Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1935, Page 6

A—6 = THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON, 9. ARMY EXHIBITION ON LAVISH SCALE Shrine Visitors Will See Free Reproduction of Varied Activities. The fleld life and activities of an infantry regiment of the Regular Army will be shown to Shrine visitors throughout the coming week as the outstanding feature of an Army exhi- | bition in the Monument grounds. The 34th Infantry, a World War | regiment. has been brought to Wash- ington from Fort Gordon G. Meade, Md., and is encamped in the area just west of the Washington Monument, Between the camp and the Monu- ment are assembled exhibits showing activities of the Engineer Corps, Ord- nance Department, Air Corps, Coast Artillery Corps, Quartermaster Gen- eral's Department and Chemical War- fare Service. The 34th Infantry is to put on ex- | hibition drills, culminating in regi- mental retreat parades, beginning at | 2 pm. Monday, Wednesday and | Thursday afternoons. The regimental camp will be open for inspection throughout the week. The whole regi- | ment is under canvas, including Col. | John R. Brewer, regimental com-l mander, and the headquarters offices. | | | Unit at Halt Strength. Like all peace-time Army units, the 34th Infantry is a skeleton organiza- tion and its 600 officers and men con- | stitute only half the strength of a war- | time infantry battalion. The camp, | however, serves to show every phase of the fleld life of a Regular Army combat outfit and the exhibition drills will include close order and manual | of arms drills without command, dem- fainae on s st X e [OSagtart 11 3 7 S - s o % o o 2 e *lasse : €4 £ g »e Photo taken during last night's rain, looking along Pennsylvania avenue from Eighth street toward the Treasury. . . e .u-.' AR, e B3N PLL s £ - ¥ —Star Statf Photo. onstrations of the use of the one- pounder gun, wall scaling, the butts manual, shelter tent pitching and formal guard mounting. The 34th Infantry, as now consti- tuted, has only two of its three bat- | talions active, but two additional com- | have | panies from other commands been brought from Fort Meade to bring the strength to 10 companies. The regiment is commanded by Col. Brewer, with Lieut. Col. D. B. Crafton as executive officer and Capt. Gratton McCafferty as adjutant. The first battalion is commanded by Maj. Her- man H. Mever and the second by Maj. George L. Febiger. The tent camp has been laid out along 10 company “streets” with mess tents, cook shacks and company, bat- talion and regimental officers’ tents at the heads of the streets. Program Announced. The program for tomorrow’s exhibi- tion by the regiment, in East Potomac Park near the camp, is as follows: 2:15 pm.—Regiment marches to show area headed by the regimental band. 2:30 pm.—Stack arms and prepa- rations for proeram. 2:45 pm.—Special drill by Com- pany A. Capt. Russell F. Walthour. jr.. commanding. Rifle company drill with a number of involved close order movements, all done without com- mand. 3 p.m.—Special drill by Company C. Second Lieut. John M. Breit, com- manding. Butts manual with music by the regimental band. 3:15 p.m.—Wall scaling—companies of the 2d Battalion, Maj. Febiger commanding. 3:45 p.m.—Special drill, Headquar- ters Company. First Lieut. Robert W. Ward. commanding. Demonstration of use of one-pounder gun. 4 pm—Concert, 34th Infantry Band. 4:30 p.m—Regimental retreat pa- | rade, Col Brewer commanding. The general outline of this program will be followed Wednesday and Thursday. but there will be changes in the details. Other Exhibitions Planned. ‘The special exhibitions by other arms and services of the Army, across the road to the east of the Infantry camp, also are under the general com- mand of Col. Brewer. The Engineer Corps has set up a section of a pontoon bridge and other exhibits demonstrating the field ac- tivities of the corps. Ordnance and Coast Artillery have an exhibition of NAVY YARD PLANS for Visitors on Wed- nesday. A special program, illustrated with ;Old Ironsides under full sail and giv- | ing a brief history of the Washington Navy Yard, has been prepared by Rear Admiral Joseph R. Defrees. the commandant, as a feature of the show to be put on for the benefit of the Shriners on Wednesday. | A description of the old frigate Constitution, now at Boston. Mass, a sketch of points of interest at the yard and details about the various build- ings and a description of relics are contalned in the program. Lieut. L. S. Perry, aide to the com- mandant, vesterday made public de- tails of Shriners’ day at the Washing- ton Navy Yard. Lieut. Charles Benter. leader of the Navy Band, will give a special band concert from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the band stand at Leutze Park 1n the