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MIDWEST 6. 0.P. REVIVIFIES PARTY Democrats, However, Are Inclined to Ridicule “Grass Rooters.” BY DAVID LAWRENCE. The “Grass Roots” Conference of the Repubiican party has certainly | put new life into the Republicans here. They have been amazed at the | vitality shown by their own brethren. As for the Democrats, they are in- clined to ridicule the idea and give the impression that they are not tak- | ing it seriously at all. When you use | the term “Democrats,” however, it is | important to distinguish between lh(‘ old-line members of the party and | the New Dealers. For it is apparent | that the organization men are some- what perturbed to discover that the Republicans are active again. Politics is the life and substance of Congress, and hence the “Grass Roots” Conference occasioned consid- erable comment here. The feeling | was quite general, of course, that the principles adopted by the conference | were largely preliminary and that | they represented in the main the views of the Midwestern Republicans. | Conference Plan Indorsed. Just what the national party or- ganization would do later about a platform might or nnglll not be in- flueniced by the “Grass Rooters.” The most important result of lhe Springfleld conference, however, w the decision to hold State and re- gional conferences elsewhere. There can be no doubt that the national | party organization is going to en- | courage such meetings. They have publicity value and organization value | far greater than the handing out of mimeographed sheets of “views” from party headquarters. Also, they tend to bring back into the fold some who have strayed away, especially party workers. It is curious how much conversa- tion there is about Herbert Hoover's part in the party councils. The opin- ion prevails that he will not be a candidate but that he wants to play 8 role in the selection of a nominee. Some Republicans are outspoken in their suggestion that Mr. Hoover ought at this time to renounce all claims to the presidential nomination and work for the best interests of the | party on matters of principle. Others, and these are friends of Mr. Hoover, think he would lose his influence altogether if he made a statement about his own candidacy and indicated that he would not be & candidate. 1936 Campaign Is On. Among disinterested observers, es- pecially among newspaper men, the view is held that Mr. Hoover ought to eliminate himself from considera- tion and in doing so point out that principles were far more than personalities, and that he was prepared to support the man who | best expounded and crystallized be- hind his leadership a series of sound principles. It is significant that the 1936 cam- paign has really begun. The party conferences of the Republicans are being paralleled by party gathe among the young Democrats such as | was held in Texas last week. The issue of States’ rights and & | possible constitutional amendment is | being soft-pedaled by the old-line | Democrats here as calculated to split | the party, but various New Dealers are making speeches about it just the same and it is quite probable that whether the Democratic platform does or does not contain any specific pro- posal to change the Constitution, the Republicans are going to contend just the same that the objective of the New Deal is to Europeanize the insti- tutions of America. speeches at the “Grass Roots” confer- ences in that respect represented the trend of Republican policy in so far as members of Congress here reflect that | trend in national affairs (Copyrieht. 1 ART STUDENT SHATTERS | STATUE OF FAMED NUDE | By tha Associated Press, SACRAMENTO, Calif,, June 15.— Miss Rosemary Runge, 20, tnought | Michelangelo’s famous nude “The | Slave” was a “nasty thing” ani de- cided to act accordingly. She gave the 6-foot copy of the atatue a shove and it was shattered to bits on a class rocm floor at the Bret Hart Elementary School here. ‘Th= crash of the toppling art work caused a near panic among the stu- dents yesterday. Running toward the stairs toward | the direction of the crash, Mrs. Louise | Bartlett, principal, stopped Miss Eunst who shouved: vell, I just oroke that statue. I'm | glad of it. It was a good deed and tha’ nasty thing should never have een displayed vofore children.” Miss Runge was taken into custody, | bui, released when her father, s city | fireman, promised he would try to| reimburse the school for the damage SPECIAL NOTICES. THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK bolders of the American Fire Insurance of D. C. and the election of nine (8) trustees for the ensuing year. will be held at the office of the company, No. 511 7th 8t. n.w. on Thursday. June 20. 