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A—12 =% MORTGAGE LOANS BY R. F. C. ASKED BYREALTY BOARDS Bankruptcy Law and Other Measures Also Urged at Closing Session. GENERAL SALES LEVY AND TAX CUT PROPOSED 'W. C. Miller, Inducted as Head of Association, Sees Country Emerg- ing From Depression. The National Association of Real Estate Boards today recommended that the act creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation be amended so that agency be permitted to make loans on and to purchase first mortgages, subject to certain conditions, in a reso- lution adopted at the closing session of the annual business meeting here. The national realtors also called on Cengress to approve the separation of security affiliates and investment cor- porations from the banking institutions of the country, as provided in the pending Glass banking bill; and also ! urged enactment of the proposed | amendment to the Federal bankruptcy and cebt adjustment acts, so a5 to safeguard interests of both tenants and landlords. Another resolution asks that Pres- ident-elect Roosevelt, in his expected call for a special session of Congress during April, place before the new Congress the possibility of amending the Federal Home Loan Bank act, so that it might consider plans for broadening the scope of work of the new banking system, Tax Cut Urged. Means of carrying into effect a na- tional program for lightening the tax burden on real estate were discussed. The program drafted by the organi- zation of real estate operators and own- ers proposes adoption by States of va- rious new methods, including definite limitation of the extent to which a property may be tax: and calls for enactment of a Federal general sales tax, half of which would be allocated to the States for support of public schools. Miller Takes Office. W. C. Miller of this city was induced into the office of president of the Na- tional Association of Real Estate Boards by L. T. Stevenson, 1932 president, at an inaugural banquet last night. Mr. Miller is a past president of the Wash- ington Real Estate Board and a former chairman of the home builders’ division of the national body. Mr. Miller declared the United States would emerge from the depression “bet- ter and more truly American than ever before,” and said that hard work is ahead for the reconstruction of business. Mr. Stevenson emphasized the point that business must adjust itself to a new era and must now build a new plan to meet new conditions. The real estate business, in the changes, he as- serted, must take such action as will preserve for the future the savings of the people as are represented in the American home. In addition to Mr. Miller, three other ‘Washington realtors were inducted into offices of the national body for 1933. They are H. Clifford Bangs, head of the Brokers' Division; Waverly Taylor, vice chairman of the Home Builders' Di- vision, and J. F. M. Bowie, member of the Executive Committee of the Prop- | erty Management Division, Asks Tax Reduction. A declaration that the burden of tax- ation now borne by the owners of real estate must be reduced was made late yesterday by Rufus S. Lusk of Wash- ington in an address before members of the Property Management Division, in which he reviewed findings of a sur- vey of local apartment properties which was presented to members of the Sen- ate District Committee recently in his study of local rental conditions. One of the most constructive facts brought out by the survey, he said, was a showing of the relation of real estate taxes to the income of apartment prop- erties. He pointed out the study showed that 12.5 per cent of the gross income of the buildings surveyed was absorbed by taxes and that 19 per cent of the op- erating costs of the properties was for tax payments. Taxes, he said, amounted to 11.1 per cent of the rent schedules and amounted to approximately 35 per cent of the net income, before interest. “Obviously, this condition cannot continue,” he told the realtors. “Real estate is not being taxed; it is practi- cally being confiscated.” The convention program was to be concluded this afternoon with the stag- ing of a golf tournament for the real- tors at the Congressional Country Club. her delegates were to be taken on a htseeing tour of Greater Washington. | REFUND TO PRINTERS IS GIVEN APPROVAL Senate Committee Favors Fund to Reimburse U, S. Employes for Accumulated Leave. ‘The resolution to reimburse employes of the Government Printing Office for leave which they earned curing the fis- cal year ended last July, but were pre- ventcd from taking by the economy act, was reported favorably to the Senate today by Senator Dickinson, Republi- can of Iowa, ffom the Printing