I -=i Washington News Society and General _ _ __' _WASHINGTON, I). C., TUESDAY, JUKE 14, 1932. * PAGE B-I MEANS. IN JAIL AWAITS SENTENCE IN $104,000 THEFT Attorneys May Bring Habeas Corpus Proceedings Be fore Another Judge. CONVICTED OF CHARGES » IN BABY RANSOM FRAUD Proctor to Impose Sentence Tomor row—Prisoner Faces 20 Years’ Imprisonment. Convicted of stealing $104,000 from Mrs. Evalvn Walsh McLean in a Lind bergh baby ransom fraud, Gaston B Means, former Department of Justice investigator, sat in the District Jail today awaiting the words of the court which will send him to the peniten tiary for the third time. Justice James M. Proctor, who pre sided at the trial in District Supreme Court, will impose sentence tomorrow. Means faces a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment and $1,000 fine on each of two counts charging him with larceny of $100,000 and the larceny of $4,000 from Mrs. McLean. Receives Verdict Calmly. The jury reached its verdict after two hours’ deliberation last night. Means received the decision calmly. When Justice Proctor refused to per mit Means to remain at liberty under $50,000 bond and remanded him to jail, defense attorneys said they would consider bringing habeas corpus pro ceedings before another judge. According to the testimony at the trial. Means accepted the $100,000 from Mrs. McLean to ransom the stolen child of Col. and Mrs. Lind bergh. The $4,000 item was for ex penses. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover, who prosecuted the case with the as sistance of John Keith of the Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice, told the jury Means took this money from Mrs McLean and converted it to his own use without ever having any intention or expectation of returning the child to its parents. He characterized Means as a “prince of liars" and a "picture-book detective dealing in broken hearts and mothers' love." Rover scouted Means' story of having turned the $100,000 over to a man who identified himself as an agent of Mrs. McLean through use of a code number. Means had said this man stopped him on the road near Alexandria. Va. at night while he was driving back to Washington from Concord, N. C. Mrs. McLean on Stand. Defense Attorney T. Morris Wampler, In his closing argument, said Means’ story was no more fantastic than Dr. J. F. Condon's act of tossing $50,000 over a cemetery wall in New York to a man he had never seen before. Wampler suggested that Means did not take the stand in his own defense for fear of being killed by the kidnapers if he did so. "Means’ arrest.” he said, ‘‘sealed his lips—put him on the spot. He knew that if he opened his mouth to talk of his negotiations with the kidnepers his life would be snuffed out—that the dan gerous men he dealt with would reply with a sawed-off shotgun.” The case hinged largely on Mrs. Mc Lean’s testimony. She told of her trips to Aiken. S. C.. and El Paso. Tex., with Means in quest of the Lindbergh baby, which seemed always just beyond reach. Means, she said, told her the kid napers were desperate men. prepared to shoot it out with the police if nec essary. She also described “the Fox," supposedly one of the kidnapers, who was introduced to her by Means. At another point she told of giving Means some knockout drops to use on the Fox after Means had threatened to kill him. She said she carried the drops for her ©wn protection. Mrs. McLean turned the $100,000 over to Means on March 7. He was arrested ©n May 5 and Indicted five days later. PHONE HEARINGS OPEN TOMORROW Rate Inquiry to Be Held Without Determining Valuation of Company. Public hearings on Washington’? telephone rates will begin before the Public Utilities Commission at 10 a m. tomorrow. The hearings are being held without a valuation, as the commission intends to seek to force rates down in advance of any valuation which might come later. The company has been ordered to file statistics relating to its earnings in preparation for the hearing, and this has been done. It is understood the company claims that during 1931 it earned $2,250,000, applicable to a return on an undepreciated rate base of $31, 864,000, the rate base being the original valuation of 1914, plus net additions and betterments at cost to date. This would give the company a return of ap proximately 7.8 per cent on its rate base. The Federation of Citizens’ Associa tions will insist at the hearing on a valuation, although urging a present re duction regardless of the outcome of the valuation in the future. The commission's accounting force has been working overtime in preparing figures for the hearing, as well as in checking the figures submitted by the company. DENTAL CLINICS URGED Need for Care of Poor Children Is Stressed in Radio Talk. Need for free dental clinics to assure proper care cf poor children’s teeth was stressed in a radio address broadcast by the District Dental Society over WRC last night. The city has ample facilities for treat ing all other ailments at clinics, but, unlike other large communities, lacks proper dental equipment to assist the needy, the society