Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1930, Page 13

[vwsmveron ] @he Sunday Star WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 12, 1930. * PAGE B—1 "GAG" RUI_E [}HARGE REPURI []U"_lNES DROUGHT SHRINKS GREAT FALLS OF POTOMAC TO THREE SMALL STREAMS P'_ANS []F GARDENS 0F A . 0F L IS HT BY DR C.F.CARIS President of School Board Denies Teachers Are Un- duly Restricted. -LABOR PROTEST BASED ON CONGRESS INCIDENT Group Testified Before Committee. Inquiry Was Ordered Through Superintendent. Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the District Board of Education, last night characterized as “an unnecessary gesture” Friday's action of the American Federation of Labor in condemning the so-called “gag rule” of the local board and urging congressional legislation de- manding its repeal. In respanse to queries, Dr. Carusi de- niea the existence of a gag rule in the Schoel Board's regulations, asserting that neither by the language of the cited rule nor the intent of the board is there any disposition to stifle the teachers. At the same time, the board president took occasion to repeat his determination not to permit any school officer in the system to “gag” any sub- ordinate member of the school per- sonnel. Defines His Position. “I will look with extreme disfavor, as, I am sure, will every other member on the present Board of Education, upon the efforts of any school official to en- force a ‘gag’ on our teachers,” Dr. Ca- Mmd"h"di "myrfl:mn but ve of an; o sort, it -nfi“’ not tolerate it for a moment. And, of course, the board itself would under no circumstances be gullty of such conduct.” ‘The rule which the American Fed- School Board regulations since before 1010. As it appears in the board rule of that year, as well as in the current regulations, the rule, under the head of “Conduct of Empleyes,” follows in full: “The Board of Education has confi- dence in the loyalty of its employes. ‘The board does not wish to discourage any suggestions from persons in the system looking to the improvement of the work of the public schools, but it will look with disfavor upon any effort on the part of its employes to affect legislation, unless the same has been first submitted to the board for its con- sideration and approval.” Rule 20 Years Old. Desslu the fact that this rule has been tional story she told of her abduction MISS NETTI CLIFT. —Star Staff Photo. BIRL CONFESSES FAKE ABDUCTION Say§ She Scratched Hands and Tore Stockings to Back Up Tale. A 16-year-old stenographer, typing her own confession, admitted at police | headquarters last night that the sensa- by three men in an automobile, who wraped her in a blanket and threw her in the rear of the machine, was a story of her own concoction. The girl, Miss Netti Clift, of 912 Vir- ginia avenue, told police after question- ing that she scratched her own hands with a nail file and tore her stockings | so that police would believe her story. Miss Clift, who first told her story to first precinet police, stated in her con- fession that she concocted her story to “make her boy friend like her all the more."” She readily admitted that the story of Katherine De , 18-year-old girl, who several days ago said she was kid- naped, taken to Baltimore and later re- turned because “she was not the right r'l‘r,l," inspired her to tell police the story. It was only after Detective Sergt. Dennis Murphy questioned here for nearly half an hour that she admitted her story was untrue. The girl sald, “I am very sorry I caused the police any she visited various force for more than 20 years, rht to to o ested Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, to ascertain whether they appeared at the request of members of Cohgress or whether they were 3 Members of the ) teachers’ union immediately were aroused, and through their objections other union members appealed to the congressional commit- tees for immediate legislation to “save the necks of scores of our teachers.” A bill calling for such legislation actu- ally was introduced, but never came up for action. Meanwhile, the School Board itself discussed the rule in open meetings and it was referred to for consideration. The ttee has Carusi asserted not reported. Dr. last mht that certainly the rule will not be made more drastic and it is en- tirely possible that it will remain un- changed. * LIONS CLUB TO HEAR INTERNATIONAL HEAD E. W. Hodges to Be Honor Guest and Main Speaker at Luncheon Wednesday. its rules committee commif Earl W. Hodges, newly installed pres- ident of Lions International will be guest of honor and principal speaker at a luncheon of the Washington Lions Club next Wednesday afternoon at 12:30 o'clock in the Mayflower Hotel. Since