Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1929, Page 17

WASHINGTON, D. T MAY 9, HURSDAY, 1929. ¥ PROPERTY OWNERS PROTEST BENNING ROADNAY AVARDS Condemnation Jury’s Verdict in Widening Case to Be Strongly Fought. MORE THAN 2,000 GIVE WEIGHT TO OBJECTIONS X | Fail to See Benefits From Project. District, However, to Back Its Stand. A vigorous fight against confirmation | of the verdict of the condemnation jury | in the Benning road widening case ap- | peared inevitable today as the corpora- tion _counsel’s office, at the direction of the District Commissioners, prepared to seek ratification of tne awards and as- sessments by the District Supreme Court, | The case affects more than 2.000 | property owners in Northeast Washing- | | | | rority holds its Hawaiian night cabaret tertainment program. _ ton, several hundred of whom aiready | have protested vehemently to District | officials against the special assessment levied as a result of tne jury's verdict. | A number of other objections, it is un- | derstood. mlso have been filed with the court. These will be considered when | the case comes up Wednesday for rati- fication. Purpose of Suit. The condemnation suit was instituted by the Commissioners for the purpose of widening Benning road northeast from Fifteenth street to Oklahoma avenue at the fringe of Anacostia Park. It is planned to widen the road from 45 to 110 feet and move the car tracks of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. to the center of the roadw The protests against the jury's ver- DAVISON INSPECTS NEWARK AIR FIELD ‘ Planes to Be Used in Capi- tal Port, He Reveals. New tvpes of fillings and runway sur- of Washington's proposed municipal When Delta Chapter of Tau Phi So-| Bcted today by those who are keeping | dance at the National Press Club to-| e hetween the building contractors of | morrow night Ann and George Filgate, | washington and the various building | young dancers, will appear on the en-: {rages employes. [New Type of Runways for! { fire, according to the best information | | facing will be used in the development dict is due primarily to its decision 0 | airport, based upoh experimental de- | spread the special assessment for bene- fits to arise from the widening of the road over a wide area extending for nearly six blocks north and south of the thoroughfare and as far west of Fifteenth street as Thirteenth street and Trinidad avenue. While the assessments are small in most instances, averaging about $20 a lot, the property owners affected, par- ticularly those in the area three, four and five blocks away from Benning road, have complained that they fail to understand how the widening of the thoroughfare would in anywise benefit their property. Property Along Road. Aside from the more than 2.000 | property owners assessed for benefits, 104 who own property along the! road will lose it through condemnation if the court confirms the jury's verdict. | The total damages as a result of the condemnation, including court costs, the jury found amounted to $196,142.32. The benefits assesseq against the va- rious lots and pieces of parcels of land in the wide area over which they were spread total $113.243.18, which leaves | a balance of $82,399.14 to be paid by the District for the widening of the road. The condemnation was originally or- dered by the Commissioners back in 1913, but the case has been dismissed, refiled, submitted to jury, objections made by pi ty owners, appeals made, etc., which have carried it over a pe- riod of more than 15 years. Case Considered Important. - District officials consider it one of the most important condemnation cases from the standpoint of street opening and improvement filed inrecent years. Benning road, they point out, is a heav- ily traveled arterial highway leading into Anacostia Park as well as the sec- tion to the east, );l;d even into Prince Georges County, A ThT Benning road case is the first one decided by a condemnation jury under the new law which requires the Commissioners to notify property own- ers affected of the decision and give them an opportunity to file objections and exceptions. The great number of protests is believed to be one of the re- sults of this new procedure. The objections and exceptions. how- ever, it was pointed out at the District | Building, should be filed with the court | and not with the Commissioners. The | court, under the law, it was said, is in- | structed to consider the exceptions and objections at the final hearing on the | jury’s verdict. EDWARD PARET REA, ATTORNEY, SUCCUMBS Capital Lawyer Had Gone to Pur- cellville to Recuperate From Influenza. Edward Paret Rea, 47 years old, lawyer, of this city, for the past 18 years associated with the law firm of James L. Norris, died in Purcellville, Va., Tuesday night after a long illness. ‘He had gone to Purcellville to recuper- ate from an influenza attack. Funeral services will be conducted at the residence of his mother, Mrs. Mary Rea, 1436 W street, tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. Interment will be