Evening Star Newspaper, May 12, 1935, Page 18

* GREATER CAPITAL UNIT PLANS DRIVE Committee to Ask $50,000 for Work in Attracting Visitors Here. Washington business men will be called upon, beginning Tuesday, to raise & minimum of $50,000 to con- tinue for another year the work of the Greater National Capital Com- mittee of the Washington Board of ‘Trade. Lloyd B. Wilson, president of ths Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co., is chairman of the drive and asso- ciated with him are 15 well-known business leaders as members of the committee. Many other prominent business and professional men will also give their time and attention to the campaign to assure its success. ‘The Greater National Capital Com- mittee is beginning the fifth year of 1ts existence. The minimum budget set for the coming year has been based upon actual experience in the past, which has seen the committee broaden its activities and increase the scope of year. Based upon actual figures and re- liable estimates. the Greater National Capital Committee’s activities have brought to the city close to $50.000.- 000 from visitors attracted here to conventions, for sightseeing excursions or for holiday visits. For the calen- dar year 1934 the campaign commi> tee pointed out that 200 national con- ventions brought to Washington ap- proximately $13,500,000; 2,400,000 tourists brought in $25,500,000, and visitors here on business brought in an additional $10,000,000. These figures are based upon actual data compiled on conventions, road counts made by the committee, reports from hotels and governmental agen- cies and from attendance records of the Smithsonian Institution. Leaders in Campaign. Definite plans for the campaign for funds were made at a luncheon meet- ing Friday at the Washington. Hotel. Conferring with Chairman Wilson were B. B. Bergunder, Lee D. Butler, A. C. Case, James E. Colliflower. John H. Davis, W. W. Everett. Robert V. Flem- | ing, Arthur J. Harnett, Bert L. Olm- sted, John “Saul, F. P. H. Siddons, Marcy L. Sperry. Charles H. Tomp- kins, F. G. Addison, jr., and Robert gé Cottrell, members of the commit- e. The committee has stressed the point that $50,000 is a small invest- ment for the return of $49.000.000 to $50,000,000 in a single year. Visitors contribute more to Washington trade | channels than any other group except Government employes. “The Greater National Capital Committee,” Wilson said, “does not, of course, claim that it is solely re- sponsible for bringing every visitor to ‘Washington nor for every dollar spent. “It does claim that it is responsible to a considerable degree for the large and increasing number of national conventions each year, for the con- tinually expanding attendance, and for the rapidly increasing number of transient visitors. “It also feels that by recognizing the tremendous possibilities in this second largest source of Washington's purchasing power and by definitely promoting and protecting it in the face of similar organized effort in other communities, that it serves ‘Washington in a way that no other organization is doing. “It provides opportunity for a safe, conservative investment in a vitally important community activity.” Organized in 1931. The committee was organized as a division of the Board of Trade in | April, 1931, after several years of con- sideration of such a unit by the busi- ness and civic leaders of the city. Curtis Hodges, its executive direc- tor, has served in that capacity from about the time it was organized. The committee devotes its efforts to two things: (1) to increase to the highest possible figure the number of visitors of all kinds coming to the city each year, and (2) to see to it that the visitors are so well treated while here that they will become good adver- tisers for Washington when they re- turn home. ‘Washington is advertised by the committee through the use of printed pamphlets, motion pictures of the city, large posters, travel literature, radio broadcasts, and the use of news and feature material in the daily news- | papers of the country and trade and other magazines and publications. Its largest single activity is in con- | nection with conventions, and mem- bers of its staff travel from 30,000 to 40,000 miles per year and conduct a voluminous correspondence with the 2,500 organizations of the country which hold annual national meetings. SERVICE ORDERS ARMY ORDERS. Biscoe, Col. Earl, General Staff Corps, from duty in the office of the chief of staff, here, to the Hawaiian Department, about September 18. Willis, Lieut. Col. John M., Medical Corps, assigned to duty at the Army War College, here. Williams, Maj. Robert P., Medical Corps, from the Army War College, here, to Carlisle Barracks, Pa., about July 8. Giles, Capt. Barney M., Air Corps, from Maxwell Field, Ala. to Langley Field, Hampton, Va., not later than June 30. Upston, Capt. John E. Air Corps, . from Maxwell Field, Ala., to Langley Field, Hampton, Va., not later than June 30. Serig, First Lieut. Howard W., Sig- its work each succeeding | 'l F. P Direct Drive for SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 12, 