Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1930, Page 17

Washington News PROPOSED REALTY LICENSE MEASURE GETS INDORSEMENT Real Estate Board Supports Blaine-McLeod Bill and Cites Better Features. BUSINESS BUREAU ALSO APPROVES PROPOSED ACT Subcommittee Hearings Expected to Be Completed by Next Monday. Enactment of a law for Washington providing for the licensing of local real estate brokers and salesmen and set- ting up a definite code for violation of which such, operators could be prevented from doing further business here was indorsed today by representatives of the Better Business Bureau and the Washington Real Estate Board, when hearings on the legislation were re- newed before the judiciary subcommit- tee .of the House District committee, under the chairmanship of Representa- tive McLeod. The committee had before it two bills on the subject, the basic principles of which were very similar, one sponsored by the Real Estate Board and modeled after the code drafted by the National Association of Real Estate Boards. which is in effect fow in similar form in 25 States, and the other one drafted for the Senate committee headed by Senator Blaine of Wisconsin by Oscar H. Brinkman, former secretary of the Senate District committee. Hearings on the subject are expectad to be concluded next Monday after which a report will be made to the full House District committee by Mr. McLeod. Backs Blaine-McLeod Bill. John A. Petty, secretary of the Wash- ington Real l;uu Board, which had been sponsoring its own bill in the past several years, swung over today to give neral indorsement to the Blaine-Mc- ‘measure. The purposes of the two measures, to prevent operation of dishonest, fraudulent or utterly in- competent real estate brokers or sales- men, he pointed out, ar¢ the same, and he commended some features of the Blaine-McLeod lIli‘m r:l “I':’ellx»z{z.u :;xm:m- vement over the " me: 5 p"iblll.l Rothschild, director of the Bet. ter Business Bureau, told the commit- tee his organization, in the interest of protecting _the public, earnestly he that a real estate license law would be enacted. He said, however, that the bureau was not in a position to recom- mend the passage of any particular bill. There is 8 definite need for a law regu- lating the personnel of the real estate business here, he said. \HALLUCINATION Child Resea The Foening Staf WASHINGTON, D. C, 1930, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, OF FLYING IS STUDIED BY SCIENTISTS rch Center Sceks to Learn How Common This Feeling Is and What It Means. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Did you ever fly? Most persons have dreamed of flying or floating—and a few, when they were small children, have had the actual sen- sation of flying when they were awake, 80 intensely that they stiil find it hard to convince themselves that it was an hallucination. ‘The Washington Child Research Cen- ter would like to know how common this hallucination actually is, under w circumstances it comes about and what it means. The study thus far indicates that it is confined to children and that the subjects, while mystified by it. do not talk about it at the time. But it is so radical a departure from ordinary experience that it remains in the mem- ory for years. Held Common Hallucination. The numbe®of cases gathered at ran- dom from a small number of persons thus far indicates that it is about the most common of all hallucinations. The study of hallucinations in children, ac- cording to Dr. Mandell Sherman, di- rector of the center, is difficult because the children do not talk about them readily and older persons do not recall them without special reminders, and even then are likely to be ashamed of them. Persons who have experienced such hallucinations as children were asked to describe them as distinctly as possible, giving the ages when they took place, but not their names. The following cases of childhood ex- perience of the hallucination of levita- tion were gathered from about 30 Wash- ington people questioned at random. Those who had known the experience were positive about it, but the others had never heard of it and were mysti- fied at the question. The cases recounted were as follows: “I usually had these hallucinations after seeing buzzards sail through the sky. Their flight looked so easy and seemed so delightful that I would wish for ‘buzzard clothes’ as I called them. I would pretend to put on my ‘buzzard clothes,’ flap my arms and would have the sensation of sailing through space. I usually used this method of going up and down steps, although I could and did do the same thing on a flat sur- face.” “Sang” Her Way to Flight. “When I was a little girl” another woman said, “I used to stand at the top of a closed staircase in my nd- mother’s house and sing. When I sang it seemed as if I