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| ATONALTY REHT FOR IVES URGED DY VAN VOTERS General Council Declares Married Women Should Accept Own Status. ATTEMPTS TO GET OUT LAGGARD VOTE DECRIED Education of Teaders Declared Great Task of Modern Democ- racy in America. Married women throughout the world should have the right to accept their own nationality, as unmarried persons do, and not be compelled to follow au- tomatically the nationality of their husbands, the General Council, National League of Women Voters, declared to- day at its meeting in the Hotel Wash- ington. ‘The: league’s position was stated formally in a resolution adopted by 110 delegates .representing 42 States and 800 groups of women in .the coun- try affiliated with the organization. ‘The council expressed the hope that the projected international codification conference will deal with the laws of nationality and open the way to exten- sion of the principle. Wholesale attempts to urge reluctant voters to vote is waste of valuable civic energy, Dr. Robert D. Leigh, president .of Bennington College, told the council. “Efforts to obtain more flexible rules for residence, provisions for easier regis- tration and for absent voting are well directed,” he said. *“But wholesale at- tempts to urge reluctant voters to vote is a waste of energy. Education of Leaders Needed. “The great task of modern democracy is_that of making decisions more in- telligent. This means primarily the education and use of leaders.” Miss Belle Sherwin of Cleveland is president of the council. Removal of legal hindrances to voting, due to clumsy election ma- chinery, and stimulation of a year- yound sense of responsibility to govern- ment were stressed as objectives of the league. The council received a report of surveys made in city wards ana country towns in Minnesota, suggesting that the habits of the American voter are better than pictured. A period of three and one-half years, including eight elections, primary, gen- eral and municipal, showed 81 per cent of the total number of eligible voters voting once or oftener during the period, and of this voting group 77 per cent voted from four to eight times. “Moving days” have a depressing ef- fect on the total vote, the report pointed out. “In a typical rooming-house dis- trict the shift in voting population was found to run as high as 54 per cent dur- ing the period,” the report said. “Apart- ment house districts showed a change of 40 per cent, while suburban sections showed the smallest change in voting population, approximately 30 per cent.” Cites Growing Interest. Members of the council expressed the opinion that the record of 63 per cent of the estimated number of eligible voters voting in the last presidential election should not be attributed too exclusively to keen interest in the per- sonalities of the two presidential can- “didates. In 12 cities, it was pointed out -——Arizona, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Missouri, Nevada, New York, ‘Washington, North Carolina, West Vir- ginia and North Dakota-—more votes were cast for candidates other than the presidential nominees. Council members agreed that the in- crease in number of women voting had a large effect on the increase in the per- centage of the eligible vote cast, but it was sald that the increase must be at- tributed to a gain in established vot- ing habits among women as well as to immediate interest in the ndtional con- test. Among those participating in the morning and afternoon sessions on the general theme were: Mrs. A. J. Mc- Guire of St. Paul, who talked on survey of voting habits; Mrs. Charles N. Tee- tor of Hagerstown, Ind, on improved registration methods; Miss Elizabéth J. Hauser of Girard, Ohio, on better bal- lots; Mrs. R. Templeton Smith of Pittsburgh on accurate ballot counting; Mrs. B. G. Jamieson of Hollywood, 11l on candidates’ meeting; Mrs. Arthur McGeoch of Milwaukee on education in election issues by radio; Mrs. Chauncey J. Hamlin of Buffalo, N. Y., on information booths in election cam- paigns; Mrs. George H. Crooket of Providence, R. I, on ballot-marking classes. Mrs. W. W. Ramsey of Chicago, who presided, gave a demonstration of a voters' school. Miss Katherine Merry of the Michigan State Normal College League, whose report won the $25 prize for the best account of getting out the student vote in the 1928 eleétion, spoke on aids to absentee voters. Miss Merry is the only college league member at- tending the council. FOUR ARE INJURED IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS Two dirls Knocked Down by Auto ‘While Crossing Street—alhn and Woman Hurt. A man, a woman and two girls sus- tained minor injuries in traffic acci- dents last night and yesterday after- noen. 5 The children hurt were Georgid Kawler, 10 years old, and Sophie Kaw- er, 4, of 927 New Jersey avenue. Po- Jice say an automobile operated by Charles G. Austin, 38 years old, of 2 Eighteenth street southeast struck ihem while they were crossing New Jersey avenue in front of their home. Austin took the children to Sibley Hospital in his car. Sophie was treated Jer contusions to her right hip and Georgia for brush nurns to beth knees. Later they were sent home. Fred J. Harbourt, 32 years old, of 445 G street was knocked' down at Sixth and H streets by an automobile driven by Stewart Healey, 625 F street south- .