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- [[caeanes | @he Sundiy Star WASHING POLICE ALLONED LIQUOR INSPECTION MINUS WARRANTS Regulations Changed to In- sure Officers’ Right to Help A. B. C. Board. | | | LICENSE SEEKERS MUST AGREE TO PLAN Move Is Outgrowth of Law Cut-| ting Funds and Eliminating = | Regular Inspectors. All officers of the Metropolitan police force have heen empowered by | the Commissioners to make inspec- | tions cf all places licensed to deal in alcoholic beverages without hsving‘ obtained warrants. It had been understood the Alco- In Postal John Drotar, Friend Of Convicted Man, Taken at Kosice. Officials May Not Ask Return to U. S. Unless ‘New Evidence Is Found. | Explosion of a bomb in the Wash- ington dead-letter office more than a year ago, shattering the hand of a postal employe, resulted yesterday in the arrest of John Drotar in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, according to an Asso= ciated Press dispatch received here. The bomb, disguised as a book, man- gled the hand of Myrton L. Genung, 2316 F street, and slightly injured an- other employe. According to police, the bomb was mailed to Mrs. Johann Lukasc, living in- Czechoslovakia, from Pittsburgh, Pa. Her husband was sentenced to serve 12 years in the penitentiary in connection with the case. The Pittsburgh post office became suspicious that the package contained holic Beverage Control Board could | Barcotics, and sent it to Washington, call on the police for aid in enforcing | Where it exploded upon being opened. regulations adopted under the liquor | Postal inspectors said they never act, but the new step was taken to had charged Drotar with complicity in avoid any possible handicap. | the mailing of the bomb and that they 'Czechoslovakian Is Arrested Bomb Blast Here | | MYRTON L. GENUNG. ~—Star Staff Photo, dence had been developed against him in Czechoslovakia. Drotar was de- scribed as a friend of Lukasc, who is The bomb exploded when opened in | May, 1934. Although confined to the hospital for some time and finally hav- "lng his hand amputated, Genung has serving his sentence at Lewisburg, Pa. |. The step was taken by adoption of an amendment to the liquor regula- tions stating “All applicants for licenses and per- sons holding licenses under the act shall allow any member of the board (Acoholic Beverage Control Board), or any duly authorized inspector of the board, or any member of the Met- ropolitan Police Department, full op- portunity and every facility to ex- _ amine at any time during business | hours the premises where any bev- | erage is manufactured, kept. or sold, | o for which a license is asked or has | the A. B. C. been granted.” Earlier this month Board on its own initiative “appoiat- ed” all police officers to act as in- spectors for the board. Chairman George W. Offutt said the purpose | was to open all licensed premises to | police so they would not be required to have search warrants. This action was forwarded to Cor- poration Counsel Prettyman for an opinica, and he ruled only the Com- missioners held power of such ap- pointments. While he belicved the Commissioners could legally designate policemen as “Inspectors” for the A. B. C. Board, he suggested as a better &tep the change in the regulations which the Commissioners approved. The whole move is an outgrowth of the action of Congress in reducing appropriations for the board so that it had to drop six of its eight in- spectors. | | | 12 NEW CASES SHOW | PARALYSIS ON WANE Virginia Sees Spread of Disease on Decline—Total 185 i Since August 1. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va. August 17.—Re- cording of 12 new infantile paralysis cases today closed a week which State health officials said was characterized by a decline in the spread of the disease in Virginia. The total re- ported since August 1 is 185. Half of the cases recorded today were in Albemarle County, focal point | of the current stage of the outbreak. ‘The others, Alleghany County, 3; Greene County, 1; Henrico County, 1, and Louisa County, 1. _ HOPI PRIESTS PREPARE { FOR ANCIENT RITES Descend Into Underground Kivas to Perform Ritual Leading to i Prayer for Rain. By the Associated Press. WALPI, Ariz, August 17.