said. TAXICAB DRIVER HURT Isaac Williams, 47. of Alexandria, Va., a taxicab driver, suffered injuries in the back last night when he was pinned be tween the open door of his taxicab and a street car in the 3100 block of Mount Pleasant street. He was taken to Emer gency Hospital in the fl*e rescue squad ambulance, where it was said he may have also received internal injuries. Williams, according to police, had just ■lighted from the taxicab and was standing beside the open door when the atreet car ginned him against iW Gypsy Swindles Widow INSURANCE MONEY “BLESSED” AND MISSING. Mrs. Susie Miller and her son Prank, 4134 Hunt place northpast. —Star Staff Photo. A WIDOW'S story of being swin dled of $1,400 in Insurance money and diamond rings through the ancient “money blessing" trick started a police search today for a gypsy woman and her alleged accomplice. Mrs. Susie Miller, 54, came to head quarters today from her home at 4134 Hunt place northeast with her son. Prank. 20. and related how she had been robbed of virtually all her worldly goods by means of a handkerchief and a muttered blessing. Mrs. Miller said she was visiting In North Beach. Md.. about a week ago when a gypsy woman, whom she had known for some time by her first name, advised her to have her valuables “blessed" for “good luck.” Rings Were “Blessed.’’ The woman told her the valuables would "multiply" If this ancient gypsy "gcod luck" rite was performed over them. Mrs. Miller said the woman demonstrated with her four diamond rings and a 20-dollar bill, wrapping them in a handkerchief and pro 1 nouncing the magic words. Mrs. Miller was informed that an other woman would call on her in i Washington—a woman competent to bless a large amount of money. This woman. Mrs. Miller said, arrived at her home here Saturday, performing the rite on her rings and another 20-dollar bill. Satisfied by the first rites that no trickery was in prospect, Mrs. Miller said she called by instruction at the second woman's residence in the 100 block of E street yesterday morning, bringing her valuables—$1,400 Insur ance money from the recent death of her son and four diamond rings. Wadded Paper Substituted. The valuables were wrapped in a col ored handkerchief, the woman waved her hands over the bundle, mumbling the magic words, and then pinned the handkerchief to the back of Mrs. Miller's dress under her coat. Mrs. Miller, she said, was instructed not to look in'ide the bundle or unfasten it until she reached home, on penalty of destroying the charm. The victim declared she had such confidence In the women she did not open the bundle until several hours later, discovering that a handkerchief containing wadded paper had been substituted for the first. Police located a woman described to them as the sister of the “seeress," and were questioning her today in an effort to locate the alleged swindler. No trace could be found of the other woman, however. Mrs. Miller said her loss represented her entire belongings with the exception of a small Christmas savings account. OF POST CONTROL Justice Bailey Signs Order Excluding Publisher From Trusteeship. District Supreme Court Justice Jen nings Bailey today signed a formal order relieving Edward B. McLean from the trusteeship of his fatner’s estate so far as the Washington Post is con cerned. Under the decree, which recites the resignation of McLean as president of the Washington Post Co., the suit of Mrs. McLean on behalf of her three children for the ouster of her husband from trusteeship of his father's estate is dismissed, with the exception that the court retains jurisdiction for such orders as may be necessary to carry out McLean's exclusion from the af fairs of the Washington Post. The costs of the proceedings are as sessed against McLean. The name of McLean as publisher did not appear In today's issue of the Post. The decree follows closely the stipu lation of counsel filed more than two weeks ago In which McLean agreed to resign as president of the Post, to re linquish his right to vote the stock of the Post belonging to his father’s estate, which is to be voted by the co trustee, the American Security & Trust Co. McLean also agreed that he is to have no voice in the management, sale or lease of the newspaper. Attorneys Frank J. Hogan, Nelson T. Hartson and A. A. Hoehling appeared as counsel for Mrs. McLean, while At torneys Julius I. Peyser and George B. Fraser represented the publisher. The stipulation also was signed by John S. Flannery as counsel for the trust company. , WHITE CANES FOR BLIND Walking Sticks to Be Presented as Traffic Aid by Lions Club. White canes to hold upward while crossing streets to attract attention will be presented to a group of blind persons by the Lions Club of Washington at a luncheon tomorrow at 12:30 o'clock. The white cane movement being sponsored by the club has been indorsed by traffic and police authorities here and their co-operation promised. Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, superintend ent of police, and the president of the advisory board of the American Auto mobile Association are to be present at the meeting. miCE SEEK THIRD Goodacre Maid and Man Captured by Woman Now Under Arrest. A maid in the home of George L. ■ Goodacre, 7617 Momingsiae drive, has been arrested, and police are searching , for a man said to be the accomplice of Thomas F. White, 34, who was appre hended after holding up Mr. Goodacre | yesterday as he was about to drive away from his home with $3,000 in his car. White was captured after Mr. Good ! acre's wife, Mrs. Sarah Goodacre, 56 j year-old grandmother, had pursued I him a crass vacant lots and cornered him on the rear porch of a house In the 1400 block of Iris street. Woman Detained. The woman held Is Mrs. Josephine Kirk, 32. She was taken Into cus tody after questioning by Capt. Joseph Morgan, sixth precinct, and Detective Sergt. Elmer Lewis, and Is being held at the Women's Bureau lor further investigation. White implicated a second man In the hold-up and gave his name and ad dress to police. Officers were unable, however, to locate him at the address given and a lookout for his arrest was broadcast last night. The man sought is said to have driven White to the Goodacre home and to have waited several blocks away to pick up his partner after the robbery. The car said to have been used was found abandoned last night on Georgia ave nue near the Maryland line. Struck Bandits PistoL The hold-up occurred as Mr. Good acre was about to take to bank money collected from his 15 restaurants Sat urday night and Sunday. He had just pulled out of his garage into Juniper street, when the bandit approached his car and pointed a revolver at him. Mr. Goodacre struck up the gun and jumped frem the machine. As he did so, the robber seized a satchel containing part of the $3,000 and fled. Mr. Goodacre got his gun and gave chase in his automobile. Meanwhile, Mrs. Goodacre pursued the bandit on foot and cornered him. When her hus band arrived, he took the satchel and gun away from White. The hold-up man told Capt. Morgan he had not 1 eaten for three days. D. C. CENTENARIAN AMONG FIVE ON FEDERAL RETIREMENT FOUND Maj. Saxton, 102, Civil War Veteran, Second Only to Georgia Annuitant in Age. Maj. S. Willard Saxton of 1347 Har vard street, who is 102 years of age, is believed to be one of the oldest persons on the Government's honor roll of an nuitants who receive payments from the civil service retirement fund. This was disclosed today upon in quiry into the records of the Board of Actuaries for this fund, which shows that there are five persons on the list more than 100 years of age. The oldest person, according to the records, is Mark Thrash, colored, who now lives in the country near Chicka mauga, Ga., and was formerly a laborer in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga national cemeteries. Careful inquiry has been made into his age, and while officials say there is no authentic rec cord he is listed now as ,111 years of age and is said by those who know him to be a “very, very old man,” Identity of the other three persons more than 100 was not disclosed, but It was believed they do not live in Wash ington. One person is listed at 100, two at 101. The largest number on the rolls are listed at the age of 68, a total of 1,051. The total amount of allowance of those retired on account of age was $12,558,929 in one year, and on account of disability the annual total was $3,607,003. Maj. Saxton, who stands next to the top of the actual list and whose age is probably the oldest authenticated age of the group, Is a well known Wash ingtonian. He is vice president of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants. At his home he was reported to be In good health. He is a veteran of the Civil War, having fought with the Massa chusetts volunteers, and for years was lia Um Government ctadl sntlra D. C. CONTRACTS LET at mm cost. SCHOOL INCLUDED Giddings Addition, Bridge and Read Projects Com plete Total. NEW SPAN TO REPLACE OXON RUN STRUCTURE Street Construction and Repairs Provided—Commissiofiers Also Or der Grading in Northeast Area. The District Commissioners today awarded contracts aggregating $593,448. Including a school building, a small bridge and several road construction and repair projects. The list of contracts, with the suc cessful bidders and the amount of the bids, follows; Removing existing bridge and build ing new I-beam single span bridge with reinforced concrete slab floor In line of Atlantic street southeast, over Oxon Run, F. D. Carozza Construction Cor poration, Baltimore, $6,632. Street Projects Included. Bituminous treatment of streets and roads, Corson & Gruman, $18,960. Furnishing bituminous concrete mix ture for cold patching. Corson House and Forwarded to President. TWO OTHERS ARE SENT TO SENATE FOR ACTION Credit Union Legislation Among That Sent to White House. Gibson Bill Approved. President Hoover's signature Is all that Is needed to enact Into law eight ol the ten District of Columbia bills passed by the House late yesterday In an en deavor to clean up Its local calendar ol as many of the uncontroversial meas ures as possible before Congress ad journs. Chief