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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
ID. C.. Park Statues
Will Be Cleaned
For Visitors Gaze
1t. Col. Grant, Sd, Invites
Bids for Work; Materials
WILDE ThoroughlyTe Tested

Forty-two statues in Washington's
parks are to be cleaned so that the
notables they represent in stone and
metal will be more presentable for the
city's visitors. Lieut.. Col U. S. Grant,
Sd, director of the ONCE of Public
Buildings and Public Parks, today In
vited bids for this work and set next
Tuesday as the day for opening them
In announcing the bidding, Col
Grant explained that cleaning by sand
blast will be permitted only in cases in
dividually approved. The work COM
prises cleaning of the statues and all
portions of the bases that are above
ground and cutting out or cleaning out
and pointing with cement mortar of all
joints in the stonework. The metallic
portions Of the statues are to be thor
oughly cleaned also.
Samples of materials the contractor
contemplates using viii be submitted to
the Bureau of Standards for test and
recommendation, Col. Grant explained.
Any material which the bureau indi-
Gates may be harmful to the stone or
metal will not be permitted. The work
is to be done within five months after
the contract is awarded. Should the
contractor do any damage to the
statues he. will be required to repair
them at his own expense.
Col. Grant announced the names Of
the statues to be cleaned as follows:
Gen. Andrew Jackson Gen. Lafayette
and compatriots Rochambeau, Gen.
Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Gen. Baron Won
Steuben; Gen. Washington. Gen. John
A. RawlinS, Gen Winfield Scott. Abra-
ham Lincoln, the statue in Lincoln
Park and also the statue at the south
front of the Courthouse Building in
Judiciary Park: Maj. Gen. James B.
Mcpherson. Gen. Nathaniel Greene
Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas. Admiral
Farragut, Prof. Joseph Henry, President
Garfield. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock,
L. j. M. Daguerre, DR.. Samuel D. Gross,
Daniel Webster, Gen. John A. Logan,
DIR. Samuel Hahnemann, Gen. Albert
Pike, Gen. William T. Sherman, Peace
Monument, Gen. Mcclellan, Gen. Philip
H. Sheridan, Henry w. Longfellow.
John Witherspoon, Stephenson Grand
Army Memorial, Gen. Count Pulaski,
Christopher Columbus, John Paul Jones,
Commodore John Barry. Dupont
Memorial Fountain, Gen Grant. Memo
rial to Nuns of the Battlefield, Serenity.
Joseph j. Darlington, Gen San Martin.
Francis Asbury and Edmund Burke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
NATIONAL GUARD GIVEN
TROPHY FOR ATTENDANCE

The District of Columbia National
Guard was presented with trophy, to
be given each year to the company
having the best attendance at the ar
mory drill, by the District of Columbia
Department of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, at a ceremony last night at the
east front of the Capitol
Capt Frank Lockhead department
commander of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, made the presentation and Mai.
Gen. Anton Stephan. commander of
the District of Columbia National
Guard. accepted the trophy.
Music was furnished by the 12lst
Engineers Band and the Veterans of
Foreign Wars OVERSEAS Drum and Bugle
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
GEN. DAVIS REQUEST
TO RETIRE APPROVED
President Grants Application of
4th Corps Area Commander
to Quit Active Duty.

The President today approved the
application of Maj Gen. Richmond P.
Davis, commanding the 4th Corps Area
at Atlanta, for transfer to the retired
list, effective December %, after more
than 46 years of active service.
Gen. Davis is from North Carolina
and was graduated from the Military
Academy in June, 1887. Assigned to the
Coast Artillery Corps, he reached the
grade of colonel in January. 1914. Dur
ing the World War he served as a
brigadier general in the National Army
and was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal In the Regular Army
he reached the grade of brigadier gen.
eral in December, 1922 and the grade
of major general in October, 1927.
His successor in command of the 4th
Corps Area has not yet been announced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
All CLUB MEMBERS
ENCAMPMENT
Delegates From SO States
and Hawaii Are Welcomed
by c. w. Warburton.

