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The WASHINGTON, . Fhening MONDAY, FEBRUARY 24, VIRGINIA DRIVERS - BARRED HERE ARE LIABLE T0 ARREST Supreme Court Holds Reci- procity Does Not Cover Revoked Permits. DECISION REVERSES APPEALS BODY RULING | Commissioners, in Asking Review, Urged Protection for Resi- dents of District. , Motorists whose driver's permits are | revoked in the District ere subject to| prosecution for operating an automobik in Washington under a Virginia license | during the period covered by the re-| voked District permit, the Supreme Court held today in reversing a ruling of the District Court of Appeals. The_decision, regarded of far-reach- ing importance by traffic authorities, | was based on the case of Charles H. Fred, a former resident of the District | whose driver's permit was revoked in | December, 1926. ‘Arrested Here on Virginia Tags. Pred later became a resident of Vir- | ginia gnd on August 6, 1928, was issued | a registration card by Virginia, author- | izing him to operate a motor vehicle in MARINE MAROONED ON ROCK IS RESCUED Youth Clings to Boulder Twor Hours Following Capsizing : of Canoe.: :‘ Rope Is Used to Pull Corp.‘I L. A. Rodolph to Safety. Hurled into the icy rapids of the Potomac River above Chain Bridge | when his canoe was caps'zed, Corp. | Lynn A. Rodolph, 21-year-old Marine, | | | \ | FROM POTOMAC was swept downstream to a ledge of | k rock, to which he clung until rescued, | two hours later. | On leave from the Marine Barracks, | where he is stationed, Rodolph bor- rowed a canoe and attempted to cross | the river where an outlet from Dale- carlia Reservoir empties into the Po- tomae. The treacherous cross-current suddenly overturned the canoe and Ro- dolph, unable to swim in the swirling waters, was swept downstream. Boy Runs for Help. Carried to a rock near the Virginia shore, Rodolph managed to drag him- self, numb_with cold, upon its muddy surface. His cries for help attracted | a group of youths and Walter Powell, 8, | of the 5800 block of Sherrier place | ran for help, while C. Arnold Van | Kammed, 16-year-old McKinley Hgh | School student, attempted to aid Rodolph. | Efforts of rescuers to throw a rope | to Rodolph proved unavailing until G. H. Spangler, 31, 500 block of Ninth street southwest, managed to hurl a line to the rock. Rodolph was then pulled to the shore, where he was treated by Fire Re:cue Squad No. 1 and taken to the Naval Hospital. that State. The following month he | was arrested in Washington while | operating & car bearing Virginia tags. | Fred was subsequently convicted in | Police Court on a charge of violating the District traffic code. Later the | Court of Appeals held that under the | recipocrity sgreement with Virginia he ; was entitled to darive an automobile in | the District while holding a Virginia | permit. Asked Protection for D. C. Residents. Because of the drastic effect of the decision, the Commissioners asked the | Supreme Court to pass upon the con- troversy. In the appeal for review the Com- missioners declared that should the de- cision .of the appellate court be per: mitted to stand, residents of the Dis- trict would have no protection for their own safety or the safety of their property. Regardless of the offense committed against the District’s traffic laws, the Commissioners contended. persons whose permits are revoked could “step over the line into Virginia or any other State, and by registering their vehicles and obtaining permits, could return and drive with immunity in ‘Washington.” APPROPRIATIbN BILL TO BE REPORTED MARCH 15 Hearings on District Measure, Car- rying Record Amount, Are Concluded. The District appropriation bill for the fiscal year beginning July 1, next, which will carry the largest amount | ever authorized by Congress for main- taining the municipal administration of the Capital, is now in the stage of “marking-up.” Hearings have been closed and the bill will be reported about March 15. ‘The actual re&nrtl.n. of the bill to the House will Be delayed & few days because Chairman Simmons of the sub- committee in charge of the measure is on a trip to Florida on a special subcommittee of the appropriations committee to investigate the Mediter- ranean fruit fly menace and the ad- ministration of Federal funds appro- | priated for relief. WOMAN’S DEATH HELD DUE TO JEALOUSY OR REVENGE| Balt Lake City Authorities Inves-| tigating Murder—Body of Vie- tim Found on Lonely Road. By the Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, February| 24—Working on the theory that jeal- ousy or revenge was the motive for the slaying of Mrs. Dorothy Moormeis- ter, 32, officers last night were pressing