floated down. It never happened when I was not singing. The experience was so vivid that now, al- though I know it was an hallucination. I can’t convince myself that I didn’t actually float.” A prominent Washington scientist said: “The single levitation experience 1 can remember distinctly was when I ran away from home, a small boy of 12, sister about it and how glorious it was. It was a wonderful sensation to float this way. It usually occurred in the vening.” .. h=n T was a child in €he country,” another woman said, “whenever I climbed a ladder or tree it seems as if I would float down, rather than climb down. The sensation was so marked sometimes that when I think back upon it, I could not actually swear to this day that I did not ‘float down’ sometimes. I can't recall the actual experience of climbing down. It seems as if I got down by floating.” “Flew” While in Snowstorm. “When T was a little girl_in Northern New York.” said another, “I sometimes had the sensation of flying when I was out in & snowstorm I would seem to be floating along with the wind-blown snow, my feet not touching the sur- face. It was like being a part of the snow.” A similar_experience was recounted by & man: “Aside from fiying dreams, which are so vivid as to constitute a striking part of my life, I have oc- casionally had the sensation of fiying | when I was awake. When I was a little | boy 1 was sent through a snowstorm about two miles to get a doctor for my little brother. It was hard going and I thoufht: ‘If I could only fly.’. Almost immediately, it seemed, I was at the doctor’s house. I still have a vague memory of seeming to float through the snow, certainly of moving without con- scious effort. “Sometimes, when I am tired, I sit in my chair and close my eyes. My body seems to rise and float, so much so that I hover above familiar scenes. I may be dozing, Sut I can't detect the transition point between and wakefulness. I fear to open my eyes lest I fall. I am conscious of being awake.” “Invisible Flyer” Is Found. Another experience was recounted as follows: “I used often both to dream and imagine that I was a sort of spirit— that I could not be seen by others, yet I could see others perfectly. VEZ often I would take ‘flying trips’ over the cit; and then I was able to see and know al that was going on. Yet I was aware those people I saw could not see me. “I remember once, when I was 6 years old, I tried to convince myself that I really could fly. Standing on tiptoes on the top of the steps I took a hopeful plunge. The rest you can e. I went in crying with my nose and knees bleeding.” Another simllar experience was told as follows: “When I was a little girl, 7.or 8 years old, I was taken to see Maude Adams in ‘Peter Pan.’ For a long time afterward I used to think I could MARNE AVATORS | PAYLOSS BEGALE OF HROISH CTED Penalty for Decoration Is Given as Example of System in Service. ONE LIEUTENANT DRAWS MORE THAN REAR ADMIRAL Married Army Major Declares He ‘Was Better Off on Salary of Second Lieutenant. This is the sizth of a series of ar- ticles on the proposal, mow pending be- fore President Hoover and Congress, to revise and increase the pay schedules of the Army. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast uard, Public Heaith Service and Coast and Geodetic Survey. ' The seventh ar- ticle will appear tomorrow. BY DONALD .. CRAIG. ‘To one who is unfamiliar with the almost weird possibilities in the opera- tion of the present joint service pay act it might seem incredible that an officer of the Marine Corps by performing acts of exceptional bravery that won for him not only a Distinguished Flying Cross but also a Congressional Medal of Honor should suffer loss in pay as a result of those acts. Yet that strange fact was recently brought to light in the Navy Depart- ment. It would probably seem equally in- credible that a lieutenant of the Navy should receive $138 a year more than the rear admiral, four grades above him, in command of a force of 38 destroyers, 1 cruiser and 2 repair ships, on one of which the lieutenant was serving—necessarily because of his rank —in a subordinate capacity. . Yet that also was discovered quite recently. Then there is the instance of a major in the Army, with a wife and two chil- dren, who is on duty at one of the larger Government arsenals and who was recently warned by the local police that he must stop working on Sunday when he was engaged in tasks about his home, made necessary because he could not afford to have a servant or helper. This major says that now, at the age of 40 years, he does not enjoy “one- half the comforts” in life that he did on his pay as a second lieutenant, when he was 24 years old, before the war. Situation Declared General. These are striking examples of & situation which is declared to be gen- fly. I and another little girl used to stand on a graveyard wall, five or six descending from the town in the moun- tains to the valley. I could look up and see the town above me. I had the sen- sation that I and the world were parts of each other—that I was absol into nature. I walked, walked and walked with no sensation of walking. My feet id not seem to touch the ground. ' I “The situation in the real estate busi- ness in'Washington,” Rothschild added. “is not bad in regard to the integrity of the majority of the dealers. The wondition here likely is comparable to that in the average American city. It could, however, be a whole lot better. ‘Therefore, we are in favor of the en- actment of a bill covering this subject.” 