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N [ 4 ny Staf RNING EDITION WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1937. FRH PAGE B—1 JWENILE COURT BILL COMES BEFORE SENATED. C. GROUP Proposed New Law Among Several for Discussion at Meeting Today. FEDERAL AID HIGHWAY INCLUSION IS ANOTHER Sunday Bowling After 2 P.M, Child Blindness Prevention, Detective Split-Up Listed. BY J. A. O'LEARY. The proposed new Juvenile Court law and a variety of other local measures were expected to be taken up by the Senate District Committee this afternoon Chairman King called the meeting for 3 o’clock. The committee probably will not have time to consider all the bills pending before it, but hopes to act on all that can be agreed upon at thi time. Among other measures that may have a chance for consideration ar Chairman King's proposal to includ the District in the Federal aid high: way law; the bill to allow bowling alleys to operate on Sundays, with the opening hour fixed at 2 pm.; a measure to prevent blindness in in- fants and the bill to divide the detec- tive force into two salary groups. Court Bill May Get Hearing. It is expected a hearing will be held on the Juvenile Court bill in view of a series of amendments that have been discussed hy a Senate sub- committee since the measure passed the House. Supporters of the bill have expressed opposition to the amendments, believing they would seriously impair the main objective, which is to get away from the crimi- nal form of procedure in juvenile cases by making it a chancery or equity tribunal. In connection with the proposed frclusion of the District in the Fed- eral aid highway law Senator King has received a report from the De- partment of Agriculture, which ad- ministers the highway grants through the Public Roads Bureau. Although the report starts out with the statement that the relationship between the Federal and District governments is different from the relationship between the Federal Government and the States, it adds that the department “will interpose no objection” to provision being made for the District on the basis recom- mended in the Jacobs report or on such other basis as Congress may determine. The department suggest- ed the bill be amended, however, to take effect in 1939, because the Fed- | eral aid fund authorized for 1938 has been apportioned. Urged Inclusion in Act. ‘The Jacobs report recommended that the District be included in the Hayden-Cartwright Federal aid high- Mrs. Harry H. Woodring, photographed with her Woodring. youngest The baby was born February 10, the third child of the Secretary and Mrs. Woodring. wife of the Secretary of War, son, Cooper Coolidge —Underwood Photo. CAR HURTS FATAL; FIRST IN 15 DAYS 1Year’s Death Toll Now 36. Man Dies After Being Hit by Two Autos. The first traffic fatality In the Dis- trict in 15 days occurred today, when | Lorenzo Jackson, 36, colored, 716 Rock | Creek Church road, died in Freed- men’s Hospital of injuries received by two automobiles. Jackson's ceath again set back the District Commissioners’ campaign for | a month without a traffic death in | Washington, and at the same time brought the year’s toll to 36, as com- | pared with 22 at this time in 1936. He died slightly more than 24 hours after being hit by one car on Georgia avenue at Barry place and hurled into the path of another. Police said the first driver failed to stop. Freed on $1,000 Bond. Jack Berger, 21, of 1315 Park road, arrested a few hours later, was re- leaving after colliding and reckless driving. Two children, one of whom was in- jured seriously, were among yester- day’'s traffic victims. Robert Waldron, 7, son of Mrs. way act of 1934 on a basis similar to the States, with the exception that the minimum limitation upon | the grant to each recipient of one- half of 1 per cent of the aggregate appropriation should not apply to the District, because “it has no | rural roads.” | The States began sharing ‘in Fed- | eral aid highway grants in 1916, but the District was excluded. During the depression Washington shared temporarily in emergency highway allotments for unemployment relief, but when resumption of the normal road-building program was author- ized on the matching basis Washing- ton again was excluded. Although Congress not long ago included the District with the States in Federal aid for railroad grade crossing elimi- | nation, Washington will have com- paratively little grade crossing work to