Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1931, Page 17

- WASHINGTON The Sunty Stae ‘WASHINGTON, DULANEY T0' FAGE JURY SECOND TIME FORSHOTING HUFF Father of Man He Killed Sub- mits New Evidence to District Attorney. FIRST PROBE RESULTED IN REFUSAL TO INDICT| Slayer and Wife, Reconciled, Sur- prised at Rover's Decision to Reopen Case. Although one grand jury upheld the “unwritten law” by exonerating Hurtha I. Dulaney, 34, in the slaying of Willilam L. Huff, 25, whom he accused of “trying to break up” his home, another grand Jury will be asked to indict him. The announcement that Dulaney, the | father of four children, will have to make another fight to retain his free- | dom was made last night by United States Attorncy Leo A. Rover. | It came as a surprise to both Dulaney and his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Dulaney, 25. who now live with her parents, Mr. and | Mrs. Edward Johnson, at 1933 L strect | northeast. Believed Husband Right. “I don't see why they don't leave Hurtha alone,” Mrs. Dulaney declarad. “T've always felt he did the right thing. and the grand jury must have thought | 50, too, or they wouldn't have refused to | pe indict him. “We moved here to forget the past ! and start life all over again. We told | only our most intimate friends where ‘we were going, because. we wanted to be left alone, to live’ our own lives and | try to find happiness. | “And now the whole thing has to be revived again, after we had thought it was settled once and for all.” Father Not Worried. Mrs. Dulaney's mother, Mrs. Madeline Johnson, expressed herself similarly, as did her father. “I'm not worried. though,” Johnson ssserted. “I'll spend my last dollar to defend that boy, bacause I'm sure he did only what any other red-blooded man would have done under the same circumstances. I don’t see how any judge or jury could do anything but acquit him.” As for Dulaney, he declined to make any statement, explaining he had been advised not to do so by his attorney, Jemes A. O'Shea. Rover decided to submit the case to the present grand jury, he said, after Albert A. Huff of Hume Spring. Va. gave him “new information” concern- | ing "hf slaying and the events leading | up to it. | Huff was shot when Dulaney returned | to his home at 1317 H street northeast | unexpsetedly” and iflund the Virginian | on his wifes. cee | Calléd Police Statien. Dulaney, a street car conductor. al- ready had telephoned the ninth pre- cinct police station an I in be sent to his home, explain- ‘There’s a man in my house, t. His wife and Huff ‘were in the bed room. later told police, and the intruder was frantically trying to open the rear door.. A crib, in which Dulaney's youngest child was asleep. stood between Huff and the docr, how- | ever, and he whirled to face the irate | husband. Wife Admits Intimacy. Dulaney later explained he thcught)| Huff was about to attack him. At any rate, he ran to the bed, reachsd be- neath the rhattress, pulled out a re- volver and shot his rival, who died a short time later at Casualty Hospital. At an inquest conducted by Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt, Mrs. Dulaney pre- sented a writien statement in which she admitted ha Huff and sou; g been intimate with to shoulder the vlame for the shootinz. Nevertheless, the corener's jury held Dulaney for the action of the grand jury. t body returncd an ignoramus however, and Dulaney was released. He rejoined his wife at her parents’ home at 1204 H street northeast and an- nouced that “all is forgiven.” They left the H street address a few days later, moving to their present residence. At the time the grand jury freed Dulaney the dead man's father de-| clared he was nct satisfied vith the outcome of the case and would make ' another effort tc have it taken into; court. | MANY ORDERS RECEIVED FOR SEATS AT BENEFIT! Greater Capital Will Get Proceeds From ‘“‘Death Takes a Holiday" May 3. Although the scat sale does not start until tomorrow, orders arc pouring in for the performance of “Death Takes a Holiday” at the National Theater on the night of May 3, when the proceeds will go to the fund of the Greater Na- | tional Capital Committee of the Board of Trade. | Committee B Bertram Kelsey, EING kidnaped is a pretty good to become a hero in the eyes of one's playmates, Ber- tram Kelsey, jr.. 10, learned yes- terday. and isn't particularly dangerous, either, if the abduction hap- ns to be an imaginary on>. And " Bertram's kidnaping was that kind. He and several other children were. playing in Rock Creek Park when they encountered a colored man crouched in the trunk of a hollow tree. The youngsters fled and when they reached the neighborhood in which| they live they found Bertram wasn't| among them. Russell Sirlouis, whose home is at 1438 Meridian place, the Imaginary Kidnaping T!lfills BERTRAM KELSEY, JR., MERELY RAN AWAY, HE TELLS POLICE. —Star Staff Photo. same apartment house in which Ber- tram lives, spread the alarm. As_policemen were preparing to arch for the kidnaper, Bertram