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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
SCOUTS BIRTHDAY
PAGEANT TONIGHT
Than 1000 Boys From
IT'S Troops Expected to
Take Part in Fete.

Boy Scouts from approximately ITS
troops in Washington and nearby Vir-
ginia and Maryland-more than 1000
OF them-who have been preparing for
their anniversary celebration for months,
will celebrate the tWenty-first birthday
of the Boy Scouts of America with a
pageant at Mckinley Tech High School
at o'clock tonight.
Scouting With Washington" the
pageant, in which the uniformed and
costumed Scouts portray scenes from
the life of the Father of His Country,
was written and directed by Commo-
dore w. E. Longfellow of the American
Red Cross, and will be staged with the
assistance of the Scout leaders.
Troop IL, affiliated with Sherwood
Presbyterian Church, held preliminary
celebration of the anniversary last
night at the church, when ScoutmaSter
v. E. Howard cut birthday cake, {"
with 81 candles.
Boy Scouts of Washington will join
with those all over the Nation Sunday
in special "troop-church" attendance.
The day has been designated as Scout
Sunday as further anniversary OBJ
Servance.
According to Ray o. Wyland, church
relations director of the organizations
national council, more than so per
cent of all troops are directly affiliated
with churches or other religious or
carnations, such as the Y. M. C. A..
knights of Columbus, Y. M. H. A., or
like groups, despite the fact that the
organization itself is non-sectarian.
Nearly all Washington churches have
planned special services for the Scout
anniversary, with either the morning
or evening services dedicated to the
birthday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
z|ON|STS CONVENE
WITH 500 PRESENT
Leaders Attend Session De-
voted to Palestine Land
Problem.

About 500 delegates, representing
every party and group with the Zionist
movement in this country, will attend
an all-day conference of the Jewish
National Fund of America, which opens
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock in the
Willard Hotel This is the arm of the
Zionist movement dealing with the
acquisition and reclamation of the soil
of the Holy Land with a view to estab-
fishing there the Jewish national home
in accordance with the terms Of the
mandate of the League of Nations en-
trusted to Great Britain.
The sessions will be devoted to a
discussion of the Palestine land prob
lem They will be under the chair
manship CT Emanuel Neumann of New
York, president of the Jewish National
Fund of America.
Among notable Zionist leaders who
will attend are DR.. Stephen S. Wise of
New York, Judge Julian w. Mack of
Chicago and New York, Abraham Gold
berg, Mrs. Archibald Silverman of
Providence, r. l.; Mrs. Irma Lindhelm,
former national president of Hadassah,
the Women'S Zionist Organization OF
America; Mrs. Edward Jacobs of Brook
Ign, N. Y, president of the Hadassah;
Louis Lipsky, president OF the New YORK
Zionist region; Rabbi Wolf Gold, Rev. q.
H. Masliansky, noted Yiddish orator and
preacher; Solomon Lamport, treasurer
of the Jewish National Fund OF Amer1-
ca: Philip NJ Raskin, well known An
glo-Jewish poet, and Ephra1m Captain,
Jewish writer of New York.
Several of the groups will caucus to-
night. Preliminary to the conference,
a Joint session of the National Ad-
visory Council of the Zionist Organiza-
ton of America and the National Zion
list Executive will be held tonight also
at the Jewish Community Center.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
Deaths Reported.

Mary Jane Riser, 80. SO K st. ne.
Sarah Elizabeth Mccain, IS, 321 lst st. ne.
David A. Collins "a, 1910 North Capitol.
Rev. Luther Thornhill, 80, 1852 18th st.
Mary E. Mahony, n, $500 Colorado ave.
Samuel Sprineman, ~, 226 X st. sw.
Robert e. Belt, 10, 1927 d st. Sc.
George G. Dennison, 81, Homeopathic
Hospital
Priscilla F. Reinmuth. IS, 324s N st.
Stephen Frank. 81. SOL B Sc.
George w. Wallace, So, 1888 Kalorama I'd
Alice 1. M. Davis, 81, 1927 Center st.
Susan PierSon, so, Georgetown Hospital.
Ida Coleman, Al, Gallinger Hospital.
William J. Lille, AZ. Soldiers Home Hos
pital.
David steimar, As. BIS 41a st. s.w.
Marguerite Chaplin Warner, 80, George
Washington University Hospital.
Robert n. Covington, 35, United States
Veterans Hospital.
John s. Calls. "a. Gallinger Hospital.
Joseph l.. Jeffries, IL, Providence Hospital
William Joseph DobbS, l month, Children's
Hospital
Make Scott Ellington, Al Curtis Sani-
tarium.
Arthur r. Brown, as. 1924 3rd st. s.w.
Helen Carroll, Al 1901 Marion st.
Andrew Lee Yorborough, 80, 1881 @ st.
James Thomas Dark, rs, GAllinser Hos
pital.
Leons Banks, 20. Garfield Hospital.
Lottie johnson, 10, Casualty Hospital.
Clark w. Frazier, 10 months, Chtldren's
HOSPITAL,
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MAN, AFTER ARREST,
TRIES SUICIDE LEAP
Police Block Move of John E.
Green, Held on Charge of
Embezzlement.

