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BANK TO ABANDON FIVE BUILDINGS IN HAMILTON MERGER Nine Other Sites to Be Used as Headquarters and ™~ Branch Houses. PERSONNEL DISPOSITION NOT YET WORKED OUT Conservators to Require Much Help | for Indefinite Time Con- serving Assets. Five banking houses will be aban- doned and nine will be continued for banking operations of the new Ham- flton National Bank merger, it was learned today. ‘The locations to be abandoned are District National Bank, headquarters, 1408 G street, and this bank’s two branches, at 939 Ninth street and Con- necticut avenue and K street; the branch of the Federal American Na- tional Bank & Trust Co. at Fifteenth and H streets, formerly the Merchants® Bank & Trust Co, and the Washing- ton Savings Bank, at Tenth street and Grant place. Banks to Be Operated. | When Business Was Picking Up. to Pay Salvaging Fee B just had to stay in it, good or bad. He had that big husky Chesapeake Bay schooner he'd been sailing for more than 30 years, and together they'd pulled _through some mighty _thick weather, both financial and windy. The J. J. Underhill is the schooner's name, and along about three weeks ago she came into need of considerable repairing. Well, Capt. Ketcham had treated his boat right all these years, and, anyway, he had & job in sight, so he had the J. J. Underhill hauled_out on a marine railway. Her hull was repaired and caulked. Then & new mainsail and jib were bent on. As though in salute to_the repairs, more jobs came to her skipper. He got sale for 2,200 bushels of oyster shell at Alexandria, and then luck gave him & load of sand to take down river. And if that wasn't enough good luck for an old team that had to Engineers. watermen this year, but Capt Asa Ketcham from over on the Eastern Shore of Maryland had Capt. Ketcham picked up an order fol 2 boatload of potatoes to be run as sool as he got back with the sand. Craft Aground in Potomac. DAMAGED AT DOCK Marylander Lacks 8100: USINESS hadn’t been so good for been boating all his $ife, and he fallen on the hard ways of the water, | i | | Point. Inset! Capt. Asa Ketcham. The Zpe WASHINGTON, ning Star ITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. Veteran Eastern Shore Skipper Is Seeking To Avert Loss of Ship Sunk in Potomac J. J. Underhill Sank Just | ‘The J. J. Underhill, masts just showing, where she was beached off Gravelly —Star Staff Photos. | pany in Alexandria through its I.gel"lt1 | in Crisfield, Md. Capt. Ketcham sailed jon up the Potomac and undertook to | i land his schooner alongside the plant's wharf when he ran onto some sub- | merged piles that were unmarked. Holes | were punched through the schooners | lanking and she sank. It developed | hat the piles virtually honeycombed a | large area that once was a pier. The superstructure of the pier long since | just as her masts whipped down on the water. A shift of the load came, how- ever, and the schooner righted herself again. This time the old skipper dove overboard and swam away to escape injury, then the boat settled. Here the United States Engineer's office stepped in. The Underhill off Hains Point was a menace to naviga- tion and she had to be moved. A sling was put under the hull and the schoon- C., TUESDAY, The bank houses to be operated will rotted away and now only the piles re- | er was towed over to Gravelly Point ‘be the Federal-American National Bank & Trust Co. headquarters of the mer- ger, at Fourteenth and G streets, and three of its branches, at Dupont Circle and Connecticut avenue, Twentieth street and Pennsylvania avenue, and Twelfth and Newton streets northeast, in Brookland; the Potomac Savings ‘Bank, at Wisconsin avenue and M street, Georgetown; Northeast Savings Bauk. Eighth and H streets northeast; ‘Woodridge-Langdon Savings and Com- mercial Bank, 2027 Rhode Island ave- nue northeast; Seventh Street Savings Bank, Seventh and N_streets, and the United States Savings Bank, Fourteenth and U streets. Elimination of the five bank houses will reduce the overhead of the Hamil- ton National Bank substantially. ‘Will Require Workers. What becomes of the personnel in the | eliminated banks has not yet been de- t-rmined, but the work of conservation of assets of the old banks, which are left in the hands of conservators, will be a big job in itself and require a | number of employes for an indefinite | period. Enough of the old bank's| £-cets will be turned over to the new Hamilton National Bank to pay depos- i*ors 50 cents on the dollar through the new merger, but the remaining ecsots in the hands of conservators con- sti*ute a knotty problem which will re- quirs not only the time of the conserva- tor, but also of several assistants in each bank. Some of the five banking houses to be sbandoned for bank business may be used for a while for the conservator- | The old J. J. Underhill was put over- board and the oyster shell was loaded into her hold and on her decks. Capt. Ketcham and his son Charles and & colored deck-hand started across the Chesapeake and up the Potomac. looking up. But that was a week or more ago. Today, the J. J. Underhill is hull-under in the Potomac on the flats off