Evening Star Newspaper, September 5, 1936, Page 12

THD WONEN FED INSTABBNGDEATH 0F EXFRE FGHTE Retired Fireman Is Found Dead in Kitchen of Southeast House. INQUEST TENTATIVELY ORDERED FOR TUESDAY ‘Autopsy to Be Performed Today. Stained Paring Knife Taken by Police. Two women were held for investiga- tion at the Woman's Bureau today after William G. Jenkins, 49, a retired fireman, was found dead, apparently from loss of blood from stab wounds, in a house in the §00 block of Tenth street southeast. Police called several times at the house yesterday when neighbors com- plained repeatedly of disturbances there. Not long after the 1--t visit, a Casualty Hospital ambulance was sum- moned. In the kitchen Jenkins was found dead, slumped in a chair. He was tie- less and coatless, and blood flowed from two wounds in his right thigh. One cut was nearly 3 inches deep. Police arrested Mrs. Anne Marie Banford, 42, owner of the place, and & roomer, Edna Margaret Weaver, 35. | They were questioned, but gave no in- formation about how Jenkins was killed. Coroner A. Magruder MacDenald said Jenkins apparently had been bleeding for some time before the ambulance was called. An autopsy will be performed today and the in- quest has been set tentatively for ‘Tuesday. Katherine Elkins Hitt’s THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1936. Death Closes Era and Lost Romance West Virginia Beauty’s Thwarted Love Gave Start to Empire. BY MARK BARRON. Associated Press Staff Writer. NEW YORK, September 5.—The requiem of a romance that inspired an African empire was intoned today across the bier of Katherine Elkins Hitt in Washington, D. C. ‘The death in a New York hospital of the daughter of the late Senator from West Virginia wrote the final chapter to the lost love of the late Duke of Abruzzi, ceusin of King Vic- tor Emanuel of Italy. It was the Duke of Abruzzi who, 30 years ago, was forbidden by his king to pursue his courtship of the proud, lovely daughter of Senator Stephen B. El- kins. Heartbroken, the tall, lean noble- man plunged into his explorations of the deserts and jungles of Somaliland and Ethiopia, made everlasting friends of the Sidamo and Borano tribes of savages, established his Utopian col- ony of the Villagio Della Ducca Del Abruzzi, and died there in 1933. Story Told in African Hut. Moving up with the Italian troops on the Dolp offensive that resulted in the capture of Neghelli last February, this correspondent camped for a night in the Abruzzi village, and there heard for the first time the story of the thwarted romance of the American girl and her royal Italian courtier. Only two days before our arrivel in the village with a detachment of the Aosta Lancers, the native hospital had received an automatic refrigerator and { other gifts from the “Signorina” El- | kins, but when I filed a story that | night telling of the receipt of her an- | nual gifts there was doubt in the cen- sor’s voice. “His majesty Is still sensitive about the Duke of Abruzzi's romance,” he explained as he blue-penciled the copy. | From 1908 to 1910 it was though: | almost certain that she would wed the Jenkins, who won a ribbon decoration for rescue work during the Knicker- bocker catastrophe, formerly was at- tached to No. 3 Engine Company, ad- Joining the first precinct police station. He was injured seriously four years ago ‘when a police squad car skidded into him as he was standing at the fire house entrance. retired for disability. Police found several kitchen knives, including a stained paring knife, which may have caused the wounds. On the premises also, police said, was & quantity of beer and whisky bottles. 'PROPAGANDA SEEN IN C. C. C. CAMPS William Hard Accuses Democrats of Holding Job Threat Over Workers. By the Associated Press. A charge that the Democratic Na- tional Committee is spreading propa- ganda in C. C. C. camps in an ef- fort to convince the men there that Gov. Landon would abolish their jobs was made last night by William Hard, Republican commentator. “This propaganda is conducted through a periodical called Happy Days,” said Hard in a broadcast for the Republican National Committee. “This periodical is bought in bulk by C. C. C. camps for distribution in the mess halls. It is published and edited by Mr. Melvin Ryder. Mr. Ryder—according to the Washington office of the Democratic National Committee—is employed by the com- ittee.” Hard added that “it is well known that the C. C. C. camps, in and of themselves, have the overwhelm- ing support of the members and lead- | ers of both great political parties.” | GEN. RUFUS LONGAN, RETIRED, SUCCUMBS Distinguished by Services World War—Had Several Tours of Duty Here. Brig. Gen. Rufus E. Longan, 73, U. 8. A, retired, who served with dis- tinction during the World War and later was on several tours of duty in ‘Washington, died Thursday in a St Louis hospital, according to