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and recommendations from this study
to the Secretary of the Navy with q
view to securing remedial legislation
and making such administrative
changes as may be desirable"
Entered Academy in 1889.
Born at Fort Apache, Ariz., on
September 7. 1872, Admiral Upham
entered the Naval Academy in Sep
tember. 1889. In the Spanish-Ameri-
can War he served aboard the flag
ship OF Admiral George Dewey, the
Olympia. For his World War service,
in command Of the cruiser Columbia
and later the Pueblo, he was awarded
the Navy Cross. France bestowed upon
him the Legion Of Honor.
From 1921 to 1924 Admiral Upham
served as naval attache at the Ameri-
can Embassy in Paris and from 1922
to 1924, he concurrently held the post
of naval attache to Madrid. He
commanded the Naval Air Sstation at
Pensacola, in 1926, and was made a
rear admiral in 1927. He served here
as chief OF the Bureau Of Navigation
from 1880 to 1888. He was commander
in chief Of the United States Asiatic
Fleet, with the full rank of admiral,
from 1883 to 1885 and from that as
signment came to Washington again
for his present ssxvase.
Evening star., 1936-09-07

1-High in a to,Uer ODer-
looking the District Retorma-
tory at Lorton, this guard
keeps a constant Digil for
prisoners 1Dho might take q
chance and break for free
dom. His rife, a neU high
powered type. Would kill a
mile d,Ddy.
"A 25-toot 1odll surround
ing the retormatory's neD
"1Dalled group" noW nearing
completion, ,Dhere the bad
actors" are kept behind cell
doors. Prisoners 1Dho attempt
to escape ,Uiu 90 behind these
1UallS and stay until compile
tton OF their sentence.
3-Cdpt. M. M. Barnard,
general superintendent of
District penal institutions,
NTH a collection of crude
Weapons taken d,Day from
prisoners during the Inde-
pendence day rebellion in
1888. In this collection are
table kntUes, gtUen a Sa,O
tooth cutting edge by fling;
a small length of broomsttck
11ith a 10-penny nail in one
end, an overSised blackjack,
and q piece OF heavy ,Oire,
t,oisted hook-Shape, 1Dith q
sharp clatD on one end.
Star Staff Photos.
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C0NGRESSED|F|CES
GETTING DUCTSFOR
A|R-COND|T|ON|NC
Force of II Metal Workers
to Be Increased by is
Tomorrow.
BIDS TOO HIGH, LYNN
HEADS WORK HIMSELF
Installation of Apparatus May
Await More Funds on Re.
turn of Congress.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

In an effort to get the Capitol. Sem
ate and two House Office Buildings
in shape for members of Congress
who will be returning soon after the
election in November. David Lynn,
architect of the Capitol. has a force
of metal workers installing ducts for
the S2,550,000 conditioning.
Last week there were II metal work.
ers employed, and the force will be
increased by 16 tomorrow, with more
employed as fast as the holes can be
cut in walls and floors of all rooms
and corridors. More than 80 tons of
galvanized steel is being used for the
ducts to which the conditioning
apparatus will be connected in the
Easements and attics Of the four
buildings.
The work in the Capitol is about
IS per cent completed. In the new
House Office Building about IS per
cent of the cutting has been done.
The four buildings have been upset
all Summer, preparing for the in
stallation of the ir-conditioning
When it was found that the bids were
greatly in excess of the appropria-
tions, Lynn decided he could install
the metal ducts. which originally were
included in the bids. much cheaper
than the contractors. so took over
this phase Of the work. He intends
to make all cuttings, put in the ducts,
plaster up all holes and repaint the
walls, so as to have the buildings
ready for occupancy. Then the air
conditioning apparatus can be in
stalled at any time.
He will call for bids again on the
ir-conditioning and for refrigera-
ton plant as an addition to the Cap
itol power plant, to bring chilled
water to the Capitol group. If the
new bids are still too steep, the COM
pletion of the project must wait for
Congress to decide whether 1t is ready
to make an additional appropriation.
The high bids resulted from a rising
market since Congress considered the
project, both on materials and on la
bor.
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SECOND INQUEST
SET IN SHOOTING
Coroner's Jury Fails to Agree
in Death of G. G. G.
Worker.

