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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
STAR EMPLOYEES
LONG IN SERVICE
Galbraith and Meyer Listed
Among "0Id- Timers" on
Typo Union Rolls.

Two veteran employees of The Stars
composing room, William j. Galbraith
and Gerhardt A. Meyer, have held con-
tinuous memberships in Columbia Ty-
biographical Union. No. 10l, for more
than so years, while the oldest member
of the Union, William w. Maloney, who
Joined in 1861, is former employe of
The Star.
Meyer was admitted to membership
in 1878, and Galbraith came in two
years later. Veterans of The Stars
composing room recall Maloney's serv-
ice with them from 1874 through 1892.
MaIoney on Retired List.
Maloney, who is SO years old, was
retired some time ago and is credited
with being the unions oldest member,
both in years and in length of mem
bership. A recent check of the unions
lists by Fred S. Walker, secretary
treasurer, revealed that So members
were enrolled in the organization prior
to 1880.
The union itself, one of the oldest la
Dor organizations in the country, has
been in continuous existence since 1915
and its records since that time are
complete and rich in information of
the early days of the city and its
printing trade.
List of the "OId Timers"
The list of "old timers" together with
the date of their initiation, follows
Member since 1879, James H. Alburtis
1878. Harry E. Bartle: 1879. Francis
Benzler: 1873. John r. Berg; 1876. John
r. Boss; 1872. j. H. D. Buckley; 1872.
George Burklin: 1880. Robert w Burn
side: 1877. James B. Clarke: 1870, Will
liam r. Chipley: 1880. Thomas H. COL
Inns: 1872, Joseph E. Cotton: 1880.
Robert W. Congdon: 1880. John B.
Dickman; 1878. Clayton A. Edelen; 1873,
William j. Egbert; 1870. Joseph NJ.
Eggleston; 1874. Thompson P. Elliott;
1874. Ernest j. Elwood; 1868, jeremiah
E I'e11i.; 1879, Edward Y. Fisher; 1874.
William Fleming: 1880. William j.
Galbraith; 1880. Charles T. Graft; 1876,
Horace A. Graham; 1879. William E.
Grimes: 1867. Edward ] Handley: 1876,
Clement T, Harding; 1879, Lorenzo c.
Hover; 1877, Frank Hart; 1870, Edgar
J. Heaton: 1871. John r Heck; 1876,
Clement c. Hopkins; 1879. Merwin G.
Howe; 1880, James T. Higgins; 1874,
Zachaiy T. Jenkins: 1871, James B.
Kane; 1880. Samuel C. Kirby; 1861, Will
Meyer; 1872. Frank F. S. Miller: 1874.
Ambrose O'Keefe: 1880, John Sheridan
1869, John w. Sherman; 1866. Joseph
Silverberg: 1879, Robert F. Simms; 1876,
Thomas c. Simpson; 1868, Wilmer w
Stanford: 1879, Charles F. Sullivan;
1880, James H. Thomas: 1879, Alfred
Thomson; 1879. James A. D. Turner:
1874, Conrad T. Vogel; 1876. William
S. Waudy; 1874. Arthur c. Webb; 1869,
Ozias S. Webster; 1868. William j.
Weiss: 1876, Frederick N. Whitehead:
1878, Frank c. Porter; 1879, John C,
Sullivan; 1878. John D. Lyon; 1878.
Wellington F. Simonds; 1879, johnson
L. Garrett.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
DEMOCRATS TO PAY
JEFFERSON HONOR
Southern Society Plans Lib
erty Ball and TabIeaux
Friday Night.

