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Washington News taf Society and General WASHINGTON, D. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937. PAGE B-F AS FIRST WITNESS Subcommittee Seeks Explanation of Several Points in D. C. Proposal.

KENNEDY MEETS DELAY IN LOCATING CHICAGOAN Two Special House Groups to Call Advisers Also in Probe of Formula. Efforts are being made today by Representative Kennedy. Democrat, of Maryland to reach J. L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency engineer and tax expert, to summon him as a witness before two special subcommittees of the House District Committee to explain his three-point plan for settling the perennial controversy over the fiscal relationship between the Federal and District governments.

Jacobs directed the latest fiscal relations study, which resulted In a report to Congress recommending an entirely new principle for determining the Federal obligation toward District expenses. Attaches in office called the Budget Bureau and were told Jacobs could be reached at the HayAdams House. There, however, it was said he had May Be in Chicago. Jacobs sometime ago volunteered to appear before the subcommittees, and it is believed he returned to his home in Chicago, Kennedy hopes to reach him there and notify him that as soon as he is available public hearings will be started on the fiscal relations report. Kennedy is chairman of one of the two special subcommittees appointed by the District Committee to study the Jacobs fiscal relations plan.

The other is headed by Representative Nichols, Democrat, of Oklahoma. The Kennedy subcommittee was instructed to consider revenue features in the Jacobs report, and the Nichols group the 19 proposed legislative changes. The subcommittees, however, have decided to hold joint hearings at the outset of the study. Kennedy is desirous of having Jacobs as the first witness, so he can explain some of the details of the report that still puzzle members of both subcommittees. The first public hearing will be held as socn as Jacobs is prepared to testify.

Advisers to Be Called. The so-called Advisory Committee which assisted Jacobs with the fiscal relations inquiry also is to be called before the two subcommittees. The members are George McAneny, president of the Title Guaranty Trust Co. of New York City; Clarence A. Dykstra, city manager of Cincinnati, and John Martin, chairman of the Kentucky State Tax Commission.

The House Subcommittee on Appriations, in charge of the 1936 District supply bill, also plans to call Jacobs as soon as it begins a consideration of the proposed new fiscal relations plan. This study is to be independent of the one undertaken by the two subcommittees of the District Legislative Committee of the House. The two subcommittees decided to begin their study with joint hearings at a special executive meeting yesterday which was attended by the Commissioners and Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer.

Later, hearings may be held. A few hours after the special session. Chairman Norton of the District Committee referred to subcommittee the four tax bills which have been sponsored for some years by Representatives Mapes, Republican, of Michigan. These measures provide for an increase in the gasoline tax from 2 to 4 cents a gallon, a weight tax on all motor vehicles, substitution of an income tax for the present tax on intangible personal property, and an inheritance tax. The Jacobs report recommended similar revenue bills in its report.

BANKRUPTCY ACTION IS AIMED AT NOLAN Petition to Force Judgment Against Former Automobile Sealer Is Filed. A petition to force William J. Nolan Into involuntary bankruptcy was filed in District Court today. Nolan's automobile sales agency tflready has been adjudicated a bankrupt, and Nolan himself is serving a sentence for allegedly bribing two witnesses in his divorce suit. The personal involuntary bankruptcy action was brought by Justus S.

Wardell, receiver for the Potomac Savings Bank of Georgetown, and the Munsey Trust Co. It was alleged that Nolan owed the Potomac Savings $1,152.69 and $1,180 as indorser on a due note and owed the Munsey Trust Co. $262.50 as indorser on a due note. Through Attorney Stanley D. Willis the petitioners alleged Nolan committed acts of bankruptcy by permitting the Bank of Commerce and Savings to obtain a default judgment of $3,600 and by withdrawing $4,500 from the Bank of Commerce and Savings and $5,500 from Hlbbs Si Co.

While he was insolvent. MOTHER REPORTS BOY, 13, HAS DISAPPEARED Wearing a gray suit, dark blue high top shoes and a black raincoat with a hood, Clarence Lyerly, 13-year-old son of Mrs. Russell Waggoner, 1338 New Hampshire avenue, left for school yesterday morning and has been missing ever since, his mother told police today. The boy, who goes to Gordon Junior High, was seen there for the first two periods, Mrs. Waggoner learned.

