Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1930, Page 14

A—14 DISTRIT AIRPORT BILL REFERRED T0 SENATE COMMITTEE: Carries Joint Commission’s | Recomemndation for Acquir-; ing and Combining Lands. | LOAN PROVISION { SLIGHTLY MODIFIED Repayments to Treasury on 32,- 500,000 Would Be Made Year After Expenditure. The municipal airport bill, intro-| duced late yesterday by Senator Bing- | ham of Connecticut, has been referred to the Senate District committee, n” which Senator Capper of Kansas is chairman, for report before being taken up in the Senate. The bill carries out the recommenda- tions of the Joint Congressional Airport | Commission for acquisition of the two] private flying fields at the south end of Highway Bridge and comblnlngl them with adjacent land of the Depart- | ment of Agriculture and a portion 0(\ Columbia Island. Military road, which | runs between the two existing flying | fields, would be rerouted around the ! airport. | Bill Slightly Modified. ! Just before the bill was introduced it | was modified slightly to provide lhntl 4f the entire loan of $2,500,000 from the Federal Treasury to establish the air- port s ot all expended at the outset, [ the District would not begin to pay back the deferred portion until one year after it is actually spent. In its orig- inal form the bill would have reimbursement in 10 annual install ments of $250,000 each. As revised, the bill states that all sums expended during any fiscal year would be repaid by the District in 10 annual installments, commencing one year later. Senator Bingham sai ‘was fairer to the District. Grants Federal Use. ‘The bill gives all agencies of the Federal Government that use aircraft the right to “free and unmm-md use of the airport,” and also pl'mds that in case of war, Secretary of War could assume control of the airport. Al'.hou“hh the title h‘)u;.h;ehnd eon‘:‘-‘ prising afrport wo vested the United States, the fleld Wllld be under control and jurisdiction of District Commissioners, who would empowered to make regulations for the operation of the airport, subject to ap- proval by the Secretary of Commerce. GRAVELLY PLAN HELD CHEAPER. Hinton Tells Women’s City Club Meet- Afrport-Hoover Pleld site, Walter Hin- ton, chairman of the aviation commit- tee of the Wi ber of tion section of the Women's City Club in an address last night. The District will have to pay approxi- :nuly $9,000 %er acre for the 130 ‘Washington Airport-Hoover 1s completed, at & cost of l2500 , we will have only 280 acres at the maximum,” mnwn said. “I have | Commerce, told members of the avia-|of the cost mub«tmmn. lent of the combat Communism. = AIRPORT PROJECT HELD EXPEDIENT Merchants Indorse Proposal, Provided Government Pays “Equitable” Share. Early development of an afrport for the National Capital by combination of vaer Plel ‘Washington A.rlcul'.u up:r’mmmnle agzcgg re ental farm an lumbia Island, on the Virginia side of the Powmu: River near the end of B S e 7O, y_the board of govern- ors of {he Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Association, provided the Federal Govemmem bears its “equitable” share ‘This mlon was taken by the asso- ciation yesterday afternoon after len:thy consideration of the matter and the plan outlined recently by the Congres- sional Joint Airport Commission, of which Senator Bingham of Connecticut is chairman. ded -to this indorse- ment its reiterated recommendation for the preparation of the Gravelly Point llte on the Potomac River below High- ay Bridge, as the site of the perma- unt and mljor alrport development for estimates which show that | washi: engineering this amount eould be used to produce an alrport of 500 acres at onvelly Polnt. filled, graded, drained, sodded and ready for use within two years, at & cost of $5,000 per acre.” Hinton declared that there is a attached to the offer of the Fed- ment to lend the District funds with which w develop the Wash- ington Airport-Hoover Field Afrport. ‘The District of Columbia.” we pay for the feld we should own it." b'lrhe' eo::lbmed site will not be l;l{lb- able for airport purposes 8- tional Capital, even if develo] to its maximum area of 280 acres, clared. The fleld, he ldfl is of mmm- clent size to obtain an A-1-A rating from the Department of Commerce. It 1is unsafe for devel;rf;mem as a seaplane base because the river in front of the , Site is narrow and the Highway and “ Arlington Memorial Bridges constitute permanent obstructions, he said. More- over, he pointed out, if the Mount Ver- non boulevard, to be constructed along Columbia Island, is to be beau by the planting of trees, the effective land- ing area both of the airport and the river would be reduced by at least seven times the height of the trees, cutti several acres from the available land- ing area. Development of the proposed two level Junction of the Washington-Alexandria road and the Mount Vernon boulevard, at the southern end of Highway Bridge, he said, would constitute another ard at that corner of the field. Hinton urged that the Women's City Club follow up its invitation to entrants in the 1930 women's air derby, in con- nection