Evening Star Newspaper, April 1, 1930, Page 17

. i L 'S ! ] m B TRAFFIC BUREAU T0 ACT AGAINST TAXIGAB FIRMS Contemblates Steps to Force Vehicles to Operate From Central Point. ACTION IS DIRECTED AT LIVERY TAG CABS Brown Contends Code Prohibits Them From Picking Up ?’nn on Streets. Btirred by repeated complaints over alleged annoyances caused by taxicabs parking in the vicinity of telephone call boxes in various sections of the airmail line passing augurated two years ago. He has li flving the night mail, although the the first he has had to ma ization, received _weather reports south as far mond. They were as follows Quantico Milford General conditions. .clear Ceiling . unl. Visibility 10 mi. Wwind ... .82 Temperature 52 Dew point Barometer .. unl, unl. 8-6 53 2978 20.60 scat. clouds @he Zoening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1930. All in a Night’'s Work Mail Flyer Recalls Leap From Height of 11,000 Feet in Maryland After Being Trapped in Fog With Gas Running Low. This is the personal story B} the experiences of an Eastern Air Trans- port airmail pilot during one of the worst nights in the history of the through the National Capital from New York to At- lanta. The writer, Verne E. Treat, has flown this line since it was in- ved through 15 forced landings while parachute jump of which he tells is ke to save his life. In the matter-of-fact lines which follow Treat tells of one of the incidents which make the modern might airmail service one of the outstanding romances of modern civil- BY VERNE E. TREAT. Left Newark at 9:25 p.m. March 24 on regular Southbourld trip with about 418 pounds of mail, arriving at Camden at 10:13. mail and 10 gallons of gas and proceeded to Was were very good and the weather even better than the reports. Arrived at Wash- ington at 11:35, took on 34 pounds of mail and Took on about 50 pounds of ington. The weather reports as Rich- Richmond clear These reports were considered by me to be almost District, Inspector E. W. Brown, in|perfect, and as the run only requires one hour, I charge of the Traffic Bureau, revealed today that drastic steps are contem- ted to force these vehicles to operate & central garage. Action is planned particularly against cabs carrying “L" or livery tags. In- spector Brown contends that under the District license code these vehicles are | prohibited from picking up fares on the streets or responding to calls from any peint other than an authorized garage of the owner. Many of the “L” tag cabs, however, he said, are stationed in proximity to telephone call boxes, are dispatched on calls from these places and pick up fares on the street. Brown Explains Provisions. Cabs carrying “H,” or hackers’ tags, tor Brown explained, are the only Inspec mlc vehicles permitted to pick up The hackers, however, are re- did not take on any gas. ahead showing plainly. east. east of Quantico along the Potomac Rf the first beacon north of the Richmond over it. Pulling back-up into clear air again Flying south toward Richmond the air was clear and visibility sharp, with two and three beacons There were cloud banks far to the west and a few scattered clouds to the Passed over a small patch of ground log ver. This patch was about two miles wide and three miles long. There was no more fog encountered until I reached Richmond. Milford was clear, as was also Airport VERNE E. TREAT. Skimming along the top of the fog at 1.300 feet over the airport and looking straight down I could faintly see the runway lights. up & compass course with the glow and mushed down to 700 feet, maintaining that level for about five minutes. While in the fog at this level I could see no sign of the runway lights, though the boys on the field said later I went right I then circled back, lined T circled the glow, but it was very faint by this time, with no lights visible straight down and not even a glow from the beacon. From later reports I found out the ceiling was 800 feet the first time I circled and dropped to 400 during the two minutes I had gone back to mush hack | down. It dropped to 200 within two more minutes while the upper level raised. | stands “L” tags hicles, according to Inspector Brown, but taxicabs are using them primarily because the license is not so expensive as for “H” tags. A taxicab owner, he said, can procure a license to operate 25 “L" tagged vehicles for $25, and $2 for each additional vehicle. whereas the operator of an “H” tag must pay @ license fee of $9 for each vehicle. nspector Brown's.first move to force the “L” tag vehicles to abandon the present practice of operating call boxes was the arrest of the drivers of cabs of two different companies on charges of icking up fares on the street and fail- to operate from an authorized he pm:-' st gfi’“" "‘fi' i e e to e regulations regard- ing the use of “L” tags. The cases have been set for hearing in Police Court April 22, New Companies Chief Offenders. ‘The