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Washington News Foening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, FALSE PRETENSE WARRANT 15 SWORN OUTFOR 10B AGENT, Order for Arrest Is Attested| to by Applicant for Work as Maid. PAID $2 TO OPERATOR, COLORED WOMAN SAYS| Declares She Went Back Several Times, but Was Told No Va- vancy Existed Then. Definite action was taken by the district attorney's office today against alleged illegal practices foliowed in the conduct ef employment agencies, when ! & warrant charging false pretenses was sworn out against John D. Kendall, operator of the Washington Business Bureau, an employment agency in the Bond Building. i The warrant was nie Lytle, colored street northeast, attested to by Far= of 615 Fifty-seventh | for whom the office ! of the district attorney has been | searching for several days after deputy marshals failed to locate her at the ad- dress last wel Says She Paid Fer, The woman alleges in the warrant | that she applied at the Washington Business Bureau on September 12 for a | position as a maid. She sald she was | interviewed by Kendall, who informed | her they had a position for a maid. | but that a $2 registration fee would | be required - i The colored woman declares she paid | the fee. after which she was informed by Kendall that the maid’s position was | not available at the time and suggested | that she return Monday, September 14. | She received receipt for the $2, initialed by Kendall, it is alleged. She returned Monday, but was told | no maid's position was available, and | was asked come back later. This | was repeated several times, she alleges. | Other Complaints Received. i The woman is one of a group of col- | ored persons who complained to the Better Bu Bureau, according to Assistant_United States Attorney Wil- | liam A. Galiegher, who is handling the case. Deputy marshals tried on several oc- casions to locate the woman at the Fifty-seventh street address, but re-| ported the home deserted. Yesterday a representative of the Better Business Bureau accompanied a deputy marshal to the house, and found her there. She was served with a subpoena to appear at Assistant District Attorney Gal- lagher’s office today. MRS. MODESTA WOLF T0 BE BURIED HERE Remains of Former Capital Wom- an Held at Arlington—Ancestry Traced Back to Custis Family. Mrs. Modesta F. Wolf, former Wash- | ingtonian and descendant of the Custis family, died September 25 at her home in Syracuse, N Y. She was the widow of Christian F. Wolf, veteran of two wars, who fought with Gen. Custer. The body has been brought to Wash- { ington for burial and is at Arlington Cemetery awaiting funeral arrange- ments. Plans are being made to bring | the body of her husband, who died in 1919, and who is buried in Newark, | N. J. to this city. so the two may be buried together in Arlington. Born in Houston, Tex., 63 years ago, Mrs. Wolf was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin R. Stewart In June last year Mrs. Wolf went to France with the Gold Star Mothers to visit the grave of her son. She was & charter member of the Gold Star Moth- ers’ Club of this city. as well as of| Bethany Chapter, O. E. S., here. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs, Peter | J. Conway, with whom she resided in | Syracuse; three sons. Adolph E. and | Frederick W. Wolf of Newark, N. J., and Harold M. Wolf of Philadelphia,” for-| merly an_employe of The Evening Star | and the Washington Herald press rooms; | three sisters, Mrs. Ida V. F. Stewart of | Washington, Mrs. Richard A. Stack of Greensboro, N. C.. and Mrs. Georg> W. | Taylor of Newport, R. I. and two brothers, Joseph Kahn of Baltimore and | W. D. Kahn of Newport News. She| also is survived by seven grandchil- ! dren and one great grandchild. | FOREIGN SERVICE | SCHOOL BEGINS YEAR| Embassies | i i Secretaries of Three Among Diplomats Registering at Georgetown U. With a coterie of students registered from foreign embassies and legations in Washington, the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University opened | its 1931-32 academic year yesterday in: all_departments. | Secretaries of three embassies, the | Mexican, Chiean and Turkish, are| among diplomats who have registered me or as spec al studen v are Dr. Pablo Campos- | st secratary of the Mezican | S-ror Mario Rodriguez, s° ary of the Chilean Embe uri_Sabit, first secretary of he Turkish Embassy | Among other members of diplomatic | staffs ent:ring as students is Baron ! Dreyhausen of tne Austrian Legation hile a former