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ASSOCIATION ASKS
SCHOOLBUILDING
Sixteenth Street Heights
Citizens Instruct Committee
to Work for Extension.
The Sixteenth Street Heights Citi
zens’ Association authorized its com
mittee on schools to proceed with the
movement already inaugurated to ac
quire a school for the community, at
a meeting last night in the Georgia
Avenue Tea House, near the District
boundary. It was contended that the
subdivision had in the last two years,
increased in population to a degree
that entitle's it to ,school facilities.
The children of the community have
to go long distances to schools and
In Winter the weather often is so
severe as to endanger health.
A site for the school is in view
and the committee will present the
matter to the jiroper authorities.
President Dickson of the associa
tion reported that street lamps are
assured on Sixteenth street 'from
Montague street north to the en
trance of Alaska avenue, which ad
dition to the lighting system will
about complete service to the District
line.
Recent resurfacing of a number of
the streets in the subdivision was
announced.
A movement was started to procure
a wooded area located on the west
side of Georgia avenue for a public park.
A protest was ordered to be filed
against dumping of insanitary refuse
on vacant lots in the community,
which, it was contended, was detri
mental to home owners.
Authority was given the street com
mittee to petition for additional im
provements in sections of the sub
division hitherto neglected. ’ Work
remedying certain defective crossings,
and street surfacing at places which
are in line of travel has been prom
ised, it was stated, but to date re
mains undone, leaving thoroughfares
gt times nearly Impassable.,
Request also was made for addi
tional sidewalks. It was directed that
steps be taken to have the owners
of vacant lots at certain points re
quired to keep sidewalks cleaned of
the mud which washes down from
ungraded property.
Attention also was called to unim
proved lots on which, during the
summer season, weeds are permitted
to remain and at times to bbstruct
the sidewalks. It was announced that
steps will be taken to remedy this
condition at the beginning of the
next weed visitation.
' Report was made that a confer
ence Is to be held soon to promote
the bill for the extension of Four
teenth street, now before the House
and Senate conferees. The meeting was
concluded by dancing.
Do You Know How to
VOTE BY MAIL?
Washingtonian* who hope to vote by
mail this year, but who are doubtful
concerning the laws of their home
States on the subject, may receive the
necessary information by directing in
quiries to The Evening Star as fol
lows:
Voting Information, care
News Department,
Evening Star.
The questions and answers will be
publirhed each day.
Q. Please inform me whether nr
not I can vote by mail in Connecti
cut. I am in the service, but am a
registered voter at my home, which
is my official residence. —B.
A. There is no provision in the
Connecticut statutes for voting by
mail.
Q. Please tell me whether residents
of Tennessee may both register and
vote by mail. —E. C. B.
A. Yes; last registration day Octo
ber 15 Application for official ballot
may be made up to October 25.
Q. Please give me information
iclative to my voting in the Stare
of Oregon by mail.—E. M. P.
A. Registration is required bien
nially and may be by affidavit. 1 but
if you voted at the last general
election you need not re-register. The
last registration day was October 4.
You have until the 20th of October
to make application for your ballot,
tc be voted by mail. The only class
of electors who are eligible to vote
by mail are Federal employes, mem
bers of their immediate families, stu
dents in an institution of learning
and commercal travelers.
Q. Please send me information
with reference to voting by mail. 1
was born in Virginia, but am living
in the District of Columbia now. Is
it necessary to go back there? —MRP.
M. V.
A. If you are in Government Serv
ice you have not lost your residence
in Virginia, and if you are registered
you can vote by mail by applying to
the registrar of your home precinct
and foiwarding stamps and registry
fee for the return of your ballot.
Q. Prior to her marriage my wife
voted in Ohio. My residence is In
Missouri, where voting by mail is not
permitted. Can my wife now vote In
Ohio, or does her residence become
■that of mine? If she can vote in
Ohio, to whom does she write to be
registered and obtain a ballot?—E.
C. D.
A. Have your wife call at 1324 New
York avenue and, after giving full
particulars, she will be instructed.
Any further Information will be
"Furnished those making application
at the Republican campaign head
quarters, 1324 New York avenue, or
at the Democratic central committee
offices, room 220, Investment Build
ing, Fifteenth _and K streets.
T&E EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 15/ 1924
AVIATORS DELAY
SHOWJHREE DAYS
Exhibition at Bolling Field
Will Be Given Saturday to
Benefit Relief Fund.
Final arrangements are being made
by personnel at Bolling Field for the
aerial exhibition to be given at
Bolling Field Saturday afternoon tor
the benefit of the Army relief fund.
The tentative date had been set for
today, but decision was arrived at
later to hold the entertainment Sat
urday, beginning at 3 o’clock..