ar- rived home. naped.” he declared a told of the conclusio playmates, b:zing athletically , Jr, in center. Nevertheless, the children crowded around Bertram and insisted that he| tell of his fight from the colored man over and over again. The fact they, too. had fled didn't make him any less a hero. After all, he had done his running single-handed—or, to be more accurate, single-footed! DISTRICT BUDGET WILL BE LIMITED Same Income Basis to Be Used for 1933 Fiscal Year as Was Set-Up for 1932, ‘ Actual preparajion of the District’ dget for the 1933 fiscal year. it was announced yesterday. , will . nat, ,begin until after May 1. because of deiay of mates of needed appropriations. Notice zent cut scveral months ago and budget officer, directed submission tA( departmental estimates by April 25. ments had complied with the order. the estimates are expected to that date, too, the auditor expects to have show estimated revenue available in the 1933 fiscal year—infor- | mation vitally necessary to the Com- missioners for determinaticn of the size of the budget. Already the Commissioners have let it become known that the budget will | be limited to prospective revenues from the taxes on real and personal property and other sources, so as to preclude an increase in the ‘tax levy. The budget. it was said, will be predicated on a $1.70 tax rate, and a Federal contribu- tion of $9,500,000—the same set-up used in the 1932 budget. JEWELERS TO ATTEND WILMINGTON MEETIN Capital Delegation to Regional Convention Is Expected to Number 100. Approximately 100 local jewelers arc to attend the seventeenth annual con- vention of the Maryland, Delaware and | District of Columbia Jewelers' Associa- tion, in the du Pont-Blltmore Hotel, | Wilmington, Del., May 3, 4 and 5, it is 2nncunced. The local delegation will be headed by Arthur J. Sundlum, president of the asscciation. The opening day will be giver over to registratiop of members, a reception, addresses and a program of entertainment, the latter to include strumental and vocal music. The open- ing business session will be held Mon- diy morning, May .4, when delegates wi' be welcomed in an address by Charles M. Banks, president of the Wil- mington Jewelers™ Association. A discussion of retail distribution will h: held at the meeting, led by John Guernsty, in charge of retail distribu- | cepted on behalf of RETIREMENT UP T0PER DIEM FORGE Must Make Up Back Install- ments to Receive Full Benefits. Per diem employes of the District who wish to credit for approxi- ately ‘10 yea: t'service, between Au- | | department heads in submitting esti- | gust, 1920, and January 1, 1831, in con- | nection with calculating their retire-} ment pay, will be compelled to pay in Tal d. asked that a | by Maj. Daniel J. Denovan, auditor | cash a sum equivalent to the retirement deductions from the pay of regular an- nual employes during those years, plus 4 per cent_interest compounded semi- annually, District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan ruled yesterday. ‘This was in accord with the situation uugnvimuly understood at the District Building, but the ruling was made spe- cifically in reference to employes of the District’s garbage reduction plant at Cherry Hill, Va. They had appealed for relief to Senator Carter Glass, Dem- ocrat of Virginia. During the interval between the two dates mentioned, per diem employes did not receive the same retirement benefits as the regular salaried em- ployes, and consequentiy no retirement deductions were made from their pay. Later by act of Congress, followed by a regulation of the District Commis- sioners effective last January 1, the per diem employes were made eligible. “It will be noted from the foregoing section,” Mr. Donovan wrote, “that should ‘per diem employes not purchase credit for the service between August 1, 1920, and January 1, 1931, they ca not receive credit for any service ren- dered within that period. but failure to se credit for that period does not e the emp'oyes of credit for any ervi rendered prior to August 1 1 DAUGHTERS OF 1812 CONVENE HERE TODAY District Society to Unveil Cathe- dral Tablet to Memory of Francis Scott Key. Unvelling of a memorial tablet to Prancis Scott Key by the District of Columbia Society of the United States Daughters of 1812, in Washington Cathedral, Mount St. Alban, at 5 o'clock this afternoon, will mark the opening of a four-day meeting of the organiza- tion, to be held at the Willard' Hotel. The tablet will be presented by the | president of the District of Columbia Soclety, Mrs. Mary' Logan Tucker, daughter of the late Maj. Gen. John A. Logan, Civil War hero, and will be ac- the ~Cathedral Chapter by Bishop James E. Freeman. The history of Francis Scott Ki The fund—as is known—is to be|tion study for the Bureau of the Cen- author of “The Star Spangled Banner.” used to popularize the Capital zus. The final business session is to be will be the subject of an address by his The theater is heing donated and | featured by election of officers, reports