Evening Star Newspaper, May 20, 1930, Page 17

BREWSTER QUIZZED FURTHER BY POLICE ASDOUBT DECLINES Skepticism of Sanity Drops as Girl Positively Iden- tifies Soldier. SUSPECT PICKED FROM GROUP BY NEW WITNESS Miss M. E. L. Falke Tells of Being Accosted in Potomac Park. Dreams About Weapon. Police and Department of Justice agents foday continued interrogation of Harold Brewster, the soldler whose al- ternate confessions and denials of the slaying of Mary Baker have confronted the authorities with one of the most puzzling elements in the mysterious murder case. Every examination of Brewster thus far has developed more conflicting angles in his varying stories, but some of the investigators who at first be- lieved he was suffering a mental ab- normality appear now to be more con- fident that theme may be some founda- tion of truth in his rambling state- ments. ‘Their skepticism diminished some- what as a result of the identification of the soldier last night by Miss M. E. L. Falke of 1811 Adams Mill road, as the man who tried to force her into a con- versation in Potomac Park April 30. Miss Falke picked him from a line-up of soldiers at the barracks of the head- quarters company of the 16th Brigade to which he is attached. In the meantime search for the gun used in the slaying of Miss Baker was temporarily halted, while two Depart- ment of Justice Agents and Arlington County police waited at the Arlington County Court House for three colored men who were engaged to cut down the heavy underbrush and high weeds bordering the Cemetery road where Brewster in his signed confession sald he threw a weapon after disposing of the body of the slain Navy Depart- ment clerk. three laborers worked all day yesterday, but at noon today they had falled to show up to resume the cutting. _Accosted in Potomac Park. Miss Falke said today she first saw Brewster late in the afternoon of April 30, last. “I was mun: tfinhn:hub:lg: the miniature it , & ven- teenth l'.rez:‘end of the Lincoln - morial Reflecting Pool,” she stated, “when this man, dressed in a gray suit cap, came up and began to pat my dog, Boy. me and remarked it was ‘a nice dog’ and then, to my surprise, sat down on be:‘:uhlhwe gag in conversa: engage me e 1 did not like his whole attitude 'w somewhat !rhhu;x:mt I ‘;u by the thought that two boys nearby. Not wishing to ne, I merely sat and listened iterested manner. leaned SHIES fitt i 't l Identified Suspect MISS M. E. L. FALKE, Gown shop proprietor of 1811 Adams Mill road, who identified Harold Brew- ster, Army private, as the man in a gray suit and cap who annoyed her with his advances near the Lincoln Memeorial Pool on April 30. Brewster has alternately confessed and denied murdering Mary Baker. 134 COMBAT CRAFT T0 STAGE REVIEW Curtiss Trophy Race to Fur- nish D. C. Greatest Aerial Thrills. ‘The National Capital's greatest aero- nautical event is to begin at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Anacostia Naval Air Station, when 134 combat airplanes from the three Navy aircraft carriers arrive over the station for an aerial re- view preliminary to the Curtiss Marine Trophy races, which this year are to be the most closely contested in the 15 years’ history of this annual seaplane classic. > ‘The planes are to rendezvous over the city and nearby Maryland and Virginia, in review before Navy Depart- | prograi ‘ment chiefs occupying a reviewing stand at the local station. Following the re- view the squadrons will break Iforma- uonh -:1‘: at 1 o‘kcilock b;m bea‘;g to lllnd sections, parking adrons along %ld“““ Air Station l;fie of Bolling Forty minutes is allowed on the | 2 program for the landing and parking. “Red Rippers” {0 Stage “Combat.” From 1:40 to 2 p.m. there will be a demonstration of combat fiying by VB-1 Light Bombardment Squadron, known as the “Red Rippers,” from the U. 8. 8. Lexington. ' This famous squadron, equipped with F-4-B Boeing single- seater fighters, is to give a demonstra- tion of a type never before seen In this city, including diving bombardment and “three-way” diving attacks by the entire squadron. A section of three Ma: Corps sii le-seater fighters, led by Lieut. Chris. ghn Frank znnhflt.