Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1932, Page 14

A—14 x» TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS | CAUSE SIX DEATHS IN LAST 24 HOURS Three Were Victims of Mis- Ask Hoover t haps Yesterday—Three In- jured Severaj Days Ago. INQUESTS SCHEDULED TODAY IN TWO CASES Retired U. S. Employe, 89 Years 01d, and Colored Man, 93, In- cluded in List of Dead. ‘Traffic accidents claimed a toll of six deaths curing the last 24 hours. Three men, one colored, were killed in acci- dents yesterday, while an elderly wom- an, a colored man and a colored youth died in hospitals from injuries received in accidents during the past week. The dead: Stephen F. Hamilton, 89, retired Gov- ernment_employe and Civil War vet- eran, of the 1930 block of Jacksoa street northeast; Theodore Beyer, 72, of the 3100 block of O street, and Morton West, 35, colored, of Oxon Hill, Md. Catherine M. Straub, 62 years old, who died this morning at Gallinger Hospital from injuries received in an accident on the Mount Vernon High- way last Sunday. ‘Theodore Berry, 93, colored, of the 200 block of Q sirect, died in Casualty Hospital from injuries received May 15, and Raymend Taylor, 19, colored. of the 1200 block of Fifteenth street north- ho died from injuries received 21. Inquests Scheduled. Inquests were to be held at the Dis- trict morgue today into the deaths of Mr. Hamilton and the colored man killed yesterday. The former was fatally injured when struck Ly an automobile operated by ! W. F. Scanlon, 32, of the 1000 block of ‘Twenty-second street northeast. Scan- lon was realeased under $1,000 bond for appearance at the inquest. The elderly man was struck at Rhode Is. I land avenue and Mills street northeast. Mr. Beyer was hit by a Falls Church bus while on Pennsylvania avenue at! ‘Twenty-fiftn street carly last night and | died shortly after of a fractured skull. Cary D. Hall, 27, of Ballston, Va., the! driver of the bus, was arrested and | charged with reckless driving. Later| he was released under $500 bond for appearance at the coroner's inquest. West was killed vesterday when the automobile in which he was riding( crashed with another machine at First | and N streets southwest, injuring five other colored men, several seriously. | Raymond E. Tarlton, 25, of Oxon Hill, Md. and Raymond Dorsey of the | 1100 block of New Jersey avenue, the drivers of the automobiles, were slight- | ly injured. Both were held pending the | inquest. Others injured in the crash | were Louis Thompson. 27, of the 900 | block of Third street southeast; Edward | Simms, 19. of Oxon Hill, and William Tanner, 25, of the 1200 block of Half street southeast. They were all treated | at Emergency Hospital. : Pclice to Seck Sailor. H Berry was struck on Bladensburg | road at Neal street northeast by an | autcmobile listed to a sailor attached to the U. S. S. Idaho. Police will seek the sailor, it was stated. Taylor was struck by an automobile said to have been operated by Isaac Hodge, 20, colored, of the 800 block of Forty-eighth street northeast. He was crossing the street at Forty-ninth | street and Dean avenue northeast at the time. He and the 93-year-old col- | ored man died within a few minutes ! of each other in Casualty Hospital. Mrs. Mae Watts, 1465 Columbia road, | was slightly injured when two taxi cabs | collided at Seventh and N streets this morning. She was taken to Sibley Hos- | pital in the cab of E. H. Reid. 1489 Newton street, in which she was riding at the time of the accident, and treated for a laceration of the head. Reid| and Virginious Williams, colored, the other driver, were unhurt. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair tonight and tomorrow, ccoler tonight; gentle to | mcederate northwest winds. Maryland—Fair tonight and tomor- row, cooler tonight; probably light frost | in extreme West portion. Virginia—Fair tonight and tomorrow, cooler tonight. West Virginia—Fair tonight and to- morrow, somewhat cooler tonight; prob- | cbly light frost in exposed places. Report for Last 24 Hours. ‘Temperature. Barometer. Degrees. Inches. . 89 29.84 29.86 2988 Yesterday— 4 pm I 8 pm. . Midnight Today 4am. .. 8am. . 29.88 Noen . 29.89 Mighest. 89, 2:00 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 85. 66, 3:00 p.m. yesterday. Year 2go, 54. 29.86 Tide Tables, (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Today. 2:51am. 29 a.m. ‘Tomorrow. | 3:4lam. 2 10:24a.m. 3:10 p.m. 4:03pm. 9:41pm. 10:30 pm. | un and Moon. Sets. 7:24 Sun, tomorrow 4:46 7:25 Moon, today.. 