Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1935, Page 21

Wash . UTILITIES BUARD "~ AGAINHITS DELAY INLAYING TRACKS Slow Construction Declared Holding Up Street Car Re- routing Program. ORDERS TO SPEED UP - PLAN WILL BE ISSUED| Extension of Time Limit Origi- nally Set Will Be Granted Capital Transit Co. The Public Utilities Commission came to grips again today with offi- ington News he ‘WITH SUNDAY .MORNING pening Star WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1935. Stiffer Speed Fines and Ban On ‘Rattle-Trap’ Autos Pressed | Prettyman and Hitt Act in Traffic Situation. 4 More Injured. One Driver Goes to Jail. Boy, Man and W oman Added to Toll. The Police Court assistants of Corp- oration Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman today were instructed to tighten up on their recommendations in speeding cases. 2| At the same time, Judge Isaac R. Hitt, speaking in Traffic Court on the increasing number of accidents, scored | | the prevalence of ‘“rattle-trap” auto- | Imnblles and trucks on the streets and | announced he would seek a plan to| - | keep them from operating. 1 Dusng the day four persons were | injured, one critically, in accidents. JUDGE ISAAC R. HITT. YOUTHFUL SLAVER OF BROTHER FREED BY GRAND JURY Williams Had Killed Boy With Thrown Stone. ASSISTANT CASHIER INDICTED IN THEFT John Karl Seyboth Alleged to Have Embezzled $4,700 From Second National Bank. Eleven-year-old Douglas Williams, colored, youngest person ever to face Eleven - Year - Old Douglas| cials of the Capital Transit Co. over| In a memorandum to his aides, delay in track construction which is | Prettyman said there have been too holding up strect car rerouting ar- | many recommendations of $5 and $10 | rangements. He suggested that recommen- | | fines. ] Qrders to speed up progress of track | dations, if necessary, be increased to | work were to be issued at a conference |a $25 minimum, which, incidentally, | at the commission’s office starting |iS the maximum for first offense! at 2 pm. | speeding. | : “The police drive must be supported Lt SpHng, n?e mmm‘::;“ ]tg‘:lf :flnd speeding stopped,” Prettyman said t the company sevetely to task for slow- |4y L i agamst fast driv- | after tec%mical studies were made by | P& Fred A. Sager, commission chief en- ! gineer, the company was ordered to ! complete its track work by Decem- ber 31. Driver Goes to Jail. Following the arraignment of Julius | Bowie on charges of bad brakes, no | | permit, Bad windshield, no rear-view | Revision of this schedule submitted | TTTOF 86¢ no hors, Judge HiE: iz ?‘;hi;g{g:;ssgéiy l:guigmr?::;‘ 1; | many such cases before him recently. | & oo | While Bowie was fined only $26, he :’;1::' i;’;pg:m’;“‘:‘;:‘;&: J;"{;i‘e"\,’gl‘_’k °f| was committed to jail on inability | & y to pay. | While other trac;(‘ clgngrsbzn\ggage‘ Judge Hiut declared life, limb and | ;z':p’f}t‘idsz‘:s;:eé ?onge Cz‘:‘mvr would | Property are being endangered through 5 U4 | the operation of decrepit vehicles, :‘:&‘; ‘;‘ffl:fi;"“"“g at congested doWn- | ¢ peiially trucks. There must be an . . . effort made, he declared, to have such | Particularly important is the ellmi- | (oy)i o5 examined and to see that they | nation of one of the double sets of | 5 £ tracks on Fourteenth street, between ‘:;; ;2 rr:;:\?:i ot G "ty H street and New York avenue, and | Mrs Annié Riley, 60 mife of| on New York avenue between Four-| —o75 (TN JOCT o A et teenth and Fifteenth strects, and work | 10 theast, suffered a broken les and at the intersection of Fifteenth stree SoteE e e - _+hip when her :;‘:‘: i:‘:f’g:f;;zmue and at Fif- | " Greyhound bus in the 1300 block | | N New York avenue northeast. MTrs. vork was to have been | Of e pany proposes to start it about the |lunch to him at the dm{lm‘flt ""l:" 2 mifidle ‘6t riext Aprll Some of it D0usc near there anc was suuck 85 would be finished late next August. | She drove out of the railroad prop- 1?:;; ;:;kwj:{dk n‘;?dgg cfl:plfiefl; | Riley, a brakeman for the Pennsyl- District officials said, until November | vania Railroad, heard the crash and f next year | ran to the scene in time to talk to e z his wife before she was taken to Casu- | ‘The commission, in the face of the sos LaOE ‘n. | 8lty Hospital. Her condition was said | situation, is expected to let the down- | 5 be ‘éritical. town track work be started perhaps as | 5 | late as next March. The commission | _F"“r'““':’” 1l ""’l;’d feels the work should not be in prog- | é'“ mc%m;‘e ‘dfi :‘ 5 “L‘:u :1; ress during the periods of hectic traf- | termine e = fic conditions prevailing during the | by an automobile in the 1700 black of Christmas and New Year holiay sea- | Lalier place as he -darted into the, son. The difficulty is that the spe. | Street from between parked cars. He | a District grand jury in a homicide case, was exonerated by that body | today in the killing of his 6-year-old | brother Stanley. | Douglas, who lives at 4650 Pearson | place southwest, threw a rock at his younger brother August 21 to make { him stop chasing a neighbor’s chick- | ens. Stanley’s skull was fractured by | | the missile and he died in Gallinger Hospital. The brother was held for | the grand jury after a coroner’s in- | | quest. { | The case attracted considerable at- | | tention among members of the bar, | many of whom believed an 11-year-old | boy was too young to have the crim- | inal intent necessary to support a murder charge. Indicted on Embezzlement Charge. John Karl Seyboth, 47, assistant | cashier of the Second National Bank, | was indicted on a charge of embezzling £4,700 from the bank over a period of more than three years. Forty other indictments were re- turned and eleven charges ignored. Seyboth's alleged defalcations were | discovered last month by a national bank examiner while Seyboth was on vacation. When he returned he is | said to have admitted the charge. | | Justice Department operatives reported | he took small amounts at a time and used the money for living expenses. The alleged embezzlements followed a | slash in Seyboth's salary after the | depression began. | A trusted employe of the bank of 30 years' standing, Seyboth lived at | | 322 Aspen street with his step-mother {and a crippled sister whom he sup- | ported. | | E. BARRETT PRETTYMAN. was given first aid at No. 21 Engine Company and then taken to Emer- gency Hospital. The car which hit the boy. police said, was driven by Louis Lauder | 1500 block of Twenty-first street. s Motor Cycle in Crash. Sergt. Edward J. Day, 17th Signil | Service Co., suffered a compound fracture of the lower left leg- when his motor cycle collided with an au- tomobile near New York and Florioa avenue:. He was treated at Sibley | Hospital and later removed to Walter | The hold-up of a gambling estab- | Reed. lishment in the 400 block of K street | Evin J. Conner, 31. of 1812 R street, | 1ast February resulted in the indict- received arm and hip injuries, be- | ment on robbery charges of Henry lieved to,be not serious, when he was | Raymond Milton, 27, and Carmen thrown from the rumble seat of a | Gaile Quantrille, 33. car involved im a collision at Thirty- { The two men are alleged to have Indicted in Hold-Up. No Admittance Afterl Midnight PLANS SUBMITTED Surveyor Dent Asks $300,- 000 for Land Condemna- tion Next Year. A comprehensive program for street widening and extension was laid be- fore the Commissioners today by Ed- ward A. Dent, Distrist surveyor. The sum of $200,000 is available in the current, appropriation for condemna- tion of land and the surveyor asks $300,000 for next year. Surveyor Dent, incidentally, re- vealed a faclual story of the tre- mendous upturn in planned building operations by citing the increase in surveys and fees collected for such work. Fee orders for surveys increased from 1,500 in the fiscal year 1234 to 3,000 in the last fiscal year. Fees col- lected last year amounted to $34,704, as compared with only $18,016 in the previous fiscal year. This is an in- crease of 93 per cent. Dent announced he will ask the ap- proval of the Commissioners for con- demmnation proceedings for the ex- second and McKinley streets, He was Uused a sawed-off shotgun in the hold- treated at Emergency Hospital. up, forcing seven employes at the i elicme | place to sit in chairs and submit to cial track construction materials have |~ to reports to the commission by the company. | The commission is informed the ecompany also will be unable to com- | plete by the end of this year recon- struction of tracks at the intersec- tion of Florida avenue and Seventh ' i ; | being bound. No report of the affair fresh air for the animals and warm was made to police, who learned of it the cage floor. some time later. Milton and Quan- Special study has been given to the | trille were not arrested until Septem- use of cement and plaster for parti- ber 6, when they were picked up at tions and walls of cages and the Seventh and H streets northeast. elimination of all possible rustible! Police say they found eight guns metal. in Quantrille’s room and a quantity The units for housing the great of ammunition in Milton's quarters fension and widening of Nebraska avenue between Newark and Macomb | streets, the extension of Rockwood | parkway between Forty-fifth street {and University avenue, widening of University avenue between Rockwood parkway and Glenbrook road and ex- tension and widening of Loughboro jroad between Foxhall and Conduit roads. Support for Legislation. STREET WDENNG § Transients crowd the registry office at the John Marshall place tran- sient