yard. At 11 o'clock there will be an air show by Aircraft Squad- ron No. 1 of the Fleet Marine Force from Quantico. Va. under command of Maj. Field Harris, U. S. M. C,, at the water front. | Marines to Mount Guard. Guard mounting will be held from 11:10 to 11:30 am. by the Marine Guard from the Marine Barracks, Eighth and I streets southeast, under command of Maj. Lemuel C. Shepherd. U. S. M. C. The Marine Band will participate in this review. with Capt. Taylor Branson, its leader. in Leutze Park. Lieut. Perry explained that master mechanics in the shops where visitors are permitted will detail two super- visors, whose duty it shall be to ex- plain to the visitors the activities of the shops that are of a non-confiden- | tial nature. At various points around the yard Marines will be stationed and SHRNERS DAY ‘Special Program Arranged: TODAY. 8 am. to 2 pm.—Model yacht re- | gatta, west end Lincoln Memorial Pool. World record trials. 10 a.m —Archery tournament, Polo | Field, East Potomac Park. 10 am.—Time trials for speed boats in regatta. Potomac River, along Speedway. 11 am.—Special divine services at Washington Heights Presbyterian Church originally scheduled for out- doors on Temple Heights at 8 am Services at other churches. 1:30 to 8 p.m.—Shrine regatta and water sports on Potomac River, along Speedway. MONDAY. All day—Reception and registration of nobles. Imperial Council repre- sentatives, Willard Hotel, lobby. All other nobles, Raleigh Hotel, lobby. 9:30 am.—Recorders’ meeting, Raleigh Hotel. 10 a.m.—Visit by the imperial poten- tate, Dana S. Williams: divan, past imperial potentates, representatives and ladies to crime laboratory, De- | partment of Justice. | 10:13 a.m —Royal Order of Jesters initiation, Mayflower Hotel. 11:45 a.m —Presentation of bronze bas-relief by the Hecht Co. to Almas Temple. 12:45 p.m—Official reception of Imperial Potentate Dana S. Williams 1 p.m.—Recorders’ luncheon. Raleigh Hotel, tenth floor. 1 p.m.—Luncheon, Royal Order of Jesters, Willard Hotel. 1:30 p.m.—Recorders’ meeting, Ra- leigh Hotel, tenth foor. 2 p.m.—Pilgrimage, by Imperial Potentate Dana 8. Williams to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Ar- lington. 2 p.m —Army program and exhibit, the latest type motorized field guns, | will direct visitors to points of interest. East Potomac Park. armored &nd light tanks and armored cars. The field guns all are on the new-type pneumatic-tired high-speed mounts. The Air Corps exhibit. arranged under direction of Lieut. Col. Martin F. Scanlon, commanding at Bolling Field. includes the latest type pursuit airplane and a number of exhibits. in- cluding motion pictures, operating radio, operating camera gun and equipment and photographs. The activities of the Quartermaster General's Department and the Chem- ical Warfare Service also are repre- sented in the exhibits set up by these activities. SEATTLE IS LIKELY FOR SHRINERS IN ’36 Choice Would Mean L. P. Steuart | Would Preside There as Imperial Potentate. Seattle, in all probsbility the next Imperial Conclave Shrine it was indicated in high qu: ters last night. 5 A committee has arrived here headed by Hugh Caldwell to extend the invitation w0 the Imperial Coun- cil to meet in June, 1936, in- this Far Western city. Caldwell is now im- perial chief rabban, and at the con- will get vocation Wednesday wil. be el=vated | to the post of deputy imperial poten- tate. Should the &hrine go to S<attle, it will thus be entertained in the | home town of the man who in 1936 would become the liead of Shriners in all North America as imperial poten- tate. This also would mean that Leonard P. Steuart of this city who is to be elected imperial potentate next Wed- nesday, would preside in this capscity at Seattle. . Some other cities are bidding for the convention, tut the consensus was that Seattle would get it. FUGITIVE A SUICIDE Ex-Convict Takes Own Life After Fleeing From Posse. PAOLI, Ind.. June 8 (®).—After running from peace officers who came to his home to arrest him on a peace warrant, Frank Love, 28, paroled ex- convict, ended his life with a bullet early today in a cabin where he had barricaded himself against a posse. Members of the posse said Love threw a shotgun from an attic win- dow, from which he had been sniping at them, and said if they came any closer he would kill himself. cf the | Parking Space Provided. Shriners arriving in automobiles will be accommodated by parking in the east yard. On Wednesday em- ployes’ cars will be banned from the least yard and all visitors’ cars will | enter at the Ninth street gate. leaving by the Eleventh and N and Eleventh and O streets gates. Directing the parking of cars will be Marines, sta-| | tioned at convenient points on Ninth street. Navy yard authorities have |asked the Shrine Committee