Evening Star Newspaper, February 27, 1931, Page 17

Washington News WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, @he Foening Staf EBRUARY 27, 1931. —3 PAGE B-1 UNDERFED PUPILS PROMISED RELIEF BY SEVEN AGENCIES Conferences Bring First Step for Alleviation Regardless of Pending Legislation. MILK-CRACKER LUNCH WORK TO BE EXTENDED Food Also to Be Taken Into Homes of Capital's Needy Grade Children. Ignoring pending action on the bill to provide free lunches for needy school children of the District, seven Wash- ington agencies, including the public school system and charitable organi- zations, are setting in motion their own Temedies for the problems of the city's own underfed children. ‘The parent-teacher associations have agreed to assume the work of extending their present milk-and-cracker lunches in the schools to provide food for all needy children, and various social agencies have promised to take neces- sary steps to supply substantial assist- ance in the homes of those children re- ported to be in need of midday lunches. First Alleviation Step. Two conferences were held at the Franklin Administration Building with Stephen E, Kramer, first assistant su. perintendent, yesterday, and the agree- ments reached in those sessions an- nounced by Mr. Kramer today constitute the first step toward the alleviation of children's hunger. While he said to- day tentative plans call for the distri- bution of more milk and cracker lunches, Mr. Kramer explained that it is possible that the parent-teacher oups will undertake to serve hot soup ter. The chief issue, he added, is to launch immediate aid to needy children, and since equipment is available at the resent time for the milk and cracker Rmches they will constitute the first Telief. Grade Schools Concerned. Parrot Talked Too Much GOT HIS NECK WRUNG, SAYS “BIG BILL.” “Big Bill” Thompson, mayor of Chicago (left), talking to reporters at Union Station this morning. HE parrot that talked too much, emphatically too much, is a symbol and warning to “Big Bill"—christened Willlam Hale | —Thompson, mayor of Chicago, whose own oratorical efforts have been much in the public eye of late. The Chief Executive of the Windy City himself is the authority for this statement. Clustering photographers shouting directions as Mayor Thomp- son ‘arrived here this morning to do some missionary work for flood control, Yesterday’s meeting centered chiefly | made it hard for him to put over the ebout the need in the elementary [tale of the verbose bird to newspaper schools, since it was agreed that the |men, but he stuck to it, completed problem in the junior and senfor high|with a flourish, and left his auditors schools, where cafeterias are operated, | convinced that loquacity is dangerous can be taken care of with little or no|indeed, either for man or bird. administrative change. ‘Tentatively, it was agreed .yesterday Fate of Parrot. that the proposed milk-and-cracker | The parrot, it seemed, got his neck Tunches can be supplied, as they are at | twisted by the enraged janitor of an present, for 5 cents a day per pupil.|apartment house, who had made many ‘With 1,373 additional elementary chil-|futile trips up four flights of stairs dren reported in need of lunches, the|when deceived into thinking that the daily cost of supplying these “meals”|bird’s recurrent cries of “Bring up a would be $68.65. On the basis of 75|bucket of coal” came from some tenant. additional school days this year, the So far as is known, no one is thinking program will call for the raising of $5,148.75. First of Meetin The first of yesterday's meetings was held with the representatives of -various civic groups. These included, with their respective representatives, Council of Social Agencies, Mrs. W. Roberts and Miss M. E. Coleson; Family Welfare Committee, Miss Louise McGuire; Asso- ciated Charities, Mrs. Walter S. Ufford and Miss Louise Beall; Board of Public Welfare, Miss Patricia Morse; Salvation Army, Ensign Decker, and District of Columbia Congress of Parents and ‘Teachers, Mrs. Joseph N. Saunders, president, and Mrs. H. 8. Parsons. At this meeting Mr. Kramer pro- posed that the parent-teacher associa- tions set up an organization which could care for the distribution of the milk-and-cracker lunches and could finance the cost. The parent-teacher representatives agreed that was in tlseir province and that they would under- take the task. mayor for anything he might say, but that's his story, anyway. In Expansive Mood. sive mood when he arrived this morn- tion of