Arrested yesterday by Arlington Coun-
ty police on a charge of embezzlement,
John E. Green of the 1900 block Perry
street, Washington. is reported by police
to have attempted to jump from the
eighth-story window at 10 Eighteenth
street, but to have been restrained by
Policemen Ray Cobean and Roger
Orrison of the Arlington County police.
Green is charged in the warrant with
the embezzlement of $40 from the Vic
tor Adding Machine Co., OF which he
was district agent, the specific charge
being that he sold a used adding ma
chine to the Rucker Lumber Co., Rosslyn,
Va. on october 6, without using the
regular sales blank of his company and
had the check made payable to him. His
accusers claim that he cashed the check
on October 10, but did not turn in the
money.
The accused was arrested in the of
flee of George Robey, attorney for the
adding machine c0Wapany. He was re-
leased last night on bond Of $1,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
OFFICIAL OPPOSES
FILLING ROCK CREEK
Dram Declares Plan to Supply
Water for Stream Would Cost
District $4,000 in Year.

Assistant Engineer Commissioner Hugh
P. Dram said today he would not allow
water from the District water supply
system to be used for keeping up the
flow in Rock Creek.
Referring to suggestion, credited to
A. H. Horton. Geological Survey engi-
neer for Washington, that the District
pump 10 feet of water per second into
the creek. Capt. Dram pointed out that
would add a burden of not less than
$l8, 900 per annum to the Water De-
partment's expenses.
Capt Grams opposition to the
scheme is not based on any lack of
water in the Districts supply system,
but solely on the expense involved, which
the finances OF the Water Department
should not be called upon to meet He
said that If the Federal Government
desired to buy water for the purpose, he
thought there would be no objection,
if fair price were paid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
TWO HELD IN CHASE
AFTER COLLISION
Alleged Hit-and-R Run Accident
in Which Youth Is Hurt
Being Investigated.

Two colored youths, halted by police
shots, after chase through the North
east section of the city, are being held
at the ninth precinct station while
police investigate a hit-and-run accl-
dent in which Jack L. Jet, Is years old,
of 1926 Fourth street northeast, escaped
with minor decorations when hurled
from his car block from home early
today.
The prisoners, Sylvester Holmes, 81,
OF 1850 B street southeast, and Tom
Chesley 10, of 1925 A street southeast,
were taken into custody by Policemen
L. G. Gentry, one of two officers who
witnessed the mishap, and L. c. Wise
and G. M. Hughes, who entered the pur-
suit when Gentry fired into the air in
an effort to intimidate his quarry.
Thrown by Collision.
Jett was driving across the intersec-
ton of Fourth and K streets northeast,
when a car occupied by two young col
ored men collided with his automobile,
throwing Jet into the roadway. Police
man E. G. RatSau, who with Gentry
saw the accident, ran to Jets assist
ance, while Gentry Communicated the
machine of Clarence Richardson, a
Washington Boys Club director.
The motor chase ended when the col
ored mems car crashed into a gasoline
station at Bladensburg road and Eight
zenith street northeast. The occupants
then raced away on foot but were halted
a few moments later when Gentry fired
several shots in the air. Policemen Wise
and Hughes, patrolling nearby, heard
the gunfire and cut of the mems es-
cape.
Jet was given first-aid treatment for
his cuts at Casualty Hospital.
Mrs. Lillian M. Philip, wife OF John
w. Philip, Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General, was injured yesterday when
her car was in collision with another
machine while she was returning from
a reception at the japanese embassy.
Collision With Bus.
Mrs. Philip suffered painful bruises OF
the face when the Philip limousine,
driven by William P. FELTON,, colored
chauffeur, ran into the rear end of a
bus which stopped abruptly for a red
light at Fourteenth and K streets, &C
cording to police. Mrs. Albert E. Car
ter, wife of the Representative from
California, who was riding with Mrs.
Philip, was uninjured.
The Philip car was not badly dam
aged, but Mrs. Philip was shaken up
when thrown from her seat. She was
treated at her apartment in the Me-
ridian Mansions, 2400 Sixteenth street.
bv DR.. J. c. Wynkoop.
SiX-year-old Marjorie Conn, 1907
California street, suffered severe hurts
yesterday afternoon when truck oper-
ated by A. S. Alderman, ID years old
of 1888 California street, knocked her
down at Nineteenth and California
streets. She was taken to Emergency
Hospital with a possible skull fracture
a broken left leg and cuts about the face.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
GEN. BUTLER ADDS
THREE TO COUNSEL
/. FOR PENDING TRIAL
Former Ambassador, Bar
Leader and Service Man
to Aid Marine.
NAVY is PREPARING ITS
PLANS FOR PROSECUTION
Charges Continue Secret Until
COurt-Martial Is Opened
at Philadelphia.

