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Coeea e | @Ghe Sundliny Star PYLON OPPOSITION FINDS CONTRAGTS ALREADY SIGNED Park and Planning Group Sees Project Only as Traffic Menace. TREASURY KEPT IDEA TO SELF, BODY STATES Contends It Was Never Officially Notified of Kiosks to Mark Entrances. Although the National Capital Park and Planning Commission yes- terday afternoon reasserted its oppo- sition to the erection of pylons and | kiosks by the Treasury Department in the Triangle, doubt exists as to whether such action will prove effec- tive, inasmuch as contracts for them already have been signed After viewing the sample pylons at | Constitution avenue and Fourteenth street, the commission voted to op- pose erection of permanent ones on the ground that they serve no useful | purpose and are a menace to traffic The motion was made by Chairman | King of the Senate District Commit- | tee, who is an exofficio member of the planning body. At the same time, the planners voted to thank the Treasury Department for its courtesy in erecting in cloth and wood the sample pylons to enable them to vis- ualize the finished granite columns the better. The pylons are “monstrosities,” in the opinion of Senator King, who said | he was going to protest to Govern- | ment officials, and also call the ques- | tion to the attention of the District Committee when it meets. v The District Commissioners have joined with the Planning Commission in opposing the pylons, the planners said yesterday, and Col. Daniel I Sultan, Engineer Commissioner, an- other exofficio member of the plan- | ning group, also voted against them. | The Planning Commission contended | that it was never officially advised | by the Treasury Department of the plans for the kiosks and pylons, al- though plans for the new Government buildings in the Triangle had been passed upon by them. Contract Already Signed. The supervising architect’s office, Procurement Division of the Treasury Department. has entered into a con- tract with the Industrial Fireproofing Co. for $64,974 for the work. Under the plan there are to be eight pylons and two kiosks marking the entrance to the Federal domain represented by the Government buildings in the| graphed at the hospital. WASHINGTON, D. C. those in the rear seats were killed. SUNDAY Bus Crash Reveals Secret Marriage The fatal crossing crash at Rockville Thursday night revealed the wedding of these Williamsport, Md, young people, Mrs. Jane Staley Murray and George Murray, both of Williamsport, Md. Photo of Mrs. Murray taken last night at Georgetown Hospital, where she is suffering from severe injuries. Murray was photo- Mrs. Murray left the back of the bus to sit in one of the front seats just before the crash occurred. This fact probably saved her life, as —Star Stafl Photos. PLAN MEMORIAL FOR BUS VIGTINS Williamsport Community Rites Will Foliow Indi- vidual Funerals. | | | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. WILLIAMSPORT, Md, April 13.— A three-day schedule of funerals for | 14 victims of the Rockville bus trag- | edy will be terminated Wednesday afternon with a general memorial service at the Williamsport High School. The community services, expected to draw hundreds of friends and rela- tives of those who died in the school bus crash on a grade crossing late Thursday night, were arranged this afternoon at a conference between Mayor Richard Hawkin and the min- isters of this vicinity. Individual funeral services will be- gin here tomorrow and continue until 2:30 o'clock Wednesday afternoon, the hour set for the memorial rites. Plans at first considered for the | | | New Schedule Various Governmental Units and Hours Under Stag- gered System Listed. The working schedule under the new staggered-hour system follows: 8:30—4:00. Emergency Conservation Commis- sion. Federal Co-ordinator of Transpor- tation. Interstate Commerce Commission. Internal Revenue Bureau (first group). Veterans’ Administration. Federal Housing Administration. 8:45—4:15, Navy Department. Internal Revenue Bureau (second | group). ‘War Department. 9:15—4:45. Commerce Department. Farm Credit Administration. General Accounting Office (employes in old Post Office only). National Recovery Administration. All groups not included in the above will continue to work on the 9:00— 4:30 schedule, with the exception of the District Building, which some time triangle. The foundations of some of | group burial were later abandoned.