Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1929, Page 4

GROUP APPOINTED 10 STUDY TRAFFIC Secretary Lamont Names Committee of 39 to Take Up Problem. By the Associated Press. The Federal GCAvernment today moved to solve the trs fic congestion problem. A committee of 39 prominent busi- ness men and traffic experts was ap- pointed by Secretary Lamont, with E. J. Mehren of Chicago as chairman, to study the question. It will hold its first meeting October 10. The group was agpointed as a part of the program of the national confer- ence on street and highway safety, of which Secretary Lamont is chairman. Committees already have been ap- pointed on maintenance of motor vehi- cles and protection of railway grade gussings and major highway intersec- ons. “Traffic congestion and inadequate facilities for street and highway traffic,” . the Secretary said, “constitute one of the foremost problems before us today.” Members of the committee, in addi- tion to the chairman, are Norman Damon, Fred W. Baer, W. H. Harland, Thomas MacDonald and Charles H. ‘Tompkins of Washington; Owen Augspurger, Harold S. Duttenheim, G. W. Daniels, Lewis A. De Blois, Lee J. East man, D. C. Fenner, V. Everett Macy, William M. Nevin, J. W. Roberts and Col. William J. Wilgus of New York: Harland Bartholomew and Reyburn Hoffman of St. Louis; L. Belle Isle, Atlanta; R. H. Boykin, Jersey City; R. Keith Compton, Richmond; F. H. Devere, Aubu: R. 1; H. B, New Orleans; Tiraith, Earl J. . Galvin, E. J. Mc- Reeder and Henry B, | the Graf Zeppelin. Miller McCormick, Cambridge, Mass.; . Gordon McKay and_Frederick L. Swetland, Cleveland; H. B. Potter, Bal- timore, and G. H. Pride, Brooklyn. LEADER IN BOAT RACE DROPS OUT OF FIELD Hom Bru, Far Ahead in River Contest, Withdraws at Grand Lake, Ark. By the Associsted Press. NEW ORLEANS, September 20.—The Hom Bru, last reported far in the lead in the speedboat race from New Orleans to St. Louls, withdrew on arriving at Grand Lake, Ark, at 3 am. today, a long-distance telephone message from the fueling crew above Lake Providence, La., stated. The reason was not given. | The withdrawal of the Hom Bru left only the two New Orleans boats, the Cherie and the Bernadette, in the con- test. Last reports gave the lead to the Cherie in the 106-mile lap from Lake Providence, La., to Arkansas City, Ark. Vivias withdrew last night at ount of high wind he vyl river, its pilot, d. Graf Listed as Sea s_hip. NEW YORK, September 20 (P).—A ship of the air is recognized in a compendium of ships of the sea. The! New York maritime register now llstsl CHURCH NOTICE. Novena in honor of the LITTLE FLOWER ST. DOMINIC’S CHURCH 6th and F Sts. S.W. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. CHANIPION ORATORS RETURNING HOME Contest Party Has Visited Principal Central and South American Countries. The National Oratorical Contest party is due to arrive in New York Wadnes- They sailed September’ 12 from Rio de Janeiro on the S. S. American Legion. ‘The party upon reaching this country will have completed a three-month tour, covering 12,000 miles, during the course of which they visited the principal countries of Central and South Ameri ‘The members of the grou) Ben W. Swofford, Kansas Lee Miller, Maywood, IIl.; Fleteher, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Miss Kath- erine Marshall, Quanah, Thibault, Portland, Oreg.; Dr. and Mrs. Glen Levin Portland, chaperons. ‘The party was also accompanied by the Mexican winner, Roberto Gris. . Hungarian Star to Sing in Chicago. BUDAPEST, Hungary, September 20 (#)~Emma_Kosary, one of the most prominent operetta singers of Hungary, as signed a contract to appear in Chi- cago. She will leave for the United States on October 17. New bathing suits at the Lido have “bare-backs,” waists and paj g, FARNUM WILL ADDRESS BAR MEETING TONIGHT Assistant Attorney General, Back From Europe, Scheduled for Talk to Federal Association. George R. Farnum, the Assistant At- torney General, who recently returned from a trip to England, will address the monthly meeting of the Federal Ba: Assoclation to_be held in the audito- rium of the Interlor Department to- night at 8 o'clock. The subjects of his address will be his observations of the English judicial system and the oper- | ation and functioning of the English tribunals of justice. Judge Fenton Booth, chief justice of the Court of Claims, who is chairman of the judiclary committee of the asso- ciation, will address the meeting cn the proposed changes in the Pederal judiciary. The cl n of the legis- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 19%9. lative committee of the association, C. 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