Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1930, Page 17

‘CTIZENS, ADVISORY COUNCIL DEMANDS VOTE IN CONGRESS Pending Bill to Allow Voice on Floor Without Ballot Dis- approved by Group. REPORT CITES DELAYS ON D. C. LEGISLATION| | ‘Half Million Taxpayers Entitled to Consideration as Citizens, Declare Residents. Asking “as a matter of simple jus- tice” that the residents of Washington | Dbe granted their “fundamental rights” as Americans, the Citizens' Advisory Coun- cil, meeting last night in the District Building, gave its approval to the House resolution proposing an amend- ment to the Constitution that would | empower Congress to grant voting rep- resentation in Congress and the right to vote for President and Vice President ‘o the voteless people of the National Capital. At the same time the council dis- approved the pending bill for the elec- vion of a speaking but non-voting Dis- trict_Delegate in the House. “The people of this District are not especially Gesirous of having the privi- “cge of talking on the floor of Con- says the report adopted by the council. “They do, however, want a yart in the making of laws and a vote at national elections.” Report Is Considered. The report in favor of antional rep- gesentation in full is as follows: “The Citizens' Advisory Councll, hav- ing under consideration House joint resolution 64, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for national _representation for the people of the District of Co- lumbia, most respectfully recommends its passage by Congress. “This matter having been before Con- gress so many times in recent years, it | is hardly necessary to undertake .the; enumeration of the numerous reasons why the bill should pass and become law. Sufficeth to say that the Distriot of Columbia is the home and business field of more than a half million self- respecting, loyal American citizens, who by all the rules of logic and fair play are entitled to as much consideration as any other Americans. “These people pay national taxes, obey national laws and go to war in the Nation’s defense, and they per- form these acts of citizenship whole- heartedly and willingly. Why, then, | should they be denied equal rights and | privileges with other Americans? As a matter of simple justice, these people should not be further denied their fundamental rights. “The Citizens' Advisory _Council, therefore, representing more than { 35.000 of these votleless taxpayers, once more urges upon Congress that it give favorable consideration to H. J. Res. 64. Other Measures Approved. At last night's meeting, Which was presided over by Dr. George C. Haven- ner, chairman_and president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, the council also gave its approval to the following measures before Congress: Bills to transfer the Municipal Build- ing to the Federal Government for an amount agreed upon by specified ap- praisers, the money to be used for the erection of a new buflding in the mu- nicipal center; for increase in firemen’s and policemen’s pay; for the election of the Board of Education; for free text books to high school pupils; for an ) propriation of $10,000,000 for the sec. ond school-building program; to dis- continue the use of dwellings in alleys of less than 30 feet in width; to add two judges to the District Supreme Court and two judges to the District | Court of Appeals; to exchange property |in the Turkey Thicket Playgrounds, in Northeast Washington, for other prop- erty to be used for playground purposes, |and to exempt from taxation the prop- | erty of the National Society of the Sons | of the American Revolution in Wash- | ington. DRIVE IS PLANNED !and technique of the originals. | I | These youngsters registered enthusia: road and Nineteenth street, at 9 o’clock fer when they took possession of the handsome new Adams School, at Columbia the Morgan School and are among the “charter pupils” of the new Adams. stic and happy approval of their trans- | this morning. They formerly l“elldul' —Star Staff Photo. BRITISH EXPLORER DESCRIBES FIND Caves in Gobi Desert Give Up| Buddhist Manuscripts and Paintings. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Discovery of priceless treasures, hid: den for centuries in the dark, walled-in | depths of cave temples at the edge of | the Gobi Desert, in Northwestern China, was described yesterday afternoon at the Freer Gallery by Sir Aurel Stern, famous British explorer and archeologist. The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas | were found near Tun-Huang, an old military outpost in an oasis near the | western edge of the old Chinese civili- | zation and on the caravan route be: tween China and Western Asia. The temples, excavated in solid rock, evidently had constituted a great re- ligious center in the early days of the invasion of China by the Buddhist re- ligion, but had been abandoned long since and practically forgotten by the | native population, when they were re- discovered by the British expedition. Sir Aurel found large