Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1935, Page 21

Washi ington News BOY, 3, 15 KILLED, 3 0THERS FATALLY HURT IN TRAFFIC Girl, 17, Dies in Hospital, Second Victim of Auto Upset. SILVER SPRING CHILD IN STRUCK BY TRUCK| Colored Driver, in Third of Death Accidents, Hit Tree Short Time Before. The fourth traffic death in the ‘Washington area within 24 hours oc- curred this afternoon when Miss Mary Tayman, 17, of 425 Twelfth street southeast, died in Georgetown Hos- pital of injuries received in nearby - Maryland late yesterday. Walter N. Liang, jr., 22, of 505 Tenth street southeast, was al- | most instantly killed in the same accident, as the automobile which he was driving overturned on Conduit road near Great Falls, Md. Three-year-old ‘William Mehring, son of Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Mehring, Silver Spring, Md., died this morning in Washington Sanpitarium at Takoma of a skull W. . Liang. Jr. fracture suffered late yesterday when struck by a truck in front of his home. The fourth death was K street southeast. He was killed about 3:30 am. today when struck by an automobile at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue. Both in Front Seat. Miss Tayman was riding on the front seat of the car with Laing at the time of the accident on Conduit yoad. She suffered a fractured skull. A third occupant of the cw, Paul| Le Roy Huntt, 22, of 1302 E street southeast, who told County policemen he was riding in the rumble seat, suffered cuts and bruises. He was detained for question- ing. Police said he told them the machine suddenly veered off the road and overturned James H. Falls, 37, colored, of Lake- land, Md., driver of the truck which struck the Mehring boy, was detained. Falls, who is an employe of the Wash- ington Suburban Sanitary Commis- sion, told police the boy darted from a group of companions on the sidewalk and into the path of the truck. The boy’s father is a Silver Spring dentist. | Funeral services for the child will be | held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home of Warner E. Pumphrey, in| Silver Spring. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Ran Car Into Tree. Jones, the dead colored man, was struck by an automobile driven by | William E. Scheetz, 27, of 223 Rock | Creek Church road. According to police, Jones had run | his automobile into a tree at Twenty- sixth and M streets. Sometime larer he was seen sitting in the machine by Park Policeman J. B. Lawler. ap- parently in a dazed condition, st Seventeenth street and Constitution avenue. The officer is said to have advised the man to leave his aato- mobile parked and walk home. It was after deciding to do this that Jones was killed. | Robert M. Blair, 1415 Harvard street, suffered head injuries yesterday when the automobile in which he was riding ran into a ditch on Central avenue, near Largo, Md., while returning from Laurel. Robert L. Chaney, 5706 Col- orado avenue, the driver, and Wesley Chaney of Woodmore, Md., escaped serious injury. A colored man was being held at No. 1 police station today as the al- leged driver of an automobile which last night ran through a red light and struck Victor Cerco, 33, of 110 E street, at Sixth and C streets. Cerco was treated at Emergency Hos- pital for head injuries and cuts. Four Children Are Injured. Four children were among others injured in accidents here. Vance Oswald, 9, of 330 D street southeast, received a broken leg and possibly internal injuries when hit | by an automobile in the 300 block of North Carolina avenue southeast. He was taken to Casualty Hospital. | William C. Peterson, 27, colored, 1200 | block of New Jersey avenue southeast, | driver of the automobile which struck him, was arrested ca a charge of reckless driving. Other children injured were Allyne D. Fiefield, 4, of 1254 Penn street northeast, who received injuries to her head and arm when hit by an automobile cear her home; Harvey Harrington, 9, of 627 I street, who suf- fered chest injuries when struck by an sutomobile at Fifth and H streets, and James V. Hall, 5, colored, of the 200 block of G street northeast, who suf- fered head injuries when struck by an auto in front of his home. Sybil Scofield, 29, of Ottawa, Kans., suffered head and shoulder injuries in a collision between two automo- biles at Third and C streets north- east, and Mrs. Dominick A. Notte, 33, of 1401 Foxall road, received cuts in a collision on Twelfth street. near the Department of Agriculture Build- ing, while riding in an automobile with her husband. Joseph G. Crunk- ilton of Clarendon, Va., operator of the other car, was charged with reckless driving. Michael Schmidt, 71, of 522 Ken- ,yon street, received cuts over the eye yesterday when he is said to have walked into the side of a taxicab at Fourth and G streets. He was treated at Casualty Hospital. 