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Washington News POLICETO EXAMINE BULLET IN EFFORT .10 SOLVE MURDER Convinced, However, That Gun Found in Foxhall Is Not One Used. FINDER OF CLOTHING WILL BE QUESTIONED Brother of Slain Girl Says Family Is Convinced Slayer Was Known to Her. As another step in the process of elimination of clues by which they hope to solve the murder of Mary Baker, police today arranged to make a miscroscopic comparison of a bullet fired from the automatic pistol found Monday in Foxhall Village with one of the bullets removed from the young Government clerk’s body. The police, however, are convinced that the weapon turned over to them is not the one used by the slayer of Miss Baker. In view of the possibility that the |y istol may have been used in some g'-her cnmye committed here, detectives will endeavor to trace it from the fac- tory to the purchaser. It is llsopbe“e\'ed the local authori- ties will ask New York police to ques- tion one of the men who found Miss Baker’s clothing and jewelry in a sewer on the Government Experimental Farm. This man left Washington for New York three days after he had turned' the found articles over to police. Offered to Leave Address. According to Inspector Willlam S. Shelby, however, the man told him at that time he intended to leave the city and offered to leave & forwarding ad- dress. Police have received information that the man in New York may have been implicated in the theft of articles from s se on Twelfth street two days after Miss Baker's clothing was found in the sewer. The authorities do not believe this man can help them in solv- ing the murder, but they hope he may e able to aid in explaining the presence 4in the sewer of several articles of jewelry Which did not belong to Miss Baker. The District attorney’s office yester- give police a warrant his man with grand larceny, contending there was not sufficient proof of his guilt. Brother Here for Conference. i les Baker, a brother of the slain flr‘l’.‘:nlerred with local detectives last night and said that his family was con- vinced she was killed by a man she knew and trusted. He is understood to have reiterated his belief that this man works in the Navy Department. Po- lice, however, say that the Navy De- t employe whose name has been brought into the case has been questioned and definitely absolved of any connection with the slaying. Another angle which the police were investigating today was a statement from a local clairvoyant that she gave Miss Baker a reading shortly before she was killed. This woman said she has been “concentrating” on the case, and Dbelieves the girl was killed by a police- man. It is understood this same wom- an told police several days ago that she had not given Miss Baker a reading. MRS. NICOLSON DIES; AIDED RACE AMITY Meart Attack Victim Sought to Improve Relations With Japanese. States, died of a heart attack home in the Chastleton Apartments yes- terday afternoon. Mr. Nicolson was for- merly with the United States Shipping Mrs. Nicolson was one of four women who organized the Women's American and Oriental Club of New York in 1915. Since coming to this city nine years 2go, Mrs. Nicolson had been active in church - and other organizations. A member of the Church of the Covenant, she was an officer of the Society of the Covenant, an organization devoted to missionary work. She also was active in the world fellowship committee of the Y. W.C. A In addition, she was active | in the Twentieth Century Club. The daughter of the late John L. and Agnes Lacey Durant, Mrs. Nichol- £on was born in Jersey City, N. J, in 1875. She was married to John Nichol- son in 1906. She leaves her husband, two sisters, Miss Edith Durant and Mrs. Agnes Durant Halsey of New York, and a brother, Donald Durant, of Boston. All are in this city for the funeral services. ‘The funeral services will be con- ducted in the Church of the Covenant, Presbyterian, this afternoon at 5 o'clock. Rev. Dr. Albert J. McCartney, tor, assisted by Rev. Dr. Frederick rown Harris, Fu.swr of Foundry Meth- odist Episcopal Church, will officiate. ‘The body will be taken to New York to- morrow. Interment will be in Wood- lawn Cemetery, New York. HOOVER ASKED TO ATTEND JEWISH “TOWN MEETING” Presence Desired at Parley in New York Designed to Promote Re- to attend a “town meeting” of the Jews of New York to be held in the near future, for the purpose of plan- ning for Jewish relief overseas. ’Xg‘m invitation was presented by James N. Rosenberg and Harry L. Glucksman of New York and Isaac Gans and Maurice Bisgyer of Wash- ington, each of whom represents a dif- !erent“e unn’ nization of Jews interested relief. “This subject,” said Mr. Rosenberg, ifter calling on the President, “is one in which Mr. Hoover, ever since the days of his leadership of European re- lief, has been much interested. Steamers Crash in Port. NTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April 30 (#).