in Glen- wood Cemetery. A native of this city, Mr. Rea was graduated from Business High School and later attended the National Uni- | versity Law School. He was a mem- | ber of the Business High School Alumni Association. He is survived by his widow, Mr: Dolly B. Rea: his mother, a brother, Irving H. Rea, and four sisters, Mi Lillle F. Redman, Mrs. Minnie Ca: rington, Mrs. Nellie R. Saxton and Miss Kathryn Rea COTTAGES REPLACED. Seven Tourist Camp Houses Built| as Result of Recent Fire. Beven cottages in the tourists camp at Potomac Park, to replace those re- cently destroyed by fire, have been com- pleted. & & precautionary measure to in- sure agajnst a repetition of the fire in the tourist camp, fire drills were and are being held frequently and the use of kerosene stoves is -being carefully watched. The work of repairing the cottages has been going forward under the Wel- fare and Recreation Association of Pub- lic Buildings and Grounds, Inc. | for that velopment of the new metropolitan air- port at Newark, N. J., it was indicated by Maj. D. A. Davison, Assistant Dis- trict Engineer Commisioner, following a flight to Newark Tuesday in an Army plane. In order to stabilize the hydraulic fill, which will be necessary on the Gravelly Point site, Maj. Davison indicated, dry earth will be used for the field surface over the mud pumped from the bottom of the river channel. In addition to runways of sod, which have been’ found suitable for dry ther operations, runways of bitu- minous macadam are being considered by Maj. Davison. ‘While at Newark Maj. Davison made a thorough examination of a new type of cinder macadam being used there for runways. When completed, with a fill, the runways will have much the appearance of a paved roadway, it is aid, with the added advantage of giv: ing better traction when wet. There will have to be careful study made, however. of the effect of wear on such a surface, Maj. Davidson said, as a tendency for the runways to de- velop a bumpy surface would be det- rimental. Maj. Davison plans to keep | a close check on the way the Newark cinder macadam runways stand up un- der use and probably will make another inspection trip there during hot weather purpose. DRIVER IS ACCUSED OF HITTING 3 CARS Colored Man Fled After Each Col- lision, Officer Who Seized Him Charges. Accused of hitting three automobiles with the machine ha was driving, John B. Hughes, colored, 23 years old, of the 1700 block of Kalorama road, was ar- rested last midnight by Officer G. W. Singletary of the United States Park Police. Hughes is facing three charges of leaving after colliding, reckless driv- ing, failing to stop at signal of officer and passing a red light, and will be formally charged later. The alleged smash-ups occurred in the Connecticut areas. Singletary reported today that at about 11:30 o'clock last night Hughes collided with a car owned and operated by John J. Truman of 807 C street southwest, who was going south on Connecticut avenue. Hughes kept on going, the report said, and collided with a car owned by Mrs. Irma T. Wert, of 1401 Pairmont street and operated by R. M. Wert, who was traveling east on Euclid street at Sixteenth street. Hughes again failed to stop, the officer asserted, and later collided with a car owned by W. C. Witts of 3116 Sixteenth street parked at the curb on Irving street east of Sixteenth street. Singletary, who was in the vicinity, reported that Hughes jumped out of the machine he was driving and was fol- lowed and arrested and taken to No. 10 police precinct station. The Wert car was the worst damaged, the report said. The car Hughes was driving, the offi- cer said, was owned by Esther M. West- field, colored, of 2800 Chesapeake street. JACK FORE MOSS, 72, 1. C. C. CLERK, EXPIRES Rate Expert Was Taken Il in Of- fice on April 20; Leaves Son and Daughter. Jack Fore Moss, 72 years old. assist- ant chief rate clerk Bureau of Traffic, tariff section, Interstate Commerce Commission, died in Emergency Hos- pital yesterday. He had heen in the | hospital since becoming ill in his office on_April 29. Funeral services were conducted at his residence, 905 Sligo avenue, Silver Spring, Md., this afternoon. Rev. Dr. Ralph D. Smith officiated. Interment was in Rock Creek Cemetery. He is survived by a son, Jack Fore Moss, jr.; a daughter, Mrs. Ethelbert Barksdale of Jackson, Miss., and three grandchildren, Mary Gwen Barksdale, Ethelbert Barksdale, jr, and Jean Barksdale. Mr. Moss was a native of Mississippi. SECRETARY IS SOUGHT. The selection of a community secre- tary to serve with the Community Cen- ter was recommended last night at the final meeting of the season of the Park View Citizens' Association at Park View School. The next meeting will be held cn the second Wednescday in October in 3 the Park View School. He had been in the Government serviee | here for the past 40 year STREET WILL SPEAK. Elwood Street, director of the Wash- vill address | ington Community Chest, the Columbia Hospital board at its an- nual meeting tomorrow morning at |11:15 o'clock at the