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sROCE
or THE
COLONIAL COUNCIL
y r s T. r DIX
(Contjnucd from yesterdays A0js.)

(CoRtjnued from yesterdays AUlS.)
2nd Member for C~hristiansted Country
District (JdcbSOn) remarked: Mr. Chair.
man and Gentlemen Of the Council, you
are very much misinformed by the state
ment made by the Government represen-
tative. The speaker read Sec. 3 Of Chap
ter II of the Code which is as follows:
There shall be a board in each Mu-
nicipaIity. to be known as the Education
al Board of Review and herein after re
ferred to as The Board, to be cOnstitu.
ted as follows:
For the Municipality Of St. Cr3ix:
/. The Government Attorney, Chairman
2 The Despatching Secretary, Vice
Chairman;
3. The Oh; irmaD of the Colonial Coun-
ell;
a One additional member selected
from the Colonial Council by the Co
lonial Council;
s.. One member selected by the four
above specified who must he a citizen
of the United States or the Virgin Is
lands and a resident of the Municipal
ity;
6. The Director Of Education Tor his AS
sistant), who shall serve as Secretary
of the Board, and shall have the
right TO take part IN all discussions,
but shall have no vote.
and continuing said: You have been in
formed by the Honorable Despatching
Secretary that this Board is f%unctioning;
that is not so, the Board is not function
ing. Last year l was elected a member
of the Board, The Cnairnau uf the Coun-
ell is also a member, We have not been
called to meet. There IS a fixed Clair
and that the Government Attorney
When we met some years ago, the Hon
orahle End Appointed Member was a
member then, there We're no rules nor
bye laws. The Board has never function
ed. Of course l admit that the Honorable
DespatchInR Secretary is a new man and
is not very well acquainted with condi-
tons: therefore his statement is not
, 1928-01-21

the following.
The powers ana duties Of the Board
shall extend alIs 10 >4ca cases IS are
specifically mentioned In tins chapter
and all other powers shall be eXerclzed
By the DIRECTOR.
and said: The Board should make rules
whereby il should be governed, and Tx
the dates on which meetings. should oe
held. No meetings have been called ard
no ruas have been FORMULATED, so you
see tie Desparcniug SecIelary's state
ment has been mleitadIf g.,
3rd Member for FreCeUkstea Country
District (AUdorSeHj remarked: Mr. Char
man. | think there has been a mlsunder-
standing in regard 10 what the Despatch
mo Secretary has said and what Is IN
tended l. understand correctly this
conuirIee is not going 10 listen to petty
complaints, the committee is goin- to tnd
out whether results are heiT 2 ObtalneCfOr
the money hat Is being spent on educa
ton. tvery now abd again some one
comes up and says mat NE .choois we
are having are net giving I%.suIts, 1t is
not providing the proper education Ter
the chiIQIea on tie island. That is true,
because | know that many children had
20 be sent from here to neighbOrlng Eng
lish IsianGs tor then education while
we would much prefer to have them edu
Gated here. take it that my first inter.
pre,at0n is right and therefore | am IN
favor Of the ordinance. We have several
good educational institutions in the Unit
ed States. such as the Carnegie FUunda
ton. Columbia University etc, WHO are
always willing 10 help Wljh trained men
in these matters, who | think can be con
suited. | know from What / have read
about tba Commission that went down 10
Porto Rico from the States some years
ago that their views were entirely offer
ent to that of the commissioner OF Edu
cation in that island, 1t car be the same
here, and as a result might make recon-
mpndations that might be Of lnestImabIe
value to this island.
2nd Member Tor Christiansted Country
District (Juck8OR) Remarked: Mr.. Chair
man, the honorable last sle; ker has the
proper Interpretation Of my ulli. II the
committee is appointed / shall he able to
furnish them with cato Wlich / be
lieve VIII help them in making suitable
recommendation 10 his Council, l nope
that tie Despa,cA.ng Secretary viii, al
ter mature Consideration, state that the
Government Gas no objection 10 the cleo
ZION oil THIS con aIttee.
LIST Appointed Member (Sta6eDGnH)
remarked: Mr., Chairman, | don't under
stand this procedure al all, / have been
in this Council for forty years and the
laws we have been working under are
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
.''GITY COUNCIL :
ELECTION ON

