Evening Star Newspaper, July 2, 1937, Page 21

Washington News FORMER TELLERS| [ sea UNDER INDIGTMENT INTWO SHORTAGES Misappropriations in Banks Charged to Pair in Sep- arate Cases. ANOTHER BILL ACCUSES MAN, 48, OF ASSAULT Three Youths Accused Under Lit- tle-Used Section of Code After Alleged Abduction. Two former bank tellers, arrested some time ago, were indicted by the District grand jury today on embez- element charges. They are Charles Benjamin Hagan, Kensington, Md., formerly with the National Metro- politan Bank, and William Newman Dorsett, 1600 block of Columbia road, formerly head teller of Becurity & Trust Co. Hagan was charged with misap- propriating §5,300, principally by forg- ing withdrawal slips on the account of Mrs. Martha B. Parks, 2205 Cali- fornia street. The short: was dis- covered when Mrs. Pa sought to transfer her account March 18. On that date her pass book showed $5.665.20 on deposit, but the bank records ind ed only $97.76. The teller had been employved at the bank from 1920 until 1936, when he was discharged. When the short- age was ascertained Hagan was work- ing as a laundry wagon driver. He 4s married and has one child, Dorsett at Bank 10 Years. . 46, had been employed by an Security & Trust . for ars, and is married and has He was charged with and misapplyin The alleged mi represented only irreg- in accounts, rather than he American a about 10 two ch embezzling $1.659 du application ularities shortages. Dorsett was arrested last November when an apparently inexplicable over- draft developed in the account of the Church of the Nativity. Although he denies any guilt, Federal investigators say the bank records indicate at least 10 instances of failure to credit de- Pposits. In another embezzlement indictment Lawrence G. Murray, 48, was charged with fleecing Charles W. Taylor, 3616 Van Ness street, of $2,200 through bogus sale of oil stock during the Bummer of 1936. Assault Indictment Returned. ‘William Carroll Kirby, 48, was in- dicted on a charge of criminally a: saulting Miss Ethel Schanholtz, 2 of the 4600 block of Ninth street. The attack is alleged to have occurred June 17 on Roosevelt Island in the Potomac River after they had gone canoeing. Three youths held by police as the abductors of Karl R. Miner, prominent New York lawyer, May 5, were in- dicted under a little-used section of the code making it an offense to bring into the District property obtained Wlegally in another jurisdiction. Joseph F. Crampton, 23,; Henry J. McCrae, 22, and John C. White, 24, were named by the grand jury. They are said to have met Miner in an M street beer garden, forced him into An automobile, which was then driven out Conduit road into Maryland, where the elderly man was pushed down an embankment. He said a pocketbook containing $20 was taken trom him, police reported. SHORT CUT COMPLETED Branch Avenue Stretch Saves Dis- tance to Southern Maryland. ‘The 800-yard stretch of new con- erete connecting Branch avenue at the District line with the Leonardtown road has been completed, affording motorists a shorter and more direet route to Southern Maryland, Luke J. Milovich, chairman of the Road Com- mittee of the Prince Georges County Citizens' Association, announced today. Completion of the road opens a direct route by way of Pennsylvania and Branch avenues to the Leonard- town road, making it unnecessary to & through Anacostia and Good Hope. The new roadway is 40 feet wide and eliminates 10 dangerous curves on the old road, which bears heavy traffic from Washington to the Southern Maryland beaches. s1 BAND CONCERTS. By the Army Band at the Capitol at 7:30 tonight. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, assist- ant. By the Army band in the auditorium at 10:30 am. tomorrow. Capt. Yhomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub- mer, assistant. Two Bandits Play To“Grandstand,” But Get No Encore Hudience Turns Out to Be Policemen—*‘Ac- tors” Retire. Two white men staged a hold-up Mst night before an audience of two, and as a result found themselves in Jail this morning, being investigated as the ‘cab driver” robbers of the past week. The two spectators were Policemen M. M. Welch and C. R. Sidnor, No. 11 precinct, who drove by in a scout car, they said, just as a cab driver was being held up at Massachusetts ave- fue and Anacostia road southeast. The