do in future, nearly all of its erossings having been eliminated. In responding to the District Com- mittee on the highway bill, the letter from the Agriculture Department dis- closed the Budget Bureau had given the department permission to transmit its report. The department stated: “Upon reference of this bill to the Bureau of the Budget, as required by budget circular 336, this department was advised under date of March 10 by the acting director thereof that ‘there would be no objection on the part of this office to the presentation of your proposed report to the com- mittee. ” KENNEDY PREPARES FOR FISCAL STUDY Will Head New Subcommittee Named to Examine Jacobs Report. Representative Kennedy, Democrat, of Maryland, who will be chairman of & new subcommittee of the House Dis- trict Committee named io examine the Jacobs fiscal relations report, today was making plans for getting his study under way. ! Coupled with the study of the Jacobs plan will be an inquiry into proposals for reorganizing the District govern- ment in the interests of efficiency and economy. Other members of the special sub- eommittee will be Representatives Nichols of Oklahoma, Allen of Dela- ware and McGehee of Mississippi, Democrats, and Dirksen of Ulinois and Cole of New York, Republicans. As part of the information to be laid before them there will be the testi- mony of J. L. Jacobs and his associate, George McAneny, New York banker, before joint sessions of two previously active subcommittees. Jacobs’ testimony before the District subcommittee of the House Appropria- tions Committee will be made public when the 1938 District supply bill is reported to the House. Author of Lincoln Book. William Dean Howells (1837-1920), suthor of “The Rise of Silas Lap- ham” and leading literary figure of day, once wrote & campaign life Lincoln. Nannie Waldron, 831 Thirteenth le 2 » & ") Virginia Sneidar. Robert Waldron. street northeast, was in Casualty Hospital today with a possible frac- tured skull, suffered near Thirteenth and I streets northeast when he ran into the side of a car driven by Harvey Walker, 29, colored, 1325 Wiley court northeast. He is a first- grade pupil at Holy Name School. The other child was Virginia Snei- dar, 6, of 45 U street northeast, whose leg was broken when she was struck by an automobile driven by Carl De- makas, 40, of 106 Barnum street, at Lincoln road near U street northeast. She was taken to Children’s Hospital. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sneidar and is in the first grade at St. Martin's School. Woman, 70, Is Injured. Mary Jane Quigley, 70, colored, 3111 Stanton road southeast, possibly suf- fered a skull fracture last night when hit by an automobile driven by Rob- ert V. Wilkerson, 49, colored, 718 Half street southwest. Ethel Nock, 61, George Washing- ton Inn, was slightly injured when struck by the opening door of a street car at Fifteenth street and Penn- sylvania avenue. She was treated at Emergency Hospital. teased on $1,000 bond on charges of | MANSFIELD LISTED FOR TRAFFIC POST Seen Likely Successor to Inspector Lamb as Head of Division. With Inspector Benjamin A. Lamb definitely slated to be replaced as head of the Traffic Division of the Police Department, Capt. Richard H. Mansfield, ninth precinct commander, today became a candidate for the job. He is the second official mentioned to succeed Inspector Lamb, who has asked to be shifted to less arduous duties because of his health. In- spector William E. Holmes, chief of the second district, yesterday was re- ported unofficially in line for the position. Later in the day, however, Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown revealed he had made no decision yet on In- | spector Lamb’s successor. In yesterday's Star it was inad- | vertently stated that Inspector Holmes was the one who had requested the shift because he was recuperating from an operation. It is understood that Capt. Mans- field was “sounded out” and hsked to consider himself a candidate for the traffic supervisor's position. Should he be appointed, he would carry the rank of acting inspector, there being no vacancies among the inspectors at this time. It also was learned that Capt. Mil- | ton D. Smith of the Traffic Division may be in line for the supervisor’s job. Maj. Brown was to confer some time today with €Commissioner Mel- vin C. Hazen, at which time the ap- | pointment may be announced. 