A second inquest will be held to-
morrow in the fatal shooting of a
colored c. c. C. worker by Ninth Pre-
cinct Policeman Vivian H. Landrum.
who is under technical arrest after
coroner's jury failed to agree Satur-
DAY night.
It was said that five members of
the jury stood for exoneration and
one was holding out for grand jury
action when the coroner discharged
them at II pm. Saturday. They had
been celebrating since 3 pm. 1t
was one Of the few occasions on record
where coroner's jury failed to agree.
Landrum shot Lawrence Basey, %,
attached to c. C. c. camp near
Seventeenth and M streets northeast,
after the latter allegedly resisted ar
rest and attacked the officer. with the
aid of several companions.
The shooting occurred in the 100
block of M streets northeast, on August
81. and Basey died Thursday night in
Casualty Hospital. The policeman.
on sick leave at the time, was return
ing to his home when informed some
men were making trouble in the
vicinity.
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AMNESIA VICTIMS
IDENTITY SOUGHT
"James Gordon" in Richmond
Hospital, May Be Washing
ton Resident.

Local police sought today to learn
II an amnesia victim in Richmond
hospital who gave his maize as James
Gordon, 81, is a resident Of Wash
ington.
Gordon recalled vaguely that he
was employed by Washington whole
sale plumbers supply firm as sales
man and that he suffered head in
jury in fall here about 10 days ago.
He said he recovered at a hospital
in Washington, the name of which
he could not recall. He then went
on a motor trip to Richmond, he said.
In the vicinity of Charlottesville,
Gordon said, ne was robbed and
beaten by two men who took STA
from him and drove off in his car.
Gordon told police he could not re-
call what happened after that or how
he got in the Richmond hospital. He
said he thought he was a native Of
either New Jersey or New York.
Evening star., 1936-09-07
MAN IS SET AF|RE
BY TRUCK SPARK
William A. Barber in Sc
riouS Condition From
Unusual Accident.

Transformed into a human torch
when a spark from truck motor set
fire to his Observation-Disclosures
jumper, William A. Barber, Is, man
ager Of filling station at Tenth and
G streets southwest. was in a serious
condition in Emergency Hospital to-
day with body burns.
If he RECEIVERS, as physicians say he
has an even chance of doing, the
youth will be indebted to the pres
ence Of mind and quick action of two
assistants, Charles Jenkins. 1416 Elev-
enth street, and Edward MCGEE, SO I
street.
Go to Rescue.
Answering Barber's cries for help,
they tore off his flaming overalls and
smothered the smoldering inner cloth
ing with their bare hands.
Despite the rescue, Barber, who
lives at 1911 P street, suffered severe
burns on the left side of the body
between his waist and shoulder.
Jenkins and MCGEE, who found
Barber rolling on the ground in an
attempt to put out the flames, were
assisted in extinguishing the fire by
flremen from No. 13 Engine House,
located near the gas station. The fire
rescue squad rendered first aid and
took him to the hospital
Gasoline Ignited.
Barber's clothing was ignited, police
were told, as he was bending over the
engine of dairy truck yesterday. He
held a small can of gasoline with
which he was filling the vacuum tank
and was working the accelerator with
his other hand.
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Deaths Reported.