| of tion LIBERAL POLICY FOR DISTRICT URGED BY SE New' Committee - Member Holds $9,000,000 Should Be Rajsed. Declares Congress Owes Bigger Debt to Capital Than to Any Other City. Congress should pursue a liberal pol- icy toward the National Capital, being carcful at the same time to avoid ex- travagance, in the opinion of Senator | Tyson, Democrat, of Tennessee, one of the two new members placed on the Senate District committee yesterday. Discussing the question of fiscal re- lation between the Federal and District government, Senator Tyson said he would not undertake to express an opinion as to what the ratio of expense shonld be without going carefully into the subject, but declared it seemed to him “that if $9,000,000 was the proper amount several years ago, it ought to be more now.” The Senator pointed out that the city is growing every year and that there is an accompanying increase in the total of District appropriations. “I feel that Congress should be lib- eral toward the National Capital with- out, of course, encouraging extrava- gance,” Senator Tyson said. “I want to see the beautifying and improvement of the Capital City continue, and I think it should be carried on according to a definite plan. I regard zoning as a very important matter in the Capital. It is too bad that our cities do not realize the value of zoning sooner.” Senator Tyson said he felt that since Congress has control over the manage- ment of the District of Columbia, it | WASHINGTON, .0 NATOR TYSON SENATOR TYSON. owes a greater responsibility toward this city than toward any other municipality. He recalled that the city originally was planned to be an appropriate scat for the Federal Government rother than a commercial center, and ne -hoped its fievsloymenc would continue along that ne. Senator Tyson sald he had not given much thought to the detailed questions confronting the District committee at the present time, since his service on the committee began only yesterday. ‘The other new member added to the committee yesterday is Senator Hamil- | ton F. Kean, Republican, of New Jersey, who is serving his first term in the Senate as successor to Senator Edwards, Democrat, who was defeated in Novem- ber. i DELEGATES 10 SEE BOLLING AIR SHOW Army Flyers to Dem6nstrate Flood Relief Methods fop Red Cross. Efforts employed in aerial flood relief work will be demonstrated by the Army Air Corps to 800 American Red Cross delegates at Bolling Field at 2:15 p.m. tomorrow. ‘The methods are similar to those em- ployed by the Army and Navy in co- operation with the Red Cross in the New England floods of 1928 and the Alabama floods last month. In ad- dition Army pilots will put on a demonstration of formation flying and aerial acrobatics, The general pubiic is invited. The program will open with 15 minutes of formation flying by five Army observation planes piloted by Capt. John J. Devery and Lieuts. C. W. Sullivan, Guy Kirksey, M. S. Lawton and L. S. Stranathan. Ten Minutes of Acrobatics. Capt. Ross G. Hoyt of the office of the chief of Air Corps will put an Army pursnit plane through a 10- minute period of acrobatics, including all of the maneuvers developed since the close of the World War for aerial fighting. Capt. Hoyt and Lieut. W. A. R. Rebertson, in two pursuit planes, will put on a demonstration of ‘“balloon busting” chasing small free balloons and attempting to burst them with the propellers of their planes. ‘The flood relief demonstration will open with an exhibition of the methods devised by the Army and Red Cross for sending messages by means of ground panels from the ground to airplanes The messages will be picked up from the air by Lieut. Newton Longfellow, flying an Army observation plane. Parachute to Drop Food. An alternate method of picking up written messages attached to a rope suspedided between two poles also will be shown. The rope and message will be picked up by a grapnel hook lowered from the plane. ‘The dropping of food, clothing and medical supplies by parachute in re- sponse to the ground message will also be demonstrated. A parachute jump will be made by an enlisted man, stm- ulating the arrival of a medical officer at a ground point inaccessible except from the air. The demonstration will close with an exhibition of the use of an Army tr: port plane for picking up injured per- sons and transporting them to hospi- tals. The Army transport plane Ques- tion Mark, which established a world endurance record of more than 150 hours, will be used. It will be piloted by Capt. H. A. Dinger. COAL MINE DEATHS RISE OVER