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FIREMEN'S PARADE | PLAN ISANNOUNCED FOR TWO DIVISIONS, | Bargagni Arranges Line-Upl With Band and Officials Heading March. HOSE BATTLE PROPOSED BY M’KEESPORT TEAMS Two Hundred Out-of-Town Entries Expected—Maryland Leads States to Date. A tentative plan for the formation of the Labor day firemen's parade Wwas announced today by Sergt. A. J. Bar- gagni, director and marshal. Many of the details have not yet been decided upon and are contMgant on later de- velopments. The general plan calls for two divi- sions, the first made up of officials and local organizations and floats, and the second composed in the main of vol- unteer fire companies from the nine States schedued to take part in the demonstration. Heading the parade will be a police motor cycle escort, followed by the Quantico Marine Band. Then in auto- mobiles will come Sergt. Bargagni, the District Commissioners, Odell 8. Smith, general chairman, and Joseph A. Burk- art, chairman of the Washington Board of Trade Committee; Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland and an escort, com- posed of the heads of the volunteer State Firemen's Assoclations. Two Marine Bands to March. The band of the 6th Marine Brigade in the order of march, to be followed by the entire 6th M rine Brigade. Then will come the Dis- trict of Columbia Fire Department Drum and Bugle Corps. Plans call for the hostess to the volunteer firemen, Miss- Mildred Bar- gagni, daughter of Sergt Bargagnl, to follow the drum and bugle | corps. After her will be a float bearing & symbolic key to the city. *“Old Co- Jumbia,” a hand drawn pumper of the vintage of 1850, is to be next in line. 1t will be escorted by 30 veteran volun- teer firemen of the Oldest Inhabitants Association, clad in the red shirts and old-fashioned helmets of many years ego, | | Contests fo Be Ellipse. Three veterans—Barney, Gene and Tom, old fire horses—will follow the volunteer firemen. Interspersed along the line will be the 40 District Fire Department floats, 20 floats, 10 clowns and some of the commercial floats. Highlights of the parade and the band end drum corps contest to be held | during the afternoon on the Ellipse will | be broadcast from Radio Stations WISV | and WOL. | Considerably more than 200 out-of- town entries are expected to take part | in the psrade. Eighty-five of them | have been received already. Hose Battle Proposed. One fire company from McKees Rock, Pa., today requested permission to stage a hose battle between two teams it Wwill furnish. Sergt. Bargagni said that it the plan is found to be feasible the | battle will be staged on Constitution | avenue. Maryland to date has sent in the most_entries, with 36. Others received, listed by States, are Virginia, 6; New Jersey, 9; New York, 6: North Carolina, 1: Delaware, 5, and Pennsylvania, 22. Entries also dre expected from West Virginia and Ohio. | A meeting of the Board of Trade; Parade Committee was being held this afternoon to make final plans for the board's participaticn in the parade. RED CROSS IN FAIRFAX | ELECTS MRS. LYNN County Chapter Disburses Total of | $3,935 During First Eight Months of 1931. @pecial Dispatcn to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va., September 2.—Mrs. Russell Lynn of Herndon yesterday was Red Cross Nursing Committee to assist Mrs. Herbert Seamans, county nurse. Mrs. Lynn succeeds Mrs. M. M. Barnard of Lorton, whose resignation as nurs- ing chairman was accepted. Mrs. John Warnock Echols of Vienna was appointed to arrange for a Red Cross exhibit booth at the Fairfax County Fair. Mrs. Lynn reported the gift to the chapter's nursing closet of a $75 wheel chair from Dr. Beverly North. Gifts of chairs were previouly reported by Mrs. Will Cleveland of Seminary and Mrs. Mark Cockrill of Colvin Run. ‘The report of County Treasurer Mrs, E. D. Vosbury, showed that during the eight months of 1931 the Fairfax County Chapter, exclusive of the sev- eral branches, has received and dis- bursed $3.935.40. Of this sum $2.237.99 ‘was sent to the National Red Cross for disaster drought relief, $596.50 to the National Red Cross for membership dues, $499.98 expended in Fairfax County for salary of the county nurse, $86.26 for county relief, hospital bills, medicine and miscellaneous expenses and $233.55 turned back to the brarches. Of the $281.12 balance on hand in the county treasury $143.95 is held in trust for Mount Vernon, Lee and Centerville districts, which have no organized branches. BANK SEEKS TO COLLECT RHEEM INDORSED NOTE Petitions Court to Make $7,209.01 Balance on $20,000 Paper Personal Judgment. ‘The District National Bank yester- day began vroceedlng in the District Supreme Court to hold Edmund D. Rheem, former executive vice president of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey Co., re- sponsible as indorser on a note for $20,000 given by the corporation De- cember 29, 1930. The note wes to run 30 days and only $12,790.99 has been pald on account of it, the court is told. The bank wants the balance of $7,209.01 made a personal judgment against Rheem because of his endorsement of the note. Attorney Ralph P. Barnard appears for the bank. Rheem's address is at Lorton, Va., where he is serving e term of seven vears for diverting assets «af the corperation., i | | | | ployment Committee, The WASHINGTON, D. C, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Left to right: Mrs. and Powhatan Bradby, jr. | HEN R. A. BRADBY, 52,|would take to sscertain just who is Hamilton Hotel, through the arrange- Chickahominy Indian ‘from | whose father o mother 1n 1aw, &lsp- | ments made by Robert Pyle, Washing- Roxbury, Va. married Mrs. | mother or father, or uncle, or aunt, or ” - Sarah Rosabell Jefferson, 47, | cousin or nephew. |ton_sportsman, who became well ac- another member of the tribe, | in Washington this morning, he became his son's father-in-law and his daugh ter-in-law'’s stepfather. Similarly. Mrs. Jefferson, now Mrs. R. A. Bradby, b came her daughter’s m -in-law ana her son-in-law’s stepmotih Both are “double” grandparents of 2- year-old Arthur Powhatan Bradby, jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Powhatan Bradby, sr. Several years ago, it seems, Arthur Powhatan Bradby, sr. son of today’s groom, married the daughter of Mrs. Jefferson, brids of today, which coinci- dence, cou}aled with today's ceremony, accounts for the scrambled relation- ships. All parties agreed today they had created a tangle, solution of which is not worthy of the time or energy it Arthur Powhatan Bradby, sr., and son Powhatan, jr.; R. A. Bradby and Mrs. R. A. Bradby, For, of course, in addition to the | kinships explained, “their sisters and | | their cousins and their aunts” are like- | wise scrambled to the nth degree—and | nobody wanted—or had time—to take | the trouble to figure them out. | 'The wedding party, headed by Chief | 0. W. Adkins, or, in Chickahominy, | Chief Nantau-Us. included several of | these relatives, all from around Rox- | | bury, where the 300 members of Chief | Adkins’ tribe live. His tribe, he explained, is directly descended from the tribe of | | which Pocahontas was a member. The | chief, by the way, is a first cousin of the_bridegroom. | | The wedding ceremony, performed by | ev. L. J. McDougle, 120 B street northeast, was held at the meeting of | the Monarch Club this noon at the ! | —Star Staff Photo. quainted with the members of the tribe while hunting and fishing in their | territory. Many of the tribe members are guides, akd today’s bridegroom is known ! as one of the best hunters in that ter- ritory. Other members of today's party in- cluded Mrs. T. W. Adkins, a first cousin | of both bride and bridegroom: Miss Elsa Adkins, a niece of the bridegroom; | Mrs. Mary F. Alman. sister-of thc bridegroom: Miss Thelma Alman and Zoro B. Adkins, a cousin of the brid groom and councilor of the Eastern d vision of the Chickahominy tribe. The chief, Zoro Adkins. and the bride were dressed in Indfan tribal| costumes. {00 WOMEN T0 GET BIDS IN FOOD DRIVE, Adams Issues Invitations to, Attend Conference on Canning Tomorrow. More than 100 women are to be in- vited to attend the food. conservation conference called by George J. Adams, executive secretary of the District Em- held in the board room of the Frank- | 1in School at 3 o'clock tomorrow after- | noon. 3 Invitations already have been sent A- to 65, and other invitations are being sent out today. The food-conservation campaign is intended to organize the women of the and vegetables donated by merchants and farmers. These supplies are to be stored in the old St. James Hotel and distributed to the poor this Winter. The names of the women already invited follow: Miss Sibyl Baker, Miss Emma 8. Jacobs, Miss Mabel C. Stein- barger, Mrs. Gladys