Tributes to the memory of Thomas
Jefferson, founder of the Democratic
party, will be paid throughout the coun-
try next week at celebrations of the
18th anniversary of his birth, the
Democratic national committee an
nounceS. Reports indicate between
LOO and 1900 meetings will be held.
A large birthday cake will be fea-
ture of the liberty ball and tableaux
to be held under Southern Society
auspices at the Willard Hotel Friday
night. The cake will be exhibited in
honor Of Jeffersons birthday, which
will be celebrated at Monticello, the
when hundreds of Washington Demo-
Gratis will join in the pilgrimage.
Proceeds of the ball will be applied
to the Jefferson Foundation for pur-
chase of the painting of Martha JET
ferson Randolph. The Southern So
ciety, sponsoring the ball, is co-operat-
ing with the committee on the Month
cello patriotic celebration, headed by
Mrs. Clarence c. Dill. The cake will
be sold April IL at Charlottesville.
Other State and local organizations
providing birthday cakes for the cele-
bration here include Colorado, New
York. Long Island. Kentucky, Massa-
chusettS and Washington. Democrats
of Hyattsville and Baltimore. will be
represented in the pastry list, as will
Paris, with cake given by Mrs. Dinine
Franklin
Several radio addresses will be de-
livered. including that of DR.. Edward
A. Alderman, president of the Univer-
sity of Virginia, who will speak at
1880 pm, April IA, over Nation
wide hook-up, arranged by the National
BroadcaSting system.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
ADM|RES
us. SKYSCRAPERS
Sir Lionel Earle, Here to Su-
pervise Embassy Work, Com.
mentS on D. C. Growth.

American skyscrapers, "the whole
blooming lot" are sinister but magnifi-
cent, in the opinion of Sir Lionel Earl,
eminent Briton.
Sir Lionel, secretary of public works
for Great Britain, who arrived in WASH
ington today to supervise completion of
the new million dollar British embassy.
admires Americas towering buildings,
he assured reporters. Nevertheless, he
is glad the Atlantic separates them from
dear old London"
Atmospheric conditions in London
forbid construction there of monsters
of brick and Steel" Sir Lionel explained.
He added, however, there was a ten
dency toward slightly taller buildings in
the English metropolis.
Our me- embassy on Massachusetts,
avenue will be the finest diplomatic
establishment We have in the world"
Sir Lionel said. He said numerous
American statesmen and architects had
Joined him in praising the work of Sir
Edwin Lutyens, celebrated Englishman
who designed the structure.
Il am glad" said Sir Lionel. that
we soon will have an embassy outstand-
ing in nobility. character, design and
beauty to take the place of this out-of-
date place. We have needed more de-
GA oNAC AdnA OCAo LAC1C 1OL uld1ly years
Any number of Ambassadors have
complained terribly, and I don't blame
them.
In London recently, he said, he
glanced over correspondence exchanged
in 1877 when England purchased the
site of the present embassy here
There were countless complaints that
those who chose the site had been mad
for going so far out" he said. Can
you imagine that? Why, this old
building is in the shopping district
now"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
FRONT FOOT BASIS
FOR TAXATION HIT
Court Condemns Assessment
Method Under BorIand
Plan as Unfair.