1:20am. 1:16p.m. | Automobile lights must be turned on | one-half hour after sunset. Rainfall, | Monthly rainfall in inches in the| Capital (current month to date) : | Month, 1932. Average. Record. 3.55 09 '82 3.27 '84 3.75 91 High Low High Low .. . The S September .. October .. November December Weather in Btations. 327 3.70 4.13 89 '89 | 00 86 ‘Weather. an Atiantic_City. Baltimore. M Birmingham Bisma Boston. Buffalo, Charleston, Chicago, 1il.... Cincinnati, Ohio 30.14 Cleveland, " Ohio 30.02 S.C.29.98 Mas N. Y Paso, Tex... ton, Te , Mont. uron,’ 8. Dl Indianapolis,Ind 3 Jecksonville Fla. 79 Kansas City,Mo. 30.40 Las Anzcles 92 Loulsville, K: Yiami B Orl Go 8% 4 SC. 03 & Clear Pt.cloudy R. Feagan, from going to jail on a cha across a State line. ETERMINED to keep their fa-, ther out of jail by a direct| plea to President Hoover, the | three Feagan children of De- | troit—Bernice, 13; Irene, 11, and Clifford, 10. arrived here today by bus_from the Michigan City. “Father’s awfully sick and will surely die if he goes to jail,” Bernice told in- terviewers this morning. “That's why we_came to see the President.” Clifford wes slightly ailing from eat- ing candy on the way. but Irene, plump and jolly, was smiling as she tried to| see everything at once. {serious and told their stcry. Charles R. Feagan, the father, was arrested a charge of unlawful riving an automobile from St. Joseph, Mo., to Detroit. There are four other children at home with their mother. TRADE EXPANSION PROGRAN 10 0PEN Commerce and State De- partments to Co-ordinate Activities. The Commerce Department today | was preparing to start on 2 new world- | wide trade ex] sion program follow- | ing an agrecment reached with the | State Department calling . for closer co-ordination between the foreign rep- resentatives of the two services in keep. ing in contact with this country's busi ness abroad. President Hoover originated the plan | when he was Secretary of Commerce, | and it.was said that it was mainly | thrcugh his efforts recently that the | agreement was signed by the two de- | partments. : It provides that trade promotion ac- tivities of the United States Govern- | ment representatives abroad may be co- ordinated; that duplication may b2 avoided; that economy in administra. tion may be effected and that the ef- ficiency of both services may be aug- mented. Duplication Ended. The stipulation places almost th: entire burden of foreign trad> prom tion upon the Commerce Department, it was said, and ends a long period of duplication of work by the two services. Heretofore the attaches of the Com- merce Department and the consuls of the State Department worked inde- pendently of one another, each report- ing to their respective agencies. | Requests for trade reports will now be made through the Commerce De- | partment through the commercial at- tache in the capital of a country, who will in turn relay it to the consul gen- eral. The consul general will pass the request on to a consular officer best suited to make the report, which would | be submitted to the Commerce Depart- ment. | In order to obtain immediate co- | ordination the Commerce Department | has agreed to eliminate four minor of- | fices and their work of reporting on trade shall be taken over by the con- | sular offices located in the same cities. Scope Curtailed. Consular officers shall, according to the agreement, confine their commer- cial activities to matters pertaining to their immediate districts. The super- vising consul general, after consulta- tion with the commercizl attache, may, however, authorize a consular officer to prepare a report or trade letter that is national in scope. ‘The supervising officers and countrie to which the co-ordination plan ha: been extended are: Amsterdam, Netherlands; Antwerp, Belgium; Athens, Greece; Bangkok, | Siam; Barcelona, Spain; Batavia, Java; | Berlin, Germany; Bucharest, Rumania; Budapest, Hungary; Buenos Aires, Ar- gentina; Calcutta, India; Callao-Lima, Peru; Cape Town, South Africa; Copen- hagen, Denmark; Guatemala, Guate- mala; Habana, Cuba; Helsingfors, Fin- land; Istanbul, Turkey; Lisbon, Portu- gal; London, England; Mexico City, Mexico; Montevideo, Uruguay; Naples, Italy; Oslo, Norway: Panama City, Panama; Paris, France; Prague, Czechoslovakia; Riga. Latvia: Santiago, Chile; Singapore, Straits Settlement; Stockholm, Sweden; Sidney, Australia; ; Vienna, Austria; War- ;_Wellington, New Zealand,| witzerland. SORORITY ELECTS Alice McKnight Gilcrest Heads Kappa Phi Delta. Mrs. Alice McKnight Gilcrest was re- elected national president of Kappa Phi Delta Sorority at the group’s convention which closed last Saturday night at the Shoreham Hotel. Other officers elected, all Washing- tonians, were Miss Kathryn Robberts, vice president; Miss Mildred Handy, Mrs. Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Pt.cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Pucloudy secretary: Miss Hilda Jackscn, treasurer; Miss Ruth Davis, chaplain, and Mrs. Peggy Dornin, sergeant st arms. —_— ‘Warrier, which carried Gen. J. E. B. Seely through the war on the Westein front and was known as “the horse the | Germans could not kill,” is 21 yeazs old, o Aid Father DETROIT CHILDREN FEAR EFFECTS OF PRISON. Bernice, 13 Irene, 11, and Clifford Feagan, shown as they arrived here yesterday to seek President Hoover's intervention' to keep their father, Charles rge of transporting e stolen automobile A. P. Photo. ;efigan is now in the Detroit County ail. “My father is not guilty of the charge,” said Bernice. “He was out of & job in St. Joseph and a man gave him per- mission to drive the car to Detroit to see if he could sell it. He won't last long if they take him to jail, and we want to keep him as long as we can.” A student ir the seventh grade, she related the story without faltering. Her plans to see the President are indefinite. The local manager of a bus line which is helping them hopes to arrange an appointment tomorrow. ‘When the father first was arrested. Bernice appeared before Gov. Brucker of Michigan to urge him not to order xtradition. Feagan was released in Circuit Court on a habeas corpus writ, but immediately was rearrested by Fed- cral authorities. HOME LOSS CALLED PAY CUT RESLT Statement Says 70 Per Cent of U. S. Workers Could Not Make Payments. Data developed by a questionnaire circulated among the 84,000 Govern- ment workers in the District by the National Federation of Federal Em- ployes, according to a statement made public by that organization today, show 70 per cent of the homes now being purchased by them “would be lost to these workers through inability to con- tinue payments if their wages were reduced.” ‘The federation estimates that one- third or approximately 28,000 Federal employes in Washington are purchasing homes. The statement added: “The average wage received by the employes replying to the questions is $1,736.30. The average paid to de- pendents is $231.64. “The tabulations based upon the replies also indicate virtually an equal distribution of dependents of Federall employes as regards the number of dependents in the District of Columbia and the number residing in other parts of the country. Approximately two dependents are shown for each Federal ‘worker, “Virtually three-fourths of the Gov- | ernment employes in the District are renting their living quarters. The aver- age amount of rental paid is shown to be $49.12. “An average of approximately 11 ears’ service is indicated by replies to the questionnaire. “Of the Federal employes submitting replies, the total is about evenly divided between persons who are married and those who are single. “While the proportion of cases in which both husband and wife are em- ployed in the Government service is comparatively small, the material gath- ered relative to the amount of money received in wages by each family unit and the payments which must be made for living expenses shows a precarious economic condition would be created in such cases if one of the two members of the family were to be discharged.” FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR SECOND GAS VICTIM John J. Cochrane Died From Ex- plosion Injuries When Father Committed Suicide. John J. Cochrane, 8, one -of two brothers fatally burned in an explosion which followed their father's suicide by gas, was buried in Mount Olivet Ceme- tery today following services in Holy Comforter Catholic Church. John died Thursday in Providence Hospital, where another brother, David, 12, also burned in the blast, succumbed several days previously. The third brother, Claude, 18, still is in a serious condition there. The explosion ocqurred when David lighted a match while trying to locate the origin of gas which filled the Cochrane home, at 122 Tennessee avenue northeast. After the blast the boys’ father, William B. Cochrane, was found dead beside a kitchen stove. CONTEST PLEDGED AID Civic Groups Favor Beautifying Grounds in Colored Sections. The Federation of Civic Associations at its meeting last night pledged its support to & contest, staged under auspices of the George Washington Bi- Commission, for beautifica- and counties of Maryland and Virginia. ‘The Commissioners were requested to put