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Washington News BOWIE WILL PRESS INVESTIGATION OF POLICE-BOND RING Prosecutor Given Affidavits of 80 D. C. Drivers as Basis for Inquiry. FILE-KEEPING SYSTEM The Foening Shap WASHINGTON, D. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1936. Forgets Hurts at Ringside Jackie Jackson, Crippled, Shows Game- CHANGES HELD NEEDED Auto Club Attorney Says Motor- ists Were “Persecuted, Not Prosecuted.” The Prince Georges County grand jury has announced its in- tention of making a thorough in- vestigation of charges being pre- sented to it by the Keystone Automobile Club involving’ the wholesale arrest of Washington motorists, victims of an alleged bonding-fining racket. Washington motorists, victims of the alleged racket, are re- quested to communicate with the club’s attorney, Harvey L. Cobb, 1125 National Press Building, National 8608 or National 8816. By a Staft Correspondent ot The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., October 29.—Assurance that he would “vigor- ously prosecute” offenders in the al- leged police-bonding ring, object of an investigation by the Prince Georges County grand jury, was given to Key- stone Automobile Club officials by State’s Attorney Alan Bowie here last night. Attorney Harvey L. Cobb and George Keneipp, manager of the club's Wash- ington branch, conferred with the prosecutor here for half an hour as gets settled in her ringside seat. ness Herse]f in Recovery. 27, Washington’s most enthusiastic wrestling fan, who forgets her crippled legs and her long years in the hospital when she Star Staff Photo. BY W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr. | | HERE'S a lot of sporting blood | in Jackie Jackson'’s veins. Maybe she inherited it from | her great uncle, the late John | | L. Sullivan. Or, laughs Jackie, some- | body might have given it to her at the hospital. 2 At any rate, Jackie has abandoned | an invalid’s cot to become Washing- | ton’s No. 1 wrestling fan. She never | | misses a match, because in the ex- | | citement and thrill of combat she can they offered the testimony of 80 Dis- trict motorists for checking against Police Court records. The drivers’ statements, in affidavit form, will be the foundation of the inquiry into charges that police and bondsmen have swindled Capital autoists out of thousands of dollars through an “easy payment” fine system. System to Be Changed. According to recommendations of the recently recessed grand Bowie will appoint at least one investi- gator to assist him in the probe. He | declared that he did not know, until study of the affidavits, just what per- sonnel he would need. An auditor and a detective might be necessary, he said, but no appointment will be made before next weck. Regardless of possible indictments when the reconvenes within two months, 2 changes in the file- keeping system are needed, Bowie de- clared. He pointed out that all re- cords, from justice of the peace papeis through arrest books and court docu=- ments, should be “adequately num- bered and indexed so that a continual check on cases might be kept.” Although several hundred motorists have contacted Keystone since the in- vestigation was opened by the jury October 19, in only 80 cases were affi- | davits taken. Of these, Cobb said yes- terday, a dozen are suitable for prose- cution if court records support affiants’ contentions. The others, “indicatin police inefficiency and corruption,” will strengthen the evidence against about half a dozen officers. “We have ample evidence to show | that these motorists have been perse- cuted, not prosecuted,” Cobb said. Procedure Illustrated. In the strongest affidavits the pro- cedure is illustrated thusly: A motorist is arrested on a serious traffic charge. Placed under bond, he pays a bonding fee to the bondsmen. | ‘The latter then offers to “fix” the case by payment of the minimum fine and | costs to him. This sum usually | amounts to $101.50. After payment of the “fine” the motorist leaves, to hear no more of the case. But court records reveal that the charge has been re- duced and the case is settled in court by forfeiture of a small collateral payment and costs. This sum is | usually $11.70. What investigators will attempt to | show the grand jury when it recon- | venes is this: In numerous cases most of the motorist’s payment of “fine and costs” never-went to the court, and thus never went to the public treasury. Polish Destroyer Launched. ‘The second of two destroyers for the Poland Navy, stated to be the largest, fastest and most heavily armed, built in Great Britain, has been launched. Gas Director D. C. UTILITY HEAD NAMED TO UNITED STATES UNIT. MARCY