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PARK VIEW SCHOOL PROTEST MAY GET OFFICIAL SUPPORT Georgia Avenue ‘Boundary Line for Pupils Reported Recommended. OFFICERS ARE SILENT BEFORE BOARD MEETING Traffic Gantlet-Running to Mon- roe Classes Said to Be Main Contention. Support of the parents who have re- fused to accede to the order transfer- ring their children from the Park View School to the Monroe School was ex- pected to come from at least one offi- cial quarter at the meeting of the Board of Education this afternoon. Seldon M. Ely, supervising principal of the fifth division, it was understood, has recommended to his superior offi- cers in the school system that children living east of Georgia avenue be per- mitted to attend the Park View School. Mr. Ely, himself, would not comment upon his report or any recommenda- tions which he had made, explaining that the report was in the hands of Robert L. Haycock, assistant superin- tendent in charge of elementary schools, and any release of information would have to be made by that officer. Declines to Discuss Report. Mr. Haycock, in turn, declined to dis- cuss the report on the ground that since Mr. Ely's views were sought as in- formation for the Board of Education any data which that officer may present should be given first to the board. However, the conviction that Mr. Ely would recommend the retention in the Park View School of children whose homes were situnudxensc of George ave- nue persisted strongly. I pthe recommendation attributed to Mr. Ely reaches the school board the Park View Citizens' Association delega- tion, headed by Fred S. Walker, presi- dent, will find its plea strengthened from the inside before the tribunal, which finds itself now in the position of referee between the protesting par- ents of the transferred children, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, who has advocated the transfer, and the Monroe School Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation, which has sought the enrcll- ment of children living within that school's district at that building. Continue in Platoon System. Mr. Ely's reported recommendation, apparently based upon the fear of forc- ing children to run the Georgia avenue traffic to reach Monroe School, would eliminate not only that complaint of the parents of the 55 children, but at the same time would permit those boys and girl¥”to be continued in the platoon system s-hool and would not oblige them to aitend school in what they have con- tended is an unsuitable neighborhood, both ot which factors have been made the basis of the opposition. Whether the school board will adopt the recommendation attributed to Mr. Ely seemed highly uncertain today. ‘The obvious necessity of establishing some boundaries between school build- ings was paramount in the minds of some members in whose minds the con- troversy over the Park View-Monroe School situation had narrowed down to & mere agreement on those boundaries. ‘The recommendation, which it was believed Mr. Ely had made, appeared particularly interesting in view of the attitude of his superior officers at the | Franklin Administration Building. Re- garding the issue in this afternoon's contest before the school board as a | question of whether the board is go- | ing to stand behind its administering officlals, those officials have said throughout the controversy that the boundaries over which the present dis- pute arose were established by Mr. Ely himself last year. ASKS U. S. INCREASE ITS AID TO CAPITAL Citizens’ Body Urges “Substantial” Advance Over Present Allotment. A substantial increase in the Fed- eral Government's appropriation for the Capital, now $9,000,000, was urged last night at a meeting of the Co- lumbia Heights Citizens’ Association, when municipal plans for street and park improvement were reviewed by committee reports. The taxation committee further ad- vised more expeditious methods in street paving and a more liberal ex- penditure of the $6,000,000 District surplus. In a report on the District school building program the committee rec- ommended the adoption of the five- year financial estimate of the District auditor, supplementing their recommen- dation by the foliowing conditions: (1) ‘That in order to eliminate portable structures more quickly, * the rschool construction fund be increased. from $2,400,000 to $3,000,000, and (2) That a larger annual fund be available for maintenance of the library. . The unanimous adoption of resolu- tion urging congressional or executive enactment of an all-year Saturday half-holiday concluded the business of the meeting. Two new members were admitted to the association: Miss Lilian Cheno- worth and Albert E. Westrater. SEEKS TO MODIFY ~ DISABILITY BILL Eaton Asks Legion to Bequ'elt Congress to Remove Proof Restrictions. Representative Eaton of