Evening Star Newspaper, September 22, 1935, Page 6

A—6 CONNECTICUT BUS OVERLOADING CUT -Utilities Commission Says Kinks in New Service Be- ing Ironed Out. Overloading of the new Connecticut avenue busses to the extent of par- tially obstructing the vision of the drivers has been corrected, after com- plaints were registered with the Cap- ital Transit Co. the Public Utilities Commission announced yesterday. The heavy overloading was at- tributed to lack of necessary complete | ,dnformation during the first few days | p'of the substitution of busses for the | -oold street car service and these | *kinks" are being ironed out, officials said | Complaints were made by the riding public first to Maj. Ernest W. Brown, superintendent of police. He for- warded them to the commission and from there they went to the company. Chairman Riley E. Eigen of the com- _mission said yesterday the same com- plaint had been raised when tfé Ta- koma express bus service was insti- 7 tuted, but that corrections were made later. Busses Restored to Routes. | Other complaints were that busses" were taken off previously established | routes to fill the expanding need for | service on the new Connecticut avenue line. Chairman Elgen said he had been informed these busses had been restored to their regular lines. Commission officials have been re- | quested to make sure that service on other lines will not be diminished in any move to give adequate service on | Connecticut avenue. People’s Counsel William A. Roberts yesterday protested against lowering | of service on the Massachusetts ave- | nue bus line and demanded that main- tenance of adequate service on the new Connecticut avenue line be not permitted to reduce standards oa other lines. Still another complaint has been | raised, that is, that charges for serv- jce on the regular fare local stop serv- ice along Connecticut avenue is cheap- er than those on other and shorter lines. The commission’s reply is that reg- ular street car fare is charged ca the Connecticut avenue “local” service because it is a substitution for regular street car service. Uniform Fate Probable. In the case of the Brookland-Twen- | ty-second and Shepherd street line, for | instance, the $1.25 weekly pass is re- | quired, whereas on the “local” Con- | uecticut avenue busses the $1 weekly | passes are accepted. | The commission is planning to have | a general reconsideration of all bus fares after all major rerouting changes have been put into effect. An effort will be made to make the fares on busses more uniform, it is said. | Rebuilding of the street car tracks on Pennsylvania avenue southeast | from Eighth to Seventeenth street, is | scheduled to be started November "'i the commission said yesterday in re- sponse to queries. No date has been fixed for completion, since other Work, incident to major rerouting, has been given precedence. RUSSIA!;I BALOONISTS CLAIM DISTANCE RECORD Bubstantiation of 1,426 - Mile Flight Would Take Settle Honors of 962 Miles. By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, September 31.—Two Rus- | gian balloonists today claimed the | world distance record for balloons of the 2,220-cubic-meter class, until now held by America. | The Russians, B. Romanoff and A. | Babuikin, said a flight from near Moscow to the vicinity of the Kara- kum Desert in Kakak, Soviet Repub- lic, give them the record. It took | them seven days to reach an inhabited | place after landing, they declared. | The pilots said they covered 2,300 | kilometers (about 1,426 miles), com- pared with the record of 1,550 kliome- ters (about 962 miles) made by Lieut. G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell in | 1932 | Soviet aviation officials believed the feat would annul the world record which it appeared two Polish balloon- ists, Duzhenski and Vyzotski, had | made in the Gordon Bennett race| this year. The Poles covered 1,041 miles. HIT-AND-RUN VICTIM Lovettsville Mn;x—l:j‘\ued While | Changing Tire. Special Dispatch to The Star. LEESBURG, Va. September 19.— Edward Potterfield, well known Lo- | vettsville resident, is in the county | hospital here with a probable broken back. suffered when he was hit by a hit-and-run driver. Potterfield was | bending over a tire he was changing when a speeding automobile struck | him. County officers, searching for clues to the hit-and-run driver, said their | hunt had been futile. Hunger Striker Calls on Courts To Speed Appeal Condemns Long Delay “While I Undergo Living Hell.”” By the Associated Press. MCcALESTER. Okla, September 21. —Robert Denton, convicted “triangle” killer, started a hunger strike tonight in protest against the Criminal Court of Appeals “fiddling around while I undergo a living hell.” Denton, 22-year-old printer, denies he “killed” John Osby Peters, 23-year- old former Oklahoma City University athlete, insisting he “executed” him instead, “for stealing my wife.” “I'm not making any plea for sym- pathy,” Denton declared in his death row cell at the penitentiary here. “Neither am I interested only in my case.” “But the practice of the court in holding up decisions while we who are the living dead undergo a constant vorture of suspense while waiting for its action should be stopped.” The ‘court took his appeal under advise- | ment July 10. | Denton was convicted after a stormy | “trial in which he “dared” the prosecu- | tion to send him to the chair. ! 