1935, at u ulelntk am, Polls open from 11 &.m. ‘“m"' EMMERICH OT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR AN’ &2: I.II‘Imr lh'l.: date, contracted by lInr‘: an my; g sel EPH_A. Aasnssum UPON SHAREHOLDERS. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF the Comptroller of the Currency, Washine- ton, D. C.. May > In ihe matier ?Inmm"II""I"I ;n‘u hc mu]my Washine istrict of Columbia—TO Al HOJ IT MAY CON st ‘WHI AS, It lnpelr to my \llull(‘uon that in order (o pay the debts of the “Cou- tinental Trust Company.” a corporation doing business in the Disirict of Colimbia now in receivership, it is necessary to en- Torce the individual Liability of the stock- holders therefor to the exlenl hereinafter hemioned as prescribed b ‘THEREFORE, by Virtue of the authoriiy vested i me by law. 1 do hereby e An assessment an shareholders of = th reaiitsition upon e “Con! Trust Company’ said ti- ntal Tor"“one_Mitlion Illflll 000 00) dollar: e paid by them on of before the Sixth Day of July, 1035, and 1 hereby make demand upon every one of them for the par I\le of each and every share of the cap- m Stock of said corporation held or owned them. respectively. at the time of its Saure and T hereby direct John F. Moran, e Ri heretofore appointed. to take suit or other- That ‘extent the said muvmuu bty of the said shareholders. WITNESS WHEREOF 1 have hereto set my hlnfl and caused my seal of office to be affixed to these presents, at the City of Washington, in the District of Columbla. thig Twenty- nInt y of Mi D. 1935. Bortior Compgmner of_the_Currency. Y TRIPS MOVING LOADS AND PART e to and from Balto Bhila. and New York. ~ Freauent trips fo other Eastern eities_ “Dependatle servlu smu . THE DAVIDSON TRAN: ©O.._phone Decatur 2 "ISI.I(' WANTED—RETURN LOADS FROM KAN. sas City Miami. Hartford. New York. Co Jumbus _Birmingham: also local movlnl BMITH'S TRANSFER & STORAGE CO. 1313 You st. n.w._Phone Norii OWNER-DRIVER. ]‘1-1‘0! TRUCK. HAUL lnnhl;.\‘l anywhere. hour, Phonl REPAIRING. Mantels—Ti Fireplaces. ELLETT 11050 st nw. Netional A DEAL FUNERAL AT S75 It important | The keynote | six trolleys during the riots al South Omaha. (Story on Page A-1.) CROWLEY DENIES Declares He Did Not Inter- cede for Garnett With D. C. Committee. Karl A. Crowley, solicitor of the Postoffice Department, yesterday branded as “absolutely untrue” reports that he had attempted to influence the House Distirct Committee to reconsider the crime report recommending re- | moval of United States Attorney Les- lie C. Garnett. In a statement to the press, Crowley said: “The report thet I have attempted to influence members of the District Committee to vote to suppress the Garnett report is absolutely untrue and without foundation. It is wrue that Mr. Garnett | and that I have a high personal re- gard for him as a man and as one of the outstanding iawyers of tie Iguunll\ Because of this high regard | T have personally hoped that he would have justice at the hands of the com- mittee. I have not, howev to any member of the commitlee in | the slightest attempt to influence | them in their report one way or the | other. Certainly the reference *o Mr. Farley in published reports is very unjust. He did not at any time sug- gest or intimate to me that he want=d | me to intervene for him in connection with this matter and I am sure that thing he knows about the the papers. Postmaster General Farley Thurs- day issued a statement denying he | either directly or indirectly had any- thing to do with the move to kill the Iecommendsuon. STIRLING S ARTICLE Swanson and Hull Discuss Naval Officer’s Writing on European War Situation. By the Associated Press. A newspaper article by Rear Admi- ral Yates Stirling, jr, which the Women's International League for Peaece and Freedom contended “im- plied” that