this will afford club members in this section their first opportunity to meet ‘the new international head of the Lions organization, Dr. G. E. Leadbetter, president of the local club, has invited members and officials of other nearby clubs to attend. Pres- idents of all other luncheon clubs in the city also have been invited as special guests. Among the out-of-town guests, in addition to President Hodges, will be Richard Simmons, of Prederick, Md., overnor of the 22nd district of Lions nternational, embracing the District of Columbia. Members of the Takoma Park and Silver Spring Lions Clubs will attend in a body. Robert L. McKeever, member of the ‘Washington club, who holds the inter- natfonal office of second vice president, will greet Mr. Hodges on behalf of the local group. Dr. Leadbetter will preside. Arrangements for the reception and entertainment of the international president are in charge of a special ladies’ room and put backward. Then I tore kings and scratched my hands a nail file. I then went to the first et reported the story of my TWO BOUND OVER AFTER RUM CHASE Smoke Screen Defeated by Offi- cers, One of Whom Shoots Tires. Two men Who were arrested after t with police in which automobile smoke screens were used were held for grand jury action in Police Court and before United States Commissioner Needham Turnage yesterday. In a 10-mile chase through streets and alleys of Northwest Washington this morning, Policemen T. O. Mont- gomery and H. L. Maxwell captured an alleged rum car and confiscated 120 gallons of liquor. Daniel L. Abbott, colored, of the 900 block of V street, whom police arrested in the machine, was held for the grand jury under $2,500 bond by Ccmmissioner Turnage. Crash Into Fence. Police said they chased the automo- bile from Pourth and W streets and when Abbott's machine crashed over a curbing into a fence. The officers reported the entire chase was through a smoke screen and that the cars at times were traveling a mile a minute. One man escaped, police said. In a chase Thursday night Police- man M. W. Hangar of the eleventh precinct used his pistol to counteract a smoke screen from an alleged rum running machine and captured his quarry after puncturing both rear tires of the automobile with bullets. Followed in Smoke. | The officer said he observed tie ramw car at Howard road and Nichols ave, southeast. Hangar said he followed the car in a small police machine through blinding smoke, finally overtaking it at Kentucky avenue and Fifteenth street southeast. Although one man escaped, Maynard J. Bowman, 24, of Oxon Hill, Md., was arrested and 140 half gallons of liquor seized, according to testimony. Judge John P. McMahon ordered Bowman bound over to the grand jury under $3,000 bond on charges of operat- ing a smoke screen and transporting whisky, committee of which Edgar Brawner is chairman. Mr. Hodges was chosen head of Lions International at the annual conven- tion in June. Formerly of Arkansas, he now is in public utility work in New York City. ———— SECOND CATHOLIC HOUR ON RADIO THIS AFTERNOON Rev. Dr. John K. Cartwright Wil Be Speaker at Church of Im- maculate Conception. ~4=s4irn WOL will broadcast the sec- | Hugh A. Dalton, 8. X, who has been | building are included in the estimates of the series of the Washington | pastor of Holy Trinity for the past six | for the fiscal year 1932 submitted to the | atholic Radio Hour this afternoon at 5 o'clock from the Church of the Im- maculate Conception, Eighth and N Sireets. . Rev. Dr. John Keating Cartwright, euthority ori church history, will speak on “What the Catholic Church Has Given o the World.” series during October and will be fol- love’d by Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, O, P. ‘The opening program last Sunday filled the church. Rev. Francis J. Hur- ney, pastor of the church, is directing the broadcasts. HEAD OF LOYOLA COLLEGE overtook it at Eighth and Euclid streets | i |in bringing classes to the Central Li- | LIBRARY NEED IN AL COMMUNITIES Staff and Appropriation In- crease Is Made for Coming Fiscal Year. READING CIRCULATION CONSTANTLY GROWING Municipal Aid Here Said to Be Less Than in Most U. S. Cities. Libraries should be as accessible as elementary schools to all members of |' the city’s population, according to the annual report of the board of trustees of the Public Library, filed with Ihel District Commissioners, yesterday by Theodore W. Noyes, president of the board. “Just as elementary schools are lo- cated so as to make unnecessary long trips in dangerous traffic, so libraries must be widely distributed. They should be neighborhood affairs, just as are churches, lodges and citizen associ- tion meeting