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WASHINGTON 15,000 ENTER CITY FOR ANNUAL MEET OF U. S. DENTISTS Seventy-First Convention of American Society to Opén Tomorrow at Mayflower. DELEGATES REPRESENT ALL STATES IN UNION Clinic Work to Attract Interest in Week's Session—White House Reception Billed. With more than 15,000 men and women, members of the profession gathered here, the seventy-first annual session of the American Dental Asso- ciation will open tomorrow, launching a week of professional and social meet- s Dentists from every State are here. The association is headquartered at the Mayflower Hotel and the general | | | meetings of the delegates are to bel held there. Other hotsls also will be utilized for group meetings. Chimes will be held at the Washington Auditorium. Auditorium, too, a comprehensive ex- hibit of dental equipment will be shown. The first general meeting will be Tuesday at 9:30 o'clock at which time the association will be welcomed to the Capital at the Mayflower by Proc- tor L. Dougherty, president of the board of District Commissioners. The dele- gates, their wives and friends also will be welcomed formally by Dr. Sterling V. Mead, president of the District of Columbia Dental Society. Wilbur to Address. Of distinct interest to the profession is an address by Secretary of Interior ‘Wilbur, at the opening meeting. The response of the association to the wel- come addresses will be delivered by Henry W. Nelson of Minneapolis, vice president. Perry R. Howe of Boston, the president will deliver the annual address. Mr. Howe is to be succeeded by R. Boyd Bogle of Nashville, Tenn. The house of delegates of the associa- tion, to which are elected representa- tives of the membership in each State, is to meet tomorrow and during the day various programs and luncheons will be participated in by groups. The District of Columbia Dental Society will entertain the officers and dele- gates at luncheon in the Mayflower at 12:30 o'clock and at 1 o'clock the ladies’ auxiliary of the District Society will entertain visiting ladies at lunch- eon, in the ballroom. Scientific Section. Scientific sections devoted to studies of various problems of the profession are to be features of the week. These meetings will be held daily under the direction of some of the most promi- nent men in the profession. Motion picture studies of case problems will be shown in connection. Vice President Curtis is scheduled to extend greeting to the association at its second general meeting Tuesday eve- ning in Continental Memorial Hall. Music will be furnished by the United States Army Band under auspices of the military dental surgeons. Addresses are to be made that evening by three prom- inent health officers of the United States, Surg. Gen. Ireland of the Army, Surg. Gen. Riggs of the Navy and Surg. Gen. Cumming of the United States Public Health Service. A discussion of the subject “Evolution and Heredity” by George H. Parker, professor of zo0logy in Harvard Uni- versity, will be an interesting event ‘Wednesday before the third general meeting, in the Mayflower. Prof. Parker will be introduced by Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, himself & dentist. Interest in Clinics. Apart from the general meetings and | the social and entertainment programs planned in honor of the visiting women, chiet interest in the professional aspect of the annual meeting will center in the clinic program. The national associa- tion has not met in Washington since 1912, and the clinics, and more espe- clally the exhibits, will present an op- portunity to view many great improve- ments in the field of detal surgery. These clinics will be in six groups, college clinics, to be given by the mem- bers of the faculties of the colleges; section clinics, State association indi- vidual clinics, State association group or study club clinics, foreign clinics and district clinics, representing the group of States and Government branches in the District. Brief radio addresses by leading mem- bers of the association will be delivered | during the week from Washington sta- | tions that are co-operating in broad- | casting. Schools to Be Visited. Your of the visiting dentists have been designated to visit schools during the week. Dr. G. T. Epling of Welch, W. Vi will be at Curtiss School, Thirty-third and O streets, Wednesday at 9 o'elock, to address the student body briefly on the importance of care of the teeth. Dr. George N. West of Chicago, will visit Petworth School; . Mrs. Eleanor G. McCarthy of Boston, will visit West School, and Dr. W. McFall of Macon, Ga., will be at Busf ness High School, all at 9 am., Wed- nesday. Two events of deep interest to the | delegates and members are chief among | the social activities planned. These are | a reception at the White House, and a ball in honor ofethe president of the assoclation. President Hoover will re- celve the members at 12:30 o'clock Wednesday. The ball in honor of the retiring president, Mr. Howe, will be an event of Friday evening in the May- flower. The most spectacular feature of the association’s program will be a display of fireworks Tuesday evening on the Washington