEDIGATED Civic Leaders Are Present for Ceremenies in Cedar Hill Memorial Park. Wreckage of plane from which Brooke Cunningham, student fiver, escaped he Potomac. ;ESCAPEE INJURY | i | UGHT THIS RESULT —Star Staft Photo. | IN PLANE CRASH Student Aviator’s Craft Falls in Swamp Near Wash- ington Port. | | i PAGE 15 REFUNDS FURTHER SAFEGUARDED BY NEW TAX RULING Jurat Must Be Executed by Persons Waiving Claim on Erroneous Payments. UNAUTHORIZED PAYMENT Richards Objects to Rule Because Notary Must Certify to Person- ally Known Clause. Further safeguards will be thrown around the District's accuinuiated tax refund account June 1. as a result of the adoption at the auditor's office of a new juras to be executed by persons waiving claim to refunds on erroneously paid taxes, it was learned today at the District Building. The new jurat is designed to prevent unauthorized persony from collecting tax refunds credited to property owners who have made an overpayment on a tax bill. Its adoption, however, was preceded by considerable correspondence between the auditor's office and the office of the tax assessor, due to the belief of Tax Assessor William P. | Richards that another obstacle; would be placed in the path of persons seek- ing to collect the refund. Tax Assessor Richards' chief objec- tion to the new jurat was that it re- quires the notary executing a refund voucher to certify that the applicant is personally known to him. He is won- dering, how many taxpayers, who are entitled to refunds, can find a notary who is personally known to them. The auditor’s office, however, insists that | i legal for the board to use for its per- | ‘\ sonnel: Stenographers, clerks and others | . e il Joaned trom other departments and.on | Before a crowd of several hundred the pay roll of the other departments, | persons,® which included distipguished The board now will be enabled to|civic leaders, officials of the Metropoli- Christmas’ Celebration Near White House. the new %urat is drawn in accordance with all such legal documents, and will remove the possibility of the tax re- funds being collected by persons not however, that he would be imm(‘dlflwlyK reappointed ¥ | Besides the usual undertaking to| support the Constitution of the United ! monuments are being decorated in | honor of the approaching day, under the general supervision of Frederick D. ! Owen, retired engineer of the Office of | will form.in front of Arlington House at 11:30 o'clock and march to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers of the Civil War. Brooke Cunningham, 1512 Ridge | street, Chevy Chase, Md., a student| fiyer at Hoover Field, escaped uninjured Public Buildings and Public Parks, in conjunction with Victory Post of the American Legion. Throughout the down- town section of the city, sireets and buildings will display the national em- blem. The services at Arlington Ampithea- ter, at which President Hoover will de- liver his first public address since March 4, will begin at 1 o'clock. Sena- tor Porter H. Dale of Vermont also will make an address on this occasion. These services, as usual, will be under the direction of the Grand Army of the Republic and 18 other allied veterans and women's organizations of the World War and Spanish-American War. Special services have been arranged at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of the World War and the tomb of the Unknown Union Soldiers of the Civil | ‘War, while in the Confederate section at Arlington, patriotic Southern or- ganizaticns will gather at 3 o'clock in the afternoon to honor the dead in- terred there, Three Separate Exercises. ‘Three separate exercises will be held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. ‘The first will be held at noon, under the auspices of District of Columbia Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; the second, at 12:15 o'clock, under auspices of the District Department of the American Legion, and the third, ot 12:30 o'clock, under the direction of the Disabled American Veterans of the District. At the tomb of the unknown Union soldiers, the column of G. A. R. vet- erans, marching out from Washington, will assemble at 11:30 o'clock to pay | their tribute to these honored dead. The line of march will form on Penn- sylvania avenue at 9 o'clock before | Grand Army Hall and on Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets south of the ave- nue. Organizations participating in the G. A. R. will be the United Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, the Indian War Veterans and the American Vet erans of Hellenic Descent. The line of march will be down Thirteenth street to B street, where special cars of the ‘Washington-Virgina Railway Co. will be waiting to convey the veterans to Arlington. Traffic Over Key Bridge. All trafic for Arlington National | Cemetery