two policemen appreciated the Arama of the situation when they saw the gun pointed at the driver, and & moment later they broke up the show. The bandits, 20 and 22 years old, “ are being held at No. 5 and No. 11 precinet stations, respectively, while police seek to link them with the re- cent series of cab robberies. he 4 WASHINGTON, ) @ FRIDAY, WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION bening Sfar 9 <y JULY 1937. Society and General Scouts and Aquatic Stars Show Ability in Carnival to Make Poor Children Happy Okla. Parents and Teachers. Sea Scouts get shore leave and go out with girl friends to watch the water carnival in East Potomac Park. The Washington lassies are Rita Vermillion and Norma McCrone. is Orville Rockhold, on the right Dick North, both from Woodward, The water show was arranged by the District Congress of SKELETON LINKED Laundry Marks in Trousers Strengthen Murder Theory. Clothing which covered the skeleton | found Monday in the woods near | Greenbelt, Md., has been positively identified as belonging to Charles L. inller. 44, taxicab driver of 3008 | Twentieth street northeast, who mys- | teriously disappeared last July 28. | Detective Sergt. John Dalglish of the Homicide Squad revealed today. Two laundry marks stamped on a pair of Summer trousers were traced to the Palace and Pioneer Laundries. and records revealed that the marks were listed beside Miller's name, Dalg- lish said. Identification of the clothing strengthened the theory that Miller had been murdered by two colored men who abandoned his taxicab at Tenth street and Rhode Island avenuc northeast on the night he disappeared. In an effort to corroborate the iden- tification of the skeleton, Sergt. Ralph Brown of the Prince Georges County Police plans to search today for the dentist who filled Miller's teeth. The dentist wil be asked to examine the teeth of the skeleton. While physicians have been unable to establish the cause of Miller's death, Brown pointed out that if the case is officially listed as murder he will confer with Washington police to de- termine who will assume jurisdiction. “We will have to determine whether Miller was murdered, if he was mur- dered, in the District or in Prince Georges County,” Brown said. The murder theory was strength- ened by the fact that no money or identification cards were found in Miller's pockets. He is known to have received several fares on the night he vanished. The skeleton was found by David Sampson, Berwyn, Md., who was em- ployed in clearing a thicket across the tration’s housing project. Some parts of the skeleton were scattcred over a 30-foot area. Mrs. Miller, wife of the missing cab driver, was unable to identify the clothing found with the skeleton. Police adopted the murder theory soon after Miller disappeared, and Jjoined with a posse of Boy Scouts in searching the wooded areas near Catholic University for his body. Soon after his father vanished, Miller's 10-year-old son made a touch- ing appeal through the newspapers asking for his “Daddy” to come home for his 10th birthday party if he was still alive. MAN GETS 40 YEARS IN WOODSHED KILLING A 40-year prison term was imposed late yesterday by Justice P. Dickinson Letts of District Court on Alonzo Turner, 33, who pleaded guilty to sec- ond-degree murder in connection with the slaying June 6, 1936, of Mrs. Mary Maier in a Southwest Washington woodshed. Turner and Elmer Fulk, 39, were in- dicted on charges of first-degree mur- der and criminal assault, and went on trial last week facing those accusa- tions. After three days, however, Turner was allowed to plead guilty to second-degree murder and Fulk to as- sault with intent to commit criminal assault. The latter was sentenced to from 3 to 15 years in prison. The attack on the woman occurred in the 600 block of Independence ave- nue southwest, where both she and Fulk lived. | T0 A IRVER road from the Resettlement Adminis- GUILTY INHOLD-UPS Arrested as “Blackface Gang” Member, He Ad- mits Robberies. Walter H. Forbush, 24, described | | by police as a member of the mnotor- | | ious “Blackface Gang.” pleaded guilty before Justice Jesse C. Adkins in Dis- trict Court this afternoon to three | robbery charges. | His plea was entered after trial of | one of the cases—the hold-up of the | Sterling Liquor Co., Inc., 429 Fifteenth | street