Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1937, Page 30

D—4 RAYBURN TO SPEAK T0BOARD OF TRADE Majority Leader to Address January Meeting Wednes- day at Mayflower. Representative Sam Rayburn, newly elected majority leader of the House of Representatives, will be the guest speaker at the January meeting of the ‘Washington Board of Trade, to be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the Mayflower Hotel. The meeting will be the first to be held at the Mayflower since last Spring and will be concluded with a buffet supper. Representative Rayburn is expected to discuss some of the major problems confronting the new Congress, particu- larly legislation that will concern the District of Columbia. Commissioner George E. Allen, gen- eral chairman of the President’s birthday ball, also is expected to out- line plans for that annual celebration. An announcement on the mid-Win- ter dinner plans also is expected to be made by C. Hayward Marshall, gen- eral chairman. Inaugural Rooms Available, With only 10 days remaining until the inauguration, the Housing Bureau of the Greater National Capital Com- mittee announced yesterday that plenty of rooms are still available for visitors desiring to see President Roosevelt take his second oath of office. More than 2,000 private homes have listed rooms with the bureau and have been inspected. A number of such rooms have been reserved, but addi- tional rooms still are available in the hotels of the city. The bulk of advance reservations have been made with the hotels, and Roy Miller, director of the bureau, said he believed all visitors can be accommodated in the space now on the register. Parly reservations, it was said, did not come up to expectations, but an increased demand for quarters is ex- pected during the coming week. The bureau will continue to function up to | inauguration day. Its headgarters are at the Willard Hotel. Dinner for Committee. FEdgar Morris, president of the Board of Trade, will be host Tuesday, at 6:30 p.m,, at a dinner for the mem- THE SUNDAY STAR WASHINGTON. D. C, JANUARY 10, 1937—PART TWO. CONGRESS RETURN CAUSES AGTIVITY Two Approve Red Rider Re- peal—16 Meetings to Be Held This Week. HOW THEY STAND. The attitude of District citizens’ associations on current city-wide problems, as evidenced through last Wednesday, follows: One-Man Street Cars. Oppose Favor Jefferson Memorial in East Washington, Red Rider Repeal. Favor .. Oppose - (A number of other associations last season also voted on the red rider.) Weekly Review, EVIEW of the civic week from Thursday, December 31, to Thursday, January 7 Association of Oldest Inhabitants— Met New Year's day and heard John Clagett Proctor outline year's high- lights. Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions—Proposed reduction of basic rate of return of Potomac Electric Power Co. from 6.5 per cent to 6 per cent on the agreed valuation of its plant; protested abolition of $1 weekly street car pass and asked Public Ut ities Commission to order reinstate= ment of the pass; asked the President to fill people’s counsel’s office vacancy. Takoma, D. C.—Tabled a motion to reaffirm action urging repeal of the “red rider” to District appropriation bill after lengthy discussion: com- mended Cemmissioners for refusal to | recommend legislation to permit Sun- day sales of liquor; approved proposed | bill to strengthen law against game i ling: approved establishment of ine ebriate farm. bers of the Membership Committee | and the other officers of the trade organization. Granville Gude is chairman of the committee, which has 132 members, and the dinner will be an expression above are shown (1) the bridge over the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- road tracks at Franklin street northeast, which removes a dan- gerous grade crossing. (2) Construction work on the Michigan Avenue Bridge, as seen from the west side. (3) The new fire house rapidly nearing completion at Thirteenth street and Rhode Island avenue northeast. This, with the connecting links in the Shown are some of the major civic improvements secured by concerted action of citizens’ associations in the Northeast section of the city. The projects end many years’ fight for some of the associations, action on which was started by individual groups. Later, associations of the area joined together and acted almost as one body in urging certain improvements. In the picture form of new bridges across the railroad tracks, will furnish sur- rounding areas with much-needed fire protection. (4) The Eighteenth Street Underpass, now being completed near New York avenue northeast, which will furnish a short cut from that por- tion of the city above the railroad tracks with the areas on the south of the tracks. —Star Staff Photos. Dupont Circle—Urged construction of municipal-owned garages to elim- inate all-night parking on streets and to relieve congested traffic. Forest Hills—Opposed changes in of appreciation on the part of Presi- dent Morris for the successful work of the group. { The dinner will be served in the | Italian room of the Mayflower Hotel, and a special entertainment program | is being planned. Committee Heads Named. | L. C. Kuhn