Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1932, Page 13

WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY The Sundiy St MORNING, SEPTEMBE R 18, 1932. * PAGE B-1 1,000 70 ENROLL AS SCHOOLS BEGIN TERM TOMORROW Night Classes to Account for 11,000 of Total, With In- creased Instruction. RULES FOR-CHILDREN REPEATED BY OFFICIALS New Theodore Roosevelt High and Two New Elementary Schools to Be Occupied. Nearly 91,000 students will enroll in the District’s public schools when they resume both day and evening sessions tomorrow. Of this total, which includes every type of enrollment from kindergartens through teachers colleges and vocational schools, approximately 80,000 will enter the day schools and about 11,000 will enter the night schools. The beginning of the 1932-33 school year marks the first time in the history of the school system that the day and night schools open on the same date. The new schedule provides the evening | s-hoo! students with approximately cne- third more instruction during the year y and shortens the time to secure a high school Anticipating a heavy burden in han- dling thousands of ehildren tomorrow morning, school officials last night re- peated their public enrollment instruc- tions. Briefly they follow: 3 Beginners (pupils being enrolled in school for first time)—Go to school building nearest home. Take vaccina- tion certificate and birth certificate. Children 5 years old by November 1, cindergarten: children 6 | November 1, may enter the furst grade. National Guard Leader to Get Medal for 45 Years’ Service. i SN Began Military Career at 16| With Oid “Ordway Rifles.” Forty-five years ago Anton Stephan enlisted as a boy of 16 in the District of Columbia National Guard, drilled with a broomstick in a cast-off Civil War uniform and paid $1 a week for the privilege. ‘Tuesday at 12:30 bp. Hoover will pin & gold medal on the breast of Maj. Gen. Anion Stephan, a veteran of Mexican border service and years of continucus service In the Na- tional Guard. He now commands the 29th Division, composed of units from Maryland, Virginia, the District and a Pennsylvania heavy artillery regiment. Gen. Stephan began his military ca- reer in 1887, enlisting In the Ordway Rifles when only 16 years old. Leader in Civic Affairs, ‘While following his military career University and then proceeded to make a name for himself in tie business world, heading the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, the Ki- wanis Club and the Club, and organizations, including the Community Chest. He obtained his first field training at Fort Washington, receiving a corporal’s warrant a short time later. i year he became a sergeant, and his rise after that was rapid. He was named commander of the District National Guard in April, 1920, and his appoint ment as commander of the 29th Di- vision, with the rank of major general, came three years later. He served on the Mexican border and in France during the ‘World War, as well as in numerous camps in this gountry. After the World War Gen. . and the excel- Elementary pupils promoted last June —Go to class room occupied at the close ot school Jat June and there be sent to new class. For Promoted Pupils. tering high school on_ pro- junior high schools or o to high school cestified for at close of school last June. Pupils entering high school on pro- ementary school—Go to ool ce d for last June. i senior high school students—Re- ¢ to last year's section room. Night school students—Register at de- sired school at 6:30 o'clock tomMOrrow night. The feature of the reopening of will be the occupd-!} first time of the new Theo- dore Roosevelt High Scheol at Thir- toenth and Upshur streets. Until this nized on the basis of for it at the close of year no new pupils dmitted there except those e to take an intensive business U All other regular academic rse students will be enrolled in the schools, r, Stephen E, Kramer, first assistant superintendent in charge of high schools, said last night, however, that if after the first few days of the build- ing’s cccupancy sufficient room is left, children living in the immediate terri- tory will be transferred to the school. The Theodore Roosevelt High School will occupy the same position with re- spect to commercial courses that the | McKinley High School holds in the technical training field. Students head- ed for engineering colleges or technical ools may enter McKinley to study the intensive mechanical courses