MONUMENT GW Train in Movie Action TO FIRST TRIBUTE IS PAID At Inhabitants9 PU * SHRINES UTS. BigO ! Meeting ELECTSJLANNERY PRESIDENTVISITED TO WASHINGTON Lawyer Named by Society. Nation-Wide Observance of Oldest Inhabitants Hear Ad- D. C. Officer Retires So He Old Tablet Tells Early Washington’s Birthday dress by W. W. Millan at May Oppose Roosevelt History. Centers Here. Celebration. for Office. John Spalding Flannery of the law- Nationwide observance yesterday of “Private morality” of the individual BV WILLIAM A. BELL, JR. firm of McKenney, Flannery and the 204th anniversary of the birth of was stressed by W. W. Millan before Ex-Policeman Howard M. Overstreet birth- —“ex” 24 Craighill yesterday was elected to George Washington centered in the the annual George Washington by hours—goes oft to the membership in the Washington Na- Capital, named in his honor, and day anniversary celebration of the As- political wars tomorrow to try to make tional Monument Society at the 103d nearby Virginia, where he was born. sociation of Oldest Inhabitants yester- an ex-President of Mr. Franklin D. v Roosevelt. annual meeting in the Metropolitan Congress paid tribute to the memory day at the Old Union Engine House left Overstreet retired from the Club. Mr. Flannery succeeds the late of the first President by postponing as the outstanding lesson by yesterday Police where he had Senator Frederick H. Gillett of Mas- all regular business to hear readings Washington to this generation. Department, of served five as a fourth sachusetts. of Washington’s farewell address in “He saw with unerring clarity years precinct the "that “to give my full time to my Conforming to custom, *he riub the Senate by Senator Buchanan, vision," declared speaker, private, is the sure foundation presidential candidacy.” placed a wreath at the Monument anc Democrat, of Tennessee, and in the private morality of and national happiness It was impossible, he explained, to discussed matters pertaining to the House by Representative McLean, Re- public good and help preserve the peace of southwest Improvement of the shaft and sur- publican, of New Jersey. security. as the of Washington and at the same time to rounding grounds. tomb at Mount Vernon “He is extolled greatest Washington’s convince the Nation Overstreet should interest an American declared Millan, The meeting heard with was the focal in the celebration patriots,” point be President. So he turned in his account William R. Harr "but what is patriotism? Is it a senti- by Secretary as 2,000 pilgrims gathered. Wreaths mental devotion to an ideal? Does it badge and revolver and prepared to of the recent discovery in a Govern- the shrine Wil- were laid at by Capt. set out for to circulate ment storeroom here of a massive stop there? Patriotism, in its essence, Pennsylvania son Brown, naval aide to President is but the of a good neigh- petitions to have his name placed on bronze tablet bearing a description of two power being Roosevelt, and by representatives Democratic ballots. the and of bor." primary society the Monument it- of the Dominican Republic, Dr. Er- self. whose construction was started F Seek Workers' Votes. nesto Bonnetti Burgos, Minister of Must Recognize rinciples. the and then over which this “Tell factory workers and other by society taken by foreign affairs, and Dr. Andres Pas- “The lesson generation the Government. draw from the life of Wash- working men for me.” he said this, tor iza, Minister to the United States. needs to ington is that we will have good citi- “that I hope they will see to it that Seek Tablet Installation. f ederal unices vium-u. and government so long my name gets on the ballots in Ohio A committee then was named to Monument the zenship good At the Washington the and other States with seek to have the tablet Starting the Historic Pitch. as we recognize with him that John Clagett Proctor, left, chairman, greeting Judge William W. Milan, preferential installed in States Marine Band played United our national the primaries.” the is on ex- foundations of policy the principal speaker yesterday at George Washington birthday an- Monument, where it now while of patriotic so- representatives should be ‘laid in the and immut- the While reluctant to relinquish the hibition. On the committee are Fred- pure niversary ceremonies of Association of Oldest Inhabitants. cieties made short talks. and trappings of the policeman, Overstreet erick A. Delano. E. Hamilton able principles