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INGREASING POLICE 1 i | i HOOVER SIGNS BILL lw White House Force Also| Placed Under Secret | Service Control. ( President Hoover today signed a bill placing the White House police force under the control of the United States Secret Service and increasing the force from 38 privates to 43 Richard Jervis, head of th: White Houge secret service, will be in charge of the force, with Clarence L. Dalrymple. who for 20 years has been in command of the force as sergeant, as active head with the rank of captain. Under the new law En Scaman. who has I be pr er the supe a police force, at that time the supervision of Soon after coming I Hoover, by an official order, placed t White House police force under the | control of the S: The new Jaw now definite that re tionship. _Under House poli <hell have and refirement m-tropolitan T sonncl may afted from the Un police. CROSBY AND HARLAND PRAISED BY CITIZENS, | | Park View Association Holds Last Meeting of Year in School House. The Park View Citizens' Association, in their last meeting of the year in the | Park View School last night, passed a | Tesolution commending Commissioner | Crosby and William H. Harland, direc- | tor of traffic, for their efforts to re edy the scrious traffic problem in:th District. The fesolution was placed before the up by John S. Cole, president. e association was ‘addressed by E.| T. Bliss, chairman of the “clean-up | committee” of the Chamber of Com-| merce on “Clean-Up week in the Dis- trict.” | WARRANTS T0 ARREST Ridgway Charges Three Men En- tered Home and As- saulted Him. Assistant District Attorney John R. Fitzpatrick today refused to issue a warrant for the arrest of Precinct De- tectives E. C. O'Meara, John F. Box- well and Licut. Sullivan of the sixth | recinct at the request of Guy. B. idgway, 407 Fourth sireet, who said they entered his home and assaulted him without reason. Ridgway is said to _have made scv- eral complaints to District Comm sloners about the conduct of the offi- On April 4 Inspector Albert J. Headley was appointed to investigate the complaint. Ridgway declared that the police failed to show their badg:s until they | had searched the house and made an | arrest. Police said they entered on an arrest warrant and subsequently found the person for whom the warrant was issued in the home. Th:y declarcd they ‘were under the impression that Ridg- way was resisting their efforts to en- . force the law. o FORMER AMBASSADOR TO GIVE RADIO ADDRESS | Richard Washburn Child to Speak | Under Auspices of | D. A. R. Richard Washburn Child, former Ambassador to Italy, will deliver an | address over a coast-to-coast hook-up | of the National Broadcasting Co, today | at 6:30 o'clock, under the auspices of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Child served as Ambassador to Italy from 1921 to 1924, representing the United States at the Geneva Conference | {n 1922 and the Lausanne Conference in the same year. The subject of his ad dress will be “Patriotism in America.” 'HOOVER GREETS CADETS | ‘Local High School Presented to President. Brigade and regir of the Washington High School Cadet Corps were greeted by President Hoover at the White House today and the President posed with them for a group photograph in the rear grounds. The resentations were made by Lieut. Col . M. Craigie, U. S. A.. military structor of the local High School Ca- dets. In the group were Col. J. C. Stearns, rigade commander; Lieut. Col. John fley of Central, commanding the 1st giment; Lieut. Col. Enlow Carter of ech, commanding the 2d Regimen Maj. J. P. Tarr, commanding the B ness battalion; Licut. Col. Louis M Gruder of Eastern, commanding the 3d Regiment, and John Keating of Western, commanding the 4th Regi- ment, Commanders ntal commanders FACES RUM CHARGE | Defendant I;;fl:x1(l;:x'y Trial and | Is Held Under Bond. | John W. White, 31 years old. first block of Second street northeast, was held for a jury trial under $500 bond ‘when he entered a plea of not guilty to @ charge of possession of 286 quarts of isky, in Police Court today. Ninth precinct police reported receiv- | ing a telephone call that an automobile loaded with liquor had parked on Sec- ond street. Policemen Bennett Lancas- ter, W. D. Young and W. A. Satte thwaite responded and subsequently ar- rested White, alleged