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A—-16 »w CAPITAL PREPARES FOR OBSERVANCE OF THE EVENING Honored on Retirement CLOCK PRESENTED TO STAR EMPLOYE. WASHINGTON'S DAY Hoover Will Worship in Pew of First President at Alexandria. CONGRESS TO CONDUCT CEREMONY ON MONDAY Churches to Pay Tribute Tomor- row and Patriotic Societies on Following Day. ‘With Washington's birthday anniver- sary falling on Sunday this year, ob-| servance of the day by President Hoover | and officials and citizens of the Na- tional Capital generally will depart from the usual pattern. President Hoover is expected to follow his own inclination in observing the day. Mrs. Hoover being absent from the city, the Chief Executive will motor to Alexandria to worship quiety in the pew of the First President in historic Christ Church, which Washington at- tended during his years at Mount Vernon. : Mrs. Hoover hurried from the Capital after the final official reception of the season to Asheville, N. C., for a visit with her convalescent son, leaving Peggy Ann, Herbert. jr., and Baby Joan with their grandfather at the White! House. Just what these three lively little children intend to do on Wash- ington’s birthday depends probably on the weather and their own childish in- clinations. Beck to Give Address. Members of Congress, too, will ex- perience an unexpected swerve from the traditions of Washington’s birthday ob- servance. This year, with the official observance scheduled for Monday, Representative James M. Beck of Penn- sylvania, will deliver an address on Washington. Washington'’s farewell ad- dress will be read tomorrow also in| both houses. Churches in the National Capital will generally observe the anniversary to morrow. Clergymen in virtually every | State have advised Right Rev. James E | Freeman, Bishop of Washington, of plans to direct attention of their con- gregations to the Christian aspects of | the first President’s character. This| was in accord with an appeal issued to Episcopal clergy by Bishop Freeman. | In addition to the military mass planned by the American Legion Mon- day morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, | there will be services commemorative of the birth of Washington by the Sons of | the Revolution at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the Church of the Epiph- | any. The sermon at the military mass will be preached by Very Rev. Ignatius Smith, O. P., and at the latter service by Right Rev. Cameron J. Davis, bishop coadjutor of Western New York. Societies Observe Monday. ‘The principal civic observance on Monday will be held at 10 o'clock in the morning at Memorial Continental Hall. It will be under the auspices of the Sons of the Revolution, Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution and Children of the American Revolution. The United States Marine Band Orchestra will ren- der a concert from 10 to 10:30 o'clock | before the exercises. i Augustus Owsley £ tanley, former Sen- | ator from Kentucky, will deliver the | oration. Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, | District Commissioner. will present greetings, and Dr. Thomas Edward Green, president of the Sons of the | Revolution, will preside. All seats un-: occupled at 10:30 o'clock will be open | to the public. Schools Closed Monday. - Seventy-six thousand public school | children will be free on Monday to ! observe the day as they wish. The | schools have been ordered closed, in ' view of the fact that the legal holiday | fell on Sunday. Individual classes at! various schools held exercises com- | memorative of the occasion during the | week, but no generally sponsored pro- gram was observed. The annual Boy Scout pilgrimage to ‘Mount Vernon was held today. Scout troops assembled on the Ellipse at 9:15 o'clock this morning, the last bus leav- ing about 10 o'clock. Senator Bulkley of Ohio was to make a short address at Mount Vernon. | Prance will pay its tribute to Wash- ington's memory through Ambassador | Claudel in a radio talk tomorrow night | at 9 oclock. In Paris, floral tributes will be placed in the Mount Vernon | replica by President Doumergue, Premier | Laval and by Marshal Hubert Lyautey, | high commissioner of the International Exposition. Following speeches by these | dignitaries, Ambassador Walter E. Edge will respond for the United States. Society Presents Pageant. The Society of Virginia, in connection with the George Washington Bicenten- nial Commission, last night presented a | pageant at the Willard Hotel as its| program of observance. The pagrant. part of the annual Colonial ball, intro- duced Virginia's eight Presidents At the Colonial pageant Virginia was | yepresented by Mrs. Maude Howel Smith, who called the roll of the eight | Virginia Presidents. beginning with | Washington and’ending with Wondrow | ‘Wilson. Sons and Daushters of the Republic | clubs held exercises last night at Peck Memorial Chapel. John Prove, presi-| dent of the Nathan Hale Club, and| Richard Logan of Mount Vernon, were masters of ceremonies. Guest speak- ers included Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, | U. 8. A, retired; Mrs. John Dickinson | Sherman, presidential commissioner of the Washington Bicentennial Commis- | sion: Miss Helen Harman, State regent | of the District of Columbia D. A. R.:| Mrs. David Caldwell, vice president | general of the D. A. R. and Mrs. H L. Rust, president