chief offenders of the “L” tag regulations, Inspector Brown declared, are the new companies giving a fiat- rate, 35-cent service. Violations also! have been observed, he said, among the | vehicles of companies using meter cabs, Which have concessions at hotels. common practice of the vehicles | using “L” tags, according to Inspector | Brown, is to have a private telephone located in various sections where the cabs park awaiting a call. The con- gregation of the drivers at these points, | he said, has led to a number of com- ts by residents In the neighbor- { i Bureau to take steps to have the tele- e call box in that vicinity removed. | petition pointed out that the taxi- cabs are parked continuousiy in front of the business property near the call | box, allowing no access whatever for | loading or unloading merchandise. The bell on the call box, it said, rings at all | hours of the night, annoying the occu- | pants of the ings, while the drivers ‘who k::liur there “use unproletary lan- their installation since they ent to take steps practice. “THEODORE ROOSEVELT” DRAWS 30 DAYS IN JAIL Twice Before He’s Gone to Cell for Being Drunk, Under the Name of Calvin Coolidge. A man who has a penchant for giv- ing the names of Presidents when ar-| rested for being drunk was sent to jail for 30 days from Police Court today under the name of Theodore Rooseveit. On two other occasions of his ar- raignment in court Joseph T. Stewart has given the name of Calvin Coolidge. | Once he was reprimanded severely by | a police judge for representing himseli | as William H. Taft. Court attaches say that he also has given the names ol ‘Woodrow Wilson and several of the earlier Chief Executives. On this occa- sion the 60-year-old man was picked up from the sidewalk of Water street southwest by Policeman W. J. Nealon and transported to the fourth precinct by the patrol wagon. Stewart put up no serious court ob- Jection to his arrest. When questioned concerning his habit of being “booked"” by police under presidential names, Stewart replied, “Just an eccentricity.” He declared that he had not given the name of the present Executive because he did not desire “to intrude on new Presidents” and always wanted them to get “a bit seasoned first.” ATTEND VAUGHAN RITES Eastern Star and Other Organiza- tions Witness Burial. Special Dispatch to The Btar. CULPEPER, Vi April 1, — Rev. Btarke Jett, jr, and delegations from the Eastern Star, the Auxiliary to the American Legion and other organiza- tions motored to Amherst yesterday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Mary S. Vaugh: the wife of J. Herbert ‘Vaughan, who died in University Hos- ital, Charlottesville, alter a two-week ness, Mrs. Vaughan recently was elected ‘worthy matron of Culpeper Chapter ol the Eastern Star and would have been , installed with other chapter ofticers had the Police to break up it not been for her lliness. She also | was first president ot the Auxiliary to the American Legion and was active in the work of organizations and in church work. She is survived by her d, & 3-year-old daughter, Mary Frances; her , Mrs. Francis G. Spearman of Culpeper, and one brother, Roy Spearman, of High Point, N, C. No Lights Are Visible. Then figured to go back to the next beacon and try to get down underneath the fog. This soon proved to be of no avail, as the fog had formed, during that short period, along the entire air- way, both north and south. There was not a light visible at any place, and as I flew north by compass and passed over the glow of Milford the beacon did nct cast the familiar circling spot, nor did any other beacon I passed near. The glow of Washington was very faint with the ufirfl' level of fog at 2,000 feet. The ceiling here at this time was around 300 feet. It had dropped the same as at Richmond. During the entire trip I had been fly- ing at 1,750 revolutions per minute, with a heavy load, which ordinarily consumes sbout 15 gallons of gas per hour. This r.p.m. was maintained because of a late start from Newark, a fast schedule and a 25-mile wind from the south at 1,600 feet, becoming 32 miles at 3,300 fee At 1,750 this ship would have a cruis- ing range of approximately four hours on the main tank and 20 minutes on reserve. It was about 2:15 when I reached Washington, and nearing the four- mile limit on the main tank. I could see no way to get down without cracking up and so decided to fly west, away from the water and cities, climb up and jump. Coming north from Richmond the clouds had drifted from the southwest across the airway, and I had flown through them time and time -{nm at short intervals. They had now e thicker and closer together, and while flying west I was in and out of them continually until the lower fog bank was almost always out of sight. About | 15 minutes from Washington the main tank went dry and it was only a matter | of a short time until the reserve would | be