She said he might have gone to Franklyn, to the home of his grandmother, Mrs. W. H. Jones. She has wired Mrs.

Jones, but has received no answer. CONTRACT IS LET Virginia Skyline Co. to Furnish All Facilities, in Shenandoah. $1,250 ANNUALLY PLUS PERCENTAGE PLEDGED Company Will Spend Approximately $300,000 for First Installations Hade. After a year of negotiation to establish tourist camps and concesrions in Shenandoah National Park, the Interior Department today awarded a 20-year contract to the Virginia Skyline Co.

of Richmond, which would give them a virtual monopoly of all such operations. Nearly a year ago. after futile efforts to persuade private capital to invest in Shenandoah Park concessions, Secretary Ickes threatened to maintain governmental operation. The park is said to be more popular with tourists than any other in the country. The contract with the Richmond concern will net the Interior Department $1,250 annually, plus a percentage of the net profits in excess of 6 per cent on the invested capital.

The company was prepared to spend approximately $300,000 for initial installation of accommodations for the public. Additional investments will be required from time to time to meet demonstrated needs of visitors. The concessions will range from lodges, camps and cafeterias to bath houses, stores, filling stations and automobile and saddle-horse transportation facilities. Intoxicants Are Barred. The Richmond firm also was authorized to sell magazines, post cards, souvenirs, tobaccos, but Intoxicating liquors were barred.

Secretary Ickes has taken under advisement the question of establishing the Skyline Drive, a portion of which is in the Shenandoah, as a toll road to defray the cost of maintenance. This proposal brought so many protests from Virginia Chambers of Commerce that Ickes held up final action, pending a study to determine which parks now charge motorists for the privilege of using roads. The contract gives Secretary Ickes power to prescribe all regulations, including those covering charges and the character and standards of and accommodations. No date was announced for the beginning of construction, but it was understood the work would begin as soon as weather permits. Secretary Ickes must approve all plans for the tourist camps and other concessions.

As far as possible, souvenirs to be sold in the park will be limited to articles of native handicraft of the Appalachian region. D. C. Man Other Bidder. The only other bidder for the contract was Robert A.

Nordblom of Washington, who oSered a lower percentage of net profits. The more business done in the park by the Richmond concern, the more revenue the Government will receive under a highly technical scale of percentages covering a period of years. In addition to the $1,250 annual rental, the firm is virtually guaranteed 6 per cent on its Invested capital. If the profits are in excess of that amount, the oompany will pay the Government 26 per cent of above 6 per cent for the first five years, 7 per cent for the second five years. 28 per cent for the third, and 29 per cent for the fourth.

There is an additional agreement to pay higher percentages on net profits exceeding 25 per cent on the invested capital. BERNARD 0. UMHAU EXPIRES AT HOME Sudden Heart Attack Is Fatal to Former Employe of Elevator Firm. Bernard O. Umhau, 75, of 5222 Nebraska avenue, a native of Washington, died last night at his home after a sudden heart attack.

Mr. Umhau had been retired for nine years from active service with the Otis Elevator where he had been employed for approximately 30 years as an estimater of repair costs. He was born here in 1862, the son of John A. and Augusta Umhau. His wife, Mrs.

Alice Greer Umhau, survives. Surviving, besides his wife, are three daughters, Mrs. Irene E. Lehmann, Mrs. Augusta McLane and Mrs.

Doris Deaner; a son, John B. Umhau, and two grandchildren. John B. Umhau. and Marjorie EUen Umhau.

Funeral services will be held at his residence at 2 p.m. tomorrow. Rev. G. E.

Lenski, pastor of Grace Lutheran Church, officiating. Burial will be In Glenwood Cemetery. MRS. PAULINE EHRLICH DIES AT AGE OF 95 Widow of Merchant Was Native Russian Who Came Here in in Charities. Mrs.

Pauline Ehrlich, 95. 1125 Spring road, a resident of Washington for 25 years, died Saturday at her home. Funeral services were held Sunday at the residence, followed by burial in National Capital Cemetery. Mrs. Ehrlifch was the widow of Morris Ehrlich, Washington merchant.

She was born in Russia and came here in 1912. Active in charitable work all her life, one of her main interests was in the Hebrew Home for the Aged. Surviving are seven sons, Harry, Nathan, David, Samuel and Sidney of Washington, and William of Baltimore; one daughter, Mrs. Pearl Lieberman of Baltimore; 41 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. Blanketed by last night's snowfall, the majestic beauty of the new Supreme Court Building is emphasized as the cameraman effectively framed the building in a network of snow-covered boughs.