“lilem ‘uf the gltlrl an campaign, will put on a demon- E“uzzuan of section acrobatics from 2 to :20 p.m. As_the Marine program is completed the Navy dirigible, Los Angeles, is to put in her appearance, arriving over the station at 2:30 pm. From the keel of the airship will be suspended the Navy glider in which Lieut. Ralph 8. Barnaby, Navy Construction Corps, last Winter made the first glider descent in history from an airship. -As the nir- the local station Lieut. Barnaby is to cut loose the glider and spiral down in the little motorless craft to & lan at the air . After Lieut. Barnal Lieut. Comdr. C. A. Nicholson, also of the Construction Corps, will attempt in a Navy plane to fly up to the Los An- geles and attach his plane rine Ilihlebymunloflhookunlhewp gained my car and . nh‘mlle?nwtthllhnwmddmw etime. e T nmycofinmdchutn- the man’s picture in terday. I had seen the same man on two subsequent occasions in the vicinicy of the practice golf in Potomac Park, but avoided him and he did not see me. The second time I saw him he was thrusting his 'IC:VIDH :e:\ }':glé expert’ on a group of two Woi s who were practicing putting. Beveral friends and I were watching the when the man appeared from umlm seemingly, and, seizing one of the clubs, he sought to show one of the girls how to use it. I hurried away for fear he would spy me. The third time I saw him was when he was walking down Seventeenth street, below B street. I was driving my car at the time. Brother Notifies Police. “When I saw his picture in the paper 1 spoke to my brother about it, and he insisted the police should be told about the incident. He notified police headquarters, and Detectives Fowler and Flaherty came to me last night and heard my story. They seemed impressed | c] and later Capt. Bolling asked me to come to the Army building and see if I could identify Brewster as the man who had annoyed me. They lined up about 10 of the men and I picked Brew- ster immediately as he stood on the end. Then they shuffied the men up in when !‘:lln'l looking, and I jcked him A : “At first ;gwsur said he had never seen me before, but then he admitted that what I had said was true and that he remembered it all. “I was asked if I recalled what sort of tie Brewster was wearing. 1 told them I thought it was one with red stripes on it. Several of the men went out of the room and they returned with a tie with red stripes, which I identified as the one the man had worn.” ‘There is a small spot on the tie, but the investigators were not able to deter- mime whether it was caused by grease or blood. - The tie will be subjected to_a microscopic examination. Dreams of Gun. Incidentally, Miss Falke disclosed that she was deeply impressed by a drcam she had last night concerning the miss- ing gun in the Baker case. She says she dreamed she was flying over the area across the Highway Bridge and saw a “distinctive bush” near one of fields there, in which she could 4n this locality upon a thorough search. Brewster was subjected to another un- nkn%k inquisition last night after ‘Miss e identified him, but he clung to his denial that he shot Miss Baker, and even went so far as to tell the inves- tors that he did not remember get- in the car with the woman before went on her fatal ride into Arling- on the evening of April 11. however, the investigators raid, admitted in his latest version that L3 struck the woman in her car while it the plane and a trapeze on le. 1 the Comdr. Nicholson again has his plane. 25 Planes to Race. Preparations then will be made the main event of the afternoon, the Curtiss Marine Trophy races, in which five types of Navy combat planes will participate for the Curtiss trophy and prizes for the winner in each class. Approximately 25 planes are to cross the starting line, with many of the most famous Navy and Marine Corps pilots at the controls. The race will be over five laps of a 20-mile course, the turn- ing pylons located between Hains Point and the War College, at the Alexandria waterfront, 10 miles down the Potomac from the Hains Point pylon, and on the Maryland shore opposite Alex- andria. ~ The starting and finishing line will be in front of the Naval Air Station. After the race, which probably will last approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes from the time the first plane crosses the starting line until the last plane finishes. there will be two more special events. The first will be ute jumping form a Navy Ford trans- port plane. The final event of the day will be in- dividual acrobatics by Lieut. M. B. Gardner, operdtions officer at the An- acostia Naval Alr Station, who is re- rded as one of the best individual pilots in the naval service for ESTATE WORTH $300,615 Husband Asks Probate of Will of Mrs. Nellie R. Loose. Mrs. Nellie Ridley Loose, who died April 11, left an estate valued at $300,615, according to the petition of her husband, J. Louis Loose, for the probate of her will. estate assessed at $200.750 and had rsonal property of $99,865. The hus- E:ml is the sole legatce under the will. He is -represented by Attorney Prank Stetson. was parked on B street between Six- teenth and Seventeenth streets. Although the authorities have con- centrated their investigation of the murder on a check-up of the stories Brewster has told, the: Washington po- lice have not relented in their search for