Washington News lining pkf Society and General

WASHINGTON. D. C., 'WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1930. *_

POLICETO EXAMINEBULLET IN EFFORT

. TO SOLVE MURDERConvinced, However, That

Gun Found in Foxhall IsNot One Used.

FINDER OF CLOTHINGWILL BE QUESTIONED

Brother of Slain Girl Says Family

Is Convinced Slayer Was

Known to Her.

As another step in the process of

elimination of clues by which theyhope to solve the murder of MaryBaker, police today arranged to makea miscroscopic comparison of a bulletfired from the automatic pistol foundMonday in Foxhall Village with one of

the bullets removed from the young

Government clerk’s body.

The police, however, are convincedthat the weapon turned over to themla not the one used by the slayer ofMiss Baker.

In view of the possibility that thepistol may have been used in someother crime committed here, detectiveswill endeavor to trace it from the fac-tory to the purchaser. „ .

It is also believed the local authori-ties will ask New York police to ques-tion one of the men who found MissBaker's clothing and jewelry in a seweron the Government Experimental Farm.This man left Washington for New Yorkthree days after he had turned* thefound articles over to police.

Offered to Leave Address.According to Inspector William S.

Shelby, however, the man told him at

that time he intended to leave the city

and offered to leave a forwarding ad-

dress.Police have received information that

the man in New York may have beenimplicated in the theft of articles from

h * house on Twelfth street two days

after Miss Baker's clothing was found

in the sewer. The authorities do not

believe this man can help them in solv-ing the murder, but they hope he maybe able to aid in explaining the Presencein the sewer of several articles of jewelrywhich did not belong to Miss Baker.

The District attorney's office yester-day refused to give police a warrantcharging this man with grand larceny,contending there was not sufficient

proof of his guilt.Brother Here for Conference.

Charles Baker, a brother of the slaingirl, conferred with local detectives lastnight and said that his family was con-vinced she was killed by a man sheknew and trusted. He is understood tohave reiterated his belief that this manworks in the Navy Department. Po-lice, however, say that the Navy De-partment employe whose name hasbeen brought into the case has beenquestioned and definitely absolved ofany connection with the slaying.

Another angle which the police wereinvestigating today was a statementfrom a local clairvoyant that she gaveMiss Baker a reading shortly before shewas killed. This woman said she hasbeen “concentrating" on the case, andbelieves the girl was killed by a police-

man. It is understood this same wom-an told police several days ago that shehad not given Miss Baker a reading.

MRS. NICOLSON DIES;AIDED RACE AMITY

Heart Attack Victim Sought to

Improve Eolation* "WithJapanese.

Mrs. Alma Durant Nlcolson, wife of

I John Nicolaon, and widely known a* aworker for cloeer relation* between thewomen of the Orient and the UnitedStates, died of a heart attack at herhome in the Chastleton Apartments yes-terday afternoon. Mr. Nlcolson was for-merly with the United States ShippingBoard.

Mrs. Nlcolson was one of four womenwho organized the Women’s Americanand Oriental Club of New York in 1915.

Since coming to this city nine yearsago, Mrs. Nlcolson had been active inchurch • and other organizations. Amember of the Church of the Covenant,

she was an officer of the Society of theCovenant, an organization devoted tomissionary work. She also was active inthe world fellowship committee of theY. W. C. A. In addition, she was activeto the Twentieth Century Club.

The daughter of the late John L.and Agnes Lacey Durant. Mrs. Nichol-son was bom in Jersey City, N. J„ in1875. She was married to John Nichol-son In 1906.

She leaves her husband, two sisters.Miss Edith Durant and Mrs. AgnesDurant Halsey of New York, and a

brother. Donald Durant, of Boston. Allare In this city for the funeral services.

The funeral services will be con-ducted in the Church of the Covenant,Presbyterian, this afternoon at 5o’clock. Rev. Dr. Albert J. McCartney,pastor, assisted by Rev. Dr. FrederickBrown Harris, pastor of Foundry Meth-odist Episcopal Church, will officiate.The body will be taken to New York to-

morrow. Interment will be In Wood-lawn Cemetery, New York.

HOOVER ASKED TO ATTENDJEWISH “TOWN MEETING”

presence Desired at Parley in New

York Designed to Promote Re-

lief Overseas.

President Hoover today was invitedto attend a "town meeting” of theJews of New York to be held in the inear future, for the purpose of plan-ning for Jewish relief overseas.

