Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1935, Page 4

A4 wexs Z0TROLLEY ROUTE CHANGES ORDERED {ransit Company Warned Its Life Depends on Will to Serve. (Continued From First Page.) fears will go down Connecticut avenue, through Calvert street, Adams Mill road, then through the new right turn and down Columbia road and thence mlong Connecticut avenue, Seventeenth street, Pennsylvania avenue, Fifteenth street, G street. Massachusetts avenue, North Capitol street, Michigan avenue, Monroe street and Twelfth street to the terminus south of Twelfth street and Michigan avenue northeast. This route also makes use of two other track changes ordered by the commission. One is a connection at Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, so that cars can be turned east at the Court of Claims building. ‘The other is the double-track connec- tion ordered from the present stub end in G street into Fifteenth street to tie in with tracks at Fifteenth and New York avenue. Same Route to Catholic University. En route to Catholic University, Chevy Chase cars will follow the same Toute, terminating at the crossover in Michigan avenue east of Fourth street. ‘The third new line from Chevy Chase, en route to the new loop to be built at Sixth and C streets, will send | cars down Connecticut avenue. Cal- vert street, Adams Mill road, Eight- eenth street, U street, Eleventh street, E street, Ninth street and Pennsyl- vania avenue to the loop. Another new line for Connecticut avenue cars will be one from the Bu- reau of Standards to Ninth end E streets. This will make use of the same route as the Sixth and C loop service, with the cars starting their return at Ninth and E streets. During rush hours Chevy Chase cars will be operated to Potomac Park via Connecticut avenue, Calvert street, Adams Mill road, Connecticut avenue, Seventeenth street and Pennsylvania avenue to the big Potomac Park loop through Nineteenth and Eighteenth. The commission ordered a connec- tion of the Cabin John and Beltsville, Md., lines, this calling for the longest direct rail connection. Route of Line. Prom the western terminus these cars will follow he company's right of way and public land to Prospect gtreet, and then through Georgetown via Thirty-fifth street, O street, Wis- consin avenue, M street and Pennsyl- vania_avenue, then around Washing- | ton Circle and Pennsylvania avenue again, through the Fifteenth stree jog and along G street, Fifth street, New York avenue, Eckington place, R street, Third street, T street, Fourth street, Rhode Island avenue, to the District line, and thence to Belts- ville. An extra fare is charged be- yond the District line. The return will be made by way of Rhode Island ' avenue, Fourth street, T street, Second street, R street, and the eastbound Foute from thence. on. A shortened trip over the same youte will connect cars from Potomac Heights to Beltsville. A more shortened trip over the same general route will send cars from Washington Circle to the Eck- ington car barns at Fourth and T streets northeast. New Connection Planned. Friendship Heights, Md., connected with Fifteenth streets northeast. as the Cabin John and Potomac Heights routes are made possible by & new connection between the Wiscon- sin and M street tracks at their in- tersection in Georgetown, now nearly completed. This obviates the need of sending cars through the P street tracks to Dupont Circle, which have been ordered abandoned. The route of the new Friendship will be and H Heights line will be along Wisconsin | avenue, M street, Pennsylvania ave- nue, New York avenue, K street, Massachusetts avenue and H street northeast. There will be a direct connection | between Potomac Park and Chesa- peake Junction, under another phase of the general order. This will afford & direct downtown service from Kenil- worth, which citizens of this area have been seeking in a long campaign. ‘The route will be Virginia avenue, | Eighteenth street, Pennsylvania ave- nue, New York avenue, K street, Massachusetts avenue, H street, Ben- | ning road, Kenilworth avenue, Deane avenue, and a private right of way to the junction. The return route wiil be the same. Some of these cars will g0 only to Kenilworth and make the return trip from there. Loop to Be Eliminated. Fourteenth street cars will be af- fected principally by track changes | which will permit a routing directly south on Fourteenth street through | the business section instead of mak- ing the present loop through New York avenue and Fifteenth