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Wash KELLY ADVOCATES MERGER OF POLICE AT CRIME INQUIRY Veteran Officer Favors Con- solidation of U. S. and City Forces. DEFENDS PATROLMAN ACCUSED OF ASSAULT Probers Also Question Him on Investigation of Bridge Instructor. ington News Consolidation of the White House and United States Park Police forces with the metropolitan department was suggested to the Special Crime Committee of the House today by Capt. | Edward J. Kelly of the third precinct. | The veteran police officer said he | believed there are too many police or- ganizations in Washington and that the merger would result in increased efficiency and prevent duplication of work Suffering from a severe cold, Kelly | took the witness stand despite his physician's orders and apparently made a favorable impression on the committee. | Kindleberger's Name Mentioned. The name of Karl Kindleberger. as- sistant United States attorney in charge of Police Court prosecutions, again was drawn into the investiga- | tion when Kelly was questioned about an assault case involving Policeman | Howard L. Pilling. Kelly also was questioned about a professional bridge teacher operating | in a fashionable section in the third precinct who has been under close police surveillance for some time. Kelly explained the man had oper- ated an establishment in the vicin- | ity of Twenty-third street and Massa- | chusetts avenue, but recently moved to the 800 block of Connecticut ave- nue. | Tells of Pilling Case. { “He was giving bridge lessons, as far as we could learn” said Capt. Kelly. “We heard he was selling liquor illegally and we watched him closely. In his new location, on Con- | necticut avenue. he is still teaching | bridge—still catering to the elite of Washington. Lieut. George M. Little, in charge of the vice squad, had one of his men in the establishment for some time, but he couldn't get any- thing on him.” Kelly gave a detailed account of the | Pilling case. He told how this officer, | assigned to the Washington Audi- | torium in civilian clothes during the marathon dance there last Septem- ber, detected a colored man peeping into the dressing rooms of the girl | contestants. In attempting an arrest | Pilling, according to Kelly, was forced to strike the man with his revolver and later fire at him when he at-| tempted to escape. The man was | captured shortly afterward in his home | nearby and is alleged to have as- saulted the officer. Says Warrant Issued. Pilling charged the man with as-' sault with a dangerous weapon, but in Police Court. Kelly said, Kindle- | berger reduced the charge to simple assault and issued a warrant for the | officer on a tharge of assault with a dangerous weapon. “How could he do that?” inquired Representative Schulte, Democrat, of | Indiana. | Kelly replied. | “I don't know,” “That's what he did.” Kelly explained that Pilling was acquitted and that the colored man was convicted on a simple assault ch:lugc and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Later, Kelly was_questioned about Precinct Detective Robert J. Maghan and two boys he arrested on charge of breaking into a sporting goods store. He admitted he had talked | with Maghan about that case, but | was unable to give the committee the | details it wanted. Questioned on Personnel, As soon as Kelly took the stand he | was asked if a certain place in the 1800 block of Columbia road was in | his precinct. When he said it was in the tenth precinct, the line of questioning was immediately shifted to the third precinct personnel prob- lems. It was then that Kelly recom= mended consolidation of the park and White House; police forces with the metropolitan department. Kelly said he had 94 men under his command. but he needed at least 40 more to patrol the territory properly. He explained that on some days one officer is required to patrol two or three regular beats covering as high | &s 60 square blocks. Pointing out that the White House, ‘Washington Auditorium and Consti- tution Hall are in the third precinct, Kelly told of the details that have to | be assigned to these places for special functions—receptions at the White House, boxing matches at the Audito- rium and concerts at Constitution Hall. “Too Many Polic,” He Says, Schulte asked him why the park police could not be assigned to these | duties instead of going around to the small parks in his precinct which also are on the beats of the regular