Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1930, Page 17

LLTERATES N U.§ TO LEARN T0 REA Y SPEEDY ETHOD Government Plans to Teach| Milions in Course of 24 Lessons. 'STATES WILL LEND AID | IN EDUCATIONAL DRIVE 1 Needs of Localities Will Be Met in Type of Schools and Classes to Be Used. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The Government is on the eve of starting what is probably the biggest educational job ever attempted in the world. America’s vast army of illiterates are to be taught to read and write in 24 lessons, Wherever illiterates are revealed by the 1930 census, from the remotest hol- lows of the Southern Appalachians to the newest settlements of foreign- born in Eastern citles, the work will be pushed. After months of research, a technique of teaching and a method of procedure have been incorporated in a three-part manual of instruction compiled by Dr. ‘Willlam S. Gray, dean of the College of Education of the University of Chi- cago, under the direction of the Presi- dent’s Illiteracy Commission. ‘This manual of instruction, to which some of the country's foremost educa- tors have contributed, has been approv- ed by President Hoover and Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, and will be issued early next week. It con- sists of three parts—one of which con- tains directions to teachers and the other two the actual exercises. One is intended for native-born 1illiterates whose mother tongue is English and is besed on their common experience. The other part covers the same ground, but | ;. is intended for foreign-born illiterates. To Blot Out Hliteracy. e. The actual work will be left entirely in the hands of local educational au- thorities, who will be free, however, to call on the national commission for as- sistance. - This commission, headed by Becretary Wilbur, includes Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wiscon- ; Dr. John H. Finley, editor of the New York Times; Herbert S. former Gov. R. ; Rev. Raj B. Fosdick, Right Rev. Edwin V. O'Hara of the National Catholic Welfare Council, Lorado Taft, Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Senator Henry J. Allen of Kansas, T. H. , super- intendent of Education of H . Frank Cody, superintendent of De- troit public schools; Marion L. Brittain, t of Emory . Cora Wilson Stewart, chairman of the Illiteracy Commission of the Worid Federation of Education Associations. Classes to Meet Needs. Various types of schools and classes to meet the needs of particular locali- ties will be organized, including evening schools, day schools, instruction in homes, factory classes, season 3 intruction in prisons, and instruction ‘which will be given on request of such tions as the Y. M. C. A. and erican Legion ‘The foundation of the American plan 1s the teaching personnel as, according to Dr. Gray, “the results of illiteracy in- stru skill, insight and teachers.” The type of teacher to be employed is indicated in the Govern- ment Manual which says that a rela- tively broad education is essential so that teachers may understand clearly and deal intelligently with the many problems of illiteracy work. Through- out it is emphasized that the teachers are dealing with adults who would be repelled by the methods used to teach . children. The whole problem will be 1 ‘apmuhed on the basis of adult under- 8 g and a very considerable de- velopment of the mind in other direc- tions than reading and writing. Each county, city or other defined area will be divided into illiteracy dis- tricts as revealed in the 1930 census. A list will be made of the adult illiterates in each. Then each will be visited and classes formed. Those who do not ac- cept the idea at first will be visited again and again. Teach Citizenship. Once the class is organized the -cach- | er will set out to develop an ability to read and interpret signs, simple letters and newspapers, to write legibly, to spell correctly the words most fre- uently used, and to make out checks, aepoelu\ slips, money orders and write simple perscnal and business letters. “The fact is widely recognized,” says the Government manual, “that the in- struction should develop far more than mere ability to read, write and spel! and solve simple arithmetic problems. It should acquaint adult illiterates with the essential duties of citizens and culti- vate pride in good citizenship. It shouid stimulate their minds and en- rich their experience and should revenl wider opportunities and desirable forms of pleasure and recreaticn. It should arouse keen interest reading and determination to continue their education. These results are essential both to personal advancement and to industrial, political and civic The nearest approach to this nation- | wide drive on illiteracy has been the work in China of Dr. James Yen, a ‘Yale graduate, who sought to make the masses of China literate by selecting 1,000 characters from