Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1931, Page 17

WASHINGTON, D C, @he Foening Star UESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1931. XX $49572,000 FUND BILL FOR DISTRICT SIGNED BY HOOVER Government Again Contrib- utes $9,500,000 as Its Share of Operating Costs. PUBLIC SCHOOLS GIVEN SUM OF $13,500,000 $1,500,000 Is Appropriated for Starting First Building in Municipal Measure. President Hoover has signed the an- nual District of Columbia appropriation bill, carrying $45,672,000, which amount is almost the same as was appropriated for the current fiscal year, and the amount included in the estimates for the next fiscal year. The Federal contribution toward the cost of operating the District govern- ment has been continued in the bill at $9,500,000, the same as for the current year. The House committee investigat- ing the question of fiscal relations be- iween the Federal Government and the Jocal government has not completed its investigations, and the amount of the Federal contribution was continued the same as for the present year. One of the important features of ‘the appropriation bill is the $1,500,000 item for the beginning of the construction of the first building in what is known as the Municipal Center. This building will be known as the Court Building, and its ultimate cost will be approxi- mately $5,000,000. Most of the land to be included has been purchased and otherwise provided for in previous ap- tions. e public schools of the District will receive $13,500,000. This amount, which is slightly less than for the current year. is for all school purposes, as well as for the construction of several new school buildings. The bill provides for the spending of $4,000,000 on the local highway program. Of important in- terest in this program is the paving of New York avenue from Florida avenue to the Bladensburg road, thereby open- ing up a new artery into the city from the Baltimore Boulevard. Money also is made available for the completion of the bridge over Klingle Valley. The bill also provides for the paving of B street from Fourteenth street to Vir- ginia avenue, which is a part of the p to transform B street from the foot of the Capitol to the Arlington Memorial Bridge into a boulevard. The greater part of this appropria- tion bill is virtually the same as the appropriation bill for the current year. MRS. STEVENS, WIDOW OF MAJOR, SUCCUMBS 72-Year-Old- Resident of District ‘Will Be Buried Tomorrow at Arlington. Mrs. Sarsh Goldsborough Magruder Stevens, 72, widow of Maj. Plerre C. Stevens, U. S. A., died yesterday at her home at 1406 Twenty-ninth street, fol- Jowing an_fllness of several weeks Services will be held at the residence Wednesday _ afternoon, followed by Boy, Shet, Given Blood 13-YEAR-OLD LAD HELD After receiving two blood transfusions, Verclle (Jackie) Bennett, 8 years old, who was shot and seriously wounded by another boy while playing in a patch of woods near his home at 1732 Twenty- seventh street southeast, was said to be in “fair” condition today at Providence Hospital. The shooting occurred yesterday while Jackie and two other children—Yettie and Virginia Skillman, age 10 and 4, respectively—were at play. Toddling | around with them was Mildred Skill- | man, baby sister of Yettie and Virginia. who live next door to Mr. and Mrs. Mack Streitz, with whom Jackie has boarded for the last year or more. Boy, 13, Arrested. Harold Stansbury, 13, of Twenty- fifth street near Q street southeast, was | arrested in connection with the shoot ing, after Detectives Willlam Wrigh! | and J. F. Boxwell of the cleventh pre- | | | | Minnesota avenue near Twenty-thir street southeast. The Stansbury boy admitted the shooting, but declared it was accidental, according to Wright. The youngster's explanation, the detective said, was that | the 22-caliber rifle with which he was | playing “Indian” was discharged when he moved the safety catch. The Stansbury boy was taken to the | Receiving Home, while the Hard; youngster was released. Yettie Tells Story. Yettle's version of the shooting wa: that two strange boys suddenly aj | IN RECEIVING HOME., RDT. JACKIE BE! Jackie's widowed mother, Mrs. Mar- peared In the woods and one of them, | garet Bennett, who lives in the Home without warning, raised a gun to his | Apartments, Seventh and K streets, was shoulder and fired at Jackie. ‘The wounded youngster ran to a shed in the rear of the Skillman home, where he collapsed. Mrs. Ruby Skillman, mother of Jackie's playmates, picked uj the wounded boy, and another neighbor, Lemuel D. Jones, 1702 Twenty-eighth