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Wash PLANNING GROUP T0PASS ONNEEDS IN BUSY SESSION $800,000 Park-Buying Proj- egt and Memorial Site on Program. MINOR COURT BUILDING CHANGES TO BE STUDIED Nathan Wyeth to Report on Pro- posed Municipal Center Set-up. A crowded program awaits the at- tention of the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, which will meet tomorrow and Friday to con- sider and pass on a number of long- pending projects for park and civic development. ‘The acquisition of park and play- ground areas under the $800,000 pro- gram provided in the second defici- ency bill and the selection, possibly, of a site for the proposed® Thomas Jefferson memorial are the two major matters to be taken up on the first day, according to the program out- lined by John Nolen, jr., director of planning for the commission. Changes also will be considered in the plans for the three minor court buildings proposed for Judiciary Square in view of the recent action taken by Congress calling for re- modeling of the old Pension Euild- ing. Architect to Report. Nathan Wyeth, municipal erchi- tect of the District, will make a re- port to the commission in connec- tion with the three minor court build- ings with which it is proposed to start the new municipal center in Washing- ton. Public Works Administrator Ickes however has refused thus far to make any allotment of P. W. A. funds for their construction. ‘The remodeling of the old Pension | Office Building, it was said, will neces- | sitate some drastic changes in the | plans for the Municipal Center. "4‘ was the site of this building, on the | north end of the square, that the Dis- trict Commissioners had chosen for the location of the new building to house the District Supreme Court. Tomorrow morning several archi- tects and designers will report to the commission on a number of different sites being considered tentatively for the Jefferson memorial. Frederic Olm- stead, a former member of the com- mission, has submitted memoranda in connection with the memorial and Maj. Gilmore D. Clarke, a landscape architect, who is a member of the Fine Arts Commission, also will ad- vise the commission. Land Buying to Be Talked. ‘The purchase of necessary land to complete a program of 20 playgrounds and carry out plans for minor park acquisitions will occupy most of the afternon session. Nolen said the land acquisition pro- vides “for a .well balanced program scattered all over the city.” Most of the playgrounds to benefit under the $800,000 program are nearly completed now. The commission’s planning ex- pert emphasized emphatically that no new projects are being considered. ‘The commission has no intention of announcing the sites of these play- grounds because of apprehension that their identity will bring about an in- crease in land prices. Reports will be| The first step will be to send a|Leonard Brooks, Raymond R. Hud- submitted on the status of all the proj- | questionnaire to various cities seek- | son, Wiljam H. Holtzman, Joseph ects now under way, especially in re- lation to real estate developments in the surrounding sections. Supt. C. Marshall Finnan of the Office of National Capital Parks will submit plans of the coming year for the Roosevelt Island improvements. ‘This work will be done by the Civilian Conservation Corps. Co-ordination to Be Surveyed. The commission also will confer with Irving C. Root, chief engineer of the Maryland National Park and Planning Commission, on several de- velopments which require co-ordina- tion between tiie two bodies. He will report progress made on the Cabin John Parkway northward to Conduit road and plans for the extension of Bixteenth street from the District line to Georgia avenue. A committee rep- resenting flve civic associations in Montgomery County has asked the National Capital Commission for its views on the Sixteenth street exten- sion. This has been included in the regional plans for the last five years. Another matter requiring co-ordi-' mation with the Maryland authorities is the extension of New York avenue eastward from Bladensburg road. This ‘would involve proper road connections with the District and other roads in Maryland. T. 8. Settle, secretary to the commission, will submit a report en the status of legislation involving local projects. THhis will be done at Friday's meeting. His report will in- elude the airport controversy. ‘The commission also will study the plans for the new Federal Reserve Board Building, which will be located on