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Washington News The bening Staf. ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D EDNESDAY, JU PAGE 17 75000 CHILDREN START VACATIONS AS SCHOOL END 71,000 Advance in Educa- tional March Through Pro- motions to Next Grade. PREPARATIONS FOR NEXT YEAR'S CLASSES BEGIN Teaching Staffs to Remain on Duty Two More Days to Make Up Annual Reports. Bchool ends today for the 75,000 odd boys and girls in Washington's public schools, and in the ending approximate- Jy 71,000 advance .another stage in their educational march. These advances ere being made through promotions in the elementary, Junior high and senior high schools, and by gradustion from these institutions as well as the District’s two normal schools. Arthur Building Abandoned. In one of the schools, ‘the Arthur Buflding in Arthur place, between B and C streets, the teachers and pupils are saying permanent goodbyes, for that school will be abandoned after the close of the colored school year. It is this school which has been proposed as @& home for the District Criminal Court. Similarly, the rehted quarters of three classes at 810 Sixth street south- 'west, are being switehed today for mod- ern and adequate accommodations. These classes have been housed in the tempo- rary quarters for many years, and next Fall they will be quartered Smallwood and the Bowen Schools. ‘Two portable bufldings located during the past year in Brookland, will be moved after today, by virtue of the opening of the new Langdon . School. ‘This does not mean, however, that ‘Washington’s number of portable schools will be reduced, for these frame structures only will be moved to other lJocalities to fill demands. Plans for Next Year Laid. While 1,100 elementary school pupils are being graduated In their classrooms today, plans are being made for the opening next year of the new Paul Junfor High School in Brightwood, where some 3200 _elementary school pupils were until today quartered in the old Brightwood School annex, and the seventh and eighth grades of the in the ! FORM CITIZENS' COMMITTEE ' TO PROMOTE LIFE ADJUSTMENT | Many Well Known Scientists Head Center, Described as | ' Qutstanding Experiment. | Pictured as Effort to Weld Religion and Science to Get i Under Surface of Life. By THOMAS R. HENRY. An undenominational committee of prominent. citizens has been organized to promote the work of the Life Ad justment Center of the Mount Pleas- ant Congregational Church, it was an- nounced today. It is headed by Dr. Edwin E. Slosson, noted chemist and author, and _includes such prominent scientists as Dr. Wil- liam A. White, superintendent of St | Elizabeth's Hospital; Dr. Charles G Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, presi- dent of George Washington University, | and Dr. Henry D. Hubbard, assistant di- | | rector of the Bureau of Standards. | The appointment of this non-sectari- | an committee, most of whose members | have a world reputation in their own fields, is calculated to give a much wider significance in both the religious and scientific worlds to a project which has been described as one of the out- standing experiments in religion in re- cent times. It is decribed by the Rev. Moses R. | Lovell, pastor of the Mount Pleasant | Church.” who will continue as spirif | ual director, as an effort to weld t) | resources of religion and science in an | effort to get under the surface of hu- | man 1ife to the fundamental realities. | It was organized last Winter as a local | church activity and its success was re- | | markable. All Must Co-operate. Rev. Mr. Lovell worked on the theory that a man is a co-ordinated whole and that his moral problems, which are the peeuliar province of religion, are closely correlated with his physical, | mental, social and economic problems. MRS. W. W. HUSBA Therefore, he held, to get at the real solution of & case the physician, psy- chiatrist, soclologist, economist, lawyer | and clergyman must co-operate. No | gne of these. it was held. could hope | to understand = difficult character or | personality situation and bring about an adjustment without the expert | knowledge of some of the others. T Al ’ |, From ‘the first prominent psychh-l A VI ML trists of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and | o Ua local physicians worked without pay be- | | cause of their interest in the experi- | ment. With the experiment placed on a larger community basis, the staff will | be_enlarged | The preliminary work last Winter, | Rev. Mr. Lovell said, convinced him |that “there is a great underworld in | Washington.” This underworld, he Breakfast Meeting Tomorrow at Willard Will Be Attended TAXIGAB-CRUSING” BANNED BY POLIGE