an underpass at Meade street northeast near the Deanwood School for the benefit of the pupils. Removal of insanitary ccnditions near K street and New Jersey avenue southeast, where garbage is Joaded on trains, was requested, M THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., STRATFORD SHRINE URGED BY RITCHIE AS NATIONAL NEED Lee’s . Birthplace Typifies Best in U. S. Ideals, He Declares. | ] FEARS STRANGE DOGMAS GAINING IN DEPRESSION Architect Reveals Plans for Re- taining Original Simplicity of Historic Virginia Home. Stratford-on-the-Potomac, the his- toric birthplace of Gen. Robert E. Lee, should be preserved to represent the ideals and traditions upon which Amer- ican life and government were originally based and from which we have fallen in some respects of recent years, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland told members of the Washington Committee of the Robert E. Lee Memorial Founda- tion at an informal luncheon at the home of Mrs. E. Brooke Lee, near Sil- ver Spring, Md., yesterday afternoon. Speaking as a “son of Virginia,” the Maryland governor called for the re- dedication of Stratford to the sturdy ideals and traditions which made Vir- ginia the cradle of the Nation, of re- ligious liberty and sound governmental principles. Gov. Ritchie cdigressed from his | speech on Stratford to warn again: direct Government aid to the nee except as a last resort. He asked that the responsibility be shouldered more completely by the community and the G:fivekmment not be saddled with direct relief. Represents “Soundness.” “Of late,” he said, “we have espoused strange of government, strange policies. Stratford represents the soundness of the American life of its day, and it is to the fundamentals that this old home, which sent so many dis- tinguished sons out into the world, represent that we should return. “There is talk,” he continued. f re- distribution of wealth. Probably wealth is unevenly distributed, but every man i is entitled, in my mind, to the fruits of his honest toil. If there were redis- tribution of wealth todav, I venture to say that in five years there would again be unequal distribution, with more wealth in the hands of those indus- trious enough to apply themselves to the acquisition of it, “The present bad times suggest bad remedies. The urge to co something about the present panic leads us into uncharted szas. We should stick to the remedies that have in other times proved efficacious.” A thundershower forced the more than 200 guests invited to the luncheon to scurry to the houce just as Gov. Ritchie prepared to speak. Later, during the talk of Fiske Kim- ball, architect and director of the Rennsylvania Museum of Art, lightning struck near the house and extinguished the lights, but did no further camage. Selected as Architect. Mr. Kimball, who has been chosen architect for the restoration and preser- vation of Stratford, outlined his plans for the work. He urged immediate in- stallation of a fire-detection system, re- roofing to save from further weather- ing the interior of the old house and suggested that in restoring the house, where it is found necessary to put in new werk, not to attempt by artificial means to make it appear old. but to leave it to age with the rest of the house and in time to merge itsclf with the personality of the house itself. He sald that there have been those who criticize Stratford =as being crude, bare, plain and clumsy in some of its details. In its simplicity lies its beauty, he declared. Stratford, he said. has come down the historic times of Virginia in such shape that few changes will have to be made in it in the preservation program. While from the point of view of the builder it is in bad condition, its beams rotted, its walls cracked, its woodwork weathered, from the point of view of the historian it is in prime con- dition. There are few places where the restorer will have any guesswork. In practically every detail, the house stands today as it did when Robert E. Lee first saw the light of day in it. The first speaker following the luncheon was Mrs. Charles D. Lanier, who originated the plan for restoration of Stratford three years ago, who pushed it until there are organizations of the foundation in 29 states, and who is now president of the foundation. Mortgage Is Lifted. She explained that through the gen- erosity of a friend. who will be repaid later, the foundation has lifted the mortgage on the house. She also outlined the plan of foundation to raise from 5,000,000 mirers of Gen. Lee throughout country a dollar each to carry on restoration program. Mrs. Cary T. Grayson presided at the luncheon and introduced the speakers. At the conclusion of the affair, Mrs. Cazenove Lee, who heads the Wash. ington Committee of the foundation, called upon all guests to take an active interest in the foundation's work and to further the restoration and preser- vation of Stratford. Hostesses were Mrs. Woodrow Wil- son, Mrs. Montgomery Blair, jr., Mrs. Willlam Cabell Bruce, Mrs. Andrew Christian, Mrs. John W. Davidge, Mrs. Grayson, Mrs. Louls S. Greene, Mrs, McCook Knox, Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, Mrs. E. Brooke Lee, Mrs. Cazenove Lee, Mrs. Breckenridge Long and Mrs. Lloyd P. Shippen. 