hospital, Twenty- | fifth and L streets. o 1 i coating of asphalt over a heavy cinder | i i avenue and Sixteenth and Euclid streets | | plumbers, or subcontractors, prefer the | EARLY AGREEMENT ONNEW PLUVBERS WACE SCALE EEN Increase From $11 to $11.50 a Cay and Five-Day Week Believed P(gry]ised. | [BUT DURATION ISSUE STILL IS UNSETTLED | Subcontractors Reported as Desir- ing Three-Year and Workmen Two-Year Compact. | | | | 1 An early agreement between the | plumbing subcontractors and the union | plumbers on a new wage scale was ex- in close touch with the wage controver- It is understood that business repre- sentatives of the plumbers’ union have entered into a tentative verbal agree- ment with the master plumhers by which wages will be increased from $11 to $11.50 a day when the agreement is formally signed and another 50 cents a day August 1. The tentative agreement 1 15 also understood to grant the workmen |a five-day week, although no official | word on this point was obtainable today. If the master plumbers grant these demands of the workmen, which now ceems likely, it will be a sweeping vic- tory for the union as it will Emb?h"' the practically | employes. One question which is still hanging | everything asked by obtainable today. is the length of time of the new agreement. The master ! agreement to run as long as possible, | 0 that they may figure in advance on the cost of the work. They are under- stood to want a three-year agreement, ! while the workmen are reported to be asking for a two-year agreement. This particular question must be ap- proved by the union before the tentative agreement, is put on paper and signed by both sides. Meetings have been held within the last 24 hours by cement subcontractors to discuss the demands of the cement finishers for a wage increase from $1.121; to $1.25 an hour, but confer- ences between employers and employes have been delayed. While there has been informal dis- | Cussion of wage differences respecting | other building trades, no meetings were held today. | | i MOTHER UNAWARE OF BABY'S DEATH Injured, She Is Not Told Child | Died in Plunge in Her Arms. Mme. Marie P. Fiot, 25 years old, wife of the coding officer of the French embassy, still lay in a serious condition at Emergency Hospital today unaware that her 11-month-old son, Andre Fiot, jr., was killed yesterday as he plunged in his mother's arms dcwn an elevator shaft in the Ritz apartment house, 1631 Euclid street. The child died almost instantly. Hospital physicians said today they | feared effects from the shock Mrs. Fiot | may suffer if informed now of the infant’s death. She is suffering from | fractures of the arm and right leg and possible internal injuries. Saw Elevator Door Close. Mrs. Fiot went to Meridian Hill Park yesterday afternoon, where her child | was in the care of a maid, and wheeled | the baby home through a side basement | door. The maid, Annie Stewart, colored. | wheeled the carriage. onto the auto- matic elevator and Mrs. Fiot stepped in. The maid said she saw the elevator door close and the lift ascend, but, what happened after that is problematical. Police advanced the theory that after the elevator reached the first story, Mrs. Fiot lifted the baby from the carriage, opened the safety gate and stepped into a narrow space between the | gate and the outer door. Before the | other gate could be opened, it is be- lieved some one on another floor rang for the elevator and as the machine started up, Mrs. Fiot and the baby plunged into the pit, 17 feet below. Baby Dead When He Arrived. Dr. Louis Jimal of the Casualty Hos- pital stafl responded on a call for the ambulance and pronounced the baby dead on arrival. Mrs. Fiot was then taken to Emergency Hospital Casualty ambulance. Officials from an elevator company and Fred Signoir of ge elevator’s in- spector’s office tested {he safety devices on the lift. The representatives of the Otis Co. sald the machine was in perfect working order; Signoir refused to com- ment. Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt has ordered an inquest after Mrs, Fiot recovers. GERMAN OFFICERS COME HERE FOR ARMY STUDY First to Be Attached to U. §. Forces Since War WiJl Attend Service Schools. Capt. Warlimont, 6th Artillery Regi- ment, and Capt. Spiedel, 13th Infantry Regiment, German Army, called at the ‘War Department today and paid their respects to Brig. Gen. Albert J. Bowley, acting chief of staff of the Army, and figured in several group photographs. These officers have been detailed by the President of Germany, with the ap- proval of Secretary Good of the War Department, for instruction in Ameri- can Army service schools for a period of about a year. They are the first German officers to be attached to the United States Army since the World War. Capt. Whr- i limont has been engaged in the testing tand procurement department of the ordnance office of the German Army and is to educate himself further in his special branch. Capt. Speidel has been engaged in the study of foreign aerial weapons and will study the co-operation of the