INF STREET AREA Inspector Brown Makes Dras- tic Move to Lessen Down- town Traffic Congestion. | OFFICIAL HOPE;T_O END | PRESENT CROWDING EVIL l 1 | | | | | | ;Only Cars With Fares or Answer- | ing Calls Will Be Allowed in Zone. A drastic move to alleviate trafic | congestion on P street, through the |adoption of a regulation to prevent | | “cruising” by taxicabs, is planned by | E. W. Brown, police inspector in charge {of the Traffic Bureau. The regulation, Inspector Brown an- | nounced today, would be drawn to pro- | hibit taxis without fares to enter F | street from Ninth to Fifteentn street | | between 8 am. and midnight uniess in | response to a call. This move by ‘he | Commissioners, he said, virtually will lend the present “cruisimg” evil, which { he blames as being responsjble for 50 Iper cent of the traffic congestion on | the busy street. | Traffic_conditions on ¥ str | spector Brown declared, are | {able” and have been for some time.! | The situation is aggrevated particularly | at night, he said, by the empty taxicab ! parade, when the drivers appear to concentrate in the theatrical section | in search of fares. H | Recently, Inspector Brown said, he !made a traffic count on F street at {night and discovered that 10 out of ery 11 motor vehicles which passed a definite point were taxicabs. The ma- jority were empty, he declared, and | were doing what is commonly known | as “‘cruising.” A regulation to prevent this practice .an F _street was Tecommended to the Commissioners last June by Inspector Brown, but it was considered too dras- tic and was pigeon-holed. The Com- { ntissioners, however, adopted a similar regulation temporarily for the presiden- | tial inaugural week last March and | Inspector Brown points out that it re- sulted in marked improvement in the traffic sitnation on F street Inspector Brown announced he would | request the corporation counsel’s office to frame the regulation. He will urge Willlam H. Harland, traffic director, and the Commissioners to approve it. NEWSBOYS’ The Reporter-Star Newsboys' Band of Orlando, Fl: yesterday and played before the President at the Whit Ruth Bryan Owen, Representative from the Central Y. M. C. A. the Capital. BAND PLAYS While in Washingto: ouse today. ‘The band, which the boys will be taken on several Florida. | BEFORE PRESIDENT HOOVER champion boys’ band of that State, which arrived in the Capital The band was presented nsists of 48 pieces, is making its headquarters to Mr. Hoover by M sightseeing trips to historic spots around CITY LAYS PLANS Committee Seeks Contribu-l tions to Further Elaborate | “ July 4 Program. 1 Preparations for the city's celebration of Independence Day are rapidly going forwerd under. the direction of the citi- | zens’ committee appointed 10 days ago by the District of Columbia Commis- sioners, with E. F. Colladay as chair- man. 3 The celebration is designed to be the | most elaborate ever planned for the city. Special events during the day will | culminate in a patriotic demonstration ‘and display of fireworks in the evening ‘on_the Monument Grounds. | _The finance committee, headed by E. J. Murphy, president of the Wash- | ington Board of Trade, as chairman, today called on every citizen, and all groups and organizations for financial | aid, as the committee has decided $5,000 | will be needed. Contributions are to be sent to Victor Deyber, the treasurer, at the Second National Bank, 509 Seventh street northwest, to E. J. Murphy, chairman, lat the Board of Trade, Star Building |or to Miss Sibyl Baker, executive vice | chairman at the Community Center De- | partment, in the Pranklin School Build- | ing. Checks should be made out to D. C. Park Statues Will Be Cleaned Lt. Col. Grant, 3d, Invites | Bids for Work; Materials Willbe Thoroughly Tested Forty-two statues parks are to be cleaned so that the notables they represent in stone and in Washington's | POLICE GRAFT QUIZ 'Investigation of Officers’ Charges Is Being Made on Pratt’s Order. metal will be more presentable for the city's visitors. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Bulldings and Public Parks, today in- vited bids for this work and set next | Tuesday as the day for opening them In =announcing the bidding, Col. Grant explained that cleaning by sand blast will be permitted only in cases in- | dividually approved. The work com- prises cleaning of the statues and all | portions of the bases that are above | ground and cutting out or cleaning out | and pointing with cement mortar of all | joints in the stonework. The metallic portions of the statues are to be thor- oughly cleaned also. Samples of materials the contractor contemplates using will be submitted to | the Bureau of Standards for test and recommendation, Col. Grant explained. Any material which the bureau indi- cates may be harmful to the stone or metal will not be permitted. The work ¢ s port of these facts from the bootlegger's | B0 be done within five months affer | Nife, and aisp another amdavit being | the contract is awarded. An investigation is being made_at | police headquarters into .a charge by Policeman -J. .W. Anderson, third pre cinct, that officers of that precinct ac cept graft. The charge was made at a hearing before the Police Trial Board, June 6 HOPE 1S ABANDONED OF GETTING FUNDS FOR” AIRPORT SITE Chairman Wood Unable to Get Action on $500,000 Appropriation. DEMOCRATS INSISTENT ON SPECIFIC LOCATION Legislation for Air Field Faces Delay Until Congress Convenes for December Session. Last hope of getting the $500,000 ap- propriation of Federal funds for begin- ning acquisition of a site for a National Capital airport, approved by Congress at this extra session, was abandoned today. Chairman Wood of the House appro- priations committee, who brought the | measure up as approved by the joint Congressional Airport Commission” and >assed by the Senate two weeks ago, and was unable to secure action on the ap- propriation under unanimous consent owing to objection by Representative Huddleston, Democrat, of Alabama. has been intending to make another effort | before the close of the present session. | He has been informed. however, hy | Minority Leader Garner that the Dem- ocratic members are unwilling to_au- thorize a half-million-dollar Fed: | appropriation unless they knew | 1and is to be acquired. With the House | proposing to recess today until Septem- | ber 23, this legislation will not be acted | Anderson was on trial on a_charge of | upon probably until the December ses- failure to pay a just debt. He told the board that the reason he was in debt | was that he did not take the graft that | other officers in the precinct did. Capt. | willlam G. Stott, commanding the third | precinct, called on Anderson for an ex- | planation_and referred the matter to | Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police. Maj. Pratt told Anderson that he ex- pected him to substantiate his charges. The matter was turned over to Lieut. Joseph Morgan for investigation and report. The report has not yet been made, but Morgan has in his possession an afidavit from a woman alleging she was an eye-witness on an occasion when money was given by a bootlegger to_an officer in the third precinct. Morgan expects an affidavit in sup- Brightwood and Takoma Buildings will | said, was invisible and for the most be moved. Each Spring during the past | part known only to the individuals, but | seven years the number of graduates Was an unescapable reality. This is the | from the eighth grade elementary | world of normal people being driven to | schools has been reduced with the in- | thelr graves by great burdens of fear troduction of the junior high school and worry which are. known only to | system of education here, until at pres- | themselves. Generalities, such as they | ent. approximately 75 per cent-of the|hear from the pulpits, do them lttle elementary school- n are attend=}good, because they cannot apply them ing the new type of schools. to_their individual gircumstances. by Civic Leaders. Washington will be visited tomorrow by a delegation of about 150 business men from Tulsa, Okla., who will fra- ternize with local buisiness leaders. at # joint breakfast meeting at 8:45 q'clock at the Willard Hotel, it was announced The subcommittees are active in prep- a | aration plans. The committee on inv ! | tations, with E. C. Snyder as chairman, \ | met today in the board rooms of the | 3= | Franklin administration building. Invi- ivmor Deyber, treasurer. | tations will be sent to government offi- clals, members of the diplomatic corps. | District officials and other distinguished | citizens to attend the formal ceremonies t if today is. the mnk‘&no' a grand and glorious three mon! for ‘Washington’s children, it is simply the busiest day of the year for the Dis- trict school teachers. The teaching personnel and the staff of clerks.in the schools must remain on duty for twe more full days, during which they will be engaged in final reports and prop- erty accounting. Within the next two weeks, , fully 66 per cent of Wi 's teachers will enter other sch of graduate education in ursuit of their gualifications,to teach ashington’s children, when they re- ir classes next September. Despite rumors to the contrary, every elementary school class will remain in session today until 3 o'clock, except the part-time classes. which do not convene until later in the morning, | which will remain In