Evening Star Newspaper, September 24, 1936, Page 23

@The Foening Har GARNETTPLEDGES “UNLNTEY P N POLE PROBE Hails “Co-ordination” Plan. Brown Seeks Aid in Typist Death Case. U. S. ATTORNEY SEEKS ‘LOAN’ OF INVESTIGATOR ‘Would Have Trained Officer As- signed to Office—Cites Former Practice. An unlimited exchange of assistance Petween the United States attorneys office and the Police Department, in the interest of more effective law en- forcement in the District of Cclumbia, is assured by the response, made pub- lic today, of United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett to a “co-ordination™ proposal made by Maj. Eines: W. Brown, - police superintendent. Agreeing with Maj. Brown that as- signment of an assistant United States attorney to work with pol! n major investigations is desirable, and pcint- ing out that such aid has been given 1n the past, Garnett countered with a request that the police head essign a trained investigator to the United States attorney’s office. Brown said today he would accede to Garnett's request. At the same time he disclosed he | would ask Garnett for the immediate assignment of an assistant United States attorney to collaborat: with de- tectives investigating the murder of Mrs. Florence D. Goodwin, Sixteenth &treet rooming house keeper. To Write to Garoett. “I believe such a mutual exchamge of aid will be of great benefit in co- ordinating the work of the police and prosecutors,” Maj. Brown declared. He said he would write to Garnett today. Garnett’s letter, in part, follows: “I assure you that not only one assistant United States attorney, but as many assistants as may be neces- sary, will be available to the Police Department at all times in the investi- gation and development of evidence in homicide cases, just as they have been #0 available certainly since I have been United States attorney, and the record of the Police Department in solving Bbomicide cases, and of the Police De- partment and the United States at- torney’s office in presenting to the jury evidence in these cases is clear proof Shat the system has worked well. “As an example that this office has been ready at all times to assist the police in the investigation of all homi- cide cases, I need only recall to you the activity of the United States at- torney’s office in aiding in the investi- gation and solving of the Wilson mur- der case, although this murder oc- curred in Maryland. In this case I think Lieuts. Fowler and Truscott and Bergt. Hartman will agree that the assistance of an assistant United States attorney first uncovered and gave them the lead by which the mur- der was finally solved. “Not only did an assistant United States attorney accompany these offi- cers to New Jersey and Maryland, aid- ing and assisting them in the investi- gation, but when efforts on the part of these officers and the assistant United States attorneys had been unavailing in one important phase of the in- vestigation, the United States attorney accompanied these officers to Balti- more and accomplished the objects which officers felt were essential to the development of the case; and I feel I am justified in saying that I have been assured by the very competent officers who did such splendid work in solving this murder that the result could not have been accomplished but for our full co-operation. “This is but one of many cases in which assistant United States attor- neys have co-operated fully with the police in the investigation of homicide and other cases, anti we still stand ready to thus co-operate in all cases. “My reaction, therefore, to the sug- gestion that one assistant be assigned to investigate all homicide cases is that it circumscribes and iimits the essistance which can be<rendered by my assistants at any time that you may request. Tells of Previous Practice. “In this connection, however, I want to invite your attention to the fact that when Judge Gordon was United States Attorney there were assigned to his office for investigation purposes in homicide and other cases, two of the ace men of the police force, who afterwards rose to high rank in the Police Department, namely, Maj. Pratt and Insp. Grant. When Mr. Rover was United States Attorney there were assigned to this office Sergts. Hart- man and Britton for investigating purposes, and Sergt. Weber, who had been in the office for 30 years in charge of the grand jury room, and Pvt. Allan B. Baker. “When I was made United States Attorney Sergts. Hartman and Weber ‘were still assigned to this office, as ‘was Pvt. Baker. Since that time Sergt. Hartman has been transferred by you because of your assurance that you had insufficient force for other police work. Sergt. Weber has died, and only