northeast—had begun and For- | bush had been identified by two wit- nesses. Arrested in Baltimore June 20 after ,an affray with police in which his | companion, Martin J. Walsh, was shot to death, Forbush was brought into court today handcuffed to a deputy marshal. His attorney, J. Frank O'Brien, protested that such treat- ment might give the jury a bad im- | pression of him, but Justice Adkins | overruled the objection. | Besides the Sterling Liquor Store holdup Forbush admitted participating in the holdup of & liquor store at 609 Eleventh stree; June 21 and the hold- up of a Little Tavern Shop at 2628 Connecticut avenue June 20. Assistant United States Attorney Samuel F. Beach said he would nolle prosse the remaining indictment | charging robbery of the Transit Ham- burg Shop, 1906 Fourth street north- east, June 18 | Forbush will be sentenced tomor- |row. He and Walsh escaped from iumnn Reformatory April 22. 'BASSETT FUNERAL RITE IS HELD AT FORT MYER Funeral services for Maj. Charles Chester Bassett, 75, former Govern- ment employe here for many years, who died Tuesday in Veterans' Hos- pital at Perry Point, Md., were held today in Fort Myer Chapel. Burial was in Arlington National Cemetery, with full military honors. Maj. Bassett served in the World War as major of Engineers. For many years he was cartographer for ! the Geological Survey and Iater the ( Bureau of Soils, Department of Agri- culture. He was a native of this city, was & charter member of the George ‘Washington Post of the American | Legion and a former member of the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of the District of Columbia. |DOG OWNERS IGNORE NEED OF NEW TAGS ‘Washington dog owners again this year are showing the same slowness in going to the tax collector’s office in the District Building to buy identi- | fication plates for their pets. | The 1938 fiscal year tags—27,000 of | them—were placed on sale yesterday, | but only 692 were sold. Tax Col- lector Chatham M. Towers expects, | however, some 20.000 will be sold be- fore the end of the month. Dogs not bearing tags after July 131 may be carried off to the dog pound. |55 DOCTORS JOIN STAFF AT GALLINGER HOSPITAL Fifty-five new staff members, of, | whom 28 are resident physicians and the remainder internes, began their duties at Gallinger Hospital yesterday, replacing more than 40 doctors who have served during the last fiscal year. A new staff of internes is selected from leading medical schools over the country every 18 months. The resident staff is changed each fiscal year. Mrs. Matilda Murray, 28-year-old mother, who defied a court order for her commitment to jail, in order to come to Washington and fight her husband’s divorce suit, was on her way back to her West Haven, Conn., home today, after an announcement late yesterday by Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue that he would grant her a limited divorce. With her were her two children, Lucille, 8, and Wylie, 4, who were the innocent causes of her difficulties with the court. She had refused to obey an order to turn them over to their father, Raymond C. Murray. Both husband and wife charged the other with cruelty. After listening to Court-Defying Mother Wins Divorce, Children’s Custody the evidence for two days, Justice O’Donoghue said: “These two do not wish to live together, but the charges they have brought are not serious. * * * However, it is best that the chil- dren live in a house where there is peace.” Declaring that the law of nature decrees that the mother, if she be a fit person, be the custodian of the chil- dren, the jurist awarded them to Mrs. Murray and directed Murray, who is s taxicab driver, to pay her $30 monthly for their maintenance. Murray, who did not ask that the contempt sentence be enforced, told newspaper men he was “dumfounded at the decision” and would appeal. ¥y The Sea Scout on the left FORBUSH PLEADS a Boy Scout team to win cheerers, members of team, are Helen Flett, Ann Helmick and Elizabeth White. A S “Come on, Scouts!” These girls are rooting ]o‘ru the Shorcham swimming its water race. The fair Bono, June Booth, Judith to ca e quatic Carnival of Thrills Held to Aid Underprivileged tars Perform in Lively Sports Pro- gram—Ambassador Water Polo Team Victor. Safety and rescue work that Boy| Scouts learn in boatcraft. the thrills and duckings of water