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union
MAKESPEAKE HEAD
Washington Gets National
Commander and Permanent
a.. Headquarters. siRA

Maj. William l.. Peake, commander
Of the Presidents Own Garrison Of
this city. today was elected national
Union. The election concluded the
business Of the thirty-ninth annual en-
campment. which has been in prog.
ress here since Monday.
Mai. Peake succeeds Capt. G. o.
Howard of this city, who held the Of
flee for two terms. Capt. Howard was
a candidate to succeed himself, but
most of the local votes went to Maj.
Peake. other candidates were. John
Hartnett of Atlantic City and J. B.
Saunders of Pittsburgh. Mai. Peake
received 72 out of 80 votes cast.
Maj. Peake Is a veteran Of the Reg.
ular Army and saw service in the
Spanish-American war and in the
Philippines. He played a prominent
part in the reorganization of Leaven-
worth Penitentiary and in making It a
model penal institution. For the past
several years he has been superin-
tendent of the District Jail.
Passage of resolutions and reports
of committees occupied the morning
session. The report on the publica-
tions the Veteran showed that it had
increased in circulation during the
past year.
Made Permanent Headquarters.
Washington was made permanent
headquarters of the union by decision
of the convention yesterday afternoon.
The change will be incorporated in a
revision of the constitution. Up to
this time the city In which the ma.
tional commander lived was headquar.
ters. During the two terms of Capt.
Howard the headquarters has been
here, and the position of Washington
as center of military and naval activi.
ties led the delegates to approve the
change.
The four branches of the service,
Army. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard, were represented at dinner
at the Ebbitt Hotel last night in honor
of Capt. Howard. The service repre-
sentatives who were guests OF honor
were Rear Admiral Frank H.. Scho-
field, Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune.
Brig. Gen. Frank Parker and Rear
Admiral Frederick Billiard. Lieut..
Comdr. Stephen s. Yeandle Of the
Coast Guard was toastmaster. 4;
Veteran General sHaaks.I
These speakers each described the
work done in his branch OF thasserv-
ice and urged preparedness in .Peace
times for the possibility OF Aarsi The
work of the union in advocatsAg g mill
tary and naval progress wassicom-
mended by the speaker. * ,
Lieut.. Comdr. Yeandle pref Vented
Capt. Howard with a ring bearite the
emblem of the union and-praisAd his
administration. co., D.
Capt. Howard expressedF hes.hope
that the union would expand rapidly
and become a leader among veterans
organizations. About 7,000.0Oos vet
Grams are eligible for Membership. he
pointed out.
Brig. Gen. J. r. C. Ward, retired,
| who Is SO and the oldest general In
the country, delivered an address on
patriotism at the close Of the dinner.
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EMANUEL SPEECH
DIES IN SAN|TAR|UM
"Father of Rural Free Deliv'
cry Expires at Age of n.
Funeral Saturday.

Emanuel SPEECH of 1913 Harvard
street, who came to this country as
an immigrant from Switzerland at the
age of IA years and later became
known as the father of the rural
free delivery" died this morning
at Washington Sapitarium. Takoma
Park. after a weeks illness. He was
IT years old. -
MIR. Speich was born August IA,
1850, I'm Iaushsingen, Switzerland.
Coming to this country, he went to
Nebraska, where his brother lived.
He came to Washington in 1881 as
a protege of Senator Van Wyck and
entered the postal service. Trans.
ferring to the rural free delivery divi-
sion, he established the first rural free
delivery route in the country at Te-
cumseh, Nebr., his home.
He left the Post Office Department
in 1906 to engage in private business.
He was one of the oldest members OF
the Congressional Country Club.
He. was. married in 1881 to Miss Cor
della -Tierney, wlroN survives HIM with
their daughter, Mrs. Anna S. Sahin.
and grandson, Hilbert SPEECH Sabin
of S401 Macomh. street.
Funeral services will be conducted
by Rev. DIR. George F. Dudley of st.
Stephens Episcopal Church, from the
residence of Mr.. Speich's daughter, at
IL o'clock Saturday morning. Inter-
ment will be in Rock Creek Cemetery.
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new POLICE JUDGE
URGED IN REPORT
Additional Counsel and Build.
ing Also Suggested to Eff
ficiency Bureau. +

