Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1931, Page 17

WASHINGTON, D. ROUTED BY STORM, | HEAT LEAVES D.C.. WITH 20 OVERCOME Trees, Poles and Buildings| Damaged by Disturbance of Unusual Character. HIGHER TEMPERATURE * TO FOLLOW WIND TODAY Yocal Thundershowers Are Likely Says Forecast. Tomorrow, The fierce electrical hit Washington late plunge the mercury from 9 grees in little more than en hour, and | which left in its wake uprooted and } rhattered trees, fallen telephone lines | and lightning 'stricken buildings, was characterized by Weather Bureau offi- cials today as an event which wculd occur but once in 10 vears. The disturbance, which had its in- ception in New York State early yes- | terday. moved with great speed from | the north apd northeast, passed over | Delawar faryland and Virginia, and | moved southward to the Carolinas, over | a route considered by experts as phe- | nomenal. H While the official average of wind | velocity recorded at the local Weath stoxsm which . 1ol T 2000 ASK SEATS WO trees were blown onto the home of R. W. Roger: Chevy Chase, Md., during the height of yesterday's storm. No damage was done to the dwelling, but light and teleph-ne wires were broken. at 102 Quincy strect, —Star Staff Photo. BOARD T0 REVOKE WITH SUNDAY MOR! ) s BOARD DEMOTES HEDRICK AND HAY DESPITE PROTEST Teachers’ Union Counsel Sees Merging of Physics and Biology Departments lllegal. GREENLEAF BUILDING TRANSFER IS DELAYED Southwest Citizens Given Until August 1 to Amass Addi- tional Data. Despite the informal opinion of Paul | Lesh, attorney for the Teachers' Union, | that the merger of the two departments was in violation of the organic law under which the schools were organized, | and in the face of a personal plea that | they be not penalized, Dr, William A. ! Hedrick, head of the Department of | Physics, and Willlam P. Hay, head of | Ithe Department of Chemistry and | Biology, were demoted to teachers of their subjects by the Board of Educa- | tion at its annual reorganization meet- {ing late yesterday. { In the same session, the board Te- | elected Dr. H. Barrett Learned presi- | dent, and received further protests against the transfer of the Greenleaf | | School in Southwest Washington from | | the white to the colored divisions. While | |1t stood by its action of three weeks ! ago to use the Greenleaf School for THURSDAY, JULY Garfield Shot 50 Years Ago Today THE STORY OF THE SHOOTING AS TOLD BY THE STAR. @he Foening Star | NING EDITION 9 “y 1931. PAGE . B—1 TWO BANDITS ROB CASHER OF $250 INBOTTLING LANT Pair Escape Through Rear, | Threatening Manager, With \Day’s Receipts. OFFICIALS SAY HOLD-UP SEEMED WELL PLANNED Auto Seen Nearby Believed Used by Armed Men in Flight From Robbery Scene. - | Entering the office of the Coca-Cola | Bottling Works, 400 Seventh sirest {southwest, last night. two colored ban- jdits held up Donald Roberts, cashier, | with pistols and escaped with approxi- mately $2,500 in cash. Roberts was counting the day's re- | ceipts and other funds of the plant {when the robbers entered. While one of them covered him with a gun from outside the high counter, the other walked behind the counter and picked ,up the money. Escape Through Plant. After obtaining the cash, the men made their way out through a side door |of the office leading into the plant and escaped throuzh a rear door | _As they started through the rear exit | i The four front page columns of The Star of July 2, 1881, shown at the left, carried all details of the shooting of | 'Y encountered Llewellyn J. Goody, ::;( manager, and Charles F. Fisk. superin- | |tendent, who were in the rear checking | packing cases. They commanded Goody and Fisk to President Garfield 50 years ago tcday. At the right is shown Thomas A. Harlow, who sold hundreds of copies of the Burean during the height of the ston g paper. Mr. Harlow is still an employe of The Star. —Star Staff Photo. was 40 miles per hour, gusts at times | attained a speed of nearly 50 miles. | Baltimore, according to reports regi- | colored pupils, the board allowed the residents of ' Southwest Washington | until August 1 to amass additional €dition came out, with virtually the en- | the galloping of officials up and down stered 52 miles an hour officially. The | rainfall during the brief period of the | storm here was recorded as .79 of an: inch, indicating a heavy deluge. 