chambers prac- tically packed full of ancient manu- scripts, painting, embroideries and carv- ings, many of which not only throw new light on the development of the Budd- hist creed-in a new environment, but are priceless as works of art. They were produced in the Golden Age of Chinese artistic genius and civilization, and al- though most of the paintings are copies of lest works of the old masters they presumably retain much of the spirit Treasures Undisturbed. The manuscripts and paintings owe their preservation through so many centuries to the fortunate location of the temples in the Gobi Desert, where there 1s very little moisture in the air, and to the fact that they were walled | up and left undisturbed. Thus they were recovered little the worse for their great antiquity. The treasures recovered, according to the discoverer, give a vivid picture of the evolution in the character and philosophy of Prince Guatama, the | founder of the Buddhist creed, as his gospel passed from one people to an- other. ~Even the physical appearance of the great religious leader changed, as shown by the works of art, to adapt him to th. religious ideals of another and more vigorous people than those to whom he had_preached. h Guatama had set up as the highest good the extinction of the personality in universal nature, or Nirvana, to which one achieved through a series of higher and higher reincarnations, each being in the nature of a purifica- BY U. S. EMPLOYES, Convinced Membership in District | Can Be Expanded to 50,000. Convinced that its membership in the | District can be expanded from approxi- mately 16,000 to 50,000, officers of the District Federation of Federal Employes | and of the 10 affiliated unions are plan- ning intensive organization work in con- Tection with the Winter meeting of the national federation’s .exeeutive council, being held at the Labor Building, 10 B street southwest. John W. Ginder, president of the| District federation, and Willlam S. Kin- ney, secretary of the War Department ! TUnion, conferred late yesterday with | the ideal of the other great world re- |1y civilized Chinese of that period, to tion process for the ultimate ideal of | non-existence as an individual’ This was in striking contrast to the after life in heaven which was set up as ligion which developed in the Western | civilization, But the vigorous and high- whom - life was something more than the ordeal of suffering which it seemed to the people of India to whom Gua- tama had preached, did not take kindly to the idea of Nirvana. Paintings Depict Change. But there were many elements in the Buddhist _religion, which was being | brought in over the caravan routes | from India, which appealed to them | and they were able to accept it by changing Guatama’s concept of Nir- vana into_something approaching the concept of the Christian paradise. It is the story of this change which ap- pears particularly in the recovered art masterpleces when they are compared with the religious pictures of India. Prince Guatama himself is seen members of the council and the presi- dents of the unions in Washington with | a view to submitting suggestions to the | council later. In general, the national federation is | supporting the membership expansion | policy laid down by the American Fed- eration of Labor, with which it . affili- | ated. The council yesterday advised | William Green, president of the Ameri- | can Federation, who is presiding at an | organization conference at Charlotte N. C., that the organization will make concerted drive to expand that portion | of the labor movement composed of Federal workers. Two representatives of the National Federation of Federal | Employes are attending the Charlotte | conference, which was called by Mr.! Green to launch a campaign for organ- | izing Southern workers. .in‘ the labor movement. National vicé presidents representing all geographical sections of the country are attending the meeting of the execu- tive council. Luther C. Steward is president of the National Federation of Federal Employes. The council called on President Hoover yesterday. SOCIAL PROBLEMS TOPIC. The world today is considering social and non-political problems in an inter- national setting, Leifur Magnusson, di- changing from a Hindu to a Chinese in the concepts of the artists. The char- acteristic repose and lack of personality, which sometimes seems like smug self- satisfaction, disappears from his fea- tures and he becomes more of an ac- tive human personality. The working of the change is also seen in paintings where the Indian features are preserved, but against a background of Chinese cenery. Many of the paintings deal with the lesser divinities of the Buddhist creed and some of the most beautiful deplct the glories of that paradise which seemed essential to the Chinese con- verts. ' Many of the paintings were in the form of banners, always an important element of the Chinese worship, which were worked on very thin, nearly trans- | parent, silk which” in any other