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Evening star., 1930-06-28
HOOVER VACATION
PLANS ARE VAGUE
Complicated by Length of
Session and MorroW'S In
vitation to Mexico.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Like many another in Washington,
President Hoover is finding his vaca-
ton plans complicated by the length
of the congressional session.
A month from now, he had expected
to leave for tour of the West, but
with the regular session still on and
the difficulty of estimating how much
time the Senate will devote to the
London naval treaty, arrangements for
the trip are being held in allegiance.
Mr.. Hoover has consistently declined
to discuss a proposed itinerary even
with his aides, and it was said today
lie did not intend taking up the ques-
ton until there is soma definite indica-
ton of how much longer Congress
will keep at work.
Planned Trip Early in August.
In his original announcement of the
trip the President said he expected
to leave the Capital about the first of
August and spend the month visiting
the national parks of the Rocky Noun
tains. Since then plans for the jaunt
have become more obscure. 1t was
said, however, he still planned to visit
the national parks
The situation has been further COM
plicated by the urging of Ambassador
Morrow that Mr.. Hoover carry through
before Fall his proposed visit to Mex
leo City.
Mr.. Morrow expects to resign as AM
basSador during September, and he
strongly urged President Hoover to visit
Mexico while he is still there. While
declining to say what reply he had
been given, the Ambassador appeared
confident as he left the White House
that the trip would be made.
Invitations Received.
Whether, if the President does visit
the Latin American republics, he would
shorten his tour of the Western States
and cross the border from Texas or
California, or would wait until later in
the Fall, Is one of the questions that
are under consideration by those who
are gathering data for his vacation.
AS Congress hangs on and there ap-
pears the possibility that the Western
trip may have to be eliminated, invita-
tlons are being received for Mr.. Hoover
to visit other sections of the country.
John Hays Hammond of Washington
has renewed only this week his invita-
tlon Tor the President to visit his estate
at Gloucester, Mass.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
DISTRICT RESIDENTS
URGED AS D. C. JUDGES
Civic Associations Federation Hits
Anacostia River
Swimming.

The Federation of Civic Associations
INST last night and authorized its legis-
lative committee to press for appoint
ment of District residents to one of
the vacancies on the bench of the Dis
trict Court of Appeals and the District
Supreme Court.
An amendment was introduced by
John E. BoWleS calling for election of
delegates to the federation at the jan
uary meetings of member associations.
1t will be taken up at the next meeting.
Greater police vigilance on the Ana
costa water front was asked to prevent
boys from swimming in the river at
points prohibited by law.
Dr. George Richardson, president,
was absent because of illness in his
home, and William A. Joiner presided.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
SENATE D. C. GROUP
MEETING is CALLED
Fiscal Relations Commissions Pro.
posals to Be Studied by
Committeeman. +

A special meeting of the Senate Dis
tr1ct committee was called by Chairman
Capper this afternoon for II O'Clock to-.
morrow morning to consider two differ-l
ent proposals for the creation of COM
missions in connection with the fiscal
relations problem between the Federal
and District governments.
One resolution Is sponsored by Sena-
tor Bingham Of Connecticut and con-
templates a commission of seven mem
berS I: 70 into the whole subject of
fiscal r.lat:JAs and rNrY-t To the Pres:-
dent recommendations for an equitable
apportionment of the cost of maintain
ing the District.
The other pending resolution was Of
fered by Senator Jones of Washington,
chairman of the appropriations com
mtttee. This seeks to create a commits
sion of three for the sole purpose of
making an annual valuation of Fed
eral and private property in Washing.
ton for the information OF Congress
as one of the primary elements in fixinH
the Federal contribution. Both of these
proposals are intended 30 prevent a re-
currence in future years of the con-
troversy over fiscal relations. which
caused the deadlock in the pending Dis
tr'ct appropriation biz for the coming
IL months.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
BENEDICT ARNOLD USED
DESK AT WEST POINT
Inquiry Shows Traitor Never
Owned It-Washington ALSO
Wrote on Desk.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Although Benedict Arnold once used
an Old desk recently presented to the
Military Academy, War Department of
tlcialS are satisfied it never belonged to
him, and said today it deserves a place
as valuable memento of Revolutionary
times.
Arnold sat at the desk only during
his brief stay at the Point before de-
serting to the British but so did every
commanding officer there during the
Revolutionary period. George Wash
ington wrote letters on it during visits
to the fort.
The desk was recently given TO the
Academy by Mrs. Helen M Denton of
California. The question arose if it
we're owned originally by Americas
most notorious traitor.
After inquiry, Maj Gen. william r.
Smith, West Point commander, said il
first belonged to Col. Beverly Robinson,
a Virginian, schoolmate of Washington
and Stanch patriot.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
CAPTAINS TO TRY
POLICE OFFENDERS
New Order Outlined by Maj. Pratt
at Gathering in Head
quarters.