the Mississippi Valley. In sharp contrast to the circus-like ago, today's party was small, not even occupying a private car. He was greeted at Union Station by Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinois, Subcommittee, at whose _hearing Thompson and_his associates later ap- peared, and Representative Hull of Tilinois. The porter on his car drew a $2 tip. had taken one of his bags, he wanted to know if the Represeniative “was a red cap now.” of applying such harsh measures to the | | | | ing, in his capacity of president of the | tol Waterway and Flood Control Associa- |here for the party. | entourage Thompson led here in the |Reld would have to interest of flood control some two years | tion. “as he is my be | | | | Distribution of Burden. ‘The chief problem confronting the parent-teacher bodies, hawever, is the distribution of the burden of paying for these lunches, since the poorer asso- ciations have the greatest number -of needy children to be fed. One asso- ciation in a colored school has only $1.20 in its treasury at this time, while the number of needy children in its jurisdiction exceeds that of ~much ‘wealthier bodies. In order to set up a procedure by which the prosperous as- sociations may aid the more needy ones, a special committee of the Par- ent-Teacher Congress members who will represent all sections of the city will meet at 10 o'clock Monday morning, according to an announcement today by Mrs. Saunders. | The personnel of this special group! of nine members was not made public | today by the president of the con-! gress, who said the names would be withheld until Monday. Need in Homes Discussed. Having the assurance of the parent- teachers representatives at yesterday's meeting, Mr. Kramer then asked the| soclal agencies present, through their es, if they could under- cve need in the homes of children. He pointed out that hildren generally are the last mem- bers of a family to suffer from want of food, and that if children were com- g to the schools without adequate meals, it is certain their parents are in even greater straits at home. He asked them if they would undertake to relieve tr conditions and to pro- vide lunches for the childrer urdays and other days when they are home. The organization representa- tives agreed they would go as far as their funds would permit them. It had been suggested that probably most of the familles of needy school children already are recelving aid from social agencies. Following_his meeting with the civic bodies, Mr. Kramer called in the super- vising principals of the school system in a special meeting late yesterday. These school officers agreed they wouid be glad to ald the outside organiza- tions in distributing food where it was most urgently needed. Milk-and-Cracker Need. Mr. Kramer told The Star today that while he recognized in some cases the milk-and-cracker lunch is not ade- , he 1is convirl]‘;:rgc tllml n(;“lr‘rimre rishing focd coul given cl ren D “small finances and inadequate Juncheon facilities. He declared that the milk-and-cracker lunch program is a beginning, which would take the whole problem out of the class o{‘ “idle waiting for something to happen.’ “With everybody who is interested in this problem definitely committed,” Mr. Kramer said, “we will be able to attend 1o this problem in the wisest and most on Sat- | Statements Handed Out. | The mayor told reporters the reason for his trip, and then added that his secretaries had printed statements giv- | ing the details “which will save the | newspaper men the trouble of asking | —Star Staff Photo. questions and me a lot of conversa- tion.” It was the suggestion that perhaps he might welcome 2 respite from conversz- tion after the arduous primary cam- paign in which he has just emerged victorious, that evoked theé story of the ill-starred parrot. A question as to the majority he ex- pected over Anton Cermak, his Demo- cratic opponent for the mayoralty, brought the good-natured rejoiner that “we always figure to win by one or more votes.” Mayor Thompson and his party are remaining here today, and are at the Mayflower. Mrs. Thompson is accom- panying her husband. Accompanied by Aides. His associates on the flood control mission, which came in response to an invitation from the subcommittee, in- cludes also Richard W. Wolfe of Chi- cago, treasurer of the Waterway and Food Control Association, and these other members: Arch Hurley, Tucum- cari, N. Mex.; Homer K. Galpin, Dr. E. L. Klein, Dr. William H. Reid, and Carter Bianchford, all of Chicago, and