Constitution avenue between Twen- tieth and Twenty-first streets. The de- sign, by Paul Cret, who will appear before the commission, already has been approved by the Fine Arts Com- mission. The plans will be up for final action. E Flood Protection on Program. Approval alsc was expected for the plans of the National Capital Parks Office for grading the Monument Grounds to provide flood protection. ‘The low point of the Monument Grounds is 10 feet below the new level which wil' be provided as a pre- eaution against flooding. Other details concerning plans under the $1,00,080 P. W. A. allot- ment for the parks will be considered. All of these are of a minor nature. Questions relating to possible ways in which the commission can co- operate with nearby Virginia com- munities on regional planning will be taken up during the afternoon. At present tnere is no planning agency in the Virginia territory as in Mary- land, although legislation looking to this end is being considered by the legislature. > - . “ ington News “What will the National Youth Ad- ministration do to help me through college?” This question is being asked by thousands of boys and girls who have sought vainly to pierce through the haze of rumor and misinformation surrounding the program of President Roosevelt’s latest agency. A letter The Star received today from a 20-year-old college boy in Hopkinsville, Ky., is an instance very much in point: “I have made in- quiries both of the local school au- thorities and of the authorities of my college,” he wrote, “but I have been unable to iearn anything about the N. Y. A. It is my hope to return to school this Fall to continue my pre- law studies, but at present the future looks dark indeed. I can expect liitle | or no help from my parents, as my | father's business has been very poor in recent years. * * * The N. Y. A. is my only hope and I can find no | information concerning it. For the sake of thousands of young people in much the same condition as I now find myself in, won't you please pre- | sent this program?"” To Use Same Set-Up. Here is the situation: The National Youth Administration will continue, without major change, the college student aid program con- ducted since February, 1934, by the Federal Emergency Relief Adminis- | tration. Funds merely will be dis-| | bursed through the new agency. Approximately 125000 college and university students in non-profit in- stitutions will be assisted during the | year 1935-36. Up to 12 per cent of the enroll- | ment of the individual college, as of October 15, 1934, are eligible, if other | requirements are met. he Eoening SHtar WASHINGTON, D. C., Youth Administration Will Pay Funds Directly to Colleges 'Students Not to Receive Loans, but Will Subscribe to Restrictions Used Under F.E.R. A. Aid Plan. The student aided must be one un-| able to attend or continue in college | without Federal help. He must carry at least three-fourths of a normal curriculum. In addition, his character and abil- ity to do college work will be taken | into consideration. | Whether a student’s family is on relief, or where he obtains mopey enough to live and supplement the Federal aid in payment of tuition are questions which do not enter into | the picture. Each School to Have Authority. In each college some person or group has been named or will be |named by the college president to receive and rule on all applications for Federal aid. Considerable lati- tude is allowed in deciding who will | be given help, since personal factors | differ widely and must be considered. | For students qualifying, “socially desirable work.” both on and off the | campus, will be provided by a com- | mittee or official working under direc- | tion of the president of the institu- | tion. No student will be permitted to work more than eight hours in any | one day or more than 30 hours in |- any week. For their labors they will receive a maximum of $20 a month, but each college will be allotted funds on =2 basis of $15 a month for 12 per cent | of its full-time students. In addition to funds for under-| graduate work, additional funds may | be allotted to students doing graduate | work, under rules and regulations not | yet announced. One widespread misapprehension | regarding the N. Y. A. is that it makes loans to students. Such is not the | case. Its college student aid is con- | | sidered part of the relief program, and | 193 NON-RESIDENTS | liquor led the list of causes for the 1,013 DRIVERS LOSE PERMITS, 176 FOR MISUSE OF LIQUOR Recklessness Is Second