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@The / WASHINGTON, DB uC.y 248062 INU. 5. UNEMPLOYEDIN'S) ATTIME OF CENSUS Later Figures, Made Public by Lamont in March, 1931, Say 6,050,000 Idle. MINING HARD HIT, BUT SHOE TRADE PICKS UP, National Job Exchange in Gotham Reports Applications Drop With More Work Open. Out of a total of 48832589 able- bodied persons in the United States at the time the census was taken in April, 1930, 2429062, or 5 per cent, Were unemployed, the Census Bureau an- nounced today upon completion of ! counting its employment cards. These figures cover, the bureau explained, all persons usually working at a gainful| occupation who were not at work on the day preceding the enumerator's cal 11, Of the total number of gainful work-! ers, 38,053,795 were men and 10,778,794 were women. The total number of men out of work was 2.058.738 and 370,424 ‘women reported they were jobless. Lamont Reports 6,050,000. Since the regular census was taken, Becretary of Commerce Lamony report- ed, on March 21, that a total of 6,050.- 000 persons were unemployed through- out the United States. These figures were arrived at by a soecial census un- dertaken during last January, when un- employment normally reaches a seasonal, peak, and also at the time which the Commerce Department believes repre- sented the high point of the abnormal unemployment from the effects of the | business depression. The highest unemployment percent- ages obtained during tne April, 1930, count were found in manufacturing and mechanical industries, where 1,122,610 persons were reported jobless, in ex- traction of minerals, with 90,758 unem- ployed, and in forrestry and fishing. with a total of 19,848 persons idle. The lowest were in agriculture, public and professional service. Bullding Trades Hard Hit. The Census Bureau reported in the | detailed list of industry groups that | 15.4 per cent of the workers in the building Industry were jobless. Other high percentages in this class were 10.2 in woolen and worsted milling, 9.9 in automobile manufacturing and 9 in cigar and tobacco industries. Meanwhile, reports from 23 localities on conditions affecting business and | employment were made public today by Pred C. Croxton, acting chairman of the President’s Emergency Committee for Employment, the reports being gathered by District representatives of the Department of Commerce. i Leather Industry Gains. In Massachusetts a survey of the| leather trade showed a marked upturn in all shoe lines except in the most ex- | ensive group. The commisioner of abor in Rhode Island reported that in- formation from 19 selected manu-: facturers showed 59,099 workers® em- | ployed during the last week of June, as compared with 60,890 employed at the | end of May. The National Employment Exchange in New York City reported that for the week ended July 22 the registration of applications decreased | 8.99 per cent and requests for workers increased 8.57 per cent. Employment in Philadelphia_was re- ported slightly better in some branches | of industry. Some of the texiile trades were working overtime. The outlook for the lumber industry is slightly more} optimistic, and the leather-working trade ! was reported quiet. A slight increase in | building trade employment was reported | in Delaware, while employment condi- tions remained practically |mLhanlcd‘ during the past week in Pit rgh. Reports from Norfolk, Va. declared | that four railroads serving the local | territory reported no increase in freight traffic. Crop prospects in Virginia, i general, are good, with a brobable 13 per cent increase above the 10-year average. FORT MYER CADETS | GET AWARDS TODAY| Maj. Gen. Fred W Sladen and | Military Attaches to Review C. M. T. C. Students. i Maj. Gen. Fred W. Sladen, com- | mander of the Third Corps Area, representatives of national patriotic or- ganizations and military attaches of foreign nations will review the Fort| Myer Citizens' Military Training Camp | this afternoon upon the conclusion of | the 1931 training period. Formal presentation of major medals and prizes won during the Summer will take place immediately following the | review. A total of 275 youths, 11 of them from the District,” are enrolled at_the camp. Delegations from organizations mak- | ing the prize awards will be present with unit colors to officiate in the pre- | sentation of the trophies. The prizes include the MacArthur Trophy, to be awarded to the best senior student in the camp; & gold medal for all-round excellence, presented by the veterans of foreign wars; gold medal for the most proficient graduate from the Dis- trict, to be awarded by the District of Columbia Spanish War