metropolitan officers. . Kelly replied he believed ,the park police already had as much terri- tory to cover as they could handle, but he knew of no reason why his men could not relieve them in the small parks and eliminate the over- lepping of servites. “What is the practical necessity of having the park police?” inquired John R. Fitzpatrick, committee coun- sel. - “I don’t see why they should be” Kelly answered. “I think we have too many police organizations in Washington now. I believe the park police and the White House police should be put under the metropolitan force in ‘the interest of efficiency, economy and effectiveness.” Heads Wharf Committee. William N. Handiboe, recently pro- moted to be chief clerk of the En- gineer Department of the District, has been assigned as the new chairman of the District Wharf Committee, succeeding Roland Brennan, who was appointed secretary to the Board of Commissioners, 4 WASHINGTON, D. C, Police Captain on Stand CAPT. EDWARD J. KELLY. ~—Star Staff Photo. WA BROWN BACK AFTERHONEYMOON Inspector Edwards Prepar- ing to Take Leave for Health’s Sake. Back at his desk after the longest vacation he has had in 39 years, Maj. E. W. Brown. superintendent of police, was busy today receiving congratula- tions on his recent wedding. galed old friends with stories of his three-week honeymoon trip through the South—all the way to Florida, In a nearby office Inspector L. I. H. | Edwards. assistant superintendent of police, was preparing for a six-week leave of absence, ordered by the police | physician. Dr. J. A. Reed, to take “a much-needed rest.” Applicationy\of Inspector Bdwards for this porioé led to a rumor that he was about to resign from the force. “Not yet.” the inspector explained. “Because of over- work I'm a bit run down and the doc- tor tells me I've got to get away from it all. If. when I come back—and I'm coming back as soon as I feel bet- ter—they tell me I'm not in tip-top condition, then. of course, I may have | to resign—but that’s all there is to it.” Inspector Edwards, who is in charge of the Statistical Bureau, plans to turn over his duties to his assistant Lieut. A. E. Miller, who will carry on the work under the supervision of In- spector T. H. Bean, assistant super- intendent. iy FOUR MEN HURT IN CAR ACCIDENTS Fort Washington Soldier Injured While Walking on Live ingston Road. A Fort Washington soldier and three other men were injured in week erd accidents on Prince Georges County roads. ‘The soldier, Alfred Tuccia, 22, suf- fered a possible fracture of the skull and other injuries when struck by an automobile, driven by a colored man, | while walking along the Livingston road at Sunnybrook. Providence Hos- pital reported his condition as “un- determined” this morning. Prince Ceorges County police are detaining Henry W. Phillips, colored, of Wash- ington, said to be the driver. George Bontz, 46, of the 900 block | of North Carolina avenue, and Rich- ard King, 26, 7600 block of Georgia | avenue, suffered bruises and shock in an accident at College Park. They are in Walter Reed Hospital. William Clark, colored, suffered a dislocated shoulder when struck by a hit-and-run driver near his home at Marbury, Md. L JONES DIES IN CHAIR FOR SLAYING OF GIRLS Pays Penalty for Attack Mur- der at Clifton Forge Last Fall. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, March 11.— Philip Jones, colored, died in the electric chair at the Virginia State Peniten- tiary this morning for the murder of two little white girls at Clifton Forge last November. He was convicted of battering to death little Alice Hill, 11, of Clifton Forge with a shotgun butt after he had attempted to assault her crim- inally. Sentenced to die for the mur- der of Alice, he never went to trial for murdering Alice’s younger sister, Ellen, 9, in the same manner, HIGH TARIFF URGED Representative Crawford Sees Pro- tection Essential to Prosperity. A high protective tariff is essential to prosperity under present condi- tions, Representative Crawford, Re- publican, of Michigan asserted be- fore a Washington Open Forum au- dience at the Continental Hotel yes- terday. Pointing out there are more than 22,000,000 persons on direct relief and 11,000,000 workers off the pay rolls, Crawford declared this is not the time for the United States to take the lead by removing all of its traffic barriers “and takeing a chance on what the balance of the world will do.” L3 He re- | of rest from his duties | 