Evening Star Newspaper, September 30, 1937, Page 23

- Washington News . MARINE SERGEANT -~ FIRST 10 OCCUPY GREENBELT HOME J. M. Ashley and Family " Move Into 20-Month- Late Settlement. COMMUNITY MANAGER DUE IN LATER TODAY Farm Security Administration Has Designated 25 Families to Take Up Residence. ‘The first family moved into Green- belt this afternoon, some 20 months behind the schedule originally set by the builders. The community mana- ger and the postmaster are among half a dozen additional tenants ex- pected to move into the model low- income apartments later this after- noon. Greenbelt's first family was headed by Sergt. J. M. Ashley of the Marine Corps. Indentities of the 25 other family tenants thus far selected have not been announced by the Farm Security Ad- ministration as a precaution against a deluge of salesmen, but several indi- cated their willingness to reveal their names in advance of actually moving. Among these are Mr. and Mrs. Allen D. Morrison and three children, 223 Eighteenth street northeast; Mr. and Mrs. John P. Graham and two chil- dren, 1104 Queens street northeast, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Burk and three children, 1353 Massachusetts avenue southeast. Roy S. Braden is manager of the project and George Bryant holds the commission of acting postmaster. 122 Units Are Ready. With other approved families to be picked shortly, Braden said 122 of the 885 housing units are now ready for occupancy. Some of the apartment houses are just being started while others are not yet near completion. Only those houses in D block are | ready to receive tenants, and these will | have to do all their buying outside the | community. Although the post office at Green- belt was “opened on September ¢ according to a statement by the postal authorities, it actually was to throw | open its doors for handling of mail today. It was found on September 27, the opening date, that no equipment had arrived and that painters and other workmen were still busy on the interior. This deficiency has been over- come. Store Opens Tuesday. Residents will be able ta.buy their | first ‘food within the confines of the | ‘community Tuesday when the Green- belt Consumers’ Service Co., Inc., opens a temporary grocery store. Rob- ery E Jacobson, assistant manager of | the Conservers’ Service, said stores would be opened “about November 1, if the buildings are ready by that time.” The grocery store will be opened Tuesday in a temporary build- | ing, Jacobson said. Braden, as the first resident and | first community manager of the proj- | ect, is in a typical role. When Arling- | ton County, Va., adopted the manager form of government in 1932, Braden | was named first county manager and | was the first to occupy such a posi- | W Greenbelt Gets First Family Sergt. J. M. Ashley i his sons, Lynn and Edwin, aged of the Marine Corps is head of the first family to move into Greenbelt. day as he moved the family effects into his new home; aided by He was photographed to- 5. —Star Staff Photo. FLERS WIL AD LURGH CAVPAGH Benefit Programs of Dare- Devil Stunts Set for Saturday, Sunday. In the first event in the campaign to raise $100,000 for free school lunches, dare-devil fiyers will stunt in | benefit performances at College Park | Airport at 3 p.m. Saturday and Sun- day. Ten acts will be staged by Frank Turgeon’s Flying Angels, including low delayed parachute jumping, upside downr and crazy flying. A large por- tion of the receipts will be turned over to the School Lunch Fund Com- mittee, which will handle the sale of tickets. Meanwhile contributions are con- tinuing to come in from various groups and individuals, Mrs. John Boyle, jr., committee chairman, announced. A Chevy Chase Presbyterian Sunday school contributed $2.40 in pennies. A group of eight women from St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Arlington County, Va. also contributed, along with sev- eral individuals. To Seek Red Cross Aid. Boyle announced she would scek aid tomorrow from the District Red Cross in a tentative appointmént with Brig. Gen. F. R. Keefer. tion in the United States. He served in the county post until 1936 when he resigned to join the Resettlement Ad- ministration, later supplanted by the Farm Security Administration as the | managing agent for Greenbelt. Although painters were still busily | engaged in finishing up the interior | and workmen added finishing touches | to floors and other parts of the build- ing, a moving van with more than | 100 upholstered chairs yesterday backed up to the Greenbelt Elemen- | ry School and unloaded its cargo in the girls’ club rooms in the base- ment. A foreman in charge of the | workmen remarked: | “I hope they don’t move in any- ! thing more until we get the place fin- ished.” MARTIN RETIRES AS APPEALS JUDGE | Chief Justice Leaves Bench With- | out Ceremony—*“To Take It Easy.” Quietly and without any ceremony, | Chief Justice George Ewing Martin of the United States Court of Appeals retired today after 13 years of service. The jurist, who will be 80 on No- vember 23, went from his home at 1661 Crescent place to