Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1929, Page 17

DISORDERLY HOUSE REPORTS ORDERED OF PRECINCT HEADS Information Is Asked by Pratt! on All Arrests and DRIVE ON GAMBLERS AND VICE IS HINTED Superintendent Holds Secret Shape Campaign Against Violators An order was sent from police head- quarters to commanders of all precincts today directing them to submit not later than May 5 reports on premises the tenants of which have been arrested since January 1 on the charge of “keep- ing a disorderly house.” commanders were also ordered to.report all premises in their respective precincts at present under suveillance as suspect- ed disorderly houses. following rlose [ similar order yesterday directing the make similar report on establishments, is taken as an tion of a coming The precinct drive by the series of conferences between hxm und nuu-m Attorney !.eo A, Rover. “Common Nuisan nsmmtundcrthzxm- to padlock d.uorderl-,' the school .board and preclude a con- isances. '!‘lfls law this city. Maj. Pratt this morning said one ob- ject he has in*view was to check up numerous statements that had come to | ‘his’ attention relative to the number of gambling places reported to exist here. LOCAL BAR TO GIVE VIEW ON WHEAT NOMINATION | Benate Judiciary Committee Consult Lawyers Before Tak- members of the local bar will special subcommit- torney General. m‘ -~ Hoover to be a justice of Court. Supreme Senator King of Utah, chairman of subcommitiee, said he wanted to get the views of the legal fraternity in the District rding the' -hpoint.mt::t tions are that the sub- committee will be ready to make a re- pgn © !he Judiclary oammmee Mon- MAN AND BOY INJURED WHEN. STRUCK BY AUTOS Pedestrian Is Hit by Car, While| While cn:-nn n Massachusetts ave- nue and muxth street. last ‘night, Wil- liam Billow, 31, of 417 Massachusetts avenue was struck by an automobile driven by Robert O. Murray of: 6218 Murray took Billow -to. Emergency Hospital, where he was treated for, body bruises and s dislocated shoulder. Twelve-year-old Joseph Penn, colored, of 240 Fourteenth place northeast was knocked from the bicycle he was riding Jast evening in an alley in rear of his home by an automobile driven by John E. Jeffery, 33, of 2148 California street. taken to Casualty Hos- pital in an ambulance and treated for bnmu to his hip and possible internal PESRNTEAES Police Private Is Fined. Put. J. W. Connors of the fourth pre- cinet was fined $15 by the Police Trial Board on his plea of guilty of failure 12 eommunicate through lg:upflml system, it was an- precinct Washington News District Officials Oppose Change in Educational Expenditures. Chairman Simmons Declines to Invite Board for Re- view of Estimates. mined effort to bring about a change in the procedure of handling the bud- getary estimates of the public schools | to prevent possible reduction by the the District Building. Fortified with legal opinions showing their control over the fiscal affairs of the public schools, the Commissioners, it was said, plan to follow the usual policy in connection with consideration of the forthcoming 1931 estimates. If the school board refuses, like it did last year, to make reductions ordered be- cause of budget limitations, the Com- missioners, it was pointed out, will again do the trimming themselves. The discussion of the treatment to be accorded the school budget by the Commissioners was revived at the Dis- trict Building by the action of Chair- man Simmons of the House subcom- mittee on appropriations in flatly re- fusing an invitation of the school board to go over the estimates in advance of their submission to the Commissioners. Representative Simmons pointed out that such a procedure would constitute a discourtesy to the Commissioners. Moreover,-he declayed qulte emphatical- ly that he was not in sympathy with the 's plan to have the requests of the ‘schools for funds submitted to the Budget Bureau by the Commis- sioners in total' and without revision, allowing the Commissioners only the nwmmenanhu as to what items should be allowed or disallowed. Resentment Is Seen, Although reluctant to discuss the re- m:iventheboud by Chairman Sim- COMMISSIONERS UNABLE TO FIX SCHOOL BUDGET PROCEDURE The Board of Education, in its deter- | « Commissioners, wili run into an im-| penetrable wall of opposition from Dis- | trict_officials, it was indicated today at | The Toening Star WASHINGTON, REPRESENTATIVE SIMMONS. Education, the Commissioners and Con- gress were based solely on an effort to “focus public attention on the need of greater liberality in the matter of ap- propriations toward the public schools.’ “I have no comment to make upon Mr. Simmons’ letter, because I do not believe that any controversy between us would produce material benefit to the public school system,” Dr. Carusi said this morning just as he received the letter from Mr. Simmons. Dr. Carusi contipued,. “There has been no contro- versy between- us and I have always conisidered Mr. Simmons a true friend of public edutation. My sole purpose in my recent activities for improved re- lations between the Board of Education, the Commissioners and the Congress were, for the sole purpose of focusing the public’s attention on' the absolute need, of greater liberality toward the public schools in expending of the tax- payers’ money. In that I believe we have been eminently successful.” “I have your letter of April the 22d, requesting that I meet with the Board of Education Friday. April 26, at 2 o'clock; p.m., at which time you desire to discuss with me certain questions of the Commissioners were repre- unfed as feeling that jt pmbnbly ‘would nave a far reaching moral effect on troversy when the: aehoel estimates come up for consideration. ‘Proctor: ed | sehool matters with the school offcals. the | funds submitted by the other | ductions or .additions may.be made 1 'l'lunlmktrue of the Bureau of the Bureau submits o the - In this obinion. ‘the' contfoller general teds) rhled that the commission was not an independent, establishment, but_should be considered as a part of, the, Govern- men! of the 3 of which the Board of Commissioners was the head. In passing on this question, he took oceasion to place the school board on a their capacity as “head of department” within the meaning of these words as r-in the budget and account- act of 1921 Under the latter the school board is required to submit its bud- get' officer for the. District Commissioners, as the “head or depcrt- ment,” are empowered under Section 215 to revise such estimates befofe their submission to .the Bureau of the Budget. Consequently, it was pointed out, there is no obligation gn the part of the Commissioners to send to thé Budget Bureau the estimates in the form transmitted to the budget officer of the District by the school bdard. Dr. Carusi Remains Silent. to Board, would not comment upon Rep- resentative Simmons’ letter today, de-~ claring that the public school system of the District could not be benefited by a controversy between him and the chairman of the subcommittee of the House committee on appropriations. He did say, however, that his efforts bring about what he had oonu.mntly maintained were improved conditions in the relation between the Board of . | necessary activity in submitting a bal- | Dr. Carusi, president of the School | BT licy in renrd to expenditures for the ;’cohooll of Washington. “I noted by the Sunday press that some time last week it had been agreed that I should be invited to a meeting of the board for the ‘Eurpou of ztng over with the board the various for the coming budget requests, while-your letter' does not so indicate, I presume that this is the -purpose of your invitation to/ me. b 3 nm ready to discuss at lny,umz I think, however, it will readils the Bureau of . the Commissioners, be de- t and to Congress would unwise. ‘Would Avoid Discourtesy. “The estimates' 'and _requests for cation are subjeci to revision and de- thereto by the Board of Commissioners. Budget, after these two have revmod and, if need be, re your request for funds, the Bud( them, the law, on- the House. Pa';x’newwofiarvg- uests for es prior s e rt to the Commissioners of of Columbia and to the !nmu _of the Budtez for me to sit in with ‘any n of the District gov- ernment when it makes up its requests - lm b in thy with the lln “T am nof Sympathy epa that has been advanced by the Boar mitted to the Bureau of the Budget and Congress by the in mclnndwuhm::muvmm, allowing the ers lowed and what part disallowed.: The Board of Education is but one division of the Disfrict government. I do not believe that the sehool estimates-should be entitled to any other rule of con- sideration than that granted to other divisions of the District government. To make an exception in the case of‘ the schools. would, of course, be to dis- | credit the District Commissioners in | their action and to limit their very | anced budget to the Budget Bureau and Congress and to that extent break down the budget law. ““The budget law has resulted in vast economies to the taxpayer. To make an exception in the case of the schools of Wasl n is to open the gates for the ull breaking down of the law in the Federal departments. In my judgment, Congress will not, do 'that and the country will not approve that course. Whether or not that iz your intention, most certainly that is the effect-of the proposal which has been very vigorously- advaneed