Evening Star Newspaper, April 15, 1935, Page 5

1GTT0 ELIMINATE | GRADE CROSSINGS Maryland Officials Place 9 Nearby Hazards on Pre- ferred List. BY JACK ALLEN. Officials of the Maryland Roads Commission, moved by the tragedy in which 14 children lost their lives at Rockville, were laying plans today for the elimination of a number of dan- gerous grade crossings with Federal public works funds recently made available by Congress. ’ Included in a list of 57 crossings which the commission is considering for removal are 9 in Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties which con- stitute & serious menace to vehicular taffic in the vicinity of the Nationai Capital. e Meanwhile authorities investigating the horrifying calamity in which the {ll-fated Williamsport High School bus was demolished by a Baltimore & Ohio express postponed the preliminary hearing of Percy Line. driver of the bus, who is charged with manslaugh- ter, until May 23. The hearing was originally scheduled to be held in County Police Court &t Rockville tomorrow, but the postpone- ment, was granted to permit survivors of the wreck, who are listed to appear before the hearing as witnesses, o attend the funerals of their com- panions who were killed in the crash. List of Crossings Prepared. Elimination of a number of dan-| gerous crossings in Maryland will be | made possible when the State re-| ceives its share of the $4,880.000.000 public works fund allocated by Con- gress and the State Roads Commls-i sion has prepared a list of 57 cross- | U THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1935. Wiley Post, sub-stratosphere speedster, shown surrounded by admirers after he was forced down yesterday at Lafayette, Ind., ending unsuccess- fully his third attempt to make a non-stop record flight from Burbank, Calif., to New York. PETITION DOES NOT MEAN| CITY FARMS LOTS FIRM WILL DISCONTINUE} 0.0¢ 5,000 to 10,006 Vacant Plots in Attorneys John D. Fitzgerald and New York Aid Relief: George E. Sullivan explained today Farming in New York City will RITES FOR SIX BUS - CRASH DEAD HELD Spring Flowers Heaped Upon Caskets of Victims of Rockville Tragedy. Special Dispatch to The Star. WILLIAMSPORT, Md., April 15.— Spring flowers fresh breaking into bloom were heaped today upon grave and casket as Willlamspart attended six additional burials in the wake of the Rockville crossing tragedy. The processions wound, morning, noon and afternoon, through village streets lined with men and women in funeral black. Today's burials followed upon two yesterday, and six more are to be held tomorrow and ‘Wednesday. This four-day procession of the town's youth to the grave will be terminated Wednesday afternoon by a general memorial service at Wil- Hamsport High School, where the 14 victims of Thursday’s accident were enrolled. Zimmerman Girl Buried, Great banks of floral offerings marked today’s first funeral—that of 17-year-old Margaret Eva Zimmer- man, daughter of Dr. I. M. Zimmer- man, one of the leading surgeons of this section. The service was held in St. Augustine Church. Rev. T. D. Reinhart of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Hagerstown of- ficiated, assisted by the Catholic priests who helped to pull the bodies from the wreckage and administer to the' dying, Rev. Charles O'Hara of Rockville and Rev. Cecil J. McNeil of Catholic University. It was Dr. Zimmerman who, first | notified of the accident, drove the 50 miles to the scene in 40 minutes, expecting to give medical attention to the injured. His daughter's body was the first ings from which it will select those | that a petition filed Thursday in Dis- | be resumed in & larger scale than|object revealed by his flashlight in to be disposed of. | Plans were begun after President | Roosevelt, shocked by the Rockville | tragedy. announced that between | $100,000.000 and $200,000.000 would | be diverted from the general P. W. A.| fund to wipe out highway hazards | such as that which caused the death | of the Williamsport school children. | Harry D. Williar, jr., chief engineer of the State Roads Commission, said trict Supreme Court by Mrs. Sarah | ever this year, when between 5,000 J. Lee, president of the firm of J.! ana 10,000 plots on vacant lots and William Lee’s Sons Co., asking dis-: oiper undeveloped land in virtually solution of a corporation. organized two vears ago, to take title for con- struction of a new building does not | over to home relief families for rais- mean that the company, in business | ing vegetables for their own use. here nearly 100 years, intends to dis- . v iithe continue. The corporation never op- | Eiosing and lplnm!nz AL L erated the undertaking business, but !0 the next few weeks. was organized merely for the purpose every section of the city will be turned | the darkness beside the wreckage= | strewn right of way. The physician, a World War veteran, collapsed from the shock. Funeral Hush Over Town. | A funeral hush spread over the little town as the succession of funerals | began. Lowering clouds brought a ‘chill which was but temporarily dis- pelled by the sunlight that favored yesterday’s rites. The homes of Bertha Castle and Lois Winters were the setting for two other rites this morning, while after- noon services were being held for Norris Downs at the residence of Rev. W. C. Huddle, Claude Myers, from the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Winters, and