Evening Star Newspaper, June 13, 1931, Page 16

A—16 x% THE EVE REDUGED REALTY TAX URGED UNDER MAPES GROUP PLAN Collins Holds Levies in Capi- tal Should Be Less Than in Comparable Cities. ADHERES TO $9,000,000 LUMP SUM FROM U. S. Bees Treasury by Imposing Estate Tax. Ros Collins ic member tudying fiscal stem of Representative Mississippi, Democ Special Committee lations and the Capital, today declared that any creased revenues brouzht to th trict from the imposition of ne as proposed by the committce be applied to a reduction of ex- isting taxes on re The com- mittee in a stateme sued ‘Thi suggested inh-ritan d_automobile weigh taxes an sase in tax on gasolin. T dents of mn cm the Mr. Collins decla Adheres to $9.000 Mr. Collins s ent I um Feder Natio] the towar of th He consistently ex fon that $9,000,000 is a fair contribution, more than the tax bi ernment would He also figure an estate tax £600.000 out of the Federal Treasury to the credit of the District. Mr. Collins will support the Mapes Committee find- ings. Representative out of the Mape: may come a model National Capital that can be adopted as a uniform taxation system for the es. He believes in the total elim- tion of land texes and poi rocord . in picces of property 2 State because th: people (’m ot pay the real cstate taxes. The taxing of real estate, he says. is not the preper way to raise revenue. is a mistake to attem revenue by increasing holding it is a little the Federal Go! if it were taxed the imposition of Collins hopes that Committee’s work system for the Hits Tax on Intangibles. forms of e believes xes in hould be t the personal | intangibles is nothing but an ment on mortgages an deeds of trust on real estate, the is in effect ancther tax an land. If there is any justification for a tax on incgme, he said more ‘Justificatio heritance. He s tate tax goes i ury. With a Di he saia, 80 per cit proper here for a tax on in- ed out that all e: 1e Federal Tre: 1heritance ta nt would go to th Going into the subject of taxing cor-| ad valorem income or gr the Mapes porations on tk rather than on revenue. as recommended by committee, Mr nted out that the gas company pays 5 per cent, while the telephone company is assessed only 4 per cent. So there are taxes, he insists the bas cir ry community throughout t 5 publ: ice corporations on an ad val> he says. In the District of Columbi the basis for the ad valorem levy. emphasizes, should be on present valuation for rate-making purposcs as Bworn to by the utilitie Urges Fairer System. Substitution of an income tax fo the personal proverty tax on intaneibles should raise an increase of about $500. 000 more than is now bein; He considers this as negligible, as @m- pared with the importance of getting | & fairer and juster ta tem. Regarding the auto gos tax increate from 2 to 4 cents per gallon, recom- mended by the Mapos Com: i Collins points out thet in ‘\h.mnd the tax is 4 cents end in Vriginia 5 cents. He also pointed out that all of the States tax automobiles by weight. Lord d es tax expert for the Mapes ittee, has estimated that the in gasoline tax and the | tax automobiles by weigk brin; an additional Tevenue 1 es tax w yicld someth e another $600.000. es that it will be im- just contribution by tI ment toward sup- port of the National Capital as a cou- proposition. He thinks this uld be studied every four or five years and the Federal contribut changed to meet changing conditions A lump sum contribution of $9,000,- 000, which he consider then the tax on Federal property owned and used by the Federal Government, would vield. he beli a proper con- tribution for the next few years, m CITY NEWS IN BPRIEF. TODAY Dance. McKinley class, Mayflower Hotel 1 School Senior 9 pm dance, Tau 7:30 pm Willard Banqu't and Mayflower Hotel Aero Beta Phi, Dinner, 7:30 pm. Community dana>, School Gymnasium, streets north 3 Club, Hotel, cKinley Second 30 pan Club, High and T Card . Catholic Church, and Rhode Isl; 8 pm. St. enue northeast, Marriage Licenses. Herbert W Fox. L. TR AT Phoebus. iy, Rev Rosalind ladden, bd Pearl M. Lucas, . Sweet Hall snd Mary L . Baliston, Va Robert E. X J. Harris Bell. 56, both of Harrisburg. Pa Nathaniel T. Henneé Mary E. Orme, 19, tal Fannon Orville G. Hepner. 