Commanding officers of all police
precincts and bureaus were called to
headquarters by Maj Henry c. Pratt,
superintendent, and instructed as to
their authority under the new plan
adopted by the Commissioners provid-
ing for trials of offenders by their
precinct commanders in the case of
minor infractions of discipline.
After Maj Pratt had outlined the
new order to the commanding officers,
the group went upstairs to the office
of Police Commissioner Herbert B.
Crosby. In addressing the officers,
Commissioner Crosby said the Commits
sioners had put into the precinct COM
manders' hands the power to MAIN
tain strict discipline within their pre-
cincts, and that he hoped they would
use it. AS result of the new order,
he said, he expected fewer minor COM
plants to reach him.
The new order gives the captains
power to try men accused of petty
offenses against disciplinary rules and
inflict punishment not to exceed $25
fine. five days loss of annual leave or
a reprimand Those who can be dis
ciplined are the men below the rank
of sergeant. The order is immediately
effective. Findings of the various pre-
cinct commanders must be forwarded
to the major and superintendent. who
may modify the punishment inflicted
but his decision is final.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
SOCIETY FORMED
TO CHEAPEN RADIUM
Group Organized at Annual Amer
lean Medical Body
Meeting.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 28.-Organization
by leading American radiologists of a
society for research to lower the cost
of radium and X-rays for the sick was
announced here yesterday.
Recent advances in radiation, such as
generation by human flesh of actual
x-rays believed somehow connected with
restoration of health, and effects In cur
ing cancer were sketched in the an
nouncement of the field upon which the
new scientific body will concentrate.
The society was organized under the
name of the Pathological Research In
stitute in Detroit yesterday by radiolo-
gists attending the annual meeting OF
the American Medical Association. The
record of their action was made public
here yesterday by William w. Buffum,
general manager of the Chemical Foun-
dation, Inc, who attended and acted as
official spokesman.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
NAVY DENIES REPORTS
OF LOS ANGELES INJURY
BY the a seated Press.

BY the sSS a.ed Press
LAKEHURST, N. j., June 2S.-Ohi-
cialS at the naval air station denied
today that the dirigible Los Angeles had
broken loose from its mooring mast yes
terday or experienced any difficulty in
landing after a practice flight
Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl, for
mer skipper of the craft, now in charge
OF experimental work at the station,
said statements were erroneous that a
cable had snapped when the ship was
returning to her hangar. tearing hole
in the outer covering and injuring two
members of the ground crew
Rosendahl said no difficulty was ex-
perienced by the ship, which left her
hangar early on the morning of June
26 and remained aloft, because of un-
favorable landing conditions, until the
next morning.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
TWO WOMEN HURT
IN AUTO CRASHES
Cab Driver and Visiting Mo-
torist Accused of Reckless
ness as Result.

Two women were injured in automo-
pile collisions last night which resulted
IN the arrest of two drivers by police of
the third precinct on charges of reck-
less driving.
Miss Anna Mae Carder, %, of 1900
street, was taken to the Emergency
Hospital with decorations of the knees,
shock and possible fracture of the
right rib when car in which she was
riding was struck at New York avenue
and Seventeenth street by a taxicab. She
was admitted for overnight treatment
The cab driver, John A. Hurley, 27
years cid, of 226 "Seaton street north
east, was arrested on a charge of reck-
less driving and released on ST. 900 bond
Miss Carder was an occupant in a car
operated by Mrs. Erma Jean Huckstead,
rs, of 1862 Twenty-first street.
Severe lacerations of the forehead and
possibly fractured left arm were
sustained by Mrs. Alice G. Bennett, 81
years old, of Aurora Hills, Va, when an
automobile she was driving overturned
when it collided with another machine
ut Twehty-siXth and K streets. She was
treated at Emergency Hospital.
Isaac Hooper, 20, of Paris, Tenn. who
was driving the other car, was arrested
and charged at No. 3 station with reck-
less driving Hooper, who told police
he was visiting friends in Chevy Chase,
was later freed under 81 900 bond.
Andrew Doonis, 35 years old, of 1113
Staples street northeast was to be
arraigned in Police Court today by
second precinct police on charges of
reckless driving, defective brakes, leav-
ing after colliding and operating a car
after revocation of permit,
Doonis was taken to No. station by
Ben Harris, of 80l L street, a taxicab
driver, following a collision at New
Jersey avenue and H street. Harris
told police that Doonis drove past a
red traffic signal, struck his cab, backed
into another machine and sped away.
Harris caught Doonis, he said, after
a chase to First and M streets,
Evening star., 1930-06-28
RAID ON NUMBERS GAME
BRINGS FIVE ARRESTS
Police Describe Headquarters Visit
ed as One of the Largest in
the District.