|ago went on on 8:45—4:15 basis, and these have already been finished, authorities said, between the curbing | and sidewalk at Fourteenth street and ! Constitution avenue, Fourteenth and | E sireets and at Twelfth street and | Constitution avenue. "Che pylons, to be of granite, are to be 26 feet high, while lion head fountains will be featured at the kiosks. Bennett, Par- sons and Frost, Chicago architects, designed both pylons and kiosks The first two kiosks would be erected on Tenth street, one near the | Department of Justice and the other near the Bureau of Internal Revenue. Their bases will be 22 by 11 feet and they will have shafts 12 by 9 feet, rising a dozen feet above the sidewalk. { port was issued last night by Mayor | school pupils. The parents of the deceased children | wished i every instance to have a separate funeral. The hours of the individual services were arranged so as not to conflict. Virtually every | home in this town of 2,000 contains a friend or relative of the accident victims. | A proclamation of sympathy for | the bereaved residents of Williams- Irvin M. Wertz of nearby Hagerstown. Business will be at a virtual standstill while Williamsport dedicates the next three days to final rites for the high None of the churches in this com- | munity is large enough to accommo- In an effort to prevent a repetition of this lack of knowledge on what the Treasury Department is doing here.} the Planning Commission voted (o write to Secretary Morgentau and ask him to name a representative of the supervising architect’s office to serve on its co-ordinating committee. Bridge Policing Sought. ‘The commission directed its secre- tary, Thomas S. Settle, to call a con- ference of the District Commission- | ers, the National Park Service, the Planning Commission and officials of Arlington County, Va. to devise a proper method of policing the bridge head of Key Bridge at Rosslyn, Va. The commission has had numerous complaints that this area has not been patrolled satisfactorily. It is con- sidered likely that the United States Park Police, who now patrol the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, will be called upon to patrol the Key Bridge head as well. | Commission members decided to give | further study to the recreation pro-| gram, providing for 11 new swimming | pools for white and 6 for colored per- sons, submitted yesterday by T. C. Jeffers, landscape architect member of its staff. These would be built in various parts of the city, but the exact | Jocations were not made public. In the projected program a number of skat- ing rinks was included. The commission emphasized a new swimming pool should be built in East Potomac Park, at the abandoned United States Engineer wharf, near the railroad embankment, to replace the pool on the Washington Monument grounds, to be torn down shortly. This would serve much the same population as is ncw served by the pool at Seven- teenth street and Constitution avenue, slated for demolition. Bridge Hearing to Be Asked. Maj. Gen. Edward M. Markham, chief of Army Engineers, at the com- misslon’s suggestion will ask Maj. Robert W. Crawford, district, engineer for the War Department for the Wash- ington area, to call a hearing soon on a projected new bridge at Gunston Cove on the Potomac River. This is part of a park project to carry a riverside drive southward from Mount Vernon, passing Fort Belvoir and Gunston Hall, Va. Further study was directed by the commission on a proposal to utilize the abandoned Sixteenth street reser- voir, at Kennedy street, for recreational purposes, as well as the grounds of the Tuberculesis Hospital at Thirteenth and Allison streets. The staff will con- sider detailed plans for these areas, which were inspected on Friday after- noon by the commission. Representative Maverick, Democrat, of Texas, appeared before the commis- sion to urge that it give attention to the possibility of creating sites where high school children might camp at reasonable rates. The Representative, ‘who comes from San Antonio, has been interested in this movement in his locality. He thinks Washington affords a great opportunity for such camps, inasmuch as there are so many high chool children visiting the city. “commission instructed its staff to stut the feasibility. | | for the memorial services, according | Dartmouth honor student and athlete, | date the throng expected to assemble to Mayor Hawkin. Grief Over Death Of Son Year Ago Fatal to Woman | Mrs. Bertha D. Michelet | Expired Last Night at Her Home. Grief stricken since the death of her son, Robert H. Michelet, young| more than a year ago, Mrs. Bertha D. | Michelet, 59, died last night at her esidence, 1636 Argonne place. Mrs. Michelet’s 22-year-old son had achieved virtually every scholastic | honor at Dartmouth and was a foot | ball and track star before he con- tracted pneumonia and died after a 10-day illness. A graduate of Central High School, | where he excelled as a scholar and | athlete, young Michelet was rated Dartmouth’s outstanding undergrad- uate at his death. He was a Phi Beta Kappa nominee, had been awarded a Rhodes scholarship, and was captain of the track team when he died. Mrs. Michelet, wife of Simon T. Michelet, prominent Washington law- yer and secretary to the late Senator Knute Nelson, came to the Capital about 20 years ago from her home in Annandale, Minn. Besides her husband, she is survived by her father, R. H. Downing. of An- nandale and three sons, Carl, Paul and Lieut. William G. Michelet, U. 8. N. Funeral services have not been com- pleted. the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where the hours are 8:00—4:00. ROBERTS OPPOSES