'REAL ESTATE BILL BEFORE COMMITTEE Would Prevent “Fly-by-Night” Salesmen Here, Whiteford Testifies. “Fly-by-nighters” would be pre- vented from engaging in the real estate business here if Congress enacts the Norton bill to regulate and license real estate brokers and salesmen, Roger J. Whiteford, counsel for the Washington Real Estate Board, today told a subcommittee of the House Dis- rict Committee. ‘Whiteford testified during a public hearing on the measure. He occupied the witness stand throughout the hearing, explaining various features of the bill as a dozen prominent Wash- ington real estate brokers and bank- ers stood by waiting to indorse it. Not only will the proposed legisla- tion protect the public and the honest real estate broker, Whiteford pointed out, but it will prevent various lot- selling schemes. The bill would create & real estate commission appointed by the Com- missioners to regulate and control real estate brokers and salesmen. It also would set up qualifications for those engaged in real estate business. Lee-Jackson Two-Star Stamp To Stand, Officials Declare ‘The Bureau of Engraving and Print- ing and the Post Office Department are “sitting down” on the Gen. Robert E. Lee two-stars-on-stamp issue. In other words, they've made their stamp and the collectors may stick it in their albums or not—-that’s their privilege—but there isn’t going to be any repeat issue. Furthermore, it is a 4-cent stamp and the addition or omission of a few stars and wreaths won’t maks it worth more than that amount. If you don't believe it, take four pennies to the Post Office Department and buy your- self one. Or take a nickel and get a penny in change. The te..pest arose when it was dis- covered that Lee’s portrait on the Lee- Jackson memorial stamp showed only two stars on his uniform collar, instead of the wreath and three stars proper for a general of the Confederacy. To an autherity on Confederate Army uniforms, of course, that was pretty serious business. At the Bureau of Engraving and Printing the response was s shrug of the shoulders and the statement that ¥the bureau had printed the picture as ' It is no use to pray to furnished by the Post Office Depart- ment. The Post Office authorities, at the same time, declined to work up & temperature over the matter and ex- plained that the extra star was & bit north of the collar and just didn’t show up well. As for the wreath, well they just didn’t know what had hap- pened to it—and they indicated off the record that they weren't going to look for it. Anyway, when the word got around, ;88 words do, among the philatelists there was a rush to buy the “inac- curate” stamps in hope that a cor- rection would be issued and the orig- inals would boom in price. It cost | them $62,188.56 to hope that yester- day. Prayers Abandoned. In the Armenian massacres of 1895, when dread and horror sent most Armenians praying night and day in the churches, one woman was found sitting on the roadside who refused to pray. “Do you not see what has hape pened?” she said, “God has gone mad. Him{7> EASTER SCHEDULE INPARKS INCLUDES EGG-ROLLING FETE Crew of Men Busy Getting White House Lawn Set for Children Monday. SCHOLA CANTORUM CHOIR TO SING EARLY SUNDAY Other “Sunrise” Services Will Be Held at Fort Bunker Hill Park and at Fort Barnard Hill. Final plans are being whipped into shape today for the Easter festivities in the park system, including egg- rolling Monday on the White House lawn and Sunday sunrise celebrations. The preparations went ahead de- spite a rather bleak weather outlook. “Wraps may be stylish,” the forecaster said, if the mercury fails to recover quickly from a cold wave—possibly accompanied by snow flurries—due late today and tomorrow. Albert Clyde-Burton, chief of the division of recreation of the National Capital parks, has a gang of men ap the White House grounds preparing for the egg-rolling. Schools Closed Tomorrow. ‘The public schools will be closed tomorrow, starting the Easter holi- days, and the pupils will not return until Monday, April 5. Parochial schools closed Tuesday afternoon. They will reopen next Tuesday. With a dress rehearsal scheduled this evening at 8 o'clock for the Na- tional Capital Parks’ Schola Cantorum of 200 voices in the Departmental Auditorium, Thirteenth street and Constitution avenue, plans for the Easter sunrise concert are moving along. The concert, under the direc- tion of Arturo Papalardo, director of Schola Cantorum, is to be held in the Sylvan Theater