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Washington News he Foening Star WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1935. PAGE B—1 W'MAHON RENEWS DENUNCIATION OF TRAFFIC VIDLATION Indicates Results of Safety Drive Are Below Ex- pectations. SAYS DRIVERS ARE “TRYING TO GET OFF”| Campaign Directed Against Truck Using Maryland Avenue Northeast Against Rules. Judge John P. McMahon continued his tirade against traffic law vio- lators from the bench in Traffic Court today in a scathing denunciation of persons who have continued breaking the law in spite of the safety cam- paign which has been under way for the past several weeks. In his denunciation Judge McMahon intimated that results of the drive had fallen far short of his expectations. In nearly every case of speeding before him today, he asked the defendant if he had been reading the local papers with respect to the drive, and nearly all violators declared that they had, “but just did not realize” they were going so fast. Judge McMahon's statement follows: “I want to say for the benefit of | How Marihua d na Is Smoke This shows two cocoanuts seized in last night's raids, through which addicts smoked the flowers of the marthuana weed. —Star Staff Photo. AT CAPITOL URGED Roberts to Draft Measure to Give District Floor Representation. A measure to give the District a spokesman in Congress on District legislation, as a step tional representation, will be drafted by People’s Counsel William A. Rob- | erts and submitted to the Commis- | sloners. | 0. SPOKESHAN |BUDGET HEARNGS START AUGUST 21 !Citizens and Civic Groups Will Be Invited to Pre- sent Views. Public hearings on proposed Dis- trict government expenditures during ! 1 toward na- | the next fiscal year will be held by | the Commissioners August 21, 22 and 23. Arrangements for a three-day dis- cussion of District government needs 15 TAKEN IN DRUG RAIDS T0 BE TRIED UNDER D. . LAWS Officials Cite Lack of Strin- gent Statute Against Marihuana Here. VIOLATION OF PHARMACY ACT WILL BE CHARGED Seizures Made by Federal Agents and Local Police Most Exten- sive Ever Recorded Here. In absence of a stringent Federal or local law against marihuana, the habit-forming drug which eventually induces insanity, 15 prisoners, ar- rested last night in city-wide raids by Federal agents and police against marihuana peddlers will be prosecuted under the local pharmacy laws. This was made clear today by Harry J. Anslinger, United States commis- sioner of narcotics, who said that the District of Columbia was now among the minority of States and territories ‘without adequate legislation to deal | with abuses of this noxlous weed. Within the past two years, Anslinger | said, 26 States have enacted legisla- | tion to suppress the abuse of mari- | huana, and the nearby State of Mary- | land placed its new law on this sub- | ject into effect Jure 1, inaugurating SOUTHEAST BRIDGE CHARGE 1S DENIED ‘Washington health officials shown above as they met yesterday to study plans for the proposed $100,000 drive against tuberculosis. Left to right (front): Dr. J. W. Peabody, superintendent Tuberculosis Hospital; Dr. Joma R. Whipper, rep- resenting the Citizens' Joint Conference on Civic Welfare, Religion and Education; Dr. George C. Ruhland, District health officer, and Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing director of the Tuberculosis Association. Back ro Dr. Kathleen Jones, Citizens' Joint Conference; Dr. Willlam H. Hough, District of Columbia Medical Soctety: Dr. James E. Walker, secretary Medico-Chirurglcal Society, and Dr. Numa P. G. Adams, dean, School of Medicine, Howard University, Named Dean WIDOW OF POET RECEIVES POST IN D. C. D.C. GRIME PROBE —Star Staff Photo. 1S CALLED FUTILE HEALTH CAMPAIGN MAPPED FOR CITY; FUND 15 AVAILABL Hospital Survey Begun in Move to Lower Tuber- culosis Death Rate. FIELD NURSES ADDED TO DISTRICT'S STAFF New " Assistant Health Officer Due to Be Appointed by Ruhland. Expansion and reorganization of the District'’s forces engaged in @ cam- paign for public health improvement were mapped out in more detailed form today by Health Officer George C. Ruhland. This work was stimulated by the act of the President yesterday in sign- ing the second general deficiency ap- propriation bill, which carries the | 845,000 item for expansion of pre- ventive programs by the health office A generalized nursing service will be put into operation soon, with 1€ | additional field nurses, as a