Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1931, Page 16

A—16 =%’ D. C. MEMORIAL AND ENTRY PYLONS WILL BE HASTENED Construction of Shafts and Music Temple Planned for This Year. GARDEN CLUB MEETING DISCUSSES NEW MARKERS Maryland and Virginia Clubs to Provide Tree and Shrub Setting. The District of Columbla World War Memorial and distinctive pylon mark- ers at highway entrances to the Na- tional Capital will be erected this year in order to have them complete for the | ‘Washington Bicentennial in 1932. This was aseured yesterday at a meeting of the Committee of the Na- tional Capital of the Gardsn Club of America at the home of its chairman, Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, 1239 Vermont avenue. Plans for both of these important Projects were discussed by members of the committe: with its distinguished ®dvisory council, and movements are under way, it was announced, looking fo early activity. Architect Presents Model. A model of the beautiful Greek- ric white marble temple of music, hich is to memorialize the District of lumbia World War dead, was pre- sented to the meeting by the architect, | H Frederick H. Brooke, who explained its jesign and beauty. Frank B. Noyes, | hairman of the commission appointed by Congress to erect the memorial, an- ounced that sufficient funds were on d to go forward with plans for the construction. ‘The temple is to be aced in a grove of trees between the incoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and the Tidal Basin. ‘The pylon markers for highway en- trances from Maryland and Virginia into the National Capital are to be dis- tinctive shafts, suitably marked and placed in a setting of shrubbery, it was exp . The general design of these pylons has been approved. Mrs. Noyes ill formally present the matter to the Board of Directors of the Garden Club to be marked will be decided. A letter from the board was read, ap- general, and Mrs. final details to the ‘The p&bnl themselves are of ive des following generally the of pylons on Columbia Island as of ‘the Arlington Memorial Bridge ‘They are to be used-in- pairs hway entrances marking the ines between the District of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1931 REVENUE EXPERTS [UTILITIES BOARD Design now under consideration for the shafts which the Garden Club of America is to present as suitable markers at highway entrances leading from | Maryland and Virginia into the District ¢f Columbia. - SPEEDING AT NIGHT Columbia and adjacent States of Mary- land and Virginia. Each consists of a suitably ornamented, marked on side to designate the area being tered, and surmounted by an ‘would bear an inscri) Garden eagle. ipf “Pre- Club of tion America, entering the city visitors will of the District of Col which they are enter- or Maryland—as the ‘The pylons themselves are to be the < planting of tees and Shrus of an shafts are to be the gifts of Garden Clubs of Maryland and A_movement for the Committee of fhe National Capital of th> Garden Club of America to provide one set of these ‘The design of the pylons markers discussed by Charles Moore, chair- of the Commission of Pine Arts, #nd Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, xecutive officer of the National pital Park and Planning Commission, th the committee. Mr, Moore discussed the general pro- of beautifying the National Capi- 1, as well as the pylon markers. He ghought that eventually there would be some great monumental entrances erected, such as one at the Sixteenth Btrest-Maryland line border, where he suggested $100,000 might well be ex- ided some day by the Government. her for monumental entrances predicted would be Massachusetts ivenue and Pennsylvania avenue on o Mr. Moore specifically recommended t tree parking space between the treets and the smaller parks of the bad the Federal parking had to stop the sidewalk. Both Mr. Moore and Dr. John C. erriam, president of the Carnegie tution of America, stressed the of better care of the trees in of the municipal government. Envisions Great Grove. In discussing the District war me- orial, Mr. Moore explained the plan to have the space about the me- developed as “a great grove” for public to enjoy. The underbrush, said, is being cleared out, and then e poor trees should be cut out and ones planted. This would provide grove where the public may enjoy shade and listen to good band usic played in the memorial, Upon invitation of Col. Grant, the ittee of the National Capital de- to appoint & committee to co- te with his office in horticultural Following a general discussion of the ent for elimination of billboards, Charles Moore, former Representa- ftive R. Walton Moore, of Virginia, and