3 'Senator Ranks Project as | Tennessee Valley Authority was ex- | feat that one bill (Wheeler-Rayburn Retires to Quiet Villa Giulio Gatti-Casazza, who for 25 years was in charge of the Met- ropolitan Opera Co., in his first photograph, showing him in retirement at his villa in Lesa, on the shores of Lago Maggiore, Italy. THE PRE-SCHOOL TESTS SLATED BY RUHLAND | Possible Tubercular Infection and Other Diseases to Be Made Known. Examination of hundreds of pre- | school age children for possible tuber- cular infection and other diseases is planned by Health Officer George C. Ruhland as & part of his campaign | against childhood diseases. He has conferred with the District ‘Tuberculosis Association regarding co- operation in this new program. There are some 3.200 children of pre-school age, he has been informed, and he hopes to give examinations to « con- siderable number. The program would be largely on a “volunteer” | basis, although many children would be contacted through application to various District agencies, such as the Child Welfare stations. ‘The program was revealed as Dr. | Ruhland issued a call to parents to| make a careful check of the condition | of the health of their children before they are entered in school, cpening tomorrow. cedge v YOUTH'S CAR KILLS BOY Four Harvard Students Detained After Accident. ELYRIA, Ohio, September 21 (») — Jack Baird, 10-year-old son of former County Prosecutor Donald A. Baird, was struck and killed by a car econ- —Wide World Photo. NIRRSSAVSTV A 10 AD ROOSEVELT Best New Deal Move in Political Sky. By the Associated Press. ‘The opinion that nothing in Presi- | dent Roosevelt's program has done | him as much good politically as the pressed yesterday by Senator Norris, Nebraska, Republican independent, who fathered the power project. In an interview on his return to the Capital from what he described as a most satisfying visit to that region, he said “It will react to the benefit of every man utilities ¢ o ntrol bill in the House and Senate.” He based his conclusion on} what he said was an evident popu- lar reaction in sympathy with| the Government's efforts to bring down electricity rates. “The greatest obstacles the T. V. A. will meet and has met,” Norris replied to a ques- tion after telling of his findings in the valley, “are injunctions started by representatives of the power trust. ‘There are several now and I presume others will be commenced, which do a great deal of damage by the delay and expense of defending against them. I can't see anything in the end, however, but that these injunc- tions must fail. “But the wonderful fight that the pawer companies put up, wherein they spent many millions of dollars to de- Senator Norris. utilities act) shows they are willing and able to spend millions and mil- lions, even though the only result is | delay. “Carrying on the T. V. A. will do more than any one other thing to | break the back of the power trust. Already the effect of the policies of the T. V. A. has brought about a Te- duction in the price of electricity all over the United States of more than $50,000,000 annually.” TRANSFUSIONS AIDED Army Surgeon Is Credited With New Apparatus. ATLANTA, September 21 (#)— Recognition for development of an im- proved direct blood transfusion appa- ratus has been accorded Capt. Fred Foster Rudder, surgeon assigned to Fort McPherson. Assisted by Dr. C. E. Coolidge, pro- fessor of mechanical design at Georgia Tech; .William Cross and Thomas Keith, students, Capt. Rudder experi- mented for about three years with the apparatus. The working model has been used for some 700 transfusions. Rapid transfer of the blood is one of the most important features of the new apparatus. Another development is who | stood by it andthe | the assurance against air leakage. of Ton Popular pstryments and » Full s.“lll ! P 1ygte Lossons * Homer L. Kitt Co. 1330 G Stroet taining four Harvard students today. Baird, riding a bicycle, was struck by the car and died four hours later in a hospital. The four students, Frank Sommers, 20, driver: David Summerfield and to stay there 20 minutes, then have | Cyrus de Coster, all of St. Paul, Minn., to come out for a rest. Nurses are in | and Betty Ruth Lawrence of Minne- attendance in case of emergency. Boys | apolis, sald they were returning to | leave the pool at the left side and the Harvard. Police detained them for girls at the right. questioning. Before You Re-roof or Re-side Estimate Bathing in Japan. 