26, and Virginia L. Bowers, 22 Henry Mauken, Grover C. M 46, Easton. Lillian "C. Ar 3%, this Samuel J. Por Judge Allan F. Poor Baltimore. and Rev. John F. Rev. i Rev. J. Councilor. William A. Thompson. 21, Johnston. 17; Rev. Godfre Bernard ‘A._ Wisiman. 26, and Imelda E. Wonife, 21: Rev. Michael R. Eea Daniel Weisman. 28, #nd Ethel Cohen. 20, ®oth of Baltimore, Rev. G. Silverstone. Pobert Creditt. 21, and Nellie McCoy, I Rev. F, J. Tobin. R and Agnes V. Chebot $600,000 Teaving Federal| day | so that infinitely | ho | £2.500,000 more | James’ | centh strect | va. | Homer | Award Made Veteran 0.8, | ! Entomologist for Noted Service. Belongs to Aides—Led Fight on Mosquitoes. By the Associated Press. Dr. Leland O. Howard, who hopes he ple to the insect menace. has received 2 gold medal and a $5,000 prize, but ,can’t imagine why. | “Darned if I know,” the 74-year-ol Agriculture Department _entomolog: replied when psked to what outstanding achicvement he attributed the Capper Award for Distinguished Service to American Agriculture, anncunced in Chicago yesterday. said he supposed it was because rved 33 years of his more than 52 | vears in the department as the Bureau of Entomology chief and “did & lot of small things.” The real credit, he said | him Dr. Howard, who wears the decora- Ition of the French Legion of Honor |and 15 the recipient of six honorary de- grees, suggesied his research, writings | lana lectures on the necessity of con- { trolling insects, man’s dangerous rivals for the food supplies of the world, as his_greatest work. The labor of & milli | United States alone, I ach vear through th to crops. But he feol intelligence will win out in the n men in the said, is lost ge of inscets tain man’s end. Face of Hold-up Man With Fake “Pistol.” An attempt to hold up the cashier of a Thompson's Restaurant, at 1345 E eet, was frustrated and the would-be bandit subsequently captured last night | when the cashier ignored the man's command to “Stick ‘em up” and hurled a porcelain envelope moistener in his face, Simon Lang of 809 E street, the cash- | ier, had just finished waiting upon sev- { eral customers when a colored man valked into the cafe, brandished what Lang believed to be a revolver covered | with' a cloth and ordered him away from the cash register. | The bandit, out further ado, ,xmchcd over the counter to open ths money drawer and Lang picked up the | envelope device and threw it into the | man’s face, inflicting a decp laceration of the left cheek Taking to his heels, the colored man raced through the door as Harry I. Riley, an inspector for the Thompson {lunch room chain, entered the place Riley sensed trouble and started after the ‘man, with Lang close behind, and the two him at Fourteenth street and Pennsylvenia avenue A ned out to be noth- n a picce of metal, shaped ce a pistol his prisoner to the first . where he was booked as William Harris, 23, and then removed to Emergency Hos- for first-aid treatment. Harris police he had no home and decided |upon the hold-up because he had no job and was hungry. | precinct for invest 'HAYNES LIKELY T0 GO Recipient Says Real Creditl | | | {has helped to awaken the Nation's peo- | | belongs to the men he gathered around | ve: DR. HOWARD GETS GOLD MEDAL, $5.000, BUT DOESN'T KNOW WHY DR. LELAND O. HOWARD. Dr. Howard retired as bureau chief in 1927, but cortinued his studics of med- ical entomology and parisitology. He ends hus long Governmental service on Juiv 1. He plans to live in Paris for a to study and write more about gest task facing <ntomologist: he said, 1s effective control of the Ja anese bectle, the corn borer, the