Evening Star Newspaper, January 6, 1933, Page 17

é The Zpe ning S ITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION far Society and General CAPITAL TRACTION | WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1933. Dog Stands Death Watch PET OF ACCIDENT VICTIM HAUNTS HOSPITAL. TOACTNEXT WEEK ON UNFATION Appointment of Committee’ to Begin Negotiations Is Expected. W. R. & E. WILL WAIT UNTIL BILL IS SIGNED Gratitude of Citizens for Passage of Merger Measure Voiced by Littlepage. i With the street railway merger bill | awaiting only President Hoover’s sig-| nature fo_become law, officlals of the Capital Traction Co. are planning to | take the initial step in drafting a unifi- | cation agreement next week. | The Washington Railway and Elec- | tric Co. does not contemplate any action | until after the President has affixed | his signature to the bill. The board of directors of the Capital Traction Co. meets Tuesday, and Presi- dent John H. Hanna said a committee | probably would be appointed at that | time to begin negotiations with the | other company. i Will Go to Stockholders. | It will be necessary for the two boards of directars to agree upon a merger plan within six weeks after the bill becomes law. After the plan has been adopted by the directors, it must be submitted to the stockholders of both companies and ratified by them within two years to become operative. A unification agreement was adopted February 10, 1928, by both companies, but it expired June 1, 1929, and must be replaced. Once an agreement has been adoj by the directors and stockholders of the two companies. provided it conforms to the bill passed by the House and Sen- ate, the merger becomes effective. The new company, however, still will be subject to the supervision of the Public TUtlities Commission. Littlepage Gratified. Commenting upon the passage of the bill by Congress, Thomas P. Littlepage, president of the Washington Chamber - Washingio w\tne deeply grat- ;. gton c 'ns are deeply grat- ified to learn of the ratification by the House of Representatives of the street railway merger bill recently passed by the Senate, and I want to extend the cordial atulations of the Citizens Joint Transportation Committee to Representative Mary T. Norton, chair- men, and the members of the House District Committee, whose splendid sympathy for District needs made pos- sible this long-desired achievement. “When ‘this bill has been signed by President Hoover the first step will have been taken to make possible the appli- cation of the co-ordinated transporta- tion plan, which the Citizens Joint Committee is , and & means of - backing, avolding the tramsportation crisis which for long has been threatening this city. It is the earnest of the members of the Joint gommmee that t‘_h:ulg:en; did co-Gperation of Congress of material aid to the Public Utilities Commission and the affected traction companies and that it will help them to bring about as soon as may be a well considered consolidation plan which will insure better service at reasonable cost to all District citizens.” GAS VICTIM DIES OF HEART ATTACK Mrs. Anna M. Duehring, Who Was Found With Husband, Stricken ‘While Recovering. A heart attack today claimed the life | of Mrs. Anna M. Duehring, 78, who was found with her husband, August Duehring, 81, overcome by gas in their apartment in the 200 block of Massa- chusetts avenue northeast yesterday. She died in Casualty Hospital shortly before 6 a.m. Mrs. Duehring was thought to have been recovering from the effects of gas poisoning when her weakened heart, from which she had been suffering for several years, failed. Her husband, who has been a bed-ridden victim of paraly- sis for eight years, according to mem- bers of his family, was described as being in a satisfactory condition at Casualty Hospital this morning. ‘The couple were found in the bed room | of their apartment in an unconscious | condition by a colored janitor, who de- | tected the odor of gas coming from the apartment. They were locked in, with all windows closed, according to police, and four jets on a kitchen gas stove were open. Both were attired in sleep- ing clothes, police said The fire rescue squad administered | emergency aid and conveyed them to| Casualty Hospital. | The coroner was notified in connec- | tion with the death of Mrs, Duehring. CITIZENS ASK GENERAL USE OF BOOSTER PUMPS Burroughs Association Urges Sub- stitution for Chemical Tanks in All Fire Companies. Substitution of booster pumps for chemical tanks on all District fire ap- paratus not already so equipped, was u by ciation last ni Sc at a meetiag in the Burrough