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Y o A ] 1500 MILE CAPITAL ~ AREAPLAN IS TOLD! i Eliot Declares Project WOuldi Carry Out Idea to Symbolize | Nation’s History. (Continued From First Page.) est aboriginal boulder quarry known | is located in the District. Two battles between whites and Indians are record- ed in this area. These sites are being acquired for parks in accordance with | the regional plan. The highway over which Braddock marched to the West | Y. and others used by George Washington and his neighbor, George Mason, re- main integral parts of any reglonal highway scheme. Nothing in our civi- lization seems to be as permanent as a street or highway location, “But the most significant part of the historical background of the Wash- ington region lies in the long record of dreams and visions which went into its development. Washington and Jef- ferson, the records intimate, expected the Federal City at the head of tide- ‘water on the Potomac to become the principal seaport of the Atlantic Coast and the chief outlét to the sea for the great Western country. L'Enfant, the engineer, fully realized the importance of historical associeiions, food to as- suage the human craving for what is sentimental at its worst and symbolical at its best. His reports are replete with the symbolic meaning of the various features of his plan. Provisions for Symbolism. “The present period is one of regional planning involving an area of about 1500 square miles. This is the region particularly responsive to the influence of the present city. The plans for the future of this area cannot but depend | upon all that has gone before.” In the development of the symbolism of Washington in the past. he pointed out, allowance has been made for circles and statues preserving the memory of various notable figures in American his- tory. But at present, he said, these are mostly military figures, while the sym- bolism should be extended to cover the whole range of American history. es-{ pecially the cultural and political. Thus, he said, appropriate sites have been se- lected under the region plan for memo- rials to Jefferson, Monroe, Madison and Woodrow Wilson, part of whose native | Virginia is included in the area. The _round-table discussion led by Louis Brownlow, foraer Commissioner of the District of Co} tmbia, was devoted largely to the possiblity of forecasting the growth of cities #nd their adjacent arcas from statistical formulae derived | from the population and building trends ! of the past. Previous efforts to do this have resulted in some grotesque mis- takes, it was pointed out. Mr. Brownlow | described a letter in the Jefferson col- | lection at the Library of Congress. The sage of Monticello was accustomed to RO every Spring to attend the perform- | ances of the William and Mary College players at Peersburg, 'a. One year they went to New York fistead. It was a great mistake, Jefferstn wrote, be- cause it was obvious thit New York never could become such a dramatic center as Petersburg. Planned.Eastward Extension. ‘The history of Washington itself, Mr. Eliot said. illustrates just such a mis- take where psychology was too much for well-ordered plans. Both Washing- ton and Jefferson planned for a city ex- tending eastward from the Capitol. But when the first workers came to build the public buildigs the only place they could find shelter was at Georgetown, where there was an inn. From there they had to ride or walk to work every morning. They took fancies to various sites they passe«. and chose these when they came to build their own homes | rather than explore the unfamiliar | Northeast and Southeast sections. The necessity of building govern- mental units in the future on the basis | of “human regions,” rather than on arbitrary political regions, was stressed by Lewis Mumford, New York critic. “The great states of the world and still more their minor administrative districts,” he said, “are the products of political forces and events which have only accidental relations to the under- lying geographic, economic and social realities. The human region existed | as a fact long before the political state, as we know it, came into existence. “Regional planning includes cities, villages and permanent rural areas as part of the regional complex. Metro- politan planning regards the open sur- rounding country as doomed to be swal- lowed up in the inevitable increase of population. The regional planner seeks to preserve the balance between the agricultural and primeval background and the urban environment. | i Easy Access Necessary. “Easy access on the part of the city resident to the country and vice versa are necessary to their culture and edu- cation. A ‘type of metropolitan de- velopment that makes such intercourse difficult and tiresome must, the region- alist thinks, be deliberately overcome. Metropolitanism is, in fact, another form of land skinning. In the interest of opportunities for financial killings it ignores the natural capacities of site and soil and continues to spread a uni- form urban layer over the countryside.” The city builders of the past, Mr. Mumford said, “produced an environ- ment that was good for machines and money making, but was not good for man. Art, culture, education and recreation came as an afterthought, if they came at all, after our one-sided preoccupation with industry had ruined & great many of their potentialities.” Thus Mr. Mumford predicted the de- velopment in the