an itinerant painter who is re- ported to have camped in the woods in various sections of Arlington County and who disappeared about three weeks after Miss Baker's death. ‘The man is said to be a World War veteran. The police do not believe he had any connection with the slaying of the woman, although they want to ques- tion him about his movements on April 11. ‘The search for this man has been un- derway for several weeks, and Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief 'of the homicide squad, indicated this morning that the police are now close on his trail, 2 She owned real | WASHINGTON, D. C, IBINGHAM DEFENDS HIGHER LUMP SUM VOTED BY SENATE Challenges Simmons’ View Measure Would Not Give Taxpayers Relief. CITES LARGE PROJECTS PLANNED FOR DISTRICT First Meeting of Confexees Is Expected to Take Place ‘Within Few Days. Defending the District appropriation bill as it passed the Senate, with the Federal share placed at $12,000,000 In- stead of $9,000,000, Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, expressed surprise today over the argument ad- vanced in the House yesterday by Rep- resentative Simmons, Republican, of Nebraska, to the effect that the Senate measure would give no relief to the tax- payers. ‘When the question of appointing con- ferees came up in the House yesterday afternoon Representative Simmons pointed out, in answer to one of his col- Jeagues, that the Senate had accepted the House *provision that taxes shall not be reduced in the District during the next fiscal year. Commenting on this, Mr. Simmons added, “so that the proposal of the Senate to increase the Federal contribution from $9,000,000 to $12,000,000 will not reduce the tax- payers’ hllll next year. That is out of the question.” “lqwu rather surprised to read Mr. Simmons’ remarks that the Senate bill would not give relief to the taxpayers, Senator Bingham observed ez have understood from his previous re- marks that the taxpayers were faced with an increase in taxes in the near future.” Large Projects Cited. several large improvement projects being planned for the District, including the municipal center, the park development m, an airport, the police and fire- men’s salary increase, the need for larg- er school building expenditures and the building of bridges to eliminate railroad grade crossings. ‘The Connecticut Senator said the mu- nicipal center plans will call for 15 or 0 millions, and that an airport will call for a substantial outlay “whether it goes where the Chamber of Commerce wants it or where the Board of Trade w. its it.’ '.‘le are still short on schools,” Sena- tor Bingham continued. “There are about 4,000 children on part-time or in portables. ‘Taking the situation as a whole, Sen- ator Bingham said: “I am rather sur- prised that it is emphasized that there is no rellef for the taxpayers” under the Senate bill. “As a matter of fact” the Senator continued, “it would give relief to the taxpayers by enabling them to have these necessary improvements without an increased tax rate.” ‘Those who were named to serve with Mr. Simmons as the House conferees are: Representatives Holaday of Illi- nois, Thatcher of Kentucky, Cannon of Missouri and Collins of Mississippl. Early Meeting Expected. In addition to Senator Bingham, the Senate conferees are: Senators Phipps of Colorado, Capper of Kansas, Glass of Virginia and Kendrick ‘'of Wyoming. No date has been fixed for the first meeting of the conferees, but it is ex- pected to take place within a few days, ‘The question of the Federal contribu- tion is expected to be the outstanding issue in conference. There are many other important items to be ironed out, including the rates to be charged for ‘water service and the amount to be expended next year for going ahead with the Municipal Center. When Chairman Simmons made the motion in the House to appoint con- ferees, Minority Leader Garner insisted that 75 per cent of the membership on the Democratic side is opposed to the Senate amendment for increasing the Federal contribution of $9,000,000 and asked that before the conferees con. ceded on this amendment they should come back for a vote in the House. Thinks Group Backs Garner. Representative Simmons said that he believed Mr. Garner understands his own views, “which I think are shared by the members of the subcommittee ;lho will probably be named as con- erees.” resentative Crisp, Democrat, of G:::gil, then engaged in the debate, e of e asable property in the T cent of the taxable y pD'l!tflct of Columbia is owned by the United States Governemnt?” i Representative Simmons replied, “If the Government were paying taxes on the Federal property in the Distirct of Columbia, it would be somewhere be- tween $7,000,000 and $8,000,000 at the current tax