Evening Star Newspaper, March 12, 1930, Page 17

Washington News C. OF . VOTES AID T0° WASHINGTON'S BICENTENNIAL FETE Sol Bloom Outlines Part That Capital Will Have in Celebration. CITY MUST BE READY, REPRESENTATIVE SAYS Has More at Stake Than Any in America, He Asserts in Plea for Co-operation. Full co-operation with the Federal Government in plans for the bicenten- nial celebration of George Washing- ton’s birthday in 1932 was voted unani- mously by the Washington Chamber of Commerce at its monthly meeting in the Mayflower Hotel last night, nfler Representative Sol Bloom of New York, associate director-of the commission in charge of the event, had outlined the part the Capital will have, “This _city owu ".! existence to voted to doing honor to the man who, in addition to his services to the coun- try as & whole, m so muth for the city itself. And I am sure that I do not overestimate the sentiments of the ple of Washington when I assert my mlef that they are re.dy and eager to do their full part in paying tribute to his memory.” Says City Must Wake Up. Bl declared that the Nation- vl:l‘er celebration in }:n is not to be ggested a tentative program relating the manner in which the National Capital can assume its responsibilities in connection with the bicentennial, Bloom said it will re- a vast amount of work and en- | | Jesse Stimson, student leader of legiate Glee Club contest. Also in the test by Ihis iz the cleventh of & series ticles on the proposal, m will appear tomorrow. BY DONALD A. CRAIG. One of the principal sources of com- plaint by Afmy, Navy and Marine Corps officers and those of allied Government services is that they often lose money when they travel on official duty. This the Interdepartmental Pay Board would like to remedy, and it has made cer- lons with that end in_view. usiastic activity. "Umn the llde of nelf-lnurefl';l fld: non hu a great deal more at mke than any other city in m he llld a tremend- of visitors \‘.\'llt lt will tax zvery lvlfllble facility. N' Phn for Commercialism. m s l”(‘rl Bloom pointed out that no place i.n the broad program is there room for ercialism. “To be sure, the thou- ll.mll of v‘ll:h:rs ‘w’ Wasl 'mn: d a great deal of money here, m is purely incidental” he said. “The fact that my associate, Lieut. Col. | U. S. Grant, 3d, is devoting himself tirelessly and unselfishly to the celebra- tion is definitely reassuring to the people of Washington that only the most lofty and patriotic purposes are e Pahingion a Tortunate in that it n is fortunate in will be under no obll.l n to provide | blic en! ‘That will be at- 'nded to. Wewill tthepewlcher‘ It is a distinct obll,gluon upon the peo- ple ol t.hz city to make our guests com- Repruennuvz John Q. Tilson of Connecticut, Republican leader of the House, and Representative John M. Palmer of Missouri, were suem of the| chamber and spoke brie] Robsion of Kentucky was prevented by | iliness from attending. Tilson reminded the ‘Chamber of Com- merce members that Washington is the Capital of the Nation and is therelon‘ the pride of the Nation as well as of the District of Columbia. Comments on Plea for Vote. . "Yrmh:llk mufll olnh:k of rmumu- 1on when you have 435 Representati: m:h-flmndummm'ha are interested in your welfare,” he re- minded. “Why, if ‘we could do as much Mrcmrmenlsmauvednlurm our people would rise up and call us biessed. Instead, yourueuplml call | us else.” The tee on law and tion, of which Ji Mary O'Toole is chair- man, rendered a hvonbu report on the House bill authorizing amateur boxing in the District of Columbia. It was ap- proved after brief Charles A. Darr, of the| | ments while “on the road.” this series of articlés change of pay schedules adopted by Congress for the active personnel of the several services should be applicable also to retired officers and enlisted men as a basis for computing their pay. Those retired and hm- after retired would-be benefited if the board's plan should be carried out. Payment of mileage under on permanent change of station only. A per diem al e not to ext -day, in lleu ‘of subsistence; allowance “for necessary and mnl trans) tion expenses” would be au- Now Get Mileage Allownle-. At present officers traveling without | troops within the limits of the United States receive a mileage allowance of 8 cents per mile for the travel involved. or 5 cents a mile if transportation s furnished by the Government. Except | in cases of repeated travel to and from the same point, no method exists where- | Dy m\ser may bhe compe;u-ud lon expensss, however latge, Tyer | AM above the return to him in mileage | to this allowance. tly officers are sent out on e mnquxro—-hut mua -m.ul wel from point to point, with consid- erable time spent at