Com- mittee. The resolution seeks to reappropriate for this purpose money returned to the Treasury during this current fiscal year as a result of the payless furlough system. It is contended that Printing Office employes were discriminated against, because, prior to the economy law, em- ployes of that office could not take an- | nual leave until they had accumulated the full 30 days during a 12-month period, whereas in other departments leave was available as it accrued at the rate of two and one-half days a month. HOTEL EMPLOYE ROBBED Armed Bandit Holds Up Night Manager, Gets $5. Walter Laidlaw, night manager of the Arizona Hotel, 300 block of C street, was robbed of $5 early today by an armed bandit. Part of the money was taken from the cash register and part from Laidlaw’s pockets. An attempted hold-up of a lunch room in the first block of F street was frustrated early today when Thomas Moreland, the night manager, resisted three hold-up men. After one of them had struck Moreland in the face they fled apparently fearing the commotion 1 Hoskins medal for the outstanding grad- | were given to Col. Philip W. Hunting- Post Office Columns Set . STONE RISING ON PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE SIDE. ORKMEN yesterday began putting in place the stone columns which will front the new Post Office Building on the Pennsylvania avenue side. 1 AR GFCERS RECEVE DILONAS Medical, Dental and Veter- inary School Men Are Graduated. Forty-six officers were graduated from | the Army Medical School, Army Dental | School and Army Veterinary School at exercises yesterday afternoon in the au- | ditorium of the Army Medical Center. | Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, deputy chief of staff, delivered the com- mencement address, being introduced by Col. Philip Huntington, Medical | Corps, the assistant commandant at | Walter Reed. Chaplain Frank L. Mil- | ler gave the invocation. Col. Albert E. Truby, Medical Corps, | commandant, presented the diplomas | and Maj. Gen. Robert U. Patterson, | surgeon general, presented medals and | awards. Medals Awarded. ‘The Hoff and Sternberg medals for outstanding work among the graduates of the Army Medical School were | awarded to First Lieuts. Theodore Peter- son and Richard Paul Johnson, re- spectively, both of the Medical Corps. The Dental Corps medal was awarded to Capt. Clarence Price Canby and the uate of the Veterinary School was awarded to Second Lieut. Russell McNeillis. Special Army awards for bravery for which officers previously had qualified ton, Medical Corps, and Col. Edgar W. Miller, Medical Corps. Both received the Silver Star Citation and the Purple Heart decoration. The list of graduates is as follows: List of Graduates. Army Medical School: First Lieuten- ants, Medical Corps: Norman W. And- erson, 7019 Georgia avenue; Otis O. Benson, 410 Cedar street; John F. Blatt, Freedom, Pa.; Alfred H. Brauer, San Francisco, Calif.; Albert R. Dreis- bach, Wilkesbarre, Pa.; Kenneth F. Ernst, Minneapolis, Minn.; Paul S. Fancher, 905 Butternut street; Theo- dore L. Finley, Maplewood, Mo.; Lloyd E. Griffis, Beatrice, Nebr.; Joe Harrell, ‘Waco, Tex.; Richard P. Johnson, Chi- cago; Lester E. Judd, Enosburg Falls, Vt.; William J. Kennard, Pittsburgh; Francis P. Kintz, Granville, Ohi Charles L. Kirkpatrick, Lebanon, Tenn. William C. Knott, Burlington, N. C.; PFrank Y. Leaver, Reno, Nev.; Clifford H. Mack, Pittsburgh; George D. Mc- Grew, Pittsburgh; William W. Nichol, 130 North Gibson street, Oakland City, Ind.; Ernest H. Parsons, McAlester, Okla. Leonard T. Peterson, Mora, Minn.; George Prazak, Cedar Rapids, Towa; Albert H. Robinson, Hope, Ark. Joseph P. Russell, Cape Girardeau, Mo.; Edward M. Sager, Petersburg, Va.; Leonard N. Swanson, San Francisco; Fred C. Turley, Kinston, N. C.; A. Lacy Tynes, Staunton, Va.; Frederick B. Westervelt, Pittsburgh; Robert J. Wil- son, 1306 Floral strect; M. Samuel ‘White, New York City; Luis Ray, Cuban Army, Havana, and Capt. John W. Young, Empire, Ohio. Army Dental School—Majors, Charles Lewis, Williams, Ontario, Canada; Nathan C. Pickles, 749 Butternut street; Earle Robbins, Freelandville, Ind.; Wil- Ham B. Stewart, Washington, Kans.; Roy R. Newman, 4000 Cathedral ave- nue; captains, Clarence P. Canby, Mount Pleasant, Towa; Grant A. Selby, Ashland, Oreg.; first lieutenant, Robert E. Hammersburg, La Crosse, Wis. Army Veterinary School — Majors, Charles S. Willlams, Columbus, Ohio; Seth C. Dilldine, Canal Winchester, Ohio; second lieutenants, Wesley W. Bertz, Odessa, Mo.; Russell McNellis, Dunkerton, Iowa. WOMEN TO ATTEND - PARLEY ON DEFENSE 800 to 1,000 Delegates From Pa- triotic Organizations Expected at Meeting. Between 800 and 1,000 delegates from 39 of