—While entering port today the British freighter Routon Grange was in collision with the German pdssenger Ita Both vessels were dam- injured, | * | honorable mention; WEDNESDAY, @he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 30, 1930. PAGE B—-1 MASTODONS DECLARED ALIVE l HERE WHEN COLUMBUS LANDED Scientists Are Told pictures, Mayan BY THOMAS R. HENRY. That gigantic extinct elephant, the mastodon, go&slh]y was alive in North America when Columbus landed, Prof. W. B. Scott of Princeton University told the National Academy of Sciences, which ended its sclentific meetings here yesterday. ‘The credture generally is supposed to have been extinct for nearly 50,000 years. The finding of a human skull in Florida which had been steé)ped on by a mastodon has been adduced as evidence of the great antiquity of man on this continent and has precipitated one of the most lively recent scientific controversies. But both Prof. Scott and Prof. Frank Leverett of the University of Michigan insisted that it indicated, not the antiquity of man, but the mod- ernity of the mastodon. ‘There has just been found near Quito, Ecuador, Prof. Scott said, the skeleton of a mastodon which evidently had been slain with man-made weapons. It was surrounded with the remains of a fing of fires lit to roast it. In the same for- mation were found pottery fragments of Maya workmanship which can be dated from the fourth century A.D. This means, Prof. Scott said, that the animal was killed not more than 1,600 years ago and probably much later. ‘The discovery, he said, had not hitherto been announced in the United States. Citing other cases, he insisted that the animals of the Pleistoscene age, the geological era just preceding he present, did not die off all at once but continued in some places well into historic times. Teaches Music by Pictures. A new method of teaching music which makes use of both the eye and the ear was described by Prof. C. Seashore of the University of Iow Musical technique, either vocal or in- strumental, can be resolved into four skills, he said. These are tone, in- tensity, timbre and rhythm. ‘These skills are taught one at a time. Visual images of the student’s actual singing or playing of each note are pro- duced automatically before him as he sits before a microphone. Thus he con- tinues until the skill he is practicing is shown by the “pictures” to approach perfection. Experiments have shown, Prof. Seashore said, that once a skill has been mastered the student can forget all about it. It automatically carries over into the playing or singing of the piece as a whole. is will save a great deal of money spent for vocal or piano lessons, greatly improve technique and make musical expression possible to many who think they have no talent in this direction, he said. Pictures also can be secured of the voices of great artists, and the amateur singer can practice with these before him. Prof. Seashore also announced the perfection of the “piano camera,” which records exactly the time, duration and relative force of each note struck by the player, so that these can be com- pared with the work of other players. Jost Tribe Refuge Found. A hitherto unknown last refuge of lost tribes and languages exists in the high mountains and deep valleys of North- western California, said Dr. C. Hart Merriam. Within this limited area, he said, there are the last survivors of 64 Indian tribes and of 15 different lin- guistic stocks. In some cases, he pointed out, there will be only one person left with vague memories of an otherwise completely lost language. A linguistic stock he described as having no sim- ilarity to any other languages and not merely a different language , for the most part, on the same roots, as in the case with all the Indo-European tongues. “Within & radius of 40 miles from the Hoopa Valley,” he said, “there were, in Lost California Tribes. of Music Taught by Mathematics and whole or in part, home lands of 19 tribes of Indians representing eight linguistic stocks. Tt is doubtful if in any other part of the world there are, in so small an area, so many tribes speak- ing different languages. Most of these tribes are fairly well known, but during the mining days several of them were practically exterminated by the onrush of gold seekers and the troops called in to help. So complete was the destruc- tlon that in the case of four of the tribes the few survivors succeeded so well in keeping hidden from inquisitive USURPING POVER LAD T0 UTILTES GROUPBY BIREAL Commission Has Taken Over Traffic Director’s Duties, Report Asserts. TAXI STANDS AND BUS PERMITS ARE