Evening Star Newspaper, April 13, 1931, Page 17

he Fp WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, RECORD BLOSSOM CROWD SIVES NEW | TRAFFIC RULE TEST 225,000, Including President and First Lady, View Cherry Trees. 34,240 AUTOMOBILES COUNTED IN 10 HOURS| Representative Bowman, in Per- sonal Survey, Calls Regula- tion Success. A record-breaking crowd, estimated Bt 225000, which included President and Mrs. Hoover, yesterday viewed the Japanese cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin. Members of the United States Park Police and the Metropolitan Force esti- mated that 34,240 eutomobiles crossed the inlet bridge between 9:30 am. and 7:30 pm. bowling over the previous | high record of 26,000 cars for 1929, Representative Frank L. Bowman, Re- publican, of West Virginia and Capt. R. €. Montgomery, U. S. A., superin- tendent of the U. S. Park Police, in the main pronounced the new plan for handling traffic, sponsored by Bowman, a success, but this was challenged in other quarters. The beautiful April sunshine and blue skies yesterday brought out some 50,000 persons afoot to the Tidal Basin to walk | beneath the Oriental trees, with their delicate pink blooms. Visitors From White House. The President and Mrs. Hoover paid an unheralded visit to the Tidal Basin yesterday afternoon, leaving their car and walking beneath the cherry trees. ‘The presidential party drove to the west side of the Tidal Basin and declined a park police escort. Allan Hoover and Mrs. Herbert Hoover, jr., were in the party. The President and his party crossed the river by Highway Bridg: returned by way of the Key Bridge. o serious traffic accidents were re- ported and today the traffic schedule was back to normal. Th: plan of Rep- resentative Bowman, with variations, will be put into effect next Sunday, under present plans. Complaints on the new traffic plan wers heard particularly from persons desiring to go to Virginia. Many motor- ists took exception to being sent_over the cinder roadway on the Hains Point side of the railroad when coming out of East Potomac Park, in order to get into Fourieenth street. Traffic Watched by Bowman. Representative Bowman personally sur¥=yed the ficw of traffic from a van- taze poin. on the raflroad tracks, from which elevation he could see the flow cf traffic in the park and up Fourteenth t. “There was no trouble at all for 2 out of the Potsmac Park rteonth stree!” said Mr. | e only serious trouble was | use tourisis were not nd'd\',edl the bst way to get into the | i then scuth on Fourtecnth street they cause confusion and deiay at times' where we had least expected it. I am | ing to the District officials today to | try to have that situation relieved, and feel sure that the much larger crowds this year wiil have a chance to see th: cherry blossoms without serious delay and inconvenience.” ‘Those opposed to his program, how- ever, said that he couid see the flow of traffic only from the railroad overpass and was not in first-hand tcuch with conditions elsewhere. Inspector Brown | of the Traffic Bureau co-operated in | putting the plan into effect by having | Metropolitan officers along F:urteenth | street, in the region of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. i Steady Auto Procession. | Traffic began to grow heavy about 9:30 yesterday mcrning and from then on it became a steady procession of cars around the Tidal Basin, with some 60 traffic officers endeavoring to make it move in orderly fashion, and five cars abreast drove around the speedway, during the peak of the traffic. Generally speaking, Fourteenth street, from the Highway | Bridge to near the Bureau of Engra ing and Printing, was a one-way thor- oughfare for city-bound traffic. Vir- | ginia-bound light traffic was det-ured over the park road, south of the Tidal | Basin. t® make a sharp right turn, near | the Highway Bridge entrance. | Busses of the A'exandria, Barcroft & | Washington Rapid Transit Co. were | caught in the jam for a time and the! line got 15 minutes behind schedule in | trying to buck the traffic on lower Fourteenth street. This situation, according to R. L. May, | owner of the line, was soon corrected, however, by the captain of park police at the bus owners' suggestion and the | busses were turned to the right after crossing the bridge over the Tidal Basir. After this action was taken the | busses made up the lost time and con tinued t) remain on schedule, accord ing to Mr. May. Full Bloom by Wednesday. | of the Office of Pub- al Basin, are e pected to be at their be-t about Wed- nesday of this week, and to last, with favorable weather, uniil about the end of the weck. The double blossom trees on Hain: Point, as a rule, bloom two weeks later | than the single blooms, and are ex- pected out this year about April 26,' with favorable weather. | BLACKMAIL TRIAL WAITS | Case of W. Clark Noble and Fuur; Is Postponed One Week. Trial of W. C'ark Noble and four co- | deiencants on conspiracy to blackmail | charges was pos.poned for one week by Justice Jess: C. Adkins in District Su- preme Court toca: Noble, a sculptor, was indicted with his wife, Emilie; Stephen F. Armstrong, Jr.; Anna M. Hillenbrand and James ¥. Bird, an attorney, on charges of con- spiring to blackmail Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Calhoun. The postponement today was | 8t the request of the defendants. KRAMER TO BE GUEST Charles P. Kramer, new president of | the National Federation of T:mple Brotherhcods, will be the gue-t of honor and principal speaker Wedn sday nigat | { of the District of Columbia. Top: The Washington Monument looked down upon a cheerful throng | yesterday, viewing the Japanese cherry blossoms around the Tidal Basin. Ideal Spring weather brought out the blooms in gala profusion, mirroring-them in the calm waters of the Basin. Middle: A glimpse of the crowds that walked around the Tidal Basin to get a close-up of the blossoms. President and Mrs. Hoover and their party like- wise walked beneath the Oriental trees during the day. Bottom: A view of traffic coming out of Hains Point on to Fourteenth street yesterday. Representative Frank L. Bowman, Republican, of West Virginia was on hand to watch the working of the plan he had suggested. Observers said it functioned well and cars moved smoothly. Three and four cars abreast moved along, as their occupants ob- served the cherry blossoms, with mem- bers cf the United States park police directing the movement of the heavy traffic. HEAD OF SHRINERS COMES 70 CAPITAL | Imperial Potentate to Be Guest at Large Ceremonial at Belasco Tonight. ‘The imperial potentate of the Anclent Arabic Order, Nobles of the Mystic| Shrine, on h's first official visit to the National Capital, will be the guest of Almas Temple tonight at one of the largest ceremon’als in its history. Imperial Potentate Esten A. Fletcher 'of Rochester, N. Y., arrived here yester- day and was welcomed by Robert S.| Regar, potentate of Almas Temple. Mr. Fletcher will b® the guest of honor at a dinner at 6 o'clock this evening in| the Willard Hotel. The ceremonial will | follow at 8 oclock in the Belasco | Theater. A class of 55 candidates will be initiated. | Will Visit Mexico. | He is visiting the Capital as part of | a tour to Shrine temples throughout the country and at Mexico Ci N. will leave tomorrow for - Norfolk. He also will visit temples at R.chmond and Ealtimore. ‘Tacre witl bs approximately members of the order at the tonight. Among the official delegati-ns from out of the city will be Pocentate Charles W. Galloway and 10 members of his divan from Boumi Tempie, Bal- | timore; Potentate George ¥. Eisenbrown and five members of his divan from Rajah Temple, Reading, Pa.; Potentate | Fred M. Tritle and his divan_from | Zembo Temple, Harrisburg, Pa.; Poten- | tate Clarence D. Freeman and members of his staff from Khedive Temple, Nor- folk, and Potentate Grover L. Michael and' five officers from Ali Ghan Tem- ple, Cumberland, Md. Czbinet Members to Attend. Among the guests of honor will be a number of prominent Shriners cluding Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde, Secretary cf Labor N. Doak, Walter H. Newton, secr to President Hoover; Hugh M. Tate, interstate commerce commissioner; Representative Arthur M. Free of Cali- fornia, Arch Coleman, First Assistant Postmaster General; Frederic A. Tilton Third Assistant. Postmaster General Col. C. Fred Cook, grand master of Masons in the District; John H. Cowles, grand commander of the Scottish Rit Eouthern jurisdiction; Elwood P. Mo; deputy for the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite, and Joseph Milans, grand commander, Knigits Templar of the Distriet A numbcr of past potentates of Almas Temple also will be present, mong them Edwin C. Dutton, James C. Hoyle, George B. McGinty, Roe Fulker- son, L. Whiting Estes, Harry Standiford and L. T. Stewart, present Oriental guide in the imperial divan. Arrangements for the dinner are be- ing made by Past Potentate McGinty, | who is secretary of the Interstate Com- merce Commission. The ceremonial at the theater will be conducted by past grand high priests G. A. G. WOOD IS SUED | FOR $20,000 ON DZAL Petition Says Agent Was to Get Part of $60,000 Commission Re- ceived by Gas Head. George A. G. Wood, president of the Washington Gas Light Co., was named defendant in a $20,000 suit filed in Dis- | trict Supreme Court today by Perry | Barker, Boston, fuel engineer, Who claims 'the money is due him as com- | mission on a sale of property which he helped Mr. Wood negotiate. | The plaintifl says Mr. Wood was en- | | gaged in January, 1930, in buying and | League: N. C., director of the Federal Reserve | Bank of Rickmond;, John G. Winant, | selling coal busincs: yards and | wharves on commiscion. On Januar the pelition alleg”s, Mr. Wood asked th: Boitcn man to ald in the sale of of the Brotherhood of the Washington | property in Poriland, Me.; Boston and Hebrew Congregation at th> Warhington Br Hebrew Temple, Eighth street between H and I streets. His subject will be “Man and Religion.” The program, which is to begin at 8 ‘o'clock, will include features by Al Schact, Washington ball club coach; s, P, e i ckline, Mass., owned by the Ran- | dall & McAllister Co., with an alleged | promise to pay him part of the commis- sion The deal was closed, the plain- T says, and Mr. Wood received a commission of $60,000. One-third of that amount now is sought by the Bos- ton man, who is represented by Attor- ney Charles DS PRESIDENT HEARS RECREATION PLEA Nation Must Learn to Play, Leaders Declare at White House Parley. Present needs in the field of public recreation and plans for future work were discussed at a meeting of directors of the National Recreation Association at_the White House today. The meeting also commemorated a meeting of the founders of the associa- tion in the White House on April 12, 1906, at the invitation of President Roosevelit. President Hoover personally welcomed the association officials. His administra- tion was represcnted by Secretaries Hyde, Wilbur and Adams and Assistant Secretary of War in Charge of Aero- nautics F. T:dbee Davison. Leisure for Everybody Joseph Lee of Boston, p the association, said that le everybody, & condition which is now be- ing approached in America, is the most extraordinary chance ever granted to a nation. He added that leisure means something unheard of in all history. the opportunity for every man to live. Otto Mallery, a director and _zlso president of the Philadelphia Play- ground Association, pointed out how conditicns from a recreational viewpoint | | had improved since 1906. He said in- d of being tolerated, as it was 25 rs ago, recreation is now being en- couraged and it is recognized as a mu- nicipel resonsibility The huge crime bill, the increase of diseases of the heart and nervous sys- tem under the strain of modern life, the mounting burden of insanity, the | number of children killed each year by automebiles, the annual toll of juvenile delinquency and health needs of Amer- lean childhood reported at the recent White House Conference on Child Health and Protection were cited by the association in passing a resolution stating that “a foundation for limited period endowment of not less than $10,000.000 is needed for the national recreation movement.” Cites Changes in Life. Dr, John H. Finley of New York listed the changes in life which he said are ecting recreation. He pointed to the ct that labor-saving devices and ma- chinery have shortened the labors of farmers and factory workers and that daylight saving in the cities has made it ‘easier for workers to take time for recreation. He said, further, that the tremendous power which is now being put.into man’s nands and also in the way of control over the destinies of fel- low men brings about a need for recre- ation facilities, Others who addressed the meeting were Austin E Griffiths of Seattle, Wash., justice of the Supreme Court of his State: Mrs. Edward W. Biddle of Catlisle, Pa.; G. T. Kirby of New York, president of the Public School Athletic : Robert Lassiter of Charlotte, Governor of New Hampshire, and Fred- erick 8 Titsworth of New York. s v s Bridge Party Postponed. The bridge party scheduled to be ven tomorrow by the Women's Aux- ry of the Medical Society of the District has been &)u?ened until April 27 in respect to Dr. Jobn Foote, dean of Georgetown Medical School, who CAPITAL RESIDEN KILLED IN CRASH I 'Four Others Injured When ‘ Mrs. Greenberg Dies as i Car Strikes Pole. | Mrs. Florence Greenberg, 40 old, 2619 Un and her husband, Louis Greenberg, an attorney; their son Adolph, 14, and two other residents of this city were in- jured yesterday when the automobile in which they were riding crashed into a telephone pole on the Willlamsburg Highway 8 miles from Richmond. The others injured were Mrs. W. G. , 4203 Sixteenth street, and her Milton Conn, also a lawyer, who lives at the University pl Gress. All were taken to St. Eliza Hospital, Ri where Greenberg was tr which re- quired five stitches, (Conn for cuts on the hand and Mr: for_bruises and_sho The party had been visiting relatives of the Greenbergs in Newport News and was homeward bound, with Conn driving when the accident occurred. Conn is said to have attempted to pass two automobiles which were traveling abreast in the same direction when he was forced to leave the high- way. Mrs. Greenberg died before phys- icians reached the scene of the mishap and her body was taken to a Richmond undertaking parlor. The body of M: enberg was sent to Washington this afternoon. Her hus- band ard three others hurt in the ac- years cident returned to Washington late last | night. |HOOVERS TO MEET ; MISS HELEN KELLER |Deaf and Blind Genius to Visit ‘White House With Confer- ence Delegates. ‘ Helen Keller, deaf and blind genius, who recently was chosen by a commit- tee as one of the 12 most distinguished women in America, will be received at |the White House April 22 by the Presi- | dent and Mrs, Hoover. | Miss Keller will be accompanied by delegates to the World Conference on Work for the Blind, which is holding ' | sessions in New York. The delegates, | who will represent 36 countries, include many blind persons. Miss Keller gained international fame for her achievements in establishing normal contact with the world despite | her physical handicaps. Her forthcom- |ing visit to the White House will be her third. She enjoyed the acquaint- |ance and friendship of four Presidents | —Cleveland, Wilson, Roosevelt and 1 Coolidge—but has never met President | Hoover. S GAIN | Collections of taxes in Washington during March amounted 10 $4,445,404.09, as compared with $4,383,50440 in | March, 1930, acording to Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers. Of the collections, real estate taxes 2,991,954.97; nal ta le Tropasty’ s, “gua&’?f mmm& " Snd wateb renits, $125,637.36, MONDAY, ersity p.ace, was killed | Meiman and Adolph | APRIL 13, TWO WOMEN HURT . INTRAFFIC, ONE'S GONDITION GRAVE Mme. Van Royen, Wife of Holland Minister, Escapes Serious Injury by Auto. MRS. MARY BARBEE HAS SKULL FRACTURE Treasury Employe, in Second Acci- dent, Occurs on Way to Hospital. Two women were knocked down by automobiles in the last 24 hours on the city streets. Mme. J. J. Van Royen, wife of the Minister from the Nethérlands, who was not seriously injured, and Mrs. Mary Barbee, wife of W. J. Barbee, for- mer detective of the police force, who is in Gerfleld Hospital “in a very crit- ical condition.” Mme., Royen was Injured when knocked down yesterday by an automo- bile while crossing the street in front of the legation building, Fifteenth and Euclid streets. She was treated by a private physi- The automobile was driven by s Ethel Mayhew, 19, of 832 Eleventh street northeast. Miss Mayhew was not arrested. Mrs, Barbee, 57, of 2000 Sixteenth street, figured in two strange accidents this morning within a short time. She was struck and seriously injured by a sing automobile into which she ac- streets, and a few minutes later the automobile in which she was being rushed to the hospital struck a car a Fifteenth and U streets while trying to cross the intersection on a red light. Suffers Skull Fracture. Mrs. Barbee is suffering a fractured skull, deep lacerations of the head and face, compound fracture of the left arm and extensive mutilation of the left side of her body. She had left her residence, in the Balfour Apartment, nearby, shortly aft- er 8:30 and, according to witnesses, started to rush across U street to catch a waiting street car, whep she ran into the side of an automobilé moving west- ward on U street, which sideswiped her. The automobile was driven by William F. Robinson, 29, colored, of 2724 Eleventh street, chauffeur for Al- fred P. Thom, general counsel of the Association of Railway Executives. The car was occupied also by Mary Tucker, colored, who is also employed by the Thom family. Robinson, the driver, is held at No. 8 precinct station pending | outcome of Mrs. Barbee's injuries. Mrs. Barbee struck the side of the | door. This handle hurled her to the | street. | ""Picked up and placed in another au- | tomobile, driven by Charles Henry Boyd, unconscious woman figured in the sec- ond accident, only a block away, when the speeding car in which she was being rushed to Garfield Hospital struck the |rear of a large car at Fifteenth and U streets. This latter car, driven by Zach- ariah R. Lloyd, 48 years old, 2618 Uni- versity place, and occupied also by his wife, was almost turned over in the col- lision. Mrs. Lloyd suffered a sprained J{ICK and was treated by the family phy- sician. ‘The car in which Mrs. Barbee was being taken to the hospital attempted to cross the intersection against a red light, with the driver claimirg he was blowing his hom continually. Lloyd claimed he did not hear the horn and had the green light himself, Employe of Treasury. Reaching the hospital, Mrs. Barbee was trested by Dr. W. N. McFawl. At noon she was still pronounced to be in a “very critical condition.” Mrs. Barbee was on her way to work in the Treasury Department, where she is employed, when the accident hap- pened. The place where she started to cross the street was about 100 feet west of the intersection and she was leaving the north curb. Witnesses sald Mrs. Barbee came out between two automobiles parked along- side the U-street curb. Mrs. George M. Grier, house manager of the Balfour, said she saw the accident, and esti- mated that the driver of the passing car l;\'as moving at a moderate rate of sped. Robinson, the driver of the car, said he was going westward on U street and had just crossed the intersection on a green light when suddenly he saw Mrs. Barbee run out between two cars on his right and strike his car. He stopped immediately and waited until he was taken to No. 8 precinct station by Policemen E. L. Taylor and O. L. Green in a police radio car from No. 10, the first to respond to a call. Robinson estimated he was driving not to exceed 20 miles an hour when the accident occurred. The side of his car, parked at No. 8 precinct station, bore evidence of where Mrs. Barbee had struck, Mr. Barbee, who is now house de- tective for the Hecht Co., and Miss Olive Barbee, their daughier, who is employed in _the playgrounds depart- ment of the District of Columbia, were at home when the accident happened. MARLBORO SHERIFF TQ QUESTION YOUTHS Men Who Saw Bank Robbers to Try to Identify Suspects in Alexandria. Sherifft W. Curtis Hopkins of Prince Georges County today planned to question two youths who were arrested in Alexandria a few hours after the attempted hold-up of the First Na- tional Bank at Upper Marlboro, ‘Three men who pulled the robbers’ automobile from a ditch near Browns Station the day before the attempted robbery, will be taken to Alexandria, where they will make an effort to identify the young men. The youths, Robert Hood, 21, Clar- mont, Okla, and Russell Beam, 20, Chattanooga, Tenn., were arrested on suspicion by Patrolman Earl Watkins of Alexandria. Hood, according to Watkins, was carry'ng a new .44 caliber revolver, a quantity of ammunition and a black- jack. He was fined $100 and sentenced 1o 30 days in jail, are Elon Turner, Harry Fenno. Joseph Hood and Beam George Wyvill and They identified Ji of the robbers, who was shot in & pistol duel with Claude .{‘m assistant cashier of the bank, 1931. pa cidentally ran near Sixteenth and U | automobile near the handle to the coach | colored, of 1930 Fourteenth street, the | The men who will attempt to Iflentuy; s | back, Board of Supervisors. Hayes, leader | ta L& d | Yeggs Escape With $500 MEAT CLEAVERS US| SAFE in the Herald Square Inn, | 1303 H street, was broken open | lust night by yeggmen, who es- | caped with approximately $500. | ‘The robbery was discovered this morning when Bruce Blackston, colored | chef, reported for work. | Blackston found the safe had been | carried from the front of the restaurant | to the kitchen, where a saw, several meat cleavers and'a hammer were used in opening it. The door was removed from its hinges and papers contained ED TO OPEN SAFE. in the safe were scattered about the floor. Blackston notified police, who found the robbers had gained entrance to the lunch room by forcing a rear door. George Sachlis, manager, said the ex- act amount of money obtained would not be known until a check-up had been made, He estimated the loss at about $500, however. In the photograph George C. Lambros, proptietor of the restaurant, is shown beside the safe. TRADE BOARD PKS LEADERS THI WEEK | Reorganization Meeting to| Be Held by New Board After Election Thursday. Leadership of the Washington Board of Trade will pass to a new group of officers and directors this week, follow- ing election of 10 new members of the board of directors at the annual meet- ing of the trade body Thursday evening at the Willard Hotel. ‘The new board subsequently will hold a reorganization meeting at which offi- cers for the ensuing year will be elected. A special feature of Thursday’s meef ing wiil be consideration of the move- ment to advertise Washington nationally as a tourist and residence center, under plans being directed by the Greater | National Capital Committee. State Officials to Speak. Honor guests who will address the board include Gov. John Garland Pol- lard of Virginia, Gov. William G. Con- ley of West Virginia and David C. Winebrenner, Maryland secretary of State. Officials of the three neighbor- ing States have pledged co-operation in the Greater National Capital Com- mittee program which includes plans | to advertiss the historic points of in-| terests to be found in this vicinity. | Thirteen Board of ‘Trade members | have been nominated for the 10 va- cancies on the Board of Directors. They are Robert V. Fleming, president of | Riggs Naticnal Bank; Lloyd B. Wilson, president, Chesapeake & Potomac Tel- ephone Co.; E. C. Graham, president, National Electric Supply Co.; John Saul | of the B. F. Saul Co.; Joseph A. Burk- art, attorney; E. J. Murphy, president | of E. J. Murphy Co.; George B. Far- quahar, insurance; Charles W. Morris, real estate; John H. Hanna, president Capital Traction Co.; Stephen E. Kra- mer, assistant superintandent of pub- lic schools; David M. Lea, insurance: | Radford Moses, president W. B. Moses & Sons, and Jerome F. Barnard, at- torney. | Board to Elect Officers. ‘The new board of directors will elect | officers a few days after the Thursday | meeting. Present officers are: George | Plitt, president; George W. Offutt, first vice president; Ben T. Webster, second vice president; Charles W. Morris, sec- retary; Robert J. Cottrell, executive secretary; J. Hafry Cunningkam, treas- urer; Frank P, Leetch, assistant treas- urer; E. O. Brandenburg, general Killed in Cras A. BERNARD ENGLAND. DRIVER LOSES LIFE AS CAR OVERTURNS A. B. England Is Believed to Have Fallen Asleep at Wheel. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., April 13— | Thought by police to have fallen asleep while driving, A. Bernard England, 616 Jomerset place, Washington, was fatally injured early yesterday morning when his automobile left the road and over- turned on Georgia avenue extended a mile north cf the District of Columbia Line. Md. The exact time of the accident is not known, but he was found lying be- side the road unconscious shortly be- fcre 5 o'clock. Taken to Walter Reed. Police say the wheel marks indicate that the car left the road, ran up an embankment and back again to the road before overturning. counsel, and Frank R. Strunk, sergeant- at-arms. The Membership Committee of the board will hold its last report meeting | ! of the past year at a dinner meeting Wednesday evening at the Hotel Conti- nental, under the chairmanship of Jerome F. Barnard. | The Greater National Capital Cam- paign Fund Committee, headed by Mr.l‘ { Fleming, will meet at noon Friday for Teports from solicitation groups on money raised to promote the program. A minimum budget of $55,000 is sought. BOARD OF APPRAISAL TO DISCUSS PARKWAY ‘Washington Memorial Road Land Along Potomac in Virginia Will Be Negotiated. | Negotiations for establishment of the George Washington Memorial ®arkway along the shore of the Potomac River | in Virginia, from Great Falls to the | vicinity of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, will be discussed Wednesday by the board of appraisal, acting in co-operation with Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d., executive officer of the Na- | tional Capital Park and Planning Com- mission, Capt. E. N. Chisolm, jr. the com- mission’s engineer, who is chairman of the board of appraisal, announced today that organization would meet at 10 o'clock Wednesdey in room 1621, Nnvy‘ Building, Seventeenth street and Con- | stitution avenue. Matters pertaining to | Virginia properties desired as park lands | will be discussed in executive session. Serving with Capt. Chisolm on the Board of Appraisal are Earl W. Saum of Bergundy Farm, Va., representing Fairfax County, and Keith A. Brum. iting the Arlington %ounty ud, appraisal engineer of the National Capital Park Commis- s cooperaiing Wiih the slon, assessing England was taken to Walter Reed Hospital by Corpl. George Windham of the Montgcmery County police and Constable Lee Jones of Silver Spring. He arrived about 5 o'clock and was pro- nounced dead half an hour later by Lieut. Ralph Plew. His skull was frac- tured. ‘ He was identified by his brother, Howard T. England, and his brother- in-law, Thomas W. Higgins. Inquest Held Unnecessary. Police comrhunicated yesterday with State's Attcrney Stedman Prescott, who said it would not be necessary to hold an_inquest. Mr. England was sales manager for the Diplomat Coffee Co. of Silver Spring. He is survived by his brother and four sisters, Mrs. Courtney Poole, Mrs. Thomas W. Higgins, Mrs. G. C. Hinck- ley and Miss W. G. England, all of ‘Washington. TRAFFIC COURT PLANS WILL BE DISCUSSED U. 8. 1 “~way Committee to Get Aid of Interested Groups on Form of Agreement on Survey. ‘The proposed traffic count in the Washington metropolitan area will be discussed tomorrow afternoon by the Highway Committee functioning under the auspices of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Interested District, Virginia and Mary- land groups will help dztermine the form of agreement to be reached in order to push the $40,000 traffic survey to com- pletion, and each will be advised of the advantages to be secured from this pro- gram. Charles W. Eliot, 2d, the commission’s director of pia ay the pro- de in an board in | and Virginia, He was said by relatives to have been | returning frcm a dance at Glenwood, | ening Sfap | [ oo vewr ] PAGE B—1 REPORT ON OWNERS OF GAS COMPANIES 1S SENT T0 BRIDE Department of Justice Turns Data Over to Corporation Counsel’s Office. COMMISSION WILL GET STATEMENT AFTER STUDY District’s Legal Adviser, Ill, Ex- pects to Examine Findings on Eeturn Wednesday. The Department of Justice report on the ownership of' the Washington Gas Light Co. arrived at the District Build- ing today, and will be studied Wednes- day by Corporation Counsel William W. Bride, who has been on sick leave. He spent but a few hours at his desk today. | He will be back “officially” on Wednes= day, when the report will be opened and examined. Then the information, as- suming that the Department of Justice secured any, will be turned over to the Public Utilities Commission. The commission wants the informa- tion to decide whether there was any violation of law in the reported acqui- sition of a controlling interest in the local gas”company by the A. E. Peirce interests of Chicago. It asked Mr. Bride to make an investigation, and he in turn asked the Department of Justice. Second Ownership Probe. This is the second such investigation to be made since the ownership of the gas company passed out of local hands two years ago. The first showed thai the Seaboard Investment Trust, a Massachusetts common-law trust, had been set up and that the stock of the ?l-l company had been transferred to t in order to avoid the words of the statute providing for drastic penalties in case of the sale of interests in local ::x’!!l“y corporations to foreign “corpera- lons.” The matter was taken to court, and the court ruled that a trust was not a corporaticn within the meaning of the act and held the sale valid. Denied by Peirce. More recently news reached Washing- ton that the name of the Seaboard In- vestment Trust had been changed to the Washington & Suburban Cos. and that.Mr. Peirce had, by exercising an option purchased at the time of the mLhn of t.heogeh-board trust, ni among other properties, of the ‘Washington Gas Light Co. As to this there has been much cone firming and denying on the part of Mz, { Peirce and his corporate associates, ana the Department of Justice probe was made in an effort to find out just what happened. DEWEY WILL PLEA FILED BY M’LEAN “Statutes of Descent” Testament Would Be Probated by Nephew. Edward B. McLean, Washington pub- lisher, who is seeking one-half of the $750,000 estate of his aunt, Mrs. Mil- dred McLean Dewey, widow of Admiral George Dewey, asked the District Su- preme Court today ¢o admit to probate another of the five wills of Mrs. Dewey which have been filed for probate. Mrs. Dewey died here February 21. Mr. McLean has not taken sides in the controversy over the latest dated will of the admiral's widow, which is being contested by George Goodwin Dewey of Chicago, only son of Admiral Dewey. The will which the nephew seeks to have probated was executed April 22, 1925, and directs the distribution of the estate “in accordance with the statutes of *descent and distribuf in force in the District of Columbis Mr. McLean is the nearest living rela- tive of Mrs. Dewey and would be en- titled to at least one-half of the estate. The other next of kin is, Frederick Mc~ Lean Bugher, a son of another nephew. As no executor is named in the will which Mr. McLean seeks to have pro- bated, he has asked the court to name the National Savings & Trust Co. or the Riggs National Bank as adminis- trator with the will annexed. Under the latest dated will of Mrs, Dewey, one-third of the residue is given to Frederick McLean Bugher and no disposition is made of the remaining two-thirds, the widow declaring that she intended later to provide for that distri- bution. Since she died without making such provision, she is regarded as dying intestate as to that much of the estate, which would be distributed between Mr. McLean and Mr. Bugher. HERBERT S. BERLINER WITHDRAWS CAVEAT Inventor’s $1,500,000 Will Admit- ted to Probate as Son and Other Heirs Agree. Herbert S. Berliner of Montreal, pres- ident of the Compo Co., today withdrew before Justice James M., Proctor of the District Supreme Court a caveat which he had filed to the probate of the will of his father, Emile Berliner, inventor of the gramophone and loose-contact telephone transmitter, ‘The elder Berliner died August 8, 1929, leaving an estate valued at $1,500,~ w. !lnfl:c‘lstm"' dl}ed July 15, 1929, exclug son from participation in the estate. e ‘The will read: “Having given to Her- bert S. Berliner special advantages dur- ing my lifetime by means of which he was able to accumulate a large sum, I now exclude him.” ‘Through Attorneys Wilton J. Lam- bert, Alvin L. Newmyer and Charles S. Baker, the son contested the will, a comj ise was effected with other heirs and exefllku".d the ane