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THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, GAS FIRM OWNERS (DISTRICT NURSING | (Gix1s Model Famous Paintings m,[m D.C. RELIEF | Contest Winner Gets Trophy CASES PLACED ON - REDUCED RATIONS City Officials Must Care for Destitute on $166,666 a Month. TRANSIENTS TO BE SENT TO CAMP AT FT. EUSTIS Veterans’ Administration Expect- ed to Announce Plans for Care of 350. ‘Washington’s 10,000-0dd relief cases today weré being placed on “reduced rations,” the District facing the prob- lem of caring for them at the rate of $166,666 a month as the last of the Federal relief grants neared exhaus- tion. According to the best available esti- mates, about that number must here- after depend on District relief funds only. These are cases not transferred to employment projects under the Works Progress Administration. Means of caring for about 550 “problem” transient cases, not in- cluded in the work of the project at Berwyn Heights, Md., were agreed to last night by Federal relief officials. ‘These needy persons, some of whom are ill, are to be sent to the Federal transient camp at Fort Eustis, Va. ‘Transportation of the 550 by bus is to be started Monday, according to present plans. The plan calls for shipment of 100 a day until all are quartered at the Virginia camp. Veterans’ Care Planned. Meanwhile, the Veterans’ Adminis- tration was expected to announce shortly its decision on what arrange- ments can be made for a large body of needy veterans, now being given temporary care here. Some, estimate this number at from 350 to 400 men. Others believe there are more. Dis- trict officials confessed lack of exact data on this and some other questions. ‘The District today was setting up a relief organization all its own. All relief as heretofore administered was halted last night. Only direct relief payments will be given from now on, officials said. All relief recipients were ordered to reapply for aid. Case workers were instructed two weeks ago they must make a re-examination of each case to determine actual needs. This study has been under way for more than a week, according to Commissioner George E. Allen. Allen’s aides this morning had no available data on how many persons had reapplied for aid. Last Grant $250,000. Federal officials determined recently fo end the Federal dole by December 1. The last grant to the District, that for November, was $250,000. District officials had requested more than $700,000. Relief operations during the first two weeks of this month were con- tinued about on the same scale as formerly except that Allen about a week ago abandoned works projects financed out of relief grants. This was done to save costs of materials, | trucking and other overheads. Di- rect relief was substituted. ‘The District appropriation act for this year carried $2,000,000 for relief. ‘This was being spent at the rate of $166.666 per month. On November 1, the District had left some $1,500,- 000. Allen decided he could not afford to spend all the remainder in the course of a couple of months since the District would be helpless to meet | relief needs if Congress did not grant & new appropriation promptly on meeting in January. Some Cases to Be Dropped. The alternative was to slash relief, Allen said. Some cases are to be dropped. The allotments for the others must be heavily reduced. The slashes are intended to be effective at once. By December 1, Allen declares, he must diminish costs to about the rate of $166,666 a month, unless some unex- | + pected other solution is found. “We must make sure that no one starves,” said Allen. “That must be our first aim.” ‘The District now has some 8,500 persons on relief transferred to the banner of the W. P. A. They are not affected directly by the decision of Allen to slash direct relief. The W. P. A. workers now are dependent upon their wages, ranging from $45 to $79 a month. Allen had declared they would be given supplementary aid, in proved individual cases of need. Ap- parently this will not be possible gen- erally, under the changed situation. Anticipating there will be many emergency cases during confusion re- | sulting from the sudden shift of the burden of direct relief from the Fed- eral Government to the shoulders of the District, Commissioner Allen has set up a “flying squadron” of case ‘workers. Some of these case investi- gations are to be on duty both night and dsy. They will be under orders to make immediate