COAL SALES MOVE Short-Ton Price Might Be! No Less Than Long, He Asserts. A move by Washington coal dealers to amend the District law to permit sale of coal by the short instead of long ton has run into vigorous oppo- sition from George M. Roberts, su- perintendent of weights and measures. In an outspoken statement, he has advised the Commissioners to reject the proposal, claiming the change would place an additional burden of $500,000 or more on consumers, unless coal prices proportionately were re- duced. He said he could find no as- surance that there would be such cuts. The proposal already has been pre- sented informally to Chairman Nor- ton of the House District Committee and she has asked the Commissioners to prepare a bill if they think the proposed change is in the public in- terest. It was presented to the Commis- sioners by the Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association and bears the indorsement of the Board of Trade. Commissioner Hazen has set April 26 tentatively as the date for a public hearing, after which the Commis- sloners will determine their policy. Supt. Roberts, in his memorandum to the Commissioners, has countered this argument with the statement: “Should a law be passed reducing the weight of a ton of coal in the District from 2,240 pounds to 2,000 pounds, there is no assurance what- ever that consumers would receive a proportionate reduction in price per ton. Coal dealers can give no such assurance without admitting the existence of a coal trust in the Dis- trict, engaged in price-fixing in vio- lation of law.” White House to Open Grounds Again for Easter Egg Rolling The President and Mrs. Roosevelt yesterday officially advised the officials of the National Capital parks that they sanctioned the use of the south grounds of the White House again this year for the annual Easter egg rolling by'the children, Accordingly, the park authorities are making arrangements to start work Tuesday in the White House grounds, to get them ready for Easter Monday—a week from tomorrow—in- stalling temporary comfort stations and drinking fountains. The program calls for children to be admitted to the grounds from 9 to 3:30 o'clock for the festivities. From 3:30 to 5 o’clock a concert will be given by the Marine Band, to which the general public is in: vited. Albert Clyde-Burton, assistant su- perintendent of the National Capital parks, in charge of recreation, supervise the preparation of the White House grounds for the children. The Girl Scouts have notified him that .they will have a detail on hand Easter Monday to care for lost children and for minor injuries. Emergency Hos- pital will detail a physician and two nurses to attend. In addition, the motor corps section of the home serv- ice section of the American Red Cross will supply two nurses and an am- bulance. Broadcasting equipment will be rigged and United States Park police will be stationed in the area to handle park- ¢ ing-outside the White House greunds, to protect children crossing the street, and to handle traffic. . The White House grounds will ciose promptly at 5 o'clock and then will come the job of the park authorities in cleaning up egg shells. snd other debri§—the aftermal will ‘\annual pageant of happy FEDERAL WORKERS ONNEW SCHEDULE 27,000 to Start Staggered Hours Tomorrow to Relieve Congestion. Twenty - seven thousand Govern- ment employes in the downtown area tomorrow will change their working hours as the new “stagger” plan, de- signed to relieve peak traffic conges- tion, goes into effect. For these, the working day will begin and end anywhere from 30 minutes earlier to 15 minutes later than the long-established 9:30-to-4 period; for some 14,000 others, the usual times will prevail. Thirteen divisions of the Govern- ment are affected by the switch, the details of which were arranged be- tween their administrative officers and W. S. Van Duzer, director of traffic, anc but little complaint at the program has been registered in the month since the plan first was announced, it was said yesterday at Van Duzer’s office. Maladjustment Feared. In some quarters, fear has been ex- pressed that the change would be productive of wasted time at the be- ginning and overtime at the end of the day for some employes. but it was obvious that only an actual test would show if this condition would prevail. The plan first was broached by Commissiorer Hazen several months ago; President Roosevelt next in- dorsed it, and then began the con- ferences out of which the present schedule was evolved. The month’s grace that was given after the details of the charyes had been decided upon i was to allow ‘he transportation com- panies to arra.