Aware of the task before them to
surpass the show given last year, of
ficers are mustering pilots and planes
from other fields, and recruiting the
newest equipment to be displayed to
the public.
An outstanding feature of the ex
hibition will be the destruction by
machine gun fire frOm an airplane
of an observation balloon. Another
attractive event will be a flight of
three of the latest pursuit planes,
Curtiss PW-8, by pilots from the first
pursuit group, Selfridge Field, Mich.
This flight will include a complete
recital of the dictionary of acrobatics.
Sky-Writing I* Planned.
The first event on the program, at
3 o’clock, will be a free balloon as
cension. Ip charge of <sol. Ira Fravel,
chief of the lighter-than-air section
of the Air Service; it will remain In
the air four hours. Event No. 2 will
be a sky-writing ship, which will
trace out the word “Welcome,” 11,000
feet above the spectators. Lieut.
Wendell H. Brookle.y of McCook Field,
Dayton. Ohio, is scheduled to arrive
here for this exhibition, but if he la
unable to reach the city; XJeut. E. E.
Harmon of Belling Field will,-be his
understudy. The other numbers on
the program are:
Event No. 4—Demonstration of
aerial photography. A photograph
plane will take a picture of ■the field
and spectators and within 45 minutes
copies will be distributed to those
who wish to buy them at 25 cents
apiece. The proceeds from these pic
tures will go to the Army Relief
Fund. Lieuts. Howard K. Ramey and
White of Bolling Field will take the pic
tures.
Event No. ,5 —Balloon sniping by
two pursuit planes. In charge of Capt.
Snow and Lieut. Harmon.
Newest Pursuit Plane*.
Event No. 6—Parachute race from
two Martin bombers by two “Jumpers”
from Mitchell Field, N. Y.
Event No. 7 Exhibition flying
newest pusuit planes by Selfridge
Field pilots.
Event No. 8 Destruction enemy
balloon by machine gun fire.
Event No. 9—Destruction of enemy
CHARITIES BENEFIT
UNDER WALLIS WILL
Employes Also Remembered.
Many Bequests to Relatives,
left $150,000.
v
The District Commissioners are giv
en $2,500 for use of the playgrounds
by the will of Hugh Wallis, who died
October 3. The estate is valued at
$150,000. Other bequests Include $5,000
to the First Presbyterian Church;
$2,500 each to the Home for Found
lings, Home for Incurables: Mont
gomery County Hospital, at Sandy
Spring, Md., and the Washington
Sanitarium at Takoma Park; Md.
Each employe of the Wallis restau
rant who has been with the company
for one year is given the privilege
of buying at par stock in the cor
poration not, to exceed 100 shares to
each. Two hundred shares of the
company and $5,000 In cash are left
to Lojiis Colvin: 90 shares and $5,000
to -R nephew, William W. Wallis; a
like 1 ' bequest to a nephew. Edmund C.
Wallis, and a similar legacy to a
niece, Rebecca W. Ketner of River
dale, Md. Julia M. Colvin is to have
50 shares of the stock and SI,OOO in
cash and Bertie L. Packet is also to
receive 50 shares and SI,OOO. Mae
McDonald and Addie Constantine,
sisters-in-law, are given SI,OOO each
and a like amount to Mrs. Wallis’
niece, Fannie May Scott.
The household and other effects
are left to the widow, Ida Martin
Wallis, with $25,000 in ( cash. The re
maining estate is devised to J. Erls
Powell and the National Metropolitan
Bank in trust to pay the net income
to the widow during her life. On the
death of Mrs. Wallis the trust Is to
terminate and the estate is to be dis
tributed among-William Wallis, Ed
mund C. Wallis, Rebecca W. Ketner,
Addje Constantine, May McDonald,
Fannie M. Scott, Louis Colvin and
Julia Colvin in equal shares. The
widow and J. Erls Powell are named
as executors.
Maj. Guerin Ordered Here.
Maj. Mark E. Guerin, Army judge
advocate, at Chicago, has been or
dered to this city for duty in the
office of the judge advocate general.
War Department.
village by Martin bombers frotn
Langley Field, Va.
Event No. 10—Smoke screen around
the field by a Martin bomber of the
United States Marine Corps from
Quantico, Va.
Event No. 11—Aerial parade of all
types of aircraft in use by the Army
Air Service.
In addition to the foregoing the
Elks’ Clown Bated of this city will
entertain, aided by enlisted men of
the field, Who also will be attired In
clown dress.
Admission will be 50 cents and
tickets may beAJurchased en route to
the field or at Uf'main entrance.
EASTERN TO STAGE
AGRICULTURE NIGHT
Announce Program for Community
Center at High
School.
