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. POLIGE SEEK CLUE 1INKING GAMBLER - TOWILSONKILLING Pugh Almost Ready to Go Before Grand Jury With “Rirtight” Case. JAIL BREAK CONNECTION WITH MURDER DENIED Status of Albert S. Sutton and Dewey Jenkins, Both in Cus. tody, Still Uncertain. BY JOHN H. CLINE. With State’s Attorney James H. Pugh of Montgomery County almost ready to go before the grand jury with an “airtight” case against the slayers of Allen B. Wilson, Washing- ton police today renewed their efforts to link one of the District's most notorious gamblers with the case. At the same time police denied there is any connection between the ‘Wilson murder and the Richmond Jail delivery in which Robert Mais and Walter Legenza shot their way to freedom. Investigators have evidence that John “Slim” Dunn figured in both crimes, but said the Wilson murder was not perpetrated to compensate the local gambler supposed to have put up the money for the jail de- livery. Mals and Legenza, both Tri- State gangsters, were recaptured in New York and executed in Richmond. Link With Gambler Weak. Police did not feel confident of be- ing able to connect the local gambler with the murder of Wilson, who was shot when mistaken for Edward *“Mickey” McDonald, also identified with gambling interests here. They are still working on this angle, how- ever, and Pugh yesterday said the pres- entation of the case to the grand jury may be delayed “in event the investi- gation brings in additional evidence involving other principals or acces- sories.” The status of the two under arrest in the case remained uncertain. Pugh said he has information that Albert S. Sutton, now being held in the District Jail, was present at the time of the murder. Local police, however, denied this, asserting their information did not connect Sutton with the actual shooting. Pugh also announced Dewey Jenkins under arrest in a police precinct, was not involved as accessory or principal. Police say he has told them he knew of the plans for the murder, and it ‘was believed he may be used as a wit- ness for the prosecution. Cugino Called “Trigger Man.” Others involved as principals, ac- cording to Pugh, are Tony “The Sting- er” Cugino, notorious Philadelphia gangster, who committed suicide in New York recently; Ernest W. Myers, Dunn, William Cleary and Claude Bailey, who was killed several weeks ago while trying to escape from Lorton Reformatory. Pugh would not say which of the men fired the bullet that killed Wilson, although Police Chief Ernest W. Brown yesterday named Cugino as the “trigger man.” Pugh indicated the suspects, if in- dicted, probably will not be brought to trial before February. ‘Maj. Brown said the men from the local Detective Bureau—Lieuts. John H. Fowler and Floyd Truscott and | Sergt. Earl Hartman—are not now working on the car barn murders, al- though they may be assigned to this case later. In the car barn case, two employes of the Capital Transit Co, were mur- dered last January during a hold-up of the Chevy Chase Lake car barn. Maryland police, however, have been ‘working on this case and hope to ques- tion Cleary. » YOUNG MEN’S FORUM WILL HEAR WRITER . Constantine Brown of The Star to Speak on Ethiopian Situation. Constantine Brown, foreign news Writer of The Star, will discuss the Italian-Ethiopian situation in the opening lecture tonight of a series sponsored by the Young Men’s Forum of the Young Men's Christian Asso- eiation. The lecture, free to the public, will be given in the Central Y. M. C. A, Eighteenth and G streets, at 8:15 pm. Other lectures on topics of na- tional and international interest will follow. Dr. J. Orin Powers of George ‘Washington University will introduce Brown. Speakers at subsequent lectures will include Dr. Thomas H. Healy, dean of the School of Foreign Service, George- town University; Dr. Ellery C. Stowell, professor of international law, Ameri- ean University, and Rev. Dr, A, A, Btockdale, pastor of the First Congre- getional Church. The lectures will be given every other Thursday. On alternate Thursdays, the Young Men'’s Forum will discuss “personality” under the leadership of such speakers as Elwood Street, director of the D. €. Board of Public Welfare; William M. Loman, el director of a lo- cal department store; W. W. Wheeler, saasistant vice president of the Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co., and Dr. Edgar B. Brossard, member of the United States Tariff Commission. Dr. Powers will preside at the lectures. BROADCAST PLANNED Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor, wife of the president of the National