veterans; prize for excellence in citizenship to be given of Baltimore. Announcement also will be made to- | day of the principal and two alternates | eligible for the scholarship offered by ' George Washington University. H BUILDINGS TO BE RAZED Three on Municipal Center Prop- erty Called Nuisances. Three bulldings on property acquired by the District for the new Municipal ! Center project were ordered torn down ! by the Commissioners todey on com- | plaint by th: Health Department that they are nuisances. The buildings are at the southeast corner of Louisiana avenue end Sixth street. Although no buildings will be put up in that section for many years, the Commissioners de- cided it would be cheaper to destroy the buildings than to attempt to repair them. A contract for demolishing the buildings was given to the Hechinger Engineering Corporation, which put in ayilie Jow bid of $183, | | abat ment filed yest Inspects C apital Parks FATHER OF JAPANESE PARK SYSTEM MAKES SURVEY. national parks of the West while in Washington. They are sh AMORU KISHI, member of the Japanese Parliament, accompanied by Mme. Kishi, arrived here yesterday to study Federal parks in and around Washington preparatory to development of more recreation grounds in his native land. En route here, the couple visitcd the great They plan to call on President Hoover own above attired in native costumesd staff Photo. Star FORMER PITTS AIDE ATTACKS CHARGES Miss Schneider Adopts 10 of 12 Pleas Made in Per- jury Case. Miss Helen L. Schneider, formerly pri- vate socretary to G. Bryan Pitts, chair- man of the board of directors of the F. H. Smith Co., has joined her one-time employer in challerging the validity of the indictment recently return-d against Pitts, hers’lf and others on charges of perjury and subornation of perju connection with the embezzlement trial of F. H. Smith Co. officials. Through Attorney Martin F. O'Don- oghue, she adopts 10 of the 12 pleas in ay by counsel for Pitts. Chief of these was the claim that Regina E. Chandler, while rerving on the grand jury, was receiving compen- sation from the District government as an assistant dircetor of playgrounds. | She also asserted improper evidence was prescnted to the grand ju and ere were prs-nt in the grand jur sons not entitled to attend its se She contended h-r constitutional rights have been violated and that ste should not be required to answer the indict- ment, Leon Tobriner and Dozier A. De Vane, counsel for Pitts, also fild similar pleas in ebatement on behalf of Henry O. Hart, former auditor for the Smith Co. The indictment in addition to Miss Schneicer, Pitts and Hart, also named | Emory L. Coblentz, Frederick, Md, bank<r, and John H. Edwards, jr.. for-| mer vice president of the Smith Co. {THREE DENTISTS’ OFFICES, ARE LOOTED BY THIEVES Goldfilling Material Valued $285 Taken From Medical ‘ Science Building. i at The offices of three dentists in the Medical Science Building were bur- glarized last night and gold filling ma- terial to the total value of $285 stolen. | Headquarters detectives investigating the theft today found no traces of fin- gerprints or evidences of the manner in which entry was gained. It was believed duplicate keys were used. The offices entered are those of Dr. E. R. Stone and Dr. Edward E. Golden, | on the ninth floor and that of Dr. E. M. Colvin, on the fourth. Dr. Stone’ loss was $60 worth of material, that of | Dr. Golden, $150, and Dr. Colvin, $75. Detective Sergts. Robert Barrett and Fred Sandberg were investigating the robbery. | Flies to Doctor ACTRESS TAKES PET DOG, ILL, TO SPECIALIST VIA AIR. f proposal to consolidate the thri | ent pastor, Rev. Dr. Weidley. Dr. W | municant membership is 344 CHURCH MERGER 10 BE DISCUSSED One of Three Lutheran Bodies Opposing Consolidation in Southwest Section. With at least one of the three con- gregations definitely opposed to the merger, councilmen for three South- west Washington Lutheran Churches | Friday to discuss & ree con- gregations in view of encroachments to be made by the Federal program on the church properties. The three churches, among the oldest in the District. are St. John's. at 320 Four-and-a-half street southwest: Church of the Reformation, 208 B street southwest, and St. Mark’s, 800 B street southwest. Ordered to Vacate. The Church of the Keformation, un- der the pastorate of Rev. John Weidley, which has been ordered to vacate its building within & 3 propesed the merger. Its members will meet night have withheld making plans for the construction of & new building pending action on their suggestion to consolidate the three in- stitutions, all of which will be moved under the Federzl building program. St. John's