as - Revocation Cause With Toltal of 167. DENIED RIGHT TO CARS Board Makes Report for Fiscal Year on More Than 2,000 Hearings. Driving under the influence of revocation or suspension of 1,013 op- erators’ permits ordered by the Com- missioners in the fiscal year which ended June 30, it was disclosed today. The annual report of the Board of Revocations and Restoration of Op- erators’ Permits showed that the per- mits of 176 drivers were taken away for driving under the influence of liquor in the District. The permits of 119 others were revoked or sus= pended for similar violations in Mary- land and 55 mpre for such violations in other States. Recklessness Is Second. Reckless driving caused the loss of permits for 167 and accumulated records for speed in the District caused the loss of 165 permits, The board showed a high per- centage of cases in which it had either suspended or revoked permlu.b since during the year the agency acted on a total of 2,573 cases. There were 164 cases which the board placed on the “prohibitive list” of persons These requirements are simple.| money it disburses is not repaid. GARBAGE DISPOSAL MANIS INDETED PUEZLES SULTAN ~ AS CARD DEALER Says He Wants to Know Any | Better Plan—Citizens of Southeast Protest. ‘The whole subject of what is the -of city garbage has been opened by Washington for removal of the gar- | bage transfer station from their sec- | tion. Lieut. Col. Dan L. Sultan, Engineer Commissioner, declared today he had made no promise as yet, however, that he would be able to find means of re- moving the station from its present location at New Jersey avenue and K streets southeast. “If the District is not up to date in its methods of disposing of gar- bage,” he said, “I want to know it and I want to know what would be better methods, if there are any | within reasonable cost.” With the consent of the other Com- missioners he named as the Investi- gating Committee: Capt. Howard F. | Clark Assistant Engineer Commis- | sioner: Health Officey Gedrge C. | Ruhland, Sanitary Engineer J. B. Gordon and Harold A. Kemp. en- gineer for the Sewage Disposal Plant. | ing information on their latest | methods. ‘The committee also will | study possibility of incineration of garbage, but Col. Sultan said it is already known that method is “very | expensive.” Furthermore, he said, “this is a case of button, button, who's got the button?” If it were deemed advisable to set up a garbage incinerator, he said, “Where would we put that?” The garbage transfer point, for the transfer of garbage from trucks to railroad gondola cars, which take the shipments to the Cherry Hill renaer- ing plant, has been at New Jersey ave- nue and K street southeast for 35 years. BAD CRASH LACKING AS 24 HOURS PASS Speeders Continue to Be Chief Traffic Offenders as Police Push Drive on Violators. Washington today had gone through another 24 hours without a serious traffic accident as police continued their campaign against traffic law violators. Speedere continued to be the principal offenders during the 24- hour period ending at 8 am. Total arrests for this offense alone totaled 55, as compared with 31 for the previous 24 hours. There were 205 arrests for all traffic violations, .as | against 221 the preivous day. Ten persons were injured in 23 accidents. One, a pedestrian, at first was thought to have a skull fracture, but returned home after being given first aid at Casualty Hospital. Charles Prichard, 6, of 647 Hamil- ton street, injured Saturday when struck by & truck near his home, was still in & serious condition today at Walter Reed Hospital, where his recovery was held doubtful. The boy ;‘; l:een unconscious since the ac- ent. e BAR BILL DISAPPROVED War Experience Held No Quali- fication for Practice of Law. ‘The Commissioners today informed the House District Committee of their disapproval of a bill to admit to practice before District courts World War veterans who have studied law without examinations. It is necessary that the courts have authority to determine qualifications of persons admitted to practice before them, the Commimioners said. ° ” Sale of Narcotics Alleged in ' Another Charge by Grand Jury. who are denied issuance of new op- | erators’ permits because of bad rec- ords. Among causes given for revocation | or suspension of permits, the tmardI listed: Epileptic attacks, 3; general records, 74; leaving after colliding, 52; manslaughter (traffic fatality), 2; mentally incompetent, 13; for causing | traffic fatalities in the District, 36, and in other