FIGURE FOR 1928 March Fatalities Total 178 Men. Report for Three Months 530 Dead. By the Assoclated Press. Coal mine accidents in the United States last month caused the death of 178 men. The Department of Commerce an- nounced today that the death rate per million tons of coal produced during the month was 4.01, compared with 3.07 for March, 1928. Twenty-nine of the fatalities were in the anthracite mines of Pennsylvania, while the remaining 149 were in bitumi- nous mines in other States. During the first three months of 1929 HELD-OVER BILLS REVIVED IN SENATE District Measures on Variety | of Subjects Reintroduced for Consideration. Local bills on & wide variety of sub- jects which failed to be considered in the old Congress ‘were reintroduced in the Senate yesterday and referred to the District committee. The list included the following meas- ures sponsored by Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas: A bill seeking to restore the 5-cent‘ fare on local street rallways, with a provision that the Commissioners could | license competing bus lines to parallel | any car line failing to return to its| charter rates. s A measure authorizing the return to! Maryland of all private land in the! District, providing a majority of local | residents favor it in a referendum. The | Federal Government would retain what- ever property it needs, with the right| to preserve the beauty of the city by regulating building heights and zon- ing. A bill to autharize the District At- torney to ask the District Supreme Court to transfer criminal cases to the Federal courts in Maryland for trial whenever he deems it advisable. A bill to abolish the Board of Dis- trict Commissioners and substitute a city manager. Another measure to defing the juris- diction of local courts in civil actions against members of Congress. A bill to require hotels to post price lists in all rooms of their establish- ments. Senator Schall, Republican, of Min- nesota introduced a- bill to abolish capital punishment in the District. Senator La Follette, Republican, of Wisconsin, offered a bill to provide for a half day on Saturdays for employes in the postal service. 18-YEAR-OLD YOUTH FACES JONES TERM Officer Claims 48 Quarts of Liquor Found in Car—Fined for Driv- ing Without Permit. ‘The drastic penalties fixed by the Jones law may be applied to an 18-year- old boy arrested last night for illegal transportation of liquor. Bruce J. La- frogialo, 18 years old, of Piney Point, Md, is the boy. Observing the youth driving a ma- chine cn Naylor road southeast, last night, Officer Guy Rone of the eleventh precinct, became suspicious and ordered the boy to halt. Lafrogialo was unable to' produce his permit or registration card when requested, which led Rone to search the car. ‘The investigation revealed 48 quarts of liquor, Rone said, and charges of transporting and possessing liquor, driv- ing without a permit and failing to pro- duce a registration card were lodged at the eleventh precinct. According to the boy's statement, a friend, whose name he refused to re- veal, asked him to drive the car into the city. Arraigned. in Traffic Court on the minor charges, the boy was ordered to serve 30 days in jail and pay a fine of $5 or serve an additional five days by Judge John P. McMahon. He was held under $2,000 bond to await a prelim- inary hearing scheduled for Friday to there have been 530 fatalities-in coal mines. Georgetown Citizens Task of Running “That Smell” to Lair { An odor, long termed “that’ smell” in Georgetown, which gains its as- cendency in the Spring months, hiis it %e:k in the Summer months and gently, ut not very quickly wanes in the Au- umn months, finally is going to have something done about it, if the noses the Georgetown Citizens’ Associa- members hold out in the task of tracking it down. ‘The odor has come to be a guest of the Georgetown section every Spring, Summer and Autumn for the past 25 years, and its elusive source has defied west. He was taken to Emergency Hos- | detection. pital and there treated by Dr. Leon Gordon of the staff for abrasions to his face. Mrs. F. Mackin of 1312 Fairmont street walked to Emergency Hospital for treatment from Fourteenth and G ablle operated by T P. ngi'-’ of automobile opera y T. P. n ’ szmgm street. 