Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1935, Page 21

Washington News CAPITAL TO HONOR WASHINGTON N RITES TOMORROW| Flag Service at Foot of Monument to Open Events of Day. HOLIDAY IS DECLARED FOR FEDERAL WORKERS | D. A. R. Direct Public Celebration in Memorial Continental Hall During Morning. At the freshly cleaned and repaired obelisk dedicated 50 years ago to the Father of His Country, and in numer- ous celebrations throughout this city and at Mount Vernon, the 203rd an- niversary of the birth of George Washington will be observed tomor- row by speech, colorful display of the American flag and patriotic music. Beginning at 8 am. at the foot of | the Washington Monument. when 48 American flags will be flung to the | breeze in a circle about the foot of the newly gleaming tower of granite, serv- ices will follow throughout the dayv at many places, including the top of the Monument itself, from which a Nation-wide radio message will be broadcast. Government departments, banks, the Public Library and most stores will be closed all day. The historic Washington National Monument Society will meet at 12::0 p.m. in the Metropolitan Club to take up official business relating to the shaft itself. This session is not open to the public. Outstanding among the public ser ices during the day will be the cele- bration tomorrow morning at Memo- rial Continental Hall, at which several patriotic groups will unite under di- rection of the Daughters of the Amer- ican Revolution. Fletcher Will Speak. At this service Representative Fletcher of Ohio will deliver the prin- cipal address and the presiding officer will be Mrs. George Madden Grimes, | State regent of the D. A. R. in the District of Columbia. It will be the twenty-first joint celebration, of the D. A. R, the Sons of the American Revolution, the Sons of the Revolution and the Children of the American Several prominent delegates a Ownership Conference at the Willard Hotel. @he Foen WASHINGTON, D. C, Public Ownership Advocates ttending the ninth biennial Public Left to right, are: Carl D, [ d WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION THUR PUBLIC OWNERSHP OF ALL UTILITIES URGED AT MEETING |Sultan Welcomes Delegates to Ninth Biennial Conference. EXCESSIVE RATES LAID TO OVERCAPITALIZATION President of League Declares Con- sumers Pay Half Billion More Than Necessary. Delegates from cities with public- owned utilitfes. meeting in the ninth biennial conference of the Public Ownership League of America at the Willard Hotel, beginning today and lasting through Monday, heard sev- eral speakers argued for public owner- ship and distribution of public utiit- ties, including everything from gas and electricity to milk and food. Delegates to the conference were welcomed to the city by Lieut. Col. | SDAY, FEBRUARY Saved by Sister’s Heroism 21, Thompson of Chicago, secretary of the Public Ownership League; Samuel A. Carlson, for 24 years mayor of Jamestown, N. Y., one of the speakers Dan I. Sultan, District Engineer Com- today, and Willis J. Spaulding, commissioner of public property of Spring- field, 111, and president of the league. —Star Staff Photo. PROBERS CONSIDER GARNETT RECALL {Randolph Says Crime In- quiry Will Be Speeded Up by Committee. United States Attorney Leslie C. | Garnett may be recalled before the | Special Crime Committee of the | House when it resumes hearings next | week, it was indicated today as ar- | | rangements were made to press the Revolution, These societies will be investigation more vlgorously. EDUCATOR ANDBOY Two Hit-and-Run Victims in Serious Condition at Emergency. | Struck by hit-and-run drivers, an elderly educator and a young boy were in serious condition today at Emergency Hospital, while police held one of the motorists and were search- ing for the other. Frederick K. Treudley, 82, of 820 INJURED BY AUTOS, represented by Mrs. Grimes, Dr. Clif- H ton P, Clark, president of the District of Columbia Society, S. A. R.; Dr. Thomas E. Green, president of the Sons of the Revolution in the District of Columbia, and Mrs. James Henry. Harper, State director of the District of Columbia, C. A. R, A musical program will start at 9:45 am. by the United States Ma- rine Band Orchestra; Capt. Taylor Branson leader. There will be com- munity singing, spectacular massing of the colors and presentation of medals in patriotic essay contests. ‘To this public occasion it is an- nounced that no tickets of admission are necessary. At the Washington Monument, aft- | er the placing of 48 flags by the office of National Capital Parks, to repre- sent the 48 States, a wreath from President Roosevelt will be laid at the foot of the shaft about 9 am. It will be placed by a White House aide. | Several other patriotic and civic