Evening Star Newspaper, April 2, 1932, Page 16

"A—16 xx GAS HUCKSTERS ARE BANNED AFTER FIGHT OF MONTHS Commissioners Adopt Rule Against Sale on Streets, Except in Emergency. NEW POLICE REGULATIONS RESULT OF HEARING Mdewalks and Alleys in Scope of Order Affecting Supply of All Motor Vehicles. The District Commissioners today | adopted a police regulation forbidding the sale of gasoline on any public street except in case of emergency. The reg- gulation reads: “No motor vehicle shall be supplied or permitted to be sup- plied with gasoline on the roadway, sidewalk or parking of any street, ave- nue or road, or in or on any alley or public driveway, except in case cl‘ emergency.” 1 This regulation is expected .to def- | initely end huckstering of gasoline on | the streets. Several months ago a reg- ulation was adopted similar to the present, forbidding street sales of gas- oline. Public Hearing Held. The gasoline vendors protested that they had a vested right in the con- duct of their business which was con- ducted under licenses issued by the District of Columbia, and the Com- tuissioners suspended the regulation and held a public hearing on the sub- ect. . As s result of the public hearing the first regulation was canceled and & new one drawn up, permitting gasoline hucksters the same rights as those rmitted to hucksters of other varieties. is regulation allowed the tank trucks of the huckstews to stay for 30 min- utes in any one block for the purpose of making sales, so long as the trucks kept out of the congested section and kept off boulevards and arterial high- ways. Station Owners Protest. The filling station owners, represented by Attorneys Ringgold Hart and Percy Marshall, protested against this regu- jation, and the whole question was turned over to a committee under Cor- ration Counsel William W. Bride and irector of Highways Herbert C. ‘hitehurst for study. w'rhe committee found that the sale of gasoline on the street was a potential fire hazard and that the Commissioners had the power to prohibit it. Accordingly, the Commissioners today mdopted the regulation outlined above. THE WEATHER District of Columbia — Occasional rain; warmer tonight; minimum tem- perature about 52 degrees; tomOrrow cloudy and colder; moderate to fresh southwest winds shifting to northwest tomorrow. Maryland — Occasional rain, slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow cloudy and colder with rain changing to snow in | the mountains. Virginia—Cloudy and warmer, pos- sibly ra#fh in north and extreme west portions tonight; tomorrow cloudy, pos- | sibly rain on the coast; colder in north and west portions. West Virginia—Rain, colder in north- west portion tonight; tomorrow cloudy | and colder, ibly light rain or snow 0 ‘north poftion. Record for Last 24 Hours. ‘Temperature. Barometer, | Degrees. Inches . 51 48 Festerday— 4pm. . 8 pm Midnight Today— 4am. . 8am. . Noon . 3 Highest, 60, noon today. Year ago, 49. Towest, 41, 6:00 am. today. Year ago, 42. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Cosst and | Geodetic Survey.) Today. 5:37am. ‘Tomorrow 6:23am. V605 pm. . 12:18pm. The Sun and Moon. Rises. un, today 5:52 €un, tomorrw 5:51 Moon, today. 4:23am Automobile lights must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. i Rainfall. Monthly rainfall in inches in the Cap- ital (current month to date): Month. 1932. Average. January .... 482 355 Pebruary ... 246 3.27 March 6.45 3.75 April 3.27 May . 3.70 June . 413 July 471 August 2 401 September .. 324 October 284 November 237 869 December . 332 788 Weather in Various Cities. 10.94 10.63 14.41 10.81 8.57 Temperature. Statlons. lea Pt.cloudy " Pt cloudy Cloudy Clear N. C. 26 ke City. 29.76 D Antonio.. 3022 n Diego. Calif 30.04 Prancisco Mo. . a ¥ Ba ¢ 001 Clear 016 Raining 0.02 Cloudy ... Cloudy 0.02 Clear 50 41 002 Reining (7 a.m., Greenwich time, today.) ‘Temperature. Weather e 4 Cloudy 4 b @ Part cl b rt cloudy st Prance Zurich. Switzerland Part cloudy Btockholm, Sweden b lea: Gibraliar.” Spain 53 Part cloudy (Noon, Greenwich time, tov'ay.) Horta (Payal). Azores... 58 (Current observations.) Hamilton, Bermuda n' Jusn, Porto Rico. .. 16 Eavans, Cuba, & Oolon, "Canal Zone... 80 » Rain Part eloudy in Soigr | jacent strips of land b | diers' Home and the THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Tyro Artist €O JUAN TO! Who blossomed into an artist almost overnight, y 14 minutes before a jury in the Shoreha posed of L. Gardner Moore, Lawrence E. de S. Hoover, Baron Robert Dobelhoff Tomadelli is seated in front of his painting. and Gertrude Neeley. UAN TOMADELLI found Wash- ington a doubtful arena for per- forming miracles. In fact, so nmany insinuations, doubts, canards and winks wer tossed about after the opening of his art exhibition at the Shoreham Hotel yesterday that the amiabie overnight artist obligingly decided to have his miracles documented by a cynical public, More than one citizen who viewed Tomadelli's flamboyant paintings in- sisted he could not have created 65 of them i six weeks, starting from scratch—that is, without past experi- ence in the fine art of blending