of the Wakefield Na- tional Memorial Association. Music was provided by a section of the Army Band. PETTR- Sps CROAKERS, LIKE RICH, 0 SOUTH FOR WINTER Federal Bureau of Fisheries Gains Evidence by Tagging Fish and Turning Them Loose. By the Associated Press. It is now clear that the “croaker,” one of the most important of North At- lantic food fishes, shares with wealthy human beings the habit of going South for the Winter. The Federal Bureau of Fisheries, after puzzling over the croaker’s annual disappearance, has got the evidence. Experts for some years have been catching a few and tagging them, of- fermng a reward to any fisherman haul- g one in during the Winter. This last December one of the tagged fishes was hooked off the Carolina coast and now reposes in a bottle with the date and place of its demise properly re- corded on the label. Soprano in Special Feature. Miss Dorothy Skinner, Washington Nearly 33 years of service for The Star as a member of its composing room force came to a close for Isaac B. Field yesterday. Gathered in a large group among the desks and tables in the silent pro-frcom, his friends and associates of many years presented Mr. Fleld with an electric clock, suitably inscribed, as & symbol of friendship for the man who worked so long with them. A number of those in the gathering were older in service than Mr. Field and will soon be retired as he was a few days ago. “Ike" Field came to The Star in April, 1898, and except for a shcrt stretch of 10 months, has been a continuous member of the anonymous group which plays a large part in getting out a newspaper. For nearly haif of his Star service Mr. Field had been foreman of the proofrcom. In the photo M. J. Maher (left), clock to Mr. Field. a fellow proofreader, is presenting the —Star Staff Photo. SKILLED TEACHER TO GIVE WAY TO MATRON IN WEBSTER SCHOOL Cutting Off of Fund by Congress to Deprive Children of Americanization Class Mothers of Instruction. Congress is T'moving a scientifically trained educator from her charge of 32 childrin under 5 years of aze and it is turning those youngsters over to a woman possessing no educational re- quirements whatsoever except that it would be nice if she had “some nursing exp-rience.” But by doing that Congress is going to save the District of Columbia $1,000 next year. And that is exactly $31.25 per_pupil! This is one result of the compromise reached by the Senate and Hous: con- ferecs the other day on the House pro- posal that not a dollar of the District's money should be spent on the cducaticn of the District's children who have not yet become 5 yeags of age. That was the proposal which Representative Rob'rt G. Simmons of Scott's Bluff, N:br., made when the District’s School Board discheyed his admonition to ) eliminate all under-age kindergartens and retained the kindergarten at th: Webster Americanization School. The compromise which now is to go into effect calls for the hiring of a “matron” for that class, and that automatically means the transfer of the skill:d teacher elsewhere in the school system Now Becomes Nursery. In reaching that compromise, the congressional conferees knew of the widely-voiced defense of the Webster kindergarten that its elimination would seriously hamper the work of the citi- zenship classes by removing a safe place in which the foreign mothers who study citizenship could leave their children. The compromise, school offi- cials opine, makes the kindergarten a “nursery”’—just a3 Mr. Simmons al- vays has_contended. Meanwhile, under the plan of the matron, those youngsters who hear no English at home and who got their only instruction in the tongue of their new homeland at the Webster kinder- garten must now face first grade of the elementary course with the ob- stacle of a new language to learn. A little Greek boy. though, whose name | doesn’t matter, but whose identity is real, 15 all set to go on prepared to begin the studies of other American children next Fall. He went into the kindergarten when he was 3 years old. His mother, who spoke no English, went into_the citizenship classes The boy, who now is old enough to begin_reguiar school work, speaks per- | fect English and his mother is doing pretty well herself. Now if any little countrymen of that boy are beginning of their work in the under- age kindergarten they'll just have to quit for Congress is placing a matron in charge of the class where there will be nothing but nursery play. Child Greatly Helped. Then there’s another lucky child. She is a little Italian girl who's going into regular school next Fall. She also went to the kindergarten at the age of 3. Her parents, not very skilled folks, as parents go, had permitted her to get the idea that all she had to do was scream and anything she wanted she could have. The scientifically trained woman in charge of the kindergarten gradually drew the child out of that habit and today the little girl is one of the best behaved pupils of the class. The teacher in charge has gpent yea of effort in scientific study for the work she is doing. But her salary has reached the $2,200 per year that is the height of kindergarten teacher salaries. And by replacing her with a matron at $1.200, Congress is saving some money. | Of course, if the matron does her “ma- troning” pretty well, she will get a $60 raise each year until her salary is $1,500, so that, after all. Congress will