Delegates to the third national en-
campment of boys and girls All Clubs
were welcomed TO Washington by c.
w. Warburton, director Of extension
work in the Department of Agriculture,
at the opening session of the encamp
ment in the auditorium of the National
Museum today.
Thirty eight States and the Terri
tory of Hawaii are represented at the
encampment. Mr.. Warburton pointed
out in his address that the member
ship in the All Clubs throughout the
country has grown to 100000.
Every State Has Clubs.
"This membership represents every
State in the Union and the Terri
tory of Hawaii The department is
proud of the many notable accomplish
ments made by All club members dur
ing the past year" Mr.. WarburtOn
said. Adding:
THE influence of the All Clubs has
extended far beyond the United States.
Foreign educators have visited us in
considerable numbers of recent years
and have returned home to organize
similar clubs in their own countries
We may look forward confidently to
greatly increased enrolment both here
and abroad and to frequent interna-
tional competitions between rural boys
and girls of every country"
Washington and its many points of
interest was discussed by c. B. Smith,
chief of the Agriculture Department
Office of cooperative extension work.
An illustrated address was delivered
at the opening session by Knowles Ryer-
son. chief of the Bureau of Foreign
Plant Introduction, who told of the
extensive work of the Department of
Agriculture in efforts to discover and
obtain foreign plants for introduction
in this country. Often, he said, some
of the research men sent out by the
department spend much of their time
in jail, because in certain countries
the people Just can't believe" that a
man is roaming through the country
merely looking for plants.
Visit Experimental Farm.
The delegates are spending this aft
ernoon on an educational tour to the
Department of Agriculture Experimental
Farm at BeltSville, Md. There they will
be addressed by men in charge Of the
work OF scientific experiments which
are being conducted with a view to
bringing about the production of better
live stock, crops and poultry: They
Will be served a picnic dinner at the
farm, all of the products of which were
grown at the farm campfire service
at the camp tonight will close the days
activities.
Tomorrow morning, the speaker at
assembly, which Is to be held at the
National Museum, will be John Alex
ander OF the American Youth Founda-
ton. The boys and girls will visit
washington Cathedral tomorrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
BURROUGHS ASSOCIATION
NAMES FIRST OFFICERS

Officers of the newly organized Bur-
roughS Citizens Association were elected
last night at a meeting in the John
Burroughs School. They are: William
E. Rabenhorst, president; Mrs. Lillian
Armstrong, vice president; j. A. Rooms,
secretary, and Ira G.. Blumer, treasurer.
The citizens also adopted a constitu-
ton and voted to cooperate with other
civic organizations in arranging/a July
4 celebration.
The question in regard to the pro-
posed removal of the seventh and
eighth grades from the John Burroughs
School to the Langdon School was re-
ferred to the committee on education.
The following citizens constituted the
original Is, who were instrumental In
the formation of the new association:
r, M. FurniSs, Mrs. B. A. Furniss, Fred
c. Hicks, Mrs. Fred C. Hicks, Raymond
K. Ashmun. Mrs. Ruth M. AShmun.
r. K. Lynt, Mrs. r. K. Lynt, George
l.. Gee. Raymond Lee Gilbert, John NJ.
Kemper. Mrs. Louis De Ladurantaye. ].
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
Inspector Brown Makes 0ras-
tic Move to Lessen Down.
town Traffic Congestion.
OFFICIAL HOPES TO END
PRESENT CROWDING EVIL
Only Cars With Fares or Answer.
ing Calls Will Be Allowed
in Zone.

drastic move to alleviate trafic
congestion on F street. through the
adoption of a regulation to prevent
cruising" by taxicabs, Is planned by
E. w. Brown, police inspector in charge
of the Traffic Bureau.
The regulation, Inspector Brown an
nounced today. would be drawn to pro-
hibit taxiS without fares to enter F
street from Ninth to Fifteenth street
between 8 am. and midnight unless in
response to a call. This move by he
Commissioners, he said, virtually will
end the present cruising" evil, which
he blames as being responsible for so
per cent OF the traf1c congestion on
the busy street.
Traffic conditions on r street In
spector Brown declared, are "deplor-
able" and have been for some time.
The situation is aggravated particularly
at night, he said, by the empty taxicab
parade, when the drivers appear to
concentrate in the theatrical section
in search of fares.
Recently, Inspector Brown said, he
made a traffic count on F street at
night and discovered that 10 out of
every IL motor vehicles which passed
a definite point were taxicabs. The ma
jority were empty, he declared, and
we're doing what is commonly known
as cruising"
A regulation to prevent this practice
on F. street was recommended to the
Commissioners last June by Inspector
Brown. but it was considered too dras-
tic and was pigeon-holed. The Com
ntissionerS, however adopted similar
regulation temporarily for the presiden-
tial inaugural week last March and
Inspector Brown points out that 1t re-
suited in marked improvement in the
traffic situation on F street.
Inspector Brown announced he would
request the corporation counsePs office
to frame the regulation. He will urge
William H. Harland, traffic director,
and the Commissioners to approve it.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
1900 Advance in Educa-
tionaI March Through Pro-
motions to Next Grade.
PREPARATIONS FOR NEXT
YEARS CLASSES BEGIN
Teaching Stats to Remain on Duty
Two More Days to Make Up
Annual Reports.

