Evening Star Newspaper, June 30, 1935, Page 19

oo | @he Sunday Star WASHINGTON, D. C. IMPORTANT WORK ON SECURITY BILLS DUE DURING WEEK Conferences Tomorrow Will Weigh Senate Changes in National Measure. SUBCOMMITTEE DRAFTS D. C. PLAN AMENDMENTS Time Expected in Which to Make Local Provisions Con- form to U. S. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Important developments are due in Congress this week on both the na- tional and District social security | programs. House and Senate conferees vull \ | | hold their first meeting at 2 p.m. to- | morrow to take up essential changes the Senate made in the national bill. which will outline the standards State and District laws must contain to share in the Federal aid for the vari- ous phases of social security. The Senate District Subcommittee will be convening in executive session within a day or two to decide what | amendments should be made in the three separate measures passed by | the House to apply the social security | program to Washington. The District Subcommittee is com- posed of Senators Copeland of New | York and Capper of Kansas, with Chairman King of the entire Disirict Committee also taking part in the de- liberations. Senator Copeland - will return to the city tomorrow, but the subcommitlee may not meet before 'Tuesday. Senator King is one of the Senate conferees on the national bill, lso. List of Conferees. Those who have been appointed to work out differences in the national bill are: Harrison, King, George, Keyes and [La Follette. For the House—Repre- entatives Doughton, Samuel B. Hill, ullen, Treadway and Bacharach. It is more than likely the conferees will have reached an agreement on he final terms of the national bill before the separate District bills go hrough the Senate, thereby leaving ime to make any last-minute altera- ions required to obtain uniformity. One of the most important issues n conference on the national bill is he Clark amendment, which would llow industries to operate their own | private retirement systems instead of | poing into the Federal contributory pld-age insurance plan, if the private pystem is equal to or better than the overnment plan. No Local Legislation Needed. No local legislation is needed here or in the States to carry out the Clark amendment, since it relates to the old- [age pension system to be operated as & Federal undertaking for the entire country, through the Treasury. This is the pension plan to be built up by | levying a Federal tax equally on em- ployes and employers in industry, and is entirely separate from the other plan of allotting Federal appropria- tions as grants to the States and the District to help them pay old-age gratuities to needy aged persons who have already reached 65. If the Clark amendment is kept in the bill in conference, therefore, the Social Security Board could exempt rom the employe-employer old-age ax those concerns having a private | plan that measures up to or gives | greater benefits than the Government plan contemplates. Supporters of the amendment are optimistic over the chances of retaining it, pointing to the fact that it was placed in the bill in the Senate by the decisive vote of 51 to 35. Other important Senate amend- ments, subject to conference in the Inational bill, include: To allow States to adopt the separate-company-re- zerve plan of unemployment insur- ance if they prefer that to the pool system of placing all employer con- tributions in a common fund, and to allow States to write into their laws provision for giving employers credit in the form of a reduction in pay- roll tax when they stabilize employ- ment, Have Direct Bearing. These two national amendments ha\e a direct bearing on the course " (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) Girl and Brother Wed Together Plan| Double Honeymoon Two Couples to Tour New England and Canada. A brother will marry his sister's | best friend, ard the sister will marry | her brother’s best friend late today, and all four will take a wedding trip to New England and Canada. This unusual doubie romance will culmi- nate in a pawr of weddings at Mary- land Club Geardens. Jesse Thessin of 1116 Connecticut avenue, George Washington Univer- sity law graduate, will be married to Miss Dorothy Hutman of this city in | the first cereraony. Chessin’s sister, Miss Adele Ruth Chessin, will be married in the second ceremony to “Gus” Mirman, well known athlete, former Central High School foot ball star and former South Atlantic A. A. U. boxing cham- ion. ¥ The double bridal party will leave on their wedding trip, accompanied by another Chessin sister, who now is Mrs. Ethel Robinson, and her hus- band, Dr. Murray Robinson, both of ‘whom are en rcute to the Canal Zone, where Dr. Rchinson will join the in- terne stafl of Gorgas Hospital at An- con. They plan to sail from New York tomorrow, and the two brides and two