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PAGE SETS RECORD IN CURTISS RACE Marine Pilot Averages 164.08 Miles Per Hour in 100- Mile Jaunt. troble resulting from running es | 8t top speed throughout the grueiling race. One of the four big torpedo an bombardment planes made a hurried forced landing with the engine in flames, though prompt action with a fire extinguisher prevented damage to motor or plane. Two Surprises in Race. ‘There were two outstanding surprises tx the race. The first was feat of leut. James E. Dyer of the battle fleet, winner of the Schiff Trophy for 1929, in running away from three of the single-seater fighters with his two- seater observation plane to take third lace in the Curtiss race. Dyer pushed is Vought Corsair around the course 8t an average speed of 154.81 miles per hour, less than 10 miles an hour slower than Capt. Bage, to set a new record for the observation types. He was pearly 10 miles per hour faster than his Dearest competitor in the observation ass. The second major surprise was the magnificent race flown by Lieut. D. W. Harrigan ot the Hampton Roads Naval Air Station, in a Navy NY training plané, to win the Ingalls Trophy. Har- rigan flew the 100 miles at an average med of 102.02 miles per hour, more n 10 miles per hour in excess of the rated speed of the plane. ‘The Ingalls Trophy, won “hands down” by Lieut. Harrigan, was do- nated by David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics, for awarding to the pilot making the best percentage of the rated speed of lus plane. Each type of Navy plane is given a rated speed, based upon the most thorough flight tests. Harrigan's NY plane has a rated speed of 92 miles s:; ur and his race today won him a re of merit of 1.109 per cent. In addition to the Ingalls Trophy he cap- tured the first prize for the training mfi and a cup presented by the Pitts- Screw & Bolt Co, Only 16 Prizes Won. Eighteen prizes were offered for the race, though only 16 of the 18 were won by the competing pilots, due to motor trouble, forcing three of the four torpedo planes out before they rom- pleted the course. The prize winners were as follows: Curtiss Marine Trophy—Capt. Arthur H. Page, U. 8. M. C, in a Marine Corps F6C-3 Curtiss fighter, powered with a Curtiss 600-horsepower water- oooled engine; speed, 164.08 miles per bour. He also took first prize in the fighter class. Ingalls Trophy—Lieut. D. W. Harri- gen, U. 8. N, in a Consolidated NY training plane; speed, 102.02 miles per hour. Harrigan also took two other Pittsburgh Screw & Bolt Co. Cup— Lieut. Harrigan. Fighting plane prizes, offered by the Curtiss_Airplane & Motor Co.—First, t. Page;, second, Lieut. Aaron P. Storrs, Navy F6C-4 single-seater fight- er, average speed, 152.96 miles per hour; third, Lieut. W. M. Dillon, Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy F7C-1 single-seater fighter, speed, 142.78 miles per_hour. \ Observation planes, offered by the Chance Vought Corporation — First, Lieut. J. E. Dyer, Battle Fleet, in a Vought Corsair O2U, average speed, 154.81 miles per hour; second, Lieut. €. C. Champion, Scouting Fleet, for- mer holder of the world's altitude Tec- ord, Vought Corsair O2U, speed, 144.98 miles per hour; third, Lieut. M. H. Kernodle, Scouting Fleet, Vought Cor- sair O2U, speed, 143.48 miles per hour. ‘Torpedo and bombsrdment _plane prize, offered by the Glenn L. Martin Co—Lieut. P. D. Stroop, Scouting Fleet, in a Martin T4M torpedo_plane, 118.72 miles per hour. The other three planes of this type were forced down. Amphiblan planes, offered by the Keystone Alrcraft Corporation—First, Lieut. T. D. Guinn, Hampton Roads Naval Air Station, Loening OL-8, 117.84 miles per hour; second, Ensign W. E. Burdick, Naval Reserve, Battle Fleet, Loening OL-8, 1138 miles per hour; third, Lieut. Stephen W. Callaway, Scouting Fleet, Loening OL-8, 111.14 miles per hour. Training planes, the Wrighi Aero- mautical Corporation—First, Lieut. D. W. Harrigan; second, Lieut. 8. E. Bur- roughs, Hampton Roads Naval Air Sta- tion, Consolidated NY training plane, 101.26 miles per hour; third, Lieut. E. R. McLean, Hampton Roads, Con- solidated NY, 100.73 miles per hour. New Timing Method Used. The prizes were presented to the pllots immediately following the race, winners having been determined a new method of timing and com- putation installed by the contest com- mittee of the National Aeronautics As- sociation, in charge of the races, which made possible announcements within five minutes after the planes had com- pleted their fifth lap of the 20-mile eourse. ‘The Curtiss Trophy was presented to Capt, Page by its donor, Glenn Ham- mond Curtiss, ploneer seaplane design- er and pilot. The trophy will be held for the coming year by the Marine Corps and Capt. Page's name will be inscribed on the honor role of those who have won the trophy since the first race was flown, in 1915. Mr. Curtiss came to Washington fresh from the celebration of the twentieth anni- wversary of his epochal cross-country fiight from Albany to New York on May 30, 1910, which won him s $10,600 prize for the first successful long-dis tance cross-country flight. The Ingalls Trophy also was pre- sented by its donor, David S. Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who was the Navy's only World War ace, by virtue of six victories over enemy aircraft while engaged in the English Channel submarine patrol. Capt. Page has had a distinguished eareer in aviation. He is known as the Marine Corps’ best aeronautical navi- gator and “blind flight” pilot and is the author of a standard seronautical text book. He was born in St. Paul, Minn.,, September 17, 1895, and was graduated from the Naval Academy in 1917 and commissioned & second lieu- tenant in the Marine Corps. Winning his wings in March, 1918, he turned to balloon work and attended the Army Balloon School at Fort Omaha, Nebr. Capt. Page has served with the Marine fighting squadrons in San -Do- mingo, Haiti, Guam and China. He has taken part in many long flights. in- cluding the transcontinental reliability | test in 1919; a flight from the National | Capital to San Diego and return in 1923, an recent record flight from the Na- tional Capital to Nicaragua and re- turn. In this flight, made early in May, Capt. Page made the long trip in six days and 20 minutes elapsed time and 65 hours of actual flying time. ‘Two Pilots Disqualified. Two observation plane pilots were disqualified for cutting ti turning pylon at north end of the course, one of , t. J. K. Lynch of the Bureau of Aeronsutics, deliber- the marker to avold & another plane. ‘The three torpedo planes forced down by motor trouble landed safely and, ex- cept for the fire in one engine, without incident. They were piloted by Lieut. E. R. De Long, battle fleet, who was leading his class up to the time he was forced out; Lieut. J. E. Beck, battle fleet, -ngAe Lieut. H. W. Tayior, jr., scouting t. Two training planes also came m down The other was A desd encine, vy up to Comdr. flown by Lieut. B. B. Nichol of Hamp- ton Roads Naval Air Station. ‘The weather for the race was ideal except for a fresh westerly wind which whipped the surface of the river and made the air very rough. The racing pilots were forced to exercise great care in teking off and landing and in mak- ing the vertically banked pylon turns because of the wind. The roughness of the air also affected the formation fly- ing and resulted in the failure of the first attempts made to attach an air- plane to the dirigible Los Angeles in flight. Long before the Capital's greatest aerial show began, at 1:40 p.m., the crowds began to gather at the air sta- tion, Hains Point, the War College grounds and other points of vantage overlooking the river. The show was heralded by the Los Angeles, which appeared over the city shortly after noon, with the glider pulled firmly up against its keel. The Los Angeles took off from Lake- hurst, N. J., Naval Air Station at 1:15 oclock yesterday morning and cruised | about for 13 hours before participating | in yesterday's show. It paused in its wanderings during the morning to_es- cort its big German sister, the Graf Zeppelin, into Lakehurst. Stunt Flying Opens Program. A squadron of 12 Marine Corps sin- gle-seater fighters, led by Lieut. Chris- tian F. Schilt, hero of the Nicaraguan campaign, opened the afternoon’s pro- gram with a demonstration of formation flying, though hampered in close for- mation work by the high winds. Lieut. Schilt then led a three-plane section in a spectacular exhibition of formation acrobatics, including “squirrel cage” and formation loops, section Immel- man turns, cross-overs and close forma- tion work in which less than 15 feet of air separated the planes. As Lieut Schilt led his section down to the landing field, the Los Angeles approached the station for the first time. Lieut. Settle climbed down through an opening in the bottom of the big silver hull and into the cock- pit of the glider. A section of cowling was passed down to him, which he fastened in place over the forward part of the cockpit, leaving an opening too small to climb through. At his signal the glider was dropped from its attachment gear under the keel and dropped in a steep dive until gliding speed was attalned. Settle ap- peared to be completely at home in the little motorless plane as he swept down | in long graceful spirals toward the fleld below. He came in for a beautiful land- ing after about 12 minutes in the air. e glider used was the one in which Lieut. Ralph S. Barnaby, Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, made