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GENERAL NEWS | _[wwmmorox | The Sunday Stae D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1930. PAGE B—1 DEAN POLND SES A LAW CHANGES OF ST IPIRTACE Effect of Enforcement Com- mission’s Work Forecast at | Federal Bar Dinner. HURLEY AND OTHERS | EXTOL WASHINGTON | 800 Members of Association, Wives | and Guests Attend Tenth Annual Event. ‘The possibility that changes in| fundamental law of far-reaching im- portance will develop out of the ex- haustive study undertaken by President Hoover's Commission on Law Observ- ance and Law Enforcement was sug- gested last night by Dean Roscoe Pound of the Harvard Law School, a member of the commission. Speaking before the Federal Bar As- sociation on the occasion of the organi- zation’s tenth annual dinner, in the Mayflower Hotel, Dean Pound said in effect that law and its administration must be better adapted to present-day conditions. He was one of several prominent men who addressed the ban- | quet meeting. H. Tuttle, United States attor- new at New York, and Senator Samuel | J. Shortridge of California, took occa- sion to pay tribute to George Washing- ton. In keeping with the birthday anni- versary of the first President, all the addresses touched on Washington's| service to the country. William R. Val- | lance, president of the association, pre- | sided at the dinner, and Seth Richard- #on, Assistant Attorney General, was toastmaster. About 800 members, their | wives and guests atended. | Dean Pound developed the thought | that the pioneer spirit pervaded' the early Government. He asserted that that spirit, characterized by restlessness, a tendency to put everything into polities, a distaste for form and ceremony, finds expression today in present difficulties. Conditions Undergo Change. Conceding that there is “much con- | fusion” in current thinking on moral questions, he suggested that one cause of difficulty in law observance and law enforcement “is that our institutions, our policy, our laws and our whole at- titude toward them have a background of pioneer life. “Hence they work awkwardly in the urban industrial society of today. It is not that there has been a decadence in the moral fiber of the people,” Dean Pound asserted. “It is rather that what were virtues in pioneers and in ploneers of societies are no longer vir- tues in the residents of crowded urban centers and in industrial societies.” 1] The pioneer spirit, as evidenced by & suspicion of specialization and the firm belief in the ability of any one «to do anything, is showing its weak- ness today, Dean Pound said, general want of co-operation on the part of administrative agencles, in ineffectiveness of law making and in- efficiency of administration of justice— in a general ill adaptation of the law- making and legal for administrative regime of the pioneer, to the tasks confronting legislation and adjudication and administration in twentieth cen-| tury America.” Member of Commission. Dean Pound is a member of the Law Enforcement Commission, which, under an George W. Wickersham, the former Attorney General, is studying many phases of enforcement problems. It is expected that President Hoover will base some of his recommendations to Congress on the findings of the body, and for that reason significance was attached to this expression of Dean Pound: “In law and administration the ploneer’s tendency to ‘put everything into politics is especially ill adapted to the conditions of today. Administration has come to be a sort of official en- gineering. i “It is & getting done of the things which must be done through regular machinery in a hly organized eco- European Trip Cut Short to Make Fight in Mer- ger Situation. Maps Made at Own Expense | Show Need Throughout City. | John J. Noonan, whose independent | advertising broadside against “big!| utility syndicates” created extraordinary | interest during the fight on the “Wil- | son” merger of the traction lines, has | laid plans for a similar crusade in be- | half of another minority—this time composed not of small stockholders of the street railways, but of ‘“small customers.” i The small customers in whose de. fense Mr. Noonan has stepped forward now are the school children of Wash- ington. i Interrupting a tour of Eurore when | he learned by cable of developments in the traction situation favorsble to the cause of reduced fares for students, Mr. Noonan caught the first boat home and arrived in time to fire his opening gun a Senate hearing last Friday. As _ammunition in his newest drive Mr. Noonan has marshaled an impos- ing array of figures and facts calculated to break down opposition to lowered rates for school children and, to use his own words, “even to move hardened senses of Wall Street.” “The fight already is won!"” Noonan declared yesterday during an inter- view in the document-strewn study of his comfortable home in Cleveland Park. “I've got them licked already. Look at this stuff I've got together here.” He indicated ‘a pile of typewritten papers, press clippings, printed con- grushnll reports and miscellaneous lata on the big desk before him. Then he unrolled a big map. | Map Shows Schools. | “See here. This is a map of the city | with all the schools marked in red.