Geographic Soclety, will outline the work being done for children who are hard of by the American Society for ‘Hard of Hearing in an address to broadcast by Station WOL from 30 to 1: .m. tomorrow. Her topic ‘The ‘wide observance of National Hearing week, Mrs, Grosvenor is a member the Committee on Professionel Co- Murder Gun? Efforts are being made by police to identify this gun as the weapon which ended the life of Allen B. Wilson & year ago. It was taken from one of the suspects arrested in the case. ~ —Star Staff Photo. RALLY T0 PROTEST COMMUNISM VIEW Constitution Day Commit- tee Calls Mass Meeting on School Ruling. Objecting to the interpretation of the District’s anti-communism law, attached as a rider to the last school appropriation bill, the Constitution Day Committee, headed by Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, U. S. A, retired, plans to hold a mass protest meeting on November 4 to arrange to send a committee before the Board of Edu- cation. Gen. Fries, who has appeared be- | fore the board before to voice a simi- lar protest, said the delegation will demand that the interpretation of Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Pretty- man be set aside and that a proposal by Henry I. Quinn and Benjamin L. Gaskins, lawyer members of the board, be adopted as the board's interpreta- tion. Prettyman held, in effect, that there is a difference in “teaching about” communism” and “teaching” com- munism. To tell of the existence of communistic government and to ex- plain its operations, the corporation counsel ruled, is legal within the meaning of the rider, but to advocate communism would be a violation of the law. Rider Held Prohibitive. Quinn and Gaskins, after Pretty- man’s opinion was presented to the board, submitted their own opinion that the rider forbade all mention of communism in the schools. Henry Gilligan, also a lawyer member of the board, offered his own minority opin- ion upholding Prettyman’s views, and this was upheld, with only Quinn and Gaskins disagreeing. With that action, the board in- structed Dr. Frank W. Ballou, super- interdent, to determine whether any violations are taking place. Gen. Fries and the members of the Constitution Day Committee inter- preted the Prettyman ruling as au- thorizing the teaching of Communism and immediately objected. The meeting now being planned, Gen. Fries said, probably will be held at the Mayflower Hotel. It is planned two days before the next regular meeting of the board, on Wednesday, November 6. Fries said a group would be selected to present the commit- tee’s views. Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle, president | of the board, said today that the com- mittee will be given a hearing when and if it appears before the board. Pupil Withdrawn in Protest. Meanwhile it was learned that Otto Healy, 13, son of Thomas Healy, 1801 Wyoming avenue, has been withdrawn from school because his father objects to the Communist ruling. Robert L. Haycock, assistant superintendent in charge of elementary schools, said in- quiry was made into the reason for the youth’s withdrawal and that Healy expressed his objection to the law's interpretation, but that he had no specific complaint to make against the school or any of his sor’s teachers. Young Healy was an eighth-grade pupil at the John Quincy Adams School. Haycock said today that the com- pulsory attendance law would require the father to send the boy to school, since he is under age, but that the parent has the right to send him to a private school if he desires. Plans for the mass meeting were made last night at a meeting of Gen. Fries’ committee at the Ambassador Hotel. The committee was established several weeks ago to plan observance here of Constitution day on Septem- ber 17 and has continued to function since that date, sponsoring a city-wide essay contest on the Constitution. Harvest Mechanized. Mechanized harvesting of 1,672,500 acres under beet root in Russia is to be attempted. e Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, CHEVY CHASE BUS TAX SETTLEMENT SOUGHT IN PARLEY Maryland Public Service Commission to Take Up Proposal. HANNA SAYS FIRM CAN'T PAY $220 PER VEHICLE Capital Transit President Claims Route May Be Changed if Agreement Fails. A conference will be held Monday with the Maryland Public Service Commission in Baltimore and with motor vehicle authorities there in an effort to reach a solution of the prob- lem that has arisen over the proposal to tax busses of the Capital Transit Co. entering that State, it was dis- closed today by John H. Hanna, presi- dent of the transit company. “I