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|to make his selections with a view to 2 00 FARM BOARD READY TOTACKLE AID TASK Hoover to Address Group at First Meeting Monday at White House. By the Assoclated Press. For the first time in nearly a decade of political agitation, eongressional dis- putes and legislative stalemates, the Federal Government i readv to attack the problem of agricultural relief on & basis of concrete reality. ‘The Federal Farm Board, complete except for one member, will hold its first meeting on Monday at the White House. President Hoover will attend and start the new governmental agency on its way with a short address—in- trusting to it the task of leading the farming industry from the slough of depression that for years has held it. Hoover Has Acted Carefully Mr. Hoover frankly considers the board the most importent body ever established to assist a single Americen industry. With this thought in mind he has given particular care to the se- lection of its members, has scanned long lists of recommended appointees and consulted the wishes of farming organizations representing every section of the country. He has, however, found it impossible the geographical distribution of the board's members because the new farm | relief law requires that each of thel major branches of agriculture shall be represented. He draws considerable satisfaction from the fact that all of the appointees were born and reared | on farms and that all but one, the representative of business and finance, have been actively engaged in farming for many years. As it will meet on Mondgy, the board will be composed of Alexanter H. Legge of Chicago, chairman, representing gen- eral business; James C. Stone of Lex- ington, Ky., vice chairman, representing tobacco; Carl Willlams of Oklahoma City, cotton: C. B. Denman of Farming- ton, Mo.. live stock; Charles I. Teague of Los Angeles, fruit growing; Willlam P. Schilling of Northfield, Minn,, dairy- ing; Charles S. Wilson of Hall, N. Y., spokesman for the miscellaneous agri- cultural interests of the Northeast. and | Secretary Hyde, who holds membership by virtue of his position as head of the Agriculture Department. Two Already in Capital. Legge and Williams already have ar- rived in Washington and conferred at length with President Hoover. Most of the others are expected to reach the city by tomorrow night, with all present when Legge calls the meeting to order on Monday morning. Although facing as its most momen- tous task a crisis in the wheat marketing situation, the board will be without a representative of that phase of farming at the first session. The President ex- pects to announce the appointment of a. wheat spokesman within a few days thereafter, however. He has been hav- ing considerable difficulty in the selec- tion of a grain men, due, it is said, to a difference of opinion among the farm- ers’ organizations, as well as to his own insistence that the appointee be quali- fled in every way to represent this branch of agriculture. ‘The attitude of the board toward its task, as reflected in what its members have said, is that it must help the farmers to help themselves, that it can lend a guiding hand, but that agricul- ture must not look upon it as an unfail- ing panacea for all its ills. Already, Secretary Hyde and others| have noted what they termed a “psycho- | logical effect” upon farmers, and the| administration is confident that the| newly constituted agency will ac-| complish the task et for it. DRY AGENTS HELD FOR MURDER TRIAL AFTER TWO SLAIN (Continued From First Page.) Harris declared the raider had given no explanation of his presence at their home and that they had concluded he was intoxicated. The raider shot at her husband through & door, Mrs. Harris testified, and then went into the houss where James Har- 7is was getting a shotgun shell from trunk, her husband picked up a shot- gun standing in a corner, she related, and ran from the house, loadjng the gun as he went. Turning in the yard, she continued, her husband fired one shot. Jeff Harris ‘was struck in the face by several shot and appeared in court with his heaa still heavily bandaged. Her husband then ran across a small creek back of the house, she testified. Jeff Harris then shot Lowery, who, she said, had been sitting or stending on the back porch all of the time. Her brother, who was unarmed, threw up his hands and pleaded for mercy, Mrs. Harris said. Followed