Evening Star Newspaper, May 7, 1933, Page 17

[Cosmveron ] Phe Sunday 5 TWO B. E.F. FORCES MAY GATHER HERE AS BREACH WIDENS Call Is Issued for 8,700. Rivals Threaten to Bring 75,000. WHITE HOUSE APPROVAL AROUSES BOTH SIDES Bpokesmen for Levine Group Reveal Plan by Radio—Face Charge of Communism. A split in the camps of the leaders Bf the bonus army and the prospect that Washington will be a converging point for two groups demanding the bonus developed yesterday. Last night the call for one of the rmies was going out over the radio, as e of the warring factions, with White ouse approval, summoned an army of 700 ex-service men to the District to spend the six days starting next Satur- ay in bringing pressure to bear on ngress to pass a bill calling for im- ediate cash payment of the soldiers’ nus. The other faction was in execu- ive session deciding whether to give the hite House “one more chance” before ummoning another army of 75,000 to he city. The split came over an arrangement between the White House and the Vet- #rans’ National Liaison Committee by Wwhich the Federal Government under- fook to shelter an army of 8,700. It was kesmen for this group who t.u night, in a 30-minute broadcast ver the Columbia network, sent out their organization call, in which the ecognition obtained at the White ouse was brought to the attention of steners. Radio Listeners Object. The Columbia system contributed its cllitles for the broadcast and carried Eover 60 stations. Locally it met with prompt reception, that kept the tele- hone in the studio ringing steadily. One caller demanded with lurid ex- glleuves that the speeches be terminat- | Another, in confusion, wanted it faken “off the phone.” A proponent of the cause took excep- Blon to the fact that the farmer was voming in for attention and protested that the broadcast should stick to the Weterans. Earlier, the B. E. P, Inc, which klaims to be the original organization ©of the forces which descended ypon the Capital last Summer, denounced aa- fninistration approval of the rival ele- iment as an “attempt to paint the bonus rmy red,” charging that the Liaison Committee 15 Communist in inspiration. Harold Poulkrod, speaking as senior ational vice commander of the B. E. F., id the .-purpose behind the White House move was to bring discredit upcn those demanding the bonus by holding them up to public gaze as Communists. Emanuel Levin, a member of the n Committee, representing the orkers Ex-Service Men's League, said, owever, that Foulkrod, at any rate, ex- bited orders signed by himself and John Newlin of Pittsburgh, commanding units of the B. E. F. all over the country start a march on Washington May 9. e indicated yesterday that he might call the march off if he received satis- factory word from the White House. #e sald he would compromise on pay- ment of the bonus in cash to all veterans ®ow out of employment. Claims 75,000 on Call. He also said that if these demands re not met considerably more than 5,000 ex-service men would descend bn Washington after June 30, when yments of compensation to ex-service en will be reduced under the terms of President Roosevelt's executive order. “Why,” Foulkroyd exclaimed, “there re hundreds of us in town now. We ad a mass meeting Friday night at ¥hird street and Maine avenue south- west, and I was surprised to see that there were men there from all over the gountry, from Portland to Portland.” He sald that many of the members of @he B. E. F. were being forced to stay at of town by the police, but that in altimore they received better treat- ent and that there is a large con- ingent of B. E. F. members in that! kity ready to march here on a moment's hotice. He said there was another large | ntingent in Philadelphia and others other cities. Foulkroyd told the 100 veterans who Bssembled at another meeting at the me place last night that he intended oing to Baltimore today to organize ,000 veterans to come here tomorrow. ‘The announcement came after Foulk- yd had assailed again the groups eaded by Levin. Foulkrod attacked radicalism in the Levin movement, declaring “the Levin crowd is not interested solely in the bonus payment cause, and we want men in our group whose only interest is the nus. Payment of the bonus coincidental with inflation of the currency was ad- wocated by Foulkrod. He sald that by distributing the inflationary currency to the veterans, controlled inflation would be accomplished more success- gully. . Four speakers outlined the scope of the Liaison Committee movement over WJSV. George Brady, the chairman, summed up the objectives as: Immediate cash payment of. adjusted rvice certificates; restoration of com- ensation and disability allowances, and ediate rellef for the unemployed and farmers. Votes United Action. “The aims of the committee are to wnite not only veterans and veteran iorganizations, but to co-operate through wnified action with farm, labor and wunemployed organizations in securing * gelief,” he said. “We are doing this re- dless of political opinion, race, color r creed.” “Emanuel Levin has done nothing