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Draths.

PERRY. WILLIE ELvA. Departed this life
n GssS SUNDAY May 1880 rat, a her 5ssidenss
Prtsinsk the beloved wife ft q Frank pe snse
devoted mother Of Francis, L. Perry, be
William q s Ahnie beloved sdd sister iss late e
Mrs, Emma Davis, AMI Mrs. Martha NJ
IsEzenee e smith and r. Ruth 'f +. Mad aea
OF CIV. Washington. D, G: She also leaves two
loss. Remains resting at the resid.nee Of
st. se Funera T Hd May 's !. at .t'f 90
Pm, from Browns Memorial A. NJ E.
and ir5snss ips sRs ssten nd 1nte aasss
at Woodlawn Cemetery.
RuPERTus. MARGUERITE GoRMAN. On
e }sG n P Wiz 81 S Ga VIVIAN MAR
Z German and the late Hannah Ksleher
Lieut.. Conndr. Frank j. German; Burial
Nation s Cemetery. seeticn ms 6. '' Afnts'"
RUPERTUS.. WILLIAM H.. JR. On Febru-
A. j r. on2 SON IN p Of MAJ oR William %l RS
pertus. U. S. M. C., and the late Mar
snsrits German Rupsrtus Burial services
Cemetery, Section s. g.
RUPERTUs, ANNE RODNEY. On December
NY 1924 Only in dd rsEGs o q MAJ Ma ROB
Eupertus u s NJ G. and p The late r Mar
Cemetery, Section g. 6"
SNYDER; CHARLES Il: Suddenly. on Sun
oS e. u bsas ne saYdSSF Rome Fs sis
st. ne, on Wednesday. May Z, at 1 pm
Relatives and friends invited Interment
Arlington National Cemetery.
ToPr JOSEPH sEieano. On -, Monday May s 1890
ToPP. beloved husband of Sarah. Topp
horst's funeral parlors. 30l East Capitol
st. Services Will be held at the Open
Door Church, d st. between Bird and 4th
SITS. NV. on Wednesday. May Z, at IL am.
1nterment in Hcrndon. Va.
VALE. WILMER r. On Tuesday. May 6,
1890. at Garfield Hospital. WILMER p.
VALE. Notice of funeral later.
WALMSLEY. WILLIAM H. On Monday,
May 5, 1880. at Emergency Hospital, WILL
LIAM H., beloved husband of Emma DAVIS
of J. William Lees Sons. 332 Pa. ave.
pm Relatives and friends invited to at
terd. Interment private. Kindly omit
flowers.
tuesday, May 6, 1880, at $50 O'clock. at
his residence, 1902 412 St. s.w., BENJAMIN
F. WILLS, devoted father of Mrs Edna
Wills Smith, brother of Rosetta Wills,
Mrs. Mamie Pierce, Mrs. Carrie Sparks
JOY Thomas. David and Robert Wills and
friend of Margaret Pratt Remains rest
ing temporarily at the John T. Rhines
funeral chapel. Bird and Eye SITS. s.w. No
tice of funeral later.
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Births Reported.

Sam and Maria Schiattareggia, boy.
Harry A. and Belle Schmoyer. girl.
HuEhie and Della Coleman, boy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-06

HoWEs. FRANK e.: Suddenly. on May,
FRANK E, beloved husband of Gertrude
v. Howes. Funeral services at resi-
dence, 2:30 pm. Wednesday, May Z. Rev.
Enoch Thompson oficiating. Intermcnt
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-06

HoCKETT, MARY. On Tuesday, May 6,
1880, at the residence Of her daughter,
1901 Blaine st ne, MARY HOCKETT,
ence Roane. Martha A. Pollard, Charles
H. ,Hockett and sister of Hattie Hockett
Remains resting at the w. Ernest Jarvis
funeral church. 1892 You st. NV: until
the recidnnce of her dauchter
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HOLMES. MARY l.. On Sunday, May 4.
1880. at Sibley Hospital, MARY l.. HOLMES
(nee Robinson. Funeral Wednesday, May
z. from the Perry & Walsh funeral home.
80 H ST. NV, at $50 a m; thence to ST.
AloysiuS Church, where mass will be said
at 9 am. for the repose of her soul In
terment Mount Olivet Cemetery. Relatives
and friends invited
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07
q MORE CHURCHES
Join IN CAMPAIGN
Numerous CoIored Congrega-
tons Added to Survey and
Visitation Drive.