Monument grounds. Substitute Program. The fireworks display was planned as a substitute for a midnight theater frolic in order that a greater number of the members might enjoy a com- munity program. Pictures of President Hoover, Vice President Curtiss and high officers of the association will be out- lined in fire as features of the dl&pllr In addition to Mr. Howe, the presi- dent, officers of the association are Harry W. Nelson, Minneapolis; Harry Bear, Richmond, Va., and J. D. Jordan, Little Rock, Ark., vice presidents; Harry B, Pinney, chlcnin. secretary, and R, H. Volland, Iowa City, Iowa, treasurer. ‘The committe: on local arrangements is headed by Dr. C. Willard Camalier, W. H. Simkins and ‘W. W. Wyman. Following are members of the advisory committee: Drs. C. A. Baker, Fenton Bradford, A. J. Brown, H. B. Cobey, C. D. Cole, A. B. Crane, M. F. Finley. C. A. Hawley, Vernon J. Lohr, Sterling V. Mead, C. J. Mess, Thomas J. Rice, Bruce L. Taylor, A. D. Weakley, A. 8. Wolfe, J. T. McClenahan, T. L. Rust, E. Clyde Shade, W. N. Cogan, J. Ben Robinson, FE. W. Swinehart, C. T. Messner, Lloyd Y. Beers and Wilmer L. Souder, and Roy O. Woodruff, Sena- (Continued on Eighteenth Page.) B, | profession. | | At the | WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 6, 1929—PART 1_SECTION 2. 3 CONVENTION ENDED BY ORAL SURGEONS Dr. Frank W. Rounds of Bos- ton Elected Head of So- ciety Meeting Here. ‘The American Society of Oral Sur- geons and Exodontists brought its eleventh annual meeting to a clcse yes- terday after electing officers for the ensuing year. Most of the dental sur- geons who at tended the sessions intend to remain in Washington for the convention of the American Den- tal Association this week. The new officers elected are: Presi- dent, Dr, Frank W. Rounds, - Boston; president-elect, Dr. Harry Bear, Rich- mond, Va.; vice president, Dr. E. W. Browning, Salt Lake City; secre- tary, Dr. 5 Frew, Dallas, Tex.; treasurer, Dr. H. C. Miller, Chicago: executive council, Dr. George C. Fahy, New Haven, Conn.. and Dr. Roy Hopkinson, Milwaukee, Wis. The report of the educational com mittee at the closing session laid esp clal stress upon the educational pi gram of the society which proposes Nation-wide campaign for the distribu- tion of public health information for the purpose of eliminating preventable diseased conditions of the mouth and associated parts. The society member- | ship is limited to speclalists in this class of dental work. Dr. Rounds. DENTAL HYGIENISTS | HERE FOR MEETING | | | | | | | American Association to Be Wel- comed Tomorrow by Dis- trict Branch. An interesting program has been ar- | ranged by the American Dental Hy- genists’ Association, which meets in sixth annual convention this week at the Powhatan Hotel, coincident with the annual gathering of the American Dental Association. The hygienists will be welcomed at the first meeting of their house of delegates tomorrow by officers of the American Dental Association and the District of Columbia Dental Hygienists’ Association. The response will be de- livered by the organization’s president, Charlotte Klatt Sullivan of Philadel- hia. I\’Buslness meetings are to be held daily through Thursday, with addresses by members on subjects of interest to the The delegates and visitors will be taken on sight-seeing trips in Washington Friday. "The annual banquet of the organiza- tion will be an event of Wednesday eve- ning at the Mayflower Hotel. 4 In addition to the president, national officers are: Cora L. Ueland of Los An- geles, who is to be installed as the new president at the meeting: Helen Blake Smith of South Norwalk, Conn., first vice president; Harriett Fitzgerald of Berkeley, Calif., second vice president; | vice president; Agnes . Morris of Bridgeport, Conn., secretary, and Evelyn M. Gunnarson of New York, treasurer. Mrs. Agnes Bickerton of Honolulu, third | Registration Opens Parley Program of American Dentists The convention program of the American Dental Association for tomorrow follows: General registration, beginning at 8:30 o'clock, Washington Audi- torium. House of Delegates. first meet- ing, the garden, Mayflower Hotel, 10 o'clock. At the Washington Auditorium, dental health and scientific ex- hibits will be open at 10 o'clock and commercial exhibits at 9 o'clock. The House of Delegates will meet again at 2:30 o'clock. District- of Columbia Dental Society luncheon to officers and delegates in the Chinese room, Mayflower, at 12:30 p.m. At 1 oclock the Ladies Auxil- jary of the District of Columbia Dental Society will be hostess to the visiting ladies of the associa- tion at luncheon in the ballroom of the Mayflower. ‘Tomorrow evening there will be informal dancing for delegates and their ladies in the ballroom of the Mayflower from 9 o'clock until 1 o'clock. TRIO HERE FACE MANN ACT TRIAL Woman and Men From North| Carolina Taken on Two Charges. Ernest S. Roberts and Harry Ed- | wards, alias Samuel Brady, of Durham, N. C., yesterday were held for action of the grand jury when arraigned be- | fore Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court on charges of bringing a stolen automobile into the District and for violation