B. Middlemiss, Miss_ Eleanor Enright, Judge Mary O'Toole, Miss Miriam Birdseye, Mrs. Harry King, Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke, | for the origin of gas fumes which; elected chairman of the Fairfax County | Mrs, John Allen Dougherty, Mrs. Mary | alarmed residents of Southwest and Roberts Rinehart, Mrs. Frederic A. De- lano, Miss Mary B. Adams, Mrs. Anne Archbold, Miss Mabel Boardman, Mrs. District authorities C. A. Aspinwall, Mrs. Isaac Gans, M Marie Moore Forrest, Princess Bon compagni, Mrs. B. Frank Cheatham, Mrs. Willlam 8. Corby, Mrs. Herbert B. Crosby, Mrs. Luther H. Reichel- derfer, Mrs. Basil Manly, Mrs. Carl Droop, Mrs, Peter A. Drury, Mrs. Ralph Ellis, Mrs. Harvey Wiley, Distirct chair- man, National Women's Party; Mrs. Edgar T. Merritt, president, Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. M. O. Chance, Mrs. Joseph N. Saunders, Mrs. William E. Corbin, Mrs. Grace Hayes Riley, Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, Mrs. Charles A. Goldsmith, Mrs. Bruce Baird, Mrs. James Lansburgh, Mrs. Mark Lans- burgh, Mrs. Adolph Kahn, Mrs. Wy- mond K. Bradbury, Mrs. W. W. Everett, Mrs, Grace Ross Chamberlain, Mrs. Lymen B. Swormstedt, Mrs. George W. Offuett, Dr. Frances A. Foye, Mrs. Edgar T. Brown, Mrs. John L. Hyde, Mrs. Mary Mattingly, Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, Mrs. Elwood Street, Mrs. W. S. Ufford, Miss Mary Walsh, Mrs. E. K. Peeples, Mrs, Wiillam Flather, jr.; Mrs. Robert V. Fleming, Mrs. Julius Garfinckel, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mrs. Edwa Everett Gann, Mrs. Frank C. Letts, Mrs. Charles L. McCawley, Mrs. Flem- ing Newbold, Mrs. Eleanor H. Patter- son, Miss Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes, Mrs. John F. Wikins. ANy i CRUISER, A%TI-AIRCRAFT GUNS SET NEW MARK New Navy records for a six-inch gun aboard a cruiser and for a three- inch anti-aircraft gun were announced today by the Navy Department. De- tailed figures were withheld. New high scores were secured with the forward six-inch twin gun mount aboard the U. S. S. Concord, attached to Cruiser Divisicn 3. Capt. N. E. Nichols is commanding officer, while Lieut. L. G. McGlowne is division cflicer of the record-making gun crew. The three-inch ~anti-aircraft gun aboard the U. S. S. Trenton, flagship g{ Cnllu; Dlvixlnnuflf made its record uring the competitive gunnery year just completed. Capt. F. B. Freyer is commanding the Trenton, and his di- vision officer of the expert gun crew 18 Lieut. (J. G.). C. L, Carpenter, |MRS. JOSEPHINE GRAY, LONG ILL, SUCCUMBS Wife of Retired Army Officer to/ Be Buried Tomorrow in Ar- | lington Cemetery. 1 Mrs. Josephine Drew Gray, wife of | Col. 2lonzo Gray, U. 8. A., retired, died | yesterday at her home, 4131 Harrison street, after a long fllness. Funeral | Services will be held tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock in the chapel at | Fort Myer, Va. Burial will be in Ar- | lington Nstional Cemetery. | Besides her husband Mrs. Gray is| survived by two daughters, Mrs. Olive Gray Odell, wife of Maj. Herbert R Ocdell, U. S. A, Fort Sill, Okla., and Mrs. Alice Gray Woodruff, wife of Maj. Roscoe B. Woodruff, U. S. A, now on which will be duty at the Army War College here, | and three sisters, Miss Jane Drew, Mrs. A. N. Smith, wife of Col. Smith, U. S | A.. retired, and Mrs. Charles A. Hede- | city to can and preserve surplus fruits | | il | | | Southeast Washington Monday night. | were as convinced there was no leak in kin, wife of Brig. Gen. Hedekin, U. 8. , retired, of Washington. MYSTERIOUS FUMES BALK INVESTIGATORS City and Gas Company Workers Fail to Find Source of Sup- posed Leak. No explanation could be offered wdly; investigated and satisfled themselves the vapor did not come from the sewer system, while offl- cers of the Washington Gas Light Co. their gie; conduits. Officials of the gas company said their “trouble shooters” had made a thorough search of the neighborhood, including an examination of the reser- voir at Twelfth and M streets south- east without finding leaks which might have been responsible for the fumes. For several hours Monday night police and the gas company were deluged with inquiries telephoned by anxious resi- dents of the vicinity, who said they smelled escaping gas. WILLIAM BEUCHERT, 3 BUSINESS MAN, DIES Here for More Than Half Century, Native of Germany Will Get Last Rites Friday. William