the complicated Chinese al knowledge of which ‘would enable a n to carry on ordi- nary business. This could be taught in a few weeks. Yen has made great pro- fil. despite the 4roubled condition of coun But the vast difference between the Chinese social organization and the still greater difference between the 2 | of the Woodward & Lothrop department in | “Down That Lonely Road” Young Woman Whose Life Ebbed as She Wrote “Thirteen Cigarettes” Left Empty Purse. Funeral Plans Pend. “Look down—Ilook down that lonely road, the hacks all dead in line: “Some give a nickel, some give a dime, to bury dis po’ body o' minel” All ready for the dismal ritual of burial lies the body of the author of those lines—ready for the trip down the lonely road. And the money—it must come from some place other than the pitifully empty purse that was found in the little attic room at 1625 K street beside the body of the author yesterday morning. All that is mortal of Miss Draper Gill, romantic booklover, who finally found that in poverty the body shackles the mind to the humdrum of this world, and who broke the shackles with an open gas jet, lies in the Tabler Funeral Home, 928 M street, while friends and relatives busy themselves with the arrangements for her funeral. 'The arrangements have not been completed. Lines Written as Life Ebbs. Miss Gill, whose closest friends were the fanciful figures from between the leaves of books, wrote the above lines as the close of her life, as her final efforts to slash the shackles of poverty that took her too often from her friends of the phantom book world into the every day pursuits of livelihood. With her was found her story, elo- quent in its pathos, telling a tale of “Thirteen Cigarettes,” the “coffin nails” with which she sealed the lid u the shackling body and with which she hoped to free her intangible self to stay always with her fanciful friends of Even as she died in the shabby little room some time yesterday morning, she moved with her fiction friends, this last time as a fictional character of her own creation, as “Carol,” a girl like her- self, strangely, though, even in the tale, coming every now and then into the world of real men and women and leav- ing the fancy world behind. Left Only Few Pennies. The story she ended with the two lines above, she wrote as gas filled her room and as, all unmindful of the danger to her plans her smoking might constitute, she inhaled puff after puff from the fatal number of cigarettes. As she took the last puff from the last cigarette she laid her story aside, and lay down quietly to await the final of her shackles to this world. She left only a few es, and there is none coming to from her last place of employment, the book shop store, for she had on Saturday, the last day she worked, drawn in advance the little pay she had coming to her. Story of Thirteen Cigarettes. Eloguently, the story of “Carol” and the “Thirteen Cigareites” tells of the death of all that was mortal of Draper Gill. It follows: “October 21, 1930 “Thirteen cigarettes. “The bare attic room bore signs of former occupancy, but none of them sufficiently interesting to fire any one's imagination. Discolored, once-white walls, the plaster chipped and cracked, and a few nail holes were about all. Situated on the fourth and top floor and partitioned off from the unfinished attie proper, the room had probably been occupied by careless servants. “Carol lay prone on a cot in this same room, ostensibly reading, but stop- ping at intervals to rehearse what had become a very futile philosophy of life— her life. Termed Coffin Nails. “Just the other day she had read a story entitled ‘Something Will Hap- pen,’ but nothing had in the story. Carol h: past, and the evil spells of desirable circumstances have always been broken sooner or later. Now it was different. She was 26 and, voluntarily or involun- tarily, she herself had closed all avenues of escape The 13 cigarettes indeed represented the oft-bruited coffin nails. When they were gone and when the ash tray held the thirteenth stub and contributing ashes, Carol’s doom would have been knelled, silently but sig- nificantly. “Reviewing events, recent and long past, was not very comforting. Always she had made wrong moves and suf- fered from the unexpected results. A childish spontaneity had been half smothered during adolescence and thoughtless selfishness coupled with an indefinable weakness of purpose were growing up in its place. Carol recognized the change dolefully and helplessly, and so0 did very little to remedy it. ad been more fortunate in the | g “Hovering on the brink of poverty soon loses all semblance of the pic- turesque and grows very irksome in- deed, particularly when expensive tastes and a flair for spending complicates matters. Carol, at the moment, had a few coppers in her purse and nothing really to look forward to except the impossible settlement of