their investigation into the murder. The woman's body was found on a| lonely road south of here yesterday morning. Several clues have been in- | vestigated by the officers, but none of | them shed any light as to who struck the woman and crushed her body by driving her large automobile back and forth across it. The woman, wife of Dr. Frank Moor- | meister, Salt Lake City physician, left | home Friday afternoon without giving the purpose of her departure. So far as officers have been able to determine, Mrs. Moormeister was not seen again ( until a smelter employe returning home | from his night-shift work yesterday morning found the body in the high- | way where the killer had left it. Her automobile, bloodstained. was found on | a street here the night before. i Jewelry valued at several thousand | @ollars was missing from the body. | PODLE RESIGNS. at Berlin Will Princeton Staff. DeW. C. Poole, recently counselor of the United States embassy at Berlin, has resigned from the foreign service ! to accept a professorship in the School | of Public and International Affairs to'! be established at Princeton University. | Mr. Poole )s from the State of Wash ington and a graduate of the Univer- sity of Wisconsin and George Washing- | ton University. He entered the foreign | service in June, 1910, and since has| served in important capacities in France, Germany, Russia, Africa and also at the State Department. In 1921 he was chief of the division of Russian affairs and also was an expert assistant at the naval armament conference in this city in the same year, ORTIZ RUBIO RETURNS. Mexican President Resumes: Fulll Duties of Office. MEXICO CITY, February 24 (#).— President Ortiz Rubio resumed his full presidential duties today, his physi- | cians announcing almost complete re- | covery from the bullet wound he re- ceived the day of his inauguration. ‘The President had scheduled confer- ences with Dr. Jose Manuel Puig- Casauranc, former chief of the federal district; Emilio Portes Gil, minister of the interior, who has been acting as President; Augustin Mora, chief of the presidential staff, and Lieut. Col. Cha- ‘zaro, Ortiz Rublo's prival Counselor Join | Georgia, to cut from 34 to 24 cents a | | lobbyist before he became a member an import | troleum products, now on the free list. | Was Afraid “It Was All Over.” “Pulled down by the undertow, I was afraid that it was all over,” Ro- dolph said today. “The current pre- ventsd me from swimmng and I was carried past several rocks. I didn't bother much about the cold; there was too much else to worry me " After overnight treatment at the Naval Hospital, he appeared little the worse for his experience, but declared that his future canoeing would be con- fined to waters other than those above Chain Bridge. In July, 1928, Herbert F. Lugenbeel, 33, was marooned all night on a rock near the ledge from which Rodolph was rescued yesterday. Lugonbeel, an expert riverman, attempted to shoot the rapids to rescue-the body of Miss Catherine Carr of Hyattsville. Md., G. H. SPANGLER. ~—Star Staff Photos. drowned several days before. The girl's body was held by the rocks and Lugenbeel, whose canoe capsized near the spot, managed to reach her body and remained on the rock more than 12 hours before rescued. WOOL LEVY CUTS BEATEN IN SENATE Coalition' Group Fav_ors Re- tention of Higher Rates. Grundy Fails to Vote. By the Assoclated Press. In the face of a bitter attack on the 'wool schedule as one of the “twin sins” | of the tariff bill, the Senaté~ today turned back by large majorities at-| tempts to slash levies carried in the measure on coarse wools and wool yarns. { With the coalition of Democrats and | Republican independents as widely split | as on previous occasions when the wool schedule was under consideration, & vote of 56 to 22 defeated an amend- | ment by Senator George, Democrat, of | pound the bill levy on coarse wools that are used in the manufacture of cheap clothing. The present rates is 31 cents, By a vote of 45 to 28 a combination Republican and Democratic group fa- vored retention of the higher levies on wool yarns. Senator George had asserted that the bill duty was in favor | of Senator Grundy, Republican, of Pennsylvania, whom he termed “a| of the Senate.” As on the first occasion when the higher wool yarn rate was approved, Senator Grundy arose when his name was called and said he would refrain from voting because he was personally interested in the item. Calls Schedules “Twin Sins.” Before the vote, Senator George de- scribed the wool ‘and rayon schedules as the “twin sins” of the tariff bill and sald the sugar schedule had a “record as clean as an angel compared