200 Realty Complaints. In answer to questions by Representa- tive Patman of Texas, Mr. Rothschild sald that in the past {::qunn“" og :,".I‘OII complaints g ess practice filed with the bureau about 200 related to real estate business. The bulk of this number, he said, related to the “free Jot” scheme. Mr. Patman asked that he file & statement giving more in detail information regarding such complaints about real estate, Continuing his testimony, started at the first hearing Monday, Mr. Petty as the spokesman of the real estate board, said he wanted to make plain that his association was not opposed to the Blaine-McLeod bill and that in a number of respects he felt it would be more effective than the real estate board bill. He took the opportunity, how- ever, to make a number of suggested changes in the Blaine-McLeod bill. One of these was that it should be specified that the real estate commis- sion include one or two members who had been active in the real estate busi- . the me)‘::‘:" now stands it merely provides tl “not_more than two"” real estate men be represented on the board. Mr. Petty also that the commission be composed of three mem?era, nth:: than four, to vent & tie on a vote. p“'rhe realtor’s secretary said he had no objection to & change in the financing of the commission as proposed in the Blaine-McLeod bill, which would make possible an appropriation by Congress it needed for the functioning of the com- mission, Hearty indorsement was given by Mr. Petty to the clause in the Blaine- McLeod bill providing for public hear- ings on charges against real estate salesmen or brokers and to other clauses the commission power to sub- poens books and papers of concerns as such hearings for appeal to the Dis- trict Court of Appeals in any !lu‘ltlon growing out of the commission's action. This provision about power X -:bm. books and papers, he sald, - did improvement over the realtor bill Fears Interpretation. The question as to the need of clause lg the Blaine-McLeod bill, mak- ing it an offense to “simulate” a real estate sale or mortgage transaction with the purpose of defrauding, was raised by Mr, Petty. While heartily in accord with the intent of this clause, such mis- Tepresentation, he felt, was covered in existing statutes relating to frauds and in provisions of the lcense law else- where. He voiced a fear that a pos- sible interpretation of this clause might work hardships on a legitimate transac- tion under which property was “sold or mortgaged with the use of a “straw for the real owners of property. Mr. Patz.en, however, sald he did not gee any basis for fear in legitimate transactions because the clause specifi- cally referred to simulated sales or loans made for the pul of misrep- Tesentation as to the value of property. Early in the hearing Mr. Patman took the opportunity to explain that the pro- posed real estate license law had no connection with or was not inspired by investigations of the F. H. Smith Co., 2 number of whose officers are under indictment on fraud charges. CLUB SEEKS MEMBERS. Campaign Outlined by Cosmopoli- tans for Increasing Enrollment. Plans for & membership campaign were outlined at yesterday's meeting of the Cosmopolitan Club at the Carl- ton Hotel. the club being divided into two teams with Fred J. Rice, gover- or of the District Federation of Cos- politan Clubs, in charge of one and Arthur W. Defenderfer captaining the ns have never had the same experience since, although I have approached it in moments of emotional exaltation.” “I believed as a child, 5 to 8 years old, that I glided up or down the steps without touching a stair all the way.” another person admitted. “I actual believed it, for I remember telling my feet high, close our r&)e: and fall for- ward. I had a real ting sensation. It seems as if I actually would float three or four feet without effort. We would fall on our faces, The sensation still seems real. It was 50 real at the t.ln;el that I kept it up until I broke my ankle.” A large number of accounts of this kind, it is believed at the Child Re- search Center, may shed light on some of the obscure