word re- ceived here. Gen. Longan was awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Medal for “excep- tionally meritorious and distinguished service” as chief of staff of the Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, N. J., from December, 1917, to December, 1918. He also held the Navy Cross and sev- eral other decorations for efficient and outstanding service. His duty here included that of per- sonnel and executive officer in the office of the Chief of Infantry frem July, 1921, to January, 1922, and as head of the Transportation Branch, Bupply Division, War Department General Staff, from January, 1922, to April, 1923. He was retired July 31, 1923, His widow, Mrs. Sue Longan, is among survivors. Burial was scheduled to be held at Jeflerson Barracks, Mo. 500 IN W. P, A. LAID OFF Engineering Group Was Absent More Than 70 Pct. of Time. NEW YORK, September 5 (#).—Col. B. B. Somervell, W. P. A. administra- tor, said yesterday he had given orders for the layoff of 500 men in the engineering division shown by a check- up to have been absent from the job more than 70 per cent of the time. He said he believed many of the 800 were engaged in other work. The W P. A, he said, did not pay the men for the time they were absent. ‘There are 15,000 men in the engi- neering division. in BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in the bandstand at 6:30 p.m. today. John 6. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. *Capital City" Overture, “Sf Descriptive Fantasia, “Mountain Life” Grand selection from the opera “Martha” -Flotow Entr'Acte (a) “Serenade”. (b) “Serenade Espagnole” ‘Waltz de concert, “Autrefois” (In Times Gone By)....Waldteufel -De Staiger He subsequently was i Duke of Abruzzi at a time when it | was reported he would be crowned | King of Albania. Neither was to be, | however, and he went away to East | Africa to continue his explorations {and to build his model colony along | the crocodile-infested Webbi Scebelli iver. Village Flourishes Now. Today, on the brink that separates Jjungle and desert, Abruzzi Village flourishes there, with its wealth of | cotton, sugar cane and other plants | that the duke imported and experi- ! mented with from the far corners of | the earth. His house in Abruzzi Village stands untouched just as it was the day he died in 1933, and when I walked through it last December there were only two pictures on the walls of the living room—King Victor Emanuel and the late Katherine Elkins Hitt. | The two met when the duke, the | Prince Luigi Amedo of Savoy-Aoata, came to America in 1908 as com- mander of a group of Italian warships. “Here was no ordinary, swarthy, foppish Italian nobleman,” Evalyn Walsh McLean wrote in her auto- biography. “This was a man who seemed to be the essence of nobility.” He Never Did Marry. He was & man who had explored the Arctic regions, plunged across | the high mountains of the Himalays | and Alaska, and in the end, had | chosen the jungles and deserts of East Africa as his exploration fields, there to forget or remember the stately, lovely girl from West Virginia. He never married. In the lush, jungle fields of Abruzzi Village are evidences of his brusque, untiring work in an effort to forget the American girl he loved, but who was forbidden to him by his cousin and King. Besides the bountiful crops of cotton, sugar cane, rice, bananas and other produce, there are even a few small factories manufacturing soap, molasses, tools and sugar. In 1913 Miss Elkins married Wil- liam F. Hitt, son of a former Illinois member of Congress. In 1921 she CONGERTS TO END AT WATER GATE Tomorrow Night’s Program to Conclude Season Hailed as Success. With the presentation of its final concert at the Water Gate tomorrow night, the Washington Summer Con- certs Association will end a Summer music season “highly successful in every way,” according to Thomas J. Mullikin, association manager. Mullikin revealed today the orches- tra’s proceeds for the 22 concerts, in- cluding the fnal one tomorrow, will be approximately $17,000, of which $10,000 was paid out in salaries to the orchestra members. The concerts were presented on a co-operative basis by the musicians. Comparing his figures with those of the first series of Summer con- certs last year, Mullikin pointed out that the National Symphony Orches- tra Association received approximately $21,000 for last Summer’s series, pay- ing out approximately $9,000 in sal- aries. The Federal Government made a grant of $5,600 for the musicians’ salaries last year, in addition to the orchestra’s $9,000. This year the Summer Concerts Association did not receive such a grant. “The most notable aspect. of the season, however, was the high spirit of the musicians in the face of dif- ficulties,” Mullikin said. “Every guest conductor commented on their will- ingness to co-operate.” The association manager said many concerts