Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1936, Page 4

ARDUSED CITIZENS DEMANDING ROAD Mass Meeting Called to Campaign for Widening of Georgetown Road. By & Btar Correspondent o: The Star. ALTA VISTA, Md., December 9.— Aroused citizens from the communi- ties along Old Georgetown road will meet en masse within the next few days to lay plans for a vigorous cam- palgn in behalf of widening and re- surfacing the narrow, hazardous highway. Hundreds of residents from Alta Vista, Bethesda, Battery Park, Wood- mont,. Northwest Park, Huntington Terrace, Sonoma and Oak Place are to attend and voice their demands for immediate improvement of the highly dangerous thoroughfare. Meanwhile scores of petitions de- ploring the condition of the road and appealing to State officials to act at once to correct them made their appearance in those areas and are being signed by citizens who have become incensed over the deaths of two motorists on Sunday. Branded “Paved Cow Trail.” Arrangements for the mass meeting were begun today following a special session of the Old Georgetown Road Oitizens’ Association last night, at which the road was branded a “paved cow trail” and held to be too narrow to accommodate the traffic it bears. The association, inactive for more than a year, but which flamed anew and clamored for official acticn following the tragic auto-bus crash last week end, di- rected President Lendall A. Conner to appoint a committee to handle plans for the meeting. Conner named Ford Young, sr.; Robert O. Beckham, John Dickinson, ‘Walter Young, Kenneth Petrie, G. Wady Imirie, E. Gordon Pearce and himself to serve, and a conference was called at 8 o'clock tonight at Ford Young's home to begin work. Called Too Narrow. John A. Dickinson, one of the found- ers of the Alta Vista Community League, out of which the Old George- town Road Citizens' Association grew two years ago, declared the thorough- fare is too narrow to accommodate busses and other vehicular traffic at the same time and asserted “some- thing must be done about it at once.” He moved a mass meeting be called, and his motion passed unanimously | without discussion after being amend- ed to intrust the arrangements for the session to a committee named by the president. Samuel E. Stonebraker of the Bethesda Chamber of Commerce, au- thor of the original resolution appeal- ing for improvement of the road, ap- beared at the session and pledged the co-operation of his organization in any steps taken by the local asso- elation in behalf of the road widen- ing and resurfacing. Ever-Present Danger. He said the need for such improve- ments and the ever-present danger of fatalities such as those which oc- curred on Sunday was impressed upon Btate and county officials when the Chamber of Commerce adopted his resolution last January, “They replied merely that no funds were available and there the matter has rested,” he stated. Stonebraker explained the chamber also adopted another resolution call- ing for the construction of a new road over the right of way of the old Capital Transit Co. electric rail- way from Alta Vista to Halpine, which would further relieve Old Georgetown road of congestion. “That, too, will be taken up in time and we'll push that through to & successful conclusion,” he predicted. Stirred by Tragedy. The meeting last night was held at the home of Ford Young, sr., where preliminary discussions for organi- eation of the Bethesda fire department and many other successful civic move- ments began. President Conner opened the meet- ing by explaining interest in the ssseciation has been allowed to lapse during the past year, but added that citizens of the community, stirred by Sunday's ceaths, had called him and demanded it be revitalized imme- diately to press for improvements to the highway. Filled With “Bumps.” He said the road is approximately 14 feet in width and filled with “mubps” and dangerous curves, and residents of Alta Vista and the other communities have long deplored such hazardous conditions. The association adopted a resolution requesting the State Roads Commis- slon to remove a dangerous culvert 8L Maple avenue and Old Georgetown Topd, and another directing a com- | ttee be named to investigate the pssibility of constructing a macadam or cinder walkway along the thor- oughfare from Battery Park to Alta Vita as a protection for pedestrians. At was alse decided to confer with the Montgomery County Commission- er§ and ask that action be taken to w‘ that lights be displayed on cles at night. It was pointed out laek of such a law, or the lack of en- fofcement, if such a law exists, has ted in many near-accidents. -Walter Young was elected vice ‘plesident of the association to fill a cancy on the official staff caused resignation. FEARING EVICTION, “WOMAN KILLS SELF Uable to Meet Debt to Distriet = Landlord, She Inhales Illu- ' 4 minating Gas. ing eviction from her two-room f§t for non-payment of rent, Mrs. Marie White, 42, ended her life rday by inhaling illuminating gas ifther kitchen at 616 A street southeast. 