tomorrow will move over the Key Bridge to Fort Muyer. Myer parking space will be made avail- able. The return to Washington will be made via the Highway Bridge. These are the plans worked out be tween Superintendent of Police Henrs C. Pratt and Brig. Gen. Herbert O. Williams, commanding the 16th Brigade. The associated organizations partic- ipating with the G. A. R. in the Arling- ton Amphitheater services will include the Women's Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. R., Legion of Loyal Women, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Sons of Union Veterans and their auxiliaries. Military Order of Loyal Legion, Army and Navy Union. United Spanish War Veterans and aux- iliaries, Veterans of Foreign Wars and auxiliaries, Disabled American erans of the World War, American Vet- erans of Hellenic Descent. Veterans of Indlan Wars, American War Mothers, Women’s Overseas _Service _League, Naval and Military Order of Spanizh- American War and American Gold Star Mothers. A bugler of the United States Marine Band . will sound the assembly at 1 o'clock, the signal for the procession 1o march into the Amphitheater under the chief marshal bf the parade, Capt. John Middlcton. The exercises will open with the introduction of Depart- | ment Comdr. Samuel G. Mawson, G. A, R., and the call to order by the depart- ment communder, who will introduce Hosea B. Moulton, past commander, the presiding officer. Confederate Services. Services at the Confederate section which will combine a celebration of the birthday of Jefferson Davis, will be con- ducted at 3 o'clock under the auspices | At Fort | Vet- | department | Membrial exercises in the Am- phitheater, with President Hoo- ver as the clrief speaker, will start at 1 o'clock. Exercises elsewhere during the day will be held as follows: National ~Cemetery, United States Soldiers’ Home, 10 a.m. Battleground National Ceme- tery, 3:15 p.m. Congressional Cemétery, 10 a.m. Tllinois State Society exercises at grave of Gen. John A. Logan, at_Soldiers’ Home, 10 a.m. Exercises in nurses' section of Arlington, 3 pm. Exercises in the Confederate section at Arlington, 3 p.m. Admiral Robert S. Peary Post, V. F. W.. on board the U. §. 5. Grampus, at 11 am. Al traffic for Arlington Ceme- tery will move over Key Bridge to Fort Myer. Parking space will be available at Fort Myer, and the return to Washingion will be made by way of the Highway Bridge. Representative Burton L. French of S. PF. Hamilton, junior .vice coms mander of the G. A. R. wil be in charge of the services at Congressional Cemetery, which start at 10 o'clock. | Geni. Henry W. Lawton Camp 4, United Spanish War Veterans: Stuart Walcott Post of the same organization and Co- lumbia Post, No..833, Veterans of For- {eign Wars, will assist in the program. | At these exercises the address will be delivered by Representative J. A. Gar- ber of Virginia. Place Mrs. Hoover's Wreath. ‘The memorial wreath presented by Mrs. Hoover in honor of the overseas American Women's Legion. The exer- cises will be conducted by Mrs. Edward Campbell Shiclds, the national presi- | dent, who will placc a poppy shield in | behalf of the American Women's Legion. The wreath presented by Mrs, | Hoover will be placed upop the cross | by Mrs. George N. Thompson, past | president. Rev. H. H. Sterrett will preside over | the religious ccremony. The presi- | dents of the various local urrits will be present, supported by color-bearers carrying the respective unit colors. The Illinols State 'Soclety will join with the G. A. R. in honoring ‘the memory of Gen. John A. Logan, who is buried in the National Cemetery, Sol- | diers' Home. Senator Deneen, presi- | dent of the society, will place a wreath upon the tomb apd Senator Glenn will give a brief address. The G. A. R. | program will be conducted at the band- | semblage will go to the tomb of Gen. | Logan nearby. It was Gen. Logan. who, s commander-in-chief of the G. A. R. on May 5, 1868, issued a procla- | mation designating M: | day, which was later enacted into law | by’ Congress. | Exercises on Gramus. Aboard the U. S. S. Gramus, which will leave the yard at 10:30 | o'clock Memorial exercises will be con- | ducted by the Admiral Robert E. Peary | ‘Ship, No. 427, Veterans of Foreign | Wars, P. V. Templeton, captain of Peary Ship, Wwill be master of cere- by Capt. W. R. Van Auken of the U, S. N. A poppy anchor will be placed upon’ the waters of the Potomac. Other organizations have arranged for special exercises and services dur- | ing the day. The United Daughters of the Confederacy at 10:30 o'clock, in { Arlinglon National Cemetery, will un- {veil & bronz: tablet in me Carter Lee, daughter of Gen, Robert Lee. The ceremony will lake place nes | the long-leaf pine tree planted som | yeurs &go as a tibute to the Confed- crate leader’s daughter. After t i- cation the ol nization will visit the room in which Gen. Lee was married in the Arlington house, natius Smith, former prior of { the Dominican House of Stud Idaho will make the memorial oration. | | stand at 9:30 o'clock and later the as- | 30 as Memorial | monies and the address will be given! 