Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1931, Page 16

F CLACI6L e UNONWILL SEEK | At Fort Myer THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1391 Society Circus " UNITEDLABOR AID INTAXICAB STRIKE Company Says 5 or 10 Driv- ers Have Quit, Chairman Holds Figure is 120 Men. CHAUFFEURS’ LOCAL INSISTS 100 CARS IDLE Declares They Are Being Given Jobs by Other Concerns as Fast as Cabs Can Be Obtained. A finish fight on the Diamond Taxi- cab Co. was declared today by the Cen- tral Labor Union in announcing that 62,000 union men and women here will | be asked to withdraw their patronage from the company's cabs because the | associated owners have refused to con- tract for a closed shop. “We accept the challenge of the Dia- mond Taxicab Co.” said a statement today by R. A. Dickson, chairman of the Central Union's Executive Commit- tee, “expecting no quarter from the company and prepared to ive no quar- ter. We will pit our economic strength against their ability to hold out in the face of it.” Contract Is Claimed. Asked why the fight was centered on the Diamond concern in view of the fact that the other large operators of taxicabs hers are non-union organiza- tlons Mr. Dickson said it was because the company had entered into contractual relations with the chauffeurs union and then had severed the relations in an arbitrary manner. Meanwhile, & denial on behalf of the Diamond owners was made to & claim by Drivers and Chauffeurs Union No. 169 that 120 drivers and almost 100 cabs have been. withdrawn from the Diamond concern since the local ordered & walkout Thursday night. Alfred D. Smith, counsel for the Dia- mond Co., estimated today that only “5 or 10 drivers” actually struck and that no cabs are being withdrawn from the association of Diamond own- ers. Mr. Smith said there were no idle cabs and no interruption of service. Hold 80 Got New Jobs. Pointing . out that “this fight was forced on us,” the Central Labor Union’s statement sald that “we are informed that union-operated cab companies here have engaged more than 80 drivers who left the Diamond Co. since the strike was declared. A at number of others are awaiting places on union cabs and will be engaged just as soon as new cabs arrive in Washington. “We are drivers with other concerns in the order which their ap- plications are received. We will allow one week for the drivers of Diamond taxicebs to file thelr requests, and they will be permitted to continue in the company’s employ until union cabs can be procured for them. “We are now engaged in perfecting the machinery to reach the many locals in Washington and to familiarize the 62,000 memvers with the challenge the Diamond Cab Co. has held out to us. Holds Interests Widespread. “When we are prepared to enter this contest as one big unit, we shall ask our Elsie and Ruth Tuckerman, who how to ride. SOME OF PARTICIPANTS IN EXHIBITION. 8l /| ing purposes to include all of the gov- Soclety Circus at Fort Myer opened yesterday and will close with per- formances this afterncon and tonight in the riding hall. Above: Misses took part in the sport tandem. Below: Jobn Abdil and Frank Arnold, machine gunners, show the Cavalrymen —=Star Staff Photos, people to withdraw their patronage from the ?Iu:gnd Taxicab Co. That time is union man and =epscaza ML PLOTSLAND = AS FOG THICKENS case, they question the right of every trades union man or woman to become unionized and advocate the operation of all industries on a non-union basis. “It naturally follows, therefore, that every upion man or woman will bz called upon to his individual interest by pa- tronizing only such taxicab companies as have recorded themselves in sym- pathy with organized labor.” Mr. Smith said, on behalf of the owners, that large numbers of the driv- ers themselves had no interest in joinirg the union and that the contract pro- posed by the local and rejected by the owners would require the laiter not only to become members themselves but to pay the membership dues of their em- ployes. The Diamond Cab Co., Mr. Smith said, prefers to hire union men, but has been forced to hire non-union | men because the local cannot supply enough drivers, ‘The Central Labor Union already has placed other large taxicab concerns here on its “unfair” Lst, POLICE PROBE SERIES OF HOUSE BURGLARIES Stepladder Again Used to Gain Access to Loot—Shaw School Also Robbed. A series of robberies in various sec- | tions of the city yesterday and last night were being investigated by