Evening Star Newspaper, November 12, 1929, Page 17

- ROVER WILL CALL - UPON MARAGONS IN .~ SCRIVENER PROBE Detective’s Formar Sweet- heart Will Be Subpoenaed to Appear Before Jury. DENIES HE HAS ASKED SENATORS BEFORE BODY Blease Declares He Will Not “Pay | Any Attention” to Such an Invitation, Mrs. Helen Maragon, former sweet- | heart of Detective Sergtr Arthur | Scrivener, and her husband, John | Maragon, were summoned today Dby | United States Attorney Leo A. Rover | to appear before the grand jury when it resumes at the end of the McPher- son investigation its inquiry into the tragic death of the detective in Septem- ber, 1926. The Maragons are residing in Chicago, and the subjoenaes will be sent to the United States marshal there for service on the witnesses. Rover said he will continue the in- wvestigation begun yesterday, when John L. Gibson was taken before the grand Jury after he had made a speech before | the Washington Open Forum charging | that a lieutenant of police either killed Scrivener or knew who did it. Denies Calling Senators. Rover denied he has summoned Sen- ator Cole Blease of South Carolina or Senator Thomas Heflin of Alabama as ‘witnesses, but_declared he is willing to have any one knowing any facts appear at the inquiry. The Senators are re- ported to hdve made statements con- cerning the supposed slayer of the de- prosecutor also stated that he 1s not to be swayed by any police theory of suicide, but wants facts, which he will present to the grand jury, from any available source. » Mrs. Maragon, to whom Scrivener was sald to have been engaged, formerly ’lived at McLean, Va., and her husband was a member of the Metropolitan Po- Hce force. Asked today if he would accept an invitation to go before the grand jury, Senator Blease, Democrat, of | South Carolina, replied that he would not “pay any attention” to such an invitation. Rovér “Not My Boss.” Senator Blease added that District Attorney Rover “is not my boss; the people of South Carolina are my bosses.” Senator Heflin, Democrat, of Alabama, sald that he had no personal knowledge to Scrivener case, but would not object to giving what infor- WALTER W. LIGGETT, | Writer of a magazine article on “Wet Washington,” photographed as he ap- peared at the District Supreme Court yesterday in response to an invitation | from United States Attorney Rover to, tell the grand jury about the conditions described in his story. ~—Wide World Photo. SCHOOL OFFICIALS T0 STUDY PENALTY Board Meets Friday to Dis- cuss Proposal to With- hold Diplomas. ‘The Board of Education will sit as & committee of the whole in public ses- sion at 3:30 o'clock Friday afternoon to consider proposals to withhold diplomas from pupils guilty of certain specified of- fenses and to eliminate the anti-fra- ternity pledge card system now in force in the high schools. The conference will be the first meet- ing of school board members since the board ruled at its last regular-session that practically all committee meet- ings would be open to the public. Prior to the November 6 meeting it was the policy of the Board of Education ic hold all its committee conferenecs be- hind closed doors. ~ Admif at its last meeting, how- mation he had to the grand jury, but that he could tell the district attorney’s office over the telephone where to call to get the information. Senator Heflin said the case was brought to his atten- tion in & letter he received some time ago. Senators Blease and Heflin dis- cussed the death of Detective Scrivener in speeches in the Senate several weeks SIX ARE INJURED IN TRAFFIC CRASHES llln‘vu'lt Cut About Face When Car Overturns in Collision. Three Are Run Down. Six persons were injured slightly yes- terday afternoon and last night in a series of traffic accidents in the Dis- trict. His automobile overturning after col- 1 with another machine at North Capitol and 8 streets, Hillard P. Wil- kins, of 1806 Sixth street, was treated at Casualty Hospital last night for Jacerations of the face and bruises. Stanley Ginnis, of 5422 Ninth street, the driver of the other car escaped un- injured. Others hurt in traffic accidents were: Harry Carlton, 5 years old, of Boulevard, Md., injured while riding in a machine, which was in collision with another on Bladensburg road at Mount Olivet Cemetery; James H. Jackson, 