Carrie Becker so. Emergency Hospital:
William Hargrave. 80. Home for 1ncurables.
Louisa r. Mayer. 70. 2715 Conn: ave; ~,
Andrew Cook. II. Veterans Administration
Facility.
Samuel Z. Lewis. II. AL 10th st.
Thomas Reay so. 423 Peabody st.
SUSANNA H. Bradhurst. so. 2436 Altamont
pl. ne.
Frances Glenn. So. Homeopathic Hospital.
John Schmitz. 81. Gallinger Hospital.
infant of Gladys Weir. Gallinger Hospital.
Inf ant Of Margaret Herbert. Gallinger Hos
Infant Of Mary winRate, George Washing
Mary Thomas. 50. stoddard Baptist Home
Dennis Miles, rs Home for Aged and Infirm.
Sidney Coles 81. Gallinger Hospital.
Sarah j. Johnson. 63. Home for AGED ana
Cary Rosebourgh. 80. Gallingcr Hospital
Elsie Green. "a. Gallinger Hospital
Edna HILL 81, st. Elizabeth's Hospital.
Robert Davis. 90. rear 18th and H sts.
Edward L. Sowell. 10. st. Elizabeths Hos
John Mulkey. II. ~ M st. s.w.
Garnett Robinson. 4, Gallinger Hospital.
Willard Gibson. Childrens Hospital
intent, Of Marian Gibson. Gallinger Hos
Ntsl.
INFANT Of Ruby Nash. Freedmen's Hospital.
Infant OF Sarah Jackson. Columbia Hospital.
Evening star., 1936-09-07
Lost Boy Confines
Talk to Japanese
To Battle Police

Eight-year-old Joseph Tasuka did
q lot of talking to police yesterday
when he got lost, but it was all in
japanese.
Harry Lee. Chinese, found Joseph
wandering in the first block of H
street and took him to the first pre-
cinct. The police asked Joseph ques-
tionS.
They asked him questions in French,
German, baby talk, pidgin English
and sign language. But they got
nowhere, and Joseph finally was trans
ferred to the Receiving Home.
There second effort was made to
understand Joseph. but it came to
nothing until his father arrived and
explained the boy spoke only JAP
anese.
Joseph's father took him home to
1909 y street.
Evening star., 1936-09-07
Obiging Officers
Get Mar, Clutches,
But It's Mistake
Willie Rogers Promptly
Takes Tumble and
Lands IN, HOspitaI.

Willie Rogers. At, colored, 100 block
Of Quancter street southeast, built
himself up to an awful let-down yes
terday when he played on the SYM
pathy Of police after they found him
sitting beside a coal car from which
they suspected he jumped
Unable to walk because Of twisted
kneecap, Rogers told Officers r. j.
Tompkins and ]. H. Gwinn it was an
old injury, and that somebody had
stolen his crutches while he was in
the railroad yards at New Jersey ave-
nue. and I streets southeast.
1t was too bad, the officers agreed,
so they procured a pair of crutches for
Rogers.
Either Rogers was guilty of exag-
geration or he suddenly forgot how to
use the crutches, for he took one step
forward and lost his balance.
He was taken to Casualty Hospital
for treatment.
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where will live and work the inmates
who fail to respond to Lorton's
humane rehabilitation treatment.
The men who go behind those
brick walls are the only ones who
do not have a chance to escape.
Behind cell doors they are locked
while not working. The wall beyond
is virtually an insurmountable bar
rier. The prisoner who attempts to
scale it probably would be stopped
with a rifle bullet from one of the
four guard towers at each corner Of
the oblong inclosure.
Throughout the rest of the reserva-
ton, however, the obstacles that would
interfere with a prisoner who wanted
to escape are few. There are not
enough guards on duty at any one
time to stop wholesale break for
liberty. That is a situation which is
worrying the officials.
Guards Average Is Small.
The desired standard in Federal
prisons is q ratio of / guard for
every 10 inmates For the 2.700
prisoners at Lorton and Occoquan,
there are I'll guards, divided into
three eight-hour working shifts.
Sickness. leaves of absence and other
causes reduces the guard force to a
daily average Of 150 At present there
are only IL guards and a captain on
duty at the work house on the two
night shifts.
The increased population at both
the reformatory and work house has
made the guard problem exceptionally
acute. It has been necessary at times
in recent weeks to place only one
Evening star., 1936-09-07
.SEARCHF0R TWO
IN RILEY Staying
PUSHEDBYPOL|CE
Disappearance of Dog Indi-
cation of WeII.L aid Coal
Yard Plot.
SUSPECTS WITHOUT
CRIMINAL RECORDS
Six Colored Men Still Held in
Probe of Fatal Clubbing of
Watchman.

