Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1930, Page 17

WASHINGTON, D. C., TOWERS REPORTS - §34.864.276 TAXES - PAIDINPAST YEAR Increase of $1,379,450 Is Shown in Annual Statement to District Heads. REAL PROPERTY OWNERS STILL OWE $3,637,961 Receipts From Real Estate Levies Account for More Than Half of Total Collections. The annual report of Collector of Taxes Chatham M. Towers, presented to the District Commissioners today, sets forth collections during the past fiscal year of $34,864,276.25, an increase over the previous year's collecti'ns of $1,379,450.90. ‘The substuntial part of 1t, $19,735,846.80 came from real estate taxes. Tangible and intangible, personal property taxes followed in the orler named with $4,007,48249 and $2,619,- 671.43. Other lesser sources of revenue | were insurance taxes, special reimburs- able taxes, interest and penalties, trust and special funds, gasoline tax, and miscellancous _collections. The report shows that owners of real property still owe the District $3,637,961.95 on taxes dating back to 1877. The bulk of this, however, rep- resents taxes falling due, but remain- ing unpeid during the course of the past fiscal year, $3,308,624.60. An amusing sidelight on these figures is that the compilation shows that in two years—1910 and 1928—the collector actually took in more real estate taxes than the levy. The explanation is probebly an error in adding up the levy, but since this has not been de- tected, Mr. Towers gets credit-for doing what probably no other modern tax collector has even done, actually turn- ing over to thc District more money than he was supposed to collect. Owners_of personal property still ewe the District $2,567,222.61 in back taxes, of which $378,505.21 is due from 1930. These figures show that some honest taxpayer who had owed the District a personal tax bill for 14 years came in and paid up. His bill was $1.54, assessed in 1916. MENOHER FUNERAL HELD AT ARLINGTON D et Rainbow Division Delegations At- tend Services—13-Gun Salute Is Fired at Grave. Attended by veteran delegations of the Rainbow Division, men who inti- mately sl.sed with him both the bivouac and the mazch, funeral services for Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher com- mander of the Rainbow Division during the World War, were conclucted this morning at Arlington National Ceme- ‘The funeral procession, before con- tinuing to the cemetery, was joined ut the Fort Myer gate by a band and uadron of the 3d Cavalry. There, fim the processional escort ranked at attention, the casket was transferred to @ flag-draped caisson. A:‘the grave, solidly banked with floral offerings from patriotic and mili- tary groups throughout the Nation, & 13-gun salute was fired. Chaplain Al- bert F. Vaughn, U. S. A, officiated at the brief services. Among the military organizations represented at the ceremonies were the Rainbow Chapter of the American Tegion of Washington, the Rainbow Chapter of the American Legion of Bal- timore and a special detachment, ac- companied by war banners, irom the Menscher Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, of Johnston, Pa.; the birthplace of Gen. Menoher. L. E. WHITE, 37, DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Beptic Poisoning Proves Fatal to Chief of Farmers’ Seed Loan Division. L. Emery White, chief of adminis- | tration of the farmers' seed loan divi- gion of the Department of Agricuiture, died yesterday at his residence, the Cavalier Apartments, of septic poison-j| ing. He was 37 years old. Though ill for several months Mr White had continued work until last Saturday, when, on the advice of his physician, he deferred an official trip 1o Columbia, 8. C. He was & native of Pennsylvania. ‘After a period of service with tiov- ernment_units in the Panama Caual Zone, Mr. White was transferred to the postal service here in 1920. Two years later he was again transferred, entering the seed loan division of the Department of Agriculture. Tn 1929, after seven years as an ad- ministrative officer, Mr. White was promoted to chief of administration of the Seed Loan division. He was a member of Lafayette Lodge here. sides his widow, Mrs. Ruth Stead- man White, he is survived by his par- | ents. two sisters and a_brother ! Funeral services will be held fomorrow | the Masonic i This 22-ton stone which marked the ‘Washington was born was brought to Washington stone was removed to make way for the returned to be set up nearby after the foundations of the house where George yesterday for recutting. The restoration work on the site and will be work here. —Star Staff Photo. TURK, 156, TOURS CAPITAL IN RAIN Agha to Ask Ambassador to Take Him for Hai:dshake With President. Zaro (Old Folks) Agha, ancestor ex- | traordinary, who was just a mere stripling when Napoleon was doing his | fighting about Europe and Africa, and | boasts today the callow age of 156, ar-| rived in town last night, and with eyes | undimmed by a century and a half, was seeing the sights of the Capital today. Zaro planned a busy day today, lli;er taking care of the news photographers, who had the old gent doing everything from trying a Higbland fling with a 20-year-old American girl to eating prunes for breakfast with the store teeth he bought a couple of days ago and doesn’t think much of. Zaro, first of all, sent his respects and a request for an audience to Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador, and was making plans to have the Am- bassador take him to shake hands with President Hoover. Meanwhile, he was taken in tow by Joe (Daddy) Turner, wrestler and wrestling promoter, who has lasted longer &t the “rassie” game than most men, because Zaro is to be one of the chief atiractions at a show Turner is giving at the Auditorium tonight. Sightseeing in Rain. ‘Turner took Zaro out into the rain to see the Capital sights. The party included Calvin Harris, New York busi- ness man, who is attending to the little matier of gettin, the aged Turk fore the public and thereby financing his trip ghrough the United States; Ah- met Mi great-great-great-(and what have you)-grandson of the aged Turk, and an interpreter, Assim Redvaarn. Optimistic over his life expectancy, having passed an examination for a life insurance policy with a Philadel- phia concern, and highly enthusiastic over the appearance of the American girls, Zaro today said he expects to stay in this country for quite a while, but respectfully regres to inform his feminine public that he has a wife in Istanbul, Turkey, who, at 66, was “toc old to take the long trip across the Atlantic.” Zaro sald that when he was 30 years | old, “way back in 1826,” he was wres- tling champion of Turkey, and quite some man. Today he stands nearly 6 feet tall and is unbent by the weight of his years. Veteran of Six Wars. He says he fought agalnst Napoleon in Egypt in the first decade of the nineteenth century and has since fought in five wars, two for the Turks the Kurdish tribes and thrice against the Russians, In all he was wounded six times, but never seriously. He has served as captain of the rurd at the Istanbul city hall, serv- ng #1s0 as official greeter and ex- hibit A of the Turkish Capital, has held important posts in the Turkish goverament munitions factory at Istan- bul and in the past few years lived out his oid age quirtly on 'a farm in Tomorrow evening he plans to re- turn to Philadelphia to attend to some deta:, in connection with his life in- surance, and then plans to 20 to Cob- ham, Va., just outside Richmond. whre he will spend the week end with John Armstrong Chaloner. No, he says. he won't wrestle tonight, he’s te old for that. SCOUT LEADERS TO CAMP Wall Study Bcoutmastership Cemp Roosevelt. Several dozen Scout lsaders of the District and surrounding territory will leave saturday for a week at Crmp Roosevelt, the Summer camp of the local Scouts. Th+ leaders will learn the elements and principies of Seoutmastership. at Goes to C. U. afterncon at 2 o'clock at tne Church of the Transfiguration. Interment will be at Rock Creek Cemetery. TWC 2AGS ARE STOLEN FROM OUT-OF-TOWN CARS Property, Valued at $248, Removed From Autos Parked on H Street. Two out-of-town automobiles parked on H street Letween Tenta and Iif- teenth streets were tampered with and property value in all at $248 was stolen yesterday, sccording to police Terorts. Yarry F. Jones of the University of Maryland reported that a brg contain- ing clothing and other accessories was removed from his machine i the 1400 block of H street. He valued the prop- erty at $1%0. John 8. Hellman of Pleasantville, N. Y., told police the lock of his automobile had been forced while it was parked in the 1060 block of H