of private morality —Star Staff Photo. George All Government offices and many said he constrained to leave the that there is an ‘indissoluble union felt and Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin. for the stores were closed day. and local gendarmerie because "there are The 5 feet in and between virtue happiness—be- tablet, height 6 Hall. certain oaths take At Constitution Representative tween and advantage.' policemen must feet wide, evidently was fabricated duty Hamilton Fish, Republican, of New not to which forbid their entering politics.” after the “The patriot of today needs Retired Prefers shortly dedication of the the District Societies of l, York, told be disturbed by the din of political Surgeon 80? So he said good-by to his comrades Monument on February 21, 1885. and Children of the Sons, Daughters discussions and the clamor of and buckled right down to being'his The includes a record of the political legend Revolution that "never own the American declared the . Jim Farley. of the Monument campaigns,” speaker. To Latest laying cornerstone before in history have we had such “These are but the froth and foam on Ignore Birthday When Gendarme Laughed. on 4. July 1848, with Masonic cere- and the prin- need to study analyze the surface of the stream. The great There is a French jingle which monies, and of the dedicatory exer- “Less Said the Better”'' of George Washington.’’ still l—i-"11 \ cises. ciples eternal verities of life, like water, translated freely goes “When one gen- These latter included a military Mrs. Vice President and Garner, As as there is damre in the all and civic and run deep. long good Sa\s Col. H. C. laughs gendarmerie, parade, addresses at the and Mrs. and others Coe, Speaker Byrns, citizenship there will be good govern- the gendarmes laugh in the gen- base of the Monument by Senator which in the congressional delegation ment. As as we obey law not Veteran. darmerie” John Sherman. W. W. Corcoran, at long Army last Autumn were __ visited the Orient from fear of it but from respect for it A policeman—not Overstreet— the time, first vice president of the reunion and guests at a combined be order and and Col. Thomas L. there will good patriotism laughed when Overstreet threw hi* society, Casey, Washington birthday party last night chief of the United will flourish.” Was Oldest Medical | hat into the ring and it is our duty States Engineering of former Senator Of- at the home Harry to record that his was not in of the of Farewell Address Read. laugh the Corps, charge completion B. Hawes of Missouri. in France Dur- the Monument. Washington's farewell address was ficer last. Wear Oriental Costumes. Frank San- But ridicule will not swerve How- ¥ _l_ read by Walter E. Allen. War. wore some cos- ing Each woman guest derson, accompanied by Mrs. Sander- ard M. Overstreet from the quest of The tablet records also that Chief tume she had acquired in the visit to written his son, sang “Sons of America,’’ Col. Homy Clark Coe. retired sur- goal. Justice John Marshall was the first China, and the Philippines. of Japan I William T. Pierson, a member and medical of the United of the by geon officer president society when it came At the Mount Vernon tomb, to of Oldest Inhabitants, the Association States Army, was 80 years old yes- into existence in September, 1833, and which 300 District Boy Scouts jour- one of IU LtUIUKt UN JALL and “The Way Worn Traveler," terday, hut he didn’t think it was lists the eminent men who then made to lay a wreath in the name of which — neyed Washington's favorite songs, much cause for celebration. up its membership. all Scouts in the United the Boy Nellie Custis sang to him. amount to Henry Gregor, head of the piano The ! "Birthdays don’t much meeting also received the re- States, Minister Pastoriza spoke on 1 of National Park Semi- Mr. Proctor read an original poem, are no he said | department of the after you longer young,” 1 port treasurer, Theodore W. behalf of President Trujillo of the Crossed the Dela- nary, will give a lecture-recital on “When Washington at his home, at Clifton Terrace Apart- j1 Noyes. Dominican Republic. ware.” What Price Jazz?” at the University In ments. ‘‘The less said about them addition to those named, the *'I have the honor to lay this of Club on at 8:30 j Dr. George Fiske Dudley, pastor I the better.” Thursday p.m. membership of the includes "at the tomb of the society | wreath,” he said, St. and the Incarnation