pital. notified at her place of employment and hastened to the hospital. Surgeons at the institution found that p | Jackie had been shot through the chest. n emergency operation was performed, | followed by the first tr street southeast, took him to the hos- |second transfusiorl was g |1ater. OPPONENTS HEARD | AT IPMAHON QUiZ Reappointment as Judge of Police Court Taken Under Advisement. The_appointment of Jurge John P. McMahon for another term in Police Court has been taken under advisement | by the subcommittee headed by Sena- tor King of Utah, following a hearing yesterday, at which further testimony was presented in opposition to the nom- ination. Members of the committee | are undecided whether another hearing will be held. Attorney T. Morris Wampler joined in the complaint previously made by | several others that Judge McMahon is harsh in his attitude toward counsel in his court. Mr. Wampler told of several oceasions on which he had cases ready to be tried, both in the District Su- preme Court and Police Court, at the same time and had been unable, he said, to obtain continuances in Judge McMahon's court. On one of these oc- casions, Wampler said, the judge in the | upper court assisted him in getting a | continuance of the Police Court case until the attorney was finished in the upper court. | Attorney Albert Stern, also opposing | the appointment, told the subcommittee of a case which was started in Judge | McMahon's court in 1925, on which, he testified, the dockets do not show a final disposition. Stern told the sub- | committee the last notation was a mo- | burial in Arlington National Cemetery. Born at Oakley, her father’s estate near Brookeville, Md., she was educated in a private school in Montgomery County, Md., and following her mar- riage to Maj. Stevens in 1885, made her home in Washington. She was the daughter of the late Dr. William Bowie Magruder. She traveled throughout the country with her husband, and after his retirement spent her time here and in nearby Maryland. Maj. Stevens died in 1919. Mrs. Stevens was a member of St. John’s Church and was active in Wash- ington social life. She is survived by » daughter, Mrs. Prederick Hicks, and s sister, Mrs. Philip D. Laird of Rock- ville, Md. WORLD COURT TOPIC | BEFORE COSMOS CLUB| Chester H. Rowell, Columnist, Will Speak at Dinner Here Tonight. Chester H. Rowell, well umnist, will speak on “Th United| States and the Word Court” tonight at a dinner to be held by the Washington | World Court Committee at the Cosmos | Club. The meeting is held to demonstrate the interest of citizens of this city in the prompt adherence of the United States to the World Court. The affair will open at 7 o'clock The meeting, at which Bishop Wil-| Mam F. McDowell will preside, will be | attended by representatives from the folowing _organizatioms: Washington Counci on International Relations, Vote- less District of Columbia League of Women Voters, International Relations Committee, Washington Federation of Churches, Women's International League, local branch; Catholic Associa~ Peace, World of the Young Association, Na- Council for the Prevention of War, American Association of Univer- sity Women, Washington, D. C., section of the National Council of Jewish Wom- en, Peace and Race Relations Commit- tee, Friends’ Meeting. MASS TO BE EXPLAINED AT CONVERTS’ LEAGUE Paulist Father Will Give Illus- trated Lecture—Rev. Cananaugh Also to Speak. An illustrated lecture on “The Cere- monies of The Mass” will be given by Rev. Joseph 1. Malloy of the Paulist Fathers, Thursday evening, under aus- pices of the Converts League, Catholic Daughters of America. Rev. Francis X. Cavanagh, chaplain of court, Dis- trict of Columbia, will present the spiritual lesson for the month at the gathering. Miss Mary C. Boland, grand regent of the organization, will speak, Miss Florence M. Winter, chairman of the Converts’ League will preside. The musical part of the program will be in chlrfe of Trinity College students, and will include soprano solos by Miss Patricla Dunphy: violin se- lections by Miss Marjori> Kindelan, rclllo numbers by Miss Dorothy Kin- dela; known col= |DRIVER T tion for a new trial argued and five days allowed to submit authorities. | Attorney George E. Sullivan, sup- | porting the nomination, examined the witnesses in defense of Judge McMahon, | A large group of lawyers were heard | Saturday in favor of the judge's reap- | pointment. | The nominations of James M. Proctor | to be a justice in the District Supreme | Court and of Judge Isaac R. Hitt for another term in Police Court are on