dry and the ship and I would take a | long ride. With the gasoline exhausted | there would be little danger of the ship burning when it crashed. Flies Into Clear Space. During the last few minutes I climbed wide open, hopi to be clear of the clouds when the time came to bale out, and fortunately this was accomplished about two minutes before she quit, at an altitude of nearly 11,000 feet. I flew into a clear space with only the lower fog formation beneath me, rolled back the stabilizer and as soon as the motor ATTORNEYS BACK SATURDAY HOLIDAY Federal Bar Association to Support Half-Day Off for Fed- eral Workers. A committee of three attorneys from the Federal Bar Association will appeal directly to President Hoover to grant half-holiday the year around to Gov- ernment_workers, basing their conten- tion on law. Decision to take this step was reached last night by the council of the bar as- sociation at the Interior Department Building, when it was voted that the president of the group, William R. Val- lance, and two others constitute a com- mittee to take the matter up directly with President Hoover. The council acted on a special report concerning the matter, which went into the law, and the court decisions in the matter. Vallance referred to the District Code, Section 1389, which he said pro- vides for the observance of Saturday half holidays all year, instead of nn]f' in the Summertime. Supporting this law Vallance cited an opinion of Associate Justice McReynolds, while he was act- ing Attorney General. In the language of the law, section 1389 of the District code, amended June 30, 1902, declares that “every Saturday These figures are from the Weather Bureau stationed at the field. | died, cut off the ignition switches. The navigation lights were left on as I wanted to watch it go down. T climbed over the side and stood on the steps, holding to the stick to keep the ship level. It was then necessary to bank about 10 degrees to the left to offsét the fast turning to the right caused by the absence of propellor torque. When in a gentle glide, straight ahead, I kicked off backward, and when clear, pulled the rip cord. A Floyd Smith parachute was being worn at the time, and it certainly worked fast. I don't believe I dropped over 100- feet. before it was opened. On the way down it osciliated quite a bit, as the air was rough, but at no time did it seem to be in any danger of col- lapsing. The ride down was a long one and gave me & Very UNnNecessary feeling. Left Dangling in Air. ‘The ship glided straight ahead for a short time and then started turn- ing to the right, making two complete turns before disappearing through the fog. Shortly afterward the chute let me down to the fog layer and on through, coming below it into the inky blackness. I couldn't see the ground and had no idea how far away it was, but I was not long in finding out, for with a small flashlight I suddenly saw a few branches whiz by and then all was quiet. The chute had caught in the branches and left me dangling in the air about 10 feet from the ground. The rest was easy, except trying to wake up some of the people around there to help me find the ship. This proved to be the hardest job of all, and after yelling my lungs out in front of several houses in the neigh- borhocd, and trying to make friends with their dogs. I hiked along the rail road tracks until dawn, when a friend- ly farmer took me in tow. He told me I was near Sharpsburg, Md. With his knowledge of the country and my ideas of wind direction, wrift, etc., we soon found the ship. It had landed in a big corn field, on the wheels, and had then pro- ceeded to tear itself to pieces. The mail was all intact and undamaged. We then drove to Washington, where another ship was available, and I con- tinued on my way to Richmond, riving about 3:55 p.m., thus ending another round of the monotonous job of flying the night mail. CITY POPULATION PUT AT 591,616 New Directory Indicates Increase of 41,040 Over 1929 Figures. 591,616, an increase of 41,040 over the 1929 estimate of the same publication, the new Washington City Directory, just out today, estimates. It was the seventy-second issue of the directory, brought up to date and presenting an accurate list of names, occupations and addresses, both busi- ness and residential, of Washingtonians. Included, too, in the present direc- ton from the time of its infancy to the present-day city of rapidly expanding Govarnment activities, beautiful parks and massive public buildings. Also the book carries the vital sta- o | tisties for the year, figures on the | facilities of the municipality for educa- | tional and recreational purposes, finan- icial statistics and those of its bank- ing institutions, building operations for the past year and upon a t of other | subjects “close to thc interest of Washingtonians. after 12 o'clock noon” is a holiday “for all purposes,” just the same as