\ge their schedules to conform. At the time President Roosevelt approved, he callei to mind the need of co-operation by business houses, and Van Duzer says that the princi- pal establishments, which have either big forces of employes or a large 1 a different schedule. Figures by Hours. An analysis by Van Duzer shows that under the revised schedule, em- ploye groups will come to work as follows: 14,000, and 9: Post Office, Treasury, Justice, Labor, State, Agriculture and Inte- rior are excluded from the change, as is the main body of the General Accounting Office, Civil Service Com- mission, Tarif Commission and a scattering of others. CAPITAL MAN DIES IN HOTEL PLUNGE Victim, Registered as J. Ford, Asks Wife Here Be Notified. » 8,200. By the Associated Press. HAMILTON, Ohio, April 13.—A middle-aged man, registered as J. Ford, Washington, D. C., plunged to his death from the fourth floor of a Hamilton hotel tonight, two hours after he had engaged a room there. He left a note that read: “Please wire my wife, Mrs. Dorothy Ford, Washington Post Library, Washing- ton, D. C.” A postscript at the bottom of the note said: “That's all for * * * Honey forgive me. The going’s plenty tough. For- ever, my love.” Hotel employes said the man had displayed a considerable sum of money, plus a large check when in the lobby & short time before his death. When his clothing was searched later less than $1 in change was found. Dr. Edward Cook, coroner, was told Ford had been inquiring at the hotel for two men and a woman wearing a sealskin coat and a red hat. Officials also attached significance to two tele- phone calls put through to a Dayton, Ohio, number from Ford's room just preceding his plunge. At the Washington Post last night it was stated that a Mrs. Dorothy Ford, about 30, had been employed in the library there for about six months. She was listed in the City Directory as living in the 1500 block of Rhode Island avenue. D. of A. to Give Dance. )N, Va., April 13 (Spe- cial) —The Ways and Means mittee of District No. 1, Daughters of America, will give a benefi Monday night in Piremen tomac, Va. Arlington has presented five Bibles Clay, School, Henry number of customers, already are on | 8:30, 8,700; 8:45, 10,200; 9, | MORNING, APRIL 14, 1935. SWEEPING INQUIRY Life on Last Frontier INTOD. C. RENTS 1§ ASKED BY PATMAN Texan Submits Probe Pro- posal to House Mem- bers for Decision. - SEES RATES OUT OF LINE WITH FEDERAL WAGES Foresees “Amazing” Exposures If Investigation Is Made—Sur- vey Shows Boosts. Declaring that “the pay of Federal employes is not sufficient to enable them to pay these high rentals,” Rep- resentative Patman of Texas yester~ day addressed a letter to all members of the House, asking their views on a proposed comgressional investigation of rents in Washington. He proposes to bring the proposal up at the next meeting of the House District Committee on Wednesday. He said last night that he expects to in- troduce a resolution and go before the House Rules Committee on the sub- ject. Sees “Amazing” Exposure. “1f we have such an investigation in the House, I feel sure we will ex- pose something amazing,” Patman sald last night. He does not intend to ask for any appropriation to conduct the investigation. “The facts are all right here in Washington, it shou:dn‘} cost us anything to bring them out,” he said. The letter follows: “Do you want high rents in Wash- ington investigated? Please answer this letter, which is addressedfto each member of the House. “It is charged that rents are higher in Washington City than in any other city in America. It is my belief that this city enjoys the lowest tax rate of any city in America. I make this statement after having served several months on an investigating commit- tee that went into the subject thor- oughly. It is believed generally that there is a trust or a monopoly in the real estate and rental business in Washington. The methods of financ- ing homes and other property are camouflaged in a way that the ulti- mate owner or occupant must pay an enormous and excessive rate of inter- est, thereby forcing higher rentals. Cites U. 8. Pay Level. “The pay of Federai employes is not sufficient to enable them to pay these high rentals. If these employes and other people, who are compelled to come to Washington, are imposed upon, such an imposition should be stopped. “I am considering introducing a resolution calling for an immediate investigation of these matters to de- termine what action, if any, Congress should take. Will you favor me by either expressing your approval or| disapproval of the proposal and give me the benefit of your views and sug- 1 gestions?” Meanwhile, rent increases of from $3 to $15 monthly are being reported in questionnaires returned in the survey conducted by the Rent and Housing Committee of the Department of Agriculture, it was announced yes- terday. “A’ preliminary survey of the in- ! formation indicates a real need on the part of Government employes for better living conditions at less money,” a statement from the committee said. | | “Inadequate, undesirable quarters are common.” According to the committee, its findings “will be used in working out | two definite types of projects—a Gov- ernment-financed apartment to be let on a straight rental basis and co- operatively constructed homes and | two or three story apartment homes.” | | 'CAMELS TO MARCH | 'IN SHRINE PARADE Three in Oriental Robes Will Take