hope the matter can be straight- ened out at this meeting,” Hanna said, “and I have every reason to believe that it will.” Hanna was firm in his stand that his company does not intend to pay the tax amounting to some $220 a year on each bus, threatened by Maryland authorities. The firm cannot afford to pay such a levy, he contended, adding that such a thing is “un- reasonable.” Board Meets. A board meeting was held this morning, it was learned, and there was reason to believe the directors backed Hanna's stand. There are two taxes looming, Hanna said. One is a sales levy of 1 per cent on each bus operating in Maryland, making an average of $100 annually for each machine. Then, he continued, there is a seat mile tax on all busses operating in Maryland, which would bring a minimum pay- ment of $120 a year per bus. For some 10 years, Hanna recalled, busses have been operated around Chevy Chase Circle and there was a tacit understanding that there would be no objection to this on the part of the public in that section. Hanna said he has never consiflered opera- tion of busses around the circie as operation in Maryland, but merely an arrangement whereby machines could be turned around to go downtown again, May Halt Within Line. Hanna said that if forced to do so the company will operate wholly within the District. Under this ar- rangement, he explained, the busses will be turned back by some route to be determined after a conference with the Public Utilities Commission of the District. This will be & much less satisfac- tory arrangement for the public, he said, for it will mean the operation of busses through some rather nar- row streets. Hanna emphasized that it might even be necessary to have passengers transferred to the Mary- land busses by walking some distance to get to them. Hanna said the company has sev- eral plans for a bus terminal arrange- ment in that locality of the city, but as yet none of the plans has met with the favor of the people concerned. Residents of the Chevy Chase,D.C,, area, anticipating an attempt of the company to secure permission from the Public Utilities Commission to route the line around a residential square if blocked from the present turn at the circle, planned to vigorous- ly protest use of the narrow streets in that area for this purpose. SUITS DEMAND $30,000 Traffic Victim Names Gas Com- pany and Employe. Damages aggregating $30,000 were sought by David Tubbs, a minor, of 128 South Carolina avenue southeast in suits filed today in District Su- preme Court against the Washington Gas Light Co. and one of its employes as the outgrowth of a traffic accident last year. ‘The plaintiff says he was riding his bicyle when struck at Massachu- setts avenue and Tenth street by a gas company vehicle operated by John W. Sheperd, Arlington, Va. Sheperd is made joint defendant with the gas company. Tubbs’ suit was filed through At- torneys A. L. Newmyer and David L. Bress. Minnie may be a donkey. It's more likely she is a mule, Farley's front lawn she looks symbolic. DRIVE ON DRUNKS OPENED BY OFFUTT | Chairman of A. B. C. Board Promises “Tightening on All Fronts.” A campaign against all forms of abuses of the District liquor law was launched today by Chairman George W. Offutt of the Alcoholic Beverage | Control Board. He announced the board had determined to “tighten up on all fronts” and force all dealers to “toe the mark.” He also will urge dealers to take definite steps to prevent intoxication of customers in on-sale places. Both off-sale and on-sale dealers will be asked to join in a crusade for temper- ance by posting placards or other no- tices stating that they will not sell to intoxicated persons or to minors. Decline in Arrests. At the same time, Offutt reported that police records show there has been a decline in arrests for intoxi- cation each month of this year as compared with the corresponding month of last year, but he said “there is room for improvement.” ‘The A. B. C. Board chairman par- ticularly stressed the need of atten- tion to the problem of intoxication and drunken driving. “Control over driving while drunk does not lie with this board,” he said, “but there cer- tainly is a direct connection between excessive drinking and traffic prob- lems that arise from drunken driving. The man or woman who is intoxicated has no business whatever in attempt- ing to drive an automobile. Such a person should stay away from the wheel of the machine, Declares Drunk Menace. “In fact, there is no place in mod- ern society for the intoxicated per- son. The drunken person is a men- ace to himself and others. The con- suming public