Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1930, Page 17

- PROGRESSIVE TYPE TRAFFIC CONTROL HIT BY ENGINEER Herbert C. Lummis Makes Criticism Before Maryland Utilities Association Parley. RHODE ISLAND AVENUE CONDITIONS ARE CITED Holds System Should Be Substi- tuted by Flexible Progres- sive Timing. Washington's type of progressive traffic signal control, which alternates singly or in groups, was criticized as a “gpeed reducer” today at the eighth annuai convention of the Maryland Utilitles Association which convened for a one-day session at the Willard Hotel. The criticism was made before the transportation group meeting by Her- bert C. Lummis, consulting engineer with J. Rowland Bibbins of Washington, who cited Rhode Island avenue traffic conditions as a reason why the Wash- ington system should be substituted by flexible progressive timing. Sessions of the convention, which brought utility experts here from all s of Maryland, will close with a :;‘que! tonight at which Gov. Albert C. Ritchie will be the guest of henor and principal speaker. Engineering Analysis Lacking. 4 Discussing_the general topic “Mak- ing e((mls!Move Traffic,” Mr. Lummis gaid “there has been too little en- gineering analysis of traffic problems and warned that “the only way to make traffic signals move traffic is by actu- them for it.” %&zfi%'g prog ive control sys- beyond the cheapest tem is only & step beyol fls in New Every sign for at through non-stop movement of traffic in lll‘lmsulhuom. he pointed out, in drawing attention to the fact that in ‘Washington, as well as in other cities, surveys show that at least one-third of the time devoted to trafic flow in minor streets during rush hours is 'I"l%‘fle most important element of an t traffic control is the ability to the time at each intersection to suit the requirement of the flow of traffic on each stree! Mr. Lummis said. “Coupled with that is the ability to change the total length of the cycie to accommodate varying traffic speeds and climatic conditions. Fixed stop- efficien divide Assuming that the criticism which Representative Robert C. Simmons of Nebraska, chairman of the subcommit- tee of the House appropriations com- | mittee, leveled at the school authorities yesterday was based on the conviction that the new McKinley High School was extravagantly equipped in com- parison with the Eastern High School, Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the Board of Education, today issued a statement tending to show that the equipment of both buildings was not furnished at extremely varying costs. Dr. Carusi ignored Representative Simmons’ recommendation that the District School Board should be abol- ished entirely the school system made a subordinate department of the municipal government, or that the School Board should be elected by pop- ular vote. In his statement Dr. Carusi declared that the 1931 appropriation bill, as passed by the House, “makes better provision for the needs of the public schools than any previous bill,” but as- serts “it is regrettable that the pas- sage of this bill carried with it criti- cism of the school administration, which it feels to be undeserved.” “Stated briefly, the criticisms hinged around the charge that there was an extravagant outlay for the equipment of the new McKinley High School and that this equipment was more expen- sive than was contemplated by the committee in Congress when it made the appropriation,” Dr. Carusi asserts. “The Eastern High School cost ap- proximately $1,500,000. For its equip- ment, there was allowed $250,000. The cost of three pianos at the Eastern High School was $3,352, including one Stein- way baby grand which cost $2.078. The cost for equipping the domestic science department at the Eastern High School was approximately $10,000. MecKinley to Cost $3,000,000. “When. completed, McKinley High School will have cost lpprozlmuu'ly $3,000,000, or about twice that of the Eastern High School. While $250,000 was allowed and expended for equip- ment at Eastern High School, the total appropriation for the equipment of the McKinley High School was $450,000, of which a balance of $25,000a1s still un- expended, and this in spite of the fact that it was primarily a technical high school in which a ‘larger amount of vocational equipment was contemplated. | “Despite the fact that McKinley is devoted largely to vocational training, a total cost for the equipment of the domestic science department at McKin- ley and at Eastern will not show a dis- g;‘atpmlon in quantity, quality or total The schools system records them- slves answer Mr. Simmons' charge that | even since the hearing on the 1931 | appropriation bill the school authorities had continued to make extravagant purchases, it was pointed out today. In his speech yesterday Mr, Simmons declared the school people had sent forward requisitions for ironing boards at $25 each while they rejected general - riods at each intersection are 'u'&’;"@&'fm and particularly so for public transportation.” Cites Rhode Island Avenue. Taking Rhode Island avenue for an example, he pointed out that under the system very few cars can maks the changing lights without stop- hile traffic on Rhiode Ialand avenue to average miles an "m"."flmu average is reduced by light delays to 11 or 14 miles, since he pointed out that only about 14 per cent of the time is given to through movement. Light delays also reduce by some 40 per cent the aver: speed of busses using the avenue, he declared. bai over to flexible progressive timing, thereby reducing the light de- lays” he added, “should raise bus speeds to over 13 miles per hour.” Another advantage he stressed is that express runs which are not practicable now, could be made through the signals at 20 miles per hour along with othr trafic. “And the motorist would have just about three times as much oppor- tunity to get through the lights without stopping, as he has now,” Mr. Lummis | explained. Trafic lights should never be in- stalled unless traffic congestion actually demands it, he suggested, and lights installed to save the expense of police hire should be cut off during quiet bours. Chicago Standards Rigid. Referring to progressive traffic legls- lation, he said Massachusetts has incor- ted in its code that no light be mfled at an intersection unless 500 cars pass the corner in one hour, of which 125 are from minor streets. Chicago has the most rigid standards, requiring & minimum of 1,200 vehicles an hour during the rush period, and if it falls below 800 vehicles lights arc barred at the intersection. For all day lights the minimum requirement is 16,000 vehicles in a 16-hour period. ‘The convention was opened with an address of welcome by Commissioner Proctor L. Dougherty of the District of Columbia, who referred to the impor- tant part Maryland has played in ihe development of the National Capital since contributing the original land for the District. The latest interest of the State is indicated, he said, by the co- operation of the Maryland Park and Planning Commission with the Nation- | al Capital Park and Planning Commis- | against sion in the development and extension of the District’s park system. H. A. Brooks of Washington, presi- dent of the Maryland Utilities Associ- tion, presided. Election of officers will be made & matter of business this after- PO addition to the transportation sec- tion, other sectional meetings were de- voted to the electric and gas groups. Tells of Bus Development. Ray Snell of the Yellow Coach Co., Pontiac, Mich., who spoke on develop- ment in motor bus transportation, cited the types of special service as rendered by the Chevy Chase de luxe line as an indication of the progressive development of the future. A. T. Clark, superintendent of rolling stock and shops of the United Railways & Electric Co. of Baltimore told about Baltimore's new street cars. kers before the electric group in- cluded M. C. Huse, commercial manager of the Philadelphia Electric Co.; T E. Reach of the National Electric Power Co. of New York and A. L. Billingsley, resident, Fuller & Smith, Cleveland. *iu speakers before the gas group were M. C. K. Jones, Consolidated Gas, Elec- tric Light & Power Co. of Baitimore; M. H. Gellert, vice president, Atlantic Gas Co. of Philadelphia; C. M. Swan, Central Public Service Corporation, Hagerstown, Md., and J. A. Mayers, gen- eral manager, Cumberland & Allegheny Gas Co., Cumberland, Md. Addressing the afternoon session, Merie Thorpe, editor of Nation’s Busi~ ness, described the spread of paternal- @r anC ..icaucracy in the Federal Government as a frontal attack on America’s industrial system. one denounced paternalism as “an Amerlcau brand of state soclal- ism which is threatening to undermine our democratic institutions. It breeds Bartlett OUT OF PROPORTION TO EAS Cites $450.000 Outlay for Equipment at $3.000,000 Technical School to $250.000 for $1.500,000 Institution. @he Toening Star 1930. WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, MARCH 28, CARUSI DENIES McKINLEY COST [:| TERN supply committee boards at 63 cents apiece, and an electric hat stretcher to cost $25. Neither of these items been requisitioned by the school au- thorities. The records show, however, that the school officials asked the Dis- trict purchasing officer to “obtain the prices” on these two items so that they could determine whether or not the board and the stretcher would be pur- chased at all. Trade Equipment Contemplated. The type of ironing board which the scheols thereby sought to price is a plece of trade equipment for use in the Dennison Vocational School, ~where children are taught on actual trade machines. The board is equipped with a sleeve pressing attachment and is mounted upon a substantial iron base. ‘The 63 cent board, which Mr. Simmons said was rejected by the school people, is merely a planed plank, which would have to be placed across W “horses” or over the backs of chairs. The electric hat stretcher which the school people are considering buying, but for which no requisition”has been forwarded, likewise is an apparatus used in the commercial millinery field. It is desired for the millinery classes in Central High School and is intended to enable the girls mm-nrx the course to demand a more nearly living wage after school days. The records lmsgovlde sox ex- lanation for Mr. mons’ a tphnt a pipe organ costing $13,500 and grand pirnos were purchased for McKinley High School while the cafeteria equipment