each point. As & result of this practice the officer, who meantime must maintain his base es- tablishment, and therefore is saving only the actual cost of his food duflng his absence from his base, is put to| Beh-wnmmerme expenise for lodging and ffll;tl subsistence, and may in return only re- | ceive the 8 cents per mile allowance to cover the travel performed and all other expenses while away from his station. ‘While the Board does not go lnm detail on subject, it is well | known to officers that business con- cerns usually pay the actual traveling and subsistence expenses of men whom | they send away lmn their home offices or their bases of operations on business for the concern. Business houses generally go* npon the theory that & man or woman travel rm- them should not lose any money by, and recognize the fact that they must keep up their home establish- “Per diem allowance in lieu of sub- sistence for all travel other than on permanent change of station is just and equitable to the officer and the Govern- ment,” says the board. “It will permit the officer making short trips with long stops to be more nearly reimbursed for the expense annlved, and will properly | . ehamber, reported on the activities of the past month and among other the action o{h:ha execu- tive commitiee opposing - sional selection of the municipal airport | MV H:dlflmaflmmehlmherlm fl'od Street, chairman of the com. mittee on parks, playgrounds, h!;hnyn and bridges, wbmmed & report recent activities. hald mmn)nmheon to be devoted to the District phmmmdl system, March | 24 at the City Cl Bills Are Approved. At its last meeting, he said. the com- pproved various bills pend- T e evbts which affect District Plann Commission e m'of land in and between the B. & O. Bunker Hill road for ad- jacent plots needed in connection with park extension plans. ks “"""‘“?;‘fl‘““',m‘&fi.“."?fir ‘he lation defini — and L3 THIEVES ES SMASH WINDOWS ' Total of $275 in Merchandise Stolen Prom Two Stores. glass display windows in ‘the northwest section of faken from the Travelers' Shoe Store, officers and men helow uu reimbuse the officer who makes long| ! trips with short stops. i Eliminate “Actual Expense.” | “In the interest of good and simpli- | fled administration, ‘actual expenses’ have been eliminated, as it results in on _its | confusion in settlement of accounts and | | misunderstanding and controversy with the controller [?nerll Mileage should be continued on permanent change of | station, because it more nearly covers the actual cost to the officer of the change of station made.” Taking up the question of retired officers and retired enlisted men, the | that board’s plan would be confined to travel Efi: r other trips that require— | POrta in fact, lormo!oconowin @he Foening WASHINGTON, D. C, W. EDNESDAY, MA RCH .%iuf 12, 1930. MUSICAL TROPHY BROUGHT TO G. W. U, the George Washington Glee Club, fis shown presenting to Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, G. W. U. president, the cup award ed the nrnnl-“lon in New York last week for winning the National Intercol- picture are Frank Scrivener, ‘manager (left), and George Roth, composer of the alma mater song rendered #i the con- the Gur'.: Washington singers. The presentation was made today. —Star Staff Photo. SERVICE OFFICERS CRITICIZE TRAVEL ALLOWANCE SCHEDULE! Interdepartmental Pay Board Seeks to Remedy Conditions in Proposal to Re- vise Existing Compensation Scale. Government,” the board contends. “They may not be so' ordered excépt with their own.consent, but. their in- terest in the service and their devotion to the Government is usually such that, despite the personal sacrifice of busi ness interests in which they have en- gaged or of well egrnod leisure, finy; respond to the call.” ‘The board also recommends that thev pay of the penonnel of the National| Guard and of the Reserves when on, Pay be that of the personnel of the Regular services of equivalent grades and length of commissioned service with such serv- to be determined in accordance with existing law. It proposes that special pay for administrative functions for commissioned officers of the Na- tional Guard, pay for warrant officers for performance of their appropriate duun. and armory drill pay for en- men should be emunuofl a8 at fllully m&m:n‘ s ?n':h?x:‘n,m' o . o board has been "impr:’ed with the fact ex-enlisted retired enlisted mumenl of | its approval. w compensations, o Veterans' Bureau hospitals, subsis- MUNICIPAL AIRPORT Too Expensive by Joint Commission. $2,500,000 TREASURY LOAN IS REQUESTED Amount, Payable in Ten Annual Ilmllmm of $250,000, Would Be Free of Interest. Thé membership of the Washington Board of Trade, meeting last night in the Willard Hotel, set its