Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1932, Page 5

—s BURTON W. MARSH GETS TRAFFIC POST Authority on Safety to Be- come Official of A. A. A. at First of Year. Safety Engineer The American Automobile Association announced today the appointment of Burton W. Marsh as its director of | safety and traffic engineer. Considered one of the country's fore- most authorities on street and highway safety, Mr. Marsh, since May, 1930, has been city traffic engineer of Philadel- phia, a position which he resigned to Jjoin the staff of the A. A. A. Mr Marsh will come to Washington January 1 to take over his new duties. His chief activities will be to represent the association on various national traffic and safety technical committees. His services also will bz offered to the Traffic Advisory Council of the District, which now lacks a technical engineer. Expansion Program. Selection of Mr. Marsh, the A. A. A. gaid, marks the first step in a program to expand organization activities in an effort to reduce automobile accidents and_fatalities. “The planned enlargement of the safety work of the A. A. A.” said Ernes W. Smith, executive vice president, “has prompted us to secure as head of this work one of the outstanding safety engineers of the country. The services of Mr. Marsh and his staff will be| available for safety work and consulta- | By the Associated Press. tions not only to the 1,000 motor clubs | BERLIN, December 16.—The sound affiliated with the A. A. A, but to city of dynamite explosions. yesterday In officials as well. “Mr. Marsh is by training and ex- Nova Zembla, 2,000 miles away, and in perience well equipped to direct & n Holland were recorded upon instruments Tional safety program. His technical |Of the Meteorological Observatory at was secured at the Worcester | Potsdam. nic Institute, in his home city | BURTON W. MARSH. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION HEARD 2,000 MILES | Potsdam Observatory Tests Part of International Polar Year Experiments. of bachelor of science | international polar year, a study of Later he spent & |Arctic weather in which the scientists | of all the leading nations of the world have been participating for a period of one year, beginning last August. | . The dynamite was exploded to study | the passage of sound waves from place |to place, “especially that part of the |sound which arches high into the | strathosphere. It is thought that such | sounds may carry great distances in a path resembling that of a shell from a k r in civil engineering. year at the Yale Graduate School. “Following his studies and service in the Coast Artillery Corps of the Army, Mr. Marsh was engaged in street plan- ning and_consulting engineering in a number of cities, including New Haven, Conn.: Springfield, Mass.; Norfolk, Va., and Dayton, Ohio. On Many Committees. “He was one of the first municipal | supercannon. traffic engineers in the country and| There is a hypothesis that the tem- served s city traffic engineer of the | peratures in the upper stratosphere are city of Pittsburgh for five and one-half | warmer than those which have thus far ears before _going to Philadelphia, (beén measured by instruments carried Where he has made an enviable record |aloft by meteorological balloons. If this in disentangling the serious traffic | hypothesis is true, scientists think it snarls of that city. | might be revealed by the way sound “In addition to being president_of | waves “break” when they pass into the the Institute of Traffic Engineers Mr. Warmer layers of the upper air. Marsh is a member of numerous engi e e D e e e tne | WOMAN BANDIT IN 1929 PAY HOLD-UP PAROLED American Institute of City Planners, as well as serving on the following ccm- mittees: The Traffic Committee of the National Research Counc! he Traffic Engineering Commiitee of the Street| By the Associated Press. and Highway Traffic Scclion, National| TOPEKA, Kans, December 16.—Mrs. Safety Council: Trafic Committee of | Vivian Scraper. 27. who robbed pay roll the National Road Builders’ Associa- | messengers of 313,775 in a single-handed tion: Subcommittee on Signals of the |daylight hold-up here June 28, 1929, has National Joint Committee on Street |been paroled from the Kansas Indus- Traffic Signs, Signals and Markings. | trial Farm for Women at Lansing. and Committee on Construction and| Arrested two weeks after the robbery, Engineering of the Pennsylvania Gov- | Mrs. Scraper. mother of an 8-year-old ernor’s Committee on Sticet and High- | girl, told police she obtained the money . The explosions were set off by scien- | ass., where he graduated | tists as part of the experiments of the | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. SEVERE COLD ADDS | TOPLIGHT OF NEEDY Two of 20 Christmas Oppor-! tunities Closed Im- mediately. (Continued From Fourth Page) for work relief to the Emergency Bureau of the Board of Public Welfare. Opportunity No. 16. A Reformed Cynic at 12. Orphaned before she was 1 year old, Alice was promptly adopted by neigh- bors who had known her real parents. These new parents made Alice very happy until she was 5. Then by a strange accident she lost both of her foster parents and was again a home- han lm’m?.smnme fate was not so kind to Alice, no kind parents offered her a home, She was pushed about from place to place, and never_really wanted anywhere she went. The so- clal worker found her when she was 12 years old after she had run away from her last home. Her round, child-, ish face was bitter and hard, and she never smiled. She said she hated peo- ple. It was with difficulty that she was persuaded to go to & home where she was assured she would be treated Folr) a long time she did not under- stand the affection which her new | foster mother bestowed on her. But now, after two years of understanding and affection, Alice has been won back to a happy childhood. He round, fair | face may be seen constantly in willing laughter. But in order for Alice to Temain in her very happy home where she is a much loved member of the family, $250 is needed for the coming | year. Opportunity No. 17. Deserted by Father. Deserted by the husband and fa- | ther, a mother and seven children have | |been left totally dependent. The mother has made a brave effort to care for her family. but is suffering from illness and is unable to work. Two of the children have been placed with foster parents and every effort has been made to locate the husband, but without success. It will require $610 to take care of this fam- ily for a year. Opportunity No. 18. A Former Government Employe. Left with six children to care for. ranging in age from 3 years to 14, by the disappearance of the father this colored mother obtained temporary work in one of the Government bu- reaus. The grandmother took care of the children while the mother was | emploved from 9 to 4:30. During most | of these hours all except the youngest were in school. When the Government department | cut down its force this deserted wife |lost her job. Her savings were soon gone. Then she took a position as a maid and tried to do laundry work at home in the evening. When she fell | sick she continued to try to work. The | grandmother died this Fall, so there is { no Ionger any one to leave the chil- | dren with, even if the mother were able to work. She is meking a brave i Tase. first time in his life what a real home meant. He was determined that his children should not suffer the effects g{n‘d broken home as he had in his boy- Then one day while at work, he was injured by a truck and it was necessary for him to spend many months in the hospital. Although finally pronounced cured the injury has not healed and it will be months before he is able to be self-supporting again. Efforts are being made to obtain re- newed workmen'’s compensation to which the man seems entitled. Meantime, a charitable agency is taking full care of the family, which will soon be increased by the advent of a new baby. Although little can be done to lessen his physical pain, financial support will give Mr. James the mental security which he needs for recovery. To this | end $208 is needed for the next three| mol‘;ths until other adjustments can be | made. Opportunity No. 20. Working Against Heavy Odds. Long a cripple confined to a wheel chair, he had almost given up hope of ever being able to do anything for his family. Because of his condition he had become despondent and even mo- ‘Then came the opportunity to take training in the use of his hands. Now his_whole outlook on life has changed. For the first time in years he sees a chance at least to “earn his keep.” While the depression has cut down the demand for his wares he still | hopes that with the coming of better | times business will pick up. Meantime SCHLECHER GVES PROGRAN 10 RECH Sct;res Litzmann Attack on Hindenburg and Warns Reds. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, December 16.—Chancellor Gen. Kurt von Schleicher paraded troops of facts before Germany in an address yesterday, in which he out- lined his program, saying he was neither & capitalist nor a Socialist. Germany's soldier chancellor, in his opening, defended President Von Hin- denburg against attacks such as the one mide by Gen. Karl Litzmann be- fore the Reichstag December 6. Gen. Litzmann asserted that history might curse the President for driving the country into bolshevism. 2 “It is deeply regrettable,” the chan- cellor said, “that the President’s his- torical personality was brought into the conflict, particularly by an old com- rade who understands discipline.” He outlined plans for settling the he is ambitious that his children shall have an education. All six of them are | now in school and the time is not far | distant when two of the older ones should be able to contribute to the sup- | port of the family. The mother helps | by earning what she can, but the entire family income of the man and wife is less than $1 a day. To supplement this | $16 a week is needed, or $832 for the unemployed on land in the eastern province. Indicating his enonomic course, he sald it was impossible for the nation to exist on internal markets, as it needed exports. He warned the Communists that the government was ready to strike hard at rebelliousness. The Weekly Black Front said Hitler agreed to tolerate the Von Schleicher cabinet when the chancellor threatened | VENETIANS STAGE MARCH | ON FRENCH CONSULATE | Demonstrators, Numbering 2,000, { Shout Phrases of Protest Against Incidents in Dalmatia. | VENICE, Italy, December 16.—Dem- | onstrators rang bells in famous San ! Marco Cathedrzl yesterday and marched on the French consulate, shouting | phrases of protest, as the Venetians | Joined the nation-wide series of mani- | festations against incidents in Dalmatia. | ‘The demonstrators, numbering over | 2,000, did not resort to violence. { Resentment at .the destruction of stone lions at Trau, Yugoslavia, is es- pecially strong here as they are sym- | bolic of the former Venetian domina- | tion of Dalmatia. A demonstration also occurred at Fiume. French embassies at Rome and Vati- can City have been protected by the Italian authorities. | EXTEND WILBUR LEAVE STANFORD _ UNIVERSITY, Calif.. December 16 (). —Trustees of Stanford University yesterday tentatively extend- ed the leave of obsence of Dr. Ray Wil- bur, president of the university and | Secretary of the Interior, until March | 4. Dr. Wilbur had not requested an | extension of the leave, which expires | December 31. The trustess also re- | elected President Hoover to membership | for a 10-year period. to use his influence to cut off the party’s | firancial resources. The weekly asserted | that Hitler was facing a party debt of 12,000,000 marks (about $2,900,000). Hitler today arrived here to confer | with Prussian Nazi directors, who still | are wrangling over a possible coalition | with other parties whereby the Reich’s commissioner will become unnecessary. 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All except a few hundred national safety.” | dollars of the stolen money was re- e A | covered. > Seek 25.000 Whales. | "Ed Arnold, vice chairman of the % State Board of Administration, revealed CANBERRA, Australia (#).—A Nor- | yesterday favorable action was taken a wegian fleet of 129 vessels expects to kill | week ago on Mrs. Scraper’s appeal for 25.000 whales in the Antarctic this sea- She was sentenced July 6, son. rve a 10 to 21 year sentence. hy contributing toward & minimum | budget of $20 a week or a total of $520 for the next six months? | Opportunity No. 19. | Mental Security vs. Physical Pain. With youth, health and a job, the future looked bright for Mr. James and his family. 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