shelter, hurrying to obtain relief before midnight, when this "and 10 other District shelters will close the: Lower: Transient Bureau. Some of the women and children cared for by the expiring The little girls have been given apples by a bureau Society and General PAGE B—1 LAND SPECULATION DENIED AT CLOSE OF BOUNDARY QuIZ Reports of Settlement Still Circulate, but Gain Little Credence. U. S. COUNSEL BLAMES DISPUTE ON INVESTORS Virginia Lawyer Denies Buyers Seeking to Profit by Deals With Government. With the Government charging that land “specilation” was at the bottom of the District-Virginia boundary dis- pute and Virginia counsel denying such charges, the Boundary Commis- sion today had begun executive ses- sions to prepare a report for both Con- gress and the Legislature of the Old Dominion. ., Reports that an amicable agreement still may be reached between opposing counsel continued to girculate. but so far as could be learned no negotiations | were under way today. | The charge that “speculation” in | land patents in Roaches Run was be- | hind the whole matter was hurled ]| vesterday before the commission by | Henry H. Glassie, special assistant to the Attorney General. Virginia Denies Charge. These patents, taken out by Dye & Duncan and associates November 15, 1927, in Roaches Run, Glassie charged, covered part of the area over which the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway | later was constructed. He said the investors had paid 75 cents an acre for the land under water, and charged this was a “patent effort to horn in on this great public improvement.” Denial of the charge came after the sessions of the commission closed yesterday afternoon, from PFrank L. Ball, counsel for Arlington County and the State of Virginia. Under the rules adopted by the commission, the Government was given the privilege of closing its case, and no rebuttal was provided for Virginia. Ball was | given the privilege, however, of filing & statement in answer to Glassie. He explained that his statement || would deny that the owners of the | patents had bought the land under water in Roaches Run for the pur- pose of profiting by sale to the Gov- ernment. Ball explained the patents were taken out by Edward Duncan, Robert Dye. Judge William G. Woolls and George E. Garrett, now dead. Knew Nothing of Route. | “I know, as a matter of fact,” said | Ball, “these men did not know the Mount Vernon Highway was to be built there. “The route of the highway was de- cided long afterward. These men urged the Bureau of Public Roads of the Department of Agriculture, which built the highway, to put the road along Arlingon Ridge, more than a mile from any of these patents. Gar- rett obtained ccnsent of a great many 1 i ir doors to new applicants 10 START A1 200 s have 5 2 ved- | s apes have four 15 and one 20 foot The sawed-off shotgun had been taken | Dent also sought support of the attendant, —Star Staff Photos. property owners for the higher route street, which was ordered to make pos- | sible operation of Georgia avenue street cars south on Seventh street instead of making the curve over to| Ninth. That is a key to several re- routing order: ‘The commission has hopes the com- pany will be able to finish by the end of this year construction of a turn in the tracks at Eighteenth street and Columbia road so that cars from the Rock Creek loop at the Calvert street bridge may be routed to Po- tomac Park via Columbia road and lower Connecticut avenue instead of the present circuitous route through Eighteenth street, U and Fourteenth | streets. STARTING SCHOOL LUNCHES DELAYED Needy Pupils Denied Aid Owing to W. P. A. Slowness in Pass- ing on $140,000 Program. Starting of the program of free lunches for needy school children will | be delayed because of slowness of | the Works Progress Administration in | Exhibition Building Feature of Program Under $680,- 000 P. W. A. Grant. Designs have been completed for the | four new animal houses at the Zoo, containing the very latest develop- ments in zoo construction. The four buildings, for which plans ! have been drawn by the public works are an addition to the present bird hcuse, a machine and carpenter shop, a pachyderm house and a building for the exhibition of small mammals and great apes. 7 One of the newest features of the | building program is a unit in the exhibition building. for rodents. This | will be equipped with glass cages and | artificial light to look like moonlight. country like it. | Under $680,000 Grant. a grant of $680,000 of P. W. A. money, and plans now are understood to be in the hands of the Fine Arts Com- mission for consideration. Designs were worked out by Dr. |branch of the procurement division. | | There is said to be nothing in the | The construction is possible