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Petworth Library Plan Is Pushe d by Citizens With Georgetown Branch Built, Project Now Heads List of Recommendations by Library Trustees. Seeing an opportunity to secure the principal goal of the Petworth Citizens’ Association, the Executive Committee has held a special meeting to lay plans to obtain funds for the project out of the 1937 District budget. Because of the hearings on the bud- get during the past week the com- mittee designated its Petworth Li- brary Committee chairman, Horace J. Phelps, and President Lyster H. Dewey to appear before the Commissioners and present the needs for a library. Project Long Sought. The project ha¢ for many years been before the association and now occupies the position of major im- portance among improvements sought. Last year the board of trustees of the ‘Washington Public Library approved & $150,000 appropriation for the Pet- worth item and had it listed a§ sec- ond among its recommendations to the Commissioners during the 1936 budget hearings. The first item was the Georgetown Library, but since its | approval, the Petworth item now heads the library trustees’ list of recom- mendations. Appearing at the hearings last week with Phelps and Dewey were Harvey ©. Craver, chairman Education Com- mittee, and George W. Stose of the Library Committee. In his appeal to the Commissioners for the library, Phelps brought out the following: The site for the pro- posed library is 2!, miles north of the central library and almost an equal | distance from the Takoma Park Li- brary to the north. It is over a mile from the Mount Pleasant branch, he | asserted. The project would serve a popula- tion of about 50,000, of which about 11,000 are school children, he pointed out. Five Groups Represented. Five other groups were represented | in behalf of the library. Among these were Mrs. La Verne Beals, president of the Fetworth Woman's Club; Mrs. Albert M. Jones, Joppa Lodge Chapter of the Eastern Star, and Mrs Alfred C. Norcross, chairman of the Joint Committee on the Petworth Branch Library, an or- ganizatioa of several local civic bodies. Also sought by Phelps is the con- struction of Dennison Vocational School, on the corner of the Tubercu- losis Hospital site at Allison street and Arkansas avenue. Delay until the hospital moves to Glenn Dale, Md., in 1936, will be unnecessary, the associa- tion argues, since the proposed site for the school is not now occupied by any existing structures. A project which would, however, have to awalt the transfer of the| hospital is the creation of a recrea- tional center, after the existing struc- tures have been demolished. Thisalso| was prescnted to the Commissioners by Phelps. SCHOOL ADDITION ASKED. Takoma Citizens Seek Inclusion In Budget for 1937, Inclusion of items for an addition to the Paul Junior High School and a Northern High School for the Takoma Park area in the 1937 District budget is being stressed by officials cf the ‘Takoma Park, Md.-D. C., Citizens’ As- sociation before the District Commis=- sioners, Mrs. Mary Lamond White, vice president of the association and chair- man of the Schools Committee, has made an exhaustive study of the sit- uation and has prepared data from ‘various official sources emphasizing the | necessity for increased school facili- | ties in that section of the National | Capital. A 10-room addition, including a gymnasium on the south end of the Paul Junior High School, will balance the building which now consists of the central building and a northern wing. THAELMANN TRIAL CALLED PROPAGANDA Delegates to Penal Congress in Berlin Predict Nazi Sensa- tion in October. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, August 24.—The trial of Ernst Thaelmann, one-time Commu- nist leader and member of the Reichs- tag, will be the Nazis' propaganda eensation in October, it was predicted yesterday. “Thaelmann has been kept these many months in Moabit Prison.as a reserve propaganda medium, to be \brought forward when public interest in Nazi affairs seems lagging,” said one of seven delegates to the Inter- national Penal Congress, who saw the prisoner yesterday. p! Thaelmann will answer a high tr:lmn charge after 29 months in Individual groups of the penal con- gress met today. Among points on | which arguments are expected are | Germany's penal reforms providing for emasculation of criminals and ‘monster” trials, or trials of grou of defendants. g CAMP FOR CHILDREN LAID TO COMMUNISTS California Sheriff Says Radical Literature Was Seized in Prado Raid. By the Associated Press. RIVERSIDE, Calif., August 24— Riverside County authorities opened an investigation yesterday into the operation of an asserted Communist camp for children near Prado. Designated an “anti-war camp,” Sheriff T. Rayburn said, it has drawn 65 boys and girls between the ages of 12 and 20 from Southern California countfes. Accompanied by County Health Of- ficer W. A. Jones, Sherif Rayburn said he Yound the children of white, Negro and other races living together in an open camp without buildings or tents. A woman in charge of the camp was . quoted by the sheriff as saying it was fostered by the “International In- surance Co.” He said he confiscated & quantity of radical literature, Ex-Hubby on Honeymoon. LOS ANGELES (#)—Robert Gard- ner