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Washington News e The Foen SN WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1936. ny Star ¥ Society and General PAGE B—1 One-Man Car Illegal, Says Clayton, in Vain Effort to Halt Hearing Who’s Who at the Zoo Extra Llamas Born Here Are Traded fo Other Species. GORN CROP FATE DECLARED INDEX 10 FOOD PRICES Continued Drought Might Skyrocket Costs, A. A. A Aide Says. SHORTAGE OF FODDER FEARED FOR LIVE STOCK Reports So Far Are Too Vague to Make Forecast, but Heavy Rains Needed. ‘The enigma of how long the Na- tion’s corn crop will withstand the in- | roads of drought holds the secret of ' whether food costs will skyrocket as a result of the long dry spell, accord- | ing to Donald E. Montgomery, con- sumers’ counsel of the Agricultural Ad- | Justment Administration. | “What happens to the corn belt in | the next two weeks will tell the story,” | Montgomery declared today of Amer- | jca’s leading feed crop. “IU’s too early | yet to get the picture. Reports are | vague. But rain deferred much longer | might mean disaster.” | If the stalks in the heart of the corn ! country begin to burn, Montgomery said, the resultant lessening in the stocks of beef cattle, which supply 50. per cent of the Nation’s meat, and | hogs will bring 2 price rise which may | | not reach its peak until late Spring | of 1937. Range Cattle Hit. And with the beef cattle dying now | on the Great Plains, only 2 slight in- _road into the major sources of feed ‘crops is needed to reduce the meat supply to the danger level. For a sum- mary of the national food supply made public by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics last Fall made this reve- lation: “The combined supply of all foods available for consumption in the United States in the 1935-6 season may be slightly larger than the quan- tity consumed in the 1934-5 season but about 2 per cent less than the | average for the 1933-4 season and about 1 per cent less than the average | for the 1925-29 period. “The combined supply, production | and carry-over, of all foods for the 1935-6 season probably will be about 1 per cent less than in the 1934-5 season, but the exports of some food- stuffs are expected to be reduced to some extent so as to leave slightly larger the total supply &vailable for consumption.” Definite Curve Followed. ‘The course of meat prices during severe drought follows a positive | course, traceable over charts of for- mer years, as follows: First, prices are depressed as farm- | ers “liquidate” their stocks by send- ing their animals swiftly to the mar- ket, before the available supply of feed becomes too low. Second, after this initial “liquida- | tion” the price strikes a slow upward | curve. Third, speculation sets in and the | price takes a rapid upswing. [ Fourth, temporary depression in | price as the immediate after-effect oh the speculative activity. Fifth, a long-continued upsvung‘ brought about by scarcity and not broken until the following Spring, when calves and pigs dropped earlier | become available for the market. Even now, two years after the great drought of 1934, the effect is still felt on the pig crop, although this year's farrow was 29 per cent over that of the Spring of 1935. And already, according to reports from Chicago, there has been a rapid rise in the retail price of such com- modities as poultry, butter and eggs, with the influence of the earlier drought in the South Atlantic States still holding up the potato and truck- ing market. Effect in South. Of the dry hand of drought in the Bouth, the crop report of July 1 de- clared: “Lack of rainfall at critical periods in the Southeastern States lowered the yields of green vegetables from this area. The important vegetable areas in the Eastern and Northeastern parts of the country bid fair to pro- duce crops only slightly below normal. . « . While the acreage of vegetable crops for commercial canning or man- ufacture is slightly greater this sea- son than in 1935, the yield prospects are considerably below average, espe- cially for sweet corn and tomatoes.” How far-reaching an effect the de- struction of wheat will have on the price of bread is difficult to determine. ‘Under average conditions, the wheat in a loaf of bread is worth 1.5 cents. In the Spring of 1934, it was 1.2 cents and rose to a high of 1.65 cents for that drought year. But wheat rust in the Spring of 1935 had still greater effect than drought, for by Autumn of 1935 there was 1.85 cents’ worth of wheat in each pound loaf of bread. But this rise need not necessarily be reflected in the consumer bread cost. For a by-product of flour-milling is bran, an animal feed, and the worse the drought, the greater the price the miller can get for his bran from the farmer. This tends to the increase to the bread-eater in the cost of flour. The activity of the hog market puz- gles Montgomery. Chops are down to 34.4 cents a pound retail, 7.5 per cent below the price a year ago, when this - man’s food” was 's meat. But “hogs have been stronger than we expected,” Montgomery said. They dropped off suddenly between the 7th and 9th of July, however, a situation which might be accounted for by either of two factors: “1. It may be a belated shipment of the pig crop of last Fall. “2. It may be liquidation in antici- pation of feed shortage. “If the latter is true, we may have cause to worry, but it is practically impossible at this point to get accu- rate information. Without this drought we expected to have a normal supply of hogs this Fall for the first time since early 1934.” 