member, Raoul de Medina, son of the recent Minister of Bolivia, is compleying his course at Georgetown. He is now on the stafl of the Pan-American Union. W. W. Russell, a son of former United States Minister Russell, also is a stu- dent at the school for the coming year. Prince Nondiyadat Svasti, brother of ; the Queen of Siam, was one of the first | to register at the school again For the first time the post-graduate departm>nt at the School of Forcign Service is b-ing quartered this rear in the Healy Building on th> "Hiltop campus. Regis‘ration on the openin date was sald to show a slight increase. Glee Club Elects Officers. BALLSTON, Va. October 2 (Spe- cial) —The Glee Club of the Washing- ton-Lee High School has elected Anne Lipscombe president, Bernita Birch, vice president; Delores Charven, secre- tary, TazwedM Watson, treasurer, with Mis':”Mldcll.ne Whitlock as their di- rector. Pollution Blamed as Fish Die POLICE TAKE SAMPLES OF WATER. Fish left on a boat-repair runway tide. AMPLES of the water in Eastern Branch of the Potomac River wiil be analyzed tomorrow fol- lowing numerous complaints _of wholesale extermination of fish in_the branch during the past month. Maj. Henry G. Pratt. police superin- tendent, today ordered Lieut. Edward T. Harney of the harbor police precinct to obtain samples of the water to be turned over to the Health Department for ex- amination. FISCAL RELATIONS REPORT DUE SOON Tax Expert Now Compiling Statement of Findings for Mapes Committee. The report of the study of fiscal relations made by the Mapes Commi tee, which employed a taxation expert to carry out the detailed work along lines directed in committee conferences is now being drafted by this tdx ex- pert, George Lord. and will be complet- ed in three or four weeks, in time for the next meeting of the Special Com- mittee about the middle of November, it was learned today At its last meeting here several months ago the members of the Mapes Committee discussed the possibility of recommending to Congress inheritance and income taxes for the District. The chances are that recommendations for such mew taxes will be included ‘n the committee’s report. Regresentative Ross Collins cf Mis- sissippi, a Democratic member of the M:zpes Committee and of the subcom- mittee on District appropriations, on his return to Washington todzy de- clared his opposition to increasing in any way the tax burden on District people—particularly at this time of gen- eral depression—and declared that he favors the most rigid, economy in Dis- trict expenditures during the coming fisczl year. Representative Collins said that in his opinion it would be de- cidedly inadvisable to increase the lccal taxes in any way {GIRL BURNED BY ACID IN ACCIDENT AT SCHOOL Receive Less When Test Tube Overflows During Demonstration. Others er Injuries Burns sustained by Margaret Gro . 15-year-old McKinley High School student, yesterday, when a small quantity of concentrated nitric acid overflowed the mouth of a test tube during a demonstration in the school laboratory. Several other pupils watch ing the experiment were burned slight! Mis G sman was given first aid at the school clinic and later sent to her home, at 2014 Otis street northeast. The cident occurred when E. H, Krehdiel, chemistry instructor, was holding the tube over a flame. A group of students were about him watching. Principal Frank C. Daniel today It fused to reveal the girl's address or whether she was at school today until an appeal was made to Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, who reluctantly consented to the inform: tion being given out. Miss Grossman's mother, Mrs. Robert Grossman, said her daughter was able to return. wel Buddy Shoots His Friend. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. FAIRMONT HEIGHTS, Md, Octo- : 2.—Jokn Wesley B! 211, colored old, of the 1600 block of Swann . was shet in the enxle cnd thigh this morning during an alterc At Eme:gency Hospital he friend, known to him did the shooting. Prince police are investigating onl, Georges 1STREET LIGHTS AND AIR GUARDS COMBINED ON Red Warning Signals Shoot Mount Vernon Boulevard. A new type of combined street light and airplane obstructien light is plan- ned for use on about a mile of the Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard ex- tending from Highway Bridge west along Columbia Island toward the Ar- lington Memorial Bridge. From the highway and park the lights will appear to be nothing more than ordinary street lights, with white glass globes. But above they will flash a