The permanent solution of the prob
lem of Police Court congestion vii
have to be met by appointment of al
additional judge an additional assist
ant corporation counsel and construc
ton of the proposed new court build
ing, tn, opinion of the Police Court
Judges expressed in report which
they have prepared on the recommen
dations from the Bureau of Efficiency
for relieving congestion.
The judges believe, according tc
their report, that the plan of the Blu
reau of Efficiency to have policemen
make out the informatiohs In traffic
cases at the station houses instead OF
going In person to the prosecutors OF
fee at the courthouse would not DC
practicable or feasible. The judges
indicated further that they nave
doubts as to the legality OF such a
procedure.
The judges suggest as an alterna
five that in all traffic collateral cases
a system of staggered hours would
nrove more satisfactory. That could
he accomplished. it was pointed out
bv assigning certain hours, starting
at Q o'clock in the morning and run
ming until noon. TO the officers of vari-
Gus police stations to make out their
inforrla tons: The judges believe thls
would sobvia4e the congestion result
ing when all officers come in at the
same hour in the morning.
AS to the recommendation OF the
Bureau of Efficiency that each station
house be provided with a schedule or
collaterals to be accepted in traff1c
cases based on the fines usually Inn
POSED in such cases when they go
TO court. the judges believe that step
NAV be useful, adding, however, that
the amount of collateral is mat
ter in the jurisdiction Of the Police
Department. i
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hackers STILL HOPEFUL.
Canadian Committee Believes Plane
Suffered Adverse Winds.

LONDON, Ontario, September 8
R.-Londoners today, although dis
quieted by the non-appearance OF the
monoplane Sir John CARING on sched-
ule at London, England, were hopeful
that the plane was merely suffering
adverse winds and would eventually
arrive in safety.
The committee in charge Of the
London-toL London flight pointed out
that the schedule which called for the
planes arrival at Croydon Airport at
8 o'clock this morning, Eastern stand
ard time, did not take into account the
possibility of "slow" flying weather.
Mrs. Terence Tully. wife of the pilot.
would not believe her husband and
Lieut.. James Medcalf, his navigator,
had met with any grave mishap, and
said she was confident the Sir John
Carling would be heard from soon.
Az farewell message was sent from
Harbor Grace by Capt. FULLY to his
wife here. Framed in the terms used
by airmen during the World War, in
which FULLY served as fighting pilot,
the message read:
I'VE are off on a long patrol today.
You should hear from us this time to-
morrow"
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ARMY RELIEF SOCIETY
ARRANGES CARNIVAL

Branches Of the Army Relief So
ciety in Washington have combined
their efforts to raise funds for relief
work and will hold a single big mill
tary exposition and carnival at Wash
ington Barracks October 1. Plans are
being made for a large show, which
will inlude many demonstrations and
exhibits.
Objects Of the society, as pointed
out by Maj. Gen. Hanson Il. Ely. ex-
ecutive head, are to collect funds to
provide emergency relief for widows
and orphans of officers and men OF
the Regular Army, to aid in securing
employment for them and to create
scholarships and supervise the edu-
cation Of orphan children. Last year
the society spent $s2,O29.65. The So
ciety was founded after the Spanish
American War by Mrs. Daniel l.. La
mont, wife of the Secretary of War.
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AVENUE TO BE CHANGED.

Pennsylvania avenue between Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets will be
changed in appearance and contour
under plans now the subject Of con-
ferences between architects for the
Treasury and members of the Com
mission Of Fine Arts, which will be
brought before the fine arts body for
it's consideration on September 10,
the first day Of a scheduled three.
day meeting.
The square where Polls Theater,
the oxford Hotel. ofices Of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau and the
ment are now located, between z
street and Pennsylvania avenue,
Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, will
be transformed into park, whose
western end will front on Sherman
Park. Street car tracks on Penn.
sylvania avenue, under present plans,
will stop at Fourteenth street, and
the traffic throat" at Fifteenth
street and the Avenue will be no
more. There will be no car tracks
on Fifteenth street or on. Pennsyl-
wanna avenue between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets.
The building line of the Southern
Railway Building and the District
Building will mark the southern limit
Of a park which will run, roughly,
from Thirteenth street to the Ellipse,
forming a great plaza south of the
Treasury, on which the new Com
merce Departments northern end will
front. The south border of E street
will mark the southern limit of this
park area, giving, in the view Of the
Fine Arts body. the proper elevation
and commanding situation the i'm.
posing Treasury building demands.
Members of the commission believe the
| Treasury has been dwarfed too long
by lack of space and vista about it
and hold that 1t and the White House
| beyond should have more open spaces
about them to bring them into proper
relation, esthetically, with the rest Of
| the Federal buildings. The buildings
to be located in the triangle, the com.
mission holds, will not lack this per-
spective because Of the open spaces
Of the Mall. on which thsX will face I.
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mission from nine to ten. The Ger
man member will be appointed shortly.
The old pre.war methods were still
in vogue and the League Of Nations
should be psychological seismo.
graph to foresee and forestall all
events which, as in 1914, might, lead
to a world war, Felix Cielens,' for
eign minister of Latvia, declared. He
warned the assembly that the military
budgets of 1925, including naval and
air forces, amounted in Europe to
one and a half billion dollars, ABBOTT the
same as in 1913, and thatethA aggre-
gate number of soldiergs a9tcs9 than
three million, was only sikAti3 less
than the figure for 1913. sANf
Moreover, he remarked, the techni-
cal equipment of armies was far more
developed than before the Great War.
1--WE are living under the conditions
of armed peace which prevailed before
the war;" he said, land under q sys-
tenn Of competitive armamenfs which
many of us believe will sooner orr later
land the world into war"
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LETTER CARRIER is HELD
IN $500 FOR GRAND JURY
Man Accused Of Embedding and
Secreting Number Of Let
ters in Brookland.