with the national air races to be held in Chicago late in the Summer, to start from the National Capital. He predicted that there would be more than 100 woman piiats entered in the derliy, a5 against 16 last year. ogponunmes for women in aviation | ™ were discussed by the speaker, who has written a text book on the subject of opportunities in the aviation industry. He told of the many flelds open to wom- en in the manufacturing, deslmlnl finishing, operation, sales and ad 1ing of aircraft. He pointed out '.hlt one woman, Miss Amelia Earhart, now is paid $15,000 a year by one company to develop passenger travel by air. —— D. C. HIGH SCHOOLS WIN HONORS IN JOURNALISM Central and Fastern Awarded First Place in Magazine and News- paper Work. ‘Washington high ognition of their journalistic prowess at the sixth annual convention of Columbia_Scholastic Press Association | Fort; at Columbia University, when Central High School and Eastern High School were awarded first place in the senior high school magazine and newspaper, respecuve!y The Review, Central’ official magazine, shared first place honors with two other high and Eastern’s newspaper, the ::‘n‘:r was classed with 26 other publi- ns. Central was further honored when its ne"wlper, the Buuefin. was awarded second place. ess High School’s magazine, the Bnl.nnoe Sheet, was given fourth place in class B competition, and Dunbar’s newspaper, the » won third place 3 in class Setugs were'sienacd yevierdss by the ngs were attene 1,400 students' of Journaliam who are s ot S8 B of jew Yorl imes addressed the delegate on “The News- lator of Time and morning sessian, 1t should bear for the Cloped <0 ats | the commission taxpayers p tified ing pla; owned by Az | torest, program A trip Anf three gested. sectional | B :\ - lq'nrlel as Temporafy Now. 'rhneonummwumt.hecomblnv‘ tion of the areas as congressional an airport of sufficient to care for muuw..m needs, but that this should be regarded as but & step to eventual ment of the larger area at Gi Point. The enl "Government, since it will i :t.. the ben{l:fl from u;; 's urpo through use made the many large Federal agencies 1d a mx part of the cost. Since the cost of the develup- ‘ment of the combmefl site g posed by has been but roughly estimated, the burden plwed on local may be considerably more than the $2, sao 000 estimated, members of the board declared. It was brought out thnt no exact studies had been made, so far as known, showing just what the cost would be of filling and developing the considerable swamp areas and water-covered por- tions of the proposed site, adjoining Hoover Pield and Washington Alrport. One objection voiced against this combined site was that Highway Bridge and the Lincoln Memorial Bridge, near opposite ends of the field, would limit and make dm(emus the landing of sea- nes at this fleld, which otherwise was limited in area. Donations of portions of the site the Federal Government and the tender of a loan of $2,500,000 from the United States Treasury without in- it was declared, was not an en- flrely equitable contribution from the ‘Government, because of the mlnty as to how*much actual de- velopment of the area would cost local taxpayers. June 20-23 Set for Outing. The board of governors also decided l-hll the association would hold its an- ual “boosters’ outing” June 20-23 this yur James E. Colliflower was named | chairman of a committee to map out a| - I%r meue“m and to select the | nee of the outing. 2 to Cascade, Md., the location of the Summer camp of the local Na- tional Guard, was proposed by Maj. Gen. Anton Stephan, head of the mili- tia and puz president of the associa- tion. A -day cruise on the Poto- mac and Chespnkz Bay also was sug- A resolution voicing sorrow over the recent death of Sigmund Kann, head of the department store firm of 8. Kann son- co was ado) on the propwed new smoke nulunce law and the three proposed proposed by th miubr;u:oum pmvlde post) laws regulating real estate b\umm she here was pmponed. Mark Lansburgh, president, presided. . Bachelors Fight Tax. ANCONA, Italy, March 16 (F).— ‘bachelors lnve petitioned for ex- from the bachelor tax on the 'rc\md that no women possibly could want them for husbands. o Marriage Licenses. Alvln ! Dfl'fm’a‘ 'E‘.‘B‘Im‘m: #' qc{lfl.l C. K‘ll“ 31. and Thelma E. Dick- .;fl ! Gfll’ll& ‘21, and wu el Gumimers, 34, and Luey O. ‘5“"' 37; Re: oung 8 mer Wood. d Minnle Osnnon, Wil %- le. Unnlel Olhlmlv. 