of the Mann act. The mag- istrate fixed their bonds at $1,500 each. The two were arrested by Detective J. F. Boxwell of the sixth precinct after a lookout had been sent out by Durham police for an automobile re- ported missing from that city. | According to Assistant United States | Attorney Hobart Newman, Mrs. Ther- rell T. Lawson, the woman involved in the charges, told him that Roberts came to the home of her husband in Durham a few weeks ago and per- suaded her to come to Washington to assist him in running a gambling house. |She told Newman that Edwards had |been in trouble in the North Carolina city and did not have money to pay his lawyer's fee, so he gave his car. When he was released from jail he went to the lawyer's house and drove off in what he thought was his former car, she said, but later discovered it was the wrong one. The three came to this city in this car. Mrs. Lawson, whose husband was in police court yesterday, was held in $500 bond as a material witness. CATHOLIC MEET SET. Women's Council to Hold Next Ses- sion in Denver. The board of directors of the Na- | tional Council of Catholic Women has | decided that the organization will hold its_next annual convention in Denver, Colo., in September, 1930. this announcement last night officials said the coming convention, which will be the tenth, will start September 28 and will probably last four days. The council has just completed its convention in Washington. Historic Collection An historic collection of crosses, Tep- resentative of various schools of eccle- siastical art, bequeathed to Washington Cathedral by Mrs. James T. Leavitt In memory of her husband, will be placed on exhibition in the memorial of ‘Washington Cathedral Library Thurs- day, when the chapter of Washington Cltl Fall. Mrs. Leavitt, who died this Summer, had resided in Washington for a num- ber of years and was a regular worship- per at the cathedral services. A catalogue of the crosses has been prepared to which a foreword has been written by Very Rev. G. C. F. Bratenahl, dean of Washington. Fifty items are included in the col- lection, and they represent practically every era of Christian symbolism. Nota- ble in the group is a crystal reliquary containing & splinter of the true cross, found by St. Helena, mother of Con- stantine. The crusaders and pilgrims were allowed to kiss the plece of the cross in Jerusalem, nn‘ smany splinters f | belonged to the Borghese Poj hedral has its first meeting of the | Of Crosses To Be Shown at Cathedral Library were bitten off. This has the patriarch's seal. There is also a crystal reliquary from Spain. The splinter it contains probably also is of the trie cross. A processional cross is said to have pe, Paul V. Pope between 1605 and 1621. It is finel, enameled on silver and copper. In the collection also is a Byzantine proces- | sional cross probably tenth century, a genuine crusader's cross, a reliquary, date twelfth century; while there is, too, a very early Coptic oross, probably the first century, It is in bronze about 5 inches high and green from lying in the earth for some ages. Other crosses of varticular ‘interest are a cross from | Thebes, probably sixth century; a num- | ber of small Coptic crosses, three copies | of Coptic benediction crosses, a Russian cross, probably thirteenth century, and a number of other Russlan crosses of varjous periods, including christening crosses, an Armenian bishop's cross and two crosses of Malta with the date 1600 and a mother-of-pearl cross made in Jerusalent | will speak at this In making | isisted by J. E. Liston, sr, and J. J. HOST TO WOMEN AT, DENTAL CONVENTION Upper, left to right: Mrs. Anna Rush, vice chaiman of sightseeing trip around city; Mrs. Sterling Mead, chairman, in- formation committee, and Mrs. Clyde Gearhart, chairman, sightseeing trip. Lower, left to right: Mrs. Allen Scott Wolfe, general chairman, entertainment committee, and Mrs. C. Shelton, mem- ber of entertainment committee. | ADES OF DENTTS | " WEET ONTUESDAY, | National Officers of Associa-; | tion Arrive to Prepare for Fifth Convention. Special Dispatch to The Star. Preliminaries for the fifth annuai convention of the American Dental As- sistants Association are being worked | out with the arrival of the national ! officers, of which Mrs. Juliette A. |Southard, New York City, is na- tional president. Preliminary con- ferences are being held at the Hotel Hamilton. ‘The membership is composed of the dental nurses and secretaries 2550~ clated in dental | offices. The object is to create a pro- fession for the dental nurse simi- lar to that in the medical profes- s sion. Washington has a local unit of this national organization, of which Miss, Gertrude T. Webber is president and | Miss Charlotte A. Hardwick is secretary. Meet Three Days. ‘The meetings of the association will be held at the Hamilton Hotel, Tues- day, Wednesday and Thursday. Tuesday morning the house of dele- gates will hold its first session. Greet- ings will be given by Lillian Meagher. Oklahoma City, a member of the bonrdi of trustees. Several prominent dentists { meeting. Miss Vir- ginia K. Young, president of the tal Assistants Association, “Assistance in a Smal Southard. | meeting of the house of | delegates be held Tuesday at 2 |o'clock. Mrs. Southard will give the president’s address. President Webber of the District of Columbia Dental Assistants Society will give the address of welcome and Aloise B. Clement, Omaha, Neb., the response. There will be several other speakers. Clinics on Wednesday. Clinics will be held Wednesday at the Washington Auditorium, covering the | procedure in dental offices. ‘The annual banquet will take place ! Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock, at the ! Hotel Hamilton. Mrs. Southard will} preside. Among_the speakers will be| Representative Frederick N. Zihlman, | chairman_of the House District com-, mittee. Guests will be Dr. Percy R. Howe, president of the American Den- tal Association; Dr. R. Boyd Bogle, president-elect, and their co-workers. as well as prominent members of the dental profession in Washington. A geners ST. DOMINIC’S FESTIVAL HAS OPENING TOMORROW | Seventeen Decorated Booths to Be| Erected—Funds to Be Raised for Various Projects. The Fall festival on the grounds of |'st. Dominic’s Church, Sixth and E | streets southwest, will open tomorrow for the three-day period. The festival, postponed to avoid con- flict with the Army carnival, which closed yesterday, is being held for the purpose of raising additional funds to modernize the priory, parochial school and auditorium. incidental to the restoration of the church, that was swept by a severe fire last February. Very Rev. R. M. Burke, O. P, the pastor, has continued the activities of the laymen’s committee organized after the fire, to promote various affairs to help defray the cost of reconstruction work. Exterior work on the building, including, the replacement of the mas- sive roof, has just been finished. The interior work is expected to be com- pleted by the end of this year. Seventeen decorated booths have begn | | erected for the festival, under the di- rection of John J. Braund, chairman of the committee on arrangements, as- Carralier, Booths will be in the charge of the following members of the committee: Mrs. Rose Riordan, Mrs. J. E. Liston. sr, Mrs. James E. McDermott, Miss Frances Dwyer, Miss Mary Rich, Miss Catherine McCann, Miss Catherine Rich, Dr. F. T. Marsden, Mr. Hen- nessey, Maurice Fitzgerald and Miss Regina A. Marsde! AIR MAIL TO BE TOPIC. | Postmaster General Brown to Ad- dress Ad Club Luncheon. Postmaster General Walter F. Brown will deliver an address on “The Air Mail” at a luncheon of the Advertlalnfi Club of Washington in the National Press Club Building Tuesday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock. A number of special guests have been invited. Three Captains Retired. Because of disabilities incident to iheir military service, Capt. Robert M. i Butler, Medical Corps, at’ Miscomb, Miss.; Capt. Charles C. Gans, Medical Corps, at_Jacksonville, Fla., and Capt. John A. Rowe, Dental Corps, at Oak- land, Calif., have been transferred to the Army retired list, each in the ad- anr%noce D. € Fort. M Ty rps, Al T ac. been retired also n on account of disability incident P the service. | meeting by Jesse. McCarth: | | { | COL. GRANT HOPES TOSETTLE CLASH OVER PLANT SITE |Park Commission Officer to Discuss Matter With 0il Company. {ARLINGTON ZONING GROUP DENIES PERMIT Board of Supervisors Then Grants Right to Build Storage and Distribution Terminal. The Board of Supervisors of Arling- ton County having granted a permit to the Sun Oil Company of Philadelphia for the erection of a large oil storage and distribution plant in Rosslyn, there- by threatening the future park develop- ment plans of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Col. U. S Grant, 3rd, vice chairman and executive officer of the latter body, hopes to pe able to reach a satisfactory settlement through negotiations with the oil com- pany, it was revealed yesterday. The permit was granted over a vir- tually unanimous protest of the citizens and of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and after the Ar- | lington County Zoning Commission had voted 3 to 2 to disapprove it. So great was the resentment that a large num- ber of women who were present when the permit was approved by the county governing body hurled political threats at the two members voting in favor of the permit.$ Seen as Great Menace, In the opinion of the planning com- mission, and also of a great number of the citizens and business interests of the county. the proposed plant, if located at the point in question, will present a greater menace to the development of the countv than did the proposal by a Washington concern some time ago to erect an abbattoir on Columbia pike. near Relee Station. This plant would have been near the proposed park de- velopment, while the oil company would be in the middle of it. The request for an application for the plant was made several weeks ago to the Zohing Commission by C. H. Greathouse, owner of the property. Greathouse stated at the time that the company proposed to purchase the property if they could obtain a permit for the erection of the plant, which would cost $100.000. Believing that the oil company