1ory of Aun | s, deliv- | While the thoughts of most Wash- ingtonians were turned today to the heat, humidity and the thermometer | as May started writing a torrid “finis” to its work, preparations went forward for a joyful 1929 Yuletide near the White House as a new national com- munity Christmas tree was planted this morning in Sherman Square, just south of the Treasury Department. This tree, which is to replace that | which died 'recently, due to too heavy | loading with electric bulbs and other | Christmas equipment, is the gift of the | American Forestry Association. Like its | predecessor, it is a Norway spruce. Un- der direction of Charles Henlock, chief |of the horticultural division of the | Office of Public Buildings and Public | Parks, workmen set the tree in posi- | tion. ' The tree arrived in Washington vesterday and is from the Amawalk Nurserics at Amawalk, N. Y., which is considered among tree experis to be a | hull mark of excellence. f The original tree was .presented through the American Forestry Asso- ciation and was accepted by President Coolidge in 1925, the association’s ex- ecutive secretary Ovid M. Butler, ex- plained today. Mr. Coolidge lighted it on Christmas eve of that year, making official the custom that has since pre- vailed here of holding community cele- brations and carol singing in its shadow. The wiring of the tree and heavy ~ornamentations affected its vitality and it was found necessary to replace it. 5 Licut. €ol: U.'S. Grant, 3d. director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, is to co-operate with the American Forestry Association in de- | vising a system of lighting that will not overburden the tree. It has been plant- dead will be placed on the Argonne |ed on the site of the first tree on the procession in addition “to thecroes in Arlington at 11 am. by the | 1 'FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR R. J. MICHAEL Resident of Capital 40 Years—In Restaurant Business Until Retirement in 1927, Funeral services for Robert J. Michael, resident of Washington for were held at Birch's funeral parlor, 3024 M street, at 8 o'clock last night. Interment takes place at Hanover, Pa., today. | pital Sunday, Michael came to Washington when a hoy of 18. He engaged in the restaurant business until two years ago when he was compelled by ill health to retire. He resided at 306 C street. Mr. Michael was the holder of numer- ous positions in the Masonic Order. He | was past master . Potomac Lodge, No. 5. F. A. A. M, past high priest Potomac Chapter, No. 8, R. A. M., and past commander Potomac Commandery, No. 8T | “'surviving him are two sisters, Miss | cora M. Michael of this city, with whom | he lived, and Mrs, Mary Schneider of | Baltimore, and two brothers, Howard M. Michael of Hanover Michael of York, Pa. NURSES TO GRADUATE AT GASTON HALL TODAY Classes at Geoygetown and Provi-| dence Hospitals to Have Joint | Ceremonies. President W. Coleman Nevils of | Georgetown University will present di- plom: this afternoon to 52 graducte nurses of Georgetown and Providence | Hospitals at their annual joint com- mencement exercises. Carrying out a custom adopted sev- of Camp 171, United Confederate Vet«|.roq the principal address today at the | eral years ago, the joint exercises will erans, and associated organizations. Gen. W. L. Wilkerson, brigade com- mander for the District, Heflin of Alabama will be the orators Memorial services also will be con- ducted by various A. R. posts the National Cemetery, United States Soldiers’ Home, the Battle Ground National Cemetery and Congressional Cemetery, where several Revolutionary heroes are buried At the Soldiers’ Home will start at 10_o'clock, rection of F. J. Youl msnder, Department of the Potomac The Soldiers’ Home Band will furnish music and the address will be delive by W. E. Andrews. James S. Ruby, superintendent of the Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery, heads the arrang ments committee. abled soldiers at the home will busses to Arlington. The exercises at the Battle Ground National Cemetery will be under the direction of Dr. Charles V. Petteys, past commander, Department mac, and will start at 3:15 o'clock. the reises under the di- ¢, Senlor vice cd tal and Senator | At 11:30 o'clock dis- | of the Poto-1 services conducted by the | Bureau of Engraving and Printing Post, No. 23, American Legion. Music was provided by the United States Band O chestra and John W. Kerns sang several {numbers. The presiding officer was Hugh B. Marsh, post corhmander. | At