future not of bigger cities but of urban areas consisting of numbers of smaller cities bound by good communication systems. Each of these cities in the area—ranging from 5,000 to 100,000 in population—would provide all the essential institutions guch as theaters, stores, churches, ete. In addition one would be the site of the area’s university, another of one kind of hospital, another of the art museum : and another of the science museum. Will Have All Advantages. These will provide all the advantages of massing populations, he said, and at the same time relieve the increasing congestion. Otherwise, he said, con- gestion can be relieved only by pallia- tives whose effect is rapidly destroyed by further city growth. When the discussion turned to uni- versity cities Mrs. Sarah Lee Fain, member of the Virginia Legislature, said that on a recent automobile trip of approximately 7,000 miles she had inquired of gas station attendants and girls »ith roadside hot dog stands as their education. The majority of e younger ones, she found, were col- iege graduates, some holding higher degrees, who couldn't find any other way of earning a living. With educa- tion such a drug on the market, she intimated, the university city may not need to plan for further growth. ‘This, it was suggested, is a temporary coréftion because college graduates sovit will get jobs when standards for nyany positions, such as school teach-| ers, will be raised to exclude all those who do not have such training. An- other remedy, Mr. Brownlow pointed out, was in spreading the viewpoint that education was for living and not for elrnlntl living. The problem of working out statistical curves which will predict accurately the growth of cities was described by Ernest P. Goodrich, New York consult- ing engineer. This extremely com- licated procedure, he said, has now goen worked out with a fair degree of accuracy. Night Session. Definite rations have also been found to exist, he said, between the areas which need to be set aside for resi- l HELD N SLAYING, iE EVENING Nine Hours “Dead,” Man Lives Philadelphian, Five Minutes at Bottom of Lake, Says He Had Feeling of “Peaceful Oblivion and Long Sleep in Which There Were No Dreams.” By the Associated Press. ' PHILADELPHIA, July 8—Believed drowned after five minutes at the bot- tom of Laurel Lake, N. J., William Dugan was alive and well today. For nine hours physicians and nurses at a hospital made efforts to revive him, al- though his heart and pulse had stopped and his body was blue and cold. He was wrapped in blankets, lined with hot-water bottles; was given fre- quent hypodermics and {nhalators were used. Finally he sighed and opened his | “It was so ccmfortable just resting in space,” he said. “Yet I had a feeling I had to rouse myself, to make an ef-| fort to go somewhere. Then, from a great distance I heard my mother call- | ing, and T had to answer her. After a great effort I opened my eyes.” He had a feeling of “oblivion—peace- ful chlivion and a long sleep in which there were no dreams’—before he heard his mother calling and rallied. Describing his sensations on falling from s boat and belng stunned, Dugan said: “I felt myself going down and down and down. Brilliant lights danced be- fore my eyes, flashing in varied colors. Then I hit the muddy bottom, and all went black. “I don't know another thing that happened until I had the sensation, hours later, of floating in air and that some one wanted me to do something, some one I couldn't disappoint. Then I came out of it."” GIRL 15 SILENT Accused of Killing Fiance as| Another Woman Says She Is His Widow. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ga., July 8—Curly, titian-haired Miss Mary Cone, 21-year- old daughter of 2 minister, today silent- ly awaited hearing on charges of mur-| der for slaying Preston Dudley. while | another woman who said she was his widow mourn=d his death The woman, who gave her name as| Mrs. Inez Hall Dudley, aged 22, yes-| terday announced Lerself as the widow of the slain man. She said they were| married January 14, 1920, in Phenix City, Ala. and had been separated | about a_year, but not divorced. | Mrs. Dudley declined to say why she and Dudley had been estranged, but stated she had once requested Miss Cone to stop going with him. The shosting. took place July 2, while Dudley and Miss Cone were motoring. He lived until Monday night. but re- fused to make a statement. Miss Cone, likewise, has refused to talk about the case. However, Miss Cone's father, Rev. A. J. Cone, told officers his daughter ..ce in self-defense when Dudley drew a un. Mr. Cone said his .daughter and Dudley had been engaged, but the be- trothal was broken because of his drinking. P Mrs. Ducley said she visited her hus- band before his dcath and will attend the fureral. Hearing for Miss Cone is set for Sat- urday. 1 | RED CROSS UNABLE TO HELP MINERS, | PAYNE TELLS PINCHOT (Continued From First Page.) attitude of labor and Lamont that of sounding out the operators. The job of the Secretary of Labor was com- paratively easy, as a large element of labor in the industry is organized. The operators, however, are not fully organ- ized and the Secretary of Commerce found it necessary to sound out individ- | uals. | Will Picket Meeting. ‘ National Miners Union officials have | announced they intended sending a party to Washington to picket the con- ference. Two previous investigations and con- | ferences have been held. Suggestions | cf various kinds came out of the Fed- | eral Coal Commission inquiry in 1922, but few were carried out. Senator Davis of Pennsylvania, as Secretary of Labor, c2lled a conference but without result.