was re-elected chairman | and L. Leroy Gritzan vice chairman | of the fuel oil group of the Mer- hants & Manufacturers’ Association | at the group’s annual meeting, held | last week. The department store managers elected B. M. Bulkley chairman, to succeed J. J. Hasley. Kuhn and Hasley as group chair- men automatically become members | of the M. & M.’s board of directors. Other groups are to meet within the and when all of the | 20-odd subdivisions complete their re- | organization the new chairmen will meet to select the officers for the parent association. | Meanwhile, Edward D. Shaw, secre- tary, is calling upon the several minor organizations to ascertain how many | will observe inauguration day as a | holiday. The department stores al- ready have voted to remain closed January 20. and most of the other business groups are expected to take like action. | Kaplan to Speak. M. Eliot Kaplan of New York, executive secretary of the National Civil Service Reform League, will ad- dress the Committee on Public Service Standards of the Junior Board of Commerce tomorrow at luncheon at the Harrington Hotel. At the same hotel the National | Representation Committee of the Junior Board also will meet tomorrow for luncheon. Kaplan's address will be the second | in less than a week on civil service reform. At the luncheon meeting last | Thursday at the Lee House, Robert L. | Johnzon, vice president of Time maga- | zine and president of the National | Civil Service Reform League, discussed | Government personnel standards. Two Meetings Scheduled. { Two Board of Trade committee | meetings are scheduled for this week. Thursday at 12:30 p.m. there will | be a luncheon meeting at the Army and Navy Club of the Executive Com- mittee of the Traffic Committee, | headed by Col. Lawrence C. Craw- ford, and on Friday there will be 8 luncheon meeting at the Harrington Hotel of the Public Schools Committee headed by Chairman George E. Ke- heipp. Next Monday Odell §. Smith, chair- man, has called a luncheon meeting of his Public Order Committee, also | to be held at the Harrington. PRIZES AWARDED Mrs. Stevens’ Home Adjudged the! Best Decorated. Pirst prize for the best decorated home during the Christmas holidays, offered by the Friendship Citizens’ As- sociation to residents of its area, has been awarded to Mrs. R. K. Stevens, 4404 Fessendén street. Second place went to J. P. Judge, 4409 Thirty-ninth street, and third to Mrs. Charlotte Evans, 4326 Davenport street. The business establishment award was given to the McDonald Service Station, Wisconsin avenue and Jenifer street. | Prosperity Note— Secretary’s Salary Up $1 Per Meeting ‘Washington’s business “boom,” which has given many employes bonuses and pay increases, has reached at least one citizens’ association. * The Kenilworth Citizens’ As- sociation has raised the salary of its secretary, Mrs. Mabel White Hubbel, $1 a meeting for the new year after Treasurer Paul Dallman's report that the or- ganization had a successful fi- nancial year. | of the Federation of Citizens’ Associ- TRANSIT PROBLEM AROUSES UITIZENS; Will Take Steps Asking Probe of Public Utilities Commission. Definite steps seeking improved street car service and elimination of one-man cars from District streets if possible seem imminent, with several business and civic organizations al- ready preparing a congressional in- vestigation of the Public Utilities Commission. At its last meeting the Southeast Business Men's Association passed a resolution requesting congressional investigation of the commission for the last year. The resolution stated that if the committee found the com- mission incompetent as to the duties performed for the good of the public President Roosevelt be asked to re- move them from office. Since this drastic action, the Federation of Busi- ness Men's Associations has indorsed the Southeast resolution and the Dahlgren Terrace Citizens' Associ- ation has passed a similar resolution. Further condemnation of present street car service is seen in the action ations and the Washington Central Labor Union in appealing in District Court the refusal by the Public Utili- ties Commission to reconsider its au- thorization to the Capital Transit Co. to operate 40 additional one-man street cars. The appeal is still pend- ing. Numerous citizens’ associations and business organizations in both the District and the communities of Mary- land and Virginia affected by local street car or bus transportation have rendered opposition to the service. Latest of these organizations to fall in line protesting the cars is the In- terfederation Conference of the Dis- trict and Prince Georges, Arlington and Montgomery Counties. They branded the cars and busses as being “insanitary.” Support of the organizations’ oppo- sition to service, and particularly one- man cars, can be seen in a “poll” which shows 19 civic organizations opposing and only 3 favoring the one- man car. e NORTHEAST GROUP RESUMES MEETINGS Advent of Congress Causes Large Increase in Matters Affect- ing Their Area. After having omitted meeting since last October, the Northeast Citizens' Association will start holding regular meetings again starting tomorrow