The invitation was presented byJames N. Rosenberg and Harry L.Glucksman of New York and IsaacGans and Maurice Bisgyer of Wash-ington, each of whom represents a dif-ferent organization of Jews Interestedto relief.

“This subject,” said Mr. Rosenberg,after calling on the President. “Is oneto which Mr. Hoover, ever since thedays of his leadership of European re-lief, has been much interested.”

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Steamers Crash in Port.MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, April 30

<>P).—While entering port today theBritish freighter Routon Orange was Incollision with the German passengerEtvamer Itaurl. Both vessels were dam-aged. but no one was Injured.

MASTODONS DECLARED ALIVEHERE WHEN COLUMBUS LANDED

Scientists Are Told of Music Taugkt by

| Pictures, Mayan Mathematics andLost California Tribes.

t BY THOMAS R. HENRY.

That gigantic extinct elephant, themastodon, possibly was alive in NorthAmerica when Columbus landed. Prof.W. B. Scott of Princeton Universitytold the National Academy of Sciences,which ended its scientific meetings hereyesterday.

The creature generally is supposed tohave been extinct for nearly 50.000

(years. The finding of a human skull inFlorida which had been stepped onby a mastodon has been adduced asevidence of the great antiquity of manon this continent and has precipitatedone of the most lively recent scientificcontroversies. But both Prof. Scott andProf. Frank Leverett of the Universityof Michigan Insisted that it indicated,not the antiquity of man, but the mod-ernity of the mastodon.

There has just been found near Quito,! Ecuador, Prof. Scott said, the skeleton• of a mastodon which evidently had been

, slain with man-made weapons. It wassurrounded with the remains of a ring

¦ of fires lit to roast it. In the same for-, matlon were found pottery fragments

of Maya workmanship which can be; dated from the fourth century A.D.

This means, Prof. Scott said, that theanimal was killed not more than 1,600years ago and probably much later.

The discovery, he said, had nothitherto been announced in the UnitedStates. Citing other cases, he insistedthat the animals of the Pleistosceneage, the geological era Just precedingthe present, did not die off all at oncebut continued in some places well intohistoric times.

Teaches Music by Pictures.A new method of teaching music

which makes use of both the eye andthe ear was described by Prof. C. E.Seashore of the University of lowa.Musical technique, either vocal or in-strumental, can be resolved Into fourskills, he said. These are tone, in-tensity, timbre and rhythm.

These skills are taught one at a time.Visual images of the student’s actualsinging or playing of each note ere pro-duced automatically before him as hesits before a microphone. Thus he con-tinues until the skill he is practicing Isshown by the "pictures” to approachperfection. Experiments have shown.Prof. Seashore said, that once a skillhas been mastered the student canforget all about it. It automaticallycarries over into the playing or singingof the piece as a whole.

This will save a great deal of moneyspent for vocal or piano lessons, greatlyimprove technique and make musicalexpression possible to many who thinkthey have no talent in this direction,he said. Pictures also can be securedof the voices of great artists, and theamateur singer can practice with thesebefore him.

Prof. Seashore also announced theperfection of the “piano camera,” whichrecords exactly the time, duration andrelative force of each note struck bythe player, so that these can be com-pared with the work of other players.

Xost Tribe Refuge Found.A hitherto unknown last refuge of lost

tribes and languages exists in the highmountains and deep valleys of North-western California, said Dr. C. HartMerriam. Within this limited area, hesaid, there are the last survivors of 64Indian tribes and of 15 different lin-guistic stocks. In some cases, he pointedout, there will be only one person leftwith vague memories of an otherwisecompletely lost language. A linguisticstock he described as having no sim-ilarity to any other languages and notmerely a different language based, forthe most part, on the same roots, as inthe case with all the Indo-Europeantongues.

“Within a radius of 40 miles from theHoopa Valley,” he said, “there were, in

GARBAGE MEN GETPRIZES FOR WORK

Awards Made to Most Effi-cient Employes by Twen-

tieth Century Club.

Hie garbage and trash men hadtheir day in the aim today when moneyprizes and banners were distributed tothose recommended by their foremen ashaving done the best work during thepast year. The prizes were given bythe Twentieth Century Club at a cere-money In the board room of the Dis-trict Building. The Board of Com-missioners was present.

Mrs. George F. Bowerman, presidentof the club, and Mrs. O. L. Veerhoffspoke. Mrs. A. N. Prentiss presided.

The awards were as follows: Trashdepartment, Harry Freeman, first prize;B. Bowman, second prize; Will Thomas,honorable mention; garbage depart-ment, Frank Newman, first prize; HenryHenson, second prize; James Bryant,honorable mention; ash department,John Dunbar, first prize; Henry Davis,second prize; James Sims and CliffordLucas, honorable mention; “whitewings,” George Wheeler, first prize;Herbert Lewis, second prize.

