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A—18 ww THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1940. M s Chevy Chase Girl's Elopement With Rancher Revealed Traffic Toll Rises fo 17 as Woman Dies Eight in Hospitals After Accidents on Slippery Streets Washington recorded its 17th traffic fatality of the year last night and eight persons were in hospitals today as a result of accidents on slippery streets here and in nearby Maryland and Virginia. Fatally injured about 7 o'clock last night was Olive May Crawford, 35, colored, of 1545 Fourth street - N.W,, who was struck as she walked across the street in front of 1811 Fifth street N.W. She died about two hours later in Freedmen’s Hospital of a spinal in- Jury. Robert Lee Miller, 20, Ber- ‘wyn, Md., said by police to have been the driver of the striking ve- hicle, was being held for action of the coroner’s jury. The 17 deaths this year compared with 27 at this time last year. Injured in an accident on the Lee boulevard, Rex Briles, 24, of 704 North Emerson street, Arlington, Va., was in Georgetown Hospital with head injuries, lacerations of the left leg and a compound frac- ture of the nose. Hospital attaches this morning said his condition was “fair.” Mr. Briles was injured when his car dropped 20 feet to South Carlin = Spring road after leaving the road at Glencarlyn. Three-Car Crash. Ernest Forester, 34, of 3000 South Dakota avenue N.E. was in Sibley Hospital with a head injury, suffered when the car in which he was a passenger became involved in an ac- cident with two other vehicles in the 1900 block of New York avenue N.E. Police said the drivers of the other two cars were Harmon H. Hall, 22, of 4215 Hayes street N.E. and Isaac H. Gregory, 41, of Alexandria, Va., both of whom, according to police, were charged with reckless driving. A bicycle rider, Thomas R. Jack- son, 21, colored, of 2443 Snows court N.W. was in Emergency Hospital with a head injury after colliding with a taxicab at Columbia road and California street N.W. last night. not serious. Funeral arrangements were com- pleted today for Maj. Hugh R. Riley of Annapolis, Md., well-known Maryland newspaper correspondent, who died after an accident yesterday on Crain highway, near Central avenue. Head-on Collision. Maj. Riley, who lived at 14 Frank- lin street, Annapolis, was fatally in- | ured in an accident in which five other men were hurt in the head-on collision of two automobiles. Maj. Riley, who was alone in one ma- chine, died in Casualty Hospital a short time after the accident. Services will be held at 3 pm. to- morrow at his late home, with the Rev. E. Cranston Riggin, pastor of Calvary Methodist Church, An- napolis, officiating. Burial will be in St. Anne’s Cemetery, Annapolis. The second car in the Riley crash, driven by Albert Ken- drick, Baltimore detective, con- tained members of & grand jury on their way to inspect the House of Reformation at Cheltenham, Md. Those injured were Maj. Julian de Court, U. S. A, retired, who is in ‘Walter Reed Hospital with head and arm injuries; Mr. Kendrick, in Cas- ualty Hospital with head and knee | injuries; and George C. Hilde, Wil- liath Calvin Nolte and Edwin E. Hooper, who were given first-aid | treatment. | The accident occurred at the crest | of a low hill, Maj. Riley's car skid- ding on the wet pavement before | crashing into the other vehicle. Maj. Riley had covered Navy ath- letic contests for Eastern and Mid- western newspapers for more than 20 years. He also was active 1n city and county politics, was a former , member of the Annapolis City + Council and once ran for the State ! Legislature. . | . A graduate of St. John’s College | + and the University of Maryland iaw school, he began working as a free ; lance correspondent in his under- graduate days. He was a former : major of the Maryland National Guard, commanding the 3rd Bat- i talion, 1st Infantry, on the Mex- fcan border and also serving in the | World War. A son of the late Dr. Elihu S. Riley, writer and historian, he is survived by his widow, a brother, Don Riley, Baltimore radio com- mentator; a daughter, Rebecca, and ¥ two sons, Ridgely, a publicity man at Penn State College, and the Rev. Joseph Riley. Three Students in Hospital. Three Georgetown University stu- dents, none in a serious condition, were in Emergency Hospital today after being injured when the car in which they were riding was in a col- lision with another at Thirty-fourth ' street and Woodley road N.W. yes- terday. Those being treated were Perry H. Culley, 21, of 3117 N street N.