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Washington News The Foen . WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ny Stas. WASHINGTON, D. ., THURSDAY, 6, 19 JUNE 29 PAGE 17 PRATTWILL SEEK [ USE OF SPECIAL LIQUOR “SPIES" New System Designed as Substitute for Police *“Un- dercover” Agents. PLAN TO BE LAID BEFORE COMMISSIONER LUCKETT Believes Informers With Police Would Overcome Grand Jury's Objection. Mai. Henry G. Pratt. superintendent of police. announced today that he would seek the use of special informers of the Federal Prohibition Bureau in gathering evidence against Washington's bootleggers and “speakeasies” as a sub- stitute for the department’s own paid “undercover” agents, who are virtually to be discarded as a result of a recent ruling of United States Attorney Leo A Rover. The plan is to be laid before Prohibi- | tion Commissioner Doran by Harry M.| Luckett, chief clerk and property officer of the Palice Department, who has been delegated by Maj. Pratt to assist him in developing & new and effective prohibition enforcement. “spy” _system in the District. Luckett went to Doran's office this morning to discuss the acheme, but finding him out made ar- rangemens for a conference this after- noon ‘Would Overcome Objections. Maj. Pratt pointed out that the Pro- hibition Bureau employes special in- formers, under contract, to assist pro- hibition enforcement officers, and he believes that their use in the District in co-operation with the liquor squads of the Police Department, would over- come the objections raised by the grand inry. United States Attorney Rover and others to the paid police informer. The Prohibition Bureau's informers, it was explained. have virtually the status of Federal agents. since they are employed under contracts approved by the prohibition commissioner and the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ‘These contracts can be terminated or extended at any time The contracts signed by the prohibi- tion bureau informers bind them to observe all laws and regulations gov- erning the conduct of Federal officers. | The compensation js limited fo $480 for the period of the contract in order to avoid conflict with civil service rules. | Only Practical Solution. Maj. Pratt thinks the use of the | Pederal informers is the only practical solution of the. problem facing the | Police Department in enforcing the pro- | hibition law in the District, since | Rover’s opinion has seriously handi- | capped the liquor squads in procuring | the evidence required for the issuance | of raiding warrants. | 1f Prohibition Commissioner Doran | agrees to the plan. Maj. Pratt explained, | Federal funds will have to be used to| pay the informers, as the Police De- partment lacks an available appropria- tion for such a purpose. For the same Teason, he said. the department could not adopt a suggestion that its own informers be placed on a per diem status, instead of paying them by the case. ,The department has used its contingent. fund to pay informers in the past. but when it is necessary to create i special positions as would be required | if the informers were employed under contract or on & per diem basis, police officials are confident that legislation would be required. Maj. Pratt said it was his intention to continue to use new members of the force as “undercover” agents until their identity becomes known to the liquor sellers, but that in the course of time the department would be absolutely dependent on the Federal informers or persons not connected officially with it. Representative Gibson of Vermont, chairman of the special subcommittee of the House District. committee, con- ferred with Maj. Pratt today in the latter's office in the District Building Mr. Gibson said his mission was of a personal nature and did not concern in any way the study his committee is making of the Police Department. TWO THOUSAND GIRLS WILL FORM HUGE FLAG Ceremany of United States Flag Be Held on Bteps Bunday. Association Will Capitol Two thousand Washington school girly dressed in costumes of red, white and blue and massed to form two huge human_flags, will participate in vesper flag service of the United States Flag Association. o be held on the west steps of the Capitol at 4:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon. The participants, representing virtu- aly every public school in the city &% well as parochial schools. Girl Scout troops. Girls Friendly Soclety. playv- grounds and orphanages, will form the flags on each of the broad tiers of steps that lead down from the terrace of the Capitol. The largest flag in the world, a0 feet, in height and 165 feet long. will