Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1930, Page 17

WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORN he Sunday St NG, SEPTEMBER 14, 1930. ONE MAN IS KILLED AND MANY INJURED INAUTO ACCIDENTS Twelve Bus Passengers Are Hurt as Carrier Overturns After Collision. WASHINGTONIAN FEARED DYING AFTER WRECK Many Traffic Mishaps Involve Dis- trict Residents in Capital, Mary- land and New Jersey. Automobile accidents yesterday in - Washington, Maryland and New Jersey, involving residents of the District, re- sulted in the death of an unidentified colored man and injuries to many per- sons. One of those injured was re- ported in a critical condition and sev- eral others were injured seriously. ‘Twelve of the injured were passengers in a motor bus which overturned last night at Eleventh and East Capitol streets, in a crash with a hacker's ma- chine. A Casualty Hospital ambulance, a police squad from the ninth precinet, and fire apparatus were called to the scene. Joseph Walker, colored, of the 400 block of R street driver of the hack- ing machine was arrested and charged with reckless driving. » ‘The bus, driven by Sandy Sneed, col- ored, 122 Heckman street southeast, was Mount Jezreel Baptist Church, Fifth and E streets southeast. Two Seriously Injured. Those injured seriously were Harry Jones, 21, of 316 K street southeast, and Marie Ellisey, 37, of 610 K street southeast. Those less seriously injured included ‘William Jordan, 45, 409 E street south- east; Esther Wheeler, 8, of 407 Fifth street southwest; Leroy Henderson, 21, of 765 Girard street; Vivian Mason, 11, 409 Fifth street southwest; James Jones, 3, of 316 H street southeast; Martha Scott, 9, of 311 Virginia aveaue south- east; Dora Peterson, 35 514 Ninth street southeast; Susie Farrell, 33, of 780 Navy place southeast; Mamie Wood- land, 16, of 519 Fifth street southeast, and Charles Maloney, 13, of 606 N street southeast. Milton McBride, 19 years old of 2804 Fourteenth street, was believed to be dying at a Vineland, N. J., hospital as @ result of injuries suffered in an au- tomobile accident near there yesterday . His aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth DeG. Robb the Rochambeau Apartments, and Miss Madge DeGrummond, 19 years old !;flmlml City, her niece, suffered u fes. McBride was driving the machine, which belonged to Mrs. Robb, when it collided with a car driven by E. O. ‘Tweed of Germantown, Pa., and over- turned. McBride's skull was fractured. Miss DeGrummond lost five teeth and was cut about the head and left ear. Mrs. Robb has a fractured knee and Jacerations on her head and body. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Gottschall of Germantown who were in the machine driven by Tweed, also were injured, but not seriously. Tweed was arrested and under released under $2,000 bond pending the outcome of McBride's in- Another accident outside of Washing- ton injured six members of the Hiatt family of 3116 Thirteenth street, in ad- dition to Miss Sally Stabler of Balti- more. All of them were in a machine which collided on' the Washington- Baltimore boulevard at Halethorpe. Md., with a car driven by Falter M. Morti- mer of Wayne, Pa. The Hiatt family was en route to Baltimore when Mortimer's car is said to have skidded and crashed into their machine. The Hiatts injured were Mr, and Mrs. J. Edgar Hiatt, John Hiatt, Miss Louise Hiatt and Mr. and Mrs, Merrill L. Hiatt. All were taken to St. " Hospital in Baltimore and treat- for shock, cuts, bruises and abrasions. Hurt in Taxi Collision. Mrs. Wilhelmina August, 64 years old, of 760 Eleventh street southeaat, ‘was seriously injured last night whén she was hurled through the windshield of a machine in which the was riding when it collided with a taxicab on Minnesota avenue near Benning Bridge, She was taken to Casualty Hospital suffering from lacerations of the scalp, bruises to the head and body, and pos- sible skull fracture. Mrs. August was riding In a machine driven by her son, Henry Julius Rado- witz, when it was struck from the rear by a taxicab operated by John Henry Dicks, colored, of 414 New York avenue, Radowitz' car overturned, injuring him and his 13-year-old son, Herman. Dicks is being held by the police for investigation. An unidentified colored man was killed while crossing the Washington- Baltimore boulevard just north of Laurel, Md. According to the Maryland State police, the man ran across the crowded boulevard, dodged one car and was hit by a machine operated by George P. Richards of the first block of Nicholson street. Following an investigation by State Patrolman Cubbage and Justice of the Peace Henry Scott, Richards was released. An inquest was not regarded 85 necessary. Boy on Bicycle Injured. Clifford Henry Bond, 14 years old of 313 F street northeast, was seriously in- Jured last night when a bicycle he was riding skidded on the car tracks under the rallroad viaduct at Pirst and H streets northeast and threw him against a steel pillar. At Emergency Hospital, where he was taken for treatment, it was saild he is badly lacerated and has possible concussion of the brain. A fourth accident outside of Wash- ington injured Samuel Sweeney, 32 years old, of Upper Marlboro Md., and Maude Hyde, 15 years old, of Cedar- ville, Md. Sweeney and the girl were in a machine which is believed to have @ot out of control and overturned down an embankment near Cedarville. Both =N