official seal of approval on previous preliminary action indorsing the Joint Congres- sional Airport Comrhission’s recommen- LYRX. dation for- development of municipal fiying field at the south end of High- way bridge. ‘This was accomplished by the adop- tion of & report presented by Lawrence E. Willilams, chairman of the aviation committee, in which he set out the rea- sons thit caused his group to back the compromise location proposed by the commission under leadership Senator Hiram Bingham instead of Ihe Gravelly Point site. S i Three years ago, . Willlams de- clared, the aviation committee com- for & municipal air- port. After a careful study of :ltu, Gnvelly Point was recommen ndation was approved hy Gravelly Point Delay Protested. “Since that um a Jom Congres- lllflll ntedl of m% of M\flm bis and draw up appropriate legisiation,” he declared. “The commission went about its work carefully. All phases of the problem were carefully considered but no re- port was made. Inumerwbfln?tbe matter to a head, a rather strong letter sent to the Joint Airport Commis- sion protest the delay in the de- velopment of the Gravelly Point project. “The response to the letter clearly indicated that the commission had ren- dred no report because it felt that Gravelly Point would be too expensive e too long. to. develop, -nd u did not care to mention other sites the face of the united front up by the local organizations. In otl words, we ‘were hopelessly deadlocked. We - ,'," no mnnmwdllmfi execpt hroug] and any airport measure affec the District of Co- Jumbia would be referred to the Joint Commission for In face of this con- dition it became clearly evident that to tence while under treatment in Gov- Purpose I ernment hospitals, and in some places forfeiture of pay or allowance when entering sallers' or soldiers’ homes. Hospitalization Means Sacrifice. “Pensions for disability in nnenl service and to the dependents of | ceased personnel,” adds the bonrd. re |fixed by a law more than 50 years old, and are considerably lower than those ed veterans of Spanish War |and World War. Furthermore, veterans |of these wars may enter any Veterans' | Bureau hospital and may receive trans- be subsisted { "‘"“eomwum expense and must ply for stence therein. These have served many years, and they de- serve equal consideration and equal privileges with veterans of relatively brief wars, whose service may be but ar or less. The board believes ese discriminations against men of lmf service should be brought to the Gepartments. In order that sppropriste ents, in order that appropriate corrective ‘legislation may be recom- mended.” ‘The board proposes that the re-enlistment gratuities for men, additional compensation for spe- | cial - qualification in the pay for specialists’ nunn ror enlisted men, and rates of pay mn force of the Navy he oonunucd in effect. WISV WILL REMOVE STUDIOS FROM D. C. Virginia Complaints Bring De- ocision to Locate in Al- exandria. Removal of the studios of Radio Sta- tion WJSV, at Mount Vernon Hills, Va., from the Capital to Alexandria is planned, it was announced today by officials of the station, to silence criti- cism of WISV by other Virginia broad- casting stations, which have claimed that WJSV, with studios in Washing- ton. should be charged to the District lunder the radio power distribution w.ysv officials, it was announced, are the | pla board says that, although it considers the efficiency of the services is base | mainly upon the morale and perform- ance of duty of the active personnel, yet the conditions of retirement, and pumcululy the pay of the retired per- sonnel, “represent the eventual status of the officer or man of long service, and consequently all personnel are ml urally and properly concerned with it.’ “Any changes in the pay schedules the active |f| continues the board, “should therefore be applicable to offi- {cers and men upon their retirement. Furthermore, personnel already retired should receive their retired pay upon the basis of successive chan schedules, since the new schedules re- flect the estimate of the responsibilities which they have discharged in their active duty period and for which in their present retirement they should be compen d, and also since the new schedules wre ordinarily based in pi upon changes in the cost of Hvlnl. which necessarily affect retired ~per- (% sonnel as well It also 18 proposed by the hoard that all retired u’hun and men when cnll- to metive duby siall ive the pa) § law ref r‘d thelr grade. 