to have as many visitors as possible go down |to the yard in street cars or busses. Visitors reaching the yard will be routed west on Warrington avenue to Patterson avenue, south on Patterson avenue to Tingey street, west on Tingey street. | Open to visitors will be the steel foundry, brass foundry, power plant, gun shop No. 2. pattern shop, forge | shop, radio laboratory, model basin land cartridge case shop. Lieut. Perry explained that the Navy yard will be open to visitors, starting soon after 9 o'clock. TUBER_CULOSIS PATIENTS TO ENROLL IN D. C. CAMP Grounds to Be Open July 1 With Improved Facilities to Han- dle Youngsters. Boys and girls infected with tuber- | culosis will be admitted to the annual camp at Thirteenth and Allison streets on July 1, it was announced by Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the District of Columbia Tuberculosis Association, yesterday. The grounds, used during recent years, have been improved and al- ready facilities have been erected to care for the youngsters. Miss Olive Ward, R. N, will be in charge for her third season, and Dr. J. Win- throp Peabody, superintendent of the Tuberculois Hospital, will serve as medical adviser. TRADE MEETING DRAWS Delegates of 28 Cities Accept In- | vitation of La Guardia. | NEW YORK, June 8 (#.—Repre- sentatives of 28 coastal cities have ac- cepted invitations to Mayor F. H. La | Guardia's conference on international trade, opening here Monday. Scheduled speakers include Secre- | tary of State Cordell Hull, Robert L. | O'Brien, chairman of the United States Tariff Commission; Mayors Willlam H. Malone of Key West, Fla.; Angelo |J. Rossi of San Francisco, T. S. | Walmsley of New Orleans, J. Hamp- ton Moore of Philadelphia and La Guardia. He called the conference | | 6 p.m.—Recorders’ banquet, Raleigh Hotel, tenth floor. 8 pm-—Tony Canzoneri, light- weight champion of the world vs. Frankie Klick, junior lightweight champion; referee, Jack Dempsey (former heavyweight champion), Griffith Stadium. 10:13 p.m.—Royal Order of Jesters, initiation. degree work by Pittsburgh court, followed by royal feast and entertainment, ball room, Mayflower Hotel. TUESDAY. All day—Reception and registration of nobles. Imperial Council repre- sentative—Willard Hotel lobby. All other nobles—Raleigh Hotel lobby. | 10 am—Escort parade. ! 1 pm.—Imperial Council luncheon, Willard Hotel. | 2 pm.—Luncheon and entertain- ment to the ladies of imperial divan | and wives of representatives. Con- gressional Country Club. Bathing beauties’ fashion show. 2 pm.—Imperial Council session, | National Theater, Noble Robert P. Smith, director general, presiding. | 3 pm—Polo game, polo grounds, East Potomac Park. 3 p.m.—Annual meeting, Nationa! Association Shrine Legions of Honor, | Mayflower Hotel. 7:30 p.m.—Banquet and entertain- ment in honor of the imperial poten- tate, Dana S. Williams, ball room, ‘Willard Hotel. matches and entertainment, Griffith Stadium. WEDNESDAY. 9 am.—Imperial Council session, | National Theater. | 9:30 a.m.—Memorial service of Na- | tional Association Shrine Legions of Honor and placing of wreath upon Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. 11 am.—Navy exhibit, Washington | Navy Yard. 12:30 p.m.—Imperial Council lunch- | eon, Willard Hotel. | 12:30 pm.—Rotary Club luficheon, Shoreham Hotel. 12:30 p.m.—Luncheon in honor of Mrs. Dana S. Willilams, with the ladies of the imperial divan and wives of the representatives as guests, Shore- ham Hotel. 1:30 p.m.—Imperial Council session, National Theater. | _ 2 pm.—Army program and exhibit, | East Potomac Park. |, 8 pm.—Official parade of uniformed bodies. 11 p.m.—Reception and grand ball, in honor of imperial potentate-elect, | Mayflower Hotel. 11 to 1 p.m.—Dance of all natlons, Fifteenth street between Constitution |avenue and Pennsylvania avenue. 11 pm.—Fireworks, Pennsylvania avenue between Third and Fourth streets. THURSDAY. 10 a.m.—All-day trip to Quantico, After hearing a single shot about | “to prémote exporting and importing | famous Marine base, steamer leaving 3 a.m. the posse broke down the door. ) operations” on & ‘m-pouueu basis. 7:30 p.m.—Boxing bouts, wrestling | Principal Shrine Events Religious Services at Temple Heights Today Will Open Five-Day Program for Horde of Nobles. | 9 am.—Imperial Council National Theater. 12:30 p.m—Luncheon to Imperial Council representatives, Willard Hotel 12:30 p.m.—Luncheon to ladies of the Imperial Divan and wives of the representatives, Washington Hotel, Hall of Nations, fashion show. 1:30 p.m.—Masced voices of chanters, Ellipse. south of White House. 2 pm—Army program and exhibit East Potomac Park. 2 pm.—Visit by tmperial potentate, Dana S. Williams; imperial divan, and representatives to gallery of House and Senate as the guests of Vice President Garner and Speaker Byrns 5 p.m.