be sav- ing in the end $700 a year. Under the rule which the school board adopted January 7, any kinder- garten which cannot show at least 22 children belonging to its rolls must be closed. Hence the Webster class will be elim- inated because there are only 10 boys and girls of regular kindergarten age there. Thus, the 32 remaining “under- age” children, including 19 who attend taree or four days a week and the 23 who are regular attendants, will occupy the same room they now use. But their teacher will be gone, the scientific guidance mn work and play and d cipline will be gone and theyll ha a kindly matron who'll bounce them on her knee while mother struggles up- stairs to learn citizenship and English. But Congress will be saving from $700 to $1,000 for the District. CO-ED HURT IN CRASH IN SERIOUS. CONDITION Fractured Skull—Friend Not Badly Injured. Miss Alice Brennan, 17-year-old Uni- of Maryland co-ed, who was seriously injured in an automobile acci- dent at College Park, Md., vesterday, was said to be in an unchanged condi- tion this morning at Providence Hos- pital. Miss Brennan, who lives in the 2400 block Twelfth 'street northeast, was thrown from her car when it was struck by another machine as she drove into the Washington-Baltimore boulevard from the university groun: Miss Dorothy Romback, who was rid- ing with Miss Brennan, also was thrown frcm the automobile, but escaped seri- ous injury. She was treated for cuts and bruises at the university infirmary The occupants of the other car escaped injury. Physicians at Providence Hospital said Miss Brennan, who was uncon- scious when she reached the institation. was_suffering from possible fraeturcs |of the skull and arm and cuts and bruis Miss Brennan is prominent in stu- dent activities at the university, being a regular contributor to the twn under- graduate publications, the Diamonaback and the Old Line. LANGLEY FIELD TEAMS FLY TO WASHINGTON More than a dozen Army planes of wvarious types are making the trip from Langley Field, Hampton, Va., to Bolling Field today, bringing the Lang- ley Field enlisted men's basket ball team and an officers’ squash team to meet similar local teams tonight. Five A-3 attack planes, an Army Sikorsky amphibian and & P-12 pur- suit plane were making the trip during the morning, with others to follow dur- ing the afternoon, pilots at the Vir- ginia field having saved up cross-coun- try fiying time in order to make the trip. The Bolling Field basket ball team, with seven victories to its credit out of eight starts, will take on the visitors in the field gymnasium. The Langley Field squash team will meet & team from the Racquet Club. Iris Lecture Illustrated. J. M. R. Adams, at a meeting of the National Capital Dahlia and Iris So- clety held at the Carlton Hotel last soprano, will entertain as a special fea- ture of the Pebruary dance to be held by the Massachusetts State Society of ‘Washington at the main ball room of the Shoreham Hotel ‘rm.n'sdi ht, , 26, ) 7 night, gave a lecture on iris which was illustrated with lantern slides. Plans for the Spring exhibit will be formulated at the next meeting, which will be held Margh was an- nounced. Miss Alice Brennan May Have| l Co-Ed. Injured | MISS ALICE BRENNAN, Seventeen-year-old Maryland University studgnt, Who was seriously injured in an automobile accident at College Park, Md., yesterday afternoon. LANGDON WILL FACE TRIAL BOARD TODAY Charges Involving Discovery of Still in Suspended Officer’'s Home to Be Heard. Charged with conduct unbecoming &n officer in connection with the investiga- tion of the slaying of Beulah Limerick, Robert F. Langdon, suspended fifth pre- cinct policeman, was scheduled to go on trial today before the Police Trial Board. Langdon said he would plead not guilty to the charge and ask for a con- tinuance until liquor charges now pend- ing against him in District Supreme Court can be heard. Langdon was one of four men ordered held by a coroner’s jury which investi- gated the girl's death.” All four, how- ever, were ordered released by the grand Jury. The misconduct charge against Lang- don is based in part upon the discovery of a still in the basement of his home by detectives investigating the murder mystery. He is represented by Attorney Harry Whelan, in the | STAR, WASHINGTON, ADOLESGENTSPRT INPUPLS SFOUND SOURCE OF DANEE Better Adjustment to Their School Obligations Urged by Scientist. ISTRAINS AT THIS AGE MAKE SHARP INCREASE ! White House Conference Section | on Child Health Given Results of Observations, BY THOMAS R. HENRY. The “adolescent spurt,” the accelera- tion in growth which comes at about | the time children enter high school in | the United States, involves such far- | | reaching dangers that a change in the | American educational system may be i | justified. |~ Such was the warning of Dr. Charles | B. Davenport, director of the’ genetics | laboratory of the Carnegie Insticution | of Washington, to the medical s:rvice | section of the White House Conforence {on Child Health and Protection. At the very time, he said, when the | child's body ‘is under enormous_stress | American society throws upon the or- | ganism a greatly increased load. Boys | and girls Jeave the elementary school to the routine of which they have be come adjusted over a long period of lesser physical strain, and are forc:d to make the difficult adjustment to the new environment