91 SIGN BONUS PLEA ad- the the CAPPERS UTILTY the SAT crnemental strect car shelter. ing, with lightning flashing about the dome. Storm Breaking Over Capitol CAMERA CATCHES DOME THROUGH OLD GRILLWORK. A Star photographer caught this view of the Capitol yesterday afternoon just as the heavy thunderstorm was break- ‘The unusual frame for the photograph was provided by grillwork of an cld —=Star Stafl Photo. - BILL DISAPPROVED | Measure to Change Plan of 1 Taxation Criticized by Commission. The Public Utilities Commission yes- | terday reported unfavorably to the Sen- | ate District Committee on the Capper bill to change the method of taxing public utilities. The methed now in force is to charge a percentage of gross income. This tax is charged in lieu of any personal property tax. The Cap- per bill proposes to substitute a 2 per cent gross earnings tax (instead of the present 4 to 5 per cent) and to tax 3 ies on their personal property me way that individuals and css corporations are taxed n the opinion of the commission,” the report reads, “very great difficulty will be experienced in’ determining the basis—that is, the assessed value of the real estate and tangible personal prop- erty of these utiiities upon which it is proposed to tax them. For example, this commission has been engaged for hs in an effort to deter- lue of the property of the street 1ailway companies, used and use- ful in the public service. This task is still incomplete.” Net” Tax Suggested. ‘The commission suggests instead a| “gross-net” earnings tax. No specifiz amount of tax is suggested, because, as the report states, “it is not considered to be the function of this commission to deal with the specific amount of the taxes to be imposed upon th: utilities in th> Disirict and therefore in this letter no reference is made thereto.” An cxample of the workings of a “gross-net” tax, how: is suggested. This is a t. ccommended by a special ccmmittee of the New York Legislature for utilities in that State. The actual percentage of gross earn- ings to be taken as taxes depends, ac- cording to the report, upon the rela- tion between gross and net earnings. or examp'e, Where the utility has no net earnings, or th> nct carnings do not exceed 5 per cent of its gross earn- | the committec recommended that the rate should be 1 per cent of the ress. This tax then varied as the net earnings prcreentage increased, so that when the net earnings excceded 40 per | “Gross. fon stated that wit indorsing the exact percentages con- tained in th> New York Committee re- port the adoption of some “gross-net” | plan of taxation would adjust the tax burden in accordance with the earn- | | ing ability of the utilities, bear more %hmvi upon those which are prosper- ous and less drastically upon those which are in difficulties. | | Can’t Interpret Sentence. | ‘The commission pointed out that it was unable to interpret a sentence of | the bill reading: “All structures erected by public utility companies upon publlci | space, either above or below the sur-| face of the ground, shall be taxed as private property to such utility, but | not enhanced in value because so | erected.” It points out that all such | difficulties of interpretation might be | removed by the adoption of the “gross- | net” taxation method. | The commission also called attention | | to the fact that the bill includes within | | its provision bus companies, that it is | proposed to tax bus companies under | another bill ncw pending and “ap- parently the additional taxation would | | be_unduly heavy.” Attention is also | called to the fact that both street | railway companies now operate bus | lines and that the bus earnings are reflected in the railway companies’ gross earnings. GEN. DELANEY TO SPEAK Brig. Gen. Mattehw A. Delaney, as- Signatures on the Patman petition to force a House vote on the cash bonus | sistant Surgecn General of