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CONAND THICE So Honored, Bicentennial ‘ Commission Reveals. George Washington was the only Amcrican soldier ever to hold the post ! of ‘commander in ckief of the Army for two separate terms, it was disclosed to- day by the George Wachington Bicon- tennial Commission, in noting that this is the 133d anniversary of Washing- ; uly 3, 1798, the Senate recelved | from President Adams a recommenda- tion for appointment of Washington, then in rural retirement at Mount Ver- non, as commander in chief of a pro- visional army of 10,000 men, to be raised fcr a possible war on Prance. | The Senat> promptly confirmed the | nomination and the President made the | appointment the next day. Washing- ton had not been consulted in advance, and the delicate task of handing him the commission by which he was com- manded to re-enter the profession of ! arms was intrusted to Secretary of War James McHenry. ' Accepls Commission. Washington bowed to the wishes of | his country and accepted the commis- sfon with two provisos—first, that he | be allowed to select his own officers, and second, that he should not be call- | ed into the field until the Army was in condition to require his presence or | until the urgency of the situation de- manded action. Trouble had been brewing wilh the { French Republic ever since 1793, due to | ntment over Washington's policy | rality, and especially over the | treaty with Great Britain. The depredations committed by her pri- vateers and public vessels on American commerce were as persistent, within their more limited opportunity, as those of Great Britain. and_when Washing- ton in 1796 recalled Minister Monrce and appointed Charles Cotesworth Pinckney the French director not only refused to Teceive him officially, but ordered him out of its territory. Presi- dent Adams, in a final effort for peace in 1797, sent a special mission of (hree— . John Maishall and Elbridge Gerry—of whom a bribe was demanded | as preliminary to their recognition. | P 's spirited “not a sixpence” w later transformed by some unknown a thor into the phrase “Millions for de- fence, but not 1 cent for tribute.” Eyes Turned to Washington. As a cilsis_approached all eyes were turned upon Washing.on, who for more than a vear had been devoting his ef- forts to agriculture, and who seemed quite content with his life as a planter at Mount Vernon “The reasons and motives,” wrote Mr. Adams in his instructions to the Secre- tary of War, “which prevailed with me | to venture upon such a step as the nom- ation of this great and illustrious | acter, whose voluntary resignation e occasioned my introduction to the | office which I now hold, were oo nu- merous to be detailed in this leiter, and ! are too obvious and important to escape the cbservance of any part of America or Europe. But as it is a movement of great delicacy. it will require all your address to communicate the subject in a manner that shall be inoffensive to his feclings and consistent with all the respect that is due from me to him, “If the general should decline the appointment, all the world will be silent and respectfully acquiesce. If he should accept all the world, except the en- emies of this country, will rejoice.” Could Not Refuse Call. ‘When Secretary McHenry delivered to the veteran commander his new com- mission as “licutenant general and commander in chief,” Washington said that so long as he was able he could never refuse to answer the call of duty. | He immediately set about organizing his army and planning his campaign with all the zest and eagerness of the Wesh- | Jngion of yore. He advised the ap- | pointment as major general of Alex- | ander Hamilton, who was to be in-| spector general and second in command. | He also selected s major generals Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Henry Knox, both of whom had served with | him in th> Revolution, but Gen, Knox | declined his commissior military mecasures taken in! America caused the French rulers to assume a more pacific tomper. They indicated a willingness to co-operate in eflecting a_friendly and esuitable ad- | justment of existing differences. List- ening to these overtures, President Adams appcinted ¢e envoys extraor- dinary and invested them with full | powers to negotiate with the French government. When they arrived in| Paris they found Napoleon Bonaparte at the head of affairs, who, having taken no part in the preceding disputes and percelving no_advantage in con- tinuing them, readily assented to an accommodation No cvent wes more desired by Wash- ington, but he did not live to partici- pate in the joy with which the intelli- gence was rece his countrymen. ROAT CAPSIZES, MAN DROWNED PO TR | Two Companions Swim to Shore! Neor Hagerstown—Vietim's Body Is Sought. Spreial Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN. Md., July 3.