Husband. Mrs. Harris said she followed her husband, shoudnie!.hat the raider was an officer and begging him to sur- render. Jsmes Harris then started to Teturn to the house, she said, throwing down his gun and raising his hands. She turned back toward the house, she said, and hearing two shots turned to see Jeff Harris and Thomason drag- g her husband from the bushes at e edge of the creek. It was testified that Thomason ar- rived at the Harris house after Lowery {later to zero, was finally signed here | fight for freedom. GERMANY AGREES TOPAY FOR MARKS 37 Annuities to Belgian | | Government. | By Cable to The Star and the New York | Herald-Tribune. BRUSSELS, July 13—The German- Belgian agreement over the German paper currency lef; in Belgium during | the war, the value of which shrank at 10 am. today. The signatures which brought to 2n end the long-standing dispute between Berlin and Brussels | over restitution for the depreeiated marks were affixed by Camille Gutt, | second Belgian delegate at the recent conference of reparstions experts in Paris, and Theodore Ritter, prominent German business man, the two nego- | tiators appointed by their respective ! | countries to bring an end to the cen- | troversy which at one moment appeared | as a serious obstacle to a& successful | issue to the reparations eonlere_':ce,; which terminated in Paris early last 37 Annual Payments Pledged. | According to terms of the agreement | signed today, Germany pledges the | peyment of 37 annuities for the redemp- | tion of the old marks. The first an: nuity, dating from September 1, 1829, to March 31, 1930, is so fixed as to | coincide with the first partial annuity | of the Young plan and will amount | to 16,200,000 matks ($3,865,000). - e will follow three full annuities | of 21500,000 marks ($3,117,000) each eand then eight annuities of 26,000,000 marks ($6,188,000) from April, 1933, to March, 1941. Thereafter will come eight more annuities of 20,100,000 marks (84,783,800) each, followed finally by 17 annuities of 9,300,000 marks (82,213,- 400). The concluding payment will be due March 31, 1966. Thus the annuities in form coincide exactly with the dates of the first 37 Young plan annuities. The actual value | of today’s accord amounts to 320.000,000 ' marks ($76,160,000), or 70,000,000 marks ($16,660,000) less than Belgium claimed during the conference of reparations | experts as her minimum. Payments Are Unconditional. The Germans give the important | pledge to make these payments uncon- ditionally, and if the necessity of declar- ing & moratorum on the Young plan payments arises to continue to meet the fi;!gim mark debt by deliveries in At the same time there was signed in Berlin today a German-Belgian agree- ment for the liquidation of German roperties sequestered after the war. S two more vexing post-war sources of friction in Europe-are removed and it Temains now only for the agreements to be ratified by the German Reichstag and the Belgian Parliament. (Cepyright, 1920.) PROPERTY AGREEMENT REACHED. | Belgium Agrees to Renounce Claims to Land. BERLIN, July 13 () —Coincident had been shot. led that night and Lowery| g the next day. ‘Wade Willand, proprietor of a_ hotel at Shawnee, who drove by the Harris home soon after the shooting, said he did not see any signs of liquor in the Harris home. He made a point of in- vestigation, he said, after Jeff Harris had told him that he shot because the farmer had run into the house to pour out liquor. George Ady, a Shawnee real estate dealer, testified that Jeff Harris cursed him when he ventured to ask about the killing. ~Ady also drove by the house soon after the shooting. ug:dcy Lowery, brother Ty, from his deathbed that Jeff “ghot me down like a dog,” when the victim had both of his hands in the INDIAN WOMAN’S GOLD AIDS RED AND WHITE | un the with the agreement in Brussels on the erman marks question, negotiations in this city urmdm: the release of German in Belgium have ly concluded. Effective as of June 7, the date of the signing of the Young plan in Paris, Belgium renounces the right to liquidate or to retain all German-owned - ties in that country. She also surren- of Versailles trade-marks and . nts by German owners, who back but have not e money for it, are canceled. Settlement for German erties which have alr dated and some other will be arr: by the Young plan goes in entire ent made here synchro- nizes as to effect with the Young plan. Birds