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MAYDAYTO PEN HEALTH DRI FOR CHLDREN OF Y Three Separate Programs' to Be Launched With Help of Schools. ONLY TWO POLITICAL _GATHERINGS SLATED Communist Committee Sponsor of | Meeting Tomorrow in Frank- lin Park. ‘May day, historic date of political and labor disturbances, tomorrow in | the Capital will mark the beginning of | a yearly effort to bring to the city's | children better health. | ‘The day will witness three distinct | ‘health drives swing into full operation, vitally affecting the health of thou- sands of children of pre-schol and | school age. | According to her custom, Mrs.| Roosevelt will receive & basket of flow- | ers from a delegation of school chil- dren, who will call at the White House at 11 a.m. tomorrow. In 13 schools parent-teacher asso- | ciations will hold medical examinations in connection with their annual Sum- | mer round-up of children who will! enter school next September and Feb- ruary. Physicians to Aid. | Experienced physicians will give the ‘, youngsters a thorough going over. The | second phase of the round-up is the treatment and cure of remedial defects discovered in the examination. Later another examination will be conducted to check up on results. The District Congress of Parents and Teachers has been specially cited for the excellence | of its Summer round-up in 1934. Schools in which parents are urged to bring their children for examina- tion tomorrow are the Bancroft, Bur- roughs, Maury. Blow-Webb, Wheatley, | Langdon, Woodridge. Brookland. | Adams, Barnard, Park View, Truesdell and Whittier. | Others of the city’s 51 associations | will hold examinations May 2, 3, 6, | %, 15 and 24. | To Test for Tuberculosis. The instructional side of the joint drive by the District Health Depart- ment and the District Tuberculosis Association to examine each high | achool senior for tuberculosis infectios will be launched tomorrow with | lectures in three high schools. Other | Zhe Ene WASHINGTON, D..C, Joseph Ledwinka (left). Philadelphia, Pa., shown as Commissioner of Patents Conway P. Coe today handed him the 2.000.000th patent to be issued by the United States. him in the last 36 years. (Story on Ledwinka has had 248 patents issued to —A. P, Photo. Page C-2) D.C. HEADS REJECT SHORT-TON APPEAL to Proposed Change in Coal Code. The proposal that the District code | be amended to permit the sale of coal by the short ton, instead of the long ton, was rejected today by the District Commissioners. Their decision was based on upited opposition from citizens’ associations voiced at a public hearing last night. The only proponents of the change at the hearing were spokesmen for the | Merchants and Manufacturers’ Asso- | held at ciation, which initiated the move, and he Board of Trade, which indorsed the movement. In a letter to Chairman Norton of NEED OF RELIIOLS REVIVAL IS CITED | {Uphold Citizens’ Opposition Bishop Hughes Sees Decade of Drunkenness and Gam- bling in America. HARBOR PROECTS GROLP WL PASS OND.C PROPOS Committee Meets to Study Plans and Report to Full Congress. WORK-RELIEF FUNDS ENCOURAGE LEADERS Deepening Channels and Provid- ing New Piers Urged for Water Improvement Here. Facing a docket of more than 100 | proposed undertakings, the Projects Committee of the National Rivers and Harbor Congress opened sessions at | the Hotel Mayflower this morning for the thirtieth annual convention. | About 100 were in attendance, heart- |ened by administration plans to | spend billions on public works. | Considering the projects in the order of their original filing with the | Congress, the committee listed two District of Columbia proposals about half-way down their calendar. Both of these, one calling for the deepening of all channels in Washington harbor and the other providing for construc- tion of five new piers and four yacht basins, are included in the omnibus | rivers and harbors bill which already has passed the House and is now awaiting approval of the Commerce Committee of the Senate. Although they were not expected | to appear before this afternoon, two | spokesmen for the District projects | were on hand when the committee | convened this morning. These were | F. E. Smith, representing the Rivers | and Harbors Committee of the Board | of Trade, and Clifford White, bridge engineer, representing the District | | government. To Review Projects. | | Unless there is a revival of religion in America the United States is in | for a decade of drunkenness and gam- bling, Bishop Edwin H. Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal Church here, | declared today at the opening session | | of the twelfth annual Conference of i the Department of Evangelism of the | Federal Council of Churches of Christ |in America. The conference is being Calvary Baptist Church, | Eighth and H streets, through to- | | morrow. Cites Slump in Morals, | ““The statement of James Truslow Since briefs supporting the two projects already have been filed with | the Congress, the spokesmen at the | committee meeting said they expected | only to review the projects briefly and urge that the Congress indorse them and recommend to the United States Congress their ultimate approval. The channel project, Smith said. called for deepening to 24 feet of all waterways into the harbor, the prin- cipal benefit anticipated being a sav- ing to oil companies and other eon- cerns bringing material into the Dis- trict by water. The project would | cost about $325,000, he said. The second proposal calls for con- struction of three new commercial piers, two District piers and four 1Y TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1935. ATy [ 4 New Howard University Building Presented Shar ¥R Society and General PAGE B—1 MCLELLAN HEADS CHEST COMMITTEE 10 SECURE FUNDS {Drive to Be Launched in November, With Plans Starting at Once. VARIED EXPERIENCE IN WORK TO BE AID Lifelong Interest in Social En- terprises Cited by Presi- dent Dodge. Dr. William McClellan. president of the Potomac Electric Power Co., has accepted chairmanship of the 1935 | Community Chest Campaign Commit- tee. it was announced today by Clar- erce Phelps Dodge, president of the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hall, new Howard University Building. was formally presented at dedicatory exercises today. In the photo, left to right: President Mordecai W. Johnson of Howard, Joseph H. Douglass, grandson of Frederick Douglass; Maj. Phillip B. Fleming, U. 8. A., acting deputy Federal emergency administra- tor of public works; Theodore A. Walter, First Assistant Secretary of the Interior: T. L. Hungate, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Howard, and Dr. Harry Woodburn Chase, chancellor of New York University, principal speaker at the exercises. The new building is a public works project. CONGRESS PARLEY ONRENTDELAYED —Star -Staff Photo. 1 Colonel SOUTHERN BEAUTY GETS KENTUCKY COMMISSION. Senators’ Absence Forces | D. C. Committees to Postpone Talk. A scheduled joint meeting today of the House and Senate District Com- mittees to discuss Washington's rent situation was postponed because of the absence of a number of Senators. A session later in the week or early next week is contemplated. Seven of the House Committee and three members of the Senate Com- mittee reported in the House caucus | room promptly at 10 am. for the | joint session. Two members of the ! Senate Committee. Chairman King. {and Senator Austin, Republican, of | Vermont, announced, however, they | WOMAN LOBBYIST - HELD FOR CHECKS Hotel Official Testifies at Hearing—Bond Set at $1,500. Mrs. Lee M. McQuillan. 25. pretty and strikingly dressed, was remanded to the District Jail by Judge Ralph Given in Police Court this morning in default of bonds of $500 each on three check-law violation charges. The three warrants were sworn to by Eppa Eldred. assistant manager of the Mayflower Hotel, where Mrs. Mc- Quillan had been a guest several weeks and where the checks are alleged to {have been givep. The checks, ex- | hibited in court this morning, were for $360, $100 and $50. It was testi- | | fied the woman received $70 in cash on the three checks. The $360 check | Chest. The new chairman will begin | preparations immediately for the an- | nual Chest campaign to be held next November, Since coming to Washington in 1933 Dr. McClellan has taken an active interest in the work of the Community Chest and last year he served as }rhairman of area 3 of the group so- iicitation unit. He also is a member | of the board of the Episcopal Eye. Ear | and Throat Hospital, a Chest organi- zation. | Dr. McClellan, it was explained at | Chest headquarters, has had a life- |long interest in social and church | work, despite the interference of his | extensive traveling as an engineer. He has conducted several successful build- ing programs for churches and hos- pitals. | | Was University Instructor. i He formerly was an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was associated with the work of the University Settlement, gaining a thorough working knowledge of settle- ment activities