28, and Mary Berenter, Rev. G. Silversio ttlnal Willis Cora. na (Afine M. Wet- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1930. HIGH SCHOOL FLAG SALUTE mL.mmmmmu« Mayo, vice president of the student council a¢ Central High School, achool will saluie the fiag under the mmstructions issucd by Supt, Ballou to —Star Staff Photo. DIVIDEND PASSED BYF.H. SMITHC Firm Threatened With Re- ceivership Breaks Half- Century Record. ‘The F. H. Smith Co., threatened with receivership petitions, today failed to pay & regular dividend for the first time in its half century of existence. Notice that the dividend would be passed was contained in the following statement sent to all holders of the company's 7 and 7}z per cent accumu- lative preferred stock: “In order to preserve the cash posi- tion of your company, the directors, at a meeting on March l decldad to pass the dividend due March 1 'rhe usual semi-annual dividend of “ per cent would total approximately eodore L. Weed, chairman of the refused to amplify the notice sent to the mkhomm when inter- viewed . “The notice stated all we have to say,” he declared. Although the Bmiv.h Co. has success- fully defended applications for appoint- ment of a receiver in Washington and ‘Wilmington, Del., the failure to pay the dividend will almost, certainly be used as a weapon by the group of stock and bond holders seeking a receiver in New York City. The hearing on this petition, long poned, will be held Tuesday, ac- cording to Lewis Landes, attorney for the committee of stockholders. —s REAR ADMR. MEAD DIES IN WEST INDIES Funeral Services Held in Jamaica for Retired Naval Officer. Rear Admiral William Whitman Mud United States Navy, retired, Mandville, Jamaica, West Indies, rch 6, according to advices received at the Navy Department yesterday. Funeral services were hold in Mandville. Admiral Mead was 85 years old. Prior to going to Jamaica he made his home at Wayne, Pa. He was placed on the retired list in 1907 after a service cover- ing more than 45 years. Admiral Mead commanded the U.S. 8. Machias during the latter part of the war with Spain. He also had com- manded a steam launch during an attack on Korean forts during an expe- dition to capture and destroy the forts. His last duty was at the Navy Yard, Portsmouth, N. H. He reached the grade of rear admiral July 1, 1905. — e WOMAN REPORTS LOSS OF GEMS WORTH $3,300 BALTIMORE, March 15.— Mrs. Brantz Mayer of 3218 Macomb street northwest, Washington, vesterday re- ported the loss of a purse containing jwelry valued at $3,300 while shopping in a Charles street depmment store. The loss, she told detectives, occurred between 11 a.m. and noon. The lnel% she said, was in a small alligator purse inside a large handbag. The most valuable item in flm list of jewelry was a platinum ring, containing 12 diamonds and sapphire valued at $1,800. Another platinum ring, con- taining 8 diamonds and 1 npphlre and engraved “B. M. to M. W. April 19, 1915,” Mrs. Mayer valued n $300. ‘Two platium earrings, with 20 diamonds, were valued at tl uoo The purse also contain gold watch lntl chain valued at uw and two hlby pins valued at $50. SALVATION ? ARMY WINS. Cup Awarded by Community Chest in Publicity Contest. : “The Story-of-the-month” Cup of- fered by the Community Chest the member organization which was ad- idged to have obtained the best news- licity during the month was yesterday to the Salvation Army. The cup was recelved by lnj Jl.mu Asher, divisional eommlnder from Miss Gibson, mflnwndmh of Chl.ld.l’e‘nl Halplhl had held it for the previous Johnston, president ot the Mvmlsl.ng Club of Washington, committee from that organization ncud as judges. Ralph D. er, city editor of the Wuhlnmn Daily News, gave an informal talk on the kind of publicity material the newspapers want 1 social work agencies and si ing the work of the Com- tly before the SCHOOLS PREPARE FOR FLAG SALUTE T0 COMBAT REDS' Intensive Patriotic Program Is Schedufed by Business High Principal. CONSTITUTION CLUB ‘ ASKED TO AID MOVE Others Act to Offset Radical Propa- ganda Circulated Among Stu- dents by Communists. ‘Washington high schools yesterday |set about enforcing Dr. Frank W. i Ballou's order to salute the flag of the United States in “at least one-half of the student assemblies,” and one prin- cipal announced his determination of going “beyond the salute formality” to dwell upon the principles behind it. Allan Davis, principal of Business High School, one of the institutions where | Communism has made itself a nuisance | among a small group of pupils, declared | nis intention of setting up a more in- tensive patriotic program than any { which the school administration yet | has ordered. Mr. Davis sald that the | Business High School Constitution Club, an organization of National Oratorical Contest participants, has been respon- sible for many patriotic activities in that school, and that he meant to appeal to it to increase its energies during the current Communistic activities. Will Broaden Activities. Specifically, Mr. Davis means to have not only the salute to the flag in as- mbllubut-lmminco te in ‘the uunx of excerpts from the o! Independence, the Con- stitution and other famous American omlmenu Thg Consmunon Club then t discussions of the prlnclplu i.nvolved in these docu- ments and in the flag salute. The flag. Mr. Davis added, always has been sa- luted at Business on such “special” oc- casions as Washington's blrt day, Flag day and all other days on which Amer- icanism might be brought to the fore in a dignified manner. ‘Western High School also will in- crease the number of occasions on which its l'-udel&" will salute the flag, Dr. explained. The salute . has baeln given heretofore only on spe- wdays” M cenh'll High School, where an assembly was held yesterday morning a few minutes after the school superin- tendent’s order reached the building, the formality was not launched. Har- vey A. Smith, the principal, explained that the salute formula will be given to every student first, and then by the next assembly the salute can be exe- cuted with the dignity it deserves. Others Plan Daily Salute. Dunbar and Armstrong high schools have had no evidence of Communisti activities, their principals explained The flag_ salute has been executed on “special days,” and now, in u:cordmce with Dr. Bl-llm.