bridegrooms will continue with their couble honeymoon by motor car through New England and Ggnada, For the Senate—Senators | Rev. Thomas McGlynn, O. P., fol recently returned from the Royal made this bust of the Most Rev. University, who was his teacher. university library building. | Sculptures Former Teacher rmer Catholic University student, who Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, James H. Ryan, rector of Catholic ‘The bust has been installed in the ~—Star Staff Photo. DISTRICT LIQUOR BILL IS MODIFIED | Senate Committee Ready to Report House Measure Tomorrow. | After working out a modified plan | for requiring retail liquor establish- ments to obtain their supplies from | local wholesalers, the Senate District | Committee was ready yesterday to | report favorably to the Senate the | House bill making this and nine other changes in the local liquor law. report tomorrow. The controversy over whether to | restrict the importation of stocks of l“el goods from ‘other cities delayed | action on the measure after a hear- | ing last week. There was no dispute over other features of the bill. Monopoly is Feared. As it passed the House, the bill made it mandatory on retailers to | purchase from wholesalers in the Dis- trict. The report drafted yesterday by the Senate committee points out, however, that the Commissioners felt such a statutory restriction would give rise to the possibility of a mo- nopoly. The modified amendment confers on the Commissioners discretionary authority to apply such a restriction by regulations that could be revoked or changed if found necessary. The compromise further provides that if the Commissioners applied the restric- tion, the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board could at the same time be empowered to issue, upon application, | special permits to retailers for the | importation of supplies from outside | the District under specified terms and | conditions. This latter provision would make it possible, for instance, for the board to <gram permits for importation of | brands not available locally. The Sen- ate report states that the Commis- | ‘sxoners and the A. B. C. Board favor | Jthe proposed restriction in the inter- | est of enforcement and point out that | such a restriction is in the laws of all except two of the States that have adopted the private license system of iliquor control. | Other Changes in Bill. Among the other changes the bill | makes in the liquor law are the fol- lowing: To allow the A. B. C. Board to sus- | pend licenses as well as 'to revoke them; to prohibit patrons in “on sale” places from buying drinks within the legal hours of sale and consuming them after those hours; to reduce the tax on wine from 35 to 10 cents a gallon, and on champagne from 50 to 15 cents a gallon; to simplify the method of collecting the tax on liquor sold in railroad dining cars or on passenger boats; to-increase the pen- alties for second and third offenses of intoxication; to strike out the ban against employing as a dispenser of beverages any person who was con- victed within the last five years of a misdemeanor under the national prohibition act, and a few other minor amendments. The Senate Committee also will file tomorrow a favorable report on the | sioners to expend $35,000 on necessary public order arrangements during the conventions of the Colored Elks and the Colored Shriners, both of which organizations will meet here the latter part of August. PROFESSORS’ DISMISSAL IS ASKED IN CHICAGO | | !Veternns Urge University to Dis- charge Accused in Radical- ism Charges. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 29.—The Thirty- Third Division War Veterans’ Associa- tion today adopted a resolution asking the University of Chicago to dismiss members of its faculty, who were cen- sored for alleged radical activities this week in a report of a State Senate Investigation Committee. “Members of a university charged with the responsibility of educating the youth of our country should be on a plane so aloof from associations with radical elements that their activities should at all times be above reproach,” the resolution declared. A second resolution adopted called for “immediate cash payment of ad- justed service certificates.” United States Senator James Ham- ilton Lewis addressed the veterans at their annual banquet, calling upon them to resume their “battle for pro «motion of Americanism.”’ L. Chairman King probably will file the | resolution authorizing the Commis~ : FIRST CAMP READY FOR SGOUT FETE Another Started to Accom- modate 10,000 Boys at August Jamboree. | national jamboree of the Boy Scouts {of America to house 10000 boys be- | tween August 21 and 30, has been :comp)el;d at the Abington site and work has started on the Columbia Island unit, it was announced by Scout headquarters here yesterday. The Abington camp, Norton’s lane, near Four-Mile Run, on way, lines, shower baths and sanitary fa- until about August 15. Beginning Monday morning, more than 1,000 Washington Scouts will be put through a coufse of training as guides for the visiting boys. It is expected that more than 30,000 Scouts, including several hundred Sea boree. Manual to Be Given Leader. ‘The first of the official guide man- uals for the visitors, written by J. Wallace Talley, will be presented by chairman of the Guide Training Com- mittee, Monday morning at cere- monies to be held at Scout head- quarters, 1018 Vermont avenue. The guide manual contains 84 pages |and includes nine chapters dealing with the history of Washington, an outline of the Government, informa- tion on finding places in Washington, | outlines on the sight-seeing trips the visitors will take, a directory of in- teresting places in the city, a map ‘ot the city and a diary in which the | boys can write their experiences while here. Besides furnishing the visiting | Scouts with a comprehensive and in- | teresting guide to the city, the booklet will serve as a souvenir of the Jam- boree, Tally said. Approximately 2,000 copies of the booklet will be printed for local needs, but more than 30,000 copies will be made available for the visitors, it was stated. Committee to Train Guides. Training of the Scout guides will be under direction of an adult com- mittee of scouters and prominent busi- ness men, assisted by the Eagle Scouts of the District. A special quiz based on the guide manual and maps of the city will be given the prospective guides. About 1,200 Scouts will enter training, but only 1,000 will be se- lected on their merits as official guides. ‘These guides will pilet the visitors on their daily bus trips, hikes, boat ex- cursions and will direct the visitors to their various camps upon arrival. Plans for the entertainment of sev- eral hundred Sea Scouts who will at- tend the Jamboree include the anchor- ing of two naval cruisers in the Po- tomac River for the duration of the encampment. The Sea Scouts Will be housed on these cruisers and will be taken for cruises in the Chesa- peake Bay to give them “sea legs.” All Departments Assisting. All departments of the District and Federal Governments are co-operat- ing with the Scout Committee in plans for the housing, feeding and entertainment of the Scouts here. The Army will furnish tents, cots, portable kitchens and other equipment and the Public Health Service will lend as- sistance in caring for the boys’ health while here. The camps will have their own hos- pitals, post offices, telephone exchange and newspaper. The Scouts will do their own police duty in the camps, patrolling their beats night and day. As soon as work is completed on the Columbia Island camp, which will house another 10,000 boys, work will be started in Potomac Park near Hains Point. This work, however, will be completed in units of 5,000, Scout executives stated. —_— MRS. TYDINGS BETTER Condition of Senator’s Mother Re- ported “Much Improved.” HAVRE DE GRAS, Md., June 29 (#).—The condition of Mrs. Mary E. Tydings, mother of Senator Tydings, who is ili at her hcme here with paralysis, was said today to be “much improved.” Mrs. Tydings, who is 71, suffered a stroke two weeks ago. Her son hur- ried from Washingtoa to her bedside 'Ed has spent much time vl'.h her since, — |reached that stage. | Installation of the first unit for the | located at | | the Mount Vernon Memorial High- | is fully equipped with water | cilities and is ready for the pitching | of the tents, which will be delayed | Scouts, will attend the national jam- | the author to Willlam T. McCloskey,i Max Baer Flies to New York With Bride WORK CAMP PLAN Who F rowns on His Career in Prize Ring FOR TRANSIENTS CONSIDERED HER Proposals Revealed as Bonus Leaders Call for Recruits to “Army.” CROWDED CONDITIONS 'IN QUARTERS CITED Details of Progress to Give Jobs to Men on Relief Are With- held by Officials. Development of a “work camp” for transients under Federal care here is being considered by District welfare officials, it was revealed last night as leaders of the new “bonus army” mapped a campaign to bring more war veterans here in the interest of cash payment. The idea of the work camp would be to afford more adequate 1-cunm; at which the transients could give | service in turn for their support. Offi- cials declined to reveal details of the tentative plan, saying it had not yet Fears are held by welfare officials that any great influx of more tran- sients, either ex-service men or others, would create an emergency in housing facilities. Elwood Street, welfare director, said | last night present quarters for tran- sients already are badly over-crowded and that the District has difficulty | getting additional space because of the competition for available rented | buildings. Men housed at the transient lodges now have to sleep on the floor at/ times. Transients should be advised to stay cway from Washington for this reason because reports of avail- | | ability of possible jobs here have been‘ greatly exagerated. Bonus “Chain Bulletin.” Roy W. Robertson, bonus army commander, revealed yesterday a | “chain oulletin” campaign on a na-| | tional scale to bring war veterans here would be started over the week end. Veterans, he said, would be advised how to use transient camps en route | vo Washington so the travel would be easier as to food and lodging. Local officials say the Federal re- | lief directors have expressed no great concern over where transient relief is | given, but that efforts are made to return transients to their homu when bona fide jobs are awaiting | them there. Transien‘ relief funds are provided by the Government for transportation. Under the law, money is not Sup- posed to be spent for care of persons who make a trip to attend conventions. but Street said war veterans now at the Transient Bureau here are treated as individuals, not as members of the bonus army. He said 1t is not known | Just how many on the transient relief | list are members of the army. The cost of a person cared for by | the bureau is figured to average about | $1 a day for food, housing, clothing and other expenses. During May the cost of bureau operation was $94,822. | There were 3,200 transients, including | families as well as individuals, here in May. | At the various transient lodges there | are now about 2,700 persons, about 600 of whom are believed to be ex-| service men. The 2,700 total does not include families and some other tran- sients who are housed in rented quar- ters and not at the lodges. To Visit White House. At a mass meeting of the bonus army | in a vacant lot opposite the Transient Bureau last night, Robertson an- nounced plans to send a committee tc the White House tomorrow to dJeter- mine whether “the admunistration” favors a bill for cash paymen: of the | bonus already drawn up by & legisla- tive committee of veterans, and pub- lished for the first time yesterday in the first issue of the “bulletin.” The Legislative Committee of the bonus army drafting the proposed cash bonus bill consisted of Robertson, chairman; Howard W. Towner of Cali- fornia; James Wally of Maryland; James H. McGrath of Pennsylvania, and William A. Boyd of Florida. Robertson told the assembly last night that the army is here to get action on bonus legislation, and if it failed to get some member to intro- duce a measure, a march would be organized on Capitol Hill to petition the Vice President. GEORGETOWN BUS EXTENSION PUSHED Roberts Reiterates Proposal to Utilities Commission for Better Service. People’s Counsel Roberts yesterday reiterated his proposals to the Public Utilities Commission for extension of bus service in Georgetown west to Thirty-fifth street and for establish- ment of a crosstown bus line to run from Nebraska and Wisconsin ave- nues to Brook:and. ‘The proposal of the Capital Transit Co. for establishment of a P street bus line to rur from Wisconsin avenue and P street to New Jersey avenue, Roberts said, would not fill the need for a crosstown line farther north. He asked the commission not to approve the company’s proposal until it was modified to extend the line to Thirty-fifth street to provide service for schools, cLurches and Georgetown University. When the commission ordered abandonment of the car tracks in P street it provided for Georgetown service by extension of the West End bus line to Wisconsin avenue and P street. One ccmmission official said yesterday this was regarded as tem- porary. The commission has had in mind for some months the establishment of & crosstown bus line, but other rout- ing plans were given precedence. Roberts has suggested the line run from Nebraska and Wisconsin ave- nues via the Bureau of Standards, Porter and Klirgle streets, Park road, near Soldiers’ Home and to North Capitol street and Michigan #Wenue. | | | | | prise her employers of the impending | York life insurance man, | bride by Mrs. Claire Wagner of Wash- | SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1935. Ex-Champion Says Love, Match Greatest He Ever Won. Hints He Will Enter Ring Again to Fight Way to Top. Playboy Max Baer flew back to New York late yesterday with his bride of a few hours after winning a love match almost as suddenly as he lost the title match two weeks ago. The grinning, sun-tanned Max and his comely wife, the former Miss Mary Ellen Sullivan, waved farewell to Washington as their airliner beat down the runway and took off into lowering storm clouds. They left behind twoscore reporters and camera men with whom the couple had played hide and seek since news of their marriage plans leaked out at midnight Priday. Max, the night-clubber, familiar to Broadway and Hollywood, was em- barking, he declared, upon a new life where the home, the