Evening Star Newspaper, January 13, 1937, Page 2

MRS STONE NANED V.. PRESDENT Mrs. James Byrnes and John .~ Proctor Also Elected Officers. Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone yesterday was unanimously elected president of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society at its regular meeting at the headquar- ters office, 810 Albee Building, at which Mrs.- John W. Davidge, second vice | plesident, presided. “ These other officers also were unan- | fmously elected when Mrs. Whitman Cross presented the report of the Nominating Committee: Mrs. James Carrol Byrnes, first vice president; | John L. Proctor, second vice president; Mrs. Charles B. Crawford, third vice | president; Mrs. John M. Sternhagen, secretary; Joshua Evans, jr., treas- urer, and Charles W. Pimper, assistant | treasurer. To the Nominating Committee for 1937 were named Mrs. G. Howland Chase, Mrs. Hutchinson I Cone, Mrs. Cresson Newbold, R. M. Kauffmann and Harold N. Marsh. Tncreasing Demand for Nurses. The board will appear before the Budget Committee hearing of the Com- mupity Chest this afternoon to present the situation in which the organization | finds itself in its effort to meet the | increasing demand for nursing care with a curtailed staff. The board ac- cepted the committee’s invitation for this appearance yesterday. After the treasurer's report was sub- mitted at yesterday's meeting by Josh- ua Evans, jr., Mrs. R. M. Kauffmann stated that the Nursing Committee, of which she is chairman, in its study of the steady increase of respiratory cases coming into the organization, had found during the past week new cases averaged from 100 to 134 each In some sections of the city, Mrs. Kauffmann said, there is a marked Increase in pneumonia patients and in patients with influenza. With the shortage of staff, it is daily becoming | more difficult to meet the needs of | the persons who are ill, she added. Miss Hunt Gives Report. Miss Virginia Hunt gave a brief re- | port of the activities of the Surgical Dressing Committee. Mrs. Emory Beott Land reported the actions of the Board Members' Council of the Coun- cil of Social Agencies. Miss Gertrude H. Bowling, executive director, reiterated the statement of | Mrs. Kauffimann and pointed out that the staff was doing its utmost and gave care during December to 4,698 patients, to whom 14679 visits were made. made to 26,208 patients. ‘Those present at the meeting were Mrs. Leonard A. Block, Mrs. Cross, Mrs. Davidge, Mr. Evans, Mrs. David E. Finley, Mrs. Charles C. Glover, jr.; Miss Hunt, Mrs. Kauffmann, Mrs. Land, Mr. Marsh, Mrs. Henry Mor- | genthau, jr.; George Hewitt Myers, | Mrs, Cresson Newbold, Mrs. John Jay | D'Connor, Mrs. Ord Preston, Miss Elsa M. Peterson, Mr. Proctor, Mrs. Stern- hagen, Richard Wilmer, Mrs. Charles F. Wilson, Mrs. John Marvin Wright and Miss Bowling. "PRIEST AND SISTER DIE IN SAME HOUR Rev. David J. Roche, S. J., 69, and | Mrs. Foley, 78, Had Been 11l Long Time. Rev. David J. Roche, S. J., 69, and his sister, Mrs. Johanna Foley, 78, the last surviving members of their im- mediate family, died within the same bour early today. Both had been il & Jong while. Father Roche died in Georgetown | University Infirmary, which he had entered about six months ago. Mrs. Foley died at her home, 1521 Trinidad | evenue northeast. Father Roche, prior to his illness, had been pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic Church, near Bowie, M4. He was born in this city October 23, 1867, and entered the Society of Jesus 0 1885, Funeral services for Father Roche will be held at 8 a.m. Friday in George- town University Chapel. Burial will be in the university cemetery. ~ The services for Mrs. Foley will be heid at 10 am. Friday in St. Aloysius Catholic Church. L A. SMITH NAMED ALUMNI SECRETARY Appointed by G. W. President to| Assist in Enlarged Program Planned. Lester A. Smith of the class of 1932 has been appointed alumni sec- retary of George Washington Univer- sitg.by President Cloyd H. Marvin, it ‘was announced yesterday. 