Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1935, Page 21

Wash ALLEY DNELLING REMOVALTOBEG N DITRE SOON Board Agrees to Purchase Properties to Make Car Lot and Garages. HOPE TO CALL BIDS SOON FOR RAZING OF BUILDINGS Bale Price of Sites in Northwest and Northeast to Be About $118,796. Fradication of alley dwellings in two sections of the city will be started soon under plans announced today by the District Alley Dwelling Authority. The board Mas entered into an agreement for the purchase of exist- ing properties in O'Brien Court, Co- lumbia Terrace and Thimble Court, where an automobile parking iot will be developed, and for acquistion of five dwellings in Rupperts Court in Southeast Washington, where six one= car garages will be built. These are the first two projects to be announced by the board, which began its opera- tions last November 10. To Close Contracts Soon. ‘The board hopes to close purchase contracts and to be able to call for bids from contractors for the demoli- tion of the existing buildings in about two weeks, John Ihlder, executive of- ficer of the board, said. The land needed for the Northwest project will cost something more than $115,000, slightly in excess of the assessed val- ues, and the sale price for the site of the Southeast project will be $3.796, equivalent to the assessed value, Ihlder said. The three locations in the North- west project lie between Twentieth, ‘Twenty-first, E and F streets. There are 30 dwellings in this square, seven of which are vacant. Ten dwellings in the square were recently demol- ished. The Alley Board is informed this property may be occupied at some future time by Government buildings, but it was determined to convert it into a parking lot now to prevent the possible erection of extensive buildings by private owners, Mr. Ihlder said. ‘There is a demand in the neighbor- hood for more parking area, he added. One of Five Occupied. Rupperts court is between Penn- sylvania avenue and C street, Second and Third streets southeast. one of the five dwellings in this site is now occupied. The cost of the work will come out of the $500,000 appropriation for the alley board. ‘The parking lot and the garages will be rented, the revenues going back into the revolving fund. Ihider said it had not yet been decided whether the board would operate the two parking projects or turn it over to a concessionaire. 104 POLICE FACE PHYSICAL EXAMS Maj. Ernest W. Brown Among Those on List—Doctors May Order Retirements. One hundred and four members of the police force, including Maj. Ernest ‘W. Brown, superintendent, are sched- uled to undergo physical examinations at the annual physical survey to be conducted by the Board of Police and Fire Surgeons May 3 to May 7. The examinations will be conducted at the clinic of the two protective branches of the District government, 1018 Thir- teenth street. It is more than likely that the ex- aminations will result in a number of retirements. Under”the law regulat- ing retirements it is possible for a member of the force to be retired at any time for physical disability, and it is within the province of the Dis- trict Commissioners to order compul- sory retirements after the age of 60 has been reached. The list of those ordered to appear for examination includes two assistant superintendents, 3 inspectors, 8 cap- tains, 14 lieutenants, 7 sergeants, 10 detective sergeants and 59 privates, TRAINMEN BONDED IN CROSSING CRASH Engineer and Fireman of B. & 0. Express to Appear at Hearing. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., April 19— James A. Shewbridge and W. F. Bussey, engineer and fireman of the B. & O. express train that crashed inte the Williamsport school bus and killed 14 children last week, were at liberty under $1,000 bonds today on manslaughter charges. The two trainmen, for whom war- rants had been obtained on Wednes- day, came voluntarily to Rockville late yesterday and surrendered on the charge. They will appear in County Police Court Tuesday for a prelimi- nary hearing. William F. Prettyman, local counsel for the railroad, and a representative of the Fidelity Casualty Insurance Co., accompanied Shewbridge and Bussey and. their bond was posted imme- diately. CLASS HOURS FIXED Red Cross Home Hygiene Courses Wednesday and Friday. The day-time class in home hy- giene and care of the sick, conducted by the District Chapter of the Amer- jcan Red Cross