Evening Star Newspaper, July 9, 1935, Page 21

Washington News PLANE CRASH NETS DRIVE TO END ROAD (ROSSING AIRPORT Five Narrowly Escape as Ship Lands Short in Heavy Storm. HANGAR AND STORED PLANE ARE DAMAGED Officials Not Surprised by Acci- dent—Luck Saved Liner Canceling Trip. Three Federal departments today swung into the fight for immediate closing of Military road across Wash- ington Airport, and Commerce De- partment officials are considering the advisability of closing the local airport to all air transport operations follow- ing an accident last night in which a new high-speed airliner crashed into a hangar after landing short to avoid the road. The accident occurred at 10:30 p.m. when Pilot John R. Armstrong, land- ing in a heavy rain after a flight from New York with five Florida-bound passengers in a new Eastern Air Lines airliner, plowed into a sheet metal hangar, crumpling his wing tip and stabilizer and damaging a plane owned by Chester Snow, which was stored in the hangar. “We are not at all surprised that this thing happened and we are greatly relieved that it was not worse.” declared Second Assistant Postmaster General Harllee Branch, in charge of atrmail. “It is a providential re- minder of the need for immediate ac- tion to end this ever-growing menace.” Dangers Cited in Letters. The Senate and House Military Af- fairs Committees today received letters | from an interdepartmental group com- posed of Assistant Secretary of War Woodring. Mr. Branch and Eugene L. Vidal, director of air commerce, Com- merce Department, pointing out the danger at the local airport and asking that action be taken at once to close Military road. The House Military Committee, which a few days ago favorably re- ported to the House the McSwain bill providing for immediate closing of the road, met in executive session today and was expected to request that the | portion of neady fsmilles requiring | House expedite consideration of the measure, now pending on the calendar. In response to a demand from Sec- retary of Commerce Roper, Washing- ton Airport has put into operation & 24-hour traffic guard at the Mili- tary road crossing to insure that mo- torists obey the traffic lights and sirens which have been in operation eince last year. The guard was put on a 24-hour basis last night just a few hours before the accident. Tt consists of two men. in white umi- forms and equipped with red flags, who take stations in the middle of the road at each control point to flag cown traffic when planes are landing | or taking off. “There must be an absolute guar- antee to all pilots that automobiles will not get into their way when thev are landing or taking off across the road,” Vidal said today. “If these guards do not insure safety then the Department of Commerce probably will be forced to close the airport to sirline operations. The only thing at all satisfactory will be to close the road.” Hazard Held Greatest Now. Vidal, in a memorandum to the in- terdepartmental group of which he 1s & member, pointed out that “the Mili- tary road crossing at Washington Air- port is a far greater hazard to safety in air travel than at any time prior to this Summer.” He said that the eituation is causing Federal aeronau- tics officials far more concern now be- cause of the hot weather, with its resulting thin air and convexion cur- rents, which greatly increase the take- | off and landing runs of the new high- speed airliners of the type involved in last night’s accident. He pointed out that arbitrary reduction of the pay- loads of transport airplanes using the local airport may be ordered. with barring of all transport operations as & final safety measure. The rainfall, which increased the difficulty of Pilot Armstrong’s landing here last night, at the same time probably averted a far more serious accident. The bad ‘weather caused cancellation of a flight to Washington by an American Airlines 18-passenger transport from Charlottesville, Va. Had this plane come through, it would have been parked, as usual, alongside the hangar into which Armstrong crashed and would have been directly in the path of the landing plane, Preliminary investigation of the ac- cident, it was said today, indicated the crash was due entirely to the fact that Armstrong was forced into a short landing to miss Military road and that even 50 feet more would have been sufficient to prevent the acci- dent. —_— TAXI LICENSE CUT PLEA IS-REJECTED