Gravelly Point. Her masts tower above the buried hull with a list to port. The new mainsail hangs from slack hal- yards amid strained rigging, getting a devastating washing and drying with every wash of the tide. The jobs that do together are gone to other hands now, and Capt. Ketcham wanders about ment agency and from lawyers' offices to waterfronts trying his best to save his boat from complete loss. It happened this way. The oyster ‘They | had plenty of time so they used sail| for the whole run. Things really were | the old water team were scheduled to from Government agency to Govern- | shells were bought by a fertilizer com- | main and these are visible only at low water. No less than 15 boats have got- | ten into difficulty on those same piles, | river men told The Star today while | various agencies including the City or‘ Alexandria, the District of Columbia | and the United States Engineer's Office, | argue over_responsibility for the removal | of the obstructions. ‘ Capt. Ketcham first sought aid from | {!he Navy Yard and when that could | not be given he appealed to the Dis- | trict of Columbia Fire Department. The FPirefighter syphoned the old | schooner out and sought to tow her to | Washington for repairs but the opera- | | tion of the syphons was stopped too |soon and the schooner sank again off Hains Point. Forced to Abandon Ship. It was there that Capt. Ketcham had his nearest “adventure” fill. The Firefighter cut her lines loose and the Underhill turned over. Capt. Ketcham scrambled up on her sides although | watermen don't like the term. He was | on his boat's deck when she started to | |and dropped there in eight or nine feet | of water. Capt. Ketcham can't take | his boat because he can’t pay the $100 salvage fee the engineer's office de- mands. And so the craft, according to the engineer’s office, will be sold in 30 days unless her owner pays the bill and hauls her away. Now: Capt. Ketcham is trying to find who legally is responsible for the piles that brought him and his hopes to grief. If he does, he contemplates legal action against that party. But while he does all that, the J. J. Underhill lies in the mud, where Wash- | ington’s Potomac Park touring motorists |may see her. She is getting regular | wettings and dryings from the tide, and | watermen will “tell you that that is what wrecks vessels. And when the Federal Government puts her up for | sale, boatmen insist she won't bring | anywhere near the bill for $100 the en- gineers have against her. But Capt. | Ketcham will be “broke” anyway, and | just when the boating business was looking up for him, too. CONDEMNS RAIDS ON CIVIL SERVIGE Gibson Urges Furloughed ship, but no new business will be con- ducted there. Will Move Office. John Pocle, president of the Federal- American and conservator of its assets, it is understood, will move his office from headquarters of the Hamilton Bank to one of the Federal-American branches. The conservatorship of eight member ba will all be separated as much as ble from the new business of the Hamilton merger and will be placed in different buildings where pos- sible. Some of the smaller banks, how- ever, will have both a conservator and the Hamilton Bank manager in the same building. Workers Be Placed in New Federal Jobs. Efficient Government employes fur- loughed as a result of the economy newly created Federal agencies, Repre- sentative Gibson (Republican) of Ver- mont declared in several pages of ex- Congressional Record. Gibson severely condemned the Demo- program should be given positions in the | tended remarks appearing today in the | The important question of off-sets|cratic-controlled Congress for “raiding” was thoroughly discussed at a meeting | the civil service system, demoralizing of conservators of all unlicensed banks | the public service and, under the plea in the city yesterday afternoon at the |of emergency, creating many new agen- Federal-American. The principal speak- | cies necessitating the employment of ers representing the Government were | thoysands of persons “who will be ap- W. Irving Shuman and G. B. Springston | pointed as the spoils of Democratic vic- | ©f the Treasury Department. ‘Working on Branch Problem. tory.” “The jobs newly created and placed outside the civil service law,” he said, Edwin C. Graham is busily engaged in working out details of the Hamilton branch problem and personnel questions in particular. It is expected he will have important announcements soon, particularly on the matter of personnel, as this must be determined before ap- plication can be made for the bank charter. Concerning the matter of bank branches, the arrangement of continuing nine banking houses and eventually abandoning five has been virtually de- cided, but some details remain to be arranged when the possibility ~that | changes in the situation are still pos- | sible. '~ The campaign to sell $1,250,000 worth of Hamilton Bank merger stock was| nearing its goal today. As soon as this | can be completed and the money all| collected the organizers of the ban# will apply for the charter, probably | within a few days Pledges Support. | The Washington Board of Trade to- day pledged its support to the Hamilton National Bank in a resolution adopted by its Executive Committee, at the! seme time announcing the purchase of $1.000 worth of stock in the newly formed group. 