future and pros- pect of children will be of first im- portance. Bride Six Years His Senior. The girl of his choice is six years his senior, a graduate dietician and | native of Ithaca, N. Y., who came here two years ago to be hostess at the Willard Hotel Coffee Shop. It must have been a whirlwind courtship, for not until her wedding day did the former Miss Sullivan ap- i | | | wedding. She hastily went over the menus before departing to dress for the ceremony. They met 18 months ago when Baer was appearing at the Fox Theater. Friends said many long- distance calls from California fol- lowed. The couple was married shortly before 3 p.m. by Justice F. Dickinson Letts of the District Supreme Court {in the living room of his residence at 3500 Garfleld street. | The groom was attended by his | flnlnchl adviser, Jay O'Brien, New and the ington. The bride was dressed in white with | a blue blouse and wide-brimmed hat. Max, in his white linens, blue shirt, tie, handkerchief and buttonaire, | matched this color scheme to perfec- | tion. The former Miss Sullivan was | wearing a spray of orchids. Almost haif a hundred reporters and camera men, including the personnel | of seven sound movie trucks, waited | for two hours on the shady lawn and veranda of Justice Letts’ residence. Justice Letts graciously permitted them to tramp down his lawn, drag| movie equipment through his hedges, | play cards on the grass and when some one asked if they might have | some cool beer brought in, not only | acquiesced, but contributed a case. | ‘They were beginning to think the, couple had given them the slip when | the two appeared in a hired limousine | amid a welcoming glare of flash bulbs | | and click of cameras. Kisses Bride Repeatedly. After the brief ceremony, in which | the bride promised to “love and honor,” but not “obey” her husband, Max obliged the photographers by kissing | Mrs. Baer again and again. The bride, a slender brunette, drew back from | the publicity attending the caress, hut the photographers prevailed. It was not until Baer obtained thet license at the District Supreme Court | shortly before noon yesterday that the identity of the bride was learned. Baer gave his age as 26 and that of his bride as 32. ol The former champion had identi- fied Miss Sullivan only as “Mary, a ‘Washington business girl,” who never had seen a floor show or a prize fight, and who neither drank nor smoked. BO00WILLATTEND | iStudents Who Have Failed * Sports—Pages 7 to 11 PAGE B—1 FIREWORKS SHOW 10 CLIMAX FOURTH CELEBRATION HERE Senator Byrd to Be Main Speaker at Monument Exercises. The pictures tell the story. The top and center are not the same kiss. Some of tne cameramen misse d the clinch and Max repeated. He and the bride are shown below boarding a plane for New York. SUMMER SESSION Subjects to Be Given Preference. Some 8,000 children %ill return to | —Star Staff and A. P. Photos. TAXIS ARE SAVED LICENSE DELAY and Zones to Be De- manded. Max added that his bride-to-be | the grind of studies tomorrow morn- | the new fiscal year will be issued be- did not approve of prize fighting.|ing with the beginning of the Sum- | ginning tomorrow, but only with the | Asked if this would affect his ring career, Max, a former married man, shrugged and said, “Well, that de- pends.” He added, however, that he is well on the way toward a permanent m-g come of $600 a month and hopc']l to reach this goal in four years. The | | mer session | schools. Attendance this year promises to be larger than last, but efforts are be- img made to accommodate all pupils | who desire to attend. | Students who have failed a subject | in Winter school and wish to make it | in Washington public stipulation that all operators agree to | | abide by the uniform rates and zones to be ordered later in the month by the Public Utilities Commission. The date for the public hearing on | Zones and rates has been postponed | from July 3 to July 8. The commis- |sion had decided to issue no new former champion hinted he would | up will be given first preference in all | | licenses between July 1 and 15, and to fight again in September, either wita James Braddock, the new title holder, or Joe Louis, the “brown bomber ™ As Max and his bride left the Letts residence, the former champior. called | back over his shoulder: “Boys, this is the biggest match 1 ever won! Come on down to the Shoreham Hotel and we’ll have a party. The drinks are on me!” The heat of a typical June after- noon in Washington made the invi- tation doubly acceptable. At the hotel the couple posed for additional photographs and received the con- gratulations of their guests. They left for New York at 5:30 p.m. A large crowd of spectators had assembled there to see them off. After a brief stay in the East, where Max is completing a radio engage- ment, Mr. and Mrs. Baer will go to the home which Max is building in California. Max came to Washington several days ago with O’Brien, announcing he was “getting away from the tall build- ings” for a rest. He spent much of his time swimming and sunning on the terrace at the Shoreham pool. No hint of his marital intentions escaped him until he was questioned by an Associated Press reporter after coming home from a party at mid- night Priday. Max hinted to his parents in Cali- fornia of the approaching wedding, but the ceremony came as a surprise to members of the bride’s family in Ithaca. NO HARD BISCUITS. Max’s Bride Has Specialited in Culinary Art. ITHACA, N. Y., June 29 (®).