class until 4:30. | SLAYER SENTENCED | T0 6 YEARS IN PRISON| Greek Restaurant Employe Stabbed | Bystander After Quarrel ‘With Three. restaurant at Fourteenth and U streets, ‘who recently was convicted of man- slaughter in connection with the death | of George Washington, colored, was sentenced today by Justice Siddons, in | Criminal Division 2, to serve six years Rev. Mr. Lovell .emphasizes that the | Life Adjustment Center is not a clinic for sbnormal cases, but is intended to | solve the problems of normal people who are now carrying on unaided fights against fear, ignorant of what to do Committee Is Large. Mrs. W. W. Husband, wife of the As- sistant Secretary of Labor, will serve as vice president of the committee. John A. Massie, local banker, is treas- usse and 3. Ei: Jones secretary. Other members of the committee announ: byMt,he church are: g5 iss Hettie Anderson, general secre- tary of the Young Women's Christian | Association: Miss Sibyl Baker. director | of community centers: Mrs. George F.| Bowerman, president of the Twentieth | Century Club: Mrs, Will C. Barnes, | first vice president of the Twentieth | Century Club; William Knowles Cooper, | who just retired as general secretary tion; Mrs. Gllbert H. Grosvenor, president of the Bethesda Wom pal of Holton Arms School; Mrs. Edna L. Johnston, vice president of the League of Women- Voters; Mrs. Mark Lansburgh, secretary of the Council of Jewish Women: Claud Livingston, pre: | ident of the William H. Saunders Co.; | Dr. George R. Mansfield, United States | Gus Tokas_ employe of & Oreek|pisyer oiyic leader; Percy.H, Fussell, Geological Survey; Mrs. George A. president of the Percy H. Russell €o.; Mrs. Philip 8. Smith, member of the Board of Education; Willard C. Smith, president of the Washington Council of Social Agencies; A. O. Tingley, | treasurer of the Mount Pleasant Con- of the Young Men's Christian Associa- | in the penitentiary. Tokas had Some | gregational Church, and Mrs. O. L.| today by Charles W. Darr, president of in its tour of principal industrial and business centers in the South., East of Commerce, real estate board and the Tulsa Junior' Chamber of Commerce. Members of the Washington Chamber of Commerce and the Washington Real Estate Board will participate in the joint meeting. It is expected addresses will be made by A. L. Farmer and Wil- liam Holden, president and executive vice president, respectively, of the Tulsa chamber, and by President Darr and President Ben T. Webster of the local chamber and real estate board. The principal purposes of the Tulsa delegation’s four, it is stated, “is gather new ideas on the civic, business and industrial development of the pro- gressive cities visited and to spread mes- sages of good-will from Tulsa, the oil capital of the world, Southwest, generally. Executives and heads of & number of leading business concerns of Tulsa and en 1 ! Club; Mrs. Frederick A. Holton, princi. | Deighboring cities, leading realtors and | public officials of city, county and State are making the tour. SERVICE PLANES LEAVE, FOR CHESTER CEREMONY Fechet and Moffett Will Receive Degrees From Pennsylvania Military College. Nine Army and Navy planes from the Washington Chamber of Commerce. | The Tulsa delegation will stop here | and North, and sections of Canada. Th: | tour is sponsored by the Tulsa Chamber | to | klahoma and the | (OPEN ENGAMPMENT i |Delegates From 38 States' and Hawaii Are Welcomed { by C. W. Warburton. Delegates to the third national en- | campment of boys and girls'’ 4-H Clubs were welcomed to Washington by C. | W. Warburton, director of extensior | work in the Department of Agriculture |at the opening session of the encamp- | ment in the auditorium of the National | Museum today. | Thirty-eighi States and the Terri-| ! tory of Hawail are represented ay the encampment. Mr. Warburton pointed | jout in his address that the member- | ship in the 4-H Clubs throughout the | country has grown to 700,000. | Every State Has Clubs. “This membership Tepresents every State in the Union and the Terri- tory of Hawaii. The department is | proud of the many notable accomplish- ments made by 4-H club members dur- | ing the past year,” Mr. Warburton | said. Adding: - “The influence of the 4-H Clubs has extended far beyond the United States. | Forelgn educators have visited us in | | considerable numbers of recent years |and have returned home to organize | similar clubs in their own countries. | We may look forward confidently to | greatly increased enrollment both here | at the Sylvan Theater in the evening of July 4. The committee on community par- ticipation will meet. tomorrow at 4 p.m. | in the board room of the District Build- ing, under the chairmanship