School ends today for the $4,000 odd
boys and girls in Washingtons public
schools, and in the ending approximate
" 1000 advance another stage in
their educational march.
These advances are being made
through promotions in the elementary.
junior high and senior high schools, and
by graduation from these institutions
as well as the Districts two normal
schools.
Arthur Building Abandoned.
In one OF the schools, the Arthur
Building in Arthur place. between B
and C streets, the teachers and pupils
are saying permanent goodbyes, for
that school will be abandoned after the
close Of the colored school year. It is
this school which has been proposed as
. home for the District Criminal Court.
Similarly, the rented quarters of
three classes at $40 Sixth street south
west, are being switched today for mod
ern and adequate accommodations. These
classes have been housed in the tempo
rary quarters for many years, and next
Fall they will be quartered in the
Smallwood and the Bowen Schools.
Two portable buildings located during
the past year in Brookland, will be
opening of the new Langdon School.
This does not mean, however, that
Washington's number of portable
schools will be reduced, for these frame
structures only will be moved to other
localities to fill demands,
Plans for Next Year Laid.
While LOO elementary school pupils
are being graduated in their claSSrooms
today. plans are being made for the
opening next year of the new Paul
Junior High School in Brightwood,
where some 200 elementary school
pupils were until today quartered in
the old Brightwood School annex, and
the seventh and eighth grades of the
Brightwood and Takoma Buildings will
be moved Each Spring during the past
seven years the number of graduates
from the eighth grade elementary
schools has been reduced with the in
PRODUCTION of the junior high school
system of education here, until at pres
emit approximately rs per cent of the
elementary school children are attend.'
ing the new type of schools.
But if today is the beginning Of q
grand and glorious three months for
Washington's children, it is simply the
tRict school teachers. The teaching
personnel and the stan of clerks in the
schools must remain on duty for two
more full days. during which they will
be engaged in final reports and prop
erty accounting. Within the next
two weeks, however, fully 66 per cent
of Washington's teachers will enter
other schools of graduate education in
pursuit of their qualifications to teach
Washington'S children, when they re-
turn to their classes next September
Despite rumors to the contrary, every
elementary school class will remain In
session today until 3 O'Clock, except
the part-time classes. which do not
convene until later in the morning
which will remain in class until 400
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
CITY LAYS PLANS
FOR CELEBRATION
Committee Seeks Contribu-
tons to Further Elaborate
July d Program.

Preparations for the city's celebration
of Independence Day are rapidly going
forward under the direction of the citi-
zens' committee appointed 10 days ago
by the District of Columbia Commits
sioners, with E. F. Colladay as chair
man.
The celebration is designed to be the
most elaborate ever planned for the
city Special events during the day will
eliminate in a patriotic demonstration
and display of fireworks in the evening
on the Monument Grounds.
The finance committee, headed by
E. j. Murphy, president of the Wash
ington Board of Trade, as chairman.
today called on every citizen, and all
groups and organizations for financial
aid. as the committee has decided $4,000
will be needed.
Contributions are to be sent to Victor
Deyber, the treasurer, at the Second
National Bank, 500 Seventh street
northwest. to E. j. Murphy, chairman,
at the Board of Trade, Star Building.
or to Miss Sibyl Baker, executive vice
chairman at the Community Center De-
partment, in the Franklin School Build
ing. Checks should be made out to
Victor Deyber, treasurer.
The subcommittee are active in prep
aration plans. The committee on invi-
tationS. with E. C. Snyder rs chairman.
met today in the board rooms of the
Franklin administration building. Invi-
tations will be sent to government off,
Gals. members of the diplomatic corps,
District officials and other distinguished
citizens to attend the formal ceremonies
at the Sylvan Theater in the evening of
July 4.
The committee on community par
ticipation will meet tomorrow at pm.
in the board room of the District Build
ing, under the Craftsmanship of Mrs.
Virginia White Speel
There will be meeting of the execu-
tive committee Friday at 10 am. to be
presided over by Mr.. Colladay. Reports
Of all subcommittee will be made then.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
D. C. FIRE LOSSES
DECREASE $1O,732

Fire losses in the District during MAY
amounted to $17,443, a decrease of
$l0,732 from the losses the previous
month, which amounted to $28,175, &C
cording to a report filed today by Fire
Marshal Leonard v. Seib with George
S. Watson. chief engineer of the Fire
Department. The losses in May, 1928,
were $23,893.
During the month there were 279
alarms, of which "a we're false and
were for fires outside of the District.
OF the fires reported only 1913 were
accompanied by property loss. Loss to
buildings was estimated at 1855 and
to contents at $9.788.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
c. OF C. GROUP TO STUDY
SCHOOL HEALTH REPORTS
Committee Will Consider Results
Of Inspections Tomorrow; Avia-
ton Group Meets Friday.

