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Evening star., 1934-05-15
Describes Buildings.


Long familiar with the ST. MaryS
country and an enthusiastic student
of its history Mr.. Morgan described
the buildings there, including Cross
Manor, said to be the oldest residence
in Maryland.
Mr.. Morgan told how Gov. Leonard
Calvert selected the site OF ST. Marys
City after Lord Baltimore's inStruc-
tions Ito make choice of place, first.
that is probable to be healthlul and
fruitful; next, that it be easily forti-
fed. and. thirdly, that it be con-
vel4ient tor trade with the English
and the Savages."
Gov. Calvert's party in the Ark and
the Dove found an ideal site for their
purposes when they landed in March,
1884 Trees were budding and flow
ers blooming on the verdant plateau
and Indians were there, from whom
the Colonists purchased shelter while
they set about the erection of perma-
nent buildings.
The old mulberry tree under which
Calvert and King Yeocomlco nego-
tiated has long since fallen into rum,
Mr. Morgan said, but the handsome
Calvert Monument marks the spot
where the future of the young State
capital was decided.
Paper Read.
The Columbia Historical Society,
which met in the Mayt1oWer Hotel,
also heard a paper prepared by its
president, Allen C. Clark, upon the
origin of the Federal City. Mr.. Clark,
who has made a thorough research
into the history of the founding OF
Washington. told how many commu-
mites. notably in Pennsylvania and
Maryland. competed for the honor of
furnishing a site for a national cap
ital At one time. he explained, Con-
gresS was considering the possibility
of establishing two capitals, meeting
in first one and then the other.
The speaker related how 1t was
finally decided to disregard the pc
titions of interested communities and
establish an entirely new city for the
Capital, a city which was developed
along one unified plan and compare
lively free of interference.
Another feature of last nights
meeting was musical program pro-
vided by the Kilowatt Giee Club of
the Potomac Electric Power Co.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
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SUPERFINE SILK SLIPS

TWIN-WEAVE silk slips, shadow-panel,
wrap-around, 3-in-one and SYL-FlI slips IN
lacy or tailored crepe and satin models. Also lacy
double -panel-front- and back slips that will be joy
to White tearose. - to A.
Evening star., 1934-05-15

burgh, accompanied by their daugh-
/ ter, Miss Elizabeth M. Braun, have
motored to Washington and ere at
the Wardman Park Hotel for week.
Mr. and Mrs F. H. Shepardsen of
Burlington. VT, are spending several
days at the Dodge.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. williams are
| in the city from Harrisburg and are
staying at the Willard.
Mrs. C. M. Warren of Minneapolis,
Mimi, is at the Carlton for sew
eral days.
Senator Russell Heads
Floor Committee for Dance.
Senator Richard B. Russell, jr., is
to head the Floor Committee at the
May dance to be given by the Georgia
State Society this evening in the
main ball room of the Shoreham Ho-
tel. With Senator Russell on the
committee are Representative and
Mrs. Eugene E. Cox, COL. and Mrs. S.
Gordon Green, DR.. and Mrs. John ].
Tyner. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Twitty,
Mr. and Mrs Thomas L. Camp, Mr..
and Mrs. Carter Barron, DR.. Harold
j. Starr. Comdr. and Mrs. Lewis P.
Clephane, Miss Josephine Dinkler
and Mr.. John Wesley Weeks
During intermission splendid pro-
gram will be presented by the Tall
Cedars Glee Club. Miss Leone Bar
ber is in charge of the entertainment.
Representative Robert Ramspeck,
president Of the society, urges all
Georgians in Washington and vicinity
to attend and bring their friends.
The Board of Managers of the
Methodist Home for the Aged will
celebrate the forty-fourth anniversary
of the founding Of the home with
tea and Spring shower" from to
10 O'Clock tomorrow. The home is To-
Gated at Connecticut avenue and
Ellicot street
Mrs. j. Stanley Long is general
chairman of arrangements for the
event, which will include a benefit
sale of ice cream, homemade cakes
and many useful articles. Proceeds
from the sale will go toward the
maintenance of the home. which is
not under the Community Chest.
Mrs Harry Hoskinson is president of
the Board of Managers of the home
Musically and socially distinguished
sponsors headed by Mrs. Elizabeth
Sprague Coolidge herself, with them
the Washington Choral Society of
president, present its annual festival
concert Thursday night at 8:l5
o'clock in Central High School Audi
torium. The 20oth anniversary of
the composition of The Four
Evening star., 1934-08-29
Relief Families
Vacdte Properties
Recently Banned
TiUO Premises on In.
diana Avenue viii Be
Boarded Up.