the most prominent wom- en’s patriotic organizations are expected to attend the Eighth Women’s Patriotic Conference on National Defense, to open at the Mayflower Hotel Monday night and continue through Wednesday. ‘The conference is sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary to unite the ‘women of the country in a determined for maint ice of adequate na- Mrs, S. Alford Blackburn of Versailles, Ky., national president of the American Legion Auxiliary, will serve as confer- ence chairman. Mrs. Lowell Fletcher Hobart of Milford, Ohio, former presi- dent general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, will be chairman of l'::“ banquet, to be held Tuesday night. ‘would bring police to the scene. D. C. Orders $49,295 Pipe. _The District Commisisoners yesterday ordered 46,000 linear feet of cast iron ‘Wwater pipe from the United States Pipe & Foundry Co. of Philadelphia, for $45,205.50, Mrs. Alfred J. Brausseau of Green- wich, Conn. also . Xrwer president general of the D. A. R, Is %0 attend as a delegate from the Rhode Island Asso- ciation of Patriots and will serve as chairman of the Resolutions Committee. Among the speakers Tuesday will be Princess Catacuzene S‘finmh- the for- mer Julia Grant, & American Legion. egate from unl of Flocida, —Star Staff Photo. Hearty Meal Given Patient Following Rumpus at Sibley Victim of Burns Enraged by Refusal of Food Due to Condition. R. A. King, 3¢, whose desire for food caused him to stir up quite a rumpus in Sibley Hospital last night, went to work on a hearty breakfast in Gal- linger Hospital this morning. And, ac- cording to Dr. Edgar Bocock, superin- tendent of the municipal institution, he seemed to enjoy it immensely. King, who gave his address as 3418 Fourteenth street, was taken to Sibley after being burned about the face, arms and chest yesterday while repairing an oil burner in St. Martin's Church, North Capitol and T streets. The burner, he told police, backfired and ignited his clothing. After receiving treatment in the emergency room at Sibley, he was trans- ferred to a ward. Because physicians refused to give him food until this morning, on the ground his condition was too serious, he is said to have be- **Svathed 1 ba wathed in bandages, he lea his bed and d.uhedgthmugh the tggll'—l dors, heading for the door, according to Dr. Wafren Burch, who treated him, At the door, however, he was stopped g{mh‘:;etlfiles l:cnd rfl'derflvs. who held e arrived i = t;lephnn:amu ved in response to e was placed in a patre to' Gallingor patrol and taken CIVIL SERVICE FUNDS REDUCED IN REPORT — Smaller Appropriation Will Force Administrative Furlonghs of 8 to 24 Days. The Civil Service Commission, thé principal oot sufferers un: - omy act this year, faces tggrs;g.ze pros pect for the next'fiscal year under the ggppergggaetlufi repgrlt]ed out in the in- nt offices bill y Vi o today‘ yesterday, it was This will entail a 1 v - loughs running from 8 dave o 53 auvs for employes "in the various salary groups in addition to the pay reduction of 813 per cent accomplished through the legislative furlough plan. The ad- inistrative furloughs start for those workers getting more than $1,500 and ;klle“gmxunum is applied to all above The commission this year i: - uled to get $1,234,520 ’;or pgrss;r‘;‘l:gl. Which, is about the same figure received last year after the furlough deduction had been made from the appropriation of $1,346,518. The total appropriation for the next year under present esti- mates is to be $1,374,470, a reduction of | Yesterday— 4 pm. RATE NEGOTIATIONS WITH PEPCO 10 BE - REOPENED MONDAY Attorney for Power Company Arranges Conference With Utilities Commission. - SETTLEMENT OF LEGAL ACTION ALSO INVOLVED Suit Now Pending Questions Right of Officials to Reduce Electric Costs by Own Order. Negotiations for a cut in electric rates and a settlement of pending litigation between the Potomac Electric Power Co. and the Public Utilities sion will be resumed Monday, it was sald today following informal confer- ences yesterday at the District Building. 