The Districts "City Council will
be elected tonight in the board room
Of the District Building. the partici'
pants being the los delegates to the
Federation of Citizens Associations.
Thirteen candidates are In the field
and six are to be chosen. The street
railway merger issue has been in
jected into the contest and will play
an important part in tonight's pro-
ceedings.
The Citizens Advisory Council
serves in an advisory capacity to the
District Commissioners and the Dis
trict committees of the House and
Senate.
The candidates are Kenneth p.
Armstrong, +. Tracy Campbell,
Henry X. Diefkoph. Joseph l.. Gam
nell, William f. Kelly, Mrs. May ID.
Lightfoot. Thomas r.. Lodge, Henry
G. Newcomer. william A. Roberts.
q. ]. Stengle. Robert Strobel. G. r.
Wales and Fred s. Walker.
The Federation of Civic Associa-
tons, representing the cOlored citi-
zens of the District has two mem
hers In the council. Last night the
association reelected it's president,
DR.. George H. Richardson. for an
other term. and named William Fl.
Lewis, president of the Garfield Civic
Association, to succeed George 7.
Beason on the council.
James G. Yaden, president OF the
Federation Of Citizens Associa tons.
will be ex officio member Of the
council until his term expires in DC.
tober.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
S7B, 245 IN FIRE
PIECES IDLE
8 MONTHS

Seven pieces OF fire-fighting APP
paratus which will cost the District
OF Columbia $76,245 has been laid
up in the fire department repair
shop for more than three months
because it failed to comply with
specifications. it was admitted today
by Fire Chief George s. Watson.
The chief explained that the APP
paratus in question was delivered
in December last and should have
been ready for use on January 5.
Because of rigid standards required
by the District, the apparatus had
to be changed in many details.
Experts from the factory have
been here since The first Of the
year making the required changes
and certain parts have had to BE-
specially made.
Chief Watson today said that
numerous investigations had been
made by Senators, Representatives
and others interested, and that thay
all agreed that the fire department
and the Commissioners had handled
the matter for the best interests Of
the department.
The apparatus includes two IS
foot aerial hook and ladder wa CONS
two combination hose wagons and
three 750-gallon pumping engines
They were manufactured by thu
Observation-Disclosures Company.
The alterations now being made
are Mt the expense Of the manu-
Tacturer.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
ALL WASHINGTON
HOME TOWN PAGE
FIELD
ENDANGERS
PLANES

Boiling Field is in such deplor-
able condition that it is dangerous
for pilots to land planes there,
Assistant Secretary OF. War F..
Trubee Dawson told the House
Military Affairs Committee today.
Davidson appeared before the
committee in support Of the James
: bill, authorizing appropriations for
q five year Army Air Corps build
ing program. The bill carries an
authorization of s277, 600 for new
hangers and improvements for the
landing field at the air field.
Dawson told the committee that
the landing field is a sea Of mud
during the winter. IL is poor i'm
surance. he said. to have to land a
100000 plane on a field Of that
kind.
He also asked that the field be
enlarged because there is not
enough room there at the present
time for bombing planes.
The hangers are in very poor
shape and are not adequate for
bombing planes, he said,
The need for fireprOof buildings
was also stressed by the Assistant
War Secretary. He cited tine RE-
cent disastrous fires as proof Of
the need for the fireproof buildings.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
ALL WASHINGTON
HOME TOWN PAGE
CHERRY BLOOMS
invite EASTER
CROWDS

.I.oveliest OF trees the cherry now
Is piled with snow along the bough
And all about the river side
Are wearing white for EasteFtlde
IL there is any doubt that spring
is not here the opening of the cherry
blossoms in the Tidal Basin should
be fitting answer.
The perfumed masses OF pink and
white blossoms frame the Basin to-
day and Washington own spring
show il on. Special arrangements
have been made by Park police to
na ndle the expected crowds. With
prediction of fair weather for to-
morrow their task will not be a
light one.
New traffic rules go into effect
for the Tidal Basin for Easter sun
day. 1t is as follows:
Traffic entering Potomac Park by
way of Seventeenth Street. will turn
West at the John Paul Jones statue
and move around. the park. Auto
mobiles may enter the traffic from
all roads entering this route. The
way traffic road between the
polo grounds and Tidal Basin will
reverse traffic from 10 a. m. to s
D. m. Busses will operate from Sew.
enteenth and B Streets.
Virginia bound automobile traffic
will he routed to avoid the Basin
and by way OF Fourteenth street
north of the Bureau OF Engraving.
The cherry trees are the gift Of
the japanese Government. They
were brought here In 1892, when
one was placed in Franklin Park,
at Fifteenth Street and Massachn-
sets Avenue. 1t attracted so much
attention that others were brought
from Japan.
The city of Tokyo gave Washing
ton 1900 trees in 1909 but experts
of the Department OF Agriculture
found that they were infected with
dangerous scale, and all were
burned. Later DR.. Jokichi Taxa
mine, noted chemist of Japan, who
had secured the gift of these trees,
renewed his efforts to give Wash.
ington a second gift, and in 1911
about 5000 trees passed the in.
spectors and were set out.
This new shipment was picked
with great care, The trees are
known by tneir Japanese names,
which are ,"Yoshinos," bearing single
flowers and living 100 years; the so
called ''droopers.' willows" and
thread" the hundred petal and
.'thousand fold" This last variety
assures blooms over q period Of six
weeks
The Washington times., 1928-04-07