| Pinchot's letter to Payne said there were no State funds available for relief and added “local rescurces were either exhausted or otherwise out of reach.” “I know the situation in Western Pennsylvania could scarcely be worse end probably would not be as bad if a great natural calamity had visited that Tegion,” the letter, said. It added Communist agitators were infcrming miners and their families that “the Government is to be held responsible” for their plight. “The consequence naturally is great | bitterness toward American insutu- tions, grafted upon young lives at a time when such impressions are nat- urally deepest and most enduring.” | Regarding Pinchot's assertion that the Pennsylvania State budget included no provision for relief, Chairman Payne later taid: ! “Pennsylvania is the second State in America in wealth and industry and| it seems to me that what need exists should be supplied by the Sate.” PR . CAPT. J. W. ARNOLD DIES Demise of Army Officer on July 4 in San Antonio Is Reported. Capt. James W. Arnold, 23rd U. S. Infantry, stationed at Fort Sam Hous- tcn, San Antonio, Tex., died in that city July 4, according to War Depart- | ment advices. Born at Washington, February 15, 1896, he was serving in the Officers’ Re- serve Corps, when appointed a_second lieutenant of Infantry in_the Regular Army, in October, 1917. He served in France during the World War, and reached the grade of captain in July, 1920, His next of kin is his mother, Mrs. Katherine L. Boynton, who resides at 1432 South Newport avenue, Tulsa, Okla. dences, shops, etc. Thus 4,000 square feet of land will house an average fam- fly of four. A 25-foot front local store will care for 100 persons. The evening session last night was given over to a discussion of the un- employment problem in Great Britain by Ben Bowen Thomas, warden of Harlech College, Wales, Of the present 2,000,000 out of work, he said, about 400.000 are due to normal causes of un- employment, 600,000 to causes growing directly out of the war and 1,000,000 to causes which now are operating all over the world. Unemployment is being met to some degree, he sald, by a gradual redistribution of labor. CHAIN STORES PLAN FIGHT. Institute Speaker Says Indiana Tax Law Is Unfair Discrimination. UNIVERSITY, Va, July 8 (®).— Clark McKercher, general counsel for the National Chain_Store Association, said today at the Institute of Publi Affairs that while chain organizations intend compliance with the recent In- diana ‘tax decision, they plan opposition for laws, rules and regulations which they believe discriminate against them. Mr., McKercher said the chain stores | would have no hesitancy to respond | “to any reasonable demand to meet any State or municipal necessity,” but they object to such tax lc™s as that passed in Indiana as ‘‘unreasonable and ui Justified discrimination against them Chain stores will favor, he *said, the enactment of non-discriminatory tax laws that mre necessary for revenue purposes. = e Indiana tax law, which has been upheld as constitutional, imposes a special levy on chain store units. INSTITUTIONS HERE HITBY WICKERSHAM Report on Juvenile Care by U. S. Flays Equipment and Treatment. ___(Continued From First Page) for research to trace the history and spread of institutional disciplinary measures suci as silence, marching, dressing and undressing, ‘to count’ standing on line, use of strained or ‘torture’ positicns, calisthenic drills to the point of exhaustion, shackling, drenching with streams of cold water, etc. An officer who has learned these practices in one institution passes them | on to another; once rcoted they spread underground; the most enlightened ad- ministrator finds it difficult to eradi- cate them.” Speaking of the department for col- ored girls of the National Training School for Girls, Dr. Van Waters stated that girls are locked in at night and have fo lay their clothing on the floor outside their room. and that they are locked in their rooms during portions of each day. “The dismal restrictive ap- pearance of the place reflects its spirit,” she wrote. A report on “child offenders in the Federal s 'm of justice” described other harsh disciplinary treatment ac- corded minors and ascerted meny of the jails in which they are kept “pres- ent a situation of filth and misery im- possible to cenvey.” Punishments Cited. In some institutions, the report said, flogging is not Infrequent, while in others calisthenic drills to thé point of exhaustion, “torture” positions, shac- kling, drenching with streams of cold water and confinement on bread and water have been in vogue. At the Fed- eral Industrial Reformatory in Chilli- cothe, Ohio, the report said, confine- ment to the guard house for even minor offenses was frequent as a disciplinary measure. “A few minor offenses noted in the records as punished by from three to six days in the guard house,” the report added, “were possession cf & two-cent stamp, talking In mess line, concealing an apple in bunk. kicking a refuse can, stealing five eggs from the kitchen.” The Chillicothe instituticn was de- seribed as “in poor repair, crowded, un- sanitary and not fireproof.” Forced to Stand in Rain, “Kitchen and dining room facilities are inadequate,” it was sald, “‘mess is served twice to accommodate all which