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SPEEDIER TRAFFIC LIGHTING SYSTEM URGED IN SENATE Phipps and Glass Complain of Synchronization of Signals. CITY’S LEFT-HAND TURN RULE IS ALSO OPPOSED Harland Promises Satisfactory In- tersection Controls After Com- pletion of Construction Program. The possibility of arranging the au- tomatic lights so that traffic could move with fewer stops on certain streets, and the left-hand turn rule used at con- trolled intersections here were discussed during the recent hearings by the Senators now engaged in drafting the District appropriation bill. Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, told witnesses he had counted as many as seven stops in going to Union Sta- tion by automobile through E street from_Twelfth_street northwest. Sena- tor Phipps. Republican, of Colorado. suggested the lights should be better synchronized on Massachusetts. avenue, and urged that conditions at Scott and Dupont, Circles be studied. Lights to Be Synchronized. Traffic Director Harland told the subcommittee that the signal lights have not been synchronized as they will be finally when their installation is completed. The left-hand turn rule was brought up by Senator Copeland, Democrat. of New York, while Edward D. Merrill of the traffic council was testifying. “Why do vou have them wait and go across the street, and then wait again, in order to get into the stream?"” said Senator Copeland, referring to those making a left turn. “Is that to protect the pedestrian: “That is the so-called outside left- turn method of handling left turns,” Merrill explained. “Other cities handle it in a different way. And some cities, at least Cleveland, handle it in the same way that it is handled here in Wash- ington. As I understand it, Mr. Har- land regards or thinks that it is the safest manner and regards it is as a safety measure to protect the pedes- trians also.” “When there is not a pedestrian in sight it is terribly annoying to have that long wait,” Senator Copeland re- plied. Phipps Opposes Left-Hand Turn. Senator Phipps said that in the hear- ings a year ago he took occasion to commend the Traffic Bureau on progress made, but pointed out that at the same time he had objected to the .outside left turn. He said he was still opposed to_that rule. Merrill said the traffic council thought that with the next installation of lights a part of the system should be com- posed of the flexible progressive system. ‘The system here is known as the alter- nate synchronized plan. He also pre- sented a proposed amendment to the appropriation bill, recommended by the council, to provide for three engineering assistants in the Traffic Bureau. PLAN FIRE CONTROL TESTS AT HANGAR Standard Bureau Officials to Start Blaze in Wooden Building as an Experiment. A new airplane hangar containing an airplane will be deliberately set afire by Government officials at the Bureau of Standards tomorrow morning in the first of & series of tests of hangar fire- control systems. ‘The building, specially constructed for the test, is of the most modern type of wooden construction used on smaller airports in this country. The plane, one of 20 to be burned in the test, is & condemned service plane worn out in active duty and unfit for further flying. ‘The test will be conducted with the co-operation of the Army and Navy Departments and the national aviation and insurance companies, and upon the results may depend future insurance rates on airport buildings. In the first test tomorrow the wall of the building will be set afire by a gaso- line blow torch set on a workbench and the fire will be allowed to ignite a wing of the plane overhanging the bench. In future tests from one to four planes will be _involved. More than a dozen different types of commercial automatic sprinklers have been installed in the hangar and fires will be arranged so as to thoroughly test each type under conditions likely | to be encountered in hangar fires, More than 250 aeronautical engineers, representatives of Federal aviation bureaus and officials of aeronautical and insurance organizations have been in- vited to witness the te: which will continue until April 30. D. C. AUTOIST FACES DRUNK DRIVING COUNT Davis Coffman Is Held in Jail at Cumberland in Default of $1,000 Bond. Special Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md, April 21— Davis Coffman, who gave Washington as his home, is held in jafl here in de- fault of $1,000 bond an a charge of driving an automobile while intoxicated. The machine early yesterday crashed into a pole on Ellerslie road and careen- ed against a culvert. Coffman, with Murner Norris and James Kelly, this city, occupants, was treated at’ Alle- ghany Hospital for minor injuries. ‘Although the machine broke down the pole, disrupting the power line and plunging homes into darkness, the tele- phone service also Was interrupted. Norris was hurled into the creek. One Wheel from the car rdlled 80 feet up the road before it struck a house. o e Mexican Indians Rebel. MEXICO CITY, April 21 (#).