| Those circles there are mile zones. This shows you how far some of these tots have to travel to go to school. Over here in Congress Heights, for instance, some of the youngsters go two or three miles to their classes.” At his own expense, Mr. Noonan has ordered more than 700 of these maps made, one of which will be given to each member of Congress. “I understand that more than 2,000 children pay fare both ways in going to and from school,” he said. “Some of those boys and girls are from needy families. Their parents are in want. ‘They can’t afford to pay carefare like that. I don’t see how some of those people get along at all. “Incidentally, I've dug up a lot of statistics on what it costs to live in ‘Washington, and on the health condi- the under-privileged Dropping the map, he picked up a newspaper clipping. ““This shows what I mean. Dr. Fow- ler says here that 91 per cent of our 67,000 school children have physical defects. About one-third of them are anemic, undernourished. Yet they compe] these poor little ones to y money to the street car eompanies t:t they need to feed their thin bodies. It's an_outrage. that John J. Noonan's It was plain Irish was “up.” Born in Xenia. Ohio, 65 years ago, of sturdy stock from the old country, John J. inherited a spirit of aggres- | siveness and determination that has stood in good stead in many a battle. And he has been through num- erous struggles during his colorful career. Now that he has reached the point where he no longer needs worry over where the next week’s is coming from, he feels the urge to “mix in” as champion of others yet engaged in the struggle. . CANDY ARGUNENT LEADSTOSHODTING Merchant Claims Purchaser, hig] nomic order. Politics, as the pioneer played the game, is not an art of get- ;l:n'hlnp done. It is a battle of op- | g organizations.” i ‘T. A. Hostetler was chairman of the committee that arranged the dinner. Music was furnished by the United States Marine Band Orchestra, Arthur 8. Whitcomb, conducting. | Officers of the Federal Bar Associa- | tion, in Edwin A. Neiss, first vice president; George A. Warren, second vice presi- dent: Msj. Horace T. Jones,.third vice | president; Ralph G. Cornell, secretary; | Willis E. Monty, treasurer, and Henry Ward Beer, president of the New York branch. addition to Mr. Vallance, are LIQUOR RAIDERS GIVEN | BATTLE BY SUSPECT| " Jack H. Watson Treated for Head Lacerations and Booked After Fight on Street. | Raiding officers last night and Jack H. Watson, 24 years old, of the 2300 ¢ block of First street engaged in a fight | yon the 700 block of Eleventh street. | which ended with Watson being ad-| mitted to Emergensy Hospital with | * head lacerations. Sergt. Oscar J. Letterman and Po-. liceman Harold O. Johnson of the traf- | fic bureau said they attempted to ar- rest Watson while he was in the act © of making an alleged liquor delivery in an automobile. Watson was accom- panied by his wife. When Watson is said to have left the ! car with a half-gallon jar, which offi- cers said contained whisky, Johnson made an effort to head him off, while Sergt. Letterman attempted to search the car. Johnson and Watson began to battle, and before the policeman sub- dued his prisoner the glass jar was| broken. Witnesses say the fight lasted : sevs minutes. Watson later was booked at the first | precinct station with transportation | and Mssession of liquor. THIEVES STéAL CAMERA. Home Movie Equipment, Valued at $350, Is Taken. ‘Thieves believed to have used a dupli- cate key made their way into the home of Dr. Edward B. Thompson at 5309 Georgia avenue yesterday and gscaped with home motion picture projection equipment valued at $350. The loss in- ol two projection machines, a camera and several lenses. A thief, who hurled a brick through a show window in the haberdashery of | Hospital after treatment. | desk drawer in the Woodward and Threatened to Strike Him | With Chair. A dispute concerning payment for a small amount of candy purchased by | Charles P. Samuels, colored, 25, of 1624 Vermont avenue, at the store of Jacob | Paregol, 29, of 2271 Ninth street, yes-| terday afternoon, ended in the shooting of the colored man after he is alleged to have threatened to strike the store- keeper with a chair. Both men were arrested by eighth precinct police. Samuels is being held at the precinct on charges of assault and petty larceny. Paregol was released under $1,000 bond after being booked for assault with dangerous weapon. The bullet from his gun grazed the colored man’s head. The latter was discharged from Preedman's Samuels is said to have entered the store and asked for some candy. Given it, police said, he refused to pay for it. During the dispute that followed he picked up a chair and threatened to hit Paregol, who reached under the counter, grasped a revolver, and shot him, police declare. UNMOUNTED RINGS TAKEN FROM STORE Police Are Looking for Loiterer After Theft of $645 in Jewelry. Seven unmounted platinum rings, valued at $645, were stolen from o lothrop _department store about 1 o'clock Friday afternoon, Miss Elste Birch of 649 Franklin street northeast, an employe of the store, reported to police yesterday. Police are searching for a man who was seen loitering near the spot a few minutes before the theft was discovered. One ring had 18 small diamonds, and another had 15 small diamonds. The others contained a lesser number of stones. In none had the central jewel mounted. Blast Kills Three Men. VANCOUVER, Wash., February 22 (#).