States, 9; for traffic recurdn; in other States, 25; unauthorized use of motor vehicles, 5, and for violation of the District liquor law, in cases | where automobiles were involved, 19. Non-Residents Penalized. ‘The board revoked or suspended the driving privileges of non-residents in 93 cases. During the past fiscal year The alleged dexterity of Sadsbury | they should be black resulted today | Bailey was arrested while demon- | | strating the game to a crowd in the | 2200 block of Pennsylvania avenue. | | According to police, he admitted win- | | ning $2 from one onlooker who tried | (and failed to pick the red card. George Hillman was indicted for the | | sale of narcotics. Special agents al- legedly purchased $30 worth of dope from him in the lobby of a downtown hotel. Samuel J. Celone, night auditor of |the Ambassador Hotel, was charged | with embezzlement and forgery. He allegedly took $135 intrusted to his | | care. | Others Indicted. Others indicted, with the charges | against them, are: | | Joseph Moore and Charles W. Scott, | | housebreaking; Charles W. Scott, | Pembrook C. Thomas, William Tay- | lor, Henry Ferguson, Alphonso Young, ‘W. Rogers, Edward J. Long and Rich- ard M. Sudduth, housebreaking and ‘lnceny: Rodney Payne, housebreak- ing and larceny and joyriding; Wi | liam J. Fletcher, James Clay, Eugene | Terrell and William Shorter, joy- | riding; Dane Martin and Gernald W. | Jones, joyriding and grand larceny; | Norman F. Fowler, Sonny Boy John- |son, Raymond E. Brewer, Harry Vareen, James Torrence, Matthew Poythrees, William Saxon, Frank E. McCord and Elmer Brooks, grand larceny; Bertie Crawford and Ray- mond J. Harris, receiving stolen prop- erty. Joe R. Newkirk, Arthur Williams, Dominick Nastasia, Catherine Mitch- ell, Charles Hines, jr., and Clayton | Meadows, assault with a dangerous weapon; Carrie Carter, assault with intent to kill and assault with a dan- gerous weapon:; Mattie Tyler and Es- telle Green, mayhem; Theodore R. Hird, Willle C. Cobb, Elmer Acker- man and Walter J. Nottle, assault with intent to commit robbery; Frank Boyce, Robert Thompson and Robert | H. Simmons, rape; Harry Liverpool, | assault with intent to commit carnal | knowledge; Eugene P. Taylor, abduc- tion; Helen 8. Harrison, Henry J. Johnson, Howard L. Smith, Edward N. Greeno, Robert Chambers, William O. Turner, Glenroy Toombs, Joseph Thurpin, Tucker James, Josephine Plerce, Allen Ross, Joseph W. Cole- man, Frederick R. Reamy and Her- bert Hancock, violating liquor taxing act. Louis F. Behrens, violating Harri- son narcotic act; John T. Young and William R. Savoy, larceny from the United States; Harry R. Webster, vio- lating section 848 of District of Co- lumbia code; Alvin Miller, violating section 73, title 18, United States code; Earl Puckett, forgery and uttering; Julius Alfred Lee, bigamy; William Frederick White, violating white slave traffic act, and Helen Theresa Barnes, second-degree murder. < Jury Clears Others. The grand jury cleared the follow- ing of the charges indicated: Porter Lewis and Wiliam Henry Brown, housebreaking and larceny; James 8. Blackshear, James Monroe, Willie O. Lester; John Brown, Jack Jones and John F. Burger, joyriding; Fred Taylor, robbery; Walter L. Nash and Julian C. Nash, receiving stolen property; William Hudson, Margaret Hopson, Joe Speight and Pauline Ray- mond, . assault with a dangerous weapon; George B. Reid, assault; Mary Agnes Williams, violating liquor tax- ing act; Gustave Kalisch, false pre- ::e!:m‘ and Andrew Chambers, homi- e. Rail Revenues Improve. Revenues of railways in the Irish Free State are greater than last year. L] | for $122.205. | mated cost of $4,000,000, of which 70 | SAMUEL T. WHITE, the board restored a total of 537] licenses which had been revoked or | most practicable means of disposing | Bailey in turning up red cards where | suspended. Members of the board are Inspec- | the Commissioners as a result of the | in his indictment by the District grand | tor B. A. Lamb of the Traffic Bureau campaign of residents of Southeast | jury as a three-card monte operator. | Assistant Traffic Director M. O. El ridge and Assistant Corporation Coun- sel Raymond Sparks. —_— SEWAGE-DISPOSAL UNIT CONTRACT IS AWARDED Eleventh Section of Plant at Blue Plains to Be Outfall Conduits. Contract for construction of the | eleventh unit of the sewage-disposal plant being erected at Blue Plains under a loan from the Public Works Administration was awarded yester- day by the Commissioners. The new section is to be outfall