Part in Conclave Here in June. | At least three camels, resplendent |in Oriental robes, will feature the colorful parade of Mystic Shrine uni- formed bodies during the imperial conclave here in June. Local Shrine officials received word yesterday from Zor Temple of Madi- son, Wis., the “baby” temple of the Shrine in North America, that the temple’s “Camel Herders’' Association” has purchased and presented three live camels to the officers. Th made their first public appearance at Madison last Friday, when they wel- comed Imperial Potentate Dana S. Williams, who was here recently. The camels will ride to Washington in a special car, attached to the spe- cial train of Zor Temple. Meantime, it was announced last night that the Shrine Committee here will spend $222,000 on entertainment, decorations and preparations for the conclave. Robert P. Smith, potentate of Almas Temple, and director gen- eral of the Convention Committee, said the amount of expenditure is based on the requests of the various committees for funds and their con- sideration by the Budget Committee. NARCISSUS SHOW HELD Special Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va, April 13.—A small narcissus show was held by the ‘Warrenton Garden Club for members only at the home of Mrs. Alexander Duer. Two classes were shown. First place for single specimens was won by Mrs. William R. Rowland, variety, King Alfred; second, Mrs. J. H. Dorst, :”’l'lm. Phoenix; third, Mrs. W. R. Relief Workers in Play. The players of the Drama Division, temporary Emergency Relief Admin- istration of New York City, will pre- sent 's “The Taming of the Shrew” at the National Press Club Wednesday at 8 pm. This is a com- pany of New York essional ar- tists, who have receiv . E. R. A white-collar jobs, Former C. U. Men Advantages. BY THOMAS R. HENRY, -~ UT on earth's last and wild- est frontier is stationed a little band of former Cath- olic University men. | Their “main street” is the equator. They have only to venture a few miles from their front doors to be in country where white men never before have been. Cannibalism still is common. ) { The leader of this group of mis- sionaries, the Right Rev. Thomas ‘Wade, bishop of the Northern Solo- mons, has just returned to America for a visit after 13 years at the remote post and after a week in Washington he already is homesick for Episcopal | Mansion at Kaeta on the Island of | Bougainville—Kaeta being the chief white settlement and consisting of his houose and the house of a government | agent. He is staying at the Marist | College here. Civilization has passed very lightly | over the wild Solomons, former Ger- | man possessions mandated to Aus- | tralia after the World War. It is represented almost entirely by Bishop Wade and his clergy, a few doctors and nurses, and some government police agents. It has been left to the | Polynesian, Melanesian and Papuan | natives, who have continued to live in their own way. Much of the high mountain country never has been visited by white men. It is inhabited by native tribes who are chiefly in evidence by cannibalistic raids toward the coast. There is very little in the Solomons to call for white settle- ment and explorations up to date have failed to locate any gold—the | discovery of which is making such | revolutionary changes in the nearby Australian mandate of New Guinea. | So far as Bishop Wade and the Australian officials are concerned, they hope “civilization” will keep away for a long time, for they find the Solomon Islanders among the earth's happiest people, in spite of danger of being converted into soup. Dr. Wade came back to his homeland to find it in the depths of economic depression and there was a note of nostalgia in his voice as he recalled the dancing, singing, carefree, half naked, child-like black men he had left behind in the jungles, men to whom economic conditions have no meaning. The bishop, with his priests, doctors and nurses, is bringing to them some of the blessings of medi- cine and sanitation. They are mak- ing progress towards eliminating can- nibalism, wife trading and wife slavery. But they are reluctant to make over the Solomon Islanders in the pattern of white men, to become heirs to the miseries of civilization. Wilds to Be Explored. It is a herculean task they have undertaken. diocese is still unknown country. Just now the Rev. Albert Lebel, one of the Catholic University men, is getting ready to enter for the first time two great tracts of mountain country where white men never have been. All traveling is by boat or by the narrow footpaths through the brush made by the native tribesmen. The bishop himself is almost continually on the move. Up to a year ago he traveled by airplane, but the plane was wrecked and has not been re- placed. Landing places are small and far between in the jungle. Perhaps Bishop Wade's most disa- greeable problem is that of cannibal- ism. The Solomons are the tradi- tional land of man-eating, but he says the practice now is confined largely to the mountaineers with whom the missionaries have