night, Secretary Joseph Notes de- clared yesterday. The recess was taken, he said, be- cause of the slack in the number of civic problems affecting the ares, but with the convening of Congress last week the group expects many im- portant District bills which it should consider. Included in the business program tomorrow night will be the proposed extension of Maryland avenue north- east, a proposed stadium to be built somewhere in Anacostia Park, a pro- posed new bridge across the Anacostia River in the vicinity of East Cdpitol street, construction of a new receiv- ing home for children, action on the proposed farm for inebriates, action on resolution thanking Andrew Mellon for his gift to the Nation of a national gallery of art, action on the proposed establishment of an abattoir on Ben- ning road northeast. The meetings tomorrow at 8 p.m. will be at the Ludlow School, Notes zaid. Meetings will be held regularly for the rest of the season through April. N District Civic Problems and Civie Bodies Citizens Turn Hopes to New Congress Still Feeling N eed of Voting Representation—Traffic Problem in Art Gallery Location—The Cab Meter Question—Judge Curran Makes Police Court Suggestions. BY JESSE C. SUTER. ITH the District of Co- lumbia's exclusive and all - powerful Legisla- ture once more on the Job, the civic hopes and aspirations of the voteless and unrepresented people of the District are revived. These humble petitioners, without any power to enforce compliance with their petitions, are always full of plans and hopeful of at- taining quantities of much-needed legislation at every beginning of a new Congress. When plans which have beem prepared carefully are relegated to committee pigeon holes, when District days are denied or wasted in general debate on irrelevant matters, hopefulness gives way to gloom and despair. But still our civic leaders are hopeful at the present stage. With true optimism they try to assure themselves that the Seventy-fifth Congress will be different and that toward the Dis- trict of Columbia they will be truly square dealers. Of course the miracle may happen, but to many in the civic ranks there is a belief that not by miracle but by voting representation in the Senate and House will the District receive & square deal. ‘The other real civic news of the week is the report of the Presi- dent’s Committee on Fiscal Rela- tions Between the United States and the District of Columbia, which was released on Friday con- currently with the President's budget message. A cursory read- ing of the report with its recom- mendations leaves one far from satisfied, viewed from the stand- point of fiscal equity. It is an in- teresting document, abounding in historical information and strong in its advocacy of suffrage for the District, both national and local. Considerable civic energy is be- ing expended just now in planning for the inauguration January 20 of the President of the United States, in whose election District citizens were denied participation. How- ever, District citizens can continue to claim that they help nominate the President and they help in- augurate the President—even if they are not permitted to help elect the President. Mellon Gallery Location And Traffic Congestion. NE of the striking things inci- dent to the princely gift of Andrew W. Mellon of the mar- veleus art collection and his erec- tion of the building in which it is to be housed is that it will not reduce the taxable area of the District. In civic circles there is genuine enthusiasm over Mr. Mel- lon’s gift, but there is some alarm felt regarding the proposed closing of s0 important a thoroughfare as Sixth street for -the construction of this great gallery of art. It is understood this question is to be the subject of careful study by the National Capital Park and Plan- ning Commission. A member of this commission, C. Marshall Fin- nan, is quoted as favoring the closing of Sixth street. At various times there have been suggestions for carrying the streets which cross the Mall through un- derpasses and some have expressed an opinion that it would be en- tirely feasible to carry Sixth street beneath the proposed art gallery. ‘The reason for the underpass idea across the Mall is to avoid the grade crossings under the four roadways which pass through its entire length and to improve the appearance of that great expanse of park from the Capital to the + Washington Monument and Lin- coln Memorial. As these four roads are now constructed. there are sharp grades at Twelfth street which materially mar the beauty of this parkway. There was serious objection raised to the closing of Thirteenth street below Pennsylvania avenue in the development of the Mall-Avenue Triangle development, but Thir- teenth street was never a very satisfactory thoroughfare into Southwest Washington because of the location of the Department of Agriculture buildings and park developments. Among the methods suggested for avoiding traffic congestion through the closing of Sixth street 15 the widening of both Fourth and Seventh streets. This problem is clearly up to the Park and Planning Commission for rec- ommendation and to Congress for final action. Progress in Elimination of Grade Crossings. 