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Washington News NORTH ANERIGAN MAY HALT SHIFT OF W R.E CONTROL Announcement of “Revi- sion” of Original Plan Causes Rumors. COLEMAN'S DECISION CITED BY OBSERVERS| 2fove of Utilities Commission to Cut Net Return Rate Also May Be Factor. The North American Co. may with- | draw its proposal to relinquish con- trol of the Washington Railway & Electric and Potomac Electric Power companies, according to reports cur- rent today in financial and utility circles. The rumors, attributed to reliable sources, followed closely a report which | Dr. William M. McClellan, president of | the railway company, filed with the | Public Utilities Commission, announc- ing that North American would revise its original plan for moving out of | the Washington utilities field. Changes | would be made, he said. to place the | major share of the cost of carrying | out the plan on the North American instead of the railway company. Utility experts see two reasons at this time why North American might want to abandon the plan. 1. The recent decision of Federal Judge Coleman in Baltimore, holding | the Wheeler-Rayburn holding coms | pany act unconstitutional in its en- tirety. 2. The move of the utilities com- mission, which is expected to result in a reduction in the net rate of re- turn allowed the power company. Roberts Viewpoint. e Fp WASHINGTON, D. C, ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION WEDNESDAY, ening Sfap NOVEMBER 13, 1935. #%% Society and General PAGE B—1 Healthy and Happy Three blue ribbon winners in the good-health campaign ir the city's primary schools are shown here displaying their rewards. This trio, among the group of about 20 who were rewarded yesterday at Job Barnard School, are, left to right: Mary Harvey Smith, 5; Richard Wessels, 5, and Ethelyn Gene Hathorne, 5. Awarding of the ribbons is made each Fall to the youngsters who have succeeded in correcting some physical defect noted by school physicians in the general examination in May. time are given a rating of 100 imme Those in perfect condition at that diately, those who have the trouble corrected at ci*nics or by family doctors during the succeeding six months are rewarded at the Autumn assembl ies. Stz THNSENT STUDY | SEVEN ARE ADDED counsel before the utilities commis- sion, and other authorities on the District utilities situation, did not re- gard compliance with the Wheeler- | Rayburn act as the principal motive | of the North American for divesting | itself of control of the railway and | power companies, conversely, they do not believe Judge Coleman’s decision | would be the main object now for a sudden change in plans. | ‘The primary motive, then, would be | the prospective reduction in the rate of return of the power company. The North American’s original plan proposed the substitution of 1,625,000 new shares for the outstanding 65.000 odd shares of common stock in ine| railway company and was predicaied on continuance of a 7 per cent net re- turn by the power company. A redu tion in this rate by the Utilities Com- mission, it was pointed out, would ne- cessitate a change in the original plan. | The move of the Utilities Commis- | sion, obviously toward a cut in the net return, was revealed in a notice served on the company that “existing | facts” warrant consideration of the rate of return allowed under the slid- ing-scale plan governing electric rates. | The commission, however, did not| commit itself as to what revision is| contemplated. | Operating Revenue. | The compary last year had a net| operating revenue of approx)mabely‘ $5,000,000. The excess of profit over the allowable 7 per cent on the ugreed‘ valuation was found to be 3295.000.1 FUNDS ARE ASKED Allen Seeking to Continue Experiment With Youths at Lodge. [ Continuation of the educational ex- | periment adopted for youths at the | transient lodge at No. 2 Logan Circle | is being sought by Commissioner George E. Allen in a works project | submitted to Harry L. Hopkins, W. P. A. head. 10 MISSING LIST Woman’s Bureau Continues Hunt for Thyrring Girl, Gone Since Oct. 25. Requests for aid in locating missing persons continued to pour into police headquarters today as seven more dis- OF RELIEF PLANS Total Executive Agencies’ Personnel Computed at 794,467 in September. D. C. ROSTER ENLARGED 3,273 IN 30-DAY PERIOD Added State Workers Shown in Classification Listing New and Regular Groups. The Federal Government has 112,- 259 employes administering relief ac- tivities—11,875 in the District—it was disclosed last night by the Civil Serv- ice Commission in its monthly com- pilation of personnel in the executive agencies. The figures, for September, showed aggregate