should either make application themselves or through their attorney, the zoning com- mission refused to consider the appli- cation and it was presented at the next y. Phillips and Klinge, who had been retained as attorneys. Mackey's Hill Fights Move. Upon learning of the filing of the | application, Crandal Mackey and Dr. J. N. Roberts, residents of Mackey's Hill, which adjoins the property, started a fight against the plant. claiming that it wauld be unsightly, that it would ruin the value ol their property and that it would be a fire hazard. Eventually the residents combined to fight it and em- ployed Mackey as counsel. ‘They were backed in their stand by the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, the Organized Women Voters of Arlington County and a num. ber of other organizations. These com- bined forces appeared at the public hearing before the Zoning Commission and presented their protests, the com:- mission voting 3 to 2 at a subse- quent executive session to recommend the denial of the permit. The Zoning Commission, however, does not have the final authority and the matter was brought before the | board of county supervisors at their | meeting last Monday and that body. | after a storm of protest, voted to grant | the permit. It was at this meeting that | the political careers of both Supervisors Edward Duncan and B. M. Hedrick were threatened by Mackey and many of the women present. Mackey has stated since that he in- tends seeking an injunction against the company, claiming it to be a nuisance, and that if he fails in this, he will file separate damage suits for each and every person whose property is damaged, as he claims, by the pres- ence of the plant at that place. Say County Needs Taxes. The stand taken by the two members of the Zoning Commission and the two members of ‘the board of supervisors who voted to permit the erection of the plant is that the ground in question is strictly industrial and that the county is badly in need of the taxes that would result from the establish- ment of the plant in the county. The park development plans of the Natlonal Capital Park and Planning Commission are purely speculative, they claim, and the owners of property along the river front should not be made to pay taxes on their property for an indefinite time in order to pre- serve it for the future use of the Fed- eral body. Col. Grant said yesterday that he believes that no criticism should be lev- eled at the oil company, as its officials are willing to confer and modify their plans to fit in with the Government's g-rkw-y program along the Virginia ank of the Potomac River, if possible. The suggestion has been advanced that the company might be able to conceal its tanks in the wooded area in the vicinity of Rosslyn, so as not to mar the scenic beauty of the place. A legal point likely to be keenly contested if the Park Commission and the oll company were to come to grips on the program is the contention of the legal right of the Federal Government to claim title to the Virginia shore line up to the old 1791 hi ater mark, The Federal Government is represented as contending wharfs and docks can not be constructed there without a permit from the War De- partment. Government contention is that it may be able to show riparian rights there so as to block any expan- slon that might interfere with plans which Congress might sanction. Commission Studies Proposal. The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission has had under eon- sideration for some time the proposal to link up the boulevard to Mount Ver- non, n be constructed, with riverside boulevard along the bank the Potomac River, in the Old Do- minion, up to Chain Bridge. Ulti- mately, it is proj to extend this drive into Great . A similar pro- gram is now under way to construct a riverside driveway up the Maryland ide’ of the river to Great Falls. As the Virginia side of the river presents rnulneerlnfidlmcumu. due to the hilly / nature of the country, it is believed that the first phase of this development will be carried only up to Chain Bridge. | As construction of a boulevard on the Virginia side above Chain Bridge is considered very expensive, Col. Grant explained that its devengent is not practical in the immediate future. i | Col. Grant said that he regretted very | mittee ‘(Continued on Elghteenth Page.) . | frontage corresponding in_architecture i landing in the branches of a tree and EXPECT NEW PLA Planted in Gras transformed into one of the most Union Station plaza, and this part pleted within a architect, are realized. It is confidently believed that C appropriation bill, to be drafted foll of the plaza development early in The two squares which have just been cleared of buildings are bounded by Delaware avenue, New Jersey avenue, B and C streets. By this time next year they will be areas of grass and shrub- ?elrybflmng‘ in"wma t‘}’:e existing Capi- tol - Grounds, e deficiency appro- priation is obtained. ISP Already Authorized. ‘The entire plaza program has been provided in an enabnng‘:u, %0 that no difficulty is anticipated in securing the first appropriation at an early date. The terrace to be formed between