'HE Bureau of Public Roads has given the District an additional allotment of $250,000 for grade- crossing elimination work. From this same source had been pre- viously allotted $410,000. With this money the Michigan avenue crossing of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and also the Eastern ave- nue crossing were started and are now nearly completed. ‘The Commissioners have decided tentatively to use the additional money for the construction of an underpass to eliminate the grade crossing at Bates road northeast near Tenth and Varnum streets and to widen and move back the supports of the railroad viaduet in Bladensburg road northeast at New York avenue. The fight against grade crossings has been a long one, but the completion of the job. seems to be near. Utilities Ccmmission Seeks Elimination of Another Rider. ’I‘HE rider carried on District appropriation bills restricting the power of the Public Utilities Commission to prevent the intro- duction of taxi meters is scheduled for repeal if recommendations of the commission are to be heeded by Congress. For a long time there has existed an apparently popular prejudice against the use of meters on taxicabs in the District of Co= lumbia. This opposition has been manifest in the -estriction upon the commission’s authority which has been imposed by Congress for some time. Both metered service and the gone system have their advocates. While the zone system has some advantages in some parts of the District, there are’those who claim it to be extremely unfair in others. Many who are strong for the gone plan, within the first or 20- cent zone, claim they are charged too much when they go just a few feet or a few squares beyond the zone line. This, it is claimed, is not so noticeable when going from the first zone over into the second zone as when the jump is 20 cents from the second to the third and from the third to the fourth. It is not known whether or not the commission contemplates in- troducing & meter system if the rider is repealed. The basis for repeal is upon the theory that the fixing of rates belongs to the com- mission. It is contended that there is no reason why Congress should set up a regulatory and rate-fixing body and then strip it of its nate ural prerogatives. This matter pre- sents an interesting problem, long dormant, but which now may be reopened for discussion and study A Proposed Police Court Changes Might Well Match Its New Home. IT 1S reported that five of the seven recommendations of Judge Edward M. Curran for im- provement of the operation of the Police Court have had the unani- mous approval of his colleagues in that court. The other two, which the judges are taking more time to study, are the proposal for a system of uniform penalties in cases and the establishment of & behavior clinie. The approved recommendations are: 1. Change the name of the court te City Court of the Dis- trict of Columbia. 2. Staggered hours for the appearance of de- fendants and witnesses in Traffic Court. 3. Submission of monthly reports by the judges to the At- torney General for the information of the public. 4. Co-operation with the District Bar Association’s standing Committee on Police Court to facilitate aid in solve ing mutual problems through con- atructive criticism. 5. Creation of the office of public defender. This officer would be a lawyer paid out of District appropriations. He would represent indigent persons in criminal cases. While this is a new idea in the District, it is & system used elsewhere. Judge Curran is being highly cammended for advancing these constructive suggestions, some of which, it is understood, may be put into operation without legislation. Bills to cover the other sugges- tions are expected to be promptly introduced in Congress. ‘What Is a Behavior Clinie Or Clinic to the Court? 'HE clinic to the court or, as Judge Curran terms it, * behavior clinic” is a local innova- tion proposed and sponsored by the Corrections Committee of the Council of Social Agencies. Mem- bers of that committee have been studving the draft of a bill to create such an agency. The clinic would consist of an administrator skilled in vocational and educational guidance and ex- perienced in administrative work, who would serve as administrative officer of the clinic, and such phy- sicians, psychiatrists, psycholo- gists and social case workers as are necessary. ‘The clinic would furnish reports to the court when requested by the court with regard to the correc tional treatment indicated in the case of an offender and also fur- nish such information as may be requested by the chief probation officer for use in the supervision of any case or cases. Other pro- visions of the proposed bill cover the appointment and duties of probation officers in both the Criminal Court and the Police Court. * The bill as drafted also provides discretion in the courts to place defendants on probation after conviction, except in certain crimes and types of cases, when it shall appear that the ends of jus- tice and the best interests of the public as well as of the defendant will be served thereby. Judge Curran has been quoted as