Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1929, Page 17

CAPITAL TRACTION MAY BE FORCED 0 WAGE LONE FIGHT Future Course of W. R. E. in/ Rate Increase Proceed- ings Up to Board. RIVAL COMPANY MADE PARTY BY COMMISSION Hanna Announces Action Has Been | Left Entirely to Legal Staff. The Capital Traction Co. may have to wage an independent fight in the courts for the higher fare denied by the Public Utilitles Commission, as there were strong ‘indications today that the Washington Raillway & Electric fnc, may not join in the legal proceed- 8. Officials of the Washington Railway & Electric Co., however, declined to comment on the latest move of the rival company, or to intimate whether similar action is contemplated. pointing out that the future course would be de- termined by the board of directors, who are to meet Wednesday afternoon in regular session. The directors un- doubtedly will consider the commission’s formal opinion denying the fare raise, it was said, although there are no posi- tive indications that any plans would be made to renew efforts for the in- crease. Made Party by Commission. The Washington Railway & Electric Co., it was pointed out, did not make application on its own initiative for a higher fare, but was made a party to the Capital Traction Co.'s petition by the commission. For this reason there is sald to be a feeling that the com- pany would be placed in the position of beipg inconsistent if it now joined its rival in carrying the battle into the courts. The form the Capital Traction Co.’s legal action for financial relief will take has not yet been definitely determined, according to John H. Hanna, presi- dent. T‘n.s question has been left en- tirely to the company’s legal stafl, head- ed by G. Thomas Dunlol;n Dunlop said he is studying carefully the 3,000-word opinion of the Commis- sion preparatory to deciding on the form of the appeal, but he would not hazard & prediction as to when it likely would tion by Miss Jean Stephenson. IMELLON, SMITH ARE BELIEVED DISTANT KIN Genealogist Traces BY THOMAS The fathers of Andrew W. Mellon same community in Ireland within appro: It is likely all were related, but the seems to be much closer than between introduction of Christianity. Such are the conclusions for which Miss Jean Stephenson, prominent Washington genealogist and member of the council of the National Genealogi- cal Soclety, has secured almost con- vineing evidence in the past few weeks, although a few missing -links remain to be connected before the proof is ab- solute. Long Has Studied Genealogy. Miss Stephenson long has made & close study of Irish genealogy, especial- ly with reference to the so-called Scotch-Irish families which have played such & prominent part in American his- tory. She gained her first clue to the present research from a line in the autoblography of Mr. Smith, which now is being -published in a national maga- zine, in which he said that his mother's grandfather was a -barrister and the proprietor of a considerable estate in the county of West Meath, and that his mother’s father was named Mulvahill and lived on this property. This Mul- be filed. It is expected, however, that it will be a week or longer before it is ready. £ Intimate Bill in Equity. appeal, it was intimated, may be in the form of a bill in equity, and un- doubtedly will be accompanied by a re- quest for a temporary order increasing fares pent final scttlement of the court it over the decision. 2 A similar situation arose several years ago when a temporary order was issued ; by the courts restraining the commis- sion from reducing rates of the Po- tomac Electrc Power Co. In this case, ! however, the court ordered the com- pany to impound the difference between the rates it collected and the rates| p by the ecommission pend-| ing settlement of the case. !t 1s problematical whether a tempo- rary fare increase order would con- tain an impounding proviso, since this question is discretionary with the court. Moreover, it would be an involved pro- cedure since the company would find it difficult to return the extra fare col- lected to its riders if the court’s deci- sion in the fare case should be adverse. Utility experts agree that the suc- csss of the company’s effort in the courts will hinge on the question of | valuation, which the commission held | in its order refusing a fare increase. | is not _current, and therefore does not | furnish a satisfactory basis for de- | termining & fair rate of return The | company, however, contends that its valuation is adequate to show that th> | resent rate of return is not fair and | herefore confiscatory is continued in | effect by force. The DEPUTY GAME AGENT HELD ON RUM CHARGE Rayner E. Dove of Forestville Ar- raigned Following Discovery of Alleged Liquor. From the 5:30 Edition of Yesterday's Star. BALTIMORE, Md, November 14 4slrecul;.