—Walter oddard, 26. one of the leading motor- le race riders in the East, was med last night when a specdhcat{ ized in the Potomac River near | here. Stoddard has wen many of the leading motor cycle events in redent | years and was known 2s a daring rider, Stoddard. accompanied by Chester Deiphey. his emnlover, and Peter Ever- 1y were festinz a new motor speedboat Jast night. He was leaning over the rear adjusting the motor and Delphey was piloting the boat. In making a b turn the boat overturned. Del- ey was carried down with the boat 2 deep water when his clothing was caught in the boat. He broke free, and wih Everly swam ashore. Stoddard did not come to the surface. His body had nst been recovered this morning. al th-ugh a search was conducted througl out the night by Sheriff W. Bruce Downin and 2 number of men. SCHOOLBOY IS CHARGED | WITH HOUSEEREAKING ! tracing the course of their flight |0mcllls are expected to attend. 11t. Rainier Youth Caught in Act of Entering Store, Policeman 1 i Reports. . A 16-year-old Maryland schoolboy was arrested early today by Policeman R. O. Bankert, first precinct, on charge of attempted housebreaking. The boy, who gave his name as! William H. Dimbler, 3624 Perry street, Mount. Rainfer, had attempted to enter the rear of Lewls Robeits' store, at 914 Twelfth street, the policemat said. Young Dimbler was m';& raigned in Police Court today. Bankert said he was patrolling his beat at 4:30 o'clock this morning when f:und Dimbler raising & window in rear of the Roberts store, Privi-| ourly he had smashed & pane of glass and yeleased a catch, the liceman saly ‘w MARY AND WILEY POST. Mary Post, shown with her brother Wiley in this picture, taken many years J. A. Junell of Dallas, Tex. ago, 18 now Mrs FLYERS’ WELCOME INTO CAPITAL CITY ‘ GROWS TO OVATION | (Continued From First Fege.)_ be seated. Those who come first for the tickets will get them.” Though they have not indicated where they will land here Post &nd Gatty are expected to y,» Washington- Hoover Alrport, where €1y already are well known by virtue of several previous | visits. | In the Reception Committee which | will mect them st the airport will be Mr. Cottrell, George W. Offutt, presi- dent of the Board of Trade; Lawrence | E. Williams, chairman of the board’s | Aviation Committee, and Ward H.| Marsh, director of the Greater National | Capital Committee, | Special cars will be provided for the | fiyers and there will be a police escort to lead them to the White House over | route yet to be announced. N. A. A. May Honor Flyers The Press Club reception will be broadcast by the National Broadcast- ing Co. at 4 o'clock Monday afternoon. Eugene S. Leggett, president of (h> club, will present each of the flyers with a world globe, suitably Xn.\crlbfl‘i& feature of the reception is expected to be the attendence of diplomats repre- senting the countrles through waich the two men passed on their flight In addition to the club membership, which numbers more than 400 Wash- ington correspondents, members of Ccn- gress and othcr ranking governmental Senator Hiram Gingham of Connec- ticut, president of the Natfonal Aero- nautic Association, proposed that Con- gress issue special medals of honor for the fiyers, and added: “As president of the National A°ro- nautic Association. I am going to re ommend to the Bo of Governors | that, the fiyers be given honorary mem- | bership in the assoctation. This is the highest honor that lies in our power| to give them. The honorary list is a | small, but distinguished cne, carrying| the names of but five living men—Or- | ville Wright, Thomas A. Edison. i Charles A. Lindbergh, Rear Admiral | Richard E. Byrd and Dr. Hugo Eck-| ener.” Among the speakers st the banguet Monday night wiil be Mr. Offutt Gen. Herbert B. Crosb; the District government: F tant Sccretary of War for ! William P. MacCracken, Jr., former Ascistant Secretary of Com- merce for Acronautics. Senator Bing- ham will be toastmaster. MONTGOMERY TAX | ASSESSORS NAMED Board Will Start Work at Once and, Make First Report in 1933. i 1 RCCKVILLE, Md., July 3.—Appoint- | ment of J. Hempstone Griffith of Rock- | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ville, Maj. Phil D. Posten of Silver Spring and R. E. Hamilton of Chevy | HURLEY 10 SPEAK " ATHTORE STE Independence Hall to Be Cen- ter of Philadelghia Events Tomorrow. "| Rawlins at Li Arms Cache Found. TEGUCIGALPA, | (#).—Government, Honduras, troops July 3 vesterday found 7 machine guns, 67 rifles and a large_supply of ammunition hidden in the Valley of Quimistan near Jicaro. They were believ:d to have becn left Chase Terrace to the newly author-| - ized Board of Assessors was made yes- | terday afternoon by the Montgomery | County commissioners, meeting here, | Mr. Griffith was designated chairman | of the Board of Assessors, and will draw a salary of $3.000 per annum.| ‘The two other members will receive salaries of $2,700 each. Chairman Is Veteran. | ‘The chairman of the board has been county assessor for the past six years and before that was assessor for the | third election district. He is well known throughout the entire county. Me). Poston is a real estate operator of the Silver Spring vicinity. He was particularly active in developing Wood- side Park. During the World War he served as a major in the Tank Corps and before that was a practicing physi- cian. He is president of the Silver | Spring Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Hamilton is a real estate man. doing business both in Washington and Mont- gomery County. 