Christ- mas, Washington's birthday, the Fourth of July and other legal holidays. Instead of granting the half-holiday the year around, Presidents have grant- ed them only in the Summer time. Plans for enfertaining a delegation of British attorneys here August 26-28 were discussed. RETIREMENT CONFERENCE Senate and House Groups to Discuss Legislation Thursday. The Senate and House conferees on {he civil service retirement legislation will meet at 10 o'clock Thursday morn- ing, it was announced this afternoon by Senator Dale, Republican of Vermont. ‘The task confronting the conferees will be to adjust the points of difference | in the two retiement bills which have passed, one in the Senate and the other in the House. The House measure, ] tative Lehlbach of New Jersey, includes the main features of the Senate bill, but with a number of new provisions that were not before the Senat | From the columns of the publication can be learned that there are only Drinks in the Capital. it | two | Graft, Bunk, Bull, Holcombe and Rott. | Here also live, the book states authori- | tatively, Sense and Reasoner, Law and Robb, Drye and Wetmore. | She does not live at the White House, but Deborah Aaron is the “first lady” lu( Washington. Within the pages of the book is an array of illustrious names which would put the pages of history to shame. Therein are printed 45 George Washing- tons, There are 27 John Adamses, and plenty of Daniel Websters, Henry Clays, Wwilllam J. Bryan, Woodrow Wilson: and John Hancocks. - . Will Explain P The manner in which an airplanc is given stability and control, with no | more substantial medium than the air upon which to act, will be explained by L. Dryden, chief of the aero- Bureau of Standards, in the Standards Flying Club in the ?ufld nl"m ‘Bureau of Standards. Washington has a population of | g2V tory, is the usual history of Washing- | natural park. of ourth of a series of | adorned with five lectures at 8 o'clock tonight before | tectural | five counts—the cost of hydroelectric |CIVIC GROUP SCORES! SOMERVELL STAND ON POWER AT FALLS Association Hits Statement $1,000,000 in Resources Would Be Wasted. LETTER OF GEN. JADWIN IS QUOTED IN ATTACK Minority Opinion Claimed a Saving of $48,000,000 Through Development. ‘Taking exception to a recent asser- tion by Maj. Brehon Somervell, District engineer for the War Department, that development of the Great Falls area for park purposes would cause a $100,000,- 000 waste of public resources, the American Civic Association, proponents of park development, issued a statement today declaring “it would not be good business to turn the river and its shores Jver to & power company at this time.” Testifying last week at the hearing on the Capper-Cramton bill before the Senate District committee, Maj. Somer- vell said the $100,000,000 loss would re- sult from failure to develop fully all phases of the Potomac River. This would comprise, he said, the “loss of power development, the cost of bridges and the loss to the water supply of the District, the loss of taxes and the cost of navigation dams whenever naviga- tion is undertaken and the conserva- tion of the coal, labor and transporta- ton.” “Growth” in Year Cited. The civic association charges that the $100,000,000 loss is mythical and that in less than a year it has grown from “a more modest $48,000,000 merely by use of pencil and paper.” The $48,000,000 figure, the association says, is taken from a letter written in August, 1929, by Maj. Gen. Jadwin, chief of Army Engineers, and at that time chairman of the National Capital | Park and Planning Commission. The commission had favored acquisition of the area for park purposes, leaving an opportunity for Congress to authorize its development for power and naviga- tion purposes should such a course be- come desirable. and Gen. Jadwin, in his letter, was setting forth his minority opinion in favor of power development. He claimed a saving of $48,000,000, representing in the main the capitaliza- tion at 6 per cent of estimated yearly savings, dividing these sums $10,000,000 to the District and $38,000,000 to the two States and the country at large, accoraing to the association’s statement. Based on Five Counts. The savings estimated were based on power less than cost of steam, the elim- ination of two bridges, savings in the form of income taxes, navigation sav- ings and savings on preliminary treat- ment of Washington's water suoply and value of flood-control protection. Even at the lower figure of savings as detailed by Gen. Jadwin, the asso- clation contends, the estimated savings on the differential in cost between the production of water power and steam power are extremely problematical. In support of this position they call at- tention to the recent announcement by the Southern California Edison Co., long a leading exponent of water power, that it intends to erect a steam plant with ol and natural gas