investigations of emergency appeals and to grant aid as found needed, pending case solu- tions. SHIPYARDS FACTS ASKED President Roosevelt has asked Sec- retary Roper for facts on the refusal of major shipyards to bid for con- struction of a giant new vessel to replace the Leviathan. An inquiry already was in progress, begun at Roper’s direction by the 8hipping Board Bureau. Four of the Nation’s biggest shipbuilders were asked by the United States Lines to bid on the vessel. Three declined and one made no reply. One company suggested the construction of ships of another type and offered to build them. Church Offered As Shelter From Auto Accidents By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Ind., November 16.—A Priends minister, Rev. W. J. Sayers, sent the following con- tribution to & newspaper here yesterday: “Follow the ctrowds to Rich- Robert Wiehle, three times the pionship trophy for 1935 from Cheste: Club of Washington. The presentatiol in the La Fayette Hotel. Edward Arkin, Charles Kaman, Perine, Zell Steever, Dudley Hill, Franklin Kral and Carl Wiehle, broth model aircraft champion of Wash= ington, is shown above receiving the District Model Aircraft League cham- r Warrington, president of the Aero n was made yesterday at a luncheon Other winners in the model aircraft contest include Everett Meeks, Mark Sherrill, William Hanson, Jack Edward Barker, Julian Columbus, er of Robert, —Star Staff Photo. SPECIALIST NAMED IN GASE FINDING Dr. A. Barklie Coulter Is Ap- | pointed “Tuberculosis Co- ordinator” in Drive. Dr. A. Barklie Coulter, chest dis- ease specialist, has been appointed “tuberculosis co-ordinator” for the tuberculosis case-finding program be- ing financed out RS of the Federal ; | works grant of G | | $99,000. | Health Officer | George C. Ruh- land, in announc- | ing the selection | last night, asked that all agencies | co - operating inf | the case - finding | | work give full co- operation to Dr. Coulter in the | campaign. | Dr. Coulter will | serve without pay | and serve as a co-orinator of various | phases of the work being conducted | by the Health Office in co-operation | with the District Tuberculosis Asso- | ciation and various professional and civic groups. The appointment is not to be con- | fused with that of director of tubercu- | losis in the Health Office staff, a reg- | ular District position to be filled soon in expansion of the District tubercu- losis control staff. Dr. Coulter is a member of the| National Tuberculosis Association and | the International Union Against Tu- berculosis. He is a graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical School and served as a member of the staff of the Trudeau Sanatorium and later was connected with the Royal Victoria Hospital at Montreal and the tuberculosis clinic of the Boston Health Department. | Dr Coulter was physician in chief at Gallinger Hospital and during his service there established the hospital’s tuberculosis unit. _ JURY IN DR. FOLEY CASE DISCHARGED| |Fails to Reach Agreement. Prominent Persons Appear as Character Witnesses. A Police Court jury trying a charge of driving while intoxicated against Dr. Thomas M. Foley, nationally known | bone specialist, in whose behalf a num- ber of prominent character witnesses testified, was discharged last night after announcing it could not come to | an agreement. } The case went to the jury at 10:52 | pm. and at 1:27 a.m. today the dis- agreement was announced. Judge Isaac R. Hitt set January 10 as a date for a new trial. Dr. Foley was charged after his auto- mobile allegedly collided with another machine at Connecticut avenue and Tilden street October 30. Among those who appeared as char- acter witnesses for Dr. Foley were Sec- retary of the Navy Swanson and Walter Hagen, professional golfer. Neither was able to wait until the trial started, but their testimony as to his good character was admitted by stipulation. Other character witnesses included: ‘William D. Hoover, chairman of the board of the National Savings & Trust Co.; Maj. Gen. Irving J. Carr, Dr. Charles S. McInerney, Dr. Dallas McGrew, Franklin J. Fisher and Robert Stead, Washington investment bankers; Robert I Miller, well-known ‘Washington attorney; Willlam C. Kloman, surgical instrument manu- facturer; Dr. A. Magruder MacDon- ald, the District coroner; Ord Preston, president of the Union Trust Co.; Al- fred Beauchert, automobile distribu- tor; R. N. Hawell, Reeve Lewis and Mrs. Maude Anderson. MORE