—Snake' and antelope priests of the Hopi tribe | descended into underground kivas to- day to perform secret rites leading up to the snake dance—a thousand- year-cld prayer for rain. The climax of the nine-day cere- monials will be reached Sunday. Au- gust 25, in the traditional snake dance. With prayers, sand paintings and weird chanting, the priests held rites which no white man ever has wit- nessed. Swift runners will go into the des- ert Monday to gather snakes to carry prayers of the Hopis to the under- ground gods. Hundreds of rattlers, bull snakes and red racers will be brought to the kivas, where they will | be washed and sprinkled with praver | meal in preparation for their return | to the gods of the underground. | | Bridge to Bring Maryland Resorts Nearer to Capital | Span Over Patuxent Near Halls Station to Open September 6. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HALLS STATION, Md. August 17. —Shortening the route from Wash- ington to many Southern Maryland resorts, the new extension of Central avenue will be opened early mext month. | Nathan L. Smith, chief engineer of | the State Roads Commission, said the extension, which connects existing highways at Halls Station and David- sonville, has been completed. 1t will be opened to traffic as soon as a bridge over the Patuxent River is finished. The span, costing $50,000, is expected to be ready by Septem- ber 6. The new route will be about 1 mile shorter than the Defense Highway between Washington and Annapolis. It will shorten the distance between ‘Washington and the resorts on the south side of South River by several miles, Engineer Smith said. At present the road has a gravel sur- face it it will be tarred next year, lt“ to the chief engineer, probably would not ask for his return | not yet fully recovered. He is back CHLD, 2 KILED: GHURTINTRAGFC Driver of Trash Truck Is Sought by Police—Two Badly Injured. A 2-year-old colored girl was killed in an accident in which the driver is | being sought and six other persons | were injured, two seriously, in traffic mishaps last night. It was the second fatality since the traffic drive started four weeks ag: and the sixty-eighth since Janvary 1. The child, Gladys Mack, 86 Myrtie street northeast, was run down ia front of her home by a trash truck. The driver, police reported, accom- panied her to Sibley Hospital in a passing car, but fled without making known his identity or informing po- lice of the accident after he learned she died from internal injuries. Traced by Tags. to the United States unle:s new evi- at work at the Post Office, however. 81 AUTOISTS LOSE DRIVING LICENSES 27 of Two Weeks’ Total Caught Under Inflgence of Liquor. | Board of Revocation and Restorations | from August 1 to 15, statistics revealed yesterday. Of these, 27 were for driving while | under influence of liquor. Twelve of | these were District motorists driving in the District, seven local motorisis caught driving under influence of liquor in Maryland, another seven in Virginia and one in New Jersey. Other causes for the revocation included 20 | for reckless driving, 12 for leaving the scene of an accident after colliding and 11 for speeding. ‘The offenses causing the revocations Eighty-one automobile drivers' per- | TON, b. C, NATIONAL GUARD CAMP 15 OPENED FOR- TWO WEEKS Active Training to Begin To- , morrow at Nearby Camp Simms. TROOPERS SPEND TODAY IN SERVICES AND REST Men Reach Base Without Unto- ward Incident and Set Up Tents. Their encampment built and ready for a two-weeks' stay, the District's National Guardsmen settled down last night to their first sleep under canvas at the completion of a strenu- ous day of tent pitching and wielding of pick and shovel. The movement into Camp Simms from the Armory at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue passed without | untoward incident, as did the first day | in camp. Today will be devoted to religious services and rest, with active training beginning tomorrow morning with 5:30 a.m. reveille. Other National Guard outfits in the 3d Corps Area converged yesterday on Mount Gretna, Pa. originally scheduled as the scene of training for the District and Virginia troops, which were barred from Pennsylvania and later from Maryland by the infantile | paralysis scare. | War Games Held. The District Guard was to have taken part in the biggest war games of the Summer, which are being held SUNDAY MORNI TINY BLOC PERILS by the First Army, under command of Maj. Gen. Dennis E. Nolan. The | principal concentration points are the | Mount Gretna vicinity and Pine | ’ AUGUST 18, 1935. PAGE B—-1 COLORED MASONS AND ELKS T0 MEET HERE THIS WEEK | Shriners and Knights Tem- plar to Hold Memorial Service Tonight. 