purchase was de- layed a year. The records show that the pipe organ was ordered in July, 1927, 50 that it could be installed before the building was completed. In Sep- tember, 1928, when the building was about to be opened, the pianos were ordered, while within 30 days orders were placed by the school people with the District purchasing officer for g-ne cafeteria equipment. The pianos were delivered in November, 1928, while the cafeteria equipment was not placed until June, 1929. This delay in the delivery of the cafeteria equipment was brought about, the records show, by the fact that a local restaurant equipment con- cern—the lowest bidder—installed second-hand equipment, which was not discovered until it was placed in the building. The row which followed that discovery was settled only when equipment manufacturer substituted brand-new equipment for the used material he had at first supplied. Gym Equipment Defended. The gymnasium equipment for Mc- Kinley High School, which Mr. Sim- mons listed in his speech to the House yesterday as evidence of extravagance, was defended by G. H. White, director of physical education in the public schools. The nine climbing ropes at $12 and the three horses at $180 are equipment provided by virtually every high school in the cities of the country, he sald. The push ball at $375 was defended by White as “the very best plece of equipment I know to promote physical training for large classes.” 'HOBO' CONFERENCE BARS COMMUNISTS Attack on Leaders and Anti- | Religious Views Incite “Migratory Workers.” Amicable relations between the “hobo” unemployment conference and a group of local Communists, disturbed recently by anti-religious utterances in terday after a supposed Communist slipped into a meeting at “hobo” head- distributed pamphlets attacking their leaders as “fakes” and “tools of capital- istic bosses.” Previously the Communists from_ the “Trade Union Unity League,” which maintains headquarters in the 1300 lock of BSeventh street, had been granted the freedom of the ‘“hobo” meetings. Following the attack yesterday, how- ever, in which Dan O’Brien, “the hobo king”; James Eads How, “the million- aire hobo,” and Paul Dennie, chairman of the conference, were bt led as trators to the workers’ cause, the con- ference declared a ban on Communists and Communistic doctorings at further meetings. Spokesmen for the “hoboes” say they will tolerate no anti-religious propa- gfldl in their ranks, holding that each dividual’s religion is his own affair and no concern of the organization. yesterday called on George Akerson, secretary to the President, to make ar- rangements for an audience at the White House, probably tomorrow. ‘The general program taking shape at the conference calls for an increase in public buildings, a system of unem- ployment insurance by which the work- er, employer and State contribute seasonal unemployment, and workers’ old age pensions from the Gov- ernment. Eastern Star Installation. MCLEAN, Va., March 28 (Special).— Mrs. Mary Teachem of Washington, | grand lecturer of the Eastern Star of the District of Columbia, will install the new officers of Sharon Chapter. | Eastern Star, tonight, in Masonic Hall. | Visitors are expected from most of the ‘Chapmrs in Northern Virginia. the radical camp, were terminated yes- | quarters near Fifth and G streets and | A delegation from the conference | ye: AUTO ASSESSMENT A 115 UPHELD Commissioners Abandon Move to Get Date Changed Back to December 1. The Commissioners have abandoned efforts to have cl je the time for assessing automobiles from Janu: 1 to December 1 in order that annual license tags could be sold during December. In a letter to Chairman Capper of | the Senate District committee, the | Commissioners say they have come to the conclusion that objections to the bill made by the Bureau of Efficiency are well taken and that they agree with the view of that bureau that the pos- sible complications would outweigh the advantages of the change. Prior to last year, tags were sold in December, but the last Congress enacted a law under which the assessment of auto- mobiles for personal taxation was sepa- rated from othér personal tax assess- ments for the purpose of collecting this | automobile tax;at the time tags are sold. ‘This legislation gl’ov\ded for the assess- ment of automobiles on January 1 and the payment‘of the tax before issuance of the tags during January. The Oom- missioners several months ago recom- mended changing the assessment time to December 1 to avoid the necessity for extending the time for the use of tags of one ear into the succeeding ar. ‘The Efficiency Bureau recommended against the change, taking the view that January is more satisfactory for the sale of the tags. The Commis- sioners have asked Senator Capper to withdraw the favorable report on the bill which the committee made to the Senate recently. Bureau of Efficiency pointed out that if the bill were enacted complica- tions would arise in canceling taxes on automobiles that might be destroyed or that might change ownership between December 1 and the beginning of the tax vear on January 1. College President Dies. ATLANTA, March 28 (#).—Dr. J.