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Evening star., 1932-05-30
R|TCH|E To SPEAK
At DINNER TONIGHT
Event Will Bring Annual Con-
Venti0n of Birth ShoIom
to Close.

An address by Gov. Albert c. Ritchie
OF Maryland will feature the closing
session and banquet tonight of the In
dependent Order Birth Shclom, whose
annual convention opened in the VIII
lard Hotel yesterday.
More than 500 delegates from Balti-
more, Richmond Norfolk and Washing
ton attending the convention will gather
with relatives and guests in the Jewish
Community Center at o'clock fer the
final social affair. Representative Sol
Bloom Of New York will also speak.
This morning at the Willard officers
Tor the ensuing year were to be elected.
Nominations were made yesterday and
the list included many of those now
holding officials positions Mayor How
ard w. jackson of Baltimore was the
principal speaker at this session.
Auxiliary Entertains.
The Ladies Auxiliary of George Wash
lngton Lodge entertained ths delegates at
luncheon in the Community Center, fol-
lowing which they were to return to the
hotel for the final business session. The
report of the Resolutions Committee,
headed by Bernard DanZansky of this
city, will be heard and its suggestions
considered. One of the chief items to
De CONSIDERED Is suggestion that the
order hold conventions biennially in
stead Of once year.
The meeting got under way at 10
o'clock yesterday morning with a brief
talk by Nathan Plotnick, chairman of
the Entertainment Committee. Repre-
sentative Bloom also addressed this ses-
sion.
Lankford Of Virginia Speaks.
Current topics were discussed by
Representative Menalous Lankford of
Virginia as the afternoon session was
opened. Nominations for the election
Of officers today we're completed during
the afternoon
Many of the present officers were
nominated for reelection. Among them
were Samuel Steinbach, grand master
Of the order: Henry Mandanick, first
grand deputy. and william Bloomberg
second grand deputy. These officers are
all from Baltimore. Harry Poretsky of
Washington received the nomination
for third grand deputy For the fourth
grand deputy. J. Kayton of Norfolk
City Lodge was selected. J. Israelson
and M Adelansky were nominated for
the fifth grand deputyship
Evening star., 1932-05-30
WRITING AND ART
PRIZES AWARDED
Miss Powell and Miss Holland Win
Pen and Palette Club
Contests.

The Pen and Palette Club Of Wash
lngton awarded prizes to winners OF
its Winter writing and painting con-
tests at a meeting held at 340l Ma
comb street Saturday night.
Miss Grace Powell, vice president OF
the organization, was awarded first
honors in the poetry contest by a
board of judges consisting of Gideon
Lyon, associate editor of The Evening
Star; former Justice Wendell P. Stat
ford Of the District Supreme Court
and Miss Edith Mirick.
A portrait by Miss Janice Holland
won the art competition, while the fea-
ture writing contest went to Miss
Diana Powell. Miss Powell also won
the short story contest. which was
judged by Ada Borden Stevens.
Following the presentation Of prizes
Charles Edward Russell addressed the
meeting and informal talks were given
by Mr.. Lyon. Lewis Moneyway, Mrs Agnes
Newman, DR.. Jean Stephenson. Mrs
Estelle Moses, Mrs. James T. Watson
jr., and Miss Myrta Ethel Cawood
Representative Hatton W. Summers
also spoke.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
GRANT ASKS BIDS
FOR NEW ROADS IN
D|SARRANGED MALL
North Drive to Be Construct
ed in Front of New Ma.
tionaI Museum.
PROSPECTIVE CONTRACTS
CALL FOR WATER SUPPLY
Drawings and Specifications Will
Be Ready for Distribution
Tomorrow.