pink boll we:vil, alfalfa weevil and the bean | y cannot be eliminated,” he sald, their control is absolutel to stop huge economic wi He has writt'n many bool on in- His work on mosquitoes and flies started household wars on insects & quarter of a century “but the CASHIER PREVENTS IUDGE JAHES HeY CAFETERIA RUBBERY DIES IN' VIRGINIA [Hurls Envelope Moistener in Served on House Military Af- fairs Committee During Wilson’s First Term. Judge James Hay. prominent Vir- ginia Democrat and former Represent- ative in Congress, who retired from the | United States Court of Claims a few years ago, died last night at his hcme at Madison, Va. He was 75 years old. The jurist, who served as chairman of | the important House Military Affaizs Committee during Woodrow Wilson's first term as President, will be buried at Madison tomorrow after es from his home. Judge Hay was the father cf James Hav, jr., Washington writer. He was born in Miliwood, Clarke County, Va. and was educated private schools in Virginia and Mary- land and the University of Pennsyl- vania, He received a bachelor of la yashington and Lre U admitted to 3 at Madi- versity in A the bar and began practict son that year. After serving as commonwealth’s at- torney be bocame a member of the State Houte of Delegates in 1885, serving until 1891, Later he served in NING funeral | in| YTAR, WASHINGTON, 0 IEXPLOSION PROBED ) | | AS FIVE ARE HURT ATHILLING STAII[]N‘ Police and Company Officials | Begin Inquiry Into Origin of Mystery Blast. {RACQUET CLUB AUDITOR ] CONFINED TO HOSPITALi but Do Not Endanger Life—Theory Blames Basement Gas. His Burns Prove Painful, Eighth precinct police and officials }of the Lord Baltimore Filling Stations, i s e BOOSTERS VISITING CHESAPEAKE PORTS tion at Eighteenth and S streets yes- | terday, resuliing in the injury of five Merchants and Manufactur- ers at Hampton Roads for Tour. The blast caused a shower of broken | {glass and splintered wood which en-: | dangered of persons passing | | nearby in automobiles and on foot and ! was heard for some distance. Several! residents of the section, including at- | aches of embzssies and legations, tele- | phened the police and asked what had | happened. | 1 Five Men Hurt. | ‘Those injured were: Carl W. Haul, 25 years old. an auditor employed by the | Racquet Club: E. R. Currin, 23 vears old. | of 2410 Twentieth street, manager of the | station: Paul Adams, 21 years old, of | 611 Otis street, another employe; Lo broad expanse of Hampton Roads, the Armstrong, 24 vears old, of Cherrydale, | river and bay ports of Southern Mar Va., who wes in charge of o supply tr ucérl nd and Virginia the friendly objec- jinloading gasoline at the stellon. ond| tives of the 160-0dd members and f)‘fgf,"mffl{;?,‘:,n“ S a5 { guests of the Merchants and Manufac- Hauf su d burns about the face! '”‘j"'»" A‘\-'r”\l-a»m::r"‘flm‘-hr'; ;)‘lf})‘nl“‘rw [an aems. AC Bmergency Hospital | B o | where he still was confined today, it| & FOUR S0 BT o0 LA0 SN WOESY was said his condition was pamrul ‘r:f.v"é.‘m,‘;‘,‘l" on Gelf Club at Old | but not serious” He was having his |yt B SO B MENE L rd to make & car serviced at the time of the ex- &, PERC T q 3y plosion and was sitting on a_railing | * i when a plate-glass window behind him | Cares was shattered, sending glass flying in all dire-tions. The force of the blast threw him about 25 fe scores By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ON BOARD S. S. SOUTHLAND, off Old Point Comfort, Va, June 13.