a European war against Russia would be “desirable,” closed yesterday as the subject of discussion between the Navy and State Departments. that Secretaries Swanson were conferring on the matter, and indicated that Swanson would have something to say later. Speculatlon arose over whether Russia had pro- peared earlier in the week. Neither Hull nor Swanson would comment on their conference, but it was known that the matter had been under investigation by the Navy high command. Earlier, Swanson informed the House Naval Committee that Stirling, District and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was not required by Navy regulations to obtain authorization for the article. INSANITY PLEA CLEARS WOMAN IN SLAYING ‘Eva ‘Cooper Wilson Acquitted in Kentucky—Divorced Husband's Wife Shot. By the Associated Press. STANFORD, Ky., Cooper Wilson was acquitted last night of killing her divorced husband’s sec- ond wife whom she shot in & movie lobby February 24. She pleaded in- sanity. Mrs. Wilson heard the verdict with the same emotionless expression she has worn the three days of her trial, broken once by tears when her coun- sel urged thet she be allowed to go free. Commbonwealth demands for her death failed to move her. Mrs. Wilson killed Mrs. Marie Dut- ton Wilson, wife of Trusdale Wilson of Somerset. She followed the couple out of a Sunday movie and shot Marie from behind. Several years ago, before the di- vorce, Eva shot Marie but prosecution was dropped at the victim’s request. She testified in her murder trial that Marie Wilson broke up her home, end that her mind was a blank about the killing. AIR MEASURE APPROVED Senate Committee Favors From- tier Defense Bases Bill. The Senate Military Committee yes- terday approved the House bill au- thorizing establishment by the War Department of "h&mr air-defense” REPORT MEDDLING = spokea | | BRINGS CONFERENCE was dis- | President Roosevelt told newsmen | and Hull | tested against the article, which ap- | | the stocky, good-natured husband of who is commander of the 3d Naval | June 15.—Eva | Lyddane (Continued From First Page) been called ex-convicts and criminals Well, if you wanted to hire murderers, would you go to school teachers or such?” The State's attorney denied the im- | plication of the defense that Carnell “l‘ul& the note. “Truth will out”” Pugh declared, “and this note pins it right on nu- defendant.” Attorney Kenneth Lyddane, 8 dl.\- tant cousin of Prancis Lyddane, de- livered the first argument for the de- fense, assailing the credibility of Car- | He pointed to the | nell’s testimony. man’s criminal record and emphasized the fact that if a conspiracy existed then Carnell was & guilty accemplice. “The law says,” “that the testimony of an accomplice must be received with utmost cau- tion. “These men were shaking Mrs. Lyd- dane down because they knew she was meeting Beall. She paid because she was afraid of losing her job at the | bank.” is a friend of mine | Peter Charges Blackmail. Another argument for the defense was delivered by Robert Peter, jr., who laid emphasis on Mrs. Lyddane's position of trust in the community and on the disreputable character of the accusers. Peter said it was blackmall and not a murder plot which had in- volved Mrs. Lyddane. The court recessed at noon for an hour before the arguments were con- cluded. Cites Errors in Note. State Senator Stedman Prescott, | chief defense counsel, also attacked the credibility of Carnell, and in no ¢ is what he has read in | uncertain terms. “This racketeer and double-crosser,” j Prescott said, “is the State’s chief ac- cuser against the young woman before you. He is the man to whom the State promises immunity—he and the ex-convict, Harry Elmer Thomas, an admitted double-crosser.” Implying Carnell wrote the “Googy” note, Prescott pointed out that the bartender spelled “night” as “nite” in his written statement to police and this same spelling of the word apepars in the “Googy" note. Presscott also called attention to grammatical mistakes and typing er- rors in the note. He asked if it was | logical to suppose it was written by Mrs. Lyddane, an expert stenographer | of years of experience. The day and night session yesterday | was the most sensational of the trial, | with Mrs, Beall