Evening Star Newspaper, April 14, 1935, Page 24

B4 » CITIZENS URGE END OF RAIL CROSSINGS Submit Plan to Eliminate Three Hazards in City. Immediate elimination of the three major grade crossings in the District —those at Michigan avenue, Bates road and Eastern avenue—was advo- cated in a resolution adopted at a special meeting of the Federation of Citizens' Associations last night in the Thomson School Building. Under the resolution introduced by. Attorney George Sullivan the High- ways, Parks and Waterways Commit- tee, of which Thomas J. Llewellyn 1s “chairman, was instructed to take up this matter at once so the District will be free from these hazards. It was proposed that half the cost of such work be borne by the railroad companies involved and the other half split between the Federal and District Governments. The federation went back to its re- port of an advisory committee ap- pointed in 1925 to show little progress has been made during the intervening years in getting rid of grade crossings. To Seek Funds Now. A drive now will be made by the federation’s committee to have in- cluded in the present appropriation bill before Congress enough moeney to eliminate at least one major cross- ing this year. It was suggested that one grade crossing a year be abolished if all could not go at once. | Meanwhile the possibilities of elim- | ination of all three of the remaining | grade crossings was seen by city offi- | cials in the $800,000,000 sum ear- marked in the new work-relief bill for highway safety projects. The total cost of construction work for elimination of all three crossings is figured by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, director of highways, at $600,000. If President Roosevelt allots as much as $300,000,000 for grade-cross- ing work over the country in his{ apportionment of the work relief money all three local railroad traffic menaces will be wiped out. Latest reports are the President is considering assignment of between $100,000,000 and $200,000,000 for this purpose. Operation of the work re- lief program, therefore, will at least push ahead the District program of eliminating the crossings. Under the terms of the Hayden clause in the work relief bill the Dis- trict will be allotted $201,000 for each $100,000,000 set aside for railroad grade crossing work. By an act of 1927 Congress pro- | hibited the District opening any street at railroad grade crossing and required that highway and railrcad grades be separated before the city proceeded with affected street exten- sions. The same act authorized the Dis- | trict to build viaducts over three railroad crossings, leaving the matter of appropriation to_later considera- tion. Cost of Projects. The Quarles street crossing, which would be built on the line of Eastern avenue, would cost some $200,000. The construction cost for the Michigan avenue viaduct is figured at $275,000 and the Bates road crossing at $125,000. The 1936 District budget, as it came from the Senate, carries an ap- propriation of $100,000 to start work on the Michigan avenue project. The estimated cost of $275,000 is in addi- tion to this sum. The cost of the bridge approaches is figured at $75,- 000, this to be paid out of District revenues. The supply bill for next year also contains an item of $200,000 for a bridge or viaduct over the railroad at Franklin street northeast. The street is not yet opened across the railroad right of way, but many pedestrians now pass over the tracks. o = ITALY TO MOBILIZE TWO NEW DIVISIONS King Victor's Decree Accompa- nies Declaration Favoring Ethiopia Commission. By the Associated Press. ROME, April 13.—Mobilization of two additional division of Italy's armed forces was authorized in a de- cree tonight by King Victor Emanuel. At the same time a government spokesman said Italy has informed the League of Nations of her willing- ness to deal with Ethiopia through the establishment of a conciliation commission. This decision was placed before the League by telegraph Thursday, he explained, but in no way indicated Italy has reached an agreement with Ethiopia. A note concerning Italian willing- ness to proceed with the establishment of a conciliation commission has not yet been communicated to Addis Ababa, the spokesman said. Although Italy still believed direct negotiations with Addis Ababa con- stituted the best method of settling differences between the two nations, he explained, Italy agreed to concilia- tion in view of Ethiopia’s stand. ‘The two new divisions probably will consist of infantry and artillery regi- ments. The personnel will be drawn from three classes already under arms. Father Given Food After Stealing Milk For Hungry Babies By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 13.— Justice transcended technicalities of the law today to provide William Rittereiser, 41, with food for his wife and six children. Rittereiser and a neighbor stole a case of milk from a dairy today. An hour later a detective burst into his dingy flat and found Rittereiser warm- ing two bottles of the milk. In another room were his wife and six children, aged 18 months to 13 years. “Sure I stole it,” Rittereiser said. “Now you can take me away.” The dairy owner refused to press the charge and sent a basket of groceries to feed the family over the week end. Magistrate Brodsky, in Yorkville Court, dug into his jeans for a $5 bill. . FARM AND GARDEN. Upper: A train stalled yesterday by a dust drift at Dodge City, Kans. Photo shows a second en- gine trying to extricate one caught in drift. While crews and track workers were trying to clear a path, dust befogged the air. The storms have made railroading dif- ficult throughout the area. Lower: The Texas Senate at Austin was temporarily gagged by a dust storm. Lieut. Gov. Walter Woodul, presiding over the Upper House, is shown wearing a surgical mask. AR UNOER WAY | Farmers to Stage Comeback by Fall, They Say, Re- fusing Flight. By the Associated Press. GUYMON, Okla, April 13.