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| LEGION EXPECTED T0 GALL FOR CASH Maryland Convention Due to Adopt Resolution for Bonus Payment. By the Associated Press. OCEAN CITY, Md., August 24— The Maryland Department of the Amercsn Legion probably will adopt & resolution, at its annual conven- tion, beginning here September 4, calling for immediate peyment of the bonus. The convention concludes Beptember 7. Informed sources in Legion circles said tours of the State indicated that sentiment was overwhelming for adop- tion of such a resolution. Several such resolutions adopted by individ- ual posts already have been sent to State headquarters for submission at the convention. It also is known that resolutions favoring liberalization of Federal laws and rulings affecting veterans will be presented to the convention. - Three Seek Post. ‘The race for the post of State com- mander has three entries and it ap- pears that there will not be any other candidates. The men seeking to suc- ceed John F. McNulty as State com- mander are: Paul M. Higginbotham, Baltimore; Roy L. Pyle, Phoenix, and Charles Houck, jr, Walkersville. Pyle now is vice commander of the Western Maryland district and is a member of the Department Executive Committee. He is a past commander of the Joseph L. Davis Post. Higginbotham, well-known Balti- more attorney, is commander of the German H. H. Emory Post of Balti- more. Houck is past commander of the Francis Scott Key Post of Fred- erick and is past vice commander of the Western Maryland district. Program Completed. A well-filled program for the four- day convention has been arranged by Alex T. Grier. Included will be the annual parade of posts, Drum Corps | contests, crab feasts, outfit reunions | and dancing. Business sessions will be held during the mornings only, leaving the afternoons and nights free for amusements. Gov. Harry W. Nice will speak at the opening session Wednesday night. Other speakers scheduled for the ‘Wednesday night session include Mayor Howard W. Jackson of Balti- more and Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor. Officers for the coming year and delegates to the National Convention will be elected Saturday. ‘The auxiliary, the 40 and 8, the 8 and 40 and the Sons of the Legion will hold their conventions during the same four days. RHODE ISLAND BUS PLAN TO BE STUDIED! Utilities Body to Consider Rerout- | ing to Relieve Congestion on Monroe Street. Rerouting of westbound busses of the Rhode Island avenue line from Monroe street northeast to some other crosstown street. will be considered to- morrow by the Public Utilities Com- missino, Richmond B. Keech, vice chairman, announced yesterday. Decision is to be delayed until in- terested groups have been given op- portunity to voice their views. Peo- ple’s Counsel William A. Roberts has asked for a study of proposals. The purpose is to relieve congestion | and trafic hazards along Monroe street, particularly in the section near Twelfth street northeast. One group of residents of the neighborhood has proposed that busses be operated on | Monroe street only one way, east- bound, and that another street be | used for westbound busses. Roberts has asked Traffic Director ‘Van Duzer to submit recommendations concerning _traffic conditions that would be affected by such a change. VIRGINIA PARALYSIS TOTAL 63 FOR WEEK | Lowest Number Since July 20 Is Reported—Six New Cases Yesterday. By the Assoclated Press. RICHMOND, Va., August 24— With the report of six cases today, the total of infantile paralysis cases in Virginia this week reached 63, the lowest number since the week ended July 20. The total recorded thus far in August is 247. The reports received by the State Board of Health today came from: Roanoke City, 2; Princess Anne County, 2; Botetourt County, 1, and Richmond City, 1. POLICE TO B.E TRAINED FOR WEEK IN METHODS Martinsburg, W. Va., Selected as Site for New State En- forcement School. Bpectal Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va, August 34.—This city is to be the scene of a week-long training school for police- men at an undetermined date this Fall s the result of action taken at a meet- ing of the State Association of Police Chiefs held at Morgantown this week. ‘The local meeting will be one of a Beries of such schools to be held at Morgantown, Charleston, Parkersburg and Bluefleld. : Instructors for the classes are to be furnished by the State Department cf Public Safety and the United States Department of Justice, it was dis- closed. The program is sponsored by the West Virginia League of Munici- palities, RIFLE CLUB CHARTERED Cissel-Saxon Legion Group Gets National Certificate. ' @pectal Dispatch to The Star. " SILVER SPRING, Md, August 24. —Cissel-Saxon Rifle Club, sponsored by the local post of the American Legion, has been granted a charter by the National Rifle Association. The club has a cliarter membership of 44. Officers of the new club are Thur- man C. Metcalf, president; Sidney “‘Walter, vicé president; Harold Giusta, secretary; Charles J. Clifford, treas- urer, and Lewis V. Kreh, executive efficer. g THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, District, Camp Comes to Front 206 Young Workers Making Beauty Spot of Fort Dupont, Summer or Winter, in any kind their labors in camps