Eighteenth and Monroe streets northeast. Because the chemical equipment has been found less satisfactory than booster pumps, ssociation pointed out, the change been effected in all but a f companies here. Of e unaltered two of them are in the Bur- roughs neighborhood. e association went on record as favoring extension of South Dakota avenue through to Eighteenth street g0 as to give access to Taft Junior High School from the North and West. A resolution supporting the “Buy Amer- ican” plan also was adopted. PEPCO FILES APPEAL Challenges Commission Rigkt to Modify Consent Decree. ‘The Potomac Electric Power Co. has filed in the Court of Appeals its appeal from the cecision of District Supreme Court Justice Oscar R. Luhring modi.. fying the sliding scale of the Public Utilities Commission for determining electric rates. ‘The company challenges the right of the commission to modify the old con- sent decree under which rated were re- duced amicably about seven years ago, Burroughs Citizens’ Asso- | Elbert Watt, 8 years old, who died into him yesterday, and Trixie, his grie VEN the playmate knocked down “ by the same automobile did not | realize at first how seriously 8- | year-old Elbert Watt was in- jured yesterday. Neither did the driver of the car, | backing from a parking lot at Twenty- | ninth and M streets. But there was one who knew—El- | bert's small dog, Trixie, which had been | romping with the two boys. ‘The driver, Willlam Jones, colored, | 38, of the 200 block of Rhode Island | avenue northeast, placed Elbert in the u{‘ lnnd started for Georgetown Hos- Meanwhile, Elbert's playmate raced | to tell the latter'’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Watt, at 1224 Twenty- | ninth street, a few blocks away. | It was Trixie, however, who spread | the alarm, dashing ahead to wail at the | of injuries after an automobile backed ving dog, who sat outside the hospital door while physicians tried to save his master’s life. door. When members of Elbert's family got into an automobile to drive to the hospital, Trixie leaped into the tonneau. Some one put the dog out as the car drove hastily off, but Trixie raced un- daunted behind. The little dog sat shivering outside the door of the emer- gency room while doctors bent over Elbert. Dogs have no business in a hospital, and Trixie was at length put out of doors. The dog was glimpsed outside from time to time as doctors fought for Elbert’s life. Trixie did not return home today until after Elbert had been pronounced dead. A coroner’s jury will inquire into | the accident at 11:30 o'clock tomorrow morning, and police are holding Jones for the inquest. Today the dog moped quietly at home. “Trixie knows,” some one said. HALE WILL SPEED | RELIEF FUND VOTE Plans to Push Deficiency Bill Carrying $625,000 for Capital’s Needy. Chairman Hale of the Senate Ap- propriations Committee will sek prompt action in the Senate next week on the deficlency appropriation bill, which car- | Ties an emergency item of $625,000 for | continuing unemployment relicf work | by the Board of Public Welfare in the District. The bill has passed the House and is awaiting consideration by the Senate committee Unless the Senate passes the bill promptly, the Board of Public Welfare will be forced to close its doors to 6,000 Washingion families who are in | dire need, Mrs. Charles Goldsmith, | board member and vicc president of the Community Chest, told the Adver- tising Club of Washington at its lunch- {eon meeting this afternoon. She said the board, ich will administer the | $625,000 fund, is now out of money and | is barely able to administer relief to the needy throughout this week Senator Hale said the Treasury-Post | Office supply meawure and the defi- { clency bill prcbably would be reported {from the Senate committee about the ! same time, but that the deficiency bill | would be taken up first because of the | time element involved in s-me of the | deficiency items. The District relief | fund, for exa ded by January Quarter Revealed CounterfeitWhen Broken by Fall It seemed to be a perfectly good quarter until Russ Alexander, Star printer, accidentally drop- ped it on the floor. But imagine his surprise—in these days when quarters most emphatically do not grow on trees—to find the quarter in two pleces when he picked it up. The coin, he discovered on more careful examination, was a counterfeit, and the slight blow from the fall to the concrete floor in The Star club room, had broken the metal into almost equal pieces. Inquiry at the Treasury dis- closed that a number of counter- feit quarters had been turned in at the Treasury in recent months. 