Beuchert, 68, business man in this city for almost a half a century, died yesterday at his home, 430 K street. Funeral services will be held at the Nevius funeral home, 924 New York avenue, at 2 o'clock Friday after- noon. Mr. Beuchert, a native of Germany, had been connected with the Schneider Baking Co. for 52 years. He also was the head of the Central Auto Works, which he started shortly before the war. | f1y! Mr. Beuchert was active for many years in the Masonic order and was a member of the Shrine, Knights Tem- plar, Elks and the German Sangerbund, as well as the Chamber of -Commerce and Board of Trade. He is survived by his wife, Mrs, Lena Beuchert; 10 daugh- ters and one son, William-Beuchert, jr. A sister and four brothers, all of Wash- ington, also survive. g T Clearspring Boosts Taxes. CLEARSPRING, Md., September 2 (Special).—The burgess and council have voted to increase the tax rate from 35 to 40 cents. The additional levy is for defraying the cost of & new ‘The new | briet time here because of the neces- | | conviction that it had proved its worth NNEDOXFLYERS VST WHITE HOUSE Hoover Congratulates Men; Who Arrive Here by Air in Party of 13. The German fivers who brought the biggest airplane in the world to the United States came to Washington to- day to receive the congratulations of | President Hoover. Leaving the DO-X in Paterson, N. J., where the giant flving boat's 12 motois are being overhauled, nine officers and members of the crew, together with rep- resentatives of the flight promoters, ar- rived at Washington Alrport at 11 >clock this morning. | A detail of United States Park Police escorted the visitors to embassy, where they were greetéffl by the German Ambassador. Later they went to the White House to be received | by the President. | Thirteen Fly to Capital. The party, 13 in all, arrived !rom; New York in another airplane. They | were to return later in the day. After a luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel the fiyers set out on a sightsee- ing tour. They could spend only a sity of returning to supervise repair work on the DO-X. ‘The Germans were uncertain whether they would fly the DO-X back to Swit- zeriand or remain with it in the Unit- ed States. Although months were re- quired to complete the flight, the mem- bers of the crew were enthusiastic in their praise of the DO-X, and expressed in the face of the most trying condi- tions. Paul Berner Leads Party. The party consisted of Paul Berner, director of the Dornier works in Ger- many and_leader of the expedition; Maurice Dornier, designer of DO-X; Lieut. Comdr. Clarence Schild- hauer of the United States Naval Re- serves and American co-pilot; Capt. Fritz Hammer, commantiant of the| DO-X on its flight from Brazil; F. von Clausbruch, chief pilot, and Mrs. Claus- bruch; Horst Merz, who piloted the giant plane over the South Atlantic and is acting as an observer for the German ministry of commerce; Herr Miemann, navigator; Herr Kiel, radio operator; Herr Eitel, chief engineer; Herr Brombeis,. mechanic; E. M. Lake of the American oil company which supplied the DO-X with gasoline, and H. Brewton of the Curtis-Wright Co., who accompanied the expedition as a motor expert. Herr Dornier and Capt. Hammer joined the party in Brazil. The officers and crew showed liitle effects of the 10-month battle with fire, wind and wave, which has marked the progress of the Do-X in its round about flight from arrived in New York Europe. The Do-X Thursday and attracted thousands of visitors while it remained there. The plans for the future of the great ing boat are being formulated in the United States, according to members of the party. OSTRICH SALES BOOM The Empress Eugenis fad in women's millinery has given a definite stimulant to the South African cstrich feat Industry, which has been in a slump for 10 years, according to a report for- warded to the Commerce Department today by Assistant Trade Commissioner D. G. Clark at Johannesburg. Clark said the industry ncw has a brighter outlook, as the demand for feathers, particularly from London and Paris, has iIncreased by b { nearest thelr home | tenced to f = Serve Aite yees I s n | pnnounced today that & recent traffic | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Wedding Makes Father Son’s Father-in-Law INDIAN WEDS MOTHER OF SON'S WIFE IN CEREMONY HERE TODAY. 