Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1930, Page 17

\ * dered if the study of the first week's SCHOOL OFFICIALS AGT TO RELIEVE CONGESTED ROOMS 73,150 Pupils Enrolled on Second Day of Term, Set- | ting New Record. | | | i { | i CRANE EXPLAINS DELAY IN NEEDED FOUNTAINS Were Ordered Last Winter, but| Repair Shops Were Unable to Rush Installation. ‘With the official count already show- ng more than 73,150 pupils enrolled in the public schools yesterday, the sec- end day of the year, school officials to- | day set in motion remedial measures for the relief of the few seriously congested buildings. At the end of the day yesterday telephoned reports from the schools to the office of George D. Strayer, statisti- cian, gave a total enrollment of 73,147.! The receipt of formal reports this morn- ing, however, indicated at noon today that the total number of students in all District schools yesterday may have exceeded even that record enroliment by 200. - Fountains Ordered January 1. ‘Meanwhile, Jere J. Crane, first as- sistant superintendent in charge of bu- siness affairs, replied to_the charges of the Prancis Scott Key Parent- Teacher Association that the School Board had done nothing to provide that school with additional drinking fountain facilities. The association complained late yesterday that with one fountain for an enrollment of 236 children, many mflmd girls yesterday had to forego their needed recess recreation or # drink of water since the recess period was not long enough to permit that number of children to reach the foun- tain. ‘Mr. Crane displayed official record of his order for the installation of two additional fountains dated January 1, 1930. The order as recorded in his files, bore the i ia, “emergency.” When called upon for an explanation today the District Repair Shop ex- plained the delay by claiming the abundance of work placed upon it not only by school repairs but by the re- habilitation of the District Building made it_impossible to install the foun- tains. The work will be rushed imme- diately, however, it was promised. Additional Teacher Assigned. Robert L. Haycock, assistant super- intendent in charge of elementary schools anncunced today that he has assigned another teacher to the Key School to permit the division of a class of 60-odd children into two groups. ‘Thus, two part-time classes are being tablished. st At the same time, Mr. Haycock made #t known that the enrollment and at- tendance in the Kkin of the eity are being watched very closely. He will hold a conference with his field officers and with the director of play- % l::h the end o(‘,t mhxt uv'l‘e:k. h' sald, for the purpose us g the trend in these classes. No kinder- will be closed until October 14, t, if on that date, a class fails to show an average daily attendance of 25, it will be closea. The conference at the end of the ‘week may possibly determine upon transfer of more kindergarten teachers to the elementary grades, Haycock ex- ed. Such transfers would be or- enrollment gave reasonable assurance any of the remaining two-teacher kindergartens did not warrant an extra instructor. Mr. Strayer pointed out that a study the enrollments today showed the 3 Teachers' College to have five students this r, compared with ‘RUDOLPH EXPLAINS ' RESIGNATION OF POST Dioentennial Chairmanship Re- | quires Time He Is Forced to Be {f. Out of City, He Says. i t absence from the city was m‘ Cuno H. Rudolph yesterday as reason for resigning as chairman of the District of Columbia Commission on the George Washington bicentennial selebration. Mr. Rudolph wrote the District Com- missioners that the work of the com- mission had become so heavy it was necessary for the chairman to be in direct contact with affairs of the body at all times. He lddeg he "/‘!u unable to carry out such requirements. The Commissioners announced Dr. Cloyd H. Marvin, president of George University, would direct of the commission as vice ‘Washington the activities chairman. MOTORIZED POLICE ; DEBATE CLUB TOPIC Funior Citizens’ Alliance Event At- k tended by Oapt. Davis and ? Mrs. A. J. Driscoll. ‘The motorization of police patrols in the District was the subject of a debate last night of the Debating Club of the Junior Citizens’ Allignce in the offices of the Washington Board of Trade. Miss Clara B. Vaughan, upholding the affirmative, contended that motor- ization of police patrols would effect a large financial economy. Luther B. Keen, speaking for the