red warning which spells “obstruc- tion” to the airplane pflo&mklnl W Their death is blamed on the wholesale contamination of the water. ip the Eastern Branch by the receding | Lieut. Harney said that similar tests were made last vear and the year be- fore. Last vear, he said, the tests dis- closed that refuse from the Washing- ton Gas L'ght Co.'s plant. at the foot of Twelfth strest southeast, contam- inated the water. ! “At that time,” he said, “an agree- ment was reached with the gas com- pany to remedy the situation. This| was done, but apparently it has started | all over again.” POWER OF DOLLAR INCREASES 10118 Value in Wholesale Prices at! $1.48, but Wages on | | In terms of total cost of living. the purchasing power of the dollar has in creased to $1.18 since 1925, but in terms of wholesale prices during that period. the dollar's power has increased to £1.48, according to a report made pub- | lic today by Ethelbert Stewart, Federal | Commissioner of Labor Statistics. Between December, 1925, and June. 1931, Stewart said, wholesale prices of all commodities fell approximately 35 per cent. and the decline in food prices, both wholesale and retail, was almos* | as great. But during the rame period. | he pointed out, the cost of living in the workingman's family fell only about per cent, and “still more significant to | the workingman. the total disbursed a3 | wages in mapufacturing industry | dropped almost 40 per cent.” | Explains Big Decrease. Stewart explained that the decrease of 40 per cent in pay roll does not mean that individual wage rates were | cut in any such proportion. Most of the declines, he continued, was due to the discharge of employes, to the pro- Tating of jobs and to short time work. As the number of dollars which the | workers had to spend had shrunk. Stewart asserted, the workers attached to the manufacturing industries, taken as a whole, had suffered far more from | declining pay rolls than they gained from lowered prices on the things they | had to buy. He placed their net loss at 30 per cent, and added that similar | detailed information for other groups | of industrial workers is not avaflable, but such as is available indicates thaf the situation of most other groups of workers has been little, if any, better than in manufacturing. Summarizes Price Drop. The commissioner summarized th change in the cost of living of the family as between December, 1925, and ! June, 1931, as follows Food decreased 28.5 per cent, clothing decreesed 138 per cent, rent decreased | 15 per cent, fuel and light decreased 11.5 | per cent, house furnishings decreased 174 per ‘cent and miscellaneous items increased 1.5 per cent. i The weighted average decrease of all items was 15.5 per cent. i SAFE RESISTS YEGGS Third Atterrpt at BO; Factory Of- fice Is Failure. A third attempt to break open a safe | In the office of the Columbia Specialty | Paper Box Co., 228 First street, proved | unsuccessful last night. | "The attempted robbery was discov- ered this morning by Fred Upmeyer, assistant foreman, who found the would-be yeggmen had gained entrance by smashing a rear window. They suc- ceeded only in battering the combina- tion and knob off. The safe contained no money according to Emmanuel Aaronson, manager. The robbery at- tempt was the third within the last few months, S | ! MEMORIAL ROAD Skyward From Lamps Along | ) land or take off from the local airport. The lights are made to serve their double function by having a red glass “bull's-cye” set in the top of the giobe, directly above the lighting bulb. which on the boulevard probably will be of about 200-watt capacity. A red beam is thrown up and out- ward. Because of the more intense white illumination below this beam it is invisible from the ground, but is said wbobe distinctive and conspicuous from aboves ! tions D €, FR IDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1931. FHH PAGE B—1 COMMISSION SETS 0CT. 19FOR PROBE OF TAXI SITUATION Effort Renewed to End Cha-| otic Conditions Now Exist- ing in Cab Industry. COURTS HAVE THWARTED STEPS TAKEN IN PACT Utilities Group Also to Have Hear- ing on Rerouting Bus Line From Kenyon to Irving Street. The Public Utilities Commission has set Monday, October 19, as the date of a public hearing to inquire into all phases of the muddled taxi situa- tion in the District. Notice will be sent to all operators and owners to be present if they wish to present any ideas on the subject. The commission has-also set October 10 as the date of & public hearing on a request of residents of Kenyon