Church, however, since has taken a congregational vote on the proposal and its councilmen will go into Friday night's meeting with the definite opposition of their constituency to the merger. The views of St. Mark’s Church were withheld today It was learned. however, that opinions differ among members of the three churches. Some of the older members object to the loss of identity of their respective churches because of the sen- timental attachment for the churches in which they have worshipped so mar years. Others, feeling that progress must be faced, together with the grad- ual reduction in the numerical strength of the three congregations, because of the moving of so-many families to other sections of the city, are in favor of the consolidation. St. John's is the oldest of the three churches, It was organized in 1855 as St. Paul's Church, but the present name was adopted early in its carcer. Seven pastors have served in its pulpits, Rev. Dr. George H. Eveler, the incumbent, having served since 1925. The con- firmed membership of the church is 250, while its communicants total 135. Founded 1869. The Church of the Reformation was | founded in 1869, and for 10 years serv- ices were held in an old schtcl house and in an Army hospital. Rev. W. E. | Parson was the founding pastor and | after serving his church for 25 years he died and was succeeded by the pres- | eid- | nil Jey is also president of the Na Lutheran Home fcr th> Aged. I firmed membership is 470 and its com- | | St. Mark’s Church was established in | 1887, with its first church at Twelfth | | structure at Eighth and B streets south- | west. | Marian Eddy, actress appearing at| Thecter this week, went to| Washingicn Airport today with Juno, pet bull terrier, and took a plene to| Batimere so that Juno it be treat- ‘ cd by a specialist for stomach ulcers. Of course, Juno could have made the trip by train or automobile, but the press agent decreed that he go by air. ~—sStar, | membership is 150. . and C streets southwest. After the furst | building's destruction by fire, the | church moved in 1905 to its present | Rev. H. Dennington Hayes is the present pastor. The confirmed mem- bership is 200 and the communicant U. S. WARNING OF SPIES ALTHOUGH WAR IS OVER Bureau of Aeronautics Sign, Relic of 1917, Recalls Secrecy Command. Although the World War ended nearly 13 years ago, the Navy is still on guard againsy spies. 1 Conspicucusly posted at the entrance to the Bureau of Asronautics a sign was found today which read: “Beware of spies. Don't talk about what you have done or are going to do. The cnemy has ears everywhere. “Don't discuss naval affairs strangers or foreigners. “Don't trust who you do not know. Don't forget to report at once any per- son who tries to get information. Don't forget that your want of care may help the enemy. “Secrecy means safety.’ RECEIVE COMMISSIONS One Made Major and Two Lieu-| tenants in Reserve Corps. Commissions in the Army Reserve | have been issucd by th> War De- t to Aubrey L. Sharp. Depart- lture, as a fi t nant 3 v ir. 1435 Harvard street. as a second lieutenant of Infantry, and to Edwin L. White, Chevy Chase, Md., as & major in the Corpse with building | |GAS OVERCOMES WOMAN SCHOOL DESK ROW ENDED AS MCARL APPROVES AWARD Purchasing Officer of D. C. Prepares Formal Order for 21,000 Articles. CONTROLLER REVERSES OPINION ON CONTRACT Thirteen Institutions Now Assured Furniture Will Be Delivered for September Opening. Following _receipt this morning of Controller General McCarl's favorable ruling on the District Commissi-ners' contract with the Derby Desk Co., for school furniture destined for a dozen new buildings in September. Marion C. Hargrove, District purchasing _officer, announced he w-uld place formal orders for the neaded 21,000 pieces of furniture this_afternoon. The Controller General's decision al- | lowing the placing of the big order was received at the District Buuding, after it was revealed yesteraay that serious delay in the carrying out cf the con- | tract, which was already signed, might make it necessary to equip the new buildings scheduled for occupancy in September with old furniture. Mr. McCarl previously had ruled that {the contract which the Commissioners | had made with the Derby Desk Co. of | Gardner, Mass., was illegal, because the bid entered by that concern was not the lowest offered. School authorities held, however, that the Derby bid was the lowest which conformed with the specifications. The Derby Desk Co.. acting on the basis of the signed contract. had pur- chased raw materials and had begun manufacture of the furniture, and when the controller general's adverse opinion was handed