Reports on school medical inspection
In Washington and the proposed con-
solidation of all health activities of the
Federal Government under one agency.
VIII be considered by the public health
committee of the Washington Chamber
OF Commerce at meeting tomorrow
noon.
Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, director
OF the Instructive Visiting Nurses
Society, and Arthur C. Christie will SUBJ
NIT reports at the meeting. which will
be conducted by Wallace Hatch, COM
mittee chairman.
The aviation committee of the
chamber, of which Lieut.. Walter Hin
ton Is chairman, will meet in the
chamber Offices Friday noon to consider
number of proposed air mail and
passenger routes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
Three Relays Of D. C. Police Capture
Car and Rum, but Runners Flee

The life of q rum-runner, now and
then, is just one policeman after an
other.
1t was like that this morning for two,
anyhow. They showed their heels to a
motor cycle man, eluded cruising au-
tomobile from the Traffic Bureau and
came in sight of their destination, only
to run afoul of a pair of patrolmen,
when they lost their cargo, but pre-
served their liberty.
1T wasn't a race. it was a relay" said
Policeman Earl L. Baker of No. 2, the
motor cycle man. He had chased the
rum car for 80 minutes in a circuitous
route about the Northwest section, most
of the time running through a smoke
screen laid down by the fleeing car.
Once, for five blocks, the policeman
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19

streets, followed it to Kingman place,
then across to p and Twentieth streets,
Eighteenth street and Columbia road,
and finally lost his quarry at Eleventh
and Euclid streets, after reckoning the
TRAFFIC Bureau officers into the race.
The latter men, Sergt. Milton B.
Smith and L. T. johnson, never got a
and soon lost trace of 1t In the early
morning mists on Sixteenth street, near
Fuller.
1t remained for Policemen j. B. Mon
roe and B. c. Cook of No. 8 precinct
to complete the job They sighted the
car in the $500 block of Sherman ave-
nue., saw 1t pull up before a garage and
ran up to the machine. Two colored
men leaped out and escaped on foot.
The automobile was confscated along
with $50 gallons Of Maryland whisky
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
.PUGH TO GET WINGS.
Chevy Chase Youth will Be Grad.
uated at Flying School.

Charles Francis .Pugh, son of Mrs.
E. l.. Pugh of Chevy Chase, Md. viii
be one of the graduates of the Army
Kelly Field. Tex, Saturday. He is to
be commissioned a second lieutenant In
the Air Corps and will be assigned TO
duty at Mitchell Field, N. Y.
Lieut. Pugh has been lifelong resi-
dent of Montgomery County and was
known as an athlete in high school ana
at the University of Maryland. He is
the second member of his family to
brother, Lieut.. Edward L. Pugh, is a
Marine Corps pilot. VINO has lust been
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
ARMY CHANGES NOTED.
Col. Jennet Retired-Several other
Officers Reassigned.

Officers Reassigned.
Col. E. Alexis Jeunet, Quartermaster
Corps, recently stationed at Los An
geles, Calf, has been transferred to
the retired list on his own applica-
ton after more than 80 years service;
Lieut.. Col Charles F. Thompson, In
fAntry, has been relieved from duty as a
member OF the War Department General
Stan in special charge of the division of
military information, to take effect
June 30, and assigned to the 39th In
fantry, at the Presidio of San Fran
cisco; Maj. Charles c. Cresson, Judge
Advocate Generals Department. at the
War Department, has been ordered to
Fort Sam Houston, Tex; Maj. John N
Reynolds, Air Corps, from Mitchell
Field, N. Y, TO Langley Field. Va. ef-
fective August q; Capt Senius j. Ray
nond, Infantry, from Springfield, Mass
to Fort George G. Meade, Md; First
Lieut.. Easom J. Bond, Infantry, from
George Washington University, this
city, to the 10th Infantry, at Fort Wads-
worth, N. Y.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
TALIAFERR0 HAS HOPES.
Commissioner Seeks Golf Trophy
at Montauk Point.