employment in old line and New Deal establishments at 794,467, compared to 770,128 in August. In ‘Washington the total was 108952, compared to 105,679, an advance of 3,273 in the 30-day period. An accompanying statement from | the commission said the general in- crease was due in large measure to the expansion of those agencies con- cerned with relief. More than 5,000 of the grand total were additions to | works progress taken over from State | groups, where they had been financed | from Federal funds, though not show- | ing up previously in Federal employ- | ment figures. “Breakdown” is Given. For the first time, the commission “broke down” its monthly statement, | | setting up three classes of employ- ment. ] First is that in the “regular” estab- | lishments which, generally, are those | in existence before the Roosevelt ad- | ministration. Next comes the “new” | set-ups, exclusive of those on relief activities, and finally, the relief groups designated as “emergency.” The employment in each is as fol- | | lows: | District. Field. | 81,960 540,842 15,117 44289 11,875 100,384 Regular New Emergency --- Total ...... 108,952 685515 | In the “emergency” grouping, how- | ever, “relief” employment shows up in & number of “regular” establishments, | appearances were reported. In the meantime, the Woman's Bureau continued to search for Alva Carmen ‘Thyr- There are now 24 boys housed at the lodge who are taking school courses | cared for out of transient relief funds. | They have a govarning board of their own and invoke strict discipline on | themselves. i Nearly all transients here are in- cluded in the program for construc-l tion of the $5,000,000 low-cost housing project at Berwyn Heights, Md. Others | are to be sent to Fort Eustis, Va. The Berwyn Heights project is under direc- tion of the Rural Resettlement Divi- sion, Agriculture Department, which is taking over leases on District trans- 1 ient lodges as housing for its trans- | ient workers. | The Logan Circle lodge educational project must be halted within a few | days unless the proposed works pro- | ring, young Cen- tral High School student, who has not been seen since October 25, when she left her “ . home at 417 Ogle- thorpe street. Among the lat- est “missing” cases are six chil- dren of school age. William A Roberts, 16, A. Roberts. his home at Ed- monston, Md., late Friday night or early Saturday. His father, James A. Roberts, employe of the Nash Boat Works, 903 Water street southwest, w. Applying the sliding scale, the com- | ject is approved or unless an addi- | has offered a reward for his son’s re- mission determined that $147,000 tional relief grant for the purpose is turn or information concerning his high| left | and represents an increase for these | over the total carried in the table. | Wartime Peak Contrasted. | The wartime employment peak was, | roughly, 117,000 in the District and 800,000 in the field | On March 1, 1933, the “regular” | establishments showed 66,802 em- ployes in the District and 496,685 in | the fleld. | ‘The September pay roll this year was $116,094,004, compared to $115.- | 789,800 in Auvgust. In addition, Agri- ! culture had a roll of $2,127,997, for | 56,542 temporary employes not shown in the regular tabulation. | | The statement shows 23 agencies | handling relief activities. There are, first, Works Progress Administration, Federal Administration of Public| Works, Federal Emergency Relief Ad- | ministration and Federal Surplus Re- ilef Corp. Next come the works progress activities in Treasury, Justice, | U. 5. HIRES 112.259| [ ¢ ever Machine Used to Kill Germsby Heat | | IN AI]MINISTRA“[]N Man With Temperature at 105 Grins and Calls for More Ice % While Taking New Cure. | Sherman Masener is shown under an artificial fever of 105 degrees for treatment of arthritis in the new apparatus installed at Gallinger Hospital. Nurse Ida Louise Rivers is mopping the perspiration from his brow. —Star Staff Photo. ITH a temperature of 105 degrees and still going up, Sherman Masener, 1168 Morse street northeast, grinned! Perspiration stood out on his forehead, rolled down his reddened cheeks. “Pretty hot,” he said. “Little trouble getting my breath. Can I have anoth- er piece of ice?” A nurse, Ida Louise Rivers, nodded as she slipped a piece of ice between his lips. Miss Rivers was chaperoning and Mr. Masener was experiencing the first experimentation in the District with an artificial fever machine de- | signed as a means of fighting disease by killing body germs with terriffic heat. Installed at Gallinger Hospital, the apparatus was being tested today on an arthritis patient, Masener. To observers of the experiment Miss | Rivers explained: “His temperature