the Grorgetown University School { of Law tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock the two senior classes will memorial exercises for the 54 grad- | uates of Georgetown who lost their | lives in the World War. Rev. Thomas B. Chelwood, S. J.. vegent of the school, and Maj. Basil Duke Idwards of the United States Army will be the princi- | pl speakers. Dean Georgé E. Hamil- | ton &nd members of the law facully will join in the exercises Muss is to be celebrated at the Cath- olic University in the crypt of the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception by Right Rev. Thomas J. Shahan at 10 o'clock tomorrow, followiug which | gifts are to be presented by national officers of the Ladies' Auxiliary. There also will be services in the nurses’ section in Arlington at 3 o'clock. 1 memorial conduct | | be held in Gaston Hall at Georgetown College at 4 o'clock and opening ad- dresses will be made on behalf of the two hospitals by Dr. George Tully Vaughan of Georgetown and Dr. C. C. Marbury of Providence. Dr. John Foote, dean of the George- town School of Medicine, will present the graduates, 27 nurses from Provi- dence and 25 from Georgetown. In- cluded among the Providence graduates | are three nuns. Some of the nurses ill receive testimonials for their work during the year, The exercises will close with the com- mencement, address by Father Nevils, Members of the senfor class at George- town College will act as ushers at the exerclses. Capt. Bertholf's Funeral Friday. Funeral services for Capt. Wallace Bertholf, U. S. N., will be held in Ar- lington National Cemetery at 2 p.m. on Priday. Capt. Bertholf died in Naval Hospital at San Diego, Calif., recently. over 40 years, who died at Sibley Hos-| Born at Hanover March 14, 1870, Mr. | and Curvin| States and its Government, the new | commissioners must take an oath tha they are not interested financiall directly or indirectly, in the stock or| bonds of any local or foreign' utility | corporation. The District Commissioners today | ]Calls‘d on Gen. Patrick and Mr. Hart- | mann and paid their respects to the| | new appointees. After returning to the | | District Building they went 1mmcdta!?ly‘ into a‘board meeting to finish up se: eral routine matters left over from the session yesterday. The new commission, which probably | | will be organized by Monday, will step ! | right into a welter of work. The two | new commissioners and Engineer Com- | missioner William B. Ladue, who holds | his membership on the commi: n ex | | officio, will be called upon to deal with | important questions affecting services | rates and valuations for Washington's ! street cars, telephone system and gas I'service. The problem of constructing |an adequate bus terminal for the| | Capital will be before them. A recent | decision by the United States Supreme | Court in the St. Louis & O'Fallon | Railroad case has crystallized new ideas on valuation of utilities properties. Problems Summarized. Taking up the matters in the order referred to, the following is a summary of the problems that immediately con- | | front the commissicn: Street cars: The merger agreement, which fafled of enactment at the last regular session of Congress, will expire June 30. It is considered unlikely that the present special session of Congress | will do anything about it. The com- | mission undoubtedly will make another | | effort to bring one about. | The Capital Traction Co. is on the | verge of asking for an increase of fares, on the ground that it is making an in- sufficient return upon its $26.000,000 valuation as granted by the District Court of Appeals. Informed opinion | at the District Building is to the effect | that no increase will be granted unless | a new valuation of the properties is| made, a proceeding which will probably | take a year or more. Telephone: A two-year agreement | between the commission and the Chesa- | peake & Potomac Telephone Co., fixing the rate for domestic telephone service |at $4.75 per month, expires Saturday. At the time this agreement was signed it was attacked by William McK. Clay- | ton, veteran chairman of the public utilities committee of the Federation of Citizens’Associations, who contended that if the commission had insisted on a strict interpretation of the law and the figures, the rate could have been made lower. Another valuation of the company is not unlikely. Halts Valuation Proceeding: Gas: This is one of the most intri- cate of the commission's many prob- lems. A valuation proceeding for the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies was halted by Pcople’s Coun- sel Ralph B. Fleharty last Winter when he insisted that the companies could not go forward with the case unil an appeal from the first vauation placed on them by the commission, which had {been dormant in District