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Wash COCHRAN ATTACKS MEASURE BANNING 'HIDDEN BARS HERE Missouri *“Wet™ Says Enact- ment Will Bring Return of Saloon. CLOSER INSPECTIONS URGER AS SUBSTITUTE ington News |Gambler Really The District grand jury today re- fused to indict three men arrested on gambling charges by police after a | fourth man—the one they really wanted—Ilearned he was being watched and escaped. | Gambling indictments were returned | against five other men arrested in | raids on two alleged gaming establish- ments. The men exonerated by the jury are | Charles E. Fox, Glen Justice and The Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Three Held on Gaming Charges Wanted in Raid Escaped—Five Others Face Trial on Similar Charges. Imen who had been held by police |'in connection with traffic deaths. ‘Those cleared are Clarence Peter- | son, driver of a car which ran down and killed George Hilton last March 12 at Eighth and M streets southeast; Leroy E. Barnmann, whose automobile killed Edith Stevenson last Febrary 27 as she was crossing the intersection of | Wisconsin avenue and Macomb street, and Walter M. Sands, driver of a bus which collided with a private car at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania ave- Prettyman Tells House Subcom- Schly Ridgeway, arrested last month | nue southeast last February 15, result- mittee Aims of Bill Amending Liquor Law. An attack on the Dirksen bill, de- signed to abolish Washington's so- called “hidden bars,” was made by | Representative Cochran, Democrat, of Missouri at a hearing today before the Judiciary Subcommittee of the House District Committee. Describing himself as “wet as the Potomac,” Cochran sald he feared en- 2ctment of the bill would lead to re- turn of the old-time saloon and even- | | tually to another prohibition. Specifically Cochran urged that the Dirksen bill be withdrawn from the House calendar and the public given 2n opportunity more fully to express its views. He pointed out that the measure was unexpectedly reported favorably by the House District Com- mittee without the consideration of the Aleoholic Beverage Control Board. Asks Closer Inspection. “Keep the bars hidden,” Cochran declared. “but prevent chiseling and cheating with proper inspection.” Representative Beiter, Democrat, of New York. author of another bill to #bolish the “hidden bar.” said he had nct changed his basic views. but that e believed the Commissioners should be vested with authority to determine the type of establishments allowed to sell liguors the drink 1n the open “Chise! going on in some of the smaller establi ats.” he declared. “Drippings from the overflow from beer taps are being caught in pitchers and sold. Cheap whisky is being sold for high-grade liquor.” The hearing was called primarily on a bill sponsored by the Alcohol Beverage Control Board to tighten the €xisting control law, but the subcom- mittee did not have an opportunity to near all of the witnesses who want- ed to testify. Prettyman Outlines Aims. The purpose of this bill was outlined by Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman. He said the proposed ¥ | in a raid on an apartment in the 200 block of H street. The raid was made | after an undercover investigator claimed to have made several bets with the fourth man. Police procured a warrant for this man and instructed | the investigator to stay with him until | the arrest could be made. The investigator did not do this, however, and informed the officers the gambler told him his place “was hot” and that the police were watching him. The officers then went to the apart- ment and, after being refused admit- tance, broke down the door. The man named in the warrant was not there and they arrested the other three, Slips Found in Basket. | bers slips were being burned in a wastebasket, some of which allegedly were recovered. They also said they found three marked nickels in the apartment. James Eugene Simmons was indicted on a charge of setting up a gaming table. He was arrested in a raid at 206 C street March 30. Police said they listened in on telephones in the estab- lishment and took several bets, the callers identifying themselves by name or number. They quoted Simmons as saying he had operated the place for a number of vears and had not been arrested in four years. ‘The others indicted on gambling charges—Herbert Leaf Hook. Howard R. Talbert. William Herbert and Leonard Johnson — were March 29 on the second floor of 1413 H street northeast. several bets with Hook. The grand jury exonerated three SOCIAL AGENCIES - CRISIS 15 FEARED WEIGH POLICE QUIZ arrested The warrant for the raid was issued after Policeman Melvin M. Kite claimed he had made | ing in the death of Edward M. Hugel, driver of the automobile. J Samuel Lewis, a former clerk in the Board of Public Welfare, was named in four