among the bills which now gc to the White House is the Capper Norton bill legalizing credit unions as co-operative agencies for lending small sums of money in the District. This encountered opposition from Repre sentative Blanton, Democrat, Texas who insisted upon a quorum of the House being present, but its supporters claiming it to be a “poor man's bill,’ succeeded in forcing its passage. The bill was amended, however, so as tc limit the holdings of individual mem bers of the credit organizations to 200 shares and omitting the words “Fed eral ’ and "United States" from incor porated titles. Representative Cochran. Missouri, had charged these might lead to misrepresentation. Gibson Bill Paused. The Gibson bill, completely revising District license fees, was unexpectedly passed, with little debate. It now goes to the Senate. This bili, which has the indorsement of the District Commis sioners. makes a complete change in practically all license fees during the fiscal year. Licenses for taxicab opera tors are Increased from $9 to $25 and the cost of the driver's identification card bearing his photo is also increased. The license fees for employment agen cies is increased from $25 to $100 Licenses are required of some lines of business heretofore not required to pay a fee For instance, apartment houses would be required to pay $15 for operat ing or $18 if equipped with cafes An amendment which was adopted would Impose a fee on ticket specu lators who make a practice of pur chasing the unused portion of railroad tickets. Earlier In the day, after Mr. Blanton had announced he would not again block District legislation if objec tionable bills were withdrawn, the House had passed the two bills neces sary for the development of Buzzards Point. Both of these now await the President’s signature. The first would enable the Philadelphia, Baltimore & Washington Railroad to extend a spur between the Navy Yard and Buz zards Point and the other authorizes the closing of certain streets and allevs in the area where the $5,000,000 power plant of the Potomac Electric Power Co. is to be erected. Barber Shop BUI Blocked. Another bill which the House for warded to the Senate for its action was the Gibson bill to change local laws regarding distribution of prop erty. An effort was made to obtain passage of a bill closing barber shops one day a week. It was finally blocked when the committed objected to an amendment offered by Representative Gibson of Wisconsin which would have specified the closing day as Sunday. Included among the bills passed earlier in the day were three street and alley closing measures. These have already passed the Senate. One was a general measure empowering thf Commissioners to close useless streets without being compelled to seek au thority from Congress. Two others were for shutting off property acquired for the Keen School and the closing of Quintana place. SALE OF PARK LAND URGED IN HOUSE Bill Would Provide for Disposing of Sites No Longer Needed for Public. A bill giving the directors of Public Buildings and Public Parks blanket authority to dispose of seven parcels of real estate no longer required for public purposes was introduced today by Chairman Norton of the House Dis trict Committee. The price to be paid the Government for the land was stipulated in the bill as cost plus 6 per cent per annum since the date each parcel was acquired by the United States. The bill specifies the following prop erties: 3305 and 3307 Volta place: southeast comer of Seventh and K streets northeast; lots abutting on Hobart place between Georgia and Sherman avenues; a total of 164,000 square feet near Parkslde Drive and Western avenue. Rock Creek Park; the square at Twenty-second and O streets, being a part of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway; lots south of Massa chusetts avenue in the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway: the square bounded by Quincy street. Twentieth street. Perry street and South Dakota avenue in the northeast section, being a part of the Taft Recreation Center. Page, 12, Announces His Candidacy foi President in 1972 Charles Holland Give* Constituents Time to Think It Over. Charles L. Holland. 12, the youngesi page In the House, believes at least lr giving his constituents a brealc. Yesterday, in a radio speech over th< Charles Holland. network of the Na tional Broadcast ing Co., young Hoi land announcec his candidacy foi President of th< United States ir 1972 "to give th< people plenty o1 time to lock up mj record and bring tc light all the secret: of my public anc private life.” Young Hollanc believes a silent Congressman is a dead one. He thinks Repre sentative La Guar dia is a wonderfu: uui wuiiuna vtu,y ntf UWSI1 (, C;aiJ himself a Democrat instead cf a Re publican because he is “always telling | the Democrats how to vote and getting | them to vote that way.” “I really hope Mr. Gamer is elected | President,” he declared, “for he's really ! a fine guy." The boy was introduced bv his uncle. Representative Charles A. Karch of j Illinois. PAGEANT TO DEPICT Impressive Dramatic Event