of Mrs. | Virginia White Speel. There will be & meeting of the execu- | tive committee Priday at 10 a.m. to be presided over by Mr. Colladay. Reports | of all subcommittees will be made then. GEN. DAVIS’ REQUEST TO RETIRE APPROVED President Grants Application of 4th Corps Area Commander to Quit Active Duty. ‘The President today approved the | pplication of Maj. Gen. Richmond P. | Davis, commanding the 4th Corps Area at Atlanta, for transfer to the retired list, effective December 22, after more | than 46 years of active service. Gen. Davis is from North Carolina | and was graduated from the Military | Academy in June, 1887. Assigned to the | Coast Artillery Corps, he reached the | grade of colonel in Jahuary, 1914, Dur- | ing the World War he served as a | brigadier general in the National Army | and was awarded the Distinguished | Service Medal. In the Regular Army | he reached the grade of brigadier gen- | eral in December, 1922, and the grade | of major general in October, 1927. | Memorial Fountain, Gen. Grant, Memn—i »Fran(‘ls Asbury and Edmund Burke, His successor in command of the 4th | contractor do any damage to (he“’m‘med by & Washington newspaper statues he will be required to repair Man. His report will not be complete e e il b | until these have been obtained. : Col. Grant announced the names of | ~Anderson had gone into bankruptcy the statues to be cleaned as follows: Orevious to his trial for non-payment Gen. Andrew Jackson, Gen. Lafayette Of the debt, and after the remark was and compatriots, Rochambeau, Gen. | Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Gen. Baton von | Steuben: Gen, Washington, Gen. John | A. Rawlins. Gen. Winfleld Scott, Abra- | ham Lincoln, the statue in_Lincoln | Park and also the statue at the south front of the Courthouse Building in Judiciary Park; Maj. Gen. James B. McPherson, Gen. Nathanael Greene, | Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, Admirai Farragut, Prof. Joseph Henry, President | Garfleld, Gen. Winfleld Scott Hancock, | L. J. M. Daguerre, Dr. Samuel D, Gross, Daniel Webster, Gen. John A. Logan, | Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, Gen. Albert | Pike, Gen. William T. Sherman, Peace Monument, Gen, McClellan, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, Henry W. Longfellow, John Witherspoon,' Stephenson Grand Army Memorial, - Gen, Count Pulaski, Christopher Columbus, John Paul Jones, Commodore John _ Barry, | Dupont case indefinitely. DAY BOCSTS VERT SHOPWEN' STRKE 9,000 Workers of Southern Railway - Affected by Awards. rial to Nuns of the Battlefield, Serenity, Joseph J. Darlington, Gen. San Martin, ' Wage increases of 6 cents an hour affecting 4,600 men and 5 cents an hour | affecting 4,400 men awarded by a board | of arbitration between the shopmen of the Southern Railway system and the carrier, made effective as of March 1, were announced yesterday. They will D. C. FIRE LOSSES DECREASE $Io’732‘um the shopmen’s strike which was refused to grant requested wage in- | creases. Machinists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, sheet metal workers, electrical workers, | carmen, ~ apprentices and helpers are |affected by the wage increases. The | other employes of the railroad engaged in the transportation end of the busi- Department. The losses in May, 1928, | nogs are not, affected by, the wage in- were $23,893. | During the month there ere 2] STONEES alarms, of which 34 were false and 4 - - were for fires outside of the District. | [Fation, which was made up as follows: Of the fires reported only 123 were | Homer l?lbell and Victor S. Clarke, non- accompanied by property loss. Loss to | PArtisan; R. B. Pegram and L. S. De: buildings was estimated at $7,655 and | I8mus, Tepresenting the railway, an Fire losses in the District during May amounted to $17443, a decrease of $10,732 from the losses the previous | month, which amounted to $28,175, ac- cording to a report filed today by Fire Marshal Leonard V. Seib with George S. Watson, chief engineer of the Fire made, the. trial board postponed the | | Six men composed the board of arbi- | difficulty with three colored men in the | cafe and chased them with a carving | knife into the street, where Washing- ton, an innocent bystander, was await- ing a street car, and mistaking him for | one of his assailants, Tokas stabbed | him. Washington died October 3. As- sistant United States Attorney Walter M. Shea conducted the prosecution. George J. Resser and Theodore R. Benner ‘were sent to the penitentiary for two vears and six months each by Justice Siddons for grand larceny. They took an automobile, which they drove to Cumberland, Md., where they were apprehended A term of two years in the