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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
CHANGE SOUGHT
FOR LEFT TURNS
Traffic Committee viii Also
Ask Study of Night Park
ing Problem.

Substitution of the standard left
turn for the rotary left turn in vogue
here for many years viii be sought of
the District Commissioners by the
Traffic Advisory Committee, Capt. H. C.
Whitehurst, chief engineer of the Dis
trict and chairman of the committee
disclosed yesterday.
Capt. Whitehurst revealed another of
the more important recommendations to
be made soon by the committee would
be that the Commissioners give special
study to the night parking problem. He
said the body had formulated no plans
to suggest an immediate prohibition of
night parking. An ofacial census of ga
rage space available in all sections of
the city was deemed advisable.
The engineer declared the committee
would fail to recommend any substan-
tial changes in the set-up of the traffic
directors ONCE or its relation to the
Police Department. He added there
was no suggestion under consideration
for return of the office Of traf1c director
to the Police Department.
1t was pointed out that none of the
nine subcommittee have perfected
their final reports, although they have
decided what action they will take on
the situation with which they have
been dealing After the chairmen of
the subcommittee have completed their
reports october 4, a meeting of the
committee proper will be held October
10 for the drafting of recommendations
to be submitted to the Commissioners.
The only suggestion planned which
will involve speed laws, Capt. White
hurst said, will be some sort of a new
limit for trucks Of more than two tons
equipped with solid tires. There is no
discrimination between trucks with
and solid tires in the pres
ent regulations.
Capt. Whitehurst predicted no radi-
cal changes would be sought in the
present system of trafic lights.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

3 Through the transfer OF IL kinder
sarten teachers to elementary grade va
cancies and the resignation or retire
ment Of eight others, 20 class one teach
sr salaries, ranging from 81 400 to
50 200 per annum, are being lost to the
public school system and turned back to
the United States Treasury.
This was revealed at the Franklin
Administration Building yesterday when
school officers we're completing the first
definite steps in the reorganization Of
the kindergarten system as desired by
the conferees of the Senate and House
and reveals concretely the manner in
which the reorganization will effect the
public school system.
The IL transferred kindergarten
teachers, the first of approximately "A
to be similarly shifted, were taken from
kindergartens over which two teachers
had presided. Despite the fact that
Congress. IN the last session, made kin
dergarten teachers legally eligible to In
struct in the first four elementary
grades, the initial IL to be switched
we're assigned to second and third grade
work This was done, school officers
declared, because they believed kinder
Rarten teachers lacked the training to
teach in the important f1rst grade,
where the elements of study first are
given to children and which instruction
demands special training.
Report of Simmons.
In his report on the hearings on the
current appropriation bill last Spring.
Representative Robert G. Simmons OF
Nebraska, self appointed critic of the
District school system, specifically de-
clared that since il was his conviction
Washington elementary and kinder
garten schools were overteachered, the
transfer of kindergarten teachers TO
elementary grades should automatically
result in the elimination OF the ele-
mentary grade salary for the positions
they occupy AS kindergarten teachers
and teachers in the first four grades
all are in salary class l, the IL trans
fers which will go into effect with the
opening of school tomorrow, means the
reversion to the Treasury of between
$4,000 and $26,4 400, depending upon
the period of service of the former in
cumbents in the positions they hold.
The wide range Is explained by the fact
that the entrance salary of class l
teacher is 81 400 per annum, and that
teachers in this class are entitled to
automatic annual increases OF 800
until their pay reaches the $4,000 maxi
mum. Just how many of the IL dis
placed elementary teachers had reached
the maximum could not be ascertained
at Franklin yesterday.
Similarly Mr.. Simmons made 1t plain
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
TEACHER CHANGES COST SCHOOLS
81 400 TO $4,000 A YEAR IN PAY
Reorganization of kindergarten System
With IL Transfers to Grade Places
and 8 Leaving, Becomes Effective