4 This mother llama has just presented the Zoo with the 50th baby born to the herd since it was brought here from South America. BY W. H. SHIPPEN, Jr. “The camel of the Andes” still pays dividends, | This one has just presented the Zoo | | with another baby, the fiftieth born tc the llama herd since its importa- tion. Extra llamas have a good trade-in value. The Zoo swaps Washington- bred “Andean camels” for leopards, hyenas, sea lions or what have you. ‘This is quite a help when the pur- | chasing grows slim. But the llama is accustomed to making itself useful. Before the con- | quest of Peru the llama was the horse, |cow and sheep of civilized Indians, | leather and wool. The Spaniards of the | found hundreds of thousands of | lamas doing heavy duty for the In- | dians, among the valleys and peaks of the Andes. The conquistadors were amazed to see “sheep” big enough to bear @ man over a mountain. They relished their flesh as equal to that of “the fat sheep of Castile.” Later the Spaniards organized great llama caravans to transport looted furnishing transportation, meat, milk, | conquest | —Star Staff Photo. 1 bullion, plate and ore from the high | Andes to the coast. Despite their | | preoccupation with gold, the Span- iards noticed a disagreeable habit of the-llama which has persisted to the present day. This patient beast, a close cousin to a camel, which had yielded up its strength, flesh, milk, hair and hide | to man for countless generations, can, on occasion, be driven to rebellion. | Overloaded llamas sometimes swing | spit in their master's eyes. They also | kick like a mule when tormented. { The llama, like the camel, has an | extra stomach for storing water. The beast is sure-footed in the mountains | and almost as strong as a mule. It can exist on sparse highland herbage | for extended periods. The two species of domesticated llamas have black and white coats sometimes marked with brown. They were tamed ages ago from the wild variety, which still keep their freedom on inaccessible Andean peaks. Tomorrow—Wahoo, Zioncheck’s baboon friend. Thirteen-year-old Donald C. De Pue, 306 Eleventh street southwest, carrying on in the footsteps of his father, the late Stanley C. De Pue, who enlisted in the Army 19 years | ago yesterday. Donald is a member, the first in | the District, of the Sons of the Amer- ican Legion, an organization whose purposes are just what its name im- plies—to inculcate in the sons of American Legion members the same principles that led their fathers to fight for the United States in the ‘World War. ‘The history of the youth society here is linked inseparably with the De Pues. The Legion post which fos- tered the first squadron, or chapter, is named for Stanley De Pue, who died in 1930, after long fllness, from a gass- ing received in the Cheppy sector and in moving ammunition to the big guns in the Argonne. When the first sons’ squadron was formed here three years ago, De Pue’s son was the first boy to join. Thir- teen other sons of war veterans fol- lowed him into ~ the organization. Since then some 700 Washington boys have joined, and of the 32 Amer- jcan Legion posts in the District, 14 have sons’ units. Another local boy who has had a significant part in the youth society is Laurence Abreo, jr., 1361 Perry place. Laurence was picked by lot from all sons of American Legion members here to place a wreath on the Unknown Soldier’s Tomb, Armis- tice day, 1934. He is the only son of & Legionnaire to have participated in such a way in memorial exercises. Unlike the youth organizations of some European countries, where dicta- tors encourage boys to carry arms at an ‘early age, wear uniforms and school themselves in drill and mili- tary tactics, the Sons of the Amer- ican Legion is non-military; like- wise, non-political. Its members are not compelled to make any pledges that they will participate in future wars in which this country may be- come involved. They are not ex- pected to encourage militarism, al- though, like their fathers, they are supposed to support the Legion policy of “an adequate national defense.” Rodney A. C. Horton, commander, or principal adult supervisor, of the local sons’ detachment, explains that the Sons of the American Legion was formed to perpetuate the ideals and aims of its parent organization. provided for establishment of the youth society. By August 31, 1935, membership was 37,342, and 1573 squadrons had been established. Supervising officers like Horton and Willlam R. Beall, for three years adjutant of the District detachment, guide the activities of the youth squadrons, out the meetings are con- ducted by the boys themselves—boys averaging about 13 or 14 years old (only a few are over 16). ‘While Bush was commander of the local detachment, just prior to Horton's incumbency, membership Tose at such a rate that 11 squadrons were formed in one year, 1934, and lmmnmm:un is| Donald C. De Pue, 13, Follows Father’s Military Footsteps txophy given by the national n'gan!