1 Wind Continues Today. A northeast and east wind, moving | on the trail of vesterday's disturbance, | was_blowing across the Capital today. fending to keep the thermometer down. The forecaster predicted, however, that the breezes are likely to die later in the | day, when the mercury will soar to a! much higher level, but not quite so | high as vesterday. The warm weather | will continue tomorrow, with a possi- | bility of local thunder showers during | the day. | A second movement is drifting Fast- | ward from the Ceniral States, according | to the forecast. and probably will reach this area by late Friday, bringing | showers and cooler weather. There is | a possibility it may pass over during ! the night. however. In which case fair | and warmer weather may be expected for_July 4. The parks and streets today were AT FOURTH DISPLAY Concert, Color Massing and Fireworks to Make Up Ceremonies. More than 2.200 requests for seats at the official Fourth of July ceremcniesg saturday evening at 7 o'clock in the Sylvan Theater have been received by Chairman Edgar C. Snyder of the Sub- committee on Invitations, it was an- nounced today. Lieut, F. B. Butler of the office of public buildings and public parks, as- sisted by a detail of soldiers and ma- rines, will b2 in charge of ushering and seating of guests, who will include members of the diplomatic corps, Fed- eral and District officials and prominent residents. Capt. Ray C. Montgomery, superintendent of park police, and Mai. lined with fallen trees and limbs. A | Henry G. Pratt. superintendent of the number of private homes were struck;Mt’lmpchmn police, have nmmzr(} for by lightning, although no serious dam- | the handling of the crowd at the Sylvan age was done. The airplane warning | Theater and Monument Grounds during lights and the telephcne service at the Washington Monument were put out of commission for the second time in two weeks by the lightning. The roof of an apartment building at 2101 Con- | the fireworks' display. | " “The presiding officer at the Sylvan Theater exercises will be Thomas P. Littlepage, chairman of the Executive Committee of _citizens arranging the A concert necticut avenue was seared by a bolt | Independence day program. which struck during the height of the by the Marine Band and the pictur- storm. breaking several windows in an | esque massing of the colors will open airshaft the program. The color bearers and The facilities of the local telephone | color guards are requested to assemble company were taxed to the limit last | at 6:45 o'clock at the base of the Mon- night and early today as workers were |ument and report to Dr. B. C. McNeil. engaged in repairing broken lines which | He is to be assisied by Charles C. Ailes decommissioned nearly 800 telephones Maj. Charles Demonet, Capt. Edwin S. in Washington and nearby Maryland. | Bettleheim, jr.; Licut. Col. Thomas W. The service between Washington and |Shanton and Maj. Walter W. Burns. Rockville, Bowie and Annapolis was | The invitation is still open to all or- completely several for several hours | ganiaztions desiring to take part in this last night as a result of the storm. patriotic_feature. Although the volume of phone calls | The Fireworks Committee has ar- fell off materially during the storm, ranged for an elaborat» patriotic fea- telephone company officials reported to- | ture preceding the ceremonies. Over day that reserve forces of operators |the top of the Monument will be dis- were called in on manual exchamges to | played more than 36 aerial pieccs, com- take care of a flood of telephone traffic | prising floating flags and other colorful which attained the proportions cf that follewing the tornado which visited the city a few years ago. 20 Stricken in Two Days. ‘The list of heat victims reported to police yesterday brought the total for two days to 20. It included; Thomas Haislip, 59 years old, of 729 Tenth street; Howard Carter, colcred, 23 years old, of 1448 Q street; Thomas Bennett, 35 years old, colored, of 202 I street; Frank Selby, 27 years old, of 2907 Olive street; Jack Hunt, 30 years old, of 812 Tenth street;: Chapin King, 26 years old, Fort Myer, Va.; Mrs. W. O. Wil- liams, 51 years old, cf Cherrydale, Va.: Keturah Snowden. colored, 34 y: of 1500 block of Fifth street; Aloysius P. Shields, 70 Seaton -place; Daniel ! Hawkins, colored, 55 years cld, of 302 P | street, and James Meade, 63 years old, ! of 65 C street southwest. ! Beater Murray, 72 years old, of 1335 Thirtieth street was struck by the fall- ing limb of a tree while walking on Thirty-first street between O and P | streets during last night's storm. He | was not_seriously injured. i The automobile of Rodney A. Caid- | well of Clarendon, Va. was slightly damaged when a tree fell on it in front of 1810 M street. The homes of Morris Gewirz, at 3920 Ingomar street, and Maj. Frank A. Frost of 1328 Jonquil street were struck by lightning. Damage was slighy i