MII- m"l.):;’a Slo.l:e :{ the h;l:hn 1ir:de :llvl,llon ('l"ntllll:g P‘:n;llllwrlun carrying the colored group, who are | Union is seen ing the Victoria , largest of pon , er sister, s of the con,f:;,aon of the | Marie F. Stone. The lily is now in full bloom in the Aztec garden of the Pan- American Building. —Harris & Ewing Photo. AMERICAN INSECTS TAKE HEAVY TOLL, Inter-American Conference on Agriculture Hears Re- ports on Pests of Crops. Loss of approximately $3,000,000,000 annually is caused to American agricul- ture by insects and plant diseases, about 50 per cent of which have come from abroad, Lee D. Strong of the Plant Quarantine and Cont Administration of the ent of Agriculture told the Inter-, ican_Conference on Agri- culture, Forestry and Animal Industry meeting at the Pan-American Union yesterday. Insects Take Heavy Toll. Many destructive pests have not vet | obtained a foothold in the United | States, he said, and probably can be, kept out indefinitely by rigid quaran- tine enforcement. Insects alone, said J. A. Hyslop of the Bureau of Entomology, cause a loss conservatively estimated at $2,000,- 000,000. He said the insect pest sur- vey has listed 6,000 species of destruc- tive insects but most of them are of minor importance. New Rens, he said, are being discovered eac) , many of them introduced from abroad. “At least two-thirds of the loss from insects is preventable,” Mr. Hyslop as- serted, and explained that research work in the United States now requires the full-time work of 500 entomologists. Of these, 320 are employed by the Fed- eral bureau. In this war against insects, Hyslop | said, field stations are maintained in | far-flung parts of the globe—in France, Japan, Argentina, India, Mexico, Cuba and the Malay States. Weeds Tax on Farmer. ‘Weeds exact & tax of several hun- a year from the American farmer, said M. W. Talbott of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Some of the worst of these, he said, can be fought only by community action, since the individual farmer is almost help- less against wind-blown weed seeds. Some of the worst weeds, he pointed out, can be controlled by chemicals, but the method is usually costly and often dangerous. “Chlorate salts,” he said, “have been found fairly effective on several bad perennial weeds, such as the Canada thistle, but stringent precautions must be observed to pro- tect workmen and property from fire. Clothing, wood, vegetation, straw and barn dust, moistened with chlorate so- lution and dried out, may be readily ignited, even by a spark resulting from friction. Introduction of insects to fight weeds also is dangerous, he said, because of their tendency to turn on other crops. Crops Brought From Europe. With the exception of tobacco, corn and & few minor products, all the fleld crops grown in the continental United States have been introduced from abroad, said Knowles A. Ryerson of the Bureau of Plant Industry. European grains in particular, he said, have added greatly to the produc- tion of American farms. During the past 15 years, he pointed out, the De- partment of Agriculture has introduced over 2,000 varieties and strains of soy beans, thus developing a crop which now occupies 1,500,000 acres and has an annual value close to $25,000,000. An expedition now is in the Orient, he said, making a further study of soy beans and their products. The slowness of live-stock develop- ment in the pan-American countries is due largely to the food habits of the people, who prefer vegetable to meat products, said Harry N. Vinall of the Bureau of Plant Industry. These coun- tries, he seid, have an abundance of forage crops, while other, suitable warm climates, are available for in- troduction, were rushed to Washington and taken to Casualty Hospital for treatment. Sweeney is suffering from lacerations of the head and body bruises, while the girl has a broken nose and a fracture of the left leg. Antoine Herl, 62 years old, of 817 ‘Twenty-first_street was badly injured Josterdsy afternoon when a automo- ile operated by Rocco Donatiallo, 40, of 628 Irving street struck her as she was crossing in the 3300 block of Con- Decticut avenue. * She received a fracture of the right 1bs and shock and was taken to Emer- ency Hospital. in the patrol wagon of the fourteenth pracin~' fo= m-lical at- fention. She was > in- tution for trea hrav . £y - Railway & Rkleciric Co. bus when the vehicle struck a bump in the street at Twelfth street and Michigan avenue Application of medical science to plants, especially efforts to cure diseases by injecting medicines, thus far has | proved a failure. said Dr. Merton B. Waite of the Bureau ®f Plant Industry. Plant Medicine Fails. Such attempts up to date, he said, “are_either such complete failures as so doubttul as to place them in th cless of unsuccessful methods. In- jections or organic compounds are serums connected with disease, the an- titoxins so successful in human and animal_pathology, have so far failed { with plant diseases. Most of the tempted treatments of this sort which aimed success have been made by ble not capable of reaching correct {lc~lisions. But qualified investiga- tors have cnducwd some experiments. We should, however, keep an open mind in case the control of some disease northeast, Harry Clampitt, 52 years old, ained & ight spiain of the back. 