down it filed an appeal. The decision today, in effect a reversal of the first opinion, was made on the Derby appeal As soon the Commissioners re- ceived the ruling they notified Mr. Har- grove and he immediately began prep- aration of the formal order for the fur- niture. The contract tangle arose over the { failure of two concerns to submit proper | samples of their products, in conformity with the specifications drawn for tie class roor furniture by the school au- thorities. The samples submitted ad- mittedly were not the kind of furniture called for by the specifications, but the two lower bids carried promises that the desks and chairs to be delivered : | inder the contract would conform to specifications. Mr. McCarl ruled that samples were not necessary, despite the | fact that samples are required by the | General Supply Committee, purchasing agency for Federal departments and bureaus, The schools which now will be as- sured of delivery of their furniture in adcquate time for their opening in Sep- | tember are the Deal Junior High! School, Gordon Junior High Scheol ad- ditions, Brown Junjor High School, Powell Junior High School additions, | Stuart Junior High School® and the | { Crosby Noyes. Congress Heights, Young, | Anthony Bowen, Deanwocd. Whittier | Lafavette and Horace Mann (elemen- | tary) Schools. 'SEEKS PUNISHMENT OF IMMIGRATION MEN | Liberties Union Protests Arrest of Ann Burlac, Rhode Island Strike Leader. | I | | | | | By the Associated Press | Disciplinary measures against Federal | immigration officials who were respon- | | sible for the arrest and detention for| | deportation of Miss Ann Burlac, youth- | | ful Rhode Island textile strike leader, | {were recommended to Secretary of | Labor Doak today by the American Civil | Liberties Unon. | Walter Frank, acting chairman of the | union, in a letter to the Secretary, said Miss Burlac was arrested July 15 on charges that she was an alien illegally in the United States. “Despite her protestations that she was & native American” the letter added, “she was taken to Boston where she was held for deportation to Poland. It took the Boston immigration authori- ties six days to-become convinced that Miss Burlac was actually an_American, and that she was born in Slatington, Pa. Not until July 21 was she freed of the charges.” Frank said his letter was in line with | the repeated protests by his organiza- | tion “against the use of Federal immi- | gration agents in breaking strékes.” TELEPHONING TO MOTHER Arrival of Help Saves Her From Asphyxiation—Stove Burn- ers Extinguished. Overcome by gas while talking over the telephone to her mother, Mrs. Dor- othy Hill, 18 years old, of 4700 Ninth street was saved from probable death late yesterday by the timely arrival of & relative, whom the mother summoned to the scene after hearing her daugh- ter fall to the floor. Gas burners on the stove at the Ninth street address were said to have been extinguished by the wind. Mrs. Hill's mother became alarmed, it is said, when her daughter suddenly stopped conversing with her over_the Pphone, and, hearing a thud on the floor, summoned aid. The young woman was found uncon- scious. The rescue squad was sum- moned and she was removed to Emer- gency Hospital after recelving first-aid treatment. Her condition was said to be not serious. ASKS $10,000 DAMAGES W. 8. Gardner Blames Gas Consu- mers’ Workman for Injuries. Winfleld S. Gardner, 1118 Tenth street, filed sult in District - Supreme Court, yesterday asking $10,000 damages from the Gas Consumers’ Association. 1004 Tenth street, for alleged personal Siivtes, e charged that one of the defendant’s workmen left a kit of tools on the land- | ing of the cellar stairs in the Gardner home, where he was working on March 9, and as_the plaintiff started down the steps he tripped over the bag o tools and ‘fell down the steps, suffering serfous injury. Gardner_is represented by Auornql Alvin L L TUESDAY, |former customer who may not have I his appearance in Police Court, |6:30 o'clock, William Stannard, leader, | Foening Staf WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION JULY 98, 1 Society and General 931. GOVERNENT MAY PP RIVER WATER T0 EDOL BULDIG Well on Site of Post Office Structure Fails to Yield Sufficient Flow. TUNNEL DUG BEFORE WAR MAY CONNECT POTOMAC| 12-Foot Hole Dug 73 Feet to Bed- rock at Cost of $11,230 Proves Futile. 