Mrs. Coolidge is still in Northamp.
ton, Mass, at the bedside Of her
mother. and her absence win take
away much Of the public interest
attached to the Presidential church,
going on Easter morning.
DR.. Jason Noble Pierce, pastor, II
preparing a special Easter program
for the morning. There win be
music by the vested choir and 4
sermon by DIR. Pierce.
President Expected
The President will undoubtedIy
be accompanied to church by Frank
w. Stearns and his wife, Bost0f
friends. There Is nothing scheduled
for the remainder Of the Presidents
Easter, except dinner at z, with only
Mr.. and Mrs. Stearns TO keep him
company.
washington children will not 81
disappointed in their egg-rolIing be-
cause OF Mrs. Coolidge's absence
Col. Osmun Latrobe. military aide
to the President, today announced
the program for the Easter Monday
egg-rolling on the White House
grounds.
Egg-ROlling Program
The south grounds Of the White
House will be opened at 3 a. M, and
from then until $50 only children 10
years OF age and under win BE- adj
mitted excepting that small children
may be accompanied by one adult.
A concert will be rendered by the
Marine Band from $3.50 to p. m. 70
which the general public viii be adj
mitted. The grounds will be closed
Immediately after the concert.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
DR.. w. F. Draper Will
Address LOuisianians

The spring meeting OF the Louis
lana Society of Washingt0neswill be
held at S;15 p. M. wednesday in the
auditorium OF the National Press
Building. Fourteenth and F Streets
Northwest.
DR.. w. F. Draper. assistant sur
geon general United States Public
Health Service, will discuss activities
of the service, and DIR. Charles III.
Herty, adviser OF the Chemical
Foundation, New York. will discuss
the bill introduced by Senator Joseph
e. Ransdell OF Louisiana to create
a National Institute Of Health.
Officers and members Of the Mis-
souri, Society will be guests OF the
Louisiana Society. The program will
close with dancing from 10 to IL.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
SPECIAL BUSES
FOR EASTER

Special bus service to points Of
interest for Easter was announced
today.
The Washington Rapid Transit
Company will operate special buses
to Walter Reed Hospital for the
sunrise services there tomorrow
morning at 7:30. Special buses
will leave Eighth Street and Penn
sylvania Avenue Northwest, over
the regular Sixteenth Street route
at seven and one-half minute in
tervals, beginning at $40 a. IN.
The company will operate a
Cherry Blossom Special around
the Tidal Basin all day tomorrow.
Double deck buses began operating
around the basin from Seventeenth
and b Streets Northwest today.
They will run until p. m. today,
and will operate until dark tomor-
row and Monday. connecting with
regular busses at Seventeenth and
3 Streets Northwest.
The Capital Traction Company
also will operate a cherry blossom
service around the Tidal Ba sin all
day tomorrow from its Capitol
terminal
Extra Lincoln Memorial service
will be given BY the Washington
Rapid Transit Company tomorrow
night from Petworth and from Six
tenth Street. to give the public an
opportunity to see the moonlight
display OF the Rainbow Fountain.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
Chamber of Commerce
Has Membership Lunch

The new membership committee
of the Chamber of Commerce held
a luncheon meeting Yesterday al he
University Club with, G. Manson
Foote, chairman, presiding. Ivan =.
Weld. president of the chamber,
was. present. @. .a...s.
follows: Mr.. Foote, chairman, ana
c. II Frame, vice chairman; Joseph
D. Dreyfuss, Russell Conn. Harold
w. Harter, A. q. Smith, r. &.
Cole. DIR. r.. A. Baer. Darrell T..
Aub. Ed Ainslie. c. r.. Mccullough
Wallace Hatch Dr. C. j Robinson,
f. l.. Davis. 4. =. Settle. Leo r.
Abernethy and Leroy Gaddis, tr.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
ARMY PLANNING
MANEUVERS -.