from certain quarters in Washington. “The responsibility of finally passing upon the expenditures of funds for the District government rests with Con- ess, which body relies largely upon the study of and recommendations of the appropriation committees of the two Houses. That responsibility should be performed by the two Houses when these matters are submitted in the reg- ular course to us by the Bureau of the Budget, and not before.” s e A The largest bronze statue in the world is the winged statue of Victory, near Turin, England, 60 feet in height. | With the slogan “We Want Work,” the artistocracy of the hobo world is descending on Washington, prepared to do a little lobbying for unemployment relief at both ends of Pennsylvania ave- nue, Some “‘very fine fellows” are coming, on the word of James How, “or- ganizer” of the International Brother- hood Welfare Association. and at 1: 30 or 2 o'clock tomorrow, the -concla scheduled to start with a “mulligan ‘Typographical Temple, 423 G .street. The temple is not equipped for cooking, 50 a nearby restaurant will take care of that feature, guaranteeing success of part of the program at least. The association recalls—according to How—that in a campaign speech at Newark, Herbert Hoover, then seeking the lency, spoke about a “great big ‘1000000000 xevolvln‘ fund” to stabilize try. and the members want to if Mr. Hoover, now in office, is 'still of the same mind about providing this. ‘They ho to draft “some strong reso~ lutions,” and. et a little action on them at the speclal session of Congress, for if they wait until November, uun it je Mr. How speaking there is strong HObO Aristocracy Will Convene Here Tomorrow to Fix Things Out of Joint ot |20 likelihood of some of the members starving to ‘death, or. at ‘least being badly affected by “mainutrition.” As a matter of fact, he explains, something approximating this fate re- cently overtook one of the officers of the association, who fell il of pneu- monia, and. undernourished. succumbed. The association has taken to heart President Hoover's pronouncements on crime cure and is prepared to offer a couple of suggestions along that line ohibition and unemployment are. ca g crime,” Mr. How affirms. He didn’t express any hope of ‘shaking pro- hibition right at present.ebut he is hopeful of getting some aid in the un- employment situation, “for we don't want to be going into crime.” ‘The association is hopeful that Gen. Jacob Coxey, who knows something from his home in Ohio to participate in the conference, but whether he will is uncertain. At any rate, the confer- ence is due to lnt until May 1. In order p the record straight, Mr. How wants it understood that his uuxl-us lcuully want work and um the general impression,” Ohey wm wuyk if they ean get it, Board, of Edu- | *P0 \ i Gy AGTION ON MERGER IN THIS SESSION 10 BE DETERMINED Senators to Ascertain if It! Will Be Considered by House Leaders. COMMITTEE IS NAMED TO GET INFORMATION Vandenberg Believes It Unwise to: Push Issue Now—Fare Raise Is Discussed. The Senate District committee today appointed a subcommittee vo find out from House leaders whether there is any prospect that the House would con-~ sider the street railway merger at this session if the Senate should act on it. The detision to confer with those in charge of the legislative program in| the House was reached at the end of a brief meeting of the Senate group, at which the only question discussed was whucher the traction merger problem be taken up at this time. The general opinion seemed to be| that there was little to be gained by bringing the subject before the Senate unless there was some likelihood that the House would take it up also. Vandenberg Not Present. In opening the meeting Chairman Capper said it was for the committee to, decide whether anything should be done prior to the regular session in De- cember, Senator Vandenberg, Republican,’ of Michigan, author of the merger resolu- tion, was unable to be present, but sent unwi ) al I8 on merger or my 3:: District matters at this special pointing out that the pi rolum u!ls xor farm relief, cen- sus ‘and reapportionment and tariff re- vision. He expressed doubt whether there would be any time after. these matters to get action on, the merger. Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, asked if “quww;mfnt wthhn :;ll! Ml'nl nt, entere Y e w::“u% expire in Jurle if Con- gress dnu not act in the meantime. Chairman Capper said there was a cluue at. the. end of the agreement stating that .the’ companies would not e bound by it after June of this year. Asks About Fare Raise. “Is it true, as reported, that there will be an imediate request for the 10- cent fare?” Senator Copeland inquired. He was told there had been published rts to that effect. ‘At this poinit in the discubsion, Sen- ator Blaine, Republican, of -Wisconsin, opponent of’ the me: as worked wl by the Senate. ittee at the I session, interrupted to say he there was a muundenundln Tegar the effect of letting the quufian 80 over until after June. He argued that the it P T il modified to ‘a considerable extent by the Senate eommlt.we and that there- controlling stock interests had to accept the legislation as framed by the Sepate comittee, although there may mnot have been a formal meeting of the stockholders. Committee Js Named. Sennm lmd added there was at least understanding to that “&“m.i'::‘“.’fim”’“:'a e suggestion made U that the chairman should flnd -out_from House leaders whether they proposed to do anything on the subject, and Sena- Democrat, of Utah. followed . | tor King, nda- | yith the motion to send & subcommittee of three to ascertain the situation in the House. The subcommittee will be composed of' Chairman Capper and Senators Vandenberg and Glass. ‘The Senate committee at the last session made a favorable report on a modified merger resolution, in which they struck out the fixed valuation of $50,000,000, provided for the making of a new valuation within two years, with no change in the rate of fare during | that time, except the putting into effect of free transfers between car lines. The two new members of the com- mittee, Senator Keen, Republican. of New Jersey, and Senator Tyson, Demo- crat, of Tennessee, attended the meeting. e b ARLINGTON CARNIVAL TO BE OPENED JULY 18 ‘The carnival committee of the :‘rll{‘nmn V‘;lunvv?:;n Fire Dej a meeting e;dly at the flre- house on Columbia pike and sel July 18, 19 and 20 u the am- of '.he carnival to be held by the local firemen. The monthly meeting of the Arling- ton Yolunteer Pire Department will held Wed.ne;d-y night at the Columbia pike firehouse, Surg;m’s Knife Ends Boy’s Hope To Be Ball Star Blood Poisoning Causes Amputation of Youth’s Leg. The fondest hopes of 12-year-old Robey Whitfield to become a base ball star were snuffed out at Emergency Hospital last night, where the boy had his right leg amputa Robey, who lives at ’IM Sixth m-m was the star first 'man of a local juvenile base ball nine. About two weeks ago, the bvy into Emergency Hospital with 1n- jured finger. He returned uvnn.l times for treatment and became a fast friend . Dr Leon Gordon of the hospital snurday night a week ago, the boy was brought into the hospital after being seriously injured in an automobile accident at Sixth street and Pennsyl- vania avenue. ebout unemployment, may come here | pif Ing ;ymn-th administering to sician’s hopes to man: ts. At t - R‘:an ui'd&v:cyw FRIDAY, APRIL PLANTING PROGRAM CURTAILMENT SEEN BECAUSE OF COSTS Lanham Fears Mounting Expense May Threaten District Tree Schedule. [PRICE OF GOOD SOIL { IS DECLARED TO BE HIGH Despite Obstacles, Superintend- ent Predicts. Clifford Lanham, superintendent of | trees' and parkings for the District, said today that the mounting cost of plant- ing trees threatens to curtail the Dis- trict's program. Each tree is planted in a hole 7 feet by 3% feet by 3 feet deep, which is packed with the hest quality mp sofl | after the tree is put in. Getting the sofl was an easy task in days gone by, but. nowadays the haul from any loca- tion where good top soil is available to shz tree space is usually long and costl; "lfi the old days,” Mr. Lanham blld “when butldlng foundations used to be dug by hand, lt, was easy to get con- tractors, to top soil for us. Nwm s, im shovels cut through | and take top mfl and worthless under- soil in one sweep. and we have great dmeulty getting the good soil the trees | Predicts Banner Year. Mr. Lanham said’ that he intended to: suggest to Capt. - Herbert, C. White- hurst,” the - District co-ordinator and hief engineer, that in future in all new streets being opened the top soil be saved for'use in setting out trees. In'spite of this difficulty, Mr. Lanham said, the current fiscal year will prob- ably, be a banner orte for planting street trees in the District. . He said that indica- uons now, in the middle of the Spring season;” were that upward of 4, trees would be set out. yearly/program seldom tops 3,000 trees, 'M utd. “Most of the trees being planted Teplacements on existing lines of zrm vrurv trees have been removed for street’ widening or other causes or have died. - The trees being planted are Oriental. planes, willow-leaf oaks, unm Norway maples, American elms, rican lindens and red maples. “Plant 90 Trees to Mile. Planting is being .done in all sec- tions except the southwest, the main beirig in Trinidad, in .the north- east section