Evening Star Newspaper, August 6, 1929, Page 13

The WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1929. Foening Stas. WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¥ PAGE 13 WEST APPOINTED 10 GOUNSEL POST VACATED BY HART New Assistant Is Man of Wide Experience, Having Served as U. S. Attorney. RECOMMENDED BY BRIDE AND JUSTICE VAN ORSDEL Received Degree From Georgetown and Served on Faculty of Na- tional University Law School. Vernon Eskridge West, a former as- Bistant Unfted States attorney, was ap- pointed by the District Commissioners today to succeed Ringgold Hart as first essistant corporation counsel for the The appointment is effective October . Mr. Hart's retirement is effective ' @eptember 1, but he is now on leave. He will reengage in private practice. The new assistant corporation coun- #el 18 & man of wide experience in liti- tion involving District matters, both | g connection with his former position { as first assistant United States attorney | from January, 1922, until August, 1925, and in a long range of private practice Tpon his resignation from the District sttorney's office he became associated | with the law firm of R. Goldeh Donald- #son and Hayden Johnson. Recommended by Bride. His appointment was made on the recommendation of W. W. | New Legal Aid V. BOY, 5, IS KILLED RUNNING INTO CAR Seven Others, Three of Them Children, Are Injured in Traffic Accidents. E. WEST. poration counsel, who has known him/| seven other persons, three of them personally for 25 vears: Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel of the District Supreme Court, and others, familiar with his notable record as a lawyer. ‘Mr. West was born July 24, 1886, at- tended the public schools in the District of Columbia, and received his LL. B. degree in 1908 from the Georgetown University Law School. man year at the law school he won the rize for highest scholastic standing in class and ranked second and tnird i i children, were hurt less serjously in a series of traffic accidents on Washing- | ton streets late yesterday. Willlam Russell West, 5 years old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank West of 26 I street, ran into the side of an In his fresh-i automobile driven by Policeman John A. Burgess, 24 years old. of the sixth precinct, yesterday afternoon about during the two succeeding years. After | 1:15 o'clock in front of the house of being admitted to the bar in 1908 Mr. ‘West returned to the Georgetown Law School, obtaining a graduate degree the following year. For the last 10 vears e has been on the faculty of National Tniversity Law School as professor of insurance law. Handled Noted Cases. As attorney for the plaintiff Mr. West argued the case of Knox vs Rudolph, in which the Borland paving amend- { o ment was held not to apply to suburban | He was also | property in the District. assoclated with the late A. S. Worthing- ton in the well known case of Heald vs. the District of Columbia, in which 1% was sought to have declared uncon- stitutional the intangible tax law of the District. When the case reached the Supreme Court of the United States for . the second time Mr. Worthington had giied and Mr. West conducted it alone. He was first assistant United States attorney under Peyton Gordon, now a of the District Supreme Court, and at one time served as secretary to Justice Van Orsdel. During his three years’ service in the district attorney’'s office he prosecuted unassisted all the civil cases referred to that office. One of the most prominent of the Govern- ment cases he defended was the suit ‘brought to enjoin the Secretary of the Navy from sinking the battleship Wash- | ington pursuant to the limitations of arms treaty. Mr. West residesat 23 Hesketh street, Chevy CI , Md., and has his law of- fices in the Commercial National Bank Bullding. HELD FOR FRAUD, | WOMAN IS SILENT Miss HoweHTfie;; to Discuss Offenses With Which She Is Charged. A% efforis of detectives to locate the ‘thousands of dollars which Miss Elzina TFowells, 48, of 2505 Thirteenth street, is ajley to have obrained through swindling operations here, have proved unsuccessful as the woman today passed her sixth day in the House of Detention in absolute silence concerning the of- | fenses with which she is charged. Miss Howells was arrested last Thurs- day. She has readily admitted that she ‘was born in California 48 years ago and that her parents are dead and she has 1o