the Court of Appeals Building this morning to say farewell to his friends. He said he had no plans for the future. “Iintend Just to take it easy for a while,” he remarked. “The law is good to judges. It per- mits them to re- tire at full pay. ‘That is very gen- erous.” Chief Justice Martin's retire- ment Was an- nounced Labor d.li v b",'d{:'“f;"; Justice Martin, expressed appreciation for his many years of service. ‘The retiring judge was born Novem- ber 23, 1857, in Lancaster, Ohio. Al- though he never attended a law school, he was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1883 and practiced in Lancaster until 1904, when he was appointed common pleas judge of the seventh Ohio judi- cial district. Seven years later President Taft named him to the bench of the United States Court of Customs Appeals here, and in 1923 President Harding ele: vated him to the post of presiding Judge. The next year President Cool- idge appointed him chief justice of the United States Court of Appeals. Despite his age, Chief Justice Mar- tin has borne his full share of the eourt's work and even during the last month has labored almost daily at th ilding. f leomlrtn(AppelhBudnl » | tinue It to its normal Pposition. Dean John R. Fitzpatrick of Co- lumbus University vesterday made a personal investigation of conditions at Seaton School, Second and G streets, | where he fcund 21 of 66 children go- ing without food or inadequately fed Fitzpatrick, who is working with the commitiee on the benefit boxing matches to be staged Oetober 18, pre- | viously had challenged the statement that there were 8,000 underfed chil- dren in the District schools. Today, however, he declared: “I am convinced, after my limited investigation, which I intend to con- today, that there ave school children who need free hot lunches, although naturally I am as yet in no position to estimate the extent.” Fitzpatrick said he had been told | by a teacher of a 9-year-old boy who fainted at the blackboard after say- ing, “Teacher, I'm dizzy.” A-check- up yesterday on his report at Chil- dren's Hospital showed malnutrition. Another case reported to the dean was of a young boy who had been nervous and inattentive in class. “I kept him in during the lunch hour to talk to him about his con- duct,” this teacher said. “In the course of the conversation I asked him about his lunch and he said he intended to buy it—with 3 cents.” Wanted to Share Money. “I gave him a quarter and told him to run down to the corner and get soup, sandwiches, milk and fruit, and asked him to promise me he would,” she went on, “but he wouldn’t. I asked him why, and with some re- luctance he told me had two little sisters in school who wouldn't get any lunch, and he wanted to share it with them.” The teacher, having no more money with her, gave him her luncheon ap- ple, according to Fitzpatrick. Returning to Washington yesterday after an absence of several weeks in the West, Clarence Phelps Dodge, president of the Community Chest, wrote The Star today that “the case of these hungry school children is an emergency.” He cited the poor fami- flies back of the problem and urged prevention of recurrence of the situa- tion by contribution to the Chest drive in November. Last night a radio appeal for aid was broadcast by Mrs. James M. Doran, treasurer of Opportunity House, in which she reviewed the free lunch program and pointed out its necessity. Offices of the Civic Committee have now been set up at the Mayflower Hotel, in quarters donated by the management as a contribution to the cause. Added to the list of benefit per- formances is to be a dance at the Howard Theater October 19, with music by Fletcher Henderson and his colored orchestra. Yawn Dislocates Jaw. A girl in Naples, Italy, yawned so hard that she dislocated her jaw and an operation was necessary to restore & FIGHT N SCHOOL POLIGY PROMISED Palmisano Warns District Heads on Plan to Bar Non-Residents. Chairman Palmisano of the House | District Committee announced today he would oppose vigorously the latest plans of the Commissioners to restrick the attendance of non-resident chil- dren in Washington's public schools. The Commissioners have two pro- posals under consideration: 1." Enactment of legislation designed | to prevent all non-resident pupils from | attending the schools. 2. A substantial increase in the| present non-resident tuition fees. Consideration of the non-resident pupil problem was undertaken by the Commissioners after Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, dis- closed during recent hearings on the 1939 estimates of the Board of Edu- cation that non-resident children, most of whom live in nearby Maryland and Virginia, are costing District taxpay- | ers about $250,000 a year to educate. | Court Decided Issue. Efforts to close the District schools to non-residents without payment of | tuition was frustrated in the District | Courts last year in the Lois Kemp | case. As a result of trat decision, non- | resident children are not required to | pay tuition if their parents work in the District. Palmisano said he is not in accord | with the court