CLOUDY WEATHER IS DISTRICT FORECAST Mist Likely to Persist Until Fore Part of Week, Says Bureau. Continued cloudiness, possible light rain and fairly low temperatures is the weather outlook for the Capital over the week end. ‘The mist that has dampened the city for several days probably will per- sist until the first part of next week, the Weather Bureau predicted. Little change in perature is looked for. Today's miinimum was 42, ‘The mercury is Dr. Coulter. TEN ARE INJURED IN CRASHES HERE Slippery Streets Add to Traffic Hazards—One Hurt Seriously. Ten persons were injured, one se-| riously, in automobile accidents in Washington and nearby during the past 24 hours as slippery streets and rain added to traffic hazards. John R. Ransdell, 44, of 810 Rhode Tsland avenue northeast received a | possible skull fracture and a deep cut o.. the head when struck on Defense Highway by a car said to have been operated by Harlow Burt, 46, Battle Creek, Mich. He was taken to Sibley Hospital. Three women and a man were in- jured slightly when machines driven by John W. McKeon, Flushing, N. Y., and Guy R. Lowen, Hyattsville, col- lided at Lincoln road and Rhode Island avenue northeast. Four Are Treated. Helen McKeon, 36; Francis Todd, 34; Florence Dalton, 40, and Henry A. Dalton, 38, were treated at Emergency Hospital for cuts and bruises. William Calabrese, 25, street and Betty Barry, 22, of 3044 N street received slight hurts when Calabrese’s car struck a concrete up- right on the Q Street Bridge. Ida Cator, 70, of 4300 Fourth street suffered a possible broken leg and other injuries when knocked down in the 3600 block of New Hampshire avenue by a taxieab operated by James Freeman, 30, colored, 515 PFourth street southwest. She was re- moved to Garfield Hospital. Pedestrian Struck. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Hamilton, 50, of 2264 Mount V'ew place southeast was| bruised and shaken up when struck by an automobile at Nichols avenue and Pleasant street southeast. was trtated by a private physician. Francis M. Evans, 58, of 324 Ninth street northeast, was cut on the fore- head in an accident at Ninth street and North Caroline avenue southeast. He was taken to Casualty Hospital. Clara Lewis, 68, colored, 6013 Eades street northeast, died in Casualty Hospital yesterday from injyries re- ceived Sunday in an accident at Brentwood, Md. Mrs. Harvey Nichols, 1010 Twenty- third street, lost several teeth and received lacerations of the face when the car in which she was riding with her husband crashed into a telephone pole near the Colvin Run Bridge on the Alexandria-Leesburg pike last night. She was treated at George- town Hospital. TRADE COMMISSION TO MOVE BY JANUARY 1 Bureau Will Take Quarters in Rochambeau and Later in Apex Building. The Federal Trade Commission will vacate the temporary building at Twentieth street and Constitution ave- nue by January 1 at the latest, Clay J. Guthridge, head of the Division of Government Space Control, announced today. A!yfiwuxh the present tenants will move out of the Rochambeau, 815 Connecticut avenue; the Premier, at 718 Eighteenth street, and the build- ing at 1624 I street by December 1 alterations and renovations will then have to be made on the three build- ings, Guthridge explained, to accom- modate the Federal Trade Commis- sion. The Federal Trade Commission eventually will land in the projected apex building. ROGERS MEMORIAL FUND PLANS ARE DISCUSSED ‘Women’s Division Holds Meeting. Drive Will Be Regulated by Chest Campaign. Plans for the Will Rogers memorial fund drive here were discussed yes- terday at a meeting of the women’s division at the Hotel Mayflower. Maj. H. M. Cunningham, field man- ager of the Virginia, North Carolina and District division, described the campaign in his section. Mrs. Harvey Wiley, chairman of the District women’s division, said definite plans could not be made until it was certain there would be no conflict with the Community Chest campaign. Recital to Be Given. LEONARDTOWN, Md., November 16 (Special).