-! zation for the depariment forming the | greatest number of squadrons in a year. The biggest youth units in Wash- | ington are those of the Fort Stevens, | Sergt. Jasper and Jacob Jones posts. | Each has about 100 members. The newest squadron, the Quentin Roose- velt, formed last year, established the best record locally for increasing membership over a limited period. The Legion sons played a prominent part in Fourth of July celebrations, here and -elsewhere, and will again come to the forefront next month at the annual convention of the District Department, American Legion. A drum and bugle corps of about 55 boys, representing all squadrons in town, and another of about 30, repre- senting the Fort Stevens squadron, will participate in the usual parade. Their “uniform” is white shirt and trousers, black tie and regulation light blue overseas cap. Squadron meetings are held about once & month, usually on Fridays. Horton says the attendance is pretty good and the meetings pretty regular. Art attracts the attention last Winter in the kinder, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tomorrow: Doris Stern, daughter of Mr. | their heads on their long necks and | arten of the Barnard School. ilmer Schantz, 459 Delafield COURT 70" DEGE F PIN BALL GAME 1S SKILL OR CHANCE Novelty Firm to Ask Injunc- tion Against Seizure Order. GARNETT WELCOMES TEST RULING, HE SAYS Expert Players May Give Demon- stration Before Judge to Prove Point. The District Court will be called upon shortly to decide whether skill or chance predominates in the pin ball | games. This was made certain today at a senting pin ball interests and United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett, who has issued orders to police to seize all machines which pay off in any manner, William R. Lichtenberg, counsel for the Pioneer Novelty Distributing Corp., served notice he will bring an injunc- tion suit late today or tomorrow to restrain police carrying out the dis- | trict attorney's order. Mr. Garnett | said he welcomed a chance to obtain | | of the games. May Demonstrate in Court. Probabilities were that one of the formal and dignified chambers of the | District Court will be the scene soon expert players in an effort to prove that the machines are games of skill. A black-robed judge will be the arbiter. Meanwhile, pin ball machine op- erators and owners and the District | attorney have reached an agreement | that the machines will be set so that they will not pay off until the court rules in the matter. Mr. instructed police to make no seizures unless there is an actual pay-off. 7,500 Machines Here. Lichtenberg estimated that 7,500 pin ball machines, representing an investment of $100.000. are operated in stores, cafes, cocktail rooms, pool rooms and game centers in the Dis- trict. He said about one-fourth of them are owned by the establishments | where they are operated and the others are rented by the distributors. The playing of pin ball in the Dis- trict has been a source of constant worry and annoyance to lJaw enforce- ment officials, Some time ago certain types of pin ball machines were banned on the ground that there was no skill involved in their operation. Garnett's last order prohibited the playing of any pin ball machine which paid off automatically or on which the management offered prizes. He stated at the time that he had received numerous complaints about the machines, which have increased | greatly in number recently. T.W. CHURCH LEAVES RADIO STATION JOB | Program Manager Ends Connec- tion With WISV and Co- lumbia System. 'T. Wells Church, program manager for Station WJSV, has ended his con= nection with that station and the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System, it was learned today. Church, who joined C. B. S. in 1931 as publicity director in Washington, had been with the Mount Vernon Hills (Va.) station since October 1932 when it was taken over by Columbia. He is given a large part of the credit of building WJISV. Church’s future plans were not dis- closed. Before entering the radio fleld Church was a correspondent for the United Press and the New York HMerald Tribune. Young Washington nt e is f— of Billy Schantz, 5, who and Mrs. Albert and Norma Ann George, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Andrew J. —sStar Staff Bhoto, qu’!. ‘. conference between attorneys repre- | | & court ruling on the disputed legality . | of a demonstration of the game by | Garnett | S2671.59 NEEDED FOR D. C. AIRPORTS, N.A. A ANNOUNCES Al U. S. Requires $120,000,- t 000 for Suitable Facilities, Association Says. WORKS PROGRESS STUDY IS BASIS FOR ESTIMATES | Survey to Serve as Framework for Current Operations