as fuel, and that its future concentration will be on steam power. Destination of Sum Cited. “If, however, there should develop a slight savings,” the association asks, “will that savings be sure to find its way into the pockets of the consumer?” According to the association, the Poto mac River Corporation has stated that they expected to wholesale their power to large users wherever they could find them, but they could make no promises of reduced rates. . “We might with equal impunity claim that the cost of the ‘free’ bridges would be the sacrifice of the Potomac Valley to the dams, wires and power houses of the power company,” the association says. “If this equipment should be- come obsolete due to greater economy of steam power, which is not without the bounds of possibility, the futile sacrifice of the beauty of the natural a rather high price for two free bridges across the river.” After similarly attacking the other points of possible savings cited by Gen. Jadwin, the association says, “the com- putations by which the $48,000,000 have been raised to $100,000,000 only add to the skepticism with which really care- ful inquirers must meet these claims.” Asserting that there are certain fun- damental issues involved, the statement H “If city planning has taught us any- thing, it has demonstrated the impor- tance of the public ownership of water fronts by citles and regions. The Cramton-Capper bill provides for bring- ing both shores of the Potomac into public ownership and control of the Federal Government. The increased taxable land values in Virginia and Maryland will rcpay these States for their joint half of the total expendi- ture to purchase and preserve the un- spoiled shores of the Potomac in a “Bill Safeguards Future.” “If the shores of the Potomac are brought into public ownership and pre- served, 1t will be within the control of Congress to authorize any other kind of water development it may believe in the public good and the Cramton bill, as it passed the House, safeguards the future by providing that the park shall not be a bar to navigation, power or other water use authorized by Congress. But to turn the river and its shores over to a power company, just at the time when many experienced power experts believe that steam power will supersede Here live, according to the book, (water power uncer similar conditions, and allow the natura. beauty of the val- ley to be impaired, does not s:em good business, when it is realized that the damages brought about by dams, reser- voirs, power houses and high tension transmission lines are such that essen- tial park values are permanently destroyed. “The conservative organizations are interested in ‘preservation’ of ‘existing beauty with the development of wood- land roads as a part of the outer park- way system. The handsome park prom- ised by Maj. Somervell does not meet with the specifications of Prederick Law Olmsted and J. C. Nichols, who have spent their lives in learning hew to make the most of natural beauty. The park offered by the power sgnnnn falls far short of the park authorized by the Cramton-Capper bill now being consid- ered by the Senate committee. ‘e cannot have advantages of a _marvelously beauti! Capital City. stately buildings of archi- and surrounded by shores of the Potomac would prove | b, This revised plan for the monumental gateway at the Maryland line on Sixteenth street was given ou by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. REASON FOR ATTACK MYSTIFIES FIHELLY Detective Lists Preceding Events in Report to Shelby. Headquarters Detective Arthur PFi- helly, who received a black eye in a mysterious encounter early Sunday morning, still is in the dark as to the identity of his assailant and the reason for the assault. This was the tenor ¢f a report submitted by Fihelly to his su- perior, Inspector Willlam S. Shelby. The text of the report was not made | public. According to Fihelly's story in the re- port, he had escorted a young lady to a theater Saturday ngiht and then went to a Chinese restaurant for sup- per. The place was crowded, so the couple went to the Union Station res- taurant. It also was crowded. Then they decided to buy materials for a sup- per at a delicatessen and prepare the supper at the young lady's apartment "’J‘x‘g SA:ltde.enth street near 8 strect. This In the early hours of Sunday morn- ing, says the report, the sound of a com- motion outside penetrated the apart- ment. Fihelly, curious as to the cause of a noise at that hour, stuck his head out of the door to investigate. There was a terrible crash, and that is the last he remembers. When he came to ha was being taken to the eighth precinet in the patrol wagon, the house manager of the apartment having called up to re- port the disturbance. No official action has been taken in the case largely because of the difficulty in locating the young woman. She either has been absent from her