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o v | @he Sunday Star CARPENTER PLANS 10 PUSH DISTRCT DIVORCE MEASLRE Would Put Senate-Approved Bill on Calendar to Get Action Soon. WILL URGE SPECIAL COMMITTEE MEETING Report Deemed Necessary Before June 26, When Crime Report Debate Is Renewed. BY JAMES E. CHINN. Pearing any further delay in pass- ing on the Senate-approved bill to liberalize the District’s divorce laws might jeopardize its passage in the | House at the current session of Congress, Representative Carpenter, Democrat, of Kansas, announced last night he would make a determined effort to get the measure on the calen- dar before the next District day, June 24 Carpenter, a member of the Dis- triet Committee, is author of a lib- eralized divorce bill, similar to that passed by the Senate several months ago. His measure, as well.as the Sen- ate approved bill, is tied up in the judipiary subcommittee of the House District Committee, headed by Rep- Sergeant Wins Miles T. Barrett, Who Went A. W. O. L. to Fight, Seeks $109. For 16 years since the World War, Sergt. Miles T. Barrett, former com- batant with the immortal Fourth Bri- gade of Marines, has been fighting for a principle. President Roosevelt has before him now for his approval a bill authoriz- ing the payment of exactly $109.85 to Barrett, as pay he never received while serving as a private in the Army during a four-month period in France. If the President signs the bill, Sergt. Barrett’s long post-war | battle is ended, but if he vetoes it, as he did once before, he is prepared to pick up the gauge anew. rine, now 54, declared yesterday at his home, 628 Maryland avenue south- west. “I earned the pay and never got it. Why, Tve fought all these ‘[ years to collect it and have spent over | $500 trying.” Bit Careless of Rules. More than mere $109.85 was in- volved in Sergt. Barrett's case. His strong - desire to overcome all ob- | stacles to get to France to fight for his | country made him a bit careless of Marine Corps and Army regulations. But he got there finally—with the | Army—and after a short time with the 116th Marines, he finally obtained “It isn't the money, it's the prin- | ciple of the thing,” the one-time Ma- | WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY 2,5]] m GRM]UATE Park Road Re-Routed to Save Zoo Slumbers 16-Year Fight If President Approves Pa MILES T. BARRETT. —Star Staff Photo. | his transfer to the Fourth Brigade of | Marines. ~ With that outfit he saw | | plenty of action and ended up with | the Army of Occupation in Germany. wounded soldiers in a fleld swept by heavy machine gun and shell fire.” resentative Palmisano, Democrat, of Maryland. The subcommittee has held hear- ings on both bills, but Chairman Palmisano has- delayed a favorable report to the full committee because of his objection to certain features. Carpenter plans to press him to file a report eaply this week, and if he agrees, he will urge Chairman Nor- ton of the District Committee to call a special meeting so the bill can be placed on the calendar in time for House consideration June 24. Crime Report Action. The full District Committee has agreed to stand in recess until June 26. at which time it will renew de- bate on a motion of Representative Nichols, Democrat, of Oklahoma, for reconsideration of its action approving the crime report recommending the removal of United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett. It is unlikely that any pending District legislation will be considered at that meeting, and Carpenter feels that unless the com- mittee meets in the meantime and reports out, the divorce bill the House will not have an opportunity to pass on it at the current session of Con- | gress. One of Palmisano's chief objec- tions to the bill is that it will make cruelty grounds for an absolute -di- vorce. “He is willing to make-epuelty grounds for a limited divoree, but fears that absolute divorces granted | for this cause might make Washing- | ton a “divorce mill” and another | Reno. Carpenter, however, insists an abso- | | would now | guished Service Cross, instead of keep- ! ing faded citations among his papers. Sergt. Barrett's 16-year fight to |clear his record and collect his pay ls_one of the strangest in the many mixed-up cases that grew out of war- time service. Even his three citations— | one from Gen. John J. Pershing, an- other from Maj. Gen. John A. Le-| jeune, his division commander, and the other from Marshal Petain of France—were twisted in the records. They are made out to Sergt. Miles F. Barrett, Miles C. Barrett and Miles T. Barrett, the last correctly. Bui for this mix-up in identities, Barrett be wearing the Distin- An old-time Marine who