Speedier Than Planes, ‘That swallows fly three times faster dknl‘n‘rd German been ilar details, Made Wealthy by Lead and Zinc : Mines, Mrs. Corbett Helps ‘Worthy Charities. month. | 8f ders a right con't:rred under the treaty | itself THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Dolores Del Ris, who left Mexico for screenland in quest of moving picture fame, is shown placing 2 wresth on the statue in the Pan-American Union of Benito Pablo Jnarez, the herolc Mexican who led his countrymen in —Star Staff Photo. CANADIAN PROTEST ON TARIFF IS DENIED Treaty Célls for Payment of Stimson Says Massey Has; Not Taken Step, Clashing With Borah Statement. | (Conf ed Fry First Page) Canadian Minister or any representa- tive of the Canadian government to me or to any representative of this Gov- ernment. “ ‘There has been absolutely no such protest or threat or any mention of such a subject at all that I know of, and I think I would know of it if it had been m. “‘I wish to emphasize this because the Canadian government has been most scrupulously correct and careful in respect to any comment on our tariff or tariff making. They have absolutely avoided anything in the nature of prov- ocation “‘The same is true cf the British. I am speaking of both parties to the alleged story.’ 's Statement. A few hours later the following came from Senstor Borah's office: “Secretary Stimson’s statement clari. fles the atmosphere, all along that se supposed protests from Canada originated in the United tates. It was the old reciprocity spirit revived. We now learn authoritatively that Canads has made no protest and has no protest; that.she. in fact, ex- pects us to make our tariff according to What we deem to be nur best interest.’” The statement was dictated by Sen- ator Borah to newspaper men. It was regarded as not without bearing on the tariff debate in Congress, since it is expected to line Senator Borah up with those who would silence any argument against & specific schedule on the ground of possible injury to interna- tional good will between this country and its neighbor to the north. As Canada is one of our principal customers, Democrats and insurgent Republicans Bpve been planning to make much of a protest from that country. Up to now Senator Borah has been lining up in tariff debates with the coalition of Democrats and in- surgent Republicans. GEORGE MAKES STATEMENT. Would Study Underlying Beasons for Foreign Protests on Tariff, By the Associated Press. Senator George, Democrat, of Georgia, in a formal statement yes- terdey declared Congress and the ad- ministration in framing the tariff bill should consider the effect an excessively h tariff structure will have upon public opinion in other countries. “I do mot put as much emphasis,” his statement said, “upon a2 mere pro- test by foreign governments against our tariff policies as seems to be placed upon such protests by others, but the matter of particular importance is not the mere protest against our tariff licy, as teflected in the House bill, t the reason underlying the protest. “The nations have been brought so close together until the effect of a pub- Bglylcb 1.‘5"!111; lzrll'l.lu‘?u S:;Al funuvom- ably res of opinion in other countries, and protests filed with the State Department and voiced in oreign press against ex- cessively high dutles in the House bill are but the reflection of the of the masses of the nations by their official representatives. “In other words, a protest against tariff duties regarded as unreasonable now reflected in the opinion of masses of the people, and it is the build- ing up of an adverse public in of countries which should address adimin! people in shaping our present tariff.” POLICEMAN ‘RESIGNS’ BECAUSE OF CHARGE| S Captain in Kansas City Force Is Dismissed After Robbery Implication. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, July 13.—Cept. Wil- liam Wiebold, of the Kansas City Police force, handed in his late their | EMBITTERS BRITAIN 1Smoot’s Gibe at Foreign Pro- tests Adds to Resent. ment Felt in England. BY A. G. GARDINER, Noted Liberal British Editer. By Radio to The Stay. LONDON, July 13.