'The back of iher head was lacerated slightly, of the Georgetown Citi- last'night the public under- the leadership . Stanton, called fo At a meet| zens’ Assoct health committee, of Dr. William volunteers which * the determine whether he must face grand jury action on the liquor charges. Again to Tackle mner plants are in the “suspect” class, t there are other plants which will receive the attention of the smell hunt- ers, , It is announced. Full co- operation in the search has been prom- ised the association by-Dr. William C. Fowler, District health officer. “bl:l.ma ffbr obulnug a l;lrnnch publie ry for Georgetown, having traffic lights installed on Pennsylvania avenue and M street between Twenty-second and Thirty-fifth streets and on Q street between Twenty-eighth and Thirty-fifth streets were discussed at last night's meefing, and recommendations of the association’ will be sent to the proper authorities. ‘ The association also heard an expla- nation of the Hazen plan for the ex- tension Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and first streets into Prospect avenue, the widening of Prospect avenue and its ex- tension into Foxhall Village and a gen- eral plan for the relief of traffic con- | MOST BEAUTIFUL CTY 1N WORLD, ARCHITEETS' GOAL Institute Dedicates Itself to Task as Three-Day Con- vention Opens. DEVELOPMENT OF PARKS EMPHASIZED BY PEASLEE | Urges Cramton Bill Enactment and Legislation to Give Planning Commission Free Hand. ‘The making of Washington the pre- eminently beautiful city of the worid and the awakening of the Nation's architects to this end was the task the sixty-second annual convention of | the American Institute of Architects set for itself today as it opened its three- day session at the Mayflower Hotel. Re- peatedly speakers paid tribute to the National Capital and promised aid in furthering its cause. . Millions for public buildings in the city but not enough for parks was the thought stressed by Horace W. Peaslee of Washington, chairman of the com- mittee on the National Capital, in pre- senting that report. Asserting that “amazing progress” has been achieved in the development of the Federal cily, Mr. Peaslee recounted various projects now under way here, but warned that “the most urgent situation in need of support ig the development of the park system.” Crampton Bill Passage Urged. Urging immediate enactment of the Crampton Park bill, Mr. Peaslee said: “The present million dollars a year is but a drop in the bucket in the carry- ing out of the great schemes, because the desired land is being either wiped out by development, with elimination of irreplacable tree growth, or its value i3 appreciating so rapidly that it can- not be purchased. At the present rate of purchase, even if the land were not made useless for park purposes it would take 40 years and a corresponding number of millions to acquire it. “Legislation should be enacted to free the hand of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission in the clos- ing of dedicated streets which have not been developed, and of making neces- sary changes in the highway plans within the old city limits, in order to provide the necessary arteries for traf- fic. Nothing can be done in the matter of planning for a street car extension or co-relation until the competing lines have been merged. There is also the development_of the water front, espe- cially the Washington Channel, the plans for which should be gotten under way at once and co-ordinated with the general plan.” Touching the topic of too high build- ings, Mr. Peaslee said that the most striking {llustration of this was that of Pennsylvania avenue, “with Federal buildings” of six stories on the south side averaging 97.5 feet high, while those on the north are free to go to 110 feet with the special privilege possibility of 185, more or less.” Idea Called Preposterous. “The idea is preposterous in any well ordered scheme of planning,” the report continued. “It is imperative that attention and action should be focused upon this situation immediately before it is too late, and it is the obvious duty of the profession to take the initiative.” “Two courses present themselves for consideration. One is reconsideration at the special session of Congress of the Shipstead bill for the regulation of ‘the height and exterior design and construction of private and semi-public buildings in certam areas of the Na- tional Capital.’ “The second course is a thorough study of the zoning regulations by the ablest speciallst obtainable under di- rection of the Planning Commission in accordance with the authority granted that commission and the act which au- thorized it, or restudy under the joint supervision of the planning and zoning commissions. “If the institute agrees with the an- alysis of the situation as presented by this committee, it is recommended that it be brought officially to the attention of the President, the members of Con- gress and the commissions concerned and that every effort be made to ob-: tain action at the earliest possible mo- ment, “It would seem that no more fitting tribute could be made to the Father of His Country than to have accom- plished, by the time of the bi-centen- nial of 1932, at least all of the ground- work necessary to produce the great Capital which L’Enfant had the ca- pacity to envision more than a century ahead of his day and generation.” Capitol Dome Stressed. Stressing the importance of maintain- ing the dominance of the Capitol dome over the National Capital by restricting the height of buildings, Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of the Office of Public Buildings. and Public