Evening Star Newspaper, February 4, 1932, Page 17

Washington News WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION The Zhening far Society and WASHINGTON, D. THURSDAY, ACTION DUE ON RIFT WITH . S. WORKERS AT LABOR SESSION Federation Council Is Silent on Proposed Body to Stop Insurgents. INVITATION TOVPAHLEY AT GENEVA REJECTED World Conference Held Inoppor- tune Despite Offer of European Labor to Send Delegates Here. e C n of Labor is hind closed doors and t r dis- ance of relat by Federal the council al to organize Gove is cor fostered by the federa Refuse to Comment. 1be day but a statem was issued as No would injury he Fed- d most AUTO OVERTURNS adopted at the of the f CITIZENS PROTEST CHANGE IN ZONING Reclassification Sought to Permit Funeral Chapel Near Wis- consin Avenue zens' Association protested against 1 weeks ago with | tern avenue the petition 1is ed from a resi- stricted area and oot C area to sec- oot C area. This construction of a the petitioned ter- association is ASSOC ted another reso- reduction in the employes was voiced n in another resolution. was held in the audi- School. Wiscon: DISTRICT GA;VHNG BILLS REPORTED FAVORABLY | Proposals Would Provide Padlock for Gambling Houses and Higher Penalties, ighten the gambling which were left > Senate’s calendar when | gress ended, were rts aga police subcommittee Committee, headed Carey, Republican, of Rover, who re- Committee to was on hand to ibcommittee de- acted on without hearings ast vear. | s a padlock pro-| other a new pen- frc-‘\ 0SS AND BACON SPEAK TO BUILDERS TONIGHT ill Address Session loyers' Association Here. of Con- of New a general ‘Trades Em- Association tonight in the Palm Room of the Willard Hotel. The ses- slon will begin at 7:30 o'clock Representative Goss will speak on his bill to require contractors on building projects to name their sub- contractors, material men and supply men. The New York congressman will discuss the Bacon-Davis wage law, of which he is co-author Other speakers will include John B. Oolpoys, editor of the Trades Unionist E. J. Murphy, president of the Buy-in- Washington Council; W. Howard Gott- lieb, C. Wohlgemuth jr., and Frederick ves E. W. Goss Ro 5 acon at | oyes | | pital in| & | was public | 1 J. Rice E. A. Rule. president of the associa- at tion, will be installed, Austria’s Bicentennial Gift 4 { { i pedest STATUETTE OF WASHINGTON PRESENTED U. S. mount are al of ebony. Tl g the nine States c KILLING DRIVER J. E. McConkey, 21, of Oxon Hill, Md., Found Dead Beneath Car. McConkey d instantly 21, of Oxon Hill early today urned near avenue n E. J. Ball of he headlights of the over- nd upon investigation found the machine had skidded from the road and rolled down a 10-foot em- | bankment. McConkey's body was pinned h & door. He was alone in the he cause of the accident m Bowmsn, Casualty Hos- nounced the young man dead a son of Mr. and Mrs nkey, was home on a brief Charles College, Bal- udying for the ing to Twelfth ts to help his father, a time of the accident. | was educated at St al School, Anacostia, nzaga College. He 15| fi brother, rs. P. H Margaret Mc- McCc John J. vacation timore, riesthood and Water trucker, at tk ‘The yout McC lat survived Ambulance in Crash. A woman and two men were injured yesterday in a crash between an Army ambulance and an automobile. Pvt. Robert Murphy, U. 8. A, driver of the ambulance, which was bound from Fort Myer, Va., to Walter Reed Hospital, suffered brain concussion, cuts and bruises, Sergt. Frank Lanckton, U. S. A, retired, who was being taken to the hospital for medical tieatment, was cut and bruised. Both were trans- ferred to private automobiles and taken to the institution. Mrs, E. B. Bagby, 58, driver of the involved in the crash, sufferec a n arm and cuts about e head. Mrs, Ba widow f the first pastor of Colum: Heights Christian i was treated by Dr. R. L. Sexton. The crash occurre nth ¢nd Mon- roe streets. riding in the ambulance escaped inju ‘Woman Suffers Cuts. es collided at First and treets who was riding in an ven by Comdr. Frederico naval attache of the Spanish and Senorita Caroline Mon- daughter, was treated a ncy Hospital. The other car driven by Dr. Augustus Maish, 55, 38, colored, 4818 Sheriff heast, was cut about the face ar y when the machine in which she was riding overturned, following a crash with ancther automobile at Rhode Island and Florida avenues. She re- ceived treatment at Freedmen's Hos- pital The automobile in which she was a passenger was driven by Linwood Tibbs, 36, colored, 5308 Gay_street northeast the other car by Hiram Swildy, 32 .andover, Md. Neither driver w { AUTOMOBILE PRESENTED Vernon I. Richardson Gets Show Prize. Vernon I. Richardson, 4811 W street, presented with yesterday's gift automobile at the Automobile Show now in session at the Washington Audi- torium. Yesterday's session was the best at- tended, with nearly 7,500 persons visiting the exposition to inspect the