8mith, who will take office about January 15, has been prominent in alumni affairs for some time as presi- dent of the Library Science Alumni Association since 1934, and for the past two years as a member of the Executive Committee of the General Alumni Association. He holds A. B. and M. A. degrees in library science from the university. His principal duties will be to essist the president in the develop- ment of the university'’s enlarged elumni program. —_— South Carolinian Dies. JACKSONVILLE, Ma., January 13 (® —Frank Bamberg McCoy, 54, Washington Wayside Random Observations of Interesting Events ANTHONY AND CLEO. AYBE it was a Roman holiday. covered in a hotel cocktail lounge the other evening & from Dallas, Tex. He was giving a party. all reports, but Cleopatra wasn't there. It is a very sad state of affairs, too, does not invite Cleopatra. And especially when Cleopatra was be invited if Marc had thought of it. She was in the ball room. Her ® ok % x FAME. own grandfather, it is bad enough, but when he is so listed in the that the learned in naval history lift their eyebrows in surprise. the aedjutant and inspector of the Marine Corps and on duty at head- In the current Who's Who, David Dizon Porter is listed as rear ad- son of the famous Admiral Porter. There is no other Admiral Porter rate. When a marine is taken for a Porter family, perhaps, but Ad- miral David Dizon Porter died on did get Gen. Porter’s address core rect, for he does live at 1819 Nine= * ok k% HUNT. fox hunt in Maryland whose name shall be Redland, reported the other had a rather nice day afield, albeit | they chased nothing but a grey fox. fun to chase, as they run in small, but not the best circles. Was: The professional huntsman, while | in a creek. The hounds became so excited at Tales and Things. Anyhow there was dis- fellow named Marc Antony. He was It was a good party, according to when Marc Antony tosses & party and right on hand at that same hotel to name was Cleopatra Tomadelli. When a man is mistaken for his famous Who's Who, little wonder Brig. Gen. David Dizon Porter is quarters at the Navy Department. miral. Gen. Porter is the grand- at present alive, over here, at any naval officer, it is excusable in the February 13, 1891. Who's Who teenth- street. 'HOMAS T. MOTT, M. F. H, of a day that his pack and subscribers Grey foxes are not considered much All that happened on this chase | on foot in a covert, slipped and fell | one point that the fox was able to In 1936, 168,638 visits were | Gouble and run right back through the pack without being noticed. One of the field jumped a fence and his horse ran straight into a tree with him. Rider's arm was hurt, but not broken. The fox family ducked into a den. Some farmers then came down and suggested they'd like him dug out and killed, as too many chickens had been eaten by foxes around the countrv- side of late. During the digging out, the fox bit one of the hunters. Sank his teeth in the fellow’s finger and couldn’t be persuaded to let go for love or money. Finally pried loose, the fox was put back in the woods, given & good start and the hounds let loose after him again. After a 15-minute chase they killed him. The M. F. H, looking for his hunt- ing knife, found it stuck jauntily in the belt of a white-haired, dis- tinguished lady who is the wife of an admiral in the United States Navy. In the excitement of the digging out, keeping hounds out of the den, etc., she'd picked it up and strapped it on. Otherwise, it was a fairly quiet day. * % % X NONCHALANT. EORGE KENEIPP believes the height of nonchalance—or some- thing—was achieved by the well- dressed man who sauntered up to a motor club touring counselor yester- day and requested information regard- ing the best route from Washington to Philadelphia. “We gave him the data,” said Keneipp, “and, as he turned to go he remarked —almost as an after- thought—that from Philadelphia he was going to New York, put his car on a boat, land at Marseilles, travel the length of the Riviera, and then, if all goes well, start driving down into Africa as far as the roads will allow. “And before our clerk could catch his breath the fellow was in his ma- chine and gone. “Whew!” * % kX JUDGE W. T. McCARTHY, Circuit Court jurist now sitting in. Ar- lington, evidently has been accus- tomed to hands on his clocks. He is often ohserved looking at the huge mahogany and gold circle of numerals over his judicial head. But the judge invariably pulls out his watch and double checks the Although it is an elaborate piece of artistry on the part of the clockmaker, formerly of Charleston, S. C., died here yesterday. TODAY. House: Meets at noon and probably will re- ceive committee assignments. Democrats caucus at 10:30 a.m. to ratif§ committee assignments. [Rules'Committee meets at 11:45 a.m. on Government reorganization meas- ure. Appropriations Subcommittee begins consideration of $790,000,000 defi- ciency relief bill. = Senate In recess until tomorrow. Banking Committee considers ex- on of monetary and other expir- ing Jegislation. 