Maj. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, U. S.
M. C., who faces. court-martial for re-
marks derogatory to Premier Mussolini,
has added to his defense three out
standing men in civil and military legal
circles.
The names of the assisting counsel
were announced yesterday following a
conference Of Butler, Maj. Henry Leo
nard, his chief counsel, and others, in
Philadelphia
They are Rowland S. Norris, former
Ambassador to Japan; Col. A. M. Hold
Ing, one time president of the Pennsyl-
vania Bar Association, and Lieut.. Col.
Jesse F. Dyer of the Marine Corps, now
on duty at the Naval War College, New
port, r. I.
Maj. Leonard spent yesterday in Phil
adelphia completing the list of defense
attorneys.
Washington Notified.
News of the selection was sent to
washington yesterday afternoon by
Leonard from Philadelphia.
Leonard's statement said:
IT have associated with me In the
defense of Gen. Butler:
Rowland s. Morris, who is a member
Of the well known firm of Duane, Nor
ris g. Heckscher of Philadelphia, and
vice chancellor Of the Law Association.
Mr.. Morris has been active in public
life and was formerly our Ambassador
to Japan. He also is professor of in
ternational law at the University Of
Pennsylvania and is engaged in active
practice at the Philadelphia bar"
Mr.. Morris also is former president
Of the Contemporary Club, before which
Butler made the remarks about Musso-
lini.
Col. A. M. Holding, who is the &C
knowledged leader of the bar in Chester
County, home of Gen. Butler He is
president of the Pennsylvania Bar Asso-
citation, He is recognized throughout
Pennsylvania as one of the outstanding
| trial lawyers of the State.
Lieut.. Col. Jesse F. Dyer Of the
United States Marine Corps"
Preparing Prosecution.
Meanwhile, preparations for the pros
ecution went ahead at the Navy De-
| partment.
It has declined to make the charges
public pending their announcement un-
der usual procedure at the opening Of
the court-martial. They grew out of q
| speech Gen. Butler made in Philadel-
| phia in which he made remarks about
Premier Mussolini, for which the Amer
lean Government apologized to Italy.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
FORT TELLS WAR AID
BY ARKANSAS IN 1918
Recalls Privation of Now Needy
State in Shipments Of Food
to France.

The wartime history of Arkansas,
termed lone of the finest stories of
mass self-Sacrifice in all our history"
should be remembered by the Nation
now when appeals are being made for
drought sufferers in that State, Repre-
sentative Franklin w. Fort of New
Jersey, declared in radio address last
night.
Fort, who represented the Federal
food administration in Arkansas in
1918, told how the people of the State
denied themselves so that food might
be sent to the armies.
He told how the State during
November, 1918. shipped 1000, 900
pounds of the Arkansas sugar allotment
in the form of candy to France The
people of Arkansas, he said, had only
little over a pound of sugar apiece
for the month of November 1918.
Drawing comparison with the war
days, Fort said the present situation in
Arkansas should be met by voluntary
contributions of the American people
instead of a Federal appropriation.
That State, he said, asked mo law,
no tax, to stir the generosity of her
people,"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
PRESIDENTS GARDENER LOSES
HIS FIGHT TO STAY IN SERVICE
Must Bow to Retirement
Law After Career Be-
gun in 1886.
Charles HenIoCk Will Leave
Horticultural Office on
March 81.