the Senate calendar with favorable re- ports and probably will be acted on within a day or two. MOTOR BUS LEAPS WALK | AND CRASHES INTO PORCH Man in Path of Machine Attributes ¥ Escape From Injury to Prem- onition. | | A premonition of impending danger | probably saved the life of Clement Hil, | colored, 25 when it caused him to| glance over his shoulder as he was about to enter his home, at 2108 Eighth street, | last night. Hill cleared the porch and gained the safety of his yard as a Washington Rail- way & Electric Co. bus Jeaped the side- walk, leveled the fence and damaged a portion of the porch. | Alton Boyle, 23, who was operating | the bus, told police he drove the bus down the incline from the company’ garage across the strect, and the brakes refused to hold, the vehicle rolling through the fence directly opposite and the porch. | Police ascribed the mishap to grease in the brake bands. which were tested before the bus left the shop and which were found to be in good condition after the accident. KNIFE VICTIM SERIOUS | William Lewis, 32 years old, who was | stabbed with a butcher knife during a { quarrel with his wife Sunday, continued in a_ ecritical condition at Emergency | Hospital today, according to authorities | at_that institution. | The wife, Mrs. Virginia Lewis, 29, who, police say, has admitted wielding | the knife, is being held on a technical | charge of investigation at the Women's Bureau pending the outcome of her hus- band's wounds. Lewis was found lying unconscious in_the front room of their home with a butcher knife nearby after neighbors reported hearing a quarrel lasting sev- eral hours. A fully loaded 10-pound bomb of the s endeavor to learn how it reached the grounds of Emery | School, at Lincoln road and Randolph place northeast, where two boys found it yesterday afternoon The youths, James R. Carroll, Jr., and Bernard Wood, both 12 years old, of the first block of Randolph place, were playing on the school lot when young_Carroll came across the bomb, partially buried in the dirt, but with one end protruding The boys unearthed their find and took it to the basement of the Carroll residence, where they were trying to take it apart when James R. Carroll, sr., entered and took possession of ' the missle. The elder Carroll called the second precinct and turned the bomb over to police. Detectives of the homicide squad ex- amined the bomb, a 10-pound missle, and found that it was loaded, but that the fusecap, which ca it to explode, had been removed. The bomb is tor- pedo shaped, with four small guiding wings” at the base. WOMAN IS INJURED BY HIT-RUN MOTORIST Victim of a hit-and-run automobile which struck her e was crossing Thirteenth and Jefferson streets, Mrs. Annie Louise Hutton, 30 years old, of 1214 Ingraham street, was left lying unconscious in the roadway for some time last night before she was found by a pedestrian . Mrs. Hutton was removed to her home and given first aid treatment by Dr. J. A. O'Keefe for contusions of the head and face and a wrenched back. The woman told police she did not know the number of the machine which felled her. SECOND BANDIT HWARTS ONE HOLD-UP; GETS HIS MONEY First Thief Shoots at Fleeing Taxi—Highwayman, Four Days Later, Merely Flashes Gun. Carl Whittington of 1400 L street, who bowled over a bandit with his taxi- | middlc-aged white man. cab Thursday, avolding the necessity of handing over any money, knew what to do when another highwayman show- ed up last night. The highwayman, masquerading as fare, hailed Whittington gt New Jerse: avenue and H street at Inight, di- recting him to Rock Creek Church road and Woodley drive. nd piano selections by Miss There Whittington was ordered to cab. pull up apd alight, under cover of a gun in the hands of his passenger, & Whittington, however, was experi- |erced. Only a few days previously, in th= 1600 block of Church street, he had maneuvered an armed colored man be- sice the cab, then hurled him over with an_open door. But when Whittington drove off with is money he also drove off with a bul- liet hole "through the tonneau of bis Whittington knew what to do. H: handed oves his money—$4.60, | OWNERS NAYFGHT LEVIES IN WIDENING OFRESERVOR ROAD Burleith Citizens’ Group Has Until March 2 to Protest Assessments. 