—Senator Smoot's | gt B e 2 i inst e 1 new tarif? is one of these unror:tuuh re- | marks that add resentment to the grave slarm which the new tariff I Taised this still pall itus are | sufficiently regrettable without the salt| of ridicule being rubbed ints the wound. ‘The ruthless character of the proj revives all the latent bitterness the public mind in regard settlement and the fact that the annusl tribute paid to the United States is one of the chief causes of the prosperous condition of industry in that country. Heover-MzcDonald Parley Mensced. If the intention of ths suthors of the new tfariff were to prejudice the hopetul tions bstween President Hoover Premier MacDonald in re- 15 the solution of the naval prob- could not be better recognized that th: versy. The affair is naturally haile satisfaction by the reactionary party, | which, for 2 quarter of a century, has been waging a ceassless campa! for destruction of the free trade policy of this country. Having failled repeatedly in frontal attacks, they, during the Parliament, adopted the poliey of nil bling at free trads by the safeguarding expedient. It was applied to no staple industry but to numerous small com- modities, such as lace. gloves and silk, in hopes that the policy would under- mine the system and peave the way to & complete overthrow of free trade. e recent election, however, was s smashing blow to this design, and the first act of Philip Snowden, as chan- cellor of the ex er, was to indi- cate that all safeguarding provisions would be duly sbolished, In the House of Commons this week his action was challenged by the pro- tectionists, who suffered a crushing de- l‘e':: in debate and the subsequent divi- ! sion. | But in spite of this, it is undeniable | that the American tariff proposals have given new life to the protectionist cause and the conservatives lament that the | scheme followed the election instead of | preceding it, for on the present wave | of feeling the protectionists would eer- tainly have improved their position in the House. Try to Stampede Baldwin. In view of that wave, the extreme protectionists are engeged in an at- tempt to stampede Stanley Baldwin into a general tariff proclamation in preparation for the next election, which can be forced at any moment The scheme takes the form of a revival | lot ug\r Austen Chamberlain's imperial policy. While French trade associations are | ment in order to wage & war on | the United States, the*British protec- tionists advocate a customs union for free trade within the British Empire and tariffs against the external world. The chief motive power of this crusade comes from Lord Beaverbrook and the Rothermere press, and the object is to unseat Stanley Baldwin as the leader of the Conservative party and convert the into a fra protectionist party under the leade of Arthur Neville Chamberlain, M. P., and former minister of health. The menace of a big scale tariff war, with, the world mobilized into three great groups, European, American and British, tends to consolidste Labor- Liberal sentiment behind the govern- ment, for the danger provides an ur- gent and common d for action. ‘The more the Conservatives concen- trate on protection, the more the Lib- are concerned to maintein Pre- mier MacDonald in office, for devotion to free trade is the most distinctive plank in the Liberal platform. Snewden Loyal to Free Trade. Fortunately the imperial conference called for next year will, most unlikely happenings, meet under the mlp gmvden. whose loy- seriously &?:fl:&&t ?ntmum e?‘:u.nung trade to British manufacturers and the British e have never wavered in their hos Hts;l to fo'od n‘m vmx:lut mw(u-%m.r }%.) . ¥ o {SEVENTH FLORIDA Bank the | & Trust, Jackson ! BANK IS CLOSED First National of Sanford in Con- troller's Hands to Protect Depositors. By the Associated Press. First National Bank of Sanford, Fla., was put into the hands of the con- notice on the door said it closed for “protection of all depositors.” It was the cldest bank in Seminole County. The First National Bank was the to close within the past eight days. The others were Merchants' Bank & Beach; Volusia County Bank & Trust and First Nationsl Delend; Colonial & Trust, !I“Y:l-lul; People’s Bank e. Bank, Bertow; First National Lake- land; First National, Auburndale, and State Bank, Winterhaven. proposing a European customs agree- | - tarift tree | Boustng JACKSONVILLE, Fla., July 13.