L. SPERRY, President of the Washington Gas Light Co.,, who has been elected a member of the Board of Directors of the American Gas Association. The election jury, | | on. That’s where I want to sit. “lose herself” and become one with the roaring crowd. | | Jackie dreamed of this blissful | state but scarcely dared hope she | { could attain it during the five years | she lay in Emergency Hospital while | surgeons struggled to save her ebbing 11|(e and to restore her crushed legs. | Fought Gamely for Life. A score of blood transfusions and as many operations would have gone lin vain, doctors admitted, but for Jackie's own refusal to accept defeat— her sporting blood. Now she is on the road to complete independence, she feels, and within the next 12 | months will toss her crutches out of | the window. | But to Jackie, as she sat in her | | home at 1329 Belmont street last night |and gaily chatted with her visitors, the tribulations of the past were as nothing compared with her enthusi- asm for living and her belief in the future. £ Even Walks in Crowds. “My girl friend who rooms with | me,” said Jackie, “doesn’t know how rapidly I am learning to do things | for myself. I can take care of my- self walking on level ground, even in crowds, so long as there are no steps to climb. I can do my own cooking, | | launder my own clothes and straighten | up the apartment. “When I do go to the wrestling matches my girl friend says: ‘Please, | | Jackie, don't take that ringside seat again. You know how those matches are. Sometime one of the wrestlers is going to tumble through the ropes into your lap.’ “But I only laugh. From a ring- side seat I can see everything that goes How= ever, I've been taking the second row | lately, just so Helen won't worry. Am | I going to the match tonight? Boy, | you couldn’t keep me away!” Jackie was crushed between two | automobiles while visiting here in the Winter of 1930. She was just 21 then, and life for her seemed over. Both legs had been cruelly mangled from the hips down. But the passing | months brought her fresh spiritual strength even when her physical re- | covery did not keep pace. Jackie had a lot of inspiration, she said. There was her doctor, for example, who found her stricken with a hemorrhage just at dawn one morn= ing, with no donors of blood avail- able. The physician gave his own blood and performed the transfusion as well. Others donated their blood when the need arose—Jackie's minister, her Sunday school classmates at Calvary Baptist Church, her nurses and many others. Last Spring the girl, then 27, was enabled to leave the hospital on crutches with the aid of leg braces. Makes Her Own Way. She found a job with the Goodwill Industries and now is self-supporting. | Her off hours are occupied with the | needlework which enabled her to earn “pin money” during her years in the hospital and with collecting trinkets —miniature animals in glass and china preferred. But her main di- vertisement is wrestling. “At a match I can forget myself. That's because people Every mind is focused on the ring. From the moment I get in sight of the arena I'm no longer Jackie Jack- son, the cripple, but just a noisy part of the crowd of fans.” Has Favorite Wrestler. Jackie’s favorite among the wres- tlers is CIiff Olson, a newcomer, “be- cause he's such a clean, fine-looking youngster and never loses his temper, no matter what they do to him in the ring.” Jackie said she got mad for the first time at last Thursday's match, when her favorite met with what she regarded as unnecessarily | rough treatment at the hands of an opponent. “But it's all in sport, or most of it, anyhow, and I love it! I haven't missed a match for months. When I have to go back to the hospital my friends see the matches for me and come to my room and describe them. Sometimes they even re-enact the whole bout so I won’t miss anything. Well, I'll see you at the next match. I won't be farther from the ring than the second row, you can bet on that!” BRAWL ADMITTED INTHOMAS DEATH Police Say Albert Johnson, Fellow Bricklayer, Is Held for Inquest. Acting Lieut. George Darnall, head of the police homicide squad, today quoted Albert Johnson, 30-year-old bricklayer, as saying he had been in a “brawl” with Lester C. Thomas, 40, before the latter was found dead late Tues- day in a rooming house at 718 Sixth street. Arrested early today at Fifth and G streets, Johnson, who has no fixed address, was taken to po- lice headquarters for questioning in ‘ 2 f;’l'em’;t:’:" h‘no}; Albert Johnson. Thomas, also a bricklayer. Police said Johnson was making a voluntary statement and that he would be held for an inquest, the date of which has not yet