1 have stood a lot,” Mrs. White, wife of Arthur White, an aytomobile n, wrote in s farewell note. “But when it comes to being evicted— ofid not well, besides—it is the last which has been | | ment, taxation, INDUSTRIAL GROUP EETS TOMORROW 1,500 Expected at Session to Discuss Capital and Labor Problems. Planning to tackle virtually every problem pertaining to capital, labor and industry, some 1,500 leaders in | those three fields are scheduled to | meet here tomorrow for the two-day session of the Council for Industrial Progress. From their deliberations are ex- pected to emerge the outlines of a legislative program dealing with such vital industrial issues as unemploy- fair trade practices and working conditions of labor. To weld these diversified problems into some concrete legislative form a spe- cial committee wiil be named as cne of the last orders of business of the council sessions. “We will arrive at a constructive program in these meetings,” Maj. George L. Berry, Federal co-ordinator for industrial co-operation, said today, “and we will offer that program in good faith to those who must take the next step toward making it effective.” Initial reports made by seven com- mittees last March will be a basis for discussions of the council, with two new groups to offer proposals dealing with unemployment and taxation. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Mon- tana, and Representative Rayburn, Democrat, of Texas, chairmen of House and Senate Committees on In- speak at the morning session tomor- row. Representatives of the Labor and Justice Departments and the Federal Trade Commission also have been in- vited. In the afternoon, John G. Paine, chairman of the management group of the council, and William Green, chairman of the labor group, will speak, and delegates also will be allowed the privilege of speaking from the floor. On Friday, members of the council will go into executive session to consid- er the committee reports and perform the real work of the meeting. Although no session originally was planned for Saturday, the council is prepared to hold sn extra morning meeting if enough members desire it. A conflict of dates which will prevent some representatives of industry arriv- ing for the Thursday session may cause this extension. Spain (Continued From First Page.) the insurgent supply base at Campa- mento de Retamares. Scarcely had the 15 Socialist bomb- ers settled down at Barajas Airport when 23 insurgent planes appeared out of the clouds and loosed tons of explosives, in retaliation, on the airport and the government positions along the Manzanares River. alist batterles blazed away at the Fascist lines throughout the early morning. Puzsled by Strategy. Government commanders, an su- thoritative source said, frankly were puzzled at Gen. Francisco Franco's insurgent strategy in failing to launch the long-expected attack on Madrid. Worried lest a trap were being baited for them, the Socialist officers ordered the continual bombardment to forestall any insurgent maneuver. All militia leaves were canceled, and soldiers were ordered to report im- mediately to their commands. THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON D. C. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 8, 1036, - SHIFTS ARE MAD INMARINE CORPS terstate Commerce, are scheduled to | Maj. Gen. Breckinridge to Command Barracks at Quantico. Ma). Gen. James C. Breckinridge, now commanding the headquarters of the Department of the Pacific, at San Francisco, will be the new command- ing general of Marine Barracks, Quan- tico, Va, effective next June, Secre- tary Swanson announced today. A shift in high-ranking Marine Corps officers will be made with the approval of Maj. Gen. Thomas Hol- comb, new commandant. Maj. Gen. Louis McCarthy Little, who has been assistant commandant at the Marine Corps base at San Diego, Calif., will become commanding general there of the Fleet Marine Force. No succes- sor to Little in Washington has yet been announced. Maj. Gen. Charles H. Lyman, com- manding at Quantico, will become the new commanding general in the De- partment of the Pacific. He served with the District of Columbia National %lllfll during the Spanish-American ar. Brig. Gen. Frederic L. Bradman will become commanding general of the Marine