—Garden party, White House. by Mrs. Roosevelt in honor of the tadies of the Imperial Divan and wives of the representatives 8 p.m.—Beautiful illuminated pag- eant. 11 pm.—Dance of all mations Fifteenth street between Constitution avenue and Pennsylvania avenue. Pireworks—Ellipse, south of White House. The parades at 10 am. Tuesday. 8 p.m. Wednesday and the pageant at 8 p.m. Thursday will form in the area between Massachusetts avenue and Maryland avenue east of Union Station and the intersection of Pennsylvania avenue and Constitution avenue. They will move over Pennsylvania avenue to Fifteenth street, thence through the Pavilian of Omar, before the White session, 'STORES WILL CLOSE FOR SHRINE PARADE | Larger Affiliates of Merchants and Manufacturers’ Body De- clare Holiday. 1935—PART ONE. AVIATION EXHIBITS AWAIT SHRINERS Army, Navy and Marine Flyers Will Demonstrate for Nobles. Advances of recent years in combat flying and military aviation equipment will be demonstrated by Army, Navy and Marine Corps aviators to visiting Shriners this week in a series of demonstrations. The aviation program will include daily radio formation flving over the city by Army planes, formation flying over the Washington Navy Yard Wednesday by a Marine Corps squad- | ron, a comprehensive ground exhibi- tion of Army aviation equipment in the Lincoln Memorial Grounds, “open | house” at Bolling Field and the Ana- | costia Naval Air Station, and a Marine | Corps combat flying demonstration at | Quantico, Va., during the all-day trip of the visiting nobles to the Marine | base there Thursday. The Army Air Corps exhibits, pre- pared at Bolling Field under the direction of Lieut. Col. Martin F. Scanlon, station complement com- | this week. | Radio Plane on Display. latest type P-26A Boeing pursuit air- | two-way radio. flying of a formation of pursuit air- | planes at intervals during the week. The commands from the ground air- plane and the acknowledgments and reports from the formation high over the city will be picked up and ampli- fied for spectators. A new-type Air Corps “camera gun” | used in the training of Air Corps com- bat personnel will be mounted in a ' cockpit so that it may be operated by |vis1tmz nobles. The camera gun is | mounted and sighted in the same manner es a machine gun. the ac- curacy of the “gunner” being re- corded photographically rather than by the firing of bullets. The camera gun will be loaded with film and the Shriners will be permitted to “shoot Most of the larger affiliates of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- | ciation have declared a holiday for | the Shrine parade Tuesday morning, Edward D. Shaw, secretary, an- nounced yesterday Among the firms that have an- nounced they will be closed are Becker's Leather Gouods Co.. M. Brooks & Co., Erlebacher, Inc.; Stephen O. Ford, Foster's Remembrance Shop, L. Prank Co. Goldenberg Co.. Gros- ner’s. Joseph R. Harris Co.. the Hecht Co., Frank R. Jellefl, Inc.; S. Kann Sons Co., D. J. Kaufman, Inc : King's Palace. Lansburgh & Bro, Mayer & Co. the Mode. National Electrical Supply Co., Palais Royal. Inc.. M. Philipsborn & Co., Raleigh Haber- dasher. B. Rich's Sons. the Shade Shop. W & J. Sloane. Woodward & Lothrop and the Young Men's Shop. | Six Hurt in Strike Fight. SANDUSKY. Ohio. June 8 (%) Six men suffered minor injuries late today when a shower of bricks greeted a dozen Cleveland brewery workers who attempted to load machinery of the Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing | Co. plant for shipment to Cleveland. The machinery was being shipped to Cleveland to the company's other plant, in keeping with an announce- ment by company officials that the Sandusky plant would be abandoned because of a strike now entering its seventh week. The strike started in a dispute over union jurisdiction. Across the Abu Bekr Temple of Sioux City, Jowa. is promising Shrine convel tion visitors that one of the most im- pressive features of the affair will be its Arabian Mounted Patrol. which will serve as escort for the imperial potentate. The patrol is composed of 31 mem- | bers of the Shrine, all horsemen who double as a Shrine unit or as a Stock- yards Mounted Patrol in their home city. as the occasion demands. The plan of using all white horses developed gradually, one of the found- ers explains, and started with a group of assorted white steeds from Ne- braska. The quality of their mounts improved. he continues, as dealers learned of their search for pure white, | pink-skinned horses. Eight years ago they found a white stallion in the Texas Panhandle and began breeding their own horses. Several of his colts are in the patrol now. and the mem- bers hope to breed all their horses eventually. Members of the patrol drill twice weekly