avail- eble there regardless of the section of the city in which they live. Similarly, | commercial students who require more raining in business methods than the ninor office practice courses offered | €lsewhere may enter Roosevelt, where | this work Is a specialty. ! Western High Resti ns. Western High Scheol, at Thirty-fifth | street and Reservoir road, will resume | ‘with the same strict limitations on en- trance that prevailed last year. No new non-resident pupils and no pupils living east of Connecticut avenue will be admitted. Dr. Kramer already has warned that if 75 more students than the number already registered at Western are ad- mitted that institution will have to go! on a double-shift schedule. This would | mean the student body would be pla- tooned, with one section attending i classes In the morning and the other {in the afternoon hours, with neither gettig a full day’s schooling. By strict Jimitation the double shift can be post- poned until next September, Dr. Kramer has said. Two new elementary schools will be | opened tomorrow morning, according to Robert L. Haycock, assistant superin- | tendent in charge of elementary schocls. The Phoebe A. Hearst School, at Thirty- | seventh and Tilden streets, will receive | upproximately 250 students. This build- | ing’s capacity is 320 pupils. Opening | of this scheol will relieve to some extent the congestion at the John Eaton School | in Cleveland Park and the Tenley-| Janney School. The former will be without part-time classes and portable school buildings for the first time in years. The Tenley-Janney School also has had part-time and oversize classes. The other new elementary building 15 the Benjamin Stoddert School, Thir- ty-ninth and Calvert streets, which also can accommodate 320 children. Use of | | this building, which was opened a few ! weeks before the end of the last school year, relieves to a great extent the long- overcrowded Fillmore School at Thirty- fifth and R streets, and aids in reliev- ing the congestion at the other build- ings in thé Georgetown-Burleith-Glover Park area. Still further relief of con- gestion in the northwest section w De afforded in the opening next year ol 1he new Foxhall Village Schocl at Fox- hall road and Q street. i Teachers returned to their schools Friday and yesterday they enrolled children in_preparation for tOmOITow's opening. No time will be lost in et- ting classes into actual operation and in virtually every school in the system children will be at work less than half an hour after the bell rings at 9 am. Furthermore, most pupils will get their first_homework assignments tomorrow 5o the transition from vacation days to schools will be as complete as it is sudden. ROBBERS ATTACK MAN Steal $27 After Knocking Victim to Strezt. William Archre, 41, colored, of the first block of Patterson street northeast, reported to police of No. 2 precinct lzst night that he had bcen knocked c¢own and robbzd of $27 by four col- ored men while at New Jersey avenue and P‘street. Archre told police one of the men stopped him and asked for a_ match. STUDENTS, SAFETY lence of the work performed by you is attested by the fact that these troops arrive i excellent condition of RECORD PREDIGTED Plans Made for Protection of 90,000 Children With School Opening. With an appeal to motorists to co- operate with schoolboy patrolmen dur- ing the school year beginning tomorrow, the District of Columbia division of the American Autemobile Association last night predicted a new record of safety for the 90,000 children of Washington would he set before next vacation time. In a statement issued In conjunction with last-minute preparations for the continuation of the safety program in the 209 schools of the District, the A. A. A. declared “No greater testimonial could be paid to the efficiency and morate of young patrolmen than to cite the fact that these boys—2,700 in all—wiil function on the opening day of school in the same military fashion that they did on the final day of the 1931-32 session. Good Record Made. “To their efforts, togetier with the co-operation of police ana school au- thorities, may be credited the splendid record of the past three years. this period not a single chiid of school age has been killed or seriously injured in the vicinity qf a scnool building or at any point where an A. A. A. school- boy patrolman was on auty.” In asking motorists to co-operate with the school patrols, who are under the direction