main arms of the American Army with the aviation arm. Decision has not been reached as to the specific schools and activities where these offi- cers will be attached. in aj i Umission today to send representatives | mediately after leaving his filling sta- | | rooming house at 136 East Capitol | Pictures Found s one of a set of pietures of d in,front of George Wasl 1a M. Co: Belie ing that the parents of the child may treasure the pictures, Mrs. Costello sug- | gests they may be recovered by com- municating with her husband. Thomas Costello, employed in the Water Depart- ment, District Building. CAR LINES CALLED T0 ATTEND HEARING Cwnership of Securities in| Other Utilities to Be Con- sidered Monday. The Capital Traction and Washing- ton Railway & Electric Companies were called on by the Public Utilities Com- to a meeting of the commission at 10 o'clock Monday to discuss the holding by the companies of securities in other local public utilities corporations, a practice recently held illegal in an opinion by Corporation Counse William W. Bride. ‘The companies own $50,000 worth of bonds of the Washington Gas Light Co. and $31,000 in bonds of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., respectively. ‘The holdings were disclosed in the companies’ regular financial reports to the egmmission, and Corporation Coun- sel Brfide held that the ownership was }n olation of the so-called anti-merger aw. Earl V. Fisher, executive secretary .of the commission, called the companies | by telephone today and received as surances that representatives would at- | tend the meeting. It is understood that the commission will insist that the corporations dispose of their holdings. MOMENT OF ECLIPSE PUZZLE IN CAPITAL | : ! Still May 8 Here When Phenom- enon Is Reported by Party as Occurring in Philippines. While a party from the Naval Ob- servatory here, now in the Philippines, reported today by radio to the Navy Department that weather conditions for observing the total eclipse of the sun were excellent, newcomers to the department were puzzled over fust when it occurred. Although it ‘was last night in the United States when the naval party observed the eclipse, | by the calendar it was this afternoon | there. The eclipse occurred during the | afternoon of May 9 in the Philippines ! while it was still the night of May | 8 in this country. | Comdr. G. H. J. Keppler, in charge of the party. advised the department | that the expedition's program to study the corona of the sun was completed according to schedule and two were used to make photographs and | observations and the destroyer U. S. S. ! tomobile trucks with defective solid tires | be satisfactory. {from using the streets, and that an in- | Hulbert at Iloilo, P. I, conducted radio tests. | The Naval Observatory's party ob- tained 13 variable exposures with their 65-foot camera, 46 others with polar| axes cameras and celostat, and a num- | ber of good sketches were made by local | artists, the department was informed. Success attended the program outlined by S. Waterfield of Johns Hop kins University, who has been co-op- erating with the naval party, i FILLING STATION MAN ROBBED BY LONE YOUTH| S»ort-Change Worker Dupes Em- ploye of Store—Apartment Is Burglarized. Accosted by a bandit last night im- | tion at Florida avenue and California | street, Burl Gwaltney, 140 C street northeast. was robbed of $56, police were told today. Gwaltney said the bandit, a young white man, displayed no | weapon, but acted as though he had one in his pocket. A short-change worker, have been the one who has perpetrated | several similar thefts recently, duped an employe of Sherratt’s china art store, | 608 Thirteenth street. into giving him 85 _vesterday afternoon. | Mrs. Mary E. Norton, proprietress of a | believed to | street, has asked police to search for | two young women and a man whom | she suspects of stealing clothing and an alarm clock from her estabiishment. William Daphney, 1501 Ninth street, | reported the theft of a $45 bracelet | from his apartment vesterday. The theft of a ring worth $30 was reported by Elmer R. Nelson, 2008 Brandywine street. SON OF MAJ. BRINK DEAD. Capital Man, in Poor Health 12 Years, Passes Here, Charles Hunter Brink, son of Maj. Harrison 8. Brink, United States Engi- n]c’.earla, of LU‘ll; Clty.}?lu‘i’| ld'. Garfield Hos- pital yesterday, He had been in health for the last 12 years. o Mr. Brink was born in Montana Octo- ber 27, 1903, and had been a resident of Washington for the last four years. He lived at 4914 Georgia avenue. He is survived by a widow, Marie Mary Brink; his father, Mgj. Brink, and two brothers, Clyde Rolland and Harold Curte Brink. 