from March until November, | both to learn their maneuvers and to | e | A bronze plague in tribute to the | keep themselves in physical condition for the strenuous parading. Zor Temple of Madison, Wis, scheduled to arrive this afternoon, will bring America’s only Shrine- owned camel parade unit. The unit includes three of the so-called ships of the desert, known to their intimate | friends as Zor. Zora and Rufus. Last year, Zor. Zora and Rufus spent the Summer at the World's Fair in Chi- cago. Other features from Zor Temple will be Cousin Louie’s German Band, a drum corps, a temple band and an Arab patrol. | | The amplification system along | Pennsylvania avenue will be put to | public use for the first time at 9 | o'clock this morning with & program | of music. | The program will include semi-re- lllglcux music and symphonic mucic | from electrical transcriptions. The | loud-speakers later will send out sus- | taining programs picked up by wire from both the National and Columbia broadcasting studios. These musical features will inau- gurate the amplification system, | which covers the entire grandstand | area along the line of march. The announcers, who will be located in the booths high in the air at Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avnue, in- clude Norvelle W. Sharpe, known as | “Noble Shriner,” in a series of broad- casts priof to the convention. | planning to land its delegation here the first functions will be to send the temple’s brass band on & tour of all the newspaper offices. If your after- noon paper seems & bit noisy, blame it on Medinah. Medinah, incidentally, with a mem- bership of more than 20,000, is the largest Shrine unit in the country. Its delegation probably will be the largest here, the brass band alone containing 150 pieces. Aladdin Temple's delegation from Columbus, Ohlo, also due tomorrow morning, r.llym & record for regu- 0 Medinah Temple of Chicago is| early tomorrow morning and one of | Hc;t Sands larity of attendance at Imperial Council sessions of the Shrine. The temple has missed representation at only three sessions since 1901, two of | them during the war years and the other in 1913, when a big flood hit Ohio. On that year the temple do- nated its convention funds to aid | flood sufferers. Aladdin Temple shares with Cyprus Temple of Albany the honor of num- bering a President among its mem- | bership. Warren G. Harding was a member of Aladdin and Franklin D. | Roosevelt is a member of Cyprus. | Col. Kenyon Joyce of Fort Myer is planning something spectacular in the way of horse shows and Cavalry drills at the fort next Thursday aft- ernoon. Members of the 3d Cavalry will take part and everybody is in- vited to attend at no charge. Quantico Marine base also is ex- tending the glad hand to Shrine visitors who care to view the regular aviation and firing drills at the base. work of Director General Robert P. Smith and the Shrine leaders re- sponsible for bringing the convention to this city is to be presented Almas Temple tomorrow by representatives of the Hecht Co, | _Walter E. Cline of Wichita Falls, Tex., imperial first ceremonial mas- ter, was among those who arrived last night by airplane. Other prominent | Shrine leaders who reached the Capi- | ! tal yesterday included Past Imperial Potentate Conrad V. Dykman of Kis- | | met Temple, Brooklyn, who became | | imperial potentate when the Shrine | | last was here in 1923: Thomas Law of | Atlanta, Ga., imperial marshal: Hugh | Caldwell, Seattle, Wash., imperial chief rabban, ‘and Albert H. Fieback of Cleveland, captain of the guard. A dog sled and driver used by Rear Admiral Byrd in his most recent Ant- arctic expedition are expected to ar- rive today from Boston to be the most authentic feature of the big ice- berg-South Pole Thursday night pageant. Music will be free to the Shriners. Norvelle Sharpe, jr., at Shrine head- quarters, has received the following telegram from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Pub- lishers: “Permission is cheerfully granted in behalf of all the members of this society to the Shriners’ Convention Committee to perform publicly all of their copyrighted compositions dur- | ing the course of the Shriners’ con- vention. In this connection, may we extend all good wishes to the com- | mittee and the organization for a tremendously successful convocation.” Copeland's Oratory Futile. DEXTER, Mich., June 8 (#).