Raiding what they described as one
OF the largest numbers game head
quarters in the District, police of the
eighth precinct arrested five men on
charges of permitting gaming ycster-
Gay afternoon at 1884 Seventh street
The men taken into custody gave
their names as William Seiger, 36 years
OLD, OF 1886 r street. Ruben Kaplan
"a years Old. of 1884 Seventh street;
Joseph C. Hart 81 years old of S29
seventh street; Benjamin H. Brays, So
years ola, OF 210l Connecticut avenue.
ana eugene Daley, 90 years ole, of 155
+ street southeast.
The raiding party. composed of Seret
e. A. Miller and PYts. w. r. Latin and
william McEwen, seized Sl4.5O in
money, seven adding machines, a safe
and a number of gambling slips as evil
Evening star., 1930-06-28
JOHN DONNELLY CHOSEN
TO HEAD CURLEY CLUB

John Donnelly. chairman of the ath-
letic committee of the Curley Club, was
elected president of the club at meet
ing in the Gordon Hotel last night.
Other officers elected were Roland
Hyland, vice president; Miss Gretchen
Baden, treasurer; Miss Julia Bland, rec
ording secretary; Miss Ethel Ammon,
corresponding secretary; William Boyd,
advocate, and Albert Sweeney, warden.
At meeting of the newly elected Off
GERS the first of the week the chaplain
will be appointed.
Arrangements were completed for
the annual lawn fete, which viii be
held Tuesday, July is, at the corner
of Sixth street and North Carolina
avenue southeast, at which time the
ElkS Boys Band will be the feature,
rendering program of vocal and in
strumental numbers. Proceeds will be
applied to the scholarship fund of the
organization.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
Violin Made in 1904
Is Reported Stolen
From Capital Home

A violin made in England near
ly two centuries ago and once
valued at $1,000 was reported
stolen from the home of Mrs. Will
liam Carroll at 1854 Wyoming
avenue, yesterday afternoon.
Shortly after the report was
made to police of the eighth pre-
cinct station, Charles E. Shaw,
colored, II, an employe at the
Carroll residence, was taken into
custody and is being held on a
technical charge of investigation
Mrs. Carroll was bequeathed
the instrument by her father,
who had received it as a gift
from once famous violiniSt, who
had played the instrument in a
concert at Annapolis before a
notable assembly, including a
President.
The viClin was made of ma
hogany at London in 1764. Mrs.
Carroll's father valued the instru-
ment so highly that he carried it
to his deathbed and, as a dying
gesture, destroyed its sound quail
tiles so that the end for both
might come together.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
Actors Hit Theater Star System.

VIENNA, June % (P.-The Actors
International Congress at yesterdays
session condemned the theatrical star
system as deleterious TO the stage and
discouraging to capable actors, who are
thereby submerged. Prof. E. Rostrup of
Copenhagen argued that the theater
could not long survive if star perform
ers continued to be featured to the ex-
clusion of other actors.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
APPROVE HUNT SENTENCE

The District Commissioners yesterday
approved the recommendation of the
Police Trial Board to reduce Sergt
Odessa S. Hunt, former instructor of
the police school, to the rank of private
and fine him 5000 on a charge of in
toxication. Hunt pleaded guilty to the
charge and was relieved from his post
of instructor at the school Immediately
after his arrest two months ago.
The Commissioners reappointed DR..
Chester A. Baker to membership on the
Board of Dental Examiners for term
of five years beginning July l. The
nomination was recommended by the
District Dental Society.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
FILIPINO NIGHT PROGRAM