under | 2 - | William M. Mann, director of the Zoo, P o his Dioboced $140.000 Pro- | ang architects and engineers of the Last year the program was handled | Procurement division of the Treasury, #s an_emergency works project under 20d are expected to provide the Zoo the District Relief Adminjstration, | With innovations which will be entirely To be financed out of Federal funds | 4iferent from arything vet seen here. this year, it would have to be approved | , 1€ concrete moats will be hidden asa W.P. A. project. In the Septem- ber Federal relief grants to the Dis- trict no money was earmarked for the purpose and relief funds to be asked for October will not contain any re- quest for free lunches, officials said. District officials anticipate approval of the project under the new works program, but starting of the plan must await action by Federal offi- cials. WASHING AUTOMOBILES IN STREET TO GET TEST Arrest of Colored Man Will Be Used to Determine Old - District Law. | A test case to determine the legality of washing and polishing automobiles on the streets will be attempted as a result of the arrest yesterday of Clar- ence Denby, colored, by Policeman J. Lohmans, first precinct. Denby was charged with occupying public prop- erty. = vylhfle the defendant elected to for- feit the $5 collateral which was posted for him by a business man who wit- nessed his arrest, it was learned today at Police Court that an effort will be made to have the forfeiture set aside so the courts will have an opportunity to rule on the legality of such arrests. There havg been a number of persons charged with a like offense as the re- sult of car washing within the past few months. Denby has been cleaning cars in the vicinity of Fifteenth and H streets for five years. He has inscribed on his bucket, “Simonizing Doctor.” At the time of his arrest a crowd gathered and booed the arresting officer, a from view s6 that the animals in the outdoor yards will appear to be un- confined, with no fences between them and the public. In planning the new extensive de- | velopments at the Zoo, it was learned | today a survey of the park and its present buildings and paddocks and a plan for present and future developments was made be- fore any buildings were designed. In this way the buildings comprising the present project and those which may be buill in the future will form |a pleasing and orderly group, easily reached from one to another, and conforming architectually with the | present struétures which will remain. - Bird House Complete. The addition to the bird house will complete the building as originally designed. The machine and carpenter shops |are to be adjacent to the present power house. The building will be of s%me, similar to the power house, and " the present temporary tfences, sheds and stock piles will be done away with. The exhibition building for small mammals and great apes is a combi- nation of four units. The main por- tion contains about 60 cages varying in width from 4 to 12 feet for the exhibition of many varieties of small mammals, the porcupines, small cats. anteaters, etc. The cages for the beavers, musk- rats, etc., combine beaches and pools for swimming. All of these cages are operated and cleaned from a back passage away from the public view. _The skylights over these cages are arranged to open and furnish direct sunlight to the animals. The heating and ventilating system will provide (») cages. The great apes are expensive and subject to tuberculosis and pneumonia, | therefore, a glass screen is to be placed ' and finally to have been captured K ©Pen up an artery which would tak | between them and the public, to after a running gun battle with police, | much of the congestion off M street, | guard egainst draughts and to keep were indicted on four charges. They 2nd to permit the widening of Thir- | the public from feeding the animals. Outside cages are provided for all of the apes. Rodent House Fourth Unit. The fourth unit is a rodent room. This is designed to be the outstand- ing exhibit of its kind. nothing comparable in any other zoo. Every obtainable variety of the mouse | family will be shown in glass cages, and proper lighting of the cages with colored glass will resemble moonlight and make those nocturnal animals active. The exhibition building for pachy- | derms is designed for the exhibition | of the African and Indian elephants, | various types of rhinocerih, hippo- potami and other animals. Cages will be lighted by continuous skylights to show the animals to their best advantage, the public space being comparatively dark. The hippopotami and similar ani- mals are provided with pools for bath- ing. These pools are within 3 feet of the guard rail, have no bars in front and have underwater lighting. A specially