C. Staff Photo. i Slave of President Johnson Spends Hour in White House Hop es of Four Years Realized as He Completes Journey From Knoxville Begun in 1875. President Andrew youngest slave, now a dignified chef of 79, whose creations in pastry are known to all good eaters in Eastern Tennessee, spent an hour with President Roosevelt this morning and emerged from the White House to remark: he sure is my kind of white For William Andrew Johnson, arrival in Washington meant the completion of a journey begun in 1875 and the talk with Mr. Roosevelt in the oval room of the White House the realization of the hopes of four years.

William Andrew Johnson is light brown, stands he will walk with the aid of a silverheaded cane given him this morning by Mr. wears a mustache over tightly drawn lips. He was five years old when he was freed by the emancipation proclamation, but he stayed on to serve Mr. Andy for another 12 years. He is a great favorite in Knoxville, where he cooks pies, cakes and bread in the grill of Mrs.

Herbert Weaver. Mrs. Weaver knew that consuming wish was to talk with the President, and she and the ex-slave of the reconstruction President long ago bent their energies to accomplishing the wish. Ten days ago a roving newspaper man went through Knoxville, heard of Andy ex-slave and spent a long while in Mrs. kitchen talking with him.

The result was a story which the President read. The President sent a memorandum to Stephen Early, White House Secretary. do you think about having William Andrew Johnson the memorandum read. Early agreed it was a good idea. Next came another presidential memorandum: you arrange it? I will take care of the The business of getting William Andrew Johnson from Knoxville to Washington was turned over to the Secret Service, and early this morn- ing the excited old man arrived.

He remembered that 52 years ago he started north with former President Johnson, newly elected Senator. But long before they could reach the Capital, Johnson, whom Williams was too young to accompany when he was in the White House, suffered a stroke and died while stopping for a visit in his daughter's home. The Secret Service arranged a busy schedule for Capitol, where he was to meet Vice President Gamer; the Washington Monument, Mount Vernon, the Lincoln Memorial. On his way back to Knoxville he ex- pects to stop off in Roanoke, to see a cousin. Sunday he thinks he will rejoin Mrs.

Weaver at the grill. Mrs. Weaver will be ready to hear word about the trip. She has said time and again, William reported, "I rest until you see the She was hopeful she could be included in the trip, but it work out that way. MELLON GALLERY RESOLUTION VOTED Many Speak in Favor at Meeting of House Committee on Library.

The joint resolution providing for the construction and maintenance of the National Gallery of Art, offered as a gift by former Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to the United States Government, was ordered favorably reported today by a unanimous vote of the House Committee on Library. The resolution is sponsored by Chairman Kent Keller of Illinois. The motion for a favorable report was made by Representative Treadway, Republican, of Massachusetts, and seconded by Representative Secrest, Democrat, of Ohio. Howard Chandler Christy, the artist, was one of many prominent persons attending the session. Those who spoke in favor of the resolution included Donald D.

Shepard, representing Mellon; M. A. Townsend, Justice Department; Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission; Harry S. Wender, representing the associations; Charles Moore, chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts; Dr.

Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, which will have charge of the Mellon gallery; John Russell Pope, architect; Maj. Dan I. Sultan, District Engineer Commissioner, and David E. Finley, who is in charge of the Mellon gallery.

Shooting Star Superstition. The Tarchumares of Mexico believe that a shooting star is a dead sorcerer coming back to injure one who has injured him in life. BAND CONCEBT. By the Marine Band Symphony Orchestra in the auditorium at 8 p.m. today.

Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; William F. Santelmann, assistant. TWO ARE CONVICTED OF PARKING IN SNOW Judge Hitt Holds Arrests Legal Because Emergency Existed. The first two persons arrested for violation of the latest snow removal regulation were convicted before Traffic Judge Isaac R.

Hitt today. In his decision, Judge Hitt said he believed the arrests legal because in one case it was snowing when the driver parked his car and in the other it snowed after the automobile had been parked. The court held that an emergency existed because of the snow, but expressed a belief the regulation would not apply when there was no snow. Defendants were Lynn Jenkins, 3075 street, who was given a suspended $2 fine, and Harry Bettelman, 4550 Connecticut avenue, who was released on his personal bond. Both cases were the result of the light snow last Sunday night.