Suspected of numbering Marion J.
Riley, 55-year-old watchman at the
James E. Colliflower coal yard in
nearby Virginia, two white men,
whose descriptions were furnished
Washington authorities by Arlington
County police, were still being sought
today.
The fugitives do not have police
records. according to Detective Chief
Bernard w. Thompson. The reason
Virginia police requested their arrest
was not revealed.
Acting on Request.
"Just how these men figure in the
case is known only to Arlington
County authorities" Inspector Thomp-
son said. They have merely asked
us to arrest the men, and we are look
ing for them"
Meanwhile, Sheriff Howard B.
Fields, who has had practically every
officer in the county seeking the rob-
bers. who clubbed the watchman to
death and broke open the coal firms
safe, said he was still without sub
stantial clues.
Six colored men arrested q few
hours after Riley's body was found
early Saturday in a boiler room in
the coal yard were still being held
in the Arlington County Jail for ques-
tioning.
Disappearance Of Dog.
A new angle that led investigators
to believe the robbery was well plan
ned was disclosed today when it de-
veloped an airedale watchdog. which
had been Riley's companion during
his lonely vigil at the coal yard, dis
appeared several nights before he
was murdered.
1t is believed the dog was stolen
or killed by the robbers to remove a
dangerous obstacle.
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woods. Not even a barbed wire fence
completely surrounds the 2.700 acres on
which the two institutions are located.
In the reformatory are housed the
worst type Of the Districts crimi-
nals-the murderers, the thugs, the
safecrackers and the gangsters who
have been removed from society for
safekeeping and possible rehabilita-
ton. They are the men serving
sentences ranging from year and
a day to life. Twenty nine are there
for life.
The work house, just 2 miles south
Of the reformatory, quarters the
short term prisonerSthe men who
have committed some less serious
offense and are serving sentences of
a year or under. A large percentage
of its inmates are habitual drunkards.
100 Women Serving Time.
Also on the work house reservation,
isolated from the men. is the woman's
department, where 100 women-white
and colored-are serving sentences for
various offenses ranging as high as
80 years.
The male prisoners at both Lorton
and Occoquan, are quartered in brick
dormitories. The only prisonlike
atmosphere about the huge penal
colony is the new walled group" now
nearing completion. A 25-foot brick
wall surrounds the buildings behind
it-dormitories and industrial shops
Evening star., 1936-09-07
D. c. TRAFFIC TOLL
UNUSUALLY SMALL
Only Three Mishaps Here,
But Dozen Reported in
Maryland.