Even President Hoover's gardener
must bow to the requirements of the
| new Government employees retirement
law, for the Civil Service Commission
has declined to grant an extension for
Charles Henlock, who has been grow
ing flowers for many Presidents. Mr..
Henlock, who is chief of the Horticul-
tural Division Of the Office of Public
Buildings and Public Parks, will be
separated from the service, in which he
has spent some As years, on March 81.
Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant, Sd, director
OF public buildings and public parks,
unsuccessfully endeavored to persuade
the Civil Service Commission to grant
Mr.. Henlock a further extension of
service, but the best that could be done
was three months extension, so that
supervision of this Winters floral deco
rationS for White House functions
might be carried out as expertly as
heretofore and so that Mr.. Henlock's
service would not be broken off in the
middle of the season.
Col. Grant is considering the merg-
ing of the horticultural division with
the park division of his Office, but the
details of this remain to be worked
out.
Started as LabOrer.
Mr.. Henlock started his career with
Uncle Sam as a dollar-and-a -half-a-
day laborer, but his keen knowledge of
plants and flowers rapidly brought him
to the forefront. Grover Cleveland was
serving his first term in the White
House when Mr. Henlock became an
employee of the Office of Public Build
ings and Grounds, which was then
under the United States Engineer
Office Of the War Department. on May
/, 1886. In September of the following
year he was promoted to gardener, and
he became head gardener on August /,
1901.
When the Office of Public Buildings
and Grounds and the Office of the SUI
perintendent of the State, War and
Navy Departments Building were con-
solidated, ON February IS, 1925, Mr..
Henlock became chief of the horticul-
tural division of the Office of Public
Buildings and Public Parks of the Ma
tional Capital In this capacity, as
theretoforeA he has had charge of the
White House greenhouses, and likewise
the propagating of plants for the city's
parks.
The Presidents greenhouses were 10
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Agency Would Assist Former
Service Men to Present
Cases to Bureau.
$4,000 APPROPRIATION
ADDED TO DISTRICT BILL
Unit Under Commissioners Re.
quested by Head Of Legion
Rehabilitation Group.

A new welfare agency in the District
government would be established with a
$4,000 appropriation, to look after the
interests of the war veteran residents
in the District under an amendment
made to the District appropriation bill
just before it was passed by the House
yesterday.
This action was taken on motion of
Chairman Simmons of the subcommittee
in charge of the bill and was at first
stricken out on point of order by
Representative Blanton, Democrat, of
Texas that it was new legislation in an
appropriation bill, but Mr. Blanton later
withdrew his objection.
Text of Amendment.
The amendment is as follows:
For personal service, without refer
ence to the classification act of 1928, as
amended, to enable the municipal gov
eminent to aid and advise war veteran
residents of the District of Columbia.
and their dependents as to their rights
and privileges under Federal legislation
of which veterans and Tor their depend
entS may be beneficiarieS, including as
sistance in presentation of claims to the
veterans Administration or other appro-
pirate Federal agencies, $4,000, to be
expended under the direction of the
Commissioners of the District of Co
lumbia.''
Chairman Simmons explained the
purpose of this new agency as follows:
For q number of years the American
Legion has maintained in Washington,
due to the fact that this is the head
quarters of the Veterans AdminiStra-
ton and the Veterans Bureau, a staff
of men whose job is to present claims
of service men of the country in the
appellate boards in the Veterans
Bureau. At the present time the situa-
ton in that Office under the direction
of Mr.. Watson Miller, who, in my
opinion, is doing more, next to Gen
Hines, than any other man in the
United States for the service men
three or four of his staff are engaged
in work entirely for the benefit of
veterans resident in the District of
Columbia, and this amendment is pre-
pared at the request of Watson Miller.
He asks that it be done in this way in
order that he may devote the time of
his staff to the veterans of the States
as they should.
Asked for by Miller.
1--WE were trying by this language at
the request of the chairman of the Ma
tional Rehabilitation Committee of the
American Legion to give to the veterans
OF washington the type of service that
is now given to the veterans of some SO
or 81 States in the Union, who have set
up at public expense under the admin
istration of the States these service off,
GERS, whose job it is to care for the
service men in their States in the pre-
sentation of their claims.
This was asked for by Mr.. Miller
1t was not asked for by the national
organization. I am asking for it be-
cause in my Judgment it is one of the
most important things carried in the
bill for the service men in the District"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
|OYSTERMAN HOLDS
TRADE G. YEARS
Regular Trips Started as Boy
to Continue Some Time,
Says Capt. Trader.