75,000 COLORED PERSONS EXPECTED AT SESSIONS | President Roosevelt Will Review Parades and Hazen Will Be Among Speakers. ‘Washington will be the mecca dur- ing the next two weeks, beginning to- night, for a host of delegates partici- pating in the annual conventions of three major Negro fraternal orders. The Ancient Egyptian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, nomi- This is what happened yesterday afternoon when Joseph M. Molloy, 20, of B.rcro(t‘. Va., swerved his car in an effort to avoid an accident at Thirteenth street and Columbia road. large electric light globe as the pole broke and wires were short-circuited cuts on the arm and back. Police who investigated declared the mishap u | nally distinguishable from the white | organization whigh held its conven- | tion here in June by the word “Egyp- | tian,” begins its thirty-fifth annual Molloy was hit on the head by the He escaped with bruises and minor ivoidable. —Star Staff Photo. BOTH LEAVEBILLS Unless Senate Yields on| Amendment, Entire Plan May Fail. BY WILL P. KENNEDY. The annual and sick leave bills are in a “dangerous” situation, according | to Chairman Ramspeck of the House | mits were revoked or suspended by the | | Camp, N. Y. Some 50,000 men have | Civil Service Committee, sponsor of Police traced.theé owner‘and sup- | and suspensions were committed sev- posed driver of the truck through the | €ral Weeks prior to being acted upon vehicle's tags, but had failed to fing | bY the board. him Iate last night. | The new District automobile opera- of those seriously hurt was nui tors' financial responsibility law, gxund-y. 5:30 pm. unidentified, middle-aged white man, who is in Providence Hospital with a possible skull fracture. He was in- Jured when struck at Delaware and Indiana avenues southwest by an au- tomobile. The other person badly hurt was Ulysses Johnson, 39, colored, 38 R street. His chest was crushed when an automebile in which he and Flossiz Johnson, 34, colored, 141 Thomas street, were riding collided at Twelfth and M streets with a ma- chine operated by Charles H. Haw- kins, 39, Fairfax, Va. The Johnson woman was cut about the face. Both were taken to Emergency Hospital, Cut About Head. Wythe H. Sellers, 47, of 1216 L street, was cut about the head when struck at Sixth and H streets by an | automobile driven by Lea B. Leaman, 27, of 1401 Columbia road. He was treated at Emergency. Catherine O'Neill, 15, of 1336 Galla- | tin street, was cut about the mouth when-hit at Eleventh and G streets by an automobile driven by John Mackall, 25, colored, 1926 Twelfth street. She was treated ab Emergency. Joan Mat- thews, 7, of 3417 Prospect avenue, was taken to Georgetown Hospital with lacerated arms, legs and body, after she was struck by the machine of Dr. John Dessoff, 1300 Randolph street. The accident. occurred near the girl's | heme. . MRS. HARRIET R. DULEY FUNERAL RITES HELD Native of Montgomery County Is Buried in Oak Hill Cemetery. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 17.—The funeral of Mrs. Harriet R. Duley, 84 whose death occurred at the home of her brother, Harry L. Duley, in Wash- ington, took place this afternoon from a local funeral home, the services be- ing conducted by Rev. J. Lloyd Black | of the Rockville Christian Church. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery, ‘Washington. Mrs, Duley was the widow of Henry B. Duley, for many years in the mer- cantile business in Washington, and was a native and former long-time resident of this county. She is sur- vived by two half brothers, Gilmore and Harry Duley of Washington, both natives and former residents of Mont- gomery County. NINE PARALYSIS CASES NOW DISTRICT TOTAL Health Officials Expect Rapid Decline as Soon as Cool Weather Arrives. One additional case of poliomyelitis was reported to the District Health Department yesterday, bringing the total now under treatment here to nine. Since the first of the year there have been 29 cases in all reported to the health office. There have been six deaths among these cases. A number of the cases, contracted elsewhere, have been brought here for treatment. Health officials expect a rapid de- cline in the number of new cases as soon as cool weather arrives. D Dinner to Aid Church. GAITHERSBURG, Md., August 17 (Special).