Agricultural Department night will
mark the third of the Community
Center popartment's educational pro
grams tonight at the New Eastern
High School at 8 o’clock. The series
of educational programs is being
arranged in co-operation with the
Federal departments.
The program will open with a
concert by the Washington Boys'
Independent Band, directed by James
L. Kidwell, bandmaster, the num
bers including: March, "Washington
Post” (Sousa); overture, “Debutante 7 ’
(Myers); waltz. "Charma” (King);
cornet solo, "Minstrel Boy” (Witt),
played by Musician George Berkeley;
march, “Loysville” (Seitz); serenade.
"Twilight Hour’’ (Myers); march.
"Brookes’’ (Seitz); “The Star Spangled
Banner.’’
C. W. Warburton, director of ex
tension work in the Agricultural De
partment, will be the speaker of
the evening, his subject being "Some
of the Services of the Department
of Agriculture for City People,’’ and
his address will be illustrated with
motion pictures, presented under the
direction of F. W. Perkins, in charge
of the office of motion pictures in
the department. • .
Five reels will be shown, the first
being *‘Keep Out Bad Food,” which
shows the work of the department
in the Inspection of food imported
from foreign countries, also the
operation of tea inspection.’ "Roads
to Wonderland” is a particularly
beautiful film, depicting road building
in the national forests and parks of
the West, including Mount Hood,
Crater Lake and Yosemlte»National
Park In California. "The Honor of the
Little Purple Stamp,” which Is also
to be shown tonight, tells of the
operation of the Federal meat In
spection service. "Uncle World
Champion Farmer,” shows scenes of
crops, fruit and live stock Industries
of the United States. The final reel,
“The Horse In Motion,” is particu
larly Interesting in its presentation
of the study of the various gaits of
horses, first at normal speed, then
analyzed by means of a slow motion
camera. Draft horses, hunters, pacers
trotters, runners, cavalry police
horses are shown.
A fee of 10 cents Is asked by the
Community Center Department <or
this program, to cover the cost of
transportation of band, and operation
of the pictures.
Gets Reclamation Post.
R. E. Walter, assistant' shies en
engineer of the Reclamation Bureau, to
day was appointed acting chief en
gineer to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of F. E. Weymouth. He
will assume his duties November 1,
with headquarters at Denver.
MRS. ROSS NAMED
FOR GOVERNORSHIP
Wyoming Democrats Choose
Executive’s Widow Nominee
to Succeed Him.
By th€. Associated JPrens,
CHfcYKNNE, Wyo, October 15—
Mrs. Nellie G. Ross, widow of Gov.
William B. Ross, late yesterday was
chosen unanimously as Democratic
nominee for governor by the emer
gency Democratic State convention in
session here.
Mrs. Ross was nominated by ac
clamation at the completion of the
roll call of counties for nominating
candidates.
Her name was placed formally be
fore the convention by George W.
Patterson of Laramie, speaking for
Albany County.. Only one other name
—that of Patrick O'Connor of Casper,
came before the convention. Before
the roll call had been two-thirds com
pleted, however. O’Connor’s name was
withdrawn at his own request.
Although Wyoming as a .territory
in blazed the way for national
woman suffrage by giving its women
the right of the ballot, Mrs. Ross Is
the first woman ever to be nominated
for such a high office.
Together with Mrs. Miriam A. Fer
guson, Democratic-nominee for gov
ernor of Texas. Mrs. Ross takes her
place as the wife of ! a- former ex
ecutive to be thus honored. Gov.
Ross’ term would not have expired
for two years.
When at the executive
mansion of her ■ nomination, Mrs.
Ross’ first words' were;
"Oh, I don’t know what I shall do.”
Will Carry On.
But after several visits by close
personal friends and Democratic po
litical leaders in the State, she an
nounced shq, would "carry on in her
husband’s footsteps if that were the
desire of the Wyoming electorate”’’
"If my boys stand back of me 1
guess I have nothing to. fear,” she
added, glancing at her three sons,
Ambrose and George, 21, twins, stu
dents at the University of Wyoming,
and William Bradford Ross, jr., the
youngest boy, a student in Cheyenne
graded schools.
"However, I shall not make a cam
paign,” she declared.
"My candidacy is in the hands of
my friends. I shall not leave the
house. If the voters of Wyoming
have enough confidence In my ability
to carry out the duties of governor,
they will let me know at the polls on
November 4.” , • ,
The news of her nomination ended 1
three weeks of severe strain, occa
sioned the Illness and death of her
busbandflknd Mrs. Rose plainly show-
Red Cross Spends
$4,67 for Each $1
Donated for Aid
By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA. Ga., October 15 —For
each dollar received by the South
ern division of the American Red
Cross in the lost year it has ex
pended $4.67 for disaster and re
lief work, assistance to disabled
veterans and others services, ac
cording to a financial statement
made public yesterday.