50 FACE TRAFFIC JUDGE Fifty alleged traffic law violators were arraigned before Judge Gus A. Schuldt today on 58 charges. Seven other persons were locked up await- that of ! Ervin Jones, 44, colored, 300 block of ! Montgomery | Truck Vietim WILLIAM MEHRING. NIELSEN FAVORED FOR COURT POST Federal Bar Group Backs Him to Succeed Kellogg. A movement by some members of | the Federal Bar Association to sup- port Judze Fred K. Nielsen, former Georgetown University professor and ! foot ball ceach, to succeed Frank B. Kellogz on the World Court, was disclosed yester= day at a lunch- eon meeting of the association in the Harrington Hotel. William R. Val- | lance, past presi- | dent of the asso- ciation, sald formal indorse- ! ment of Judge gii?:: O Fred K. Nielsen. | Executive Courcil meeting next Tues- day. udge Nieisen was principal speaker at’ yesterday's meeting. He recalled his experiences as United States rep- | resentative in the arbitration proceed- ings with Great Britain in 1920-1924, | winen he was opposed by Sir Cecil Hurst now presiding judge of the World Court. The successor to former Secretary of State Kellogg will be named by the | League of Nominations, but a nom- ination will be made by Elihu Root, | Prof. Manley Hudson of Harvard Uni- versity, Newton D. Baker and John Bassett Moore of New York. For some time Judge Nielsen has | been engaged in collecting $1,300,000 in American claims against the Turk- ish government. In 1927 he was a judge in the arbitration of a dispute |between the United States and Egypt, !and at one time he was a member of the Mexican Claims Commission. BOY, 17, 1S ACCUSED OF ROBBING CARRIER High School Student Is Said to Have Confessed to Toy Pis- ' tol Hold-up. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ‘TAKOMA PARK, Md., October 3.— A 17-year-old boy, who is alleged to have held up an Evening Star carrier boy with a toy pistol and robbed him of $18.35 last night, was arrested today by Montgomery County police and lodged in the Rockville Jail. He is Harry Hunter of 624 Carroll avenue, student in the local high school, who is said by officers to have confessed to robbing Richard Gibbs, 15, of 904 Sligo avenue, while the latter was making monthly collections last night. Gibbs reported to police the robbery occurred at Carroll and Sligo avenues shortly before @ o'clock. He said he was confronted by a youth attired in dark clothes and wearing smoked glasses. County Policeman W. C. Poole and Town Policeman Albert Thomas ar- rested Hunter, an acquaintance of Gibbs, after the carrier boy said that he suspected Hunter of having com- mitted the robbery. He told police he | thought he recognized Hunter’s voice when the latter ordered him to put up his hands. Hunter is to be arraigned in Juve- nile Court on Saturday morning to answer charges of hold-up and rob- bery, lodged against him shortly after noon today. — MORE WORK RELIEF. * PROJECTS ASKED |D. C. and Federal Department Heads Notified on Lifting of Deadline. District and Federal department heads have been urged by District works progress officials to submit ad- ditional projects for the relief em- ployment plan. The appeal was sent out late yes- terday after word was announced of the lifting of the deadline on submis- sion of plans to the Federal W. P. A. Previously Federal officials had stated they would accept no more proposed projects after September 12. Commissioner George E. Allen, Dis- trict works administrator, has sent to Federal officials projects having a total cost of $12,600,000. They were believed sufficient to give steady work to all the 11,500 employables on the District relief list. Additional projects will give more leeway in deciding finally on what projects are to be undertaken. Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, District auditor, has been elected chairman of the District Works Projects Board to take the place of Capt. Howard F. Clark: assistant engineer commis- sloner, who resigned as a member of the board. L) he Foening Stur WASHINGTON, D. C, FIVE-YEAR SCHOOL BUILDING PROGRAM PLANNED BY BOARD Program to Be Worked Out at Suggestion of Mrs. Doyle. PROBE MAY REINSTATE SUSPENDED STUDENT Quinn Loses Plea to Call Back Boy Involved in Fight—Halsey Is New Colonel. A new five-year building program, comparable to the five-year program authorized by Congress in 1925, will be undertaken by the Board of Edu- cation before Congress reconvenes in January. Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle, president of the board, suggested yesterday that such a plan might now be worked out. Citing the needs of the schools and present overcrowled conditions, she said that the time now is probably right for the system to gain some headway against existing congestion. Mrs. Doyle asked Dr. Frank W. Bal- lou, superintendent, to explain pres- ent needs. He said the present school equipment is far behind actual physi- cal needs and that the first five-year program made tremendous progress in relieving a similar situation 10 years ago. Discuss Adams Case. More than two hours of the board’s three-hour session was taken up by a discussion of the case of J. Q. Adams, Armstrong High School teacher, who was suspended for two months on a charge of striking a pupil who, it was | alleged, called him “Boy Scout” when | he appeared at the high school cadet {drill ‘n his uniform as a World War | second lieutenant. | Henry I. Quinn, board member, ob- jected strenuously that Harry Car- | ter. the pupil involved, was suspended until November 30. 'Our schools, made solely for our good boys and | girls. Chere is no reason to keep this boy on the streets for two months for | doing the same thing that we mem- | | bers of the board would have done | when we were 17 years old. classes immediately.” Quinn offered a motion that young | Carter be reinstated as an Armstrong High School student, without further investigation, but the motion was de- | L. Gaskins and Henry Gilligan sup- porting the metion. Investigation Ordered. At the suggestion of George M. Whitwell, before whose committee the case was given a hearing, Dr. Ballou was instructed to make an investi- gation and, if possible under the cir- cumstances, to lift the suspension of young Carter. Dr. Ballou presented recommenda- tions from Birch E. Bayh, new di- rector of physical and health activi- ties, that athletics in the school *» reorganized to the point that as few as two children can be provided with school games. Bayh also asked that games be reorganized to present special activities for children in the younger grades. His recommenda- tions, which were concurred in by Miss Anita Turner, director of physi- cal education in the colored schools, were referred to a special committee headed by Quinn for further study. Other members of the committee are Gilligan, Whitwell, Mrs. Philip Sid- ney Smith and Dr. J. Hayden John- son. The board turned down a request of Robert S. Roberts that he be allowed to organize a relief project to employ indigents to recondition free text books. The action was taken on the recommendation of Ross Haworth, ex- ecutive officer for Commissioner George E. Allen, District relief ad- ministrator. Haworth poin out that only 163 people coull be em- ployed and that the total cost would be in excess of $103,000. Halsey Gets Colonelcy. Edwin A. Halsey, jr., son of Col. Edwin A. Halsey, secretary of the United States Senate, was approved as colonel of the Washington High School Cadet Corps. Halsey, who served last year as & corporal in Com- pany B, 1st Regiment, at Central High School, was the successful candidate in a competitive examination held under the direction of Col. Wallace M. Craigle, U. S. A. (retired), pro- fessor of military science and tactics, who recommended his elevation. Jere J. Crane, first assistant superin- tendent in charge of business affairs, reported that work is already under way at 14 schools under the new W. P. A. appropriation, which will provide funds for the improvement of 173 schools. Work has actually begun at the following schools: Bright- wood, Keene, Mann, McKinley, Paul, Peabody, Randle Highlands, Raymond, Roosevelt, Stoddert, Taft, Young, Wal- lach