of 13 officers assigned to patrol duty by the Police Department, the as- sociation pointed out the young patrol- men are entirely dependent upon driv- ers, as they have no authority to con- trol_traffic. “The school patrols have earned the right to co-operation from motorists. There have been 196 A. A. A. medals awarded for meritorious services and 42 medals for distinguished service in pre- venting an injury or actually saving a life. Motorists can do their bit to help this safety crusade by keeping their cars in safe condition and by careful driving. One way is to allow a few min- utes longer for the drive to the office during the school year. Educational Program. “The safety program, however, ex- tends beyond the organization of pa- trols, the members of which are equipped by the American Automobile Association with white Sam Browne belts, badges and rain hats and ponchos. Each month during the school year 2,500 A. A. A. safety posters and 3,250 loose-leaf safety lessons are distributed to school rooms in the District of Co- lumbia. Thus the youngsters are edu cated to protect themseleves in the streets and highways.” The school program is carried on b) the A. A. A. as a feature of efforts to promote street and highway safety in the District of Columbia. fioy Hurt in Fall. Josie Brice. 5, colored, received a frac- tured skull late yesterday when he fell from a se~ond-floor porch at his home, in the 1300 block of First street. He | was treated at Freedmen's Hospital, where his condition was reported un- determined. .m. President | the World War, hcnoring him for 45 | he graduated in law a; Georgetown | helping in the work of numerous other | During | PRESIDENT HOOVER TO HONOR ' GEN. ANTON STEPHAN TUESDAY MAJ. GEN. ANTON STEPHAN. training as to warrant their immediate \incErpornnon into units about to at- tack.” Commanded Picked Unit. An honor Gen. Stephan particularly likes to recall is his selection to com- | mand 2,000 picked men sent to Lyons, | France, to represent the American Army when that city paid special tribute to President Wilson when it dedicated the Wilson Bridge. After his return to the United States the French government conferred the order of the Black Star on him. The medal, especially designed for the Tuesday ceremony. will be pinned on Gen. Stephan by the President at the White House. All District officers of the rank of major and higher will Within a | be present, as well as Secretary of War | Hiurlcy, Assistant Sccretary of War | Payne, Maj. Gen. George Van Horn | Moseley, acting chief of staff, and the | President’s aides. |~ In recognition of the honor confer- red on Gen. Stephan, officers of the | District National Guard will tender him a banquet Tuesday night. | Gen. Stephan has been commander | of Henry C. Spengler Post of the | American Legion and senior national ¥ ommander of the Veterans of ““His honors in the fields | organizations could have been higher, but he chose to devote his available time more fuiiy to the build- ing up of the National Guard. EXPERTS T0 STUDY TRAFFIC PROBLENS Streets Here to Become “Practical Laboratory” for Safety Congress. | Washington's streets will become a “practical laboratory” for the first-hand study of traffic hazards and traffic con- | trol when the twenty-first annual Safety Congres and Exposition, with several hundred delegates from all parts of the country in attendance, opens here on October 3, it was announced yesterday | by the Greater National Capital Com- | mittee. | Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer |and Inspector E. W. Brown, assistant | superintendent of the Metropolitan Po- lice Department, will co-operate with the National Safety Council in arrang- ing the various studies, the announce- ment stated. Traffic engineers, city en- gineers and police chiefs are expected to be among those present. Declared Ideal Setting. “Washington provides an ideal setting for a study of this sort,” said Julien H. Harvey, New York representative of the Safety Council, who came here to ar- range for the congress. “The Capital has a unique street layout, requiring | special treatment, and its scores of un- | usual intersection problems will give the | delegates opportunity for study offered | by no other American city.” The importance of engineering will | be stressed at the traffic sessions of | the Congress, which will continue five | days. Speakers will Include: List of Speakers. | George W. Offutt, Police