served in the Spanish-American War—which he admits wasn't so hot—Barrett en- listed in the Marine Corps at the outbreak of the World War. He want- ed to be among the “first to fight.” as the Marine Corps boasts. Instead. he was shipped to Galveston, Tex. When | earlier bill April 17, 1934, because of | he learned his regiment was destined never to see the outside of Texas, Bar- rett got a 72-hour furlough and en- | approved it in the first place for the | listed in the Army. That was after seven months at Galveston. Went Overseas Then. Once in the Army, Barreft went | overseas with the 116th Engineers on June 15, 1918. There he “gave him- self up” and requested a transfer to the Fourth Marine Brigade. Pending against Barrett for many months was the old ‘“desertion” charge from the Marine Corps. The late Maj. Gen. George Barnett finally disposed of the charge, ruling it was | | erroneously made, and Barrett was| ernment owed me some pay and I restored to duty as a sergeant in April, Sergt. Barrett was in three of the five major engagements of the 4th | Brigade, which lost 11.968 men for the heaviest casualty record in the A. E. F. | He missed two, he sald, because he was “locked up” pending the disposal of his “A. W. O. L." to get to France. The first man to befriend him and stand by him all these years was a | former Representative from Galveston, |Tex., Maj. Clark Thompson, who | served in the Marines. Thompson got {a bill introduced and reintroduced | from time to time. Then Senator Mor- | ris Sheppard of Texas, chairman of { the Military Affairs Committee, took up the fight for the former sergeant. | Others who aided primarily were | Representative Melvin J. Maas of Min- | nesota, a former Marine, and Repre- sentative Jennings Randolph of West | Virginia. | Vetoed by President. | President Roosevelt vetoed the irregularities in his service record. Controller General McCarl had dis- reason that Barrett had been “hy- pothetically paid.” “I don't get that,” the veteran Ma- rine snorted ia reflection yesterday. Nor does Barrett care a rap about | the final wording of the bill which clears his Army record with this lan- guage. “His service in the United States Army during the period in question is hereby made honorable by virtue of the passage of this act.” | “That doesn't bother me” Barrett exclaimed. “It's the principle of the | thing I was fighting for. The Gov- am going to collect it. That's all lute divorce should be granted on|jgig since then the Army has cleared | there is to it.” grounds of cruelty. He said cruelty is | one of the principal causes of marital his record of “fraudulent” enlistment. Barrett made good with the Marines. difficulties, and there should be NO | ot Blanc Mont, with the 97th Com- reason for denying an absolute di-|pany 6th Regiment, he went far be- be But He Won't Get All But he won't collect all of it. A | compromise was reached. Barrett will | receive $119.85 for service with the AT EXERCISES IN SENIOR SCHOOLS 3,300 Will Complete Courses in Junior High Units This Week.. 125 TO FINISH COURSES IN TEACHERS’ COLLEGES Members and Representatives of Education Board to Preside at Ceremonies. Approximately 2,500 boys and girls will be graduated from Washington's eight senior high schools during the coming week and about 3,300 will step up from the junior high schools and eighth grades to take their places next Fall. At the same time close to 125 new teachers will be graduated from the two teachers’ colleges, Wilson and Miner, whose commencement pro- grams will begin today with bacca- laureate sermons and will be con- cluded Thursday morning. The new bachelors of science in education are about equally divided between the two schools. All of the senior high schools have | already begun to observe the gradua- tion period, although only one will deliver diplomas before Tuesday night. Meanwhile, however, seven junior high schools will have completed their graduation ceremonies by Tuesday afternoon. Assignments Made. Members and representatives of the | Board of Education have been as- signed for some time to the several schools in the system to act as pre- siding officers. Elementary school graduations will be much simpler, al- though all of them will have special programs during the week at which the pupils will be stepped up to the | next highest grade or given their | diplomas to enter junior or senior | high schools High | Tomorrow Dunbar night | schools to hand out diplomas. Mrs. W. C. McNeill of the Board of Ed- ucation will monies at 8 p.m. the first of the junior high schools— Taft—will send out its graduates, with as presiding officer. The schedule for the rest of the week and the presiding officers fol- low: Tuesday morning at 10:30 o'clock— Terrell Junior High, Charles H. Hous- ton. Tuesday at 2 p.m.