Supreme Court seven vears, had been settled. The commission and the companies then argued the old appcal before Jus- { tice Peyton Gordon, who has not yet | handed down his decision. | Should Justice Gordon rule that the aluation must proceed, the commis- | sion will find itself unable to call to the stand the engineer who made the ap- praisals of the plant on its behalf, H Carl Wolf. who has accepted private employment in Chicago and notified the commission he will not be available for further testimony. This would mean that the appraisals would have to be done over by another engineer, a job that occupies several months, Bus terminal: Agitation for an ade- quate bus terminal has occupied con- siderable atlention of the commission recently. On May 15 a public hearing was held to consider possible sites for the terminal, but no decision was reach- jed. Interstate. busses now stop 8n the | streets in front of most of the down- | town hotels and elsewhcre, causing {wrafic congestion. ‘The work of the commission has been ' practically at a standstill since March |4, when the Senate adjourned without (confirming the recess appointment of Lieut. Col. Harrison Brand, ir., one of the civilian members. For the past 10 days Chairman Childress has been ab- sent in New York, and many routine matters are on the docket awaiting set- tement, e |SCHOOL OFFICERS SOUGHT In a circular letter directed to tl administrative and supervisory officets of the school system yesterday, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, invited ap- plications for the position of principal of Central High School to succeed Alvin W. Miller, who died & week ago Sunday. At the same time Dr. Ballou requested applications for the position of super- vising principal to succeed Dr. E. J. Kimball, who retires as head of the third division at the end of the current year; an assistant principal of Western High School and a statistician at the Franklin Administration Building. | | Al | of the work and appropriations of the continue in operation under the new decision of the controller general. The board never has had a personnel of its own, and McCarl on May 3 decided that the only persons authorized under the law to work for the board were those loaned by the Bureau of the Budget, the Civil Service Commission and the Bureau of Efficiency, whose reprecentatives comprise the personnel classification. Held Only Experts Usable. It further was held by McCarl in his previous decision that outside of work- ers in the three groups, the only per- sons who could be loaned from other deporiments were experts especially qualified for personnel work. The great body of workers on the board, however, at ih> present time were loaned from other departments, and under the May 3 d Carl to be illegal. Fo ing the possibility that workers woul | be withdrawn and activities of the hoard halted June 1, the board, t o gh its official chairman, Gen. Lord, pres nied the matter to the controller general with a request for relief. Som. of the departments had been planninz to withdraw their personnel, fearing that the voucher for pay would be dis- allowed by the controller general, Decision Relieves Problem. In his decision today, which reliev the situation, the controller general told | Gen. Lord: “it would not be seriously questioned, of course, that the decision necossarily applied the statute involved and that | there is no authority in the controller | general of the United States to so di- | rect the actions of the administrative | officers in this matter as to requi them to continue in force existing de- tails, or to issue renewals thercof, or new details contrary to law. However, in view of the representa- ticns made to the effect that no other means are available under existing ap- propriations for carrying on the work of the board, and it being realized that some of the activities of the board should not be discontinued at this time, I have to advise that if the condition departments and establishments con- cerned are such that they can and will _continue the existing practice of permitting their regular empl (not including those expressly employed for work under the board) to be detailed for work with the board until there has been an opportunity for the necds of the board to be considered by the Congress at its next regular session, this office will not, because of such de- tails, disallow credit in the accounts ! of the disbursing officer involved for proper payment made for services rendered during such period. Must Observe Law in Future. sion such loans were held by Mc- | | firemen tan Tolice Department and Represen | tive Zihlman, chairman of the House | District committde, the police section of Cedar Hill Memorial Park, at the Itop of Pennsylvania avenue southeast, | formally was dedicated | Music was furnished by the United ‘}S(:ncs Marine Band, under the direction of Capt. Tayler Branson Gen. John A. Johnston, former Dis- | trict Commissioner and chairman of the | this morning. | when he completely wrecked a Travelair C-6 three-scater biplane in the swamp back of Washington Airport shortly after a take-off at Hoover Field at about | |10:30 o'clock this morning. More than 1,000 persons. 