CITED eves that not even the names of the tribes were ascertained by anthropolo- Clock Loses Second in Century. A new clock, keeping time by the vibrations of a quartz crystal instead of a pendulum, was described by W. A. Marrison of the Bell Telephone labora- tories. Recording time to the thou- sandth of a second, this clock has many advantages over the pendulum clock, although much remains to be done be- fore it is perfected. In observatories where it is necessary to preserve a per- fect synchronization between the solar and sidereal time, Marrison said. this clock can be operated so that the error in the ratio of rates is less than one second in a century. Eventually the quartz crystal vibratioins may prove a better measure of time than the move- ments of the earth itself, said Prof.: Ernest W. Brown of Yale University. There is increasing evidence that the mysterious cosmic rays, bombarding the earth with such penetrating power that they will go through 100 feet of water, are the result of the building up of more complex atoms of matter out of the simple hydrogen atoms, said Prof. R. A. Milikan of the California Institute of Technology, the discoverer of these rays. He explained, however, that the evidence was not perfect and suggested further experiments before two other theories could be eliminated. One is that they come from the annihilation of matter in outer space as it is transformed into radiation and the other is that they are the result of particles of matter falling through electrical fields in the outer atmosphere of the earth. The possibility of two types of hu- man beings—those who live long and grow slowly and those who go through all the life processes rapidly with short- er lives—was proposed by Prof. Frank Boaz of Columbia University. This theory was based on the actual growth records of human beings. It is difficult to interpret the statistics, he said, cause of the effects of changing environ- ment and social conditions on the amount and rate of growth. Thus, it seems, all the peoples of Europe now are growing taller. Mayan Civilization Praised. All branches of science must con- centrate on the remarkable lost civ- ilization of the Mayas, said Dr. A. V. Kidder of the Carnegie Institution. Archeology, he pointed out, has reached the point where it can go little further without interpretative data from other specialized branches of knowledge. Recovery of this lost knowledge, he said, will amply repay sclentists. As an example, he pointed out that the Mayas had made some advances in mathematics, such as knowledge of the arithmetical significance of zero, which was not known to Europeans at the time of the discovery. Practically the same kind of bac- terlum which is building up bog-iron deposits today was at work-in Virginia in the Cambrian logical era, said Dr. David White of the United States Geological Survey. The Cambrian represents almost the beginning of life on earth and the tiny living organism has continued with hardly any change through the many million years which have elapsed. GARBAGE MEN GET PRIZES FOR WORK Awards Made to Most Effi- cient Employes by Twen- tieth Century Club. ‘The nrbl'g and trash men had their day in the sun today when money prizes and banners were distributed to those recommended by their foremen as having done the best work during the past_year. The prizes were given by the Twentieth Century Club at a cere- money in the board room of the Dis- trict Building. The Board of Com- missioners was present. Mrs, George F. Bowerman, president of the club, and Mrs. O. L. Veerhoff spoke. Mrs. A. N. Prentiss presided. The awards were as follows: Trash department, Harry Freeman, first prize; B. Bowman, second prize; Will Thomas, garbage depart- ment, Frank Newman, first prize; Henry Henson, second prize; James Bryant, honorable mention; ash _department, John Dunbar, first prize; Henry Davis, second prize; James Sims and Clifford Lucas, honorable mention; “white wings,” George Wheeler, first prize; Herbert Lewis, second prize. Committees of the club made sur- prise visits of inspection to the routes of all those recommeiided for prizes, and in all cases expressed admiration of the way the men did their work. Members of the committee in charge included Mrs. P. S. Smith, Mrs. Proctor L. Dougherty, Mrs. Trueman Abbe, Mrs. Emile Berliner, Mrs. Willlam T. Ballard, Mrs, Bona Bonner, Mrs. J. B. Campbell, Mrs. E. E. Carter, Mrs. Gilbert Gros- venor, Mrs. 8. H. Thompson and Mrs. Three-wheeled taxicabs, invented in Germany, have hgen attracting much CENTERWILL HOLD ANNUAL FESTIVAL Neighborhood House Pre- busses for any p Efficiency Experts Declare Act of 1925 Put’ All Matters Under One Individual. ‘The Public Utilities Commission has in many cases usurped the functions of the director of