—A dinner for the benefit of St. Martin’s Parochial School will be served in St. Martin’s Hall here E | which went into effect August 1, had | been invoked in only one case up to yesterday, it was revealed at the office | of Traffic Director Willlam A. Van ! Duzer. The case was a colored man | convicted of driving while drunk and who, up to yesterday, had not taken out the required insurance to permit him to drive again in the District. The case is the only one coming | under the new law which has been vers. The First Army's games resulted | from the success of the “paper sol- dier” maneuvers held in New Jersey | last year, when stafl officers maneu- vered imaginary troops with pencils | cver maps in mock warfare. Now real | troops, both National Guard and | Regulars, from the New England States and the Atlantic Seaboard are being used. | Several District staff officers have | gone to Mount Gretna, although the troops remained here. | of the 29th Division Special Troops, and Maj. Sidney Morgan, intelligence l officer, k 300,000 to Be Trained. | More than 300,000 professional and | part-time soldiers have been—or will | be—trained under the War Depart- | ment’s supervision this Summer and | Fall. The training is carried on in more than 400 camps throughout the coun- try. The concentrations range in size from that of the First Army to some groups of a dozen or so in isolated sections. | reported to the office of the dixector" The Pacific Coast “command exer- | of the traffic by the courts. | The new law applies to persons con- | victed of driving while drunk, to those convicted of leaving the scene of | an accident without making their | identity known in cases where there | has been some one injured, and to persons failing to settle within 30 days a court judgment against them for damages for $100 or more as the result of an automobile accident. It takes several days for the court | cases to be reported to the traffic di- SHADE TREES GOING | | Fruit Trees to Be Planted in Mos- cow Streets. MOSCOW, August 17 (P).—Apple and other fruit trees will be planted in Moscow streets instead of the usual shade variety. The State farms today were ordered to cultivate 140,000 fruit trees to be planted here beginning in 1938. e aLE s Marriage Licenses. Harold F_Harding. 32, 2005 T st. and Elizabeth A. Reeves. 35, the Northumber- land; Rev. Charles'T. Warner. James C. Thoi 29. 1669 Montello ave. n.e., and Ama R. Henderson, 27. 509 O st Rev. J. J. Albert, Oswold 'D. Davis. 39, 214 Massachusetts | . and Catheriné G. Richardson. 27, | 410°4th st. n.e.; Rev. Harley Metcall | James O. Clayton. 30, San Anselmo, Calif., and Mildred E. Lindon, 25. Minneap- Edward B. Harris . _Bon New York_ City. and W. T. Phillips, 3 New Jersey ave.; Rev. F. I A. ett. Leon J_ McKay. 30, 4733 tha M. Smith, 23, 82 ‘Albert. & C._Kelley 55. and Minnie P. .56 both of Baltimore: Rev. 07 Champlain st.. 1301 Corcoran att. . 1529 16th s | 1329 Park . 1533_0th olis, Minn.; Re | John . 3 9th st.. and Ber- 1st.’ne; Rev. L W, Wiliiam | Beitl | 0. 1504 R st. and an. ¥4 3216 Sherman - Smith, ush, 27. Waynesboro. Va. Willjams, 21, Richmond Va.; Rev. J. R. Mills, . Millef. 41, 215 14th pl ne. and Mae M. Canter. 41. 1438 Newton st.; Rev. E. E. Richardson. James H. Lawrence, 26. 1606% 5th Mable Leake. 2. 709 Harvard st Smallwood Willigms. Herman_Posner, 21. 5308 Georgla ave.. and Beatrice ‘T-ml;n 21, 5204 Georgia Ter B *"and Viola E. Marr, Va.i Rev. P. G. Murray . E. Hutton. 26. and Willie Mae Gordon. 30, both of 3623 M st.i Rev. John E. Priggs. ‘Charles. E, King. 21, and Margaret F. Desper. 21. both of Charlottesville, Va.; Walter Kendall. 50. and Rowena Williams, 30. both of Prince ‘Williams. Va.; Rev. soree . Rennedy. 20, Lebanon. Pa.. and elms H. Allard. 