Barracks, Parris Island, S. C. Brig. Gen. Richard P. Williams, now in charge of Marine Corps Reserves at headquarters, will command the 1st Brigade of the Fleet Marine Force at_Quantico. Brig. Gen. James T. Buttrick will become commandant of Marine Corps schools at Quantico. He has been commanding at Parris Island and will take the post vacated by Holcomb when he was appointed commandant on December 1. Brig. Gen. John C. Beaumont, who has been on duty at Marine Corps headquarters here, will command the 2d Brigade of the Fleet Marine Force at 8an Diego. He now commands the 4th Regiment of Marines at Shanghai, Brig. Gen. James J. Meade, who commands the 1st Brigade of the e Force at Quantico, will Navy War College at New- port, R. I Secretary Swanson said that these changes of the Marine Corps will take place next June. Building Collapse Kills 40. LISBON, Portugal, December 9 (#). were killed and more of & school buliding collapsed on a crowded Catholic society meeting at Leiria last night. it orders of Gen. Franco that i ‘téig A l?'igg [ = & Bladders of Fish To Adorn Easter Bonnet of Milady French Designer Intro- duces Newest Fad Before Departure. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. December 9 —Hats off today to the enterprising little woman who decided to use fish to trim milady’s 1937 Easter bonnet. Scores of little bright globules | adorned the black silk straw hat which | Mme. Simone George, Paris milliner, showed Manhattan before departing i for her native France. | Asked what they were, she replied, with the staggering practicality which the French often show, “fish bladders, bought in the fish market!” Dyed black. she said, the fish blad- ders look “brilliant” as hat decoration. The tiny fish globules are full of air, and can be deflated at will, like a balloon. “Hats will be extravagant next Spring,” announced Mme. George. Thereby falling in line with other Paris designers who have said on re- cent visits to New York that “the seven years of hard times are over.” “The decorations on hats will be higher than ever. I have designed one hat with a l4-inch coq feather,” she said. (The coq feather, be it known to all who are not familiar with this term, is often the tail of the farm- yard rooster.) GILLIS SHOWS ANGER NEWBURYPORT, Mass., December 9, (#).—Mayor Andrew J. (Bossy) Gil= lis stormed into City Hall here yester- day and ripped two telephones out of the wall when he learned J. M. ‘Toomey, janitor in the New England Telephone Co. Building, had been elected to the City Council. Gillis had actively opposed Too- mey's campaign for councilor. The mayor went so far as to declare he would rip out all the telephones un- less the telephone company removed Toomiey from the council at once. The elections of councilors yester- day handed the mayor a set-back, as only one candidate of the five he had backed, Herbert W. Simmons, won 8 seat in the council. EDUCATIONAL. STENOTYPY The Machine-Way in Shorthand 150 te 250 Words Per Minute Come in for free demonstration and details about training or phome or write for information. 'l.'.I"IE STENOTYPE COMPANY Alvee Bids. __ Phone NAtions! 8320 po—) GIFTS FOR YOU ] FROM BERLITZ > N our 1937 course of - oo Jole’ Sen: BERLITZ 5% A “blind” curve in Old Georgetown road, which Montgomery County citizens are seeking to have widened and resurfaced, is seen in the photograph at the left above, while the narrow width of the dangerous thoroughfare can be clearly seen in the picture at the right. Below is shown congestion of traffic at the point where Old Georgetown road, Edgemoor lane, Wisconsin avenue and the East-West Highway intersect. —Star Staff Photos. Relief (Continued From First Page.) get back, although we are getting to the point where we are scraping the bucket and will run out of money soon after the first of the year.” A deficiency appreoriation bill is be- lieved scheduled for presentation to Congress early in the coming session, with funds for the W. P. A. being & major consideration. Meanwhile, the administrator did confirm the transfer of 250,000 drought | relief workers from the W. P. A. to the | Resettlement Administration and ad- mitted that close check is being made of the general W. P. A. rolls, with a view to cutting off some non-relief and administrative workers and others who have developed other sources of income. Rolls Are Reduced. On November 28, Hopkins said, there were 2,478,042 persons on W. P. A. projects, a decrease of 104,510 from CORRE The new round the high point of November 7. Even with the decrease, however, this latest figure is above that of last July. Senator McCarran also expressed the view today that the Government