colors and canvas. Some of them expressed their views to newspapers. The papers were curious. Tomadelli explained he began meteoric career as a muiticolor Wi because he thought he “could do ter” than some famed works he in a local gallery. The fact that promptly gave his entire output to the Thrift Shop Yo be sold for charity stil did not convince a few of the doubting ‘Thomases. Gathers Jury of Friends. Tomadelli assembled a jury at the Shoreham to bear witness to his talent. His friend Baron Dobelhoff, a portrait painter of renown, wes called Walking through the lobby of the hotel, Tomadelll met Lawrence E. de;S. Hoo- ver. “My friend Hoover, “You serve on the jury Hoover was automatically impaneled Gardner Moore, manager of the hotel; George Ryall and Mrs. A. E. Neeley completed the group of five good jurors and true. TWwo newspaper reporters, a cameraman and the radio were unoffi- cial spectators. Tomadelli marched the entire crew to his suite. They straggled in,-amused and a bit self-conscious at the business of proving a man honest. Seme one his et~ saw said Tomadelli. Proves Skill INCES JURY OF SPEEDY ABILITY. MADELLI, terday painted a picture in m Hotel. The jury, left to right, is com- —Star Staff Photo. | remarked, “This is like going to watch Houdini.” | _Tomadelli sat down, set up a small piece of canvas before him, took up his palette.’ Th> paints were dry. He tried to loosen them. Baron Dobelhoff sug- gested some new paint “What for?” said Todadelli. body turn on the radio.” “Go back to your own business,” said a voice over the loud speaker. The paints got softer. A reporter took out his watch and stared at the second hand. “I will sit over here and be the inspiration,” said Dobelhoff, rushing the sofa. Tomadelli made a few pre- liminary passes at the canvas. Then he began. It was 1:25. The brush flew across the board. What are you painting?” a juror asked. “How should I know?" said Toma- delli in all seriousness. “Then how will it get o be any- “Some- ou just paint. You watch. It will be something—maybe.” Once the board Tomadelli painted. slipped. He asked for time out. The refcree agreed. Every one relaxed and | listened to a waltz groaning out from the radio. The artist took up his job again. Blues, yellow, white, a touch of cobalt. He began at the sky and worked down idealistically. Then the browns came into action. A bold tree stood in the foreground. “Let there be a house,” said Toma- delli, and there was a house—a small, innocent-looking cottage. The jury was disarmed already. More brown, yellow, whites to lighten the .effect. A few daskes of green and a grove of poplars 2 into being. " sald Tomadelli. —14 minutes. The artist called for a frame. Five minutes later the work was ready to join the exhibition down- stairs You said Tomadelli. Jurors, revorters and the cameraman | nodded It was 1:39 THREE LOCAL BILLS 10,60 T0 SENATE Plumbing Regulation, High- way Improvement, Depend- ency Measures Advanced. Favorable reports will be filed in the Senate early next week on' three bills approved by the District Committ ¢ yesterday afternoon to give the Com- missioners broater power in the regu tion of plumbing and gasfittir straighten and improve the trafic higi way between Soldiers’ Home and Mc- Millan Park and to make a min change in the law for the home car dependent children. he committee also tiok testim, but postponed action, on a bill to craase from 50 cents to §1 a ca 3 allowance paid by the District to fam- ilies of men sent to the work nonsupport, and a bill to ena District government to do small con- struction jobs, up to a limit of $5.000, without contracts. H. C. Whitehurst, engineer of high- ways, explained that the highway bill would authorize ar exchange of ween _the park officials enable the District to build a new 40- foot roadway from First street snd Michigan avenue westward to Colum- bia road in place of the present circulsr driveway through that grea. Evan H Tucker of the Northeast Washington Citizens' Association spoke in favor of the bill The plumbing bill would empower the Commissioners to fix an annual license fee for master plumbers at n s thin $25 nor more than $50, with author to suspend plumbers’ licenses for cause, The third bill approved by the com mittee would require applicants for financial aic from the Board of Public to Welfare, for the home care of dependent | children, to be residents of the District for two years instead of one year be- fore making such application CRACKSMEN TAKE $25 FROM INSURANCE SAFE Robbers Get Cash From Strongbox of United Life & Accident Company. Using a heavy crowbar, cracksmen pried open a strongbox in the office of the United Life & Accident Insurance Co., on the the third floor of the Na- tional Union Pire Insurance Building, 918 F street, last night, and escaped with $25 in cash Police say the robbers admitted them- selves with a duplicate key. Samuel Kitt, assistant manager of the insur- ance branch, found the safe broken open when he ‘came to work this morning. A preliminary check-up revealed noth- ing but cash missing. The robbers used & crowbar large enough