Pvt. Baker is now assigned to this of- fice. I have requested both you and Commissioner Hazen for the assign- ment of additional trained officers to do investigating work under the di- rection of this office, but thus far have been unable to persuade you to give us this necessary aid, although the number of prosecutions here has greatly increased during my term of office. “In the interest, therefore, of the proper investigation of all crimes in the District, I would again request that at least one trained investigator be assigned to this office of work un- der the direction of the United States Attorney and his assistants in ihe in- vestigation and development of evi- dence in all criminal cases.” Rows Around Isle of Wight. @G. L. Jaye and R. F. Austin, mem- ‘bers of a rowing club, rowed round the Isle of Wight, distange of 727 miles, in 10 hours and 43 minutes. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1936. 2 Civil War Nurses Meet Here; Each Thought Other Was Dead Mrs. Alice Risley Recalls Hair Turned W hite at Age of 16. BY FRANCES LIDE. Only slightly wilted by the festivi- ties of the seventieth encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic, two Civil War nurses—one & former slave— are ready for another. Mrs. Alice Carey Risley, 89, of Columbia, Mo., and Rosa G. Russell, 92, of Vicksburg, Miss.,%each thought she was the only surviving member of the Civil War Army Nurses’ Asso- eciation until several days ago, when they met in the lobby of the Mayflower Hotel—Mrs. Risley, the president of the association, and old Rosa, the white-haired one-time slave, who tried to run the Yankees out of ‘“‘Missy's” front yard before she went off with them to nurse the war wounded. “I was awfully glad to see Rosa,” Mrs. Risley declared. “We've met be- fore at these conventions. But we'd lost track of each other. There are several Civil War nurses still alive you know, but I believed I was the only one left in our organization.” As she spoke, Mrs. Risley rose from a small court of convention delegates, who wanted to shake hands with a Civil War nurse, to join Rosa in a pllgrimage to the memorial on Rhode Island avenue erected to sisters who gave their services as nurses on the battlefield and in hospitals of the Civil War. Here the two stood silently while Daughters of the Union Veterans of the Civil War placed a wreath. Hair Turned White at 16. “These meetings carry me back. I'm living my girlhood days overy again,” Mrs. Risley sighed. “You see this hair of mine. It turned white when I was 16, “My family was originally from Massachusetts,” she continued, “but we were in Louisiana at the outbreak of the war and for a long time we were behind Confederate lines. After Butler took New Orleans, though, we managed to escape through an under- ground tunnel, but going down the Mississippi, my mother and father were standing on the boat together and a bullet passed between them. Those were the days my hair turned. I've seen the war at its worst. But I like to think about it—because that | was when I was young.” Displays Hospital Pass. Mrs. Risley also proudly displayed the first hospital pass she ever received—back in '62—along with sev- eral soldiers’ passes also given to her. These are mementos she draws with shaking hands from her black pock- etbook for the visitors who are always | crowding around her. She likes to talk and to joke. She’ll tell her age to a woman, but when a man inquires she looks up archly. “A gentleman once asked me that and I asked him if he were @& widower,” she evades. - “Would you believe it,” she adds, “these photographers have had me kissing people I've never seen before. There was a gentleman the other day. I pever.found out who he was, either, but I kissed him right there before everybody.” “Yes,” says Mrs. Risley, “I always enjoy these conventions and hope I'll be able to attend another.” Rosa Russell says, “If the Lord spares me, I'll come, too.” Remembers Days as Slave. She remembers very well the days when she was a slave near Vicksburg. MRS. ALICE C. RISLEY. “The Yankees came in our front yard and I tried to shoo 'em out,” she recalled. “I told 'em Missy didn't ’low nobody there, but they came on anyway. They said we was free, and they took us off with them in wagons to help nurse the wounded. “I never did go back to Missy's. The house was burned, but I think the Confederates did it.” The two surviving members of the Army Nurses' Association have at- tended several of the meetings of the women’s organizations allied with the G. A. R. and already have received gifts from several of them. All of the organizations meeting in connection with the encampment were completing business today pre- paratory to adjourning