Evening Star Newspaper, July 5, 1935, Page 21

Washington News 0. WORKPLAS 10 PROVE 08 SEK 00 Filings Fail to Come in Rap- idly—Sewers and Roads Outlined. DEPARTMENTS URGED TO SPEED PROPOSALS Clark and Allen Want to Insure Employment of 16,000 for Year. The District’s works program began to take definite shape today as offi- cials had on file more than a half hundred proposals calling for expendi- tures of more than $4,500,000 in the next 12 months. At the same time general classifica- tions were revealed for the sewer and highway work to be done under the presidential allotment of $2,017,000 for the first seven projects. District and Federal department heads, however, are not submitting as many projects, or as fast, as had been hoped by Commissioner Allen, District works progress administrator, and they may be crowded into greater planning activities. Would Employ 16,000. Assistant Engineer Commissioner Howard F. Clark, deputy works ad- ministrator, plans to tell the depart- ment executives to put more pressure on the proposals, since there must be a continuity of work for about 16,000 men and women for a year. He had hoped to have a list of a cost totaling about $20,000,000, out of which Allen could select the most likely for the actual program. Many - suggestions already received will have to be eliminated or altered because of restricticas in the Federal ‘works program. One of the rules is that the projects must not cover work for which local funds are currently appropriated or work generally included in the normal governmental operations. Some of the suggestions fall into this difficulty. Clark had on file today new pro- posals, one of which is for speading $275,000 for improvements at the Zoo. Officials of the Zoo asked approval for development of a monkey island which would be surrounded by a moat. ‘They also proposed to open up & quarry and would use stone taken from it in the new projects, such as the monkey island, a new restaurant building and one-story sheds for equipment. School officials have made known they will send to Allen plans for im- provement of school grounds costing $300,000. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, schools super- intendent, has filed a proposal for a study of colored juvenile delinquency, the cost of which would be $17,000. A move to reduce pollution of Rock | Creek is a part of a plan for sewer | improvements to be performed under | the first allotment made by the Presi- | dent. This would involve completion of the conversion from a combination to a separate system of sewers in Luzon Valley, the area north of ‘Walter Reed Hospital. 250 Jobs in Project. The cost would be about $300,000 and would give work to about 250 men for a year, it was estimated by J. B. Gordon, District sanitary engi- neer. Seven years ago Commissioners ruled that thereafter houses built in the section must be provided with a dual sewer system, one for storm ‘water and one for sanitary sewage. Gordon estimates there are several hundred houses built prior to the Commissioners’ order which would be affected by the new program. New laterals would be run to their prop- erties and additional sewer mains ‘would be laid in the sireet. Streets which have been laid or re- paved in the last seven years already have been equipped with the dual system of service sewers and they would not be disturbed under this program. Details of this program will be sub- mitted to Engineer Commissioner Sul- tan next week. ‘The highway side of the $2,000,000 program approved by the President gives this breakdown of classifica- tions: Clearing and minor grading of Toads, alleys and sidewalks, $106,616. Roadside beautification, as illus- trated by the emergency works proj- ects at the Harvard street entrance to the Zoo, $451,636. Minor street repairs, $217,068. Planting about 7,000 trees along District highways, $90,000. Breaking and spreading of all high- way materials and the surfacing of newly graded roads with macadam, $391,303. JENCKES POLICE BILL 15 OPPOSED BY DISTRICT HEADS Report to Mrs. Norton Hits Proposal to Restrict Chief Appointment. SNOW REMOVAL ACT AMENDMENT URGED Law Now Permits Suits Against City by Persons Injured in Street Falls. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Opposition to the Jenckes bill pro- viding for the appointment of the major and superintendent of the Metropolitan police force from among the assistant superintendents and in- spectors was voiced by the District Commissioners today in a report to Chairman Norton of the House District Committee. The Commissioners pointed out that under existing law they may select an “outsider,” but at the same time ex- pressed the opinion that the super- intendent should be chosen from the ranks, The Jenckes bill, however, the Com- missioners said, would tie their hands and prevent the best results from a public standpoint. ‘Would Amend Snow Act. The Special Crime Investigating Committee of the House in its original report recommended the appointment of an ‘“outsider” to replace Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown, but that was eliminated