Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1930, Page 17

TILSON 70 CALL FREE SCHOOL BOOK BILL TOMORROW Measure Provides Texts for High School Students of Washington. APPROPRIATION ASKED FOR D. C. IS $47,000,000 Hearings Due This Week on Park; Acquisition and Railway Merger Bills. Hearings are to start tomorrow on the District appropriation bill, the esti- | mates for which total upwards of $47,000,000, and House Leader Tilson has agreed to recognize Acting Chair- man McLeod of the House committee on District legislation to call up the free school textbook bill. Representative Cramton, Republican, ©of Michigan, will be recognized in the House tomorrow to make a speech on . his bill creating the George Washing- ton Memorial Parkway from Mount Ver- non and Fort Washington to the Great Falls and for extension of Rock Creek and Anacostia parkways in Maryland and Virginia, with an appropriation of $23,000,000 advanced from the Federal , $16,000,000 of whighfl& E urchase park and playgroun ;L,he District of Columfi\l, to be paid back at the rate of $1,000,000 a year with two hours allowed for debate. Tomorrow the members of the House maval affairs committee are to make a personal_inspection of the Naval Hos- pital buildings on the old Naval Ob- scrvatory grounds, which have been de- scribed to them as “fire traps” and en- tirely inadequate, during hearings on a pill introduced last Monday by Chair- man Britten aut a new $3,200,~ 000 Naval Hospital to replace these old structures. Hearings are to be resumed on_the Britten bill on Tuesday. During the week hearings are to start on the bill for increases in salaries for WASHINGTON B0 POLICE INSTRUCTED IN JUJUTSU William R. Whipp giving members of the metropolitan police force Instruc- tion in jujutsu. Officer H. A. Sauer is demonstrating a hold with his instructor. —P. & A. Photo. NERGER MEETIG LKELY TH WK Senate Committee to Con-| sider What to Do on Rail- way, Resolution. The Senate District committee may be called together in executive session | the latter part of this week to consider what it will do with the street railway merger resolution, on which it obtained the views of the Utilities Commission, the companies and the public at a hear- | ing several days ago, Chairman Capper said yesterday he lice and_ firemen, and it is expected &n the hearings whu:husumd last Tuesday on the street railway merger mmurz will be continued. Both of the hearings will be before subcommit- tees of the House District committee, with Representative Lampert of Wis- consin in charge of the police and fire- men's pay hearing and Representative McLedd of Michigan in charge of the street railway merger hearing. While Chairman Lehlbach of the House civil service committee has not| yet called a meeting of that committee : to vote upon reporting favorably the Dale bil to liberalize the civil service retiremest law, the committee is ex- to meet ?:dnt&dly and an imous Te] ’ ‘The book bill authorizes the issuance of textbooks and other school supplies free to puplls of the junior and senior high schools. For many years books have been furnished free to pupils in the grade schools and to certain classes in the junior high schools. This bill aims to complete the service. ‘This measure d the Senate on December 16 and there is no known op- position to it in the House. It has the support of the director of the budget, the District Commissioners, the Board of Education and all other interested parties and organizations. TIDAL GUARD LOCK . PLEA IS PRESENTED Protection of Wild Fowl and Black | Bass Sought in Fresh Water. Pleas. from some 50 interested parties, %o put back a tidal guard lock in the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal, con- nec Norfolk, Va., with Currituck and Albemarle Sounds, will be laid Tuesday before the House rivers and harbors committee, with the informa- tion that unless this action is taken, valuable migratory fowl and black bass will forsake the erstwhile fresh water and property will suffer. Representative Warren, Democrat, of North Carolina was authority for this, made public last night. P The salt washed in by the tide is represented as destroying the seafoods which attract the fowl and fish. The Army engineers are pictured as favoring | a plan to walt for five years to ascertain if the salty waters affect the fish and fowl. STAFFORD ELEVATION URGED UPON HOOVER Congressional Delegation Asks President to Make Senior Judge Chief Justice. Promotion of Wendell P. Stafford, as- sociate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, to chief jus- tice of that court, to succeed Justice Walter I. McCoy. who recently retired, was urged uj President Hoover yes- terday by the Vermont congressional