Evening Star Newspaper, April 7, 1935, Page 21

e vews | @he Sty Stax THRORGS APLAL ARNY DAY PARADE N SPTE OF RAN Plan for Air Review Called Off Because of Fog and Drizzle. SPACE ABOUT CAPITOL JAMMED BY WATCHERS Peace Group Sponmsors Rally Praising Leaders Who Op- posed War. Martial music of the Army day parade mingied yesterday with testi- monials to the champions of peace as the Capital observed the eighteenth anniversary of America’s entry into the World War. Shortly before 40 bands timed 4,300 soldiers, cadets and patriots down ‘Washington’s new parade route on ! Constitution avenue, a large group | assembled in Statuary Hall to pay | homage to congressional leaders who fought against a declaration of war | in the stirring days of April, 1917. The Army day demonstration in the afternoon drew huge throngs all along the route, despite the fog and a chill drizzle which canceled plans | for an air review of 68 pursuit planes | and bombers from Langley Field, Va. The patriotic program was con- eluded with the annual Army day banquet at the Mayflower Hotel last night, when Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Military Affairs Commit- tee was the principal speaker. A light, cold rain began to dis- | perse the spectators about the time | the first half of the parade had filed by the official reviewing box on Con- stitution avenue near Fifteenth street. Officials Occupy Stand. | Senator Sheppard and high rank- ing service officers occupied this re- viewing stand, along with Govern- ment officials and military attaches | from the embassies and legations. | Senator Sheppard doffed his top | hat in answer to the military salutes | from the passing units. Near him stood Maj. Gen. Robert E. Callan, commander of the 3rd Corps Area, who returned to the reviewing stand | after leading the parade as grand marshal to the disbanding point at Seveteenth street. Col. George E. Ijams of the Military Order of the World War and Brig. Gen. William | E. Horton. retired, also were in thef stand. ‘The Washington High School Cadet | Corps and R. O. T. C. units from | Jocal colleges got applause all down the line of march. They made a smart | showing, the crowd agreed, against the standard set by Regular Army | outfits of Infantry, Artillery and Cavalry, and marching units of :ail- | ors and Marines Assembled Near Capitol. The parade, which got under way ! at 1:30 o'clock, assembled on streets | to _the south and east of the Capitol. The column swung into the East Plaza of the Capitol while a vigorous debate occupied the House with a | proposal to permit a 100 per cent | taxation on “excess war profits.” As a consequence few Representatives | were able to witness the military spectacle outside their doors. Visitors and such Capitol employes as could spare the time, however, filled every available space about the building. The same crowded con- dition prevailed along the line of march all the way to Seventeenth street. Windows and balconies of the big Federal buildings in the new triangle were jammed with spectators, as were | the curbs and sidewalks. A heavy!' detail of police was stationed along the Avenue to let cross traffic through at busy intersections as often as pos- sible. 3,533 Marchers. ! ‘The actual number of marchers was | far under original estimates of 50,000 by veterans’ organizations. Traffic Bu- reau policemen counted 3,533 march- ers, 392 horsemen and 300 other per- sons in motor vehicles. The first di- vision of the parade consisted of Army, Navy and Marine Corps troops, the second of National Guard and Organ- ized Reserve units, the third of R. O. T. C. students and high school ca- dets, and the fourth of veteran and patriotic_socleties. Vice President Garner, Secretary of War Dern and Secretary of the Navy Swanson were prevented by previous engagements from reviewing | the parade in the official box. ‘The only military airplane in the demonstration was towed down the Avenue on a float, entered from Boll- ing Fleld. A smart little pursuit fighter of the latest and fastest type, it drew much applause from the spec- tators. Following the parade, Bolling Field ‘was thrcwn open to visitors. Officers were on hand to serve as guides and to explain various types of equip- ment at the flying field. Some Pamphlets Distributed. Student anti-war strike leaders, ‘Wwho announced they would distribute leaflets urging cadets to refuse to march in the military demonstration, did not put in an appearance at the concentration points. A few anti-war leaflets were handed out on the down- town streets, however. In his address at the Army day banquet, Senator Sheppard declared an adequate Army and Navy were needed to assure the economic sur- vival of the United States. “We use about one-half of the im- portant raw materials of the world and our American civilization cannot continue without them,” he said. *“The lines of