is now 105 degrees. With a few treatments he may be | cured entirely of arthritis, if the heat kills the germs.” Salt Water Administered. | “That sounds good.” interrupted the his face, but still the thermometer showed 105. Salt water was admin- istered to counteract loss through perspiration Known as the “Kettering Hypotherm,” | the machine is an air-conditioned cabinet, large enough to contain the largest patient. Heat and moisture are the principal things used to build up artificial fever. Already it is being used on patients suffering from arthritis and paresis, and physicians hope the artificial fever will be successfil, after further ex- perimentation, in combating success- fully certain cther ailments. The machine was invented and de- veloped by Charles F. Kettering, en- gineer in charge of research labora- tories for General Motors, but is not | for sale on the market. The cne in | use at Gallinger has been loaned by Kettering for research purposes and with a view to using new mechanical means to alleviate human ilis. “Keen,” Says Dr. Bocock. Dr Edgar A. Bocock, superintendent velopment as a “keen machine,” de- signed to produce artificial fever, for }nmem through a mouthful of ice. Miss | the purpose of fighting disease. Arti- | Rivers rubbed his forehead with more | ficial fevers leave no such bad effects | ice; an electric fan blew cool air over ' on patients as real fevers, which some- | of Gallinger, described the new de- | times are deliberately induced into the human system to fight disease, Dr. Bocock explained. “This is not a cure-all” he said, “and we are still experimenting with its possibilities in treatment of other ailments. At present, however, we hope 1t will be effective in treatment of both arthritis and paresis.” For some time medical science has been using the fever of malaria, de- liberately injected into the human body to fight paresis, with success. Expected Results. | The new fever machine is designed to be effective in two different types of illnesses. In the first type, it is able to produce a temperature in the human body so high as to kill directly certain germs which cause disease. In the second type, the machine is able to raise body temperature of the patient, so as to increase his resistance, so that the body it- self will be better able to fight dis- ease. The hypothern is really an auto- matic hot box, in which the temper- ature and humidity can both be con- trolled to the points desired. It can raise fever artificially in # patient up to as high as 107 degrees, without danger. OEHMANN REPORT ASKED BY BOARD Early “Portraits” To Be Described By Dr. Hrdlicka TRADE UNIT SEEKS SECOND CAR DEATH WITHIN 24 HOURS BRINGS TOLL T0 % Young Mother Is Fatally Injured as Auto Makes Left Turn. |MOTORIST IS DETAINED | FOR INQUEST TOMORROW ;Investigution to Be Conducted at Same Time Into Killing of Child, 21 Months 01d. Automobiles took a second life here in less than 24 hours and brought the | year's official traffic toll to 95 when a | young mother was killed last night while walking to work. Struck as she attempted to cross Minnesota avenue near Pensylvania avenue southeast, Mrs. Dorothy Bart- | ley, 26-year-old barbecue stand em- ploye, received a skull fracture from which she died a few minutes later en route to Casualty Hospital. The driver of the car, Frederick M. Dahl, 27, of 215 Thirteenth street southeast, was heid for an inquest, | which will be conducted tomorrow | morning along witn an investigation of the death of David Rosenberg, 21 months old, who. was Kkilled earlier | yesterday by a truck as he played oa | & parking lot near his home at 4130 Georgia avenue The boy's death is not listed as a | traffic fatality by police since the ac- cident occurred i private property. Car Making Left Turn. | Mrs. Bartley, whose husband, Graf- | ton, and 3-year-old daughter live in Deerfield, Va., had left the rooming house where she made her home at 1322 L street and v.as near her place of employment when Dahl's car hit : her while making a left turn. Dahl is connected with the Government Forest Service. The Rosenberg boy was run over by a truck driven by Eugene Moore, 39, colored, 708 Morton street, while his mother, who lost sight of him for a few minutes, searched vainly. The child, whose parents are Mr. and Mrs. Fred Rosenberg, was dead on arrival | at Garfield Hospital. Moore, an em- pioye of L. E. Breuninger Co., was | held for the inquest. He said he had delivered some plumbing supplies and was driving off the lot when the acci- | dent occurred. The left rear wheel of the truck passed over the child. Willilam E. Gerneake, 24. a sailor, who lived in Pittsburgh, died in Naval Hospital last night from injuries