indictments charging forgery | and uttering. He allegedly forged | the names of the payees to four relief | checks totaling $125.90. Dewey Williams, colored, was in- dicted for second degree murder in connection with the Kkilling of Lee Jackson, also colored, who allegedly was stabbed by Williams after a quarrel last Pebruary 28. Several Others Indicted. | Others indicted, with the charges | against them, are: ! Edward J. Finnelle, jr.. nonsupport; Police claimed a quantity of num- | Sylvester B. Davis and Roy Hamrick, | Properties, the Mayflower Hotel, the jovriding; Edward A. Lewis, Elmore Southern. James B. Farnsworth, Hor- ace B Kehr, Oliver A. Ray, David Knight and Samuel Ball, housebreak- ing and larceny: Herbert Shepard, Roby Lee Whitfield. Lester Kiser, Con- nell Haley and George A. Clainos, grand larceny: Henry H. Taylor and Asa Wilson, robbery and assault with intent to commit robbery; Gladys Johnson and Chester T. Delaney. as- sault with a dangerous weapon; Nick Stancil, selling a truck for which he had not paid, and James Holloway, catnal knowledge. The jury cleared the following of the charges indicated: Hunter W. Satterwhite, joy-riding; Lawrence Brown, housebreaking and larceny; Roland Ragan, William M. Ragan, Robert Dickinson and Eddie Cogswell, grand larceny; James F. Yates and John J. Evans, assault with intent to commit robbery; Willie Watts, Leotha J. Green, James Cran- shaw, Clarence Ware and Thomas B. Reid, assault with a dangerous weapon. FEDERAL LAWYERS HOLSE COMMITTE OPENS .0 REALTY PROBE TOMORRON 14 Subpoenaed to Testify on Reorganizations of Properties Here. |BANKERS AND LAWYERS CALLED FOR INQUIRY Wardman, Mayflower, Shoreham, La Salle and Press Building Financing Under Scrutiny. ‘The special Housé committee inves- tigating real estate bondholders’ reor- amendments to the Jaw are intended | to correct certain conditions which | have grown up since repeal. Catholic Charities Official Criminal Action Considered ganizations will begin its inquiry into | Washington real estate reorganiza- tions tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the cau- | cus room of the House Office Building. ; | Feceral subpoenas have been served on 14 District lawyers, real estate | cperators and bankers to appear as witnesses. The principal properties to | be investigated are the Wardman Shoreham Hotel, the La Salle Apart- ment, north side, and the Press Build- | ing Corp. | 14 Residents Subpoenaed. 1 ‘The witnesses served with subpoenas |are Ord Preston, president of the | Union Trust Co.; Lawrence B. Camp- bell, manager of the National Press Building: Joseph Low and Paul E. | Lesh, attorneys for the minority and | majority Mayflower bondholders, re- spectively; Edward F. Colladay, Re- nublican National Committeeman for the District; H. L. Rust, jr., real es- tate operator; George E. Sullivan. law- ver and prominent member of the | Federation of Citizens' Associations; | Harry Bralove, owner of the Shore- ham’ Hotel; Spencer Gordon. attor- THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935. Pylons on Trial in Model Form Sharply criticized by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, proposed granite pylons are shown above at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue as they have been erected out of wood frame and cloth covering to give Government officials some idea how the stone objects would look when completed. Offi of both the Treasury Department and the Park and Planning Commission plan to make an official inspection for a study of the problem. The commission claims the pylons are a traffic hazard and serve “no useful purpose.” als —Star Staff Photo. ITZENS 0POSE UNDERPASS BL Joint Northeast Conference Cites Terminal Act Or- dering Bridges. ney: Rush L. Holland, former May- fiower trustee; William L. Beale, vice president and real estate officer of the American Security & Trust Co.; Ju- lius I. Peyser. attorney and former re- ceiver for the Wardman properties; | Donald H. McKnew, broker, and Ar- ¢ thur Hellen, attorney. Among other witnesses to be called are Harold Shaller, William B. O'Con- nell and Walter B. Guy and United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. Nation-wide Probe Under Way. Chairman Sabath of the investigat- ing committee explained that the ! Washington investigation is a part of ! a Nation-wide inquiry into the meth- 1 ods by which bondholders were de- frauded in both promotion and reor- ganization financing of realty proper- ties. Some of the evidence uncov- ered in other cities, he said, re- Voices Concern Over New Relief Policy. The maior amendments provided in the bill are to prevent drinking in licensed on-sale establishments after | the legal dead line: increase in the | penalties for repeated offenses of in- | toxication and drinking in public; and, give the A. B. C. Board the power to suspend as well