apart- ment since or else has chosen not to answer the discreet knocks of Inspector Louis Stoll, who has called several times to learn her version of the story. In- spector Stoll expects to persevere, how- ever, until she is interviewed. Should Stoll ever succeed.in his quest he will forward a report on the affair to Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of the department. who will take whatever action seems suitable under the circum- stances. e CALL FOR COMMUNIST FACTS IS IGNORED No Request Yet Received to Ap- pear Before School Board Hear- ing Tomorrow. Not a single request for an audience with the Board of Education on the subject of Communism in the District public high schools has been received y the Board of Education, despite the fact that it was announced two weeks fago that anti-Communists would be heard at tomorrow’s meeting of the board. Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president of the schol board, at that meeting issued a call for facts and specified that he “wanted names. dates and places” of the Communistic movement. Dr. Caru- si's invitation was prompted by news- paper reports of the activities of the so- called Young Communist League and the Young Pioneers, both Communistic organizations with headquarters at 1337 Seventh street, and by resolutions from sivic bodies protesting against the spread | of the Communistic doctrines among school children. i At the board meeting two weeks ago, Dr. Carusi declared the board could not ignore such evidence as the resolu- tions and news reports presented, and announced that as soon as definite tes timony of communistic activity was pre- | sented to the board, tkat body should and would undertake to combat the evil ‘The only communication which Carusi did receive was burln\L\(i pro- test written on a postal card which de- clared sarcastically that the Communists are advocating such dangerous doctrines and principles as the claim that the earth is round and that the sun does not revolve around this sphere. MOTHER OF MINISTER TO DENMARK IS DEAD| Mrs. Henry Wood Booth Expires in Detroit at Age of 90. News of the death in Detroit early today of Mrs. Henry Wood Booth, mem- ber of a prominent family of that city, has been received here by a dlllghur. Mrs. Henry T. Wirtman of Chevy Chase, Md. One of Mrs. Booth's sons, George B. Booth, is_part owner of the Detroit Evening News, and another, Booth, recently was appointed Minister to Denmark, a post to which he will go in a few weeks. Mrs. Booth was 90 years old and had been ill for a considerable time. kways, and at the same time devel Power yeservoirs, with thei arincion because of their ! Pederal unmarred ‘natural parks and t yesterday —Star Staff Photo. HIGHTMAN ELEVATED Member of Railway Y. M. C. A. Staff Made General Secretary. George Lewis Hightman, member cf the staff of the Rallroad Y. M. C. A. since 1923, has been appointed general secretary of the railroad branch, to succeed E. H. Goelz, who resigned. Mr. Hightman entered Y. M. C. A. work at Brunswick, Md., in 1915, as assistant secretary of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Y. M. C. A. there. He was transferred to Washington in 1923 as social secretary of the terminal branch. Later he was made activity secretary. The new general secretary is a native of Frederick County, Md., and is 36 years old. He is married. CHERRY BLOSSOMS ATTRACT THRONGS Both White and Pink Blos- soms Now Can Be Seen Along Tidal Basin. ‘Washington today boasted of a pic- turesque display of beautiful blossoms from the Orient as the Japanese cherry trees bloomed forth around the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park. Charles Henlock, chief of the horti- cultural division of the office of public buildings and public parks, today ex- pressed the opinion that the blossoms are now at their very best, because both pink and white are visi- ble. Last night was rather cold and held back the period of full bloom for the single blossoms, he said, and this display, with favorable weather, continye for about 10 days. As a special feature of the show that nature is now staging around the Tidal Basin, the office of Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, announced that the rainbow fountain, in the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial, at Seventeenth street, will be turned on for the first timethis season on Sunday. Thousands of persons have viewed the cherry blossoms in the last few days, various means of conveyance bringin, the throngs to Potomac Park. Specia! bus trips are being run and visitors in sightseeing busses are coming to Wash- |ington in great numbers to see the | cherry blossoms, as an added attraction to the sights of the city. Passengers on_ trains eme: from the tunnel beneath the Capi unds, . catch a glimpse on their way to Dixle, of the fri flowers around the Tidal Basin, before passing over the railroad ridge across