—Miss Audrey Grein of the St. Mary’s Female Seminary to- morrow at 3 pm. will give a music recital in the Music Hall at St. Marys of 4429 P| She | WILL AUGTION 1800 SHARES IN TRUST District Court and Utilities Body Are Informed of Sale Wednesday. MOVE SEEN TO EVADE HOLDING RESTRICTIONS Action Follows Announcement of Assets Readjustment by Ameri- can Founders. The District Supreme Court and the Public Utilities Commission were no- tified today by counsel for the owner- ship interests of the Washington Gas Light Co. that 1,800 shares in the | ownership trust would be sold at auc- tion in New York City Wednesday. The notice would indicate some 30 per cent of the total number of “shares of beneficial interest” in the trust would be sold. The General Investment Co., for- merly known as the Public Utility Holding Corp. and the United Found- ers Corp., the notice said, “each pro- poses to sell at public auction on No- vember 20, 900 of the shares of bene- ficial interest in the Washington & Suburban Cos. (the ownership trust).” Follows Announcement. Receipt of this notice followed an announcement in New York that the American Founders Corp. proposes to readjust its assets. The New York report also said other corporations in | New York were making similar moves. Informed observers here were under the impression this was a move by New York corporations to effect reor- ganization so they could no longer be construed as being “holding com- panies,” which would be affected by the terms of the 1935 holding com- pany act. There was no official no- tice regarding this available here. The Washington Gas Light Co. owns the Georgetown Gas Light Co. and controls other local subsidiaries. The Washington Gas Light Co. is controlled by Washington & Suburban Cos,, a Massachusetts common law trust, which represents Chase National Bank and certain other financial interests. Creation of the Massachusetts com- mon law trust resulted from a move by the District Utilities Commission to force outside holding company in- terests to divest themselves of control of the local gas company. None Owns 20 Per Cent. ‘There are 6,000 shares of beneficial interest in Washington & Suburban Cos., owned by various concerns in blocks ranging from 100 to 1,300 shares, 50 no one entity controls 20 per cent or more, which would be in violation of the La Follette anti- merger law. The La Follette act, how- ever, does not list “common law trusts” in its prohibition on trusts and holding companies. In a consent aecree in December, 1932, in which the creation of the common law trust was recognized, Dis- trict Supreme Court ordered that the case be “kept open” and required that the ownership interests notify the court and the District Utilities Commission of any change in owner- ship of the shares. At the time of the court’s decision it was shown that the United Founder’s Corp. held 480 of the shares of beneficial interest. As the notice received today here indicated this cor- poration would sell at the auction 900 shares, observers here believed that the apparent showing of the holding of 420 additional shares by this corpora- tion would be explained by other de- veloprients reported in New York. Notice From Attorneys. The notice to the District Supreme | Court and the Utllities Commission came from Sullivan & Cromwell, at- torneys for the Washington and Sub- urban companies and other holding groups. The letter to the court said: “As counsel for Washington & Suburban Cos., we have been advised by General Investment Corp. (for- merly the Publicity Utility Holding Corp. of America and United Founders’ Corp.) that they each propose to sell at public auction on November 20, 1935, 900 of the comon shares of bene- ficial interest in Washington & Sub- urban Cos., & Massachusetts common law trust. “As soon as such shares are pre- sented for transfer, after the auction has taken place, we shall advise you as to the name into which such shares are transferred. This information is sent to you pursuant to the consent decree entered in the above matters by the Hon. Peyton Gordon, justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on the 23d day of Decem- ber, 1932.”" MAN FOUND DEAD IN CAR PARKED IN GARAGE Motor of Machine Not Running, Police Report—Victim Believed to Have Been Drinking. The police homicide squad and the coroner’s office are investigating the death of Herbert D. Davis, 33, of the 1900 block of Biltmore street, whose body was found about midnight last night in his automobile, which had been driven into s garage in rear of the residence. Physicians said the man apparently had been dead for several hours. A partly-filled bottle was found on the front seat of the car, police said. Persons at the. house where Davis roomed said he had been drinking and left about 3 a.m. yesterday. He was not seen again until found in the car. The motor of the machine was not running and Davis was bleeding from the mouth, police reported. ORCHESTRA PLANNED P.