Evening Star Newspaper, February 2, 1930, Page 17

ROCK CREEK PARK HIEH LEVEL BRIDEE | PLAN IS EXPLAINED Four Are Proposed to Aid| Traffic by Planning | Commission. EXTENSIOHIIOF SYSTEM INTO MARYLAND SEEN| Eliot, Outlining Project, Says No Buildings Will Be Disturbed. Further details of the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission’s suggestion that four high-level high- Waye span the valley in Rock Creek Park after the fashion of the Million Dollar Bridge on Connecticut avenue. were explained by officials of the com- mission yesterday. It also was declared that the Maryland authorities, with an cye to extension of Rock Creek Park into tne State, are mapping plans for high-level bridges if they are found ecessary. n ‘The {gur proposed high-level bridges would be spaced at intervals of about a mile, Charles W. Eliot, 2d, city planner of the commission, explained. The program contemplates replacing the present Calvert Street Bridge, arching over the park, as well as replacing the crossing at Plerce Mill from Park road, to form part of a future main line cross ing the city, utilizing Tilden and Up- shur streets and connecting into Taylor | street on the east and Linnean avenue. This would be a shorter bridge than the Calvert street crossing, Mr. Eliot pointed out, because of the promontories that jut out on both sides of the valley | there. ‘Will Not Disturb Buildings. The city planner made it clear that no existln: buildings would be disturbed and that a highway change has already been made to provide for the approaches on the east side of the creek and an- other change is in contemplation to provide for the west part of this ¥ One of the high-level bridges, at the Military road crossing, would pass over the intersection of Military road an Daniels road and follow the ridge south of Military road, leaping over Ross Beach drive, leading into Kennedy and Madison streets. This plan, Mr. Eliot ll‘d.d:;lllld avoid W of irk ves. ‘would connectn-on the west with Utah avenue and Military road. “This is important, not only because ving of grades, but under plans for the Fart drive we contemplate using the existing Military road as the Fort drive parkway,” Mr. Eliot said, adding i that this high-level bridge would make a fitting connection with Sixteenth street, which is not afforded by the present Military road. The fourth high-level bridge would be approximately half way be- | tween Military road and the Dlstrlcti line, Mr. Eliot said, connecting on the west with the road following the ridge toward Chevy Chese, coming into Daniels road where it turns and then following the ridge, crossing approxi- mately on the line of Aspen street. ‘This route would have a 5 or 6 per cent and pass into Sixteenth street at grade and follow the present south edge of the Walter Reed Hospital grounds, on Aspen street. Maryland Plan Outlined. 5 lnryuu:‘:!d National Capital Park of the -Nat and Planning Commission, which is o -onsider Rock Creek Park extended into Maryland, with the same spacing between these crossings 2s will obtain in the District. Mary- ;| SENATORS T0 HEAR By erection of Comi mission hopes to ) Planning speed proposed bridges and highways are shown in heavy black. The Sundiny 5 tar WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2, 1930 four high-level highways, the National Capital Park and p traffic across Rock Creek Park. The OF MERGER PLANS District Committee to Take Up Traction Legislation This Week. CLOUDY SKY MAY BAR GROUNDHOG’S SHADOW Maximum of 50 Ys Predicted for Today, With Rain Probably Tomorrow Night. The weather man last night forecast cloudy. But if the sun peeps through and that timid, pesimistic groundhog, who by legend is endowed with ability to forecast six weeks of inclement than cloudy skies may be in prospect for this vicinity. ‘The Senate District committee will meet this week to take.up street rail- way merger legislation, Chairman Cap- per said last night, and at the same time may determine when it will con- sider the Cramton Park development bill and the Howell measure to ::.renfl.hen prohibition enforcement ere. ‘The House District committee also will take up the merger this week, re- suming hearings Thursday, it was de- cided at a special meeting yesterday. The House hearings will be independ- ent of those in the Senate. | the printed record of the public hear- ing on the mfi;fir. containing in detail the views of utilities commission, the companies and the citizens’ groups. ‘The committee also has available cor: land ggmb.bly will not construct high- Jevel bridges for some years to come in that area, Mis Eliot said. One of these crossings will likely be at the pi ‘Mava—abbreviation for Maryland and Virginia—highway by-pass, leading along Columbia pike to Chain Bridge via Western avenue, Mr. Eliot