places,” says Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian, whose report accompanies that of the trustees. In ‘Washington's experience wherever & new branch has been opened 80 per cent or more of the adults and 95 per cent of the children registered the first year had not previously been library readers.” Georgetown Has Needs. “Georgetown, most of whose inhabi- tants live, 3 miles or more from the central library, is one example of a library need. There have been cases of Georgetown boys, who lacking car fare have walked to the central library and back, a trip of 6 miles, so hun- gry were they for books. Of course Georgetown, the oldest part of Wash- ington, has long needed a branch Jibrary with a children’s room. But the same conditions exist for the citizens, young and old Anacostia, Southwest Washing- ton, Petworth, Eckington, Brookland, Cleveland Park, Brightwood, Trinidad, Wesley Heights Congress Heights, en- ning and several other sections. Although Congress has granted $150,- 000 for building the Northeastern branch library on a site already pur-| chased at Maryland avenue and; Seventh street northeast, congestion in the office of the Municipal Architect | and priority given to public school buildings in the District’s construction program make it doubtful whether the branch will be completed by July 1, 1931, as planned, Dr. werman states. Petworth Is Hopeful. Hope for a branch library in Pet- worth, however, , with permis- sion granted by the Board of Educa- tion to the Board of Library Trustees to use as a site for a branch library part of the plot at Georgia and Iowa avenues and Upshur street, now becom- ing an educational center, as the new Roosevelt High School is added to the m"‘“%“‘r“wm" already oc- cupying_part o tract. It is hoped that temporary relief for the crowded condition of the central library will shortly be affored, when the basement of . the Metropolitan Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church, at the corner of John Marshall place and C street, becomes available for the use of the book acquisition, catalog and bindery departments of the library. The appropriations for the mainten- ance of the present organization for the fiscal year 1931 were increased by $29,250, providing for a staff increase of nine persons, and an increase of $16,500 in the book fund, which has for many years been. inadequate to meet the many demands of the public for new, specialized, or favorite books.l The most important of the staff posi- tions to be secured is that of an ad- viser to adults in children's literature. Most of the additions in personnel were in the non-professional and custodial service. Circulation Increases. The circulation for all the Library agencies was 1,680,022 volumes and 151,030 mounted’ pictures, representing an increase of 7 per cent fn the number of volumes circulated and a 13 per cent increase in the number of mounted pic- tures sent out by the art division. Dur- ing the year 28,273 persons applied to the Librav+ for the privilege of borrow- g books, making a total registration of 73,467 borrowers. In the Washingtoniana divislon “a valuable addition to the collection was the completion of the final volume of mounted newspaper articles by the Rambler published in The Evening Star. The acquisition of photographs of buildings and scenes in Washington which will soon disappear or change has_been possible by the co-operation of The Evening Star, which has pre- sented photographs of 36 historic places, on request of the diviision,” the report states. “In addition to the personal service to children, & practically new use of the Library is being made by the teachers brary and branches. “An extensive personal service to adults has also’ been developed. Pictures Are Displayed. The substantial increase in the book appropriation for the coming year for the schools division will enable this de- partment to resume work with the 2B grades, discontinued several years ago because of lack of funds. Through the generosity of Mr. Dun- can Phillips two groups of paintings by modern artists were lent to the library for exhibition in the art division. As an expression of their appreciation GIVEN POST AS PASTOR Rev. Joseph A. McEneany to Take Charge of Holy Trinity Church, in Georgetown. Rev. Joseph A. McEneany, S. J., who has served nine years as president of Loyola Col and six years as presi- dent of Loyola High School, has been appointed pastor of Holy Trinity Church, Georgetown, one of the oldest churches of the diocese, it was an- nounced last night. Father McEneany will succeed Rev. years and who now will become the pastor of St. Thomas' Manor, Chapel Point, Md. Rev. Joseph P. Carney, 8. J., now at St. Thomas’, will succeed