been set. Thomas had been bleeding from the nose and had a bump on his head when he was found dead in bed by Garland B. Johnson, 34, a room- mate. Police said the Johnsons are not related. Garland Johnson and Lewis N. Har- ris, 76, a watchman, and Mrs. Lillian L. Pauley, 39, both of whom also live at the Sixth street address, were taken into custody for questioning. All three denied knowledge of the events leading up to Thomas' death, but other roomers in the house told police Thomas had been drinking heavily and that they heard persons arguing in the bricklayer’s room before the body was found. An autopsy performed yesterday re- vealec Thomas died from brain con- cussion, caused either by a blow on took place at a meeting of the association in Atlantic City. The session, which closes to- morrow, attracted a large delegation from the Capital, including Edgar Morris, presi= dent of the Board of Trade. 5 the head or a fall. Larger Zinc Subsidies. Lead and zinc producers in France and its colonies are asking larger sub- sidies. COMMUNITY CHEST UNIT 15 ORGANIZED Special Assignments Group Hears Addresses at Meeting. The Special Assignments Unit of the Community Chest, of which Joseph P. Tumulty is chairman, was formally organized yesterday at a meeting devoted to explaining the needs of the poor and the valuable work done by the organization. Addresses were made by Tumulty, Clarence Phelps Dodge, president, of the Community Chest; Coleman Jen- nings, campaign chairman; Herbert L. Willett, jr., director, and John J. McDonnell, secretary of the unit. _ Tumulty, former secretary to Presi- dent Wilson, declared “the slogan of the Community Chest contains a clarion call addressed to all that is noble in the human heart—that fine emotion of sympathy, which, when cailed into action, makes the atmos- phere in which we live radiant and beautiful—an atmosphere of faith and cheer and Godliness.” A hope that the workers would realize they were presenting the cause of 65 agencies engaged in helping the less fortunate was expressed by Dodge. Jennings stressed the need for more funds, calling attention to the fact the Chest is indebted to the hospitals to the extent of $90,000 for last year. ‘Willett urged a wider dissemination of knowledge regarding the actual work of the agencies and its transla- :—xl:m into terms of help to human be- gs. The method of procedure was out- lined by McDonnell. November 4 has been set as the date for the opening of the campaign by the Special Assignments Unit. Fire Destroys Luray Home. LURAY, Va., October 29 (Special).— Fire yesterday destroyed the home of Mrs. Andrew McCoy,,a widow. She and ner daughter and two grand- children barely escaped. Loss is es- timated at $2,000. The fire started w & defective fiue. The Luray the adjoining home of Mrs. Marvin Painter, which had caught from the McCoy house. A forget me. | (OUTSIDE PUPLLS MAY BE ADMITTED PENDING APPEAL Kemp Case Stipulation Necessary, Rules Cor- poration Counsel. RIGHT TO DECIDE WITH SCHOOL BOARD Seal Recommendations Awaited by Ballou Before Determin- ing Action. Lois Kemp and other children living beyond the District boundaries may be admitted to public schools here during the rest of the present term without damaging the District’s case in an appeal on whether non-resident pupils whose parents are employed in Washington must be admitted, Cor- poration Counsel Elwood Seal ruled today. While this advice was to be forwarded promptly by the Commis- sioners to school “authorities, it was explained at the District Building that the Board of Education still retaing the right to decide whether the Kemp child or other non-resident pupils shall be admitted pending litigation. Seal held they could be admitted provided their parents or guardians entered into a stipulation that right to admission be terminated by Janu- ary 31 if the appeal was not deter- mined by that time. This would give school authorities time for further consideration. Board Action Uncertain, Just when the Board of Education will take action on Seal's recom- mendation could not be fearned. Dr. Frank W. Ballou, schools superin- tendent, said that as soon as he re- ceives the recommendation from the Commissioners he will confer with Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle, president of the board, to decide whether to withhold action until the next board meeting, Wednesday, or to poll the members immediately. Lois Kemp's father, John S. Kemp, won a decision from the District Court that under an act of The District, as the agent for the Board of Education, has taken an appeal to the appellate court. In his legal opinion to the Boatd of Education, Seal said, after reviewing the