Commis- sioner Herbert B. Crosby, John A. Dick- | inson, Bureau of Standards; M. G. | Lloyd. W. N. Watson, secretary Manu- facturing Chemists’ Association; J. K. | Hoskins, sanitary _engineer, Public Health Service; Willlam John Cooper, | education commissioner; Selden M. Ely, Commodore W. E. Longfellow, Ameri- | can Red Cross; John A. Kratz, Dr. Eu- | gene E. Willison, American Red Cross: Labor Secretary Doak, Comdr. Wolcott E. Hall, U. S. N Maj. Charles H. Ruth, The Star; H. W. Shaw, South- ern Dairies; J. O. Hanna, president Capital Traction Co.; J. O. Martin, David Lawrence, editor United States Daily; Paul Wooton, Dr. Julius E. Par- malee, director Bureau of Railway | Economics: Dr. David J. Price, Agri- | culture Department; Alice L. Edwards, executive secretagy, American Home Economic Association. Grace Abbott. chief, Children’s Bu- reau, Labor Department; Dr. Otis Marshall, American Red Cross; J. Bloomfield, Public Health Service; Dr. . E. Russell, Public Health Service; . M. Hobson, Navy Department; D. N. Hoover, Steamboat Inspection Service; Daniel Harrington, Bureau of Mines M. F. Leopold. Bureau of Mines; R. Aishton, president, American Railway | Association; D. H. Beatty, Southern | Railway System; W. B. Borland, Inter- state Commerce Commissiol H. H. | Allen, Bureau of Standards: L. E. Pea- body, Col. A. B. Barber, director, Na- | tional Conference _on Street and High- | way Safety, and E. W. James, Bureau of Public Roads. Police* probably will have to throw out one of their best dragnets for the cat which left an animal hospital yes- terday several jumps ahead of his ap- pointment with the dentist. ‘Although Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of police, was notified by Miss Clara Pearl Jones, 300 block of ‘Webster street, the police have not been nimbie enough to overcome & head start obtained by Miss Jones’ tabby. The cat, after having four teeth ex- As he reached for the match, he said, one of the men struck him, knocking him down. The four men ran, Archre told police, after taking his money. tracted, and receiving an appointment for additional treatment, defied the best feline tradition by failing to come home, the police were informed. POLICE CALLED TO HUNT CAT FLEEING HOSPITAL DENTAL DATE Miss Clara Pearl Jones Fears Tabby Will Not Get Proper Food—Authorities Think It Left Town. Miss Jones said she fears mot only for the runaway's safety, but for his health. Only “fresh, raw beef, well | ground.” is suitable in view of the cat's toothless condition. Miss Jones requested the police chief to have his force examine such dead cats as may come to their notice, on the chance that one might be the run- a | | ¥ 'had rather know he was dead,” Miss Jones said, “than to be uncertain.” | The identification, she added. could be made by the cat's teeth, or lack of them. ‘The police are working on the theory | ot o e Chesapeake & Potcmac Telephone Co.; | CHAPIN TO ADDRESS PLANNING SESSION OPENING TONIGHT Secretary of Commerce and Dr. Gries of Home Bank Board on Program. 750 GUESTS TO ATTEND FROM MANY SECTIONS Plans and Parks for Capital to Be Discussed by Col. Grant at Commerce Building. Secretary of Commerce Chapin will make the principal address when the Bicentennial Conference on Planning, Parks and Government opens at the Willard Hotel tonight with a supper for ! the eight participating _associations. Another speaker will be Dr. John M. Gries, member of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, who will preside. Approximately 750 city planners, park executives, legislators, roadside im- provement advocates and Government officials will gather at the conference, which meets at invitation of District | and United States Bicentennial Com- | missions. Drive Precedes Supper. Prior to the supper the visitors will| be taken for an afternoon drive about | the city. After the supper the dele- gates will hear an address in the au- ditorium of the new Commerce Build- ing by Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, di- rector of Public Buildings and Public Parks, on the subject of “Plans and Parks for the National Capital.” Col. Grant will preside at this meeting. Mo- tion pictures will be shown of park and playground systems of Washington and vicinity. DlAnhed before (RE conferomte Adjomeme September 25, although specialized pro- grams have been worked out for each of the individual organizations. These | groups are the American City Planning | Institute, American