28, Takoms Pa J.'E. Grah e am. A - d SRRty MR 8 Robert W. Watérs, 20, Takoma Park. Md. and Alma P. Weisman, 35. Silver Spring. Md.: ‘fi T Jou‘ h D. John A. Piefler, x e S s o . o oRRere: 21 Santim: Ve ver. *, Aqolasoty 33 100K st st ' Mahan. . Va.. o % e | rector’s office because of the routine. | | serve officers, Organized Reserves, and | ;cues"——simllar to the paper games held in New Jersey last year—will be | staged in the vicinity of Fort Lewis, | Wash,, from September 16 to 28. | Staff officers from Regular and Na- | tional Guard units in the 9th Corps ‘Area will participate. | assigned the task of defending the ‘Pa;lnc Northwest from an imaginary | enemy. Regular soldiers are assisting in training part-time soldiers through- out the country in 368 camps for Re- persons ‘attending Citizens’ Military Training Camps. Before the season is over, National Guard encampments will have been of 242,254 men. S 'LIQUOR STORE ROBBED OF $225 AND QUART Then Force Victims to Lie Behind Counter. Two men held up the liquor store of Roy C. Clements at 3518 Connecti- cut avenue last night, ordered the proprietor and a clerk to lie down be- hind the counter and then took $225 from the cash register and one quart of liquor. Clements told police the men first tendered a $10 bill in payment for a pint of liquor, and while the bottle was being wrgpped by Joseph Barron, 4700 Crescent place, an employe, one bandit drew a pistol and forced Bar- ron to a place beside Clements in an- other part of the store. While the armed man held the proprietor and clerk at bay, the other robbed the till. One was described as being about 35 and the other 22. e Balloon Carries Glider. MOSCOW, August 17 (#).—The first experimental flight of a “glider bal- loon” was carried out successfully near Moscow today with a balloon of 2,200 meters capacity. The bag, with a glider fastened to the gondola, rose to a height of 7,000 feet, where the glider was detached. It landed safely. A similar flight to the stratosphere is planned. Where are telegraph messenger boys park their bicycles? That 1 and police” officers of | held in every State, training a total | |Hold-Up Pair Tender $10 Bill,j been called to duty for the maneu- | this legislation. The interests of some‘ | leave bills, excluding the employes of x Among them | ment between Chairman Ramspeck are Maj. William T. Roy, commander | gng Chairman Mead of the Post Office Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone has been | 350,000 workers are imperiled by an | amendment providing for about 300 | local employes of the mail equipment | D. With adjournment of Congress, scheduled for this week, unless the | House and Senate conferees agree on | the leave bills they are likely to fail in the closing rush. The House| adopted amendments to both the 30- day annual leave and the 15-day sick- | the mail equipment shops. This ac- tion was taken because of an agree- | Committee, under which postal work- ers would get a 40-hour week and “":s I S ¥ the Assoclated Press. other Government employes would have 30-days’ annual leave, instead of | the present 15-days’ leave. g Amendment Adopted. But when the leave bill reached the Senate, the equipment shop workers got busy and had the Senate Civil Service Committee adopt an amend- ment by which they are included in the annual sick-leave bills. In order that this relatively small group of postal workers may not have double benefits, Chairman Ramspeck &nd other members of the House Civil Service Committee are opposed to this Senate amendment. If the Senate is willing to yield on the General | | Maryland’s Senators will set out from Coal Bill Protester Protests in Earnest At Bill With Reply By the Associated Press. A Nebraska coal dealer yester- day received a sample dose of the remedy some congressional secre- taries have concocted for tele- graphic protests against legisla- tion. The coal dealer sent a tele- gram to a member from another State protesting against the Guf- fey coal bill. | A reply went back to him col- lect. He is now protesting the $3.18 bill for the reply. NG T0 ENTERTA STATE SEAATORS Tax Study by Lawmakers to Be Discussed on Bay | Cruise. BALTIMORE, August 17.—Most of Annapolis tomorrow mor.uing for a two-day cruise on Chesapeake Bay with Gov. Harry W. Nice All the Senators who were in the| State have accepted, it was said, and about 30 persons are expected to make | up the party. No particular political | or legislative discussion is expecud,‘ except that the legislators may can- | sider a proposal made today by Sen- ator Raymond E. Kennedy of Balti- more City. | Kennedy's idea is that members of Assembly chould study that amendment, the House will agree | the taxation problem and be prepared to other Senate amendments and the to compare various plans when they legislation can go through promptly, | gather for the short special session Chairman Ramspeck said last night.