mental processes of child- hood, besides show the frequence of tion. would be ex- sation of flying or floating. FIVE FALSE CALLS RECEIVED IN HOUR Early-Morning Fire Alarms ‘Come From Apartment Section of City. Five false alarms, all within an hour, early this morning, coming from sec- tions crowded with apartment houses, kept fire alarm headquarters on the jump and brought many sleepers from wfmwmmmuum calls. Fire officials estimated today that the prank, believed to be the work of a single individual or party, eo:tn '-l:e District ) wrl.y ttl.m. wo instances, opera 2 alarm headquarters, satisfied that the alarms were false, sent only one com- pany to the scene without putting through the alarms, thereby saving several companies from making un- necessary runs. Several persons twere arrested by police for questioning following receipt of information that an automoblle was seen in the vicinity of the fire boxes at the times the alarms were sounded. The first alarm came from box 757, at Cathedral and Connecticut avenue, at 3:46 o'clock. This is the box which calls apparatus to Cathedral Mansions, the center unit of which has been the scene of several fires recently. Five minutes later an alarm came from box 841, at Eighteenth street and Wyoming avenue, AL 4 oclock box 842 was pulled, bringing firemen to California street and Phelps place, and at 4:20 o'clock & call came from box 7114, located at ‘Twenty-eighth and street, ‘The last of the early-morning slarms Wwas sounded at box 7113, Thirtieth street and Dent place, at 4:34 o'clock. Another false alarm came in from Thirty-second and Oliver streets at 9:52 o'clock last night, but police do not attribute it to the person ble for the series of calls this morning. . Furniture Plant Damaged. DANVILLE, Va, March 7 (Special). —Damage estimated at $100,000 was done to the Bassett Furniture Co.'s plant at Bassett yesterday by fire. sprinkler system damaged & quantity of finished furniture. Richard Simms, 29 years old, colored, was shot and seriously wounded last night when he attempted to enter his |home, at 241 Fifty-first street north- cast, through a side window after mak- |ing a futile effort to arouse t |sleeping within. _Police are holding William Henson, 24, colored, & roomer at Simms’ home, at No. 11 precinct other. Jerome gave.-8 short talk on the history of the work of Cosmopoli $an Clubs in Washington. D:::‘ln‘ the outcome of Simms’ in- Simms seid he left his door key & CHERRY FESTIVAL DELAYED ONE YEAR lliness of Taft and Fund Shortage Are Among Rea- sons for Decision. ‘Washington's cherry blossom festi- val, which was to have been staged this Spring when the Japanese cherry trees along the Speedway in Potomac Park bloom, has been postponed until 1931, Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, chairman of the city-wide committee in charge of the event, announced yesterday. It had been planned to stage the fes- tival on a gigantic scale, rivaling New Orleans’ Mardi Gras, and preparation for it had attracted national and even international interest. Reasons for the postponement were given as & lack of time to complete ar- rangements, a shortage of funds and the ve illness of former Chief Justice Willlam Howard Taft, who, with Mrs. Taft, was largely instrumental in bring- ing the trees to this counry from Japan. The festival committee will continue its work without interruption, Gen. Stephan_announced. Gen. Stephan’s statement follows: “Reports from the cherry blossom committee would indicate that the time intervening between now and the ap- proximate time the blossoms are ex- pected to bloom is insufficient to co plete the elaborate program it is ex- pected will be presented. Considerable training of personnel and rehearsal of tableaux and chorus is still necessary to perfect those who will take part. “A condition which gives the com- mittee most serious concern he ave lllness of former Chief Justice 'aft. To Justice Taft and Mrs. Taft we are indebted for the cherry trees planted in Potomac Park, they being presented through them to the Fed- eral Government as a gift from the mayor of Tokio. It was the intention of the committee to honor Justice Taft and Mrs. Taft in the important features of the elaborate program, but the ser- 1'1')‘\;;; 1llness ;)It'i:w former Chbl:‘( Justice preven e program ing pre- sented as originally planned. “In view of these facts the general committee has decided to postpone the festival for one year, but to continue its work and perfect plans.” “BURGLAR” SHOT BY ROOMER PROVES TO BE LANDLORD Richard Simms, Colored, Is in Serious Condition at Hospital With Wound in Side. 1ast night and when he returned um:' 11 o'clock he found the door locked and the occupants of the house asleep. He knocked, he said, but fajled to awaken any one and then went to a side window and attempted