\l order, it will be used more frequently. Similar_situations _exist in all the other high schools. None of the school al’lnl:lp.ll would anticipate what ac- lon would be pursued if a child refused to salute the flag. They held the opin- ion that such opposition should be dealt with only as the behavior of the of- fending students dictates, and that pre- mature announcemients of what would be done to chfldnn who rebelled would serve only to invite such refusals or the part of the handful of children inclined toward Communism. Cadets Attend Meeting. Five members of the Western High School Cadet Corps attended a ‘“red” meeting at 1337 Seventh street last night to debate issues with radical Ontcldetnuudw ve his name, father is a politiclan. The oth- m vlere Allan Warfield, 2631 Adams Mill road, son of an insurance com= pany npruenhuve 4442 Greenwich Vi e Parkway, son of a real estate operator; Miner Buell, 4608 Daven) street, son of an en- eer in the Navy Department, and Hlbert Rodier, Jr. of 4515 Ellicott street, son of an architect. As Communist orators denounced all things which the youths been taught to uphold, the five cadets ques- tioned the lpet.keu regarding Com- munism in Russia. “Why didn't Zommunist in Russia?” a cadet asked. T declined to answer. “Why do you refuse to salute the flag of George Washington?” another queried. He was answered by a denunciation of the first President. Questioned regarding their willing- ness to abide by the ruling that stu- dents must salute the flag and recite the pledge of allegiahce, the Communists would take no definite stand. TITANIC MEMORIAL PLANS UNDER WAY Col. Grant Invites Bids for Con- struction of Foundation on Site Chosen Near Potomac River. lan work. speaker o(ugxgilm& i‘l’ S, Gl’ldnt‘ 8:]1 director c building an c_parks, toda ied a call for bids !Dg.'.he construction of the Titanic Memorial Foundation, to be erected in the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway on the Po- tomac River at the foot of New Hamp- shire avenue. The bids will be opened March 20. Specifications call for reinforced con- crete foundations. ‘The contract will provide for the cleaning off and pre of the rip- rap subgrade stone already in place. ‘The contractor is required to scm work within five days after the contract has let and complete the work within 21 calendar days. ‘The memorial 1(.lel.f which is the work of Mrs. Harry Payne Whi sents a figure with oum.uwhed arms. This memorial is e: to be brought to Washington for unveiling soon. On March 3, in the District appro- priation bill, Congress gave authority to the Women'’s Titanic Memorial So- clety to “erect a memorial appropriate to the heroes that sacrificed their lives that women and children might be saved, in the tragic catastrophe of the sinkln: of the steamship Titanic.” of engineers of the Army | Ares gl.nud permission to the association erect & memorial at the foot of New flll‘l-lplhfl’! avenue and the Arts Commission likewise gave its aj val as did flle Joint library cor ttee of In the interim the l-ochtlon has been for -the o | construction of the monumenc. Under tentative plans of the National Park and Planning Commission this statue will not be placed in the center cf the circle, but at the intersection of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, New ! i Project Should Have Priority. ! Richard Lane, [ AVORS PUSHING MPROVEMENT OF MONROE OVERPASS President Llewellyn of Rhode Island Ave. Citizens’ Says GROUP BACKS PLANS OF COMMISSIONERS Elimination of Michigan Ave. Crossing, Bridge Widening and Other Items Favored. Insistent that the improvement of the Monroe street overpass and its ap- proaches over the tracks of the metro- politan branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Rallroad, shall go forward now, Thom- as J. Llewellyn, president of the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association, as sgokesmnn for that group, is backing the District government in its proposed legislation. He favors elimination of the grade crossing at Michigan avenue, near the Monroe street overpass, but asserts that it should not be given pri- ority, at this time, over the Monroe street project. One of the civic workers in closest touch with the problem is Mr. Llewel- lyn, who is chairman of the highways, parks and waterways committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. Mr. Llewellyn explained that this problem was referred to his committee by the Michigan Park Citizens' Association. Bridge-Widening Item. After investigation, his committee made a report that Congress include an item in the 1931 appropriation bill for the