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—16 *» THE EVEN IFEDERAL PLANNING BINGHAM PREPAR[S Clubwomen Inspect Home FIGHT IN CONGRESS ONBRIDGE COLUMNS Regrets Art Body’s Stand Despite Protest of Air Officials. SUGGESTS LEGISLATION ! T0 PROTECT AIRPORTS | Bafety More Important Than Beauty, Senator Declares as Com- mission Insists on Project. Legislation giving the Department of Commerce power to prevent erecticn of anything ncar alrports that would be yegarded as hazardous to air naviga- tion was suggested as a possibility today | by Senator Bingham, Republican, of Connecticut, in expressing regret lhatl the Fine Arts Commission again has approved ' the pre d memorial col- umns on Columbia Island in connec- tion with the Arlington Memorial Bridge. The bridge is in the vicinity of ‘Washington-Hoover Airport and there has been considerable discussion re- cently as to whether the memorials would interfere with the approach to the airport regret very much to learn that the Fine Arts Commission is pressing for the erection of memorials which will unquestionably constitute a serious hazard to air navigation,” Senator Bingham said. Belleves Safety Comes First. “In regard to ocean navigation, the War Department is empowered to see to It that no one is itted to erect any- thing which will interfere with safe navigation. It may be _.ecessary to secure legislation to place in the hands of the Commerce Department the power %o prevent any one from erecting any- ghing in the vicinity of an atrport which ‘will constitute obstacles to the safe ap- proach to the port in all kinds of ‘weather. “It may be necessary to forbid the erection of anything constituting a menace to air navigation within half a mile of an established airport. The safety of those who desire to use the navigable air as a means of transporta- tion should be paramount to all con- siderations of an artistic or commer- rcial nature.” Senator Bingham sald such legisla- as he suggested, if considered, would be national in scope. The Arts Commission advised Lieut. ©ol. U. 8. Grant, 3d, executive officer of the Arlington Merhorial Bridge Com- mission yesterday by letter that it does mot regard the odjection of the airmen as “valid” The Fine Arts Commis- sion views the projected columns as guardians of the sacredness of Arling- ton National Cemetery and foresees ad- ditional need for them when the ceme- gery is expanded in the near future. Protested at Airport. As a result of the protests fwom Washington Alrport, President Haover aecently asked the Bridge Commissiol %o make a further study of the colymns. Maj. D. H. Gillette, assistant t6 Col. Grant on the Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, in making public the contents of the letter, said that the first part had to do with quotations from the report of the Bridge Commis- sion. The letter said that the Fine Arts Commission “agrees with the architects that the columns swe archi- tectural features of first imyportance.” ‘The letter then goes on to deal with ob- Jections to the columns, the first being of an engineering nature, the commis- sion holding that there is o major rea- gon why they cannot be constructed. The letter follows, in/part: “The recond objection is that 'the columns ‘would interfere with the #ir flights from the field now in use by a commercial eirport. The Commission of Fine Arts ©o not regard this objection as valid. In fact, they consider the columns rather as a protection the sacredness of Arlington by causing the commercial &ir routes to be diverted to the north. Lights to Warn Flyers. “This will be all the more important ‘when the Arlington National Cemetery £hall be enlarged to take in the present Agriculture Department nt Farm. The columns as at present de- signed will carry. abundant light as ‘warning to aviators.” ‘The Fine Arts Commission would be ‘willing to postpone the erection of the columns “until the other artistic fea- tures of the project shall have been finished.” The columns are an imposing feature of the Columbia Island plaza develop- ment and proponents of their erection say that they were provided for in law Jong before the aviation interests lo- cated their fields on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, downstream of the Arlington Memorial Bridge. WIDER SCOPE SOUGHT | BY PEOPLE’S COUNSEL XKeech Plans Appeal to Congress in Behalf of Victims of ‘Wage Abuses. ‘ People's Counsel Richmond B. Keech eaid today that at the coming session of Congress he would seek to have Con- gress set up & people’s