declared. Other similar crossings' are contem- plated in Maryland to the northward. Citing the advantages .from construs tion of these bridges in the District, Mr. Eliot said they would separate the business, trucking traffic and through | traffic from the strictly pleasure traffic | in Rock Creek Park. | “In trying to separate these two main kinds of traffic,” he said, “we are fol lowing the principle and plain laid down in Central Park, New York, where the so-called transverse roads were carried under the park. This was done around 1860, and these roads have since fully proved their value. - - Accordingly it will be seen that the commission is not theorizing, but is working on a program that has stood the test of time. “Another reason urged in favor of the adoption of the high-level bridge pro- gram for Rock Creek Park is that these bridges will avoid the necessity for vehicles going' down ‘into the valley and pulling up steep grades. This 140-foot drop will be obviated by these high-level crossings. “They fit in as primary elements in | the major thoroughfare plan adopted by the commission. Thus we are look- ing at the problem not only as a park commission, but as a planning commis- sioin, to assisi traffic.- ‘We believe that by carrying through such high-grade thoroughfares, easy traffic can further the basic idea behind the thoroughfare plan, which is the classification or dif- ferentiation of streets according to their primary use. Certain streets will be utilized for through traffic, leaving oth- ers for quiet, residential’ development. In this way we are endeavoring to benefit the home owner, who wants to live on a quiet residential street. POLICE INVESTIGATE FIRE IN SPRING ROAD HOME Firemen Hold Blaze Started Simul- taneously in Three Sections of House. Headquarters detectives and tenth | precinct police vesterday were investi- gating a fire in the home of Hyman Feldman, 1308 Spring road. FPireman sald the blaze apparently started simultaneously in a davenport in a front room, in a mattress in a rear bed room and in the basement. ‘The fire was extinguished by fire- men from No 24 engine companhy. Dam- age was estimated at $200. Detectives Arthur T. PFihelly and Benjamin Kuehling and tenth precinct were investigating, but had made no arrests last night. The family was not at home when the fire started. Would Amend Retirement Act. resentative Brunner, Democrat, York, today Introduced a bill in House to amend the retirement act Civil Service employes to provide any civil employe may be_eligible voluntary retirement after 30 years @ervice. respondence received from the commis- minor changes in the text of the legis- lation, they have not been able to agree on the amendments relating to court procedure “in utility cases. ‘The Senate group also has been ad- vised that the request of the companies to strike from the merger resolution the guarantee against any change in rates of fare for two years is not ac- ceptzble to the commission. Vandenberg Wants Rates to Hold. Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan, who has taken an active part | in studying the problem of the merger, | made known during the past week that | he regards the two-year continuation of present rates as being essential and is opposed to eliminating it. The Cramton Park bill, which passed the House Thursday, also is expected to | be given early attention by Senator Capper’s committee. This measure au- thorizes $23,000,000 for extension of the park ystem in the District and in ad- jacent Maryland and Virginia. Of the total, $16,000,000 would be used in the District and repaid to the Federal Treasury by the District at $1,000,000 a year. One of the main features of the Cramton bill is the proposed develop- ment of the George Washington Me- morial parkway along both sides of the Potomac from Mount Vermon and Fort Washington to Great Falls, and on this project the Federal Government would bear half the cost. The bill also pro- vides for extension of the Rock Creek and Anacostia parkways into Maryland, of which the Federal Government would bear one-third. COL. W. P. WOOTEN PUT UPON RETIRED LIST 36 Years of Service Ends for Officer Attached to Secretary's Stafr. Col. Willilam P. Wooten, Corps of Engineers, attached to the office of the Asssitant Secretary of War as director of procurement of military supplies and also as director of the Army Industrial College in this city, was placed on the retired list of the Army yesterday on his own application after more than 36 years of active military service. He is from North Carolina and was an honor graduate of the United States Military Academy, class of 1898. During the World War he command. ed the 14th United States Engineers, which regiment was attached to the British Army, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the