within the city limits of Washington. in Southeast Section. of weather, C. C. C. workers pursue At the top youths are shown acquiring brawn and brown while clearing land for a pleasure park at Fort Dupont, Southeast Washington. At the lower left lads are shown at work in Midwinter at a nearby camp. At the right, fell- ing trees on the Fort Dupont project. BY JOSEPHINE TIGHE WILLIAMS. | LMOST one-third of the entire area of the District of Colum- | bia lies east of the Anacostia | River, a rugged, high section | having a high ridge overlooking main | ‘Washington on the west and Prince | Georges County, Md., on the east. It was as long ago as 1913 that| Congress appropriated money for the | purchase of 367 acres within that area | in order to preserve the sites of F‘on; Dupont and Fort Davis and with the | ultimate project of creating the land | into a beautiful pleasure park and ex- | tensive picnic grounds. As planned, there is finally to be & play meadow, outdoor theater, four picnic areas, golf courses, club house, swimming pools, trails, fine roads and | shelters, all enhanced with an historic sentiment and atmosphere. | But until 18 months ago the 367! acres remained a forest primeval, ex- cept for a number of municipal and government reservations. Then a Ci- | vilian Conservation Camp. known in alphabet soup as the “C. C. Cs,” was established at Fort Dupont, and its quota of 206 young men became as busy as the proverbial bee and are at this moment transforming a wooded wilderness into something fast taking on scheme, color, beauty, comfort and all the pleasures and advantages orig- inally intended by the Federal and city government. Situated Near Benning. Fort Dupont is situated begin- | —Photos by National Park Service. D. C, AUGUST 25, 1935—PART ONE. COLORED VOTERS FORM HARRY W, NICE CLUBS Special Dispateh to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 24— Under direction of Simon O. Smith, Central Committee for Montgomery County, Harry W. Nice Clubs were organized among colored voters of the Germantown during the week, in- creasing to 11 the number of such W. & J,. Sloane and reveled in Rock Creek Park, so will they visit and delight in the com- pleted Dupont Park. Southeast Washington might have been without its pleasure park and playgrounds for decades to come, ex- cept for the depression. The C. C. C. boys’ came to Fort Dupont, saw, and. by manual labor, by young musclez. | courage and fine camraderie, are fast | conquering that forest primeval. The | work accomplished so far by these groups of 206 young men, their ages ranging from 18 to 25 years, is notable. For readers not familiar with ar- rangement and routine of the C. C. C. camps, a hasty resume of them may be of interest. Applicants for the corps must, in the first place, be within an established age limit—which until recently was from 18 to 25 years, but is now extended to 35 years, and each would-be “civilian soldier boy” must have one or two dependents. The salary is $30 per month (and entire “keep”), $25 of which goes to de- pendents. Five dollars is allowed each member for his own personal need.s.; Necessities Provided. | Your C. C. C. boy at the camp is provided with all the necessities of life. At Camp Dupont five barracks house about 42 individuals each. | Although strictly civilian ~ Army methods are observed as to quarter- ing, feeding, hours and general rules. | “You gotto get up, you gotta get up,” | is sounded not by a bugle but by the sharp screech of a whistle at 5:45 the National Capital Park Service, with Mr. Marshall Finnan as super- intendent of the Dupont units. In addition to the splendid creative work done by these proud young civ- ilians they are learning trades and professions that will stand them in good stead when their three six-month periods (the law's allowance) are completed and they leave camp. Another group of Workers is engaged in building stone fireplaces all about the picnic grounds. Here and there young chaps in slacks and heavy boots or shoes are making long, narrow pic- nic tables, with benches to match, fashioned from halves of tree trunks. All over Dupont Park these advan- tazes are being placed, together with graded rcads, quaint trails, bird sanc- tuaries, shelters and all that goes to make a grade A family picnic and pleasure park. Work, during the hours from 5 to 10, except for small domestic duties, is not compulsory—but a swimming pool is. So the boys have dug and cemented a pool 10 feet deep, with diving boards and “everything.” The water is changed every day and that pool is seldom empty of splashers. Then there is a large recreation hall, with a post exchange at one end. Attend Night School. Everything around and about sug- gests activity in the higher things of life. Many of the young worker-stu- dents attend night classes at McKin- ley High or Abbot Vocational Schools ning in about the 3600 block of | week days, later on Sunday. Break- | twice a week. B street southeast, not far from Ben- | ning, and it is within its conflnes that | the only C. C. C. camps within the | District of Columbia are located. | Seemingly few persons except those | of the southeast are at all familiar | with this local C. C. C,, its upbuilding | or the splendid work it is accomplish- ing. But to those who have followed an industry