100 of whom | were tourists awaiting their turn to take | sight-seeing flights over the city from |the two fields just over the Potomac, | witnessed the crash, which left the bi- plane, its wings crushed, nosed into the sofc muck that covers the south end of entitled to them. Satisfied With Old System. Mr. Richards was satisfied that the system of making refunds, adopted more than a year ago, served as a sat~ isfactory check on persons making claims for a return of overpaid taxes, but said he finally acquiesced in ap- proving the new form of jurat at the insistence of the auditor’s office. Com- munications now mailed to parties en- titled to refunds suggesting that they make claim for a return of the over- | committes in charge of the dedicatory |the Washington Airport landing field.| paid taxes, coupled with the properly exercises, introduced the speakers and | guests of honor. Very Rev. G. | Bratenah!, dean of Washington Cat | dral, delivered the invocation and ben- | ediction was offered by Rev. Joseph V. | Buckley, pastor of St. Francis Xavier's ! Church. Zihlman Lauds Tzlicemen. Mr. Zihiman in an impromptu talk jed the members of the Metropoli- ce and praised their deceds of m. The Maryland legislator inted to the Washington police force | as one enjoying an enviable reputation |and comparable with the best in the | United States. | " After several hymns had been sung { by the open-air audience to the music of the Marine Band, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police; his predecessor, Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, and Dr. Buckloy made short addresses. |~ Acquisition of the plot in the ceme- | tery to be laid aside for the burial p'ace of policemen and their families, was through_efforts of individual members of the Police Department. The ground. rich in sconic beauty and overlooking the Capital, adjoins the section, acquired more than three vears ago. Some time soon ef- forts will be made to have Congress erect a memorial in the section, Rupe Is Paid Honor. | Immediately following the exercises, a | wreath was placed on the grave of Po- liceman Claude O. Rupe, formerly of | the fifth precinet, who was killed Oc- tober 14, when his motor cycle skidded : while he was chasing a speeding auto- mobile. 'WORKMAN IS CRUSHED BY SEWER DIRT SLIDE | Potomac Electric Power, Co. Em- ploye Is Injured Seriously in Cave-In. | | Crushed by falling earth of the sides of the sewer excavation in which he “With respect to those who were em- ployed expressly for the purpose of being | detailed o the board, having in mind : that some of them may be engaged| upon work which the interests of the Government require should not be d continued immediately, and to per a reasonable time in which to complete, or to make other arrangements for the completion of such work, this office will | not disallow credit for otherwise proper | payment made to such employes for necessary services rendered with the board prior to July 1, 1920, but no such ;rrépltn_‘ll]t‘sdmsy'zr continued on detail or edetailed to the board for any perio after June 30, 1929.” A McCarl further stipulated in his de- cision that from now on all persons | detailed to the board from other depart- | ments must adhere strictly to the ! classification act of 1923, which pro- | vides that the working personnel must be provided by the three Government units comprising the board, cxcept for exper McCarl further held that m the fu- | ture, when accounts for salary pay- ments 1o the bourd’s persounel were | submitted for audit, he would' require “a satisfactory showing that the de-| tail in each instance was approved by | the President as stipulated in the statute.” Gen.' Lord, in commenting on the | McCarl decisien, declared it cleared up the situation for the time being, at| least, until Congress can act. Gen. Lord's alternate on the board, Capt. Carlos Van Leer, acting chairman of | the board, said today he did not know. what the departments might do, but he rather expected they would co-operate !'with the board and leave their employes on duty. | ‘What recommendations will be made to Congre officials” did not indicate. Frank Bowles Dies. HANCOCK, Md., May 29 (Spe- cial).