and Woodridge. Next on the program will be the following schools: Anthony Bowen, Browne Junior, Burr- ville, Ludlow, Van Buren and Van Ness. Secretary Confirmed. Charles B. Degges, who has served for more than a year as probationary secretary of the School Board, was voted a permanent appointment ef- fective October 23. Dr. Ballou reported that, while the first day’s enrollment was 5,057 more pupils than the first day’s en- rollment a year ago, present regis- tration is increased only & little more than 3,300. Future policy for the two health schools will be determined by the board after a study of the results of the recent opening of the new fidnn‘l sanitarium at Glen Dale, MEETING POSTPONED Resignation of Prank de Sales Ryan as president of the Central Citizens’ Association resulted in postponement of that group’s scheduled meeting last night until November 6. Election of a new president will take place at that time, it was said, Ryan declared acceptance of & new Government post would not permit his serving a3 head of '.Iu'dm organizations " Quinn said, “are not | “I want this boy restored to his| | feated, with only himself, Benjamin | SHENANDOAH PARK EVICTS MAN FROM HOME OF 61 YEARS Singing National Anthem, Mountaineer Is Forced to Receive Handcuffs. HAD FIRMLY REFUSED TO LEAVE PANORAMA His 46 Acres Condemned, He Balked at Vacating or Accept- ing $4,855 Consideration. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star, LURAY, Va., October 3.— “And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” 1 In a quavering voice, Melanchthon Cliser this afternoon sang the anthem as he stood, handcuffed, amid deputies evicting him from the hpme in which he had lived all but one of his 62 years. Cliser had been fighting to main- tain his home on the Lee Highway just under Panorama, or Thornton’s Gap, since the Virginia Conservation Commission started acquiring land for the Shenandoah National Park. The mountaineer vowed he would never be removed from his home, | either by force or persuasion. His 46 | acres of mountain land had been con- | demned and a price of $4,855 set upon | it, but Cliser steadfastly refused to, vacate the premises or accept the | money. Judge H. W. Bertram of Pue{ County Circuit Court issued an evic- | tion order against Cliser which was extended several times. The moun- taineer, who runs a gasoline station | and lunch stand beside the highway | just west of the gap, had many sym- | pathizers. and authorities were reluc- | | tant to evict him. Sheriff Ordered to Act. This morning Judge Bertram or- dered Sheriff E. L. Lucas to evict Cliser by noon togay. The elderly | sheriff previously had made a trip |to Richmond to intercede with the | Governor in Cliser’s behalf. It was said that the sheriff was told to carry out the eviction or him- | self stand in contempt of court. Lucas accordingly went to Cliser's home with four deputies. | When they dove up to Cliser's fill- | ing station, he came from behind his locked door and barricaded gates to | ;urve the men he supposed were cus- tomers. A deputy stepped from the car, seized him by the wrist, and handcuffed him. “You've got me, boys, but I ain't agoin’ nowhere from now 'till Christ- mas,” the prisoner declared. Kin Lived There Before Him. Cliser said he loved his home because his father and grandfather had oeen there before him and because it was the only home he ever knew. The graves of the elder Clisers are in tae family cemetery on a ridge just above his house. The deputies tarried while Cliser sang the national anthem and de- clared he was a free man who stood on his constitutional rather than his “shotgun” rights. They were under | orders, however, to arrest Cliser for contempt of court should he resist the eviction order. It required four deputies to force the mountaineer into the sheriff’s au- tomobile. Cliser’s wife, whom he had met as a school teacher while she was a pupil under him 35 years ago, shouted to him: “Don’t you put up a cent of bond. You stay in jail as long as they want to keep you, because you're a free man, and the right is on your side.” Ordered Chairman Off Land. Cliser said the Federal park au- thorities had been particularly anx- lous to oust him since the day about a month ago when he ordered from his premises Wilbur Hall, chairman of the Virginia