decision. He believes | non-resident children should pay tui- tion for attending the District schools, but he does not believe the rate arbi- trarily should be increased as a means of keeping them out. Neither does he believe in the former policy of ad- | mitting to the schools without pa; ment of tuition, children of non-resi- dent Government employes. “There should be no discrimination,” he declared. Tuition for non-residents, Palmisano | said, should be based on the actual | cost of educating a child. Actual Cost Basits Urged. “In fixing the rate,” he said, “the Board of Education has no right to go | beyond the actual cost of education, simply as a means of keeping the non- resident out of the District schools. I believe the existing tuition rate is fair and should not be increased. And I don’t believe the School Board can Justify a higher rate. “I am confident, too, if the Com- missioners recommend legislation for- bidding non-resident children from attending the District schools, it will | never be enacted. They seem to for- | get at the District Building that m-nv members of Congress live in nearby Maryland and Virginia during sessiops, and that they will not vote to place an additional tax on themselves, That was demonstrated during the last ses- sion when the House considered the proposed income tax for the District.” PUPILS DISMISSED BY LACK OF HEAT 1,500 Children Sent Home From Douglass-Simmons and Terrel Schools. Following a Board of Education rule that classes should not be held in rooms where the temperature is be- low 64 degrees, more than 1,500 chil~ dren were out of school today: Schools affected were the Douglass- Simmons Elementary and Terrel Junior High, colored, which were closed yesterday because of lack of heat, and the Petworth white ele- mentary school, where two classes | were dismissed today. The ruling provides that when lower temperatures than the standard pre- vail the principals shall dismiss the affected classes for the moerning and reconvene at 1 pm. If the rooms are still too cool, the children are again sent home. The heating difficulties at the two colored schools are due to the in- stallation of a new central heating plant for both, which is expected to be workable by Monday. Boilers at Petworth are being npllnn’; surgeon general of the United States, | acres of his estate just off the Rock- * WITH SUMDAY MORNING EDITION @he Foen ASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, CANCER RESEARCH WILL BE DIRECTED BY COUNCIL OF SIX Dr. Parran Appoints Advi- sory Group From Lead- ing Scientists. PRESIDENT OF HARVARD ONE OF MEN CHOSEN Dr. Arthur Compton, Nobel Prize Winner in 1927, Also Is Selected. Sinisn With the appointment of six of the Nation's leading scientists to the National Advisory Cancer Council, the Government yesterday intensified its drive against the dread disease. ‘The group, whose appointments were made by Dr. Thomas Parran, and approved by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, will direct the National Cancer Institute established by Congress at its recent session. It is to be erected at Bethesda, Md., on land donated by the late Luke Wilson, Washington business man. The members, whom Dr. Parran said he may call together in October, are: Dr, James Ewing of Cornell Uni- versity, director of the Cancer Re- search at Memorial Hospital, New York; Dr. Francis Carter Wood of Co- lumbia University, vice president of the International Union Against Can- cer; Dr. Clarence C. Little, managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer; Dr. Arthur H. Compton, professor of physics at the University of Chicago, Nobel Prize win- ner in physics in 1927; Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard Uni- versity and former professor of or- ganic chemistry at Harvard, and Dr Ludwig Hektoen, head of the depart- ment of pathology at the University of Chicago and chairman of the med- ical sciences division of the National Research Council. Directors as Yet Unnamed. ‘The surgeon general said no director of the institute has yet been named. The bill authorizing the insmute” was signed by President NRoosevelt last month calling for $750.000 for erection costs and an annual appropriation of $700,000 for research and the pur-| chase of radium. The primary ob- | ject 1s research into the causes and cures of the disease that legt vear| claimed 140,000 lives, second only to, heart disease in fatality. | In addition, grants-in-aid may be made to other organizations and! radium loaned. It has been estimated | that if radium had been made avail- able in localities where there is a| scarcity, there would be an annual| saving of some 25,000 lives. The site on which this great health | project will be built grew ous of the| generosity of a Washington depart- | ment store magnate, himself a cancer | victim. 