Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1930, Page 24

CRANT ASSSTAN T0 B REPLACED fA2i. Peterson’s Duties Will Be Filled by Lieut. Butler April 1. An order was issued by the War De- partment yesterday relieving Maj. Virgil { L. Peterson, Corps of Engineers, from his | present duties as assistant to Lieut. Col. | U. S. Grant, 3d, Corps of Engineers. | director of public buildings and public parks in the National Capital, effective April 1, and directing him to report to the chief of Engineers of the Army for duty in his office in the Munitions Bullding. Another order relieves First Lieut Frederic B. Butler, Corps of Engineers, from his present duties as assistant to the engineer in charge of river and harbor works in the district of San Francisco, effective April 1, and direct- ing him to proceed to Washington, D. C., and report to Lieut. Col. Grant. Lieut. Butler has already served a three-year tour of duty in this vicinity. Born in California, October 5, 1896, he ‘was an honor graduate of the United States Military Academy, class of No- ‘vember, 1918, and assigned to the En- gineer Corps, a few days too late, how- ever, for service in the World War. From December, 1918, to September, 1922, he was stationed at Fort Hum- phreys, Va, and was attached suc- cessively to the 5th and 13th Regiments of Engineers. He also took a post- graduate course at the Engineer School at that post and in the following year was a student at the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Okla. In January, 1923, he was appointed military aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. william D. Conner, commanding the United States forces in China, and from the following August to June, 1926, he was in charge of engineering opera- tions of the American forces in that country. Returning to the United States in the Fall of 1926 he served as an in-| structor in military engineering at the | West Point Military Academy until the Fall of 1927, when he was assigned to important engineering work in the San Francisco district, under direction of | the district engineer. Under his new orders he will make the trip from San Francisco to this city by way of the Panama Canal and New York and should arrive here for duty the latter part of April. DRAMA GUILD PLAY DIRECTOR CHOSEN “The Honmeymoon” Will Be in| Charge of Alma Kruger, Accord- | ing to Announcement. ‘The Drama Guild's forthcoming play, “The Honeymoon,” by John Tobin, will be directed by Alma Kruger, assistant to Eva Le Galliene, it was announced yes- terday. Miss Le Galliene is director of the Civic Repertory Theater of New York. Tobin’s comedy, which was first pro- duced about 100 years ago, will be pre- sented by an all-Washington cast of players at McKinley Auditorium Feb- Tuary 28 and March 1. Miss Kruger will come to Washington next Friday to begin rehearsals of the play. which is to receive its first read- ing Tuesday evening. Miss Kruger has had wide experience both as a' director and as an actress. ‘The players who have to date been | cast for “The Honeymoon” include Orme Libbey, Walter Thorne, Martin Scranage, Paul Graves, Harry Welker, George Odell, Ivan Liljeroot, Morris Arkin, Harold McCoy, Yvonne Levy | ushner, - Dorot] Crosby, Jeanette | Seiler and Ida Garrett Mattingly. Wil- | liam F. Baker will design the settings. | PHILATELISTS INVITE NEW YORK COLLECTORS President Johnson and Others of | Society to Return Courtesies Shown Them in Gotham. In return for courtesies extended them during a recent visit to New York officers andl members of the Washing- ton Philatelic Society have invited a delegation from the Collectors’s Club of New York to visit this city February 14 and are making plans for their en- | tertainment. | The Washington party which visited in New York consisted of W. A. John- son, president of the society; Philip | just luck,” says Mrs. C. H. Rhodes, Simms Warren, treasurer; Maurice S. Petty, secretary; C. H. Vaughn of the |due to a plan. board of governors and W. Hayden Col- lins. and Lieut. Col. C. S. Hamilton, U. S. A The stamp collections displayed by the Washingtonians in New York in- cluled Col. Hamilton's stamps of Mex- ico, Mr. Vaughn's stamps of the British Empire and a number of rare stamps collected by Mr. Warren. Many famous stamp collectors gath- ered at the Collectors’ Club to view the exhibits of the local men, who later were entertained at dinner at the New York Athletic Club. ART EXHIBIT EXTENDED. The exhibit of paintings by contem- porary Americain artists acquired by the National Academy of Design of New York, under the Henry Ward Ranger bequest, will be open this after~ moon between 1:30 and 4:30 o'clock at the National Gallery of Art in the new National Museum Building. It previ- ously had been planned to close the exhibit January 31. | Gets D. C. Post | e | LIEUT. FREDERIC B. BUTLER. PLAN AMENDMENTS TO PISTOL MEASURE Delegation Appears Before House Committee to Suggest Changes. After hearing Maj. Pratt, superintend- ent of the Metropolitan police; Cor- poration Counsel Bride and Rufus W. Pearson, attorney for the Board of Trade and other civic organizatiods, the House District committee, at a special meeting yesterday, instructed Mr. Bride and Mr. Pearson to prepare a draft of the bill containing suggested amendments to the bill which has been ideration aimed at discourag- possession and carrying of “th> gun-toting bill.” Corporation Counsel Bride promised to submit the redrafted bill to the Dis- trict committee befort its next regular meeting, Wednesday. One of the con- troversial amendments is regarding the desirablity of requiring a bond when permits are granted to responsible parties for possession of such danger- ous weapons. Another controversial amendment is whether the penalities provided should be mandatory or whether discretion | would be left with the court to impose |less than a prescribed minimum sen- tence. SEEK ORIGIN OF RACE. Expedition Will Excavate Shell Heaps in Algerian Desert. 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