— This good-will vessel drove on to the Are Forgotten. re-free spirit of g among fthe bus fossi men of Washi the trip. who, free for res of office end the g spective pursuits, are already e best of the annual outing aboard the Southland. The aftern along the pictur de without unu: t from the W marked ~b; vthical gener e all sion. A ¢ preva Suspect Ts Released. Adams also received treatment at the hospital, but ke and the otzers, were no | seriously injt Armstrong s praised by po end firemen for truck out of the! while he still was dazed | after having been hurled to the ground The expiosion is being investigated by Capt. Hugh M. Greves, commander of the eighth police precinct. A colored man was arrested in connection with the blast, but was released when convinced police he knew nct 2bout it It was at first thought th2 explosion | was caused by compresse in the station, but examinat they were intact. The p are inclined to believe an accumulation of gas in the basement caused the blast. || THE WEATHER W on and night ing to his that is mortal of busi: ness depres Inspect Vessels. This afternoon the it the ship Hoover lidge. After a stay and a half at T | 1d will head seaward on a cru to the Virginia Capes, return } up_Chesapeake Bay. ‘The booste! ‘1 OW will dock at A me to attend the Stat> Scnate before his election to| the House of Representatives in 1897 He resigned in 1916 to accept appoint- | ment t> the Court of Claims. s survived by his widow Mrs. D. C. Wade of Rando'ph and two ison and d. Ohio, of Mad |ELDERLY MAB] AND GIRL 'TO LORTON NEXT WEEK | pected at District Jail Wed- nesday or Thursday. Harry V. Haynes probably will go to | Lorton the middle of next week to start ! serving the four-and-a-half-year s°n- tence imposed yesterday in District Su- preme Court for misapplying funds and | falsifying_records of the Farmers & National Bank, where he was president His removal will b> contingent on re- ceipt at the District Jail of the com- | mita 1 papers, which, it is thought, will be_about Wednesday or Thursday. | _Pollowing the imposition cf the pen- Talty by Justice Peyton Gordon, Haynes expressed a wish to get started on his sentence as soon as possible. | He will be eligible for parole in 18 months. |ARLINGTON RITES HELD FOR GEN. R. H. DUNLAP Dunlap. United States Marine Corps, killed in France May 19 in a landslide while attampting to rescue a French | woman, were conducted in _Arlington Cemetery today at 11 am. Interment was with full military_honors. Rev. Edwin B. Niver, U. S. N, retired, | officiated. Gen. Dunlap, a native Washingtonian, was_widely_known in this city. Mrs Katherine Wood Dunlap, staying here with her mother at 1758 K street. B; ploy special permission, civilian em- s of Marine Corps headquarters About half the civilian personnel of the headquarters leit the office this | morning for the services. 799 CRASHES HERE IN MAY jured in trafic accidents last month, according to a report submitted to Maj Henry G. Pratt yesterday afternoon by Inspector Ernest W. Brown. commander of the Trafic Burcau. There were 11 | fatalities in May, 1930, and 10 in | May, 1929. A total of 799 accidents were reported | he number that occurred | wcre in the same period lasi year. Par ing end other traffic violations resulted | . in the arrest of 4,051 persons, according | | to the report | BAND CONCERT. By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band, this evening, at the bandstand | at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmer- mann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, as- sistant. March, “The Stars and Stripes For- -Sousa ever” . I Patriotic “overture, “America Forever, chani than Suite, “At kin | Mrlange, | South" Patrol, Waltz Finale, “Indian Summer" Dawn.” “Dance Love Song.” “At Twilight. “The song, * g “An Arkansaw Huskin' Bee,” Pryor “The Star Spangled Banner.” Scngs of the North and the | | Committal’ Papers for Banker Ex.| | HURT BY AUTOMOBILES Chinrles? Pofacion 70} iWende Tiec| Womeldorph, 5, Condition Reported as Serlous. Injured—His Charles Peterson. 