-A. | Sharp, 84, president of the Young | Harris College for the last 30 years, with the exception of the period 1916 to 1922, died yesterday. GETS 660 DAY Dresses Valued at $1,900 A man who has worked as a for 14 years at a store building at 1200 F street was sent to jail for 660 days in connection with the theft of 163 dresses ;ll"ltu!gol! $1,900 from the W. H. Bart- e 3 Frank E. Ford, colored, 432 Eighth street southwest, arrested on March 22, by Headquarters Detectives C. P. Cox, |B. R. King and C. E. Warfleld, was charges of petty larceny, although police say that he admitted taking 50 dresses and is accused by store officials with stealing 163, of which have been missed since Jani 1. Police said that at the first of this year Joseph Waldman, manager of the tore, was forced to go to Ari- and bureaucracy in the ~ United States greater menace than eommunism ap antnerace.” zona because of ill health. Immediately ‘Waldman left h store at- e tn mtes d ‘fram thir arraigned in Police Court today on 10 PORTER, TRUSTED 14 YEARS, S IN STORE THEFT Stolen and Sold or Burned i by Employe. stocks. The colored porter was suspected and admitted taking much of the cloth- ing immediately after his prehension. Police spent several d collecting dresses from all over the city. About 20 that Ford had peddled from door to door at greatly reduced prices were repovered in this way. They said the colored man admitted burn- ing many of the silk garments because he was afraid they might be found in his_home. The _sentences im| Isaac R. Hitt under the motion of As- sistant United States Attorney John of the ten other cha d2e g eous in a car d by Judge R. Pitzpatrick were 360 days on one charge of larceny and 30 days on each es. One of the dresses stolen was valued at $43, but 8 _police charge of grand larceny was | the Na BCENT TAXICAB REALTY LICENSE COMPANIES REFUSE DEMANDS OF UNION €nlarged Fleets Is Threat- ened Answer to 40 Per Cent Proposal. PRIVATE CAB OWNERS COMPLAIN OF MONOPOLY Rayford Declares Violence Threat- ened by Men Forced From Streets and Unable to Sell Machines. Placed on the “unfair list” of the Central Labor Union of Washington, through a concerted refusal to operate on an equal rate basis with meter cab companies, officials of 35-cent cab com- panies contemplated' today a program of expansion rather than diminution, designed to place approximately 800 cabs on the streets within the next six months. Referring to the recent ultimatum of the Local Chauffeur’s Union, demand- ing & 40 per cent rate basis for drivers of non-meter cabs, one 35-cent cab of- ficlal, who plans to increase his cab force to 200, asked, “If we can profita- bly operate on a 30 per cent basis, both as regards the public and ourselves, 1s it reasonable to demand an unnecessary increase in fare, which a 40 per cent fare commission to drivers would ne- cessitate. With 500 meter cabs of a normal fleet of 1,600 driven from the street within two months, the taxi cab situa- tion is critical E. C. Rayford, business agent of the union, said today. It has become increasingly difficult for the union to restrain the men from open warfare and violent tactics.” Yesterday, Rayford declared, nine calls during the morning were received by his office reporting drivers out of work. Such a condition, Mr. Rayford said, was unknown some months ago. “The situation is closely analogous to chain-store monopolization,” Ray- ford said, “with the small independent owners being absorbed by unfair monoply. Several hundred private cab owners, forced to leave the streets, are now unable to dispose of their ma- chines, When questioned concerning the in- clusion of the 35-cent cab companies on the ‘“unfair list” ‘of the Centra’ Labor body, N. A. James, financial sec- retary, who personally invited the non- meter companies to enter the union, sald: “They refused to enter, stating that they were not interested in or- | ganized labor in the District. We have made our last move. The next move is up to the drivers themselves.” 'THREE ARE INJURED IN TRAFFIC MISHAPS Woman and Man Struck by Pass- ing Machines—Youth on Bicycle Crashes. Mrs. Esther E. Etris, 50 years old, of 2454 Eighteenth street, was injured last | night when she was struck down by a | | taxicab driven by Charles Edwards, 25, of 1209 Twelfth street, an employe of the Bell Cab Co., at Thirteenth and F streets. She was taken to Emergency Hospital. Her condition was reported as unde- termined today. Another was* injured at| ‘Thirtieth and M streets when John | Tinsbloom, 55 years old, of 1130 Morse | street northeast, was knocked down by a machine operated by Raymond Bramell | of Clarendon, Va. Tinsbloom was treat- ed at Georgetown Hospital. | Minor lacerations were received by | Cleveland Tenelli, 18 years old, of 213 | Fifteenth street northeast, when a bi- cycle he was riding collided at Pennsyl- vania and East Executive avenues with a truck driven by Richard M. Turner, 25, of the 300 block of P street north- “li:i He was treated at Emergency Hos- pital. ARMY ORDERS CHANGE STATIONS OF OFFICERS Lieut. Col. Offley Leaves Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for Fort Lea- * venworth, Kans. Lieut. Col. Edward M. Offley, Cav- alry, at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., has been ordered to Fort