facts in the case: “Dr. Ballou | schools) takes the position that the schools are overcrowded, that there is whose parents live in the District, and, in fact, states that an emergency exists, “I realize that this is an important question to the Board of Education, and I think it is a close one, and one that should finally be determined by the appellate court. Seal Recommendations. “In view of the fact that the school year has already begun in the District |and in States adjoining, and in view of the fact that I do not believe many pupils will apply for admission at this time, I recommend: “One. That a stipulation be entered into between the Board of Education on the one hand and the father and guardian of Lois Kemp on the other, wherein and whereby it is agreed that the said Lois Kemp be admitted to the lumbia pending the final outcome of the appeal in this case. Provided, how- ever that if the appeal be not deter- mined on or before January 31, 193%; the right of the said Lois Kemp to en- rollment terminates. However, further consideration of the question may be had on February 1, 1937, if need be. “Two. That the guardians of any other pupils applying for admission between now and January 31, 1937, be required to enter into the same character of stipulation.” Officials have estimated roughly that there may be as many as 2,000 non- resident pupils whose parents work in the District who may seek to enter schools here if the Board of Educa- tion permits them. Robert E. Lynch, attorney for the parents of Lois Kemp, announced he was prepared to enter into the stipu- lation suggested by Seal. D.C.ITALIANS CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY OF MARCH Nearly 300 Washington Italians gathered at the Italian Embassy with Ambassador Fulvio Suvich last night to celebrate the fifteenth anniversary of Premier Mussolini’s march on Rome. They heard an address by the Am- bassador, who said Fascism “has meant peace and happiness to the citizens of Italy,” and has resulted in uniting in closer bonds not only the citizens in Italy and those throughout Europe, but all Italians residing in the United States. Members of the Order of Sons of Ttaly, Felice Cavalotti Lodge, the Lido Civic Club and the Italian Ladies’ Legion Auxiliary attended the cele- bration, Hunt Winter ‘The deep-sea hawkshaws of the Bureau of Pisheries are getting ready for a sleuthing expedition in the off- shore waters of the Gulf of Mexico to solve & major problem of the pro- fessional fisherman—where do large shrimp go in Winter? The good ship Pelican, 72 feet from stem to stern, is in New Bedford, Mass., harbor outfitted for this investigation into the cold-weather habits of the sea-going cocktails, the Department of Commerce announced today. It will carry special trawls and one mile of cable, Prank T. Bell, com- missioner of fisheries, said, to aid the detective work. He commented: “With this equipment she should be able to drag a shrimp trawl on the bottom in 120 feet of water, with . 1915 non-| resident pupils whose parents work | here “shall” be admitted, tuition free. M (superintendent of | not even sufficient room for pupils | public schools of the District of Co- | Vista Across Potomac From Fort Myer Looking across the Potomac toward the Nation’s Capital, visitors to Fort Myer, Va., see this beautiful vista. Washington’s outstanding attractions to sightseers can be seen in the picture— the Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument and the United States Capitol. fi’/ife of New Envoy Reveals KKk Bobbed Hair Popular in Spain Fringed Shawls Seldom W orn—Interviewer Is Charmed by Hostess. BY VESTA CUMMINGS. ANTILLAS, lofty combs and roses in the hair have given way to bobbed hair as far as the ladies of Spain are con-| cerned. Today the fountain pen is mightier than the castenet, and, in| the land where once no young woman left her home without a chaperon, women warriors battle. Senora Fernando de Los Rios, wife of the new Spanish Ambassador, ex- plained in her drawing room at the embassy yesterday that the status of femininity in Spain has been altered so drastically in the past 20 years that the fringed shawls of a past era are seldom seen, being worn only as & | costume on fiesta days. Daughter and wife of distinguished intellectuals, Senora de Los Rios her- self seems to typify the changed order for her countrywomen. All of her life she has been an educator and trans- lator, lecturing principally at a teacher's college in Grenada on his- tory, art and geography. Displays Traditional Charm. Interviewed with the assistance of an interpreter, the senora displayed the traditional charm of the women of her country, combined with