st examples of automobile manu- facture. TAX!I DRIVER HELD UP An armed bandit early today held up Herman W. Dixon, taxicab driver, and robbed him of $6 near Four Mile Run, Va. Dixon, who lives in Capitol Heights, Md., said the man hailed him Pennsylvania avenu§g and Twenty- fifth street. Crash Vietim | the eleventh JAMES E. McCONKEY. CAPITAL PORTAL MIAY HONOR BLAR Senate Committee Considers Tribute in Naming Sixteenth Street Entrance. The Sixteenth street entrance to the Natfonal Capital would be named Montgomery Blair Portal, in commem- oration of the public service of the late Montgomery Blair, who was Postmaster General in the cabinet of President Lincoln, under a resolution approved today by the Subcommittee on Streets and Avenues of the Senate District Committee. The resolution, sponsored by Senators Goldsborough of Maryland and Bing- ham of Connecticut, provides that this Sixteenth street and the adjacent park reservation at the intersection of Six- teenth street. North Portal drive, East- ern avenue and the District line. Other Measures Favored. The subcommittee, of which Senator | Glenn of Illinois is chairman, also acted favorably on two other measures, |one & joint resolution to authorize | the Commissioners to close upper Water | street between Twenty-second —and Twenty-third streets; and the other a bill {0 authorize the opening and clos- ing of roadways at the District Work- house at Occoquan, Va. | The bill relating to the closing of |upper Water street is intended to fit in with the plans of the National Cap- |ital Park and Planning Commission for the general treatment of that area, and also authorizes an exchange of |land between the Park and Planning Commission and the American Pharma- | ceutical Association, which is planning |to erect a building in that vicinity. After closing this portion of Water street, the Commissioners would trans- fer the area to the director of Public Buildings and Public Parks. The di- rector is then authorized to transfer to the pharmaceutical association the strip of land adjoining the property |owned by that association so that the location of the pharmaceutical building |will harmonize with the general plan of the Park Commission and the Fine Arts Commission. Land Transfer Proposal. At the same time the pharmaceutical association would agree, under the reso- lution, to transfer to the Government a strip of land along Twenty-third street for the widening of that street as an approach to the Lincoln Me- morial. The subcommittee amended the bill to require the consent in writing of three-fourths of the property owners on the side of the square facing Water street and another amendment to en- |able the District Government to enter the closed part of the street for sewer work. DELAY APPROVED ON CHOICE OF SITE FOR NEW SCHOOL Delegation of 80 Opposes Plan for Elementary Build- ing on Allison Street. PROTESTS ARE HEARD BY EDUCATION BOARD Postponement of Land Deal Backed as Stormy Session Is Threatened. An aggressive delegation of 80 men and women, including representatives of citizens' associations and business and church interests of the community, won a partial victory in a fight to pre- vent construction of a new colored ele- mentary school at Allison street and | Rock Creek Church road late yesterday. | when in a lively session with the Board |of Education it secured the board's | determination k postponement of | the final purchase of land needed for he proposed school during the audience, h occurred at the public | meeting of the School Board, bitterness | threatened to break out as statements | were made by spokesmen for the group which the colored members of the board construed as _aspersions upon th Under the chair ruling of Ra Abram Simon, president of the however, the heat was dispelled e board took on on a motion made | by Henry Gi Ask Postponement of Deal | | The motion was board re- board by s W As tate men; Rev. W. pastor, Lewis Memorial Protestant Church; easurer, Rock Creek Cem John A McCarthy, secreta gan brief that Methodist | Howell, | tery, an ID. J. Dui In the contended the protesting group here is no need for a ol at Alll n street and k Church road. because, it the colored school popula- s It their cen- neighborhood of the proposed s live in Brookland and some live in Maryland Williams’ Letter Included. ded also a copy of & liams, as- | attorney for the n street , just h of the ) tery of the Soldiers’ Home,” Mr. wrote, according to the sub- ed brief, “have been used constantly by bootleggers for the last several years. The United States attorney’s office has padlocked three different premises section within the la: 1ave some now in jail fr n for bootlegging whis] (have written reports from enforcement | of to the effect that several parties residing in that section are still con- ing their bootlegging activities.” It was du oral discussion of the points in their brief that spokesmen for the protesting