-W., injuries to face and head, and Don- ald Leslie, 21, cut nose and face, end Charles S. Kloman, 1%, both of 1439 Foxhall road N.W., possible eoncussion. Two other students in the car were uninjured. Col. Vandegrift Sworn In As Brigadier General Col. Alexander A. Vandegrift, as- sistant to the commandant of the Marine Corps, yesterday in brief ceremonies at the Navy Department 'was sworn in as a brigadier general by Maj. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, commandant. A native. of Charlottesville, he holds seven medals for China and Central American campaigns. He Joined the Marines in 1909 and is a former commandant of the Peiping Marine detachment. He has been on expeditionary duty in Cuba, Nica- ragua, Haiti, Mexico and Panama. Traffic Record The traffic record, as revealed at police headquarters for 24- hour period ending at 8 am today: Fatalities, 1, pedestrian. Accidents, 29. Motorists injured, 9. Motorists arrested, 241. Pedestrians injured, none. Pedestrians arrested for vio- lation of pedestrian control reg- His condition was said to be | ulations, 1 PATRIOTIC GROUPS CONVENE—Shown at the annual meetin, Legion at the Mayflower Hotel yesterday are (left to chaplain; Mrs. David Daniel Good, national president; Miss Min; dent, and Mrs, Jerome J. Wilbur of the District Society. Completing arrangements for the Daughters of the Ameri- can Revolution pages’ ball, to be held Tuesday at the May- flower, are (left to right) Miss Ruth Madden, page from Alabama; Mrs. Willard Hart of the District, committee member, and Mrs. W. M. Carrigan of the District, chairman of the pages’ Ball Committee. Narcissus Show Attracts Throng In Alexandria Chatham Woman Wins Top Honors For Third Year By a Etaff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 13— Mrs. Richard Reid of Chatham won top honors by scoring the most points and taking the Mrs. Leslie Gray trophy for the sweepstakes contest in the ninth annual nar- cissus show of the Garden Club of | Virginia, which opened its two-day exhibit here yesterday. Despite inclement weather, a large crowd of horticulturists attended the show yesterday. There were several thousand narcissus plants on display. This is the third consecutive year that Mrs. Reid has taken the sweep- stakes award by scoring the most points on entires in the various classes. Trophies Presented. Mrs. Thomas S. Wheelwright, president of the Garden Club of Virginia, awarded the trophies and cups. A second honor, a cup named for Mrs. Wheelwright, was also awarded Mrs. Reid for her display of six or more varieties of white trum- pets, in one of the classes. Other high honors were the Amer- lcan Horticultural Society silver medal awarded to the Garden Club of Virginia Test Garden for the out- standing horticultural exhibit; Mrs. W. W. Gibbs cup to Mrs. Charles S. Hunter for a special class for col- lection of 10 varieties of incom- parabilis with yellow perianth; J. H. Small & Son of Washington, D. C., won the Narcissus Show Com- mittee cup for its commercial ex- hibit; Mrs. William C. Seipp of Mid- dleburg was awarded the Mrs. John M. Dunlop cup for the best vase of three stalks in 11 classes of exhibits, and Edwin C. Powell of Rockville, Md., was given the award of dis- tinction for his display. Other Honor Winners. The Eleanor Truax Harris cup was awarded to Miss Jeannette Rustin of Charlottesville. Others in this con- test were Mrs. Joseph Walker of Woodberry Forest and Mrs. W. W. Gibbs of Staunton. The Augusta Garden Club of Staunton was awarded the Garden Club of Virginia cup for a special exhibit, with the Albemarle Garden Club and the Lynchburg Garden Club also receiving second and third honors in this contest. The Augusta Garden Club was awarded the president’s and member club’s cup for its exhibit of single specimens of white sentinel. Mrs. E. Walten Brown of Danville and Mrs. Reid were given second and third honors in this class. President Signs Bill To Reimburse Marine An act authorizing the reimburse- ment of a Marine private for per- sonal property destroyed by a fire in the Marine barracks at Quantico, Va., was included in several bills approved yesterday by President Roosevelt. Under the act, Earl S. Rogers, private, first-class, U. 8. M. C., will receive $129.75 to cover losses suf- fered in a fire at the barracks in June, 1939. Also signed by the President was an act authorizing the Glenn L. Martin Co., to construct a dike or dam across Stansbury Creek in Baltimore County, Md. A > —Star Staff Photos. Daughters of Colonial Wars to Ratify Charters The charters of four State socie- ties were to be ratified today by the National Society of the Daugh- ters, of Colonial Wars at its ninth annual meeting in the Mayflower Hotel. The States are Arkansas, Indi- ana, Florida and Virginia. The| national president, Mrs. Almerin Marston of New Jersey, has made the formation of new State societies the principal project during her ad- ministration. The annual meeting in the after- noon was to be preceded by a meet- ing of the board in the morning and a luncheon for the 100 delegates. Reports of the national officers, the State presidents and the na- | tional chairmen were scheduled for the afternoon session. Leading project to be discussed was the pro- posed lineage book in which 2,000 ancestral lines will be traced. Memorial services, conducted by the national chaplain, Mrs. Julius| Y. Talmadge of Georgia, also were | scheduled. | Tonight the delegates will meet informally and tomorrow they will be entertained at a tea in the Chinese room of the Mayflower, with Mrs. Llewellyn N. Edwards as hostess, assisted by Miss Bessie Porter. Mrs. Marston, her national officers and the State presidents will receive the delegates. Presiding at the tea table will be Mrs. Daniel W. Walker, Mrs. Samuel B. Woodbridge, Mrs. Horace Crosby, Mrs. Edward P. Walsh, Mrs. Harry C. Boden, Mrs. Eugene N. Davis, Mrs. Percy E. Quinn, Miss Lydia H. Brown, Mrs. Reuben E. Knight, Mrs. Benjamin F. Buckley, Mrs. Herbert D. Swift, Mrs. J. Pilling Wright, Miss Helen McMackin and Mrs. Homer F. Sloan. Mrs. Marston entertained at din- ner at the Mayflower last night in honor of the National Board mem- right) Mrs. David J. Rumbough, national | man who was, and still is, the great- | g of the Dames of the Loyal nie B. Wade, senior vice presi- Dames of Loyal Legion Election o Feature Closing Session Resolutions Dealing With ‘Home Front’ Protection Come Up Today Concentrating on attacks on un- American activities, the Dames of the Loyal Legion planned to adopt a series of resolutions at their final meeting before adjourning today. The resolutions, which are said to deal mainly with protection of the “home front,” were to be presented by Mrs. Edward S. Moulton, chair- man of the Resolutions Committee. The meeting was also to feature election of officers. Mrs. David Daniel Good is the retiring presi- dent. Reports of State society presidents were to be made by Mrs. William Vogel, California; Mrs. F. C. H. Wendel, Connecticut; Mrs. Ernest | A. Erickson, Illinois; Mrs. E. C.| Rumpler, Indiana; Mrs. Hugh Means, Kansas; Mrs. Charles Wood- | ruff, Massachusetts; Mrs. Bertrand{ Rockwell, Missouri; Mrs. Percy H. Goodsell, New York; Mrs. R. M. Leggett, Ohio; Miss Emily G. Hop- kinson, Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Helen Bliss Emerson, Rhode Island. | Services for Mrs. Tucker. Dr. Stewart W. McClelland, presi- dent of Lincoln Memorial Uni- versity at Harrogate, Tenn., was to conduct a special service in honor of Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, past national president and president of the District society at the time of | her death a few weeks ago. Dr.| McClelland was- to pay tribute to Mrs. Logan's efforts in behalf of | the university. | A memorial service for Mrs. Tucker also was held at the session of the sotiety yesterday. Mrs. Har- riet Vaughn Rigdon, honorary na- tional president, read a resolution in honor of Mrs. Tucker and rep- resentatives of each State, as their names were called, advanced to place roses in a silver vase in her memory. During the service Miss | Ruth Kobbe sang “Lead, Kindly Light.” Representative Plumley of Ver-j mont addressed the delegates a their banquet last night, payin | tribute to Thomas Jefferson as “that | | I est and most influential exponent of liberalism and Americanism.” Urges Fight for Liberty. In advising the delegates to “keep Government free,” he asserted that ‘“no method of procedure has been or ever will be devised by which liberty can be divorced from local self-government.” Mrs. Good told the delegates that “foreign ideologies are fast gaining foothold, supplanting truly American principles on which our country was founded.” A glass cherry tree was presented to Mrs. Good by the representative of the Daughters of Veterans of the Civil War when greetings were sent from national federated patriotic societies. In charge of arrangements for the. two-day meeting were Mrs. Rigdon, chairman; Miss Hopkinson, Mrs. Rex