Robert J. Lyman, the mayor’s secretary. They were joined here by Mayor Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans, vice president, and James E. Reed of New Mayor Thompson was in an expan- | Orleans, treasurer of the association. Other than the appearance on Capi- Hill nothing had been arranged Asked if a trip to the White House was in prospect, Mayor Thompson said Representative nswer the ques- The party leaves tonight for Detroit. Thompson Hits Hoover. ‘Thompson named President Hoover in testimony before the House Flood Con- chairman of the House Flood Control|trol Committee today as having “out- promised everybody” in connection with works to alleviate the danger of floods, but not having had the works put ahead as rapidly as possible to appear because of his work at the and when the mayor saw that Mr. Reid | Flood Control Conference in Chicago last January. He said the “administration has not gone uhead as rapidly as it should have under the authority.” “After the 1927 flood.” he asserted, “President Hoover outpromised every- body. “We have been strong on promises, but short on action. We would like to see something dor SUGDE FLLONS PLEA FOR DVORCE Resident of De Ruyter, N. Y., Shoots Himself at Tourist Camp Here. | | Despondent since lcarning that his wife has filed suit for divorce, Clayton De Vaul, 34 years old, of De Ruyter, N. Y., shot and killed himself early to- | day at the Potomac Park Tourist Camp. | His body was found by Park Polic man W. H. Sconyers, who notified the | d'ad man’s parents, Mr. and: Mrs. Al-| bert De Vaul, who were asleep in a| nearby cabin. There was a bullet wound in De Vaul's forehead and a .22-caliber | rifle was beside the body. | Aft'r pronouncing De Vaul dead, Dr. | H. K. Butler, 1241 Pennsylvania avenue, who was summon-d by Sconyers, noti- fied Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitl. The coroner issued a certificate of death by suicide | De Vaul, a shell-shock:d World War | veteran, had been staying in Jackson- ville, Fla., and had been receiving $100 a month compensation from the Gov- ernment. His parents. accompanied by his sis- ter and broth r-in-law, went to the Florida city for him recently. They be- gan the return trip to De Ruyter Wed- nesday. It was on that day that De Vaul. the father of three children, was s-rved pa- pers in his wife's divorce action. became so despondent, his parents told Detective Sergts. Jam's A. Springmann and John Dalglish, that he wept during most of the journey from Jacksonville. WILL MAKE NOMINATION Subcommittee Empowered to Re- port Name of McMahon. ‘The subcommittee handling the nomination of Judge John P. McMahon for another term in Police Court was given authority today to report the t way and eliminate entirely, in :‘:l‘(:c “ihe Teed which our survey has shown us. It is a local problem and we all are able to cope with it. The business of raising sufficient funds to feed hungry children should be, and I think is, & detail in the issue which will be solved as we proceed with oux eliets* nomination if it so decides after it has completed consideration of the case, The reappointment of Judge Mc- Mahon has been opposed by several at- torneys, who have complained that he is harsh in his attitude toward counsel in He | PUPILSFARE PLAN STILL“UP IN AR Public Schools Decline to Handle Tickets—Other Arrangements Talked. Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chair- man of the Public Utilitics Commission, said today that arrangements for put- ting into effect the terms of the law providing reduced fares on street cars and busses for school children were still pretty much up in the air.” The only definite thing that has hap- pened so far, he sfhnnl system has declined to handle the fares, and the companies are now en- gaged in trying to work out arrange- ments in some other way. He said the commission expected to hear from the companies soon. The bill was signed by President Hoo- ver yesterday and thus became law. It provides for a fare not to exceed 3 cents for all school children in the Dis- trict up to the age of 18. The proposals advanced so far by the car companies are to sell the tickets in strips of 10 for 30 cents. The companies wanted the school system to handle the sale, so that none but bona fide school children would declined to take the responsibility, and suggested that the companies send their agents to the schools once a month and sell strips of 40 tickets for $1.20. The companies are now considering the latter proposition. Meanwhile the commission is con- sidering letting any school child ride for a straight 3-cent cash fare on presentation of come sort of identifica- tion card to be furnished by the school. The terms of the law apply to chil- dren of all schools. It is said that the Catholic_parochial schools are willing to undertake any labor or responsibility involved in any scheme that may finally be devised. s PERIEE Schroeder Jury Obtained. INDIANAPOLIS, February 27 (#).