in his report that as kindergarten
teachers resigned or retired they were
not to be replaced until the kinder
garten teaching staff reached the stand
ards he considered eficient and ade-
quate Hence the eight teachers who
have left the service through either OF
these courses since the end of the last
school year represents the elimination
of between Sill 200 and SIT 500, accord
ing to their respective periods OF SerV-
ice.
The standards which Mr. Simmons
commended were ef1icient and adequate
for Washington kindergartens embrace
normal classes with an average attend
ance of IS children and one teacher
per class. When kindergarten class
reaches an average daily attendance of
so, the confereeS have explained to DIR.
Frank w. Ballou, superintendent, two
teachers may be assigned to them. I'm
der the policy adopted by the school
officers every kindergarten which was
in existence at the close OF school In
June will be reopened tomorrow to con-
tinue until October IA. II by that date
any class cannot show an average daily
attendance of 25 pupils it is to be elm
mated and its teacher transferred to
elementary vacancies. If. however, the
teacher of such a class in the opinion
of her superior officers lack adequate
training for elementary work she will
be transferred to another kindergarten
whose teacher is qualified, and the
second teacher will be sent on to the
grade.
List Not Published.
The list of names of the IL kinder
garten teachers to enter grade work to-
morrow morning was not made public
at the Franklin Building yesterday.
The list will be submitted to the Board
of Education at is next meeting, prob
ably Wednesday, for approval.
Meanwhile, the transfers are effec-
tive under blanket authority given the
superintendent by the board to set up
and put into operation kindergarten
policy.
AS witnessed by this first attempt to
reorganize kindergartens as the Con-
gress conferees would have them set up.
the public school system will lose in
salaries when the reorganization is
completed somewhere between S103,-
500 and Sl62,800. These figures are
based on the assumption that the "a
teachers mentioned in the hearing on
the appropriation bill will be trans
ferred. 1t is pointed out in school by
opponents of the Simmons plan that
these figures do not represent a SAY
ing" to the public school SYSTEM but
constitute actually the loss in teachers
service which the reorganization will
set up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Overseas Military Band this
afternoon at st. Elizabeth's Hospital,
o'clock. Arthur Harper, leader; Al
vim Lorig assistant.
March, "Battleship Connecticut"
j. M. Fulton
Overture, Poet and Peasant"
FIR. " Suppe
March, "Semper Fidelis". Sousa
Characteristic Intermezzo, In a Monas-
terry Garden. !. Albert w. Ketelbey
Coronation March from THE Prophet"
@. Meyerbesr
March, Thunderer, .........,. Sousa
Popular War Songs,
Keep the Home Fires Burning" ~
Pack Up Your Troubles
"Over There"
March. Lights OUT. .......... Mccoy
Tone Poem, After Sunset"
Arthur Pryor
Waltzes, Danube Waves" j. Ivanovici
March, Stars and Stripes Forever"
Sousa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
THREE COMPANIES FIGHT
FIRE IN VACANT HOUSE
Structure at 344S Brown Street
Damaged as Hundreds Watch
Spectacular Flames.

A stubborn fire in a vacant house at
3448 Brown street, which firemen from
three engine companies fought for more
than two hours before 1t could be ex-
tinguished, attracted hundreds of per-
sons last night.
The blaze. which first attracted at
tention at o'clock swept the three
story frame building. The third and
most of the second stories were des-
troyed by the flames that shot many
feet above the house.
Firemen finally conquered the blaze
at about 10:30 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21

The foHoDino article, oiuiuo the rteics
of union musicians in their controperSp
NTH Washington motion picture thedter
managers, iGos prepared for the SLar ov
John E. BiTdSeH, secretary Of the WASH
inoton Musicidns' Union, While the
Star is glad to present the rteDS Of the
musicians, publication Of this article
does NOT mean that The Star Subscribes
10 these rieips. A 7Beek ago The Star
presented the uiews OF the managers IN
an article Written by A. Julidn BrNdto-
ski, president OF their association, under
the same conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
INJURED IN FALL

Failing down several flights of stairs
at his home. 1903 Minnesota avenue
southeast, last night James w Fultz,
80 years old, was seriously injured and
taken to Casualty Hospital.
DR. Louis Jimal, of the hospital staff,
said that Fultz received a skull fracture
and severe decorations to the scalp. He
said his condition Is critical
Police said FNiltz, in a spell Of dizzi
ness, lost his balance at the head of
the stairs and toppled down them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
HEAD STRIKES CURLING
Man Hurt in Alteration May Have
Skull Fractured.