street to Pennsylvania avenue. There will be a line from Fourteenth street and Colorado avenue to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Another line will run from Four- teenth and Decatur to Union Station, ‘using Fourteenth street, Pennsylvania | avenue, First street, C street, First street northeast and Union Station Plaza. This is made possible by or- ders for a curve connection at Four- teenth street and Pennsylvania ave- nue. Another of these lines will run from Fourteenth and Decatur streets 1o the Navy Yard, this being the same as present operation, except that the cars will go straight down Fourteenth street to the Avenue, where the cars will make a left turn through the new connection. Other Fourteenth street cars, from Decatur street, will terminate at the new loop at Sixth and C streets, these using the same new turn at Four- teenth sereet and Pennsylvania ave- nue. Eleventh and Monroe Line. ‘The commission also has ordered a connection from Eleventh and Mon- yoe streets to Ninth and E streets. These cars will traverse Eleventh street, to E street, then go east to Ninth street, and loop back to Eleventh through G street. Georgia avenue cars will operate from the District line down the ave- nue and Seventh street to the loop north of Pennsylvania avenue. This has been made possible by orders for a direct north-south crossover on Seventh street at Florida avenue. Another route made possible by the same track change, will be from Fourth and Butternut streets to the loop near Seventh street and Pennsyl- vania avenue. Georgia avenue cars now swing west on U street to Ninth to reach the downtown section. Takoma Park street cars will ope- rate down Georgia avenue to the loop north of Pennsylvania avenue as a re- sult of orders for a double tracking of tracks in Third street apd Kennedy This line as well | THE EVENING Trolley Changes Highlights of Rerouting Order by Public Utilities Body. High lights of the general rerout- ing order of the Public Utilities Com- mission issued today follow: Twenty new connections between sections of District to be established by changes in destinations of cars. Company told to speed rebuilding of worn-out tracks. Need of early provision of improved, faster, modern equipment emphasized as means of meeting public demands. Broader use of busses forecast, but commisison finds time is not ripe for wholesale abandonment of street cars. Adoption of modified “‘skip-stop” plan for street cars offered to speed service. Rigid enforcement of parking bans on main street car arteries and de- velopment of new traffic highways held necessary. Subway proposals set aside for fu- ture study. Capital Transit Co. warned to be more progressive in management and | service if it desires success and con- tinued life. Danger of competing services is analyzed. connection at the latter intersection. These cars now proceed Wwest on Kennedy to Fourteenth and then to the downtown section. The Kennedy Fourteenth street are to be abandoned. The route of this line will be along Laurel, Aspen, Third, and Kennedy streets, Georgia avenue, and Seventh street to Pennsylvania avenue loop. Takoma Park-Rock Creek Line. The commission also has provided for a connection from Takoma Park to Rock Creek loop on Connecticut ave- |nue. These cars will follow Laurel, | Aspen, Third, and Kennedy streets, Georgia avenue, Seventh and K streets, New York and Pennsylvania avenues, | Seventeenth street, Conneclicut ave- | —— nue, Columbia and Adams Mill roads, and Calvert street to the Rock Creek This makes use of the new track curve at Seventeenth street and Penn- | sylvania avenue, and brings these | cars through downtown Washington. ! The present Soldiers' Home, Seventh Street Wharves line will be continued except that use will be made of the ‘s(raigm north and south crossing at Seventh and Florida avenue for rout- |ing cars down Seventh street instead | of Ninth street. | The commission apparently has ]nbandoned. for the present at least, the suggestion that a track connec- | tion be laid between Georgia avenue |and Eleventh street, and the estab- lishment of an “express” street car service on Eleventh street. This was | not included in the rerouting plan. Setting “max‘mum reasonable serv- ice at minimum costs to riders” as an | objective which would lead to street | car success, the commission spared no | words in outiining faults and failures f the company in the past. Centers Attention on Control. Centering attention on the control | of the company, the