or- ganizations are planning to lay wreaths, with brief services, at the foot of the Monument, following the | Chairman Randolph said the com-| Connecticut avenue, former Ohio Uni- mittee had not yet definitely decided | versity professor, was run down late on the next witness, but he pointed ! yesterday at Thirteen-and-a-Half out Garnett would be recalled if there| anq E streets. A short time later is any reason to question him further. | Garnett already has spent two days on the witness stand, during which {he was subjected to a rapid fire of questions by his former assistant, John R. Fitzpatrick, who is now the committee counsel. Randolph said the committee pro- poses to speed up the inquiry and announced there would be a con- tinuous parade of witnesses after the resumption of the hearings Monday at 11 am. Some of these are ex- pected to be lawyers and bondsmen who will be called to discuss the bond- ing “racket” which Garnett said he broke up soon after taking office. In the meantime Randolph began the draft of a radio speech on crime in Washington which he will make Saturday night over WJSV and the Dixie network of the Columbia Broad- | casting System. In this broadcast he plans to compare crime conditions in the District with other cities of presidential tribute. These exercises | comparable size and review briefly will take place between 9 am. and|recent developments in the Crime noon, at the invitation of the Office of National Capital Parks. Bloom to Broadcast. ‘The radio broadcast from inside the top | Committee’s investigation. WIS BALENTINE, of the Monument will take place from ; 11:15 to 11:45 a.m., when Representa- tive Sol Bloom, head of the Washing- ton Bicentennial Commission, will tell the story of the Monument itself. Music by the United States Army Band will be picked up by the Colum- bia Broadcasting System for this pro- gram from the Army War College. Following its tradition of many years, the Association of Oldest In- hambitanis will celebrate Washing- ton’s birthday with special exercises at the old Union engine house, south- east corner of Nineteenth and H! streets, tomorrow morning. A business meeting of the organi- zation will start at 10 o'clock, to be followed by the special order of the day. Gratz E. Dunkum will deliver | the principal address, Jesse C. Suter will read Washington's farewell ad- dress, John Clagett Proctor will read an original poem and the invocation will be by Dr. George Fiske Dudley, rector of St. Stephen’s and the Incar- nation Episcopal Church. Frank K.i Sanderson will sing, accompanied by | ‘Mrs. Sanderson. { The central building of the Public Library and all branches and sub- branches will be closed all day tomor- vow. Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian, announced. Saturday the central building will be open from 9 am. to 9 pm. The major branches, Mount Pleasant, Northeastern, South- eéastern and Takoma, will be open from 9 am. to 1 pm. and the sub- branches from 9 am. to noon. Veterans’ Celebration. Several veterans’ organizations will observe the day. Members of George Washington Post, No. 1, the pioneer post of the American Legion, will go to Mount Vernon tomorrow morning, leaving the club house, 1441 Rhode Island avenue, at 10:15. On arrival at Mount Vernon the membership will march to the tomb, whree Post Comdr. Howard E. Snyder will deliver & brief adress, and then place a wreath. Fort Stevens Post, Squadron No. 32, Sons of the American Legion, will conduct patriotic exercises tomorrow night at Paul Junior High School, Bighth and Oglethorpe streets, for in- stallation and initiation exercises, and 9 hear several speakers. Among those 28 the program are John Clagett, Proc- tor, Arthur Reilly, Norman' De Meza, soloist; Henry I Quinn, member of Board of Education, and L.-J. trell, principal of Paul Junior School. will be a concert by the Fort Post Drum and Bugle Corps, community singing. Committee J. T. Fahey of Fort Stev- EX-LIBRARIAN, DIES' Directed Purchase of Books for American Soldiers Abroad During War. Miss Susan L. Balentine, 52, former employe of the Library of Congress, for American soldiers here and abroad during the World War, died Tuesday night in Pasadena, Calif,, ac- cording to an Associated Press dis- patch. Miss Balentine entered the Library in July, 1906, as assistant in the Bibli- ographic Division and later was trans- fered to the Division of Acessions, where she served in the distribution of the publications - issued- by the Library, After the United States entered -the war she aided in the work of placing orders for books for the American Library Association War Service, which had offices at the Library. She resigned from the Library in Decem- ber, 1919, going to California to live with a brother. Miss