—The | school troller of currency today and atiesin seventh finencial institution in Florids | ;v D. C, JULY 14 PORTABLE SCHOOL SHOWN AS COSTLY Survey Reveals Economic Advantage of Permanent Eight-room Buildings. (Continued From First Page) their findings to the municy tect Wednesday and upon t report will be based the school board’s future poliey in dealing with overcrowding in the schools. No Saving to Taxpayers. ‘Whether these two studies result in | the banishment of portable school- in Capital cannot be fore- | houses cast at this time, but the cost com- of the two types of class uav;scxgmz doubt '.bv.:;; '.g; taxpayers an ess are saving B et R T s -an s sagging, vibrating, daylight-admitting oL umitine) emginiers Tt week eers last week. M to tebulstions made with figures supplied by school dfficials and by the municipal architect’s office, rtable school classroom facilities for 20 pupils actually cost 58.1 per cent of Lfl total expenses incurred by a typical eight-room building of perma- nent construction during the 12-year elapsed hetv&e‘:n the paring prices and costs of permanent schools and the portables such factors as the utter lack of facili- the *‘temporary” which are found in the permanent structures must bs c . A eight-room school unit of “the type which was being erected when the port- ables were bought, contains eight class- rooms on its two main floors and 2 15 | Trust, Atlantic Bank & Trust, Daytons |.OF i1 then fl,fl&, $0 that the mzv’t‘fi':d k}vutg;nz totaled $127,000 and 7O for 3 L A portable ne.h::lg\‘lu is ene room 1 archi-' permanent | 1929—PART 1. | variation or slight incresse in this cal- | culation would be offset in an average | 2ccount by a reduction in the repairs the heating system which, in the Blair School, was slightly above average. Repairs Record Unavailable. | A complete record of the repairs to | portable buildings is not available but estimates of the expense involved in moving the portable structures from |one site to another were used in the tabulation. These expenses include re- placement of timbers, glass and roof- |ing when the transfers sre made. Ac- | cording to the repeir mo&ngum the | average cost of moving & ‘sle portable | during the 12 yers was 50. When | the structures were new one could be moved a short distance for as little as {8300 while today, with increasingly more replacements and repairs incident | to the transfer, the cost ranges between | 4850 and, occasionally, $1,000. | Repair shop records indicate that each of the portables has been moved |at least six times. Hence, on the basis | of six transters for eight buildings, the ! tabulation includes an item of $26,400. Without even attempting to include in- | cidental repairs of 2ge from storms or wear and tear du & portable’s location at & given site, the uj estimated 2t $26.4 ce the repair to the permanent unit —$18.500—by nearly $10,000. Toilet facilities for portable buildings are independent units, unheated and erected outside the classroom buildings not unlike the similer facilities in rural regions. These units include also an | adjacent out-of-door bubble fountain and an old-fashioned hydrant. These plants cost on an average of $1,600 when installed and, adding $500 for rePIus during the 12-year period—an allowance which Maj.” Wilmerth de- clares is ‘“conservative” —the total average cost is brought to $2,100. Each f these plumbing units accommodates four classrooms so that the facilities provided 320 pupils would represent an investment of $4,200. classrcom sccommodations for 320 pupils in portables total $86,120. while classroom sccommodations, as well 2s playrooms in the permanent struce tures for the same number of puplls, total $147,900. Comparison of Costs. If the difference in facilities between | the two types of schoolhousss is to be | given a money value it can be done on the basis of comparable costs. A playroom in a brick building is the same size as a classroom with the cloake room pertition removed, so that two | more portables would be added to the unny used for play purposes, would add an additional $7,200 outlay. Heating these would add another and another item of $4,200 for moving timbers. would bring the portable school layout to & point where it could be compared with even an approach to fairness to the regulation school, adds 819,680 to the actual classroom expenses, m: - able building accommodation for 320 pupils $105,800. SH S fa permanent oo aomparal - struction. Must Be Listed as Loss. Against the $42,100 difference must be considered the fact that the per- manent building still is performing per- fect service, sound and safe, and its interior still warm in Winter and, by . | reason of its masonry walls, &5 cool as ted building could be in PA. best bles, on hich | of eorrection to their immediate supe- the | rors, Those officers, the field supervis- extra rooms $5,880 for the 12-year period, | gh Upper: Isolated Agfllp of portables in exclusive Wesley Heights, where they 2re perched upor = hiliside. One of | the group lost a section of its wall ""I 2 recent Center: Typical set-up of unhoused bubble fountsin and old-fashioned hy.