must learn there is a distinction between reasonable gayety and intoxication.” Chairman Offutt said the board would use every effort for proper con- duct of the liquor business and to end abuses of the law to the end that the District may keep legal sale of liquor and avoid the “evils” that existed during prohibition and which might return under a new form of prohibition. ART WORKS DONATED Miss Ruth B. Moran, daughter of the late Thomas Moran, eminent American landscape painter, has pre- sented e collection of art works, in- cluding nearly 100 original sketches, drawings, etchings, water colors and paintings, to the National Park Service. Park authorities said the entire col- lection will be placed on exhibition in the museum of Yosemite National Park in California. Mrs. Roosevelt Views Mum Show | and the Incarnation, and movies pre- | TWO TO GIVE TALKS Mr\-. Robertson and Mrs. Smith on Crittenton Circle Program. Addresses by Mrs. Thomas E. Rob- ertson, president of the Florence Crit- tenton Home Board of Managers, and Mrs. Reba Barrett Smith, general superintendent of the National Flor- ence Crittenton Mission, will feature the annual rally of the home's “circles” to be held at 11 am. to- morrow. The program is in charge of Mrs. Frederick M. Kerby, vice president of the board of managers, and will in- | clude a talk by Rev. George F. Dudley, | rector of the Church of St. Stephen | pared by the Communijty Chest. Girls of the nome will sing finder the direc- tion of Miss Minnie Volkmann. MUM SHOW OPEN AFTER PREVIEW 34th Annual Display in De- partment of Agriculture Greenhouses. ‘The thirty-fourth annual chrys- anthemum show of the Department of Agriculture opened today with a pre- view for members of the cabinet and other officials. Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the Secretary of Agriculture, acted as hostess, The public was ad- mitted at 1 pm. The show is in the department greenhouses, Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue. It will be open to the public, free, from 9 am. until 9 p.m. each day until October 31, 250 Varieties on Display. The show comprises a collection of 250 varieties of Japanese and 525 varieties of pompon and single chrys- anthemums, some of which are new commercial varieties introduced this year. All of the plants displayed have been grown in the department green- houses, including the large yellow variety of Japanese chrysanthemum named for Mrs. Roosevelt. In the greenhouse devoted to dis- playing the chrysanthemums there are massed in a center bed 1,200 plants of the large-flowered Japanese varieties in colors including white and many shades of yellow, gold, bronze, lavender. pink and deep red, Some of the flowers have petals with a contrasting color on the reverse. Most of these plants are grown so that they produce only one large flower to a plant. 600 Plants Exhibited. Over 600 plants of the smaller- flowered pompon and single varieties, most of them hardy, are exhibited on raised benches on either side of the green house. Each plant bears several sprays of flowers in a color range similar to that of the large-flowered types. Over the walks of the show house are suspended plants of the Japanese cascade, or mountain, varieties which have trailing branches of small white, pink, lavender, yellow, red and bronze flowers. SPEAKERS’ COMMITTEE OF CHEST TO MEET Solicitor General Stanley Reed to Address Group at Din- ner Tomorrow. A dinner meeting of the Speakers’ Committee of the Community Chest's Governmental Unit, with Solicitor General Stanley Reed as principal speaker, will be held tomorrow night at the Cosmos Club. The meeting will begin at 5:45 p.m. and will in- clude a discussion of plans for eo- operating with the regular Community Chest Speakers’ Bureau in canvass- ing Government departments. Msj. Gen. Merritte W. Ireland, U. 8. A, retired, is governmental chairman of the Speakers’ Commit- tee, and Tyre Taylor of the R. F. C. Legal Research Division, is chairman of the Government Unit. DESTROYER HERE ‘The Dale, one of the Navy’s newest destroyers, has arrived at the Wash- ington Navy Yard and will be one of the major attractions here for Navy day, next Monday. - Officers and enlisted men are put- g Sfap THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1935, But since she was found on Postmaster General Anyhow, Minnie is on the pay roll and working herself into a lather for Mr. Farley, and more particularly for Charles Silvious, who is preparing the soil around the Post Office Building for grass seed planting. ~—Star Staff Photo. GAMING RAIDERS WIN GLOSE RACE Flaming Garbage Can Is Seized Before Racing _Slips Are Destroyed. Police who arrested Morris E.