street to change the route of the Washing- ton Rallway & Electric Co.'s Park Road bus line so that the line uses Irving instead of Kenyon street. Thwarted by Courts. As to the taxi hearing, it was precipi- tated by a complaint of chaotic condi- in the industry mace the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- clation. The commission has long been anx- fous to exert its controlling influence over this industry, but has been thwarted in the courts on most of its attempts to date. Today there are almost as many rate schedules in Washington as there are taxicab con- cerns, #nd complaints of the lack of any rate system have been rather general The word “taxicab” appears nowhere in the list of utilities over which the commission is given control by the act {creating it, but the commission has in the past sough: to exert control on he theory that taxicabs are common carriers. Court Test Expeeted. Efforts to compel every taxicab to be equipped with a meter, and to com- pel a showing of financial responsibility on the part of taxicab operators, made by the commission in the past. have fatled. It is believed that out of the coming hearing a_standard zone map and set of zone charges might emerge, Such a scheme would undoubtedly be taken to court, as have all of the com- mission’s other regulations on taxicabs thus far, and any tangible result would have to await the court’s decision be- fore becoming final SECOND N|GH.T SHIFT ON U. S. WORK STARTS Crew Will Start Excavation on Commerce Building To- night. The second night excavating job in the Government's triangle building pro- gram will be started tonight at Twelfth street and Constitution avenue, when a night shift will take up digging a foundation for the Interstate Commerce Commission Building Already a crew of power shovels is working around the clock on three 8- hour shifts in the excavation for the new Archives Building, on the site of old Center Market A third excavating job will start between Ninth and Tenth streets, Penn- sylvania avenue and Constitution ave- nue, within the next few days for the new Department of Justice Building. POLICEMAN DISMISSED Policeman Thomas D. Atkinson, eleventh precinct, was ordered dis- missed from the force today by the Dis- trict ‘Commissioners as an outgrowth of his alleged trespassing in the Asso- | clated Press offices late at night sev- eral weeks ago. cordance with recommendations of the Police Trial Board Atkinson did not appeal the trial board's decision, and his dismissal fol- lowed automatically. The action was in ac- | $100 Note Delays Paying $95,000 to Rheem Creditors Difficulty of Obtaining Proper Indorsement | Is Explained. V Difficulty in getting a proper indorse- | ment on a single $100 note is holding up | the payment of $95,000 to creditors of | the bankrupt Swartzell, Rheem & Hen- | sey Co., it was learned today. | “Persons endeavoring to adjust the af- |fairs of the bankrupt corporation said the delay in straightening out this mat- [ ter has resulted in a failure to pay a number of individuals sorely in need of the money due them. The $95,000 loan | was made through Swarizeil, Rheem & | Hensey Co. on an apartment house in |the 1100 block of Tenth street. On | January 20, last, when the loan fell due, the owner of the property indicated his ‘willingness to pay in full. Several | of the notes, however, were not properly | indorsed and the title company refused |to execute a releas> until these notes were put in proper form. The trustees of the bankrupt cor- poration succeeded in securing the proper indorsement to all but the one $100 note. This is held by Dr. A. A Vachaldi of -the Catholic University. He referred the matter to his attorney, H. Winship Wheatley. The trustees have been negotiating with Mr. Wheat- ley in an effort to straighten out the tangle. They are hopeful of clearing up the mstter in the near future, so that the $95000, now lying idle, may be paid to the hard-pressed individual noteholders. Mr. Wheatley said he in- tends to take care of the matter as| soon as possible SCHENCK CLINGS T0 PROBE DECISON Demands Public Hearing or Presence of Witnesses in Staples Case. Frederick L. Schenck, key witness in the investigation of the Special Com mittee of lawyers into the grand jury charges against the Police Department remained firm today in his determina- tion not to testify unless witnesses are present when he is questioned There have been rumors that Schenck | was considering a proposal to make his statements to the committec if he is given a stenographic