large and small debts. That financial status might_have ‘roused the fighting blood" of a huskier vitality, but served only to overwhelm poor Carol quite com- pletely. Humdrum Routine. “If one demands the pleasantly un- expected of life, and likes the knack of arranging for joyous events, only to find a series of whirlpools circling rapidly from the crest to the depths, it is disappointing, to say the least, and if even trifling pleasures can be ob- tained only through persistent loyalty in the execution of humdrum routine dutles, nine-to-six sort of existence, it Touses a perverse in nature, such s Carol's, and & black mood of rebellion conspires to blind utterly even the in- stinct of self-preservation. “Inspiration was necessary to Carol, as much so as the constant goading in- dispensable in getting beasts of burden to their destinations. She learned to con it from many sources, books and strangers and abstract beauty. The supply gone, she was like a mechanical toy with no one to wind it—powerless. “<Lagy—I fear I'm incurably lazy— quite worthless in fact,’ she mused. It was too bad, for people really expected great things of her, until she, too, was sometimes convinced, but nothing came of it—only this sorry end, that ap- proached as each tobacco-filled cylinder dwindled into gray ash and blackened stub. “She had done reasoning out of the possible effects of heredity, environ- ment, individuality and incalculable circumstance—they were so hopelessly tangled in & knotted mesh, an eminent psychologist might well hesitate to un- ravel the skeins. ““Too much purple and yellow in the color scheme,’ was Carol’s whimsical verdict, upon visualizing an untidy bas- ket of interwoven threads of varying hues. “‘I must be strong in going’ was uppermost in her mind. ‘I have gained nothing by lingering so long—and only done others harm—caused them incon- venience, worried the few who have shown concern. Lacking strength for noble deeds, this will offer part com- pensation, a forfeit to subsequent years that promised similar cycles of non- achievement.’ Voices Farewell. “Upon second thought, ‘If I should fail—' but that was too terrible to contemplate. She wouldn't consider it. “Farewell to all the ineffectual dreams and aspirations, beautiful and impracticable, glorious and non-exist- ent. “Parewell to friends—she had only been & burden to them, often stupid and misunderstanding their motives, not troubling to see from their point of view. “Parewell to relatives, to whom most of her actions had been inexplicable. “Farewell to her brother, whose esteem was unwavering,. who needed her support, and whom she was leaving. “Farewell to them all—mo remorse now—only regret. “How slowly they were going. There were eight of them left to mark the passage of time and a few details cry- ing out for attention—they would fill the last moments. “How cherrupy the clock sounded, as though pleased with itself for playing 80 important a part in reckoning Carol's oblivion. ‘It will not have long to walt, Carol, I wonder?’ was the natural uery. “‘Perhaps I am writing drivel and silence were better, but I want them to know, even the bit that will be com- prehended—it will be of little moment, and soon forgotten, anyhow,” she ended, wondering if that were true. “The dog-eared phrase: ‘Survival of the fittest,” Ah, but I do not belong in their ranks, for I have failed completely and they will go on. I wish them well. “‘Look down—look down, that lonely | of river craft, is now putting the final the hacks all dead in line: ‘Some give & nickel; some give & dime, to bury dis po’ body o’ mine!’ * Miss Gill's grandfather, Delancey Gill, is an fllustrator with the Smithsonian Institution, and lives at the Rutland Courts Apartments, Seventeenth strest and Riggs place. Her uncle, William H. Gill, an engineer with ofices in_the Transportation Building, Seventeenth and H streets, is handling the arrange- ments for the funeral. RUM FLEET GETS OLD DESTROYER Training Ship Transferred to| U. S. Coast Guard for Prohibition Use. The United States destroyer Abel P. Upshur, which for several years has been serving as the training ship of the 1st Battalion, United States Naval Re- serves of the District of Columblia, to- day was ordered transferred to the United States Coast Guard and prob- ably will be used in the war on rum smugglers. ‘The vessel, which had besn ordered decommissioned, as a part of the Navy's economy reduction program left Wash- ington Tuesday morning for the Phila- | delphia Navy Yard. Prior to her de- parture officers from the Coast Guard examined the vessel to determine whether it would be satisfactory for their service. As this ship had for sev- eral years been in reserve commission | for the use of the local Reservists, it had been kept in the best condition by | her corps of 26 shipkeepers and an- nually, prior to the Regular Service cruises for training the citizen