as revoke a license. | Prettyman said that the board had history found certain violations that do not the Federal Government to turn from merit such a drastic penalty as revo- direct relief to public works, Rev. cation of the license. Bryan J. McEntegart, director of the Ptettyman also proposed another amendment to prohibit p\h‘hol?salers or | Division of Child Care of the Catholic manufacturers from giving or selling | Charities of the New York Arch- fo a retailer anything except liquor |giocese, declared in a speech last that costs more than §1. heiat b 1 4 ¢ th Representative Dirksen, Republican, | "0t at the annual meeting of the of Illinois. a member of the District Catholic Charities of Washington, in Committee which passed on Washing- | the Willard Hotel Y ton’s original liquor-control act, said _ Although the public works act will that “a mess” had been made out of be “a godsend to the unemployed and this legislation. but he did not be- Will rescue millions of families from lieve the law should be cluttered up the demoralization of the dole,” now with a number of restrictive regu- Father McEntegart said, it still will lations. He said he believed two- leave a dangerous unemployment thirds of the restrictive regulations Problem and a “tremendous threat to should be eliminated and dealers and Our social security as a people.” the public put on their sense of honor. “The President’s dictum that ‘the S i Federal Government must and shall Would Put Public on Honor. Social agencies of America today face the most critical period of their as Result of District Court Probe. The Department of Justice has com- pleted its long and intensive in- as a result of the decision of | Vestigation of alleged irregularities at | Y the local Police Courts and is weigh- | {ing the question of taking criminal |action as a result of the findings. A comprehensive three-part report on the special inquiry, asked some months ago by United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. has been turned | to attorneys of the department’s { Criminal Division for consideration, it was learned today. The investigation has been con- ducted quietly by a corps of special | agents of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation, operating under personal direction of J. Edgar Hoover. | Rumor Prompted Inquiry. The inquiry was promnted by per- sistent rumors of improper activities by some bondsmen, lawyers and at- | taches of the Police Court and its | branches. They were recurring re- quit this business of relief’,” the “It is just a lot of tom-foolery,” speaker said, “means that except as Dirksen declared.” to wrap a lot of reviving private industry absorbs the restrictive regulations around the unemployed, some 1,500,000 families | liquor control act. Bring it out into will be dependent upon other forms of the open and appeal to the sense of | help, since the public works program | ‘honor.” at its fullest expansion contemplates Prettyman disagreed with him. He taking care of only 3,500,000 families. | 4 reflect on the judges of the courts. declared that if there is going to be Fears Many May Suffer. | It is known, however, that activities | regulation of y kind it ) of any kind it must be done “In addition there is the probability | Of certain clerical employes of the | by arbitrary rule. > y S | that many, because of hical | court have been under scrutiny. The George W. Offutt, chairman of the y. geoeap judges, it is said, have co-opemeaf SEG Board g ithe ¢ _ | location and lack of training and | d 5 AB zp;rac:\li ixee pm;n:;fcs:g;_ adaptability, will not be able to take | With the agents in the investigation. | ments after explaining the necessity advantage of public works jobs. And Reports Kept Secret. | ports of disappearing court records, altered official documents, changes in fines assessed by the court and other alleged abuses of the administration | of justice. | The department some time ago made it plain that nothing had been found sulted in imprisonment of several persons. Serving with Sabath on the investi- gating committee are Representatives Kennedy, Democrat, of New York: | Fuller, Democrat. of Wisconsin; Culkin, Republican, of New York, and Dirksen, Republican, of Illinois. Several days ago Sabath introduced a bill which will provide for the ap- | pointment of a conservator by the | President, either the Securities Ex- change Commission or the controller |of the currency, to maintain jurisdic- | tion over all bondholders’ committees, | | receivers, trustees and the like. He | said his legislation would aid some 4.