traffic and the Dis- trict Commissioners with respect to regulating traffic, according to_a re- port filed yesterday with the District Commissioners by the Bureau of Effi- clency. The Utilities Commission has taken upon itself authority not given it by law, particularly in the case of interstate busses, intracity busses, sight- seeing busses, special busses, their | routes, stops and parking places, it is pointed out. The District Commission- ers themselves are charged in a part of the report with usurping the au- thority of the director of traffic, who is found by the bureau to have absolute control of all traffic in town. The Commissioners, according to the report, established taxi stands in their own names, and the name of the di- rector of traffic does not appear in the order. This “is in direct violation of the intention of Congress in passing the traffic act of 1925. Manifestly, Congress intended to put all matters specifically mentioned, and all matters generally relating to the control of traffic, under the authority of one in- dividual, who would be responsible for traffic conditions in this District. This would insure undivided responsibility and the intelligent study of problems constantly arising.” Taxi Stand Is Cited. ‘The report singles out the establish- ment of a taxi stand at Eightenth street and Pennsylvania avenue by the Commissioners, in conflict with an order of the director of traffic that there shall be no parking on the east side of Eighteenth street during the afternoon rush hour. “Such inconsistency,” the report finds “in the regulation of traf- fic is caused directly by divided con- trol, and clearly shows that an intel- ligent plan cannot be mapped out as long as the District Commissioners at- tempt independently to regulate one phase, and the director of traffic another phase of traffic control.” The report winds up with a recom- mendation that “the director of traffic be recognized as the proper official to initiate regulations establishing hack stands as well as all other matters di- rectly relating to the control of traf- fic in the District of Columbia, sub- Ject only to the approval of the Dis- trict Commissioners. to the “usurpation” by the Public Utllities Commission, the bureau holds that since the public utilities act.was passed in 1913, and the act setting up ‘he position of director of traffic in 1925, and since the traffic act spe- sifically grants exclusive authority to the director of traffic in certain cases, Congress must have intended to give full and complete authority to the director of traffic, subject only to ap- proval of the Board of Commissioners, in those cases enumerated in the act, | as well as matters generally coming under the head of “control of traffic.” ‘The bureau takes the corporation coun- sel sharply to task for a written opinion in conflict with the bureau’s ideas on the subject. Bus Permit Is Pointed Out. ‘The commission is specifically ac- cused of granting an interstate bus line permission to use Thirteenth street over the objection of the director of traffic, but the charge is taken even further, and the bureau finds that the commis- sion has no control over interstate whatsoever. This e report holds that busses want to use eing the case, when interstate pares for Spring Program, Which Opens Tomorrow. Neighborhood House, 470 N street southwest, was astir today in prepara- tion for the opening of its twenty- eighth Spring festival tomorrow after- noon at 4:30 o'clock, when the first of a series of playlets will be presented. The festival, which will continue through Saturday, will be featured with the crowning of the “Queen of the May” Saturday afternoon at 5 o'clock. Beginning tomorrow morning, the several houses of Neighborhood House will be gayly attired. Hundreds of per- sons atlend the festival annually. Playlets to be presented tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 in the garden of Neighborhood House will be repeated agan on Friday. Among them are: “The Spring Frolic,” to be presented by the day nuisery and kindergarten children; “The Monkeys and Their Red Caps,” to be presented by the “Tiny Tots”; “Burying the Cat,” to be pre- sented by the “Jolly Juniors,” and “The ‘Three Little Pigs,” by the Allegro Music Club of Neighborhood House. Each evening at 8 o'clock, beginning tomorrow and continuing through Sat urday, the following will be presentes “The Shepherd,” by the Girls’ Club; “Golden Locks and Bears,” by Girls' Club; a Buy Scout play by the Boys' Club and “Seven Come Eleven,” by | Boys® Club. Supper 1s to be served each evening from 5 to 7, beginning tomorrow, at the cost of 50 cents, and various articles will be on sale, including those made in the crafts shop at Neighborhood House, and candies, cakes and other