transport on sea and Jand in every part of the globe along which ‘these articles must be con- veyed are as much our lines of de- fense as our land borders. “These lines must be kept un- broken and intact if disintegration, chaos and subsequent alternatives of barbarism or despotism are to be prevented.” Memorial wreaths were deposited in Statuary Hall yesterday morning before statutes of the late' Senator Robert M. La Follette, sr., the late Speaker of the House Champ Clark, and the late Representative Claude Kitchin of North Carolina. These exercises were arranged by (Continued on Page 2, Column 1‘ | | Camera Views Al WASHINGTON, con . D. C, ong the Line of SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 7, March of Army Day Parade 1935. Sports—Pages 7 to 11 PAGE B—1 FEDERATION SPLIT ON UNIFIED RULE OF RECREATIONS Log-Rolling, Filibustering and Politics Charged in 2-Hour Debate. QUINN AND ROBERTS BOTH IN ATTENDANCE Call of No Quorum Halts Con- sideration of Report Favoring Advisory Group Proposal. The membership of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations split last night on how to accomplish unified | control of the District’s recreation | facilities, now divided among three major Government units. After more than two hours of acri- monious debate, during which charges of log-rolling. filibustering and deal- ing 1n politics were heard, the body | ran up against a call of no quorum made by Henry I. Quinn, member of the Board of Education, who is one of the three members of the Recrea- tion Committee set up for temporary and voluntary joint management of recreation facilities. The roll call showed there were two associations short of a quorum and the meeting adjourned at mid- night with no action taken. General view of the parade at the intersection of Constitution and Pennsylvania avenues. Inset: “Sistie” ar. “Buzzie” Dall, grandchildren of President Roosevelt, as they watched the parade from the reviewing stand on Constitution avenue. Millie McNey are shown on the “float.” ANACOSTIA BUS | AGACIA STRUGTURE WORK BEGINS SOON First Unit to Cost Million. Building Later Will Take All Block. Work will be started immediately | on the first unit of the new home of the Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co., which eventually will take over the entire block at Louisiana and New Jersey avenues, it was announced | yesterday by Willlam Montgomery, president of the company. The first structure will cost more than $1,000,- 000. The announcement said the completed building will constitute one of the largest non-Government build- ing projects in the history of the city. New York Firm Architects. President Montgomery stated that Shreve, Lamb & Harmon of New York, designers of the Empire State Building, have been appointed archi- tects of the new building. The new building, which will face the Capitol, will be architecturally in keeping with the Federal Government buildings in the Capitol area and its exterior will be finished in marble. Also, the building will set well back from the curb line and the site will be beautifully landscaped. The struc- ture will be six stories in height. Confident of Future. In making the announcemept Presi- dent Montgomery said: “It is with genuine satisfaction that the Acacia Mutual Life Insur- ance Co. gives this tangible expres. sion of its confidence in the future. Despite adverse conditions during the past few years this home office build- ing project is an evidence of the needs which have accompanied our increas- ing growth in Washington and throughout the Nation.” The Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co. employs more than 400 persons, purchasing large quantities of supplies and clearing large sums through Washington banks. —_ Oyster Roast Planned. SILVER SPRING, Md, April 6 (Special).— A Southern Maryland oys- ter roast will be held Sunday, April 14, at 1 pm. in the State armory here, under joint auspices of Cissel- Saxon Post, American Legion, and St. Mary’s Post, SENATEV HUSBAND’S FONDNESS FOR CAT LEADS TO SUIT Charging her husband with getting | drunk and bringing a stray cat and two rabbits home at 3 o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Gertrude Sauls, 1100 block of New Hampshire avenue, filed suit in District Supreme Court yester- | day for a limited divorce from Wilson Sauls, District fireman. The wife, through Attorney Ralph A. Cusick, also actused her husband of beating her several times, once when he came home and couldn't find the cat, and again when he brought an elevator boy to their apartment for a drink and found no beer in the ice box. P OTENEAR ON DISTRET BIL Passage and Conference With House Expected Early This Week. ‘The Senate is expected to pass the 1936 District appropriation bill early this week and send it to conference with the House for final settlement of the amendments by which $3,452,- 215 was added to the measure. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Ok- lahoma in charge of the local supply bill, said it may- be possible to have it considered tomorrow. ‘This will de- pend, however, on developments in the consideration of -the Copeland food-and-drug control bill. When the Senate convenes tomorrow it is sched- uled to resume debate on the food- and-drug measure. ‘When the District bill goes to con- ference, one of the main issues will be the determination of the Federal share of the expenses of the National Capital for the coming year. The House voted to keep the Federal pay- ment at the figure for the present year, $5,700,000. The Senate Appro- priations Committee, after approving many" urgently neded maintenance items and improvements not in the | House bill, voted to recommend that | the Federal share be placed at $8,317,- 500. This figure, which is the aver- age of the various lump-sum pay-| ments of the past 10 years, was sug- gested by the Commissioners as rep- resenting a fair apportionment of the cost for the coming year. ‘ TRACK CROSSING PLANS DRAWN 'Bridge and Underpass in Northeast Section Sought by Hazen. Two new traffic thoroughfares across the railroad tracks along New York avenue northeast, to afford im- proved communication with the Brookland area, will be sought by the District under plans being formulated by Commissioner Hazen. He has directed Edward A. Dent, surveyor, and Capt. H. C. White- hurst, director of highways, to pre- pare legislation for construction of a bridge and an underpass at two points between Union Station and Bladens- burg road. Projects Studied, This is a culmination of studies already made by members of the staff of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission and members of the Co-ordinating Committee con- sisting of District and Federal officlals interested in traffic and highway planning, headed by E. A. Schmidt of the United States engineer's office. The legislation will be forwarded to Congress after approval by the Dis- trict Commissioners. It is to be in the form of an amendment to the “Union Station” act of 1903. Sites Proposed. One of the crossings would be from Brentwood .road and T street north- east southeasterly over the tracks to connect with New York avenue at an extension of Mount Olivet road north- east. This would be a bridge. The other would be from the inter- section of Fourteenth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast to the intersection of New York and West Virginia avenues northeast. An un- derpass would be developed along this line. D. C. Girl Wins Scholarship. Miss Grace Carter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Carter, 1301 Fifteenth street, has been awarded the Frances Mary Hazen Fellowship at Mount Holyoke College, Mass., for proficiency in Latin. Miss Carter, a junior member of Phi Beta Kappa Society and a senior at the college, also holds a Bryn Mawr Fellowship in mnr i LINE CONSIDERED Plan to Eliminate Street: Car Service Given Se- rious Study. Serious consideration is being given | by the Public Utilities Commission to | a proposal for substitution of bus service for the Anacostia-Congress | Heights street car line, all the way | from the far southeast terminus to] the downtown section, officials sald | yesterday. | This may be the next major ptob- | lem to be settled by the regulatory | body and would leave but few major questions as to track layout to be decided. In the near future, also, de- | cisions are expected on new street car | routes made possible by the score or | more of changes already ordered in tracks. Only in some cases have the route changes been indicated clearly by the orders for removal, construction or changes in the street car tracks. While the commission is seeking to leave the major “riding habits” of the public as much unchanged as possible, the routing orders will affect thou- sands of car riders. Sees Merit in Busses. Richmond B. Keech, commission vice chairman, agreed there is much merit in the suggestion of substituting busses for the Anacostia street car line, but said there has been no deci- sion to date. There is some division of opinion on the plan among mem- bers of citizens’ associations of the Southeast. The plan would be to abandon the entire length of the street car tracks from the terminus at Upsal street and Nichols avenue southeast to the point where they connect with other tracks near the Capitol. The cars now pass First and East Capitol streets en route to northern points. The busses, if substituted, would follow the same general route past the Navy Yard and along G, Fourth and E streets to a point south of the Capitol, then pro- ceed to the business and Government building area. This would mean abandonment of some five miles of street car track. Eighth Street Terminal Urged. The commission also has received 8 