sur-/ roundings long since would have | crumbled to decay. A few of the pic- tusas and manuscripts were exactly datet. The earliest were from the fifth century of the Christian era. There is reason to belleve that some of the un- dated articles are much older. Walled Up in Eleventh Century. The Caves of the Thousand Buddhas, said Sir Aurel, were walled up in the eleventh century, presumably from fear of invasion, and had not been opened since until he found them. Now many | of the articles are being studied by rector of the Washington Bureau of the Internatidnal Labor Office, told ‘the Twentieth Century Club at a meet- ing in the Y. W. C. A. yesterday after- ‘noon. “Countries which may definitely |‘'withhold_themselves from international [co-operation in the _political _sphere lpmmcxy express their willingness to co- operate in non-political, humanitarian “gndeavors of every sort,” be British Museum experts. Many of the articles, he said, appar- ently were produced in provincial work- shops for patrons who were not rich enough to patronize the great masters of China’s golden age. But they indi- | the recommendation of Rear Admiral S. ANNAPOLIS FRAUD PENALTIES UPHELD One Midshipman to Bé De- moted and Another Per- mitted to Resign. Secretary Adams today will approve S. Robison, superintendent of the Naval Academy, in demoting one mid- | shipman one class and offering the other the opportunity to resign, in lieu of being dismissed, as a result of charges of fraud preferred on ths basis of ac- cusations that one took a physical ex- amination for the other, just prior to he Christmas holidays. Midshipman R. H. Kashower, a mem- ber of the third class, is to be given) the opportunity to resign, in lieu of be- ing dismissed, while Midshipman Ken- neth Loveland, a member of the same class, is to be demoted one class. Love- land’ was accused of taking the ath. letic tests for Kashower, who was repre- sented as fearing that he was unable to pass the physical examination. Both | men came to the Naval Academy from the ranks of the enlisted men, one and one-half years ago, after passing rigor- | ous mental tests. After charges of fraud had been pre- ferred against both men, the Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department, got in touch with them ‘and gave them the opportunity to submit written reports | of their versions of the affair. This was done, but the department did not make these public. Inasmuch as the papers in the case are being forwarded today to the Naval Academy, Kashower nas not had opportuntiy as yet to make his choice, but officers consider that he_will resign. Rear Admiral Richard H. Leigh, chief of the Bureau of Navigation, took the matter up with Secretary Agdams, who studied the case and then handed down { his decision confirming the findings of the Naval Academy superintendent. Loveland is from Utah and Kashower is from California. RETIRED SOLDIER LEAPS TO DEATH Stock Losses Blamed for Man's 100-Foot Plunge From Roof. A certificate of sulcide was signed today by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt in | the death of Levin Connor, 60-year-old retired color sergeant, United States Cavalry. who ended his life yesterday afternoon in a 100-foot leap from the roof of the Bellevue Hotel, at 15 E street. Connor walked from his room, on the third floor, to the roof of the hotel, climbed to @ three-foot parapet over- looking the street and jumped from the building while workmen engaged in the construction of a home nearby looked on, The identity of the body was estab- lished by J. Frank O'Brien, manager of the Bellevue. Connor's decision to end his life it attributed to unwise stock speculations. A letter received by him yesterday from a local brokerage firm requested $990 additional stock margin. His bank account showed that he had withdrawn more than $2,000 in_recent weeks, leaving a balance of $2,500. Connor’s home was formerly at Poco- moke City, Worcester County, Md. The body is in the District Morgue | awaiting instruction from the War Department. Police .iave been unable to ascertain whether Connor has any relatives. THREE ROBBERIES NET LOOT VALUED AT $200 Jewelry, Clothing and Canned Goods Taken From Apartments * and Warehouse. Burglars got goods worth more than $200 at three places in the Capital yes- terday. 