result of this appropriation. The District now has 32 nurses, who operate on a spe- cialized system. These as well as the 10 additional nurses will be assigned to sections of the city and will handle all kinds of cases within their areas. all those present I am very much dis- | Announcement of the plan, designed | in the year beginning next July 1 appointed in today's showing of this | to fill partially the needs of the Dis- | were made today at a board session. court. From day to day, week to| trict while it awaits more complete | Invitations to attend and present re- week and month to month the press | representation in its Legislature, was | quests will be sent to the citizens and As a further move in strengthening the Health Department organization, | Dr. Ruhland will employ a new as- immediate drives against the evil. Two Places Raided. The raids last night were the most Engineer Says Reports of |Public Order Unit of Trade Four-Foot Cave-in Are of this city has been carrying articles | describing the current trafic cam- | paign. g Disappointed in Speeders. “Of course, on Tuesday there are a number of cases hanging over from Monday, but I am greatly dis- appointed at the number of persons in court today charged with speeding. | You are not co-operating with the authorities. You are taking unneces- sary chances and your only excuse is ‘T just didn't realize.’ “To get off as easy as you can is your only thought when you enter this court,” | Ninth precinct police and the Traffic Bureau yesterday began a _drive against interstate trucks which are using Maryland avenue northeast in their passage through the city to| Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. Twelve arrests were made. | Under the District code all such trucks must follow a definite, clearly | marked route through the city in or- der to create as little traffic hazard ag possible and also to avoid the an- | * noyance of Maryland avenue and4 = other desizable residential streets in | the Northeast section. All of those arrested elected to forfeit collateral so | their schedules would not be inter- rupted. 72 Cases on Docket. A total of 72 traffic cases was on Judge McMahon's docket today. Of | these, 61 were on collateral and 11 were locked up pending trial. There were 33 speedng cases, including third-of- fense charges against Garrett Wil- liams, 2418 Seventeenth street, and George M. Thompson, 1015 Girard street northeast. Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown to- day renewed, with additional em- phasis, his special order for enforce-| ment of the regulation against glar- ing headlights on automobiles in con- nection with the campaign, now in its twenty-fifth day. Today's order in- structed members of his command also | to stop motorists driving with only | one light. | A total of 221 arrests for traffic law | violations was made during the 24- hour period erding at 8 a.m. today Of these 31 were for speeding, 1 for driving while drunk, 3 for reck- less driving and 3 for passing red lights. None was seriously injured in some | 16 accidents recorded by police in the 24 nours, ending at 8 am. Four persons were injured today in & collision between two automobiles at First street and Rhode Island avenue. | List of Injured. The injured are Mrs. Lillian Scott, | 48, of 1204 Franklin street northeast, | wife of John Scott, 52, driver of one of the cars, who received cuts; Claudius G. Furbee, 44, 1204 Bladens- | burg road northeast, driver of the| other machine, who suffered cuts, and two colored men riding in the| latter’s car. The colored men, Herbert Patterson, 32, of the 1600 block of Third street, and Wilson Johnson, 30, of the 1500 black of Marion street, were both admitted to Emergency Hospital, the former for & collarbone fracture and the latter for cuts. ‘William Hunter, 15, of 1605 Morris road southeast, sustained a leg frac- ture early today when struck by a truck which was making a turn from Nichols avenue southeast into Tal- bert street. Meanwhile Charles Prichard, 6, 647 Hamilton street, was still unconscious today in Walter Reed Hospital from injuries received Saturday when struck by a truck while playing near his home. A police broadcast was sent out for a hit-and-run driver that struck Leonard Suder, 25, colored, 209 Vir- ginia avenue southeast, at Maryland avenue and Seventh street southwest this morning. Suder, an employe of the Street Cleaning Department, was treated at Providence Hospital for a slight