— There will be no biscuits hard as rocks for Benedict Max Baer. At least his bride, the efficient Mary Ellen Sullivan, has been concentrating no less than seven years on reaching her man’s heart by way of his stomach. It m back in 1924 that Mary Ellen graduated from parochial school here and began thinking about a career. She liked cooking, so she decided to attend a Rochester institute on diet. No sooner said than done, and Mary (Sce BAER, Fags W) |want to take up new work will be Ludlow, Petworth, Pierce, | classes, while those repeating subjects | which they have passed but of which they wish to strengthen their knowl- | edge will come next. After these two groups are take care of students who admitted. Limit Is Two Subjects. Classes will begin at 8:30 a.m. for ali schools and end at 12:30 p.m. in the elementary grades and at 1 p.m. for the junior and senior high schools. High school students will be limited to two subjects, since the period of any class is two hours, one of which is devoted to instruction and the other to supervised study. The largest enrollment will be at Central High School, where between 1,800 and 2,000 pupils are expected. Macfarland and Stuart Junior High Schools probably will enroll 1,00¢ and 800, respectively. These two are the two institutions in which white junior high classes will be conducted. Dunbar, the colored high school, probably will have some 1,300 pupils, while the colored junior high school, the Garnet-Patterson, is expected to accommodate In the neighborhood of 600. Other Schools Open. In addition there will be 12 white and 9 colored elementary schools open for Summer classes. The white schools are the Brown, Buchanan, Burroughs, Curtis, Emery, Fairbrother, Force, ‘Wallach and West. The colored are the Bell, Burrville, Garrison, Giddings, Lovejoy, Sumner, J. F. Cook, Mott and Phillips. Both white and colored schools will be financed from a $29,400 appropria- tion, which is divided almost fifty- fifty, with the white institutions hav- ing about $1,000 more than the col- ored. Classes will be interrupted for one day on July 4, and then will continue five days a week until August 12. e —— Church Festival Planned. LEONARDTOWN, Md., June 29 (Special) —An all-day festival for the benefit of St. Aloysius Roman Catholic Church here will be held July 31, it was announced here today. A dinner and supper will be served, followed by a dance that night.# place the deadline for 1935 licenses at July 25. It planned to make its uni- form rates and zones effective July 15. Company Opposes Delay. ‘The problem then arose as to how 50 many new licenses could be issued in 10 days and counsel for one com- pany served notice it would have new cabs ready for use this week and pleaded against delay in new licenses. Corporation Counsel Prettyman yes- terday advised the Commissioners it appears undue hardship would result if no licenses were issued until July 15 and proposed issuance of permits ahead of the uniform rate and zone the proviso there be the stipulation: “This license is issued upon condi- tion that the licensee will' conform to and comply with all orders of the Public Utilities Commission respecting uniform zones, rates and regulations applicable to the operation of taxicabs in the District of Columbia.” Provision of 1936 Act. ‘The point is that the provision of the 1936 District appropriation act giving the Utilities Commission power to require uniform rates and zones is stated as a prohibition against the use of its appropriation for the licensing of any cabs except in accordance with uniform rates and zones which shall have been prescribed by the com- mission. e TRAINING TO BEGIN Fauquier Red Cross to Teach Swimming and Life Saving. Special Dispatch to The Star. WARRENTON, Va., June 29.