4 In voting its indorsement and confi- | dence in the venture, the board pointed | out that the reopening of the banks | merged would release $10.000,000 in | ticd-up accounts, bringing stimulus to Washington business through the cir- | culs 1 of this money The resolution adopted by the board said The Washington Board of has every confidence that the Hamiiton National! Bank will highly successful institution grest asset to the community effort of those who are bringing shout this reorganization should receive fullest co-operation of the communit 50 that the money in these banks m: quickly be put to use throughout the city and th any depositors in the various institutions may ob speedy release. The board tenders the b every degree of co-operation and good will.” LAUDS PORTLAND CREW Admiral Pratt Sends Message of Praise to Cruiser Personnel. Admiral Willam V. Pratt, chief of maval operations, has sent a commenda- tory letter to the commanding officer of the U. 8. S. Portland in conjunction with the communication work done by that vessel during the search for the dirigible Akron. Admiral Pratt wrote: “The excellent work done by the Portland in radio communications in connection with the yecent disaster to the U. S. S. Akron Trade New be a “should be utilized to take care of effi- clent Government employes who will be furloughed as the result of the econ- omy program of the Democratic admin- MOVING OF POLICE RADIO PLANNED Officials to Install Station to Quieter Quarters at No. 10. (day to end the reign of interference with crime reports flashed out over the department’s short-wave station WPDW by moving the broadcasting studio at headquarters to quieter quarters in the tenth precinct station. For some time, it seems, policemen |in the radio-equipped scout cars have | complained that music wafting over the air waves had interfered with the re- | ception of broadcast orders from head- quarters. Right in the midst of a crime report, they said, would come the stir- ring strains of “Halls of Montezuma” or “Anchors Aweigh.” Then, at other times, they would hear loud reports which sounded very much like a ma- chine gun in serious action. Police officials knew that WPDW was supposed to have an exclusive wave | channel that no one was allowed to | use but police radio stations. So they | were satisfled that the music and the Police officials made preparations to- | Shooting, Stabbing And Hold-Up Calls Run Police Ragged | Officials Conclude Some- 'body Got New Short-Wave Receiving Set. The police have about decided some- | body in Washington has a new short- wave radio receiving set. All last night, they kept receiving telephone calls from somebody who an- | nounced there was a shooting here, a | stabbing there, a hold-up at this place, |a robbery at that place. Always, the | | voice was the same; always, the reports | proved false. | And, after it was all over, the police | were so confused that they weren't sure | whether they'd chased six false reports, | JUNE 27, D.C. TOASKFUNDS FOR PARKWAY AND SN AT P STEET 193 Owner of Raven Sought BIRD MARKED “10” MAKES SOME NEW FRIENDS. Commissioners Will Seek $300,000 for Public Works Projects. NEW BRIDGE IS WANTED TO REPLACE PRESENT ONE Rock Creek and Potomac Improve- ! ment Has Already Been Par- tially Completed. The District Commissioners will ask the administrator of public works for funds with which to construct a new bridge across Rock Creek at P street | and urge the allowance of funds to | complete the link in the Rock Creek | and Potomac Parkway between P street | and Pennsylvania avenue. This became known today when Dr. | Luther H. Reichelderfer, chairman of | | the Board of District Commissioners, | | answered a communication from the| | Fine Arts Commission, advocating that the city heads ask for money to com- | plete this important traffic artery. Dr. | Relchelderfer said that “we have con- sistently forwarded” this project. $300,000 Held Needed. The new B Street Bridge, to replace the present shaky structure, over ‘which it is necessary for street cars to pro- ceed at reduced speed, after halting when they arrive at the bridge, would cost about $250.000. Plans for this are understood to be well underway. For improvement of the parkway proper, some $50.000 additional is needed. H. P. Cacmmerer, executive secretary of the Fine Arts Commission, said to- day that “this is one of the great city planning projects and _transforms an {old ravine into a beautiful parkway. He added that its consummation means the outlay of & small amount of money to achieve a great result, Improvement of the parkway would be carried forward under Col. James A. Woodruff, newly appointed director of Public Buildings and Public Parks, lor the Interior Department authorities to whom the functions of his office may be transferred under the Presi- dent’s reorganization. Some Work Done. Some work has already been done in the parkway between P street and Pennsylvania avenue. A new bridge | has just been compieted across