A great-grandson, Maj. Francis Scott Key employes there are giving their services. | The Board of Trade is urging its members to make reservations as early | and sightseeing has been arranged for | Daughters of 1812, also will speak. The | as possiblc DOUBLE Later Variety at Hains Point Coming Out as Single | BLOSSOMS TO ATTRACT VISITORS TO EAST POTOMAC PARK 16 adoption of resolutions. A special program of entertainment ladies attending the convention. Cherry Blooms Disappear. Smith, Mrs. Samuel Z. Shope, presi- dent national of the United States office of dedication will be read by Bishop Freeman, assisted by Rev. Dr. G. Freeland Peter, canon and chancellor of the cathedral. The Key tablet, designed by Phillip H. Frohman, resident architect of Washington Cathedral, is situated necar the memorial tablet to Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, unveiled last week by the Dames of the Loyal Legion. The opening meeting of the conven- | tion will be held in the small ball room |at the Willard. Tomorrow afternoon | the delegates are to attend a 4 o'clock | tea in the Washington headquarters of the soclety. At 5 o'clock they are to With the famous Japanese cherry|ably will be the most popular with be recelved at the White House by blossoms at the Tidal Basin blasted into another year's oblivion by cold winds and ‘“old age” Washington and its ests tcday may enjoy a glimpse of uty yet to come in the “double blossoms” on the Hains Point Speed- way. '{'ht Park Police, who have become the custodians of the National Capital's annual twin display cf cherry blos- soms, sald last night that the “double” blossoms are about “half way out.” A few of these trees, located far down near the point of the peninsula, be- tween the Potomac River and Wash- ington Channel, however, have man- to squeeze out into nearly full ahead of their fellows furthe Wl e, ana e o loom r | | moterists today. | While the Tidal Basin blossoms, | which are of the £o-called “single” -va- ir\cw. are the best known, some per- sons prefer the “double” blossoms of East Potcmac Park. These accommo- | datingly are full blown normally about two weeks later than those at the Basin_ and are possessed of a deeper _hue of pink. They are found bordering | the road of the speedway frcm & point just south of the Highway Bridge, | where the long haul around Hains {Point begins. virtually all the way to the tea house. | It the weather is warm enough and | strong winds and late frosts arc lack- |ing the “double blossoms’ will afford | about two weeks of forif et | President and Mrs. Hoover. COLORED MAN HURT Hit-Run Victim When Found Beside Road. Struck by a hit-and-run motorist on Rockville pike, near Halpine, Md. | about 11 o'clock last night, R. Dorsey, colored, 35 years old, was critically in- jured. He was found lying beside the road | Thought the ambulance of Warner Pumphrey. Rockville undertaker. uuuwm»unugugm_ e and was taken to Emergency Hospital in | inches tall. He was unablc last seen she was wea 0, O, BALLO PROPOSES SCHIOL CRPPLE Advisory Committee Told Joining of Institutions Would Be Benefit. TALBOT FOR PLAN, BUT FACILITIES LACKING $500,000 Would Enable Children's Hospital tc Perform Dual Service, He Says. Incorporation of the present schools ifor crippled children with the Chil- dren's Hospital *and the resultant I major emphasis being placed on medi- cal care rather than education was recommended by Dr. Frank W. Ballou. superinterident of schools, at the meet- ing yesterday of the Advisory Commit- tee on the future status of the schools for cripples. ‘While this suggestion was concurred in by Dr. John Allen Talbot, the Chil- dren's Hospital representative on the committee, he pointed out that Chil- dren’s Hospital at present lacks even adequate facilities for the demands made upon it and that greatly in- creased facilities would have to be pro- 7| vided if the proposed incorporation of the two institutions is carried out. Al though definite figures on the cost of the establishment of the crippled chil- | dren’s schools at Children’s Hospital mentioned in the meeting as an ap- proximate cost of setting up the medi- cal equipment necessary for the estab- lishment of achools at the hospital. Talbot sannounced that ii *$500.000 can be l]grflprmcd for such facilities and the District Board of Education the educational program for the crip. pled youngsters, Children’s p: would ~ willingly ' undertake to oper:t: the dual institution. No Final Decision Reached. No final decision was reached, but another meeting of the committze, and its last of the current year, was set for some time next month. Although there was no difference of opinion in the session on the kind of service the crippled children should receive, thcre was a lack of unanimity on the ad- ministration of such an institution. There seemed no definite agreement that the schools for crippled children rhall remain under the complete juris- diction of the school board, whether it should be transferred entirely to Children’s Hospital