At least dozen persons were in
jured in traffic accidents in the Wash
ington area yesterday. but the toll in
the District was singularly small for
week end.
Despite the presence in the city of
thousands of Labor day visitors and
ideal weather that brought big turn
out of motorists and strollers, only
three mishaps were reported here.
Hazel Bennett, 10, Of 1901 Massa-
chusetts avenue broke her nose and
was bruised when a car in which
she was riding with Edgar A. Miller,
10, of 1748 M street, hit lamp post
while trying to avoid collision with
another car. Miss Miller was treated
at Emergency Hospital.
Robert Green, 81, of 317 Sixteenth
street southeast and an unidentified
man were struck by an automobile
while crossing Nichols avenue near
Sheridan road southeast. Green was
treated at Gallinger Hospital.
The only other person injured in
tAiC oloGAlSG was WdlttI AIIQtl SOll, Cl 1,
colored, 1853 Thirtieth street.
In nearby Maryland, however, acci-
dents were more numerous and more
serious.
Six persons, including two Wash
ington motor cyclists, were injured
in Montgomery County.
The most seriously hurt was Charles
Law, Is, of 92l Hamlin street north
east, who suffered compound frac-
ture of the left leg and a broken
right leg when his motor cycle ran
off the Lay Hill road near Glenmont
and struck a telephone pole.
Claude Sanford, 10, of 1918 Up
shur street, was cut and bruised when
his motor cycle hit hole beside the
Colesville pike, near Fairland. and
upset Both Sanford and Law were
taken to Washington Sanitarium by
the Silver Spring fire rescue squad.
DR.. Charles E. Hawks of Rockville
received cuts about the eyes and an
injured hand, and Miss Doris jesse
back, 1880 Massachusetts, avenue, suf-
fered possible fracture of the right
shoulder when hit-and-run car
struck theirs on the Rockville pike
near Bethesda.
Herbert Sonifrank, 81, of Boyds,
Md, was taken to Montgomery County
General Hospital with head cuts and
a severe jaw injury after a head-on
collision in the railroad underpass at
Buck Lodge, Md.
Evening star., 1936-09-07
AIRPORT LEVE[|NC
MACHINES START
WORK WEDNESDAY
Contract for Construction
Project to Be Let To-
morrow.
100000 SQUARE YARDS
OF PAVING is PLANNED
Filling in Military Road to Be
One of First Tasks-Runway
to Be 4,20O Feet.

The greatest single airport con-
struction project in local air trans
port history will get under way at
Washington Airport Wednesday morn
ing, when grading and scraping ma
chimes will start leveling off the field
in preparations for laying nearly 100,-
900 square yards of paved runways,
taxi-strips and aprons, according to
Samuel j. Solomon, airport manager.
Awarding of the contract for the
construction project, which involves
a large amount of grading and drain
age construction, in addition to the
paving, will be announced tomorrow,
after a meeting at the airport OF the
Executive Committee of the National
Airport Corp.
In anticipation of enlargement Of
the transport loading apron in front
of the field passenger terminal, the
four air transport lines now operating
from Washington Airort have discon-
tinued the operation of their gaso-
line pits, sunk below the ground sur
face near the present small loading
platform.
Servicing by Truck.
The area in which these pits are
located will become a part of the
passenger terrace in front of the ter
minal building and the new loading
apron will be carried out to width
of $50 feet. In the future all air
liners in need of refueling and serv-
icing at the passenger ramp during
local stops on through trips will be
gerviced by truck.
The first job to be undertaken by
the contractor, Solomon explained,
will be grading off high ground near
the Military road underpass at the
overhead crossing of the Rosslyn
branch line of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road and on the former Hoover Field,
cdjoining the Arlington experimental
farm.
Earth removed there will be used
on lower portions of the field. The
most extensive fill will be across the
present Military road right of way,
now nearly two feet below the level
Of the future 4,200-foot runway, which
Is to cross the highway nearly at
right angles. The fill across Military
road will have a total width of 600
feet, sloping up from the present road
level to the center line of the long
runway.
60 Days to Finish Work.
Paving of the big passenger loading
apron or ramp will be the first unit
of the permanent surfacing job, Sol
omon said, and this work will be
started within the next few days
Under the terms of the contract the
contractor will be given go working
days in which to complete the drain
age, grading and paving.
The work must be carried on so as
not to interfere with regular air trans
port operations at the airport. and
the paving of the runways will be
carried on in units, leaving at least
three-fourthS of the total runway
length available for use at all times.
During paving of the central por-
tions of the runways, airliners are
expected to land alongside the run
ways.
Evening star., 1936-09-07
Prisoner Annexes
Larceny Charges
As He Sweeps Jail

Herbert Manley. 81, colored,
was given a four-month sentence
in Police Court today on two
charges of larceny after trust,
the second Of which was incurred
while he was being held at the
first precinct station. s.
Jailed yesterday for allegedly
failing to return change from $40
entrusted to him by his employer.
Manley was let out of his cell
to sweep the cell block. AS he
swept, police said, he collected
$1.10 from other prisoners on the
promise he would buy tobacco and
other articles for them.
When they got nothing for
their money the other prisoners
complained and police placed ad-
ditional chara Is against Manley.
Evening star., 1936-09-07
THIRD CANDIDATE
IN A. F. G. (. RACE
DR.. Thomas E. Larkin of Ell Reno,
OKLA, Has Western Support
for Presidency.