commission said: | “In the final analysis success or failure | of the Capital Transit Co. is depend- | | ent upon those charged with its man- agement. They have a dual duty. Unless they have a will to serve and inculcate a like spirit in their agents, and unless they realize that mno monopoly can now exist in urban transportation and that it is impera- tive that pace be kept with other means of transportation, of those who participated in this case and changes deemed necessary and proper in the interests of good public | service, will have been in vain. “There is no such thing as an ir- | reducible minimum of passengers, which will permit the Capital Transit Co. to exist in the absence of at- tractive service. Disregard of what has gone before will mean failure to the company, and detriment to the | public.” Discussing present conditions, the commission said existing street cars generally speaking are “heavy, slow in acceleration, and deceleration, poorly lighted, noisy to the extreme, uncom- | fortable, as to seating and operation, and unattractive—especially in com- parison with the extraordinary ad- vancement in other mediums of trans- portation. by track conditions. Improvements Cited. “The failure of the industry to pro- vide a modern street car finds justi- fication only from the short-sighted point of view that patronage had fallen off. causing a disturbing economic situation.” Discussing recent improvements in street car manufacture, the commis- ston said “it is nothing short of sui- cidal to awalt the arrival of the per- fect car. The retirement of anti- quated, underpowered, uncomfortable, and slow-moving cars now owned by the Capital Transit Co. is important. Such cars should be replaced by the most modern, practical, and attractive cars that can be obtained at reason- able cost.” The company was given credit for having purchased and placed in use since the gerger, 1933, 99 busses having a ing capacity of 3311, and seat- with a total seating capacity of 880. In rush hours these new cars would hold 1,232, counting strap-hangers. The new street cars embody many of the improved features of the so-called President’s conference car. The commission has ordered re- placement of worn-out track rails in a $1,500,000 program. The commis- sion recently notified the company this work should be finished by the end of the year. Again, in today’s order, the commission sald the com- pany should rebuild its tracks “in the shortest practical time,” and that company forces should be expanded so that the work could be finished “with dispatch.” Undue delay, the commission warned, would cause dis- satisfaction and inconvenience the the public. Bus Substitution Now Opposed. ‘The commission found that the time | is not ripe for a wholesale abandon- ment of street cars and the substitu- tion of bus service throughout. “The heavy concentration of movement of traffic twice daily, with a limited num- ber of arteries of travel, make the continued utilization of street cars necessary,” the commission said. “Busses can be used to substan- tially supplement street railway service: and in certain of the less congested sections they afford superior serv- ice, because of their flexibirity. Indicating its intention to invoke a larger use of the skip-stop plan of operation, the commission said the principal concern of a car or bus rider was the time of travel between two points, especially in rush hours. “There are too many stops” the commission said. “No rigid rule can or should be followed. Where prac- ticable a stop at every other inter- section is adequate, and in the inter- ests of the public under normal con- ditions, little if any hardship resuits from limited stops since the ultimate saving of time justifies the elimina- tion of unnecessary stops. If the speed of service of the company is to com- pete successfully with ghat of private 1t even all pg for park- street tracks from Georgia avenue to | the efforts | December 1, for | having ordered 20 modern street cars ' MINE PLAN URGED TOSUCCEEDNRA. Guffey Bill Studied by New Dealers as Possible Model for Act. By the Associated Press. The “Little N. R. A.” which the operators have asked Congress to establish for the soft coal industry, is being studied by some administra- tion experts as a possible model for a new recovery act. Under the proposed coal stabiliza- | Guffey bill, { based on congressiol taxing powers. A 25 per cent tax would be levied on all bituminous coal produced in this country and operators complying with the