rate.” SENATE 0.K.’S $500,000 " FOR REMODELING OFFICE It Is Planned to Add Marble Col- umns and Steps to Improve Appearance of Building. Taking up the legislative appropria- tion bill today, the Senate promptly approved the amendment of the appro- priations committee, making $500,000 available to remodel the mnorth side of the Senate Office Building. It is planned to add marble columns and steps to improve the architectural appearance of the building, looking | from mumun fii‘""x’é‘ wi"u""" % ;rw x::': prominent position occy] 1 "ll:t lc-pltol grounds are extended to the station. This bill also provides that $600,000 appropriated last year for relocating the Botanic Garden shall remain available uring the coming |a ing fiscal year. The iunexz)ended balance of another appro- priation for remodeling the Senate wing of the Capitol also would be continued svailable for another year. RECEIVES POWDER BURNS Four-Year-0ld Explodes Cartridge in Toy Pistol. , 4! -old son of Mr. lnfin{'{ur:,umem hylmle of 2136 K street, suffered powder burns on the right 'hand last night when a 45-call- bu:; cartridge lDlae“fmytully inserted in a n e Ag‘h,“ cy Hospital, where he was released :fl: treatment, it was said d rammed the cartridge into the toy gun and pulled the ‘rigger The toy pistol was shattered, but the dropped hasmlessly on the fioor. Senator Bingham called attention 10| ing f GRAND JURY CLEARS IFOUR DRY OFFIGERS OF ASSAULT CHARGE Prisoner, Alleged Victim, Also Cleared of Charge of Interfering. 25 INDICTED; CHARGES AGAINST 17 IGNORED Four Indictments, Involving Five Persons, Returned in Jones- Stalker Law Violations. The grand jury today declined to indict four prohibjtion officers who were charged with an assault with a danger- ous weapon on Bernard Clark, 1926 M street, who claimed that the officers beat him even after his hands had been manacled in the process of serving a search warrant on April 25. The jury also exonerated Clark of a charge of interfering with the dry officers. The agents were Henry J. Doyle, John T. Wiegel, John T. Fisher and M. E. ‘Thompson. ‘The grand jury also ignored a charge of violating the Jones-Stalker act against Wilson Temple Stokeley, 308 E street. Stokeley was recently named as defendant in a ‘“padlock” proceeding instituted by United States Attorney A. Rover and Assistant United States Attorney Harold W. Orcutt, and & temporary injunction is pending against him as tenant of the property, which is owned by William O. Anderson. ‘Twenty-five indictments were re- ported, while charges against 17 per- sons were ignored by the grand jury. Others exonerated _include Willlam Scott and John A. Smith, joy-riding; John Shymanski, impersonating an’ of- ficer; Betty Allen, false pretenses; Le- roy Johnson, Harry Jackson and Law- rence Young, housebreaking and lar- ceny; Clarence J. Ketchum, embezzle- ment; George W. Phillips, forgery, and Augustus Johnson and Purcell D, Sta- Pples, robbery. ! Violations of the Jones-Stalker law are charged in four indictments involv- ve persons. Those accused are Carrie Saxon, Corry Jones, William :mu, Henry Smith and Russell P. ce. . Others indicted and the charges against them include: Charles A. Brown and Arthur Harrold Kennedy, alias Jack H. Richardson, non-support; Lee Watson, Philip G. Eaglin, Francis I Ford, Solomon Alex- ancer Holmes and James Ferguson, joy- riding; Lawrence F. Milstead, John Washington, James Taylor, Albert Young, Andrew Smith (2 cases), Shirley . Hutchinson (3 cases), Lawrence Johnson and William Hightower, house- breaking and larceny; Leroy Johnson, Frank B. Coakley and Eugene Wayman, recelving stolen property; Willlam Brown, mm knowle , and Milton Simpson, larfeny after trust. URGES TRAINING OF FUTURE POLICE mends Course of Instruction , for All Applicants. Compulsory attendance at s . police school of all candidates for the Wash- ington police force before they are al- duties of law guardians was recom- mended by the public order committee of the Washington Board of Trade at ;‘ ax{\chcon yesterday in the Raleigh otel. The proposal, which was in the form of a report submitted by John Lewis Smith, chairman of a special subcom- mittee which has been studying the subject, also provided that candidates for the force could be dropped if it was found in the school that they were unfitted to become officers. The rec- ommendation would give officlals of the Police Department power to in- vestigate the character of all applicants. Both Gen. Crosby, newly appointed Police Commissioner, and Maj. Pratt, superintendent of police, who attended the luncheon, warmly indorsed the proposal. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, who has charge of the park po- lice, said he thought the idea is a good one and that he would like the men of his force to attend the school. Gen. Crosby and Maj. Pratt replfed that the joint training of applicants for both forces could be arranged easily. A special committee was authe to investigate the manner in which narcotic prescriptions are handled in the District. It was said that a mem- ber of & former grand jury had alleged that one person obtained 280 narcotic prescriptions. Invited guests at the luncheon in- cluded Gen. Crosby, Col. Grant, Maj. Pratt, Willlam Phelps Eno, traffic ex- pert; Maj. Donald A. Davison, Assistant Engineer Commissioner; Trafic Di- rector William H. Harland and Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District co-ordinator. GIVE JOINT RECITAL Misses Moss and Dunn Present Program at Gunston Hall. Miss Anne Cary Moss, soprano, and Miss Marion Dunn, planist, appeared in a joint graduation recital Sunday night at Gunston Hall, 1906 Florida avenue, before a large throng. The vocal program, sung in French, Ger- man and English, included arias from the works of Mozart, Gounod, Schu- bert and Lemaire. Miss Dunn gave three groups of piano numbers. Clean Silver Sand To Give Playgrounds Seaside Appearance The city’s playgrounds for small children are to be furnished soon with clean silver sand, simulating the seasho re. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, di- rector of public buildings and iblic parks, is calling for 460 els of silver sand, bids for which will be opened tomorrow. ark division of the Office of ic Bulldings and Public Parks has a program calling for the renewal of the sand in the boxes in the parks once a year. River sand, park officials explained, soils the clothing of the children. Col. Grant is likewise calling for bids, to be opened on May 26, ;or :‘b'Auh Dl:undl ol‘nlwel rein- loreing, used in repairing :ge floors of the Munitions Build- 8. Trade Board Committee Recom-! lowed to assume the responsibilities and | KINDERGARTEN LAD, DEAF FOR CHILDREN TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1930. FROLIC i A general view of the exercises conducted by kindergarten school children 8 YEARS, WINS D. C. PRIZE IN ESSAY CONTEST Loy E. Golladay, 16, Is Tak- ing Preparatory Course at Gallaudet. Moving Story of Reactions to Affliction ‘Wri.tte_n by Virginia Boy. A 16-year-old lad from a Northern Virginia~ farm has stepped from his world of silence to receive the acclaim .of the world that speaks for his achieve- ments in the realm of the written word. He is Loy E. Golladay, member of the preparatory class at Gallaudet College. ‘Although deaf since the age of 8 years, he has overcome his handicaps to such an extent that he has emerged as the District of Columbia winner in & na- tional essay contest conducted among :u,(l):n American high school boys and ‘Young Golladay’s autobiographical es- say, “Semper Silentium,” submitted in the annual competition sponsored by the . American Education Press, was awarded the District of Columbia prize of the National High School Awards for 1930, accort to a letter of notification meceived at the college from H. M. Layre, director of the contest. awards, provided by Current Literature, the Magazine World, the Atlantic Monthly, the Bookman, Harper's Maga- zine, Saturday's Review of Literature, Scribner's Magazine, World's Work, ‘World News, Current Science and Cur- rent Events, are to accord “recognition and publication to the best creative :g:m of students in American high Prize Called Real Honor. “To have won & prize by the decision of so eminent a group of judges,” Gol- laday was notified, “is a real honor.” boy's essay is a simple but mov- ing account of his own reactions to an tion that might have bettered one less optimistic and ambitious. Becom- ing deaf after an attack of spinal men- ingitis, he moved with his parents to ‘West Virginia and attended the West Virginia School for the Deaf for six years, before matriculating at Gallau- et. But let Loy tell the story in his ‘words. His essay follows in full: “I remember the day.as if it had been only yesterday. I was lying in a large room; the walls were those of a farm- house in Northern Virginia. As my eyes opened after a long perfod of darkness and oblivion, they wandered first all about me, taking in every detail of the room before they finally came to rest upon a figure upon the chair beside my bed. Slowly a light dawned upon my tortured consciousness, and I smiled weakly as I recognized my mother, who had been sitting by my side ever since I could seem to remember, incessantly ssing a fan to and fro over my fevered row. Then all seemed to fade away and I knew no more. “It seemed ages later that I awoke, refreshed and much more comfortable than before. The tearing, rending pain was gone, and I felt that I was an en- tirely new person. My