All branches of the Army in every
part of the country, in the Philip
pines, Hawaii. Panama and the
Canal Zone will take part in the
biggest peace-time military opera
tons ever staged by the War De-
partment, during the coming sum.
mer and fall ... .-.
The operations range from Army
and Navy joint exercises, demon
STATIONS by the air corps, cavalry,
artillery and infantry, down through
the National Guard organiza ton to
the citizens military training camps
where more than 30 900 young men
will receive 80 days training.
In, addition To the training camps
which will be held during July and
August, the National Guard will
hold. encampment, and training
camps will give instructions to mem
hers of the Officers Reserve Corps.
The service schools of the Army, con,
Quoted for. post graduate courses for
each branch 0f the service. will be
filled with officers.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
air And Cool
Easter Sunday
Forecast Here

The official weather forecast for
tomorrow In:
Cloudy in the morning. clearing
later in the day. with no prospect
OF rain unless in the early morning
hours.
For Monday, the day of the
White House egs-rolling, the fore
cast is fair and cool.
The Weather Bureaus official
prediction insures. Washingtonians
and the thousands o1 visitors from
out of town, pleasant Eastertide,
unmarried by rain, the bug a.boo OF
all Easter parades;
Indications are that tomorrow's
parade. here will be one of the
greatest on record, and the new
styles will officially make their ap.
pearance on the streets in the
morning.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
Memorial Peril Seen
In Lightning Rod Plan

w. w. Malone. lightning rod ex-
pert, plans to file formal protest
today against installation of rods
on the Lincoln Memorial as pro-
posed in specifications sent out TO
bidders.
According to Malone, the rods
proposed would make the Memorial
a Veritable death trap whenever
lightning should happen to hit
the place. The plans. he says. call
for placing rods on the roof Of the
building and running them down to
metal pipes where they would be
soldered. No grounding is con.
templated in the plans.
Malone says that this arrange
fnent would make every metal oh
: iect within the Memorial a wonder.
full conductor and magnet" and re.
sult most likely in the electrocution
OF anyone inside tAA Structura.~4 -
The Washington times., 1928-04-07

The Traffic Bureau of the Police
Department today could make 30
estimate Of visiting motorists.
eft Is our biggest day Of the
year." said Lieutenant Lamb, Ot
the traffic division. Every traf.
fic officer will be on duty today
and tomorrow. We know that we
will have thousands Of out-of-town
motorists here. No one has ever
made an estimate of how many
come to Washington for Easter. but
we know that IL is the heaviest
traffic we ever have to deal with. I"
All Hotels Filled
Every hotel in the city Is full.
No reservations or rooms can be
had until Tuesday. The sightsee-
ing bus companies and the ownere
of private machines used to view
Washington are sold out for today
and tomorrow. many Of The -choOl
parties chartering buses over the
weekend.
There will be special Easter serv.
ices in all churches tomorrow.
At the Walter Reed Hospital ar
rangements have been made to &C.
commodate 10000 for the Easter
Sunrise Service at .7:3O tomorrow
under direction OF Lieut.. Col. Ed
mund p. Easterbrooke, WHO becomes
CHIEF of Army chaplaina today.
The Catholic Daughters of Amer
lea will hold an initiation tomorrow
afternoon and evening at which
the Rt. Rev. James M. Mcnamara,
auxiliary bishop OF Baltimore, and
pastor Of st. Gabriels Church. will
be guest OF honor.
n Easter Sunday will be Just an
other sabbath at the, White House
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
Masonic Chapter Will
Perform Ceremony

The Evangelist Chapter, +. A. A.
M, will perform the ceremony of re.
lighting the lights at All-Souls
Church, Sixteenth and Harvard
Streets Northwest, at 3 p. m. tOmor!
row.
Music for the ceremony will be
provided by the Scottish Rite Choir
under direction Of i. Walter Humph.
rev and Arsenic Ralon, Violinist.
The Rev. John Carpenter Palmer,
chaplain of the Masonic Grand
Lodge, will speak.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
"AtOnement" With 5
SOlOists. Due at Fox