The disarranged Mall bordering -Four
teenth street, which has been filled in
with excavated earth through many
months, will shortly begin to take
orderly shape again. Lieut.. COL U. s.
Grant, Sd, director Of Public Buildings
and Public Parks, has called for bids
to be opened on June IA, for construc-
ton of new roads in the Mall between
Seventh and Fourteenth streets.
A north drive will be constructed In
frcnt OF the new National Museum
From the median line Of the new De-
partment of Agriculture Building, ex-
tending northward at right angles to
the north drive, will be constructed a
new highway. Under the prospective
contracts which Col Grant Is seeking
a water supply and drainage are called
for.
Drawings Ready Tomorrow.
Drawings and specifications will be
ready for distribution to contractors to-
morrow, Col. Grant asserted.
Grading in the Mall is nearing COM
pletion and will be finished by the time
the bids are opened, officials said yes
terday. Walls have been built around
number of trees so that they will not
have to be moved and the earth dumped
about them to raise the whole level
of the Mall.
The new roads are to be constructed
from an appropriation for 100000
but much of this money has been used
up in moving a number of trees out
of the path of the new highways. The
Government paid $4,000 for moving
one magnolia tree short distance, to
near Fourteenth street.
Four Highways Planned.
The National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission contemplates build
ing four highways. fringed with trees,
down the Mall, from Union Square,
which Is to be developed near the
old Botanical Gardens and the Grant
Memorial. to Fourteenth street. Under
pass highways to avoid grade cross
ings with the Mall traffic. are projected
for Fourteenth, Twelfth and Ninth
streets, traversing the Mall.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
BELGIUM MOURNS
AT AMERICAN GRAVES
King Albert and President Hoover
Exchange Memorial Day
Messages.

President Hoover has received the
following message from King Albert of
Belgium:
Ever faithful to q tradition which
IS dear to them, my compatriots will,
on the 30th Of May, strew flowers upon
the graves Of the American soldiers who
sleep in Belgium soil. They will thus
show how vividly they cherish in their
hearts the memory Of the brave COM
rades who fought by their sides.
"On this solemn occasion, animated
by a sentiment of sincere gratitude we
address to the American people our
most heartfelt wishes for their welfare
and prosperity. ALBERT"
President Hoover sent this reply:
II have received your majesty's graci-
GUS message The tribute which you
and the Belgian people are paying OIL
Decoration day to the memory Of those
American soldiers and Sailors who gave
their lives for the cause Of justice and
whose bodies rest in Belgium echoes and
resounds in every American heart with
gratitude and affection for their Belgian
comrades and friends. I and my fellow
countrymen in dedicating this day to
our own dead will be keenly mindful Of
your own countrys great sacrifice and
will bend our heads In silent prayer for
Belgium and Belgium's heroic dead.
HERBERT HOOVER"
Evening star., 1932-05-30
OFFICERS ACCUSER
JAILED IN CRASH
Prince Georges Policeman Holds
Washington Man for
Reckless Driving.
BY staff Correspondent of The Star

BY staff Correspondent Of The Star.
TAKOMA PARK. Md, May 30
Russell Barbee. 2600 block of Fourth
street northeast. Washington. who had
Policeman Ralph Brown arrested sew
eral months ago for shooting at his
automobile was himself arrested by
Oficer Brown last night on charges
of driving while drunk and reckless
driving following an accident near
here.
Barbee was taken into custody after
an automobile he is alleged to have
driven went of the road and struck
a tree. Will Garvey of Pine Crest,
Md, a passenger, suffered severe lacer-
ations about the neck. but refused first
aid from Policeman Brown, according
to the officer. Later Garvey was ad-
mitted to Walter Reed General Hos
pital. Garland English of Washing
ton, third occupant Of the car, es-
capped injury.
Barbee last Winter had Officer
Brown arrested on charges of assault
when the policeman fired at his car
in an effort to stop it. The officer was
acquitted by Police Court Judge j.
Chew Sheriff, after States Attorney
Alan Bowie ISSUED a general warning
to all officers to be careful in the use
Of their guns.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
All Sides of Block Threatened
Before Fire Is Brought
Under Control.
SLEEPING OCCUPANTS
AROUSED BY PASSERBY
Blaze Originating in Shed in Rear
of Second Street Discovered
Shortly Before 3 AM.