| rural toilet house at left The little .“cannen stove” with a sheet Jacket encircling it. -—~Star Staft Photos. |W'LEAN DENIES POST |TO BE SOLD TO HEARST | | Rumors Answered by Owner of | Paper Likely Started by i Increase in Price. A dental of rumors that the Waching- 1 | ton Post will be sold to William Ran- dolph Hearst and merged with the| Washington Herald has been we-’ graphed from Celifornia by Edward B. | McLean, owner of the Post. The tele- gram is as follows: | “Los Angeles, Calif, July 9. | “Management, the Washington Post: “Inform personnel of Post that the paper is not for sale, never has been |2nd, so far as I can for see, never will ' “EDWARD B. MCLEAN, g Ercadent aod Publisher” This telegram has been t 1 | every de ent of the Post g;smhur | | D- uu&, business manesger of the paper. Rumors have been current for se eral days that the two morning news. | papers of Washington would be com. | bined. It is believed that they may have | arisen from the fact that the Post and the Herald simultaneously increased their prices from 2 cents to 3 cents for street sales a few days 280. ———e grounds serve only to congest playroom and toilet facilities in thoee structures, while the pleyground itself, proportioned for the number of children the per- manent building can accommodats, is crowded with additional children even though the play space is reduced by the presence of the portables. Probing Transportation Cost. The isolated portable groups are set up generally to meet congestion ht about by new residential devel- opment in the outh areas of the city. It is the possibility of economic unsoundness which prompted Dr. Frank 'W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, 0 sppeint the committee of schocl of- ficers to study the relative costs of bus tion to permanent schools and costs of continued portable main- tenance. This committee, of which RHINELAND RULE FIGHT TO GONTINUE Stresemann Reiterates Stand Against “Vicious” Political Survival, Special Dizpeich to The Star. BERLIN, July 13.~Ths unwavering' determingtion of the German govern- ment to insist on the return of the Rhineland to complete German sov- ereignty unimpaired by any sart of con- trol eommission as the price cf its ac- ceptance of the Young olan, finds ex- pression today in the uttarances of the Reich’s leading statesmen. Dr. Gustav Stregemann, forelgn minister, whs took a strong stand on this subject in his Reichstag speech of June 24, reiterates in an interview which the Frankfuerter Zeitung publishes today, his oppesiton to the French demand for 2 commissicn of control. “There is no possibility of & change in Germany’s attitude on this point.” he declares. He calls the pro- posed conetituticn of 2 commission of contre! “nothing else but vicious, a sur- vival of a politiael epoch which for a long time has been out of date.” Dr. Stresemann asserts aiso that such 2 body “could be used as a tool for all possible underhand tricks. For instance, 2gainst the reasonsble expansion of in- dustry in this grea.” Means of Prevention. France, the German minister insiste, can find ample of pre- venting the demiliterization clauses of the treaty of Versailles from being vis- lated by means of ordinary proe cesses of diplomacy or by the con: tion commission set up under the treaty of Locarno. Dr. Stresemann’s remark that “all ,| the political parties in Germany have placed themselves back of this opinion™ finds emphatic support in the exchange of letters between the }F“th! Ludwig Kaaz, lesder of the tholi perty, and ex:chanc:‘. delegetion conference g reparations Speaking for his party, Dr. Kaas writes, “The Center party will take up 8 position of sharpest opposi- ton to any German government which makes a compromise on the subject of the permanent control commission.” Dr. Wirth in his reply writes that the control commission advocated by the French would form the most violent at- tack possible on the suthority of the League of Nations in its task of main- taining peace,” and stigmatizes it as “a blow ggainst Germany's right com- parable