be brought here from Detroit especially for the occasion. The flag formation will be under direction of Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest of the department of drama and pag- eantry of the Washington public schools Miss Pauline Oak. assisting Mrs. For- rest. will also direct & pageant. entitled “The Story of the Flag.” written by Col James A. Moss, president general of the | United Stater Flag Association. NOTED PILOTS TO SPEAK. Capt. Eaker and Lieut. Hinton at School Opening. Capt. Ira C. Eaker, chief pilot of the Question Mark. and Lieut. Walter Hin- ton. pilot of the first plane to cross the Atlantic Ocean, will be speakers at the official npening of the Aviation School of America, a new school specializing in ground school work and theory of air- planes and motors at & o'clock tomor- row night at 1108 Sixteenth street. The | public is nvited Officers and classrooms for 200 stu- dente have heen provided and a Sum- | mer course, lasting three months, with both day and night classes, will begin Monday. Instruction will be practical as well as theoretical and while no flight instruetions will be given, arrangements are being made for such training at lo~ cal flelds at special rates. Good Leaves for Ripon. Secretary James W. Good of the War Department. left here this afternoon for Ripon, Wis.. where he will make an ad- dress Saturday at the celebration of Co-operating - Aid to Cupid 1 ¥ MISS MAUD A. ROGERS. | Now in charge of the issuance of mar- riage licenses here, succeeding the late | William A. Kroll. Miss Fogers. whose home is in McLean. Va.. has been as- stant elerk of court for several years. DEFENDS POSITION ~ AGAINST SPOTTERS | District Attorney Rover Says i‘ Professionals Not % Dependable. ‘ His stand against cases “made” by | the so-called professional informer was | defended by Leo A. Rover, United 'Suues attorney for the District of Co- | lumbia, at ehe final session of the quar- terly convention of the Woman's Chris- | tian Temperance Union of the District, in the Sherwood Presbyterian Church | late yesterday afternoon. {to be placed in this type of informer, either in prohibition or other cases. Mr. Rover declared: “I don't think the | | people want me to use informers when |in 98 per cent of the cases the in- | formers are not there at the time of the | | trial.” | Weleomes Information. He then developed the thought that | his office welcomes any information on | bootleggers or other types of law viola- tors, but spoke of a system whereby | police officers or detectives actually ob- tain the evidence and “make” the cases through information furnished them Under the lafter system. he said, it will take longer to make cases. byt con- viction will be practically assured. He emphasized the crowded condi- | tion of ‘the Police Court here, both as 0 the building and ‘the number of judges. Two days a week are given to jury trial in liquor cases, he said, and practically all bootleggers demand trial by _jury. Referring 1o the cases tried in the District Supreme Court under the Jones | law, Mr. Rover said that, with the ex- ception of one case, all cases brought before the latter trib%nal have resulted Telling of the lack of dependability | ANNUAL S500000 AIRPORT 20,000,000 " FRAUD N GASOLINE FUND APPEAL SENT - SALES IS CLAIMED T0 BUDGET BUREAU Statistics Presented by A. 1 A. A. Manager in Urging Closer Co-operation. | CODE RECENTLY FORMED HELPS LITTLE. HE SAYS Weights and Measures Officials. in Convention Here. Pay Visit to White House. | | With statistics showing that American | | motorists are robbed of approximatcly | 100.600.000 gallons of gasoline, valued at about $20,000.000. annually by dis- honest venders, a closer co-operative | program was urged on the National | Association of Weights and Measures | ofcials today by Ernest N. Smith, gen- eral manager of the American Auto- | mobile Association. | . The figures, he said. were deduced from sample surveys in several large cities, which resulted in many convic- | tions for sales which ran short from a pint to a gallon. In one city 23 convic- | ! tions were obtained out of 100 stations visited. Says Code of Little Help. The code recently formulated for the | | gasoline industry by the Petroleum In- | stitute, which now is before the Federal | Trade Commission, does little to remedy | this condition, Mr. Smith said. leaving | | the matter of protection to the motor- | | ing public and the State officials. i Some States, he said, have failed to | adopt laws protecting the public; others have laws, but. no machinery for enforc- ing them, and still others fail to make regular check-ups. The American | Automobile