the Ax-my,1 | issue yesterday mounted to 91 of the | will be principal speaker at a sunset | | necessary 145. | service sponscred by the Jane A. De- ‘This petition has been on the clerk’s | land Post, No. 6, of the American Legion | desk for more than a week. June 13 |tomorrow at 5 p.m. in Arlington Ceme- is the earlist date on which a vote|tery. The service will be held at the would be possible if the required signa- [ nurses’ section, Porter and McPherson tures are obtained. avenues. A Marine Corps corporal who had never flown a plane before, yesterday was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by the Navy for bringing safely to earth a ship in which the pilot had fainted. The unusual distinction goes to Corpl. Helmer N. Torner of the Marines. an operations clerk attached to the Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif., for his achievement on March 22. In the rear cockpit was Corpl. Torner ‘when a ship g:flad by S. Hoffer of Marines, aviation pilot, took off While Torner had been a pas- senger on several flights, he was un- familiar with a plane’s instruments and prior to his feat had never handled the controls of a plane. At abcut 2,000 feet altitude above Camp Kearney the pilot became ill and fcll forward, fainting, on the con- trols and the staxied to the ground, FLYING CROSS GIVEN NOVICE FOR DARING PLANE RESCUE | Marine, Without Any Training, Landed Safely After Craft’s Pilot Fainted. Staff Sergt. Orlo | mechanism spinning. ‘Torner stood by to bail out with his parachute, but discovered the pilot was unconscious, and to abandon ship would mean death for his col- league. Torner pulled Sergt. Hoffer away from the controls and “succeeded in righting the plane just before it would have crashed.” Torner was able to make the climb to a considerable landing” on Rockwell Pleld. Because Secretary of the Navy Adams and high-ranking naval officers here considered that Torner “displayed presenice of mind, self-sacrificing hero- ism and extraordinary achicvement in the face of great danger far beyond the call of duty,” they gave Lim the | month Plan Session Plans for a convention of the Inde- pendent Order of Brith Sholom tomor: row and Monday at the Willard Hotel have been perfected under direction of Morris Garfinkle (top), banquet chair- man; Nathan Plotnick, eonvention pro gram chairman, and Bernard Danzan- <ky, banquet toastmaster. FLEVATOR DEATH VICTIM IDENTIFIED Autopsy Is Ordered on Body of Young Girl Job- Seeker. The body of a girl who died a few minutes after she collapsed in an eleva- tor in an apartment house at 3220 Con- necticut avenue last night was identi- fied today es that of Miss Margaret 0O’Connor, 22, of Falls Church, Va. The young woman's identity was es- tablished by her uncle, J. C. Broderick, a policeman stationed at the District Building. Broderick, who lives at 4603 Georgia avenue, immediately notified the girl's widowed mother, Mrs. Mary F. ‘O’Connor. Although Mrs. O'Connor said her daughter had been suffering from a heart ailment for several years, an autopsy was ordered by Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. It was to be performed today by Deputy Coroner Christopher J. l(ufi:hy. Meanwhile the body was being held at the Morgue. Miss O’'Connor entered the elevator, operated by Daniel Saunders, colored, about 8 o'clock and asked to be taken to the fifth floor. The lift had just started when she collapsed and fell to the floor. Roy E. Denlermyer, 3703 Jenifer street, carried her to the apartment of the resident manager, Mrs. Mildred Ryan, who summoned The firem the rescue squad. At the young woman'’s home, however, it was said she was seeking work as a physician’s assistant, having studied nursing in Aurora, Ill,, for the last three years. She returned home zbout a | daughtes, Missy S00DUE AT SESSION OF BRITH SHOLOW Members From Three Other Cities Expected Here for Meeting. ‘ More than 607 members of the Inde- | pendent Order of B'rith Sh from Baltimore, Richmond, Norfolk and | Washington will convene here tomorrow | for a two-cay convention at the Willard | Hotel under sponsorship of the local George Washington Lodge of the order. An elaborate business and entrtain- ment program has b the chain f Prominent Ggev. Ritchie son of Baltimore, Repre and Senators om include vor Jack- The convention will b2 opened at 10 | a.m. with an invocation by Rabbi Solo- mon Metz. Other speakers include Ber- Milton Leinson, Rep- resentatve Lankford of Virginia, Nef Danzansky, chairman of th Ladies’ | Convention Committee; Samuel Stein- bach, grand master of the local