edibles made attention at motor shows in Europe this ‘Winter. { POLICEMEN FINIS! The District appropriation bill, as it will come before the Senate within a few days, has had stricken from it the House provision which would require| to an eighth-grade education for appoint- mentt' to the police force. In elimina ing this restriction, the Senate appre priations committee also granted the recommendation of police officials for 25 additional men to make possible the establishment of a Eollce training school without reducing the number of police- men on duty at one time. In the Senate hearings on the bill it was shown that of the 64 men appointed to the police force during the t year 44 had attended colleges or high schools and of the remaining 20, 11 had been through the eighth grade and 6 had gone through the seventh grade, by the women’s clubs of Neighborhood House. et e O +va| SENATE HITS HOUSE REQUIREMENT; H EIGHTH GRADE Another interesting feature of the bill which the Senate will be asked to approve would provide a fund of $60,000 be used by local and Federal officials in conducting a war on mosquitoes in Washington. In connection with the appropriation for a new bridge across Klingle Valley on Connecticut avenue, the Senate com- mittee is racomriending the elimination of the provision under which any street car company using the bridge would have to pay one-fourth of the cost of the new structure. In the hearings on the bill officials of the Capital Traction Co. told the committee that the com- pany which built the car line on Con- necticut avenue paid the entire cost of the present bridge, which was bullt be- AMDNS YRS oDsned ‘Washin streets they should not ply to the Utilities Commission, but di- rectly to the director of traffic, and his mlctlon on the application should be ‘The bureau report states that the set- ting aside of parking spaces for inter or intra city busses by the commission is an invasion of the powers of the di- rector of traffic, and dismisses an opin- ion of the corporation counsel to the contrary as “erroneous.” The bureau report holds sightseeing and special busses, such as take patrons to the nearby Maryland race tracks, are not under the authority of the Utili~ i ties Commission, and makes the same suggestions for them as for interestate busses. A blanket regulation is proposed for routing of all classes of busses by the director of trafic. In the case of in- tracity busses only, the bureau recom- mends that the application for a route, though still made to the director of traffic, should be accompanied by an approval from the Public Utilities Com- mission. STUDENTS TO HAVE AID IN HIGHER EDUCATION Counsel on Courses, Tuition and Other Requirements for Girls by University Women. Counsel on the courses, tuition, re- quirements and other pertinent facts relating to 44 different institutions of higher learning will be given to girl high school students and their parents at the American Association of Univer- sity Women's headquarters, 1634 I street, during the association’s observa- tion of “College day” Saturday from 10 am. to 10 r.m. Booths will be maintained by gradu- ates of these colleges and universities and catalogues of each will be available for inspection by the prospective stu- dents. The various means afforded by the institutions to assist girls through school will be outlined. Suggestions for students’ budgets and students’ clothes also will be given. Besides the 44 institutions which will be represented by booths, the catalogues of approxi- mately 300 colleges and institutions will be shown parents and girls. e list includes both women's colleges and co-educational institutions. TEIC AR LIPTON’S RACER READY Challenger America’s Handed Over by Builders. GOSPORT, England, April 30 (#).— ‘The Shamrock V, Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger for the America’s Cup, was handed over by the builders today to her skipper, Capt. Heard, and Col. Dun- can Nelll, representing Sir Thomas. 1t had been to make a trial TR todey, but for Cup Upper: Lillian_Hin garet Jackson. : A group of milkmaids in the Neighborhood House Spring Festival, starting tomorrow. son, Elouise Reed and Katherine Twiford. Back: Theima Hodgkins, Helen Hutton, Mary Carper and Mar- EDUCATION BOARD CONSIDERS FUNDS FOR 152 BUDGE Group Goes Over Requests for Improvements and New School Equipment. ATTITUDé OF COMMITTEE TO INFLUENCE DECISIONS Matter of Teachers’' Salaries Also Believed on Today’s Busi- ness Calendar. Fortified with knowledge of the trend of the Senate District colnmittee's atti~ tude toward District school needs as in- dicated by the Senate committee report on the 1931 appropriation bill, the Dis= trict Board of Education’s finance com= mittee this afternoon is attempting to fix money