The property at $40 Indiana ave-
nue., subleased by its landlord to re-
lief families, was being vacated today
by order of the Commissioners. The
adjoining property. 3Os Indiana ave-
nue., was vacated yesterday. The
properties will be boarded up on rec
ommendation of the building inspec-
tors Office, which contends that they
are not structuraily safe for habita-
ton.
These buildings were originally
asked for by the Transient Bureau of
the Emergency Relief Division and an
inspecting by the building inspectors
office followed. They are without fire
escapes and the District repair shop
estimated that it would take $45 900
to put the houses into such repair as
to meet the fire and building regula-
tions.
July Is notice was served on the
landlord, M. Bell, to leave and the
buildings will now be boarded up.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
ELECTRICIANS OPEN
18Th ANNUAL MEET
500 Delegates Attend First Ses-
sions-Latest Control De-
vices Shown.

The thirty-ninth annual convention
of the International Association OF
Municipal Electricians opened today
at the Wardman Park Hotel with
more than 500 delegates from all parts
of the United States, Canada and for
eign countries in attendance.
The meeting will continue until
Saturday. Latest equipment for fire
departments, police and street light
ing will be exhibited.
An ingenious device, recently in
vented by one of Americas largest
electrical manufacturers, shows how
fire alarms can be sounded from alarm
boxes with all the wires cut or short
circuited. The latest police radio
sodium lamps, mercury vapor lamps
television and many other devices to
protect American life and property
are on display in a complete NUM-
cipal system constructed in miniature
in the Wardman Park Hotel.
The association is headed by w. H
Greenlaw, Beverly Mass, as president
and Herbert A. Friede, superintendent
OF the District fire alarm system, is
general chairman. Today's program
included three 10-minute talks on
municipal lighting and power plants
and the reports of various commit
tees assigned to study lighting and
tratfic conditions throughout the Ma
ton,
Evening star., 1934-08-29
PUBLIC WORKS PLAN
MAY BRING FIGHT
1ckes' Proposals for Permanent
Program Expected to Result
in Congressional Scrap.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Twin proposals for more public
works money and permanent system
OF Federal public works probably will
stir up some congressional scraps next
Winter.
Secretary Ickes said yesterday he
would ask an additional public works
appropriation. He is prepared also to
recommend that the Government
embark on a definite program of
Federal public works, which might be
in cooperation with States and COM
munities in some instances"
Such program, Ickes added, should
be bulwarked by another much greater
In size held in reserve to shove into
the employment breach in times of
depression.
Asserting permanent P. w. A.
should emphasize Federal projects
from the point of view of the Nation
as whole" Ickes said he believed the
public works organization should not
continue financing indefinitely such
local projects as municipal utilities,
paving and city halls.
Evening star., 1934-08-29