Elva Harsh from the residence of her grandpar- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Harsh. Among those in the crowds that moved from home to home was Percy Line, driver of the bus which was run down by an expres train. Line is still under $1,000 bond on & man- slaughter charge. | Miss Louise Funk, the high school teacher who chaperoned the puplls on their expedition to see a chemistry show at the University of Maryland, is attending all of the services, It was Miss Funk who administered to the wounded, consoled the survivors, identified the dead for stricken, hysters ical parents and visited the homes of the bereaved long after the other sur- vivors of the fatal expedition had re- tired for a much-needed rest. Miss Funk went without rest -or sleep for the first 50 hours after the accident, and was reported holding up well today, despite the long and grievous strain. Services were held yesterday for Claude Brindle and LeRoy Kendle. Hundreds of out-of-town visitors aug- mented the throngs which attended both funerals. The sun broke through the clouds here for the first time in weeks as the processions moved to- ward the cemetery. Members of the high school faculty | are assisting in handling the general arrangements. The community serv- ice has been set for 2:30 o'clock Wed- nesday afternoon. It will be held in the high school, from which many of the victims, members of the senior class, were to to have graduated this Spring. Mayor Richard G. Hawken in a CULBERTSONS GET BRIDGE CHALLENGE By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 15.—The Four Aces, a team of bridge players, last night hurled a new challenge at the Ely Culbertsons and boosted the side bet to $20,000, promising to donate half of the purse, if they win, to & bables’ milk fund. During the course of the family bridge marathon, in which Mr. and Mrs. Culbertson defeated Mr. and Mrs. P. Hal Sims, the Four Aces threw down the gantiet to them for team- of-four match for a purse of $10,000. Neither the Culbertsons nor the Simses accepted. The Aces, composed of Michael T. Gottlieb, Oswald Jacoby, David Burn- stine and Howard Schenken, renewed their defy last night, challenging “Ely Culbertson and Mrs. Ely Culbertson and any two other bridge experts of the world to a team-of-four match of 300 boards for a purse of $20,000.” proclamation last night declared an official period of “public tribute” from noon to 6 o'clock Wednesday. The proclamation said: “Inasmuch as our community, sad- ly affiicted by the deaths of 14 Wil- liamsport High S8chool students in the Rockville crossing accident, wishes to pay every respect to their memory and offer their sympathy to the be- reaved, it is requested that all busi- nes in the town and vicinity be halted from noon to 6 p.m. Wednesday to pay public tribute to the memory of the dead. The memorial service will be held in the high school at 2:30 p.m., The Rockville hearing was post- poned until April 23 to allow surviv- ing witnesses to attend the funeral rites and memorial ceremony. A REAL SERVICE FOR THE PURSE ELITE'’S ECONOMY day by a police sGuad. They were re- poun Goats Chew on Spare Tire. MILWAUKEE. Wis. (#)—It used to be that families in the third ward would buy a goat every time a new baby was born, and the goats had free run of the territory, but those days apparently are gone forever. Three goats accused of trying to make a meal off a spare tire of a 'parked automobile wege rounded up the other turned to their owners with the warn- ing to keep them penned up, or they (the goats) would land up in the city Totem Pole Proves Problem. SEATTLE, Wash. ().—When a 8t. Louis department store ordered a 2- | * A5~ ton totem pole, Capt. Addis Gutmann, president of & fur company, was per- plexed as well as surprised. The old Indian symbol is 34 fept high, and was placed in Capt. Gui- mann'’s store before the building was finished, The problem of removing it brought wrinkles to his brow. It fi:;lly was taken out through a sky- t. If You Suffer With restorative. a; B Hountain Valley Mineral Water Met. 1062, 1105 K St. NwW. A royal treat fpr men who like to wear the best —and it has never * Your Doctor Will Tell You That FOOT TROUBLES Can Affect Your Whole System He will tell you that hardly a part of the body escapes the ill effects of painful feet or weak and fallen arches. 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Of this number 198 are on State highways, 697 on county roads and 26 on the streets in municipalities. i $800,000 for Work. Approximately $800,000 has been collected under the half-cent gasoline | tax which is ear-marked for grade crossing eliminations, but very little work has been done along that line the past few years and the money was diverted to the general funds of the State. This, Williar said, is due to the fact that the law provides that railroads must bear half of the cost of such work and they have been unable to do so because of strained financial conditions. Consequently, only 13 grade crossing elimination structures have been erected in recent years. ‘Williar said, however, he had been | informed that the railroads are to be relieved of this requirement under the Federal program and will not be re- | quired to share in the cost of build- How Many Mills Make a Milkman? il explain withoat charme or obligation— tain quick relief. He will take Pedo-graj out charge. 