Rock Creek at L street and the finished park- way at K street will soon be carried northward to link with Pennsylvania avenue. Mr. Caemmerer pointed out that the improvement of the lower end of Rock Creek Valley has long been on the Gov- ernment plans. The 1901 commission recommended that this area be im- proved by turning it into a parkway and since about 1916 Congress has | been appropriating funds so that the Government might acquire the neces- sary land to complete the long-standing program. GOOD REACTION IS SEEN TO BROWN ADVISORY PLAN Proposed ‘Citizens’ Unofficial Com- mittee to Aid Police Chief Favored. Police Supt. Brown announced today that the public reaction to his plan RS. ISABEL MCcNAMEE was “pretty scared,” she admitted, when a large black something | fluttered over.her head, almost | grazing her hair, and perched | [ on a fence post a few feet away ) she learned over; weeding her flower s Sylvia Parker, 10, of 33 Longfellow o street, making 1 - s . i " S 3 g friends with a bird, be. I thought it was the devil himself,” | Jiovoq to be @ raven, which flew into she said, “and I got out of the way . v i | Just ‘ms. quickly as I could. You cay | the vard of a e oot [Still sce the skid marks out there in | e oto. | the vard.” | | The visitor proved to be nothing more lin the neighborhood three or four days | satanic, however, than a raven—or, at | ago. least, that's what everybody who has| “I saw it light on an electric pole in seen the bird says it is. After Mrs.|the aley,” said Mrs. McNamee. “At McNamee had half-rin, half-slid as far | first I thought it was a crow, but after as the somewhat limited confines of a while I decided it was too tame for her back yard at 35 Longfellow street |that Then some boys chased it away, would permit, she stopped and looked |and I didn’t see it any more until to- back. | day, when it flew over my head as I The bird still was perched on the was pulling weeds from around my | post, eyeing her interestedly and mak- | flowers. Of course, it didn't occur to ing a strange, clucking noise. It sat|me at first that it was the bird I'd there for a minute or two—during which | seen, and, I don't mind admitting, I time Mrs. McNamee decided he must was pretty scared.” be a raven—then flew into the next‘ Mrs. McNamee's husband, George J. McNamee, asked police to institute a search for the bird's owner. It has a yard, in the rear of No. 37. A neigh- bor captured the bird and turned it iover to Mrs. McNamee, who made a |band on its right leg, inscribed with the | place for it on her screened-in back number “10,” and the foot is minus a porch. |toe. It is tame and loses no time The bird, which is about the siza making friends, and has all the other of a full-grown pigeon, was first seen | characteristics of the raven. PRESDENT IND.C. ECONONY AX FALLS BY FIFTH OF JULY Roosevelt May Return by Night of Fourth, Says Secretary Early. President Roosevelt probably will re- turn to the White House from his vacation cruise along the New England coast the night of July 4 or the morn- ing of the 5th, according to Stephen P. Early, one of his secretaries, who left the cruising party Sunday night and arrived in Washington last night. The President left Washington with the intention of returning from his vacation about July 1 or 2, but, accord- ing to Mr. Early, he has become 50 enthusiastic over his first vacation since becoming President and is having so much fun sailing the Amberjack II that days. The President is in the best of health, Mr. Early said. He had a_tentative engagement to make an address in Charlottesville, Va., on Independence day, but this has been canceled. President in High Spirits. he has decided to extend his trip a few ONDRY PERSONNEL More Than 1,300 Employes Face Dismissals or Fur- loughs Friday. | More than 1,300 employes of the Pro- | hibition Bureau—about half the entire | personnel of the soon-to-be-abolished agency—will be dismissed or furloughed Friday under the first step of a drastic reorganization planned to effect a sav- |ing of $4,000,000, Attorney General Cummings announced today. | The remainder of the force will be divided between the Justice and Treas- | ury Departments as soon as an execu- | tive order splitting the bureau in half | becomes operative a few weeks hence. Clerks Heaviest Affected. Among those to be dropped with the | close of the fiscal year Friday will be 34 employes, mostly clerical, in the bu- reau’s headquarters here, and eight oth- ers connected with the District of Co- | lumbia enforcement district. The Mary- |land office will lose 36 employes and | the Virginia district 24. The doomed employes range in rank from administrators in charge of en- forcement districts in various parts of the country and its possessions to at- seven or eight. They knew only that|i; create an unofficial citizens' advi- {Lklle‘);'d had a very breathless evening of i After sizing the situation up, they de- | cided somebody with a new radio got a | | kick out of hearing shooting reports and | | the like broadcast by the police. This | | theory, they pointed out, was at least as | good "as any of the others that were | | suggested. sory committee had