his descent from the Los Angeles at Lakehurst last Win- ter to open a new chapter in glider history. Barnaby was scheduled to make yesterday's flight, but was pre- vented from doing so by iliness, Settle being drafted for the flight a few days ago. As Lieut. Settle landed, Lieut. Comdr. Charles A. Nicholson, Navy Construc- tion Corps, in an old type two-seater Vought observation plane with an at- tachment gear above its top wing, took off and began to maneuver into pclfllonl under the Los Angeles to attach his plane to a metal trapeze lowered the ai 's keel. The dirigible’s engines were turned nearly maximum 3 his engine, Three Navy phic planes hovered anxiously around. Comdr. Nicholson seemed to just barely slide along sgainst the bottom of the dirigible as the spectators turned a sea of faces to the sky. Actually he was feeling his way carefully toward the trapeze, guarding against a vagrant puft of wind which might earry him up into the big bag over his head. Just at the crucial moment his plane struck a down-current and missed the irapeze After two or three more attempts which failed in the same way, duriag which the Los Angeles passed over the station and returned, Comdr. Nicholson struck the trapeze with the hook on his | top wing, lurched in the air and then, with engine throttled down, rode sus- pended from the dirigible. Part of Training Program. The demonstration was a part of the | Navy's training program in preparation for the launching of two giant dirigibles now under contract, each of which will carry a half-dozen fighting planes which may be released or taken aboard in flight. After riding with the dirigible a few moments, Comdr. Nicholson was cut logse and landed again at Anacostia, while the Los Angeles headed back to Lakehurst, alongside the Graf Zeppelin. ‘The departure of the Los Angeles | brought to a close the pre-race events. | Following the races a number of para- chute jumps which had been scheduled | were cancelled because of the high | winds, which it was feared would drag | the jumpers as they landed. The flight | | & conclusion. | ~One of the Capital’s worst automobile sand cars blocked the narrow roads | leading back to the city from the fleld. | The last of the cars were not cleared | until long after 6 o'clock. At the height | of the congestion more than two hours | were required to reach downtown Wash- ington from the station. {™"The “police closed ~the Anacostia Bridge at Eleventh street and routed ‘Hlmc back to the city by way of Min- nesota and Pennsylvania avenues. A | Star reporter, leaving the fleld just after the conclusion of Lieut. Gardner's |flight, was on the road 2 hours and 120 minutes between the station and The |Star Building. A half hour was re- ,quired for cars to move from the sta- !tion to the upper end of Bolling Field )and another half hour was lost in two blocks at the Pennsylvania Avenue . Bridge, where the police forced three ! lines of traffic into one lane. A running description of the aerial events was given over a loud-speaker jaddress system at the Anacostia fleld by Lieut. C. R. Brown, from the U. 8. 8. Saratoga and Lieut. 8. C. Ring, Navy Bureau of Aeronautics. Miss Elinor Smith, youthful holder of several world records for women pi- lots, including the altitude record, served as an announcer for the National Broadcasting Co., including Station WRC. This is said to be the first time a woman hes announced & sporting event over a large network. Coldest May 31 in New York. + NEW YORK, May 31 (#).—The month of May went out of New York shivering. The temperature fell to 45 degrees this morning, making the day May 31 in the Weather of recording. the chilliest Bureau's 60 vears to be berthed last nigh:| | of Lieut. Gardner brought the show to | jams followed the races as several thou- | LUN, Top: A fiyer makes fast to the Navy dirigible Los Angeles, which came down from Lakehurst for the show. Second: Capt. Arthur H. Page of the Marine Corps being presented with the Curtiss Marine Trophy, which he won. Left to right: Capt. Page, Glenn Curtiss, donor of the trophy, and Senator Hiram Bingham, head of the National Aero- nautic, Assoclation, Third: The racers down the home- stretch, just before they turned the pylon in the river before the air station. Star Staff and Associated Press Photos. Below: Left, Lieut. Matthias B. Gard- ner, who duplicated Al Williams' feat of an inverted failing leaf. Right, Lieut. T. G. W. Settle, who made his first glider flight in s glider dropped from the Los Angeles. LAVERRE’S COUNSEL PETITIONS FOR BAIL Alleges Clie;;;]!—ein—g Restrained of Liberty Unlawfully and Unjustly. By the Assoclated Press. MACON, Ga., May 31.