A. Delano, it was announced SCORED BY-JOCE Maryland Student Fined $20| in Traffic Court—Another Driver to Pay $10. Speeding motcrists after the mid- night hour need expect no sympathy in the Traffic Court of Judge Gus A. Schuldt, that magistrate said this morning when several speeders arrested during the night were arraigned before him today. “Statistics show that most accidents occur at night time,” Judge Schuldt said in meeting out a $20 fine to Charles J. Curry, jr, a Maryland University student, who was charged with driving his automobile at 50 miles an hour on the Bladensburg road at 5 o'clock this morning. Policeman K. P. Greenlow of the Traffic Bureau testified that he and Policeman M. I. Bridges.chased Curry from Fifteenth and H streets to the top of Mount Olivet hill, a distance of nearly a mile, befcre they were able to maintain a pace on him. The chase continued for another half mile, with the sirens on both the officers’ motor cycles open, before Curry'’s car was stopped, they reported. Curry told Judge Schuldt that he and five other Maryland University students had been to a dance and were hurry- ing back to the university to get some sleep before classes today. “Well, you certainly picked out a nice place to endanger the lives of six per- sons,” commented the judge. “It was nice’ and handy, right there by the cemetery.” Another midnight rider, Edward J. Stewart, jr., of 1342 D street northeast, was arrested by Policeman Greenlow for on Florida avenue northeast. 8] | He was fined $10 by Judge Schuldt. ——— THREE BANDITS SOUGHT Three colored hold-up men were sought by police today s a result of two robberies at pistol point yester- day and last night. James P. Virnstein of 416 Sixth street reported an unidentified colored man relieved him of $8 yesterday while he was walking through an alley near Missourl avenue and Sixth street. They also took his watch. Two men forced Tilton Carson of 606 Twelfth street northeast, to turn over a_pay envelope containing $14 as be walked along First street between H and I streets. 2 TEANS FORNED TOPUSH FETE HERE Prizes Listed in Festival of Nations, Cherry Blossom Celebration, Set for April. Twenty teams of Washington wom- en and girls were formed yesterday aft- ernoon at a meeting of the Promotion Committee for the festival of nations. to be given at Constitution Hall, April 27 to May 2, under the auspices of the Girl Scouts of the District of Columbia. These teams will have charge of a city-wide distribution of coupon books for the festival, the coupons being ex- changeable for reserved seats two weeks prior to the public sale of tickets. Plans are being made to bring parties from Masyland, Virginia, West Virginia and Delaware for the festival, which will be held in celebration of the blooming of the Japanese cherry blossoms. Following the meeting of the Promo- tion Committee, held in the headquar- ters of the festival in the Transporta- tion Building, it was announced that the advance sale of reserved seats to holders of coupon books will open March 30 and the public sale on April 15 at the festival headquarters. A prize of $50 will awarded to the person selling the greatest number of coupon books, each of which contains 10 coupons at $1 each. Other prizes of $25, $15 and $10, will be given. The poster competition for the festi- val, which opened March 2, will close March 18, on which date all posters must be in the hands of the judges of the awards, at festival headquarters. The winning poster will be chosen as the official poster for the festival, and will be used throughout the Capital City, and all over the United States and in Canada as announcement for the Pestival of Nations. The wording of the poster must be as follows: “Festival of Nations, Auspices of the Girl Scouts of the District of Columbia, Constitutional Hall, Wash- ington, D. C. April 27, through May 2. Evenings and children’s matinee Saturday.” Posters must be 14x22 inch- es, and designed in four colors. Prizes of $25, $15 and $10, will be awarded by the committee for the Poster Con- test, which is headed by Eben F. Com- ins. The Committee on Awards in- cludes Alexander B. Trowbridge, Miss Natalie Hammond, Miss Ada Rainey, T0BEASSIGNED 0 | T2 BANKS MONDAY Will Aid Income Tax Payers in Making Out Returns, Ad- ministering Oaths Free. CASH ACCEPTABLE ONLY AT U. S. OFFICE Extra Day of Grace Given This Year, Because March 15 Falls on Sunday. Revenue officers will be assigned, be- ginning Monday, by the Bureau of Internal Revenue to 12 banks and trust companies in the District of Columbia to aid local taxpayers in making out their income tax returns. The officers will assist in making out the forms and will administer the, oath