counsel who Would serve the public in legal matters | other than public utility contests, to ' which he is limited He said that he had received many calls of Jate from laborers who had been | Tefused their wages by contractors. If the laborers become insistent, he said, | = certain type of contractor simply fires ! them and hires other victims. The | contractors in question are judgment proof and the ordinary legal processes BICENTENMAL BODY CHILDREN'S COUNTRY INSTITUTION VISITED ON TOUR northast. mittee, with babies at the home. ‘These women, officers of the Federation of Women's Clubs, are being shown | through the Children’s Country Home, Seventeenth street and Bunker Hill road | ment will contribute one-third of the Left to right: Mrs. William J. La Varre, first vice president; Mrs. Edgar Meritt, president, and Mrs. Prank Shortall, chairman of the City Com- —Star Staff Photo. 10 STUDY PARKING Senator Fess Calls Session of Program Committee Next Wednesday. Followiag up the request of the | District Commissioners yesterday for | suggestipns on how to handle the automobile parking problem, Senator Fess of Ohlo snnounced there would be a mecting of the Committee on Pro- gram of the National George Wash- ington Bicentennial Commission at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning to consider the problem. Senator Fess is vice chairman of the National Con.mission and also is | on the Program Committee, the other | members of which are former Repre- | sentative R. Walton Moore of Virginia, | Representative Sol Bloom of New York | and William Tyler Page, clerk of the | ouse. Sees Difficult Problem. | Senator Fess also announced that | shortly after Congress convenes he will | call a meeting of the Executive Com- | mittee of the National Commission to see what can be suggested with regard to the parking problem. | “It is a very difficult problem, but | something must be done to meet it next | year,” Senator Fess sald, referring to the crowds expected to visit Washington by automobile during the Bicentennial celebration. Senator Fess indicated that whatever suggestions are considered by the Pro- gram Committee next week probably | will be referred to the executive group | of the Bicentennial Commission in De- | cember. 1 Brought Inte Limelight. 3 ‘The automobile parking problem in its relation to the forthcoming celebra- tion was brought into the limelight | when the Fine Arts Commission wrote | to the Bicentennial Commission several weeks ago, deploring particularly the | accumulation of parked automobils | around Government buildings and parks. | The Bicentennial group referred the | question to the city heads, who yester- | day replied by asking for ‘:ugg:sunm‘ and pointing out that the park areas | are not under their supervision. . BARUCH WILL CONFER WITH HOOVER TODAY | ——— | Revival of War Finance Corpora- tion Reported Probable Sub- ject of Meeting. Bernard Baruch, prominent New | York Democrat, was to confer with ‘ President Hoover at the White House late today at the invitation of the Chief Executive. There were reports here that the financier, a former member of the War Industrics Board, was coming here to discuss a revival of the War Finance | Corporation. Such a step was mentioned as a possible alternative by the Presi- dent at the time he announced the Natfonal Credit Corporation plan. It was said at the White House, how- ever, “no subject was set” for tl conference between Baruch and the | President. | One of Mr. Hcover's secretaries said |“the President learned Mr. Baruch | would be in Washington for a few | hours on his way South, and asked him to come in for a talk.” | Supervisor Dead 1 ~ | SERVED AT ST. ELIZABETH'S | HOSPITAL 53 YEA Wil not reach them. ‘ Some States, Mr. Keech pointed out, meet this situation by criminal statutes but there is no such statute in the Dis- trict, and the defrauded workers must take their chances on collecting on gudxrl;'ncnu obtained in the Municipal i Mr. Keech said thst he had en- fcavored to help all of the unfortu- who had approached him, but he has neither the time nor the| acilities to give them. Such persons, | e pointed out, tend to become a public charge, and in protection to itself the District ought to take some steps to ‘protect, them. | GOL.F.C.JEWELL DIES Coast Artillery Officer to Be Buried at West Point. Col. Frank C. Jewell, United States Coast Artillery, died yesterday at Wal- {ter Reed Hospital after a Jong illness. "He had been a patient at the hospital for about a year, coming here from Fort McPherson, Ga. He formerly served in ‘Washington. Col, Jewell was graduated from West Point in 1899 and served in the Span- ish-American and World Wars, com- manding the f.r&,lfluzamrx; in the Meuse-Argonne offensi the latter. He will be buried at West Foint Monday. 