—mynu E. Dove of Forest- ville, deputy game warden of Prince Georges County and member of a family long prominent in county politics, was arraigned before United States Com- missioner J. Frank Su Flee this after- noon on a charge of illegal possession of intoxicating liquor, after Federal prohibiiton agents claimed to have dis- covered 114 gallons of white whisky, 30 gallons of colored whiskey, a 16- ounce bottle of caramel coloring and 8 cases of 8-gallon jars in a shed on Dove's property last night. Dove was cited to appear before United States Commissioner Supplee 2nd when arraigned waived a hearing and was held in $1,000 bail for trial in United States District Court. . SNEAK THIEVES MAKE A SPECIALTY OF COATS| Residents in Various Parts of City Report Thefts to Po- lice. Cecllia Williams of 2461 M street southwest appealed o police of the fourth precinct to make an effort to recover a muskrat coat valued at $250 and a gold watch worth $10. She sald the coat and timepiece were stolen from her apartment yesterday. William F. Taylor, 200 Massachusetts avenue, reported to the police the loss of an overcoat val- ued ‘at_$35. The coat, he said, was stolen from his automobile parked in front of his home. Alvin Tate, Apartment 7, 1320 U street, told police an intruder gained entrance to his apartment with a dupli~ cate key yesterday. The apartment was ransacked and two coats and six hand- kerchiefs stolen. The stolen property was valued at $20.30. Oyster Supper Tonight. An oyster supper will be served for { small county which had few contacts .| the native Irish population. | with the others. Apartment 101, | Yahill came to New York in.1841, just ahead of the great immigration from Irelan d. Now, Miss Stephenson has ascer- tained, the Mellon flmll{ lived in West Meath on the estate of this barrister and married into that family. In order to establish a fairly close relal p. it will be necessary to link up the Mellon landlord with the great-grand father of Mr. Smith. She has not ascertained, however, whether the descent from the landowner was through Mr. Smith's grandfather or randmother. i I any event, rr Mellon's_father came to the United States in 1840, she says, and at that time spelled his name “Mullen.” He settled in Pittsburgh, with a preponderant Scotch and English population, who gave the name the pro- nunciation “Mellon,” so that it came to be spelled that way. This has been adopted by the family as the official spelling. In Ireland, she says, three spellings are cognized—Mullin, Mallon and Mellon. ‘Wilson Link Only Probable. There is no actual evidence support- ing a relationship between ‘Woodrow Wilson and either of the others, except such as is found in the laws of probabil- ity. The father of the late President | came from West Meath, where he either was born or was taken by his parents shortly after birth. West Meath is a with the outside world at that time. Wilson’s father came to the United States in 1840. The Wilson family generally is sup- posed to have been predominantly Scotch and rrobnbly came to West Meath out of Ulster. But the term “Scotch-Irish,” applied to the people of Ulster, Miss Stephenson says, is ren- dered quite doubtful by a real under- standing of the history of that section. At the time of the conquest of Ulster, she points out, two settlements were es- tablished. One was entirely English, in County Derry, and one Scotch, in Coun- ties Down and Antrinn. These settle« ments are believed to have been made up entirely of men, who took wives from Thus, she says, the Scotch blood was diluted one-hnlf in the first generatica born in Ulster and in the centuries that follow must have been thinned out al- most to the vanishing point. Acting on this_assumption, the Wilson who cam: to West Meath must have been about as “Irish” as the Mellons or the Mul- vahills. In such a small, isolated county as West Meath, the probability is that all the peopje were more or less related, despite the strong religious differences. But the Wilsons may have been ex- ceptions. In anmy event, however, they almost certainly had distant blood ties ! Computation Shows All Are Kin. Mathematical ~ computation, Miss | Stephenson says. shows the extreme Iikelihood that all persons living today | with English blood in their veins are | lineal descendants of William the Con- queror and of all the Norman nobles | with whom he invaded England. All these people likewise are lineal descend- ants of everybody else who lived in England at that time, a total popula- | tion of only about 2,000,000. But it also is likely that much more of the blood of Wililam the Conqueror flows in the veins of ‘persons of English ! descent today because, due to the liv- ing conditions, the death rate remained | for centuries much higher among the peasants than the nobles. Thus the Anglo-Saxon serf strain tended to lose out in the struggle for survival. The same conclusions hold for made that every Irishman is a descend- jant of the ancient Milesian kings whe ruled the island in the centuries of its highest culture, Both the Mullins, or “Mellons,” and the Mulvahills were prominent families at this time, their records finally disappearing into the myths of legend. Every Irishman prob- ably is a descendant of everybody who lived in Ireland at that time, but much more a descendant of the Mullins and the