B and C streets, between Delaware and New Jersey avenues, will have an orna- mental retaining wall along the C street with the Senate Office Building. Beneath this terrace will be an in- visible garage, capable of housing 200 cars. North Capitol street will Bel hicles could turn into the proposed | diagonal boulevard which will extend | from Union Station to Pennsylvania | avenue, near Third street. North Capi- | tol street would be an open vista from | D street to the Capitol Building. At| | & point near North Capitol and C streets {an attractive fountain is to be con-|quired on the west side of the Capitol, structed. | The street car tracks now passing along C street are to be lowered into a depression from New Jersey to Dela- | ware avenues to that they will not break the view of the Capitol from/ Union Station. These tracks will emerge | TO BE BUILT THIS WINTER Former Site of Government Hotels to Be Beautification Plan. ‘The two squares on the north side of the Capitol, from which the temporary Government hotels recently were removed, will be ear, if the expectations of David Lynn, Capitol ¥ ZA ADDITION s and Shrubs in t attractive portions of the new of the plaza project will be com- ‘ongress will include in a deficiency owing the tariff measure, suffictent money to enable Capitol officials to start work on this initial part the Winter. from the depression at Delaware ave- nue and be extended to Pirst street east. The tracks now on Delaware avenue and B street will be taken up, and cars will go to and from Union Station on new tracks to be laid on First street east. This also is being done to open an unobstructed vista between the sta- tion and the Capitol. The Government dormitories front- ing on Union Station probably will re- main in use for a few more years, but it is the hope of Capitol officials to com- plete the entire plaza layout in 1932. Office Building Plan. Closely related to the plaza project is the plan to embellish the north front of the Senate Office Building. This structure was built before Union Sta- tion, and its architectural features are at the end facing the Capitol. Pre- liminary plans have been prepared for ]closed to traffic at D street, where ve- | the architectural decoration of the north end, to make it harmonize with the plaza layout. Funds for some of this work also may be asked for this Winter, Before the new boulevard from the station to Pennsylvania avenue can be laid out, additional land must be ac- but it is hoped to have this done also by 1932. Although it will take several years to carry out the whole project, the part | which officials hope to do within the | next 12 months will add greatly to the appearance of the Capitol. GAMBLERS ESCAPE BY LEAP T0 TREE Vice Squad Raids Gambling Establishments, But Fails to Make Arrests. Two heavily barricaded gambling es- tablishments in downtown Washington were raided by Sergt. Oscar J. Letter- man's vice squad yesterday afternoon, but before the officers could smash their way through the barriers, the pro- prietors and patrons escaped, in one case, by jumping into the branches of nearby tree, and in the other through a skylight and over the roof. Both raids were the outcome of a| “week’s investigation by policemen work- | ing as undercover agents. Never Before Raided. ‘The first establishment visited was in the 400 block of Eleventh street. Ac- cording to the officers, it has never be- fore been raided, and consequently they were not familiar with the physical ar- rangement of the place. They found their way blocked by a heavy wooden door with iron bars. A man was left to guard the front while the rest of the party attempted to force an entrance through a barred window at the rear of the second floor. Sud- denly there began an exodus of men through the windows, the human shower | | | sliding to the ground. All the occupants of the partment made good their escape. | Alleged dice tables, racing parapher- nalia and several telephones were found. Five wooden doors and three steel reinforced portals were encountered by the policemen when they raided an- other alleged gambling establishment | in the second block of Ninth street, | opposite the Center Market. While | they were breaking their way through | the barriers with sledges the occupants | escaped through the skylight and fled | across the adjoining roofs. Sergt. Let- | terman réported that complete equip- | ment for a gambling, resort was found in the place. A third raid was made by the same officers in the 1500 block of Seventh street. Here they expected to find | liquor, but the woman living in the | i house escorted them through the place g without any intoxicants being located. | {DISTRICT DRAMA GUILD | SELECTS OPENING PLAY “The Torchbearers” Will Be Pre- sented Week of Nov. 11 Under Direction of D. E. Connell. “The Torchbearers,” an American play, by George Kelly. author of “Craig's Wife,” was named by the board of governors of the Community Drama Guild of the District at a meeting yes- terday, as the first production of the season, to be given during the week of November 11, at McKinley Auditorium. Dennis E. Connell, well “nown actor and director, was unanimously