|next Spring. There was an agreement, Chairman Ramspeck explained, under which the 200,000 postal workers were to be sat- isfied with the 40-hour week with- |out demanding increased leave, and | wished additional the 350,000 other Government em- ployes would accept the 30 days leave. | | Gov. Nice, observers said. The trip King Asked for Delay. Chairman King of the Senate Dis- trict Committee blocked consideration of the leave bills Friday, saying he some of the amendments. The bills are likfely to come up again in the Senate tomorrow or Tuesday, and Chairman Bulow of the Senate Civil Service Committée said there grave doubt of their Passage if serious opposition is shown. He expressed a desire to get favorable action and said he would do his utmost to have them approved in a form that wouid not endanger a complete agreement if they are thrown into conference between the House and Senate in the closing rush. Chairman Ramspeck, while empha- sizing the injustice of giving double benefits to the equipment shop work- ers, said he would not oppose the Senate amendments regarding Canal Zone employes and including Gov- ernment workers abroad. CITY - . NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. : Meeting, Mercantile Club, Hamilton Hotel, 1:30 p.m. Meeting, National Shorthand Re- porters’ Association, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm. Meeting, Bartenders' Union, “Old” Local No. 75, 720 Fifth street. TOMORROW. Luncheon, Studebaker Sales Corp., Mayflower Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Meeting, Washington Automotive Trade Association, Hamilton Hotel, 2 pm. Card and bingo party, McNamara Unit, Catholic Students’ Mission Cru- sade, St. Joseph's Church, Second and C streets northeast. Bicycle Parking New Problem For Messengers and Officials| to co-operate, but reminded District officials the regulations forbid plac- ing of racks on sidewalks and raised the question of where the boys are to place their vehicles. : Maj. Brown agreed the laying of | Harold J. the wheels on the sidewalks would be liable to obstruct pedestrian traf- fic and cause accidents, but he doubt- | 187 ed if the city could ban parking of | J: bicycles against buildings of the com- | panies or along the curb or against | M tree boxes. The Commissioners have called on Corporation Counsel Preti ‘what can and should time to consider | | | is felt, may increase the partisan feel- | to see | Na The sales tax expires | then and it must be extended or| some new tax imposed if conéributions to relief are to be kept up. While the presence of Senators from both parties will keep the meet- ing from assuming any purely polit- | ical aspect, it may still be useful -to comes just a week and a day after| the Republican Senators gathered in Ocean City and criticized some of his ! actions. Association with the Democrats, it | ing, and consequently the party loy- | alty, of the slightly rebellious Repub- | licans. It will also give them a| chance to talk at length to the Gov- ernor, allowing the disaffected to re- lieve their feelings by expressing | them. FIELD POST FILL Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., August 17.—Fruit growers and distributors here have been advised that R. May- nard Peterson, for several years in charge of the local fleld office of United States Market News Service, has been assigned to the office here for the coming apple season, and will arrive Huring the first part of Septem- ber. . The Market News field office here covers the Shenandoah-Potomac- | Cumberland Valley apple belt, and collects and disseminates information as to buying prices of apples here and selling prices of apples at wholesale on the principal city markets. Deaths R.eport;]. vid Jameson, 88, Casusity Hospital. SECEET, Wi Watter ST Steware. 70, 20, Fr ED | derson, 60, 223 l:l:lnlll. 59, 1352 South o 23 R st. 20 16th <t. 0. Providence HOs- wn'x'x':'.‘x{i‘ K. Schemet, 47, St. Elisabeth's tal Hospital. Alfred B. Martin, 26. Emergency Hospital. Jesse’ oykins, alias Ineram. 3, Casoaity D) ospital, Benjamin Berry. 76, 45 D st. se. Julia Ferguson. 65, Gallinger Hospital. Bertie Crawford, 50, Gallinger Hospiial. Mabel Gaither. 