District of Columbia for widen- ing of the bridge and approaches at Monroe street and likewise, further rec- ommended that the Bureau of the Bud. get item be amended so as not to elim- inate Michigan avenue, from Seventh to Tenth street, from the highway plan. ‘The committee did not specifically rec- ommend that Michigan avenue be clos- ed at the grade crossing. One outstanding _fact, revealed by the committee, Mr. Llewellyn said, was that 85 per cent of the population in the area at present developed lies south and east of the Monroe street line. ‘The committee felt that there will be a need of a bridge at Michigan avenue in the near future to take care of the rapidly growing section in the Michigan Park region. Mr. Llewellyn Doinud out thlt Mon- roe street is the or Rhode Islnnd lvenue, 1ng cnre o{ all traffic east of the metropolitan branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road, leldlnc to t.he Northwest. Mon- roe street, he contends, should accord- ingly be 1mpmv at this time to take care of the traffic. Plans for Straightening. ‘The president of the Rhode Island Av-mue Citizens’ Association, who lives at 3024 Otis street northeast, invited tention to the point that the Monroe reet improvement will about 145,000, while the Michigan avenue project will enable the expenditure of some $600,000. The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, Mr. Llewellyn said, is making studies to straighten out Michi- gan avenue from North Capitol street to Catholic University, and have plans for straightening this thorougflhre from Catholic University to Tenth street. Mr. Llewellyn said that he had been advised that if legislation is passed at this time to close Michigan avenue it might be difficult in the future to reopen this thoroughfare on a satis- factory basis. ‘The Rhode Islang Avenue Citizens’ Association, its president sald, is insist- ing that the Monroe street development prflceeg t:‘“’; lg :h'.ig is in the line of present traffic, but the group recognizes that the Michigan avenue grade cross- ing will have to be eliminated soon and is in favor of this program. The asso- clation is of the opinion, however, Mr. Llewellyn sald, that there is not the urgency in the Michigan avenue de- velopmenh that there is in getting rid n{r % rdous condition at Monroe stree L ETE T A Duchess of Guise in Italy. NAPLES, Italy, March 16 (#).—The Duchess of Guise, wife of the pretender to the throne of France, arrived here today to stay with her daughter, Anne, uchess of Apula, who is expecting an couchement. MUSIC A TWO-PIANO RECITAL. Mary Howe, Washington pianist and composer, and Anne Hull, pianist of New York city, have become one of the outstandingly artistic plano ensemble pairs in the musical world. Through several seasons of continuous appear- ance together in two-piano programs the tonal quality of the two seems to have gained a blend that is nearly perfect. When the auditor is not looking toward the stage it is almost impossible to de- tect which of the artists is carrying the melody for the moment and which is doing the accompanying part. As this is the acme of true ensemble to be de- sired, more need not be said here re- Blrding the technical side of the per- formance which these two artists yesterday morning before the mem| of the Friday Morning Music Club. An- nually Mrs. Howe and Miss Hull give a program of two-plano music before this club. Every year the setting and results are the same. The audience knows it is going to get a thoroughly prepared, professionally artistic pro- gram of unusual and rarely heard ‘music played by two women who have excellently trained talent. As a result most of the planists in town turn out as well as the music lovers, and_the audience fills the capacity of the hall, always, for these recitals. Yesterday was no exception in any of these respects. A m'olnm of beauti- fully balanced selections was thoroughly enjoyed by all pment lnelndlnz the rformers. It is real pleasure to see he artists themselves take such enjoy- ment oxwwgen o'ihey do instead of ap- pearing & through a boresome task which they hava set themselves, As for the music played, it began with an interesting transeription of a chorale prelude of Bach’s, made by m.u Hull. The singing qlllflty of Schumann was emphasized in the “Andante and Vlfll&lom“ which followed. The clever arrangement of a Beethoven “Canon” by Marion Rous for two left hands met with approval that demanded its repe- tition. The most attractive numbers in the -econd group were “Le Reve,” by nsky, a charming, subtle plece, re- freshingly “different,” and a fascinating “Minuet” o! Bizet that had many - niscences of the music of ‘Otrm " in its ‘Totally new to a Wllh- ington sudience were some Moy Mel by the “Moy Mell,” same com- , and a very catchy “Cache-Cache,” brilliant “Scherzo,” nt-Saens, ane of the most e'gzcb’uve ‘numbers of the | Lo whol encore was a - polmonmmh color and rhyumwm written by Mrs. Howe, a delightful short llllhu!un- owner. LETTER BRINGS THRILLING STORY OF D. C. FLYER BATTLING HIGH SEA Parachute Used for Sail to Save Ensign Ward and Observer. Safe Landing at