Association, he said, is urg- ing on its member organizations to warn motorists and spur them to watch for and report short sales. The fault, | | he indicated, is partly that of the | motorist. especially the woman driver. | { who fails to notice the indicators when | the tank is being filled. Other Speakers Heard. Other speakers at the session at the | Mayflower Hotel this morning were C. P. Smith. sealer of weights and meas- ures of Suffolk County. N. Y.; M. H. | Starr. chief engineer of the Howe Scale | Co.; B. W. Ragland, chief of the Bureau | | of Weights and Measures of Richmond, | [Va. and E. L. Peffer of the Bureau {of Standards. | At noon the delegates were received {at the White House by President | Hoover. | The afternoon session was devoted to consideration of various gasoline | measuring devices with papers by I. L. | Miller, commissioner of weights and measures of Indiana; Dr. O. C. Bridge- man of the Bureau of Standards and J. H. Meek, director of the Virginia | State division of markets. DISMISS CHARGE AGAINST | MOTOR CYCLE POLICEMAN | The Police Trial Board today dis- missed a charge of making false state- | in convictions or pleas of guilty. Keep Close Watch. | ments concerning an arrest, lodged % | against Motor Cycle Policeman Allen E Ju the course of his address, the| Brown of the Traffic Bureau, when the | speaker said he regards the night club | complaining witness failed to appear to the | | condition here as “excellent.” indicat- | ing that the vast majority of them are |showing & desire to observe the law. | Any that are under suspicion for per- mitting liquor to be brought into them. he pointed out, &re closely watched. and | stated that a total of 28 petitions for | padlock injunctions have been issued. An address also was delivered at_the | session late in the afternoon by Mrs. L. S. Lamance of Florida, national lecturer for the W. C. T. U. An en- | tertaining program of music was ren- | dered during the afternoon. first bY|that period had regarded him as an effi- | science will be awarded the two Gov- | | “The Singing Mothers of the Parent- | Teacher Associations of the District of Columbia.” under | Eppa Norris. and later by the Boys Glee Club of McKinley High_School | inder the direction of Mrs. Bella Thompson. Mrs. N. M. Pollock, presi- dent of the W. C. T. U. of the Dis- trict of Columbia, presided Mrs. Milton Stewart. retiring presi- dent of the Baltimore W. C. T. U.: Mr: Viola _Horisberg, Mrs. John Park | D. Clark, all members of the Baltimore W. C. T. U.. were the guests of Mrs. | | James M. Doran, member of the local organization and wife of the prohibi- tion commissioner. at luncheon. Mrs. Clark formerly. resided in this city. D. C. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR | HAVE ANNUAL FIELD DAY \ & Take Part in Opening Parade to White House Ellipse. | 8ix Commanderies The Knights Templar of the District ir\l Columbia are holding their annual fleld day this afternoon on the White | House ellipse. | A street parade composed of the six commanderies of the city, about 500 | members, started at 1:30 o'clock from | the Masonic Temple, Thirteenth and | New York avenue, and ended at the ellipse. | The program began with a competi- | tive drill between teams of the Wash- | ing. De Molay and Brightwood Com- manderies. The annual inspection of | all the. commanderies by the grand commander, Charles F. Roberts, and | his staff, was to follow. | The program will be brought to a close by the dress parade and review of | the commanderies, before the grand commander and his staff. of the Grand Commandery, is in charge | of the program. i | POEM WINS $20 PRIZE. direction of Mrs. | Miss Ella Nicholson and Mrs. Lindley | | Edward P. Hazelton, inspector general | | press the case. Jesse C. Gates, 1521 Monroe street northeast. arrested on a speeding charge, filed the complaint affer con- viction in Police Court where his per- sonal bond was taken. Brown declared that he was ready to produce witnesses to testify that he | made accurate statements regarding the | | affair. Assistant United States Attorney | Joseph C. Bruce, presented Brown with | a letter, declaring that he had known | the policeman for several years and in | j clent and courteous officer. _Assistant [ United States Attorney David A. Hart and other prominent Police Court offi- | cials appeared before the Trial Board to | [ testify to Brown's reputation and char- but were not called upon 1o | | acter | testify STUDY OF INST 4 |Miss Abbott, Children’s Bu-| } reau Chief, Seeks | i “Weak Points.” 