— A jury was obtained this morning in Criminal Court here to try Harold Herbert Schroeder, Mobile business man, court. ‘During ‘:‘]:o hearings & h‘:ctle“' of lawyers appeared avor of the nomination, charged with the murder and burning ln( an unidentified man last May, He was lnvlu:dq { | | | id. is that the public | suance of tickets at the reduced | | | GIRL DIES, THREE INJURED AS AUTO GRASHES INTO TREE Driver Arrested After Car Returning From Road House Is Wrecked. MACHINE GOES THROUGH HEDGE ON HITTING POLE Steering Gear on O0ld-Model Ve- hicle Said to Have Failed on Cherrydale Curve. A 22-year-old girl was fatally injured and another young woman and two young men were hurt slightly early to- day when the automobile in which they were returning to Washington from a Virginia road house struck a telephone pole, careened through a hedge and crashed into a tree at Cher- rydale, Va. The dead girl was Miss Louise Hern, 2414 K strect, an employe of the Ches- apeake & Potomac Telephone Co. She and her three companions—Miss Mil- dred Hafferman, 19, of 1419 W street; John E. Anderson, 20, of 2418 G street, and Charles H. Turlington, 19, of 605 Twenty-first street—were thrown from the car when it struck the tree. Miss Hern's body was thrown into the air and it is believed her head struck a rail on the front porch of the home of Walter S. Bowen. She died of a fractured skull while being taken to Georgetown Hospital. Driver Is Arrested. Miss Hafferman, Anderson and Tur- lington were taken to the hospital in a machine which was a short distance be- hind theirs when the smash-up oc- curred. After receiving treatment Anderson, driver of the automobile, was arrested by Policeman Raymond Crack of Arlington County. Commonwealth's Attorney Willlam C. Gloth ordered him held in $1,000 bail on a charge of man- slaughter. Turlington, who, like Anderson, suf- fered only cuts and bruises, was re- leased after questioning by Gloth. Miss Hafferman, who also was cut and bruised, remained at the hospital for X-ray examination to determine wheth- er or not her pelvis was fractured. Says Steering Gear Failed. Anderson told Crack that he and Turlington met the young women last night at the Chimney Villa, a resort on Fairfax road between Falls Church and Merrifield. The car in which they were return- ing to Washington, Anderson explained, was a 1922 model and, because of its age, was difficult to steer. The acci- dent occurred, he add, when the steer- ing wheel failed to respond to his ef- forts to round a curve and the ma- chine struck a guy wire attached to the telephone pole, causing the auto- mobile to veer from its course. The car, according to both Anderson and Turlington, was not going mcre than 30 miles an hour at the time. Miss Hern was riding in the back seat with Turlington, while Miss Haf- ferman was sitting beside Anderson on the driver’s seat. R MORTGAGE COMPANY CREDITORS WILL MEET First Session to Be Called by Ref- eree for 10 0'Clock Saturday, March 14. Fred J. Eden, referee in bankruptcy, announced today that he will issue a call for the first meeting of the creditors of the bankrupt investment firm of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey on Satur- day, March 14, at 10 o'clock. ‘The meeting will be held in the Dis- trict Supreme Court Building in the court room of Equity Division 2 instead of at the offices of the referee. It is expected a trustee in bankruptcy will be selected at the meeting. A number of lawyers continued today the examination of the schedule of assets and liabilities filed yesterday .or the bankrupt concern, through Attor- neys Tobriner and Graham, to see if the names of their clients are men- tioned among the 1,600 persons listed as unsecured credito) THREE MEN ARRESTED IN TWO POLICE RAIDS Malt Extracts and Empty Bottles Are Confiscated. Small Quantity of Liquor, Three men were arrested, a small quantity of liquor, malt extracts and empty bottles seized by the police vice squad in two raids yesterday. Joseph A. Reith was arrested in a raid in the 1100 block of Eighth street southeast, where the malt extract and