street and a ieather _bag containing $98 worth of valuables was taken, | DRINKING WATER 1S REPORTED LOW Camp Humphreys, With Per- sonnel of 1,700, Faces Serious Problem. Camp Humphreys, with a personnel of 17,000, is facing & shortage of drink- ing water, and to be prepared for the emergency ihat will arise if there is not considerable rain within a couple of days, water is already being hauled to the stables and stored in huge troughs. Camp authorities today, while admit- ting frankly that they are preparing for the emergency, said that there will be no real suffering for lack of water at the post. There is an abundant supply of river water for bathing and all other pur- poses than drinking. ‘When river water has to be used, the backing up of salt water and the serious pollution of the river will make it necessary to put it through the camp's filter plants with ex- cessive chlorination imperative for pusi- fication purposes. This would make the river water un- palatable and stomach disorders would probably result. To avoid the necessity of using river water for drinking purposes two trucks are already hatiling water for storage One truck is hauling to the National Guard camp and the other to the post proper. As each truck hauls 1,500 gallons, the post_authorities insist that there is no likelihood of serious suffering on ac- count of water shortage. FOUR ARE HURT AS CAR OVERTURNS Driver, Following Highway Acci- dent, Is Reported in Critical Condition. | Hampton Cox, 20 years old, of Indian | Head, Md,, recelved injuries which are | expected to prove fatal and three com- | panions were hurt early today when an automobile driven by Cox overturned ‘The driver was taken to Casualty Hospital, where he 1s reported to be in aycritical condition, with & possible skull fracture, fractures of the left kneecap, left elbow and left thigh and lacerations of the body. ‘Two of his companions, Saur Robey, 20 years old, of Indian Head and Charles Warren, 24 years old, of 1007 B street northeast, are suffering [rom serious injuries, ut the same institution. ‘The former sustained possible frac- tures of the right ribs and internal injuries, while Warren received lacera- tions of the body and a fractured pelvis. Wailace Robey, 22 years old, of In- 1 Head, the fourth occupant of the machine, w2s treated at Casualty Hos- pital for minor laccrations of the body end dismissed The youhs told hospital officials they were driving along the roadway shortly atter 2 o'clock this morning when the car skidded off the road and over- turned. A passing motorist removed the four men to the iocal hospital. DEPARTMENT EDITOR GETS APPOINTMENT {Dr. H. F. Wright Will Assume | Duties at Catholic University in September. | Dr. Herbert F. Wright | State Department of the London Naval | Conference documents, has been ap- pointed professor of international law at Catuolic University, sccording to an announcanent today by Dean John McDill Fox. Dr. Wright, who took the degree or doctor of phiicsophy at Catk olic University in 1916, after receiving his A. B. degress at Georgetown Univer- sity in 1911, wiil assume hix dutles with the opening of the Fail term next month. editor for the At Catholic University, Dr. Wright will give two courses, one in the ele- meats of international law and the vther - in international organization. His qualfications for this work include training ind experience obtained from 1917 to 1928 when he was assistant to Dr. James Brown Scott, general cditor of the Classics of International Law. Dur: orid War. edited & < “Constitutions | of the States at War, 19i4-18," which work was published by the State De- partment. From 1921 the ollection of the Dr. Wright Endowment for International Peat and since that time he has been pro- fessor of political science at the George- Foreign Since 1928 Dr. Wright has edited proceecings and reports of inter- national cor .erences for the State De- partments town University School Service. of i T1WOMEN, 161 MEN 4~24 Took Bar Tests, More Than Half Failing to Make Required Grades. JUSTICE BAILEY’S SON AMONG THOSE SUCCEEDING Wife of Prof. Spalding o List and ‘Women and Husband Will Be Admitted Togethe: Eleven women and 181 men passed successfully the recent examinaiion for admission to the bar of the District Su- | preme Court, according to & report made today by John Paul