to raise it to get in. Henson, according to police, came downstairs when he heard the window rattie and shot Simms, thinking he was Y ar. The bullet penetrated the Jett $ man snd ‘the taken to Casualty Hospital, home shortl; was | and with the m eral, although usually in a somewhat less degree, throughout the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Public Health Service and Coast and Geodetic Survey. It was one morning in January, two years ago, that a little force of United States Marines was beleaguered in a Above: The new church being erected at Grant Circle by St. Gabriel's Parish of the Roman Catholic Church. Below: The new national Christian Church at Thomas Circle, which will overshadow other buildings on the circle. —Star Staff Photos. INDEPENDENT DRUG BUREAU PROPOSED Porter Declares Enforcement by Dry Officers Is Impossible. By the Associated Press. Creation of & separate Bureau of Narcotics was urged today before the House ways and means committee by Representative Porter, Republican, of Pennsylvania, who said it was “utterly impossible” to enforce the Federal nar- cotics act “so lol as it is treated as a stepson of prohibition.” Enforce- ment of the drug laws now is delegated largely to the prohibition unit. The committee, which is considering 2 bill by Chairman Hawley for the or- ganization of a_separate narcotics unit, town in Northern Nicaragua. The men had recently been through a heavy fight and they had suffered severe losses. The commanding officer, the second in command and nine enlisted men were dangerously wounded. It was impera- tive that the wounded be taken to Managua if they were to get the sort xf treatment that might save their ives. A movement over the Nicaraguan fungle trails with these wounded men would almost certainly result in attack, with the possibility of complete destruc- tion of the little force. Even if such a column could make its way to the base in safety, the condition of the wounded was such that the trip would probably be fatal to them. In this situation First Lieut. Christian F. Schiltz, & young officer of the Ma- rine Corps, volunteered to undertake what seemed to be the almost impossi- ble feat of carrying the wounded men to Managua by air. The town was sur- rounded by mountains. Even nature was against him, for at that particular time the mountains are shrouded in low-hanging clouds and mists. Made 10 Successful Landings. In the face of all obstacles Lieut. Schiltz made 10 successful landings in an airplane on a hastily prepared “land- ing fleld” in one of the village streets. At each landing and take-off he was subjected to hostile fire, but neverthe- less, by a display of remarkable flying skill and courage, he continued until the task was completed. In addition to the evacuation of the wounded men he brought in a rellef commander for the beleagured column and 1,400 pounds offl emergency medical supplies and pro- visions. While Lieut. Schiltz was thus per- forming an act beyond the demands of duty—an act which afterward was rec- ognized by the award of a Distinguished Flying Cross and a Congressional Medal ot Honor—while he was hazarding his life to succor his comrades—each flight upon this errand of mercy was piling up levlder;ce by which he was to suffer a 08 of pay. “Here in Washington, at ease in ir swivel chairs behind brenzwornwot leather-bound tomes of law,” t6 quote the words of a fellow officer, “men in the general accounting office reckoned up the score. This officer had been on duty in Nicaragua but two months on the date of the commencement of his heroic mission. Prior to assignment to that duty he had been stationed in Quantico, Va., and there was recelving & rental allowance. “At the time he performed this act of heroism he was being credited and pald this rental allowance, but on ac- count that very act, although he flew an unarmed plane on his trips to aid his comrades, he was declared to be upon a status of ‘fleld duty’ because he had come under hostile infantry fire at every landing and take-off. As he was without dependents the general ac- counting office decided that the rental allowance paid to him by the responsi- ble disbursing officer must be checked against his pay. Acted According to Law. “While, of course, it is realized that no one in Congress could have foreseen this operation of the joint service pay act of 1922, as interpreted by the valiant pen-pushers of the general accounting office, still the fact remains that any officer who performs an act of bravery under similar conditions must suffer a | loss in his total pay and allowance.” The general accounting office, of course, was merely acting in accordgnce with the law as it found it. But ft is instances of this kind that have helped to bring about the condition of “unrest and discontent” that is officially de- clared