Balentine, a native of Georgia, was graduated from George Wash- ington University with the degree of bachelor of science. e DR. BRIEFS TO SPEAK Social Economics Professor at C. U. to Lecture Tonight. Dr. Goetz Briefs, visiting professor of social economics at Catholic Uni- versity, will deliver a public lecture tonight at 8:15 o'clock in the Music Building Auditorium on the campus on “Student Life in Germany.” A concert after the address will be given by a costumed quartet composed of Annaliese Ruehl, Johanna Koenig, Karl Schmuhl and Franz Krenkel, who will present a series of ‘native German songs. —_— Division Veterans' Association will .be broadcast over the blue network of ing' WMAL here, tomorrow afternobn from 3:30 to 4 o’clock, commemorat- ing the sevententh anniversary of the first entry into the front-line trenches in the Lorraine sector. Speakers on the program will be led by Col. Noble Brandon Judah, first American Am- bassador to Cuba, who served in France with the 149th Field Artillery ens Post, and Comdr. of Headquarters Detachment Porter L. Bush will be in charge. Medals will be awarded Ahe essay contest in the sixth grades. A radio program by the Rainbow of Illinols. Plans are being made for the Rainbow Division national reu at the Willard Hotel here July 13, and 14 who directed the purchase of books | | Mrs. Mary Meredith of the 800 block { Varnum street was taken in custody at Fourteenth and G streets and booked for investigation in connec- tion with the accident. Boy Struck Near Home. Six-year-old Pierce Marks, 1480 Chapin street, was struck in front of his home by a car, a partial de- scription of which was police. The driver did not stop and the boy was taken to Emergency Hos- pital by a passing motorist. He was | said to have received & fractured skull. A taxi driver, Alvin G. Williams, 771 Tenth street, was responsible for { the arrest of Mrs. Meredith in con- | nection with the Treudley case. He told police he saw the accident and | followed Mrs. Meredith to Fourteenth (and G streets, where he forced her | automobile into the curb. Policeman M. B. Novotny, on duty at the in- tersection, placed her under arrest. One of the headlights on Mrs. Meredith’s car was bent up at almost right angles and one fender was dented, according to police. Booked at First Precinct. Novotny took the woman to police headquarters and Willlams went |along as a witness. She later was booked at the first precinct station and sent to the Woman's Bureau for detention. Hospital attaches described Treud- ley's injuries as critical. The educator came to Washington in 1921, when he retired from the university faculty after 20 years as | professor of philosophy and physics. Previously he had been connected with the Youngstown, Ohio, public school system. —_— REV. 0. F. BLACKWELDER TO SPEAK AT BANQUET Pastor of Church of Reformation to Stress Need of Father-and- Son Comradeship. Rev. Dr. Oscar F. Blackwelder, | pastor of the Church of the Reforma- i tlon, will speak on the need for com- radeship between parents and chil- dren at the annual “father-and-son” banquet of the Y. M. C. A. Boys’ De- partment tomorrow night at 6:%) o'clock in the Central Y. M. C. A. assembly hall. ‘The get-together is arranged each year in the interest of promoting closer relations between busy fathers and their boys. Charles E. Krey, chairman of the Boys’ Work Commit- tee, will be toastmaster. Entertainment will include a short play, “The Jones Case,” by the Y. M. C. A. Dramatic Players; memory feats by Mark Wooding, selections by a col- ored quartet, solos by Wash Williams, boy singer, and a program of games and sports. James C. Ingram, boys’ work di- rector, is in charge. ‘LICENSING IS URGED Juvenile Protective Group Favors Control of Children’s Homes. Licensing by the Commissioners of institutions and foster homes for chil- dren on recommendation by the Board of Public Welfare was favored yes- terday by the Juvenile Protective As- sociation at a luncheon meeting. The action was in support of proposed leg- islation. \ Mrs. Jesse Adkins was elected & member of the Board of Directors. Present at the meeting were Mrs. R. ‘Thomas West, Mrs. Otto L. Veerhoff, Mrs. Milton A. Francis, Mrs. George R. Putnam, Prof. Hector Gy Spauld- ng, George C. Warner A 'Gerlach, furnished | missioner. Response to the wel:ome was made by Willis J. Spaulding. com- missioner of public property in Springfield, Ill, and president of the Public Ownership League. | Spaulding blamed oven:aplta]lza-'l tion of utilities for excessive rates. “This overcapitalization,” he said, | “puts a charge of nearly $500,000,000 annually on light and power users of the United States in excess of the fair cost of the service.” Trade Body Findings. He said the findings