intel-| lectual curiosity and poise. She, who speaks, or writes, or reads half a dozen different languages, was apolo- getic about her imperfect English. With straight, dark hair parted in the middle, quiet hands and sparkling eyes, Senora de Los Rios would prob- ably be the last to call herself a feminist, but her accomplishments speak for themselves. She speaks Italian and French fluently, as well as her native Spanish and Catalan, and has a reading and writing knowledge of English and German. In addition she is a scholar of Greek, Latin and Arabic, and has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Madrid. She is the compiler of two geography text books, and has trans- lated numerous Italian and French volumes into her native language, as well as the works of the Catalan poet, Maragall. Senora de Los Rios is delighted with Washington and her new home. Her pleasure over the parks and the famous tiled patio at the embassy are, however, diminished by the anxi- ety all Spaniards feel today over the revolution and the welfare of their friends at home, she explained. Social Life to Be Quiet. “If my country were at peace I could be very content in this lovely spot,” Senora de Los Rios said. Until that time social life at the embassy will be quiet. She herself enjoys society, taking a particular pleasure in small intimate gatherings. Born to the academic world as the daughter of Hermenegildo Giner de Los Rios, late professor of philosophy at the University of Barcelona, Gloria de Los Rios married into the same atmosphere. Her uncle, Francisco | Bureau of Fisheries G-Men to Lair of Shrimp a good chance of discovering the whereabouts of the shrimp.” The problem of the shrimp is that when the mercury goes down, the large shrimp, which brings the fish- erman big money, strikes out for parts unknown and leaves only smaller shrimp on the regular fishing grounds. ‘The bureau's scientists have reason to believe that the big fellows con- gregate in deeper offshore waters of the Gulf, for occasional stragglers have been seen in a warm-water zone off the Louisiana coast. During a five-year inquiry into the life of the shrimp the bureau has established that this water dweller migrates as much as 200 miles to escape Winter. Fisheries men keep tabs on Georgia and Texas shrimps by tagging them to trace their wan- derings. 7 SENORA FERNANDO DE LOS RI —Photo by Peggy Duffy. Giner de Los Rios, originated the | modern Spanish public school system. Both the Ambassador and his wife are close friends of the composer, De | Falla, whose “Amor Brujo” is par- ticularly well known here, The Ambassador was a professor | of political science at the University of Barcelona for years, and their home was a gathering place for writ- ers, artists and teachers. In 1931 Senor Don de Los Rios went to Madrid as minister of education and he is now president of the University of Madrid. He lectured two years on government at Columbia University in New York. Senora de Los Rios looks forward to meeting Mrs. Roosevelt, having heard that they share a common in- terest in education. She hopes to visit a great many colleges in the United States, particularly women's institutions. In Spain today women are likely to outnumber men at the universities, she says, convention hav- ing released them to higher educa- tion. The status of women in her coun- try is exactly the same as in America, the senora said. They are excluded from no professions. Indeed, a wom- an was recently appointed Minister to Denmark. Among the first in Spain to rear children in the modern fash- ion, Senora de Los Rios’ young daugh- ter, Senorita Laura, who is here with her mother and father, has been teaching in Spain two years, having been graduated from the University of Madrid and taken graduate work at Cambridge. Acting as interpreter and English instructor to Senora de Los Rios at the moment is another young woman, product of both Spain and America, Josefina de Roman, who went to school in Spain with her daughter: A Spaniard by birth, Senorita de Roman was graduated from George Washington University, which she at- tended one year after three years at Mount Holyoke. With her linguistic gifts it will be no time at all before Senora de Los Rios’ English is perfect, Miss de Ro- man says. Having arrived in Wash- ington October 8, she is already be- ginning to supplement her knowledge of the written language with the idiom. She spends most of her time reading English papers and practic- ing conversation. Another lady at the embassy is Senora de Los Rios’ 83-year-old mother, who is an artist of distinc- tion. Her oil paintings are well known on the continent, and she also creates dolls—lifelike, exquisite