| | (Dutch) Irwin and five others in 8 |sti) unconscious today in Gallinger | Hospital, where it was thought he gaming raid late yesterday won a “hot” race by a nose when they took | three barricaded doors in their stride | and seized a flaming, benzine-soaked garbage can before the racing slips and charts inside could be consumed. | The raided building, in the 1100 block of Fourteenth street, might have been consumed along with the evi- | dence but for the timely arrival of | the officers, they said. While the raiders were battering down three | strong doors and mounting four flights | of steps, the evidence was merrily burning, and such patrons as could manage were fleeing over a fire escape, through the apartment of an astonished stranger and down the steps to freedom. Those who remained, about 40 in| all, were loaded into patrol wagons | and took & ride to headquarters. | There they were asked to idenify themselves and released after e raiders were satisfied they had spotted | the “house” men. Irwin, veteran of many a police in- | vestigation, was charged with setting up a gaming table, along with Wilbur S. Carroll, 40, of the 1200 block of Twenty-first street; Leonard F. Hill, | 29, of the 2200 block of P street; | Frank E. Crandall, 34, Southern | Apartments; Morris A. Mahone, 31, of the 300 block E street northeast, and James MclIntire, 58, of the 1200 block of I street. The raiding squad was led by Sergt. George Deyoe, acting chief of the vice squad. The police removed a quantity of charred but still legible clips and charts, telephones, radio loud-speaker, four barred doors and sundry tables, chairs and furnishings. ORDER OF SCOTLAND BANQUET IS TONIGHT | Members to Be Guests at May- flower—Four D. C. Men Are Honored. ‘Members of the Royal Order of Scot- land will be guests at a banquet at the Mayflower Hotel tonight as a fea- ture of their annual session at the House of the Temple on Sixteentn street, . ‘The Royal Order, a separate or- ganization from the Ancient and Ac- cepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, which is also holding the biennial ses- sion of the Southern Supreme Council at the temple, last night held an in- itiation and this morning held a busi- ness session. James H. Brice of New York is provincial grand commander. Four Washingtonians were elected by the Scottish Rite Council to receive the rank and decoration of knight commander of the Court of Honour. They are Carl Collier, George L. Goss, Donald W. Graffius and Robert S. Regar, the latter grand master of Ma- sons in the District of Columbia. LOWER TEMPERATURES TOMORROW’S OUTLOOK 23-Degree Drop Accompanies Rain, as Typical Fall Weather Continues. Typical Fall weather, clear and brisk, is expected to continue through tomorrow, with somewhat lower tem- peratures tonight. ‘The rain late yesterday, which marked the end of a belated warm spell, was accompanied by a 23-degree drop in temperature in seven hours. The high yesterday was 79 in the afternoon, followed by a 44-degree minimum this morning. The low to- night should be about 38 degrees, ac- companied by light frost in the sub- urbs. Fined in Poison Sale. Frank Robey, trading as the Shore- ham Drug Store, pleaded guilty to selling unlabeled poison when ar- raigned before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court today. He was fined $10 on recommendation of the cor- mwamt,w Slingshot Artists Are Seized at Zoo For Teasing Lions Roar From Cage Occu- pants Bring Keepers to Aid—Culprits Warned. An indignity usually reserved for alley cats has been inflicted on the king of beasts and his vociferous mates in the lion house at the Zoo. Normally commanding the utmost respect of visitors, even though be- hind bars, the lions yesterday were tormented by a couple of young sling- shot artists. Pebbles were flying thick and fast when keepers were attracted by a loud and continuous uproar from the out- door dens of the animals. The fact their prize captives had been subjected to such lowly treat- ment prompted officials to take the two youngsters in hand. They escaped with a warning when arraigned in Juvenile Court. 