—Frank Bowles died at his home, Hooks Hill, near Hancock, where he resided with his niece, Mrs. Lalla Biays, He was 72 years old, & son of the late Col. John J. and Rosa Martin Bowles. Mr. Bowles is survived by one siste Mrs. Clurie Locher, wife of Charles H. Locher, near Hancock, and one brother, Johnsor Bowles, a Union vet- eran, Napa, Calif. He was an uncle of Lyman Bowles Kendall, millionaire so- ciety man of Washington and New York, who died three months ago. | State. was working, Marshall Burgess of 2 Eighth street, 51-year-old colored em ploye of the Potomac Electric Powe Co., was_injured seriously about noon today. Covered to his neck with earth, | he was dug out and rushed to Casualty { Hospital. The accident occurred at | New Jersey avenue and L street south- ! east. Burgess was working in an 8-foot | hole, tapping a sewer to drain the man- thole. The walls gave way and before { he could move or cry out he was cov- | ered with dirt and rocks, which jammed ihl': head against one wall of the exca- vation, Charles Thompson and Charles White, “both colored, fellow workers, fell to with spades and had him out by the time the ambulance arrived. The Fjre Department rescue squad also was summoned. juries could not be ascertained imme- diately. It will be necessary to take an X-ray picture (o determine whether his chest was crushed. NEW YORK, May 29 (#).—Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith yesterday was elected a director of National Surety Co., a post ne resigned on becoming chief executive officer of New York Mr. Smith is a director of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. and of the County Trust Co. of New York. c. P At the hospital the extent of his in- | Smith Again Surety Co. Director. | | Continued Flights. None of the tourists was deterred, | however, from taking flights, and while | the wrecking crew from Hoover Field gathered up the remains of the wrecked plane from the swamp, planes from both flelds continued their flights over the Capital. | Cunningham, a student flyer with | about 40 hours solo flying, according to ! { Hoover Field officials, had just taken | off and was flying low over the lower end | of the Washingion Airport Field when his engine went dead. The plane was | nosed up and headed for the patch of | swamp when Cunningham tried to turn | it into the level, hard groups of the landing field. Without the pull of the engine, the plane went into a spin and landed on its right wing in the mud. | twisting over on its back and burying | its nose also in the mud. | Sent to Hospital. William DeChaizo, a mechanic at | Hoover Field, who saw the plane crash, | 2s on the scene in a few minutes and extricated Cunningham from the up- | turned cockpit of the wrecked plane | and sent him to Emergency Hospital in | bus used by the flying field to trans- | port fiying students to and from the Capital. At the hospital it was ascertained that, while badly shaken up, Cunning- ham was not suffering from any injur- |ies, and he was allowed to walk out of | the hospital and to go to his home. | Hoover Field officials said that Cun- | ningham made several flights in the same plane yesterday with Capt. Ira C. Eaker of Question Mark endurance flight fame, and was allowed to take it up today as a result of his expert | handling of it yesterday. Most of Cun- ningham's training has been in lighter planes, however, it was said. . 'HOLIDAY FORECAST | | IS ‘CONTINUED WARMW’ Temperature of 85 Degrees and Thunderstorms Predicted for Decoration Day. Continued warm and sultry weather, with scattered thunderstorms in the | | afternoon. was the Weather Bureau's ! | forecast this morning for Memorial da: | The temperature is expected to hover | around 85 degrees. ‘The weather was blamed yesterday ‘for the death of George Herring, ccl-| | ored, 50, of 1342 Twenty-eighth street, | | who collapsed in Chevy Chase, Md. Dr. | E. G. Bauersfeld said Herring died of | heart disease superinduced by the heat His death was the second in the pres- ent heat wave. Cloudy weather tomorrow, the Weath- | er Bureau said, may keep the tompera- | ture five degrees below the expected high_level of 85. The uncomfortable weather is general over the Eastern portion of the country, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and is not ex- | pected to depart for several days. | " Boston, with & temperature of 90 de- | grees, was one of the three hottest | spots’ In the country yesterday. . Two D. C. Men Commissioned. Commissions in the Reserve Corps of the Army have been issued by the War Depariment to James C. Ladd, | 5403 Ninth street, as a second licu- tenant in the Finance Department, and to Robert §. Willlams, jr., 449 Park road, as a second lieutenant of Cavalry. [No Worry, Simple Diet, Plenty Water, Recipe of 83-Year-Old Seeking 100 Mark A refusal to worry, a simple diet and plenty of water is the formula by which { Col. Thomas L, Eggleston. of 1701 Park road, who is 83 years old today, hopes to round out a century of life. Col. Eggleston is hearty, despite his years. He has never used