62, col- ored, run down while attempting to cross the street at Thirteenth and S streets; Moses Wilson, 23, colored, of 1700 Fourth street, injured when the car he was driving, collided with an- other at Fourth street and New York avenue; Theodere Welde, 32, of 4024 Ganet place northeast, run down at VQmony avenue and H street, and 6- ear old Dorothy Jones colored, of 1736 irteenth street, run down at Thir- teenth and S streets by an automobile driven by Helen F. Forney of Hyatts- ville, Md. DARR TO MAKE ADDRESS AT OPTIMIST LUNCHEON Commerce Chamber President to Speak to Club on “Civic Affairs” at Meeting Tomorrow. Charles W. Darr, president of the ‘Washington Chamber of Commerce, will be the principal speaker at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Washington it Club tomorrow afternoon at the Hamilton Hotel. Mr, Darr will draw on his activity in the affairs of the Capital, busine: and civie, for a talk on “Civic Affal it is announced by Herbert B. Nevius, president of the club. Another speaker at tomorrow’s meet- ing will be Judge Willlam M. De Lacey, who will present the annual Red Cross roll call appeal to the Optimists. Ar- ra ents made today for the joint dinner dance to be held by the Wash- 4ngton Optimists with the Baltimore Optimist Club, on November 22 at the Manor Club, will be reported on by ‘William St. John, chairman of the com- ,nittee In charge of plans for the party, POLICEMAN DISMISSED. District Heads Affirm Order Oust- ing J. E. Cross. ever, that this practice often led to mis- understand; of its motives by the District, the board de- cided unanimously that henceforth all committee meetings except those in ‘which itions of individuals or arga) ‘would be at stake, ‘would be public. Dr. Charles . Carusi, dent, and Henry L. Gilligan, chal of the board’s committee on legislation, were the chief advocates of the public committee meeting policy. Purpose of Amendment. popular eoncerllon of the pro- posal to withhold ang lomas from pupils g;‘u‘ly of offenses which now are pun- ble by suspension, as the “dirty neck” rule was largely responsible for the new policy. ‘The proposal, which is an amendment o existing school board rules, sets forth that, because a diploma attests to the “honorable completion” of a course of study, those certificates will be with- held from pupils guilty of any one of the following offenses: “Immoral con- duct, indecent language, pointed opposition to authority, sistent disobedience or disorder, dis- honesty or untruthfulness, unauthorized absence or uncleanly condition of per- son or clothing.” Motives to Be Established. Since newspaper reporters were not permitted to listen to the executive dis- cussions on the proposal, no reports of the reasons for what apparently seemed 1o the public at large as an uncalled-for action were forthcoming. Hence, citi- zens’ associations began adopting reso- lutions in opposition to what they referred to as the “dirty neck” rule. In Friday's 1yul'mv: committee meeting, the board will consider the proposai in all its aspects, taking precaution to establish their motives for desiring such an amendment. In the same meeting, the proposal of Mr. Giliigan to do away with the pres- ent system of requiring high school stu- dents to sign pledge cards to the effect that they are not members of an un- approved organization or fraternity, will be taken up. Mr. Gilligan has opposed that system as one which offers temptation to all students to lie, ——— Noted Archeologist Dies. SANTA FE, N. Mex., November 12 P)—Wesley Bradfield, 53, eminent ar- cheologist, died at his home here Sun- day night of pneumonia. Bradfield was on the staff of the School of American Research. In 1926 and 1927 he was as- sociate director of the San Diego, Calif., Museum. He was a native of Michigan and is survived by two brothers,” Rev. E. H. Bradfield, Lawrence, Mich,, and Clark Bradfield of Los Angeles. The Foening Sfar WASHINGTON, BOARD OF TRADE T0PLEAD 131K ST. Representatives to Protest| Change of Triangle Plan Before Planning Body. OBJECT TO TERMINATING MAIN ARTERY AT AVENUE Contend Change Would Provide No Entry or Exit for Govern- ment Employes. . ‘The Washington Board of Trade | will appear before the National Capital Park and Planning Commission.at 10 o'clock Saturday morning to present their case as to