"The Atonement" will he sung by
five soloists and choir of 100 voices
from the Mt. Vernon Methodist Epis-
copal Church South at 2 p. m. to.
morrow in the Fox Theater.
The program will be in charge of
the Rev. William A, Lambeth, of the
church. The soloists will be Elvina
Neal Rowe, Matilda Kolb, John l..
Mitchell, Frank w. Wright and Lee
8. Tillotson. r. Deane Shure. Wash
ington composer, will be the con-
ductor, with Edith Gottwals at the
organ.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07

The Bureau of Efficiency recently
recommended to the Gibson subconl.
mittee that these employees be
placed under civil service regula-
lions. Members of the committee
expressed their approval Of the rec
ommendation.
The Efficiency Bureau reported
that, the District Commissioners had
been blocking the move to place
their subordinates under the rules
and regulations OF the Civil Service
Committee. The Commissioners have
the authority To take that action
without authorization from Con
greSS, the bureau declared.
The bill now before the Civil
Service Committee would take the
matter out OF the hands of the Com.
missiOne, and write into law the
requirement that employees Of the
District Government must be en-
ployed under Civil Service rules.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
Biological Society
- To Hear 2 Lectures

The Biological Society of Wash
ington will hear two illustrated lee
lures at it's .720th meeting at
o'clock tonight in the new assembly
hall of the Cosmos Club, Madison
Place and Fl Street Northwest.
The meeting will open with a IS.
minute period devoted to book no
tees, notes and new exhibits. Illus
trated lectures will be given by
Walter =. Taylor, of the Biological
Survey and w. II. Rich. of the
United States Bureau Of Fisheries.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
TIMELY TIPS

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The Washington times., 1928-04-07
Fair Easter Promised
80, 600 Visitors

With weather forecast Of fair and cooler, Washington
today was preparing for the annual Easter parade.
Forty special trains many carrying school children arrived
last night and today to remain until tomorrow night Rail
officials estimated visitOss mostly from New York
Transatlantic. ard Canada. at 5000 To 10000 u.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
WILL TALK ON RUSSIA

Laurence Todd, Washington news.
paper correspondent. will speak on
Observations in Russia in 1928
and 1927" at meeting of the
Washington Open Forum. at 3 pm.
tomorrow in the Playhouse, 1914 n
ASt.-N.. Va -..I.s...., :. >, ,,:., ,.s-,u,.s-
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
MEDICAL SUPERSTITIONS"

Edward H. Young will address
the League for Larger Life on
Medical Superstition, tonight AZ
s o'clock at 1905 l. st.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07
CiviI Service Sought
For d. c. Employees.

Representative Ernest w. Gibson Of Vermont chairman
of the Gibson subcommittee announced today that he is plan
ming seek early action from the Civil Service Committee OF
which he also member bill now before that committee
place District under the civil service law.
The Washington times., 1928-04-07

.'I.oveIiest OF trees, the cherry now
Is piled with snow along the bough
And all about the river side
Are wearing white for Eastertlde."
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OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON
THEATERS

all times q depth of feeling 10 her acting
that is charming and captivating Al
though one knows that she must possess
a definite technique, she never shows IT,
Her emotional reactions seem al once
first hand and sincere. Therein lies
her greatest appeal.
Charles Farrell again co-Starred with
Miss Gaynor. exhibits III his part Of
Gino. the same youthful fascination
that he lent 10 his ininitahle Chico OF
seventh Heaven" The personalities OF
these two stars blend IN such harmony
that their work seems perfect,
Nov that Synchroni5s zion is IN vogue.
a fun length score has been added, and
it may detract more than enhance. The
atmospheric effects. including much
mist and. at times. heavy fos. are c%-
pertlv photographed end highly salts
factory, The very essence of picturesque
Naples, the locale Of the picture. y
caught, particularly N those shots
around the wharv~s end the Slum
districts
In fittins and artistic prelude, Law
renee Downcy sings the them" song,
Angela Mia" which BIDS to be even
more popular than Diane" and
Ramona"
The Fox Grand Orchestra. again
under the baton OF Leon Brusiloff, plays
the "Pomp and Circumstance" as the
overture. and a thoroughly interesting
Movietone news reel completes on" of
the best bills offered since the opening
weeks Of >,liS theater