at T o’clock Sunday morning. In the event of inclement weather the concert will be held at the Departmental Auditorium. & Other Services Planned. Dedication of the new sylvan theater in Fort Bunker Hill Park will be signalized by an Easter sunrise service at 5:51 o'clock. This is to last an hour and the service will be conducted by an interdenominational group of Bible students, representative of various organizations. Another Easter sunrise service will be held at Fort Barnard Hill from 5:30 am. to 8 am. on Sunday. This will be conducted by St. John's Epis- copal Church of Mount Rainier. President Roosevelt has authorized C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent, National Capital parks, to conduct Easter egg-rolling on the south grounds of the White House Easter Monday, beginning at 9 o’clock. From then until 3:30 p.m. only children 10 years of age and under will be ad- mitted. One adult guardian may ac- company a child. Other adults will not be admitted until 3:30 o'clock, and then until 5 o’clock. Mrs. Roosevelt sent a letter to the Geod Samaritans’ Home, 638 D street, inviting the children who re- ceive care there to the egg-rolling festivities. Officials of the home said they expected. to take close to 1,000 youngsters to the White House Grounds, and have already prepared 572 gayly-colored baskets. The Na- tional Training School Boys’ Band will play at the home Monday morn= ing before the children march to the big egg party. Band concerts will be held through the day Monday in the White House grounds. Loew’s Capitol Theater Or- chestra will be heard from 9 to 10 am., and that theater's band will play from 10 to noon. Then the Metropolitan Police Boys' Club Band will take over thé assignment and play until 1:30 o’clock. From 1:30 to 3 oclock the National Training School Boys' Band will play. At 3 o’clock the United States Marine Band will play until 5 o'clock, when the grounds will be cleared. Other entertainmeng will be held during intervals between the band concerts, Clyde-Burton explained to- day. This will include a puppet show, sleight-of-hand tricks and ventrilo- quism. Pierce Mill in Rock Creek Park will be open to visitors and in opera= tion from 1 to 4 p.m. Easter Sunday. Two troops of Boy Scouts will assist in guiding visitors there. These will be Troop 38, headed by Armstead Colman, and Troop 52, headed by Morris O. Spawn. Churches Announce Plans. Several churches today announced their plans for special services for the final period of the Lenten season. Holy communion will be celebrated in connection with a German celebra- tion at 10 am. tomorrow at Concor= dia Lutheran Church. The offering will be given to the Syrian Orphanage at Jerusalem. At 8 p.m..the choir will sing the second part of the cantata, “The Passion According to 8t. John,” by Bach. Right Rev. Charles Piske, former bishop of Central New York, will con- duct the “Passion Service” in the Great Choir of Washington Cathedral from noon until 3 p.m. in observance of Good Friday. He will deliver the seventh meditations on the last words of Christ. Morning p:ayer and litany will be read at 10 a.m., and holy com- munion will be celebrated at 7:30 a.m. Rev. Edward Slater Dunlap will conclude his addresses on “The Events of Holy Week” at the evensong serv- ice tonight. Bishop James E. Free- man and Bishop Fiske will speak at the festival services in the Cathedral Sunday. Dr. John K. Cartwright will pre- side at the Three Hours’ Agony serv- ice at the Church of the Immaculate Conception tomorrow. The sermons will be given by Rev. John Mc- Menamin, O. P. Music will be under direction of Prof. Harry Wheaton Howard and C. A. Benson. Stainer’s “The Crucifixion” will be sung by the choir of Mount Pleasant Congregational Church tomorrow at 8 pm. The chorus will be under the direction of Norton M. Little. A special communion service will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Georgetown Presbyterian Church. New ‘members will be recetved & special musical program will be nted. Representative Albert E. Carter, Calif. to swim. Following the lead of Senators’ daughters, the young ladies whose fathers are members of the House have decided to band their 86 members into a clubd. above are (left to right on piano bench) Adrienne Tolan, Calif., and Dorothy Smith, niece of Around them are Elizabeth Mahon, South Carolina; Betty Massingale, Oklahoma, elected temporary president; Frances Boykin, Alabama, a former