of high school. At the same time they are thrown into competitive sports, subjected to stricter discipline, and begin to enter society. Would Be More Lenient, These extra burdens on an_ already over-burdened physical machine, Dr. Davenport ‘said, may be in large part responsible for the bodily breakdowns in tuberculosis and the mental break- downs in, dementia precox which are so frequent at that age. He urged that boys and girls at this period of life be | | given greater freedom to follow their | | instincts, even in such manifestations | {as truancy. “The body knows what it | | wants,” he said, “and shouldn't be i forced into what it rebels against.” The English school system, he said, | seems better calculated to meet this | | situation. There the school grades are |arranged so that the boy remains in {tke same school, with few new bur- | dens, during the “adolescent spurt” and is not transferred to the higher school until the dangerous period is over. The danger, Dr. Davenport said, is| more apparent from recent biological | studies which show that the cost to the | | body of this great acceleration of growth |is far more extensive than had been | supposed. ~ Practically every cell of the |gresnism is under stress. Growth is accompanied by a corresponding tear- |ing-down process. Physically this is| | manifested by such symptoms as awk- | { wardness and growing pains. But the | | mind must make an adjustment to the | | changing body and this, Dr. Davenport | said. seems to explain some of the queer | behavior of adolescents which has puz- zled their elders throughout history. | | The effort should be, he said, to relieve | the organism of burdens rather than | pile more upon it. ! Growth Curves Studied. | , Statistical studies of the growth curves of children, he explained, show that | there 15 a gradual diminishing of the | rate at birth until about the fourth year, after which there is a slow but steady increment to about the tenth year. | Then the spced is much reduced, until it suddenly increases enormously at about the thirteenth year in girls and the | fourteenth in boys. With some chil- | dren, however, this may come at 10 to 12, and varies somcwhat with race and | physical type. This is what he called | the “adolescent spurt.” { The diminished growth rate which i precedes it, he explained, is due to | nature’s recognition of the great burdens |she is preparing to throw on the body. |1t gives the orghnism a breathing spell | to store up reserves for the hard battle ahead While defending their general useful- ness, care must be exercised in the ad- ministration and _interpretation of {mental tests of children, Dr. Douglas A. Thom of Boston told the conference |~ “Mental growth,” he said, “starts even before birth and continues through life. It may be traced in the earliest patterns of behavior exhibited by the infant.” Young Children Observed. The possibility of studying the minds | of very young children through objec- | tive obscrvation of their behavior also | was stressed by Dr. Arnold Gessell of | Yale University, whose recent experi- | ments, have developed a tentative technique. It is based on the concept of “the mind as having a living struc- ture and as being an organic complex which manifests itself in _behavior which is expressed in organic patterns.” Even the apparently random activities of the infant are considered just as much manifestations of “mind” as the words it uses when it reaches the talk- ing stage. By studying such activities for large numbers of children the in- vestigators are confident that patterns for age levels can be established which can be correlated with rate of growth of the more abvious expressions of the mind shown afterward. Thus it may be possible to predict vaguely the in- fant’s future from shortly after birth. The definition of intelligence—a much disputed _point—upon which the Con- ference Committec proceeded was “abil- ity to see meanings and think in lerms of abstractions.” “To measure the intelligence of an individual,” said Dr. Thom, “we must rely on tests which give us samples of the individual's ability in diterent types of performance. It is not to be expected that a given individual will make the same score on all the tests now in common use. Inexpert admin- istration of intelligence tests is an im- portant source of error, as is also mis- interpretation. The test score should De thought of not as a final verdict but as a point of departure for further ob- servation. It should be supplemented by the story of the child's life, tests of actual accomplishments and a careful consideration of personality traits.” Heredity Factor Stated. The Conference Committee took the stand that intellectually superior chil dren are products of heredity, but nur- ture and personality determine in large measure the extent to which they achieve. “Systematized effort in behalf of such children must replace the pres- ent general neglect and the ruinous methods of prodigy-making which have been sporadically attempted,” Dr. Thom insisted. The committee also took its stand on the position that special abilities, such as musical and mathematical, a hereditary, but “the actual behavior of the child depend to as great or greater extent on the degree to which his be- havior is governed by sound habits. More mothers die in childbirth in the United States than in any other civil- ized