Green and Mrs. Green, socially representing the| The normal capacity of this school with the 10-room wing completed would be 1,275 pupils, whereas the school in its present incompleted con- dition had at the close of the last school year 1,329 pupils. The average increase for the past four years has been 150 pupils. The excess has been taken care of by use of the old Brighte wood Public School, abandoned sev- eral years ago. ‘The desirability of funds for the preparation of plans and construc- tion of a Northern high school is be- ing urged on the ground that the rapid growth of this section of the District warrants its construction. The site has been secured by the Board of Edu- cation in the area bounded by Third, ?ifth, Sheridan and Underwood streets. In addition there is ample room on this reservation for a stadium. President Walter Irey points out if the appropriation is authorized ¢ would not be completed and ready for occupancy before the Fall of 1938. In this connection President Irey said: School Attendance Listed. “As an indication of the territory which a northern senior high schocl would serve, official school figures show 3,654 girls and boys are now at- tending eight gmaded schools in this territory. These schools include the | Barnard School, 662; Brightwood, | 473; Keene, 178; Shepherd, 179; Ta- | koma Park, 522; Truesdell, 512; West, | 458, and Whittler, 670. Adding to| these the puplls of the Paul Junior | | High School of 1,329, we have a pres- ent school attendance in the area ‘o be served by the proposed senior high school of 4,983 children. In addition | there are a number who of necessity | | 8o long distances from this section to | attend other senior high schools in | other parts of the city already over- | crowded. This is particularly true of | | the new Roosevelt Senior High School | | at Thirteenth and Upshur streets, | where pupils from the Takoma area attend and which is also over-| crowded.” | | “'n common wit other citizens’ as- | | sociations from all sections, the Ta- | koma Park organization is interested | | in the success of the Teachers Col- | | lege and is supporting the plan for the | | erection of an adequate building for the college on District-owned property | to be available at Fourteenth and Up- | | shur streets, | | ASKS ROOSEVELT COMPLETION. | P.-T. A. Official Sends Request to Commissioner Hazen. | Completion of Roosevelt High School in keeping with its original plans was asked by Mrs. B. G. McIll- | | wee, member of the Legislative Com~ mittee of the Roosevelt Parent- Teacher Association, in a letter to Commissioner Hazen this week, in | connection with discussion of the | 1937 District budget. She asked approval of an appropria- tion item of $125,000 for the addition of seven class rooms and a corridor and emphasized this addition was a part of the original plans for the building. This section of the building, she said, was omitted because of lack of funds. The high school was intended to have & maximum enrollment of :,500 pupils but the records of the past semester showed 1,930, or 430 over “capacity,” she sald in citing the need of the addition. “This school was built and equipped with the understanding that pupils from all parts of the city who wanted the intensive business training it offers would be allowed to come to Roosevelt, but because of the lack of | room very few outside the local zone | of the school may attend,” she said. She also ipdorsed the request of the Public Librarian, Dr. George F. Bowerman, for funds for a Petworth Branch Library, Who Are You? The Romance of Your Name. BY RUBY HASKINS ELLIS. Bathurst THE Colonial settler who bore this coat of arms to America was Launcelot Bathurst, who was in New Kent County, Va., in 1683. In 1688 he was serving as clerk of the Committee of Private Causes in the House of Burgesses and in 1698 he was made high sheriff of New Kent. He was the fifth son of Sir Edward Bathurst of Cranbrook, County Kent, England, where the Bathurst family is traceable to ancient days in England when it was in possession of a great manor near the famous Battel Abbey, in County Sussex. The name Bathurst is derived from the Saxon word “bath,” often applied to hot springs, and “hurst,” meaning & wooded place, a grove, Consequently we have “the baths in the grove.” The coat of arms is tinctured, “Quarterly first and fourth, sable, two bars er- mined, in chief, three crosses pattee or, second and third, gules a chevron between three lances argent.” (Copyright. 1935.) MEAT STRIKERS BARRED BY COURT FROM 2 SHOPS Injunction Permits Peaceful Pick- eting, but Prohibits Obstruc- tion of Doorways. DETROIT, August 24.