—Eliot Junior High, Robert 8. Anderson; Hine Junior, Robert L. Haycock: Mac- farland Junior, Miss Jeéssie La Salle; Francis Junior, Dr. J. Hayden John- | son; Shaw Junior, Garnet C. Wilkin- son, | Tuesday's Program. | Tuesday night at 8 o'clock—East- | ern High School, three-year class, Charles B. Degges; Roosevelt High, vorce to a couple who cannot live to- | gether without “fighting.” Suggestion Considered. Aside from Palmisano’s personal ob- | Jection to several features of the bill, he has been urged to have it amended s0 that “temperamental incompatibil- jty” would be grounds for an absolute divorce. He is not inclined to approve ; that suggestion for the same reason that he opposes an absolute divorce on the ground of cruelty—that it would make the Nation's Capital a mecca for prospective divorcees. New Mexico. Palmisano has been told, is the only State that grants a divorce on the ground of “tempera- mental incompatibility.” Divorces also are granted for that reason in Mexico. Adultery is the only ground on| which an absolute divorce is now grahted in the District. The two bills pengding ¥ Pa'misano’s subcommittee would provide these additional grounds: 1. Cruelty. 2. Desertion for two years. 3. Separation for five consecutive years without cohabitation. 4. Habitual drunkenness for one| year. | 5. Conviction of a felony involving | moral turpitude and sentence.to a penal institution. 6. Incurable insanity for a period of five years. The grcunds of separation for five consecutive years and incurable in- | ganity are in the Senate approved bill, and Carpenter said he had no objec- tion to their inclusion in his bill. He | believes, however. Palmisano's sub- committee will report out the Senate bill, possibly with several amendments. Special Meeting Plan. Carpenter said he intended to im- | press on Chairman Norton the im- portance of a special meeting of the | full District Committee to pass on the divorce bill as well as several other important bills now pending before | the committee, so these measures can be placed on the calendar in time for consideration the next District day, which may be the last one at the pres- ent session. Palmisano’s subcommittee also has before it a Senate-approved bill de- signed to tighten the District’s gam- bling laws by making possession of gaming devices prima facie evidence of guilt. Hearings have not been held on this measure, however, and indica- tions are that Palmisano will not call eny in an effort to prevent House ‘ap- proval before adjournment. JEEERE R ate DISORDERS CHARGED XEentucky County Judge Protests to National Guard Head. FRANKFORT: Ky., June 15 (®).— A complaint that “shootings, burnings and carrying of high-powered guns” persist in, the hill sections of Clay County was made today by Circuit Judge W. E. Begley in a letter to Adjt. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt, head of the Kentucky National Guard. Judge Begley told Denhardt he had suggested that Sheriff T. C. M¢Daniels take steps toward getting State police to assist him in restoring order. Manchester, the county seat, was occupied by State troops in February in a move to curb crime. After their withdrawal, Gen. Denhardt recom- mended to Gov. Ruby Lafoon that yond the bounds of duty and was cited | Army in France from Ma ] v | v 7. 1918 for “distinguished and exceptional gal- | to August - iy e 0 August 19, 1918—provided Presi “At the risk of his own life;” the, He will forfeit the Arm, citation of Gen. Lejeune reads, “he service in the United suu};__p:ymf:l: rescued many wounded from another | ter of $61.85. “The Army will still regiment from a field swept by heavy | owe me that,” he said with a glint shell and machine gun fire. By his | in his eve. coolness and daring he inspired his | Barrett is just as proud of his good comrades to go to the assistance of | conduct medal he received with his the wounded and thus was the means | honorable discharge from the Marine of saving many lives. Corps as he is of his citations. Cited by Pershing. For several years he has been liv- s | ing in Washington, fighting his case Gen. _Pershlng cited him “for gal- | in Congress. He is employed now in lantry in action near Blanc Mont, | the office of the Tennessee Valley Au- France, October 9, 1918, in rescuing PALISADES TO GET |PAIR WIN PROBATION NEW FIELD HOUSE IN ACID-BREAD CASE Parks Official Announces Project John L. Dorsch and J. C. Mer- i dent Roosevelt attaches his signature, | Will Be One of First Contracted For. Moving ahead on the $1,000,000 P. W. A. park improvement program here. Frank T. Gartside, assistant superintendent of the National Capi- new field house on the Palisades Play- ground, between Sherrier place and Potomac avenue, opposite Edmunds place, will be one of the first jobs to be contracted for. Gartside said that he is hopeful that bids will be called for this job in & very short time. He also notified Da- vid Saunders, head of the horticul- tural group, that he is to start imme- | diately on tree surgery work in the older downtown parks. The $1,000,600 park improvement fund comes outsof the old P. W. A. appropriation of $3,300,000,000. WAR VETERAN DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS Richard D. Harriss Suryived by Parents, Living Near Rock- ville, and Two Sisters. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., June 15.—Rich- ard D. Harriss, 48, World War veteran and lifelong resident of this vicinity, died yesterday afternoon in a Western Maryiand Hospital following an iliness of several years. He is survived by both parents. Mr. and Mrs. John Richard Harriss of this vicinity, and two sisters, Mrs. Adrian O. Durham :nd Mrs. Leo Hughes, both of Wash- ington. The funeral will take place at 1:30 o'clock Monday afternoon from the funeral home of W, Reuben Pumphrey here, burial to be in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery. During thé World War Harriss enlisted in the Aviation Corps, United States Army, and served 15 months overseas. LSRR R Jury Asks Life Be Spared. LOS ANGELES, June 15 (#)— Joseph W. Ryan, attorney.for Mrs. Nellie Madison, said today the 12 jurors who convicted her of the slay- ing of her husband, Eric D. Madison, have signed a petition asking execu- tive clemency. She was sentenced to hang. The attorney said the jurors stated they had not her certain officials, including the sheriff, be removed., . tal Parks, announced yesterday that a | chant Warned by Judge to Refrain From Picketing. Convicted by a jury several months i‘lgn of having poured acid on prod- |ucts of the Dutch Baker Boy, Inc., during a labor controversy last De- cember, John L. Dorsch, nephew and employe of Peter M. Dorsch, owner of a large bakery here, and James. C. Merchant, an employe of the same concern, were placed on probation for one year by Judge John P. McMahon |in Police Court yesterday afternoon. | Judge McMahon also warned them that they must not engage in picket- ing activities during the length of their probation, under penalty of a fine or | imprisonment. “If there is any picketing to be done, you must let other members of your union take care of the matter,” Judge McMahon declared. Dorsch and Merchant were convicted of having followed a driver for the Dutch Baker Boy and of having placed the acid on products delivered in the | northeast section of the city. While admitting activities against the Dutch Baker Boy, a non-union concern, they insisted they had not placed acid on any of the products. Instead, they #aid they were taking down the num- bers of the places to which deliveries were being made and planned, through the Women's Auxiliary of the union, to notify the customers that they were patronizing a non-union corcern. NATUROPATHS ELECT |Dr, T. M. Schippell Chosen Cor- responding Secretary. SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 15 (#).— Dr. Benedict Lust of New York City, nationally prominent naturopath, to- day was re-elected president of the American Naturopathic Association, in convention here since Tuesday. The new term will mark Dr. Lust's fortieth year as head of the organization. Others named include Dr. T. M. Schippell, Washington, D. C., corre- sponding secretary; Dr. Louise Ned- videk, La Crosse, Wis, financial sec- retary, and Dr. Charles Faulkner, New York. City, treasurer. Trustees elected included Dr. C. N. Dewey, Va. and Dr. Charles | Henry 1. Quinn and Dr. Stephen E. Kramer; Jefferson Junior, George M. nd Cardozo High, Charles | H. Housto | Wednesday morning at 10:30 o'clock | —Randall Junior, A. K. Savoy. |Bidney Smith; Gordon, Dr. Stephen E. Kramer; Paul, Robert S. Anderson: L. Haycock, and Garnet-Fatterson, Mrs. W. C. McNelll. All of these are Junior high schools. Wednesday, 4:30 p.m.—Western High, George M. Whitwell. Wednesday, 8 p.m.—Wilson Teachers' College, Dr. Hayden Johnson and Dr. Frank W. Ballou; Central High, Henry Gilligan; Eastern High, four-year class, Mrs, Philip Sidney Smith; Mc- Kinley, Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle, and Armstrong High, Dr. J. Hayden Johnsen. Thursday at 10:30 a.m.