living relative, but Headquarters De- tectives Ira Keck and B. W. Thompson of the bad check squad have been un- able to elicit any information from her of the money she is alleged to have unlawfully gotten. The detectives believe that much of | it is secreted away, possibly in safe de- posit boxes. Records of her banking| transactions are in their hands, show- ing that many of the checks were given at local business houses and in pay-| ment of club dues here and elsewhere. One check was given as payment for 8 life membership in the Women's City Club of New York City, it is said. Miss Howell has consulted her attor- | nmey, Paul J. Sedgwick, but no effort has been made to procure her release on bond, and the amount of the bond to be demanded has not even been fixed. It is considered probable that the case will be called in Police Court Thursday or Friday for a preliminary ‘hearing. Then the local complainants will be questioned. Investigations of her alleged operations in the vicinity of Frederick, Md., will be made later. GROCERY MANAGER TELLS| POLICE HE WAS ROBBED Reports Unidentified White Man | Escaped With $50 After Holding Him Up. Harry 8. Keen, manager of a chain grocery at 2145 I street, reported to po- * Hee this morning that he was held up by an unidentified white man, who es- ca with $50 from the cash register menacing him with some sort of ‘weapon kept concealed in a coat pocket. Keen said he was unable to determine 2f the man had a pistol, but declared his threatening attitude was enough to make him hand over the money. The manager, who lives at 100 U street, told police of No. 3 precinct he had just opened for business when the man strolled in and demanded the money. After taking it he up I street, Keen said. Keen furnished po! tion of his alle arters detec | | pital | $62,900. a a neighbor. He was pronounced dead at Casualty Hospital at 12:30 o'clock this morning. Police reported that Burgess was not to blame. An inquest into the death was to be held by a coroner’s jury at 11 o'clock this morning. Girl, 4. Ts Injured. Burgess, his car headed west on I reet, was in front of the home of a neighbor of West when the child ran into the side. He was taken to Casualty Hospital, where Dr. Louis Jimai of .the staff rendered first aid. When the child arrived the physician said death was merely a matter of hours. Mary Kokos, 4 years old, of 120 Jackson Hall alley, was knocked down in front of 243 ird street early last evening by the automobile of William Wright, colored, 25 years old, of 816 Twenty-third street. The child was taken to Emergency Hospital and treated for a broken nose. Wright was arrested and charged with driving his car after the revocation of his permit. Eight-year-old Francis McLaughlin, 115 Fifteenth street southeast, the third youthful victim of traffic accidents, ran into the side of an automobile driven by James F. Polly, 1610 East Capitol street, in front of his home yesterday afternoon. His left foot was hurt slight- ly and he received cuts and bruises. The boy was treated at Casualty Hospital. Boy, 9, Runs Into Car. Another boy injured was Dennis Mc- Laughlin, 9 years old, of 912 Kent place | ), northeast. He is said by police to have | run against the automobile of W. A.| Miller, 653 East Capitol street, near Florida and West Virginia avenues shortly after 4 o'clock yesterday after- noon.” He was treated at Sibley Hos- | for an injury to his nose and brush burns. Others hurt in automobile accidents included Mrs. Margaret Lytle, 45 years old, and Miss Dorothy Lytle, 20 yea old, of 1211 C street northeast; John T. Santmyer, 54 years old, of 1317 Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast, and Nathaniel MCcElwain, colored, 39 years old, of 1523 Ninth street. None of their injuries was serfous. CATHOLIC UNITS BENEFIT BY WILL OF MARIE TOBEY Bequests Totaling $20,000 Assign- ‘ed to Foreign Missions, Monas- tery and Educational Institutions. The National Savings & Trust Co. today asked the District Supreme Court to admit to probate the will of Marie R. Tobey, who died July 29. The ex- ecutor explained to the court that she had real estate at Plerre, S. D., and owned personal property estimated at ‘The deceased is survived by ister, Henrietta A. Cole, and a broth- Charles L. Wingard of Portland, eg. By the terms of the will announced a few days ago, bequests totaling $20,000 were made to Catholic Foreign Missions Society of Maryknoll, N. Y.; the