were presented after only one P - MRS. K. E. HITT. (Photo taken shortly after her marriage, in 1915.) DUKE OF ABRUZZI. divorced him in Paris, but remarried him in Washington in 1923. She always remembered the Duke of Abruzzi, as evidenced by her small but thoughtful gifts to the natives in Abruzzi Village, where he is buried under a simple headstone in the sand that lies at the edge of the Jjungle. He Helped Italy’s Conquest. Not only is the Duke of Abruzzi re- membered with honor in East Africa because of his agricultural experi- ments and his efforts to improve the lots of the natives, but his friendly explorations were of powerful assist- ance to the Italian column which Viceroy Rodolfo Graziani led toward Addis Ababa last Spring. Accompanying Graziani, I saw tribe after tribe of Sidamo and Borano | savages come in peaceful submission to the Italians, they remembering their friendship with the Duke of Abruzzi. And it was the Duke of Abruzzi's friend, the Sultan Olol (which means “loud-mouthed”) Dinle, who led his Italian push on Sassabaneh and Ha rar, cutting the caravan route be- tween Addis Ababa and the Red Sea. Now Katherine Elkins is dead, both an era and a romance are closed, and Italy has the empire that the thwarted love of this West Virginia girl began. FUNERAL TODAY. Burial {0 Follew in Rock Creek Cemetery. Funeral services for Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt, socially prominent horse- woman, who died Thursday in New York, were scheduled to be held here at 3:30 pm. today at the home of her mother-in-law, Mrs. Robert R. Hitt, 1501 New Hampshire avenue. with burial in Rock Creek Cemete: Mrs. Hitt, and her husband, William P. Hitt, spent most of their time at their home in Middleburg, Va. but frequently visited at the New Hamp- shire avenue address. 3) NEW BUSSES 10 BE PURCHASED Utilities Body to Give Formal Approval Soon to Transit Proposal. The Public Utilities Commission next week will approve a proposal by the Capital Transit Co. to purchase 30 new 4l-passenger busses, to be used to strengthen its- service, pro- vided no objection is raised to specifi- cations, which is not expected. The additional busses will increase to 511 the number operated by the company. The company has added 257 to its service since the merger of the old Capital Traction and the Washington Railway & Electric Cos. in December, 1933. The 30 new busses are to cost $336,100, the commission was in- formed by E. D. Merrill, general man- ager of the merged concern. They will be used to replace three old dou- ble-decker busses, used at times on the Sixteenth street line, and in rush-hour service on all major lines. Since the merger the company has bought 20 new street cars and 30 second-hand one-man cars, and has asked the commission for permission to buy 20 additional cars to replace an equal number of two-man cars. This petition is still before the com- mission. RAINS SOAK PLAINS Three Inches Fall Over Northeast rehearsal. Some of these included compositions never played here be- fore. After the final concert, the at- tendance total will have reached ap- proximately 100,000, officials esti- mated. e KAHLERT SEASON ENDING A play tonight and a banquet to- morrow night will conclude this sea- son’s activities at Camp Kahlert, Y. W. C. A, vacation retreat at Sudley, Md. Written by campers and directed by Mrs. Alice 8. Morse, dramatic “The House That Jack Built,” a three-act play, will be pre- Finale, “Captain Smith”__Dr. Putnam “The Star Spangled. élnur." sented at 6:30 tonight. The banquet wlubnh-ldltlp.n.rarm'. Kansas—Dust Bowl Drenched. ‘TOPEKA, Kans,, September 5 (#).— Rains soaked the parched plains of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and the ‘Texas panhandle last night with long overdue moisture. . Along the northeast Kansas border the fall was 3 inches in some counties, and the entire area received at least three-fourths of an inch. Several motorists were flooded out in Kansas City, Mo., by the downpour. Rains were general throughout the State. Oklahoma’s northwestern = counties, “dust bow]” of the southwest, reported rains varying from 3% inches to light showers nearer the central counties. Two youths were reported drowned on a lake near Altus during a thun- derstorm. In the Texas Panhandle the fall was mmh&l‘rn el |road branch to Rosslyn, Va. savage hordes in the advance of the| COLUMBIA ISLAND HIGHWAY BRIDGE PLANS ARE PUSHED Bids for Span, Major Park- way Project, to Be Asked Soon. PARKING AREA NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION Development Eventually to Link Lee Boulevard With George Washington Memorial Drive. Improvements are being pushed in the George Washington Memorial Parkway area, in the vicinity of Co- lumbia Island, with construction of a new three-arch stone bridge across Boundary Channel in the forefront, Federal officials said today. Co-operating in