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WAS HINGTON ‘TRIENDLY' DIVORCE SCORED AS MENACE BY 1.5 BAR CHEF Martin Compares Conditions! With Russia in Appeal to Woman Lawyers. FAVORS DISBARMENT FOR ATTORNEYS IN CASES Declares Steady Growth of Broken Homes Demands Attention of American Civie Leaders. Denouncing collusion in “friendly” divorces, Clarence E. Martin, president of the American Bar Association, last night declared that divorce by agree- ment in this country, “while not so bold and open an arrangement as in com- munistic Russia, s nevertheless just as effective.” “Mr. Martin addressed the Woman's r Association of the District at a din- r in the Mayflower Hotel and took that occasion to urge them to seek a solution of the growing divorce problem In the United States. He charged that “wholesale collusion,” participated in by mentbers of the legal profession actually exists in connection with many “friendly” divorce actions. “When uncovered, the divorce ought not only to be set aside, but the attorney should be disbarred,” he added. With reference to the steady growth of divorce in this country, Mr. rtin | told the woman lawyers that “some or- ganization composed of persons acute to the nexds of the public, with an te intellectual background, must undertake its solution. Pleads for Solution. “Certainly you, who are concerned both because it affects your sex and our profession, ate the ones to under- Take 165 solution, which, if accomplished, would be the greatest legal reform of the age. And. particularly. is this thought epplicable to you, living in the Capital City of the Nation, away from the conflicting abstractions of State and local influences,” he said. In 1929, he ndded, Washington had cne of the country’s best divorce rec- ords—5,634 marriages and. 142 divorces or annulments, or about 40 marriages to Va., during the same year. Speaking of the so-called “friendly” divorce, Mr. Martin sai “When cn2 approaches a discussion of the ¢ > action itself, s distin- guished from we ars struck with the fact that of the 189,- ranted in 1920, 163,320, or tenth; of the cases were This | challenges at once cur attention. It brings to the fere the charge that at the present time most divorce suits are the Tesult of agreement or collusion between les prior to the ection—that, in pariance, the so-called action is one in neme and not in fact and is a fraud upcn the cour:. Certainly we know that, in any other character of case, when o great a percentage of non- contests exist, for some legal reason, a friendly suit is pending. Mc:st of these divorce suits are friend: that each cf the parties have agreed ahead of time. Indeed, every lawyer of any experience has heard of some case where the defendant has furnished the plaintiff with evidence. because evidence n;'.h:r; must be to satisfy the demands of w. Held Just as Effective. If this statement is true, and you'| know it is, we have divorce by agree- | ment of the parties in this country, | which, while not so bold and open an arrangement as in Communistic Rus- sia, is nevertheless just as effective. We have no means by which we may prove that wholesale collusion exists, but we know that it does exist and that many members of the legal profession are parties to it. It is not alone an un- professional but an illegal act. When uncovered, the divorce ought not only to be set aside, but the attorney should be disbarred. To say the least, such ices are not in accord with the lofty ideals of the profession, to the maintenance and vindication of which we have consecrated our lives.” Among the invited guests were Representative and Mrs. H. T. Ralney, Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, Representative Mary T. Norton, Jus- tices Charles H. Robb and D. Law- rence Groner of the District of Colum- bia Court of Appeals, and Mrs. Robb; Chief Justice and Mrs, Alfred A. ‘Wheat, Justices and Mrs. Jesse Adkins, Joseph W. Cox, James M. Proctor, F. D. Letts and Jennings Bailey of the District Suprerhe Court; United States Attorney and Mrs, Leo Rover, Annabel Matthews, Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Young- quist, Mr. and Mrs, James Brown Scott, Mr, and Mrs. William P. Mec- Cracken, Mr. and Mrs. George M. Morris, William B. Vallance and Dr. &nd Mrs. William T. Notz. LARGER D. C. FUND | ASKED OF CONGRESS| Maner Park Citizens Urge Increase or Corresponding Reduction in Taxes. ition urging either increased ic:z; for the District