United States and a medal of a com- panion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George from Great Britain. Outside of his purely military services he had charge of all fleld work in the construction of the local filter plant near the Soldiers’ Home in the early nineties, was in charge of river and harbor work in Texas, the Hawallan Islands, Newport, R. L; in Micl 3 the Mississippl River in the gulf sion, and made a report on rovement of the St. Lawrence River rom Lake Ontario to Montreal. Col. and Mrs. Wooten have established their home for the future at 2540 Massachu- setts avenue. But, while announcing that study of charts, atmospheric conditions and o . Fithone other guides of meteorological nature indicate that clouds would character- ize the weather condition here today, the weather man declined to say for sure that there would be no sunshine to cast the shadow of that famous groundhog. The thermometer was expected to rise today to a maximum of about 50 degrees. ‘Tomorrow is forecast as cloudy, with rain probably by night. The highest temperature yesterday was 42 degrees, attained at 3:30 o'clock in the after- | noon. The lowest mark was 17 de- grees, at 8 a.m. i o SNYDER ACCEPTS TWO RESIGNATIONS U. S. Marshal Says He Had Not Asked McGinnis or Witter to Step Out. i r C. Snyder, United States Mar- shal for the District, announced last night that he had accepted the resig- +nations of Assistant Marshal J. H. Mc- | Ginnis and Deputy Marshal George ‘Witter. Mr. Snyder said the resignations were | a0t the result of the questionnaire which | he sent out last week to the 65 deputies | under him, declaring he had not re- | quested their resignations, ‘The place left vacant by Mr, Witter | will be filled by a man from Virginia ! already selected, whose name will be ' announced tomorrow. Mr. Snyder ex- pects to Appoint & successor to Mr. Mc- Ginnis early this week. Mr, Witter resigned to accept a posi- jon in the War Department. No in- lormtaion was obtainable last night with regard to the reason for Mr. McGinnis' | resignation. | et | y | OFFICERS’ DUTIES END. i i sebbintalizes Gen. Cheatham Retirement. ‘The President has approved the ap- lication of Maj. Gen. B. Frank Cheat- gm, who recently completed a four o the o Maj. Wins | 1 1 term as quartermaster general he Army, for transfer to the retired list, May 5, after more than 31 years’ active service. Gen. Cheatham has been granted leave of absence to the date of his retirement and will make home in San Francisco. that Washington's sky today would be | weather, should see his shadow, worse | { meeting at the National Museum, voted | street location, accoridng to Mr. Price, | IPLANS ARE PUSHED TOSETTLE DISTRICT MARKET QUESTION Southwest Area and Patter- son Tract Are Bidding for Merchants. r GOVERNMENTAL STEPS PENDING IN CONGRESS| Definite Decisions Are Expected Soon, Affecting Food Supply of Many Residents. As the Government drives ahead with its great building program for the Mall, Pennsylvania avenue triangle, with hopes of evacuating all the market in- terests to erect new bulldings, begin- ning this year, many plans are under way to take care of the scattered mar- keting with several important questions on the verge of settlement. Both the Southwest market area and the Patterson tract section are bid- ding for compission merchants, and an appropriation now before the Dis- trict subcommittee of the House com- mittee on appropriations providing $300,000 for a new farmers’ wholesale market in the Southwest section looms as the target for a wide difference of opinion in to come before the committee. Project Is Hanging Fire. ‘The matter of providing a new Cen- ter Market to l’egehce the great struc- ture which is to torn down to make way for the Department of Justice, is | hanging fire in two different places. In Congress legislation is pending to establish a new Government Center Market at public cost, while private in- terests represented principally by the Downtown Market Co., now are nego- itating on a proj 1 to build & new Center Market with private capital. ‘Within the near future, therefore, the whole market question thus will break into public attention, with prospects that before long some definite decisions may be made to affect the food supply of a large section of Washington's citizens. The interests behind the Patterson tract development, represented by the Union Market Terminal Corporation, of which J. O. Harrison is president, are building & group of stores on Fifth street northeast above Florida avenue, and constructing a farmers' market across Fifth street from these stores to accommodate between 600 and 1,00C tarmers. About 75 Per Cent Complete. ‘The Patterson tract bulldings are about 75 per cent complete, eight more are to be