Mulvahills than of plebeian families, So a_connection between the Mulva- | hills, jalmost certain to be established, Miss sa; if the genecalogist wants to go back far enough. But she feels confident they might be tied up | { Youthful Ireland, justifying the boast sometimes | the Mullins and the Wilsons is' @he Foening Stard WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, Left to right: Alfred E. Smith, Andrew J. Mellon and Woodrow Wilson, who | are believed to be distantly related, according to genealogist research investiga- AND WILSON Families of Three Noted Americans to Same Community in Ireland Around 1840. R. HENRY. and the late Woodrow Wison and the maternal grandfather of Alfred E. Smith came to the United States from the ximately a year of each other. connection between Smith and Mellon either of them and Wilson. Both the Secretary of the Treasury and the former Governor of New York are believed to be descendants of an ancient Irish family, the Mulvahills, whose line goes back to the mythical period of the history of the Emerald Isle before the clology and ethnology Wwhich otherwise would remain unknown, tends to over- come national prejudices and shows often that “things are not what they seem.” Cross Section of History. Irish genealogy alone, she points out, gives an extremely intimate cross sec- tion of the history of the race, espe- claliy through such obstatles as péculiar marriage customs and laws affecting blood relationships in early days. In connection with the change of the name Mullen to Mellon, she points out that later in the century there was a heavy Mulvahill immigration to Aus- tralia, where, due to local environment, the name became Melville. On the other hand, translated into the strongly Irish environment of New York City it re- tained its original form. Both Secretary Mellon and Mr. Smith, she points out, almost certainly have strains of Norse blood in their veins. West Meath is about 50 miles west of Dublin. Dublin was established as a Norse port on an Irish grant, and its early population was Norse, which grad- ually spread out through the surround- ing country. . ‘Certain physical characteristics of the Becretary of the Treasury, such as his high forehead, have been pointed to as evidence of a Scotch ancestry, whereas it was much more characteristic of the Norsemen, from whom he is more llkeliy‘ to have inherited it, she says. Althoug] this evidence does not appear prom- inently in the case of Mr. Smith, he most prcbably shares all the biood sirains which have entered into" the make-up of Secretary Mellon. Hoover’s Genealogy. The genealogy of Mr. Hoover, she says, not only sheds much light on his own origins, but on the profound change which has taken place in the character of the American population. ‘The Hoover genealogy, she points out, long presented a peculiar diffictlty research workers, and finally was traced erroneously to a German family line in Baden-Baden. The trouble was that no emigration from Baden-Baden could be found at the time his ancestors came to America. B Last Summer it was established con- clusively that his ancestors were Swiss. They remained Swiss and German ex- clusively until the time of his grand- father, who married a Welsh girl. ‘The genealogy of American Presidents shows them divided into two classes. Before the Civil War, with a few excep- tions, they were of Norman, English and Irish descent—or Scotch-Irish, although she holds the term has little meaning so far as blood is concerned. Then came the period of the Presidents from the Middle West, predominantly of New England Puritan and hence of English ancestry. ‘This strain continued up to the elec- tion of Mr. Hoover, whose ancestry is almost entirely continental. The term Scotch-Irish, she says, was applied in Ireland to designate a re- liglous rather than a blood difference. There were three religious groups. The Irish Presbyterians were designated Scotch-Irish, the Episcopalians, Eng- lish-Irish, and the Quakers, Baptists and Catholics, Irish. But one group was about as “Irish” as the other. Irish genealogy, she points out, be- comes extremely interesting as one goes further and further back because for centuries the island was a melting pot of races, much as the United States has been during the past half century, and every Irishman has the blood of all these races in his veins. ARGENTINE CYCLIST PRAISES U. S. ROADS Bike Rider Visits in| Capital En Route to New York on Wheel. Paved voads constitute the greatest asset of the United States, in the opin- fon_of Victor Seghetti, youthful bi- cyclist, who visited friends in Washing- ton today while en route to New York from Buenos Aires. Explaining he had ridden a “wheel” about 22,000 miles since he left Ar- gentina, Seghetti sald he had averaged 125 miles a day since reaching this country. He was able to cover cnly 5 or 6 miles daily much of the time while he was in South America fre- 1 quently being forced to carry his bike | on_ his shoulder. i “I sincerely hope South America jm- | proves its roads soon 30 they will com- are more favorably with the smooth ighways