why the present plan for the Government development -of the Triangle should be changed so as to permit the continuation of Thirteenth street below Pennsylvania avenue and otherwise provide adeguate facilities for parking and the handling of traffic in that areaa. George V. Graham, chairman of the board's special committee inquiring into the subject, and Robert J. Cottrell, Board of Trade executive secretary, conferred late yesterday afternoon with officials of the planning body, who evinced keen interest in the subject and & readiness to listen to the board's con- tentions in the matter. Appeal to Official Body. In going before the National Capital | Park and Planning Commission the representatives of the Board of Trade will appeal to the body which has been officially designated to make recom- mendations concerning the traffic situa- tion in the triangle development, and whose opinion will probably have most weight in obtaining a change in the ex- istant buflding plan. ‘The trade body todk steps today toward securing an estimate of the traffic on Pennsylvania avenue between ‘Tenth and Fourteenth streets. If this data cannot be gotten from some city agency, the board will itself make the count and embody the figures in the brief they will submit to the commis- sion Saturday. The figures sought by the Board of Trade would compare the amount of both north and south and east and west traffic at the intersections of Pennsylvania avenue with Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. Yesterday Mr. Graham and Mr. Cott- rell conf ‘red with Senator Henry W. Keyes of New Hampshire, chairman of the Senate public buildings committee; Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of the D. . OVEMBER 12, 1929 y SIDESTEPPING LAID Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, and Horace W. Peaslee, chair- man of the National Institute of Archi- tects’ ittee on the development of the National Capital. All three men expressed themselves as extremely in- terested *in the situation and asked to be kept apprised of developments. Congestion Would Result. The board’s fight against the cutting off of Thirteenth street at Pennsyl- vania avenue began at a recent meet- ing of the board of directors, when Mr. Graham' told of the congestion which it is alleged would result. Then it was thought that the street would be block- ed merely by a colonnade between two buildings, but since it has been found that a Rolid line of buildings would h to Fourteenth stretch from Twelft] street, it is said. The contention of the Board of Trade is that 25,000 Government employes would be thrown into & small area by the triangle development and that no adequate provision has been made for their entry and exit from this area.) It is pointed out that Thirteenth street would be closed, Twelfth street would be narrow, Eleventh street is now cut off at C street and Eighth street will be blocked at Pennsylvania avenue. One of the points in the board's ar- gument concerning Thirteenth street is that a large sum of money has recently been expended in widening it and mak- ing it one of the city's main arteries of traffic, and that to block it at Penn- sylvania avenue would make this ex- penditure nothing but a waste, They also call attention to the proposal to make of B street one of the principal carriers of cross-town traffic and say that Thirteenth street should connect with this highway. PHITATELIST‘EXHIBITS BIG STAMP COLLECTION Arthur Barger of Boston, well known philatelist, is exhibiting his large stamp collection at 8. Kann Sons Co. depart- ment store this week. Mr. Barger opened his exhibition today and will be at the store untfl the week is out, tell- ing Washington stamp collectors of the history and rarity of his collection. One of the features of the collection is a section which depicts the history of the World War. There is a view of Serajer _and the faces of Archduke Pranz Ferdinand, whose murder pre- cipitated the struggle; the Austrian Emperor and the King of Serbia and the monarchs of the other nations that fought in the war, trenches, ruined ca- thedrals, battlefields, airplanes, battle- ships and all the various stages of the conflict, ending with the “‘peace stamps.” Henry Whitney, Employe Henry Whitney was usually in a hurry. ‘Perhaps he felt an old man had to