built in the near future, ac- cording to Mr. Harrison. Forty-two commission men are planning to move to this site, Mr. Harrison said, some- time in May. This group of commis- sion merchants, according to Mr. Har- rison, claims to be doing 80 per cent of the total tonnage of commission business on fruits and vegetables in ‘Washington. The Maryland and Virginia Farmers’ Marketing . Association, at a recent to move to the new farmers’ market of the Union Market Terminal Co. on the Patterson tract, when it is com- pleted. The offer made to them was understood to have been 25 cents per load of produce. The secretary of this organization is S. B. Shaw, director of extension work of the University of Maryland. In the Southwest section the Po- tomac Freight Terminals Co. hu‘ erected a large group of stores on Water street and, according to the vice presi- | dent, S. T. Price, expects that enough merchants will go to these stores to fill them all. These commission men do | not expect to move to their Water until the Government ousts them from ! their location. Now on Archives Site, | Most of the wholesale commission | men are located on the site of the! Archives Building, bounded by Ninth ! and Tenth, B street and Pennsylvania avenue. From present prospects, some | of these men will go to the Patterson tract and some to the Southwest site. | The Southwest interests are expecting Congress to appropriate the $300,000 which was authorized by the Staiker bill, which passed the last session of | Congress and was signed by the Presi- dent. The appropriation estimate is in- cluded in the District appropriation bill for 1931, and now is before the sub- committee of the House appropriations committee, of which Representative Stmmons is chairman. The site of the farmers' wholesale market authorized by Congress is placed at Tenth and Eleventh streets, between E and G streets southwest, Meantime, the Government is push- ing ahead with its plans to acquire all the Archives site now occupied by the commission men. About one-third of this large area already has been purchased direct by the Treasury from the property own- ers, and the rest is under condemna- tion. How long it will take to ac- quire the property under condemnation proceedings is not known, but informal | estimates place the final acquisition ! some time in the Summer. It is the plan of the Government to tear down the old buildings as soon as title is acquired, to begin preparations for the new Archives Building. While a resolution is pending in Con- gress to close Center Market on July 1, this long-standing proposition still was in the air today, as both the Govern- ment proposal to build a new market out of public funds, and the private proposal to build with private funds were pending. Officials of the Down- town Market Co. were hopeful last night that something could be an- nounced soon. ‘The Federation of Citizens' Associa- tion is on record flatly opposed to the expenditure of the $300,000 for a new farmers' wholesale market. Leaders in the federation market work point out that Congress should be informed of the change In situation since the Stalker bill was passed authorizing the market. Specifically, it was learned, the House committee will be informed of the new developments in the Patterson tract, the new stores going up, the trend in that direction of commission merchants handling a large share of the tonnage of fruits and vegetables, and particular- ly the vote of the Farmers’ Association, agreeing to go to the Patterson tract farmers’ market. Federation ‘leaders. Insist, however, that they are not launching a n{ht inst any southwest farmers’ market :Fz. ‘They insist that they are au- thorized n‘:i’ the federation to oppose the expenditure of public funds for the erection of a wholesale farmers’ market. ‘The citizen leaders point out that ihe situation is likely to make still further changes, and that it would be “waste- ful” of public funds to use them now to bulld a wholesale farmers’ market. \ imod!] of prohibition enforcement we | ings would be held on the measure. GENERAL NEWS PAGE B-—1 HONELL DEFENDS SEARCH WARRANT FEATURE OF BIL Senator Says Maryland and Virginia Have More Drastic Laws. DECLARES HIS MEASURE HITS AT BOOTLEGGERS Says Congress Must Destroy Rum Venders’ Technique to Make Capital Dry. Answering criticism of the search warrant provision in his dry enforce- ment bill for Washington, Senator Howel!, Republican, of Nebraska, last ' night declared it is not as drastic as laws now in effect in nearby counties of Maryland and Virginia, and less drastic than the Sheppard law, which preceded national prohibition in the District. Senator Howell said it is assumed by | presecuting officials in the District that the only provision for obtaining a search warrant here is under