with wool and rayon.” He added that “if Mr. Hoover wishes | to succeed himself, he will hesitate a | long time before he will approve the | same kind of tariff bill which sealed | Mr. Taft’s doom,” asserting the tariff | bill approved by Taft was “almost a free trade policy éompared with the | rates in this schedule.” Senators Smoot of Utah, and Stei-| wer of Oregon, Republicans, opposed the | cut. The latter said coarse wools not finer than 44's were produced to quite | an extent in this country and the growers were not in a position to en- dure a cut in the rate. . This week is expected to see the bill returned to the Senate from committee of the whole. Then many of the old | contests on major levies will be re-| newed, with individual Senators seek- ing to overturn previous votes on such | items as sugar. hides, shoes, leather, shingles, lumber, logs, brick and ce-| ment. | Attempts also will be made to place | tax on crude oil and pe- Week end tariff statements had to do with several of these prospective controversies, sugar and ofl particu- arly. Stephen H. Love, president of the United States Beet Sugar Association,| sserted unless a higher sugar tariff | is enacted 40 beet sugar factories, or nearly half of those in the United States, would find it impossible to con- | tinue operations this year. 1 Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla-| homa said in a statement that the pro- | posed tariff of $1 a barrel on crude ofl | and 50 per cent ad valorem on refined | by-products would save the small wells | of the Nation 500,000 barrels of ofl per | day for the domestic consumers. Barkley Explains Attack. An explanation of the attack on the | bill by the coalition of Democrats and | Republican independents was furnished by Senator Barkley, Democrat, of Ken- tucky, who sald “overcharging” of the American people in order to recover losses incurred in selling American- made products abroad at a loss was one of the reasons for lowering of many | existing industrial tariffs. Two Boys Die in Cave-in. LAS CRUCES, N. Mex, February 24 (#).—Two 1)-year-old boys, Harry Lee King and Willlam Guy Stillwell, were smothered to death 3 miles north- west_of here vesterday when a cave which they had dug tn the bank of an abandoned irrigal ditch caved in. | complished BRITISH VISITORS LISTED TO ENTERTAIN CLUB MEET Prof. Duxbury, Dramatic Reader.| and Son, Vocalist, Dinner Guests of Church Group. Prof. John Dukbury, dramatic reader, of England and his son Arthur, an ac- tenor, will be guests of honor of the Congregational Club of Washington at a dinner tomorrow eve- ning at 6:30 o'clock at the Ingram Memorial Church, Tenth street and Massachusetts avenue northeast. ‘The British visitors, here on a tour of America, will entertain .members of the club with special selections from their repertoire. A reception will pre- cede the dinner, starting at 6 o'clock. Leonard W. DeGast, president of the club, will preside. Dr. W: B. Showalter of the National Geographic Society, who was to have addressed the club, has been called out of town and will be unable to return in time for the dinner, nounced today. HIGH COURT RULING BENEFITS RAILWAYS Supreme Tribunal Absolves Compa- nies From Paying Estimated Value | of Lost Merchandise. By the Associated Press. Decision of outstanding importance to rallroads was rendered by the Su- preme Court when it held that roads in paying for shipments lost in transit could not be required to pay what the lost merchandise would have brought it 1t had been delivered and sold at re- The question reached the court in a case brought- by the Tllinois Central, seeking to have reversed a decision of the lower courts holding that the P. McCoy Fuel Co. of Minnesota, was en- titled to recover for coal lost in tran- sit from Royalton, Il, to Minneapolis, damages measured by the price the coal would have brought had it been . delivered. The Pennsylvania and a large num- ber of railroads joined the Illinois Cen- tral in contending that the liability of the carriers, when shipments are lost in transit. should be a fair average market value of the lost merchandise at the time and place of shipment. TREATED FOR CUTS. Real Estate Man Unable to Ex- plain Bruises. Milton_J. Boucher, 29, vice president of the John W. Thompson Co., real estate firm, was treated for cuts on the face at the sixth precinct police station last night and sent home. He was brought to the station house by garage employes to whom he had ap- pealed for help. Boucher told police that except for a visit to his office he could remember nothing that had hap- pened during the eight hours preceding his arrival at the station house. MRS. A. V. 0DAY