sailors, had gone to the Norfolk Navy Yard for regular overhaul. ‘The vessel was in command of Lieut. Dayton, who is also acting inspector instrugtor of the local battalion. The crew "of the ship was made up of Naval Reservists who.were on indefi- nite periods of active duty. The order for the departure of the vessel from ‘Washington provided, however, that ‘upon decommissioning the crew was to return to Washington and to remain on duty until May 1 next, which pre- cluded their being thrown suddenly out of employment. The Upshur, since it has been in Washington, has made three annus training cruises not only with the local principals of the two languages, it is emphasized, make an exact compari- son impossible. Both are alike, however, in the objective of wholesale conversion of illiterates to literates in fleet divisions aboard, but with con- tingents from the Baltimore, Md., Naval Reserve. During “u.ztm it has e DRIVER OF LIQUOR CAR ESCAPES FROM POLICE Flees on Foot, Deserts Auto Con- taining 102 Gallons of Corn Rum. Jumping from = dilapidated automo- bile said to have been loaded with whisky, a colored man escaped today when two members of Inspector T. R. Bean's vice squad overhauled his machine on Seventh street. The man was sitting calmly astride a case of corn Hquor when a police car in which Sergt N. O. Holmes and Detective H. G. Wanamaker drew alongside. The man jerked his car to a stop, leaped out and made his getaway on foot through the heavy traffic. A search of the abandoned vehicle disclosed 17 cases or 102 gallons of alleged Maryland corn, stored in the rear compartment behind the driver’s back rest and on the floor of the machine. The seat had been removed to make room for the whisky. Sergt. Holmes said that he and Wanamaker were driving along Seventh street in search of the youth when they came upon him between R and S streets. The police had been informed, he said, that the man was delivering whisky to an address in the vicinity of the point where the car was seized. FAILS TO OBTAIN WORK, YOUTH DRINKS POISON Depressed over his failure to obtain employment, Thomas L. Perry, 19 years old, is reported by police to have at- tempted to end his life last night by drinking a quantity of poison at his home, 936 C street southwest. The youth was placed in an ambu- lance and rushed to Casualty Hospital, where his condition was said today to be undertermined. He was admitted to the institution for further attention after emergency treatment. The boy’s mother, Mrs. Annie Perry, told police she found her son draining the contents of a bottle of disinfectant about 9 o'clock and knocked the poison- ous fluld from his hand. Officers investigating the case were told that the youth had been trying mly(ormtmwflndlloblnd operated as & Atlantic Scouting Fleet been '“mhllr-fl!‘ D; 0, WORK ON BROGE | SPUSHED ON BOTH SDES OF POTOMAL Columbia Island to Be Raised to Level of Lincoln Me- morial Structures. CONTRACTOR FOR GRADING MAKING GOOD PROGRESS Final Touches Are Being Put on Bascule Draw Span—Carving Is Under Way. Work on both sides of the Potomac River in the Arlington Memorial Bridge program is going ahead steadily and the great project is taking tangible shape. The United States Engineer office is assisting Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the Arlington Me- morial Bridge Commission, by pumping sand and gravel from the bed of the Potomac River, south of the main bridge, and shooting this material through giant pipes. to Columbia Island. The level of the island is to be raised several feet, so as to be flush with the floor of the two bridges—the principal structure across the Potomac River— and the short bridge that links up Co- lumbia Island with the Virginia shore. Maj. Joseph D, Arthur, jr., district engineer for the War Department, for the Washington area, has started oper- ations for Col. Grant on the Washing- ton side of the river, near the Lincoln Memorial, to remove the triangular plece of earth now lying between the water gate and the Rock Creek and Po- tomac Parkway approach and the Po- tomac River. The plan is to remove this earth by suction with the hydraulic pipeline dredge Talcott and force it clear across the Potomac River to Co- lumbia Island, as part of the island- raising program. Provision has been made for the removal of a section of this pipe, which is now being stretched across the river from near the Lincoln Memorial to Columbia Island, s0 as to avold interference with navigation, when tugs and barges are passing to and from Georgetown. Final Touches on Draw Span. After this section of earth has been removed, it will be possible to obtain a clear across-the-water view of the Arl- ington Memorial Bridge from the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway approach. In the central portion of the main bridge, the Phoenix Bridge Co. of Phoenixville, Pa., the contractor for the million-dollar