in the investi- | gation of public utilities by the Federal Trade Commission directed favorable argument toward public ownership. He said also that public ownership has become more popular because of the generally recognized failure of regu- lation. Samuel A. Carlson, for 24 years j mayor of Jamestown, N. Y., told the delegates the City of Jamestown owns its own $4.000,000 electrical plant and distribution system and has paid for | it out of the profits over a period of 20 years. He said Jamestown, which has a population of 46000, Wit 18.000 consumers, has the lowest elec- tric rates of any city in the State of | New York. The city-owned company pays $55.000 annually into the treasury of the city to reduce taxes, he said. Despite this, Carlson asserted, there is more than $500,000 in the treasury as surplus. He said the city | had saved $10,000,000 in 20 years by | the operation of the plant. Leaving the subject of electricity, | Carlson told the delegates that under a plan of central distribution of milk the city expected to save milk con-| sumers several thousand dollars au | ally. He said the city could distrisuce | ! milk at a cost of 2 cents per qunrt.‘ He said Jamestown has 75 milk deal-| ers. He also said that Jamestown had | effected a tremendous reduction in| food costs by its central market system. | Future Development. James D. Donovan, superintendent of the municipal light and power plant of Kansas City and president of the Kansas Municipal Utilities Associa- tion, discussed some of the problems in the future development of mu- | nicipal light and power plants. He said the most serious problem con- fronting cities who have voted to en- gage in municipal ownership of utili- ties is the delay encountered by the use of court injunctions and the long- drawn-out legal proceedings following them. Speaking of the possibilities of the development of power by local mu- nicipal plants, the speaker said: “I feel that greater possibilities of employment and a fuller social life can come to the citizens of our coun- try througn the establishment of numerous municipal plants through- out the country than can be expected from the establishment of a relatively few large plants, owned and oper- ated by Federal authority.” Speakers at the conference brought out that 2,500 municipalities in the United States now own their public utility systems of various kinds. During the five days of the con- ference, public ownership advocates from all parts of the country, includ- ing social scientists, economists and special students of these problems, religious and civic leaders and heads of public utility companies, will be heard. Three sessions will be held daily. JOHN E. BALL, RETIRED MAIL CARRIER, DIES Served on Rural Route Out of Easton for Three Years. Burial Saturday. Special Dispatch to The Star.- BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md., February | 21.—John E. Ball, 85, a resident here for 10 years, died yesterday at his home. Mr. Ball's health had been fail- ing for several weeks. Following nearly 30 years’ service, Mr. Ball retired in 1922 as a rural carrier out of the Easton (Md.) Post Office, and 10 years ago came here to s | make his home with his son, Charles E. Ball. He was born in Talbot County.: Surviving, besides Charles E. Ball, are a daughter, Mrs. W. L. Cozby of Cleve- land, Ohio, and two sons, Joseph L. Ball of Ellwood City, Pa., and J. How- ard Ball of Pleasantville, N. J. Mr. Ball's body will be taken to Easton for burial there Saturday morning. Services will be held at an Easton funeral home. —_— DAY’S CONDITION BETTER Policeman, Shot by Wife, Con- tinues to Show Improvement. ‘The condition of Policeman James P. Day, who was shot by his wife during a quarrel Tuesday at their home, 1708 First street northeast, was reported “good” at Sibley Hospital today. He was operated upon yes- terday. Mrs. Gertrude Day, who confessed to shooting her husband when she said he threatened to her with :..Meednehefl.k held at Woman's Buresty - ny Stap 1935. F¥¥ Gloria, Rudolph and Albert Kunowsky, sister and brothers of 8-year-old Marian Kunowsky, who died of burns last night after she had warned the others not to approach her when her dress caught fire in their home. Society and General PAGE B—1 ‘SCHOL SITE PLAN FAILS; GITY HEADS SEEK NEW TRACT Budget Bureau Asked to In- dorse $190,000 for Ac- quiring Area. $126,000 EXPENDED ON JEFFERSON PLAT Commissioners Would Make Pur- chased Section Into Munic- ipal Facility. After four years of unsuccessful eflorts to buy all of a proposed site in Southwest Washington for a new Jefferson Junior High School Build- ing, the Commissioners are seeking approval of the Budget Bureau and Congress for acquisition of a different tract of land, it was revealed today. A request for a supplemental ap- propriation of $190,000 has been sent to the Budget Bureau for purchase of a portion of the area between School and E, Fourth and Sixth streets southwest. lying immediately to the south of the present location of the Junior high school £ GIRL DIES, BURNED INFIGHTING BLAZE Her Clothes Afire, Marian Kunowsky Thought First - of Younger Children. Marian Kunowsky, 8, who nrst‘ brothers and sisters when her night- died last night in Sibley Hospital from burns. | Her night dress was ignited while HAZEN AGAIN CONFINED TO HOME BY ILLNESS Stomach Trouble Follows Recent Sinus Attack and Transfusion peration. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen was confined to his home again today suf- fering frcm another attack of illness. Only a few days ago he recovered from a severe attack of sinus trouble after a blcod transfusion. Commissioner Hazen was reported today to be suffering from a stomach ailment, and is under care of a phy- siclan. He is not expected to return | thought of the safety of her younger | to his desk for a number of days be- cause of his weakened condition. Another District official was re- { Bown caught fire yesterday afternoon, | porteq today to be seriously fll. This is William W. Bride, chairman of the District Parole Board, formerly corpo- ration counsel. He has been under | treatment for several months for a Would Afford Play Site. The plan is to build the new school buildirg on this site and to raze the present old building and to convert | —Star Staff Photo. | | its site into a school playground Originally, it was intended to erect | | the new junjor high school on a site | | between Seventh and Eighth, H and I streets southwest. The first appro- ’ priation for the purchase of that area B was made in the 1930 appropriation Transit Plan Is for Passen- act. Two years later Congress ap- | propriated $200.000 for starting con- o struction of the school. placing the gers Riding as Far South |{ittan o the school, Placing the construction fund is still available as Treasury. and building of the school will start as soon as the problem of the site | is settled. Adoption of a new “limited stop” $126,000 Expended. system of operation for the Commerce | To date $126.000 has been spent bus was proposed today to the Public | for purchase of a portion of the pro- Utilities Commission by the Wash- smrd site. The Commissioners have S & z een unable to buy the remainder of ington Rapid Transit Co. Commission | ynat site at a price which they re- officials indicated they would approve | zarded as reasonable. Twice the the plan if facilities are found ade- : matter has been placed in the hands | she was fighting flaming door curtains, ! heart ailment. accidentally set afire by a 4-year-old brother while carrying a piece of lighted paper from a stove to an ad- | joining room. Staying away from school because of a slight illness, Marian was caring for the younger children while her mother, Mrs. Mozelle Kunowsky, was away from their home, at 112 I street northeast. Between screams of pain, shouted to her brothers: “Don’t come near me.” Despite the warning, Rudolph, 7, was making an effort to pull off his sister's burning clothing when a colored man, living nearby, rushed into the house and smothered the flames by throwing a coat around the child. With the aid of Policeman Charles Burnett of No. 1 police station, who was en route to the station house to | teport for duty. the man took the little girl to Sibley Hospital. Shortly before she died. Marian talked to her mother about her appre- | hension for the safety of the other | children. A baby sister and brother also were in the house when the accident oc- curred. Other brothers and sisters, the eldest, 14, were at school. There were | nine children in the family. The fa- ther, Charles Kunowsky, is employed | at the Washington Navy Yard. WOMAN, 70, BURNED FATALLY IN KITCHEN Charred Body Found Early Today by Nephew Who Smelled Smoke. she | Her clothing believed ignited when she tried to light a stove, Miss Cath- erine Purcell, 70, was found burned to death early today in her home at 1005 New Jersey avenue, which she is said never to have left in the last 40 years. Her charred body was found on the kitchen floor by her nephew, William O'Connor, 38, who was attracted to the scene from an upstairs room by the smell of smoke. Miss Purcell's clothing was burned completely around her body and she was pronounced dead upon the ar- rival of a physician. Firemen quickly succeeded in extinguishing the fire in the kitchen. Mr. O'Connor said his aunt was accustomed to lighting the stove in the kitchen early in the morning. JUAN C. CEBRIAN DIES; FAMED AS ARCHITECT By the Assoclated Press. MADRID, February 21.—Juan C. Cebrian, famous Spanish architect, died yesterday at the age of 87. His advanced age aggravated an attack of grippe. Cebrian, well known in California, where he designed numerous univer- sity buildings, had lived in Madrid the last few years, making only occa- sional voyages to the United States. With Archer Huntington, American author and educator, he founded the American Association of Spanish Teachers in New York. He presented several Spanish ob- jects of art to the Metropolitan Mu- seum of New York and the Chicago Museum. Becoming an architect late in his life, he also became noted for his phi- lanthropies. He established several ?p-nish libraries, especially in Call- fornia. . Meeting Canceled. LANDOVER, Md., February 21 (Special).—There will be no meet- ing of the Kiwsnis Club of Prince District officials were told today his condition now is serious. . RENTS DEFENDED INPLEA T0 HOUSE Not Unduly High in Capital, as Survey Will Show, Chairman Told. Rents in Washington are not un- duly high, have not been raised gen- erally throughout the city and a sur- vey that will show this is now being made by Rufus Lusk, employed by “a ! score of interested parties,” including realty operators and banks, Chairman Norton of the House District Com- mittee was told yesterday. Spurred by the prospect of a con- gressional investigation of the rent situation with Representatives Ellen- bogen, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, and Dirksen, Republican, of Iilinois. the ranking minority member of the House District Committee, sponsoring these studies, it was disclosed yester- day that local operators and invest- ment bankers are financing their own independent survey. Harold E. Doyle, president of the Washington Real Es- tate Board, and W. C. Miller, a realtor, called on Chairman Norton late yes- terday, arguing that rents are not un- duly high, insisted that property own- ers have been losing money on invest- ments, and leaving with her some of the data prepared by Mr. Lusk. Mrs. Norton told these representa- tives of real estate interests that they should present their statements in proper form to the Subcommittee on Fiscal Affairs, which expects to con- duct hearings on the rent investiga- tion measures. Representative Ellen- bogen has been moved up to the chairmanship of that subcommittee. He has no immediate plans for an early hearing on the rent bills be- cause he is busy on other important District legislation which will come before the House on the next District day. DAVID A. MANSFIELD DIES NEAR MONTROSE Funeral Services Are Held With Burial at Neelsville Presby- terian Church. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., February 21.— David A. Mansfield, 68, died on Tues- day at his home near Montrose from pnuemonia. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary F. Mansfield; three daughters, Miss Lucy C. Mansfield of Montrose, Mrs. Thomas B. Myers of Washington Grove and Mrs. J. Wilfred Broadhurst of Bethesda, and three sons, Roy A. Mansfield of Baltimore and Harold A. and Rowland Mans- fleld of Montrose. He also leaves & sister, Mrs. Hezekiah Perrell of Ger- mantown, and three brothers, Charles A. Mansfield of Rockville, James Mansfield of Round Hill, Va., and Clinton Mansfleld -of Washington. The funeral took place this morn- ing from the Presbyterian Church at Neelsvile. Burial was in the church cemetery. Troop to Get Flag. BERWYN, Md., February 21 (Spe- cial).—The Woman’s Community Club of Berwyn will present a flag to Boy Scout Troop No. 225 tomorrow night in the school at 8 o'clock. The Georges County tonighta because of | Club Committee i charge comprises the Washingian's %Mflm Mm!mefljfll.‘.b. Mac- jof a condemnation jury and both times the award ted as be- The bus now operates from Bu- ! ing too high Rt | chanan street, down Sixteenth street,| At the past session of Congress the ing both the Treasury and Com- | Commissioners obtained an addition- | merce Departments. The new plan | al appropriation of $105,000 to buy ‘would be to pick up passengers all | the remaining portion, but again ne- along the route but not to permit any | gotiations with the land owners passengers to leave the bus until the | failed. Treasury Building is reached. The| The Commissioners now plan t purpose is to segregate this bus defi- | convert this purchased land into a nitely for those passengers going as | District playground or some other far south as the Treasury. ! needed municipal facility. ‘The company also plans to extend e A e o e ATHEY AUTO DEATH TRIAL IS STARTED ice to patrons in the area north of 5 Prospective Jurors Excused. Buchanan street. | The commission also is ready to ap- | Read Reports of Delay by Accused’s Drinking. quate. | prove a change in the routing of the busses which now make a turn-around | | through Alaska avenue, Floral street | and then back down Sixteenth street. | Under the new plan to be offered by | the company, these busses will make | the turn around a small triangle at | Fourteenth street and Alaska avenue. returning downtown by way of Alask: —_— avenue and Sixteenth street and elim- , y inating the trip through Floral street. | 4’1“" e ?r.Axexandriu. Who William A. Roberts, people's counsel, ‘l was unable to answer a manslaughter recommended this change at the re- | charge in District Supreme Court quest of residents of the affected area. | yesterday when he was reported in- SR S 3251,-000 Is GRANTE | toxicated, today went on trial in the Bladensburg road by en automobile DISTRICT FOR RELIEF| | case which grew out of the death of |F. E. R. A. Funds in City fo | Floyd C. Jackson, 12, run down on T February Reach Total of $745,000 Just as the available supply of re- | lief funds here was exhausted, the | Federal Emergency Relief Adminis-' tration today made an additional | grant of $251,667 to the District. | In a notice from Harry L. Hop- kins, Federal relief administrator, $220,000 of the total was assigned for direct and work relief programs, and $31,667 for transient relief. Because Federal relief funds were running low, only a partial grant ror February was made at the beginning of the month, or $268.460. A second partial grant amounted to $225,474. The third and final February grant raised the total to $745,601. The Dis- trict_has contributed out of its own revenues $166,666, or one-twelfth of the District appropriation for relief for the whole fiscal year. G. A. R. BILL INTRODUCED 1936 Encampment Plans in Meas- ure Before Congress. A bill authorizing the Commis- sloners and Federal officials to make all necessary arrangements for the seventh national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, to be held here in September, 1936, was introduced yesterday by Senator Bulkley of Ohio. . Most of the Union veterans have reached their 90th year. They marched up Pennsylvania avenue at the close of the Civil War, and again in 1915 they held their national en- campment in Washington. They are planning to hold their 1936 gathering here during the period from Septem- ber 31 to 27. CLUBS HONOR POLLIO Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the Mayflower Hotel, the Washing- ton Lions Club and Reciprocity Club yesterday held a special luncheon to honor the hotel manager, R. L. Pollio. Among those who spoke on the pro- gram, broadcast from Station WRC, ‘were Arthur- Clarendon Smith, Bo- litha J. Laws and John J. P. Mullane, president of the Reciprocity Clul Entertainment provided by Sidney’s Orchestra and Rose Chanelle, radio artists, _compl the celebration. Osgood Roberts, wer Hotel pub-~ driven by Athey, November 13 Before the jury was chosen, Justice James M. Proctor asked the panel if any member had read “anything” in yesterday's or today's papers, about Athey, the veiled reference being to his inability to come into court. Four men and a woman answered affirma- tively and were eliminated from the case. The Justice then warned against further discussion. Attorney Denny Hughes is repre- senting Athey, who reputedly was drinking when the Jackson boy was killed. The prosecution is in charge of Assistant United States Attorney Samuel F. Beach. U. S. WORKER IS FOUND SHOT IN HOTEL ROOM Veterans’ Administration Clerk Near Death After Injuries. Had Been in Ill Health. James E. Weidner, 50, Veterans' Ad- ministration clerk, was near death in Emergency Hospital today with a bul- let wound in his head. He was discovered in an eighth- floor room at the Monmouth Hotel, 1819 G street, last night by the man- ager, who had gone to the room to investigate a leak in a water pipe. A pistol and a piece of paper had stopped up the drain in the basin. ‘Weidner, according to police, had been ill for some time. Physicians at the hospital held out little hope for his recovery. On a desk in Weidner's apartment police found an income tax return partially filled out and bearing a nota- tion that it was not to be filed until March 10. e AZALEAS IN BLOOM Public Is Invited to Botanic Gar- dens to See Collection. David Lynn, acting director of the United States Botanic Garden, yester- day invited the public to visit the new conservatories of the garden to see & collection of azaleas. He said the collection includes a number of in- teresting and distinctive types of seedlings of this flowering plant. Lynn said the display would con- tinue until February 28 and that the public is welcome. The Botanic Gar- den is open every day including Sun- day from 10 . to 4 pm., with the exception ofglwml!l when the hours are from 10 aum. till noon.