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Wash FRITZ KNOWLEDGE IN BAKER SLAYING DENIED BY POLICE Arlington Mechanic Taken on Tip From Sheriff’ Candidate. TRAPPED IN TELEPHONE BOOTH IN UNION STATION Suspect Released This Afternoon After Grilling by Jus- tice Agents. Headquurters detectives and Ped- | eral agents were convinced today that | an Arlington County mechanic ar- rested for questioning yesterday in connection with 2 | the five-year-old murder of Mary Baker knows “ab- solutely nothing” about the bafling crime. He was collared in a Union Sta- tion telephone booth on infor- mation furnished by H. J. Oden- thal, Washington telephone com - pany executive, who is up for nomination for sheriff today in the Democratic primary in Arlington County. The suspect Walter U. Fritz, 37, an employe on the Carter estate, about 4 miles from the spot near Arlington Cemetery where the bullet-torn body of the Navy Department clerk was found in April, 1930, was released this afternoon after further grilling by Walter U. Fritz. ington News CHILD HEALTH CAMP INSPECTION TODAY Address Also Will Be Delivered to Parents at Clinic at Thir- teenth and Allison. Young tubercular patients at the Children’s Health Camp, Thirteenth and Allison streets, will be inspected this afternoon at the official health clinic by Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer, vice president of the Tuberculosis As- sociation. Dr. J. Winthrop Peabody, superin- tendent of the Tuberculosis Hospital, will address parents and children at the health clinic today at 3:30 p.m. Assisting Dr. Reichelderfer in the inspection will be Dr. S. L. Christian, assistant surgeon general of the United States Public Health Service; Mrs. Frank Persons, member of the as- sociation’s board of directors, and Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing di- rector of the association. DEFICIENGY BILL REPORT APPROVED Senate Sends Measure Back to House for Early Action. Approved by the Senate late yes- terday, the conference report on the $273,000,000 second deficiency bill, containing the important $45,000 fund for the Health Department and other District items, goes to the House for consideraion today or tomorrow. The report which the Senate adopted | represents an agreement with House conferees on nearly all differences, but | there are several amendments still in | technical disagreement. They will be | laid before the House for separate | action on proposed changes. These | few 1tems would have to be brought | back to the Sevate again if the House | amends them. In this category is the Senate proposal for the air-condition- | | | lhe %t WASHINGTON, D. C, Arriving at Union Station from New York British doctors were greeted by Dr. H. C. Fowler of the District Medical Society. Left to right: Dr. P. 8. Constantinople, Dr. N. Bishop Harman, B. M. A. treasurer; Dr. E. Kaye W. P. Herbst. SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Sfaf TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1935. Le Fleming, B. M. A. tour council chal son, B. M. A, secretary; Sir Ewen MacLean, Dr. H. M. Traquair and Dr. ARMY AUTO DEAL PROBE TO RESUME Chevrolet Officials for Testimony. The House Military Affairs Com- | estate business here, ready to sell or | mittee will resume its investigation of War Department business deals tomorrow at 10 am. and dig deeper into the alleged plan to split the $10,000,000 on the motor contract yesterday when the Home Owners’ | Loan Corp. bought the building, with | a front lawn, back yard and nine | | garages facing an 18-foot alley in the between Chevrolet and Chrysler motor companies without competitive bid- ding. Norman K. Haig, Chevrolet official, will be one of the first witnesses, ac- ‘The Government now is in the real | rent a two-story yellow frame house, | which it will paint, repair and im- | prove, at 3402 Nineteenth street. Uncle Sam entered the bysiness late rear, for $6,000 and the stipulation | the United States pay the District of U. S_ Enters Realty Business Herein H. O. L. C. Foreclosure First Action of Its Kind in District, but| House Group Will Call High| 40 Other Loans Are in Arrears—Next Sale Set for August 12. | | 60 days to redeem the property, in ac- cordance with the home loan law, but if at the end of that time the H. O.