5 | | | 1 | | CHARLES J. BURCH, Veteran supervisor at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, was buried Monday in Con- gressional Cemetery. He died Priday, November 13, at the home of his daugh- | ter, Mrs. Mabel A. Rick, 1335 Massa- chusetts avenue southeast. | Mr. Burch, oldest supervisor In point | of service at the hospital, had scrved | at St. Elizabeth’s for 53 years. The only history of the institution was writ- ten a few years ago from his recollec- tions. . He was 68 years old and a native of the Capital. Besides Mrs. Rick he is survived by two brothers, Joseph R. Burch of Washington and Thomas E. Burch of Baltimore, Sheds Tears 'MS WORSE SWALLOWING BUTTON. The tears Ruth Hurley shed after swallowing a Red Cross pin were not because of the doctors, or hospital, or because she was frightcned—but be- cause she bad to miss & day in school. The 8-year-old daughter of the Sec- Tetary of War and Mrs. Hurley was quite calm through the excitement until she realized last night that she had been absent a day from classes Then she cried and her father and mother, who had hurried here from New York, had difficulty in comforting her. Ruth's perfect record of not having missed a day in school was spoiled. At Walter Reed Hospital today Ruth’s condition was said to be very good. No operation was expected. The prospects were that her record would be almost perfect, after all. FEDERAL HOUSING 10 BE DISCUSSED Commission 1o Mecet Monday to Allot Space to Various Bureaus. With numerous Government bureaus asking for additional office space, the Public Buildings Commission will meet to consider Uncle Sam's immediate housing problem at 10 o'clock Monday morning, the first meeting since Spring. The meeting has been called by Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman, who returned a few days ago. With branches of the Department of Commerce scheduled to begin moving irto the spacious new structure in the triangle early in 1932, the commission will 'have space to allot to other agencies. ~For example, the Patent Office, extending from Seventh to Ninth and F to G streets, is a branch of the Commerce Department. Senator Smoot sald today he under- stood some persons wanted to be heard further by the commission in connec- tion with location of the new War and Navy Building. It was not certain to- day, however, that this question would come up at the Monday meeting. It was not made known who wanted to be heard. Asked 1f it related to reconsid- eration of the question of location, Sen- ator Smoot said he presumed 50, since the commission has already voted early in the year by approving the placing of these buildings in a triangle White House bounded and Twenty-third stree and Constitution a west of the by Elghteenth ts and New York Representative R, chnlrman of the Jommittee in the opposition to the Bulldings House Appropriation; last Congress, expre; the area approved Commission. ARMY ASKED TO GIVE DAY’S PAY T0 RELIEF Every Worker und Member Urged to Contribute Part of Wages for Three Months by Every comimis Army and every clviling empinge 1t (e War Department or i1s Wanes s Uoned 1n this city i 4o he glven an IPPOTLUNILY 1o Contriiiate e duy's pry & month duitig danusiy, Fehiuary and March h the | spumsGied by the Community Chest of lhis eity for the rellef of ihe unemployed and othor churitable pctivities Quilpg the year of 1932 By owertion of Secietary Lisut, Col. B 8 Adems, adjulant gen- oral's Aepmitiment, 66a Frank M. Moad- ley, masistant chie! cierk of the War De- partment, wili seve me division chinir- men, the former 16 g1ve each ofMcor of the Army in this 6ity snd Mr. Hoadley to give each employe of the War De- riment an opporiunity to co-operate n the approved plan of relsing rellef funds. et I the Hurley, ' GROUP TOURS SLIGO VALLEY PARKWAY U. 