per, assault with intent to commit
carnal knowledge; Clyde Dula, pam
dering; Emerson Benton and Solomon
Burkley, depreciation on property; Al
bert G. Martin, forgery and uttering;
Richard Carroll, Robert T. Jones and
William Henry Day, signing the name
of another to a Government check;
James Mills, violation of section 80,
title 18, of the United States Code,
and Louis Walter Dove. John Law
renee Brenner, Frank E. Brown and
George Econmu, gambling violations.
Presentments ignored included the
following: Edgar Dodd, joyriding;
Joseph E. Saunders, grand larceny;
Charles H. Davis and Lewis F. Weak
ley, robbery; Clarence Washington, as
sault with dangerous weapon; Earl
Owens and Edna Benson, violation of
the liquor taxing act of 1884; James
Thomas Gilmore, violation of the
white slave traffic act, and Charles E.
Matthews and Gilmore Jungkurth,
manslaughter.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
HOUSING PUBL|C|ST
ONF.H.A. PROGRAM
TO Be NAMED SOON
General Chairman Expected
to Put Over M0derniza-
tion Credit.
MOFFETT SAYS PROFIT
NEEDED FOR RECOVERY
Administrator to Assure Public
of Protection Against Prof.
teering on Materials.

Federal Housing Administrator
James A. Moffett said yesterday the
general chairman Of the publicity
and sales-promotion campaign count
ed on to put over the modernization
credit program Of the F. H. A. in
the District will be named today or
tomorrow.
He said local committees have been
set up in ISL communities over the
country, representing some 80 States,
and that industry generally is max
ing big preparations to cooperate in
the drive.
Rate Held Cheapest.
The 9.72 per cent rate of interest
and service charges for home i'm
provement loans under the Federal
Housing Administration is the cheap
est ever devised on character loans
payable in installments," Moffett
said, springing to the defense of the
charge, which, he reiterated, could
not be reckoned as true interest, since
ellC oCIf1CC C1ldISCo HlduC NY lCk1OlllS
institutions were figured into it.
The administrator said he favored
the increase in freight rates sought
by the railroads, despite protests by
building material interests that the
boost might prove deterrent to the
F. H. A. ~rogram.
'NobC wants to do business at
cost; every ones in it for a profit, /"
Moffett said. IF you are going to
work toward a 1926 wage scale (the
aim of all recovery movements) you
have to charge prices to support it."
Profiteering Prevention.
The public, however, was assured
of full protection against profiteering
on materials. He said the F. H. A.
could tie up credit, thus stopping de-
mand for materials, If the prices be-
came too exoribtant.
The second part of the Housing
Administrators program-mortgag
insurance for new housing construc-
tion-probably will get under way in
about two months, Moffett told the
press at conference, adding that
the modernization program, barely
under way. is well beyond our ex-
pectations, and will gather speed MS
the sales-promotion program gets un-
der way.
Evening star., 1934-08-29

TT WAS all intended as a joke.
Miss Helene Fortescue, socially
prominent young Washington
4 actress, daughter of Col. and Mrs.
Granville ForteScue, had no
idea" her marriage" to John Mar
shall, jr., another local social regis
terite, would get out of bounds So"
she told The Star today over the tele-
phone from Carmel, N. Y.
The ceremony" performed Satur-
day afternoon at Carmel was "joke,"
she admitted, but, she added, neither
she nor Marshall told the hundred or
so guests who crowded the Rockbridge
Theater that it was hoax.
Miss Fortescue, who has been be-
sieged with telephone calls from won
dering friends and relatives, said she
didn't think at would get in the
newspapers" But as a matter of fact,
it crashed most of the society pages
in the country.
The Star carried it yesterday. based
on a message sent in good faith by a
correspondent in Bridgeport. New
York newspapers also printed the an
nouncement, not having been let in
on the Joke"
"Mr. Marshall called me up Friday
night and suggested we get married
as a joke" Miss ForteScue told
The Star today.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
F|REMEN'S PRIZES
IN PARADE LISTED
Cups and Trophies in Store
for Visitors MOnday-PIan
Features at Alexandria.