'He a 8] of 3 was taken to Emergency Hospital, given should be developed by these methods, for | KELLY DOUBTS TIP ON BAKER SLAYER Woman’s Story That Hus- band Knows Killer Is Held Unimportant. Little importance was attached last night by Lieut. Edward J. Kelly, chief of the homicide squad, to the state- ment of a new witness in the Baker case that she had been told by friends that her husband knew who killed Miss Mary er. Acting on a “tip” given by counsel for Herbert M. Campbell, under in- dictment in the slaying, Kelly inter- viewed a young woman Tresiding in Colmar Manor, Md. He said the wom- an told a somewhat vague story to the effect that the husband of her friend had met Miss Baker while seeking to sell her an automobile. The new wit- ness added that the wife of the sales- man had boasted that her husband knew who had slain Miss Baker. “I attach no importance whatsoever to the statement of the woman I inter- viewed tonight,” Kelly said. “How- ever,” he added, “I will have a talk with her husband at the first oppor- tunity.” Meanwhile news was received from Norfolk that Federal Judge D. Lawrence Groner would hold a hearing in Alex- andria next Saturday to decide whether Campbell shall be returned to the District to face trial. 56 CITY CARS COST 3.72 CENTS PER MILE Superintendent of Municipal Ga- rage Submits Report to Commissioners. Operating costs of maintaining the 56 automobiles housed at the Municipal Garage during the past fiscal year, amounted to 3.72 cents per mile, plus an additional 34-100 of a cent for re- pair parts, according to the annual re- port of C. N. Emmons, superintendent of the garage, forwarded to the@District Commissioners yesterday. These fig- ures include, besides repair parts, labor, gasoline, oil, grease, tires and tubes, miscellaneous supplies and drivers’ wages. ‘The figures represented slight decreases over the previous year's costs. “Housed,” as used in the report, is a somewhat optimistic term, as the ga- rage, built in 1907, was designed for only 25 cars. By filling up the aisles, it is possible to get 33 cars squeezed in. The others have to stay on the streets or be taken home by certain depart- ment_heads entitled to this privilege. Mr. Emmons recommend inclusion in the plans for the municipal center, of a bullding for adequate housing of the city's rolling stock. ’ 2,000-GALLON STILL FOUND BY AGENTS New Apparatus Prepared for First Run When Destroyed by Officers. A new 2,000-gallon still, all set up and prepared to turn out its first run of illictt lquor, was destroyed by Fed- eral prohibition agents last night about six_miles west of Beltsville, Md. The agents also destroyed 2,200 gal- lons of ‘mash, sacks of meal, 34 | sacks ®f sugar, 2 tons of coke and a |large quantity of other paraphernalia | used in the manufacture of liquor. This included a 30-horsepower steam boiler, & 500-gallon doubler, 250 feet of cop- per coll, a steam pump and 100 feet of water Plpe Dynamite was used to wreck the plant. The place where it was found was sald. to be about’ 100 yards away from a spol where Prince Georges s:unty officers found a still five weeks 0. No one was in the vicinity of the still when the Federal officers found it. brids of several cereals grown in the American countries is of the greatest | importance, said Hairy B. Humphrey of | the Bureau of Plant Industry, This, he | said. is a tedious pr 8. | “It is not enough” he said, “merely to breed for hybrid strains of wheat immune from stem rust alone. We must combine in such hybrid strains & fixed resistance to leaf rust, bunt and loose smut, scab and black chaff and proof should be required before of this sort is ac- o ke A lies to oats, Merely to breed o8t amut I8 10 go oply. to’ the open TWO OLD SEHoOLS USED AS SPECIL DIREGTORS' OFFICES Adams to House White Di- vision Forces and Colored Will Be at 14th and Q. CHILDREN MAY START NEW TERM SEPT. 22 Elementary Principals to Enroll Pupils Friday and Saturday of This Week. ‘Two administration buildings to aug- ment the deficient Franklin Adminis- tration Building at Thirteenth and K streets will be maintained by the Dis- trict public school system this year in abandoned elementary school struc- tures. ‘The old Adams School, at Seventeenth and R streets, will house the offices of special directors in the white divisions of the system and the old Beret School, at Fourteenth and Q streets, will ac- commodate similar officers of the col- ored school divisions. Announcement of the establishment of these adminis- trative units was made at the Franklin Building yesterday when it was ex- plained by officials that the Board of Education would be called upon at its next meeting to officially designate these schools as “administration build- ings.” ‘The Adams School was occupied by elementary classes until mid-winter last season when the new John Quincy Adams School at Nineteenth and Cali- fornia streets was opened. The Beret School has been without regular classes for several years, it having been recom- mended for “immediate abandonment” for that purpose in 1908. Through last | year, however, it housed a few scat- tered directors’ offices and manual train- ing classes for boys of meighbor! schools. With the opening of school September 22, this old school house will accommodate the directors of music, nature study, fine arts, J)hyflcll train- ing, home economics kindergartens and the heads of visual instruction. Additional Office. The Beret School will accommodate, in addition to the directors of