of the United States,” Seg- hetti told reporters. “The h'ghways { of this country have been an eye cpen- PLANNING BOARD [HAVENNER AVERS LAWS IN CONGRESS Crafnpton Park Land Pur- chase Again Approved After Exhaustive Discussion. “TURKEY TICKET” AREA TRANSFER CONSIDERED Report on Dwellings in Alleys Laid Before Body by House Expert. ‘The program of legislation affecting the development of Washington, to be taken up in the coming regular session of , was discussed at the firsc session of a two-day meeting, to be held by the Natlonal Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission. The Cramton park land purchase measure, which was in the last Congress, was discu: exhaustively, and the commission again placed its stamp of approval on the proposed legislation. i Another park land program occupied the commission’s time when it dis- cussed the proposed transfer of prop- erty in the “Turkey Thicket” area bor- dering Tenth street northeast, near Michigan avenue. Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr., the commission’s engineer, ex- plained that legislation will be required to make this swap of property which is mutually desirable. This means that 4.21 acres of land owned by the com- mission from Shepherd street to Ran- dolph street, will be exchanged for a tract of the same area owned by the Charles H. Tompkins Co. kins tract is to the west and south of the commission’s tract and the ex- change is to be made so that the com- mission may have in one tract all its property in that section. The commission owns another tract south of the Tompkins tract. The report on dwellings in alleys in the District was laid befcre the com- mission shortly before moon by Jonn Thlder, housing expert. The commis- sion is anxious to have rectified if pos- sible the housing-in-alleys situation in Washington, from the standpoints of beautification and sanitation. Subject of Conference. ‘The Thirteenth street question was the subject of & conference today at the Treasury Department _between George V. Graham of the Board of Trade and Louis A. Simon, superin- tendent of the architectural division, Supervising Architegt’s Office. ‘The first plan suggested for the Gov- ernment’s building program provided, Mr. Graham was told, that there would be = vehicular underpass through arch- ways in the building on nth street both at B street and Pennsyle vania avenue. The buildings of the Federal triangle, according to the plans, are to be constructed entirely over the top of the present street site so as to perform what is known as a ‘“unified architectural composition.” Later studies of this question, the chairman explained, have provided that the vehicular entrance at Thirteenth and B streets be retained, but that the Pennsylvania avenue and Thirteenth entrance be changed to a pedestrian en- trance only. It was understood that Mr. Graha presented the question now under con- sideration by the Board of Trade that the vehicular passageway should be provided along Thirteenth street in the new plan in order to improve traffic conditions. Mr. Simon explained that the studies of the treatment of Thirteenth street had not been entirely completed and | that there were three or four ways in| which traffic might be allowed to pass through., RABBI TO MAKE ADDRESS AT LOCAL SYNAGOGUE Dr. Goldberg to Discuss “The Four | Human Perfections” in Sixth Street Auditorium. “The Four Human Perfections” will be the subject of a lecture at the Sixth Street Synagogue tonight by Rabbi Joshua L. Goldberg of Astoria Center of Israel, Astoria, Long Island. Dr. Goldberg will conduct the regular Friday night services of the Adas Israel Congregation and also the Saturday morning religious services. He is con- nected with the Brooklyn Jewish Center | as a teacher and has gained a wide reputation as a lecturer, Different rabbis will occupy the pul- pit of the Sixth Street Synagogue each week until a successor to Rabbi Louis J. Schwefel, who recently resigned, is| selected. WOMEN PLAN BAZAAR. Event Will Be Held in Chevy Chase Presbyferian Church. Arrangements were completed today for a bazaar to be held by the Womeu 3 Guild of the Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, November 22, in the church. A cafeteria luncheon will be served from 12 to 2 o'clock and tea from 4 to 6. ‘The entertainment program will in- clude movies for the children at 4:30. The booths will include everything from & Chinese laundry to an American delicatessen. The bazaar will remain open until § p.m. U. S. Sues Railway For $100, Charging Safety Law Broken Because of a special statute re- quiring institution of action in a United States Circuit Court, suit for $100 was filed today in the District Supreme Court by the United States of America against Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. er to me and I intend to tell my coun- trymen about them.” Seghetti left Buenos Aires April 7, 1928. He has worn out more than a dozen tires since that time, but has figured in no accidents. S E. J. DAVIS RESIGNS. Colored Assistant U. 8. Attorney Leaves Rover's Office. United States Attorney Leo A. Rover much more closely. 