George Finger, chairman Of the
Civics Committee of the National
Labor Day Committee, today an
nounced that special prizes will be
awarded to visiting firemen and aux
iliary units participating in the Labor
day parade here Monday.
Prizes, which include cups and
other trophies, will be awarded the
following:
The fire company coming the long
est distance with the greatest num-
Der of men.
The company making the best ap-
pearance in line.
The oldest fire apparatus in line.
Gage must be verified)
The company with band making
the best appearance in line.
The company with a drum corps
making the best appearance in line.
The best band, in appearance, of a
visiting company.
The best drum corps, in appearance,
of visiting company.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
ACCIDENT VICTIMS
CONDITION SERIOUS
aged Woman, Hit by Taxi, in
Hospital-Nine Hurt as
Truck 0verturns.

MRS. Margaret Seals, 62, of North
Beach, Mich, who received injuries
20 the head, arms and ribs after being
Knocked down by a taxi driven by
raymond P. Myers, g. of Clarendon
IA, was in a serious condition in
Emergency Hospital today. She was
truck by the taxi at Thirteenth and
streets when she left a street car
osding platform.
A truck loaded with Is colored la
1o,-ers turned over, injuring and
hrowing on the pavement, when a
District relief car, driven by William
Brooks, 20, colored, narrowly missed
;rashing into the truck belonging to
e. B. Donaldson Bros, contractors
at the intersection of Thirteenth and
Kalmia streets, early this morning
Those injured were treated at Freed
man Hospital.
Brooks, whose address is 2l33 New
port place, is being held at sixth pre-
ch1ct police station on charges of
failure to give right-of- way to the
212-ton truck.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
WRIGHT NAMED HEAD
OF CONFERENCE GROUP
y S. Official Chairman of Delega-
tion to Meeting in
Santiago.

DR.. John c. Wright, assistant COM
missioner of vocational education of
tie United States Office of Education
here, has been appointed by Secre-
tsry of State Hull as chairman of
a committee of four delegates to rep
resent the United States at the
Second Inter American Conference
OF Education at Santiago. Chile, next
month.
DIR. William F. Notz dean of the
Georgetown Foreign Service School,
also was appointed, as was DR.. Harold
benjamin, assistant dean of educa-
ton at the University of Minnesota,
and Miss Faith Hunter Dodge, author,
journalist and instructor of Spanish
ct the Hirsch Senior High School,
Chicago.
The first conference was organized
st Atlanta in 1929, under the auspices
of the National Education ASsocia-
tien of the United States. Ten coun-
tries were represented.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
HO[D-UP RESULTS
IN ARREST OF ;
One Confessed DeIicateSsen
Bandit Shoots-ResCued
From Angry Crowd.

Three colored men, arrested in con-
nection with the armed hold-up OF
a delicatessen at 1907 Twelfth street
last night, when one of their number
was threatened with violence by spec
tators after firing on a policeman,
were being held by police today for
investigation.
An angry group of more than $50
persons, who gathered in the chase
of Edward Jackson, %, alias James
Johnson of Winchester, Va, neceSSi-
tated calling out of reserves to insure
his safety. He fired upon Traffic
Policeman G.. w. Coleman when
trapped in a park at Eleventh and
Massachusetts, avenue. The shots
shattered the driving goggles of the
officer. Pvt. r. E. Burton came
to Coleman's aid and it was all the
policemen could do to keep the crowd
away until the reserves arrived.
Admits Other RObberies.
Participation in the hold-up, police
said, was admitted by jackson, who
said about $50 was obtained from John
Khosrofian, delicatesSen proprietor.
Jackson also confessed participation
in the robbery of the Sam Chaikin
Meat Market, 1900 block of Vermont
avenue, in which $50 was obtained.
James Gaskins, %, and Nathaniel
Jones, 81, his alleged companions,
were arrested early today upon a tip
from Jackson, police said, and later
admitted participation in the former
robbery.
A little more than an hour before
GaSkinS and Jones were arrested, two
colored men, both armed with pistols,
as in the Khosrofian and Chaikin
robberies, obtained between $50 and
$40 in a hold-up of Herbert Frye,
in charge of a delicateSsen at 101
Fifteenth street southeast. Frye lives
at 1l8 G street southeast.
The two men asked Frye for root
beer, then pulled their guns and de-
manded money, he told police. Root
beer was also asked for at the Twelfth
street delicateSSen robbery.
Take $40 From Pants.
NIIdSI O14du SdlQ LIl6 men entered MS
store, asked for a bottle of root beer
and as he went to get it said. This
is a stick-up." They then rified the
cash register of about $50, according
to KhoSrofian, taking about $40 from
his pants pockets and fleeing.
G. w. Thompson, a customer, ran
from the store during the robbery,
shouting Help! There's a hold-up."
His cries, mixed with the shooting of
pistol by one of the bandits as they
left, resulted in the free-for- all chase
in which Jackson was captured
After having admitted his part in
the hold-up. police said, Jonees, ac-
companied by Detectives Guy Rhone
and Sigurd Ostenso, directed them
to where money taken from the deli
cateSSen was hidden in tin can on a
dump near Arlington Cemetery, not
far from where the body of Mary
Baker was found several years ago.
OF the funds stolen, $31 was recovered.
The three men will be placed in a
police lineup and viewed by victims
of other robberies. Police said Khos-
rofian could bVt partially identify
them.
Evening star., 1934-08-29