conduits, most of which will be under- | water construction. The award went to the Kaufman Construction Co., | which submitted a bid to do the work The entire project has an esti- per cent must be repaid by the Dis- trict over a period of years, with in- terest at 4 per cent. PIANO MAKER, DIES Capital Woman at Father's Side as He Succumbs to Heart Dis- ease in Mount Vernon, N. Y. Samuel T. White, well-known piano manufacturer and the father of Mrs. Manton M. Wyvell, 3117 Woodley road, died today at his Mount Vernon, N. Y., home, according to word re- ceived here. He was 83. Mrs. Wyvell, the wife of a Wash- ington attorney now in a New York sanitarium suffering from a nervous breakdown, was with her father when he died. Five other children survive Mr. White. A son, Edwin Brooks ‘White, is an editor of the New Yorker. Mr. White was president of the Horace Waters Piano Co., Mount Ver- non. He had been ill of heart dis- ease for some time. S CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Dinner, Zonta Club, Y. W. C. A, Seventeenth and K streets, 6:30 p.m. Banquet, Phi Sigma Chi Fraternity, ‘Willard “Hotel, 7 p.m. Meeting, District Council, Royal Arcanum, 930 H street, 8 p.m. Excursion, Kismet Council, Royal Arcanum, steamer City of Washing- ton, Seventh Street Wharf, 8:45 p.m. Meeting, National Institute of Adult Education, Burlingtpn Hotel, 8 p.m. ‘TOMORROW. Luncheon, Cosmopolitan Club, Carl- ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Kiwanis Club, Mayflower Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Meeting, League of Laymen's Re- treat, Mayfiower Hotel, 8 p.m. Meeting, Lido Civic Club, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Excursion, A. F. G. E,, steamer Po- tomac, Sixth and Water streets south- west, 8:45 p.m. Meeting, National Institute of Adult Education, Burlington Hotel, 8 p.m. Swimming party, P. W. A. Athletic Association, Wardman Park Hotel, '{ ‘pm. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1935. Panama Is Hat Style for Flivver Plane Week-End Ship, Meant to Sell at Under $1,000, Just Needs Some Shock-Absorbers. Aboard the flivver plane, the super-safe sky scooter, straw hats and light suits are the style. chief of the development section of the Bureau of Air Commerce, dons a panama and comes down as immaculate as he went up. Blair Bolles, Star reporter, also joins the Straw Hat Flyers’ Club for this newest version of the —Star Staff Photo. T float through the air with the greatest of ease. BY BLAIR BOLLES. | HE straw hat family week end | plane. unspillable and un- spinable, zoomed over Ana- | costia this morning and landed without mishap to its tender under- carriage. The tailless Waterman Arrow was | driven by John Geisse, who flew it to Washington from California, dressed in a seersucker suit and wearing a Panama hat to protect himself from the hot sun which streamed through the skylight over the tiny cabin. The orange and black plane, which, when it is perfected. should sell for less than $1.000, is the perfect vehicle for the back seat driver who wants to act, not talk. There are a stick and pedals for each occupant, and if the passenger doesn't like the way the pilot is doieg things, he or she can put the ideas into effect. It cruises at about 90 miles per hour, takes off at 55, can land at, 35 and has been flown as high as 12,500 feet. Playing tag in the clouds with this ship is like floating on a sled. If the passenger were any further up front he would be falling through the air. Nothing obstructs the forward, side or top views. When it is ready | for the market it will probably have a glass floor to give visibility there, Both the engine and the propeller are in the rear. Aft, also, is a com- partment for luggage, 40 pounds of it, | Dad to bulld an just enough for a week end journey. The chief lack of the plane now, from the standpoint of comfort, is adequate shock-absorbing. The taxi across the landing field terrain is like the rocky road to Dublin, as the ship jolts like a camel. It resembles a rearing horse when it takes off, so abruptly does it leave the ground after a long run. Society and General PAGE B—1 TRADE BOARD ASKS STADIUM INCLUDE LARGE AUDITORIUM 10,000 to 15,000 Seats and 60,000 Square Feet of Space Urged. {WOULD ACCOMMODATE BIGGEST CONVENTIONS National as Well as Local Benefit Is Contemplated, Park Body Is Told. John Geisce, “It ought to take off sooner when we lighten the ship up a bit,” Geisse, chief of the development section of the Bureau of Air Commerce, said “It won't leave the