the program are the Bureau of Public Roads, the Na- tional Park Service and its subor- ganization, the National Capital Parks, along with the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission and the Fine Arts Commission. Officials of the Public Roads Bu- reau said working plans for the new bridge, to be built at the northwest corner of Columbia Island, are about 90 per cent complete. They expect to advertise for bids this Fall, probably in six to eight weeks, Parking Area Under Way. A parking area is now under con- struction at the north end of Colum- bia Island, so future visitors to Theo- dore Roosevelt Island may leave their automobiles there. Present plans of the National Park Service provide that there will be no motor traffic on Theodore Roosevelt Island, and no bridge will connect Columbia Island with the former. One span of the new bridge will rest on Columbia, providing an under- pass for motorists desiring to use the parking area. The central span will cross Boundary Channel proper, while the third arch will provide horseback riders and hikers in the George Washington Memorial Parkway with an underpass of their own. West of the new three-arch stone Boulevard, another structure will be built across the Pennsylvania Rail- ‘This structure will be constructed with three openings, the central one for heavy duty truck road, to be built west of the George Washington Me- morial Parkway drive, and the east- erly one for other vehicular traffic. Provision will be made for hooking up George Washington Memorial Parkway traffic with Lee Boulevard. The money is now in hand, park officials said, for the railroad over- pass, but final plans have not as yet been completed. A ferry is projected between Co- lumbia and Roosevelt Islands. The bridge connecting Roosevelt with the Virginia mainland, near Columbia, was washed away in the flood last March. A causeway at the upstream end of Roosevelt will be reconditioned un- der plans of the National Park Serv- ice, so that visitors may walk across near Rosslyn. There are no funds yet available for this job. In the George Washington Me- morial Parkway between Arlington Memorial and Key Bridges a road- bed constructed of fill is now beifg allowed to settle preparatory to sur- facing. The Roads Bureau is work- ing on plans for an adequate ap- y.|proach to that section of the park- way south of Key Bridge. The plan highway upstream of Key Bridge. The tentative program calls for a new span to be built on the Virginia side of Key Bridge as an underpass, carrying motor traffic up the Potomac Valley. FIRE-PREVENTION WEEK PROCLAIMED President Calls on Nation to Stop Loss of Life and Property by Taking More Care. ‘The White House today made public & proclamation by the President desig- nating the week of October 4 as “Fire- Prevention week.” It called on the people of the Nation to co-operate in the elimination of existing fire hazards to the end that “the loss of life, the destruction of property and the suf- fering caused thereby may be still further reduced.” Pointing out that the annual loss to the United States from fires in- cludes thousands of human lives and milliens “of dollars in property, the President said this loss has been materially reduced by preventive meas- ures during recent years. Further improvements, he added, can be brought about by common ef- fort to eliminate fire hazards and to prevent destructive fires in the home, school, factory, forest and on the farm. —— SAMUEL E. LEWIS DIES; WAS EMPLOYE OF CITY Clerk for 25 Years Was Member of Sports Clubs Organized Here Many Years Ago. Samuel E. Lewis, 71, died yesterday after a long illness at his home, 1411 Tenth street. He was a clerk in the District government, and his family had long lived here. Mr. Lewis as & young man was an early member of the old Capital Bi- cycle Club, organized in 1879. He was also a member of the old Co- lumbia Boat Club. He had been in the District government for 25 years, after leaving the dental supply busi- ness of his father, Edward J. Lewis. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Eva Houston Lewis, and a daughter, Miss Dorothy D. Lewis. Funeral serv- ices will be at his late home at 2:30 p.m. Monday, with burial in Rock Creek Cemetery. Holland Speeds Air Service. THE HAGUE, Holland (#)—The purchase of eight American-built Douglass transport planes, constructed by the Douglas Aircraft Co. at Santa Monica, Calif, has been confirmed here. The planes are to shorten the Amsterdam-Batavia voyage from five to four days.