in a revision ordered by the full District Committee. The Commissicers also sent to Chairman Norton a proposed amend- ment to the District snow removal act which would relieve the municipality ot any liability for persons injured in falls"upon the ice or snow or on any sidewalk or public highway. “Because of the language of the present act,”™ the Commissicners said, “a number of actions for damages have been filed against the District. It is hard to believe that Congress ever intended that the act should be the basis for suits against the District but rather what Congress intended was to require property owners to re- move snow and ice from the abutting sidewalk.” Doctors’ Protest Received. The proposed amendment reads: “That nothing in this act shall be constructed as creating any lability against the District in favor of any person or persons injured in falls on snow, ice or sleet, on sidewalks or public highways.” Besides the reports from the Com- missioners, Chairman Norton received from the American Medical Associa- tion a vigorous protest against a pro- vision in the bill for prevention of blindness in infants born in the Dis- trict, which would exclude its effect on “persons treating human ailments by prayer or spiritual means as an exercise or enjoyment of religious | freedom.” That provision, the association de- clared, seriously impairs the usefulness of the bill and will lessen its effec- tiveness in the prevention of blindness among infants. ‘The association explained that blind- ness in infants is the result of infec- tion and “there is not a scigtilla of evidence anywhere that it has ever been averted or cured or that it can be averted or cured by prayer or spiritual means as an exercise or enjoyment of religious freedom.” —_— INTOXICATION LEADS TO $100 FINE HERE Judge Given Sentences Man Who Falsely Denied Having Police Record. Because he made a false state- ment to Judge Ralph Given in Police Court today, Leonard L. George, on trial for intoxication, was sentenced to pay a fine of $100 or serve 90 days in jail. George entered a not guilty plea and ' informed Judge Given that he had never before been arrested. The court, confident he had seen the man before, sent him to police headquar- ters and had him fingerprinted. He then secured George’s record from the Department of Justice. It covered one and a half pages of sin- gle-space typing and showed not only many intoxication convictions here but also an Army desertion and convic- tions throughout the country for forgery, passing Treasury checks and The final list of streets in the sur- facing program has not yet been an- nounced. TWO WOMEN HURT Officers Chase Driver Who Aban- dons Truck. Two colored women were injured, one seriously, today when struck by a truck operated by a colored man, whom Revenue Officer James Rogers and two police were chasing in Naylor's court. ‘The driver abandoned the truck and escaped. Annie Belle Briscoe, 60, of the 400 block of K street, the more seriously hurt, was treated at Sibley Hospital for a puncture wound on the hip, cuts and bruises, and was transferred to Gallinger Hospital. Edna Chase, 27. of the first block of Naylor's court. was treated at Sibley for cuts and bruises. Fete Chairman Elected. R. H. Birmingham was elected last night general chairman in of plans for “Old Heidelberg Nights,” to be held in the Immaculate Conception Parish Hall, Eighth and N streets, on the fourth consecutive nights begin- July 31. Proceeds from the en- %me will be turned ovér to the &mmaculate Conception School fund. petty larceny. Judge Given today continued his recently announced campaign against “repeaters” in intoxication by the im- position of a number of $50 or 60- day sentences. The usual penalty in such cases is a fine of $10 or 10 days in jail. he Zpening WASHINGTON, D. C., Star FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1935. Fireworks Lend Color to Brilliant July 4 Setting GALLAUDET FUNDS URGED BY ICKES $210,000 for Institute Asked for Construction—Last Grant Made in 1918. Secretary of the Interior Ickes to- day filed an application for $210,000 of work-relief funds ¢o provide neces- sary new construction of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf, which has received no building appropriations for 17 years. Since 1918, when Con- gress ppovided the Jast funds for build- ing, the student body has increased 27 per cent. In a statement accompanying the application Secretary Ickes explained ! the desired building program of the 1nstitution. “Removal of the printing office from its basement quarters, larger facflities for the library in a new building and provisions for additional laboratory space and recitation rooms are out- standing needs of the institution,” he | said. “The proposed building will house the library, laboratories in physics and biology and the printing equipment and will contain enough recitation rooms, so that those in the college men’s domitory may be done away with and additional bed rooms provided for future expansion. The new building will free enough space in the men's domitory to provide