New Jersey has requested the American Legion con- vention in.annual session at Louisville to frame some resolution that will indi- cate to Congress a_public consciousness of the need to modify the technical re- strictions placed about the payment of disability compensation to veterans. In a telegram yesterday to Paul V. McNutt, Legion commander, Eaton said that “numbers of World War veterans completely or partly disabled in mind or body or both are being allowed to suffer and die unaided by our Government be- cause they cannot meet the technical interpretation of the letter of the pre {hie they prove their present disabiity t they prove their presen y w be WM" gantlet of | the | | rison of Boston, and two sisters, Mrs. v Wiiflhe Foen A Carroll McGuire. Follow the leader, during dip hour at the Y. W. C. A. swimming_pool, Seventeenth and K streets. Yesterday was the opening day. the beginning of the Winter schedule, October 1 to June 1. Left to right: Marion Hunt, Marion Meigs, | Dorothy Latham, Frances Brantley, Elsa Huntley and M Star Staff Photo. AFOFLTOSTUDY GONPERS TRBUTE { Memorial Plans to Be Put Be-| fore Executive Council at Toronto Session. Revised plans for the proposed me- morial to be erected here to the late Samuel Gomper$, noted labor leader, will be placed before the meeting of th executive council of the American Fed. eration of Labor at Toronto, imme- diately preceding the convention, which | assembles Monday. | Plans for the memorial were sub- mitted to the Fine Arts Commission at its recent meeting, and certain changes were suggested. The sculptor and archi- tect of the memorial now are at work on these changes to conform with the wishes of the commission, which must be complied with, under the law. William Green, the federation’s presi- | | dent, and Prank Morrisiong its veteran secretary, will bring the matter formal- {ly to the attention of the executive | council. It is planned to have a model | of the Gompers memorial placed before | the convention. The memorfal is to be erected, under authority of Congress, jon the triangle at Massachusetts ave- nue and Tenth street, near the head- quarters of the American Federation of Labor, which Mr. Gompers ‘served for many years as president. The federa- tion recently has conducted a cam- paign to raise funds to finance the memorial. Samuel J. Gompers, the son of the labor leader, is chief clerk of the De- | : partment of Labor, DAIRY OFFICIAL DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS James May Morrison, 58 years old, special representative of the American Dairy Supply Co., died at his home, | 1659 Hobart street, today after a long ; illness. Mr. Morrison had traveled a great deal, but had made his home in this city for the past 40 years. He was a E‘l;mb" of the Washington Lodge of s, He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha J. Morrison; a son, Paul Alex- ander Morrison; a brother; C. W. Mor- H. M. Hunter of this city and Mrs. W. L. Wright of Fulton, N. Y. Funeral arrangements are being com- pleted. E. N. MEADOR, Appointed yesterday as assistant to the Secretary of Agriculture. He will act as general aide to Secretary Hyde. MEADOR IS GIVEN" AGRICULTURE POST Missourian Named to Serve as As- sistdnt to Secretary of the Department, Announcement of the appointment of E. N. Meador of Cassville, Mo., as Aassistant to the Secretary of Agricul- ture was made today by Secretary Hyde. Meador will be a general aid to the Secretary, succeeding Rodger R. Kauffman of the Grain Futures Ad- ministration, who has been serving temporarily. Meador has been a special assistant to the. Attorney General since June, 1928, assisting in the arbitration of the claims of German nationals against the United States for ships and radio property seized during the war. He is a former member of the Missouri State Tax Commission and formerly was mayor of Cassville, Mo., where he now owns a newspaper. Drastic curtailments of the tactical { program in the annual high school | cadet competitive drills will result tron the new schedule of drill periods - nounced today by Stephen E. Kramer, first assistant superintendent in charge of high schools and military affairs, following_a conference with Lieut. Col. Wallace M. Craigle, U. 8. A, professor of military sclence and tactics and members of his staff. Un new - schedule 'which specifies that all cadet drills during the year must be executed between 3 and 4:45 o'clock in the afternoon so tHat every cadet will be dismissed and on his way home 15 minutes before 5 o'clock, many of the “extended order” | maneuvers which characterized com- petitive drills in the past will be done away with. * Former Program Outlined. Under the old order the cadets re- ceived their training mm many of the extended order tactics on the Ellipse, south of the White House, as a resull of which