Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1937, Page 26

TRAFFIGRULINGS UNDER FIRE HERE Arrests Increase as More Attacks on Administration Develop. BY LESTER N. INSKEEP. A recent order by Police Inspector L. I. H. Edwards that more speeding arrests be made in the outlying pre- cincts has brought a large increase of business in Traffic Court and at the same time there have been a num- ber of attacks on the administration of the traffic code. Many attorneys are seeking loop- holes through which their now nu- merous clients may escape the penal- ties, but during, the last week nearly $10,000 in fines were paid through the Police Court financial office. While some of these were for other of- fenses, by far the greater number were paid on traffic convictions. Traffic Court has become a buga- boo to all of the Police Court judges. The assignments to the four courts rotate so that each of the four judges has Traffic Court once in four months. Speeding Cases Lead. Speeding charges lead all others in cases brought into court for trial, although there are more warrants issued in parking cases. Persons ar- yested for speeding are not allowed | to forfeit, hence Traffic Court has become a melting pot in which truck | drivers and debutantes receive much the same treatment ‘The most important attack on the parking regulations was launched a week ago by Attorney Cornelius H. Doherty. Given a ticket for parking on the curb side of a “no-parking- to-corner” sign on Vermont avenue, Doherty will argue before Judge John P. McMahon next Saturday on the rights of the Traffic Department to erect parking signs on any streets other than those designated in an act of Congress. Should he win his case on a motion to quash, signs could b2 erected only downtown and on principal thoroughfares. Only one of the recent attacks has been passed on. Judge Walter J. Casey yesterday overruled a motion to quash 14 parking charges against Isadore H. Halpern. Attacked Legality of Sign. H Through his attorney, Attorney | Milton Kaplan, Halpern attacked the legality of all traffic signs on the ground they are erected by and carry the name of the police. The traffic act, he contended, placed the admin- istration of signs in the hands of the Commissioners and their aides and | expressly prohibited the Commission- ers from delegating any of their pow- ers to the police. Judge Casey ruled with Assistant | Corporation Counsel John O'Day mab-’ the police are not exercising “legisla- tive powers,” as charged, but merely performing a ministerial duty. Kaplan immediately noted an ap- al. peAmather case which is causing a stir in Police Court is an attack on the handling by the corporation coun- sel’s office of any cases in which both fines and jail sentences are the max- imum penalty. It is contended all such cases come under the District attorney’s office. Since all but the most minor infrae- tions of the District Code carry such penelties, the Police Court branch of the corporation counsel's office would be practiclly wiped out in case of a, decision favoring the point taken by | Attorney T. Edward O'Connell in be- half of a client charged with second- offense reckless driving. THE WEATHER District of Columbia — Generally fair and continued cool today; tomor- row fair and somewhat warmer; mod- erate northwest winds. Maryland and Virginia—Generally fair and continued cool today; tomor- row fair and somewhat warmer. West Virginia—Mostly cloudy to- day; tomorrow fair and somewhat warmer. River Report. Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear late yesterday afternoon. Report Until 10 P.M. Saturday. 3 3 1 4+ 4| 4 4 £ Record Until 10 P.M. Saturday. 45, 3 pm. Yesterday, 36, 6 am. Yesterday, vear year Record Tembperatures This Year. fishest, 76. on January 9 west. 19, on February 28. Tide Tables. (Furnished by United States Coast and Geodetic Burvey.) Sun, today __ 8Sun, tomorrow Moon, today Automobile must be turned on one-half hour after sunset. Precipitation. Monthly precipitation in inches in the Capital (current month to date): Month, 7 Average. Record, January w83y February March ‘Weather in Various Cities. ~Temperature— 7:3 . Sat. p.m.to Asheville, Atlanta, Ga. Atlantic Qity. N, J. Baltimore, Md. ' Birmingham, Als k. N. Dak. s s o e Festival. while Applegate was preparing flames. The trailer was insured daughter Ruth and son Charles survey the damaged interior. night. The fire occurred at the Tourist Camp about 6 THE SUNDAY Yet They Enjoyed the Festival C. R. Applegate of Freehold, N. J., didn’t let a $400 fire in his trailer spoii his family’s enjoyment of the Cherry Blossom f.m. yesterday dinner. A gasoline explosion brought the fire department, which quickly extinguished the , however, so Applegate and his are not too disconsolate as they They rented a cabin for the —Star Staff Photo. W.P.A. DELEGATES