regulations would be entitled to a tax. While the possibility of applying this principle to other industries was | administration closely watched labor | ened by scrapping of N. R. A. John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, has announced that orders to strike unless a mnew wage agreement is signed before June |17 will be sent out in a few days to 450,000 soft coal miners. He con- | tends this walkout could be averted | by enactment of the Guffey bill. United Mine Workers and many mine | ticn measure, which is known as tie | enforcement would be credit amounting to 99 per cent cf the | under discussion in the Capital, the | | troubles already in progress or threat- | | Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Sec- | | retary of Labor, has indicated he will ' go promptly to the Pacific Coast if | | the impending expiration of the mari- ]ume workers' agreement produces a definite strike threat. A lumber strike |and a strike of tanker seamen are now on. | ing difficulties, it must be increased.” | | A special study will be made of the reduction of the number of stops be- fore the commission issues an order. | The cost of installing and main- taining street car loading platforms should be split between the District | and the company, the commission said, but it did not make a final sug- gestion as to the division. An inter-company arrangement be- the Alexandria-Barcroft-Washington Transit Co. and the Arlington and Fairfax Motor Transportation Co. was proposed. The commission found the suburban busses heavily loaded in- bound in the morning and outbound in the evening, their lightly loaded busses operating in the direction of heavy passenger movement on lines of the street car company, serving the area along Fourteenth street south of Independence avenue. Mass transportation will be aided by improvements in the highway sy tem, the commission went on. Con- struction of a roadway in the present | bed of the C. & O. canal, with bridges to carry north and southbound traffic Upper: STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., FRIDAY, MAY 3], Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. One of the many rescues made during the flopd yesterday in the vicinity of Colorado Springs. Volunteers are shown carrying a victim to safety. Lower NEW CONNECTICUT BUSSES PROPOSED Capital Transit Would Junk Trolleys on Avenue, Use Autos Only. would materially relieve congestion in | Georgetown, it said. Opening of Pros- pect avenue and widening of Twent: | ninth street in Georgetown: replace- ment of the K Street Bridge over Rock Creek; completion of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkwav and extension of the Mount Vernon Boulevard to Key | Bridge all would further improve mass transportation, serted. No real service can be afforded car and bus riders, however, without rigid enforcement of the prohibition against parking, particularly on the “flow” side of such arteries as Wisconsin. Georgia and Connecticut avenues, and Eighteenth, Fourteenth and Eleventh streets in rush periods, the commis- sion declared. It listed also F street from Seventh to Fifteenth; H street between Fourteenth street and Con- necticut avenue: U street from Sev- enth to Eighteenth street: M street and Pennsylvania avenue from Sixth street to Wisconsin avenue. The com- mission voiced approval of the adop- tion of one-way traffic movements in rush periods on Sixth, Twelfth, Thir- | ;ne teenth and Twenty-second streets. Subway Possibility Studied. the commission as- | Abandonment of the Connecticut avenue street car tracks all the way from the Calvert Street Bridge to Chevy Chase Circle, with substitution of bus service, was proposed today by the Capital Transit Co. The petition was filed with the Public Utilitles Commission just & few hours after it | had issued its general order for re- routing of street car lines Similar substitution of bus service for street car operation will be pro- posed by the company in a petition to be filed with the Public Service Com- mission of Maryland affecting the line between Chevy Chase Circle and Chevy Chase Lake The proposal would mean the aban- donment of approximately 6 miles of track and would save the company the cost of rebuilding stretches, which the commission has ordered. The company proposes three types of bus service, in addition to continued operation of the Chevy Chase coach | One would be the local bus serv- ice from Chevy Chase Circle to the east side of Calvert Street Bridge. This would eliminate