negative, pointed out that motor police would be unable The_debate -was sttended by Capt. ©,,T- Davis of the second precinci, and Mrs. A. J. Driscoll, president of the Mid-City Citizens’ Association. Yale Bowl Center of Interest. NEW HAVEN, Conn., September 24 (P)—Maybe there will be some nifty stuff in the way of placements or serv- ice aces or something when Yale and Harvard play foot ball in the Yale bowl in November. Sandy Wiener, Tilden's ' Euu. is out for quarterback at Yale. i ‘Wood, also a tennis star, is Har general. \’ll’l:’l fleld CAVALRY PAGEANT e na” and “Turkey in the Straw,” played OPENS TOMORROW Military Life From Days of Oregon Trail to Present Will Be Shown. Military life, from the days when its men rode the plains in rescuing Indian- | besleged wagon trains to the present, when its tank gunners may be called | upon to battle with attacking aircraft, | will be depicted with reality in the Military Expesition and Carnival which opens at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Washing- | ton Barracks. . Continuing tomorrow night and Fri- day and Saturday, the exposition is for the benefit of the widows and | orphans of military men who have lost their lives in service, and every effort is being made to present as lifelike a picture as the available conditions will permit. The feature of this year’s program, an innovation in “Army relief parties,” is the pageant “Perils of the Plains,” written and directed by Maj. R. B. Lawrence, in which a living chapter from America’s pioneer history will be enacted on the parade ground of the barracks each afternoon and evening. From the moment that the covered wagons, drawn by oxen and mules, wind across the parade, to the time when a troop of dashing Cavalrymen rescue the despairing ploneers from attacking Indians, those witnessing final re- hearsals say, there is not a dragging moment in the entire spectacle. The smallest detail has been observed to lend conviction and realism to this story of America’s ploneers. Stage Virginia Reel. From out the canvas covers of the wagons will be seen women, girls and | children, costumed ilal the lgplrll of | 80 years ago. Furniture, such as was carried over the Oregon Trail in the 50s, will be observed hanging from the rear end of wagons. Cattle, chickens and goats have been lmcludxed in u:; wagon train, supposedly on its way Ol"e‘l:nA One of the high lights of the pageant is that in which the train rests, and to the strains of “Oh, Suzan- by several members of the train on a harmonica, guitar, banjo and two or| three fiddles, the girls and young men | dance a Virginia reel. Riding_ability is shown by both at- tacking Indians and rescuing cavalry- men, played by enlisted personnel of the 3d United States Cavalry. The calico long-skirted frocks of the women. the gay shirts and broad-brimmed sombreros of the men, all will lend color to the tacle. Uniforms worn by the cavalrymen have been accurately tterned after those worn prior to 1850 E; men of the 3d Cavalry, then known as the 3d Mounted Rifies. A love theme runs throughout the story of “Perils of the Plains.” phones have been installed in practically | each of the wagons, in which the char- acters speak their parts so that specta- tors may hear the lines through loud speakers above the grandstand seats. Members of Cast. ‘Those taking leading parts in the pageant are Maurice Jarvis, as Bill Brandon, leader of the train; Maude Howell Smith, Mrs. Brandon; Jo V. Morgan, as Jim Bridger; Ma)j. Lawrence, John Simpson; Katherine Tennant Marshall, Mrs. Simpson; Virgine Alene Lawrence, Ellen Harris; Mrs. W. H. Peters, Mrs. Harris; Lieut. J. P. Hanne- an, Don Marshall; Lieut. W. A. Hol- k, chief of the Sioux; Sergt. Las- siter, Tom Brooks, a scout; Corpl. Gan- non, Hank Rogers, a scout. Women and girls of the train are played by society women and debu- tantes, Indians and cavalrymen are played by 3d Cavalry personnel. Ox drivers are citizens of St. Marys Coun- ty, Md. One of the most picturesque features of the entire pageant is the group of 24 oxen brought for the occa- sion from St. Marys County. The oxen were brought to Washington last Sat- urday in Army trucks. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IN LA PLATA WL ONMURDER CHARGE Separated From Children Soon After Verdict of Coroner’s Jury. Upper: An attack by Indians on a wagon train that will be one of the fea- tures of the Army Relief Carnival starting at Washington Barracks tomorrow afternoon. Lower: Some of the participants in from Southern Maryland to play their part. Beverly Marshall. the pageant, with the oxen, brought up The girls are Betty Drown and —Star Staff Photos. REVALUATION FUND 1S ORDERED POSTED Traction Companies Instruct- | ed to Put Up $5,000 Each to Defray Expenses. First definite steps toward a reval uation of the properties of the Wash- ington Railway & Electric and Capital Traction Cos, were taken today by the Public Utilities Commission when 1t or- | dered the companies to put up $5,000 each toward the cost of the investiga- | tion. The revaluation was directed by the | commission July 31 on a petition of | Richmond B. Keech, people’s counsel, | as a sequel to the action of the District Supreme Court in increasing street car fares. Some preliminary work on the revaluation already has been done by | the commission’s accounting staff, but | the $5000 assessment against each of the car companies indicates that the | EXPLOSION SPOILS Under the act of Congress creating | the commission, public utility corpora- | tions are required to pay the expenses work now is to be undertaken vigor- ously. of any investigation, valuation or re- valuation. The order, which directs the companies to deposit $5,000 each in the Federal Treasury as the initial payment toward the expenses of the revaluation, is based on this act. The commission’s order also directs that the $5,000 be deposited by each company not later than October 1. EWGINEERS’ LEADER Hurt by Blast CHARLES GUIFFRE. BOY'S MUSIC HOPES Injuries Cause Indefinite Postponement of Lessons for Charles Guiffre. PRAISES PRESIDENT | e vioiin sessons to which Chartes @. W. Laughlin, on Visit to G. 0. P. Offices, Says Brotherhood Backs Hoover, Support of President Hoover and his administration was voiced by G. W. Laughlin, assistant grand chief engineer and national legisiative representative of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi- neers, following a visit to Republican National Committee headquarters, ac- cording to a statement from headquar- ters today. “The Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers is very favorable to President Hoover and the legislative and adminis- trative record of his administration,” he said. “We have given him all possible support in the past and wjll continue to A duel fought between an Army |do so. We are supporting Mr. Hoover's airplane, piloted by one of the Air Corps aces, and an Army tank will demon- strate methods employed by ground forces in combatting an attack from the air as another feature of the show. A pigeon race will be one of the at- tractions offered by the Signal Corps. Famous homing pigeons, several of which have won laurels in the World ‘War, will be released from their cages in the Signal Corps exhibition tent. Playground Laid Out. Under the supervision of Mrs. G. 8. Gibbs, wife of the chief signal officer, U. 8. A, a large playground has been laid out, inclosing a merry-go-round, a ferris wheel, from which may be ob- tained an excellent view of the exposi- tion grounds; an archery booth, and a modern and picturesque minature golf course for the children’s entertainment. A floor been erected over one of the tennis courts for dancing and a chicken dinner will be served in two large tents, to those wishing to dine on the carnival grounds. SCOUT CHIEFS MEET —_— District Will Be Represented at Atlantic City Session. Many District of Columbia Scout leaders will attend the meet- ing of the Boy Scouts of America, to be held in Atlantic Ol'ay, Friday and Saturday, October 3 and 4° ‘The meeting includes leaders from Pel lvania, Delaware, Maryland, WfiL and the District, who will in the Hotel Chel to discuss Secretary of Labor, James J. Davis, for the United States Senate from Pennsyl- vania, and we are proud to say that labor was responsible for the defeat of Senator Blease of South Carolina in the recent primaries. Former Representative Byrne of that State, who will be elected in his place, is, of course, a Democrat; but he is big enough not to oppose the President of the United States solely on political lines. “Labor is essentially non-partisian, but I am glad to say the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers looks upon a very large majority of the Republicans now in the Senate and House favorably and will suport them for re-election.” ——e THREE NOTED ARTISTS COMING FROM EUROPE ‘Three distinguished European artists, who are members of the jury of award