of Administration. Expenditure of $120,000,000 s ynceded to bring the Nation's airports up to the standards of modern avia- | tion equipment, it was stated today by officials of the National Aeronautic Association, on the basis of a survey by the Works Progress Administra- tion. The association said that an ex- penditure of $2,671,959 is needed for the District of Columbia to provide it with facilities suitable for modern air transport operations. It listed only one W. P. A. airport project as | in operation within the District. This |1s the Bolling Field job, for which $208,656 has been authorized. No details of the work needed to bring the District up to par were | given in the survey. The total, how- | |ever, is the amount estimated as | | needed for the construction of an | adequate air transport terminal. Although the W. P. A. is not a planning agency and has no power, | ‘ | plan, it was explained, the general survey was made as a framework to serve as a guide in current W. P. A. airport operations. Already $26,059,- 495 has been released for airport proj- ects and improvements and another $45,000,000 will be spent to meet avia- | tion requirements during the 1937 fiscal year, which began July 1, it was explained. Army May Lend Aid. “Working quietly behind the scenes in an effort to merge W. P. A. expendi- tures with a sound and logical na- tional plan of airport construction, the engineers secured the co-operation of the Army, Navy, Post Office De- pariment, Commerce Department and other Government agencies who have a stake in both peace-time and war- time air activities,” N. A. A. officials explained. “The result has been rapid progress toward a well-founded airway and air- port system, valuable not only to commercial air transportation and civil flying, but to military branches for national air defense.” It is the hope of engineers of the Division of Airways and Airports of the W. P. A, that they will be able to complete between one-third and one-half of the needed airport proj- | ects listed in the national plan, it was explained. W. P. A. has already ap- proved projects costing $64,175,902, | | but of this total, only $26,000,000 ac- tually has been released. Much of | the ‘new $45000,000. which became | available two weeks ago for airports, will be spent in completing projects already begun, while numerous new | airport projects will be started, ac- | cording to _the decisions of local | W. P. A administrators, it was ex- plained. Projects Restricted. Although the District has been in- cluded in the national plan, no W. P. A. construction can be undertaken on a civil terminal here because of the lack of suitable governmentally owned land upon which an airport might be constructed. W. P. A. funds cannot be used for land purchase for an air- port here and cannot be expended for airport purposes on land which is not governmentally owned or leased, it was explained. In addition to the $208,656, which already has been made available for the new Bolling Field, an additional $133,656 was authorized as of June 1, 1936. Virtually all of these funds are being expended for grading of the landing area at the new field, con- struction of seawall, installation of drainage and construction of run- Wways. $10,000,000 IS GIVEN FORN. Y. A. PROGRAM $15,600 Is Allotted to D. C., $53,- 800 to Maryland and $161,800 to Virginia for Start. National Youth Administrator Wil- liams allocated $10,000,000 today to start the new $71,250,000 educational program American youth. Out of this initial fund, which will carry on the work for the first three months, the District received $15,000; Mary- land, $53,900, and Virginia, $161.800. In accordance with a W. P. A. rul- ing, the minimum age for employment in the national youth program has been increased from 16 to 18 years. Officials said that the initial fund for the District will continue Summer projects, such as playground super- visors, and similar work in which R dents are participating. The greater portion of the N. Y. A. program is devoted to student aid in high schools and colleges, but this Pphase of the program will not begin until the Fall academic term opens. —_— TRUCK DRIVER ROBBED Morris Gold, 30, a truck driver for Liebman Bros., 1300 block of Fourth street nonheut. was attacked and robbed of $158 by two colored men about 11 o'clock today as he started to board his truck n Twenty-first and O streets. ‘The robbers, one armed with a razor, struck Gold about the head, took authority or funds to carry out the | . |U. S. Court of Appeals Pays Emphazing his remarks wit. h a waving arm, William McK. Clayton, chairman of the Public Utilities Committee of the Federation of Citizens Associations, Public Utilities Commission a L horse-car era makes one-man sti is shown as he told the aw adopted in 1892 during the reet cars illegal. D —Star Staff Pholo PLOT CONVIGTION (OF MNEIL UPHELD Prosecutor Compliment for Work in Case. ‘The conspiracy conviction last No- | vember of Benedict M. McNeil, former assistant cashier of the defunct Park Savings Bank. was affirmed today by the