The "front-foot basis" of assessment
under the Borland amendment received
another jolt today when the District
Court of Appeals, in an opinion by
Justice Josiah A. Van Orsdel, declared
it illegal even as to an assessment for
curbing. The court affirmed the action
of the District Supreme Court, which
mad cancelled an assessment of So
618.27 against the property known as
Friendship and belonging to the estate
of John r. Mclean, which included a
curbing assessment, and also cancelled
similar assessment against the prop
erty of Christian Heurlch for the paw
ing OF Wisconsin avenue.
AS to the paving assessments the
court declared they present vivid IL
Illustrations of the impossibility of eqult-
ably applying the tront-foot rule in
assessments OF property abuttlng on the
avenues OF this Guy.
The corporation counsels Office con-
tended that the curbing is separate and
distinct from the paving Of the street
and is neither part OF the sidewalk
nor part of the street.
The proposed assessment for WlScon-
sin avenue, the court points out, pre-
sents the identical condition as arose
in the matter of Rhode Island avenue,
where the court some years ago set
aside assessments as arbitrary, unequal
and discriminatory. Reference to the
plats, the court points out, discloses
That the lots and blocks on Wisconsin
avenue, in the vicinity of the Mclean
tract, owing to the diagonal course OF
the avenue through the city squares
results in creating irregular, trlangu-
lar lots and fractional blocks, AUDITING
on the avenue, to which front-foot
rule cannot equitably be applied.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair, slightly
colder tonight and tomorrow; moderate
to fresh northwest and west winds.
Maryland-Partly cloudy, slightly
colder tonight and tomorrow; strong
west and northwest winds.
Virginia-Fair tonight and tomorrow;
colder tomorrow and in extreme west
portion tonight; fresh to strong west
winds.
West Virginia-Partly cloudy, slight
ly colder tonight: tomorrow fair.
Record for Thirty Six Hours.
Sunday. April 6:
Thermometer-12 midnight, 40; 4
am, At: 8 am, Al; IL noon, So; 4 pm,
81: 8 pm, so.
am. 3o.03; 8 m, 1898; IL noon,
1884: 4 PM, 1856; 8 pm, 29.46.
Monday, April =
Thermometer-12 midnight, 46; 4
am, As; 8 am, so: noon, As.
Barometer-12 midnight: 2942:
am, 29.40; 8 am, 29.39; noon, 1884.
Highest temperature, SO, occurred at
11:15 am. today.
Lowest temperature, Is, occurred at
$50 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, "a; lowest, 81.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.
Today-Low tide, S:58 am. and 9:56
pm; high tide, 2:25 am. and 2:55 pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 1915 am. and
1859 pm; high tide, 1885 am. and
4:05 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 5.45 am; sun sets
6:36 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises SAB am; sun
sets 6:37 pm.
Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
GIRLS BETTER STUDENTS
THAN BOYS, SAYS DEAN
Maryland University Tutor Asserts
They Apply Themselves More
Than Males.
Special Dispatch to THE Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, April Girls make
better students than boys, according to
DR.. Thomas H. Taliaferro, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences of the Uni
versity of Maryland, who based his
Findings on the work done in the first
semester of this year, and for several
years past.
"The outstanding students at college
during the first half of the year have
b en- girls" DR.. Taliaferro said, land
this has usually been true. We have
about 1,400 students, of whom 300 are
women and should go further and say
that believe the average scholastic at
tainment of the girls is considerably
better than boys.
'Yet don't think the average mental
equipment of women any better than
that of the average man. If the boys
would take college as seriously-but
they won't"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
HAWKS FINISHES
NEW YORK FLIGHT
Glider Pilot Puts MotorIess
Craft Down in Park
on Schedule.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April Capt. Frank
M. Hawks, holder of the East and West
transcontinental speed records, enjoyed
the added distinction today of being
the first aviator to pilot a glider from
coast to coast.
Arriving exactly on schedule, he set
his small motorless plane down in Van
Cortlandt Park at 4 pm. yesterday to
complete a flight from San Diego
Towed at the end of 5O0-foot cable
behind a power plane, he made the
transcontinental trip in six and one
half days, with SO hours of actual fly
inE time.
One mishap marred the trip. AT
Tucson, Ariz., on the second day OF
the flight, a gust of wind parted the
under way. To make up for the delay,
his engineer" j. d. Jernigin, pulled
him ITO miles, two days scheduled
flight, the next day.
A crowd of $4,000 stood in the rain
to see the finish of the 3,000-mile glider
trip. A fleet Of Army planes circles
in formation above the park as an
aerial reception committee.
The last leg of the trip was made
from Buffalo. N. Y, with stops at SYRIA
cuse and Albany
The reception committee was headed
by Bronx Borough President Henry
Bruckner and Police Commissioner
Grover A. Whalen.
He brought small palm tree, the
gift of Mayor Harry c. Clark of San
Diego, which was planted near where
he landed.
He said the last days flight had been
the worst for weather and flying condi-
tons, with rain and high winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
PLANE MAIL PICKUP
TEST SET AT NORFOLK
Transfer While in Flight to Be
Tried Out at Airport
There.
BY the Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va, April IA device to
transfer mail or cargo to plane in
flight will be tested at the Grand Cen
ira, Air Terminals here Wednesday aft
ernoon, it was announced yesterday.
The device is the development of an
earlier patent issued to Godfrey L. Ca
bot of Boston, who obtained the patent
after experiments while stationed at the
Hampton Roads Naval Air Station dur
ing the World War. His purpose at the
time was to seek some means of in
creasing the flying radius of airplanes
by supplying them bombs, fuel and
other supplies while in flight.
The present device, an outgrowth of
the Cabot patent, has been in process
of manufacture at the plant here of the
Whaley Aircraft & Engineering Co. The
machine operates on a catapult. Con-
tact is made by means of hook sus-
pended from the plane which engages
a pickup cord to which the mail or
cargo to be delivered to the plane is at
tached. At the moment the hook en-
cages the pickup cord the catapult is
automatically release, discharging the
cargo at the same rate of speed the
plane is making and along the line of
fight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
COTTON COOP. TO GET
NEW HEADS FULL TIME
E. F. Creekmore of Arkansas Ex-
poets Association to Handle
Million Bales First Year.
BY the Associated Press.