for an increase of 20 young men.” ‘The power plant of the institution, which provides heat as well as light, was erected 31 years ago and is now much out of date and inadequate. Secretary Ickes had approved the sum requested in the regular budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, but the Budget Bureau killed it because of the expected appropriation of public works funds in a separate bill by Congress. $2,500,000 IS ASKED TO SAVE ELM TREES President Roosevelt was petitioned today to allot $2,500,000 of the work relief fund for eradication of a dis- edse threatening extinction of the elm trees of the northeastern United States. He was told several thousand men now on elief rolls could be put to work saving elms as soon the money was released. e The National Conference on Dutch Elm Disease asked the President to waive work-relief regulations so that at least $500,000 of the desired alloca- tion could be made immediately avail- able. The administration was scolded by the conference for “an error of far- reaching import when the Government failed to provide adequate funds to maintain the organization which the Department of Agriculture had built up at great nse.” Eradication of the disease, which has killed “many thousands” of elms since 1930 in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut and is spreading to Maryland, Virginia, Ohio and Indiana, “constitutes a Federal responsibility,” the President was told. Traffic Court Fines Are Heavy After Judge Takes Auto Tour Judge Gus A. Schuldt, presiding judge of Police Court, returned to the bench in Traffic Court today after an extended motor tour which left him so impressed with the verils which beset motorists that he imme- diately tightened up on traffic viola- tors arraigned before him today. ‘The court faced an unusually heavy docket, which promised to keep the judge late into the day. Among the first arraigned was Summie Long, colored, 412 M street southeast, who was captured yesterday by two sailors after he struck two automobiles on Pennsylvania avenue southeast and fled from the scene of the accident. He was captured by Joseph B. Hunts- man and James J. Quigley after he is alleged to have struck their car and &: belonging to Otto C. a fine of $100 or serve an additional 30 days on charges of driving while intoxicated and operating without a permit. Harry F. Thomas, Sheridan road, was sentenced to pay a firfe of $25 or serve 25 days for operating without a Permit and $5 or five days for having no registration card. He also charged in the United States branch of Police Court with carrying a con- cealed weapon, police claiming he had a gun in his car when arrested on Nichols avenue southeast. A 60-day sentence was given Robert Timothy Fogle for operating on a re- voked permit. Melvin Clayborn was ordered to pay a fine of $25 or serve 25 days for operating without a permit and $2 or two days for having no reg- istration card. Most of yesterdsy's. arrests whre. for speeding. at the exercises. Inset: MILK CUT 3 CENTS BY HIGHLAND, ING. Company Announces 10 Cents a Quart Rate in 31 Capital Stores. Ten-cent milk, with a 5-cent return | deposit on each bottle, was on sale in | 31 stores of the High Ice Cream Co. in all parts of Washington today, the quart price being 3 cents below prices previously charged, with bottle having no redeemable value. The 10-cent milk was placed on the market yesterday by the Highland Farms Dairy, Inc., owned and oper- ated by C. Y. Stephens at 1615 First street southwest. He plans to put the milk on sale in all neighborhood stores. | Highland milk will be sold in bottles | with green glass blown into the sides in which will appear the name of the dairy. A deposit of 5 cents on each bottle, making them redeemable, will affect a saving of nearly 2 cents on each bottle of milk and this will be passed on to the customer. While the plant of the Highland Dairy has not yet been scored by the District Health Department, Stephens expressed confidence that it would be given a high rating, since all equip- ment is new. Prices paid to producers will be on a flat rate of 24 cents a gallon, as compared to the 26% cents paid by other local dairies to members of the Maryland - Virginia Milk Producers’ Association. This price, however, wil! be higher than the 26; cents, be- cause no surplus will be returned by Stephens, he said. Under the con- tract with the milk producers’ asso- ciation large quantities of unused milk are returned to the producers, he said, causing a loss to them. Stephens’ pasteurization plant has a maximum of 5000 gallons, but at present he is putting out only about 400 gallons daily. Along with the lower priced milk, the Highland plant is putting double cream on the market in the same stores at 18 cents a half pint, about 16 cents cheaper than the price now charged in most stores. Buttermilk will be sold at 8 cents a quart, Stephens sald. CITY HEADS APPROVE WORK ON PARKWAY Construction of Last Section of Rock Creek-and Potomac Project Planned. The Commissioners today approved plans for construction of the last sec- tion