—Em- battled wheat farmers of the Okla- | homa Panhandle choked amid new dust clouds today, but few enter- tained even a passing idea of joining some 100 families who have left | rented acreage for greener pastures. “In one season, perhaps even before Fall, this land can stage a comeback,” declared H. C. Hyer, Texas County !farm agent. ‘It has not been seriously harmed by dust and wind.” With the dust still centered in this | region of Oklahoma, there was little | or none flying in the other sectors hit | hardest in the series of storms—the | Texas Panhandle, Southeastern Col- | orado, Northeastern New Mexico and ‘Western Kansas. | Dust rolled westward in Arizona "mday, but reports from Los Angeles said Pacific cross winds stopped it 1200 miles from the California border. At Topeka, Kans, Gov. Alf M. Landon announced plans to make a tour of the Kansas area suffering | from dust and drought. He will study | anti-soil erosion projects and the | Spring and Summer crop prospects. “The wheat mostly is gone,” said | County Agent Hyer, “but with nor- { mal rain this Fall and snow next | Winter the land can produce another bumper wheat crop next year. Per- haps not quite as good as in those years when Texas County produced more wheat for its size than any similar area in the world—but a good crop. “The land is not in danger. The health and the welfare of the people who till the land are. That's why| some people have left, but all have said they would come back when the weather improves. Most of them feared the dust would ruin their health.” The storm in this region was abat- ing tonight, and early relief was be- lieved in sight. Employment of 137 engineers and aids to institute a program of deep plowing in seven Northwestern Oklahoma and Pan- handle counties, to prevent more blowing of dust, was approved re- cently by the created State Conserva- tion Commission. Gov. E. W. Marland of Oklahoma has asked $500,000 in Federal funds for the work. Baltimore Man Sued. MIAMI, Fla., April 13 (#).—Alleg- ing that A. P. Miller of Baltimore, Md., owner of the yacht May Time, now docked at suburban Coconut Grove, left Miami April 11 without paying a debt of $914.40 owed for repairs on another boat, Southern Dry Dock & Storage, Inc., filed a libel action in Federal District Court here. Attachment of the boat in behalf of the corporation is sought. FARM AND GARDE CHRYSANTHEMUMS Hardy Exhibition; colors: Yellow, Lavender. Bronze. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 14, 1935—PART ONE. Copyright. A. P. Wiri Dust Halts Train and Gags Texas Senate Canaries Singing “Yankee Doodle” RANDOLPH STUDIES ST. LOUIS POLICE Gets Ideas on Law Enforce- ment for Use in the District. Special Dispatch to The Star. ST. LOUIS, April 13.—New ideas about law enforcement that may result in recommendations for improvement of the Washington Police Department were accumulated today by Repre- sentative Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, as he saw various branches of the St, Louis Police Department in action. Randolph, who was chairman of the special House Crime Investigating Committee, that delved into the oper- ations of police and courts in the Cap- ital, made an extensive tour of the police system when he visited St. Louis to address the Jefferson Club. With Col. John J. Phelan, treas- Momentum Saves Man as He Runs .lnlo Deadly Wire By the Assoclated Press. AUBURN, N. Y, April 13— Edward McCombs of Akron, Ohlo, was knocked unconscious today as he came in contact with an electric transmission wire carrying 2,300 volts. ‘The truck he had parked on a hill started down grade and he ran after it. The truck struck a pole carrying the wire | | and broke it off. McCombs’ mo- mentum, sald police, exceeded the current’s pull, and saved his | | life. Unconscious for 10 minutes at a hospital, he left later “feel- ing 0. K.” LABORER HELD INSANE BOSTON, April 13 (#).—Thomas F. 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Jenney, who ordered Murphy trans- terred from the hospital to East Cam- bridge Jail to await arraignment in | Federal Court Monday. | Murphy was arrested April 5 by Federal agents assigned to investigate The Representative heard Col. |3 letter received at the White House Phelan praise Washington for its|March 28. civil service system for police and| learned that St. Louis officials nre}oLYMP'C TO BE JUNKED vigorous in their stand against civ- ilian trial boards. The chief of T police, four members of the Board of Police Commissioners and the mayor form the trial board here. urer of the National Board of Police Commissioners, as a guide, Randolph visited the police records room, where 5,000,000 cards are on file; inspected the modern cells in the seven-story headquarters building, ‘said to be among the finest in the world, and saw the radio and “show-up” rooms of the department. with Secretary Morgenthau in his at- tempt at “rigid enforcement,” McClel- |lan said: “We have had over a year of re- peal now, and we have only to look about to become convinced that boot- | legging is still here, and, we fear, here to stay until the Government adopts the common sense policy of recom- mending to Congress a reduction in the tax on distilled spirits.” Although he commended internal revenue agents, McClellan wrote “Their labors have been in vain be- cause a mere handful of men are called upon to smash the bootlegger which, it would ear, is a difficult task for an army.” McClellan said reports to his office indicate bootlegging is prevalent and widespread and “there is just as much illicit liquor manufactured and sold |in this country as there was shortly | after the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. SOUTHAMPTON, April 13 (P — ‘The graceful Olympic, greyhound of Organized crime is on the run in| the j'ulannc and sister ship of the Ti- St. Louis, Col. Phelan told Randolph, | tantic, was reported today to be due and frequent investigations are al- | to follow the Mauretania to the scrap ways beneficial to law enforcement. | heap. By playing no favorites, using up-to- | The Cunard-White Star Lines did date methods, and by speedily and not deny a report that the veteran vigorously prosecuting cases, the St.|liner, one of the most famous on the Louis police are meeting with success | hign seas, will go to the ship break- in their drive on crime, Randolph ers for conversion into scrap metal. | said_he was informed. Tentative plans call for Kkeeping | After the tour Randolph conferred | the Olympic here in drydock for three | for an hour with Mayor Bernard| months before a trip to her last rest- | Dieckman and Police Chief McCarthy, | ing place. 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