and in Rock Creek Estates, in thé northwest beyond Walter Reed Hos} Di muep!mwdongonmue. it} and if the 4,000 program is completed | this year, it will be equivalent to plant- ing 44 miles of trees. . The department’s lpproprm.hn 15 $112,500. I TYDINGS IS NAMED OND.C. COMMITTEE Maryland Demodrat Given | Last Remaining. Vacancy on Senate Group. Senator Tydings, Democrat, of Mary- land, today was appointed to the last remaining vacancy on the Senate Dis- trict committee. There were two Demo-, cratic vacancies and one Republican vacancy on the committee' under the new ratio recently fixed. When com- mittee assignments were being filled sev- eral days ago, Senator Kean of New Jersey was delected from the Republican side, but only one of the Democrats was :ppolnud, Senator Tyson of Tennes- Mmorny Leader Robinson announced m the Senate this afternoon that Sen- tor Tydings of Marylarfd would com- vlebe the Democratic roster on the local committee. Senator Tydings was a member of the House before his election to the Senate two years ago and is al- ready familiar with problems rela to the development of the National | Capital. He took a leading part at the | last session in the consideration of the bill for the establishment of a new Parmers’ Market. WAR DEPARTMENT 0. K.'S MEMORIAL BRIDGE PLAN = George ‘Washington - Wakefield Structure Is Proposed for Erection Near Dahlgren. Plans for construction of the George Washington-Wakefleld Memorial Bridge across the Potomac River at Dahlgren, Va., under provisions of an act of Con- gress, were approved today by Assistant Secretary Patrick J. Hurley of the War Department. Under these plans, as revised by Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin, chief of ers, to meet all future needs of navigation, the channel lp.ln of the bridge will have & horizontal clearance of 250 feet and a vertical clearance when closed of 76 feet. It is provided also that the chan- nel span shall be of two-leaf bascule construction. Mr. Hurley today also approved re- vised plans for the construction of a bridge across the York River ffom Yorkwwn to Glaucuur Point, Va. TEACHERS’ AID URGED. Goft Asks Retirement Benefits for 16 Veteran Instructors. Sixteen veteran public school teach- ers, who were placed on the nemnmnt inactive list before the teachers’ ref ment law went into effect in 1920, Ilou\d be\’mu ht within & benefit of that law by a b Gofl, bill we vided that 'uchn to the passage of the public retirement law, the teach- ers on ‘a ate retirement fund raised among Ives. 26, 1929. PAT, WHITE HOUSE WOLF HOUND.| 'DIES SUDDENLY FROM DISTEMPER[ Current Year Will Be Banner One, The | 48y when H. Carl. W .| across the Avenue had * | | Executive Kennels Reduced‘ to Only Four Occupants by Death. | | | i Dog, Gift of Virginia Friend of Hoover, Was Becoming King Tut’s Rival. | Pat. the huge Trish wolf-hound, which was sent to President and Mrs. | Hoover from a friend in Virginia, died | at Walter Reed Hospital yesterday from distemper. This shaggy, playful hound had not | reached his full growth, but at the rate | he was making mends within the presi- | | Idential ! policemen and White House attaches he | rapidly was becoming a rival to King Tut, the Belgian police dog, -brought to the White House by President and Mrs. | Hoover and who is the “head man” nf the White House kennels. Pat's sudden death thrl | reduces cupants. Whoopee, the Schnauzer with a pedigree as long as_himself, who was sent to the White House a few days after the President took up resi- i dence there, was sent as a present by the donor of Pat. Now the kennels consist only of King | | Tut, Buckeye, another police dog, and | two setters. household and among the | { White House kennels to only four oc-| _ Society and bé “PAT.” Pat is the third White House dog to die within the last two years. President Coolidge's famous white collei Rob! Roy died at Walter Reed Hospital | early last Fall and Mrs. Coolidge's | white coliie, Prudence Prim, died in| tl'!z Black Hills of South Dakota, in| 1927, v ! VALUATION CASE - RESTART POSSIBLE Engineer Wolf Tells Commis- sion of Departure From the City. | | | A possibility that the valuation case of the Washington and Georgetown gas- light wm&:mn ‘may have to be surted over blic Utility Commission from the very boflnntng. | engaged by the uomml.nlon to invem- gate the values of the company's prop- erty informed Chairman John W. Chil- dress of the commission that he had accepted employment - with a. public uunty holding company in Chicago and that it would be mnuul -for him to return to Washington to testify if the case should be résumed. The case before the commission wi huud before Mr. Wolf had mpleeed his testimony. It was