designed system of ven- | tilating in the houses will bring clean | tempered air to the public and to the animals and will do away with the | objectionable odors usually encoun- | tered. Outside yards are provided for all of these animals. They are designed without fences. Concrete moats 10 i feet wide separate the animals from | the public and from each other. These moats are designed in such a way | that they are hidden from view so that the animals seem to be out in tt.le open without fences. WHITESTONE TO WED | Assistant ‘U. S. Attorney’s Bride Former Alexandria Teacher. . Assistant United States Attorney Louis L. Whitestone and Miss Bernice Coleman, former Alexandria, Va. school teacher, were to be married this afterneon at St. John's Catholic Church in Warrenton, Va. The couple told only a few intimate friends of their plans, which include a brief ~honeymoon, Whitestone is 30 years 6ld and Miss Coleman, 28. The ‘bridegroom was appointed to the Dis- trict Attorney’s office soon after Leslie C. Garnett succeeded Leo Rover in office. DRUG TIGHTENING AIMED Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Prettyman is studying a proposed law to set up more stringent control over sale of narcotics and other drugs. A bill to revise the District’s phar- macy laws was submitted to Congress at the last session, but failed to pass. The corporation counsel late yester- day consulted with leaders in the pharmaceutical field and said many contradictory views were voiced. A proposed revision of the law will be drafted for Prettyman by Leo Fee, his legislative drafting mm:nt. There is ' | apart and stored in a brief case. Two youths, said to have held up two filling stations, appropriated-a car were Ralph Jones, 21, and Thomas English, 27. Charges of assault with | a dangerous weapon, joy-riding and | two instances of robbery were lodged | against them. Stations Robbed. The filling stations alleged to have been robbed were at 3300 and 4500 Benning road northeast. The first robbery occurred August 14 and the youths were captured August 24 after a chase of several ‘miles across the | Northern section of the city which ended with a collision with a parked car near New Hampshire avenue and Quincy street. Two charges of housebreaking and larceny were placed against William J. | Sullivan, who police say has been in | jail almost continuously since 1915. He is charged with taking $1,000 | worth of clothing and silverware from the home of Willilam J. Du Bose, 3009 O street, and $141 worth of clothing | and jewelry from the home of Joel A. | Tilton, 1520 Twenty-ninth street. Others Indicted. Others indicted and the charges follow: Samuel W. Gibson and Helen Kelly, | non-support of a minor child; Leroy | M. Harris, Moses Terrell, Thomas | Shorter and Pauline Lewis, assault with a dangerous weapon; Earl Jenk- | ins, Dorothy Peterkin and David In- | graham, grand larceny: Raymond Webb, Walter Templeton, Harold Ddvis, Ernest King, Bernard Griffin and Ulysses Powell, joyriding. Ulysses Powell, Robert R. Adams, | Samuel McLurkin, Lloyd C. Deckard, James Butler, John Swinson, Harry Sherman Van Gruder, Oliver Adams and Leo Branford, robbery; Arthur Martindale, Charles Smith, Benjamin Beverly, Thomas Thornton, Frank Edwards and Thomas E. Smith, house- breaking and larceny; Tom March, ‘Thomas Taylor and Samuel Johnson, larceny from the District of Columbia. Donald Francis Harley, Frank John- son, Lawrence J. Swann, James H. Colbert, Frank S. Guy and Robert Emmett Hunt, violation of the liquor taxing act of 1934; Arthur Sturdivant, false pretenses, and Henry E. Car- penter and William Raymond Gilbo, violation of the United States Code. The:following Cases were ignored Lewis Emerson, assault with a dan. gerous weapon; James H. Ferguson, grand larceny: Walter Pittman, Mil. ton M. Peters and George Melton, robbery; James E. Beard, larceny after trust; Gilfred Brown, perjury; Harold Jones, violation of the liquor taxing act of 1934; James E. Gaskins, a vio- lation of the United States Code, and Ernest Tillman and Joseph Wayne, homicide. Panhandler Snatches Watch. A young panhandler, refused a “handout” by Theodore D. Sloat, pres- ident of the Garden T Shoppe, Inc., as he yas entering his automobile last night, snatched Mr. Sloat’s watch, valued at 870, The incident occurred at Mintwood place and Nineteenth | Commissioners for the passage of leg- | islation to permit the extension of Prospect street in Georgetown, to e teenth street between Monroe and | Spring road to eliminate the bottle- neck there. | He proposed also a revision of the | condemnation case for the extension of Maryland avenue northeast to | limit the program during the present | fiscal year to the extension of the |avenue from Fifteenth to M street | northeast. Minnesota