-T. A. to Help Sponsor Music Group at Bladensburg. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. BLADENSBURG, Md., November 15.—Plans are under way for the formation of a school orchestra at Bladensburg Junior High School un- der the sponsorship of the Parent- ‘Teacher Principal ‘Thomas V. Warthen, it was announced today. have regular the of pupils streets, It is planned to drills under supervision of police and Association SATURDAY, SERVICE HEADED BY MRS. PRESCOTT Expansion Marked by Tak- ing of Oath at Health Department. POSITION PROVIDED UNDER $45,000 FUND New Director to Confer With Ruhland on Appointment of Three Supervisors. Expansion of the Public Health Nursing Service under the District Health Office was begun today with appointment of Mrs. Josephine W. Prescott as nurs- ing director. She was sworn into office by Ar- thur G. Cole, chief clerk of the Health Depart- ment, in the pres- ence of Dr. George C. Rhu- land, health offi- cer, and other of- ficials of the of- fice. This is a new District position, made possible by e, Tesneatt the supplement- ary appropriation of $45,000 for the Health Office this year, permitting an expansion of the nursing service and | other units. Her salary will be $3,800 | per year. Appointments Planned. Mrs. Prescott will confer with Dr. Ruhland on the appointment of three supervisors and ten fleld nurses and reorganization of the work of the 32 present public health nurses. The | present and the new nurses will be as- | signed to a generalized nursing service instead of the present plan of special- ized service, which takes the nurses to widely scattered sections of the city. Under the new plan, each nurse will be in charge of all kinds of cases in her own district. Mrs. Prescott has had extensive service in public health nursing direc- tion as well as regular educational courses. She comes to Washington from New York City, where for the past year or s0 she has been engaged in in- structive public health nursing direc- tion while afliated with Teachers' College of Columbia University. Widely Experienced. Her experience includes service as an anesthetist at the Massachusetts General Hospital at Boston: staff nurse at the Henry Street Settlement, New York City, while with the visiting Nursing Service of New York City; assistant supervisor and later super- visor at the Henry Street Settlement, and supervisor of nurses at the Belle- vue-Yorkville health demonstration, New York City. = Mrs. Prescott received her profes- sional training at the Massachusetts General Hospital School for Nurses at the McLean Hospital, Waverly, Mass., and the Boston Lying-In Hos- pital. She is a graduate of the Laconia High School, Laconia, N. H., 1908; Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass., B. A. degree, 1912, and Teachers’ Col- lege, Columbia University, M. A. de- | gree, 1923. e TWO BOYS MISSING, NEARBY POLICE TOLD Montgomery Youths Disappear After Leaving Homes ™ for School. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. SILVER SPRING, Md., November 16.—Montgomery County police were asked last night to search for two youths who disappeared yesterday after leaving their homes for school. They are Robert N. Klowann, 13, of Forest Glen and Raymond Pitcher, 15, of Avanel. Police were told that the youths had “some trouble” with other students at the school and had threatened to leave. Relatives said the youths might be hitch-hiking to Audubon, N. J. The Pitcher boy's parents reside in Audu- bon, but he has been staying with rel- atives at Avanel. KUHN BURIAL TO BE HELD IN ARLINGTON MONDAY Interment of Retired Army Of- ficer Will Follow Funeral Serv- ices Held in California. ; Maj. Gen. Joseph E. Kuhn, 71, U. S. A, retired, who died Tuesday in San Diego, Calif, will be buried at 2:15 p.m. Monday in Arlington Na- tional Cemetery, the War Department announced today. Funeral services were held yesterday in California. Gen. Kuhn served in the Army for 40 years. In the World War he com- manded the 79th Division in this country and in France. He led the capture of Montfaucon, highest point on the Meuse-Argonne battlefield. TEATE FUNERAL RITES Funeral services for Edwin F. Teate, 36, a pressman at the Government Printing Office, who died yesterday from burns received when his auto- mobile’‘caught fire when he was clean- ing it with gasoline, will be held Monday at 2 pm. at his late resi- dence, 1005 Montana avenue north- east. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Mr. Teate is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ulrica Teate, and his mother, Mrs. Carrie Teate. MRS. CONNELLY DIES —— Mrs. Margaret Connelly, 71, of Jo ¥ 5227 Sherrier place, died yesterday at illness. She NOVEMBER 16, 1935. Two of fifteen Alexandria girls who will pose as “Living Pictures of Great Masters” in an exhibit to be staged at Norton' Memorial, in Alex- andria, tonight for the benefit of St. Wiley portrays Sir Joshua Reynolds’ “Mrs. Siddons,” while Miss Anne Talbott, at right, is posed as Gainesborough’s “Lady Gainesborough.” Paul's Church. At left, Miss Lelia ~—Star Staff Photos. SCHOOL EDITORS | 10 GET AWARDS Newspaper Men to Be Main Speakers at G. W. Banquet. Speeches by four newspaper men and the presentation of awards for excellence in various phases of news- paper work will be highlghts of a banquet tonight that will bring to & close the two-day convention of the George Washington University Scho- lastic Press Association. The speakers at the dnner, which will be held at the Wesley Club, Con- necticut avenue and K streets, at 8 o'clock, will be Sir Willmott Lewis, ‘Washington correspondent of the Lon- don Times; Ray Tucker of the Mc- Clure Syndicate; Alexander M. Jones, managing editor of the Post, and Howard Parrish, business manager of | the Daily News. Prof. Willard Hayes Yeager of the university faculty will preside. How- ard Ennes of the editorial staff of the Hatchet, which arranged the conven- | tion, will announce the awards. Miss Eleanor Heller, editor of the Hatchet, will make the presentations. Cups to Best Papers. Two cups will be given, one for the best high school paper of Washington and vicinity, and the other for the best paper submitted by Maryland and Virginia high schools. Individual awards will be made for the best edi- torial, feature, column, news story and sports story. The contests have been judged by Washington newspaper men. A feature of today’s program was & luncheon arranged by Quill and | Scroll and Quill-Clique, high school honor societies, at the Western Pres- byterian Church. Speakers listed were Dean Henry Grattan Doyle, grand national president of Pi Delta Epsilon; Olivia Nixon, president of Gamma Eta Zeta, and Everett H.| Woodward, president of the George Washington University Chapter of Pi| Delta Epsilon. One-Act Play on Program. A one-act play, “Trials of a Coun- try Editor,” by the Cue and Curtain Dramatic Club of the university; ad- dresses by newspaper men, group meetings of the 66 students from the 14 Washington, Maryland and Vir- ginia high schools at the convention, and a tour of a newspaper plant | also were on the program. Opening yesterday in Corcoran Hall, the convention heard a num- ber of speakers, among them Dr. Joy Elmer Morgan, editor of the National Education Association Journal ’ e ARCHBISHOP CURLEY IN RYAN ESCORT Dignitaries of Church to Accom- pany Bishop-Designate to Omaha. Dighitaries of the church, led by most Rev. Michael J. Curley, Arch- bishop of Baltimore, will escort most Rev. James H. Ryan, retiring rector of Catholic University, when he leaves here Monday to become Bishop of Omaha. ~ In the group will be most Rev. Peter L. Ireton, Coadjutor Bishop of Rich- mond; Rev. Dr. Fenlon, rector of St. Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore, and the following from the university: Msgr. William J. Kerby, professor of sociology and editor of the Ec- clesiastical ~Review; Msgr. John O'Grady, dean of the School of Social Work; Rev. J. M. Campbell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Rev. F. A. Walsh, O. S. B,, regent of Catho- lic University Seminary; Rev. Ignatius Smith, O. P., professor of philosophy, and Rev. Maurice S. Sheehy, assistant to the rector. The party will leave here next Mon- day and spend Tuesday in Chicago, where a large party of clergy and laity from Omaha is expected to meet Bishop-designate Ryan and his es- corts. The party will arrive in Omaha ‘Wednesday, November 20, with Bishop Ryan’s installation scheduled for the following day. FIRM HOLDS PARTY 3,000 Attend Thanksgiving Fete of John P. Agnew & Co., Inc. Between 2,000 and 3,000 persons at- tended a Thanksgiving party given | Maryland side is receiving attention |to dedicate a width of 75 feet plus last night in the Mayflower Hotel by John P. Agnew & Co., Inc. Talks were made by Sam Agnew, J. H. Hirsch of Chicago, Leslie Baker of the Federal Housing