Haiti Port Follows Exhausting of Gas in Torpedo Practice. Further details of the harrowing bat- tle with a heavy sea in a disabled plane off the coast of Haiti.have been un- folded in a letter from Ensign Chester C. Ward, Washington aviator, to his wife, who lives at 1201 Girard street. ‘Ward was congratulated by his superiors for his resourcefulness in averting a possible disaster by convert- ing a parachute into a sail and maneuvering his O2U observation plane to safety after exhausting his supply of gasoline while participating in torpedo Ppractice. ‘The pilot explained in the communica~ tion to his wife that he was en route to Gonaives in company with an ob- server following Lieut. Don Wilcox in a:or.her plane when his difficulties gan. “We were about nine miles from it and almost exactly in the middle of the bay, registering four gallons in the left unk none in the right, when I ran completely out. However, I made a safe landing and there, so to speak, we were. Wilcox continued in the direction of the town. We hit the water at about 12:45, s0 when no help had arrived by 4:30 I decided that something must have happened to Wilcox, and us the plane was taking quite a beating, I unpacked a parachute and with White's help, rigged a sail by t; the u g y tying the shrouds Salling Done Tafl First. “It was necessary to sail tail first as a plln‘e uw:hy: t’opm wl‘:.;(w the wind, 80 we sat on one of us h;ledr“e.d' I‘;he cl:uu opfi!.: whueh the other s y putting eight on the wing toward which we "tn’ted to bear. A steamer passed fairly close by, but did not see us despite everything that 'ecauld't.ihp; M-boutlweuwnpune d. E“ south of us, coming fro dfi!‘ which I hld dcclded was Pvl’t- au “At 8 oclnck we had sailed to within about 4 miles of Port'au Prince, but had not been able to get much nearer to the shore as the wind was blowing | is parallel to it. We had no Very pistols or signal lights. A few mll'mbu later the wind completely around (180 ENSIGN CHESTER C. WARD. had to sail away from the town, nor would this wind enable us to get nearer the shore. The only thing between us and the open sea was an island about 25 miles away. We saw another plane, this time too far to the west of us. “The sea was running very high by then, the waves being about 15 Iefi high | he and if it had not been for our sail we would surely have upset. Every time a wing came up too high we would climb out on it and in this way we kept right side up and managed to make for the lelnd. although it was several points out of the wind. At about 12 we could see the searchlights of the cruisers, but they were about 30 miles away. Land and Save Plane. “At 2 we were about 400 yards from the island and very glad to be there, when we ran on a coral reef. The ‘waves were not so big there, though, so SACHS GUARD GETS NEW ‘RIDE' THREAT OVER TELEPHONE Patroiman Parks Is Warned to “Clear Out,” as “This Is the Day.” ‘SUSPECTS RELEASED AFTER POLICE GRILLING Virginian Cleared After Arrest for Resemblance to Thug Who Beat Auto Repair Shop Operator. A second threaten telephone mes. was received tI morning by a iceman detailed to guard the place of business of Frank Sachs, operator of an automobile repair shop at 609 K street. Sachs was “taken for a ride,” said, and was robbed of $43 and his automobile Thursday following the receipt of numerous anonymous letters threatening his life. Policeman Lester Parks of No. 2 pres cinct was to the telephone at the Sachs repair shop and when he picked up the receiver some one said: “If you're the policeman guarding Sachs’ ‘pllloe you'd better clear out, be- cause this is the day!” ‘The policeman asked the man if he cared to give any clue to his iden- tity, but the other hung up and efforts to_trace the call were unsuccessful. we t out and with their ald were able ift the plane over reef into qulet water, which was several feet ’g As there was no beach we walked the plane until we found a native boat tied up to its anchor and we tied up astern of it. The island, uonlivz Island, but no connection with the town of Gonaives, rises almost straight out of the water. We sat in the cockpit until ht when we found some natives mdsbon!mmuumwgoout wud is & graduate of Western High School and Georgetown University For- eign Service School. He is an authority on &men as well as & naval pilot. only member of the Naval Re- ufves ever permitted to llke the com-~ bat training course. This is second year of active duty. His flhher. Clw degrees) and came up with a l’og:: of [ J. about 25 knots, or nearly that. Moultrie Ward of the Army tioned at Fort Humphreys. D. C. HEADS DRAFT !PAVING LAW SCORED NEW STREET BILL, Proposed Abandonment| Scheme of Park Body Held Too Broad. Believing that the bill of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission | to permit abandonment on the highway plan of streets that become unneces- sary or inadvisable is too broad in its powers, the District Commissioners are drafting & substitute measure. “This was made known to the Senate District committee yesterday afternoon by Engineer Commissioner Ladue, who asked the committee to postpone con- sideration of the question until next week, when the Commissioners’ new bill will be ready. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, of the Park Commission, said he dld not w-nt deration of the hoped the committee would tiv! it ell'lx action, The committee held a henrln( terday on a bill to modernize po: n of the corporation laws of the Dl.strlct This measure was referred to ator Robsion of Kentucky to perfect certain changes in it before the committee acts. Levi Cook, who explained the bill to the committee, said the antiquity of the present corporation law of the Dis- trict makes it necessary for corpora- tlons to organize under the laws of nnrby States. Pendlng bill would provide defi- nltely or preferred and common stock and for classification of common stock. Cook said there is nothing in the pres- ent law provide for a preference stock. Another section would permit a corporation to sell its property with the consent of two-thirds of the stock- holders, with certain ufeguardl to pro- tect the rights of minority stockhold- ers. At present, the witness said, corporation can liquidate, but it c: not_sell unless the stockholders are unanimous. The committee made a favorable re- port on a bill to exempt from the work- men’s compensation law part-time em- gloyes of non-profit-making organiza- ons. The Commissioners sent to the Senate committee yesterday afternoon a bill authorizing them to condemn narrow strips of land on both sides of Wisconsin avenue in the vicinity of Davis street for sidewalk p\ll’m RUM CAR HALTED BY CRASH INTO TREE Thrilling Two-Mile Chase by Police ‘Was Impeded by Smoke Cloud. Fugitives Escape. A thrilling two-mile chase through Southeast and Northeast Washington early today, during which the occu- pants of a rum car ‘“smoked” two eleventh precinct policemen, ended when the fugitive automobile crashed into a tree after leaving the road at ‘Tenth street and Massachusetts avenue northeast. Two men in the lead car leaped out and escaped in the dlrk- ness. After a futile search for the rum- runners, '.he policemen unmvored 100 e T S o e e was ‘demol y impact. Policemen J. E. Bennett and R. E. Burton were in wait at Anacostia Brldn when they sighted the whisky |secul ‘They gave chase in a torturous mtu t.hron:h t.he Southeast and North- east sect Visiting & house in Champlain street near Kalorama road, Sergt. Letterman and his liquor squad late yufierdly S RS ver, col ona of Ppossession. Drummer Tangled Up. NEW YORK, March 15 (#).—Fellow l&udgnu of Oolumhh are Idvhin( sld- change his m: BY CITIZENS' BODY Brightwood Association Pro- tests D. C. Custom in Street Improvements. The practice of the District govern- ment in permitting contractors and builders to pave two-thirds of a thor- oughfare, leaving the remaining one- third to be eventually paved by the District and then property owners when the t 1s repaved, was scored by the members of the Bright- wood Citizens’ iation last night at a meeting held in the Paul Junior High School. Robert S. Wilkins declared that Fifth street from Longfellow to Peabody streets was paved on each side of the street, with remainin; ?.mrd I.n the center unpaved. He said the portions had been included in the prl.ce of the houses, but that when the con- tract was let for paving the the contractor declined to be tupomible for damaged sections, whereupon the District authorities ordered the entire street repaved from curb to ourb and charged abutting property owners. Committee to Investigate. It was voted to have the street com- mittee confer with the District authori- t.lel lnd protest against the assessment. nlxhu meeting was the first held by the Brightwood body in the Paul School. Severe criticism of the heating arrangements, for which the as- sociation pays $7.48 an evening, was made by members of the group. A committee was named to investigate the matter. ‘The citizens discovered that when meetings are held in the school the District regulations require that there shall be kept on duty there an en- gineer, his assistant and a ‘anitor, all of whom must be paid by the parties ‘who are holding the meeting. Installation of cafeteria equlpmen! for the school will be asked by the as- sociation, it was decided. New Post Office Site Announced. A. W. Foster, chairman of the post office committee, reported that the new Brightwood Post Office would be erected on the site on the east side of Georgia avenue, adjoining the Brightwood car barn, with increased facilities for han- dling mail in the suburban section. The extension of New Hampshire avenue again was urged last night and the street committee requested to con- tinue efforts in Congress to-secure the desired appropriation for improving this thoroughfare to the District line to connect with the Maryland high- way system. John A. Saul, delegate to the Feder- ation of Citizens Association, was nom- inated as the association’s choice for election as a member of the Citizens' Advisory Council at the coming elec- bership:: Glen E, Curtis, Thomas H. Wrathall, Arthur Post, Abraham Bern- stein, Dora Wolf, Lewis Speatri, rs. Alice L. Schram, Robert A. Blrchm Thomas Burke