—While Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York, a member of the Federal Crime Commission, lectured earnestly on crime prevention before a large crewd which greeted his return to the town of his birth today, three persons in the had their pockets picked. !each other.” | There will be a continuous showing of Air Corps motion pictures, in- cluding some of the spectacular scenes from “West Point of the Air,” filmed with the co-operation of the Army fiying service. Exhibit Includes Engines. ‘The Air Corps exhibits also will in- clude two of the latest type military airplane engines mounted on stands; various types of aeronautical cameras used for aerial mapping and observa- tion work: e portable developing out- fit; a photographic mosaic map of the District of Columbia; a display of photographs showing the method used in making up a mosaic; an electri- callv operated sectionalized mapping camera: parachutes, so arranged as to display the manner of operation, aircraft parachute flares; aircraft machine guns; a totem pole pre- sented to the Air Corps Alasken flight by citizens of Alaska. and a fine series of enlarged action photographs of Air Corps activities. A demonstration of Marine Corps formation and combat flying will be | !a feature of Shrine day at the Wash- | | ington Navy Yard from 9:30 am. to| 12 noon Wednesday. Aircraft One, | Marine Corps East Coast Expedi- tionary Force, Quantico, will send a formation of 9 or 18 planes from | Quantico, under commend of Maj Field Harris, to demonstrate over the Navy Yard during the morning. | The same squadron will fly a review and demonstration for the Shriners who visit Quantico Thursday. RESOURCES BOARD | | IS ENDED BY ORDER President Establishes N Agency Directors and Ad- visory Committee. ewi An executive order signed by Presi- | dent Roosevelt before leaving for | | Hyde Park, made public at the White | House yesterday. abolishes the old National Resources Board and, in its | place, establishes an agency to be known as the National Resources Committee. In the order it is specified that |in so far as practicable all employes | of this agency shall be selected from the relief rolls. The President desig- | nated as members of this board: Sec- | retary of the Interior Ickes. chairman: | Secretary of War Dern, Secretary of | Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of Labor | Perkins. Federal Emergency Relief Administrator Hopkins, Frederic A. | Delano, Charles E. Merriam and | Wesley C. Mitchell. | In addition the order designated a ! | committee advisory to this board. to | ! be composed of Mr. Delano as chair- | |man and Messrs. Merriam and | Mitchell. All serve without compen- | sation. | In defining the duties and func- | “nons of the newly established com- | mittee. the President’s order emphe- | | sized the selection and preparation of plans, data and all related intor-‘ mation as may be helpful to the de- velopment and use of land, water and other national resources, as well as such related subjects as may be referred to it from time to time by | the President. DOLL HOUSE TO REMAIN | ON DISPLAY TOMORROW | Showing in Capital Extended One Day—Average Attendance Exceeds 6,000 Daily. ‘Washingtonians have only one more day to see the famous Colleen Moore doll house, which is being exhibited at the department store of Lansburgh | & Bro. for the benefit of Children’s | Hospital. Miss Moore consented to| permit the doll house to remain over | for tomorrow, but it must be taken down and shipped tomorrow night in order to keep an engagement next week in Los Angeles. . The fairy-like palace, which is the realization of a little girl's dream, has | attracted huge throngs throughout its week on exhibition here starting on Tuesday when the exhibit was first | thrown open to the public. The doll house has attracted an average of better than 6,000 per day, more than 7,000 seeing it yesterday. Finds $15,000 in Home. While packing his furniture pre- paratory to emigrating to Brazil. Take- mitsu Yanagsi found nearly $15,000 | in gold ingots in an old cabinet in his houpe in Kameyams, Japan. | his Still Thrilled PAST HEAD IS VETERAN OF 27 CONVENTIONS, JAMES S. McCANDLISS. ONCEDING there's common between a Shrine convention and Cleopatra, the observation that age could not wither, nor custom stale, the | mander, were installed yesterday near | infinite varlety of the lady applies | Twenty-first street and Constitution | with equal force to the convention, in avenue and will be open to visitors the view of James S. McCandliss, im- from 8 am. to midnight every day | perial potentate in 1923. McCandliss, whose appearance belies ) in | o Shakespeare's opinion of Cleopatra, but | concert it is expected by Raymond The exhibits include one of the|his attitude toward the annual meet- ings of the Shrine is best revealed in Pand Concerts Committee. that there planes completely equipped. including | the fact that for 27 consecutive years | will be more than 1,000 musicians From this airplane (he has come from his Bolling Field officers will direct the ! Honolulu to attend its conventions. 