80,000 STUDENTS TOENROLLINCITY ~ 3CHOOLS SEPT. 21 Larg;ést Number in History of System Expected to Start Studies. KINDERGARTEN LIMITED UNDER NEW PROVISION Officials Announce Regulations to Govern Enrollment of Pupils ‘With public schools scheduled to open beming Star 9 ) 1931. Win at Club Camp Monday, September 21, officials at the , PFranklin School Administration Build. ing today announced plans for the en- rollment” of what they believe will be tbe largest student body in the his- tory of the city schools. Approximately 80,000 boys and girls, ranging from kindergarten through the teachers’ colleges, are expected to be listed on the rolls by the middle of the season. For the first time, officials pointed out, admission of childven to the kindex Pngn is limited by a provision carried in _the last appropriaticn act, which defintely establishes adinission ages. Board Adds Own Rule. No child who will not be 5 years old by November 1, 193i, can be admitted 10 the kindergarten grades in Septem- ber. Similarly, the Board of Educa- tion established as its own rule that no child who does not reach bis sixth birthday by November 1 can enter the first grade. The ege limit for kinder- garten children, however, was estab- lished in the .egislative proviso, which specified that “no part of the sppropria- tions for public schools shall be used for instructing children under 5 yearc of age,” except those reaching that age by November 1. New pupils will be admitted to schcol upon presentation of their birth cert!- ficates and certificates of vaccination. They are requested by the authorities to go with their parents to the school to interview the principal. _ All principals will be at their desks on Friday and Saturday. Septem- ber 18 and 19, from 8 to 10 am., and from 4 to 6 pm.. Students Assigned. All pupils in the graded schools who were enrolled last year, except those promoted to high schools, will report to their last year rooms, from which those transferred will be sent to higher classes. Last year's elementary school children who were promoted to high schools will go to their new buildings. New high school puplils coming to the schools from outside the system—either from private and parochial schools or from other cities—must report to the High School Board of Admission for the white schools, meeting at the Frank: lin Administration Building on Wed. nesday and Thursday, September 16 and 17, from 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m. These applicants must present certifi- cates or records of their old showing what work they have com. pieted. New applicards for high schools Who cannot present credentials or those whose credentisls are incomplete or | doubtful will be required to take an entrance examination to prove their eligibility. VAN DUZER ORDERS AUTO TITLE BLANKS Steck of 100,000 Now Ready at G. P. 0. as Shortage Nears at Bureau. With the original supply of applica- tions for automobile certificates of title nearly exhausted, Trafic Director Wil- Government Printing Office for 100,000 more blanks. Two_hundred thousand applications were printed on the intial order in June, or 90,000 in ber of motor vehicles expected to be titled. A month ago, Mr. Van Duger sa'd_he anticipated a shortage of the blanks and put in an order for an additional 100,000 which are now ready for delivery. A large number of the original ap- plicants, Mr. Van Duzer explained, were distributed by various garages, the American Automobile Association and other organizations and the remainder were kept at the traffic department. He denied reports that any one had been turned away from his office who applied for blanks except persons'who requested large numbers. He £ald there are at least 200 blanks of the original shipment still remaining and that this number is adequate to meet individual requests at the traffic department until the extra supply ar- rives from the Government Printing Office. o0: 610,000 DAMAGES ASKED IN CAR ACCIDENT SUIT| Thomas E. Diggs Files Case at Up- per Marlboro Against James P. Geoghegan, Washington. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO. Md., Septem- ber 2—Suit for, $10,000 damages for | personal injuries sustained in an auto- mobile accident on the Defense High- | way April 4 was filed here yesterday by Thomas E. Diggs against James P. Geoghegan, 4100 block of Eighth street, Washington. In his declaration, Diggs states that he was thrown against the steering wheel and windshield of his car and seriously injured when his car collided with one operated by Geoghegan. He tells the court the accident was caused by the ‘“negl t and reckless man- ner” in Wl Geoghegan’s car m. . ;'Sufvey Shows 22,800 Vehicles Pass Street Intersection ¢ Every Seven Hours of Day. driven. Attorneys Robert W. McCullough and George B. Cowles appear for Diggs. * o 7 T, GETS 5-YEAR TERM Colored Man Bentenced Following Guilty Plea in Robbery Case. Edward H. Smith, colored, was sen- tentiary by Justice F. D, Criminal Division 1 todsy f I i S B a st . Gormley, 1058 JefT erson come a “little n-r'wu." and explosions Lett ing his robbery of John street. he had be- surprising c::rhd. proportions, with a correspondent rise in prioe [y ls | past State commander. thus caused | busy i T THREE SELECTED AS HONOR BOYS. HESE fhree youths—Jack Ackland, Clifford White and Harry Krams (left to right)—have been awarded honors for being the outstanding young- sters at the Boys' Club camp at Mount Victoria, Md. Young Ackland romped away with the athletic honors at the camp, while his two com- panions were tied for all-around honors with 10 honor days apiece. | —Star Staff Photo. V.. . PREPARING TO ELECT OFFICERS Brig. Gen. Henry J. Reilly of Washington Mentioned for Junior Vice Commander. | By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY. September 2.—Dele- gates attending the Thirty-second An- nual Encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars today turned to more se- | rious aspects of their gathering follow- ing a parade and drum and bugle corps contests. While general sessions, with unan- nounced legislation under discussion. were on the program, State delegations were considering the election of offi- cers next Friday. Most of the State groups have been holding caucuses daily, but only three men have been indorsed for the post of junior vice commander, the officr around which the most spirited ballot- ing is expected to center. jose named are Brig. g 3 D. Van , Al , Pa., | of staff, and Henry L. Gen. Henry ; James E. " ional chief Cohen, Illinois, Traditions of the organization decree that the junior and senjor vice commanders move to Atrport, Kansas City, Kans, and a military ball were entertainment features today. More than 8,000 persons crowded Convention Hall last night for the drum and bugle corps and drill team competition. First prize of $200 in the former class was awarded to the Wayne ! County Councli, Detroit; second to the Harrisburg, Pa., corps and third to the ! Albert Lea, Minn., buglers. The Minneapolis Women's Auxiliary | arill team won first place in the other class, with Des Moines second and St. | Paul third. SRR 'RUM CAR ESCAPES | IN SMOKE SCREEN the German |lign A. Van Duzer today sent to theiPolice Forced to Give Up Long | Chase After Running Gun Bat- tle With Suspected Auto Driver. excess of the num- | ! An automobile believed to have been | carrying liquor escaped behind a smoke i screen early today after a running gun ! battle with third precinct police. Police said they sighted the car at New Hampshire avenue and N street and pursued it for two miles, exchang- ing shots during the chase. They lost it at Twenty-first street and New Hamp- shire avenue. At one time in the chase Policeman W. D. leaped from the precinct radio car directly in front of the pur- sued machine, ~The driver swerved sharply aside and fired two shots pcint- blank at the officer. Perry ran to the pavement and re- turned the fire, but was unable to say | whether any of the bullets took effect. | He reported that after he fired at the | car the driver opened a smoke screen. ! i HOOVER ACCEPTS Liberal Arts Colleges. President Hoover today accepted an invitation to deliver a radio address ! some time in November as part of the | program of the: Liveral Arts Colleges’ Association. ' A group from the association, headed by Senator Fess, Republican, of Ohio, extended the invitation today. They also asked the President to serve as a member of the - National Sponsoring Committee of the Liberal Arts Colleges. Sanator Pess' said President Hoover also had agreed to have his name head the list of that committee. Will Deliver Radio Address for | pe. DAINTERS GIVEN $11 AS FIRM PROTESTS “onstruction Official Asks Doak to Reconsider Rule on Prevailing Wage. Putting into effect on the Internal | Revenue Building paint job the $11- per-day