empty bottles were confiscated. He was released on bond of $1,500 to appear in Police Court Next door to Reith's place of business the police visited a barber shop, found two bottles of liquor and arrested Michael Sesso, 26 years old, of the Eighth street addréss, and Charles Tilkerton, 34, of the 500 block of Fourth street southeast, both barbers, and charged them with illegal possession. HUSBAND IDENTIFIES WIFE KILLED IN FALL | get them. The school system, however, | Woman Dies in Plunge From 4th Floor of Detention Home Wednesday. ‘The body of the woman who fell to her death from a fourth floor window of the House of Detontion, Sixth street and Louisiana avenue, early Wednesday morning, was identified late yesterday by Samuel Citrano, 725 Fourth street northeast, as that of his wife, Marj: Citrano. The name Rose Spinelll, which she gave when brought to the in- stitution, was one she often used, her husband said. ‘The body was taken from the District Morgue last night, and is now at the Hanlon funeral home, 641 H street northeast, pending funeral arrange- ments. A coroner’s jury yesterday found that the woman came to her death accident- ly while att:mpting to escape from the House of Detention. The jury recom- mended that additional help be em- BURLEITH CITIZENS Declare Reservoir Road Im- provement Will Benefit Other Sections More. Scores of individual residents of the Burleith section in Georgetown were to- day malling to the District Supreme Court protests against the method of benefit assessments in connection with the proposed widening of Reservolr protest against the assessments levied by a condemnation jury against more than 600 property owners in Burleith, claiming that the amounts of the as- sessments more than outweigh the ad- vantages to be gained by the widening of the road. August H. Moran, a former president of the association, has agreed to represent the individual prop. erty holders in presenting their protests to the Supreme Court and will have the backing of the Burleith assocfation if HIT ASSESSMENTS Road. The Burleith Citizens’ Associa- | tion two days ago decided to make a| The wrecked automobile in which Louise Hern (below) lost her life at | Cherrydale, Va,, early today. | | —Star Staff Photo. .S ACTS TO BUY ANALOGTAN ISLAND | Condemnation Proceedings Are Planned for Inclusion in Park System. ‘The Department of Justice, it was learned today, is preparing condemna- tion proceedings to acquire for the Government the Analostan Island, which is owned by the Washington Gas !Light Co, for park and playground purposes. The island is located near Key Bridge in the Potomac River, Government officials say the present value of the island is in the region of $200,000 and the gas company, it is said, recently turned down an offer from the Roosevelt Memorial Commis- sion for approximately $350,000 for the island. Public Utilitles Commission records show the original cost of the island was $72,785. Henry H. Glassie, special assistant to Attorney General Mitchell, was said to be in charge of the case for the Government. The Fine Arts Commission and the | National Capital Park and Planning Commission have long considered Ana- lostan Island for inclusion in the park system of the metropolitan area, as part of the proper setting for the Arlington Memorial Bridge development. Both Columbia Island and Analostan Island are included within the District of Co- lumbia, as within contemplation of law the District extends to the Virginia shore of the Potomac River at its high- water mark. Maps and tentative plans of the Planning Commission show that it is proposed to have a roadway linking up Analostan Island with Columbia Island, from which the Mount Vernon Memo: rial Highway will start southward as an outgrowth of the Arlington Memorial Bridge devclopment, as the main span the court decided to hold a hearing on | rests on the latter island. Analostan Is- the matter. | 1and would be connected by bridges with The protests pointed out that the|the Lee Highway and the George Wash- benefits against the individual lots are | ington Memorial Parkway as part of the “unjust, unreasonable, unfair and un- | cxtensive parkway program of develop- constitutional, constituting a taking of | ment, on the threshold of which Wash- property without due process of law.”