limitations on the 1932 school estimates. Convening at 3 o'clock, the committee under Dr. Abram Simon, chairman, is giving final consideration to the mass of requests for school improvements and equipment which was presented to the school board at the citizen's conference Easter Monday night. This data has been assembled and put in order by Harry O. Hine, secretary of the board. Consider Teachers. While this afternoon’s meeting is executive, it is known in school circles that serious consideration will be given the teaching staff salary items and the possibility of confusion which is ex- pected to result from a difference of opinion between the House subcom= mittee and the Senate committee. The House group, of which Representative Simmons of Nebraska is chairman, al- Front, left to right: Lower: The May Queen and her court at Wheatley School: Kathleen Miller, Margaret Souder, Frances Hemp, Mildred Montgomery, Mildred Dougherty, who was chosen queen; Katherine Hayden, Kitty Skinner, Mildred Johnson, Thelma Giovannetti, Pauleen Miller and Jennette Russell, b earing the pillow. —Star Staff Photo. OWNERS PROTES NEW TR WEASURE Spokesmen for Several| Groups Appear at Hearing Before Senate Group. | ‘The bill to give the Public U!filfles“ Commission authority to regulate taxi- cabs was opposed in its present form by spokesmen for several groups of cab operators at a hearing before the Sen- ate District committee yesterday after- noon, in the course of which various changes in the proposed method of regulation were ested. ‘The purpose of bill was explained by Gen. Mason M, Patrick, chairman of the commission, who said it would empower the commission to require financial responsibility, to regulate rates and to require applicants for new serv- ice to obtain certificates of convenience and necessity. The bill also would en- able the commission to designate routes to be followed by interstate busses passing through the District. Patrick Gives Views. Questioned by Senator Robsion, Re- publican of Kentucky, as to what effect rate-fixing would have on competition, Gen. Patrick suggested the commission could fix a maximum and minimum rate. With reference to the certificate of convenience and necessity, Gen. Pat- rick said there was no intention to limit or lessen the number of cabs. Chair- man Capper presided at the hearing. Richmond B. Keech, people’s counsel, objected to the requirement of a certifi- cate of convenlence and necessity. He agreed to the other portions of the bill, explaining that he favored reasonable regulation of the taxicab business, but thought there should not be a certificate that could prohibit new operators. ‘The provisions of the bill as drafted by the commission were opposed by Robert Hardison, representing a group of independent hackers; Alfr D. Smith, attorney for the Independent Taxicab Owners’ Association, operating Diamond cabs, and by William McK. Clayton, representing the Bell, City and Sun cabs. Financial Clause Too Broad. Mr. Hardison said the section relating to financial responsibility was too broad as written, and suggested amendments. Hardison and Clayton both thought a maximum rate might be established, but did not believe there should be a min- imum rate fixed by the commission. Mr. Smith said he favored regulation, but did not think the bill should be en- acted as introduced. He suggested that the committee consider a bill intro- duced in the House last year by Repre- i sentative Gibson of Vermont to revise the license laws of the District. W. W. Cloud of Baltimore, president of the National Association of Taxicab Owners, and Barney Graves, vice presi- dent of the Yellow Cab Co, of Phila- delphia spoke in favor of the pending bill to place cab regulation under the commission. William L. Sudenga of the Taxicab Drivers and Chauffeurs’ Union, gutl:dnae;:r-l l.mendmenta.‘ Sergt. J; seph D. Harrington, inspector the Police Department, said there is need for new legislation on the subject of taxicab regulation. Buenos Aires Feels Shock. BUENOS AIRES, April 30 (#). Earthquake shocks were recorded yes- terday by by the meteorological station of Villa Ortuzar. They were felt at several places in San Luis and Men- doza Provinces and their epicenter was lanned He Likes to Show Car to Any One but Traffic Policemen World Traveler’s Auto Has Everything Needed but Parking Space. The automobile which Mr. Buzzacott drove to town today seemed to have everything but a parking space. Aside from the stuffed rattlesnakes, it had four-wheel brakes, ceiling suspen- sion beds, shock absorbers, folding boats, extra heavy springs, a taxidermist out- fit and a windshield wiper. Mrs, Buzzacott, as Mr. Buzzacott ex- | plained, was the windshield wiper. Mr. Buzzacott did most of his explaining with an eye on the traffic