DIES. News was received here today of the death in Chicago of Mrs. Annie V. O'Day, 65 years old, the widow of Mi-hael Stephen O'Day, former Wash- ingtohian. Mr. O'Day was a son of Mr. and Mrs. James O'Day, early settlers of Washington. Mrs. O'Day s survived by her son, James E. O'Day, a Chicago financier. She had, visited here frequently with her sisters-in-law, Mrs. Delia L. O'Brien, Mrs. Anna M. Mahon and Miss Mary A. O'Day. Burial services will be con- ducted in Chicago tomorrow, od;l;ellow-' Program, BOWIE, Md, February 24 (Special), —At a meeting of Harding Lodge, Odd Fellows, Wednesday night the second degree will be conferred. Past Grands E. C. Day and William Sharp of Hard- ing Lodge will go to Wilmington, Del., Friday night with a Baltimore lodge for @ visitation, A party of Harding Lodge the same night will visit Capitol Heights; -vhen Oriole Lodge of Hyatts- ville will confer first and second degrees at & meeting of Loyalty Lodge, it was an-| PER CAPTA WEALTH HERE 1 53 ABOVE S30U. S AVRAGE Capital Leads 31 States in| Industrial Conference Board Estimates. $320,8C0,000,000 TOTAL | FOR NATION INCREASE| Growth of Value From $360,100, 000,000 in 1922 to 1928 Affects All Sections. The District of Columbia has & per capita wealth substantially above the average for the Nation at large, and | also above the per capita of each of 31, States. This was disclosed today by the | National Industrial Conference Board, | which estimated that the total wealth | of the United States had grown from | $320,800,000,000 in 1922 to $360,100,- | 000,000 in 1928. | The District of Columbia was given an_estimated per capita wealth of $3,359 in 1928, as compared to the | $3,000 average for the country in that | year. The highest per capita wealth | prevails in Nevada, where it is $7.338, as against the lowest, $1284, in Ala- | bama. In New York State the per| capita wealth is estimated at $3,513, ' $186,300,000,000 in 1912, For 1912 the census estimated the na- tional wealth at $186,300,000.000. “Considering the amounts for 1912 and 1928 in terms of dollars of equal | purchasing power, so as to eliminate | the differences in price levels of the i pre-war and post-war periods for the purpose of comparison, the nominal in- crease of 93 per cent during the 16- year period, 1912-1928, becomes a real increase of 37 per cent,” the Confer- ence Board asserts. “The term ‘national wealth’ as ap- |plied in_this estimate represents tan- gible. physical assets only, excludes credits ‘and currency, but specifically includes land and structure and other improvements thereon, the equipment of industrial enterprises and farms, live stock, railroad and public utilities, land and- equipment, personal property, mo- | tor and other vehicles and gold and silver coin and bullion. Approximately three-fourths of the total wealth of the Nation is in the nature of fixed assets.” Extent of Real Property. Real property, together with improve- ments and excluding real estate of rail- roads and public utilities, totals $198,- 100,000,000, or more than half of all | the total wealth. There is a total of $23,000,000,000 tax-exempt - real estate, including the property of ‘all govern- mental groups and of religious, char- itable and educational organizations which is exempt. Land values for rail- roads, public utilities, shipping and | canals totaled $4,900,000,000, improve- ments $22,100,000,000 and equipment $12,500,000,000, for, = total of $39,500,~ 000,000 value for such enterprises. ! Farms and factories of the country, | Including all property and equipment, | are valued at $27,200,000,000. All ma: jufactured and natural products are valued at - $40.600,000,000. Furniture, | clothing, jewelry and other personal property, exclusive of automobiles, are given a total value of $44,700,000,000. | Automobiles are grouped in the miscel- laneous category with gold and silver bullion. These items combined amount to $9,900,000,000. {ENVOYS ARE INVITED | TO ROTARY LUNCHEON| 44 Countries to Be Represented in WMAL Brondcast From Willard Hotel Wednesday. Ambassadors and Ministers repre- senting 44 foreign countries in the United States have accepted invitations to a Rotary International luncheon meeting ‘at the Willard Hotel Wednes- day which will be featured by a broad- cast of the program between 2 and 2:45 o'clock over the Columbia Broadeasting System and locally through station WMAL. The _envoys will be introduced by Dr. L. §. Rowe, director general of the Pan- American Union. Short wave trans- mitters in New York and Philadelphia will send the proceedings to listening {club meetings in other cities' and to ships at sea. | The president of Rotary Interna- | tional—Eugene Newson of Durham, N. .