4 Investigation Commitiee ‘ no hands adorn its lovely face. ‘Whether it was an oversight or the ocounty ran out of money seems ghrouded in mystery. * % % % HURT. Another mervy fellow, it devel- ops, broke through the police guards around the Capitol to hear President Roosevelt by merely re- fusing to be placed on record as to identity. He was promised a place in the chamber if he got through the guard. A Capitol policeman stopped him at the steps to the Capitol and said: “I'm sorry, but only members of Congress are permitted to enter> The interloper threw out his chest and replied in a hurt man- ner as if his dignity had been neediessly ruffled: “Who told you I wasw't ¢ mem= ber of Congress?” The abashed policemen stepped E EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON MARTIN JORNSON NEVER FEARED AIR World Loses Man Who Ranged Last Frontiers With Camera. By the Associated Press. Martin Johnson died today and the world's movie audiences lost an enter- tainer who ranged the globe's last frontiers with a camera focused on both the factual and the humorous. “Uneasy?™ he echoed a questioner last October when, freshly returned from a year’s expedition in Borneo, he was in the act of establishing him- self in a New York hotel with assorted simians and thousands of feet of movie film. “I was naver afraid of exploration by air. Our ship—and we own two of them—is as safe as a truck on the Kansas plains. We just pull on the throttle and take off.” He and Mrs. Johnson, the plump, smiling Osa, invaded the interior of Borneo by boat and plane. Their machine, a low-speed, poky affair adapted to both land and water take- offs, had carried them to hitherto unphotographed portions of Africa and other continents. " be said, “I'm not afraid of flying.” Proud of His Achievements. He was proud of his explorations and proud of the way he cared for his animals. “Eight hundred dollars worth of food,” he added, “that's what we fed those animals on the way back from Borneo. They live like kings.” Nervously intense, and apparently a little flustered to be catapulted off an ocean freighter into the center of Manhattan's teeming traffic, he rum- maged through his pockets fruitlessly to find money to pay porters who had Jjust brought up the baggage. Osa, mothering an orang-outang a score of stories above New York's traffic, came to his rescue. “We don’t use money where we just came from,” she volunteered. Johnson prized his films. He shook his head over the trouble, expense and danger involved in taking them, be- cause he knew the cutting room would shave down their running time, Sometimes He Left Show. “Know what I do?" he asked. “Well, I spend months getting these films. I bring them back. They are pieced together. I look at the result. Then | I leave town. Sometimes I stay long | enough to go to a theater and see | what they've done to my work, and invariably I get mad and get up in the middle of the show and leave.” He appended, forgivingly: “Yes, know the American public can't be | expected to sit through three days of the Martin Johnsons in Africa or Borneo. The stuff has to be cut.” Osa, too, had never a qualm about | plane travel. She chortled as she told about flying into the interior of Borneo | | and landing the amphibian on a river before the eyes of natives who had | never seen an airplane before. | “It took us hours to coax them out | of the jungle,” she said. The “King Kelly” Story. One of Martin's prize stories in-| volved one “King Kelly,” an Irish concessionaire in Central Park. A few years ago the Martins brought over from British East Africa a couple of | Swahili tribesmen to help with a shipment of Simians. One of the| natives proved fractious and refused! to desert the delights of Harlem. Kelly rounded up the wanderer and | put him aboard a boat outbound. Months later Martin wrote Kelly from Swahili-land, “The tribe has | voted you King.” Kelly refused the | honor. Martin wrote warningly. “The | curse of the Swahilis has been put! jon you. But you can escape it by bowing before an ebony idol I'm sending.” Kelly bowed. The curse was lifted. | Martin always told the story with his tongue in his cheek. . HOME TOWN INCREDULOUS. Chanute, Kans., Finds Explorer's Death Hard