Civic Association, American Institute of Park Executiv National Association of Civic Secr taries, American Legislators' Associa- tion, National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty, National Municipal League and Proportional Representation League. A banquet of general interest to the conference will b held Tuesday night, featuring a discussion of parks. The speakers will be Louis Brownlow of Chi- cago, whose subject will be “The Rela- tion of Park Administration to General Government,” and Horace M. Albright, director of the National Park Service, who will tell how the National Park Service administers national parks for the use and enjoyment of the Amcrican people. Municipal League Aim. The Natlonal Municipal League will specialize on problems of government and speakers include many prominent economists, municipal executives and political advisers. S. Herbert Hare of Kansas City, L. H. Weir of New York and Dr. William T. Hornaday are among_speakers to a dress the American Institute of Park Executives. Citizen support of planning, the State ‘planning movement and roadside improvement problems will occupy the American Civic Association, the Ameri- can City Planning Institute, the Ameri- can Legislators’ Association and the Na- tional Council for Protection of Road- side Beauty. Out-of-town_sight-seeing trips have | been planned for the delegates to Tide- water Virginia and to the Shenandoah National Park. The public has been invited to at- tend the discussions to be held at the ‘Wwillard tomorrow, Tuesday and Wed- nesday. SRR~ TELEPHONE COMPANY | CREDIT IS ORDERED| Accountancy Change Will Make Big Sum Available for Future Rate Cuts. Thé Public Utilities Commission yes- | terday ordered the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. to adopt a new | accounting plan which will make be- | tween $300,000 and $350.000 available in the future for a reduction in rates, The order, coming on the heels of a 10 per cent cut in rates, directs the company to_ credit its depreciation Teserve with 5 per cent interest a year | computed monthly. The 5 per cent will | be deducted from the monthly accruals from operating expenses which have built up thus far a reserve of between $6,000,000 and $7,000,000. § The 10 per cent rate reduction will go into effect October 1. It will affect subscribers in the District only, since | the commission has no jurisdiction over telephone service beyond the Maryland | and Virginia lines. PR S, Invalid Boy’s Dog Missing From Home More Than Week Terrier Puppy Had Stayed Close to Child’s Bedside Until Disappearance. There is mord than the usual feeling of family loss behind the disappearance of a Boston terrier named Jeff from 317 Peabody street a week ago. The family, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Brennan, together with their 5-year-old son Joe, were exf.remel}:' gmd,o; J:lfl. Although only a puppy, Jefl was fonder still of the Brennans, especially Joe. He stuck close to Joe, Who was an invalid apd rarely got out of doors. The dog was forever at the bedside of his young master until Saturday a week ago. It was then that Jeff disaj peared. The family advertised, but be- fore they could get a response they were obliged to leave town because of the death of Joe's grandfather. Joe is still without his dog. Jeff is described as being 4 months cld, with a nick in his left ear, with white breast and white markings on his nose. The family is convinced he would not have left his invalld master voluntarily. They hope to recover the dog and no questions asked. Joe’s parents were particularly anxious to Jeff back, as they doubted if they find another puppy willing to stay inside with an invalid master while other youngsters were romping about outdoors. < | ! ernment Employes, at its national con- !offer assurance that Federal worl Laying of CaPitol Corner Stone Re-enacted - l WORKERS TO TAKE | FICHTTO CONGRESS Federal Employes Promised A. F. of L. Backing in Econ- omy Act Opposition. The economy act will be fouglit at| the next session of Congress by the newly formed American Federation of Government Employes, which also will have the backing of the parent body— the American Federation of Labor—in a movement to obtain “equitable clas- sification of the departmental and field services,” it was announced last night in a statement by David R. Glass, president of the Federal workers' group. The statement also said that “within the next month new