~ will make the principal address. The United States Marine Band and Marine Band Orchestra will render musical selections. | i INSTITUTE TO STRESS PHYSICAL TRAINING Series of Tuesday Evening Dem- onstrations Will Be Given by Civic Agencies. A leaders’ institute of 1930, formed | by nine local civic agencies, will offer 10 Tuesday evening demonstrations in recreation stunts and programs to col- ored residents at the Garnet-Patterson Junior High School. The first demon- stration will be held March 4. The Institute, which plans to a quaint groups of all ages with varions phases of physical training and recre- ational activity, is sponsored by the Boys' Club of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Community Center Department of Public Schools, Girls' Friendly Or- ganization of America, Mount Ziou Community House, Physical Education Departments of Public Schools, Recre- ators of Playground and Recreation Association, Washington Times News- boys’ Club, ¥. M. C. A, and the Y, W. C. A. Phyllis Wheatley Club. Mrs. J. Hayden Johnson is chairman of the institute committee. Headquar- ters are in the Pranklin Administration Building. DR. BARBOUR TO SPEAK. New President of Brown U. Will Address Alumni. Dr. Clarence A. Barbour, new presi- dent of Brown University, will be the chief speaker this evening at the La Fayette Hotel when the Brown Univer- sity Alumni Association .of Washington holds its annual dinner. Dr. Barbour will deliver his first ma “to the alumni in the National Capital and will review recent events at the university. Other speakers will mm&u}llflolu er begin { college interests. The ‘8t 7 p'clock, Medel of approach to Mount Vernon gates from the new Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, Zaicri 1930. now being constructed by the United States Bureau of Public Roads from Arlington Memorial Bridge on Columbia Island to Washington’s old home, shows the terminal circle before the gates, parking spaces for automobiles and busses, ing of the Mount Vernon appreach area. The highway, which will be 15 miles and contemplated plant- long, follows the Potomac River and will be opened to travel in time for the bicentennial celebration ef the birth of Washington.—Photo by Bureau of Public Roads. INCREASE IN FUNDS VOTED TRADE BODY Federal Commission’s Appro-‘ priation for Services in .| District Is Amended. The Senate appropriations committee today amended the independent offices appropriation bill to enable the Federal Trade Commission to spend a larger part of its appropriations for special | services in the District of Columbia. The amendment does not raise the total of the commission’s appropriation for the next fiscal year, but authorizes use of $1,160,000 instead of $1,140,000 for the work of the commission in the District. . The only other change in the bill made by the Senate committee was the granting of an increase of $1,007,- 313 in the appropriation of the Inter- state Commerce Commission for carry- ing on railroad valuation work, with particular reference to the recapture feature of the transportation law. The Senate committee approved without change the item of $1,000,000 passed by the House for continuing work the ~ Arlington ~Memorial Bridge. As passed by the House, the bill car- ried a total of $552.514,753 for all ac- | tivities of the various independent es- tablishments of the Government. As reported by the Senate committee, the |total of the bill is $553,522,066, the difference being due entirely to the in- crease in valuation work for the Inter- state Commerce Commission. Ev with this increase the bill is $161,972 ‘l‘?adl" the estimates for the fiscal year SKYLIGHT BURGLAR TAKES $90 IN STORE Robber Finds Money Hidden in Potato Sack, Manager In- , forms Poiice. Climbing to the roof and opening a skylight, a burglar who gained entrance to the Piggly Wiggly store at 2742 Fourteenth street Saturday took $90 hidden in a potato sack, Bruce Martin, manager, residing at 1361 Euclid street, told tenth precinct police. Clarence T. Butler, 4305 Fourth street, reported loss of $51.50 and a penknife, which, he said, were taken from a pocket of his trousers in a locker at the Mayflower Hotel, where he is employed. Theft of a bag containing wearing apparel and toilet articles was reported by William J. Gleasmer, 217 'Roy street, Brooklyn, N. Y. The bag, he stated, was taken from his automobile parked 1n front of 1817 Kearney street northeast, where he was visiting. SAMUEL THRIFT DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Night Superintendent of George- town Division of Capital Traction Company Had 30-Year Record. Samuel Thrift, 69 years old, night superintendent of the Georgetown divi- sion of the Capital Traction Co., died at his home, 1218 Thirty-third street, yesterday after a long iliness. He had been employed by the traction company for 30 years, Mr. Thrift was a native of Leesburg, Va., and was widely known, both in this city and Virginia, He is survived by four sons, Clifton Thrift, Leonard Thrift, superintendent of W. B. Moses & Sons, and Melvin Thrift and Chester Thrift, who are em- pleyed in the House of Representatives press gallery. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock. Interment will be at Lees- burg, Va. WIFE ASKS ANNULMENT. Charges She Was Coerced Into Marriage. Declaring that she never consented to her marriage to George A. Smith and has not lived with him and will not, Clara A, Smith, 17, of 316 A street northeast, today filed suit for annul- ment in the District Supreme Court. She asserts that she was coerced into the ceremony by the will of her par- ents, who arranged with the parents of Smith and had the ceremony per- formed January 12, 1928, at Prince Frederick, Md. Following the ceremony she returned fo her home and Smith went with his parents, she informs the court. Attor- ney R. B. Dickey appears for the young. woman. Oregon Has Record As ““Safest State” For Babies, Is Claim By the Associated Press. Oregon led the United States in 1928-—the last year for which figures have been compiled—as the safest State for bables, with a rate of 47 deaths to 1,000 live births. An analysist of infant mortal- ity statistics made public today by the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor showed that 10 States and the District of Cc- lumbia achieved a lower death rate in 1928 than in any year since admission to the birth reg- istration area. ‘Washington ran Oregon & close second, with a rate of 48 deaths to 1,000 births. Other States in the honor column were Iowa, 53 deaths to 1000 births; North Dakota, 59; Montana, 61; Massa- chusetts, 64; Vermont, 65; Dis- trict of Columbia, 6! ginia, 70; Maine, 73, land, 80. ” WORKMAN IS PINNED UNDER PLUNGING TAXI | 26 Stitches Are Taken in Scalp of Victim Struck by Cab That Runs Into Excavation. Pinned beneath a taxicab which plunged into the excavation in which he was af work at Twenty-second street and Pennsylvania avenue today, | Edward Pryor, colored, 56, is said to be in a serious condition in Georgetown Hospital. suffering from a possible fracture of the skull, internal injuries, lacerations and bruises. Twenty-six ‘T | stitches were taken in his scalp. Paul M. Reed, 30, of 2807 Thirty- second street southeast, driver of the cab, is being held at the third precinct on charges of reckless driving and driv- ing with bad brakes. According to police, Reed started his cab, which was parked at the stand on the north side of the triangle at the intersection of Twenty-second and K streets and Pensylvania avenue, and rounded the corner suddenly, the front part of his cab plunging into the 4-foot excavation where Pryor was at work. CITIZENS WILL HEAR - HISTORY OF AVIATION Lecture Tomorrow Night by Paul E. Garber Will Be Illystrated by Steroptican Slides. A stereoptican lecture on the “His- tory of Aviation,” by Paul E. Garber of the Smithsonian Institution, will feature a monthly meeting tomorrow night of the Iowa-Thomas Circle Citizens' As- sociation, set for 8 o'clock, in the Norti- minster Presbyterian Church, Rhode Island avenue and Eleventh street. The Georgetown Citizens' Association will meet tonight at 8 o'clock at St. John’s Church, Parish Hall, O and Po- tomac streets. Questions affecting public schools in the community will be considered, and members of neigh- boring . citizens’ associations, parent- teachers associationis and principals of public schools have becn invited to par- ticipate M the discussion. WATER MAIN BURSTS. Flood conditions prevailed along New York avenue near Seventeenth street duripg the early “rush” hour this morn- ing when a six-inch water main lead- ing into the new annex of the Emer- gency Hospital burst, ‘The break occurred in a newly dug trench close to the building, and the water surged down the driveway into the street. The flow was cut off before any damage was done either inside or outside the building. DINNER IS FOURTH - INBISHOP'S HONOR Freeman Fellowship Event Tomorrow Evening to Be Largely Attended. The fourth annual fellowship dinner iin honor of the Right Rev. James E. | Freeman, Bishop of Washington, will be held tomorrow evening at 6:30 o'clock in the Hamilton Hotel. All parishes in the Episcopal diocese of Washington are expected to be represented. The interparochial dinner committee in charge of the event has made