should center its relief program on unemployables, by cutting down the | volume of work projects as private industry becomes better able to take on the employables. In urging a change in relief pro- cedure, McCarran said he believed there has been some extravagance in the past, but added: “l do not say this in & critical sense, because it was almost inevitable in view of the speedy action required to extend relief to the needy during the emergency period of the depres- sion.” The Nevadan suggested that if Fed- eral relief were administered by county authorities the Federal Gov- ernment could require reports to be| submitted to relief headquarters through appropriate departments of the State governments. The question of what form new re- lief legislation should take is one of the main topics in the minds of mem- bers of Congress returning to the Capital for the approaching session. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Okla- homa, for instance, made known his belief recently that some permanent plan should be devised under which public works could be planned in ad- vance and carried on as unemploy- ment conditions from time to time re- quire. Senator Adams, Democrat, of Colo- rado, who has just returned from the West, said that he still favors basing the amount of relief work on the needs of the individuals in each case. An unskilled laborer with a large family, he said, should be given the oppor- | tunity to earn more than a skilled | worker with only one or two de- pendents. He said he is willing to | have prevailing wage scales adhered to, but pointed out more days of work could be given to the man with the larger number of dependents. The effects of the new corporation tax on undistributed surpluses is an- other subject to which Senator Adams is giving serious consideration. He | said that, while this new feature of | the revenue act of last June is do- | ing some good by causing companies to distribute these funds to stock- holders, he believes it will have a tendency to retard expansion of in- dustries by adding to plant equipment. The Colorado Senator tried to have amendments adopted when the bill was being drafted to exempt these funds from the tax if used to pay debts or purchase machinery. CTION! LADIES’ model for ladies, with yellow gold top. Fitted with cord bracel NO INTEREST OR CARRYING CHARGES Yesterday's Star carried this watch description with an illustration thet was incorrect. watch is the correct model Elgin as described here. This TURMOIL FORECAST IN NEW GONGRESS Farm Refinancing and 30-| Hour Work Bills Among Those Opposed. B the Associated Press. An abundance of opportunities for conflict and turmoil in the forthcom- ing session of Congress was foreseen today by some members who have been surveying legislative prospects. ‘They pointed to such far-reaching measures as the Frazier-Lemke bill to refinance farm indebtedness with $3,000,000,000 new money, the Black- Connery 30-hour work week bill, and s bill to divorce manufacturing and retailing contemplated by Repre- sentative Patman, Democrat, of Texas. ‘There also is much talk of amending the Constitution to give Congress spe- cific power to enact legislation of & social character. The question of a new appropriation for relief appeared likely to be an early trouble maker. Some House and Sen- ate members believe it should be held | to a minimum; others want a sizeable sum. Representative Dunn, Democrat, of Pennsylvania, may put in another $10,000,000,000 work-relief bill. On the outside, divergent views have been brought forward by such organi- zations as the Chamber of Commerce of the United States and the American Federation of Labor. ‘Would End Work Aid Gradually. ‘The Chamber of Commerce has fore- east that widespread absorption of job- less in private industry would result from continued recovery and has de- manded that Federal work-relief be MARINE STRIKERS - T0 VOTE ON PLAN Settlement Nearer Than at Any Time Since Tie-Up, With Meeting Today. By the Assoclated Press. SBAN FRANCISCO, December 9.