1 -mrll offi- cer grades when on aotive I receive active pay mnd aliowances, hut general officers miny nol Fecelve any addition to thelr retired pay Condition s Held Unjuet. ““This s manifestly unjust to oMeers of distinetion who may he called uwm to aerve in where their m:ufmurlmuut»m experience are of gresl valus l.hl d uekl.n( quarters for their studio in the Mason Hotel, at Alexandria, but it t):f location is unavailable, will seek other quarters in Alexandria. Other Virginia radio stations, it is reported, have complained to the M- eral Radio Commission that the power- ful 10-kilowatt station of WISV should be charged to the District's allotment wer and not to the maintenance m the Capital for some time of the WJBV studios. It is to establish defi- nitely the station as a Virginia station that the removal is plann <\ COL. GRANT TO DISCUSS PLANS‘FOR CAPITAL CITY Park Officidl in Address Tonight. * An address by Lieut. Col. U, 8. Grant, director of the Office of Public ulldllx and Public Parks of the Na- | tional ey & €W | gons of the Revolution Will Hear ! port for Washington. We realized that if we had continued to insist on Gravel- ly Point or nothing we would have ob- tained nothing. e a e, problem muented was to effect the best compromise pos sible for the District of Columbia. Th! one point 'hlbll your committee inssited upon was the rt must be close to the bullneu center of the city. The results are shown in the report of tbe Joint Commission. The report. asks, first, for the con- struction of an airport for Washington at_the ends of the mxhny and new Bridges. gton Air- port, Inc, and floonr Field, together 140 acres, are to be pur- chased. Federal Government will mateh by donation acre for acre the lnnd be ‘hased. This 140 acres 1s composed of the present Military road, which is to be removed and rerouted; that section of the De»nrtmcnt of Agri- culture’s Experimental Farm which lies north of the railroad tracks and the southern half of Columbia Island. Lit- tle River i to be filled in between Co- lumbia Island and the old amusement property. Second. & loan from the Treasury to the District of Columbia of' $2,500,000 is asked for. This is to id in 10 annual installments of $250,000 and to be free from interest charges. And third, that Gravelly Polm. filled so that it will be le when needed. these three phases of the re- port up in their order, that is, location, uym.n‘t and effect on Gravelly Point, unofnrnu.h. Site Closer to City. “That the site is one mile closer to the business center than Gravelly Point | and that it is large enough to serve the needs of an air terminal for a number of years to come, and that it may be uledhl:'mn as the necessary legisla- fon been passed. ““As to the mlnner of payment and the Mjunmcm. expense between the District and 1 Governments, the District is mmnm For some e 1t as been evident that the appro- priations committee of the House would not contribute toward this project more $500,000 for the purchase of oge mml llnee this was all that could expected, your committee did not want it wasted on options. Instead of getting $500,000 we Dbtllnl 10-year loanon which we are nvln‘ $360,000 in interest plus 140 acres of land which, if we to buy it, would be very expensive. The coat of the airport must of necessity be e ey o but In any one vears ut in any o Nw'g:“;mognt need, or $2,500,- wfll not only buy '}‘l:: necessary t project i~ of cost ny District of Colum| improve- ment in uvml years. Oakland, Calif. has demnm ted that & munMpfl air- port can be ated at a real gvm for the city. Under the so-called Bingham plan, ail profits would go into the Treasury and be credited against the loan to the District. the effect on the ultimate development of Gravelly Point, we find that 'hen developed slowly over & of years, it will :’::M fivlerg. little. developed hurriedly, it wi expensive. Gravelly Point already bo- longs to the Government. No one else can get it. Normal river dredgings, the ash di 1 of the District of Co- the excavations from the will all make we could only tract at a greatly Transportation Issue Dllunld Follo disposition of the llrport memm meeting was devoted to .mhjm of mmm speakers E) Lee, exeoutive vice mt of _the lvani Railroad; also wil Dr ‘Thomas E. Greéen, presi: dent of the mmmunn, -nd vocal se- ta leotions by Ma Tittmann and L!m Jean Labat. ’I'he Iatter will sing | “The Marselllalse.” -Muu J. Esch, former chair- man omh mmnu Commerce Com- and John !lm. president of Traction Co. tal rc‘fne forecast, on the basis of & by the American Rail- LYNN SMOKE LAWW i Gravelly Point Site Is Held Illness of Inspector Smith, Complainant, Causes Postponement. SCHOOL OFFICER DENIES LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY Jere Crane Hearing on Complaint of District Health Officer Con- tinued Until Saturday. Hearing of the smoke law violation charge against David Lynn, Capitol ar- chitect, involving the Capitol, was post- poned a week at