ar- rangements for several hundred e sons. Addresses will be delivered by Bishop Freeman and the Right Rev. Charles Fiske, Bishop of Central New York, widely known as a preacher and author. He has been leader of sev- eral church conferences held at the College of Preachers of Washington Ca- thedral. The dinner committee plans a roll call to be taken by parishes to deter- mine the largest representation. At other dinners in honor of Bishop Free- man_considerable informal competition has been waged among the parishes. A group of distinguished churchmen has been invited to join Bishops Free- man and Fiske at the speakers’ table. Tickets are available to friends and ad- mirers of Bishop Freeman through Hugh T. Nelson, whose address is 927 Fifteenth street. Members of the interparochial dinner committee are: Maj. F. G. Munson, chairman; Charles M. Potter, secretary: N. W. Dorsey, treasurer; H. D. Amiss, arrangements; Hugh T. Nelson, tickets: J. W. Chambers, decorations; Admiral |S. 8. Woods, guests; J. Harris Franlin, | music; Arthur Anderton, publicity; R. C. Henry, printing, and Bussey How- ard, parish representation. VISIT IS AUTHORIZED. German Army Officer Given Per- ‘mission to Inspect Units. Capt. Helm Speidel of the German army has been authorized by the Sec- retary of War to visit the General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans,, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit at Ohio State University and the Air Corps tralning exercises at Mather Field, Sacramento,, Calif., on various dates to March and April. BUSINESS IiEN TO MEET. Georgia Avenue Association to Dis- cuss Trade Conditions. Business conditions in their section of the city will be discussed by members of the Georgia Avenue Business Men's Association tomorrow night, 8 o'clock, at 3933 Georgia avenue. Means of stimulating business will be considered. The association is anxious to become acquainted with all business men in its locality. CONDITION IMPROVING. Man and Wife Suffering From In- halation of Gas. ‘The conditions of George D. Silvey, 60, and his wife, Hattie Silvey, 53, was reported improved at Emergency Hos- pital after the inhalation of illuminat- ing gas yesterday in their home, 707 Sixth street. Dr. John Baber of the hossital staff and members of Pire Rescue Squad, No. 1, responded to & call for assistance when neighbors found the two unconscious in their room with gas escaping from an open jet. Miss Mary Gertrude Conpor, special assistant to Attorney General Mitchell, ‘was convicted of three minor infrac- tions of the traffic regulations at Police Court today and rlld $2 in fines. Judge Ralph Given took the Govern ment official’s personal bond on charges of failing to exhibit a permit and fail- ing to change the address on the regis- tration card of her car 4nd assessed her $2 for passing a traffic signal. Miss Connor said she mistook Traffic Policeman J. £, Voss' hand signal to stop as a for her to make a right- hand turn. arrest, which was made at a downtown intersection afternoon, revealed Uhat M “Gonnor MISS CONNOR, MITCHELL’S AIDE, IS CONVICTED ON TRAFFIC COUNTS Special Assistant _t':_» Attorney General Pays $2 Fine and Gives Personal Bond. had failed to bring her permit and at a previous date had neglected to change | her address on the registration card when she moved from Columbia road to the 3600 block of Connecticut avenue. Yesterday Policeman Voss was not satisfled with her explanation that she had left the permit at home, and Miss Connor waited at the Traffic Bureau while attaches glanced over the records to see if she had been granted a permit. The Government official collected $7 fltcuu‘rt today, as she had posted $9 col~ eral. Last, week Mrs. Mabel Walker Wille- brandt, a former special assistant to the { PAGE. B—1 THREE UNIONS ASK FIVE-DAY WEEK OF * CITY CONTRACTORS Bricklayers, Carpenters and Ironworkers Seek New Scale. OTHER GROUPS NOW WORK UNDER SYSTEM Builders' Association Members Consider Proposals, With Dis- pute. Held Unlikely. | Demands for a five-day week for three | of the larger and more powerful union building trades organizations—the brick- layers, carpenters and iron workers— have been laid before contractors, it was revealed today. Adoption of the shorter week plan for these building trades would make the five-day week virtually universal in the construction fleld in Washington, it is pointed out. Most other union building trades groups of the larger order already are working under this system. 