7 BADLY INJURED IN AUTO CRASHES Total of 19 Persons Hurt in Traffic in 24-Hour Period. Seven Washingtonians last night received injuries in traffic accidents which may prove serious, two of them being hurt on the Baltimore | Boulevard, near Waterloo, Md. Mean- while, Mrs. Marian C. Moebs, 45, of | Hollywood, Calif., who had been visit- ing here, died in Georgetown Hos- pital of a broken back received Octo- ber 6 when the automobile in which she was riding overturned on the Lee Highway, near Dranesville Tav- ern, Va, Mrs. Moebs was riding with her| sister, Mrs. G. M. Lehman, 30 K street. Mrs. Lehman suffered a se- NEW ROCK CREEK ROAD LINK URGED 10 OPEN ARTERY East Bank Zoo Sector Is Advocated to Speed Through Traffic. PROJECT WOULD END CONCERN FOR ANIMALS Early Use of Highways to €on- stitution Avenue Seen if Plan Is Adopted. Development of a new road along the east bank of Rock Creek on the edge of the Zoo property, to permit the early opening of the Rock Creek and Potomac Park through traffic artery all the way from the upper reaches of Rock Creek Park to Con- stitution avenue, was proposed today by Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sul- tan. He suggested the work be done as a work-relief program and said the development would be calculated to eliminate worries of Zoo officials that Zoo animals and bird life would be disturbed if heavy traffic is allowed along the present Zoo roads connecte ing with the parkway artery. > The proposal was advanced as Col. Sultan announced that traffic could begin moving Saturday along the sec- tion of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway from P to K street. This section will be ready for use Saturday morning unless there is some unfore=- seen hitch in plans, according to Capt. H. O. Whitehurst, director of high- ways. Only One Section Unfinished. ©Outside of the Zoo area section, now barred to traffic, there now remains only one short section of the parkway road to be finished. This is the low- level crossing just north of the new verely sprained back. Among those hurt here last night is a man tentatively identified as Thomas Williams, about 64, who was may have a skull fracture. He was hit at North Capitol and H streets by an automobile driven by Arthur A. Hawkins, 45, of 515 Sixth street southeast, according to police. Two Youths Hurt. Joseph Rodgers, 19, and Girard Rodgers, 20, both of 7060 Eastern ave- Hospital as a result of injuries re- ceived when the automobile in which they were riding was in eollision with streets northeast. The younger Rodgers has serious head injuries and X-rays were to be taken to see whether his skull is frac- nue, Takoma Park, are in Casualty | another machine at Fourth and B | P Street Bridge and its approaches, which are to be finished by next Spring. Beginning Saturday, traffic may en- | ter the parkway road at Calvert street and Connecticut avenue and go to the dowatown section via Virginia and Constitution avenues, with but one interruption, that at P street. Until the low-level crossing over the creek is finished, it will be necessary for traffic to come to the P street level, go over the new P Street Bridge to a lateral road to the west which leads down to the south to the level of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway road. From there the road will be open Saturday to Ceastitution avenue, The special value of the parkway road is that it wili afford an uninter= | rupted passage to the downtown area, | or to Virginia, by avoiding the many | intersections and traffic congestion tured. The other is under observation to see whether he is injured internally. Kenneth Rodgers, 23, was driving the automobile west on B street at the of Tenth street northeast, who was driving the other machine, was arrest- ed on a reckless driving charge and | released under $1,000 bond. Woman Hit by Taxi. Mrs. Laura Dent, 52, of 2801 Adams Mill road suffered a broken collarbone, bruises and a cut scalp when struck by a taxicab at Thirteenth and F streets. She was reported improved today at Emergency Hospital. The taxicab was being driven by Samuel H. Rosenstein, 26, of 1404 Quincy street, police said. John Carron, 69, of 715 G street, suffered cuts, possibly rib fractures and | bruises when struck last night by a | taxicab in the 900 block of E street. | He was taken to George Washington Hospital. details of the accident. Thomas Doran, jr., 22, of 310 E street, and Herbert Pritt, 22, of 227 E street, are in St. Agnes’ Hospital, Baltimore, unconscious from injuries received last night when their machine ran into the rear of a trailer truck in the Baltimore Boulevard accident. Doran has concussion and possibly & skull fracture, while Pritt suffered multiple cuts and & possible broken back. north on the boulevard in a private car when they apparently failed to see the truck, which had pulled up on a State Road Commission scale and was being weighed. Their car ploughed under the truck. Truck Driver Held. ‘The driver of the truck is being held for investigation. Nineteen