| L. C. still holds the dwelling, it will | the grass, mend the plumbing, repair | the garages and stick up a sign on the grass: “For Sale or Rent—U. Owner.” Next Sale August 12. | The next H. O. L. C. foreclosure 8. Govt., 2 % FINE ARTS GROUP APPROVES PLANS FORNEN STADUN Society and General PAGE B—1 AUTO PARKING BAN EXTENDED 5 FEET ATINTERSECTIONS Tentative Consideration IsICars Must Be 25 Feet irman; Dr. Fowler, Dr. G. C. Ander- —Star Staff Photo. BRITISH DOCTORS SEE WASHINGTON Shun D. C. Hospitals to En- joy Vacation on World " Tour. British physicians who arrived here today on their way to a convention of the British Medical Association | the postman who went for a walk | on his day off, they announced on arrival. Coming by train from New York where they disembarked Sunday from the liner Georgic, the globe-girdling doctors today told their hosts of the Given at Meeting Held in New York. STRUCTURE WOULD SEAT | OVER 100,000 PEOPLE Armory and Public Municipal Auditorium May Be Included in Plant. Tentative approval has been given by the Fine Arts Commission to the proposed new national stadium and athletic field to be erected at the foot of East Capitol street on the west bank of the Anacostia River, it was announced today. ‘The preliminary plans and design were presented to the commission yes- terday at a session held in New York. F. P. Sullivan of the architectural firm of Wyeth & Sullivan, 726 Jackson place, submitted the drawings. The tentative plan calls for a sta- dium with a seating capacity in excess of 100,000 to cover a tract of land between 300 and 500 acres in size. No estimate has been made vet of the cost of the proposed structure, nor has the interior plan of the stadium | been given final approval. May Include Armory. ‘The structure probably will include paint the exterior, tar the roof, cut in Australia are not going to be like | a National Guard and Marine Re serve armory and the Washington | Board of Trade is planning to ask that a public municipal auditorium, | larger than any now existing in the Capital. be included in the plans. A Trade Board committee headed by Arthur B. Heaton, also an architect, | Away From Curb Lines, Says Rule. BOULEVARD HIGHWAY CLEARANCE IS 45 FEET Commissioners Decline to Follow Van Duzer Recommendation for Even Greater Space. Extension of the ban on parking of automobiles near street intersections to a point 25 feet back of curb lines was ordered today by the Commission- ers, who at the same time called for “strict enforcement” of the rule in the interest of safety. The present restricted zones at in- tersections are 20 feet from the curb lines. In adopting the new restric- tion the Commissioners rejected a rec- ommendation by Traffic Director Van Duzer that the zones be extended to 45 feet back of intersections. Van Duzer had championed a pro- posal for the 45-foot limit that came from the Women's Safety Committee of the American Automobile Associa- tion. That proposal met with strong opposition from the Advisory Board of the Keystone Automobile Club. The new rule is to go into effect 10 days after the Commissioners have given legal advertisement to the change. The change will mean that cars may not be parked within 45 feet of boulevard highways since the stop signs are posted 20 feet back of street intersections. To Enforce Rule. Commissioners Hazen and Sultan JusticefDevarsmenyagents ing of the Capitol and the House and Quizzed After Mupder. | Senate offce Buildings at an esti- | Fritz was trapped by Odenthal while | mated cost of $2,550,000. At present | District Medical Society to steer them | is studying the suggestion now and clear of hospitals and health centers. | probably will submit its plans to the ‘They emphasized they were on a | commission and to C. Marshall Fin- | announced emphatically they would | insist on rigid enforcement of the ! new rule. The traffic director had re- sale in the District will take place August 12 at 4:30 pm. The property is a two-story brick building at 721 cording to Chairman McSwain. An- | Columbia one year's unpaid taxes. other Chevrolet official also may be| It was taking money from one reportedly discussing the murder over |only the House and Senate Chambers | the telephone with a member of Oden- thal’s family in their home in Arling- | ton county. The man was questioned in the case shortly after the murder. ‘ “At that time,” said Inspector Frank 5. W. Burke, chief of detectives, “Fritz