and boys’ club projects. Receiving his education at the Cen- | tral Manual Training School in Phila- | delphia and at - the. University of Pennsylvania, Dr. McClellan won a B. S. degree, a Ph. D. degree and later the degree of electrical engineer. He has been associated with the Phila- delphia Rapid Transit Cq, Westing- rouse, Church, Kerr & Co.; Campion, McClellan Co., of which he was di- rector; Paine, McClellan & Campion, end McClellan & Jundersfield. Later he became vice president of Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. and then headed his own firm as president of William McClellan & Co., Ltd. He came to Washington as president of the Potomac Electric Power Co. in 1933. Dr. McClellan also has been a physicians will speak and exhibit | the House District Committee, Com- | consulting engineer with some of the | Adams that the slump of morals in yacht basins, together with bulkheads, ] had engagements which Wwould force health pictures in many of the inter- mediate and elementary schools. The high school lectures scheduled are at McKinley, 9:05 am. by Dr. Stuart O. Foster; Western, 9:40 a.m Dr. Charles R. L. Halley, and Dunbar, | ® a.m, Dr. E. O. Wiggens. Dr. Wiggens | also will speak to parents tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at Dunbar. | May day also is the starting point | for the campaign of the American | Child Health Association, in co-oper- | ation with the American Pediatric So- | ciety and the District Health Depart- ment, for immunization to diphtheria of pre-school children. | Each year the American Child Health Association wars against some | phase of child ill-health. This year | | missioner Hazen stated the Commis- | sioners had decided not to sponsor the | proposed change because of the oppo- | sition of the civic spokesmen, but | called attention to the petitions of the two trade groups. Hazen also announced the District | would make an effort to “straighten | | out the kirks” in competition between coal dealers arising from the present differences in the size of the ton here L Corporation Counsel Prettyman will | be asked to determine if the District can prevent delivery in Washington of coal bought on the short-ton basis | from dealers outside the District boundary. Coal dealers here have protested | the United States is even greater than the economic slump is correct, in my opinion,” Bishop Hughes said. The attending delegates are repre- | sentatives of the 25 Protestant re- | ligious bodies throughout the coun- try, totaling some 22,000,000 members. The delegates during the two-day conference will discuss the religious situation in America and work out a united program of evangelism for Problems Discussed. ‘ retaining walls and other necessary features. These improvements, Smith explained, should bring to Washing- ton a greater volume of commercial shipping and should aid materially in | them to leave. Senator King said he had been called to the White House. It was then decided to post- pone the session. Others Responding. developing the city as a recreation center for yachtsmen. With the esti-| Others who responded to the call | | mated cost set at $1,650.000, it is|for the joint meeting were Senator of Oklahoma and | Democrat, [ Gore, Democrat, believed that a return of 3 per cent | Representatives Norton, annually on the investment would be | ! i t the nd in the adjoining States. fmmum.s. ‘ assured by the increased traffic. Both | of New Jersey, chairman ol | projects have been approved by Army engineers and civic groups. The first projects to be considered House District Committee; Palmisano, | Democrat, of Maryland: Randolph, | Democrat, of West Virginia; Carpen- Rev. William Hiram Foulkes of this morning were the Trinity River | ter, Democrat, of Kansas: Dirkseh, | Newark, N. J,, is presiding officer at | the meetings. Bishop Hughes led a | morning discussion on ‘“Individual | | and Social Redemption.” Rev. Albert it was decided to concentrate on | they suffer because people think they | w Beaven was to lead another dis- | diphtheria in children ranging in age 2T® Betting coal cheaper when they | oyssion on “Modern Motives for Evan- | from 6 months to 6 years. Ceremonies and Dances. Children of many of the city's schools will celebrate May day with colorful ceremonies and dances. One | of the largest of these will be at the | ‘Wheatley School, where some 700 | pupils will take part in a festival and health pageant. The program will get under way at 1 p.m. But two political demonstrations | are scheduled for tomorrow, according