David P. Morton of 10s Grant ave-
nue., Takoma Park. Md, a letter car
rier attached to the Brookland Post
Office, was ordered held for the grand
jury on $1,000 bond by United States
Commissioner Turnage today on a
charge Of embeZzling and secreting a
number of letters addressed to various
individuals In the territory served by
the Brookland Post ONCE.
Morton, who IL married and has four
children, was arrested yesterday at his
home by Post Office inspectors S. w.
Purdum and w. j. Satterfield after
suspicion had been directed to him by
the disappearance Of letters. Inspec-
tor Purdum produced written state
ment credited to Morton, acknowledge
ing that he had secreted the letters.
Purdum said Morton admitted that
he had taken a total of 90 letters con-
tanning money In some form, three of
them test letters mailed by Post Of
flee inspectors.
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GEN. FULLER INJURED
IN TRAFFIC CRASH
Goes to Naval Hospital After Col
lision at Connecticut Avenue and
M Street Last Night.

Sprayed with glass from a broken
windshield, Brig. Gen. Benjamin II.
Fuller, attached to Marine Corps
headquarters. received decorations
about the face last night when the
car in which he was riding with DR..
F. NJ. Allen, Farragut Apartments.
collided with q taxicab at Connecticut
avenue and NJ street. The general
is a patient at the Naval Hospital, but
his condition Is not serious.
DIR. Allen stated that the cab stopped
suddenly in the middle Of the street
and before he could stop his machine
he had hit the taxi. Another car,
driven by e. Q. Talbert, 4314 Eight
eenth street, piled into the rear of the
two cars. No one was injured except
Gen. Fuller.
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A|RL|CENSE WON
BY v. B. LEEDS, JR.
Qualities as Pilot After Flying
Huge Fokker Plane to
Capital.
trrom the 5 80 Edition Of Yesterdays stat.l

trrom the $50 Edition OF Yesterdays start
William B. Leeds, jr.. Of New York
son of the late millionaire tin plate
manufacturer, and husband of Prin
cess Xenia of Greece, qualified for
private pilots license under the reg
ulations OF the Department of Com
merce at the Naval Air Station
Anaeostia, yesterday afternoon by
flving a three.engined Fokker mono
plane through specified maneuvers 81
minutes.
Leeds, accompanied by z. H. Con
merton. pilot of the Reynolds Air
ways, Inc, of New York, and viii
liam Meyer, jr.. arrived here after
dark Tuesday night in the monoplant
Yesterday morning made arrange
ments for the demonstration. F. IL
Jardone, inspector of the Department,
Of Commerce, supervised the tests and
upon their conclusion pronounced the
pupil satisfactory.
Wants to Be Prepared.
Leeds took the plane off, circled the
field and made a landing, bouncing
once, and then took the air again.
He made several figures IS, cilmoeo
and glided and then came in Tor a
second IdIluiIlE, WHICH was Pc
. Leeds said his only desire for get
ting pilots license was to enapi
him, to purchase an airplane ana ny
when he wanted to. I'VE are all com
ing to it sooner or later" he sald'
"and we might as well get the agony
over with now" He said he had no
intention of engaging in any long-dis'
lance project.
Returns to Curtiss Field.
After dlschargins Mr.. Jardone as
the passenger, the plane took OH Tor
Curtiss Field, Long Island. secretary
of Labor Davis. it was learned, had
planned to accompany Leeds to New
York. but was forced to cancel the
air voyage at the last minute:
Naval officers at the air station ex-
pressed admiration for the young
mans ability in handling the big plane
after such short instruction. He has
been training on. several light types
of plane in New York for the past
month or two, and only recently look
on the big Fokker transport. Inc
nIane is the property of the Reynolds
Airwavs, Inc, q new aerial organlza-
ton recently established by X. j.
Reynolds, jr., son Of the late TOBACCO
magnate. Leeds said he had no IN
terest in the corporation, other than
being a friend of Reynolds.
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CABLING PLANE LONG
OVERDUE; OLD GLORY
SEARCH CONTINUED