375,000 SCHOOL |Col. Sultan and Maj. Dono- van Back Supplemental Es- Requests for supplemental estimates totaling $325,000, to provide for im- provements in the public school system, were considered by Budget Bureau officials today at hearings granted to District officials. The proposals were supported by data submitted by Lieut. Col. Dan I. Sultan, Engineer Commissioner; Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer, and officials of the Engineer Department. A sum of $190,000 has been asked | for the purchase of land needed for | the site of the new Jefferson Junior High School on School street between Fourth and Sixth streets southwest, adjoining the present school. This is intended to take the place of the pro- posed site at Seventh and Eighth, H and I streets southwest where the Commissioners have been unable to buy a portion of that area. Another item for which the Distrift replacement of the old hot-air heating plants in 16 public schools. In addition to these the supple- mental estimates call for $20,000 for reconditioning of the old Adams School and $15,000 for purchase of additional equipment needed for the commercial courses of the school system. HOWARD UNIVERSITY Oscar L. Chapman to Entertain President and Faculty Wed- nesday Night. Oscar L. Chapman, assistant secre- tary of Interior, will entertain about room of the Willard Hotel Wednesday evening in honor of the president and faculty of Howard University. Chapman has made these dinners an annual affair in appreciation of the fine work that is being done in Negro education at the university, and it is his custom to invite to the dinner some of the outstanding people who are in- terested in Negro education. Among those invited are Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. Harold L. Ickes, Senator and Mrs. Edward P. Costigan, Senator and Mrs. Robert F. Wagner, Representative and Mrs. Arthur W. Mitchell, Dr. and Mrs. Abraham Flexner, Dr. and Mrs. Lud- well Denny, Mr. and Mrs, Walter White, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kinckle Jones and Miss Josephine Roche. In addition to these are expected President and Mrs. Mordecai W. John- son of Howard University and a se- lected group of faculty members, WHITE HOUSE PHONE INSTALLATION STARTED System Connecting Various Police Sentry Boxes in Grounds Commenced Today. Work was started today on the in- stallation of a police telephone system, connecting the various police sentry boxes in the White House grounds with the central police station on the ground floor of the White House executive office. This system, which is similar to the one used by the Metropolitan police, will make it possible for direct tele- phone communication between the sentry boxes and the central office. There are 12 of these sentry boxes, five in the front grounds of the White House and seven in the rear grounds. Heretofore, the only means of com- munication between the White House central office and the policeman on duty has been through the medium of sending some one from the central office to the policeman on duty with whom the officer in charge wishes to communicate. This work is being done by the Public Works Administration under the supervision of Capt. Edwin P. Locke, United States Corps of En- gineers, assigned at the White House. Club Plans for Funds. SILVER SPRING, Md., March 11 (Special).—Plans for raising funds to carry out the welfare program for the remainder of the year will be discussed by the Silver Spring Lions’ Club at & meeting tomorrow night at Falkland Manor. a FUND GONSIDERED timates for Improvements.| sought approval today is $100.000 for | LEADERS WILL DINE 50 people at dinner in the cabinet TREASURY-POSTAL BILL, PAYING 1,200, READY FOR VOTE Senate Committee Reports Favorably on $905,321,- 000 Appropriation. 500 EMPLOYES LEAVE RANKS IN COMPROMISE Minor Change Made in Measure to Assure 100 in Justice De- partment of Jobs. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The Senate Appropriations Commit- tee today reported favorably the $905,- 321,000 Treasury-Post Office appro- priation oill for *he coming fiscal vear, including tne compromise agreement for paying the ployes who have bcen working with- out salary since last December. Under this compromise, these em- g0 on the pay roll now, May 15 between 400 and 500 of them will be dropped from the service. It provides that of the 700 former pro- hibition agents re-employed by the Treasury, ail those who failed to pass the new civil service examination re- must be dropped May 15. ; Although the McKellar rider orig- inally intended only to affect the 700 | ment was found to require the Gov- ernment to stop the pay of 509 or more other employes last December. The pending bill would clear up the status of these employes. Minor Changes Made. | changes in the wording of the com- promise this morning, but did not materially alter the terms suggested by the subcommittee last week. One change is intended to make certain that about 100 employes in the Justice Department, whom the committee found have civil service status, will be retained. The Senate committee added ap- proximately $2,000,000 to the grand total of the House bill for the Treas- ury and Post Office Departments. Of this increase, however, the largest | item was the $1,385.864 necessary to been without pay since December. This increase is offset by funds Con- gress appropriated last year for the positions, but which could not be spent because of the McKellar rider. $693,120 Added to Postal Fund. | In the Post Office Department the | Senate committee added $693,120, piincipally for operating post office »hmldmgs and for the railway mail service. For the two departments combined the Senate total of $905.321,000 ex- ceeds the budget estimates by about | $2,000,000, but is a reduction of $189.- 588,697 below current appropriations. Since the Senate item for the back pay of Treasury employes is only an apparent increase in actual expenses, | the Senate bill is only about $600,000 | 'MARSHALL HEIGHTS | above the estimate. Whereas the War Department sup- ply bill, passed last week, was larger | by $45,000,000 than current appro- priations for that service, the Treas- | ury-Post Office bill represents a sharp reduction. | CRUELTY FINE IMPOSED Colored Man Accused of Driving Lame Horse. Charged with cruelty to animals after he was arrested driving a lame horse Saturday in downtown Wash- ington, John A. Jones, colored, was fined $10 today by Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court. Judge Hitt first imposed a $15 fine, but upon learning Jones had but $10, reduced his fine. Policeman Eslie Williams, who ar- | the Humane Society, testified the | horse was over 20 years old and in no condition to be working. Jones said the horse was injured several hours prior to the arrest when it kicked it- self after being frightened. He pleaded not guilty. BURNED IN EXPLOSION Man’s Condition Critical After Stove Accident. John Myers, 45, of 307 C street, was severely burned this morning when a stove he was filling with oil fuel in the caboose of a Pennsylvania freight train exploded. The train was in-the yards near the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, southeast. Myers was taken to Gallinger Hos- pital, where his condition was re- ported critical. Y. W. CLASSES TO OPEN A series of studies on “real citi- zenship” will begin at 2 p.m. tomor- row in the club room of the Y. W. C. A, -at Seventeenth and K streets, with Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins con- ductingsthe classes. Changing conditions in govern- ments all over the world will be studied with particular regard to matters pertaining to the home., The classes are open to the public. Revived From Gas Fumes. Mrs. Caroline S. Weber, 56, was revived from the effects of illuminat- ing gas poisoning yesterday morning at the Annapolis Hotel by the fire rescue_squad and staff attendants from Emergency Hospital. She re- mained in her room after being treated. Her husband, Walter Weber, who told police he had gone down to the lobby of the hotel for a short time, said that he returned to the room to find gas jets open. He summoned aid at once. — W. L. Reid Funeral Today. LIMA, Ohio, March 11 (#)—Fu- neral services will be held here this afternoon for William L. Reid, 70, vice president and general manager of the Lima Locomotive Works, Inc. Reid, a recognized authority on locomotive building, died late yesterday after an operation for an intestinal LA 1.200 Treasury em-| ployes will receive their back pay and | but after | quired by *he McKellar rider last Fall | former prohibition agents, the amend- | The committee made a few minor | QLN WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION MONDAY, | | | rested Jones, and Herbert Ludlam of | POINts to provide pure water for some | L4 MARCH 11, (935 TRAFFIC TOLL RISES 10 22 HERE AS TWO MORE DIE Injuries Prove