Aloof, and perhaps a bit disdainful
of the complexities of modern life,
Capt George Trader yesterday rounded
out his sixty-second year as an oyster
man on the Potomac River.
AS he moored his oyster "bugeye" to
the wharf at the foot of Eleventh street
yesterday, the veteran riverman recalled
that it was just 81 years ago when he,
as a boy of years, made his first trip
up the river with his father, Capt.
julius Trader.
He has made the trip regularly since
that day, he said, and expects to con-
tinue for some time to come. -,
Trade Little Changed.
Other things have changed, but the
bay and river trade haven't changed
much. The captain, master Of one of
the oyster fleets larger craft, still gath
ers bivalves in season below his home
in Westmoreland County, Va, and still
finds a ready market for them here.
During the warmer months he
manifestS grain, potatoes and other
farm commodities For So years he has
captained his own boats.
Back in Westmoreland County the
captain has raised family or eeven
sons and daughter The latter, Mar
garet Trader, is the wife of Robert
Mason Cannon son of Bishop James
Cannon, F.
River Life Healthy.
The captain himself is hale and
hearty at 70. His life on river and bay
apparently has been healthy one
Bearded and genial, he stood aboard
his boat yesterday and chatted with his
visitors.
But the captain was busy-there was
the unloading of his oysters to see to-
wind and tide to watch in anticipation
of the down-river jaunt.
He waved a hand. "I'n be back
soon," he said. 81 always have"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
CARRYING TOY PISTOL
BRINGS MAN FINE OF ST
Lee Garner Convicted at Marlboro
on Concealed Weapon Charges.
Other Cases Heard.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, February
IA toy pistol yesterday caused the
conviction of Lee Gardner colored, on
charges Of carrying concealed weapon.
Gardner was originally accused of as
sault with dangerous weapon on John
Suesen of Pohick, Md, who claimed the
man pointed revolver at him. When
Police Court Judge j. Chew Sheriff dis
missed this charge the concealed weapon
warrant was Immediately issued and
Gardner fined 81. The toy pistol was
found on >the man at the time of his
arrest by Sheriff W. Curtis Hopkins.
William Butler, colored, of Clinton
was sentenced to year in the House
of Correction following conviction on a
charge of driving while drunk The
man was fined $45 on three other traffic
charges, all preferred by State Police
man w. A. Rogers.
Conviction on charge of assault and
battery on j. j. Hebron brought James
E. Fleet, colored. of Bowie sentence of
six months in the House of Correction.
Temple Biggs of Jenkins Corner asked
jury trial on charges of assault with
a dangerous weapon and was released
under $3.50 bond. Jessie Oliver and
Adrian Butler were the compliments
against Biggs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
TRADE BOARD DINNER
TO FEATURE DIRIGIBLE
Guests Will Be Given Ride
Aboard Reproduction of Air
Vessel in Ball Room.

The annual Midwinter dinner of the
Washington Board of Trade at the
Willard Hotel tonight will be featured
by an imaginary flight in a dirigible.
The ball room of the hosiery has
been transformed into a reproduction
of giant dirigible, and description of
its flight" will be broadcast. to the
room, prior to the dinner When the
ship lands" the quests will be per-
mitted to board it and the dinner will
get under way.
Mobile Giacomo de MARITIME, italian
Ambassador to the United States; Gen
John Pershing. Col. Eddie Ricken-
hacker, members of both houses OF
Congress, heads of Government depart
ments and District officials will be
among the honored guests. George
Pitt, president of the trade board, viii
preside.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07
INDOOR WATERFALL TO SOLVE
FEDERAL ENGINEERING TASKS
Elaborate Facilities Be Built Bureau of Standards
for Tests and Observation.

class Importance which come up in the
use and handling of water resources, +"
Dr. Burgess said. I'm dam and conduit
construction it is advisable to determine
Just how falling water shapes itself UNI
we consequently have had to work out
method of initiating cascades. We
shall have main hume IL by 10 feet
in dimensions 0msupply the channels,
and a part of the time the laboratory
win be moving aroundea flow of water
that probably exceeds the total the
Potomac River carries past Washington
in low-water stages" Il.
Since the water will be used over and
over agaipd, there will be m drain on
: the municipal supply.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-07

Gated around the west terrace of the
White House, about where the execu-
tive offices now stand, for about half
a century before they were moved in
1902, in President Roosevelt's admins
tration, to near the Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing, where they now
stand.
More Flowers Used.
Mr.. Henlock said today that the re-
quirementS for the bowers at White
House functions have increased con-
siderably in recent years, although he
does not see much difference in the
types of flowers.
AS friend of the men who have
served in the White House during his
service, Mr.. Henlock remembers them
all kindly. Mr. Henlock has a host
of friends in Washington and else
where, among the lowly, as well as
among the great, and they are sur
prised to learn that he is old enough
to retire from the Government serv-
ice, he is so well preserved. In recent
years Mr.. Henlock has been serving
as member of Col Grants Park
Committee and always has taken a
keen interest in the development of
the beauty of the National Capital.