peniten- tiary was imposed on Ulysses Howard, eolored, convicted of joy-riding. ARMY CHANGES NOTED. Col. Jennet Betired—Several Other Officers Reassigned. Col. E. Alexis Jeunet, Quartermastér Corps, recently stationed at Los An- geles, Calif., has been transferred to the retired list on his own applica- tion after more than 30 years' service; Lieut. Col. Charles F. Thompson, In- | fantry, has been relieved from duty as a member of the War Department General Yeerhof, viee president of the Soctai | a\r Station flew-to Chesier b e JRIETIE BOCIEby | to participate in an aerial demonstra- Miss Treudley Is Director. | tion in honor of the awarding of de- Miss Helen M. Treudley has been em- | Brees of doctor of aeronautical sclence ployed as director of the life adjust- | 0 Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet, chief of | | she will give her full time to the work after September 1. Miss Treudley is a psychiatric social worker, who received college training at Hiram College. and Teachers’ College and at Columbiz. Uni- versity. She attended the National School, Young Women’s Christian As- | sociation. in New York City and the | | New York School of Social Work. She | has held responsible Young Women's Christian ~ Association positions in | Cleveland and in Honolulu, and she | spent one year in the Orient. She has ; been identified with social service agen- cies | Washington. Rev. | center as spiritual adviser. He has | made arrangements for the return of | all_members of the staff, who assisted him the past year. They will serve without compensation. They are Dr. W. Sinclair Bowen and Dr. William B Johnson, physicians; Dr. Lueille Dooley, Dr. Amy E. Stannard, Dr. R. W. Hall, Dr. Edith M. Jackson and Dr. Roscoe | G. Sproul, Miss Ella V. Ballard and in Cleveland, New York City and | Lovell heads the work of the | ment_center for the coming year and | the Army Air Corps, and Rear Admiral | Office of co-operative extension work. William 'A. Moffett, chief of the Navy | Bureau of Aeronautics, by the Pennsyl- | vania Military College. Three Army pursuit planes were flown to Chester from Bolling Field, joining there with six observation planes from | Mitchel Field, N. Y., and six bombard- | ment planes from Langley Field, Va.. all under command of Maj. Hugh J. Knerr, | Air_Corps, commanding the 2d Bom- | bardment, Group. Six Navy planes went from the Ana- costia station to take part in formation flying, and Licut. Al Williams went up in his own plane to stage a demonstra- tion of aerial scrobatics. The Army and Navy planes were ordered to ren- dezvous at Mustin Field, Philadelphia naval aircraft factory. The aerial dem- onstration is to begin at 3 p.m., lasting | for 45 minutes. The local planes will return here this afternoon. Albert’ Chalmers Sneed Dies. SEWANEE, Tenn., June 19 (#).—Al- S. Cohen, ‘psychiatrists; Miss Dorothy | bert Chalmers Sneed of Little Rock, | | Ark.. for 35 years director of the Uni- Staff in special charge of the division of | Miss Louise M. Kuglar, religlous and | versity Press of the University of the odi military information, to take effect June_ 30, and assigned to the 39th In- fantry, at the Presidio of San Fran- cisco; Maj. Charles C. Cresson, Judge Agvocate General's Department, at the ar Department, has been ordered to Fort Sam Houston, Tex.; Maj. John N Reynolds, Air from Mitchel Field, N. Y., to Langley Fleld, Va., ef- fective August 2; Capt. Senius J. Ray- mond, Infantry, from Springfield, Mass., to Fort George G. Meade, Md.; Firsl Lieut. Easom J. Bond, Infantry, from George Washington University, - this city, to the 16th Infantry, at Fort Wads- we ¥, TALIAFERRO HAS HOPES. Commissioner Seeks Golf Trophy at Montauk Point. Commissioner Sydney F. Taliaferro is in Montauk Point, N. Y., this week at the convention of the District Bankers' Association. Mr. Taliaferro won the first leg on. the association’s golf trophy last year and he is anxious to obtain permanent possession by winning | social workers; Three Mrs. ‘The life of a rum-runner, now and then, is just one policeman after an- other, It was like that this morning for two, anyhow. They showed their heels to a motor cycle man, eluded a cruising au- tomobile from the Trafic Bureau and came in sight of their destination, only to run afoul of a pair of patrolmen, when they lost their cargo, but pre- served their liberty. “It wasn't a race, it was a relay,” said Policeman Earl L. Baker of No. 2, the ‘mowr cycle man. He had chased the rum car for 30 minutes in a circuitous route about the Northwest section, most of the time running through a smoke screen laid down by the fleeing car. Once, for five blocks, the policeman drove his motor cycle down the side- walk to avold