ground mow until it gets good and ready. You can't rush it off or “sunce it off. It just takes patience.” The plane weighs 1940 pounds. but it is planned to lighten the engine The ship was in the making for years. Waldo Waterman, coast aero- nautics engineer, constructed it. To give balance to the first model he outrigger to hold a heavy steel vise. The present ship has no such strange devices, however. ‘There's nothing new about a tailless plane, Geisse said. In 1912 the Bur- gess-Dunn flew acceptably without a tail, but it was discarded because of its stability. The Armv and Navy were then the leading developers of aircraft. and they sought maneuver- | ability above all. SIDEWALK BLAST INQURY LAUNCHED. All Downtown Transformers | to Be Investigated After Explosion at Post. Investigation of the explosion yes- terday of one of the new transformers in a sidewalk vault in front of the Post Building was begun today by en- gineers of the District government and the Potomac Electric Power Co. The damage was estimated at $2,500. Onme passerby, Miss Marcia Ostrom, | 46, of 1426 K street. a Government em- | ploye. suffered burns on the face, neck and left arm when flames shot into the air as she walked near a sidewalk | grating. She was still in Emergency | Hospital today. ‘Willie Thomas, a colored maid in the Post Building. was injured when she fell down a flight of stairs in try- ing to flee from the structure. She was given first-aid treatment at the building. Another woman, who left the scene without giving her name, was reported to have been cut by fly- ing glass. Transformers to Be Studied. After officials have determined the cause of the explosion there is to be a careful study of the whole question of the design and installation of sev- eral hundred transformers being in- stalled at various points in downtown ‘Washington. This was ordered by the District Commissioners and the Pub- lic Utilities Commission to determine if there is anything wrong and, if so, to indicate corrections. The transformers are being in- stalled to provide a change from di- rect to alternating current for in- stitutions needing considerable elec- trical power. The transformer at the Post Build- ing was moved last night to the Ben- ning plant of the power company. Fred A. Sager, chief engineer of the Utilities Commission; Walter E. Kern, superintendent of the District Elec- trical Department; other District en- gineers and officials of the power company met there this morning to determine the cause of the blast. Power Head Asked for Data. Chairman Riley E. Elgen of the Utilities Commission, has called on President William McClelland of the power company to submit compre- hensive statements on the design and installation of the new transformer. Reports today by Fire Chief Charles E. Schrom disclosed his department is in need of a number of high pressure fire extinguishers of the gas type to put out fires such as that which blazed in the oil from the blasted transformer. It developed that power company workmen, using this type of extinguisher, put out the blaze at the Polt. The Fire Department did not have such equipment. 4.H Club Elects Staff. LEONARDTOWN, Md, August 14 (Special) —The Girls' 4-H Club of Hughesville has elected Miss Helen Gibbons president. She will have serving with her the following officers: Vice president, Betty Stonestreet. secretary, Miss Elsle Schultz; treas- urer, Miss Theresa Garbis, and chair- WOMANISKILED, man of the Room Committee, Miss Marths Bowling. ¢ Overburdened Bailiff Helpless | When Prisoner Takes to Heels Theodore T. Harrison, of 1636 Fifth street, took advantage of the fact his guard had only two | fin: hands, and walked out of Police | Court today after -being convicted of two traffic charges. | Harrison faced Judge John P. Mc- Mahon accused of operating a car| on a suspended permit and of operat- #1g a taxicab without a license. Judge McMahon found him guilty and on the | two charges gave him the choice of paying fines of $65 or spending 40 days 'in jail. Harrison elected to pay the fines, | 21, colored, | ‘Two other prisoners had also decided to pay fines. A bailiff led the three toward the ancial clerk’s cffice. Before they arrived, however, Harrison broke away and ran. The bailiff wanted to give chase. | But to pursue Harrison he had to free | his other two prisoners. 