Earnest, chairman of the examining committee, to Frank E. Cunningham, clerk of the court. The new lawyers probably will be presented to the court early in Oc- tob-r. Chairman Earnest reported that 424 persons took the examination, making about 45 per cent successful and 55 | per cent failing. Among the successful women were Augusta De Laguna Spalding, wife of Prof. Spalding of Gec:ge Washington 1+ University, and Sarah Wheeler Sech- rest, whose husband, Earl F. Sechrest, was also among the successful male contestants. Other women to be ad- mitted include Bertha A. Crump, Frances D. Foley, Mary J. Kane, Paris F. Keener, Dorothy M. Long, Ella A. Merritt, Jean Crowley Stormer, Kath- erine E. Wood and Margaret M. Mc- Carthy. Among the sons of lawyers who passed were Thomas Jennings Bailey, son of Justice Jennings Bailey of the District Supreme Court, and W. Gwynn Gardiner, jr, son of the former Dis- trict Commissioner. ‘The list of successful candidates follows: Edward Chester Adams, Karl John Al- brecht, Harry Clifford Allder, jr.; Burz Tracy Ansell, Julius Aronoff, James Artis, Thomas Jennings Bailey, jr. Charles Church Barnard, Wylie Win- fleld Barrow, Robert John Bartoo, Wil- liam Sidney Bassler, William Carroll Beatty, Jaime Benitez, Lawrence Bur- ton Biebel, Eugene Field Blanchard, Harold P. Boss, Clitus O. Bourdeaux, ; Theodore A. Bradford, Harold Brody, Spencer Bromnell, jr.; Robert G. Brunis, John Thomas Burns, Chris- topher Frederick Capnon, James Thomas Carey, Richard Edward Carey, ‘Thomas Gregory Carney, James I. Carr, Robert W. Carroll, Hammond Edward Chaffetz, Otto H. Chillon, Arthur A. Clagett, Chester Ray Clark, Howe P. Cochran, Eugene Y. Cogley, Henry Loker Combs, Coleman Francis Cook, John Arthur Cotton, George Trimble Craig, John Walker Cross, Bertha A. Crump, Donald Curtis, Earl H. Davis, William James Dempsey, Louis Rothan Dennis, Francis Arthur Dickerson, Harold Dodd, William Sherman Donald- son, John T. Donovan, John Rob- ert’ Dower, Ralph Loring Dugger, Edward L. Early, Daniel Christian Eberly, Thecdore EZelschein, Justin L. Edgerton, Samuel E. Zntriken, Publio Anthony Esperdy, Faiph J. Fichter, Robert F. Finke, Frances D. Foley, Al- bert Whiting r'ox, John F. Free, Cullen G. Frey, Louls F. Frick, Charles Put- terer, W. Gwynn Gardiner, jr.; Oscar Willlam Giese, Victor F. Gill, Louis Gin- on_the highway between Waldorf and T B A. 0 1923 he was editor of publications for the Carnegie burg, Raymond Gittelman, Joseph L. Goldman, Solomon Grossberg, Edwin Ralph Groton, Howard Gwin, Claude A. Hanley, Samuel Reynolds Harrison, George L. Hart, jr.; Richard Haug, Ed- ward Heffron, Melvin Ives Herold, Henry G. Herrell, Harker H. Hittson, James Thomas Hoffmann, Ross C. Hurrey, Charles A. Iovino, Albert Laurens Ingle, Albert Kimball Johnson, Edward Claude Johnson, Mary J. Kane, Paris F. Keener, James Kelither, Hr Ty Joseph Keller, Thomas George ileiliher, Edgar 3 Kern, Daniel Edward Kiley, Louis F. Kreek, Joseph A. Kurz, Phineas Harold Lamphere, Edward H. Lang, Wilbur La ; Roberts B. Larson, Raymond . Lash, Julian Lane Latimer, jr.; Sam- uei Lebowitz, Henry M. Levy, Max L. Levy, Max Louis Libman, Leroy €. Lit- tle, Dorothy M. Long, Max Colmen Louis, Buford Alexande. Lynch, Marcus U. Lyons, Warren Magee, Joseph Charles Manian, Louls Harrington Mann, John J. Manning, Alexander Paul Mac- Gregor, Margaret M. McCarthy, P. Bruce McMullen, Paul Mendenhall, Ella A. Merritt, Martin William Meyer, Ar- thur B. Miller, George Edward Monk, Bernard F. Morris, jr.; Paul Raymond Neff, George Waddell Neville, omas 0. Nichols, Charles Peter Nugent, Jo- seph Louls O'Connor, James Aloysius O'Donnell, Edmund H. Parry, jr.; Wil- liam F. Partlow, Philip V. W. Peck, Isa- dore Jock Politz, Arthur G. Prangley, James H. Pugh, Leslie Manfred Rap) | Albert "C. Reed, John Robert Reed | Geotge H. Reges, jr.: Charles Raymond Riddiough, Charles H. Ricgner, Robert Hayes Robertson, Junius Stowell Rom- ney, Joseph A. Roney, Paul Archibald Rose, Erngs f Rountree, Felix An- thony Rusself, George E. Sartwell, Earl P. Sechrest, Sarah Wheeler Sechrest, Paul Fehr Seibold, John J. Shanley, Charles T. Shanner, John Egan Shea, Henry L. Shenier, Julius Sherman, Glenn L. Shinn, Max L. Shulman, Louis G. Silverman, George Sipkin, Al- lan Edward Smith, Augusta de na Spaulding, Louis E. Stern, Lloyd H. Stitham, Jean Crowley