Commission Not Impressed by Permission for Lower Charges on Cabs and Permits. The Commissioners today rejected the petition by taxicab operators that the cost of their annual cab licenses be reduced from $25 to $12 and that the cost of the permits of cab drivers be cut from $5 to $2. The action was taken on recom- mendation by Capt. Hugh B. Oram, director of inspection; Wade Coombs, superintendent of licenses; M. O. Eldridge, assistant director of traffic; Edward W. Thomas, assistant cor- poration counsel; Assistant Superin- tendent of Police L. I. H. Edwards and Fire Marshall Calvin Lauber. A committee told Commissioners they were not impressed with argu- ments that the revenue from taxicab licenses was much greater than the cost of the license work and also em- phasized that taxicabs make use of _—public highways ir. their business and urgued there was no discrimination in the present sca:e of fees, 1 he Foening SHlar WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 9, 1935. port Crash ||OAB DRIVERS' HEAD ASKS HIGHER RATE; ANOTHER OPPOSES Crashing into the side of a small sheet metal hangar at Washington Airport last night, this new high-speed airliner smashed the leading-edge and wing tip of the left wing and the stabilizer and elevator on the same side, as shown in this view in the repair shop at the local airport today. ~—Star Staff Photo. D. . BRIGHT SPOT | City Best of Six Studied | to Determine Effect of Depression. ‘Washington i the brightest spot | in a dismal array of facts made pub- lic today by ths Children’s Bureau concerning effecis of the depression | on_children. | Bureau social workers conducied a house-to-house inguiry among 259 | families in five Washington, At- | lanta, Memphis, Ie: Haute, Ind, | and Racine, Wis. Th~ report of their findings, presented by Miss Katherine F. Lenroot, burexu chief, under the title, “Children of the Depression,” shows this city to oe a comparatively | good provider for its needy. Although the revorc said lack of | medical treatment constituted “the most disturbing feature about the whole question of health,” Washing- | ton was found to have the lowest pro- | medical attention and the highest pro- portion of families receiving frae care. } Big Increase in Need. Miss Lenroot was concerned over }Lhe fact that 43 per cent of tee 259 families required mecical treatment, which had not been provided at the | time of the survey ,ast Summer. In 130 per cent of the cases, it was be- | In Washington, however, only 9 of | the 31 families studied, less than one- | third, were said w0 have required at- | tention, which they were not receiv- | ing. The ratio was more than one- { half in both Atianta and Memphis and between one-half and one-third in { Terre Haute. Bureau officials emphasized that no statistical conclusions could be reached | regarding health gonditions among | Washington's poor because of the small number of families interviewed here. They said, however, that “the general picture suggests there was not So much need for medical treatment in the families we visited here.” The survey in Washington was con- fined to colored families in the How- ard University area. It had not been intended originally to include the Dis- quired more representative informa- tion concerning Negro poor, none of Terre Haute. The investigation indi- cated that the number of families in | debt here for health services were pe- culiarly low compared to the other | cities affected by the inquiry. Like- | wise, it was found that Washington has comparatively more resources available to its distressed populations. This condition can be explained, in | part, bureau officials said, by the fact that Washington is considerably larger than any of the other cities studied. Average Allowance Higher. Not only is the income of colored families higher on the whole n Washington than Memphis, but the average monthly relief allowance here is $26.82 com- pared to $26.49 in Terre Haute, $25.71 in Racine, $20.20 in Atlanta and $18.51 in Memphis. The percentage of fam- ilies on relief here is 174, the same as in Terre Haute, but substantially lower than Atlanta’s 33 per cent. On the red side of the ledger in the bureau’s findings on Washington, it was found that unemployment was most serious among those engaged in the building trades and in domes- tic and personal services and “affects very gravely the Negro population, which ' constituted, in 1930, 27.1 per ccnt of the