the need of The commission said it had given | pyjiding underground tracks over the | use of subways to make street car op- } eration satisfactory. program into the distant future. It | did say there was question as to| | whether the cost of subways here would prohibit their adoption. The commission said it has “the very defi- | nite opinion that it would be unsound, both financially and from an operat- |ing viewpoint, to consider a subway | system unless it be of substantial | length,” asserting that “the value of tunnels for short distances is highly conjectural.” It held that rerouting street car service, supplemented by busses, stag- gered hours of Government employ- should be given reasonable trial be- subways. Comment was made on the favor- able effect in increasing patronage of bus passes. ‘The general discussion of the street Federal Triangle. “Concentration of Federal activities has resulted in an increase in the tax the commission said. “This occurs through the maintenance of traffic arteries, increase in the hazards of travel and diminished opportunity to effect economies in providing public transportation that would, under other circumstances, tend to lower its cost. “Purthermore, the placing of Gov- ernment buildings south of Pennsyl- vania avenue caused greater concen- tration of commercial activities adja- cent thereto, north of Pennsylvania avenue, a condition which still further increases the problem of operating public and private vehicle: The order and statement were signed by Riley E. Elgen, chairm: Richmond B. Keech, vice chairman, Sultan, members of the commission. Approval to the rerouting order was given today also by District Commis- sioners Melvin C. Hazen, George E. Allen and Col. Sultan, who is chail man of the joint board. Among those who appeared before the commission on rerouting and track changes, the commission listed Corpo- ration Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman, Hinman D. Folsom, special assistant corporation counsel, assigned to the utilities body; Raymond D. Sparks, assistant corporation counsel; People’s Counsel Roberts, G. Thomas Dunlop of the Capital Transit Co., George P. Hoover of the Washington Rapid Transit Co. and William McK. Clay- ton, representing the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. The commission had the benefit of an array of plans submitted by John A Beeler and William H. Ahearn of the Beeler organizafion, Fred A. Sa- ger, chief engineer of the Utilities Commission; Harland Bartholomew, appearing for the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, and Transit Co. The noise is aggravated 'long and serious study to the possible | 1 q0e ment and effective regulation of traffic | fore a resort be made to costly | the use of the weekly street car and | | car problems contained a criticism of | the plan for Federal buildings in the | burden of the citizens of the District,” | and Engineer Commissioner Dan I | William B. Bennettf for the Capital | ‘The fare would be the same as that for street car service, 10 cents It did not flatly | casn, 4 tokens for 30 cents, the week- reject the idea, but suggested that the | 1 ! necessarily huge expenditures put the | intersecting rail or bus lines. A second bus service would be local | ly $1 pass and free transfers to all busses operating from Chevy Chase Circle to the downtown section. to & terminal at Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street. The regular street car fare is proposed for this service. The third would be an express bus service operating to Pennsylvania ave- nue and Eleventh street from Chevy Chase circle. The fare proposed is 10 | cents cash or the weekly bus pass which would sell for $1.25. The regu- lar de luxe coach service from the circle to Union Station would be con- tinued. ‘The route to be followed by the ex- press bus line and the through local bus would be along Connecticut ave- nue, Seventeenth street, I street, Thir- teenth street and E street and Elev- enth street to the avenue. The re- turn would be by way of Pennsylvania avenue, Thirteenth street, H street, Connecticut avenue, Seventeenth street, K street and then out Con- necticut avenue. S e HUGE NEW FLYING BOAT TO BE TESTED MONDAY First of Series to Be Used in Hawaiian Islands Finished by Sikorsky. By the Associated Press. The new 16-passenger flying boat, S-43, the first of & series being con- structed for service in the Hawaiian Islands, has been completed at the Sikorsky Aviation Co. plant nere and is scheduled to oe given its prelim- inary water tests Monday on Long Island Sound, company officials an- nounced today. ‘The amphibian, powered by two of the new “E” Hornett motors, capable of 750 horsepower at 7,000 feet and equipped with constant speed pro- pellors, was rolled out of the manu- facturing hangar yesterday for the vented immediate tests. There still remain eight other am- phibians of the same type to be built in the S-43 series, two uf them for the Inter-Islaad Airways, Ltd., of Hawali. o AIR-COOLED OPERA NEW YORK, May 31 (#).