both instances. Th> home of Walter J. Steward, at 2001 Douglas street northeast, was also_struck. Several of the Government depart- ments excused their employes work during the heat of the afternoon. SIX MARINES HURT IN CRASH OF TRUCK Vehicle Hits Culvert Near Hay- wood, Va., During Yester- day's Storm. Half a dozen Marines, returning to President Hoover'’s camp on the Rapi- dan. from Culpeper, Va. were injured curing yesterday's storm, when a large truck in which they were riding struck a concrete culvert near Haywood, Va. The mep. who were returning 'from a leave of absence, were brought to Washington Quantico, Va., for treat- ment Marine Corps headquarters at, the Navy Department today announced tie injured were Sergt. Roscoe Swinson, contusion of right leg; Pvt. (first class) L. B. Bufkin, fracture of right knee: Pet. J. Guynn. contusion of right han Pvt. W. W. Murphy, contusion of chest: Pvt. Philip N. Riester, fracture of r'ght arm, and Pvt. Alfred F. Ethier, fracture of right leg. -Officer Seizes Liquor Car. Policeman O. E. Allen of the fourth police station yesterday afterncon seized &n automobile, said to have been aban- doned by two colored men, and found 83 one-half-gallon jars of alleged liquor. The car had been abandoned in the 800 block of Kentucky avenue southeast. from ! designs. i ths will be erected on the Monu- {ment Lot, where tickets for the main | tireworks ~ display, beginning at 8:30 Suturday committee. is now going on at th | Washington Hotels and at the coffices of the American Automobile Association. | Thomas L. Egan of the Fireworks Com- | mitte> will be in charge of the ushers | and guards. e CONSTITUTION AVENUE IS OPENED TO TRAFFIC Widened Section, From 14th Street to Virginia Avenue, Put in Use ‘Without Lights. Constitution avenue, newly widened from Fourteenth street to Virginia ave- nue, wes opened to traffic today, fol- lowing completion of construction work done for the Arlington Memorial Eridge Commission under the District Govern- | ment | Although new traffic devices have |been placed at Seventeenth street and | Constitution avenue, the lights have inot vet been erected. | The new section of the avenue is 80 | feet wide, from curb to curb, and the “Natlonal Capital Park and Planning Commission is at work on plans for widening the remainder, from Virginia |avenue to the Potomac River. AUTO STRIKES BOY, § Jdmes F. Burroughs, 5 years old, of 11539 C street southeast, was treated at | Casualty Hospital late yesterday for lacerations and shock. sustaincd when struck by an automobile opcrated by ‘William Bahr, 2308 Naylor road south- £ast, on Sixteenth street, between C and D streets southeast. * DRMN Authority Over Operators’| | Licenses Placed in Aides to | Corporation Counsel. | The authority to revoke and suspend the driving permits of automobile op- rators was transferred today to a board ting of three assistant corporation power, formerly ex-rcised by ce O. Eldridge, until yesterday sistant director of trafic, now is in the hands of Raymond Sparks, Stanley De Neale and Edward M. Welliver, all serv- ing as prosecutors at Police Court, Any two of them may suspend or re- | voke an operator's permit for cause Where one of them has prosecuted a | | trafic case against the offender, he is automatically | on the board when th- question of revo- | cation of the permit comes up. The new arrangement was decided upon yesterday at a conference attended | by District Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby, A: rporation Counsel Vernon L. Garges of the Board of Commissioners. | Under the traffic act which went into cfiect yesterday the power of revoca- |tion was put into the hands of the commissioners, whereas formerly it had rested with the director of traffic. Under the new procedure, a driver seeking to overturn the action of the special board in revoking or suspend- |ing his permit must appeal directly to the corporation counsel, who will make a recommendation to the Commis- sioners. 