- | 000,000 bondholders, who have over $8.000,000,000 invested in bonds, mort- gages and real estate securities. PAN-AMERICAN UNION 'TUNNEL IS STARTED {Work Begun to Tap New Site Is in Progress. ] While Avenue Work | | | Construction of a tunnel under Vir- | ! | ginia avenue at Eighteenth street, | | from the Pan-American Union Build- | ing to its new structure, projected on | the triangle bounded by Virginia and Constitution avenues and Nineteenth street, was started this morning. The District government is widen- ing and repaving Virginia avenue from Eighteenth street to the Poto- for them. Another hearing will be held on the A. B. C. bill next week. Chairman Palmisano has tentatively fixed the date for the hearing for next Tues- day. TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS INJURE TWO HERE Alexander Armstrong Hit by Car. Motorman Hurt in Florida Avenue Crash. Alexander Armstrong, 29, of 1308 I street, was seriously injured last night when run down by an automobile at Pennsylvania avenue and Fourth street northeast. Doctors at Casualty Hospital, where Armstrong was taken, said he suffered several fractured ribs and an injury to his right arm. Another traffic accident early today resulted in slight injuries to Caesar J. Tonon of 1416 A street southeast, street car motorman. Tonon was taken to Emergency Hospital after he was cut and bruised in a collision between the strect car he was operat- ing and a produce truck driven by Lacey Gunter of Shipman, Va. The truck overturned at Connecti- | cut and Florida avenues, delaying street cars for a considerable time. ZIHLMAN NO BETTER Former Representative Continues Sleep in Cumberland Hospital. By the Associated Press. CUMBERLAND, Md., April 11.—The condition of former Representative Frederick N. Zihlman, who is being treated in Memorial Hospital here for encephalitis, a form of sleeping sick- ness, was reported “unchanged” early today. Zihlman slumbers most of the time, physicians reported, and his con- dition has been regarded as serious iq& several weeks, in addition to these there will be the | | unemployables. | “If the President’s dictum is to be adhered to, the social agencies of | of their history. A wholesale read- Jjustment and revision of the programs of such agencies, State, local and pri- | vate, must be contemplated. The task | of caring for those who will remain on the relief rolls will constitute the tremendous problems to which every State and community must address | itself.” | The problem facing the country | upon elimination of the dole plan, ac- cording to Father McEntegart, is two- fold. There is a financial problem created by the serious question whether many States and localities will be able to cope with the relief problem, even with the aid planned from Federa! funds under the social security act. There also is a great administrative problem because of the | danger that withdrawal of Federal re- lief would in many places result in | the scrapping of State and local re- lief committees set up under the Fed- eral plan. Adequate Plans Needed. ‘The problem can be met, he said, |only by marshaling the best intelli- | gence and experience of every State to plan for an adequate welfare set- |up. In this task private social agen- | cies must take a prominent part. | The annual report of Catholic | Charities, made by Rev. Lawrence Shehan, assistant director in charge of local work, showed that during the past year the family department as- sumed major responsibility for the care of 903 families. Of that number 424 were carried over from 1933. There were 293 new families. Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cigog- nani, apostolic delegate, at last night's meeting, with Rev. John O'Grady as moderator. The speaker was introduced by Dr. Henry J. Cros- son. A report of the St. Vincent de Paul Society was presented by John | Pellen, a report of the Ladies of Char- | ity by Mrs. George H. O'Connor and | a report of the Christ Child Society by Mrs. Arthur Mullen. The papal bene- elegate. |on grade. America face the most critical period | diction was given by the .m“ou:cd Officials of the Department of Jus- | tice refused today to discuss contents | of the reports submitted to Attorney General Cummings by the Bureau of | Investigation. | | turned over to the Criminal Division | does not necessarily mean that prose- | cution will result. In special inquiries of this kind it is the usual procedure to refer all findings to attorneys of | this division for study. It is their duty to recommend what, if any, action should be taken. i |BOY IN HOSPITAL IS HIT-RUN VICTIM By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BALLSTON, Va., April 11.