3 Funeral services will bé held from the chapter of Clyde J. Nichols, 4209 Ninth street, at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. ¥ | RUM CAR WITHOUT SMOKE GAPTURED [N GMILE CHASE 432 Quarts of Whisky Seized as Suspects Escape in Other Machines. PILOT AUTO PICKS UP DRIVER OF LADEN SEDAN | | | \ i | | .Scrgt. Little and Squad Follow Runners From Blair and Riggs Roads to City. The absence of a smoke screen was the factor which last night enabled ning sedan and 432 quarts of whisky after a thrilling five-mile chase from i Blair and Riggs roads northeast Ninth and Rittenhouse streets sighting three powerful cars, two police to seize an expensive rum-run- | to! To the delight of small bo; itol streets. | < in the neighberhaod, apple. enstard and pumpiin ; | pies were scattered aver the sireet when this truck snapped off a lamp post and | turned over this morning after colliding with a conpe at Ninth and East Cap-, —Star Staff Photo. BLOSSOM FESTIVA COL. GRANT FAVORS NEARLY 20 HURT INLOGAL TRAFFG Traffic Congestion in Pote- Two of Victims Reported! PAGE 17 rie avos weeeken | GATHEDRAL GROUP WSS 52,000 DURIGPASTYEAR Werkers in 200 Cities Obtain Gifts Covering Present Commitments. PLAN IMPRESSIVE RITE HONORING WASHINGTON Ceremonies in 1932 to Observe 200th Anniversary of His Birth Revealed. Donations totaling $2,000,000 have Dbeen credited to the National Cathedral building fund since last May, an amount which covers existing commitments with little residue for futuve needs, Edwin N. Lewis, executive secretary of the National Cathedral Association, reported ;_(Olzlfly to the annual meeting of that vody. Some 800 members of the organiza- sedans and a roadster traveling at high | speed into the city late last night Sergt. George Little and members of his road squad. T. O. Montgomery, Leo | Murray and George C. Deyoe, started | mac Park Seen by Him as Greatest Drawback. in pursuit. Unable to cut in between the cars the police settled down for a chase be- hind the rear, or “block" car. Block Car Runs Aside. After a short chase the driver of the block car lost his nerve and swerved his maghine into a side road, ciearing the way for police to pull up behind the | sedan with the contraband load. Swinging his machine back and forth across the road, the driver of this car kept the police machine in the rear as he sped through the deserted streets at terrific speed in his wild dash to escape. ‘The absence of a smoke screen, how- ever, enabled the police o keep the | fugitive car in sight, even though they were unable to pass it. Pilot Car Drops Out. At Fifth and Rittenhouse streets the pilot car, which d been running in front to clear the way for the liquor car, dropped out of :the chase, leaving but one machine for the police to con- tend with. The pilot car reappeared at Ninth and Rittenhouse streets, however, narrowly averting a crash with the rum car. Locking his brakes, the rum driver jumped from his machine and boarded the speedier pilot car. Seeing i the futility of chasing the roadster, the police stopped and took the sedan with its load of whisky into custody. Car and liquor were surrendered to agents of the Internal Revenue Bureau. and efforts are being made by the liquor squad to learn the identity of the oc- cupants of the three cars, all of whom are said to be colored. FOURTH OF JULY FETE Michigan Park Group to Have Pa- rade, Speeches and Fire- works on Holiday. | Plans for an elaborate Fourth of July { community celebration, including a pa- irade, patriotic exercises, speeches and fireworks, were discussed by the Michi- gan Park Citizens’ Association in a meeting at Bunker Hill School, 1600 Michigan avenue northeast, last night. A committee has been appointed to work out the details of the celebration, which will be held on the playground of the school and extend over the entire day and evening. The association went on record as op- posed to the Fl‘onflsed changes by the Zoning Commission, which would place police stations, fire stations and hos- pitals 1in residential districts. The placing of lights in alleyways between Michigan avenue and Thirteenth street was recommended. A resolution was PlAnes i agopted by the association requesting ; lic Buildings and Public Parks are anx- the Police Department to prohibit au- vestigation be made to determine the amount of damage done to the streets by heavy trucks in comparison with other causes. Tt was also urged that all commercial trucks and wagons be prohibited from parking at the angles of arterial high- ways from 9 to 4 o'clock daily. ldw&lmm M. Deving, president, pre- sided. PRI DEPARTMENT TO MAKE TALKING FARM MOVIES | Production of Sound Films Will Be Extended When Costs Are Reduced. Production of talking movies will be begun by the Department of Agriculture during the current season, and, if pres- ent plans are carried out, one or more “all-talkie” short features will be ready for presentation at the big live stock | shows next Winter. For the present the production of talking films will be limited to short specials for such occasions as the na- tional dairy show, where facilities for reproduction can be provided, but as soon as portable equipment for sound pictures is available at a reasonable cost production of talking films for general circulation will be undertaken. A rep- resentative of the department’s office of mation pictures is now in New York in- vestigating models of forthcoming port- able projectors