delegation headed by Senator Greene. Justice Stafford, who is now the ranking justice on this bench, and who has been indorsed also for this promo- by the District of Columbia Bar Association as well as a number of in- was waiting to receive the text of amendments suggested by various speakers at the public hearing, and also wants to have in printed form the record of the hearing. With this mate- 1;111 ‘:fll hl;l'd ‘llr:embers ‘t’f th?a commit- ee a positjon discuss what action should be taken. Views to Be Exchanged. Until a meeting is held and the com- mittee members exchange views it will not be known what form the merger | legislation will take. Senator Capper expressed the personal view yesterday that the plan as transmitted to Con- gress by the commission was a good one. He said some s might be neces-. sary, but he did not believe they would be_material ones. ‘The hearing developed two main points of difference between the com- mission and the companies. One is whether a new method of court pro- cedure for handling all utility cases, when appeals are taken from decisions of the commission, should be written into the street car merger resolution or enacted as separate legislation. The other is whether the guarantee of no change in rates of fare for two years is to be retained. Separate Bill Favored. The companies contend the amend- ments to the utilities law establishing & new plan of court procedure on a] g:;l should be a separate bill. Mem- rs of the utilities commission said they would accept the judgment of the committee as to whether it should be a separate bill, but emphasized that they wanted the new court plan| enacted. The companies opposed fixing a defi- | nite time for continuance of present fares, in view of the case pending in court to determine whether existing rates are adequate. A member of the commission told the committee the two- year rate provision was put in because of the expectation that merger will re- sult in substantial savings to the new | company. METHODIST UNION PLANS ANNUAL SOCIAL EVENING Meeting to Be Addressed by Dr. W. Warren Giles of East Orange, N. J. The annual social evening of the Methodist Union will be held in the Ttalian garden room of the Mayflower Hotel next Wednesday at 8 pm. The invitation has been extended not only to the members of the Methodist Union, but also to the membership of the va- rious Methodist Episcopal Churches generally. The speaker will be Dr. W. Warren Giles of East Orange, N. J. Vocal and instrumental selections will be rendered. After the address of Dr. Giles dinner will be served in the main dining room. Bishop William F. McDowell and Mrs. McDowell will be guests of the union and Paul B. Cromelin, president of the union, will preside. The other officers of the union are as follows: William E. Springer, L. T. Jones, Har- 1y L. Underwood, vice presidents; John S. Barker, recording secretary; F. L. L. Hiller, corresponding secretary; I. H. Entwistle, treasurer. INJURED MAN BELIEVED STRUCK BY STREET CAR dividual members of the bar, is & native of St. Johnsbury, Vt. IS UNDER ARREST HERE Police Declare Woman Who Ob- tained Money From D. C. Hotels Faces Many Charges. to _be wanted by police of el‘mu, Mrs. Irene , 28, of New York, arrested here Friday night, Taces four bad-check and three forgery cases here. She is alleged to have obtained $365 from the Carlton, Willard, Washington and Mayflower Hotels. According to Headquarters Detectives Ira Keck and B. W. Thompeon, she has been the ob- ject of search by police of Baltimore, Md.; port, Conn.; Portland, Me.; b .; Albany, N. Y.; Detroit, Mich., and Cleveland and Toledo, Ohio, for uf of worthless checks. tsl:e mmuun Ln‘tg ck - :'huz attempting to pass a check at the Hay- Adams House just as a police “look-out” for her was being received from Balti- more. Driver of Laundry Wagon Found Unconscious at Sixth Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Apparently struck by a street car without the knowledge of the motorman, Marshall Jenkins, 26, of 3100 M street, a driver for the Congers Laundry, was found lying unconscious at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue last night. He was treated at Casualty Hospital for several fractured ribs and for shock. After regaining consciousness he told hospital attaches that he was crossing Pennsylvania avenue to his laundry wagon when the accident occurred. “ARREST KING” ON DUTY. Policeman Raymond Sinclair, once known as the “arrest king” of the traffic force, who was seriously injured in a collision with an automobile at New Hampshire avenue and Newton street in October, has returned to duty again, being employed as an assistant to the night clerk at the Trafic Bureau. Although at one time