A third candidate is in the field for
the presidency of the American Fed
Grafton Of Government Employees. He
is DR.. Thomas e. Larkin of E Reno,
Okla, and he has the support OF q
group Of Western lodges, according to
word received here.
Dr. Larkin Is an economist and
educational specialist in the Justice
Department and formerly was in
Washington with the Census Bureau
and the National Mediation Board.
John Smith. president Of War De-
partment Lodge in New York. an
nounced his entry a few days ago,
while the conservative faction Of the
District Department is backing
Charles !. Stengle of the federation
national headquarters staff.
The convention opens in Detroit
next Monday, after . two-de session
Of the Executive Council
Evening star., 1936-09-07
Rear Adnr. F. B. Upham, 64
Today, Goes on Retired List
Congratulations Extend
ed by Swanson in Or.
der for Transfer.

Labor day this year has a special
significance for Rear Admiral Frank
B. Upham, chairman of the Navy's
General Board, for today marks his
64th birthday anniversary-the last
he will spend on active duty-and he's
been As years in the service.
In accordance with recent custom,
Admiral Upham will not be placed on
the retired list until October l. He
has had an illustrious career, for he
has served as chief of the Bureau of
Navigation at the Navy Department,
has been for two years commander in
chief of the United States Asiatic fleet
and has been chairman of the Gen.
eral Board since January /.
This change will leave Rear Ad-
miral Joseph M. Reeves, until re-
Gently commander in chief of the
United States fleet, acting chairman
of the General Board. No perma-
nent chairman has yet been desig-
mated. The General Board advises
the Secretary of the Navy on matters
Of naval policy.
Congratulated by Swanson.
In signing the order for Admiral
Upham's transfer to the retired list,
Secretary Swanson wrote: THE De-
partment regrets your retirement
from active service and takes this
occasion to extend to you its heartiest
congratulations and appreciation for
your long and distinguished service
TO our Nation. During the time which
you have so faithfully and efficiently
served, you have witnessed many ad-
vancements in the morale, strength
and efficiency of the Navy and you
have the satisfaction of knowing thf<
you have contributed to the accom-
plishment of these results. May I
wish for your continued success and
many years of health and happiness" I"
The Navy Department said that
Admiral Upham is concluding his
tour of duty as chairman Of the
General Board just as the board Is
completing an exhaustive and COM
prehensive survey of the situation Of
the commissioned personnel Of the
Navy.
"The board will subr''' the findings
Evening star., 1936-09-07
JANE ADDAMS HONORED

On the seventy-sixth anniversary of
her birth, the memory of Jane Ad-
cams, as stanch proponent of world
peace, was extolled yesterday by Will
liam Manger, counselor of the Pam
American Union, and Miss Emma
Void in a program broadcast over
Station VOL. under auspices of the
Peoples Mandate to End War.
Evening star., 1936-09-07
PRIEST RELEASED
AFTER MENTAL TEST
Rev. John Baycura Sent to Gal
linger at Close of 3-Day
Hunger Strike,

Rev. John Baycura, Homer City,
Pa, priest, was committed to Gallinger
Hospital for mental observation at the
close of his three-day hunger strike,
it became known today.
The priest was arrested Friday on
the sidewalk before his hotel and re-
leased from the institution yesterday
with clean bill of health.
Father Baycura conducted his hun
ger strike in protest against the i'm
position of the rule of celibacy on his
particular sect. of the Roman Catholic
Church. 1t was previously reported
that he returned to his pastorate Fri
day. He is on his way there now.