FORT SMITH, Ark, April 7.-E. F.
Creekmore. newly elected general man
ager and vice president Of the Ameri-
can Cotton Cooperative Association.
today set about liquidating the Fort
Smith cotton firm bearing his name
IN order that he may devote his entire
attention to affairs of the cooperative
which he expects to be in operation
about August /.
Mr.. Creekmore expressed belief the
association would handle between one
and two million bales of cotton in its
first year.
The association, owned jointly by IA
cotton co-operatives in IA different
States, has five major duties to per-
form, Mr.. Creekmore said. These, he
asserted, were to classify all cotton
which it will market, sell. insure and
finance the product and provide ware
housing facilities.
The new general manager said that,
although his duties would begin at
once, they would be largely of an adj
visory nature until headquarters site
Is selected.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
CLASH FEATURES
GANDHI DEFIANCE
60 Followers, Including Ma
hatma's Son, Arrested in
Disobedience Campaign.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DANDI, Bombay, India, April T.
Police and followers of Mahatma Gandhi
engaged in a scuff1e on the beach this
morning while volunteers engaged in
thu civil disobedience campaign were
collecting salt in defiance of the gov
eminent monopoly.
Police arrested the captain of the
volunteers and others. Two National
lists were reported slightly injured.
Gandhi, who opened the civil dis
obedience campaign himself yesterday,
arrived shortly after the scuf1e. He
said he would again collect salt tomor-
row with the volunteers, and exhorted
the villagers to do likewise.
British authorities made go arrests in
answer to Inauguration of the move
ment yesterday, among them Ram Des
Gandhi, son of Mahatma.
Dispatches from Nadiad state that
three of Mahatma Gandhi's ablest lieu
tenants have been convicted and SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment for
violating the salt laws in the Kara
district.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
.FRESH.WATER FISH
LAWS ANNOUNCED
Open Seasons, License, Size and
Creel Limits in Maryland
Pointed Out.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, April 7.-Open sea-
sons. license and size of creel limits for
the taking of fresh-water fish in Mary
land streams we're announced today by
Swepson Earle, State conservation COM
missioner.
The trout season opened April / and
will stay open until June 80. except in
the Youghiogheny River above Swallow
Falls, in Garrett County, where the
season is July to November 80.
Suckers, catfish, carp, cells and
gudgeon season started February l and
ends May 81.
The season for large and small mouth
bass and all other species of game and
fresh-water fish opens July l and ends
November 80.
The fishing season in Deep Greek
Lake opened April and closes August
Is. All persons over Is are required to
procure license. These cost SIPS for
residents and $3.50 for non-residents.
The minimum size for trout is Z
inches and inches in Deep Greek
Lake. and bass, 10 inches. and inches
in Deep Creek Lake. Creel limits on
these two fish are 10 in one day.
Pike or pickerel must be IA inches or
more, catfish. inches, and perch, white
or yellow, inches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
BY CAPT. FRANK nj. HAWKS

First Man to Cross the Continent in Glider
and Holder OF Transcontinental Airplane
Speed Record.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, April 2 (NANA).-
Well, we made it-and on time!
It was a rough trip in our plane
glider air-train from San Diego to Van
Cortlandt Park. While l should not
like to undertake to fly the same dis
lance in the same way on schedule
again, I feel that as stimulant to in
terest in gliding our flight has been
emirently succeSsful-and that. solely
and simply, was its purpose.
OF the eight days flying yesterday
was by far the bumpiest and most dis
agreeable. With the exception of the
heavy weather which prevailed at the
start last Sunday. we encountered our
worst skies on this final leg of the
iouBney.
Start Is Bunny.
We left Buffalo shortly after O'Clock
yesterday morning, rising into overcast
heavens and bumpy air. Duke Jernigin
kept the air-train at low altitude at
first, finally pulling up as high as
the low ceiling would permit in search
of quieter conditions. Regardless, ]
bounced around plenty at the end of
IAAC tOW 1OpCs
What we saw when we were aloft con-
firmed the foreboding of the weather
map and convinced us that if we were
to reach New York on time, we would
have to abandon the scheduled route
through Elmira and head directly east
ward. That way the weather looked
not quite so forbidding, although it
meant our bucking a stiff head wind.
In an hour and 20 minutes we were
at Syracuse. I cast off the tow cable
at 5000 feet and was delighted to find
the currents such that in less than five
minutes I had scared up 5000 feet.
This soaring at the end of hop is the
only compensation have for the
bumps endured en- route.
Drops to 5000 to Rise Again.
Such a performance on the part OF
really heavy glider, weighted with ad-
ditional stresSing to withstand towing,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
HEALTH CERTIFICATES
GIVEN CHEVERLY FOLK
Eleven Members of Association
Awarded Diplomas by Coun-
ty Nurse.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