chosen to direct the play for the Drama Guild. A more ambitious program of events, starting with “The Torchbearers,” and three other plays, one in February, one in April and one In June, with an ad- ditional one-act play tournament in January, has been planned by the guild. There also will be a play-writ- ing contest some time after the first of the year. Last season’s guarantors have been invited to again become guarantor- members, and letters have been sent to other outstanding drama-lovers in the city by the guild. SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE SERIES INAUGURATED “Nanook of the North” Shown This Evening at City Club. A series of Sunday night motion pic~ ture entertainments to continue for 32 weeks will be inal ated this evening at 7:30 o'clock at the City Club. Robert Flaherty's noted Arctic pic- ture, “Nanook of the North,” will open the series. For golf fans of the club, a Grantland Rice Sportlight will be shown. The two-hour show will close with a Max Davidson comedy, “Flam- ing Fathers.” The club has provided a new 24-foot screen on the back of its stage and a re-arrangement of the hall provides ac- mmodations for 1,000 persons. E. B. mpson is in charge of the projec- tion equipment, while the pictures are pro Robert Smeltzer, vice president of the entertainment com- conjunction with the Wash- ard of Trade. to Be ington’ “Drunk” Gives Jail As Address—Judge Sends Him “Home” Dan Hart gave his address as 200 Nineteenth street southeast, the District Jail, when arraigned before Judge Robert E. Mattingly on a charge of intoxication yes- terday. The judge sent him home for 90 days. Hart, who has been before the judge quite frequently during the last few years, was arraigned Fri- day and told the judge that he had not been drunk. “All right, Dan, you always tell me the truth: you may go,” said the magistrate. Hart was brought in again yes- terday and admitted that he had been drunk. “All right, Dan,” said Mattingly, “I believe you: serve 90 days in jail. I will see that you get out December 31, so you can start the new year in a | ! The Sundiny Staf [cro o PAGE 17 BOARD CONVENES TRACTION MERGER CASE TOMORROW Companies Maintain Utilities Commission Not Vested With Proper Power. CONTEND ONLY 60NGRESS COULD ADJUST MATTER Group Holds Profits Could Be Ob- tained by Combining Two Railways. After a three-week recess, the appli- cations of the Capital Traction p:n‘d Washington Railway and Electric Cos. for increased fares will come on for open hearings before the Public Utilities Commission again at 10 o'clock tomor- row. The matter of fares, as such, how- ever. will not be discussed, and the hearings will be confined to merger dis- clérs;mnu. _— e comm! n has taken the attitud throughout that merger discusfi‘i‘;n; should be a part of this case. The com- panies have interposed objections and exceptions at every step, but the com- mission has hewed to the line. g The Board's Position. e commission’s position on te ter, summarized, &5, Hhichua The companies say they are not earn- ing enough income. The only way they can consider increasing revenue is through increase of fares. But any sav: ings in expenses of operation would re- sult in larger incomes, Operating ex- penses can be cut by merged operations. Therefore. the companies ought at least to be willing to discuss with us how much money could thus be saved, and 1::;:‘}15? 1;:m is not a better way to come t y o han putting up’ the The com uk:v ;hls: dle it is true that money may saved by merged operations, a mérg:': can only be accomplished by Congress, not by the commission. We put up a fair and practical merger to Congress last year. Congress took no action. Should we put up another this year, there is nothing to show we would have any better luck. We are not making as much money as the law entitles us to earn. This is a fact, not specula- tion. If we get higher fares, we w;ll earn more money. This also is f fal. Should we agree to merge, who Is to tell what action Congress will take on any merger plan? That is all speculi- tion. We are entitled to relief ir ca.1, not in hopes. Agrees to Stipulation. Thus the matter, for the presert stands. In response to repeated invits- tions. the Capital Traction Co. final.y agreed. in a letter, to enter into merg 3 discussions only provided these dis- panies’ position is somewhat right way. I expect you back again on January 2, then I will put you away where you can keep warm during the Winter months.” {cussions in no way delayed tne de- termination of the petition for higher | fares. The commission agreed readiv | 'enough “to this stipulatiqy and set | partment’s ' model AIRCRAFT BOYS TRIP LAGKS §100 Deficit to Be Met Before | Louisville Train Arrange- ' ments Are Completed. Unless $100 additional expense money | is forthcoming this week, disappoint- | ment is in store for one or several of the seven local boys who have qualified to represent the District in the National injature Aircraft Tournament at | Louisville, Ky., October 18 and 19. About $300 of the $400 needed to send the winners of the recent trials here to the national tournament has been paid or pledged to Joshua Evlnl‘,i