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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
POLL GROUP TO GIVE
UTILITY POST NAMES
List of Citizens Associations to Be
Furnished With Data An
nounced by Committee.

The committee conducting a public
poll to determine those whose names
they desire presented to President Hoo
yer for consideration to fill the existing
vacancy on the Public Utilities Com
mission and another vacancy to occur
June 80. today announced that the
names will be presented for considera
ton by the following citizens associa-
tons:
Before the Manor Park, Stanton Park
and Takoma Park Citizens Associations.
March IL; American University Park
Citizens Association, March IL; Gar
field and Richmond Park Citizens AS
sociations and to the SoroptomiSt Club
of the District of Columbia, March 13;
Glover Park Citizens Association,
March Is: South Washington Citizens
Association, March 20: Federation of
Civic Associations, March %: Mid City
Citizens Association, March 25, and
Georgetown Civic Association, March
26.
The list of persons the poll commit
tee is asking the various citizens groups
to consider to fill the vacancies on the
Public Utilities Commission has been
made public in the press.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
.BALLOU OUTLINES
SCHOOL PROGRAM
Special Facilities for Crippled
Depend on Congressional
Action on Appropriation.

Establishment of special facilities for
instructing crippled school children and
pupils handicapped by weak eyesight
will be carried out as soon as Congress
makes funds available. DR.. Frank W.
Bailou. superintendent of schools, last
night told the District of Columbia Pub
lie School Association, meeting in the
District Building.
Mentioning several changes intended
to improve Institutional conditions. DIR.
Ballou said co-ordinated effort would
be made to have Congress pass the So
called free text book and sabatical leave
bills at the special session.
Special classrooms for crippled chill
dren are to be provided in two schools
yet to be designated DR.. Ballou said
and plans are being formulated for
establishment in all public schools of
'eyesight conservation" classrooms. in
which text books printed in large type
may be available for use
Eighty Need Special Attention.
School authorities estimate approx
mately 80 crippled children of school
age in Washington are unable to attend
classes. When clasSrooms have been set
aside for them and desks and benches
provided in conformance to their in
firmitieS, transportation will be provided
to and from homes and physician will
be made available at each of the two
schools for their attention.
DR.. Ballou said the school board
would be prepared to ask Congress for
funds for establishing school for the
crippled when circumstances indicated
the efficacy of the program.
The standard of eligibility require
ments for teachers in the public school
system will be raised 10 conform to edu-
cational facilities made available with
establishment of teachers college and
a junior college. both of which were au-
thorized by the last Congress. DR.. Bal
lou said school officers are studying
plans for carrying out the authorization.
It seems only just to public school chill
dren. he said, that teachers should be
required to have at least a college de-
gree and a course in specialized work
before being permitted to teach. Grad
yates of the two-year normal school
course are eligible for teaching positions
in the elementary grades under the
present standard of requirements.
Senate Failed to Reach Vote.
Doubt was expressed that the special
session of Congress may consider the
free text book and Sabbatical leave bills
under a call of the President not men,
tioning the subject.
The free text book bill. under which
the privilege of free books now enjoyed
only by pupils in the elementary grades
would be extended to all grades, was
passed by the House at the last session
but failed to reach vote in the Senate.
DR.. Ballou said he thought the District
Commissioners and the Budget Bureau
would not oppose the sabbatical leave
bill, under which school teachers might
take leave. not exceeding one year in
seven years of service, for the purpose of
continuing education. Half salary
would be paid during the leave.
Herbert Bryant, president of the Pub
lie School Association, presided at the
meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
LEGION OBSERVES
FOUNDING TONIGHT
George Washington Post Has
Arranged Program CeIebrat-
ing Tenth Anniversary.