'S. Government to Con- tribute One-Third of Cost of Project. COMMISSION SPENDS MOST OF DAY IN AREA | Bonds for Maryland's Share of Ex- penses Now Are Being Pre- pared for Issue. A tour of the proposed Sligo Valley'| park area in nearby Maryland was ar- ranged today for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission by the Maryland Natfonal Capital Park and Planning Commission. The delegation left the Cosmos Club at 8:30 o'clock this morning and arranged to spend a good share of the day going over the ground. Under the law, the Federal Govern- cost of the park, while the Maryland authorities will advance two-thirds and bonds for this purpose are now being produced. A number of land purchasing prob- lems came before the commission yes- terday, but in keeping with its policy, no public information on the sites was available. The commission listened to the report of its railroad expert, Willlam J. Helser of New York, and then was recorded as favoring two traffic cross- ings over-the tracks of the raflroads, north of Union Station. Discuss Proposed Playgrounds. The commission yesterday afternoon heard a plea for a Ellyzround in the Northeast a city block in area and the Northeast Playground Committee, which was organized to sponsor the project, was advised to appoint three members as a subcommittee to confer later on the problem. Fifty delegates appeared in a body and Evan H. Tucker, president of the Northeast Citizens’ Association, made an address, outlining the need of the community and urging that enlarged school yards and a number of play- grounds for small children be created. This was advocated as = means of stimulating athletics, decreasing juve- nile delinquency and reducing accidents to children. Taking a prominent part in the pro- ceedings before the commission were: Miss M. G. Young, principal of the Peabody Elementary School; Miss Sibyl Baker, director of playgrounds; Claus J. Schwartz, principal of the Stuart Junior High School, and A. H. Gregory, president of the Stanton Park Citizens’ Assoclation. Hilary F. Winn, chairman of the committee, opened the proceed- ings and introduced the speaker to the commission. Statistics Are Presented. Mr. Gregory presented statistics to the members, asserting that the area from First to Eleventh streets north- east, and from East Capitol street to Florida avenue has about 30,000 popu- lation, with about 6,000 children in 11 elementary schools, two parochial schools and one junior high school. There were 544 accidents to children in the ninth precinct during the past year, police figures reveal, including 83 serious injuries, one of them fatal, Mr. Gregory said. The Northeast Playground Committee comprises these organizations: Asso- ciated Charities, Blow-Webb Parent- Teacher Association, Christ Child so- clety, Eastern Presbyterian Church, Edmunds-Maury Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation, Epworth M. E. Church, Home and School Assoclation of the Stuart Junior High School, Lincoln Park Citi- zens’' Association, Ludlow-Madison-Tay- lor Parent-Teacher Association, Minot Bible Class, Northeast Business Men's Association, Northeast Citizens’ Associa- tion, Peabody-Hilton-Carbery Parent- ‘Teacher ~Association, Police Depart- ment, Stanton Park Citizens’ Associa- tion, St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, St. Matthew's Lutheran Church, St. Vincent de Paul Conference, Trini- dad Citizens’ Assoclation and Wheatley Parent-Teacher Association. ‘The former playground of the section, ’m-nr the Union Station, was wiped out by the Capitol Plaza development program. —e 'FEDERAL EMPLOYES OPPOSE WITHDRAWAL Bureau of Standards Local Votes Against Proposal to Leave A F of L While protesting that he was not at liberty to give any details, Dr. J, F. Meyer, president of the Bureau of Standards local No. 260, admitted today that he has officially reported to the headquarters of the National Federation of Federal Employes the fact that at a meeting on Thursday the local had voted against withdrawing from the American Federation of Labor as pro- posed in a referendum submitted by the Natlonal Federation’s Executive Com- mittee, Miss Gertrude McNally, secretary- treasurer of the National Federation, today declined to make any comment upon this subject in the absence from the city of Luther C. Steward, president of the organization. She said that the headquarters is not making any an- nouncement of the returns to the referendum as they come in, and will have no announcement to make until the vote is complete. It is understood that the vote of the Bureau of Standards local was the first on record adverse to withdrawal from the A. F. of L. CITY NEWS IN BB—JEF. TODAY. Moeling, League for the Larger Life, 1400 New Hampshire avenue, 8:15 p.m. Benefit _entertainment, Washington Lengue for the Hard of Hearing, Arts Club, 8 pm. Annual joint big game dinner, alumni of California and Stanford Universi- ties, 2400 Sixteenth street, 6 p.m. Dinner, Aztec Club, Willard Hotel, 8 