Rhoades, Mrs. David J. Rum- bough, Mrs. Rumpler, Mrs. Maurice V. Sweney, Mrs. 1. Morrow Boniface, bers and the State presidents. The dinner was followed by a reception. Miss Helen F. Downing and Mrs. Smead Alvord. D. A. R. Maps Final Plans For Session Delegates Arriving; Management Board Meets . As delegates to the 49th Conti- nental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution started filling Washington hotels and ar- riving on every train, the National Board of Management of the D. A. R. held its aonual pre-congress meeting in its boardroom of Memorial Continental Hall today. The meeting, at which Mrs. Henry M. Roberf, jr. president general, presided, was to be followed by luncheon in the banquet hall of the D. A. R. Building. Meanwhile, scores of committees for the annual five-day session of the D. A. R. made last-minute ar- rangements for the Continental Congress, which opens Monday night at Constitution Hall. Memorial Services. Thousands of the delegates will attend the memorial services in Memorial Continental Hall tomor- row at 2 pm. Following the serv- ices, special tribute will be paid at the Founders’ Memorial, since this is the Golden Jubilee year of the society. Pilgrimages also will be made in the afternoon to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arling- ton and the tombs of George and Martha Washington at Mount Ver- non, Another event of tomorrow will be & supper meeting of the Executive Board of the National Junior As- sembly of the D. A. R. Mrs. George D. Schermerhorn, national chair- man of the Junior Membership Committee, will preside at the sup- per, which will be held at the May- flower. The busiest young people in Wash- ington today were the senior high | school girls who won the D. A. R. | Good Citizenship Pilgrimage con- test and arrived here yesterday for a four-day stay. Today they were to visit the Li- brary of Congress, the Folger Li- brary, the Smithsonian Institution, the Lincoln Memorial, the Wash- ington Monument and the Pan- American Union, where they were to be received by Dr. L. S. Rowe, director general. f Will Tour Cathedral. | Tomorrow they will tour the| Washington Cathedral and attend | services there, They will be Mrs. Robert’s guests at a luncheon at the | Mayflower, where the Good Citizen- | ship pins will be presented. | After luncheon they will journey by buses to Arlington and Mount Vernon. Tomorrow night they will organize the National Pilgrim Club of 1940 and will hear a talk by Mrs. Russell William Magna, honorary | president general. They will be pre- | sented to the D. A. R. delegates at the opening session. Other young people looking for- ward with special interest to the D. A. R. Congress are the 350 pages, for whom a ball will be given at the Mayflower Hotel Tuesday night. Plans were completed yesterday at a meeting of the Pages’ Ball Com- mittee, of which Mrs. William M. Carrigan of the District is chairman. Committee Vice Chairmen. Vice chairmen of the Ball Com- mittee are Mrs. C. S. Schermerhorn of the District, Miss Martha Morris of Ohio, Miss Elizabeth Sherier of Alexandria, Va.; Miss Sarah H. Hawkes of Florida, Miss Thelma Le Bar Brown of New York and Miss Ross T. MclIntire of the District. Committee members include Mrs. Sterling P. Eagleton, Mrs. Catherine Barney Strong, Mrs. B. Harrison Lingo and Mrs. Willard L. Hart, all | of Washington; Miss Mary Jane Stanley of Laurel, Md., and Mrs. James W. Pierce and Mrs. Lawrence | M. Brown of Virginia. | Capt. S. B. Sightler, U. S. Army, will serve as chairman of the Floor Committee of Young Men. Special escorts will be provided for the pres- ident general and the national offi- cers who will attend the ball fol- lowing the president general's re- ception at Constitution Hall. ! MRS. TORREY BENTON JOHNSON. ‘The elopement of Adrienne Marye Henderson, 21, of Chevy Chase, Md., graduate of the University of Mary- land this winter, with Torrey Benton Johnson, 23, owner of a ranch in Kirby, Mont, on March 28 was learned today. Mrs. Johnson, the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Henderson, 6601 Connecticut avenue, Chevy Chase, was graduated from the university’s School of Arts and Sciences at the | end of the first semester of this year. Immediately after the surprise marriage in Chevy Chase, the young —Harris & Ewing Photo. couple left by automobile for Mon- tana, planning their arrival in Kirby some time this month. An ardent horsewoman, Mrs, Johnson had spent several summers on ranches in the West, meeting