hustle to make good as an office boy. But whatever prompted him, the mes- senger’s old legs took him swiftly through the streets of Washington upon his errands, Even the midday sun of last Summer failed to slow him any. At first it didn’t, anyhow. Later he had & sun- stroke. That was ]‘s]: Ju}z..] Y|Pll£l‘ldly he died at Gallinger Hospital, largely as a re- sult of getting overhea! He was 89 years old. *The District Commissioners yesterday g an order of the Police Trial d dismissing Pvt. J. E. Cross of the nint n of the department. was arrested by Policeman J. ick early in the -3 ber 12 when engaged in & vacant lot at Aspen street and rond. A charge of intox- fice boy. Once he owned a wholesal ess in Evansville, Ind. Whg Ay was also lodged this charge was not h precinct from the force on/a |« of” conduet prejudicial 1o the inst. the of- dru mmt The last nine of his years Whitney occupied in the amplo{ of Oentral Union Mission. He styled himsel ‘Washington's oldest office boy,” he prided himself in setting a pace for the yo His was & But Whitney Ig_busing ‘World the ‘War came on, he “OLDEST OFFICE BOY” DIES DUE TO SUMMER SUNSTROKE 1 and brisk ungsters. famillar figure on the Of | streets as he bustled about on his duties It " for the Mission, was not always an o:; of Mission, Prided Himself on Brisk Pace. was comfortably fixed, but this invest- ments proved unsound. Without relatives, as far as is known, or any money to fall back on, he left Indiana on a long rambling jaunt in search of work. Few wished to employ the old man, and once when he ob- tained work as a bookkeeper his health broke down. ‘Thereafter he walked the streets of many cities, & victim of asthma, deaf- ness and advancing age. In 1920 he came to Washington and sought out the “gospel n” main- tained by the mission. Within a year Supt. John 8. Bennett had made Whit- ney recef and checking clerk and assistant eeper. But Whitney mult scorned these titles. He preferred to be known as “the 80-year-old office boy,” and his :l:mloyen said he made the profession m. ‘The mission will have cha of the 'l%!fl'll services Wednesday night at 8 o'clock in the mission chapel and burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery Thurs- 10 CITIZEN GROUP Stanton Park Body Acts Again on Law Enforce- ment Attack. After it had been charged that the committee on law and legislation of the Federation of Citizens’ Assacjation bhad “sidestepped” the question of law en- forcement in the District, the Stanton Park Citizens' Association unanimously voted last night at a meeting in the Peabody School to demand that the fed- eration act upon a resolution praising Presidant Hoover for his efforts to find a remedy for “inefficient law enforce- ment procedure” and calling upon the press “to support law observation and enforcement in news and editorial col- umns.” ‘The assoclation had received back a resolution upon this subject forwarded to the federation some months ago. It was explained that no action had been taken because the federation's commit- tee on law and legislation had reported it to be unnecessary in view of the fact that no action by the federation had azen asked by the Lincoln Park associa- n, Objection Is Made, 8. B. Frantz at once got to his feet and demanded to be heard. He declared that it has never been the practice of the federation to refuse action on any resolution referred to it by a member association merely because the asso- clation had not specifically asked for action, “The committee on law and legisla- tion of the federation apparently want- ed to sidestep this issue,” declared Mr. Frantz. Mr. Frantz then moved that the reso- lution be returned to the federation with & request for action upon it. This was unanimously agreed to. James G. Yaden, former president of the federation, addressed the asso- ciation in favor of an elective School Board, after which the group, with « few dissenting votes, reaffirmed fts action in favor of this proposal. Mr. Yaden said a board elected by the people of the District could go before the Budget Bureau and Congress witn more authority than the present board, whose. actions on several matters he severely criticized. Need for Playground. Miss M. Gertrude Young, principal of Peabody, Hilton and Carberry schools, spoke of the need of & play= ground for