48, Gallinger Hospital. e eker 5. Gallinger Hospital, erry er. 5. T ital, Infant Leona Williams. Children's Hos- pital S Births Reported. te O. Raines. boy. nd Madeline Mattingly. boy. un C Helss boy. d Mattie Jones. nd Emily EH ang Elizabeth Batley. boy. nd Lou! 3 %4 Ahavelle. Easteriing. boy. Ja nd Margaret Pricegirl. Caevin and Sadie Simms. girl. Davld 1. and Naomi Wiilia 1. . boy. 1"3nd’ Midred Worthinston. boy. t and Cravalia ick and cax, Doy et | conclave tonight with a memorial service at the Asbury M. E. Church. FEDERAL BUILDING RS BEGISTON 16 Million to Be Spent on Projects in National Capital. ‘The Treasury Department soon will begin work on three big construction and remodeling jobs for Federal build- ings here, recently authorized by Con- gress to cost a total of $16,085,000. ‘The Procurement Division of the The colored Nobles will be joined by others cf their race in the Knights | Templar order. The Negro Shrine convention ends Friday, to be followed closely by the thirty-sixth annual convention of colored Elks, members of the Im- proved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World. Most of the estimated 7.000 colored men and women participating in the Shriners’ conclave also will participate in the Elks’' gathering, expected to attract some 75,000 Negroes from all parts of | the country. The latter and larger convention will take place from Au- | gust 25 to August 31. Lewis and Owens Coming. Although some big names in col- | ored circles are connected with the Shriners’ meeting, it will be the Elks Treasury, under direction of Rear Ad- | ¥ho Will supply figures widely known miral C. J. Peoples, now has authority | Outside the race’s folkways. These in- priation in the case of each of the three buildings. The structures are: A new building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. on the east side of Four- teenth street opposite the present bu- reau, an annex to the Government Printing Office and remodeling of the old Pension Office, now occupied hy the General Accounting Office, headed by Controller General J. Raymond | McCarl. Skefches Are Made. “Cabinet sketches” for the remod- eled Pension Office already have been | drawn to bring this old building more mto conformity with the architecture | of other buildings on Judiciary Square. | Congress has authorized the Pension | Office job to cost not more than $4,700,000 and ‘has appropriated an initial sum of $2,000,000 to start the work; The plans not only would change the looks of ‘the presenf building by | remodeling, but would add substan- tially to its office space. Congress has authorized the new Bureau of Engraving ‘and Printing Building to cost not more than $5,500,- 000, and has appropriated $2,000,000 to start the job. + G.P. 0. Annex Planned. The annex to the Government Printing Office, including rights of way, a railroad siding and mechanical | equipment, has been authorized by Congress, to cost not more than $5,885,000, and the first’ appropriation of $2,000,000 has been-made. The public works branch of the procurement division has these three jobs now under consideration, Ad-| miral Peoples said, and will prepare | all plans and specifications so the jobs | may be put on the market at the ear- liest possible date. JUDGES SELECTED FOR HORSE SHOW {21 Classes in Exhibition Sched- uled for Colvin Run Building Fund Benefit August 31. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLVIN RUN, Va, August 17— Miss Emily North of Warrenton, Maj. Arthur T. Thayer of Fort Myer, and Dr. E. R. Merry of Falls Church, will be the judges at the fourth annual horse and pony show August 31 sponsored by the Colvif Run Com munity Association for the benefit of its building-fund, it was announced today. ‘The show, scheduled to begin at 10 am. at the show ring on the Huntmere Farm of.J. will include 21 classes. Arthur God- frey will be master of ceremonies and | announcer. Members of the committee in charge, which is headed by Reed Thomas as chairman, include Stuart Preece, Charles Roller, J. L. Crowell, J. A. Wheeler, W. A. Wheeler, J. Rixey Smith, Maj. Gen. Edwin B. Winans, DeLong Bowman and M. S. Crippen. NEW MARYLAND TAXES NET $318,416 REVENUE| By the Associated Press. Annapolis, Md. August 17.