lodges of the federation will be scattered throughout the country. They have been formed or are being formed at present in cvery State in the Union.” The au- thority for this, it was explained, is John Arthur Shaw, chairman of the Organization Committee, who is con- ferring with leaders of employe groups in the West. Classification Emphasis. Glass laid emphasis on plans for | classification legislation, It was this | issue that brought about the separa- | tion from the A. F. of L. of the Na-| tional Federation of Federal Employes and the organization of the new body. | the Federation of Labor, in the 1931 convention, rejecting in entirety a clas- | sification plan sought by the Federal | Employer, because it would have brought skilled workers uncer the Per- | sonnel Classification Board. This class | wants the right to negotiate wage mat- | ters with heads of their individual | agencies. The A. F. of L. is to voice its approval of the new legislation pro- posed at its, forthcoming annual meet- ing, Glass said. Glass' statement, in part, follows: “The American Federation of Gov- | | vention October 17 in Washington, will adopt a legislative program which will ers | will be given powerful defense when | their interests are laid before Congress when it reconvenes. This organiza- | tion will have full co-operation from the entire American labor movement. Dratt of Scheme Directed. “So far as classification is concerned, we have been directed by the leaders of labor to draft a legislative scheme for the equitable classification of the departmental and fleld services with the understanding that it will have the support of the American Federation of Labor. “The Welch act, which provided for | the classification of the field services, | directed specifically that employes in the mechanical and drafting groups.| whose wages ‘are now or have hereto- fore been fixed by wage boards or simi- lar authority’ be excepted from the | survey on which field classification was | to be based. Labor believes that ihese employes should be excluded, but it be- lieves with equal firmness that all other Government workers which the law did not exclude should be provided with the best possible scheme or grading their types of service. Determined Fight Planned. “The" so-called economy act will be fought with every ounce of our energy when Congress returns to Washington, and it will be our endeavor to regain for Federal employes what they have lost—incidentally, during their separa- tion from the ranks of organized labor.” Every section of the country will be represented at the Employes’ Conven tion next month, it was stated at or- ganization headquarters. The commit- tee appointed by President Glass is pre- paring a_ program which will nclvde | Club to Give Musicale. ‘The Ten O'Clock Club will present its third musicale and tea at 3 p.m. next Sunday at 1603 K street. Robert Ruck- man, pianist, and Lean, violinist, of the National Symphony Orchestra, will play. sense | OME of the scenes on Pennsylvania avenue and Capitol Hill yesterday as the local Masonic fraterni v re-enacted the ceremonies of September 18, 1793®@when George Washington laid the corner stone of the Capitol. Upper corner stone. Center: a prominent part in the ceremonies. A. Ernest Tate, dressed as George Washington, uses the first President’s histcric trowel to spread mortar at the laying of & new | Garbed in Colonial costume, members of the Eastern Star took Lower: Part of the military contingent as it passed the Capitol, with the soldiers attired in Colonial dress. —Star Staff and A. P. Photos. FOURTH OF U. S. BUILDING GUARDS [LOSE OUT UNDER ECONOMY ACT Appropriation’s Cut in Grant’s Service Totals 21 Per Cent of Force’s Total Pay. One-fourth of the men who guard Government buildings under jurisdictior of Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, are lost to active service due to the new economy policy, it was made known yesterday by Capt. Doyle O. Hickey, superintendent of park police and head of the protection division of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. Reductions in. appropriations for the fiscal year 1933 for this service have amounted to 21 per cent of the total pay of the buildings guards force, he said. This means, he explained, that when the 21 per cent is distributed equally ‘over the year and regular leave and sick days are taken into account, at least 25 per cent of the force is off dunty practically all the