—Circuit Judge Thomas J. Murphy signed an order yesterday restraining Mrs. Mary Zuk and other housewives conducting a meat buyers’ strike from molesting or threatening customers at two meat markets here. The injunction does not restrain peaceful picketing, but prohibits ob- prominent, were married twice, and ,structing doorways or sidewalks. divorced twice. Yesterday Mrs. Green ‘The markets are owned by Julius { School, which will be completed about October 1. THE SUNDAY BTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. Problems, Civic Bodies LOW-COST HOUSING PROJECT PRAISED Heads of New Group See Even Greater Need for - Elementary School. Batisfaction at the announcement of P. W. A. plans for developing Ana- rostia Terrace as a low-cost housing project was expressed yesterdsy by officers of the North Randle Commu- nity Citizens’ Assoclation. After a conference with school offi- cials, the heads of the group believe the added number of children in the community resulting from the housing project will add weight to their pleas for an elementary school—the need that recently resulted in organization of the association. School Plea Made. At a recent meeting of the associa- tion its president, F. H. Christianson; Schools Committee Chairman Mrs. Bessie Milbert and another member of the same committee were named by members to appear before school offi- cials with a plea for two temporary portable structures to accommodate elementary school students in North Randle Highlands. A list of the names and addresses of 124 children between the ages of 1 and 10 years and in the fourth grade or below was submitted to Rob- ert Haycock, assistant superintendent of schools, as one reason why facil- ities are needed. The community is between Benning on the north and Randle Highlands on the south. Chil- dren of the area attend the Benning School or the Orr School, in Randle Highlands, which, they point out, is too far for children of that age to have to travel, Haycock in Agreement. Haycock declared the projected housing development will without doubt add great weight to North Ran- dle residents’ request for grade school facilities. “It brings into the picture a new angle,” he stated. An investigation by school authori- ties will be made on the needs and location of the school, Haycock said, and the completion of the housing development will determine when such & structure should be built. “The Government estimates there will be about 700 families living there,” Haycock asserted, “with an age of two children to each fam- ily.” He added, however, th#& these children include all under 18 years of age. High School Facilities. Children of junior high school age will attend the projected Anacostia Senior high school stu- dents will be accomodated by the ad- dition to the Anacostia School whtch{ has already been approved by Con- | gress and which was authorized to | relieve congestion at Eastern High | School. However, Haycock believes, the ad- ditional number of children brought into the area by the construction of about 700 dwellngs will probably ne- cessitate the construction of a perma- nent elementary school. Its location probably will be central, between the three communities it must serve—North Randle Highlands, East ‘Washington Park and Anacostia Ter- race. Contract BY P. HAL SIMS. Close Double, Too Close. HER® wac just a muted hum of conversation in the smoke- filled air. Here and there snatches of words could be distinguisned — clubs — diamonds — if you'd only led my sult, but on the whole the Elite Bridge Club was very | quiet. Suddenly, cutting like a knife through the stillness, came the clarion cry, “doudle!” It turned out that this was South, clambering on top of the table in order to inform East that it was South’s firm belief that East could not make two clubs. South was not alone in this belief. East was with him. A J-10-8-6-5-4 v Q-10-7 ¢ 10-5-4 & A-K-Q-9 ‘The bidding: N East South. North. 1l st 8 Pass. — Fast's bid was, of course, an out- and-out psychic. West paused a mo- ment before he laid down his hand. “You ought to wrap this up,” he said benignly. East gave him a wan smile. South opened the queen of clubs and gave his partner a signficant look when it held the trick. He continued with the ace and king of clubs and then shifted to the king of spades. The ace took on the board. East re-entered his hand with the king of diamonds and risked everything on a finesse of the nine spot of hearts. When that card forced the ace East felt much better. Inciden- tally, North does much better to hold off the ace of hearts. That is not & play to be forgotten, my friends. Let the declarer use up an entry and take & finesse a second time. In this case, however, North took the ace of hearts and played back a spade, South won and continued the suit. East trumped, drew South’s last trump and gleefully finessed the jack of hearts. Three hearts, one spade, two clubs and two diamonds are exactly eight tricks. Even if East misguesses the hearts, he can only go down one trick. With- out & club lead, however, East has a pretty stormy time of it. (Copyright, 1936) ~ & ""m‘.’"" will answer all l?:‘lzmu on con- l'n‘cit it are addressed to newspaper. lose & self-addressed. 3-cent & envelope. e SUICIDE IS DISPUTED LOS ANGELES, August 24 (#;.—Al- though the death yesterday of Mrs. Audrey Jones, 33, wife of I. L. Jones, wealthy Cleveland, Ohio, business man, ‘was reported by police as suicide, they continued an investigation. Mrs. Jones died at the Hollywood had committed suicide, to discuss the tragedy further. Civic AUGUST 25 Budget Hearing of Commissioners Held to Be Badly Timed—Modest Library Requests Are Made for Coming Fiscal Year. BY JESSE C. SUTER. 