sessions. Mrs. Frances Martin Kuhns, Pitts- burgh, past president of the Pennsyle vania Department, was elected presi- dent of the Ladies of the G. A. R. to- day, succeeding Mrs. Wynnye G. ‘Williamson. The Women's Relief Corps, which earlier had named Mrs. Ida Heacock Baker of Parsons, Kans, as presi- dent, late yesterday elected Marion Mandeville of Wisconsin senior vice president, Evelyn Kearsey of Mary- land junior vice president, Grace L. Johnson of Ohio treasurer, Mary Jane Roberts of Vermont chaplain. Elfie F. Carroll of North Dakota, Della Coleman of Illinois, Nellie Cappie of Wyoming, Anne Weaver of Texas and Kittle Robinson of Ohio were named to the Executive Board. Mrs. Love Receives Gift. Mrs. Mary J. Love, the retiring president, yesterday received a sub- stantial money gift from national senior aides in a colorful ceremony in which some 200 aides, each carrying a Japanese parasol, marched to the platform, bearing a parasol filled with bills. The Daughters of Union Veterans held “Ye Old Tyme Partye” last night in the Hall of Nations at the Wash- ington Hotel. 3 A 50th anniversary encampment celebration dinner, reception and dance was given at the Willard by the Auxiliary to the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War in honor of officials of the Sons. The National Daughters of the Grand Army of the Republic, an in- dependent organization in its twenty- ninth annual encampment, visited Arlington Cemetery and Mount Vernon in the afternoon, and were to con- tinue business sessions today. Officers will be elected tomorrow. MILK INJUNGTION PLEA IS PLANNED Petition Will Be Filed in D.C. Court by Frederick Coun- ty, Md., Farmers. District Court will be asked within a few days to enjoin Secretary Wal- lace from enforcing the milk market- ing agreement for the Washington area, Louis I. Obergh, counsel for a number of “dirt farmers” in Fred- erick County, Md., said today. Obergh’s suit on behalf of the pro- ducers will be complemented by a suit filed by Sefton Darr, counsel for Pairfax Farms Deiry, an independent distributor, which registered objection to the agreement when it was pro- posed. ‘Waits for More Signatures. “My case is just about ready,” Obergh declared. “I will probably go to court with it Monday. I am just waiting until I have a few more sig- natures of producers on the injunction petitien.” . Obergh was retained by C. V. Dye, Frederick County marketing agent for Highland Farms Dairy, but he made it clear he in no way represents the dairy. Darr is Obergh’s partner, but the two are working separately on the suits. Meanwhile, members of the Con- sumers’ Council, which has threatened to appeal to Congress for an investi- gation of the events leading up to the issuance of the marketing agreement, planned a conference with Community Chest officials concerning 8-cent milk | el for the agencies supported by the Chest, It has been suggested that the Chest save money on its budget by forming contracts with individual farmers to purchase the whole output of each, and then act as its own distributor of the 8-cent milk. Pasture Condition Poor. ‘While the Consumers’ Council con- tinued to assall the producers’ pro- posal of an increase in producer price of feed and pasturage. “Total milk production on Septem- TRAFFE EATH REACH 6 HERE Colored Boy, 8, Is Latest Victim—Eight Other Per- sons Injured. The sixty-first death from traffic mishaps in 1936 occurred yesterday when an 8-year-old colored boy was crushed by g towed truck as he dashed across the 3 the street in 4 front of his home on & scooter. The victim, Frank Gill, 617 Virginia avenue southeast, died in Providence Hospital an hour after he was run down in signt of his mother. Eight other per- sons, including four children, were hurt in Betty L. Randall. crashes during the last 24 hours. The most seriously injured was Betty Lou Randall, 6, of 623 M street, who, police said, rag from between parked cars into the side of a ma- chine driven by Carl C. Logan, 38, colored, 2520 F street. At Emer- gency Hospital it was said the girl may have a fractured skull and in- One of the vehicles, operated Charles E. Gilroy, 33, of 411 Twelfth street southeast, was towing the other, driven by William C. Duley, jr., 33, of 1618 Potomac avenue southeast. The truck operated by Duley Both drivers g CARRIER REQUESTS |.C.C. PERMISSION T0 ENTER DISTRICT Arlington & Fairfax Line Hits Board Findings in Sharp Brief. HOLDS NEED OF SERVICE NOT FULLY CONSIDERED Present Transfer Facilities at Rosslyn Held Hazardous and Inconvenient. In a sharply worded brief, the Ar- lington & Fairfax Raillway Co. today asked the Interstate Commerce Com- mission to overrule the findings of a joint board which has recommended