—The half-century-old Metropolitan Opera House will be air-cooled next season and its ventilating system improved, the opera and real estate company directors announced last night, but the building will not be completely air-gonditioned. A’ statement by the directors said it ‘was held “a too complete mod- ernization” ht impair the acoustic properties of auditorium. worn-out | BRIDGEPORT, Conn., May 31.—| first time, but a falling tide pre-! Homes submerged by the waters which claimed more than a score of lives. at the left was lined with persons awaiting rescue when photo was made. tween the Capital Transit Co. and | — — bt s ¥ 1935. Scenes From Colorado Flood Area ‘The roof of the house ! Captured | | | | | | | “IRISH” O'MALLEY. 1 x5 '0’MALLEY, WANTED IN LUER KIDNAPING, | e (Continued Prom First _'P}gn\ | to the street and into a waiting auto- | mobile. Norvell drove the car. Luer was confined for seven days in a dug-out beneath a farm building owned by Musiala, near Madison, Il The vaultlike prison was searcely | large enough for him to turn around | Carl Luer, a son, received this ran- som note: “Carl Luer: Get $100.000 dollars for your father’s release—instructions will | follow—act immediately, as medicine is low—when money is ready. insert in earliest edition of St. Louis news- | papers personal columns the follow- ing words—John, come mother is ill’ Act now.” Freed Without Ransom. Several other notes were received from the kidnapers. The medicine 1o which reference was made was being taken by Luer for heart trouble. Luer's heart condition frightened his captors, who feared he might die | on their hands. On July 17 they de- cided to release him without await- ing payment of ransom. He was | found by Justice agents at a resort near Collinsville, Ill, and returned to Alton. The next day Federal agents and police arrested Fitzgerald in a dive | at Madison, just across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. He had been under suspicion for several days. Fitzgerald made a statement which resuited in the arrest of Norvell, Musi- ala, the Chessens and Gitcho. Fitted by Graduate Shoe Fitters 439-441 Tth St. N [ CAUGHT BY U. S. MEN home— | _ “No Foot Too Hard to Fit” Wi The Last Word in Style and Comfort BOYCE & LEWIS Custom Fitting Shoes equipped to fit the Fest of erery man, woman and child. ARRESTS ORDERED - INBAN ONDUNPS 'Sign Forbids Further Use! of One Site in Arling- T4 DIE, MANY LOST INCOLORADOFLOOD Hundreds Homeless and Property Damage Mounts Into Six Figures. By the Associated Pr COLORADO SPRINGS, Mav 31.— FIVE NEW BILLS FOR D. C. BACKED ‘Negligent Homicide’ Plan Is Supported by House Judiciary Group. ‘The Judiciary Subcommittee of the House District Committee today Two flood deaths were reporied this morning from Glendo, Wyo., as the first body of the stimated 14 drowned in this vicinity vesterday was found and & huge new Llhreat of high water developed in the ~xtreme northeastern section of Colorado. A ranch woman, Mrs. Willis Strack- len, and her young son were reported swept away by a torrent that fodowed | & cloudburst that deluged a wide area last night in the vicinity of Glendo. The father and several other children escaped. The body of Donald Cimino, 38 was recovered near rere, in Fountain Creek. a mile downstream from the spot where he was swept yesterday from his horse as he attempted to rescus a trucker caught in the swollen stream. Hundreds Homeless. “Unprecedented,” was the oescrip- tion of danger along the Platte given by County Commissioner T. J. Moore as he broadcast wirnings to ranchers to remove their fa:milies and live stock from lowlands elong the Platte from Fort Morgan eastward Hundreds of person: were homeless and the porperty damage in Colorado Springs, Pueblo and two small vilages north of here was estimated a‘ hun- dreds of thousands of dollars. Emerging from a night of terror and its most disastrous flood in 15 years, the harassed area took stock by day- Light and saw that this