'Careful. Methodical Inquiry | to Be Made First-Hand { Next Autumn. [ By the Associated Press | Convinced that reformatories often | make bad youngsters worse and good | ones weak, Grace Abbott, chief of the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor. is planning a Nation-wide study of the “before and after” effects of institutions for delinquent bogs. She has found that information gathered second-hand indicates that boys are less likely to succeed in busi- ness and other aspects of living after: thev have been “reformed.” and she would supervise a first-hand investi- gation next Fall to check up on results obtained by the best established insti- tutions. The project is characteristic of the | woman who mothers America's chil- | dren. She wants information from the ! objective standpoint, and she is going | affer it methodically, with iangible standards of measurements. 1f reform- ITUTIONS' EFFECT ON DELINQUENTS TO BE MADE Senator Bingham Confers With Assistant Director Kloe- ber on Urgency of Need. GRAVELLY POINT DATA ASKED OF MITCHELL Site Not Decided On, but Boundary Ruling Might Help Save Time, It Is Believed. The appeal of the joint airport com- mission for an immediate appropriation of $500,000 to make possible an early start on air terminal facilitis for the National Capitel, was laid before the | Budget Burcau today when Senator | Bingham of Connecticut, chairman of | the commission, conferred with Royall O. Kloeber, assistant to the director of the budget. Senator Bingham also announced fo- | day he has asked Attorncy Gencral Mitehell for an opinion as to what would be the exact location of the District of Columbia-Virginia boundary line in the vicinity of Gravelly Point. if it final- 1y should be decided to establish an air- port at that point. Site Not Decided On. The commission has emphasized that no site has been decided upon, the purpose in seeking an immediate an- Dpropriation being {o enable the National Capital Park and Planning Commission to recommend where lands or options on lands should be acquired. If Gravel- ly Point should be selected it would consist largely of reclaimed grounds | made by dredging from the river and filling in what is now a water area. It has been indicated. however, that if this site should be selected, some land might have to be acquired, and the commission is secking from the Department of Jus- tice exact information regarding the Virginia boundary line. In his conference with the Budget | Bureau official, Senator Bingham, it is understood. emphasized that time is the essential factor in the airport. situ- | ation, and was the reason which prompted the commission to ask Con- gress to make immediately available from the Federal Treasury $500.000 as an initial appropriation for the pur- chase of lands. The commission felt it this could be done at the preseni session a year would be saved in begin- ning an airport. For Immediate Fund. Senator Bingham fold the assistant to the budget director the airport com- mission will have no objection to plac- ing all future appropriations for the airport. in the regular District appro- priation bill if this first installment is appropriated at this time from the Treasury. It is expected that after the bucget officials have considered the situation as outlined by Senator Bingham, the bureau will advise the President as 1o whatever conclusion it reaches. PLANES WILL SALUTE FECHET AND MOFFETT Army and Navy Air Chiefs to Be Paid Tribute on Reeeiving College Honers June 19, Br the Associated Press. Maj. Gen. James E. Fechet. chief of the Army Air Corps. and Rear Ad- miral William A. Moffett, head of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics. will re- | ceive an aviation salutation—the drone of airplanes flying overhead—as hon- orary degrees are conferred on them June 19 by the Pennsylvania Military College. The degree of doctor of aeronautical crnment air chiefs. While the cere- taking place 15 Army airplanes v over the chllege. which is sit- uated at Chester, Pa. The airplanes will be sent from Bolling Field here Mitchel Field. New York. and Langley Pield, Virginia GRACE ABBOTT. Brown-eyed, sturdy of stature, she wears frocks which are frankly fash- foned for comfort. Her address is kind- ly but businesslike. The reformatory investigation, she says, will be conducted chiefly by her as- stants and they will be ‘directed to “lean backward in forming con- clusions | f | MUNICIPAL CENTER ESTIMATE 1S READY FOR HOUSE ACTON Chairman Wood Will Prob- | ably Call for Action on Ap- propriation Tomorrow. |BUDGET TRANSMITTED BY PRESIDENT HOOVER | |Commission May Acquire Proper- | ties by Purchase, Condemna- tion or Otherwise. Chairman Wood of the House appro- priations committee, will probably call up for