leg injury. —— COLORED BANDITS ROB TWO MEN OF $225.10 Police are seeking three colored bandits who robbed two men of $225.10 last night and early today. One of the victims, Charles Miller, proprietor of a gasoline station at 3830 Georgia avenue, was robbed last night of $190.10 by an armed colored man on Georgia avenue between Quincy and Randolph streets. The money represented the day's receipts. Wilbur 8. Gardner, 11 Rock Creek Church road, the other victim, was robbed of $35 by two colored men who stopped him early today near Third and Kennedy streets. One of the rob- bers pointed a pistol at him, while the other took his billfold containing the money. made late yesterday in an address | civic associations, the Board of Trade, | extensive against marihuana ever con- over Station WOL. “Since 1884 the Commissioners of the District are permitted access to the floor of the United States Sen- | ate,” he recalled. “They could, if| | they pleased, under the rules of that | body, be present whenever legislation was under discussion. However, this would not include the right to speak | directly themselves, a right which is accorded to Puerto Rico and the Ha- waiian Islands, as well as to other possessions, through their Delegates. | “In the House of Representatives no such provision is made, and elthough Delegates of the Territorfes | are present and. of course, have the power to speak and Governors of | States may attend the sessions in which they are interested and present | their views through contact with mem- bers, the District of Columbia with 500,000 population is deprived of this access. “I again repeat that it matters little how this official is selected. We should not be compelled to wait until the proponents of complete suffrage have won their cause. Whether it be ap- | pointment by the President of the United States or appointment by the District Commissioners, the people of the District cf Columbia should have | some one who can speak in their be- half when legislation vital to their ex- istence is at stake.” . FOUNTAIN SHUT-OFF DENIED BY RUHLAND Health Officer Says He Did Not: |tion and other interested organiza- tions. The sessions will begin at 10 am. and will be neld in the board room of the District Building. The Commis- sioners have celled on the heads of the various municipal departments for their estimates for the next year, but data on these proposals will not be available in time for public hear- ings. It is planned to publish them, at least in outline form, later. The purpose of the public hearings is to give the Commissioners benefit of public reaction before they formus late a proposed 1937 budget for sub- mission to the Budget Bureau. M’MAHON’S REFUSAL OF BOND APPEALED Hearing Set for August 23 in | Case Brought by Jailed Traffic Offender. Hearing on the right of a Police bond pending appeal for a traffic conviction was set for August 23 in District Supreme Court today. The case was brought into the high- er court by Edward Coppage of Clar- endon, Va., who was found guilty yesterday by Traffic Judge John P. McMahon of driving without a permit. on his car, but had lost his Virginia operator’s permit August 8. Despite a duplicate permit, according to his Ask U. §. Authorities to Close Place to Children. | Health Officer George C. Ruhland today denied emphatically he had re- | quested Federal officials to shut off the water in Columbus Fountain, in Union Station Plaza, on a finding that the | water was & menace to the children | | splashing there. In ordering the fountain closed yes- | terday, C. Marshall Finnan, superin- | tendent of National Capital Parks, was | reported to have said the action was requested by Health Officer Ruhland. | The water in the basin is not fit for | drinking purposes, but there is no showing it is so bad as to constitute | a health mehace, Dr. Ruhland told re- | porters today. He protested Supt. Finnan should not have “pegged” his| closing order on a request by the| health office, since no such report was made. Investigation showed an agent of Finnan's office had complained to a Health Department inspector about| children bathing in the basin, but that | the Federal agency had not been given an analysis of the water. Dr. Ruh- land said this showed the water con- tained bacteria to an extent making it unfit for drinking, but that since it was not used for drinking purposes there was no harm in its use by the children as a splashing place. Loses $47 Matching