copy of the tes- timony, but officials at the District Jail, where he is a prisoner, said there had been no disposition on’ his part at an early hour this afternoon to change his original decision In the meantime, the committee of lawyers proceeded with its investiga- tion, obviously hoping that Schenck would give up his adamant stand testimony is regarded as of utmost im- portance, because the statements he made before the grand jury resulted in the issuance of the special repoit of September 4. charging that former Po- liceman Orville Staples was the vietim of a “frame-up” when he was removed from the force three years ago. Ju refusal to testify might have on the outcome of the investigation is a ques- tion which District officials will not discuss. Schenck, it was pointed out, cannot be compelled to testify, al- thoush, he can be forced to appear be- fore the extraordinary civilian trial board created b; to hear charges against members of tte Police Department should the Inves gating Committee recommend prosecu tion of any of the officers involved in the Staples case Schenck said be prefers an open hearing, although h» is willing to face the committee if newspaper men or other witnesses are present when he testifies. There has been no effort on the part of the Investigating Commit- tee, however, to arrange for a public hearing | Schenck was brought to Washington from the Federal penitentiary at Leav- | enworth, where he was serving a 20- | year term, at the request of the District Commissioners so he would be available when the Investigating Committee was prepared to question him. The com- mittee went to the jail two days ago, but ! the prisoner declared he would not tes- tify unless witnesses were present. Schenck declared he did not ques- tion the integrity of the committee, made up, as it is. of five of Washing- ton's most prominent lawyers. but he fs opposed to the secrecy surrounding the investigation. D. C. Assessor Honored RICHARDS MARKS FORTIETH YEAR IN SERVICE. ILLIAM P. RICHARDS, assessor for the District, yesterday reached his fortieth year in the service of the city. He was honored at a cere- mony attended by gress. Dr. Luther H. To the right is Mrs. Richards, the Commissioners and several members of Con- In the photo Mr. Richards (center) is being congratulated by ichelderfer, president of the Board of Commissioners. —Star Stafl Phote. His | st what effect Schenck's continued | the Commissioners | FIVE ECONOMSTS NAMED 0 STUDY DR HALL' REPORT Secretary Lamont Announces: Committee Chosen by Dr. E. L. Bogart. CONTROVERSY SUBJECT | IS 1930 TRADE BALANCE | [ Commerce Expert's Charges of Dis- | tortion and Suppression of Fig- | ures Will Be Probed. i Secretary of Commerce Lamont today announced the names of five nationally | ikm)wn economists had been chosen to | Investigate the disputed repcrt on the | balance of international payments of | the United States in 1930, as submitted by Dr. Ray O. Hall, an expert in the | Bureau of Finance and Investment of the Department. Dr. Hall resigned under pressure sev- eral months ago after he charged that the department had deleted several im- portant items compiled by him in the report. Dr. Hall was connected with the department fcr 10 yeais The committee announced today was named by Dr. E. L. Bogart of the Uni- | versity of Illinois, president of the | American Econcmic ‘Association. The | | Personnc® s composed of Prof. James W. | Angell, Columbia University; Prof. W. I King, New Yark University: Prof. E. M. Patterson. University cf Pennsyivania; | Prof. Jacob Viner, University of Chi- cago, and Prof. John H. Williams, Har- vard University. | When the controversy arose several months ago, Dr. Hall asserted that his report was so altered oefore its publi- cation that figures were falsified with vital truths suppressed He protested especially the deletion | of an item of $175000.000 for alleged “over-valuation” of American imports in 1930 which he resorted to at the last | moment in an attempt to wipe out a s | discrepancy in his final computation | "He further complained that from his | explanatory comment there were elim- | inated references to the effect of pro- | i hibition in this country on travel in| Canada, quotations om economic | | writers, criticizing American foreign | | investment policies, and his own opin- | fon in applying criticisms of Federal Reserve policies. | Dr. Hall also had been credited with | public statements to the effect that re- | | ports on financial conditions in Latin America, Germany and Australia were