4 Miss Stephenson, who now Is deliver- the b:nefit of the Church of Our Lady | of Lourdes, at the Masonic Hall in Bethesda, Md., this evening. Members of the congregation and of Our Lady of Lourdes, Catholic Daugh fors of America, are assisting in the Dpreperations .for the supper, ing ‘a course of lectures twice a month at the studio of the Pen Women's League under the auspices of the National of the need for research in this sub- ject, holfl.}.nfl that it brings to light many of the realities underly! history, so- ? yesterday announced the resignation of Ernest J. Davis, colored, as an assistant United States attorney, The name of his successor has been sent to the De- partment of , but Rover sald he Justice, Court of | Genealogical Society. takes a broad view | was not ready to make it public. Davis has been in of b o BT, RS eambing o the general practice of law. The Tomp-1 ed | William | to live from every standpoint 'INSPECTOR WIL for alleged violation of the safety appliance law. The usual mini- mum jurisdiction of the court in civil action 1s $1,000. and on information fur- ed by the commission. It is charged that September 28, 1929, the company hauled a box car {rom its Eckington yards toward Georgetown with the unflounlln{ lever disconnected from the loci 1ift on the end of the car, which made necessary the service of a man to go between the cars to e p:fll'q or 5100 Tor a for each violation. sion nish ‘REVIEWS PENDING | CITIZENS' GROUP SHIRKS 175 DUTY Declares Connecticut Avenue Association Takes Small Part in City Affairs. CITES RECORD TO PROVE ITS LACK OF INTEREST Comments on Announced Proposal of Group Mentioned to With- draw From Federation. Dr. George C. Havenner, president of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, today charged that the delegates to the federation from the Connecticut Avenue Citizens’ Association have shown “little interest in the affairs of the Nation's Capital” during the last four years. He said the records show that no delegate from that association has sttended a meeting of the federation since January 4, 1927, His statement was in answer to the action of the executive committee of the Connecticut Avenue Assoclation in rec- ommending that the association with- draw from the federation, which is charged with “wasting its time in talk.” ‘The question of withdrawal from the federation will come before the Con- necticut Avenue body formally at a meeting to be held Monday night in All Souls' Church, corner of Cathedral avenue and Woodley place. A resoll tion providing for the withdrawal, dra reported on that occasion. ‘The delegates from the Connecticut Avenue Assoclation to the federation are Harry C. Grove and Robert C. Lynch. Dr. Havenner's Statement. “The Federation of Citizen's Associa- tions is a deliberative body,” declared Dr. Havenner this morning. “It is or- ganized and conducts its affairs upon truly American principles. “Any matter of major importance to the, citizens of the District of Columbia should always be fully and freely dis- cussed. What would we say if Missis- sippi, or any other agricultural State, indicated that it was going to withdraw its representation in the United States Senate merely because the tariff bill, dealing largely with schedules pertain- ing to manufacturing industries, had been debated in the Senate from Sep- tember 4 to the present date? “In the federation members come and 0 as in all similar organizations, the siflerence being that membership in the federation is limited to organized asso- clations instead of individuals. Quotes From the Records. “In this connection I wish to invite attention to.sections 1, 2 and 3 of article II of the federation’s constitution and ssction 1 of the federation's by-laws. Every member association, through its accredited delegates, is' permitted to participate in the affairs of the federa- tion. It will be seen, however, that debate is limited to 5 minutes and that no delegate is allowed to speak on the same question twice until all other dele- gates desiring to speak have had an opportunity to do so. It will be seen from paragraph 2 of the by-laws that the maximum time allotted to any dele- gate is 10 minutes. “In view of what has been stated by . Quinter, president of the Connecticut Avenue Citizens’ Associa- tion, it seems only fair that I should invite attention to the attendance of the delegates from that association. A careful examipation of the federation’s records covering the five-year period from October, 1925, to November, 1929, discloses the fact that the delegates from the Connecticut Avenue Associa- tion attended two meetings in 1925, four meetings in 1926, and the last meeting attended by any delegate from this association was the meeting of January 4, 1927. Delegates Show Little Interest. “PFurther, so far as I am aware, only one resolution has been received by the federation from the Connecticut Ave- nue Citizens' Association. The attend- ance records of the delegates from the Connecticut Avenue Association seem to indicate that these delegates, are so NOVEMBER 15, by the