Interest in the Washington directed
survey and visitation evangelism cam
paign to begin Sunday under the direc-
ton of Rev. A. Earl Kernahan has be-
come more widespread with the addi-
ton Of more than IS churches. Numer-
Gus colored churches have been added to
the list of participating congregations.
Meetings will be held daily next week
in colored churches under the chair
manShip Of Rev. j. r. Dufheld and I'M
der the personal direction of Rev. l.. z.
Ripley and Mrs. Mabel Ripley of the
Kernahan staff. Seven of the IL CITY,
wide districts now have additional or
ganizations perfected for colored work.
erS.
The second district met yesterday in
the Mount Carmel Baptist Church, with
Rev. w. H. Jernagin as leader, while
the seventh district met in the Jerusa-
lem Baptist Church with Rev. Angus
tus Lewis as leader. Meetings held to-
day included the first district in the
Zion Baptist Church with Rev. w. l..
Washington as leader; the fifth district
in the Lane G. M, e. Church with Rev.
H. Threlkeld as leader, and the ninth
copal Church. The leader of the latter
organization remains to be selected.
Churches added to the survey include:
Church of the Epiphany, Silver Spring
Episcopal Mission; Orthodox Friends
Church, Church of the Reformation,
Brookland Methodist Church, Langdon
Methodist. st. Johns Episcopal of
Georgetown, st. Marks Episcopal, All
Souls Episcopal. Emanuel Episcopal
Nativity Episcopal, Wilson Memorial
Methodist, Mount Tabor Methodist Pro-
testant and the First UniversaliSt.
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FESTIVAL
DELAYED ONE YEAR
Illness of Taft and Fund
Shortage Are Among Rea-
sons for Decision.

Washington's cherry blossom festi-
val, which was to have been staged this
Spring when the Japanese cherry trees
along the Speedway in Potomac Park
bloom, has been postponed until 1891,
Mai. Gen. Anton Stephan, chairman Of
the city-wide committee in charge Of
the event, announced yesterday.
It had been planned to stage the fes-
tival on q gigantic scale, rivaling New
Orleans Mardt Gras, and preparation
for IL had attracted national and even
international interest.
Reasons for the postponement were
given as q lack of time to complete ar
rangements, a shortage of funds and
the grave illness of former Chief Justice
william Howard Taft, who, with Mrs.
Taft, was largely instrumental in bring
ing the trees to this country from Japan.
The festival committee will continue
its work without interruption, Gen.
Stephan announced.
Gen. Stephan's statement follows:
Reports from the cherry blossom
committee would indicate that the time
intervening between now and the ap-
proximate time the blossoms are ex-
pected to bloom is insufficient to COM
plete the elaborate program 1t Is eX-
pected will be presented. Considerable
training Of personnel and rehearsal Of
tableaux and chorus Is still necessary
to perfect those who will take part.
"A condition which gives the COM
mittee most serious concern Is the
grave illness of former Chief Justice
Taft. To Justice Taft and Mrs. Taft
we are indebted for the cherry trees
planted in Potomac Park, they being
presented through them to the Fed
eral Government as a gift from the
mayor of Toxic. It was the intention
of the committee to honor Justice Taft
and Mrs. Taft In the important features
of the elaborate program, but the SER
ious illness of the former Chief Justice
will prevent the program being pre-
eented as originally planned.
I'm view of these facts the general
committee has decided to postpone the
festival for one year, but to continue its
work and perfect plans"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07
HOUSE MEMBERS
TO ADDRESS WOMEN
Talks Will Be Feature of Two. Day
Conference Of Overseas
Service League.