the children of the Hilton School, which, she said, was unfit for school purposes. She advocated the sale of the Hilton Building and ‘con- struction of a new school on the same square with the Peabody School, facing Stanton Park. A letter was received from the Dis- trict Commissioners promising that the old brick sidewalks around the Stuart Junior High School would soon be re- placed by cement walks. Entertainment was furnished by the Boys' Harmonica Club of the Stuart Junior High School, and Miss Ardelie Burrelle, dancer, accompanied by Galen Yates on the plano. They are from the same school. The entertainment was arranged by Mrs John W. Davis, chairman of the entertalnment com- mittee. ADDRESSES AD CLUB. V. A. Corcoran Guest of Members at Luncheon Today. V. A. Corcoran, business manager of the Voice on the Alr, publication of the Grigsby-Grunow Co. of Chicago, makers of radios, spoke at a luncheon meeting of the Washington Advertising Club today in the National Press Club. A recital is to be given by Mme. Sturkow-Ryder, concert pianist, who is TEA AND SOCIAL HOUR IN HONOR OF VISITORS | A tea and social hour under the auspices of the Washington Sisterhood and the Washington Council of Jewish Women in honor of visiting delegates of District, No. 8, National ration of Temple Sisterhoods, featured the close of the convention of the latter goun in the Hotel Washington last night. Late yesterday afternoon tl dele- Zates made a trip to Arlington Cemetery, where Mrs. Abram Simon, founder of the National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, placed a wreath on the ‘Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Prayer was delivered at the tomb by Mrs. SHCKETT BOARD MEETS AT NIGHT First Session to Inquire Into Police Afiairg Scheduled for Tomorrow. The Backett ‘subcommittee appointed by’ the Senate District committee to conduet an investigation of local po.ice affairs will meet at 7:30 o'clock tomor- row evening in the committee room in the Capitol to consider the several re- ports that hav@ been received since the last meeting on particular phases of the inquiry. ‘The decision to call a night session of the subcommittee was reached by Chairman Sackett after several unsuc- cessful efforts to arrange meetings during the day. With the Senate work- ing from 10 o’clock in the morning un- til 6 o'clock in the evening on the tariff bill, Senator Sackett was unable on sev- eral occasions to get a quorum of sub- committee members while the tariff bill was being debated. Senator Sackett said today the meet- ing tomorrow night has not been called for any particular phase of the inves- tigation, but to take up the entire sub- | ject. The subcommittee will have before it written reports called for several weeks ago on specific questions raised in the investigating resolution. One of these reports is from Supt. of Police Pratt and contains an explana- tion of the suspension of Policeman Robert J. Allen, following the separate investigation he made into the Mc- Pherson case. Another report is from the District attorney and deals with the question of whether ghere was delay in obtaining indictments growing out of the death of & Chinese last Summer, a third report is in answer to the ques- tion of haw many permits to carry con- cealed weapons had been issuedhere this year. PR SOLE IS RE-ELECTED HEAD OF AIR LEGION | President’s Annual Report Shows 55 New Members Enrolled During Year. Alva Sole was unanimously re- elected president of the District of Columbia Air Legion at the annual meeting of the legion last night at its rooms, 1319 F street. Other officers elected were: M. G. Dooley, vice grut- dent; Mary Craig, secretary; J. ‘Waggy, treasurer, and J. Elmer Kreis, C. K. Gladhill, H. S. Kempf, Robert D. Burbank snd C. R. Robr, directors, In his annual report Sole stated that durl:: the year 55 new members had Joined the legion, 20 members had made their first solo, flight, 104 completed the touring the country under contract with the Grigsby-Grunow Co. ground ‘school course and more than 1,000 hours were flown in legion planes. MASONS CONTINUE 25000 CANPAGN Funds Sought to Endow G. W. U. Foreign Service School Permanent[y. ‘The National. League of Masonic Clubs is continuing its campaign to raise a fund of $250,000 with which to endow permanently the School