pm. Dance, Riggs National Bank, Willard Hotel, 9 p.m. Dance, Tau Beta Phi Sorority, Wil- lard Hotel, 10 pm. Dance, Lambda Chi Sorority, Carl- ton Hotel, 10 p.m. FUTURE. Annual outing, Southeast Business Men's Assoclatior, Chapel Point, Md., tomorrow. Party leaves Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, 9 am. Bazaar, Col. James 8. P‘evmt %unung United States S ar Veterans, Naval e Hll;l', Fourth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, Mon- day, 6 pm. SATURDAY NOVE MBER 21, -1931. Pohick Ceremony Attracts Large Throng AN"Q”E THIEVES MASONIC CEREMONIES FEATURE LAYING OF VESTRY HOUSE CORNER STONE. George Washington and his fellow members of a former vestry. The corner stone of the new vestry house Was f Alexandria, ’]-\m-: vestry of Pohick Church, in Fairfax County, Va. is now completing an enterprise started 150 years ago by laid yesterday afternoon with Masonic rites conducted by Washington Lodge, No. 22, F. A. A. M., assisted by Coadjutor Bishop F. D. Goodwin and Rev. C. A. . Former Grand Master of Virginia Charles H. Callahan presented to Rev. C. A. Langston, -rector of Truro Parish, the gavel used during the ceremony, carved from wood from the Mount Vernon estate. In the lower picture are shown members of the present vestry, which 1s undertaking this project as a joint memorial to George Washington, the church’s most il to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of Truro Parish, which coincides with the year of Wash birth. J. P. H. Mason, who served for many years as senior warden, is holding the restored by experts and brought yesterday from the Library of Congress for display by Thomas P. of the manuscript division. JUDGE CONSIDERS LA FONTAINE CASE Sentence of Gambler for In- come Tax Evasion Will Be Passed in Few Days. Judge W. Calvin Chesnut of the United States District Court at Balti- more had under consideration today the case of James A. La Fontaine, Washington gambler, who pleaded guilty Thursday to income tax evasicn. Senterice will be passed within a few days, the judge announced yesterday afterncon after c};:hmnuz La Fontaine testify in his own al Taking the stand after his attor- neys had pleaded for a light sentence for the 63-year-old gambler, La Fon- tain, explained why he had failed to include in his 1927 income tax returns $11,622.62 he made the year before by gambling. He told the court in a voice little more than a whisper that inasmuch as he had made the money illegally he thought it exempt from income tax payments. However, in 1928 and the years following, he said, he had in- cluded his gambling profits in his re- turns, because “some one told me I was improperly making returns.” The soberly dressed, gray-haired man unhesitatingly admitted to the court he had “been a gambler all my life." “I started out in 1898,” he said, “but quit in 1911 until 1914, when I started up again. He said his income over the years since 1914 had totaled about $800,000 and that the funds from his gambling house were kept in a Prince Georges | County bank under an account entitled “The La Fontaine-Stamm Establish- ment.” La Fontaine was indicted Thursday on two counts charging failure to pay $12,972.59 in taxes in 1926 and 1927. Upon pleading guilty to the 1927 count District Attorney Simon E. Sobeloff nolle prossed the first count and in- formed the court La Fontaine had set- tled his civil indebtedness to the Gov- ernment for $206,651.09. Arlington Citizens to Elect. New officers will be chosen by the Arlington Citizens' Association Tuesday night, when the group will meet at | Patrick Henry School at 8 o'clock. Proposal to Rout Depression With Beans Is Scorned| Scheme of Californian 3 Held Violation of Law by Corporation Counsel. A plan to drive the depression away with beans met a rather chilly recep- tion at the District Building today. The scheme originated in the mind of one Oscar O. Ayers, who hails from the sunny State of California. Briefly, it would work like this: Every mer- chant in every city in the country would display a glass jar filled to ca- ity with beans. To his customers, kets would be sold for a small con- sideration. Each ticket would entitle the customer to one guess at the num- ber of beans in the jar. The revenue derived, after deducting e cost of runnlnsn the scheme and™of giving prizes the best guessers, was esti- mated by Mr. Ayers at $3,500,000,000 per annum. With characteristically Californian enthusiasm, he explained such a sum would even pay off the sol- diers’ bonus bonds in time. His scheme was sent to