re- ceived October 26 in a Woodbridge, Va., accident that also killed a fellow seaman. Gerneake's skull was frace tured. Two Eexonerated by Jury. Meanwhile, Philip S. Johnson, 1919 Benning place northeast, a street car motorman, and Joseph Brodsky, 1275 Holbrook terrace northeast, were exon- erated by a coroner’s jury of blame in two other traffic deaths. The cases involved Joseph Lyons, 30, | colored, 1833 S street, who died Sun- day from injuries received November {1 when he “walked or dived” into a street car at Fifty-third street and | Deane avenue northeast, and Franklin | 3. Henry, 70, of 222 Eighth street southeast, whose death last week resulted after he was struck by Brodsky's car August 10 at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avenue south- - AUDTORIUN DAT | Kodiak Island Finds Are | Navy, Agriculture and Labor. Then. east. #hould constitute the amount of the made meanwhile. Allen’s proposal rate reductions for this year. This cut was spread over several brackets of rates. A reduction to 6 per cent in the net return may be the commission’s goal. That figure was used recently by People’s Counsel Roberts during a debate over the proposed adoption of a sliding scale plan for the Washing- ton and Georgetown Gas Light Cos. He insisted a basic 6 per cent profit would be no lower than reasonable. Dr. McClellan's disclosure that the original plan of the North American would be revised to relieve the rail- way company of the burden of ex- pense in connection with the pro- posed stock transfer was contained in an answer to a series of questions | asked by the commission. One was: “Why were all the costs incident to the carrying out of the terms of this agreement placed on the Washington Railway & Electric Co.?" Dr. McClellan said it was not the intention to place all of the costs on the railway company. MRS. ELLEN A. KING DIES SUDDENLY AT 77 Widow of Physician Was Native of Boston and Resident Here Since 1894. Mrs. Ellen Amory King, 77, widow of Dr. A. F. A. King, prominent Wash- ington physician for many years, died suddenly last night after a heart at- tack at her residence, 43 West Lenox street, Chevy Chase, Md. She appar- ently was in good health until last mnight. when she suddenly became ill from indigestion. Later the condition affected her heart. . Mrs. King was born in Boston on October 14, 1858, of a well-known Massachusetts family, and came here | as a bride in 1894. She had made her | residence here continuously since. Her husband came to this country from England and settled first in Vir- ginia. He was established in Wash- ington at the time of his marriage. Private funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the residence, fol- Jowed by internment in Rock Creek Cemetery. Rev.'Dr. Z. Barney Phil- lips, pastor of the Epiphany Church, will officiate. Mrs. King is survived by a son, Albert F. A. King of Philadelphia, and two daughters, Miss Louise F. King and Miss Sarah V. King, who lived with her. Legion Post Will Meet. The regular meeting of the Depart- ment of Agriculture Post, No. 36, Amer- ican Legion, will be held in Room 2050, South Building, at 8 p.m. Friday. J.L. Koehl, post commander, said special emphasis will be placed on the 1936 mg?flhlp drive which ends Friday I’call.s for a grant of $10,800. He has | directed the lodge be continued in its present form at least until Saturday. If his plans fail, the youths will have to abandon their studies and engage |in the regular new transient relief | projects. ). S. GASSIN EXPIRES; ' FORMERLY IN I. C. C. Death Follows Three-Year Illness. | Funeral Services Held, With Burial in New Jersey. Joseph E. Gassin, 57, former em- ploye of the Interstate Commerce | Commission, died yesterday at his | home, 1722 Nineteenth street, after an | illness of three years. | Funeral services were held this | morning and burial will be in Belmar, N. J. Mr. Gassin was born in New York City and attended the public schools there. He was employed there by the | Warren & Wetmore firm of architects until 1911, when he went to Oregon as a railroad land valuation agent. | He came to Washington 15 years |ago as a member of the Adjustment Board of the Land Valuation Section of the Interstate Commerce Commis- | sion, Failing health forced his retire- | ment in 1932. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Frieda Goldstein Gassin; a son, William Gas. ‘sln; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Wray; | a brother, William, and a half-sister, | Miss Helen Parsons. 