3 i Luke Wilson, a trustee of Woodward | & Lothrop, died last July leaving 45 | ville pike to fight the disease that killed | him. Wilson told Dr. L. R. Thompson, di- | rector of the National Instiiute of | Health, of his plan several months | before his death. | “If you do, it might attract some attention, get congressional recogni-| tion,” Dr. Thompson replied. It did. | Prior to the passage of the act the Public Health Service had been spend- ing about $100,000 a year in cancer research here and in rented space at Harvard University. The new act thus puts seven times more money into the Federal battle against the deadly growth. Dr. Parran will be ex-officio chair- | man of the committee he appointed | yesterday. 1 When 9-year-old William (Bill) Payton got thrown for a loss by his third-grade arithmetic yesterday, he put two and two together and decided the best way to get out of study: his problems was to hide out in the garage in the rear of his home at 3337 Nich When he did not return from school, however, his mot southeast. SEPTEMBER 30, ng Staf 1937. FX¥ a fruitless search of the neighborhood, then notified police. At 1 a.m. today, Bill was found asleep in the cold despite the rug with which working out his arithmetic. MILTON D. KORMAN GETS LEGAL POST Native of Capital Named as Assistant Corporation Counsel. Milton D. Korman, who has been | practicing law here since 1925, was appointed by the Commissioners today as assistant corporation counsel to fill the vacancy created by the res- | ignation of Rice Hooe. formerly in | charge of the legal staff at Police | Court. | The new appointee, who is thHe | nephew of Col. John A. Korman, one | of the leading candidates as Dis- | trict Commission- er in 1933, is the protege of Rep- | resentative Col- lins of Missis- sippi, chairman | of the House Dis- | trict Subcommit- | tee on Appropri- | ations, disclosed. Korman, a na- tive of Washing- ton, received his M.D.Korman. education in| schools and colleges of the Disfrict. He is 33 years old, a graduate of Central High School ‘and won a law degree from Georgetown University in 1925. During his high school days he was a member of the champion de- bating tesm of Central and while at the university was president of the | District of Columbia Law Club. He has been active in civic and | fraternal affeirs now being vice | president of the Brotherhood of the | Washington Hebrew Congregation, master of the Samuel Gompers Lodge, No. 45, of the F. A. A. M, and presi- dent of the Association of Worshipful Masters of 19 From 1925 to 1931 he was associated in law practice with Albert E. Stein- em and has had his own office since then. For a number of years he was general counsel for a taxicab | company operating fleets of cabs in a | number of Southern cities. Korman is the son of Joseph W. and Ida Bene- man Korman. He is assigned at the outset to Police Court. His appoint- ment is effective tomorrow. inquiry | To Lead War on Cancer These flve, together with Dr. Francis Carter Wood of Co- lumbia, have been named to the National Advisory Cancer Coun- cil as governmental and private forces join in war against one of most dreaded.diseases. , (Top left) DR. ARTHUR H. COMPTON, University of Chicago. (Lower. left) DR. LUDWIG HEKTOEN, University of Chicago. ‘ (Center) DR. JAMES EWING, Cornell, . (Top right) DR. JAMES CONANT, Harvard. (Lowér right) DR. CLARENCE C, LITTLE. » | ployes. Then, when the shipping sys- | TS ‘MOVING DAY he had covered h 9 Treasury’s “Butter Division” Will Discontinue Tomorrow garage, as shown in the accompanying photo-— 0 imself. Fortified w sleep, he was determined today not to let the slight head cold he Stumped by Problem, Subtracts Self ing up on ols avenue her, Mrs. Wallace Payton, made ith hot soup and a night’s had caught keep him from —Star Staff Photos. Consumer Co-operative That Began| Doing Business i Reached 7,000 Pounds Per Week. The Treasury Department’s famed | “buttery division"—a consumer’s co- | opgrative which, at one time, distrib- uted as many as 7,000 pounds of but- ter tc its co-operators in a single week—will pass out ef existence to- morrow. & From an unpretentious start back | in pre-war days, the co-operative grew | to a point where Treasury officials de- | cided the butter business was bsing | conducted on too large a scale. Last Spring, the administrative staff served notice that the business | must be liquidated by Ocfober 1. Deliveryman Tock Orders. It began back in 1914, when the| Southern Express Co. was handling | currency shipments for the Treasury. One of the deliverers began taking! orders for butter from Treasury em- | tem was transferred to the Post Office | Department, a group of employes de- | cided to continue purchasing butter in large quantities to sell to them-‘ selves and fellow employes at reduced prices. Business mounted steadily. Trucks | delivered hundreds of pounds daily to n PreWar Days the department, where it was stored in basement rooms. Workers in other | divisions of the Treasury, outside the main building, started buying from the co-operative. The money was handled through | the chief clerk’s office. At one time, | more than 7,000 pounds were sold to| Treasury employes in one week. Re-| cently, the co-operative had been| averaging 4,000 to 6,000 pounds each | week. Save 4 to 5 Cents. It is estimated thesemployes have | costia River, PAGE B—1 NATION-WIDE DRIVE