executive committee, will be 1929, NoRTH. ‘The above chart, pi by Thirteenth street and l’r:n’:;l‘nnll avenue, Fourteenth street and the Avenue at peak hours, shows how closing of Thirteenth street south of the tion would arise from the Avenue, 8'S .98 AM the Board of Trade from a count of traffic at street and the Avenue and a situa- SIX ARE INJURED IN GAR ACGIDENTS Girl Is Slightly Hurt When Three Machines Collide at Seventeenth and K. Seven-year-old Wilfred Peele of 1700 Thirty-sixth street, sustained minor in- juries when run down at Thirty-sixth and R streets by an automobile driven by Edward Dowling, 22 years old, of 1318 Madison street. The child was taken home, Miss Frances Dickerson, 22 years old, of 1618 H street, was lightly injured last night when the machine in which she was a passenger and driven by James F. Kulle, 31 years old, same ad- dress, figured in a collision with two other machines at Seventeenth and K streets, 1 & net e girl was treated at Emergency Hospital and later taken home. ';‘ede other cars, both of whlaha a;; caj undamaged, were opera Frank Wright of 1915 I street and James J, McNally, 33 years old, of Ballston, Va. Stella O'Routke, 39 yéars he |." Government ¥ to the head and body late yesterday when run down at Delaware avenue and D street northeast by a Washing- ton Railway & Electric Co. street car operated by Motorman G.'W. Willlams of the Tenleytown car barn. Condition Undetermined. ‘The injured woman, who was attempt- ing to cross the street when struck, was taken to Providence Hospital, where her condition this morning was described as undetermined. ’ Henry Smith, 58 years old, living at 48 R street northeast, was treaf al Sibley Hospital for injuries suffered last night, when run down at Truxton Circle northeast by a hit-and-run driver. He was treated at the hos) 1 for lacerations to the head and later taken home. Martin Myers, 11 years old, of 3915 Kansas avenue, was slightly injured last night when struck at Thirteenth street and Spring road by a machine operated by Jacob Kaufman of 811 Upshur street, The child was treated at Garfield Hos- pital and later taken home. - Knocked down while attempting to cross the street at Third and C streets last night, George L. Souder, 60 years old, of 215 B street, was carried & dis- tance of 15 feet on the bumj of a hearse driven by Frank L. colored, of 901 Third street southwest. The injured man was treated at Emergency Hospital for bruises to the little interested in the affairs of the hurt. Nation's Capital that they cannot de- vote one evening a month to try to make Washington a better city in which When he heard of Dr. Havenner statement, Mr. Grove, one of the dele gates from the Connecticut Avenue Association, said today: “My reason for not attending. the federation meetings can be very briefly stated. It is a waste of time to go there.” Mr. Quinter, president of the Con- necticut avenue body, charged yesterday that membership in the federation was “useless” because it “wasted its time | in talk.” GLOVER PARK CITIZENS PLAN BETTERMENTS { Meeting of Association Tonight to Discuss Proposals and Give Entertainment. Various proposals for ecivic better- ment will be discussed at a meeting of the Glover Park Citizens’ Association at 8 o'clock tonight at the Home Indus- trial School, Thirty-seventh street and Wisconsin avenue. After the business meeting there will be an entertainment with dancing and refreshments. Gen. H. Ogden Lake is president of { the association, and Ben C. McQuay is secretary. L PROBE POLICE GRAFT CHARGES Thaddeus Bean Assigned to Inves- tigate Civic Asdsociation's Report on Bribery in 11th Precinct. Inspector Thaddeus Bean has been assigned by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, super- intendent = of ~police, to investigate charges made by the Hillsdale Civic Association (colored) that police of the eleventh precinct have been accepting graft from speakeasies and gambling establishments. The association has not made any complaint direct to Maj. Pratt. but he took action when he read an account of the meeting at which the association adopted the resolution in The Evening Star. ‘The association appointed a commit- tee to lay before the police authorities evidence said to be possessed of some of its members. Bean was assigned to secure this evidence and transmit it direct to United States At A. Rover, sisten torney Leo | for more than a score of years. head and body. He was not seriously OPEN \""\RS.AW SCHOOL. Red Cross Gift of Rockefeller Foundation. WARSAW, Poland, November 15 (#). —A training school for nurses, built by the Rockefeller Foundation, was opened in Warsaw today in the presence of a distinguished gathering. The school will be conducted by the Polish Red Cross. Among those who attended were Mme. Moscicka, wife of the President, and Mrs. Charles 8. Dewey, wife of the American financial adviser to the Polish government. PR, BOYVBADLY INJURED. School Student Has Hand Frac- tured in Printing Press. William Sherwood, 13 years old, Mc- Kinley High School student, residing at 505 Fourteenth street northeast, caught