j Slated Next Week at Sylvan Theater. ! The Sylvan Theater on the Wash ington Monument grounds and a wide pageant field immediately to the south west of the stage will be the scene Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday nights of next week of on impressive pageant on the life and character of George Washington. “The Great Amer : lean.” to be presented in three main episodes. Under auspices of the United States i and the District of Columbia Bicen tennial Commissions, the pageant is j now under rehearsal and will be pre sented by a number of organizations I and groups in the city who will appear | in the varied historic scenes. The three main episodes will be "George I Washington. Colonist"; “George Wash I ington, Warrior." and "George Wash i Ington, Nation Builder.” Wide Field Utilized. TTie wide pageant field near the stage will be employed for the rapid action of troops required for the Battle of Monmouth, the Surrender at York i town, the First Inauguration and other ! scenes involving a large number of participants. To the right of the stage will be the chorus of 300 voices, directed by Dr. Albert W. Harned, and to the right of the chorus will be the band stand, i to be occupied by the Army and the Marine bands on alternate nights. Be tween the stage proper and the pageant field will be the center stage, where the personified virtues of George Wash ington, Truth. Courage and Devotion, will be stationed. These three outstanding symbolic characters will be depicted by Maurice H. Jarvis. Thomas Cahill and Orris Holland, all well known actors of this city, whose voices are perfectly adapted to the difficult roles assigned them in this pageant. “The Voice of America." seemingly coming from nowhere, down the beams of light from the apex of the Monument, to the audience, will be spoken by Maj. Charles Trowbridge Tittmann at all three performances. Portray Various Stages. The role of George Washington will be played in the various stages of his career, by different actors, in order that as nearly as possible the qualities of the actor may be in keeping with the development of Washingtons charac ter. The actor who will appear as "Wash ington. the Surveyor," will be a young man, William Wallace, of the Bartfield Players; Col. George Washington in the British Army will be played alter nately by Phillips Clark and Vincent Tompkins. In the marrtage scene, Washington will be enacted by William C. Chapman. Ir^ the second action. “George Wash ington, Warrior,” the role will be played by Capt. H. B. Turner, U. S. A., from Fort Washington. Va., in three scenes, and by William Crowell of the Wash ington Headers Club in the Valley Forge scene. In the third action. "George Wash ington, Nation Builder," James Otis Porter of the Arts Club will be Wash ington. Again, a change in the role will be made for the final episode. "The Planter of Mount Vernon." to be as sumed by Capt. C. C. Calhoun. Dr. George C. Havenner, executive vice president of the District of Co lumbia Bicentennial Commission, an nounces that tickets for all three pres entations of "The Great American" are available to the public. WOMAN DRIVER HUNTED Police today were seeking a woman driver wanted on a hit-and-run charge in connection with knocking down Jchn Charles Haggerly, 12, of the 1900 block of Bladensburg road, last night while he was riding his bicycle on Bladens burg road near the District line. The boy sustained a broken arm and bruises. He was taken to Casualty Hos pital in a police car frcm No. 5 pre cinct. FORT MYER LAUNDRY IS CHARGED WITH TAKING WASHINGTON TRADE Business of #4,000 a Week Declared Lost by Local Concerns Through Competition. / ________ Charges that approximately $4,000 a week is being taken away from local laundries and diverted to the laundry maintained for Port Myer were made today by D. W. Corbin, representing the Laundry Owners' Association of the United States, who appeared before the Shannon Committee in the House in vestigating the Government’s competi tion with business. Within recent years, Corbin testified, the Port Myer laundry has been steadily expanding its business. Army trucks driven by soldiers, he declared, canvass the city ot Washington for laundry work from Army officers and their fami lies at a price considerably below that He explained that approximately 4,000 laundry bundles a week are being col lected in this city and diverted to the Fort Myer laundry at a minimum loss of $4,000 per week to local commercial laundries. The cut-price competition by the Government is possible, he claimed, only because the laundry building rental, use of trucks and other services are all charged up to the national military defense "These practices do not constitute national defense, but conversely repre sent national destruction of private business," he said. Mr. Corbin also submitted communi cations from several local laundries sub stantiating FIRST SESSION ON D. C. SUPPLY BILL House Group Decides to Ad here Strictly to Its Instructions. SENATE’S LUMP SUM STILL CHIEF OBSTACLE Compromise Expected to Be Reach ed on $4,000,000 Added to