of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, to be built between K and Q streets under the P. W. A. grant of $973,000 for highway work here. The link in the roadway is expected to cost about $80,000. Bids are to be opened July 19 and the work is sched- uled to be finished by January 1. Surfacing of Foxhall road between Canal and Reservoir roads, estimated to cost $70,000, also was approved by the Commissioners. TRAFFIC PENALTIES INCREASE BY $60,000 Figures for Year Show Autoists Gave Up $213,162 for Violating Rules. An increase of nearly $60,000 in the amount of collateral posted by law-breaking motorists at the Traffic Bureau during the last fiscal year over the corresponding period for 1934 is shown in figures just released. In the fiscal year ended June 30 violators deposifed $213,162, an in- crease of $59,439 over the months of 1934, when $153, went 50 Boys and Girls Lost at Monument During Fireworks Police Find Parents of All But Six; Take Those Home. ‘To hard-working park policemen it seemed last night at the Monument Grounds that children had a positive genius for getting lost. But when the time came to dis- tribute the 50 or more small boys and girls to their parents only 6 were left on the officers’ hands, and these were safe at home and in bed before mid- night. Straying children were led by the police or National Guardsmen to a Red Cross ambulance parked nearby. At the conclusion of the fireworks display names or descriptions of the youngsters were broadcast by means of amplifiers. PFrom all directions anxious parents converged on the little knot of chil- dren. Finally the half-dozen left were able to tell the police where they lived. They were David McAnan, 12, of the Washington Tourist Camp; James Curry, 6, 811 E street south- west; Ruby Reed, 9, and Erwin Reed, 6, both of 417 Third street; Rebecca Dunn, 10, 206 E street, and Philip O'Neilage, 12, 1616 Newton street. Sergt. R. B. Jenkins took them all ‘home. FOUR ARE RESCUED AS BOAT CAPSIZES Park Policeman More Seriously Hurt Than Any—Gashes Hand Aiding Victims. Four persons were rescued from the treacherous currents of the south Tidal Basin floodgate yesterday after their rowboat smashed against a con- crete abutment and capsized. More seriously injured than any was Park Policeman William Lutes, who with a fellow officer, Frank B. Lewis, effected the rescue. Lutes, scrambling over a wire fence to reach the water, gashed his hand so badly that it required stitching at Emer- gency Hospital. The accident victims were Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Kerns, both 21, and Miss Dorothy Hess, 22, all of Falls Church, Va., and Duncan Cathcart, 22, of the first block of Bryant street. The boaters, rowing in the Wash- ington Channel, passed under the Fourteenth Street Bridge near Water street southwest and were caught in the rush of water from the river into the basin, Dashed against the concrete abut- ments of the open flood gates, the boat capsized. Kerns was carried by the current into the basin, the others left helplessly fighting the swift water. Life preservers kept at the bridge were thrown the two women and Kerns by passersby. Cathcart man- aged to get near the wall, where he was grabbed and pulled in by a by- stander. Meantime, Policemen Lutes and Lewis arrived and completed the res- cue. Those rescued were given first aid by the fire rescue squad, taken to Emergency Hospital, and sent home. All those thrown into the currents knew how to swim, it was said. - 20 DRIVERS ARRESTED Police Stage Drive on Drinking Motorists. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. WALDORF, Md., July 5—State po- lice here are believed to have sgt & record yesterday when they arrested 20 persons for drunker driving. Pa- trolman E. B. Danerbower alone ar- ested 11. Despite heavy holiday £fame, oaly one minor.accident was reported. State The morning after. Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, the principal speaker High-powered lights and the glare of fireworks turned night into day as Washington last night celebrated | the 159th anniversary of the Nation. Thousands who packed the Monument Grounds saw, st the left, a rocket burst in air, casting its reflection on the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. ment and Capitol are shown in the background. Right: clear away rubbish left by the celebrants. The brilliantly illuminated Monu- A hay rake brought into use to —Star Staff and A. P. Photos. | ROOSEVELT PLANS \ STILL INDEFINITE Congress Activity Delays! Decisions on Summer Vacation. President Roosevelt’s Summer plans still are indefinite because of the pros- pect of Congress remaining in session until August 1. Earlier in the year the President had in mind a journey across the con- tinent to the San Diego, Calif., Expo- sition, and a return to the East through the Panama Canal aboard a Navy vessel. This has not yet been abandoned, but it is doubtful if he will make the trip until October, if at all. During September the President hopes to be able to set up a Summer ‘White House at his Hyde Park home. The interruption to the President’s