her husband-to-be on a recent trip to Montana. Mr. Johnson is a graduate of the University of Chicago. A member of Kappa Kappa Gamma Sorority at the university, Mrs. Johnson was popular in school activities. Interested in writing, she was taking special courses in Eng- | lish. Women Voters Urge Ramspeck Bill fo Extend Civil Service League Approves Examination Proviso; Pension Plan Introduced Passage of the Ramspeck bill for extension of the civil service, but | without the House amendment that would bar from its benefits employers credited to Washington and 14 States that are above their ap- portionment quotas, was urged by the National League of Women Voters in a statement filed with the Senate Civil Service Committee yesterday. The league approved of the non- competitive examination provided for in the bill to be taken by em- ployes being brought under the merit system, describing it as a | great improvement over the cus- | tomary practice in the past of blanketing employes into the civil service. The committee expects to |resume hearings Wednesday. Meanwhile, a bill was introduced in the House yesterday by Repre- sentative Barry of New York to give all Federal civil service employes who have served 35 years a pension of not less than half of the aver- age annual basic salary they re- ceived during any five consecutive years. Watch the car behind the car ahead of you. Gillen to Push P Engineer Given Post Pending Civic Service Test Selection Francis F. Gillen, new as acting superintendent of National Capital Parks but an old hand on parks and park projects, today took the helm of the Washington system, promising that he would “keep the ball rolling” and push all park projects ahead with all possible speed until a perma- nent superintendent is selected. Mr. Gillen, who has had part in the execution of nearly every park project in the Nation's Capital since the turn of the century, besides being well versed in the planning, engi- neering and construction end of park work, was superintendent of parks under the director of Public Build- ings and Grounds prior to 1922, so that the superintendent’s desk is no novelty to him today His experience in park work ex- ceeds by a number of years that of Frank T. Gartside, assistant super- intendent of the loca) parks office and acting superintendent from August 1, 1939, to January, 1940. Began as Junior Engineer. He came to the Office of Public MEXICAN PRESIDENT SENDS FLOWERS — Flowers sent by plane by the President of Mexi ico will be made into corsages for ladies attending the National Press Club’s pan-American fiesta tonight, honoring the golden jubilee of the Pan-American Union. Senorita Erma Castillo Najera, daughter of the Ambas- sador to Mexico, is pictured today at Washington Airport as she presented the blooms to Oliver A Hoyem, chairman of the fiesta. —=Star Staff Photo. Buildings and .Grounds, the prede- cessor of the Office of National Capi- tal Parks, as a junior engineer. A native of Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich., he had graduated only the year be- fore from the University of Michigai. After rising through the ranks, one of Mr. Gillen’s first major jobs in connection with the Washington park system was to supervise the construction of the Lincoln Me- morial. He supervised a total of $30,000,000 worth of public buildings and park projects up to 1922. Added to his broad experience in local park and public buildings work Mr. Gilleri had 10 years of experi- ence in private engineering practice with various contracting companies in Washington. For he left the em- ploy of the Office of Public Build- ings and Grounds in 1922 and went into private practice. During the next 10 years he superintended the construction of such buildings as the District fil- tration plant st Dalecarlis, four ) ark Projects As Acting Superintendent FRANCIS F. GILLEN. —Casson Photo. public schools, the Mayflower Hotel and many other large building projects. Returned in 1933, In 1933 Mr. Gillen returned to the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds just prior to its transfer to the Interior Department to be split up into the Office of National Cap- ital Parks and another office in charge of public buildings, both units of the National Park Service. He was assistant chief of the branch of engineering of the Na- tional Park Service until recently, when he was made chief of the engineering, planning and construc- tion division of National Capital Parks. “Until a permanent superintend- ent