or a reduction in taxes has by the Manor Park Citizens’ | Association to Chairman Norton of the rict Committee. A letter ohn D. Smoot, secretary of the association, accompanied the reso- lut indorsement of the Norton resolution proposing a study to deter- mine the best form of government for the District so as to allow the residents participation has reached the House District Committee from the Law and Legislation Committee of the Federation of Citizens'’ Association. This letter was signed by George E. Sullivan, chairman. proceeding in | tion The Sundy Shae WASHINGTON, Divorcee to Be Bride MRS. HUME, GRANDDAUGHTER OF MARK HANNA, TO WED. RS. CHARLOTTE HANNA HUME, 23-year-old grand- daughter of Mark Hanna, will be married to John W. Merritt, 26-year-old son of a Washing- ton physician, tomorrow afternoon. The | ceremony Wwill take place at the home of the prospective groom’s father, Dr. E. A, Merritt, In the Woods, North Chevy Chase, Md., it was announced lest night. Mr. Merritt obtained the license yesterday in Rockville. Mrs. Hume, who recently obtained a divorce in Reno from Richard Hume, lives at 4000 Cathedral avenue. She was only 16 years old and was ac- claimed the prettiest debutante in New | York’s “Four Hundred” when she eloped with Hume in 1927. A year ago she and her husband | adopted a child and established their home in Wesley Heights. A few months later, however, they separated, and last | October Mrs. Hume went to Reno for | her divorce, which she sought on the ground of cruelty. | | MRS. CHARLOTTE HANNA HUME. VNN WILL 0PN ANTLYAR SESSION Eleven Mational Organiza- tions With 5,000,000 Mem- bers to Be Represented. Under auspices of 11 national wom-, en’s organizations claiming total mem- bership of 5,000,000, the Conference on | Causc and Cure of War will be held at | the Washington Hotel from Tuesday to Friday of this week, with more than 600 representatives of the sponsoring organ- izations expected to attend. Forty experts on international prob- lems are promised as speakers for the four-day convention. The general ob- jectives of the National Committee on the Cause and Cure of War, of which Mrg. Carrie Chapman Catt is president, are given in the conference program as follows: “To build effective peace ma- chinery, to reduce war machinery, and | to obtain guaranteed security against war for every nation.” The conference will open Tuesday morning with an address by Dr. James G. McDonald, chairman of the Foreign Policy Association, who will talk on “The World Today,” and at the same session Dr. Mary E. Woolley, president of Mount Holyoke College, will discuss “The Status of Disarmament.” Dr., McDonald will conduct a round table at the afternoon session on “Dis- armament,” following which Prof. James T. Shotwell, director of the division of economics and history, Carnegie En- dowment for International Peace, will speak cn “Moral Disarmament.” Play Will Be Presented. At the evening cession a pla: titled “Mars Takes a Sabbatical be presented by 32 players selected from the delegates. On Wednesday morning a seminar on “Peace on the West- Dr. Stephen P. Duggan, director of the Institute of International Education. Participating in this seminar will be Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs; Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, for- | mer president of the General Federa- | ; Mrs. rton Parscns, treasurer of the National Committee, and Mrs. | A. H. Woods of Iowa. The closing feature of the morning | will be a delegates’ conferences, con- ducted by Dr. Waiter W. Van Kirk, secretary of the Commission on Inter- national Justice and Good Will of the Federal Council of Churches, the gen- eral theme being “What Can We Do to_Help the Situation at Geneva?” Dr. Stanley High, editor of the Chris- tian Herald, will serve as chairman of a round table on Wednesday afternoon, the general theme being “Clearing Up | Causes of Disagreement and Misunder- standing.” Other speakers at the Tound table will be Frederick Libby, | i { the National FOUR TO ADDRESS RELIEF BANQUET 37th Annual Dinner of Mon- day Evening Club Sched- uled Tomorrow. The thirty-seventh annual dinner of § the Monday Evening Club will be held | tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. in the Young Women's Christian Association Build- ing. The general theme of the meet- ing will be “Washington's Human Chal- lenge for 1933." Four addresses are scheduled, pre- senting various angles of the