'BURKE GETS FLORAL " TRIBUTE OF CHINESE Friendship of 25 Years With Detective Chief. A basket of flowers from C | yesterday rested upon a hard-boiled detective chief's desk, representing 25 vears of friendship between men of two_races. That friendship was born more than a quarter of a century ago, while a “rookie” policeman patrolled a beat in that inexplicable colony on lower Penn- sylvania avenue, in the shadow of the Capitol, known as Chintown. The “rcokie” policeman is F. S. W. Burke, Who vesterday assumed his new post as Washington's chief of de- tectives. The trio from the Orient are Charlie S00, head of the On Leong Tong; George Wen, secretary of the tong, and | Charlie Moy, also associated with the atown ng. o these three men Inspector Burke gives a vote of thanks for their help during his early police days. he says, they were willing to aid him in his police work—they gave him “pointers,” he said, well in his detective work during later years. Burke received two other baskets of owers vesterday. One was from friends of his family and the other from the detectives who now will work under his guidance. LIBRARIES TO- BE CLOSED The central building of the Public Library and all branches and branches will bz closed all day Satur- day. July 4. The Sunday closing for the central building will be observed through the middle of Septembdr. The central library will be open on Sundays from 2 to 6 p.m. beginning September 20. Police said they found Carl G. Belton of Mount Airy, N. C., perched on top of a high iron-picketed White House gate ap 5:30 c'clock this morning await- Hoover about his plans to circle the world in an airplane. After being committed to Gallinger Hespital for observation Belton said he came here three days 2go from North Carclina to obtain a licarse to pilot 2 plane on the’ projected flight. Aviation officials, he said, turned a deaf car to him upon learning from him he had no plane nor{ had he ever taken a ride in_one. i Learning that Mr. Hoover Had invited Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, aerial globe circlers, to the White Housz for lunche-n Monday, he said he docided to call on the President to get & license, £ ing an opportunity to see President | “FLYER” ARRESTED AS HE SEEKS HOOVER’S AID ON WORLD HOP North Carolinian, Found Perched on White House Gate, Is Sent to Gallinger Hospital. | He arrived at the White House about }5 o'clock this morning, examined sev- | eral gates and decided a high one on the east side of the Executive Man- | slon’s grounds would be the easiest to gain entrance. He started climbing. He was perched atop the gate, pre- paring to drop to the ground, when he was discovered by Policeman R. A. | Chambliss. ‘'He was placed under arrest and later questioned by Detec- tives Howard E. Ogle and Oscar W. Mansfield. They sald he told them of his am- bition to become a flyer—a globe circling fiyer; that his father, a Bap- tist minister in Mount Airy “owns the mint,” and that he spent most of his time in Washington ‘“eating ice cream.” At the hospital he. gave his age as ab G PERMITS disqualified from sitting | st and Secretary Daniel E. | On Leong Tong Officials Express Always, | that served him | sub- | statistical data on the colored and whn.e‘ | populations of the section affected. | ! " Dr. Hedrick and Mr. Hay were made teachers in the group B salary grade. | carrying annual stipends of $3,200, the | ! highest pay given any tcachers in the | | system. By carrving the two deposed | officers on the pay roll until August 3t |as directors, at thelr present $3.700 salary, the School Board. on recom- | mendation of the schocl officials, is pro- | | viding both men with more pay during | the current fiscal year than either ever | before received. Each will receive his | | director’s- pay for July and August and then each will receive the full year's | salary as group B teachers, by virtue of | the fact that these are 10-payment-per- year positions. Next year. however, cach man would feel the $500 cut. Was Pupil of Hedrick. In his appeal to the board cn behalf of the demoted veterans. Mr. Lesh plead | particularly for Dr. Hedrick, in whose class he was a pupil. “If we had a litile democracy h the District of Columbia—and you I am a little ‘queer’ on that subject— | you members of th's board would not dare to take the action you are taking with respect to these men,” Mr. Lesn declared quietly and with a smile. as he referred to his views on Gemocracy for the District: up and protest violently against the merging of these departments and the demotion of these veteran teachers, and they would prevent you from mak- ing this mistake.” He pointed out that directors of de- partments are “advisory” positions and “not The driving jobs ne ily requir- ing_younger men.” When a company wishes to get rid {old." Mr. Lesh reasoncd. “it docsn't throw out his advice and deprive itself of his experience. It makos him chair- man of the Executive Committee and thus rotains that advisory genius which made the old officer valuable for so tioning the legality of | board’s action in merging the two de- partments last weck, Mr. Lesh pointed out that the organic law under which the school system has operated specifically states that there shall be a specific number of departmental heads. Unable to find uny subsequent legisla- Jber of