Representatives Ruth Bryan Owen.
Royal G. johnson and william p. Con.
merry, jr, will speak tomorrow evening
at banquet which is to feature the
two-day conference Of the womens
oversee Service League Of the Sd Corps
Area, which will convene here toynor.
row morning. Delegates are expected
from Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Balti-
more and Richmond.
Miss Lena Hitchcock, past national
president of the league, Is chairman of
the local committee on arrangements.
The program incluy>s q luncheon at
the Dodge Hotel at noon tomorrow, q
business session in the afternoon and
the banquet at 2400 Sixteenth street
tomorrow evening. There will be an
other business session Sunday morning,
to be followed with q sightseeing tour
and tea at the Fort Myer Service
Club In the afternoon.
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BY THOMAS r. HENRY.
Did you ever fly?

Did you ever fly?
Most persons have dreamed of flying
or noating-and q few, when they were
small children, have had the actual SEN
sation of flying when they were awake,
so intensely that they still find it hard
to convince themselves that it was an
hallucination.
The Washington Child Research Cen
ter would like to know how common this
hallucination actually is, under what
circumstances it comes about and what
1t means. The study thus far indicates
that 1t Is confined to children and that
the subjects, while mystifled by 1t. do
not talk about it at the time. But it is
so radical a departure from ordinary
experience that it remains in the MEM
DRY for years.
Held Common HalIucinatiOn.
The numbeDof cases gathered at ran
dom from a small number of persons
thus far indicates that it is about the
most common of all Authorizations. The
study of Authorizations in children, &C
cording to DR.. Mandell Sherman, d.
rector of the center, is difficult because
readily and older persons do not recall
them without special reminders, and
even then are likely to be ashamed OF
them. Persons who have experienced
such Authorizations as children were
asked to describe them as distinctly as
possible, giving the ages when they
took place, but not their names.
The following cases of childhood eX-
perience of the hallucination of levita-
ton were gathered from about 80 Wash
ington people questioned at random.
Those who had known the experience
were positive about it, but the others
had never heard of it and we're mystt-
fed at the question.
The cases recounted were as follows:
II usually had these Authorizations
after seeing buzzards sail through the
sky. Their fight looked so easy and
seemed so delightful that would wish
for 'buzzard clothes as called them:
I would pretend to put on my 'buzzard
Clothes flap my arms and would have
the sensation of sailing through space.
I usually used this method Of going up
and down steps, although could and
did do the same thing on a nat sur
face"
"Sang" Her Way to Flight.
when was q little girl" another
woman said, 1T used to stand at the
top of closed staircase in my grand
house and sing. When sang
1t seemed as II flOated down. 1t never
happened when was not singing. The
experience was so vivid that now, al
though / know it was an hallucination.
I can't convince myself that didn't
float"
A prominent Washington scientist
said: 1.-The single levitation experience
[ can remember distinctly was when I
ran away from home, a small boy OF IL,
from the town in the noun
tains to the valley. could look up and
see the town above me. had the SEN
sation that I and the world were parts
Of each other-that was absorbed into
nature. I walked, walked and walked
with no sensation of walking. My feet
did not seem to touch the ground.
have never had the same experience
since, although have approached 1t IN
of emotional exaltation."
II believed as a child, to 8 years
old, that glided up or down the steps
without touching q stair all the way"
another person admitted. 81 actually
believed it, for I remember telling my
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07
FIVE FALSE CALLS
RECEIVED IN HOUR
EarIy-Morning Fire Alarms
Come From Apartment
Section of City.

Five false alarms, all within an hour,
early this morning, coming from sec
tons crowded with apartment houses,
kept fire alarm headquarters on the
jump and brought many sleepers from
their beds to make anxious telephone
calls.
Fire Department oficials estimated
today that the prank, believed to be
the work Of q single individual or party,
cost the District approximately 81 900.
In two instances, operators at hre
alarm headquarters, satisfied that the
alarms were false, sent only one COM
pany to the scene without putting
through the alarms, thereby saving
several companies from making un-
necessary runs.
Several persons were arrested by
police for questioning following receipt
of information that an automobile was
seen in the vicinity Of the fire boxes at
the times the alarms were sounded.
The first alarm came from box 757,
at Cathedral and Connecticut avenue,
at 3:46 o'clock. This is the box which
calls apparatus to Cathedral Mansions,
the center unit of which has been the
minutes later an alarm came from pox
BAL. at Eighteenth street and wyoming
avenue.
At 4 o'clock box 842 was pulled.
bringing firemen to California street
and Phelps place, and at 400 o'clock q
call came from box TIA. located at
Twenty-eighth and @ street. The last
Of the early-morning alarms was
sounded at box 7l13, Thirtieth street
and Dent place, at ABA o'clock.
Another false alarm came IN from
Thirty-second and Oliver streets AZ
1852 o'clock last night, but police 90
not attribute it to the person response
BILE for the series of calls this morning
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07
CITIZENS 'OVERPAY
U. S. ON INCOMES
Many Forget Last Cut of |
Per Cent on All Nor
NAL Rates.