and Alfred Kunis. John C. Proctor was appointed chair- man of the Memorial day exercises Battle Ground National Cemetery on May 30 in conjunction with the Grand Army tg the Re!?ublu: Ralph, .chairman me mmry committee, was urged - continue efforts to secure the Joc.ung of a branch of the Washington Pul Library in the old Brightwood School Cantrell Welcomes Association. Supt. L. J. Cantrell of the new Paul Junior High School welcomed the mem- bers of the assoclation and paid tribute to the organization for its efforts in securing the new school. He explained in dehll the many features of new structure and that to date 593 pupils had been enrolled, with another hun- dred pupils to be added next year. ‘W. 1. Swanton, secretary of the Co- lumbia Heights' Citizens' Association, made a short address on smoke viola- tions, m crossings and the District Commission the ership, * expressing thought that if an engineer to be Do Shiotia b s GV St e Tovied from- oivi te: s Bread Tickets for Children. MOSCOW, )n.reh !l (#)—By de- cision of the Co-operative Soclety yesterday brnd -cards, entitling the holder not only bread, but to meat, butter, efil and other necessaries, will hereafter issued to all children nel tion. { The louow'lng were elected to mem- Late Thursday afternoon Policeman Parks received a similar call, warning him to “lay off” the case unless he, too, wanted to “go for a ride.” Several suspects, including a mng man from Richmond, Va., were at headquarters y:smdly and after they had convinced police t.\ut they knew nothing of the threats irginia was arrested on the request of Sachs, who encountered him by chance on the street yesterday morning and thought he saw a resemblance to the thug who he says assaulted him. Headquarters detectives today were a new lead on case after their grilling of a dozen persons late yesterday failed to develop anything. ‘The handwriting of almost a dozen others was compared with that on anonymous mnotes threatening Sachs’ life unl:u he went out of the glass 'x‘he police investigation is in cha of Lieut. Edward Kelly, chief of m homicide squad. DR. GEORGE W. CRILE TO ADDRESS ALUMNI George Washington U. Medical Society to Hear Cleve- land Authority. Dr. Crile of Cleveland, Ohio, luthorlt{ on treatment of thyroid and goiter, will be the principal lgu.ku tonight at the annual reunlnn and ban- quet of the Uni- | versity Medical wnnl at the May- flower Hotel, under auspices of the George Washington University Medical Society. 3 a special on “The Influence of the Thyrold and the Adrenals on the Production and Trlz)-rtmen: 13‘ l1": tic Ulcer.” y_Borden, president of the George Washington University Medical Society, will preside. . Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of the univer- sity, will speak. A feature of the banquet will be a program of songs by the Oemgg ington University Men’s Glee Club, rln- ners of the national intercollegiate glee club contest. ‘The list of honor guests includes John Bell Larner and Mrs. Joshua Evans, jr., of the board of trustees of the universi- ty; Surgeon General Merritte W. Ire- I-nd. SD‘"‘\QWOI? Om&nl Hugh S. Ci r. Willlam Gerry Morgan, presi- dent of the American Medical Associa- tion; Dr. Allan Mason Chesney, dean of the Johns Hopkins University Medi- cal School; Dr. John Foote, dean of the Georgtown' University Medical School; Dr. Joel T. Boone. and Maj. Gen. H. L. Oflchfllt. chief of the Chemical War- eommmee on ments is headed by Dr. Frank A‘nl:n‘eomldl]. ADM. WILLIAMS’ WIDOW EXPIRES AT AGE OF 55 Death Comes at Wyoming Avenue Home After Long Illness—Hus- band Died Five Years Ago. Mrs, Susan M. Williams, widow of Rear Admiral George W. Williams, died at her home, 1862 Wyoming avenue, yesterday after a long illness. She was 55 years old. Mrs. Williams had been a relldent 01 this city for many years. She was daughter of the late Maj. W!llll Ly. man, Civil War veteran, who re.u here until his death some years ago. Her husband died about five years ago. Surviving Mrs. Willlams are & brof er, Capt. Charles G. Lyman, U. 8. A, retired, of San Francisco, and several cousins, among whom is Miss Mary Edmonds of Colifornia. Funeral services will be conducted at the Fort Myer Chapel tomorrow morn- }xng at 11 o'clock. Interment will be in | Arlington National Cemetery, where her husband and parents are buried. \MAN ATTEMPTS TO HANG SELF IN PRECINCT CELL Making his shirt into a noose, George E. Davis, 27 years old, of the 400 block of Pennslyvania avenue southeast tried to hang himself yesterday afternoon in a cell at No. 5 precinct station, where he v’:; being held on a charge o fintoxica- t Patrolman Louis A. Craig found ',ha prisoner suspended from a bar of his cell and cut him down. Following treatment by the Pire Rescue Squad, Davis was removed to Gallinger Hos- pital, where his condition was regarded as_improved this morning. The officer sald Davis lua jumped from his cot after securing the im- provised noose about his neck and then about a bar of t.he cell door. WOULD HALT PAYMENTS. that Willlam T. Guthrie only a_“casual employe,” O. W. Hlmmend. 2433 Newton street morth- & Treasury Departm