for the ex-service man in his life” Foulk- rod shouted. “He sits back in a com- fortable armchair until some real, hon- est-to-goodness veterans' organization starts campaigning for the bonus, then starts issuing statements and up trouble. . p“Now he's to a fast one by te House and ob- ernment. But, I ask you, where is the camp the Government is going to fur- aish? ‘Wants Close to Capitol. “About 20 miles from the Capital. We don’t w:m t:“be stuck off there in the country. We want to be here in Wash- close 3'}1':" Capitol, right in the k of the t. “‘Also, Levin says he is going to select delegates to a convention to be held here for one week. These veteran dele- gates will be picked from the 435 con- gressional districts, and will be issued credentials by ma war::n;’t‘x;egvlei Men’: e and sign E Ty the veterans bearing iLife Adjustment Center Here Reports Wide Unrest Dur- ing Depression. Greatest Number Seeking Aid Are Between Ages of 20 and 30 and 40 and 50. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. r is breaking up the “white col- family. Such is the report of the Life Ad- justment Center, established at the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church here, which functions as the adult de- partment of the Washington Institute of Mental Hygiene. In its effort to mend shattered lives, it 15 meeting significant, but obscure effects of the city's disturbed economic situation, which may have more far- reaching results than poverty itself. Unlike most welfare agencies, the Life Adjustment Center is not concerned directly with relieving physical distress. Its job is to get under the surface and attend to mal-adjustments of mind and emotions. An important part of its work con- sists in trying to save households headed for the rocks. Some of its cases are referred to it from other social agencies. But most of them, realizing the danger and their own helplessness, come voluntarily. Such are predomi- nantly from the so-called “white collar class,” especially the women. So the organization functions essentially as a | “white collar” clinic. Folks at this| social level may have more responsive nervous systems, which are thrown out | of gear by environmental elements | which might not even be recognized by the less educated. “Lawyer’s Wife Week.” “This seems to have been ‘lawyer’s wife' week here,” said Miss Beulah E. Smith, the director, yesterday. “There have been more of them than anybody else.” Essentially, as she describes the cases, they seem to have resulted from an in- creased nervous irritability which seems quite generally diffused through the white collar class and which, while ap- | pearing in many forms, seems to fall into a few general patterns. 8uch is the case of the formerly gen- erous husband who suddenly has grown extremely stingy, objecting to every family purchase, even of necessary groceries. He has a job, in many cases a good job. But the possibility of los- ing it has “got on his mnerves” He deliberately cuts loose from all his social connections, because they cost money. He cemands that his wife do the same. He stops the daily newspaper and the occasional visit to _the neigh- borhood movie theater. He berates his wife every time R gets a bill. She finally reaches the stage where she can't stand it any longer and comes reluctantly to the Life Adjustment Cen- ter. This pattern, differing in details for each case, is encountered over and over again—especially during the past few weeks of uncertainty over Govern- ment employment. Cases of Reduced Incomes. Another common pattern is that of the family whose income has been re- duced so that they have been forced to move into smaller quarters, or to take in dependent relatives. For the most part they are living comfortably enough with reasonable economy, but they “get on one another’s nerves.” The hus- band stays away from home or takes to drink. The wife begins gambling at bridge parties. Divorce threatens unless something can be done about it. Another common pattern described by Miss Smith is that of the accentu- ation of inverted mentality, which ap- pears especially among the men. Some are employed, but are afraid. Others have no jobs, but are being cared for by relatives. Ordinarily this would be the type of brooder who would talk of revolution. Perhaps this might have been the case a year ago. Now the situation has become worse. Instead of losing confidence in the Government, employers or society as a whole, he has lost confidence in himself, talks of sui- cide, of cutting loose from his as- sociations and going on the road, etc. Sometimes the victims of these condi- tions are well fixed financially. The wives of doctors, ministers, Government officials, etc., pass fearfully through the clinic Like shipwrecked persons they are grasping at anything which promises to hold them up in the storm of uncertainty which has wrecked the old order of their lives. Dealing with them is quite a different matter than making out a grocery order. The trouble lies in their own souls. ‘What is to be done about it? Who can blame a man