638 HOME DWELLERS LISTED TO PAY $56,737 Foxhall Body to Study Plan—Some Benefited in Selling Land for Project. The Executive Association of the Burleith Citizens Association is con- sidering the advisability of protesting assessment of property owners of Bur- leith and adjacent sections who have been recelving notices of assessments for the widening of Reservoir road, it became known today. The citizens have until March 2 to protest against the assessments in case they consider the | assessments beyond the value of the improvement to their properties by rea- |'son of the widening. The Foxall Citizens' Association has also called a special meeting to consider the subject tonight. Benefit_assessments have been levied against 638 bordering the projected improvement, and in some cases for as far as three and a half squares on either side. The assessments in this case are not in any way connected with the Borland law or any of its substitutes. The assessments are solely for widening, and not for paving the widened roadway. $56,737 in Assessments. The benefits were assessed by a jury in’ District Supreme Court, consisting of Peter A. Drury, chairman; Frank Jelleff, secretary; John J. Campbell, J. S. Copenhaver and Danicl J. Barry. In all benefit assessments amounting to $56,737.55 were levied. To compensate for some of these, however, those whose land is to be taken by the widening were simultane- ously awarded damages by the jury, in many cases the damages exceeding the benefits. Thus the property of the Convent of the Visitation, parcel 28,7, was assessed benefits of $4,646 and at the same (ime was awarded damag:s of $6,491.05 for the taking of 23,893 square feet of its land. The net result will be a payment of $1835.05 to the cor- poration of the convent Georgetown U. Damages. Similarly, the property of George- town University, parcel 284, was as- sesced benefits of $4,430.24 and award- ed damages of $6,191.40, 5o that the net result will be a payment to the corpo- ration of the university of $1,761.16 for the taking of 20,482 square feet of its land. Benefits assessed against all of the properties_in The costs of the proceeding amounted to $1.616.20. The District must pay the difference between the benefits and the damages plus costs, or $6,230.07. Those assessed benefits are given five years to pay them. Some of the assessments are on single lots 33, squares away from Reservoir road, which are assessed $2, which may be satisfied by annual payments of 40 cents to_the District for five consecutive years. The street i proposed to be widened to 90 feet from Thirty-fifth street to the District line. HOME OWNERS URGED T0 BEAUTIFY GROUNDS U. 8. Horticulturist, in Radio Talks, Warns of Bicentennial Celebration in 1932. District, of Columbia gardeners have |been urged by W. R, Beattie, senior | horticulturist of the United States De- type used by aviators in the late war | PArtment of Agriculture, to begip now was being held at Police Headquarters today while detectiv to beautify their gardens and home grounds for the George Washington Bi- centennial Celebration next year. Already some garden clubs of the city and nearby Virginia and Maryland, as well as individual gardeners, have begun by taking steps @s outlined by Mr. Beattie in his “Timely Garden Sug- gestions” radio talk early this month. Each week, over Station WRC, the horticulturist speaks on his “Timely Garden Suggestions,” and through them has been urging the beautification of the city. Mr. Beattie says: seem rather early to get the City of Washington and surrounding country dressed in its best attire for the cele- bration in 1932, but 1932 is just around the corner, and it really takes time to make the kind of changes that I hope we are going to make around Wash- ington before all'the people from differ- ent parts of the country, and from foreign countries, come to look us over and help us celebrate the 200th anni- versary of the birth of George Wash- ington.” BLEASE BACK IN D. C. South Carolina Senator Recently Called Home by Wife's Illness. Recently called to South Carolina by the illness of his wife, Senator Blease has returngd to Washington to conclude his term, which ends March 4. “I closed the office a week or so ago,” Blease saild, “but I have threc fine rooms over there so I thought I'd better come back and see if I could use them for something.” MARINE COMMENDED Adams Praises Lieut. Kenyon for Service in Nicaragua. Outstanding service in Nicaragua was rewarded today when Secretary of the Navy Adams wrote a special letter of commendation to First Lieut. Howard N. Kenyon of the Marine Corps, who was awarded the Navy Cross for “ex- cellent judgment exercised in locating hostile forces and the leadership ex- hibited in engaging them, resulting in the maximum enemy losses in personnel and material.” The officer now is serving on the U. 8. 