taking the stand to | tell how she chased Mrs. from her front yard three years ago on child was born. She was followed to the stand by | the comely defendant, who for almost three hours answered a running fire of questions about her relations with Beall and Lyddane, and with the hoodlums who say she plotted with | them to commit murder. Lyddane Takes Stand. The final witness before the defense rested late last night was Lyddane, the defendant, who has refused throughout the entire sensational case | to believe his wife plotted to have him assassinated. Smiling, soft-spoken and nattily at- tired in & gray suit and light tie, Lyd- dane assumed the stand in the closing hours of the night session which lasted until 20 minutes before midnight. Although he knew his wife had been | “running around with another man,” Lyddane did his best to clear her name. While Lyddane talked, his wife sat calmly listening in the defendant’s seat before him, surrounded by her attorneys, her father and sister. The husband told of going to parties with his wife several times a week, and of going for lunch or & bottle of beer to the Lincoln Way Inn, where Carnell was employed as a bartender. The witness explained an apparent discrepancy in his testimony given at the preliminary hearing. At that time, Lyddane said he had not lived &s “man and wife” with Mrs. Lyddane for more than a year. He testified | last night he was now living with Mrs, Lyddsne &s man &nd wife. He said he meant he had not lived with her for that long after her relations with Beall were revealed in Mrs. Beall's divorce suit naming Mrs. Lyddane co-respondent, Wife's Suit Withdrawn. Mrs. Beall withdrew the suit several days later after her husband trans- ferred to her $12,000 worth of prop- erty. Drawn out by Prescott, Lyddane said he ° observed suspicious in the behavior of his wife last March when, the State charges, Mrs. Lyddane was desperately trying to bring the double murder plot to final conclusion. Lyddane’s appearance before & packed court room climaxed a suc- cession. of sensational developments which began with Mrs, Beall's ap- pearance on the stand. Later, for nearly three hours, the slim, blond 31-year-old defendant re- lated to the jury her story of her ac- tivities during the latter part of March. Calls Accusers “Cheap.” Mrs. Lyddane described hersell as the victim of “cheap blackmailers,” who had learned of her relations with Beall and were using the knowledge to Lyddane continued, | Lyddane | the night before her youngest | Dragging strikebreaker operators from thelr street car cabs, transit strike sympathizers last night set fire to One of the cars is piclured above as it burned. e Beall on various occasions, but in- sisted she and her husband were reconciled and now living together as “man and wife.” From 1:30 until 4:30 pm. Mrs. Lyd- dane sat before & battery of apprai wg eyes in the hot court room, an- swering questions regarding her bank account, her duties as a notary public and ber activities throughout March with as much equanimity as her in- terrogators. During November, Mrs. sald, she paid $200 to men who “blackmailed” her with a threat of disclosing information which, she ex- plained, might cost her job as secre- tary to the president of the Farmers' Banking & Trust Co. here. She did not know who the men were, she said, and lied about the matter to her hus- band, telling Lyddane she had paid out $200 to men who threatened to “kidnap” him. An effort to refute the State’s con- tention that the “Googy note” urg- ing haste in the conspiracy, was writ- ten on Mrs, Lyddane’s typewriter was made by the defense last night. An Tyddane expert, J. Newton Buaker of Washing- | ton, was put on the stand and que: tioned both by Assistant State's torney John Oxley and the three judges sitling in the case. State Experts Disputed. Baker indicated the “Googy note” could not have been written on the same noiseless machine the State has sought to link with the note through testimony of a Washington police | photographer and Treasury Depart- ment documental experts. The judges themselves began to in- terrogate the witness. Prescolt ob- jected, however, and the expert’s te timony was allowed to stand after a conference at the bench between State and defense