since April 17, will meet from 2 to 4 pm. on Wednesday and Priday afternoons, it is announced. The Friday class takes the place of one originally planned for Monday. Zvening classes will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 o'clock on Mondays and ‘Wednesdays, as originally scheduled. Those interested in taking the course may obtain_information by telephon- ing Miss Caroline Thompson at Na- ‘.vll 1910, it is announced. Only | ington News City Heads Ask Free D. C. of e ‘"WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1935. Airport Bill | Interest Charge Gravelly Point Construction Cost Share Payments Would Begin Ten Years After Completion. The Smith bill for development of a municipal airport at Gravelly Point should be amended to remove the re- quirement that the District pay 3 per cent interest on the District’s one-half share of the cost of the port, the Dis- rict Commissioners declared today in a report on the measure. The cost of the airport has been estimated at $2,500,000 and the Dis- trict’s share would be repaid in five equal installments beginning 10 years after completion of the atrport. The terms contained in the bill sponsored by Representative Smith of Virginia were debated at a recent heering at the Capitol. In their re- port on the bill today the Commis- sioners said they had insisted the Dis- trict should not be required to pay in- terest, but that Judge Smith “feels there is no chance for the bill to pass unless it provides for interest.” Revision Was Ordered, ‘They recalled that after the con- assistant corporation counsel, was di- rected to co-operate with Judge Smith | and Thomas S. Settle of the Park and Planning Commission in drawing a revised bill. After its preparation the Commis- sioners approved the bill. Before the bill was introduced, however, Judge the payment of interest, the Commis- sioners stated. | A special meeting of the House Dis- | trict Committee probably will be held Monday or Tuesday night to consider the local airport situation. Printed copies of the transcript of testimony before the subcommittee on parks and gressional hearings Walter L," Fowler, | Smith made the change providing for | playgrounds, for which the committee has been waiting for more than two weeks, were delivered to committee members today and are being studied as a basis for action at the special meeting. The hearings cover 237 pages of printed matter and are.accompanied by many adidtional pages of maps, charts and photographs, constituting the most exhaustive study of the local airport matter in the nine years dur- ing which it has been under consid- eration at Capitol Hill. Session May Be Secret. Although arrangements have not been completed for the special meet- ing, it was indicated it probably would be held behind closed doors so con- sideration of the matter might be ex- pedited. The subcommittee, reporting upon the Smith Gravelly Point bill, denounced the Gravelly Point site and reported an amended bill which would | set up a commisison to select and ac- | quire a site and another commission to develop and operate an airport. Representative Smith of Virginia promptly drafted a new Gravelly Point bill which is similar in its major features to the pending Gibson bill in the Senate and has asked that he be given an opportunity to present argu- | ments in behalf of the new measure before the full District Committee at its coming session. ‘The printed transscript made public today contains a number of briefs and letters filed with the subcommittee and not previously made public. Among them are three letters from the heads of airlines operating out of Washing- ton to Senator Gibson, all of them ap- proving the Gravelly Point site. YODAE EARNG TODRAN THRDNGS Special Guard Ordered for Tomorrow’s Session on “Murder Plot.” Mrs. Anne Lyddane and her three co- defendants in the alleged dual murder plot that has stirred Montgomery County will; be mrraigned in Police Court at Rockville tomorrow morning for preliminary hearing. Target of the eyes of hundreds of curious who are expected to jam the court house, the 29-year-old bank sec- retary will appear before Judge Donald A. De Lashmutt at 10 o'clock and hear the State accuse her of conspiracy to slay her husband and Mrs. Josephine Beall. Arraigned with Mrs. Lyddane will be John H. (“Googy”) Carnell, John M. Boland and Edwin J. Davis, who are said to have told authorities of