saying that, “A behavior clinic is as necessary to the successful treat- ment of crime as diagnosis is to the treatment of. disease. The pur- pose of the establishment of the clinic is to give the court an ides of the individual's family and per- sonal history, his education, his story of the crime, and environ- ment factors antecedent to and contributory to the offense, to- gether with the social prognosis indicating the possibility of »e- storing him to eociety.” It is Judge Ourran’s belief thst without { such information the court is with= out sufficient facts to make a pro- per disposition of the case. Space does not permit a further discussion of this interesting pro- posal for a modern treatment of the crime problem. Civic organi- zations taking up the study of this proposal will find Judge Curran's discussion of the subject illuminat ing and helpful. Senator Capper Is Sponsor of Two Constitutional Amendments. GAIN Senator Arthur Capper earns the gratitude of the disfranchised District of Columbia through introducing the joint reso- lution proposing an amendment to the Constitution of States empowering Congress to grant us national representation. The resolution was not introduced in a merely perfunctory manner the second day of the session, but ‘was accompanied by a brief speech in which he pictured the shame of the existence of such un-Amer- ican conditions here at the heart of the Nation. He appealed to his colleagues to join him in help- ing right this great wrong and promised to push for early action on the measure. ‘The Senator is understood to be the sponsor of another proposal to amend the Constitution so as to pre- clude the counting of alien persons as a basis for representation in the House of Representatives and in the electoral college. A similar proposal was offered by Represent- ative Stalker of New York in the Seventy-first Congress. In this connection it is interest- ing to note that the Stalker resolu- tion was brought to the attention of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation for the District back in March, 1930. At that time the Joint Committee was carrying on an extensive cor- respondence with national and State organizations as they held their annual conventions. The idea was to explain fully the plight of the District and obtain the aid of organizations in securing pas- sage of the proposed amendment. In response to such appeal to a great organization of women out in Towa came a very sympathetic reply. They were all with the voteless and unrepresented Dis- trict, provided the idea of the Stalker proposal was incorporated in our amendment. They were ready to go with us if our repre- sentation was to be based on a count of persons other than aliens. This is just a coincidence, so far as the Joint Committee is con- cerned, that our sponsor in the Senate also sponsors the other pro- posal. No Change of Legislative Committee Chairmen. ‘HE announcement that Senator King has decided to retain the chairmanship of the Senate Dis- trict Committee came on Thurs- day. Representative Mary T. Nor- ton had already announced that she would contine to carry on as head of the House committee. The Senate District Committee was completed on Friday through the assignment of Senator Bridges of New Hampshire to the one Re- publican vacancy. The other new members are Senators Overton, Louisiana; Hughes, Delaware, and Hitcheock, South Dakota, all Dem- ocrats. Other members who will continue to serve on the committee are Glass of Virginia, Copeland, New York; Tydings, Maryland; Lewis, Tllinois; Bankhead, Ala- bama; McCarran, Nevada: Rey- nolds, North Carolina. and Bilbo, Mississiopi, all Democrata; Cappez, the United. MIDWINTER DINNER PLANS ADVANCING Trade Board Entertainment to Feature Showboat February 6. Plans are being rapidly advanced for the annual Midwinter dinner of the Washington Board of Trade to be held at the Mayflower Hotel on the evening of Feburary 6. ‘The theme of the decorations and entertainment this year is a showboat, and s group of professional enter- tainers will be brought to Washington for the occasion to reproduce the type of performance that once gave dis- tinction to river-front towns and cities. It ix expected that some out- standing radio and stage stars will be included in the group of entertain- ers. C. Hayward Marshall is general chairman of the Dinner Committee and last week named his subcommit- tees. Serving on the general com- mittee with Marshall are W. Crosdale Witts, first vice chairman; John F. Webster, second vice chairman; Diller B. Groff, secretary: Florance, auditor; MacDonald, physician. Committee Heads Listed. Subcommittees and their officers are as follows: Advisory Committee—Karl E. Jar- rell, chairman, and Robert W. Davis, secretary. Invitations—Edgar Morris, chair- man, and Robert J. Cottrell, vice chairman. Reception—John Saul, chairman. Entertainment—Robert W. Davis, chairman; Harry P. White, first vlrel chairman; and Harry H. Baker, second vice chairman. Dinner and decorations—A. Gray Dawson, chairman; Edmund O. Carl, first vice chairman, and Herbert W. Primm, second vice chairman. Tickets—W. Russell Lamar, chair- man, and W. Gwynn