beauty queen; Eleanor Harlan, Ohio, and Dorothy Ram-peck, Georgia. The girls, many of whom were not acquainted until they met together early this week, learned they represent colleges from California to New York, that eight of their members work, nine go to school and all like v MAN, 28, PLUNGES DOWN AIRSHAFT Seriously Hurt at Union Sta- tion After Leap From Y. M. C. A. William Drewery, ir., 28, of the 300 block of D street, was seriously in- jured today when he plunged down a 30-foot air shaft at Union Station | after leaping through a window of the Railroad Y. M. C. A. Drewery, & curb boy at a Con- necticut avenue barbecue stand, was taken to Emergency Hospital, where it was said he had suffered internal in- Juries and cuts. Entering the “Y” on the third floor of the terminal, according to wit- nesses, he ran and jumped through a closed window. A slanting skylight a few feet below the window broke his fall, but he slid off and fell to the bottom of the shaft. Dr. J. L. Alexander, railroad medi- cal examiner, and members of the fire rescue squad pulled Drewery out with a rope. Had Drewery gone through the | skylight, he probably would have broken through another glass parti- tion above the station dining room. As it was, pieces of glass fell to the dining room, but no one was cut. The young man was unidentified for some time, but police finally located Drewery's father-in-law, G. Linkenhopen, who identified him. Drewery formerly lived at Clifton Forge, Va. BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers Home Band in Stanley Hall at 5:30 pm. John §. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Pointner, assistant. Program. March, “Salute to America”_ Overture, “La Puit d’Amour” (The Well of Love) - Entr'acte, (a) “A Russian Song” Gretschanow (b) “A Russian Rural Scene”_Friml Scenes from the lige opera “The Bohemian Girl” (request)....Balfe Oriental scene, “A Siamese Patrol” Lincke ‘Waltz suite, “Dreams of Childhood” Waldteufel Finale, “Sixty Miles an Hour”__Hager “The Star Spangled Banner.” * Lincoln Former Slave of Denies Injuring Colored Boy A former slave of the old-fashioned | Southern mammy type shuffied into | Police Court today in her wide, flow- | ing skirts and starchy white apron tol answer a charge of throwing a cup of hot water on a 12-year old boy. Adeline Waters, tiny, bent dver a cane, but still able to get about on occasion, said she “misremembered” | how old she was, but declared she | Anton | | through her window and otherwise was a “big, strong girl” and a corn- field hand before the Civil War. | She was accused by Mrs. Josephine | Gaskins, colored. with assaulting her | son Willett, 12, by throwing hot water on the boy, part of which, Mrs. Gaskins said, got in the boy's eyes. | The elderly defendant assured Judge Edward M. Curran in no un- certain terms that she only threw a teacupful of cold water at the boy because, she said, he tossed a brick annoyed her. The Gaskins family and Mrs. Waters room at 2505 P street. The former slave was arrested yesterday and spent last night in the lock-up. She fer- vently expressed thanks today that all | woman said she was once owned by | Charter members shown —A. P. Photo. Mammy Type eight of her children are dead, because they “won't know I'se been disgraced.” Judge Curran took the defendant’s personal bond and meanwhile warned Mrs. Gaskins to keep her son from teasing the elderly woman. Mrs. Waters declared there were several reasons why she couldn't have “scalded” the boy. Ome was she wouldn’t do such a trick, and another, she had no way of heating water in_her room. The former slave showed attend- ants a scar on her arm caused, she said, by an overseer'’s whip. She said | the overseer lashed her when she | “skipped a row” while thinning young qorn in Lancaster County, Va. The a farmer named William George. Asked if she had ever been brought into court before, the woman said about 25 years ago she got arrested for playing some sort of lottery game. “I was so old then,” she declared, “that the judge just laughed at me and told me to go on home.” Mrs. Waters sald she lived on an old-age pension of $23 a month. She could not remember the source of her income. Congress Library Gets Collection of Stephens Letters By gift of Bernard M. Baruch, New York financier, the Library of Congress today received approximately 7,000 let- ters written by Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy. The collection until