suppressed or distorted by the Com- | | merce Department | After his report had been accepted by | Grosvenor S. Jones. head of his bureau, {and a controversy had ranged between { them for several weeks, Dr. Hall at- tempted to present the original report to President Hoover, who at that time was spending the week end at his Rapidan Camp. Shortly afterward, Dr. Hall's Tesignation was requested by depart- ment officials. Answering the charges. F. M. Feiker director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. said the revision of Dr. Hall's compilations were necessi- tated by his attempt to rid his prelimi nary balance of and existing discrepancy. CLUBS APPROVE PLAN Kiwanis and Cosmopolitan Mem- bers Pledge to Employ Addi- tional Workmen. A resolution designed to relieve un- employment conditions here received | | the unanimous Jndorsement yesterday | of two Capital Vservice clubs. Kiwanis [ and Cosmopolitan. Early adoption of the resolution by all other clubs in the | city was forecast by a committee com- posed of members of the various or- ganizations. The resolution pledges each club member to furnish employment “on two days of each week to one or more persons for work outside the ordinary routine for which I regularly pay em- ployes;” to seek the procurement of a similar pledge from at least one other person not affiliated with a club; to purchase each week at least two articles not absolutely indispensable, and to| endeavor to comply “in spirit and! letter” with any action taken by the| club in the interest of reducing unem- ployment. The resolution was presented to the Cosmopolitan Club by Edward A. Rule, who announced steps would be taken immediately to obtain its adoption by | the national and international organi- zations with which the club is affiliated. Rule estimated the plan would result in an increase of 6,000 employment ! days per week in Washington. Charles T. Clagett, committee mem- ber representing the Rotary Club, an- nounced today his club would approve the resolution at an early date and recommend its adoption by Rotary International. | Statue Placed RAWLINS MEMORIAL IN PARK NAMED FOR HIM. The standing statue of Maj. Gen. John A. Rawlins of Civil War fame, one of the oldest in the National Capi- tal, has just been re-erected in the pub- lic park, named in his honor, on the line of New York avenue, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. It was placed in that park in 1874, but at the instance of friends was removed in May, 1886, to what was then con- sidered a more prominent position, in the small reservation, at the southeast corner of Pennsylvania avenue and Ninth street. in front of the old ‘Center Market. There it remained until a few days ago when the work in progress for the erection of the new Archives Build- ing_on the market site caused its return to Rawlins Park Its original site in the center of that park is now occupied by a large rose gerden and, rather than disturb that, the statue has been placed in a grove of fine trees near the Eighteenth street side of the park, approached by new paths from all sides of the park. Gen. Rawlins was chief of staff to Gen. U. S. Grant during the campaign which ended at Appomattox, and he died in this city September 6. 1869, while serving as Secretary of War. DRIVERLESS CAR RUNS OVER GIRL Playmate Escapes as Wom-| an Screams Warning—Boy Injured by Truck. ‘Two children—Dorothy Virginia Gray, 7 years old, of 4332 Third street and Arthur R. Corey. 6. 1200 block Morse street northeast—were injured, the for- mer serjously, in two traffic accidents reported to police late yesterday after- noon and last night The girl suffered a compound frac- ture of the right arm and severe head injurfes when a driverless automobile, its brakes released, rolled backward down an incline_from its parking place | a_half block a¥ay and ran over her while she was playing in front of her home. Woman Screams Warning. Dorothy and Marjorie Mayhew, 9 years old, of 301 Webster street were sitting_on the curb adjusting their Toller skates when the car started down the hill. Mrs. Paul Rea of 229 Webster street screamed a warning as the ma- chine headed for the girls, and the Mayhew youngster ran to safety. Her playmate, however, was struck down by the automobile before could leap from its path. The impact hurled her several feet. The car finally came to a halt on the lawn of the Gray residence after passing over the pros- trate form of the girl. Members of the fire rescue squad and a physician from Emergency Hospital administered