police today. First precinct police were searching for a man who entered the rcom of | Joseph McClure, on the third floor of | & house at 803 Eighth street, early th.s morning and escaped with $60 in cash Information furnished by McClure re- sulted in the arrcst of a suspoct, but th; man denied knowledge of the in- cident An intruder who ganed entrance to | Ne her home by the use of a stzpladder | a yesterdav, ransacked the apartment Mrs. Mina Price at 1018 Girard st and removed a quantity of Police suspect that the perpetrator of the crime was the same person who has | been operating under the same method in the section west of Rock Creek Park of Mrs. John C. Snyder, 2304 North of Mrs. John C. Snyder, 204 No:th Capito] street, an un!dentified burgl yesterday afterroon stole article Jewelry valusd at $122. A sneak thief entered Shaw Junior High School, Seventh and R streets, last night, stealing four ccats. Ow of the garments were James Lawrence. of 1319 Q street; Charles Dorsey, 217 Pif- | ty-seventh street northeast; Ruth Love, 1428 R street, and Jeanctte Bulloch, 2719 Georgia avenue. LEAVES $127,632 ESTATE George L. Whitford's Widow to! Get Income for Life. George L. Whitford, lawyer, who died February 20, left an’ estate valued at $127,632, according to a petition of the National Metropolitan Bank for the pro- bate of his will. The bank is named &s exccutor. He owned real estate s sessed at 844442 and had personal roperty estimats al A h P e widow, Mrs.. Florence E. Whit- ford, is to have the income from the estate for life, and at her death the estate is to go to the daughters, Har- riet 8. and Ordway Whitford. - — Commissioned in Reserve. Commissions in the Reserve Corps of the Army have been issued by the War Department to Webster Sewell, Freedmen's 0 this city, as & nd to Charles G. this city, a8 Storm Near Baltimore Forces Aviater Back to Capital. Many Lines Affected. | | | t | | Following two attempts to batter way through storm clouds, rain and fog between Washington and Baltimore Pilot Larry Pabst, Eastern Air Trans- port night mail fiyer, was forced t> for- ward his mafl by train from Washing- ton this morning. It was a bad fiying night throughout the Eastern States and atrmail pilots reported hard all along the lines. arrived at Bolling Pield at 2:45-o’clock this m-rning with a load of mail which had been flown up from Florida through a steadily thickening storm. | the field at 2:55, Pabst ran into a wall of storm near Baltimore, and after trying to find a way through, rcturned lat 3:40. He got b e 100 Ten minutes after h | that no plane could have lan | After waiting until 7 o'clock for | fog to I't, Pabst took off once = | He was back at 7:15, having run i imporsible fiying weather only 10 miles | out. His mail was sent on by train The first southbound plane last night was able to get all the way through | from New York to Fiorida, The sec- Yo ond southbound was forced down at { Greersboro, N. C. The second north- bound was’ trained out of Florida. National Ai; Transp continental mail from Chicago to York, was able to get the ‘mountains this ng_to reports rece Mail for Washingtor to an Easiern Air i ark, N. J., and a s made by Pilot Ralph Loc it through this morning, weather bad he was w fly | conditions continued so | forced to put Camden, N. J. 'KIWANIANS FETED | BY MANASSAS CLUB Gavel Prcse;e;lrl’;s;en! of Vir- ginia Group by Aide of Carpital Body. o Washington Kiwanis | [ ot the Manas:as Ki- | wanis Club at an intcrelub meeting and banquet at Manassas, Va., last night A feature of the presentation of a spe: gavel by Edwin P. Hi ong and president of the Washington club, to Dr. C. R. C. | Johnson, president of the Manassas club. The gavel is made of wood taken from the White House when the ldtter was being remo’eled. Ap eddr'ss was delivered at meeting by W. H. Donny, who spoke on the convention of Kiwanis International to be held in Miami, Fla, May 3 to 7. Among the members of the Wash.ing- ton Kiwanis Club who attended the me:ting were: C. Ralph Barker, Charles R. Ruff, Claude V. Owen, Harry G. Kimball, James C. Dulin, James B. Edmunds, Col. Claude D. Jones, F. Archibald Meatyard, Charles W. Pimper, Fred A. Schutz, Willism P. Smith, George H. Winslow and Mr. Hill, the vice president. United | Pabst, on the first northbound trip, the |5 the | SITE BORING WORK - CONTRACT 15 LET ‘Data to Be Used by Archi-| tects of First Municipal | Center Structure. The District Commissioners yesterday awarded a contract for