70 vears old. of 1149 Fourth street ncrtheast, was s-ricusi injured last night, when an au driven by John McCall, 28, 621 & street, struck him on H sirce Seventh northeast. Peterson, who was running to catch a | street ear when the accident occurred, was taken to Casualty H spital and treated for fractures of the ribs and nu- mercus cuts and bruises sbout the body. McCall was not held by police. Five-year-old Wanda Lee Womel- dorph of Opekun, Va., was taken to Emergency Hospital and treated for shock and cuts about the forehead after &n avtomcbilé in which sine was riding was in collision with an Army truck at Twelfth and D streets southwest yes- terday afterncon. The car in which she was riding wes | driven Lloyd A. Wemeldorph, Opekun, Va.. while Pvt. W.lliam J. Gar- dine cf Fort Myer, Va., was operating | the Army trus 'REV. MAR'_I'IN'J, BREEN, Firal rites for Brig. Gen. Robert H. | the widow, is | were allowed to attend the funeral. | SEMINARY HEAD, DIES Viatorian Rector Passes Away at Age of 53—Funeral to Be in Chicago. Very Rev. Martin J. Breen, C. S. V., | rector of Viatorian Seminary, 625 Ham- | lin_ street northeast, died this morning at the age of 53 years. He had been a member of the Viatorian community about 35 ycars and a priest for the last 24 year: Rev. Breen was a teacher at St. Via- tor's College until 1913, when he was appointed president of Columbia Col- lcge, then at Chamberlain, S. Dak. He served in this office for three years, and from 1916 to 1930 he was engaged |in parish and mission work in South Five persons were killed and 352 in- | | | Dakota and Oregon. He came to Wash- ington in September, the duties as rector of the seminary. The body will be taken to Chicago, where funeral services will be held. ‘MRS MAUD GREENAWALT TO BE BURIED TODAY| to police, the monthly report shows, 50 | Rites for D A. R. Lsade: to Be dence, Held at Resi With In- terment in Cak Hill. The funeral of Mrs. Maud Lipscomb | 2 Greenawalt, former State regent of the District of Columbia Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, who died in Norfolk, Va, Wednesday, was to be conducted at her residence, 1719 Lanier place, this afternoon, with Rev. Dr. H. H. D. Sterrett, rector of All Souls’ Me- morial Church, officiating. Interment was to be in Oal: Hill Cemetery. Mrs. Greenawalt, who was 60 years | old, was widely known in this city for her patriotic ~ activities. Outstanding amcng these was her fight to have the | Key Bridge here named after Frencis Scott Key and to h “The Star Spangled Banner” the national anthem. She was a mem- ber of the Mayflower Society and was organizer and regent of Ruth Brewster Chapter, D. A. R. Mrs. Greenawalt's husband is Prank F. Greenawalf, also widely known in this city. - 1930, to assume | officially adopted as! District of Columbia—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow. probably local | < much change in ture, gentle to moderate soutk erly winds. Maryland—Partly ably in north and not much change in tempera- | gentle to moderate soutnerly SEEK RECEIEVERSH!P AGAINST LA SALLE | Mortgage Na:cfo]dflrs Decide Act Agzinst Rheem cloudy tonight | morrow | ture; | winds. | " Virginia—Lo thundershowers in | north and west porticns; partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; not much change |in temperature; gentle to moderaie Project. \U'th(‘ y winds. 1 . West_Virginia—Partly cloudy tonight and tomorro 2 | showers tomor s i east portion tonight. ‘ Record for 24 Hours. Thermometer—4 p.m., 83: 8 pm., 80 i3; 4 am, 67, 70; | to fon last notes on Afier_a_ prolor c a nsey Co. project [ votea to ‘institute n hip proceed- the done I. Cassed; interest secu v F. Woodwa cted the receiver meutecsstul; onz of a com 3 1 12 midnight, rometer—4 pm. 2098; 8 pm,! 95; 12 midnight, 20.97; 4 a.m., 30.00; am, 30.01; 11 am. 30.00 J Highest+temperature, 86, occurred at 4:15 pm. yesterday. Lowest tempera- | ture, 66, occurred at 5°30 a.m. toda: Temperature same date last Highest, 83; lowest, 67. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast | and Geodetic Sury Today—Low tide, pm.: high tide, 6:20 a.m. and 5:51 p.m. | Tomorrow—Low tide, 1.43 am. and 12:46 p.m.; high tide, 7:04 a.m. and \'USTINE CROSSER ELOPES T0 VIRGINIA Paughter of Representative and G. W: U. Law Student Wed in Alexandria. 