Commissioner Sydney F. Talisferro is
In Montauk Point, N. Y, this week at
the convention of the District Bankers
Association Mr. Taliaferro won the
first leg on the associations golf
trophy last year and he is anxious to
obtain permanent possession by winning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-19
Albert Chalmers sneed Dies.

SEWANEE, Tenn, June 10 C40.-Al-
bert Chalmers Sneed of Little Rock
Ark, for IS years director of the Uni
versity Press of the University Of the
South, died TODAY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
DESIGN FOR CHURCH
IS GIVEN APPROVAL
Architects Advisory Council Puts
o. K. on Plan for Thomas
Circle Project.

The architectural design for the Ma
tional City Christian Church, now be-
ing erected on the northwest corner OF
Massachusetts avenue and Fourteenth
street, overlooking Thomas Circle, has
been Commended" by the Architects
Advisory Council, consisting of mem
bers Of the local chapter of the Amer
lean Institute Of Architects, who serve
voluntarily, without pay The church
designed by John Russell Pope, Is to
cost about 100000.
The jury of the Architects Council
also has approved" plans for the fol-
lowing structures: Store building for
1913 Fourteenth street, D. j. Kaufman
owner, A. B. Mullett, architect, cost
$29,820; bank and store, 306-12 Four
tenth street, for the Washington In
veStment Co., designed by Arthur B
Heaton, to cost $4,000; gasoline sta
ton for 103 Upshur street for the Tay-
lor-Korman Oil Co., designed by j. H
Abel, to cost $4,000; dwelling for 5515
Nevada avenue for M. B. Swanson, de-
signed by G. N. Norton, to cost $500;
dwelling for 770S Morningside Drive for
Alfred T. NewboId, designed by c. n
Norton, to cost $4,000; and convent
building at 1000 Hardwood road north
east for the Franciscan Sisters Of the
Atonement, designed by Murphy &
Olnsted, to cost 100000
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
REALTY BOARD NAMES
ARBITRATION CHAIRMAN
John T. Maury, Past President, Sc
lected as Head of Group to
Settle Disputes.

John F. Maury, past president of
the Washington Real Estate Board, has
been appointed chairman of the arbi-
tration committee of the organization,
it was announced today by Alfred H.
Lawson, president.
This committee, Mr.. Lawson pointed
out, has complete and final authority
in handling and adjusting misunder-
standings or disputes between members
in the negotiation and contamination
Of real estate transactions. Funda-
mentally, this is one Of the most i'm
portant and personal services rendered
to members of the board, Mr.. Lawson
said.
"A code of ethics subscribed to by all
members of the board serves as guide
for the arbitration committee in arriv-
ing at decisions in adjudicating differ
ences between members on basis of
fair and honorable dealing. Settlement
OF matters of this character arising be-
tween members is accomplished in an
amicable manner without resort to
legal procedure and results in not only
saving to members but avoids the i'll
will that frequently follows court &C.
tions," said Mr.. Lawson.
In addition to Mr.. Maury another
past president, Thomas E. FARRELL to-
gether with Theodore M. Judd, Morris
Cafritz and Earl G. Lane complete the
personnel of the committee. The ap-
pointment of Mr.. Lane as an associate
member conforms to the policy of the
board in giving recognition to the asso-
ciate members division in the admins
tration of this service.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-30
REAL ESTATE SECURITIES
EXCHANGE TO OPEN DEC. |
Program to Be Held in New York,
With Financial Leaders and
U. S. Officials Present.

The New York Real Estate Securi-
ties Exchange, the first of its kind for
the exclusive listing and sale of realty
stocks and bonds, which is organized
along lines of the New York Stock Ex-
change, is to be opened formally De-
cember Is, according to announcement
by Cyrus c. Miller, president.
Opening of the securities exchange,
formerly planned for October /, was
delayed to make possible completion
of all arrangements.
With the trading floor and equip
ment all set for operations at. IL East
Forty-first street, the exchange will be
opened with speeches and a luncheon
for 600 persons at the Hotel Biltmore,
to be attended by realty and financial
leaders and Government officials.
I'VE believe the real estate men of
New York will be playing their part
in the national program of rehabilitat-
ing business by opening the exchange
without delay" it is stated by Presi-
dent Miller.
Promoters Of the real estate securi-
ties exchange believe this new depar-
ture in finance will have the effect OF
making realty bonds and stock issues
more liquid and tend to stabilize realty
financing.