1935—PART ONE. ‘This group of leading Washington business men will direct the drive for funds for the Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade, which will begin Tuesday. They are seeking & minimum of $50,000. H. Siddons, Charles H. Tompkins, Lloyd B. Wilson, chairman; Marcy L. Sperry, J. H. Left to right, upper, they are John Saul, Case, TRANSIT COMPANY TOWIDEN SERVICE Substitution of Busses for Trolleys to Rockville Will Improve System. BY JACK ALLEN. Officials of the Capital Transit Co. announced last night that the service offered their Montgomery County pa- | trons will be broadened greatly under plans now being prepared to substi- tute busses for the electric railway line operating between Washington and Rockville. W. B: Bennett, assistant to the president of the traction firm, said schedules now in effect will be am- plified and & system of “fe>der” routes | muters a flexible type of service un- | paralleled in the history of transpor- | tation in the nearby community. Survey to Be Made. An exhaustive survey is to be stacted immediately to determine the | most effective set-up for meeting the requirements of residents in the south- western section of the county, which has been served by the railway since 1892. Bennett declared the schedule of | thorough service from Rockville, in- cluding both the street cars and busses that in recent years have supple- mented the regular railway schedule, will not be disturbed, but, instead, is to be augmented from time to time as the necessity arises. In addition, he stated, modern busses will be placed in operation be- tween Washington, Battery Park, Edgemoor, Altu Vista and other places along Old Georgetown road to provide worked out to give the Maryiand com- | residents of those communities with greatly improved facilities. Te Await Abandonment. A “feeder” system to serve points off the main bus routes along Wis- consin avenue, Old Georgetown road and the Rockville pike also is to be | mapped out as an important feature of the survey and will be installed where needed. Bennett said that it is planned to await until the street car line is aban- doned before making the changes, but into service to augment present facili- ties if improvement work now in prog- ress along Wisconsin avenue threatens now running to Rockville. He explained that it is first neces- sary to obtain the permissicy of the before abandoning the railway, which the company expects to do by mid- Summer. Bennett said that little however, because of the overwhelming sentiment favoring such a move. The traction company announced its decision to substitute busses for the Rockville cars yesterday after the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce had | appealed to that firm to co-operate in the chamber’s campaign for eliminat- ing a ditch being created in the center of Wisconsin avenue by current pav- ing. Tracks Left Low. | is being left in a dangerous and un- | sightly ditch by the work of raising | the grade of the street on either side of the rails and paving the dual traffic | lanes. Leaders of the Chamber of Com- merce now plan an appeal to the State “ Roads Commission to remove the trol- ley poles, bring the avenue to an even | erade and pave it to a width of 75 | feet from the District line to Old Georgetown road after the railway suspends operation. Original plans of the State Roads | Commission called for the work to be | carried out in that manner, but they were modified after the traction com- | pany expressed its inability to join in the plan and pave between its tracks. A committee from the chamber will added that busses would be pressed | to delay in any way the street cars Maryland Public Service Commission | trouble is anticipated from this source, | | request Gov. Harry W. Nice and the | Board of County Commissioners to ! indorse the plan and, if necessary, | | urge the highway body to seek Federal | funds for completion of the project | | in its original form. | Gov. Nice will be asked to examine the ditch, which is one mile in length, | when he visits Montgomery County | |on May 23 to attend a dinner to be | given in his honor by the Republican | State Central Committee for the | county. | | O eiliiois CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘ | TODAY. Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Fra- ternity, University Club, 12:30 p.m. Meeting, Federal Bar A.ucchuon,! | University Club, 8 p.m. | Dance. Tau Epsilon Phi, Hamilton | Hotel, 6 p.m. | Meeting., Mercantile Club, Hamilton | Hotel, 1:30 pm. | Tea, Ch! Sigma Sorority, Mayflow- | er Hotel, 4 p.m. | Meeting, Advisory Counsel, Division | of Psychiatric Education, Mayflower | Hotel, 4 pm. | | Tea, Tau Beta Phi Sorority, May- flower Hotel, 4 pm. e | Tea, Pi Sigma Tau Sorority, May- | flower Hotel, 4 p.m. The railroad's tracks and right of way | | TOMORROW. 