1t is expected that the new board will | commence work at once. It will be re- quired to make its first return to the county commissioners in 1933. At that time it will be cxpscted to have com- pleted the - assessment of the seventh and thirtcenth election disiricts. Five Districts in County. ‘Under the new assessment law, passed by the last Legislature, the county is divided into five districts, one of which will be assessed each year, with the as- ors covering the entire county every years. The county commissioners yesterday authorized Capt. Joseph C. Cissel, coun- sel to the board of commissioners, to prepare an ordinance regulating the conduct and location of road houses outside of the metropolitan district. Carnival Closes Tomorrow. | BALLSTON, Va., July 3 (Special) — | ‘The joint carnival of Arlingten Lodge. | O. P, and Clarendon | Lodge, No. 28, Dauzhters of Rebekahs, | being held on the fleld gmmds at the lutersection of Wilson Boulevard and | Clements avenue, will elose tomorrow night after a two wecks’ rum, There will be nightly dancing. . | there by rebels who fled into Guatemala — | during the recent revolt. By the Associated Press, | PHILADELPHIA, July 3—From his- | | torical Independence Hall, where 155 years ago Colonial leaders signed the | Declaration of Independence, Philadel- | hia's celebration of the anniversary | of that event will be broadcast over & | Nation-wide hook-up tomorrow., | Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War, | will represent the Government and de- | liver the principal address. Preceding | exercises in the Hall thousands of Reg- {ular Army and National Guard troops | will pass in review while squadrons of | airplanes under the command of Maj. | J. Sidney Owens maneuver overhead. | " Secretary Hurley will arrive by plane | and will be escorted by mounted trocps in high regalia to the reviewing stand, |a few blocks from City Hall. After | firing of the salute of honor to Mr. | Hurley the parade, expected to be the | largest ever to march to Independence Hall, will pass before the Secretary, | Mayor Mackey and their staffs. At Independence Hall amplifiers will | bring _the exercises to thousands ex- | pected to fill the streets nearby. The Pledge to the Flag and singing of | patriotic songs will precede Secretary | Hurley's address. | Patriotic organizations of the Nation ond State have co-operated in plan- | ning the celebration, which will be | broadcast over radio networks through- | |out the greater part of the day and for an hour at night. | | STATUE CONTRACT GIVEN A contract for $1,100 was signed yes- terday ‘with M. Cain Co, Ins., of 3315 Eighth street mnortheast by Director | Grant of public buildings and parks for erecting the statue of Gen. John A. shieenth and E streets, south of the Interior Department, and construction work around the memorial The statue to the famous Civil War commender, the chief of staff to Gen. | U. s. Grant, is now on Pennsylvania avenue near Ninth street, but the Treasury Department will move it to make way for the public bulldings pro- gram in the vicinity of the old Center Market. “This is the second of el install- mente in & life story of Wi st BY LEON H. DURST. (Copyright, 1031, by the Associated Press.) PART II. N the Fall of 1916 the country boy from Oklahoma who in 1931 was to beat the first round-the-world record of Magellan's ship in 1519 by 1,074 days, swung off a day coagh in the new Union Station at Kan- sas City, Mo. ‘The money he had made off his fa- ther's cotton patch was in his pocket to {pay for a three-month course in the principles of mechanics at a Kansas City automotive school. | The course {cost 880, end )‘cung Wiley Post had to work put of school hours to pay his liv- |ing expenses, During this course of | study the youth who had been indiffer~ {ent 1o the text books in rural -Texas |and Oklahoma schools shcwed he could | be studious if the subject was one close to his heart. Learns Mechanies Well. | 1t was here that young Wiley learned | the fundamcntals of mechanics and, in | part, satisfied the love to tinker which | mother says she already had no- | ticed “Parts didn't alws fit in those days.” explains Emory J. Sweeney, head | of the school. “They had to be worked | down.” | Wiley Post and the other bcys in his |class, approximately 1,000, of which not more than 5 per cent were city bred, made their own tools, learned blacksmithing, welding and other la- | fundamentals of the mechani- | t. Sweeney says one test was | the constructicn of a drill which would plerce certzin thickness:s of steel with- out bending. “It was slow work,” he ut it turned out good me- | Has Record Low Cost on Ship. In any event, Post certeinly hes ac quired now a thorcugh knowledge. When the Winnle Mae was ready for | her hop-off at Roosevelt Fleld Post paid his bill at the stor:ge hangar and that bill teld the story of his prowess. “Changing a tire” was onc entiy and “mechanic to assist cn motor” was an other. smallest ever run up by distance flyers at Roosevelt Field, was for storage. The Wiley Post—Globe Girdler Lifé Story Tells How He Lost Eye, Buying Plane With Damages and Trying Barn- storming Stunts. “mechanic to assist on motor” helped a Pratt & Whitney motor expert lift | the heavy parts of a magneto he was changing. Pcst made the motor ready himself. The Winnle Mae was “sét to when she c2me to Roosevelt Fleld, and that impressed the mechanics more | than the fact that the globe had bzen cirtled in less than 10 days. Meets Halls Associates. “Wiley's ‘post-graduate’ course in| mechanics came in a series of jobs in| garges, in the ofl flelds and in ma- chipe shops over Oklahcma. One of these jobs was in Chickasha, Okla., and there he became acquainted with Powell Briscce, who later became associated with F. C. Hall, en ol man. 1t was| Hall who ultimately gave Post his big | chance by backing the round-the-world | flight, but none of them knew the turn.