told us all he knew, which was sbsolutely nothing.” Fritz furnished information, how- ever, which led to the arrest of Heg- | man Barrere, an itinerant paintér who lived in a tent near where the body was found. Barrere was brought back from Canada ‘at considerable trouble and expense and it developed he knew nothing of the crime. According to Odenthal, Fritz first telephoned him Sunday afterncon to say that he had “witnessed the Mary | Baker murder.” At that time, Fritz | gave his name as “John Pryor Cowen.” Odenthal instructed Fritz to | call again and this the man promised | to do. | Accordingly, he telephoned the | Odenthal home yesterday, and while & | member of the family kept him on the | wire Odenthal was notified in Wash- | ington and passed the information on | to police, who traced the call and rushed to Union Station. They col- lared Fritz as he was emerging from the booth. Statements Unexplained. Inspector Burke said Fritz could not explain why he made the state- ments about the murder or how he happened to select Odenthal to report to. The priscner said he had been *“feeling funny” recently. Police learned Fritz suffered an in- Jury to his spine in an accident a year ago and was treated at George- | town University Hospital. He has | denied consistently since his arrest that he has new light to shed on the murder. Notified of the arrest, Sheriff Howard Fields, who is running for re-election against Odenthal, sent two officers to ‘Washington to question the prisoner. Investigators seeking a clue to the murderer have been beset by frequen: | false tips. The trial of Herbert Campbell Arlington County real estate man, re- sulted in an acquittal when the prose- cution failed to link Campbell's gua with the crime. RAMBLING PLAYERS GIVE TWO SHOWS TODAY “Taming of the Shrew” to Be Seen in Stanton Square and * Lincoln Park. After two performances yesterday afternoon, the junior players of the Rambling Theater today continue their series of public programs with presentations of Shakespeare’s “Tam- ing of the Shrew,” at 2 p.m. in Stan- ton Square and at 4 pm. in Lincoln Park. | The juvenile actors, under auspices | of the Community Center Depart- | ment and the National Capital Parks, yesterday played to audiences of sev- eral hundreds persons each in Mont- 10se Park and in Franklin Park. They sre scheduled for performances to- morrow at 4 p.m. in Marion Park | and at 6 p.m. at the Friendship Set- tlement House. The troupers of the Rambling Theater have been - traveling from park to park on a truck.loaned by the National Capital Parks Office. Aided by a corps of technicians, it is converted into a stagg for each per- formance, ¥ FIHELLY RECOVERING FROM NOSE NJURY — Detective Sergeant to Leave Hos- pital After Transfusion Neces- sitated by Accident. Detective Sergt. Arthur T. Fihelly was to leave Episcopal Hospital this afternoon following a blood trans- fusion necessitated by prolonged bleed- ing of the nose. Sergt. Fihelly’s condition was con- sidered grave for a time. His nose was injured in an accident Thursday night and bled so profusely that a transfusion was necessary. Fellow policemen volunteered their blood, and a successful operation was performed. and a few committee rooms are air- cooled. Health Fund Compromise. The District health item, which the | House conferees agreed to, is a com- promise, since the Senate originally asked for $59.120. It will emable | Health Officer George C. Ruhlangd to | make a start, however, on his program for a more effective battle against called. Originally the committee had plan- ned on resumption of the inquiry to recall Frank Speicher, car sales- man and key witness in the investi- gation of War Department deals. McSwain said, however, it had been pearance on the witness stand until next week. Speicher has testified that Joseph contagious diseases, particularly tuber- | Siverman, jr, a large-scale dealer in culosis, by building up a public health | nursing service and extending the scope of school health inspection. Another important item is the $800,000 for continuing the National { Capital park development program, the funds to be advanced from the Treasury and paid back later by Dis- | trict taxpayers. Amendments Eliminated. . Among Senate amendments elimi- nated from the bill in conference were: $10,000 for the mother of the late Senator Cutting of New