his left hand in the machinery while feeding a printing press at the school yesf y afternoon and his hand and wrist were fractured. fe was taken home after receiving surgical ald at Casualty Hospital. to Conduct | MASONIC LODGES VISITED BY HEAD Three Organizations Honored With Official Call by Grand Master. Concluding the sixth week of the series of grand visitations of 1929 to the constituent lodges, the grand master of Masons in the District of Columbia, accompanied by officers of the Grand Lodge, last evening made official calls of ceremony on The New Jerusalem lfidg. No. 9, at 8 Nu‘;clg;k, ‘:&dcm; 'l'm--l -] Lodge, No. 32, ‘athedral &ldcue,y:l'o. 40, meeting jointly, at 8:30 The New Jerusalem Lodge, which dates back to the year 1824, and which has a mun'.mbenhlpollm.hd & substantial proportion of its member- Mg‘ t in lodge room No. 1 for the visi Ear] C. Short is the master. Grand Master D, Bro the record of the lodge year ended tember 30 last, 'gm-!oth&thm rated for th: occasion, the Lodgervom . 2, in which the mmunnwnmu.mmmnywm the national PAGE 17 ITRAFFIC DIRECTOR ANDP.R. R, JOIN T3TH ST. PROTEST Line Up With Board of Trade to Prevent Closing of Artery at Avenue. TRAFFIC HEAVIER THAN ON 14TH, COUNT SHOWS Railroad Company Explains Pro- posal Would Interfere With De- velopment of Food Center. Director of Traffic William H. Har- land and the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. have lined up with the Washington Board of Trade in its fight to prevent the cutting off of Thirteenth street at Pennsylvania avenue by the Govern- ment development of the triangle. As- surance of this was received at the board’s offices late yesterday and this g in the form of letters, one signed by the traffic director and the other by J. G. Nettleton, general agent of the railroad. The letter from the Pennsylvania Rallroad set forth the reasons why the blocking of Thirteenth street would seriously interfere with the company's plans for the development of South- west Washington and work a hardship on both themselves and the consumers of the goods they transport. ' Completing Traffic Count. ‘With only one day left before they must present to the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, mem- bers of the Board of Trade were hard at work today attempting to complete their traffic count at the intersections of Eleventh, Twelfth, Fourteenth streets with Pennsylvania avenue, The latest study shows the total of the morning and evening traffic pass- ing over the intersection of Pennsyl- vania avenue with Thirteenth street as greater than that at Fourteenth street t. At Thirteenth street 5833 vehicles were counted between 8:15 and 9:15 o'clock in the morning and 4:15 and 5:15 o'clock in the afternoon, as against 5,797 at Fourteenth street. The figures show that during the morning hour there were 2,724 vehicles at Thir- teenth and the Avenue and 2622 at Fourteenth street. In the afternoon there was slightly greater amount Fourteenth street, with against 3,109 at Thir- of traffic 3,175 vehicles teenth street. Carries More Vehicles. A comparison of the trafic which would enter the triangle area in the morning and leave it in the evening by way of Twelfth, Thirteenth and Four- teenth streets shows that at the present & considerably n greater than én! of the other streets. i} o An is of morning south-bound analys| colors, potted plants and cut flowers|rush-hour traffic follows: inati Cathedral 'mple-Noyes 3 Iatter having stood sponsor for it when it applied for a charter, and was insti- tuted in the year 1923. Adolph E. Gude is the master of Tenmiple-Noyes Lodge and C. Melvin Sharpe of Cathedral remarks by the grand mas- g, with ‘the "hope. that 4t wl be made effective by the Grand 3 & buffet suppér was served by Temple~ Noyes Lodge. The next in_the series of grand visi- tations are scheduled for next Tuesday evening to Myron M. Parker Lodge, No. 27, and Joseph H. Milans Lodge, No. 38, meeting jointly in Northeast Ma- sonic Temple, Eighth street near F street northeast. —e- PLAN BAZAAR TO BENEFIT EPIPHANY CHURCH HOME. Women'’s Organizations Announce Annual Entertainment to Open Tuesday at Parish House. ‘The annual bazaar given by the ‘women's organizations of the Church of Epiphany, at the parish house on G street, for the benefit of the Epiphany Church Home, located at 1221 Massa- chusetts avenue, will be held on Tues- day and Wednesday. . Mrs. ZeBarney T. Phillips, wife of the rector of the parish, is general chair- man of the bazaar, with Miss Mary Y ‘Wheeler, representing the morning brnnvl chmv:l the Womnnd m'a Mhfl, as ice chairman an cl of the “household table.” The board of the home, which has charge of the directing of the bazaar, includes Mrs. Arthur MacArthur, presi- :en:, I(n.‘ ln-“mr G. Wilson, vice presi- lent, an . Eugene E. Thom 3 secretary and treasurer. GFE e TULIP BULBS ARRIVE. Special Dispatch to The Star. BALTIMORE, November 15.