total population.” Of the 62 Negro families visited in Memphis, Atlanta and Washington, only 27 per cent had never been on relief, as com- pered with 46 per cent of the white families in all cities studied. Another significant feature of the bureau’s report was a computation of the amount of milk used weekly by the’ families visited. Washington made the poorest showing, an average of only 5.3 quarts being recorded here compared to a general average of 8.7 quarts. Families surveyed here having four or more children used about 8.7 quarts weekly; families with two or three children 39 quarts, and fam- ilies with one child 4 quarts. In contrast, Racine families containing four or more children used about 28 quarts; two or three children, 14.4 quarts, and one child, nearly 10 quarts. Racine was said to be the only city in which there was “even an approach to the minimum standards of the amount of milk per person.” usage of milk here largely to high prices. According to the A. A. A, Consumers’ Guide, the price of milk here June 18 was 13 cents a quart, compared to 11.3 cents in Memphis, 14 cents in ¢tlanta and less than 10 cents in Racine. Contracts in Chinese. China has ordered that all com- mercial contracts between it and for- eign concerns be in Chinese. L) IN'CHILD SURVEY | cause the family couid not afford it. = trict in the study, but the bureau re- | whom were studied in Racine and ! in Atlanta and | Bureau officials attributed the low | Scarlett’s Bride Files $10,000 Suit Against Railroad | Lost Her Dogs and Was Hurt in Honeymoon Crash, She Says. With two suits already pending as a result of her elopement last Febru- ary, Mrs. Jane Cooke Scarlett, Chevy | Chase, Md. today sued the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to recover $10,000 damages for the alleged loss of two dogs and personal injuries when her honeymoon automobile was struck by | a train near Savannah, Ga. The young woman eloped with the family chauffeur, George Stanton Scarlett, and sued for an annulment of the marriage immediately after her return to Washington. In the mean- time, however, the bride's mother had procured the issuance of a warrant for the arrest of the bridegroom, claim- ing he had failed to return jewelry given to him to deliver to a jeweler. After these charges had been dropped, the young husband sued his mother- -in-law for malicious prosecution. The shit against the railroad was filed in District Supreme Court through Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer. Mrs. | Scarlett charges the railroad with quate safeguards at the crossing where | the automobile was struck and de- | molished. In addition to her own in- | juries, she says. two valuable dogs {rl(unx in the car with them became | frightened and ran away, never to ESTIMATES ASKED " OF DEPARTMENTS Budget Bureau Prior to September 15. ‘The Bureau of the Budget has called on all Government depart- ments and establishments to submit | estimates for the fiscal year 1937 be- fore September 15. In an official circular sent to every | branch of the Government the bureau | says the reports will be received as early as Beptember 1, but must be | in not later than September 15. No figure has been fixed, either officially or unofficially, so far as to what the administration is planning to spend in the year for which esti- | mates are asked, to close June 30, 1937, At the present rate the Govern- ment is running et peak peace-time iexpenditures. but President Roosevelt has not yet indicated whether he ex- | pects to increase or decrease expendi- tures for the yea: 1937 | Estimates of experditures for the | present fiscal year, 1936 which ends | next June 30, have been placed at | $8,520,000,000. This is the !largest peace-time figure for a single fiscal | year, but considerably less than the peak achieved during the World War. It compares, with $7,376,000,000 for the fiscal year jusi closed, June 30, 1935; and with $7.101.105,000 for the year ending Ju 30. 