polo, life guard work and swimming contests with out- standing contenders featured a varied program last night in the aquatic car- nival staged at East Potomac Park | under auspices of the District Congress of Parents and Teachers. | The individual stars of the evening were Frank Palmer, who scored 3 touch goals and 9 points in the Ambassa- dor water polo team's 11-3 victory over the Washington Canoe Club, 12-, vear-old Ernest Crone, Goldsboro, N. C., champion diver, and Bill Havens, jr.. natlonal canoe tilting titlist. Havens dumped the veteran Jed Florence after about 15 minutes. After three fouls had been called on Florence, they agreed to continue until one was pushed overboard. Several present and former District and national swimming champions were among contenders in the swim- ming contests. Boy Scouts and Scout executives attending the jamboree staged one contest and one life sav- ing demanstration. To Aid Underprivileged. About 200 spectators, whose admis- sions will be used by the Council of ' Social Agencies to send more under- | privileged children to their Summer camp at Chapawimsic, Va., were given a comprehensive exhibition of safety and rescue work by William E. Law- rence and Lewis W. Hall, Boy Scouts of America safety directors. Capt. Fred Mills, national director of Health and Sanitation, Boy Scouts, was the an- nouncer. Lawrence in a canoe and Hall in A& scull demonstrated how the craft are accidentally overturned and: filled with water and then emptied by man who was thrown overboard. One of the rescues was staged when the | canoeist dived overboard to rescue a “drowning man,” with the rope tied | around his ankle and also to the canoe to keep the craft in tow. Red Cross life saving methods were used by District Welfare Department life guards in contests for man and woman guards. As team members, they are training for the national life guard tournament at Miami Beach, | Fla., in August. | Officials for the carnival were Earle Weeks, president of the District A. A U Dick Newby, District A. A. U. chairman, and Jim Sprigman. S. G Loeffier, manager of the pool, co- operated in staging the affair. Summary of Events. The summary follows Water polo—Ambassador 11, Wash- ington Canoe Club 3. Goals—Palmer, Ambassador, 3 touches for 9 points and Turner, Ambassador, thrown goal; Turner, W. C. C., 3 points on foul shots. Canoe tilting—Bil! Havens, jr.. won over Jed Florence, first on 3 fouls and then on push overboard. Girls' 50-meter free stroke—Anne Bono, Shoreham, first: Anne Arnson, Ambassador, second; Elizabeth White, Shoreham, third. Time—36.1 seconds. Men's 100-meter back stroke—Ernie Boggs. Y. M. C. A, first: Paul Wilson, “Y," second. Time—1:23 Girls' 50-meter back stroke—Anne Bono, first; June Booth, Shoreham second; Anne Arnson, third. Miss Booth gave opponents handicap. Time —418 seconds. Men's 100-meter free stroke: Bob Jordon, Ambassador, first: Albert Hamm. “Y." second; Max Rote, Shore- ham. third. Time—1:14:06 Girls' 50-meter breast stroke—Mar- garet Hoffman, 1932 national cham- pion, first: Elizabeth White, second. Time—46.2 seconds. Man life guards' rescue race: Joe LaSalle, Takoma Park pool, first; Robert Shaw, McKinley pool. second; Milton Flocks, Takoma pool, third Diving exhibiticns—Ernest Crone, 12, Goldsboro, N. C., State High School champion, Midget N. C. and S. C. champion in A. A. U. competition and | Middle Atlantic A. A. U. champio Joan Trainer, 9, second-year divel Judie Helmick, Shoreham son and John Marshall, Boy Scout 50-meter swim—Jim Hurst, Jacksonville, Fla., first;: Cecil Hall, Jacksonville, second, and James Turner, Griffin, Ga.. third. Dallas Shirley, “Y" swimming in- structor, announced the swimming contest events, and Elmer Hipsley, chief of guards in District Welfare Department pools, the life guard events. ne Arn- ‘Don’ts’ Are Issuodz By First-Aid Head | For July 4 Safety Anchoring of Rugs in Home Urged to Cut Accidents. In a list of “don’ts” issued today for those who will be too busy to be safe over the Fourth Harold F. En- lows, national director of Red Cross first aid and life saving, advocated anchoring rugs in homes. “Last year home accidents caused more fatalities than motor vehicle accidents” Enlows’ statement said. “Falls are the greatest hazard and care should be taken to anchor rugs and provide adequate railing and lighting