to Believe. CHANUTE, Kans.,, January 13 (&), —Martin Johnson’s home town found it hard to believe today that the world adventurer who followed the most savage jungle trails with impunity met death in an accident of civilization— & transport plane crash in California. Only Monday Johnson had com- plained jokingly of the perils of & modern world. “Why, I almost got killed by a taxi this morning,” the bald, keen-eyed explorer said as they stopped off at Salt Lake City on their fateful west- ward plane trip. Between their journeys to the far corners 6f the world he and his wife always found time to visit the town of their romance and marriage. They had hundreds of friends there. Airport Named in Honor. In 1935 Chanute named its muni- cipal airport the Martin Johnson Field. At least twice they brought their travel pictures to Chanute for prémier showings. ‘The couple’s last visit to Chanute was in September, 1935, but they were expecting to return next Spring. Priends here recalled that the first and last trips Martin Johnson and his wife took together were to the South Sea Islands. It was in Chanute that Johnson first met his bride. Then a grade school graduate, Osa Helen Leighty sang at a theater where he showed pictures of a trip around the world. Later he invited her to Independence, his home. They were married May 15, 1910. Johnson had wandered about from the time he was 14 years old, seeing America, traveling to England on a cattle boat, eventually drifting back to Independence, where his father, John A. Johnson, was a jeweler. He clerked in his father's store and de- veloped photographic plates for In- dependence folk. When he was 20 he read in a magazine that Jack Lon- don and his wife wanted a third per- son to sail with them to the South Seas on London's 47-foot craft, the Snark. He Had to Learn te Cook. He wrote Jack London & letter. Lon- don telegraphed back: “Can you cook?” “A little,” Johnson replied by wire. “Will learn more.” He went to a nearby restaurant and hi himself out as & cook. He wof night and day for a week, then Joined London in San Francisco. Another of Johnson's services in rapher. He later decided his explora- and the man strode through as if he had fust bought and was entering his | ing. | and cameras improved in their range, 1 Where 11 Escaped Death in Airliner Crash ESTHER CONNER. (Stewardess.) JAMES A. BRADEN, (Killed.) —Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. tions would be recorded entirely in | films. Actually he had not fired a | gun in the last 15 years, he said re- | cently in New York City. Mrs. Johnson stood by armed to protect her husband when a lion or a rhino charged instead of posed. Time after time she brought down | beasts literally at her husband's feet. On one trip into Borneo she twice killed elephants as they were charg- | Each time the elephant fell in front of Johnson and his camera. | Six Times Around the World. She shared every expedition he made. They went around the world six times; spent a year in Australia, two years in Borneo and five years in Africa. Johnson devoted 12 years of | is life to the South Sea islands. As means of locomotion developed the Johnson safaris became larger. His films of Borneo wild life were | highly praised. His reputation and skill brought him the commission to record the vanished wild life of Africa for the American Museum of Natural History. The Johnsons made their base on Lake Paradise, in & remote region of Abyssinia. Because of the region's inaccessibility game abounded. Johnson himself decried the in- sistence of persons who wanted him to relate occasions of great physical danger. Preferred Beauty of Game Fields. “I have seen thrilling doings among the wild life of Africa,” he wrote in 1935. “I have had narrow escapes from death, and so has Osa. But in a world already filled with all the difficulties and unpleasantness that our world is, why should people ask to hear of any more? I don't believe they really mean it, and I am certain that they, as well as we, would much prefer the beauty of the great game fields as they really are to the ex- aggerated stories so often told of fierce and deadly animals and of mighty game hunters, forever barely missing sudden and awful death. “There are dangers in Africa, cer- tainly, and any one who lives among the animals long enough will encounter them. But animals are considerate, by and large. It is only man who fails ia that respect.” Crash (Continued From First Page.) Hotel, Buellton, Calif, suffered 8 lacerated face and neck and possible skull fracture. His right leg was frac- tured. Miss Lita James, Los Angeles was recovering from bruises and shoek. T. E. Tillinghast, Hartford, Conn., suffered a fractured leg and lacera- tions. * Loomis had head and internal in- juries, in addition to several frac- tures. ‘While snow piled up on the dam- aged wings and fuselage of the air- liner, on the ridge 100 yards below the Los Pinetos Ranger Lookout Sta- tion, two governmental inquiries were set in motion in an attempt to de- termine the cause of the disaster. It was the fifth major airliner acei- dent in the United States in the last 30 days. Injured Man Seeks Aid. Arthur A. Robinson, Rochester, N. Y., who staggered over mountain trails to summon aid after the crash, re- mained at Olive View Sanitarium near the crash scene. He was treated for & fractured foot, several crushed spinal verterbrae and possible internal in- Juries. Co-pilot Owens, with Pilot W. W. Lewis and Stewardess Esther Jo Con- ner, was taken to Windsor Hospital, ¢ D WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13, 1937. Wreckage of the Western Air express liner which crashed morth of Los Angeles yesterday. Most of those injured were still inside the plane when this photo was made. Note the pillow in broken window. One man was killed and 11 other persons were injured. - A. L. Loomis, who suffered head and internal injuries, shown being carried on stretcher to ambulance from truck which brought the victims down the snow-swept mountainside. P Rescue workers shown carrying Mrs. Martin Johnson to an ambulance after she and other victims had been taken down the mountainside on a truck. Her husband, African explorer, died of injuries received in the crash. on their condition. Earlier lccounu! Roger Pollard, 19, a patient at the said Owens was gravely hurt with a | sanitarium, shouted to his nurses: broken jaw, possible skull fracture and internal injuries. Lewis had a frac- tured leg and head injuries. Miss Con- ner escaped with a fractured ankle. The condition of E. E. Spencer of Chicago was given as serious. He had & skull fracture, fractures of both legs and suffered considerable shock. Richard Gardner, deputy county surveyor, quoted Pilot Lewiy as say- ing “the Burbank station seemed tied up with other calls” and he couldn’t get through; also that ice formed on the wing, he lost his course and one motor sputtered “badly.” Using a six-mule team and wagon, rescuers toiled all night to bring out the injured during a snowstorm. The big ship struck a foothill in murky weather, 10 mlies from its terminal destination, rolling along a slope for 20 feet. A tragic picture greeted first ar- rivals at the crash scene, four miles from the Olive View Sanitarium—a semi-conscious pilot mumbling in- coherently into a radio no longer working; every occupant “piled up on someone else.” ‘The scene was detailed by Gardner, who said he found Pilot Lewis in the mail compartmennt, pistol in hand. "His leg broken, he was looking out of the compartmennt, a gun in his hand,” Gardner said. “He had just fired & shot to direct rescuers to the scene. Dead Man First Seen. “I pulled open the cabin door. My eyes fell first on the dead man, James Braden. His body had fallen Mrs. Osa Johnson and she was for some one to heip lift him She herself apparently was suffering from & broken leg. “Most of the passengers were con- scious. “There’s an airplane crash just out- side the window. I heard a great crash and then the cries of many per- sotis” Robinson, who hobbled on his in- jured ankle to meet the first rescue party, said: “We had no warning that anything was wrong. We were riding along very smoothly. Suddenly the plane began to drop—drop. Then there was & ter- rible crash.” g The plane, due in the union terminal at 10:45 a.m. yesterday, reported at 11:05 am. it was “coming down to localizer at field.” The e re- ferred to the airport’s radio directional beam. SENATE TO PROBE CRASH. Airline Heads and U. S. Bureau Offi- cials to Be Called. Chairman Copeland of the Senate Commerce Committee said today he planned to investigate the crash of a ‘Western Air Express transport plane yesterday in Southern California. Airline hegds and officials of the Air Commerce Bureau will be sum- moned before his committee, he said, to discuss the causes of this and other recent crashes and suggest