Gregor, who is a composer and Charles C. Stephen’s The colonel's friends, however, Glover, second vice presi- immortal George Washington at the invocation. will discuss whether or not Church, pronounced the didn't share his and tele- pianist, dent; Dr. Herbert Putnam, R. Walton are opinion same time that festivities taking At the business session, the asso- jazz will become the bases for a new Coming up with Famous Swing. grams arrived from all parts of the Moore. Assistant Secretary of State; in the of the Dominican form of place capital ciation heard a financial report from and musical expression. He will Dr. r,W."" SBL»: 171TS3—T ! count ry, as medical societies Logan Hay, Gilbert H. Grosvenor, where the in re- a of the of Republic, people, Walter E. Allen. Recommendations extended their give survey development Gen. Omar Army friends congrat- COL. HENRY CLARK Maj. Bundy, Right Rev. ! sponse to the suggestion of President new COE, this new American ! regarding proposed heating equip- ulations. comparatively James E. Freeman. of some of the he Bishop Wash- ! are glorifying the name of were referred to Holding telegrams in music and will illustrate his Trujillo, i ment for the building This week end there will be a fam- style ington; Col. U. S. Grant, 3d; Rear Washington by renaming the most of received on his 80th birthday yes- talk with i the Hall and Archives Committee, with his his compositions by Debussy, Admiral Walter R. Gherardi. | ily birthday party, wife, —Star Staff Photo. Rear ! beautiful boulevard of our city, skirt- which James F. Duhamel is chairman. terday. Revel. Milhand. Tansman, Gershwin, Admiral | two sons and his two grandchildren Cary T. Grayson and Mark ing the sea, ’George Washington Carpenter and others. Articles for Museum. with him. Cae will be down tion and the Medal of the Sullivan. avenue.’" Fordyce Purple on behalf of the — Prank W. Dowling, from New Arthur Coe ■—■ Britain, Conn.; Heart. • -•- donors, presented two articles for the of Miami. Fla., is temporarily located Acquires No Hobbies. Johnson | museum: A frame containing two here as an attorney for the Treasury After an active life, in which spare STORM AND FLOODS i pairs of scissors and ribbon used in Department, and his grandchildren— moments were devoted to writing, he | opening the Calvert Street Bridge. daughter and son of his son Henry, has acquired no hobbies. Failing eye- I 1935: and a brick from ex- (Continued From First Pape.) CLAIM FIVE LIVES | December 19, who died in January—also are sight makes the continuation of a | the building at 2000 G street, formerly pected. literary career impossible now, but ! President Marvin of eembled under a series of gasoline occupied by Active in New York Many Y’ears. life is pleasant enough—with a radio storage tanks. Three Drown and Two Are Killed I George Washington University. A resident of Washington for the for entertainment and memories to The late B. Israel, Then Johnson was handed three Percy prominent past five years. Dr. Coe was an active beguile the quiet evening hours. in Snow-Slide on Pacific member of the association, was eulo- do like most to silver dollars. The first two he was surgeon in New Yoik for half a cen- “What you think both Proctor and by J. Eliot about?” he was asked. to throw as further practice, while Coast. gized by : tury and is affiliated with the Amer- the third was the “pay" dollar, in- Wright, secretary-treasurer. ican College of Surgeons and the “My college days,” he answered. Installation Press. ^Immediate By the Associated was a classmate at Yale of for- scribed with the name of the donor, The Voteless District of Columbia American Gynecological Society, of He — NO PAYMENTS SAN FRANCISCO. February 22 John F. Goldman, jr. Johnson's 1 League of 'Women Voters, through [ which he is past president. His prac- mer President Taft and was gradu- Three two deaths in a until 30 name also was engraved on the coin, drowmings, i Mrs. Jesse C. Adkins, in a letter, asked tice was interrupted during the war, ated with the famous class of ’78. September snowlide and more than 50 homeless along with "Ferry Farm,” where the | the association to hear a speaker at when he went abroad to direct work What have the years taught him? No Additional Interest marked the path of storm and flood views on science and re- family of the young George Wash- a meeting soon in the interests of at several hospitals in France. “Broader Installed in 6 on the Pacific Coast. ington