doctors held slight hope for his recovery, Sinciair soon expects to be able to ride a motor cycle again. fl FIGHT FOR PARKS BY WOMEN URGED Federation Leader Attacks _Proposed Conversion of Yellowstone. Expressing opposition to reduction in area of any existing national parks, the General Federation of Wome: Clubs last night called on the women of the Nation to fight the proposed conver- sion of Bechler Meadows, in Yellow- stone National Park, into an irrigation | reservoir for private interests. The appeal of commercial interests that Bechler Meadows, the southwest corner of the park, be set aside for irrigation pu: s, will be considered by . the President’s boundary commis- sion at a hearing February 3, in the Interior Department Building. If this concession is made, it was de- clared by Mrs. Charles C. Marshall. chairman of the forestry and natural scenery division of the federation, other groups will be encouraged to make further demands for commercial pur- poses. Made Personal Inspection. Mrs. Marshall made a personal in- of Bechler Meadows. In op- posing , the proposed flooding of the ‘meadows, she said: “The meadows have a beauty all their own. The vast stretches of grass-cov- ered level land form an sttractive foll for the surrounding majestic mountains. 1f these meadows were flooded the loss to the people of the United States would be incalculable. In the first place, any encroachment on the park would eventually prove disastrous, as it would establish an unwise precedent; it would eliminate the entrance to the Bechler River Canyon, as a reservoir here would back the water up about 2 miles into the canyon. It would kill all the trees, many of which are pine and spruce. Big Timbered Area. “William C. Gregg, who spent much time 1n this section, has estimated that | The in the Bechler Basin there are 40,000,- 000 feet of standing timber and that the proposed reservoir would practically rob the park of 12 square miles. “Last Summer 250,000 people visited the park, and I venture to predict that within 10 years the number will reach a million.” Air travel alone will add thousands. It is, therefore, reasonable to_expect that all available space will ultimately be needed. “I,would not have believed it possible that any group of American people could be so blinded by self-interest as to describe this marvelous region as ‘having little scenic beauty,’ if I had not seen, with my own eyes, man after man stand_up before the President’s Boun- dary Commission at Ashton, Idaho, and insist that this part of the park be handed over to them for their own use, without any apparent consciousness &f the fact that they were asking for & priceless treasure. Wouldn't Accept Substitute. “It was useless to suggest that the water could be obtained from other sources; no, nothing would do but the Bechler section of Yellowstone Park. All other sites were ‘ridiculous,’ or ‘impossible.’ “At the hearing was manifested a spirit so insistent, so determined to get what it wanted, that I felt here was a force to be reckoned with. “All American women of intelligence should be personally interested in this matter and militant in fighting to pre- serve Yellowstone Park. “A man who has been active for years in park protection work, said to me re- cently, ‘No man can measure the de- struction to Yellowstone Park, as a popular, national playground, which may follow the first concession to irri- gation interests’ Another nationally known conservationist writes me, ‘The territory of the National Parks should be held inviolate. No National Park contains any territory that is such a public eye-sore and nuisance that it needs to be turned over to the ax, the saw and the steam shovel.’ EX-FRATERN]TY LEADER FACING THEFT CHARGE Former Local University Student Arrested in Brooklyn as Loot Is Recovered. Brought back to Washington yester- day from Brooklyn, N. Y. Willi Simmons, 21, former president of a Greek letter fraternity, here was charged with grand larceny in connec- tion with the theft of more than $1,000 worth of property from the fraternity house December 27. Detectives charge $185 is also missing from the fraternity treasury. ‘Together with David Cohen, also of Brooklyn, he was arrested by police of New York City and held for local authorities. Cohen is now at liberty on $1,000 fugitive bond, having fought extradition to the District. Most of the stolen property was recovered at the home of Simmons’ sister in Brooklyn, police said. According to Detective Michael J. Dowd, Simmons and Cohen at one time attended George Washington University. ‘The articles faken included a radio, two iamps, two smoking stands, a fur coat, rugs, bed clothes and draperies. PATIENTS PRODUCE | MUSICAL COMEDY - ATST. ELIZABETHS i Critic, Hoping for Genius of Dream World, Sees Reg- ular Show. | A SR |AUDIENCE REACTIONS ARE DECLARED NORMAL Once-Famed Tenor and Dancer Demonstrate Old Talent at St. Elizabeth's. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. A musical comedy written and pro- }duc!d entirely by the patients at St. | Elizabeth’s Hospital was presented yes- | terday after months of hard prelim- { inary work. When I was assigned by the dramatic department to review this production I went out to Congress Heights with considerable anticipation. There is a lingering superstition in the minds of most of us which associates the psychoses with genius. Would this in- tellectual production of men dwelling in strange worlds of their own, replete for some of them with soundless voices and substancel images arising from the weird depthd of their own inner selves, display flashes of Blake and Shelly like fingers of flame bursting out of the dark? Would a bit of the dream world of the catatonic be reproduced on the stage? Just Good Musical Comedy. What I saw was quite different— nothing more, in fact, than a good mu- sical comedy. I am not even prepared to say that it was any better than the average musical comedy. There were the same songs, the same jokes, the same patter. Also, folks laughed at the same things they have been laughing at, inside and outside of in- stitutions, for the past 250,000 years. This morning Several excerpts were broadcast over one of the local radio stations and there is little doubt but that the more diversified audience en- joyed it just as much as did the pa- tients yesterday. It's hard to see how Jjokes and songs could be strung to- gether on a string of dialogue much better than the men at St. Elizabeth's have done. All Black-Face. It is all black-face comedy—about a girl named Chloe. Some colored folks had formed themselves into a dramatic troupe and a shifty producer came down from up North to sign them up. Poor Chloe, who had put all her money into the show, is left behind and her beau goes away with Lilly Belle, the vampish leading lady. But they strike hard times in New York and are wondering where their next meal is coming from. Meanwhile, however, Chloe has been tending to her job as a house mald, saved her money and even found a rich uncle. So she comes to New York and gets her revenge by saving the show. In this framework are incor- porated some of the popular hits of the day, such as “Tip-toe Through the Tulips” and they are all very well done. ‘The production was the result of the efforts of the Red Cross workers at the hospital to bring out some of the talent | which exists among the patients and for which, in the past, there has been little outlet. At the same time it is hoped to diversify the entertainment by other features besides moving pictures. musical comedy was considered a good medium with which to start. It would not tap deeply the emotions of the patients, either in composition or production, The cast was composed of men, all of whom had a thorough appreciation of what they were trying to do and did it well. There were, for example, four ex- officers, one of whom turned out an ex- cellent performance in the character of the abandoned Chloe. The dialogue was largely the work of a District pa- tient who had some previous experience with theatrical affairs and stage mechanisms. All the training was care- tully supervised by Red Cross workers. Former Tenor Sings Well. Among the St. Elizabeth’s patients there is one who was once a well lknflwn stage tenor. His singing of Irish ballads, in a voice none the worse for his mental illness, was a high spot of the show. -And there was a dancing act, excently done, by one who seldom can be brought out of a characteristic stupor except to dance. But his feet move with all the old lightness and rhythm. Many of the ward patients whose condition is such that they cannot ordinarily attend the shows were pres- ent yesterday and all behaved very much like a normal musical comedy audience, or the folks that enjoy jazz orchestras over the radio. The only conclusion is that it was a good show—which may be high praise or sarcastic criticism, according to the reaction of the reader. For, after all, if such mad men as William Blake or John Clare had happened to be patients at St. Elizabeth’s and had been selected to write the show it probably would have been a “flop”"—there or anywhere else. The patients almost unanimously would have agreed that the authors were insane, and demanded something normal. The Red Cross, which early this month conducted the first experiment at showing moving pictures in Howard Hall, the ward for the criminally in- sane, is planning to continue the work on a larger