—Dis- patches from the State of Chihuahua say that Salvador Varela, state director of education, has been ordered to visit the Tarahumara Indian tribe, in a remote district near the Sonora bor- WASHINGTON, D. C, @he Foening Staf MONDAY, APRIL 21, Society and General 1930. PAGE B-1 SCHOOL TRAFFIC PATROL HERO TORECEIVE A. A. A.MEDAL IN JUNE Marino to Get Reward for Saving 8-Year-0ld’s Life. Mother Who Witnessed Res- cue Recommends Honor for Youth. Tony Marino, youthful lieutenant of the schoolboy traffic patrol at the Peabody School, will receive a merit medal from the American Automobile Association in June as a reward for his bravery in saving the life of 8-year-old Richard E. West, jr, whom he snatched from the path of a speeding automobile April 10. Tony was directing school children across the intersection of Fifth and C streets northeast. Richard misunder- stood his signal to wait, and started across the street. At imminent risk to his own life, according to witnesses, Tony ran into the street after the younger boy and carried him to safety. He was recommended for the award by Mr. and Mrs. R. E. West, 520 E street mortheast, parents of Richard, and Miss M. G. Young, principal of the Peabody-Hilton-Carbery Schools. TONY MARINO. —Star Staff Photo. Mrs. West witnessed the rescue, but did not know until later that it was her own son who had been saved. - PAY ATTACHMENT RULING IS REFUSED Supreme Court Declines to Decide Case Involving Federal Employe. The United States Supreme Court today refused to decide whether a part of the monthly salary of Government employes could be attached in the pay- ment of an alleged debt, as raised in two cases brought by Mrs. Olive S. McGrew against her former husband, John L. McGrew, and his second wife, Mrs. Catherine D. McGrew. The Mc- Grews live at 3168 Eighteenth street. Mrs. Olive S. McGrew alleged that she loaned her former husband about the time they were married $7,000 on his promissory notes, he at that time owning real estate in Washington and Virginia. After their divorce McGrew married his second wife, Catherine D. McGrew, who had been an employe in a department store here. The first Mrs. McGrew brought suit and obtained a judgment against McGrew for $7.000 with interest, but was unable to find anything to satisfy it. The first Mrs. McGrew then found that the second Mrs. McGrew had title to a house in the 1600 block on Irving street, to another on Eighteenth street, also to an automobile and to a safe deposit box. Alleging that the second Mrs. McGrew had no money at the time of ber marriage, and thas the property had been placed in her name by McGrew to conceal his ownership, the first Mrs. McGrew brought suit, asking that a receiver be appointed to take possession of the property and pay the judgment she held. After litigation it was finally held by the lower court that the evidence failed to disclose that the real estate, auto- mobile and lock box was property of McGrew, and that the salary of Mc- Grew, who is a clerk in the Internal Revenue Department at $4,800 & year, could not be attached. ‘The trial court had ordered that all of McGrew's salary with the exception of $100 a month should go to the first wife until the judgment was satisfied, but the Court of Appeals took the po- sition that the salary of Government clerks could not be garnisheed while in the hands of Government disbursing of- ficers, in the interest of efficient public service and to aid the Government in having satisfied employes. It pointed out that to order Government employes to satisfy judgments against them out of their salaries was to threaten them with the danger of being committed to jail for contempt should they fail to make the payments, a condition consid- ered undesirable. PERIL OF D. C. SEWERS SUBJECT OF INQUIRY Authorities Warned by Experience of Five Children Rescued From Suffocation Last Friday. The near suffocation of five children in a sewer near Bureau of Standards last Priday has led to an investigation by the Sewer Department to discover some method of preventing a re- currence, According to Sanitary Engineer J. B, Gordon it is extremely difficult to keep children out of the lower mouths of stormwater sewers. One system is to cover these with iron gratings. The result of this often is that debris plugs up the exit in time of heavy rains and the sewer bursts or homes are flooded Another 1s to put valve gates which open only when there is a pressure of water behind them. Children are often able to open these, he sald, and get inside. Then they sometimes have trouble opening them in order to get back out. The third method, which is looked on with some favor by the Sewer Department, is to fence off small areas around the mouths of the sewers. Even then, he said, children would probably