1 Falling to find sufficient water in a} big well sunk to bedrock on the site, of the new Post Office Department, Building, engineers now are studying | various plans involving the use of an old abandoned tunnel in order to bring | river water to the Post Office Bullding for purposes of cooling office air in the ! Summertime. | Best Soldier PAGE B—1 atC.M.T.C WASHINGTON YOUTH TO RECE ILLIAM - M. AREHART, 23, IVE MEDAL AT REVIEW TODAY. of 1623 Connecticut avenue, has been named the best student soldier in the blue course at the Citizens' Military Training Camp at Fort Myer, Va. He will be presented the MacArthur medal, given by t. he Veterans of Foreign Wars, at a review in honor of Maj. Gen. George V. H. Moseley at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. Awards in athletic contests were y the camp commander, Col. Harry made yesterday, which was set aside N. Cootes, as “parents’ day,” a visiting | b Every one connected with the well | qay for parents and friends of the hundreds of students in camp. The events project was surprised that it yielded!of the day were climaxed by a review before Col. Frederick H. Payne, Assistant | virtually no water at all. A large hole, | about 12 feet in diameter, was dug down } to bedrock, 73 feet below the street | level. Only a little trickle of water u'nslbrén selected, will be presented a “Babe Ruth” bat and aut found at about 25 feet depth, and Vvir-| tually none at all on the bedrock. i Water Found Nearby. | There had been found in the founda tion hole for the adjacent Internal Rev- enus Building a large amount of wa-| ter, and when piles were driven in the| internal revenue site, they sank rapidly | through water-soaked ground. The well which had bezn expect:d to furnish sufficient water to cool the office in the Post Office Department Building, was dug by Sprague & Hen-!| wood, Inc., of Scranton, Pa. and sub- contractors, at & pric: of $11.230. Heavy steel sheeting was driven down as the well sanigdecper, and went to the bottom. Varlous kinds of material were found on th> way down, including gravel and a h-avy almost impervious “blue gumbo” clay. Near the bottom was a gravel-bearing mica substance. Hoped for Large Flow. Previous drillings of small hcles on the site of the Post Office Department Bullding had shown water at a low temperature, but, of course, the small holes were insufficient to determine the | amount of flow of the water. It had been hoped that the well would pro- vide about 1.000 gallons a minute. As compared to that. the available water was merely a_trickle. The underground tunnel, which is being considered as part of a new plan | to bring water from the Potomac, was made just prior to the World War, when ‘the Government planned to| build a central heating plant for Fed- | eral buildings near the Bureau of En- graving and Printing. on the site of what is now the Flood Gate Boat House. This property belongs to the | Government. LIQUOR SALE CHARGED Former Customer Obtains Warrant { I Against Silver Spring Man. | By a Staff Correspondent of The ‘Star. SILVER SPRING., Md. July 28.—A | | liked the “wares” he received, is said | by local police to have furnished in- formation leading to a warrant for the sale of intoxicating liquor, sworn out agalnst Moses Boyd, colored. Some of the officers, armed with the warrant were on the lookout for Boyd when another officer brought him in on charges of driving while drunk. Bovd | obtained his release on $750 bond for | Au- | gust 17. | BAND CONCERTS. By the United States Army Band this | evening_at Walter Reed Hospital at conducting; Thomas Darcy, second ‘Memoria” Overture, “Precios Valse intermezzo, “Dream of the Ball Joyce Mexican “Jarabe ‘Tapatio Partich Descriptive, “In a Monastery Garden, Ketelbey Selection from “Cavaleria Rusticana,” Mascagn! March, “New York Hippodrome".Sousa “The Star Spangled Banner. By the United States Navy Band this evening at Judiclary Park at 7:30 o'clock. Charles Benter, leader; Charles Wise, second leader: March, “More Fraternity Overture, “Chal Romano”. “Serenade” Solo for cornet, “Dr Musician Bitley Gardner. Suite— “Chinese Magic”. . William H. Woodin “Souvenir de Montmartre" Valse lente. “In Seville” (tango).... Hebrew melody, “Kol Midre”....Brucl “Prelude” .. Rachmaninoff Excerpts from “Princess Pat”..Herbert, Valse, “Southern Roses” .Strauss “Anchors Awelg] “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Marine Band this evening at Fourteenth and Upshur streets at 6:30 o'clock. Taylor Branson, | leader; Arthur Witcomb, second leader, conducting: March, “Kiwanians”. Overture, “Norma”... Saxaphone solos— ”nntlonll dance, Musiclan Kenneth Douse. Excerpts from “Suns o' Guns,” Swanstrom Intermezzo, “Al Fresco”...... Waltz, “Wedding of the Winds". . Characteristic, “On Tiptoe”. ... Hosmer Humoreske, “The Whistler and His Dog” . Grand scenes from “Carmen” . Marines’ Hymn, ‘“The Halls of Monte- zuma. “The Star Spangled Banner.” By the United States Soldiers’ Home Band