to exist in the Army, Navy, Ma~ rine Corps and allled services, Pnrurn even Controller General Mc- Carl will forgive the brother officer of :i:l‘:'aesfhllud'& his rather critical ude toware neral account! office in this unmunfimum. i “The present law,” says the inter- departmental pay board, “with its many complications arising from the fact that total compensation 1s com of an involved mixture of pay and allowances, with many kinds of prior service count- ed for longevity purposes, which are not counted for rank, with several ‘base ’ preséribed for each grade, with &'«Eum and proof of d un:enu. 1oy de- qislons of the controller general, makes was informed by Porter, an authority on the drug traiffic, that illicit dealing in narcotics . costs the country from $1,000,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 a year. He added that the long coast line made it almost impossible to detect drug smugglers under the present system. The Pennsylvania Representative as- serted that the Federal Narcotic Board, composed of three cabinet members, did not function because it was handled largely by subordinates. He said that cabinet members did not have time for the work. Anti-nar- cotic leagues were also criticized by Por- ter, who said some of them were “up- lifters for profit.”” Harry J. Anslinger, assistant commis- sioner of prohibition in charge of nar- cotics, testified the Treasury Depart- ment was entirely sympathetic with any measure that would aid in elimination of narcotic addiction. He said he would support the Hawley bill, subject to some amendment. operation thereunder complex, confus- ing and administratively difficult. “A simplified law, based upon sound principles, will save much administra- tive expense and will expedite the pay- ment of items which under the &rescnt law are now long held in dispute, and will thereby increase the efficiency and contentment of the services.” Earns More Than Former Superior. Incidentally, as a sequel to the story of Lieut. Schiltz’s bravery and pecuniary misfortune, it might be interesting to note that in the airplane squadron to ‘which he was attached there was at the same time an enlisted fiyer. While Lieut. Schiltz remained in the Marine Corps, the enlisted man at the end of his current enlistment left the service and obtained employment with an air | g, corporation handling Government mail. This former enlisted man today is earn- ing three times the salary that Lieut. Schiltz is receiving. The Navy Department has not made public the name of the lieutenant who was found to be recelving $138 more a year than his rear admiral, but the In- terdepartmental Pay Board declares that countless examples, only less in degree, can be cited of disparity in the pay of officers of different grades. Often the total pay and allowances of officers is found to be greater than that of their superiors. “It is in violation of this cardinal principle,” adds the board, “that the joint service pay act is most at fault and that its effect is injurious to the 75 MORE CHURCHES JOININ CAMPAIGN tions Added to Survey and Visitation Drive. Interest in the Washington directed survey and visitation evangelism cam- paign to begin Sunday under the direc- tion of Rev. A. Earl Kernahan has be- come more widespread with the addi- tion of more than 25 churches. Numer- ous calored churches have been added to etings will be held daily next weel in colored churches under the chair- manship of Rev. J. R. Duffield and un- der the personal direction of Rev. L. E. Ripley and Mrs, Mabel Ripley of the Kernahan staff. Seven of the 11 city- wide districts now have additional or- ganizations perfected for colored work- TS. ‘The second district met yesterday in the Mount Carmel Baptist Church, with Rev. W. H, Jernagin as leader, while the seventh district met in the Jerusa- lem Baptist Church with Rev. Augus- tus Lewis as leader. Meetings held to- day included the first district in the Zion Baptist Church with Rev. W. L. ‘Washington as leader; the fifth district in the Lane C. M. E. Church with Rev. H. Threlkeld as leader, and the ninth district in the Anacostia Methodist Epis- copal Church. The leader of the latter organization remains to be selected. Churches added to the survey include: Church of the Epiphany, Silver Spring Episcopal Misison; Orthodox Friends Church, Church of the Reformation, efficlency and morale of the services.” The major in the Army who was warned by the police to stop working about his home on Sunday in telling the story of his financial worries has withheld his name for ‘“obvious rea- sons.” Here is the way he sums up his situation today: “I live in a smaller, less comfortable house in a much less attractive envi- ronment now than I did when I was a lieutenant before the war. I wear clothes of inferior quality and have fewer of them, have