Committees of the club made sur-prise visits of inspection to the routesof all those recommended for prizes,and in all cases expressed admirationof the way the men did their work.

Members of the committee in chargeincluded Mrs. P. S. Smith, Mrs. ProctorL. Dougherty, Mrs. Trueman Abbe, Mrs.Emile Berliner, Mrs. William T. Ballard,Mrs. Bona Bonner, Mrs. J. B. Campbell,Mrs. E. E. Carter, Mrs. Gilbert Uros-venor, Mrs. S. H. Thompson and Mrs.C. T. Watson.

Three-Wheeled Taxis Shown.Three-wheeled taxicabs. Invented in

Germany, have bqpn attracting muchattention at motor shows in Europe thisWinter. ,

whole or in part, home lands of 19tribes of Indians representing eightlinguistic stocks. It is doubtful if inany other part of the world there are, Inso small an area, so many tribes speak-ing different languages. Most of thesetribes are fairly well known, but duringthe mining days several of them werepractically exterminated by the onrushof gold seekers and the troops called into help. So complete was the destruc-tion that in the case of four of thetribes the few survivors succeeded sowell in keeping hidden from inquisitiveeves that not even the names of thetribes were ascertained by anthropolo-gists.”

Clock Loses Second in Century.

A new clock, keeping time by thevibrations of a quartz crystal instead ofa pendulum, was described by W. A.Marrison of the Bell Telephone labora-tories. Recording time to the thou-sandth of a second, this clock has manyadvantages over the pendulum clock,although much remains to be done be-fore it is perfected. In observatorieswhere it is necessary to preserve a per-fect synchronization between the solarand sidereal time, Marrison said, thisclock can be operated so that the errorin the ratio of rates is less than onesecond in a century. Eventually thequartz crystal vibratioins may prove a

better measure of time than the move-ments of the earth itself, said Prof.Ernest W. Brown of Yale University.

There is increasing evidence that themysterious cosmic rays, bombarding theearth with such penetrating power thatthey will go through 100 feet of water,are the result of the building up of morecomplex atoms of matter out of thesimple hydrogen atoms, said Prof. R. A.Milikan of the California Institute ofTechnology, the discoverer of these rays.He explained, however, that the evidencewas not perfect and suggested furtherexperiments before two other theoriescould be eliminated. One is that theycome from the annihilation of matterin outer space as it is transformed intoradiation and the other is that theyare the result of particles of matterfalling through electrical fields in theouter atmosphere of the earth.

The possibility of two types of hu-man beings—those who live long andgrow slowly and those who go throughall the life processes rapidly with short-er lives—was proposed by Prof. FrankBoaz of Columbia University. Thistheory was based on the actual growthrecords of human beings. It is difficultto interpret the statistics, he said, be-cause of the effects of changing environ-ment and social conditions on theamount and rate of growth. Thus, itseems, all the peoples of Europe now aregrowing taller.

Mayan Civilization Praised.

All branches of science must con-centrate on the remarkable lost civ-ilization of the Mayas, said Dr. A. V.Kidder of the Carnegie Institution.Archeology, he pointed out, has reachedthe point where it can go little furtherwithout interpretative data from otherspecialized branches of knowledge.

Recovery of this lost knowledge, hesaid, will amply repay scientists. As

an example, he pointed out that theMayas had made some advances inmathematics, such as knowledge of thearithmetical significance of zero, whichwas not known to Europeans at tnetime of the discovery.

Practically the same kind of bac-terium which is building up bog-irondeposits today was at work in Virginiain the Cambrian geological era. saidDr. David White of the United StatesGeological Survey. The Cambrianrepresents almost the beginning of lifeon earth and the tiny living organismhas continued with hardly any changethrough the many million years whichhave elapsed.

CENTER WILL HOLDANNUAL FESTIVAL

Neighborhood House Pre-pares for Spring Program,

Which Opens Tomorrow.

Neighborhood House, 470 N streetsouthwest, was astir today in prepara-tion for the opening of its twenty-eighth Spring festival tomorrow after-noon at 4:30 o’clock, when the first ofa series of playlets will be presented.

The festival, which will continuethrough Saturday, will be featured withthe crowning of the “Queen of theMay” Saturday afternoon at 5 o’clock.

Beginning tomorrow morning, theseveral houses of Neighborhood Housewill be gayly attired. Hundreds of per-sons attend the festival annually.