without cost to_the taxpayer. ‘The officers will be assigned to the following local financial institutions: Riggs National Bank, 1503 Pennsyl- vania avenue; Farmers & Mechanics’, branch of Riggs, Wisconsin avenue and M street; National Metropolitan Bank, 613 Fiftdenth street; Federal American National Bank & Trust Co., Fourteenth and G streets; Munsey Trust Co., Mun- sey Building; Union Trust Co., Fifteenth and H streets; District National Bank, 1406 G street; Columbia National Bank, 911 F street; Commercial National Bank, Fourteenth and G streets; Potomac Savings Bank, Wisconsin avenue and M sireet; American Security & Trust Co., Fifteenth and Pennsylvania avenue, and Lincoln National Bank, 318 Seventh street. ‘The revenue officers will observe the regular hours of the banks and trust companies to which they are assigned. Payments to the revenue officers as- signed to the banks must be made by money order or check, made payable to the collector of Internal Revenue, Bal- timore, Md. Cash payments will be received in Washington only at the office of the deputy collector of internal revenue for the District of Columbia, Internal Revenue Building, Room 1002, Twelfth streei and Constitution avenue, former- ly B street. This office will be open, beginning today, from 9 am. to 5:30 pm. and until midnight of March 14 and March 16. As March 15, the usual closing date, falls on Sunday this year, taxpayers will be given an extra day of grace, Residents of Washington may either file their returns at the office of the local deputy collector or send them di- rectly to the collector of internal reve- nue. Galen L. Tait, Custom House, Bal- timore, in whose collection district the District of Colurabia is located. Re- turns sent to the collector must be post- marked on o: before March 16. Pen- alties are provided for failure to make & return and pay the tax on time. District of Columbia—Rain tonight and tomorrow morning; with lowest temperature about 40 degrees; colder tomorrow night; increasing easterly winds, becoming fresh, possibly strong shifting to westerly tomorrow morning. Maryland—Rain in east and central and rain or snow in extreme west por- tion tonight and tomorrow; slowly ris- ing temperature tonight; increasing easterly winds reaching gale force on the coast and shifting to westerly to- morrow. Virginia—Rain tonight and probably tomorrow morning; rising temperature tonight; colder tomorrow afternoon and night; increasing easterly winds reach- ing gale force tonight and shifting to westerly tomorrow morning, West Virginia—Rain and warmer to- night; tomorrow rain changing to snow flurries and colder. Record for 24 Hours. ‘Thermometer—4 p.m., 46; 8 pm., 45; 12 midnight, 42; 4 am, 41; 8 am, 38; 11 am., 43. Barometer—4 p.m., 3007; 8 pm., 30.10; 12 midnight, 30.10; 4 a.m., 30.09; 8 am, 30.09; 11 am, 30.09. Highest temperature, 47, occurred at 2:15 p.m. yesterday. Lowest temperature, 38, occurred at 7:40 a.m. today. Temperature same date last year— Highest, 54; lowest, 38. Tide Tables. (Purnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today—Low tide, 4:38 a.m. and 5:07 pm.; high tide, 10:22 a.m. and 10:50 pm. ‘Tomorrow—Low tide, 5:26 am. and 5:58 p.n.; high tide, 11:11 am. and 11:42 p.m. The Sun and Moon. ‘Today—Sun rose 6:33 a.m.; sun sets 6:06 p.m. Tomorrow—Sun rises 6:32 am.; sun sets 6:07 p.m. Moon rises 10:22 p.m.; sets 8:15 a.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour after sunset. Weather in_ Various Cities. o5 2B & Temperature. % Stations. “eeeecopamox - kupInga: ASoUNH C. Powell Minnigerode, Clifford K. Ber- | B/t ryman and Ward Brown. Woman Loses $1,800 Wrist Watch. | S Police were asked by Mrs. Lilly C. Ulman last night to assist in a search for her wrist watch, valued at $1.800, which she lost between the Belasco Theater and her home, at 1920 Nine- teenth street. GIRL WITH 280 INCHES OF SKIN GRAFTED ON BACK IS RECOVERING i s oy, Powte marks ot | Chilld Aided by Gifts From Mother and Student After|:h Burns Imperiled Her Life. ‘With approximately 280 inches of Mrs. Noyes that the General Out- door Advertisi: Co. had Bake down its billboards on the ap- 'hes to Washington within a radius two miles of the National Capital. badly burned some time ago, 7-year-old Betty Marle Detwiler of Parkersburg, W. Va. was sald to be well on the road to recovery today at the Washington | MAN HURT IN CRASH Sanitarium and Hospital, Takoma Park, M ') One man was slightly hurt and two| The skin was given by the child’s e saoah nd s privats | ine- pFincial of & ParberabucE Pib A . val crashed at m«fl“m school, and by streets, the impact of the collision | Paterson, N. J., & sophomore in the the taxi against a lamp post | normal