1 Mamie Wheeler and Sarah White, 1907 Thirteenth street, reported jewelry and clothing taken from that address yesterday to the value of $145. Thieves gained entrance through a side window. ; Robbers took clothing worth $60 from the apartment of George W. Carter, 1413 T street, after cutting their way through a door. i J. E. Dyer of J. E. Dyer & Co. re- ried to police that thieves yesterday roke a lock off his warehouse, at 3236 M street, and stole a small quantity of canned goods. i of the world. More than 9,000 separate items were recovered. Much of the Chinese art of this pe- riod, he pointed out, still is in existence, cate how widespread was the artistic genius of the time in this remote cor- ner of the world, whose civilization de- | represented the highest flights of the ' retirement. veloped practically unknown to the rest but until this discovery it contained very few religious paintings which often | genius of a people. { thing. |ana passed by the Senate yesterday, FEDERAL WORKERS URGE MORE LIBERAL RETIREMENT FUND | Amendment of Dale-Lehlbach| Bill Will Be Asked of | Congress. PLEA MADE IN B_EHALF OF 110,000 EMPLOYES i i Head of Association Believes That Changes Sought Will Not Arouse Antagonism. This is the third of a series of seven articles on the status of proposed meas- ures to liberalize the Civil Service Re- tirement Law in the interest of G ernment _en.loves who_are retired or may hereajtcr retire. The mext article will appear tomorrow. - BY DONALD A. CRAIG. ‘Without being blind to the possibility that & movement to obtain sweeping changes in the Federal retirement sys- tem at this session of Congress might come upon a stony road, the National Federation of Federal Employes never- theless takes the position that the Dale- Lehlbach bill should be amended in several particulars in the further inter- est of the employes. The bill was passed by the Senate yesterday and early action by the House is expected. “While we fully recognize the prac- tical difficulties in the path of attempt- ing to secure too many improvements in the Federal retirement system dur- ing the present session of Congress,” says Luther C. Steward, president of the federation, in a statement to The Star, “neverthless we believe that the Dale-Lehlbach bill may have some ditional liberalizing features added without either arousing congressional opposition or running the risk of Ex- ecutive disapproval.” Nearly All Classes Represented. The federation includes Government employes of all classes outside of the postal organization and the crafts. It| is estimated that about 110,000 em- ployes all over the country are affiliated | with this organization. Fortified by resolutions adopted last Summer by the national convention of the federation at Sault Ste. Marle, Mich.,, Mr. Steward and the other ex: ecutive officers of the federation are prepéring to ask the House for certain changes in the pending bill. They have no intention of “throwing a wrench into the machinery” or doing anything that will endanger the passage | of the pending measure, which affords | some measure of further relief. They are confident that the proposals which they have to make will not do any such | { But let Mr. Steward speak for him- self as to the position of the group of employes over which he presides: H “Senate bill 15, introduced in the| Senate April 18, 1929, by Senator Dale i i 1 and House bill 1815, introduced in the { House April 23, 1929, by Representative Lehlbach, are identical with the Dbill that passed both houses during the Seventieth Congress and received a pocket veto from former President Cool- idge. Maximum Annuity Increased. “The bill in question raises the maxi- mum annuity from its present $1,000 to $1,200, adopts the divisor 40 instead of 45, which has the effect of slightly increasing the annuities of the lower- salaried employes, and permits retire- ment at the option of an employe two years before the compulsory ages of 70, 65 and 62 are reached. “The National Federation of Federal Employes believes that lowering the age at which employes in the 70-year group may retire at thelr option after 30 years' service to 60 vears instead of 68, as! provided in the Dale-Lehlbach bill, would furnish relief to deserving em- ployes of long service without appreci- ably adding to the cost of the system, as our experience has indicated that a comparatively small percentage of those eligible under such an optional provi- | sion would avail themselves of the privilege. “Provision should undoubtedly be made giving credit to employes who serve more than 30 years prior to re tirement in the form of increased a nuity for such additional service. Holds Law Is Discriminatory. “It also is apparent that the existing retirement law is discriminatory in re- | spect to those employes receiving more ! than $1500 per annum, in that they ' pay a disproportionate amount for the annuity received, ‘and the higher the ! salary the greater the disproportion.” Mr. Steward's attention was drawn to the question so frequently asked, What will the pending bill, as it stands, do in the way of increased annuities for retired employes who receive very low salaries luring their active service? “The Dale-Lehlbach bill, when en- acted into law,” replied Mr. Steward, “will increase the annuity of every re- tired annuitant a minimum of 1212 per cent. “The National Federation of Federal Employes has been keenly alive to the fact that employes retired under the original act of 1920 were receiving very inadequate annuities, and the reason that weighed most in determining the final acceptance of that compromise which resulted in the amendatory act approved July 3, 1926, was the fact that it afforded some increases to those | already retired.” The full program of amendments to the Civil Service retirement law, for which the federation stands, was unani- mously adopted at the national conven- tion last Summer. It is embodied in a resolution whose preamble states “that the Federation of Federal Employes fa- vors a retirement system that takes ac- count of and keeps pace with the cost of living.” Changes in Present Law Approved. ‘The following changes in the present law were then approved specifically: 1. Using the divisor 40 instead of 45 in computing the retirement annuity, in order to give more nearly adequate relief to those now on the retirement roll, as well as to those with low sal- aries who may hereafter be retired. 