Measure. Senate and House conferees on the District of Columbia appropriation bill were to hold their first joint meeting today in an endeavor to reconcile differ I ences on the additional $4,000,000 added to the bill in the Senate. Before going into the conference, the j House conferees, under the leadership of Representative Cannon of Missouri, chairman of the District Appropriations Subcommittee, held a brief session earlier in the day. They reached no definite conclusion on any of the con troversial matter, beyond indicating they would adhere as strictly as possible to the instructions of the House to insist on its provisions in the bill. In the absence of Senator Bingham of Con necticut, the Senate conferees will be headed by Senator Nye of North Dakota. — “■■'I' v iiki vimai ir. The chief obstacle in the way of J agreement on the bill lies in the $8 - 550,000 Federal lump sum inserted by tiie Senate, the House having held out for $6,500,000 es the Federal contribu tion. It was indicated in both House and Senate circles that the deadlock which is bound to come eventually will result in a compromise, as last year. The Senate, however, is determined to hold out for the larger amount. Another disagreement has arisen over the $600,000 relief appropriation made available by the Senate to the Board of Public Welfare to take care of the un employment situation. La Guardia Welcomed. Representative La Guardia of New York, who expressed opposition to ad ; ditional appropriation yesterday, was informed by Cannon he would be wel come to appear before the conferees. I It was expected the conferees would take up minor amendments first, leav ing the always controversial lump sum issue until the last. As the bill passed the Senate it carried a total of $43. 789.728, the House having cut the budget to $39,913,810. Failed to Pass Tax Laws. The position of House conferees on the Federal lump sum Is influenced by the failure of the Senate to enact any of the Mapes bills increasing local taxes, which the House passed early in the session as a justification for a low. r Federal eor.tribut’on. With this addi tional $4,090,000 in revenue, certain of the House members in a discussion on the floor when the District bill was sent to conference, agreed with Mapes that the higher lump sum inserted by the Senate would be unnecessary. It is now apparent that none of these measure* will be passed at this session. Representative Blanton of Texas charged they were held up in the Sen ate so as not to add any tax burden on District residents. G. W. U. GRADUATES PLAN CLASS NIGHT Program at Corcoran Hall to Be Held Tonight—Dr. Marvin Will Present Honorary Awards. George Washington University's grad uates, who will receive their degrees at the commencement tomorrow night, will hold their claso night exercises at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Corcoran Hall. Jean Fugitt, president of the Columbian Col lege seniors, will preside. The program will open with the salu tatory address by Kennedy Watkins, an honor student. Florence Marks will give the class history and Miriam Mos* will deliver the class prophecy. Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of the university, will confer the the honor ary awards and prizes. Commissions in the Medical Reserve Corps will be pre sented by Maj. William O. Wetmore, professor of military science and tactics. Charles H. Jackson, jr.. president of the law seniors, will present the mantle of the senior class to a representative of next year's seniors. Valedictory addresses will be delivered by Charles Fleck for the Medical School. Douglas Hatch for the Law School, and Samuel Greenberg for the undergrad uate schools of the university. Dancing will follow the exercises. Y. M. C. A. SCHOOL PLANS COMMENCEMENT TONIGHT Annual Banquet to Precede Exer cises of Washington Prepara tory Institution. The annual banquet and ccmmence ment of the Washington Preparatory School, evening high school of the Washington Y. M. C. A, will be held tonight in the assembly hall of the Central Y. M. C. A, 1736 G street, George W. OfTutt. dean of the School of Law of Southeastern University, will deliver the commencement address. Dr. James A. Bell, director of education of the Y. M. C. A., will preside Raymond O. Eliason, principal of the school, will be toastmaster. Diplomas and honor certificates will be awarded graduates of the feur-year course and winners of special scholar ship honors. Essay awards also will be made. AIR RACES GET 0. K. Niagara Falls to Have First Major Program in East This Year. The National Aeronautic Association today announced the granting of formal sancticn by its Contest Committee to the Niagara F^lls air races to be held June 24-26. The meet will be the first large air show in the East this year. Among the famous flyers expected to attend are Maj. James H. ‘'Jimmy” Doo little, Col. Eddie Rickenbacker and Prank M. Hawks. High-speed races will feature the program and are expected to bring out some of the racing planes which have been built for entry Aa the national air races at ClevelaEI In Anawfa __ __