Police Court today on account of the iliness of Inspector L. R. Smith, who swore to the warrant against Although Lynn did not appear in court today, he was represented by As-| sistant District Attorney Renah F. Cam- alier, who questioned Edward Thomas, assistant corporation counsel, on the advisability of charging his client. How- ever, Thomas contends that the Capitol | is not immune to the smoke violation | law. i Capitol Power Plant Named. ‘The warrant designates the Capitol power plant, at 25 E street southeast, as_the offender. When the charge was filed last week | Lynn appealed to United States Attor- ney Rover as to whether Speaker Long- worth, as chairman of the House office Building Commission, was not the one who should have been named in the complaint. Meanwhile Jere J. Crane, first assist- ant superintendent in charge of school buildings and grounds, who was named in a warrant sworn out by the District health officer as a violator of the Dis- trict’s smoke nuisance law, in connection with excessive smoke emanating from the Wilson Normal School furnaces, is due to reappear in Police Court before Judge Ralph Given, Saturday morning. Crane appeared in Police Court Mon- day morning, the only one of the public officers charged with the smoke viola- tion, and Judge Given on g school officer’s contention that he is not - responsible for school building smoke, continued the case until Satur- day. Acting as his own defense counsel when, he says, the corporation counsel acted as pmecnwr, Crane told the court that the language of the law itself excludes him from all responsi- bility. The language which he cited follows: pant of any puldin of '“"'.,;::::' supéatio g of any -n'in smokestack or chim- neyl-o( which there shall issue or be emitted thick or dense bl smoke or dnflu Columbis on named, shall bt deemed and held guilty of creating a public nuisance and of vi- olating the provisions of this act.” Not Owner or Occupant. Crane told the court that “under no | the agination” could he, of buildings and lered ‘“‘owner, agent, lessee or occupant” of a school house. ‘The warrant for Crane was signed :abr. William Fowler, District health cer. MRS. MAURICE E. DYER ASKS COURT FOR DIVORCE Wife of Sales Manager in Ward- man Enterprise Charges Hus- band is Abusive to Her. Maurice Elmer Dyer. former manager of the Wardman Park Hotel and the Carlton and engaged as sales manager with some of the Wardman enterprises, was named defendant today in a suit for a limited divorce filled by his wife, Cecelia N. Dyer, 3101 Woodley road. The wife says she was married March 31, 1915, and has three children, the eldest being 13 years old. She says hOr husband is addicted to liquor and Jn intoxicated, she avers, is abusive threatening. Mrs. Dyer asks the court to prevent her husband from visiting their home and wants the custody of the chndren She Bhtu that he has made necessary | exploration trip in t $15,000 to $20,000 annually wblch nhe formerly handled, but asserts that since January 1 he has given her only $200. She 1; Tepresented by Attorney Stanley LIEUT. HIN' HINTON SPEAKS. Lieut. Walter Hinton, first transat- lantic pliot, hero of serial exploration trips and chairman of the aviation committee of the Washington Chamber of Commerce, last night made two ad- dresses, one before the Men's Club of the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church, Kalorama and Columbia roads; the other before the women of the Church of the Covenant, Connecticut avenue and N street. Friday evening at 5 o'clock he will address members of the aviation sec- tion of the Women's City Club, and Saturday night he is scheduled to make a radio talk over Station WMAL on the local airport situation. His lecture at the Church of the Covénant last night was illustrated with lantern slides made during a year’s he Amazon River Valley as pllot for the Rice expedition. way Business Association, that the raliroads of the country this year will spend approximately $1,060,000,000 in improvements, equaling the record for expenditure set during 1923. Pointing out that the present trend in railroad business ma: ent, the speaker said that the road inter- ests are no longer satisfled to confine their activities to the rails, but are now going into what has come to be known as the co-ordinated _transportation fleld. Automotive and aeronautical facilities are being acquired and the purchase of water trlmparu is being conddered he asserted. Mr. Esch's talk, “The Age of Speed,” traced the evolution of transportation from the crude cart to the airplane. Methods of transportation provide the most accurate mesasure of civiliza- tion, Mr. Hanna declared. He predicted that the busses will not dnve out rail transportation. He