The best equipped ambulance in
line.
The ladies' auxiliary making the
best appearance in line.
The ladies' auxiliary drill team
making the best appearance in line
Junior Drum Corps Prize.
A special prize for the best junior
drum corps in the entire line of march
is open to all.
Formal approval Of prizes for visit
ing firemen and associated units was
given formal approval at a meeting
of the Central Labor Union this week
Forty-eight units, from as many
cities or communities, have so far
indicated that they will join in the
Labor day parade, along with all seven
battalions of Washington f1remen, as
guests of the Washington Central La
Dor Union.
Plan Drill at Alexandria.
A feature of the firemen's Labor
Gay celebration in Alexandria Satur-
day and Monday will be the burning
of "city block of houses" to be set
up at the junction of Mount Vernon
Boulevard and Washington street.
The block actually will be a stage
setting, but everything else will be
genuine. The fire apparatus will re-
spond to the alarm from King street
and there will be displays Of scaling
burning walls, rescuing persons
trapped by the flames, first-aid work
and all of the other appurtenances OF
a real fire.
Fire apparatus from Bethesda, Md;
Cottage City, Md, and Kensington,
Nd. will be used in fighting the fire
The new ambulance Of the Chevy
Chase, Md, Fire Department will do
the flrst-aid work.
Evening star., 1934-08-29

ct said sure, it would be lot OF
fun. So the ceremony was arranged
for Saturday afternoon at O'Clock.
I'VE didn't tell any one it was not
a real wedding and we got Mr.. Wells
Frank H. Wells, Mount Vernon, N.
Y, insurance salesman), who was not
known to any one we knew, to per-
form the ceremony.
There were about 100 present at
the theater when the ceremony was
performed.
News of the marriage was given
to the newspapers without my knowl-
edge by the publicity man of the
Rockbridge Theater. We had no idea
the thing would get out of bounds so.
Il was sleeping peacefully Saturday
night when the news was being spread
all over the country that was mar
ried. I had no idea of it until
woke up Sunday.
mo" she added, in response to a
question by her long distance inter-
viewer, 81 have no intention of really
marrying Mr.. Marshall"
Miss Fortescue is playing in a stock
company at the Rockbridge Theater
at Carmel this Summer. She said
she expected to leave there Septem-
ber 8, returning to Washington later
In the month for brief visit before
going back to the stage.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
live of RingIeaders in Re-
cent Disturbance at Re-
fOrmatory Included.
[ Their DEMONSTRATORS
TO BE SHIPPED AWAY
Transfer Arranged Through Ne
gotiations With Depart
ment of Justice.