to applications to police for permits. What promises to be the most ex- tensive gathering will be in Franklin Park at 3:30 p.m. under auspices of the May Day Communist Committee. ‘The Socialist Labor party will hold a ! meeting at the same place between 8 | and 10 p.m. Police say they are not | expecting disturbances in connection with either gathering. The Communist party has received | & permit for & meeting tonight at| Fifth and N streets between 7:30 and 9:30 o'clock, which will be in the na- | ture of a “pep” session for tomorrow | afternoon’s essemblage. Another per- | mit has been issued for an open-llr! meeting on Friday evening at Twen- | tieth and L streets. JOSEPH AUERBACH, MERCHANT, EXPIRES Native of Germany Lived in| ‘Washington 60 Years—Funeral | Tomorrow Morning. Joseph Auerbach, 83, a leading | retail merchant of Washington for many years, died yesterday in George- town University Hospital. Born in Lichtenau, Germany, De- eember 13, 1851, Mr. Auerbach had lived in Washington for the last 60 years. He was well-known in the Masonic Order and a prominent mem- ber of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants. . He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Weyl Auerbach, daughter of the late Max Weyl, noted Washington artist, and two children, Mrs. Miriam A. Wolf and Joseph Auerbach, jr. Puneral services will be held at the residence, 1810 R street, tomorrow at 10:30 am. Burial will be in the cemetery of the Washington Hebrew Congregation. —_— - B. F. WITHERS, JR., DIES South Cheverly, Md., Man Buried in Bladensburg Cemetery. Benjamin F. Withers, jr., of South Cheverly, Md., died April 18 at Provi- dence Hospital. He is survived by his perents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. With- ers, &r., and two sisters, Mrs. George W. Nichols of Washington and Mrs. | business in New York until he came | Burial will be in Newcastle, Me., PFri- here has 2.240 pounds per ton. NELSON S. TOBE | BUSINESS MAN, DIES Four-Month Illness Fatal to Viee} i’resident of Barber & Ross. Nelson S. Tobey, vice president of Barber & Ross, Inc., died early this morning at his home, 3733 Massachu- setts avenue, after an iliness of four months. Son of the late Capt. Eugene C. Tobey, U. 8. N., first treasurer of the | Panama Canal Commission, he was born at the United States Naval Sta- tion, Bremerton, Wash., in November, 1899. A graduate of the Naval Academy | in 1920, Mr. Tobey had engaged in to Washington to join the well- known hardware firm three years 0. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Marie Wagner Tobey, whom he mar- ied 10 years ago today, and his mother, Mrs. Malleville Curtis Tobey. Funeral services will be held at 8t. Alban’s Church Thursday at 11 am. day afternoon. HONORS FOR D. C. UNIT P.-T. A. Round-Up Work to Be Recognized Friday at Congress. The District of Columbia Congress of Parents and Teachers will receive special recognition Friday at the con- vention of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in Miami, Fla., for securing medical care for the larg- est percentage of children im the 1934 Summer round-up campaign, ‘The Summer round-up is a drive to send to the entering grade of school a class of children as free as from remediable physical defects. Importance of periodic health exami- nations is stressed. —— $5 IS RECOVERED Night Watchman Gets Back Part of Hold-Up Loot. Ervin G. Thomas, 602 Farragut street, night watchman at Central High School, recovered $5 from a hold- up man early today after he had been robbed of $30. According to Thomas, he was held up outside the school building while making his usual rounds. After giving {42 DEGREES FORECAST | buy it outside the District, because | " | | gelism.” He is president of the Col- they do not remember coal bought | gate-Rochester Divinity School, Roch- | ester, N. Y. Other topics were | scheduled for discussion in the after- | noon. | Beaven and Foulkes were to speak | t tonight'’s dinner at 6 o'clock on | “The Evangelism for Tomorrow” and | “The. Contemporary Gospel,” re- | spectively. FOR DISTRICT TONIGHT Fair and Slightly Warmer Pre- dicted Tomorrow—Storm Warnings on Coast. Crisp, cool weather will be Wash- ington's portion for the next 24 hours, according to the Weather Bureau, following the unseasonably warm weather of yesterday, which ended with last night's rain. Tonight will be wsolder, with a minimum temperature of about 42 degrees. The wind is expected to continue fresh, decreasing somewhat late today. Tomorrow is expected to be fair and slightly