—Three men were killed today when a charge of dynamite exploded prema- turely at the Northwestern Electric Co. hydroelectric power station develop- Simon Nachman, 3200 block of Four- teenth street, last night, made off with fox and neckties worth $25, Nachman reported. 5 ment on the Lewis River near here. The dead: C. R. Nicklan, powder man; L. Cushmi blacksmith; Mike Papas, a | lishe NOONAN PLUNGES INTO CRUSADE {FOR LOWER CAR FARE FOR PUPILS — o JOHN J. NOONAN. Apparently it is this urge alone that. moves this picturesque private citizen to fare forth in his new crusade. His battle to “prevent outside interests from sqeezing out local minority stock- holders” in the street car companies is over. He says he has disposed of his 1,500 shares in the Washington Railway & Electric Co. and has washed his hands of its fiscal affairs. In selling out, he says, he promised to “lay off” the company and its controlling inter- ests. “But I-didn't sell my rights as a citizen,” he declared. “That's what I told the head of one utility company the other day when he chided me for coming out in favor of free fares for school children. Because I am no longer a stockholder should not pre- vent me as a citizen from advocatin {what I think is right and just an human. “I have had to dig all my life, and I know what it is to be up against it.” Mr. Noonan began “digging” for a living when he was just 13, out in Xenia. He got a job in a depot restaurant and | worked side by side with the late Tom Taggart, before the latter became famous as a politician. Later he branched into the resort business in Cincinnati, a line of activity that he followed for many years in | later life. It was Noonan who, at the age of 19, opened the second dining car service in the East, operating be- tween Chicago and Cincinuati. Operates Excursion Boats. ‘The resort business called him agai and he went to Baltimore and obtained | a concession to operate excursion steamers between that city and Chesa- peake Beach, Thirty years ago he rented a build- ing at 1008 Pennsylvania avenue and opened a lunch room. From that time on he has made Washington his place of business and his home. His business connections widened along diversified lines, extending into the realm of hotel- | keeping and utility investments. When he retired from active business about three years ago his friends esti- mated he had amassed a sizeable for- | tune; . Noonan himself won't discuss | this subject. But it is known he spent thousands of dollars for newspaper ad- vertising, printed circulars and other things during his campaign against the street car “powers.” And already he has begun to spend money freely in his current battle for the school children. The details of his plans for the new | crusade he refuses to divulge in their | entirety at this time. | But one of the most interesting fea- tures of the whole campaign is the fact that Mr. Noonan has no ulterior mo- tives in waging it. He has decided in | his own mind that Washington children should be given school rates on street is going to fight for it. COMMUNIST ACTS | HERE PROTESTED Veterans of Foreign Wars Express Confidence in School Authorities. Protest against the spread of -com- munistic propaganda in the public schools and an expression of confidence in the administrative officials of the| schools in the proper handling of the current efforts to introduce this doc- | trine was voiced in a letter sent yes- terday to Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- intendent of schools, by the Equality- Walter Reed Post, No. 284, Veterans of Foreign Wars. Signed by D. E. Campbell, acting ad- jutant of the post, the letter cites pub- ed reports of the activities of young communists among high school chil- dren here and voices “our protest against this attempt to pollute the minds of immature school children with treasonable doctrine.” S%nunuing‘ the communication sets orth: “Your administration of the schools of this city for some years past has won for you the confidence and respect of the citizens of this city, and we are confident that all necessary steps will be taken to investigate this matter to determine to what extent this condi- tion is prevalent in our schools, and all reasonable efforts made to put an) immediate stop to the perniciaus in- filtration of communistic doctrine into our public schools. “As you may already know, the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars of the United | States is an organization