only to the invasion of the Ruhr. The publication of these letters has excited constdersble speculation in litical quarters and is evidently designed to strengthen the backbone of the Ger- man Government sgainst any possibil- ity of yielding. Since the defection of the Center party would mean the down- fall of the cabinet. it becomes obvious that unless the idea of a permanent contrel commission functio: beyond 1935 is dropped by the Quai 'say the Young plan has little chance of win- ring the consent of the German gov- ernment and none at all of obtaining the approval of the Reichstag, (Copyright, 1929.) —_— HOOVER ASSURES STUDENTS OF LOAN OF "POSSUM MASCOT (Continued From First Page) ation for your kindness in acceding to our request for the use of the White House opossum as 2 mascot during the closing weeks of schocl. Having won successfully a Prince Georges County high school championship in soccer, basket ball, track and base ball this year, we cannot fail to appreciate the ' value of this little animal as a pur- vevor of good fortune. “Atcordingly, we have restored Billy Possum to the keeping of the White House in the hope that he will brin you full measure of good luck, trusting. however, that with your kind permission we may sgain be honored with his effective leadership in our athletic pro- gram next Fall.” ‘The President's reply, written per- sonally by him in pen and ink, follows: x Desr Robert: “I am glad to have vour formal re- port of tha efficiency of Billy Opossum —it will be incorporated into his service Maj. Wilmarth is chairman, has not yet delved deeply into its assignment, but its report will be made, it is believed. before the first meeting of the Board of Education in September. At pres- ent the committee is ewaiting bids from bus transporting concerns. The members of the committee in- clude Robert L. Haycock, S. M. Ely, . C. E. A. Clark, Harry O. Hine, . W. eal A;.erl:\ummer, W. B. | Patterson snd L. L. ‘The committee appointed by Albert L. Harris, municipal architect, to in- spect the portables, at the request of the school board, discovered conditions which to the lay observer seemed to in- dicate lack of repair as well as deterio- ration through use and age. The Dis- trict repair shop, while the agency which executes the actual repair work on all school buildings, never has been charged with the responsibility of mainteining close inspection. Similarly, no school system officer ever was sad- dled with that duty, since nons had time for that sort of work in addition o his office duties. Repairs were made by the repair shop after teachers in the portables reported a condition in need principals, in turn forwarded the guue for repair to Maj. Wilmarth, .who then transmitted it to the repair 0p. Defects Uncovered. Such defects as those uncovered by the inspectors last week when board sheathing was ripped off to expose badly rotted and worm-eaten support- would not normally be " | in the Spring. record. Precautions will be taken to meintain his health and spirits for the further nsed of the Prince George’s County high school teams. Yours faithfully, “HERBERT HOOVER.” Came to Hoover as “Stray.” The loan of “Billy” to the school came about in an interesting way early When Robert and som of the other students read in the news. papers that an opostum had strayed into the rear grounds of the White House and was being cared for there in the cage of “Rebecca,” President Coolidge's pet raccoon. under the in- structions of President Hoover, they thought that the animal might be their own pet opossum which was being utilized as a mascot and which had dis- appeared about that time. When the President was advised of this he invited the boys to come to the White House and determine if the animal was theirs. Investigation developed that it was not their missing mas: and upon learning. of the youngsters' disappointment, President Hoover offered them the Ow 28 & mascof June Circulation Daily... 103,999 Sunday; 108,968 strict of Columbis. ss.: PN NEWROLD. Business Manazer AN that the actusl numb er_named sold and dig- nta of June, A. Goes 20 Femaay swe of copies of the pi tributed during *l 1929, was as follo Des. 3 H I 7 s 0 1 3 1 H ! 1 Less adfustments......... 4 Total daily net circulation o Brszase dady net paid circulation, 102! ly_sverage number of copies for service, - ete.......... Average Sunday ngt ciregiation sed and smorn"t5 Selore B mfis 47 198 arm 7. youwr.