been ‘“very favor- able.” A few hours after publication of the plan, Maj. Brown said a number of prominent business and professional men had called him and indorsed it Some of them even suggested candi- dates for appointment. ‘The personnel of the committee will be selected from outstanding citizens When Mr. Early left the President’s | tormeys, investigators. special agents, party Sunday night at Roque Isiand ' cecretaries, s&e?'fo‘gnphers. typi.n:elnd harbor, whieh is abcut 30 miles south | clerks, it was stated. of the Canadian line, the President's “ Tpe entire prohibition forces in Alas- vessel and the others in the flotilla Were | ks Hawail and Puerto Rico will be fogged down, but this did not seem t0| eliminated, and the enforcement work lessen the President’s enthusiasm and | will be turned over to United States high spirits. He was looking forward | marshals in those areas, to sailing up into the Bay of Fundy to| Result of Survey. “play arcund,” watching the famous| tides, which have a rise and fall of 20| The shake-up was made as a result istration and arrangements made to noise was coming from a source, other transfer competent employes from bu- it.hm another radio station. reaus that are to be abolished to the Picks Up Every Note. new agencies which are being set up. ‘The band music, especially such tunes Sees Executive Power. as “The Halls of Montezuma,” gave the “The President has the authority un- | investigators a clue. In a building ad- der the Civil Service law to do these joining police headquarters, occupled as things and prevent injustice to worthy |an armory by the 6th Marine Brigade, | employes end disservice to the Govern- | they found the brigade band rehearsing. ment itself, but the deliberate and suc- (The weather was warm and the win- cesstul effort of the Democratic ma- |dows were open. And the sensitive jorities in Congress to fill all new jobs | microphone at WPDW'’s control board with hungry Democrats by disregarding | was picking up every note the merit system, renders executive in- | The machine gun-like reports were terference doubtful, notwithstanding | traced to the backfiring of police cars the President’s alleged sympathy with |parked in the alley in the rear of head- |of the District who are interested in Club to Tour Gardens. olice afratis. BETHESDA, Md., June 27 (Special). | The committee would be limited to —The June meeting of the Bethesda |six members. Its duties would be Community Garden Club tomorrow will | chiefly to advise Maj. Brown and other take the form of a tour of gardens in |police executives on administrative this area. The tour will close with a |questions, particularly those involving luncheon in the garden of Mrs. Edward | the efficiency and effectiveness of the M. Willis at 1 o'clock. force. 'SNAKES DO EVERYTHIN(?EUT KICK IN FATAL WRIGGLERS’ WAR AT ZOO Mischievous Young Pilot Unharmed in Battle He Starts and_ a| The | the | the merit system.” Gibson also declared a review of the legislation of the special session of Con- gress, with its vast grants of power to the President and its “enormous and bewildering” appropriations, shows, in respect to the Civil Service, “a studied and an avowed purpose to capituate to the Hungry jobseekers at the expense of the taxpayers and the merit system.” Gibson charged that during the spe- cial session. the Democrats made 12 distinct raids on the Civil Service sys- tem, and by threats and attempted emasculation of the Civil Service law have made the merit system a “hollow mockery " Finds Service Demoralized. “These actual raids and these at- tempted inroads.” he said. “have cre- ated a sence of insecurity among faith- ful and efficient public servants, many thousands of whom are affiliated in their political principles with the Democratic party, and have all but demoralized the public service.” Gibson made special reference to the plans of a special committee of House | Democrats to replace 803 employes of the Congressional Library who are not protected by Civil Service. “Is the Library of Congress, one of the greatest libraries in the world.” he asked, “to be dismantled in its personnel to ap- pease the appetite of hungry office mongers and to furnish a spolls holiday for faithiul partisans? By all means this great temple, which exemplifies the wisdom and practical results of the merit system, should not be defiled.” POLICEMAN WEDS Charles J. Sullivan Marries Miss Rose E. Fitzmorris at Brookland. Policeman Charles J. Sullivan, 30 of 1007 Varnum street northeast, attached to the Crime Prevention Bureau, was married this morning in St. Anthony's Church, Brookland, to Miss Rose E. has been brought to the attention of | Catholic University. the chief of naval operations and he is | performed the ceremony. picased to note the accurate and expe- | wedding the couple left for ditious manner in which this emergency | their hon n. Sulll wafic was handled)® was from Massachuselity Gl originally | quarters. | The solution of the problem was diffi- cult because the weather was far too warm to order the closing of the win- dows in the broadcasting studio. Police officials knew they could stop the noise from the cars by banning