means in bad weather men stand in rain and cold walting for service. Floors in both kitchen and mess hall cannot be scrubbed, as they are so p-rous that | water would seep through to food sup- plies in_the basement. Hospit2l space . crowded and inadequate, clothing is ery poor. Boys sent from warm cli- mates suffer greatly frem exposure.” Discussing the ~Washington _ State Reformatory, at Monroe, at which some | convicted Federal juveniles are confined under contract, the report said disci- pline often took the form of diet restric- tion. Correction ceiis were said to be kept in total darkness, and young boys sometimes forced to p on wooden planks, ordinarily without bedding and | sometimes for 10 days at a time. 939 Under Dry Law. The report said 939 boys under 18 years of age were held in prisons dur- ing the six months ending Deceml 31, 1930, for violating the Federal pro- hibition act. Of there, 218, or nearly one-quarter, were convicted in the Eastern district of Kentucky. No mention was made of the insti- tutions in which these youthful prison- ers were held. No explanation was givn at the ‘White House for an apparent switeh in the commission’s line-up, whereby this report was published ahead of a study of the deportation of aliens from the United States. The document released today was the fifth published by the commission, but was numbered as its sixth report. That upon the deporta- tion of aliens was to be numbered five. Doak Objected to Report. Prior to the technical dissolution of the commission July 1, members said, a lengthy letter objecting to parts of their report on deportations had been re- ceived from Secretary Doak, who is charged with this duty. They dtclinevd to say whether the Secretary of Labor’s letter would be made public. After a flat declaration that the con- cept of juvenile delinquency is “un- known to the Federal penal code,” the commission estimated that 2,243 boys and girls under 18 years of age were held in jail for violating various Fed- eral laws during the six months end- ing_December 31, 1930. “The great majority of juvenile of- fenders against the Federal laws are typical delinquency cases,” the report said. “It is only by accident that they have fallen within the Federal juris- diction. “Any State would apply to them the usual technique of-juvenile delinquency treatment. Yet the Federal Govern- ment classes them with adult criminals and moves against them with the same machinery which it uses in dealing with hardened offenders.” “The Federal Government is not equipped to serve as a guardian to the delinquent child,” the report asserted, “nor should it assume this task. When- ever a child has broken a Federal law his locel community has failed in its | responsibility to furnish adequate pa- rental guldance. This duty is local, not national. “It is desirable from every point of view that the Federal Government be empowered to withdraw from the prose- cution of juveniles, where such with- drawal will be in the public interest, and to leave the treatment of their cases to the juvenile courts or other welfare agencies of their own States. The commission recommends the pas- :lfll! LOI legislation which will have this ect.” ‘The commission said it understood legislation now was being prepared for presentation to the next Congress, de- signed to facilitate, among other things. | the acceptanee in local reformatories £nd training schools of convicted Fed- eral juvemles. It praised Attorney Gen- eral Mitchell and the Bureau of Prisons | for their eftorts toward this end. The study was not complete. The actual report of the commission, signed by all 11 members, covered only five pages. 4 STAR, WASHINGTON, TWO TEXAS FLYERS START FOR TOKIO Robbins and Jones Hop Off From Seattle on Refuel- ing Trip to Japan. __(Continued From_First Page.) chocolate. Neither cigarettes nor cigars were carried as neither man smokes. Robbins and Jones are gambling against death for different reasons. For Robbins, one time endurance flight hero, it is a business proposition, its goal the $25000 purse offered by the Japanese newspaper Asahi. This farm boy from the corn and cot- ton black lands near Fort Worth, Tex., has “hoed a hard row” to obtain ad- vancement in aviation. He was spurred by determination to succeed for the sake of his wife and son. Jones Out for Adventure. Jones® greatest love is adventure, any kind, just so there is a thrill in it, and the bachelor sportsman, fiyer and oil man_ undertook the trip as a vacation jaunt. He is unmarried. Robbins and Jones have been “bud- dies” since 1929, when Robbins and the late Jim Kelly broke the refueling en- durance flight record set by the Army plane Question Mark, The success of that flight was largely due to the 17 re- fueling contacts negotiated by Jones from his own ship, piloted by K. K. Hoffman. ‘When everything was in readiness for the present flight Robbins merely said. “Let's go.” There was no ballyhoo. H: had refused all public statements for many weeks beforehand. saying, “Some- thing might happen. Then they'd think I was yellow.” Have Quick Breakfast. Robbins and Jones left their rooms at the Washington Athletic Club here at 3:05 am. At a downtown restaurant they had Billy Connor, governor for this State for the National Aeronautical Asso- clation. They took to the air 17 minutes after wheeling their plane from the hangar. The plane ran the full length of the fleld and rose very slowly. They made one attempt to leave the field