personal plans have not interfered greatly with the plans of his children, however. @ John Roosevelt, the youngest.of the Roosevelt sons, who has finished his freshman year at Harvard, will spend his vacation swinging a pick and ax as an unpaid, self-supporting worker of the Tennessee Valley Authority. James Roosevelt, the elder son, is actively engaged in organization work and speechmaking in connection with the Young Democrats’ Association, of which he is executive secretary. Already he has made speeches in Texas and Missouri at Democratic meetings, and it is understood to have planned another before the Young Democrats in Milwaukee August 23. In the meantime he will spend most of his spare moments at the Roose- velt home in Hyde Park, N. Y. Elliott Roosevelt, the second son, is busy starting a farm down in Texas and has recently been making the headlines because of factional quarrels in the Young Democrats’ As- sociation in that State. Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, daughter of the President and Mrs. Roosevelt, is understood to have no definite plans for the Summer, but is expected to divide her time between the Hyde Park estate and her apart- ment in New York City. She will continue with her magazine writings. Franklin, jr., the third son, is said to have no definite plans yet. At the present time he is visiting the home of his brother James, on Long Island. It is understood before the Summer is over he will enter some outdoor body-building job. Six Hurt in Cuban Storm. MATANZAS, Cuba. July 5 (#).—Six persons were seriousiv injured, 2 num- ber of houses w»r¢ blown down and crops were damaged when a heavy windstorm struck Manguito yesterday. CRIME COLLEGE OPENS JULY 2 Hoover to Direct Courses| for Picked Men in Ranks of Law. The Justice Department’s crimino- logical college for selected police officers of the Nation will open July 29 under direction of J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation, it was announced today by Attorney General Cummings. Picked men from State, county and municipal law enforcement agencies will arrive here on that date to begin a 12-week course in criminal appre- hension and crime detection as prac- ticed by the crime-fighting “G” men. Extension of the bureau's training school for its own special agents to provide instruction for police generally is in line with recommendations made last December at the Attoraey Gen- eral's National Crime Conference. Many File Applications. The plan has been received with widespread approval by police, and many candidates for the course have filed their applications with the bureau. Lectures and other instruction by experts of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation will be supplemented by instruction from a special faculty of leading authorities in varied fields of law enforcement. The training will embrace the fol- lowing subjects: Scientific and tech- nical crime detection, statistics, rec- ords and report writing, firearms training and first aid, investigations, enforcement end regulatory proce- dure, tests and practical experience and administration and organization. ‘The Government will charge no tuition feesfor this instruction and will give all its facilities free. The scientific, technical, laboratory, iden- tification, statistical and general training facilities of the F. B. I will be utilized. Students will be re- quired to pay their transportation and living expenses while taking the course. It is planned to have graduates of the college relay their information to their associates in the various police organizations of the country. THEATER ACT SIGNED President Completes Action on Art Patron’s Measure. President Roosevelt today signed an act of Congress permitting the incor- poration of the American National Theater and Academy. This measure does nothing more than grant per- mission for a Federal incorporation charter for the academy. This legislation was advocated by a group of theater and art patrons hav- ing as their objective the building up both of appreciation for and better development of a truly American legitimate theater. Wild Turtle of Anne Arundel Wins 35 Derby at Camp Letts “Floppy,” & youthful Anne Arundel County turtle, fresh from the wilds of the Rhode River shores, walked away with the 1935 Turtle Derby championship yesterday at Camp Letts, the Washington Y. M. C. A. el i ports it was heading for its habitat in a nearby woods. After the turtle race the boys themselves competed in athletic events. Richard F. Mullen, 14 East Thorn- apple street, Chevy Chase, Md. and Junior Thorup, 1338 Ingraham street, won the tennis doubles junior cham- plonship, and Roland Rieve, 4404 Thirteenth place northeast, and Fred Bob Joslyn won the senior 100-yard dash, Fred Riley won the interme- diate 100-yard dash and Jack Hardell ‘otvut champion ttendon junior shotput cham- ball game the camp PAGE B—1 HOLDAY THRONG SEES FRENDAK AND HEARS BYRD Senator Declares Constitu- tion Holds Hopes of Na- tion in Meeting Problems. SPECTACULAR DISPLAY VISIBLE FOR MILES Massing of Colors and Marine Band Concert Lend