Playlets to be presented tomorrowafternoon at 4:30 in the garden ofNeighborhood House will be repeatedagam on Friday. Among them are:

“The Spring Frolic,” to be presentedby the day nursery and kindergartenchildren; "The Monkeys and Their RedCaps,” to be presented by the “TinyTots”; “Burying the Cat,” to be pre-sented by the “Jolly Juniors,” and “TheThree Little Pigs,” by the Allegro MusicClub of Neighborhood House.

Each evening at 8 o’clock, beginningtomorrow and continuing through Sat-urday, the following will be presented;

“Tne Shepherd,” by the Girls’ Club;“Golden Locks and Bears,” by Girls’Club; a Boy Scout play by the Boys’Club and “Seven Come Eleven,” byBoys’ Club.

Supper is to be served each eveningfrom 5 to 7, beginning tomorrow, at thecost oi 50 cents, and various articles willbe on sale, including those made in thecraits shop at Neighborhood House, andcandies, cakes and other edibles madeby the women’s clubs of NeighborhoodHouse.

SENATE HITS HOUSE REQUIREMENT;POLICEMEN FINISH EIGHTH GRADE

The District appropriation bill, as itwill come before the Senate within afew days, has had stricken from it theHouse provision which would requirean eighth-grade education for appoint-ment to the police force. In eliminat-ing this restriction, the Senate appro-priations committee also granted therecommendation of police officials for 25additional men to make possible theestablishment of a police training schoolwithout reducing the number of police-men on duty at one time.

In the Senate hearings on the bill itI was shown that of the 64 men appointed« to the police force during the past yeari 44 had attended colleges or high schools

: and of the remaining 20. 11 had been> through the eighth grade and 6 had

gone through the aeveath grftde, t

Another interesting feature of thebill which the Senate will be asked toapprove would provide a fund of $60,000to be used by local and Federal officialsin conducting a war on mosquitoes inWashington.

In connection with the appropriationfor a new bridge across Klingle Valleyon Connecticut avenue, the Senate com-mittee is recommending the eliminationof the provision under which any streetcar company using the bridge wouldhave to pay one-fourth of the cost ofthe new structure. In the hearings onthe bill officials of the Capital TractionCo. told the committee that the com-pany which built the car line on Con-necticut avenue paid the entire cost ofthe present bridge, which was built be-fore Connecticut wmm Jirntmast

, USURPING POWER, LAID TO UTILITIES

GROUPBYBUREAU, Commission Has Taken Overt» Traffic Director’s Duties,

Report Asserts.t

\ TAXI STANDS AND BUS; PERMITS ARE CITED

¦ Efficiency Experts Declare Act of

1925 Put' AllMatters Under> One Individual.

The Public Utilities Commission has¦ in many cases usurped the functions

r of the director of traffic and the Dis-. trict Commissioners with respect to

regulating traffic, according to a re-i port filed yesterday with the District

Commissioners by the Bureau of Effi-ciency. The Utilities Commission has

1 taken upon itself authority not givenit by law, particularly in the case of

1 interstate busses, intracity busses, sight-! seeing busses, special busses, their

¦ routes, stops and parking places, it ispointed out. The District Commission-

¦ ers themselvete are charged in a partof the report with usurping the au-

! thority of the director of traffic, who; is found by the bureau to have absolute

' control of all traffic in town.; The Commissioners, according to the; report, established taxi stands in their

own names, and the name of the di-rector of traffic does not appear in theorder. This “is in direct violation of

; the intention of Congress in passing; the traffic act of 1925. Manifestly,

Congress intended to put all mattersspecifically mentioned, and all mattersgenerally relating to the control of

, traffic, under the authority of one in-dividual, who would be responsible fortraffic conditions in this District. Thiswould Insure undivided responsibilityand the intelligent study of problemsconstantly arising.”

Taxi Stand Is Cited.The report singles out the establish-

ment of a taxi stand at Eightenthstreet and Pennsylvania avenue by theCommissioners, in conflict with an orderof the director of traffic that thereshall be no parking on the east side ofEighteenth street during the afternoonrush hour. “Such Inconsistency,” thereport finds “in the regulation of traf-fic is caused directly by divided con-trol, and clearly shows that an intel-ligent plan cannot be mapped out aslong as the District Commissioners at-tempt independently to regulate onephase, and the director of trafficanother phase of traffic control.”