—Maurice Jessel, 14, of 220 South Main street is in Emergency Hospital, Washington, with a possible fracture of the left leg, | having been the victim of a hit-ang- | Tun motorist near the Washington Airport last night. Police are search- | ing for the driver. |~ Maurice was taken to the hospital by Edward Beck, 3318 Rodman street, ‘Washington, who was passing at the time of the accident. Moderating temperatures brought a prospect of more rain today to a city long oppressed by adverse Spring weather. Today’s lorecast called for “rain and slightly warmer weather tonight, followed tomorrow by rain and lower temperatures in the afternoon or night.” One of the warmest days in two weeks saw the mercury rising into the 50s this morning as Washington's second erop of cherry blossoms began to show color around the speedway in East Potomac Parlk. The fact that the findings were | \Warmer Weather Bringing Rain . As Second Blossoms Appear | mac River, and although the Pan- | American Union does not propose to | start erection of its new building un- | | til next Spring, the tunnel work must | be done at this time so as not to in- | terfere with the avegue. | The tunnel, which will be for pedes- | | trians traveling between the two | | buildings, will be 7 feet high, 6 feet wide and some 675 feet long. A steam | shovel was swung into place this morning and began digging away at the earth. Dr. Paul Cret of Philadelphia, emi- | nent architect, is drawing plans for | the new Pan-American Union Build- ing, which will front on Constitution | avenue and will cost some $650,000. The organization has the money in hand now, and Congress has already | set aside the land for the administra- tive annex. Only the perfecting of the new plans for the building and their consideration by the Fine Arts Commission remain before dirt will fly for the construction. Wales Selects Bagpiper. The Prince of Wales has decided to add a bagpipe player to his household staff at St. James Palace in England, | and has appointed Pipe Fletcher of the | 1st Scots Guards. The double pink flowers represent- ing the second phase of the Capital’s Japanese cherry blossom festival were emerging today. The single white and pink flowers have faded and dis- appeared before the wind and rain of the past week. Pink and purple magnolias are reaching their peak, along with the crab apple blossoms of Anacostia Park, a rival to the cherry blossoms. Dogwood and other flowers are be- ginning to burst into bloom on the Mount Vernon Memorial highway. The number of visitors in town has been estimated by police at 0,000, A bill introduced in the House late vesterday to authorize construction of an underpass connecting New York and West Virginia avenues northeast was vigorously opposed last night by the joint conference of Northeast Citi- zens’ Associations. In a resolution passed at the ses- sion. the conference requested Peo- ple’s Counsel William A. Roberts to |draw up a proposed bill to comply | ith the terminal act of 1903, which requires the railroads to construct three bridges over their tracks. Chair- man Norton of the House District Committee, who introduced the bill vesterday, also introduced a bill to authorize the Washington Terminal Co. to construct a bridge over rail- way tracks connecting Brentwood road and T street northeast The Pennsylvania and B. & O. rail- rcads would bear construction ex- penses and the District the mainten- ance of both projects. Underpass Plan Attacked. A% the meeting last night. A. F. E. Scheer, chairman, declared that “un- | der the terminal act of 1903 the rail- | road companies are required to con- | struct the three bridges in the vicin- ity oz Fifth, Twelfth and Seventeenth | streets -northeast. Now they want to create an underpass for New York avenue and several grade crossings.” The opposition expressed last night arose over a study during the past few weeks of companion bills introduced last month by Chairman King of the Senate District Committee and Chair- man Norton of the House District Committee. The two measures intro- duced last month called for the estab- lishment of siding connections and a bridge over West Virginia and New York avenues northeast to carry the siding tracks. Since that time a few of the citizens’ associations composing the conference have adopted resolutions opposing these two bills. If these bills pass, A. D. Calvert, chairman of a special committee studying the question, reported a con- dition similar to that of Virginia | avenue southeast with all its blind traffic hazards will exist on New York avenue northeast. Scheer pointed out that the pro- posed measures permit, with the ap- proval of the Commissioners, “the crossing of any public street or alley other than New York avenue” at or He said the Dahlgren Terrace Citizens' Association, of which he is president, and many other north- east civic units have for many years | opposed grade crossings of any kind | | within the District. Fear Street Closings. Although it was realized by mem- bers that the proposed grade crossings | would be within commercial property mostly owned by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it was held that the grade crossings thus created would necessi- | tate the closing of streets running | through the area. Represented at last night's meet- ing were