with no certainty of economic security in the face of advanc- ing years from demanding the most rigid sort of economy and who can blame his wife for feeling hurt when he “bawls her out” for necessary pur- chases? Perhaps she has not had to WorTy over money before. It is the same with all the other pattern situations. Both Sides Usually Right. ‘The trouble is that both sides usually are right. The depression has brought many paradoxes. Both sides are justi- fied. Both are willing to make con- cessions but can't conscientiously go far enough to meet the situation. There mhst usually be a complex pattern of compromises. Sometimes it seems as it the whole institution of matrimony on the “white collar” level was being un- dermined. Every case must be dealt with on its own merits. To meet the situation the clinic has the services of some of the foremost experts on human behavior problems in the United States, chief of whom is Dr. Roscoe Hall of St. Elisa-| beth’s Hospital. Others are Drs. Maron Campbell, Edgar Griffin, Lester Hender- | son, Alice Kiessling, Karl Langenstrass, Katharine Norris, Manson Pettit and Samuel Silk. All are well known psychi- atrists. . That the problems of these people | are handled by psychiatrists does noli a week of conferences at the White House, in which all phases of the vet- erans’ problems and veterans' Tepre- in the past and present has been discussed, we are able to assure all veterans com! to Wash- ington as delegates to this conven- tion that they will be warmly received and sccommodated.” Brady explained that the t0 be discussed by speakers following him had been set “fi%‘&‘ifl"fi" with “the secretary to lent.” E. J. Wiliams, contact officer, called for mass meeting of all veterans in each of the 435 lonal tricts, at which the movement is to be explained, and 20 delegates elected. Marchers nreu? would be considered as delegates. veterans should have credentials. He asked the public generally to give the marchers “cordial sistance.” Levin also asked “friendly co-opera- tion and assistance.” A. G. Sellers, field march involves sentation the wel- Williams emphasized that all | WASHINGTON, D. C., “WHITE COLLAR" FAMILIES FOUND BREAKING UP DUE TO FEAR SMITH. mean that they are “crazy.” They are far from it. But actual insanity, in some of its forms, appears to be an extreme accentuation of behavior trends which are present in everybody. The psychiatrist has studied the physical and psychic mechanism of these beha- vior trends. Not that he is a super- man, or pretends to be. He has the same trends in his own behavior and probably is as little able to recognize them as the average man or woman. He sometimes needs the services of a psychiatrist. But he is better able to consider objectively the ¢roubles of oth- ers, resolve them into their basic ele- ments, and find out what part of the personality structure is cracking under the strain. When he locates the diffi- culty he sometimes can do something about it. Sometimes he can't. It is much like locating and finding a dis- eased condition in the body. Actually the Life Adjustment Center is saving a good many Washington families which otherwise would break up. Majority From Two Classes. The greatest numbers of its “pa- tients” come from two classes—those who quit college before graduating and those who quit high school before grad- uating. The implication is that both classes broke off without any adequate 11 ORATORS CLASH THURSDAY INFINALS OF NATIONAL RACE School Auditorium and That of National Museum Are Scenes of Contests. JUDGES AND OFFICIALS TO TRAVEL ABOUT CITY District and Neighboring Virginia and Maryland Counties in Star Area. ‘The champion high school orator of the District of Columbia and the neigh- boring counties of Maryland and Vir- ginia will be chosen in The Star area finals of the Tenth National Oratorical Contest Thursday. Eleven contestants, each the spokes- man for his particular “district” by virtue of victory in a line of elimina- tion competitions, will comprise the field. Like previous Star finals, the meet which determines the boy or girl who shall enter the National Contest finals here May 20 and who, by virtue of that participation shall go on a Sum- mer trip to Europe, will be held in nine separate auditoriums in various sections of the city. The District of Columbia public high school spokesmen will be heard in their respective school audi- torlums, and the speakers for the Maryland, the Virginia and the private- and-parochial school districts will be heard in the National Museum Audi- torfum. The board of judges and other con- test officials will travel about the city, pausing long enough in the nine halls to listen to the individual contestants. The decision will be reached immedi- ately after the last speaker has been heard, but it will be announced only in the Thursday afternoon edition of The 1 preparation for the station in life into | Star, | which they were to fall. They got by in good times. They have been the first to go under in bad times. Per- haps the very fact that they quit indi- cated some instability. They were not fitted for the “grind.” ‘Then there is the significant age di- vislon. The greatest numbers fall in the age range between 20 and 30 and 40 and 50. Few between 30 and 40 are seeking help. The first age group, Miss Smith said, are those who can't get started. They are just emerging from the compara- tively sheltered life of school days into such a storm of economic distress as the world seldom has known before. They can't find anchorage anywhere. Their hopes and aspirations are blasted at_the outset. With the 30 to 40 age group it is different. For the most part they made a place for themselves during the pros- perous era that followed the war. They are married. Their children are in school. are, for the most part, hanging on hopefully. They still will have ty of vim and vigor left in that uncertain time when “the depres- sion will be over.” 40-50 Class Tragic. But for those between 40 and 50 it is different and very tragic. They are the disillusioned. Their children are of high school and college age—very expensive and very much of a worry. The glamor of marriage has worn off. Attachment between husband and wife is rather prosaic and matter of fact. The home has grown d The house was bright and -~ shiny when they bought it on the installment plan, with high hopes ten years before. Now it is dilapidated, the paint is peeling, the furnace smokes. ere are moth holes in the furniture. The old familiar pic- tures on the walls, so ?retty once, have grown ugly through familiarity. The husband has his interests and the wife hers. Both have grown to the age when they can have little enthusiasm | for the enthusiasms of the children. Most tragic of all—they have failed. Ten years ago the husband had cer- tain objectives which he was confident of reaching. He would make his mark as a doctor, & lawyer, a clergyman. He bought some stock on & shoestring and the price boomed. He would retire at 50 and glely golf, or travel. Now knows that he has failed. He has been barely able to hold his own without advancing. The pay in- creases he has achieved are taken a from him. He faces a drab future living just the way he is living today, perhaps to retire on a starvation pen- slon at 60. Some day the depression and the economic stalemate will be over, but he suspects that when that day comes the reward will be for the young and strong. In a little while some young whipper-snapper fresh from college will be bossing him around. Oppressed by Futility. So, in the stress of the disillusian. he grows grouchy. An incipient para- nola, insidious underminer of the mind of intellectual middle age, seizes upon him. = Meantime his wife is released from the routine of caring for her chil- dren. She begins to read and day- dream again. Maybe, making a last clutch at the romance which life has denied her, she begins to flirt with the grocery boy or the neighborhood drug clerk. Both husband and wife feel cheated. They blame each other. And both are oppressed by the sense of the horrible, suffocating futility of al things. So they come, in increasing numbers. to the Life Adjustment Center. It was started five years ago by Rev. Moses R. Lovell, pastor of the church. At that time it was widely known as the “Protestant confessional.” Since then it has been taken over by the community and is sup by the Community Chest, although the church still pro- vides offices for it. Besides the psychiatrists, the staff is made up of the following: Social workers, Tennile Daugette, Miriam Pranks and Irene Grant; ministers, ussell Clinchy and Rev. Herman ttorney, Joseph Bruce. The di- rector’s office hours are from 1:30 to 4:30 pm. every Hay except Saturda) when conferences are arranged by ap- pointment. BOXING TOURNEY RESET Boys’ Week Event Will Be Held Next Saturday. ‘The finals of the Junior Golden Gloves pcstponed yesterday be- cause of rain, will be hel Sa en route, he said, | Mittee, I Schedule of Contests. The contestants, their respective pre- pared oration topics and the scheduled time of their bids for victory, follow: 9 am—Bertha Miller of ~Eastern High School, “John Marshall.” 9:25 a.m—George Bondurant of Mc- Kinley High School, “The Constitution, a Challenge to American Youth.” 9:50 am—Constance Conway of Roosevelt High School, “The Preamble to the Constitution.” 10:15 am. (in the National Museum Auditorium)—Maxine Cardwell of the ‘Washington-Lee High School at Balls- ton, champion of Virginia, “The Pur- pose of the Constitution”; followed by Henry Estevez of the La Plata High School, chempion of Maryland, “Why We Should Support the Constitution™; followed by Grace Colliffower of 8t. Cecilia’s Academy, champion of the private and parochial schools, “Thomas Jefferson, Champion of Constitutional Democ- racy.” 11:05 a.m —Betty Prancis of Dun- ber High School, “The Constitution, a Basis_for Reconstruction.” 11:20 a.m—Helen Proctor of Arm- strong High School, “The Constitution, an Instrument of More Perfect Union.” 11:35 am—John C. Yeldell of! the Cardozo High School, “The Origins of the_Constitution.” 12:10 p.m—Albert Abramson of Cen- tral High School, “Our Constitution, the Basis for International Govern- ment,” and 12:25_p.m.—Henry William Snyder; jr., of Western High School, "Jumcfi Holmes, Champion of Human Rights. Extemporaneous Talks. As soon as each contestant has de- livered his six-minute prepared ora- tion, he will speak extemporaneously for four minutes on a new subject. The new subject will be based upon state- ments contained in the prepared ora- tions of the respective contestants and, in addition to constituting a stern test of an orator's’ genuine forensic ability, the extemporaneous phase of the con- test will challenge each orator's knowl- edge of his subject. ‘When the judges and contest officials reach an auditorium in their rounds of the city, they will find the audience walting and the contestant himself ready for action. contestant finishes his second speech, the contest officials will leave the hall and move on to the next auditorium, where the performance will be repeated. The ballots of the judges, written with- out consultation, will be compiled im- mediately after the last speaker’s per- formance at Western High School. How- ever, the verdict will not be made known at Western, but will be re- vealed in the news golumns of The Star an hour later. Each contender in Thursday’s Star finals already has won $100. Victory in Thursday's meet will add $200 to the champjon’s purse and, best of all, will give that winner the right to go to Europe this Summer with all ex- penses paid. To go on the trip, how- ever, the winner of The Star finals must represent this newspaper's area in the May 20. Judges of The Star finals will be announced just before the contest. — - MAN BADLY BURNED IN FLAMING HOUSE Woman and Two Children Are Carried to Safety as Fire Sweeps Home. A 66-year-old man was seriously burned, while a mother and two young children were carried to safety by fire- men as fire late yesterday afternoon swept through a rooming house at 309 C street. The biaze originated as a can of kero- sene with which Robert Hickey was at- tempting to start a fire in the basement stove exploded. Flames quickly envel- Mrs. Jack Flint, 23, and her two chil- dren, Jimmy, 6 months, and Jacqueline, were taken from their sec- | I by the firemen. None was inlur-ed. as hwrsedw h:nd mfihfim to ergen a police car. doctor who examined him said his condition was “very serious.” e, Cash and Gems Stolen. A total of $130 in cash and $77 worth nwelrywmmudm stolen yester- f | before United ham The moment the | national finale in Constitution Hall | this KIONAPING THREAT SOLVEDBY SGENCE Waiter Confesses, Declaring Spite Aim of Letter Sent | to Mrs. Collier. | | Scientific detection work by the United States Bureau of Investigation, exercising here for the first time Fed- eral authority of the so-called Lind- bergh law, has ended in the reported confession of a colored walter that he was author of an extortion note to Mrs. Bessie G. Collier, co-proprietor of the Collier Inn Restaurants, threatening to| kidnap her 2!-year-old granddaughter. The 20-year-old waiter, Leom .U. Mason of 1731 S street, a student at Miner Teachers' College, is in the Dis- trict jail following his arraignment and technical plea of not guilty yesterday | States ner Need! A . _The commis- sioner held him for the grand jury under bond of $5,000. In his alleged confession, which fol- | lowed identification of Mason's hand- | writing as a counte: of that in an &nonymous note led to Mrs. Collier on April 22, the prisoner, according to the Department of Justice, said he wrote the letter “for spite” and without | intent to collect a demanded sum of $5,000 or to harm the little curly-haired | girl, June Ellen, daughter of Mr. and | Mrs. Emmett Collier. Reason for Grudge Unknown. Mrs. Bessie Collier, wife of “Maj. Lute | { eral officers she knew of no reason why Mason should harbor a grudge against her or any other member of the family. {He has been employed at the inn for about five years and has been con- sidered a model waiter, it was stated. Upon receipt of the letter two weeks ago Mrs. Collier gurned the ink- | scrawled missive over to J. Edgar Hoo- ver, director of the Bureau of Investi- gation, who assigned to the case a squad of picked agents, experienced in kidnaping and extortion cases. John M. Keith, agent in charge of the Wash- ington field office of the bureau, super- vised the inquiry, which had severa. melodramatic developments behind a cloak of official secrecy. ‘The note, addressed to “Mrs. B. Col- lier, 1807 Columbia road,” which 1s th:d address of the main restaurant, read: “Listen now—don't try aay rougn stuff by getting the cops or anything, just do as I say. We need $5,000 bucks and we’ll get it or your little grand- child, see. Put the money in 5 anu 10 bills at the corner of the alley in a newspaper. Put money there at 12 o'clock, April 27. If police get hold of this it'll be just too . Do you get ? Just do as we ask and every- thing will be all right. Remember, we need the money and we must get it, Disguised as Panhandler. A Federal guard immediately was Biltmore street, and employes of the cafe were placed under surveillance. One agent, out at the kitchen in the rear and, by e et e ot (g j'r?:kul::;' po and doi jol - u:e the help. Little June Ellen was kept under con- stant guard in the house until Satur- day a week ago, when she was taken to the home of a relative in Virgima under Federal protection. She re- mained there over last week end. In the meantime Keith and his men made careful plans to trap the author of the note at the designated alley ren- dezvous on April 27 last. On that day agents were secreted in various places E. Collier, U. 8. A, retired, told Fed-| | had bee: placed about the Collier home, at 1807 | he disguised as & panhandler | east, in search of food, applied for & hand- | Mi SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1933. ‘The note sent to Mrs. Bessie G. Colller, demanding $5,000, with a threat to kidnap her granddaughter, which resulted yesterday in the arrest and con- fession of safety was threatened in the note. instructions as to placing the money. When he had hastily finished shovel- ing all the coal, he walked out of the alley with the partly opened package in his ket and was nabbed less than a block away by the agents. The colored man was able to establish his com- plete innocence, explaining he had picked up the package merely out of curiosity and was carrying it away to get some one to read the note for him, 4s he was unable {0 read. He was re- Since the note did not make it clear whether noon or midnight was meant, the trap was set again at midnight of the 27th, with more agents on duty. Maj. and Mrs. Collier carried the pack- age to the alley just before midnight, depositing it where agents in the parked truck could observe everything. This time a combination of circum- stances arose to plague the Federal officers and frustrate the extortionist, if he really had intended to appear. First of all, an apartment dweller in a | nearby building heard a suspicious noise at his door and called police. In a few moments the vicinity was alive | with police, who arrived in radio cruisers and on foot. They swarmed | into the alley, at times almost stumbling | over the package, but saw neither it| nor the well hidden Government men. Tries to Start Truck. Things quieted down again about 1:30 | oclock in the morning, but about 10 minutes later a colored man, obviously under the influence of liquor, staggered down the alley, saw the truck and de- cided to Investigate. He got into the drive r's seat and tried to drive the truck off—agents and all. He couldn't get the motor started without & key, however, so he then tried to open the locked rear doors of the truck. The agents inside decided to take the man into custody and he was booked at the tenth precinct on an investigation charge. He, too, was released after it| was found he had nothing to do with the_extortion letter. There was a wait of a few days for | a possible second note, which h.ued‘ to arrive. Then the agents proceeded | to question all employes. They also ob- tained lpec:nenl “tmdpl'flwd% 70 it and present employes cate~tor the offcers were convinced it | was an “inside job.” All the , together with the original note, were submitted to Dr. Wilmer Souder, noted handwriting expert of the Bureau of Standards , who examined the Lind- bergh kidnaping letters. b + Admits Penning Letter. Dr. Souder, without hesitation, picked out Mason's handwriting as identical with that in the extortion note. Mason hitherto had not been suspected. He was placed under surveillance and an investigation disclosed he had pur- chased recently a tablet containing pa- per of the kind used in the letter. He is said to have given conflicting ac- counts of his movements on the eve- ning the note was mailed. After a thorough grilling at the field office headquarters Friday night, dur- ing which he was confronted with | and other facts, the agents announced | | that he broke down and admitted hav- | b penned the letter. The justice ugcillx said the colored youth insisted | his only purpose was to “cause Mrs. | Collier misery and suffering.” Mason had little to say when ar- | raigned under a warrant charging at- tempted extortion under the new Fed- eral kidmrlng act. A technical plea | of not guiity was entered for him by Commissioner Turnage. The prisoner appears to have had no previous crim- inal record. to see reporters. MISSING FARMER FOUND IN GALLINGER HOSPITAL 71-Year-Old John Huber of Mary- land in Daze When Picked Up by Pelice. John Huber, 71-year-old farmer, who n missing since April 21 from his home at Silver Hill, Md., was located late yesterday at Gallinger Hospital, where he had been a patient since the day after his disappearance under the name of John Hoover of Suitland, Md. Huber, hospital attendants said, was in a daze when brought in by police of No. 3 precinct_and admitted for mental observation. He was vague about his identity and no one who knew him could be located the address gave. e e £ L= Biimbcth illiams, 300 block of B street south- yesterday afternoon requested land and Distdict e to search for father. He was located through the record of “John Hoover's” case, kept -lzm No. 3 )l;::—'y h;:lm}" who ' lived alone on larm, was not removed from the hospital. Wi Federation Refuses To Pass on Merits Of Statue ‘Serenity’ PFederation of Citizens® As- At the jail last night Mason declined | t of | he Neighborhood House U. Mason, colored waiter. Below, June Ellen Collier, whose OBSTACLES CLEAR FOR AIR CONTESTS Langley Day Meet to Be Held This Afternoon at Col- lege Park. With 35 amateur pilots entered, a truce agreed upon between sponsors of the meet and the National Aeronautic Association, which had threatened to withhold its sanction for the affair, and good flying weather forecast, all ob- stacles appeared to have been cleared from the path of the Langley day meet this afternoon at College Park Airport, College Park, Md. The meet is to begin at 12 o'clock noon with brief ceremonies, including the raising of the flag, playing of the national anthem and then firing of the starting gun for the first of a series of 12 events which will continue through the afternoon. “Slow Race” to Be Flown. Under modified rules, the novel “slow race” for all types of planes, and & Tace for low-powered planes, which had been the basis for the disagreement be- tween the sponsors of the meet and the National = Aeronautic Association, will be flown. The changes in rules, in- tended to eliminate potential hazards to pilots participating in these races, were agreed upon at an eleventh-nour conference yesterday afterroon. The meet is being sponsored by the Washington Air Derby Association and the Greater National Capital Commit- tee as a purely civic event “with the idea of giving the sportsmen and the individual fiyer an incentive to use air- craft.” No cash prizes offered, but 26 trophies have been donated by local business organizations and indi- viduals. The public will be admitted to the airport without charge. Free grandstand seats and free &mu space have been provided at air- port, which is along the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks just east of the Washington - Baltimore Boulevard at College Park. Pilots whose entries had been offi- cially accepted up to last night are Miss Johanna Busse, Miss Grace Raezer, James A. Foote, Crosby N. Boyd, Clar- ence 8. Bruce, George Brinckerhoff, E. W. Stitt, H. Somerville and C. Sparrow, all of Washington; L. P. Sharples, Philadelphia; Lawrence Tur- nure, New York; R. C. Havens, Brad- ford, Pa.; Miss Prances Wilke, Balti- more; Norman Rintoul, Martinsburg, W. Va.; John H. Lemon, Roanoke, Va.; R. D. Morgan, Newcastle, Del.; Holland Duell, Larchmont, N. Y.; H. A. Little, jr., Philadelphia: J. P. Harbison, Le- moyne, Pa.; Richard Bircher, Norris- V. P. |town, Pa.. E. W. Dinga. Long Island | City, N. folk, Va. Events on Program. ‘The events for which they have been Y., and Elkin C. Floyd, Nor- | entered include three 30-mile races for sportsmen pilots flying planes having respective rated maximum speeds of 115, 125 and 140 miles per hour; a sports- man-pilot trophy race of 30 miles for men and women in planes of any_type. open or closed, on a handicap basis; an acrobatic contest; a “slow race,” which will be won by the plane requir- ing the greatest time to fly the course: s 20-mile race open to planes powered with war-time OX-5 engine®; a deadstick landing contest; a 20-mile handicap au- togiro race; an aircraft model contest; a 30-mile race for women pilots only, and a bomb-dropping contest. Trop! will be awarded at the close of the meet. The College Park Airport, home of the experimental service of the De- partment of Commerce Aeronautics Branch, is the world’s first regular air- port, h"mi been used as early as 1810. The trophies for which the amateur fiyers will compete were donated by C. H. Warrington, Kempton-Cadillac, Palais Royal, E. W. Smoot, E. C. Graham, Credit & Finance, H. B. Leary Bros., G. C. Brinkerhoff, L. 8. Jullien, J. B. Trew, Lee D. Butler, Frank Stewart, F. L. Haller, Julius Garfinckel, R. Harris & Co., Standard Oil Co,, H. A. L. Bar- ker, Hotel Washington, George W. Har- ris, ty Lubricants, Inc.; Packard- ., American _Oil ' Co., Evening Star Newspaper 00 Cnatmnt per Co., ul Farms Dairy. Haldeman Is Referee. George Haldeman, transatlantic fiyer, will serve as referee. Maj. E. W. Tip- ton, Baltimore airport manager, will be starter and will be assisted by Gilbert G. Budwig, director of air regulation, landing expert, and Wi unley. 7 ‘The judges will be Eugene Vidal, Paul Collins, G. O. Vass, A. K. . A. C. Case and Ma). Gen. James E. Fechet, retired chief of the Army Air Corps. George C. Brinckerhoff and J. Earl Steinhauer will serve as fleld marshals. —_— 'PLAYS TO BE REPEATED Festival to Be Given Tomorrow. Aero | PAGE B—1 VOTE FOR DISTRICT FIGHT 1S GAINING SUPPORT IN' HOUSE Report to Citzens’ Federa- tion Cites Recent Dec- laration by Members, MOVE TO LOWER REALTY ASSESSMENTS BACKED Gas Merger Opposed Until Valua- tions of Two Companies Are Completed. The cause of national representation for the District is winning adherents in the House, according to a report pre- sented to the Federation of Citizens® Associations last night by its Committee on National Representation. The report specifically called atten- tion to the fact that Representative Mary T. Norton, Democrat of New Jersey, had introduced a national rep- resentation bill in the House identical with that introduced by Senator Cap- per, Republican of Kansas, in the Sen- ate. It pointed out that Representatives Jennings Randolph of West Virginia and Virginia Jenckes of Indiana have made open declaration of their belief !1n, and advocacy of. national represen- | tation for the District. The federation also wunanimously | adopted a resolution brought in by its | Law and Legislation Committee direct- ing its Executive Committee to call on the proper officials and demand a 20 per cent reduction in the general level of real estate assessments in the Dis- trict under the levels of 1928-1929, ex- cept in cases where the assessments already have been lowered as a result of_appeals. The preamble to the resolution states that real estate assessments have re- mained at the 1928-1929 level in spite of the known reduction in real estate values on the open market and in spite of the law requiring annual assessments to be made. Gas Merger Delay Favored. In another resolution, offered b, William G. Gath and unm!mousl; adopted, the federation opposed merger of the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Companies until after completion of the valuations of the two companies now pending. Speakers contended the officials of the merged company would seek to claim a valuation larger than the sum of the valuations of the two merging companies, and that the latter figures should be established first. By a vote of 36 to 11, the federation approved the principle of retiring police- men and firemen from active service at the age of 64. Its Committee on Police and Fire Protection had brought in & report in favor of abolishing any definite age limit, but after considerable debate the report was rejected. There is now no age limit in effect, the 64-year rule having been 'nded for one year by action of the District Commissioners. The report of the National Repre sentation Committee quoted Repre= sentative Norton as sa) 2 justice and ying “It is only a matter of fairness that since they (District citi= zens) bear burdens of taxation and military service in support of the Na- tion in times of war and peace com- parable with that carried by any other citizens, the residents of Washington should be given equal rights in mak- ing the laws and in selecting the offi- cers of the Government.” Result of Careful Study. After stating that Representatives | Jenckes and Randolph were favorable | to_national representation, the report | continued: | “These declarations were not made casually or thoughtlessly, or by way of mere coyrteous gesture, but as the result of most careful study and an- alysis. In fact, it is noteworthy that the best minds and hearts in both | branches of Congress invariably find | it impossible to doubt the undeniable | justice of our cause, once the matter li?g;tnlly grasped by them in its true “If the Federal District were located in, or carved out of, the State of Illi- nois, for example, and had developed, as we have, into a community more populous than eight States, would any one think of denying them' representa- tion in accordance with their popula- tion in the National Congress, which acts not only as the National Legisla- ture, but also as the local legislation for fes | such district, or of denying them simi- |lar representation in the electoral col- lege? ~ Assuredly not, because no justi- fiable reason can ible be assigned for such denial, which would inexcus- ably violate the inherent and funda- mental principle that ‘taxation without Tepresentation is tyranny.’” Fiscal Committee Named. ‘The report of the committee, tendered by Miss Etta Taggart, concluded with a warm personal tribute to Theodore W. Noyes, chairman of the Citizens® Joint Committee on National Repre- sentation, for his half century of striv- ing in the cause of national repre- sentation. Several delegates added their individual tributes to Mr. Noyes and to The Star. of which he is edttor. They were George E. Sullivan, Pred A. Emery, W. J. Neale, Marvin M. Mc- Lean and Edwin S. Hege. On motion of Miss Taggert, President James G. Yaden appointed the Com- mittee on Piscal Relations, headed by L. A. Carruthers, as a committee to inves- tigate the situation of the closed banks in the District and report back at the next meeting. The federation adopted a resolution, presented by the Committee on Educa- tion, favoring a retention of an appro- priation of $42,000 for the Community Center ent of the public schools {g; 0":: 1934 fiscal ygr. instead of X as proposed the pending BEER TAX PAYMENTS lSLOW, FORECASTING RUSH Last-Minute Effort of Retailers to Escape Revocation of Licenses Expected. Payment of taxes on the sale of legal beer in the District continued again yesterday at a slow indicating