The report winds up with a recom-mendation that “the director of trafficbe recognized as the proper official toinitiate regulations establishing hackstands as well as all other matters di-rectly relating to the control of traf-fic in the District of Columbia, sub-ject only to the approval of the Dis-trict Commissioners.

As to the “usurpation” by the PublicUtilities Commission, the bureau holdsthat since the public utilities act-waspassed in 1913, and the act setting up*.he position of director of traffic in1925, and since the traffic act spe-cifically grants exclusive authority tothe director of traffic in certain cases.Congress must have intended to givefull and complete authority to thedirector of traffic, subject only to ap-proval of the Board of Commissioners,in those cases enumerated in the act,as well as matters generally comingunder the head of "control of traffic.”The bureau takes the corporation coun-sel sharply to task for a written opinionin conflict with the bureau’s ideas onthe subject.

Bus Permit Is Pointed Out.The commission is specifically ac-

cused of granting an interstate bus linepermission to use Thirteenth street overthe objection of the director of traffic,but the charge is taken even further,and the bureau finds that the commis-sion has no control over interstate

.busses for any purpose whatsoever. Thisbeing the case, the report holds thatwhen Interstate busses want to useWashington streets they should not ap-ply to the Utilities Commission, but di-rectly to the director of traffic, and hisaction on the application should befinal.

The bureau report states that the set-ting aside of parking spaces for interor intra city busses by the commissionis an invasion of the powers of the di-rector of traffic, and dismisses an opin-ion of the corporation counsel to thecontrary as "erroneous.”

The bureau report holds sightseeingand special busses, such as take patronsto the nearby Maryland race tracks, arenot under the authority of the Utili-ties Commission, and makes the samesuggestions for them as for Interestatebusses.

A blanket regulation is proposed forrouting of all classes of busses by thedirector of traffic. In the case of in-tracity busses only, the bureau recom-mends that the application for a route,though still made to the director oftraffic, should be accompanied by anapproval from the Public Utilities Com-mission.

STUDENTS TO HAVE AIDIN HIGHER EDUCATION

Counsel on Courses, Tuition and

Other Requirements for Oirls

by University Women.

Counsel on the courses, tuition, re-quirements and other pertinent factsrelating to 44 different institutions ofhigher learning will be given to girlhigh school students and their parentsat the American Association of Univer-sity Women's headquarters, 1634 Istreet, during the association's observa-tion of “College day” Saturday from 10a.m. to 10 p.m.

Booths will be maintained by gradu-ates of these colleges and universitiesand catalogues of each will be availablefor inspection by the prospective stu-dents. The various means afforded bythe Institutions to assist girls throughschool will be outlined. Suggestionsfor students’ budgets and students’clothes also will be given. Besides the j44 Institutions which will be representedby booths, the catalogues of approxi-mately 300 colleges and institutionswill be shown parents and girls. Thelist includes both women’s colleges andco-educatlonal institutions.

UPTON’S RACER READY !

Challenger for America’s CupHanded Over by Builders.

GOSPORT, England. April 30 (/P). —

The Shamrock V, Sir Thomas Lipton'schallenger for the America’s Cup, washanded over by the builders today toher skipper, Capt. Heard, and Col. Dun-can Neill, representing Sir Thomas.

It had been planned to make a trialFUh tofey. but the triad wm too atom*.

CAPITAL YOUNGSTERS PREPARE FOR MAY FETES

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Upper: A group of milkmaids in the Neighborhood House Spring Festival, starting tomorrow. Front, left to right:Lillian Hinson, Elouise Reed and Katherine Twiford. Back: Thelma Hodgkins, Helen Hutton, Mary Carper and Mar-garet Jackson.

Lower: The May Queen and her court at Wheatley School: Kathleen Miller, Margaret Souder. Frances Hemp,Mildred Montgomery, Mildred Dougherty, who was chosen queen; Katherine Hayden, Kitty Skinner, Mildred Johnson,Thelma Giovannetti, Pauleen Miller and Jennette Russell, bearing the pillow. —star Staff Photo.

OWNERS PROTESTNEWTAXI MEASURE

t jSpokesmen for Several;

Groups Appear at Hearing |Before Senate Group.

The bill to give the Public UtilitiesCommission authority to regulate taxi-cabs was opposed in its present formby spokesmen for several groups of caboperators at a hearing before the Sen-ate District committee yesterday after-noon, in the course of which variouschanges in the proposed method ofregulation were suggested.

The purpose of the bill was explainedby Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairmanof the commission, who said it wouldempower the commission to requirefinancial responsibility, to regulate ratesand to require applicants for new serv-ice to obtain certificates of convenienceand necessity. The bill also would en-able the commission to designate routesto be followed by interstate bussespassing through the District.