Mexico. $10,000 for the Washington-Lincoln Memorial, Gettysburg, Pa., battlefield boulevard. { $10,000 for topographical survey of Everglades National Park in Florida. $1,500,000 for acquisition of land at United States Military Academy. The conferees also cut $100,000 from the $300,000 added by the Senate for the Petroleum Administration, leaving ' the total at $500,000. CRITICS OF LOBBYING ASSAILED BY ROBERTS | Complaints Against Legislation " Drafting Experts Are Held “Ridiculous.” People's Counsel William A. Roberts yesterday took a fling at critics of “lobbying” by Government legislation drafting experts, declaring such com- plaints are “ridiculous.” “While I am not supporting the use of administrative pressure to compel passage of legislation, I think it would be advisable to expand the legislative | drafting service so as to include re- search bureaus and make it compui- | sory that all legislation be .eferred | to these bureaus for analysis before | consideration by congressional com- mittees,” Roberts said. Speaking in a radio talk over WOL, the people’s counsel pointed to the | tremendous increase in litigation over :he construction and interpretation of aws. FOUNTAIN BILL OFFERED ‘When the Senate District Committee holds its next meeting it will have be- fore it the bill introduced yesterday by Senator Moore, Democrat, of New Jersey to allow children to wade in all fountains in public parks in the District. Senator Mooré’s bill would make wading permissible for children in all fountains or pools, except those main- | tained especially for fish, birds or animals. surplus Army supplies, sought to ar- range the $10,000,000 deal through Haig. The committee alsc has been told by Howard Schnuer, New York attorney, that Silverman supplied Speicher with funds while the sales- man was sought for testimony in a grand jury investigation into War De- partment contracts., Silverman has denied this. TEXTILE ACT IS DUE Final Draft Near Completion. Interests Chafe at Delay in Study Findings. By the Associated Press While textile interests chafed against delay in completion of the Cabinet Textile Committee’s findings, a final draft of a national textile act, somewhat similar to the Guffey coal bill, neared completion and probably will be introduced in the House this week. Members of the cabinet group’s sub- committee were in session again yes- terday, but their best assurance was that they “hoped” to present their findings to the four Secretaries—Hull, Wallace, Perkins and Roper—some- time this week. Another week at least is expected. to elapse before the Secre- taries can make their recommenda- tions and forward them to the Presi- dent. Meanwhile, the committee was ac- cused by Representative Rogers, Re- publican, of Massachusetts of delay- ing the report for political reasons. “When we see the tax bill and other measures rushed through with unwar- ranted haste and without proper study, and then observe the intolerable pro- crastination in submitting the textile report, nothing but politics can be at the root of it,” she said. WOULD BAR MUSICIANS Restriction of the entry of alien musical artists, including operatic and concert singers and orchestral con- ductors, was proposed in the House yesterday by Representative Hoeppel, Democrat, of California. His bill, for a 10-year period, would | prohibit admission of all such artists | unless it was shown there was no | artist among the American unem- | ployed of the desired class and ability and that arrangements have been made to give American artists similar | occupation in the native country of the alien. Pennsylvania Bridge Debates Délay House Leave Bill Vote Halted yesterday on the banks of the Monongahela, Allegheny &nd Youghiogheny Rivers in Allegheny County, Pa., the Federal employe leave bills were high and dry in the House again today, awaiting a pro- mised vote Thursday. The measures to restore annual leave to 30 days, establish uniform sick leave of 15 days and make both cumulative to 120 days were due on the consent calendar yesterday. So much time was consumed in deciding whether proposed bridges across the Pennsylvania streams are to be free or toll that the House just never got around to the leave question. Bridges to Be Toll. Incidentally, the structures, when and if built, will be toll bridges, so far as the House is concerned. Eventually, along in the