deparuments, Mr. Lesh said he | believed it was illegal to merge the de: ipartment of physics with that { chemistry and biology. He explaiged, however, that while that was his jlles- ent “informal opinion,” he has not yet | completed his study of legislation and is not yet ready to present his, the | legal opinion, which - the Teachers Tnion requested of him. Financial Effect Explained. In his recommendation that the two | deposed officers_be made senior grade | teachers, Dr. Ballou explained that there was no desire on the part of | school officials to “endanger the tenure” | of teachers as the union, in its protest, had charged. He explained how the | plan of demotion would result in fi- nancial benefit to both men for the first | year, despite the fact that in subse- ouent years they would suffer a $500 | decrease. In the vote on Dr. Ballou’s recommendation, Henry Gilligan, board member, who fought vigorously against the merger, sald he would vote for the demotion “because, while I am opposed to what has been done, I believe this action is the only thing left that will aid these two fine gentlemen in the face of what the majority of this board is i determined to do.” Likewise, Mrs, Mary A. McNell, explained she would my better judgment and because it ap- pears the only thing left that would | favor in any way these men. Mrs. action, taken in her absence last week, would' have been opposed by her had the vote been postponed until she was resent. Ep At the close of the meeting, Dnl:ll(el C. Roper, member, moved that iie | superintendent of schools and the presi- dent of the school board “confer at their early convenience with one rep- resentative each of the Carnegie In stitute; Smithsonian Institution, N tional Research Council of the Wash. ington Academy of Sciences and other educaltonal groups and secure and sub- mit suggestions to the Board of Edu- cation looking to the most €fective way of presenting scientific knowledge in the schools of the District of Co- lumbia.” This suggestion was agreed to by the board. Greenleat School Protest. Prominent among those Who protest- ed against the transfer of the Green- leaf School to the colored divisions, was Mrs. Sarah Neleigh of the Neighborhood House. She presénted a petition agl“lmt the transfer signed by 413 persons, “113 of whom own their own homes, 6 of whom are buying their homes, and 212 of whom rent.” She ,A'i‘ecllred that a census of the Southwest, section showed that 850 white children lived in the vieinity of i the school. George Sullivan, another contended that the territory don il e e of e ml‘ocm,ed in the colored chil- He cited the versally white” the Greenleaf School, midst o‘ul"t‘l“lfe wrflt&r&k :a dren wo a m 3 Kederal bulding prograi 4 5 uiaton assertion thaf rm’ 7o\rx"hmweqc ‘Washington is destined urther increase. m;)r. Learned ted out, however, that “the simple {acts are that in the field was fatally wounded by Railroad Station. Charles Guiteau as he News of the tragedy was carried by Flm years ago today President G walked into a waiting room at the old Baltimore & Potomac The Star in a scries of six extras, which offset in detalls whatever they may have lacked in the way of form, ac- | cording to present-day standards. The first edition of the paper, pub- lished then just across Pennsylvania avenue from 'its present location, de- voted about three-fourths of the second column_to the story, the first column \being filled with advertisements. Main Details. was captioned “Extra.” the essential details of the shooting, including a tentative identifi- cation of Guiteau A little later in the day the second IRONSIDES MAY SAIL POT tire front page given over to the story. The advertising matter in column one had been replaced by the original story. Column two, entitled “Second Extra contained a policeman's version of the | shooting. what the “assassin” said and details of Guiteau's arrest and the con- | tent of a letter found on him. The third column, the “Third Extra,” told of the President’s condition and gave further details concerning Guiteau. This was followed in the last column by a story headed “Later.” The first two paragraphs described a turn for the worse in the President’s condition, and | the rest set forth his career. Additional Extras Put Out. Additional extras dealt with the rapid changes in Garfield’s condition as re- lated to reporters by persons leaving the White House. Other stories doscribed the “Avenue,” Guiteaws conduct in jail |$12nd aside, ceclaring they would shoot and offers from out-of-town citizens to | them if they failed to obey. ynch him if given the opportunity. Auto S Hiindreds of conies'or Thote i arrys | S R