the Potomac River. Like- wise, passengers on trains arriving in ‘Washington from the South get an in- troduction to the city's beauty with a view of the cherry blossoms. Members of the United States park ¥ollee are keeping a special watch over he cherry trees to see that no harm comes to the blossoms from sightseers. THREE PERSONS INJURED IN COLLISION OF AUTOS All Receive Treatment for Lacera- tions—Woman EKnocked Down by Driver in Fourteenth Street. ‘Three persons received minor lacer- ations when an automobile in which they were riding was in a collision at Thirteenth and Gallatin streets last night with a machine driven by Lanil Cleavenger, 19 years old, of 1304 Irving street. ‘The injured were the driver, Bertrand L. Richter, 21 years old, of 1305 Gal- |latin street, and Catherine Clark, 23 years old, and Mae Nile, 21 years old, both of 1216 L street. They were given first-aid treatment by Dr. Roland H. Ford of 5213 Fourteenth street. May Flaherty, 35 years old, of the Woodley Park Towers, Connecticut ave- nue and x.u.n(bl‘e road, suffered con- tusions of the back last night when car operated by Willlam E. Bole of 904 Massachusetts avenue, struck her in the 2000 block of Fourteenth street. She ‘was treated at Garfield Hospital by Dr. A. Resta and later removed to her home. 1 cherry | CAPITAL BECOMES AIRMAIL TERMINAL System Provides Six Daily Planes to New York and Four South. ‘The National Capital today became a terminal on the heaviest traveled single contract airmail line in the world with the inauguration of a double schedule over the Eastern Air Transport line from New York to Atlenta. Six mail planes will operate daily between this city and New York and four daily from this city South. Expansion of the service became necessary as a result of heavy increases in the amount of airmail handled on the coastal run, especially between the National Capital and New York. While six planes will operate daily between this city and New York, four will be operated from this city South. ‘The first plane on the new schedule will leave New York at 3 o'clock this afternoon and, after stopping at Phila- delphia and Baltimore, was scheduled to arrive at Bolling Field at 5:15 o'clock, continuing on South a few | minutes later. This plane probably will | be flown by Pilot “Larry” Pabst, former Marine Corps pilot. . Charlotte to Celcbrate. No ceremonies were planned here, Al | becomes a regular stop on the airmail line, there is to be quite an elaborate celebration. ‘The new planes will fly between this will | city and New York by daylight, han- ! dling all the g:fi' mail Tl.xlld mltefllll}' expediting very. The new planes on the schedule are to arrive in the National Capital at 5:15 p.m. south- bound and 7:30 a.m. northbound. Under the new schedule planes will leave New York daily at 5 am. and 3 and 9:10 p.m., arriving here at 7:10 a.m. and 5:15 and 11:25 p.m. The plane leaving New York at 5 a.m. is the regu- lar “shuttle” plane, which picks up mail from the transcontinental night | airmail line for deiivery at Philadel- | phia, Baltimcre and Washington. It | ends its run in this city. Northbound Schedule. city at 2:50 and 7:20 am. and 6:50 p.m., the evening plane being the regu- lar shuttle plane which picks up aft- ernoon mailings here and puts them aboard the transcontinental mail planes for delivery in the Middle West the following morning. The new schedule is timed so as to connect with the international contract mail service over the Pan-American Airways system from Miami to the West Indies, Mexico, Central America and South America. PARK PROBLEMS BEFORE DISTRICT FUND HEARING Citizens to Ask Senate Committee’s Consideration of Items in Their " Community. Senate hearings on the District appro- priation bill today entered the second day, with Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. director of public buildings and public parks and executive officer of the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission. outlining the sections of the bill relating to those activities. 1t was expected that the appropria- tions for the courts also would be gone over by the subcommittee today. The remainder of the day was to be devoted to hearing a number of private individuals who wished to call the at- tention of the subcommittce to items in the bill affecting particular localities. After the taking of testimony has been completed the subcommittee will follow its annual custom of making a tour of the city to view at first hand the street improvement under consider- ation and school buudln; g’oject& The hearings are in charge of Senator Bing- ham, Republican, of Connecticut, chair- man of the subcommittee. Director Removes Receiver From Hook and Calls Go Un- | answered—Dog Pound and Rescue League Also Busy. As usual, Dr. Willlam M. Mahn, di- rector of the Zoo, mindful of the at- tentions April 1 has brought him and his charges among the cages of the