Rev. Edward M. t, pastor of Our Lady of Loretto Church, Chaptico. Father McEneany has spent 30 years | the Dr. Cartwright |of his life in the Jesuit Soclety of | $25,000 for a site for the proposed is scheduled for the remainder of the | Maryland. The years of his novitiate | Southwestern branch. “The library estimates were designed | t were spent in Prederick and his years as a student and priest at Woodstock College. Under the supervision of Father Mc- Eneany, Loyola College was moved from Oalvert street, timore, green, of the work of the library the Chamber of Commerce and civic organizations of Takoma Park presented the Takoma Park branch with two beautiful flags. Among other gifts of the year were 671 review coples from The Evening Star and 187 volumes from Mrs. Char- lotte Emerson Main. The Chevy Chase subbranch received a set of the new “Encyclopedia Brittanica” as a gift from the Chevy ‘Woman's Club, while the Takoma Park Horticulturai | sus Bureau's ‘Financial Statistics of Club gave a set of Bailey’s “Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture” to the Ta- koma Park branch. Estimates Are Made. Two branch library sites and one trict Commissioners by the libiary trustees. The total estimate of $698,282 covers $494,572 for maintenance of the present system, $35,000 for a site for the proposed Georgetown branch, $150,- 000 for the building and equipment of Petworth branch and first to reinforce the present organiza- tion, whose work has largely increased ENGINEER SOCIETY WILL MEET HERE Material, Machines and Men o Be Background of Many Talks. With “Industrial America” as its key- | note topic, the Society of Industrial| Engineers, formed to organize engineers | in industry to help the Government dufing the World War, will convene for its seventeenth annual convention in the Mayflower Hotel Wednesday. The convention will close Friday night. President Hoover is an honorary member of the society-and the delegates | will visit him at the White House. Mrs. Hoover will entertain the wives and daughters of delegates at tea. ‘Women Play Part. ‘Women will play an important part in the convention. Frances Perkins, industrial _commissioner for the State of New York, will speak Wednesday morning on “Human Values.” Dr. Lilllan M. Gilbreth, prominent indus- trial engineer, will speak Wednesday afternoon on “Some New Aspects of Patigue Study.” Frau I. M. Witte of Germany will also speak Wednesday, as will Mary Anderson, director of the ‘Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor. Harrington Emerson, founder of the efficiency movement, will be the guest| of honor and will speak at the banquet Thursday night. Speakers Announced. Materials, machines and men will furnish the background for all of the talks. The general subjects of indus- trial fatigue, industrial education, power and maintenance, time study and wage incentives, also will come up for dis- cussion. Speakers will include Prederick H. Payne, Assistant Secretary of War; Robert V. Fleming, president of the Riggs National Bank; L. W. Wallace, executive secretary of the American Engineering Ccuncil; John M. Carmody, | president of the society; Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d; Dr. George K. Burgess | oéh'.he Bureau of Standards, and many | others. JETTA GOUDA.L MARRIES INTERIOR DECORATOR Temperamental Actress and Los Angeles Man Find Their Likes and Dislikes Are Parallel. By the Assoclated Press. 4 HOLLYWOOD, Calif., October 11.— Jetta Goudal, whom Hollywood remem- bers as the actress who won a court battle afirming her right to tempera- ment, will be married tonight in Yuma, Ariz., to Harold Grieve, Los Angeles interior decorator, friends announced | today. ‘Their honeymoon will be a motor trip back to California, in the vicinity of picturesque Monterey. ‘The couple met when Miss Goudal surprised the film colony by forsaking ictures for interior decorating recent- y and their friendship grew, as Grieve commented following the engagement, when they found their likes and dis- likes—and temperaments—closely paral- leled. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Hike, Red Triangle Outing Club, through Cedar lane and Seven Locks road to Cabin John. Meet at Cedar lane, Rockville line, 3:15 p.m. Exhibition of paintings by Emma Norris Martin, League of American Pen Women, Stoneleigh Court, today and until October 25. Lecture, “Spjritualism, True and False,” United lodge of Theosophists, Hill Building, Seventeenth and I streets, MO! Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Frater- nity, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Meeting, Washington Practical Psy- chology Ciub, Playheuse, 1814 N street, 8:15 pm. Speaker, Theodore T. Golden. “Second, the staff required for the new Northeastern branch, the necessary book stock and maintenance of the same, account for about $65,000, and third, a project for the establishment and maintenance of a book service to hospitals and suburban districts was estimated to cost about $7,500.” Little City Aid Here. “The most recent volume of the Cen- Citles having a population of over 30,- 000, shows that the public library here had received, as heretofore, a dispro- portionately small percentage of money spent for municipal maintenance as compared with other cities,” Dr. Bower- man continues. “In all these American cities an average of 1.3 per cent of all municipal expenditures was devoted to libraries, that in cites over 500,000 population an average of 1.2 per cent of all maintenance expenditures was for libraries, that in cities over 500,000 to 500,000 population an average of 1.5 per cent of all city maintenance ex- Wmmurn was spent on libraries. In ‘ashington but 0.9 per cent of the Dis- t's maintenance e: tures was in 1927 devoted to library maintenance, or less than three-quarters of the average in the past year and is likely to show a still further increase in the coming year due to the more ample book ap- the continues. g of all cities. It is quite evident that zhe‘n;::bllc llbrudyu is recr:'l:’ll for lfi maintenance a sma share of the Dhugtm tax The greatest drought in the memory of old residents of the Potomac Valley enabled a Star photographer to climb over great boulders down into the bed of the Great Falls gorge to make this picture. The stream which usually roars over these rocks had dwindled to a series of three lesser falls and at one place it is almost possible to jump from rock to rock across the channel w it e falls. —Star Staff Photo. WHISKY SALES FOR WEDDINGS FAR GREATER THAN DELIVERIES' Families of Recent Brides and Grooms Often Willing to “Obtain” Liquor by ‘The police survey of the wedding whisky delivery business is optimistic— sales away out ahead of deliveries, col- lections fine. Most of the business here is handled by the sales manager and the head of the collections department, a nice boy whose specialty is personality and pep. He also is the delivery agent, although E}llce say they never heard of him act- g in that capacity. Still, the system works. The firm reads the society column, marking wedding dates. Then the firm proceeds on the assumption that where there's a wedding there's a thirst, espe- clally afterwr.rds. “Oh, so John's off on his honey- moon.” teiephones the company briskiy, to some relative of the bride or groom, —“good old John; friends—how'd he stand the gaff?” “By the way, a case of whisky just arrived by freight, sorry it's a bit be- lated. One of John's friends in Canada, one of my best| 1 Paying for Shipping. you know; addressed it to me just in case.” Before the firm gets around to the freight bill, a matter of some $10 or $20, it mentions wine, whisky or cham- ‘pagne brands which no newspaper re- porter ever heard of. That kind of thing batters down sales resistance. It is only a matter of ar- rangements. Will the firm call for the money? When can the firm deliver? The firm is no less nimble with words than it is nimble about getting checks to the bank. The firm's delivery serv- ice is much slower. At least five persons are known spe- cifically to have paid out money for “freight,” for ‘“express” or even for “airplane” deliveries which never ma- | terialized. However many more victims there | | may be can only be surmized after a| | contemplation of the firm's biggest as- | set—one of the briskest go-getters which the police haven't gotten yet. CAMPBELL PISTOL TESTS T0 BE MADE Micro-Chemist of Auburn, N. Y., May Testify in Baker Murder Case. Tests will be made tomorrow by Dr. Albert H. Hamilton, a micro-chemist of Auburn, N. Y., in an effort to determine whether a pistol owned by Herbert M. Campbell was used in the slaying of Mary Baker. Dr. Hamilton will arrive in Washing- ton today. Brought here by counsel for Campbell, he will spend several days ;flp\nm: the pistol and alleged death ets. May Take Stand. Charles Henry Smith of Alexandria, chief of defense counsel, declared Ham- diton would testify in behalf of Camp- bell should he be convinced after in- specting the revolver that there was no assurance it was used in the slaying. Government experts have declared the fatal bullets were fired from Campbell’s, weapon. The pistol and death bullets will be returned to Washington tomorrow by Sam, Hardy, a Department of Justice agent. They were taken to Chicago last week for further examination and pho- tographic work by Col. Calvin Goddard, chief of the crime detection laboratories at