wage rate which Secretary of | Labor Doak recently decided was the “prevailing wage” in the District under the Bacon-Davis law, Herman Morris of the Alliance Construction Co. of New York, has asked Secretary Doak for reconsideration of the establish- ment of the rate. Calling at the Labor Department late yesterday, Mr. Morris conferrad with officials and left a letter in which he presented his position. Morris re- quested the opportunity to file in- formation and evidence dealing with the matter. He asked reconsideration of the establishment of the rate, which | has caused the pay of many of his painters. Morris was in New York today. con- ferring with attorneys in the matter, it was sald by his representatives, and | plans to take further action. Whether he would adhere to his original inten- | tion of filing a test suit in the courts could not be lsarned. It was indicated | in some quarters that he had given up his intention to go to court with the matter, but would confine his activities in the early futurc to attempts to get the Labor Department to give him a | hearing. Morris agreed ‘o pay the $11 rate! “under protest,” according to one of his_representativcs, and will continue | in his efforts to have the rate changed. | It was understood tie new $11 rate na: been placed in effect by Morris on the | revenue building job as of August 31. | The case arose when the local paint- ers’ union filed formal protest with the Secretary of Labor against the construc- | tion company, claiming it was not : paying the orevailing wage. The union | isked Secretary Doak to fix the pre- | vailing wage for painters under the Ba- | | con-Davis law, and the Secretary fixed $11, which is the union rate being paid | 1o union painters here. i At the Labor Department it was ex- | plained that the additional irforma- | tion offered by Morris will be received. | | No indication was offered, however, as | to what action inay be taken in the | matter. St CITIZENS’ FEDERATION| | TO DISCUSS FESTIVAL | | Association Representatives Take Up Halloween Carni- val Plans. to | A special meeting of the Federation | | of Citizens’ Associations will be held at | |8 o'clock tomorrow night in the board | room of the District Building. | ! Among the subjects to be considered | |is & proposal of the Greater National | Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade that organized citizenry | Join with it in sponsoring a parade and | carnival on Halloween night, Octo- 31 A proposal by the District George ‘Wasl n Bicentennial Commission that July 4, 1932, be celebrated as Washington Home day also will be dis- cussed. Under this plan, it is believed. many former residents of Washingto: would return for the celebration. . . Mrs. Owen Plans Tour. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida, returning today to her office from a trip to Denmark, announced, her plans for her annual tour of all counties in her district. She will leave ‘Washington Friday or Saturday. The ‘distinction’ of being the busiest intersection in Washington probably will go to Fourteenth street and Penn- sylvania .avenue, according_to Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer, who ‘count showed that 22,800 vehicles pass- ed there in a period of seven hours, or an_sverage of nearly 55 a minute. The traffic count was made in con- 14th AND PENNSYLVANIA FOUND CITY’S BUSIEST TRAFFIC CORNER vania avenue was the starting point. Counts are ‘now being made st other intersections along the Avenue as far east as Peace Monument. ‘The morning and afternoon rush hour traffic varied but little, approximately ing in each of these trians morning rush hour than in the after- was made, 2,512 pedestrians crossed in the morning ‘hour 1,993 in afternpon. ~ The assumption is more women ods home.pnd walked to-work PAGE B—1 THOUSAND GIVEN TEST FOR PLACES ON POLICE FORCE Civil Service Examiners Con- duct Trials at Central High; 79 Fail to Appear. INTELLIGENCE AND WRITING ARE 0BSERVED Applicants Who Rate as High as 70 Per Cent to Undergo Physical Examination. Almost a thousand men were examined this morning as to their fitness to hold Ppositions in the Metropolitan and Park Ppolice forces. ‘The examination was held at Cen- tral High School, between 9 and 12 o'clock, by civil service examiners. ,Only 79 of the 1,030 original applicants did not_appear forethe examination. The applicants must pass a physical