2. Raising the maximum annuity from $1,000 to $1,200. 3. In computing the annuity, using the salary of any five years of consecu- tive service desired by the employe. 4. Providing for voluntary retirement after 30 years of service. 5. Placing employes permanently on the annuity roll who are retired for total disability if they are 60 years of age or over and have rendered the re- Qquired period of service; granting other employes retired for total disability who recover their health six months instead of 90 days to secure restoration to the service. Question Becomes Optional. When such employes cannot be rein- stated to positions fairly comparable in salary with those held at the time of they may at their option retire under the provision of section 7, | additional { bench, he believed, would be necessary Detachment from the Marine Barracks which has been assigned to accompany the American delegation to the Arms Conference in London. Left to right, front row: Gunnery Sergts. T. C. Baisden, J. L. Re; olds, E. V. Maddox and J. S. Domzalski. Back row, left to right: Gunnery Sergts. J. G. Mason, H. P. Clary, First Sergts. Charles W. Harrmann, F. L. Brauer, J. H. Rice and F. E, Freeman. —Star Staff Photo. BRIDE 1S OPPOSED T0COLRTINREASE Additiona: Jurisdiction, He Holds, Would Add Much to Work of Bench. Corporation Counsel Willlam W. Bride is opposed to increasing the juris- diction of the Municipal Court to in- clude cases involving $2,500 and has so informed Represenattive Robert G. Simmons of Nebraska, who had inquired of the District legal officer as to its | feasibilfty. Such an increase of jurisdiction, Mr. { Bride pointed out, would add 30 per cent to the work of the court and also would impose an “almost insup:rable burden” on the Court of Appeals. Two justices on the appellate if there were any decided increase in the number of cases taken to it on appeal. Judge George C. Aukum of the Municipal Court had expressed earlier an opinion that his court could handle cases up to $5,000 without lagging be- hind in its work. At present it has Jjurisdiction only in cases under $1,000. Would Increase Appeals. Mr. Bride declared further that coun- sel probably would not be satisfied with decisions of the Municipal Court where large amounts are at issue, with a result that there would be an increase in the number of appeals. A letter from the clerk of the Court of Appeals was forwarded to Mr. Sim- mons showing that even with the lim- ited jurisdiction of that court, it would have been swamped if all appeals had been allowed. The Court of Appeals at present, Mr. Bride asserted, is sadly in need of two additional justices. “To add the bur- den of appeals of right from the Mu- nicipal Court,” he said, “would simply bring a breakdown unless more jus- tices are added to its bench.” Consults Jurists. Before rendering his opinion Mr. Bride consulted with the chief justices of the Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court, the presiding judge of the Mu- nicipal Court and the president of the District Bar Association, with a result that he concluded the transfer of cases under $2,500 to the Municipal Court would be “merely a transfer of con- gestion.” “Today,” he told Mr. Simmons, “the ppeals to the Court of Appeais are not of right. The proposal would make them so. This would add an almost insuperable burden to the Court of Appeals by increasing very largely the number of appeals to be taken/” He pointed out that there are 3,659 cases now pending on the docket of the District Supreme Court awaiting trial, 1,949 being on the law side and 1,710 on the equity side. About 30 per cent of the former, he said, involve sums ranging between $1,000 and $5,000. “In other words,” he pointed out, “about 30 per. cent of the trials now before juries would be transferred to the Municipal Court” and, with all re- spects to its presiding judge, would do much to’ destroy the fine conditions “existing there.” “FOWL Fi“LIlY"Y SENDS MAN TO JAIL FOR SIX MONTHS Policeman Becomes Suspicious When Housewives Forego Usual Trips to Market for Chickens. It was a sad sight that greeted Cora J. Kenny, colored, as she arrived at the chicken coop in the rear of her home, laden with provender for her hens, for all that was left of her 14 birds was 14 beaks. Policeman J. M. Wilson noticed that George Carter's home at 86 Logan street had been transformed into some- thing that resembled a booth at a market. He became more suspicious when he beheld housewives, who in the past had patronized the markets to the exclusion of other places, entering the Carter home instead of boarding a street car. When Cora Kenny made her complaint to police Wilson arrested Carter without hesitation. In Police Court Cora told Judge Gus A. Schuldt her story. George Carter pleaded guilty and grinned during most of his trial. ** ‘Fowl" plly,!';ls quoth the magistarte. “Six months.” Bulgaria Honors Mussolini. ROME, January 7 (#).