less luxuries in the way of food, have less money to spend on recreation and amusements and have to do for myself most of the menial tasks that I used to hire others to do. With the exception of two brief peri- ods of a few months each, I have never been out of debt during the past 10 ears, My wife works continually at Ccooking and housework and has not had a day off in a year and a half. Children Aided by Gifts. “My wife gets only $25 per month for her own personal expenses. She has not bought & new dress or coat for over two years, and were it not for gifts of clothing from relatives she would be in a decldedly bad way. My two children also have been assisted by gifts of clothing from relatives. “My leaves of absence of any length of time since the war have, with one exception, been spent at home, as I have never had the necessary surplus funds to g0 here for a vacation. The one exception was a leave of one month and 25 days spent in automo- bile touring, and this was made possible only by the fact that I was changing station and that I camped in so-called “tin-can tourist’ lt‘le instead of put- up at comfortable hotels. .On this Jeave I did come out even financially, and incident the camj thoul: I fln’l'-! that my wife Mh Brookland Methodist Church, Langdon Methodist, ~ St. John's Episcopal of Georgetown, St. Mark's Episcopal, All Souls’ Episcopal, Emanuel Episcopal Nativity Episcopal, Wilson Memorial Methodist, Mount_Tabor Methodist Pro- testant and the First Universalist. 01d-Time Cotillon Revived. NEWPORT, R. I, March 7 (#).—The cotilion with favors, extremely popular in the 90s in the Summer social set, is to be revived at an Easter Monday ball to be given by the Art Association. {Numerous Colored Congrega- | CITIZENS ‘OVERPAY' U S. ON INCOME Many Forget Last Cut of 1 Per Cent on All Nor- mal Rates. Many persons are paying the Govern- ment too much income tax this year, it was disclosed today by officials of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, who ex- plained that the liberality was due to the taxpayers forgetting all about the latest tax reduction of 1 per eent on normal tax rates. It is involving what may be an untold amount of trouble for the Government, because the surplus, which is not due, will have to be paid back, involving & lot of bookkeeping and return of money by Government check. The difficulty arose because all the income tax forms were printed, nec- essarily, before Congress passed a joint resolution reducing the normal tax rates, so the forms now in the hands of taxpayers contain the old rates of 11, per cent on the first $4,000 in ex- cess of the personal exemptions and other credits, 3 per cent on the next $4,000 and 5 per cent on the remainder. As it was too late and too expensive anyhow, after Congress reduced taxes, to furnish the whole country with new income tax blanks, little slips, known as “riders” were printed and distributed with the original blanks, These “riders” explained all about the tax reduction granted by Congress, and gave ex- plicit_instructions on computing the tax under the reduced rate. Millions of these slips all carry the correct lower rates, for the calendar year 1929, of one-half of 1 per cent of the first $4,000 in excess of the per- sonal exemptions and credits, 2 per cent on the next $4,000 and 4 per cent on the remainder. ‘The Government will get what is due, but, according to officials, it certainly doesn't want any one to cause trouble all around by paying too much. WOMAN FOUNDER OF WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW IS PAID HONOR: Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, Ill in Private Sanitarium, Hears Tributes Over Radio. By means of radio, in a private sani- tarium here, where she is ill, Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey, founder of the Wash- ington College of Law and selected by the National Women's Party as the ploneer champlon of & better legal status for women, listened in on & pro- am by the Soroptimist Club at the Fayette Hotel, Wednesday, in which she was honored by several speakers. The program was broadcast by station WJsV. A national memorial of a tablet bear- ing her name and a tribute is to be erected by the National Women's Party somewhere in it was ex- ‘Washington, plained d's fund is B 20 sseteds of whicts Wil | Res : heuudwcnrr{onthewmkotuu Mussey in obtaining still better legal status for women, Speakers included: Maj. Julius I Peyser, president of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia; Walter C. Clephane, Paul E. Lesh of the District of Columbia Bar, Judge Mary O'Toole, Dr. Edward Dutton, Mrs.” Annabel Matthews, Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Mrs. Grace Hayes Riley, Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt, Miss Bess Goodykoon! Mrs. Mary Catherine Lewis, president of the Soroptimist Club, and Mrs, Bessie | ruggeman. Parker B Mrs. Gertrude Lyons rendered a musical program and acted as Mrs. Helena D. — N PAGE B-1. 