the following: Mr. Scheer from Dahlgren Terrace Citizens’ As- sociation; Dr. William Deviny and J. F. Hillyard, Michigan Park; A. G. Gregory, Stanton Park; A. D. Cal- vert and John P. Barse, Lincoln Park; John H. Thomas and M. F. Stecker, Trinidad; David Babp and K. P. Armstrong, Burroughs. William A. Maio, president, and Orrin J. Davy, secretary of the South- east Council of Citizens’ Associations, were guests of the council and took | part in the discussion. ——— DOMINION DETECTIVES HERE FOR DFSROCHERS- Canadian Bank Hold-Up Suspect Expected to Be Taken From Capital Today. Alfred Jean Desrochers, 38, alias Le Blanc and Ryan, probably will leave for Canada late today in custody of Montreal detectives to face charges of participating in a $200,000 series of bank robberies. The Canadian detectives were ex- pected to stop in Baltimore today to pick up an alleged accomplice of Desrochers under arrest there. rochers has waived extradition and says he is willing and anxious to re- turn to Montreal for trial. The suspected bank robber was ar- rested here Saturday in an expensive 5-room apartment, where he was liv- ing with his bride of three months, .the former Vera Lee D-yt? of Bal- timore. - BANDIT'S SHOT WOUNDS | DELICATESSEN OWNER David Levin Struck in Shoulder by Bullet When He Resists | Hold-Up Man. | A bandit attempting to rob a deli- catessen at 1101 New Hampshire ave- nue last night shot and slightly wounded the proprietor, David Levin. Levin told police that a young man diessed in a grey overcoat and green hat entered his store about 10:30 o'clock and leveled a gun at him | Levin received a bullet in the left elbow when he resisted the bandit who fled. The injured man was given first aid at Emergency Hospital A colored bandit last night took $20 from Isadore Kandill of 1139 First street after Kandill had halted his autvmobile for a “stop” sign at New York avenue and First street. Jewelry valued at $265 was stolen last night from the automobile of Fred G. Haberman of Brooklyn, N. Y., parked near Fifteenth and E streets. TRAFFIC CONTROL PLAN IS SPEEDED Auto Impounding, Regular Tests, New Magistrates Are Approved. Commissioner Hazen prepared to- day to seek adoption of a four-point program designed to improve traffic | control, enforcement and prosecution as indorsed late yesterday by an ad- visory group of civic leaders and Dis- trict officials. The program calls for legislation for compulsory semi-annual mechan- ical tests of all automobiles, impound- ing of parked automobiles impeding traffic. creation of a limited number of police magistrates and restriction tickets, advisory group also voiced ;defim!e disapproval of the proposal of | some police captains that the Police | Traffic Bureau be decentralized and THREAT MINMAZED Officials Say Little Class Cutting Expected for | Meetings Tomorrow. Officials of Washington's high schools and universities were inclined today to minimize the likelihood of any considerable class-cutting in con- nection with the proposed student strike against war and Fascism sched- uled for 11 a.m. tomorrow. Meanwhile, strike leaders contended their plans are progressing favorably and that large meetings will be held at several institutions. Organizations fomenting the strike have attempted to | arrange a simultaneous walk-out of students of 31 nations. In most cases, school and university | officials are ignoring the movement en- | tirely. In two instances, students have been told they might hold assemblies under faculty supervision. At a re- | the motor cycle men assigned to duty with the precincts Hazen will announce the appoint- ment in a day or two of a committee to draft the necessary legislation for the three new steps in traffic law ma- chinery and plans to lay the program before the Board of Commissioners tomorrow for general approval. Seven to Draft Law. The legislation is to be drawn by a body of seven, including some civic leaders and District officials who are not connected with the police or traffic departments or the corporation coun- sel’s office. Some weeks ago Hazen suggested a plan for impounding of cars parked so as to create traffic hazards. The Trafic Committee of the Board of Trade also has fostered the idea. The plan would be to have Police Depart- ment crane automobiles haul such cars to a precinet station, where the owner would have to pay a fine of perhaps $5 before he could reclaim his car. The plan would affect cars parked double in traffic arteries, on cross walks, between street car loading plat- forms and the curbs, and perhaps other zones. | refused to approve the strike. | cent meeting the Board of Education | The proposed compulsory examina- | tion of cars would include tests of | brakes, lights, windshield wipers and steering gear. Three Government test- ing stations would be set up for this work under the proposed plan. Judge for Each