Fatal to Ed- ward Hugel and Harry L. Walthrop. TWO PEDESTRIANS HURT, ONE STILL UNIDENTIFIED Felled by Hit-Run Driver on| Maryland Avenue, Man Is Unconscious. The toll of fatal traffic accidents | mounted to 22 so far this year with the death of two victims in local hos- | pitals yesterday and early today. | Edward Hugel, 19, of Silver Spring, | Md., died this morning at Casualty | Hospital of injuries suffered a month ago in a collision between his auto- mobile and a Capital Transit Co. bus at Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street southeast. | The bus was operated by Walter M. | Sands, 28, of 2501 Queens Chapel road | northeast. | Ambulance Driver Dies. The other victim was Harry L. Walthrop, 43, of 332 Second street southeast, driver of a Board of Public Welfare ambulance which burned fol- | | lowing a collision with an automobile | | at Constitution avenue and Twenty- | sixth street Wednesday afternoon. | Walthrop died at Emergency Hospital | early yesterday. | The driver was taking James Roches- | ter, 10, of the 300 block of N street, to Gallinger Hospital to be treated | for pneumonia when the automobile was in collision with an automobile | operated by Leslie Eggleston, 34, of | Ballston, Va. The boy was not injured Police released Eggleston under $1,000 bond pending his appearance at an inquest at 11:30 o'clock Wed- nesday morning. Southwest Man Injured. street southwest, suffered a punc- tured lung and several fractured ribs early today when he was run down by | an automobile in the 400 block of | Seventh street southwest. He was taken to Emergency Hospital. The ! car was operated by Joseph E. Coker, | 29, of 5415 Illinois avenue, an em- | pay the Treasury workers who have | Plove of the Capital Transit Co. An unconscious and critically in- jured victim of another automobile accident was unidentified at Emer- | gency Hospital today. He had suf- | fered a broken leg and arm and in- juries about the head when struck by | a hit-and-run automobile in the 400 block of Maryland avenue southwest early yesterday. Passers-by took the injured man to | the hospital. He is between 35 and 40 years old, ' and was wearing brown striped trou- | sers, & brown hat and a black over- | coat. | Joseph Shine, 31, of 1833 M street, | suffered a broken leg last night when | knocked down by an autom ¥ile oper- ated by Richard D. Lewis, 20, of 506 I street. WATER PIPES LAID Extension of Service Started Un-| der E. W. A. Auspices. Cost to Be $30,000. Running water will be provided for some 700 residents of a tract in Mar- shall Heights, south of the lire of East Capitol street and east of Forty-ninth street southeast, under an Emergency Works project started today by the District government. Water pipes will be run through a | number of streets in the section, with | about a dozen hydrants at various 80 families living in temporary shacks | built there during the past several | years, Officials said the project was developed primarily to prevent possible epidemics of disease which might be caused by insanitary water supply. The project will cost less than $30,- | 000, and pipe extension of about 7,500 feet will be laid in the area bounded | by Central avenue, St. Louis, Fitch, | Forty-ninth and Fifty-fourth streets southeast. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, accom- panied by John Ihlder, executive of- ficer of the alley clearance authority, recently inspected this section while studying the program of the alley au- thority. e ANTI-LYNCHING BILL 0. K.’D BY COMMITTEE Van Nuys Will Write Report to Senate on Costigan-Wagner Measure. A favorable report on the Costigan- ‘Wagner anti-lynching bill was voted today by the Senate Judiciary Com- mittee. No opposition developed in the committee meeting, and Senator Van Nuys, Democrat of Indiana, was au- thorized to draw up the report. In an effort to reduce cases of mob violence against prisoners taken into custody, the bill seeks to establish two preventive steps. First, it would make enforcement officers of any State or county subject to prosecution if they, fafled “to make all diligent efforts” to' protect prisoners from mobs, or if they did not make diligent efforts to appre- hend members of a mob. In such cases officers would be charged with a fel- ony and, upon conviction, could be fined up to $5,000 or imprisoned up to five years or both. Second, it would make States, coun- ties or cities in which persons are lynched subject to suit for damages to be paid to the families of the victims. Officers Elected. CLIFTON STATION, Va, March 11 (Special).