group aroused the ire of | board members. One of the man dele- gates referred to the alleged bootleg- Zing operations of the *colored” resi- dents of the community, and Dr. J Hayden Johnson, colored member of the board and dean of its members in le %h of service, countered “On my way down to this bullding,” Dr. Johnson said, “I saw policemen pgl» ting a padlock on a handsome red brick Tresidence right up the street, and that is a white neighborhood.” New Development Planned. Another man, who said he represent- ed the Cafritz Construction Co., an- nounced that his concern planned to build & white residential development in the immediate neighborhood of the site for the proposed school. This statement was greeted with applause from the assembled throng, which crowd- ed every foot of space in the bbard room. Rev. F. I A. Bennett, a colored member, objected to the “grandstand play” of such applause, and Rabbi Simon ended the demonstration from the chalr, adding that the board would not be swayed by applause of any issue. In conclusion, the protesting group contended that the present frame struc- ture, known in school circles as “the Bates road portable” is adequate for “the present and future needs of the colored residents of this area.” The plea was ended by a reference to the housing of 53 white pupils in portables at the Keene School in the same vicinity. A second lively discussion was threat- ened in the same meeting when vigorous opposition to the excusing of four un- identified children from further attend- ance at school because of their mental condition was presented by Maj. Gran- ville Munson, U. 8. A., of the Judge Ad- vocate General's Office. Maj. Munson appeared before the board on behalf of two of the excluded children and ar- gued against the maintenance of a pol- icy “which leaves no place in the school system for these children.” The chil- dren were relieved of school attendance rights when psychiatrists of the school system adjudged them “non-educable.” ‘The board maintained its stand with respect to the children on the ground that it has no means of providing & special class for only four such children, Would Amend Book Law. Continuing with its regular order of business, the board approved a motion of Mr. Gilligan that the Legislative Committee, of which he is chairman, submit to the Commissioners an amend- ment to the present “free text book law” providing free text books for night school students. The board will ask the Commissioners to transmit the bill through the proper channels of Con- gress for enactment.; In a brief discus- sion of the text book situation at yes- terday’s meeting Mr, Gilligan said that BAY RUM DRINKERS| VIOLATE DRY LAV, | .. STORESTOLD As a Lotion, However, It’s Legal Article, Inspectors Notify Merchants. EMPTY BOTTLES TESTIFY TO ALLEY CONSUMPTION Doran Declares Liquid, as at Pres- ent Denatured, Is Unfit Beverage. Inspectors of the Bureau of In- dustrial Alcohol have notified Wash- ington merchants that bay rum as a | lotion -is & legal article, but that for | beverage purposes it is llegal. Enforcement of this phase of the prohibition law is extremely difficult, it was admitted by Dr. James M. | Doran, commissioner of industrial alco- hol. Protests ‘against the continued drinking of bay rum in the Capital | have come to him, he said, from various “dry” sources. And plenty of evidence exists in Washington that bay rum is |sold in considerable quantity, and that |if it is being used in strictly legal fashion the & of the city have become suddenly popular places for | shaving and the treatment of the scalp. | | Flock of Empties Found. | As | sectt Jempty urvey of alleys in one downtown disclosed " large numbers of | bay rum bottles which gaye every vidence of been emptied re- From one Government source learned today that laborers are to clean up one certain Most of the empties | rum bottles { in most drug stores | and 10 cent stores, and | of cutsomers appears to be y cases where it is re- | sorted to at all. In one store a cus- | tomer making an investigation looked {all over the display counter, but found | no bay ru per 1stomer. lied, and a_storage | ace beneath counter, he bottle in a bag and hande: the counter in exchange for 10 cents, Conviction Difficult. She put d it over it would | ult for a clerk to ustomer wanted the bay rum to soothe & stinging face after a | close shave, to Tub on his head, or to | pour into his stomach. To prove a case in_court for conviction of such a clerk ling the article would also be difficult, |1t 1s admitted Warnings have been circulated, how- | ever, through official inspectors, that selling bay rum for a “beverage” is an rohibition act w on sale is ab- nk." declared Dr with any furt make it unfit thus deprive article to | , and many years. “Let any reasonable man taste bay | rum, and 'see if he likes it.” said Dr. Doran. “If the country's going to take to that stuff you might as give