Fire early today damaged seven 2
family houses in the 900 block of Sec
ond street southwest, destroyed a row
of sheds in the rear and, after spread
ing to q dwelling at 21512 X street,
threatened all sides of the block
bounded by Second, Third, I and K
streets.
The blaze was discovered shortly be-
fore 3 am. by a passerby, who ran to
a fire box at Third and G streets south
west and turned in an alarm. The fire.
men who responded were forced to
sound two additional calls for apparatus
before they succeeded in getting the
flames under control.
After turning in the first alarm, the
passerby returned to the scene of the
blaze and ran from one house to an
other, rousing the occupants.
Fire Spreads Quickly.
The fire apparently broke out in a
wooden shed in the rear of GIT Second
street and quickly spread to the ad-
joining sheds. BY the time the first
f1remen arrived. the flames had leaped
to the wooden back porches Of the two
story brick houses and were burning
their way to the roofs.
Occupants OF the dwellings,, all COL
ored, either fled into the street or
sought refuge in front rooms. The
f1remen extinguished the blaze before
it could spread beyond the rear rooms
virtually all of which were wrecked
The roofs of several Of the houses we're
burned through.
Telephone Wires Snapped.
While the fire was at its height Leie-
phone wires in an alley in the rear were
snapped by the flames and dropped.
officials of the Fire Department i'm
mediately began an investigation to
learn the cause of the blaze, which
damaged all but three of the 10 dwell
ings on Second street.
The houses are owned by Bernard
Leonard & Co.. real estate dealers. s32
Four and half street. Members Of the
firm could not be reached for an esti-
mate of the damage, but unofficial esti-
mates ranged from $4,000 to $4,000.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
HURT IN CYCLE CRASH.
Vehicle Collides With Automobile in
TakOma Park.

By Staff Correspondent of The Star.
TAKOMA PARK, Md, May 30.-Four
persons were injured here last night
when motor cycle operated by Glenn
Warren, 20 years old. of 1901 Carroll
avenue, crashed into an automobile at
Willow and Tulip avenues and upset the
machine
Warren and his brother, Carl Warren,
%. were removed to the Washington
Sanitarium and treated for severe cuts
and bruises. while Mary B. MCGEE, 81,
Of 391l Mckinley street Chevy Chase,
D. c., and Coleman Huff, 23 of 235
Willow avenue, Takoma Park, were
treated by private physician for cuts
about the face and hands and shock
Ralph A. Bissell, 27, of Rutherford,
N. j.. was held by Montgomery County
Police Sergt. Roy Snyder under $3.50
bond pending the outcome of the
Warren boys injuries. Glenn Warren
was booked for operating motor cycle
without permit, failing to display a
registration card and reckless driving.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
SUPPORT ALL LAW,
IS MANLOVE'S PLEA
Missourian Addresses 500 Vet
erans in Service at Soldiers
Home Cemetery.

Efforts Of certain groups in the
United States to weaken thecenforce-
ment Of law by withholding popular
support of portions of the Constitution
are threatening the safety Of the Ma
tion's laws. Representative Joseph j.
Manlove Of Missouri told 500 war vet
Grams In the annual Memorial day
services in the United States Cemetery
at Soldiers Home today.
He pleaded for support Of all laws so
long as they stand on the statute books.
Representative Manlove was intro
duced by P. j. Callan. senior vice COM
mander of the United Spanish War
Veterans in the District, who presided.
The services opened with an invocation
by Rev H. Allen Griffith, chaplain of
Soldiers Home; reading of the order
Of Gen. John A. Logan, establishing
Memorial day, by the generals daugh-
ter. Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, and read
ing of the Gettysburg address by Will
liam I. Jenkins. The benediction was
pronounced by the Rev. Alfred E.
Simonds, chaplain of Col. John Jacob
Astor Camp, United Spanish War
Veterans.
A musical program was given by Mrs.
Elsie Jorse Reilley and the Soldiers
Home Band.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
GERMAN EMBASSY
WILL USE ESTATE
Leases Beautiful Rixey
Manor in Arlington County
for Summer.

