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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
SEEK RECE!VERSHlP
AGAINST LA SALE
Mortgage Noteholders Decide to
Act Against Rheem
Project

After q prolonged discussion last
night. holders Of mortgage notes on
the La Sale Apartments, 1923 Con-
necticut avenue, north section, a
Swartzell Rheem & Hersey Co. project
voted to institute receivership proceed
ings against the property.
This was done over the objectio
OF John l. CASSIDY. owner c. a lease
hold interest securing the notes, and
Henry F. Woodward, a notehclder. who
predicted the receiyership would be
financially unsuccessful
Edward F. Colladay, one OF q COM
mittee of attorneys representing the
noteholders, was instructed to file the
suit Immediately
The noteholders voted to form a
permanent organize ton to be known
as the Organized Noteholders of the
North Section OF the La Sale Apart
mcnts. George L. Sullivan was named
chairman.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
BOOSTERS VISITING
CHESAPEAKE PORTS
Merchants and Manufacture
ers at Hampton Roads
for Tour.
BY a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY Staff Correspondent OF The Star.
ON BOARD S. S. SOUTHLAND, off
Old Point Comfort, Va, June 10.
This good will vessel drove on TO the
broad expanse Of Hampton Roads, the
river and bay ports of Southern Mary
land and Virginia the friendly obiec-
tives Of the l60-odd members and
guests of the Merchants and Manufac-
turerS' Association on the annual three
Cay booster trip of the organization.
A group of golfers left the ship today
for the Hampton Golf Club at Old
Point Comfort, while the remainder of
the party remained aboard to make a
visit to Norfolk
Cares Are Forgotten.
A care-free spirit Of coed fellowship
prevails among the business and pro-
fess.onal men Of Washington making
the trip, who. free for a time from the
cares of Office and the grind Of their
respective pursuits, are already making
the best of the annual outing aboard
the Southland.
The afternoon and night journey
along the picturesque Potomac was
made without unusual incident. The
start from the Washington waterfront
was marked by the burial Of the
mythical general gloom, carrying to his
watery grave all that is mortal Of bust
ness depression.
Inspect Vessels.
This afternoon the outing group will
visit the ship yards at Newport News.
inspecting while there the new liners
President Hoover and President
Coolidge. After a stay of approximately
an hour and a half at the port. the
Southland will head seward on a cruise
to the Virginia Capes, returning tonight
up Chesapeake Bay.
The boosters will dock at Annapolis
tomorrow morning to attend church
services and inspect the Naval Academy.
cruising later up to the Patapsco River
and down the bay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band. this evening, at the bandstand
at $50 O'Clock. John S. M. thinner
mann. bandmaster; Anton Pointner, as
Sistant.
March. The Stars and Stripes For
ever" Observation-Disclosures. .Sousa
Patriotic overture, America Forever"
Tobani
Suite Indian Summer. .........L Lake
AT Dawn" Dance of the Pump
kins.' "A Love Song" AT Twilight"
Malange, Songs of the North and the
South" .................. BendiX
Patrol, The American. Meacham
Waltz song, Beloved" ......... Kahn
Finale, AN Arkansaw Huskin' Bee"
Pryor
The Star Spangled Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
HAYNES LIKELY TO GO
TO LORTON NEXT WEEK
Committal' Papers for Banker Elk.
pected at District Jail We'd
nesday or Thursday.

Harry v. Haynes probably will go to
Lorton the middle of next week to start
serving the four anda -half-year SEN
tence imposed yesterday in District Su-
preme Court for misapplying funds and
falSifving records of the Farmers e.
Mechanics National Bank, where he
formerly was president
His removal will be contingent on re-
ceipt at the District Jail of the COM
initial papers. which, it is thought, will
be about Wednesday or Thursday.
Following the imposition Of the pen
atty by Justice Pcyton Gordon. Haynes
expressed wish to get started on his
sentence as soon as possible.
He will be eligible for parole in 10
months.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
CHILEAN ATTACHE FACES
QUIZ IN ACCIDENT

Don Carlos de Ia Barra, commercial
secretary of the Chilean embassy, at
2154 Florida avenue, was expected to
be questioned by police of the fourteenth
precinct station toGay in connection
with a hit-and-run accident in the
1000 block, Cathedral avenue, last night.
An automobile listed to De la Barra,
according to police, crashed into the
park d machine of Walter c. Kerrigan
of the Westchester Apartments. 1000
Cathedral avenue. Eyewitnesses told
officers that The driver quit the scsne
without leaving his name.
An employe of nearby garage took
the license number of the colliding car
and turned the information over to the
police. De la Barra lives at 210o Mas
sachusetts avenue.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
ARLINGTON RITES HELD
FOR GEN. R. H. DUNLAP

Firal rites for Brig. Gen Robert H.
Dunlap. United States Marine Corps,
killed in France May 10 in landslide
while attempting to rescue a French
woman, were conducted in Arlington
Cemetery today at IL am. Interment
was with full military honors. Rev
Edwin B. Niver, U. S. N, retired
officiated
Gen. Dunlap, native Washingtonian
was widely known in this city. Mrs
Katherine Wood Dunlap, the widow, Is
staying here with her mother at 1853 K
street.
BY special permission, civilian en-
plcyes of Marine Corps headquarters
were allowed to attend the funeral.
About half the civilian personnel of
the headquarters left the office this
morning for the services.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
SH0REHAM INTEREST
TO BE PAID ON JUNE 10

The receivers of the Shorehan Hotel
will begin the payment of interest June
l8 on presenta ton of the notes secured
on the property in order that proper
Endorsement may be made Noteholders
residing out of town are advised to send
their notes to local banks with instruc-
lions to arrange for their presentation
at the hotel where an Office will be
maintained for the payments.
The Office will be open June 10, from
10 am to pm, but after that date
payment may be obtained from Mr..
Sharshing, the assistant manager of the
hotal
The receivers announce that the pay
ments will include the interest due
April 3D. which has been deferred for
two months under court order, in addi-
ton to interest thereon for the two
months delay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
MRS. MAUD GREENAWALT
TO BE BURIED TODAY
Rites for D. A. r. Leader to Be
Held at Residence, With In
terment in Oak Hill.

The funeral of Mrs Maud Lipscomb
Greenawalt, former State regent of the
District of Columbia Society," Daughters
of the American Revolution, who died
in Norfolk, Va, Wednesday, was to be
conducted at her residence, 1719 Lanier
place, this afternoon, with Rev. Dr. H.
H. D. Sterrett, rector of All Souls Me-
mortal Church officiating. Interment
was to be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Greenawalt, who was 60 years
old, was widely known in this city for
her patriotic activities Outstanding
amcng these was her fight to have the
Key Bridge here named after Frencis
Scott Key and to have The Star
Spangled Banner" officially adopted as
the national anthem. She was men,
Der of the Mayf1ower Society and was
organizer and regent of Ruth Brewster
Chapter, D. A. r. Mrs. Greenawalt's
husband is Frank F. Greenawalt also
widely known in this city.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
PHONE SOCIETY MEETS
Remon Speaks and Film Showing
Development Is Seen.

Five hundred members Of the Wash
ington Telephone Society. composed Of
employees of the Chesapeake g. Po-
tomac Telephone Co.. assembled in Nc
Kinley High School Auditorium last
night to hear an address by their gen.
eral manager, John A. Remon, and to
view talking motion pictures showing
the development of telephone commune
CO ton.
crease their sales efforts, pointing out
that 10000 Washington families are
without telephones and that there is
only one extension phone for every five
telephones in the Capital.
Miss Dorothy Reddish, local soprano,
sang and George Small, the one-man
band" entertained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
MCKELVIE RETURNS

Samuel r. McKelvie. who retires
Monday as the wheat member of the
Farm Board. returned to Washington
yesterday from the London Interna-
tlonal Wheat Conference and discussed
with some of his colleagues the results
of that meeting.
McKelvie's resignation leaves two va
cancies on the board, c. C. league hav-
ing resigned June ]. No successors
have been named.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
ELDERLY MAN AND GIRL
HURT BY AUTOMOBILES
Charles Peterson, 10; Wanda Lee
Womeldorph, 5, Injured-His
Condition Reported as Serious.

Charles Peterson. 70 years old. of lI49
Fourth street northeast, was seriously
injured last night, when an automobile
driven by John Mccall, %, 621 Second
street. struck him on H street ne7r
Seventh northeast.
Peterson, who was running to catch
street car when the accident occurred,
was taken to Casualty H spital and
treated for fractures Of the ribs and nu-
mercus cuts and bruises about the body.
Mccall was not held by police.
Five-year-old Wanda Lee Womel-
dorph of Opekun. Va. was taken to
Emergency Hospital and treated fer
shock and cuts about the forehead after
an automobile in which she was riding
was in collision with an Army truck
1T Twelfth and D streets southwest yes
terday afternoon.
The car in which she was riding waS
driven by Lloyd A. Wcmeldorph,
Opekun, Va. while Pvt. William j. Gar
dine CT Fort Myer, Va, was operating
the Army truck.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
CITY NEWS IN BPIEF.

Dance. Mckinley High School Senior
class. Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Banquet and dance, Tau Beta Phi,
Mayf1oWer Hotel, 1880 pm.
Dinner, Aero Club, Willard Hotel
7:30 pm.
Community danoa, Mckinley High
School Gymnasium. Second and T
streets northeast, $50 pm.
Card party, Bell Club. st. James
Catholic Church. Thirty-seventh street
and Rhode Island avenue northeast,
8 pm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Partly cloudy
tonight ana tomorrow; probably local
thunderShoWerS. not much change in
temperature, gentle to moderate south
erly winds
Maryland Partly cloudy tonight and
tomorrow, probably local thunder
showers in north and west portions to-
morrow, not much change in tempera-
ture; gentle TO moderate soutnerly
winds.
Virginia-Local thundershowers in
north and west portions; partly cloudy
tonight and tomorrow; not much change
in temperature; gentle to moderate
southerly winds.
West Virglnia-Partly cloudy tonight
and tomorrow; probably local thunoer-
showers tomorrow: warmer in extreme
east portion tonight.
Record for "a Hours.
Thermometer pm, SO; pm, 30;
II midnight, IS, 4 am, 81. am, TO;
IL am. ~.
Barometer pm, 1898; pm,
29.95: II midnight, 29.97; am, 5000;
8 am, 30.01; IL am, 5000.
Highest Temperature, Sc, occurred at
Ais pm. yesterday. Lowest tempera-
ture, 66, occurred at $50 am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, S3, lowest, 81.
Tide Tables
Furnished by United States Coast
and Geodetlc Survey
Today-Low tide, 1857 am. and II
pm; high tide, $40 a IN. and 81 pm
TomorroW-LoW tide, 43 am and
1916 pm; high tide, 1904 am. and
6:35 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose 4:41 am; sun sets
1884 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 4:41 am; sun
sets 1885 pm.
Moon rises 2:34 am; sets 5:28 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Rainfall
Comparative figures of the monthly
rainfall in the Capital for the trst six
months against the average are shown
in the following table:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
BURGLAR is SOUGHT
Gunman Threatened to Shoot Won.
an and Takes SIS.

Police today were seeking a burglar
who stole SIS from the home of William
F. Hitler yesterday after threatening to
shoot Mrs. Hitler.
The woman awakened about am.
to find the intruder in her bedroom. He
struck a match, she said, leaned over
and whispered warning not to make
any cutlery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13
GENERAL WILL RECEIVE
AWARD FROM PRIVATE

A1tIe UL aoHOTdTy mdnQdT1n 10 be
Conferred on A. S. Daggett,
Boxer Revolution Veteran.
Reversing the usual order of things,
private will decorate a general to-
morrow.
StaniSlaus A. Zelazny, the private,
who is viceroy of the Imperial Order of
the Dragon for the District of Colum-
bia. will confer the title of honorary
mandarin on Brig. Gen. Aaron S.
Daggett, Boxer Rebellion veteran, on
the latter's ninety-fourth birthday
Gen. Daggett, who lives at 206 A
street southeast. was colonel of the 14th
Infantry in China when the Imperial
Order first was formed. in the Winter
of 10000. Then it was known only
as the Dragons and was formed for the
"avoWed purpose of putting pep into an
otherwise dreary Winter" At a re-
union at Boston in 1908, however, the
name was changed and a drive begun
to enlist all veterans of the Boxer up
rising
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13

Dr.. Howard retired as bureau chief in
1927, but continued his studias of med
zeal entomology and parisitology. He
ends his long Governmental service on
July /. He plans to live in Paris for
year to study and write more about
insects
The biggest task facing &ntomologists.
he said, Is effective control of the Jap
anese beetle, the corn borer, the pink
boil We.vn, alfalfa weevil and the bean
weevil.
They cannot be eliminated" he said,
but their control is absolutely neces-
sary to stop huge economic wastes"
He has Writtcn many books on in
SectS His work on mosquitoes and
house flies started household wars on
those insects a quarter Of century
ego
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13

Record rainfall for the first five
mGnths was:
January, 1882. 100 inches; February.
1884, 6.34 inches; March, 1891, 8.84
inches; April, 1889, 913 inches; May,
1889, 1869 inches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-13

Comparative figures of the monthly
rainfall in the Capital for the trst six
months against the average are shown
in the following table:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
|O|L CONFERENCE
TO Be HELD HERE
States Advisory Group Will
Lay Program Before
Federal Board.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, March 3I.-Doc.
tors for an "ailing oil industry" the
Oil States Advisory Committee, viii
meet in Washington April and tc
make concrete plans for recovery of the
patient.
The program will be laid before the
Federal Oil Conservation Board April
9 and its cooperation requested.
Cicero I. Ray, Oklahoma City, chair
man of the committee, said last night
the program to be formulated would be
in conformance with resolutions adopted
/ at a meeting in Texarkana, Tex,
March 9.
He said the committee would present
to the Federal Board a concrete plan
for an interstate compact to carry out
objects of the Texarkana resolution,
which calls for uniform proration laws,
unit ALLEGATION of oil, curbing OF i'm
ports, equitable methods of W {, r-U
of storage oil and, If necessary, sci inT
of price on both crude and refined
products
While the cooperation of the Federal
Board is desired, it is not absolutely
necessary, Murray said. The proposed
interstate compact. to be binding. would
have to bear congressional approval
The program, the chairman said,
would call for investigation of the oil
situation and for recommendations of
fair retail prices for refined products.
each State would be on the same
proration and potential basis" he ex-
planned.
Representatives Of Kansas, Oklahoma,
Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexi-
co, Wyoming, California and Ohio have
been asked to attend.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
ARMY ORDERS

Col. Tilman Campbell, Finance De-
partment, has been transferred from
Fort Sam Houston, Tex, to the War
Department; Lieut.. Col. John w.
Lang, Infantry, from the Army War
College. this city, to the Citadel,
Charleston, S. c.; Col. James M Petty,
Infantry, from the Kansas State Agri-
cultural College at Manhattan to the
LIST Tank Regiment at Fort Meade,
Md; Maj. q. G. Fl. Franklin, Medical
Corps. from the Panama Canal Zone
to the Army Medical Center. this city;
Maj. M r. Reiber, Medical Corps. from
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., to Panama;
Mai. John T. Harris, Quartermaster
Corps, from the War Department to
New Orleans.
Lieut.. josephine V. Bruen, Nurse
Corps, at Walter Reed General Hos
pital, hes been ordered to examination
for retirement; Capt We're Painter,
Quartermaster Corps. has been trans
ferred from Brooklyn, N. Y, to Fort
Adams, r. l.; First Sergt William
White, 9Th Cavalry. at Fort Riley
Kans., and Sergt. Gregario Segarra,
65th Infantry, at San Juan. P. r., have
been transferred to the retired list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
MOVIES TO ILLUSTRATE
LECTURES ON AVIATION
Standards Flying Club to See Four
Reels Showing Details Of
Engine.

Motion pictures will be used to illus
trate lectures before the Standards
Flying Club in the Bureau of Standards
east lecture hall at 8 o'clock tonight
and next Tuesday night. The public is
invited.
Tonight's lecture viii be devoted to
the HiSpano-Suiza engine. There will
be four reels of films showing the engine
passing through all stages of dis
mantling and assembling, with drawings
to show how each part is constructed
and operated.
Next weeks meeting will be of general
interest. There will be motion pictures
Of early helicopter developments, the
flow of air around various objects, the
endurance flight of the Question Mark
and an altitude balloon flight of the
late Capt. Hawthorne G. Gray, Army
Air Corps. All the films win be loaned
by the War Department.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
CIVIL SERVICE VACANCIES
Positions Paying $1,S6o to SIS, 400
Annually Are Open.

The Civil Service Commission an
nounces examinations are to be held for
the following positions. paying salaries
ranging from 81 $50 to SIS, 400 a year:
For principal social worker (psychi-
atric), $4,000 a year, Public Health
Service; teacher of home economics,
senior high school, $4,000 year; teach
er of home economics, reservation and
Junior high school, 1880 a year, in
Indian service; senior olericulturist,
81, 500 to IS, 400 year. Bureau of Plant
Industry; lithograph transferrer,
$4,000 year, Coast and Geodetic Sur
vey.
Full information may be obtained at
the Office of the Civil Service Commits
sion, 1924 F street, it is announced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
How Anyone Can
Remove a Corn
in 3 Minutes

It's so easy now to remove old,
sore corns and callouses. Any one
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just get bottle of the amazing
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In every package.
Why suffer with cerns, when
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good drug store and satisfaction or
money back is guaranteed? why
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vertisement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-31
oPTIMISTS TO ELECT
Club Will Choose officers and Hear
Reports Tomorrow.

New officers will be elected at closed
meeting of the Optimist Club, to be held
tomorrow at the Hamilton Hotel. Com
mittee reports will be received and other
business conducted at the meeting.
The Boys Clubs 100, lis and 1870
pound basket bal lteams, sponsored by
the Optimist Club, are wearing the col
ors of the club to victory. The 100
pound basket ball teams, sponsored by
pionship in its div sion of the A. A. u
tournament, and the lis and $50 pound
teams will play in the semi-flnals and
finals, respectively, tonight.
Nearly 100000 American bathing caps
were worn in Britain last year.
Evening star., 1931-12-17
"Coolidge-Hoover''
Type of Leadership
Assailed in House
Contrasted With Pickett
and Lee Decisions
by Shannon.

By the Associated Press.
Lee and Pickett VS.. Coolidge was a
contrast set up in the moratorium de-
bate yesterday by Representative Shan
non, Democrat, Missouri.
In assailing the Coolidge Hoover
type" of leadership, Shannon, in the
House yesterday, criticised the former
President for "peddling life insurance"
and for telling "the people, at So per
word, the kind of leaders they ought
to follow"
Couldn't Afford TO Accept.
when the great war between the
States closed and President Grant was
installed" Shannon recalled, he met
George Pickett of the Pickett Brigade
of the Southern Army, and he said
Pickett, am going to make you mar
shall of Virginia.
Pickett was, oh, so poor, and he said
Why, Mr.. President, you can't do that.
Ives: can
No, no; you can't. There are two
reasons. First, you can't afford to dc
it; and second, can't afford to take it.
And then the President, in his
brusque way, demanded: Who in the
hell told you I couldn't afford to do it?
Maybe so, Mr. President, maybe so
but the second reason stands couldn't
afford to take it at your hands
That was Picketts idea of prestige
and honor.
Lee Refused Offer.
1.-The same State furnished a great
| leader the leader of the armies of tht
South" Shannon continued, land the
| New York Life Insurance Co., the en-
| ployer of Calvin Coolidge. after the
war said to Gen. Robert E. Lee, we
want you as our president and they
Evening star., 1931-12-17

in the arm in a struggle with his cap
tors before three of them were killed
and four recaptured several miles from
the penitentiary, Bates said:
II cannot come to any conclusion
other than that the warden acted in a
brave and resourceful manner and in
the interests Of the institution and its
employees.
Nor can find culpable negligence, !"
he continued, ION the part of Hubert
Gray, the south armory guard, or John
Dempsey, the outer gate guard, or Louis
M. Kelley, the inner gate guard. who
was held up by the seven armed con-
victs, three of whom held forged passes.
1.-THE last two of these guards was
suddenly confronted with weapons at
Evening star., 1931-12-17
BATES HITS GUARDS
AT LEAVENW0RTH
BIames Laxity in Prison
Break PRAISES Warden
Whites Conduct.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LEAVENWORTH, Kans., December
17.-Laxity among guards which he
said had grown up prior to last weeks
convict break at Leavenworth Federal
Penitentiary was criticized today by
Sanford Bates, director of Federal
prisons, but he reported his investiga-
ton showed that Warden T. B. White
acted in brave and resourceful man
ner."
The Washington official said there
was every hope" Of bringing to justice
the persons guilty of smuggling into
the prison the firearms used by the
seven convicts who kidnapped the war
den and fed He said, however, details
could not be revealed at this time.
OF Warden White, who was wounded
Evening star., 1931-12-17

gether IN body and march out Of an
institution full Of employees in the man
ner In which this was engineered.
1T must be admitted that there had
grown up laxity in the institution
with reference to the issue of passes to
go and come among the various de-
partments and that in some cases
guards who should have assumed a
more responsible attitude with refer
ence to these inmates. trusted in some
other guard or agency to control them
and that the presence of these prisoners