with sound attachments. Officials of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the department see a spe- cial advantage in vocalizing films deal- ing with economic phases of farming. ‘They believe that the exihibition of sound pictures on the agricultural outlook, for example, would aid greatly in their ef- forts to induce farmers to study pros- pective demand for their products in | adjusting production activities. TRAIN WAITER INJURED. James Davis, 45 years old, a colored waiter on a_Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railway dining car, was se- riously injured today when he lost his balance and fell to the tracks beneath the moving train while attempting to step. from the platform of the dining car to an adjoining coach. Davis was removed to Emergency Hospital, where physicians sald he was suffering from a punctured abdomen and severe body bruises. According to officials at Union Sta- tion, the train on which the injured man was working was moving into a siding at the Eckington yards after completing a trip from Richmond when the accident occurred. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. director of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, is favorably inclined to the proposed cherry blossom festival in Washington. this announcment today. id that he has suggested ent take place about the time of the blooming of the double- blossom cherry trees. toward the mid- die of April, so that better weather will | Last Night and Today in Serious Condition. Nearly a score’ of persons were in- jured, one seriously. in a series of traffic accidents reported to police last pight | and_this morning. Although Gertrude Queen, 27 years | old, colored, of 206 D street southeast, refused to remain in Casualty Hospital, paysicians there said she was seriously injured when the automobile in which tion, a fellowship of benefactors, with branches in 200 cities, were in at- tendance. ight Pev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington, pre- sided at the session, which opened at 11 o'clock. | Mr. Lewis reported that 1700 new members have been enrolled in the asso- ciation since last May, and committees organized in 100 additional communi- ties throughout the United States, for the purpose of furthering the Cathedral project. Gen. John J. Pershing is di- recting the work. Mr. Lewis reported that 306.i61 per- sons have visited the cathedral since last May. . she was a passenger and operated by | John Queen of the D street address | Prevail in 11 ikelinced and thoes win | Was in collision at Tenth and I streets | Tower Work Authorized. be an_opportunity to lessen chances of a traffic tie-up in Potomac Park. The one great drawback that Col. Grant sees fo the cherry blossom festi- | val is that it will tend to create traffic | congestion in Potomac Park, which al- | ready is a problem. As most of the visitors come to Washington to see the single-blossom cherry trees, which are set for the most part around the Tidal Basin, Col. Grant is of the belief that having the festival about the time the double-blossom trees are showing their Oriental splendor will mean that this will aid in relieving the traffic situation. Water Street Bridge Urged. Closely linked with the traffic prob- lem in Potomac Park is the need for a solution and Col. Grant has under con- sideration an early conference with the | | District Commissioners to obtain their | aid in having constructed the proposed | bridge from East Potomac Paik to | | Water street. just south of the railroad {tracks. With the proper arrangement of arterial traffic streets to divert the traffic coming out of the park to the| eastward, Col. Grant considers tha | this will aid materially in reducing the | congestion nessitated by halting_ the | park traffic to permit through traffic to and from Virginia to pacs. | Another solution of the situation has | been under advisement by the Office of { Public Buildings and Public Parks, Col. | Grant said. It may be possible to widen | which now forms the “neck of the bot- | tle” in_causing traffic tie-ups. Col. | | Grant_believes that this bridge might | $150,000. The proposed bridge to Wa. ter street, artistically constructed to harmonize with the park surroundings, | would cost about $400,000. Constructi g v be - | coutheast with a car driven by John C. | (ered on the veuken movanes, o0 Chase of 1013 E street southeast. The 'the nave erypt and the children’s | drivers of both machines escaped in- | chapel, it was reported by Very Rev, Jury. Boy's Nose Fractured. Six-year-old Frank Grenshaw of 3703 Northampton street suffered a fractured nose when he was run down on Con- necticut avenue near McKinley street by an automobile operated by Marion W. Perry of 11 Shepard street, Chevy Chase, Md. The injured boy was treated at Emergency Hospital. Thomas Catron- of 3509 Pltt:'rson' street, also 6, who was watking with the injured child at the time of the ac- cident, escaped unhurt. Five-year-old James Adams of 4429 Conduii road was slightly injured when struck by an