— Partial settlement of the 41-dsy Pa- cific Coast maritime strike was closer today than at any time since the tie-up began as both sides watched for possible public reaction to an un- precedented discussion of the dispute last night. The Masters, Mates and Pilots of America called a meeting to vote on settlement proposals offered by the coastwise shippers who operate more than 70 of the 226 strike-bound coast vessels and carry 10 per cent of cargo tonnage. ‘The coastal operators have reached tentative agreements with all unions but the Licensed Deck Officers and the Radio Telegraphists. Federal Con« ciliator E. P. Marsh said agreement with radiomen had been reached on all points except wages. There still was no sign of agree- ment between the unions and offshore operators Hiring Control Deadlock. Unions and offshore shippers, ear- | riers of about 65 per cent of the | coast’s marine commerce, are dead- locked over control of hiring. Unions | demand control and employers insist it be placed in neutral hands, at least. A crowd officials estimated at 15.000 overflowed the Civic Auditorium last night as spokesmen for both union and employers expressed desire for early settlement. terminated by “gradual steps.” ‘The labor federation’s executive council has suggested another work relief appropriation immediately after Congress meets. The federation also indorsed the 30-hour week bill with- out qualification. Among the measures listed by the chamber as likely to receive attention in the approaching session—any of which might be loaded with dynamite to shatter a tranquil Congress—were crop insurance, farm tenancy, low- cost housing, aid for consumer co-op- eratives, food and drug regulation, and extension of the holding company act. Congress also appears certain to tackle neutrality, modification of the Tennessee Valley Authority act, and legislation to continue the Treasury's stabilization fund and the President’s authority to revalue the dollar. Revision of the tax designed to en- courage distribution of corporation profits is being considered in some quarters on Capitol Hill, with a view to providing special treatment for firms desiring to build up reserves for plant expansion or to pay indebted- ness. Attacked on Principle. ‘The chamber’s Finance Committee, however, has attacked the entire tax 1 as wrong in principle. The labor federation is backing the O'Mahoney bill to compel all corpo- rations doing interstate business to obtain Federal licenses and conform | to Government fixed wage and hour | standards. It is seeking drastic changes in the social security act to provide greater benefits for .more workers. Senator Frazier and Representative Lemke, North Dakota Republicans, have said their farm debt refinancing bill would be reintroduced. It would authorize the printing of $3,000,000.- 000 in currency, and farmers would be allowed to pay off their obligations at a rate of 1 or 1!, per cent principal | and interest annually. Patman, co-author of the Robin- son-Patman act, which seeks to pre- vent big buyers obtaining advantage over small ones, through certain price | concessions, is sounding out sentiment |for a supplementary measure which ihe said is sure to be called “revolu- | 1319-21 F Manhattan Shirts Stetso For they are the kind of ties that he'd choose him- self. More beau- tiful patterns, eol- on and fa we've ever showa before! | The throng greeted with applause | and some cheering addresses by Roger D. Lapham, president of American- Hawailan Lines, representing em- ployers; Harry Bridges, coast presi- dent of the International Longshore- | men's Assoclation, speaking for the strikers, and Mayor John F. Dore of Seattle, vigorous backer of labor unions. Lapham said employers could not give up the right to select their own | personnel. | The executive, one of the “big three” offshore operators charged by | unions with prolonging the walkout, reiterated employer offers to arbitrate disputed issues. Hiring Right Sought. ! “All that they (employers) seek is | the right o control hiring,” Lapham | said, ‘the right to select the men best fitted for the job without dis- crimination—just as men are selected in every other branch of American | industry.” The arm-waving Dore brought thun- | derous applause when he declared strikers would win the walkout. He said he was for organized labor “because it is opposed to Fascism and | Communism.” Bridges, leader in organizing the powerful Maritime Federation of the Pacific, said employers could end the strike by acceding to the union “fundamental issues.” He declared unions could not arbi- trate the fundamental issues, as em- ployers requested. because it would be tantamount to arbitrating the unions’ right to exist. Eight seamen off the tanker W. L. Steed were attacked at Galveston, Tex., by, about 15 seamen as they were leaving a beer parlor early today. Eight men were taken to the hospital with cuts and bruises. Police attributed the outbreak to the strike. —_——— Converted Thieves Pay Victim. SPARTANBURG, S. C. (#).—Nine | years ago some one stole two tires and | tubes from Bramlett Reid's parked | automobile. This week two men came to his home, apologized for the “bor= rowing,” said they had “gotten ree ligion"—and paid him $18. 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