Parks, told the institute that “if the buildings along F and G streets and the neighbor- ing vicinity of the business section, which stands on a ridge, were general- ly developed to a height of 130 feet, the skyline here would be about 6 feet higher than the main roof line of the Capitol, and the Capitol itself would eventually appear, when seen from the north and northwest, as sunk in a hol- low, -instead of as the ‘House on the Hill’ The dome of the Capitol, which the designers intended should dominate the city and should rise above it from whatever direction it is viewed, would be lost in the wilderness of. penthouses and smaller towers and pinnacles.” The need for expansion of the park properties was cited by Col. Grant, and he s up the situation in this way: ‘the present authorization provides for an appropriation of a little more than '$1,000,000, and this appropfiation has been received only once. The com- mission’s estimate indicates that the land needed would now cost nearly $15,- 000,000 if purchased within five years. Tts cost is increasing at the rate of be- 9 and 10 per cent, or nearly $1,500,000 a year. It is evident that with the appropriation now authorized the land cannot be supplied at a rate equal to the rate at- which its cost is increasing. The economie justification for the Crampton bill (H. R. 26), which proposes to lend to the District $16,- 000,000 for the purchase of park land, must therefore be patent to all.” The convention was called to order by President C. Herrick Hammond of Chicago. In his address he made ref- | Cil erence to the co-operation he has re- celved in-advancing the interests of the M. B. Medary, chairman of the com- mittee on public work, laid before the institute the findings of that body and asserted that the time would seem to be right for extending some of the func- tions of the public bull €Ol n beyond the rict. of Columl bia. Bpepkers at last nighy’s meeting b TUESDAY, APRIL { i structures, as expanded. IIL, under the direct supervision Commission. here, will be laid before the Commission 23, '1929. T 1 i O K g . BR -,,mn:c;ngi & wan Y e el o8 B4 ) mg{pmnflzflvg - RED no § % tE EE Architect’s conception of the proposed development of morth side of Pennsylvania avenue to harmonize with the extensive public buildings program on the south side of the famous thoroughfare, in the triangie. Sketches show (top): The vening Star Building, betweeri Eleventh and Twelfth streets, with additions; (below) the Willard and Washington Hotel These drawings are selected from a completed study, sketching from the Capitol to the Treasury. They were prepared by graduate students of the Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture at Lake Forest, Earl H. Reed, jr., head of the department of architecture at the Armour Institute. ! The students preparing the drawings were: W. R. Emmerson, J. Mazzone, Louis Thompson, K. C. Anderson and Stan- ley Brown. They were prepared under the direction of Alfred Granger, chairman of a committee of the Chicago chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and his colleagues, 2nd submitted to the National Capital Park and Planning Horace W. Peaslee, local architect, aided materially in having the sketches prepared. The sketches, which will be exhibited at the convention of the American Institute of Architects, now in progress | of Fine Arts later for consideration. —Star Staff Photo. PROBLEMS ARISE IN SINCLAIR CASE Question Whether 00urt; Sentence Means Jail or Workhouse Unsettled. George S. Wilson, director of pub- | lic welfare, said today that the preblems which may arise out of the committal of Harry Sinclair to jail for 90 days for contempt of the Senate had not yet been discussed before the Board of Pub- lic Welfare and that the matter will ot be taken up until after the board receives his commitment papers. ‘The question which has been agitated of late as to whether. the millionaire oil man would be confined in the District Jail or be sent to serve his term at Occoquan is still open, Mr. Wilson sald. ‘The normal course of affairs would be for the jailer in the District, Capt. M. M. Barnard, in charge of penal in- stitutions, to elect the place where the prisoner will serve his term after he re- ceives the “mittimus” or commitment papers signed by the judge of the court who pronounces sentence. In making his selection, Capt. Barn- ard will be guided by such questions as the prisoner’s health, the likelihood that he wiil attempt to escape, the chances that he wculd make a good skilled worker in one of the District’s activities in the workhouse ete. Mr. Wilson said he did not know of any necessity for considering the case of & man sentenced for contempt of court in & different light from that of a man sentenced for any other offense. Should legal difficulties arise, he said, the corporation counsel would be called upon to straighten the matter out. the annual dinner of the Producers’ Council, . affiliated with