automobile operated by William P. Steelman of Gaithersburg, Md., at The child was treated by Dr. John Hazel of Georgetown University Hos- pital staff for minor body bruises and shock. Catherine A. Pollock, 8 years old, uffered minor hurts when run down in front of her home, at 1417 Newton street, by an automobile driven by Francis Sweeney, 3508 Sixteenth & The child was treated at her home by a physician. While attempting to cross the street at Fourteenth and W streets last night, Bertha Gross, 42 vears old. colored, of the right side and body by an automo- bile operated by James Fields of 62 Fen- ton street northeast. She was treated be widened at a cost approximating at Emergency Hospital and later re- | moved to her home. ‘Woman's Leg Injured. Mary Mims, 25 years old, colored, liv- Thirty-third and M streets. | Gen. Stephan Confers With Grant. ;lng a:: és]zaulrifuem sttreectk, f’uflered a The proposed Water street bridge is | SPrained left leg when struck by a stray art of the general scheme fo improve | Wheel which became detached from the he Washington water front and plans | {fuck of Richard L. Grimes of 2413 for this development are now pending | Newton strect northeast, while the latter in the office of the chief of A'my en- | Was driving: past’ Fourteenth and R gineers, Maj. Gen. Edgar Jadwin. o A A few days ago, Gen. Anton Stephan, | _Mrs. G M. Bogan, 24 years old, of chairman of the cherry blossom festival, | 1324 Clifton street, suffered bruisc and Dorsey W. Hyde, secretary of the |about the legs when the machine she | Washington Chamber of Commerce, ' Was driving was in collision at Florida | conferred with Col. Grant and laid the avenue and § sireel with a car op- whole program before him. “rated by V. Y. Dove of 3911 Grant road. With such close association between Dove was unhurt. the proposed cherry Four-year-old _Robert F. Matthews | | blossom _festival body bruises and shock when run down n front of his home, at 707 Barry place, by an automobile driven by Mamie Mar- shall Robinson of 2220 Flagler place. CURTISS TROPHY RACE HOOVER AND STIMSON 'POSTPONED TO MAY 25 PRAISE GIBSON WORK | Park, the officials af the Office of Pub- !ious to bring about a solution that will and the traffic situation in Potomac WAS treated at Freedmen's Hospital for | Marine Plane Contest Will Be for Navy Service Types Over 100-Mile Course. The annual Curtiss Marine Trophy | Race, which was to have been held over | the Potomac River starting and finish- | has been postponed to May 25, it was announced today by Senator Hiram Bingham of Connecticut, president of the National Aeronautic Association. The contest will be for service-type seaplanes of the Navy, over a course totaling 100 miles. The various con- testants will be divided into five groups, according to the types of planes they will fly. Gold wrist watches will be awarded the winners of the races for {each type of plane. | Details of the race are being worked {out by the contest committee of the i National Aeronautic Association, which is to handle all the official arrange- ments and time the varicus events. ‘The trophy was won last year by the late Maj. Charles A, Lutz, U. S. M. C. Fresident and Secretary Are Gr.ati~ fied at Ambassador's Efforts at Parley. By the Associated Press. A message expressing the gratifica- tion of President Hoover and Secretary | ing at the Naval Air Station on May 18, Stimson over the developments at the | preparatory disarmament commission meeting at Geneva was sent yesterday | to Ambassador Hugh S. Gibson, who was the principal American delegate. Mr. Gibson is returning to Brussels to resume his duties there as Ambassa- dor to Belgium. Secretary Stimson made public his message to Mr. Gibson as follows: “The President desires us to express to you his satisfaction with the ef- cient manner in which you and the other members of the delegation have fulfilled your instructions during the sixth meeting of the preparatory com- mission for a disarmament conference. I wish to add my own appreciation of your excellent presentation of the views of the United States and the able manner in which you have contributed who flew the 100-mile course in 38|, the progress of the work of the! { G. C. F. Bratenahl, dean of Washing-. i ton. " Construction congracts for the {building of the nave crypts and the i foundations of the western towers, in- | volving $365,000, recently were author- |lzed4 he said. Plans for an impressive religious serv- {ice “as a culminating spiritual note to i the country-wide celebration of the 1 200th anniversary of the birth of George ‘Washington,” were announced at the | meeting this morning by former Sen- ator George W. Pepper of Pennsylvania, i chairman of the association’s executive | committee. i __The observance will be held in- the | Naticnal Cathedral, February 22, 1932, | Mr. Pepper said. 2s an appropriate tribute to Washingion, who is credited with originating the idea of establish- ing a great church for national pur- | poses in the Capital. Completion in Time Seen. | Mr. Pepper predicted that the