Conservation Commis- sion, which is acquiring the park land for the Government. It was sald that W. C. Armstrong, an attorney for the conservation com- mission, appeared before Judge Ber- tram and demanded the execution of the eviction order. After Cliser was taken in handcuffs to Luray, deputies remained at the mountain residence this afternoon, de- bating what they would do with Mrs. Cliser, who sat on her front steps and refused in no uncertain terms to move {rom the premises. ey e CONTRACT AWARDED Apartment Houses to Be Built at Marine Barracks. By the Assoctated Press. Award of a contract for construction of apartment houses at the Marine Quantico, Va., to Irwin & Leighton, Philadelphia, for $996,900 was announced yesterday by the Navy Depnnmmt Bureau of Yards and —. Marriage Licenses. Dulx A. Lit . 26, 223 wl dBon‘ “%3“ .z&4 R B [ uocnu. H. 2320 iseau, '25. 5005 Blair rd. and Edna u Blumer; 25. 1343 Kenyoi Rev. A, M l’hlllbc 20 1934 st. s.e. C. Maude H Onn 27, 408 Sewar: Kins. 1419 R “»v llld 326 Allison st.; v. h. 25, 15 N st., snd mu 22, 6"1 Morris ll. Abe hy. D. 8, Erie, Pa.. nnd Pnncel fins. 23,1723 1 st.t Rev. R J. Froehe r-“f., Smith, 0th st., and Ometa (ki tagticd %nxfinun'h% n.w'“i 27, Qeals, Pla.. and f«':'g.'iu.ui 6 Runice: 125 Therese n. "19. EIk City, Kans., [ “a'n.d“l(" . 19, ‘Hunting: "nev, ih‘u‘ ller. on, W. Malew W 7., 1609 5th st. and A '%nams. 21, 71 P Rev. T III Chl Ridgway Smih 31, 4214 Eads st n.e. and l l\llt! n, 18. 510 Glst st. n.e.; or, 50 1412 mllfl st.. and 5. 40, Mt. Rainter, Md.; & cinunuu. Oblo. 5 N. r'-- nu 40" 5500 wittiass 2 . 21, vnum city, oo ooten, 21, Grifton. nfied !o:'::. f:o‘o';: ’qlv:'gry ave.. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935. F¥¥ Figures in Park Eviction Dispute Society and General PAGE B—1 D. . BAR T0 STUDY PLANS 0 MODIFY CORPORATION LAW Meeting Called October 20 to Act on Proposal to Liberalize Statute. SPECIAL COMMITTEE CIRCULATES REPORT More Supervision of Local Firms and Lower Costs Sought 1. Mr. and Mrs. Melanchthon Cliser and their dog “Boodgy” on the steps of their home in Shenaracan National Park, which they refuse to leave despite a court order. 2. The chained and lockea gate behind which the Clisers have established themselves and defied authori- ties to oust them. 3 Sheriff Edwin L. Lucas who tried to serve Cliser with eviction papers which the mountaineer claims are “unconstitutional.” 4. General view of the store, house and gas station owned by Cliser, the land having been in his family for generations. MRS. BOONE HEAD OF WAR MOTHERS Resolutions on Agenda as Tenth Annual Parley Here Continues. The American War Mothers, at their tenth annual convention at the Ward- man Park Hotel today, unanimously elected Mrs. Howard Boone of Kansas | City, Mo., as president for the next | two years. Other officers were to be elected this afternoon, ‘The 600 delegates, representing 37 States, are scheduled to vote this afternoon on resolutions introduced yesterday condemning war, lax immi- gration laws and child labor. Other resolutions which may be adopted in- clude those favoring old age pensions, & reissue of the Mother'’s day stamp, authorization of the red and white silk flag as the War Mothers’ emblem and the removal of hats by men in the prrser%v of women wearing the American War Mothers’ pin. Business will end today with the installation of officers in a program beginning at 8 p.m. and the con- vention will be concluded tomorrow after a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon, a visit to Gadsby's Tavern in Alex- andria, and a series of memorial tree exercises. Trees will be marked in West Potomac Park at 10 am. in honor of Mrs. Gertrude Stone, na- tional president, and Mrs. Willlam Ochiltree, retiring president. A tree in memory of the decensed war vet- erans of Virginia will be planted on the terrace of the National Masonic Temple, Alexandria, at 3 p.m. After business sessions yesterday, approximately 250 delegates assembled at a banquet in the Whitelaw Hotel as guests of the Lincoln Chapter, col- ored, headed by Mrs. L. A. Pickney. Speeches were made by Mrs. Ochiltree and Mrs. Mary T. Shanahan, general chairman of the convention. —_— TRACY ALIENATION SUIT IS DISMISSED BY COURT The $100,000 alienation of affections suit begun here two years ago by Mrs. Betty Tracy, 4018 Marlboro