'RESIDENTS OPPOSE | | | 1 CLOSING CROSSING ON MICHIGAN AVE. Citizens Plan to Raise Funds to Make Fight on Pro- posed Change. DIVERSION OF TRAFFIC HELD SCHOOL DANGER Committee, With Members From Each Street in Vicinity, Is Being Named. Determined to oppose vigorously a proposal that has been put forward to close Michigan avenue at the grade crossing near Catholic University, resi- dents of the surrounding section met last night at 3912 Twelfth street north- east and authorized the appointment of a special committee to draw up resolu= tions protesting against such action and to raise funds fo combat this pro- gram. William M. Deviny, president of the Michigan Park Citizens’ Association, presided at the gathering, at which about 5C interested property owners ate tended. He insisted that one of the most vital reasons why Michigan avenue should not be closed and traffic should not be diverted around by way of Mon~ roe street and Tenth street is‘ that there are three schools and an orphan asylum at Tenth and Monroe . The throwing of additional traffic onto Monroe street, by closing Michigan avenue, will jeopardize the lives of the children who attend the Brookiand Public School, St. Anthony’s Parochial School, St. Anthony's High School and the Baptist Home for Deviny said. Other Arguments Used. Addresses, setting forth various BB et S B aered v E. J. an, Barr, C. J. Hausler and 3 Dorinel Included in th the f , Mr. avenue is a boulevard, while street is merely a side street; that there is ample room for traffic now on Michi- gan avenue, while Monroe street is at present heavily traveled, and that the Government is now spen thousands of dollars to straighten and widen Michigan avenue near Trinity College to take two small kinks out, and if the grade crossing' is closed, then it will mean that traffic, traveling around by way of Monroe and Tenth streets, will have to execute a 90-degree turn. The speakers made it clear that they fi:’sz no obj:cl-k;n to the wldenln“l lonroe street viaduct over the - timore & Ohio Railroad 5, % Namin: Committee Today. . Deviny, who was instrume; calling last night's meeting, mt which - as women and men, two from each in the interested region. There about 30 on the committee, The community will maki to enlist the services of real estate men and institutions east of the tracks, in endeavoring to insure Michigan avenue shall Among the organizations to be proached in this connection are G':lrtrude"lmfiome and the orders of e Carmeli Ben and Franciscans, B HOUSE MEMBERS TO ADDRESS WOMEN Talks Will Be Feature of Two-Day Conference of Overseas Service League, Representatives Ruth Bryan Owen, Royal C. Johnson and William P, Con- nery, jr., will speak tomorrow at & banquet which is to feature the tovo-d-y conference of the Women's versea Service Les of the 3d Area, which will c.:n‘:em ‘here tomor- From "Piisburgh,” Bl el A ad - more and m‘c‘)’:’nond. o Miss Lena Hitchcock, past national president of the league, is chairman of the local committee on arrangements. ‘The program inclu”s a luncheon at the Dodge Hotel at noon tomorrow, a business session in the afternoon and the banquet at 2400 Sixteenth street orrow evening. There will be an- other business session Sunday morning, to be followed with a sightseeing tour and a tea at the Fort Myer Service Club in the afternoon. DOCTOR LEFT ESTATE OF CHARLES F. R. SMITH Testator Explains Wife and Two Grown Children Are Self- Sustaining. Dr. Alan J. Chenery, 3726 R street, is named sole legatee of the estate of Charles F. R. Smith, who died March 3, by the terms of his will, dated Jan- uary 27, 1930. The testator explains that he has purposely excluded from the provisions of his will the members of his i A consisting of his wife and two children, who are self-sustaining. “Dr. Chenery,” he wrote, “has ren- dered me many services as both friend and physiclan for which he has never received adequate compensation and many instances no compensation. have made him my sole legatee In con- sideration of his many kindnesses and services to me.” ‘The physician is also named as ex- ecutor of the estate, the value of which 118 not disclosed, but which-Dr. Chenery sald today he understood consisted of two $1,000 insurance policies, U. S. AWARDS ROYALTY OIL Award of royalty oil accruing to the United States from oil and leases in the Kettleman field of (!A‘i.nornh, | has been made to the Midoil Refining Co. of Fellows, Calif, owned by .W. G. Philips, Secretary of the Interior | Wilbur announced yesterday. The award was made in accordance with bids submitted to the department on March 1, after they had been called for. bid was $2.57 per bar- el, figure submitted,