Leavenworth, Kans.; Maj. R. M. Cheney, Cavalry, from Fort Leavenworth to Fort D. A. Russell, Tex.; Maj. H. V. Raycroft, Medical Corps, from Denver, Colo., to the Philip- pines; Maj. A E. Sawkins, Infantry, from Chicago to Fort Warren, Wyo.; Maj. A. J, Becker, Infantry, from Fort Benning, Ga., to Hawaii; Capt. J. 8. Schwab, Infantry, from San Francisco to his home to await retirement; Capt. M. W. Pettigrew, Field Artillery, from Stanford University, Calif., to Fort Sill, Okla.: Capt. H. L. Hagan, Infantry, from Spartanburg, S. C. to Hawali: Capt. M. B. Ridgews Infantry, from Fort Benning, Ga. to the Panama Canal Zone; Capt. S. S. McLaughlin, Infantry, from the Panama Canal Zone to Fort George G. Meade, Md.; Capt. H. W Schmid, Infantry, from the Uni- versity of Kentucky, Lexington, to | Hawali: Capt. G H. Passmore, Infantry, from St. John's Military Academy, Delafield, Wis, to Hawaii; Capt. E. U. O Waters, Infantry, from the Western Maryland College at Westminster, to the Philippines; Capt. Joseph Church, Infantry, from Cleveland to Hawail First Lieut. Elmer E. Barnes, Engineers, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to the office of the chief of engineers. Munitions Building, and First Lieut. E. T. Williams, Fleld Artil- lery, from the Ohio State University, Columbus, to Fort Hoyle, Md. The President has accepted the resignation ot Capt. Francis H. Waters, United States Cavalry, stationed at New York City as an instructor of the New York National Guard. GEN. NEVILLE BETTER Improvement was noticed today in the condition of Maj. Gen. Wendell C. Neville, commandant of the Marine Corps, who is a patient at the Naval Hospital, after suffering a slight stroke O Smeiale st the N als af le Navy Department to- day said that Gen. }‘gvfllep.w:lble to attend to his conurondenee late yes- terday, and that neither his voice nor facial expression have been affected by his condition. Acting Secretary Ernest Lee Jahncke announced yesterday that Gen. Neville had suffered a stroke on Wedensday and had been removed to Hospital 10( observation snd BILLS DISCUSSED BYLAW COMMITTEE General Principles of Meas- ures Approved by Trade Board Body. CHANGES RECOMMENDED TO MEET CONDITIONS Legislation to Ban Fraudulent Se- curities Deemed Necessary—Top- ics Considered at Luncheon. The general principles of the real estate license bills and the fraudulent securities measure, now being consid- ered by the Senate, were indorsed yes- terday at a luncheon meeting of the Washington Board of Trade law com- ‘mittee. None of the bills was found by the committee to be entirely acceptable in its present form and recommendations were made for changes. Both the Capper and the Blaine real estate bills were discussed at length, with the prineipal point of disagree- ment among the committee members being the provision in the latter for a new trial by the District Supreme Court acting as a reviewing body for the real estate commission which would be created under either measure. Changes Deemed Necessary. The following recommendations, em- bodied in a report submitted by Paul Lesh, local attorney, were finally ap- proved as mer for incorporation in an ideal bill: 1. Review of the commission's find- ing by the Supreme Court in matters of law only, or, as an alternative, no review at all. 2. A provision for the enforcement of subpoenas to testify. 3. A test of the competency of the applicant to engage in the real estate business. 4. Restriction of the definition of a salesman so as to exclude one who ne- gotiates mortgages. 5. Certain exemptions from the op- eration of the law that are set out in the Blaine bill 6. Provision for paying of fines into the public fund rather than into the treasury of the commission. Fraudulent Securities Considered. Fewer changes were recommended for the fraudulent securities measure. ‘They included a provision giving the re- viewing courts discretion whether or not to grant a trial de novo, and elimi- nation of exemption from penalties of the bill for good faith. Joseph Burkhart, chairman, presided. The next committee meeting was set for Wednesday at 12:30 o'clock. ADMIRAL HUGHES OFF _ ON INSPECTION TOUR| i {of the budget committee. Back From Illness, Starts Review! | penses during the ensuing of South and Coast Activities. An official inspection of naval activ- | itles in the South and on the West Coast will be taken by Admiral Charles F. Hughes, chief of naval operations, who officlally returned to duty vester- | day and left for Hampton Roads, Va., Iast night. Embarking on the light cruiser U. S. S. Pensacola, which will make a shake- down cruise to the West Coast of South America, Admiral Hughes will visit the naval station at Key West, Fla. From that point he will go to Pensacola and examine naval activities in that region, proceeding then to New Orleans, San Diego, San Francisco and Bremerton, Wash,, returning then to the National Capital. Admiral Hughes has been absent from the Department for about six weeks, as a result of a slight stroke of paralysis, but during the past week he has visited the department, although still officially on the sick list. During his absence, the acting chief of naval operations was Rear Admiral William H. Standley CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION LEFT CASH AND JEWELS Will of Margaret Peticolas Gives $1,000 and Diamonds, Gold, 8il- ver and Platinum to Church. The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation is left $1,000, in addition to diamonds, gold, silver and platinum jewelry, by the terms of the will of Margaret P. W. Peticolas, who died March 23. The jewelry is to be set in a chalice in memory of a deceased cousin, Margaret E. W. Fenhagen. The vestry of Epiphany Parish is also to have $1,000. The remaining estate is devised to Margaret Shirley Clark of Beverly Hilis, Baltimore, Md. Elwood P. Morey and the Natlonal Savings & Trust Co. are named as executors. SCOUT COURT HELD Exercises for Troop 121 Held at Quantico Post. Special Dispatch to The Star. QUANTICO, Va., March 28.—William | Leitch, a local Scout executive of Vir- ginia, held a court of review and a court of horor for Troop No. 121 of Quantico, Va., at the Quantico Marine Post, headquarters of the troop, on Wednesday. The troop committee con- sists of Lieut. Col. R. B. Putnam, chair- man; Maj. Willlam G. Hawthorne, sr.; Capt. O. Anderson, H. E. Wall and H. E._Howes. Mr. Leitch, assisted by H. E. Howes, the scoutmaster of the troop, and three star scouts of Alexandria, conducted the tests in which the following Scouts contested for the honors which they were awarded: Francis E. Plerce, jr. and Henry Amadon, tenderfoot; Carl T. Hull, Walter Shoemaker, Howard Jeans, Thomas Joyce and Samuel Blum, second class; Knowles Henley, Alles Howes, Carl Anderson and Jack Per- sons, first class; Le Roy P. Hunt, jr., T, Etemmy-n\x merit badges were awarded to the boys of this troop and the three- star scouis of Alexandria. The troop is greatly indebted to the post rsonnel for the cheerful co- ol on received from the many |ONE-THIRD BH¥ ciety and General PAGE B-1 et or yusrice_sunone_ |(RAVTON PARK BILL This shows how Ninth street and Pennsylvania avenue will look when the new Department of Justice Building is erected from Ninth to Tenth, Penn- sylvania avenue to B street. ing on the site of Center Market. Both esigned recently and transposed EDGAR C. SNYDER T0BE REAPPOINTED Hoover Expected to Sign Nomination for U. S. Marshal Today. Edgar C. Snyder, whose second term as United States Marshal for the District of Columbia expires on April 6, will be reappointed by President Hoover for another term. In making this known at the White House, it was indicated that the nomination would, probably be signed by the President today but was not likely to be sent to the Senate before next Tuesday. The President’s decision was reached after a favorable report from the Attorney General to the effect that Mr. Snyder’s office had been conducted in a highly efficient manner and that it would be to the interests of the De- partment of Justice to continue him in service. Members of the local bar and other individuals and organizations have made known their satisfaction of Mr. Snyder's administration and ex- pressed the hope that he would be reappointed. Marshal Snyder has been a resident of Washington for more than 30 years and prior to his appointment in 1922 he was Washington correspondent of the Omaha Bee. He was reappointed in 1926. Mr. Snyder is president of the United States Marshals Association, president of the lugxe of Republican State Clubs of e District and prominently {dentified with civic and fraternal organizations here. OF COLLEGE PARK BUDGET SECURED Community Fund of $1,350 to, Cover Various Civic Expenses to Be Raised. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., March 28.— Approximately one-third of $1,350 sought for the community budget here has been raised, it was announced to- day by Thomas L. Mead, jr., chairman is to cover lighting, fire school needs and other community ex- year. A meeting will be her early next week to lay out districts and assign workers to make a house-to-house can- vass in the community for contributions. HOOVER SENDS GROUP TO PARLEY IN LONDON Delegates to Represent U. 8. in Congress of Building and Pub- lic Works in May. By the Associated Press. Appointment by President Hoover of a delegation to the Fifth International Congress of Building and Public Works, to be held May 26 to 30, in London, was announced yesterday by the State De- partment. The_following members were named: John M. Gries, chief of the division of public construction of the Commerce Department; L. K. Comstock, New York City; William J. Doyle, jr., Philadelphia; A. P. Greensfelder, St. Louls; John W. Harris, New York; Noble Foster Hogg- son, New York; Edward G. Lang, direc- tor of the department of public works, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Michael J. McDonough, president of the building trades depart- ment of the American Federation of La- bor; Gerhardt T. Meyne, Chicago; Tru- man 8. Morgan, New York; David T. Riffle, Pittsburgh, Pa.; E. A. Simmons, New York; William A. Starrett, New York, and George B. Walbridge, Detroit. FLAMES RAZE OLD HOME OF LATE DR. THOMPSON Scores of Children Watch as Fire Destroys Structure Erected a Hundred Years Ago. ‘The J. Ford Thompson home at Whit- tier street and Piney Branch road, un- occupied for years, but once a show place as the residence of