1934, P MONTEZUMA IS TOPIC Will G. Barnes, Writer and Au- thority on Indian Affairs, to Speak Thursday. Will G. Barnes, writer and au- thority on Indian affairs, will lecture at the Arts Club Thursday night on the subject of “Carlos Montezuma, an Apache Who Made Good.” Barnes, a former president of the Arts Club. will tell how Montezuma was captured by hostile Indians at the age of 6 and sold to an itinerant trials of his early youth, however, Montezuma graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at the age of 19 and later distinguished him- self in the practice of medicine. Barnes plans to leave next month for Arizona for an indefinite stay. WILL PRESENT PLAY Community Players to Appear Before Band Concert. Shakespeare’s fantasy, “A Midsum- mer Night's Dream,” preceded by a concert by the United States Army Band, will be given tomorrow night at Sylvan Theater, Washington Monu- ment grounds, under the joint aus- pices of the Summer Festival Com- mittee of the Community Center De- partment and the Office of National Capital Parks. The program will be- gin at 7:45 pam, » negligence in failing to provide ade- | Fiscal Round-up Sought by OF ARTS CLUB LECTURE | photographer for $30. Despite the tha 3,00 B0Y ScoUTS WILL CAMP HERE Commitments Received From 26,000, Dr. West Tells at Luncheon. Commitments have been received from more than 26,000 Boy Scouts to attend the national jamboree to be held here August 21 to 30, Dr. James | E. West, president of the Boy Scouts of America told the President’s Com- mittee at a luncheon held at the Wil- | lard Hotel at noon yesterday. Concrete plans for the holding of the jamboree, which is expected to | bring more than 30,000 boys to the city, were discussed by the committee. | Among the plans made yesterday was | for the holding of a gigantic air cir- cus by Army and Navy fliers during It is expected that will be| the encampment. several hundred planes brought here for the circus.® “This is the greatest boy movement ever made by any country,” Dr. West told the committee. “Not only will it bring to the Nation's Capital all that is fine in young manhood, but it | will give these thousands of youths | | an opportunity to study their capital and better understand their National Government, thus making them even better citizens.” . Biggest Trading Post. The national jamboree will be one of the biggest trading posts for boys ever established anywhere, it was said at the meeting. Various Scout troops all over the country are planning to bring with them to the jamboree not only the products of their own hands, but among some of the things to be shown will be leaves from the section from which the particular troop comes. These leaves from native| fauna will be traded for others brought | by other Scouts from their own sec- tion of the country. There are several such displays planned for the meeting. President Roosevelt, who is the| honorary national president, will re-| view the Scouts at the opening of the conclave. The boys will be lined up eight abreast along the length of Con-| stitution avenue and the President will reverse the usual procedure of | reviewing by driving between the ranks while the Scouts stand at salute | as he passes. The President later will talk to the boys from a balcony at the White House while they stand upon the lawn. Camps Being Completed. The camps for the Scouts are fast | being completed and will be ready for | | occupancy before the date of the | opening, H. A. Gordon, camp con- l‘structlon engineer, said. The camp | at Abingdon, where 10,000 of the Scouts will be housed, is complete except for the pitching of tents, he |said. This tent-pitching will be | started this week. Work already has | been started on the other two camp sites on Columbia Island and in East Potomac Park, each camp to be pre- pared for at least 10,000 boys. Among the camp facilities will be kitchens, hospitals, sleeping quarters, dining halls, shower baths, their own post offices, canteens, recreation rooms and everything that goes to make up a modern tent city. The Scouts will publish their own newspaper. The Jahboree Journal, a tabloid size paper with 32 pages, to be printed every day with a circulation of 50,000. The camp also will have its own telephone, light, water and sanitary systems, Fifteen Bands are Coming. Coming to the jamboree wilt be about 15 bands, composed of Boy Scouts, and several bugle corps. Among the bands will be the national prize | winner for bands from Racine, Wisc. Also furnishing music for the Scouts during the encampment will be the three United States bands, the Army, | ever before has proved low rates do| Navy and Marine Corps. All three will play during the first day's parade. In addition to the land Scouts, the ‘national headquarters has received commitments from about 23200 Sea Scouts. These will be housed in a camp on the tip of Hains Point and adjacent to their