persons were injured in & total of 28 local accidents in the 24-hour period ending at 8 am. to- day, last night’s rain adding to the traffic hazard. The injuries of most of the others, however, consisted of cuts and bruises. Inquests into two recent local traf- fic deaths were held yesterday by a coroner’s jury. Jordan Trollinger, 25, colored, of the 1600 block of Twelfth street, was held for Police Court ac- tion under the negligent homicide act in connection with the death, Octo- ber 16, of Adam Abraham, 38, of 1014 I street. In the other case, the jury de- cided the death of Carl Ramstad, 40-year-old taxi driver, 948 New York avenue, who was killed Saturday night in a collision on the Arlington Memorial Bridge, was “due to his own carelessness and negligence.” The ver- dict exonerated Francis K. Read, 40, N. R. A. employe of Arcturus, Va., and Joseph R. Courtney, 21, of Ross- lyn, Va. D ——— TWO CAPITAL YOUTHS KILLED IN CAR CRASH ‘Two colored youths from Washing- ton were killed today in an automo- bile accident near Petersburg, Va., ac- cording to a report telephoned to headquarters here by the Virginia State police. Virginia police identified the youths as Charles Fletcher, 16, ‘and James Bridgett, 19, both of 719 Fourth street. Local officers went to the Fourth street address and learned that Charles Fleteher had been missing from home for some time and that a “James Bridgett” was known at that address but did not live time of the collision, police said. Car- | roll J. Powers, 23, of the 2400 block | Police today were checking | Police say the two were driving | that plague motorists on the regular | street routes. The project was planned years age and has been carried fore ward step by step. | Protests Made by Officials. Some time ago Zoo officials pro- tested that heavy automobile traffic along the roads in the Zoo section of the park would cause trouble among | the animals and ducks quartered near the present roads. When construction | of the new Calvert Street Bridge was | begun traffic in that section was shut off. Otherwise traffic had been per- | mitted during daylight hours, but halted at night. District officials suggest that work | relief funds could be employed for the | building of a new road on the eastern border of the zoo property and on the east bank of the creek which would | take the traffic farther from the zoo proper. This would mean building a road approximately from the line of Cathedral avenue to Klingle road. “I sincerely hope this problem can | be solved in some way,” said Col. Sul= tan. “The opening of the special low- level traffic artery along the creek all ‘V the way from the District line to Con~ | stitution avenue would be a great help to the individual traveler and aid in relieving congestion elsewhere.” Best Use of Road. Capt. Whitehurst explained how the | best use could be made of the parkway | road beginning Saturday. South-bound traffic now using Twenty-ninth street in Georgetown can move eastward over Q or R street and then proceed eastward on P street to the parkway entrance road west | of the P Street Bridge. North-bound traffic will leave the parkway at the P street entrance road and proceed westward on P street. P street has been repaved as far westward as Twenty-eighth street, and two-way traffic is permitted there. West of Twenty-eighth street, P street is one- way west-bound. “The road from P street to the main parkway road has been designed as an entrance roadway and traffic should proceed at a slow rate of speed and with caution,” said Capt. White- hurst. Up to the present no entrance or exit roads have been provided be- tween P and K streets. The roadway has a bituminous surface on a con- crete base and is 40 feet wide between low curbs of the parkway type. It passes under the Pennsylvania avenue and M Street Bridges and connects at grade with K street. M’NEIR AGAIN IS HELD OFF RETIREMENT LIST President Grants Second Extene sion to Keep Valued State De- partment Man on Duty. William McNeir, chief of the Bureau of Accounts, State Department, today was granted a second extension from automatic retirement by order of President Roosevelt in view of the in- dispensable nature of his services. Mr. McNeir, a native of Washing- ton, who began his career as a page in the House of Representatives in 1877, went to the State Department in 1881 and in 1909 was appointed chief clerk. Chief of the accounts bureau since 1913, Mr. McNeir has attended many arms limitation and peace conferences here and abroad as chief disbursing officer. He is 71 years old. ‘The last extension is effective until November 1, 1936, A ]