problem. Rev. Dr. John O'Grady, director of Catholic Charities of the District, will present the point of view of a social worker. Arthur Moses, president of the Travelers' Aid Society, will speak as a board member. The view point of a citizen will be given by Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, editor of the Wash- ington Herald, and Allen T. Burns, di- rector of the Association of Community Chests and Councils, of New York Cl!y‘! will speak on “How Other Cities are Meeting the Human Challenge of 1933.” President Leifur Magnusson will Rx;e- side. The invocation will be by Rev. Dr. W. L. Darby, executive secretary of the Washington Federation of Churches. Committee chairmen then will be in- troduced and the toastmaster, Elwood Street, director of the Community Chest, will be presented. The dinner will close with general discussion, which is expected to include remarks by specially invited guests. The guests are to include Senators Cos- tigan, Capper and La Follette; Repre- sentatlves La Guardia and Mary T. Norton; Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the Board of District oners; Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, District Commissioner, and George 8. Wilson, head of the Board of Public Welfare. CONFEREN(SE IMPENDS ON DEFICIENCY BILL House Expected to Name Five Con- ferees Tomorrow—Senate Group Appointed. House conferees are to be appointed tomorrow on the deficiency appropri- ation bill, which carries the $625,000 to provide for unemployment relief in the District until July 1. This item is not in controversy, as the Senate approved exactly the same language as was in executive secretary o Council for the Prevention of War, and | Bruce Bliven, editor of the New Re. public. Emphasis will be placed on the situation in China and Japan. The aft- ernoon session will close with an ad- dress by Dr. D. F. Fleming, assistant professor of political sciene at Vander- bilt University, whose subject will be “Should the United States Apply for Membership in the League of Nations?” | A marathon round table will be con- ducted durinf the evening, the partici- pants of which have been selected by | the various States. Organizations Take Part. The member organizations responsible for the conference are as follows: Ameri- can Association of University Women, Council of Women for Home Missions, | Federation of Woman’s Boards of For- | eign Missions of North America, General | Federation of Women’s Clubs, National | Board of the Young Women'’s Christian Associations; National Council of Jew- ish Women, National Federation of Business and ' Professional Women's Clubs, National League of Women Vot~ ers, itional Woman's Christian Tem- perarffe Union, National Women’s Con- ference of American Ethical Union, Na- ticnal Women’s Trade Union League. ‘The Washington Local Committee on Arrangements consists of the following: General chairman, Mrs. William L. Darby; vice chairmen, Mrs. T. J. How- erton, Mrs. H. Wellen Fisher, Mrs. Delos Kinsman, Mrs. Willam R. Rhoades, Mrs. Gardiner Jackson, Mrs. Allen Stockdale; secretary, Mrs. J. Claude Keiper; banquet, Mrs. Frank E. Edginton, Mrs. Benjamin Meeks; in- ormation, Mrs. Leonard Schloss, Mrs. Harry Hahn; hotel arrangements, Mrs. Carol Goodpasture, Mrs. Hugh Smith; ushers and , Mrs. Kirkpatrick | Noble, Mrs. J. R. Hardesty; utility, Mrs. E. C. Dinwiddie, Mrs. E. R. Peas- ley; music, Mrs. McFall Kerbey; host- esses, Mrs. T. E. Brown, Mrs. A. M. Ferry; registration, Mrs. Karl Fen- ning, Mrs, Basil Manly; church groups, Mrs. John Reynolds, Mrs. H. C. Briscoe. Ruth Morgan is the administra- tive chairman of the conference and will preside throughout the conference. Invocations will be offered at va- rious sessions of the conference by Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo of Washington; Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the National Women’s Christian Temperane Union; Mrs. Frederick M. Paist, president of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations; Mrs. Charles K. Roys, dean of Wells Col lege; and Mrs. E. H. Silverthorn, chair- | man of the International Relations Committee of the Federation of Wom- en’s Boards of Foreign Missions of | North America. | Towa Society to Hold Dance. The Towa Society will hold & dance card party next Saturday night Hotel. The State dis- | Disarmament Conference and $40,000 for the bill as it passed the House. The House has delayed appointing its conferees until