Stormer, Robert V. Stormer, Le Roy Granville Story, Harold T. Stowell, John Francis Sull van, John M. Sullivan, Lionel Morgan Summers, Raymond C. Suran, Granger 3. Sutton, sr.; Irvin Stewart Thompson, Oliver S. Titcomb, Hillory A. Tolson, hcy, ir.. Morgan C. Torrey, | Richord Lee Trainor, Richa:d Rollo {Trexler, Theodore Clav Uhler, James Matthew Votava, Kenneth Nicoll Wat- &n, Joseph George Whitehouse, Oscar S. Wilkinson. James A. Willey, Wilbur S, Willis, Riley Joseph Wiison, Kath- erine E. Wood, Edwin Clarence Wood- house, James Owens Wrightson, jr. THREE;UTOS IN CRASH Two Women Sent to Hospital and Husband of One Is Hurt. A triple collision at Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue late yesterday afternoon sent two people to Emergency Hospital with minor injuries, while a third was treated at home by a private physician Claude G. Saunders, 42 years old, whe was driving one of the cars, suf- fered a broken rib and was taken home for medical care, while his wife, M Camille Saunders, 40, and his mother, Mrs. A. W. Saunders, 60, were treated at Emergency for cuts and bruises. They all live at 810 Otis place. The automobile operated by Saunders was struck by & machine driven by Carl Nehrstedt, 41, of 456 C street, and knocked into & truck driven by George Besley, 19 years old, of Glencarlyn, Va. Nehrstedt's car escaped damage, but the two others were badly damaged 4 i PASS EXAMINATION 10 PRACTICE LAW THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, Prohibition agents operating out of Washington yesterday destroyed seven immense stills 1930. PAGE B—1 the vicinity of Leonard- town, Great Mills, Hollywood and California, Md. They poured out 21,000 gallons of mash and used 100 stick: - mite in destroying the liquor-making apparatus. - o s In the photograph above is the largest still captured. It had a capacity of 1,000 gallons. Below, all that was left of a 300-galion plant after the dynamite had exploded. The still in the plant below had been patched 46 times. A scent and view of the mash vats in some of the plants probably would deter some of the drinkers The vats contained bodies of dead frogs and myriads of bugs. of bootleg whisky. —Star Stafl Phowi. U..S. WORKERS ADD T0 TRAFFIC PUZZLE Parking Committee Believes| Problem in Triangle Can Be Solved Within Area. _This is the fifth of a series of ar- ticles on_the parking and garage prob- lem in Washington, with the resuits of the studies and the recommendations made, on_ bekalf "of the Automobile Parking Comnittee, comprising varied interests of the city. The committee wes proposed by Lievt, Col. U.'S. Grant, 3rd, director of vublic buildings and pub- ted as its chairman, was summarized in les at the time it was made, the subject has prompted own cars, 2.9 per cent were driven in their own cars; 7.3 per cent rode in other automobiles; 20.6 per cent walked; 39.8 per cent used street cars and 5.8 per cent came to work in public busses. “It is significant,” says the commit- tee in its report, “that so large a num- ber of Government employes drive their own automobiles for personal trans- portation to and from work. The 23.6 per cent of automobile users among Government employes compares With 9.9 per cent of automobile users among store employes and the 49.7 per cent of automobile users among the total per- sons regorded in the central district cordon count.” It is estimated that 23,000 Govern- ment employes will be employes in the Triangle group alone, which will make the parking problem there particu- larly acute. Need 5,428 Parking Spaces. “While it is evidently desirable,” continues the report, “that improved mass transportation facilities (street cars and busses) should be developed, erest in this series, the sizth of which will ep- pear tomorrow, . BY DONALD A. CRAIG. One of the most important and criti- cal aspects of the Washington street traffic problem, according to the view of the Automobile Parking Committee of Washington, which has just com- gl.lted. ‘with the help of experts, an ex- ustive study of the subject, has to do with the transportation requirements of Government employes. ‘The committee has come to the con- clusion that the automobile parking problem, at least for the Government buildings in the so-called Government | triangle now being erected, “‘can be met | directly and permanently solved within