'BOY DIES; BELIEVED MENINGITIS VICTIM Milton L. Smith, Jr., 14, News- paper Carrier, Was Student at McKinley High. Milton L. Smith, jr, 14, first year McKinley High School student, died yesterday in Gallinger Hospital from complications, believed caused by spinal meningitis. Young Smith, a newspaper carrier, was stricken several days ago and taken in an unconscious condition from First street and Florida avenue to Casualty Hospital. He later was removed to Gallinger. His home was at 309 Fourth street southeast. He was a member of Boy Scout Troop 81, and was widely known among his family and playmates for his mechanical ability. He is survived by his parents and two brothers, Harry, 10, and Will- iam, 5. Funeral services were to be cone ducted this afternoon in Fort Lincoln Cemetery. | whereabouts. | Lawrence Payne, 14, of 638 Mil- waukee place southeast, and Warren | Gregory, jr.. 15. of 1834 Fourth street | left their homes yesterday carrying | bundles of clothing, groceries and | blankets. They were reported to have | said they were “going South.” | Others are Robert E. Carpenter, 15, | of 6513 Takoma Park, Md.; Lilly May Roberson, 17, of 225 Indiana avenue; Frank Shoemaker, 28, of 631 I street, |and Roy Irby, 14, of 462 G street southwest. TAGS T0 COME HIGH |D. C. Motorists Who Eluded Traffic Charges Must Pay $3 to $5 More for New Plates. Automobile tags for 1936 are going to cost about 5,500 District car owners from $3 to $5 more than they expected to pay. These are the motorists who tore up traffic tickets during the year and escaped the service of a warrant. They will not be given tags or even receive an application until the traffic tickets are adjusted. That will cost from $3 to $5, depending on the type of traffic violation. Applications are now being mailed out. Trafic Director Van Duzer said every registered car owner should re- ceive one by the first part of next week. Those who fail to receive an application by that time, Van Duzer explained, either moved during the year without notifying the traffic de- partment, as required by law, or have a warrant for a traffic violation pend- ing against them. Car owners who receive applications and return them immediately, with a check or money order to cover the personal property tax, the $1 license fee, and postage, will be issued tags next week. The counter distribution at the Traffic Department will not be- gin until November 25. The tags, however, cannot be placed on the cars until December 15. Van Duzer expects to issue about 120,000 sets of tags by December 31, the deadline on 1935 plates. BRIEF ILLNESS FATAL TO MRS. ALICE MARTIN Mrs. Alice Elizabeth Martin, 69, died in Georgetown Hospital Monday after a brief illness, She has lived here with her daughter, Miss Martha F. Martin, 2119 H street, who is & secretary in the Department of Justice. Mrs. Martin was the widow of Josh Martin of Barnesville, Ga. Besides the daughter here, she leaves three other daughters and three - sons. ’ ' FOR 5,500 AUTOISTS| along with the office of director, there is emergency conservation work in Treasury, War, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor. Other relief personnel is carried on the staffs of | the International Boundary Commis- | sion—United States and Mexico—N: tional Emergency Council, Resettle- {ment Administration and Rural Elec- | trification Administration. Example of Absorption. ‘The manner in which regular estab- lishments are drawn into the relicf | operations are typified in the cases of | Labor and Treasury. there was a net addition of 1,800 work- ers in September, chiefly for the em- ployment service which is certifying persons for W. P. A. jobs. In Treas- ury more than 2,000 persons were add- ed td" the force issuing pay checks. ‘The Civilian Conservation Corps en- rollment dropped in the month from 504,484 to 449,370, but the fluctuati was described as not unusual. The statement accompanying the figures said that the expanding activities of this organization had required add:- tional operating personnel, about 1,200 employes having been added in Agri- culture to supervise such undertakings as forest work and control of soil erosion. DR. CAMALIER HONORED Named Trustee of American Den- tal Association. Announcement of Dr. Camalier’s election as a trustee of the American Dental Association was made last night by the District Dental Society at a meeting at George Wash- ington University Medical School Hall The election was held at the recent convention in New Orleans. In the former C. Willard | ; Data on Complaints Not Cov- | ered at Hearings Sought ’ by Officials. Assistant Corporation Counsel El- wood Seal, who Dan I. Sultan to submit a detailed report on 19 other complaints not | E. Allen and H. Winship Wheatley. Commissioners Hazen and Sultan also will be given a ‘complete report | on the hearing en the nine complaints, | on which the two-man board