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Project Is First of W. P. A.
[ Projects to Be Com
f missioned.
The first of the W. P. A. projects 5n
the Washington park system has been
completed, with the commissioning of
the large wading pool for children in
Langdon Park, Mills avenue and
Eighteenth street northeast. The
other W. P. A. projects are In varying
gtages of completion.
Water was turned on for the first
time yesterday at the Langdon pool
and attracted a number of children.
The Langdon Park development, which
comprises 14 acres, with land valued
«t, $71,000, now contains permanent
Bidewalks, landscaping, a picnic area,
Bwings and other small children’s play
equipment and base ball diamonds.
Public drinking fountains also have
been installed in the park. The dia
monds are not quite ready yet. al
though some games have been played
pn them.
Progress at Banneker.
C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent
cf the National Capital Parks', said
the next of the W. P. A. projects
nearest completion is the Banneker
Recreation Center on Georgia avenue,
near Howard University. Four tennis
courts have been constructed there
and four others are nearing comple
tion. Additional seeding, more work
on the running track, base ball dia
mond and foot ball gridiron is neces
sary, Finnan said, as is true also of '
the small children's area there. Major
grading work has been accomplished.
Takoma Recreation Center. Fourth
and Van Buren streets, is another
■ center of W. P. A. activity. There.
Finnan said, a running trgck, base
ball and foot ball fields and other play
facilities are now under construction.
Many of these will be available this
Summer and Fall, but the project will
be completed next Spring, he ex
plained, with the available men and
materials now in sight.
Grading Going Forward.
At the Taft Recreation Center
filling and grading are going forward
with the assistance of W. P. A. em
ployes. Tennis courts are now in use
there and Some base ball facilities
ere available, the players using the
» ppen field area.
W. P. A. employes also are at work
St Turkey Thicket Playground. There
the National Capital Parks office is
working the men, but the District’s
sanitary engineer. J. B. Gordon, is
supervising the job of putting in a
large sewer.
In the Rock Creek and Potomac
Parkway, W. P. A. workers are repair
ing the flood damage. The walks
Bround the Titanic Memorial, at the
foot of New Hampshire avenue, are
' being reconditioned and grading and ;
landscaping work are being pushed
(there.
THE WEATHER
District of Columbia—Generally fair
and somewhat warmer today, possibly
showers tomorrow; moderate southwest
winds today.
Maryland and Virgihia—Generally
Jair and somewhat warmer today, pos
sibly local showers tomorrow.
West Virginia—Increasing cloudiness
today, probably scattered showers to
morrow; not much change in tempera
ture.
Report Until 10 P.M. Saturday.
id night_59 1*3 noon-74
*3 a.m ...._5t> *3 p.m. _79
4 a.m.__ 5.i 4 pm._81
H a.m._5.*! H p.m._8<»
8 a m.__HO 8 p.m.__74
JO a m._69 lo p.m._67
Record Until 10 P.M. Saturday.
Highest. 8*3. 4:45 p.m. yesterday. Year
• BO. 58.
Lowest. 52. 5:30 a m. yesterday. Year
• BO. 48.
» Record Temperature* This Year.
Highest. 9*3. on May 8.
Lowest. 0, on January *33.
Tide Table*.
(Furnished by United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
Hich_ln::!5 a.m. 11:37 a.m.
Dow___ 4:58 am. 5:52 a.m.
£ish -11:17 p m.
>w _ 5:31 p.m. 8:20 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Bun. today_ 4 40 7:21
Bun. tomorrow_ 4:48 7:22
Moon. today_ 8:23 am. 11:03 p.m.
Automobile liehts must be turned on
tone-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in Inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
Month 1936, Ave. Record.
January _ 5.87 3.55 7.0!) '82
February _ 3.8.3 3.27 H.84 '84
March__ 4.47 3.75 8,84 '01
April _ 1.08 3.27 0.13 '80
May _ 5.17 3.70 10.00 '80
June __ 4.13 10.04 0)0
July _____ 4.7 1 10.8:} 'sti
Aueust __ 4.01 14.41 '28
September __ 3.24 17.45 '34
October __ 2.84 8.57 '85
November__ 2.37 8.K0 'so
December . _ _ 3.32 7.58 '01
Weather In Various Cities.
Precipl
Max. Min. 8 pm.
Sat- Fri Sat. to
urday.niaht.8p m 8p m
Asheville. N. C._78 50 70 _
Atlanta. Ga._80 Ho 70 _
Atlantic City. N.J. 04 54 58
Baltimore. Md_ 80 54 77
Birmingham. Ala.. 80 oo so
Bismarck. N. Dak _ 74 52 7°
Boston Mass._ 80 48 os
Buffalo. N. Y._HO 58 HO
Chicago. 111._ 88 08 70 “I
Cincinnati. Ohio 84 02 78
Cheyenne. Wyo_0.8 :i4 04
Cleveland. Ohio_ 80 00 00
Davenport. Iowa 82 70 72 0 01
Denver. Colo._ 70 52 08
Des Moines. Iowa. 80 70 74 0 03
Detroit. Mich_ 88 58 82
Duluth. Minn _ 70 54 04 O 38
II Paso. Tex._ 80 02 74
Galveston Tex. .. 80 70 70 0 2°
Helena Mont._ 70 42 70
Indianapolis. Ind._ 84 04 So
Jacksonville. Fla._ 70 08 72 0 *’0
Kansas City. Mo._ 78 70 70 0 08
Little Rock. Ark_ 80 08 87
Los Angeles. Calif. 74 00 00 ””
Louisville. Ky.__ 04
Marquette. Mich.__ 78 50 08 o 70
Memphis Tenn._ss 72 84
if'ami. Fla. _ 80 08 70 0 22
Minneapolis. Minn. 78 07 74 I 03
Mobile. Ala._ 84 70 78
New Orleans. La._ so 74 70
New York. N. Y.__ 74 48 72
North Platte. Nebr. 70 54 70
Omaha. Nebr._ 70 08 74
Philadelphia. Pa._ 70 50 72
Phoenix. Aris_102 04 08
Pittsburgh. Pa._ 84 5s 70
Portland. Me._ 70 42 HO
Portland, Oreg_ 78 52 70
Balt Lake City_ 70 38 72
Bt. Louis. Mo. _80 os 82
Ban Antonio Tex._ so oo os l 24
Ban Diego. Calif.__ 74 00 00 _
Ban Francisco_ 74 00 58
Banta Fe. N. Mex._ 74 48 08 _
Bavannah. Ga._so 04 72
Beattie Wash._7° 48 70 _
Springfield. 111._80 oo 70
Tampa Fla _ 84 08 70 002
Vicksburg. Miss._82 os 78 _
WASH.. D. C_ 82 52 74 _
Traffic Convictions
SECOND OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Forrest F. Trantham, 3912 Thir
teenth street, $10.
FIRST OFFENSE SPEEDING.
William A. Moore, 1242 Eleventh
street, $10. *
Betty P. Breen, 1430 Oak street, $10.
Russell Follin, Virginia, $10.
Joseph Edwards, Maryland, $10.
James A. Ford, Maryland. $5.
Morris J. Litchtenberg, 4034 Geor
$h» avenue, $5.
Harry Catomeri, 606 H street. $5.
Andrew F. Perry, 1124 Sixth street,
$10.
James E. O’Neal, 3726 Harrison
Street, $5.
4 Benjamin H. Vernon, Maryland, $5.
Robert C. Fulcher, 1005 Otis place,
$5.
flames M. Lowe, Maryland, $5.
First W. P. A. Park Project Completed
This new wading pool for children in Langdon Park was placed in commission yesterday,
the first of the Works Progress Administration projects in the local park system to reach
fulfillment. C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks, said this will
fill a long-felt need for recreation in that section. —Star Staff Photo.
Falconer Starts World Flight -
W ith 2-Day Trip to Germany
Journey in Zeppelin Described by Texan
Who Aims to Girdle Globe by
Air in Month.
Dr. Bolivar Lang Falconer, a
Texan who became a globe trotter
five years ago after retiring from
the Civil Service Commission,
hopes to make a trip around the
world in- 30 days by commercial
airways. The following is the first
of a series of stories he will write
for The Star. It covers the first
leg of his trip, made on the Zep
pelin Hindenburg. His plans
project a trip of 26,130 miles at a
cost of $3,354.66.
BY DR. BOLIVAR L. FALCONER.
FRANKFORT - AM - MAIN. Ger
many, May 14 iby mail).—Exactly
49 hours and 3 minutes after we
soared off from Lakehurst, 4,169 miles
ana*. iwc **»*»
d e n b u r g this
morning dropped
out of the sky to
land in Germany
at 5:41 o'clock.
Two days from
the bustle of
America to the
Old World at
mosphere of Ger
many! We aboard
the mighty pal
; ace of the air
waves tingled
with * the thrill |
Dr. Falconer. °r0U8m ^
to Columbus and
Eric the Red. We were real pio
neers, we thought—pioneers of East
ward, ho!
Twelve hours ago our mobile home
in the clouds was over the Atlantic—
a huge expanse of green glass splashed
with little ridges of what looked like
snow but really was the foam on the
crest of the high-rolling waves.
At 5 p.m. yesterday we sighted the
outlying islands of Ireland, like flies ;
on the moon. Through space we
droned onward. Soon the rugged
coast of Ireland was beneath us.
"Lana, ho!” I was tempted to shout.
The sea and air were conquered. Now
men can go for Mars.
“I have no fears about the future
of the zeppelin,” Dr. Hugo Eckener
told me as we headed onward toward
the continent. He built this power
ful ship, just as he built and navigat
ed the Graf Zeppelin for five years
in constant service between Germany
and South America.
"Even if airplane lines are estab
lished. I am optimistic about the fu-1
ture of this craft and others like it.” j
He sat on one of the aluminum chairs
with which the Hindenburg is equip
ped. All the furniture is made of this
light metal.
For 10 years or more they have
been saying that airplane service was
about to be established, and now they
are saying it will be three or four
years more. But the Zeppelin service
already has1 been established to both
South America and North America,
and we hope to have four Zeppelins
flying to North America.”
Over the Irish Sea and the rocky
cliffs of Wales we hurried, going for
ward at about 85 miles an hour. Now
down below in the dusk was England—
with its neat farms and cathedral
cities, its grimy manufacturing towns
and its lazy rivers flowing from and
into jewel-like lakes.
"Somewhere down there.” said Dr.
Eckener, "is Liverpool.” That city is
going to be the home port of the latest
biggest ship in the world. "The Queen
Mary and the Normandie were built
to cut the passenger time from North
America to Europe to about five days,
but the Zeppelin cuts this five-day
time in half.
"The zeppelins have advantages
over ships and planes.- They have
the comfort of ships and are more
cozy and homelike than the big
winged ships. Travel in them is safer
than in airplanes.”
All below us now the ground is
aglow with electric lights. It is Lon
don. The clock says 9:45, and most
of us go to bed to be up early in the
morning and greet the dawn as It
breaks over Germany.
We left Lakehurst at 11:38 p.m. the
eight before. Half an hour later we
almost rubbed the skyscrapers of New
York. Our altitude was but 1,300
feet—only 50 feet higher than the
cigar-red mooring mast on the Em
pire State Building.
The lighted clock on the Metropoli
tan Life Building tower showed 12:15
a m. The streets below us seemed cov
ered with a thin film of snow. A din
of noisy greeting from automobile
horns, sirens and whistles rose to the
ship.
A crowd gathered in Times Square
to watch our passage. On rooftops
we could see photographers taking
pictures of us. Our trail through the
I- = ======== ri
sky led us along the north shore of
Long Island, where the Nation's
wealthy live in exclusive models of
the garden of Eden.
With the huge spotlight on the bot
tom of the ship we Illuminated the
luxurious estates, picking out the
sunken gardens, the private swimming
pools, the tennis courts and the man
sions. In the woods we saw bridal
wreaths and dogw-ood In bloom. Then
we cut through the pall of mysterious
dark which hung over the broad ocean.
I am spending only a few hours in
Frankfort, where we received a tumul
tuous reception. A uniformed band of
many pieces played when we stepped
out of the Hindenburg cabin. Several
hundred husky young men had seized
ropes hanging from the ship as we
neared the ground and dragged the
giant of the nephele Into its hangar.
Dr. Krebs, the mayor of Frankfort,
who had made the round trip in the
Hindenburg, invited all his fellow
passengers to breakfast We trooped
up to the Roemer, the Town Hall, an
ancient building where centuries ago
many of the proud Emperors of the
Holy Roman Empire were crowned
j and proclaimed ‘ Kaiser.'’
My next step is Athens. From there
! I fly across Asia to Manila, and thence.
I by Pan-American clipper, to Guam,
| Midway, Honolulu and San Francisco.
I And then southeastward by plane to
j Dallas, home and, I hope, a record.
i ■
OXFORD GATHERING
Fall Sessions Here Likely to
Follow U. S. Assembly
Starting Friday.
BY JAMES WALDO FAWCETT.
The international team of the Ox
ford Group Movement left Washing
ton yesterday en route to Stocxbridge,
Mass., where a national assembly is
to be held beginning Friday until
June 8.
Dr. Frank N. D. Buchman. leader,
said he expects more than 50 from
the District to participate in the
meetings. Later, he explained, plans
will be perfected for at least one large
gathering in Washington next Fall.
"The Capital of the United States,"
Dr. Buchman declared, "should be
the ideal place for a demonstration
of the power of applied Christianity.
Our experience here during the past
few days has encouraged us im
mensely.”
Other team members were equally
enthusiastic. Dr. J. E. W. Duys, par
liamentary whip of the Socialist party
of the Netherlands, a veteran of 30
years’ campaigning for social justice,
told reporters: "I think Americans
understand that unless we hurry the
spiritual revolution we are apt to
have the other kind of revolution all
around the world. What is necessary
to comprehend is that we can obtain
results through fellowship that we
can obtain no other way. And we
must give God a chance.”
Reginald A. E. Holme. Oxford
alumnus and London newspaper man.
quoted Foreign Minister Anthony Eden
as having said: "We do not need new
machinery; we need a new spirit to
work the machinery we have.”
Baroness de Watteville-Berckheim
of Paris urged the efficiency of Chris
tian principle for the adjustment of
class strife. "My husband and I and
our children went through the World
War with the hope that never again
should such trouble come to us,” she
said. "Then, when the war was sup
posed to be over, we found everything
worse than before the beginning of
the struggle. Everybody talked about
revolution. But they meant political
change, not spiritual change. Now,
however, the light is beginning to
dawn. So many people realize that
for better life in the world we must
have braver, more confident, more
generous, more faithful people.”
Lord Addington, member of the
House of Lords and well acquainted
with Far Eastern affairs from eight
years’ diplomatic experience in Rus
sia, China and Japan, returned from
the British Embassy and the State
Department to express his gratitude
for the hearing he had been granted
by officials. "International problems
are not different from national prob
lems, class problems and individual
1 problems.” he said. "They can be cor
rected by the submission of Individ
uals to God's will."
Other members of the team who
agreed with these sentiments were:
Sir Philip Dundas, Edinburgh; the
Hon. Mrs. A. M. Holman, Sussex;
Admiral Horace Summerford; Gen.
P. T. Wlnser; Gen. C. T. Caulfeild;
Capt. Frank Evans; Valdemar Hvidt
of the Supreme Court bar of Den
mark; Herman Hlntzen of Rotter
dam; Bremer Hofmeyr, Rhodes
scholar from South Africa; C. K. Pres
cott, Oxford; James Watt, former
member of the British Young Com
munist League; George Light of the
British Labor Party; A. S. Loudon
Hamilton, Oxford; A. Lawson Wood,
Aberdeen, and Randulf Haslund, Uni
versity of Oslo, Norway.
Members of the Washington Ox
ford group who expect to go to Stock
bridge include Representative And
Mrs. Frederick A. Britten, Mrs. Wil
liam M. Ritter, Mr. and Mrs. A. L.
Baldwin, Edwin N. Lewis, Mrs.
Charles J. Herzog, Mrs. Van Dusen
Rickert, William Worthington, Harold
Brown. Miss Roberta Braddock, Miss
Elizabeth Howard, Miss Anna Bettner,
Mrs. Clara Back, Mrs. Josephine
Goodspeed, Mrs. Ella Shuman, Mrs.
Emma Firth, Mrs. Helen Umson. Miss
Kay Hobson, Miss Dorothy and Miss
Sally Ensor, Miss Nola Eaton. Mrs.
Emily Smith. Miss Jacqueline Smith,
Miss Margaret Hood, Miss Etta
Burrows, Miss Janet Worley, Miss
Eleanor Trimble. Miss Grace Moore,
Jack Smith, Earl Taylor and Herbert
Taylor.
Each Program to Be Given
on Schedule, Regardless
of Weather.
Plans for the Summer festivals In
the Sylvan Theater at the Washing
ton Monument will be completed by
Mrs. E. K. Peeples, director of the
Community Center Department, and
C. Marshall Finnan, director of the
Office of National Capital Parks, and
the members of the Summer Festivals
Committee this week. On June 16
will be a joint performance of the
Estelle Wentworth Opera Group in
Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Gondo
liers” and the Civic Orchestra, con
ducted by Samuel P. Ford.
Each Tuesday night during June,
July and August, a presentation of
opera, drama, dancing, and choral
groups will be given, assisted by the
servioe bands In preliminary concerts
beginning at 7:30 o’clock. Among the
groups which will be presented are the
Department of Agriculture Orchestra
and the Bureau of Investigation dra
ma group In a joint program; The
Arts Club, assisted by the United
States Marine Band; Bekefl-Deleport*
Institute and the Navy Band; Black
mars Guild and the Army Band;
Pan-American Festival and the Army
Band; Mayo Choral Group; and the
Washington Community Players In
two Shakespearean productions, one
time preceded by the Navy Band, and
the other time preceded by the Army
Band. The Estelle Wentworth Opera
Group will make three appearances
during the Summer, each time with a
different opera.
It is planned to present each pro
gram on the evening announced, re
gardless of weather. If the weather
is inclement, the festival will be trans
ferred to an indoor auditorium.
Plans for the tours in the city
parks of the Rambling Theater will
c.lso be completed this week.
Events this week in centers are:
Thursday night in Powell Junior High
School when groups will offer a joint
program combining dances including
children from Bancroft and H. D.
Cooke centers; tumbling acts by the
Columbia Heights Boys Club, and
an exhibition of soap sculpture and
painting by the boys in Charles Batt
ley’s art group.
Birney Center will hold an exhibi
tion by the ladies’ Art Class, Anacoe
tia Needle Guild, Fine Arts Group and
Junior Art Group, tomorrow night
when a short program will be given
by the Choral Society, Rhythm Group
and Boys’ Orchestra of the center.
Also at Birney on Friday night a
Japanese festival will be held by the
young people.
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