Many persons are paying the Govern
ment too much income tax this year, II
was disclosed today by officials Of the
Bureau Of Internal Revenue, who ex-
planned that the liberality was due to
the taxpayers forgetting all about the
latest tax reduction Of 1 per cent on
normal tax rates.
It is involving what may be an untold
amount Of trouble for the Government,
because the surplus, which is not due,
will have to be paid back, involving a
lot of bookkeeping and return OF money
by Government check.
The difficulty arose because all the
income tax forms were printed, nee
essarily, before Congress passed a joint
resolution reducing the normal tax
rates, so the forms now in the hands
Of taxpayers contain the old rates Of
~ per cent on the first $4,000 in ex-
cess Of the personal exemptions and
other credits, 3 per cent on the next
$4,000 and per cent on the remainder.
AS 1t was too late and too expensive
anyhow, after Congress reduced taxes,
to furnish the whole country with new
income tax blanks, little slips, known
as ''riders" were printed and distributed
with the original blanks. These riders"
explained all about the tax reduction
granted by Congress, and gave ex-
plicit instructions on computing the
tax under the reduced rate.
Millions of these slips all carry the
correct lower rates, for the calendar
year 1929, of one-half of l per cent of
the first $4,000 in excess of the per-
sonal exemptions and credits per cent
on the next $4,000 and per cent on
the remainder.
The Government will get what is due,
but, according to officials, it certainly
doesn't want any one to cause trouble
all around by paying too much.
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DOCTOR LEFT ESTATE
OF CHARLES F. R. SMITH
Testator Explains Wife and Two
Grown Children Are Self
Sustaining.

DR.. Alan ]. Chenery, 3726 r street,
is named sole legatee of the estate of
Charles F.. r. Smith, who died March
3, by the terms of his will, dated Jam
uary 81, 1880.
The testator explains that he has
purposely excluded from the provisions
of his will the members of his family,
consisting Of his wife and two adult
children, who are self-suStaining.
"Dr. Chenery." he wrote, has rem
dered me many services as both friend
and physician for which he has never
received adequate compensation and IL
many instances no compensation. ]
have made him my sole legatee in con-
sideration Of his many kindnesses and
services to me-"
The physician IS also named as ex-
ecutor of the estate, the value of which
is not disclosed, but which DR.. Chenery
said today he understood consisted Of
two $1,000 insurance policies.
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operation hereunder complex, confus-
ing and Enthusiastically difficult
"A simplified law, based upon sound
principles, will save much adminiStra-
tive expense and will expedite the pay
ment of items which under the present
law are now long held in dispute, and
will thereby increase the efficiency and
contentment of the services"
Earns More Than Former Superior.
Incidentally, as sequel to the story
of Lieut.. SchiltZ's bravery and pecuniary
misfortune, 1t might be interesting to
note that in the airplane squadron to
which he was attached there was at the
same time an enlisted flyer. While
Lieut.. Schiltz remained in the Marine
Corps, the enlisted man at the end of
his current enlistment left the service
and obtained employment with an air
corporation handling Government mail.
This former enlisted man today is earn
ing three times the salary that Lieut..
Schiltz is receiving.
The Navy Department has not made
public the name of the lieutenant who
was found to be receiving $138 more q
year than his rear admiral, but the IN
terdepartmental Pay Board declares
that countless examples, only less in
degree, can be cited of disparity in the
pay of officers of different grades:
often the total pay and allowances OF
officers is found to be greater than thaG
of their superiors.
1T is in violation of this cardinal
principle" adds the board, that the
joint service pay act Is most at fault
and that it's effect is injurious TO the
efficiency and morale of the services.
The major in the Army who was
warned by the police to stop working
I'D
the story of his financial worries mas
withheld his name for obvious rea-
sons" Here is the way he sums up his
II live in q smaller, less comfortable
house in a much less attractive enVl-
ronment now than did when l was
lieutenant before the war. wear
clothes of inferior quality and nave
fewer of them, have less Injuries IN Cne
on recreation and amuSements and nave
to do for myself most OF the menial
tasks that used to hire others to do.
with the exception of two brief peril
DDS Of a few months each, have never
been out of debt during the past 10
wears, MY wife works continually az
Cooking and houSework and has not had
q day of in year and half.
Children Aided by Gifts.
"My wife gets only SIS per month
for her own personal expenses. She
has not bought new dress OF coat tor
over two years, and were it not for
gifts of clothing from relatives she
would be in a decidedly bad way. My
two children also have been assisted by
gifts of clothing from relatives.
my leaves of absence of any length
of time since the war have, with one
exception, been spent at home, as /
have never had the necessary surplus
funds to go anywhere for a vacation.
The one exception was leave OF one
month and rs days spent in automo-
bile touring, and this was made possible
only by the fact that I was changing
station and that camped in so-called
"tin-can tourist style instead of put
ting up at comfortable hotels. On this
leave I did come out even financially,
and incidentally enjoyed the camping,
though I can't say that my wife did"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07
WOMANFOUNDER OF WASHINGTON
COLLEGE OF LAW IS PAID FIONORS
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey Ill in Private Santarium,
Hears Tributes Over Radio.