Precinct. Plan White House Call. A delegation representing the six national organizations sponsoring the strike plan to call at the White House at 11 a.m. tomorrow to present reso- lutions condemning war. Names of | he delegates had not been announced | :hfs ,:,:,g;m“ inated by Corporation Counsel Pretty- The most pretentious program has | man. He proposed one magistrate for been planned at George Washington | each police precinct, with retired mili- University. It is intended that those ‘ B B The magistrate court plan was orig- | students who leave their classes shall | tary officers or business or professional assemble on or near the campus to | men serving for $1 a year. This plan | cuss formation of anti-war councils hear anti-war addresses. Representa- tive Maury Maverick of Texas is| scheduled to speak. i Tomorrow evening at 6 o'clock an- other anti-war rally at George Wash- ington is planned. Representative Fred J. Sisson of New York is to make i the principal address. After the evening rally, student‘ representatives are to meet in Jen- | ner's Cafeteria, 1819 G street, to, dis- | in the District’s principal schools. Although Howard University offi- cials have ignored the movement and refused to recess classes, an effort will be made to hold a student gath- ering on the campus. At American University, supporters of the movement may get a chance to have_their say at student assembly which, by coincidence, comes at the | same hour'as the strike. University officers have adopted a hands-off at- titude. * The strike leaders have given up the idea of a walkout at Georgetown University, but say they will distribute anti-war leaflets to the students there. Principals of Washington’s high schools say only a handful of their students have manifested any interest in the strike. At the Wilson Teachers’ College, | President E. C. Higbie has granted | permision to a student group to gather in the assembly hall at 11:45 am. to hear Miss Elizabeth Wheeler, daughter of Senator Burton K. Wheeler. After her address there will be a general discussion. Dr. Higbie said it is customary to grant student groups permission to assemble at the 11:45 o’clock period. e HEALTH SESSION CALLED The General Committee on Arrange- ments for the coming celebration of child health activities on May day, under the chairmanship of Dr. Hugh J. Davis, has called a meeting of all the organizations interested in child welfare and child health to be held tomorrow at 11 a.m. in the board room of the District ers, was opposed by Hazen, who suggested, instead, the employment of four full- time peace judges at perhaps $4,000 a year. They would hold court at pre- cinct stations and handle all manner of minor offenses. If and when the magistrate courts were set up all modification or can- cellation of minor charges would be left to them, but in the meantime it was planned to adopt uniform rules for ticket “fixing” and require palice and legal officers to make reports to the Commissioners on_ all cases, giv- ing the reasons for any reduction or cancellation of charges. Those in the conference yesterday were Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the Park and Planning Commission; | Mr. Prettyman, Police Supt. E. W. Brown, Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer and his assistant, M. O. Eldridge; Engineer Commissioner Dan 1. Sultan and his assistant, Maj. Paul | A. Hodgson; Presiding Judge Gus A. Schuldt of Police Court, Inspector B. A. Lamb of the Police Traffic Bu- reau, James G. Yaden, president, Fed- eration of Citizens' Associations; President H. Winship Wheatley of the District Bar Association, Wallace B. Robinson of the Traffic Committee of the Board of Trade and Hazen. NEW LAW IS INVOKED IN CONSERVING ESTATE | Taking advantage of a law signed by President Roosevelt last Tuesday, Mrs. Mary E. Brashears, 5601 West- ern avenue, today asked the District Supreme Court to appoint a receiver to conserve the estate of her daugh- ter, Miss Emma G. Brashears, Patent Office employe, who disappeared from 2 sanitarium several years ago. Under the old law it was necessary to wait seven years before taking this action, but the new law, prepared by Attorney George C. Gertman, makes the step possible within two years. The day after the young woman disappeared. her coat and purse were found on the bank of the Potomae \River near Greatfalis. Society and General PAGE B—1 JPROVAL S ROAD TO' CONNECT POTOMAC BRIDGES Highway From Arlington to Francis Scott Key Spans Sanctioned. {LAND CONDEMNATION AT ONCE IS DIRECTED Capital Park and Planning Group Weighs Other Problems as Session Opens. Final approval was given today by ‘llhe National Capital Park and Plan- | ning Commission to plans for con- struction of a park highway between Arlington Memorial and Francis Scott Key Bridges on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, enabling