this evening at the band stand at 5:30 o'clock. John Zimmermann, band- master; Anton Pointer, assistant: March, “Call of the Wild”.......Losey Overture, “The Four Ages of Man,” Lachner Suite Orfental— “A Lover in Damascus,” ‘Woodford-Finden “Far Across the Desert Sands,” “How y a Lonely Caravan,” “If in the Great Bazaars,” “Where the Abana Flows,” “Beloved in Your Absence,” “Allah, Be With Us. Excerpts from the “Bally of Ballym . Characteristic, “The Chinese e FIi Waltz, “The Dream of Delilah". .Wurm Pinale, “Youth and Vigor,” Lautenschlager Irish comedy ! Olcott atrol,” { company 7| Commissioners yesterday, ! direction of James Miller. Banner,” | Manassas Secretary of War. The grandstand was crowded with friends and relatives of the youths who | participated in the program of events. The outstanding athlete, who has not yet graphed base ball. RHEEM TRUSTEES GET BACK NOTES ~ TIME FOR APPEAL /850,000 Securities Given by Clarion River Co. Given 30| Head of Bankrupt Firm Returned. The trustees for Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co., today received back $50.- 000 in notes which had been given away by Edmund D. Rheem, vice president of the concern, to replace notes secured by released trusts. The good notes were turned over voluntarily to the trustees by the Lin- coln Assurance Co. of America. Three days prior to the bankruptcy, it was sald, the Washington Loan & Trust Co. advised the life insurance that trusts sccuring $50,000 worth of notes held by them had been released by Rheem. The life insurance company immedi- | ately made demand upon Rheem for restitution. He turned over the good notes, but before the released ones could be returned the firm had been adjudged bankrupt. Subsequently the life insurance com- pany brought suit to reinstate the re- leased trusts. Having taken this step, they voluntarily returned the substitute notes. When Referee in Baniruptcy Fred J. Eden closed his office last midnight, 2,600 claims had been filed against the ets of the bankrupt mortgage house. hese claims will be paid as the estate sought unsuccessfully in the lower court | is liquidated. $382,201 COLLECTED ON AUTO LICENSES Current Year Shows Increase of $25,178 Over 1930, Coombs Reports. The annual report of Wade H. Coombs, _superintendent of _licenses, shows _collections of $382,201.39 during the 1931 fiscal year, an increase of $25,~ 178.74 over the previous year. The report, filed with the District shows licenses, which ylelded $195,168 in 1931 and $183,517 in 1930. Beginning with the 1932 fiscal year, the task of dis- tributing motor license plates has been | transferred to the jurisdiction of the | Department of Vehicles and Traffic. | Miscellaneous licenses yielded $185.- | 437.39, an increase of $13,834.24 over | the previous year. and other sums were | realized from sale of duplicate vehicle tags and duplicate registration cards. OPEN-AIR PROGRAMS TO START ON FRIDAY | Resumption of Festival Concerts, and Dances Is Planned at Monument Grounds. ‘The Summer festival programs will be resumed Priday night at the Sylvan ‘Theater in the Monument Grounds with the presentation of a program by the Mabel Jones Freeman Dancers and the | Community Center Band, under the | A trained ensemble of colored dancers will be presented in a series of modern and classic numbers. Henry Grant will accompany at the piano. The National Association of Teachers in the colored schools will be guests of honor. Plans are now under way for five pro- grams to be given in August, featuring the appearance of players from the Girl Reserves of the Y. W. C. A. and Friend- ship House. The Overseas Military Band and the 13th Engineers’ Band from Fort Humphreys are expected to par- ticipate in the programs. PRINCE WILLIAM HORSE SHOW SET TOMORROW | Special Dispatch to The Star. NOKESVILLE, Va., July 28.—Prep- arations have heen made for handling & record-breaking crowd at the annual show of the Prince William Horse Show Association, which will be held here to- morrow and Thursday afternoons. ‘This year's entry list surpasses in numbers those for any preceding event held here and the class cf entries as- sures keen competition in every event, with blue ribbon winners in other shows striving to add new laurels to their crown, while the classes for vearlings and green hunters are expected to bring eut the pick of the stables of Washing- ton, Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier and Prince William Countizs. ‘The club house and show grounds are on the estate of H. W. Herring, about one mile beyond Nokesville, and may be reached by following the road marXkers, at the intersection of the ville road and the Warrenton- POWER FIRM