—Miner Teachers’ College, E. A. Clark, = COLLEGE PARK SCHOOL WILL PRESENT AWARDS Informal Gathering and Outing at Zoo Will Take Place of For- mal Closing Exercises. Special Dispatch to The Star. COLLEGE PARK, Md., June 15— Because of lack of a school auditorium the College Park Elementary School will not hold formal closing exercises this year. The pupils and teachers will gather for the award of various certificates to which the pupils are entitled. The graduating class will be taken by the principal, Mrs. Miriam McDonnell Holmes, to the Zoo in Washington and afterward have a picnic supper in Rock Creek Park. A party was recently held on the school grounds. Those to receive certificates for completing the seven-grade course are Dorothea Lanham, Mary Jane Kellerman, Remette Dunn, Mildred Jordan, Barnett Broughton, Roger Wetherald, Ned Steinbérg, Billy Reith and George Crosby. Those to receive athletic awards are Payton Kea, Ned Steinberg, Fillmore Buchanan, Barnett Broughton, Billy Reith, Remette Dunn, Peggy Haszard, La Rue Cronauer, Mary Jane Keller- man, Margaret Lewis, Mildred Jorden, Lorraine Follin and Dorothy Lanham. FORGERY RI;!GLEADER SUSPECT IS ARRESTED Chicago Man Reported to Be Wanted by Police of Minne- apolis and Toledo, Ohio. CHICAGO, June 15 (#)—George Harris, 37, Chicago, said by police to be wanted in Minneapolis, Minn., and Toledo, Ohio, on forgery charges, was arrested tonight near his home here for investigation as a leader of a gang which has victimized banks of a half dollars through forgeries. He was arrested on information supplied by a dectective agency.which claimed to be working for the Amer- ican Banker's Protective Association, a national organization of banks. Harris was accused by police of swindling a Toledo bank out of ap- proximately $8,000 by cashing a series of forged checks on the account of & business firm hers, preside at the cere- | At the same hour | | Henry I. Quinn, also of the board, | peing stared at all day by curious | humans, MORNING, JUNE Map showing proposed re-routing of Rock Creek roadway to the east border of the National Zoological Park so that 24-hour traffic can be maintained without disturbing the wlid animals, shown in their va- rious sleeping poses. —Star Staff Photos. 16, 1935. Zoo Animals’ Sleep Requires New Park Road, Say Scientists. 'East End Link of “Great Circle” Drive Sought as Smithsonian Officials Fight Lion House Tunnel. The sleep situation among the ani- | mals at the Zoo, ord:narily given little thought by the general public, has de- | veloped into a problem of major im- | School will be the first of the senior | portance to Smithsonian ecientists, Federal officials and municipal engi- neers confronted with devising a park- way link that won't disturb Dr. Mann's slumberiog menagerie. Monkeys and lions and bears and other wild beasts get the jitters after animal keepers explain. They need lots of peaceful quietude at night in order to refresh themselves for the ordeal of another day of peanut-dodging and finger-pointing. So of late there has been a huddle | of minds over the problem, with the result that plans have been worked out for a new highway at the east end of the Zoo Park to form ihe final link of a “great circle” drive known as the Rock Creek-Potomac parkway. The new road would be located so as to give a minimum of motor noises to sleeping inmates of the Zoo end is a substitute for a tunnel proposal that has been con- sidered by the National Park Service. Opposition Is Keen. a new highway would be conducted | for 24-hour automobile traffic. This | would take the park highway in Rock Creek Valley under the Calvert Street Bridge, as at present, but near the existing stone bridge within the Na- tional Zoological Park a new bridge would be built to carry the road to the east side of the creek. Thence the | new highway would pass past the duck pond and go near the Harvard | | street. entrance to the Zoo. It would | remain on the east side of the creek, | | passing up to Klingle road, where it | would connect with the existing road | system in the more northerly section | of Rock Creek Valley within the Dis- trict. Officials of the National Capital| | Parks yesterday revealed that they| | nave not included a request for funds | | for the building of this new road | through the Zoo in their new list of | public works projects. Dr. Wetmore | said that his organization has not | included this program within its pub- | | lic works budget, preferring to leave| this to the park authorities. i Would Preserve Beauty. | “Our grounds are beautiful and we are proud of them,” said Dr. Wetmore. Sports—Pages 9 to 13 PAGE B—1 CHEVY CHASE BUS APPROVAL AWAITS DOWNTOWN ROUTE Utility = Commission and Company Engineers to Act Tomorrow. WHITEHURST WARNS -AGAINST BRIDGE DELAY Roberts to Oppose 10-Cent Fare Proposed for Express Busses. To Inquire Into Paving. Approval tomorrow by the Public Utilitles Commission of the Capital Transit Co.'s