warmer. Storm warnings have been posied along the Atlantic Coast because of strong northwest winds, but no serious trouble is anticipated. There was rain this morning in the North At- lantic States, but elsewhere in the East skies were clear. HIGH-RENT DRIVE [ T0 BE CO-ORDINATED Representatives of Labor and| Civic Groups to Map Plans Tonight. Plans for co-ordination of efforts stimulated by the mass meeting last week in protest against high rents in the District will be made at a confer- ence tonight between representatives of various labor organizations and citi- zens’ groups who are interested in the authorizing establishment of a rent commission and controlling the rent level in the District. It approved also measures creating a national housing suthority and favored increased Fed- eral activity in the low-cost housing field, particularly in the District. In the event the two congressional Dis- trict Committees decide today to hold hearings on any measures involving the above principles, the groups meet- ing tonight will plan to present their In addition, the meeting tonight will the bandit his purse he attacked him Canal project in Texas and the Bar- celona Harbor project in New York State. Representative ~ Summers, | Democrat. of Texas appeared on be- | half of the former and Representa- tive Reed, Republican, of New York spoke in favor of the latter., Report to Congress. After two days of consideration of the list before them, the Projects Committee will prepare a report to the convention proper, which is sched- | uled to get under way on Thursday. In this report the committee will recommend that the Congress approve certain projects, the action by the full group then to be submitted to the United States Congress, to President Roosevelt, to Army engineers and to proper officials handling public works of that type. i The Projects Committee is under the chairmanship of Senator Bennett Clark, Democrat, of Missouri, and includes one representative from each of 10 districts into which the country has been divided by the Congress. H. H. Buckman, consulting engineer, of Jacksonville, Fla., is representing the South Atlantic Division, in which Washington is included. KENILWORTH CITIZENS FIGHT GRADE CROSSING Committee Named to Work Out Plans for Drive—Henry I. Quinn Is Speaker. A committee to seek the elimina- tion of the grade crossing at Eastern avenue northeast was set up last night by the Kenilworth Citizens’ As- sociation, meeting in Kenilworth Recreation Center. The association previously had asked for an overpass there. Henry I Quinn, member of the Board of Education, told the associa- tion the District of Columbia schools are likely to become subject to the “spoils system” if the so-called Pret- tyman bill is passed by Congress. Two resolutions from other associa- tions were discussed and indorsed. A Takoma Park resolution asking a re- duction in gas rates was approved. | The other resolution was from Rhode Island Avenue Citizens' Association condemning the insanitary conditions of street ears, and it also was in- dorsed. CIVIL SERVICE REPORTS FOREST SERVICE EXAMS ‘The Civil Service Commission to- :I.’ announced two sets of examina- ons. Applications will be received until May 20 for architects and architec- tural engineers of various grades, at salaries ranging from $2,600 to $5.600 annually, for the Forest Servi Treasury Department and Veterans' Administration. The Forest Service also wants taxa- tion economists, at $2,600-84,600, for which applications will be recetved until May 27. Detalls as to the tests may be ob- tained from the commission, Seventh and P streets. T | Republican, of Illinois; Cole, Repub- lican, of New York, and McGehee, | Democrat, of Mississippi. i James Ring, who made an ex- haustive investigation of rental and | housing conditions in the District | 1ast year for the Public Utilities Com- | mission, also was present. Ring's inquiry was made in accordance with | & Senate resolution. ! While a proposal had been made | to the House District Committee that | another rent investigation be under- | taken at this time, Chairmar Norton | said she did not believe such a move | is necessary and that she favoreds the | creation of a rent commission, simi- | 1ar to one that existed during the war | period, to fix and controi rentals, Remedial Plan Hoped For. “We hope to evolve some plan that | will remedy existing conditions,” she declared. “I don’t think another rent investigation is necessary in view of the comprehensive study made of the situation last year by Mr. Ring.” Dirksen, author of a bill providing | for a rent commission, also said he would oppose another investigation. “An investigation,” he declared, “is one way of telling the landlords of ‘Washington they will not be disturbed for two years.” 