for stairs.” For those who will take to the highways in autos Enlows reminded that National Safety Council reports show most mishaps occur during the day when weather conditions are ideal and the cars involved are going straight. “Do not run your car while the | garage doors are shut to check the | motor” he added. “For carbon-mon- oxide gas is odorless, tasteless—and deadly.” In another statement urging care- fulness over the Fourth the Keystone Automobile Club predicted that “the period from July 3 to July 6 this year will see more motorists on the high- ways than ever before in the annals of motoring.” T0 URGE LIBRARY Chairman Collins of the House Sub- committee on the District appropri- ation bill is to appear next Wednes- day before the House District Com- mittee to urge favorable action on his bill to authorize a $2,500,000 public 1ibary building for the National Capi- tal. Chairman Palmisano of the District Legislative Committee said he antici- pates that his committee will act promptly after hearing Representa~ tive Collins. < ESPERANTO GROUP HOLDING MEETING Study Makes Foreign Lan- guages Easier, Congress Is Told. A preliminary study of Esperanto makes it much easier for a student to learn a foreign language, Dr. Leh- man Wendell, instructor of Esperanto at the University of Minnesota, said today at the thirtieth annual congress of the Esperanto Association of North America. “As soon as educators in general throughout the world realize that Esperanto is the ideal introduction to foreign language study, they will not be slow in co-operating to teach it in schools,” he said. Knowledge of Esperanto, invented as a universal auxiliary language, gives one the fundamentals of all national | languages, Dr. Wendell explained. He said that is because all root words in Esperanto are found in at least three and often more national languages, and the simplified grammar of Esper- anto gives a student a basis for learn- ing other grammars. Esperanto can be learned in about one-tenth the time necessary for a national lan- guage, he said. Esperanto might make possible the abolition of | stenographers, Hugh Shatford, local * spokesman for the Esperantists, said. “Esperanto is abso- lutely phonetic,” he explained. “Therefore an automatic stencil could pick up the sound waves and transfer them to an automatic printing ma- chine, eliminating the need for stenography.” A simple, direct method of teaching Esperanto will be demonstrated at a public meeting of the association at the Hamilton Hotel tonight by Miss Roan U. Orloff of Boston. No text- books are used with her method. The convention will adjourn to- morrow night after a banquet follow- ing election of officers at & morning business session, Overboard goes Jed Florance as William Hat tilting. Edmond Gray paddles the losing canoe in the contest, put on by the Washington Canoe Club. The water carnival proceeds were turned over to the Council of Social Agencies to send poor children mp at Chapawimsic, Va. ns, jr., wins canoe —Star Staff Photos. GAS FIRM BIDS FORBANK BUILDING | Park Savings Structure May Be Razed for Filling Station. ‘The Gulf Oil Co. has made a cash closed Park Savings corner of Fourteenth and Kenyon streets, with a view to razing the structure and erecting a gasoline fill- ing station there, it was learned today. The offer, however, is conditioned on the issuance of a permit by the District Commissioners to erect the filling station under zoning law. The Gulf Oil Ce. acted through its vice president, H. M. Rogers of Bos- ton, Mass., whose offer has been sub- mitted to the court, and published through arvertising, to determine Bank, at the Moran, can get a higher offer for the property. If the receiver higher offers by noon, July 10, the contract can be executed, provided the permit for a filling station, request for which has been filed at the District Building. If the permit is refused, there will be “no sale” under the oil company offer. The Park Savings Bank. which was closed in 1933, has paid its depositors 25 per cent and has cleared all its debts on secured claims, according to Moran. But the receiver explained that, even if the building is sold for $92.500 cash, further liquidation would be necessary before a further divi- dend could be declared to depositors. If the building is taken over by the oil company Moran