denial of the carrier's petition for a certificate of public convenience to transport passengers and mail be- tween Rosslyn, Va, and dowatown ‘Washington. Filed at the commission, the brief, in a detailed discussion of the joint board report, says: “A-careful study of the report will confirm the impression which it gives upon first reading—that every con- sideration seems to have been given to find reasons why the application should be denied, and that no thought has been directed to find or admit and reason why the convenience and necessity of the public traveling by the applicant’s line should be con- sidered, whether under existing condi- tions or under those anticipated at the time of the hearing.” District Opposed Plan. ‘The report of the board was based principally on the premise that there already is adequate transportation service between Rosslyn and the Dis- trict, and that, to a large extent, the service of the applicant in Virginia is duplicated or paralleled by other car- riers. The District opposed the plan, holding it would increase traffic con- gestina, “New means are now for the first time available to applicant in this proceeding to furnish to the public, by use of auto-railers, through trans- portation between the State of Vir- ginia and the District of Columbia and to render the service to which the public is entitled, since it is avail- able and is within the means of the applicant reasonable to render,” the line contends. “Furthermore, under existing con- ditions passengers of the applicant ar- riving at Rosslyn, either coming to or going from the District of Columbia, are required to transfer to or from a street car line by traversing a dis- tance from 150 to 300 feet and cross- ing, day and night,, an unguarded thoroughfare, narrow and c 3 where the conditions of traffic are al- ways - hazardous. These passengers include large numbers of school chil- dren as well as persons with physical infirmities. The record shows that even under present conditions the number involved per day to and from Rosslyn by applicant’s lines is more helter Not Provided. “In addition, passengers to and fiom the District of Columbia must either walk across Key Bridge or transfer from or to the cars of the Capital Transit Co., without, in either case, any shelter or protection what- ever from inclemencies of weather, added to the dangerous conditions ad- verted to above.” s pensary at the department suffering from injuries to his arm and leg. ‘The car was driven by Mrs. Faye Crawford, 40, of 1882 Columbia road, according to park “police. Struck Near Police Court. In another mishap, Charles Mar- tin, 39, of 410 Sixth street, received a broken leg and other injuries when struck neas Police Court by a car operated by Leonard Hawks, 63, of 5430 Fourth street. Martin was taken to Emergency Hospital. Hawks was charged with reckless driving. Other victims included Robert PARKS OFFIGAILS WILL WEIGH PLAN T0 FILL CHANNEL Work Proposal Between Air- port and Memorial High- way to Be Discussed. TRIP OF INSPECTION SET THIS AFTERNOON Site of Proposed Flood Control Levee and Leiter Estate to Be Visited. Filling of Boundary Channel, be- tween Washington Airport and the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway at Columbia Island, will be considered by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission during a two- day session opening today. The proposal to fill the channel, made to the commission by Samuel J. Solomon, manager of the airport, was first advanced several years ago by the joint Congressional Airport Commission, headed by former Senator Bingham of Connecticut, as & means of adding to the area of the airport. Previously, the commission has voted against such a program, contending that Boundary Channel should be preserved for its scenic beauty and also to keep airplanes from encroach- ing too closely on traffic along the highway. Size to Be Reduced. ‘The areas of a number of proposed parks, playgrounds and recreation centers, the ground for which is still in private ownership, will have to be materially reduced, because since the 1930 program was laid out improve- ments have been made which remder purchase cost prohibitive, the com- mission decided. The exact location of these areas was not disclosed, but Thomas S. Settle, the commissions secretary, said no projects would pe eliminated, but only cut down in size. ‘This afternoon was set aside by the commission for an inspection trip of the proposed flood control dike in the line of Independence avenue, and also the one in Anacostia Park to protect the Naval Air Station and Bolling Field. The commission is also in- specting improvement work done in the last few weeks by the Civilian