| events would tzke theh. As a matter of fact, Wiley couldn't fly at that time, but his eyes were in the sky. Pinzlly there came a day when Wiley had his first opportunity to be arcund alrcraft. Th> Posts were living near Alex, Okla, and Wiley got a chance to work at odd jobs around the aviation fleld at Fort Sill, where men were being trained for the World War. He was only 19 years old and whe there no longer was a job for him at the fleld he tock a job operating a serv- ice car between tie Army post and Lawton in order t) keep within sight of the fleld. Whon the armistice was signed, he was stulying radio with the intention of joininz two of his brothers in the service.” Joe and James served overseas in the 34th Divislon. Goes Up to End AlL Then came misfortune. While work- | ing at a machine shop at Haldenville | he lost the sight of one eye. This would have been cnough to discourage most youths from hopes of en air career, But it seemed to spur Wiley on, and | it was with the $2,000 he received as | iamages in this accident that he bought | ! his first ajrplane. Before this, however, Wiley had be- | come a wing walker and parachute | jumper in a barnstorming air circus. A | | plane landed near where he was work- ing one Yay. Post quotes himself as| telling his friends, “I'm going out and | | come back.” | The pilot, L. L. Lewis, now a pilot for ! KANSAS ATTACKS DOHERTY UTILITY Refusal to Accede to Gas| Rate Readjustment Charged by Governor. | | By the Associated Press. TOPEKA, Kans., July 3—The Statc of Kansas, seeking a 10-cent reduction in :ls rates to consumers, has iniii- ated an offensive against the Henry L. Dohetty Citles Service interests. A plea of Doherty representatives for an extension until next Monday of the time in which to reply formally to his Tequest for a voluntary decrease was branded by Gov. Harry H. Woodring | yesterday as “tantamount” to refusal | “to accede to the public demand for a readjustment of gas 1ates.” Virtually simultaneously, the Kansas banking department announced with- | drawal of its approval of stock Iisted on the New York Curb Exchange by | the Clties Service Co., a holding com- | pany in the Doherty group. An excep- | tion was made, however, for the com- | pany's first preferred stock. Hearing on Contracts. | ‘The State Public Service Commission set for hearing August 18 an investiga- | tion into the “reasonabls tracts made with and se: to the subsidiary companies by the Cit- | fes Service Co. and the various holding | companies. A Doherty representative said “we will have a statement to issue at the proper time, probably within a few days.” Gov. Woodring sald the Public Serv- the American Airways Co. when ac- costed, asked: “What can you do Post answered, “Anything—wing walking, parachute jumping, anything you want from a helper.” | He got the job. On his second flight he came down in a parachute, the first of 91 parachute drops whizh were to follow. Lewls says he did his first jump b!c;u'.l{ufl)', which a beginner does not often It was but a step from “alr stunt man” to “air pilot.” and Wiley soon wes touring the pasture circuit in an old :}arlmck with his own hands at the con- rols. (Tomorrow: A full-fledged, self-grad- The rest of the chargs, the go with him (the pilot)—and never |uated pilot, Wiley Post kids the home Joiks some and continues to learn about flying.) | fective tomorrow, | stock will mean the issues di ice Commission’s _investigation would not preclude the Doherty interests ac. cepting before next Monday msnt his proposal for a cut from 40 to 30 cents in the city gas rate charged by Doherty interests’ flpe lines to thei: 75 em other -local gas distributing compllfl'fi. He had ‘wo d the reductiza be passed in its entirety to the con- #umers. The Doherty companies serve approximately 100 Kansas cities. Action Bars Securiiies. Carl Newcomer, special assistant State bank comnmissioner in charge of se« curiides, said action of the banking de- partment in withdrawing approval, ef- from Cities Service roved canrfot be sold in Kansas until they arc reinstated. He said he immediately weuld notify Henry L. Doherty & Co. znd the New York Curb Exchange of the banking’ department’s action. Newcomer listed stocks for which ap- proval was withdrawn as the company's common, preferred “B” and preferred “BB.” He sald “latest available infor- mation” chowed there were some 10 prior liens, totaling “afprcximately $500,- 000,000, against the ¥ssets of the com- pany “before Cities Service common would participate, which leaves the stock, In our judgment, of questionablc or_worthless value.” Newcomer termed the preferred and “BB’ issues of “doubtful value.” LONG SERVICE HONORED Pvt. Jchn R. 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