the noted surgeon, was destroyed by fire late yes- terday afternoon. Scores of children gathered and watched as flames ate away timbers laid in place a hundred years ago. Two fire companies fought in a stiff wind and succeeded in holding the biaze within the walls. The origin was not explained. Dr. Thompson was the only surgeon of his period to maintain a surgery on the premises of his residence. Two pillars that supported a building hous- ing his operating room still stand on the property. Following the death of Dr. Thompson some years ago the property reverted to his widow and after her death it remained unoccupled. A woman in the neighborhood dis- covered the fire at about the time a child pulled an alarm- on a nearby corner. NOTIFY MISS ANDERSON Western High Junior to Represent District at Fete. Miss Hannah Anderson, junior at ‘Western High School, today was notified officially that she had been designated by Commisisoner Dougherty to represent the District of Columbia at the Spring Apple Blossom Festival in Wlnl‘,hutzr.l a Miss Anderson is the daughter of Col. | P. M. Anderson and Mrs. Anderson, 5508 Broad Branch Road. Col. Anderson is & mmum; engineer and architect, and to site. In the left is a corner of the new archives build- of these structures have been completely —=Star Staff Photo. CAPITAL LEADING INFIRE PREVENTION Listed With Lowest Cities of 500,000 Population in Record of Losses. Washington, with a fire loss record for 1929 among the lowest in the coun- try, yesterday was named an honor city in Class 1, for cities of population over 500,000, by the National Fire Waste Council at a meeting in the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. The rating placed Washington among the first six cities in the country in point of fire-prevention activity during the year. The grand prize for the entire coun- try was awarded Philadelphia, which also was placed first among the Class 1 cities. ‘Washington on the honor roll With of Class 1 cities also were named Mil- Rochester, N. Y., was declared win- ner among Class 2 cities, with popu- lation of 250,000 to 500,000. Erie, Pa. was winner among Class 3 cities, witl population of 100,000 to 250,000. Lake- wood, Ohio, was winner among Class 4 cities, with population of 50,000 to 100,000. c;v:mmn. N. Y., was winner of 20,000 to 50,000. , Ga., which bany, o won the grand prize twice, led in the Class 6 cities, under 20,000 population. BOARD T0 QUESTION | BURKE WEDNESDAY Conduct Unbecoming Officer For- mally Charged Against Detective. Charges of conduct unbecoming an | officer have been filed against Detective Willlam F. Burke, suspended member | of the thurd precinct command, and his case will be called before the Police | Trial Board next Wednesday | The charge is based on an allegation | that Burke lho-ednllxendue interest last agains ‘was arrested in a raid on an apartment in the 1400 block of K street last No- vember 13. Miss Foster last week charged Police- man Ardie C. 8 and two civilians with an attempt to “shake her down” for $30, the price of protection. Swort- zel and John , 1200 block of K street, have been held under $1,000 bond | for grand jury action on charges of | conspiracy to commit extortion as a re- sult of Miss Foster's accusation, and a similar charge will be I against James tts as soon as recovers from his wounds. He was shot by Bgtuvood Gravely, liquor enforcement officer at the third precinct, when he said to have attempted to escape arrest on the night of the alleged “shakedown.” Crotts is on the road recovery and is expected to leave the hospital in & few days. Charges are also to be drawn up against Gravely for unauthorized use of his pistol and Swortzel for conduct pre- Judicial to the good order and discipline of the force. These will firoblbly not be served on the officer until Crotts finally leaves the hospital. INJURED BY HORSE, RAY BELMONT BETTER Financier and Sportsman at Emer- gency Hospital After Jump Accident in Virginia. Raymond Belmont, financier -and sportsman of Virginia and New York, hurt Wednesday when his horse rolled on him in a fence jump, is reported re- covering at Emergency Holrplnl today. Belmont was returning from a hunt with the Orange County Hunt Club cf The Plains, Va., being conducted on the estate of T. U. Dudley. He was gallop- ing rapidly and had taken several jumps when his mount misjudged a fence, threw him and rolled over him during the spill. Belmont, considered one of the best horsemen in The Plains section, was first taken to his estate at Middleburg and then later to Emergency. Two ribs were brokenflu tongue was cut and he was bruised about the bady. Dr. James F. Mitchell, local surgeon at- tending Belmont at the hospital, de- clared his patient will soon be in the saddle again. SUIT AGAINST MOTORIST Silver Spring Woman Asks $10,000 Damages From New Yorker. Following the imposition $100 or 30 days, in Police Og{n':. n-?eu‘z’e' result of an automobile collision, Abra- ham Rubin of New York City was served with notice of the fili suit for $10,000 damages in the Supreme Court by Mrs. Martha Rykerd of Silver Spring, Md., claims to have been seriously inj the col- n. Through Attorneys Charles u‘f Col- lins and Albert E. Brault, is informed that the