George Washington Post, No. l. the
pioneer post of the American Legion,
will celebrate its tenth anniversary to-
night at 8 o'clock at Memorial Con-
tinental Hall.
The program will open with selections
by the United States Marine Band. fol-
lowed by the sounding of Assembly"
and calling of the meeting to order by
Paul v. Collins. commander.
The colors of all of the American
Legion posts in the Department of the
District of Columbia will be massed on
the stage under direction of Maj. E. l..
Dyer Invocation will be pronounced
by Rev Howard E. Snyder, post chap
lain, after which the audience will re-
main standing for one minute of ST.
lence in memory of those who gave
their lives in the World War.
Taps will be sounded by a Marine
Band bugler and Herman Fakler will
sing FLANDERS Requiem accompanied
by Mrs. Stuart Johnson. Comdr. Col
Inns will deliver an address on Patriot
ISM" followed by the repeating of the
preamble Of the constitution of the
Legion. Greetings will be read from
President Hoover, Gen. John J. PERISH
ing and E. Lester Jones, first COM
mander of the post, who will be unable
to attend the exercises.
Department Comdr. Harlan Wood
will speak on THE American Legion, "
followed by the singing of war songs
and an address by Department Adit
Howard S. Fisk, the first adjutant OF
George Washington Post, on THE
Founding of George Washington Post
No. l." Herman Fakler will sing Eye
Who Have Faith" accompanied by the
United States Marine Band Orchestra
under the leadership of Capt. Taylor
Branson. This selection, set to music
by Mrs. Stuart Johnson from a poem
found on the body of dead soldier on
battlefield in France shortly before
the armistice, has been orchestrated by
Capt. Branson and is dedicated to
George Washington Post.
Past Department Comdr Amos A
Fries will speak on Battles in Peace,
followed by singing, and an address by
Rear Admiral r. E. Coontz, U. S. N
On The Seven Seas" and closing with
an address by Rev James Green. chief
of the American Red Cross speakers
bureau, on The National Red Gross
Society and the Disabled Veterans"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
Accurate Check Is UnavaiI-
able, but Committee Fore
sees 100 Per Cent Return.
RECEIPTS FROM BALL
MAY REACH $4,000
Box Seats Alone Bring in $25, 900,
Mrs. Dougherty Announces.
Medals 0versold.

A return in the neighborhood of 100
per cent to guarantors for the inaugural
fund was forecast today.
While there can be no accurate check
up until all reports are in and all vouch-
ers paid. inaugural committee officials.
on the basis of returns up to noon
today, declared the 80 per cent return
predicted Tuesday was assured. that the
return might reach 100 per cent and
might even go so far as to leave bal
ance above expenses.
If balance is left, it will be turned
over to charity. although 1. J. Roberts,
secretary of the finance committee.
could rot say today what charity would
receive such surplus.
The inaugural committee disclosed
today it had an understanding with
Mrs. John Allan Dougherty, general
chairman of the inaugural charity ball
committee, that if returns to guarantors
from committee sources of receipts did
not reach 80 per cent, the balance need
ed to bring the guarantee fund return
up to 80 per cent would be taken from
receipts of the charity ball.
The inaugural committee now does
not need to avail itself of this source
of revenue, according to Mr.. Roberts.
Ball Fund Not Totaled.
Mrs. Dougherty also was not able to
give an accurate account of the money
realized for charity from the sale OF
tickets to the charity ball, but hoped 1t
might reach $4,000. Sale of box seats
alone brought in about $4,000, she said,
and when final reports are available
from tickets sent out to the various
States. receipts for charity might reach
$4,000.
Similarly, there were no reports on
money received from sale, of souvenir
programs. but an oversale OF the In
augllral souvenir medals was reported
by Julius Garfinckel, chairman of the
medals and badges committee. More or
ders for the medals have been received
than can be filled, and number OF
other medals may have to be ordered
from the mint. They sell for $3.50 each.
Committee to Meet Saturday.
The budget committee will meet at
luncheon at the Willard Saturday aft
ernoon to go over the accounts OF the
inaugural committee, in so far as is pos
sible in their yet uncompleted state.
meeting of the executive committee OF
the general inaugural committee is to
be held next week.
Meanwhile, Washington continued to
dig itself out from, the temporary stands
that seated thousands of persons on
Inaugural day. Workmen proceeded
rapidly with the task of tearing down
the official stand in front of the White
House and with the job of clearing the
Capitol plaza of the rows of seats near
where Herbert Hoover took the oath of
Office last Monday. Circus stands along
Pennsylvania avenue between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth streets were
ready for demolition, with chairs await
ing trucks to haul them away. The
stands along the Fifteenth street side
of the Treasury vanished rapidly before
the onslaught of a corps of workmen.
under orders from the Treasury chief
clerk to clear them away as swiftly as
possible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
MELLON TO RETAIN
DEPARTMENT STAFF
Treasury Chief Indicates Little
Concern Over Attacks Made
on Him in Senate.
BY the Associate ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Andrew W. Mellon, the only Secre-
tary OF the Treasury to serve in that
Office under three Presidents, will con-
tinue with the same staff organization
that has served the department for
years.
The gray-haired cabinet officer indi-
Gated today that he was unruffled by
attacks against him in the Senate which
eliminated in the adoption of reso-
luton by Senator Mcclellan, Tennessee,
to investigate his right to continue in
office without being reconfirmed.
Mr.. Mellon came into the cabinet
eight years ago and was confirmed
only once, when his name was first
presented to the Senate by President
Harding.
Only one Secretary of the Treasury
served longer than has Mr.. Mellon. AL
bert Gallatip. also of Pennsylvania,
served from 1901 TO 1918. but part of
the time he was aboard and during that
time his Office was declared vacant, so
that ne actually served only about II
Eears.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
B STREET PLANS
WILL Be STUDIED
National Capital Park and
Planning Commission to
Meet Tomorrow.