—More than a million bulbs:of Holland tulips have passed through Baltimore during the past six wseks, according to Dr. Charles E. Prince, in charge of the plant quarantine work of the United tion of the plants. During October and the first half of November arrivals are heavy, but after that shipment of the bulbs promptly stops. {“Good Samaritan” Who Helped Many On During Life Is Injured Fatally Samuel A. Moreland was an unassum- | ing man. - He had a moderate iicome as a lawyer in the classification division of the Post Office Department. To the casual observer he was merely a pleas- ant ‘“old timer," who lived a routine existence. This generally accepted idea of Mr. Moreland was due to his inherent mod- esty and his reticence to talk about him- self. Seldom, if ever, did Mr. Moreland discuss his private life with his fellow workers, He simply went about his du- ties in a quiet, unostentatious manner. Moreland was walking along Pennsylvania avenue near Eleventh street Wednesday night when he was struck by a street car. He was taken to Emergency Hospital. There death came last night. It was not until word of Mr. More- land's death reached the Post Office De- mmmt today that it was disclosed t he had one of the most con- ‘Washington Intimate friends of Mr. Moreland re- vealed that countless unfortunate men had been placed on their feet by the retiring Good Samaritan. He had spent all of his earnings with the exception of the for his bare liv- ing and had changed the course of their lives. Moreland was born in Corinth, it 9, 1860. He was a) ted the ‘v’lr Department, Mr Gt a clerk it | licenses vvlfiy:;medan: ity coun licenses and 200 is the| Twelfth strest—248 vehicles. the | Thirteenth street—650 vehicles. Fourteenth street—367 vehicles. For traffic north-bound during the evening rush hour the count shows the following figures: ‘Twelfth street—509 vehicles. ‘Thirteenth street—695 vehicles. Fourteenth street—583 vehicles. By these statistics the board repre- sentatives hope tomorrow to convince the planning commission that the clos- ing of Thirteenth street, the main ave- nue of traffic to and from the 3 ‘would . result in congestion along Pennsylvania avenue even at the present time, without taking into con- sideration the 25,000 persons who would occupy the bulldings to be erected there. According to the board’s present plans, it will be nted at the hearing tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock by Robert J. Cottrell, executive secre- tary; George V. Graham, chairman of the special committee appointed to han- dle the matter, and Henry E. Stringer. Railroad Joins Protest. ‘The letter from Mr. Nettleton, who first conferred with " officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad in the Philadel- phia central office, states in part: “The Pennsylvania Raii ad Co. is ivoring to make Southwest Wash- lnfion the food center. In addition to this, Congress has authorized the estab- lishment of a farmers market in the Southwest, just a block from our de- velopment. “If the plan, as now contemplated, is carried out, 1t will close every street south ‘of the avenue to heavy traffic, with he exception of 'nth and Seventh strests. Fourteenth street, as you. know, is closed to north bound traffic every afternoon, and that would mean that traffic moving out of our two yards would have to go east to Seventh street, with the resultant left-hand turns, and then come back up Pennsyl- vania avenue for deliveries to George- a'n and the northwest section of ashington. “‘Our traffic out of Fourteenth street | yard is heavy, as it is at the Water street yard. the latter yard we un- load our perishable freight and the delay in getting out would work a hard- ship both on us and on the receiver, not to mention the added expense due to an additional mile of hauling. . | “If Thirteenth street could be left a through thoroughfare to the south- west, as at present, it would solve the problem, but if it is closed it will work | & serious hardship on the interests who are tryng to develop Southwest Wash- ington.” Harlan Sites Importance. ‘Traffic Director Harlan calls attention in his letter to the probable increased importance of Thirteenth street when . Rhode Island avenue is ned from | the District line to Hyattsville, 1 _ He says: i “Thirteenth street from Iowa Circle | to the Mall is one of the most important arteries for north and south bound | vehicular traffic in the District. This { thoroughfare from Pennsylvania avenue to Massachusetts avenue is also one .f the widest in the downtown section. It is my opinion that the opening of Rhode B’-nhnta avenue trom ug"u: District : line to | ville will grea crease the vol- ume of traffic on Thirteenth street. The great amount of traffic which now pro- ceeds via routes south of Pennsylvania avenue to Bladensburg road to the north will find it more convenient to proceed via Thirteenth street and Rhode Island avenue to Hyattsville and thence north. “In the interest of traffic I that your committee will succeed in keeping mfleb an important highway as nth street throughout its entire LA P e AV L L e e R ————— I e Hunting L;ce:m;;ned. ALEXANDRIA, Va, November 15 (Special).—A total of 895 huntin; had been up to 15 this mo dents. This is an ber of lcenses licenses non Tor et oF yoas