suggestion for ending the Navy Yard and Seventeenth and Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast car lines at Eighth and Pennsylvania avenue southeast. These are not Affected by the decision on the Anacostia line. The plan would be to substitute busses and have a street car terminal at the Eighth street intersection. One strong objection to this is that residents along the avenue east of Eighth street would have to take a bus to that intersection and transfer there to street cars. Some commission of- ficials are skeptical about this sug- gestion. People’s Counsel William A. Roberts yesterday filed with the commission a new petition for s through bus line from the Howard University area to Fourth street southwest. He urged either that this be ordered forthwith or that a public hearing be held for Lower: A patriotic little group marching past the reviewing stand. ‘Walking, left to right, are: George McNey and Doris Wright. Irving McNey and —Star Staff and A. P. Photos. Caught Here JEAN RYAN. ALLEGED FUGITIVE HELD FOR CANADA Bank Hold-Up Charges to Be Faced by Man Re- cently Wed. The arrest yesterday of a suspect in four Montreal bank holdups, after he was traced to a luxurious apartment where he was living with his bride of a few months, was followed up last night by Baltimore police, who took an alleged accomplice in tow. The suspect, arrested in his apart- ment at 2737 Devonshire place, police say, admitted his identity and ex- pressed a willingness to return to Montreal. He is being held for Cana- dian authorities under the name of Jean Ryan, alias Jack Reazey, Alfred Durocher and Alfred Jean Leblanc. He used the last name when he obtained the apartment in Washington. The alleged accomplice arrested in his expensive Baltimore apartment last night was identified by police as Wal- ter Gerald Nevin, 38, said to have operated an “insurance brokerage firm in Montreal.” The lookout broadcast by Montreal police in March, 1934, named Leblanc and Nevin, local in- vestigators said. Bride Explains Meeting. ‘Washington headquarters detectives, who arrested Leblanc after .an all- night watch on the apartment house, were told by his bride that her hus- band was an “insurance investigator.” 8he insisted that neither she nor her mother knew he had ever been in Canada. Mrs. Leblanc said her hus- band told her he came from New Or- leans and that she married him after CRIME COMMITTEE T0 PLAN REPORT 'Score of Laws to Correct Evils May Include One Modernizing Police. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Representative Randolph, Demo- | crat, of West Virginia, chairman of { the Special Crime Committee of the | House, which recently completed a |two months’ sweeping investigation |into vice and law enforcement con- | ditions in the District, announced last night he would call an-executive ses- Wednesday to draft the outline of a | report. The committee, according to Ran- | dolph, will recommend various types of legislation to correct defects in the enforcement and prosecution ma- chinery that were developed during the long inquiry. For several days, committee have been reading t | transcript of the hearings to refresh | their memory as to certain develop- | ments which are to be the subject of proposed remedial legislation. Preliminary work on the report has been done by John R. Fitzpatrick | committee counsel. but there are se | eral vital subjects he wants the mem- bers to approve before he proceeds members of the For that reason, Randolph planned to call the committee together in a special executive session. For Modernized Police. A score or more recommendations are to be made in the report, but one of the most important, it is under- stood, will call for a modernization of the metropolitan police force, through the appointment of aggres- sive young men with higher educa- tional qualifications than now re- quired. The idea was given the committee by both Capt. Rhoda Milliken, head of the Woman's Bureau, and Capt. Richard Mansfield, commander of the ninth precinct. Capt. Milliken told the committee that because of the specialized work in which the policewoman is engaged, her educational qualifications, neces- sarily, are higher than those of the average policeman, Some members of the committee, however, believe the policeman should have a high school education, whereas under the present system, the applicant for a position on the force is required to have passed through the eighth grade of the elementary schools. Aside from the educational qualifi- cations, these committee members, it was said, believe new men appointed to the force should also be young and particularly aggressive if the Metro- politan Police Department is to be | raised to a high degree of efficiency | and effectiveness. Official Shortcomings. The lack of aggressiveness on the part of some of the officials made a deep impression on