'He came to the conclusion that two birds in the hand were worth Harrison in the open road. and the traffic offender escaped. Court officials held the bailiff blame- less. and took advantage of the case to renew their plaint that more per- sonnel is needed to conduct the court’s business, OHURT N CRASHES Hampton, Va., Resident Is Fatally Injured on Bal- timore Boulevard. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. MARIHUANA CASES REVVE BILL PLEA Pharmacy Society Renews Appeal for Enactment of Control Measure. With six prisoners ready to be ar-| HYATTSVILLE, Md,, August 14— |raigned in Police Court tomorrow on One person was killed and nine sent | charges of peddling marihuana, to hospitals as a result of accidents|smoked in “reefers” by addicts here, on slippery Prince Georges County highways after a shower last night. | Mrs. Wileen Weissenberger, 805 | Blair avenue, Hampton, Va., was | fatally injured when, according to police, an automobile in which she was riding skidded on the Baltimore Boulevard and hit a truck at Berwyn. She was removed to Providence | Hospital by the Bladensburg rescue | squad, and died within a few hours of internal injuries. Son Was Driving. Her son, Charles, 21, who was said | to be driving the car, and William | B. Florence, 300 block of D street northeast, alleged driver of the truck, were placed under bond for a pre- | liminary hearing to be conducted by | Magistrate Herbert J. Moffat at & | gjtional evidence of the need of such | date to be determined today. | Elsie Houston and Mary Clement of | Louisville, Ky., other occupants of the Weissenberger machine, also were | taken to the hospital. The {ormeri was found to be unhurt, but the lat- | ter's condition was reported undeter- | mined this morning. Seven Hurt in Bus. Seven colored people were hurt when a bus on which they were re- turning from a picnic skidded into a pole on the Defense Highway at the Ardmore turn. Ruth Statesman, 60, first block of L street, was the most seriously in- jured. She is in Casualty Hospital with a possible skull fracture. George Bernard, 41, 2100 block of Vermont avenue, whom police say was driving, was treated at the hos- pital for minor cuts and then jailed here pending the outcome of the in- juries to others on the bus. They included: William Alexander, 13,7200 block of Parker street north- east, forehead lacerations; Nellie Kearns, 26, first block of New York avenue, cuts and bruised shoulder; Lois Wilkinson, 60, 700 block of Eighteenth street, lacerations of fore- head and face; Sophie Booth, 76, 400 the Pharmacy Society of the District of Columbia today renewed its demand | for enactment of a bill now pending in €ongress which would severely penalize handlers of the poisonous weed. Vincent B. Norelli, president of the | Pharmacy Society, said the bill, intro- duced by Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, would provide for better control of the situation here not only as relates to marihuana, but to all other habit-forming drugs. The bill is pending in the Senate District Committee, but no action has yet been taken on it, he said. Norelli said the Pharmacy Society | is keenly interested in the bill and | feels that the arrests of alleged mari- huana peddlers, indicating the in- creased prevalence of use here, is ad- legislation. The six arrested by Federal narcotic agents and police were slated to be arraigned for violation of the old pbarmacy laws. They are Charles Joseph Ross, 700 block of Thirteenth | street, white, and these, colored: Hor- ace Battler, 1200 block of Six-and-a- half street; John H. Brown, 1600 block of Eighth street; Sydney Fos- ter, first block of P-street; Ruth Bol- den, 1800 block of Corcoran street, and Robert Frazier, 900 block of N street. Church Supper Tomorrow. GAITHERSBURG, Md., Augugt 14 (Special) —Under auspices of the La- dies’ Aid Society of Epworth Metho- dist Church here, the annual harvest home supper of the church will be held on the lawn of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Gartner here tomorrow. Mrs. Norma B. Jacobs is chairman of the commit- tee in charge. juries, and Cecelia Fair, first block of L street, who was released after being ‘treated for arm, leg and neck injuries. County Policeman Albert Ander- son and Edward D. Merson investi- gated the two Auddnh. An auditorium with a seating ca- pacity of 10.000 to 15,000 and exhibi- tion space of 60,000 to 100,000 square feet will be included in plans for the proposed municipal stadium at the foot of East Capitol street, if a re- quest of the Washington Board of Trade is acted upon favorably by the National Capital Park and Planning | Commission John Saul, president of the Board of Trade, has