first aid treatment. after which the injured child was taken to the hospital for further attention. Her condition was pronounced to be se- rious. Brakes Found 0. K. Police of the thirteenth precinct sta- tion found that the car which struck the girl is owned by Lloyd Connelly, 4415 Third street. release of the brakes, which were tested and found to be satisfactory, could not | be_determined. however. _The Corey boy was treated by phy- sicians at Casualty Hospital for minor cuts and bruises, after a truck hit him while he was at play in the rear of his home. He was discharged after re- ceiving medical attention. BECOMES PUBLISHER David E. Smiley, former Philadelph: and New York newspaper man, today became publisher of the United States Navy Review. a weekiy newspaper. Editorial offices will remain at Wash- | ington, but business offices have been established in New York. A flower show is a major event to an avid gardener, but it required only !a few minutes for exhibitors in the Potomac Palisades Garden Club Show | at Community Church to decide that a wedding holds priority rights. John S. Peters and Miss Ivy Kaylor of Harrisonburg, Va., planned to have their wedding in the church at Cathe- dral avenue and Conduit road last night. Several weeks ago the Potomac Palisades Club arranged to hold its annual exhibition in the same church. The show opened yesterday. When Peters and Miss Kaylor and the wed- ding party arrived last night the church was ablaze with colorful flowers, which they had not ordered, and packed with guests they had not invited. The ceremony was scheduled for 8 o'clock, and here a few minutes before that time the unexpected guests were scram- bling about in active admiration of the equally unexpected decorations. Somewhat puzzled, John Peters made inquiries. The clergymen explained, and called officials of the Garden Club into conference, A compromise was reached. ‘The Garden Club converted its tables and flowers from obstructions into properly arranged decorations. The| members and spectators were FLOWER SHOW BECOMES BRIDA;L SETTING WHEN DATES ARE MIXED Floral Exhibit in Church Yields Place to Ceremony When Couple Arrive to Be Married. seated. The wedding guests had appropriate places of honor in the pews. Dr. O. J. Randall, assisted by Rev. L. B. Rice, pastor of the church, then officiated. The ceremony over, the bridal party |and Mr. and Mrs. John S. Peters de- parted for the home of the former's brother, J. Paul Peters, 5433 Haw thorne place, where a reception was held. The Garden Club shoved its tables back into the aisles and re- sumed examination of the displays. After a few more days in Washing- ton, Mr. and Mrs. Peters will return to Harrisonburg to reside. Mr. Peters operates a printing establishment there. Prizes awarded in the flower show last night were: In the adult class, Manuel Fraile, O. L. Helsley, Mrs. J. Anderson, Mrs. Bernard Lane, Mrs. E. O. Steimer, C. W. Steves, Mrs. O. L. Elsner, B. J. Reynolds, jr. and Miss Grace Statts; children’s “class, Evelyn Thring, Dorothy Cumyus, Robert Lud- wig. William Peters, Tonstall Blow, Betty Mourice, Martin Kegel and pupils of the third grade class at the Francis Scott Key School for a miniature rock garden. Awards for the best vegetables dis- played went to O. L. Helsley, Mrs. §. A. :hebb‘nl. Mrs. J. P. Peters and E. O, ner, she | The cause of the| HAZARDLESS PLAN ' TODEVELOPSLAND NEAR AIRPORT LAID Marine M'emorial Is Assured at Parley Held on Bridge at Boundary Channel. MAXIMUM HEIGHT SET FOR OBJECTS IN AREA Lamp-Posts on Stone Span Made Controlling Factor to Curb Danger to Planes. Plans for a development of the | southern half of Columbia Island, from | Highway Bridge to the Arlington Me- morial Bridge, which would prevent in- terference with air transport operations | from Washington-Hoover Airport, will | be laid immediately before the Arling- ton Memorial Bridge Commission, the Bureau of Public Roads and the Com- mission of Fine Arts as a result of a conference held yesterday afternoon on the span of Boundary Channel Bridge at the south end of the island. Details of the development of the island. which are likely to constitute obstructions to air travel, were dis- cussed by representatives of the airpo: air transport operators, the Wasl ton Board of Trade and the Federal | Government. | _As a result of this conference the ! Federal authorities in charge of de- | velopment of the island parkway and 1the Mount Vernon Memorial Boulevard 1 will be asked to agree to a plan of de- | sign 2nd planting of the area