receiv- ing money from the young Rockville woman to enter the alleged plot. Other figures, including Harry E. Thomas, William Brown and Irvin Borrell, are to be called upon as State’s witnesses to tell what they know con- cerning the charges brought against the four defendants. In addition, State’s Attorney James H. Pugh has announced that he has five “surprise” witnesses ready to testify against the bank secretary and her co-defendants. Strong Guard Planned. County police were laying plans to- day to throw a strong guard around the court room to preserve order. Meanwhile, State’s Attorney Pugh and his aides were putting the finishing touches on the preparation of their Counsel for Mrs. Lyddane, who is at liberty under $10,000 bond, has steadfastly maintained that their client is the victim of a “blackmail” plot, but it has been indicated that no effort will be made to smash the State’s case at the preliminary hearing. State ‘Senator Stedman Prescott, former State's attorney and her chief counselor, said he does not plan to put his client on the stand. It is expected that Prescott and his associate counselors, former State’s Attorney Robert B. Peter, jr, and Kenneth Lyddane, will concentrate their efforts on-a-severe grilling of the State’s witnesses to determine as fully as possible the accusations against Mrs. Lyddane. The State, it has been learned, is considering calling an immediate special session of the grand jury if any of the defendants are held for that body as a result of tomorrow’s hearing. Men Held in Jail. Mrs. Lyddane and Boland are charged with conspiring to murder Lyddane, a bookkeeper for the Mont- gomery County liquor dispensary sys- tem, while Mrs. Lyddane, Davis, and Carnell, who is said by officers to have served as intermediary for Mrs. Lyd- dane in alleged negotiations with the other defendants, are charged with conspiring to murder Mrs. Beall. The latter, wife of a Darnestown garage cwner, named Mrs. Lyddane co-respondent in a divorce suit two years ago, but dropped the suit two days later after a settlement out of court. Boland, Davis, and Carnell, a former ‘Washington policeman, are said by detectives to have signed statements in which they claim to have received money from Mrs. Lyddane for enter- ing the alleged conspiracy. All three are held in the Rockville Jail. FOUR VACANCIES FILLED named four persons to vacant posi- tions in its Co-operative Extension Division. They are Charles A. Sheffield, chief of county work in Southern: States; C. E. Potter, 4-H Club_work fleld agent in Eastern States; Gladys Gal- lup, educational researcher on home economic matters, and Lita Bane, chief of ckhfld care and parent educational work, Citizens Will Meet Tonight. NORTH WOODSIDE, Md., April the Montgomery o'clock at the home of the president, igeo P. Watson, Columbia Boulevard. DISTRT RESDEN LLED BY TRUGK Van E. Rouse Is Victim of Crash on Baltimore Road at Berwyn. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BERWYN, Md, April 19—Van E. Rouse, 43, a manufacturer’s repre- sentative , with offices in.the Bond Building, Washington, was almost in- stantly killed this morning when his automobile was struck by a truck on the Baltimore Boulevard here. Police said the truck was on the wrong side of the road when the ac- cident occurred and held the driver, Ernest Robinson, colored, 40, 400 block of V street, Washington, for an inquest next Wednesday night. Returned From South. Business associates said Rouse had Jjust returned from Florida and was driving back from Baltimore when the accident occurred. He had lived in Washington about 10 years, staying at various hotels. When his wife, Mrs. Helen C. Rouse, recently returned to Centertown, Mo., where their son, Van E. Rouse, jr., is in school, the couple gave up their apartment in the Roosevelt and Mr. Rouse moved to another hotel. Truck Overturns. Robinson’s truck, heavily laden with iron wire, overturned after the acci- dent. The driver and Royal Steven of Philadelphie, a passenger, escaped injury. Dr. A. O. Etienne pronounced Rouse dead. Corpl. C. W. Cubbage, Mary- land State Police, and County Officer Claude Reese investigated the case. Magistrate George S. Phillips will conduct the inquest. SOLDIER FOUND SHOT T0 DEATH IN QUARTERS Coroner and Military Board Prob- ing Shooting of Fort Wash- ington Private. Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald and a military board today are investi- gating the death last night at Walter Reed Hospital of Pvt. Henry J. Geb- hart, 26, from a bullet fired into his head yesterday morning at Fort Washington where he had been sta- tioned. Gebhart, Dr. MacDonald said, is re- ported to have been melancholy, The shot was fired from a service pistol while he was in his quarters at the fort. Gebhart was attached to Com- pany L, 12th Infantry. ‘The military board was scheduled to convene this afternoon, it was said at Fort Washington, and probably will complete a report of its investigation within the next several days. Dr. MacDonald said he would issue a cer- tificate here as the death occurred in ‘Washington and he has been furnished considerable information on the case. EDITORS ATTACK OWN WEAKNESSES AT JDAY SESSION Three Foreign Correspond- ents Scheduled to Speak This Afternoon. WHITE HOUSE VISIT “OFF THE RECORD” Grove Patterson Scores “Inactiv- ity and Mental Indolence.” W. A. White a Speaker. Editors of 100 papers, gathered here for their thirteenth annual conven- tion, were prepared for some sharp self-criticism this afternoon with a discussion of “The Worst That Can Truthfully be Said About Today's Newspapers.” ‘The men behind the Nation's most important journals, members of the American Society of Newspaper Edi- tors, faced a day filled with consid- erations of various technical aspects of their profession. This afternoon three noted foreign correspondents, Dorothy Thompson, Paul Scott Mowrer and Raymond Gram Swing, were to tell the news executives ‘about “The Big News in Europe; What It Means and How to Get It.” Confidential Comment. The group, meeting at the National Press Club in three-day session, was received at the White House last night to hear the President comment on matters the news men could not pub- lish. The interview was strictly off the record. William Allen White, the Emporia, Kans., sage, long a leader among publishers and editors, gave an answer yesterday afterncon to the editors’ harassing question on “the conflict between the important and the in- teresting in newspapers.” He advised: “If the readers get the notion you are honest, courageous and in- telligent you will gain their respect and they will follow your own dictate on what is important.” .. Grove Patterson, the society’s presi- dent and veteran editor of the To- ledo Blade, took his colleagues to task for ‘“editorial inactivity and mental indolence,” and added: “Never before has it been so clearly the duty of newspapers to think long and work devotedly to bring con- structive suggestions to men .snd public office. “Frankly I am less disturbed about the freedom of the press in ‘the United States than I am about the disposition of too many newspaper editors not to do anything with the freedom that is theirs.” New Public Opinion. Patterson expressed concern over the ravages of crime and exhorted Amer- ican newspaper men to “build and oster a new public opinion with re- | gard to law enforcement.” “There must be no suppression of news,” he said. “That way lies the road to laxity, forgetfulness and in- difference. Constantly we must at- tack officials who fail through fear or favor. Constantly we must bring support to those who do a job with all the competency and courage that lie within them.” The editors conferred on the in- creasing importance of pictures in newspapers this morning before a luncheon at which Julia Coburn, editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal, discussed “The Woman's Page.” The society and the National Press Club tonight will hold a reception for Vice President Garner, cabinet mem- bers, Speaker Byrns, a group of Senators and members of the House, heads of independent bureaus and “other big figures in the news.” Vaudeville and music will be pro- vided by the club. ‘The party will replace the club’s “congressional night” at which it plays host to new members of Congress. A chorus from the colored Civilian Conservation Corps camp at Alexan- dria will sing several spirituals, includ- ing “Steal Away to Jesus,” “ s Lullaby,” “Go Down Moses” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” all by Harry G. Burleigh. The chorus is di- rected by Fred Hampton and James Hariston, baritone, is soloist. Other musical numbers will be by Edwin C. Steffe, Fred East and William F. Ray- n?ond, with George H. Wilson at the piano. FORMER BANKER FREED Raymond L. Schreiner, former pres- ident