time. In addition to the one-month legis- | lative furlough taken by all Government employes under the economy act, work- | and Public Parks must take an admin- | istrative furlough so the organization | may keep within the available Govern- | ment funds for this fiscal year. Six working days a month are taken out of the regular program of the build- ings guards because of the pressure of economy, two of them representing the legislative furlough and four for the “red letter” furlough. So, Capt. Hickey said, instead of having 24 working days a month for his buildings guards, due to the pressure of economy there are but 18 working days. The work of the various men must accordingly be stag- gered to meet this situation, To make the problem worse, the Gov- ernment in about two weeks will take over policing of the new $1,000,000 Gov- ernment warehouse at Eighth and Ninth, C and D streets southwest, re- quiring a_minimum_of nine buildings guards, officials say, JUDGE LIANG TO SPEAK AT Y. M. C. A. TONIGHT Chinese Internationalist Will Dis- cuss Invasion of Man- churia. Judge Tuen-Li Liang, Chinese inter- nationalist, will deliver an address to- night at 8 o'clock at the Y. M. C. A. on “The First Anniversary of the Chinese- Japanese Controversy.” The meeting, observing the first anni- ‘vemnry of the invasion of Manchuria, will be unofficial in its nature. It will be an amalgamated meeting of the Chi- nese Education Society, the Chinese Students’ Alliance and the Chinese Y. | M.C. A. Judge Liang formerly was professor of speakers from labor and official circles. | international law at the Comparative Law School of China and formerly judge of the Court of Appeals at Shanghai. He was a member of the Chinese dele- gation to the League of Nations Assem- bly and the Conference for the Codifica- tion of International Law at The e. Formerly he was also a research fellow in international law at the Harvard Law School. ¥ PARK MAGNOLIA TREE BLOOMS 5 MONTHS LATE Cold Weather Last May Blamed for Unusual Behavior of Soulangeana. Blooming five months behind sched- ule, a large magnolia tree now is in full blossom in West Potomac Park, between Fourteenth street and the pansy beds, close to Riverside drive. August H. Hanson, horticulturist in |the Office of Public Buildings and | Fublic Parks, yesterday made the dis- | covery cn his rounds of inspection. Th2 unseasonal cold weather of last May, Mr. Hanson said, prevented the mag- gglln from blessoming at its accustomed e. “This botanical oddity constitutes a rare seasonal freak and it is the first time in the memory of park officials that a magnolia has bloomed here in September,” asserled Mr. Hanson. The tree is knpwn &s a soulangeana magnolia. ers in the Office of Public Buildings, COLORFL MASONE PARADE WITHESSED B HUGE THRON Thousands Along Avenue to See Picturesque Colonial Spectacle. IMPRESSIVE CEREMONIES ARE HELD AT CAPITOL Re-enactment of Corner Stone Lay- ing Is Interesting Feature of Bicentennial Celebration. History repeated itself on Capitol Hill yesterday as District Freemasonry, with impressive ceremonies in Colonial setting, re-enacted the layirz of the corner stone of the United States Capitol by President George Washington, on September 18, 1793. Following a colorful parade from the Ellipse down Pennsylvania avenue to the Capitol, in which more than 2,000 Masons wore eighteenth centry costume, and 8,000 more marchers participated, a new granite stone was swung into place alongside the original corner stone, with full Masonic ritual. Thousands of lined the ceremonial avenues of the Capital as the 2-hour long procession. the ranks Masons augmented by detach- ments of naval and military units, | passed in review, Pennsylvania avenue, decked with banners and flags in horfor of the George Washington Bicentennial re-echoed to music from a score of bands and drum corps as the long column wended its way eastward. Sponsored by Grand Lodge. Sponsored by the Grand Lodge of Masons of the District of Columbia. the festivities were a part of the vear-long Bicentennial observance. and were par- ticipated in by high dignitaries of the Masonic society from the Capital and pnearby jurisdictions. The United States Bicentennial Commission co-operated in planning the event, of which Brig. Gen Amos A. Pries was director. The day marked also the anni- versaries of the signing of the Constitu- tion and of the farewell address Grand Master Reuben A. Bogley pre- sided over the ceremonies