The latest regulation sets a definite period of between December and March during which persons may not park on certain streets during the hours originally named. This regulation does not contain reference to an emergency. F. A. HARDEE DIES Fred A.

Hardee, brother of Cary A. Hardee, former Governor of Florida and receiver for the Federal-American National Bank Trust died yesterday in a Thomasville, hospital, it was learned through the Associated Press. The brother here resides at the Westchester Apartments. In addition to the former Governor, Mr. Hardee is survived by his widow, another brother, J.

E. Hardee of Madison, and three sisters, Mrs. Calire Parramore of Petersburg, Mrs. H. M.

Cobb of Asheville, N. and Mrs. Effle Ingalls of this city. A FIGHT FOR FUNDS Education Board Members Stress Needs at Subcommittee Hearings. Supt.

of Schools Frank W. Ballou and members of the board of education made a vigorous fight today before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations, in charge of the 1938 District supply bill for adequate funds for the public schools. These school authorities, it is understood, stressed the urgent need of every item in the school budget, and fortified their pleas with charts and statistics depicting the growth of the school population in recent years and a corresponding decrease in school- house accomodations. Dr. Ballou had been before the subcommittee two days ago but was recalled, along with members of the school board to complete the picture of existing conditions in the school system.

Business Group Testifies. Simultaneously with the resumption of the hearings on the school budget. Chairman Collins of the subcommittee disclosed that a group of Washington's outstanding business and professional men who testified yesterday at a unique the conference, made a number of valuable suggestions that probably will be adopted when the appropriation bill is drafted. Eighteen business and professional men appeared before the subcommittee throughout the day and discussed, according to Collins, virtually every subject in which the District is vitally interested. Hospitals, public health, schools and police service, however, were the chief topics.

The conference was held behind closed doors with the official stenographer absent. While Collins declined to disclose the suggestions the subcommittee considered seriously, he said: had about 18 prominent business and professional men before us, and all of them gave us some helpful, valuable Some Witnesses Named. Collins refused to make public the complete list of the witnesses. The partial list he announced included E. Barrett Prettyman, former corporation counsel; Dr.

Sterling Ruffin, former president of the District Medical Society; Robert V. Fleming, president of Riggs National Bank; Charles Jones of the Federal Housing Commission; Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary of the Washington Board of Trade; Col. Julius I. Peyser, John Saul, Frank R.

Jelleff, and Edwin C. Graham. Before the end of the week, Collins plans to have the subcommittee start its proposed study of the Jacobs fiscal relations report together with its three-point formula for settling the fiscal relationship issue between the Federal and District Governments. J. L.

Jacobs, Chicago efficiency engineer, who directed the fiscal relations study on which the report was based, and George Lord, Detroit tax expert, are to be called as the principal witnesses. Lord served as an aid to the special Mapes Committee of the House which some years ago made a comprehensive study of the fiscal relations subject and recommended a Federal lump sum payment toward District expenses of not to exceed $6,500,000. He is known to oppose the Jacobs formula on the ground that it is unworkable and unfair to the District. Women Take Court Stand. A woman's national committee for Off the Supreme has been organized and includes Miss Laura Berien of Washington, it was announced today from New York by Miss Cathrine Curtis, national director of Women Investors in America, which is sponsoring the movement.

Admits Series of Hold-Ups, Police Say Parks Implicates Tiro Others in Telling Officers of Miniature Crime Wave Created by Trio. Richard Carl Parks, 19-year-old "red-headed bandit" arrested Monday when his mother inadvertently told police of his identity because she was worried, yesterday confessed to a twoweek series of depredations numbering eight hold-ups, two car stealings and one housebreaking, according to police. Implicating two associates. Silvio Joseph Daneri. 23.

of 114 Quincy place northeast, who was arrested Monday night, and James Phelps, 18, of 59 Randolph street, still at large, the youthful bad man quietly recounted details of the three-man miniature crime wave to police. Parks told how the trio started their plundering February 7 with the stealing of an automobile from a parking lot at Ninth and streets. The car belonged to former Detective Chief William Shelby. Tells of Robberies. Using the stolen vehicle, the youths held up a drug store on Mount Pleasant street, a lunch room at Georgia avenue and Webster street and a filling station at Georgia avenue and Farragut street.