15 to enab’e the rellef work to be car- ried on without interruption. District Auditor Donovan and Di- rector of Public Welfare Wilson con- ferred with Senatcr Hale yesterday regarding the District relief item. 39 HELD IN PROBE In an effort to solve a number of re- cent housebreakings, hold-ups and vari- ous forms of theft, police early today |arrested 39 colored men found in pool rooms, lunch rooms and along the side- walk on Seventh street in the vicinity of L and M streets. The men were all booked for investi- gation and are to be gpestioned exten- sively to see if they can throw any light on recent crimes. 'BRIDGE AND POKER PARTIES HELD INFLUENZA BREEDERS = e ! Dr. John M. Baber Tells of Dangers and Precautions Bridge and poker parties where the | air is hazy with tobacco smoke are | citrous fruits or alkalinizing drugs and | took out a marriage license yesterda: playing a part in the current “mild | epidemic” of influenza, according to Dr.| John M. Baber, member of the Health Educational Council of the Young Men's Christlan Association. [ in Lecture in Y. M. C. A. Auditorium. rest in bed, lots of drinking water, light diet. “In Washington tcday,” Dr. Baber stated, “we have a mild epidemic of influenza which is not as virulent as the type which caused so many deaths 5000 MAY BE IDLE ASU. . BUILDINGS STRIKE THREATENS Hoisting Engineers and Ele- vator Men at Odds Over Jurisdiction, NEW JUSTICE AND LABOR STRUCTURES INVOLVED ‘Workers of Both Unions Dispute Use of Lifts for Certain Materials. Threat of a strike which may throw from 3,000 to 5,000 men out of work hung over two of the large Government construction jobs today as a result of differences between hoisting engineers and elevator men. Treasury officials said they understood the District of Columbia Hoisting En- gineers’ Union had threatened to with- draw its men from the Justice Depart- ment Bullding, at Tenth Pennsylvania avenue, Monday and that | the group is contemplating similar ac- tion in connection with the Labor De- partment construction job, at Four- teenth street and Pennsylvania avenue. Minimizes Threat. Neal A. Melick, construction engineer in charge of the Labor Department job, | however, was inclined to minimize the likelihood of a strike. ‘I think they're just running a bluff,” he said, “and are using the newspapers for publicity purposes.” He said he did not think more than 15 hoisting engineers were employed on both jobs, but that a strike by them would make it impossible for most of the other mgn to go on with their work. Dispute Over Work. The dispute was said to center around the use of hoists by the elevator men to lift machinery used in installing the elevators. The hoisting engineers, it was said, cgntend they are entitled to this work, but the elevator men say they are privileged to do it themselves by reason of recent arbitration. One official pointed out that the elevator men do not use the hoists more groups are union workers. He ex- pressed the belief this reduces the likelihood of a strike being called. MEETING ON RENTS Senators Capper and Copeland Ex- pected to Address Apartment Owners and Agents. Senators Capper of Kansas and Copeland of New York, members of the subcommittee of the Senate Dis- trict Committee, which is investigating rental conditions here, are expected to address a meeting of apartment house jowners and their agents tonight at-the | United States Chamber of Commerce, | Connecticut avenue and H street. The mass meeting was arranged at a | recent sessicn of the committee, in a | conference between Senator Copeland and Roger J. Whiteford, counsel for |the Washington Real Estate Board. The purpose of the meeting is a di- rect exchange of ideas between mem- bers of the Senate group and the own- ers of buildings on the contention of ton should be reduced. BANDITS ARE BUSY IN MANY SECTIONS Two Persons Held Up, Hotel Clerk Tricked Out of $100, Purse Stolen. Two were robbed of $54 in hold-ups, a hotel cashier was tricked out of $100 and a woman's purse was stolen last night while she was in a church only a few doors from her home, according to reports to police. Another robbery was frustrated when a mail truck driver attacked a colored man who attempted to hold him up as he was collecting mail. Morris Hurwitz, grocer, was robbed of $50 at pistol point by a colored man in his grocery store in the 1600 block of New Jersey avenue. Norman Luskey of the 1100 block of Seventh street northeast, taxi driver, told police he was robbed of $4 near Maryland University last night by two | white men, one of whom hit him over 'the head. The men had hired the taxi |in_the city to be driven into