for the twenty-ninth Carnegle Institute International, will arrive in Washington tomorrow night for visiting the Corcoran and the Phillips Memorial Galleries. The European journeymen are Henri Matisse of Parls, the acknowledged leader of advanced art in France; Gl Philpot of London, a member of the Royal Academy and Carnegie prize win- ner, and Karl Sterrer of Vienna, who is the first Austrian to secve on the jury. He is making his first trip to the United States. They will be accompanied by Homer Saint-Gaudens, director of fine arts of the Carnegie Institute. In company with American mem- bers of the jury of award, the group will organization program problems the ensuing year. for be entertained at luncneon by Secretary Mellon during the visit. Guiffre looked forward with an enthu- siasm unusual in a 14-year-old boy will have to be postponed indefinitely. Charles had planned to begin the course Saturday. But all that was changed by an accident which befell him yesterday afternoon while walking through a wood lot not far from his l';dnme, 5 Houston avenue, Takoma Park, d. Charles told his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Meanda Guiffre, that he had kept on along a pathway because he did not understand when some older boys yelled at him to stay back. X A dynamite cap exploded almost un- der Charles’ feet, set off by an ignited fuse. Flying particles lacerated his face, chest, body, legs and hands. ‘The explosion threw Charles down and stunned him, but when his head cleared he picked himself up and start- ed home. In front of 900 Florida ave- nue he fainted. A nurse, Miss June ‘Thomas, resides there. She administered first ald until his parents arrived. Charles then was removed to Wash- ington Sanitarium, treated and sent home. His injuries were not considered serious. Yet they were serlous enough, Charles learned, to defer his violin lessons for & long time, POLICEMAN IS VICTIM OF ORDER FOR CHANGE Telephone Operator, Working in Off Hours Loses $10 on Mak- ing Delivery. George M. Will, a telephone opreator at police headquarters, was a victim of the “change trick” yesterday. ‘While employed at a drug store in the 1800 block Monroe street, where he occasionally works during “off hours” at headquarters, he received a telephone order for ice cream and change for $10 to be delivered at a nearby home yester- day afternoon and set out with the order himself in the absence of a de- livery boy. ~Arriving at the house in question, he turned the ice cream and change over to a neatly dressed young stranger who said that he would “go in the rear entrance and get the $10.” Needless to say, he did not return. A man answering the same descrip- tion as the one who executed the first job worked a similar trick on a drug store at Eighteenth street and Florida avenue a couple of hours later, ordering medicine and change for $10 delivered to an apartment hofise in the 1800 block of Vernon street. 24, 1930. * PAGE B-—1 IRS. GANBLE HELD BAIL WILL BE SOUGHT FOR MOTHER OF TEN Husband Takes Care of Home, but Refuses to Aid Wife, Who Shot Rival. BY ARMSTEAD W. GILLIAM. LA PLATA, Md, September 24—A coroner’s jury last night gave Deputy Sheriff Robert V. Cooksey the painful task of separating Mrs. Lulu May Gam- ble, mother of 10, from her 4 small children and locking her up in the jail here, formally charged with the mur- der of Mrs. Elsie Owens Davis, 22, whom Mrs. Gamble shot when she found her in an automobile last Friday morning with Mr. Gamble. While in the jail Mrs, Gamble will be “treated with all the respect due a lady,” and her fare will be better than the “hot dogs” which form the basis of most meals served the “ordi- nary” visitors to the La Plata lockup, Jailer John FP. Dorsey, colored, de- clared last night. As his wife went to jail, Joe Gamble, the thrifty owner of several farms and | 300 hives of bees, announced that he would not pay oneé cent for the defense of the mother of his children. Goes Back to Home. “I'll guarantee, though,” he said, “to take care of the children as well as she ever did.” Joe Gamble, who had steadfastly re- mained away from home since the shooting, went back to his little house across the railroad tracks, with its or- derly row of bee hives about it, but didn't get a very cordial reception. It was Chester, 10, who greeted his father’s return home with: “I wish you were in jail instead of i As soon as news of the death of Mrs. Davis, in Providence Hospital, Wash- ington, yesterday