hit the existing trafic mulnlom which allow long- time parking on m streets of duto- mobiles, but said that this stand ‘was The | selfish desire to not prompted, as has been alleged, by & compel people to leave their automobiles’ at home and use the ia | street cars. Speelal features of t.hamonlu were several vocal selections by the Pennsyl- vania Rallroad xn e Quartet, luund moving the Broadway Lim- "1; an lhowlnc of a Grantland A section of the amaryllis ulture green houses. : Miss Ernestine Ernestine Pearson/with one of the Moom —Star Staff Photo. AMARYLLIS SHOW ATTRACTS THRONG 17th Annual Exhibit Opens,rWinners to Get Silver Cup Today at Agriculture De- partment Greenhouse. * With an extraordinarily large first- | day attendance, the seventeenth annual amaryllis_show of the United shusl Department of Agriculture opened this morning in the exhibition greenhouse at Fourteenth and B streets. The show wmhaopendnflyfromlnm.nmu 9 pm. for one week. Scores of members: of Congress and| many leaders in Washington soclety’ were seen in the early throng. The bulbs now in flower are all hy- brids originated by the department. They are the results of the cross-pol- lination o( 12 varieties imported from England in 1909. There A.re 1,200 bulbs in the exhibi- tion, ranging in age from 2 to 16 years, each plant bearing from one to six stems, with from two to seven flowers on each stem. A number of the seedlings are flowering for the first time. The showing of Amaryllis in such numbers is not attempted elsewhere in this country. On account of the oflldll mourning for c]h’ldex’ ':'!usuee o t.hm o mnen{ cancel plans for the usual special invitation vre-m nt‘me lhw COMMUNITY CHEST LEFT $25,000 BY KANN Baltimore Jewish Clarity. Is Also Beneficiary of Iate D. C. Merchant. ‘The will of Sigmund Kann, president Bl.mmore March 3, was filed for probate in Baltimore today, leaving bequests of 3!5 000 each to the Community Chest of Washington and tHe Assoclated J Charities of Baltimore. The balance of the estate will be divided among his widow and two children. Mr. Kann, who was 64 years old, died suddenly at his home in Baltimore of a heart attack. His widow, Mrs. Gertrude S. Kann; a son, Sol Kann, and a son-in-law, B. Bernel Burgunder, are the executors of the estate. Boys’ Club Plans Dance. 1In celebration of St. Patrick’s day the Boys’ Club of Washington will sponsor a dance March 15 for senior members nf the club and their friends. ‘The dance is to be the third one flven by the club this year. . h |awarded the military instructor’s gold display this morning at the Department SCHOOL CADET WAR GAMES HELD TODAY and Gold Medal for id Prowess. The final High School Cadet Corps war game of the current school year is i being played in the auditorium ‘of the { Franklin Administration Building this afternoon, with five teams competing for the Gen. Stephan silver cup and the military instructor’s gold medal. ‘The teams, the schools they repnlent and their captains follow: Company F, 1st Regiment, Central High Schnol Cadet Clpt Harry L. Watson; Com- pany F, 2d Regiment, McKinley High School, Clde! Capt. R. Franzoni; Com- pany I, Business Battalion, Business High School, Cadet Second Tieut. Rus- sell Settle; Company A, 3d Regimen! Eastern High School, Cadet Capt. John W. Nally, and Company H, 4th ment, Western High, School, e! Capt. Elbridge Church. Each team, the victor in & series of el%-z&mphmnh ", o school, ying the game on an in- dividual scale map of the Gettysburg ucuon with a com| the Washington pul ducting and c-m Alexander R. Bolling, U. S. A, commanding officer of the ndqu-run company of Infantry here, is the umpire. After all the teams have finished playing their particular game, they will assemble in the auditorfum, where Capt. Bolling will [IVG a critique on the game plnyed by each team. In the maneuvers, cadets are using colored pins to reprmm the men they are moving over the battlefleld, and in his critique, Capt. Bolling will discuss the relative positions of the “soldiers” from the poumons in which the cadets leave the pins. The winning team will receive the Gen. Anton Stephan silver cup, to be returnied to its school, while the team captain of the winning unit will be medal as his personal decoration for his prowess., ———— DR. J. F. COUPAL HALTED Phy-fel-n Charged with aninl Dazzling Headlights. physician to , was arrested hts last ecinct station, where he forfeited $5 collateral. Policeman H. D. Thomas made the arrest at New York avenue and Fif- | teenth street. Dr. coupd gave his ad- | dress as 1424 K street. WOODLEY ROAD BUS LINE IS PUT BACK ON OLD QUEBEC ST. ROUTE| | he desired HOUSE COMMITTEE POSTPONES AGTION ON MLEOD BILL Body Will Consider Measure on Real Estate Transac- tions