Mon- astery at Brookland, St. Mary’s Semi- nary at Baltimore, the Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in the grounds of the Catholic University and the Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration. A trust fund of $10,000 was provided for Augusta Wingard MacAvoy and her three children. Henrietta A. Cole, a sister, was given $5,000 and the brother, Charles L. Wingard, is to have the property at Pierre. The remaining estate is to be dis- tributed am Mary A. Roder and her daughters, Marie C. and Ellen S, Roder. er, A S-year-old boy was injured fatally Bride, cor-| by the automobile of a policeman and | i NANKING OF FUTURE 10 BE LIKE CAPITAL, PLANNER DECLARES Nationalists Want Their ‘Dis- trict of Columbia’ to Rival United States’. GREAT MODERN CITY TO RISE ON YANGTZE 60-Foot Boulevards, With Traffic Control System, to Vie With Golf Links, Picture an 18-hole municipal golf course laid out around Nanking's famed Lotus Lake. Visualize 60-foot boule- vards, dotted by suspended lights for control of .automobile traffic, winding past tombs that were old when Marco Polo came out of China. Picture a modern city of great gov- ernmental buildings, suggesting Wash- ington in the precision of zoning and convenience of approach, a city of com- merce and industry, bolstered by rural and suburban life and capable of hous- ing 2.000,000 souls, a city providing all the luxuries of Western civilization to Orientals who down through hundreds of years have known the romance of the Yangtse River and the mystic | beauty of China’s purple hills. Such a picture is visualized and promised for the future by an eminent | American engineer, who will plan for the Chinese Nationalist government a “District. of Columbia” at Nanking. Ernest Payson Goodrich of New York | | City is doing for the New China what | L'Enfant did for the New Ameri he is planning a “City of Washington™ for ! the 18 square miles of tableland within | the 22-mile wall of Old Nanking. Originated Chicago Loop Scheme. At the invitation of the Chinese gov- ernment Mr. Goodrich left New York last January to discuss with Nanking of- ficials the possibilities of building there a capital worthy of the new China. Since 1907 Mr. Goodrich has been de- signing harbors in all parts of the world, surveying, zoning and planning cities and regions. He is onc of the foremost authorities on the handling of traffic. He originated the scheme used success- fully in Chicago's Loop area and was a prominent member of both the Hoover conferences on traffic problems. In Nanking he has found the dream | stuff that haunts all creative minds, the materials with which to fashion a monument to Western development and a receptive people who stand at his el- | bows while he works, concerned only with the assurance that the city he plans for the Chinese is “like Washing- ton.” Mr. Goodrich. who only recently re- !'turned to the United States, stopped in Washington for a few hours yesterday to pay his respects to the Chinese Min- ister, Mr. Chan-Chu Wu. He expressed the opinion that Nanking authoriiies { | soon would authorize the preliminary | work on plans he has submitted. which | contemplate the exvenditure of $25.- | 000,000 over a 25-year-period. The | financing of the project depends upon | a final approval of officlals headed by Sun Fow, son of the late Sun Yat Sen, | who has been appointed director of | capital construction. Expects Most Beautiful City. ‘The new Nanking, saild Mr. Goodrich, will be the most beautiful capital in the world. Modernized Chinese architec- ture is to be the motif in building con- struction. The city is to have its “mail development,” its busses and for the fu- ture, subways. A municipal golf course is but one of the twentieth century lux- uries planned for a westernized Oriental capital. Parks and canals, seashore re- sorts and race tracks are to be provided, 1 laid out in the precision that is ‘Washington's. “Will it be like Washington?” “Is this like Washington?” “Does Wash- ington have this?” These are the ques- | tions asked by officials who watch the | work of planning. Goodrich said he | told his enthusiastic questioners that the new Nanking would be as beautiful as Washington and would have one thing the American Capital does not! have, eg.. a traffic control system that | is succe 1. More than 300 miles of streets and highways are to be plotted in a net- work within the wall surrounding