recently was .owned by Mrs. Horace M. Holden of Atlanta, grandniece of the Southern statesman. She sold it to Mr. Baruch for a price reported to have been $6,000. Dr. Herbert Putnam, librarian, an- nouncing the gift, explained this morn- ing that the correspondence classifies, | roughly, in three partd—the period when Stephens was a member of Con- gress, before the Civil War; the period when he was Jefferson Davis’ associate in the government of the Confederate States, and the period when he was Governor of Georgia, after the war. Among the themes dealt with in the letters are Stephens’ unavailing ef- forts to avoid a final conflict between North and South, his patronage prob- lems, legislative policies and political activities. Two of the costumes displayed by Miss May Potter yester- day at the Fashion Show of the Air, sponsored by Airlines at the Mayflower Hotel. American Left—A copper-colored novelty silk dress with rough straw snowflake weasel cape. Right—A Spring jacket copper hat an ,37:" in sheer black woolen, with white linen trim, black toya hat and twin silver for sca: Viola Shefar. f rt. —U nderwood & Un supervised The display w il ood Photos. BENNETT INDICTED IN TRAFFIC DEATH Civil Service Commission Employe Charged With Manslaughter. Edward L. Bennett, 39, of the 300 block of Tenth street northeast, a Civil Service Commission employe, was indicted today on a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of Mrs. Gladys G. Redman, 35, a passenger in his car when it crashed against a tree January 14. The tragedy occurred near the entrance to the Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb on Florida avenue northeast. Mrs. Redman died two days later in Casualty Hospital of a fractured skull. Bennett also was fnjured in the collision and was treated at the hos- pital unitl January 30. Witnesses said the car struck the tree head-on. Ac- cording to police, Bennett admitted he had been drinking. Others indicted were: Joseph Black, Kenneth A. Wash- ington and Vincent H. Samuels, house- breaking and larceny; Richard E. Lips- comb and Lorenzo McClendon, grand larceny; Robert Wheeler, joy-riding; Milford O. Snider, Mark A. Woodell, Joseph R. Lovelace, George W. Andre, William W. Scott and Joseph W. Petro, robbery; Jay D. Smith and Charles Williams, assault with intent to commit robbery; Raymond Golde, forgery and uttering, and Frank M. Rowley and Ethel Rowley, abortion. -— CADET REGIMENTS TO COMPETE TODAY Drills Scheduled at Central High Stadium, Starting at 3:20 0’Clock. Cadet regiments from the six high schools in Divisions 1 to 9 were sched- uled to march in regimental compe- tition this afternoon at the Central High School Stadium, beginning at 3:20 o’clock. Judges were to be Capt. James Re- gan and Lieut. Forrest Caraway, U. S. A, critics at the battalion compe- tition last Monday. On conclusion of the contest at 5:30 pm. prizes will be awarded by Dr. Harvey A. Smith, assistant superin- tendent of schools, to the winning units of the battalion competition Monday, and the winer of the map problem test at Franklin School a few weeks ago, as well as to the vic- tors in today’s contest. A special medal will be presented to the drum major of the Roosevelt band, adjudged winner last Monday of the band contest, by Zeb T. Hamilton, Americansim officer of Bunker Hill Post, No. 31, American Legion. The post will present another medal to the first sergeant of the winning com- pany in May. ‘The order of march was to be: Cen- tral, Western, McKinley, Woodrow Wilson, Eastern and Roosevelt. (Y HEADS SEEK FUNDS TO PROJECT K STREET VIADUCT Dupont Subway and Thomas Circle Change Money Also Desired. COMMISSIONERS BACK PROPOSALS INFORMALLY, No Hope Held for Appropriation for Construction During Next Fiscal Year. Funds for drafting of detailed speci= fications for the proposed K street traffic viaduct as a by-pass for Georgetown, construction of a street car subway for Dupont Circle and for revamping Thomas Circle are being sought in the 1938 District budget by the Commissioners. This was made known today as municipal engineers were completing preparation of estimates of the costs of a long list of engineer plans for the relief of traffic congestion, which are to be forwarded in a day or two to the House. The Commissioners informally have given approval to proposals prepared by Capt. H. C. Whitehurst, District highway director, for the three proj= ects. Specifically, they hope Congress will