the country back to the Indians The present formula which denatures bay rum, Dr. Doran considers to be sufficient’ to make it unfit to drink The formula is known as No. 40 and contains as one of its most active in- gredients @ substance known as “brucine,” which Dr. Doran charac- terized as one of the bitterest things known to taste. Samples Investigated. Careful investigation has been made of samples of bay rum sold over the | counters here in the Capital, Dr. Doran | said, and they have all been found to | comply with the Government regul | tions. ~ The liquid contains “ofl of b which comes from the West Indian I lands and is high in percentage of alco- hol. Most of it analyzes about 57 per cent alcohol, Dr. Doran said. It is properly denatured. The bay rum industry in the Virgin Islands has formally asked the Gov- ernment here to put no more “medica- ments” or_adulteration into bay rum. Through Trade Commissioner Taylor the Virgin Islands government recently made formal represamtations to the Treasury Department, fearing that | some more adulteration would be added to this staple product of the islands Statistics show that more than 80,- 000 gallons of bay rum were imported from the Virgin Islands last fiscal year. Some imports also came from other West Indian islands. | GAS. CO. GRANTED TIME Has Until June 1 to File Claim of Value Ordered in 1931. The Public Utilities Commission today granted to the Washington Gas Light Co. an extension of time until June 1 for the filing of a claim of value, to be used in valuation proceedings ordered by the commision last year. The claim first was directed to be pre- sented by February 1, but the gas com- pany stated it had been impossible for them to get it ready in time, and asked for the extension. When the present “free text book law” was enacted “we all thought it included the night schools as well as the day schools.” After discussing the problem of non- resident children in District schools for 15 minutes during yesterday’s session, the School Board failed to act. Dr. Ballou had recommended “that the matter of non-resident pupils be con- sidered,” but he failed to make any specific recommendation as to any ac- tion the board might take. He told the board that Maryland and Virginia “un- questionably are congesting our schools and they are costing us between $200,- 000 and $300,000 a year for their education.” In response to a query by George ‘Whitwell, recently appointed member, Dr. Ballou reminded the board that the corporation counsel had given the opin- jon that the Board of Education has the authority to ban non-resident pu- pils. When the possibility of retaliation by the State colleges which now admit District students without tuition was proposed, the discussion waned and no action was taken. Dr. Ballou explained that he brought the question up only because he believed he would be questioned about the board's present stand on the non-resident pupil question during the coming budget hear- ings before the subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. He said there were “a good many members of Congress” who want non-resident pupils kept out of District schools, |at his bedside, Henry | man sat in FEBRUARY 4, 1932. General PAGE B—1 Auto Race Ends in River DRIVER HELD IN TIDAL BASIN CRASH. ent linger p ull machines wer d the race enc Brown o » machines coll 1225 Half street southwest, drive is held by PUANTOETEND POLICE LEAVES HIT BY COMMISSIONERS Would Cost $175,000 in Sal- aries and Equipment, Re- port Declares. OBJECT TO INCREASING COSTS OF GOVERNMENT Officials Declare They Are in Sym- pathy With Purpose of Bill, However. It would cost approximately 000 at a time when gover economy is so important to the proposal to lengthen the leave of members of the District Police and Fire Departments and the United States park police, the District Commissioners today reported to the House District Committee, registering their opposit to the measure at the presen The Commissioners, however, sympathy with the purposes of t posed legislation. They y require 50 additional ~ policer firemen and 3 park policemen Increased Cost Shown. For the District police and firemen for salaries, uniforms and equipme; the total cost e fi 1 75 and for the additional park pclice, salaries and equipment, the cost | weuld' be $6,450 e Commissioners feel $175,- sessior that, in view third precinct | 1ed by Floyd B. Brown, | se car Washington joined h street ea: today. Brown is at Gal- Police who Seventeenth sf is evidence, | ar the John Paul Jones Both cars are the property of Arthur Hallman, THOSOUGHTAFTE A0LD P SHOOTING Henry Abrams in Serious Condition—Companion Es- capes—Jewelry Taken. With his mother maintaining a vigil Abrams, 30, shot as he and another atom the 1600 an street, was in a at Emergency r times la: bile block of Bu critical condition today | Hospital. Meanwhile, Was! and Balti- more_police were T g an_intensive search