& bridge, in the future line of the Lee | the railroad, the westerly one for a | contemplates a connection with Lee | § New Bridge to Serve Virginia-D. C. A new three-span stone bridge will be erected soon across Boundary Channel, running from the northwestern corner of Columbia Island to the Virginia mainland, linking up with the Lee Boulevard and the George Washington Memorial Parkway. A parking area is being built at the north end of Columbia Island, one span of the new bridge serving as an underpass to reach this; the middle span crossing Boundary Channel and the arch resting on the Virginia shore serving as an underpass for pedestrians and horseback riders in the parkway. —Fairchild Aerial Photo. QUODDY TOBECOME SCHOOL FOR YOUTH Roosevelt Temporarily Turns Project to Train- ing in Trades. BY NELSON M. SHEPARD. National attention again was focused today on Passamaquoddy Village | where Congress halted work this Spring on Maine’s unique $30,000,000 tidal power project, as New Deal officials, already arrived on the scene, plunged into plans to use its abandoned facilities as & model work camp and training school for unemployed youths. The immediate effect of President Roosevelt's order turning the “deserted village” over to the National Youth Administration was to defer until next year, at least, the resumption of work on the huge Maine project which the President started, without authorization from Congress, with a $7,000,000 work relief allotment. What the new Congress, to be elected Novem- ber 3, decides to do about Quoddy and the Florida ship canal, which the out-going Congress also halted, remains to be seen. As a nucleus: for the proposed youth demonstration at Quoddy, the Govern- ment has an investment of $2,500,- 000 in comfortable workmen'’s homes, extensive machine shops and equip- ment. To Take Over in Month. Now only about 400 of the army of workmen remain and engineers are removing the machinery for the con- struction of the huge reservoirs for harnessing the tide water to other projects. Within a month’s time, the Youth Administration is expected to take complete possession. The idea of converting the avail- able facilities at Quoddy into a con- structive project to stimulate the morale and train boys and girls to earn & living in industry or at some useful trade was coneived by Presi- dent Roosevelt. Ever since Congress withdrew funds for continuing work on the tidal power project, New Deal planners have had their eyes on Quoddy. The War Department announced late yesterday that the “loan” of Quoddy to the National Youth Ad- ministration was temporary. Richard E. R. Brown, deputy exe- cutive director of N. Y. A., who came here from the Denver public schools to direct the expenditure of $71,000,~ 000 provided from relief funds to provide part-time jobs this year for some 600,000 young people, has am- bitious if immatured plans for the project at Quoddy. ' “My idea,” he said today, “is to establish a sort of ‘junior city’ govern- ment under official supervision, of course, 50 that the young people might be trained to a sense of respon- sibility and discipline.” A group of four N. Y. A. officials, he said, had just arrived at Quoddy to make a survey for the development of a model work project for the em- ployment of youths and the establish- ment of a training or vocational school. Deputy W. P. A. Administra- tor Aubrey Williams, who is also exe- cutive director of N. Y. A,, is planning to visit the site next week. Manufactaring Entailed. In a formal announcement, Mr. Brown said: “Our tentative plans are to carry on & work project, including prefabrication of materials to be used by youth programs throughout the country. Emphasis will be placed on vocational and skilled training through the use of shop and other facilities available.” He added there are ample facilities for 3,000 young people, but it is not certain how many will be quartered there. The aid of the Federal Office of Edu- cation also will be sought and confer- ences will be held with industrialists, Brown said. to determine the ' best methods and courses of instruction at the training school that is to be estab- lished. Boys and girls will be selected from those types which show an aptitude and intelligence for special training in trades. Special attention also will be given to the training staff. The machine and tool shops at Quoddy will be used to make furniture and other equipment for N. Y. A. pro- grams in various parts of the country. Orphan, 17, Nears Job at End Of Year as No @ Future Brighter for Boyf Whose Pup Tent Has Been Only Roof. A year's wanderings in seven States, with only a pup tent for lodg- | ing, seemed ended today for red- | haired Neil Crane, 17, of New York | City, as he was taken under the wing | of Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superin- tendent of police. | The young hitch-hiker will be sent | to the Police Boys' Clubs camp at Scotland Beach, Md. on Monday, it was said at police headquarters—and | if luck is with him, he'll get a job, either with a private firm or in the C. C. C. in the near future. Orphaned a year ago, he told Maj. Brown, when his mother died of grief | shortly after his father's death from | blood poisoning, Neil has been