8. Asheville with a Marine detachment. Water-Color Exhibit Opened. An _exhibition of water colors by Mrs. Clarence C. Estabrook and of ap- plied art by Mrs. Mary Burton is being shown under the aus) of the League of American Pen Women at Stonleigh Court. The exhibit, which is at the entrance on 1706 L street, will be open from today until March 3. BY 1.5, 10 FNGH T, VERNON ROAD Senate Orders Funds to Com- plete Memorial Highway for Bicentennial Fete. “DUNNING” PRACTICES ATTACKED BY HOWELL | Fess Will Seek to Include Bill in Appropriation Act Yet to Be Passed. | _ After several hours of debate the Senate this afternoon passed the bill authorizing an additional $2,700,000 to complete the Memorial Boulevard from the Arlington Memorial Bridge along | the Potomac to Mount Vernon. | Passage of the measure is regarded | as urgent in order to have the highway | finished in time for the celebration of the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of George Washington next year. 152,700,000 VOTED I Coming to Statuary Hall PAGE B—1 CALIFORNIA HONORS FOUNDER OF EARLY SPANISH MISSION: ‘The bill gces to the House for action and meanwhile it is probable steps will property owners with land | “To many it may | | be taken to include the necessary funds in the second deficlency appropriation bill, which comes up in the Senate to- morrow or Thursday. Howell Voices Objections. | The final vote came after Senator { Howell, Republican, of Nebraska, had | reiterated his objections to what he contends is the practice in many cases of Government officials coming back to Congress for additional appropréi- tions after a project has been author- ized to be constructed within & speci- fied sum. The Nebraska Senator first en- deavored to amend the bill to require officials in charge of the highway to satisfy the controller general that the highway could be completed with this additional money before it is spent. The Senate defeated this amendment. Senator Howell then offered a sub- stitute provision to the effect that “the Bicentennial Commission shall direct the full completion of sald highway project at a cost of not to exceed $7,- 200.000." This figure is the total of the orig- inal authorization of $4,500,000, made several years ago, plus the $2,700,000 approved today. Senator Fess of Ohio, vice chairman of the Bicentennial Commission, said he did not have the slightest idea at this time that further funds would be required, but he stressed the importance | of completing the boulevard and had | expressed the fear that Howell's orig- {inal amendment would have interfered with the immediate use of the addi- { tional money because of his bellef that 1 no one could possibly give the controller | general assurances in advance that the | higkway could be completed with this | authorization. ‘Dunning’ Practice Hit. Senator Howell is objecting to what he says is the practice of starting Gov- ernment projects with a specified au- thorization and then returning at future sessions of Congress for additional amounts, Senator Howell said yesterday that when the memorial boulevard was started the cost was estimated at $4.- 500,000 and that now $2,700,000 is | found necessary to complete it. Con- tinuing, Senator Howell said: “The boulevard is 14.6 miles long. | Deducting the one mile through the |town of Alexandria, the portion that must be graded and fully constructed is Ibut 13.6 miles long. Every dollar of | the $4,500,000 authorized has been ob- ligated. Out of that $4,500,000 there | has been expended $612,000 for land, and all of the rest of it is obligated to construction at a cost of $286,000 per mile, and it is now claimed that there is not enough money within about $2,450,000 to complete the construction. Limit Disregarded. “In other words, the limit placed upon the cost of the boulevard by the Congress has been utterly disregarded and Government officials have gone ahead and done as they pleased so that today the boulevard is impassable, the grading is not completed, the surfacing has not even been begun and yet the $4,500,000 is all expended or must be expended upon existing contracts for grading and incidentals. “Deducting the one mile through Alexandria, the boulevard, according to the latest estimate, will cost $462,000 a mile without one dollar for land or right AN WILLS lved amounted to $56,- MRS. LENM $4,000,000 TO KIN Real Estate Divided Equally Be- tween Four District Residents. Others Get Money. ‘The will of Mrs. Isobel H. Lenman, who died February 3, filed for probate, leaves an estate of nearly $4,000,000, to four local residents, Samuel A. Drury, Mrs. Sabine Drury