then taken the District Supreme Court, where u niow’ awalts decision by Justice' Peyton Gordon. Should the decision be that the case must be continued the com- an stey many, years ago, since Mr. lfi could not be produced in pe: testify. it took Mr. Wolf and a staff of assistants several months of preummry investigation before he was ready fo | testify, and. the same time would prob- ably be required by any other engineer | In who accepted the assignment. Mr. Wolf was engineer for the lury land. Public. Service Commission, wm:h position he has resigned e!!ectm He was llven leave from the Tl GAS SUICIDE BLAMES HIS ACT TO DRINKING | Edward E. Smlth Is Found Dead in Room With All Jets Turned On. Efforts of the fire rescue squad and a physician from Casualty Hospital failed to revive Edward E. Smith, 25, who was found dead at his home at 2027 Good Hope road southeast this morning from gas poisoning. The man was pronounced dead by Dr. J. W. Jor- dan " of Casualty Hospital staff, and after reading notes on which Smith Iaid his act to drinking, Coroner Nevitt issued a certificate of suicide. The man was found lying over a gas range in the kitchen of his home, with all the jets turned on. Windows in the room were closed and newspapers were stuffed in cracks in the door. He had been dead for several hours. | He was found by Willlam O. Swann | of Stlver Hill, Md., who went in search of Smith after his absence from his place of employment. Modern Times. T the Davion News. to have to come home before - father - went. to’ bed now has a son who. tries to sneak in before the old man goes to work. tgeul‘efl to- s ARCHITECTS TAKE TRIP T0 NEW. YORK American lnstitute- to Com- | plete Annual Convention There. New ‘York Gity, claimed the lmnuon of the American Institute of Architeets iiiess n Washingion. s part of thes s part of sixty-sécond ‘convention” at the May- , and viewing Secretary l(ellon‘l exhibit lgst nw uw took a special train to New York to com- plete their annual meeting there. fioA de;t modkem nmpmo;dzo mfl pped by a skyscraper lern apart- ment hotel of 40 stories rising above | this, to enable workers to have their homes above their businesses, was en- visioned yesterday, in the. closing hours of the convention by Harvey Wiley Corbett of New York, chairman of the arcaded tory h’;al'w permit pedestrians to travel in safet In the only two contests that de' velnped over the choice of ‘officers and directors for the coming year, the in- stitute re-elected William J. Sayward . Bollenbacher kum.ub on_the- burd of d.lnctnn of Bozeman, llmt as_director of \‘.hz mmmou?nmdhmmcmm flml gavel the "convention listened to me! of stimulating inter- e e dignosed e afim were ‘The mmmu was lnformod" ) reading - of papers a w I";:btl dwmfl;m been found helpful. 65-YEAR-OLD PEDESTRIAN | KILLED BY STREET CAR; Victim, Colored Man, Taken to| Hospital—Dead When He Arrived. Lioyd Green, colored., 65 years old, of 1731 Glick’s alley, was knocked down and fatally injured this morning by a street. car at Seventh and S streets. An inquest will be held at 11:30 o’clock tomorrow morning. Police of the eighth precinct were told that the street car, operated by R. R. Showalier, 38 years old, of 488 I street. was proceeding north on Sev- enth street and struck the colored man when he attempted to cross the street. He was taken to Freedmen’s Hospital in a passing automobile, but was dead when he arrived. - ICE MAN DIES AT WORK. Harry Girtcn !XP“’QI Befors Ar- riving at Garfield Hospital. ‘Taken' sick while driving his ice wagon at Fourteenth and Fairmont streets a.few minutes after 7 o'clock this morning, . Harry Girton, 52 years old, of 1215 ‘Thirtieth street died while being taken:to Garfield Hospital in a passing automobile. Girton’s condition was discovered by his son, Walter W. Girton. Perhaps domestic troubles sent him mflem‘::, maybe n was jusc the wan- derlust of !pfln( n‘sd perhaps, it was_dreams of ce -blt.s from the knchem of nurby t lured mfi,am_ only & record of un;lzd t ffic, frightened women and children, won: nnd lost, confusion and oblivion beneath the wheels of 2 large bus remains of the rat which set out so ooun.emul} from his native haunts of the District: Building at the rush traffic hour this momlnt crossed Penmylvt.nln -nnue, found the hntels inhos] Idl:: u;d lost his ted return journey. milohc‘ :n -mm}: ewlw bhe“l;:und after the confusion caused oray cleared up. 1t was a car-operated by a woman which first W to allow Mr. Rat u'.nll ln.nh avenue M: wagers finally ol 1 the ufinamnoommfi to-take a lext, two men in a car noticed. him, haited machine and v:mlnxanwmummm' urq- or mot. And so, all across El of traffic, ears, heedlnt not the ™ or frantic ‘whistiit nf