much time was oceupied each drill day.in reaching the drill fields. Consequently with a full 90-minute drill period in addition to the time needed for company transportation or lengthy marches to the flelds, boys frequently reacl their homes between 6 and 7:30 o'clock at night. Considerable interest has been mani- fest over the cadet drill situation since the Board of Education agreed that the high school day should be lengthened 30 minutes. Mr. Kramer sald today that while formerly the cadets were given an hour and a half for drill purposes, much time was wasted in getting from final classrooms to the street for troop mass- ing. Under the new schedule the pe- i NEW SCHEDULE IS ANNOUKNCED IN CADET COMPETITIVE DRILLS Assistant Superintendent Kramer of Public Schools Outlines Changes Which Dras- tically Curtail Tactical Program. immediate vicinity of their respective buildings, thus eliminating much of the extended order traning, ‘“‘company meetings,” formerly held after the drill period, also will be elfminated on drill days. Such meetings, held for the pur- pose of instilling enthusiasm in the members of the company, now must be held on other afternoons, assistant superintendent insisted. “We are determined that no time shall be taken from the regular academ- ic classroom day,” Mr. Kramer said today. “Classroom instruction is of utmost importance and every activity shall be regulated to conform with the scholastic schedule rather than alter- ing the classroom day to accomodate other activities. We are determined to end the business of boys in the cadets reaching therr homes at 7 and 7:3¢ o'clock at night with the excuse that they were detained by cadet activities. | If it means tightening up the schedule | in the cadets, that will have to be done. | Col. Craigie and the assistant profes- sors of military science and tactics are aware of the limitations and they are in accord with them.” Other Changes Noted. Among the extended order maneuvers which Mr. Kramer said would be elim- inated by the limitations placed on the drill conditions would be the prone maneuvers, in which the youthful “soldiers” “battle” their enemies lying face down on the ground. “If necessary, we can have the -boys execute their extended order maneuvers in crouching positions, but the ‘flop- ping.’ as the boys call it, will have to g0,” Mr. Kramer said.* » It is this “flopping,” often expressed ‘m the ‘annual drills amid pouring rain riod allotted for drills , with the moment of school day dismissal and the official declared that every buz must be on his way home by 4:4 o'clock. “Company Meetings” Eliminated. Besides confining the cadet - com- i and in ‘pools of water on the drill field. which has lent a sort of “heroic” aspect to the annual competitiops in the eyes of the and airl cl ates, who admire and sympa with them rr;arlln ds. The volving the in cadet - gram was sent todsy to all schools by Mr. Krameh 5 - NAMED BY COURT | {James N. Fitzpatrick, Jr., Is : Appointed by Justice Gordon to Serve as Foreman. James N Fitzpatrick, jr., an employe | of the Firemen's Insurance Co., Seventh sireet and Louisiana avenue, and re- | siding at Apartment 404, 1701 Sixteenth | street, was selected today by Justice ,Peyton Gordon as foreman of the new grand jury which will investigate charges of law violations for the en- suing three months. There are two women and four colored men on the grand jury. United States Attorney Rover has in- vited Senators Brookhart and How to appear before this new grand jury to tell what they know about alleged liquor law violations and about a party | said to have been given at a down- | town hotel by a New York broker 1o a number of newly elected Senators, presumably in December, 1926. One of ’lhe Senators is reported to have sald the statute would run against the law violation if the matter was not heard before December of this year. Other members of the new grand jury include Grey C. Eiker, 5704 North Capi- tol street, care of Stewart Motor Co.; | Harry T. De Groot, 3014 Dent place | northwest, apartment 8, care of Na- tional Electrical Supply Co.; Harry Wil- liam Langford, 1300 Maryland avenue northeast, Washington Terminal Co.: Jochn M. Trant, 2810 Cathedral avenue { northwest, with Thomas E. Jarrell's Co., | real estaté; Charles D. Sanger, jr., 1008 Otis place northwest, bookkeever, Com- mercial Bank® Melville B. Tewksbury, 1377 B street southeast, salesman. American Weatherstrip Co.; Harold J. Callis, jr. 1238 U_street northwest, salesman, Victory Life Insurance Co.: John G. Osborn, northwest, manager. Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.; Eileen E. Lally, 121, the Port- ner, Fifteenth and U streets northwest, | apartment 121, unemployed: John H.