collision occurred Wednesday morning, at 10:45 o’clock, at Fifteenth and M streets. suit wlukhee, Detroit, Cleveland and Pitts- | jng AMENDMENT URGED BY POWER COUNSEL Feasibility of Hydro-electric Development Is Defended in Brief. CONGRESS SHOULD GET ALL FACTS, FIRM HOLDS Potomac River Corporation Repeats Promise to Make Abutting Land Available to Publie. Defending the feasibility of parks and power development on the upper Po- tomac River, the Potomac River Cor- poration today filed with the Senate District committee a brief outlining how it believes this could be ac- :umpulhtd by amending the Cramton The Cramton measure, which has pessed the House, authorizes purchase for park purposes of both sides of the river from Great Falls to Mount Ver- non, leaving for future determination by Congress the question of whether hydro-electric power should be de- veloped on the river, ‘The substance of the brief filed today by Eunun Hanson, attorney for the power aj o ?ail the Tacis contataed - e vernment reports relating to power, navigation and other phases of the Po- mc hl:l‘\;: n:c well as park develop- e ting on the Cramton Company Repeats Economy Promise. ‘The brief lays stress on the com 's contention that when Conmu:vym years ago passed the resolution holding up permits for power development pend- further action, it intended that re- ports were to be submitted on all phases of the question by Government agencies before the taking of final action. The brief elaborates on the statement made by Mr. Hanson at a recent hearing that if the power application is granted, the company could make the lands abutting on river available for park purposes ;‘n;l' lt'.!unby save money for the tax- In conclusion, the company says that if all of the facts relating to a co:blnl- ton of park and power development are obtained and considered by the Senate committee, then “this applicant is willing to rest its case on its ability to show that its plans are in the public interest and for the public benefit.” vq.The. Cramton bill,” the brief states, does not provide for a park. It merely provides for a cumbersome method of obtaining lands to be held for future park development If there is to be a park, additional expenditures will nave be made to create it, and then it will nozube a fimuflf‘s‘. but a scenic park. such a parl to be - guarded against flmd!p. 3 nei tures will have to be made control. Under the theory Cramton bill, all expenditures other than a portion of the original cost of the Jand itself must be borne by the tax- payers of Virginia and Maryland. It is a matter of common knowledge that m’f m-ye.rs hm;r'de:lu overtaxed and impossible one. demnle 4 Comments on Combined Projéct. “The alternative to the Cramton plan adoption of a combined park and power project. The only loss to the will be about 600 acres of land which annually are flooded the tomac and which could notwbe of al8 trict was flled within 24 hours of the acci- dent. Moses K. Glu;uller Dies. LOS ANGELES, March 28 (#).— Moses K. Chandler, 94, father of Harry Chandler, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, died Wednesdaygat his ranch tained as a part of a park without the expenditure of thousands of dollars an- nually for the construction of control dams. These lands, under the plan recommended by Maj. Somervell, the District Engineer, would become submerged in a great freshwater lake. The Great Falls themselves would be geruemd. ‘would the . brief its out that bination p!lnmmld include frnm way bri at Great high- Chain Bridge bove on top of the prup?n‘d‘a: SRR YOUNG MEN INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Woodrow Dermody of St. John's College and C. R. Willingham Are Victims. Woodrow Dermody, 18 years old, a student of St. John’s College, is in a critical condition in St. Francis Xavier Infirmary in Charleston, S. C. today suffering from a possible skull fracture and other injuries, sustained in an au- tomobile accident 20 miles from Charles- ton, yesterday. A companion, Clifton R. Willingham, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Willingham of 7502 Alaska avenue, is in Roper Hospital in the same city, a vic- tim of minor hurts in the mishap. Dermody, who is the son of Mrs. John J. Derm of 4424 Ninth street, and Willingham, a brother of C. H. Willing- ham, jr., clerk of the House committee on education, were returning from a brief outing to Jacksonville, Fla. They had left Washington last Friday in a car belonging to Willingham’s brother. Telegraphic dispatches from Charles- ton state that the light roadster in which the youths were traveling at- tempted to another car and crashed into the ditch at the side of the road. The automobile was destroyed by fire. Mrs. Dermody left last night for Charleston to be with her son. Ray- glq;:g L. Willingham, a brother, is with ifton. McLean food Sale Tomorrow. MCLEAN, Va., March 28 (Special).— The parent-teacher association will :»lvn food sale tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock in the vacant store opposf Masonic Hall. Mrs. J. Hunt chairman, will be assisted M. Corner, Mrs. W. H. H. Crowder, Mrs. I J. G. Sadtler, s B. Mrs. Pat Strawser and court | others. Col. H. C. Rexach Dies. Lieut. Col. Henry C. Rexach,