making core borings on the site of the first build- ing of thé new Municipal Center to the | Pennsyivania Drilling Co, Inc. for | $2,060. The first building, to house the { various inferior ecourts, will be built fronting on John Marshall place be- Pennsylvania avenue and Judi- are to | gong, forced landings and cancellations | dations for the building. The Commissioners also awarded con- | tracts for er construction work amounting to $88,032.78. The contrac Leéaving place nning road n: ween Twenty rth streets exten $1,- , and Burnt Bridge stormwater Pennsylvania avenue between Thirticth and Westover streets south- | east, $7,560.48. Bright Shepherd Co, Inc., G street placement sewer, between Twentieth and Twenty-first streets, $2,623.68; Ligon & Ligon, upper Hickey: Run stormwater sewer, $25,448.82, and R. D. hlegel, Sixteenth street service sewer, between' Alaska avenue and Fioral street, $1,885.48. NAVY REQUESTS RULING ON NEW HALF HOLIDAY Attorney General Asked to Decide on Hours Lost if Worker Is Absent on Saturday. it aboard a train at| y law with , which i ard workers, earch Laboratory and some at the necessary 's opinion iving an af- rom his chief law » head of the Navy passed the long to the Department of Jus- General Mitchell is asked to decide on how many hours are to be taken cut of a fleld worker's! time . should he fail to show up on Saturday for work. GEORGE WW. TACEY DIES Burial Eer:‘;);; ‘t’O it Held at Woodbridge, Va., Tcmorrow. ial Dispatch to The Star. WCODBRIDGE, Va., March 28.—Fu® | neral services will be held here at 1 | o'clock tomorrow for George W. Tacey, | who died at the home of his son, Barnes Tacey. |* 'He 18 survived by two sons, Barnes Tacey and George W. Tacey, Jr.; two daughters, Miss Vivian Tacey and: Mrs. Annie Buskey; one brother, James Tacey, and one sister, Ried. INEW PARKING BAN 10 BE PROTESTED Hearing Set Tuesday Before: Commisioners Adopt Re- zoning Plan. FEDERAL BAR GROUP ASSAILS PROPOSALS Major Recommendations Made by | Col. Grant’s Committee Still Await Action. Representatives of three Government institutions will be given a chance to enter protests at a hearing at the meet- ing of the Board of Commissioners next Tuesday before the city heads adopt a series of new parking regulations, which would place a two-hour limit on park- ing as far South as B street southwest. The protests are from the Bureau of Printing and Engraving, the Depart- ment of Agriculture and the Smith- sonian Institution. Should the proposed rules go through, it would mean that many of the em- ployes of these institutions would have to find new parking places for their cars further south or go out and move them every two hours. A large propo) tions, it is sald, which they work are out of the restrict- ed zone, Bar Group Protesis. The Federal Bar Association last night adopted a resolution which will be sent to the Commissioners and the supervising architect of the Treasury Department asking that the proposed parking changes be reconsidered, as being entirely too drastic. Since most government buildings are in zones re- stricted "as to parking under the pro- posed rules, most o the government workers owning cars will be affected, the resolution points out. The Treas- ury architect is also asked to see to it that in planning the new Federal build- ings, space for parking be provided on the roofs or in the cellars of the build- text of the resolution was: “Whereas the traffic director of the District of Columbia has announced the proposed establishment of an extension of the present restricted zone for park- ernment departments and independent | offices; “And whereas the present state of congestion of traffic as observed by members of the Federal Bar Association is not such as to demand such drastic Space in Buildings Asked. “Now, therefore, be it resolved that the executive council of the Federal Bar Association hereby protests against | the proposed changes in parking regu- lations enlarging the present resiricted areas as being unnecessary and as caus- ing undue hardship to Government em- ployes, many of whom live in outlying and suburban communities; “And be it resolved further that the office of the supervising architect of the Treasury ke and it is hereby requested to take suitable measures in connec- tion with the construction of bufldings 50 as to provide parking space either on the roofs or underground in order to remedy adequately the traffic condi- tions.” A -perusal of the recommendations prepared under the sponsorship of Col. | Grant's Automobile Parking Committes | reveals that taere are some major recommendations that have not as yet bzen adopted. .Recommendations Unadopted, Foremost of these are the following recommendations: “The provision permitting double parking should be repealed and a strict prohibition substituted. “Loading zcnes shouid be freely estab- lished with the special provision that they may be occupied by waiting pri- vate cars in charge of a driver when the zone is not required for loading or unloading. “In the near future parking should be | prohibited in the Ellipse and on the | Mall. Tdentity Cards Proposed. ‘The committee urged that private garage enternrises be encouraged and that the Government should provide storage for approximately 1,000 cars in | each of five buildings composing the triangle group of Federal buildings. Capt. R. E. Montgomery of the Park | Police, who have charge of the Mall area, believes that some system will have to be worked out to comply with the esteblishing of parking areas in the vicinity of governmental establishments, whereby identification cards would be distributed to designated officials in each of the departments. It will be easy enough, he says, to identify Senat and Representatives about the Government departments and bureaus, but it will be a difficult matter to know when a governmental official 1s on official business. 13,000 VEHICLES CROSS HIGHWAY BRIDGE DAILY 12 Hour Counts Made Preparatory to Water Street Appropria- tion Request. Between 13,000 and 14,000 vehicles enter and leave the District by way of Highway Bridge every 12 hours, accord- inz counts mace Dy the District Highway Department, Capt. Heibert C. ‘Whitehurst, District highway engineer, announced yesterday. The counts were made preparatory to a request for an appropriation for the improvement of Fourteenth street south of Water street next fiscal year. A count March 10 showed a total of 13,323 vehicles, of which 10,107 were classed as light traffic, 1,136 as light trucks, 1,906 as heavy trucks and 174 reet cars. On March 11 the total s 13,449, with the proportion of the various classes of traffic approximately the same, and on March 12 the total wes 14,318, In each case the counts, divided by nours, show that the hour between 8 and 9 o'clock in the morning is the heaviest and between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon next. RELEASED ON WRIT Charles W. Hodges Fights Extradi- tion on Auto Theft Charge. Charles W. Hodges, manager of the Pacific Financial Co., 1233 New York avenue, sued out a writ of habeas cor- pus last evening after Chief Justice Wheat had honored a . requisition of Gov. Pollard of Virginia for the return of Hodges to that State to answer an indictment charging larceny of an au- tomobile, which an agent of the com- pany had repossessed for alleged failure of time payments. The writ was grant- ed by Justice Siddons and the manager gave bond for a hearing April 20, Through Attorney Tracy L. Jeffords the petitioner claimed he had a right to take possession of the car and urged that the matter was one for the civil courts and not criminal. Girls Win Scout Poster Contest PRIZES IN “FESTIVAL OF NATIONS” COMPETITION. Left to right: HREE Washington * girls won major awards, and a Claren- don, Va., girl was given honor- able mention in the poster con- test, which closed yesterday, in connection with the “forthcoming “Festival of the Nations,” to be pre- sented in Constitution Hall during the week of April 27, under the auspices of the Girl Scouts of the District. Merrie Childrey, 1440 Rhode Island | fiela street, and Marian Ryan, won the Marion Ryan, Dorothy Yenser: Merrie Childrey and Mrs. Helen Ray Hagner. —=Star Staff Photo. | Washington and even States further away submitted posters. Eben F. Comins, Washington artist, was chair- man of the contest and judges included Alexander B. Trowbridge, Miss Ada Rainey, C. Powell Minnigerode and ‘Ward Brown. avenue; Dorothy Yaeger, 3221 Gar- first, second and third prizes of $25, $15 and $10, respectively. Their pos- ters were based on the pageant, on the internationality of the festival, and | upon the cherry blossoms of Washing- ton, during the full bloom of which the | The winning poster is to be repro- festival is planned. | duced and used for advertising purposes Marguerite Kumm, 415 Garrison road, | throughout the United States and Can- Clarendon, won honorable mention. ada, as the official poster announcing Many artists in Maryland, Virginia, ! the Pestival of the Nations. IYSTERY CLOAKS G IN ROGKES ;Ethnologist of Smithsonian| | made to determine the origin of a Institution Gets Queer Lan- guage Used in Ciwinah. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. Hidden in the depths of a mountain valley in the Southern Rockies is a strange city, inhabited from time im- memorial by a mysterious people. The city of Ciwinah, with its popu- iation of approximately 1,600, is de- scribed by Dr. John P. Harrington, thnologist of the Smithsonjan Institu- ion, as “quaint and isolated as Lhasa, he’'old Tibetan capital” And Dr. Walter Hough, veteran Smithsonian anthropologist, who visited Ciwinah many years ago, describes the adobe city isolated in a great dreamy valley, as having “more of an atmosphere of mystery about it than anything I have known.” The inhabitants are Indians of the Zuni tribe. The most curious fact is that they speak a language which is found nowhere else and which anthro- pologists in the past have tried in vain 1! t to connect with some of the other In- | It was to solve this dian languages. mystery that Dr. Harrington, one of the world's foremost experts on primi- tive American languages, visited Ciwi- nah. By meking use of the kymograph, a device by which sounds are recorded with mathematical exactness in the form of lines on sooted paper, and by comparisons with the language of nearby tribes, Dr. Harrington, he says in a report just issued by the Smith- sonian Institution, that there distinct relationship between the tongue guages of the pueblo peoples. this a connection can be traced to the general. Alphabet Mas 35 Letters. “The language.” he says, “is about as harsh and clear-sounding as German, with an alphabet of 35 letters, including the five vowels. Examples of the clean- sounding words of this language are “towayalannah,” name of the famous mesa to the south, and Honawona: wilonah, literally “Our Holder of Trails.” This last, he says, can be interpreted as either “God” or “Fate,” and is a com- mon word in the religious observances, By means of the kymograph he se- | cured the entire alphabet, the sounds | making their own pictures, and with | this as a basis wili be able fo construct |a dictionary. The city of Ciwinah, Dr. Hough ex- plains, belongf to the same general | culture as that of the pueblos. It is located in Northern New Mexico, on a branch of the Little Colorado River. While it now is only 40 miles from a railroad it is seldom visited by any one from the outside world and in the past was almost inaccessible. The great difference between it and other pueblo settlements, he says, is that it was co) structed on level ground with no tem of defenses. Yet it apparently re- Spaniards, who conquered it and con- verted the people. Native Fesf Nominally the says, are Chric and the church is the most conspicucus building in the ancient city. But a great deal of the old Zuni symbolism has been worked into the religion and native festivals still are maintained. Other efforts by Smithsonian lin- guists to rescue obscure Indian lan- guages before the last speakers die ure recorded in the same report. Leaving Ciwinah Dr. Harrington went into a wilderness of soapstone mountains nesr the Klamath River in Northern Cal fornia to study the disappearing lan- guage of the Karuk people and a few weeks afterward found the last speaker of the language of the San Juan In- | dlans, an old woman in her late eigh- ties, on her deathbed. He remained with her until she died, gathering in- formation about the language and cus- toms of her people. Also, the institution reports, a spe- Is Maintained. i surviving remnants of the languages of the Louisiana Indians. Of the speech of the Atakapa or “man-eating In- dians,” formerly spoken over a consid- erable stretch of the Gulf Coast, Dr. John R. Swanton was able to rescue old woman. Other languages, he found, had been completely lost when few years. LAVA ALARMS MEXICANS Activity Some to Move From Homes. MEXICO CITY, March 28 (#).—Ad- vices yesterday from Puebla said un- usual quantities of lava were being thrown over the sides of the crater from the volcano Popocatepetl, causing alarm among the peasants of Popocatepetl Causes is al spoken at Ciwinah and the other lan- | From | mained secure until the coming of the | ople of Ciwinah, he | cial effort has been made to rescue the | only a few words remembered by .one | the last speakers died within the past | | tion_with the development of the Capi- | | | | | | | | | i | of the Capitol between Delaware ave- MAYFLOWER HOTEL CHANGE IS SOUGHT Saving in Interest Expected 1 to Result From Financial Reorganization. e i} “MYSTERY TUNNEL” NEAR CAPITOL LIKELY SEWER Lynn Says Imagination Used in| Representing Excavation as | Civil War Vestige. ‘ David Lynn, architect of the Capitol, who with officials of the District Water Department has been having a search “mystery tunnel,” along B street north nue and North Capitol street, said to- day that “it was probably an old sewer”. end that some one has drawn heavily et on_ his imagination in representing it as having been a tunnel made by soldfers | In an effort to forestall possible fu- during the Civil War. Thus far the |ture losses in event of continued busi- District records have not disclosed the | ness depression, the Mayflower Hotel existence of any such tunnel in the | today submitted to the holders of its sever- system. It was evidently not|second mortgage bonds z plan of re- connected with any Government build- | oiganization for the hotel's financial ! structure. The principal saving, according to the announcement, will He in reduced nierest payments on the bonds. The cutstanding issue cf $2,400,000, accord- ing to an original prospectus, calls for the payment of 6% per cent interest. The proposed new issue, in like amcunt, | calls for the payment of 6 per cent in- | terest if justified by the earnings of the | property. 2. This small tunnel was discovered by workmen during excavations in connec- tol Plaza and extension of the Capitol ALEXANDRIALINE CLOSING OPPOSED Chamber of Commerce Com- Offered New Bonds. | The new plan, it was understood, | also provides for small amortization payments. Holders of the present second mort- gage bonds, under the suggested reor- ganization, are offered bonds of an qual par value of a new issue of income FOMLERHTSPLAN FORSCHOOLBOARD MNEDCALCONTROL D. C. Health Officer Opposes Kramer Plea to Shift In- spection Doctors. MURPHY WOULD HEAD SERVICE AS PROPOSED Assistant Education Superinten- dent Holds Present Staff Too Small for Task. | Dr. William ©. Fowler, District health officer, declared today he would vigor- ously oppose any movement to transfer medical service in the public schools to the jurisdiction of the Board of Educa- tion, as proposed by Stephen E. Kramer, assistant superintendent of schools. Members of the medical profession in Washington, it is said at the District Building, are opposed generally to any abolition of the present control over medical inspection which is now lodged with the Health Department. Dr. Fowler declared further it has always been his view that the Board of Education should be under the super- vision of the District Commissioners, the same as other functions of the Dis- trict government are, Plan Would Shift 50. “I would see no objection in having class room instructions on hygiene public health matters, under the supervision of the Board of Education, but the prac- tical application of the medical service certainly has no place under the direc tlon of the school authorities” Dr. Fowler said. “On that score I am in complete disagreement with Mr. Kramer.” The effect of the assistant super- intendent’s suggestion would be to place Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, chief medical inspector in the schoois, and his of 50 assistants directly under the at- thority of the Board of Education, Dr. Fowler explained, giving the Health De« partment no voice at all in the medical inspection. 5 Holds Staff Too Small. Mr: Kramer’'s suggestion that a ical staff of physicians and n established under the authority Board of Education was made | Mr. Kramer alr the elevation of ph: physical education to the rank of a major subject in the high schools of the . He urged a medical staff re- ‘e::mh};aon. “;mg“ he contended, is poss} Wi e present compara- tively small staff in the D-Dl- partment. % ALMSHOUSE BILLS KILLED BY HOUSE Maryland Body Ignores Special Plea for Western Shore | By the Associated Press. mittee Holds Public Not As- et { | bonds, to be secured by a second mert- | ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 28.—The | gage in the same principal amount 25 | House of Delegates yesterday killed two | the present issue by a new corporation | basic stock on Indian languages in|Committce on Transportation of the | Under the proposed reorganization, the | attempt to drop the service into nearby |mously nominated for membership in the night by the Federation of Civic As- sociations, of which he is president, of the council since its foundation and a | d n federation found his work so accept- | able, him withdraw his name. cumbent; J. A. G. Luvalie and William A. Joiner, Al t; da; mmsl from thetr homes. ) District that will acquire title to the property. The plan does not involve any change in the existing first mortgage issue of $7.,500,000. o A statement from the hotel read in Taking the stand that no assurance | part as follows: has been given to the public that it will | “It has been deemed advisable to be adequately cared for in the event of | CfiSCt & Teorganization at this time that 1 red v abandonment of the Mount Vernon, |y ié““.\ffie“éi‘;’,ri‘;é{,“‘;.ifi s e Alexandria & Washington Railway, the | tainty of future business conditions sured New Service. Washington Chamber of Commerce | anagement is confident that even recommended to the Board of Directors | Under the mst adverse general business of that body at @ meeting yesterday | conditions its fixed charges will be met.” that the chamber vigorously oppose any April 1 Payments Provided For. It was understood sinking fund and Virginia, | interest poyments on the existing issue, The board subsequently adopted a resolution drafted by the committee <ue April 1, have be:n provided for. urging that permission be given the| The reorganization proposcs that m- railway “to establish a new terminal at | t°rest on the new bonds be taken care some point conyenient to Governmert | Of as follows: employes and others who use this rail-| “Interest on the new bonds for each way, and that this terminal be estab- | Calendar vear ending December 31 shall lished as near as possible to, but south | e payable at the rate of not exceeding of, Pennsylvania avenue.” 6 per cent per annum on or before May 1 in each succeeding year, commencing Question of Location. with the year 1932, but only out of net The committee’s understanding was | income of new company available there- the company cperating the line con- for during such calendar yvear ending templated absndonment after being or- | December 31, as provided in trust in- dered to vacate its terminal at Twelfth | denture. After, but not before, Decem- street and Pennsylvania avenue because | Per 81, 1932, such interest on new bonds, of the Federal triangle building pro- |0 the extent unpaid; shall be cumul gram. The committee reported also it | Ve &t the rate of 4 per cent per an- felt it would be unwise to establish the | MU, but no more. new terminal for this electric line at| -Net income of new company avail- any point north of Pennsylvania avenue, | able for interest on new bonds in any Thomas P. Littlepage, chamber vice | president and general chairman of the five-year expansion program commit- tee, reported that the first week in May had been selected for the launching of the second-year membership increase drive. He reported also, as chairman of the Bicentennial Committee, on re- cent activities which resulted in the se- curing of & $60,000 talking motion pic- ture to advertise Washington and the | Bicentennial Celebration. | : 2 and the surplus, if any, remaining out Favors Library Branch. | 6fsuch net income shail be applied as The Committee on Public Libraries, | follows: Dr. Arthur Deerin Call, chairman, pre- sented a resolution, which the directors approved, urging that the District Com- miss'oners provide suitable quarters in | the new District municipal center for | a public library branch. This branch would take the form of a business and | municipal reference library such as is now provided in the municipal centers of most of the larger American citics. after the payment of operating expenses and all taxes and insurance and all respect of said first mortgage bonds or bonds issued to refund the same, and the cost of this reorganization. but be- fore depreciation, shall be applied. first, at the rate of not per annum for s thereafter to the paynent of any un- raid interest ac ted cn new bonds, Special Reserve Fund. “A—Seventy-five per cent of such s shall be payable into a sinking r ihe retirement of new bonds by purchase or by redemption by lot. “B—Twenty-five per cent of such sur- plus shall be used to establish and main- tain a special reserve fund of $150.000 to be used as provided in trust inden- Harry King, president of the cham- | ture, and any excess shall be applied to ber, presided at the meeting, which was |the pavment of additional interest (over held in the chamber offices in the |and above said interest at the rate of Homer Building. 4 per cent per annum) on new bonds for such calendar year at the rate of not exceeding 2 per centum per annum, and the balance, if any, shall be pay- | able into said sinking fund for the re- | tirement of new bonds: provided that after the principal amount of new bonds outstandi shall have been reduced to $1,600,000 the amount payable annually into said sinking fund for the retire- ment of new bonds shall not exceed $80,000, and all remaining income shall bz ‘applicable to the extent necessary to the maintenance of said reserve fund and thereafter to the payment of said additional interest on new bonds at a| rate not exceeding 2 per centum per annum for such cafendar year, and any surplus remaining out of net income may be used for general corporate pur- poses.” DR. G. H. RICHARDSON Advisory Council Member Gets Re- nomination and Refusal of Plea for Successor. Dr. George H. Richardson was unani- Citizens’ Advisory Council st | Dr. Richardson has been a member | sked to be relieved of his duties in o er to give some one else an_opportu ity to serve on the council. The civic | Potomac Park Plot Closed. Officials of the park division of the 1 Dowwies, et b Tefiied S0, 1| s of Publie Butiides: et IAi calendar year ending on December 31, | interest end sinking fund payments in; to the payment of interest on new bonds | measures which would have provided for ‘the construction of central almshouses on the Eastern and Western shore of the State, by adopting an unfavorable | report of the Ways and Means Com- | mittee. | At the same time, Delegate James I | Lindsay, jr. Baltimore County, Demo= | cratic floor Jeader and chairman of the | Ways and M:ans body, introduced & resolution calling for appointment of & continual commission to maintain in- vestizations and inspections into the ‘,\;?m\:s county institutions for the in- digent. . The only roll call came on a motion by Miss Lavinia Engle, Delegate from | | Montgomery County and sponsor of the | meesure, to substitute the bill calling | for ‘the Western Shore institution for the unfavorable report. Her defeated, 22 Lo 85 plea was 'SMOKE SCREEN CAR HALTED BY BULLET ;Pn‘nce Georges Officers Seize Two After Auto Is Caught in Ch | By a Stafl Correspondent of The Star. HYATTSVILLE, Md., March 28.—A | bullet fired through the gasoline tank of a fleeing liquor car early today brought the machine to a stop after two officers had clung to the trail of the | car through a heavy smoke screen dur- | ing a 4-mile chase from Laurel to Con- tee. Occupants of the car took to their heels, but were captured after a short {foot race by Deputy Sheriff Ralph Brown and Harry Heffner. Taken bé- fore Judge Herbert J. Moffat here the men gave their names as Julius “Reds” Foster, 1700 block Oregon avenue, Washington, and John Henry 3 also of Washington. Both are colored. Seven charges were I Foster and two egainst Thomas. cases of liquor were reported in the car. The warrants against Foster accuse him of illegal transportation and pos- session of liquor, using a smoke screen, speeding in excess of 60 miles per hour, - reckless driving, illegally operating & siren, having no registration card and having no permit. His bond was set at $3,000 and he was committed to Marlboro Jail in default. Thomas will face charges of trans- portation and possession and assisting in the use of a smoke screen. Deputy Brown declared the car had been smoking Prince Georges Countx police for the past three mondis. Zrown says the car formerly belonged to- his father-in-law. but was by & bootlegger after being over to a Washington dealer. PASSOVER SERVICES SET Jews to Observe Rites on Wednes- day and Thursday. Passover services will be obserued the Washington Hebrew = on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. The Seder service, Wednes- day evening, will be held at 6 o'clock, and the Thursday morning services at ock. “The Modern Appeal of Passover” will be the sermon Other nominees are W. H. Lewis, in- | Parks pnounced that the polo groug it Potomac Park WO be closed to ticing golfers frofd April 1 to May 1. is is neces- ,gey said, in order tii§ the ground “oval The election, which is to places, will be held next Fri- y night in the board room of the Building. topic. Friday services, to be held at 8 o'clock’ in the evening, will featured by sermon “The Passion and Play.” of feast,” We , April 8, “Are’ We Free?” will be delivered.