MISS” HOPKINS 200 White Collar Workers Dash Back to Gotham After Picketing. Two hundred dissatisfled W. P. A. white-collar workers who came here from New York yesterday, ostensibly to see the cherry blossoms but in real- ity to see Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, departed last evening with- out having seen either. The group arrived on a special cherry blossom excursion train and rode in taxicabs to Works Progress Administration headquarters, where they Thoisted placards protesting against reductions ir administrative personnel and established a picket line. Leaders of the pickets were informed Hopkins was out of the city and they laid their protests before Dean Brim- hall and Rev. Prancis Haas, W. P. A. labor relations advisers. Then, after a brief meeting at head- quarters of the Workers’ Alliance at 810 F street, the pickets folded up their placards and hastened to Union Station to board a homeward-bound | train before their cherry blossom | excursion tickets expired. Object to Relief Status. ‘The chief complaints of the group, well-groomed and orderly, centered about the W. P. A. order which will limit employment of administrative workers not drawn from relief rolls to 5 per cent of the total number of per- sons given jobs on work-relief proj- ects. They objected to returning to the status of straight-out relief work- ers, which would limit them to security wage rates and deprive them of the higher pay they have been receiving for administrative activities. The placards carried around W. P. A. headquarters declared “No More Pink Slips,” “Vacations With Pay” and “Increase Wages 20 per cent.” The administrative and advisory Jobs held by the pickets have been paying from $85 to $125 a month, averaging about $12 above the security wage level. The new 5 per cent regula- tion, according to Norman Schrank, 8 leader of the group, would reducs about 15,000 from the administrative to relief status in New York. Alliance Strike Predicted. Schrank warned that the Workers’ Alliance is preparing for a general strike of the 175,000 W. P. A. workers in New York City within & month “We are bona fide relief people and we cannot live on $55 a month,” said Schrank as he surveyed his group, a number of whom wore warm fur coats. The majority of the protestants were far from satisfied with the outcome of their visit and there were suggestions of a “sit-in” as the negotiations wound up with nothing but a sympathetic hearing. But leaders persuaded all of the group to return to the train before their excursion tickets expired. Miss Dorothy Davids of the Teach- ers’ Union said Dr. John W. Stude- baker, commissioner of education, gave her delegation “some encouragement.” Brimhall assured the committee he would lay their protests before Hop- kins. He said the delegation “‘seemed Yv.cv- recognize some of the limitations of . P. A” CONGREGATION TO MARK 50th ANNIVERSARY TODAY Chev. Sholom Synagogue Found- 2223220 TR AR BB SHODBR AP EANe] 82 =3 3 s, Mo. = 8an Antonio, Tex._ 8an Diego. Oalif. Francisco, Cal. Fe. N_ Mex. 2R LT 2000102590155 190 SR BRI 0030 A b ST PR BT S e e . 53200 AN OB RN AR AR D1 AN TR AR323833 3R R SRR S AT RE B RS AR R RIIRIRFELRE F A A P FEEF AP S > ing to Be Celebrated at Banquet. ‘The Chev Sholom Congregation will celebrate the fiftieth anniver- sary of its founding with & banquet to be held at 6 pm. today at the synagogue, Fifth and I streets. Nathan Plotnick, member of the Executive Board of the synagogue, will be toastmaster and chairman of the Arrangements Oommittee. Rabbi Zemach Green will deliver the prin- cipal address. Other members of the Arrangements Committee, besides Plotnick, are Ja- cob Bass, president of the syna- gogue; Benjamin Jaffe, vice presi- dent; Israel Levinson, treasurer; Max Goldberg, secretary, and Jacob Min- koff, Ben Hayman,Willam R. Floam, Samuel Dworkin; Samuel Rosen, Mor- ris Cohen and Rabbi Green. The congregation has grown from 12 to over 400 members since its founding. The church had its first headquarters in s rented room at Tenth and D streets. It has oocupied its present site for the last 32 yeass. 