8 CONGRESS has lingered in Washington _cltizens have continued to hope for the completion of several pleces of nearly completed District legislation. On Wednesday the Senate approved the conference report on the unemployment com- pensation bill and on Thursday the report passed the House and went to the President. The bill is substantially as written by the Benate and meets most of the de- sires of the District Commissions and local organizations. It is & very fair bill. It will be adminis- tered by the District Commis- sioners instead of following the plan of putting it under the Fed- eral Government for handling as in an experimental laboratory. The airport legislation, which & week ago, was scheduled to go into storage till next session, has been once more tackled by the conferees, who are hopeful of reaching an agreement and adoption by the two Houses before adjournment. The contemplated action is to provide for the appointment of a commis- sion to recommend a specific site to Congress at next session. The National Capital Park and Planning Commission at its recent meeting again recorded its belief that the airport should be located at Gravelly Point. ‘The Senate District Committee has practically cleared its calen- dar of all bills. In the closing committee meeting the members of the committee, and particularly the chairman, Senator King of Utah, were warmly praised by representa- tive citizens for the diligence with which they had worked for District legislation. Senator King very frankly con- fesses to be very tired because of the long session and the heavy burden he has had to carry both as a Senator from Utah and as Chairman of the District Commit- tee. His correspondence and his callers on District matters have consumed much time, thought and energy. Some of the civic leaders say they have noticed that as Sen- ator King’s contacts with the Dis- trict people have increased he has grown far more sympathetic with the District viewpot = the wpoint on legisla. Commissioners’ Budget Hearing Lacks Value of 1934 Event, UTTING the cart before the horse method of the Commis- sioners' budget hearing last week has not proven popular with the organized civic forces and then it has been ill timed. The result has been that the Commissioners have had so few customers that they cut the hearings from three days to two. The preliminary hearings last year on the 1936 budget began on September 17, after most vacation periods had ended, and followed a release of the preliminary esti- mates by the heads of the several departments of the District gov- ernment. This proved to be a very popular move on the part of the Commissioners and it met with a prompt and very hearty response by the civic gropus and individual citizens. Civic leaders are at a loss for a reason for the change from the popular method of 1934, unless it represents the first step back to the “horse and buggy days,” when the citizens were kept absolutely in the dark, from start to finish, in the preparation of their budget. ‘Those attending the hearing were pleased to note that the board room had been restored to its rightful use by the removal of the partitions at the two ends and re- placing the seats. With the win- dows open for ventilation, the street noises made hearing what was being said nearly impossible. ‘This, and the further fact that most spokesmen for the various groups presented their case in such confidential tones that the * other citizens attending gathered little from what was going on. Schools, libraries, streets and bridges were included in most of the neighborhood and sectional re- quests. Many were disappointed Leenly that the preliminary rec- ommendations were not available, and this was recognized as a seri- ous handicap in the intelligent presentation of the needs. High lights of the hearing were the testimony of Rufus Lusk for the Taxpayers’ Protective Associa- tion, in which he urged winding up the emergency relief during the present fiscal year, and that of Harry N. Stull of the Stanton Park Citizens’ Association, who advo- cated the abolition of earmarked tax funds and the covering of the gas tax and the water revenues into the general fund. Lusk sup- ported his contention by an inter- esting array of statistics in which he claimed that there is no depres- sion in the District of Columbia and that some of the amazing figures on emergency relief are dif- ficult if not impossible to explain. Stull, who appeared as chair- man of the Committee on Educa- tion of the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, was led into the tax discussion by Commissioner Allen, and his views coincide with those expressed by the Commissioner. Col. Sultan expressed himself as not in agreement. Inquiry among civic leaders develops the fact that there is general disagreement with the views of Stull and Allen. Many are unable to see just why a tax paid on only a portion of the gaso- line should be credited to the gen- eral fund. Public Library Requests For the Next Fiscal Year. MoDls'r and reagonable are the requests for new appropria- tions for the Public Library branches. These items are chiefly for the giving of Itbrary service in sections where none exists and for increasing the service at some of the branches, where it is entirely too limited. Schools, libraries and recreation- facilities seem to be nearest the hearts of the neighborhood civic organizations. Citizens in favored sections which enjoy fairly good accommodations along these three lines would almost as soon give up their water and telephone services as to be deprived of