of the Bank of Brightwood, has been released from Lorton reforma- tory, where he was serving a three- year sentence for embezzling $15,000 of the bank’s funds, it was learned today. Schreiner was released April 17, having served his full sentence with time off for good behavior. He plead- ed guilty to the charge October 31, 1932, and was sentenced on December 16 of that year. Wild Geese Honk Enthusiasm Crossing Aviation Light Here Are wild geese learning to follow the beacon-lit airplane routes on thejr flights across America? Perhaps not, yet just before dawn today & huge flock of the honkers swung squarely over the revolving beacon on Wardman Park Hotel, hold- ing into the true North with military The Agriculture Depariment has | precisi on, As the swinging beam picked them up, and made their white breasts sparkle like a string of lights in the dark clouds, they set up a great honk- ing from a hundred throats, appar- ently in gratitude at being set on their way—or to confusion from the glare. The Spring flight angled northward, not in the familiar wedge formation, chief of the Biological Survey, artist and former newspaper man, migratory airplanes look very much “like water under floodlights, even to the keen eyes of a wild goose. In Des Moines, Jows, recently Mr. Darling saw a mi- Instead of gliding into water, the bening Shap ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING ED) New Army Mess Hall Like a Tea Room “GRABBING FOR SLUM” GIVES WAY TO MODERN CAFETERIA AND HOTEL TABLES. Above: * Mess line being served in cafeteria style at Bolling Field. Below: showing tables and chairs in smklng contrast to the old mess hall LR A ENPLOVES ASKSHORTERDAY Recovery Board Urged in Resolution to Apply Poli- cies Impartially: Demand for 39-hour-week for N. R. A. employes was sent today to mem- bers of the National Industrial Recov- ery Board by N. R. A. Lodge 91, Amer- ican Federation of Government Em- ployes. ‘The resolution framed last night called on the board to put in vogue for its own workers the policies it 1ays down for industry. Copies of it were forwarded to the White House and to members of the Senate Finance Com- mittee as well as the heads of the re- covery agency. ‘The union meeting in the Washing- ton Loan & Trust Building was called in protest against a recent bureau order canceling compensatory leave for overtime work unless taken the day following the extra work. Opportunity for Leave. Inasmuch as for unbroken periods of days or weeks employes work over- time, they declared this ruling practi- cally nullified opportunity for leave. “The group also urged change in the pending N. R. A. extension bill to per- mit the employes to take advantage of their accumulated annual leave after June 16, when the present tenure of life of the recovery administration ex- ires. P Controller General McCarl has de- clared that under present conditions appointments of all N. R. A. workers automatically end June 16 and so any benefits accrued up to that time are wiped out. Order Termed Harsh. The union’s resolution termed the limited compensatory leave order, re- pealing & year-old rule of former Ad- ministrator Hugh Johnson, “unneces- harsh, entirely unwarranted, and destructive of morale.” ‘The dey before the meeting union members circulated handbills among all 2,000 N. R. A. employes urging LIQUOR RETAILERS TOLD TO REMOVE FREE' SIGNS flock skidded, rolled and tumbled on |signs the concrete. They lost & lot of feathers and all of their dignity. . “Generally speaking, 8 wild goose | licenses, is no fool. But that flock certainly %lflo&lfilflh—)’lmlmo(‘m an old goose!” 'rg,adirecfiumlunuotmwfld incredibly accurate most infallible. BY JOHN J. DALY. OU'D hardly know the old Army now,” a “busted” sergeant said this morning at Bolling Field. There were practically tears in his eyes as he recalled the six differeat “hitches” he had done in Coast Artil- ' | lery posts and in Infantry barracks. “Why,” he said, “they've got every- thing but finger bowls in the mess halls—I beg your pardon, sir, cafe- With a warning not to let the general staff know that one soldier, at least, felt that things are coming to a pretty pass, the hard-boiled old top-kick of former days—now doing K. P. in the modernized kitchen of a cafeteria—lit his pipe and peeled another spud. It is about the Army’s new plan to install cafeterias in all posts where practicable. © - Naturally, the