camp will be an- chored several vessels. It is expected t at least two naval vessels will be brought here for the meeting and that they will be used to take the Sea Scouts for cruises on the Chesa- peake Bay. -~ President Roosevelt has invited Lord and Lady Baden-Powell to be his guests at the White House during the days of the jamboree. Lord Baden-Powell is the chief world Scout and is the founder of the boys' organization, which was started in England. Another prominent old Scouter who will attend the jamboree is Dan Beard, who is known as “the daddy of scouting” in the United States. Maj. E. H. Rosemere Dies. CAMBRIDGE, Md., July 9 (#)— Suffering a heart attack as he re- Present Schedule Is Below Cost, Utilities Body Is Told. BELL TAXI PRESIDENT WANTS FARES KEPT Advocates Limitation of Hacks to Those Already on City's Streets. Bernard L. Henning, who drove a horse hack years ago, today told the| Public Utilities Ccmmission taxicab operation on a 20-30-30-70 rate basis | is a “below cost failure” and asked | the agency to fix zone rates according to a 20-40-60-80 schedule. Leon Brill, president of the Bell Cab Association, which operates 312 hacks argued for retention of the low basis, and advocated limitation of the num- ber of operating cabs to those already on the streets. Henning, organizer and president of the Cab Drivers’ Protective As- sociation, American Federation of Labor affiliate, presented a five-point program for bringing order to the chaotic hacking industry as the com- mission opened the second day of hearings, which will result in estab- lishment by next Monday of set fares. ‘The red-faced, gray-haired old- time cabman said: | “The fact that street cars and busses | are carrying more passengers than | not induce street car riders to use the| low rate cabs. Empties Paralyze Traffic. “The long lines of hundreds of empty cabs are paralyzing traffic as they cruise the streets in vain search of passengers while street cars are jammed. “There is an appalling number of accidents in which low-rate cabs fig- | ure, but the high-rate hacks don’t seem to have such serious accidents. “The low-rate cabs drive so fast and recklessly that people who or- dinarily would use taxis take to the street cars and busses in self-defense.” Henning' urged installation of fare boxes in all cabs to prevent over- charging. and advocated abelition of the cab rental system in favor of a straight hired-driver basis, whereby the driver would get 40 per cent of the gross and the owner 60 per cent. | Chairman Elgen of the commission protested that with the total taxi in- come now at about $8.000.000 a yeay, the 40 per cent division would limit | the average driver income to $640 a | year. Henning, who drives on the 20-40- 60-80 basis, said he grossed between | $5 and $6 a day, but R. W. Degar, | secretary of the District Cab Associa- | tion, who followed the union head on ! the stand, testified he grossed $7.95 | & day on the 20-30-50-70 schedule. Henning called this low rate “sim- | ple insanity” and said: “You can't say that driving a man | from the Navy Yard to Decatur street for 30 cents is anything but lunacy.” He also urged a standard meter rate of 20 cents the first mile and 5 cents each additional mile; prohibition of operation on a daily or weekly basis, | and refusal to issue more hacking | licenses until business warrants. Meter Power Defended. He explained he believed the Com- mission has the power to regulate meters although the 1936 appropria- tion bill denied the use of funds for the enforcement of a meter order. Under guided questioning by Peoples Counsel Roberts, Henning indicated he thought it would be wise to issue the meter order and take a chance on its being sustained in the courts. Henning, as usual, found advantages in the high rate to the driver in less- ened “dead mileage” and consequent saving on gasoline. He also contended that “the lower the rate, the lower the —_— Five Treated for Poisoning. BALTIMORE, July 9 (#)—Believed suffering ptomaine poisoning after eating hogshead cheese and lemonade, Mrs. Sarah Fogler, 41, and her four children were receiving treatment at a hospital here today. Liquor Law Fills District Purse With $1,660,197.62 First Fiscal Year Report Includes Li-| cense Fees and Taxes With $6,115 Paid in Fines. Operation of the District liquor law during the fiscal year which ended July 1 brought revenues into the city treasury totaling $1,660,197.62, or