8. Russell Bowen, vice president and counsel for the power company, called on the commission yesterday and stayed in its officer for a long time. Corpora- 'tion Counsel William W. Bride, As- sistant Corporation Counsel William A. Roberts and People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech were called in at various times. Later Chairman Mason M. Pat- rick said Bowen had informed him he had not been able to get in touch with his_colleagues. The commission has been trying to put through the rate cut by next Wed- nesday, although observers are begin- ning to doubt whether this effort will be sucgessful. At the moment the }:wer company holds the whip hand the matter of rates. They were fixed at their present level by stipula- tion with the commission pending set- tlement of the legal controversy, and accordingly the company is in & stra- tegic position to hold out a year or two on the present schedules until the case is settled. It is now pending in the Court of Appeals. On the other hand, if the company should lose its case, it will be “out” several thousand dollars in costs inci- dental to the litigation (court costs, printing records etc.) and run the risk of encountering a much steeper cut than might be made by agreement now. The suit in court is to test the power of the commission without consent of the utility, to change a sliding scale of rates previously entered into and rati- fied by court decree. In the Supreme Court of the District the commission ‘won, and the company took an appeal. THE WEATHER District of Columbia—Fair and colder, with lowest temperature about 28 degrees tonight; tomorrow fair, slowly rising” temperature in the afternoon; fresh northwest winds, diminishing to- night and becoming gentle variable by | tomorrow afternoon. Maryland and Virginja—Fair tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight, slowly rising temperature tomorrow afternoon. West Virginia—Fair and somewhat | colder tonight; tomorrow fair with slowly rising temperature. Outlook for January 30 to February 4. North and Middle Atlantic States— Rain in Middle Atlantic and rain, pos- sibly beginning as snow, in North At- lantic States Monday or Monday night and Tuesday, and rain again Thursday or Priday. except snow or rain from Northern New York to Maine. Slowly rising temperature Monday and Tues- day, slightly colder Wednesday, and much colder at end of week. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers very muddy today. Report for Last 24 Hours. ‘Temperature. Barometer. Inches. Noon ... . 39 Highest, 40, at 10:45 a.m., today. ago, 50 Lowest. 33, at 6 p.m. yesterday. Year ago, 38. - Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Survey.) Moon, today .. Am. Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month. 1933. Average. Record. 326 355 z.gg 327 884 . 9.13 $183,016 under that of the present year. — \CONCERT ASSURED BY COURT ACTION Presentation of Boston Symphony Tuesday Managed by Mrs. Dorsey for Mrs. Wilson-Greens’s Estate. Presentation of the Boston Symphon; Orchestra here Tuesday by theynv.:ll:]son¥ Greene Concert Burcau appeared as- sured today with the appointment by Justice Oscar R. Luhring of District Supreme Court of Mrs. Dorothy Hodg- kin Dorsey as the collector of the estate of her aunt, Mrs. Katie Wilson-Greene. Mrs. Wilson-Greene, founder and owner of the concert bureau, died Thursday at the home of her niece. 10.69 10.94 10.63 November..... December. ... Weather in Various Citles. ¥ Temperature. 3 s gEEFBE 25 g & s9m Stattons. Weather. ey g Baltimore, Birmingham Eismarck, N. ton, Buffalo, N. Charleston, 8. g0, Il vels The Boston Symphony, learning of the | S0l death, hastened to inquire what guar- autee it had that its members would be paid for their concert next Tuesday. No will of Mrs. Wilson-Greene could be found, so her niece, with whom she had been associated in business for years, asked the court yesterday for an eppointment as collector, in order that | Louisy the bureau could continue in operation. A bond of $20,000 was posted by Mrs. Dorsey upon her appointment. FAREWELL FETE GIVEN Adjutant Dodd of Salvation Army |Sait Laks's to Leave Capital. A farewell reception to Adjt. Charles Dodd, for the last three years divisional secretary of the Salvation Army here, | 559 who left today to assume a similar po- | w. sition in Charleston, W. Va., was held last night at the Army headquarters, 607 E strest. Among the large number of his friends who attended were Brig. and Mrs. John & 8 .. 29,6 FOREIGN. (7 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) G. McGee, Maj. and Mrs. James Asher, | Be Capt. and Mrs. Ernest La Marr, Capt. and Mrs. Harold Stout, Brig. Mrs. Nellie Crawford, Capt. Edward Trimyer, Adjt. Louella Knox, Adjt. and Mrs. Charles ‘Walker, Capt. and Mrs. Herbert Martin, 8t. and Adjt. \ Ma}. and Mrs, James and Mrs. Gilbert Robert 8an Juan, Havana, Oubs. Ooton, - | Lanbry, whose victory in that division - was enthusiastically applauded. Mag- | num was entered as suitable to become - | a hunter. |Him in open competition with Mrs. 00 Season championship of the incoor show | series. Each of those i ‘has won a show championship so far - Family of 14| Hiking to Ohio From Florida ON THE ROAD FOR THREE MONTHS EN ROUTE TO YOUNGSTOWN. Mr. and Mrs. John Aikens and their 12 children, Ohio, from Florida. Alkens said they had been on he reeches