their school, their library and their recreation Georgetown branch, for additional Jjanitor and to complete the build- ing and grounds, $5,080; branch library for Petworth on site al- ready owned, plans and specifi- cations and building, $150,000; ‘Woodridge subbranch, for addi- tional personnel so as to keep open 64 hours per week instead of 32 as at present, and for the purpose of keeping the music division at the main library open 48 hours per week instead of the present 31 hours and to catalogue accumu- lated material, $1,800. ‘There is shown to be both a real need and a demand for these in- creased library facilities. The Board of Library Trustees have a library extension program which has been worked out very carefully. At the very slow pace of travel it will be a long time before the District public library facilities will meet the needs. The clivic organizations seem to appreciate the difficulties under . which the library authorities labor and are loyally backing their board of citizens in the effort to expand the library system as rapidly as may be possible. The recent sug- gestion to either do away with this board or strip it of its authority brought about not only positive op- position, but has drawn the board nearer to the citizens. Federation Committee Urges Increase of Federal Share. 'HE Committee on Fiscal Rela- tions of the Federation of Citi- zens' Associations met last week and considered the matter of the District 1937 budget and the pro- posed study of local taxation by & committee appointed recently by the District Commissioners. The committee recognized the difficulty of setting up the District budget without knowing just how much is to be assumed as the share of the Federal Government for the de- velopment, operation and main- fenance of its Capital City. The committee was most appreciative of the efforts of the Commission- ers before Congress last year to in- duce the Federal Government to bear a more equitable share. The committee members feel the same reasons exist for the Commission- ers making the same effort this year, and are urging our city fathers to again earn the approval of the community by championing this cause—this may be our lucky year, As to increased taxation and new forms of taxation the federation committee is inclined to wait until a report is made by the Commis- sioners’ Taxation Committee. The attitude of the federation has been to oppose any new or additional taxation until shown to be abso- lutely necessary and not to be used for the purpose of adding to the tax burden and reduction of the share which the United States should in all fairness pay. Street Cars or Busses. Chevy Chase Citizens Cautious. Tnx Executive Committee of the Chevy Chase Citizens’ Associ- ation is rather skeptical as to busses on the Chevy Chase route being an adequate and satisfactory substitution for the present trolley cars. The change over was sched- uled to be made on September 1, but due to delay in the delivery of the number of new busses the Capital Transit Co. has been granted an extension of time to September 15. It is the desire of the company and also of the com- mission that the change over to bus service be a complete and not a partial change, as would be the case if the limited number of busses available were put into serv- ice and some of the trolleys were continued. Such service, it is thought, wquld not be a fair test and might have the effect of arousing prejudice against the new system at its inception. The Chevy Chase Executive Committee has written the Utili- ties Commission expressing appre- hension that the bus service “will not meet the quality and quantity standards” of service needed for their section; that the “present bus equipment does not provide suffi- clent ventilation to meet require- ments of comfort and health” and that the 40 per cent allowance for “standees” would be intolerable on busses. The committee further request that the present rails and trolley wires be retained until the substi- tuted bus operation be demon- strated as being satisfactory. The commission has taken up with the transit company the mat- ter of better ventilation on the busses and, inquired whether there is any such impovement contem= plated in the case of the vehicles yet to be delivered. President Hege of the Chevy Chase body points out that the cars are equipped with movable sash, both front and rear, that may be opened to permit a free circulation of air, which is badly needed when a car is crowd- ed. The busses, he points out, are not provided with movable sash, but completely closed both front and rear, except for small ventila- tors which open in the front dash. Commissioner Keech of the Utili= ties Commission has been much im- pressed with the results shown in the substitution of bus operation for street cars in New York City. Here the load carried by the busses shows an enormous increase over the old street-car load, which ap- pears to indicate a decided prefer- ence for the bus, as well as the practical availability of the bus for handling a substantial part of mass transportation in a great city. Local evidence of the growing popularity of the bus is shown in the operation of the Takoma ex- press line. Here this superimposed service has resulted in a falling off in the number of riders on both of the