the area itself.” The committee and 5 experts, in- cluding Charles W. Eliot, director of planning for the National Capital Park and Planning Cornmission, calls atten- tion first to the fect that the large Government _ departments, employing thousands of workers, located w! “in the business district of the city, ¢ ate “‘double loads.” “These burdens are felt in raffic movement during peak hours,” says the committee’s report, “but more criti- cally in connection with the automobile terminal facilities. The problem will be greatly intensified in the near fu- ture through the consgruction of the triangle group, which Will concentrate in the central business district addi- tional thousands of employes. “The location of this group, being im~ mediately adjacent to the area of e concentrai d_business_activity and in | a district where traffic and parking conditions already are very difficulf, presents traffic questions of serious im- portance, Solution Is Needed. “Efficient operation of the Govern- ment and the maintenance of & rea. of business accessibility bine to demand ‘that & solution of these problems be found before physi- e':-l I:hA“I;l s render adequate treatrient e the detalls of this parking roblem have not vet been worked out, t 15 known that plans are under con- sideration for some sort of an arrange- ment by which automobiles of Govern- nt emplcyes, especially those work- ing in tne new buildings in the tri- angle, shall be accorded parking space either close to the building in which the men and women work or within an { area inclosed by the buildings them- ‘Th | commiftee undertook & com- rehensive study cf the “transportation abits” of Government en:ployes. Me!: L. J. I Barrett, chiet co-ordinator for the Government, organized this study. It covered all departments and result- ed in the return and analysis of 56,749 | posed_to the entire plan of develop- questionnaire cards. Of this number of employes, 22,615, or approximately 35 per cent, were recorded as owners of automobiles; 23.6 per cent drove their the major problem of parking will not be affected. It is fair to assume, there- fore, that the dally parking require- ments of the 25,000 Triangle group employes, on_the basis of the present practice of 23.6 per cent automobile driving, will result in a daily require- ment of 5428 all-day mnnx spaces.” Under all the conditions, it seems to the committee that the curbs in the central district can offer no proper solution of the question. “It is physically possible,” adds the committee, “that the park areas to the west and south of the Triangle group might be converted into storage space for employe's cars. It seems improb- ableghowever, that such a proposal will ever be advanced by serious or reason- able persons, as it is diametrically op- ment.” It may be suggest d, says the com- mittee, that if no parking spaces can be found, mlni’ employes who now use automobiles will change to other forms of transportation, such as street cars and . The committee doubts that such a shift could be made to affect any considerable number of em- ployes without undue hardship to It seems reasonable to assume,” con- tinues the report, “that automobile use is not entirely discretionary with many employes. The motor car has made available many home sites and housing areas which are not adequately served by public transportation, and probably could not be efficiently served with the peak demands and low riding habit vhich would prevail.” The committee, therefore, leaves the parking problem, so far as Government employes is concerned, yet to be solved in detail. A committee of which Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grand, 3d, executive officer of otfice of public buildings and public parks, is chairman, is already busy en- deavoring to work out a feasible plan to meet this troublesome guestion. Col. Grant is pl:{.lcmfllywhml iar with % parking problem ashington, as acted as chairman of the Automobile Po\.