Maryland Rovert . L. Hutchinson, Roosevelt on the telephone, gave the name of a guest of the hotel and asked that $100 be sent him by messenger. The “guest” told Hutchinson he would give him a check for the sum later, the cashier |was given was approached later by | Hutchinson he denied any knowledge of the transaction Miss Virginia Smith, 900 block of | Twenty-third street, reported her pock- | etbook, containing about $5, had been taken while she was in church near her home. The mail truck driver, Joseph A. Bourke, of the 200 block of Elm street, struggled with the colored man when he parked the mail truck to collect mail at Barry place and Sherman avenue. A | | CHILDHOOD FRIENDS TO WED AT AGE OF 74 | Friends since their early childhood days in Washington, Miss Sutherland, 74, of 1618 Twenty-ninth street, and John A. Johnson, also T4, a 'native of the District, who has long {been a practicing lawyer in New York, y in that city. The ceremony will be performed at the “Little Church Around the Corner” on February 8, they announced. Miss Sutherland, who makes her home “Smoking appears to lower resistance | during the World War, but which is a | here with her sister, Mrs. Howard S. to all respiratory infections,” Dr. Baber | declared in a lecture on ‘“Common | Colds and Kindred Ilis” last night under auspices of the council at lh:a Y. M. C. A. Auditorium. Influenza may be prevented, he sald, | by avoiding crowds in public places . “Often bridge disabling condition. “It is more than a cold. The tem- perature is higher, the general body feeling of fatigue and muscle soreness is ter, the prostration is more severe and the recovery is slower. The patient is left weak and often with a productive cough for many days after the fever has subsided. The advice of this | the family physician should be sought severe cases. in all McCandlish, is the daughter of Maj. ‘Daniel J. Sutherland, late of the United States Marine Corps, and Mrs. Annie M Sutherland. She has known Mr. | Johnson as a family friend since they were both children, her sister sald. Mr. Johnson’s first wife died several months ago. Miss Sutherland has two other , Mrs. A. R. McGuire of Washing- Iton end Mrs. George L. Stone of New- street and | than 30 minutes a day and that both | T0 BE HELD TONIGHT| the legislators that rents in Washing- | Hotel cashier, reported he was tricked | out of $100 by a man who called him | { told police. When the man whose name | Caroline | GAS MERGER GIVEN FAVORABLE STATUS AT HOUSE HEARING Unopposed Despite Proposal From Keech to Slice Valuation. SUBCOMMITTEE EXPECTED TO APPROVE MEASURE Plans of People’s Counsel to Ex- clude “Going Concern” Value Promises Future Fight. Although People's Counsel Richmond | | B. Keech served notice he intends to press for an amendment to the gas| company merger bill when it reaches Ilh{‘ Senate which would exclude so- | the House Subcommittee last night. Indications were that the subcom- | mittee, of which Representative Loring M. Black, jr, Democrat, of New York, is chairman, would submit a favorable report to the House District Committee on the measure to consolidate the Washington and Georgetown Gas Light companies. The Senate District Committee is scheduled to hold public hearings on the bill beginning at 2:30 o'clock this | afternoon. | Keech, who seeks inclusion of the| “going concern” clause in the legislation as a means of bringing about a lower cost for the commodity to the consumer. told the subcommittee Senator Robert | B. Howell, Republican, of Nebraska, Iplans to introduce the amendment in | | the Senate. Based on Good Will The “going concern” value is the ap- praisal placed by the utility on the | good will in the community of its sub- scribers and customers. It has been held by the courts, according to As- sistant Corporation Counsel William A. ! Roberts, who also testified at the hear- ing, to represent approximately 10 per cent of the total valuation. It was pointed out that, with the companies allowed a 7 per cent return on their valuation,” this would create a consid- Inrab}e reduction in their return. The | gas company representatives are ex- | | pected to vigorously oppose it. Wilton J. Lambert, attorney for the| Washington and Georgetown Gas Light Cos., voiced ojcetion immediately to Keech’s%broposal. “Unless the Supreme | Court of the United States reverses itself, it must hold any such legislation as unconstitutional,” he said. Gen. Mason M. Patrick, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, told the subcommittee the merger would bring about a saving of between $30,000 and $50,000, and to give the companies an opportunity to change their capital structure. He said the merger will be in the interest of the consumers in the long Tun, as it will have a bearing on reduction of gas rates in the District. ‘The legislation would permit the Wash- ington eompany to issue stock with | which to finance any further extension | of its plans, he said. | Uncertsin As to Results. At present neither company may issue additional stock without express permission of Congress. He sald the anti-merger restriction, which was an objectionable feature of a previous bill | to merge the companies, had been elim- | | inated. Questioned by Representative Black | as to ultimate ownership of the gas | companies under the merger, Assistant | | Corporation Counsel Roberts was un- | | able to predict what the outcome would |be. For the benefit of the committee, | however, he outlined the stock owner- ship in the two companies, in which he said approximately 64 corporations and | groups were either directly or indirectly involved. His explanation brought forth from | ocrat, of Virginia, the comment that “the situation seems to be an awkward one which doesn’t appear to serve any good purpose.” Attorney Lambert said the company needs the new form of financing con- templated in the bill in order that it might retire bonds from time to time and to keep abreast of rapidly changing times by making improvements and ex- | tensiohs in service. In response to a | question by Representative Black, Lam- | bert said the gas concern does not con- template rate reductions at the present time. The bill provides, briefly, that the Georgetown Gas Light Co., after the | passage of the bill, might lawfully be merged with the Washington Gas Light Co., with the latter company taking over all rights, privileges, liabilities and obligations of the Georgetown com- pany. The consolidated company would be authorized to increase its capital stock by the iguance of new stock, with or without par value, in such amounts as may be approved by the Public Util- ities Commission, which shall be in control of all issues of stock. Congress Reserves Right. Congress reserves the right to alter, amend or repeal the act or any part of it at any time. The Washington Gas Light Co. at | present has $2,600,000 in stock out- |standing and $13,600,000 in bonds, | while the Georgetown company has 1$150,000 in stock and $1,000,000 in | bonds. Others attending the hearing in- cluded Marcy L. Sperry, president of the Washington Gas Light Co.; Arthur | Daen of Sullivan & Cromwell, repre- senting the Chase National Bank inter- ests; Attorney Wiliam E. Horton of the Gas Co. and Public Utilities Commis- sioner R. E. Elgin. COMPENSATION CHECKED Donovan Seeks List of Employes Drawing U. §. Funds. District Auditor Daniel J. Donovan sent to sll District department heads | today a circular inquiring the names of all regular employes of the District | who, in addition to their pay, draw compensation in any form as monetary rewards for prior military or naval service. The information was sought by the Veterans' Administration, which in turn wants it for the Joint Congressional Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Donovan's circular requires that the information be tabulated and submit- ted to him not later than January 9. Child Fatally Burned. CULPEPER, Va. January 6 pe- cial). — Becoming terrified when her dress caught fire from matches, Alice Hitt, 9-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Hitt of North CIiff, :I:és county, ran screaming into the yard, | where the wind fanned the flames to such an extent that before her mother | could answer her calls for help she was fatally burned. Representative Howard W. Smith, Dem- | * Laying Inaugural Plans These men and women, prominent in the Capital and in the Democratic called “going concern” value from any , party, are among those chosen today by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, general | valuation for rate making purposes, no | inaugural chairman, to head subcommittees handling the details of the inaugu- objection was raised to the proposed (ration, March 4, of President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. | legislation at a public hearing before | left to right: Lloyd B. Wilson, president of the Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- on_ Public | bhone Co., chairman of the Finance Committee; Mrs. Blair Bannister, editor of | Utilities in the House Office Building ! the National Women's Democratic Club Bulletin, chairman of the Committee In the top row are, on Housing and Hospitality, and J. Fred Essary, Washington correspondent of | the Baltimore Sun, chairman of the Committee on the Official Program; and, | lower row, Charles Michelson, chairman of press relations and communications; Mrs. John Allen Dougherty, chairman of the Inaugural Ball Committee, and Melvin C. Hazen, chairman of the Public Order Committee. FEDERAL LOANS 10 SCHOOLS URGED Education Conference Agrees on State Aid in Emer- gency Situation. Federal aid to State public school | systems, hard pressed to maintain “rea- sonable standards,” will be urged by President Hoover's Citizens' Conference on the Crisis in Education, now in its final session at the National Academy of Sciences. In a protracted discussion of “the relation of expenditures for education to expenditures for other public serv- ives” the conference today reached an agreement only on a portion of the resolutions proposed by the committee assigned to study this topic. Foremost of these resolutions approved was: “We ‘urge the Congress to provide | Federal assistance through emergency loans for a limited period to such States as may make an adequate showing of their inability to maintain reasonable standards” in their public schoo! systems. Divided on Price Issue. The conference was badly split on a propbsal to urge the raising of the general price level on commodities, some of the educator-delegates contending this topic is a fundamental of society outside the pale of a convention called to consider an emergency in education, and others arguing that because it is a fundamental, it should receive a specific expression of opinion by the President’s conference. Another proposal on which the con- vention seemed in agreement, but which will await formal expression until the proposed resolutions are redrafted, either late today or following adjourn- ment of the conference, is, elimination of waste in school administration through political corruption rising out of political appointee administration of school systems. Complete agreement on the phraseology of this resolution was lacking, however, when the educators questioned the propriety of the word olitics” and of the definition generally of “political appointee.” Question of Priority. The sense of all resolutions expected to come out of the conference today is that education should be accorded priority over other problems of Govern- ment and soci®ty generally. The Legis- lative Committe will undertake to have the conference urge all State Legisla- tures now in session to give priority to legislation which would seek to alleviate unsatisfactory conditions in the school systems. Resolutions are yet to be proposed by the committees on organization and operation of instruction, school build- ings, free schooling at higher levels, and relation of schools to other social agencies. The conference still has before it the suggestion of Secretary of Interior Wil- bur, chairman of the conference, that millions of dollars of road funds be used for education instead of highways. The Secretary late yesterday asserted that “we can take a billion dollars now spent for highways and put it into the schools, and with about 44 Legislatures now meeting, why not boldly challenge the highways in favor of the schools?” WED 60 YEARS Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Artz of 38 V street. on Tuesday celebrated the six- tieth anniversary of their marriage. They were entertained at a surprise party given by members of their family that night at 517 Kennedy street. The couple were married in 1872, The Star erroneously published no- ;‘\aex l:{] the anniversary yesterday as the eth. SEAL TO REMAIN - AS AIDE TO BRIDE 'Lawyer Who Represented Dance Marathon, Censured, Withdraws Resignation. The Board of Commissioners today allowed Assistant Col;gora'.\on Counsel !wood H. Seal to withdraw the resig- nation he tendered Wednesday on de- mand of Corporation Counsel William | W. Bride, because of Seal's participa- ‘tion in a private court suit in defense of the promoters of a marathon dance contest. Seal was censured by the board, and allowed to take back his | resignation on his promise to refrain |from representing any litigant in mat- |ters directly or indirectly opposed by | the municipality. | . Seal appeared as counsel for the Marathon Exhibition Co. Inc, which wae being sued at equity by the All States’ Hotel, which sought-an injunc- tion to prevent continuance of the | marathon at the Washington Audi- torium. When Mr. Bride read of the appearance of Mr. Seal, he promptly demanded his resignation. Mr. Bride's action was based on the fact that the municipality is opposed marathon dance contests, adopted a police regulation designed to stop them, and although Mr. Seal’s ap- pearance was in_ private litigation, nevertheless, Mr. Bride felt, the city could not afford to have one of its legal advisers supporting a practice to which it was opposed. Many of Mr. Seal's friends, however, | called on the Commissioners in his be- half, urging them to take Seal back. At their regular board meeting today the city heads summoned Bride and asked him if he would consent to take Seal back if they censured the young attorney. Mr. Bride agreed. Mr. Seal was sum.moned, censured by the board :‘nd allowed to withdraw his resigna- ion. Mr. Bride said afterward he was per- sonally delighted, as Seal, with whom | he had practiced law before his ap- pointment as corporation counsel, was i a good friend. | _Seal is serving on a temporary ap- | pointment, during the absence of As- | sistant Corporation Counsel Thomas F. Cameron, who is ill. TWO CHILDREN HURT IN AUTO ACCIDENT | Spiros Psaras and John Paul Under Treatment at Emergency Hospital. ‘Two children, Spiros Psaras, 5, of the | 100 block of Massachusetts avenue and | John Paul, 9, of the 600 block of Fourth street, were seriously injured late yes- | terday when knocked down by an auto- | mobile on C street near Sixth street | southeast. They are being treated at | Emergency Hospital, where X-rays are | to be taken to determine whether they | had any broken bones. The automobile which struck them was operated by Winfred Hooe, 100 block of Carroll street southeast, who | was first detained at No. 4 police sta- tion and then released. Others injured in traffic were: Nel- son Chandler, 13, of the 4300 block of N street, who was knocked from & bi- cycle by an automobile operated by Samuel Bansky, 30, of the 3200 block of N street, and Mrs. Mary Dale, 46, of 4100 New Mexico avenue, who was thrown against the side of a taxicab in which she was riding when it struck a depression in the street at Wisconsin avenue and P street. Chandler was treated at Georgetown | Hospital and Mrs. Dale was treated by 'a private physician. “EARLY BIRDS” FORM NATIONAL AVIATION RELIEF ORGANIZATION Pioneer Airmen Seek to Aid Victims and: Families of Plane Accidents. Creation through a series of air | meets, races, group tours and other aerial events, at various clties ir the United States, including Washington, of a fund for the relief of families of | ia aviators killed or incapacitated in fly- ing accidents is planned by the Early Birds, it was announced today from tha local headquarters of the organi- zation. The Early Birds, composed of ploneer airmen who earned their wings nf;lor to 1916, has appointed an organizing committee to handle arrangements for the campaign, which will begin early in the Spring. Among the members of the committee are Commodore F. G. Ericson, chairman; Ernest L. Jones, formerly of the Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce, d Chaties K. Day, . H. Depew, Ir. Lieut. < | Col. Harold E. Hartney, Howard Hunt- | ington, A. Roy Knabenshue, Col. Dean I Lamb, George M. McLaughlin and | George H. Scragg. Mrs. Lloyd E. Mil- | ler is chairman of the Woman’s Auxil- Ty. u;rhe relief tmhe is wd‘ to be the first empt on part of an organized national aviation group to provide for the families of all fiyers who are killed or injured. The Early Birds has a membership of about 300 pioneer fiyers and includes in its ranks some of the leading erican , Navy, airmail :ind civilian pilots and aviation execu- ves. The air meets and other events, which mmbemlllmolrlmn;m relief fund, are to in May. Plans s0 far call for Wi , Chicago, Los Aveiess Dailas and ther cition” 4 in New York, | — PAGE B—1 CRAYSON TO MAKE INAUGURAL PLANS WITH ROOSEVELT Chairman of General Com- mittee Hopes to Leave To- morrow for Week End Visit. FIRST CONFERENCE HELD LAST MONTH IN GEORGIA Names of 18 Heads of Committees for March 4 Activities An- nounced Today. With the set-up of his Inaugural Com- mittee practically complete and all sub- committee chairmen ready to go to work, Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson, chairman of the General Inaugural Committee, planned to leave tomorrow for a week end visit with President- elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, at Hyde Park, N. Y., to discuss further plans for the inaugural. Expected Back Monday. { _Admiral Grayson is expected back in ‘Washington Monday, and if possible, a meeting of the General Committee will be called immediately to get the ma- chinery of the big committee function- ing on the vast amount of work that is necessary to make the induction into office of the President of the United States run smoothly. Admiral Grayson will lay before the President-elect the work already done, acquaint him with the members of the committee he has chosen and receive any new suggestions Mr. Roosevelt may have for the celebration. President-elect Roosevelt already has gone into the inaugural plans at length with Admiral Grayson in a conference in early December at Warm Springs, Ga., but 5o much work has been done since that time that Admiral Grayson is anxious to have Mr. Roosevelt know the progress that has been made. No definite time has been set for the general meeting of the inaugural chair- men, but Democratic leaders here feel that 1t is possible that the committee could be called together immediately upon Admiral Grayson's return from Hyde Park and set to work. In naming the 18 chairmen of the subcommittees today, Admiral Grayson as far as possible decentralized the ma- chinery of the committee and in a letter to each subchairman gave the letter a practically free hand to make plans, and to function on its own initia= tive. Later, difficulties that might be encountered by a committee will be ironed out by Admiral Grayson and his vice chairmen and executive staft, which includes Frederic A. Delano, Mrs; J. Borden Harriman, John P. Costell and H. Rozier Dulany, vice chairmen; Corcoran Thom, treasurer; Charles A. Douglas, general counsel; Hugh T, Nel+ son, executive secretary, ml Jobn P, all, secretary to the ral com- mittee. . Subcommittee Heads. The chairman of the subcommittees are as follows: Finance Committes, Lloyd B. Wilson; Legislative Commit- tee, Leslie C. Garnett; Housing and Hospitality Committee, Mrs. Blair Bane nister; Committee on Reception of Gove ernors and Distinguished Guests, Ray- mond T. Baker; Historic Sites Commit- tee, George Rothwell Brown; Entere tainment Committee, Huston Thomp- son; Grandstands and Decorations Committee, Waddy Wood; Grandstand Ticket Committee, Daniel C. Roper; Medals, Badges and Souvenirs Com= mittee, Robert Woolley; Public Order Committee, Melvin C. Hazen; Medical Aid and Emergency Arrangements Com- mittee, Maj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland; Transportation Ccmmittee, Thomas P. Littlepage; Printing and Engraving Committee, John P. Colpoys; Press Re- lations and Communications Committee, Charles Michelson; Inaugural Ball Committee, Mrs. John Allen Dougherty and Wilton J. Lambert, honorary chair- man; Official Program Committee, J. Fred Essary; Budget and Auditing Com- mittee, James A. Councilor; Special Entertainment Committee, Dr. G. David Houston. Each of the subcommittee chairmen will have a free hand in naming the men and women who will serve with them on their individual units, it was announced, and already they are at work drawing up the personnel of their units, preparing to hold preliminary meetings and working out the details of their particular jobs. Ball Idea Indorsed. President-elect Roosevelt has indorsed the idea of the inaugural ball, the pro- ceeds of which will go to charity and relief, but probably will not attend hime self. He has assured Admiral Grayson,, however, that members of his family will be there. What other plans he may have for the inaugural are not at present know but Admiral Grayson expects to lay be. fore the first general committee meet- ing the program of the inaugural as finally approved by the President-elect. \FUNERAL PLANNED AS INQUIRY BEGINS Elzie E. Powell, Explosion Victim, to Be Buried Sunday Afternoon. While a speclal board named Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d, director of public buildings and public parks, was investigating the steam explosion near the Government heating plant Wednesday afternoon, funeral arrange- ments were being made today for the victim of the blast. Another man was slightly injured. Elzie E. Powell, 48, electrician of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks, who died yesterday at the Naval Hospital, will be buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery Sunday afternoon fpllowing funeral services at 1 p.m. in the chapel of the W. W. Chambers Co., 1400 Chapin_street. An inquest into his death is to be held tomorrow at 11 am. at the Dis- trict morgue. Mr. Powell, who lived at 2800 Ash street, Mount Rainier, Md., is survived by . two brothers—Matt T. and David H. of Bowling Green, Ky —in addition to the members of his family, here. Norman W. Foote, 43, of Congress Heights, who was working with Mr. Powell, escaped with burns on his face. Sewer Contract Let. ‘The Commissioners today awarded to the Warren F. Brenizer Co. a contract for the construction of the Soapstone Valley storm-water sewer, in the vicin- 1 l'l'hlngllflh treet and fl“;c'o.lar .I'I-Z'I..