the fumgs in the stree! N amq Mary C. Stevens, South, died Rickoys-sED, L Pilics gt Car and Rum. but Runners Flee streets, followed it to Kingman place, | then across to P and Twentieth streets, FEighteenth street and Columbia road, and finally lost his quarry at Eleventh d Euclid streets, after beckoning the Traffic Bureau officers into the face. The latter men, Sergt. Milton 'B. Smith and L. T. Johnson, never got a clear view of the flecing automobile | and soon lost trace of it in the early { morning mists on Sixteenth street, near Fuller. Tt remained for Policemen J. B. Mon- | roe and B. C. Cook of No. 8 precinct | to complete the job. They sighted the | car in the 2500 block of Sherman ave- nue, saw it pull up before a garage and ran’ up to the machine. Two colored men leaped out and escaped on foot. ‘The automobile was confiscated, along with 180 gallons of Maryland whisky, iand abroad and tb frequent interna- | tional competitions between rural boys | and girls of every country.” | ‘Washington and its many points of | interest was discussed by C. B. Smith, | | chief of the Agriculture Department An illustrated address was delivered at the opening session by Knowles Ryer- i son, chief of the Bureau of Foreign Plant Introduction, who told of the extensive work of the Department of Agriculture in efforts to discover and obtain foreign plants for introduction in this country. Often, he sald, some | of the research men sent out by the | department spend much of their time in jall, because in certain countries | the "people “just can’t believe” that a man is roaming through the country | merely looking for plants. | ! Visit Experimental Farm. The delegates are spending this aft- | ernoon on an educational tour to the ! Department of Agriculture Experimental | | Farm at Beltsville, Md. There they will | | be addressed by men in charge of the work of scientific experiments which are being conducted with a view to! bringing about the production of better | | live " stock, crops and poultry: They | will be served a picnic dinner at the | farm, all of the products of which were | grown at the farm. A campfire service | at the camp tonight will close the days’ | activities. Tomorrow morning, the speaker at| assembly, which is to be held at the | National Museum, will be John Alex- | ander of the American Youth Founda- | tion. The boys and girls will visit| Washington Cathedral tomorrow. { {NATIONAL GUARD GIVEN | TROPHY FOR-ATTENDANCE The District of Columbia National Guard was presented with a trophy, to be given each year to the company having the best attendance at the ar- mory drill, by the District of Columbia ' | Department of the Veterans of Foreign | | Wars, at a ceremony last night at the | east front of the Capitol. { Capt. Frank Lockhead, department | | commander of the Veterans of Foreign | Wars, made the presentation and Maj. | Gen.' Anton Stephan, commander of the " District of Columbia National Guard, accepted the trophy. Music was furnished by the 131st Engineers Band and the Veterans of :m'e\ln ‘Wars Overgjias Drum and Bugle Corps Area has not yet been announced. ' AWAII the Hawalian delegation {o the third national Boys' and Girls' & welcomed to the Capital by Miss States. Left jo right: Miss Reese; Koichi of Maul,jand Hong Chang Wong, assist- Photo shows 4-H Club camp -bein; in charge of work in the Western Tto, 4-H CI from Isla) SENDS 4-H DELEGATE to contents at $9.788. Harry J. Carr and F. H. Snites, repre- senting the shopmen. The shopmen took a strike vote in | March and then, with officials of the railway, agreed to leave the question before a board of arbitration. Under the ruling of the board of arbitration, the men teceive about thiree and a half months’ back pay, represent- ing the amount of increase awarded by the board. C. OF C. GROUP TO STUDY SCHOOL HEALTH REPORTS Committee Will Consider Results of Inspections Tomorrow; Avia- tion Group Meets Friday. Reports on school medical inspection in Washington and the proposed con- solidation of all health activities of the Federal Government under one agency, will be considered by the public health committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce at a meeting tomorrow noon. Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, director of the Instructive Visiting Nurses Society, and Arthur C. Christie will sub- mit reports at the meeting, which will | be conducted by Wallace Hatch, com- | mittee chairman. The aviation committee of the chamber, of which Lieut. Walter Hin- ton is ‘chairman, will meet in the chamber offices Friday noon to consider 8 number of proposed air mail and passenger routes. PUGH TO GET WINGS. Chevy Chase Youth Will Be Grad- uated at Flying School. Charles Francis .Pugh, son of Mrs. E. L. Pugh of Chevy Chase, Md., wili be one of the graduates of the Army Alr Corps' Advanced Flying School at Kelly Field, Tex., Saturday. He is to be commissioned a second lieutenant in the Alr Corps and will be assigned to duty at Mitchel Field, N. Y. Lieut. Pugh has been a life-long resi- dent of Montgomery County and was known as an athlete in high school ana at the University of Maryland. He is the second member of his family to ! sion. During discussion of the measure in the House two weeks ago several mems bers insisted that the Airport Com- mission should disclose what land it proposed to acquire for airport develop- ment. The attitude of the commission has been that it would not decide on the site for the airport until after the funds were available, believing that in this way they would be saving a consid- erable amount through not giving an opportunity for real estate speculation. WIFE ASKS HUSBAND BE FREED OF CHARGE | Action Comes After Spouse Refused to Prosecute Her for Shooting i Him in Court. i Refusal of her husband to prosecute a charge of ‘assault with intent to kill lodged against her when she shot him | in a corridor of the Police Court Build- i ing. led Mrs. May C. Brown, depart- | ment store clerk ‘of the 800 block of | C street northeast. to request dismissal | of statutory charges which were lodged iagnlmt him on her complaint and ous | of which the shooting grew. | _In October, 1927, Mrs. Brown pre- | ferred ~statutory charges against her husband, Charles A. Brown of the first block of C street, following his arrest | with Mrs. Lillian Johnson, co-defend- 1 ant. Yesterday Assistant United States | Attorney Joseph C. Bruce was informed {in 4 letter from Mrs. Brown that she | “will not appear” t Brown. Bruce | said ti he would take the proposal | under “advisement.” In expressing her wish to drop the | charges, Mrs. Brown is exercising the rivilege of a wife to refuse to give | information which may tend to In- | criminate her husband. The change of mind comes at a late date, however, as | Brown has appeared in court seven !times to answer the charge, but the | case was continued until recently, when | it went to trial and a jury disagreed, | causing a mistrial. Continued four: times, the delay | aroused Mrs. Brown to anger, as her husband emerged from the court- room she shot him three times, serious- | ly wounding him. \PETWORTH CITIZENS PLAN JULY 4 FETE | | Celebration Will Last All Day, ‘ With Events at Barnard Playground. Announcement of a Fourth of July | celebration to last all day was made at the meeting of the Petworth Citi- zens' Association in Petworth School | last night. The all-day celebration will | be featured by athletic events at the Barnard School playgrounds, followed by a community base ball game in the afternoon. A dance orchestra will play at Sherman Circle in the evening. | _ A resolution was passed disapproving | District Auditor Donovan’s five-year budget plan in that “it is predicated upon the continuation of the $9,000,000 lump sum contribution by the Federal Government,” which the association considered inadequate. Copies of the resolution, which included suggestions of the association, were forwarded to the Commissioners and the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. The formation of & Junior Citizens' Association in Petworth was urged by John R. Small, secretary of the Junior Forum of Columbia Heights. The schools committee was authorized to co-operate with other agencies to see that the school playgrounds remain open_for the use of children during the Summer vacation. BURROUGHS ASSOCIATION NAMES FIRST OFFICERS Officers of the newly organized Bur- roughs Citizens' Association were elected last night at a meeting in the John Burroughs School. They are: Willlam E. Rabenhorst, president; Mrs. Lillian Armstrong, vice president: J. A. Koons, secretary, and Ira G. Blumer, treasurer, The citizens also adopted a constitu- tion and voted to co-operate with other civic organizations in arranging-a July 4 celebration. ‘The question in regard to the pro- posed removal of the seventh and eighth grades from the John Burroughs School to the Langdon School was re- ferred to the committee on education. The following citizens constituted the original 13, who were instrumental in the formation of the new association: R. M. Furniss, Mrs. B. A. Furniss, Fred C. Hicks, Mrs. Fred C. Hicks, Raymond K. Ashmun, Ruth M. Ashmun, Madge J. Reese, who is | adopt aviation as a 'r. _An older brother, Lieut. Edward L. Pugh, is a Marine Corps pilot. who has fust been Mrs. R. K. Lynt, Mrs. R. K. Lynt, Geol L. Gee, Raymond Lee Gilbert, John Kemper. Mrs. Louis De Ladurantaye, J.