is chosen by means of civil service examination I'll try to keep the ball rolling right along and push all our projects ahead as fast as possible,” he said today. Chief of these are the Jefferson memorial, Fort drive, C. & O. Canal parkway, recreation system develop- ment, George Washington Memorial parkway and other lesser develop- ments, \ / Ouster of Russell Assailed at Session Of Teachers Instructors in Social Science Meet at Miner College Ouster of Bertrand Russell, well- known author and philosopher, from | New York by a recent court order | was sharply criticized today by the Fifth Conference of the Association of Social Science Teachers in Negro Colleges, which opened a one-day session at Miner Teachers’ College. William M. Brewer, head of the department of history in the colored division of the public schools, told some 30 social science teachers the recent dictum of the New York court | “illustrates the vicious jeopardy into which dark age inquisitorial church- men, jurists and politicians are plac- ing the freedom of American teach- ing.” | Education through research was | the faculty of the City College of | White Court Plans Rejected By Engineer ¥ire Inquest Told Of Mysterious Approval Later Plans submitted in 1925 for re- modeling the building at 2131 O street N.W. were rejected by an en- gineer in the building inspector’s office, but were approved mys- teriously sometime later without change, it was testified today at the inquest into the deaths of three per- sons in a fire at that address April 1. Hugh Dollins of 749 Princeton place N.W., the engineer, was the first witness called. He testified that he was assigned to go over the plans which were submitted by Snowden Ashford, former District of Colum- bia architect and architect for the O street apartment. “Did you pass these plans?” asked Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. Noted Need for Changes. “There were a good many things to be thanged in the plans. I un- derstand that Ashford went to some- one else to get them waived.” “Do you know whom he went to?” “I understand he wrote a letter to some one. Maj. Wheeler, I heard.” “Who is Maj. Wheeler?” “He was the engineering officer.” “What was wrong with these plans that made you reject them?” “Looking at these plans, there is no indication what the doors were made of or what the partitions were—that is, whether they were fire-resisting. I believe I asked the architect about those points.” Mr. Dollins went on to say that there were other aspects of the plans that did not satisfy him and that he called for more information be- fore he would consider issuing a permit, However, he received no answer | to his request for information. Asked by the coroner what Mr. Ashford's reaction had been to this | request, Mr. Dollins said: “Since I had been his junior in the department when he was build- ing inspector, before he was munici- pal architect, he resented the fact that I had found fault with his plans and he got angry.” Refused to Grant Permit. “Did he threaten to go over your head?” “That was the normal procedure.” “In this case, did you refuse to grant a permit?” “That's right.” “In the normal course of things, these plans would have come back to you when the corrections had been made, wouldn't they?” “That’s right.” “But they didn't come back to you | at all, and this case was abnormal.” | The coroner showed Mr. Dollins a picture of the stairwell in the wrecked building and asked him if he would have approved that sort of inside fire escape. Mr. Dollins said | that he would not have, and added: “His plans don’t show what we normally require in protection around stairwells, and in that re- spect they are deficient.” Two of the fire’s victims were fourd burned to death on the stairs, it had been testified earlier. The inquest drew to a close today | after three days of testimony. Only three witnesses remained to testify when the inquest was re- sumed at 11 am. today. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald said he would give the jury full instructions on its duty. advocated as an aid in the building of a new social order by Dr. Clyde | Minor of Lincoln University, Jeffer- | son City, Mo. Mrs. Dorothy B. Porter ,an assist- ant librarian at Howard University, discussed recent books and articles concerning the Negro. Dr. Willis Huggins, assistant prin- cipal of the Harlem Evening School in New York, led the discussion of Mr. Brewer’s paper, while Prof. T. 1. Brown of Miner Teachers’ Col- lege led the discussion of Dr. Minor's paper. The opening session was welcomed by E. A. Clark, president of the Teachers’ College, and Dr. Charles H. Wesley of Howard University pre- sided. After a luncheon in the Howard University cafeteria, the group was to continue its sessions in the Founders’ Library at Howard. Speakers were to be Dr. L. D. Red- dick of the New York Public Library, Dr. Rayford W. Logan of Howard and Prof. John Hope Franklin of it CAugusune's College, in Raleigh, Cleanup Squad's Cleanest Given Cash Awards by Club The cleanest members of the city’s cleanup staff today have extra cash in their pockets and bright pennants to fly on their trash and garbage trucks. ‘Woman members of the 20th Cen- tury Club's Clean City Committee yesterday presented money awards to eight colored members of the City Refuse Department, in the office of Supervisor William A. Xanten, 462 Indiana avenue N.W. Mr. Xan- ten gave the banners. First prizes were granted to Wil- liam Hargroves, who has had 20 years with the trash service; Samuel Taylor, 12 years with the ash service; Andrew H. Withers, nine years with the garbage service, and Paul Hemp- hill, seven years with the street- cleaning service. Runnersup were Marcellus J. Brown, 17 years with the street- cleaning service; Willlam Young, 16 years with the trash service; Frank A. England, four years with the garbage service, and Ernest Davis, three years with the ash service, Chairman of the Presentation Committee was Mrs. Ray Everett, The women previously made an in- spection trip to the Refuse Depart- ment’s machine shop and in- cinerator. Two Gmor Pan-American Program A program in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the establish- ment of the Pan-American Union will be given by the Dos Pan Ameri- canos and La Bienvenue Ameri- caines Clubs at the Y. W. C. A, Ninth and Rhode Island avenue Nfl?’s mtfl.t 8 o'clock. Rich- a 3 the Department of State will speak. \ | These instructions would include | information on the aspects of pos- | sible criminal negligence, he said. | He also pointed out that the jury | was free to cite individuals or city | government bureaus which it might feel were open to criticism. D. C. Aides Closely Questioned. The coroner has summoned a number of workers and officials from the building and smoke inspector’s offices during the inquest and has | subjected them to stiff questioning. The questioning brought out that the building inspector’s office had failed to carry out its duties in looking over remodeling work done on the old building. Particular attention was fixed on circumstances surrounding the remodeling of a chimney in the place in 1937. The chimney has been called defective and listed as the most likely cause of the fire. Testimony revealed that remodel- | ing of the chimney was ordered by the smoke inspector. John N. Stewart, an assistant inspector, took the stand yesterday to testify that he had issued the order, but denied that he had drawn the plans for the work. He stated also that the smoke in- spector had maintained no contact with the building inspector in con- nection with the work and tkat he had never made any inquiry to find out if the work was inspected and approved. No Inspector Assigned. The building inspector’s office is- sued a permit for the remodeling, it was testified by James B. Daly, an assistant inspector, without see- ing any plans for the job. Then, due to a slipup, this official failed to assign an inspector to the job. ‘The jury is empowered to hold for grand jury action any persons believed to be criminally negligens and can report to the coroner any recommendations it may care to make, City News in Brief TODAY. Tea dance, Trinity College, Ward- man Park Hotel, 4 pm. Dinner, Gridiron Club, Willard Hotel, 7:15 p.m. Dinner, National Officers’ Club, D. A. R, Willard Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dinner dance. George Washington %.nw Association, Mayflower Hotel, pm. Dinner, National Association of Postal Supervisors, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dinner dance, Phi Beta Lambda Sorority, Lafayette Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Dinner dance, Pattern Makers' Association, Carlton Hotel, 8:30 p.m. Meeting, Federation of Huguenots Soclety, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm. Card party and dance, Mizpah Chapter, O. Hotel, 9 pm. A / Dance, Orange Disc Club, Ward< man Pnrkunotc;. tgz::n‘ Convention, In tional Union of Operating Engineers, Raleigh Hotel, all day. . ! E. 8, Wardman Park v