'TRIAL BOARD HEARS LIFE THREAT CHARGE Park Police Private Is Accused by Sergeant, Who Admits Striking Him. Details of an altercation between two park policemen, in which one was accused of threatening the life of the other, were heard today by the Police Trial Board of National Park Service. Pvt. H. W. Brown, jr., was accused by Sergt. L. G. Purtlebaugh of making the threat. Brown, acting as his own counsel at the trial, denied the charge. Brown was formally accused of in- subordination for refusing to obey insructions to change his detail on April 5 from one side of the Tidal Basin to the other during the traffic rush of the cherry blossom season. Brown said Purtlebaugh struck him in the face with his revolver after Brown's refusal to move his beat be- cause, he claimed, his assignment had been approved by the captain. Purtlebaugh admitted striking Brown, but said it was afterthe latter had used abusive language and s hreatening manner, and that the pis- tol was used -because he did not have his black-jack.with which .to protect himself. . It developed that Brown twice be- fore had faced charges of insubordi- nation preferred by Purtlebaugh. The trial board will submit its find- ce, | ings to Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, for deci- sion, U. S. Cottonseed Used. Sixty thousand pounds of American cotton seed will be distributed by the Shantung Cotton Association among farmers of thé.Chinese province, S LILLIAN HALL, Beauty prize winner of North Caro- lina and at present employed with the N. R. A., has been made a Ken- tucky colonel on the staff of Gov. Ruby Laffoon. Her home is in Charlotte, N. C.. and has been with the N. R. A. since it was started. One other woman, Frances Robin- son, secretary to Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, formerly of the N. R. A, was given this honor. —Harris-Ewing Photo. M’CAWLEY FUNERAL RITES TOMORROW Former Quartermaster General of Marines to Be Buried in Arlington. Funeral services for Brig. Gen. Charles L. McCawley, former quarter- | inaster general of the Marine Corps, who died yesterday at his home. 1610 New Hampshire avenue, will be held at St. John's Church, Sixteenth and H streets, tomorrow at 11 am. Burial will follow in Arlington National Cemetery. ) The honorary pallbearers will be: Gens. Dion Williams, George Rich- ards, Rufus H. Lane, Hugh Matthews and William Wright, U. S. M. C.; As- sistant Secretary of the Navy Henry L. Roosevelt, Gist Blair, Admiral Cary T. Grayson, Sumner Welles, Corcoran Thom, John P. Wilkins and Larz Anderson. The son of Col. Charles G. McCaw- ley, commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. McCawley was born in Boston on August 24, 1865. Serving in the Spanish-American War, the Philippine Insurrection and the World ‘War, he had received numerous deco- rations, including the Distinguished Service Medal. Gen. McCawley was a member of numerous clubs, including the Metro- politan, Chevy Chase and Army and Navy. B'aldu his widow, he leaves an aunt, Mrs. Augusta Mosher, of this city. MORE CONVENTIONS ‘Three mare conventions, estimated to attract 500 delegates to Washing- ton, have been scheduled through the was given for room_ rent, it was testi- { largest firms in the country. He is a fied. Mrs. McQuillan received $50 | irustee of the University of Pennsyl- cash in change from the $100 check | vanja, a Fellow of the American In- and $20 cash for the $50 check, it| stitute of Electrical Engineers, of was said. | which he was president in 1921-22, Checks Returned. The checks were given on the Lang- ley State Bank at Langley, Wash., and were returned marked “insufficient funds.” Mrs. McQuillan's attorney, Michael J. Colbert, said his client told | him that she had a joint account in | the Langley bank with her husband and that he had disappeared with the entire amount. She said she was un- aware of this at the time she gave the checks, Colbert stated. Mrs. McQuillan came to Washing- ton several months ago and has been “doing some lobbying for some West- ern interests on the Hill.” according | to the story she told her attorneys. The names of these “interests” could | not be learned. Judge Given, in an opinion ex- | pressed from the bench, doubted the | sufficiency of the evidence for a con- | viction when holding Mrs. McQuillan for