The beautiful Rixey manor In Arling-
ton County. adjoining the Washington
Golf and Country Club, has been leased
for the Summer by the German en-
bassy. which plans to conduct most of
its official business there.
Located on Glebe road, the manor
house is a commodiouS and modern
mansion. and one of the well known
estates of nearby Virginia 1t COM
mands magnificent view Of the Ma
ttonal Capital across the Potomac River
City Heat to Be Avoided.
While certain kinds of work, such as
that pertaining to passports, will be
conducted at the embassy at 1899
Massachusetts avenue. most of the dip
lomatic and official business of the en-
baSSy, it was learned, will be transacted
at the Summer location away from the
heat Of the city.
The manor was built by the late Rear
Admiral Rixey, who for many years was
surgeon general Of the United States
Navy. Negotiations for the lease were
completed between the embassy and
Mrs. Rixey by the local real estate firm
OF Sandoz. Inc. The lease runs from
June IS to September 80.
Won Prittwitz Will Leave.
The German Ambassador and Frau
Won Prittwitz are planning to go to Ger
many for the Summer. and will not use
the Rixey manor, but the charge
d'affaires of the embassy will be Herr
Rudolf Leitner
Residing at the Rixey manor house
will be Herr Johann G. Lohmann, sec
retary Of the embassy, and Frau Lob
mann, who now are located at BOOT
Porter street.
Not all of the Rixey estate is included
In the lease, which provides for use of
about eight acres, the garage, and
manor house The manor has COM
modious accommodations, with a large
and stately drawing room, a half dozen
bed rooms and servants quarters.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
NORFOLK REACHED
BY CAPITAL PARTY
Board of Trade Tourists Due
Home Tomorrow From
Cruise.
BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY Stah Correspondent OF The Star.
ABOARD S. S. DISTRICT OF CO.
LUMBIA, NORFOLK. Va, May 3d.
Laden with its cargo Of pleasures seek
ing WashingtonianS, this Washington
Board of Trade outing ship was brought
into port here today for the third and
last day of festivities incident to the
second annual Potomac River and CheS-
apeake Bay cruise of the trade organi-
Zation.
Visit Naval Academy.
A voyage en- river and bay waters
Saturday and yesterday went unmarked
by untoward incidents, and fair if cool
they visited the United States Naval
Academy in the morning and cruised
later up the Patuxent to Solomon S
Island, viewing at close range the Ger
man ships, Kronprince Eitel Friedrich
and the Princess Cecile, captured by the
United States shortly after this country
entered the World War.
From Norfolk, the holiday party
itinerary calls for an overland trip by
bus to Ocean View, where the morning
was scheduled to be spent on the sea-
shore. After luncheon in the Nanse-
mond Hotel at noon. the group was
to journey to Virginia Beach to par
ticipate in the season opening of the
Cavalier Hotel, followed by a trip to
Cape Charles.
Starting Home Tonight.
The District of Columbia will leave
Norfolk tonight at o'clock to begin
the return trip up the Potomac River
to Washington, where it is scheduled
to dock at o'clock tomorrow morning.
Music by Leon Brusiloff and hts
orchestra, with daily programs Of en-
tertainmert featuring Miss Virginia
Sellars and McGregor Brown, soloists,
has marked the cruise. Handsome
prizes and souvenirs have been pre-
Sented the tourists through the courtesy
of Washington merchants and the
trade body
Evening star., 1932-05-30
MAN DIES AND GIRL
||SSER|0USLYH HURT
ASAUT0 HITS TREE
Machine, En- Route to River
Resort, Leaves Road at
Turn Near T. B.
THREE OTHER OCCUPANTS
OF CAR ESCAPE INJURY
Washington Resident Is Jailed at
Marlboro on Three Charges
as Driver of Vehicle.
BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

By STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.
T. B., Md, May 3O-A man was
killed and girl seriously injured yes
terday when the automobile in which
they were travelling to a river resort
left the road on a turn and struck a
tree
Robert Petree, % years old, of Dur
ham, N. c.. who came to Washington
recently and has been living in the
300 block of Twelfth street, was thrown
through the windshield and almost in
stantly killed. He was pronounced
dead by Dr. John E. Bowers.
Right Arm Fractured.
Miss Murial Wilcher, 20, of the 1900
block Of Eleventh street, sustained a
fractured right arm and possible inter-
nal injuries. She is in Casualty Hos
pital, Washington
Walter M. Moore, 900 block of c
street southeast. driver of the car. was
arrested some distance from the scene
by State Policeman c. c. Serman and
jailed at Marlboro on charges of driv-
Ing While drunk, reckless driving and
leaving the scene of an accident.
Three Escape Injury.
Moore and two other occupants of
the car, John and Frances Frederick,
700 block Of Mount Vernon place,
escaped injury. The Fredericks were
required to post $50 bond as State wit
nesses at an inquest to be held We'd
neSday at 1870 am
Officer Serman said he trailed Moore
through a woods, finding him in a
thicket.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
Elevated Trains
Spoil Bullfrogs'
Weather Forecasts
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 30.-The
transplanted colony of Mississippi
River bullfrogs in the Bronx Zoo
went on trial yesterday to prove
its reputed infallibility as a
weather prophet.
Head Keeper John Toomey
made known that the several
dozen amphibians imported from
Murphysboro, ILL.,, were slipping
last year they foretold the coming
Of rain 80 per cent Of the time
with their melancholy honking;
this year they have a poor record.
Those Mississippi frogs sound
of before 1t rains" he said, "but
they also sometimes sound of
when it doesn't. They sometimes
honk at distant blasting or when
an elevated train goes by"
He says he thinks 1t is the ef-
feet Of metropolitan environment.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
EACH TEAM TO HAVE 'PROTESTERS'
AS SLAWMAKERS MEET ON DIAMOND
Entertainment Program Being Arranged Curtain
Raiser for Game Saturday.

Along with unscheduled innovations
which will doubtless make their appear
ance when the House Democrats and
Republicans meet in a base ball game
Saturday afternoon at Griffith Stadium,
departure from custom has been de-
cided upon in naming Official pro-
testers for each team.
The list of those who will draw these
assignments has not been mace up. but
Democratic forces. and Representative
Evening star., 1932-05-30
PARK CONCERT SEASON BEGINS
IN WAR MEMORIAL THURSDAY
Marine Band Will Give Pro.
gram in Temple South of
Rejecting Pool.
Grant and Montgomery Make
Arrangements to Care
for Public.

Fittingly to the strains of the march
Heroes ALL" the United States Marine
Band will inaugurate Washington s
Summer season Of park concerts with
concert on Thursday night In the
District Of Columbia World War Me-
mortal In West Potomac Park, that
beautiful Doric temple south Of the
rejecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial
raised up to the city's warriors. The
concert will commence at 7:30 o'clock,
continuing for about and hour and q
half
Lieut.. Col. U. s. Grant. Sd, director
Of Public Buildings and Public Parks,
and Capt. r. C.. Montgomery. superin-
tendent of the United States park police,
are making arrangements for the public.
Parking space will be available In the
vicinity Of the memorial and the public
may listen to the concert under the
greenwood that fringes the rejecting
pool.
Capt. Taylor Branson, leader OF the
Marine Band, last night made public
this program Of Thursday evenings con-
cert:
March, Heroes All. Rdgood
Les Preludes". List
Cornet solo, ''Fantasie Capriccioso,''
Kemp
Musician Winfred Kemp.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
PASSERBY CAPTURES
AUTOIST AFTER CRASH
Driver of Cab Alleged to Have
Been Stolen Is Booked on
Three Charges.