morning, was re- ceived at La Plata, the populace of the little county seat of Charles County. gathered in town to see what would be done with Mrs. Gamble. Hour after | hour they waited for the body of Mrs. Davis to be brought to town for the inquest ordered by State's Attorney Edward J. Edelen. Jury Quickly Selected. ‘The body of the slain woman was brought to town about 5 o'clock yes- terday afternoon and a coroner's jury quickly was chosen, with F. W. Posey as chairman. Dr. James Nolan, who first attended Mrs. Davis, was called in to identify the body and then the jury heard the story of Joe Gamble. Mrs. Gamble did not attend the inquest. She was at liberty on bond of $500 on a charge of assaulting Mrs. Davis, and when rearrested a short time after the inquest was going about her household duties as usual. Joe Gamble repeated the story La Plata knows by heart now, how last ‘Thursday night he took Mrs. Davis in his automobile, starting out between 8 and 9 o'clock, to search for his step- son, Raymond Grim, for whom Mrs. Davis had been keeping house. They didn't find Grim, he said, and returned home after midnight, nobody seems to be sure as to the exact time. As he drove up in the front yard of the home the Davis woman occupied, a scant. 200 yards from the Gamble home, Mrs. Gamble met them, a pistol in her hand. As he opened the door, Gamble said, Mrs. Gamble thrust the pistol into the car and fired it, the bul- let entering Mrs. Davis’ forehead, Verdict Is Returned. ‘The jury examined the body and then rendered a_verdict, without discussion, that Mrs. Davis came to her death as the result of & pistol bullet fired by Mrs. Gamble. The inquest was held before Magi- strate George H. Gray in the stuffy little smoke-filled county commissioners’ room in the court house. Scores of children, not allowed in the inquest, crowded about the windows of the room and about the court house hallways. A few minutes after the inquest was disposed of, Magistrate Gray announced he was ready to proceed with a pre- liminary hearing on the murder charge | against Mrs. Gamble. Mrs. Gamble was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Cooksey and brought to the court house. The deputy sheriff re- ported that little Bessie Gamble, years old, offered considerable objec- tion to her mother's being taken away from the Gamble home, but composed herself when her mother told her she would be back soon. Mrs. Gamble Arraigned. Brought into the court house, Mrs. Gamble was arraigned on the murder charge, and, through her attorneys, John F. Mudd and State Senator Wal- ter J. Mitchell, waived a hearing and was ordered committed to jail without bail until the grand jury meets next, on the third Monday in November, to consider an indictment against her. Attorneys Mitchell and Mudd im- mediately after the hearing went to the home of Circuit Judge W. Mitchell Diggs to confer on habeas corpus pro- ceedings to have Mrs. Gamble admitted to bail and returned to her home, where, they contend, her children need her. After a short conference with Judge Diggs, who is confined to his home by illness, the attorneys returned to the court house and told Deputy Sheriff Cooksey to place Mrs. Gamble in the little jail, back of the court house, for the night. Mr. Mudd announced that he and Senator Mitchell want the opportunity to go further into the case before they instituted habeas corpus proceedings. Confer With Husband. Then the attorneys conferred with Joe Gamble, and received nsaurnnce' from the father that he would take care of the children; that he would try to smootk over the hostility that has arisen in his own family against him as a re- sult of the shooting, and woyld see that the children were clothed and sent to_school. e Gamble then went home, where his elderly mother has now become the feminine head of the household. All yesterday morning Jailer Dorsey, colored, prepared the top floor of the little La Plata jail for Mrs. Gamble, Many slot machines seized in a recent rusade and an 8-by-4 cell in the second floor of the jail was made ready for Mrs, Gamble. Last night when Mrs. Gamble en- tered the jail, she was accompanied by her two sons, Chester and Billy. Billy kep. a stiff upper lip, and helped the Jailer make his mother comfortable, but Chester found the ordeal too much ' and broke down. The two boys went out a short time later and got their mother some supper from a nearby restaurant, and then went home to study their les- - Robert