at 2,000 feet and bounced down from about two feet. oft Robbins, a Texas colonel—he holds & commission_in the National Guard of his native State—is 28 years old. Taught Self to Fly. bought a decrepit wartime enny” and taught himself to handle Before that he “dug ditches or anything else to earn a dime.” Flying has been a hobby with Jones for about six years. After the refueling endurance flight of 172 hours and 30 minutes in 1929 Robbins was presented with a new plane by the makers of the ship which set the record. So many persons wanted to ride with him on aerial “rubber- neck” tours that he bought a tri- motored transport to accommodate them. It is this plane thet is being used for refueling contacts on the present trip. Jones Praises Pilot. Jones vouched for the story that Robbins taught himself to fly. He said the pilot of the Fort Worth had never had any instruction before he took off in the old Jenny. Jones, said Robbins “flew” the plane on the goound several times to get the “swing of things” and then hopped off and landed safely and has been doing it ever since. “He is one of the greatest pilots in the country.” commented the navigato of the Fort Worth. “I feel perfectl | safe riding with him whether it be over the flat country of Texas or over the mountains and_straits of the north.” Japan trip he said he was “going to start for Toklo.” The navigator always spoke of “fiying to Tokio.” When this was brought to their at- tention Jones remarked that it was “only bashfulness” on the part of Robbins. CONFIDENT OF THEIR LUCK. Flyers Ignore Parachutes, but Carry Foot of “Graveyard Rabbit.” FORT WORTH, Tex., July 8 (#).— Reg L. Robbins and H. S. Jones, who { took off from Seattle today on a non- stop flight to Tokio—the one with his eyes on $25.000 prize money and the other just for the adventure—were so confident luck would be with them that they did not carry parachutes. “Excess weight,” Jones explained about parachutes in preparing here for the flight. “If I was to be killed, it is & cinch I would have been killed anyway in some other fashion at heme. PThat is to be shall be.” Robbins remarked tersely: “All we have to do is hop off and get there.” As a luck charm the flyers carry “the left hind leg of a rabbit caught in a graveyard at midnight.” It was pre- sented by Roscoe Turner, colored at- tendant at the Fort Wcrth Airport, after Robbins’ 8-year-old son, Jack, had christened the monoplane “Fort W srth” by breaking a bottle of lake watsr on the nose of the craft. Jones made an intensive study of navigation and the route to be trav- ersed. He bought a sextant and prac- ticed night and day on “shooting” his position. He discussed navigation with airmen and seamen. So that his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jones of Long Beach, Mich., would have no worries “until the worrying times comes,” Jones did not inform them of the flight plans until two days before the take-off here for the Pacific Coast. He wrote them a letter which should have been delivered on the day their son and Robbins were on their way to Seattle. —_— EVELYN WILSON BACK AFTER DISAPPEARING Stage Star Returns in Taxicab Hailed in Gotham as Police Probe Short Absence. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 8.—Miss Evelyn Wilson, 23 years old, musical comedy actress, was back home today and po- i lice were trying to find out why she had been away. She disappeared Sunday from her sister’s apartment while on an errand to a drug store for her mother. At 12:30 am. today, she reappeared at her home, on Seventy-second street, having been driven there by a taxicab she hailed at 175th street and Broad- way. Arthur Fitzgerald, the taxi driver, told detectives Miss Wilson jumped out of the taxicab without paying him. Police who attempted to question the actress were at first barr from the apartment, and later an interview was rranged. ed by Flood. MEXICO CITY, July 8 (#).—Dis- patches from Ixtlan today said 300 per- sons were marooned by washouts along the Southern Pacific Railroad and in need of food and medical supplies. Heavy “storms reu;:tly caused tempo- o rary parts of —_— 300 Maroon a quick breakfast with State Senator | About 200 persons saw the take- | He has been flying ejght vears, ever | ‘Whenever Robbins talked about ll"AeI D.- G, WE MOSLEY CHANGES PARLIAMENT SEAT Moves to Conservative Side in Opposition to MacDon- ald’s Government. .DNE By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, July 8.—Sir Oswald Mos- ley, one time known as the millionaire Socialist, formally joined the opposi~ tion to Prime Minister MacDonald's government today, surrendering his seat lon the Labor benches for one on the | Conservative back benches. | Sir Oswald did not, by his transfer, ! join the Conservative party, but simply moved his seat to the opposite side {of the house where the Conservatives sit. ‘With Mosley and the other new party members moving over, there are now | three parties sitting in the opposition benches—Conservatives, Liberals and the new party. The Liberals usually vote with the government, and Mosley's fallowers probably will do likewise most | of the time, Cheers From Laborites. As the founder of the “new party” abandoned his seat among the Labor- ites and walked the few yards across the historic hall to his new place there | were ironic cheers from the Labor benches. Lady Cynthia Mosley joined him a | few minutes later with ‘several other | members of the new party who will | vote with him in the critical division on the unemployment insurance bill | which comes up for second reading this afternoon. | The Government's position is some- | what dangerous now, for both Mosley | and James Maxton, Labor left-winger, have moved rejection of the measure, nd some of the insurgent Liberals are sure to vote against it. Organized “New Party” Sir Oswald, who is 35 and has sat in i Parliament as a Conservative, and In- dependent and a Laborite, has been dis- { satisfied with the progress made by the MacDonald government for the past | year. Last February he announced the for- maticn of a “new party.’ This party { was launched as one designed to handl~ the “great national economic crisis and plans were made to put 400 can- | didate in the field. His appeal was to the youth of the land and carried with it a dash of the | epirit of Fascism and limited dictator- | !ship, his idea being to turn the “talk | shop” of Parliament into a “wark shop” | { by means of a small inner cabinet of five or six ministers acting a3 the na- { tional executive | Although Sir Oswald denied the im- | plication, some of the London papers | declared that he had sent several of | his followers to Germany to study the methods of Adof Hitler, Fascist chief- | tain and leader of the German National | Socialist party. The essence of tide. program en- irounced by Sir Oswa¥i in February was the creation of a tariff system to protect the home market from “dumping.” price fluctuation and com- petition_with cheap labor. Sir Oswald's wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, is a daughter of the late Lord Curzon and granddaughter of the lats | Levi Z. Leiter. Chicago merchant. She {also is a.member of Parliament. CAPT. BREMMERMAN | RECEIVES TRIBUTE Citizens and Police Officials Honorv Retiring Commander of Four- teenth Precinct. Citizens of the fourteenth precinct. I police officials and friends honored Capt. Charles H. Bremmerman last night, following his retirment July 1 from the command of the precinct. The ceremony. staged in the station house at Wisconsin avenue and Albemarle street, was also in the form of welcome for the new precinct commander, Capt. John E. Bowers, Capt. Bremmerman was appointed to the Metropolitan Police Department on May 5 1892, and had served for 39 years and two months. Among the speakers were Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federa- tion of Citizens' Associations; W. A. | Roberts, assistant corporation council, | who_represented Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby, and Maj. Henry J. Pratt, superintendent of police. Other Po- lice Department officials, including In- spectors Shelby, Headley and Brown, and prominent citizens were introduced. Presidents of Wesley Heights, Amer- jcan University Park, Cleveland Park, North Cleveland Park, Forest Hills, Cathedral Heights, Richmond Park,| Connecticut avenue, Friendship and | Chevy Chase Citzens' Association, whigh | cooperated in the affair, were troduced. TREATED FOR CUT {Man Said to Have Butted Head| Against Patrol Wagon. Walter S. Furlow, 42, who said his | home near Bethesda, Md., was treated at Casualty Hospital last night | | for a cut over the right eye, said to} have been inflicted when he butted his | head on the side of a patrol wagon | after he had been placed under arrest. | Furlow later was booked at eleventh | precinct police station on a charge of intoxication. | Russia’s Great Power Plant AMERICAN ENGINEERS A D American engineers. NIEPROSTROY, in Russia, is one of the most powerful hydro-electric stations in Europe and is the base of the Soviet electro-metallurgic industry, a large part of the works having been built with the aid cf This photograph shows a general view of the huge project in the process of construction. ID IN ITS CONSTRUCTION. —A. P. Photo, 'WINDOWS AND DOORS LOCKED, . COTTON REPORTERS SWELTER! Hot?—Then Pity Board’s Clerks Confined to Closed Room U Wor]r(ing Under Pressure. A hot sun, which sent the mercury upward today, worked an especial hard- ship on one group of Washingtonians— members and clerks of the Crop Re- porting Board, who worked under pres- sure and behind locked doors, sealed windows and drawn shades, getting out their annual estimate on cotton acreage, Speculators could reap millons of dollars if they kad advance information on the board's cotton or wheat reports, for the markets are sensitive o these figures. Locked in Until Finished. W. F. Callancer, chairman of the Crop Reporting Board, at at his desk in the Department of Agriculture late yesterday in his shirtsleeves. Windows were up and fans droned, but it was hot nervertheless Mr. Callander, it _developed. was in- terested in the weather forecast. “Lock- ing us in is part of a system,” he sa‘d, “but the weather on the day of the re- port isn't. Let's hope it's cool and cloudy tomorrow. If the sun's hot, not even a good breeze will help us in here. “We'll come down around 5 o'clock tomorrow morning,” he predicted— ntil Report Is Out. members and clerks of the board bore out Mr. Callander’s prophecy today— | ‘2nd here we'll be sealed in until the report is out. | ‘Wheat Report to Follow. “But we're just warming up for the | wheat report next Friday. We'll come down at 4 o'clock in the morning then, | and be here till 3 in the afternoon. “Now and then some of the girls have | hysteric-,” he continusd. “You see they work at extra speed for days before- hand. The men get sick, too, some- times. “What if