more than a half-million dollars in excess of estimates made last Sum- mer. This was the first annual report on & fiscal year basis, starting with the sale of hard liquor a year ago last March. The reports, submitted today to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board by its chief inspector, Maj. Jerome E. Johnstone, showed that collection of license fees amounted to $743,338.22; taxes on beverages, $910,- 74440, and fines levied in°‘ Police Courts, $6,115. ‘The board cited 154 license holders for infractions of the law for regula- tions, and of these, 99 were pronounced guilty. The largest number convicted of violation were in the class of “on- sale” retailers of beer and light wines, of which there were 29. The next most frequent violators were found among retailers of hard liquor drinks. Sale of liquor to intoxicated custom- ers was the most frequent reason given for conviction. There were 33 such cases. Selling on Sunday brought | 15 convictions and selling after clos- | ing caused 13 others. | 'The board revoked 28 licenses in | the last year for major violations of | the law. HEALTH FUND'S NEED IS STRESSED Commissioners Voice Hope Congress Will Approve $61,240 Item. The Commissioners today voiced the hope that the Budget Bureau and Congress would approve the supple- mental request for $61.240 needed for expansion of the District health service. After conferring with Health Officer George C. Ruhland, they again ap- proved early expansion of the public health service and medical inspection, which formed the major portions of the health officer’s program. ‘The Budget Bureau is studying the estimate and as yet has taken no final action. As a result of prompt action taken yesterday by Chairman King of the Senate District Committee, the Senate subcommittee handling the second de- ficiency appropriation bill meanwhile has before it the plea of the District officials. King Is Hopeful. Although the item was not trans- mitted to Congress by the Budget Bu- reau, Senator King is hopeful of hav- ing it favorably considered, since the Senate District Committee placed its approval on the request yesterday. After drafting the necessary amend- ment Senator King had it referred to the District Committee for pre- liminary consideration. A poll of the committee during the afternoon re- sulted in a favorable report, after which it was sent to the Appropria- tions Subcommittee. On the House side Representative Cannon, from Missouri, chairman of the House District Subcommittee on Appropriations, said: “The proposal has not yet reached the House. I have therefore formulated no position as yet, but the matter will be considered on its own merits when it reaches us.” Virtually No Hope for 1936. ‘The Bureau of the Budget said to- day there is virtually no hope for the | item being included in a deficiency estimate because of the fact that it was so recently thrown out of the District bill in conference between the Senate and House. There will be no ban against the item, however, for the 1937 budget estimates, which are to be submitted by the District Commissioners before September 15 to the Bureau of the Budget. —_— BODY TAKEN FROM RIVER The body of an unidentified man, appearing to be about 55 years old, was recovered by harbor police from the Potomac River three-quarters of & mile above Key Bridge this morning shortly after 10 o'clock. It was first seen by Joe Crampton, 4036 K street. The body was clad in work clothes —gray shirt, gray pants and heavy shoes, was about 5 feet 7 inches in height, and appeared to weigh about 160 pounds. There was no identify- ing jewelry, the only article found be- ing a tobacco sack containing 38 cents, The body was morgue. removed to the Scouts to Print Own Paper E. S. Martin, a national director of the Boy Scouts of America, is shown with “dummy” of Scout Jambo- ree Journal, to be printed during gathering here Au=- gust 21 to 30. ~—Star Staff Photo. VIRGINIAN IS HURT BY HIT-RUN DRIVER {Man Arrested, but Denies Charge and Is Released Under Bond. Society and General PAGE B—1 CONVCTION DATA CITED TO DEFEND GARNETT'S RECORD Public Welfare Board Hears Results Exceed Previ- ous Years. VICTORY IN 37 GAMING CASES IS POINTED OUT Fihelly Presents Outline of Ac- complishments of U. S. Attor- ney, Now Under Fire. A vigorous defense of the regime of United States Attorney Leslie C. Gar- nett, now under congressional fire, today was presented in a statistical report of work done during the past fiscal year. Addressing the Board of Public Wel- fare at its quarterly meeting this morning at the District Workhouse, Occoquan, Va., Assistant United States Attorney John W. Fihelly revealed figures contained in the official Dis- trict Supreme Court report for the fiscal year just ended. Cases closed during the fiscal year 1935 exceeded the average for the past five years by 214. In addition, Fihelly stated. 