Patrick Gives Views.Questioned by Senator Robsion, Re-publican of Kentucky, as to what effect

rate-fixing would have on competition,Gen. Patrick suggested the commissioncould fix a maximum and minimumrate. With reference to the certificateof convenience and necessity, Gen. Pat-rick said there was no intention to limitor lessen the number of cabs. Chair-man Capper presided at the hearing.

Richmond B. Keech, people's counsel,objected to the requirement of a certifi-cate of convenience and necessity. Heagreed to the other portions of the bill,explaining that he favored reasonableregulation of the taxicab business, butthought there should not be a certificatethat could prohibit new operators.

The provisions of the bill as draftedby the commission were opposed byRobert Hardison, representing a groupof Independent hackers; Alfred D.Smith, attorney for the IndependentTaxicab Owners’ Association, operatingDiamond cabs, and by William McK.Clayton, representing the Bell, City andSun cabs.

Financial Clause Too Broad.

Mr. Hardison said the section relatingto financial responsibility was too broadas written, and suggested amendments.Hardison and Clayton both thought amaximum rate might be established, butdid not believe there should be a min-imum rate fixed by the commission. Mr.Smith said he favored regulation, butdid not think the bill should be en-acted as introduced. He suggested thatthe committee consider a bill Intro-duced in the House last year by Repre-sentative Gibson of Vermont to revisethe license laws of the District.

W. W. Cloud of Baltimore, presidentof the National Association of TaxicabOwners, and Barney Graves, vice presi-dent of the Yellow Cab Co. of Phila-delphia spoke in favor of the pendingbill to place cab regulation under thecommission.

William L. Sudenga of the TaxicabDrivers and Chauffeurs’ Union, sug-gested several amendments. Sergt. Jo-seph D. Harrington, hack inspector ofthe Police Department, said there isneed for new legislation on the subject

I of taxicab regulation.

Buenos Aires Feels Shock.BUENOS AIRES, April 30 (JP ).—

Earthquake shocks were recorded yes-terday by by the meteorological stationof Villa Ortuzar. They were felt atseveral places in San Luis and Men-doza Provinces and their epicenter wasplaced In the Ancles Range,

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He Likes to ShowCar to Any One butTraffic Policemen

World Traveler’s AutoHas Everything Needed

but Parking Space.

The automobile which Mr. Buzzacottdrove to town today seemed to haveeverything but a parking space.

Aside from the stuffed rattlesnakes, ithad four-wheel brakes, ceiling suspen-sion beds, shock absorbers, folding boats,extra heavy springs, a taxidermist out-fit and a windshield wiper.

Mrs. Buzzacott, as Mr. Buzzacott ex-plained, was the windshield wiper. Mr.Buzzacott did most of his explainingwith an eye on the traffic policeman.

Sometimes Mr. Buzzacott glanced atthe officer from behind the pine treeson his back porch, and other times hepeered out through his patented copper-screen windows near the driver’soverstuffed chair.

“You’ll Find Them Everywhere.”“You find them every place you go,”

smiled Mr. Buzzacott, a trifle bitterly.He had stopped his home In a pro-hibited area. “Every one of the 48States has at least several of them, notto mention the policemen ofAfrica, India, Egypt, China, Holland,Alaska. .

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“What?—oh, that,” said Mr. Buzza-cott, picking up a picture from, hisparlor table and turning toward thelibrary. “If you get it in the rightlight,” he said, switching on the chan-delier, “you’ll see it’s a good workingdrawing of the proposed ‘aero-weath-erdome,’ roof canopy, which I inventedto cover Soldier Field in Chicago.”

“No,” grinned Mr, Buzzacott, “itdoesn’t always rain lead over there —

no matter what the newspapers say.”Mr. Buzzacott raised the shade on

his dining room window and glancedtoward the corner. The traffic police-man was looking his way.

“We’ve been around the world aboutsix times, my wife and I,” Mr. Buzza-cott said, “and I guess maybe we’dbetter be going."

The traffic officer, however, hadturned his attention to a woman whoseemed to be trying to drive two waysat once.

Retired Army Sergeant.“Perhaps I’ll have time to tell you

about us, after all,” said Mr. Buzzacott,who, aside from being a retired Armysergeant, 70 years old, is an Indianscout, explorer, big-game hunter, in-ventor, author and co-designer of hishome on wheels, the Cruiser Car.

“Perhaps I will, and perhaps I won’t,”he amended. Sure enough, the trafficpoliceman was coming over to Mr. Buz-zacott’s house.