somebody were seriously | ill> We did have a doctor once. He| wanted to rush right out again on an- | other hurry call. He didn't rush any- | where until the report was out. Then | there was the time a Secretary of Agri- culture came in. He had an important | engagement and wanted to get away. He didn't go either. “You see, back in 1904 a cotton crop reporter had confederates on the out- | side. He signaled them by raising or | lower'ng the window shades. The, shades and everything else stay put' now.” | | | | 'FAKE FIRE CALL BUG SENT TO GALLINGER Judge Given Orders Mental Test for William Webb, Pleading Guilty cn False Alarms. Polic> Court Judg: Raiph Given to- day sald he did not believe Willlam David Webb's motive for turning in 10 false fire alarms early al'ogether due to being “lonel. So he sent W:bb, a wctal worker, to Gallinger Hospital for a 10-day mental test after the prisoner had entered a guilty plea to cne of the charges placed against him yesierday by polics. Szn- tence was held in abeyance until the | court has received a report from the hospital authorities. Webb insisted to police that his men- tal faculties ware normal and that hi was ready to take his punishment. Judge Given, however, believed that Wzbb's stunt was so unusual that a medical examination should be made | before sending the Z3-year-old man to prison. The metal worker, according to his story, arrived at home early yesterday after’ he spent part of the night on a “jamboree.” He said he quarreled with members of his family and left the house, 1223”1 street southeast, “‘very mad and lonely.” He then sought solace in making the fire apparatus run, In less than two hours he had pulled 10 fire alarm box; and had broken the glass in two more. His Jast box and the last he said he intended to pull before leaving Wash- ington forever was at Ninth and D streets. There he was practically caught in ‘the act by Police Sergt. W. H. Thomas. He was held without bai for rial, Awarded Trophy for Plane VIRGINIA YOUTH WINS MINIATURE AIRCRAFT CUP. RANK SALISBURY, JR., 16, of Waverly Hills, Va., shown receiving from Maj rth :'z"m-nue city. I Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the Public Utilities Commis- the cup which he won for placing third in the junior elass at the national playground miniature aircraft tournament last October ‘Watching the ceremony is Miss Sibyl Baker, director esterday was| GERMAN INDUSTRY SEEKS HUGE LOAN | | __(Continued From First Page.) indicated the action of Germany's cap- tains of industry and finance made an | excelient impression in cther countries, | <specially n England. | It is expected in official circles that concrete negotiaticns for long-term | foreign credits on a large scale will be started immediately. | The drastic decision to undertske a Joint guarantee of individual foreign credits was announced by Hans Luther, | | president of the Reichsbank, at mid- | night, after it had become apparent | during the day that the demand for | forelgn currences continued strong, | despite the signing of the Hoover plan. | Give Collateral Guarantees. | _Technically. the action of the indus- | | trialists was to place at the disposs of the German Gold Discount Bank | a collateral gusrantee of 500,000,000 | marks, for which the signers, cach of | whom ' has assets of at least 5,000,000 marks, are_responsible. | Meanwhile the gold discount bank | | must_borrow the 500,000,000 marks | abroad, which presumably ‘will not be | difficult on the busis of the collateral | guarantee. The same foreign banks | Who are unwilling to extend the short- | | term credit of an individual company | may be expected to take a different attitude toward the united security of a thousand firms. Having obtained the loan. the Gold Discount Bank then | could provide | credit assistance to German c:ncerns | temporarily distressed by the sudden | calling of their short-term loans. Most important, however, is the fact that | as soon 8s foreign lenders realize that | German industry is upholding the in- | tegrity of private debts it is believed they will cease calling their loans and | c;pllltl will flow into Germany, instead of out. | Herr Luther read a letter from the ;flrms represented, saying: “We hope | now that the signing of the pact by all | the powers concerned will furnish the basis for a sure, even though difficult, restoraticn. Our . meanwhile, | must be to restore confidence in Ger- many and also the confidence cf Ger- | mans. Too Sudden for Comment. “Of course, this guarantee of ours can take practical effect only if the Reichsbank directorate, in co-operation with the various foreign banks of issue, succeeds in providing the necessary re- lief” for German industry and credit through the foreign banking world.” ‘When asked if the credit already had | been srranged on the basis of tnis | move, Herr Luther only smiled uncom- | municatively. | The action came too suddenly for | comment in most morning papers, but the Industrialist Deutsch Allgemeine Zeitung applauded it as “prcof to the world that economic and political forces, ready to spring into the breach where the common good is involved, are not lacking in Germany.” CLEAVER VICTIM “FAIR” Struck by a meat cleaver in the hands of a colored bandit yesterday, Mrs. Gussie Ketay, 38, of 3610 Park place was re| at Emergency Hos- pital to be in “just fair” condition to- IMUST FILE RHEEM CLAINS BY JULY % Court Fixes Time, but Per- mits Other Action for a Year. Noteholders