glasses and thinks he never will have to, since on his birthday today he can read un- aided fine print that would tax the eyes of a man of half his years. “I have never drank beyond a small 40 years,” Col. Eggleston “I take only one cup of smoked for declared. water.” P. He thinks that most persons do not eat enough meat and consequently he is by no means a vegetarian. After serving 18 months with Gen. Nathan Forrest, the Confederate caval- 1y leader, Col. Eggleston went to Okla- homa at the end of the Civil Wa where he settled on one of his father's plantations. Later he purchased a granite quarry, the operation of which executed affidavits, it was contended, are sufficient means of identification. A. R. Pilkerton, assistant principal auditor, declared, however, he did not believe with the reasoning in this re- | spect, and neither did he believe it to be a good policy for the notaries in the District Government to take the acknowledgements of individuals con- cerned in a refund from the District unless they are personally known to be the party making the affidavit. “Why,” he asked Mr. Richards, “should the District be burdened with the expense g! lm,rrec(lng the mistakes of indivi- uals?™ Honesty Was Motive. Mr. Pilkerton's question, inspired Mr. | Richards to write a 300-word letter to Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer, pointing out that honesty as well as a desire to clear the records of duplicate or erroncous accounts motivated his office to find the tax- payers entitled to refunds. “For the last two years,” Mr. Rich~ ards wrote, “this office has been pur= suing a new policy of trying to handle repayments by finding the proper in- dividual to whom the money was due and thereby clearing the record of duplicate or erroneous accounts. “It is known that there are many thousands of dollars of aged duplica- tions, where the money is still in the * Treasury, no effort having been made to find the parties to whom the money was_due. “On account of the extra worksin- volved in notifying people and obtain- ing waivers it has been suggested this office that the District is in no way bound to search for persons or to no- tify them that the money is due from wrong or duplicate payment. Oversight of Individuals. “In the ordinary line of business we may suppose that one individual by some oversight exceeded his payment to some other individual, or that one individual in receiving change did not discover the affair until too late to remedy the mistake; if the party who received the advantage of the over- payment knew the fact and failed to notify the other party thereby pocket- ing something to which he had no right, it would not be unjust to stigma- tize such a person as being capable of crooked methods. What can be said of similar_action on the part of the Dis- trict Government to withhold money fairly due some one else when the Dis- trict’ knows of the circumstances and when the other party is ignorant of what has happened” “It has been suggested that the Dis. trict take steps to prevent duplication and errors, and in reply it can be said the District does go to a great length to prevent such things and could go further lengths, but the remedy might be worse than the disease. It is held that there is no other way to straight- en out these erroneous payments, dupli= cate payments, etc., except through the line of action now being followed of notification and return of money under certain restrictions, and it is submitted that these restrictions should not be of such nature as to prevent business- like action. 2 “It is agreed by this office that some such form of jurat as proposed by the auditor will be proper to use, but it is recommended that on account of cer- tain afidavits having been received through the mail for some time to come it would be doing duplicate work, or throwing away some of the past work, to attempt to take up old accounts. It is therefore recommended that the new jurat start on June 1, this year. PUBLIC LIBRARY HOURS CHANGED FOR SUMMER Saturday Schedule for Central Building and Branches Is Announced. The Public Library announces the following changes in the hours of opening its various agencies on Sat- urdays during the Summer, commenc- ing June 1: ‘The central library will from 9 am. to 4 pm® The Mount Pleasant, Takoma Park and Southeastern branches will be open has occupied hiMn ever since. He now spends his Winters in Wash- social drink now and then and I haven't ’Iugtuu with his wife, daughter and two | again from 6 to 9 p.m. andchildren, | Oklahoma. and his Summers in Occasionally he visits his | birthplace. open from 9 am. to 12 noon, and ‘The Chevy Chase, Tenleytown, Conduit Road and Eastern High sub- coffee a day and no tea, but plenty of | plantation at Eggleston Springs, Miss., ' branches will be open from 9 am. to 12 noon.