the tenth to thirteenth divisions, the supervising principal of the tenth division. Meanwhile, last-minute plans for the enrollment of Washington's public school children are being completed in all school system offices. The 1930-31 academic year may begin September 22 for the children, but for their teachers, Every in the system must presen it her- self for work on that day and, if through illness or other cause any one of them is unable to attend the initial meetings with her supervisory officer, she will be required to provide a sub- stitute just as though she were absent on a regular class room day. Elementary school principals will be in their buildings to enroll new pupils Friday and Saturday of this week. Parents are requested by Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent in charge of elementary schools, to take their children to the school bullding nearest their homes between 8 and 10 am. or 4 and 6 pm. on those days. Official birth certificates or other docu- mentary evidence of the prospective pupil’s age, together with a vaccination certificate, must be presented by each child applying for admission, the school heads have insisted. Pupils who were in Washington schoots last year are to report on the opening day of school to their old class rooms. There transfers will be issued them. This applies to children who have moved from one section of the city to another and who obviously are candidates for transfer from their last year’s school to a new school. Opening Day Report. All high school pupils will report at their schools on the opening day. ‘The restrictions hmd&h n attendance 100 scl A school’s new students must live west of Connecticut avenue and Rock Creek, and Maryland and Virginia children living in the territory formerly served by Western will not be allowed to en- roll until Wednesday, following school opening. Pupils already attending Western, regardless of their home loca- tion, will not be forced to seek enroll- ment elsewhere, however. The reopening of schools this year will witness one of the most complete congestion cures recorded recently in the elimination of the five “portable school houses and the six or eight part< time classes at the Park View school. A two - section addition to that school has just been completed and turned over to the school system by the District Commissioners to afford the sorely needed relief for that school. ‘The five portables which have been used to accommodate the lower grades at Park View are located on municipal play- ground property across the street from the main building and at its next meet- ing, the school board is expected to or- der definite disposal of them. The feel- ing in the school offices is that these structures will be permanently disposed of, either by sale of destruction, thus reducing further the potential number of portables Washington children may be obliged to attend. MINIATURE GOLF LINKS TO BE LIGHTED AT NIGHT Government - Controlled Course South “of Tidal Basin Also to Undergo Improvement. Although the Government-fostered miniature golf course south of the Tidal Basin is feeling the competition of the privately-owned courses scattered about the ctly, the Welfare and Rec- reational Association of Public Build- ings and Public Grounds, Inc., is pro- ceeding with plans for night lighting this eoun:m mt e‘%njumuon with the military show at Wasl ar- racks on September 25, 26 and 27 the iation 1is assoc! ing a nine-hole miniature golf course there. F. W. Hoover, the association's gen- eral manager, notes that many of the Summer activities are drawing to a close. The Francis swimming pools at Twenty-fifth and N streets and the Mc- Kinley swimming pool at First street and Lincoln road northeast will be open today for the last time this season. Mr. Hoover said they will be available to the public from 1 to 6 o'clock this aft- ernoon. The Pierce Mill Tea House in Rock Creek Park will remain n until Sep- the manager_expisined, Point e House will Temain tember 28, inclusive, nad be closed, | bein; ‘while D. C. MUSICIANS IN 26 THEATERS 10 QUIT TONIGHT Truce With Projection Men Insures That Show Places Will Remain Open. MEETING SCHEDULED TO PLAN PROCEDURE Orchestras in Circuit Theaters Will Continue Playing Until Next Thursday. Musicians in approximately 26 local moving picture theaters will terminate their jobs at midnight tonight as a re- sult of the expiration of the two-week preservation of their status quo follow- ing discontinuance of their contract August 31. In at least 16 other movie houses, however, musicians will con- tinue at work until Thursday, in pur- suance of an agreement made between the musicians’ union and their employ- ers last Monday. Notwithstanding this, no Washington theater will be dark, since the projec- tionists and other union theater em- ployes, who had threatened to walk out in sympathy with the locked-out musi- cians, have been instructed by their na- tional headquarters to continue on their jobs until further notice. Circuit Music Till Thursday. ‘The theaters in which the muscicians will continue performing until Thursday embrace those controlled by circuit chains—Warner Bros., Leow's, R-K-O Keiths and Fox Theaters. This agree- ment was reached at a conference in New York last Monday between rep- resentatives of the local union and ex- ecutives of these chains and was made in order to enable theaters presenting stage shows