—The Fauquier Red Cross will hold its an- nual swimming and life-saving classes beginning Monday, July 1, through Saturday, July 6, at the swimming pool of Dr. Thomas Turnbull, Casa- nova. Classes for beginners will be at 9:30 and 10:30 am.; for swimmers, 11:30 a.m.; life-saving, 2:30 and 4:30 p.m.; life-saving business group, 5 to 7 pm. Miss Harriet B. Turnbull is chapter chairman for first-aid and life-saving. | Compliance With New Ratesx Licenses for taxicab operations for | order of the Utilities Commission, with | OLDEST INHABITANTS ARRANGE PROGRAM Address by Col. Francis Scott Key-Smith Planned—Clark to Speak at Arlington. ‘The noise end glare of exploding skyrockets will light the sky above Washington Thursday night in climax of the District’s annual Independence day celebration in the Monument | Grounds. Eight thousard chairs will be pro- vided on the north slope of the Mon- ument for spectators of the Fourth of July program, which will begin with an adcress by Senator Harry Flood Byrd. Throughout the day various other community celebrations will be held with sports and athletic contests as their main feutures. The annual celebration arranged for the occasi-ii by the Association of Oldest Inhabitants will take place at 10:30 a.m. at the association’s head- quarters, Old Union Engine House. Tentative p.ans, according to Sec- retary J. Elliott Wright, jr., include a patrictic address by Col. Francis Scott Key-Smith and the reading of the Declaration of Independence by William Spencer Armstrong. Musical Selections. Other features of the program in- clude selecticus by Miss Dorothy Sherman Pierson, soprano, accompa- nied by Miss Katherine Cullen and | the reading «f an original poem by John Clagett Proctor. High point of the services planned { by the Jewish War Veterans in the Arlington Amphitheater is a speech by Senator Bennett Champ Clark. Final plans for the city-wide cele- | bration will be worked out at a noon {meeting tomorrow at the Harrington Hotel. The spectacular fireworks display scheduled for the Monument grounds | will be featured by some intricate py- | rotechnic portraiture of George Wash- | ington and President Roosevelt A constant succession of bombs, | rockets and shells, throwing multi- | colored smoke and fire high into the | air, will disturb the peace and excite the onwatching children, who are ex- | pected to be thrilled and excited by | the comic pictures framed in fire. | The Fireworks Committee is headed | by Edgar Morris and includes Pred A. | Smith, Harry H. R. Helwig, Wallace | Robinson, Thomas L. Eagan and John Scharf, Procession of Flags. A colorful procession of flags of all | nations will precede the fireworks, | with representatives of military, patri- otic and veteran organizations parad- ing under a waving canopy of banners from the speakers’ stand to the Monu- ment. Boy Scouts, carrying flags to sym- bolize the original 13 States of the | Union, will lead the procession, which ! will move forward from Sixteenth | street and Constitution avenue at | 7:15 pm. The Marine Band will play and the drum and bugle corps of Costello Post, American Legion, will perform intri- cate drill maneuvers. Seats will cost 25 cents apiece. The Very Rev. Coleman Nevils, S, J., president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation before the festival commences. After Senator Byrd's speech, which | will be broadcast, Col. Edwin Alexan- | der Halsey, secretary of the Senate, will read the Declaration of Inde- pendence. C. Melvin Sharpe, chair- man of the Citizens' Fourth of July Committee, will preside at the cere- monies. The Honorary Committee for this year's celebration, includes Commis- sioner George E. Allen, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, Arno B. Cammerer, Senator Arthur Capper, Senator Royal S. Copeland, Frederic A. Delano, C. Marshall Finnan, C. C. Clover, Ad- miral Cary T. Grayson, Commis- sioner Melvin C. Hazen, Senator Wil- liam H. King, George P. Marshall, Lowell Mellett, Eugene Meyer, Arthur Newmeyer, Representative Mary T. Norton, Newbold Noyes, Mrs. Eleanor Patterson and Col. Daniel I. Sultan. Taking care of the financial end of the celebration will be S. Percy Thompson, H. A. Brooks, C. T. Clagett, George E. Fleming, Robert V. Fleming, isaac Gans, W. F. Ham, John H. Hanna, Mrs. L. W. Hardy, Mark Lans- burgh, Dr. William McClellan, Maj. Julius Peyser, Samuel J. Prescott, John Saul, Marcey L. Sperry, Cor- coran Thom, Wilmer J. Weller, Wil- liam W. Wheeler and Lloyd B. Wilson. 14 INDICTED IN 10WA SLOT MACHINE DRIVE Woodbury County Grand Jury Probes Alleged Fraud and Graft Among Officials. By the Associated Press. SIOUX CITY, Iowa, June 29.— Fourteen persons were reported named as defendants in three indictments returned in Dnstrict Court here to- day by the Woodbury County grand jury investigating cherges of of- ficial graft and corruption and the operations of an alleged slot ma- chine syndicate. One indictment which charged con- spiracy to obstruct the edministra- tion of justice named 12 defendants. Those named in the blanket indict- ment included Thomas L. Taggart, a former city commissioner of public safety, and several beer parlor opera- tors, grocers and aileged slot ma- chine repairmen. Immediately after returning fits partial report, the grand jury ad- journed until Monday morning, when it is to resume its investigation of State angles of the graft probe scan- dal, »