the city, and the American engineer sald he had planned the streets so that traffic would be continuous at all times on main and intersecting thorough- | fares. That phase of the work gave him his first opportunity, he said, to carry out on a great scale the Chicago plan he originated. He has it fixed so there will be no Chinese swearing at intersections, and by the ideal device of | assuring continuous travel for eight miles, despite intersections. The se- cret, he explained, is the block system of traffic lights such as Washington knows, plus a scientific regulation of speed on parallel and intersecting streets. Outside the city walls, there are to| be 500 miles of streets and a similar | control of traffic will prevail. Nanking’s terminus on the Shanghai railway is on the Yangtze River, but Goodrich has planned to bring it south within the city and center it in a sta- tion much like Washington's Union Sta- | tion, thus cutting down the distance to | Shanghai and to Canton. In addition to the government center, an industrial center, a commercial avia- tion field and a location for commerce are to be established. Mr. ch found that geographical and atmos- pheric conditions combined to make for ideal planning. Mountains to the east cut off cold winds in Winter, and across flat lands to the south and west the . sea sends up cooling winds in Summer. | Boulevards are to stretch out over the 122-mile wall surrounding the old eity. Canals and parks, monuments and re- sort places are to complete the western- | ized picture against a background of purple hills. More than s hundred million peo- ple—almost the population of the | i DETECTIVE S.ERIOUSLY ILL Undergoes Operation After Collapse in Police Headquarters. Headquarters Detective William J. Du Busky was in a serious condition at Emergency Hospital today following an emergency operation at that institution late yesterday after he was taken sud- denly ill at police headquarters. The detective, while he was said hos- pital authorities to have spent a “fairly comfortable night,” was not regarded as out of danger. ing” & prisoner at headquarters whom he and his partner, Willlam Messer, had arrested a short time before. The de- ged assailant. A head- |than an aking an in- | tak tective slumped to the floor and was carried to a waiting police car and tak- walked away | en to the hospital. The operation was decided upon a few minutes after his lice & good descrip- | admission to the institution and in 12ss from the time he was m m:cmw:kmumlnnuoper- Du Bucky was stricken while “book- | United States—live along the storied Yangtze River. At Nanking port fa- cilities are to be enlarged, giving the city a greater movement to the Yellow Sea. Nanking last year handled ap- proximately 2,500,000 tons of shipping, a big item being the importation ant , exportation of eggs. - The largest busi- | ness the world is done in tat. carryl d:orvudn.l 3; the project- velopment dej , of course, upon m ana economic. stabiiity of ationalist government. After six , Mr. Goodrich thut- of that stability there seems no doubt in the Chinese mind. He left China before the controversy with Soviet Russia developed, but through- ed det 'REFUSES TO DRAW | States attorney at Police Court refused | | New Orleans on the seizure of the Brit- Architects’ drawings which are now under consideration for the proposed alrport at Gravelly Point, if and when that site is selected. PROPOSED BUILDINGS FOR GRAVELLY POINT AIRPORT —Star Staff Photo. 162 ARE ARRESTED IN TRAFFIC DRIVE 26 Are Accused of Speeding, 2 Face Driving-While- Drunk Charges. A total of 182 trafic arrests were | made during the 24-hour period ending at 8 o'clock this morning. | Of this number, there were 326 for | speeding, 3 for reckless driving, 2 “hit- | and-run” cases and 2 for driving while drunk, and 149 other arrests for vari- | ous violations of traffic regulations. ‘The sentences imposed by Judge John P. McMahon in Traffic Court this| morning were light, first offense speed | violators rarely recelving more than a | $10 or a $12 fine. Fines for sccond | offense speeding were proportionately | light, with $25 as the maximum. | Martha Martini, 1126 Eleventh street. | arrested near her home yesterday and | charged with driving without a permit, | received a suspended sentence when she appeared before Judge McMahon this | morning. She had posted $100 collater- al at No. 11 precinct. Floyd O. Timbrook, 609 