to complete their current week. ‘The truce which is keeping all local theaters operating after the release of the muscians in the outlying playhouses was reached following a conference be- tween Willlam J. Herrer, vice president of the International Alliance of The- atrical Stage Employes and Moving Picture Machine Operators of the United States and representatives of the man- agers here Friday. Herrer is under- stood to have made the truce offer to the managers pending negotiations t0- ward a settlement of the dispute. Theater Owners to Meet. A. Julian Brylawski, president of the Motion Picture Theater Owners’ As- sociation of the District, whose organi denied that the an injunction in District Supreme Court to prevent the projectionists from walk- ing out. ‘The latest move of the Musicians’ Protective Union, local of the American Federation of Musicians, in furtherance of its drive for the preservation of “living music” in Washington theaters, has been the inauguration here of a campaign for membership in the Music Defense League. Petitions of opposi. tion to the use of “canned music” in moving picture theaters are being cir- culated throughout the Capital by ‘members of the union. John E. Birdsell, secretary of the union, said last night that the enroll- ment figure at the conclusion of the third day of the campaign had passed the 2,000 mark. Not a Job Fight. “We expect through this method,” Birdsell said, “to impress upon the man- agers the fact that this is not solely a fight for our jobs. It is a figh in behalf of the public. There can be no substitute for human orchestration, and the public will not be satisfied with the mechanically distorted rzgmflucnom that are threatened to be it upon them. The box office will surely tell the wfi-ufll denied that musicians had been unwilling to make concessions at the New York conference. He sald the musicians made offers to reduce downtown orchestras by approximately 25 per cent and in the case of smaller theaters, as much as 50 per cent. “The niggardly offer of the empl , how- ever,” he sald, “would provide nothing more_than the use of a few men in the Palace and Fox Theaters, to be used in connection with stage shows.” Birdsell said his orflnlutinn at no time had signified unwillingness to continue negotiations. Contract Has Expired. The musicians’ contract, which had been in blanket form between the Mu- sicians’ Protective Union and the Mo- tion Picture Theater Owners' Associa- tion for & period of three years, expired August 31, A truce preserving the status quo of the musicians was reach- ed in New York August 28, when local conferences had failed to break a dead- lock. Subsequent meetings with New York executives, however, reseulted in virtual collapse of negotiations. As a result of a triple alliance be- tween projectionists, stage hands and musicians, under which all would walk out in the event any one was aggriev- ed, the national headquarters of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employes ordered local union men to walk out in sympathy with the musicians ‘if amicable adjustment of the dispute was not made. ‘This development for a time threat- ened to darken all Washington theaters, lml::w‘wn.mz nll‘lclvdlfllbn'gd‘g espec! mn%&umn could not be met non-! ,men. Throughout, however, the ma; have maintained that theaters would remain open, with- out disclosing to what method they ‘would resort to effect this. The non-renewal of musicians’ con- tracts was not confined to Washington. Other cities throughout the country have been releasing orchestras at the | expiration of contracts for some time. Washington was the first case, however, of an order from national headquarters for a union strike. PELETO STOLEN TAXI RECOVERED Driver Says Soldiers Slugged and Robbed Him of $7. ‘The taxicab stolen from Maynard W. Harrison, a taxi driver, living at 311 Fourteenth street northeast, when he was slugged over the head with a pistol by two men belleved to be sol- diers Friday night, en route to Fort Hu' hreys, was recovered late yester- day .t n near Winchester, Va. No s ¢ been made. In additian to the cab, Harrison was rob! 1of $7 in cash. He reported that two soldiers engaged him to drive to the Fort but slugged and robbed him near the entrence to the grounds. IM& a Te- matter to local and Alex= =2 GENERAL NEWS PAGE B-1 View of Theater Owners Operators of Shows Have Paid for Unnecessary Music Too Long, Brylawski Declares. A. Julign Brylawski, president of the Motion Picture Theater Ouwners of Washington, gives the theater viewpoint on the confroversy between the theaters the musicians in the following le, written especially for The Star. e 'The Star is glad to present Mr. Brylawski’s views, the publication of the article _does mot mean that The Star subscrives to these views. BY A. JULIAN BRYLAWSKIL To get at this point in the proper way, it is well to go back to the period prior to the perfection of the sound pictures and the days when all movies were silent, and there it was found that music was a necessary concomi- tant to the showing of these pictures to fill the void caused by the silent screen, and when properly used, by its variations and tempo and theme, could be cunningly used to heighten the effect of the scene being played. As pictures and picture theaters de- veloped, so did the musical accompani- ment. It has only been a few years ago, during the era of inexpensive silent