-kmz) Comumittee which made the study to which the ;s articles have been referring. MRS. M. LUNENBERG DIES Mrs. Magdalene Lunenberg, wife of Henry Lunenberg, chief clerk of naval | records and library at the Navy De- | partment, died suddently yesteiday at | her residence, 1240 Quincy street. Mrs. Lunenberg, a native of Indiana, « accompanied by her husband, whom she married in 1898, caxe to Washing- ton 24 years ago. She had long Leen active in various social and welfare or- ganizations of the First Reform Church. Besides Mr. Lunenberg, she is sur- vived by a daughter, Mi Lilllan Ida Lunenberg. Funeral services will held at o'clock Saturday afternoon at the First Reform Church. Inter- mmt will be at Prospect Hill Ceme- o RETIREMENT LAW T0 BENEFIT 2700 Consultation Promised With Pension Bureau Concerning Per Diem Employes. In the interests of some 2,700 per diem employes of the District govern- ment a drive is being made to induce the District Commissioners to issue an executive order bringing these employes under the provisions of the retirement law, which it is claimed was the plain intent when the law was enacted. Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the Joint conference on civil service retire- ment legislation, has been hoding con- f!renwc::hl‘ll.h tg: District Commission- ers, members of Congress, espe: clally those on the Civil Service Com- mittees of the House and , and with important groups of friends of the employes. ‘The District Commissioners vromised that they will have Daniel J. Donovan, the District auditor, consult with the Pension Bureau regard- ing the details, costs and equities in- volved in bringing the per diem em- ployes within the perview of the retire- ment law. ‘This matter has been hanging fire, Mr. Alcorn ezplained, since 1926. It was theroughly intended. he says, when sev- eral words were climinated from the phraseology of the old iaw to bring the per diem employes within the lew at that time. It is clearly within the power of the District Commissioners, he insists, to issue an order including the per diem workers, the majority of whom are year- round employes, within the benefits o1 the retirement law. For the past two months Mr. Alcorn has been this drive for the per diem employes special order of business. [ D. C. POLICE WILL SHOOT IN OHIO PISTOL MATCH have Maj. Fifteen Members Will Make Trip to Be Financed by Private Subscriptions. A team of 15 members of the Wash- ington Police Department hzs been named by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superin- tendent of police, to take part in the pistol matches at Camp Perrv, Ohio, 10 days hence. The '-fibp f the tricks in jiu-. , dis- ing prisoners, safety holds and so forth, besides receiving instruction in pistol marksmanship. When the men Teturn, they will be used in spreading this instruction through the depart- ment at the police school and at the precincts. The team consists of Lieut. L. E. Kelly, manager; E. C. Moore, captain; 8. R. N . assistant to the captain, and J.R. Birch, G. R. Wallrodt. J. G. Aus- tin, H. D. Darey, A. (. Poulson, D. O. Fletcher, E. J. La Force, W. R. Ostrom, . V. Vaughbn, J. F. Phelps, E. L. War- F. McDuffie. Fasarhe 32 GUEST OF HYDE Secretary of Agriculture, Hyde, has as his gues at the Mayflower, Gov. H. 8. Caulfield of Missourl, I TRAFFIC SURVEY FOR 20-MILE D. C. AREA APPROVED 'Regional Committee Unani- mous for Undertaking Like Cleveland’s and Chicago’s. ROADBED OFFERED FOR HIGHWAY PARK Arlington-Fairfax Railréad Makes Jehn Marshall Boulever Proposal. A general traffic survey of the whole ‘Washington region within 20 miles of the National Capital has been unani- mously approved -by the Regional Highway Committee, which comprises representatives of the Federal and Dis- trict governments and the nearby coun- ties of Maryland and Virginia, it was made known today. If the various authorities in nearby counties of Maryland and Virginia and the State Highway Commission, together with the District government and the National Park and Planning Commission, approve of the idea, and if funds are made available from these sources, the survey will soon be under- taken by the Bureau of Roads of the Agricultural Department. The proposal for the survey was made by ief Thomas H. MacDonald of the Bureau of Public Roads, who is also chairman of the Regional High- way Committee, when the committee met there yesterday. ‘The counties represented were Mont- gomery and Prince Georges, in Mary- land, and Arlington and Fairfax, in Vir- ginia. The City of Alexandria, Va., was also consulted through its representa- tives. There was no opposition to the plan for the survey. Similar Survey Made. If it is undertaken, the survey will be along the