E. Marcey, mourned by his family as dead after they W body of an accident victim as his, and had buried the his sister, Mrs. 0. C. alker. —Star Staff Photo. OPENING OF . W, (S POSTPONED DAY Large Enroliment at Univer- sity Necessitates Delay in Classes. ‘The scheduled opening of George Washington University was postponed from today until tomorrow, so that registrations, which have been unusually heavy, may continue for another day, university officials said. When the registration period was closed last night 400 more students had been enlisted than were entered by the university during the corres sponding™ period last year. Still other students were awaiting enrollment, and in order to accommodate these the university delayed its opening. Assemblies Scheduled. Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of the university, will welcome the first- year students at opening assemblies Friday at noon and 5 pm. in Cor- coran Hall. Dr. William Allen Wilbur, provost, also will address the newcom- ers. Others who will welcome the fresh- men include Henry Grattan Doyle, dean of the Junior College; James E. Pixlee, director of men’s athletics; Ruth At- well, director of women’s athletics, and Mrs. Vinnle G. Barrows, director of women's personal guidance. Law Students to Meet. An assembly for students of the Law School will be held this afternoon at § o'clock in ‘Stockton Hall, the Law School Building. Judge John W. Cox of the District Supreme Court, a mem= ber.of the Law School faculty, and Chief Justice Alfred Adams Wheat, a gradu- ate of the Law School and president of the Columblan-George Washington Law School Association, will be the speakers. | They will be introduced by Charles sngerlCollier, acting dean of the Law he chool. Students of the Medical School will meet’ with the assistant deans of the school, Dr. Oscar B. Hunter, Dr. Walter A. Bloedorn and Dr. Joseph H. Roe, this afternoon, and will assemble again on Friday when they will be addressed by Dr. Marvin. ‘The George Washington University Y. W. C. A, will hold a tea for fresh- men women in the garden of the Home Economics Building this afternoon, from 3 until 6 o'clock. Upper class women will attend the tea with their “little sisters” of the freshmen class. A dance for all students of the university will be given under the auspices of the Student Council of the university Priday night in Corcoran Hall. WILL ANSWER CHARGE Accused in Baltimore by his mother- in-law wibh failure to contribute $6 a week to the support of his minor child, Robert James Ballantine, 32 years old, giving his address as 4136 Thirteenth street, was arrested early this morning by Detectives James Springman and John T. Dalglish. Ballantine, according to the police, is residing in this city with his wife, the mother-in-law in Baltimore caring for the child. He is said to have been ordered to contribute $6 a week for the child’s support and is alleged to have failed to comply with the court order. He_expressed a willingness to return to Baltimore without demanding a hear- ing. News Translator For U. S. Has Grasp Of 28 Languages With a reading or speaking knowledge of 28 languages, mod- ern and ancient, Wilfred Stevens of Minnesota has just been named principal translator, De- partment of State, it was an- nounced today. Mr. Stevens takes the post of John S. Martin, jr., recently retired on account of age. Mr, Stevens speaks or reads practically all of the modern languages and many of the his- toric languages. He was born in Shakopee, Minn., May 16, 1874, and received his early education in that city. He came to Washington in "894 and was appointed a proofreader in_ the Government Printing Office. Three years later he was transferred to the War Depart- ment and served as librarian and translator in the office of the adjutant general. He was there for seven years before he was transferred to the State Depart- ment as translator. He worked in the State Department 20 years, leaving in June, 1924, to engage in study and private pursuits. Since then he has lived at Landover, Md. When Mr. Martin retired, he was prevailed upon to return to State Department as chief trhnslator. MOTH INVASION SWEEPING CITY Cotton Leaf Pests Seen in Washington on Migration * North, ‘Washington is being invaded today by |a vast army of’ yellow cotton leat worms, in the moth state, which ar- {rived here on a northward flight last night. Store windows along Pennsyl- vania avenue and F street and electric