the na- tional prohibition act, which requirs evidence of a sale in order to search private dwelling. ‘The Senator sald the criticism of his pending bill has been directed at the words he added to the search warrant section to permit the issuance of war- rants for dwellings upon information that stills are set up or used, or that liquor has been delivered to or removed from the premises. Cites Virginia Laws. “The criticisms of the bill suggest to the uninitiated that this added provi- slon 1s unusual, extreme, and that it might cause the rights and liberties of those living in private dwellings to be trampled upon,” said Senator Howell. “That such conclusions are without foundation are evidenced by the fact that the Sheppard prohibition law en- acted for the District of Columbia and in effect three years, was far more dras- tic, and yet none but bootleggers suf- fered as a result of its provisions. H “For 16 years the State of Virginia has had in effect search-warrant pro- visions far more drastic, in facr, au- thorizing the issuance cf search war- rants upon evidence of the mere pos- session of liquor. Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties in Maryland bordering the District, have in effect similar provision. “In other words, the Howell bill pro- poses to afford no such drastic authority | for obtaining search warrants as the prohibition laws now in effect in &ll the territory surrounding the District, or provided in the Sheppard act, under the terms of which prohibition enforcement was exercised for at least three years. “Is any one complaining of the vio- lations of the sacredness of private dwellings in the surrounding territory? Did any one in the District complain of the search-warrant provisions in the Sheppard act? “Bootleggers in the District of Co- lumbia have evolved a technique that enables them to conduct their business in comparative safety under the pro- visions of the national prohibition law which authorizes the issuance of a search warrant only upon evidence of a sale, Thus & bootlegger can manufac- ture in one private dwelling ‘1om which he never makes a sale, and in this man- ner evades the danger of search. He can store his liquor in another private dwelling or apartment from which he never makes a sale. Bootleggers' sales are in the form of deliveries cutside of the dwellings wherein they manufacture and store their liquor. They have no such. protection in Virginia, in Mont- gomery and Prince Georges Countics, Md., but they enjoy it and thrive under it in the District of Columbia. It is to reach such violators that the added search-warrant provisions in the Howell hill have been .inserted therein. Aims Bill at Bootleggers. “If we are to make Washington a certainly will have to destroy the boot- legger's present technique. If the bill is enacted it will be much more diffi- | cult to get liquor, which, of course, will | not be pleasing to the bootlegger or his customers.” Senator Howell in support of his claim, cited section 10 of the Sheppard act governing search warrants, which Teads iir part as follows: ‘That is, one or more persons who are competent witnesses shall charge, on oath or affirmation before the corpora- tion counsel of the District of Colum- bia or any of his assistants duly au- thorized to act for him, presenting that any person, company, co-partnership, association, club or corporation has or have violated or is violating the pro- visions of this act by manufacturing, of- fering for sale, keeping for sale, traf- ficking in, bartering, Txchanflng for goods, or otherwise furnishing alcoholic liquor, shall request said corporation counsel or any of his assistants duly authorized to act for him to issue a warrant, sald attorney or any of his assistants shall issue such warrant.” Senator Howell also quoted at length from the laws in Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties, Md., and the provisions for issuance of search war- rants in Virginia. Senator Capper said yesterday that when the Howell prohibition bill is taken up it would be considered by the entire District committee rather than a_ sub-: committee and that he expected hea: —-— COUPLE TO OBSERVE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Wingate, Resi- dents of Capital 21 years, Wed Half Century. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Wingate, resi- dents of Washington for 2:nzyelrl. will celebrate their golden wedding anni- versary tomorrow at their home, 1903 Kearney street northeast. Mr. Wingate, who is 72 years old, has been employed for 15 years or so as a guard at the Treasury Department. His wife, Mrs. Mary Pease Wingate, 68 | years old, is well known in Washington for her patriotic work, being active in !hrA Vaolnln'a Relief Corps of the G. They came to Washington in 1909 from their former home in Augusta, Me. Mr. and Mrs. Wingate have one | daughter, Mrs, Harry M. Foss, with| whom they are making their home. Mrs. R. A, H;mley Dead. STAUNTON, Va,, Februa: - clal) —Mrs. K. > e o afkd sost Hensle; widow of T. D. Hensley, vam 4 year ago in January, died at her home IDISTRICT CITIZENS A 14-year-old boy, Everett Stevens, last night won the principal Franz Schubert memorial scholarship in the finals of a radio audition contest staged at Station WOL. He is shown here with Miss Peggy Clark, studio manager HUNT CLUB OFFERS SPRTED EVENT Three - Hour Exhibition Magnet for Enthusiasts at Horse Show. Is Horse lovers, drawn from Washington, Maryland and Virginia, formed an en- thusiastic attendance last night at a three-hour exhibition of horsemanship at the Riding and Hunt Club horse show, Twentieth and P streets. Happy Times, owned by Frank Bur- rows of Washington, was high ribbon winner, taking one first place and three second places in four events. Cagwin, owned by Ernest Woolf of Upperville, Loudoun County, Va., with one first place, two second places and one third in four events, was returned the second highest ribbon winner. Ribbon Winners. The ribbon winners, owners and their respective classes are: First class, three-year-old hunters, Rocko, George Plummer, winner; Prince F., Ernest Woolf, second; Mad Hen, George Plummer, third. Second class, lead-in, Cagwin, Ernest ‘Woolf, winner; Buckeye, Ray Norton, second; Aunt Irma, W. L. Petrikin. Third class. hack and hunter, Buck eye, Ray Norton, winner; Happy Time, Frank Burmwnh;:e:ond; Langayne, Miss third. open saddle, Hariett Lee, winner; Belle, Eugene Myer, second; Notary, C. H. Carrico, third. Fifth class, hunters—Clifton Chief, Medill McCormick, winner; Cagwin, Ernest Woolf, second; Buckeye, Ray Norton, third. Sixth class, novice sad- dle—Happy Time, Frank Burrows, win- ner; Rocke, George Plummer, second; in, Ernest Woolf, third. Seventh class, corinthian—Langayne, Miss Grace Razer, winner; Cagwin, Ernest Woolf, second; Miss Betty Couzens, Bean Beetle, third. Eighth class, special jumping—Spirit of St. Louls, Leon Arnold, winner; Happy Time, Frank Burrows, second; Dark Secret, C. V. Carrico, third. Ninth class, consolation —Dark secret, C. V. Carrico, winner; Happy Time, Frank Burrows, second; Betty Golden, Mrs. K. N. McDowell, third. Horse Falls at Barrier. ‘The only mishap in jumping events was experienced by Miss Elizabeth Norton, riding Smiles, she was di: mounted when the horse fell in taki a barrier. She rolled clear and was un- hurt. RS TR O MARINE CORPS HEAD LAUDS SANDERSON aviators’ Flight Carrying Parts for ‘Wrecked Plane Brings Commendation. ‘Two 75-mile airplane trips over the jungles of Nicaragua, where a forced landing probably would have meant death, with a spare wing for a crashed plane lashed to his ship each time, have brought a special letter of commenda- tion from Maj. Gen. Wendell C. Neville, commandant of the Marine Corps, to First Lieut. Lawson H. M. Sanderson, whose wife lives at 24 East Maple street, Alexandria, Va. Lieut. Sanderson has already cre- ated a name for himself in Marine Corps circles. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in April, 1921, for his service as engineer offi- cer on the pioneer flight from the Dis- trict of Columbia to Santo Domingo, D. R. He won third place in the Pulitzer air races in St. Louis in October, 1923, and was a star halfback in the University of Montana, which he attended from 1914 to 1917, when he enlisted in the Marine Corps, and was likewise a star of the first big all-Marine team, 1921-24. He was commended in May, 1926, by Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, then Ma- rine Corps commandant, for winning second place in the Army Air Service machine gun and bombing competition. Lieut. Sanderson has recently been on leave in Washington and Alexandria and has just returned to his post in Nicaragua. He is a native of Shelton, ‘Wash,, where he was born July 22, 1895. — HALF HOLIDAY ASKED FOR FEDERAL PRINTERS Shipstead Introduces Bill Similar to One Pending in Last Congress. Employes of the Government Printing Office would be given a half-holiday on Saturdays thorughout the year under !a bill ‘introduced in the Senate by Senator Shipstead of Minnesota, and referred to the committee on printing. Senator Shipstead had a similar bill pending in the last Congress. The bill provides that whenever em- ployes cannot be spared on Saturdays, they shall be entitled to a four-hour in Rolla, near here, yesterday. She is survived by five children, among them John J. Hensley of Washington. neral services will be held at Swift United Brethren Church Saturday. Run workday on some day in the following week. A similar measure is pending in Congress to apply to laborers and m:fimnlu throughout