United States Court of Appeals. | ‘The court complimented the prosecutor for his presentation of the case. Assistant United States Attorney John Wilson presented hundreds of complicated bank records to prove that McNeil conspired with his father, Alexander McNeil, and Robert S. Stunz, executive vice president, to steal and embezzle $50,000. Stunz committed suicide shortly after the bank closed in 1933. The elder Mc- Neil died after indictment and before trial. Found guilty by a jury, McNeil was given consecutive sentences on each count of from four months to two years' imprisonment. Last April he DISTRICT TAX LAW UPHELD IN COURT Appeals Bench Refuses to Declare Property Levy Unconstitutional. The United States Court of Appeals today refused to declare unconstitu- tional the District’s intangible prop- erty tax law. which had been atiacked discriminatory by William Coger, a local attorney. The litigation began when the Dis- trict Commissioners asked the District courts for a writ of mandamus to | compel Coger to file personal property | | tax returns for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1934 and 1935. Coger con- tended that 1926 amendments to tax laws were unconstitutional. ‘This legislation exempted cabinet officers and persons in the service of the United States elected for a definite term of office, securities taxed else- where and securities or corporations whose assets are taxed by the State in which the concerns are incorporated, | | provided the holder of the securities elected to begin serving his term. The Government contents he must spend two yvears and four months in prison | before he is eligible for parole. The principal points raised in the | ppeal related to the admissability of vidence. The appellate court held | that both the manner and sequence of the presentation of evidence was | proper. McNeil's attorney had pro- | the jury of involved banking records by Eugene Sauer, Department of Justice expert accountant. The court said, however, that there was no other way in which the facts could have been shown. Justice D. Lawrence Groner, who spoke for the Court of Appeals, said | that concurrent trial of the two counts for the indictment was regular, since evidence offered to sustain one was admissable to sustain the other. ‘The Government contended that the method of the defalcations was for the McNeils to overdraw the account maintained by the father and for Stunz to meet the overdraft by caus- ing a fictitious credit. had his legal residence there. i It provided further that satisfactory evidence must be submitted to the tax | assessor to obtain the exemptions. Coger eargued that the act made an unconstitutional delegation of legis- lative and judicial powers to the assessor, was discriminatory in that it exempted cabinet officers and mem- bers of Congress and discriminated | tested against the interpretation for ! | against residents having legal domicile | | elsewhere. | Speaking for the court, Chief Jus- constitutional issues could not prop- erly be raised until after the tax was levied and that the report was nothing more than a listing of what property Coger owned. The court held further, even if the exemptions created in 1926 were un- constitutional, the basic taxing pro- visions containued in the prior act, passed in 1916, still would be oper- ative. Former Corporation Counsel E. Bar- rett Prettyman and his assistant, Ver- non E. West, represented the Com- missioners before the court. Inlay Art With Color Wood Has Able Disciple in D.C. Man' In a basement room which is more workshop than studio, George A. Simonds, of 3009 Twentieth street northeast, devotes an hour each eve- ning to the art with which he fell in love 18 months’ago when he read about it in a magazine. Simonds, & book-binder and paper merchant by day, is an inlay artist, follower of a new mus whose wor- shipers are now so numerous that they are organized into a national society. Instead of a brush or chisel, he fashions his work with a jig-saw puz- zle and glue, and produces pictures made of vari-colored wood from trees hewn in Dutch Guinana, Africa, the East Indies, California, South America. “See,” he said, holding up a picture of “Gethsemane,” “there are 52 shades and colors in that and not a drop of paint. All the natural colors of the wood.” All the natural colors of the wood, that is, but the dots on the halo of Christ, which are burnt on, and the fingernails, which are made by scratching with a knife and then rub- bing with dirt. Simonds yesterday shipped to San Prancisco some of his best itéms for a “salon” to be held by the American Society of Inlay, Artists. Simends was recently named vice president of the organization. The lece of this virtuoso of the jig-saw is & picture of an Indian kneeling by a lake. “I don't know what you call it,” confessed its crea- tor. “Hunter hunting, I guess.” “Hunter hunting” shows a red-skin GEORGE A, SIMONDS. —Star Staff Photo. three mountains—one gray (avodire), one purple . (amaranth) and one brown (walnut). The Indian kneels on green grass of chuglan wood, and beside