action in the House tomorrow the supplemental estimate of appropri- ation for $3,000,000 for beginning the cstablishment of a municipal center in the District. The budget estimate trans- | mitted by President Hoover was received | today. This brings to the actual stage of passage one of the most important municipal developments in many vears which has been accomplished through | the persistent and determined efforts of Chairman Simmons of the subcommit- tee on District appropriations. Estimate Set at $3,000,000. The estimate of $3.000.00 according o a letter from R. O. Kloeber, acting | director of the Bureau of the Budget. |1s for beginning the acquisition of | squares numbered 490, 491 and 533, and | reservation 10 in the District, including | buildings and other structures thereon, jas a site for the municipal center in | | accordance with the provisions of an {act of Congress approved February 2 {1920, The budget estimate asks thi | this amount be immediately available 'and remain available until expended. | Of the $3.000,000. $10,000 is to be avail- }able for the empioyment by contract or {otherwise of architectural and other | professional services as shall be ap- | ‘hat remains of the amphibian plane which crashed vesterday affernoon in the Potomac near the naval air station. | proved by the District Commissioners Tts tail lifted up by the waves in the wake of a steamer, the plane, caught as it was about to rise from the water, nosed | and without reference to the classifica- down and turned over. Below: The speed boat crew who Potomac Speedboat Corporation; W. B. Cunningham. S. S. Houlton, T. E. Jones, John Moore and R. W. Barr: NAVY PLANE WREG PROBE IS LAUNCHED | Four Narrowly Escape Death as Boat Wake “Trips” Craft. While Navy mechanics foday began "‘\l‘ work of salvaging motors and in- | struments from the wreckage of a twin- | motored Sikorsky amphibian plane which sank late yesterday off the Ana- costia Naval Air Station, a routine board of inquiry was convened to investigate the cause of the accident, in which Lieut. Stephen W. Callaway and three enlisted men narrowly escaped injury or drowning The plane was “tripped up off when it struck the wake of a river steamboat. The hig ship was just leaving the water when the first of the unexpected waves struck the stern of the fving boat's hull and | threw it into the air. The nose dropped |into the next wave and the plane, which is the largest type of amphibian in the | United States, catapulted over on its | back That the | in taking waves in the four men. seated in ihe closed eabin within the twisted hull | were not injured by the forck of the | crash or trapped in tha wreckage and drowned is regarded as one of the most jremarkable features of the accident | They all freed themselves from the cabin and climbed up on the wings or jhull. Two minutes after the accident |they were rescued by the crew of a | speedboat of the Potomac Speedboat Corporation operating from Hains | Point. The convening of a board of inquiry is regarded as merely perfunctory, in | compliance with Navy regulations. Offi- | cers at the naval air station attach no blame to Lieut. Callaway. who is head of the flight fest section and one of | the Navy's most experienced pilots | The three men in the plane with Lieut. Callaway were: Charles Kidder. aviation chief machinist’s mate: Clar- l‘l‘nrr F. Travis, aviation machinist's mate. third class, and Joseph A ! Degagne. aviation machinist’s mate, lvhxrd class. Kidder is crew chief in | charge of the altitude plane in which Lieut. Apollo Soucek established a new world record last month and in which he sought a new world seaplane alti- | tude record early this week. The Sikorsky went down in 16 feet [of water near the lower end of the naval air station. It was hauled to the surface last night by a Navy tug from the Washington Navy Yard and was I"set down on the concrete “heach” in front of the air station hangars The accident was witnessed by Monte de la Vega, general manager of the Po- tomac Speedboat Corporation, who or- dered S. S. Houlton, pilot of one of the speedboats, to the rescue of the flyers. Members of the rescue party, in addi- tion to Vega and Houlton, were W. B. Cunningham. T. E. Jones, John Moore and R. W. Barry. . Lieut. Callaway, who is 34 vears old beean his aviation career as a meme boy nearly 20 years ago, when he built and | flew his own plane, of the pusher type. | He enlisted in the Navy the day after | the United States entered the World | War, serving on the U. S. S. Hunting- [ ton at the naval air station, Rockaway, { Long Island, and as an_instructor at | the Minneapolis Naval Flying School