for Harry Yudelevit, 1620 Alli- son street, named as the man who fired the shots, Police of both cities also were seek- ing two men sal C been with Yudelevit at the shooting, which occurred hold-up in which Abrams William P Moses, 1620 B et, declared he was robbed ¢ lued at $4,- 600, Moses e name of Yudelevit as who fired the pistol. Auto Found Abandoned. The automobile used by the men who participated in tk ~up was found abandoned todas erman avenue and Kenyon street, It was taken to the police garage, where it was to be ex- amined for fingerpr It was marked with four bullet hc Meanwhile, however, police were working on the theory the gunplay may have been the result of an underworld feud Moses and Abrar ol " police man s who also is =aid to have been living at the Buchanan street address, had just driven up to the curb in front of the house when the three men appeared Before Moses had a chance to move, he told police, he was forced to hand over his 3-carat d scarfpin, worth $1,500, and a 5'-carat diamond ring, valued at $3.100 ‘Two of the men were on Moses' side of the automobile, he said, while the third—whom he named as_Yudelevit— stood on Abrams' side elevit, he added, suddenly opened fire, each of the four shots taking effect in Abrams’ body. Then, Moses continued, the trio ran to a small sedan parked on the other side of the street and sped away. He was not certain whether a fourth man was walting in the car ready for the getaway, he said. Moses got out of his machine, draw- ing an automatic as he did so, and fired eight shots at the fl g auto- mobile, he said ‘I think some of them hit the mark,” he told police. The fugitive car almost overturned as it swung around the corner of Sev- enteenth and Buchanan streets Policeman J. A. Duley, tenth pre- cinct, who was patroling his beat on Webster street, between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, heard the shoot- ing and began. running toward the scene. He had hardly gotten started, however, when the fleeing machine swerved around the corner and headed toward him. He stepped into the street and signaled for the driver to stop, but was forced to leap to safety as the car bore down on him. The car, running without lights and minus & rear license plate, continued east on Webster street, turned north into Sixteenth street and di-appeared. Duley, also was uncertain whether it contained three or four men, he said. Four Wounds Found. Meanwhile, Abrams had been taken to the hospital, where physicians found he had been wounded once in the abdo- men, twice in the left leg and once in the right leg. His mother, Mrs. Martha Abrams, 813 Ninth street, was notified of the shooting by police and hastened to his bedside. 3 A description of Yudelevit was broad- cast immediately after the gunplay. Both Moses and Abrams Wwere unable to describe the other men. ' On_the theory one or more of them may have been wounded, however, hospitals were asked to communicate with police at once should any one apply for treat- ment of such injuries. Moses, according to police, was warned about two weeks ago that “something is going to happen,” the warning >eing issued by a man promi- nent in bling activities here. It was because of this “tip” that Moses began ca¥rying & pistol, police said they were told. int d —Star Staff Photo, Rain Brings New Problem for D. C. Jobless Committee Keeps Men Idle for Third Day, Requiring Pay Decision. Today's rain added another problem {to the list of those to be solved by the District Committee on Employment. The committee is employing 1,080 men on outside work, the wages, $13.50 a week, being furnished by the Com- mu Chest. t had previou been decided that when the men reported for work, but were prevented from working by rain, they would be paid anyway, so long as they did not lose more than two consecutive days be- cause of rain Today's rain, however, was the third consecutive day of rain in the week The situation has not arisen before and the committee is now wondering whether 1t shall extend its rules to three days a week, and also wondering | 0 HEADS AGANST NEREASE I TAKES ‘Bride Tells Senators They | Will Be Slow to Approve Bills | Leading to Boost. The District Commissioners will be slow to approve any new District meas- ures at this session of Congress that would lead to additional taxation, Cor- poration Counsel Bride told & Senate | subcommittee vesterday afternoon dur- | ing consideration of a bill to pay one year'’s salary to families of policemen |and firemen who die from diseases | or_injury contracted in line of duty. | " The Commissioners have not formal- | 1y reported on the bill because they | are awaiting the views of the Budget | Bureau. Mr. Bride, however, told the | Senators the city heads are inclined |to oppose it because it would affect | taxation. The Commissioners, he said, are unwilling at present to recommend | legislation which would require addi- ional taxes. \ | Senator Copeland of New York | wanted to know if this was a flat rule | regardless of the merits of the pro- posals. Mr. Bride said he presumed | each bill would be judged separately, but that was the general aim of the city officials. The subcommittee de- cided to postpone consideration of the pending bill. Another bill which would give po- licemen and firemen 30 instead of 20 days of annual leave was postponed at the request of its sponsor, Senator Copeland, who sald he would not press it at this time. The subcommittee decided to recom- mend favorably to the District Com- mittee the bill urged by Corporation Counsel Bride to expedite the issuance of subpoenas for witnesses before the Police and Fire Trial Boards. Senator Copeland registered his opposition to this bill, while Senators Carey of Wy- oming and Bankhead of Alabama ap- proved it. LIONS PLAN RECEPTION Plans for twenty-second district reception, to be held February 23, at Frederick, Md., in honor of Inter- national President Hyer, were discussed at yesterday's meeting of the Washing- ton Lions Club in the Mayflower Hotel. Rosa P. Jarman, operatic soprano, sang several numbers at the meeting yester- day. President Edgar N, Brawner presided. Raising Funds for Nursery. The Garfield Parent-Teacher Associa- tlon, which is raising funds for a nursery to be established in the vicinity of Garfield School, devoted last night's meeting to a discussion of child health. The principal speaker was Mrs. Eliza- beta7 K. Peoples, comm#nity center di- rector, m the Police Wo before Congress The Comm: is bureau has been actorily as a pa Department and th er legislation, Hearing Scheduled. y Subcommittee tomorrow morning in the House Dis trict Committee room on the bill to | extend the powers of the District Com- missioners. The National Rifle Association of America has indorsed the firearms bill | pending before the House District Com- | mittee and urges its enactment at an | early date. The faculty of Western High School submitted today its indorsement of the present method of appointment of members of the Board of Education 'THRONG SEES MAN PLUNGE INTO RIVER Policeman Phelps Rescues Richard E. Simmons From Pier of Key Bridge. Richard Earle Simmons, 29, of 3241 N street, was hauled from the Potomac River late vesterday after he tumbl or dived from the topmost span of Key | Bridge during the rush hour traffic Simmons’ famil id he had taken the plunge into the Potomac on several previous occasions. He was uninjured by the impact with the water and swam to the pier of the bridge, where he clung until he was rescued by Policeman L. D. Phelps of the Traffic Bureau. Phelps was not fied of the fall by a passing pedestria The policeman secured & boat near | District end of the bridge and, rowing under the bridge, heard the faint cries of Simmons. The policeman rowed ashore and taok him to Georgetown Hospital, wnere he | was given first aid ana pronounced out of danger, Traffic on both sides of the bridge was disrupted for some time while motorists and pedestrians crowded along the ballustrade of the bridge to peer into the dark waters below. Simmons, the father of three chil- dren, left home yesterday with a suit- case which he packed without an- nouncing his destination A radio alarm broadcast by police brought several emergency cars to the bridge and the officers soon cleared away the crowds. DINNER HONORS TOWNES, COMMANDER OF G. A. R. Representative Welsh of Pennsyl- vania Speaks at Potomac De- partment’s Reception. Samuel P. Townes, national com- mander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, was guest of honor at the banquet and recepiion given last night by the Department of the Potomac, G. A. R, at the Burlington Hotel. Representative George A. Welsh of Pennsylvania was the speaker, In ac- cordance with the annual custom, Mrs Nan Slattery, president of the Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, Daughters of Union Veterans, presented flowers to Mr. Tow The banquet was at- tended by 225 persons. Besides the commander in chief, the guests Included Past National Com- mander in Chief John King of Balti- more, Mrs. Annie Poole Atwood of Wallaston, Mass., national president of the Woman's Relief Corps; Mrs. Har riet J. Goetz of Buffalo, N. Y., tional president of the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, and Mrs. Doris B. Merryman of Toledo, Ohio, national senior vice president ELKS ELECT ELGEN ‘Will Be Initiated With 100 Others at Session Next Week. Rily E. Elgen, Washington's new member of the Public Utilities Commis- sion; Mark Lansburgh, merchant, and 100 others were elected to membership last night in the Washington Order of Elks. ‘The new members the 50th anniversa: class, will be initiated at a spec! session February 11 by Grand Exalted Ruler John R. Coen. Following the initiation there will be a banquet celebrating the an- niversary at the Mayflower Hotel at 8 pm. to be known as