Con- servation Corps on the 170-acre tract acquired by the Government from the Leiter estate, on the banks of the Potomac in Virginia, opposite Glen Echo, Md. ‘The United States engineers’ office has made plans for raising the ex- tension of Independence avenue 19 feet above average low water, as flood protection for the Government build- ings in the Potomac Park area and the Mall. Settle explained that the Government has authority to construct the dike, but Congress has not yet ap- propriated funds. Other Proposals. Also, on the commission’s program are proposals to preserve the boundary stones of the original District of Co- lumbia in Virginia, the development of parkway roads to aid the traffic situation here, a new highway through the National Zoological Park, the proposed staggering of school and Government work hours to ease the congested traffic situation, the Treas- ury Department's plan for under- ground parking in the Great Plaza, east of the Key Bridge, and the exact location of the Lee boulevard across the northwest corner of Fort Myer, Va., to be hooked up with the Arling- ton Memorial Bridge. B TROYANOVSKY BETTER Soviet Amgbassador t; Leave Hos- pital in Two or Three Days. Soviet Ambassador Alexander Troya- novsky spent “a very good might” at Emergency Hospital, where he went two days ago for observation, it was reported today. He is suffering from a digestive trouble. In view of his condition, he is ex- Lumpkin, 11, colored, 923 Fourth street, who suffered a slight ankle injury when knocked down near his home; Nettie Taylor, 35, of 148 Hick- man street southeast, who was treated for bruises; James Tribble, 10, col- ored, 5517 Hayes street northeast, who was cut about the face and ackle, and Arthur Bartan, 4, colored, 5 Won- ders court southwest, who received head injuries. Missing EX-SENATOR'S KIN ING SOUGHT. IS BE- MISS CLARA BRISTOW, 18, granddaughter of Joseph Little Bristow, former Sena- tor from Kansas, who been missing from her home at 635 F street southwest since Tuesday. The girl, who attended Cen- tral High School last year, told relatives in a letter yes- terday she was “tired of school” and was going “to get a job.” The M« was post- marked in Washington Ttes- day night, ” pected to return to the Soviet Embassy within two or three days. L2 L Steve Carries on Eschewing White House Gates. Business' as Usual, Steve Vasilakos, back at his stand near the White House, selling peanuts to Miss Virginia Coulter, 1801 K street. —Star S2»ff Photo. HE stand at which he has done business for 27 years—East Ex- ecutive avenue at Pennsylvania avenue—is still good enough for Steve Vasilakos, despite an invi- tation from Mrs. Roosevelt to park his peanut and popcorn wagon at the ‘White House gates. Steve smiled broadly, while busi- ness boomed and cameras clicked a happy ending this morning to his latest brush with the law. Everybody who knows Steve—espe- cially sight-seeing guides who fre- quent the White House area—expected to find him in new quarters by the gates. . It was not a matter of down Mrs. Roosevelt’s offer. Steve just felt she had been too good to him, and he would be in the way at the gates. The latest chapter in Steve's his- tory ended after Mrs. Roosevelt, for the second time since she has been in the White House, interceded with the metropolitan police in his behalf. Last week the police decided Steve's wagon was a traffic hazard and or- dered him to move it. Then park police chased him off the sidewalk. Saturday the metropolitan police ar- rested him. Yesterday his case was continued in Police Court until Sep- tember 30. The charge was stopping in one place more than 30 minutes to make a sale. “I thanka her verra much—I thanka her a thousand times, she has such & kinda heart,” Steve explained. “But I lika the old stand. At the gates— there the people go in. I no stand there. I stay hese as long as I can. The gates—they are too good. I | shouldn’t be there.” Mrs. Roosevelt, in a letter to Com- missioner Allen, said: “I would my- self miss him on that corner. We had better let him stand at the White House gates.” Late yesterday, Steve sold his prod- ucts across the street on Pennsylvania avenue. “I do nothing wrong,” he said. “Justa sell peanuts.” Today, pushcart and all, he was back ‘at the old spot, swinging a basket of popping pop corn over a gas burner. . “Steve will be in the movies before long,” shouted a sightseeing guide. “Haven't you heard?” asked another. “They’re going to make Steve premier of Greece one of these days.” Steve’s recent publicity paved the way for a radio audition. Tonight, Lee Everett of Station WRC will take a microphone to the corner and inter- view Steve at 10:15 o'clock. WASTE OF LAND HT BY MAVERCK Texan