Takoma trolley lines. However, the count shows the number of bus patrons is substantially greater than the losses in riders. This is thought to indicate that a number who formerly used private conveyances now ride on the bus. 1985—PART TWO. SUCCESS IS SEEN [Booster Cruise Plans To Be Made on Tuesday Convention of 1,000 American War Mothers Expected to Be Largest of Seven Gath- erings Here in September. INSEWER PROJECT Two Improvements Sought by Hillcrest Citizens Are Granted. ‘The successful conclusion of 11 years' efforts of the Hillcrest Citizens’ Association for an Alabama avenue southeast sewer is in view. In addition to the sewer project south of Alabama avenue southeast, request was made for the installation of sanitary sewer facilities for the north end territory of Thirty-second street southeast and word has been received by President Rudolph Malth that this request received the favor- able consideration of the sanitary engineer. Allotment Expected. 1t is understood, Malth States, work will be started on both projects just as soon as the funds for this purpose become available. This is expected very soon through Works Progress Administration allotments. The Highway Department is ‘having men beautify Branch avenue southeast | between Alabama and Pennsylvania avenue southeast and is making im- provements in general to streets and alleys throughout this section of the city. Malth declared: “The improvement to streets, the prospects of sewer ex- tensions at an early date and the re- cent improvement in bus service have resulted in considerable building ac- tivity. The section is strictly esi- dential and one of the finest in the city.” Scout Troop Progresses. ‘The Hillcrest Boy Scout Troop is also making great progress. This troop is sponsored by the Hillcrest Citizens’ Association. Donald Couzins, & member of the troop, was treated to an airplane ride over the city for being the first member of the troop to advance to first class rating. Although meetings of the body are suspended during the Summer months, the various committees continue their work, Malth declared. The next regular meeting of the association is scheduled for September 9. CITIZENS TO OPPOSE LINCOLN ROAD CLOSE North Capitol Group Also to Fight Use of One-Man Street Cars in Its Area. The much-discussed plan to close Lincoln road northeast from Pranklin avenue to Michigan avenue northeast | will be opposed by the North Capitol Citizens' Association, Secretary J. A. Crooks announced yesterday. ‘This will be one of the issues to be | taken up in the coming year, Crooks | said. The Executive Committee al- ready has voted its opposition. It will be one of the first subjects | brought up at the first meeting of the association, probably September 23. One-man cars will be another item on the 1935-36 program. At its meet- ing last week the Executive Commit- tee objected to the Capital Transit Co. using one-man-operated cars. Re- ports on the subjected stated that it is hazardous to passengers for one man to operate the car, arrange for paying fares and watch traffic. These cars are very slow and tie up traffic, it was stated. A survey was made on the cost of streets and sidewalks, repairs, traffic lights and safety signs and other street facilities by the Streets, High- ways and Lights Committee, which reported that this vicinity was not getting its share of the appropria-| tions. The association will strive to| obtain a larger appropriation from the | funds received from gasoline taxes | and automobile taxes and other sources of revenue. | A definite program for the coming | year will probably be arranged at the | first meeting of the group. interested in the Washington water front. The Washington Board of Trade has for years devoted much time and labor to this end. The Southwest Washington Citizens’ Association has in season and out of season hammered away to make the Potomac water front worthy of the Nation's Capital. For many years claims of private ownership interfered with the accomplish- ment of any plan of improvement. Long legal search and litigation finally established the Govern- ment’s title to the entire frontage on the Washington Channel from the War College to the tidal gates. Recently the recommendations of the District engineer have éar- ried plans for improvement of the frontage and the provision of an adequate yacht basin. Though this was clearly a Federal project on property owned by the general government when consideration got right down to the point of con- gressional committee action the plans were modified to make the District either foot the bill or & substantial part. The bill as passed by the House in the present session tagged the District for 50 per cent of the cost. The Senate assessed the entire cost against the United States and in conference the District'’s good friend, Senator Copeland, was able to bring about a compromise re- ducing the District share to 25 per cent. The amount which the Dis- trict will have to pay will cover the cost of the portions of the work Plans for the twenty-fourth annual Booster cruise of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association will be discussed Tuesday afternoon, when the Booster Com- mittee will meet in the associa- tion’s offices in The Star Build- ing, it was an- nounced yester- day by Edward