Oflm D. JGM on Rat Defies Avenue Traffic and Perishes: Motorists Stop to Alldw It to Cross| i duty n the corner, awpped as Mr. Rat acyoss the Avenue. taging a “one man” r - all, l;int' mmm« back MWII'H the DI&- e Right there he made- me biggest mis- take of ‘his life. | for “the brid General PAGE 17 GREAT FALLS SPAN PROJECT - SPEEDED BY PLANNING BODY |Grant and Medary Will Serve as Committee to Con- sider Location, IWILL PASS ON DEFINITE SITE FOR NEW BRIDGE Commission Members Re- view General Plans With Rep- resentative of Designers. The National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission today took steps to push the proposed project of a highway bridge over the Potomac River at Great Falls to serve that rapidly growing see- tion of Maryland and Virginia and cons nect with future parkway develop~ ments. About a year ago the commission approved a plan. for locating the bridge about 400 feet below the falls. After giving ‘the matter some consideration® this morning, Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, and Milton B. Medary, jr., of Philas delphia, a commission member, were app‘ohud a committee on location and lesign. Will Pass on Site. They will pns on a definite site for the bridge and also will decide finally on details of design. The general n).uu bridge call for six s op each side of the river conneéting with a wide central A;;. ak in commission went-over the g l'll plans today with Carroll Beale Of Meigs, Long & Beale. Philadeiphia, the designers.. Col. Grant and Mr. Medary probably will visit the Great Falls soon mnnur of the Mary- land Park and Planning Commission, appeared before the local eoml.um and explained the proposed extens of Rock Creek - Park 'into )nnhnfl. This is being worked out in co-opers ation b.tween the two bodies. Plans of the Maryland commission in- volve the development of a strip of {1and of varying width, extending the north side of Rock Creek Park and pn'k )nxhwu development in the Dis- Root. explained that plans eonumpmed extension of the park area only as far as Garrett Park, which uvural miles nortiawest of the is | with_relation to- deve! extension pluu 'Mm:nupmnnllml!. ‘were submitted at public hear- lnll about a. week un. MASSED CHOI CHORUS HEARD - AT GONZAGA COLLEGE Demonstration of Liturgical Song Given Under Direction of Rev. J. L. Barley. A massed chorus of nearly 150 male and female’ voices, drafted from CatHe- lic choirs in Baltimore, Washington and other cities in the archdiocese, pre~ sented. a grand demonstration ,of diocesan director of church music, The concert was a repetition of the one given at the Alcazar in Baltimore last Sunday in celebration of the silver jubilee of the Motu Proprio on church music of Pope Plus X. It is easy to conceive of the difficyl- ties which must confront the organizs- tion and training of so many singers. accustomed to different directorial methods, and to blend their voices to & smooth, sensitive but spontaneous ren- dition of the Gregorian, polyphonic and modern numbers which marked .their program. It certainly cannot be sald that an effective presentation of the simple. early forms of liturgical mu is a thing which can be achieved eas t prio means the exclusion from church services of such compositions as the Haydn and Mozart masses, the Beetho- ven mass in C and other works of some of the greatest com . It is mot necessary here to review the steps lead- ing up to the issuance of Pius’ edict. Suffice it to say that the Motu Proprio was couched in apparently severe terms as the only effective means of dealing with a situation which had placed periodically in the history of the church an fnordinate emphasis upon tha prohne or popul-r note in religious Lnt. nl.hu profl'lm exemplifying roved” musi&. R by large audience. Though one ml‘ht take critical exception to an ocuslonu raggedness of tone, it cannot be said that, the spirit. of sincerity was lacking in any ‘sense; it was most obviously present’ throughout. The rendition by uohmlnoupofmch:lonxlnd taxing number as the credo . (“Missa Papae Marcelli"). of Palestrina, for ex~ lmple would de something to chal. lenge tHe ‘capabilities’ of any organiza. | tion without months or years of re- hearsal behind it. the “Salve Régin: a chnnt: the “Tenebrae Factae Sunt”. of Palestrina and the “Ave Verum” of Mozart, to mention but three, were delivered with a clarity and warmth of tone.that mm zhem outstanding. . There were five selections in Gregorian chant group, four in ic mdnuven in the ch numbers as Benefit Concert at Ballston, Speciar Dispatch to The .Star, April 26.—A muaj- BALLSTON, alutuulnmm helm of the Christian flfiffl‘m benefit Mya!tluummfioh'dllfl Protestant. Chi urch by the Women's G|