of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co., must file their claims by July 26, but in so doing are not pre- ‘cluded from pursuing other special rights and remedies which may be found to exist for them against other persons and property, provided such special rights are exercised by July 26, 1932, Justice Peyton Gordon today signed an order, presented by Attorney George E. Sullivan on behalf of 25 lawyers representing roteholders, to permit payments an additional yegr after the expiration of the time of filing in order to determine whether they are secured creditors of the bankrupt firm or merely general creditors, and whether should pursue other persons or property. Law Fixes Time. He explained that the court was not being asked to extend the time of filing, since the law makes it specific that all | claims must be filed before July 26, but the ccnditions of affairs of the bank- rupt do not permit counsel to advise their clients within the specified time. Henry P. Blair, one of the trustees of the bankrupt firm, declared he feared the order would have the effect of ex- tending the time of administration of the bankrupt's estate. 3 Justice Gordon expressed doubt cf his jurisdiction to sign the order. but stated |that if there were jurisdiction and he refused to exercise it. serfous injury might result to notholders. Swartzell Sues Rheem. John N. Swartzell, 2725 Thirty-sixth street, for himself and as assignee of his brother, Henry R. Swartzell, brought suit against Edmund D. Rheem, former vice president of the concern, yester- day, asking for an accounting of the firm's investments. Concurrently, the first meeting of the creditors’ examination of officers of the bankrupt was adjourned sine die by Referee Fred J. Eden when claimants did not proceed with questioning, which has been in progress during the past several months. In the new suit, filed yesterda: plaintiff, thy-ugh ' Attorney Walter B. Guy, declared that Rheem in 1925 exe- 1wo promissory notes, one for ,000 and another for $125.000. giv- ing as collateral security stock of the Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co. Violation Charged. The notes were to be paid in $5.000 installments and the claim is made in the suit that Rheem received the in- stallments as a trust fund, t> be in- vested in first mortgage bonds and, it is charged, invested them in second mortgage paper, in alleged violation of the trust. Swartzell asked a judgment for what- ever is found due from the original notes and from the investments of the curtailments. John and Henry Swartzell are neph- ews of Luther Swartzell, former senior partner in the brokerage house, who retired from the business some time before it went bankrupt, last January. ‘They held the two Rheem notes. Referee Eden adjourned the credit- ors’ hearing yesterday over the p:otest of Marcus Borchardt, a claimant's at- torney, who asked that the meeting be postponed only, rather than adjourned. The referee. however, pointed out that additional examinations may be held in his private office under a section of the District code which permits sum- moning of third party witnesses. It also was said by counsel that & second meeting of the creditors could be called upon petition, if the need should arise. 'PILOT ON AIR TOUR INJURED IN CRASH Contestant Buried in Wreckage of Plane as He Hits Hill on Edge of Airport. By the Associated Press. YORKVILLE, Ohio, July 8—Charles Suges, contestant in the national air tour, was seriously injured today in the crash of his ship against a hill bor- dering on the airport here, overnight stop of the air tourists. The pilot was buried In the wreckage of his ship. When he was extricated and taken to a hospital at Martins Ferry it was learned he suffersd a probable fracture of the skull and in- ternal injuries. Suges was one of the first group of air tourists to begin today's flight o Cleveland. It has been customary for fiyers leaving Yorkville for the West to first swing south to attain altitude be- fore crossing the hill. Suges, however, swung directly westward. It was be- lieved he misjudged his distance. So badly was his ship wrecked that it was a half hour before he could be freed. = EN AKRON | Mrs. Hoover to Give Name August 8 to New Navy Dirigible. Mrs. Herbert Hoover will christen the Navy's new giant dirigible ZRS-4, the Akron, in ceremonies at Akron, Ohio, August 8, it was announced today at the White House. ‘The lighter-than-air craft will be placed in commission as the Navy's first fighting dirigible a few months later, after completion of aerial tests June Circulation Daily... 111,637 Sunday, 118,122 Digtrict of Columkia. ss.: FLEMING NEWBOLD. Business Manager of EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR. does solemnly swear that the actual nymber of copies of the paper named sold and dis- tributed during the month of June, A.D. 1931, was as follows: R———— Less adjustments net_circulation . et 11> Het aid circulation; umber of copies Her skull is reported to have d. Mrs. Ketay was attacked in the little store known ‘as Fran's Market at 1838 Eleventh street. The colored wielded the cleaver, striking Mrs. Ketay on the head and hand, while her hus- band, Frank Ketay, proprietor of the shop. was downtown. Police still are Jooking for the bandit, who escaped up an alley. man | A Less adjustments . et _eirculation Sunday circt of coples for Sunday ngt lc':;iw&“fia usi| A Subscribed and sworn o Petore me this ) day, of duly. A 5 T IOWT