cross- | ing, together with the north and south transepts, would be completed in time for the celebration. Funds for the two- vear building program are being sought iin a Nation-wide campaign under di- rection of Gen. Joan J. Pershing, chair- | man of the national committee. Mr. Pepper pointed out that facilities for 3.500 worshipers will be available by the bridge at Fourteenth street, | 2237 Twelfth street, was injured about ! February of 1932 under the building | plans. i Other speakers at this morning’s ses- ! sion. were Vincent R. Massey, Canadian | Minister to the United States, and Dr. William Holland Wilmer, head of the ‘Wilmer Institute at Johns Hopkins, who discussed cathedral building from the standpoint of laymen. Very Rev. G. C. { P. Bratenahl, dean of Washington, also | Bave a brief talk. | Holy Communion Celebrated. i Other features of the day’s program, { arranged in connection with this morn- ings annual meeting, included the cele- bration of holy communion at 7:30 this morning in Bethlehem 2pel. At 10 o'clock the altar in the chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea was dedi- cated. Following the business meeting 2 buffet luncheon was served on the { zrounds. while . the highlight locked forward to on the afternoon program was .the laying. at 3 o'clock. of the comnerstone for the lower school of St. Alban’s with Bishop Freeman officiating. The school building. when completed {for the Fall term, will accomodate 100 | boys. by i Evening prayer service was scheduled at 4 oclock. followed a half hour later a meeting of the national bxecutive committee. i '95 PUBLIC UTILITIES INCREASE EARNINGS Commerce Department March Re- | ports Show $195,000,000, Against | $194,000,000 in February. By the Assoclated Pr Gross earnings of 95 public utility companies in the United States in March were $195.000,000, compared with $194,000,000 for February and $203,000,- 000 for January. Farnings in March, 1928, were $187.- 726,994 The reports. made to the Department jof Commerce, were from companies operating gas, electric light, heat, power, traction and water services and com- prised practically all the important or- ganizations in the United States. Earn- ings of telegraph and telephone com- panies were not included. Net earnings were $85000,000 in | March. $86.000,000 in Februarv, $3%- 000,000 in January and $72.811,146 in March last yea: | minutes at an average speed of 157.60 miles per hour. The course last vear extended from the Army War College commission and awakened new hopes | | of a practical means for the effective | C. W. FREEMAN HEADS { t Fort Hunt, five laps over this course | TC0Uc on Of Armaments. | BAR OF UNITED STATES constituting 100 miles. | FEDERAL UNION TO MEET. Officers Will Be Installed by Tariff Commission Group. Newly elected officers of the Tariff Commission branch, Federal Employes’ Union, will be installed Tuesday night at exercises in the hearing room of the Tariff Commission, ing at 8 o'clock. They will take office as fol- lows: F. C. Getzendanner, president; Mrs. Grace Van Casteel and J. Mark Albert- son, vice presidents; Mrs. Laura K. Cox, secretary; Mrs. Bertha M. Robertson and Robert E. Allen, representatives to the board, and Mrs. Sophie J. Bergner, recelver of dues. Luther C. Steward, president of the National Federation of Federal Employes, will officiate at the installation. INSTITUTE MAY 16. Teachers to Hear Lecture ““Handwriting in Public Schoels.” The last Teachers’ Institute of the Teachers' Council of the Washington public school system will be held May 16 in the Central and Armstrong Audi- toriums, where Dr. N. Freeman of the School of Education, University of Chicago, will lecture on “Handwrit- ing in the Public Schools.” Dr. Freeman will speak first in the Armstrong High School at 3:45 in the on | afternoon and he will repeat the lecture in the Central High School at 8 o'clock the same night. Dr. Preeman is widely known as an educator and for his work on penmanship. His system is used ex- tensively in the local schools. Exports of radio apparatus from the United States last vear had a tof of 812,061,410, an increase of A dance will be held after the ex- cises. ert over 1927, | Attorneys Practicing in Federal Courts Eligible to Join New Organization. Maj. Charles William Freeman was elected president of the Bar of the United States at the organization meet- ing of the body in the National Press Building last night. Attorneys practicing in the Federal courts of the Nation are eligible to membership in the new legal organization, which is sponsored by the Federal Bar Association, com- posed of attorneys in the Government service. Other officers elected were Pickens Neagle, vice president; William R. Vallance, president of the Federal Bar Association, co-ordinator; David D. Caldwell, counselor; Edwin A. Niess, secretarv: Milton A. Lehr, treasurer, and Ralph G. Cornwell, aug.:c~ The organization would raise standard of the members of the the United States, serve its'enembers and work for impartial law enforce- ment, it is announced.