298 Walter S. Buchanan, 64, Trevillian, Va., was knocked down and severely injured by a hit-and-run automobile at John Marshall place and C street early today. He was one of six persons injured in traffic accidents since last night. A few hours after the Buchanan accident, police arrested Christ Poulos, | 41, 2912 Bladensburg road. and ac- cused him of driving the car. Poulos | denied the charge and was released | under bond after being taken to head- | quarters. Buchanan received a broken shoulder |and suffered from shock. He was | given surgical aid at Emergency Hos- | pital. Later he asked police to drop | the case, saying he had no desire |to prosecute and didn't want his family to be notified of his injuries. Maude Rhone, 24, colored, 1013 First street southwest, was treated at Emergency Hospital for shock and cuts, as the result of a collision at Pennsylvania avenue and Third street | in a car driven by Odie Campbell, col- ored, 420 First street, which collided with a taxicab driven by E. R. Young. 1842 California street. Neither driver | John Kelleher, 30, 628 G street | northeast, was cut about the face when a car driven by Athel C. Green, 24, 317 S street northeast, struck a said he was blinded by rain and lights from other vehicles. Miss Ethel Sahn, 26, 3100 Bunker Hill road northeast, was cut and bruised when the automobile of David hurst, 3217 Twelfth street northeast, at Third and R streets northeast last night. { Peggy Ann Barclay, 6, 1121 B street, | and Howard Wrake, 5, colored, 1304 | First street southeast, were slightly | injured in accidents in the southeast section. Both were treated for super- | ficial hurts at Providence Hospital. D. C. MAN IS KILLED 'IN CAR-TRUCK CRASH Liquor-Laden Coupe Hits Carrier on Curve Near Fred- ericksburg. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., July 9.— One man was instantly killed and another slightly hurt when a light coupe containing cases of bootleg liquor, en route north, crashed into a truck laden with new automobiles at “Dead Man’s Curve” on route 1 south of the city limits this morning. A man, identified as Herman Find- lay, 27, of the 1600 block Eighteenth street, Washington. was killed. With him was Maxwell Mitchell, colored, of the 400 block Kings court, Washing- ton, who is in Mary Washington Hos- pital with a sprained back. State Officer Sam Redding said charges of possession of illegal liquor would be preferred against Mitchell today. Many jars of liquor were smashed, but some were salvaged. Edward A. Miller of Baltimore, driver of the truck, said he was pro- ceeding south around the curb when he was hit head-on by the Washing- ton machine. ————e MARYLAND GUN CLUB TO FETE ROOSEVELT President Roosevelt, with a party of cabinet members and Congressmen, | will be guests Sunday of the Jeffer- | son Rod and Gun Club on Maryland's Eastern Shore. i The presidential party will leave Annapolis early Sunday aboard the State yacht Dupont and cruise across the Chesapeake Bay to the island group at the mouth of Eastern Bay. It will be the President’s first trip to the club. Arrangements for use of the State yacht were made by Senator Millard E. Tydings, Democrat, of Maryland, with Gov. Harry W. Nice, who said he would be unable to make the trip as he is going to Los Angeles Friday for the American Bar Association Convention. e ATTORNEY IS HONORED Grover G. Aderholdt, Washington attorney, was re-elected president of the National Association Opposed to Blue Laws at the annual meeting of the board of directors yesterday at the Carlton Hotel. Former Mayor Spencer M. De Golier, Bradford, Pa., was elected honorary president; Linn A. E. Gale, Washington, was re-elected secretary- treasurer for his tenth term; Albert Lyman, Washington, was named | about midnight. She was a passenger | was arrested. | light pole at Peace Monument. Green | | Shapiro of the same address collided | with a car driven by Richard W. Haw- | more indictments were returned than | the average for the