proposal to abandon its tracks on upper Connecticut avenue and substitute bus service is eon- tingent on the ability of commission and company engineers to map out an acceptable route for the busses through downtown Washington. Since conclusion of the public hear- ing on the company's petition late Pri- {day, Traffic Director Willlam A, Van Duzer, F. A. Sager, chief engineer of | the commission, and transit company | experts have been studying the problem. Spurred on by the necessity of making an immediate decision s0 as not to hold up construction of the new Calvert Street Bridge, which would carry tracks serving Chevy Chase, the commission has indicated it will ask for a report on the matter tomorrow morning. ‘The noon hour is the deadline for filing of additional arguments or facts with the commission, which will meet { in the afternoon to reach a decision. One Route Considered. At present the commission has be- fore it only one route, which was pro- posed by the company. It calls for busses to travel south on Connecticut avenue to Seventeenth street, south to I, east to Thirteenth, south to E, east to Eleventh and south to Pennsylvania avenue, looping back along Pennsylvania avenue to Thir- teenth street, north to H, west to Con- necticut avenue, thence north on Con- f necticut avenue and Seventeenth stree: This Fall. | to K. west to Connecticut avenue and north to Chevy Chase Circle. Prederick P. H. Siddons. secretary of The need for prompt action con- the American Security & Trust Co. | cerning the change was emphasized has accepted’ the chairmanship of the | yesterday by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst. Commun:ty Chest Group Solicitation | District highway engineer, who said Unit for the campaign this Fall. Sid- | delay is likely to interfere seriously dons was appointed by Dr. Wiliiam | with work on the bridge. The span is McClellan, campaign chah'mnn expected to be completed October 1 Siddons is a Washingtonian. He which is about a month and a half was born here in 1895 and is & son ahead of time. The north side prob- of the late Justice Frederick L. 8id- | ably will be opened to west-bound dons and Mrs. Siddoas. A graduate | traffic around September 15. of Western High School and of the| Already troughs for the tracks and TUniversity of Wisconsin, where he | the underground trolley have been received his A. B. degree, he is also & | constructed for a short distance on graduate of National University Law | the span, but this work was stopped Schoo! with an L. L. B. degree. He | about two weeks ago, when the pro- served two years and three months in | posal to abondon the Connecticut ave- the United States Army, enlisting in nue tracks was first put forward, 1917, Contract Date Extended. Attended Training Camp. - The original contract date for com- He attended ‘h{‘hm’ officers’ train- 1 pletion ;}gthe 750-foot span wu%ep- ing camp and was commissioned 2 | tember 15, but because of the carpen- SIDDONS AGGEPTS CHEST POSITION Will Head Group Solicitation Unit for Campaign lieutenant in Field Artillery. .He was | ters’ strike last year and extra work Langley Junior, Dr. Frank | | it was asserted yesterday by Dr. Alex- | construction of & tunnel. Wednesday. 2 p.m.—Deal. Mrs. Philip | Powell, Jere J. Crane; Stuart, Robert | Smithsonian authorities are vigorous | in announcing that he will use all in their opposition to the tunnel plan, | facilities at his command to oppose ander Wetmore, assistant secretary of The proposal for a tunnel, advanced | the instituticn, which operates the by National Parks Service engineers, Zoo. He favors the highway at the | would take the tunnel under the lion | east end of the Zoo reservation. | house, beneath the hill. Such a scheme | At present the gates of the National | would not be feasible, from the view- Zoological Park are closed to motor | point of the Smithsonian Institution's traffic at nightfall. This blocks off | authorities, said Dr. Wetmore. The Rock Creek Valley between Calvert | alternative plan to construct a scenic street and Klingle road. Automobiles | road following the course of Rock must go up around Connecticut ave- Creek, would have the desired effect. nue or find another outlet to the | without being a detriment to the | northward when traveling in that m'-: National Zoological Park, asserted Dr. | rection. Similarly, when they come | Wetmore. The Smithsonian Institu- to Klingle road, they find the Zoo | tion's officials have no objection to entrance there shut off after dark, | this route, he explained. This would and motorists must branch off to |result in advantage to the public and another part of the highway system. | would have the desired effect of