Sixth street, arrested yesterday for speeding on Michigan avenue near Upshur ‘street, in a truck, was fined $15 on first offense charge. Arrested for speeding on Massachu- setts avenue yesterday while driving a truck, after the officer had paced him for over 2 miles, Carl Brown of Rock- | ville, Md,, was fined $10. UP LIQUOR CHARGES Assistant U. §. Attorney's Office Holds Police Entered House - Without Warrant, ‘The office of the assistant United | today to make out papers against Mary Stanley, colored, 200 block of Canal| street southwest, arrested early this morning and charged with possession of liquor, saying that the police had no search warrant, and therefore had no right to enter the premises. ‘The police early this morning fol- lowed a suspicious-looking car to the Canal street address. Entering a nearby alley, they found a broken jar and whisky running over the pavement. The police knocked at the door and a col- ored girl, who said she was Mary Stan- ley, admitted them. Boxes piled up in & room contained 636 quarts of whisky, police said. The colored girl was taken to the Fourth precinct station. where she was to post $500 collateral. BRITAIN ASKS FOR FACTS. A full report from the consulate at e | ish vessel Betty and Billie by a Coast Guard cutter off the Florida coast for alleged rum runing has been requested by the British embassy. A brief preliminary report of the in- cident has been received, but embassy officials are awaiting more detailed in- formation before determining whether the affair should be brought to the at- tention of the State Department. Police Raid Garage And Find Gasoline Pump Holds Liquor Not all gasoline pumps give forth gasoline. Police of the fifth precinct dis- covered that last night when they alleged they found that the fluid pumped from a standard filling station pump concealed in a gar- age in the rear of 521 Eighth street southeast was emanatin from a source under the groun where 15 barrels of corn whisky were hidden. Each barrel con- tained 60 gallons of alleged liquor. Police are sald to have been attracted to the garage by the out & constant communication with business interests in Nanking that sit- | uation has not been mentioned. That, in ‘{ff“' he reg:d:;lmn!commmufi n o governme; ?o o ""&'."m matter as one of oy e} strong odor of alcohol which penetrated the barred doors. At first only the pump was evident, ml rew‘t&mmmwhthlilht concealed con! ‘The owner was not located. Virgirian Ordered to By Judgc Who Suspends Dry Sentence‘ Virginians should remain at home and vote in the primaries instead of journeying to other realms and imbibing intoxicating beverages, according to Po- lice Court Judge Robert E. Mattingly, who ordered Edward M.-Allen under threat of a six-month jail term to return to his native State. Allen was arrested yesterday by Policeman F. Marette of the filrst precinct and appeared in Police | Go Back and Vote | Court today on a charge of intoxication. “If I do not leave for Richmond in one hour you can send me to jail for six months,” Allen informed the court. “That is exactly what I will do,” the | magistrate declared. “‘Go back to Virginia. You should be there to vote,” Allen was released under | suspended sentence of six months on condition that he leave town. LINDY DISCUSSES AR PHOTOGRAPHY Bolivi_a-Paraquay Arbitrators Hear Flyer Tell of Plane Mapping Aspects. Charles A. Lindbergh, who lrrl\'ed} here yesterday with his bride, spent | some time today discussing the tech- nical aspects of aerial photogrephic mapping with the commission trying to adjust the clash last December be- tween Bolivia and Paraguay resulting from a boundary dispute. Information on this subject is being sought by the commission, which is con- | East have been visiting in Washington NURSES LEADERS VI IN CAPTAL World Council Delegates Tour | U. S. After Concluding Sessions in Canada. Leaders of the nursing profession of | many countries of Europe and the Far following the recent meeting in Mon- treal of the International Council of Nurses. Miss Hagiwara of Tokio, director of nursing service for the Japanese Red Cross, who was sent on a tour of the United States by her government, left ‘Washington yesterday for New York and | STUDENT ATTENPTS SUIGIDE BY GAS Refuses Information After Being Revived and Is Order- ed to Gallinger Hospital. Found unconscious in the bathroom | of his apartment at 1113 Massachusetts | avenue about 9:30 o'clock this