be able to climb over or get through the fences, Mr. Gordon said that officials of the Bureau of Mines are testing samples of the gas in the sewer, and that offi- cials of the Washington Gas Light Co. are testing their mains parallel to the sewer in an effort to find out whether gas from a gas main could have leaked into the sewer. MOFFETT DUE TODAY Navy Plane in New York to Bring Back Conference Delegate. Rear Admiral William A, MofTett, chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronau- tics, who has been one of the United States’ delegates to the London Naval Limitations Conference, is expected to return to the National Capital this aft- ernoon in & Navy tri-motored transport plane which was flown to New York to meet him yesterday afternoon. Admiral MofTett is expected to land in New York this morning, according to advices to the Navy Department, and the plane probably will take off from Mitchell Field, N. Y., soon after noon. The big transport plane was flown to New York yesterday afternoon and will be flown back today by Lieut. J. J. SIX ARE INJURED IN EASTER TRAFFIC Two Are Hurt Seriously in Accidents—Woman Is Knocked Down. Six persons were injured, two serious- 1y, in the heavy automobile traffic here on Easter day. Mrs, Elsie Chamberlain, 24 years old, of Fifteenth near D streets southeast, received a possible fracture of the skull and internal injuries about 11 o'clock yesterday when knocked down by an automobile at Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street southeast. ‘The automobile was operated by John ‘Webster, 21 years old, of 1808 D street southeast. The injured woman was taken to Casualty Hospital, An automobile collision at 1 o'clock this morning at B street and Tennessee avenue northeast resulted in serious in- jury to one of the drivers, William Lipstomb, 22 years old, of 623 C street northeast. Lipscomb was sent to Casualty Hos- pital. Reuben Acton, jr., 22 years old, of 1310 North Carolina avenue north- east, a passenger in Lipscomb’s ma- chine, escaped with a slight laceration to the forehead. ‘The other automobile was operated by Savatore Fusco of 648 A street north- east. ‘Thought to have become confused as he alighted from a northbound street car on Ninth street yesterday afternoon, Sylvanus Lamblin, 78 years old, of 1117 K street, stepped into the path of a northbound car and was knocked to the pevement. He was removed to Emer- gency Hospital. George Middleton, 40 years old, of Fort Myer, Va., was injured slightly yesterday afternoon when his automo- bile was in collision with a street car at Fourteenth street and Bhode Island avenue. ‘Ten-year-old John Roy Sends of 2612 ‘Thirty-third street northeast received severe scalp injuries and concussion of the brain when he fell to the pavement from the bicycle he was riding in front of his home. He was treated at Casual- ty Hospital. POLICEMEN HURT EFFECTING ARREST Mob Closes In on Officers Drawn Into Alley by Fugitive. One Is Fired Upon. ‘Two policemen of No. 6 precinct were slightly injured last night in a hand- to-hand fight with more than a score of colored men in an alley in Washing- ton court. The policemen say that one shot was fired at them by one of two men arrested and that the man passed his gun into the crowd before he could be_identified. Policeman J. A. Burgess and A. R. Houch tried to arrest S. B. Hill, 24 fiears old, colored, for disorderly con- uct. ‘The man broke away and ran. As he entered the alley Hill turned and shot once at Burgess, who was close behind him, Burgess reported. A group of men who had been following the chase trailed the officers into the alley and closed in on them. The policemen were able to beat off their assailants, but Burgess suffered a broken mnose and Houch a lacerated right hand. After having Hill and his brother, J. A. Hill, 28 years old, of Hyattsville, Md., booked on’ charges of disorderly con- duct, assault and drunkenness the po- licemen went to Casualty Hospital for treatment, FLIGHT SPEED RECORD MADE BY GEN. FECHET Army Air Corps Chief Makes Trip of 622 Miles in Four Hours. Flying at an average speed of 156 miles an hour, Maj. Gen, James E. Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps, flew from Bolling Field to Montgomery, Ala, 622 miles, in four hours yesterday. He continued on his way to Sacramen- to, Calif., today. The flight was made in a new cabin monoplane, whieh is being considered by the Air Corps as a transport plane ior the pursuit squadron. The plane s piloted by Capt. Ira C. Eaker of Bol- ling Fleld. F. Trubee Davison, assistant Secretary of War for aeronautics, who was to have made the trip, remained here because of the iliness of Secretary of War Hurley, Mexico Jails Four Communists. MEXICO CITY, April 21 (®).