new safety measures. Yesterday’s accident, Copeland as- serted, was in “the most dangerous flying country in America.” The Air Commerce Bureau said its immediate investigation of the crash in the Tehachapi foothills of Cali- fornia would be in charge of James L. Kinney and E. L. Yuravich, both of Los Angeles. ‘ Night Final Delivéred by Carrier THOMAS J. SULLIVAN DIES OF PNEUMONIA Father of Capt. J. A. Sullivan Was Retired Employe of D. C. Government. Thomas Joseph Sullivan, 80, re- tired District Government employe, died last night of pneumonia at his home, 627 Emerson street. Mr. Sullivan, a life-long resident of Washington, was the father of Capt. J. A. Sullivan, commander of No. 4 police precinct, and of Detective Sergt. Thomas J. Sullivan. For many years, Mr. Sullivan was carriage and wagon builder for the District. He was retired about 10 years ago. He leaves two other sons, William F. Sullivan 4nd Richard C. Sullivan, the latter president of the Sullivan Chevrolet: Co.; three daughters, Miss Catherine C. Sullivan, Mrs. John P. Dunn and Miss Agnes V. Sullivan; 13 dren. Funeral services will be heid at 9 am. Pridav in St. Gabriel's Catholic | Church, following brief services at the | residence. Buriel will be in Mount | Olivet Cemetery. 106 Years in One Town. Miss Emma Coate of North Curry, Somerset, England, has celebrated her 106th birthday anniversay in the vil- | 1age in which she has always lived. Embassy Official’s Missing Grandson Is Found in Auto Chauffeur Loses Track of Time as 6-Year-Old Grows Weary. Tired and hungry, but unharmed, Jean Jacques Thomas, 6-year-old | grandson of the private secretary to the Argentine Ambassador, was re- turned home late last night after a widespread search by detectives and newspaper reporters, who feared he had been kidnaped. The search began at 6 p.m.. when the grandfather, Henry Lazard, 1648 Columbia road, reported Jean had not returned from St. Stephen’s School, Twenty-fourth street and Pennsylvania avenue. The family chauffeur, William Jordan, colored, had called for the child at 3 p.m., but had failed to take him directly home. At 10 pm. the “kidnaping’ was solved when Mrs. P. G. Finlayson, 1644 Columbia road, who had heard reports of the disappearance, saw the Lazard car parked on Fuller street, near Columbia road. Jean was in the back seat, and Jordan was sitting in the front with a colored companion. Lazard explained today the chauf- feur had made a couple of stops with his friend and didn’t realize the lateness of the hour. Jean, he said, didn't mind, except he was awfully hungry and sleepy when they arrived home. The child’s mother is premiere danseuse of the Oukrainsky Ballet in Hollywood. His father, Jacques Thomas, lives in France. Mrs. Lazard is the former Mme. Von Unchuld, noted concert pianist. Anywhere in the City Full Sports Race Results, Complete Market News of the Day, Latest News Flashes from Around the World. Whatever it is, you'll find it in The Night Final Sports Edition. THE NIGHT FINAL SPORTS and SUNDAY STAR—delivered by carrier—70c & month. Call National 5000 and service ( grandchildren and 2 great-grandchil- | UNMINGS, HAZEN DSEUSS 0.6 L Congestion at Penal !nstitu- tions Reviewed at Gen- eral Parley. Congestion at the District Jail and other local penal institutions was dis~ cussed at a conference yesterday aft- ernoon between Attorney General Cummings and District Commissioner Hazen. Taking part in the discussion also were Sanford Bates, Federal director of prisons; Ugo Carusi, executive as- sistant to Cummings; Henry Suydam, special executive assistant to the At- torney General, and Elwood Street, director of the Board of Public Wel- fare. Attorney General Cummings is said to have presented to Hazen certain suggestions for remedying conditions at the jail, Lorton Reformatory and the workhouse at Occoquan. The nature of these recommendations was not disclosed. Cummings, it was learned, reviewed first-hand findings he made during a recent tour of inspection of the jail, in company with Hazen and other officials, following that visit. The Attorney General had his aides can- vass the entire penal situation in the District, and the report of this survey was studied at the conference yes- terday. Cummings agreed to lend a personal hand in seeking improvement of jail and work house conditions after Dis- trict officials had called his attention to the serious overcrowding of the local institutions. While the