nation, the conference was told by Dr. Palmer Findley, president of the Central Association 'of Obstetrics and Gynecology. This is largely due, the conference committee concluded, to in- adequate educational facilities for med- ical students, nurses and graduate phy- sicians. The mortality is less than half, it was reported, in the few thoroughly equipped maternity hospitals with thoroughly trained personnel. than half the conditions arisin childbirth that contribute to maternal B _C, SATURDAY, No Vagabond l THOROUGHBRED ENGLISH SETTER IN POUND. A thoroughbred English setter, nick- named Danny temporarily at the city dog pound, South Capitol and I streets, anxiously awaits his owner. He is white with black and brown ticking. Pound- master W. R. Smith reports he was picked up, tagless, near Military road, in Rock Creek Park. MOTORIST KILLED IN AUTO COLLISION Two Others Injured When Car Hits Truck in Northeast Washington. Erskine V. Smith, colored, 19 years old, of 2627 Eleventh street, was killed early toddy, when his automobile struck a motor truck belonging to W. H. Har- rison, commission merchant, in business in the new commission house district | at Florida avenue and Ffith street northeast. Gladys Gaskins, colored, 19 years old, also of ‘the Eleventh street address, and Ada Fisher, colored. 15 years old, of 1804 Second 'street, other occupants of the Smith car, were in- jured. Ernest C. Shelton, driver of the truck. | eastbound on Florida avenue, was mak- ing a left turn into the market area when Smith's car, moving east on Florida avenue struck the truck bread- side. Smith was taken to Casualty Hospital and treated for a crushed chest and hemorrhage, dying shortly after arrival. Ada Fisher was treated at Casualty Hopital for a laceration of the face, while Gladys Gaskins received treat ment at_ Freedmen's Hospital bruises. Shelton was detained by po- lice of the ninth precinct to await the action of the corcner. Byron W. Bonney, 89 years old, 1724 Lanier place, was severely injured last night when knocked down at the in- tersection of Seventh and L streets by the automobile of Edward Earl Brown, colored, 21 years old, of 621 Rhode Island avenue. Brown was arrested. SERMON TO BE GIVEN FOR HIBERNIANS Rev. James Smith of Baltimore; Will Preach at St. Patrick's Church on March 17. Rev. James Smith of Baltiniore, one- | time assistant pastor at St. Patrick’s Church, Tenth and G streets, will| preach the sermc.. at the church when the Ancient Order of Hibernians cele- brates St. Patrick’s day, March 17,1 starting with pontifical high mass at | 10 o'clock dn the morning. A reception, for members of the order and their friends, will be held in the rectory, following the services in the | church. A banquet will be held at the May- flower Hotel at 7:30 pm. Among the speakers will be Judg® Martin Sweeney | of Cleveland, Ohio, national president of the Hibernians; Right Rev. John M. McNamara, Auxiliary Bishop of Balti- more; Miss Agnes Reagan, secretary of the National Catholic Welfar@ Con- ference, and Miss Elizabeth Lynn, Dis- trict_president of the Ladies” Auxiliary of the order. Patrick J. Haltigan will serve as toastmaster and Patrick H. O'Dea is chairman of the Committee on Arrange- ments and District president of the order. Chairmen of committees are as fol- lows: Miss Theresa E. Collis, Enter- tainment; Patrick J. Haltigan, Speakers; Francis J. Rafferty, Tickets; Michael J. Dowd, Publicity! Joseph A. Daly, Re- ception, and Miss Julia Linskey, Deco- rations TAXI DRIVERS URGED T IGNORE STORES | Manager Suggests That Operators Cease Trading With F and G Street Merchants. The 1,000 drivers of the Diamond Cab Co. cars were urged in a bulletin by H. C. Davis, manager of the com- pany, today, not to buy from stores on F and G streets. This action was urged as a reprisal for approval by the merchants of the recent regulation barring taxicabs from F and G streets between Ninth and Pifteenth streets ex- cept on call. ‘The bulletin contains exhaustive statistics of the amounts paid by Dia- mond drivers and owners to Wash- ington merchants since 1926, and points out that in addition to the economic interests of the drivers, those of the drivers’ children and rélatives are at stake. . “After taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from you and your relatives,” the bulletin says, “some of these mer- chants are recommending this ban and politely stabbing you in the back. If you know the above facts are true, why patronize the F and G street mer- chants? Why not suggest to your many friends and relatives that there, are other merchants in this city beside the P and G street merchants? FEBRUARY iMerchants and Manufactur- | ment was made possible because of a The association of Diamond drivers 1s holding an open meeting at graphical Temple next Monday at which the affair is to be discussed. mortality are preventable,” it was re- Pohe voracious appetite of the ado- lescent is thoroughly justified, the con- ference was. told by Dr. Lafayette B. Mendel, professor of _ physiological chemistry at Yale. “Their uniquely heightened metabolism,” he said, bundantly justifies the proportion- ately greater calorie intake. Science will’ no longer J 'y the skipping of youth in mmufi.’dhh" S 21, 1931. RESOLUTION ASKS U..S. TO REIMBURSE ALEXANDRIA LINE ers Oppose Putting Burden on D. C. Taxpayers. BACK $100,000 FUND FOR WASHINGTON