light posts were cluttered with them today. Gracefully shaped, in the moth state, the little pests resemble any ordinary moth, except their wings are trimmer. Too Late for Harm. ‘The cotton leaf worm is well known to_entomologists of the Department of Agriculture, who are familiar with its many habits and give assurance that the vast army of moths in the National Capital arrived too late this year to do_any harm. ‘The moths, it was explained by J. A. Hyslop, senior entomols it of the Bu- reau of Entomology, partment of Agriculture, today, stay south of the United States during the Winter and promptly disappear with the first frost in_the Fall. Early in the Spring the moth flies over the border line into the Southern States and breeds. The first brood, while in the caterpillar state, eats cot- ton leaves and does considerable harm to the cotton crop when it arrives early enough. Likewise, the caterpillar grows into the moth state, does ‘harm in the latter state to fruit when it arrives in the fruit sections early enough. Fruit Is Undamaged. ‘This year, however, the moths were | too late in their arrival to do damage to the fruit, Mr. Hyslop sald. Many years the moth does not get as far North as the National Capital, but it is noth- ing unusual for it to do so, he said. This year, Mr. Hyslop declared today, the moth probably will get as far North as New York and possibly Maine or Canada. This, he said, also is not un- usual. During the visit to this country there are about four broods in all. The moth, however, never gets back South, but is killed by frost. POLICE TO UNDERGO PHYSICAL SURVEY Annual Medical Check-up to Be- gin Tomorrow With 139 Present. The annual medical survey of the Metropolitan Police Department will open tomorrow at No. 3 Truck Company, Ohio avenue and Fourteenth street, with 139 policemen scheduled to appear be- fore the board, which will be in session for three days for the purpose of exam- ining all members of the?:rcs 55 years of age and over. Capt. L. I. H. Edwards, nnel officer of the Police Department, said, in announcing the survey, that the medical examination is an annual check-up on men approaching retire- me:'; L ong those who are to appear are Inspector William S. Shelby, chief of detectives; Inspector Thaddeus R. Bean, Detective Sergts. Harry Cole, H. K. Wil- son, Larry O'Dea, Charles Mullen, John Foley, R. A. Saunders, Frank Helan, ivlols':ph “lhld;orhlnd Howard Smith, the T colored; Lieut. Warren O, and Lieut. Walter Emerson, SR Capt. Edwards also announced that an examination for lieutenants eligible for promotion to the rank of captain Will be held next month. Among those Wwho will take the test are Lieuts, Ed- ward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad; Joseph Morgan, liaison officer; Walter Emerson, acting captain of de- tectives; F. M. Dent, Gustavius Lauten, J. W. Pierson, R. H. Lohman, J. W g(c‘?o{‘mlckl;, .‘V' g SB:lllvln. J. M. Walsh, . J. Marks, J. E. Bowers, McGil| and Michael Raedy. bas g ion SOLDIER INMATE STABBED Colored Man Found Wounded Near Cemetery Entrance of Home. Isaac Simmons, colored, 27 years inmate of Soldiers: Home, v Boord: on the road near the entrance to %n;eggk of :rhehl;ongz last night about suffering from mufl’;ehfh:v“-s g a stab wound elv] . Bryant, 4530 Ninth street, Who found_Simmons ook him e (g hospital. Surgeons reported his con- dition serious. Henry C. Lewis, colored, 56 years old, an orderly in the hospital, was arrested by police of the tenth precinct and held for investigation, Simmons denies he was the the | of the Army's though assallant, 2 WILL EXHUME BODY 10 FIX IDENTITY OF GRASH VICTIM Robert E. Marcey Returns Home to Hear of His Sup- posed Burial. FAMILY OF VETERAN CLAIMED “HIS” BODY Fingerprints to Be Used to Deter- mine if Dead Man Was Soldier. The War Department prepared to- day to exhume and if possible identify a body buried with military honors Fri- day in Arlington Cemetery under the mistaken impresion it was that of Rob- ert E. Marcey, & World War veteran of Lyonhurst, Va. The man buried was killed 10 days ago in an automobile accident at Upper Falls, Md. Marcey's sister, Mrs, O, C. Walker of Lyonhurst, and five of his brothers identified the dead man as Marcey and several hundred of the lat- 'r.fl"s f]lmfly and friends attended the uneral, Letter Was Received. Yesterday Marcey's mother, . Mrs. El- vin J. Marcey, received a letter from her son from Baltimore bearing a recent date mark. Mrs. Walker went