Gardiner, jr., vice chairman. Souvenirs—Lewis A. Payne, chair- man, and DeVere R. Weedon, chairman. Heads Floor Commitiee. Floor—Thornton W. Owen, chair- man; Ross H. Snyder, first vice chair- man, and L. Ray Torpy, second vice chairman. Lights and amplifiers—Herman F. Carl, chairman, and William B. Combs, vice chairman. Printing—Harry L. Merrick, chair- man, and Earl P. Ready, vice chair- man. Property—George W. Robertson, chairman, and Clarence W. Gosnell, vice chairman. Publicity—J. Stanley Long, chair- man, and Charles H. Cooke, vice chairman. Transportation—Lieut. Frank A. Varney, chairman, and Edward 8. Pardoe, vice chairman. Kansas, and Austin, Vermont, Re- publicans. A few members of the House and st least one Senator have re- quested to be assigned to the Dis- trict Committees. Membership on the District Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropria= tions seems still to be in the air. As far as known no one has ap- plied for the job of chairman. District civic' leaders are still in search of a solution of the problem of in some way exerting a little wholesome influence in the selec- tion of members of these commit- tees dealing with District affairs who will be friendly to the unrep- resented District and be well qual- ified for efficient service. The cit- izen solving this problem will be acclaimed as deserving the several loving cups, gold medals and certi- ficates of merit offered by various civic bodies for such distinguished Raymond M. | Robert F. Beres- | ford. architect, and Dr. A. Magruder | vice | regulations governing revocation of driving permits: approved principles of proposed small claims court; urged compulsory immunization against diphtheria; favored increase in nume ber of appointments to Army and Naval Academies from the District to conform with number of States with a comparable population. Georgetown Progressives — Named | committee to survey alley dwellings in | Georgetown. Kenilworth — Indorsed efforts of william McK. Clayton, chairman, Federation of Citizens' Associations’ Public Utilities Committee, in fight against one-man street cars and to lower electric rates; announced its drive for abolition of dump about & mile in Maryland will be carried to the Maryland General Assembly in | Annapolis. Manor Park—Approved purchase of 45 one-man street cars and 46 new | busses by the Capital Transit Co. | opposed construction of abattoir in | Benning by Adolf Gobel, Inc.; ine | dorsed a proposed foot health proe gram in public schools, as outlined by | public health officials. Columbia Heights — Favored na- tional representation for the District and proposed appointment by the President of a Governor for the term of four yvears to take place of present commission form of government; asked for appropriation to provide for increased personnel, shorter working hours and higher pay for District Jail emploves; asked controller of the currency for full information regard- | ing receivership of the Park Savings Bank. North Cleveland Park — Opposed proposal of Chevy Chase association, which would require delegates to the federation to report back to their res spective member associations befors | voting on important questions. Southeast—Favored proposed $2.« 1000000 Jefferson Memorial Stadium {at east end of East Capitol Street: | commended Andrew W. Mellon for | his gift of the projected art gallery and collection to Nation: approved a | new receiving home for the District; | named committee to arrange for pare | ticipation in inaugural parade. Friendship—Asked repeal of the “red rider’; opposed advocacy of communism, fascism or alienism in | District public schools; opposed any | increase in gasoline taxes or automos | bile weight tax; asked President for | appointment in the near future of & | people’s counsel. | CIVIC CALENDAR. |"THE following citizens’ associations | & are scheduled to meet this week: MONDAY, JANUARY 11. Congress Heights, 8 p.m., Congress Heights School Hillcrest, 8 p.m.. East Washington Heights Baptist Church Kalorama, 8 p.m.. 2345 Ashmead place. Michigan Park, 8 p.m., Bunker Hill | School. Northeast, 8 p.m., Ludlow School. Park View, 8 p.m.. Park View Pla- toon School. Piney Branch, 8 pm., Roosevelt | High School. Stanton Park, 8 pm. School. TUESDAY, JANUARY 12. Burleith, 8 pm., Gordon Junior High School. North Randle Community, 8 p.m, Pree Methodist Church. Randle Highlands, 8 pm., Minnesota avenue southeast. Summit Park, 8 pm., East Wash- ington Heights Baptist Church. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13. American University Park, 8 pm., Hurst Hall, American University. Rhode Island Avenue, 8 p.m., Woode ridge Sub-Branch Library. THURSDAY, JANUARY 14. Northeast Conference, 8 p.m., No. 12 precinct. SATURDAY, JANUARY 186. Federation, 8 p.m., Room F, United States Chamber of Commerce. Two of Triplets Joined. ISTANBUL (#).—Girl triplets—two of whom are Siamese twins linked at the abdomen—have brought sudden fame to the 22-year-old wife of a cob- bler at Marache, a small town in Ana- tolia. The municipality has created a fund to meet all expenses necessary to bringing up the babies, with a phy= «zian especially assigned to their care. Peabody 2407 2 »