Mo ing accounts of th~ shooting were soid | The bandits were believed to have es- on the streets by Thomas A. Harlow, Caped in an automobile. which a num- now assistant foreman of the press Der of persons reported having secn room, Mr. Harlow is the only present |Tunning up and down Six-and-a-half employe of The Star who had anything |Street, in the rear of the plant to do with getting ous the paper on! Officials of the bottling company be- that day. {lieve the robbery was planned in ad- Eleven years old at the time, he|vance, due to the familiarity the men grabbed an armful of the papers and :showed with the plant and the smooth- ran_up Pennsylvania avenue ness with which they carried out the ‘I sold out before I had gone two ' Tobbery and made their getaway. Par- | blocks,” Mr. Hariow said, “with the tial descriptions of the bandits were people paying 5. 10 and 25 cents a copy | 8iven police. for the pap:rs.” | Goody lives at 2915 Connecticut ave- His total profits from the sale of ;Due, Roberts at 1495 Newton street and extra papers from the day of the shoot- | Fisk at 4309 Thirteenth place. ing until Garfield's death six w.nsk.c‘CHAR-LES R-. KENGLA in those days, Mr. Harlow declar:d. AIL POTOMAC UNDER CREW IN ORIGINAL GARB a citizenry would rise | Secretary Adams Promises to Representative Bloom Announces Plan and ASK HOSPITAL AID FEDERAL WORKERS | lator approximated $300. a huge sum | TO BE BURIED HERE neral of Retired Merchant Set for Tomorrow Morning From Residence. Funeral services for Charles R. Ken- tion which would alter the stated num- | | | Old Tronsides, full-rigged and with | her big squate sheets catching the wind, may sail up the Potomac under her Consider of old when she comes here next year | for exhibition to George Washington | Bicentennial visitors. | Secretary of the Navy Adams has | promised to give the proposal “erious | consideration.” _ Representative Sol | Bloom of New York. associate director today. The sail and regalia plan will be dispensed with during the prelimi- nary tour of Eastern ports, however, idue to the necessity of adhering to a {rigid schedule. | In Tow of Modern Tug. A modern tug will tow the historic { vessel from port to port during the next | few tollowing her restoration ioning, completed yester- he tug will enable the ship to ime her arrivals and departures. ex- lactly, so that waiting delegations in the i various ports will not be disappointed. When the time comes for the frigate to take part in the 200th anniversary COML CONFERENCE PROSPECT SOUNDED !Doak and Lamont Feel Out Operators in Effort to Aid Industry. | By the Associated Press. | Efforts are being made to lay a | ments interested in the coal industry. | Secretaries Doak and Laront are failure to give private architects work of an appeal by an employe from an | | tain their attitude toward a conference isuch as suggested to President Hoover by John L. Lewis, president. of . the United Mine Workers. Sounding Out Operators. Doak said he hoped matters would begin shaping themselves within the next few days. The attitude of the miners is known, but before a confer- nated for discussion the ideas of op- erators must be obtained. ‘The labor end of the coal situation is being worked out, the Labor Secre- tary said, as rapidly as possible. During l1he last month or six weeks the Con- ciliation Department has settled an average of about one mine strike & day. “That's getting the labor difficulties out of the way,” said Mr. Doak, “but what can be done to stimulate the in- dustry is uncertain.” Strikes Settled. During the last few days conciliators have settled strikes involving about 6,000 miners in West Virginia and from 3,600 to 3,800 in Western Pennsylvania. Conciliator Dynes is now in Kentucky attempting to settle labor difficulties there. Some settlements unofficially have been reported. The department, however, has had no report. four white schools of the section there are nine vacant rooms.” In the colored schools, he added, there are oversize classes, part-lime classes and portable schools. When differences arose over the statistics presented by the protest- ing citizens and the school officials, the board agreed to postpone action anoth- er month pending the compilation of additional figures on the populations, ence can be called and subjects desig- | Proposal. 