park, slipped the receiver from the: bock of jhis_tele e and settled down ‘o his daily chores upon his arrival at his office this morning. But he was not urlr enough to thwart many of the April foolstres whose friends kept Zoo attaches, before the ! arrival of Dr. Mann, on the jump to as- isure callers that Mr. Fox, Mr. Lion ar¢ the other denizens of the Zoo are still ZOO’S APRIL FOOL BUSINESS HEAVY UNTIL DR. MANN ARRIVES Then Dr. Mann put in his appearance. and put a stop to the foolishness, and instructed the telephone company to inquire the nature of the business of cal before connecting them with the ‘Then the foolsters brought into play the dog pound, the Animal Rescue League and made merry with the tele- phone operators. The telephone com- pany estimated that approximately one- tenth more calls than nsual were han- dled th's morning due to the pranks of the public upon this bright and sunny All Fools’ morning. At one place in Washington, however, not Fools’ day. Out Charlotte, N. C., however, which today | Northbound planes will leave this | PAGE B-1 PUBLIC'S RESPONSE 10 PLEA FOR BLOOD MAY SAVE MOTHER 100 Volunteer After Appeal for Help Is Broadcast Over WRC. 'ELDEST OF CHILDREN IS ONLY 11 YEARS OLD Woman, 33, Fails to Recover Prop- erly Following Birth of Twelfth in February. The public’s hearty response last night to a radio appeal for blood today apparently has saved the life of Mrs. Helen White, 33-year-old mother of 13 children. Acceptable blood was chosen from that offered by some 100 volunteers, and the mother rallied after the trans- fusion had been completed at Sibley Hospital. Almost a score of additional men and women presented themselves at George Washington University Medical Scl;:ol. wi the blood tests were made. Samples were taken and filed for reference in the event Mrs. White re- d_transfusioni, an ex- pediency which physicians say should not develop for at least 36 hours. Friends Tell Children. Meanwhile a more cheerful atmos- phere prevailed in. Mrs. White’s home, at 1524 East Capitol street, where children, many of them under The good news, it § had reached them by way u'fi"‘"“w and friends ;,hl&uued from time to time. Mrs. e's as lowing the bmhm erine Ann, and a week and last night a h volunteers was | station WRC. Condition Is Satisfactory. street, under Hunter, pathologist. The father of the | are Billy, Ellen, Mary, Theodo! Dorothy, John, Paul, Alice, Francis and Catherine Ann. {BIDS OPENED FOR NEW FEDERAL BUILDING Construction Will Begin Soon on Site at Thirteenth and B Streets Southwest. Bids were an- ot aem s [nther great Governmen! to t 3 | cover an entire city block, and it is ex« | pected to be under construction soon. | The Nelscn-Pedley Construction Co. of Philadelphia was the low bidder on | the first -unit of the great extensible | building for the Department of Agri- { culture. The bid was $2,074,000, with | an alternate bid of $2,330,000 to put | marble in many parts of the in place of terra cotta. The bid also The site ‘Thirteenth covers clearance of the site. is bounded by B and C, | streets and Linworth place southwest. { The Dilks Construct Co. of Chi- cago was next to low, with $2,149,613, while the John Griffith Co., also of Chicago, was highest of the 2¢ with $2,992,000. The low bid for elevators was offered by the Gurney Elevator Co. at $156,975. The site for this first unit of the extensible building is being by condemnation, and tenants are being ordered to vacate within 30 days, as the property titles to various parcels pass to the Government. | It was expected that property transe | fer would be made in all cases within the next 10 days or two weeks at the PRATT WILL CAUTION | LETTERMAN ON RAIDS | Superintendent of Police Declares Vice Squad Must Be Careful About Entries. Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, said today he intended to caution Sergt. Oscar J. Letterman and the otlier members of the vice squad to be more careful in the future about the way in which they enter premises on ralds. The caution is based on the fact that the District Attorney’s office on Satur- day declined to prosecute a case of possession of liquor against Mr. and Mrs. Eleck Harmon of the 1600 block of 8 street on the theory that Letter- man and his squad had not gained entrance to (he Harmon apartment legally. The squad had a warrant for another person at another address but no warrant for the Harmon apartment. No report has been made to Maj. Pratt on the investigation conducted into the raid by Inspector Thaddeus Bean. Bean is waiting for the Har~ mons to make a complaint to headqua the Should this complaint be made, Maj. Pratt said that he would cite Letterman before the Trial Board. He said, ever, that he feit that Letterman was simply the vl&um of overzealousness, ing squad to be more careful in future. Loudoun Teachers Elect. LEESBURG, Va., April 1 (Special).— ‘Teachers’ Asso- The Loudoun Count;