place, against Arthur Tracy, radio “street singer,” was dismissed in District Su- preme Court today. The plaintif had charged that Tracy and his wife, Mrs. Beatrice Tracy, 1428 Monroe street, destroyed the affection of her husband, Bert M. Tracy, for her, and caused him to desert her in October, 1932. Arthur and Bert Tracy are brothers. ‘When the case was called for trial today, the plaintiff was not repre- sented and Justice James M. Proctor the action on motion of Ed- mund M. Tolan, sw:rncy for the radio ster. Cadet Colonel EDWIN A. HALSEY, JR, 16-year-old son of the Secretary of the United States Senate, who was appointed colonel of the Wash- ington High School Cadet Corps by the Board of Education yesterday. He was a corporal at Central High School last year and won his pro- motion in a competitive examina= tion, —Star Staff Photo. VIGTOR RAICHELDT VIGTIM OF POISON Assistant Examiner at Pat- ent Office Dies on Way to Hospital. Victor Raicheldt, 44, assistant ex- aminer at the Patent Office, died en route to Emergency Hospital today shortly after he is alleged to have taken poison in the office of David A. Coe, a physio-therapist, 1601 O street. Married three months ago, Raicheldt is understood to have worried over domestic troubles. His wife, Hjerdis, sailed from New York yesterday for her home in Voss, Norway. police sald. Raicheldt, who lived at the Cairo Hotel, called on Coe early today and while in the office slumped in his chair and died in an ambulance on —Star Staff Photos. HUMANE GROUP T0 END SESSIONS Prepare to Adopt Resolution Condemning Cruelty to Animals. The American Humane Association | prepared to close its fifty-ninth annual | convention this afternoon with adop- tion of resolutions condemning cruelty 1o animals. The convention has been in session at the Mayflower Hotel since Monday. At today's morning session delegates | continued their discussions of animal | welfare. Speakers included William F. H. Wentzel, secretary of the Fed- erated Humane Societies of Pennsyl- vania; C. Rowland Johns, secretary of the National Canine Defense League, London; Mrs. Edwin O. Lewis, presi- dent of the Women’s Pennsylvania Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and Seymour Carroll of the American Humane Education Society. An address by John Collier, com- missioner of Indian Affairs, and a marjonette show were scheduled for this afternoon. The mutilation suffered by animals 30 their owners can win prize ribbons at pet shows was described yesterday by J. McNab Wilson, managing di- rector of the Toronto Humane Society. He said these practices include such operations as the cropping of a dog’s ears, cutting its nails back to the skin, severing & nerve so its tail will stand erect, cutting off the tip of its tongue and enlarging the pupils of its eyes— the latter operation rendering the dog practically blind for a while. Horses also are made to suffer, Wilson said. Another speaker yesterday, John R. Mohler, chief of the Agriculture De- partment’s Bureau of Animal Indus- try, told delegates live stock are re- ceiving more humane treatment now through improved shipping methods, control of animal diseases and para- sites and better methods of handling stock. Charges of violating the laws regarding treatment of live stock have seldom exceeded 150 a year in recent years, whereas in 1921 they numbered 2,165, he said. AIRMAIL COST BOOSTED Adjusted Pay on 21 Routes Esti- mated $545,000 Increase. Airmail pay adjustments made by the Interstate Commerce Commission in revising contracts with 21 domestic route operators will cost the Govern- ment about $545,000, according to pre- liminary estimates yesterday by Post Office experts. They estimated unofficially that the | 21 airmail lines will be paid about $615,000 in increased revenue for the period from March 1 to July 30. This added pay is based on adjusted rates heoth for muuc&md for pounds of mail carried. g by Sponsors. A proposal to bring the District’s 60-year-old corporation law in line with more liberal practices exisiting in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, will be made to the District Bar Association at a special meeting tenta- tively set for October 20, it was learned today. For two years a special committee of the association has been working on a preliminary draft of a bill for submission to