1of The | tug weuld remain close ar hand as |a convoy, to aid the Constitution, should she .get becalmed or unmen- | ageable in the narrow channel. | Will Remain at Anchor. | Under present plans, the ship will the |of the Bicentennial Commission. said remain at anchor here during most or all of the Bicentennial observance. |~ Secretary Adams smiled at the sug- gestion of Representative Bloom that the Navy Secretary, well known as a racing yacht and schooner skipper, take command of the Constitution dur- |ing " the cruise. He explamed he is not familiar with frigates, @ uny- would | not permit him to under | Mr. Bloom told Secret | that 'if the expense involved in : tiring the crew in the urnilorms of 1812, were the only dra to this | phase of the plan, the Navy need not private ARCHITECT ATTACKS “patriots.” fSE-H Gray Excess Work Given to Outsiders Would Aid Business Recovery. | By the Associated Press. A charge that an “architectural bu- vote for’ the recommendation, “agaiist | foundation for & conference of all ele- | reaucracy” in the Treasury Department | is delaying economic recovery through | McNeil made it plain that the mergiNg | sounding out the operators to ascer- | in connection with the Federal buildi program was made today by George H Gray, director of the New Englan | division of the Awmerican Institute of | Architects. “Pent-up power for relief from the business depression,” Gray said, | in the Treasury of the United States in | the form of appropriations for $500. | 000,000 worth of buildings, which will | not be used in volume, according to the | present _schedule, until the emergency is passed.” | This situation has arisen, he added, | despite the \fact that Congress appro- priated the' fund to aid in reducing unemployment. 3 Gray suid while there were 800 draftsmen in the ‘Treasury’s building division,—this force was inade- quate, and it appeared the Government | could not catch up with the program | until 1937. .“The public buildings program can be speeded up,” he said, “by allotinz to architects in private practice all the Treasury cannot handle imme- diately.” . THEATER WALL RAZED ‘The old back-stage wall of the old Bijou Theater was thrown to the ground about 11:30 today as part of the Government’s public building pro- gram. ‘The old theater was razed to make way for the new Department of Justice Building on the site between Ninth and Tenth streets, Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues. ‘Wooden blocks had been driven into a hole dug in the bottom of the wall, end when these: were burned cut the weight of the wall toppled it over, the birth of George Washington Navy officials hope to be able to dis- | | pense with the tug, uniurl the sails of its president because he is gettiag|own power and with a crew dressed as | and give the ship to the breese. Resolution Urges Civilians gia. a native of the District and promi- i | | inent in business circles here, who died i at Georgetown Hospital yesterday, will |to be held tomorrow morning, at 9:15 | o'clock. at the resicence. Mass will be | said at the Church cf the Blessed Sac- {rament. and interment will be in Holy { Rood Cemetery. The campaign which the National! ,MI- Kengla was 82 vears cld. Doath 2 fter a brief illness. He ned Federation of Federal Employes will| s Afor & * 5 wage for extension of hospitalization | bycd At 21 Drummond avenue, Che 'y benefits to all civilian employas of the, Lrse, 0+ Tor some time previous to | United States Government. similar 0| "y Kengla, who was the last surviv- | e cPravileges enjoved by officers and | ng: member of the older generaticn of niisted men of the Army and Navy.|jis family, was at one time a _member was started last night by the adnp!mn]of the Weaver-Kengla Soa Co., ani of a formal resolution by the District | ater became & whoizsale and retail Federation of Federal Employes at a | merchant in Georgetown. He had been well attended me:ting in the headquar-| o : . Get Same Treatment as Army and-Navy. ters, at 710 Fourteenth street. The resolution will be presented for| 1 by the national convention of | 1 i Seattle stated today by Luthcr C. Steward, presicent of the Na- tional Federation. Various local unior [ throughcut the country arc similar resolutions, There is & gener: sentiment among Government employes | for hospitalization rights, promises to be one of the live issucs| o1 | Kengls { three retired from business for many years v s K His_wife, Mrs. Mary J. 1914, Surviving ¢ G., Archibald J. years ago. dicd in ons, Thomas nd B 1. Haggerty of P! J. William Stohlman, with whom he made his worry, as the cost wouid be borne by | BUILDING PROGRAM of the national convention, Mr. emphasized. "I'he local unions now are electing | delegates to this national convention | FINAL MATCH TODAY | and considering various proposals that will be made to the convention in the | i v, | form"of ‘resclutions fo” be acted upon, | -Ecntine Award to Be Presented More lh_an 40 delegates will attend (h(“ }cn_nvennon