to have been the | driver. They detected the car upon seeing liquid dripping from beneath the | Tear of the machine. BADLY HURT BY JOLT Electrician s Victim of Accident | in Railway Yards. | Jolted from the cab of an engine When it hooked onto a string of cars in the Union Station yards late yes- | terday, Charles F. Benchert, 20-year- old electrician, of 510 Frasier avenue, | Virginia Highlands, Va., was badly injured. Benchert, employed by the Washing- ton Terminal Co., was found suffering from severe lacerations of he face and head end a poseible skull gzlq;'m-'n He B -y~ Hospital. ‘J Was taken fo the Emerges | in “Midsu | American THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Miss Orrel Belle Claflin as Helena and S. mer Iniversity Campus. Carlton Ayers as Demetrius ight's Dream,” to be presented Friday night at the auditorium M STREET BRIDGE DEDICATION HELD Col. Ladue and President | Bowles of Georgetown As- sociation Speak. The new M Street Bridge was offi- | cially opened yesterday afternoon, when 9-year-old Sue Ann Dietz, 3039 Q street, cut a ribbon stretched across it, follow- ing speeches by Col. William B. Ladue, Engineer Commissioner for the District, and B. A. Bowles, president of the Georgetown Citizens' Association. The ceremony took place before a gathering of residents of the com- mupity, most of whom later went on thedpilgrimage to Georgetown's old and historic_gardens. Col. Ladue said there had been a | bridge: on the present site since 1789, | when the first one was built. The next | bridge was built, he asserted, in 1800 | and from that time to this the banks of Rock Creek at M street have sup- ported several other structures. | Both Col. Ladue and Bowles told of | the work done by the Georgetown | | Citizens' Association in_securing the | appropriation for the bridge. | _The old bridge which spanned Rock Creek at this point was of wood and | steel _construction. Five years ago it | was found necessary to raze it. |D. C. HEAD WILL REVIEW | ANNUAL CADET'DRILL| Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, chair- | man of the Board of Commisstoners and colonel of the High School Cadet Corps Lere in his youth, will review the an- pual company competitive drills in American League Park June 2 and 3, according to an announcement made today by Stephen E. Kramer, first as- | sistant superintendent in charge of high schools and cadet affairs. Twenty-six_companies from the five ;vl‘h"c high schools will compete at 8:15 am. Monday, June 2. o "DR. JOHNSON TO SPEAK B sociates, at 8:15 o'clock tonight. Dr. George Johnson of the Catholic Sol HERZOG, jnc. Originators of the Budget |0 Buying Plan in Washington ‘We tried to do something the second time . .. we re- peated our announcement of a year ago and also our value ...AREAL VALUE AND A REAL SALE! We were so enthused that we decided to make it a regular yearly event ... WE HAD OUR LESSON IN TRYING TO PUT IT OFF TO REGULAR BUYING (because it is almost impossible to get regular $40 and $45 Suits to sell at $28.50, even if you cry your eyes out to a manu- facturer) . . . WE LAID PLANS 12 MONTHS AGO .+« and so again we say EXACTLY ONE YEAR AGO, llg 'the DAY ... we repeat an event . . . D HERE IT Bona-Fide $40 and $45 New 2-Pants Suits At a Give-Away Price $2850 Materials: Tnclude every wanted suit fabric worsteds, serges, ca meres, herringbones, cheviots, etc . . . light and dark patterns, pin stripes and all over tweed patterns, as vell as solid shades. Styles: Single and Double breasted Models . . . one, two and three button effects . conservative and ex- treme styles. Sizes: his father, SEE OUR WINDOWS— We've dressed a full side of our shop windows with them. . .take a look at them...YOU'LL BE SURPRISED! Sor HeRzoc F Street at Qth Auditorium, 715 N street, under the | auspices of the Catholic Testimony As- The sponsoring organization is com- | University faculty will speak on “Cur- | posed of professional and business men | { rent Objections to Catholic Education” | !in the second of a series of doctrinal | “man in the street.” lectures in the Immaculate Conception | juired for admission. | 2nd its lectures are addressed to the | motor bus services by railroads or by No tickets are re- < We're Repeating the Special—and All models, regulars and stouts . . , for the youth, young man or | BUS INQUIRY ORDERED | ‘I. C. C. to Seek Facts on Which to Ask New Legislation. An ifquiry into the preparation of companies having special arrangements ! with raflroad companies was ordered the Special Value Now is your opportu- nity! If you've been look- ing for a ‘real buy' in clothing . . . if you've been looking for style and value . . . AND RE- MEMBER EVERY SUIT HAS TWO (2) PANTS . . . now is your chance to cash in on some real value and saving. We made good with our manufacturers in placing with them enough orders during the year to justify this concession... THEY CAME THRU AS PROMISED . you are . . . THE EATEST VALUES WE KNOW OF FOR $28.50. ANCIENT TIME-MARKING DEViCE . operating through the glass. tute here. D. C., THURSDAY, MAY 15 The old sun dial gun of seventeenth century Europe that sounded off the | noon hour on sunny days by firing a blast, discharged by the rays of the sun | It has been presented to the Horological Insti- 1930. —Star Staff Photo. today by the Inter Commission. ‘The objects are to obtain facts to justify action and to find grounds for Gelfand’s Dressing 8 Oz 20c Pint 39¢ Seeded or Seedless Raisins Pkg. 10c ate Commerce [ recommending to Congress respecting legislation “to accomplish further or more efficient co-ordination of motor | transportation.” LAND QUESTIONS ARE DISCUSSED Park and Plan Group Studies Possible Purchases in Opening Session. ! Questions -of land purchase engaged the attention of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission during its three-day meeting. Land cecired first when the Capper- | Cramton park purchase bill becomes law, was under consideratfon, but in- formation on the sites was lacking. the commission deeming it best to make nq announcement, of this program, due to | the possibility of increased prices to the | Government. | The commission was prepared to take into consideration the alternative plans submitted by Charles W. Eliot, 2d, its city planner, setting forth the | proposed_priority purchase under the Capper-Cramton measure, and based on various sets of figures, which the Bureau of the Budget might sanction | for inclusion in_the deficiency appro- | priation bill, if the park purchase | measure becomes a law immediately. A. L. Harris, municipal architect, is | slated to appear before the commission | and advise it of further details in the | construction of the District municipal | center. The commission likewise has | for consideration a joint meeting with | the Fine Arts Commission to inspect | votential sites for the new War and | Navy Department buildings. | | of transit VAN DUZER T0 TAKE ROAD GROUP CHAIR Pennsylvanian to Be Installed as Association President at Din- ner Tonight. William A. Van Duzer, assistant chiel engineer, Pennsylvania Department of Highways, is to be installed tonight as president of the American Road Build- ers’ Association, -acceeding Frederic . Reimer, consult- ng civil engineer i East Orange, N. J. The installa- ion ceremonies will ke ard Hotel. Senator John G Townsend, jr, of Delaware ~ will be installed as a di- rector of the as- 1 sociation. roalles, chief engi- neer of the De- . Van Duzer. partment of Public Works. Havana, Cuba, who will become president of the pan-American division. and Lieut. Col. C. E. Myers, director Philadelphia, who' succeeds Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, chief engineer of highways of the District, as presi- dent of the city officials’ division. The great German philosopher, Scho- penhauer, whose treatises on meta- physics are classics, was a fool in the affairs of everyday life. While writing his greatest of philosophical works he Wm. | was o peppery, suspicious and quarrel- Recent shipments from Brazil to the | United States included 120,000 goat-] ns. ALL OVER TOWN UNITED Fooo sTORES For Information Call MET. 7544 YU = \Aro1® w7 y) 1= come, that his own mother, with whom he lived, requested him to leave the home. Ceresota FLOUR S Medal FLOUR Kitchen Tested 5 Lbs. 29¢ 12 Lbs. Not Bleached . 29¢ . 59e Localiy 70wnédfl 4 Locally Operated Citizens of every community in the country are fast learning the importance of keeping money in circulation in their own com- munity. United Food Stores are organized to give you every advantage—with none of the disadvantages. Think it over! BARGAINS Fancy Calif. 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