Coins. Matching coins with strangers cost Eugene L. Davis of Grafton, W. Va., $47 yesterday, he reported to police. Davis said a young man he met in a New York avenue bus terminal pro- posed they match pennies, but when a third man joined them larger coins ‘were used. petition, Judge McMahon found him | guilty and ordered him to pay a fine of $25 or serve 15 days in jail. Coppage allegedly noted an appeal and asked that he be released on bond. Court judge to refuse a request for| his assertion that he had applied for | When the court refused to grant this request, he asked for four days in which to file a motion for a new trial | and again requested his release on| bond. This also was refused and he was sent to jail after failing to pay the fine. His petition, filed through Attorney Bart Clines, asserted his detention is illegal and unconstitutional. District Supreme Court Justice F. D. Letts ticketed the case until August 23. Coppage demanded a jury trial on a charge of reckless driving when taken before Judge McMahon. PLAN LAWN FETE A lawn fete of the Church Army of the Western Presbyterian Church, 1906 H street, will be given on the church grounds Friday at 7:30 pm., it was announced today. Music, entertainment and refresh- ments will be offerec. In case of rain the program will be held in the church. D. C. WORKER DIES George W. Waters, 28, colored, 624 Fifty-eighth street northeast, an em- ploye of the District Highway De- partment, died today after a heart attack while at work at Forty-second and Yuma streets. He was pronounced dead on ar- rival of an Emergency Hospital doc- tor. Lorton Inmates Contribute $200 Of Small Pay to Calhoun Fund ‘The heroism of Sterling Calhoun, young colored man who drowned last month in a futile attempt to rescus two white children, has pierced prison shadows and touched the inmates of the District Reformatory at Lorton to contribute $200 of their meager earnings toward the support of Cal- houn’s destitute widow and children. A Treasury check was received by The Star today with a neatly type- written letter from the prisoners who took up the collection. The letter said the Lorton inmates could “think of no worthier cause within the recent year than to help the widow and the fatherless children of this gallant man.” The money was added to the $1,385.53 already in the Calhoun fund. Sterling Calhoun's father, Moses, is a prisoner at Lorton, serving two to eight years for manslaughter. Deeply touched by the generosity of his fel- low prisoners, he came humbly to Prison Supt. W. L. Peak and begged him to thank the inmates on his be- half. Peak posted thanks notices on dormitory bulletin boards. Moses Calhoun also penciled & let- ter to Supt. of Police Ernest W. Brown thanking the Police Department for its donations to the fund for his son’s widow. Shortly after Calhoun drowned in the Anacostia River, Willlam Brown, & colored prisoner, came to Col. Peak and asked permission to take up a col- lection. The superintendent assented. From their meager nickel and dime daily earnings some 500 of Lorton's 1,325 prisoners gave willingly and the fund grew and grew. Col. Peak, in praising the “wonderful spirit” of his charges, pointed out that the dona- tion was especially generous, because 65 per cent of the inmates earn only a nickel daily. Twenty-five per cent earn only a dime and 10 per cent 15 cents. Individual contributions ranged from a few cents to $1. Both white and colored gave. The average con- tribution was 35 cents. ‘The letter accompanying the $200 check was signed by Brown and three fellow prisoners, Lee Saylor, whité, and Alfred McKnight and King Mc- Kinney, colored. < | Merchants & Manufacturers’ Associa- | qucted in the District. They resulted in seizure at two places of a wide va- riety of materials and paraphernalia | used in smoking the weed, and the | arrest of 15 persons, one, white man, | the others colored men and women, all held technically for “investigation.” | | The two principal centers raided were at 933 N street and 1408 Fifth street, where all the seizures were made. | The raids were made jointly by Fed- | eral agents and police, headed by | the narcotic bureau: Sergt. Jones and Sergt. Charles E. Mansfield {of the nareoties squad, Police Departs | ment. One White Prisoner. The one white prisoner is Charles Joseph Foss, a taxi driver, of 720 Thirteenth street. | The others, colored, are: Aaron Alexander, 22, 3328 Sherman avenue; George Pe:ry, 37, 1413 T street; Rich- ard