mother, Ays faithful, was still at my side, and I was relieved to see that the doctor, who had always been' nearby, had disappeared. Ponders Over Matier. “T stared upward into my mother’s anxious face. Her lips moved, I thought, in silent prayer. Again they moved, and I noticed she was looking directly at me as she was wont to do when asking a question. But no sound came to my straining ears, and I managed to murmur. for a drink of water. She left the room, not venturing to call the nurse, who was asleep upon an adjacent couch, exhausted. “In her absence I pondered over the matter, seeking some explanation other than the one which was surely, relent- lessly, forcing itself upon me. But in vain; the soundless lips were explained. My entire outlook on life was being slowly, yet irrevocably changed by the fact that was brought home to me. “I was deaf. “Deaf! What a terrible word, fraught with inexpressible pathos; what a calamity to descend upon one so young; what bright hopes dashed to nothing- ness upon the rocks of adversity—so it seems now to one who stops to con- sider. My weakened and blunted men- tal condition rendered the shock, when it came, less effective than it would have been had I been well. No more to hear the singing of the locusts in the tall pine tree on the hill, the chat- tering of the squirrels in the old oaks by the well, the tinkling of the cow- bells as I drove the herd home from the orchard at dusk. Never again to hear the cackling of the barnyard fowls, the cooing of the pigeons in the hayloft, the rip) of the creek in the meadow, the call of the whip-o™-will on cool Summer evenings—were lost to me forever. “Semper silentlum? Who knows? “To the uninitiated, it “would seem that my life would be darkened, my very existence made unbearable by this misfortune. Nothing could reasonably be so far from the truth. Certainly it was trying at first, but the de- spondency ickly gave ace to & stoical indifference; today it scarcels ever- comes to my mind and then wit but & vague regret for what I once had, but have adapted myself to do without. Masters Sign Language. “I was, much to my gratification, en- abled to continue my education at a State school for the deaf. There I met boys and girls who had much in common with myself. Jaughable mistakes and much exercise finally mastered to own of tion, I a fair of proficiency the sign door, police degree seemingly LOY E. GOLLADAY. mfem of silent communication. At State school I was taught to un- derstand what was being spoken by wnwhlng closely the movements of the lips and surrounding facial muscles. ‘The course of study embraced the usual grade school education. and a vocation. | “I have been deaf for half of my 16 years. The world continues the same The | 88 before, the only change for me be- the lack of the old sounds and s, and a somewhat more I had before. Ihave in the silent and I think just as an: many friends, both blatant worlds, and with the mentally incapacitated. “The deaf, as a class, do mot ask' for pity. All they desire is a fair chance to show 'mselves equal to their hearing brethren, and to be treated accordingly.” ' - ——ed 3 MASSING OF COLORS PROGRAM ARRANGED Day Scheduled at Washington Cathedral’ Amphitheater. Chaplain Arlington A. McCallum, ctairman of the committee in charge of the third annual massing of the colors service, to be held Sunday afternoon in the open-air amphitheater at Washing- ton Cathedral, announced today that 67 military and patriotic organizations had already signified their intentions of participating. It is believed that at least 75 groups will provide color guards for the proces- sion which will march down the Pilgrim steps to mass United States fllll'l"l;‘d 'mblems of their orders in front of the :Jumoor altar at the beginning of the service. A congregation of 15,000 per- ex] ness p OQE features of the service, which is held annually on the Sunday preceding Memorial day, will be a concert by the United States Marine Band, pr music by three military drum and bugle congregation sin , led by & Imassed choir of 200 male voices, and & sermon by the Right Rev. James mnve fallen :ountry. and “Taps” will be sounded for the heroic dead of the Nation by an Army bugler. The service, which is sponsored by the District of Columbia Chapter of' the Military Order of the World War, will be conducted by Rev. G. Freeland Peter, canon of Washington Cathedral, assisted by ' Rev. Charles Dubell, national chaplain of the Mili- tary Order of the World War; Col Jullan E. Yates, chief of chaplains of the United States Army, and Capt. Sid- ney K. Evans, chief of chaplains of the United States Navy. | GEORGETOWN LIBRARY DRIVE TO BE LAUNCHED Dr. Bowerman to Speak at Mass Meeting Called to Plan Branch Institution Demand. A