not come in contact. It arose, he believes, quite naturally. Long since the islands were stripped of almost all edible game. About the only wild animals today are domestic pigs which have escaped from captivity. So he be- lieves the eating of human beings arose from a normal meat hunger. It has been kept alive by the medi- cine men who have woven rational- istic rituals about it to overcome the natural disinclination. But there is very little difficulty in inducing a na- tive to give up the practice. He doesn't like to do it anyway. He had much rather eat pork, if the medicine men would let him alone. the occasional | Much of Bishop Wade's | Find It Has Many Above: Part of the village of Kaeta on the Island of Bougain- ville in the Northern Solomon Island. Below: Right. Rev. Thomas ‘Wade. —Star Staff Photo. Sports—Pages 13 to 17 PAGE B—1 HOUSE COMMITTEE URGED TO AMEND FORECLOSURE. LAW Judge in Wardman Case Says He Was Unaware of One Suit. ATTORNEYS CRITICIZED FOR PERM!TTING ERROR Jurist Named Receivers Without Knowing of Previous Application. (Picture on Page B-2.) BY JOHN H. CLINE. Recommendations for a change in handling local foreclosures were sub- mitted to a special House committee investigating mortgage refinancing yesterday after a District judge had testified he appointed three receivers for the Wardman properties without knowing a previous suit seeking the same relief was on file. Justice James M. Proctor of the Dis- | trict Supreme Court, told the come- | mittee he signed an order appoint- ing the three receivers without know- ing a similar suit had already been presented to Justice Jennings Bailey, | who granted a 10-day continuance to | permit the plaintiff to amend his petition. | Committee Chairman Sabath asked Justice Proctor if he didn't think the | attorneys appearing in the second case | should have informed him the other suit was already on file. | “Yes" replied Justice Proctor, b - | think I should have been informed | of it. T would then have conferred | with the attorneys in the other case.” Attorneys Criticized. Referring to action of counsel in the second case, Sabath said: “The { least thing that should have been | done by these outstanding attorneys was to inform Justice Proctor of the fact that the other suit had been filed 50 as to save him embarrassment.” Representative Dirksen of Illinois remarked that the conduct of the at- | torneys was “highly unethical” He also said he wondered if “they might not be subject to disbarment.” It was then brought out that sev- | Wife trading is another practice { which is somewhat incongruous. This jaffords somewhat more difficulty to | the missionaries. A “rich” man may | have seven or eight wives, but all except one or two of them are kept merely to hoe the garden and carry burdens. They are, in every sense of | the word, siaves. They are bought and sold with pigs as the medium of {exchange. The pig is the Solomon | Islander's basis for money. He is on | the “pig standard” of currency. Most | of his business transactions are car- | ried on in tobacco—just as business transactions in America are carried {on in paper money. But the value | of tobacco is related to a pig basis. The mountains rise to altitudes of 110,000 feet. Just what is in them nobody knows, since they are prac- tically impenetrable. Bishop Wade believes there are about 15,000 of his unknown parishioners there. He and his priests will keep on until they have contacted all of them. In con- nection with unknown country, the bishop brings from the South Seas one of the most astounding tales yet to come from that romantic part of the world. It concerns the nearby island of New Guinea, the southern part of which also is under Australian man- date. A few miles from the coast the country is unknown. A few years ago gold was discovered about 75 miles inland. The terrain was impenetrable. The only means of access was by air- | plane. But today there is a flourish- ing settlement of British there. The | only means of communication is by plane. And yet they already have a thriving race track around the iso- lated town of 300 inhabitants. Some fine Australian race horses have been breought in by plane. Until this town was established the natives were liv- ing in the stone age. They never had seen a white man or any evidences of white civilization. Today these same natives are flying—not as pilots, of course—back and forth across the jungles as if it were the normal way of traveling. Surprise Goes Quickly. That is their childlike way, says the bishop. When the mission plane was first brought to the Solomons the natives gaped in wonderment to see men go through the clouds like birds. But by the second flight they had lost all sense of surprise. They would merely say: “It’s the bishop’s way.” “If I should suddenly start to float through the air,” says Bishop Wade, “it would only cause surprise the firts time I did it. Afterward it would be just ‘the bishop’s way.’” But there is a still more remark- able aspect to this little British min- ing settlement in the wilds of New