Color to Ceremony. Thousands of men, women and children, crowded around the Wash- ington Monument last night to watch the brilliant Independence day fire- work display, were exhorted in a Fourth of July oration by Senator Harry Flood Byrd, Democrat, of Vir- ginia, to follow the Constitution in seeking the way out of current eco- nomic difficulties. It was of George Washington, to whom the Monument is a memorial, that Senator Byrd spoke, using the great American's life and ambitions for the Nation as a springboard for a defense of the Constitution and the sovereignty of the States. Conceding the difficulty of today's economic problems, the Virginia Democrat warned against disregard of the Constitution in seeking their solution. George Washington, he said, believed “the choice was between the Constitution and confusion.” “Men of equally good intentions cannot always agree upon the proper boundaries of the rights of the States,” said Senator Byrd, who in the past has charged the Roosevelt adminis- tration with improper usurpation of power. ¥They cannot take a map and mark where the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, begins and the jurisdic- tion of the State government ends. Yet, remember that the Constitution provides that the Goverament has only the powers granted it by the States and that all powers not granted are reserved to the States or the people thereof. * * * “In a country so vast and diversified as this, a central Government may not understand and effectively meet all the local problems peculiar to the several sections whose needs vary greatly one from the other. ®* * * “The Constitution protects your in- dividual freedom and your individual property and your right to have home | tribunals pass upon those matters which most intimately affect you. Holds Principles Vital. | “The Constitution is not sacred— | it may be changed—but the funda- | mental principles sought to be pro- tected by the Constitution are sacred and vital to the life, liberty and chance of happiness of every Amer- { ican.” The entire program, of which Sen- ator Byrd's speech was a part, was run off with dispatch. The spectacu- lar fireworks display, witnessed by President Roosevelt from the White House, took a little more than half an hour, but was described as one of the finest presented here. New Government buildings nearby transformed the sharp reports of ex- ploding rockets into reverberating rumbles. And actual thunder was not far from the minds of the crowd, for skies were overcast when the cere- monies began and the clouds grew heavier with the increasing darkness. All of the 8,000 tickets for chairs i on the Monument slope were disposed | of two hours before the exercises, as- suring sufficient money to defray ex- penses. Half the tickets were sold by | Wednesday evening and hundreds of would-be purchasers were turned away last night at the Monumsnt Grounds booths. Display Seen at Distance. Persons at much greater distance than those having chairs could readily see the fireworks, however. Spectators lined the north side of Pennsylvania avenue to watch the display and some 2,000 persons gathered on the emi- nence of Meridian Hill Park 2 miles away. Rockets which showered floating lights of many hues constituted the principal portion of the show, but sets, both patriotic and humorous, provided variety. Portraits of the first and present Presidents, done in flame, and a burst of several rockets fired simultaneously brought the show to an end. Park and Metropolitan police and National Guardsmen handled the crowd smoothly. There was prac- tically no confusion and the Monu- ment Grounds were well cleared 15 minutes after the display. By 7:15 p.m,, when the concert by the Marine Band began, the seats were well filled. The ceremony started with a mass- ing of colors by half a hundred patri- otic organizations at Sixteenth street and Constitution avenue. From Seventeenth and Fifteenth streets the flagbearers converged on the center of the field in an impressive display. Father O’Leary Gives Invocation. With Melvin Sharpe, chairman of the Citizens’ Committee which staged the affair, presiding, Rev. Arthur A. O'Leary, new president of George- town University, gave the invocation. There was more music and then Sharpe introduced Senator Byrd. Col. Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of the Senate, read the Declaration of In- dependence, and Boy and Girl Scouts marched with torches to the speakers’ stand. Nearby, the drum and bugle corps of the Vincent B. Costello Post, American Legion, played martial music. At the end of the ceremonies, the colorbearers marched through an aisle in the crowd and to the base of the Monument. Among the guests were numerous representatives of the Capital's offi- cialdom. Those who sat on the plat- form included Senator Arthur Capper and Represeniative Percy Gassaway. Esperanto Class Opens. The Washington chapter of the Esperanto Association of North Amer- ica, will sponsor free classes in Esper- anto, the internatjonal language. The first class opens tonight at 7:30 o'clock at Central High School.