of For- eign Bervice of George Washington University, established last' year. Life memberships in the educational foundation will be taken by United States Marshal Edgar C. Snyder and Judge Gus A. Schuldt at Police Court at a brief ceremony tomorrow after- noon at 1:15 at the Police Court Building. Memberships in the foundation range from $1 to $1,000. A total of approx- 1 ly $60,000 already has beem ob- tained, it is announced here. The foundation fund is being raised na- tionally. ‘The fund is in the keeping of a Ma- sonic national board of trustees, includ- ing L. H. Troutman, Washington; Jol H. Cowles, southern grand commander, Scottish Rite Masons of the southern jurisdiction; Prederick H. Briggs, treas- urer of the fund, who is deputy grand commander, Knight Templars of Mas- sachusetts and Rhode Island; Robert I Clegg, Chicago Masonic historian; Wal- lace Kirby, Providence, R. I. Dewitt C. Croissant, George ton University; Capt. Chaney Bertholf; president of the National League of Masonic Clubs, and Arthur B. Eaton, Philadelphia, secretary to the trustees. ARMY. CHAPLAINS URGE REFORMS Standardization of Regions Min- istry Discussed at Annual Fall Session. Standardization of religious ministry in hospitals under the control of the Veterans’ Bureau, in order to adequate- ly provide:for the needs of these insti- tutions, is asked in a committee report made to the general committee on Army and Navy chaplains, which met yes- terday in regular Fall session. Dr. Charles S. Macfarland, lieutenant colonel Chaplains’ Reserve, representa- tive of the subcommittee appointed to investigate these conditions, reported visitations to 15 posts and camps, mai ly in the Sixth Corps Area. He r ommended a conference of representa- tive Regular and Reserve chaplains in order to standardize the religious work in the Citizens' Military Training Camps, which, he sald, had shown con- stant inprovement each year since their inception. He laid particular stress on the - need of more suitable places of worship, both in the Regular posts and in the Summer camps, and urged that a corps area chaplain be named in each of the nine corps areas. Recommendation ~that the general committee take up the question of the care of disabled veterans, regarding which increasing numbers of complaints have come to hand, was made by Dr, Macfarland. 36 Children Disappear. VIENNA, November 12 (#).—The arrest of a midwife named Rosle Novy yesterday disclosed the fact that 36 children admitted to her baby farm had disappeared. ‘The police think the woman either murdered them or sold them to childless couples. Investi- gation is difficult because in many cases registration certificates were missing. \ L 1d- | 1s acquitted by a trial : Prof. ‘Washing- | Upper left: Capt. R. E. Doyle (left) and Lieut. Michael Raedy, photographed when the captain_returned to duty this morning_after his acquittal by the Police Trial Board yesterday on a charge of insubordination. Upper right: Capt. Doyle with the floral pieces which reached his bffice this morning. Below: The 8 o'clock roll, call this morning at No. 8. —Star Staff Photos. CAPT. DOYLE BACK ON ACTIVE DUTY Informal Ceremony at No..B Precinct Marks Return After Acquittal. . (Continued From First Page.) ber of witnesses on the stand, it intro- duced only one, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, who preferred the charges against the officer for his outspoken defense of Policeman Robert J. Allen. And by some strange paradox the police superintendent proved to be the- star witness by praising Doyle's character and reputation as a citizen and policeman, and disavowing any personal affront from his frank letter | supporting Allen on which the charges were based. Find Verdict in 20 Minutes, Immediately after the conclusion of the trial the trial board, composed of Inspector Louis J. Stoll and Capts. Charles T. Peck and C. P. M. Lord, the same men who convicted Allen and sen- tenced him to be dismissed from the force, went into executive session to de- liberate over the findings. Twenty minutes later it reached the not-guilty verdict, but' guarded it with utmost ;eecgecy until Maj. Pratt had been noti- Maj. Pratt was in his office at the District Bullding, surrounded by a group of newspaper men, when-Inspector Stoll called to report the verdict, which