Maj; Gen. Frank Mcintyre, Philip
pine trade commissioner, will deliver
the principal address at exercises in OBJ
sarvance of Filipino night" under ans
pices of the Filipino Catholic Associa- :
ton of America at Notre Dame Hall.
North Capitol and K streets, Monday
evening at $50 o'clock.
Other speakers will include Macario
S. Balco, president of the association: !:
Miss Mary G. Boland, grand regent
Catholic Daughters of America, whose
officers and members will attend. and
An! no Aquino, presiding Chairman.
T re will be an elaborate musical
program.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
BOY IS POISON SUSPECT
Orphan Declared to Have Mixed
Boil Weevil and Baking Powders

MAGNOLIA, Miss, June 2S LR.-Joe
Strogner, 11-year-old orphan boy, was
held in Pike County Jail here Yesterday
racing charges of attempting to kill by
poisoning four persons, three being
members Of family that befriended
Mrs. J. r. Carruth. 85 Chattawa. was
reported IN critical condition from the
POISON ooSe: Others suffering i'll effects
were Mrs. Alice Hodges. Mrs d q T.es
and Leander Dillca, all Chattawa resi-
dents.
the youth c llitted to officers that
pc mad mixed boil weevil poison with
pakins powder. but didn't intend to
hurt any one" "
Evening star., 1930-06-28
BAND CONCERTS LIMITED
independence Day Celebration
Preparations Under Way.

Preparations for the Independence
day celebration at the Sylvan Theatel
on the Washington Monument grounds
will limit the number of regular band
concerts in the parks during the coming
week to two. This announcement was
made by First Lieut.. F. B. Butler, as
sistant director of public buildings and
public parks. The concert hours are
from 7:30 to Q o'clock.
The schedule follows:
Monday-Twelfth street and Michi-
gan avenue northeast, Army Band.
TueSday--Dupont Circle, Nineteenth
and p streets, Navy Band.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
BOY FLIES TO DETROIT
Everett Meeks to Take Part in
Model Aircraft Contest.

Everett Meeks. Is years old, of 1908
Myrtle avenue northeast, holder of three
world records for model airplanes, left
Hoover Field today at noon on the first
leg OF trip by afr to Detroit, where he
Is TO participate In the model aircraft
contests beginning Monday, under the
auspices OF the American Boy Magazine.
Young Meeks is being sent by tho
Aviation School of America, through
the courtesy of the Clifford Ball Air
Lines. The winner. of the model air.
craft contest is to be given a trip to
Europe.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
POCKETBOOK SNATCHED
Woman Is Robbed by Two Men
Stepping From Auto.

Miss Alma S. Otterstrom, 1704 La
mont street was robbed of a pocket
book containing 81, handbook and keys,
by one of two men who approached
her on the street near her home last
night. The young woman told police
the men stepped from an automobile,
snatched her purse and drove away.
Evening star., 1930-06-28
Trustv Leaves District Jail.

Harold c. williams, 33 years old, of
526 Lamont street, walked off from the
District Jail yesterday after serving six
days of a To-day sentence. Williams
was a trusty and was working on the
jail grounds when he effected his
akaape
Evening star., 1930-06-28
DR.. Ruffin's Car Robbed.

When the car of DR.. Julian M.
Ruffin of 1927 Twenty-first street,
parked on Sixteenth between K and L
streets, was robbed last night, surgical
instruments and small quantity of
narcotics were stolen.
Evening star., 1930-06-27
An Asiatic Rat Migration.