1 Meeting, American Psychiatric As-| sociation, Mayflower Hotel, 9:30 a.m. Meeting, Cotton Textile Institute | Mayflower Hotel, 12 p.m. Luncheon. Newcomers' Club, Carl-, ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. | Dance, Helenic University Club, Hamilton Hotel, 9 p.m. Meeting, Graduate Nurses' Associa- | tion, American Red Cross Building, | 8 pm. | Rally, West Virginia Democratic | | Club, caucus room of the Senate, 8 | pm. | Dinner, Jacoby Society, La Fayette Hotel, 6:30 p.m. l Davis and Arthur J. Harnett. W. W. Everett, B. B. Burgunder, Lee D. Butler, James E. Colliflower, F. G. Addison, jr., and Robert J. Cottrell. Greater National Capital Committee Funds Lower, left to right, Bert L. Olmsted, Robert V. Fleming, A. C. ~—Harris-Ewing and Underwood & Underwood Photos. AMILE HEGHT 2552 e o GOAL OF FLYERS % sky brightness. 5. Broadcasting on several short- wave lengths to determine relative Stratosphere Expedition Is Ready to Leave for Base in South Dakota. ;upper air for analysis by the Bureau of Standards. 1 3. Measurement of ozone content of air. transmission at high levels. 6. Measurement of electrical con- ductivity of the air. 7. Measurement of ironization due to cosmic rays 8. Determination of direction and number of cosmic rays. 9. Making photographs both verti- cally and obliquely of the earth. 10. Collection of spores through | apparatus carried for the purpose. By the Associated Press. | But thhhmp—?r lack of u—hnand scene such as few men ever ve SLnEEL: Gig LD sl uaudryupon around them, neither high hopes of wresting new secrets Stevens nor Anderson will have much from the outer rim of the world, the| time to gaze idly as mother earth United States Army-National Geo- | ets dim beneath them. S They will be far too busy, graphic Society joint stratosphere| L.y s’e\'enl score instruments. oxy- expedition plans to head west Monday | gen valves and control switches, into the Black Hills of South Dakota. cameras, radio transmitter and re- The magnesium-alloy gondola of | Ceiver and other scientific “gadgets” the tuge M7:foot-high [Eailoon. in|/Sou8)y:. Packed SIukofiishe: snino-foo¢ which two ol the Army's foremost | TEt! ball. | v V] ller scienticfic observers hope to attain a| TWwo portholes, somewhat smalle height of more than 14 miles, will| than a street manhole, will have v k. | their scientific use—as well as offering becslt.;:ui-m;hnsz‘l,)gn:ru:nd Capt.| 8 means of entry and exit—in en- Orvil A. Anderson, both veterans of Aablyig the crew to study such visible last year's flight which ended in Ne-| Phenomena as cloud formations and braska, plan to fly to Rapid City,|color of the upper heavens. They like- i | Junior Board of Commissioners, an BOY SCOUTS AWAIT TRIP ON POTOMAC === Moonlight Excusion Pro- ceeds Will Go Into Camp Roosevelt Fund. ‘Washington Boy Scouts are eagerly looking forward to the moonlight ex- cursion down the Potomac Thursday evening on & Wilson Line steamer, Scout headquarters announced yes- terday. Proceeds of the trip will go to the Camp Roosevelt improvement fund. There will be music, dancing and singing. In order that headquarters might check up on the amount of actual camping done by District Scouts, troops have been petitioned to keep records of camping trips. The “Yipee” Club announced through its president, Thomas A. King, that the proposed outing to Skyland has been postponed till Fall because - | of numerous Scouting activities. Bundle Week Set. at 8 pm. Dr. Wiliam T. McClosky will speak on “Opportunities in the Jamboree.” Officers will be elected. The resignation of G. G. Whitney as commissioner of the Cathedral divi- sion was announced. Mr. Whitney will serve, however, as a member of the Committee. His assistant, Yule Fisher, former Eagle Scout of Troop 8, has been nominated to fill the vacated position. Manual Being Printed. The Jamboree Guides’ Manual is now being printed and upon comple- tion will be made available to all Scout groups desiring training for guide posts. Those qualifying in a test, after study of the instructions, will receive the positions. The next Court of Honor will be held at Powell Junior High School, Hiatt and Lamont streets, Saturday, at 7:30 p.m. Court of Awards, where Star, Life, Eagle and Palms will be awarded, will be held June 15 at the Powell School. Scouts are urged to submit their applications for awards for Eagle not later than June 4 and for other applications by June 8. This will be the last Court of Awards un- til Fall. UNIDENTIFIED MAN HURT | Alleged Driver Arrested After Car Hits Pedestrian. Police were attempting last night Bundle week, sponsored by the organization of young business men, formerly Scouts, will be observed here | from May 20 to 27, it was announced. | Bundles of cast-off clothing will be collected by Scouts and at the end of the week turned over to needy families The Eagle Scout Association, at th | call of its president, Dick Miller, will | meet at Scout headquarters Tuesday to establish the identity of a middle- aged man who was in Providence Hospital in an unconscious condition after having been struck by an auto- mobile in the 300 block of Maryland | avenue southwest. George Viatson, 22, of 608 Maryland avenue southwest, alleged driver of the car which struck the unidentified man, was arrested and charged with reckless driving. He was released un- der $300 bond. + » . 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