—A | Cuban, a_Frenchman and_two Hun- garians, all alleged to be Communists, | were put in jail yesterday charged with | interrupting” Good Priday services in the Profesa Temple, temporary cathe- dral of Mexico City. The four men were caught in the act of cutting the Clark, executive officer at the Anacostia der, and to try to persuade them to esase from ravaging & countryside. Naval Alr Station. wires of a loud-speaker while the priest in charge was \ufivmu & sermon, FEDERAL EMPLOYE | EFFICIENCY SCORES ARE BEING CHECKED Annual Report, Due May 15, Is Basis for Raises and Dismissals. SYSTEM IS PROTESTED BY WORKERS’ LEADERS Experts Defend Rating Scheme as Best Method for Determining ‘Worth of Personuel. The efficiency ratings of thousands of Government employes under the classification act now are being sur- veyed critically by superior officers, with a view to changing these records and bringing them up to date for the annual report of May 15. It is upon the basis of these efficiency reports that Government workers are promoted, demoted or dismissed. Under the law, the efficiency report on each Government employe under the classification act must be submitted on May 15 to the personnel classifica- tion board. While the efficiency records are based on the year ending May 15, the changes in salary which may result generally throughout the service probably will not take effect until later. Funds in the various establishments are beginning to run low on account of the approaching end of the fiscal year, June 30. What pronfotions may result from the new efficlency ratings are expected to go into effect after July 1. The matter of promotions rests with officials of the various departments and establishments of the Government who have authority to make such promo- tions under the classification act as they have appropriations to finance. All efficiency ratings must be re- ported to the personnel classification board, but the board's authority in this respect, as explained by its chairman, Capt. Carlos Van Leer, consists mostly of cases in which demotion or dis- charge for inefficiency is concerned. ‘The efficiency rating system has been roundly scored by some representatives of Government employes and has been vigorously defended by experts. YORK FUND TOTAL REACHES §723:0 Star Appeal for Family of Slain Dry Agent Brings Hearty Response. Contributions to the fund for benefit of the widow and three children of Lamar Watson York, slain Federal pro- hibition agent, continued today to come into the office of the cashier of The Star, increasing the total to $723.50. “Your appeal met with a hearty response in my heart,” wrote W. H. Zeidler of 308 Garland avenue, Takoma Park. “I inclose a check for $1, hoping my little contribution will help to multiply the sum to be raised to hel; Mrs, York in her hour of severe trial. May God's blessings rest upon your efforts to bring help to this woman and her family.” “I wish to thank your paper for giv- ing me this opportunity to express, in a small way, sympathy for cne so de- serving as Mrs. York,” wrote a Wash- ington woman, who sent a donation with the request that her name not be published. Other letters received from widely scattered sections commended The Star for launching the fund and expressed the hope that it would prove successful. ‘The men’s Bible class of Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, which is taught by Representative Clyde Kelly of Penn- sylvania, yesterday voted a $25 con- tribution to the fund. Additional contributions may be mailed to the cashier of The Star. Checks, money orders and cash will be acknowledged. Previously acknowledged. $650.50 N. J. Dard 1.00 Mrs. G. N. Macdonoug William N. Ross. Men'’s Bible Class, Eastern Pres- byterian Church H. B Abon-Ben-Adhem Thea D. Adams. G. W. George N. Evans. . Zeidler. TWO STUDENTS ASK $30,000 OF M’CARTHY Hoya Undergraduates Sue Athlete as Result of Car Crash on Baltimore Boulevard. Maurice S. McCarthy of Brooklyn, prominent in athletics at Georgetown University, was sued today in the Dis- trict Supreme Court for a total of $30.- 000 damages for alleged personal in- juries by two fellow students of the university, resulting from an automo- bile accident on the Baltimore Boule- vard February 20, last. Joseph M. Murphy of Massachusetts places his damages at $20,000 and John J. Cranley of Chicago wants $10,000 for the injuries sustained by him. Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert, Rudolph H. Yeatman and Austin F. Canfield appear for the student plaintiffs, who reside at the Hilltop. McCarthy, it is claimed, failed to keep control of an automobile in which the three students were returning from Baltimore, and after passing Laurel, ran into a parked car at the side of the road. Murphy, it is claimed, sus- tained a concussion of the brain and other injuries while Cranley had his nose broken and suffered other head apd face injuries. McCarthy is in his senior year at Georgetown. Last year he was captain of the basket ball team and a mem- ber of the rol( team. He has figured in national and international golf tournaments, and formerly was inter. collegiate plon. % Upper left: MME‘}I‘, Hoover leaving the Friends Meeting House, at Thirteenth and Irving street, where he attended services. Upper righ sunrise Easter service PRESIDENT JOINS THOUSANDS IN OBSERVANCE OF EASTER Mrs. Hoover Is Kept From Church Services by Injurcd Back——Throngs View Cherry Blossoms. Host to one of the greatest throngs in its history and blessed with smiling skies which brought out gay Easter garb, the Capital yesterday observed Easter Sunday. Houses of worship were crowded, special open-air services attracted ad- ditional thousands and then these in turn diverted their attention to various recreations the day offered. In the little Friends Meeting House at Thirteenth and Irving streets, un- ornamented and undecorated except for a large vase of Easter lilies before the pulpit, President Hoover joined in serv- ices of the orthodox Quaker faith. Mrs, Hoover, who painfully wrenched her back s week ago, remained in her room. Thousands See Cherry Blossoms. Large numbers of the almost 100,000 visitors to the city flocked to Potomac Park for a glimpse of the cherry blos- soms. Automobiles filled with sight-seers proceeded in a continuous stream, which taxed the abilities of police to keep moving, from morning until night, along the Speedway. Sight-seeing busses, taxicabs and commercial air- planes did a capacity business. ‘The religious observances in which the President took part in the little meeting house opened with a period of silent meditation. After a prayer by Dr. Augustus T. Murray, pastor, and another period of meditation, a woman minister among the seven with the pastor on the platform, spoke briefly on the “Resurrection.” There was an- other period of meditation, then Dr. Murray portrayed simply, in resonant voice, the age-old story of Easter. ‘The President sat quietly as the minister outlined different conception of the Resurrection and of Christ's words: “He that believeth in Me has life,” and concluded with the lines of the poet, Whittier, that, “He is His own best evidence, His witness Is within.” ‘The congregation, filling every avail- able seat, including an ante-room at the side and two rows of chairs at the rear, sang one hymn to piano accom- paniment. There was no choir. Crowd Forces Traffic Detour. Another minister spoke briefly and after a final period of silent meditation the benediction was asked and the hour’s services ended. ‘The people who crowded around the little church to see the President was 50 great that traffic had to be detoured for a while. In the afternoon Mr. Hoover, with Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Slade of New York, who were overnight house guests, motored through the Soldiers’ Home Grounds, Rock Creek Park and Potomac Park for a view of the cherry blos- soms. En route he stopped in front of the Department of Commerce Building to view the progress being made in con- struction of the structure, which he planned while he was Secretary of Com- merce. In the evening a company of friends were guests at dinner and soon after this meal Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Jesse Hoover, the President's brother and sister-in-law, and their daughter and son-in-law, who had been house guests, left for their homes in California. Sunrise services at Walter Reed Hos- pital, Temple Heights and the new Universalist National Memorial Church drew crowds which required the direc tion of l&echl details of police. Eight thousand persons heard Col. Julian E. Yates, chief of chaplains, U.S. A, preach at the Walter Reed exercises, & feature of which was a living cross composed of 600 Red Cross workers Army nurses and corps men, all dressed in white. A picturesque service was staged on ‘Temple Heights under auspices of the Washington Federation of Churches Rev. Albert J. McCartney, pastor of the Church of the Covenant, was the prin- cipal speaker. 12,000 Attend Cathedral Service. Easter services at Washington Cathe- dral attracted throngs of worshipers, and throughout the day a continual stream of pilgrims was welcomed to Mount St. Alban, It is estimated that more than 12,000 men, women and children attended services there. All three of the crypt chapels of the edifice, which is steadily rising, were in use throughout the day, services being held at 7:30, 9:30, 10 and 11 o'clock in the morning and at 4 o'clock in the aft- ernoon. Bishop James E. Freeman de- livered the sermon at the last exercise. So great was the crowd that the open- air amphitheater was used for overflow services. Impressive ceremony marked the ob- servance of Easter in the various Cath- olic churches, The solemn beauty of the services in the church of the Franciscan Monastery, in Brookland, was witnessed by pilgrims who filled the structure to its doors. Special services were held in the crypt of the Shrine of the Immaculte Conception, at Catholic _ University. Right Rev. Bernard A. McKenna, new- Iy appointed minsignor, presided at vesper services. President’s Pastor Preaches. Dr. Murray, the President's pastor, delivered an address on “Book of Books” at the annual Easter eventide services at 5 o'clock Theater, on the Monument Grounds, under auspices of the National Com- munity Bible Readers’ League and Auxiliary of Regional Aides. ‘The committee in charge of the ar- rangements was disappointed in that 1,000 copies of the Bible booklet Luke, which were to have been distributed to the audience, failed to arrive. The 30 sets of complete New Testament book- lets, which were awarded to 30 per- sons having the best Bible reading rec- ords in a recent contest, will be pre- sented to them at their churches. Col. E. L. Mattice, deputy commis- sioner of Boy Scouts, was master of ceremonies and Dr. E. N. C. Barnes, director of music in the public schools, song leader. Mrs. Louise Harding Earll, president of the organization, de- livered an address of welcome. The invocation was given by Rev. Thomas Livingston, chaplain, U. 8. A. (retired). D. Roland Potter, president of the Dis- trict of Columbia Christian Endeavor Union, conducted the Bible reading and Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, vice president of the organization, made the intro- ductions, Hoover Signs Land Trade. President Hoover today signed Senate bill 3440, authorizing the exchange of 663 square feet of property acquired for the park system of the National Cap- ital for 2,436 square feet of neighboring gmperty. all in the Klingle Ford Valley, or an addition to the park system. hree of the hundreds of strollers who displayed their Spring finery on F street. Below: The Walter Reed Hospital. —P. & A. and Star Staff Photos. AIR SIGHTSEERS THRONG AIRPORTS 614 Carried Aloft Yesterday From Local Fields, Break- ing Records. All known records for passenger sight- seeing flights from an American air- port were broken here yesterday by Washington Airport and by Hoover Field. Hoover Field broke the previous record of 614 passengers, carried on Sunday in Easter week several years ago, by 70 passengers yesterday. Wash- ington Airport, passing Hoover Field for the first time in its history, carried 701 passengers yesterday. The joint record of 1,375 passengers, so far as is known, is a world record for “passenger hopping” over any city in a single day. Both flelds were busy from early yesterday morning until darkness put an end to the flying. At Washington Airport 197 separate flights were made by six planes, and at Hoover Field five planes were used, making & total of 198 flights. Visiting Plane a Favorite. A large portion of the Washington Airport passenger flying was done by a plane owned by a group of Ford deal- ers, headed by Leo Rocca of this city. All of the flights were regular sight- seeing trips over the city and the bulk of the passengers were tourists paying Easter visits to the National Capital. ‘The Washington Airport planes put in 26 hours and 11 minutes of flying time, while those at Hoover Field were actually in the air 20 hours and 59 minutes. ‘The largest single day’s business done by a local fleld during previous Easter week, which was marred by bad flying weather, was 540, this number of pas- sen‘gdfrs having been flown from Hoover Field. in the Sylvan. ‘Three of Hoover Field’s passengers yesterday afternoon were flown there at the “suggestion of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd. They were three ladies from New Zealand, on an Easter visit to this city. They met Admiral Byrd while he was in New Zealand on his Antarctic expedition and he recom- mended that if they ever visited the National Capital they fly over the city. Officials of the field were so busy they failed to get the names of the visitors. Herbert Fahy in City. Herbert Fahy, former Washington pllot, who now is planning a flight around the world with his wife, Mrs. Claire Fahy, also a licensed pilot, land- ed at Washington Airport a white Lockheed monoplane yesterday after- noon after a flight of 3 hours and 10 minutes from Detroit, an airline dis+ tance of approximately 400 miles. He was accompanied by Mrs. Fahy. Fahy told friends at the field that he came here for the marriage of his sister and would leave today or tomorrow to com- plete arrangements for the world flight. T]he trip is I;ro l:e nclind: in one of the planes manufactured by the compan; for which he is chief test pilot. R TERMINAL UNDER WAY Building Section Memorial Bridge Approach. ‘The terminal of B street at the Poto- mac River as part of the Arlington Me- morial Bridge approach development on the Washington side is being con- | structed by the Grier-Lowrance Co. of Contractor of Statesville, N. C.. which recently com- | visiting Ford tri-motored _transport | fi OF COMMISSIONERS URGED BY CAPPER Senate District Committee Chairman to Introduce Several Measures. FERN STREET