—The State today had collected $318.416.14 from the 1 per cent gross receipt and automobile titling taxes for July. Approximately 8,000 returns from retailers remain to be tabulated. The July collections were made up of $275,151.31 paid-in gross receipt taxes by 17,992 retailers, and $43,264.83 from the 1 per cent automobile titling tax. An additional $16,040.95 has been collected in automobile taxes during August. - School Closes for Summer. ‘The Washington School for Secre- taries closed its Summer classes Fri- day. Students and faculty will be on vacation until reopening of the school on September 3. Class new eqt classes. nt added for the Fall -1 A. Wheeler, | ’roau will be enlarged and | to proceed and has an initial appro- | ¢lude Joe Lewis, the rising colored heaveyweight, and two famous colored track athletes, Jesse Owens of Ohio State University and Eulace Peacock of Temple University. | _If Congress has not adjourned, \Preeidem Roosevelt will review the | colored Elks parade in the afternoon | of August 27 An invitation was | presented to him at the White House | recently by a delegation of Elks potentates. The big event of the Shrine eon- vention will be a parade Wednesday. | Forming at 1 pm. at Constitution avenue and Fourth street, marching units will move west to Seventeenth street, north on Seventeenth, east on State place and South Executive ave- nue, around the White House to East Executive avenue, north on East Executive avenue, Madison place, Ver- mont avenue and Fifteenth street to Q street, east to Fourteenth street, then north to U street, east to Ver- mont avenue, north to V street, east to Georgia avenue and south on Georgia to the American League ball park. where the parade will disband. The same route will be followed by the Knights Templar when they parade the following afternoon, August 22. Parade organizers promised livel music by 10 or more bands as well as floats and decorated automobiles. Dead to be Honored. The memorial service at the Asbury M. E. Church tonight will be for Knights Templar and Shriners who died during the past year. A public reception for the colored Shriners, Knights Templar and their women folk will be held at 10 am. tomorrow at the Garner-Patterson | Junior High School. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen has agreed to address the assemblage. Dr. Louis S. Terry will speak on behalf of Washington's colored business and professional men and J. Finley “Little Napoleon” Wil- | son, grand exalted ruler of the colored | Elks, for his organization. An address of welcome will be given by Louis W. Roy, grand master of the colored Shrine order. The reception is to be followed by cpening business sessions of the Shrine, Knights Templar and Daugh- ters of Isis. These and subsequent sessions will be held in the colored | Masonic Temple at Tenth and U | streets. Meetings on Tuesday. Tuesday will be devoted to meetings tof the Knights Templar, International Grand Guild, International Cenfer- ence of the Holy Royal Arch, and | International Grand Court of Cyrene. Delegates to both conventions will be | entertained Tuesday night on a Po- | tomac River boatride aboard the | steamer Southport. The Grand Chap- ter of the Order of the Eastern Star | will present an allegory Tuesday mid- | night at the Lincoln Theater. A competitive drill by colored Shrine | marching units has been scheduled for Griffith Stadium at 4:40 pm. Thursday following continued busi- ness sessions. The convention’s grand ball will be held at the Masonic Tem- ple Wednesday night. On Thursday, after their parade, the Knights Templar will attend a field day at Griffith Stadium. Their (See MASONS, Page B-3.) ILLNESS OF THREE BLAMED ON CANDY Louis Ronk, 8, in Undetermined Condition at Georgetown Hospital. An 8-year-old boy was in an unde- | termined condition in Georgetown | Hospital last night and two other per- sons were made ill as a result of hav- ing eaten some candy purchased at & Wisconsin avenue store late yesterday. Louis Ronk, 8, of 4309 Wisconsin avenue, the most seriously affected, was treated at the Hospital together with Elizabeth Ronk, 27, and Everett Ronk, 17. The child was admitted, while the other two were permitted to go home after treatment. Eightlr precinct police took the box from which the candy had been pur- chased and will submit it to health | authorities for analysis. The candy | was of a variety put up In Individual U % -