bascule-drawn span, which faises up to permit the passage touches on its work. The span is to be painted a grayish color, to conform to the hue of the granite on the bridge proper. The Federal Government hopes to be able to take this span over from the contractor after the final touches are put on the work and this is ex- pected to be before the new year. On the sides of the bridge, workmen with pneumatic hammers and sharp chisels are carving out the Roman fasces —the bundle of sticks emblematic of authority—in the large circles on the abutments of the structure. On Colum- bia Island, where the west abutment of the main bridge rests, in a little wooden shack above the pylon, a skilled worker is busily engaged in carving out of a great block of granite the first of the four giant eagles that will look down upon the great circle that is to be con- structed on Columbia Island, the focal point of the roads leading to the Lee Highway an the Mount Vernon Me- morial Highway and the beginning of the memorial avenue leading up from the Virginia bank of the Potomac to the gates of Arlington National Cemetery. Grading Work Progresses. W. F. Brenizer Co., Inc., of Washing- ton, the contractor for the grading of the slopes leading up to the cemetery, is now making good progress on the job of laying the foundations for the me- morial avenue, along which the great state funerals of the future will pass, on to the heights of Arlington. A num- ber of trucks and tractors and steam shovels are at work, eating away the earth that stands in the way of the development. ‘Today, the trucks and dump wagons hauled by tractors were transporting earth down to the Virginia shore, where the bridge across Boundary Channel ends, 80 as to bring up the level of the approach to that of the bridge. This necessitates a fill of nearly 30 feet of earth and when this is completed, so that trucks are able to travel across this newly formed roadway up to the Boundary Channel bridge, earth will be taken across the short bridge and dumped on Columbia Island, to bring up the level of the island to that of the bridge floor. Col. Grant hopes to be able to start hauling earth from the Washington side of the bridge to Columbia Island early this Winter—if he can secure the earth for this purpose. WOMEN GIVE CARVED STONE TO CATHEDRAL Canon Rudd Presides at Ceremo- nies—Petworth Club Makes Presentation. The Petworth Women's Club yester- day participated in ceremonies placing the Washington Cathedral a carved stone presented by the club. Rev. Arthur B. Rudd, canon of the cathedral, conducted the service. The stone was placed by Mrs. L. T. Jones, pre<ident of the club, assisted by Mrs, H. R. Norton, vice president. In placing the stone, Mrs. Jones de- clared that she did so with thoughts of the millions who would come to Washington Cathedral “to find there solace and comfort in this witness to Christ in the Capital of the Nation.” At the conclusion of the stone cere- mony members of the club were taken by Canon Rudd on a pilgrimage through the crypt chapels and other places of religious devotion and in- terest in the Cathedral Close. SEEKS HIGHEST COURT Woman Breaks Formal Procedure Asking Damage Suit. She gave her name as Alma Boehm of New York, but not until she had rushed past guards in the di{nmed Supreme Court chamber to lay a damage suit before the highest tribunal. A marshal tapped her on the shoul- der significantly and she left the room without protest after telling the court of her wish. She left a copy of the suit she wished to b 3 wide swath she cut through for- er 2 over his suit presented no: mal lure availed h in: nnlm!dlomn time later '-hml:" hfi‘:' ntroversy conaider. Supreme Court THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930. Upper: Looking across Boundary Channel Bridge to the Virginia shore in the Arlington Memorial Brid; ro] showing the work going forward in constructing the great Memorial avenue to Arlisgton National Cemetery. l:efl?e lze:—' ground is Columbia Island, partially covered with water, but it will be raised to the bridge level with excavated earth and by the hydraulic pipe line dredge Talcott of the United States Engineer office. Lower: proach is seen just behind the dredge Near the Lincoln Memorial dredging operations are in progress standing between the Potomac River and the water gate. The white slope of the Rock Creek and Potomac parkway ap- to remove the triangular section of earth —Star Staff Photo. LEAGUE TO“RUN" HOTEL FOR DAY Members to Use Share of Earnings for Social Serv- ice Activities. The Junior League will take over the Willard Hotel November 20 to operate the various departmgnts for the bene- fit of the social service department of Children’s Hospital which the league has maintained successfully for the past year. Plans for the day of hotel manage- ment were mapped out at the Fall meeting of the League in its club room at 1529 