acquitted | | Col. Oehmann of any wrongdoing. | The reports, Hazen said, are ex- | pected to be submitted to the Board of Commissioners sometime next week. | Hazen said his purpose was to ad- | vise the board of all available in- | formation on the handling of the com- plaints, which were originally pre- ferred by William I. Green, stationary engineer at Eastern High School, who is head of a local unit of the Inter- national Operating Engineers Union. At the hearing on the nine com- plaints, Seal said he had gone over the other 15 charges and had not dropped them, but proposed to study them further unless the Commissioners found they should be discarded. Seal, | who was aided by Chester Gray, an- | other assistant corporation counsel, | had explained the nine were bought | to the hearing because they appeared To have sufficient foundation to war- rant trial. R Ostrich Races. Ostrich races, with small native boys as jockeys, are popular in South Africa. The starlings soon will have com- plete possession of Pennsylvania ave- nue unless Federal officials hasten to approve a works project for the em- ployment of starling chasers, District officials said today. Thousands of the birds now are making a nocturnal din along the Avenue, and Clifford Lanham, gen- eralissimo of the District's anti- starling forces, declared he is helpless to do anything about it. Lanham is the veteran superinten- dent of trees and parking. In the past seven years he has been designated by the Commissioners to rout the star- lings. He succeeded last year in achieving what &as termed a rousing success when a group of emergency ;e::r workers was assigned to help .Avenue Held by Starlings As Fund Need Is Debated With rattles and sticks and toy bal- loons, they frightened the birds away from their favorite roosting places. Toy balloons on strings were let to float to the treetops and the cornices of buildings repeatedly to make the birds move. They did. ‘Weeks ago, Commissioner Allen sent to Works Progress Administrator Hop- kins & proposal to spend $14,000 to employ some 25 relief workers in a similar war on the incoming starlings. The project still has not been finally approved. Meanwhile the old emer- gengy relief projects have been aban- doned with development of the W. P. A. “I can’t do anything about it,” said Lanham, “unless this project is ap- proved. I can’t use money appro- priated for trees to hire men to attack the starlings.” Put in Foyer of Museum. The earliest “portraits” made in North America—actual representations of individual men and women who National Museum. Nine of these strange objects were | this Summer on Kodiak Island, Alaska, by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of physical anthropology of the Smith- sonian Institution. Dr. Hrdlicka, who will deliver a free public lecture at the National Museum this evening on his archaeological work, found these particular “portraits” at the lowest level of occupancy of the Kodiak Island site. They are effigies carved of bone, | wood and ivory. Most aboriginal art work is standardized, but these statuettes evidently were carved to represent real individuals. In some, one might suspect, there was a touch of humor, so faithfully did the ancient artists adhere to the: physical pe- culiarities of their subjects. The “portrait” of one old man shows clearly that he had lost his teeth. prosecuted nine | could be recognized were they to | source of income for a proposed ne charges against Building Inspector | arise from their graves after 3,000 | Washington auditorium was decided John W. Oehmann, will be asked by | years—have just been placed on ex- | on yesterday by a subcommittee of the Commissioners Melvin C. Hazen and | hibition in the foyer of the New | Board of Trade's Committee on PUblic street northeast was cut on the head Another, with a sort of crown about | the head, reveals the stern, strong face of a man who may well have been a great leader. Still another has a chin beard, a rarity among the Indians. The portrait of a Kodiak Island beauty of 2,000 years ago is detailed enough to show her eye- brows. BARRY FARM GROUP HITS “RED” TEACHING Citizens to Send Copies of Reso- lution to Gen. Fries and the Board of Education. A resolution opposing the teaching in any form of the facts of commu- nism in the public schools was passed by the Barry Farm Citizens’ Associa- tion at a meeting last night at the home of Levi Brown, 2846 Elvans road southeast. Copies of the resolution are to be sent to Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries, lead- ing the opposition to such instruction, and the Board of Education. In another resolution the association unanimously indorsed The Star Safety