| Ledger, 3434 South Dakota avenue northeast, 306 Commercial Bank Build- ing, insurance; James N. Fitzpatrick, jr., 1701 Sixteenth street northwest, apartment 404. Firemen's Insurance Co., Seventh street and Louisiana avenue northwest; John Doran Perkins, 1620 M street northwest, auditor, Emerson & Orme, Buick Motor Co.; Benjamin Weinb:eg, 4104 Fourteenth street northwest, apartment 3, 1306 H | street northwest. dental laboratory; Frank V. Niedfelelt, 1830 California street, apartment 2, Washington Termi- nal Co.; George R. Campbell, 1415 Gi- rard street northwest, apartment 33, superiry>ndent, office railway express: Robert H. Harrison, 507 Kastle place northeast, cafe owner, 455 Florida ave- nue northwest; Harry L. Thompson, 16 Bryant street northwest, auto salesman, Northeast Oldsmobile Sales, 64 H street northeast; Lester Ellis, 66 New York avenue northwest, apartment 303, not employed; Rufus Gilbert Byars, 2210 lagler place northwest, supervisor Litchman Theaters, 1215 U street north- west; Grace Forrest Mackay, 3006 Thir- teenth street northwest, Washington Railway & Electric Co.; Alexander R. George, 3837 Military road northwest, | Associated Press; Tromas S. Gaddess. 1312 Indiana avenue northwest; Roger | Jumison, 1315 M street northwest. Justice Gordon read a lengthy charge to the grand jury. b o CHILLY THIEVES GET _GARB THROUGH ROOF Skylight of Men's Clothing Shop Broken—$300 Value of , Loot. . Burglars who must have found their 'Incenrt!lve in_the inclement weather broke through = skylight last night at the Fashion Shop, dealers in men’s clothing at Ninth and E streets, and escaped Wwith a number of overcoats |and other clothing valued at between 250 and $300. : i The robbery was ?ptc;lmdm&y ‘}vll:; he ., manager of the s 3&232::5 the loss when he opened for usiness. § The intruder went over the stock thoroughly, showing a partiality for | overcoats. Schonberg had not completed |a check-up of his stock. Police of No. |1 precinct_are investigatini The skylight frame of building had been jimmied. 'WINS MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP re H. Podnos, 11-year-old sot nlrxf&d:nder Podnos, musical directo: at the Metropolitan Theater, has beel warded the three-year Chaunce) Brooks -chahregflp, oflg:;! :'l'fl;l‘l‘:;l‘{ Ia)l nserval B Pnbodgm Igd t}ther contestants, it announced toddy. m’rheodore. t of the contestants, has. played (R E R resent a rightwood Schiool. He expects 1o in June. P fhe & | radusts IS | courses, 13 Madison streat | 8. . he one-story CAPITAL INCREASES [N IMPORTANGE AS EDUCATION CENTER $30,000,000 Spent Annually, Besides Public School Total, Survey Reveals. RESEARCH FACILITIES AND LIBRARY HELP $70,000,000 Is Invested in Pri- vately Owned Enterpris Trade Board Reports. Approximately $30,000,000 is spent in Washington annually on education other than that provided by the public schools, it was revealed today by a survey just completed by the Board of Trade. ' Officials announcéd the in- vestigation indicated the increased im- portance of the National Capital as an educational center. The survey also revealed: That approximately $70,000,000 is in- vested in educational enterprises other than the public schools and the col- leges and schools conducted by the { Army and Navy. » That there are approximately 2,000 rsons engaged in teaching in other than the public schools, ranging from eminent college professors to instructors h"l mechanical and commercial educa- tion. ‘That approximately 28,500 students are attending private universities and schools here. Six Major Universities. estimated enrollment of 17,500, not in- cluding the strictly theological colleges open only to the education of scholas- tics of the various ecclesiastical orders ;and denominations; 6,100 students are {enrolled in private schools and colleges ; recelving a general education, including | girls’ seminaries; 1,789 are enrolled in various technical schools; 1,150 are en- {eaged in the study of commercial and | appiied art; approximately 3.000 are at- tending business colleges; there are sev- eral hundred students in purely eccle- | slastical colleges and in addition many | thousands all over the country are tak- |ing correspondence courses from Wash- ington institutions. After reviewing the history of Wash- ington educational institutions, the sur- vey concluded: Opportunity For Technicians. “Besides the general arts courses, op- portunity is provided here for the study of engineering in all its phases, archi- tecture, medicine, dentistry, cciences in all branches, theological subjects, languages, art, economics, business radio, music, accountanc: | aeronautics, law, foreign service, polit- | ical science £nd the various trades. The unusual facilities for research in the | various Government departments, par- | ticularly in the technical laboratories, | such as the Bureau of Standards: the proximity of fine libraries, such as the Congressional Library, all blend with the