—An applica- tion for bail for Willlam Lavarre, former ‘l.lloflllu of Harold Hall in the opera- tion of four Southeastern newspapers, |was filed in United States District | Court here today through counsel. Lavaree is in jall at Augusta, pending hearing set for June 16 on a citation for criminal contempt of court issued | by Judge Bascom $. Deaver as an out- | growth of Lavarre’s litigation with Hall | over the newspapers. Lavarre’s attorney, W. O. Cooper, Jr., of Macon, brought the application in the form of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus, but made it clear to Judge Deaver that bail 1s all he desires. The application for bail is assigned for a hearing before Judge Deaver in Athens on Tuesday. In the petition Cooper alleges that Lavarre “is imprisoned, detained and being restrained of his liberty illegally, unlawfully and -unjustly by being heid and confined in jail” and maintains his innocence of the charge. — 'CANADIAN LIQUOR RUNNING STOPPED Smugglers Thought Preparing to Evade New Law Forbidding Ex- port to United ® By the Associated Press. BUFFALO, N. Y., May 31.—Liquor- running activities across the interna- tional border in this vicinity have been at a standstill for several days, it was disclosed today, in anticipation of the | new Canadian law prohibiting the ex- | portation of liquor to the United States becoming efTective. Local Federal officials said they ex- pected smuggling operations would stop entirely for a few days, while the smug- glers aligned their forces to meet the changed situation. One effect of the new Canadian law was expected by officlals to be a sharp | reduction in the size of the boats used |in the liquor-smuggling trade. Smaller craft, too small to require clearance papers, will be used. Frank T. Pattison, collector of the | Port of Bridgeburg, Ontario, said that no liquor cargoes had been taken on there for the past few days. ? For Graduation z % ' Perfect % DIAMONDS Also complete line of stand- b 8rd and all-American made ‘o < o8, watches. Shop at the friendly store— you're always greeted with a smile—with no obligation to Accounts Invited buy. Char, M. finrulmuu Co. 742 Ninth St. N.W. PELOPS-SPPOPe P e INVERTED FALLIN LEA PERFORNED Lieut. Gardner, Native of D. C., and Williams Only Ones to Execute Stunt. Lieut. Matthias B. Gardner, opera- tions officer at the Anacostia Naval Air Station, took his place as one of the country’s great acrobatic pilots yester- day afternoon following the Curtiss | Marine Trophy races. In an_exhibition of individual acro- batics which he climaxed with a feat which only one other man in the world has ever performed, Lieut. Gardner. who now ranks as the Navy's foremost acrobatic performer, brought to a-sen- sational close the ' National Capital's greatest aeronautical program. His greatest contribution to the aft- ernoon’s program of remarkable avia- tion events was an inverted “falling leaf.” the feat performed by Lieut. Al- | ford J. Williams early in May as his swan song to naval aviation before his retirement to take up as & civilian the | developing of racing planes. | The inverted falling leaf is described | by Lieut. Williams as the last aeria maneuver possible with the present- | day airplane. It was the last stumbling | block in the way of complete mastery | of the air—the last remaining position in which an airplane could be placed in flight. Gardner and Williams Alone. Lieut. Gardner is the only pilot in the world other than Willlams who so far has mastered this maneuver. Other pilots who have unwittingly started the maneuver in every case have crashed or escaped only by joining the Cater- | pillar Club, it is said. ! The inverted falling leaf is a maneu- ver attended by the greatest hazard to the unwary pilot, since each down- ward, sideways swoop of the plane, up- side-down as it is, is the beginning of the deadly inverted spin. recovery from which is exceedingly difficult. The in- verted falling leaf is performed by per- mitting the plane to appreach the in- verted spin first from one side then the other, €hecking it just at the crucial moment. In this maneuver Lieut. Gardner, flying with his head hanging toward the ground and the wheels of his little single-seater fighter pointing to the sky, zig-zagged toward the earth in a series of Tocking sideslips, oscillating from side to side. Performs OQutside Loops. Lieut. Gardner also performed sev- eral outside loops, which two years ago were the latest aeronautical sensation, then just having been mastered by Lieut. James H. Doolittle and Lieut. Willlams. He also circled the Ana- costia station with his plane upside- down, banking on the turns as pilots normally do when right-side up. Although he always has been known in the naval service as an exceedingly good pilot, Lieut. Gardner until yes- terday had not been publicly featured by the Navy as a star acrobatic pilot