him lies a dead goose—gray and white hare- ‘wood. “There's no doubt about it,” Sim- onds said. “That's the best one of the 20 I've done. I can look at it on my wall, and, by George, it almost moves.” ‘The inlay artist decides orr a paint- tice George E. Martin held that the | UTILITIES BODY 1S T0LD LAW OF 18%2 1S STILL IN" FORCE Conductor Could Not Serve as Driver in Days of Horse Carrier. KEECH TO CONSIDER DISMISSING PETITION Commissioner Says Properties of Merged Companies Are to Have New Valuation. A 44-year-old statute invoked dur- ing the horse-car days makes one-man street cars illegal, William McK. Clay- ton, chairman of the Public Utilities | Committee of the Federation of Citi- | zens’ Associations, claimed today in an unsuccessful attempt to halt the Public Utilities Commission’s hearing on a petition to extend the use of single operator cars in the District. After other attempts to end the hearing failed, Clayton pointed to a law passed in 1892, when horse cars were used, which he said is still in | force. The statute stipulates, he pointed out, that a conductor be placed in charge and that the con- ductor could not also serve as the | driver. | “The law was enacted b:fore the Public Utilities Commission was creatzd,” Clayton seid, “but it is still |a law. If it applied to onc-man cars | in the horse-car day, it certainly ape | plies now. “Law Being Violated.” “The operation of its 71 one-man | cars now is in violation of the law and any further extension of the use | of one-man cars will be against the law.” Clayton moved that the Capital 'rnnsit Co.’s petition be dismissed and Commissioner Richmond B. Keech | took the matter under advisement. | Earlier, with only Commissioner | Keech present, Clayton moved for | postponement of the hearing until the return of Chairman Riley E. Elgen and Engineer Commissioner Dan I. Sultan. He also moved to make the North American Co.. owners of the Capital Transit Co. a party to the hearing | and then asked that the case be post- | poned until the properties of the com- pany be valued by the commission. | All the motions were denied by Keech, but Clayton noted an excep- tion. In denying the first motions, Keech cited the public utilities act to show his authority for proceding with his two colleagues absent. Elgen is ill at his home and Sultan is absent from the city. Mere “Rubber Stamps.” | Clayton contended that since the North American Co. owns the local company and names its directors, | the Capital Transit officials are “mere- ly rubber stamp:" for the owners. “We would like to be advised,” he said, “not by this company, but by the parent company, whether it is their policy to continue and extend the use of one-man cars.” In demanding postponement until after a valuation is made, Clayton pointed out that the one-man opera= tion will affect the revenues of the company. “This naturally leads to a rate hear- ing, and if there is to be a rate hear. ing then we should wait on a valu- ation.” Keech declared that the properties of the old Washington Railway & Electric Co., the former Capital Trac- tion Co., and the Washington Rapid Transit Co., are now being valued and that a complete new valuation of the company formed by the 1933 merger soon will be made. “We expect to call a valuation hear- ing as soon as this work can be done,” Keech said. “Then I move to postpone this hear- ing until that is done,” Clayton asked. Keech denied the motion. Fitzgerald Defends System. ‘When he had finished, the company called Thomas Fitzgerald, vice presi- dent and general manager of the Pittsburgh Railways Co, as its first witness. “One-man cars saved our compa: from bankruptcy and receivership,” Fitzgerald said. He said the company had been cited for a national safety award in 1932, 1933 and 1934, thus disqualifying itself for further competition for two more years. Accidents generally have been greatly reduced, he said, as the num« ber of one-man cars have been in- creased. ‘Thompson also said that the Wash- ington cars he has inspected carry more safety devices that the Pitts- burgh cars, chiefly the dead-man con- trol and interlocking and treadle doors. The company has asked for the right to convert 20 new streamlined cars for one-man operation and ta use 20 other reconditioned cars recent= ly puxchlsed from Provldence R. L HILL GOES TO CANADA FOR PEACE EXERCISES Will Represent D. C. at Dedica. tion by Kiwanis of Plaque to Nation’s Good-Will. Edwin F. Hill, former president of the Washington Kiwanis Club and past international trustee of the or ganization, left Washington yesterday for Cornwall, Ontario, Canada, where he will represent the District Kiwanis Club tomorrow at the dedication of a peace plaque representing good-will between the United States and Can- ada. Dedicatory ceremonies have been arranged by the chapters of Washing- ton and Ottawa, Ontario, capitals of their two countries. About 10 other Kiwanis chapters from New York State and Canada will participate. ‘The plaque is one of several placed by the Kiwanis clubs on the 3,500~ mile border between the two countries. P