Administration and Ralph Caldwell of New York City. The entertainment included songs by and a Mike.” Refreshments were served in the main djning room, followed by danc- o Two Washingtonians Contestants in Suit On Crash in Florida An automobile collision between two Washingtonians vacationing in Florida resulted in the filing of a $25,000 damage suit in Dis- trict Supreme Court today. Edward J. Whall, 608 Keefer place, brought suit against Harold S. Loos, 2532 Fourteenth street, charging the defendant’s automo- bile was proceeding on the wrong side of the road when it struck his car on the Tampa-Lakeland Highway. Through Attorney Alvin L. Newmyer, Whall stated he was severely injured and his car dam- aged. The accident occurred in December, 1934. PROPERTY SOUGHT| 10 WIDEN AVENUE Takoma Boundary Associa-‘ tion Urges Donations of Necessary Land. Special Dispatch to The Star. TAKOMA PARK, Md., November | 16.—The Takoma Park Boundary Citi- | zens' Association, in its efforts to| | court, | utility. FIGHT TO FORCE. NORTH AMERICAN FROMD. C.MAPPED Roberts Acts After Com. pany Attempts to Cancel Withdrawal Plan, ACTION WILL BE BASED UPON LA FOLLETTE ACT People’s Counsel May Appeal to Utilities Commission or Go Di- rect to D. C. Supreme Court. A legal fight to force the North American Co. out of the Washington utilities field was planned today by | William A. Roberts, people’s counsel before the Public Utilities Commis= sion. Roberts’ contemplated move fole lowed the action of the North Amer= ican in attempting to withdraw from the Securities and Exchange Commis= sion its plan for divesting itself of its District holdings, which include the Washington Railway & Electric and the Potomac Electric Power Cos. Request to withdraw the proposal was made by the North American as a result of the notice of the Utilities Commisison that it intended to inie tiate proceedings looking to a reduc- tion in the rate of return allowed the electric company under the sliding scale agreement. Roberts Has Two Plans. Roberts has two plans in view. As, | the first step, he probably will make] a formal appeal to the Utilities Com mission to call a public hearing an order the North American to divest it self of its holdings in Washington. Should the commisison do that, the company could appeal to the courts An alternative course would be al direct appeal to the District Supreme requesting that the United States attorney for the District proe ceed against the ownership, or request the Securities Commission to retain jurisdiction and itself force abandon ment of control. Any action Roberts takes will be based on the La Follette anti-merger | act of 1913, which forbids any hold- ing company from owning 10 per cent or more of the stock of a local Roberts said the North American owns 57 per cent of the common stock of the Washington Railway & Electric Co. and enough preferred stock to insure its control. The railway company owns the power company. The North American’s action in seeking to withdraw its original plan to relinquish control of its Washing= ton properties did not come as a surprise in utility and financial circles, which several days ago heard rumors such a step was contemplated. The plan proposed the substitution of 1. 625,000 new shares of stock for the 65,000-odd shares of common stock in the railway company. J. F. Fogarty, president of North American, explained that the request for withdrawal of the proposal to the Securities Commission was made in obtain widening and paving of Eastern avenue within the District, is seeking | the dedication of necessary land. The portion of this thoroughfare on the of Maryland officials in order that | the improvement may be made at| the same time. Officials of the association have been advised by the director of the Highway Department and surveyor of the District that in the event the abutting property owners are willing a building restriction line of 15 feet, it would then be unnecessary for the | District to consider condemnation of | view of the “uncertainty” created by thes move of the Utilities Commission. »“Consequently," he said, “the relae tionship of the North American Co. with the electric and principal transe portation utility in the District of Coe lumbia and adjacent territory in Vire ginia and Maryland remains une changed.” Roberts Cites Three Motives. North American’s original plan to move out of the Washington field was attributed by Roberts two weeks ago to three motives: A 