the American Institute of Architects, predicted that the architectural devclopmer;; of the National Capital will result in expan- sion of Ame‘:'lcm industry and foreign trade. “The greatest talent of the Nation is being mobilized to direct the growck} of Washington’s splendid architecture,” Foster Gunnison, one of the speakers, declared, urging co-operation between the architects and corporations produc- ing building materials. “Manufacturers are being educated to understand far better the viewpoint of the architect and the result is that more artistic ma- terials are being brought into the mar- ket. “Washington is rapidly becoming the most beautiful architectural center in the world and under its new building program will take a place unparalleled in history. To meet the needs of this great constructive enterprise which the pan of Washington represents, manu- facturers are turning out better and more artistic construction materials, which in turn cannot fail to g;eflfs -‘n increased’ demand for our products in foreign markets. Thus, Washington beautified will stand as an inspiration to art and to industry in the United | Killed by Cars I D. W. BOWIE. EAPRESS WORKER CRUSHED 70 DEATH Union Station Truckér Hit by Switching Cars as He Pilots Tractor. Daniel Webster Bowie, 34-year-old Rallway Express Agency trucker, was crushed to death early' today when the package tractor he was driving at Union Station was struck by a car being switched. ‘Washington Terminal authorities Jaunched an immediate investigation into the accident and Coroner J. Ram- sey Nevitt ordered an inquest which was held at 11:30°this morning. According to station officials, Bowie ‘was operating the express agendy trac- tor with two empty trailers on the lower train level and was attempting to cross from track 29 to the adjoining track when the accident occurred. Two other express agency employes, R. E. Rupard and V. T. Verts, were riding on the empty trailers. Bowie is said to have made an effort to speed across the track in front of the approaching switching cars, but was too late, The two Pullman cars with a switching engine in charge of Engineer R. E. Tydings of the Wash- ington Terminal in the rear, plowed into the side of the tractor, throwing it clear of the track and pinning Bowie beneath the wreckage. Rupard and Verts, apparently realizing that the crash was imminent, leaped to safety States and will make known to the rest of the world what American artists and manufacturers are able to accomplish.” Gen. Dalton Speaks. Producers and architects were told in an‘address by Gen. A. C. Dalton, former vice president of the Merchant Fleet Corporation, United States Ship- ping Board, in_an address on . “The Problem of Our Merchant Marine” that the - development of America’s foreign trade and shipping are interdepéndent and must go forward hand in hand. Horace W. Peaslee, president of the ‘Washington Chapter of the American Institute of Architects and chairman of the institute’s committee on the plan of Washington, speaking at yesterday's session pf the Producers’ Council, warn- ed that the introduction of skyscrapers into Washington seriously threatens the dominance of the Government buildings and may thwart the project to make this the world’s most beautiful capital city. He urged that building trades of- ficials co-operate in advocating legis- lation to curb the height of buildings and prevent marring qf the Federal ty. This evening at 9 o'clock at the Cor- coran Gallery of 'Art, in connection with the opening of a special exhibition il- lustrating development of Washing- ton, presentation of the gold medal of the institute will be made to Milton B. ngea;ryl,‘ jr., of Philadel] 5 a mb;r o ational Chpital an - Commission, for his outstanding in the instituf and his K Jjust before the tractor was struck. The dead man was exfricated from the wrecked tractor by fellow employes and carried to the Union Station emer- gency room where he was pronounced dead by Dr. W. I. Buppert, assistant medical director at the station. Bowie, who had come to this city about five years ago from his home in Charles County, Md., had been mar- ried for 14 years and was the father of two children, Virginia, 13 years old, and Norma Lorraine, 4 months old. His widow, Mrs, Bessie Bowle, also survives. POLIE HONT NES 10 LT HACHNES | Clean-up Campaign for Gift Types Was Begun at Noon Today. ‘The police clean-up on slot machines, ordered by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, su- perintendent of police, had failed to locate a single slot machine early this afternoon. Headquarters Detectives H. E. Brody and F. V. Varney spent the entire | morning searching the city for the | illegal devices. They visited places that | were previously raided and other loca- tions where they thought it likely they would find a machine. Most of the stores having slot machines a week ago have removed them. Noon today was fixed by the Police Department as the