—Premier Mus- | solini was invested with the insignia of the Bulgarian Order of §S Cyril and Methodius by the grand marshal of King Borls' court today. The Italian | premier asked him to present devoted thanks to the Bulgar monarch. as though involuntarily separated from the service. 6. Amending section 7 by a provision which will place employes in the -70- year group and in the 65-year group, involuntarily separated from the serv- ice. on a par as to retirement benefits with those in the 62-year group. 7. Permitting employes to name ben- eficlaries to receive all moneys accumu- lated under the retirement act in case of death. 16,000 Properties Go Under Hammer For Unpaid Taxes Taxpayers May Redeem Parcels Within 2 Years If Not Sold. ‘The auction room in the office of the collector of taxes in the District Build- | ing presented a busy scene today when | the first batch of more than 16,000 | pleces of property went under the ham- | mer for delinquent taxes. While a large number joined in the bidding, it was not expected that the titles bought in between now and January 14 would equal or approach the number of last year. Approximately 20,000 pleces of prop- erty were ordered sold for delinquent taxes last year and of this number 7,160 found purchasers. The District realized $800,330.05. ‘Taxpayers whose property has been sold for taxes may redeem it any time within two years after January 14 by paying to the District the amount of the delinquent tax plus a penalty of 1 per cent per month. A fee of 50 cents is charged for advertising. At the end of, two years the original owner of the property, however, will have to deal with the purchaser of the title. When no bids are received for the properties offered to meet delinquent taxes, the tax titles are bought by the District and can be redeemed by pay- ment of the taxes, all costs and a pen- alty of 8 per cent. ‘The auctions will open each day at 10 o'clock during the period allotted for the sale. SEVEN ARE INIURED IN MOTOR MISHAPS Truck Driver Accused After Crashing Into Traffic Light. A series of traffic accidents on Wash- ington streets yesterday afternoon and last night resulted in serious injuries to one man, minor hurts to six others and the arrest on charges of driving while under the influence of liquor of the driver of a truck which smashed into a signal light at the intersection of Florida avenue and North Capitol street. Harry Zeitlin, 50 years old, 1358 H street northeast, was treated at Emer- gency Hospital last night for lacera- tions to his head and a skull fracture sustained when he was knocked down by an automobile while crossing Thir- teenth street at N street. He was taken to the hospital by a passing motorist. The car which struck him was driven by Gustanus A. Pope, 20 years old, of 2426 Nineteenth street. Truck Hits Light. A traffic light at North Capitol street and Florida avenue was put out of com- mission last night when an automobile truck driven by William H. Franke, 40, of Hyattsville, Md., collided with it. Fred W. Murray, 50, of Richmond, Va., a passenger, was taken to Sibley Hos- pital and treated for lacerations to his face. Franke was arrested by second precinct police on a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor. Struck while crossing B street near Sixth street southeast last evening, Al- vin Burgess, 8 years old, of 518 A street southeast, escaped serious injury. He was treated at Casualty Hospital for lacerations to his lips and tongue. The machine was driven by John P. Robey, 18, of 120 Tenth street northeast. Cyelist Struck Down. An automobile operated by Frank J. | Hornaday of the Mayflower Hotel struck | a bicycle ridden by Joseph Wilson, col- | ored, 17 years old, of 613 B street southeast, yesterday at Connecticut and Cathedral ~avenues. ‘The boy was | treated at George Washington Univer- sliy Hospital for a sprained back and rul o Others injured include Willlam J. Miles, colored, 42, and Virgie Miles, col- ored, 33, of 1224 Walker street south- east, and George Butler, colored, 56, of 1344 Twenty-seventh street. AIR CORPS RA'DIOMAN ESTABLISHES CONTACT Sergt. K. D. Wilson, Air Corps radio- man at Bolling Field, who has been as- signed to accompany the Ist Pursuit Group on its “polar bear” training flight from Selfridge Field, Mich., to Seattle and return, beginning tomor- row, last night established contact with local amateur radio operators