the grand jury. He said the small amount of cash received made a con- viction doubtful. Mrs. McQuillan did not take the stand in her own defense Arrested in Restaurant. Eldred, who appeared in court this morning, said Mrs. McQuillan checked out of the hotel about a month ago, |and that she had been sought since. | She was arrested yesterday in a res- taurant near the hotel by Headquar- ters Detective John Folcy. She was held at the Woman's Bureau until her case was called in court this morning. Langley, Wash. CITIZENS REQUEST THROUGH BUS LINE | 470 Le Droit Park Residents Sign Petition, Claiming Serv- _ice Inadequate. A petition for establishment through bus service along Fourth street from Water street southwest to Columbia road was filed with the Pub- lic Utilities Commission today by Peo- ple’s Counsel William A. Roberts. At- tached to the petition were the names of 470 residents in or near Le Droit Park. The petition contained a protest against present service for the Le Droit Park area through a loop bus, which was established some weeks ago when the old Fourth street car line was abandoned. The signers of the petition protested this service is not | adequate. There is now a bus line serving the Fourth street district southwest, but | it does not connect with the Le Droit Park area. Roberts has been cam- paigning for this connection, and agrees with the petitioners that the line should run as far north as Co- lumbia road so as to afford better transfers with the cross-town lines. MAN HIT AT CAR STOP Michael Miller, 40, Struck by Auto on Calvert Street. Michael Miller, 40, of 510 Second street, was severely injured today when struck by an automobile at Calvert street and Cliffbourne place after alighting from a street car. He was treated at Garfield Hopsital for a possible fracture of the skull. Eldred seid she was registered from | of | |and is a member of the American | Society of Mechanical Engineers, the | American Engineering Council, the Council on Foreign Relations and the | Associated Pennsylvania Clubs, of which he is past president. He was a~ member of the President’s Commis- sion on Muscle Shoals in 1925, Affiliated With Many Clubs. ‘The new Chest campaign chief is a | member of a number of clubs and | fraternities. He finds his chief out- door exercise in fox hunting. | “We feel that we are very fortunate in obtaining Dr. McClellan's consent to act as campaign chairman,” it was stated by Herbert L. Willett, Jr., di- rector of the Chest. “With conditions changing from day to day, as they aré, the Chest undoubtedly faces a | hard task this Fall, and it will take men of vision like Dr. McClellan, who | knows the situation and the needs of the city as a whole, to make the | compaign a success.” Dr. McClellan succeeds H. L. Rust, | ir., head of the local real estate firm bearing his name, as Chest campaign | director. MORE U. S. BUILDINGS 'HERE NOT PLANNED | | Work-Relief Program Devoid of New Structures in Fed- eral Set-up. Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who has supervision over Federal build- ings in Washington, said today no new Federal building construction is contemplated here under the work- relief program. This statement. he said. does not include the $11,000,000 Interior De- partment Building which was ap- proved months ago. Specifications for this structure are now being prepared. The proposed three minor court buildings to start the municipal cen- ter, which would be built eventually with a P. W. A. loan, does not come ‘flthin the category of Federal build- ngs. Secretary Ickes has not vet been asked to allocate funds for changing the front of the United States Capitol, | bue he explained today that this was a project for which P. W. A. funds could legally be expended. SYDNEY G. HUNTT DIES; FORMER D. C. OFFICIAL Served as Building Inspector for 20 Years—Funeral Services to Be Held Tomorrow. Sydney G. Huntt, 1242 G street northeast, a building inspector for the District for 29 years, died yesterday after a long illness. Born 69 years ago in Prince Georges County, Md., he had lived in the Capital since his youth. The son of a contractor, he also was in the build- ing business until he entered the Dis- trict service shortly after 1900, retir- ing after 29 years. He is survived by his widow, a son, Richard 8. Huntt; a daughter, Mrs. geomn Martin, and seven grandchil- ‘en. Funeral services will be held at the W. W. Chambers southeast chapel to- Police said the automobile which ‘Thomas morrow at 1 pm. Burial will be In the McKendree Cemetery, T. B., Md.