five-year period. Sixty prosecutions against alleged gamblers were begun during the 12 months, while in the entire five years preceding the District grand jury re- turned only 40 indictments. Taking into consideration gambling cases | pending at the beginning of the fiscal | vear, a docket of 69 prosecutions faced | the district attorney’s staff. Of these | cases, 37 were terminated either by | pleas of guilty or convictions. This is greater than the combined five | years preceding. | Points to Speed. Indictments during the year totaled | 1,577 and there were 1,509 cases ter- | minated. Not only were more cases handled under Garnett's regime last year, but a larger proportion of convictions or pleas of guilty were obtained, the fig- | ures disclosed. Of all cases terminated | during 1935, 76.1 per cent resulted | favorably to the Government, while | the average for the last five years | was 74.7 per cent | Jury trials source of most of the delay in criminal procedure, exceeded the five-year average by 101. There were 357 last year, as compared with 256 over the previous five years Two hundred and sixty-six verdicts of guilty were obtained in these 357 | cases. | Reflecting efficiency of case prepara- | tion, Fihelly said, 883 pleas of guilty | were received during the year. | A good proportion of the small | number of ca<es still pending at the | close of the fiscal year are not try- | able either because the defendants are fugitives, were of unsound mind or because motions of various kinds | were pending. Fihelly stated. | _ The highest percentage of convic- tions in jury trials during the past six years was established in 1934, the first year of the Garnett administra- tion, with 76.2 per cent | Al figures which Fihelly quoted re- lated to felonies. The program presented to the Board of Public Welfare and its depart- mental executives this morning was aimed to show the progress of justice from the apprehension of & law breaker to his return tc the commu- nity after serving a prison term. Burke Asks Changes. Inspector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of detectives, gave the law enforce- ment angle. He re-emphasized his contention that control of precinct detectives should be returned to headquarters in the interest of more efficient crime detection. Responsibility for appre- hending offenders should be central- ized in one organization, rather than distributed among captains of the 12 police precincts as at present, Burke asserted. Other speakers were Judge M. M Doyle, vice chairman of the board, | who discussed “The Role of the Court in Administration of Justice”; Dr. F. L. Bixby, assistant director of the Bu- reau of Prisons, who spoke on “The Correctional Institution and the In- mate,” and Ray Huff, Department of | Justice parole executive, whose subject was “The Return to the Community.” An amusing discussion developed when Dr. Bixby cross-examined In- spector Burke concerning the merits of the much publicized lie-detector demonstrated some time ago at North- western University. Burke said he did not think it ever would be used here as he considered it unreliable. Bixby expressed surprise and asked the basis of his opinion. “Well, maybe I'm a better liar than most. but it didn't work on me,” Burke replied. MOVE TO IMPROVE D. C. PAROLE SYSTEM Rehabilitation Agencies Will Co- operate With Board—Meet- ing Held at Lorton. In a move to improve the parole system here, District and Federal re- habilitation agencies will co-operate with the District Parole Board under an arrangement formulated by rep- resentatives of several interested groups. A series of other conferences will follow one yesterday at the Lorton Reformatory, which was attended by the Parole Board, Elwood Street, Dis- trict director of welfare; Ray Huff, parole expert of the United States Bu- reau of Prisons, and Allen Polk of the Bureau of Rehabilitation of the Dis- trict Welfare Administration. Wilbur La Roe, jr., chairman of the Parole Board, said relief aggncies fre- quently can supply important infor- mation about the family background of a prisoner which would be helpful to the board in working out parole matters. Rehabilitation experts of the District should be in a position to find jobs for those released, he said. chairman of the board of directors, and Clarence Darrow, Chicago, was elected chie! sounsel ‘The Parole Board yesterday granted paroles for 12 of 31 prisoners who sought release,