SUBWAY PROPOSAL INCLUDED $211,000 Would Be Spent on Proj- ect, With One-half to Come From Railroad. An increase in the salaries of the District Commissioners irom $9,000 & $10,000 a year is provided in one of a group of bills which Chairman Capper of the Senate District committee is pre=- paring to introduce in the Senate this afternoon, All of these bills relate to questions that were brought to the attention of the subcomrgittee of the Senate appro- priations committee handling the local appropriation bill for next year, but were found to be of such a nature as to require separate legislative enact- ments. In addition to the proposed in- crease for the city heads, the other bills are for the following purposes: ‘To authorize the proposed subway necessary to abolish the Fern street railroad grade crossing, in the vicinity of Takoma Park, at a cost of $211,000, one-half of which would be assessed against the railroad. Land Sale Would Be Authorized. ‘To_authorize the Commissioners to sell land near Twenty-fourth street and Benning road northeast, which was acquired for use by the sewer depart- ment, but which it is now desired to dispose of. To authorize the Commissioners to lease property within the area of the approach to the Key Bridge, which has been placed under the District's juris- diction. To give the Board of Education more discretionary power in the use of the old Business High School after the new Blus':aesu High School has been com- pleted. Center Bill Already Introduced. ‘Two other bills were introduced last week that have a bearing on the ap- propriation bill, one being the pro- posed $15,000,000 loan by the Federal Government to the District for de- velopment of the municipal center, and the other to authorize a bridge to abolish the Michigan avenue grade crossing. The Michigan avenue bill has been reported favorably by the Dis- trict committee and the municipal center loan is to be considered by the committee tomorrow afternoon. ‘The District appropriation bill prob- ably will not be ready to be reported to the Senate by the appropriations committee until Wednesday or Thurs- day. Senator Capper’s separate bill to in« crease the salaries of the Commission- ers provides that the two civilian Com- missioners would receive $10,000 a year and the Engineer Commissioner $10,- 000, to include the pay and allowances he receives as an officer in the Army. At the present time the District Com- missioners are under the jurisdiction of the personnel classification board and under their rating, $9,000 is the maxi- mum :they could receive. — SNYDER FAVORED AS DISTRICT MARSHAL Senate Body Overrules Protest of Miss Davis After Hearing. ‘The Senate judiciary committee today voted a favorable report on the nomi- nation of Edgar C. Snyder for reap- pointment as United States marshal for the District of Columbia. The committee took favorable action on the recommendation of a special sub- sommittee. When the subcommittee held & hearing on the nomination 10 days ago Miss Susan L. Davis opposed the confirmation. Her opposition was based on a complaint she made to the sub- committee relating to the handling of certain records in the marshal's office in connection with the serving of a sum= m:rd:‘s in a suit which Miss Davis had D. A. C. MEMBERSHIP SHOWS BIG GAIN Annual One-Day Assembly Learns 8,000 Now Are En- rolled. With & membership increase of 50 per cent during the past two years, the Daughters of the American Colonists opened their annual one-day assembly this morning at the Washington Hotel. ‘The feature of the morning session, & report of the national recording secre- tary, Mrs. Harry C. Grove, revealed that the organization now numbers nearly 3,000 members. ‘This afternoon, when the bulk of the assembly business is scheduled, reports from 48 State regents are being read. The District of Columbia is represented by Mrs. Catherine E. Nagle. Proposed amendments to the consti- tution and confirmation of State re- gents and vice State regents were also on the E{oznm. Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, national president, opened the meeting. Greet- ings were tendered Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, honorary national president. PSYCHICAL CONGRESS OPENED IN ATHENS By the Assoclated Press. ATHENS, Greece, April 21.—The International Congress of Psychical Re- search opened in Athens today, with {wrs, Johnson Lowe representing Amer= ca. Sir Oliver Lodge made & speech on the importance of international union and urged the young to learn foreign languages and then to work for an in- ternational language. The congress was invited to a festival in the stadium in the afternoon, when the flags of the War of Independence ¥leud a contract for $328,700 for the oundations of the water te, the parkway approach and the bridge plaza. were grouped around the President of the republic, who was saluted by army and navy forces on review. X ol