Youngstown? child’s express wagen. R. AND MRS. JOHN AIKENS have organized their own hunger march, a strictly fam- ily affair, with their 12 chil- dren in the ranks, but nowhere in particular to go. They trudged through 'Washington today, coming from the South and headed by the “thumb” route to ‘Youngstown, Ohio—14 ragged and des- titute marchers, bearing & baby arms and tugging along a wagon piled with meager possessions. People on the streets, inured. to strange sights, gathered in groups as the shivering little army passed. One man darted forward to fold a dollar bill into Aikens’ hand. En Route to Ohio. ‘Traffic policemen held up automo- biles along Massachusetts avenue to help the straggling marchers, and the | officer at Dupont Circle ushered them into a comfort station so the youngest | members could warm their shivering bodies before moving on. | Aikens, he said, is going back to ‘Youngstown, not because he hopes for | work there, but because it was his home when his family left, four years ago, in two automobiles to join the great migration of nearly destitute tourists. Since then, while the family grew. the Aikens have wandered from place to place, from Florida to the West e road for three months. Coast and back again. Last Fall found them in lower Florida. There they were obliged at last, Aikens said, to “eat up” their two cars, already falling to pieces. And since then they have moved by slow stages North, catching a ride in a truck now and then, for no pleasure car was large enough to hold them all, but mostly they came on foot. Yesterday afternoon they caught an open truck out of Richmond in the rain and amrived at Union Station, drenched, penniless and hungry. Wel- fare workers had to split the family into groups for shelter last night at the ‘Women’s Bureau, the Receiving Home for Children and the Salvation Army. Took to Road Again. ‘This morning, with no prospect of a noonday meal, and nothing ahead but the open road, they set out again, forti- fled somewhat by a charity breakfast sald Aikens. “Well, I have no job there, er relatives, if that's what you | mean. I don't know what we will do when we get there, nor care; but we're on our way.” Aikens, asked how many children were along, had to pause to count | noses, found the task a little too much | for him on such short notice and asked | moved on instantly at his command, assistance of his wife, Stella, 54 years turning blank. childish faces toward the old, they passed through Washington today en route to Youngstown, “I do not know and do not care,” he replied. The family’s entire effects ere carried in a | zard or hot spell, riding or walking.” | “Why are we going to Youngstown?” | o - . He has no job. What will he do when —Star Staff Photo. The woman, carrying 2-month-old Joseph in her arms, began, with some hesitation, to name them. STAGE AND MUSIC STARS CONSIDERED FOR INAUGURATION Definite Program Undeter- mined, but Constitution Hall Is Reserved for March 3. EXTRAORDINARY TALENT AVAILABLE FOR OCCASION Twelve Governors Accept Invita- tions to Be Present for Ceremony. Others Expected. As a climax of the festivities for in- augural week, the presentation of a cone cert, embracing several of the Nation's foremost musical artists, and a vaudes ville entertainment drawn from leaders of both the stage and screen, is heing considered by the General Entertain- ment Committee, of which Huston Thompson is chairaman, it was an- hounced today at Roosevelt inaugural he;lvt'iguarlers ether either of these ideas wi developed or both it was yet to béud‘: termined, it w2s said tod but plans have materialized sufficiently for the onstitu- committee to t2ke a lease on' C March 3, tion H'al.l for the night of Fine Program Possible. Inquiries which the committee has “There’s John, he’s 25; and Marga- ret, she's 24; and Frederick, 17; and Dorothy, 17 also; and Walter, 14; and Albert, 11; and Harry, 9 years old; and Helen, two years younger; and Bertha, only 6, and Lottie, just 44— 5 ¢ that's all; isn't it, John?” John nodded. “Yes,” he caid, “that’s all with us, I think, but there's three others not with us. Me and my wife,” he explained, “have both been married before. Some- times it's a little mixed, which children are curs, or just mine, or only hers. All Have Health. “We've got plenty, all right, but| they're healthy—not a cold or fever in all the crowd, and we've covered the country from one end to the other, bliz- | Aikens said he was a steel worker, but could find no work, or any place to stay, where there was enough to eat | and a dry place for them zll, so there was nothing for it but to keep moving “Maybe we’ll find something,” he said vaguely, “maybe not, but were on our way.” Aikens’ army, submissive and silent, outskirts of the city and the West. MAGNUM CAPTURES HORSE SHOW TITLE Two-Year-Old Is Declared, Champion of All Types in District, Estabrook Stable's Magnum, & 2- vear-old by foal date, was declared | the champion horse of all types in| the District of Columbia at the Dis- | trict Night Horse Show in the Rldtnx] and Hunt Club ring last night. Before an audience which packed the | galleries, boxes and tanbark antering, the bay gelding by Volta won the championship cup from a large entry | of hunters, draft horses and saddle animals. All entries were shown in hand. Blue ribbons were awarded the best horse of each type, Mrs. Robert Guggenheim’s Firenze Nosiree, a 3-yea old, winning the honors for hunters; Chestnut Farm’s entry the heavy draft horse ribbon, and Norman Clark’s | Merry John the saddle horse blue. The | lone pony entry of the fleld was ex- hibited by young Miss Sallie Yvonne Ask Him Wins Hunter. Captor of the open hunter cham- plonship of the evening was Ask Him, a seasoned leaper, owner by Allen Hechter of Baltimore. An extraordi- narily fine jumper, Ask Him carried off firsts in the hunter and Corinthian, classes, & third in the ladies’ hunters division and scored second in the handi- cap jump, after an almost perfect per- formance over the four and one-half foot barriers was marred by a poo: round in the jump-off. Possession of a Hunt Club tricolor now places Ask- William G. Hill's Questionnaire and Miss Margaret Cotter’s Impulse for the horses likewise this year. In the open saddle and pair saddle classes, both unique for the segregation of the entries into thoroughbred and park types, an unusually entry turned out. Blossom, owned by Eugene Myer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, was awarded the park type blue in the open division, while Melvin C. Hazen's thoroughbred, Karl K, was best of that type. Mitchell Judges 3 Classes. Blossom and Norman Clark’s Pea- cock were victorious in the pair class park division, and Mr. and Mrs. Ver- non Owen's entry of Harriet Lee and Jack Lightning beat a large field “of thoroughbred type pairs. Maj. Willlam Grimes' Life of Riley wen the ladies’ hunter class, and F. L. Oyster’s green colt Lonely Boy, showed the best mettle in the handicap jump. ‘The judge was Dr. Robert Humphrey of Middleburg. Gen. William Mitchell also was invited to judge and officiated in the first three classes, but refused to of the Horse Show Com- podiiye. OPERATION FACES CHILD WITH SCREW IN THROAT Will ‘Be Taken to Philadelphia ‘When She Recovers From Pneumonia Attack. Believed recovering from pneumonia, but still suffering from a wood screw lodged in her wind pipe, 15-month-old ‘Yvonne Wilmar, may be taken to!Philadelphia in & few days for an operation Dr. Chevalier Ji noted authority on cases of this nature, The child was sent to dren’s and since has been attended by the best specialists in the city. The lung infection, however, and the fact that the screw is deeply embedded in a tiny &mnmmfldmmfim Placed in an oxygen tent, the patient apparently is recovering from monis, and it nheb?ml = | Woman Commuter Learns of Chivalry Through Tiny Hat A woman commuter, who knows about chivalry, never expected to find it on Taft Bridge this morning, with the rush hour on and double lines of motors either way. Until she saw what had stop- ped the procession she supposed office workers late on the job roll right over gallantry if they meet it on the street. A hat was jamming the bridge, a decidedly small and soméwhat frivilous hat, which the wind had snatched from the head of a pedestrian. ‘The owner, a girl, was timid about retrieving the hat from the right of way, with such a large audience. But they gave her plenty of time. . “Yes,” said the woman com- muter, who is something of a cynic, “You've guessed it—she was a very pretty girl!” RAIL GROUP HERE FOR|.C. C. PARLEY, Smith and Others Conferring With Congress About Roads’ Problems. By the Associated Press. ‘The National Transportation Com- mittee, which the late Calvin Coolidge had headed, met here today and sought suggestions from the Interstate Com- merce Commission and the House and | h; Senate Interstate Commerce Commit- tees in preparation for their report on the transportation situation. The committee met in the hotel room of Alfred E. Smith, a member, then went to the Capitol for a con- ference with Representative Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, House Interstate Commerce Committee chairman. Attending the session besides Smith were Clark Howell, Atlanta publisher; Alexander Legge, former chairman of the Federal Farm Board; Bernard Ba- ruch, Dr. H. G. Moulton and C. A. Miller, president