8 am, over the owner o objection John 2 8 hip suit imm h~ not voted to form to be kn eholders of North Section of the La Salle Ap: ments. George L. Sullivan was named ‘man. the The Sun and Moon. | _ Today—Sun rose 4:41 am.; 7:34 pm. ‘Temorrow—Sun rises 4:41 sets 7:35 p.m. Moon rises 2:34 am.; sets 5:28 p.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted one- half hour atter sunset Rainfall. | Comparative figures of the monthly | rainfall in the Capital for the first six | months against the average are shown | in the following table: | Average. % 1 sun sets am.; sun A courtship begun while they <tudents at universities here was cuimi- nated in Alexandria June 2 with the | clopement_and marriag2 of two young were S ative Crosser of Cleve- land, and Charles A. Sweeny of Toledo, 'a law student at George Washington | University The couple, it was revealed yesterday, slipped _away for the ceremony, in | Christ Church, Alexandria, on the day | following Miss _Crosser’s graduation from American University. Both are 22_years pld. Mr. and Mrs. Sweeny, who are living at the Miramar Apartments, will make their home in Washington until the bride ing years of his la¥ course. On his graduation Mr. Sweeny plans to practice law in Toledo. The former Miss Crosser studied at Pt clouds | the Women's College of Western Re- Clear |serve University, at Cleveland. prior to Blcloudy | coming here. Mr. Sweeny . Gloudy | and Mrs. A, W. Cloudy | his law course at_ the University of : &t | Toledo. The elder Sweeny is connected with the New York Central Railway at Toledo. CHILEAN ATTACHE FACES QUIZ IN ACGIDENT, Clondy Prcloudy L EGonay Pl iouay Clond Picloudy Clent * prcloudy Cloudy ; Brieloudy Prcloudy | pon carlos de 1a Barra, commercial | _ Clear | secretary of the Chilean embassy, at| Glondy | 2154 Florida avenue, was expected to| 5 Sioudy | be questicned by polic: of the fourteenth | precinct station tocay in connection with a hit-and-run accident in the 4000 block, Cathedral avenue, last night. An automobile listed to De la Barra, according to police, crashed into the park d machine of Walter C. Kerrigan of the Westchester Apartments, 4000 Cathsdral avpnue. Eyewitnesses told officers that fhe driver quit the socne without leaving his name. An_employe of a nearby garage took dthe license number of the colliding car | and turn-d the information over to the Clouds lico. * Pt cloudy POl Pt.cloudy fachusetts avenue. 19 ins. Record rainfall mgnths was January, 1882, for the first five 7.09 inches; February. 1884, - 6.34 inches; March, ‘1891, 8.84 inches: April, 1889, 9.13 inches; May, 1889, 10.69 inches. Weuther in Varions Citics. 8tations. Weather, Atlantic City. ! Raltimore, Md.. Birminghim, - 2 o, nnati, Ohio 29.94 1and, Ohio. 2994 Helena Mont.... Huron. S. Dak. Indjenannlic Ind 29.90 Jacksonville.Fl Kansas Cits Los Anweles.. ... 29 Lousville. Ky Niami Fla 2 Cloudy Clondy Pain . Pt.cloudy Cer . Ptclondy I clear | Rain Pr.cloudy Clear . Ph.cloudy Clondy . Glear Clear Gloudy Rain Philadelphia Phoenix. Ariz. . Bittsburrh. Pa Portland. Partland, Palei~h. €alt Loke Sen _Antanio {San Diego. Calif 29.92 San_ Francisco. 20.92 £t. Louis. Mo.. 2088 208 l 29088 29:90 20.04 30.00 4 1 MDA, . 'ASH., D. C. oom completes the two remain- | son of Mr. Sweeny, prepared for | L on their t prmxdr ¢ of the ass:ciation, ——— D. C. Aiding Capital Jobless More Than Savs Gotwals tional (‘(‘n- the addi- Scheol in ‘Woedr vision was ates, and cw cement o alleys. d conc LEGICN PREPARES FORD. . SESSION Meet With Southeast Busi- ness Men to Plan De- partmental Events. American Lezion and Southenst Busi- n representatives out preliminary fr‘l the annual Legion depart- menfal convention which is to be held oction of Washington ped | “The A | streots southes on hesdqu sighth and G . was selected as con- ers and a program 3 now being worked out for a street parade openinz the conclave. Three bands