growing educational opportunities here.” e, {JOHN B. MUSGILLER FATALLY STRICKEN { Member of Washington Post Edi- torial Staff Fifteen Years and Hyattsville Resident. John B. Musgiller, 50 years old, for 115 years u member of the editorial staff of the Washington Post. died at his { home, in Hyattsville, Md., last night |after a sudden illness. Death was at- tributed to a heart attack. Beginning his newspaper career in Baltimore as a police reporter on the Baltimore Sun, Mr. Musgiller later wa¢ music critic for that newspaper. He first went to the Wasington Post as telegraph editor and then became State editor. He had held the latter position for a number of years. In addition to his musical ability, Mr. Musgiller was an expert translator of German and his ability in this line was utilized by several news and pic- ture services in the translation of for- elgn picture captions. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Magdalen Musgiller, before her mar- | riage Miss Burger; three sisters, Mrs. | Charles Schimp, Mrs. Werner Krumeke |and Mrs. Edgar Stenner, and two brothers, Albert and Harry Musgiller. The sisters and brothers all reside in Baltimore or its suburbs. Funeral arrangements are being com- pleted. COL. ERNEST R. TILTON IS DEAD IN NEW YORK Retired Army Officer Had Made Home in California After 23 Years in Service. Lieut. Col. Ernest R. Tilton, United States Army, retired, died at the Me- morial Hospital, New York City, yes- terday, according to War Department advices. He was born in New York, Septgmber 3, 1866, and served in the Spanish War as captain, 12th New York Infantry, and was appointed cap- tain, 43d United States Infantry, Au- gust 17, 1899. Later he served in the Artillery Corps and the Inspector Gen- eral's Department and reached the reg- ular grade of lieutenant colonel in July, 1920. During the World War he held the rank of colonel in -the | National Army. He was retired in De- i cember, 1922, after 23 years’ service, and made his home in California. His | widow, Mrs. Julia Tilton, is now in ' New Work City making the funeral arrangements. BROOKHART DISCUSSES ‘ NEW CIVIL SERVIGE BILLS Senator Tells League of Proposals He Has for Improving Status of U. 8. Employgs. Creation of a civil service boqrd of appeals to hear complaints of Govern- ment employes, correction of inequali- .les in the Government salary sched- tles and pt of the new cetirement _ law were _advocated by Senator _Brookhart, Republican, of lowa, addressing the League of Ameri- can Civil Service, in the auditorium of ; the Interior ent last night. | The retirement bill is on Senate calendar with a favorable re- | port from the jand Senator rm .:uonmwm-tnmbmneflu ‘That there are six universities, with an | ‘the | relating to the Revolution, the Civil War civil service committee, has bills d- | ing Starf WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1929. |AMERICAN HISTORICAL PAPERS IN EUROPE COPIED FOR LIBRARY * 1 Half Million Photostatic Rec- ords Collected by Dr. S. F. Bemis in Two Years. Documents Throw Much New Light on Early Events in Founding Nation. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Nearly a half million photostagic re- productions of documents throwing light on various phases of American history have been secured for the Library of Congress by Dr. Samuel F. Bemis, professor of history at George Washington University, who has just returned to Washington after two years’ labor in the state archives and libraries | of England, France, Holland, Germany, | Spain, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Austria and Russia. . Dr. Bemis was director of the Euro- {pean mission of the Library of Con- | gress, financed by John D. Rockefeller, {Jr., to make available to_ historical re- search workers in the United States | the great quantity of widely scattered material necessary in reconstructing an adequate picture of the growth of the American Nation. The documents include diplomatic | correspondence between agents in the | | United States and their home govern- ments, immigration records of European | ports, military and naval papers, rec- ords of missionary and propaganda so- cleties and numerous letters from indi- viduals. Much of the material still is unexploited and for years to come will furnish a wealth of information to stu- ! dents of specific phases of American development. Finds Much Material. Dr. Bemis, a Pulitzer prize winner in American history and a recognized au- thority on the diplomatic history of the | country, encountered nearly everywhere | on the continent masses of unpublished | material. While this has been gener- | ally available in the past to American | students 1% has been necessary for them | | to go to Europe, locate it for themselves, | | comply ‘with the requirements of differ- ent countries and private owners for Q examining it, examine a great many ir- | relevant documents and handle papers | often very fragile and difficult to read. | because of the stains of years. | Much of the material deals with revo- lutionary and pre-revolutionary history From the British records office Dr. Bemis secured more than 4,000 photo- | stats of the correspondence of Gen.