the “Secre- tary of State of the District of Colum- |5: bia.” Eventually it found its way into the hands of Corporation Counsel Wil- liam W. Bride. He ruled that the scheme would be a violation of our gift enterprise statute. What would be done should the en- | 5 terprise be started was not disclosed. Y 1 I | | Lowest .. | Capital (current month to date): THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Mostly cloudy with continued mild temperature to- night and tomorrow; gentle southerly winds. Maryland—Mostly cloudy with con- tinued mild temperature tonight. and tomorrow, except probably showers in extreme west portion tomorrow; gentle to_moderate southeast or south winds. Virginia—Mostly cloudy with con- tinued mild temperature tonight and tomorrow, except probably showers in extreme west portion tomorrow; gentle to moderate southeast or south winds. ‘West Virginia—Cloudy tonight and tomorrow, probably showers tomorrow: cooler in northwest portion tonight and in north portion tomorrow. Report for Last 24 Hours. ‘Temperature. Barometer. Inches. 4pm. . 8 pm. .... Midnight 4am. . 8am. . 11 am. Highest 0 p.m. Yearago.. 56 3 . 61,7:30am. Yearago.. 47 Tide Tables, (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Tomorrow. 5:53a.m. 12:08 a.m. 6:15 p.m. - .. 12:29pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises. Sun today.... 6:56 Sun, tomorrow 6:57 4:51 Moon, today.. 2:51am. 3:22p.m. Automobile lamps to be lighted, one~ half hour after sunset. Rainfall Monthly rainfall in inches in the High Low . High Low Sets. 4:51 1931, 1.56 1.36 2.50 2.78 Month. January February March April May June . July . August . September .. October ... November Weather in Various Citles, Temperatur Average, 3.55 3.27 Btations. sIuIH “* qusp geep *1ajowozeg ** Awpaarsar g0 82 32383 Baltimore, Birmingham Bismarck, N. 8.C. 3028 Cloudy Chicago, TIL....30.08 018 Clear Cincinnati, Ohio 30:20 30 R Cleveland, Ohio. 30:18 8. C.30.30 lo.., 30.08 29.70 Helena, . Huron, S. k.. 30.12 Indianapolis,ind 30.16 Jacksonville,Fla. 30.16 Kansas City, Mo 30. Mllm:‘ r’s‘.i.‘ Tex... Tex. ont.... 288523828388, 288.28 883255 a, Nebl Prtiadeipbia Phoenix, Ariz. pittsourgh. Portland, Portiand, Ea¢ Lake o1ty. 29 Sin ‘Antonio. . 2086 San Diego, Calif29.68 Sen_ Francisco. 29.84 t. Paul. 2] genku«. 30.40 5 30 FOREIGN. (1 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) Stations. 'remp::nun. ther. G an Part cloud: London, Engla: Ll y Sioudy 3 vestry book of Truro Parish the follow- 28 the thickness of the wall to be a brick 7| fer and Pet ‘Wagoner, church wardens; ‘ashington's book of the parish, , assistant chief —~—Star Staff Photos. CORNER STONE LAID Completion of Vestry House Washington Planned to Honor Bicentennial. Special Dispatch to The Stat. POHICK, Va., November 31.—In the presence of a large and distinguished gathering, Pohick Church yesterday laid the corner stone of the vestry house, Wwhose erection at this time is designed téoml;lono{ the bicentennial of both the of ‘Washington and the founding of Truro Parish, which he served for 23 years as vestryman. Neither President Hoover nor Gav. John Garland Pollard were. able to at- tend the ceremonies as and Xpressin Tregre! st press o official business ted their par-| ticipation in the oon’s ceremonies. Yesterday's ceremonies opened ap- propriately in the beautiful old mrch which Washington helped to bulld in 1768 to replace the original structure which stood near the. present Lewis Chapel. With George Mason, he se- lected a site midway between Mount Vernon and Gunston , helped to draw the plans, arrange the sesting and oversee the details of its erection. The bul was completed several years later and it was immediately ap- parent that a second building must be erected to house the business and secu- lar ":hrmn of the then rapidly growing pal L. Order Entered in Book. So on June 5, 1772, we see in the old ing, “Ordered, That a vestry house be built at this church, of brick, 24 feet by 18, with a plank floor and inside chimney and three windows, 9-foot pitch, and that the church wardens do agree with workmen to build the same, and a half.” This was signed by Lee Massey, rector; Thomas Withers Cof- George Mason, Edward Payne, G. Wash< ington, Daniel McCarty, Martin Cock- burn, G. William Fairfax, Thomas Ford and Alexander Henderson, recorded by Jngn B':;ry. clerk. n ruary 25, 1774, this order was rescinded, th ‘ash wai -outlined yesterday by Charles H. Callahan of Alexandris, well known au- thority on the life of Washington, who stressed particularly the high caliber R L of the parish an z He told of his first memories of the building and its semi-dilapidated condi- restoration under the pastorate of Rev. Dr. Samuel Wallis, members of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association and other friends. o biace of Bishop S 8r, Goorse spoke in place of L 8t. Tucker, took as his them tion to the positive faith ment of 159 years sgo which =n tn vutryn 4 its Wnl presen! on ity finish the endeavor the older generation had the faith to start. Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy o L 86 Clear (Noon. ‘Greerwich tme. today) (FayaD). Azores. in Horta (F87&uirent observations.) a 78 gl Bermu n. Hamilton. Bermu n Juan, na. Cuba B canal feone.] TAKE HEIRLOOMS FROM LEE HOME Police Asked to Guard $500,- 000 Collection After Rob- bery Is Reported. WIDOW OF GENERAL’S GRANDSON LOSES RELICS George Washington Valuables Re- moved From Wyoming Ave- nue Residence. Headquarters detectives today were making an intensive search for :nme thieves who stole 17 valuable George Washington heirlooms from the home of Mrs. Robert E. Lee, 2140 Wyoming "While the search in progreie, e ch was Mrs. Cazenove Lee, jr., acting c?;um of the District Committee of the Roberf E. Lee Memorial Foundation, requ the Police Department to assign officers Pl December 9 and 10 Textile )(Ineum.‘ 2&30 g street. ‘The robbery of the Wyoming avenue residence was confidentially reported to the Detective Bureau some time ago, nhl!:h L'll not made public until last Removed Last Summer. ‘The heirlooms, carefully preserved by successive generations of the Lee family, were taken from the locked and boarded ‘Wyoming avenue home last Summer, while Mrs. Lee, widow of Col. Robert E. Lee, grandson of the Confederate gen- eral, was abroad. Mrs. Lee did not learn of the robbery until she returned from Europe a few weeks ago. The antiques, valued at about $8,000, were itemized as follows by Mrs. Lee: . A.dozen glass pieces, including claret and port wine gl and glass finger bowls;_tgo dark blue glass salt cellars, trimmed silver; two silver pepper cruets and one silver mouffonier. Other Pieces in Vault. The stolen articles, police wers. told, represented only a part of Mrs. Lee's collection, as she placed a number of silver pleces, more valuable than those now missing, in a safe deposit vault before leaving for Europe. Police, unable to find any evidence that the house had been broken into, :meluded the robbers used a duplicate ey. ‘The Memorial Foundation’s exhibi- BY POHICK CHURCHS2:2 n, - Thus far, detectives working on' the case have been unable to unearth any clues to the identity of the thieves. "LIEUT. HINTON SPEAKS Lieut. Walter Hinton, former service aviator who was first. to fly Amntk,mthnwmdh‘gml‘:: or 1 speaker at a meeting of Phi Gamma Legal Fraternity of Na- tional . University. in _the Eli-‘m House last night. Hinton “ Experiences and Transatlantic bt Rachie, chief justice of the fraternity, presided over the meeting. facing the mumndi;uhmm High- ‘Way, were arranged "Masonic sym- g’pu Oeremonies were in charge ), ful Master Skidmore former rand master ot Virgini 2ep- lormer ter T Tesenting the Grand Lodge. 'g; famous trowel used by Washington in laying the corner stone of the National Capitol was used by each of the high ranking Masons in turn, succeeded by Goodwin and the members of the and by each of the vestry- men. Callahan presented to Rev. C. A. 35 troim wood faown on the eriginal made from wood grown on Mount Vernon estate. Data Placed in Stone. In the corner stone were s copy of the minutes of the vestry of June 5, 1772, ordering the erection of the building; the minutes of February 25, 1774, rescinding that order; the minutes of the vestry on June 5, 1830, Droject again; dhe minutes of e yosty project again; the minutes of meeting on May 28, 1931, when the building and finance committees wut appointed. The signatures of the pres ent rector and vestrymen were ing cluded, as well as nalls from the origi| church, a copy of the Ams War Mothers' Magazine and the sy lement to the Alexandria Gazette o lovember 19, 1931, giving comp data on the Bicentennial celebration. Among the distinguished visitors Rev. Dr. Wallls, rector emeritus of ‘Truro Parish, under whose leade: the work of restoration was terest nlmd m:rer):c uttentl%x;o :‘u original copy of the vestry W] has been restored by the experts of Library of Congress, rebound, an now kept there for safety. tion following the ‘Civil War, before its | in the custody e an exhorta- | W of the vestry-