lines conducted by the Buerau of Roads in the region of Chi- cago, in 1925, and of Cleveland, in 1927. Besides the nearby counties of Mary- land and Virginia and the District gov- ernment, there will have io be consult- ed the two State highway commissions of Maryland and Virginia as well as tile National Capital Park and Planning Commission before a definite decision is made and arrangements are made for meeting the cost. Charles W, Eliot, 2d, director of plan- ning for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, will consult the officials of the Bureau of Public Roads regarding the expense of the work to be done and its cost within a short time and that will be a determining factor in the decision as to whether the rec- ommended survey will be made. At yesterday's meeting also the Ar- lington & Fairfax Railroad Co., throug! its president, Henry C. Chur: offeres its right of way through the populous section of Arlington County and as far as Fairfax, in Fairfax County, Va., for the construction of the John Mar- shall Highway, which would connect the National Capital with the Front Royal entrance to the Shenandoah Na- tional Park. Mr. Church made his proposal dur- ing a conference between spokesmen for the John Marshall Highway and the Straight-to-the-Bridge Associations with the committee. e To Abandon Line. In making his offer known, Mr. Church declared that the right of way, which would permit the construction of a 20-foot roadway on each side of the Arlington & Fairfax Railroad tracks, would cost the State nothing. At the same time, he admitted his company’s anticipation of the early abandonment of electric tracks in favor of motor busses, and he told the Regional High- way Committee that a petition already had been made by his company for the operation of busses over the route now followed by its trair Arthur ~ Orr, spokesman for the Straight-to-the-Bridge Association, who spoke before Mr. Church, advised the Regional Highway Committee of the railroad’s willingness to grant the use of its right-of-way for the John Mar- shall Highway. He told the committee that the tentative plan called for the construction of the roadway on both sides of the company’s tracks and the erection of trolley poles in the center of the roadway similar to the practice on Connecticut avenue through Cleve- land Park and Chevy Chase. He cited the ultimate abandonment of electric trains in favor of busses and declazed that in event of such a development the tracks and poles would be eliminated entirely, giving way to a broad, clean boulevard. In his address to the com- mittee, Mr. Orr stressed the necessity of a highway of “generous width” con- |nectmg the Capital with the Shenan- doah Valley National Park. The value | of the Arlington-Fairfax Rail:oad Co.’s | i | i 1 | Star foll the fact that the the only po- adequate width offer, he told The conférence, lay in the concern’s rightrof-way tential boulevard of traversing the thickly scttled sections through which the proposed highway would pass. The existing streets and roads, he said, are entirely too narrow for the construction of the highway without terrific cost in buying up and clearing improved properties. Hugh E. Naylor, president of the John Marshall Highway Association, also ad- dressed the committee. His was an ap- peal for the appreciation of the neces- sity of building an adequate boulevard approach to the Shenandoah Valley Park via Front Royal. The boulevard, which, he pleaded, should be named for John Marshall, famed interpreter of the Constitution, ~would 72 miles in length, he said. SAFE FOILS YEGGMEN Thieves Abandon Job in Whistle Bottling Co. Plant. An attempt to break into the safe of the Whistle Botiling Co., at 1990 Sami ny, reported to pol mr'hn entered the establishment some between midnight and early this morning. Enirance was gained by forcing open a side window. SPECIAL RITES PLANNED Rev. Francis J. Hurney Announces Assumption Day Services. In celebration of the Feast of the Assumption tomorrow Rev. Francis J. Hurney, pastor of the Immaculate Con- ception Church, Eighth and N streets, has arranged for masses at 6, 6:45, 7: 8:45 and 10:15 am. and also at 1 m. P Sister Superior Marie Louise of the Immaculate Conception High School for Girls, Eighth and Q streets, 7ill receive registrations tomorrow for lastic year, Y 45, 15 a