man- nequins of historical characters and the subjects of famous paintings. In a glass case in one of the parlors are exhibited these fascinating figures of old Spain—a bull fighter, a lady in black lace peeking over a huge fan, and a velvet clad don strumming & guitar. It seems that in the de Los Rios family, the emancipation of woman is at least three generations old. PEAS TOHORRDY Private Invitation Exhibit| to Precede General View in Afternoon. The thirty-fifth annual free chrys- anthemum show of the United States Department of Agriculture starts to- morrow. In accordance with a cus- tom of many years, the exhibition will be formally opened in the morn- | ing with a private invitation showing | by Mrs. Henry Wailace, wife of the | Secretary of Agriculture. Among | those invited are Mrs. Roosevelt, wives | of cabinet officers, of diplomatic offi- | cials, of Supreme Court justices, of | United States Senators and members | of the House, of ranking officers of the Army and Navy and many pub- lic officials and leaders in Washing- ton society. The doors will be thrown open to the public at 1 p.m.. The show, in the exhibition greenhouse of the de- | partment, at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue, will continue for one week, with the doors open daily, including Sunday, from 9 a.m. until 9 p.m. | Officials of the Bureau of Plant Industry, who have arranged the show, say that this year it exceeds all other previous exhibitions in quality of | plants, variegation of coloring and | | formation of blooms, and in the rec- | | cord-breaking number of plants and varieties. All Grown by Department. The show comprises a collection of 210 varieties of most carefully select- ed Japanese chrysanthemums, 417 va- rieties of pompom and single (garden) chrysanthemums and 11 varieties of cascade (basket) chrysanthemums— | many of which are new commercial varieties introduced this year. All have been grown in the Department of Agriculture greenhouses. The large yellow Japanese variety | named for Mrs. Roosevelt will be in evidence. A number of these have been supplied to the White House. There are on display many new va- rieties of Japanese, pompon, single, and cascade chrysanthemums, all originated by the department’s expert gardeners through cross-pollenization. In the exhibition greenhouse, given over for this display, are massed in the center bed 1200 plants of the large-flowered Japanese varieties in all sorts of colors and shades, includ- ing white and many shades of lemon, yellow, gold, bronze, lavender, pink, seashell, iridescent, violet, purple, gar- net, red, scarlet. Petal Types Varied. In form the large-flowered types are incurved, with petals close together, turning in to the center, giving the flower a distinctly globular shape. The anemone type is characterized by a prominent cushionlike center and regularly arranged petals, something like a huge daisy. There are many other forms among the large-flowered blooms, numerous gradations between the globular and rather flat-head shapes. The petals also show a wide variety—some fluted, some broad and flat, others more quill-like or tabu- lated, and of varying length from short, straight, spreading florets to long, drooping, twisted, tangled or irregu- larly curved. At each end of the long center bank of Japanese blooms are placed large, specially grown exhibition plants, each resplendent in hundreds of blooms. - There are more than 600 plants of the smaller-flowered pompons and single varieties, most of which are hardy and of home garden stock. These are placed on raised benches on either side of the exhibition green- house. Each plant bears several to 20 sprays of flowers in color range similar to that of the larger exhi- bition blooms—a veritable riot of colors. In form these smaller flowers include singles showing a definite center with one row of petals, the pompon type, more globular in shape, and the small button varieties. There are many gradations in form between these types and the petals also vary widely in shape and size. Over the walks in the show house Society and General PAGE B—1 AIRPORT STUDIES POINT TO ZONING ADIACENT AREAS Crew Rigs Equipment to Learn Space Needed to Gain Safe Altitude. NEW 4,200-FOOT PAVED RUNWAY PROVIDES DATA Theodolite and Camera Stations to Be Used to Get Exact Take-Off Information. Studies which may lead to a Federal recommendation for strict zoning of construction around the Nation's aire transport terminals were begun today at Washington Airport by a Bureau of Air Commerce crew headed by Wile liam M. Aldous, senior airport ene gineer. The crew yesterday afternoon come pleted the stringing of a system of telephone