later will furnish music for a strect dance. The parade’s reviewing 1l be erected at Eighth street vania avenue southeast. est musical organization in busi intion plans” to n will award a ted float and a similar prize to the best uniformed post and to the unit having the most men in line. A prize also will be awarded to the best Boy Scout parade unit, The Legion plans to hold a contest | among the merchants, offering a prize for the best decorated windows and buildings along the line of march. J. Elmon Shelton has been selected as assistant parade marshal, and appli- cation for float entries in the parade must_be filed at his office, Seventeenth and H streets southeast Arrangement committee of the Legion is composed of W. N. Morell, chairman; E..P. Van Hise, vice chairman: Porter Bush. secretary, and W. R. Beall, committee chairman. The as- sociation will b~ represented by P. C. McGrath, Frank Del Vechio, Dr. J.| 4 Pe For the line the | Chester Pyles, A. J. Berlin and Charles | Jenkins. | PHONE SOCIETY MEETS Remon Speaks i EnmeRHowie Development Is Seen. Five hundred members of the Wash- | ington Telephone Society, composed of employes of the Chesapeake & Po- tomac Telephone Co., assembled in Mc- Kinley High School Auditorium last | night to hear an address by their gen- | | eral manager, John A. Remon, and to | view talking motion pictures showing the development of telephone communi- cation. Remon urged the employes to in- crease their sales efforts, pointing out that 40,000 Washington families are | without telephones and that there is | only one extension phone for every five | telephones in the Capital. |~ Miss Dorothy Reddish, local soprano, band,” entertained, Associaf e-day boost: is third from the r h in the ar Staff Photo OPERATIONS SAVING SEEN AID TO FLEET Adams Thinks May. Helo Build It Up to Treaty Limits. question embrace t ne e submitted to Conaress last s uded two 6-in ) submarines and ing a total of § reach a vote nate. “Don't shut the door on déstroyers.” Adams ad ‘We may need some of them—eve: g but battleships. Up to Bsttleship Limit. ‘Th2 Un the maximum battleship it under was reta t the program 000,000. to in’ either house or priated <10Pfh‘\um truction of 11 destr 1 $10,000,000 for beginning modernizati v-n of three leships Virtually ail the American destrov- | rs are nearing replacemeni ag Gostroyers have been_ built sice the | war. The life of this type craft is 16 | years. Building Seven Gun Cruisers. Seven 8-inch gun _cruisers, which will bring the United States almost up to in that division, an aircraft nd two submarines now are nder construction. Contracts for the 11 new destroyers are to be let this' Summer. While Secretary Adams and o‘ber Navy officials were silent on the sub- ject, it was reported they plan to save £3500,000 from the coming fiscal veal's appropriation through postponement 0( purchase of some of the 138 seaplanes | | scheduled to be assigned to the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and Coco Solo, C. Z., naval air bases! GENERAL WILL RECEIVE ; AWARD FROM PRIVATE! Title of Honorary Mandarin to Be | Conferred on A. S. Daggett, Boxer Revolution Veteran. | Reversing the usual order of things, a private will decorate a general to- morrow. Stanislaus A. Zelazny, the private, who is viceray of the Imperial Order of the Dragon for the District of Colum- bia, will confer the title of honorary | mandarin _on Brig. Gen. Aaron S. | Daggett, Boxer Rebellion veteran, on the latter's ninety-fourth birthday. Gen. ‘Daggett, who lives at 206 Al | street southesst. was colonel of the 14th Infantry in China when the Imperial} Order first was formed. in the Winter |of 1900-01. “Then it was known only | the Dragons and was formed for the vowed purpose of putting pep into an | otherwise dreary Winter.” At a re-| |union at Boston in 1908, however, the | name was changed and a drive begun to enlist all veterans of the Boxer up- rising. | . BURGLAR 