of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. “We are here to confer with the In- terstate Commerce Co! said to newspa men. want to ask them to come to New York for the hearihgs there, and took this opportunity of consulting them in ‘Washington.” The Transportation Committee was formed several months ago by a group of insurance companies, and other security holders for the rail- roads. Former President Coolidge was named as chairman of the committee, with Baruch as vice chairman. Upon Cool- idge's death, the New York financier assumed the chairmanship. ’ Seek Rehabilitation. ‘The objective of the committee is to work out some plan for rehabilitating the railroads, which could be presented to Congress and other Government agencies. ‘The committee has held several meet- ings and at present the Brookings In- stitution in Washington is working & report of its researches into the situ- al Baruch arrived only today from Warm Ga., where he has been dis- © ilroad with Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt. Smith arrived last night from New York. WINS ESSAY AWARD Mrs. W. A. Kennedy, wife of the financial editor of the Washington Post, last night received the annual award of Louisianais, French ITRACES OF ANCIENT CITIES ARE SOUGHT Smithsonian Institution Sends Expedition to Choro- tegan Area. Ruins of ancient stone cities in prac- tically unexplored jungles of Eastern Honduras will be sought by a Smith- sonian Institution expedition this Winter. ‘These ruins, the existence of which is knowyn from reports of natives and chicle hunters, lie nearly 300 miles south of the southern limits of the great Maya culture area, where the highest of New World civilization was developed, and in what is known to archeolcgists as the Chorotegan area. Here a civilization grew up long before the discovery of America by Columbus which in some respects approached that of the Maya themselves but lacked the more advanced features, such as an elaborate calendar and heiroglyphic writing. Hope to Find Inscription. ‘The Smithsonian archeologists have several clues wrich indicate the ruins they plan to visit eontain monuments with inscriptions. If this is true, it in- dicates either a far removed Maya col- ony or a higher Chorotegan develop- ment than hitherto has been suspected. At present it is all a great mystery. This is Increased by the fact the precious metals and turquoise from which the Maya made elaborate decorations are believed to have been imported from or through Chorotegan country. This is one of the least known areas of the New Yorld. It is covered with dense jungle which long since has hid- den the ancient walls of the demolished palaces and temples. Only lumber men ave gone a little way along the Rio Patuca, down which the Smithsonian scientists_hope to make their way in canoes. They have been unable to find any trustworthy maps of the country. All sorts of courses are shown for the Patuca. Seek Indian Contacts. ‘The Smithsonian party consists of Alan Paine, William D. Strong and Norman Haskell. They plan to spend four months in the country, determin- ing the nature of the ruined cities, making collections of bird and animal life of the region, and making contact, i possible, with the practically un- known Payas and Sumu Indians. These jungle natives, it is believed, may be on the transition line between typically North and South American linguistic Stocks, and from the study of their ) South’ Carolina. already made have indicated there be lLttle difficulty in obtaining 5.;;:1.1 caliber talent for the two proposed entertainments. Some of the outstand- ing singers are known to be anxious to take part in the inaugural program, 50 that Mr. Thompson and his asso- clates feel they could offer a combina- tion of artists, such as it would be impossible to get together for any other occasion. Offers also have been re- celved from stars of the stage and screen to come to Washington and as- sist in the celebration of the inaugural, While the committee has yet to de- termine whether or not it will be pos- sible to offer both forms of entertain- ment, it is certain that one or the other will be staged at Constitution Hall on inaugural eve. The other plans of the General En- tertainment Committee for the street festival, fireworks, miiitary reviews and other features are progressing rapidly. 12 Governors to Attend. .. The Governors of 12 States hav - cepted invitations to attend the irfa\;g ural, while seven others notified the Inaugural Committee yesterday they have other plans. Three other gover- nors who have replied are still in doubt, The Governors who will take part in the ceremonies and parade are: Wilbur L. Cross, Connecticut; C. Douglas Buck, Delware; David Sholtz, Florida; gene Talmadge, Georgia; Paul \ Nutt, Indiana; Louis J. Brann Albert C. Ritchie, Marylan- A. Comstock, Michig: lgoore.xNew Jersey: Gifford ennsylvania; Theodore Franci: Rhode Island and Ibra C. Blackol\lj;;:: The Governors who have decli: are: C. Ben Ross, Idaho; Alf M.