The loot from these robberies totaled $135. The following day, Sunday, they held up the Atlas Sporting Goods Store in the 900 block of street. Here they got most of the weapons later used, four of which were found in home in Takoma Park when he was arrested. Stealing another car from a parking lot on Seventh street, they began anew, Parks said. Five hold-ups in less than two hours was the result.

These hold-ups included a grocery store on Pennsylvania avenue, a drug store at First and streets, a liquor store in the 900 block of street, a newspaper substation in the 2300 block of Wisconsin avenue and another drug store at 1800 New Hampshire avenue. Estimates Loot at $200. Parks estimated the money taken from these places totaled about $200, although police accounts placed the I amount at a higher figure. Arrested late Monday after his mother, Mrs. Richard Morley, went to police headquarters because she heard a radio lookout fitting her description, Parks was taken to the eighth precinct, where he admitted he was the "red-headed Police disclosed the fact that he was on probation at the time of his arrest, having been convicted of housebreaking on two offenses in 1935, for which he received from one to four suspended sentence.

Parks vehemently denied he had ever taken dope in any form, contrary to earlier rumors circulated because of his mothers having told police she feared her son was a narcotic addict. Expects Early Arrest. Commenting on the case last night, Detective Inspector Bernard W. Thompson thought it only a question of hours before the third member of the band would be apprehended. expect arrest within 24 the inspector said.

Leaping from a rear porch on the second story of his home at 59 Randolph place when police sought to I arrest him Monday night, the youth evaded capture. OVER 600 EXPECTED AT JEWISH SESSION Young People's League of United Synagogue of America to Hold Convention. More than 600 delegates from every part of the United States and Canada are expected here for the thirteenth annual convention (Bar Mltzvah) of the Young League of the United Synagogue of America. Irving Nusbaum, convention chairman, said today. The convention opens Friday at the Willard Hotel and continues through Monday.

An informal dance is planned for Saturday night, and a formal ball is scheduled Sunday night. Young people's special services are being arranged for Friday night at the Adas Israel Synagogue, Sixth and I streets, and for Saturday morning in the same congregation and at the Israel Synagogue, Fourteenth and Qnerson streets. The Oneg Shabat will take place at the Israel Synagogue Saturday at 1:30 pjn. A sight-seeing trip arranged for Monday afternoon will Include an especially arranged tour of the White House. Sunday afternoon will be devoted to 13 seminar discussions of subjects interesting to young men and women.

MEETINGDELAYED Education Session Waits on House Hearings. The regular meeting of the Board of Education has been postponed from this afternoon to 3:30 p.m. tomorrow, due to continued hearings on the school budget before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations, it was announced today. 1 FUNERAL RITES SET FOR G. B.

Rose Croix Services to Be Conducted Tomorrow at Scottish Rite Cathedral. Funeral services will be held tomorrow for George B. McGinty, for nearly a quarter of a century secretary of the Interstate Commerce Commission, who died of pneumonia yesterday at his home, 3030 Forty-fourth street. Rose Croix funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. at Scottish Rite Cathedral, Third and streets, under direction of officers of Evangelist Chapter, Knights Rose Croix.

Mr. McGinty, prominent in Masonry, was venerable master, Mithras Lodge of Perfection, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. Mr. McGinty, who was 58, is survived by his widow, two sons by a former marriage, George F. McGinty of Baltimore and Sawtelle McGinty: his mother, and brother.

T. A. McGinty, residing in Macon, Ga. CONCERT AT CHURCH Madrigal Singers to Appear in Types of Songs. TPHE MADRIGAL SINGERS, dlrect1 ed by Mrs.

John Milton Sylvester, will give a concert at Western Presbyterian Church, 1906 street northwest, this evening at 8:15 o'clock. The program will comprise madrigals, rounds, carols, folk songs, glee and familiar songs. The personnel of the singers includes Elizabeth Waters, Winifred Thomas Clark, Elsie Rogers Graham, Norma Hughes, Gladys Roberts, Robert Barrow, George Roth, George T. Hiller, Edward Henneberry and George Magdeburger. Preparations Under Way for Testing Navy Strength Under Battle Conditions.