living on $75 left him by his mother and small sums earned frcm odd jobs. He has never been arrested, never been hungry and never ridden a freight, he declared. With his tent and cooking utensils in & pack slung from his | shoulder, & canteen in one hand and | a flashlight in his belt, Neil came to | ‘Washington three days ago in the| hope of landing a C. C. C. job. He| was sent to the Gospel Mission for | lodging, and Maj. Brown learned of his story through the Travelers' Aid Society. Until he arrived here, however, Neil lived almost exclusively out of doors, he said, pitching his tent just outside any town he happened to be in at the moment. Getting Neil ready for camp ap- peared a pretty big job. His ward- | robe consists of a sleeveless shirt, trousers and the same pair of shoes he was wearing when he set out from New York. When his mother died he collected | his equipment and set out to wander “because there didn't seem to be any- thing else to do.” First, he went up- state in New York, then through sev- VETERANS GUESTS OF THIRD CAVALRY Old-Timers See Review of Famous Regiment at Fort Myer. Third Cavalry veterans of three Wars were guests of honor at a review of the famous regiment today on the review field at Fort Myer, Va. The veterans are members of the 3rd Cavalry Veterans' Association, now holding & reunion in the Hotel Pow- hatan. Under command of Col. J. M. Wainwright, all units of the 3rd Cav- alry, including the mounted band, participated in an escort to the stand- ards and regimental review in honor of the veterans. After the review, Troops E and F presented a short ex- hibition drill in the Fort Myer Riding Hall to give the “oldtimers” an idea of the state of training of the mod- ern cavalry. Troop E put on the musical ride seen by thousands during the last few years, while the Troop F ‘“rodeo riders” staged an exhibition of trick and fancy riding, concluding with the spectacular fire jump, for which the troap is noted. ‘The Fort Myer program for the vet- erans includes a luncheon in F barracks. The 3d Cavalry Veterans' Associa- tion is commanded by Col. Alfred Ballin,’U. 8. A, retired, now living in Columbus, Ohio. Others officers are Adjt. Tke Ed Shoemaker, Cedar Rap- ids, Iowa; Quartermaster Jake Wolfe, Cumberland, Md., and Willilam Kava- naugh, Chicago, chairman of the Ad- visory Board. Veterans of all wars from the Civil War to the World War inclusive are attending the reunion, the oldest member present being Reuben Wright, 93, & Civil War veteran. The reunion They can be converted to such use, it will close tomorrow night with a ban- quet and election of officers. School Opening Set in St. Marys. LEONARDTOWN, Md, September 5 (Special) —The public schools in St. Marys' County will open on Sep- Marshall Dent, Leonardtown: School to give the teach- s -'lnflu. . -— - mad in 7 States NEIL CRANE. —Star Staff Photo. eral of the New England States. He has no relatives. G.A.R.TO RESTAGE VICTORY MARCK 70th Annual Encampment Members to Parade on Pennsylvania Avenue. Memories of the last days of the Civil War, when Union veterans marched in victory up Pennsylvania avenue, will be revived September 23 by the fast-thinning ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic, who will come to Washington for their seventieth annual encampment. The youngest veteran, in his 87th year, will be accompanied by the few remaining “boys,” most all of whom are in their 90s, in the parade which will be a feature of the week's en- campment beginning Sunday, Sep- tember 20. Although the Union veterans will be guests of honor, more than 2,600 ad- ditional delegates in auxiliary groups of the Grand Army of the Republic from all sections of the country are expected. The total number of visi- tors, including members of families, is expected to exceed 5,000. The encampment will open officially Sunday afternoon, September 20, with services in the National Cathedral’s outdoor amphitheater. Rev. W. F. Singleton, colored preacher from Connecticut, is one of the oldest veterans who will at- tend the encampment. He is 101, and will be accompanied by his wife. He was a slave at the time of the Eman- cipation Proclamation, and later gathered 1,000 colored men, drilled them with cornstalks, and marched them into Washington to serve the Union. As a reward for this service he was made a colonel by his regiment. At the end of the struggle he entered the ministry. e MAN FALLS TO DEATH Window Washer Drops Three Floors at J. C. Dunn Residence. Wesley Cornell, colored, about 50, fell to his death today from the third floor of the home of James Clement Dunn, special assistant to the Sec- retary of State, at 27 Observatory circle. - Cornell was washing windows at the ps, Al POWER DELEGATES BEGIN ARRIVING FOR ROUND TABLE Engineers of World to Dis- cuss All Phases of Industry. WILL VISIT T. V. A. AND OTHER PROJECTS Panorama of Exhibits Opened