he did verbally, with an announcement that it was reached on the first ballot. The Police superintendent almost immediate- ly summoned a clerk and ordered the official papers drawn up restoring Capt. Doyle to duty with full pay from the date of his suspension, The order restoring Capt. Doyle to duty must yet be approved by the Com- missioners, however, but that is now a mere formality. Such approval always follows as a matter of course when an officer who has been \&x;.de; suspension rd. Capt. Doyle had been home only few minutes when newspaper men in fon‘r,:ed him of the verdict. “Is it really 602" he asked impatiently. “T've always been a square shooter and always will guutyh:r::ydi;‘nnd % feel that I am i €. I am happy at the Advised Official of Findings. Later Lieut. Raedy made a personal call on the captain and officially ad- VBang :L:leo fthe trial board's findings. overjoye wléh ‘E‘go 2 Joyed their eyes filled ‘apt. Doyle took the stand in hi defense at the afternoon session '&‘m trial board, and, after denying any in- tent to be disrespectful to Maj. Pratt or the Police Department in the letter defending Allen, he sketched briefly his nearly 40 years of service on the police force and called particular attention to his enviable record of service, which only once in this period had been of- {I:ni;lly ‘.Plen;lhhed ‘That was back in » When he was fined trial board for eatin; b drinking & cup of eofl‘ee in a lunchroom in vielation of police rules. Capt. Doyle also related the sundry events leading up to the actual drafting of his letter to Maj. Pratt and pointed out that when he submitted it in per- son to the police superintendent he informed him then that he meant no disrespect in his candid comment on Allen’s activities. The officer, often against the advice of T. Morris Wam- pler and Chapman “W. Fowler, his counsel, gave the trial board a frank and full statement of the details in connection with the preparation of the report, revealing for the first time that it had been submitted to three lawyers, who advised him it was not disrespect- ‘P‘;’]'tkflmu he forwarded it to Maj. =7 . PAGE 17 WALKER OUTLINES PLANS FOR HEALTH SURVEY IN CAPITAL Community Chest Grants Social Agencies Council $12,000 for Project. HOSPITAL ADEQUACY WILL BE GONE INTO Main Objectives G;)ver Fact-Getting and Arousing Interest Where Action Is Needed. General plans for an extensive sure vey of hospital and health facilities here, with the needs of each, to be undertaken by the American Public Health Association for the Washington Council of Social Agencies, were out- lined by Dr. William F. Walker, field director of the association, at a lunch- eon meeting of the council in the Y. W. C. A. Building, Seventeenth and K streets, yesterday afternoon. ‘The survey, scheduled to begin De- cember 1, is expected to take about two and one-half months. At the re- quest of the Washington Council of Social Agencies, the Washington Com- munity Chest is granting it a special appropriation of $12,000 for conducting the survey. This sum comes from the contingent fund of the chest. Declaring in effect that *‘surveys of cities are the fashion of today,” Dr. Walker said that although such sur- veys may be “a passing fancy,” they irnish means for conducting hospital and health programs along scientific lines. 'Fhe survey, he said, will be made in a co-operative spirit with the member organizations of the Washing- ton Council of Sbcial Agencies, the various other welfare groups in the city and other citizens. Experts to Be Used. Dr. Walker said that five or six ex- perts will be employed at various times during the survey and that a hundred or a hundred and fifty volunteer work- ers will be required to assist in the work. For the purpose of the survey there will be set up an executive com- mittee of nine persons, which will serve as & directing for work to be car- T Aot the_ principel thinge 1o _be ong the pr studied, coming under four general heads, are: General health, health or Publl or private apetices, adequscy ‘of public or private agenc! acy of hospitals and internal administration of hospitals. Describing the general objects of such a health survey, Dr. Walker said it has three main objectives, namely: The ed- ucational phase, or that of gathering faets, arousing interest in the health fa- cilities and: programs, and to get action W] needed through the proper cre- ating of interest, Phases to Be Considered. 