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Post's Third Attempt at Record Fails When Supercharger his cows because the cows won’t keep the milk and the milk won’t keep itself. Some- Does It Need ‘30 Quits. thing has to be done about it = oy REPAIRS? Mgl By the Associated Press. The milkman has to guess what LAPAYETTE. Ind., April 15—Wiley | the consumer needs in fluid Peeling paint, loose or sagging boards, rusted w—_rousers Post’s third attempt to crack the milk and that quantity is bot- metal, roof leaks, broken plaster, defective heating transcontinental airplane speed record by way of the stratosphere ended here late yesterday when, plagued by super- charger trouble, he brought the Win- nie Mae down to & “belly landing” on the Purdue University Airport. Streaking away from the Burbank | Union Air Terminal at 5:27!: am. tled. Whatever excess there is over that ‘“demand” is made into milk products— butter, cheese, powdered milk. Thus milk attains two classifi- cations, milk and milk prod- plant or plumbing—when these signs appear the property owner can no longer delay the work of maintenance on his home or business property without risking rapidly accumulated damage. We'll bet that lots of men will ask themselves, “How can those fellows do something nobod. else has done? How can they offer DeLuxe Rochester (Pacific Coast time), Post hurtled 3 through thin air at speeds which ap- | _ ucts. Tailoring for so much less t usual?” proxugmted 300 miles per hour. | They sell for different prices, DOCS It Need i -1 f : han usual. Over this hcp]}l]eiisml;nmumtg v,}xm‘\ and the farmer is paid differ- Here's the answer! There's not another T e e nim | ent prices. AL I ER A I IONS? retail clothier in these United States who “Get my hat off,” were Post’s first | words on landing. He was wearing a visored aluminum helmet and a 16- pound rubber fabric suit in which he received oxygen. “will you try again?” he was asked. “I don’t know,” Post answered, “I don't want to talk about it at all’ Post said that a clutch on one of He Say butter is selling for 40 cents a pound—and it takes 10)% quarts of milk to make a pound of butter—it is clear that about 4 cents a quart is the limit that could be paid for the milk that is so used. Consider the price of the other Have you considered the possibility of increasing the comfort of your home or the earning power of your investment property by well-planned changes; your basement or attic finished, an elevator or first floor store room for your apartment building, or new show windows and a better designed entrance owns and operates Rochester. We do! a tailoring plant in We've 1200 of the finest tailors in the country on our payroll. Y Y There's not another retail clothier who can bring you Rochester-tailored quality without first paying a profit to his superchargers was stripped. = - i classification, the milk for for your store? 5 e wooter| bottling. Y somebody eJse. We've cut out that extra superintending the placing ling ::‘fldml;elmmmfltlfi ?f‘.lfigi?. ey Breakndom:n?;tst;‘to:suc s: cost! And with it, for the first time The erstwhile Oklahoma farm boy 2:‘ oY up . D I tinywhere, we've cut the price of topnotch who established two around-the-world us: oes It eed g ; ; marks carried no radio-sending equlp Farmer. .. . 71 mills Rochester-tailored quality to $30, with two ;':5:: D e s time of e %xl%cple?;” l'lvl:ig?)%t; 29 MODERNIZING; m.mwn % % Treat yourself for .Eustcrl take-oft until he was forced down. ] me . Enjoy the luxury of clothes that will look He flew through the stratosphere at an average altitude of approximately tling Delivery and selling Your home or rental property may no longer sat- and fit as though they were actually made ] t. He depended mainly ) ; : - B ieney b nihte B G°°Sts" """""" 15 isfy the needs or tastes of its occupants. In- for you - Rochester-tailored clothes. A visit course 900 miles by tuning in broad- et‘:i:; b s adequate or out-of-fashion appearance and equip- 1o Bond's does the trick, today or tomorrow! tl;_tll:;g fli?l:éo:ia eg e;og\:‘ :a A iy e ment depreciate the value and serviceability of feasibility of superspeed airmail and express flights across the continent above weather disturbances. Col. Roscoe Turner set the present West- East transcontinental record of 10 hours and 2 minutes in September, 1934. Post was forced down February 22 130 mills That 3 mills profit per quart must keep the business go- ing. Out of it must come the interest to pay for the use of ] your building just as they do your motor car. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BANKERS ASSOCIATION "Clur:v it* with our E-l‘r in the Mojave Desert, 125 miles out of the fl]fihl in the business. Burbank, b} tor trouble, which later = B leged, was caused by sabotage.| It takes a lot of quarts to make On his second attempt }rledume‘dowx; 2 milkman out of mills. at Cleveland because of depletion of mA&?fl':nE:ggfl{. noted aviatrix, was | %’[M Needed money for these improvements is ob- CLOTHES at the Burbank Airport to bid Post ot tainable from banks in accordance with the farewell. She is preparing for a speed flight to Mexico City. Post said flying conditions were un- | usually bad. On his trip Post carried 150 pounds of mail. A CHESTNUT FARMS- CHEVY CHASE DAIRY [) > I requirements of the National Housing Act. "Cl%e it* with our fihfl