George F. Modlin, AS, of the 1900
block of Fessenden street is in George
town University Hospital with pos
sible fracture of the skull, said to have
been sustained when his head struck a
curbstone in an alteration yesterday.
James Fitzgerald, Al, of 1920 Wisconsin
avenue. is being held at the fourteenth
precinct pending the outcome of Mod
Inns injuries.
Modlins condition is said 10 he
serious. Fitzgerald was arrested by
Policeman w. 3. Barnes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Preferred Stockholders Want
Investigation of Affairs
of Corporation.
RECOVERY OF $500, 900
WILL BE UNDERTAKEN
Committee Invites 500 to Join in
Action Against Mortgage
and Discount Firm.

A group of preferred stockholders OF
the Wardman Mortgage and Discount
Corporation will ask the District SUI
preme Court this week to issue a writ
of mandamus calling upon Harry Ward
man to make available to the stock
holders the books and records of the
corporation, 1t was announced last
night.
The committee representing the
stockholders last night issued the fol-
lowing statement in connection with the
proposed litigation:
The stockholders committee Of the
Wsrdman Mortgage and Discount Cor
poration has sent out invitations to the
500 preferred stockholders of the corpo-
ration to join with group of the larger
shareholders in an effort to force an
investigation OF the affairs of the COM
pany. This letter was Immediately fol-
lowed by another invitation, sent out
by Harry Wardmsn yesterday. request
ing stockholders to exchange their stock
in the Wardman Mortgage and Discount
non-cumulative preferred stock OF the
Wardman Realty and Construction
Co.
Ten DAYS TO Make Exchange.
"Mr. Wardnan announced In his let
ter that the Wardman Realty ~ Con-
struction Co.'S assets consisted OF the
equities in the 10 large hotel apart
ment houses recently placed under
thrnIruh a New
York and Chicago investment banking
concern. According to Mr.. Wardman,
holders of preferred stock are given 10
DAYS in which to make this exchange.
Members of the Stockholders Pro-
tective Committee claim that they al
ready have information to the effect that
in addition to the Sl6.000,00O flrst
mortgages, debentures, notes, ETC.. which
would bring the total indebtedness above
500 ,0OO, 900, and in addition to this the
bonds run for 20 years.
Harry A. L. Barker, chairman OF the
Stockholders Committee and promi-
nent Washington attorney, says sub
stantial sum has been raised by pre-
ferred stockholders to defray expenses
of the proposed litigation and that he
believes a fair chance of recovering the
entire $500. 900 invested in preferred
stock can be anticipated.
In addition to Mr.. Barker, Godfrey
L. Munter and Robert L. Smythe con-
stitute the committee. oscar H. Brink
man has been retained as general
counsel"
Arrangement Unsatisfactory.
At a meeting Of the common stock
holders Of the Mortgage 81 Discount
Corporation, it was decided TO make
it possible for the stockholders to ex-
change their holdings for stock of the
Wardman Realty g. Construction Co.
This arrangement. however. was not
satisfactory to the holders of the pre-
ferred stock. and at a meeting last
week they decided to start litigation
in an effort to recover the money they
paid for their stock
The hotels in which the Realty and
Construction company has equities are
the Wardman Park and addition. Carl
ton Annapolis, Roosevelt, Boulevard
Stoneleigh Courts, Highlands. 2700 Con-
necticut avenue, Davenport Terrace
the Alabama and the Department OF
Justice once Building.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
FOUR AUTOS STRUCK
IN TW0-BLOCK DRIVE
Colored Man Held on Reckless and
Hit and Run Charges by
First Precinct Police.

Walter Harris, colored. 80 years old,
of 400 r street, was arrested by first
precinct police yesterday on charges
of reckless driving and hit-and-ran
after. police said, he struck four auto
mobiles in the course of two blocks
near Fourteenth and B streets.
Harris automobile first collided with
car driven by w. H. Boaze of 1895
jefferson street block further he
crashed into the automobile of DR..
Mark C. Butler, 1846 Sixteenth street
At Twelfth and B streets he collided
with two parked cars. The parked au-
tomobiles are owned by John RATIO
OF 1903 B street and Mrs. Annie Vale
of ll04 M street
Harris was arrested by Park Police
man John H. Compton and turned
over to first precinct police.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Mrs. Sarah E. Myers Dies.