|ington now stands. The protest further points out that the assessment is for an improvement of a | type and character which will not inure to the benefit of property adjacent to the improvement, but that the improve- ment is of a type and character which will inure to the general benefit of all inhabitants of the District of Columbia and to the special benefit of those District and Maryland and Virginia residents who will use the widened road for travel past Burleith. The protest adds that the cost of road widening is properly payable from the general funds of the District. HUGE MOTOR CRASHES .'),O()O-Poun(li];nchine ‘Fn]ls Eight Floors in New Building Here. A two-and-a-half-ton clevator motor, worth $8,000, last Wednesday crashed eight floors down the elevator shaft of the new American Security & Trust Co. Buildinging now under construction at Fifteenth street and New York avenue. The motor was being installed in the shaft on the eighth floor when the hoist- {ing wire bound to the motor snapped According to workmen at the building, the motor bounced from one elevator door frame to_the other on its down- ward flight. The motor Janded at the bottom of the shaft with a crash heard biocks around. The motor was being installed by workmen for the A. B. See Elevator Construction Co. D. C. OFFICIALS AWARD ROAD JOB CONTRACTS 1$157,766 Concrete Roadway and $188,627 Resurfacing Jobs to Start Soon. | The District Commissioners today awared the Warren F. Brenizer Co., Inc., a contract for the construction of concrete roadways. The Brenizer firm put in the lowest of seven bids received, asking for $157,766.75. The Commissioners awarded to the Union Paving Co., Inc., a contract for resurfacing streets by the replacement method for $188,627.50. The contract for construction of cement_alleys went to McGuire and Rolfe, Inc., who bid $105,987.50. A contract for the construction of sidewalks was also awarded McGuire and Rolfe for $69,465. The Commissioners authorized the purchase of 14 lots adjoining the An-| thony Bowen School at Pirst and M| streets southwest for $30,000 from Georgene W. Thompson and the pur- chase of an unimproved lot adjacent to the Warmley School from Mrs, Annie O'Neil for $300. SUIT FOR $150,000 Otto M. Stanfield, New York broker, today lost his suit to recover $150,000 commission on the sale to the Library of Congress of a collection of incuna- bula, including the famous Guttenberg Bible, by Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbehr, not- ed collector of Berlin, Germany. Jus- tice Jesse C. Adkins in a memorandum opinion held with the defendant that Stanfield was not entitled to the com- mission_and dismissed the bill which had asked that the payment of the purchase price of $1,500,000 for the collection be enjoined pending the ac- tion of the court. Zhe ployed at the institution to prevent the'by the court. wepetition of such at escape, he famous Under a temporary injunction a sum of $175,000 was set aside to abide the court action and the payment of the balance of the purchase price author- ized. Sanfleld is expected to noté an appeal when the final order is passed collection wag delivered ON INCUNABULA SALE LOST Otto M. Stanfield, New York Broker, Not Entitled to Fee on Library Acquisition, Court Holds. AS COMMISSION to the Library of Congress last Summer following the passage of the Collins’ bill for its purchase and Stanfield brought suit for his alleged commission. Dr. Vollbehr employed Attorney Paul PAVING OF STREETS TOBEGIN MARCH 16 District Highway Engineer Gives Sequence of Work on Pending Project. Capt. Herbert C. Whitehurst, District | highway engineer, today announced the | lists of streets to be paved under the first contract for the season for con- crete roadways, together with the se- quence in which the various jobs under this contract will be done. Work on this contract will be done by the W. F. Brenizer Co., low bidders, and will start March 16. Work on the second con- crete roadway contract, sequence lists for which were also announced, will start April 15. First Contract Streets. The streets to be paved under the first contract are: V street, Georgia avenue to Ninth street, March 16; Q street, Naylor road to Twenty-sixth place southeast, March 19; R street southeast, Twenty-sacond to Twenty- fifth street, March' 25; Twenty-third street southeast, Q to R streets, March 30; Twenty-second street southeast, Minnesota avenue to R street, March 31; W street southeast, Fourteenth to Sixteenth street, April 2; Sixteenth street southeast, U to W street, April 7; Naylor road southeast, Minnesota ave- nue to R street, April 9; Grant place, Ninth to Tenth street, April 14; Thir- tieth street northeast, South Dakota avenue to Bladensburg road, April 15; Central avenue