He went on inactive status in 1919 and engaged in commercial flving until June, 1920, when he returned the service. to John F. Ward, William and MArY atory hoys need something they are not Student. Ts Victor in Contest. An annual prize poem-writing con- test. established this year at the College Smith, Washington attorney. has been won by John F. Ward, a student at the Willlamsburg institution. who will be awarded the first annual prize of $20 in gold. Mr. Key-Smith, an alumnus of Wil- liam and Mary, having been graduated as a class mate of Dr. Julian A. C. Chandler, present president of the col- lege, founded the annual contest as a memorial to Francis Scott Key, author of “The Star Spangled Banner.” The poems ecligible for competition, he specified. were to be nationally patri- otic, “containing. in addition to patri- otism, a Christian element.” the seventy-fifth anniversarv of the ounding .of .the .Republican . party. This_year's winning poem i5 “Pree- dom’s Land.” % »f Willlam and Mary by Francis 8. Key- | {getting. she wants at least fto learn and demonstrate—precisely what it is free from any fog of sentimentality. Approach Is Scientific. | _Her approach to her job. she ex- | plains, s “'sclentific rather than senti- | mental.” She loves children and has | always enjoyed working with and for them, but she definitely denies that a maternal instinct, or a consciousness of & mission to perform for children, led her into her work. “Much of what is termed ‘maternal instinct she observes, ‘“results in harm to the child.” This is demonstrated, she holds, by the “excessive solicitude” arising from too much emotional consciousness of |in Chicago’s Hull House in association | session ye mother instinct, which makes the child | dependent. That. in her opinion. is| quite different from intelligent care Aand affection for children. | ps to Be Studied. “We shall study the organization set- upe also.” she explains, “so that we may find out where the weak points are —if they exist—and compare results from different administration arrange- ments.” Opportunity to apply her theories in her own home has come to Miss Ab- bott through the death, some years ago, of a sister. A 5-year-old daughter was left, and she has lived with Miss Ab- bott since. ‘The stepping stones to her present position have been university and grad- uate training in law, teaching school, directing work for immigrant children and writing a book about them, serving with Jane Addams, and serving as ex- ecutive secretary of two State immigra- tion commissions . She is a native of Grand Island, Nebr. | WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF LAW GETS LICENS Right to Confer Degrees Granted by Board | Executive Session. E Education in The Washington College of Law was granted a license late yesterday by the Board of Education to confer degrees of bachelor of laws, master of laws, master of tax iaw, doctor of laws (honorary). The license was issued by the board in executive session following its regular er in accordance with the recently enacted diploma mill law anthorizing the sghool board to license | Four men were rescued by the crew of a speed he rescued the occupants. Left to right: Highwayman Offers Victim Pawn Tickel For Loot He Takes 100 Watch and Cash Are Taken From 553-Year- Old G. P. O. Employe. A robber ie- tim into keep pawn aluable watch he A stealing and send the pawn ticket to the owner last night held up at the point of a gun George Lamb, 55 years old. of 13827 Monroe street, while he was walking in an alley near Eight- centh and Mount streets, Lamb. an employe of the Govern- ment Printing Office. reported the rob- bery to tenth precinct police last night. He said that the man who robbed him hite and unmasked. He thinks he could idenify h im. A lookout has been broadcast to all police precincts on the strength of the description he furnished According to the story told by the victim, the robber approached him in the alley, whipped out a_gun and des manded his money. Lamb handed 20 he had in his pockets to the hold-up man, who then pulled the watch from Lamb's clothes. The time- piece is said to be worth about $100, CONDUCTCR AND 10 OTHERS ARE HURT Eugene Forsythe Sent to Hospital When Crushed as Auto Hits Car. who tried to bribe hi flent by promising to the Pleasant was A was hurt crazhed sther persons accidents last afternoon. The conductor, Eugene R. Forsythe, 37 years old. was riding on the side step of an open car belonging to the Washington Railway & Electric Co., at New Jersev avenue and C_street The automobile. operated by Clarence Silver. 