Callaghan, Mrs, Jane J. Drury and Mrs, Mary Drury. The document, dated June 3, 1929, gives real estate in equal shares to the four resident. One-third of the per- sonal estate is to be distributed among { the next of kin of Robert Hunter and Manuel Hunter, Tasmania, Australia; Gavin Hunter, Willlam Hunter, Hannah R. Righter and Agnes M. Almond, all of Philadelphia and all supposed to be dead. The remaining two-thirds is to go to Mrs. Callaghan and the three Drurys. In asking for the probate of the will the National Metropolitan Bank, named as executor, says Miss Lenman owned real estate in the District assessed at $873,716, property in Maine worth $200,000, land in Radmor, Pa., estimated at $10,000, and property in Montgomery County, Md., valued at $6,000. Her personal estate is estimated at $2,544,- 28197, comprising real estate notes, $2,217,120.16; stocks, $126,710; bonds, $74,000; household effects, $50,000, and cash, $16,451.81. BALL WILL AID JOBLESS Veterans’ ' Organizations to Give Program Tomorrow Night. Finishing touches were being applied today to an elaborate prostam foe the benefit ball for unemployed to be held under the auspices of the veterans’ or- ganizations of the District of Columbia at the Willard Hotel tomorrow night. Proceeds from the affair will be dis- tributed to the needy through the Cen- tral Union Mission and the Veterans of Forelgn Wars. ‘The assistance of the memberships of veterans’ organizations in the city has been enlisted in the distribution of tickets for the benefit. Hotels also have volunteered ald in selling tickets. | TATUE of Junipero Serra, founder which will be placed in Statuary Cadorin of Santa Barbara, Cslif., high and cast in bronze and will Carmel, one of the first built by Serra. Franciscan father bears 2 small mission, representing the Mission of 1 of early Spanish missions in California, Hall at the Capitol on March 1. Ettore | is the sculptor. The statue is eight feet be mounted on a marble pedestal. The (Copyright, Dorr News Service.) HOUSE DEFEATS AD FOR POLIE WIDDWS Bill to Pay Dependents $500 Meets Objections From Simmons. The bill sponsored by Representative McLeod, Republican, of Michigan to pay $5,000 to the widows or dependent children of police and firemen killed in line of duty failed of passage in the House last night when called up under unanimous consent from the private calendar. The objection was registered by Chairman Simmons of the Subcom- mittee on District Appropriations. Representative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, who has fought a number of measures for the betterment of condi- tions for police and firemen, spoke in support of this pension measure, saying: “There have been firemen and police- men who have given their lives here in the District in the faithful performance of their duties, and some of them re- cently have risked their lives in trying to save the lives of a Congressman and his family. Now, when they do risk and lose their lives in the performance of a risky, dangerous and menacing busi- ness, such as occurs to firemen and po- licemen every day, does not the gentle- man from Nebraska believe that out of their own money—this comes out of their own money that they have saved up and which is taken out of their sal- ary; it does not come out of the Gov- ernment—does not the gentleman be- lieve that the paltry sum of $5,000 ought to be paid to the widows of fire- men and policemen who risk their lives and who lose their lives in the perform- ance of their duty?” Representative Simmons said in re- L ply: l)}"“'l"he answer is so simple that the gentleman usually comprehends it. The gentleman’s statement is not cor- rect. Because the firemen and police- men pay only about 25 per cent of the total contributed to the policemen’s and firemen’s pension relief fund. All of these widows are drawing pensions now, and this is merely an effort to break down the present pension law and add something to that which they are now receiving. “Seventy-five per cent of the police- men’s and firemen’s pension fund comes out of the Treasury. . SPEEDING TO EMBALMING COSTS UNDERTAKER $25 Funeral Director Says He Wanted to Prepare Body for Viewing by Relatives. A colored undertaker, speeding to funeral parlors to embalm a body, the relatives could see it,” was fined $25 on a second-offense speeding charge and admonished by Judge Ralgh E. Given in Police Court today that he should know better than to speed, “or he might be putting some one else in a cofin.” The defendant, Edward W. Bundy, of 621 Florida avenue, was arrested by Policeman J. A. Patton of the