FETE| Inclusion of Appropriation in De- ficiency Bill Is Urged by Association. ‘The Federal Government—and not the District taxpayers—should reim- burse the Mount Vernon, Alexandria & | Washington Railway Co. for the re- moval of the tracks of the transporta- tion company from the triangle area, made necessary by the Federal build- ing program, in the opinion..of the Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Asso- clation. ‘The board of governers of the local | trade association yesterday adopted a | resolution recommending that damages to the raflway concern growing out of its removal from Washington should be paid by the National Government. | Vigorous opposition was voiced to the | proposed appropriation out of the| revenues of the District to cover this| reimbursement to the railway. Backs $100,000 Fund. The association, through its govern- ing board, also went on record urging that the appropriation of $100,000 for the local George Washington Bicenten- nial Commission, which has been elim- iated from the District budget meas- ure, be included in the deficiency bill. The proposed election of John H. Hanna as a member of the board of directors of the Chamber of Commerce | of the United States, to represent the local region, was indorsed by the asso- ciation. ‘The body decided to hold its tradi-| tional Washington Boostet outing again this year aboard a steamer on a Lhree- day cruise down the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay during the early part of June. Dr. M. G. Gibbs was named chairman of the Outing Com-| mittee. Chest Official Commended. A resolution was adopted, commend- | ing the Community Chest officials on | the recent success of its budget cam- paign. Mark Lansburgh, president, spoke of the excellent record set during the past year by local retail trade organizations in the face of generally depressed busi- ness conditions and Edward D. Shaw, secretary, made a detailed report on the activities of the association during the past year. DISTRICT BILL AWAITS | APPROVAL OF HOOVER House and Senate Accept Confer- | ence Report Quickly, With Lump Sum Unchanged. The District appropriation bill, carry- ing a total of approximately $45,672.- | 000 for the coming fiscal year, is at the White House today awaiting the signa- ture of President Hoover. The confer- ence report was agreed to promptly by both the House and Senate yesterday | and the bill sent to the President dur- ing the afternoon. The final legislative step. was taken by the Senate when it ratified the confer- | ence agreement within a few hours after the House had acted. Prompt agree- previous agresment by both Houses that the $9,500,000 Federal lump sum con- tribution would be continued pending completion by the Mapes Committee of its study of fiscal relationship between the Federal and District Governments. — i NAVY OFFICERS DETAILED | FOR HARVARD COURSE Three Named to Study Inter- national Law, Beginning in Next September. Three officers who have graduated from the Naval War College at New- port, R. I, have been chosen by the Navy Department for the first class to take the course in international law for naval officers at Harvard University, this coming September. The department today announced that these men are Capt. Henry L. Wyman, now commanding the U. S. S. Idaho; Comdr. Clarkson J. Bright, now commanding the U. S. S. Simpson, and Lieut. Comdr. Randal E. Dees, now at the naval station, Guam. Only officers in the grades of cap- tain, commander and senior lieutenant commanders and War College graduates are to be ordered for this new course of instruction, the department asserted. For officers who take the course after sea assignments the course will be about three years, while for officers who have just graduated from the Naval War College the course will be two years. A special course of study at the Naval War College will be given during the Summer months in .conjunction with the legal curriculum. CITIZENS MEET MONDAY ‘The North Capitol Citizens' Associa- tion will hold its next meeting at Mc- Kinley High School at 8 o'clock Monday evening. 4 John P. Prey, secretary-treasurer of the Metal Trades Department of the American Federation of Labor, will speak on “Unemployment as It Affects Our Industrial Life.” | munity residents are furnishing their| | water for drinking and personal use. | cases residents of the community have | donebecause of lack of water. | Cabin John Families| Seek Extra Water| To Augment Su‘pply MResidents Suff ering, Al- though Nearest Main Is Only Half Mile Away. Although they are separated from the waters of the Potomac River by only a | little more than a half mile, some 200 families in the little community of Cabin John, Md. comprising between | 400 and 500 persons, are in djre need of water for drinking purposes and house- hold use. Nine out of 10 wells in the community | are dry or are furnishing insufficient | water, according to C. H. Godbold, a Navy Department architect, who lives in Cabin John. From the few wells that are producing water, a few of the com- less fortunate neighbors with enough Those residents of the little com- munity who go to Washington each day by automobile have been taking home cans of water each evening to augment the scanty supply furnished by the wells which have water in them. In many not been able to have the family wash | Godbold explains that the water mains of