films, when some of the finest or- chestras in the world were to be found in the larger motion picture theaters. In fact, competition for theater music became as keen as competition for theater films. Competition Unprofitable. This competition was _carried, in many instances, to a length that proved unprofitable and disastrous and was responsible for the retirement of well known figures from the theatrical world. The law of supply and demand, however, operating inevitably, has al- ways forced orchestras in theaters to correspond with the capacity of those theaters. The small theater, however, could not bear this competition. It was relegated to a lower position with lower prices, and frequently with a lone organist or pianist. but under the conditions we are now describing all theaters were required to have music of some kind or other. In this era the musical union flourished to its highest point, so that between the years of 1913 and 1925 the average salary paid musicians in theaters had mare than tripled, while the hours and con- ditions grew more drastic with each successive contract. Three years 3 in 1927, thee;hnte{h O'nyeer:ro'eomnc; in| signed a three- wlfhm\‘,hz musical union’ of this city, under which their members were d as high as $95 a week for six hours' work per day, and in addition they pledged themselves to use & large and stated number of musiclans for the full length of this period. “Don Juan” Brings New Note. In the spring of 1927 a new note in picture entertainment appeared in '.hg premier of Warner Bros. “Don Juan,’ then known only as a “synchronized movie” in which the musical accom- iment, played by the New York Phil- ic Orchestra, panied an artiel Whil ner Bros. P! has become immortal, Al Jolson in “The Jazz Singer.” Its immediate and over- whelming success turned the attention of the entire industry to this new form of dramatic art. Since then the talking picture has become the world's standard motion picture fare, to'the entire ex- clusion of any other form of screen entertainment. Elimination Held Necessary. i icture came bbb J’ of the nua: entertainment the use music of any kind practically has disap- peared and, although useful at times, the orchestra in a modern theater is like the cherry in the cocktail—pleasant and decorative but not essential. Not- withstanding that this condition has ex- isted in Washington theaters for nearly two years, the Washington theaters con- tinued to carry ol’\l their y'.?.m":‘}.]: large and expensive orcl T '.hzg' had contracted for in 1927. With the added burden of the expense of putting on talking pictures, additional operators, expensive apparatus and costly films, only & few of the largest were able to bear the burden profitably. Chief among_the sufferers of this con- dition were the twenty-five or thirty of ‘Washington's small theaters, owned and operated by Washington citizens, ‘where the additional operating cost had com- pletely wiped out their profits. Yet the most. earnest pleas could not obtain for them a relief from the musical burden. Musicians Unneeded But Paid. Many theaters in Washington have not hl}; need for, nor used, music for a period of over one year, and yet the musicians employed under the contract of 1927 have received their salaries reg- ularly. Other theaters have gone along awaiting for the emancipation that the contract expiration offered. It is a small wonder, then, that at the meet- ing with the musicians in August the b heater managers refused to renew the :onn’lct of lgTV. as the musical union then demanded. The industry could not survive the extension of a contract that had proved so burdensome. The smaller theaters flatly disclaimed their ability to continue to pay for unneeded and unrequired music and the largest theaters of the city were compelled to seek relief from the burden formerly imposed upon them. At the meeting of August 4, 1930, the musical union demanded a renewal of the present con- tract and since have steadily main- tained their position that, every theater in Washington must employ union music, and that all theaters employing existing orchestras must maintain ex- isting orchestras. After two months of ations the best propositior that has been received from the musical union is a reduction of approximately 5 per cent in the number of men em- ployed, not in the scale, but solely in the number of men employed, a form of rellef which did not reach the smaller theaters and meant little to the larger organizations. Upon failure of the local managers to get together on this matter it was carried to New York, the headquarters of the musical upion, and no progress has been made. Says Theaters Lack Quarrel. ‘The position of the theaters in this controversy is that they have no quar- rel with the musical union, that they have no differences on the scale must employ, whether they need them or not, and the size of the orchestra which shall work at each individual theater. The theaters believe that this principle of arbitrary allocation of men is entirely foreign to the principles of American labor. They acceed to the 0 aters too long at their mercy, give up their prerogatives with reluctance, yet it is & fact that on no other class of musical employer do.they try to enforce such dictatorial methods. Hotels, res- taurants and dance halls all employ as many men as they need, or think they require. The Musical Union sets the price of the