Says “Real” Plan Would Employ 3,000,000 Citizens. Representative Maverick of Texas warned today of the consequences of exploitation of natural resources and of inattention to water and soil waste. Addressing young men meeting in conjunction with the Up-stream En- gineering Conference, he said, “prob- ably no nation or people have been so wasteful and negligent of its resources in so short a period of time,” as has the United States. “Other civilizations have disap- peared for making similar mistakes,” . “We can easily do the same— let us halt our wild course before it is too late.” The penalty for continued reckless- ness in the use of land, timber and streams will be “a miserably low standard of living, with large deserts over the face of the continent,” Maverick cautioned. 1t is more pleasant and more profit- able, the Texas liberal said, to devote attention to soil conservation than to “the nervous pursuit of hunting imaginary Bolsheviks.” Maverick said a “real” plan of con- servation would involve the employ- ment of 3,000,000 citizens of all types. “We must always demand,” he con- tinued, “that in this country the democratic processes be maintained because patience and hard work are the only measures that will bring us out of this depression. We are not out of the depression yet, and we can- not get out of it by repeating slogans, by using words or by having foolish visionary ideas like printing a lot of money in a Townsend plan.” The conference represented an ex- tension of the meeting of up-stream engineers yesterday and Tuesday. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, just returned from a Hyde Park visit with President Roosevelt, opened the conference by characterizing it as “a proof that the conservation movement in the United States has achieved ma- turity.” “Streams can be made a beauty to behold,” he said, “thoroughly useful, rich in power and rich in wild life. ‘The job requires not only the applica- tion of science and engineering, but an animation of righteous conviction.” Jailed for Illegal Driving. For driving an automobile 6 feet without permission, Pvt. Peter Groves was sent to jail in Aldershot, England, for three months with hard labor. Construction of traffic is- lands at the intersection of the Defense Highway and the Washington-Baltimore Boule- vard was suggested by the Keystone Automobile Club at a conference with 'Nathan Smith, engineer of the State Roads Commission, in Balti- more yesterday. The shaded portions show the changes, in- cluding partial widening of the intersecting roads. The project would cost an esti- mated $8,665. Plans to construct divisional and channelizing traffic islands at the Bladensburg, Md., Peace Cross, & roj- ect to cost an estimated $8,665, were presented to the Maryland State Roads Commission in Baltimore yesterday by the Keystone Automobile Club as an emergency measure to reduce hazards and automobile jams at that inter- section of the Defense Highway and the Wi -Baltimore Boulevard. Actual financial outlay by the State would be about $7,120. The balance of some $1,545 would be spent by the town of Bladensburg for installation of six signal lights at lhezbnecuon. more Roulevard (Bladensburg- road) to split the traffic flow and expedite | ensburg movement of automobiles in one-way directions. Traffic would be one-way on the two Defense Highway sides of the cross. All movement would be directed by lights:- There are now no signals at the intersection. ‘The plan was prepared as an emer- x $gency, low-cost provision, to reduce traffic jams at the intersection oc- curring when the Defense Highway flow must merge with the boulevard line. George Keneipp, manager of Keystone’s Washington office, said that the Washington-Annapolis road should be widened at least over the mile stretch from the cross to the town limits at the Cheverly cut-off. Need 60-Foot Right of Way. to send board engineers for & study of right of way needs over that sector, Smith urged Osterman to obtain land dedication from abut- ting property owners. The State of- ficial stressed the nmeed of a 60-foot right of way to widen the 20-foot De- fense Highway into a four-lane road. Possibilities of such dedication change, foot strip could probably be obtained. This right of way would extend 5 feet from the west side of the pave- ment, 15 feet from the other. . A ad OF ONE-MAN CARS SEEN BY ROBERTS Bases Fears on Utility Com- mission Statement Grant- ing Increase. ISSUES STATEMENT FROM HOSPITAL BED Company Permitted to Convert 20 New Cars and Acquire 20 Second-Hand Units. Action by the Public Utilities Com- mission permitting the Capital Transit Co. to convert its 20 new streamlined cars to one-man operation and to buy a like