Next Wednesday. DATE SET FOR REPORT ON MUNICIPAL STUDY Chairman Sees Need for Clause in Proposed Legislation Relative to Simulated Deals. oy At today Asiil mmfle further uentlon of the bill to protect the public against fraud in real estate transactions untfi the next regular next Wed- The House committee also set the regular m;ennx two mh 3!56' tm" & report Represen! lve Hbson of Vermont, c‘u of a special sub- committee in last two Co which was making & comprehensive of various branches of municipal to simulated transactions and identi with the bill introduced in the Senate by Senator Blaine of Wisconsin. Asuthor of Measure Heard. At the it of Rej tative Lam- pen Mpu lican, of nsin, O. H. kman, former secretéry of the Sen- ate msmu committee, now a practicing ammey who drafted this proposed real lating legislation, at the re- e Senate subcommittee, grow- D\It 0( the F. H. Smith case, was heard on _this measure. Representative Patman, Democrat, of Texas, said that he also would insist that other witnesses before the subcommittee, including an attorney for independent brokers and a spokesman for the Better Business Bureau, should also be heard. Mr. Brinkman explained that he had prepared three , one to regulate the sale of securities, another to m lltg real estate operations and the regulate foreclosure of mortgages, 5 of which are designed . He said that, bl'mm bill vides tha engaged license giving proof of .nod chlmur and that it sets up a board of three, one of whom would be the Dis- trict assessor, one a real esate man and a third disinterested party to upon license applications. This legislation, he said, is similar to the law in 25 or 30 | States, including 13 States represented by members of the House District committee. Mr. Brinkman told the committee that there had been a num- ber of cases of fraud by operators in the District and that he found the need for a system of regulation so as_to weed out dishonest operators. Mr. Brinkm: posed to the bill. emg‘hul-d tha such a law At the request of several members of Estate Board, also was heard. He told or oppose section 14. He explained that an said he did not kruw of any group in Washington that is op- Hull Emphasizes Need. Re| ull'! lll\ll.l presen! Mfi in the ites and in District of Columbia. the committee, John A. Petty, executive secretary of the Wi Real the full committee that the board in- dorsed this bill and does not object to tion 14 makes & new pronouncement ur law which would necessitate change t, | In the title of the bill and he suggested that this be enacted separate from the loemln' act, pointing out that one would regul &e penmnel whne the other its respective | 7. Holds Fines Would Ply Costs. Representative Palmer of Missouri questioned how much it would cost to operate such a lice commission and Mr. Petty replied his belief was that the license fees and the fines would pay the entire cost. It is esti- mated, he said, that there are some 750 ulumen and 750 brokers, which would an income of $10,000 from fees, mfllelenr. in his upmm to pay the ex- penses of the commissi He emphasized that ms most impor. tant need which would cause the prin cipal expense would be to have a com: P Representativ La ive mpert declared that he believed such a law ecessary to control unscrupulous in the teal estate business in Wu and that he is in favor of section 14, wheth- er the real estate men like it or not. Representative Patman l.rtuad the. criminal law should be made m reach the wrongdoers Imnld of setting up an outside board to dq, it. Mr. Petty declared that the Real Es- tate Board has no objection to wfl:ln, that will detect and punish fraud of any nature in the real estate business. n.m ‘l;leisemlfive lAlrllDe‘l"immovl? LJ‘:‘! e cLeod bill, rfect amendments, be reported '.fi As a_substitute muuon Repteu‘nh- tive Patman recommended reporting the bill with everything stricken out except l!efl-lon%ell and 16, and said ‘that heard at length on his fifimfl for thus altering the MecLeod As_the time of the committee Furious Neighborhood Battle Is Ended by Order of Public Utilities Commission. ‘The Woodley road bus line has been orderpd back to Quebec street, thus ending one of the most fufluu nelnn- borhood battles in years. mytwoblocuotmbullhm mte are involved, between Thirty-fc rigaily ran on Quebes B o foe In e Que it was wny mm ‘This was wha lhrnd the troul Residents of street that the bus shoul it back on Quebec street. ‘Those on. street split into two camps, the ma| it the l:e hpt o}grnymndln{m e e — 'l'he Hlbllc Utilities mllflon held a public hearing in an effort to thrash the matter out. The largest af STATE SOCIETY TO MEET. !The Delaware State Soclety will meet mnn 17, nloeloe! at ‘Thomas Club, 1326