at Mayflower Hotel, Where Headquarters Are. Delegates to the Third World Power Conference and the Second Congress on Large Dams were arriving in Washington today preparatory to bee ginning a week of round-table discus« gions here on all phases of the power industry. Among the earller arrivals were two groups of foreign delegates who have been making pre-conference tours of the big Federal power projects now in operation or under construction. Ine cluded in their itineraries were the | Tennessee Valley development and projects in the Southwest. Tomorrow, a delegation will inspect the Cono- wingo, Md, and Safe Harbor, Pa., dams. Conference headquarters was opened this morning at the Mayflower Hotel, but next week’s business sessions are scheduled at the Labor and Commerce Department auditoriums and Consti- tution Hall. The big banquet of the week, that of Thursday night, will be held in the Union Station, where the outer waiting room is being specially pre- pared for the occasion. A panorama of exhibits arranged by trade associations, Government de- partments and private utility com- panies opened this morning at the Mayflower Hotel. Meanwhile, officers of the confer- ence received additional papers from power authorities throgshout the world, discussing pertiner\ problems of the industry. These views are to be presented at various sessions, first of which is scheduled for Monday afternoon and the concluding one next Saturday. FACTORY HAZARDS STUDIED BY STATE Result to Furnish Maryland With Data for Control Legis- lation. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, September 5.—Indus- trial hazards which hang over Mary- land workmen—gases, dust, or poi- sonous fumes—are being listed by a health forces and the Office of Labor | special corps of workers from public health forces and the office of Labor and Statistics. Dr. R. H. Riley, State health officer said that 12 sanitary officers and some inspectors detailed by Henry Lay Duer, commissioner of Labor and statistics, were surveying industria] plants in Maryland counties. This work is about half done, he said. Three Baltimore City health of- ficers and other labor men are at work in Baltimore City. A total of eight labor men are engaged on the work. The city study will probably be finished by the end of this month. Results of the survey will be turned over to a special committee appointed by Gov. Harry W. Nice to study oc- | cupational diseases. The results of | the survey will be used by the com- mittee as the basis of a report or needed legislation to improve work- ing conditions. The committee was established by the recent Legislature. Names of individual plants are not used in the report, Dr. Riley said Factories are being referred to only | by number. Safeguards providec against various hazards are listed, but the State Health Department is no making recommendations about the provision of further safety devices “Similar surveys have been made under the direction of the Unitec States Public Health Service in other parts of the country.” Dr. Riley said “The number of employes is obtainec and special attention is given in eack plant to the character of the jobs per- formed, the type of raw materials used and to any products or by-product: of a potentially hazardous nature,” BOSTON MAN MISSING ON CHEVY CHASE VISIT Police Asked to Search for Papel Mill Supervisor, Who Disappeared. Py a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CHEVY CHASE, Md., September 5 —Poiice were asked today to searct for Cariton W. Cameron, 59-year-olt Boston man, who disappeared las night while here on a visit with friends Cameron, employed by the Federa Government as & supervisor in a pape mill at Pittsfield, Mass., and his wifi were visiting at the home of Mis Nellie McDonald of 6117 Brookevill road, a Washington school teacher at the time of his dicappearance. He left the McDonald home shortl, after 7 o'clock to go for a walk in th neighborhood and had not reappeare( this afternoon. His wife requestes Montgomery County police to insti tute a hunt for her husband. ‘When last- seen Cameron was wear ing a brown suede windbreaker over : brown shirt and also wore tan shoer He was described as being about ! feet 6% inches tall. COURT GIVES JUDGMENT Mary Miles Minter Wins Sul Against Convicted Embezzler. LOS ANGELES, September 5 (#).— Judgment of $79,738.24 against Lesli B. Henry, convicted embezzler, wa given in Superior Court yesterday & Mary Miles Minter, star of the silen screen, her mother, Mrs. Charlott Shelby, and Miss Minter's sister, Mri Margaret Shelby Fillmore. ‘The judgment was given in an ac counting suit brought by the thre women against Blyth & Co., brokerag firm, and Henry, its agent. Blyth & Co., settled its portion ¢ the action by paying $125,000. Henr recently completed a term in Sa Quentin Prison after conviction on charge that he misappropristed th L e | :