2 Among the various s _of health operations to be eon‘xl&nd‘ the sur~ vey proper will be such as follows: Work done by various’agencies, including de- tails ?l that done by public Indmpflvl't: or voluni groups; expenses in acuf and eonv'a:cent cases in hospitals, with a detailed study of various problems of administration of hospital affairs and how they are worked out. ‘Toward the close of his address Dr. ‘Walker declared: “You have a greater need for a. su in Washington than in any other city- .| You are in a way a people without a country.” He then asserted that such a survey as mmed 18 needed to accu- rately show health, hospital and other needs in the District. wl}'u ldz:i' ove b Dor’l’lul Prebl pres over by Dr. e, chairman of its health committee, after the meeting had been called to order ! by Willard C. Smith, president of the council. ‘The council voted to take steps to incorporate upon recommendation of the executive committee, which reached such a decision at a former meeting. The council also voted to elect to membership in the council the Hebrew Home for the Aged, the Jewish Welfare Federation and the United Hebrew Re- lief Association upon the recommenda- tion of” the executive committee, which nrmoufly had voted favorably upon the THEFTS FROM AUTOS REPORTED TO POLICE Various Articles Taken From Park- ed Cars in All Sections of City. Reports of thefts from automobiles continue to be made to the police. James J. Hart, Ayden, N. C., told police his car, parked on Eleventh street south of Pennsylvania avenue, was broken into last night and robbed of & starter and rug. Mrs. Elizabeth Kahn, 5709 Sixteentn street, told police of the taking of silk underwear, pair of kid gloves, an um- brella and pair of eyeg . The sev- eral articles were taken from her car in her garage Sunday. John D. Wi , Jr., 614 Sheridau street, reported taking of a feit hat and pair of shoes from his auto- mobile, parked on M between Pifteenth and Sixteenth streets, last night. Wallop valued the stolen property at $10. Richard M. Banta, 717 Tuckerman l:.ree:: .'zfi‘l Hl(lben Hall, u}l ?fn“"“ streef of property belonging tw them having been taken from an auto- mobile in a garage in rear of Cou- tinental Hotel. A cigarette case, valued at $25, property of Banta, and between ::2 and $30 belonging to Hall, were en. Worked Late on Letter. The officer said he stayed uj 61 late into the night to 'l‘"aythe lgn::‘ln obedience to Maj. Pratt’s command for comment and recommendations on Allen’s threat to investigate the United ing day submitted it to Fowler, who typed it for him after making several revisions in rhetoric. Later, he de- clared, he took it to Judge Theodore Risley, solicitor of the Department of Labor, and Judge Booth, former solici- tor of the Interior Department, both of whom declared it was in no way dlne:éxcum or insubordinate. He also denied he had confided its contents to Policeman Allen or newspaper men be- fore presenting it to Maj. Pratt. In approving Allen’s statement that he intended to investigate the United States attorney's office for failure to prosecute an investment broker indicted r ago, Capt. Do) e officer proposed hn;i . M?:k the onl cl uj court record of the mer. a proe‘:dur: ;mm he himself had frequently fol- The "defense put on. the stand only & States attorney’s office, and the follow- | == Barge L. Hartz, 6323 Meadow lane, Chevy Chase, Md,, asked police to make an effort to recover an overcoat from his car at Twenty-sixth and D st‘re:;: yesterday. He valued the coat a : dozen of the more than twenty charac- ter witnesses it had summoned and after Doyle left Fowler testified to the part in typing letter for the officer, and the final arguments were begun. The defense took a half an hour and the prosecution about 10 minutes. ‘Wampler, who summed up, the de- fense case, pleaded for acquittal on the mnd that the veteran police denied any intent to be disrespect. Thent, and the polite Superintendont ‘o ‘ment, an su, “on the witness stand had admitted he did not believe Doyle meant to be disre: L. Assistant Corporation Counsel Robert E. Lynch, trial board gr.o.aeuu, con~ I the Tetier constitutea tobeat. and that the letter was self