Congress. Its report now is finished and has been circu- lated among Bar Association mem- bers for study and criticism. The proposed law would greatly liberalize requirements for incorpora- tion, make possible more supcrvision over the affairs of local corporations and bring foreign corporations op- erating here under the jurisdicton of District authorities. Few Incorporated Here. Because of the stringent require- ments for a District charter, not one in 50 corporations doing business here are incorporated under District law, according to William E. Richard- son, chairman of the special com- mittee. “The existing law makes it prac- tically impossible for any large or- ganization to obtain a charter in the District,” Richardson explained. “Be- fore a charter is granted, all the cap- ital stock must have been subscribed and 10 per cent of it paid in cash. These conditions are impossible to meet in the course of modern busi- ness.” The committee report recommends that the stock subscription regula- tion be wiped out and corporations merely required to have $1,000 paid in before they begin operation. Cost Would Be Reduced. Cost of incorporation here would | be materially reduced, but still would | be maintained at a slightly higher | level than in Delaware, where, it is estimated, half the corporations in the | United States obtained their charters. { In order to bring as many as pos- | sible of the corporations doing their principal business here under District charters, a tax would be imposed on foreign corporations only slightly less than that levied on domestic concerns. Richardson pointed out this would mean organizations incorporated else- where would have to pay a double yearly assessment—here and in the jurisdiction of their incorporation. Proponents of the suggested law predict that its passage would bring thousands of dollars in taxes into | the District's coffers. Richardson esti- mated that at least a thousand cor- porations doing business in the Capi- tal pay an average yearly tax of $50 each to the various States where they were incorporated. The committee urged creation of the post of commissioner of corpora- tions, and that he be empowered to require full annual reports from all corporations doing their principal business here without regard to wheth- er they are incorporated under Dis- trict laws or in other jurisdictions. Under the proposed law, corporations would report on the amount of busi- | ness transacted as well as their cor- | porate set-up. In the past two and a half years, 15 States have been forced by the changing needs of business to mod- ernize their carporation laws, Richard- son said, and since January 1, six States have passed revised corpora- tion statutes. STREET CAR SWITCH DELAY REQUESTED Seventh Street Merchants Say Work Now Would Tie Up Traf- fic in Christmas Season. The Public Utilities Commission was urged today by a group of Seventh street merchants to delay construc- tion of a street car track switch at Seventh and G streets until January 1, to avoid traffic tie-ups during the Christmas business season. The commissién had ordered the work started November 1 and com- pleted in four weeks as a part of its demands for prompt completion of work needed for rerouting of street cars. After the conference, commis- sion officials withheld decision. Spokesmen for the group included Howard Sigmund, president of the Seventh Street Business Men’s Asso- ciation; A. J. Driscoll, president of the Mid-City Citizens' Association; C. D. Kaufmann of the Franc Jewelry Co., and Sylvan King of King's Palace. They presented a petition signed by merchants for three blocks along Sev- enth street. CAMP FIRE MEETING TO HONOR MARYLAND “Maryland night” will be observed at the camp fire meeting to be held tomorrow under auspices of the Na- tional Park Service at Pierce Mill in Rock Creek Park. Dr. R. V. Truftt of the University of Maryland will lecture and will present & motion picture. Col. Thomas L. Heffernan of the Library of Con- gress, who is associated with the Na- tional Park Service as historical ad- | vaser, also will speak. | Col. George H. Calvert, jr., presie dent of the Maryland State Society, is co-operating with C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the Na- tional Capital Parks, and H. R. Gregg, park gaturalist, in arranging the affair.