Avenue Proposed. ‘Widening and extension of Minne- sota avenue between Pennsylvaia avenue and Benning road also was There will be no haven here after minight tonight for transients seeking | food, shelter or work. At that hour proposed, and widening of Tunlaw road between Fulton and Newark streets was urged to provide a major thoroughfare to Nebraska avenue. Completion of the connecting link on South Dakota avenue between Michi- gan avenue and Eighteenth streeu | should be started promptly, Dent said. Widening of Harewood road between Michigan avenue and Rock Creek Church road also was proposed, but due to the limit of appropriations for | shelters will be shut, figuratively, to wanderers who drift here hoping to gain some economic foothold. The 2,756 transients already under Gov- ernment care here can stay, but public relief will be refused newcomers. Relief administration officials said today they pianned to give jobs by November 1 to all employable tran- sients under the works program. On that day transient camps will be con- went with them to the the doors of Washington's 11 transient | | Transients Rush to Reach D. C. . Before U. S. Halts Relief 2,756 Nomads Alreaay Here May Re- main in Shelters, but Newcomers Will Be Turned Away. free beds, food and chances of C. C. C. or W. P. A. jobs secured through the Transient Bureau. Few Exceptions Made. The only exception to the rule will be for selected cases recommended to Street by the Travelers' Aid Society. A few in this category, arriving after | the deadline, will be cared for at the Municipal Lodging House until steps can be taken to get them adjusted in their own communities. All transients registered with the bureau prior to July 15 also have been | condemnation of streets, it may be | verted into works-relief camps and | necessary to postpone this untik the | urban transient shelters will be shut | next fiscal year, the surveyor said. BOYS’ BOXING SHOW PLANS COMPLETED| Lot | Sell-Out Indicated for Benefit| down. Those now at the camps will be cared for until November 1. To Draw Subsistence Wage. Instead of getting food, clothing, sheller and $1 a week on relief, cransients will be put to work at a registered with the W. P. A. for any employment opportunities which may develop. A small number of these recently were assigned to a project at Belling Field. Two hundred transients have been sent to Camp Meade, Md., for C C. C. work. Another 200 were expected to leave for similar duty to- day. | subsistence wage ranging from $19 10| payid G. Linden, director of the $94 monthly, officials said. All but|Transient Bureau, said he believed 7 per cent of the registered transients are considered employable. More than a quarter of a million transients are Sponsored by Metropolitan street, Police were searching for the thief, . Police Club. Plans for a boxing show at Griffith | Stadium September 30 as a benefit | for the metropolitan police Boys' Club were completed yesterday by the | Board of Managers, meeting at a | luncheon at the National Press Club. Maj. Ernest W. Brown, founder of the club, assured the board the affair would be a sell-out, with police pre- cificts now engaged in disposing of | from 1,000 to 3,000 tickets each and | with Joe Turner donating the use of | his office in the Annapolis Hotel to| meet the demands of regular boxing | fans. The board also heard John P. Meshkofl, director, review the Sum- mer activities, which were devoted principally to providing recreational opportunities for thousands of under- privileged boys. - Election of a new president to fill the vacancy on the board left by the late Wilton J. Lambert will be held October 8. e HIGH SCHOOL ACCEPTED The new Woodrow Wilson High | School formally was accepted today by the District Commissioners on recom- mendation of Municipal Architect Nathan C. Wyeth. The contractor, McCloskey & Co., Inc, completed the project more than two months ahead of schedule, the Commissioners were told. / ‘The building will be put into service Monday when the public schools open for the Fall term. . estimated to be registered in 375 camps and 170 urban shelters. Supt. of Police ‘Maj. Ernest W. Brown hoped others of this class of depression population had been suffi- ciently forewarned. to realize there would be no shelters for them here. If they persist in coming they will face arrest for panhandling and vagrancy, he said today. “We've adopted a policy of watch- ing and «waiting,” he said. “We hope ‘grapevine’ and otherwise that there’s no work and no shelter for them.” Street Expects Decline. Elwood Street, director of welfare, said transients had ample notice of the “no admittance” rule which be- comes effective tomorrow. He pre- dicted the influx of these wanderers would diminish sharply after today. It has