concerted drive for a branch pub- lic lbrary for Georgetown will be launched at a mass meeting Monday night at St. John’s parish hall. Dr. George F. Bowerman, District librarian, will be the principal speaker. Plans_for the meeting will be ar- ranged by a committee consisting of T. Janney Brown, William S. Conant, N. worl.h{nmn Dorsey, John H. Hanna, Lieut. Col. Harry rdan, Rev. Irving B. Joi W. Ketchum, Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, Richard V. Oulahan, Albion K. Parris, Rear Admiral H. H. Rousseau, Mrs. Robert F. Whitehead, J. B. Wyckoff and Dorsey W. Hyde, jr. ‘Wearing Apparel Stolen. Rooms of three occupants of 313 K treet were robbed of wi 1 After many | were by breaking & lock on a Special Service Preceding Memorial | i E ! AT CENTRAL STADIUM PAGE B-1 IFINANCIAL BUDGET | PREPARATION WiLL at Central Stadium this m —Star FESTVAL STAGED BY 1500 CHLDREN Boys and Girls Clad in Gay| Costumes Frolic Before Hundreds of Parents. Spring was awakened smid the joy- ful shouts of 1,500 Northwest Washing- ton kindergarten children in the Cen- tral High School stadium this morning. It was the play festival of the kinder- gartens for the first, third and part of the fifth divisions of the public school system and was the first frolic of its sort to be held since the World ‘War, ‘The stadium was occupled by hun- their gay] boys g:rll frolic to music by the Inter-High hool Band. terpretative play depicting ing of Spring. Groups of little chil- green crepe paper-plumed caps and garlanded wristlets took up their positions to sway as trees in bright sunlight and light wind, divis themselves " into three groups. trees were followed by children garbed as , their headgear fashioned in immense _clusters of daffodils, daisies, buttercups and violets. These children crouched on the ground to rise slowly growing games. The program was staged with- out rehearsal and was under the di- rection of Miss Catherine Watkins, di- rector of kindergartens. SPANISH WAR VETERANS PAY. TRIBUTE TO DEAD Company C, First D. C. Volunteers, Meets in Home of Represent- ative and Mrs. Dyer. ‘Twenty-four surviving members of Company C, 1st District of Colum- bia United = States Volunteers, who served in the war with Spain, gathered over the week end at the home of Rep- resentative and Mrs. L. C. Dyer, on ;Vogdlu road, to pay homage to their lea The thirty-second annual roll call chose the following officers: President, Representative Dyer; secretary, Jere Costello; historian, Willlam A. Hicke; An executive council consisting of Lieut. Samuel C. Redman, John Lewis Smith and Willlam A. O'Brien was chosen. A reunion of the 1st District of Columbia Regiment will be held, it was announced, November 20, at which time a plan for the erection of a tablet or marker in new municipal center, commemorative of the men who served the District in the war with Spain, will be taken up. — SHEPHERD PARK STORM SEWER CONTRACT LET Commissioners Also Award Job of Installing Flag Poles on Four Schools. The District Commissioners today awarded to W. J. McLane a_contract for the construction of the Shepherd Park 'storm water sewer, section 4, in Juniper street between Sixteenth and Fourteenth streets, Fourteenth street be- tween Kalmia and Geranium streets, Iris street between Fourteenth and Morningside drive, for $34,369.58. A contract for installing flagpoles on four school buildings went to McCay & Kirtland of Baltimore, for $1,556. The schools to be equipped are the Ben W. Murch, at Thirty-sixth and Ellicott streets; the John Quincy Adams, at Nineteenth and California streets; the 1 Powell, . at Fourteenth and Upshur streets, and the Langdon, at Nineteenth and Evarts streets northeast. PROMOTION OF MEAKIN MARKED AT CELEBRATION Meyer Davis Is Host to Newly Ap- pointed Managing Director of Fox Theater. Hardle Meakin, newly appointed managing director of the Fox iter, was the guest last night of Meyer Davis ;L Le Paradis at a celebration marking To! B 'l'l'l’e guests in addition to Mr. and Mrs. Meakin, were Andl'"w!. Kelley, Nelson, motion picture editor of The d Mrs. Nelson; Nel- picture Mrs. | am., on the request Traction to make Post, ity director of ; Mr. and Mrs. Leon Brusiloff, Mr. and Mrs. Benny Davis, were told, and a suspect Mr. and Mrs. Allan Xaufman, Morris Simon and Leon Koenigsber| ger. orning. g Staff Photo. { auditor and budget officer, BEGIN TOMORROW Final 1932 Figures for Dis- trict Must Be Fixed by July 15. UNDERTAKING IS NEW ONE FOR TWO COMMISSIONERS Appropriations Requests Expected to Be in Excess of $50,- 5 000,000 for Year. Preparation of the District’s finan- cial budget for the 1932 fiscal year will be undertaken tomorrow by the Com- missioners and Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, % Estimates of the various department eads will be used as a foundation for the budget. These estimates constitute & request for appropriations, and while they have not yet been it was predicted at the District Building that they would be in excess of $50,000,000. Budget making is a new task for Commissioners Reichelderfer and Crosby and as a result Maj. Donovan will pre- Rare especially for them a compre- ensive financial statement showing the District’s prospective income in the 1932 fiscal year on the basis of current $1.70 tax rate, which will serve as a gulde in determining the budget total. 