scale and have selected several popular screen comedies and romances to be shown in the near future. Some of the men never nad seen a moving picture. OFFICERS CHANGE POSTS. Maj. Edward W. Putney Assigned to Ordnance Duty Here. Lieut. Col. C. R. W. Morison, In- fantry, has been relieved from duty at Fort Eustis, Va. and detailed as in- structor of the South Carolina Na- tional Guard, with station at Columbia; Maj. Glenn P. Wilhelm, Ordnance De- partment, at the War Department, has been ordered to the Philippines; Ma). Edward W. Putney, 9th Coast Artil- lery, in the Philippines, has been or- dered to this city for duty in the office of the chief of ordnance, Munitions Building; Capt. James W. Rice, Chem- ical Warfare Service, from the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology to the arsenal at Edgewood, Md. and Capt. Willlam B, Wright, jr.. Air Corps, from Kelly Field, Tex., to Richards Field, Kansas City, Mo. Master Sergt. ‘Willlam W. Nuckolls, 1st Tank ent, Fort George G. Meade, Md., been placed on the retired list on his o application after more than 30 yeags' active service. SKATERS Washington skaters were still enjoying the skating on the Lincoln Memorial Pool last FLOCK TO LINCOLN he Sunday Stad WASHINGTON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 1930 MEM o A ORIAL POOL night, although the milder weather forecast for today threatens to end the sport. This photograph was made yesterday afternoom; when the pool was thronged with skaters. —Assoclated Press Photo. BULDING WRECKING 5 SET FOR JULY Block Between 14th and 15th, Avenue and E Street, Affected. The entire block of buildings between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, Pennsyl- vania avenue and E street, will be torn down next July to make way for a park which will include not only this square, but also a triangular tract now included in the parkway system in front of the District Building. This will mean that E street will be cut through the block between Thir- teenth and Thirteen-and-a-half streces in front of the District Building, con- necting a traffic artery which will lead off of Pennsylvania avenue at Thir- teen-and-a-half street and run straight through into Sherman Park and the driveways around the Ellipse back of “he White House. This development is a part of the new and greater Washington develop- ment in line with the Federal Govern- ment’s building program in the so- called Pennsylvania avenue triangle. It will create two small parks and open up the entire area in the vicinity near the Treasury Department and would provide better traffic facilities. Tenants Are Notified. Tenants occupying the Government owned buildings on the ground between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, Pennsylvania avenue and E_street have been noti- fled by the Treasury Department to vacate by July 1. This includes Poli’s Theater, one of the old theatrical land- marks of the city. One of the reasons advanced for creating the park this Summer is be- cause the Deplr!m‘;:! 'zl uCOmmerce Building adjacent ret rogres- sing l’lgidly. is building is Bounded b; th and Fifteenth, B and E streets, so that its north facade wil be in line with the front of the Dis- trict Building and the Southern Rail- way Bullding along E street. Coast Guard Affected. Among_the important occupants of this block, in addition to Poli's The- ater, are the United States Coast Guard headquarters and the Traffic Bureau for the District of Columbia. Decision as to where these will go has not yet been made. It was thought likely, however, that the Coast Guard would find a home prior to July 1 in the shift of Government activities due to com- pletion of the new Internal Revenue Builaing. SESSION TO BE HELD HERE BY WORLD TRAVEL GROUP Permanent Organization and Gains in American Tours, Objects of Federation Meeting. Increased travel in North America and the formation of & permanent or- ganization will be the major objectives of the first annual conference of the International Travel Federation, to be held at the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, on Tuesday. This conference, called by F. E. Turin, manager of the advertising board of the Norfolk-Portsmouth, Va., Cham- ber of Commerce, is expected to be the fruition of the preliminary gathering, held at Norfolk, Va. last November. Charles F. Hatfield of St. Louls, the organization’s acting secretary, reached the national capital yesterday and set about arranging details. Upward of 200 representatives of transportation in all lines are expected to attend. HYDES ARE HONORED. Secretary of Agriculture and Fam- ily Guests of Missouri Society. Secretary of Agriculture and Mrs. Arthur M. Hyde and their: daughter Caroline were