department of the Seventh-day the private car into a parked ma- M;eu‘mm College. it b was burned Novem! "The man, Kirby Gaunf - 1337 Eleventh street, was taken to 1. After receiving | she tment for an injury to his neck he offered 10| grafted skin on her back, which was|o% cessful, the new skin refusing to graft the girl's came 50 ill that it was impossible for her to consider donating more skin. institution, which also is conducted by the Seventh-day Adventists, and a call for a volunteer was issued. Dolan re- sponded and, taking only a local anesthetic, permitted about 40 inches thighs. operation Wednesday by Dr. A. W. 5 ical director of the hospital, assisted by Dr. D. E. Davenport, associate medical director; Dr. Edna Patterson, and an interne. Since then, Betty’s condition has im- considerably, it was said today, and complete recovery is virtually as- sured. e is being cared for her cousin, Miss Eleanor Detwiler, 8 nurse at_the institution. Dolan, who is confined to a bed in North Hall, one of the coll dormi- tories, also 15 said to be “ very back. Mrs. Detwiler be- | 3! Betty was taken to the Takoma Park | 5% icago, L. Cincinnati, Ohio Cloudy Pt.cloudy Snow Cloudy Bt.cloudy Clear ear Cloudy Pt.cloudy Clear Clear Cloudy Pt.cloudy FOREIGN. m., Greenwich time, tods: 7y Temperature. Weather. . 28 Part cloudy Bnow of skin to be taken from each of ‘his | BR0\ . Bwer > Spain 8 Ra B s v ] gy Horta (FAYE) ivent observations. ¢o 42t Houas r . 80 . 38 st 6 Cl Colon, Canal Zons 80 Part cloudy Pope Receives Americans. l’IVA'I'XCAN 0!1;76 Huchm':mrol’g‘p: today granted an au 3 ln‘{l. Iln.y Louis Mendelssohn of New York and Detrol, presenting Mr. Men- delssohn a commemorative gold INSISTS ON CHECK ON GAS READINGS Vain Plea Made to Abandon Practice in Schools and City Institutions. HIGH PRESSURE ACTION IS PROMISED VERBALLY Standards Bureau Makes First Re- port on Engineers’ Test of Results of Mixture, ‘The Public Utilities Commission, it was declared today, flatly turned down a recent request of the Washington Gas Light Co. for discontinuance of the 28- year-old practice of having an inspector of the commission check the meter read- ings by the company’s meter readers in_ public_school buildings and other buildings housing activities of the Dis- trict government. The company, through R. B. Har- | baugh, superintendent of meter readers, it was said at the commission, urged that it be permitted to make the meter readings alone, during the regular meter reading period. The present method, he said, necessitates the special service of one gas company employe and the use of a gas company automobile for four | days each month, except during school vacation periods, when only two days are required. All of this, Mr. Harbaugh explained, entailed an added expense to the company. Procedure Instituted in 1903. Verifications of the statements of all gas meters in use in buildings and offices occupied by the District gov- ernment have been made by designated employes of the Gas Inspection Bureau of the commission since September, 1903._ This procedure was instituted by the Board of *District Commissioners, prior to the creation of the Public Utilities Commission which came into existence 13 years later. | The commission employe who checks | the meter readings is also directed to certify as to the correctness of the | amount rendered for the use of gas in District_institutions. In reply to Mr. Harbaugh's _request, the commission told the company it is of the opinion | that the present practice should be con- tinued. Readjustment Promised. Announcement also was made at the commission. that officials of the gas company have given a verbal promise | that steps would be taken immediately to readjust all gas appliances in the two areas in which gas pressures are still in excess of the commission's tem- porary allowance of 8 inches. The commission in its latest order has given the company until March 16 to reduce the pressures in these areas under threat of taking action “in accordance with the pertinent provisions of law.” ‘Two commission inspectors will be assigned to check up on the appliance adjustments made by the company em- ployes, and another commission in- spector, 1t was said, will be directed to keep a day by day record of the ad- Justments. Standards Bureau Reports. The two existing high-pressure areas are in the vicinity of Twentieth and K streets and Seventh and. S streets. The commission has pointed out that it has sufficient evidence to convince it that where the necessary adjustments have not been made, the higher pressures are responsible for greater amounts of gas passing through the meters in a given time, and that, as a consequence, the bills