79 years, may not concur home Notes Difference. Nc two conventions are the same to in | participating. as well as the public buildings course, the Government building pro- gram looking like a different street, but the change is for the better had a good convention here in 1923, and from all appearances this one is going to be as good or better."” business, and since that time has made 116 trips to the mainland. cannot estimate the number of miles he has traveled in connection with his | Shrine activities, but traveled approxi- | mately 80.000 miles during the single | year he was im him and he notices a vast difference in Washington since he presided over | the meeting here 12 years ago. | " “There is a great change in the ap- pearance of your city,” he said. “and this is noticeable to me in the private of leaves Pennsylvania avenue I think we Travels Extensively. McCandliss. who is in the sugar went to Honolulu in 1880. He said he 1al potentate. A look bordefing on the conclaves of the Shrine. In no uncertain terms he made it clear the conventions have not lost their charm and he is looking forward to the pleasure of attending them for jears to come. CHIEF OF CONCLAVE YOUNG ATTORNEY Smith Had Leading Part in Bringing Shrine Here and in Preparations. Robert P. Smith, potentate of Almas Temple and director general of the Convention Committee, has had a | leading part in bringing the present Shrine conclave to Washington and directing elaborate preparations which now are ready for about 100.000 vis- itors from all parts of the coun- try. Known as ‘“Bob’’ to his many - friends. the convention director is com- paratively young to be the head of host temple to the Mystic Shrine —he celebrated his 40th birthday anniversary April 28. A lawyer by profession. the potentate has virtually laid aside the care of his law office during months of preparation for the Shrine and has given virtuallv all of his attention to the present conclave. Noble Smith. He is energeiic, a dynamo of force | with a pleasing personality. Interested in Education. Born in Bedford County, Pa., of parents of Colonial and Revolutionary descent, Mr. Smith early became inter- ested in education, followed it through many different lines of endeavor him- | self and finally built a vocational high Yellow Creek, Bedford County, Pa., to bridge a gap in the educational system of the public schools in his home town. At dedi- cation exercises of this school. Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, then Secretary of the Interior in the Hoover adminis- tration, delivered the principal ad- dress, and Charles M. Schwab, the steel magnate, spoke. During his own educational career, Smith passed the entrance examina- tion for the United States Military Academy at West Point. received ap- pointment to West Point., but he did not attend, because he married, and so did not become a cadet. Joined General Motors. With his wife, he went to Detroit in 1914. and was connected with Gen- eral Motors, in cost accountancy and efficiency work. He came to Wash- school at | ington in the War Department, and as an accountant was engaged in war contract work, before being transferred to the Treasury Department. Becom- ing an expert in the Treasury De- partment’s Bureau of Internal Rev- enue, he studied law, at George Wash- | ington University, graduated in law, became a member of the legal staff of | the solicitor (now general counsel) of Internal Revenue, and later re- signed to enter the private practice of law here in the National Capital. He now is the senior member of the law firm of Smith, Deibert & FINGER SCRATCH FATAL Man Dies as Infection Results From Trivial Injury. An infection caused by a scratched finger resulted in the death yesterday in Emergency Hospital of Albert Suchistiet, 49. of 215 Gregory street, Colmar Manor. Md. Suchistiet, who was a trimmer at the L. P. Steuart Motor Co., received the injury while at work. according to the report to police. He entered the hospital Friday. indignation ! crept into his eyes when a reporter asked if he wasn't beginning to tire of the travel and trouble incident to 10 SHRINE BANDS ENTERCITY TODAY {Numerous Concerts Planned Throughout Week by Visitors. Presaging 8 week of “music in the air,” some 70 Shrine bands in full regalia will begin their march into the city today from temples in all sections of the country. | _To the strains of martial musie, the bands, from the most northern temple at St. Johns, New Brunswick, tc Houston, Tex., on the South, will | swing through the downtown section today and tomorrow from Union Sta- tion or the railroad yard, where some of the incoming trains will be sta- tioned. Numerous band concerts are sched- uled throughout the week at different places in the city. In addition to these it is expected that there will be innumerable impromptu band con- little