°§l’a'§‘3 don, Kansas; Fred B. alzar, Nevada; Jghn G. Winant, New Hampshire: William Langer, North Dakota, Henry H. Blood. Utah and William Gustave Conley, West Virginia. Those who said their plans are still in doubt are: Charles W. Bryan, Ne- braska; Hill McAlister, Tennessee and Leslie A. Miller, Wyoming. HOOVER WILL ATTEND MKINLEY SERVICE Ohio Society to Homor Former President Monday Night. Fess Will Speak. President Hoover will attend the an- nual memorial service for President miellggx 2\51(‘1%1:1;9)' to be conducted by io State Society at the She Hotel Monday mght.} e Mr. Hoover's participation in this cervice will be informal. The Govern- ment is still observing a mourning pe- riod out of respect to Calvin Coolidge. The President will be accompanied by Mrs. Hoover. The memcrial service will be held in the main ball Toom of the hotel and will be presided over by Rennick Dun- lap, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, president of the society. The principal address will be delivered by Senator Fess of Ohio. The anniversary of the birth of Pres- ident McKinley is January 29, but as this will be Sunday night, the services were arranged for Monday night. cam THIRD CORPS RESERVE HEADS TO BE SHIFTED Col. John D. Long Expected to Fill Vacancy Left by Bowman's Retirement in June. A shift in Army personnel on duty with the Organized Reserves of the Third Corps Area, with headquarters in Baltimore, is slated to follow the re- tirement next June of Col. George T. Bowman, Cavalry, at present chief of staff of the 62nd Cavalry Division, head- quarters at Towson. Under present plans, Col. John D. Long, senior instructor with the Balti- more Reserve units, will be transferred to Towson to fill Col. Bowman's place. His vacancy with the reserve units will be taken by Col. Hzrry N. Coctes, com= language something may be learned of the languege of the Maya and of the relations of the present’ tribes to this ancient people. Possibilities Open Up. If it is found that there was a large Maya colony in Southeastern Honduras, all sorts of possibilities are opened up. When the old empire, the original seat of the Maya where, their culture reached its greatest development, was broken up for some unknown reason the new empire was formed to the northward in Yucatan and achieved almost as high a level as in the ancestral land. But it is entirely possible that the colonization from the old empire also spread southward and another ‘“new empire,” with its own independent de- velopr:?t. may have been established in Honduras. Dated monuments, it is believed, almost certainly will indicate on |2 Maya association, since it is difficult to believe that any Chorotegan tribes in an isolated region could have de- vel this highest feature of the Glmum g’v‘fihfim independently. DONOVAN HAS BIRTHDAY District Auditor Admits Being 45, but Books Show Him 57. Priends yesterday were congratulating District_Auditor Daniel J. Donovan on his 57th birthday, although Donovan will admit to only 45 years. The book shows, however, that he was born in the District of Columbia in 1876, Starting as a clerk in the District rnment at the age of 16, he will we completed 41 years of service on has been auditor since mandant at Fort Myer, Va., Who re- cently was ordered transferred from that post. Col. Cootes diso will act as liaison |omcer with the Third Corps headquar- ters. He is scheduled to report for duty about May 15 and will serve as assistant to Col. Long pending the lat- ter's retirement on June 30. . JOIN HOSPITAL BOARD Mrs. Taliaferro and Capt. Gal- braith Named by Ccmmissioners. The Commissioners yesterday named | Mrs. Sidney F. Ta'iaferro and Capt. W. W. Galbraith, U. S. N., to the board of directors of the Columbia Hospital. Mrs. Taliaferro will serve three years. She was named to succeed Mrs. H. B. | Learned. Capt. Galbraith was appointed for two years to the vacancy cai by the death of Dr. J. O. Skinner. LIQUOR IN STOLEN CAR Machine Found With Smoke-Can and Whisky Jars. An automobile reported stolen from ts parking place in the 2200 block of California street was equipped with a smoke-can and contained four jars of bootleg whisky when recovered 1 lice. ‘The car, reported l:tnolen by Michael M. Straus, Coty City, Ill, the night of January 14, was found in a public garage by Detective Frank M. Alligood. Search was begun for a colored man sald to have left

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