The project for the widening and
improvement of B street from the
Potomac River to the Capitol will be
one of the major proposals to come up
for consideration tomorrow at the
meeting of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
At various times, Maj Carey H.
Brown, the commissions engineer ex-
planned today, the commission has ap-
proved part of the plan, but complete
plan will be presented tomorrow for ap-
prevail of the commission. The street
widths and setback of buildings on the
street will be considered during the
discussion of the program
Capt. p St. J. Wilson, chief engineer
of the Bureau of Public Roads. Depart
ment of Agriculture, and E. W. James.
chief of the bureaus design division.
will explain to the commission at to-
morrow afternoons session the present
status Of the Mount Vernon Highway
project. -
Memorial Bridge to Come Up.
Plans and suggestions relative to the
development of the Virginia end of the
Arlington Memorial Bridge will come
before the commission tomorrow. The
work is progressing now to such a point
that formation of definite detailed plans
for the treatment of the bridge head
in connection with the highways of Vir-
ginia is considered necessary, Mai.
Brown asserted
Sometime tomorrow, the commission
will visit the exhibition Washington
past, present and future" arranged by
the inaugural committee, under Lieut..
Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, on the ground
floor of the Washington Building,
Fifteenth street and New York avenue.
Land Purchases to Be Discussed.
1t is expected that the commission.
prior to the next meeting, will designate
committee for preparation of a pro-
gram for land purchases for the COM
ing year. Some questions regarding
land purchases will be passed on at
the tWo-day meeting of the commission
starting tomorrow
Chairman Zihlman of the House Dis
trict committee, who is commissioned
member, is vice chairman of the con-
gressional committee named to investi-
gate the airport situation in this vicinity
and he will unofficially act as liaiSon
officer between the legislative body and
the commission. The commission stands
ready, it was explained, to undertake
any study that legislators may request
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
THOM is ENDORSED.

Alfred P. Thorn, sr., former president
of the Virginia Bar Association, was
Endorsed last night as nominee of the
Friendship Citizens Association, at a
meeting of the association in Janney
School. Albemarle street and Wisconsin
avenue.
The association also Endorsed william
NICK Clayton for appointment to the
Public Utilities Commission, on motion
by Wilson F.. McCray, secretary of the
association.
Other resolutions recommended es-
tablishment of safety zones on Wiscon-
sin avenue north of Albemarle street.
and equipment of the Janney School
auditorium as a gymnasium.
A contribution of $40 toward i'm
proving the grounds of the Friendship
Branch OF the Public Library was au-
thorized Roy c. Bowker presided at
the meeting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
STEPS TO ASK BIDS
ON NEW NAVY YARD
MACHINERY TAKEN
Specifications Being Rapidly
Whipped Into Shape
by Officials.
100000 EXPENDITURE
MAY BE NECESSITATED
Capacity to Be Increased. but No
Marked Increase in Force
Is Expected.

The Navy Department is preparing to
call for bids in few days for additional
machinery at the Washington Navy
Yard that will be used in the construc-
ton of gun mounts and other arma-
ment and may neceSsitate an expendl-
ture OF 100000
officials at the navy yard said today
that the specifications for this new ma
chinery are being rapidly whipped into
shape so that the department may sub
NIT them to contractors for considera-
ton. The supply bill that laid the
groundwork for preparing for construc-
ton of the Is new cruisers and one
airplane carrier, recently authorized by
Congress, provides for a sum up to
100000 for additional equipment This
sum is made available Immediately. so
that the department can call for bids
at an early date.
Needed Machinery Listed.
The additional machinery that will
be necessary in the Washington Navy
Yard. officials explained today, is an
addition to the foundry of sand glass
and cleaning shed. machinery to in
crease the capacity for a boring mill
and a number of machines to take care
of the different type of work necessi-
tated by the design contemplated for
the new cruisers.
There will not be any marked in
crease in force at the Washington Navy
Yard, officials said, but it is definite
that there will be some increase pend
ing the development of the work and
available appropriations. This will not
take place for several months, however,
1t was said.
Rear Admiral William D. Leahy.
chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, Navy
Department, said that he expects to
pass on the specifications for the new
machinery submitted by the Washing
ton Navy Yard, in the course of few
days and that. bids will then be called
for. This machinery. he said, will in
crease the capacity of the Washington
Navy Yard.
1t IS practically certain that the
Washington Navy Yard will have sufi-
Gent work to fill it to capacity" Ad-
miral Leahy told The Star.
Gun Manufacture Proceeding.
The manufacture of guns with the
eight cruisers now under construction.
the Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Louis
vile, Chester, Northampton, Chicago,
Houston and Augustus proceeding
satisfactorily at the Washington Navy
Yard. it was learned. The guns are
being made ready for delivery to be
Installed at the dates fixed. so that the
ships may be completed on schedule.
The guns are made ready a year ahead
OF the delivery date of the vessels so
that they can be placed in position in
the various shipyards.
Officials of the navy yard declined to
indicate the number of guns that have
now been manufactured there on the
eight-cruiSer program
Information is lacking at this time
concerning just exactly what extra out
put will be made possible through the
contemplated expansion at the navy
yard.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
WORK OF NURSES SOCIETY
is DESCRIBED AT MEETING
Miss Boiling Addresses. Members
of Starmont Aid for
CONSERVATIVES,