to Balti- more and was almost overcome with surprise when her brother confronted her, smiling and in the best of health, Cemetery authorities planned to ex- hume the body either late today or tos morrow morning to get fingerprints, These will be compared with the classi- fled identification marks of ex-service me'?v in the War lze&n:;enc's files here. ery agency of the War Department and of the Veterans' Bureau which as- sisted with the funeral arrangements will be employed in an effort to learn who the dead man is. Should the in- vestigation develop that the stranger was a former service man, his body probably will be permanently consigned to the grave where it now rests. Mother Doubted Death, Only Marcey's mother had any doubt of the identification. She persisted in believing her son was still alive, despite « the fact that her children were unani- mous in the opinion the dead man was their brother. Marcey had left home several weeks ago to seek work as a plasterer in nearby Maryland. He did not know that his family believed him dead, and his surprise was only excelled by that gf ym. sister when the two met yester- ny. . Mrs. Walker looked at Marcey, drew her fingers over his face and sank into & chair at his rooming house, unable to speak for five minutes. “Tell me,” demanded Marcey, “is ;oe:.;;'}’lm the matter—is mother “No,” Mrs. Walker said when she wullq get her breath, “but we've buried youl” Features Very Similar, Authorities in the Maryland com- munity had tentatively identified the dead man as a Joseph H. Thomas of Winston Salem, N. C., and members of the latter’s family were planning to come to Upper Falis when they were notified the body had been claimed. Marcey, who is 32 years old, is about the ume‘:g as the dead man. They have a striking similarity of features and hair, Marcey's family said. The body had been mutilated in the accident a circumstance which con- tributed to the mistake. The unin- dentified man was picked up by a motorist who knew him only as “Bob,” on_the highway near Washington. The machine in which the stranger ;;‘ m. pmejm'nge'-r“ dovcn.urnod on the y outside Killing him almost instantly. O Clothes Were Unfamiliar, At the time he was a Iressed in a brown pin-stri; 1 e - hl)ée suit, low black shoes He had a number of papers on rson, one of which, Mrs. Walker said, was a pawn ticket for & suitcase left In Washington, While Mrs. Walker could not identity the clothes as her brother's, she sup- posed he had acquired another outfit :fl:n he set out to take the automobile Marcey and his family were an: lously awalting word today of the ldenil'.y of the dead man. The entire family, while g:ggg' l'nflgheedumxp:hckd reunion, ved over the mist 3 s i take and ex. o!v,uldsnet victim, if ‘ar ent officials said they anticipated no difficulty in establishing the man’s identity through his finger- lnpmy '.:mll!ehe had been in the service at CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT, ARMY SHOW FEATURE Work of Engineer Corps’ Special Exhibit Being Prepared by Plan- ning Commission Architect. Contribution of the Corps of - eers of the Army to the developmmt Washington will be shown in a special exhibit now being prepared by W. T. Partridge, consulting archjtect of the Natlonal Capital Park and Planning Commission, in conjunction with the military exposition and carnival to be held at Washington Barracks tomor- m:‘.o:flgly ;-nd Saturday. lels and maps will depict the work of the Army Engineers ln.tphh area and will be shown in a special tent. The exhibit will include the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, the Washi Monument, Potomac Park and er developments with which the Engineers of the service have been intimately as~ mc_rlfutedahph y will show glfle mmatll;lc&. ‘Commission, e whicl Maj. John C. Gotwals, Army Engineer; the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, of which Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, is vice an and executive officer, Army Engineer; the United office, which s D, AA:'O.hllll'. jr., Commission, of which X Douglas H. Gillette is assistant ex.eum’- tive officer, and he, t00, is a member Corps of Engineers. —— Echoes of Good, Old Summertime, NEW YORK, Sept: Summer has gone, gl but Summertime lin- gers. The Autumnal equinox has l:?- rived, but daylight saving will continue till Sunday when folks will have stand- ard time instead of watches and clocks an hour fast. The official time for ;the hands back an hopr &