last hour at which slot and other gambling machines would be allowed to operate. The dead- line was set by Maj. Pratt in an order to all precinct commanders following closely on the heels of the action of | Justice Peyton Gordon of the District | Supreme Court made yesterday after- noon, in denying vendors of the slot machines an injunction against the Police Department to stop interference with the distribution and operation of the machines, The order read: “Judge Gordon has just denfed the injunction against slot machines and you will notify all per- sons who have these machines on their premises that they must get rid of them by April 23 at noon and you will arrest any person found with a machine on their premises after this time. This by the direction of the district attorney. “This applies to the machines of the gift type—that it, one that gives mints or candy and also slugs or checks, but not to the ordinary type of vending machine. Maj. Pratt said today that the cam- paign against slot machines was begun by Maj. Edwin B. Hesse, his predecessor in office, following numeroys complaints, particularly from the Georgetown sec- tion, that slot machines were being operated near public schools, and that school children were spending _their money in the machines. Maj. Hesse's campaign was halted by the injunction proceedings, but now that the injunc- tion has been refused, Pratt saidl he would pursue it relentlessly. Maj. Pratt said that District Attorney Leo A. Rover had called him on the tel- ephone shortly after Judge Gordon’s ac- tion in refusing the injunction made yesterday afternoon and had suggested that the slot machines bé ordered off the premises by 10 o'clock today. Maj. Pratt felt that this was a little too early as the policemen would probably have just got on the street at that time and accordingly he noon hour was set. COL. C. H. NOYES DIES. Col. Charles H. Noyes, United States Army, retired, died at Oneida_Station, N. Y., Sunday, according to War De- partment advices. He was from Mas- sachusetts and was graduated from the Military Academy in 1875. - Assigned to the Infantry, he was cited for gallantry in action at Santiago de Cuba, July 1, 1898, and again for gal- lantry in action against Boxes forces at Tientsin, China, in July, 1900. Col. Noyes was a member of the War De- partment general staff in 1912-1913 and was attached to the Army War College, this city, 1913-1914. His widow is Mrs. Gertrude H. Noyes of Oneida, N. Y. Diving Bombing Plane Will Be Tested For Navy at Anacostia Air Station Tests of a new type of Navy diving bombing plane developed to meet Navy requirements for the new method of bombing attack developed since the World War in which light planes, car- rying small bombs, dive on their targets from great heigh's so as to present dif- ficult targets 10 anti-aircraft gunners, will begin at the Anacostia naval-air station this afternoon. » The plane will be piloted on the early test flights by Pilot James Collins of the Curtiss Alrcraft Co., builders of the plane, If the plane is accepted by the Navy it will undergo service tests here by naval test pilots. Collins had a narrow escape last Fall when an earlier model of the new bomb- ing plane lost its wirigs while in a power dive from a height of 11,000 feet during a test flight. After being stunned by o fragment of the wing, Collins regained consciousness and managed to get out of the plane and descend by parachute. Vertical power dives, in which the plane hurtles straight down with the motor running at top speed, are essen- tial to the new form of bombing at- tack, and the plane which is to undergo its tests here has been especially de- signed to meet the terrific'strain caused bY.m maneuver. It is & single motor plane similar in appearance to the standard Navy fieet tion planes. PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH SIDE OF THE AVENUE [}H"_DRESS’ TRlP 10 INSPECT BUS TERMINALS HALTED Donovan’s Ruling Prevents Utilities Officials Making Tour of Cities. CHAIRMAN EXPRESSES HIS DISAPPOINTMENT Will Call Operators of Lines En- tering Capital to Get Ideas for Terminal, The motor bus terminal inspection planned by John W. Childress, chair- man of the Public Utilities Commission, and Earl V. Fisher, its executive secre- tary, was suddenly canceled today as a result of a ruling by Maj. Daniel J. | Donovan, District auditor and budget officer, which forbids the use of Dis- trict funds for the proposed investiga- tion. Mr. Childress announced the cancel- lation of the trip with keen disappoint- ment, and pointed out that it meant a serious setback to the movement for the establishment. of a union terminal | in Washington for the motor busses en- d in interstate transportation. had looked upon the trip as one of utmost importance to Washington,” declared Mr. Childress. “The campaign for a bus terminal here actually seemed | to be gaining impetus, and that its erec- tion was only a question of finding a suitable