honor guests at the monthly meeting of the Missouri So- ciety of Washington, held last night in the hall of nations of the Washing- ton Hotel. The Secretary and his fam- ily were presented by Capt. Fred H. Poteet, U. 8. N. Included in the recelving line were Representative Joe J. Manlove, presi- dent of the society; Roy T. Davis, Min- ister to Panama; Dr. E. B. Clements, Republican national committeeman; Cleveland A. Newton, former Repre- sentative from Missouri and past presi- dent of the society; Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Brig. Gen. C. R. Krautoff, James L. Baity, assistant to the con- troller general, and Mrs. Baity, Mrs. John, . Lyman and Mrs. Frank Shelden. m Vfiuuell. Benjamin W. Morris, architect mem- ber of the National Commission of Fine Arts, is en route to South America, where he will visit Caracas, Venezuela, to in- spect the site of the Henry Clay statue in that city. The statue is to be pre- sented to the people of Venezuela by the United States in commemoration of the service of Clay to the South Ameri. | can replublic, and has received the in- dorsement of the Fine Arts Commission. Drivers Starting On Yellow Signal Wamed by Police Eldridge Also. Brands as| Unlawful Darting Past | Cars That Wait Light. Traffic policemen were directed yes- terday to give special attention at intersections to motorists who start on the yellow signal light and those who dart past a line of waiting cars in or- der to be the first across when the | lights change. The practices are in violation of traffic regulations, M. O. Eldridge, as- sistant traffic director, warned, and are the chief reasons why accidents at in- tersections have been reduced only 50 per cent instead of 100 per rent. Street car motormen and operators of busses are involved, he said. “Any motorist hastening to c1oss on a green light which gives him right of way is apt to be unnerved by an auto- mobile that forces its way in the traffic lane,” Eldridge said. “An accident is almost sure to occur.’ It is equally dangerous, he asserted, for a driver to swerve past a line of waiting cars to be the first across the intersection. Citing an_accident at Connecticut avenue and Kalorama road recently, in which a motorist was kiled as a result of such an infraction, idge that penall will be enacted if the practice continues. The corps of traf- fic policemen is not to be augmented, he said, but have been directed to be on the look-out for violations. CONFERENGE HERE 10 REVIEW TRADE Washington’s 1930 Event to Be Addressed by Merle Thorpe and Others. The effect which the recent business | conference, called by President Hoover, is having on commerce and industry throughout the Nation will be discussed by Merle Thorpe, editor of the Nation's Business, before Washington's 1930 busi- ness conference, which convenes at 8 o'clock Monday night at the Mayflower Hotel. The speaker will make particu- lar reference to the present condition and needs of business in the District of Columbia. David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, will outline the plans of the Govern- ment in carrying forward its Federal building program here, while Commis- sioner Proctor L. Dougherty will de- scribe briefly the improvements project- ed '&,h‘. year by the District govern- ment. Another speaker will be Charles W. Eliot, 2d, city planner of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Dr. Julius Klein, Assistant Secretary of Commerce, has been invited by the committee in charge to address the meeting. A number of prominent business men will make brief reports on the local outlook for the present year, including Hanse Hamilton, Chesapeake and Po- tomac Telephone Co.; C. Melvin Sharpe, Potomac Electric Power and Washing- ton Railway and Electric Cos.: Howard L. Wilkins, Wilkins-Rogers Milling Co. John H. Hanna, Capital Traction Co. Ord Preston, Washington Gas Light Co.: Col, Robert N. Harper, District National Bank; Frank R. Jelleff, Frank R. Jelleff, Inc.; William I. Hitch- cock, Lewis & Hitchcock, organ builders. The reports of these representatives will be followed by further statements by the invited guests. DRAMA LD GVES THRD I PLAYSE One-Act Tournament Pro- gram at Columbia Heights Covers Wide Range. A choice of four plays giving a wide range to the abilities of the Community | Drama Guild players was presented last night at the Columbia‘ Heights Com- munity Center. These four plays were the third of a series of the one-act play tournament for 1930. Sponsored by the Community Drama Guild of Washington, local players are presenting five series of 20 plays in the one-act play tournament. The first four plays of the serles were presented at the Columbia Heights Community Center, January 