the committee. So did the obvious lack of education among & few of the older members on the force, whose testimony was (Gontinued on Page 24Column 1) ' b 7 tcnnunuedon@nzcmmt.) (Continued on+Page 2, Column 1.) sion of the group either Tuesday or| Quinn, Roberts Present. The tenseness of the meeting on | this matter was enhanced by the | presence of both Quinn and William A. Roberts, people’s counsel. who re- | cently challenged the legality of es- | tablishment of the temporary Recrea- tion Committee., which consists of Quinn, representing schools: Commis- sioner Allen, the District government, and C. Marshall Finnan, superin- tendent of National Capital parks. Debate arose over a report by Harry N. Stull of the Committee on Educa- tion, who asked the federation to support the proposal of the Commis- sioners’ Advisory Committee on Play- grounds and Recreation. That bodv of 50 citizens proposed legislation for the creation of a recreation board of nine members. Three of the mem- bers would be appointed by the Com- missioners, three by the Board of Education and three by the superin- tendent of National Capital parks. Suter Proposes Substitute. Jesse C. Suter, delegate from the Society of Natives, immediately pro- posed a substitute calling for legisla- tion for a board of nine, all to be named by the District Commissioners Each would have to have five years District residence. Stull declared his plan the most feasible for a control organization and asked for action last night because the Senate District Committee was to take up the matter Tuesday. Suter said the plan sponsored by Stull was based on an “absurd” idea, since it would mean the Interior De- partment would appoint three mem- bers with no requirement that they be District residents. He charged the present temporary commission set-up was a “monstrosity” even if a fed- eration member (Quinn) was a mem- ber. He asked how Quinn and Allen could dominate the commission, hav- ing a Federal officer as the third member and with the chairman of the Park and Planning Commission as | the Recreation Committee head, even | though he had no vote. “Other Strings Involved.” “There are other strings and log- rolling involved to such a degree that Quinn would dry up and blow away in a puff,” Suter said. In reply, Stull charged that the Suter plan “would mean the end, ab- solutely, of the Community Center Department of the public schools.” Quinn made a vigorous defense of the temporary Recreation Commis- sion set-up, insisting it was perfectly legal and that none of the three in- terested agencies would lose any of its own rights. He argued for fur- | ther study of the whole problem be- | cause Congress would be in session for a long time and would not act soon on this legislation. | James G. Yaden, Federation presi- dent, in supporting the Stull report, declared he would never vote to give | the District Commissioners any more he | Power than they now have “until the any further with the rough draft.| attitude of the Commissioners” is changed. This had to do with & mo- tion to bar Federal or District officers from membership on the Recreation | Board as proposed by Suter. Retaliation Threatened. When Quinn raised the question o | no quorum and other delegates started | to walk out, Stull charged there was |an attempt to delay action by fili- | buster and shouted: “If you want to | fight that way and persist in opposing action, I will remember that and fight you in the same way later.” | Quinn immediately accepted this “challenge.” When the voting finally began Su- ter’s plan first was voted down. Then a motion by George E. Sullivan to postpone action until a later meeting was lost. A Sullivan motion to bar | Federal and District employes from the Recreation Board was then voted down. As Quinn raised the point of no quorum a motion to adjourn was in- terjected. This, too, was voted down. After a roll call was taken, L. A. Car- ruthers, who was in the chair, re- ported the lack of a quorum by two associations, Previously there was a long -debate over two' bills to place new teeth in the law against smoke nuisance. Dr. Charles B. Campbell, for the Health Committee, urged supgort for the bill drafted by People’s Counsel Roberts. Finally the federation placed the mat- ter in the hands of the Health Com- mittee and the Laws and Legislation Committee, which were directed to co-operate with the people’s counsel in supporting the principle involved in his bill. Recreation Group to Meet. The Recreational Committee of the Council of Social Agencies will meet ‘Tuesday at 12:30 p.m. at the Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets, to discuss plans for camping projects. Augustus Zanzig of the National | Recreation Association will ‘lead spe- cial camp music and C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the Na- tional Capital Parks, will give an ‘illustrated