of the young the result is amazing and pleasing. A year and a half ago, when the first contingent arrived at Fort Dupont, they proceeded to first clear out enough land on which to establish the company camp. Trees and stumps were removed, grading accomplished, water and sewage provided, water shed arranged for, barracks built. All this before a step could be made toward creation of the proposed pleasure park. Just as Washingtonians have visited fast at 6:15, work call, 7:40; dinner, | 12:15; work recall and labor until 3:45. And grueling hard work it is, that of forestry, road building, grad- ing and general use of shovel, pick, ax and saw. Supper at 5 o'clock and | then heigho—to do as one pleases | until 10 p.m., when Ole Man Whistle | demands, “Lights out!” After breakfast big trucks trans- port the civilian “buddies” to that part of Fort Dupont immediately under construction. Those appor- tioned to forestry are busy lopping off branches, chopping down fqrest kings, thinning out and many times filling with cement the rotted “teeth” of trees which have felt the effects of age or elements. Not only the forestry end, of de- veloping the great park, but all of the ramifications come directly under | All classes in both schools are welr attended, the scholars being trans- ported to and from by camp trucks. On Sunday the same trucks are used for the large number of young men desiring to attend religious services in Washington. Regular courses offered within the camp itself consist of ground school in aviation, forestry, citizenship, cur- rent events, motor mechanics, read- ing and writing, or how to secure a job. The required courses given in camp are few, but embrace Red Cross instruction, park service safety meas- ures, given once a week by an Army staff instructor; hyglene series, by camp physician, and vocational guid- ance talks, presented by the Kiwanis Club of Washington. The ground school of aviation is by way of two planes from the Navy field, this city. CHILDREN TO GIVE MARIONETTE SHOW Presentation at Cooke Playground | Tomorrow to Climax 2 Months of Preparation. A marionette show will be staged at the Henry D. Cooke playground, Seventeenth and Euclid streets, at 3 pam. tomorrow, as the climax to two months of preparation. A group of boys and girls have built & stage, modeled the characters and costumed them and learned to ma- nipulate the strings and will speak the lines of a fairy tale which will be staged. The program has been directed by Miss Elizabeth Smith. Later in the week and next week the group will stage the production at other playgrounds, it is announced by Miss Sibyl Baker, playground super- visor. Girls of the Francis Junior High School playground will hold a doll show tomorrow at 3:30 pm. and a similar show will be given at 2 pm. at the Brookland playground. Folk dances will be given by children of the Murch, _Lafayette and Chevy Chase playgrounds, at the latter play- ground at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday. There will be a baby show at the Langdon playground at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday and children of the Weightman play- ground will stage a costume parade and baby show at 3 o'clock Tuesday. High, Fillmore, Langdon, Hardy, Brookland and Barnard playgrounds. | Walker Stadium playground will be the scene of & hobby show Friday and a handwork show Saturday. ‘INTEREOLLEGIATE UNIT PLANS BEACH OUTING D. C. Division Will Have Crab Feast and Entertainment Next Saturday. The District Division of the Inter- collegiate Organizations of America will hold its annual outing next Satur- day at Liverpool Beach on the Poto- mac River, 50 miles below Wash- ington. Leon Sclavy, chairman of the Dis- trist division, announced that the steamer Potomac, leaving its Seventh street wharf at 1:30 p.m. and return- | ing to Washington at 7:30 p.m., will convey the party to and from the beach. A crab feast, boating and en‘ertain- ment will feature the party, with con- certs by the Elks Club Boys' Band. Virginia C. Bailey, .chairman of the Entertainment Committee, is in charge of all arrangements. Students and former students in Washington are in- vited to attend and may call William Bechman at District 4246 to make reservations. Thers are 1214 members in the Congress Heights playground will have STREET CAR.HEARING T0 DEBATE PETITION One-Man Operation of New Car-| riers Requested by Capi- tal Transit Co. The petition of the Capital Transit | Co. for permission to convert its 20 new street cars to one-man operation will be debated at a public hearing before a decision is reached, the Pub- lic Utilities Commission announced yesterday. \ 2 Date for the hearing has not been set. The commission is awaiting & report from its chief engineer, Fred A. Sager, on the effect of one-man operation on safety, time of operation and other points. The change was asked by Presi- dent John H. Hanna of the transit company so economies would be ef- fected which he held essential be- cause of the $700,000 wage increase for coapany employes. Tecple’s Counsel William A. Roberts has attacked the request on .the grou-d thc: when the style of the new cars was approved by the com- mission that agency -pecified they must 22 > both conductor and motor- man. 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