1534 E strcet southeast, was proceeding west on C street when the accident occured. Forsythe was crushed against the body of the car and many of the passengers were badly shaken The iniured man was removed to Casualty Hospital in a passing auto- mobile and there his chest was found to be crushed. He also sustained in- juries to his an! No one was arrested in the case. While cranking his automobile. which he had left in gear, shortly before last midnight, Charles L. Cummings, 27 years old, of 1824 A street southeast, was slightly hurt as the machine started forward and knocked him down. The accident occured in front of 4351 Tennessee avenue northeast. A passing motorist took Cummings to Casualty Hospital, where he was treated for bruises. | Others injured include Mrs. Luella M. Sayward, 24 years old. of Brookline, ;!\15.\(. bruises and possibly fractures of ribs: ‘Miss Katherine Kamp, 35 years old. of 1432 M street. brush burns to body and legs: James B. Smith. 48 vears old, of 1620 R street, brush burns Ito body and legs: Robert Houston colored. 40 vears old, of 85 Fenton | street ‘northeast. compound fractures |of both legs and right arm: Franci: | Thomas, colored. 27 years old, of 1017 | Second street northeast, sprained wrist; | Mammie Hill, colored, 24 years old, of | 11017 Second street northeast, shock; | Wade Shields, colored, 30 years old, 1727 New Jersey avenue, bruises to right leg; George Settler, colored, 24 years old, of 646 Acker street northeast, cuts on left hand: Amelia Tayne, | olored. 28 vears old. of 56 Myrtle | street northeast. bruises, and Horace | Gastings, colored. 43 y old. of 1826 street car conductor seriously last evening when an automobile into the side of a car. Ten were injured in traffic night and yesterday tion act of 1923. The Budget Bureau explains that the act of Congress, approved February 28, authorizes the Commissioners to acquire these properties by purchase, condemna- tion, or otherwise as a site for the new | municipal center. The Budget Bureau letter says that “such sums as may be | necessary to carry out the provisions of Montedela Vega. general manager of the | S Photos. —Star | this act ‘including not to exceed $10.000 ! 1o be appropriated and payable in like manner as other appropriations for the — District of Columbia.” As a matter of | fact the entire amount is to come from { for_professional services are authorized expenses of the Government of the the accumulated surplus in the Treasury Commission Refers Fire- house Issue for Further Study. The Zoning Comm! from money paid in District taxes. ail of which is over and above the $9,000.- | 000 annual lump sum contribution from | the Federal Treasury for the support of | the ‘National Capital. Fund to Tegin Acquisition. | _Acting Director Kloeber explains in his letter that the purpose of the $3,000,000 estimate is to provide an ap- i | on yesterday propriation to enable the Comissioners postponed action on its propesed amend- | Lo _begin acquisition of the municipal ment to the zoning regulations allow= ing fire engine houses. police stations, and certain other municipal institu- tions to be placed in residential zone: The matter was turned over to As- sistant Engineer Commissioner Donald ! A. Davison for restudy. | It is understood that while the in-! clusion of fire engine houses and police ! { center site and the preparation of plans I for its development. This estimate of appropriation is required to carry into effect legislation enacted since the transmission of the budget for the fiscal vear beginning July 1 next and its ap- proval by Congress is recommended by the Budget Bureau and the President. stations in the home zones is as good as | defeated, certain of the other institu-| tions, such as pumping stations, public | recreation centers, playgrounds and swimming pools. may be allowed in resi- dential zones if hedged about by certain | restrictions not advertised in the notice | of the hearing on the amendment. Rep- | resentatives of organizations opposed the amendment at the public hearing yesterday mentioned several of these, such as provision for the consent of ad- | joining property owners, and restrictions | 1 to the fraction of the lots which could | oe used for these purposes. leaving bar- | riers between the edge of the play- ground (forinstance) and the nearest dwelling to meet the objections of prop- erty owners, Meet MOVES FOR TRAFFIC " SAFETY ARE PRAISED Friendship Citizens’ Association Elects Rankin H. Rice as . New President. An cxpression of hearty indorse- ment was given the work undertaken by the District Commissioners and the Traffic Bureau in making the sureets of er for motorists and pedes- installation of traffic_lights and other