“You can leave by the back porchsteps.” said Mr. Buzzacott hurriedly,fiddling with the ignition switch. "Ilike to explain this outfit to everybodybut traffic cops!”

EXPLAINS CONVERSION.Native African to Speak to Sev-

enth Day Adventist Group.A native African from Nyasaland.

James Malinka, who is traveling to SanFrancisco as a delegate to the quadren-nial session of the general conferenceof Seventh Day Adventists, will describehow he came to embrace Christianityin an appearance Friday before thecongregation of the Seventh Day Ad-ventist Church, at 624 Eighth streetnortheast.

Malinka Is being accompanied to SanFrancisco by Prof. A. W. Spalding, sec-retary of the home commission of thegeneral conference of the denomination.He is an ordained clergyman and direc-tor of the Membera mission of theAfrican division conference of thechinch. _

CATHEDRAL GROUPTO HOLD MEETING

|j 800 Expected to Attend as

Committees Prepare Re-ports on Progress.

Men and women of prominence fromcities throughout the country will gather

i on Mount St. Alban tomorrow for thejannual meeting of the National Cathe-dral Association, an organizationfounded more than three decades ago toarouse attention to the need for a greathouse of prayer in the National Capital.

The gathering will be held at Whitby' Hall, one of the buildings of the Na-

tional Cathedral School for Girls, andwill start at 2:30 o'clock. It is expectedthat nearly 800 members of the associa-tion will attend. The principal speakerswill include Right Rev. James e! Free-man, Bishop of Washington: Right Rev.Philip M. Rhinelander, warden of theCollege of Preachers, and Mrs. G. C. F.Bratenahl, chairman of the garden com-mittee of All Hallows Guild.

There also will be reports from chair-men of local committees, reviews of ac-tivities of the committees which areserving under the leadership of Gens.John J. Pershing as national chairmanand detailed explanations of the con-struction accomplishments at the Ca-thedral of the past 12 months.

Following the addresses and readingof reports the group will attend the 4o’clock- service in the Bethlehem Chapel.Memorial services will be held for Ad-miral George Dewey at this time, astomorrow is celebrated nationally as“Manila day.” Capt. Sidney K. Evans,chief of Navy chaplains, will be thepreacher. Acting Secretary of theNavy Jahncke will attend the serviceas representative of the Navy Depart-ment.

Later in the afternoon a receptionand tea will be held in the Bishop’s gar-den in honor of the association mem-bers, and pilgrimages will be conductedthrough the crypt chapels of the Ca-thedral to the College of Preachers andto other points of interest on Mount St.Alban.

SENATE GROUP TO ACTON TWO DISTRICT BILLS

Howell Dry Measure and ProposedChange in Utilities Appeals

Are on Capper Slate.

The Senate District committee is ex-pected to take final action tomorrowafternoon on the Howell dry enforce-ment bill and on the bill changingthe court procedure when appeals aretaken from decisions of the PublicUtilities Commission. Chairman Cap-per has called the committee to meetat 2 o’clock tomorrow to dispose ofthese two measures.

The Howell bill, on which hearingshave been held, would extend prohibi-tion enforcement authority to all mem-bers of the police force, whereas only38 local policemen now have that power. !Most of the discussion in the commit- ,tee has related to another provision. ¦extending the search warrant law, on ,which the Department of Justice madean unfavorable recommendation.

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Suicide Near Vatican City. !ROME, April 30 VP). —Commendatore f

Agostino Agosti Podesta of San Remo icommitted suicide near the Vatican lCity confines yesterday. i

Vatican authorities today denied iearlier reports that the suicide had been.Within £aQ%l tenltflsi iUelf, I

EDUCATION BOARDCONSIDERS FUNDSFOR 1932 BUDGET

Group Goes Over Bequests

for Improvements and NewSchool Equipment.

ATTITUDE OF COMMITTEETO INFLUENCE DECISIONS *

Matter of Teachers’ Salaries Also

Believed on Today’s Busi-ness Calendar.

Fortified with knowledge of the trendof the Senate District committee’s atti-tude toward District school needs as in-dicated by the Senate committee reporton the 1931 appropriation bill, the Dis-trict Board of Education’s finance com-mittee this afternoon is attempting tofix money limitations on the 1932 schoolestimates.

Convening at 3 o’clock, the committeeunder Dr. Abram Simon, chairman, isgiving final consideration to the massof requests for school improvements andequipment which was presented to theschool board at the citizen’s conferenceEaster Monday night. This data hasbeen assembled and put in order byHarry O. Hine, secretary of the board.