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case. where they would soon find 1t, g
brief message telling of the distress
call. Experts expected the Sir Johr
CARING, capable of a maximum speed
of 131 miles an hour and a cruising
speed Of 116 miles, to cover the 1881
miles to London in from 20 to "a
hours, depending on head winds and
other factors. This should have
brought the flyers down on Croydon
Field, with good luck, between 3:2S
and 1925 o'clock this morning, Eastern
standard time.
Their plane, a Stinson-Detroiter
monoplane, was equipped with a
Wright whirlwind motor and was vir
tually identical with the Pride of
Detroit, In which William S. Brock
and Edward F. Schlee are engaged on
a world fight. Brock and Schlee
made the trip from Harbor Grace to
Croydon Field in approximately %
hours.
Safety Precautions Taken.
What hope remains for the pilots
and passenger Of Old Glory centers In
the precautions taken before the start
against the contingency of a forced
landing at sea. The fact that an SOS
message by radio was sent indicates
that the trouble, whatever it's nature
was discovered by the aviators while
still in fight, as the trailing aerial
wire used would fail to function when
submerged.
Like Comdr. Byrds plane, the
America, which landed in the channel
off Ver-sur-Mer, France, the Old Glory
was equipped with a rubber boat
capable of imitation within a short
time. 1t will be recalled that Comdr
Byrd and his companions made their
way to shore on this craft, but in their
case the landing was made near the
beach.
Anthony II. c. Fokker, designer and
builder Of the Old Glory, has stated
that If the engine stopped while the
Ma ne was f,ving at anv considerable
altitude. the main gasoline tank could
no emntied by means of a dump valve
provided for that purpose.
The buoyancy of the tank, in case
this was done, would keep the ma
chine afloat for some time, this be
ing dependent upon the state or the
water, as waves will break up plane
in a very short time.
Flares and Kite Carried.
Mr.. Fokker Is of the opinion that
motor trouble prompted the sos anc
that. Judging from the fact that
radio message was sent, the flyers
must have had time to dump thei1
gasoline. The motor was a Bristol
Jupiter of approximately 45O horse
power.
In addition to the rubber boat. the
flyers were equipped with signal rock
cts and flares. They also had a scar
let distress kite. Aviators say that Il
they had an opportunity to launch the
kite after landing in the water. ships
nearby should have no difficulty In
sighting them during the daylight
hours.
The steamer Newfoundland, which
followed nearly the same route as
that taken in the reverse direction by
the Old Glory, reported upon her
arrival at st. Johns last night that
she saw no trace of plane and heard
no radio calls 80,
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BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Army Band,
on the Capitol steps. at 1880 p.m.:
March. Entry of the Bojars,"
Halversen
Suite, Scenes Pittoresques" .Massenet
Waltz concertante, THE Debutante."
Santelmann
Religious, "Celebre Popule Meus."
Lamas
A special arrangement for the
Army Band of this famous COM
position from Venezuela by Mas
ter Sergt. Theodore Bingert.
Grand scenes from "Mef1stofele" .Boito
Mexican march, "Tampico". .Espana
Intermission.
Overture to "Oberon". ......... Weber
Two selected pieces.
(a) Celebrated Minuet" .Paderewski
(b) Minute Waltz" Opus "a, No. p,
Chopin
The Minute Waltz" is special
arrangement FOR military band by
Thomas F. Darcy. second leader.
Two popular songs,
(a) IA Night In June. ...... Friend
(b) "You Don't Like It-Not Much"
Miller & Kahn e. Cohn
Concert piece, Southern Rhapsody,
Hosmer
March, "The Charlatan".. .Sousa
"The Star Spangled Banner"
BY the Army Music School, at 1880
March, 1.-THE Talisman". .seitz
Concert waltz, Gold and Silver,
Lahar
Overture, "Helmkehr aus der
s. Frsmf from Lucia 'Denisetti
Duet for cornet and trombone, Two
ser1t. William Fl. Young and Sergt.
BENJAMIN T. Meeks.
Two popular fox trots:
(a) LONELY Eyes. Akst
N, Sweet Child. ......... Whiting
Seiec''oi' ~ Bizet
Ton. poenn. Meditation" Morrison
"-''o' Tobani