morn- ing with his face but a few inches from a heater from which gas was flowing, Henry R. Bach, 23-year-old student at the Georgetown Foreign Service School, was taken to Gallinger Hos- ! pital for mental observation when he refused to give police information about | himself after he had been revived. To repeated questions by police, members of the Fire Department Res- cue Squad and Dr. I Rutkoski, of Emergency Hospital, as to his age, oc- cupation and “why he did it,” he re- fused to utter a syllable. Dr. Rut- koski finally ordered him taken to the, municipal institution. No note was found mnor could his landlady, Mrs. J. C. Dalphin, give any motive for a possible attempt at suicide. He is said to live in the basement apartment at the Massachusetts ave- nue address with three other young men and to be employed as a bookkeeper. ‘The odor of gas was detected by Mrs. Dalphin. After finding the bathroom door locked, she sent a colored maid for Charles Lee, 28 years old, of 42! e CALLISON AIRPORT - DRAWINGS DEPICT . FUTURE AGTIVITY Plans for Municipal Field at Gravelly Point Are Made Public. MALL IS PUT IN CENTER TO PARK AUTOMOBILES 1 St Terminal Building Would Contain Mail, Baggage and Customs Departments’ Offices. A study of the proposed development of the Washington airport at Gravelly Point, near the Virginia end of the Highway Bridge, made by Eugene H. Callison, was made public today by the National Park and Planning Commis- sion. The set of drawings was consld- ered by the commission at its recent | meeting, but no official action was taken as the subject now is being given fur- ther study in Washington. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, the commission's engineer, today obtained from Mr. Cal- lison permission to make the drawings public. Hangars, holding giant planes, are de- { in the study by Mr. Callison {and there is a sketch of the proposed { terminal building with its tower con- trolling the operations on the field. A { map-like drawing, showing the airport | and its groundwork, has been made part of the study by Mr. Callison, who also | has given a futurist glimpse of the in- | terfor of the terminal building, with its information booth and bulletins, board | announcements, showing the arrivals and departures of the planes. A ter- | minal hotel is contemplated in the de- | velopment. Four Slips, Are Portrayed. Four slips, with ships pulling up t» | discharge and take on passengers, are { shown adjacent to the terminal build- | ing—two slips on either side. Two i hangars, with a mall in the center for autoists to park their cars, are shown jacross from the terminal building. i plan proposes to have the planes take on and discharge passengers in the slips, | returning to the hangars to await fur- ther duty. ‘The terminal building is equi} with offices for mail and baggage, two concourses, general offices, a large waiting room, facilities for customs, public health and first aid and 1s equipped with & restaurant, as well as having ample , telegraph and tele- phone connections. Ramps lead to the planes in the slips to facilitate the movement of passengers, and suppiy rooms and pilots’ quarters are placed in the small buildings forming part of the slip framework. Further Development. Mr. Callison previously made a pre- iliminary study of the Gravelly Point | location and the plans now under con= sideration represent a further develope ment of the subject. The prior plans showed the airport layout in relation to the city and its transportation facilities. While the commission is inclined to favor the Gravelly Point location for the Washington airport, the whole sub- ject is being threshed out by the con- gressional committee, headed by Sen- ator Bingham of Connecticut and a re- port is expected to be made, with rec- ommendations, some time this Fall. Several sites in Virginia and Maryland are being considered by the Bingham committee. The National Park and Planning Commission has assisted in furnishing information and plans in this work. PR —— NAVY OFFICIALS BACK | picted i | sidering the advisability of mapping | jnterme Trom the air the little-known reglons In | tne Wert coas ™ iy Herun trip to | the disputed area, so as to obtaln &s| companied by an interpreter, showed a much data as possible on the territory. | particujar interest in military hospitals The meeting was not open to the public. | here and inspected many of them while Col. Lindbergh