been increasing in the past few days, reflecting the rush to get in “under the wire.” “This 1s a difficult adjustment,” Street said, “but it's quite clear that this type of relief had to stop some- ‘time. The great trouble is that pri- vate agencies are not equipped to handle these people.” Street hoped the burden on private welfare organizations would be light- ened rapidly and perceptibly by ab- sorbtion of transients by Works Prog- ress and private jobs. Any applying for admission to a transient lodge after this midnight will be told to return to their own communities., Those now registered may not leave Wflhg\n forfeiting their the existence of transient shelters had reduced crime in large cities by pro- viding control of the floating popula- | tion. Maj. Brown said, however, that his problem had increased with the establishment of the shelters: that there were numerous and recurring instances of petty crime and drunken- | |ness among the transient shelter population. 1 500 in Private Homes. | | “The big majority of these men are | worthwhile,” Linden said. “They want to work, practically all of them, and | About 500 transients, including 92| women and several families, are| quartered in private homes, there‘ | being no room for them in the shelters, | | which have a normal capacity of 1.900 {but are housing more than 2,000.| Linden said one day’s records showed | applicants from as many as 26 States. | “But Washington,” he said, “is not | a soft town. The transients elsewhere are dealt with just as they are here | ' and their problem is the same.” | Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins | today reiterated that the order closing | | all transient bureaus throughout the | country at midnight “stands.” If | | transients do not uriderstand the rule by this time it is their individual | misfortune, officials said. | The Central Union Mission, pioneer | in helping transients and homeless | meg in the District, will increase | | its ‘number of beds to help alleviate | | the situation, officials said. They pointed out, however, that their fa- | ! cilities could not be enlarged to any | | appreciable extent, Virtually all their I personally iSunau of Public Roads and urged the nigher road.” | Glassie, summing up for the Gov- erniment, laid much stress on ais charge of speculation. Five times he reiterated that this “speculative” fea- | ture of the Virginia case “cuts the | throat” of all other arguments ad- vanced by Virginia for the low water mark Denies State “Invalid.” Referring to the previous Ball ref- erence to “invasion” by the Federal | Government of Virginia in this case, Glassie flatly denied “invasion.” He declared the Federal Government had expended about $7,000,000 to construct th Mount Vernon Memorial Highway | and the United States had taken *“no foot of Virginia land it didm't pay for.” The only Virginia contributions he admitted were the rejected offer of the right of way through the Duncan- Dye patents and $25,000 contributions from the State of Virginia and by Arlington County. Glassie summarized all arguments | presented by the Government in its contention that the proper boundary between the District and Virginia- is the high-water mark on the Virginia shore. Samuel J. Solomon, vice president of the National Airport Corp. which owns Washington-Hoover Air- port, was given permission to file a statement with the commission in re- gard to the disputed land comprising almost half of the airport. COLLECTION OF PERMITS BY POLICE INVESTIGATED Brown Discourages Practice of Taking Up Cards to Be Sure of Collateral. Capt. Milton D. Smith, acting chief | of the Traffic Bureau. is investigating a complaint against the alleged prac- tice of officers in taking up permits of law-violating motorists to make sure they will go to a precinct and the news has gotten around by their | it's proved every day that they do.” | deposit collateral. ‘This procedure, it was pointed out, has long been discouraged by Maj. Ernest W. Brown, police superintend- ent, on the ground it is a technical violation of law to drive to a police station without a permit. After warning four motorists who were parked illegally, an F street traffic policeman is said to nave re- turned later to find his warning bad not been heeded, whereupon he col- lected drivers’ permit. and required | the offenders to go to the Traffic Bu- reau. THEFT NETS SIX MONTHS Sentence Follows Taking of Seven Newspapers From Rack. William Hayden, colored, 800 block of First street, was given a sentence of six months in jail by Judge Rebert E. Mattingly in Police Court today for stealing seven newspapers from a rack at North Capitol and M streets. This is one of the heaviest sentences ever 120 beds are now Secupled. imposed for such an offense, fl 7