| { Gage, the British commander in the colonies at the outbreak of the Revolu- tion, including his reports between 1763 | {and 1775 to the cabinet, the treasury.| | the judge advocate general, the pa: | master of the army and the Indian ds | partment. The Gage papers are expect ed to throw much light on a side of the Revolution which has been little un-| derstood, as seen through the eyes of one of the chief actors. Gage made copies of nearly all his letters. | Diplomatic Correspondence. | Bemis also sccured in London photo- { stats of the dispatches and instructions {of the English diplomatic represent- jatives in the Uniied States through 11837, and also made duplicates for the Canadian government. The material | | | sembly of the colony. Perhaps the most colorful of all the British material is a mass of papers secured, with the co-operation of Brit- ish museum authorities, from libraries of England, Scotland, Wales and Ire- iland, dealing with the activities of va- rious societies in the colonies. This includes the papers of the Anti-Slavery | and Aborigines Protection Society and, | | from the library of Trinity College, | DR. SAMUEL F. BEMIS. tion, including several military diaries. Austria provided much material on the | Maximillian episode in Mexico. | Immigration Records. In Germany, Austria, 8weden and | Norway Dr. Bemis made a particular effort to secure immigration records which will help historians of the future to secure a truer picture of the great rivers of immigration which began to| sweep into the United States after the Civil War and contributed so greatly to the racial makeup of the American | people. There are also illuminated re- ports of immigration societies on eco- nomic conditions in the United States. Russia supplied the diplomatic corre- spondence of the representatives of the %flr in Washington during the Civil | ar. The work of photographing European manuscripts will continue under the Rockefeller grant for three more years. Dr. Bemis has been succeeded as di- rector of the mission by Worthington C. ¢ Ford. The great mass already obtained | actually came from the work of a sin- gle year, the first year being spent in making arrangements with local au- thorities and locating material. COMPANIONS DENY | BURROUGHS IN ROW Two Men in Car Voluntarily' Talk to Prosecutor—Brother; Not in Machine. | i Following a conference yesterday aft- 3 ernoon with two men who said they | were companions of Thomas Franklin | “Chuck” Burroughs, 41 years old, 600 | block of E street, when he was injured | in an automobile accident near Silver | Hill, Md., State’s Attorney J. Frank Par- | ran of Prince Georges County appeared | Parran declared that the men, Frank Cady of Washington and Fred Porton of Riverdale, came to see him volun- tarily in regard to the death of Bur- roughs, who died at Emergency Hos- pit .1 September 21 without fully ex- glnlmng the manner in which he was urt. Burroughs in Rumble Seats | Porton, according to Parran, said he - PAGE 17 WOMAN, 10, DIES OF AUTO INJURIES; SIX OTHERS HURT- Victim Succumbs at Hospital Without Regaining Con- sciousness. MRS. JULIA E. CLARKE, ALSO 70, IS NEAR DEATH Witnesses Tell Police She Was Hit by Street Car, Though Motor- man Is Uncertain, Injuries, sustained Monday evening when she was knocked down by an automobile, proved fatal early this morning for Mrs. Emma Bonar, 70 years old, of 5521 Chevy Chase parkway. An- other 70-year-old woman is in Emer- gency Hospital today unconscious and near death after being struck by s street car last night, while five other persons were injured less seriously in traffic accidents late yesterday. Mrs. Bonar died in Emergency Hoe- pital at 5 o'clock this morning. She was injured about 6 o'clock Monday eve- ning, when struck by an automobile driven by Ernest Bagley, colored, 34 years old, of Bethesda, Md. The driver was arrested by fourteenth precinct police and charged with reck- less driving. He was later released un- der $500 bond. For more than 15 hours after her in- jury, Mrs. Bonar was unidentified. Only a card in her purse indicated who she was. Finally, relatives located her at the hospital and definitely established her identity. She died without regain- ing consciousness. Hospital physicians said that her skull was fractured and she was injured internally. The most seriously injured of those in- volved in accidents las: night was Mrs. Julia E Clarke, 70 years old, of 1030 Twentieth street. According to police, she was hit at