lodge, and Rev. William Tash. Ba!l Arranged at Willard. Following a business session tomcrrow afternoon and a sightseeing trip by the Ladies’ Auxiliary, a ball will be held at the Willard, beginning at 8:30 p.m. A high light of the entertainment program Monday will be the closing event—a kosher banguet. being ar- ranged at the Jewish Community ter Monday night by a commitiee, of which Morris Garfinkle is chairman. Mr. Danzansky will be tcastmast | The convention will inciude a ber of George Washington Bicentennial features. The sessions are being ar- ranged by a committee inclucing Mr Plotnick, Mr. Danzansky, founder of the George Washington Lodge, and Mr. | Garfinkle, co-chairmen of the conven- tion; Mr. Leinson, chairman of finance and ball; Jeremiah W reasurer; Harry Poretsky, chairman of transportation; ‘Benjamin H: sistant chairman on Hyman Dicner, chair H. Melman, chairman on cnter- tainment; Hyman Ratner, assistant chairman on. entertainment; Maurice Maser, chairman on publicity | finkle, chairman of banquet: | man, " assistant chairman of banquet, end Mr. Danzansky, toastmaster. k Listed on Committees. | The committees include the follow- |ing: L. Blumberg, William Halam, H. | Klavans, S. Kessler. M. Milofsky, R Rosenberg, M. Siegcl, Rev. Mr. Tash, Mrs. Danzansky, chairlady of the con- | vention; Mrs. R. Rosenberg, chairlad: nard Danzansk: of luncheon; Mrs. B. Hayman and Mrs. | | S. Spigel. co-chairladies of luncheon | Mrs. Nathan Plotnick, cheirlady of re- | ception; Mrs. H. Poretsky and Mrs. M. | Leinson, co-chairladies of _reception; | Mrs. P. Berman, Mrs. A. Braverman. | Mrs. 8. Cluft, Mrs. H. Diener, Mrs. B. Hayman, Mrs. H. Klavans, Mrs. L Stein, Mrs. H. Tabb, Mrs. William Tash, Mrs. J. Weitz, Mrs. L. Dick and -Mrs. | M. Abramson. —_— SHEET METAL UNION REJECTS WAGE CUT “Lockout” Threatened by Failure to Agree on Scale. | | Technical A wage cut from $12 to $9 a day, an- nounced by the sheet metal contractors, to go into effect next Wednesday. has been rejected by the Sheet Metal Work- ers' Union, Local 102, it was announced today by a labor official. A technical “lockout” is threatened as a result of failure of a serics of negotiations to effect a new agreement to replace the one which expires May 31, with the contractors declaring they will put an “open shop” policy into effect next weck. Only a small number of union men employed in the shops of the sheet. metal contractors are said to be affected | by the wage-cut proposal. It is con- tended by union officials that the wage cut will not concern union sheet metal ‘workers employed on Government con- tracts, since the union scale of $12 a day for this trade is the ‘“prevailing” scale here under operation of the Bacon- Davis. law. Both union and contractor officials today discounted published reports this morning that out-of-town sheet-metal workers would be imported from other cities to replace the union men here unless they accepted the pay cut. —_————— COL. HAND’S WIFE DIES Expires in San Francisco After an Operation. Mrs. Daniel W. Hand, wife of Col. Daniel W. Hand, Field Artillery, U. 8. A, died yesterday in San Pran- cisco, ., follo an operation, the War Department has been notified. Mrs. Hand was well known in Was ington and had lived here at various times when her husband was stationed here. His most recent duty here was as executive officer in the office of the chief of Field Artillery. Besides her husband. row stationcd at the 9th Corps Area headquarters, £Sen Prancisco, she is sutvived by Agnes Hand, . Cen- | - | Various organizations are convention ! IFLOWERS STREWN ON HEROES' GRAVES FOR MEMORIAL DAY Comrades Visit Cemeteries in Tribute to Soldier Dead. CLIMAX IS PLANNED AT ARLINGTON MONDAY Courage of Colored Troops Is Re- called at Graveside Services. The resting place of those who served their country in war today took on brilliant hue, as comrades, keeping alive their ceeds, brought flowers to ceck the green canopy under which they sleep away eternity. Leading up to annual observance of Memorial day, groups throughout the Capital began these pilgrimages, which will be ended Monday when a mighty outpouring at Arlington bears witness to the gratitude of a people for the sacrifices which have preserved this republic. Today, as those who each year take to themselves the right of paying this tribute because they labored in com- mon cause, entered upon their task, the valor of colored troops wa Northeast Arlington Cem there were exercises by | Henry Gerrison, Ar with the auxil Spanish War and other veterans. Later there were services at the