STAUNTON. Va September 20
Especially Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Myers,
aged 81, and resident of Stanton
for the past 81 years, died at her home
here after a two weeks illness. She
was the widow of the late Joseph w.
Myers for many years well known resi-
dent of this city. Surviving are two
sons, Joseph Lacy Myers Of Stanton.
and Ernest Teaford Myers of Roanoke,
Va
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
FIDkC FLAGS LOST
Police Seek Three Parade Banners
Valued at $500 Each.

Valued at $500 Each.
Three of the flags shipped from New
York City for parades of the Fidac
Congress here last week, are being
sought by the police. They we're re-
ported lost somewhere between Union
Station and the Carlton Hotel while
being carried to the rooms of Mai. e. L..
White, who made the report to the
police last night.
Two of the flags were presented to
the Congress by foreign countries one
by France and the other by Czecho-
slovakia, while the third was a Fidac
flag Each was valued at $500 in the
report made TO the police
Maj. White explained that the flags
probably were lost from a machine
carrying them from the railway station
to the hotel. They had been packed in
New York City together with number
OF other flags and the boxes were not
opened until delivered in Washington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
Eighty Aerial Permits Issued.

LYNCHBURG, Va. September 90
(SpeciaD Since adoption of a city
ordinance requiring permits for installa :
ton of radios with outside aerials, 80
such permits have been issued by the
city electrical department The ordi-
nance has been effective since August /.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
AUToIST is HELD
Taken With Companion After Col
liding With Policeman.

Two occupants of an automobile
which collided with the motor cycle of
Policeman w. H. Bell of the Traffic
Bureau at Eleventh and M streets
southeast were taken into custody last
night. Bell escaped injury.
The driver of the automobile. Stanley
Turowski 30 years old. of 2106 F street,
was charged with failing to give the
right of way. He posted SIS collateral
for his appearance in Trafic Court
Monday morning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
Pairs Of Saddle Mounts.

The California crab is about four
times as large as the kind caught along
the Atlantic Coast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
CITIZENS PROTEST
BELL RESIGNATION
Covington Leaders Denounce
Council for Evicting For
mer D. c. Man.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CONVICTION, KY, May 16.-An i'm
mense throng of prominent residents
invaded The meeting of the city COM
missionefs yesterday, creating a near
riot by shouting whistling and stamp
ing in protest against accepting the
resignation of Col. j. Franklin Bell, for
merry Engineer Commissioner of Wash
ington, as city manager of Covington.
Their protests were vain, as the resig-
nation was accepted, to /.
Charles thinner, ST., safety commits
sioner; Louis Meyer. finance commits
sioner, and T. Monroe Swindler, pub
lie property commissioner, voted to ac-
cept the resignation, with Mayor
Thomas F. Donnally dissenting. Joseph
r. Pieper, commissioner of public works,
was not present.
The first protest against the action
of the commissioners in the city man
ager controversy was a resolution Of
the Latonia Covington Civic Club. The
resolution branded the boards act as
and urged its action be reconsidered
Rev Kenneth Bowen. president Of
the Covington Ministerial Association,
denounced the city commissioners for
their secrecy In roughly ousting Col.
Bell without giving him chance to
know why he was fired and without
giving him a chance to present any de-
tense, as it is generally known that he
had driven gangsters, gamblers, white
slave agents, and known crooks out OF
the city for the first time such action
has been known in the city's history.
Covington being the location OF the La
tonia races, from which the city de-
riyes exceedingly large income in the
way of taxes, Rev. Bowen charged the
act of the commissioners to a secret
influence yielded by a secret political
party, known as the Red Elephants,
composed in main part OF employees OF
the Federal Government, headed by
CONGRESSMAN.
DR.. Charles w. Reynolds, president
of the Covington Board of Education,
drastically scored the city commission
ers' board for its secrecy and its refusal
to allow Col Bell a chance to defend
himself or have time to arrange his al
fairs, though he resigned from the
United States Army Engineers IN
washington to take the city managers
job.
cinnati, who brought Col. Bell to Gov
ington, will address a citizens mass
meeting at Covington Saturday night.
demanding the recall Of Col. Bell on
account of his success In cleaning Gov
ington of its large number OF known
crooks, gamblers, Illicit whisky distil-
iers. white slavers and dope dealers.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16