morale of the Army 15 being improved with all thés modern service, comparable to anything on the outside, and in most cases better. Soldiers Take Time. Local conditions, of course, always will play a part in the plan, and some posts may by necessity be forced to remain in the groove. This is the opinion at the War Department. Today at Bolling Field no bugle blows as mess times arrive. Instead the boys depend on their wrist watches, knowing that a leisurely break- fast awaits them, a dinner served from 11:15 to 12:30 and supper anywhere from 5 to 6:30. So they stroll, in good time, over to the cafeterias that are supplanting the old-fashioned mess halls, get their trays and start down the long lane in front of the steam tables and select those vitamin-bearing foods best suit- ed to the health of the soldier. Alas, the old mess hall is on its way out. With its traditions of slum and punk and java, all served on the grand scale; of “grabbing,” the first law of self-preservation; of the man with the longest reach the best-fed soldier in the outfit, it nevertheless soon will be but & memory. The innovation began with the Air Corps and is spreading to the Infantry. In the experimental stage, what takes place at such aviation fields as Bolling, Langley, down in Virginia, and Maxwell, near Montgomery, Ala., may eventually be commonplace in the entire . The first of the new cafeterias for foot soldiers was erected & short time ago at Fort Benning, Ga. Yes, they're different—these hotel tables, with four comfortable chairs, instead of the long narrow tables that seemed a mile long, with back- less benches lined up on either side. —_— e 12 NAVY SEAPLANES WILL FLY TO ALASKA Three Tenders Under Command of Rear Admiral Johnson to Accompany Aircraft. By the Associated Press. Navy officials said today at least 12 Interior view of the cafeteria, —Star Staff Photos. CHURGHES OF Y NARK D FRIDA Special Musical Services Tonight to Stress Crucifixion. Washington churches today were holding morning, noon and evening services in commemoration of Good Friday, day of the crucifixion. Three- hour passion services were held- be- ginning at noon in Washington Ca- thedral and many of the principal churches of the city. Special musical services are the rule this evening, with Stainer’s “The Crucifixion” and other cantatas based on the crucifixion scheduled to be given in'a number of the Capital's churches. The Washington Methodist Episco- pal Churches joined for a three-hour Good Friday service at Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, Sixteenth and P streets, under supervision of Rev. Benjamin M. Meeks, district superintendent. Pastors of many churches of the denomination were to speak during the long service. Cathedral Goal of Many. ‘Washington Cathedral was the goal of many Easter visitors to Wash- ington. The service, led by Right Rev. James E. Freeman, Bishop of Wash- ington, was divided into three units of an hour each for the convenience of those who could not remain for the entire service. Churches of the Southwest section united at noon in three-hour services in Grace Episcopal Church, Ninth and D streets, with ministers of three denominations participating. All religious denominations of the city have been invited to participate in the third annual Good Friday services sponsored by the Washington Society and General PAGE B—1 MARRIED WORKERS BANSEENNVADIG ENERGENCY UNTS H. 0. L. C. Sends “Show- Cause” Orders to Em- ployes Affected. MOVE SEEN REVERSAL OF FORMER POLICY Civil Service Group Told of Con- ditions Under Ruling by D. C. Woman's Bar Head. The marital status law is threaten- ing to become a weapon in reductions of force in the emergency agencies where, hitherto, the attitude appar- ently has been taken that it was nct applicable. ‘This was brought out today when the House Civil Service Committee resumed hearings on a bill by Rep- resentative Celler, Democrat, of New York, to eliminate the marital status prohibition by amendment of civil service law. A statement by Mrs. Edwina Avery, president of the Woman’s Bar Asso- ciation of the District, that the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. “yesterday cut off some young people who had just been married,” brought an explanation at the corporation that there had been no dismissals, but that seven men and women whose husbands or wives also are in Government service had “been notified to show