and was among the high Masonic officials who spread mortar on the new corner stone set in the floor of the Capitol just beneath the east steps. A. Ernest Tate took the role of George Washington. The same silver trowel wielded by the first President was used. as were the gavel Washington handled and the Bible on which he took his Masonic obligations. ‘These cherished relics. owned by three of the oldest lodges in the District area, {were brought forth from the archives of the Masonic fraternitv for yester- day’s ceremonies. The Bible is owned by the Fredericksburg Lodge. No. 4- the gavel by Potomac Lodge. No. 5. anc the trowel bv Alexandria-Washingtcn Lodge, No. 22. Bloom Makes Address. In the absence of President Hoover, who sent last-minute regrets that he could not attend, the principal address was made by Representative Sol Blocm of New York, associate director of the ited States Bicentennial Commis- Describing the ceremonies as & rededication in the hearts and minds of the American pecple to those prin- ciples of government which are the foundaticn of our greatness,” Mr. Bloom likened the character of George Washington to the foundation stone of liberty. “Even these great columns may crum- {ble into dust. but the name cf Wash- ington will live in the wecrld s long as the hearts of men respond to the finest clements of human character,” he sald. Due to the length of the parade, part jof it was rerouted away from the re- viewing stand on the East Plaza, which was the center of the ceremonies. in order that the corner stcne relaying | program might begin on schedule | After the opening by Grand Master | Bogley. the invocation was pronounced | by Rev. Dr. John C. Palmer. grand chaplain of the District Lodge. Wil- | liam Tyler Page led the audience in | reciting the American’s Creed. Grand Secretary J. Claude Keiper and Grand Treasurer Charles E. Bald- win deposited some articles in a cop- per box later placed beneath the corner stone. These articles included a 1,000-year-old T. V. L. square, bronze mirror, presented by the Tang Dynasty of China. Other items placed in the box consisted of newspapers recording yesterday’s event, copies of the program and general order for parade formation, a history of the District Grand Lodge together with its 1931 proceedings, a history of the participation of the lodge in the Bicentennial commemora- tion, minutes of the 1932 convention of the George Washington Masonic Me- morial _Association, photographs of Grand Masters Bogley and of George R. Forsuch of Maryland and Grand Secretary Keiper, two nails from the floor of the banquet hall at Mount Vernon, miniature of the George Wash- ington knife, replica of the Washington gavel, picture of George Washington as President and Mason, a Bible donated by Past Grand Master Gratz E. Dun- kum, a United States flag donated by Grand Comdr. L. Whiting Estes and books by Charles H. Callahan and Carl H. Claudy. In addition to these, Bicen- tennial coins, medal, pamphlets and bulletins of Masonic lodges and other papers were placed in the box. After the corner stone laying, for which the high officers of the order descended beneath the Capitol steps, Grand Master Bogley addressed the throng gathered on the Capitol plaza. The grand secretary later read the ad- dress by the acting grand master at the ceremonies in which George Wash- ington tcok part. Prominent Guests. Visiting Masons and other distin- guished guests who took part in the ceremonies included Past Grand Master Anthony W. Jones of Arizona, Grand Master William E. Valliant Robert P. Robinson of Delaware, George R. Gorsuch of Maryland, Martin J. Deitz, jr., grand warden of New Jersey: Charles J. Tobin, chairman of the New York Bicentennial Commission, and Maj. Ogden J. Ross, representing the Governor of New York; Henry S. Borne- man of Pennsylvania, Harry K. Green and Past Grand Master James H. Price Virginia; supreme and imperial councils, Members of the diplomatic corps, including representatives of the order in foreign lands, also were guests. Motion picture recordings of the events were made, and later this month a film showing entire program followed by George Washington 139 years ago. will be completed. Some of the “shots” for this film were made on the banks of the Potomac River and among old o E Xy T al g in the film in the role of Martha Wash- ington. She took part in the ceremonies y, with her daughter, Mrs. Dor- (Continued on Second Page.) \ \ Past and