Connecticut avenue and M street by a Washington Railway & Electric Co. street car operated by Motorman H. L. Heisman of 113 West Virginia avenue, Woodmont, Md. At Emergency Hospital, where she was taken in a taxicab, her condition was said to be critical. She has not recovered consciousness. Physicians «here say her right leg is broken. Her nose and skull also may be broken and she may have been injured internally. ~_For several hours, the woman was un- identified, but her correct name was established through cards found on her person and by her husband, James E. Clarke, and Miss Bertha Carroll, a living at the Twentieth street an told police he did not see the woman and was not sure that his ar struck her. Two witnesses, how- ver, maintained that it was the street car that hit her. ‘Woodward W. Brook, 18 years old, of 3320 Prospect avenue, was knocked from his bicycle last evening at Connecticut also includes 47 volumes of West Flor- | satisfied that Burroughs’ death was |avenue and California street by an auto- ida papers, with all the legislative acts | wholly accidental and in no way con- | mobile driven by Irving Albert, 19 years and minutes of the Council and As- | nected with a reported roadhouse fight. | old, of 1119 Sixth street. Brook was taken to Emergency Hospital passing automobile and bruises and lacerations to his head. His skull was first thought to be fractured, but this morning at the hospital his condition was said not to be serious. Two colored women and a colored child were struck and slightly injured last night by a taxicab driven by Ash- ton D. Nia The injured are Ethel Langley, 20 years old; Bertha Brandon, | Dublin, the papers of the Society for | was the driver of the roadster in which 30 years old, and Reginald S. Brandon, | the Propagation of the Gospel in For- !eign Parts. In this material are in- cluded the letters of the missionaries | | who preceded the march of civilization | | westward, making close observations on | the life ‘of the Indians and of the pioneers. | The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel papers throw much new light on the founding of Williamsburg, Va., and of Willlam and Mary College, of particular interest at this time when the old town is being restored to its pre-Revolutionary condition with the financial assistance of Mr. Rockefeller. 50,000 French Papers. From the Paris archives and libraries Dr. Bemis secured reproductions of nearly 50,000 papers, many of them dealing with the French and Indian Wars, the French settlements in Can- ada, reports of missionaries and much correspondence on the French particl- pation in the American Revolution. Dr. Bemis also explored six provincial li- braries—at Lyons, Carpentras, Aix-en- Provence, Avignon, Marseilles and Tou- Jon—for American historical material. Perhaps the most valuable discovery in France was the correspondepce be- tween George Washington and the Chevalier de la Luzerne, French Min- ister to the Colonies during the Revolu- tion, with whom the American com- mander conducted most of his negotia- tions for French military and naval upport. g“e’?dnm has the desperate plight of the little Colonial Army been pictured in darkercolors than by Washington in these hitherto unrecorded letters. “I need use no argument to convince your excellency,” he writes on Septem- ber 12, 1780, “of the extremity to which our affairs are tending. You are an eyewitness to all our perplesities and all our wants. You know the danger- ous consequences of leaving the enemy in quiet possession of the Southern con- quests, either for negotiations this Win- ter or for the continuance of the war. You know our inability to expel them alone or perhaps even to stop their ca- reer.” ‘Washington's Forces. And on April 28, 1782 wrote to De la Luzerne: scarcely necessary to inform you that our military establishment for the pres- ent _year consists of four regiments of artiliery, four legislative and two parti- zan corps and 50 regiments of infantry. besides the corps of ifivalids. Congress has called upon each State to compleat its regiment to the establishment, the aggregate of which would amount to 34,308 men, exclusive of commissioned officers, sergeants and musicians. The present totality of the rank and file amounts to 9,146. I would not be candid if I did not acknowledge that I do not e: t it to be increased by recruits in the course of the campaign to_more than 10,000 fit for duty in the i e}g France Dr. Bemis secured also hotostats of the French dipiomatic gorrespondence-ln the United States through the year 1814. There also are hitherto unpublished letters from La- fayette, Jefferson, De Grasse and others. In Holland photostats were secured of the correspondence of Dutch diplo- | matic representatives in the United States through 1854 and secret and other resolutions of the states