counsel. Other witnesses last night included Cliff Robertson, Rockville lawyer, who said the type of red seal found in Mrs. Lyddune's office and on the “Googy mnote” is available in almost any stationary store. Police Corpl. Harry Merson cor- roborated Mrs. Lyddane’s story of how he drove her to Silver Spring to meet her husband, and Walter W. Dawson. Republican committee chair- man, told of seeing Mrs. Lyddane at a party on March 20, when her be- havior was entirely normal, he said. Ruth Shoemaker, member of House of Delegates, said she saw Mrs. Lyddane during the recent legisla- tive session on half & dozen occasi and that Mrs. Lyddane had ap | proached her in an effort to have her | husband’s job in the Montgomery County liquor dispensary retained. 50 Character Witnesses Called. been called by the defense yesterday tc defend the reputation of Mrs. Lyddane. Among those testifying last night were Thomas L. Dawson, Maryland Secretary of State; Albert M. Bouic, attorney; Dr, R. C. Warfield of Rock- ville; Charles M. Jones, secretary of | and Planning Commission and former Rockville postmaster; clerk to the Montgomery County Commissioners and former Spring National Bank cashier; Mrs. Mary W. O’'Brien of Bethesda, a: sistant clerk to the county commis- sloners, and Frank H. Karn, president of the Montgomery County Com- missioners. Others who testified: Dr. Frank A. Broschart . of Gaithersburg, Odorion W. Robey, former deputy clerk to| the county commissioners and former | supervisor of county aid; O. W. An-| derson of Rockville, county farm agent; Joseph N. Starkey, former county surveyor; J. Darby Bowman, secretary-treasurer of the Washing- ton Surban Sanitary Commission; (?‘eorse P. Henderson, the cashier of Bank of Bethesda; George P. Sacks, president of the Bank of Bethesda and a member of the County Board of Education; Mrs. James C. Christopher, mother of James C. Christopher, who succeeded his father missioners; Ralph S. Morrison, Be- thesda builder, and Miss Rose K. Dawson, sister of Walter W. Dawson, chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, Those called yesterday afternoon were Judge Harry Hunt of Orphans’ Court, who appeared in a wheel chair; Thomas D. Darby, Dawsonville, and Thomas N. Darby, Seneca, both farm- ers; Frank Davis, Poolesville, county employe; Richard Dardy, bank direc- tor of Rockville; W. L. Aud, Mont- gomery tax assessor; R. H. Hickerson, Germantown, former county official; Alvie A. Moxley, former chief of police; Vest Linthicum and W A, Fawcett, farmer, —_—— FLIGHT IS UNBROKEN Endurance Plane Near Halfway Point on Eleventh Day. MERIDIAN, Miss, June i5 (#)— The endurance plane, Ole Miss, with Al and Pred Key, brothers, as pilots, roared toward the halfway mark of ihe present world endurance record today. The aviators, due to make the half- way point at noon, Central standard time, are making their third attempt n'.lemnllnewmmdmdluv-been At- | the | Nearly 50 character witnesses had Rockville lawyer and former State's the Maryland National Capital Park| Ira C. Whitacre, | Silver | president of Montgomery County National Bank at Rockville: S. Walter Bogley, as deputy clerk to the county com- | ATURDAY, o |[CHANGESINAA READY FOR AGTION Amendments Are Virtually Assured of Approval by House. By the Assoclated Press. ‘The revised A. A. A. amendments finally were ready today for House action and virtually assured of ap- proval. The *“clarifying” amendments to the agricultural adjustment act were given precedence over all other leg- islation by the leaders. Debate will begin Monday. So important does the administration consider them, in fact, that an effort was made yester- day to start consideration today. This was blocked. Foregoes Saturday Holiday. However, the House voted to forego its usual Saturday holiday to dis- pose of other business that normally would be transacted on Monday. Representative Andresen, Repub- lican, of Minnesota, who previously | headed & minority report, ure than the old one, but added he was still doubtful of the constitu- tionality of a section numarmng the Secretary of Agriculture to ‘“order” marketing agreements for handlers of a half-dozen commodities if ouly 50 per cent of them by volume or two-thirds of the producers in a given class wish it 2,918,678 Voles Cast. A tabulation by the A. A. A. mean- while reported a total of 2918678 votes cast in four referenda on ad- justment programs during the past eight months. Of this total, the A. A. A. said 2,511,109 votes favored con- | tinuation of the farm programs, while 407,983 voles were against ‘The votes were on the corn-hog, | cotlun, wheat and tobacco programs. 'ROOSEVELT SIGNS C0-ORDINATOR BILL Eastman Post Continued Year—Rail Assessment Is Reinstalled. for said the | present bill was & much better meas- | JUNE CAPT. GILBERT J. ROWCLIFF, ROWCLIFF NAMED HEAD OF NAVY UNIT | Squadron Leader Succeeds Hooper as Director of Communications. anuounced by the Navy Department as the new director of Naval Com- munications. He will relieve Capt. Stanford C. Hooper, who has held the post for the past seven years. Yesterday Capt. Rowcliff was de- tached as commander | Squadron 4 of the Battle Force and, Washinglon to take over his new post about July 15. Capt. Lawrence P Treadwell has been detached from the Naval Examining Board at the Navy Departmeut to relieve Capt. Rowcliff afloat. ‘The department said Capt. Hooper will be assigned for special work with Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations. ‘The new director of Naval Commu- nications, who will have charge of the Navy's vast network ashore aud afloat, By the Associated Press Within & matter of minutes after final Congressional action, President Roosevell yesterday signed the bill continuing the post of Federal co- ordinator of trausportation for an- | | other year. With the law under which Joseph | B. Eastman now holds that office scheduled to expire tomorrow night, the House quickly substituted for its own measure the bill passed by the Senate in slightly different form and rushed it to the White House. Delay threatened for a time, though, when some members of the House | Interstate Commerce Committee ear- | lier in the week forced elimination of the provision for continuing the | $2-a-mile annual assessment on class 1 railroads to pay the co-ordinator's expenses. But after Democratic and Republi- can members of the committee alike | urged that this sction be reversed, the House voted to restore the assess- | ment provision. Had it been left | out, the bill would have had to go back to the Seuate for working out an agreement. A. A. A. IS ATTACKED IN ALABAMA COURT Judge Gmbb Who Ruled Against N. R. A. and T. V. A, Will Hear Case This Month. By the Associated Press BIRMINGHAM, Constitutionality adjustment sact, Ala, June 15— of the agricultural keysione of the New Deal farm relief program, was at- tacked yesterday in United States District Court here, where two pre- vious decisions hLave been handed down against the administration measure. The Alabama Packing Co. filed & petition for an injunction to restrain | the collector of internal revenue from ‘LoIIPLLm' the processing tax. The | Judge W. I Grubb June 28. | Judge Grubb was (he first jurist i to hold the national recovery act un- constitutional, ruling against the Government in the Beicher Lumber Co. case to facilitate a test. He later | thority was without consitutional au- thority to sell surplus electric energy on the scale planned. e Farm Credit Counsel Chosen. Peyton R. Evans, general solicitor of the Farm Credit Administration, scon will be named general counsel | trator W. I. Myers announced yester- | day. Hovey has accepted a post with the legal staff of Armour & Co. in Chicago. Congress (Continued From First Page.) included in the voluntury codes under their original bill. Meanwhile, at the request of the administration, Senator Walsh, Demo- , of Massachusetts introduced a bill to carry out what Prosident Roosevelt called the second phase of tha post-Supreme Court N. R. A pro- gram. 2f minimum wage and maximum hour requirements in all Government con- tract: and forbid empioyment of chil- dren under 16 i their performance. bill also would make manda- tory the requirement of similar agree- ments in contracts and purchases made by States, cities, persons or cor- porations receiving loans or grants of !undl from the Government or any of its agencies. 