engagement, but never at- tempts to dictate the number of men employed. Nor do we know of any other class or industry upon which com- pulsory employment is attempted. The theater owners insist on their American right to employ those whom they, in their judgment, require, at the proper time and for the proper scale. More Musicians Than Audience. ‘Theater owners have from time to time attempted to gauge the interest of the public in orchestra music and sev- eral attempts have been made to give fine symphony concerts in connection with pictures without extra charge. On the last attempt made in October, 1929, at the Earle Theater, the musicians on the stage outnumbered the audience. As Shakespeare said, “The Play's the Thing,” and a good picture without any other attraction will outdraw the finest orchestra.and finest stage show, coupled with an inferior film. Much has been said in printed adver- tisement and public statements that the theaters in Washington are attempting to force ‘“canned music” down the throats of the public and to force living music out of the theaters, yet it is a fact that many Washington theaters ‘willingly would employ union musicians, if the Musical Union did not attempt to make them employ eight men where they need only one. The so-called “‘canned or robot music” referred to in the musicians’ statement is actually the work of the world's finest orchestras; organizations of hundreds of men under famous leaders. The New York Phil- harmonic, Boston-Philadelphia Sym- phony and other great organizations whose efforts are recorded and repro- duced, as incidental accompanying music to modern films, are certainly the finest expressions of musical art and surely preferable to the puny efforts of tiny orchestras or single musicians. No music used in the recording of a modern film is played other than by union mu- , and the prevailing rate for such musical accompaniment to films in Hollywood today is said to be $45 per z‘:' &er ‘hour. QTII: theater ‘%wn‘:u n; e present,impasse. We do nof think that we are stubborn or at fault. ‘We have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for unnecessary and unneeded music in the last two years. We kept our part of the contract and we have done our best to meet the demands of the Washington theater-going. public for modern entertainment, and hope to be able to continue to do so at all times. <<% STREET WIDENING URGED BY HAZEN 13th Should be Increased, Due to Importance, He Says in Report. ‘Two street. widening projects and the cutting of & new highway are repom- mended by District Surveyor Melvin C. Haszen in his annual report, sent to the of | District Commissioners yesterday. Thir- teenth street, he suggested, should be widened between Park road and Spring road. “Thirteenth street,” Mr. Hazen wrote, “is one of the main arterial north and south highways. The Commissioners recently have condemned property for the extension of Thirteenth street from Colorado avenue to the Walter Reed Hospital, and it now has a m 110 feet hout its entire with the ‘Kw‘ of the section re- ferred to. The roadway in this section is decide insufficient to carry the traffic on important highway.” Sees Need for Legislation. Another suggestion was the cutting through of a new north-and-south street east of Georgia avenue, running from Florida avenue to Takoma ‘Park. The only difficult section in the way of such an extension, Mr. Hazen found, would be between Florida avenue and Rock Creek Church road. He said that many of the streets in the area could be widened to form part of the new thoroughfare, but that this would re- quire legislation. ‘To cure a bad traffic situation at the intersection of Foxhall road and Con- duit road, he suggested widening Fox- 1l road from Conduit road to Ameri- can University, and Chain Bridge road from American University to Conduit road, from their present 33-foot width to the 90-foot allowable width under the highway plan. Both of these roads are old county roads, he said, and do not serve the needs of the rapidly grow- ing community around them. There is a demand for water, sewer and other connections in this area. These cannot be made until the roads are widened. Suggests Razing of Buildings. Mr. Hazen also recommended that whenever buildings are condemned in connection with street widening projects, the bulldings be immediately razed, in- stead of rentihg some of them out, as is done now by the District. Fees received by the surveyor's office for services in connection with record- ing subdivisions, resubdivisions, or in- dividual lots, declining from $40,014.45 in the 1920 fiscal year to $34,404.40 in the 1930 fiscal year, the report shows. The number of lots surveyed fell from 3,131 to 2,258; the number of subdi- visions from 253 to 181; the number of lots in new subdivisions from 2,101 to 1,088, and the number of plats to ac- company applications for building per- mits from 3,653 to 3,211, One of the jobs reported by the sur- veyor was the measurement of the route covered by busses in taking children to and from school, The Commissioner's contract with the bus concern was on a mileage basis. This involved the measurement of 206 separate routes, with a total of 2,323.21 miles. ‘CALLS DOCTOR, DIES Syrian Is Unconscious When Phy- sician Arrives. Ahmed Fayed, 55-year-old Syrian, | died in his apartment at 740 Ninth| street yesterd afternoon 5 minutes right of the musicians