cause” why both should hold their jobs. Their repre- sentations would be given considera- tion before any action was taken to drop them, it was amplified. Action Is Surprise. The fact the H. O. L. C. was pro- posing to use the marital status dismissal clause came as a surprisc at the hearing in view of the fact a report on operation of this law, compiled by the Labor Department's Women'’s Bureau and placed in the record of the inquiry, listed emer- gency agencies as the “establish- ments which do not regard this clause as applicable to their employes.” These emergency agencies recently were instructed to hold jobs to a “one to the family” basis, but this principle was said not to be involved in the H. O. L. C. situation. Not only would patronage em- ployes be affected should the marital status law now be invoked, but also civil service employes who lost out in reductions in the old line establish- ments and then were re-employed in the new groups. At the Civil Service Commission the opinion was expressed that the law is applicable to the emergency agencies where reductions are neces- sary, because of its broad wording. Recessed Until Tuesday. Mrs. Avery's testimony was the high spot in today's hearing, and when the inquiry recessed until Tuesday at 10 a.m., it was requested that she return to the stand. She charged bluntly that the law requiring dismissal of husband or wife in necessary reduction of force, is en- couraging illicit relationship among young people here because they feel they cannot assume family obligations on one salary. “We do know to be a fact that young people have put off marriage,” she told the committee. “We know that right here in Washington—without mentioning names—there are young people living together without the benefit of marriage because they can't live on one salary.” Miss Anna Pollitzer of the National Woman's Party corroborated the statements of witnesses at the open- ing of the hearing yesterday that “women are being affected (by the law) to a greater degree than men.” Job or Husband. She brought a laugh from the crowd in which women predominated when she said “it seems awfully unfair to make women choose between a job and a husband.” Mrs. Rebekah Greathouse, former assistant United States attorney here, appearing as a witness for the National Association of Women Lawyers, said the law “is setting a bad example to private industry, and that perhaps is why we are most opposed 0 it.” While she was testifying, Repre- sentative Dunn, Democrat, of Missis- sippi, commented that the law de- prived women of their “constitutional rights,” provoking such vigorous ap- plause that Chairman Ramspeck asked that such outbursts—which have been frequent—be curbed. Widow Hit by Car Unable to Attend Veteran’s Funeral Catholic Evidence Guild from 2:30 to 5:30 in Pranklin Park, Fourteenth and I streets. Several speakers will be heard and the exercises will open the third outdoor season of the guild, during which open forums will be conducted each Sunday and on a number of other evenings of the Spring and Summer months. RO~ S WIFE INSISTS NOTES HAS ENDED HIS LIFE Mrs. Gertrude Notes of 1913 Kenyon street today reaffirmed her conviction that her husband, Louis Notes, 49, had committed sucide after leaving his home here two weeks ago. Mrs. Notes said her husband had threat- ened to kill himself, and she has not seen or heard from him since. However, Mr. Notes’ brother Isaac, manager of the Strand Theater, denjed yesterday that Louis Notes was contemplating suicide and in- sisted he was in communication with him.* He declined to reveal his ts. Paul Schneider, Soldiers’ Home Inmate, Had Been Visited Daily by Wife. ‘The ceremony and color of a mili- tary funeral were accorded FPaul ler, 79-year-old veteran, at the but the Mrs. Mary Schneider, 75, was cone fined to Emergency Hospital suffering from a fractured shoulder and severe shock. Crossing Eleventh street yes- terday afternoon near the intersection with F, she was struck by a street car and knocked to the pavement. This morning, the hospital reported her slightly improved, but unable to ate tend the funeral services. Schneider, native of Germany, enlisted in nited States Army in 1875, but was discharged two years later for disability. In 1880, he en- tered the Soldiers’ Home and re- mained about one year. He returned in 1917 and had been at the institu- tion since that time. Mrs. Schneider