number of second-hand cars to replace old single-operator units, means the commission has adopted a policy of allowing unlimited expansion of its one-man service, People’s Coun- sel William A. Roberts declared today. Protest against the commission's de- cislon, announced late yesterday, was issued by Roberts from Georgetown Hospital, where he is recuperating from an appendicitis operation. He said he would consider a court ap- peal, but his action would be deter=- mined largely by the attitude of civic organizations. Cites Basis for Fears. Roberts’ fears of unlimited expan- sion of one-man car operations were based on a section of the commis- slon’s order, which reads: “The§ commission believes that, under existing conditions, any addi- tion to the aggregate number of one- | man street cars should be attained | through addition of cars of the most modern type, capable of attaining speed at least comparable to the aver- age speed of two-man equipment, and giving adequate, safe and comfortable | service.” Roberts said: “The commission apparently has adopted a policy of allowing unlimited extension of one-man cars. The sole consolation is that additional one- man cars must be of the new high- speed, stream-lined type, but, in the absence of an order requiring imme- there is no sign there will be any re- sult but a reduction in service to the public.” Roberts also said he protested, when the new streamlined cars were | bovght about a year ago, that they | would be used eventually in one-man service, although the commission had specified their design for two!man service. The cars are so designed they can be used either way. New Service in 10 Days. Officials of the company said the new streamlined cars probably would be turned into one-man service in about 10 days, and that trained one- man operators would be selected for their operation. ‘The company said it had not yet determined if it would buy 20 second- hands cars from Providence, R. I, to replace the oldest one-man cars now in service. The company had sought to buy these cars for addi- tional one-man operation, but that part of the petition was denied. The company now has 71 one- | man cars, and with the conversion i“ the stream-lined units, the maxi- | mum number will be 91. Meanwhile, another protest over the commission’s decision came from Sidney Katz, chairman of the Civic Affairs Committee of W. P. A. Lodge No. 139, American Federation of Goy- ernment Employes, who declared the added work and responsibilty placed on a single operator of a street car was not in accord with proper so- cial objectives. Opposition Is Voiced. Expansion of one-man car service was opposed by spokesmen for the Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations, other civic groups, by organized labor or- ganizations and others at public hear- ings before the commission several months ago. Protests by Roberts and William McK. Clayton, chairman of the Public Utilities Committee of the Federation of Citizens’ Association, both were overruled by the com- mission. Clayton had argued that an act of Congress of 1892 held that only two-man cars could be operated on the system, then consisting of horse cars. The tommission held that ap- plied to horse cars, but not the type of equipment used today. In justification of its decision on ::fd merits of the case the commission “Testimony appertaining to the ex- perience of transit companies in other cities indicates generally that for spged, safety and comfort, one-man cars and one-man operation are substantially equal to two-man cars and two-man operation, Held Equally Safe. “The experience of the Capital Tran- sit Co. in the District shows that one-man operated cars are at least as safe as two-man operated cars; that the comfort features of the two types are equal; and that, taking each of the two types of cars as & whole, the difference in speed is approximately one mile per hour in favor of twoe man cars. Cars of the President’s conference type, operated by one man, would offset that difference.” o i Ll WATCHMAN’S MURDER NO NEARER SOLUTION Arlington County police today were no nearer solution of the murder of Marion J. Riley than when the body of the 55-year-old Collifiower coal Mher ‘uwhnun was found Septem= The latest suspect, a colored man under arrest at Jessups, Md., was questioned yesterday by Detective Harry Woodward. No useful information was obtained, Woodward said. The colored man was transferred to the Baltimore City jail, however, and may be questioned again. 5 Police would not reveal how he is suspected of being connected with the case, although the man is understood to have formerly lived near the Vire ginia coal yard. diate purchase of this type equipment, *