of many gas consumers have been “unduly increased.” The Bureau of Standards has sub- mitted to the commission the first report on the result of analyses its engi- neers have made of the gas at the com- mission’s request, which shows that there are no constituents present in the mixture of artificial and natural gas that would cause a greater disposition of carbon from pilot lights than would occur with the gas supplied in the Dis- trict before the natural gas was mixed with it. ‘The bureau was urged to make a series of tests to show what effect varying degrees of pressure would have on gas consumption and also what effect the combination of natural and manufactured gas is having on gas appliances. URGE 0’HARE TRACT AS NEW SCHOOL SITE Chillum Heights Citizens Adopt Resolution Asking Purchase by District. Chillum Heights citizens at a meet- ing of their assoclation dast night in the Joseph R. Keene School adopted a resolution requesting the District Com- missioners to purchase the O'Hare property abutting Blair road and Con- cord avenue northeast as a site for the erection of a public school. The erection of a new school on medal church and Keene School, which is directly across from this sed site, was the grounds of the assoclation for this uest. "Yhe " District Commissioners _were called upon in a second resolution to refuse to permit the erection of & gasoline service station on the triangle bounded by Kennedy street, First place and New Hampshire avenue, claiming that there are already a sufficient num- ber of service stations in the vicinity. Following a lengthy discussion on the subject of reduced rates for school chil- dren on Washington street car lines, the action was referred to committee for investigation. O. P. Hopkins and C. J. Blanchard, delegates to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, were directed to proceed to the Citizens’ Advisory Council elec- tions tonight “uninstructed.” il DAVIS BURIAL MONDAY Services for John Wesley Davis, 36 years old, secretary-treasurer of the Columbia Sand & Gravel Co., Inc., who died in Garfield Hospital Thursday, will be conducted at his residence, 1132 Twenty-fifth street, Monday morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mr, Davis was widely known in busi- ness circles here. He 1s survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary A. Davis; his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Davis; two daughters, Mary and Ellen Davis; two sops, John and Willlam Davis; a sister, . Hilda Garrison, and two brothers, Roland and Galt Davis. B s SPEAKS AT MEN’S CLUB Dr. Arthur C. Christie of the Reli- s est 5] R e g Club at a meeting tc be held Monday evening the auditorfum of the church. ‘The meeting is called to honor W. Spencer Armstronf, who for many years has been an officer of the ‘teacher of the Men's Bible Woman Cab Owner Quits GETTING DRIVERS TOO TROUBLESOME. Miss Ramsey Nevitt in one of her taxicabs. ASHINGTON'S only woman taxicab magnate has gone out of the business. Miss Ramsey Nevitt, daugh- ter of Dr. J. Ramsey Nevitt, District coroner, revealed today she had sold the two cabs comprising the rolling stock of the “You and Me Cab Co.” and had petitioned the District Supreme Court to dissolve the corporation. : “I hate to give it up,” Miss Nevitt said, “but I haven't time to be em- ploying new drivers every two weeks tor so. The trouble about my business {is that my young women drivers won't |Iast. They are forever throwing up their jobs.” Miss Nevitt, a teacher of physical | culture at the Hine Junior High School, | reported the business had proved suc- cessful from a financial standpoint be- cause a large number of persons pre- ferred female drivers. She conceded, however, that a portion of the taxical | riding public insisted women were capa- | b}‘fl of running nothing but sewing ma- chines. LIFEIN ZULULAND SHOWN BY FILNS Capt. Carl von Hoffman Tells How Brides Are Sold for Cattle. In most primitive lands boy babies| are more desired than girls. Not so in Zululand, South Africa, where daugh- ters are sold to prospective grooms for prices ranging from 12 head of cattle up, Capt. Carl von Hoffman, explorer, told the National Geographic Soclety at the Wi n Auditorium last night. Capt. von Hoffman showed for the first time in Washington three reels of motion picture film of a native Zulu wedding. = All the aboriginal customs were faithfully portrayed, from the dride’s preparations to the delivery of @ herd of cattle by the groom. Friendly Race Today. ‘The Zulus, Capt. von Hoffman ex- plained, gre a kind and friendly people today, although they were once con- sidered the flercest fighters of South Africa. The white man has decreed