A strange phenomenon of nature is
reported from Shanghai, as occurring in
Western Manchuria and Northern Mon
golia. A vast army of rats, migrating
from Transbaikalia in Siberia, is NOV
ing eastward and southwark, eating
everything In the way of growing things
and even attacking human beings. The
rodent swarm comprises countless mil
lions. Desperate measures to stem the
tide have failed, armed horsemen max
ing no impression upon the rats. Fire
Is now to be used to check the hungry
horde. The regions lying in the path
Of the rats have had fair growing
season, but to the west the country has
been In sorry way agriculturally. The
crops have been poor and furthermore
widespread anti-Soviet uprising of
peasant farmers occurred in May, lead
ing to almost complete stoppage of
tillage. The rats are leaving this region,
perhaps for lack Of food. No one can
ever determine the causes of the strange
creature fnigrations
According to the Encyclopedias Bri-
tannica the original home of the rat
seems to haye been some part Of Central
Evening star., 1930-06-27
Emasculating the
BrOokhart Bill
To the Editor Of The star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
On January 6, 1880, there passed the
Senate, unanimously the Brookhart
bill, S. is. On January IL, 1880, S. IS
went to the House and was referred to
the Civil Service committee. The non-
amended Brookhart bill, S. Is, provides,
in part, that loW-salaried Federal en-
ployes, who received one "step-up"
Jyul /, 1928, though the intent Of the
Congress was that they should receive
two "stepS-up," should now receive two
"steps-up" as of July /, 1928. Now we
have the Brookhart bill, s. Is, amended
by the Civil Service committee of the
House, SO that it is non-retroactive as
to payment, from July /, 1928, to en-
actment into law, II 1t should b. en-
acted. So the Brookhart bill is emaScu-
lated of the two "steps-up" salary or
wage for the lesser-paid Federal en-
ployes for two years, while the higher
up Federal, employees have had their in
creases of $1,000, $500, $500, ETC., reg
ularly since July !, 1928.
Justice Is blind indeed in this case.
Again the Civil Service committee of
the House amends the Brookhart bill,
to wit: THAT the Personnel Classiflca-
ton Board make ALLEGATIONS by 1t that
are conclusive" This In the face of
the fact that there is now pending In
the United States Senate bill to repeal
the law creating the Personnel Classi-
fication Board" SO under this latter
amendment a Secretary's classification
Of employees of his department can be
set to one side by the Personnel CLASH
fcation Board" am wondering how
Secretary Garrison of Wilson'S ad-
ministration would accept this dictum.
Why has Representative Lehlbach held
up the Brookhart BILL s. is, from jan
uary IL. $780, to June IS, 1880? Is he
hoping for tie-up In conference and
the non-passage of the Brookhart bill,
S. IS? w. E. RYAN.
Evening star., 1930-06-27

Asia, not far, perhaps, from the source
Of the present rodent movement. From
that area 1t has spread all over th,
world, migrating by land and by sea
1t is great water traveller, going
throughout the world by ships. Nc
means of determination has ever availed
to do more than temporarily check the
multiplication of the rats. They are
extremely prolific and thrive in the
most unfavorable conditions, reproduc-
ing themselves at the rate of two com
plete generations in year.
In the case Of the Mongolian-Ma
churian rat invasion there is a peril to
the people in addition to the destruction
of food. The rat Is bearer of one of
the most dreadful Of all diseases afiict-
ing the East, the bubonic plague, to
which the people of the region now
being invaded are particularly suscep-
tible. An epidemic of this malady Is
always feared whenever the rats 60 on
trek as they are now doing for some
unaccountable reason in Northeastern
Asia.
Evening star., 1930-06-27
The Wailing Wall.

One Of the worlds most ancient con-
troversies Is in process of adjustment
by means Of one of the most modern Of
mechanislns The quarrel between the
Jews and the Moslems over the Wailing
Wall In Jerusalem Is now being investi-
gated before a League of Nations inter-
national commission sitting In the
Holy City for that purpose. The chair
man of the commission Is Emil Loef-
gren, former Swedish foreign minister,
who is functioning under a resolution
adopted by the Council Of the League in
ment.
M. Loefgren explained at the outset
Of the inquiry at Jerusalem this week
that the members of the commission
belong to countries absolutely independ-
ent of the interests at stake in the
Wailing Wall issue. He called upon
both Jew and Arab to submit as OBJ
3ective testimony as divergent conten-
tions permit to the end that the COM
missions review and findings in the
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ampartiality.
Yesterday. DR.. Mordecai Eliash, chief
Of the Palestinian Jewish Council.
opened the session of this unique tri-
hunal beneath the shadow Of Mount
Olive with statement arguing the
Jews right to wall at the wall In ac-
cordance with their ancient traditions.
A memorandum tracing the historical
connection of the Israelites with the
wall, from the date of the destruction
of the Temple Of Solomon, of which 1t
Is claimed to be a vestige, to the pres
ant day. was submitted in evidence. 1t
was prepared by DR.. Cyrus Adler. presi-
dent Of the Jewish Theological Seminary
Of America and Of the American Jewish
committee.
The Moslem viewpoint. at the Arabs
ewn request, is not to be presented to
the commission until the Jews plea il
n. It is known that the Moslems will
claim that they own the Wailing Wal
and its surroundings and viii maintain
that the Jews are merely entitled tc
passage past the wall, like other out
eiders.'
The world has here presented to Il
one of the fundamental causes Of in.
terneeine strife in the Holy Land. Tn,
Wailing Wall Is. Of course, In itself not