Northwestern University. Leahy Not to Join in Defense. William E. Leahy, well known Wash- ington attorney, will not be affiliated with counsel for Campbell in the forth- coming trial. Smith revealed negotia- tions were in progress with another local lawyer. It had appeared that Leahy might be in the case, as he aided Smith at the recent arraignment of Campbell in an effort to have the de- fendant released under bond. Campbell was ordered removed to the District Jail, however, pending his trial | October 21 beéfore Assoclate Justice Jesse g.ourA‘dklm of the District Supreme STELLA MARIS CLUB PLANS MYSTERY PLAY “Cat and the Canary” Will Presented at St. Gabriel’s Church October 27. “The Cat and the Canary” will be presented by the Stella Maris Club of St. Gabriel's Church October 27 and 28, in Carroll Hall, Tenth and G streets. ‘This mystery drama, which has al- ready been produced in the silent mo- vies, is now being produced in the talkies. Charles Russell is supervising the play. Mary McCarthy, Dorothy Colliflower, Margaret Frawley, Kathleen Baker, Paul Murphy, Harold Hamill, Mathew Fenton, Richard Collins and Justin and George Winkle are included in the cast. HOD C'ARRIER.S’ FOUNDER HONORED AT CEREMONY By the Assoclated Pres: QUINCY, Mass, October 11.—A granite shaft in memory of Dominico D'Alessandro, founder and for neanly a generation, the president of the Intec- national Hod Carriers’, Building and Common Labor Union, was unveiled in Mt. Wollaston Cemetery here today. large group of delegates to the fiftieth annual convention of the American Federation of Labor now meeting in Boston, including Michael Moriarty of San Prancisco, president of the building trades department of the federation, ‘were t. D'Alessandro came to this country as & boy from Italy and began life in this country as a laborer with pick and shovel. He became internationally known as much for his contributions to charity as for his genius at organiza- tion. He was decorated by the King of Italy for his aid to Italian immigrants and during the World War was fre- quently consulted by President Wilson, He died here two years ago, A|Procession and Flower Strewing SMITH BUILDING ESCAPES TAX SALE Trustees Authorized to Raise | - Funds: Necessary for $40,000 Payment. housed the sumptuous offices of the F. H. Smith Co. escaped being sold for taxes yesterday when Justice Pred- erick L. Siddons, in District Supreme Court, authorized the trustees to raise funds necessary for the payment of | approximately $40,000 in overdue taxes and penalties, Herbert L. Davis and Charles .| Baker, who have been handling the |affairs of the Smith Building, under | the direction of the court, yesterday | filed & special report stating that out- | ding real estate taxes, with penal- | ties, amount to nearly $40,000. The | court ordered the trustees to proceed to raise whatever sum is necessary to |pay the amount due, thus preventing the issuance of a tax title deed to the property. It was reported that the Smith Build- ing, located at 815 Pifteenth street, is rented in excess of 75 per cent, above the first floor, and that the trustees expect, in the near future, to submit a definite proposition to the court looking toward the rental of existing vacancies in the bullding. \CITIZENS INDORSE ZONING ACTION | Mount Pleasant Association Hold Initial Meeting of Fall Season. The Mount Pleasant Citizens' Asso- ciation held its initial meeting of the Fall season last night in the Mount Pleasant Library. Dr. C. Dwight Marsh, retiring president, introduced Earl E. Dillon, the present incumbent. A resolution indorsing the recent re- fusal of the District Zoning Commis- sion to amend zoning reguiations for the purpose of apartment house con- struction in the area bounded by Mon- roe, Newton, Brown and Sixteenth streets was adopted. invest a zoning committee with arbi- trary powers in the investigation of zoning problems in the community. The committee was authorized, with the accord of the majority of residents in an affected area, to act independently of formal sanction by the association. A congratulatory letter was addressed to Judge Joseph W. Cox, a member of the association, who was recently ap- pointed associate justice of the District Supreme Court. A letter will be addressed to the Of- fice of Public Buildings and Public Parks urging that a footwalk, as a safe- guard for lestrian traffic, be placed on the Park Road Bridge. The bridge at present, despite the number of pe- destrians crossing it daily, is construct- ed only for vehicular traffic. The following new members were ad- mitted to the assoclation: Prank M. Pratt, Willilam H. Groverman and Miss Marian E. Craig. —s DEVOTION TO BEGIN on St. Dominic’s