Justice Department has no administrative jurisdiction over the local penal sys- tem, Cummings offered the services of his department in an advisory capacity. Taxis (Continued From First Page) “‘wait for word from your committee before going back to work.” Grievances Presented. Headed by George A. Martin, the committee, composed of eight inde- pendent operators, presented their grievances to members of the Utili- ties Commission at the District Build- ing. Upward revision of rates ap- peared to be the principal demand. An informal petition presented to Riley E. Eigen, chairman; Richmond Keech, vice chairman, and James L. Martin, executive secretary of the | utilities group, set forth six points. | They are: “To discuss the advisability of a board of control for the taxicab in- dustry, with representatives from among men behind the wheel to be on the board as our official delegates. “To provide for legislation cover- ing the collection of fares through and with the assistance of the Police Department. “Rates. Here's two dimes, buddy. | Do you like them? Should there be | & revision of this? } “That no more public vehicle licenses be issued after this date for operation of taxicabs, except to indi- viduals who-have been owners of one | vehicle since 1933. ‘ Would Recall Cards. | _ “That all identification cards now i held by any one employed by the Government or other full-time jobs | be recalled at once. “Should there be discrimination of liability insurance? If taxicabs must | have it, why not all other vehicles. | This is of vital importance.” | Keech explained the commission | could act only on the demand for ad- | justment of rates pointing out the other demands would have to be taken up by Congress. | Upon presentation of a formal write | ten petition, Keech assured the dele= | gates a hearing would be calied. Under the law. 20 days formal notice must ibe given before a public hearing on | rates can be held. The committee told the commission members they would explain the law |at the mass meeting this afternoon and indicated they would return to the District Building with a formal petition, if that is the will of the drivers, Big Units Deny Strike Spread. Despite the insistance of leaders of the movement that practically every fleet owner in the city was in sympathy with the walk-out, officials of all the larger taxi associations denied their operators would participate. Pearing a repetition of the incidents that led to the arrest of the nine driv- ers, Police Inspector L. I. H. Edwards issued a special order warning officers to be on the lookout for “possible vio= lence or trouble.” It was reported that the commis- sion will be asked to increase the first-zone rate now in effect from 20 cents to either 35 or 50 cents. The strikers contend the low fares set by the commission and the large number of cabs operating in the Dis- trict make it impossible to earn & livelihood by driving a taxi. Although the number of cabs taken out of service to noon could not be definitely determined, it was not large enough to impair transportation. Nearly All Stands in Use. Nearly all downtown cab stands were in use and the number of cruising taxis did not appear to have dimin= ished appreciably. In his warning to be on the lookout for violence, Inspector Edwards cau- tioned police to pay particular atten- tion to taxi stands near hotels, where large numbers of drivers usually con- gregate. The intention of the independent drivers to promote a strike has been known to fleet operators for several days. Members of the Taxicab Union, at a meeting Monday night, formally voted against a walkout. At that time, Adolph Hohensee, president of the Union Taxicab As- sociation, declared his drivers would “do nothing to spoil the President's party,” adding: “The President is the best friend labor ever had, and we will have no hand in a strike that would spoil his Diamond, City, Blue Light, Pre- mier and other large associations were among those which reported their mfl«::amnmmmwwmm strikers. Science Forces Confession. CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (#)—Scien- tific crime-detecting methods con- vinced Forrest Waitman, 24, of the advisability of confessing theft of an automobile. In the car, found wrecked and abandoned, police discovered a lock of hair. They put it under a microscope alongside a lock from Waitman's head. They matched. ‘Waitman was sentenced to 10 years in & reformatory, A