jr., treasurer of the advisory board, Dis- | trict Model Aircraft League. It is hoped that the deficit will be made up | so that railroad accommodations can be arranged. ‘The boys will be supervised by John Williams, the Community Center De- | aircraft instructor, who has obtained leave of absence to make the trip. The contestants them- selves, all public school puplils, hi been granted permission to absent | themselves from classes on Friday, Oc- tober 18. Members of the advisory board are | confident the entire amount will be in | | hand by Thursday, when the board meets in the office of Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman. Cups and medals won by the boys in the District tournament, preliminary to the national affair, will be on dis- play in the model aircraft section of the Industrial Exposition, to be held here the week of October 21. ! |COLORED DRIVER TRIES TO SLASH POLICEMAN Failure to Give Hand Signal Leads | to Court Action on Several Charges. i Carlton C. Arner, colored, attacked Policeman G. W. Cook of the eighth precinct with a_knife early y-sterday morning after the officer had stopped him when he failed to give a hand signal at Fourteenth and S streets. Cook escaped serious injury when he knocked the weapon from his assailant’s hand, just as the man made, an attempt to use it. Arner then reached in his pocket, pulled out a pint bottle and sent it | crashing into the street. In Police Court, Arner was arraigned on four charges. He demmanded jury trials on charges of carrying a concealed weapon and the possession of whisky, and was held on a $1,000 bond by Judge Gus A. Schuldt. Judge Mattingly fined the man $10 for breaking glass in the street, while Judge Isaac R. Hitt ordered Arner to pay $3-for failing to give a hand signal. o LIONS’ GOLF TOURNEY. Club Cancels Weekly Luncheon for| Links Contest. The Washington Lions' Club will hold | a golf tournament at the Manor Club, Norbeck, Md., Wednesday afternoon, beginning at 1 o'clock, to be followed by a dinner at 6: at which prizes will be awarded to the winning golfers. In view of the tournament, the club will not hold its usual weekly luncheon at the Hotel Mayflowlf’ Wednesday. | most _ protracted and | held by the commission in a rate case, | began July 29. dates for receiving briefs (= the fais question witnout regard to tne merger propositon. Briefs on behalf of the companies were received September 30. Reply briefs, in behalf of the people, must be filed by Octuder 18 The de. cision of the fare case will come a ‘reasonable” time after the latter date. The Washington Railway & Elegtric Co. has washed its hands of the whole affair, and will have nothing to do with merger talk. Unless some change of heart has occurred in the meantime, the discussions tomorrow will be tween the commission and the Capital Traction Co. The hearings, which are probably the thorough ever YOUNG APPOINTS AIDE FOR LICENSING PLANES Gilbert G. Budwig Is Named As- sistant Director of Aeronautics by U. S. Official. By the Associated Press. Gilbert G. Budwig of Cleveland was appointed yesterday as assistant direc- tor of Aeronautics in the Commerce De- partment to supervise all activities in connection with licensing aircraft and | aviators. Assistant Secretary Young said the post was created on account of a large increase in licensing. During the past three years, Maj. Young said, the de~ partment has received more than 86.- 000 applications and renewal requesis for Government air licenses. For the past year and a half, Capt. Budwig has been chief of the inspec- tion section of the department's air regulation division. He is a_transport pilot and has been piloting aircraft for more than 13 years. SAYS GOVERNMENT COST IS STEADILY MOUNTING Representative Byrns $205,963,314 Expended 1929 Over 1928. The assertion that the cost of the Federal Government to the taxpayers is steadily mounting was made yester- day by Representative Byrns of Ten- nessee, chairman of the Democratic na- tional congressional committee. “During the fiscal year 1929,” Repre- sentative Byrns said, “total ordinary expenditures by the Federal Govern- ment were $3,298,859,485, while the total of all expenditures, ordinary and extraordinary, was $3,848,483,189. “The 1929 fiscal year ordinary ex- penditures were $195,599,631 greater than those of the fiscal year 1928, while the total of all expenditures for 1929 was $205,963,314 greater than those for the fiscal year 1928. At the present rate of increase, expenditures for the current fiscal year will be approximately $450,000,000 greater than for the 1928 fiscal year, an annual increase averag- ing $225,000,000. Asserts in PURSE IS SNATCHED. Description of Two Colored Boys Is Broadcast by Police. Mrs. Augusta Brown of 4700 Con- necticut avenue, reported to police of the eighth precinct last ngiht that her purse contining $2 in cash, two bank books and a $1 check, was snatched from her hand by two colored boys as she was walking along Columbia road in the 1800 block about 6:43 o'clock. She said that when the boys took her purse they turned and ran. She was able to give police a description of both ms.‘:v ich was broadcast throughout city.