s directly interested in | in Washington. | South American political and economic | Miss Itta Frascara, assistant chief of | developments in his capacity as adviser | the nursing division, Itallan Red Cross, | to Pan-American Airways, which opei- | is another of the visitors who has taken | ates air transport lines from the United | interest in Government hospitals in | | rector of acronautics of the Department ! of Commerce. Lindbergh, who is tech- States through Central America to South America. Plan to Extend Service. Pan-American Airways is preparing to extend the transport service along the western coast of South America to San- | tiago, Chile, and then eastward across the Andes Mountains. Extension of this service is affected by the Bolivian trou- . ble. Pan-American Airways Co. also is conducting a survey in preparation for | extension of airmail and passenger serv- ice on the eastern coast of South Amer- ica. As usual, Col. Lindbergh, whose trip here is the first since his marriage to Miss Ann Morrow, managed to keep out of public view. He was understood to have visited the War Department, but there was no confirmation of this. Expects to Visit Maj. Young. ‘He was expected to confer this after- noon with Maj. Clarence M. Young, di- nical adviser to the aeronautics branch of the department, notified Maj. Young by telephone last night that he would visit the department some time to day. Col. Lindbergh, it is understood at the Department of Commerce, spent last night with friends in the National Capital. Yesterday afternoon, following his arrival by air from New York, Lindbergh visited the Carlton Hotel, where he usually stays while in Wash- ington. The hotel management, how- ever, stated that he did not remain there last night. Lindbergh has not announced when he expects to leave Washington. He indicated to Maj. Young that he ex- pected to remain here “for several days.” He did not notify officers at Bolling Field when he wished to have his monoplane ready to leave. -——te 0DD FELLOWS’ OUTING PLANNED FOR TOMORROW Throng Expected on Excurlioni Scheduled for Benefit of Orphans and Aged Persons. More than 3,000 Odd Fellows and their friends will attend an excursion to be given tomorrow at Chesapeake Beach by the Odd Fellows’ Home Association !m'fl the :nm: of th: l,!:’n;e éor Orphans an persons a street. All“llxuen local lodges are part in the outing, which will assume the form of & huge family picnic. Bath- fishing, crfi:‘bblnc. boating and on the program. ments committee e, an; muel Taylor, ‘William pson. _Officers of H dancing are is com- i | of Miss Edith M. Haydon, superintend- | ‘Washington. Others now in the city include Mile. | Cecile Mechelynck, director of the Vis- iting Nurses' Association of Belgium resident of the National Fed- | Belgian Nurses; Miss Venny Snellman, director of nursing service, League of Child Welfare of Finland. Both are guests of Miss Mattie Gibson, | s?&rlnwndent of the Children's Hos- pital. | Miss E. Frances Horn, public health | nurse from South Africa, is a guest ent of nurses at St. Elizabeth’s Hos- pital, while Miss Elizabeth Fox, director | of public health nursing of the Ameri- can Red Cross, has been entertaining Miss Destina Cantacuzene, visiting nurse from Rumania. THREE MEN IMPERILED IN LANDING AIRPLANE Pilot at Groveton Field Misjudges His Height and Collides With Telephone Pole. ‘Three men narrowly escaped serious injury when the landing gear of a com- mercial airplane piloted by Harry Bur- dette struck a telephone line as Burdette glided in for a landing at Groveton Air- port, on the Alexandria-Fort Hum- phreys road, at dusk yesterday. Burdette, regular pilot’ at the Groveton field, was landing from the last flight of the day when he mis- judged the height of the wires and struck them with his wheels. Fortu- nately the wires broke before the plane was thrown over on its back, and the occupants of the plane escaped with nothing more than a shaking up. The wings and ;m:?r of ";?e phn; were damaged, an e propeller an landing gear were shattered, but the | pilot and his two passengers, Leo Deeton and James A. Ludlow, both of Alexan- dria, escaped without a scratch. The ! plane can be repaired, it was stated. | | i R MRS. JEAN BRIGGS DIES. Sl Widow of Union Army Veteran Re- sided Here 30 Years. Mrs. Jean Briggs, 86 years old, widow of Samuel W. Briggs, Union Army vet- eran and a resident of this city for more than 30 years, died