CHILD PATIENTS
TO H CIRCUS
Benefit for Flood Relief Also
to Be Given Several
Times in Week.
Children's Hospital patients will be
entertained at 10 a.m. tomorrow by
a real circus, which also will give a
benefit performance for relief of flood
sufferers at the Shoreham Hotel to
morrow evening.
The circus, composed of acrobats,
tumblers, trained Jogs, elephants,
clowns and bears, also will give benefit
performances Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday afternoons.
Funds derived from these matinee
shows will be used for the purchase
of new sterilization equipment and
another oxygen machine for Chil
dren's Hospital.
Operated by George A. Hamid, who
supplied the animal acts for the New
York stage success, “Jumbo,” the cir
cus will perform nightly at the Shore
ham Hotel In place of the usual floor
•how.
The famous Pallenberg Wonder
Bears. Emilio’s Royal Doberman
Pinchers and Will Hill's elephants,
clowns, acrobats and comedians will
be featured. A menagerie will be
built in the lower lobby of the hotel.
A costume band and circus parade
will open the show.
Members of the Board of Directors
of the Children’s Hospital of the Dis
trict of Columbia who are working
for the success of the circus matinees
include Frederick deCourcy Faust,
Thomas Bell Sweeney, Dr. John Allan
Talbot, Henry Brawner, George W.
Brown, Dr. Edgar P. Copeland,
Charles D. Drayton, Charles C.
Glover, James M. Green, Frank S.
Hight, Col. Reginald S. Hudiekoper,
Dr. Loren B. T. Johnson, Marshall
Langhorne, Mark Lansburgh, Dr.
Frank Leech, Col. Morris E. Locke,
Mrs. Frank B. Noyes, Mr. L. Corrin
Strong. Robert B. Swope, Charles H.
Tompkins, Dr. Joseph S. Wall and
Frederic William Wile.
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TWO WORKMEN INJURED
IN BASEMENT EXPLOSION
Blast at Irving: Food Shop Be
lieved Caused by Blow
Torch.
Two workmen were injured yester
day in an explosion in the basement
cf the Irving Food Shop, 3070 Mount
Pleasant street. The men, Robert L.
Thomas, 49. of 5036 Massachusetts
•venue, and Walter Ridgeway, 25, of
4217 Twelfth street notheast, were
given first aid at Garfield Hospital for
face burns.
The men had been working on elec
tric wiring with blow torches, police
•aid, an the blast came after they had
placed a torch on the floor, still burn
ing. It was believed that gas escap
ing from the torch ignited. Two large
plate glass windows on the main floor
of the building were shattered. Stocks
•tored in the basement were scattered,
but the actual damage was considered
•light
It’s a Honey—Bear
When the Shoreham Hotel stages its real circus with live per
forming animals, Joan and Jewell (above), daughters of Senator
and Mrs. James J. Davis, will be part of the show ivith Spike,
this Singapore honey bear. There will be four special matinees,
Wednesday. Thursday, Friday and Saturday afternoons, the
Sroceeds of which will go to Children’s Hospital. Spike has
een loaned to the Davis children.
—Underwood & Underwood Photo.
SCIENTIFIC WRITER
DIES IN NEW YORK
Edgar Sydenstricker Was Former
Health Service Chief
Statistician.
Edgar Sydenstricker. brother of
Pearl Buck, the novelist, and a noted
scientific writer in his own right, died
Thursday in a New York hospital, ac
cording to word received here by his
son and daughter, Charles Edgar
Sydenstricker and Mrs. Luther L.
Miller.
Mr. Sydenstricker. 54. was scientific
director of the Milbank Memorial
Fund, New York, at the time of his
death, which was said to have been
due to cerebral hemorrhage. Previ
ously he had been chief statistician
of the United States Public Health
Service.
As a member of the staff of President
Roosevelt's Committee on Economic
Security, he formulated plans to pro
tect citizens against the economic
effects of sickness. One of the or
ganizers of the work of the league o'
Nations’ Health Organization, he was
the author of numerous books on
scientific and sociological subjects. He
lectured at George Washington Uni
versity in 1921-3.
Mr. Sydenstricker, a member of the
Cosmos Club of Washington, as well as
of many scientific and statistical or
ganizations, is survived by another
sister, Mrs. Jesse B. Yankey, Detroit.
His son and daughter went to New
York when notified of his death.
HOMESTEAD COLONY
FRAUD IS CHARGED
Nine Under Bond in Texas for
Allegedly Conspiring to Sub
stitute Materials.
By the Associated Press.
TORT WORTH, Tex.. March 21
Nine men were under bond today on
Federal charges of conspiracy to de
fraud and using inferior pipe and
lumber in construction of Dalworth
ington Gardens, a Federal subsistence
I
homestead colony near Arlington,
Tex.
Ten Indictments were returned by
a Federal grand jury after an in
vestigation of the project. Those who
provided $1,000 bonds were O. R.
Reece, C. H. Hanson, W. R. Fuller, J.
M. Webb. John T. Orr. F. A. Mote, W.
J. Poland. H. F. Kuehne and B. L.
Spencer. Kuehne of Austin was the
architect and Mote of Dallas was the
contractor. The others were merely
employes on the project.
Orr, Spencer, Reece and another
person are charged with attempting
to swindle the Government by buying
inferior used water pipe. Orr, Reece,
Mote and Kuehne were charged with
using lumber Inferior to that called
for in specifications.
Using false pay rolls and paying
out $36 on three occasions when no
work was done by the party receiving
the money was charged against Puller,
Hanson, Reece and Webb.
Conspiracy to defraud the Govern
ment by having the name of C. S.
Poland, a dead man, placed on the
pay roll was charged against W. J.
Poland and Reece.
Dalworthington Gardens was begun
not as a relief movement, but to help
provide homes for the man who al
ready had an income. Eighty houses
were built and offered for sale with
from three to seven acres. It was in
tended for the owner to retain his
employment, but to use the plot of
ground to Increase his income and
help pay for the home.
Under the operating plan the
houses were to be purchased at cost.
Interest at 3 per cent is charged in
buying a home and the purchaser has
30 years to complete payment.
Recently a Fort Worth American
Legion post investigated the project
because a number of former soldiers
were planning to buy homes there,
using their bonus as first payment.
The post reported that a man would
have to have an income of at least
$125 a month in order to live at the
Gardens.
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and
Upright
Pianos
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