general and ‘West India Co. te hi airs of the Dutch ssian stal the three men weree riding, and which skidded on a slippery road. Burroughs was riding in the rumble seat and the State’s attorney was told by both men | that he was knocked unconscious when | the car hit a tree during the skid. | The two men were emphatic in de- | claring that Burroughs had not pre-| viously participated in any fight, the | State’s attorney said. ‘The statements of Cady and Porton | revealed as wrong the record of the; accident in the office of Sheriff Charles 8. Early which showed that Clarence Burroughs, brother of the dead man, was in the car, as he was not an occu- | pant of the car, according to the in- formation Early now has. Thompson Continues Probe. Parran would not state whether he planned to question other witnesses. He also was non-committal as to;| whether he would submit the case to the October grand jury. Constable A. C. Thompson continued his independent investigation of the Burroughs case yesterday and reported having obtained a detailed description of a fight at a Southern Maryland roadhouse the same morning the man was brought to the hospital. but was unable to.learn the names of the per- sons involved. ORPHANS GUESTS AT SHRINE FROLIC| Almas Temple Opens Annual In- door Event, Scheduled to Continue Tomorrow. All the features of a big-top show are presented this afternoon before a boisterous group of holiday “kids.” with the orphan organizations of the District guests_at the annual indoor circus of the Almas Shrine Temple, which had a gala opening last night in the Wash- ington Auditorium. The circus, which is a big show in a small way, observes the routine and arrangement of a three-ring circus, lacking only a roofing of tent canvas and a footing of thick sawdust. The circus repertoire, which includes trained elephants and wild clewns, 1s one of the most varied entertainment offerings ever presented here. After this afternoon’s Dbenefit per- formance, the show will be repeated this evening and tomorrow. CHRISTENING IS DELAYED. Ceremonies ' for Giant Transport Flying Boat Halted by Rain. ‘The christening of a giant transport fiying boat, the largest of its type yet built in the United States, which was scheduled for 3:30 o’clock this after- noon at the Anacostia Naval Air Sta- tion, has been postponed until the same hour tomorrow because of bad weather. plane, which will be put in operation immediately over the lines of the New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Lines, was held in New York, where it underwent final tests, because of fog. | rain and low clouds. It was to have been christen Mrs. in Jr, 7 years old, all of 1425 T street. They were treated at Freedmen's Hos- pital. The accident occurred in front of their home. Lillian Thompson, colored, 53 years old, of 1852 Twentieth, was knocked down by an automobile last night on the south side of Dupont Circle. Wil- liam Hawkins of 3023 Cambridge place, the driver of the car, sent her to Emer- gency Hospital in a taxicab. She was treated for a lacerated sc MOTHER ASKS JAIL FOR SON; GRANTED Sentence of 210 Days Given for Conviction on Charge of Drunkenness. After his mother had requested that he be sent to jail, Walker Nokes, 35 years old, was sentenced today by Judge Robert E. Mattingly to a 210~ day term on his conviction in Police Court of intoxication. The mother, Mrs. Rosie Thomas, told the court her ;lcn is “worthless” and never had helped er. Mrs. Thomas testified her son came to her home at 341 D street southwest last night and demanded food. She added that in an argument which en- sued, her son choked her, threatened her with a knife, kicked his young sis- :er into the street and smashed furni- ure. The sentence given to Nokes was one of the gnost drastic possible in intoxi- cation cases. It followed his arrest by H. H. Helfin, a fourth precinct police~ man, on the complaint of Mrs. Thomas. BETHLEHEM SHEPHERDS TO ELECT QFFICERS Closing Seesion of Supreme Con- vention Is Slated for This Afternoon, Officers are being elected this after- noon at the closing session of the su- preme convention of the Order of Shep- tfiert‘(fi of Bethlehem, at the Washington o The convention, which has been in session since Monday mornings.when Secretary of Labor James Davis deliv- ered an address, is being attended by more than 900 delegates from all parts of the United States. Memorial exercises were held last night under the direction of Mrs. Eva A. Wyckoff-Hall, founder of the order, of Haddonfleld, N. J. This was followed by a class initiation. Sermon by Rev. F X. Cavanagh. Rev. Prancis X. Cavanagh, r of St. Martin’s Church, will' deliver .the sermon tomorrow morning at the cele- bration of the feast of St. Teresa at the Monastery of the Discalced. Carmelite Fathers, 150 Rhode Island avenue northeast, hefln]x;lnx at 10