5 T M.F.B0YD, FORMER NEWS WRITER, DIES Once Prominent Editor and Economist Succumbs Here at 52. Matthew F. Boyd, 52, formerly a prominent newspaper man and eco- nomist, died yesterday after a long illness at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Boyle, jr., 3901 Ingomar street, where he had lived for some time. Mr. Boyd, widely known as a writer both in this country and abroad, for many years had been active in labor circles. As second vice chairmen of the Washington Consumers’ Council, he had figured in the fight for cheaper milk for the Washington consumer and had opposed the Agricultural Adjustment Administration’s milk marketing agreement, claiming it un- necessarily raised the price of milk. Coming to Washington 320 years 2go, Mr. Boyd joined the Washington Herald staff. He received honorable mention for the Pulitver Prize for his articles on the Teapot oil case. Educated in England. A native of New York, he was taken to England by his parents in his infancy. He was educated in England and was a writer there when his in- terest in labor was aroused. He be- came associated with George Lans- bury and other British labor leaders in aiding the cause of British workers. Bubsequently, he returned to this country and entered the publishing business, for several years being con- nected with Harper & Brothers and later with Boni & Liveright as editor in chief. Mr. Boyd took s prominent part in connection with a Paterson, N. J, textile strike not long before the World War, when the workers were led by “Big Bill” Haywood and John Reed, famous writer. He and Reed remained close friends until the lat- ter’s death in Russia. Mr. Boyd later brought about an expose of New Jersey prison ocondi- tions and interested Dwight Morrow and other prominent perSons in a prison reform campeign. Knew Noted Artists. He had an extensive acquaintance among artists anc writers who made Greenwich Village famous, and num- bered Eugene O'Neil, Jo Davidson, John Sloane and Mary Heaton Vorse among his friends. After a service here on the Wash- ington Herald, Boyd joined the staff of the Philadelphia News as an edi- torial writer. In 1932 he rejoined the Herald staff. He again left there to join the N. R. A. as an economist with the Labor Advisory Board. In recent months he had been inactive, due to illness. Funeral services and burial are to be private. The body was scheduled to rest today at Hines’ funeral home, 29801 Fourteenth atreet. e Egypt 8 & main source of the world’s fine coiton. "E\ You go around suffering agony with sore, inflamed, burning feet when one good rubbing to- night with Aspirub takes out pain and soreness and sends {cu out in the morning with feet blissfully heakthy and happy — actually strong again. Aspirub PENETRATES quickly thru the skin whgro its powerful pain-relieving ingre- dients quickly drive out aches and soreness. THE only stain- less, antiseptic rub with genuine active Aspirin—itsamazing sue: cess in ending muscular aches and pains will surprise you. Big jar costs but little at any live druggist. When Aspirub gets in —aches, pains and soreness get right out. ASPIRUB CONTAINS PAIN RELIEVING ASPIRIN MORO TOLL HEAVY INGUERILLA WAR 200 Killed in Week by Fili- pinos, With General Con- flict in Prospect. BY JAMES G. WINGO. Guerilla fighting in Southern Phil- ippines between the Philippine con- stabulary and Moro warriors, who re- fuse to pay taxes and recognize the authority of the commonwealth gov- ernment, resulted in the death of more than 200 Moros in the last week, The situation is considered ex- tremely serious because of the possi- bility of an outbreak of general war- fare in Moroland. Numberless no- madic Moros from nearby Sulu, Pala- wan, Borneo, Celebes and Java, who can smell a fight for a long distance, may rush into the thick of the Min- danso war. Hence Philippine con- stabulary is eager to suppress the Min- danso guerills fighting promptly. The last week's fighting has been done near Dansalan, the new capital of Mindanao, in the densely forested Lanao Province, which is infested with mountain savages, man-eating croco- diles, poisonous anakes, monkeys and other wild animals. Dansalan is the site of the newly established office of the commissioner of Mindanao and Sulu, which has replaced the Bureau of Non-Christian Tribes at Manila. Transfer of the traditional seat of government in Mindanao to Dansalan from historical Zamboanga has close connection with Philippine military plans, General Development, Dutles of the new office of the com- missioner of Mindanao and Sulu in- clude direction and supervision of the general development of Mindanao and Sulu, Measures giving impetus to Christlan homesteading in Mindanao were enacted last year by the Philip- pine National Assembly. More than 6,000 families from the congested re- -D. 6, APRIL 11,” 1657—PART ON gions in Northern Luzon provinces are expected to be transported to Min- danao by the government in 1937. Like the Indians of the American West, the Moros resent the Christian invasion. They want to keep Min- danso their own hunting and fishing ground. They do not want to be bothered by taxes, schools and other phases of Christian civilization. ‘The Philippine Constabulary is in Mindanao to enforce the common- wealth policy of Moro pacification and the development of the island’s tremendously rich argricultural, for- est, mineral and iarine resources be- fore the Japanese decide tg branch out from Davao Province (derisively called “Davaokuo”), the southeastern part of Mindanso, which they con- trol. As a sop to the Mohammedans for the aggressive policy of the Quezon administration toward the Moros, general provisions of the election of national Assemblymen have been ex- tended to the Moro provinces of Lanao, Cotabato and Sulu. But since President Quezon has postponed the country’s general election that would have fallen this year, Moros will not exercise the right of suffrage until 1938. 