once lived. today the Juvenile Court bill. of he said. ‘‘I was ligion." he said. | pending | ‘‘Speaking age.” Rooms as as An avalanche roared down a moun- His for life? Lotv The big pitcher took a little time to Motion Is I the oldest medical officer in France.” recipe in the and a Adopted. warm tainside Cascades trapped he re- “Moderation and less of up his famous right arm. He on motion of C. J. But he failed to mention that thought bus and several trucks and The association, had passenger Service Cita- self.” | already visited the spot several MacMurray, a request of the ceived the Meritorious cars on the Snoqualmie Pass Highway. approved i hours previously to hurl five silver Board of Trade 15 more men Wash. Two men were killed in a buried asking I dollars toward the bank. The opposite truck. j and additional equipment for the Fire 1 practice ammunition was < supplied by An earthslide in the Broadway low- Department. Farley Dollar the committee. Washington level tunnel at Oakland, Calif., in- I The association adopted a resolu- First Dollar Falls Short. two w'orkers. 30 others tion by MacMurray regretting the ab- Toss Across River jured Nearly t Think of it! We'll install The first of three sence of Theodore W. Noyes, president, j (Continued From First Page dollars which the Dollar fled to safety. j Hot-Water Heat in your Letting Fly. will be able to attend home now. No un- Johnson threw in public fell five or Two men drowned in the mother and hoping he payment con- Denied Duhamel til Sept. 30th. No additional Mr. were mind Mr. Hoover that the only six feet short of the far bank. One lode country near Jackson, Calif., when again soon. Noyes' regrets hy interest for these special low fusion is in his own mind.” citizen in a boat made their automobile stalled in the center presented by Proctor, who explained terms. No need to out off futile efforts 1 buyine hot-water heat— severe weather had at- Of the “miscalled American Liberty to recover it from the stream, which of a stream. The driver of a team of the prevented | “George Washington didn't throw place your order now at was tendance on recent League,” he said; present low prices and on full of drift ice. mules perished with them in a creek meetings. dollar across the these “A brilliant editorial writer said it a Rappahannock special teims. Im- Frank Lawrence recorder — The second dollar flew clear across near Colusa, Calif. Walker, mediate installation first Duhamel declared — of Almas of the ought to be called the American Cello- River,” James P. payment Sept. 30 then the stream, a distance estimated at Occupants of a two-story house Temple Mystic Shrine, take 3 whole years to pay. League, and he gave two good before the Association of 273 feet a local on Mount Davidson, San Francisco, was made a member of the associa- phane yesterday The above price includes 1S- by surveyor, and de- in. fi tion. ; reasons. He said, first, it’s a du Pont boiler. radiators. .300 scribed as 1,320 feet on an old in abandoned it today as it slowly col- Oldest Inhabitants at the old Union ft. radiation, completely in- map second, you can se the British Public slow earth slides. ; The Entertainment Committee, in product, and, stalled. Phone, write or see Records Office. This lapsed. pushed by Engine House, "because in those days us now. of through it.” latter was At Astoria, Oreg., a two-story house I charge refreshments served at the right figure supplied by Repre- was no American dollar.” close of the included J. The Postmaster General asserted there sentative Sol Bloom of New York, being moved on a barge to South Bend. j celebration, that after having “slipped further to the “excitement” over former chairman of the Wash., broke from its moorings and Eliot Wright, Walter E. Allen. Frank Referring George Wash- and further into the grip of economic I DELCO I was somewhere on the Pacific. W. Dowling, James F. Duhamel, Fred Walter Johnson's feat at the ington Bicentennial Commission. tossing at George A. Emery, B. F. McCauley, Elra C. Pal- drepession,” the national situation Representative Bloom cabled the | “could be Washington celebration. Duhamel said mer, John Proctor and Theo- the beginning of 1933 only OILBURNER London office to learn the width Clagett of described as the about throw- while various business dore Noyes, ex-officio. appalling.” story Washington the river in George Washington^ hour today day. of At that time, he said, jobless and the dollar would