PLANNED TO BAR SLAUGHTER HOUSE American Civic Association Again to Seek Legislation for the Capital. MEMBERS TO BE ASKED TO WRITE LEGISLATORS Group’s Objective Is to Keep Nation's Capital Free of “Depreciating Influences.” The American Planning and Civie Association is announcing to a Na- tion-wide membership- its intention of working again at the next session of Congress for passage of legisla- tion to keep slaughter houses and other nuisance industries out of Washington. Members in every State are called upon to urge their Senators and Representatives to vote for restrictive zoning legislation. “Every citizen in the United States has a stake in the Federal City, where there has been a tremendous investment of Federal funds to make Washington an outstanding world capital,” the Planning Association said. | “Legislation will be introduced in | the next session of Congress to pre= vent nuisance industries in the Na- ional Capital, whether or not the abattoir now being constructed by the Adolf Gobel Co. in northeast Washington is ever finished and op- erated. “Keep Capital Free.” “The American Planning agd Civic Association has taken a firm stand that the National Capital should be developed free from nuisance indus- tries. Large cattle pens and ob- noxious rendering plants have no place in the city, least of all at its eastern portal.” he association advised its mem- bers, all of whom are interested in conservation and park development, that the park area across the Ana- some of which would be affected by the Gobel plant, is the second largest in the District of Columbia. “Both the parks and the adjoining residential area deserve | protection from depreciating influ- been saving 4 to 5 cents on each pound. The butter, of a high grade, | was ordered each Monday from a creamery in Tiffin, Ohio. It was sold to the co-operative at wholesale cost and the price to the consumer included the cost of transportation. The money was collected from the epployes in advance, so when the| butter arrived each Thursday, it was distributed immediately to the co- operators. This week, for instance, the highest- grade butter of a large ciain of gro- cery stores here is selling at 43 cents. Treasury employes are getting thee for 39 cents per pound. VANS AT PREMIUM, Truckers See Record Migra- | tion as They Are Unable to Meet Demands. Is October 1 “moving day” in Wash- ington? Real estate experts are inclined to say no, pointing out that leases are now staggered and that the 1st of every month is moving day here. Transfer men, however, are more emphatic. Moving day may be only a tradition, but if so it has produced facts enough to upset the whole law of supply and demand in the trucking business. “If you think today and tomorrow are not moving days.” said a transfer man, “just pick up the telephone and try to order a furniture van. Try to engage a plumber, a painter, a paper hanger or a carpenter. “Try to get a telephone installed right away, or a gas or electric meter. To some of us it seems the whole town’s on the move. We've had 50 times .as many requests for moving vans at the end of this month as at the end of last.” Sees Records Broken. Arthur Clarendon Smith, president of one of the largest storage and trans- fer firms in the city, is convinced that the biggest moving day in the city's history is already under way, repre- senting at least a 20 per cent in- crease over last year. Smith said he had no idea what started the «custom, but the fact re- mains, he went on, that thousands of tenants take leases running from October 1 to Otcober 1. The increase in moving this year, he believes, is due to the building boom of both apart- ments and houses. “Up until ¢wo years ago,” Smith saidf “moving was slowed down be- cause there was little choice in apart- ments. Now, with at least 100 new apartment houses, large ‘and small, ready for occupancy, tenants are moving from old apartments to new ones. Many Establishing Homes. “In addition, & large group of resi- dents who heretofore have kept their furniture in storage while they dou- bled up or lived in hotels and board- ing houses are establishing homes of their own. They are encouraged in this by somewhat lower rents and the added opportunity for selection.” Every large transfer firm in the city is booked to the limit, and most of them cannot hope to fill their Oc- toRer 1 orders for at least 10 days. The public utility companies have increased their service crews for the installation of telephones, electricity and gas but still are behind with their orders. . “Washington takes its moving day seriously, all right,” said Smith, “so seriously, in fact, I'm afraid I haven's time to discuss the subject further.’ v \ NEW REGULATION ONESTATES VOTED Bank Deposits and Certain Other Joint Assets Status Cleared by Ruling. Removing an immediate difficulty in connection with the disposition of estates, the Commissioners today adopted a ‘temporary regulation un- der the estate and inheritance tax laws containing a ruling that joint bank deposits and certain other joint assets are not to be construed as the assets of the estate of the decendent. The new estate and inheritance taxes, although now effective, are not to be collected until next year. How- ever, because of the necessity of de- ciding how to handle instances of jeint assets, involving the cases of persons who have died since the adop- dion of the new tax measures, a set of temporary regulations were passed today by fhe Commissioners. They were drafted by Assistant Corporation Counsel Jo V. Morgan and were recom- mended by Corporation Counsel El- wood H. Seal Final and complete regulations gov- erning the operations of the estate and inheritance tax measures are to be prepared later for the Commis- sioners’ action, and/dhe present set were intended only to cover immediate problems facing those who have as- sets involved in joint accounts. The rules adopted today do not apply to the cases of joint tenants in real estate, but rather to joint tenants in tangible and intangible assets such as bank accounts, stocks and bonds. These new regulations make clear that banks and others acting in the capacity of agents for members of a joint account, on the death of a per- son who is a member of such joint account, shall immediately notify the tax assessors of the death and the jomnt account members, and list the names of the other members of the account. Disposition of any of the assets of the decedent, in the case of a joint asset, is prohibited by the regulations unless and until notice is given to the wassessor, and until he is satis- fled that legal requirements have been met. The assessor or one of his agents must be given the right to be present when an accounting is made of such joint assets. The explanation was that the rules will permit the survivor or survivors, in the case of a joint bank account or joint ownership of stock or bonds, to retain his or their right to his or their share of the joint account on the death of one member, without regard to the estates or inheritance taxes, but that would not disturb the amount of the tax due on that portion of the joint account applying to the dece- dents.~ iy Modern musicians hear harmonies to which the ears of musicians of old ences,” the association reported. The organization is headed by some of the most influential conservation= | ists and city planners in the country. | Its president is Horace M. Albright, | formerly director of the National | Park Service, and Frederic A. Delano | is chairman of its Board of Directo: Through its Committee of One Hi dred on the National Capital the or | ganization has taken a leading part | for many years in determined move- ments that have resulted in the | betterment of conditions in Wash- | ington. Its long fight at the last | session of Congress for protective zoning legislation was in line with this policy. New Law Planned. Failure of that legislation paved the way for the Gobel Co. to go ahead with its plans to re-establisn slaughter house operations in Ben- ning despite new amendments to the District zoning regulations barring such activities. It is to give these regulations the force of law that an- other effort will be made to pass a similar bill next session. Secretary of Interior Ickes has borne the brunt of the fight on the Gobel plant, and the Planning As- sociation reported to its membership that a law is being drafted at his direction to provide for an equitable ‘tax on industrial waste based on volume. In appealing to members to get into touch with their representatives in Congress the Planning Association is following a course it has pursued successfully many times in the past. The appeal is contained in its quar- terly bulletin. Miss Harlean James, executive sec- retary of the association, is keeping in close touch with all developments in the local situation and will advise the membership from time to time. She will co-operate chiefly through the Committee of One Hundred, of which J. Horace McFarland is chair- man. It has representatives in prace tically every State. BRIDGE CLASSES SET Sessions to Start Friday in the Thomson School. The District Community Center De- partment will start classes for begine ners in contract bridge Friday night at the Thomson Shool, Twelfth and L streets. The course, primarily for auction players who want to learn contract, will be under the direction of Dorothy M. Johnston. BAND CONCERTS By the Army Band in the auditorium at 4:30 o'clock today. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, assistant. Program. Overture, “Phedre” -Massenet Cornet solo, “King Sport,”..._Johnson Albin I. Johnson, soloist. Fox trot, “Roses in December”._Jessel March, “The Vermonter”._Carpenter ‘Waltz, “Thousand and One Nights,” Strauss March, “Barnum & Bailey's Royal bandstand at 6 o'clock tonight. S. M. Zimmermann, leader; Pointner, assistant. Program. “Lincoln Centennial,” Lee Sanford " ----Bazinl Descriptive fantasia, “Village Life in Ye Olden Times Le Thiere Scenes from the opera, “Norma,” Bellini Popular numbers, “Little Old Lady,” Adams John Anton March, Valse, “Adorable’ Finale, “The Elite" “The Star Spangled Banner.” This will conclude the series of gute ‘were closer, » door band e(tg:efl.l