shank of the evening, after the Pennsylvania bridges and some other matters had been disposed of and the joint resolution to amend another joint resolution that will allowed the United States to participate in the Texas Centennial and ‘attendant cele- brations in 1935-36, Representative Taber, Republican, of New York, made a point of no quorum. Sure enough, there wasn’t. Representative O’Connor, Democrat, of New York, chairman of the Rules Committee, moved adjournment, and at 4:42 pm. the House called it a day. Private Calendar Today. Today the House is taking up the private calendar and tomorrow is calendar Wednesday, with the Post Office Committee having the call. Yesterday morning, when pros- pects for quick passage of the leave bills were promising Speaker Byrns said that if anything held them up he had been assured by O'Connor that the two special rules providing for their immediate consideration Speaker had announced his signature to & would be brought up Thursday. IN HOUSE THIS WEEK‘ | pocket and putting it into another, however, for in December, 1933, the | H. O. L. C. had lent Mrs. L. E. Sand~ ford, then the owner-occupant of the home, $7,400 to prevent foreclosure by a private mortgage concern. When | Mrs. Sandford, who has since become | decided to postpone Speicher's reap-| Mrs. J. O. Thomas of Rittenhouse | street, Chevy Chase, Md, falled to | satisfy the H. O. L. C. loan, the ! corporation, established in 1933 to pre- vent foreclosures, foreclosed. Moved Away Year Ago. When Mrs. Sandford married Mr. Thomas she moved away from the mortgaged dwelling. This was a year ago, and its sole occupant since then | has been a man on relief, who with his wife and seven children spent the Winter shivering without heat under its protection. They left in March. ‘The sale yesterday, conducted briskly by Auctioneer Vernon Owen, was the first foreclosure ordered by the Home Owners’ Loan Corp. in the District, although there are 40 other | loans on which payments are in ar- | rears. ‘The $6,000 bid was made by Harvey Jacobs, counsel of the District office i Second street. | Because the loans were made to' distressed properties in the first place, the percentage of delinquencies on H. O. L. C. advances is said to be siightly higher than the percentage on mortage loans made by private, | commercial lenders, although no sta- tistical comparison is available. However, where distress still exists, the Loan Corporation is not taking advantage of its right to foreclose and proceeds with the sale only where the borrower shows an obstinate re- | fusal to pay, the property has been abandoned, the borrower has died or where legal complications concerning the titfe develop. 752 Actions Pending. The total number of foreclosgd properties throughout the country up to yesterday was 158, with 752 others pending. This total of 910 includes 340 for wilful refusal to pay, 398 borrower has died and 58 where legal complications cropped up. Of $2,693,500,000 lent, the delin- | quencies amount to $891,955. | No more applications for H. O. L. C. of the H. O. L. C. He stood alone in | Joans are being accepted, but the | %\l €ive a luncheon for the visiting abandoned properties, 114 where the | holiday and wanted to see and hear | as little as possible of matters per- | taining to their profession. Their | hosts promised that they would not even get a whiff of antiseptic. Paused in Gotham. In New York, the party was shep- | herded through Columbia, Cornell | and Rockefeller Institute Health Cen- | ters. | The doctors and their wives, sons and daughters comprised a parn_\'l numbering 110, said to be the largest | private group ever to make a world tour. They breakfasted at the Carl- ton Hotel, their headquarters, and piled into busses for a ride around the | ‘Spndwsy and to the White House, where they were conducted through ! the premises. A reception at the British Embassy followed. Some mem- | bers of the group participated in a | radio broadcast at 11:15 am. Leave Tomorrow. A sightseeing tour to Mount Ver-: non was scheduled for the physicians | this afternoon and a trip through | Government buildings for tomorrow. The International Medical Society | the center of the green lawn, while| District office is mulling over 240 doctors at the Mayflower tomorrow. from the side lines newspaper men, | applications received during the 30| 10¢ Party will leave for Chicago at neighbors and their children and two other H O. L. C. officials, Charles Jones and Paul Frizzell, watched. Mrs. Sandford Thomas will be given | days ending June 27. According to | Paul Frizzell, manager of the Dis- | trict office, a large percentage of these applications will be rejected. JOHN J0Y EDSON ESTATE §a41,00 Daughter Is Principal Bene- ficiary Under Will of Late Financier. | _The late John Joy Edson, philan- thropist and financier, who died here | several weeks ago, left an estate valued | at $541,000, it was revealed today in a | petition for probate of his will filed in | District Supreme Court. Mrs, Elizabeth Edson, his daughter, ! was named in the will, | week, as the principal beneficiary. - The estate consists of three pieces of real estate, including his late resi- dence, valued at $174,000, and per- sonal property amounting to an ad- ditional $367,000. Petition to probate the will was placed before the court by the Wash- ington Loan & Trust Co., executor and trustee, which was headed by the dead banker from 1894 to 1917. After his retirement as president Edson continued as chairman of the Board of Directors until his death. The will, dated July, 1922, leaves the residence at 1324 Sixteenth street to Edson's daughter. After providing for cash bequests of $10,000 to each of the children of his deceased son, John Joy Edson, 3d, and $10,000 to the | Associated Charities, the remainder of the estate is placed in trust for the daughter. WASHINGTON KEPT COOL BY BREEZES Tomorrow, - However—58 Morning’s Minimum. Cooling breezes- fanned Washing- ton today and kept the temperature at a comfortable level, although more hot weather is in prospect tomorrow. The mercury was expected to stop this afternon well under yesterday's maximum of 89 degrees and this morning’s minimum was only 58 at 8 o’clock. Light winds which relieved the humidity here yesterday are expected to continue this afternoon. The forecast is for fair tonight and probably tomorrow; somewhat warm- er tomorrow. Light, northerly winds are expected to shift into the South tomorro The mercury around noon today was in the low 80's, the Weather Bureau reported. filed last | More Hot Weather in Prospect, WEEK'S ACCIDENT SHOW' INCREASE Hazen Order for Continu- ance of Campaign Sent to Precinct Heads. | paign, now in its eighteenth day, was | given new impetus today as copies of | Commissioner Hazen's letter to Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown urging that there be no let-up in the drive were | forwarded to all precinct command- ers. Meanwhile, arrests of traffic law | violators continued as the number of accidents for the past week showed a sharp increase over the number dur- ing the correspording week of last year. Only five persons were injured, however, in a total of 19 accidents, during the 24-hour period ending at 8 am. today, Only one of these may prove serious. John Barr, 80, Kenesaw Apart- ments, is in Garfield Hospital suffer- ing from cuts about the head and hands suffered last night when he is jreported to have walked into the front of & street car at Mount Pleas- observation at the hospital to de- termine whether he has a brain con- cussion. Hurt Near Berryville. Clyde Douthat, 36, Portland Hotel, is under X-ray examination today in a Winchester, Va., hospital to deter- mine the extent of injuries received yesterday in a head-on collision near Berryville, Va. Douthat was severely cut and bruised and may have several fractures, it is said. Russell L. Linthicum, 35, of Clarke Courtty, who was fatally injured in the same collision, leaves a wife and three children, and his mother, Mrs. northeast. "Traffic records here show 62 persons hurt in 159 accidents for the week ending at 8™a.m. today. During the corresponding period last year 56 were injured in 115 accidents. Only One Death Reported. Traffic officials, however, point out with satisfaction that few serious acci- | dents have resulted during the safety | campaign. There has been only one death since the drive started and only | five or six injuries which might be | classed as serious. Arrests for the 24-hour period today totaled 295. Of these 54 were for speeding, 17 for passing red lights and 1 for reckless driving. The total arrests for the 17 days of the cam- paign, lncluflml. up to 8 a.m. today, were 5,026, a Washington's