graves of James Reese Europe and James E. Walker, World War dead. and then at the grave of Col. Charles Young, outstanding soldier of his race, where the Department of the Potomac, United Spanish War Vet- erans, gathered. Visit Oak Hill. At 3 o'clock this afternoon William B. Cushing Camp, No. 30, Department of Maryland, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, together with the au , Is visiting Oak H: and at 4 o'clock Hol, s. E. H. R resident of the d Navy Union, | | 5 oclock, the { Chapter, colored, Disable | Vetcrans, will honor icoln Memorial Cemetery. | Tomorrow morning, " in two cere- jmonies. those who gave their lives at sea will be honored. At 9:30 flowers will be cast from the Coast Guard cut- ter Apache by the Spanish War Vi | erans Auxiliary, and at 10 o jert E. Peary Ship. Veterar cign Wais, ‘will hold cxercises aboard | the historic Constitution at the Navy Yard. - Kvale to Speak. The police and fire post of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars will go to Cedar Hill Cemetery to memorialize their .dtaa:ll atf \1(9 o'clock. Representative 1 Kvale of Minnesota and Judge R | E. Mattingly will sneak. e s | At 10:30, Gen. Nelson A. Miles Camp, Spanish War Veterans, will have exer- cises at the graves in St. Elizabeth's Hospital Cemetery. Other cemeteries will be visited in the afterncon. | The principal ceremony tomorrow will be at the Sylvan Theater, at Wash- |ington Monument, at 3 o'clock, when there will be massing of colors, arranged | by the Military Order of the World War and the District of Columbia George | Washington Bicentennial Commission, ! Masonic Rites Planned. G cining in | this demonstration, which is expected to be witnessed by thousands. At 4 o'clock, at Washington Cathedral, will be a national Masonic vice, ar- ranged by the George Washingten Bi- centennial Commission. Bishop James Freeman will extend greetings and the sermon will be by Rev. Dr. Joseph { Fort Newton, co-rector of St. James’ Church, Philadelphia. Monday morning the veterans will parade at 9 am. as a prelude to the climactic ceremony at Ariington at 1 o'clock, when former United States Scnator James A. Reed of Missouri will | speak. At 10 o'clock Monday University there will be h military field mass, attonded by ignitaries of American and foreign governments, at which another huge turnout is expected. MOTOR SALESMAN, 36, DROWNS IN RIVER Douglas C. Jones Goes Down While Swimming Alone Below Chain Bridge. at Catholic a pontifical Douglas C. Jones, 36-year-old sales- an for the District Motor Co., Inc. 9 Fourtcenth street, was drowned yesterday evening while swimming alone in the swift currents of the Potomac about half a mile below Chain Bridge on_the Virginia side. Jones, apparently stricken with a cramp, was ceen by boatmen to lift his arms and sink suddenly without re- appearing on the surface. His body was recovered some 30 minutes later in shallow water. W. Paul Hamm of 4200 Wisconsin avenue, cruising about in a small launch, told police he saw Jones go down sud- denly before he could reach his side. Hamm hurried to the Driftwood Boat- house, at 4500 Canal road, and tele- phoned police. A police boat went to the scene and Pvt. R. C. Ault located the body. Efforts of the Fire Rescue Squad to revive the swimmer proved futile, and he was pronounced dead by the physi- cian who responded with an Emergency Hospital ambuiance. Jones had been employed by the mo- tor concern for about a year. He lived with his wife in the 1700 biock of Seventeenth street, where he moved several months ago from his former home at 1419 N street. B SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS Cuban Charged With Assault With Dangerous Weapon. David Rudolph, a Cuban, who is said to be wanted in New York as a murder suspect, weas rentenced late yesterday afternoon by District Supreme Court Justice F. D. Letts to serve 10 years in the penitentiary on a charge of assault with & dangerous weapon. Miss Clara Whiting, the complaining witness, testified that Rudolph had been ie1ected from her home and when the door was closed on him fired through it. NAVY BUYS FUEL OIL Nearly a million dollars’ worth of fuel oli for use on the East Coast has been purchased by the Navy. This announcement was made late yesterday by the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, Navy Department, which said that 707,400 barrels of grade A fuel oil has been purchased for $592,620. The NMavy bought 250,000 barrels of grads C fuel oil for $200,025. Some 43,500 barrels of fuel oil for Diesel en- gines cgst the Navy $76,830.