1If the bricklayers, carpenters and iron workers obtain the shorter week, the vast majority of construction workers would be included in the plan and universal adoption of the system would soon follow, both labor and con- tractor spokesmen say. Fight Danger Held Negligible, Members of the local Master Builders’ Association now are considering the proposals of the union leaders and are expected*soon to enter into negotiations with the building tradesmen. It apr peared doubtful today, however, that the demands for the shorter week would precipitate a serious fight between labor and contractors. x The five-day week demanded by the three unions would be effective May 1. ‘The bricklayers are demanding a five- day, 40-hour week at the rate of $14 a day. They now are receiving $13 a day for a 44-hour week. Thus they would ‘receive $1.50 less per week but would work four hours less. Similar wage proposals are under- stood to have been made by the car- penters and iron workers, under the five-day week plan. Thus, while there is no move directly for any notable change in the rate of pay per hour, the building tradesmen affected would get approximately the same in wages per week for four hours less work, ‘The fron workers now are getth $1.65 per hour or $13.20 per day ane the carpenters are drawing $1.25 per hour or $10 per day. The exact wages sought under the five-day week pro- posals could not be ascertained today. Unions in Field Listed. Unions in the construction field now employed under the five-day weel |include the plasterers, plumbers, steam- fitters, electricians, painters, asbestos 'workers, elevator constructors, lathers, hod carriers and sheet metal workers, it is reported by Clarence E. Young, secretary of the Bulldlnfl ‘Trades Couns cil. In addition, the hoisting engineers, now on the five-and-a-half- normally, enjoy the five-da; working with those building trades which are employed under the shorter week plan, The sheet metal workers have obtained an agreement for the five-day week, but this plan as yet has not been placed in effect, it is pointed out by Mr. Young. ‘With the bricklayers, carpenters and iron workers brought into the five-day fold, it is pointed out, but a negligible number of ‘union building tradesmen would remain on the longer week schedule of hours. The short weele schedule has been fllnln' ground here steadily. Recent y ga one of the more active building or- nizations here voluntarily ordered the its iction five-day week on construt projects, POSTAL TELEGRAPH OPENS NEW OFFICES Speed of System Is Demonstrated by Messages Over World for Answers During Luncheon, ‘The new offices of the Postal Tele- graph-Cable Co. in the Washington' Building, Fifteenth street and New York avenue, were opened formally today by President Charles W. Darr of the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce, After unlocking the door to the office, Mr. Darr threw the key away, this gesture signifying that the office never will be closed in the future. The formal opening was preceded by & luncheon of the Chamber of Com- merce at the City Club, at which Col. A. H. Griswold, executive vice president of the company, spoke on “Co-ordinated Communications.” To demonstrate the speed of tele~ graphic communication, messages were sent to all parts of the world requesting immediate inswers. The purpose of the demonstration was to show that mes- sages could be sent to the ends of the earth and answers received during the course of an ordinary luncheon. The new offices will be under the supervision of T. P. Dowd, superintend- ent of the Washington district. The newest developments in office beauty | and comfort have been provided for the i benefit of the patrons. The office was designed by F. D. Bourke, the company's 1 architect. . JOSEPH ENGLAND DIES AFTER HEART ATTACK Carnegie Institution Instrument Maker and Carpenter Stricken as He Retires for Night. Joseph A. England, 52 years old, in- strument maker and carpenter at the geophysical laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, died of a heart attack at his home, 409 Decatur street, last night. He was stricken while. preparing to retire for the night. Mr. England was a native of this eity, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, and had been employed by the Carnegie Institution for the past 18 years. He had served in the Navy and ine Corps and was a former drum major in the District of Columbia Na- tional Guard. He was a member of the Spanish War Veterans organization and the Modern Woodmen of America. He r':t sgv‘t;redd by"hu widow, Mrs. Margai and; two sons, Jflegh and Kenneth England, and by a daugh- ter, Miss Marguerite Funeral services will be conducted in St. Gabriel's Catholic Church Wednes- day morning at 9 o'clock, following services the Attorney General, paid & $10 fine on & brief speeding charge. N