here from Selfridge Field. He used the air- plane set he will operate on the long flight. His call number will be AB6 on the flight. Sergt. Wilson was in two-way com- munication with Paul H. Thomsen, Sta- tion W3LA, at Silver Spring, Md. He transmitted from his plane on 54 me- ters and listened in on 40 meters for amateur responses. Sergt. Wilson maintained two-way - communication with the Byrd Antarctio I SAYS UNFAVORABLE NEWS HARNS D.C. Representative Hall Makes Observation in Address at Central Y. M. C. A. More “unusual and unfavorable” news is going out of the National Capital than is good for its reputation, it was declared last night by Representative Hall of Indiana, member of the House District committee, in addressing the weekly curent events forum in the lobby of the Central Y. M. C. A. Hall expressed ‘Washington is as law-abiding as any city and he said the local government is a good one. He did have some criti- cism to make of the police, however. Telling of the experience of one of his constituents in traveling all the way across the country without being ar- rested, only to fall afoul of a brusque- spoken policeman here for having dirty license tags, the Indianan said he thought Washington policemen pay too much attention to little infractions in- stead of devoting the major part of their attention to important violations. He said if local policemen want higher | pay the standards of their personnel should be raised also. There is no place on a modern force for the old-fs loned “hard-boiled copper” with more brawn than brains, he asserted. Hall told of the prohibition contro- versy now “in the ™ and stated that he thought too much stress was laid on the fact that 20 per cent of the illicit liquor escapes detection, instead of con- sidering that 80 per cent of the traffic has been stopped. He declared the eighteenth amendment and the Vol- su:(;i act will never be erased or weak- ened. ‘The lecture is one of a series being given by Hall under auspices of the Washington Y. M. C. A. 3 CITIZENS’ GROUPS TO MEET TONIGHT| Representative Schafer to Give Ad- dress Before Columbia Heights Association. Three citizens’ associations will hold meetings tonight to discuss conditions in the District and improvements de- sired by various communities. Representative John C. Schafer of ‘Wisconsin will speak at a meeting of | the Columbia Heights Citizens' Associa- tion at 8 o'clock tonight in the assem- bly hall of the Columbia Heights Christian Church, 1435 Park road. His subject will be “The District of Co- lumbia Is Not as Bad as Some Mem- bers of the National Legislative Body l\;lould Have the American People Be- leve.” A number of guests have been in- vited to attend the meeting, including Edgar B. Henderson, president of the Piney Branch Citizens' Association; John 8. Cole, president of the Park View Citizens’ Association; C. Dwight Marsh, president of the Mount Pleasant Citizens’ Association; C. Woodland Gates, president of the Lanier Heights Citizens’ Association; A. J. Driscoll, president of the Mid-City Citizens' As- sociation, and Christopher Lehmkuhl, president of the Petworth Citizens’ As- soclation. Willlam W. Adams, president of the Columbia Heights' Association, will preside. ‘The other meetings scheduled for to- night are the Devonshire Downs Citi- zens' Association, in the Home for Incurables, d the Columbia Park Cit- izens' Association, in the Truesdale School, Ninth and Ingraham streets. ROBBERY LOOT RANGES FROM BOOTS TO SHOTGUN Fire Apartment House in One of Seven Thefts Reported. Seven robberies in which articles ranging from red rubber boots and fire extinguisher to a $150 shotgun were stolen were reported to police this morning. The fire extinguisher was stolen from the basement of an apartment house at 2100 Nineteenth street, according to Extinguisher Taken From a report made to police by the manager, Mrs. Marie Dawkins, while a burglar ransacked the home of Willlam P. Kin- slow, at 1920 M street, and made off with the boots. Gaining entrance to the garage of Joseph Arnold, at 1629 Thirty-fifth street, a thief escaped with a shotgun from the machine of Ebner R. Duncan of Alexandria. An automobile tire valued at $20 was stolen from the car of Willis Blue of 1326 Twenty-second _street. Overalls and tools valued at $15 were taken from a tool shed at Ninth and L streets. ‘Two suits of clothes were among the ¥ooda reported stolen. One was taken rom the home of Robert Lee Whipple, at 1327 M street, while the tailor shop Expedition for {of Phillip Pittle of 639 Florid some time from his station in this city, : conu-nm;d the othel rgsms -nu‘n T, A the opinion that|base ball PAGE B—1 63 RETIRED POLICE SUE FOR BENEFITS ~ FROM RELIEF FUND |Each Asks $1,000 of Sum to Accrue to Them at Time of Their Deaths. TO HANDLE ASSOCIATION Plaintiffs Have Paid Monthly As- sessments During 25 to 57 Years of Service. Capt. W. T. Anderson and 67 other retired police officers today filed suit n the District Supreme Court against the Metropolitan Police Relief