'flle bill provides that the agree- ments shall contain provisions that “any breach” shall render the offender lisble to the United States “for liquidated damages in a sum equal to the minimum wage represented to have been or agreed to be paid the employe or employes for the period of employment in violation of the representation or agreement.” Such damages may be withheld from “moneys due on the contract,” and a violation of the terms would be grounds for cancellation of the con- tract. Enactment of “far-reaching legisla- tion” to preserve N. R, A. labor stand- ards was advocated, meanwhile, by the Recovery Administration’s Labor Ad- visory Board. “To return to a laissez faire econ- omy in this day and age can only be an ostrichlike evasion of the zeal is- sues of 10,000,000 unemployed workers petition was set for hearing before ! ruled that the Tennessee Valley Au- | to succeed Scott W. Hovey, Adminis- | It would provide for iusertion | which is ceuntered in the Navy De- partment, has been chosen for ad- | vancement to rear admiral and is expected to attain that rank early LeXt year, | Capt. Rowcliff, a native of Peoria, IlL, served duriug the World War as gunuery officer on the staff of the commander of Battle Ship Force 2 Atlantic Fleet, and won the Navy Cross. He served in Washington shortly after the war in the office of naval operations at the Navy Depart- ment and was on duty at the Naval Academy from 1925 10 1928. | Capt. Hooper played an important part in the setting up of the Federal Radio Commision and in establishing the Nation’s comercial radio broad- casting system. He is a native of Col- ton, Calif, 'NEW DEAL SOCIALIST | VICTORY, SAYS HALE Party Stolen Ly Roosevelt Election and G. 0. P. Sought, Is Charge. Democratic | By the Associated Press A charge by the League for Consti- tutional Government that the cial- ists had “stolen” tlie Democratic party | through the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and weie now plotiing to | control the Repubiican party. was read in the Senate yesterday by Senator Hale, Republican, of Maine. His assertion came at the end of a speech in which he contended most of the Socialist piatform of 1932 had been carried into effect by the New Deal “I cannot uanderstand what come over the Democratic which has stood for so many things in the past | Socialist program,’ has party fine w0 run off after this Hale said. CIT‘I NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Hotel, 8 pm. Picnic, St. David's Society, Sixteenth and Kennedy streets, 2 p.n. Commencement exercises and dance, Benjamin Franklin University, May- flower Hotel, 8:30 p.m. daucing class, Little Theater, Ward- man Park Hotel, 8 pm. Hains Point, 3 p.m. Broadmoor Hotel, 9 pm. TOMORROW. Meeting, Mercantile Club, Hamllwn Hotel, 6 p.m. Mrenng Delta slgms Nu, La !l)eu,e . Established 1879 Capt. Gilbert J. Rowcliff today was | of Destroyer | | after leave of sbsence, will come 1o | Dinner, Kappa Delta Phi, La Fayette | Dance recital, Miss Bernice Carrico's Picnic, Ben Hur Life Association, Dance, South Dakota State Society, | LAUNDERING L ea have succeeded! HAVE US DO YO - e TOLMAN surndsy ¥3 A_3°7 BRIGHTWOOD ACTS ON HEALTH ITEM Ruhland Lauded as Citizens Urge Restoration of $93,000 to Bill. Commending the efforts of Dr. George C. Ruhland, District health officer, to improve public health, the Brightwood Citizens' Association last night adopted a resolution urging that the $93,000 item for the Health De- partment be restored to the 1936 Dis- trict appropriation bill, The progressive health program which Dr, Ruhland has proposed was indorsed by speakers, who said that if the funds are secured much could be done toward the elimination of unsatisfactory health conditions, par- ticularly with reference to tuberculosis and contagious diseases in general. The sccomplishments of Dr. Ruh- land since his short term in office, it was stated, have been meeting with favor by the citizens and his adoption of modern methods approved. ‘The members were advised that the excessive speed of some of the Takoma Park busses on Madison street be- tween Fifth and Thirteenth streets had been eliminated as well as over- crowded conditions. Installation of | a cross-town bus service via Military | road from Brightwood to Chevy Cuase was discussed and will be given cou- sideration, Improvements planned at the Ta- nounced. Ample parking