Guinea. Prospectors pressed still fur- ther inland in search of more gold and they found, unbelievable as it may seem, a semi-cultured population of approximately 200,000 the very exist- ence of which never had been sus- pected. | Former Choirmates to Honor Col. Louis Houwe, the Singer Few except close friends know that Col. Louis McHenry Howe, in addi- tion to being President Roosevelt's adviser and secretary, is a singer of no mean talent. His musical proclivities have not been in public evidence since he took up residence at the White House, but an announcement by St. Thomas’ Church choir yesterday recalled that Col. Howe some years ago was an active member of the choir. As a gesture of felicitation on his recovery from his recent serious illness the choir of the President’s church has dedicated to Col. Howe & special number to be sung in a pro- gram of Lenten music next. Thursday at 8 pm. at the church, Eighteenth and Church sf The selection, # favorite of Howe when he sang at e chusch during Franklin Roosevelt’s term as Assist- ant Secretary of the Navy, is Men- delssohn’s “Hear My Prayer.” Loyal B. Aldrich, director and or- ganist of the choir, said Howe sang regularly with the choir for five or six years during his earlier sojourn here with his chief. Since coming back to Washington as a coresident of the White House he has been un- able to resume his activities with the choir, due to pressure of business duties and poor health. President and Mrs. Roosevelt have returned to St. Thomas’ Church, how- ever, and some time ago the choir, at the President’s request, sang an an- them, “Come Unto Me,” the words of which had been composed by Cyprian Shanowsky, a n Francisco musi- cian, who dedi it to Mr. Roose- yelty {eral judges might hear different | stages of a receivership case in the | local courts, although but one judge presides after hearing is started on | the merits of the case. | Representative Fuller of Arkansas, | said he thought it would be better if | the judge who appointed the receivers should preside throughout the case. | Hitz Agrees With Fuller. Associate Justice Willlam Hitz of the District Court of Appeals said he | agreed with Fuller that the local pro- | cedure might be improved by having the judke who appoints receivers fol- low the case through to its conciu- sion. He pointed out this would save | time and put the judge in a position where he would be better equipped to | pass on fee allowances and similar | matters | Associate Justice Oscar R. Luhring | of the District Supreme Court was | commended for his handling of the National Press Building case, in which | a single receiver acted for $5,006 a year. | Justice Luhring said, however, that | three receivers might be necessary in | some cases, and urged the committee | not to recommend any hard and fast law which would deprive the courts of discretion in determining the needed | number of receivers in a given case. | The rest of the afternoon session | was devoted to a general discussion of foreclosure proceedings here and in other jurisdictions. Mr. Sabath said | the committee found better conditions prevailing here than in other cities, and asked the judges to submit any suggestions which might be helpful to the committee in drafting legisla~ tion on the subject. May Reopen Wardman Case. Earlier in the day a possibility de- veloped that the entire Wardman case might be reopened, after testimony by Julius I. Peyser, local attorney and banker. Peyser told the committee the prop- erties were sold for $2800,000, the buyer assuming $4,000,000 in underly- ing mortgages, and said he believed they are worth at least $14,000000. He was asked if there is any way “this thing might be reopened to do a modicum of justice to the bond- holders.” Peyser replied it might be reopened by filling a petition for re- view of the case, which already has been through the Court of Appeals. When the committee resumes its hearing tomorrow, one of the wit- nesses will be Justice F. D. Letts of the District Supreme Court, who ap- proved the sale of the Wardman prop- erties. —_— \PHOTOGRAPHER SAYS 'HE PLANNED KILLING | Bought Gun to Slay Washington Men, Says Attempted Hold-Up Suspect. By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va, Aprii 13.—The pistol with which he attempted to hold-up a beer parlor late yesterday was bought “to kill a man,” F. G. Blackney, 30-year-old unemployed news photographer, timidly told the court yesterday at his hearing before Police Justice R. B. Spindie, jr. Justice Spindle ordered Blackney held for the Corporation Court grand jury on the charge of attempted rob- bery by forcs of arms. Blackney said he had been drinke ing, but remembered all his actions. “Why do you carry a gun?” the judge asked. “I bought it to kill a man,” came the reply. “What are you doing in Norfolk then, is the man here?” the judge asked. “No sir, he is in Washington. I was afraid I was going to kill him, 5o I came to Norfolk.” Blackney told the police last pight his home was in Detroit and t his wife had left him in Washington,