Connecticut avenue. A feature of the business meeting, besides discus- sion of the coming annual benefit, was | an_exhibit of art works executed by girls of the League. The exhibit in- cluded paintings, needle work and other types of handicraft. To Replace Regular Employes. Under plans as already set up, the Junior League will operate the agencies of the Willard in its own way. Junior League members will replace regular personnel staffs in the strictly league operations. A percentage of the day's proceeds will be given to the league for the continued maintenance of the Chil- dren’s Hospital social service depart- ment, which has become a highly suc- | cessful department under its sponsor- ship. Rmonx special activities which the league plans at the Willard November 20 is a special business men's luncheon, a tea dance and fashion show, a dinner dance and a supper dance. Booths for wares will P Alley” and a mammoth children’s party will be staged in the main ball room during the afternoon so that mothers may be sure their little ones are in good hands while they attend other activities. Junior League members will waitresses. Specially selected motion pictures will be shown at the children’s Tty. p‘Co{nmiwee chairmen have been named and already are at work in per- fecting their particular phase of the day's work. Mrs. Theodore P. Noyes is general chairman of the affair and chairman of publicity, and Mrs. Sidney Thomas, past president of the league, is assistant general chairman. Committee Chairmen Listed. Other chairmen include Mrs, Henry Ravenal, booths; Miss Laura Tucker- man, tea dance; Mrs. Blaine Mallan, fashion show; Mrs. Carl R. Kurtz, waitresses; Mrs. Leander McCormick- Goodhart, supper dance; Mrs. L. Rust, jr., children’s party, and Mrs. Charles D. Hayes, special activities. Mrs. G. Howland Chase, 3d, is presi- dent of the league this year. Last year the Junior League took over Jellef’s Store for a day. So success- ful was the affair that the league was able to undertake the maintenance of the Children’s Hospital social service department. Under the league's man- agement, that department met with such success that a month after its affiliation with it the league was obliged to give the department’s di- rector an assistant. It is to continue that work that the league is bending every effort in its “management” of the Willard Hotel November 20. SENATE REALTY QUIZ TO REOPEN DECEMBER 4 Number of Subpoenas Sent Out, but Names of Those Called Are Not Disclosed. The Senate subcommittee investigat- ing real estate, mortgage and investment conditions in Washington will resume hearings on December 4, three days after Congress meets. The intentlon of Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wiscon- sin, subcommittee chairman, to wait un- 1l ‘Congress reconvenes was communi- cated to Oscar H. Brinkman, attorney for the subcommittee. A number of subpoenas have been sent out for the December hearings, but the names of those being asked to testify are not being disclosed at this time, While some members of the subcom- mittee may return to the city early in November, the decision to wait until go.lm assembles before beginning will make possible a larger at- tendance, TAYLOR TAKES NEW be | Taylor alleges that Baum came here POLICE ASKED TO FIND MOTHER AND DAUGHTERS | Mrs. Loretta J. C. Vinall Reported by Relatives as Missing From Home Two Days. | Missing from*home with two young | daughters for the past two days, Mrs. | Loretta J. C. Vinall, 34 years old, of | 1440 W street was being searched for | by police today at the request of reia- ives. Mrs. Vinall took her daughters— Ruth, 14, and June, 4—when she dis- appeared. ‘The woman is described as being 5 feet 5 inches in height and weighing 159 pounds, with hazel eyes and dark hair. She was wearing a tan mixed or a dark gray coat when she left, police were told. SMITH CASE AGTION Asks D. C. High Court to Uphold Validity of Baum Subpoena. Denying that Willlam R. Baum, sec- | retary of the F. H. Smith Co., came | here September 25, last, in answer to a subpoena, H. K. Taylor, 461 P street, who has filed suit against the Smith Co. and certain of its officials, today asked the District Supreme Court to uphold the validity of service obtained upon Baum in connection with his suit at that time. Counsel for Baum contested the serv- ice on the ground that he came here to testify before an auditor in a civil mat- ter and therefore was immune to serv- ice of process. Through Attorney Thomas S. Settle, voluntarily and that he was served with the subpoena .when he had re- mained here two hours after appearing before the auditor to produce certain records. It is alleged that he did not come here as a witness. 