include in the 1938 budget an item of $30.000 for preparation of de= talled plans. . No Hope of Building Funds. ‘There is no hope of obtaining con- struction funds for the projects during the next year, due to the financial crisis now facing the ‘District, officials say. The three alone would cost more than $1,700,000. The total list of suggested traffic en- gineering plans has an aggregate total cost of more than $10,000,000. They were suggested as a five-year program, but District engineers have questioned the value of some of the items Col. Dan I. Sultan, Engineer Com- missioner, has sponsored the K street viaduct as the most important and urgent item in the whole tentative pro- gram. He places the Dupont Circle street car subway and the suggested new treatment for Thomas Circle in second and third places. The viaduct is intended to relieve congestion of trafic which prevails throughout the day along Pennsyle vania avenue and M street, in the Georgetown area. Since the opening of the Reck Creek and Potomac Park- way the congestion at its intersection with K street also has caused a flood of protests. The viaduct would start just east of Twenty-seventh street and pass over both the parkway and Rock Creek. It would be carried up K street and Water street, passing under Key Bridge. On the .line of Thirty-sixth street, there would be a ramp up to M street so that Virginia-bound cars could swing onto the bridge without crossing traffic lanes. There also would be a ramp building to the east of the bridge so that in= bound traffic could swing down on the elevated traffic by-pass without tra= versing M street. Cost Put at $1,430,000. The cost of this project is estimated roughly at $1.430.000. It has been se- lected in preference to a proposal to build a roadway over the C. & O. Canal. The costs and delays of acquiring the canal property, officials find, make that plan undesirable. The Dupont Circle subway plan has an estimated cost of some $300.000. Street tracks now are laid only on the west side of the circle, causing north- bound cars to go counter to vehicular movements. The alternative to the subway, officials say, would be to lay street car tracks for northbound cars around the east side of the circle. ‘The plan would not require any major changes to the circle, officials say, other than to take off 15 feet of the circular park to permit widening of the vehicular roadway. The curb lines around the outside of the road=- way would be set back at many points and several small “directional islands™ would be built to guide traffic. The Thomas Circle plan, estimated to cost some $60,000, would call for running both street cars and vehicular traffic through what is now the cir~ cular park, but it would leave intact the Thomas statue and a streamlined park about its base. There would re- main also the sectors of the present circle on the east and west sides, CHERRY FESTIVAL DATE TO BE FIXED April 8 Most Likely to Be Chosen at Official Meeting This Afternoon. Officials in charge of the Wash- ington Cherry Blossom Festival were to meet this afternoon to fix the date for the celebration and pageant, with prospects they would select April 6, a week from next Tuesday. Committee officials will be guided by reports of the National Capital Parks Office as to when the blossoms will be in full bloom Reports today were that the buds would be opened in full splendor some time between April 4 and April 11, depending upon weather conditions. The committee had been contem« plating either April 2 or April 9 as the date for the festival. It now ap- pears that April 2 is out and that April 6 is the tentative selection. Tickets for seats for the festival will be placed on sale in the next day or two, under arrangements made by Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal and District Surveyor Edward Dent. The price will be 25 cents each. They will be on sale at the larger hotels, at the Keystone and the Amer- jean Automobile Associations and the Housing Office of the Greater Na- tional Capital Committee of the Board of Trade and by members of the parent-teacher associations. Get American Plane. Seek to Save Iron Sculpture. To preserve an art that is dying out three old masters of iron sculpture have gone to Mécow from the Urals. A huge American-built flying boat is to be placed in service in Japan by the Japan Air Transport Co. The plane can carry 32 passengers, besides two pilots, & yechanic and a steward. »