The report shows that southern
headquarters received as its part
of the membership fees from the
South this year, $36,966. while it
has expended' $453.'375. ‘ These fig
ures do not include' funds received
or expended by the 700 local chap
ters of the Red Cross in the South,
it is added.
HONOR CONFERRED
ON MISS MORTIMER
Carbery School Principal Elected
President of Teachers’
Council.
Miss Florence C. Mortimer, princi
pal of the Carbery School, was elect
ed president of the Teachers' Council
for the current scholastic year at a
meeting last night in the Franklin
School. She succeeds Frank C. Dan
iel, principal of McKinley Manual
Training School.
Other officers chosen follow: Doro
thy Pelham of the Shaw Junior High
School faculty, vice president; Anne
Keliher of the . Curtis-Hyde School,
secretary; Eleanor Zuberano, secre
tory to Asst. Supt. of Schools
Robert L. Haycock, treasurer: Dr.
Rebecca Stoneroad, director of physi
cal training, and Mrs. Rosa Netherland
of the Mott School, members of the
executive board.
, The council authorized the appoint
ment of a committee of five to con
sider the nature of the teachers’ in
stitute to be held before the end of
the current-calendar year. A special
meeting of the council will be held
when the committee is ready to report.
Dr. Frank \V. Ballou, supeflntend
ebt of schools, suggested that the
practice of holding the institute on a
school day would have to be changed
at some future time, due to the criti
cisms on account of the closing of the
schools. |
ed it in the line* about her face and
her unaccustomed nervousness.
“But I shall ‘go through It some
how,” she said, and then added quick
ly in a wlstfdt voice to newspaper
men.
“But please dVish me luck, won’t
you?”
Besides nominating Mrs. Ross, the
emergency ysMbiocratic convention
paid a stirrinß tribute to the late
Gov. Rois in aSfengthy resolution.
17
BUSINESS CADETS
IN MILITARY DALLY
School and Corps Officials
Urge 100 Per Cent Enlist
ment of Pupils.
A “100 per cent military rally” was
held at Business High School yester
day afternoon to recruit boys for the
Washington High School Cadet Corps.
The rally was in charge of the school's
military committee, composed of Mrs.
Florence Mitchell, Joseph Finckel
and Ernest Wilkinson.
Allan Davis, principal of Business,
opened the exercises with a plea to
the boys to enlist In the cadet corps,
emphasizing its numerous advan
tages. Capt. Earl Judkins, U. S. A.,
military instructor at the school,
spoke on “Aspiration, Inspiration and
Perspiration."
At the close of the drill of Busi
ness' four cadet companies, the girls’
auxiliary of the school served a sur
prise luncheon.
Officers of Companies.
Officers of the Business companies
were announced as follows:
Company l—Fred English, captain;
Mason Wallace, first lieutenant; Albert
Goldstein, second lieutenant; William
Woiowitz. Willard Wilson, Colbert
Smith, Stanley Wetmore and Frank
Butler, sergeants; Kenneth Harvey.
Gilbert Smulkln, William Lynch.
Joseph Curtin, Richard Keefer and
Robert Story, corporals.
Company 2—Carroll Hlghfleld, cap
tain; Joseph Upton, first lieutenant;
Albert King, second lieutenant; An
gelo Gamma, Fred Ulle, Abner Ro
sendorg, John Waters and Harold
Gill, -sergeants: William Hawkins.
Ashley Smith. Ernest .Downs, Luis
Schuman and M. Collins, corporals.
Company 3—Adam Offenbacher, cap
tain; Charles W. Haring, first lieu
tenant; Carl Herrman, second lieu
tenant; George Foreman. Vernon
Snoots, Arthur Scribner, Harry Slye
and Patrick Bradley, sergeants; Don
ald Peqn, Morris Fox, Dean Upton,
William Dove. Horace Smith and Car
lyn Dewey, corporals.
Company 4—John M. Hall, captain;
John Larcombe. first lieutenant; Ross
Heffelflnger, second lieutenant; John
Tastet, Willard Brown, Richard Mont
gomery, Louis Felker and Russel
Grimes, sergeants: George Yeatman,
David Miller. S. Hunt. James Fenton,
Faust Carbon and Russele Benhoff.
corporals.
Spends Nothing 1 in Race.
Sam O. Bratton, Democratic nominee
for the Senate in New Mexico, who Is
opposed by Senator Republi
can, reported to the secretary of the
Senate today he had spent nothing
J**hls primary campaign.