1t was further alleged that the Smith Co. is still doing business in Wash- ington, that it owns controlling stock and large amounts of stock in & num- ber of hotels, apartments and office buildings and is endeavoring to collect rents from various properties. Taylor filed suit against the Smith Co. to recover the value of five 7 per cent collateral trust sinking fund gold coupon bonds of the Properties In- vestment Corporation. He alleges they were represented to him as first mort- gage bonds and that he paid cash for them at their par value Later, he sald, upon_ learning they were second mortgage bonds secured by a_slight equily in the Hamilton Hotel, he at- tempted to sell them on the open market, but the best offer was for only 5 per cent of the par value. SON’S APPEAL SAVES FATHER FROM JAIL, Colored Man Given Suspended Sen- tence for Firing at Him During Argument. A father was given a suspended sen- tence today in Police Court on a charge of “discharging a firearm” when his son, who narrowly escaped injury from the’ bullet, told Judge Gus A. Schuldt that “I do not want to see my father g0_to jail.” Police said John L. Green, 67 years old, colored, became involved in an argument with his 35-year-old son Al- fred at their home, 4252 Washington place northeast, last night. The father, to make his pointt more convincing, whipped out & revolver and fired at Alfred’s feet. The argument was won here and there, for the son started running and did not even hesitate until he reached Policeman Miles Znamenacek a half hour later. The officer locked up the father at the eleventh precinct. “I don't want to see g0 to jall,” Alfred told Judge Schuldt. “I was sorry I shot that revolver two minut fter it happened,” said ;he father, ‘:z Alfred ran so fast that couldn’t | the First Division Society, while another | District Chapter of. the 1st HUNDREDS. ARRIVE FORVETS' REUNION &= Delegations From Chicago and New York Due to Reach City Late Today. Heralded by the firing of three salvos, | commemorative of the first shot by Americans in the war, by members of the 6th Fleld Artillery from Fort Hoyle, Md., at Fort Myer early today, the twelfth annual convention of the vet- erans of the 1st Division got under way | officially today, with the beginning of | registration of delegates in the Wulll‘dl Hotel, convention headquarters. Several hundred persons from various parts of the country had tered at the hotel up to early this l:mwmoon and hundreds more were scheduled to arrive by train and automobile later today. Many of the delegates were attired in war-time uniforms of the American Expeditionary Forces, while others were in civilian clothes as they made their way through Peacock Alley in the :Iui.l“:‘:g!w llmtl am;ll&ll‘ellsmmn head- , statione bugdlng. one end of the large delegation was expected from Chicago today, headed by G‘:n. Charles P. Summerall, chief of staff of the United States Army and president of Beadea by Co. Frea y_Col. Fred Feigel, whos the late Lieut. Jefleml)fi Feizel? .::la' the first American Artillery ofcer to be killed in the World War, First War Shot Recalled. The salvo at Fort Myer was fired at the exact time, as to date and hour, on which the first shot was fired by American troops in the World War. On that occasion it was Battery C of the 6th Field Artillery of the First Divi- sion which sent shells over into the German lines. The gun that fired the first_shot on that morning of October 23,1917, 1s 1 the museum at West Regimental get-together meeti; in the Willard Hotel tonight will mal:fi‘the first feature of the reunion. Tomorrow morning at 11:30 veterans will pay tribute to the Unknown Soldier at the tomb in Arlington Cemetery. :‘h;y w!ll“ be held;ld by Gen. Summerall nd other war-time comman the division. e An escort consisting of a battalion of Field Artillery and a troop of Cavalry from Fort Myer will accompany the 1st Division veterans on the trip into Arlington Cemetery. Tomorrow after- noon the veterans will have lunch at Fort Myer, after which special ex- hibition drills will be staged by Fort Myer troops and will pass in review before Gen. Summerall. McCoy and Summerall to Speak. A ceremony at the 1st Division Monu- ment, south of the State, War and Navy Building, will be held Saturday after- noon at 2:30 o'clock, following a trip to Mount Vernon earlier that day. Former Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy and Maj. Gen. Summerall will speak at the mon- ument ceremeny. The reunion will close with a banquet in the Willard Saturday night at 7 o'clock, when of- ficers of the 1st Division Society will be elected and disposition made of other business. Addresses are to be delivered also by former generals who at various times commanded the 1st Division dur- ing the World War. The reunion is under auspices of the ivision So- from New, York, PAGE B-1 DISTRICT FAVORS WINTER BUILDING TO AID JOBLESS Officials Plan to Avoid Sea- sonal Slump in Construc- tion Projects. FULL LAY-OFF OPPOSED; PART-TIME JOBS URGED D. C. Departments to Ease Letdown of Activities to Help Unem- ployment Here. Efforts will be