be used to carry on the work of Mrs.
Mussey in obtaining still better legal
status for women,
Speakers included: Maj. julius I.
Of the District of Columbia; Walter C..
Clephane, Paul T. Lesh of the District
of Columbia Bar, Judge Mary O'Toole,
DR.. Edward Dutton, Mrs. Annabel
Matthews, Mrs. Virginia White Speel,
Mrs. Grace Hayes Riley. Mrs. Lyman
B. Swormstedt, Miss BesS GoodykoontZ,
Mrs. Mary Catherine Lewis, president
of the Soroptimist Club, and Mrs. Bessie
Parker Bruggeman.
Mrs. Gertrude Lyons rendered a
musical program and Mrs. Helena D.
Reed acted as toastmistress.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07

BY means of radio, in private sani-
tarium here, where she Is Ill, Mrs. Ellen
Spencer Mussey, founder OF the Wash
ington College of Law and selected by
the National Women'S Party as the
pioneer champion of q better legal
status for women, listened in on a pro-
gram by the Soroptimist Club at the
La Fayette Hotel, Wednesday, In which
she was honored by several speakers.
The program was broadcast by station
WJSV.
national memorial of tablet bear
ing her name and a tribute is to be
erected by the National Women's Party
somewhere in washington, 1t was ex-
planned by speakers, and fund is being
established the proceeds Of which will
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-07
DRUG
BUREAU PROPOSED
Porter Declares Enforcement
by Dry Officers Is
Impossible.
BY the Associated Press.

Creation of separate Bureau of
Narcotics was urged today before the
House ways and means committee by
Representative Porter, Republican, of
Pennsylvania, who said it was utterly
impossible" to enforce the Federal mar
coticS act $50 long as it is treated
as StepSon of prohibition" Enforce
ment of the drug laws now is delegated
largely to the prohibition unit.
The committee, which Is considering
a bill by Chairman Hawley for the or
ganiZation of separate narcotics unit,
was informed by Porter, an authority
on the drug traffic, that Illicit dealing
in narcotics costs the country from
81 900 600, 900 to $4,000, 900 900 a year.
He added that the long coast line made
1t almost impossible to detect drug
smugglers under the present system.
The Pennsylvania Representative as
serted that the Federal Narcotic Board
composed Of three cabinet members, did
not function because it was handled
largely by subordinates.
He said that cabinet members did
not have time for the work. Anti-nar-
cotic leagues were also criticized by Por-
ter, who said some Of them were up
filters for profit"
Harry j. Anslinger, assistant commits
sioner of prohibition In charge of mar
coticS, testified the Treasury Depart
ment was entirely sympathetic with any
measure that would aid in elimination
Of narcotic addiction. He said he would
support the Hawley bill, subject to some
amendment.