The work of the Instructive Visiting
Nurses Society was described to mem
bers of the Starmont Air for Consump-
tives at a meeting in the Women's CITY
Club yesterday by Miss Gertrude Boil
ing, head of the Nurses Society.
Miss Boiling said that many of the
services now performed by the Public
Health Department were begun as ex-
periments by the Instructive Visiting
Nurses Society. She suggested that
Starmont organize a clinic committee
to transport tuberculosis suspects to
clinics for observation.
Luncheon was served following the
meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
Hyde's Prohibition
Stand Is Shown in
W. e.. 7. u. HOnOrs
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The prohibition leanings of Ar
thur M. Hyde. new Secretary of
Agriculture. are plainly evident,
for he is one of three men who
have served in the cabinet who
have been able to write Hon.
Mem. w. c. T. u after their
names.
The others to hold cabinet Of
fees. who have held honorary
membership in this women's tenn
perance organization, are Jo-
sephus Daniels, former Secretary
of the Navy, and the late William
Jennings Bryan, who served as
Secretary of State in the Wilson
cabinet. The Missouri w. G. T. u.
conferred the honorary member
ship on Mr.. Hyde.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
QUEER WILLS DESCRIBED.
Strange Documents Told OF by
D. C.. Register.

Many strange wills come regularly
into his Office. Theodore Cogswell, reg
lister of wills for the District of Co
umbia, told the Lions Club yesterday,
at its meeting in the Hotel Mayhower.
Copies of wills of distinguished per-
sons including the late President Wood
row Wilson and Chief Justice Marshall
of the United States Supreme Court.
were exhibited.
President Wilson typed his own will
and this is considered a model, Mr..
Cogswell asserted. One distinguished
jurist forgot to have his will witnessed,
he explained. Robert l.. McKeever, pres
ident, presided at the meeting.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
Taxi Thief Leaves Half Her $72,
Woman Victim Reports to Police

Theft of nine vending machines and
two cartons of chocolates valued at
$3.50 was reported to the police by
Harry j. Wolcher, HOS L street. He
said his property was taken from a ga
rage in rear of 2111 Eighteenth street,
where entrance was gained by breaking
lock on a door.
Margaret Stewart. 1911 Ninth street,
was the victim Of pocketbook snatcher
while on T between Sixth and Seventh
streets about IL o'clock last night. She
told police her handbag, containing
SIPS. swas snatched from her by a
colored boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07

How an unidentified thief went
$3.50" with her yesterday afternoon.
leaving $36 and taking $50 from her
pocketbook. was related to police by Mrs.
Robert E. Cornick, 811 Farragut street.
whose complaint was one of several
lodged at headquarters
Mrs. Cornick said she missed half
of the $72 on returning to her home
from upper Connecticut avenue in a
taxicab, recalling that she had left the
pocketbook in the cab for 10 minutes
while she entered building on the
avenue,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
American Economist Is Dead.

LONDON, March U).-Allyn Alb
bott Young. American economist and
professor of political economy In the
University of London. died today Of
pneumonia at the age Of SO. He was
formerly professor Of economics nt
Harvard University. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
Cavalry to Hold Last Ride.

The last ride of the season by the
cavalry and artillery units at Fort Mys:
will be held In the riding hall there at
250 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon. Sec
rotary Of War Good will be present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07
VOLCANO IN ERUPTION.
Icelandic Disturbance Is Far From
Inhabited Parts of Island.

COPENHAGEN, March 7 up. The
Icelandic legation received reports today
of an eruption of the volcano Kverkf-
joll, so miles from the southeastern
coast of Iceland.
The volcano is located far from the
inhabited parts of the island. but the
eruption is plainly visible from north
ern Iceland Kverkftoil is about 1870
miles east Of Reykiavik, the capital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-07

Above: Roofs uplifted from three
houses at Eighteenth and B streets
southeast
Center: Firemen of No. Truck Com
pany clearing debris from the top of
building at 1880 Fourteenth street. The
metal roof was picked up by the wind
and thrown onto the one-story annex
in the rear.
Below: Thirty-foot steel cylinder,
erected on the Bureau of Standards,
which collapsed under the pressure and
nearly carried down a man standing
on the roof. Star Staff Photo.
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