Program. A 40-hour devotion period will be inaugurated at St. Dominic’s Catholic Chi at 11 o'clock mass today with a n of altar and choir bo; featuring the opening. Flower girls c?'l‘wme‘wfll xg:-miowm belglr; the | altar. The sermon of the occasion will be preached by the Very Rev. Raymond Meager, O. P, 8. T. L., Provinclal of the Dominican Order. ‘The exercises attached to the 40-hour devotion will continue three days. h mass and :(";.hl:' masses will be d in the evenings, ! The association further resolved to|w. GITIZENS' GROUP 10 ELECT OFFICERS Crosby to Address Brookland | Association—School Reports Due. Important community problems will be discussed at a series of citizens’ as- soclation meetings to be held this week. Virtually all will be the first since last Spring. pring. Officers . will be elected tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at a meeting of the Northeast Washington organization in Ludlow School, Sixth and G streets northeast. Action probably will be taken on new gas rates, traffic matters, insufficlency of books in Stuart Junior High School, hazing in public schools, improvements to public parks and an addition to Patterson Park. Crosby to Speak. District Commissioner Herbert B.| Crosby will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the Brookland Associa- tion tomorrow night in the Masonic Hall. Reports also will be made on crowded conditions in Brookland schools. Oflcmo’ll:g 'C‘:ln be el:{c!& “lt a mee! e gress Hel or- Mu.%m in the Heights Baptist Church, while .officers will be nominated at a of the Stanton Park the Peabody | ABOUT MONUMENT AWAIT SOIL TESTS Solid Bed Rock Expected 90 Feet Below Surface of Ground. NEW PROGRAM STUDY IS NOW UNDER WAY Stability of Great Monolith Not to Be Affected by Plans for Mall. Solid bedrock 1is expected to be reached “this week around che #0-;00¢ mark in the vieinity of the Washington Monument, in operations being carried forward to determine what program is to be adopted for the proposed swoken gardens, A . U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, heads a special committee, the person- nel of which was announced yesterday, to determine what type of gardens will be most suitable to be placed in the Washington Monument inds, consid- ering the type of subsoll and other per- tinent factors. Ten Holes Being Drilled. Maj. D. H. Gillette, assistant to Col. Grant, explained yesterday that engi- neers are mainly interested at present in ascertaining the character of the ground that lies below the surface in the vicinity of the Monument. Ten holes are to be drilled by the Giles Drilling Corporation of New York in a circumference about the roadway that surrounds the Monument, and so far the first hole drilled has revealed that sand, gravel and clay have been en- countered down to about 60 feet and that a great bed of blue clay lies below that for some 20 feet. When data based on drilling the 10 holes has been assembled, Maj. Gillette sald, the special board will go over the findings and determine what plan will be most suitable for adoption. Various types of plans are being considered, with diggings at different depths for the proposed gardens, most of them modifications of the 1901 MacMillan Commission program. The plan that is safest and 1 interfere least with the stability of the Washington Monu- ment will ultimately be adopted, Sut the special board must know first the ehar- acter of the subsoll and the varying ?epih.l at which the different kinds arc 3 Board Personnel. Serving with Col. Grant on the spe- cial board are Willlam ‘A. Delano, t'{p:\\ York architect, and Frederick Law Ol d, Brookline, Mass., landsca) architect, who are both members of the National Capital Park and Plinning Commission; James Vipond Davies and Lazarus White of New York, consulting engineers, and Maj. D. H. Gillette, w] ‘The Smith Building, which formerly | Public Sessions of the Burleith, Burroughs and Sixteenth Street Heights associa- tions are scheduled for Tuesday A Meeting docketed for Wednesday ht include of the Chevy Chase, Dahigren Terrace and South Washing- ton associations, while the Glover Park Association is due to meet Friday night. Lanier Heights Group Near Oblivion. ‘The Lanier Heights Citizens’ Associa- tion, however, seems tottering on the brink of oblivion. The last meeting of this association was held nine months 8go. Reiterating his "‘TA e of some months dent of the body, yesterday said th‘!’ fate of the association rests in the hands of its members. Scheduled to meet tomorrow night in its initial session of the Fall season, Gates announced that plans for the convening of the association have been disrupted by fallure of members to evince meer interest in the organiza- tion. . At the last attempt at nutlng. January 13 last, a mere handful &f “faithfuls” turned out, forcin, ident to declare the session the lack of a quorum. Future Meetings.in Doubt. Future meetings, Gates announced, will be brought about only through an understanding between members of the assoclation and views toward holdin, more sessions will have to be conveyi the pres- void through to him members bef Sorther zflm‘l. fore he will take MRS. PEABODY ASKS LABOR DRY SUPPORT Women's National Enforcement Chairman Writes A. F. of L. to Oppose Repeal. By the Associated Press. for Law En- forcement, today appealed to the Amer- ican Federation of Labor to of at- :m{u to repeal the euhmnmend- ent. - Her communication follows a resolu- tion of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform asking the federation to co-operate in a movement to repeal the eighteenth amendment and Volstead act. Mrs. Peabody in her communication to the federation said: “To open the door to repeal means the licensed sa- loon back again in some form; the curse of the home, the woman and the child, and the old curse of labor. Will you stand loyally against the da s minority, heavily financed, endeavorin, at this moment to break down our great American, Constitution?” ¢ ‘The federation at mt advocates ‘modification of the Vol act to per- mit 2.75 per cent bee: NEW CUTTER COMING ‘The Coast Guard Cutter Sebago will ters yesterday. The Sebago is ProsimateD $1.000,000: oo *P° The Sebago was built at Oakland, Calif., and is leaving San Frai 0 ‘Tuesday for the Bast Coast via the Panama Canal. It has been assigned oL o A e o 0 a us of 8,000 miles and is under eommand of Capt. H. R. Searles. ship is one of the 10 new cruis- cutters. One uncompleted s now being finished at Oakland, and another, the of the 10, has just been o contract to be bullt in New Yor! ho t -executive officer of the rial Bridge n. Mr. Eliot said yesterday that plans for the Washington Monument gardens are in a tentative stage and that Mr. is at work on a study model. An entirely new study of the whole program is now under way, in which the 's staff is assisting. Monument Not on Bed Rock. Contrary to popular belief, the Wash ington Monument does not rest on be. rock, but was constructed on a hillock in the erstwhile marshy land. The subsurface at the base of the monu- ment is a bed of gravel and sand and lies about 40 feet below the visible base of the structure. After construction of the monument was resumed, following a lengthy pause, it was found neces- sary to strengthen the foundations, and this was done by concrete con- struction. The special board is anxious to know how far construction 't:l the suLken z:rdm may rmued ithout disturb- g the stability of the Washington Monument. rests upon a study to be made fol securing ot 1n- formation from the 10 holes that are being drilled at present. CARMODY TO TAKE PART IN CEREMONY Will Make Principal Talk Tonight at Columbus Day K. of C. Banquet. Martin H. , supreme knighi o the Knigits of Golimbie, as sched uled to arrive in n this morn- ing to take part in the celebration of Columbus day here. After participating in a ceremony at 11 o'clock .at the Columbus Memorial in front ot Union Station, he will de- liver the principal address at a banquet in the evening at the Mayflower Hotel, given by the Knights of Columbus under auspices of the Washington Gen- eral Assembly, Fourth Degree. James B. Flynn, chairman of the General Committee, will officially o} the banquet and then turn the affair over to J. Eugene Gallery, faithful master of the Fourth Degree for Mary- land and the District. The Right Rev. John M. McNamara, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore, will also speak. Willlam G. Feely, State deputy of the Knights of Columbus, has designated this banquet as the official ceremony of the order. An elaborate program of entertain- ment has been arranged for the occa- sion, featuring George H. O'Connor, Matt Horne, Arthur McCreight, Mrs. Edna Hillyard Howard, Cro: and Sidney’s Hotel Mayflower Orchestra. Other prominent persons who will at- ten dthe banquet include Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the Board of District Commissioners; Count and Countess G. Roncalli di Montorio of the Italian embassy; Count Montfuerte, d'affaires. of the Spanish em- bassy, and Right Rev. John H. Ryan, director of the Catholic University. MARY LEWIS SUES PATHE ‘4T~ | Opera Star Asks $22,500 for Breacl of Alleged Contract. LOGMA'!'I'GILIB" Ombe:hlll .- Mary , gran . sued Pathe Motion ‘Picture Studios today for $22,500 for breach of an alleged con- g::t to star her in a _singing produc- ‘The complaint charged Pathe with contracting last 17 to