to negotiate a |after summoning a physician, Dr. Stan- proper wage scale and working condi- tions for ir men, but deny them the right of dictating the number of men ich each house shall and must em- ley P. Porton of 4213 Eighteenth street, to D'll". bedside. NEW POLICE DETAIL FOR RUM AND VICE PREPARES 10 WORK Bean to Give “Squad” First Instructions at Qffices Tomorrow. ! DUPLICATE EFFORT WILL BE ELIMINATED Co-ordination of Activity Will In- crease Efficiency, Authorities Believe. Washington's new rum and vice squad will assemble at 8 o'clock tomor- row morning at Police Headquarters to receive its first instructions from its commander, Inspector Thaddeus R. Bean. It was created yesterday by Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, abolishing the old vice and Tum squads and setting up a new de- tail directly under Inspector Bean. Police officials emphasized that the step marks a much greater recognition of the importance of the work of en- forcing the laws relating to liquor, gambling and vice than has attached to it heretofore. 1In the past it has been largely in the hands of two squads, headed by sergeants. Eliminates Double Efforts. The step of putting the entire work into the hands of an inspector, it was pointed out, was designed to centralize and co-ordinate the work, which has before sometimes been carried on by the two squads at cross purposes. It also is designed to avold crossing of the trails of the regular Federal pro- hibition men, which is undersf to have occurred at times with embarrass- 1n|A' results, ccording to officials, strong effort will be made, under the new m:lms. to take to court only cases which are de- scribed in the order as “bona fide”— ‘t:::“ lll,, :uu re:h"ed'he evidence is repa and presented, Where there will be no 'gchnlul {-:ln'g In the matter of procuring search war- rants or other missteps which so often now cause cases to thrown out of court before reaching a trial on the merits. Bean is admonished in Maj. Pratt's orders to “establish and maintain a close, intimate contact with prosecuting officers to the end that such instruc- tlons as may be given by such prosecut- A s R R K nce n to bo!ecumdgorder&-::“w bt:und?nuulm may be presented and prosecution flm sustained.” Precinet Duties Remain. The creation of this centralized force, according to Maj. Prait, does not mean that the duties of the ins of the various precincts or their responsibili- tles are in any way lessened. He said it relieves them only of the special in- tensive labor of investigating and work- ing up cases in these fields. They are instructed to report to the new detail in writing any case of sus- pected violation of the laws and regula- '-lflnlb “;:ll'-‘-fl‘ to ta“q:l:ir vice and ‘whether * through of every com thereon, and were ordered by the police superintend- ent to confine their activities to such complaints as shall be assigned to them by their precinct commanders or from headquarters. They are ordered, howe ever, to make arrests and ute all violations 3: 'ahe law to their personal attention, reporting the results of their action to the new detail, Personnel of Squad. ‘The personnel of the new squad is as_follows: Sergt. George M. Little, Trafic Bureau, former head of the rum squad; viee s thie following privetes: lollowing privates: George C. Deyoe, Traffic Bureau; R. T. Joiner, Trafic Bureau; R. Schleichert, No. 6; J. K. Baker, No. 12; T. O. Mont- gomery, Traffic Bureau; G. C. McCar- ron, No. 6; F. A. Truscott, No. 4: F. O, Brass, No. 3; Joseph De Palma, No. 14; E. F. Lewis, No. 13; Thomas McVearry, No. 5, W. S. Smoot, No. 10; E. C. O'Meara, No. 6; E. L. Shelton, No. 2; N. G. Thayer, No. 4; G. E. Thornton, No. 9; H. G. Wanamaker, No. 1; C. H. Warder, No. 11; R. A. Williams, No. 8; it thatt In the v e sl vice squad activities has been reported on the calendar for some time, but it was not generally known that the change would be as comprehensive as the one gnllly de- cided upon. Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby is known to have taken a keen * interest in the matter, particularly re- cently during the agitation over the bonds required by defendants in liquor cases. He has made frequent visits to in- spector Pratt at Police Headquarters ;nfi has had long talks with him, almost aily. SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY IS REQUIRED BY 1902 LAW Corporation Counsel Bride Discloses Old Statute to Distriet Commissioners. Every Saturday afternoon is a legal holiday in the District for all purposes. A law to this effect has been on the statute books unrepealed for 28 years, although nobody seems to have paid any, attention to it. It was brought to light yesterday in the annual report of Cor- poration Counsel Willlam W. Bride to t.heA ‘l')lm-lcttgommtmli‘onen.h s er quoting the law, which appears in section 1389 of the Code of Law of the District, Mr. Bride wrote: _“Should any action be taken by the Board of Commissioners after 12 o'clock noon on any Saturday its authority so to act might well be questioned. Rither the provision of the law should be observed or its repeal secured.” WOUNDED IN QUARREL Colored Man Is Shot in Hand. Assailant Sought. Robert Ball, colored, 32 years old, of 2217 Eighth street, was treated at Finahot wound.in-the Tight nand: re: e ceived in an altercation vice squad, and re- iced | colored man near Ball's home, He was ploy before will be allowed to "Qfi'&wmuu-