would move his office to another vacant bank building, belonging to one of the These include, besides the Park Sav- ings Bank, the Continental Trust Co., the North Capitol Savings Bank, the Industrial Savings Bank, which was reorganized and is now operating as at Eleventh and U streets, and the Prudential Bank, which had been taken over by the Industrial Savings Bank, Lone D. C. Mountie On a Rented Horse ‘Washington's mounted police force has a new horse. Park Policeman Leslie Mason, who maintains decorum in Rock Creek Park as the sole remaining mounted policeman, will ride the bridle paths tomorrow on Rio Rita, a handsome chestnut mare, obtained for him from Marty Gallagher, District heavy- weight boxer and proprietor of a rid- ing stable near Twenty-sixth and H streets. Marty is providing the mare, a 9-year-old, weighing 1,250 pounds and 16!, hands high, for $50 a month. Officer Mason called for his new mount at the stables yesterday, but was told the mare was indisposed and would not be ready until tomor- Tow. Rio sprained its shoulder last week when a rider attempted to take her over a high jump,” Gallagher explained. Costing Only Only a $10 bill and two weeks’ leisure are necessary for Washingtonians to enjoy a good vacation by utilizing the facilities of the local park system, Edward Kelly, administrative assistant to C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks, declared todgy. A new program has just been ar- ranged with this in view, Kelly said, but it applies only for peopie who live at home, and the cost does not include meals and transportation. Washington enjoys many free facilities through the park system, Kelly pointed out. Golf courses are maintained, there are half a dozen modern swimming pools, 60 miles of bridal paths and 100 tennis courts for day and night play, as well as facili- ties for boating, fishing in the Tidal Basin and the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers, and an opportunity to see polo games free, Kelly said. Minor Sports Available. In addition, there are minor sports in which local vacationists might in- dulge, including croquet, shuffle board, badminton and horseshoe pitching, he said. Three of the Nations best bands—those of the Army, the Navy and the Marine Corps—give band con- offer of $92.500 for the building of the | whether the bank's receiver, John F.| gets no | oil company receives the construction | other banks which he is liquidating. | the Industrial Bank of Washington, | Will Patrol Park! THREATENT0 SEND LAUNDRY QUTSIDE Neighborhood Tailors Make Clear Position Pending Own Cleaning Plant. Unless the strike called by members of the Laundry Workers, and Dyers' Union here is settled, Washington's tailors will send their work out of the city until they can open their own wholesale cleaning plant, Morris Kuppersmith, chairman of the Retail Tailors' Association, declared today. Kuppersmith said he will present the ultimatum of the retail tailors to Samuel Rubenstein. chairman of the Wholesale Cleaners Shop Owners' Committee. “We don't want to take work away from local firms, or establish our own plant. but our members feel they should not do business with firms where the workers are on strike,” Kup- | persmith said. Decision of the retail tailors to boycott the plants involved was reached at a meeting in Pythian Tem- ple last night. Kuppersmith said 150 of the city's approximately 900 neigh- borhood tailors are represented by the association. “We had not been active for some | time until this strike occurred,” Kup- persmith said. “We feel confident | most of the 900 tailors will return to the active rolls as they usually do | when something like this occurs.” Meanwhile, the wholesale cleaners went ahead with plans to resume op- erations in several of the 12 plants which shut down several days ago whern the strike was called. | The union is demanding a 40-hour week, an $18 minimum weekly wage, time-and-a-half for overtime and union recognition. The shop owners committee has of- fered to establish a $15 weekly mini- mum wage and a 48-hour week im- | mediately and negotiate the other de- speedily | mands. The union flatly rejected that offer. Calvin Sousens, chairman of the Washington local of the union, plans to ask the District Commissioners to- day to reverse the stand of the Board of Public Welfare that the families