Campaign. Mrs. Anna E. Murray, vice president of the District Public School Associa- tion, spoke, outlining the history of the Barry Farm section. Nurses’ Hours. Nurses in London hospitals are to have a 54-hour week. | Survey of Need and Possible | Source of Income : Authorized. A survey of the need and possible | and Private Buildings. | coming increasingly evident. | | large national Hodges to Make Study. Curtis Hodges, survey by questionnaires and by per- | sonal interviews at the convention of the International Association of Con- vention Bureaus, in Cincinnati next week. Possibility of constructing an audi- habited alleys was suggested in a letter from John Ihider, executive officer of the Alley Dwelling Author- ity. Plea for Alley Clearance. “We believe that there are squares containing inhabited alleys which will offer the proposed auditorium every advantage in the way of adequate cpace for the building, as well as adequate access,” Ihlder said. He explained that in ridding Wash- ington of its alley dwellings the authority seeks to find a new use for the property it acquires, and thas this should be one which will benefit the neighborhood and community as a whole. BISHOP KELLEY TO TALK Bishop Francis C. Kelley of the Ok- lahoma City and Tulsa diocese will speak on “The Truth About Mexico” at 8:15 o'clock tonight at Carroll Hall, Tenth and G streets. The program is sponsored by the Catholic Evidence Guild. Wife Asks Divorce. ROCKVILLE, Md, November 13 (Special) —In a petition filed in the Circuit Court here Mrs. Valora P. Atwell of Takoma Park, Md., asks for & limited divorce from James O. At- well of Silver Spring. charging she was deserted November 1, 1935, W | “Our present auditorium facilities | are inadequate,” he declared, “and street received a knee injury when a practical steps must be taken soon.” machine in which she was a passenger He added that although numerous|and driven by Fred Thornton. 41, of organizations find| Philadelphia collided with another car Washington a desirable city for con-| 8t Eighth street and Pennsylvania | ventions, they frequently choose other | avenue 0 | cities because the Capital cannot pro- charged with leaving the scene of an vide an adequate central meeting hall chairman of the | Greater National Capital Committee, was delegated to study auditorium possibilities here in comparison with those in other cities. He will make his torium on areas now occupied by in- | In other accidents yesterday a boy ard two women were injured. | Vincent Shoemaker. 10. son of Po- | liceman James E. Shoemaker, suffered | a broken leg when struck by an auto- | mobile operated by Mrs. Louise B. Sel- by of Cabin John. Md. The accident occurred on Conduit road. The boy was taken to Georgetown Hospital. Woman, 54, Cut on Head. Margaret G. Hurley, 54, of 1383 F | when hit in the 300 block of Four- : | C. Melvin Sharp, chairman. said the teenth street southwest by a car driven “tried” before Commissioner George ' discovered in excavations carried out' demand for a new auditorium is be- by Mary L. Price. 35, of 1619 Seven- teenth street northeast Velma Hardy, 26. of 4212 Hayes southeast. Thornton was .| accident. | Although his skull may not be frac- tured. as was at first feared, Joseph Pessagno, 74, who operates the Na- tional Shoe Finding House at 307 Sev- | enth street, is still in a critical condi- tion at Emergency Hospital. He was | taken there yesterday after being | struck by the rear end of a skiddirg truck. e 'COURT CONSIDERS | TAXI RATE APPEAL | Chief Justice Wheat Hears Plea | on Utilities Commission Ruling. | Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat of | District Supreme Court had under ad- visement today an appeal by union taxicab drivers from the Public Utili- ties Commission order of last July ese tablishing the prevailing 20-30-50-70« cent zone rates. The case was argued yesterday, with Cary E. Quinn, attorney for Bernard | L. Henning, union president, asking the court to enjoin enforcement of the order. Henning lost his hacker's license some time ago because of faile ure to comply with the commission’s rate schedule. Ruling by Chief Justice Wheat will affect the entire taxicab business here and go far toward establishing just what regulatory authority the Public Utilities Commission possesses. Both Quinn and Hinman D. Folsom, a spe- cial assistant corporation counsel, who represented the commission, told the judge there would be no taxicab regulation here if he holds the order 1llegal. The trial was marked by presenta- tion of statistics as brought out at th public hearing last Summer, whicl Hinman claimed showed 75 per cent j the city's cab drivers favor continu~ ance of the present rates.