policeman. Sometimes Mr. Buzzacott glanced at the officer from behind the pine trees on his back 'h, and other times he CATHEDRAL GROUP 1800 Expected to Attend as Committees Prepare Re- ports on Progress. | Men and women of prominence from | cities throughout the country will gather |on Mount St. Alban tomorrow for the annual meeting of the National Cathe- dral Assoclation, an _organization founded more than three decades ago to arouse attention to the need for a great house of prayer in the National Capital. ‘The gathering will be held at Whitby Hall, one of the buildings of the Na- tional Cathedral School for Girls, an tion will attend. The princf; ), % ht Rev, Philip M. Rhinelander, 'll“d!:‘l, olcu;e pro- | College of Preachers, and Mrs. G. “Every one of the 48 States has at least several of them, not to mention _the licemen of Africa, Indla, Egypt, China, Holland, Alaska. o “What?—oh, that,” said Mr. Buzza- cott, picking up a picture from, his Psrlor table and turning toward the ibrary. “If you get it in the right light,” he said, switching on the chan- delier, “you’ll see it's a good working drawing of the proposed ‘aero-weath- erdome,’ roof canopy, which I invented to cover Soldier Field in Chicago.” “No,” grinned Mr. Buzzacott, “it doesn’t always rain lead over there— no matter what the newspapers say.” Mr. Buzzacott raised the shade on his dining room window and glanced toward the corner. The traffic police- man was looking his way. “We've been around the world about six times, my wife and I,” Mr. Buzza- cott said, “and I guess maybe we'd better be going.” The traffic officer, however, had turned his attention to a woman who seemed to be trying to drive two ways at once. Retired Army Sergeant. “Perhaps I'll have time to tell you about us, after all,” sald Mr. Buzzacott, who, aside from being a retired Army sergeant, 70 years old, is an Indian scout, explorer, big-game hunter, in- ventor, author and co-designer of his home on wheels, the Cruiser Car. “Perhaps I will, and perhaps I won't,” he amended. Sure enough, the traffic policeman was coming over to Mr. Buz- zacott’s house. “You can leave by the back porch steps.” sald Mr. Buzzacott hurriedly, fiddling with the ignition switch. “I like to explain this outfit to everybody but traffic cops!” EXPLAINS CONVERSION. Native African to Speak to Sev- enth Day Adventist Group. A native African from Nyasaland, James Malinka, who is traveling to San Francisco as a delegate to the quadren- nial session of the general conference of Seventh Day Adventists, will describe how he came embrace Chiistianity in an scppearance Friday before the congregation of the Seventh Day Ad- ventist Church, at 624 Eighth street northeast. Malinka is being accompanied to San Francisco by Prof. A. W. Spalding, sec- retary of the home commission of the general conference of the denomination, He is an ordained clergyman and direc- tor of the Membera mission of the African division conference of the chuxch, - K Bratenahl, chairman of the garden com- mittee of All Hallows Gull(L“ ‘There also will be reports from chair- men of local committees, reviews of ac- tivities of the committees which are serving under the leadership of Gens. John J. Pershing as national chairman and detailed explanations of the con- struction accomplishments at the Ca- thedral of the past 12 months. Following the addresses and reading of reports the group will attend the 4 o'clock service in the Bethlehem Chapel. Memorial services will be held for Ad- miral George Dewey at this time, as tomorrow is celebrated nationally as “Manila day.” Capt. Sidney K. Evans, chief of Navy chaplains, will be the preacher. Acting Secretary of the Navy Jahncke will attend the service Isflsfl{:present&flve of the Navy Depart- Later in the afternoon a reception and tea will be held in the Bishop's gar- den in honor of the association mem- bers, and pilgrimages will be conducted through the crypt chapels of the Ca- thedral to the College of Preachers and K)n;:'-her points of interest on Mount St. an. SENATE GROUP TO ACT ON TWO DISTRICT BILLS Howell Dry Measure and Proposed Change in Utilities Appeals Are on Capper Slate. The Senate District committee is ex- pected to take final action tomorrow afternoon on the Howell dry enforce- ment bill and on the bill changing the court procedure when appeals are taken from decisions of the Public Utilitles Commission. Chairman Cap- per has called the committee to meet at 2 o'clock tomorrow to dispose of these two measures. The Howell bill, on which hearings have been held, would extend prohibi- tion enforcement authority to all mem- bers of the police force, whereas only 38 local policemen now have that power. Most of the discussion in the commit- tee has related to another provision, extending the search warrant law, on which the Deillrf.ment of Justice made an unfavorable recommendation, Suicide Near Vatican City. ROME, April 30 (#).