location that would meet the | approval of the operators of the bus | lines. Several offers have been made te finance the building. Planned for Information. “The inspection trip was planned a means of procuring first-hand infor- mation as to how successful bus terminals in other cities have been financed, how they are regulated and the various features of their comstruction. The commission cannot get all the informa- tion it wants by writing, of that I am confident. The ruling of the auditor is very disappointing. | _The utilities commission asked the District Commissioners to augment its nearly depleted appropriation for traveling and incidental expenses, with several hundred dollars from a similar appropriation for the municipal gov- ernment, in order that the trip might be made before the beginning of the new fiscal year. The commission has $240 remaining in its appropriation, but a portion of it must be retained for small incidental items and emergency expenses. The balance in the appro- priation of the District government for incidental and traveling expenses is about $1,500. ‘The request was readily approved by the Commissioners several weeks ago, and Mr. Childress and Mr. Fisher pre | ceeded with plans for the trip, mapping | out an itinerary and finishing work at | the commission’ to permit_their absence | for a week or 10 days. But when the | order of the Commissioners’ reached the | auditor, he issued a 200-word opinion, | which, in substance. held that the Com- missioners were without legal authority to transfer District appropriations to | the utilities commission. Surprised by Ruling. Surprised by Maj. Donovan's ruling, hairman Childress cailed on the com- P |ct i mission's general counsel, William W. | Bride, corporation counsel of the Dis- trict, for an informal opinion on the same question. Informally, Mr. Bride advised the commission that he was | “constrained to agree” with the audi- | tor’s decision. “The Public Utilities Commission, through its executive secretary,” said Maj. Donovan’s opinion, “requests the Commissionersato authorize the expend- ture of the amount necessary to cover certain traveling expenses of the chair- man of the commission and the execu- tive secretary to inspect bus terminals ?erated in various cities. The commis- on requests that an allotment be made for this purpose from the $3.000 (appro- priated $1,000 each to the Commission~ ers of the District of Columbia) author- ized by the District appropriation act for the fiscal year, 1929 under the ap- propriation act for the fiscal year, 1929 under the appropriation for ganeral contingent expenses of District offices. “In the opinion of the auditor this appropriation is not available for the purpose requested by the Public Utilities Commission. Paragraph 95 of the act creating the commission provides in part as follows: “‘The commission is hereby author. ized to incur and pay incidental ex- penses for * * * * traveling ex- penses of the commission, the commis- sioners and every officer, agent and | employe thereof, and all other general expenses reasonably necessary to be in- curred in carrying out the purposes of this section.” Will Call Conference. “The District of Columbia appropria- tion act for the fiscal year 1929 pro- vides, under the head of Public Utilities | Commission, as follows: “ ‘For incidental and all other general and necessary expenses authorized by law, $4,200." “The only appropriation available for the payment of traveling expenses of members and employes of the Public Utilities Commission is that last quoted above. However, the Commissioners must, by formal order, approve the pro- posed travel under and in accordance with the standard Government travel ;egugl;\éions, as amended effective March , 1929.” Mr. Childress and Mr. Fisher had planned to inspect bus terminals in Nashville, Columbus, Indianapolis, De- troit, Buffalo and several-other cities. With the trip canceled the commis- sion chairman said his next move would be to call a conference of motor bus operators to ascertain their views on the plans for a union terminal. BOSTON “LAND CRUISE” TQ VISIT D. C. TOMORROW A large delegation from the Boston Chamber of Commerce, on a “national d cruise,” which is to cover the United States and take in the prineipal cities, will arrive at the Washington ‘Terminal aboard special train tomorrow morning. The party left Boston today. After a visit to the White House, to be received by President Hoover, they will make trips to the Navy ment. to be received by Secretary of the Navy Adams, and thence to the Department of Commerce, to be re- { cetved by Secretaty Lamont. At 12:45 o'clock in the afternoon | they will be the guests of William But- terworth, president of the United States Chamber of Commerce, at a luncheon in the chamber building, 1o be attendea by the Secretary of Commerce, Sena- tors and Representatives of Massa~ chusetts. » The party will leave here fcr Atlanta, tomorrow afternoon.