22. The second series was given at the East Washington Com- munity Center, January 25. After the preliminaries have been completed, the four best plays will compete in a final contest February 7 at McKinlcy High School. The judges of the prelimina: Prof. William L. Corbin, chairma Capt. George A. Bentley, U. 8. A.; Mrs. Alice Sigworth Morse, Mrs. William -J. Peters and Miss Katherine Riggs, will base their decision on choice of play, di- rection, stage business and acting. Involves Soldiers’ Love. How a soldier returned from four years’ sojourn in India, wins' his wife's love from a rich suitor is the theme of A. A. Milne’s comedy, “The Camberly Triangle,” presented by the Playmakers of Thomson Community Center. In “When the Ship Goes Down,” the sinking of a tramp steamer In mid- Pacific is effectively portrayed. Wlth! particular sympathy placed in the character of the gallery rat, Lightly. This play was given by the Columbia Players. “Their Anniversary,” by Alice C. D. Riley, the presentation of the Stellar Dramatic Players, is a comedy with the moral, “it doesn’t pay to pick up crumbs of affection from wives and husbands forgetful of wedding anniversaries.” Comical Situation in Last. A comical situation is the basis of the last play in the series, Helen Bagg's “His Model Wife.” A young artist, a bachelor, writes to his aunt in China that he is married so that he will receive his customary birthday check. Complications ensue when the aunt unexpectedly returns to witness her nephew's happy married life. The Circlers of Vermont Avenue Christian Church presented this play. ‘The fourth series will be at the Columbia Heights Community Center January 30, and the last serjes at Columbia Heights January 31. PLANNING GROUP AGAINST WHARF FOR OIL COMPANY Action of Commission Reported to District Engineer to For- ward to Chief. Maj. Brehon Somervell. District en- gineer for the War Department for the Washington area, has received the pro- PAGE B=1 ROVER 0 REVEAL WITNESSES SOON IN DREYFUS CASE Investigation Into Death of Young Divorcee to Start Early in February. BURKINSHAW IS NAMED PROSECUTOR’S ASSISTANT Dot King Mystery Linked With Fatal Plunge at Boat Club Party Here. With the selection yesterday of his assistant, Neil J. Burkinshaw, to handle the case, United States Attorney Leo A. Rover announced subpoenas would be issued this week preparatory to the opening February 3 of a grand jury in- vestigation of the death of ryMn. Aurelia Fischer Dreyfus, attractive young divorcee. Burkinshaw declared a list of wit- nesses was being compiled and probably would be made public Wednesday. Among those likely to be examined are several relatives of Mrs. Dreyfus. Four or five days are expected to be required to question the witnesses. Fell From Baloony. Mrs. Dreyfus was fatally injured early on the morning of October 20 last, in a 20-foot plunge from a balcony at the Potomac Boat Club. A coroner’s jury decided her death resulted from an accident. Detectives who investigated the case agreed on that theory. Rover decided to take the case before a grand jury after relatives of Mrs. Dreyfus furnished him with affidavits {charging finger prints were found on her throat after her death. Relatives also contended in the affidavits that Mrs. Dreyfus was afraid she would be slain because she knew too much about the murder of Dot King, Broadway night club entertainer, Mrs. yfus, it was said, was the “mysterious blonde” who testifled in the King case. She is said to have de- clared she was with Albert E. Guimares, Porto Rican, and Edmund J. MecBrian, New York broker, in Guimares' apart- ment when Dot King was killed. Story Gave Alibi. Her story is reported to have estab- lished an alibl for Guimares. The Porto Rican was arrested, only to be released later, because he was known to have been friendly to Dot King. Relatives told Rover Mrs. Dreyfus had confessed to them that McBrian had 'made her intercede for his close friend, Guimares. McBrian was with Mrs. Dreyfus shortly before she met death. He was taken into custody by Washington po- lice, but was released czfter he con- vinced them he had been in another rt of the club in search of Mrs. yfus' wraps when she plunged to her death. 3 Mrs. Dreyfus at _one time was the wife of Herbert Dreyfus, New York broker and club man. Dreyfus obtained a divorce in 1924, naming McBrian as co-respondent. 