of men who have served their country in actual conflict on foreign soil and resent with equal loyalty any attempt to tamper with the fundamentals of our Govern- ment at home, which we believe is the best that human ingenuity has thus far been able to oreate and have proved our faith by active service.” DEATH ACCIDENTAL. A verdict of accidental death was reached by a coroner’s jury yesterday afternoon at an inquest conducted into the death of Talbert W. Wagner, 40- ear-old mental patient at St. Eliza- th’s Hospital, who was instantly killed yesterday afternoon when a railroad engine operated by George Luckett, 36 years old, of the 2500 block of Rhode d avenue, ran over him in the hos- pital grounds. ‘The engineer and the fireman, Wil- liam Singleton, 26 years old, colored, of the 2600 bsck Pomeroy road southeast, who were the only witnesses to the mis- hap, testified they could not tell wheth- er Wagner had leaped in front of the engine or had been hit accidentally. MOONTAN SCHOO GVEN BY HODVER OPENS TOMORRON Teacher Kept Busy Preparing Building to Receive Youth of Dark Hollow. | RADIO IS ATTRACTION TO RESIDENTS OF HILLS Men of Neighborhood Show Inter-‘ est and Help Make Ready for First Classes. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. When Jesus was crucified, so runs the old mountain legend, the woeful news came to the fairies, who were dancing by moonlight in the Blue Ridge hollows. Whereupon ~the tender creatures ceased their gambols and wept. And where their tears fell they were trans- muted into stones shaped like tiny crucifixes. So to this day the tears of the fairies still can be gathered in the Blue Ridge. They are found nowhere else in the world, and geologists can't entirely account for them. The source of this most mystical gem | of mountain legendry, apparently tig> play of the Celtic imagination of some | early settler upon curious objects of | nature, is unknown. It seems like a lone | immigrant, fashioned of fancy, from the | haunted glens of the Scottish highlands | or the dark mountains of Western Ire- | land. And this is_exactly the atmmphere? in which a visitor finds himself by | scrambling down a mile or two of brush- | covered mountainside, where the sap is | running and leaf buds appearing on the thorn bushes, into the depths of | Dark Hollow—down where the waters of a mountain river tumble over & hun- | dred feet of green precipice like a slen- | der, moaning elf maiden with sunshine | in her wind-tossed hair and her silver | feet in the eternal twilight of an im- | memorial past. ' Place of Everlasting Dusk. She, with her perpetual wordless sob- | bing, is a symbol of the mind of Dark | ollow, the beautiful mother of its | ancies and phantasies, chained through | the ages to the face of the green preci- pice until her deliverer comes. About! her feet are scattered a half-dozen crude log cabins, each with its family of hap- less children, all bearing the chained waterfall's heritage of darkness. Within the memory of the present in- | habitants, Dark Hollow was a place of | everlasting dusk, buried away under the towering crags and with a thick cur- tain of matted hemlock branches, through which the sun barely could i penetrate at noon, overarching the‘ waters. Now the hemlocks have been cut away and the sun falls umfl the | cabin roofs—but there rema the | chained, sobbing elf maiden whose spirit dominates the glen. I Up the mountainside, out of Dark Hollow, tomorrow morning will come the | plaintive children of the enchanted cat- | aract—the boys and girls to whom, all | their little lives, her sobbing has been a | lullaby. Here will be found the greater | part of the students who will attend the | new model school established by Pl‘ui-‘ dent Hoover. It is about two-and-a- | half miles away. For some of the chil- | dren it will provide the first glimpse of the modern world which has grown up about them while they and their mothers and fathers have slept at the foot of the waterfall. Aside from two familles—the Burakers and Weakleys—who live within a hun- dred feet of the new school house, nearly all the population to be served is that of Dark Hollow. The children are walting as eagerly for the opening as other children wait for Santa Claus. Church Is Credit. Dark Hollow, as Blue Ridge hollows g0, seems a fairly progressive place. Compared to hollows deeper in the | mountains, the cabins are larger, the people better dressed, and the children cleaner and fatter. There are pigs and hens about most of the cabins. It is & community of small—mostly very small —farmers. Most of the men have been working at the new school house during the Winter. A curious feature of Dark Hollow is its church, which also has served spasmodically as a school house. It is a neat, steepled little building such as would do credit to a suburb of Washington, although the cabins round- | about are not much better than the mountain average. The minister comes | up from Richards Hollow, a more thick- ly populated district a few miles below. Occasionally one of the local farmers preaches there. Dark