that they may no longer have tips on their spears and that their chiefs shall accept the white man's authority. Otherwise they may live their own lives and continue their tribal marriage, household and religious customs. A Zulu wedding is usually attended by from 1,000 to 3,000 people, depending upon the importance of the contracting parties, All the guests, however, must bring their own food and beer, enough for the three-day period that the wed- ding usually lasts. ‘When the day of the wedding arrives the bride is veiled, so that all of her head is concealed. The rest of her body, however, may only be partly con- cealed with beads and nick-nacks. The groom seats himself on the ground and waits until the bride and her brides- maids heve carried out the wedding dance. Then the men hold a war dance, many of the movements of which show similarity to the Charleston and other steps of civilized nations. ‘Trial marriage is nothing new, Capt. von Hoffman said. The Zulus have practiced it for years. If the wife does not bear children within three years the groom may demand his cattle back from his father-in-law and the mar- riage is annulled. If the two prove in- compatible within a year the groom may also demand repayment. Polygamy is practiced, and the first wives do not seem to object to others being added to the home. It lightens the work to be done, an important consideration in a land where women do all the hard work. Pottery Work Hard. ‘The Zulus have not yet learned the simple principle of the potter's wheel, so all their pottery is made by building up strips of mud, layer by layer, into a vase or pot. They achieve some beau- tiful results, although with a great ex- penditure of time and effort. Capt. von Hoflman declared canni- bals were almost extinct in the so-called Dark Continent. He said that Africa was no longer dangerous and that wild animals were becoming scarcer. The people, however, largely neglected, although they are as interes as the people of any other part of the world. Some of the natives are benefiting by contact with white men’s civilization, but many of them have a long road to travel. For in- stance, he pointed out, some of the Zulus have adopted clothing, but they do not know that clothing has to be cleaned at intervals, and as a result their clothes become havens for vermin and give them much trouble and an- noyance. PIONEER LEGION POST TO MARK ANNIVERSARY o The twelfth anniversary of George Washington Post No. 1, the pioneer post of the American Legion, will be cele- brated tonight at 8 o'clock at the post club house, 1441 Rhode Island avenue northwest. On March 7, 1919 approximately 375 ar gathered in iving person. The first commander of the post was E. Lester Jones, who was later elected der of th 3 . _The affair tonight is a “smoker” to members. Several prominent speakers will partic- he said, had been |%; RADIO BEACON NOW " SPANS CONTIENT First Air Line Completed with Such Service, U. S. De- partment Says. Radio range beacon service has been i placed in continuous service operation {all the way across the United States, |1t was announced yesterdey by _the | Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce. The final station in the transconti- nental ehain, from New York to San Francisco, has been installed at Medi- cine Bow, Wyo. There are 21 stations in the ¢hain and there is at least one beacon station in each State traversed by ‘the transcontinental system. First Equipped Line. “This” the Department of Commerce announced, “is unquestionably the first alrway of comparable length to be pro- vided with complete radio directional service to make possible the flying of the route under conditions of poor visibility without reciable deviation from the Federal airway course, “‘Calculations of wind drift, air speed versus ground speed, compass variation and deviation, and determination of proper time intervals for course chang- ing can be done away with and the p\lot‘ucm fly according to the radio "Wnflnf ear phones under his. hel- met, he listens to the radio-beacon signals, which are designed to keep him on his course at all times.” Completes Pioneer Airway. Installation of the final radio beacon station, the Department of Commerce announced, completes as far as aids to air navigation are concerned, -the world's pioneer ccmmercial airway. The New York-San FPrancisco route first step being the establishment of airmail landing flelds, which for the first three years remained unlighted. Today the pilot has a continuous system of lighted emergency landing flelds from . coast to coast, airways lights between the fields to S‘:‘:&;h‘nflrvt? !l.!r wdn,\‘.l'l!l‘, continuous ce, broadcast now Tadio beacon service,” o> 42 Marriage Licenses. and Estelle Miles, om! lker, 21, 2 Ed . Soiomion. 