safety devices. by the Priend- Q i h 0 | ship Citizens' Association in a meetin sterday. refused four and postponed | held last night at 8 o'clock in the Jans action on two until another executive. nev' School. Wisconsin avenue and Al meeting to he held same time DeXt|hemarle street. when it unanimously week. The next public hearing before ! pacsed a° series of s the commission will be held in the | these lines. T boardroom of the District Building at| The association voted to oppose the 10_a.m. September 18 | extension” of Forty-second street from The changes granted were: | Albemarle street to River road, which Fram residential 90 foot C area to| was. projected to cut through a part of first commercial 90-foot C area 302 the Eldbrook Methodist Episcopal Ceme- | Nineteenth street tery. Fron. residential 60-foot C area Rankin H. Rice. 5113 Forty-second first commercial 60-foot C area 3647- street, was elected president of the in September. The commission granted three of the requests for changes of zoning heard to, to 3631 New Hampshire avenue | soclation for the ensuing year to suc- From residential 40-foot C area to|ceed Roy C. Bowker, 4415 Thirty-ninth residential 60-foot C area the northwest | street. A. G. Seiler. 109 Wooten ave- corner of Garfield street and Wiscon- | nue, and Miss B. L. Bulizzi, principal of SRRBINE annec_;' School, were re-clected first and second vice presidents, respectively. N. Changes Denied. | B. Keeler. 4411 Thirty-ninth street. was The following changes were denied: |named treasurer, and Harry Friedman, From residentiat 90-foot C area to 4613 Forty-third place. secretary. first commercial 90-foot C area 1708| Following completion of business the Rudeat | assoclation adjourned until October 1. From residential 60 and 90 é:o; [2 - 7 i area to first commercial 60 and 90 foot C area lots on the morth side of P BLEASE TELLS OF SEEING strect. between Third and Fourth streets, and 225 feet from P street on YOUTHS DRINK IN CAFE Fourth street o . From residential 60-foot C area 3 ST first commercial 60-foot C area 15 and Deseribes Incident to Senate a< Ar- the 17 Rhode land avenue. From residential 40-foot A restricterd area to residential 40-foot C area the nortieast corner of Reno road and Ei- licott street Action on the following changes was postponed: From first commercial 90-foot C area to Arst commercial 40-foot C area the squarc bounded by B, C, Nineteenth and Twentieth streets. | From residential 40-foot A area to | first commercial 40-foot. C area Lhe southeast corner of Minnesota avenue and E street southeast. MORE FARM ;!ESEARCH gument Against Amending Constitution. Br the Associated Pres. Speaking on what he described as the évil of amending the Constitulion, | Senator Blease, Lemocrat, of South | Carolina, told the Senate vesterday he had recently seen two boys and two girls drinking liquor in a restaurant. | _ One of the boys, Blease said, drew a flask from his hip pocket and passed it to the waiter, who soon returned with four cocktails. The performance was | repeated, he said. and after the four, | Who came from “respectable families finished dinner, they staggered from | the restaurant.” FUNDS RECOMMENDED Group of National Organizations Hold Informal Meeting With Secretary Hyde. By the Associated Press Increased appropriations for farm re- search activities by the United States Department of Agriculture have been recommended by a group of national farm organizations at an informal meet- ing with Secretary Hyde and Assistant Secretary Dunlap. Dr. A. F. Woods, director of scien- tific work of the department. declared that an additional appropriation of $10.000.000 a year was needed. Each of ceveral American industries, he said, annually invest more money for scien- all college degree-granting tut; Eighthesireet, cuts on face {rom fiying ! tific investigatjons than is expended by esel 1 leflufil}' all agenclss for agmeulturak research, I never zaw that\before the Consti- | tution wasx amended,” he declared. GET RIDE IN PLANE. On the invitation of Col. F. Trubee ;‘Davuon. Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, 31 members of the clerical force of the Secretary's office made short flights from Bolling Field yester- day afternoon in the Fokker plane in which Mr. Davison made his recent in- s?ecnon trip to the Pacific Coast. The Plane accommodates eight passengers and four trips were necessary for the guests. Lieut. L. J. Maitiand, Air Corps, hero of several record flights, was the pilot. Though the invitation to take the flights was open to all clerks. regardless of sex. it was accepied b; only one man—Mr. Lebman, chjel of the mall divisiop. 3 |