Chairman Byrns of the Appropriations Committee, who also heads the subcommittee on the defici- ency bill, returns from his illness of the past few days. He is expected back to- morrow. As the Senate appointed five conferees, the House probably will ap- point the same number. Extensive conferences or serious dis- agreement is not looked for. The most important Senate amendments are those appropriating $150,000 for partici- pation by the United States in the inaugural ceremonies at the Capitol The only other item that is expected to cause discussion in the conference is the McKellar amendment broadening the power of the Joint Congressional Committee in examining Federal tax refunds. EX-MARINE, A SUICIDE, TO REST IN ARLINGTON Killed Himself After Failing to Effect Reconciliation With Estranged Wife. John Harmon, 27-year-old former Marine, who shot himself to death Thursday night in front of the home of his estranged wife, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. Harmon killed himself after failing to effect a reconciliation with his wife, Mrs. Margaret Harmon, 22. With a shotgun beside his body, he was found dead on the sidewalk in front of 1246 I street southeast, where his wife and two small children had been living since their! separation about a month ago. A 16- page letter found in his pocket said he z:;p;qgmg his life “to make my wife MAN FOUND INJURED Hit-and-Run Auto Thought Cause of Walter Burns’ Condition. Mystery surrounded the injury of Walter Burns, 43, found lying uncon- scious in the street at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue last night. He was found by Richard Eberhardt, 2 motorist, who took him to Emergency Hospital, where he was found to be suf- fering from a severe head injury and cuts and bruises about the body. Police are working on the theory Burns, who lives at 820 Sixth street southwest, was the victim of a hit-and- run driver, Train Kills Section Foreman, MeKENNEY. Va., January 14 UP). 15 ATTACK LAUNCHED ON NIGHT LIGHTING OF CITYS STATUES Fine Arts Commission Says Beams Detract From Merit of Art. TRAFFIC CONSIDERATIONS ARE CITED BY COL. GRANT General Program for Illu- minated Shafts. Although the Office of Public Build- Ings and Public Parks has illuminated the John Paul Jones statue, at the foot of Seventeenth street, and is con- sidering night lighting of the statue in Washington Circle, Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, today went on record as opposing this practice. “The statues in Washington were not designed to be lighted at night,” said Mr. Moore. “The light beams make something the sculptor did not intend and they take away part of the merit of the art. A number of shadows are created that were not calculated upon.” The chairman of the Fine Arts Com- mission laughingly referred to the dictum’ of former Senator Phelan of California, who said that it was enough to have to endure the statues by day without forcing them on us by night. Washington Circle, in which is located an equestrian statue of the Father of His Country, contains probably the worst Washington statue in existence, said Mr. Moore, particularly in this country. In the daytime, it is sur- rounded by trees, so one does not notice it especially, but night lighting would | emphasize it, he said. Grant Points to Traffic. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, who is considering night illumination for the Washington Circle statue, said this would be done from traffic con- siderations. It is considered desirable to light this statue, because in the past, it has been run into by careless motorists. This the reason why the John Paul Jones statue has been illuminated, the colonel said. He made it clear that there is no general pro- gram for lighting all the statues in Washington at night, as this would not only be costly, but the sight of them would .become tiresome. Mr. Moore’s assertion is that the an- swer to motorists running into the statues at night “is the answer that Paris makes”—the use of low stone posts. Even if the statues are lighted at points dangerous from a traffic viewpoint, Mr. Moore said that he did not know how to prevent drunken drivers from colliding with the statues. Mr. Mmre s‘x:kéuf:ntth tha é:rnb!:n;‘ of properly illuminaf e statue of Lin- coln I.nlytht Lincoln Memorial “has not been_solved.” “There is not a sculptor in the coun- try, who has seen it and approved the lighting,” said Mr. Moore. “The top lighting is very strong on the head of Lincoln, but very bad about the eyes. At night, it makes Lincoln sit up in a perpetual wake and kills the mural decorations.’ Bronze Screen Omitted. The statue, he explained, is designed for top lighting. A proposed bronze screen back of the columns to control the lighting was omitted for reasons of economy, he said. As a matter of precaution, the of- ficials have had to light the Washing- ton Monument and the dome of the Capitol, Mr. Moore asserted, and “we would like to leave them the predomi- nant night features of Washington.” The lighting of buildings at night, he characterized as ‘“pure advertising,” adding that “this is not art and the glory of Washington is its spaciousness and at night this comes out from the myriad of low lights.” The chairman of the Fine Arts Com- mission asserted that treating the statues with “lampblack” makes the modelings all alike, reducing them to a uniform black surface. Cleaning of the statues is done under supervision of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks. Repeatedly, Mr. Moore said, the Fine Arts Commission has recommended that only soap and water, with a trace of ammonia, be used for cleaning the statues. Under the present system, he says, the “statues might just as well have been whittled out of black wood.” LA NINTH STREET FIRE CAUSES 3 ALARMS Two Upper Floors of Century Bakery Lunch Damaged. Theater Threatened. A three-alarm fire of unknown origin last night burned out the two upper floors of the tAree-story building of the Century Bakery Lunch, 309 Ninth street. Starting apparently on the second floor of the building, the blaze made considerable headway before the first alarm was turned in by Charles Galeano, 17, of 4306 Shadyside avenue, Boulevard Heights, Md., who saw the smoke from across the street. Fear that the fire might spread into the Palace Smoking Theater, 307 Ninth street, next door, and into the film ex- change of the Sidney Lust Theater Corporations, above the theater, where | bt a large quantity of highly infiamable film was stored, led to the sending of the second and third alarms. clouds of smoke from the burning building. visible from all over downtown Washington, attracted a crowd estimated at more than 5,000 persons. Despite the smoke which seeped into the theater, however, the patrons, after two of their number had looked over the blaze next door, de- c{:’led to sit out the remainder of the show. HEARING ON AIRPORT Senate Subcommittee to Hear Amelia Earhart. ‘The Highways of the mittee will hold a tom he hearing at 10:30 a.m. Bingham bill to au- SUNDAY MORNING, | | | JANUARY Above is the architect's drawing of the * gural parade after taking his oath of office as President 2 : ; uilding and Park Director Denies | =ep ¥y, Tt in New York on April 30, 1760. shortly, will be a reproduction of 15, 1933. at the Capitol. The Federal Hall, on the portico of which court of/ honor” from which Pranklin [srons o PAGE B—1 COURT OF HONOR' | FOR ROOSEVELT O D. Roosevelt will review the inau- “court of honor,” on which work will FIVEPERSONS HURT IN TWO CRASHES Auto Victims Near T. B., Md., Include Two in Serious Condition. Five persons were injured, two critic- ally, in two automobile accidents last night on the Washington-Leonardtown highway, near T. B, Md. In one of the mishaps—in which & coupe left the road, crashed into a tree and overturned—the driver and two| young women companions escaped seri- | ous injury or possible death by crawl- ing from the wreckage as it burst into flames. 4 ‘The injured in the two accidents: Francis Gates, 1028 Girard street northeast; Raymond Voorhees, 1014 | Keamey street northeast; Mildred War- rick also of Washington; Herman W.| Lyles, colored, 320 D street southwest, | and Kitty Brooks, also colored, Towson, | Removed Unconscious. Gates and Voorhees were the most seriously injured, both receiving pos- sible skull fractures when their me- chines collided with one driven by Lyles at T. B. Gates was taken to Casualty Hospital and Voorhees to Providence Hospital. Both were yn- consclous. Miss Warrick was cut about the neck, according to Maryland State police, when an automobile in which she was riding with her sister Edna and Leland | chair, ‘Whitmir, Naval Air Station, left the road on the Floral Park curve, near T. B. She and her companions crawled through the windows of the coupe, which was destroyed by fire a few minutes later. So far as police coulld learn, she did