'fif: ge P Beriram E. Dunn, ih Lenia Spen: Rev. Wiiliam A.‘f AT Sanind tays £, both ot Biavnton, Vas Reryona ¥, Bamuel J. Prigal, 26, Baltjmor Esth Esther Biackman, b6, oo Y ird M. French, arske, 20; n}'n' 29, Rl :mgng cl,‘lh . a L. 1. McDo e W“,‘,",',",“‘;,'!;%‘;“v 14,34, Heflin, ‘Ala.; Rev. . Melntyre. i, 31, Uniontown, and_Dorothy E. -y g o B ; mHDIu! » 18, this city; d’\and y; Judge ind_Jeanette Kuch- ehimond, R , Pa., Rev. ‘Geotze Granum. 21, and Geneva Wigsins, ; Rev. Smallwood 'Williams. 3 10551 bot of Biliasn,” lors 3, of Dillwyn, 2 A Callie ' Jone, Neuv. H‘.’ol us Gon Willlam A, Taylor, Deaths Reported. The following deaths have bee the Healtls Dep ‘Annis . Wendel o7, Sa53 % Dr. H'.’:'u"rf'nfi: Hardesty. 5 . Hardesty. 55, % il Hardesty. 55, United States Sol aldi, 45, diers’ Louls Sing Qasualty Hospital PRISON AT LORTON RUN LIKE SCHOOL; ESCAPES ARE FEW Large Unguarded Space and Small Number of Guards Make Flight Easy. HAS ONLY 1 CELL HOUSE, AND IT IS RARELY USED Nevertheless Seven Slayers and Many Other “Hardened” Crimi- nals Among Its Inmates. Although seven men convicted of first- degree murder and many other erim- inals of the type usually described as “Bardened” are among the 784 inmates of the District Reformatory at Lorton, Va., the institution is really more like a boarding school than a prisor. ‘The men confined to Lorton, unlke the inmates of most penal institutions, fare not locked in cells, and the nearest thing to a wall is at the entrance to the reformatory grounds, where trere are two brick pillars. No gate swings be- tween those pillars, however, and they stand alone, like two sentinels. But they are sentinels whick any one, no matter how unintelligent, could eas- ily avoid. To the right of them 1s a woods—an unguarded wuuda——thmu&h which one would have but little diffi- culty in making one’s way to lom. And to the left the grounds of the in- stitution stretch until they fade into another woods in the distance. Escape Is Simple Matter. A few armed guards are stationed in towers here and there sbout the grounds, but there are many acres which they are unable to watch with any de- gree of certainty that “all is well.” On a moonless night, escaping from Lorton would be almost as simple a ratter taking a walk around the block. Yet during the 14 years that M Barnard, as general superintendent District penal institutions, has been charge of Lorton only a few prisoners have left the reformatory afsre the expiration of their sentences, and vir- tually all of them have been recap- man who fled the prison, came to Wash- ington, and after a few weeks’' unsuc- ‘ccssful quest for work returzed and asked to be re-admitted. “I guess I'm better off right here,” A C. Tawes, superintendent of the institu- tion, “and I want to stay just us long as ’ox.udl::) me.” n one who has inspected Lorton that tale is not the least bit unbeliev- able. Architecturally the reformatory is not a thing of beauty, out, as &nd as M. of in Barnard explained, it was designed built to meet the needs which experi- ence had indicated would arise. Cell House Rarely Used. The thing that makes Lorion more like a school than . These which contains between 50 and are clean and comfortable ard cate that T Duidings ave pacts are penal institution. ton and it is rarely used. its 20 cells are o that the cell house is here has chological effect the prisoners. t indicates to them that they are well ofla l:h.%omplred with most prisoners, an they remain do the right '-hln(m iy over and most ‘The newcomer taken to Mr. Tawes’ office, where he is tioned about his bilitles in so lar as work is concerxm- Preferences Considered. “Usually,” Mr. Tawes said, “we to give them the kind of work for which they are best fitted either experience or preference. I've found that most men do best that which they like best, and I always take ‘Our activities here are so many and varied, however, that we always find the If a chap tells me i Wwas commenced in the Fall of 1920, the | WO! f. entl suitable place for a man compara- tively simple, no matter what his past experience has been. year, know, and we raise nearly e-rwfl that goes on our table. We ral all our own pork and much of the beef we use; we make our own lard, and other pork and beef products and our bakery turns out 1,200 loaves of bread a day. Make Auto License Tags. “In addition, we make all the license used on District automobiles and Gallinger Hospital. | pae, n Croswell, 33, Georsetown Uni- aspital s Aanon, S TS Ry Rosefelt, Ha ) Gal- i) 3 months, Children's Hos- “h'l ‘! wfllfl’ ind Hattle Willlams, 2 births hay been re, nt in past Souss?