1. To comply with the public utile ities act of 1935, which, however, will not become effective for two years. the street on a 90-foot basis. There are two buildings on Eastern avenue directly in the line of lhe! street which must be moved. | The association has been further in- | formed that in the event the neces-| sary dedications were forthcoming, the | District Commissioners would under- | take to provide a surfaced roadway| with a sidewalk approach within ons| year's time. If abutting property| owners are unwilling to dedicate prop- erty, officlals of the association say this section of Takoma Park cannot | hope to secure the improvement ex-| cept through condemnation, with re- | sulting benefit assessments against any property which a jury may find benefited. Condemnation would re-| sult in postponing of the improve-| ment for some time. | At the next meeting of the associa- | tion, on December 4, in the Takomn{ Public Library, L. R. Grabill, for many | years superintendent of Suburban| Highways of the District of Colum- | bia, will be the guest speaker and| will outline in detail facts concerning this improvement. Officials report that there are 23 parcels of land| involved, that the approximate lengtn of the highway would be 3,000 feet and the estimated cost would be ap- proximately $50,000. A. A. A. GETS FUNDS FOR POTATO CONTROL Individual Allotments Made to Growers as McCarl Per- mits Cash. By the Associated Press. The A. A. A, assured of at least “limited funds” to enforce the potato law, proceeded today with the task of making individual allotments to grow- ers. Controller General McCarl, they said, had ruled they could use funds not regularly appropriated for en- forcement purposes. The officials would not say how much this would allow, but “hoped” it would last until Congress meets. Funds for enforcement of the law were included in the third deficiency bill, which failed to pass in the clos- ing days-of the last Congress. Under the law, all potatoes har- vested and sold after December 1 in excess of individual allotments will be taxed about 45 cents a bushel. —_— STUDIES BUS ROUTE A committee was appointed at the meeting of the Glover Park Citizens’ Association last night to make a study of in the bus ! proposed changes route of the Burleith-Glover Park The committee consists of M. right, chairman, and L. C. and W. P. Newton, 2. To release control at a time when there is a good market for the security. It had been estimated that the com= pany would have made approximately $25,000,000 under its plan. 3. The threatened invasion of the Washington utilities field by the Asso- ciated Gas & Electric Co., which re- cently acquired control of the Virginia Public Service Co., which serves elec~ tricity to a major part of Arlington County and other sections of Virginia. Roberts, however, did not believe compliance with the utilities act was the principal reason for North Amer= ican’s move to release control of its Washington properties. Since he exe pressed that opinion Federal Judge | Coleman of ‘Baltimore has held the act unconstitutional, MRS. ISADOR LUBIN EXPIRES IN HOSPITAL Wife of Labor Statistics Commis- sioner Was Writer on Edu- cational Topics. Mrs. Ann Shumaker Lubin, 36, wife of Dr. Isador Lubin commissioner of labor statistics at the Labor Depart- ment, died yesterday in Garfleld Hos- pital. Mrs. Lubin formerly was editor of Progressive Education, monthly pub- lication of the Progressive Education Association. She was widely known also as & lecturer and writer on educa- tional topics. Funeral arrangements are being de~ layed, pending the arrival here of a sister. In addition to her husband. Mrs. Lubin is survived by an infant daughe ter. The family home is near Chese terbrook, Va. U. S. Treasury Check Is Rejected by Bank In Foreign Country: By the Associated Press. Officials chuckled today over a banker’s refusal to accept a Gov- ernment check drawn on the United States Treasury. The bank is located in a for- eign country, just which one was not disclosed. The Agriculture Department decided to buy some special farm stock from the un~ named country for experiments, and it sent the check abroad. But when the check was pre- sented at the foreign bank it was refused. The bank said politely the American Treasury was not on its accredited list of foreign banks. Hurried negotiations followed. Finally the bank agreed to cash the check—but only after the American Legation “officially cer- tifled” it.