8ix weeks ago the two largest cities of Mindanao, Zamboanga and Davao City (“gateway to a vast agricultural empire”) were converted into char- tered cities, like Manila, Baguio and Cebu, with their mayors owing their positions to the President of the Phil- ippines. In the establishment of chartered cities in the second larg- est Philippine island, the common- wealth government proposes to offer better attractions for young emigrants to Mindanao. ‘The chartered cities will provide all comforts of modern life. A larger opjective is to counteract the rapid increase of -Japanese immigrants to Mindanao. Recently inaugurated were interprovincial roads connect- ing Dansalan with other population centers. Constabulary Difficulties. Philippine constabularymen’s dif- ficulty in fighting the Moros is their inability to locate and penetrate se- cret, forts, “cotas,” even with the help of airplanes. A cota is hidden amongst clumps of magnificent bamboos. En- circling the works is a fence of thorny branches, thick enough to stop the charge of a wild boar. Out- side of this fence, which is reinforced with barbed wire entanglements, are hundreds of sharpened bamboo stakes set at just the right angle to pene- trate & man’s foot. These stakes are Ppoisoned. Within the fortification s series of tunnels, leading to camoufiaged exe its in the jungle, connects a scientific system of bomb-proof dugouts, fitted with bamboo tubes protruding through the ground. These tubes command all the approaches of the cots. With- in each tube a rifle or shotgun lies ready at hand, while a vigilant Moro warrior lies at his ease and ready to pull the trigger at the slightest provo- cation. ‘Throughout the Moro provinces in Mindanao these armed and camou- flaged cotas are scattered. They are garrisoned by Morus who have never paid and never intend to pay taxes to the Philippine Government. Complicating the Mindanao situa- tion is the existence of two rivaling Sultans of Sulu. Obeervers consider this preposterous and untenable. It is believed that sooner or later the two factions will come to a bloody showdown. The Mindanao Moros are spiritual subjects of the rightful Sul- tan of Sulu, and ordinarily repercus- slons of their troubles agitate the Sulu Archipelago to the south of them. 8ince the death of His Highness Padukka Mahasari Manulana Hadji Jamalul Kiram II last June, the oc- cupant of his throne has changed four times. KEEMLE FUNERAL SET Wife of Retired Civil Engineer to Be Buried Tomorrow. Funeral services for Mrs. Josephine | C. Keemle, 75, who died Friday at her home in the Chastleton Apartments, will be held at 9 am. tomorrow in St. Paul's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Mrs. Keemle was the wife of Samuel Keemle, retired civil engineer of the Interstate Commerce Commission, | She had been a Washington resident | for 40 years. RACE VETERAN DIES DRILL AT FORT MYER OF HEART D|SEASE Garrison to Honor Washington Tames Evans Is Stricken at Bowie ‘While Watching Daughter- in-Law Ride. James Evans, veteran race horse | trainer, dropped dead, apparently of | heart disease, at the Bowie track| yesterday during the running of the | third race, in which & horse he had | just 3addled for his dsughter-in-law was participating. He formerly lived | in Washington and at one time was| sald to have acted as trainer for the stable operated by the late Gifford A. Cochran of New York. Evans, who was about 65 had saddled Stipulate for his son's wife, | Mrs. Belmont Evans, and was watch- | ing the race from the infield when | he suddenly slumped to the ground.! Stipulate finished fifth in the race. | Dr. J. Brooke Boyd, track physician, said Evans apparently died instantly. Belmont Evans has been more in the limelight of turfdom in recent| years than his father. The younger | Evans was reported to be at Jamaica with a string of horses he is preparing for the opening of the New York | season next week. Both father and son | had trained horses in Florida during the Winter. ADVERTISEMENT. ~ STUBBORN [RHEUMATIS Rheumatic Gout Neuritis—Sciatica Most of the aches. Dsins, soreness ~and lameness of rheumatism, neuritis. sciatica ar matic gout are caused or aggrava excess uric acid. stage a special drill in honor of Visitors Friday. The garrison of Fort Myer, Va., will 5= itors to Washington at 8 pm. Frie day in the riding hall at the post, it was announced yesterday by Col. 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