thirteenth precinct on Blair road yesterda: He was alleged to have been traveling be- tween 32 and 34 miles an hour. . MRS. LILY REDMAN DIES Pneumonia Fatal to Employe of Treasury Department. Mrs. Lily F. Redman, an employe of the Bureau of Securities at the Treas- ury Department for more than 35 years, died suddenly at her home, 2605 Adams Mill road, Sundz of pneu- his “so Mrs. Redman, er, Mrs, J#L. Rea; three sisters, 3 Minnie - Carr , Mrs. Nellle Rea Saxton and M Katheryn Rea, and a brother, Irving H. Ree, efl of Wash- inZ! UNDERPASS FUNDS SKED OF DISTRICT Committee in Charge of Ben- ning Road Bridge Seeks to Avoid Crossings. | ‘The District Government was urged today by the Co-ordinating Committee of interested District and Federal agen- cles to consider making provisions for an underpass in conjunction with the plans for the new Benning road bridge over the Anacostia River. ‘The committee declares grade cross- ings should be avoided in the new con- struction, as the development of Ana- costia Park will mean that new high- ways will be constructed in that area. By construction of another arch in the bridge to care for the underpass, the committee volces the opinion that Benning road can be separated from the traffic in Anacostia Park. The Dis- trict authorities are now about to start studies on the development of the bridge, and the committee wishes to have the possibility of constructing an underpass taken under consideration while the bridge plans are being drawn. The staff of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission was re- quested to draw up plans for the treat- ment at the intersection of R street and Sheridan Circle, to assist the traffic and avold danger. At present, it was explained, motorists indiscrimately cut in on' either side of a trafic “island” there. John W. McGarry, representing the Richmond Park and Devonshire Downs Citizens' Association, laid before the committee the ideal of those groups with reference to the development of Tilden and Upton streets, between Wis- consin avenue and the Bureau of Standards. The committee proposes to investigate the matter, and will examine plans for the street program there closely. U. S. CALLED' BACKWARD ON MARRIAGE AGE LIMIT Less Advanced Than Turkey, Jap- an and China, Dame Crowdy Says in Address Here. The United States and England are less advanced than Turkey, Japan and China in minimum age limits for the marriage of gllrl.l. Dame Rachel Crowdy, English war heroine, declared last night at the Central Community Center. Speaking under the auspices of the Community Institute, Dame Crowdy pointed out that the age limits in the three Aslatic countries are 15 in Japan and 16 in Turkey and China, while girls of 12 are permitted to marry in England and in many States of the Union. * Dame Rachel was introduced by Maj. Julia Stimson, who paid tribute to the volunteer aid detachments organized and commanded by the dame during the World War. Dame Crowdy, who served with the British expeditionary forces from 1914 to 1919, received the title of dame, which corresponds to knighthood for men, for her services. During her stay in Washington Dame Crowdy was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic A. Delano, 2244 S street. FILMS REPLACE LECTURE | Oratorical Contest this year. ORATORY CONTEST DRAWS ENTRANTS FROM 17 SHOOLS Total of 11,826 Students Here in Star Area Division to Compose Essays. FIVE GROUPS HERE LIST EVERY PUPIL Constitution of U. S. Is Subject in National Competition. Entries Close Soon. Contestants from every Washington high school and from nine private and parochial schools in the District of Co- lumbia will participate in The Eve- ning Star area division of the National Prepara- tory to the selection of each school's representative, 11,826 pupils in this portion of the local section of the con- | test are writing or will write composi- tions on subjects related to the Consti- tution of the United States. Entries for the contest will close at noon next Saturday. Each of the eight Washington high schools constitutes a district in The Star area, while the private and paro- chial institutions are grouped together to form a ninth district. Territorial units in Maryland and Virginia com- prise the tenth and eleventh divisions. Five of the District of Columbia high schools are entered in-the 100 per cent class, with every pupil writing on the Constitution or ‘on some related topic. Central, McKinley, Eastern, Western and Business High Schools are the or- ganizations in this group. The partici- pation of these schools is under a plan evolved by George J. Jones, head of the history department in the District of Columbia schools, and by Miss Saia E. Simons, head of the English depart- ment, under which all the students in the five high schools will write on the Constitution in connection with their English and civics courses. This aspect of the work will be stressed particu- larly in the second, third and fourth years in the English classes, and gen- erally in the civics courses. Private Schools Entered. Dunbar, Armstrong and Cardoza High Schools have 30, 10 and 8 stu- dents, respectively, already preparing for the contest. In the private and parochial unit, Sacred Heart High School, Sister Marie Cecilia, principal; Devitt Preparatory School, George Devitt, principal: Immaculata Seminary, Miss Isabel Mullins, faculty sponsor; St. Jobn's College, Brother Philip, advisor; the ‘Woodward School, J. J. King, prinei- pal, and St. Cecilia’s Academy, Sister John Frederick, sister superior, are the hial schools partici u%r.mu and paroc! P pal are the Landon School, P. L. Banfield, head master; Notre Dame Academy. Sister Paula, sister superior, and Sister Miriam, faculty sponsor, and the St. Albans School, A. H. Lucas, head master. The faculty committees organized to administer the cgntest work in the Washington public high schools and the enrollment of each 100 per cent school this year are as follows: Central High School—Harvey A. Smith, principal; Miss Hester McNelly, committee chairman; Miss Charlotte | Farrington, Miss Grace Johnson, Alice Dubreuil, Miss Sara Lynch, Miss Dorothea Sherman, Miss Emily Sle- man, Miss Edith Kojonharoff, Mrs. Lola Hutchins and Edmund Noyes. Enrollment, 2,832 pupils. 2,696 Contest at McKinley. McKinley High School—Frank C. Daniel, principal; Mrs. Eda B. Frost, Geoxll'ge J. Young. Enrollment, 2,696 upils. 2 !F':nstern High School—Charles Hart, principal; Miss Kate Bucknam, com- mittee chairman; Miss Bertha Gardner, Miss Louella Webb. Enrollment, 2,256 pupils. Western High School—Dr. Elmer 8. Newton, principal; Miss Isabel Pickett, committee chairman; Miss Rose Stutz, Miss Clara Stutz, Miss Sue Gardner, Miss Alice Wood, Miss Blanche Lewis, Miss Elizabeth Dessez. Enrollment, 1,872 pupils. Business High School—Alan Davis, principal; Mrs. Mary Resh, committee chairman; Mrs. J. C. Mase, Miss Bessie Yoder, Miss Pauline Scott. Enrollment, 1,282 pupils. s Dunbar High School—W. L. Smith, principal; J. M. Hill, committee chair- man; Mrs. Josephine Harley, Mrs. H. Q. Jackson, C. S. Shippen, Miss M. D. Burrill, Miss J. F. Johnson. K Armstrong High School—G. David Houston, principal: J. B. Hunter, com- mittee chairman; H. L. Bailey, Charlss M. Thomas, Mrs. E. H. Smith, Mrs, E. B. Howard, Miss Carrie E. F. Lee. Cardoza High School—R. M. Matting- ly, principal; Mrs. M. H. Skinner, com- mittee chairman; Miss Ruth E. Weath- erless, Miss Jennie E. Mustapha, Miss Mary O. H. Williamson. CAPT. AUBREY K. SHOUP IS BURIED IN ARLINGTON Commander of South China Patrol Expired Suddenly Last Month at Hong Kong. Capt. Aubrey Kirk Shoup, U. 8. N, commander of the South China patrol of the United States Asiatic Fleet, was buried this afternoon in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. He died suddenly of pneumonia on January 22 at the Brit- ish Royal Navy Hospital, at Hong Kong, China, and the body has since been on its way to Washington for burial. Mrs. Eleanor A. Shoup, with her hus- band when he expired, is at the May- flower Hotel, after accompanying the body across the Pacific and the con- tinent. Six classmates of Capt. Shoup acted as pallbearers. _They are Capts. H. S. Howard, Allen B. Reed, Abram Claude, H. E. Kimmel and Paul E. Dampman, who is retired, and Lieut. Comdr. Lu- man E. Morgan, retired. Capt. Sidney K. Evans, U. S. N, chiet of chaplains, officiated at the fu- neral. v ‘Two aeronautical motion picture films will be shown in place of the usual lecture at a meeting of the Standards Flying Club at 8 o'clock to- night in the east lecture room, Bureau of Standards. v i The first picture, “HappLandings,” shows the manufacture and of parachutes and the second is an official Navy Department fllm, showing aviation activities sboard the Navy's airplane be the speaker at the next meeting of the club on the evening of March 3, WILL INCREASE SERVICE New Air Schedules to Boston and Hartford Effective March 2. Increased air passenger schedules between the National Capital and Hart- ford, Conn., and Boston will become effective March 2, it was announced Six trips will be flown each way dally except Sunday between d Bostos betwoen ; Xia‘s*;&bcrflawn daily