1.-THE Star spangled Banner"
At Sylvan Theater. Monument
Grounds. at 1880 o'clock, by United
states Marine Band, Taylor Branson,
leader; Arthur s. Witcomb, second
leader.
March. Munich Festival" Schifferl
Overture. "Bartered Bride" Smetana
Romance .Tschaikowsky
Clarinet Solo. Introduction and
Variations .hhillWouo
Lugaresi Terzo.
Suite Episodique, "Roi D'Ys." Lalo
Danse Rhapsodique "Bamboula,"
Coleridge Taylor
Valse from the Opera Der
Rosenkavalier". Richard Strauss
Professional march,
1.-THE Queen Of Sheba". .Goldmark
1.-THE Star spangled Banner"
BY the United States Soldiers Home
Military Band, at $40 o'clock. John
s. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner. assistant leader. -.
March, Mobiles of the Mystic Shrine,
Sousa
Overture, "Athlia". 80. .Mendelssohn
la "Sizilietta" ............Von Blon
| OLA Little Story. Zimmerman
Potpourri, Songs of Scotland" Lampe
Characteristic, Patrol Comique."
Hindley
Waits Suite, Morning Journals"
trequesD ...:.:.....: Strauss
Final. Prepare for Action"
| Blenkenbsrg
S@ .Ths Star spanglsd Banner" a
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ance of a merit system. It is such
only outwardly. for it is in fact par.
tial and onEe sided. Let us have the
whole Federal service based on merit
as the sole basis for appointment,
for tenure of Office and. IL you please,
for promotion. Though we are made
to believe that politics is banned from
the Federal departments, every one
knows that insidious political activ-
ity exists in every department of our
government.
THE law now provides for strict ad-
herence to the merit system, but there
are many who smugly ignore the spirit
as we'll as the letter Of the law by
making politics operative in the ap.
poiTrtnent and advancement Of en-
ployes. Far better would it be to have
an open spoils system, dog eat dog,
than a nitwitted sepulchre so that
those higher up can manipulate po-
sitions for the benefit of some and ex-
ciusion of others. / would Ike to
see it recognized by the politicians
throughout the country that Federal
employees are not a completely power
less class, but are persons, who, as
citizens, have certain rights, who have
votes and who know how to use them"
Board Is Raped.
The resolution calling for the abo-
lition of the Personnel Classification
Board and transfer of its functions to
the Civil Service Commission char
acterized that body as at present con-
stituted as "manifestly not in har.
mony with the will of Congress as ex.
pressed by legislation" The present
board, it was declared, "as evidenced
by its unjust and unfair adnlinistra-
ton of the classification act, has DEM
onstrated it's total unfitness for clas-
styling the field service"
It was pointed out that the Civil
Service Commission has more informa-
ton and is in a better position to
obtain knowledge Of the conditions
and work performed by the civilian
employees of the Government than any
other agency. The board was sharply
criticized for its failurs to extend
classification to the field services and
to administer the law in the District
of Columbia in a fair and equitable
manner.
Much injustice has resulted, 1t was
declared, from improper ALLEGATION of
employees. A resolution, introduced by
William 8. Kinney, Local No. ISL,
washington, and adopted, decrfed the
Replacement Of civilians with military
employees. .,f@
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drome here, although naturally some
what perturbed at the Sir John Car
ling's failure to arrive around sched-
uled time, still expressed optimism re-
garding her chances. Dallas Eskell.
traffic superintendent Of the Imperial
Always, said:
Capt. Tully pilot Of the Sir John
Carling) on my calculation had petrol
sufficient to keep him in the air un.
til 4 O'Clock tomorrow morning, and
therefore there Is no reason for any
great amount of worry about him
yet" ~;
Eskell, as we'll as other airdrome
watchers, expressed the opinion that
the sir John Carvings aviators might
have lost their way and be hunting
around for a land mark which event
usually would give them their bear.
ings and results in q welcome. IL be.
lated, appearance. ......i- ls....z