not go to & hos- pital. Lyles and Miss Brooks, one of his passengers, were cut and bruised when his car overturned. The other pas- sengers—Thomas Brooks, colored, Tow- son, and William Skinner, colored, also of the D street address, escaped injury. Lyles was arrested and held at the State police substation at Waldorf, Md. Driver Escapes Train Crash. Stalled on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks at Lanham, Md., an automobile was demolished when struck by a freight train as its driver, Howard Crouch, 601 East Wilson boulevard, Clarendon, Va., leaped to safety. H. L. Bankert, watchman at the grade crossing, said Crouch drove onto the tracks despite his warning signal. The train, bound from New York to Wash- in , was not damaged. g:fl E. Mayfleld, 10, was struck by an automobile near his home, 763 Princeton place. The driver, David Krupsow, 24, of the 3700 block of Jeni- fer street, took him to Emergency Hos- | giul. where he was treated for cuts and | ruises. | Elizabeth Turskey, 22, of 1501 Six- teenth street, was slightly injured when an automobile lift on which she was standing in a downtown filling station was hit by a car driven by Joseph Ull- | man. She was treated at Emergency. WMAL TRANSFER APPROVAL SEEN Radio Commission Expected to Act This Week on N. B. C. Contract. ‘The Federal Radio Commission is ex- pected to approve this week the contract under which the National Broadcasting Co. would take over management and operation of Station WMAL, beginning February 1. ‘The contract was signed yesterday by M. A. Leese, owner of WMAL, and Prank M. Russell, vice president of N. B. C. in Washington. It leases WMAL to N. B. C. for five years. Plans have been made by N. B. C. to add WMAL to the “blue” network, which would bring into Washington such programs as concerts of the Bos- ton Symphony Orchur.n.Ploweu Th as’ daily news review Lord's new “Country Doctor” sketches, and various other commercial features which Washington listeners have been forced to pick up through WBAL in Baltimore, WJZ in New York or KDKA in Pitts- urgh. The first change as a result of nego- tiations will put “Amos '’ Andy” on tomorrow night instead of WRC. This famous radio team was the. only “blue” network attraction carried regularly by WRC, which is a link in the “red” network. WORKERS TO BE HONORED Policeman Hunting Purse-Snatcher Falls Into Hole and Arrest Beeking a colored man who had from Miss Eliz- Policeman G. R. ‘Wallrodt stumbled and fell into uc! 3 E ed on & man huddled at the bottom of the hole. In the man’s hand was $3—the amount of money reported to have been in Miss sutm":‘rcmbonk. ‘Wallrodt Policeman M. N. Stottlemyer took the man to Miss Seaton, who identified him as the purse-snatcher. Booked for in- vestigation at the first precinct, he identified himself as Edward Harris, 46, of the 400 block of First street. APPEAL SOUNDED FOR OLD CLOTHING Chest Officers and Church Key Men Urged to Rush | Collections. An urgent plea for collection by Com- munity Chest liaison officers and church key men of old clothing for the desti- tute of Washington was made last night by George O. Vass, vice president and cashier of the Riggs National Bank and 'man of the Liaison Officers’ Com- mittee of the Chest. In his appeal, Mr. Vass, who is work- | Ing in connection with the Clothes Con- pointed out a salvaging plant had been established in the old Ford Building at Pennsylvania avenue and John Mar- shall place, where unemployed men and women sort and classify the clothing, clean and mend it as necessary and issue it on request from responsible agencies. This work is carried on under direction of the Federation of Women's Clubs, of which Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley is chairman. “All kinds of clothing, including over- coats, suits, dresses, socks, undergar- ments, shirts and hats, of all sizes and in whatever condition, are badly need. ed,” Mr. Vass said. Clothes may be old, worn, patched and discarded, but they can 'soon be remade into service- able clothes for those who are now rcl‘;nd and shivering. The District of lumbia Laundry-Dry Cleaners Own- ers Association are cleaning these <clothes when necessary free of cost. “Three means of collection have been provided. Any fire engine house will receive bundles. A telephone call to National 7174 will a collector in person. All laundries have made ar- rangements to issue tags, which may be fastened to bundles, and these can or left at the laundry offices.” e DATE TO BE OBSERVED January 27 Thirtieth Anniver- sary of Order of St. Luke. ‘The 30th anniversary of the organi- zation of the Independent Order of St. Luke, a fraternal body, will be ob- served January 27 at the Phyllis Wheatley Building, Ninth and Rhode Island avenue, by members of the so- clety. ‘The speakers are to include Rev. J. Green, Mrs. E. B. White, M. M. Peace, Mrs, M. J. Smith, Mrs. M. E. Camp- bell and Mrs. Julia West Hamilton. Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, right worthy grand secretary-treasurer of the In- dependent Orde r of St. Luke, is ex- pected to attend. ‘Will Discuss Hoover Dam. Dr. Elwood Mead, commissioner of reclamation of the Interior Department, will address a meeting of the Washing- be given to the regular laundryman | TRANSPORT BRINGS MARINE BRIGADE 69 Officers and 480 Enlisted Men Arrive Today From Nicaragua. Home from bandit fighting in the jungles of Nicaragua, the 2d Brigade of Marines is scheduled to reach Quantico, Va., aboard the naval transport U. S. S. Henderson at 10 o'clock this morning. Bringing 69 officers and 480 enlisted men aboard, the transport will dock at the headquarters of the East Coast itionary Force, at Quantico, from Norfolk, Va., where she over on her way from the Central American republic. 'pon_arrival the Henderson, which commanded by Capt. Andrew S. I'llekegul‘?. 8. Navy, will be met by Maj. Gen. H. Fuller, commandant of the Marine Corps, who will welcome the Marines, returning to the States after an absence of many years. Marine Corps headquarters announced that the enlisted men will be distri- buted to various posts in the East, 10 coming to the Navy Yard here, while 14 will serve at the Marine Barracks, Eighth and G streets southeast, while 125 are to be assigned to Quantico, as will 100 additional from the aviation force. Aviation Officers Assigned. Orders for D:);e'loflcenm mh.ve not ye; been announced, zpuon o these of the aviation dt ‘7 t which 2 Lieut. H. D. Boyden will go to Haiti, after command- ing one group of land planes that reached here from Managua without a scratch; Pirst Lieut. I. W. Miller to Haiti; Second Lieut. F. M. June to Haiti; Pirst Lieut. P. A. Putnam to the Naval Alr Station at Pensacola, Fla., Where an instructor; Second Lieut. S. S. Jack to the West Coast and First Lieut. K. H. Weir, who will also go to the West Coast. Capt. Francis P. Mul- cahy, who commanded the whole force that flew be on duty at Quantico. Distribution of the other enlisted men, Marine Corps Headquarters an- nounced, will be as follows: Charleston, 8. Pensacola, 8; Norfolk, Va., 1 outh, Va., 24; Boston, Mass., 13; Dover, N. J., Fort Mifflin, Pa,, 6; Hingham, Mass. 3 » 8; Iona Island, N. Y., 6; Lakehurst, N. J., 16; New London, Conn., 6; Newport, I, 10; New York, N. Y., 1. he Ma- rine Barracks, Philadelphia, 12, while 6 more will go to the receiving ship there; Portsmouth, N. H., Marine Barracks, 7, while 12 will go to duty at the Naval Prison there. Berkeley Goes to Parris Island. Brig. Gen. Randolph C. Berkeley, U. S. M. C.. commanding the 2d Brigade, disembarked at Norfolk, to go to com- mand the Marine Barracks at Parris Island, S. C., while some other detach- ments and officers have 'already disem- barked at Hampton Roads, Va. Brig. Gen. George Richards, U. 8. M. C, paymaster, who has been supervising the evacuation of the Marines from Nicaragua, will return to his duties at Marine Corps headquarters. Lieut. Col. Calvin B. Matthews, who was until re- cently in command of the Nicaraguan National Guard, who is also returning on the Henderson, is under orders for duty at Marine headquarters. His home address is given as 1906 Florida avenue, here. Capt. Hickey is a veteran of Nicara- gua, having served In that republic from October, 1929, to June, 1930, as vice president of the National Board of Elec- tions. During the World War he served aboard the New York, then with the British Grand Fleet in the North Sea, and subsequently commanded the de- stroyer U. 8. 8. Wilkes. FIRE DESTROYS LAUNCH Fire destroyed a small launch moored at the foot of Sixth street southwest yesterday afternoon when sparks ig- nited some of the gasoline when the owners were filling the tank. District PFire Tug No. 5 responded to the call. ‘The iaunch was the property of J. 