the Government service, —Star Staft Photo. YOUTHFUL PIANISTS GET SCHOLARSHPS Everett Stevens and Pauline | Slavins Win Franz Schu- bert Awards. Their ability at the piano, demon- strated last night in a radio audition for finalists at station WOL, Everett Stevens, 14, of 4205 Sixteenth street, and Pauline Slavins, 11, incy street northeast, were adjudged win- ners over the 200 or more contestants for the Franz Schubert Memorial scholarships, it was announced by the Jjudges. Everett was awarded a scholarship amounting to one year's tuition at the ‘Washington College of Music and little Miss Slavins was given a six months’ scholarship at the same institution. ‘The contest was conducted before a board of judges representing the faculty of the Washington College of | Music. The jury was Dr. Wilbur W. Delano of the college, Dr. Edmund N. C. Barnes, supervisor of music of the public schools of the District; Dr. Hugh Roland, Mrs. Fannie Amstutz Roberts and Miss Sarah Becker. The contest was part of a country- wide program arranged under auspices of the National Schubert Memorial scholarship committee. More than 200 youths between the ages of 6 and 14 years participated in the preliminaries in the District, under general direction of Miss Peggy Clark, WOL manager. The 10 finalists last night were Abe Clar, 615 Kenyon street; Irving Phil- lips, 4916 Ninth street; Dick Murphy, jr., 1830 Lamont street; Frances Greg- ory, 218 Maryland avenue northeast; Audrey F. Brown, 739 Ninth street southeast: Stockton Field, 3814 Fulton street; Doris Shupp, 4121 Illinois avenue, and Glen Carow, 4000 New Hampshire avenue. GEORGE |. HUBBARD DIES OF PNEUMONIA Formerly Connected With Shipping Board and Later Served in the Army. George Irving Hubbard, formerly con- nected with the Shipping Board Washington, who married a sister of Was | | died last Thursday of pneumonia in | Manchester, Conn., according to word received in Washington. Funeral serv- ices will be held at Lee's chapel, 332 Pennsylvania avenue at 2 p.m. tomor- row. Interment will be at Arlington. During the war he served here with the Shipping Board and later was in the Army. He married Miss Isabel Noyes, daughter of Clarence Noyes of ‘Washington, nine years ago. For the past eight years he has been with the Cheney Silk Co. in Manchester. EXTENSION BF WATER SERVICE IS PROPOSED! Zihlman Bill Would Authorize Providing Supply to Suburban Sanitary Commission. Chairman Zihlman of the House District committee introduced a bill y yesterday to extend authority of the i District Commissioners to furnish | water to the suburban sanitary com- 1 mission, with a provision that it would not draw a sufficient reserve for ade- quate supply of the District of Columbia for all purposes. ‘The measure would authorize the District Commissioners to connect the District of Columbia water mains with suburban Maryland, in the vicinity of Chevy Chase Circle, in the vicinity of Rhode Island avenue and Eastern ave- nue, Anacostia road and Eastern ave- nue, Forty-ninth and Christopher | streets northwest. i PRI R BOY WHO FELL 3 FLOORS RESPONDS TO TREATMENT Ralph Dreifus, 6, Shows Some Im- provement at Children’s Hospital. Six-year-old Ralph Dreifus, who (Ell, three floors from an ice-covered porch | in the rear of his home, 309 Fourth street southeast, yesterday while reach- ing for icicles, has responded favorably | to treatment, physiclans at Casualty | Hospital said last night. The lad suf- |fered concussion of the brain and | severe lacerations, but is expected to recover. | He fell from the third floor porch, striking his head on a flight of wooden steps on the ground floor. He first was taken to Casualty Hospital and treated by Dr. Louis Jimal, later being | removed to Children’s Hospital. Ralph is the son of Mr. and Mrs. fll'mut Dreifus, who live on the ground loor. in | cepted. Mrs. Roger Whiteford of Washington, | POLL VOTE AGAINST COMMISSION BILL Long Debate in Which Pro- posed Measure Is Defended Precedes Adverse Ballot. _ MEMBER RENEWS APPEAL FOR RIGHT TO VOTE HERE Federation Would Have None But Full-Fledged Residents Eligible for Candidacy. The Federation of Citizens' Associa~ tions does not want any but full-fledged residents of the District appointed as civilian Commissioners and said so em- phatically last night by going on rec- ord in oppostiion to the Jones bill lib- eralizing the qualifications of candi- dates for the positions. Action was taken on a report of the law and legislation committee, sub- mitted by Thomas E. Lodge, chairm ) which held that the District has a far better field from which to select its own administrative officers than other cities. The vote was 66 to 2, George R. Wales, a civil service commissioner, and M. G. Lloyd dissenting. Long Debate Heard. Adoption of the committee's report was