have the to men discussed the historic worth ing placed According local authorities, the more than at his their dependents numbered safe, even heat river could not the coin which had dropped time about 1750 when Washington was Enjoy have been that wide. the iress was with a Delco. Buy on feet. POST-GRADUATE CLINIC 30,000.000; reporting “If this was true,” said one Fred- a boy. The American dollar didn't low Federal Housing river bank suicides of fathers and mothers un- terms. Completely in- “then Prior to the test on the ericksburg citizen, the old city able to endure th' suffering of their come along until much later, Duhamel stalled includins CTn- of hundreds of automobiles jammed into PLANS ARE COMPLETED \ gallon tank. 3f> month! Fredericksburg would have been children; the farmers swarmed into the side streets leading to either side | explained. to pay. flooded off the map!” and de- I the highways, grim-faced “He have thrown a across Hot l< /mv of th# river. 1.500 Physicians and Dentists may peso resulted that j termined to protect their homes; bank- the river,” declared "but Unable to Such a traffic tie-up Duhamel, reconcile their calcula- courts were banks were the Governor and his escort were de- From Five States to Attend ruptcy busy; no dollar.” tions, the Representative and the State failing and “the whole banking sys- At this, the of the Chamber of layed for some time while police speaker day, Commerce called off a Gathering Here in March. tem, of confidence, a of deprived public W. W. Millan, seated on the plat- bet. cleared right way. 1 by which Bloom would have lost was on the verge of collapse," along Celebration. Arrangements have been completed form, turned to John Clagett Procter $100,000, with his 20 to 1 offered Part of Birthday with the railroads. odds. for the Five-State Post-Graduate vice president of the association pre- The young which he was Washington had ferried Johnson’s pitch, upon Clinic, to be held March 8 to 11 at Asking “what was done in 1930 and siding, and whispered: the Rappahannock at in a telegram from Rep- 1931 and 1932 the horrible that point on congratulated the Wardman Park Hotel. More than to correct “But George threw a sovereign his way to school in was only part of Fredericksburg resentative Bloom, 1.500 physicians and dentists from conditions I have described?" Farley across the Atlantic Ocean” According to of the 204th an- Parson Weems, a popu- the celebration here Maryland, Virginia. West Virginia, said: lar of biographer Washington, whose niversary of George Washington’s Delaware. North Carolina and the “You can aswer that yourself. veracity has been * • * Fear was challenged on good birth. District of Columbia are expected to Nothing was done. authority the State Senators and schoolboy once threw a Many Virginia attend. everywhere.” silver dollar across of Delegates at- the river. Watching Flight of Money. members of the House Two specially conducted tours Under the New Deal, Farley said: a A tribute to Subsequently new 11 tended the celebration. restored in the controversy m. m .u through the crime laboratory of the Confidence has been arose over whether silver the family was paid when dollars were Washington Department of Justice will be one of banking structure; the buying power Cm current at that time. was laid on the tomb of While the date a wreath the outstanding attractions of the of agriculture has been increased by seems for a former Gov. j //IcH^iuf early by Treasury issue Mary Ball Washington meeting. The tcurs w-ill include more than $2,000,000,000 in one year; there is for of acting for j authority the fact that E. Lee Trinkle Virginia, demonstrations and explanations of industrial production is up; Govern- Spanish dollars were known in the Gov. Peery. the scientific phases of crime investi- ment projects, “which will prove use- Colonies before the were guests Revolution These The visiting legislators gation, stressing the points of particu- ful and lasting benefit to the Nation,” dollars were heavier and at a luncheon in thus easier of Fredericksburg lar interest to the dentist and physi- are giving'a living to millions; the to throw. Hotel. y-~v;:l:h-:&.