and has not occupied the limelight. Born in the District of Columbia on November 28, 1897, Lieut. Gardner en- tered the naval service from Pennsyl- vania on July 6, 1915. He is one of the few men who has graduated from both the Army and Navy advanced flying schools. ©ne of the reasons for the public lack of knowledge of Lieut. Gardner's ability is his long service at sea. He has had seven and one-half years of sea duty and formerly was with VF- 5B Fighting Plane Squadron, aircraft squadrons, Battle Fleet and aboard the U. S. 8. Lexington. Lieut. Gardner was operations officer of this squad- ron when it won the “gunnery money" in 1928. He has been stationed at Anacostia as operations officer since last Summer. McKENNEY CRASH FATAL Hasbrouck Heights Airman Fails to Recover From Injuries. TETERBORO AIRPORT, HAS-| BROUCK HEIGHTS, May 31 (®.—| Capt. 1Ives McKenney, Hasbrouck Heights, dled tonight of injuries re- celved today when his plane, turned over by a gust of wind during a race, crashed from a height of 50 feet. He was participating in a closing event of & two-day carnival for the benefit of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, He was unmarried and had been an in- structor in the Army Air Service. CURTIS TO SPEAK Vice President Will Assist in Mar- | shall College Graduation. | Vice President Curtis will address the graduating class of Marshall College, | at Huntington, W. Va., tomorrow eve- | ning. He plans to leave the Capital today | and will return immediately after speaking. American iator Product this 10 year Guaranteed . . HOT WATER Heating Plant Low 325 No Monthly Payments Till Oct. 1st Imme- d AS [4 Heating Co. Neating and Plumbing Contracters 901 10th St. Na. 3067 FIFTH PERSON DIES IN ACCIDENT SERIES IN LAST 24 HOURS (Continued Prom First Page) ton when their car overturned. Mrs. | Eck was taken to Casualty Hospital by Howard Smith, 1000 block of New Hampshire avenue, and her husband | was taken to that hospital by Wilson Grimes of the 100 block of D street, | both of whom were passing the scene in | automobiles. Mr. Eck was not expected | to live. State Policeman C. W. Cub- bage investigated the accident. Young Mullin was killed and his passenger, Charles Ellis, 601 Ritten- house street, was seriously injured when their car went off a curve on the road | to Chesapeake Beach, near Owings Sta- | tion, early yesterday morning. He had been_visiiing at his mother’s cottage at the Beach. | Three persons were seriously injured | in automobile accidents in the south- | east section of the District yesterday | afternoon and were taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment. Edward C. Davis, 20, of 1111 Potomaz avenue southeast, and Alexander Dick- | erson, 20, of 1123 Potomac avenue | southeast_were badly injured in a col- | lision at Fifteenth and V streets south- | east when a machine driven by Davis crashed into & car operated by Charles A. Little, jr., 16 years old, of 1808 W street southeast. Both men were taken to the hospital in the machine of W. E. Bailey of 68 W street and were treated by Dr. Louis Jimal, Davis for possible skull fracture, possible internal injuries and shock, and Dickerson for lacerations of the head and a possible fractured skull. Little | was uninjured. Police of No. 11 precinct investigating the mishap placed a charge of reck- less driving against Davis. In Serious Condition. Julia E. Hartin, 46 years old, of 321 | L street northeast, was reported in a| serious condition at Casualty Hospital | with concussion of the brain, possible skull fracture and shock which she re- celved when a car in which she was riding collided with another machine at Fourteenth and E streets south- east. ‘The driver of the car in which she was riding, Ellen Harris of 2625 Seve: teenth street northeast, and the ope! tor of the second machine, Margaret M. Nolan of 1431 East Capitol street, both escaped injury. Crossing near Eleventh and Lamont treets last night, Pauline Hutchison, 10 years old, 1208 Lamont street, stey ped into the path of an automobile driven by John P. Currie, 632 Keefer place, & Central High School student, and was injured. Dr. E. K. Smith of Garfleld Hospital, who treated the girl, found she suf- fered from a fracture of the knee and bruises about the body. Currie was held at the thirteenth pre- cinct for several hours and released | after being charged with driving with bad brakes. Rites to Be Held Tuesday. Funeral services for Mr. Muilin will be held at his late residence, 173¢ Web- ster street, Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. Rites will be administered at Nativity Church of Brightwood, and terment will be in Mount Olivet Ceme- tery. g er than his brother, Mullin is sur- vived by his mother, Mrs. Mary A Mullin, with whom he made his home; another brother, Bernard J. Mullin, of Savannah, Ga., and a sister, Mrs. Jo- seph Maher of Washington. His father George B. Mullin, who died several years ago, was the founder of the George B. Mullin Construction Co. Funeral services for James T. Flani- gan, 26, will be held at his late resi- dence, 626 Twenty-third street, Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock. He is survived by his_mother, Mrs, Bridget A. Flanigan with whom he_ resided. Reguiem mass will be said at St. Stephen’s Catholic Church. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. BAKING COMPANY TO OPEN NEW PLA Construction Began Year Ago to ccommodate Federal Program. The General Baking Co. will begin use of its new $700,000 plant at 2146 Georgia avenue tomorrow. D. J. Gibson, manager, announced last night. The new bullding has been under construc- tion for almost & year, having been begun when it was known that the former bakery site at 119 First street southwest would be taken over by the Federal Government. The building, constructed of white | every detail and has a capacity of 7.000 loaver per hour. It was designed by of New York City ‘With the beginning of operations in the Georgia avenue plant, the baking company announces that it will begin prod sizes. ELEANOR BOLLING TOWS BARK TO PORT |Byrd Hopes to Set Sail From Panama for New York on Tuesday. By the Associated Press. PANAMA, May 31.—The steamship Eleanor Bolliing of Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Antarctic expedition towed the bark City of New York into | port at Balboa tonight, completing a journey that began at the Antarctic ice packs. The bark left Dunedin, New Zealand, on March 23. The Eleanor Bolling had already made port, but last week was obliged to sail hundreds of miles out into the Pacific to take the becalmed bark in tow again, Both ships will go through the Pan- ama Canal tomorrow and be overhauled in Cristobal Harbor. Early Tuesday morning, with Admiral Byrd and all hands on board, they will sail for New York, marking the final return of the expedition to civilization, ‘The City of New York sailed into the waters of the Canal Zone with a de- cided list to port, being emptied of her coal supply and having lost her stores in a terrific hurricane encountered be- fore reaching Tahiti. Even the bul. warks of the supply ship had been washed away. pressed brick, is modernly equipped in | C. B. Comstock. architect and engineer | luction of a standard loaf in two * A5 e vr POLCEPAYBILLO.K TOMORRDN 5 SEE lHouse Leaders Promise Pas- | sage of Increase Measure | During Day. House leaders have promised that the police and firemen's pay increase bill will be passed tomorrow. House Leader Tilson has explained that Speaker Longworth has agreed to recognize Acting Chairman McLeod of the House District committee to call up the measure under suspension of rules about 4 o'clock. Mr. McLeod and other members of the legislative committee on District affairs have negotiated a compromise with Chairman Simmons of the sub- committee on District appropriations in conferences which House Leader Tilson arranged. All parties have agreed that the pay increase bill will be passed without opposition. Chairman Simmons has conceded a modification of the so- van or Phipps amendment regarding a step- up system of paying the increase pro- vided for the privates of the Police and Pire Departments, so that veterans in the service will get the entire increase next month. The compromise also includes the Simmons proposal for paying an addi- tional bonus or premium of $5 a month to the 10 per cent most efficient men in both departments. On all other amend- | ments the House committee members yielded, including the increase from 2% to 3'; per cent deductions for the re- tirement fund. The legislation has the strong sup- port of the three business niza- tions—Board of Trade, Chamber of Commerce and Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association—the Federation ot Citizens’ Associations and the Cit- izens’ Advisory Council and many other civic organizations. FARMERS GE} ELEVATORS Co-operative Organization to Have Exclusive Use of Duluth Structures. CHICAGO, May 31 (#).—Officials of the Farmers' National Grain Corpora=- tion, Government - sponsored co-opers ative, announce’ today that they had completed negotiations for the exclusive use of two elevators belonging to the ;:;z:wltdnud Elevator Co. at Duluth, CAMP MEIGS—B8th & Fla. Ave. BRIGHTWOOD—5925 Ga. Ave. N.W. - Tremendous Reductions Are Our Way of Saying Good-bye to Every Spring Suit in the House The Fashion Shop believes in ACTION! When the time comes to clear stocks of Spring Suits — prices are marked to such a low level that they won't linger long. 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