1S SOUGHT Gunman Threatened to Shoot Wom- an and Takes $5. Police today were seeking a burglar | who stole $5 from the home of William | F. Hiller yesterday after threatening to shoot Mrs. Hiller. The woman awakened about 3 a.m. |to find the intruder in her bedroom. He |struck_a_match, she said, leaned over De la Barra lives at 2100 Mas- ‘mn[ and George Small‘ “the one-man and whispered & warning not to make ing resigned June 1. any outery. A upper | Economies | IBAKER WILL FACE TRIAL MONDAY IN - SLAYING OF WIFE 1 | Accused of First-Degree Mur- der*th Shooting at Home on Aoril 2. GAVE uP WHEN HE TIRED OF DODGING POLICEMEN Statement Given to Police Blames Refusal to Listen to Pleas for Reconciliation. Albert C. B {of his entrang trial before Justice | Jury in Crir on a charge of firs Mrs. B husbend’s home, she had gone to her four children, witnessed sh youngs , confessed slay May, will go on Peylon Gordon and Division 1 Mcnday -degree | Ap: | 807 O str | “look after The thre | - Bakers i separation. | Baker fled after | surrendered & shor ing he was tired ¢ and wanted to “:e ting, but explain- policeme Confession Reported. In a written < following his surrenc- to have co the shootix plained, according to pol followed his wife's r his pleas for a re Shor to tne Dis cellmate, {him as he adjudged “The cas 1 ant United S rica, while Robert I M ciliation. was committed atie he ho building al t ne time later th companied b h""')q arters and an t did not re whom they he had to exp! e before he was said he had b" $73,000 SEWERAGE ' CONTRACTS AWARDED Fcur Firms Given Work on Dis- trict Dispes2] Projects by lize he was had bee Commissicners. anton was awarded to between place. were awarded Schlegel. _Th olved seweir on Foote street be- y-ninth and Sixtieth streets . and on Easter venue in the ixtieth streets Two smaller to Roy D. service contra sewer in end Twen | Their cost is $1,012.43, TPREE NAVY PROFESSORS TO ELECT JUNIOR OFFICER | Three of the 1 s of mathema | cac of | and mathcmat here in a fow remaining junior officer, Comdr. Theo- dore W. Johnson. for promotion to ¢ | tain. Congress has directed that be no additions made to the nava ganization known as thc corps of pro- | fessors of matchem: S0 that now therc are but four members in this group. is s learned profes- timate with the calculus will meet the sole b n board will meet in Washington on June 29, by order of Secretary Adams, with Capt. Franl . who is on duty at the Nav here, as president ‘oihor Braemntat e Capt. Paul Dashieil and Capt. Herbert L. Rice, w} is also recorder. As Capt. Dashic who is on duty at the Naal demy at Annapolis, Md., retires for age on August 1, this will leave a va- keaney in the captaincy. The only cfii- | cer eligible for promotion is Comdr. Johnson, now on duty at the Naval Academy. 'SHOREHAM INTEREST T0 BE PAID ON JUNE 13 The receivers of the Shoreham Hotel will begin the payment of interest June 18 on presentation of the notes secured on the property in order that prop indorsement may be made. Notehold-rs | residing out of town are advised to send | their notes to local banks with instruc- | tions to arrange for their presentation at the hotel, where an office will be maintained for the payments. The office will be open June 18, from 10 am. to 3 p.m, but after that da payment may be cbtained from M: Sharshing, the assistant manager of the | hotel. | _The receivers announce that the p ments will include the interest April 18, which has been deferred fc | two months unde: court order, in addi- tion to interest thereon for the two cnonths' delay. McKELVIE RETURNS Samuel R. McKelvie, who retires Monday as the wheat member of the {Farm Board, returned to Washington yesterday from the London Interna- tional Wheat Conference and discussed with some of his colleagues the results of that meeting. McKelvie's resignation leaves two cancies on the board, C. C. Teague h No successors | have been named.