♦•. '. the Stratford cian. people have more money and “the As Johnson wound for cherry trees were up the final Two hundred The following committee chairmen American school system—the proudest throw, a local wit the city for planting • The remarked that, presented to have been announced by Dr. W. boast of our democracy—has been Compare City Bank “Dollars went farther in Farm Memorial Boule- Washing- on the Ferry Marion Falls, general chairman: J. P. rescued from a state of collapse.” Plan with Any Other! ton’s time than do now.” to the old Washington ^^Kj’HKjj^HPr^^\v they But vard leading Burke, Advisory: G. R. Ellis, Clini- “That, my fellow Americans, is the Jonnson only grinned and collected farm by growers in various Eastern three-year record of President Frank- his cians: P. Robin, Table Clinics; H. B. big shoulders behind the lin we are PAY ONLY pitch. States. Hertford, Table Clinics Subcommittee; D. Roosevelt and proud of Lands in Middle of Crowd. Bloom Unable to Attend. it. We E. T. Lane, Publicity; J. Keaveny, challenge any political party He hurled the dollar Bloom was unable to "pay” all the Representative T. D. Gates, Exhibit; D. F. meet us on that record.” over His mes- Programs; way the river and a good 20 feet to attend the ceremonies. made a frank bid for Re- Lynch, Lecture Halls; G. B. Clen- Farley Here's the idee! The City _ W [~k onto the in the Johnson [ bank, very midst of sage, however, congratulating and publican votes. a denin, Banquet Entertainment; J. Bank will finance your car for I Hi crowd which had assembled to on his feat, said: • * • en- try W. Pollock, Hotel Reservations; A. G. Recalling that “millions to catch the missile. Walter. Stop over listed you and you repay them “Congratulations, Miller, Registration; W. A. Rath, under the Democratic banner” vjfk This eagerness on the of In on your trip home and in he their in at part Washington History, Scierice and Creative Arts; 1932, said “we want sym- monthly deposits the ■ young and old was whetted the celebrate. I. sincerely hope that by let’s Mrs. H. B. Meloy, Ladies’ Auxiliary, pathy, their help and their suffrage offer of a local shoe dealer to dollar was the dollar that did the pay my and Miss L. Cain, Dental Hygienists. again.1* $100 for the souvenir. The offer later trick.” was boosted. The “pay” dollar, however, was 5% may save only a little OF The dollar fell Goldman. Earlier squarely at the feet presented by Rep- each month, but savings CASH of a naturalized citizen who said he resentative Bloom and the Fredericks- amount to as much as an was had been Grands $20 BALANCE Pietro Yon in his native Italy, burg Chamber of Commerce ; V in *£* a car. at but since had been known as Peter unable to reconcile the difference in Specializing and Car insurance DUE ON Yon. Yon quietly stooped, slipped the old and new calculations of the standard rates. CAR the dollar into his pocket, and moved width of the Rappahannock and thus X Perfect call off a bet which % away from the crowd which had were forced to by Inquire at Any of Our Six Convenient Locations. heard the dollar was in that vicinity Bloom would have lost $100,000 on DIAMONDS Upright and was for at odds of 20 to 1. f scrambling it with great Johhson's pitch Also | templet* line o( standard ..-. .. V gusto. i tnd all-American made watches. “Well, I guess I made it.” £ niut Ills tnc ram at ♦ Shop at the friendly store— V '—Star Staff Movie Combating Photos by Elwood Baker. jou're always ted with » I Pianos prize several He then hastened s*e free twines. V smile—with no oblltation to bujr- V to the office of the local newspaper, ARTHRITIS Charge Accountm Invited & For Rent where he was interviewed at length. the dollar?” gasped a reporter. Mean- ’em inna bank. That’s what the pic- can relieve arthritic pains by fol- y He that he was 31 No# yon explained years while, telephones were sounding off ture men said I should do. lowing the health resort method at home Established Hot old. came from the north of Drink Mountain Valley Mineral Water Italy, “But if ask me should queries as to who had found the you again, I direet from famous Hot Springs. Arkansas. X M. •9th b Mqss.Ave.N.W. *3608 Georgia Ave. •8th b G Sts. S.E. and at present was engaged as a Wartzbnrger Co. a have to say: A natural corrective. Endorsed by physi- Mi WOIMH •9th b E. Cap. Sts. ’*3401 Conn. Ave. • lOth&Pa. stone mason at a Federal near “pay" dollar. cians for over 30 years. Fhene for booklet. G St. N,W* 1 park ”’I cannot tell a lie. I’m gonna ^ here. “I'm gonna put ’em irma bank,” sell ’em to the highest bidder!’” Mountain Valley Mineral Water 1110 6 N.W. ‘'What are you going to do grinned Von. ‘‘Sure, I’m gonna put Yon was out at a late 1062. »t. N.W. wj^h still holding MH. U0t|K 'fi * » -V-