tak- Now that the District Government, | Ing motor traffic away from the ani-| the Bureau of Public Roads and the | mals, so that their rest will not be| National Capital Parks are at work | unduly disturbed, he declared. Brldua{fd from the School of Fire at | in Jaying foundations, the construc- Fort. Sill, Okla. resigning from the | tion period was extended by some two Army in September 1916. The new Group Solicitation chair- man has taken an active part in the civic life of Washington and has been prominent especially in- the District of Columbia Bankers' where, in addition to being chairman of a number of committees, he was elected secretary in June, 1931, and went through the two vice presi- dencies to serve as president for the year 1934-1935. of banking at National University and is instructor of banking, Wash- ington Chapter, American Institute of Banking. Service With Institution. Siddons joined the staff of the American Security & Trust Co. in 1920, was elected assistant secretary | in 1924 and secretary in 1926. He Association, | He also is professor | | Helen Jukes, putting in new park drives in Rock | Creek Valley south of Q street, the {o the Zoo is a bluff, which confronts | problem of giving automobile access at all times in the National Zoological | Park becomes more of interest than | sion has drawr its plans to cope with | ever. Would Follow East Side. Some time ago the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission worked out a program, under which Just upstream of the south entrance the engincers with a construction problem. But the Planning Commis- this, the authorities asserted. No estimate of cost for the new highway | has been made public. but it is under- | | stood that it would be above half a million dollars. DIPLOMAS AWARDED BY Y. W.C. A. SCHOOL Washington Preparatory Gradu- ates Feted at Banquet by Fraternity. Graduates of the Washington Pre- | paratory School of the Young Men's Christian Association received diplo- mas last night at ceremonies held in connection with a banquet sponsored by the Sigma Delta Fraternity. secret honor society of the school, in the Y. M. C. A. Auditorium. 'Diplomu were awarded to the fol- lowing: Glenn 8. Currier, Edward Davis, Edith Marie Foright, George Arthur Fuller, Robert K. Horton, Edward Raab, Laura Sandres, Delta Irene Smith, Myrtle Elizabeth Thornburgh, Charles Alex- ander Trainum and John Tworek. Several of the graduates took part in a one-act play, “The Trysting Place,” by Booth Tarkington, which was an entertainment feature. Grad- uates who had roles in the play were Misees Foright and Thornburgh and three men: Tworek, Fuller and Trainum. Others in_the cast were Lena C. Wilfinger and Thomas Francis Carley. All players are members of Sigma Delta. Trainum, who is president of the fraternity, was toastmaster at the banquet, which was attended by stu- dents, membets of the faculty and guests of the. graduates. The Washington Preparatory School, one of the oldest evening schools in ‘Washington, is conducted under super- vision of the Educational Committee of the Young Men's Christian ciation, of which George A. Lewis is chairman. Man Killed in Fight. WYTHEVILLE, Va., June 15 (#)— Kesse Hurst, about 45, died tonight of knife wounds, alleged to have been received in a fight with Grover C. Davidson, 45, on the Lake-to-Florids | fund ‘Wytheville, highway, north of 2 (GORE SEEKING DATA ON HIGH-PAY JOBS | Move Follows Failure of Attempt for Senate Confirmation of All Getting Over $4,000. As a sequel to the unsuccessful ef- fort he made last week to require | Senate confirmation of all Govern- | ment officials hereafter appointed at | 84,000 or more a year, Senator Gore, Democrat, of Oklahoma introduced a | new resolution yesterday. seeking data on such positions. While this Teso- | | lution is confined to a request for in- formation as to the number of such | jobs, its introduction indicated the | movement to require confirmation has not been abandoned. The resolution, which went over for | future action, asks Controller Gen- eral McCarl to submit to the Senate | & report showing the names and an- nual salaries of all persons who have been appointed under any act of Con- gress at $4,000 or more a_year. He asks also that the list show those who the Senate and those who do not have to_be confirmed. When the N. R. A. continuing reso- lution was up last week, Gore suc- ceeded in having his amendment to ;nqulre confirmation of all such ap- | pointees attached to the resolution, but the following day the Senate re- versed its action and killed the amendment. e OLD CHURCH OPENED $20,000 Is Sought to Restore St. Andrew’'s Edifice. Bpecial Dispatch to The Btar, LEONARDTOWN, Md. June 