in Seattle from the Dis- | | trict unions, with a number of oflk‘in!s} ;relgdqt‘alr;\rleoyees dfl-omx the Federation | | ers and a lar | visitors who will make the trip ';“pafif Polo Cup Tournament will be deter- of their vacation. ; { mined this afternoon in the final match There are some 21,000 members of | Detween the War Department White the Federation registered in the Na-| and Blue teams, each of which won tlonal Capital, who are vitally inter- | its_semi-final contests. ested in the action of this convention, | Senor Don Pablo Santos Munos, | according to Mr. Steward. | charge daffaires of the Argentine Em- The Federation of local unions last | Passy, Will present the cup to the win- Steward | After Championship Game Between Army Teams. The championship of the Argentine “Hes | public | work which the architectural office in | | night went on record emphatically on | Ping team at the conclusion of the several other important proposals. These included a demand for et of | widows, children and other dependents | of civilian employees of the Govern- ment who die from disease while in active service. i | _The federation also urged that the | | Personnel Classification Board be re- quired to give reasons for its rejection dverse decision. The board, at pres- | nt, merely informs the applicant ihat is appeal has been rejected, without | stating any reasons. | _ Appointment of persons in military service to non-military duties, which | might be performed by civilian em- | | ploves is also strongly opposed by the | | federation, in a resolution formally | adopted. | Demand was made in another reso- |lution for annual increased in salary, | based on the length of service of eaci | employe. | An appeal to the National Federa- tion and to the other local unions of | Government workers throughout the country, for united support of these proposals in the national convention was ordered by vote of the District Federation, | THODE WILL BE BURIED Army Reserve Officer to Be Gfven | Full Military Honors at Rites. Lieut. Col. Joachim Thode of the Army Reserve Corps, who committed suicide near the Corcoran Gallery of Art Tuesday night, will be butied withh full military honors in Arlington Cem- elery tomorrow afternoon at 2 é'clock Col. Thode’s body was found early yesterday lying in the New York aveaue entrance of the Art Gallery, a revolver clutched in the right hand and a bullet IN ARLINGTON TOMORROW | *% wound in the temple, Final rites for Col. Thode will be hold the home of a brother, Silver. Hill, Prince Georges Honry Witt, at 5,187 AN i match, which was to start at 3:30 o'clock. Senor Munos will be accom- panied by Lieut. Col. Ricardo Miro, military attache of the embassy, and several other members of the staff. This cup was presented in 1929 by Lieut. Col. Angel M. Zuloaga, at that time military attache to the Argentine embsssy, to bé played for annually by the Army teams in the vicinity of the Capital. The cup was won last year by the 3d Cavalry, of Fort Myer. Marriage Licenses. John A 27. and _Carolvn R e s oy Sl a MO ong Cumberiand. Rev. Mary V. Britton, 23, Jackson, 39, Clarendos and “Alice” 0." Waltz, Rev ton. land C. his city; Rev., H. H. D. Sterreit Lucian A, Va., 26, Paris, Il Rev. Earle Jackson. Christopher ‘Cooke” 27, and Irene Mitchell, 20 Rev. W. D. Batile. Pierre J. ‘Marquis, 28, and Lula A. New- 22, “both of Richmond; Rev. W. 8. N. Campbell. 29, and Ethel E. ev. 8. C. Coule. i, McKenicy. and Gladys M. i Rev J. ' Smith. 45. and Kalberine A Willbunks. Lilliun Hamil- s T Harvey. ames Ward. 25, Wilmington. Del, and Jeannette ~Hoopes, ' 2! st Chester, Pa.; Judee Robert E. Mattingly. Samuel C. Wiley. 41, this city. and Katn- erine Floyd, 28, Berrys, Va.; Rev. Allan F. uel Ramus. 34, and Ruby Bryant, 34: ev. A, Willbanks. Ira Cline, 20. Humphreys. Va. and Bessie Gornwell. 21, Alexandria, Va.; Rev. Jokn E. iggs, George T. Nickel. 24, and Catherine Were- dyche, 23. ‘both of Baltimore; Re:. joseph M. Neligan, Clyde A.'Ross. 25. and Mary M. Morris, 23: Rev. J. Harvey Dunham. Remus H. Stewart. 30. and Addis Goins. 22 Huen Rev. V.'N. i and Mary Smith, 31 and Edna M. Jeter, Jai E . Jr. 22, and Margaret E. Kelly, 18: Rey. G. D. Sampson. % Herman J. P. Schubert. 24. and Maz Wagner. 29. both of New York City; Anna M. Gibson, 18, this city; Re: Tolson. Louie Welch, 21. and Elizabeth Tonsar, 3. Rev. R. M. Bu! - Rev. g 3 George A. mmz;rr.'n. and May Warncr. . Porns.: A Minnick. 22. Lynchburg, Va.. and A Kerma. 1o, Fand Church, Ve Rev. s, Foore. riiur Washington, Charles tou, Rev. J . & ev. ie E. Rev. Va.. and v. H. W. at 12:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at ! 19: Rev. Howard Dow: