Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1934, Page 32

B—12 ROOSEVELT VIEWS CROSSING PROJECT $864,000,000 Plan to Cure Evil Carried in Ickes’ Winter Outline. By the Associated Press. Use of $864,000,000 to do away with grade crossings was proposed yester- day by the Security Owners’ Associa- tion at about the same time that President Roosevelt was going over his plans for the Winter with some of his close advisors. Secretary Ickes, who had put grade- crossing elimination on the list of public works he proposed for the Winter. was one of those who talked with the President during the day. Bernard M. Baruch, the New York financier, was another. Neither would discuss their conference. Many Plans Presented. To what extent the grade-crossing proposals would fit into the broad national program the President is working out for the Winter has not been disclosed. Numerous plans have | been presented from various sources, and out of the offerings presidential advisors said they expected to see| emerge a rounded plan of emergency works to co-ordinate development and conservation of natural resources. The proposal put forward by tie Security Owners’ Association for grade-crossing elimination listed 12,- 951 projects which the organization said could be set under way in 90 days to give work to 750,000 men. Under the proposed allocation, $601379.085 would be spent in the Eastern district, $190,883.475 in the Southern district and $71,350,607 in the Western district. 85 Per Cent to Wages. Milton W. Harrison, president of the association, said in outlining the proposal that 85 per cent of the ex- penditures would go into wages. “Not only does such & program, by the speed with which it can be placed in execution, thus meet the present | ‘Winter's emergency, recognized as the most critical of the whole depression, but in the quantities of steel, cement, timber and other supplies required, it stimulates those industries in which unemplovment has been particularly acute,” Harrison said. FIRE DAMAGES MILL Loss From Fire of Undetermined Origin Proves Small. CALHOUN FALLS, S. C., December 8 (#)—Fire of undetermined origin was discovered early today in the ele- vator of the Calhoun Mills here, 30,000 spindles mill of the Gossett group, but was soon brought under control. The loss from the fire itsell was small, but considerable damage to material resulted from water. W. M. Story, superintendent, said| it would require several days for the| machinery to be placed in operationi again. The loss was covered by in- surance, he said. Yule Dance Scheduled. A Christmas dinner dance will be given by the Woman's Auxiliary of the District of Columbia Dental So- ciety at the Army-Navy Country Club Friday at 8 pm. The proceeds will go to the maintenance of & dental clinic at Children’s Hospital | This crash at Fifth and Rittenhouse streets between a fire engine and an automobile yesterday afternoon sent Edward G. Molander, 28, 203 Philadelphia avenue, Takoma Park, Md, driver of the automobile, to Walter Reed Hospital with lacerations of the scalp and possible rib fractures. He was released after treatment. apparatus which struck his car, No. 22 engine, was responding to a brush fire at Rittenhouse street and Blair road. It was operated by R. D. McAleer, The firemen escaped injury, although some of them were shaken up. \F airbanks-p iclncor(l Divorce BYRD EXPLORERS HEADED FOR BASE Sledging Party Completes Reconnoissance of Area Found in 1929. By the Associated Press. LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, De- cember 8 (Via Mackay Radio).—The Marie Byrd Land sledging party, 56 days out of Little America, today turned for home, having completed the first geological and biological reconnoissance of the region first dis- covered by Admiral Richard E. Byrd on a flight five years ago. Since the party's departure, Oc- tober 14, the radio reports have been brief, because of the necessity of con- serving batteries. Recent advices in- { dicated, however, that the men were pleased with the results of their pio- neering studies. Paul Siple, biologist and leader of the party, reported the biological re- sults were better than expected, and Alton Wade, geologist, said he was more than satisfied. The other two members of the party are dog drivers. Party Divided for Work. Late last month the party divided at the foot of Donald Woodward Mountain on the western front of the north. The other swung east and north toward the profusion of peaks beyond the front range. This journey carried them over the roof of the great plateau doming Marie Byrd Land. Siple’s lateral investigation carried him 100 nautical miles northeast of Fosdick Mountain, and. last night he reported that one or several of the peaks had the appearance of extinct voleanic cones. A preliminary report on their dis- coveries will be made on returning to this base. Except for references to fog and blizzards in the daily weather reports for flight purposes, the party made no mention of difiiculties. But aviators who flew over their ice- drowned territory said they must have had plenty of them, for the ice surface appeared greatly disturbed. Thorne Glacier Explored. Hundreds of miles to the south, Blackburn’s geological party was forc- ing a way up the virgin slope of Thorne Glacier, a broad, white stream, rising through the escarpment of the Queen Maud Range, and finding im- portant things. Several hundred new peaks, Black- burn reported to Admiral Byrd last night, were in sight, as well as a number of glaciers. Blackburn made these discoveries while mapping a geological cross section of the Queen Maud Range. Last night his party was 94 miles up the glacier and apparently had not yet reached the polar pleateau. A good part of their climb, Blackburn said, was over rough, hard, blue ice, interspersed with pressure crevasses. Here at the expedition’s base the weather at last turned clear, and if | conditions remain favorable the big plane, William Horlick, will take off shortly after midnight on another ‘The —Star Staff Photo. Action Languishes for Year By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, December 8 —Doug- las Fairbanks and Mary Pickford still are married—exactly a year after the filing of Miss Pickford’s divorce suit charging the actor with mental cruel- ty and neglect. Her suit lies on file in the office | of the county clerk. Every word in it is an arrow aimed at the world's long-held feeling about “Mary and Doug.” ‘Together for 13 years, they consti- tuted Movieland’s ideal marriage. Mary and Doug are both living in Hollywood, she in Pickfair, the huge white mansion in the hills that was for so many vears the symbol of the strength and solidity of their mar- riage; he in the home of his niece, Mary Margaret Fairbanks. Presumably, they communicate fre- quently, see each other occasionaily. Yet, while there is no further ac- tion toward a divorce, neither have any outward steps been taken toward a reconciliation. The situation between them is ex- actly as it was a year ago, or, for that | matter, 20 months ago, when they first separated. Many years ago, when Mary Pick- ford divorced Owen Moore, and when Fairbanks was divorced from Beth Sully, there was no hesitation or de- lay in either suit. Each was filed, tried and granted quietly, decisively— and quickly. 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