GETS Days More for Briefs in Valuation Case. The Clarion River Power Co. vester- day ask=d and obtained additional time in which to file briefs in its appeal from the decision of Justice Adkins in Dis- trict Supreme Court denying a tem- porary injunction to restrain the Fed- eral Power Commission from ascer- taining the original cost and net in- vestment of its hydroelectric project on_Clarion River, Pennsylvania. Because of the condition of the court calendar, it was said that the 30 days/| additional asked by the concern would cause no delay in ultimate disposition of the case. Attacks Valuation. | Gas & Electric property, is waging a | fight that revolves around that clause of | the Federal power act under which the Government_exercises the right to re- | capture excess earnings and limits lease- holds to 50 years. It claims a valuation for its project. completed about four years ago, of slightly more than $11,000,000 cn whaich to base earnings. The tentative valua- tion set up by the commission, is, in reund figures, $4.645.000. The injunction which the company would have prevented the commission | from holding hearings or examining the | books of the company. In general, it set up the contention | ihat the valuation should not be fixed juntil the termination of the 50-year lease. Decision Held Important. Justice Adkins on January 20 held! against this argument, but said in ref- erence to the valuation that “in all | probability the correct figure is some-| where between the extrem-s asserted b; the parties to this suit.” The Adkins decision was viewed im- | i portantly by the commission for fits! | bearing on_other pending valuatior. | cases involving Federal-licensed pro- | jects. |” About two months after it was handed down, the Niagara Falls Power | Co.,, which had fought the efforts of the the commission to value its project Xor‘ largest single item was automobile | several years, agreed to examination of | | its l’ewl’di. i Dl CAPITAL TEACHERS AT EDUCATION MEE Miss Selma Borchardt and Dr. F. M. Butts Attending World Convention. Twe Washington _school _teachers, Miss Selma Borchardt and Dr. Prances Moon Butts, both of Business High School, are active in the meeting of the World Federation of Edu#tion now beind held at Denver. Miss Borchardt, member of the Teachers Union, is a member of the world federation’s board of directors as the representative of the American Fed- eration of Teachers. Dr. Butts, & mem- ber of the League of American Pen | Women as well &s the Teachers Union, is chairman of the federation's inter- national Committee on Commercial Education. Other Washingtonians attending the sessions include Miss Bess 1. Goody koontz, assistant commissioner of edu- cation, and Miss Charl Williams, Joy Elmer Morgan and James F. Crabtree, I;ll of the National Education Associa- tion. Prominent foreign educators at the meeting include Sir Frank W. Gold- stone, general secretary of the National Union, Teachers of England; D. MacDonald, Toronto; Poland Chung, president of the Nankai University at Tientsin, China: Hirotaro Hayashi, president of the Japanese Education Association, Tokio; P. A. Inamdar, In- dian minister of education; Thomas J. O'Connell, general secretary of the Irish Natlonal Teachers' organization, and Otto Tacke, representing teachers of Germany. e SOCIETY TO CRUISE Virginians to Make Trip Down Po- tomac River Tonight. ‘The annual outing of the Society of Virginia tonight will take the form of a moonlight cruise down the Potomac River aboard the 8. S. City of Wash- ington. A program of entertainment, headed by solo song numbers by Mrs. Fannie Shreve Heartsill, has been arranged. . Committee reports on activity of the organization during the past year will be read by officers. Arrangements for the outing are in the hands of T. 8. Settle, 1 Clydesdale place, The company, which is an American { WHOLEAN ADOPTIN FACES CHALLENG TFSHE FIGHTS WL Representatives of Estate Indicate They Will Deny She Is Heir-at-Law. PEYSER THINKS ESTATE IS WORTH $6,000,000 Attack on Delay in Docketing Adoption Decree Seen—Kellogg Announces Contest. With counsel for Dr. John Harvey Kellogg marking time, representatives of the estate of Mrs. Mary F. Henderson today indicated they would resist any attempt by Mrs. Beatrice Wholean, the soclety leader's reputed granddaughter, to break Mrs. Henderson's last will on the ground that she was never legally adopled and that she is not an hefr aw.. Dr. Kellogg. head of the Battle Creek, Mich., Sanitarium, announced yesterday he would contest the will, which leaves notking to his insitution, although the sanitarium was given virtually the en- tire estate in an earlier will. Dr. Kel= logg was in conference this morning with his attorney, Edmund L. Jones, assoclated here with Frank J. Hogan. 