D. Shaw, secre- tary. The cruise will be held Septem- ber 20 to 23 aboard a spe- cially chartered - steamer, and Dr. M. G. Gibb. (¢ one will be made at Norfolk, Old Point Comfort, Annapolis and Newport News. A program of golf, deep-sea fish- ing, swimming and other sports is| being worked out under direction of | Lewis A. Payne, vice chairman of | the Booster Committee. So far plans | Yard and the Newport News ship- | building yard and other similar calls probably will be arranged. The cruise this year is being held in the Autumn for the first time. Heretofore the boosters have made their Potomac River-Chesapeake Bay excursion in the Spring or early Summer, but because of the inter- ference of other civic activities this year the boat trip was postponed. Many members of the association have expressed pleasure at the change, saying that they prefer the later date. Dr. M. G. Gibbs heads the com- mittee planning the trip. In addition to Dr. Gibbs and Vice Chairman Payne the members are R. P. Andrews, Prederick Buchholz, James E. Cauli- flower, P. M. Dorsch, T. R. Fitz- gerald, Charles H. Frame, Franklin W. Harper, Joseph R. Harris, Ring- gold Hart, Mark Lansburgh, Louis Levay, George E. McCann, William J. McNamara, E. J. Mather, Bert L. Olmsted, Benjamin Ourisman, Wil- liam E. Russell, L. 8. Scott, George C. Shaffer, Ben Skinker, Arthur J. Sundlun, Ford E. Young and Dewey Zirkin, Seven Conventions Slated. Seven conventions have been sched- uled to come to Washington next month by the Greater National Capi- tal Committee of the Washington Board of Trade. The largest of these will be the American War Mothers who will meet at the Wardman Park Hotel from September 27 to October 4 and will attract close to 1,000 delegates. Mrs. Virgil Stone, 1527 New Hampshire avenue, is president of the organi- zation. Other scheduled conventions with their anticipated attendance follow: September 5 to 7, American Asso- ciation for the Study of Neoplastic Diseases, Mayflower Hotel, 50 dele- tes. September 9 to 11, Daughters of America Council, Mayflower, 300 dele- gates. September 22 to 28, Independent Order of Rechabites High Tent of LEADERS IN EUROPE. HE destinies of the countries of Europe lie in the hands of a group of leaders whose pur- poses were perhaps never more close to trial by fire than today, when another widespread conflagration ap- pears to be imminent. To their skill in evading a crisis, or their weakness in the face of overwhelming odds, the whole world will owe the events of the future. Men of Destiny. Rendez-vous Europeens, by Henrl Beraud. 1928. E.9B452.F. Chapters on Musoslini, Primo de Rivera, Stanley Baldwin, Sir Austen taphal Kemal, and others. Fowler. New Outlook, 165:29-34. June, 1935. Sketches of Anthony Eden, Pierre Laval, Fulvio Suvich of Italy, Alfred Rosenberg and Joachim von Ribben- trop of Germany, and Russia’s Maxim Litvinov. Nine Etched From Life, by Emil Lud- wig. 1934. E.9L966n. “Biographical sketches of nine Lu- ropean leaders, Nansen, Masaryk, Briand, Rathenau, Motta, Lloyd George, Venizelos, Mussolini and Stalin.” Rebels and Renegades, by Max Nomad, pseud. 1932. E.ONT26. Mussolini and MacDonald are among the leaders of revolutionary and labor movements with which this volume is '| concerned. The Meaning of Hitlerism, by Wick- ham Steed. 1934. F4773.5t3m. Lectures delivered at King's College on Hitler and the state absolute; Ma- saryk and the state liberal; Nazism as a faith; the new kulturkampf; and responsible freedom. Three Powers. Britain's Baldwin, by H. J. Laski. Cur- rent History, 42:456-! August, 1935. “What ever the criticisms that may be made of Mr. Baldwin, he remains one of the most attractive figures in British national life. Integrity, devo- which will be used by the District government. Included in this improvement will be the bullding of a boulevard of 160 feet along the front, eventually connecting Potomac Park and the ‘War College grounds. Of course this bill only grants the authority but carries no appropriation but is a very essential preliminary step toward the solution of another old problem. Answer to Yesterday'’s Pussle. MEIAISURIE] BESTLILIN 1 IAS IS ERMONIS] LIANCIEMSIA NT] [SILIEAVIEM [T] RIENTIN L] WIE] WIAG| PIEIRI] Tl ETCIA] N[ MEN TITERS tion, high purposes, directness, all these he has had in abundance.” Mr. Anthony Eden, by a London Correspondent. Living Age, 348: 234-7. May, 1935. “He wants peace ot only between nations, but within the nation.” Sir Samuel Hoare, by George Popoff. 348:234-7. August, A sketch of Great Britain's foreign minister, “one of the most interesting and important statesmen England pos- sesses today.” J. Ramsay MacDonald; Labor's Man of Destiny, by H. H. Tiltman. 1929. E.M1449t. “Mr. Tiltman’s book will help Amer- jcans to understand MacDonald’s life. It is a careful, documented study of his record.”—L. Gannett. 