automobiles, it was reported, will eliminate parking ou the sireets sur- rounding the large tract. Several new | tennis courts are to be constructed on the Third street side of the center. directed to inform the Board of Edu- cation that in the event a new north- ern high school is constructed on the tract, it be named after the late President Calvin Coolidge. The erec- tion of & school was said to be included in the plaus for the future development of he center. CITIZENS BACK RUHL. ND. the Southwest Civic koma Recreational Center were an- | space for | | The secretary of the association was | (adium in the rear of ih«‘ Following & health survey of 200 Randall Junior High School students, Association has | assured Uealth Officer George C. Ruh- MISS DASHIELL, 0, POET, HIT BY CAB Widely Known Writer Criticai Condition After Accident. Miss Nellie E. Dashiell, 90, of 1330 Massachuselts avenue, widely known poet, is in a critical condition today in Emergency Hospital after being struck late yesterday by a taxicab in the 600 block of Fourteenth street, She has failed to regain consciousness since the accident and hospital at- taches said she is suffering from frac- tures of both legs and wrist. She also was injured about the head and chest. Police are investigating details of the accident. Some time after it oc- curred, Thomas E. Doyle, 26, of the 900 block of I street, who was be- lieved to have been driving the taxi- cab, according to police, was arrested and held for investigation. Miss Dashiell for many years has been a member of the League of American Pen Women and has pub- lished many volumes of poetry, the | lest of which was “Catalina,” written | 1924, | She wrote a memorial poem to Calvin Coolidge, jr., shortly after the latter’s death in July, 1924. The poem Iwux published in The Evening Star | and received much favorable com- ment. She also had done some por- urait painting. Miss Dashiell was & member of an old Southern Maryland family. She had spent considerable time travel- ing in Europe and Asia. Her nearest relatives here are cousins, one of | whom is Miss Julia MecFarland, 1820 Kalorama road. In another accident Harrison Mc- Intyre, 35, colored, 203 Reeves court | was seriously injured last night when knocked down by an automobile op- erated by Garland S. Arnold, Halls Station, Md., near Benning Bridge northeast, He was treated at Casualty Hospital for shock, concussion of the brain and a leg injury. in 30,000 Girls in Concert. ‘Thirty thousand school girls gave & mass concert during the visit of the Emperor of Manchukuo to Tokio, Japan, land of support in his efforts to secure | a $93.000 suplemental | for health funds in the District. appropriation | The findings in the health survey. which included tuberculin tests and a thorough physical examination have not yet been made public, but will be contained in a 60-page report being compiled. Eighteen pysicians from the Mecico-Chirurgical Society and the Robert T. Freeman Dental So- assisted by nurses from Preed- the ciety, men'’s survey. Hospital, collaborated in The report will be released to health | and school officials and persons and and dentists HOT WATER COSTS 509, to 75% organizations itterested in the more adequate protection of the health of school childreu. The Public Health Committee of the civie association which supervised the survey is composed of Dr. C. A. Wal- wyn, chairman; Dr. George L. son, and Dr. Donald M. Harper. | [ |~ ADVER RiNcH offll Petworth Pharm Upshur Is an Authorized John- secretary; Dr. Charles W. Wade ISEIIEIIISI RecelvED HERE acy—Ga. Ave. and St. N.W. Star Branch Office F you think that want is going to be hard to supply, let a properly worded and classified advertisement in The Star demonstrate how easy Star Classified Advertise —and you'll be agreeably surprised how quickly you'll get action, promptly forwarded to ing in the first availal it is to supply it. ments DO Bring Results Copy for The Star Classified Section left at any of the many authorized Branch Offices—there’s one in practically every neighborhood—will be the Main Office, appear- ble issue. No fees; only regular rates are charged. The above sign identifies an authorized Star Branch office. 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