adjoining the airport, which will eliminate ob- structions dangerous to the lives of passengers and pilots flying from the commercial field. Approach Columns Undecided. The conference covered all details of the parkway and boulevard plan except |the two giant granite columns at the |island end of the Arlington Memorial | Bridge. The fate of these columns still is in doubt. plans for substitution of | architectural features of a type which | would not constitute obstructions to air | navigation having been suggested to the Commission of Fine Arts. The boundary channel conference vesterday afternoon was attended by William ~ P. MacCracken, jr. former Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, now representing a number of air transport_companies; Col. C. E. { Fauntleroy of Federal Aviation Cor- poration, owners of Washington-Hoover Airport; Lieut. F. B. Butler, assistant director of the Office of Public Build- mgs and Public Parks; Lawrence E. Williams, chairman of the Aviation Committee of the Washington Board of Trade, and Charles M. Saxelby, a mem- ber of the committee Plans for development of the island area which were agreed upon as pro- viding the greatest cafeguards to avia- {tion will be laid before the various Federal agencies concerned in the work by Lieut. Butler, Mr. MacCracken and Mr. Williams. Plan Maximum Height Zone. These plans call for establishment of a zoned area on the southern half of the island. extending upstream approxi- mately 4.000 feet from a point just above Highway Bridge. In this area the controlling height of trees, monu- ments and other structures would be the tops of the lamp posts on the stone bridge over Boundary Channel at the south end of the island. These lights and those along the Mount Vernon ! Boulevard for a distance of about a mile along the island probably will be of a special type, combining the func- tions of street lights with those of aero- nautical obstruction lights. Opposition to the construction of the Navy and Marine Memorial on the south end of the island was withdrawn when it was learned that the top of the memorial will be less than 2 feet higher than the lamp posts on the bridge. while the monument will be 200 | feet farther removed from the nearest airport boundary. Memorial Delay to Be Asked. The architects in charge of erecting the Navy and Marine Memorial, how- ever, wiil be asked to delay putting up the bronze sculptural group crowning the memorial until the combination builevard and obstruction lights are in- {stalled and put into operation. The granite and concrete foundation for the | memorial now is nearing completion. Landscaping of the southern end of the island also was discussed at the conference and the Bureau of Public i Roads, in charge of this phase of the | work, will be asked to restrict the plant- ing of trees and shrubbery to types which will not rise above and mask the double row of obstruction lights along the boulevard and across the bridge within the proposed zoned area. [LIGON WILL PROVIDES FUNDS FOR GRANDSONS Also Given Legacies in Document Filed for Probate Today. The will of John Daniel Ligon, filed today for probate, provides trust funds of $2.000 each for his grandsons, John Fulton Ligon, jr., and George Walson Ligon, for their education, the funds to be turned over to them when they reach the age of 26 years. A trust fund of $5,000 is provided for his sister, Roda L. Liggan, for her life and at her death to go to his son, John F. Ligon, and his daughter, Mrs. Anna L. Howser. The sister is also given $500. The trust funds are to be held by the son and daughter and the Liberty National Bank as_trustees. The will directs the payment of $500 to the daughter, who is also to divide equally with her brother the $2,000 pro- ceeds from a life insurance policy. The remaining estate, the value of which is not disclosed, is to be divided equally between the son and daughter, who are also named as executors. ENCOURAGING REPORT MADE BY OHIO G. 0. P. By the Associated Press. Republican leacers today were given an encouraging report on conditions in Ohio by Edward D. Schorr, chair- man of the Ohio Republican Commit- tee. Schorr said the announcement of Calvin Coolidge supporting President Hoover for renomination had gone a long way in “clarifying the situation” in his State. ‘The Ohioan conferred today with Senator Fess of Ohio, chairman of the Republican National Committee; Post- master General Brown and Robert Lucas, executive director of the Re- publican National Committes, Sister, Son and Daughter