Hollow has been much more in contact with the outside world than the | deeper hollows. In fact, a county road, passable in Summer for automobiles, runs through it. It is easier to get in and out. Most of the older children have been, at some time in their lives, to Criglersville and to Madison. It does not seem that much will be needed to turn the younger ones into typical American school boys and girls. When they hear at the new school music coming through the air from the radio President Hoover has had installed it will be a revelation which will go far to overcome the dark enchantment of the moaning cataract Nevertheless Dark Hollow is in the mountains and it partakes unescapably in the subtle environment of the moun- tains—the dwarfing of human person- ality before the looming peaks out of which sunrise and sunset create totter- ing castles of fire, the intensity of si- lence broken only by the cataract's sob- bing, and the Nirvana atmosphere which hangs over everything. Mountain folk ara not like other folk. Radio Object of Interest. But Miss Christine Vest, the teacher selected by Mrs. Hoover, who will take charge of the Dark Hollow children, understands the mountain character. She herself came originally from a mountain community and most of her teaching experience has been among mountain children in Kentucky and ‘Tennessee. She has been at the a:hooll house, half of which will serve as her home, for a week and has taken advan- tage of spare moments she could snatch from unpacking and putting her house in order to get acquainted with her neighbors—especially the Burakers and the Weakleys. And they have been equally anxious to make the acquaint- ance of the newcomer. One of the Weakley girls is staying with her at the school house. The new radio is an object of special interest to the moun- tain people. Miss Vest is loath to talk of the work which confronts her. Her work among mountain hollows has taught her that there are no set rules of education which can be applied. The method must be one of case study. Sometimes minds are receptive and can be taught by the same methods used with chil- dren anywhere. Sometimes the minds are closed and must first be opened. It is like pouring water into a can. One ‘Wagner, a former Marine, entered the hospital in July, 1927, He was a blacksmith's helper. native of Keyser, W. Va. must first take off the cover. The new teacher knows, above all, that one hollow cannot be fitted into (Continued on Second Page.) L4 Above: The first interior view of the class room ‘n the school which President Hoover has established near his Blue Ridge mountain camp. Center: The exterior of the school. painting the pole from which the flag will fiy before the school house. built the school. Lower left: Two of the mountaineers shaping and Lower right: LeRoy C. Hart, the architect who —Star Staff Photos. PROPOSED DISTRICT ACTS AWAIT TARIFF Many Measures to Be Taken Up by Committee Within Near Future. Proposed legislation of interest to Washington will be the subject of in- creased activity in the Senate as soon as the tariff bill is passed and sent to conference. Despite the amount of time required of them by the tariff bill, members of the District committee, of which Sena- tor Capper is chairman, have held a number of meetings in recent weeks on the street railway merger resolution, the bill to change court procedure in utility cases and some measures of lesser importance. Plan Night Hearing. Members of the committee also are | planning to hold a night public hearing in the near future on the Cramton bill for the comprehensive development of the park system in Washington, the establishment of the George Washing- ton Memorial Park along the Potomac, and the extension of Rock Creek and Anacostia Parks. ‘The new public buildings bill, to add $115,000,000 to the total authorization for Federal structures in Washington and a similar increase for the States, has already been reported to the Senate by Chairman Keyes of the public build- ings and grounds committee. It is, therefore, in a position to be considered at an early date following the tariff, This bill has passed the House. Other Measures Held Up. Hearings before the Blaine subcom- mittee on the bills to regulate the real estate business, to control the sales of securities and to define a method of foreclosing mortgages in the District, also are awalting disposition of the tariff bill. ‘There are a number of other local measures that will receive attention when the Senate s work on a gen- eral legislative program. e —— Proposes $3 Washington Coins. Three-hundred thousand three-dollar 30ld pieces would be coined to commem- orate the two-hundredth birthday anni- versary of George Washington under a bill introduced yesterday by Representa- tive Cable, Republican, Ohlo, AT ST. DOMINICK’S HALL Luncheon, Dinner and Dance to Aid in Paying for Restoration of ! Church Structure. | The second of a series of benefits be- | ing given at St. Dominic's Hall, Sixth | and F streets southwest, for the purpose | of paying a debt incurred by the recent | restoration of the church, will be held | Thursday in the form of a luncheon and supper, followed by a dance in the evening. The luncheon will be served from 11:30 to 2, the dinner from 4:30 to 7:30, and dancing will continue from 9 o'clock to midnight. Very Rev. Raphael M. Burke, O. P., prior of St. Dominic's, is general chair- man of the event. John N. Auth is in charge of the foodstuffs. Other mem- bers of the committee in charge in- clude Lawrence Auth, the Misses’ Ap- pich, Miss Broderick, Mrs. Braun, Jo- seph Burke, Mrs. George Boyd, James Carraher, Mrs. M. Collins, Mrs. K. Col- lins, the Misses’ Collins, Miss Coughlan, Mrs. Daly, Miss Dwyer, Mrs. Dubant, Roger Esunas, J. Pitzgerald, T. Gallaher, Mrs. A. Hawk, Mrs. M. Hawk, Miss Harcld, Mrs. Teresa Kirk, Mrs. Kines, J. McCann, Mrs. M. E. Marsden, Dr. Frank Marsden and Miss Rose Mc- Gregor. YESTERDAY A HOLIDAY? NOT FOR BUILDING CREWS ‘Workers on Federal Triangle Proj- ects Continue Operations De- spite Washington Celebration. It was Washington's birthday yester- day—for some people—but to many workers on the new Federal buildings in the Triangle it was just another Saturday. On the iron-work on the new Depart- ment of Commerce Building, just across from the District Building, the struc- tural crews, with , were hard at work, adding further links to the framework of the glant building. At the new Internal Revenue Build- ing, just back of the Post Office Depart. ment, workmen were adding the finish- ing touches to the interior of the struc- ture, 50 that it may be ready for oc- cu?ancy by June. The floor slabs are being cemented in place and electri- clans were engaged in placing wires for | fire-alarm and lighting systems. Some workmen on the new Govern- |BENEFIT TO BE GIVEN ’ ment structures did get a holiday, how- | ever, but only because it was Saturday. Some _trades, such as plumbers and steamfitters, customarily call it & week on Friday night. their staccato riveting | .10 TRAFFIC MISHAPS HURT FIVE PERSONS Youth, 19, Sustains Frac-! tured Leg When Motor Cycle Is Overturned. Pive persons were injured and one arrested for reckless driving as a resuli of traffic accidents late yesterday, while another narrowly escaped possible seri- ous injury when the motor cycle he was driving overturned, injuring his com- E:ntlon. who was riding on the tandem at. The youth, Edwin Duffie, 19 years old, of the 100 block of North Carolina avenue, who was riding on the tandem seat of the motor cycle, sustained a fractured leg as the vehicle overturned when one of the tires exploded. He ‘was treated at Casualty Hospital. Ar- thur Bride of the 200 block of E street was the driver who escaped injury. The accident occurred on Alabama ave- nue near Fort Dupont place. Driver Arrested. John F. Willoughby, 26 years old, of 1223 M street, was treated at Casualty Hospital for severe lacerations on the left hand, sustained when hit by an automobile operated by James M. ‘Wright of Crossroads, Md., at Eleventh and E streets northeast. Wright was arrested on the scene and charged at No. 9 precinct with reckless driving. Irvin Holaber, 17 years old, of 1116 Seventh street, sustained a fractured right ankle when he fell from the motor cycle he was riding near Fort Hum- phreys, Va. He was treated at Emer- gency Hospital. Prank G. Talbert, 20 years old, of Alexandria, Va., received de lacera- tions of the face and body bruises when his motor cycle collided with an auto- mobile truck driven by E. John- son of 223 Parker street, on r-and-a- street southwest. Talbert was treated at Emergency Hospital for his injuries. Youth, 10, Hurt. James Tasseno, 10, of Cathedral Man- sions, 2000 Connecticut avenue, sus- tain minor injuries late yesterday afternoon when he was struck by an automobile as the express wagon in which he was coasting shot out from an alley in the 2700 block of Twenty-sev- enth street just in front of the machine. Carl H Wells, jr., 19, of 2812 Con- necticut avenue, driver of the machine, took the boy to Emergency Hospital, where he was treated by Dr. J. E. Lewis oh! t:e staff for lacerations to his fore- ead. 5100000 PLAVKED 1S FEDERAL PARK FUND N MARYLAND Proposed as Substitute in Cramton Bill for One-third Contribution. MAY USE LUMP SUM FOR IMPROVEMENTS Suggested Amendments Also Would Vest Title to Land in Nearby Counties. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. Liberalization of some of the.money contribution features of the Cramton park extension bill, which will redound to the great benefit of the metropolitan district of Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties, in Maryland, in that part of them immediately adjacent to | the District, of Columbia, is to be sought by the author of the measure, Repre- sentative Louis C. Cramton, it was learned today. Mr. Cramton indicated that he was not ready at this time to discuss any of the details of his proposed amend- ments because he desired to first discuss the matter with Representative Elliott of the House committee on public build- | Ings and grounds, and Senator Capper, chairman of the Senate District com- mittee. The bill has passed the House “ and now is pending in the Senate. Amendments Unwritten, Although none of the amendments which are to be pro have been written, it was learned that one of them will provide for the payment to the Maryland Planning Commiss! of a lump sum, fixed at $1,500,000, for its share toward the acquisition of land for the extension of the District of Columbia park system into the main valleys of Montgomery and Prince Georges, including the Anacostia River, the Northwest Branch, and Indian Creek in Prince Georges and Sligo Creek, Rock Creek and Cabin John Run in Montgomery County. The bill as it was originally written and as it passed the House provides for a con- tribution of one-third by the Federal Government and two-thirds ot be paid by the State or eoun?, to be applied exclusively to the land purchase, with |Lhe ultimate vesting of the title in the United States, but with the improve- { ments, development and maintenance under charge of the county. Under the provision for the lump- sum contribution, it was explained, the | amount was fixed on the basis of the total acreage to be included in the sev- eral park projects and at an appraised price determined .by the eers of the Maryland Natiohal Park and Planning Commission. main object to be obtained, Mr. Cram- ton said, is the ufll&l sary land. With in view, if those charged with the acquisition of the land in Maryland can obtain it by dedica- tion or at a price lower than that ap- praised, then the Federal Government's | contribution may be used for the devel- | opment of the parks, such as the build- | méwo! roadways, recreation features and other improvements. In other words, it was explained, the Maryland commis- sion will get full credit in money, cl to the Pederal contribution, for any land it succeeds in getting by dedi- cation, Conference Determines Sum. The lump sum was tentatively de- termined upon during the conferences held over a period of three days lasf week between Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, executive officer, and Charles W. Eliot, 2d, city -planner, of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, repre- senting the Federal Government; Irvinj { €. Root, chief engineer, and J. Bon Smith, general counsel of the Mary- land National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission, representing the Maryland metropolitan district, and Representative Cramton. Mr. Root and Mr. Elliott, at the request of Mr, Crang- ton, measured off on the maps on which the new projects were laid out, the total area to be included in them and a tentative appraised value was fixed. . These figures were then submitted to Mr. Cramton, following which they were made the basis of the proposed lump sum contribution. It was figured that the total value of the land to be included in all of the projects in the metropolitan district in Montgomery and Prince Georges Countles was $4,500,000, which would make the Federal contribution s Mary- |1and $1,500,000. Bill's Purpose Cited. Mr. Cramton pointed out that the ., How- ever, if the authorities in the counties are able to get part of it by dedication, then the money intended for such land acquisition would be contributed as a gift, and the counties {nen can use it for improvement. The measure, it is hored to have changed also so that the title will be vested &1 the counties, thus remavlng one of the objectionable fea- tures which caused most of the con- cern on the part of the Maryland offi- cials when the original conferences were arranged for by Mr. Eliot. Since the Cramton bill was originally written the Maryland National Capital Park and Planning Commission has come into existence, and all of the planning for parks has been made since that time. Mr. Cramton, according to officlals who conferred with him, said that he had not been informed before of the vast strides that were being made in Montgomery County in the de- velopment of park system at the ex- pense of the county and the State of Maryland, Maryland planning officlals were not disposed to give out the total areas involved in the projects, on the theory, they said, that if it was known how much money was to be spent, it might Tesult in the raising of the values of the land above those which they have fixed. However, all of the park projects have been open to public inspection for some time, and if the Cramton bill is passed containing the provision for a lump-sum contribution to the State and counties, the amount will be contained in the bill, and it will not be possible to hide it until after the land is acquired. s Whether the amendments sought by the land officials, and, as Mr. Cramton sald yesterday proposed to lay the matter before Mr. Eiliott and Senator Capper, together with the matters developed at the sev- eral conferences with the Maryland offl- clals. Objected to Title. While Maryland found objection to the vesting of title in the United States to lands in the several major valley projects, it was sald that a counter suggestion was made that the U (Continued on Second