to bend the safe door, and carried their tools off | with them. VICTIM OF AUTO VDIES Laura Taylor, colored, 72 years old, cf the 1700 block T street, died a‘ *Emer- gency Hospital last night from interncl injuries suffered when she was knock-d down by an automobile at Noew Hamp- shire avenue and T street Wednesday night Malcolm Gibbs, 24, 3200 block Thir- teenth street, driver of the car, was ar- rested by police of the third precinct and 1= being held for action of the coroner’s jury. Sol- | ' Rum Car Driver by | Throwing His Baton| |ClubHurled ThroughWin- | dow of Machine Strikes ’ Fleeing Chauffeur. Policeman H. M. Hildrup needs neither an aulomobile por a gun to} ure plleged liquor runners. Just| e him a chance to hurl his baton 1d he’ll do_the job. At least, he did it yesterday, when he caught an alleged liquor runner who 1ad eluded three eleventh precinct ol cars in a lonf chase. Hildrup, ad seen part of the chase from his Fifteenth and East Capitol threw his baton through the | window of the allsged liquor car as it sped past, hitting the driver on the head. The driver lost control of the car and overturned. Hildrup captured him chase afoot and took him th precinct, where he was charged with possession and transporta- tion of liguor, possession of a smoke screen and driving without a permit. He gave his name as Charles Williams, 21. colofed. Hildrup said he found 27 gallons of liquor in Williams® car. L3 CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Card party, benefit St. Francis Xavier's Church Building fund, North-| east Masonic Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast, 8:30 p.m. Woodward Club, Dinner. Twenty-Year 6 p.m. & Lothrop’s| Ralelgh Hotel Card party, Columbia Review, B. A, Washington Loan & Trust| Building, 8 p.m. Card party, Temple Committee, Joppa Lodgz, Chapter No . E. 5. 60 M street northeast, 8 p. Entertainment and dance, Oklahoma | | State Society, United States Chamber | of Commerce, 8:30 p.m | | Card party, benefit Barbara Fritchie | | Council, Daughters of America, 2107 Rhode ~ Island avenue northeast, 8:20 pm. | Leap Year dance, Re-union Commit- Junior O. U. A. M., Masonic Tem- | Fourteenth and U streets south-| Dinner, Federal Schoolmen’s Club, Hamilton' Hotel, 7 p.m. Bridge party, Dental Assistants’ Asso- ciation, Hamilfon Hotel, 8 p.m. One-hour tour of eighteenth century | Georgetown, benefit St. John's Church | of Georgetown, busses start from Peck Memorial Chapel, Twenty-eighth and M streets, half-hour intervals from 1:30 p.m. | Card party, Women's Committee, American Institute of Banking, Willard | Hotel, 8 pm Card party and dance, Acacia Chap- ter, O. E. S, Shrine Temple, 1315 K street, 8:30 pm Card party, Auxiliary Home Board, Martha Chapter, No. 4, Naval Lodge Hall, Fourth street and Pennsylvania | avenue southeast, 8 pm. Meeting, League for the Larger Life, 1400 New Hampshire avenue, 8 p.m. C. A. Eidhammer, speaker FUTURE. Hike, Red Triangle Outing Club. Meet Thirty-sixth and M streets, to- morrow, 2:30 p.m. Oyster roast, Gardena Circle, No. 596, P. H C. Meet Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue southeast, 10 a.m. - | Col. Grant to the audience. | ning’s arrangements were under au- VOIGED BY GRANT AT FILM SHOWING Capital Not Oversupplied, Says Director, Citing Bene- fits and Statistics. FUNDS NECESSARY TO MEET PROGRAM Transplanting of Trees and Colum- bia and Analostan Island Plans Explained. Contending that Washington is not oversupplied with parks, in view of its growing population, Lieut. Col. U. 8. Grant, 3d. director of public buildings and public parks, in a brief address preparatory to the premiere showing of the new motion picture illustrating the parks of the National Capital, held in the New National Museum. Tenth street and Constitution avenue, last night, pleaded for caution in cutting appropriations for “these character- building agencies."” The film, made by the Department of Agriculture, for the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, graphically illustrates the scenic beauty of Wash- ington's parks and their social value. An audience, representative, of & num- ber of eivic groups, witnessed the show- ing of the picture, held in the mu- seum’s auditorium. Following the film, the visitors viewed the Bicentennial ex- hibit of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and related groups, depicting the growth of the city and its projected expansion. Col. Grant prefaced his brief ad- dress by saying that in this Bicenten- nial year the City of Washington is the growing legacy left to his people by the Father:of His Country, adding that “we in the National Capital must make George Washington'’s thoughts and wishes come true.” Mall Plan Definite. The director told his audience that there is a very definite plan for de- velopment of the Mall, under the genius of Frederick Law Olmsted, notable Brookline, Mass., Jandscape architect who is a member 6f the National Cap- ital Park and Planning Commission. Mr. Olmsted’s father likewise con- tributed materially to the development of the National Capital, Col. Grant as- serted. “It is not