5 Pierre Laval, by R. Dell. Nation, 133: 456-7. October 28, 1931. “Pierre Laval is an Auvergnat, a bar- rister and an ex-Socialist, which is to say that he has all the qualifications for success in French politics.” Rise of Plerre Laval. Living Age, 340: 161-3. April, 1931. “M. Laval call for visits to the Norfolk Navy| @ Chamberlain, Thomas Masaryk, Mus- | | Men Who Keep the Peace, by Cedric North America, Naval Lodge Hall, 100 delegates. September 26 and 27, Intarnational Association of Electrotypers, Carlton Hotel, 250 delegates. September 30 to October 2, Shep- herds of Bethiehem of North America, 600 deiegates. September 30 to October 3, Ameri- can Humane Association, Mayflower Hotel, 300 delegates. A convention of the National As- sociation of Prosecuting Attorneys, also scheduled for September, has been postponed indefinitely. Cottrell Host Chairman. Robert J. Cottrell, executive secre= tary of the Washington Board of Trade, has been named host chalre man to the annual convention of the National Associa- tion of Commer- cial Organizaticn Secretaries which will be held at the Willard Hotel October 2¢ to 23. The convention s coming to | ¢ Washington for she first time, i 7 and the appoint- | ment of Cottrell | " is regarded as i ‘. something utf”u: compliment Robert J. Courell. (00 To00 4 of Trade and to himself. Close to 800 secretaries are expected | to be present, representing State and | city chambers of commerce and boards | of trade, and considerable time will | be given to the study of governmental problems and their effect onthe States and cities. At present Cottreil |and his committee associates are ‘ working out a program and arranging | details of the entertainment to be of- | Associated with him on the com- | mittee are David A. Skinner, secre- tary of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States; Curtis Hodges, ex=- ecutive director of the Greater Na- | tional Capital Committee, and Cor- | coran Thom, jr., president of ths | Junior Board of Commerce. Phone Service Offered. Mrs. Sallie P. Muchmore, merchan- dise manager of the Better Business | Bureau, who has been acting as di- | rector during the vacation of Louls Rothschild, made a public radio plea {last week for business men not to | ignore information supplied by the bureau simply because it is necessary t the cffices personally. | . Muchmore pointed out the rs of giving information, par- ticularly bad information, by tele- phone. A good many inquiries, she said, are made by telephone and when the in- vestigations are completed and the information sought is ready, too many take the attitude: “Oh, well, not much involved any ‘vmy. I'll take a chance rather than spend the time obtaining the infor- mation.” She also said that a good many worthless investments could be pre- vented if the investors would inquire |in person at the bureau's office. The Public Library | credit for having pursued his educa- {tion under very adverse circum- stances.” My Autobiography. by Benito Musso- lini. 1928. E.M978. Like Hitler, Mussolini has written his autobiography, in which he justi- fies his political ideas. Mussolini, the Man of Destiny, by V. E. de Fiori. 1928. EMO9T78{E. “It is a real Mussolini that comes | before our eyes, a man of flesh and | blood, one who has served a long and hard apprenticeship.”—O. M., Jr. Central and Eastern Europe and | the Lesser States. My Battle, by Adolf Hitler; abridged and translated by E. T. S. Dugdale. 1933. EH64. ‘The library also has the unabridged edition of Hitler's autobiography in German (E.H642.G). Adolph Hitler, the Drama of His Ca- reer, by James Murphy. 1934. E.T64mu. An English Nazi leader. Stalin; the Careel of a Fanatic, by Essad-Bey. 1932. E.Stl5e. “It is a great story, thrilling in its details, amazing in the variety and quality of the characters involved, and | of tremendous importance in the his- | tory of our times.” ‘Grey Wolf, Mustafa Kemal; an Inti- mate Study of a Dictator, by H. C, | Armstrong. 1933. F298.Ar55. “Mr. Armstrong knows Turkey and | the Turks well; he does not seek to | minimize the savage ferocity which | has marked the career of his hero; nor | does he, in the manner of too many | professors of history, drift into apolo- | getics.”—A. T. Wilson. Belgium Under a New Leader. Current | History, 42:481-7. August, 1935. An account of the administration of M. van Zeeland, who seeks to “push through a program that will lift Bel- | glum from the depths of the depres- sion.” Alejandro Lerroux, by a Madrid Cor- respondent. Living Age, 348:417- 419. July, 1935. “Lerroux has served as prime min- ister in every cabinet” since the newly elected Parliament of December, 1933, “except the cne that held office during the Summer months of 1934.” Starhemberg, by Roger Shaw. Review of Reviews, 91:49-51, February, 1935, Austria’s leader of Fascist tenden- cies, who is crusading for the inde- pendence of an imperiled land. Thomas Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, by C. J. C. Street, 1930. E.M372s. “It is an interesting and inspiring book and it reveals a man of entirely great qualities.”—S. L. Cook. ‘The Hitler of Hungary, by Hellmuth von Gerlach. Living Age, 348: 325-328. June, 1935. “Regent Horthy of Hungary is some- times reminiscent of Hihdenberg. Count Stefan Bethlen, the conserva- tive leader, seems to want to duplicate Hugenberg’s career, and Herr Gombos feels impelled to become Hungary's Hitler.” Jevtic of Yugoslavia, by Waldemar Grim. Living Age, 347:504-508. February, 1935. “There are not many men with the courage to revive national life in & country that has hitherto been sub- interpretation of the certainly possesses great capacity for work and a remark- able tenacity, and he deserves high [ fect to strict authority, Yugoslavia needs Jevtic.” o . 4