2 Must Be Ready July 15. serles of meetings will be hel the Commissioners for the sole sk of framing the budget which be wfllfled and submitted to the Bureau of the Budget by July 15. Unlike pre- vious years, the Commissioners as well as the executives of all Federal Govern- ment departments must submit final instead of tentative estimates by that date. The tentative estimates have been eliminated by the Budget Bureau in the interest of efficiency and a more street | t0 e:meemmfl;.:l h::;,illnl.u ‘The st to taken the Commissioners, it was Indlute:’. will be the fixing of a definite total for thc 1932 budget. When this is done, the ;leumteu o; t't.}e kdepar:anent heads will trimmes eep the total budget within the limitation. - In arriving at a budget total the Com- loners, it was said, will be influ- enced largely by Donoven's report on the prospective financial condition in 1932, especially in view of the auditor’s warning that an increase in the tax rate is likely if the District rontinues to submit large budgets and the Fed- eral Government refuses to raise its an- nual $9,000,000 lump sum contribution. Appropriation Needed. Donovan estimates that with a eon- a‘neumct of the exl.:tln' $1.70 tax levy, cannot support a budget in excess of “TM.MHDI‘:IO‘IIS& unless n of $12,000,000 and eliminating $2,000,000 from the item for the municipal center. The approva of these amendments, however, will make possible a budget of nearly $48,- 000,000 without a hi te. Surplus revenues wl in the Treasury to the credit of the District, Donovan pointed out, will be virtually exhausted in 1932. 3 this surplus, he said, precluded an in- crease in the tax rate this year as well as the coming fiscal year. With these revenues used up com- pletely, however, the District will be forced to fall back on its own resources in 1932, unless the House to the Senate amendments to the 1931 m- priation bill. In this event the et would have a surplus of nearly $5,000,- 000 to aid in financing the 1932 budget. ‘The District’s estimated receipts for the 1932 fiscal year under the $1.70 levy amounted to $42,900,000, exclusive of the trust and special funds. This estimate was based on the assumption that the Federal it would continue its $9,000,000 lum con- tribution in that year. If Commis- sloncrs, therefore, decide on a budget in excess of that amount, it was pointer out, the tax rate will have to be raised unless the Senate amendments to the 1931 appropriations are approved by the conferees. o CAVEAT PLACED ON FILE TO BLOCK WILL PROBATI William H. Spelshouse’s Last Tes- tament Attached by Daughters, Who Allege ‘“Undue Influence.” Mrs. Selma S. Wells, d"{ Pifteenth street, and Mrs. Theodora T, 1317 Decatur street, today filed in the District Supreme Court a caveat testing against the admission to te of the will of their father, Will H. Spelshouse, who died April 22. They charge undue influence by another sis- ter, Lorle E. Mitchell, who is named as executrix of the will and given one- half of the estate while each of them gets only one-fourth. The estate is valued at $42,000. The charge also is made that the father lacked testamentary capacity at the tlmelgl thra n;lkln‘ of the will. . rney Edward S. Balley appears for the complaining sisters. MAKE CITY “SPOTLESS” DURING CLEAN-UP WEEK School Children and Civic Organi- zations Urged to Make Special Effort to Beautify Capital. Washington' mm‘e':su —— -4 's va continued to be urged today to make their city spotless, as the “ .Up week” camj , authorized by the Dis- trict Cor went into its sec- ond day. Tonight, Col. Edward G. Bliss. man of the committee in charge wr the campaign, will talk before the Cit- izens’ Forum of Columbia its on thoughts and tions of to ™51, Bl aghin urged s morning X ul that this week be looked upon, not only of housecleaning, but as a_ time for the acquisition of habits hich will assure a clean city through year. PO WILL DISCUSS SERVICE ‘The Public Utilities Commission will hold a public hearing on June 4, at 10 of the Co. it redu of its service on three of its lines. The lines affected are the Takoma Park- ith and P streets northeast, Navy ‘ard-Takoma Park and Navy Yard- Potomac Park. g Sy