parking in the alley, but they also knew it would be |uscless to try and move the Marines. So the problem was tackled from an- other angle Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, personnel officer in charge of broadcasting, figured that since the transmitter was located in the tenth precinct station, the broad- casting studio might as well be located | there also, where Lieut. Jim Kelly, radio supervisor, could control the studio as | well as the broadcasting end. Moreover, there would be nothing at the tenth precinct station. in a quiet residential neighborhood, to interfere with the crime flashes. Transfer Orders Issued. Orders for the transfer of the studio were issued, and as scon as Lieut. Kelly can set up a temporary emergency dio the apparatus will be shifted Inspector Edwards said the change | would in no way delay the transmis- ges from headquarte: The police raido flashes are now tele- | phoned to the studio, direct from the | Detective Bureau, he d, and No. to a telephone, is no further away than the Detective Bureau. ROUTS ROBBERS Storekeeper Raises Barrage Groceries to Repel Thieves. ‘Two would-be robbers were routed last night by John Trilling, proprietor of a store at 805 First street, by a barrage of groceries. The pair boarded the cab of John 8. O'Brien, 6013; Fourth :treet, at Thomas Circle and asked to he driven to Pirst and H streets. There they told | O'Brien to wait while they went into of Fitzmorris, 24, who gave her address as | Trilling's store. Rev. P. E. Conroy | With Brother Reptiles. A mischievous young pilot snake, | captured near New Market, Va. after he had been stepped on by a farmet’s | wife, started a battle which ended in | death for one of his crawling brethren ‘in the reptile house at the Zoo yes- terday. | “The’ pilot was turned over to Dr. William H. Mann, director of the Zoo, | by Mervin Schaeffer, owner of a farm | near New Market. The farmer had, | caught the snake, he said, after his| | wife had walked on the reptile while | | going about her chores at their farm | | house. ! | Al the other snakes were still asleep | | when the pilot was placed in one of | | the glass-fronted display cubicles in the reptile house. The pilot seemed to resent the loss of his freedom, how- ever, for he was no sooner placed on the gravel-covered floor of the cubicle Surveying the scene of battle as at- tendants remcved his dead adversary with a long, hooked wire, the indigo noticed the newcomer from Virginia for the first time. Maybe something in the pilot's manner aroused his suspi- cions; maybe he merely resented the presence of a stranger. At any rate, he lunged at the pilot and another fight was cn. ‘The newcomer was a trifle too agile for him, however. After a few minutes of ferocious struggle the pilot wriggled free, climbed to the top of the palm and contented himself by sticking his tongue out at his erstwhile adversary. The indigo, after glaring at the stranger for a few minutes, curled up and went to sleep. ‘The fights interrupted a press con- ference. at which Dr. Mann was an- nouncing the addition of a collection feet. Mr. Early said the President will sail into the Bay of Fundy before going into Eastport, Me., which will be his base while visiting his mother’s Summer home at Campobello. Mr. Early, accompanied by James | Roosevelt, the President’s eldest son, who was first mate on the Amberjack, | and John Cutter, who was cook and able-bodied seaman, left the presiden- tial party at Roque Island harbor Sun- day night aboard the destroyer Ber- | nadou. Boston was reached in the next | forenoon after piowing through heavy | seas and thick fog along the coast| throughout the pight, where James Roosevelt hurried ashore to attend the repeal convention to which he was a delegate. Cutter went into Boston to buy additional supplies to take back to | the Amberjack. Met by Col. McIntyre. Secretary Early was met by Col. Marvin H. Mclntyre, another of the President’s secretaries, who had left Washington the day before and who was to join the presidential cruising party today. Col. McIntyre left Wash- ington with an armful of papers re- quiring the immediate attention of the President, which he will study when he arrives at Campobello. Col. Louis McH. Howe, the other ‘White House secretary, left Washington this morning to join the President at Campobello. He will return to Wash- ington with the President aboard the cruiser Indianapolis. Secretary Early went aboard a Navy plane at Squantum Naval Reserve base, yesterday' afterncon. The plane was plloted by Lieut. Baker and Mr. Early went directly to the White House, Just outside Bestcn, at 1:50 o'clock yes- | terday afternoon and alighted at the | Navy field in Anacostia at 6 o'clock | Dismissals From Service to Be | of a survey completed under the Attor- ney General’s direction by A. V. Dal- rymple, prohibition director, and John F. Hurley, assistant director. Letters have been mailed notifying those slated for discharge or furlough. Congress appropriated $8,400,000 for prohibition enforcement, but Budget Director Lewis Douglas ordered a saving of $4,000,000, and the retrenchment was arranged to bring the brueau within