traffic safety cam- | ant and Harvard streets. He is under | A: B. Linthicum of 273.C street | A 4:15 pm. Brief stops are scheduled at Albuquerque, N. Mex.; the Grand Canyon and Los Angeles. Another | group of British Medical Association | members, which landed at Montreal | and traveled across Canada, will meet | the group now in Washington in San Francisco,* whence they will sail for Australia on August 14. JSECOND POLAR FLIGHT PLANNED BY RUSSIANS| Charge d’Affaires at Embassy Here Says Another Attempt Will Be Made Soon. By the Asscciated Press. Boris Skvirsky, charge d'affaires of | the Soviet Embassy, said yesterday it | was his understanding the Soviet | plane which was forced back on an | | attempted flight from Moscow to Saa | | Prancisco would make another attempt | n two or three days. | Embassy officials also said it was expected that Alexander Troyanovsky, | the Ambassador, who is in San Frsn- | cisco, and other Russian officials on | the Pacific Coast would remain where they are pending the new attempt. CLAGETT QUITS POST Delegate Resigns Notary Job on 0’Conor’s Ruling. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. UPPER MARLBORO, Md., August 6.—In accordance with a ruling from Attorney General Herbert R. O’Conor Delegate Lansdale G. (“Dee”) Clagett, Prince Georges County member of the | Maryland House, has resigned his post | as a notary public. nan, superintendent of National Capi- | tal Parks under whose jurisdiction | the proposed structure would be bult. | Finnan also is in New York with | Sullivan and is expected to return to | ‘Washington tomorrow. Ground plans for the stadium have been given the tentative approval of the parks offi- cials. At the same meeting the Fine Arts | Commission also approved plans for | the Federal Reserve Building an- nounced some time ago by A. C. Mil- ler, member of the board. Miller appeared with the architect, Dr. Paul Cret, who also submitted a model for sculpture on the Calvert Street Bridge. Proposed improvements to Meridian Hill Park also were placed before the commission by John L. Nagle, engi-| neer for the parks service. Other Proposals Presented. Other proposals presented to the commission, but not finally approved, were: A design for a fountain to be erect- ed at the new east entrance to Arling- ton National Cemetery, drawn by McKim, Mead and White, Washington architects. A design for a national memorial or monument to Grover Cleveland, au- | thorized by Congress for erection in Washington. | A design for a new park police | station in Rock Creek Park. Plans for a bridge in the Great| Smoky Mountains National Park. Proposed murals to be done George Biddle, New York artist. by in the new Department of Justice Build- ing. ‘ A. F. OF L. BACKS BILL FOR N. R. A. STANDARDS 0'Mahoney Measure Designed to Perpetuate Policy Through Licensing System. By the Associated Press. ported a survey showed 4,000 cars now are being regularly parked within 20 feet of intersections in violation of the present rule. Extension of the ban at intersec- tiofis was based primarily on the argu- ment that cars parked near intersec- tions obstruct vision of drivers and cause accidents Questions Accident. The Keystone Club. in contesting the proposal, questioned whether ac- cident records showed accidents hav- ing that cause. The club also pro- tested the 45-foot proposed rule would take away parking spaces for a great number of cars. Van Duzer was disappointed in re- fusal of the Commissioners to approve his plan for the 45-foot ban. The 25-foot rule is that fostered by the | National Conference on Street and | Highway Safety. Van Duzer fought against that small, a limit when the plan was considered by the national D. C. WOMEN INHERIT NEW YORK ESTATE Mrs. Olive Mitchell Dwight and Daughter Legatees of Estate of John H. Dwight. Mrs. live Mitchell Dwight, 2101 Connecticut avenue, and her daugh- ter Mary were named the legatees of the estate of the iate John H. Dwigh, formerly of Washington, whose will was filed for probate yesteriay in Surrogate’s Court in New York. The New York holdings of the estate were valued at $600,368.24. Taxes, direct disbursements to lega- | tees, decrease in value of assets sold. settlement of claims and funeral ex- penses reduced the net estate to $207,474.01, which is to be held in trust, the income to go to Mrs. Dwight until the daughter reaches the age ‘The American Federation of Labor | yesterday indorsed the O'Mahoney bill intended to perpetuate N. R. A. standards by a licensing system for | industries acting in Interstate Com- merce. Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming introduced the bill yester- day and said he would speak on it today. “It is the opinion that the bill very largely fill the place in our economic and industrial policies which was set aside by the decision of the Supreme Court when it held the National In- dustridl Recovery act unconstitu- tignal,” said a statement from the leration. Fishing Trip Planned. Members of the Washington Round Table will meet at Camp Roosevelt Friday at 5:30 p.m. for a fishing trip and dinner party, which will take the | place of the regular Friday luncheon | meeting. “General Pershing” never clung to his nine lives with more tenacity than does a woman admirer to the belief that he is her pet, and, therefore, should be ‘buried by her now that death has ended the “General’s” long reer. The black.cat was deposited in a secret grave by his owner, Rexford Holmes, local advertising man, to pre- vent the woman from taking the body. The woman, whose name Holmes does not know, has insisted the cat was the one which escaped from her car in Philadelphia years ago. | “General Pershing” came to the residents of Holmes in Crittenden street four years ago and shortly aft- erward a neighbor gave mate for his new pet, also coal black and named “Midnight.” Holmes began to exhibit the pair in various shows, and they never failed to win blue ribbons both in Washing- ton and other cities throughout the East. The woman was attracted to the cat by the publicity and never lost her belief that the General was seally Baby, | A \Prize Cat Buried in Secret To Foil Woman Claiming Body | | Will Address Opening Session of Holmes s |* Recently the General got into a battle with an alley cat. A wound he received became infected, and the big| cat died after a game fight. Daily during his iliness the unidentified woman attended him at the Collins Animal Hospital, on P street, bringing him meat apd tidbits. Even in death the woman tried to claim her Baby, but the cat’s body was denied her. ICKES TO BE SPEAKER Philatelic Society. Secretary of the Interior Ickes will speak at the opening business session of the Golden Jubilee Convention of the American Philatelic Society at the Hotel Carlton next Tuesday. For many years a member of the society, Ickes is displaying selected stamps from his collection in the convention exhibition at the National Museum, and may attend the conven- tion banquet, August 15, » of 21, when she will inherit one- quarter of the property. On the death of Mrs. Dwight the resiquary estate will be held in trust for the daughter, who will receive the | income for life. U. S. LAND BANKS GIVE CASH LOANS Gov. Myers Announces Use of Mortgage Corporation Bonds Will Be Discontinued. By the Associated Press. Gov. W. I. Myers of the Farm Credit Administration said today that Federal Land Banks are going on a cash loan basis immediately for the first time “in many months.” The cash, he said, will be given instead of Federal farm mortgage corporation bonds. “We hope before long the land banks will discontinue the use of Federal farm mortgage corporatiop bonds to secure cash,” he said, “antl that they will obtain their loanable funds through the sale of their own consolidated, tax-exempt bonds.” Speaking to representatives of the 12 Federal Land Banks, here to dis- cuss farm sales, he expressed the opinion the outlook for agriculture is better than it has been for several years. He warned against a farm real es- tate boom and said the influence of the Land Banks “should be in the in- terest of mormal recovery.” Land Banks, he said, have been lending on normal values of land and will continue this policy rather than following prices which might be above normal. e LAWN PARTY PLANNED The District Women’s Christian Temperance Union will hold a lawn party and supper on the lawn of the Wesley Methodist Church, Connecti- cut avenue and Jocelyn street, to- morrow from 4 to 9 p.m. Mrs. Arthur C. Watkins is chair- man of the Arrangements Commit- tee. She is assisted by Mrs. Marie N. Brinley, Mrs. Richard Boss, Mrs. J. R. GCrinstead, Mrs. Herman Schreiber, Mrs. Ada Burrows, Mrs. J. L. Bixler and Rev. Alice Allen, ’