in certs. For instance, a telegram from Medinah Temple, Chicago. to The Evening Star has promised a con- cert to this newspaper. To Mass on Ellipse. | Onme of the outstanding band fea- | tures of the week will be the massed band concert Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock on the Ellipse south the White House. In this big M. Florance, chairman of Bands and This huge group will | be directed by Noble Prederick Wil- ken, director of Almas band: Noble | William J. Stannard, former leader of the United States Army Band: Lieut. Thomas F. Darcy. leader of the Army band: Lieut. Charles Benter, leader of the United States Navy Band; Capt. Taylor Branson, leader of the United States Marine Band, and Louis S. Yassel, director of the Mounted Cavalry Band at Fort Myer, who is assistant leader of the Almas Temple Band There will be many brass bands and numerous Oriental ones with curious instruments of the East. The oldest Shrine band in the country, organ- | ized in 1899, is coming from Sphinx Temple, Hartford, Conn. One of the most unusual musical outfits will be the bagpipe band from Luxor Temple. St. Johns, New Brunswick. Many comical musical outfits also are ex- pected to add gaiety to the conclave. Program for Week. The band concert program for the week throughout the city follows: Sunday, 4:30 p.m.—Band concert, Almas Temple Band. Monday, 3 p.m.—Willard Hotel, Grandstand, Cyrus Temple of Al- bany, N. Y. 7 p.m—Willard Hotel, grand- stand, Medinah Temple Band of Chicago, Ill. Tuesday, 2 p.m.—Children’s Hos- | pital, Kazim Temple Band of Roanoke, { Va. | 3 pm—Grandstand, Willard Hotel, Kismet Temple Band of Brooklyn, N, ¥ 3 p.m.—Franklin Park, Jaffa Temple Band of Altoona, Pa. 3 p.m.—Masonic and Eastern Star Home, Morocco Temple Band of Jack- sonville, Fla. 3 pm—Walter Reed Hospital, Moslem Temple Band of Detroit, Mich. ‘ 4 pm—Elipse, Sphinx Temple Band of Hartford, Conn. 4 p.m.—Grandstand, Raleigh Hote! Ali Ghan Temple Band of Cumber- land, Md. 4 pm—St. Elizabeth's Hospita! lMuraL Temple Band of Indianapolis. Ind. 4 p.m.—Grandstand, Willard Hotel, Mount Sinai Temple Band of Mont- pelier, Vt. Wednesday, 1:30 p.m.—Massed band concert, Elipse. south of White House. 4 p.m.—Band concert, 34th Infantry Band, Warrant Officer Carl H. Fischer, band leader. Army exhibit, East Potomac Park. Thursday. 11 am.—Grandstand. Willard Hotel, Rameses Temple ‘Band of Toronto, Canada. 11 am—Raleigh Hotel, Sudan Temple Band of New Bern, N. C. 2 p.m.—Grandstand, Willard Hotel, Lu Lu Temple band of Philadelphia, Pa. 3 p.m.—Grandstand, Willard Hotel, Syria Temple Band of Pittsburgh, Pa. 3 pm—Franklin Park, Murat Temple Band of Indianapolis, Ind. 3 p.m—Grandstand, Raleigh Hotel, Osiris Temple Band of Wheeling, W. Va. 4 pm—Band concert. 34th In- fantry Band, Warrant Officer Carl H. Fischer, band leader., Army exhibit, East Potomac Park. ARRANGES SEATS T0 VIEW PARADES Archivist Will Have 200 Seats | for Guests During Shrine Festivities. R. D. W. Connor, the archivist. will | have 200 special seats at the National Archives Bullding., at Eighth street and Pennsylvania avenue, to view the parade of the Shriners | Dr. Connor secured some surplus chairs from the National Capital Parks and decided that he would ar- | range special seating for himself and his guests during the festivities. The Bureau of the Budget got into the discussion about the use of Gov- | ernment buildings as sightseeing stands at one stage of the game, but backed down. A. E. Demaray, asso- ciate director of the National Park | Service. which has supervision over public buildings here, yesterday ex- | plained that his organization declined | to clamp down a ban on all persons entering the Government buildings during: the Shrine parades. James F. Gill. assistant director in charge of | buildings, has taken the stand that | there will be no general prohibition | against people entering the public buildings. The ruling now is that only persons with passes signed by responsible department heads, author- izing them to enter public buildings after working hours, will be honored by the buildings’ guards. . CLUB WILL MEET ‘The Junior New Dealers' Club will hold a dinner meeting, the last of the season, at Sholl's Cafe, on Connecticut avenue, Tuesday at 6:30 pm. Reports will be maqe by Miss Martha Arnold. secretary; Roscoe Parker, treasurer, and Wayne Hansen, chairman of the Board of Directors. The new club, which was enter- tamned at tea at the White House by Mrs. Roosevelt on May 27, has held three dinner meetings this year. Mrs Roosevelt spoke off the record at one. and two other speakers have presented opposite views on the New Deal at | the meetings. They are Representa- tive Dewey Short, Republican, of Mis- | souri, and Representative Elmer J. Ryan, Democrat, of Minnesota. &