Five of the ringleaders in the
= reatened demonstration against
e. glorltieS at the District Reforma-
i, ry al Lorton 10 days ago were on
cir way to the Federal prison on
: G island of Alcatraz, off the coast
q California today. They we're part
u he first shipment of District priS-
.lers ever to go to the Federal
e DEVILS Island" Eight prisoners in
{; ! made the trip, but three of them
.ito no part in the recent Lorton
= 2ubles.
Those who were picked as the ring
= aders and forfeited all their good
: ne we're John Donohue, sentenced
q; me % to S to 16 years for robbery,
Yriding and abduction; John Ken
lex, given 10 years May 20, 1882,
n robbery; Albert Best, given l to
years January IL for false pretenSes.
I'd Arthur T. Macdonald, given 8
q years for robbery January II.
F0rfeits Only 80 Days.
Elmer Sweeney. who also had a
re, but not a leading role, in the
nJr sing, was sent along but forfeited
Glly 81 days of his time off for good
,ehaviOr. He is serving three to six
ears ,or robbery and assault with a
Jar ger GUS weapon.
The other three who went, but who
lad ro part in the trouble, were
Eorvari c. Dickerson, also known as
E.a-ry C. whitley, given life sentence
Or wife murder on october 81, 1888;
ohn J. Reisner, given 3 to 10 years
or robbery on March %, and Spence
We ldron, serving Is years for rob-
'ery. Waldron had been kept at the
District Jail since sentence was i'm
losed on him, never having been
ra aasferred to Lorton.
The eight men, with six prison
,uards, left on a Pennsylvania Rail-
.'osd train at 11:10 last night for
he first leg of their journey across
he country. The start of their trip
gas covered in the greatest secrecy,
md announcement was withheld until
fer the train was far from Wash
ngton, as precaution against any
ffurts to rescue the convictS.
other shipments of those who had
,aIt i'll the Lorton demonstration will
,e made later, but it is not known
whether Alcatraz will be selected as
he place of confinement for them all.
G'hay may be spread around Federal
IeIitentiaries at Leavenworth, Kans.;
Atlanta, Ga, and LewiSburg, Pa.
, There was an ironic touch to the
er arturo of waldron from the Jail.
'!lv ood Street. director of public well
arr, visited that institution yesterday
INC! Waldron asked Street to send him
he Federal penitentiary at Lewis
suIg, little dreaming that plans had
tlr'sady been completed to send him
0 Alcatraz. Waldron had been consid-
red too dangerous to transfer to Lor-
OF In the first place.
The shipment of these prisoners to
erVe their terms in a walled Federal
nstitution was accomplished through
II angement by the Department of
lutice, after District officials had ex-
lls ined that it was dangerous to keep
eel tain types of prisoners in the re-
Oh matory at Lorton, prison without
walls. The cost of their transporta-
ion and of feeding. and keeping the
ari soners during the remainder of their
eIms will be borne by the District.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
AVIATI0N'S NEW CODE
EFFECTIVE SEPT. 10
Hour Schedule of Employees In
cluded-Marine Supply Code
Also Approved.

A code of fair competition for the
commercial aviation industry, ap-
proved yesterday by the N. r. A., will
become effective September 10.
The code fixes maximum hours for
employees of the $56,000,00 industry
at 40 hours per week for clerical work.
ers, 48 hours per week for mechanics
and mechanics helpers, not more
than 54 hours In any one week for
watchmen, caretakers and general
field utility employees.
At the same time N. r. A. approved
a code for the $5,000,000 marine
equipment industry, providing for a
40-hour maximum week with a lee
way of 48 hours during seasonal
periods of unusually active business.
Evening star., 1934-08-29
C. C. C. TO KEEP WARM

The Government has set aside more
than $1,000, 900 to make sure the boys
of the @. C. C. keep warm this Winter.
c. c. c.. officials yesterday an
nounced contract awards totaling ap-
proximately $980,000 to underwear
manufacturers in several States.
At the same time they approved
plans to purchase 8,762 stoves, costing
$140,0 900.