the reduced expense limit. The names of persons to be dropped from the roles were withheld by Justice authorities “to give the affected em- pioyes time to receive the letters of dismissal now on their way.” Status in Doubt. A. V. Dalrymple’s future status under the reorganization, which will result in abolition of the Prohibition Bureau as an independent agency, remained un- certain today. Under the President’s | special order sent to Congress on the | last day of the session, the investiga- | tive functions of the bureau are to_be | turned over to the new Division of In- | vestigation of the Department of Jus- tice, while the permit and revenue ac- | tivities will be transfered to the new | Division & Internal Revenue, Treas- | ury Department. There is said to be litile likelihood that Dalrymple will be taken into the | Department of Justice because of the diminishing duties of the prohibition investigation force. D. C. PERSONNEL BOARD WEIGHS CUT IN FUNDS Avoided by Use of Furlough 10, | of pet birds, most of them rather rare. | He sald 20 especially designed cages are being installed in the bird house, and the collection, which will be com- pleted some time this week, will include | bul-rabs, shama thrushes, Australian and African finches, bullfinches, gold- finches, nightingales, jackdaws, cock | Tobins, even a few canaries. Birds Start Trouble, But the snake fights were not the | only interruption to the conference. In | one of the out-door cages near the bird | house, while Dr. Mann was explaining | the construction of the new cages, there |was a commotion that could be heard | for blocks. A tiny sparrow had flown into the kookaburra cage—and into trouble at '..,he um.e!sotmg One of u:; kooka- urras, own as great kingfishes change of strange, rumbling noisss;|or laughing jackasses, had captured then the indigo, evidently angered by|him and was parading around the cage the water snake’s remarks, swung into|with the smi bird held tightly in action. his beak. The battle was furious while it lasted.| The four other occupants of the The reptiles slashed at each other with |cage evidently felt they were entitled than he went slithering off to butt his head against the glass front, in a frenzied effort to escape. Has Possible Headache. He stopped after a while, possibly be- cause he had given himself a headache. Then, giving his new home a cursory once-over, his eye fell on an indigo snake and a water snake, lying side by side beneath a miniature palm tree. ‘The pilot wriggled his thin, black budy across the cubicle and stretched himself out beside the two larger reptiles. Con- vinced they really were asleep, he slap- ped the indigo across the head with his tail. Then, before the indigo had got his eyes all the way open, he repeated the performance on the water snake. The indigo and the water snake eyed each other angrily. There was an ex- they where he conferred for a long time with Secretary Howe. System. The District Personnel Board is GYPSY “CURE™IS COSTLY fmesting aptim tais sttezaon to, com TO WASHINGTON WOMAN taken by .each local government de- partment to bring personnel costs with- Trick Played by Romany Rover Nets Trickster Cash and in appropriations during the new fiscal Valuable Jewels. year. It is likely the board’s report will be laid before a special meeting of the District Commissioners for action to- morr-iw. dAdoption :)( th: furlough sys- tem for departments where reductions A Gypsy trick which was to have|must be S expenses, it is said, made her well cost Mrs. Margaret |yill avoid dismissals of employes ex- Bomar, 1665 Lamont street, $285, she cept for the cases of several depart- discovered today. | ments. Mrs. Bomar told police a Gypsy wom- | Ty LR, BOY HIT BY TRUCK an, about 40 years old, came to her/ apartment last PFriday and said she Roscoe Robertson, 14, colored, 220 G street, was injured today when the knew that Mrs. Bomar had been ill, but that she could cure her. The Gyg-y asked for something yaluable | and was given $25 in cash and three pieces of jewelry valued at $260. She wagon in which he and two other col- placed them inside of her belt and told | ored boys were coasting was struck and Driven off by the storekeeper, they After the | jumped into the cab and one of them Boston on | pressed a gun against O'Brien’s back and forced him to drive them to Fourth and Eass HEEOS. s | each othes [ but kick. It was all over in a few minutes. The , bit—did everything, tails, wrapped themselves around | n fact, | indigo got a strangle hold on his foe to at least a feather or two, for a free- for-all battle quickly ensued. It ended | with the kookaburras converting the sparrow into breakfast food. Then, like the victorious indigo, they went dleen, | Mrs. Bomar to wear the belt for three smashed by a heavy truck at South days and she would find herself cured. This morning Mrs. Bomar opened the belt and found only old newspaper clipping and a button in JEWEiCE ADd WORSK, SEISTRE place of her Capitol and C street. He was treated at Emergency Hospital. The other two boys were uninjured. Baltimore was driver of the truck, police i i Louis B. Reedy of [in PAGE B—1 TEAR GAS SUBDUES WASHINGTON MEN INFORESTRY GAMP Virginia Sheriff and Four Deputies Clash With 125 Near Woodstock. DONOVAN LAYS TROUBLE TO REFUSAL TO WORK Official Says Workers Threatened to Burn Conservation Center. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. WOODSTOCK, Va., June 27.—A formal investigation was expected to be launched today into the circum- stances surrounding the outbreak late yesterday of District Conservation Corps members quartered at Camp Roosevelt, { which was quelled only efter the sheriff and four deputies of Shenandoah Coun- |ty fired tear gas into the mob. | The trouble started. according to | Capt. Leo Denovan of Fort Washington, IMd., their commander, when he dis- charged four of the forestry workers, | who, he said, refused to work. One of the four, Willlam H. Weaver, refused to leave the camp, according to Doncvan, and he summoned Sheriff | Luther G. Sheetz. Surrounded by Men. Sheriff Sheetz said this morning that when he arrived at the camp his car was surrounded by angry conservation corps workers, who threatened to “burn | down this damned camp and fix all the | officers in it.” He said Capt. Donovan {urged him to send for reinforcements and ammunition, and he summoned lDeputleu Louis Morrison, Rodney Sager, Henry Phillips and his brother, Jacob Sheetz. In the meantime, according to Dono- van, a committee of the workers ap- pealed to him on behalf of the four men, who, in addition to Weavcr, are Charles C. Sacrey, Eugene G. Marshall and Kenneth Rule, all of Washington. He said that after hearing the com- mittee, which had complained continu- ally about the food, he agreed to rein- state Marshall and Rule, but insisted the other two leave. “I told them if they didn’t like what they are getting, they could get out,” Capt. Donovan said. “I eat the same chow they do and pay more for it. I don't get any extras. If I did, I know there would be something to kick about.” He blamed the outbreak on “a few agitators.’ Says He Was Threaternd. Sheriff Sheetz said he had been forced to fire the tear gas into a crowd of about 125 workers after they had picked up rocks and threatened to stone the officers. “After I had talked with Capt. Dono- van,” he said, “the men went down on the base ball diamond to hold their meeting. As we were driving back to Woodstock, and when we passed the | field, Jake, my brother, fired a shot into the air, “Then the crowd began hollering at us, calling us yellow—so I decided I had about enough of them, turned tha car around and went back to see what it was all about. : “As we drove the car down the field, the men all jumped for a rock pile and started to advance toward us. They were calling us names, saying we were yellow. It was then the tear gas was fired. They scattered like rabbits.” Very Lenient, He Says. The sheriff said he had been “very lenient” with the men since the camp was opened about two months ago. He said after every pay day large groups would come into Edinburgh, about 9 miles from the camp, and start dis- turbances. e“I nnzl:g) or ‘:lhr:euofnthem in, but never put them in jail, figuring things would straighten themselves mfz. But I warned them last night that if they ever get drunk in this county again, Tl put them in jail.” He said he was looking for more tmul:le w;ufifi m:nd hfi:ped the Army ‘would sen: ry police to the cam to enforce discipline. 5 $400,000 TO BE ASKED FOR STORM SEWER Project Planned at Fifth and In- graham Streets to Prevent Flooding of Basements. An item of $400,000 for the laying of an adequate stormwater sewer in the vicinity of Fifth and Ingraham streets has been added to the long list of im- provements which the District Commis- sioners will submit to the administra- tor of the public works secticn of the national recovery act in the next day or_two. The laying of this sewer is n eded &5 prevent the flooding of basemeNs of dwellings there which has occurred nu- merous times in the past four years during heavy rainstorms. The En neer Department of the District has re- ceived many complaints about the in- adequacy of the existing sewer system at this point. On last Sunday the basements of houses there were flooded and a crew of 10 men was called to pump them dry. ‘The proposed new 9-foot sewer weuld paralle! the present system from Fifth and ham to Illinols avenue. This project could not be provided under regular District appropriations in recent years., RS b d BEATS BIKE ON FOOT Policeman Catches Colored Man After Being Knocked Down. Policeman G. N. Nicholson of the first precinct won a foot race with a bicycle yesterday, even though he was knocked down by a hit-and-run automobile in the course of his pursuit. While walking in the 500 block of Second street, the officer a saw a col- ored man carrying a jar which aroused his suspicions. The man jumped on a bicycle and started pedaling up an alley as the policeman a] L. Then the race began. At First and G streets, Nicholson was sideswiped by an automobile, but he picked himself up and overtook his quarry. The colored man was booked as James Porter, 21, 100 block of Pisrce street, and charged with in S: street. He had dropped went to the police clinic for & bruige oQ bis log - Ison it