Frazier, 48 1412 Fourth street; Robert Frazier, 25, 933 N street; Mag- gle Frazier, Bolden, 26, 1827 Corcoran street; Car- roll Williams, 25, 769 Harvard street; Herman Murray, 29, 1005 Lamont | street; William Stoddard, 25, 1902 | Sixth street; Lawrence Turner, 21, 455 N street; Sydney Foster, 20, 79 P street; Horace Battler, 35, 1201 Sixth | and one-half street; John H. Brown, | 24, 1606 Eighth street, and Charles F. Moore, 25, 507 Florida avenue. Two Women Arrested. At the N street address seven men at 1408 Fifth street, near the corner of O street, four men and one wom- | an were (aken prisoners. Others were | the city, principally in stores or on the sidewalks. the pharmacy act of the District of Columbia with practicing pharmacy without a license, failing to label the drug a poison and falling to register | it as a poison. The seizures, valued at a total of | more than $1,000, included almost the entire life process of the marihuana. | They included many seeds of the weed, | several growing plants in a bushel | basket of earth, the powdered flowers of the weed, ready for making into cigarettes, and many cigarettes, known | as reefers. | Coconuts Are Seized. | were some coconuts used as part of the smokers’ outfit. Holes are made in each end of the coconut, the milk emptied and the nut filled with either ginger ale or a preparation of menthol. The smoke is drawn through the liquid. Various reactions result on different smokers. Some are made hilarious, some become bad actors and get arrested for disorderly conduct, others go beserk, and there are many cases of murder throughout the coun- try charged against marihuana ad- dicts. ST PAGE gECURITY WAGE TO BE $18.90 MONTHLY 13.5 Cents Per Hour Is Ah- nounced—O0ld School to Be- come Office Building. Special Dispatch to The Star LURAY, Va., August 13.—The security wage for Page County was stated to the Board of Supervisors yesterday by Miss rothy Smith, public works administrator for the Staunton district, as being 1315 cents | an hour for a total of 140 hours a month, bringing the monthly wage to $18.90. During an all-day session, Which was adjourned to Friday, the board accepted the deed for the old High School Building from the County School Board and announced work will begin immediately on remodeling the building for county offices. With one exception, land owners along the proposed new Pine Grove road accepted the figure allotted for rights of way. The property of Isaac Long, jr., the sole dissenter, will be appraised by a commission. POLICEMAN BURIED Funeral services for Robert E. Strong, World War veteran and Wash- ington policeman, who died at Walter Reed Hospital Friday, were held early this afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Pearl Pralick, 823 North Capitol street. Rev. Dr. J. E. Berkstresser, Metropolitan Baptist Church, was the presiding pastor, and the pallbearers were members of the hack inspector’s division of the police force. Inter- ment was at Arlington. |'Boyd Martin, District supervisor for | Dan H.| Among the most curious seizures | | | 41 933 N street; Ruth J0lStS: Coppage said he had Virginia tags|and one woman were arrested, while Placement of the bridge directly to | will ask the President to answer for | arrested in various places throughout | | | The pris s wil | Taking exception to this sentence, | e prisoners will be charged under Gross Exaggeration. District government engineers to- day characterized as “gross exag- geration” reports that Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, at one end, had “caved | in a full 4 feet.” | Flat denial of statements of the “precarious” conditions, voiced last night at a meeting of the Southeast Business Men's Association, came to- | day from Clifford R. Whyte, District bridge engineer, | “The truth of the case is that the | flooring of the bridge sank a few | inches, less than ¢ inches, last week, | due to the weight of vehicles com- pressing a wooden joist.” said Whyte. “The bridge is in no danger of col- lapse. This is only an ordinary maintenance matter.” | Work of replacing several wooden | beams was started last Thursday and ! was to be completed today. The bridge is of steel construction, but has a wooden floor, supported on wooden | Due to wet weather, Whyte said, the wooden beams occasionally | are softened so that they are pressed | down against the steel. Whyte said | this is what happened last Thursday. ' Two wooden beams were ordered | promptly, he said. The total cost of the repair work, Whyte said, would not be in excess of $150. The Southeast Business Men's Asso- ciation last night decided to take the fight for the removal of the garbage disposal plant at New Jersey avenue and K street southeast and the re- President Roosevelt. The association the Commissioners, whom he has put into office, asking of them why they have failed to heed the requests sub- mitted by the business men. Following this announcement, Dick English, vice president of the group, declared that the faulty Southeast Bridge had “spoken for itself” when | it dropped a full 4 feet last Thursday | afternoon, just one day after Engi- | neer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan had | been taken on an inspection tour of | Southeast so as to acquaint himself with conditions there. One-Way Traffic Necessary. The accident resulted in traffic be- | ing run over the bridge one way for i0 minutes and then reversing the order for the next 10 minutes. It| was asserted that-the bridge was not | repaired for two-way traffic until | Sunday. A drop of another foot, it was disclosed, and the supports would have rested on the water pipe run- ning under the bridge, possibly punc- turing it, resulting in the main water supply of three communities—Randle Highlands, Anacostia and Congress Heights—being cut off. The bridge is now “safeguarded” by a 12x12-inch Joist. Previous to this disclosure, English strode up and down the smoke-filled room for fully 40 minutes, vehemently assailing the “leather-cushioned boys” down at the District Building. “I defy People’s Counsel Roberts, who is paid $1,800 of his salary by taxpayers of Southeast, to prove that he has lefi his swivel, leather-cush- icned chair for one hour to interest himself in the welfare of Southeast,” English proclaimed. 35-Year Handicap Hit. English described himself as & “gar- bage expert” when he went into a detailed explanation of the ill effects of the 35-year-old plant that has harrassed residents of Southeast by its almost unbearable odor. He said he asked Col. Sultan what he thought of a section that had to tolerate a garbage plant for more than 35 years. Sultan was quoted as answering that “any section that has had it that long has had it long enough.” Where- upon English said he suggested the plant be removed to an isolated spot at Buzzards Point. Following English’s remarks, Louis Frick, counsel for the association, sug- gested that a health representative be selected to investigate the possi- bilities of disease emanating from. the plant and, if no help was forthcoming from District officials, the organiza- tion take its complaint to the Fall term of District Supreme Court on the basis of the health official’s find- ings. Besides the bridge and garbage con- troversy, the association listed among their requests for President Roose- velt’s attention, slum clearance and adequate playground facilities. Dr. Willlam McClellan, president of the Potomac Electric Power Co., rep- resenting the Community Chest, de- livered an address after the business session. Heavy Downpour Reported. At Kyoto, Japan, recently, 15 inches of rain fell in 15 hours. MRS. VACHEL LINDSAY, Widow of the poet and instructor of English at Mils College in Oak- land, Calif, has been appointed dean of the King-Smith Studio School of this city. Mrs. Lind- say, formerly Elizabeth Conner of Spokane, Wash., was married in 1925 to Lindsay. who died in 1931. She is herself & poet and has twg children. —A. P. Phote. GOODYEAR, IN BRIEF, ADMITS PRICE CUT 4.46 Per Cent Discrimination to Sears, Roebuck Co. By the Associated Press. A price discrimination of $7.985,- | 440, or 446 per cent on the selling price of tires sold to Sears-Roebuck & Co. was admitted in a brief filed with the Federal Trade Commission today by the Goodyear Tire & Rub- ber Co. ‘The Trade Commission has sought to show that through .alleged price discrimination, Goodyear is cutting competition in sale of tires and tubes between other manufacturers and be- tween Sears-Roebuck & Co. and other | competing retail tire dealers, includ- ing those selling Goodyear products. The complaint against Goodyear charges a violation of the Clayton act by discriminating in tire prices which it sells in interstate commerce to Sears-Roebuck and also to its dealers, “with the fact of lessening competi- tion and tending to create a mo- | nopoly.” MAN HURT, SECOND ARRESTED IN ROW [*Charge of Assault Follows Street Altercation—Insult to Wife Claimed. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, August 13.— One man is in the Alexandria Hos- pital with a possible fractured skull and another is under arrest on charge of felonious assault as the result of an altercation in the 300 block of South Patrick street last night. Police say the injured man, Rich- ard Cook, 48, of 94 Alexandria avenue, was hurt when his head struck the side curbing of the street after he was knocked down by William E. McDermott, an automobile salesman, of 313 South Patrick street. McDermott, who called police after the fracas, said Cook had molested and insulted his wife, Mrs. Hattie L. McDermott, according to police. He was released under a $1,000 bond on the assault charge pending the outcome of Cook's injuries. e R HOLTON-ARMS STUDENTS SUCCESSFUL IN TESTS Fifteen Who Took College En- trance Examinations Pass, Up- holding 10-Year Record. All of the 15 June graduates of Holton-Arms School who took college entrance examinations were success- ful, the school has learned. This makes the tenth year not a graduate of the local institution has failed in the test. ‘The graduates and the colleges they will enter this Fall include Katherine Buckley, Gertrude Good, Ann Fort, Volinda Lewis, Dorothy Wyckoff, Mar- garet Ballance, Norma Campbell, Flor- ence Dean Crump and Dorothy Dan- ner, who will go to Vassar; Molly Neill, Mills College, California; Amonette Gordon and Lorraine Shute, Smith; Suzanne MacPherson, Leland Stan- ford; Louise Herron, Bryn Mawr, and Ruth Hale, Wll!fl, College. | submitted by John Lewis Smith, who | g, | Board Opposes Lasting Commission. sistant health officer, filling the va- cancy created several months ago by ihe resignation of Dr. Edward J. No real good was accomplished either for better law enforcement or for the improvement of law enforce- ment agencies, by the recent investi- gation of crime here by a special House investigating committee, was the sense of a resolution adopted unarimously last night by the Public Order Committee of the Washington Board of Trade at its annual Summer joint meeting with the Membership Committee. The meeting was held at the Washington Golf and Country Ciub. The vote was taken on a tepott headed a subcommittee some time &go to study hearings and report. Commission Held Not Needed. In the same report the subcommit- tee said it could see no need for a permanent crime commission for the District, but that if the occasion should arise when such a commission appointed the House { might be useful it would support such an organization. The report referred to the Wash- ington Criminal Justice Commission which is now being organized here by William F. Seals, who served as an investigator for the House Investi- gating Committee. It was pointed out that there is no | Informs Trade Commission of | lesal authority for the investigations proposed to be made by the Crime Commission and that until “respon- sible public opinion” should support a commission, the trade board group is against it. Complaints Called Trivial. Smith’s report also frowned upon periodic investigations of the Police Department, made because of “trivial” complaints, which serve to undermine morale and accomplish no permanent benefits. The report added that while Wash- | | ington’s Police Department is by no | means perfect, it is the “best in the | country today.” Brief addresses were made by Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of | | police, and William A. Van Duzen, director of traffic. Odell §. Smith, chairman of the Public Order Com- mittee, presided. et 8 HAROLD WARE DIES OF CRASH INJURIE Agricultural Engineer for Farm Research Passes Away at Harrisburg. Harold M. Ware, 43. of 1501 Con- necticut avenue, agricultural engineer for the Farm Research, Inc., and brother-in-law of C. C. Cappel, man- ager of the National Symphony Or- chestra, died at Harrisburg, Pa.. today from injuries received in an automo- bile accident last Friday, according to | an Associated Press dispatch. ‘Ware had been unconscious with a fractured skull since his automobile was wrecked in a three-car smash-up near York Springs. A machine driven by Mrs. Alice Powell, 31, of Brooke- ville, Md., and a truck operated by Walter Wilkinson, 22, of Baltimore | sideswiped, and the truck caromed against Ware's car. ‘Ware had recently left Washington for a vacation. The truck driver, Mrs. Powell and her husband, Webster Powell, director of Farm Research, Inc., were unhurt. PLAN PUB[IC DANCES Community Center to Stage Events | at Recreation Centers. Offering free admission awards to winners of “spot dances,” the Com- munity Center Department will hold public dances tonight and Friday night at Eckington Recreation Center and Thursday night at Thomson Commu-~ nity Center. All the dances will be- gin at 8:45 p.m. o A dramatization of “Robin Hood"” will feature a program Thursday night at Roosevelt Community Center. CITIZENS TO MEET By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. KENSINGTON, Md, August 13.