'y | H. Ahearn, 2122 Blair road, and J. W. hth street southwest. MARCH 4 PLANNED New President to Witness Parade From Portico of “Federal Hall.” 60,000 WILL BE SEATED ALONG LINE OF MARCH George Washington took the oath of office | Presidential Stand to Be Erected in Front of White House Facing Square. Franklin D. Roosevelt, as thirty-third President of the United States, will re- view the parade that will mark his 1.~ auguration from a reproduction of the portico of Federal Hall, the historic building in New York Gity on the por- tico of which George Washington took the oath of office as first President. The building, which will be erected as the “court of homor” for the inaugu- ral, will stand in front of the White House on Pennsylvania avenue, facing Lafayette Square, and will be flanked on either side by stands which will seat 750 persons each. The section reserved for the new President and his distinguished guests will seat approximately 300 persons. A total of 1,800 guests will be in the spe- cially reserved section of the stands. Wood Announces Plans. Announcement of the form of the “court of honor” was made yesterday by Waddy B. Wood, architect, who is chairman of the Inaugural Subcom- mittee on Decorations and Stands, and a drawing of the building was given the approval of the general Inaugural Committee, of which Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson is chairman. Mr. Wood is an old hand at du&:- ing inaugural “courts of honor,” hat designed also the presidential stand for the first inauguration of Irow’ Wilson, using the famous home of ‘Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, as his subject for reproduction at that time. Federal Hall, it was explained by Mr. Wood, long since has been torn down, and the only building of that period which still stands in the vicinity of the intersection of Broad and Wall streets is old Trinity Church. The central portion of Federal Hall, ‘which Mr. Wood has studied carefully, is to be faithfully reproduced, with & cupola like that of the original build- There will be, and heated section which will be used in case of bad weather. If the day is clear and warm, this section will be removed. 60,000 Seats Planned. Directly opposite the stands for the President und his distinguished guests will be stands extending from - West 1 Executive avenue to East Executive avenue and others filling out the rest of Pennsylvania avenue on the White House side, bringing the total capacity of stands in this block to 11,800 per- sons. Other stands along the line of march, it is announced, will bring the total capacity to nearly 60,000 seats. Mr. Wood announced yesterday it is planned to dispense this year with the tall stands which customarily have + | been erected in the neighborhood of the State and Treasury Departments and to substitute for them low, covered stands which will permit of free move~ ment of spectators behind the stands. ‘While complete plans have not been made for decorations along the line of march, the presidential stand will be dressed up with cedar trees and other special decorative features and the colars of the flag will be a dominant background. Entertainment Arranged. | Arrangements for participation of the public in inaugural events wete ad- vanced yesterday when Huston Thomp- son, chairman of the General Entertain- ment Committee of the Inaugural Com- mittee, anncunced appointment of mem- bers of the group. ‘This body will have charge of all the activities planned for the enjoyment of ‘Washingtonians and visitors here dur- ing the inaugural period. Mr. Thomp- son has selected as his vice chairmen, John W. Childress, formerly a member of the District Public Utilities Commis- sion: Forrest Rutherford, ,Washington representative of the Republic Steel Co., and Mrs. Edward P. Costigan, wife of the Colorado Senator. Members of the committee who will be assigned to subcommittees in charge of particular phases of the entertain- ment program have been drawn from business, artistic, religious, civic and theatrical circles of Washington. While inaugural events in the have extended over two or three day: entertainment program for the forth- coming inauguration may cover a longer period, since March 4 will fall on Sat- urday, it is explained. Members of Committee. Members of the committee, in addi- tion to the three officers, were an- nounced as follows: Clarence A. Aspinwall, George W. Bean, R. Wilmer Bolling, Miss Sibyl Baker, John F. Brawner, Julian Bry- Tanner, 617 Some of the gasoline seeped into the hold of the craft. 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