the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission now run to within a mile of the center of Cabin John, but this water is not availdble beyond the north- ern boundary of Glen Echo. ‘Two alternatives are open to the resi- dents of Cabin John, he said, digging their wells deeper or raising a pool to carry the sanitary commission mains into Cabin John. The latter course is- expensive, while if the wells are dug deeper the situation may not be im- proved. D.C. SUPPLY BlL SENT T0 PRESIDENT House and Senate Agree to Conference Report, With Lump Sum Unchanged The principal change made by the | SCANT HOPE HELD BY BONUS FOES OF VETO BEING UPHELD Rumor of Extra Session Call to Provide Funds for Loans Unverified. CONGRESS TO RECEIVE MESSAGE BY THURSDAY Slate Well Cleared for Adjourn- ment Unless New Complica- tions Develop. By the Associated Press. President Hoover today began plan- ning his veto message on the veterans’ loan bill, while administration leaders on Capitol Hill started a forlorn search for votes to sustain it. Although the measure will not be returned to Congress until next Wed- nesday or Thursday, Republican chief- tains saw scant chance of boosting to the required number for sustaining the veto the meager band of opponents. Rumors spread through the Capitol that the President in his veto message might assert that if the legislation, al- lowing World War veterans to borrow half the face value of their compen- sation certificates, were cnacted over the veto he would be,forced to“call an extra session this Spring to provide funds. Spoke of It as Rumor. ‘This was. circulated by responsible party leaders, but they spoke of it only as a rumor; refused to take responsi- bility for it, and said nothing definite was known as to_what Mr. Hoover would say. Most of them scouted it, but it caused plenty of speculation. Whether such a threat would bring into line enough members who object to an extra session of the new Congress also was problematical. The President himself is known to be vigorously op- posed tq an extra session. The next Congress is divided almost equally po- litically in both branches. He sought conferees before the bill was reported back to the two houses was the elimi- nation of the Senate item of $100,000 for expenses of the District of Colum- bia George Washington Bicentennial celebration next year. Efforts will be made to have funds provided in the final deficiency bill. The House conferees refused to accept the Senate amend- ment in the absence of separate con- gressional authorization. The- conferees worked out a compro- | mise which will make it possible for mothers attending the Americanization classes at the Webster School to con- tinue to take their small children to the school during classes. The agreement will make possible the employment of a matron to care for the children. The original bill would have barred chil- dren under 5 years of age and would have prevented attendance of some mothers who had no one with whom to leave their babies. NAVY OFFICIALS PLAN TO SCRAP MAYFLOWER Cost of Yacht of Presidents Would Be $210,000, Board Finds. The former yacht of presidents, the U. S. S. Mayflower, will be scrapped and it is likely that bids will soon be called for, to dispose of the hulk. Secretary Adams reached the decision to junk the craft late yesterday after the Board of Inspection and Survey had reported to him that repairs to the ship would entail expenditure of approxi- mately $21#,000. The Mayflower was burned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on the night of January 24 and sunk. but she was raised, and on Tuesday Rear Admiral Sumner, E. W. Kittelie, president of the Board of Inspection and Survey, and his colleagues went to Philadelphia and made a first-hand in- spection. In view of the cost of placing the ship again in seaworthy condition, the board recommended that she be scrapped. Long a familiar sight at the Wash- ington Navy Yard, the Mayflower fre- quently took the former President Cool- idge and other notables down the Po- tomac River. When President Hoover decided to abandon her, in the interests of economy, she was taken to Philadel- phia for decommissioning and the Navy unsuccessfully made four attempts to sell her to private interests. Recently the Mayflower was being recommis- sioned as flagship of the Special Serv- Reconditioning Former | ice Squadron, to relieve the U. 5. S. Rochester. a co-operation agreement to avoid such a meeting just before the present ses- sion opened. Congress otherwise is prepared to complete its business in due time for the March 4 adjournment. Only yes- terday four of the appropriation meas- ures nrrym!h funds for next year's operation of the Government were sent toAtllile ;v'hll: House. nine of these bills must be passed before March 4. All have passed the House. The Senate has only to approve of two more, and passage of one—for the Navy Department—is in prospect today. Filibuster Is Stopped. Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- vania, brought word to the Senate yes- terday that the President would veto the veterans loan bill and that he would send it back by next Thursday at the latest, in plenty of time for Congress to "V_I.O"‘f on it again. announcement s a fill- buster launched by sen':ropredmns, Republican, Michigan, against the re- maining ;%proprhuon bills before the Senate. e Michigan Senator had ex- pressed a fear that the veterans' bill might be allowed to die by the pocket veto route. ABRAM MYERS DIES; SERVED IN CIVIL WAR Former Examiner of Pension Office, 84, Migrated From Maryland to Illinois in Covered Wagon. Abram Myers, 84, a veteran of the Civil War, and for many years an examiner of the United States Pension Office, died at his home, 1523 Ogden street, yesterday. Funeral services will be held at the W. W. Chambers funeral home, 1400 Chapin street, Monday morning at 11 o’clock. Interment will be_at Fort Lincoln Cemetery. Born in Keedysville, Md., in 1843, Mr. Myers accompanied his parents to Illi- nois in a covered wagon as a_child. At 16 he enlisted in the 3d Illinois Cavalry, in which he served during the Civil War. He took part in the ex- fidfltlun under Gen. Grierson, which vaded Confederate territory as far as_Louisiana. Following the war Mr. Myers taught 1 in Illinois and served as store- keeper and gauger for the Internal Rev- enue Department at Sterling, II.. Later be became a field examiner for the Pen- sion Office, eventually coming into that MARTIN RITES HELD State Department Official Buried in Arlington Cemetery. Funeral services for Capt. Hugh Street Martin, economical adviser on Eastern European affairs at the De- partment of State, who died in Garfield Hospital Thursday, were conducted in Tabler’s funeral home, 928 11 street, to- day. Interment was in Arlington Ceme- tery, with full military honors at the grave. Capt. Martin, who was 39 years old, was a widely known lecturer and a rec- ognized expert on Russian affairs. LIBRARY TO BE OPEN The central building of the Public Library, Eighth and K streets, will be open tomorrow, as usual. The regular Sunday schedule will be adhered to, the librdry being open from 2 to 6 p.m. The same schedule will be followed Monday at the main building. All branches and subbranches will be closed, however. DEATH CALLED DEMOCRATIC AID AS. LEAD OF G. O. P. DIMINISHES Dr. Arthur MacDonald Says Mortality Rate of Party Long in Power May Change Control of Congress. By the Assoclated Press. Death was represented today as a friend of the Democrats in Congress— all because the Republicans have been in power so long. Dr. Arthur MacDonald said the Demo- crats have the best chance to organize the next Congress. All death has to do is to continue cutting down Sena- tors and Representatives at the same rate as in the past 10 years. Dr. MacDondld added that from the Republican point of view an early ses- sion will be more advantageous. “Relatively,” MacDonald said, “the mortality of Republicans is distinctly greater than that of Democrats. The Republicans have been in power much longer than the Democrats in recent times. They are, therefore, older, and naturally more deaths occur among If the mortality percentage of the last five Congresses hold good until next December, he said, the slim Republican majorities in each house will be spirited | away. Figures of the retired physician showed the ratio of blican mortal- l:ywm:t;le t:mw :h ll:emwnnc was .8, taking the 10-year average. In the Senate, the ratio was 7 to “The larger number of new Demo- cratic members will naturally be young- there 3 probabilities of the next Con- @gress are very great.” Dr. MacDonald is fnternationally known as an alienist, p n and writer on medical, statistigal and so- clological subjects. He waSgfor many years a specialist with the Uriiged States Bureau e . Trepresenting organiza , directed two meetings attended by about office in Washington, where he served until retired in 1923. The last few years he served as chief of the record division. He was active in G. A. R. affairs in Washington and was a member of Lin- coln Post, No. 3. ‘He held numerous offices in the Department of the Po- m;n;cfl:nd lwns an Mge on the staff of ional col organi- —— mmander of the ini: His widow, Ellen S. Myers, and four sons, John C., Harry Blaine, Robert R. and Abram F. Myers, survive him. WARDMAN PARK THEATER IS DAMAGED BY BLAZE Scenery Destroyed and Rear of Structure Injured in Fire of Undetermined Origin. A small blaze backstage at the Ward- man Park Theater this morning brought eight engine and four truck companies to the streets and approaches behind ‘Wardman Park Hotel. * ‘The flames destroyed some scenery and smoke and water slightly damaged backdrops and the interior of the rear part of the theater. The fire started in a corner at the rear of the stage. Firemen were unable to ascertain the origin of the fire. A small fire in a pile of trash in the basement of the Ambassador Hotel, Fourteenth and K streets, was put out by firemen about 2 o'clock this morn- ing. Origin of the fire was not de- termined, police reported, and no dam- age was done. Late last night firemen were sum- moned to the Baltimore Hotel, 808 Twelfth street, where soot in the chimney had caught fire. The fire did no damage. DRY CAMPAIGN OPENS NEWARK, N. J, February 21 (#)— The “five-year campaign” in support of 3. | the eighteenth amendment by the Anti- Saloon League opened yesterday in the Newark sector. Dr. George W. Morrow of Detroit, the national tion, 300 persons. He explained the leugue had launched an educational campaign and asked those present to join “not in a battle, but in a war if necessary.” Dr. Frank Kingdon, vary Methodist Epi )pal Church, East luce Orange, challenged the wets to prods “& scheme a5 good as probibition, / 1 4 /