— The United Citizens'’ Committee of Kensington, representing nine. civic organizations of this area, will meet tonight at 8 o’clock in the Kensington Elementary School to discuss plans for obtaining a junior high school here. Representatives of the Board of Education will attend the meeting, it was said. Schwartz, and there will be an, as- sistant and clerical help for - Dr. Joseph A. Murphy, chief of the school medical inspection service. In connection with his plans for lowering the tuberculosis death rate and the prevalence of tuberculosis, Dr. Ruhland has started a survey of the total number of beds in private hos- pitals for the care of advanced cases |of the white plague. A committee | named for this purpose, in co-operae tion with the District Tuberculosis Association, is to make its first Treport | Thursday morning. Members of the group are Mre rnest R. Grant, managing director ot the association: Dr. James E. Walker of the District Medico-Chirurgical As- sociation, Dr. J. W. Peabody, superin- tendent of District Tuberculosis Hos- pitals; Dr. Kathleen Jones ~"ing and Dr. 1. P. Whipper of the Joint Confer- ence of Civic and Welfare Educationa) | Groups, Dr. Numa P. G. Adams of Howard University Medical School Charles G. Potter of the Tuberculosis Association and Dr. William H. Hough of the District Medical Society He..lth | Committee. The District Project Board, under | the Works Administration. was to act | today on a proposal of Dr. Ruhland | for employing 100 persons to conduct | & city-wide survey to locate an esti- | mated 6,000 persons having tubercu- losis not now listed on official reports. | The cost is estimated at $100,000. | Civic groups would be asked to aid in popularizing the idea of persons submitting voluntarily for skin and PROBES GRAND JURY LOTTERY CHARGES Maj. Lanphier Declares Defend- ants Have No Connection With Mrs. Harriman's Group. The District grand jury today be- gan an investigation of Iottery | charges against two men arrested Sat- urday in a case designed to test the legality of the “Grand National Treasure Hunt.” The men arrested are Philip | Schoenberg and Albert Reiss, who kad an office here at 1427 I street for the sale of tickets in the treasure hunt Although Mrs. Oliver Grace Harri- man’s name was painted on the door |of their office, Maj. Thomas G. Lan- phier, noted fiyer, said the men had r.o connection with the National Con- ference for Legalizing Lotteries, of | which Mrs. Harriman is a backer. | The grand jury is expected to an- ir.ounce its action in the case Thurs- ;dny or Friday. 'DEMOCRATS TO HOLD TWO MEETINGS TONIGHT Marvin McIntyre and Walter Bramwell to Speak at Pre- convention Rallies. Two Young Democratic Clubs in the District will hold pre-convention meetings tonight. The District Divi- sion of the Young Democratic Clubs of America, Paul Best, president, will hear Marvin MclIntyre. White House secretary, at the Willard Hotel at 8:15 pm. ‘The Young Democratic Club of Washington, Walter Bramwell, presi- dent, will meet at the Carlton Hotel at 8:15 pm. Karl Crowley, solicitor of the Post Office Department, will address the group The national convention will be ! held in Milwaukee August 23 and 24. L L LM SHOT IN FIGHT Webster Weems in Critical Con- dition After Argument. A broken banjo figured in a shoot- ing early today which may end in the death of Webster Weems, 29, colored, 120 F street southwest. Ernest Tillman, 41, colored, 84 G street southwest, said to have admitted the shooting, was arrested. Tillman and Weems attended a gathering of frien last night, and when trouble started, it is reported, Weems. broke a banjo belonging to Tillman. The latter went home, pro- cured an old pistol and met Weems at the F street entrance to Browns court. The single bullet in the old wapon entered the victim's right chest and may have passed through his right lung. He was taken to Providence Hospital, 4