775 MEDICAL EXAMINERS | REQUIRED FOR PILOTS Commerce Department Agents Con- duct 28,153 Physical Tests Dur- ing 1928-20 Period. ‘The services of 775 medical examin- ers are required to examine pilots and student pilots as to their physical and mental fitness for flying before they are licensed and to check once each six months the condition of those already licensed, according to an announce- mens yesterday by Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics. These medical examiners are' scate tered throughout the country, each be- ing an authorized agent of the aero- nautics branch of the Department of Commerce. The number of physical examinations conducted by these ex- aminers has increased from 11,688 dur- ing 1927-28 to 28,153 during 1928-29, Mr. Young said. Dr. L. H. Bauer, chief of the medical section -of -the aero- nautics branch, predicts (hat during the fiscal year 1929-30 the number of physical examinations for fiyers will increase to more than 50,000. H The Department of Commerce has fixed the medical fee for original ex- aminations for transport, limited coms mercial and industrial pilots at $15; for original examinations of private and student pilots $10; all examinations of whatever class, $10, and the midyear checks of transport and limited com- mercial pilots, $5. These fees are pay- able to the medical examiners who conduct the physical examinations. No charge is made by the Department of Commerce for pilots' licenses, test of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission opposing the granting of a permit to the Syn Oil Co. of Philadelphia for the erectlon of a wharf northwesterly of the Key Bridge, at_Rosslyn, Va. Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, vice chair- mand and executive officer of the com- mission, forwarded the official action of the commission to Maj. Somervell. Maj. Gen. Lytle Brown, chief of engineers, who will have to pass on the question ultimately in conjunction with the Sec- retary of War, is a member of the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission and was present when the prob- lem was discussed at the meeting, held last week. BOO-ING “DRUNK” TAKEN IN TOW BY RECORD-ARRESTS POLICEMAN Greenlow Maneuvers in Way Patronizing Li Motor Cycle Policeman K. P. Green- low, first among his group in number of arrests compiled recently by the Traffic Bureau, wants the public to know that he is afraid of no “drunk.” He admits that he retreated some, when accosted by William Hendricks, on Pennsylvania avenue early yesterd morning, but that was because he wai temporarily startled. Any way, Hel d had been drinking vile “stuff,’ he _avers. Greenlow drew up his “motor” in front of a drug store. He had scarcely alighted when he saw a man, apparent- ly very much under the influence of whisky meandering up the street. “I'll attend to you when I thought the officer. Leaving the store the policeman ap- proached the “drunk,” who retreated a . Just as Greenlow reached to grab the man, the lat- not out to Get Man Who Had Been iquor Market. ter leaned far back on his heels and threw forward his head and ‘Boo’ Greenlow recoiled & step or two.| g The man followed up his advan with a stagger and another ‘‘Boo! The policeman recovered and starte maneuvering. They began “jockeying" JACOBS COMMISSIONED FOR SEVERAL PORTRAITS ‘Washingtonians Will Sit for Artist on Brief Visit to America. Portraits of several Washingtonians will be painted by Jay Wesley Jacobs, artist of Paris, who is in the United States for a brief visit. Oscar Under~ wood III, grandson of the late Senator Underwood of Alabama, and the boy’s mother, will be among the first to ‘Q painted here. Mrs. Josephine Rayner, wife of Maj. Harold M. Rayner, is among others who will sit for Mr. Jacobs. Mr. Jacobs is an American, who has maintained his studio in Paris in recent years. He was graduated from Har- vard in 1922, and since living abroad has earned a place in the annual exhi- bition of the Salon Nationale des Beaux Arts. Prominent Americans living or visiting Paris have been commissioned by Mr. Jacobs to paint their portraits, his present visit to the United States being an_outgrowth of such contacts abroad. The son of United States Min~ ister Wilson to Switzerland was painted by Mr. Jacobs, and the portrait attract- ed wide interest. - COMEDY IS SCHEDULED. for position. Greenlow won and grabbed Hendricks in the collar. A trip to the first_precinct came next. “Where in the world did you get that stuff?” asked Judge John P. McMahon ocva Hendrick’s arralgnment in Police urt. “Whisky market.” ““Where is that? come out,” | trate. “Over there” answered the man, pointing in a southwesterly direction. ot this being is-third appearsnde. in g 8 ince court within a vear. ¢ ¥ { g Sy Jabberwock Players Will Present “Duley” Tuesday. The comedy. “Dulcy.” will be pres sented at the Fort Meyer Theater Tues- day evening by the Jabberwock Play- of Wi inquired the magis- the role of Gordle, the husband of “Duley.” Melvin_Fox, Willlam Philips, Harrls, Rudy Moler, Helen Sheckles, Mary Welchel and Pinkney Harmon