preceded by a prolonged debate, in which Lloyd, Willlam McK. Clayton and Willlam A. Roberts were the prin- the fight for ap- roval of the bill, and Roberts de- ‘ended the report of the committee op= posing it. Clayton took advantage of l‘:‘ce osppflrtunlby to renew a plea for I'm a strong believer in home rule,” Clayton declared, “and there would be no need of a discussion on the qualifi- cations of our civilian commissioners if we had the privilege of electing them.” Sees Bill's Provisions. .., Roberts said that the bill provides “that a temporary lobbist, can be a commissioner, and that a man from Maryland can come to the District and control our finances.” Lloyd, how=- ever, argued that there should be no restrietions on the residence require- ments of an appointee to the commis~ sionership. “If you want good administrators for pe! ere to get the best.” » i Acting on the recommendation of the education committee, headed by James G. Yaden, the federation indors- ed the efforts of the Board of Educa- tion to eliminate portables and other makeshifts for housing pupils, but tabled three proposed amendments to the constitution which would give it control over the geographical boun- daries of the member neighborhood as- sociations. Adverse Report Submitted. An adverse report on the three amendments was submitted by Clay- ton, who served as chairman of a spe- cial committee to which the proposed changes were referred for consideration. The report declared the federation shovdd adopt a “hands off” policy with spect to the neighborhood organiza- A motion to table the report fol- lowed a protracted debate and was adopted by a close vote of 35 to 33. The federation also adopted unani- mously a resolution introduced by Grover W. Ayres to petition Congress to extend the tenure for two years of Dr william , veteran employe of the District government, who is now serving as head of the Information Bureau at the District Building. Dr. Tindall is 85 years old and his service in the District government, already ex- tended four times beyond the limit of the retirement law, is scheduled to end in August. An invitation of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. to the delegates to inspect its central office was ac- Arrangements were made to make the inspection trip Tuesday, Feb- ruary 11, at 8 pam. Committee Appointments. Roberts, who was removed from the public utilities committee of the fed- eration more than a year ago, was re- stored by Dr. George C. Havener, presi- dent, who announced number of other changes in the personnel of standing committees. Important among them was a shift in committee chair~ manships between Charles I. Stengle and Hugh M. Frampton. Stengle was made chairman of the committee on local suffrage and Frampton _took Stengle’s position at the head of the fiscal relations committee. F. A. Emery, M. Z. Baughman, Ed- win S. Hege and Etta Taggart were added to the national representation committee. Other assignments were Mrs. F. T. Dubois to the committee on city planning, James May to the com- mittee on law and legislation; Willlam G. Gath to the public utilities com= mittee, A. C. Fisher to the zoning com- mittee and V. P. DeKnight to the committee on highways, parks and waterways. DIPLOMATS TO HONOR DR. NICHOLAS JORGA Famous Rumanian Historian to Be Guest at Legation Today. Dr. Nicholas Jorga, president of the University of Bucharest, Rumania, who is regarded as one of the outstanding historians, is & guest at the Rumanian legation here. He will deliver a lec- ture on Rumania at 5 o'clock Wednes- day afternoon at Corcoran Hall of George Washington University. A _reception will be given in honor of Dr. Jorga today at the legation to which several hundred members of the diplomatic corps, local society and edu- cation circles have been invited. COL. R. W. KERR DIES. Medical Corps Officer, Brooklyn Native, Began Service in 1908. The War Department has been ad- vised that Lieut. Col. Robert W. Kerr, Medical Corps of the Army, died at his home on Riverside Drive, New York City, Friday. He was on duty as in- structor of Reserve officers at the New York University. A native of Brooklyn, he entered the Army as a first lleutenant in 1908 and served during the World colonel and surgeon in Army. He was cited for gallantry in i eyt Licensed to Wed. UPPER MARLBORO, Md. February 1 been issued here to James Millard El- lis, 29, and Bertha H. Murphy, 29, botl of Washington. e h. g S (Special).—A marriage license has|grad action at Raucourt, France, November 9, 1918, when “although wounded him- self, he carried a wounded soldier to the dressing station under heavy enemy machine-gun_fire.” Col. Kerr was a luate of Yale University, 1903, and the Army Medical School, 1909, and reached the regular grade of leutenant colonel in June, 1929,