so much difficulty to find capable architects and landscape archi- tects, as to find funds to carry out our plans properly,” said the colonel. “Don't imagine that the plan is incomplete. It is that the funds are not available, s0 that we can take the next step, quickly.” Likewise for the Lincoln Memorial and the eestern approach to the Arling- ington Memorial Bridge, he said, there are adequate plans. He explained that in that region, the trees were planted closer together than they need be orig- inally, so that now there is available a large number of trees of proper size that are being transplanted to positions originally mapped out for them. Col. Grant then turned his attention to development of Columbia Island and said that there the plans will change from the rather formal treatment of West Potomac Park to a more nat- uralistic scheme. The officials hope to preserve the Roosevelt Memorial, Analostan Island, keeping i in its present natural state, with the public being admitted, after it has been fur- nished with roads and paths. Columbia Island Plan. “Columbia Island is to be a transition from the natural features of Analostan Island to the more formal treatment of the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway and West Potomac Park,” he asserted. Col. Grant recalled that the engineers consider it dangerous to tamper with the foundations of the Washington Monument, which rests upon a bed of gravel and blue clay and any disturbing of its equilibrium might cause a danger- ous slipping. The plan for the develop- ment of the Washington Monument is illustrated in the exhibit, he asserted In the smaller parks of the city, his office is striving to avoid monotony and standardization, through the planting of a variety of trees, the colonel asserted. Tackling the contention that Wash- ington is an example of overpark de- velopment, Col. Grant said that this city does not possess more parks, pro- portionately, than do other advanced cities. The authorities say that there should be about 1 acre to 100 persons, and when Washington is fully developed and populated, he said, the ratio here would be about half an acre to each 100 persons. Here, he said, the costs of parks is not only low per acre, but like- wise low when considered on & per capita basis. Traffic Value Shown. Col. Grant pointed to the traffic value of the Rock Creek and Potomac Park- way, which willsprovide an automobile ertery free from cross streets, between Connecticut avenue and Constitution avenue. The proposed Fort Drive, link- ing up the historic Civil War forts sur- rounding the city, with a spacious mo- torway, he asserted, will likewise prove & valuable traffic aid. It is a waste of taxpayers' money to build park roads for trucks, Col. Grant informed his audience, as in Washing- ton, about 80 or 90 per cent of the motor vehicles are of the passenger type. He recalled the social value of the parks and cited statistics from his annual report to illustrate the large numbers of persons engaged in & variety of sports, to say nothing of the crowds of spectators that watch them Another value of the parks, Col. Grant pointed out, was their use in | hot Summer nights, so that the pop- ulace might sleep with some comfort On sultry nights, they contain from 1,000 to 10,000 persons, depending on conditions. “In these days of unemployment and distress, the parks are playing their part,” he asserted. “Let us hesitate before we cut out the character- building agencies, too, in these days of retrenchment.” He cited the value of the parks of Washington as antidotes for crime conditions and asserted that they offer innocent, healthy facilities for recre- ation. Frederic A. Delano, president of the American Civic Association, introduced Last eve- spices of the Washington Chapter, American Institute of Architects; Dis- trict of Columbia section, American So- ciety of Civil Engineers: Parks and Res- | ervations Committee, Washington Board of Trade; Women's City Club; Commit- tee on National Capital, Garden Club of America, and Committee of 100 on the er,dern] City, American Civic Associa- tion. TRUCK VICTIM IDENTIFIED Elderly Colored Man Was Inmate of Home for Poor. ‘The body of an elderly colored man who was killed in a traffic accident Thursday was identified by officials of the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor, at the District Morgue last night, as that of John Jackson, 55, an in- mate. Jackson's prolonged absence, fol- -up with police, led lowed bg‘m check: to the ery. He died at Casualty Hospital shortly after be struck ’bay a truck driven by Adolph R. Dietz, 1500 Twenty-third street southeast, D. C, SATURDAY, IPLEA FOR PARKS IDEAN MEEKS LISTS CATHEDRAL AONG CREAT CHIRCES Will Take Its Place With Notable Edifices of the World, He Says. GIVES STRIKING VIEW OF ‘WOMEN’S PORCH’ Sir Willmott Lewis Delivers Ap- peal for Assistance in Its Construction. Washington Cathedral will take its place “among the great churches of the world” in the opinion of Everett Victor Meeks, professor of architecture of Yale University, and dean of the Yale School of the Pine Arts. Delivering the last of a series of lectures at the Mayflower Hotel yester- day afternoon, on the general subject of “Historic Temples,” Dean Meeks climaxed with a stirring tribute to the Washington Cathedral. He concluded & series of beautiful illustrations cf temples of the New World with several striking views of the Washington Ca- thedral, and finally the Women's Porch, for the benefit of which the series of lectures was presented. Praises “Splendid Plan.” “Your own great Cathedral” he de- clared, “will take its place among the great churches of the world.” The speaker praised its ‘“splendid plan,” which he described as having the “es- sence” of other great cathedrals. “They have all the plans of all the past,” he said. “It 15 no wonder that they have arrived at this superb de- sign.” One interior view the speaker described as furnishing a “thrilling per- spective,” while the “crossing” itself, he explained, will be so large as to ?resent one of the most interesting atures. Dean Meeks expressed the “hope” that the Women's Porch “mey be built very soon.” An eloquent appeal to those who had attended the lectures to assist in the building of the Women's Porch was de- livered by the presiding officer of the series of lectures, Sir Willmott Lewis. Reviewing the series, Sir Willmott said “we have moved around tne world to come back to our own temple.” He praised the builders as constructing a temple adequately to express “the faith and ideals of the American people.’ “In these five lectures on ancient temples,” said Sir Willmott, “we have girdled the world—like the man in Chesterton’s story, we have had to go around the world to find the way home. The road has brought us back to Washington, to our own Cathedral and to the purpose for which the lec- tures have been given. “They will have told us nothing if they have not told us that all the great buildings which have passed before us on the screen were more than an appli- cation of changing modes and meth- ods in the history of architecture— they were an expression of the faith and the ideals of the men who built them. The life of communities is re- corded in their monumental structures, and architecture—the matrix of civili- zatlon—is and always has been born of some need, of body or soul, so that all true building touches depths of feeling and opens the gates of wonder. An Expression of Faith, ““The men and women of this Nation who together are building Washington Cathedral do not look forward to its| completion as something which will give to the country either the biggest or the most beautiful temple in the world. It is their purpose and their reverent am- bitlon to erect here an expression as fit as artist and craftsman can make it of the faith and ideals of the United States, as temples before it have been the fit expression of the faith and ideals of other times and countries. They think of it as an epitome, mystical and physical, of their aspirations and their belief in the fulfillment of these aspira- tions. “In our small way we can each be a builder of the Cathedral and when it stands finished and splendid we shall Tecognize that we have builded better than we knew. It is the hope of all those who are directly concerned in the work that small annual subscrip- tions from a large number of people may be received, that it may be remem- bered that no gift can be too small and no host of givers too large in a cause which is national rather than local.” Dean Meeks, in his lecture, discussed the development of church building in the New World, concluding with his im- pr!flv: tribute to Washington Cathe- dra “While the aboriginal races of Cen- tral America did develop an architec- ture,” said Dean Meeks, “it had little or no effect on later architectural form— perhaps unfortunately—and little or no influence on subsequent ritual. And, as for the American Indians, they have left no architectural remains, properly 50 called, nor has their form of worship modified our own. So that it is to Eu- rope that we shall have to look for our ecclesiastical inheritance, both ob- jectively as to architecture and sub- Jectively as to belief, practice and| ritual” Discusses Mayan Temples. Referring to the Mayan temples, Dean Meeks characterized them as “a form of religious architectural art which marked a high development of civiliza- tion already existing when our own came to replace it." “Ecclesiastical architecture in Amer- " he explained, “has naturally been derived from two main sources, renais- sance Spain and renaissance England.” Tracing the Spanish influence Dean Meeks showed how it had permeated especially through Mexico, Texas and California, finding expression‘ in “what we call the mission churches.” Explaining the growth of the influ- ence from Northern Europe, the speaker showed how “there were cer- tain architectural differences along the length of the coast colonies.” “The colonial of the north,” he said, ‘“was a more meager, barren architec- ture, principally of wood, reflecting the lesser resources of the northern settlers, who found themselves bound to take the materials ready at hand for the labor of working them. A cer- tain austerity was the result, which, it must be noted, was due as well to the stiff-backed Puritanism of the settlers themselves an expression in the build- ings themselves not only of their ‘pro- testing' but their ‘dissenting’ program. Whereas the settlers along the more southern portions of the Atlantic sea- board, from Philadelphia to Georgia, came more often from a more affluent background. So that even quite early we find more masonry architecture, principally of brick. And this more generous standard of Hving is reflecte ed in the architecture of the churches themselves. The early Bruton Parish Church at Willlamsburg and St. Mi- chael's and St. Phillip's in Charleston, are cases in point. “This going back to Rome for archi- tectural inspiration lasted but a scant quarter century, however,” said the speaker, “to be succeeded by the Greek revival of the second quarter of the century. Greek Doric and Ionic tem- ples, with paradoxial Wren spires translated into the sterner early classic detail, sprang up apace in New Eng- land, New York Stat as far west APRIL 2, 1932. “Learning” How to Walk STUDENTS STUDY PEDESTRIANISM. I 1 Marie Suter (left) and Mrs versity James R. Southeastern University's new course in the fine art walking was launched yesterday when nearly 100 students set out from the Y. M. C. A. Building for their first hike under university auspices. The students will gain an extra credit in physical education and the university letters if they walk 200 miles b2tween now and June 1 The course, instituted as a health Keeiing, “co-eds" at Southeastern Uni- in first “walking ciass” today. experiment by Dr. James A. Bell, head | of the university, will be conducted by Dr. R. Lyman Sexton, faculty medi- cal adviscr. The students will be taught how, when and where to walk, as a means of combating respiratory infections. Dr. Bell gave the signal which started the initial group on a walk to Hains Point. FIGHT IS PLANNED ONPATRKS PAY {Blanten Admits Effort Will Be Made to End Salary in Cab Meter Dispute. Effort is to be made In the House when the District appropriation bill is under consideration to cut off the salary of Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chair- man of the Public Utilities Commission, “for what he has done in ignoring the instructions by Congress not to enforce his order compeliing meters to be in- stalled in taxicabs and abolishing the zone system,” Representative Thomas L. Blanton admitted today. It was on motion of Representative Blanton some weeks ago that the House unanimously adopted a resolution ask- ing the Public Utilities Commission to revoke its order. Since he finds Gen. Fatrick “defying” this “xandate” of Congress, Representative Blanton, who is a member of the subcommitt=e draft- ing the District appropriation bill, is determined to have Gen. Patrick’s sal- ary cut off. If the chairman‘of the Public Utili- ies Commission has no more regard for the unanimous expression of oppos- ing a return to meters.” said Mr. Blan- ton today, “then I will carry the mat- ter back to the House and offer an emendment to cut off his salary.” Representative Blanton's statement follows close upon action by the Hous District Committee, on motion of Rep tion of “what is back of this zeal to have meters installed in all taxicabs." Also. Representative Celler, Democrat, of New York, issued 4 statement carry- ing a scathing denunciation of a “tre- mendous lobby” which is pressing for the meter system and emphasizing that the “District would be the extreme loser in many ways." as Ohio and Michigan, to house the new and growing congregations of a de- veloping epoeh.” The third quarter of the ninetees century, Dean Meeks described as sadder one, sadder architecturally, marked by a “series of Gothic churches, many of them naive, unknowing and ugly; some of them good. “Thus,” he continued, “medieval architecture was completely revived in a form which we have come to call ‘Victorian Gothic. " The next step, he explained, was the revival of the earlier of the romantic or medieval styl the Romanesque. “But this time” he said, “the re- vival is to be started by a veritable genius, Henry Hobson Richardson, ar- chitect of several well known houses here in Washington.” ‘The influence of the World's Colum- bia Exposition in Chicago, with its “glorious groups of classical buildings,” and the coming of “eclecticism” were discussed by the speaker, who then branched into a consideration of the “modernized type of design.” . “Out of the confusion of eclecticism,” he eaid, “younger radical designers are trying to develop a style which shall be truly expressive not only of twentieth century building methods, but of the modern conception of living as well. ‘The movement is young, and style crys- tallizes slowly.” In continental Europe, he said the modernistic movement has gone ahead in a manner “decidedly startling.” “But in America,” said Dean Meeks, “we have clung to precedent perhaps h more strongly in our churches than in | any other form of building. Still in the state of mind therefore of looking to the past for inspiration in design, particularly when it comes to the church, we turn naturally to that period in architecture in which the church and its rite found the most| poignant, the most complete, the most magnificent expression; the mediaeval; | and to that epoch in mediaeval ec- clesiastical art when architecture reach- ed toward perfection, the Gothic. So that by far the greater number of im-| portant modern churches are in that style, and the two great cathedrals now under construction, that of St. John the Divine in New York and the splendid resentative Black of New York, calling | upon Gen. Patrick to make an explana- | NIGARAGUA CANAL * ROUTE DEFENDED "No More Quake Peril Than at Panama, Col. Sultan Tells Georghaphic Society. Nicaragua's proposed canal route is no more subject to earthquake damage than is Panama’s, Col. Dan I Sultan, United States Army engineer, who led the recent survey of the route, told the members of the National Geographic Society during his lecture, “Strange Birds and Plants of Fertile Nicaragua.” in the Washington Auditorium lasy night. Col. Sultan also paid tribute to the American soldiers who suffered “wartime discomforts” mapping the Nicaragua route in swampy jungle, where a flashlight was often needed to take photographs in the daytime, and tents were no more than filters for the torrential rainfall. Another canal may soon be a neces- sity, Col. Sultan declared. Panama Canal, the greatest engineering feat man has accomplished, already has reached 50 per cent of its capacity, | 2nd several of the big ships now build- ing co gigantic as they are. Col. Sultan said that the Nicaragua route would require less digging than Panama did, because all but abcut 15 or 20 miles of the western end of the route employs existing rivers or lakes, and the Contincntal Divide is some 100 feet lower in Nicaragua .| than in Panama. Survey by Americans. The surveying party of American en- gineers explored the entire length of | the San Juan River from Greytown, on the Caribbean Sea, to Lake Nicaragua. | Greytown, which was a flourishing city when the “Forty-niners” used this route to California, now is a run-down vil- lage of ruined iron and timber shacks. It may again be an important place if 2 Nicaraguan canal is dug, but today it numbers only 105 inhabitants. Col. Sultan explained that the survey was ordered by Congress at this time | because some 15 years of preliminary work would be necessary before a canal | could be ready for use—5 years for surveying and acquiring of land rights, etc, and 10 years of actual digging | and construction. During his time in Nicaragua on the Survey Commission Col. Sultan also made an airplane tour of the volcano zone along the west coast and the bandit country in the rugged districts along the northern border of Nicaragua. He said his engineers had been warned | that Sandino, the bandit chief, would never allow the canal survey to be completed. But the American engi- | neers ‘and the American doctors at- tached to the commission did so many favors for the natives, even to the ex- |tent of performing major operations for them, that the bandit attack never | materialized. Managua Pictures Shown. Col. Sultan showed pictures of Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, be- | fore and after the earthquake of March |31, 1831. The American consulate, one of Managua's handsomest buildings, was completely level and many of the American officers and soldiers were on duty continuously for days, taking care of the wounded and destitute One of the most unusual of the places visited by Col. Sultan were the Thou- sand Islands, near the city of Granda Here, in Blue Lake, hundreds of people | live secure, each man and his family owning an island and gaining his living from it and from the lake, which teems with fish of all kinds. Nicaragua is a paradise for the lover of beautiful flowers, Col. Sultan said, and in the patios of the better homes one finds hibiscus, orchids, bougain- villea, poinsettia and other brilliant blossoms. Most of the wealthier peo- ple live in the large cities, to be safe from bandit attacks. The haciendas, which are always so luxurious in the movies, aresmerely residences of the hired hands and their live stock. Col. Sultan commended the present regime in Nicaragua, stating that more schoois, more roads and more railroads have been built than at any time in the nation’s history. This lecture is the last of the 1931-32 uld not pass through its locks, | D. C. COMMISSION HOLDS UP REPLY ON POLICE IN RED RIOT Reichelderfer and Crosby Dis- approve Letter Released Yesterday to Press. STATEMENT ADDRESSED TO CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION Text Said Newspaper Accounts of Disorders Had Been “Im- mensely Exaggerated.” ‘The District Commissioners yester- day held up their reply to a letter from the American Civil Liberties Union criticizing the way in which District police quelled a demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy last Saturday. A letter had been prepared by Sec- retary Danlel E. Garges of the come mission, and the text of this had been given out by him late Thursday eve- ning. According to this draft, news- paper accounts of the disturbance were described as “immensely exaggerated™ and some of the specific statements in the -newspaper reports were categori= cally denied. It was denied that any one was knocked down. The only per- son who fell to the ground, according to the letter, was & woman on whom a policeman fell when he was attacked by “another rioter.” Asked Glassford Report. It was explained that Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of the board of commissioners, had received a let- ter from the American Civil Liberties Union and had turned it over to Mr. Garges to secure a report from Brig. Gen Pelham D. Glassford, superin- tendent of police, and send a reply. Gen. Glassford sent up a carbon copy of a two-page letter addressed to the Civil Liberties Union, containing all the statements incorporated in Mr. Garges' draft of the reply. The Civil Liberties Union had sent copies of their letter to Gen. Glassford and to Sen- ator Arthur Capper of Kansas, chair- man of the Senate District Committee. Whether Gen. Glassford had mailed his reply direct to the Civil Liberties Union is not known. At the meeting yesterday, Police Com- missioner Herbert B. Crosby said that he had not seen the draft of the Com- missioners’ re;‘l.‘y until it appeared in the newspapers, and that he would not have approved of the sending of such 8 letter to the Civil Liberties Union. Dr. Reichelderfer said that he, too, wm;]d not approve of sending such & reply i May Not Make Reply. The Commissioners tiien were asked what reply would be zeni end they re- plied they had not made up their minds whether the-leiter called for a reply. It was pointed out that the I con= fined itself to criticizing “‘the ux of ex- cessive violence" and “such incideats as the beating of a young gizl into m- sensibility, the violent felling of nine | combatents and the indiscrimincte rest of a number of partizipanic. letter charged that the polize i to have been at least as guilly orderly and riotous conduct se whom they made it their business to suppress Gen. Glassford is out of town or a tour. which will take him to Newark, ‘Nrw York, Boston, Providence and | other cities on a study of police meth- | ods in those places, and was not availe | 2ble for questioning. PIED PIPER STAGED | BY GIRL RESERVES | Operetta Presented Last Night at Y. W. C. A. Hall to Be Re- | peated Today. | The Girl Reserves of the Young Women's Christian Association last night presented their versicn of Robert Brown- ing’s fascinating story of the “Pled | Piper of Hamelin” in Barker Hall, Sev- ! enteenth and K streets. Marking the second time this par- ticular group has presented the operetta, last night’s performance was enthusias- | tically received. Colorful and attractive setting and costumes contributed to the impressive- ness of the presentation as more than 70 high school girls gave a performance that was a credit to themselves and | their coaches. The rolés of the Pled Piper, played by Jo Carter; the mayor, by Barbara Davis, and Maxwell Gallo- way as the dream lady were outstanding. Impressive performances were also done by Morfudd Thomas as the lonely |lame boy, Helen Foley as Night Wind, Margaret Hedgcock, playing Mother Goose, and by those cast in the assort- ment of characters from the Mother | Goose book. The entire cast will repeat the per- | formance today for the special benefit of children. It will be the annual chil- dren’s Easter week matinee cf the asso- ciation, NAVY AND FRATERNAL DAY TO BE OCTOBER 27 Joint Celebration Will Be Held as Part of District's Washington Bicentennial Program. Dr. George C. Havenner, executive vice president of the District Bicen- tennial Commission, announced today that October 27 has been set, as the date for the celebration of Fraternal day as part of the District's George Washington Bicentennial program. The date also will be observed as Navy day, Dr. Havenner stated, and will be marked by a monster parade of fraternal bodies during the morning and the annual functions at the Wash- ington Navy Yard in the afternoom. The Naval Gun Factory will be open to the public for this event. President Hoover will be invited to review the Fraternal day parade, the Bicentennial Commission stated. In sketching plans for the October 27 event, representatives of several frater- nal groups of the Capital, at a meet- ing in the commission headquarters yesterday, agreed to eliminate commer- cial floats from the parade. Visitor Robbed of $17.20. Overpowered by two colored footpads, Frank Miller of Toledo, Ohlo, stopping here in the 600 block of C street, was robbed of $17.20 in the rear of the §00 block of New Jersey avenue last night, according to a report made to first precinct police. Former Ohio Woman Dies. PARIS, April 2 (#).—Princess Michel Murat, who was the former Helen Mac- Donald Stallo of Cinecinnati, Ohio, died cathedral here in Washington are mag- | series of the National Geographic So- x;temy at her home here after a short nificent examples of it.” 1ciety. - ess. She was 38 years old.