1t is expected, however, Mr. Jones will initiate legal proceedings within the next few days in Dr. Kellogg's behalf. Estimated at $6,000,000. For the first tim= today an authori- tative estimete as to the size of the Henderson estate was forthcoming. Maj. Julius 1. Peyser of counsel for the He explained, however, the bulk of the estate consists of real property and that any estimate as to valu: must be gove erned by current market conditions. All of the real estate, he said, is une incumbered. It was learned that if Mrs. Wholean should undertake to attack the will of April 8. 1931, which leaves the estate to a niece and nephew in New York City, counsel for the executor may take the position sh> was never legally adopted by Mrs. Henderson. May Attack Delay of Decree. Tt i= not denied that an official de- cree was signed on December 30, 1924, ordering the adoption and making Mrs. Wholean the heir-at-law at Mrs. Hen- derson’s request. There were indications, however, that the eontention will be advanced that the failure to have the decree docketed immediately nullifies its effect. This was one of the allegations made by Mrs. Henderson recently when she sought to have the decree set aside. H. Prescott Gatley. counsel -for Mrs. Wholean, contended at that time the delay in docketing had no effect on the validity of the decree. The case was still pending at Mrs. Henderson's death. Dr. Kellogg vesterday refused to dis- cuss in detail his plans. “You understand,” he said, “that thig will (the last one) is goirg to be con- tested in the courts. I do not think 1% would be proper for one of the contest- ants to discuss it out of court. There- fore, T czn give you no details. I must refer you to my attorney.” Talks of Mrs. Henderson's Plans. The physiclan, however, talked freely | of Mrs. Henderson's plans for improve | ing the health of mankind through pro= mulgation of sane living rules. One of her purposes. h: said. was to finance the | wide circulation of her booklet: “The | Aristocracy of Health.” “I never asked her to give anything to the sanitarium.” Dr. Kellogg said, and I was surprised when I le the terms of the will. What she g us was given of her own volition. Dr. Kellogg brought with him a codi~ { cil to the will of July 13. 1927, the one which left the estate to the sanitarium. | This codicil was filed vesterday by At- {torney Nelson B. Hartson, also asso= ciated with Mr. Hogan. The new codicil, according to Attor= ney Hartson, has been in the possession of Dr. Kellogg in Michigan since its signing by Mrs. Henderson. The only noteworthy change in the new paper is the naming of the Washington Loan & Trust Co. as the trustee for th2 $100.000 !funds provided for Mrs. Henderson's | niece, Frances Arnold, of New York. the {income from which after the death of | Miss Arnold is to go to Augusta Arnold, !a_child of Henry M. Arnold, a nephew {of the testatrix. Hoehling Bequest Restored. The bequest to former Justice Adolph A. Hoehling, which had been reduced 10 $5.000 by one of the wills, is restored to $10,000 in the codicil. The Battle Creek College remains as the residuary legatee of the will as provided by the testament of July 13, 1927, and it is directed to spend $600 annually to prevent cruelty to wild {animals through the use of steel traps. The_codicil names as executors, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, B. C. Kirkland, both of Battle Creek, and Adolph A. Hoehling of this ci POLICE TRY TO TRACE | FAKED SHOOTING TIPS | Two False Reports Result in Order by Lieut. Riehard Mansfield for Investigation. i | | Following two fake reports of shoot- ings, the telephone operators on the switchboard at Police Headquarters and the precincts last night were ordered to endeavor to trace such calls, with a view to aiding polce officers in appre- hending the party making the false Teports. ‘The order was issued by Lieut. Rich- ard Mansfield, night chief of detectives, after two “tips” on shootings in the eleventh precinct area proved to be false, Scveral calls have been recognized as coming from the same person, believed to be a colored woman. Such calls have been received at intervals in the past, but have been of greater frequency dure ing the past few days. HIT-RUN DRIVER SOUGHT Auto Passenger Treated After Crash With Fleeing Car. Police today were seeking a hit-and- run driver who ran into an automobile at the rallroad viaduct and Florida avenue northeast late yesterday, injur- ing Jeremiah O'Connor, 31, of 19 N street, a passenger in the automobile. O’Connor was treated at Hospiigl for & bend,