made by the various engineer departments of the District government during the coming Winter not to slow down construction work as much as usual, in an effort, directed by Engineer-Commissioner John C. Gotwals, to lessen unemployment annu- ally made necessary by letting out of per diem workers in the construction diviflow 125. ork on construction of bridges, schools, paving, grading and sewer jobs will be continued except in the severest of cold weather. In various depart- ments an effort will be made to put men on half time instead of letting them out entirely when severe weather forbids certain types of construction }?kvclvmz the setting of cement and the e. Workers on the regular rolls are not lflmgwmflfewwm slowing down of construction work, but there are about 1,000 workers of various grades employed during the construc- tion period in Summer who are annually let out during Winter when there is no work for them to do. The District, however, has fallen in line with the States and Federal Govern- ment in.an effort to ease the acuter stages of the unemployment situation, down of consuction sciviies o s cons "Tm-"bl;- ties as much re one eer however, Whete the Yeverse & base- Thg trees and parkings department, under Supt. Clifford Lanham, will piant no the 110 1p05s 50 thorpuphiy, Bemig 50 to . Lanham, double up its program in which time it is hoped u‘i':n condi- tions will have returned to normal. TRIPLE AUTO CRASH LANDS HIM IN JAIL Motorist to Face Court Today as Drunken Driver—Colored Man Seriously Injured. James A. , 33, of (AT B, 53, of 001 Ky of driving tenth ‘precinct fast ‘Aight following o triple collision at. Sixteenth and. ue ;"\::te“ in which a woman was slightly lice, ran into another opera - ward Krause of Silver Bvrln:yl(L Which in turn struck a machine driven by Violet Stein, 3511 Dnvenfifl. street. Celia Stein, sister of the latter, was Bhyrician Tor oo ment by, & privata cul bnla:isedhflbc(;: and Lhockon u” e :noc} Y, 40, colore street, was "removed # Pormn‘f Hosfi:ltfl with a ible fracture of the i B il s et e esult of an accident at was said by police been oper- ated by Charles E. Dandlet, 37, of 401 Sixth street north Dandl east. et was taken into thn to, custody by police of the inct and released o e B o e S nsel's come of Clay's hurts. e e $30,000 SUIT BASED ON BITE INTO CANDY Plaintiff Claims 5 and 10 Store Sold Him Confection Containing Metal Staple. F. W. Wodlworth, Inc., 1201 P streef has been sued in the District Supnmfi Court for $30,000 damages by William H. McGarth, 1139 Oates street, for in- juries alleged to have been sustained when he bit on a piece of candy which he said contained a metal staple. He says he bought the candy at the store April 17, 1929, and charges negligence against the company. He is repre- sented .bgyesAtw;nflgzgflllhm Vlelid!?lr.e of ,000 are asl in a suit filed by John Ryan, a d::: rator, 4115 Thirty-eighth street, who claims he tripped over a roll of wall paper at the store of Samuel David, trading as the Union Wall Paper Co., 630 Massachusetts avenue. Ryan says he went to pay a bill and in’tripping over the roll of paper was plk:hex five feet dJdown an ungmmad stairway, April 24, since which time he has be unable to carry on his business. At- torneys Rush L. Holland and George E. Strong represent the plaintiff. The Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Washington Railroad Co. is named as defendant in a suit for $10,000 damages filed in the District Supreme Court by Elizabeth Bryant of Pulaski, Va. charges that a car of the company jumping the track on a street in Alex- andria, February 2, last, struck and injured her. She is represented by Attorneys Claude A. Thompson and Julius C. Martin. clety, the chapter being composed of troops living in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Co- lumbia. EMPLOYES PLAN DINNER Commissioner Gotwals and Assist- ant to Be Honored Saturday. Employes of the building inspector’s office will stage a dinner and reception at the Continental Hotel Saturday night in honor of Engineer Cemmis- sloner John C. Gotwals and Assistant Engineer Commissioner Donald A. Da- n. At the dinner the 12 newly appointed engineers and inspectors «f the cffice, under the expansion and reorganization plan !mnfl{hmpushed. will be in- troduced to the Engineer Commission-r and Maj. Davison, who is the executive :gm over the building inspector’s lce. SHOOTING OF YOUTH PROBED BY OFFICERS Supreme Court Crier Reports Sec- ond Time Shots Have Been Fired at Him. Policemen of the fourteenth precinct w‘d’lyLlnvé:fi‘l;‘Mz;hz report of Rich- ard L. , 22-year-old Supreme Court crier, that he was shot at last Sunday night at Cathedral and Con- necticut avenues while driving to his home, at 2331 Cathedral avenue, Collins told Capt. Charles H. Brem- was the second time he in eight months. supposed assatlant. Collins is the crier for Chief Justice the District Su-