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Duer's suggestion would allow lighter dredges, on boats powered only by sail and with no power- driven winches, to operate on the Potomac. “Whether it is the correct solution depends on the point of view,” Sena- tor Coad said. “This much can be sald for it: It would be the least destructive method of taking oysters {rom waters too deep for shaft tong- ng.” Virginia To Seek Legislation. Duer said he had talked with Representatives of the Virginia Con- servation Department and that they had agreed to seek such legislation at the 1936 session of the Virginia Legislature. Duer plans to work for passage of a similar Maryland law 5.1 Mattress Covers three twin and single at the special session next Febru- ary. No legislation dealing with the Potomac River is effective unless each of the two States coneur in it to the letter. A compact to that effect was ratified by the two States in 1785. Coad warned that if heavy dredges mac, much of the best oyster bot- tom would be ‘“ruined” within two or three years. The river was closed to dredging in 1931. The St Marys Senator made it plain, however, that before he would favor any legislation opening the river to dredges that he would like | to see a change in the Maryland- Virginia boundary as it effects the rights of Maryland watermen. Clotied Te Marylanders. As the boundary now stands. Vir- ginia watermen can operate in all waiers of the Potomac. But, there closéd to Maryland watermen In 1928 a “headland to headland” boundary was established on the Virginia side, which means that the Iine does not follow the indentations of the sohre, but is more in the nature of a straight line. Maryland watermen are not allowed to operate within that line. are allowed to operate in thé Poto- | are approximately 6,000 acres of bot- | tom of the Virginia side which are | as a principal beneficiary, Roberts said: | “Since connections between the Dis- | trict Building and the United States Capitol would be on a mileage basis, if private installations to that board were desired, the District could use additional wires at much less cost than formerly. “Under present operating condi- tions, the many messages originating in the District Buildirg for the Capi- tol are handled through the Govern- ment board at a par message churge |of 3 cents by operators of the tele- phone company. This not only has z:: ul):ler:]tmn of an additional opera- | T and loss of privacy, but is com- ! puting charges for branch telephone | paratively expensive for the hu!ck nr:( | service will effect an annual saving of | messazes handled as compared with $124,0008 for subscribers, People's""““"e installation Counsel William A. Roberts notified | 5 the Commissioners yesterday. | Considerable saving in District gov- ernment, telephone costs could be ef- | DISCHARGED BY JUDGE fected by establishment of a greater | | number of private lines from the Dis- | Unable to Agree as to Guilt of | trict Building to the Capitol, he said. | Youth o | He asked that a study be made, since outh Accused of Murder- | iona. with-the Capitol and, on’both ie e Tant ions wil 1 e of these, calls must originate at the _‘;g‘oj'\?x‘:&%uogla( _September 21 g L i ey ?"{'LN ra"," Under the former rate schedules,|anq"then burning their ‘m",r:p?m;‘]‘ | charges for branch telephone service u.o.14 pe free to i wm(‘:'m- 0 ,', were measured by routing of lines from | yaa410cked respa) 'xal i "; the subscribers’ main service, through The jurors received the ¢ o the telephone exchange office to the | g.34 1 vesterday and were diom :; position of the extension phone shortly before 3 p.m. today. ha District Judge O. C. Wybrant, who Recently the Chesapeake & Potomac dismissed the panel, set bonds of | Telephone Co. gained Public Utilities Commission approval for a new rate §5000 each in the two murder charges | system on which charges would be | accusing him of killing his parents, measured by distance directly from | My and Mrs. John Boley. the subscriber'’s main connection 10| County ofcials said they had not its branch extension. | decided whether to retry Boley on the Estimating the effect of this change | charge of slaying his father or to | at a saving of $124.000 to subscribers, | proceed against him on the charge | with the United States Government | he killed his mother, NEW PHONE BASS TOSAVEST4000 Branch System Charge to' Be of Main Benefit to Government. Adoption of a new system of com- BOLEY MURDER JEfiY Save on Quality Fall Fabrics! Dress Lengths e Silks e Rayons 3.3, 4 and 4} yard lengths—which m that every woman can have the right dress length for her. figure. 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