Consider Teachers.While this afternoon’s meeting is

executive, it is known in school circlesthat serious consideration will be giventhe teaching staff salary items and thepossibility of confusion which is ex-pected to result from a difference ofopinion between the House subcom-mittee and the Senate committee. TheHouse group, of which RepresentativeSimmons of Nebraska is chairman, al-lowed 11 teaching positions for nextyear, but included no money for thesalaries in the belief that adequatefunds could be “saved” from varioussources. The Senate, however, not onlyhas replaced teaching positions whichthe House committee struck from theestimates as sent forward by the BudgetBureau but it provided money for thesalaries. An attempt is being made thisafternoon to frame estimates which can

I ’je modified later according to the 1931\ppropriation bill as it finally is passed

t by both houses.The Senate committee’s report on the

1931 bill also presents a new problemto the board's finance committee todayin the elimination from the bill of the12-room and 2-gymnasium additionsought for the Gordon Junior HighSchool. Some of the most serious con-gestion anywhere in the school systemhas centered about the Gordon School,where it has been impossible to estab-lish a ninth grade, and at the WesternHigh School, nearby, from which allnon-resident pupils and pupils living

| east of Connecticut avenue and RockCreek Park were excluded last year inan effort to accommodate the heavy en-rollment.

Drop Gordon Improvements.It was explained at the Franklin

School today that the Senate commit-tee struck out the Gordon Junior HighSchool improvements in order to com-pensate for certain other buildings inthe colored divisions and regret was

: expressed that the Senate committee,I without consulting the school people| themselves, chose the Gordon building

for the sacrifice. It was pointed outthat the addition requested for theStuart Junior High School could have

I been better spared. The finance com-mittee then, if it assumes that theGordon item is lost for the present, willbe obliged to include It in the 1932estimates.

Besides Dr. Simon, the finance com-mittee Included Dr. H. Barret Learnedand Dr. J. Hayden Johnson. Othermembers of the board have been re-quested to sit in with the committeethis afternoon. The school authorities

! have until Monday to complete thegigantic task confronting them as thecommissioners have asked for all Dis-

l trict department estimates by that day.

COURT REALIGNMENTTO BE MADE ON MONDAY

Press of Criminal Cases, JusticeStafford Hines and Equity Vol-

ume Necessitates Change.

Next Monday will witness a re-alignment of the justices of the DistrictSupreme Court for the remaining weekspreceding the Summer recess of thecourts, July 1. Because of the press ofcriminals cases, the illness of JusticeStafford, and the accumulation of casesin Equity Division 2, due to the num-ber of condemnation proceedings, oneof the two circuit courts will be discon-tinued and Justice Jennings Bailey willtake over Equity Division 2 in the hopeof disposing of more than 200 casesawaiting hearing in that tribunal.

Justice Wheat will transfer the con-demnation cases to Equity Division 1and Justice Hitz will resume the ses-sions of Criminal Division 2, whichhave recently been suspended while hepresided in Equity Division 1. JusticeSiddons will hold Circut Divison 1 andwill be the only law justice. JusticeGordon will continue in Criminal Di-vision 1.

NORTH CAROLINA U. CLUBSCHEDULES CONCERT

Group of Singers to Entertain To-

night in Italian Ball Room

at Mayflower Hotel.The Glee Club of the University of

North Carolina, one of the most popu-lar of such organizations that visit theNational Capital annually, will give aprogram in the Italian ball room of theHotel Mayflower tonight at 8:15 o’clock.

Harold S. Dyer, director if the club,will conduct the boys in five groups ofsongs. They will include old Englishsongs, Negro songs, modern folk songs,modern American songs and both Rus-sian and Irish folk songs. It is a dis-tinctive program, well balanced andwith representative works of fine com-posers, as well as favorite melodies.

BARKLEY CHIEF SPEAKERSenator Barkley of Kentucky, and

a member of the class of 1901, will bethe principal speaker at the annual din-ner of the Washington Chapter of theUniversity of Virginia Alumni Fridaynight. May 2, at 8 o’clock in the ChevyChase Club. *«-

James G. Driver and Dr. Jordan, as-sistant dean of medicine at the univer-sity, also will speak. The former, thenew athletic director, will tell of plansfor the future In Virginia’s athletics, andparticularly will describe the “ScottStadium.” the recent gift of FrederickW. Scott of Richmond, newly electedrector of the university.

Richard E. Shands is chairman of thed&nk cownJtu*.

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