northeast, Myrtle to Carlton avenue; Otis street northeast, Twenty - fourth * to Twenty - sixth streets, April 20; Twenty-fourth street northeast, Otis to Perry street, April 22; Perry street northeast, Twenty-sec~ ond to Twenty-fourth street, April 23; Quincy street northeast, Twenty-first to Twenty-second sreet, April 25; Twen- ty-first street northeast, Quincy to Randolph street, April 27; Twentieth street northeast, South Dakota avenue to Perry street, April 28; Evarts street northeast, Seventeenth street westward, April 29; Vista street northeast, South Dakota avenue to Walnut street, May 1; Quackenbos street, Eighth street to Georgia avenue, May 7; Eighth street, Quackenbos to Rittenhouse street, May 12; Seventh street, Tuckerman street to Tewkesbury place, May 13; Seventh street, Dahlia to Fern street, May 14:; Morningside drive, Iris street to Kalmia road, May 18; Dana place, Conduit road to Hurst terrace, May 21; Hurst terrace, Dana place westward, May 22; Sherrier place (north side). Cathedral avenue to Norton street, May 25; Norton street, Sherrier place to Conduit road, June 1 Second Project Outlined. In the second contract the following streets are to be paved with concrete: Western avenue, Forty-first street to Chevy Chase Circle, April 15; Forty- first, ‘Livingtone street to Western ave- nue, April 21; Brandywine street, Wis- consin avenue to Twenty-third street, | April 24; Brandywine street, Forty-third place to Forty-third street, April 27; Yuma street, Wisconsin avenue to Forty-second street, April 29; Reno road, Thirty-fourth to Ordway street, and Ordway street, Reno road to Thirty- fourth street, May 2: T street, Thirty- eighth to Thirty-ninth streets, May 5; Thirtieth street north of Brandywine street, May 7: Cathedral avenue, Wood- ley road to Rock Creek Park, May 9; Hobart street, alley west of Mount Pleas- ant street to approximately 200 feet west, May 14; Ninth street, Farragut ' to Gallatin streets, May 15; Ninth street, Madison_street to Concord ave- nue, May 18; Madison street, Georgia avenue to Ninth street, May 21; Six- teenth street northeast, Lawrence to Monroe streets, May 25; Ninth street northeast, Lawrence to Monroe streets, May 27; Lawrence street northeest, Ninth to Tenth streets, May 29; Var- num street northeast, Twelfth street to Sargent road, June 2; Twelfth street northeast, Urell place to Varnum street, June 4: Tenth street northeast, Taylor to Upshur streets, June 6; Childress stieet northeast, Trinidad avenue east- ward, June 8; L street northeast, Bladensburg road to Twentieth street, June 11; Eighteenth street southeast, B to C streets, June 16; Ives place south- east, Potomac avenue to Fourteenth street, June 18; Blagden avenue, Six- teenth street to Rock Creek Park, June 20; Monroe street northeast, Michigan avenue to Twelfth street, July 15, and Quesada street, Nevada avenue to Broad Branch road, August 1. Streets on the second contract will be paved by the low bidder among the bids to be opened March 16. These bids were E. Lesh to oppose the claim of Stan- field and the case was recently argued before Justice Adkins, who has had it under advisement for some days. Attorney Lesh claimed that Stanfield was to have nothing to do with the Collins’ bill but was to confine his ef- forts to obtaining an outside party or institution to purchase the collection, which was to be valued at $3,000,000. ‘The record disclosed that when Rep- resentative Ross Collins of Mississippl introduced his original bill he had not heard of Mr, Stanfield and had not met Dr. Vollbehr, but was prompted by the press_notices_of famous collection gesearch, hndahsm?olb!l ks to be advertised toda: ISMAR BARUTH TO SPEAK Problems of Personnel Classifica- tion Will Bewligpic. Ismar Baruth, assistant the Personnel Classification deliver ‘an address dealing with prob- lems of the board at a meeting of the American Institute of Chemists & the Cosmos Club tonight at 8 o'clock. talk is to deal with special employ era) Government, tor of , will R 5 UNION CREDIT AGT AND MINOR BILLS PASSED BY SENATE Co-operative Societies Given Power to Make Loans. Street Measure Voted. APPEALS ARE PEEMITTED IN CONDEMNATION CASES Howard University Land Sale Also Ordered—House Must Put Approval on Laws, Several District measures passed the Senate last night, including the credit union bill, which authorizes formation of co-operative societies to make loans to members. Other measures approved last night were: The Swanson bill, authorizing 381 087 for constructing the proposed Lee boulevard approach at the Virginia end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge. This requires House action. The Dbill, already approved by the House, authorizing the District Com- missioners to sell certain parcels of land to Howard University. Refrigeration Bill. The bill, already passed by the House authorizing the Terminal Re- frigerating & Warehousing Corporation to lay refrigerating conduits under E and P streets southwest. The resolution to provide for the printing of a manuscript, “Washington, the National Capital,” prepared by H. P. Caemmerer, secretary to the Pine Arts Commission. This requires ap- proval by the House. A bill, recommended by the Commis- sioners, amending the law relating to appeals from municipal condemnation proceedings. This bill, which also must go to the House, provides that a person aggrieved by a final order of the court may appeal to the Court of Appeals, but that step shall not delay or prevent the payment of the damages awarded to other persons in respect of the property sough(r. "l}.:) be con:ier;medh nor delay the use of the property for the purposes for which it was condemned. i House Approves Bill. ‘The House District Committee today favorably reported the Stalker bill pro- viding for the credit unions and Chairman Zihlman was instructed to move in the House to substitute the Senate bill. e credit union bill was ob- jected to when it first came up by Sen- atar Bratton, Democrat, of New Mexico. Senator Blaine, Republican, of Wis- consin, explained that this is a sepa- rate measure from the small loans The credit union bill, Senator Blaine pointed out, contemplates mutual-aid organizations, with an interest rate of 1 per cent a month. Senator Bratton withdrew _his . objection, and the bill passed. ' COUNCIL APPROVES FEB. 22 FETE IN 1932 City Authorities to Co-operate With Birthday Association for 1932 Event. | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., February 27.— Co-operation of City Council was given the George Washington Birthday Asso- ciation in its move to bring the opening event of the Bicentennial celebration to this city with a mammoth parade February 22, 1932, to which the Presi- dent and Congress will be invited, at a special meeting of council held yes- terday afternoon. A committee of the Birthday Associa- tion, composed of J. William May, Gil- bert J. Cox, jr., and O. A. Reardon, ap- peared to asked that council indorse the move and this was done on motion of Vice Mayor E. F. Ticer. Date for the reception of the repart of the Zoning Commission was set for March 3 at 3 o'clock. An urdinance providing for a temporary loan of $100,000 to the city in anticipation of the collection of taxes was placed on its second and third readings and passed. AIR LINE’S PASSENGER TRAFFIC GAINS 100 PCT. Eastern Transport Also Reports Establishment of Mail Haul Record Last Month. Passenger traffic on the Eastern Air Transport_airmail-passenger line con- necting_the National Capital with 18 other cities between New York and Mi- ami has increased 100 per cent during the past month, it was announced here today. The report shows that last month a total of 76,709 pounds of mail also was carried in planes on the coastul run for a new monthly record. The total of 76,709 pounds of mail carried during January exceeds the pre- vious high record, established in Oc- tober, by 12,300 pounds, or more than 550,000 individual pleces of mail, it was announced. Eastern Air Transport soon will open a new coastal airmail and passenger route through Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia, joining its present route at Richmond and Jacksonville. WILL FIGHT I\;IILLS’ ORDER As a protest against the wholesale dismissal of women from the Southern textile mills, the National Women's Party will hold a meeting at the Alvs Belmont House Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock. According to resolutions adopted by the Cotton Textile Institute, all women will be discharged from night work in the mills by that date. Woman workers throughout the South have been flood- ing headquarters of the National Woman's Party with letters calling attention to the serious economic plight into which they will be thrown when this measure goes into effect. SNOWS IN MINNESOTA First in Some Sections Since No- vember. ST. PAUL, February 27 (#).—Snow, in some sections, the first since No- vember covered Minnesota generally today, ranging from an inch at Albert Lea, in the southern part of the State, to 12 inches at Alexandria. Norta and