eastern slope city was the focal point of the waters’ attack. Homes were swept away, highway and railway bridges gone, and communication, power and trans- | portation paralyzed. Denver Threatened. Pueblo, scene of the 1920 flood dis- aster, escaped with some property damage but no deaths. Denver feared that turbulent Cherry Creek would rampage, but the crest of a black tor- rent roared into the South Platte River without flooding the city. Greatest concern today was centered on the still isolated community of Kiowa and its neighbor, Elbert, from which little news had emerged, but which suffered the brunt of two huge torrents originating in a cloudburst on the crest of a watershed, which sent part of the deluge down each side of the drainage. Efforts were being made today to reach Kiowa by airplane, by horse- back and on foot. Bridges on all roads approaching the village were wrecked | Communication lines were down Twelve persons, 10 of them unidenti- | : ton County. 1 Painted in black letters, & “no! ! dumping” sign was posted yesterda | at the entrance to the Rosslyn burn | ing dump as Arlington County, Va.. |law enforcement officials acted to | compel strict adherence to a 10-year- | | old ordinance prohibiting commercial | burning dumps. | While the operators of the Highway Bridge dump failed to post a similar | sign, police warned that any truck ! driver found dumping on this lot will be arrested and prosecuted. Under this policy the dumps seem- ingly are relegated to memory, and the fight against the health-menac- ing and unsightly spots crowned with | success. At least this was the senti- | ment expressed today by some of the | leaders who demanded the law pro- | hibiting dumps be invoked. Arrests Ordered. Sheriff Howard B. Fields, head of | the Arlington police. declared he has | instructed his men to keep watchful | eyes over the dumps and apprehend any one found violating the law. Meanwhile officials of nearby Mary- land counties, conscious that this ac- | tion may result in a move to start dumps in other locations, acted to | prevent operators from diverting trash |and junk to their jurisdictions. Robert B. Morse, chief engineer of the Washington Suburban Sanitary | Commission, stated that “double care” | must be taken to forestall the loca- tion of dumping lots in Prince George County. The sanitary commission, Morse pointed out. has power to regulate and license dumps in the metropolitan area of the county, and now is draft- ing a schedule of mew regulations which will be put into effect at an | early date. . An amended dumping law, passed | by the Maryland Legislature, becomes operative tomorrow. It provides for | the commission to designate public | dumps and to make charges for the | use of them. | The Montgomery County Board of | Commissioners s also ready to act jon this matter, acocrding to Frank H. | Karn, president. Immediate steps will be taken to prohibit the establish- ment of new dump lots, he said. “Surely we do not want the dump- |inz of Washington refuse in Mont- gomery County,” he said. '“Although I believe we have rather strict laws against such practices, I will broach the subject at the Tuesday meeting | | of the board, with the view of push- | ing an investigation of the situation.” For Men AND BOYS Wright's Arch Preserver Shoes are for discriminat- ing men who insist on com- bining style and comfort so essential to our present-day needs. 56 styles to suit your clothes. 130 sizes to fit your feet! Washington Agency Sizes Sto 15 AAAA to EEEEE Complete line of . W. High Shoes fied, were on the death list here. The known dead are Mrs. Emma B. Clark, 8, and Lee Cimino, 35, of Ivywood, a suburb. Six Reported Missing. Pive other deaths were charged to floods which swept Northeastern Colo- rado earlier in the week. Six persons were reported missing here. They were Mr. and Mrs. Her- man M. West and their two daugh- ters, Esther Towsley ard Mrs. Oscar White, 30. Fears for the safety of passengers of two automobiles reported over- turned in washouts near Glendo, Wyo., were dispelled this morning. J. A. Gerl, telegraph operator at Orin Junc- tion, said the machines were enveloped | in the flood but the occupants found refuge. |""The last word from Kiowa, Colo., | indicated about half of the town was under water. At Elbert. a score of buildings— business establishments and residences | —were reported washed away. Crest Hits Pueblo. An accurate estimate of the toll of life taken here yesterday may | never be possible, officers said, be- | cause