or whether the jurisdiction be shared by both agencics. Dr. Harry A. Ong, medical inspector who investigated the crippled children's schools, recommended that the stigma cf the word “cripple” should be clim- inated from the identification accorded the schools for these unfortunate pu- pils. Dr. Ong declared further tkat the present system of assigning crip- pled children to these special schools is inadequate since a child is admitted solely on the opinion of a medical in- spector. He recommended that chil- dren be admitted cnly a heir cases have been studied by a committce which, he suggested, should include not only medical men but educators who would be in a professional position to decide whether the child's mental capacity was such that he could te educated. Question of Chief Need. In his address to the commitice, Dr. Ballou said the crux cf the problem schools was whether the chief problem was medical or educational. He vas of the opinfon it was the form “L believ Dr. Ballou said, “that the reeds of these crippled children are uine-tenths medical, and if we in tne schools are to attempt -0 mect that need we must have a fine new buliding with all the mrdical equipment net sary t» provide the treatment demanded For that reason I belive furt that these schools should be 0C| the hospital, whese dupli pensive medical facilities would not be necessary and where we cf the schools could send teachers.” Dr. Ballou added tnat the school bzard had been unable to approve more than one-tenth of the recommendations which Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, scho medical inspector of the Health De- with 1 pa the crippled schools. LISBON GREE"i'S WALES Princes to Take Plane at Bordeaux for Paris and Will Fly to London. By the Associated Press. LISBON, Portugal, April 25—Home- ward bound from South America, the Prince of Wales and his brother, George, spent this day here on the way to Bordeaux, whence they will fly to Paris and home. The steamer Arlanza slipped into the Tagus early in the morning under a British naval escort. The guns of Fort Sao Juliao thundered a royal salute and the army airplanes roared over- head, but the princes slept through it. for they had gone to bed late the night before. Before noon they came ashore, re- viewed the assembled troops and began a slow motor trip through lanes of cheering men and women to the presi- dentlal palace. The heir wore the uni- form of a British admiral and his brother that of a naval licutenant. President Carmona, receiving them in the Golden Salon, invested the princes with the Order of Avis and received the Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire. Early tomorrow the brothers will board the British cruiser Kent for Bordeaux. MISSING GIRL SOUGHT Minna Pohlig, 14, From Home Thursday. Missing from her home since Thurs- day afternoon, Minna Pohlig, 14-year- old junior high school student of 907 First street, was being sought by police in a city-wide search yesterday. The girl's parents told police she left ‘Thursday to “take a walk” and has not been heard from since. Relatives were :nable to assign any motive for her disappearance. Minna is described as being 5 feet 5 She weighs 112 pounds and has blue eyes and dark hair. When w a tan dress, b Disappeared tan shoes and & SUNDAY HOSPITAL CARE OF | have not been compiled, $500,000 was | will send visiting teachers to provide| involviag the crippled children of the tion of ex-| rtment, had made for equipment in| ON HOMEWARD TRIP MORNING, APRIL GENERAL NEWS 26, 1931. *» PAGE B—1 WORLD SCIENGE CENTERS INTEREST IND. G. THIS WEEK ENalional Academy and Ameri- can Physical Society Among Meeting Bodies. GRANDSON OF DARWIN WILL PRESENT PAPER Programs Under Health Service Auspices of Wide Range and Importance. | Washington will be the center of the | world of science this week, with the annual Spring meetings of the National | Academy of Sciences, the American | Physical ~ Soclety, the Geophysical {Union, the American Meteorological Society and the joint meeting of Amer- jcan and Canadian health officers under auspices of the Publié Health Service. Among those who will take part in the program of the National Academy, whose meetings start today, is C. G. Darwin, grandson of Charles Darwin, who will present a paper on “Examples jof. the Principle of Uncertainty.” | The sessions tomorrow will be devoted to physical, ehemical and astronomical ! papers. Prof. Henry Norris Russell of | Princeton University will speak on { molecules in the atmosphere of the sun {and Morris K. Jessup of the University | of 3,000 hitherto unknown double stars |in “the Southern hemisphere. Gen. George O. Squire, former chief of the Signal Corps, will present suggestions for the further development of the telephone system of the United States. Paper on Atmosphere. Among the outstanding papers on orrow's program are_those on “The phere,” by E. O. Hulburt of the Naval { Laboratory, and “The Reaction of the | Human Skin to Ultra-violet Radiation,” | by Dr. W. W. Coblentz of the Burean {of Standards. Tomorrow night there | will be a lecture by Prof. James H. | Breasted of the University of Chicago {on “The Rise of Man and Modern Re- | search.” { program_for _Tuesday is the paper by Wilder D. Bancroft and G. Holmes Richter of Cornell University on “The Colicid Chemistry of Insanity,” pre- senting a new view on the bio-chemical normalities. The experimental was a National Academy projec Other speakers on Tuesday's pro- | found, gram are Dr. John C. Merriam. presi- | ymotorists are continuing to violate the deny of the Carnegie Institution of Washington: Dr. Henry Fairchild Os- born of the Museum of Natural History, | | | | Coast and Geodetic Survey: Dr. W. T. Swingle of the Agriculture Department, and Drs. Albert F. Blakeslee and Fran- cis G. Benedict of the Carnegie Insti- tution. Among the more notable papers will be that of Dr. E. V. Mc- Collum of Johns Hopkins University, who will make a public announcement before a scientific body for the first time of the apparent extinction of mother love by a deprivation of the clement manganese in the diet of rats. Geophysical Union Meeting. The meetings of the Geophysical Union will start Thursday with the chief interest focussed in plans for the international polar year in 1932 when practically all the principal nations of the world will co-operate In an inten- sive program of polar research. The meetings will be held in seven sections —geodesy, meteorology, volcanology, oceanography, seismology, hydrology and terrestial magnetism, Among the more important an- nouncements to be made are that of Dr. Paul R. Heyl of the Bureau of Standards on the determination of the constant of gravity at Washington. At the same time, the American Physical Society will open a three-day mecting at the Bureau of Standards with numerous papers on the structure of matter, the nature of cosmic and other radiation, and conditions in the upper atmcsphere Among _the noteworthy i | { i topics to | effects on health of the food depriva- | tion and unsanitary conditions caused through a large section of the country by the 1930 drought. | FIREMEN TO UNDERGO TESTS FOR PROMOTION | Members of Department Notified to File Civil Service Appli- cations. Members of the Fire Department were notified yesterday that examin would be ‘held soon for promotions up to and including the grade of Those wishing to take the examinations were instructed to file their applications with the Civil Service Commission on or | before May 18. | The date for the examinations has not_been set, but Chief Engineer S. Watson of the Fire Department ex- plained that he was anxious to have it eligibility lists complete when the new regulation becomes effective regarding compulsory retirement of members of the department reaching their sixty- fourth birthday. Considerable’ shifting in personnel sult from this new order, which sult in the compulsor: of 4wo deputy battalion chiefs and an announce his plans for the new organ- ization. He must pick three successors for the positions named, however, and each will mean a series of vacancies in all grades below, to be filled by eligibles rrgm the civil service lists. BOTTLE US'ED IN FIGHT Colored Man Arrested When Vic- tim Goes to Hospital. ‘Thomas Love, 29, colored, was &r- rested by second precinct police last night on a charge of beating James E. Madison, 28, also colored, about the head and face with a vinegar bottle. Madison was so badly cut, police said, that 20 stitches were required to sew his wounds. He was treated by a pri- vate physician. Love, who lives at 2011 Georgia ave- nue, did not escape unscathed, however. He slipped and fell, lice said, and struck his head against a table. He was treated at Gallinger Hospital be- fore being taken to the police station. The fight occurred in Madison's 9 Florida avenue. home, at of Michigan will tell of the discovery | i | announced b; | violation, he sald, as signs calling at- | clared, the regulation has been given | Outstanding on the National Academy ISANITARIUM FOR CHILDREN WILL COST ABOUT $460.000 | STAGGERED HOURS 115 Beds Provided in Tentative Plans for [OR U.S. PROPOSED Institution, Says Assistant Engineer Commissioner Robb. - AS TRAFFIC RELIEF Tentative plans for the Children's spending $500,000 of the available sm-‘man, Successful During War, Tuberculosis Sanitarium, to be built 15 miles from Washington on the Defense Highway, call for an institution of about 115 beds to be bullt at a cost of $4,000 per bed, this including developing the property and all overhead. Assistant Engineer Commissioner H. L. Robb said vesterday. Robb is vice chairman of the committee in charge of plans for the hospital. T. B. Kidner, architectural specialist | advanced type, who would get first| employed by the District for consulta- tion on these plans, is expected to ar- | abl rive here tomorrow to take up his dutles. fore the committee for criticism. The plans now tentatively call for | bu 1000 in developing the main hospit | physicians’ and nurses’ homes, adminis- | tration building, special sewage disposal plant, commissary and electric light | plant. The new institution, Maj. Robb said. would be made into a little city, relatively self-dependent in the matter utilities. Maj. Robb said there are at present ‘In the District about 35 child patients | suffering from tuberculosis of the most choice if the hospital were now avail- le. The rest of the beds would be filled with children suffering ‘rom tu- ‘Then the actual planning will | berculosis of the ‘“contact type,” who | begin and the various plans placed be- |come from homes where xhe{vpeare pore | to the disease and need bodily posed ilding up to increase thelir resistance. TICKETS IN2 DAYS Rigid Enforcement Will Be Continued Until Motorists Obey Ban. The two-day campaign against vio- laters of the new traffic regulation pro- hibiting parking between 8 and 9:30 | am. in the downtown congested zonc resulted in the arrest of 190 drivers, according to Teports submitted yester- | day to traffic officlals. The reports showed that 100 tickets were issued Friday to violators of the regulation, and 90 more yesterday, nearly all of them being placed on cars by members of the c Bureau. The traffic officers caught 81 violators Fri- day and 83 yesterday, while the ri mainder were victims of policemen at- tached to the first precinct. The enforoement campaign, it was Inspector E. W. Brown, in charge of the Trafic Bureau, will be continued relentlessly until all motorists learn to obey the new regu- lation. There is no excuse for its tention t> the no-parking regulation | are posted conspicuously throughout the congested zone. Moreover, he de- widespread publicity. Finds Conditions Improved. basis for various sorts of mental ab- | ghserved that conditions were far bet- work | ter than at any time since the pro- I ( New York: Maj. Willlam Bowie of the | prohibition became effective, Inspector i | 1 { come before the heaith officers are tnc;pburmnuns have shown that the rush ation | Parks to meet the new situation. captain. | be in force in the Potomac Park area {and the Ellipse in an effort to rout out | held George | who work in the Navy and Munitions y retirement | this area, he said, so that only a sec- i !tion at a time will see the angle park- assistant superintendent of machinery.|ing plan abolished. Chief Watson said he was not ready to ! Grant, 3d, director of Public Buildings |hour rule will be in effect tomorrow | 1 for all-day parking facilities, crowding | before June 30 in order to have the!out the visitors. | After a tour of the congested area during the period of the parking ban | yesterday, Inspector Brown said he| nibition went into effect Tuesday. He however, that out-of-town regulation by parking in the vicinity of the downtown hotels. Every morning since the parking rown cars from various States have been found around the hotels be- tween 8 and 9:30 am. cards will continue to be left in calling attention to the violation, but if the visitors repeat the violation the will be arrested. Inspector Brown be: lieves hotel emp! should co-operate with the police by advising guests of the parking prohibition. ‘The traffic bureau is to be given the wholehearted support of the Police Court in its camp: to force observ- ance of the new regulation. Judge John issued a warning that it will be un-| profitable for violators to appear bc-i fore him for trial unless they have a good excuse. First Violator Fined $5. ‘The minimum collateral for violating the regulation is $3 for the first of- rense. Judge McMahon fined the first violator to come before him $5. The effect of the parking ban is be- ing closely studied by transportation officials as well as a special committee of the Washington Chamber of Com- merce. This committe was appointed yesterday and instructed to submit a report upon the completion of its ob- ervations to_the police and fire pro- tection and Public Safety Committee. ‘Thus far the traction and bus com- panies have been unable to ascertain | whether the parking ban is inuring to | their benefit as at first believed. Early hour traffic has increased slightly, but that there has been a corresponding decrease during the non-rush hours, due, it is believed, to the fact that! since parking space has become avail- able after 9:30 o'clock, shoppers are driving their own cars downtown in- stead of using busses and street cars. Will Survey Parks. The city's parks are feeling the brunt of the new traffic regulations banning downtown parking in the morning be- tween 8 and 9:30 o'clock, and Capt. R. C. Montgomery, U. S. A, superintendent of the United States Park Police, is planning another study of traffic in the Tomorrow two new traffic moves will | the all-day parker. Around the Lin- coln Memorial circular roadway a one- | morning and thereafter. Many persons Buildings and elsewhere utilize this space Another blow at the all-day parker will be struck when the park police put into effect the parallel parking rule on the east side of the Ellipse, near the | new Department of Commerce Build- ing. Capt. Montgomery does not wish | to be severe with persons parking in | U s.| Lieut. Col. and Public Parks, desires to follow as| closely as possible the traffic rulings of the District Commissioners, and this step is another in that direction. Reacts in Park Areas. ‘The parks are feeling the reaction of the no parking downtown rule in the carlier morning hours in increased traffic, The increased traffic is being noticed particularly in the Ellipse, the White Lot and in Potomac Park. Park police officials counted 47 cars parked on the east side of the Ellipse, ‘where the angle parking will be abol- ished tomorrow. It is estimated that not more than 25 cars can be parked parallel in this space. Willlam A. Van Duzer, the District’s new director of traffic, who takes office July 1 and is now employed on a per diem basis by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, proposed to make an intimate personal survey of traffic conditions in general in Wash- ington's parks. Col. Grant will be guided by his advice largely in deter- | clals, the 190 GIVEN PARKING FRANCHISE SFALS CANING SUPPORT Four Local Associations Lend Aid in Campaign for D. C. Vote. Sale of the franchise seals as a means of advertising throughout the country the movement for national rep- resentation for the District of Columbia is being stimulated by active support from four local associations, it was re- ported last night by the Citizens' Al- liance, sponsor of the seal project. ed for use on the The 3 backs of envelopes mailed out of Wash- Commerce and are being purchased also by the Phila- telic Soclety of the District. e'l‘:he -‘cmm {01 fl;e DEMAND Federation of Citi- zens' Associations THE RIGHTTOVOTE i1, omcially indors- ing the franchise seals and resolving to use them on the business corre- spondence of the federation is seen by George J. Adams, president of the Citizens' Alliance, as another helpful step in the program. Have Two Purposes. ‘The seals, bearing a slogan and car- toon illustrating the disfranchised | plight of the residents of the National | Capital, have the dual purpose of in- forming the Nation of the lack of rep- resentation of the District in its law- making body and of providing funds for other educational work in the move ment to correct this condition. ‘The Citizens’ Alliance. in connection with the campaign to sell the franchise seals, has arranged to have speakers address meetings during weeks of the Women's City Club, Fed- eration of Women's Clubs, Women's le Tax Club, ey | Singl Cleveland Congress the right to vote for candidates for the presidency. The alliance does not ad- { P. McMahon In Traffic Court vesterday | vocate election of local municipal offi- cials. Neither does it seek to alter the existing commission form of govern- ment here, believing that the govern- ment of the District is superior to that in effect in many other large cities. It does seek for local taxpayers the righ given to all other American citizens, to have their own representations in Con- gress, and to participate in national elections. Quotes President's Speech. In support of this objective the al- liance quotes the following from an ad- dress made by President Hoover in Boston last year: “The whole plan of self government presupposes that the whole people shall participate in the selection of its offi- etermination of its policies and the aintenance of its ideal anything less than this involves govern. ment by the minority.” ‘The franchise seals are on sale at the offices of the Board of de in The Star Building and the offices of the Chamber of Commerce in the Homer Building. CHILD SLIGHTLY HURT Richard S8immons, 5, of 1203 Thirty- first _street, suffered minor bruises and shock when knocked down by a mail truck late yesterday at Thirty-first and M streets. He was treated at George- town Hospital and then teken to his home. The operator of the mail truck, Gecrge J. Fink, 34, of Cherrydale, Va. told seventh precinct police the child walked into the side of his van. Fink was not Considered in View of Two Rush Periods. | WOULD ALSO CHANGE SCHOOL OPENING TIME |Safety Feature for Children Ap- pe2ls to Inspector Brown, Who Favors Scheme. Staggering the opening and closing of Government departments, and extending the time of starting classes in the public schools from 9 to 9:30 o'clock, has been suggested to trafic authoritles as & | means of relieving Washington's rush hour traffic congestion. The plan was discussed informally yesterday during a conference between Commissioner Herbert B. Crosby, Maj. | Henry G. Pratt, superintendent of police, | and Inspector E. W. Brown, in charge | of the Traffic Bureau. These officials, it is understood, look with favor upon the proposal, and believe it merits care- ful consideration. Inspector Brown pointed out that during the war, when Washington's ion was suddenly inflated by an infl of so-called “war workers,” Federal departments operated on & staggered plan. The arrangement at that time was designed primarily to ald the street car companies when they found it virtually impossible to meet the demand for ‘when the thousands of employes went to and from work at the same time. Plan Successful Then. Successful back in the war work just as satisfactorily now in re- ducing the morning and aftérmoon rush hour traffic congestion. Conditions already are serious, he said, and likely will become worse when all of the Federal workers are concentrated in the new buildings south of Pennsylvania avenue. Opening of the public schools at 9:30 o'clock instead of 9 as at present, and closing them a half hour later, at 3:30 instead of 3, to_Inspector Brown, would not only 8 in the interest of safety for the pupils, but would aid | the car companies at the same time, | Children leave for school under the existing schedule at the same time Government employes start for work, tor Brown pointed out, and are, therefore, forced to cross streets when traffic is at its . If the schools opened a half later, he said, traffic would be at a minimum when the children leave home, and the ac- cident hazard greatly reduced. More~ over, those children who ride to school on street cars, he declared, would spared the morning crush, and there would be more space on the cars for the Government workers. in the vicinity of school buildings, and he cannot meet all of the requests be- cause of the lack of available men. of Education the feasibility of starting scheol classes at 9:30 o'clock. The municipal officials, however, will not t | push the plan, it was said, i the school board shows any disposition to object. The plan for staggering the opening and closing hours of the Government departments is expected to be given serious consideration in connection with arrangements for handling trafic in the triangle area. Any arrange- ment that would avoid opening all of the Government departments at the same hour in the morning and turning out the thousands of employes at the same time in the afternoon, traffic offi- cials said, would be one of the greatest single factors in alleviating the rushe hour traffic problem. Concentrated Twice Daily. With few exceptions, it was pointed out, the Government employes report for duty at 9 o'clock in the morning and are dismissed at 4:30 in the after~ Gescending. upon the_dbwmtous sechin n wn sect] between 8:30 and 9 in the \od | Steamship Head's Wife Dies. TORONTO, April 25 (#).—Mrs. A. E. Mathews, wife of the president of the Mathews' Steamship Co., died at ber hcme today. She was a native of Cin- cinnati, but came to Toronto 20 years ' ago. ON DISPOSITIO The campaign to rid the Old Center Market site of rats, off to a fiying start Thursday_night, weakened appreciably at the end of the week. It appears that there are 50 many public and quasi- public agencies to be placated that con- siderable time will have to be taken out before the campaign finally gets out of the rough and routs the rodents. The rats are to be exterminated, if ever, by W. G. Gentry, who comes from Wyoming, where men are men and rats are prairie dogs. It is said that Mr, Gentry is the most celebrated of all prairie-dog catchers of those parts. He was stranded, out of exmoymnt, in ‘Washington, ‘where pra are ly rare, and George J. Adams, jr., decided to give him the job of ridding the site of the Old Center hungry by the demolition of thet land- mark, Gas Attack Abandoned. No sooner had Mr. Adams made his decision than the opposition broke out into a rash of protests. It first became known that Mr.G intended to use poison gas i his warfa} Health Officer ‘William Fowler instan demanded that the §ise of poison gas be aB mining what future steps are to be made for ling the growing traffic | problems in"Washington's parks. and suggested instead the use of less spsetacular but, accoming Market of the rats made homeless.and | « WAR ON RATS RAISES PROBLEM N OF CASUALTIES Extermination Campaign Hits Snag as Man Calls Humane Society to Rescue Rodents’ Remains. Mr. Adams compromised on traps and on Thursday night Gentry trapped nine rats. He was just bszinning to get the range with the old facility with which he used to dispatch the prairie dogs when a strangs gentleman called on Mr. Adams, flashed a badge end demanded to know whether the rats being caught were seu, to scientific in- stitutions for vivisection. Mr. Adams indignantly denied the insinuation. Rodents Rate Rescue. “Then what do you do with them? asked the badged inquisitor, taking out a notebook and pencil. Nervously Mr. Adams admitted that the rats had been drowned. 4 “We thought it was the best way,” ,ZO;I are not going to arrest me, are 02" The questioner looked dcubtful. “Perha suggested Mr. -Adams feverishly, “we could send them around to the Animal Rescue League. Wouldn't that do “Well,” said the ‘stranger, “I'll call up the Humane " He did so. “Yes,” he conced>d, “it'll co.” Just what the Animal Rescue League will think cf this, however, is some- thing else again. Mr. Adams expects Fowler, safer method of extermin to get this straightened cut 'o_m. A