ppcCldl DlSpdlCH u SIdT
CHEVERLY Md, April 7.-Certif1-
Gates were presented IL members of the
Cheverly- Tuxedo School Improvement
Association who have successfully COM
pleted the course in Home Hygiene
and Care of the Sick" at the last meet
ing of the association. The pres
entation was made by Miss Ruth Tighe,
one of the Prince Georges County public
health nurses.
It was decided to send letter of
thanks to the Cheverly Citizens Asso-
citation for its $40 contribution toward
the clubs purchase of piano for the
school.
A motion was passed to buy the I'M
sold copies of the 1880 yearbook of the
Prince Georges County Federation of
Women's Clubs and present them to the
members.
The association was notified of the
death of the father of Mrs. w. C. Petrie
at PikeSville, Md. and arrangements to
send flowers were made by Mrs. c. M
Hoagland. chairman of the flower fund
committee.
The meeting was held at the home of
Mrs. Chase, who was assisted by Mrs.
Owen
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
COSTA RIGA WANTS
'u.S.TOBU|LDcANAL
President Favors Cession of
Land, but Steps Would
Be Complicated.
BY JUNIUS b. WOOD.
By Radio to The Star and the Chic
Daily News. Copyright, 1880.

By Radio to The Star and the Chicago
Daily News Copyright, 1880.
SAN JOSE, Costa RIGA, April Costa
Rica hopes that the United States will
build the Nicaraguan Canal, whose
proposed route forms part of her north
ern boundary and whose construction
will require the little republic to cede a
strip of its territory to the United
States similar to the Canal Zone in
Viquez Of Costa RIGA thus summarized
the views of his country in this regard.
while the Army and Navy of the
United States want to enlarge the
Panama Canal. believing one canal
easier to defend than two, commercial
interests realize that the Nicaraguan
waterway will bring the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts of the United States
three or four days closer than they are
now" he continued.
Costa Rica has no reason to oppose
the canal; this country has always been
interested in it and has always wanted
1t constructed. A dam in the San Juan
River as part of the project will flood
considerable of our territory, but this
particular section is swampy, hardly
populated and without created inter-
ests, and the amount of property
damages to be Unidentified easily could
be determined.
"Ceding a portion of our territory
to the United States is more compli-
Gated. Our constitution requires both
a tWothirdS vote of Congress and, later
a popular convention to consider the
subject, which must be approved by a
majority vote. Other things in addition
to the mere grant of strip of territory
no doubt are involved. and until the
details are known. it is impossible to
say how Costa Rica would receive them.
However, our country wants the canal
built and is ready to assist the scheme
in every way"
Costa Ricas independent policy
causes certain interests to misrepre-
sent it as unfriendly to the United
States, but on the occasion of former
President Taft's death. the government
here ordered three days of national
mourning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
VOLCANO is ACTIVE

PUERTO MONTT, Chile, April Z (P)
Villagers living at the foot OF the
volcano Osorno, opposite Chloe Island
have become alarmed at signs of sud-
den activity within the mountain and
are fleeing to safe regions, according
to dispatches received here.
Great streams of scalding water are
gushing from Osorno's crater and flow
ing into Lake Todos Los Santos
Although a disastrous eruption is not
feared, authorities are apprehensive and
have taken precautions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07
VOLUNTEER FOR CENSUS

MEXICO CITY, April z [P.-when
Mexico turns out May Is to take what
it is hoped will be the first complete
and accurate census in its history
governors of the various states will
contribute by personally enumerating
the citizens in their home block.
All of the governors have volunteered
for such service and other municipal,
state and federal employees will be
obliged to do their part, penalties be-
ing provided for those who decline to
cooperate in the work. A holiday will
be declared so that public employees
may devote their full time to the census
taking.