—Officers of Clifton 4-H Club have been elected as follows: Omah De Busk, president; Hazel secretary; Henrietta Beach, recreation leader, ng Staf 1935. 2 Survey Ai | F rport Site Members of the House Subcommittee studying the local airport situa- tion are shown inspecting the Benning race track site today. Left to right are Representative Hull of Wisconsin, Chairman Randolph of West Virginia and Representative Nichols of Oklahoma. —Star Staff Photo. CITY-WIDE YOUTH COUNCIL PLANNED, N TRAFHG GOURT | walter vancey, 48. of 146 sixtn| United Christian Conference Ends Session With 600 in Attendance. Organization of a permanent city- wide Youth Council among the younger leaders in the Protestant | churches of Washington will be un-| dertaken as a result of the Washing- | ton United Christian Youth Confer- | ence, which held its closing session at the Calvary Baptist Church yester- day with 600 delegates attending. More than 100 Christian churches, both white and colored, were repre- sented, and the committees in charge of the conference were authorized to assume authority as an Executive Committee and Central Committee to perfect the permanent organization. John A. Patterson, jr., genetal chairman of the conference, will con- tinue as chairman of the Executive Committee, and associated with him | will be Miss Frances Sangster and James A. Brown as vice chairmen; Mrs. John W. Williams, secretary, and the following conference com- mittee chairmen: Rev. Philip G. Murray, Miss Bess C. Miles, William W. Everett, jr.; Miss Mabel R. Cook, Robert M. Lyon, Hillman C. Harris, Rev. Chesteen Smith and Miss Eliza- beth Jackson. Dr. Bader Offers Slogan. In addition, the Central Committee will be composed of three representa- tives each from the several Christian youth agencies supporting the con- ference. These include the Y. M. C.A. Y. W.C. A, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the International Council of Religious Education, the Society of Christian Endeavor, the Washington Joint Com- mittee on United Youth Program, the ington Federation of Churches, Dis- that of Columbia Sunday School Association, the Epworth League |and other Christian denominational groups. Dr. Jesse M. Bader, secretary of the department of evangelism of the Federal Council of Churches, pro- posed the conference adopt a slogan of “live and help live” as an im- provement over the present “live and let live” to guide youth in their en- in which to live. The conference set. out to accom- plish several objectives designed to lead to the building of a “new Chris- tian world.” Liquor Question Pondered. The conference also set up the goal of establishing an adequate edu- cation program to answer the ques- tion of what to do about liquor. Con- trol of liquor advertising was advo- cated and the conference commended The Evening Star for its policy in re- | fusing to publish liquor edvertise- ments. Development of the Christian spirit in athletic activities that build and develop character was offered as a constructive use of leisure. Less dis- crimination between races and better co-operation on mutual problems also were urged. The delegates also urged that better training for marriage and home life, both from an economic and a bio- logical standpoint, be offered youth. The conference here was one of 28 held or planned throughout the country between January 1 and March 31. Thirty thousand young people altogether are expected to be enrolled to support & 5 or 10 year program looking toward a better “new ‘world.” —_—— LOST MAIL FOUND Taxi Driver Picks Up Pouch on! Connecticut Avenue. Parts of first class mail lost from a truck bound from the city post office to the Connecticut avenue station was picked up early yesterday morning at Connecticut avenue and M street and turned over to the postal authorities. At the posi office it was said that there was no registered mail in the pouch. The finders were Thomas D. Shipley, » taxi driver of 2507 K street, and a.| companion, Robert W. Pollen, 923 and Lucy Pumphrey, reporter. [} Eighteenth street. » deavors for a better Christian world | T4 ARRAIGNED 30-Day Sentence and $100 Fine Imposed on Driver Admitting Drunkenness. Traffic Court was reminiscent of the recent traffic drive today, with 74 persons arraigned before Judge Gus A. Schuldt on 92 charges. Pleading guilty to a charge of driv- | ing while drunk. Henry Byrans, col- | ored, was sentenced to 30 days in jail and to pay a fine of $100 or serve an additional 30 days. He was arrested by Policeman J. R. Wallace of the second precinct. For driving on a revoked permit, Ernest D. Lewis was sentenced to serve 45 days in jail. Of the total number of charges 22 were for speeding: 27 for parking violations, 4 for passing red lights and 2 for passing “stop” signs. Jury Case Verdicts. Assistant Corporation ~ Counsel George D. Neilson announced ver- dicts in other traffic cases Saturday before Judge Isaac R. Hitt. All were jury cases. Maurice E. Poole, 32, 117 Sixth treet northeast, charged with leaving after colliding. was given a 60-day jail sentence. Police records show he left the scene without identifying himself after his auto struck William Lancaster, 21, of the first block of Ninth street northeast, injuring his leg and hip. Morton W. Galloway, 38, 1235 C street northeast, had his permit re- moked and was placed on probation ! for one year after pleading guilty to | a charge of driving while drunk, Reckless Driver Fined. Charged with reckless driving. S. M. Van Horn, 30, 1115 Ninth street, was sentenced to pay a fine of $75 or serve 30 days in jail. He was arrested on February 2. Gary A. Goode, 37, of 644 Massa- | Baptist Young People's Union, Wash- | chusetts avenue northeast, was sen- | | tencea to pay a fine of $100 or serve | 60 days in jail on a driving while | drunk charge. | John E. Malone, 38. 1326 Sheridan | street, was fined $50 on a reckless | driving charge. | _— {MINE WAGE CONFERENCE HEARING IS TOMORROW Appalachian Operators and United Workers of America Post- pone Today's Sessions. By the Associated Press. Postponement of the wage confer- ence between operators of the Appa- lachian region and the United Mine Workers of America until tomorrow National Coal Association. Statistical data confronting the Operators’ Steering Committee made it impossible for the committee to be ready with the necessary facts and figures for resumption of the negotia- tions scheduled for today. Although the operators were silent would make to the union leaders, there was no indication of any reces- sion by the producers from their flat rejection of the union’s demands for a 30-hour week and an approximately 10 per cent wage increase. If an agreement is not reached, the union has warned there will be no work in the mines on April 1. Exist- ing wage contracts, under which more than half a million miners operate, expire at midnight on March 31. ADMITTED BY COURT Wife Presented to High Tribunal by Husband. Mrs. Charlotte A. Hankin was ad- mitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States today on motion of her - husband, Gregory Hankin. Mrs. Hankin is a graduate of Rad- cliffe College and of the George Washington University Law School. For the past eight years she has been associated with her husband in the practice of law in Washington and is also co-author with him of a series of books on the Supreme Court known as “Progress of the Law in the United States Supreme Court” and is co- editor of a loose-leaf work known 88 “United States Supreme Court Service.” A afternoon was announced today by the as to what proposals, if any, they | Society and General PAGF B—1 POSSIBLE. AIRPORT SITES INSPECTED BY HOUSE GROUP Subcommittee Memberg View Benning Race Track and Capital Area. EXPRESS NO OPINIONS ON PROPERTY MERITY Meeting Planned Tomorrow te Finish Report to Full Dis- trict Committee. In the face of objections by local civic and governmestal organizations | to the selection of a site in Northeast Washington for an airport for Wash- ington, members of the House sub- | committee in charge of the airport | matter today. inspected the Benning | race track site and the nearby Capital | Airport area They were informed the Benning site could be purchased for an average of about $3,000 an acre and that 202 acres now are available, making a cost of $600,000 for land. | Objections Viewed. | Members of the subcommittee who | made the inspection trip commented {on the proximity of the nine high | brick chimneys of the Potomac Elec- tric Power Co. plant, which were the source of serious objections to the | selection ot the Benning site when it | was offered to a congressional com- | mittee several years ago for airpors purposes. They also commented on the proximity of the new high-tension wires of the Pennsylvania Railroad