Association to compel the payment to each of them of $1,000 of the benefits which would accrye to them at their deaths. ‘The retired officers point out that they are in great need of financial relief and assistance and are entitled to have the advances made to them whenever they file “an article in writing with the of- ficial records of the association.” Requests Filed December 11. ‘Through Attorneys Hosea B. Moulton and Robert H. McNeill, the court is told that the plaintiffs asked for the advances by letter December 11 last, but their requests have not been granted. They point out that the association, which is unincorporated, has in its treasury $332,220.65, and say Harry M. Luckett, secretary-treasurer, is under bond of $10,000 only, which they assert is not a sufficient safeguard for so much money. Discovery is asked of how the finances are handled and safe- guarded. In addition to the association there are named as defendants Chaney L. | Plemmons, president; Harry M. Luckett, | secretary-treasurer, and Frank 8. W. Burke, co-trustees with Mr. Luckett. $40,000 Annual Income. The court is told that some of the plaintiffis have paid monthly assess- ments of $2 for from 25 to 57 years and that the large amount now in the treas- ury results from these dues and the an- nual return from the policeman-fireman imes. The annual income is about $40,000, it is stated, from which the expenses of $16,000 are deducted, leaving a net annual profit of $24,000. Dissolution of the association, if nec- essary, is requested, with a distribution of its assets among its members, and peg:dlng such d! jution a receiver is asked. FATHER, 33, FINDS HIS DAUGHTER, 15 }Girl Missing Since Mother’s Death | Believed in Baltimore Train- ing School. Some time today Charles Jollett of 913 H street, who is scarcely 33 years old, will be told that the daughter he has been seeking for 15 years is being cared for in an institution within 50 miles of where he lives and works. A search that has been carried on intermittently since 1915 apparently has been concluded with the informa- tion that a 15-year-old girl bearing the name of Mary Alice Jollett is being cared for in the Rosewood Training School, at Baltimore. John Jollett, father of the girl’s father, and his wife are in communication with ube institu- tion and they hoped to teil their son today that his wish to see his child i might be fulfilled. In response to appeals to the Balti- more police and notices published in Baltimore newspapers, Dr. G. W. Keat- ing, head of the Rosewood Training School, advised Mr. Jollett that a child bearing his name had been placed in the home by. the mother October 81, 1921. Dr. Keating's cecords rally with the facts known to the Jolletts. Mary Alice Jollett was born to Charles Jollett and his wife in Baltimore Feb- ruary 17, 1914, when the father was about 18 ‘and the mother about 15. At 9 months, the child suffered infantile paralysis which affected body and mind. Husband and wife separated and for seven years the child was cared for by the mother and at times by the moth- er’s parents. Charles Jollett joined his parents in Virginia and for several years was not in communication with his ;b‘i(er;adwheri She]déed s;ldg‘:nly in 1922 he no_knowledge o ' ‘whereabouts. e g i Iliness in the family prevented John Jollett from making an active effort to locate the child. Some time ago his wife died. He married again recently and he and his wife and son, who lives with them, determined to locate the daughter. ~ Appeals to the Baltimore police and newspapers led to the in- formation obtained. The condition of Mary Alice Jollett, who soon will be 16 years old, prob- ably will determine whether she will be left in the Rosewood Training School or brought to her grandfather's home. Members of the family expressed grati- fication today that they might assist her and at least know that everything possible would be done for her. e {WOMAN BROUGHT ASHORE AFTER LEAP INTO RIVER Mrs. Lulu Bryan Rescued by Allen Imich—She Refuses to Make an Explanation. Mrs. Lula Bryan, 26, of 10 Clarendon avenue, Clarendon, Va., was saved from drowning yesterday by Allen Imich, 4 Locust avenue, Takoma Park, Md., who told police he saw her leap into the Potomac River at the foot of Wiscon- sin dvenue. Imich jumped into the water after her and swam with her to the shore. Mrs. Bryan was taken to Georgetown University Hospital in a passi auto- mobile. Physicians there said she had not suffered by the ducking. She re- fused to make a statement. ESCAPE ATTEMPT FAILS. Policemen Willlam J. Matthews and Lawrence A. Lee, 37 years old, of 3221 Reservoir street, whom he had arrested for unlicensed solicitation of alms, re- celved cuts on their hands whea the risoner numgud to escape while be- g taken to the sixth precinct station in_an automobile. Matthews arrested Lee at John Mar- shall place and_ Pennsylvania avenue late yesterday. Both were treated at Casualty Hospital. Lee was later booked on charge of soliciting alms, and dis~ orderly conduct.