of the unlikelihood that some, |if any, of the bodies would be re- | | covered. | “'The crest of the flood passed on | 1ast night and struck Pueblo, Colo. | where a laige ward building at the State Hospital was torn apart. The city, victim of the disastrous | flood of June 3, 1920, in which 57 persons lost their lives, was prepared for the emergency. Fifty-four pa- tients in the ward building had been taken to safety just an hour before | the flood struck. Three residences What to problem until at The Morris promise.” Plan borrower of paying back The Bank for virtually cleared its calendar of pend- {ing bills by ordering favorable reports | on five measures, one of which would | create a new misdemeanor of “negli- | gent homicide.” |~ Action was taken after a two-hour | public hearing, at which each of the | five bills was considered The only important bill now re- maining on the subcommittee’s calen- dar is one which passed the Senate several months ago, designed to tighten the District's gambling laws by making the possession of gaming devices prima facie evidence of guilt. The negligent homicide bill which | already has passed the Senate was | indorsed at the hearing by District officials and representatives of the Washington Board of Trade. The other measures approved would raise the fees charged by the office of the | Recorder of Deeds, revise the paving assessment law, relieve the Commis- sioners and the surveyor of a bond requirement, and pay an award of $1316 to Lyman C. Drake for per- sonal injuries while he was in the employ of the District Minor Amendments Seen. Representative Palmisano. Demo- crat of Maryland, chairman of the subcommittee, said several minor amendments would be written into the bill increasing the scale of fees of the recorder of deeds and the measure repealing the bond requirement for the Commissioners and the surveyor All five bills with the proposed amendments will be considered by the full District Committee at its regular meeting Wednesday Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman, M. O. Eldridge, assistant traffic director, and Milton R. Vollmer ! of the Board of Trade were among those who incorsed the negligent homicide bill and stressed the need of its early enactment. Would Space Sentence Gap. Prettyman explained that under ex- isting laws juries are reluctant to con- vict an automobile driver who has been involved in an accident causing death on a manslaughter charge be- cause of the drastic penalty, and as a result many of those guilty of reckless driving escape punishment. A misde- meanor described as “negligent homi« cide.” he said. would fill the present gap between reckless driving and man- slaughter. The bill would fix the maximum penalty for negligent homicide at one year's imprisonment or a fine of $1,000 or both. It would apply to any per- son “who, by the operation of any ve- hicle at an immoderate rate of speed or in a careless, reckless or negligent manner, but not wilfully or wantonly, shall cause the death of another.” Vollmer outlined the history of the proposed legislation and declared the Board of Trade believed it should be enacted because of the small per- centage of drivers in the District in- volved in traffic fatality cases who are punished. He pointed out that in 1933 there were 75 traffic fatalities jdue to reckless driving and that none of the drivers involved was convicted and only four were held for action of the grand jury. Detroit Has Law. Eldridge explained there was a total of 123 traffic deaths in 1933 and 73 per cent of the cases were ignored by the coroner’s jury and that only 34 per cent of the cases were tried and guilty verdicts returned. The per- centage of cases in which punishment was meted out, he said. was greater in Detroit. which has a negligent homicide law The bill to increase fees in the office of the recorder of deeds was supported by Prettyman and R. W. Horad, sec- retary to the recorder. | Prettyman said the office of the re- corder of deeds is operating at a defi- cit, and the proposed increased scale of fees would place it on a self-suse taining basis. The bill providing the | higher fees, incidentally, was passed by the Senate in February. on the hospital grounds collapsed into Fountain Creek. Sixteen persons were receiving treatment in hospitals here for in- juries and shock. Among them was Fred Whiteford, who clung to & log and floated nearly five miles before he was taken from the water. 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