—Commendatore Agostino Agosti Podesta of San Remo committed suicide near the Vatican City confines yesterday. Vatican authorities today denied earlier reports that the suicide had been in pagal territogy itself, . TOHOLD MEETING lowed 11 teaching positions for next year, but included no money for the salaries in_ the belief that adequate funds could be “saved” from various sources. The Senate, however, not only has replaced teaching positions which the House committee struck from the estimates as sent forward by the Budget Bureau but it provided money for the salaries. An attempt is being made this afternoon to frame estimates which can | be modified later according to the 1931 \ppropriation bill as it finally is passed by both houses, ‘The Senate committee’s report on the 1931 bill also presents a new problem to the board's finance committee today in the elimination from the bill of the 12-room and 2-gymnasium addition sought for the Gordon Junior High School. Some of the most serious con- gestion anywhere in the school system has centered about the Gordon School, where it has been impossible to estab- lish a ninth grade, and at the Western High School, nearby, from which all non-resident pupils and pupils living | east of Connecticut avenue and Rock Creek Park were excluded last year in an effort to accommodate the heavy en- rollment. Drop Gordon Improvements. It was explained at the Franklin School today that the Senate commit- tee struck out the Gordon Junior High School improvements in order to com- pensate for certain other buildings in the colored divisions and regret was expressed that the Senate committee, without consulting the school people ihemselves, chose the Gordon bu'lding for the sacrifice. It was pointed out that the addition uested for the Stuart Junior High School could have | been better spared. The finance com- | mittee then, if it assumes that the { Gordon item is lost for the present, will be obliged to include it in the 1932 estimates. Besides Dr. Simon, the finance com- mittee included Dr. H. Barret Learned and Dr. J. Hayden Johnson. Other { members of the board have been re- | quested to sit in with the committee | this afternoon. The school authorities | have until Monday to complete the gigantic task confronting them as the commissioners have asked for all Dis- trict department estimates by that day. COURT REALIGNMENT TO BE MADE ON MONDAY Press of Criminal Cases, Justice Stafford Illnes and Equity Vol- ume Necessitates Change. Next Monday will witness a rew alignment of the justices of the District Supreme Court for the remaining weeks preceding the Summer recess of courts, July 1. Because of the press of criminals cases, the illness of Justice Stafford, and the accumulation of cases in Equity Division 2, due to the num- ber of condemnation proceedings, one of the two circuit courts will be discon- tinued and Justice Jennings Bailey will take over Equity Division 2 in the hope of disposing of more than 200 cases awaiting hearing in that tribunal. Justice Wheat will transfer the con- demnation cases to Equity Division 1 and Justice Hitz will resume the ses- sions of Criminal Division 2, which have recently been suspended while he presided in Equity Division 1. Justice Siddons will hold Circut Divison 1 and will be the only law justice. Justice G‘:‘rdov; will continue in Criminal Di- vision 1. NORTH CAROLINA U. CLUB SCHEDULES CONCERT Group of Singers to Entertain To- night in Italian Ball Room at Mayflower Hotel. ‘The Glee Club of the University of North Carolina, one of the most u- lar of such organizations that it the National Capital annually, will give a program in the Italian ball room of the Hotel Mayflower tonight at 8:15 o’clock. Harold 8. Dyer, director f the club, will conduct the boys in five groups of songs. They will include old English songs, Negro songs, modern folk songs, modern American songs and both Rus- sian and Irish folk songs. It is a dis- tinctive program, well balanced and with representative works of fine com- posers, as well as favorite melodies. —_— BARKLEY CHIEF SPEAKER Senator Barkley of Kentucky, and a member of the class of 1901, will be the principal speaker at the annual din- ner of Wi Chapter of the University of Vi Alumni Priday night, May 2, at 8 o'clock in the Chevy Chase Club. James G. Driver and Dr, Jordan, as- sistant dean of medicine at the univer- sity, also will speak. The former, the new athletic director, will tell of for the future in Virginia's athletics, and icularly will describe L ‘Scott tadium,” the recent of Frederick W. Scott of Bwhnwng.“mwly elected rector o:d t;:e unlv:::’l.u e dianex comumitise,