the Bu- reau of Public Roads of the Depart- ment of Agriculture to advertise shortly for bids. The commission to- day began its two-day April session | The commission directed the con- demnation and imimediate taking of wo small parcels of land for the ‘rnad bed as Thomas S. Settle. secre- tary, explained the Federal Govern- ment now has acquired all the rest {of the land needed. Under the law, he said. the Government can take over the land and settle with prop- erty owners, thus preventing construc- tion delay. The highway will be a major feature of the George Wash- ington Memorial Parkway and will carry the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway northward. From the present circle at Rosslyn, Va. the new park highway will be | carried downhill in a southeasterly direction along the water front on the shore side of the railroad. When the road is constructed, it will not only give another motor approach to the Arlington Bridge. b 11 make Theo- dore Roosevelt Island more accessible. Drive to Go to Great Fuils. With the money in hand the Plan- ning Commission will be able to ac- quire the land needed upstream of the Key Bridge for the connecting road xith the Lee Highway. The main George Washington Memorial Park- way drive will be carried under the Key Bridge and on up to Great Falls Future allocations of funds are ex- pected to take care of the construc- tion of the connecting link with the Lee Highway The commission will have up for consideration later in the day the problem of whether or not to restore the Government-owned old home in Georgetown of Francis Scott Key. author of “The Star Spangied Ban- ner.” or to tear down the old building and merely mark the site with an ap- propriate tablet Its razing would make a more ap- propriate approach to the Key Bridge. The immediate family of Key favors the demolition and the placing of a marker on the site. Some yvears ago. Wwhen the Army engineers had charge of Washington's park. they favored & movement for the restoration of the Key mansion as a landmark for Washington. Library Sites Considered. The placing of branch library sites in park and recreation areas is an- other problem the commission will tackle later in its two-day meeting. Looking ahead to the time when the Northwest rectangle. bounded by the Potomac River, E street. Seven- teenth street and Constitution avenue, will be built up with Government structures the commission plans to consider the problem of transporta- tion between it and the downtown triangle. ~ Traffic experts favor the construction of an underpass for motor vehicles south of the White House. in the line of E street. under the Ellipse. The commission will con- sider whether the underpass, surface express street car service or fast ous service is most desirable. Among the manifold items to be considered by the commission will be parkway roads ia Fort Dupont; walks in the Mall; a number of plans for playgrounds and locations for future swimming pools in the District; the adjustment of plans for the proposed new Pennsylvania avenue bridge across the Anacostia River, to conform with park driveways in Anaccstia Park. inasmuch as the Senate has included in the District appropriation bill sums for bridges: the widening of Inde- pendence avenue and the status of the Lee Boulevard to permit an adequate approach to Arlington Memorial Bridge. The commission also will consider recommendations of its staff to send an exhibit. depicting the Na- tional Capital to the exposition open- ing next month at San Diego. Calif. The commission sent a similar exhibit to the Century of Progress at Chicago. 21 BURGLARIES LAID . TO VICTIM OF TRAP Man Carrying Bag of Alleged Loot Walks Into House While Police Raid It. Arrested when he walked into a house in the 1800 block of Fifteenth street with a bag of alleged loot over his shoulder during a raid of the premises by the police vice squad. Samuel Weoten, colored, 30, 1418-A | Half street southwest, was held under a $10,000 bond on 21 housebreaking charges and a $1,000 bond for carrying a concealed weapon when arraigned before Judge Ralph Given in Police Court today. At the same time, Judge Given held Brice Gabriel, colored, 1840 Kendall street northeast, under $1,000 bond on .charges of receiving stolen goods and possession of illicit liquor in con- nection with the same case. Wooten, a janitor for the Potomac Electric Power Co. is charged by police with having stolen more than $1,200 worth of electrical appliances and radios from the company for which he worked during a nine-month period. Gabriel, it was claimed, had received at least $150 worth of the loot, which was recovered at his home. | Police also claimed to have found 60 | quarts of illicit liquor in Gabriel's | automobile, so they seized the car in addition to charging him with viola- tion of the liquelrtax act,