lines the length of the new 4,200-foot paved runway and setting up theodolite and camera stations to be used in determining the exact take- off performance of every type of transport airplane using the local air | terminal. The object of the studies is to de= termine just how much space actually is required for airliners of different types to take off and climb to an alti= tude of 500 feet, regarded as the minimum altitude from which an aire plane can turn back in case of emer= gency and land in the field from which it has just taken off. “It is becoming apparent that the character of the airport surroundings may be as important as the actual size of the airport itself,” Aldous said. “We are seeking to find how much open space is desirable around main air terminals so that airplanes may land safely in case of emergency from below the critical 500-foot altitude.” Take-off Data Checked. The system placed in operation at Washington Airport today consists of a chain of observation stations along the length of the main runway, cone nected by telephone with a master station at the “zero” or take-off end of the runway and with camera sta tions at two points, one at the end of the runway and one at a distance from the runway sufficient to permit triangulation readings. Transport pilots co-operating in the tests will start their take-offs from a zero mark on signal. The obe servers along the runway will stad their stopwatches on the same signal As the airplane passes each of thg observation stations the observer will stop his watch and bark a signal the two camera men, who will snap simultaneous exposures. Theodoliter also will be used to record the exact altitude of the airplane at the various stations until it attains an altitude of 500 feet. Careful check of the records and photographs will show the exact pere formance of the airplane under serv- ice conditions—how much space il takes to get off the ground, how fast it climbs and the distance require¢ before it gets above the critical altie tude. It was pointed out that in case of engine failure during a take-off, an airplane must land straight ahead un. less it has reached sufficient altitude in which to undertake a turn. This altitude, experience shows, is about 500 feet. The studies which began today, therefore, will show just how much area must be kept open fo1 emergency landings. It is probable that future airport ratings issued by the Federal Government will be based upon the nature of the approaches within this critical distance rathes than merely upon the size of the aire port. To Test Other Fields. After determining the performance of all airplanes operating out of ‘Washington on the newly paved rune ways, the crew will move to New York and subsequently to other air terminals in various parts of the country, making similar studies. The results will show the exact effect upor operations of such factors as paved runways as compared with turf and bare ground, elevation of the airport and the character of the airport sure roundings. It was admitted that zoning of property around major airports prob- ably would prove a difficult and costly process, especially at points where there has been considerable develope ment already. Before any attempl can be made to institute zoning opera« tions of any sort, it was said, there must be exact data available covering the requirements of every type of aire craft at every type of airport. Paving of the uncompleted half of the shorter, 3,000-foot runway at the local airport was begun today with the placing of the crushed rock foun. dation. Paving will be completed withs in about a week. This will finish the paving of both runways. DIES FROM INJURIES Without regaining consciousness or naming his assailant, Thomas Frisby, 28, colored, died in Emergency Hose pital yesterday of injuries received Monday when he was slugged with a brick at an apartment in the 1500 block of M street, where he was em« ployed as a hallboy. — are suspended plants of the Japanese cascade or mountain varieties, which have trailing branches of small white, pink, lavender, yellow, red and bronze flowers. The first chrysanthemum show of the Department of Agriculture was held in the latter part of October, 1902, a little over 50 years after the flower was first introduced into this country. The Chrysanthemum Society of America did not hold its first exhibition until November, 1902, The Department of Agriculture has held a show each year for 35 years, although the public was not admitted to the one in 1918 because of the ine fluenza epidemic at that time. Since the chrysanthemum shows were inaugurated the department hy- bridizers have developed many new varieties.