15— in historic old St. Andrews P. E. Church at 11 am. by the rector, J. M. B. Woodrow of city. Woodrow. is trying to te a $20, to restore this old church, in the year 1766. » are now required to be .confirmed by | homs has been active in the affairs of the Community Chest, serving for the last two years as vice chairman of the Special Gifts ¥Unit under Chairmen | Corcoran Thom and Charles Carroll Morgan. He also served for several vears on the Operating Committee of the Chest, was chairman of the In- surance Committee and a member of the Collection Confmittee. The acceptance of Siddons of the chairmanship of the Group Solicita- tion Unit completes the roster of chairmen for the solicitation units in the Fall campaign with the exception | of the Governmental Unit. Coleman Jennings is chairman of the Special Gifts Unit and Bernard Wyckofl heads the Metropolitan Unit. The work of organization for the | campaign is expected to start in the | very near future. THREE BOYS FOUND STUFFED IN ICEBOX Bodies Are Discovered by Father After Searching for Trio Since Friday. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 15.—Stuffed into an jcebox, the bodies of the three young sons of George Hoyt, Brooklyn truckman, were found early today by the father, who told police he had been searching for the boys since yes- terday, when they failed to return e. A police physician, after a prelim- inary examination, said he believed the boys—George, 7; Eugene, 5, and Ar- nold, 3—had suffocated. Hoyt said he found the ice box in his truck, which was parked in front of his home, and that he apparently had been driving about the city all day with the children hidden in it. Officers at the Wilson Avenue Po- lice Station in Brooklyn faid Hoyt appeared there last night and neported that the children were missing. A search was started, but until the | father opened the icebox tonight no trace of his sons was jound. Police quoted Hoyt as saying he did not know who owned the icebox. months. Peoples Council William A. Roberts said yesterday he will oppose the 10- cent fare proposed for the express busses. Roberts pointed out that it costs less to operate an express than a local service. He said he also in- tends to inquire into the distribution | of the cost of paving where the tracks now run, and other items, 'SOCIAL WORKERS COME HERE IN 1936 National Conference Selects | Washington Over Several Other Cities. { _The 1936 National Ccaference of Social Work and associated groups | will be held in Washington during the | latter part of May, it was announced |in a telegram received here yesterday | from Herbert L. Willitt, jr., director of the Community Chest, who is at- tending the conference in Montreal Canada. Washington was selected over several other cities bidding for the convention, it was stated. About 8,000 delegates attended this year’s meeting, and it is expected that this number will be greatly increased | when the conference is held here next year. The invitation for the ial workers to come to the Capital was offered by the Greater National Capi- tal Committee of the Washington Board of Trade, the District Commis- sioners, the Community Chest and Council of Social Agencies and prac- tically every other social work organ- ization of the city. Added interest is given the 1936 conference because it will be at the | meeting that plans will be laid for American participation in the Third International Conference of Soclal | Work, which will be held in London in July of net year. i ART i-'OR WHITE HOUSE Work of C. C. C. Members Chosen by Mrs. Roosevelt. The work of 26 artists, now wark- ing in C. C.-C. camps, will be hung in the White House at the conclu- sion of the C. C. C. art exhibit now being held at the National Museum here, it was announced by the Treasury yesterday. The selections, which will adorn the White House walls, were made by Mrs. Roosevelt following her recent visit to the exhibition. The department also announced that another group of selected works by these artists would be sent to the San Diego Exposition in California. —_— SHEPPARD BILL VETOED President Roosevelt today vetoed a bill to authorize the Secretary of Dartmouth Alumni Elect. HANOVER, N. H, June 15 (#).— David J. Main, 06, of Denver, was elected president of the Dartmouth Alumni Association today. Douglas Vanderhoof, ‘01, of Richmond, Va., ‘was elected vice president, 4 the Treasury to pay $4,304 to the Concrete Engineering Co., Houston, Tex., in full settlement of its claims against the Government for customs cuties alleged to have been errone- ously collected from it on steel build- ing forms between February 23, 1926, and September 30, 1927. The bill was by (Democrat, Texas). ¢