adjoining the property to the east. Members of the subcommittee, headed by Representative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, expressed no opinion, however, as to the merits of the properties inspected today or as | to the likelihood of either of them being selected in preference to Gravelly Point or Washigton Airport. ‘ “We promised to look at these sites,” Randolph said, “and we are keeping our promise.” He indicated the subcommittee will meet tomorrow morning to complete consideration of the local airport prob- | lem and to finish the drafting of a report to the full District of Colum- bia Committee, which is to receive | the report at its meeting Wednesday morning. Gravelly Point Urged. | Protest against the selection by the subcommittee of any site for a local | airport other than Gravelly Point was voiced in a letter received by mem- bers of the subcommittee today from | Clarence A. Miller, chairman of the | Aviation Committee of the Washington Board of Trade. “I am quite certain,” Miller said, “that I express the views of the Wash- | ington business men and its organized | citizenry when I say to you tnat if | you want to deprive the Capital City { of the United States of an adequate | commercial airport, such as it should | have, you cannot more effectively do so than by reporting a bill providing for a site other than that of Gravelly Point. To take such action would | be to wholly disregard the views of the taxpayers in the District of Co- | lumbia, who, I am sure, will never | consent to the establishment of an airport at any backdoor site. “If any consideration is being given to the Benning racetrack site, o1 to | any other equally undesirable sites, it | must be due to the influence of ‘ex- pert’ opinion not expressed before your committe in open hearings. Other | than those who had personal axes to grind, oractically all the witnesses be- fore your committee favored the | Gravelly Point Site.” | United Opposition Seen. 1 Miller expressed the opinion that “there will be united opposition to any site which you may report other than the Gravelly Point site.” | “I can assure you.” he said, “that the people of the District of Columbia | are not going to be saddled with the | expense on an airport on a location they do not want, and if any proposal such has been suggested is made. I | think you can be reasonably assured { that 1t will not meet with the approval | of Congress. It will be so contrary to | all the evidence which was presented to your subcommittee as to amount to | & denial of justice to the taxpayers of | the District of Columbia.” He expressed the hope that the sub- committee will report “a bill providing for the establishment of an adequate commercial airport for the District of Columbia at Gravelly Point.” The Benning race track area was not offered to the subcommittee in public hearings, but was submitted in a brief filed with the group at the close of more than three weeks of hearings. | Today's inspection, twice postponed because of the heavy rain, was made by Chairman Randolph and Repre- sentatives Hull of Wisconsin and Nichols of Oklahoma. Informed the Benning site would cost $600,000 for land purchase, Hull remarked, “Why, that would cost us a million dollars before we ever got ready to put up a building.” Still Open-Minded. Representative Nichols said mem- bers of the subcommittee “still are open-minded about the airport site.” “We are all agreed,” he said, “that Washington needs an adequate air- port and needs one now.” Representative Smith of Virginia, author of the Gravelly Point airport bill now pending before the House subcommittee, has expressed strong opposition to the Benning site. “It will be Gravelly Point or noth- ing,” he said. “If they change the site, I feel sure the proposition will be killed just as it has been in pre- vious Congresses. Objections to other sites are so serious that the matter will be delayed too long for any bill to pass this Congress.” Efforts are to be made by members of the subcommittee to have the air- port question brought up for consid- eration by the full House District Committee at Wednesday's session so that a bill may be reported to the House without delay. — Luncheon to Benefit Squad. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., March 11 (Special) —~For the benefit of the Upper Marlboro rescue squad a lunch- eon will be held Wednesday 1 o'clock by Mrs. George B. lnrnci her home here. {