called upon Frederic A. Delano, chairman of the commis- sion, and Francis P. Sullivan. con- sulting architect for the stadium, to include auditorium and exhibition space sufficiently large to accommo- date the largest gatherings in the United States. Saul was supported in presenting the request by Arthur B. Heaton chairman of the Public and Private Buildings Committee, Karl Corby | chairman of the Parks and Reserva- tions Committee, and Robert J. Cot- trell, executive secretary of the board. Architecture Is Approved. Architectural plans for the huge structure have already been given the approval of the Fine Arts Commission but detailed interior plans have not | been finally acted upon. t The Trade Board gave Delano sta- tistics showing the seating capacily and exhibition space of the larges: auditoria in the country, ranging from 6.000 seats in Grand Rapids and Co- lumbus to 13.200 at Philadelphia. Ex- hibition space of 40.000 square feet at Memphis ranges up to 230,000 feet at Philadelphia Saul and Heaton pointed out in let- | ters to the commission chairman that some 200 conventions meet in Wash- ington annually, but that the 25 or 30 largest cannot convene here be- cause of the lack of accommodations Hotels are sufficiently large for the biggest, but no convention requiring more than 4.000 seats can find a place to meet here Might Pay Part of Own Cost. Among the larger conventions cited are the American Medical Associatio:. the American College of Surgeons, the American Library Association, the American Transit Association, the Christian Endeavor Association, the Interstate Post-graduate Medical Ac- sociation, a large group of church and religious organizations and others. ‘While no cost figure for the stadium project has been announced, it was pointed out that the auditorium could be used as a source of income to de- fray at least a part of the expense of erection. Already plans call for a stadium capable of seating some 80,000 to 100.- 000, a National Guard Armory, & Ma- rine Reserve Armory, with adequate drill fields; complete facilities for track, field and water sports, and other athletic features. { Local Use Limitation. | These. the trade toard pointed out, may limit the use of the center to loca! purposes, whereas an aduitorium of sufficient size would be utilized by many national and possibly interna- tional organizations. | “I am by no means speaking entirely on behalf of the people of Washing- ton.” Heaton said. “The subject is one | that is of vital interest to hundreds | of thowsands of members of large or- | ganizations living in all parts of the United States.” Among other cities that have such | facilities, with which Washington is comparable, are St. Louis, Milwaukee Minneapolis, San Francisco, Pitts- burgh, Denver, Buffalo, Louisville and New Orleans. Armory Combination Used. At Louisville the auditorium is combined with an armory, which was suggested as a possibility in the proj- ect here. Pittsburgh is now building an auditorium which will seat 14,000 and have 160,000 square feet of ex- hibition space, with most of the money for the project coming from the Federal Government. Kansas City is also building a structure that will seat from 14,000 to 25,000 and wili in- clude 38 meeting halls President Saul asked for a hearing before the Park and Planning Com- mission before final action is taken | Sullivan is now drafting tentative | plans to be submitted. The Board of Trade was the orig- inal sponsor here of the stadium proj- | ect and in the drive for its approval has gained the support of more than 90 civic and other organizations. CHRISTIAN WILL SING | FAMOUS ARIAS HERE New York Baritone on “Sunset Symphony” Concert Pro- gram Tonight. Two famous arias will be sung by Harrison Christian, New York bari- tone, when he appears on the pro- gram of the “Sunset Symphony” econ- cert of the National Symphony Or- chestra at the Potomac Water Gate at 8 o'clock tonight. The concert will be conducted by Burle Marx, director of the Rio de Janeiro Philharmonic Orchestra, !who won acclaim by his conducting last Sunday. Christian was born in Lynchburg, Va., and has appeared in more than 200 concerts in Europe and in the United States., The selections for his appearance tonight are “Is It Thou.” from Verdi's “Masked Ball,” and the popular prologue from “I Pagliacei,” by Leoncavallo. A program of South American works will be played by the orchestra under the direction of Mr. Marx. Beethoven's “Fifth Symphony* will feature the classical part of the concert. 3