at her home, 4135 Garrison - street, yesterday, after a long {llness. Mrs. Briggs was a member of the Bethesda Presbyterian Church. She is survived by three daughters. Mrs, Martha Morrison, rs. Orrell Chamberlin and Mrs, Eda Frost, and g::glm.hm, Janet Frost. * services will ba conducted at the late residence afternoon at 2.30 o'clock, the Newbern Apartments nex: door. Lee succeeded in opening the window from the outside and climbing inside the room. i Bach was revived within 15 minutes His | after the arrival of the firemen. condition is not considered serious. Rec- ords at Georgetown University disclosed his age, and that he is a native of New | York City and has completed one year | at the Foreign Service School. RUSSELL A. CONN EXTOLS BEAUTY OF WASHINGTON Head of Hotel Association, by Radio, Invites People to “Bide a Wee” in Capital. Declaring that Washington is a beau- tiful city and that it should be the priv- ilege of every oitizen to visit it at least once a year, Russell A. Conn, vice presi- dent of the District of Columbia Hotel Association, invited Americans at large to visit their Capital in an address over radio station WOL last night. The talk was the fourth of a series of such addresses by Washington hoteliers on “Making a Home of the Modern Hotel.” Those who preceded him were William E. Brown, manager of the Annapolis Hotel; Jefferson L. Ford, jr., president of the District of Columbia Hotel Asso- ciation, and Hugh F. Neason, president of the Washington Chapter, No. 31, Ho- tel Greeters of America. “We want you to feel at home in every Washington hotel,” Mr. Conn said last night, “and to invite your friends to come and ‘bide a wee’' with us when- ever they find it possible. Washington is a beautiful city, and it should be the privilege of every citizen of this great land to visit his National Capital at least once a year.” Honored by France I R street, colored janitor employed u‘ FROM LAKEHURST TRIP Ingalls, His Aide and Comdr. John Towers Watched Graf Zep- pelin’s Arrival, After watching the arrival of the Graf Zeppelin at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst, N. J., yesterdcy afternoon, David 8. Ingalls, Assistani Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics; Lieut. Comdr. |R. P. Molten, his aide, and Comdr. | John Towers, assistant chief of the { Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, returned to the Anacostia Naval Air Station yes- | terday morning in three Navy planes. | Secretary Ingalls left Anacostia Sat- ‘urday for Cleveland, flying from the | Ohio city to Lakehurst yesterday morn- ing, where he was joined by his aide and Comdr. Towers, who flew up from | here yesterday in two Navy O-2UM. | Secretary Ingalls flew the F-7-C Curtiss Hawk set aside by the Navy for his use. This plane is equipped with the new + motor cowling designed by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and is one of the fastest planes at the local station. D. C. ARCHITECT HONORED BY FRENCH GOVERNMENT Frederick V. Murphy Receives Decoration of Chevalier of Le- gion of Honor for Work. The decoration of Chevalier of the Leglon of Honor has been conferred by the President of France upon Frederick V. Murphy, practicing architect of Washington and professor in architec- ture at the Catholic University. Noti- fication of this distinction was given Mr.. Murphy by Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the United States. Mr. Murphy recelved the decoration for his work in the field of architectural education and design. Mr. Murphy, a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, is a member of the firm of Murphy & Olmsted, ar- chitects for the Shrine of the Sacred Heart and the Mulen Memorial Library iat Catholic University, both of which : rious d ashington Board e The Catholic University School of Ar- chitecture students have won frequent prizes, including the 1928 Paris prize. WIFE’S PLEA FOR DIVORCE Mrs. EKuehling Charges Husband Left Her for Another Woman. ‘Mrs. Helen E. Kuehling, 593 Columbia road, yesterday asked the District Su- preme Court for an absolute divorce from Frank Kuehling, 422 H street. i They were married at Marlboro Sep- tember 14, 1928, and the wife charges that her husband left Washington a few days later, going to Ohio wh-n, she asesrts, he went through a meiriage , ceremony with another woman and lllved with her in Baltimore, Md., and Va. Attorney John D. Sadler appeared for the wite.