ference "is trying to wedge into Ameri-
can civilization the great opportunities
that modern knowledge offers through
the physician, the teacher, the public
health worker-the great advantages
that all this has to offer to civilization.
I think the public Is ready for 1t and
I think it is largely responsibility of
ours to see that eur information gets
the largest possible spread" he said.
I'VE must do what we can to help the
children, not only In this country, but
in many countries, to get from the &C
cumulated information that has been
gathered the real advantages. Unless
we do this we will not be successful"
DR.. H. e. Barnard, director of the
conference, presided and also made a
short address
French Strother, administrative as
sistant to the President, and chairman
of the committee on public relations,
spoke briefly in regard to the form of
publication the work will take and the
interest that the Nation as a whole
has taken in this movement. The re-
ports on the progress of the work Of the
various committees were made by the
chairmen, with discussions following.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia, Maryland and
showers tonight and tomorrow; moder-
ate westerly winds. becoming variable
West Virginia-Cloudy. probably oc-
casional rain tonight and tomorrow;
cooler tomorrow.
Record for Twenty -four Hours.
Thermometers pm, 10; 8 pm, so;
IL midnight, 81; am, 81; 8 am, So.
Barometer "A pm, 1896; 8 pm,
2974; IL midnight, 29.78; 4 am, 1888;
8 am, 29.S9.
Highest temperature, 70, occurred at
5 pm. Yesterday: Lowest temperature
Sc, occurred at $50 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 81; lowest, 81.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey
Today-Low tide, ASS am. and 5:32
pm; high tide, 1922 am. and 11:06
pm.
Tomorrow-Low tide, 5:42 am. and
6:18 pm; high tide, 11:l6 am. and
1853 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose ASS am; sun sets
TIA pm.
Tomorrow-sun rises Ass am; sun
sets TIA pm.
Moon rises 1882 am; sets 1927 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Weather In Various Cities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
FIX GERMAN RATE
international Bank Puts Interest
on Preparations Loan at 51a Pct.

BASEL, Switzerland, May Is Dr..
The directorate of the new Bank OF
International Settlements today def
nttely fixed the interest rate OF the
German reparations loan at 51a per
mined at another session Of the board.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16

willoughby. Ohio, fourth. First prize,
$40; second prize, $25; third prize, $40;
fourth prize, SIS.
Glass 90, for local UNDERESTIMATE
Flag, shown by Gwinn w. Rust, first;
Buckeye, shown by Ray H. Norton,
second; Bean Beetle, shown by Miss
Betty Couzens, third; Daffodil, shown
by Miss Persis Myers, fourth. First
prize, the Peter vorhis De Graw Me-
prize, SIS; fourth prize, SIS.
Glass IL, for ladies' saddle horses
Carcorita, shown by e. w. Mobiles
Church Hill Farm, Gloucester, Va, first;
Marse Henry of the same stable, second;
DR.. Judy, shown by Karl w. Corby,
Washington, third; Harriet Lee, shown
by Vernon G. Owen, Washington, fourth.
First prize, plate; second prize, $25;
third prize, $40; fourth prize, ribbon.
Glass SO, for hunters or jumpers over
modified Olympia course-Lucifer, shown
by Miss Cowan, first; Tip, shown by
e. E. Adamson, Washington, second;
Pa Hale, shown by Fred King, Washing
ton, third Pathfinder, shown by p. C..
Randolphs Redpath Stables, Gaylord,
va, fourth. First prize, $50: second
prize, $40; third prize, SIS; fourth
prize. S..
RemOunt Horses Shown.
Glass 81, for American Remount As
ISOLATION horses-In the Way, shown by
the Woodside Stock Farms, Bluemont,
va, first; Cagwin, shown by Ernest M.
Woolf, Upperville, Va, second; Nancy.
shown by DR.. e. H. Marsteller, Manassas,
Va, third: Hereiam, shown BY Mrs.
Cary Jackson, Keswick, Va, fourth.
First prize, $40; second prize, SIS; third
prize, SIS: fourth prize, ribbon.
Glass 81. for thoroughbred hunters
Holy River, shown by r. K. Mellon,
Pittsburgh, first; Prince Charming II,
shown by Warfield Farms, Port Ches-
ter, r. Y, second; Red Roberts, shown
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-16
FRATERNAL NOTICE.

Washington- Centennial Chapter
~ will hold it's regular meeting to;
w night at Masonic Temple, 18TH AND
~SN. Y. ave. NV. This Is enuoW-
ment night and Past Grand Patron
Dow will address the chapter.
All z. 8. members welcome.