test |later in order to become eligible for appointment. The examination was divided into two poarts. The first was an intelligence test, which counted for 70 per cent, and '.hen::(;\;nd a mznm letter writing, with imum rating of 30 T cent. Questions of intelligence tesl.sv:'!re de- signed primarily to indicat= how the applicants would react to the various situations which confront a policeman. + Nature of Questions. Questions were in the form of a briet statement of facts and five possible soluttons given. The applicant was Te- quired to select the correct answer from the five suggested. Each competitor was required, in the second half of the examination, to write a letter of approximately 200 words, the purpose being to test his ability to ex- press himself clearly and to measure general intelligence as shown in_the treatment of the subject upon which the letter was written. Only residents of the District of Co- lumbia were eligible for the examina- tion if they signified a desire to be ap- | pointed to the Metropolitan Police De- partment. Park policemen may be appointed, however, from nearby Mary- land or Virginia. But in that case ithey must serve in the territory from which they come. An age limit of 22 to 33 years was prescribed, but was waived in the case of former service men who are resi- dents of Maryland or Virginia. pro- vided they have not reached the re- tirement age. 145 Is Minimum Weight. The applicants were required to meas- ure at least 68 inches height and to be of proportionate weight. but not weighing less than 145 pounds. Obe- sity was given as a czuse for rejection. A minimum rating of 70 per cent is required. Military preference credit of 5 per cent is given, end rlso a 10 per cent military disability cre: Com- petitors who attain an eligible rating may be investigated by the commission with the object of securing additional evidence of their qualifications and character. This investigation may in= clude an oral interview. Today's examination was the first given since last Fall. The questions were prepared by the Civil Service Ex- amining Board. Mrs. Jessie W. Cowles had charge of the examination and was assisted by 24 civil service em- ployes. The examination was given under_the general supervision of War- ren J. Hamacher, manager of the ourth” civil service district. DON AND GAR WOOD ASKED TO RACE HERE Noted Speed Boat Drivers May Appear at President’s Cup Regatta. An invitation to stage an exhibition race in connection with the President’s Cup Regatta here September 18 and 19 will be extended to Kaye Don and Gar ‘Wood, famed speed-boat drivers, it was announced here today. L. Gordon Leech, sccretary of the President’s Cup Regatta Comfnittee, will attend speed contests sponsored by t.l'bfi ?emu Yacht Club September 4 and 5. He has been authorized by Commeo- dore Edmund F. Jewell, chairman of the local committee, to negotiate with Don, owner of the famous Miss England 2d, and Wood, who drives Miss America No. 9, and to complete further arrangements with outstanding entries in the Detroit events which will come here later in the month. MRS. LYNN IN ELECTED WELFARE BODY CHIEF Herndon Woman Takes Post Va- cated by R. R. Buckley—Brook- fileld Named Secretary. Special Dispatch to The Star. FAIRFAX, Va.. September 2—Mrs. Russell Lynn of Herndon yesterday was elected temporary chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Public Wel- fare, to succeed R. R. Buckley, resigned. J. W. Brookfield, sr., of Springfield, was elected secretary. Only three members of the original board are now acting, the others hav- ing resigned last month when the Board of Supervisors decided to take the welfare work in Fairfax County from under State guidance. Brookfield was yesterday instructed to get into com- munication with Paul Blandford of the State Welfare Board in Richmond, and endeavor to have the State department iron out the present misunderstandings. Efforts will also be made to have a full board appointed by Judge Walter Mc- Carthy as soon as possible. GETS FIVE YEARS Former Grocery Employe lantem‘d for Hold-up. Corliss H. Bowen, former employe of the Sanitary Grocery Co., today was given a_five-year prison sentence by JIB"O; F. D. Letts i Criminal Divi- Bowen had pleaded guilty to a charge of highway r¢ ry. He confessed that he held up another employe of the com- bank to t . | noon rush hour. On the day the count | from