PLANS FOR EXERCISES KEPT CLOSE SECRET of Hawaii, However, Certain to Be Included in Program. BY WILLIAM A. MILLEN. About two months hence upwards of 150 warships will steam out of Southern California ports in the big war games, in which opposing fleets will play hide-and-seek in the vast triangle bounded by California Alaska and Hawaii. Already the vessels are preparing for the big Job, with innumerable drills and ship exercises, as well as aviation maneuvers.

The war games will be held from to June 1, six weeks' steady grind that will test the mettle of men and ships. Right now Army, Navy and Marine Corps units are co-operating in landing operations, turning San Clemente Island, off the California coast. Into a theater of war. This is but a preparation for the big war games that will be in full swing shortly. Admiral Arthur J.

Hepburn, commander in chief of the United States Fleet, will have a leading part in the mimic battle. Secret orders will prevail and radio communication will be taboo, lest the opposition get a line on the whereabouts of the enemy fleet. umcers in Charge. Admiral Claude C. Bloch, former judge advocate general of the Navy and former commandant of the Washington Navy Yard, will be one of the as he is now commander of the Battle Force, aboard his flagship, the U.

S. S. California. Vice Admiral William T. Tarrant, commander of the Scouting Force, aboard the U.

S. S. Indianapolis, cruiser that has been used by President Roosevelt, is another of the trio that will aid in directing the maneuvers. Out of the California ports, the warships will sail north and west to their appointed places. Already the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.

Navy Department, is making extensive preparations for provisioning the mighty array. While Washington officials are secretive about the whole business, it is known that Hawaii will be "defended" from the attack of the "hostile The Fleet will be divided into two forces of nearly equal strength, and whether the naval authorities will call the contending fleets the red and the pink, or the maroon and the cerise, has not been learned. San Clemente Island San Clemente Island maneuvers, now going forward, are being conducted in the utmost secrecy. Admiral Hepburn is directing the various exercises and it is expected that he will be continued for another year as commander in chief of the United States Fleet. Playing a leading part in the forthcoming war games will be aircraft carriers U.

S. S. Lexington, Ranger and Saratoga, as well as the tender Wright. The war birds are taking an increasingly important role in the maneuvers, which until a few years back were confined solely to submarines and surface vessels. While there is a policy on about the whole affair, it is believed that the Army forces, stationed in Hawaii, will be asked to join with the Navy in testing the vulnerability of Uncle mid-Pacific possessions.

The Aleutian Islands, off the tip of Alaska, will play an important role in the war drama, for there Uncle Sam proposes to establish a naval base and surveys in the area have been under way for some time. To preclude possible objections by Japan that Uncle Sam's dreadnaughts may approach too near her shores, the Navy Department is expected to insist again, as it did in previous years, that the war games be held eastward of the 180th meridian, a bit west of Hawaii. Dutch Harbor in Unalaska in the Aleutians, which is favored as a naval base in the almost-Far East, is not west of the 180th meridian. First Workout for Many. New destroyers ana cruisers tnai have joined the fleet recently will have their first workout under service conditions.

simulating wartime, in the forthcoming maneuvers. Smoke screens, radio silence and all the tricks of the sea-fighting man will be brought into play once more in order to confuse or conquer the Problem is the euphemistic way the Navy Department designates the war games, which are expected to bring out many vital lessons of real importance to 1- Sam. New ships and the newer personnel of the service will be put through their paces for the first time. All lights will be put out while the fleets are at sea, crews will be restricted as to shore liberty and mailing letters, secret orders will be known only to the senior officers nd watches are expected to be hours on and four instead of the regular peacetime routine of longer rest periods. There are indications more planes will participate in the war games than ever before, although the exact number has not been made public Scouting, torpedo, fighting, bombing and patrol types will be utilized by the commanders of the opposing fleets for tactical and strategical advantage and to gain information.

Even now, the aviators are hard at It, preparing for the forthcoming "fray." The General Board, which advisei Secretary Swanson on matters ol policy, and the Naval War College at Newport, R. will be directly interested in the outcome of the wai games. The reports made on them will be studied for many months in Washington and efforts made to repair any weak spots in Uncle Sam'i naval armor. In recent war games the fleets been operating in the Pacific, off thi coast of Panama and South America, This year the center of interest will shift westward, with Alaska and Hawaii being very much in the foreground..