Edwin G. Condor Of the 400 block Of
I street was charged at No. precinct
yesterday with driving while drunk,
having no operators permit and the
unauthorized use Of an automobile,
after a taxicab he was alleged to have
stolen had crashed into two parked cars
near Grant Circle, and he was cap
tured by J. J. Robertson, passerby.
The owners of the machines struck
by the cab were attending services In
a nearby church at the time of the
crash. The cab. belonging to a large
taxicab concern here, was said to have
been taken from Sixth street near G,
where 1t had been parked by a taxi
driver.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
ST. GABRIEL'S PARISH
WILL OPEN CARNIVAL
Parade Through Petworth Tonight
Is First Event of Two Weeks
Annual Celebration.

A parade at $40 this evening will
open the twelfth annual carnival of
St. GabrieIs Parish on the parish
grounds at Grant Circle. The carnival
will continue for two weeks, following
tonight's parade through Petworth.
Five bands, 80 or more floats, ST..
Johns Cadet Corps, st. Gabriels School
children, and about 1000 other march,
ers from various civic and patriotic or
ganizations will participate in the pro-
ceSsion.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
WOMAN ROBS HACKER
Taxi Driver Reports Colored Pas.
senger Took His SO.

A colored woman last night entered a
field of criminal endeavor usually ex-
elusive to men when she held up taxi
cab driver and robbed him of So.
Louis Armani of the 800 block of F
street southwest, the taxi driver, told
police the woman hired his cab at Sew
enth street and New York avenue, and
when they arrived at Sixth and N
streets she held sharp instrument
against his neck and demanded his
money.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
$500 Violin in So Deal.

After Albert ]. Sawkins stole a violin
worth $500 in Southend, England. he
did not want it. He offered to sell it
not care for it. but finely was induced
to give Sawkins a credit note for SO OH
It, The dealer later returned the in
strument and> got his So back. The
story has come out after the arrest of
Sawkins for the theft.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
CATHOLIC RADIO HOUR
ENDS SECOND SEASON
Talk by Rev. John Berchman Az
f1eck Is Closing Feature-Re-
sumption Scheduled for October.

The Washington Catholic radio hour
closed its second season yesterday with
a broadcast by Rev. John Berchman
Affleck, Dominican preacher, who is
preaching the Sacred Heart novena in
the Church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton. His subject was The History and
Nature of Devotion to the Sacred
Heart"
The radio hour, which for 40 consec-
utive Sundays has broadcast services
from the Church of the Immaculate
Conception under the direction of Rev
Francis j. Hurney, will resume the first
Sunday in October, it was announced
During the last season the Catholic
radio hour has presented some of the
most distinguished clergymen Of the
church. whose discourses dealt with
present day problems.
At yesterdays service musical pro-
gram, presented under the direction OF
Harry Wheaton Howard, organist, in
cluded Florence Yocum, soprano Ann
Arlen, violinist, and Norman De Meza
soloist of the boys sanctuary choir.
Evening star., 1932-05-30
AIRPORT ARRANGES FETE
WITH BEAUTY CONTEST
Greater National Capital Carnival
Set for June 11-Trip to New
York Offered as Prize.

Featuring a beauty contest, aquatic
carnival and stunt flying, the Washing
tom Hoover Airport will sponsor a
Greater National Capital day on Satur-
day, June IL, it was announced today.
The prize for the winner of the
beauty contest will be a trip to New
York with all expenses paid. The. water
carnival will include an alligator
wrestling stunt staged by Henry Cop
pinger, jr. A percentage of the pro-
ceeds from the National Capital day
will go to the Washington Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee.