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__ WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1939. ** R—l
Milk 'Monopoly'
Action Urged on
Commissioners
Schulte Proposes Free
Flow Into District,
Thus Lowering Price
By JAMES E. CHINN.
Representative Schulte, Demo
crat, of Indiana today suggested
that the Commissioners take steps
to destroy the “monopoly” he has
charged controls the District milk
supply, and pave the way for a re
duction in the retail price of milk
before Congress returns in January.
He said, in effect, all the Com
missioners have to do to bring
about an immediate cut in milk
prices is to declare an “emergency”
exists with respect to the present
milk supply, and then open the
doors to milk and cream produced
in areas beyond the restricted local
milkshed.
Mr. Schulte's proposal w'as con
tained in a five-page letter to Com
missioner George E. Allen, in which
he declared: "I deem it expedient
that the Commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia take some actio*
to protect the people of the District
between now and the time Congress
meets again.”
In the letter to Commissioner
Allen. Mr. Schulte briefly recounted
the action of the House District
Committee resulting from the re
cent milk investigation, and said:
“I suggest that the Commission
ers recognize the real situation
which has been so ably reported
upon by the District Committee and
declare an emergency exists with
reference to the milk supply and
permit any of the distributors, upon
proper application, to bring milk
or cream into the District of Colum
bia from other milksheds under
proper safeguards. There is no in
spection so safe and sound as the
inspection of the product itself
when it reaches its final destina
tion. The Commissioners could pro
vide:
“I—That the milk that is to be
Imported into the District of Colum
bia should come from milk sheds
under United States Public Health
supervision.
Inspection on Arrival.
“2—They could provide for in
spection of the product upon its
arrival in the District of Columbia
to determine that it is in every way
a fine and wholesome product for
consumption by the people of the
district.
Since the milk investigation, Mr.
gchulte declared, the Maryland and
Virginia Milk Producers' Associa
tion. which furnishes Washington
With nearly 90 per cent of its milk
•upply, has taken away from the
Independent dairies the producers
Who provide their supply, even
though the milk constituted a sur
plus.
Then, he said:
“The Maryland and Virginia Milk
Producers Association is using its
surplus funds and its control of
practically all of the Washington
milk supply to subsidize certain milk
distributors in Washington in order
that they may take business away
from these independent dairies and
further reduce them to bankruptcy.
The association is blatantly open in
fhis operation and seems to gloat
ever the fact that no constituted
authority has the interest or the
•tability to challenge their unlawful
practice.
“Of course it will sooner or later
be stopped when the slow processes
ef law get around to taking action,
and proper and severe penalties will
be duly imposed; however, in the
meantime, the last vestige of com
petition of the monopoly will have
passed into oblivion and the people
of the District of Columbia will have
no champion of a cheaper milk for
them delivered to their homes. This
subsidy started, as far as I am in
formed, by this producers’ organiza
tion giving to certain distributors
milk at 17 cents per gallon to bid
for the Welfare Recreational Associ
ation business. This business was
enjoyed at the time by the Embassy
Dairy and the bid was confirmed as
of July 1, 1939, to the Sylvan Seal
Co., who purchases from the Mary
land and Virginia Milk Producers’
Association.
“I have now been informed that
this subsidy price is being offered
and accepted by several distributors
who deal with this producers’ organ
ization and for the purpose of cov
ering any bids, such as District bids.
Government bids, chain restaurants
bids, such as the Atlantic White
Towers, Childs' Restaurants, etc.
While the subsidy price is 17 cents
per gallon, average, the regular price
Is 27 cents per gallon, and the only
requirement to get this cheaper milk
for the above purposes is to take the
business from Embassy and Fairfax
Dairies.”
Company Issues Denial.
Among the dairies named by Mr.
Schulte on the House floor yesterday
as getting the 17 cents a gallon rate
from the association was the Wake
field Dairy, a charge to which the
company issued an emphatic denial
today.
John F. Hillyard, attorney for the
dairy, declared: “This dairy is pay
ing full price to the association and
is not receiving one gallon at the
price of 17 cents.”
“It is quite evident,” Mr. Hillyard
said, “that Representative Schulte
was not certain he was stating facts,
because he safeguarded himself
through his congressional immunity
when he uttered his slanderous re
marks, by speaking from the floor of
the House.”
The attorney said that in addi
tion to paying full price for its milk
the dairy provides milk to the pub
lic through grocery stores in stor®
deposit bottles at 11 cents a quart,
and also gives daily what milk it can
to charitable institutions.
Mr. Hillyard said the dairy favors
a milk commission for Washington,
but that Mr. Schulte seems to want
only the supervision “he feels he can
control and that will be subject to his
political pressure.”
Representative Schulte, in his
speech in the House, made a bitter
personal attack on B. B. Derrick,
A
secretary-treasurer of the Mary
land-Virginia Milk Producers’ As
sociation, and as an example of
the potency of Midwestern milk,
! mentioned the names of several
members from Midwestern .States,
who, he said, were not reared on
milk from the local milkshed. Two
of these named weigh at least 250
pounds. And, in contrast, he com
pared them with Representative
Smith, Democrat, of Virginia, a
member of the Producers’ Associa
tion, who sponsored the resolution
which resulted in the milk investi
gation. Mr. Smith weighs less than
200 pounds.
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Susan Hayward Reaches D. C.,
Unruffled by Contract Suit
l. i, i MB—ig
Susan Hayward arriving at Washington Airport.
—Star Staff Photo.
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u Kill
cast big brown eyes on the Capital
today for the first time and found
herself mirrored in many other
pairs of eyes, some of them green.
For Susan Hayward has the sort
of personal magnetism that makes
her stand out like a gardenia in a
bed of dandelions, and naturally
forces her to become the object of
envious glances.
About 5 feet 2 inches, slender,
creamy-complexioned and with lots
of auburn hair, she was trimly
dressed in a tailored gray suit as
she stepped from an Eastern Air
liner at Washington Airport this
morning.
If she was worried about a
$100,000 breach of contract suit filed
against her by a beauty model
impresario in i\ew YorK Ulty, sne
didn't show it.
Her press agent explained that it
was "another of those cases where
a person, who had a small part in
publicizing an actress before she got
started, tries to cash in when she
reaches stardom.”
And Susan—here for a personal
appearance tonight at a movie the
ater—apparently is on her way to
becoming a star, since she already
has played opposite Bob Burns in
“Our Leading Citizen,” and has the
feminine lead in "Beau Geste.”
While here, Susan will visit the !
Capitol—but not to kiss every Sen- i
ator, as a Boston newspaper put it.
That, she says, was the idea of a !
reporter who learned that Miss Hay
ward was only 20 and then recalled
that "Senators kiss all the babies.”
Roland M. Brennan
Appointed District
Purchasing Officer
Veteran City Employe
To Succeeci Hargrove
December 1
Roland M. Brennan, former sec
retary to the Board of Commis
sioners, who has been a District
employe 27 years, today was ap
appointed by the
city heads pur
chasing officer
effective Decem
ber 1.
On that date
Marion C. Har
grove, who has
been purchasing
officer for 28
years, will be re
tired. Mr. Har
grove. now in
his 71st year,
was given an ex
tension of serv
ice beyond re
tirement age last Boland M. Brennan,
fall by direction of President Roose
velt. He holds the long-distance
service record for District officials,
having been in the municipal service
52 years.
Mr. Brennan, who lives at 1023
Varnum street N.E., entered District
service in 1910 as a clerk in the
trees and parks division at a salary
of $720 a year. He served successive
ly in the sewer division and the
water department and the executive
offices. He was made chief clerk
of the engineer department in 1925
and 10 years later was promoted to
secretary to the Board of Com
missioners to succeed the late Daniel
E. Garges.
Mr. Brennan was selected for the
purchasing officer's post because of
i his knowledge of the detailed work
ings of the various District Depart
ments, the Commissioners said. The
position carries a salary grade of
from $4,600 to $5,400 a year.
Mr. Hargrove, who lives at 2600
Thirty-sixth street N.W., entered the
District service in June, 1887, as a
member of the field party service
of the Highway Department. He was
made purchasing officer in April,
1911, and has held the position 28
years.
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Boy Killed by Truck
As Family Watches;
50th Fatality
Inquest to Be Held;
Youth, 13, Is Injured
When Hit by Car
Traffic Record
The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for 24
hour period ending 8 a.m. today;
Fatalities, 1 (child pedestrian).
Accidents, 31.
Motorists injured. 4.
Motorists arrested, 207.
Pedestrians injured. 8.
Pedestrians arrested for vio
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 17.
While his mother and other mem
bers of his family looked on, 8-year
old George Tarant yesterday ran from
between two parked cars near his
home, at 2917 Twelfth street N.E.,
police reported, and was run down
and fatally injured by a delivery
truck.
The accident occurred about 7
P.m as th> mother, Mrs. Beatrice
Tarant, and her other children. Wil
liam, jr„ 10; Barbara, 6; Robert. 3,
and Elsie. 1, sat on their front porch.
The child was given first aid by
Di J. F. Harrington of 2823 Twelfth
street N.E. and taken to Sibley Hos
pital.
oeorge died at the hospital after
midnight of internal injuries, frac
tured ribs and shoulder. The death
was the 50th traffic fatality on
Traffic Bureau records so far this
year, as compared with 56 this time
last year.
In addition to his mother, brothers
and sisters, George is survived by
his father, William Tarant, a tinner,
The truck, police said, was operat
ed by Mike Leon, 45, of 102 Riggs
place S.E. An inquest will be held
later.
Armando di Gennarp, 13, of 927
C street S.W. suffered leg injuries
last night when hit by an automobile
at Fourteenth street and Independ
ence avenue S.W. He was treated
at Emergency Hospital.
Police today were looking for two
colored men who abandoned a stolen
automobile last night after it
crashed into an electric light pole
and a parked automobile at Fiftieth
street and Sheriff road NU. The
parked car was virtually demolished
Neighbors called an ambulance,
i but the two men had disappeared
| when it arrived.
Heurich Accord Reached
A tentative agreement between
the management of the Christian
Heurich Brewing Co. and repre
sentatives of 28 employes of the
brewery’s ice department, who con
ducted a brief strike at the plant
Wednesday, has been reached, Chris
tian Heurich, Jr., company treasurer,
said today.
4
Arlington Group
Seeks Hatch Act
Exemptions
Civic Federation
Plans to Continue
Campaign
As the Justice Department studied
means for the proper administration
of the Hatch law and guidance of
Government employes, the Arlington
County (Va) Civic Federation an
nounced today it will conduct a
“strenuous” campaign to retain for
Federal workers their rights to en
gage in local political activities if
the legislation is interpreted as de
nying them that privilege.
While Attorney General Murphy
discussed the new law with reporters
yesterday a proposal to restrict po
litical activity of State employes paid
in part by Federal funds won ap
proval of the Senate Civil Service
Committee.
Senator Neely, Democrat, of West
Virginia, said he had no hope that
Congress would act on it at this
session, but predicted it would be
come law before the 1940 campaign
got into full swing.
Mr. Roosevelt suggested such leg
islation to Congress when he signed
the bill by Senator Hatch, Democrat,
of New Mexico, against political ac
tivities of Federal jobholders.
Study Now Being Made.
At his press conference yesterday,
the first he nas held since the Hatch
bill became a law, Mr. Murphy said
a study was being made of the legis
lation and he “would endeavor by
proper means to apprise Govern
ment employes just what limitations
the act imposes upon them and
what rights they are free to exer
cise."
Mr. Murphy said the Justice De- 1
partment has been flooded with re
quests for opinions on specific appli- 1
cations of the far-reaching legisla
tion which bans Federal workers
from political activity. Many of the ■
requests were from Federal workers
here who also hold municipal posi
tions in nearby towns.
However, Mr. Murphy declined to I
answer specific questions.
Mr. Murphy said that all the con
fusion about the application of the
act is just “one of the problems that
went along with the law—and, he
added emphatically, “it is a good
law." He reiterated his belief that
the law is constitutional. In re
sponse to a question he said he
thought “quite surely” there will be
some test of the act's constitution
ality.
Murphy Outlines Procedures.
Mr. Murphy indicated the proper
prodcedur® for Government em
ployes possibly affected by the act,
to obtain an official ruling.
Mr. Murphy said he would rather
not comment on the application of
the act to those already holding
office.
To Continue Efforts.
Dr. Victor Mayers, president of I
the Arlington Civic Federation, said
the Executive Committee and a
special committee of the organiza- ;
tion will continue efforts begun
several months ago to determine ef- '
feet of the legislation on Federal
workers in nearby Virginia and
Maryland.
Dr. Meyers recalled that the Fed
eration was the first proponent of
the executive order of May 20, 1931,
exempting Federal workers in Ar- I
lington from the political activity
rule of the Civil Service Commis
sion.
The Federation began a study of
the “original" Hatch bill on June 6.
1939, after Senate passage. The two
civic committees were immediately
appointed for the study and author
ized to take any action necessary to
protect the exemption extended in
the executive order.
Dr. Meyers said Representative
Smith, Democrat, of Virginia sent
the committee a copy of a proposed
amendment to the bill, but no
amendment was offered by the Rep
resentative to preserve the existing
exemption. Representative Smith,
shortly after passage of the bill, said
the amendment as proposed by the
federation was unnecessary after
“objectionable language" had been
removed.
Mrs. De Shazo Transferred
Mrs. Katherine De Shazo. teacher
of physical education in the Cleve
land Park and Chevy Chase area
for the public schools, has been
transferred from Johns Hopkins in
Baltimore to the Washington Sana
torium in Takoma Park, Md., where
she is recovering from- a kidney op
eration, it was learned today.
Yuma Street !
Is Blue, Wor kin' i
On the Levee
Residents along Yuma street S.E.,
angry over the District's failure to
provide better drainage facilities for
their section, are preparing to lodge
another complaint with the Com
missioners tomorrow. t
The Rev. George J. Cannon, of
124 Yuma street, pastor of the Wash
ington Highland Baptist Church,
who last night pitched in with his
neighbors to erect a makeshift levee
against storm waters that have been
flooding their homes, said today he
planned to visit the District Building
again tomorrow to renew an appeal
for help.
For years, he said, the basement
of houses on Yuma street have
been flooded by rainwaters coursing
dawn Xenia street and through a
sloping alley bisecting the block
bounded by Yuma, Xenia, First and
Second streets.
Although the area has been
promised a storm sewer, nothing
has been done to alleviate the un
healthy condition, Mr. Cannon said.
Mr. Cannon and other residents
built a three-foot levee in the alley,
with earth and sandbags last night
while storm clouds were gathering,
but when the rains came, citizens
on Xenia street complained the
water was backing up toward their
homes. Policemen forced the work
era to tear down the dike.
BACK TO BULL RUN—This will be home for soldiers of the 3d Corps Area, including members of
the District National Guard, for two weeks, beginning tomorrow. The encampment, near Manassas,
Va., by the site of the Civil War Battle of Bull Run, was being made ready when this picture was
taken- —A. P. Photo.
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Reconditioning Work
On C. & 0. Canal Due
To Start in Month
Bank on Potomac Side
To Be Reconstructed to
Enable Filling Waterway
The key construction job needed
to place the historic C. & O. Canal
in condition so it can be filled with
water from Seneca, Md., to Wash
ington will be started in about a
month, it was learned today.
Bids for the reconditioning of
that bank of the canal nearest the
Potomac River at Widewater be
tween Cropley and Great Falls will |
be opened August 23. the National
Park Service said today. Engineers j
said the contract would probably be
awarded within two weeks after
that date. The time allowance of
180 calendar days starts with recep- !
tion of the contract award.
The contract calls for the fyr- |
nishing and placing of earth fills
and construction of concrete retain- !
ing walls, spillways, culvert, stone
walls, trestle and other work.
The towpath bank of the canal at
Widewater, which is roughly 6 miles
above Cabin John, is in the worst
condition of any portion of the en
tire waterway. Park Service engi
neers said. This is because the por
tion of the canal from Great Falls
to Widewater, a distance of about
2 miles, was a natural overflow
channel of the Potomac before the
original builders walled it off to form
part of the canal.
Floods Damaged Canal.
Originally, during flood stages,
water was diverted by natural rock
formations immediately above the
falls, raced down this channel be
hind Bear Island and tumbled back
into the main river channel. The
canal builders walled the channel
on witn aiKes as high as 20 to 30
feet at either end of the island and
controlled diversion of water into it
with a small dam at Great Falls.
The great flood of 1889 damaged
this portion of the waterway but it
was afterward repaired. The flood
of 1936. however, tore out the greater
part of these dikes. Thereafter it
was impossible to keep water in the
canal channel.
A total of 11 units, including a
trestle over which the towpath is to
run. are listed in the specifications
of the contract. Some come only
under alternate bids, however.
Engineers explained the idea be
hind the construction job is to form
the retaining walls, dikes, cribbing,
earth fill and rip-rap so that it will
be easy for flood water to flow over
the top of it along a wide front car
rying away a few feet of easily re
placed topping. This will prevent
the flood waters from tearing deep
gashes in the canal banks.
C. C. C. to Do Much of Work.
With the exception of one or two
minor contract jobs further down
the canal the rest of the recondi
tioning work on the old thorough
fare can be done by C. C. C. boys
and workmen hired directly for the
purpose by the Office of National
Parks.
C. C. C. boys now are busy clean
ing the canal bottom and repairing
the towpath while skilled workmen
of the Office of National Capital
Parks are busy repairing the stone
work of the locks and making new
lock gates and accessories.
The contrMjtfunds are to be paid
from $5OO.O0Qphich was left over
for improvement work after $2,000.
000 of the $2,500,000 P. W. A. funds
in hand were used for purchase of
the canal from the B. & O. Railroad.
Singing Butcher, First Song
Published, Looks to Success
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MmDrose aprimue
On Way to Becoming
Full-Time Composer
Ambrose J. Sprinkle whistles a
merry tune these days as he serves
up meats to Bethesda housewives.
The 31-year-old butcher is on his
way to becoming a full-time com
poser. Publication last week of his
song, a waltz ballad, has given him
visions of retiring from the prosaic
life of cold cuts and shoulder of
lamb and getting down to serious
composing at his home, 5546 Wess
ling lane, Bethesda.
“I want to write songs that will,
be an asset in the field of music,"
said the quiet-spoken composer
publisher, ‘‘and I don't mean swing
numbers, either. They pass with the
coming of a new week.”
And he feels that he will make
a “go” of composing, especially since
he has married the girl who gave
him the inspiration for his first
number, “O Sleepy Moon.” The
song was written before their mar
riage three years ago. Composer
Sprinkle hastened to explain that
copyright fees and other publica- ,
tion costs are rather steep, which
explains the delay in printing ‘‘O :
Sleepy Moon.”
An accomplished guitarist, Mr.
Sprinkle does all his composing on
that instrument. After that it has
to be transposed to piano. He is
musical in other ways, too. For a
number of years he has sung tenor
in the choir of the Universalist Na
tional Memorial Church.
If Mr. Sprinkle can gain a follow
ing as song writer as good as that
of the “singing butcher." he is pretty
certain of success. He has a tune
for every customer, even if it's just j
an order for a soup bone. The boys 1
at the store are his most enthusiastic
mjuaicis. iiiej oougni me nrsi.
copies of “O Sleepy Moon."
"If this first number clicks, I will
follow up with four other songs,” he
stated. The next publication is a
fox trot ballad called “The Squeak
of the Old Rocking Chair.”
The sole song written thus far
that is not of popular appeal is a
ballad—ballads are his favorites—
dedicated to those who died in the
Olympian train wreck in Montana
in June of last year. Mr. Sprinkle
knows the family of the Bethesda
youth, Randolph Perkins, who died
in the disaster.
Composer Sprinkle feels he's going
to miss the singing to the swinging
of his meat cleaver when success
arrives. But it will be worth* the
sacrifice if he can devote his entire
time to composing.
“-im.a .—M
AAfBBOSE SPRINKLE.
—Star staff Photo.
Murphy Says F. B. I.
Police Report Finds
'Nothing Unfavorable'
Results of Inquiry
Submitted; Findings
Not Made Public
Attorney General Murphy has on
his desk the report of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation on its in
quiry in connection with the num
bers racket here, but it is likely
nothing will be made public on it,
Mr. Murphy said at his press con
ference yesterday.
The investigation was completed
last Saturday, as Mr. Murphy had
requested, because of all the confu
sion it was causing. It had been
carried on for several weeks. Nu
merous policemen had been ques
tioned by F. B. I. agents.
Mr. Murphy took occasion again
yesterday to point out that the in
vestigation had revealed nothing
unfavorable to the Police Depart
ment. Since his press conference
a week ago, when he announced
he had asked the F. B. I. to con
clude its investigation, the promo
tion of 14 police officers was ap
proved by the District Commission
ers. The promotions had been held
up pending the outcome of the
investigation.
Another investigation, concerned
with “a certain Police Court mat
ter,” is just about completed, Mr.
Murphy said.
Gravelly Point Fill
Half Done, Completion
By Year's End Seen
Work on Hangars and
Terminal Building May
Start in 30 Days
With three huge dredges pumping
sand and gravel into Washington
National Airport at Gravelly Point
at a rate of approximately 3.300
cubic yards an hour, the airport fill
today is half completed.
More than 7.750,000 cubic yards of
fill already has been put in place
and. unless something unforeseen
develops, dredging operations should
be completed by the end of the
year. Col. R. S. Thomas, of the local
Army Engineer office, reported yes
terday to Col. Sumpter Smith,
chairman of the Air Safety Board
of the Civil Aeronautics Authority
and chairman of the Engineering
Commission on the airport project.
The total fill will amount to ap
proximately 15.000,000 cubic yards.
Filling operations were started in
February, but only one dredge was
in operation at that time. With
three dredges now operating 24
hours a day—one of them the
"Gulf stream,” largest and most
powerful dredge in the United
States—engineers expect the re
mainder of the fill to be completed
in less time than the first half re
quired.
Civil Aeronautics officials also an
nounced that the job of constructing
the terminal building and hangars
will be started very soon, possibly
within the next 30 days.
By next July the huge airport, a
joint project participated in by P.
W. A., W. P. A., the Army Engineer
Corps and the C. A. A., is expected
to be readv for sprvire
The filling of one of the four main
runways is virtually complete. It
will be 6.200 feet long. Another
runway will be 4,500 feet long.
In all. 5 miles of runway will be
built on the 750-acre air terminal
tract, located a mile down the
Potomac River from Washington
Hoover Airport.
In addition, approximately 11,000
feet of taxiway will be provided in
the $9,880,000 airport project. The
runways will be 150 to 200 feet
wide.
Unlike the present airport, the
finished surface of the Gravelly
Point field will'be above flood stage
of the river. The surface will be
13.7 feet above sea level. The high
est point reached by a flood here
was 11.3 feet. This occurred during
the March, 1936, flood.
A
Woman Wins Her Initial Plea
To Be Allowed to Keep Ducks
The Commissioners granted a 30
day extension today to a “homeown
er and taxpayer” who threatened to
dispose of her home unless she is
allowed to keep her two pet ducks.
Miss Frances Washington Weeks
of 4964 Eskridge Terrace N.W. asked
the Commissioners to modify their
regulations in favor of her ducks, as
they had for the pet monkey of a
legless pencil vender and for pigeon
fanciers.
The feathered pets have come
afoul of a regulation banning poultry
pens within 500 feet of public schodte
—in this case, the Francis Scott Key
School. The Commissioners granted
the reprieve while they study the
case further.
Previously, the city heads had
turned down Miss Weeks’ request for
an exception. Miss Weeks appealed
to Senators Pepper and Andrews and
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Representative Green, all of Florida,
who wrote asking the Commission
ers to consider what might be done
about the ducks.
“There is nothing in your regu
lations,” Miss Weeks wrote the Com
missioners, “to prevent pigeons from
flying around school buildings and
causing them to be as unsanitary as
the outside of the District Building
for many years.” (Miss Weeks prob
ably referred to the starlings.)
I “But you object to my two pet
ducks that are in a wide inclosure—
under control—on my own property.”
Contraband Bill Passes
The House completed congres
sional action yesterday on a bill
to provide for seizure of vessels,
automobiles and aircraft used to
transport narcotics, firearms or
counterfeit money.
ft
Troop Vanguard
Occupies Field
At Bull Run
16,000 Men Will Be
On Hand Tomorrow
To Begin Maneuvers
By ROBERT A. ERWIN.
A vanguard of National Guard
staff officers and advanced details
were encamped today on the Civil
War battlefields of Bull Run around
Manassas, Va., ready for the arrival
tomorrow of 16,000 troopers of the
28th and 29th Divisions for two
weeks of 1st Army maneuvers.
Caravans of heavy, khaki-colored
motor trucks will roll away from the
Pennsylvania avenue armory tomor
row morning to take most of the
District National Guard personnel to
the 29th Division area near Gaines
ville.
Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord of
Baltimore, commander of the 29th
and adjutant general of the Mary
land National Guard, moved into di
vision headquarters yesterday. He
was accompanied by Lt. Col. Peyton
G. Nevitt, assistant adjutant general
of the District Guard and adjutant
general of the 29th, and other
officers.
The entire Washington section
will find itself in the midst of the
troop movement tomorrow. The
Virginia National Guard will pro
ceed to Manassas over State high
ways, while the Maryland Guard
and part of the Pennsylvania Guard
will pass through Washington in
trucks during the day, using both
Highway and Key Bridges for exits
from the District.
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Four units of the District Guard
will make the trip to Gainesville,
the first at 7:30 a.m. tomorrow. They
are the 260th Coast Artillery, com
manded by Col. Walter W. Burns,
now' armed w-ith the most modern
of anti-aircraft weapons and pre
pared to operate separately under
command of 3d Corps Area Head
quarters; the 121st Engineers, under
Col. John W. Oehmann; 29th Di
! vision Special Troops, Maj. William
T. Roy commanding, and the 1st
| Battalion, 104th Quartermaster Regi
; ment, under Maj. Fletcher F. Berns
dorff.
The District Guard will number
almost 1,500 officers and enlisted
1 men in camp. Fifteen days of real
Army life lie ahead. The men will
pitch their pup tents in the division
i area, sleep on the ground at night
and line up at the field kitchens
for meals in their owm mess kits,
i After eight days of training for
the 28th and 29th Divisions, there
will be a four-day-and-night maneu
i ver that will turn Bull Run into a
peacetime battlefield. The National
Guard will operate as the ‘ Blues"
with Maj. Gen. James K. Parsons of
i the Third Corps Area as supreme
! commander. The invading enemy
| will be the Provisional Division of
5.500 Regular Armv troops com
! manded by Brig. Gen. Maxwell Mur
ray, head of the Washington Provi
sional Brigade, newly-motorized and
fast moving, coming from Fort
Meade, Md., and Fort Belvoir, Va.
Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, com
mander of the District Guard, has no
camp assignment by virtue of his of
ficial position and the division or
ganization setup, but plans to inspect
i the District troops while they are in
t camp.
Officers in 29th.
His staff officers will be divided
among the 29th Command. Maj.
Sidney Morgan, inspector general,
will be assistant intelligence officer
for the division. Maj. Just C. Jen
sen. ordnance department, will be
assistant to the ordnance officer,
j Maj. Walter s. Welsh, judge advo
! cate, will assist the chemical of
; fleer, and Capt. Hugh Everett, jr..
I will assist the plans and training
officer.
The 28th National Guard Divi
; sion. coming exclusively from Penn
j sylvania, will be quartered near
Manassas, several miles from the
29th.
National Guard and Regular
Army medical officers have com
pleted an extensive advance pro
gram for an adequate water supply
for the encampment and other
measures to protect health. A bul
letin on protection of the body
against infection from the com
mon dog or w'ood tick already has
been issued. Many Guardsmen have
been immunized against Rockv
Mountain Spotted Fever, a disease
carried by the tick. Investigation
has revealed that the tick is not as
prevalent in August as in July.
Haiti Official Leaves
After Short Visit
Dumarsais Estime, Minister of
Education and Agriculture in Haiti,
left Washington for New York to
day after a short visit. He made
trips to the Agriculture and In
terior Departments, the Library of
Congress and the Government
Printing Office.
Minister Estime's journey to the
United States marks his first trip
away from the island on which Haiti
is situated. He came to this country
primarily to attend the recent World
Poultry Congress in Cleveland.
Band Concert
By the United States Army Band
in the Army Band Auditorium at
10:30 a m. tomorrow. Capt. Thomas
P Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner,
assistant leader.
Program.
March. “Joyce's 71st New York
Regiment” _ ... _Boyer
Diorama, “Scenes From the
Sierras" ... - Bennett
Quartet, “Two Pairs of Slippers,"
Putnam
Keig Garvin, Clarence Hurrel, Ran
dolph Walters and William
Vogelson, trombonists.
Idyll, “Indian Summer" ... Herbert
Popular, “Hot Pretzels ”
Glahe and Timm
Waltz. “The Blushing Bride.”
Laurendeau
March. “King Cotton” . _ Sousa
“Tha Star Spangled Banner.”
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