of the strikers are not entitled to relief. Welfare Director Elwood Street told a union delegation ves- terday that local relief regulations forbid granting relief to employable | persons or their families. WIND BLOWS HAT OFF, CAUSES AUTO WRECK Driver Loses Control of Car That Hits Tree—Three Taken to Hospital. Because the wind blew his hat off, Carl P. Haynes may have a fractured skull. Haynes, a 24-year-old Marine sta- tioned at Indian Head, Md., was driving north on Atlantic street south- east early today with two companioas, | John Shesko, 19, and George V. Eld- ridge, 9. When in the 100 block the gust took away his hat, causing him to lose control of the car and crash into a tree. All three were treated at Casualty Hospital for cuts. 1 Inexpensive 2-Week Vacation, $10, Is Outlined certs in the parks on Monday, Tues- day and Thursday evenings, Kelly ex- plained, and street dancing is open to the public on the South Ellipse road, just south of the White House, on Monday evenings. At the Sylvan Theater programs are | given on Tuesday and Friday evenings in the shadow of the Washington Monument, Kelly continued, while on Friday evenings in Rock Creek Park campfire programs are free to the public. There are many picnic groves throughout the Washington park system, with facilities for cooking outdoor meals. Historical Tours Scheduled. Historical tours are given under the auspices of park officials, and hiking and bicycle riding, as well as nature hikes are available, Kelly said. For the $10 two-week vacationist, Kelly said, there is an opportunity to view any of the 400 soft ball teams and 100 base ball teams in action. Kelly added that mimeographed de- tails of the $10 two-week vacation will be available next week, and these may be procured by writing to “C. Marshall Pinnan, Superintendent, National Capital Parks, Interior Department Building, Eighteenth and C streets.” Cleaners | neighborhood | and | PAGE B—1 FREWORKS SHOW WILL BE HELD IN ELLIPSE MONDAY Traffic Difficulties Around Water Gate Leads to Change. MATERIALS TRANSFER HAS ALREADY STARTED New Site Will Accommodate Some 80,000 Spectators—Marine Band to Play. Washington's Independence day fireworks display will be held on the Ellipse, just north of the White House, instead of at the Water Gate of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, as pre- viously planned. This vill take place Monday, starting with a Marine Band concert at 7:15 pm. The fireworks will actually begin at 8:35. Albert Clyde-Burton, director of recreation in the National Capital Parks, today started transferring ma- terials from Theodore Roosevelt Island and the Water Gate to the Ellipse. Recreational activities in the Ellipse will be closed from today until July 7, inclusive, due to the fireworks. Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, chairman of the Washington Fourth of July Committee, and his colleagues decided on changing the location for the fireworks late yesterday after Ma). Ernest W. Brown, superintendent o the Washington police, and Capt. Pat- rick J. Carroll, head of the park police, had protested that traffic arrange- ments at the rlington Memorial Bridge and elsewhere would be in- tolerable. Boat owners desired to get as near as possible to the Water Gate for the fireworks and considerations of economy entered into the decision to shift the display to the Ellipse, Ellipse Holds 80,000, Owing to the presence in the Na- tional Capital of thousands of Boy Scouts, as well as countless visitors for the jamboree, and the thousands of Washingtonians who want to see the fireworks, Commissioner Hazen and his associates thought it best to make the change. Serving with the commissioner, in addition to numer- ous committee chairmen and various groups, are Melvin C. Sharpe of the Potomac Electric Power Co. and Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peeples. director of the Community Center Department of the Board of Education Officials estimate that the Ellipse will care for some 80.000 spectators in all, incl R 12,000 seats. The fireworks will be set up at the north end of the Ellipse and the spectators will face the White House at the southern end. Tickets sold for the Water Gate location will be good at the Ellipse, and uickets are still for sale at the same places as previously. A ticket booth will be set up on the Ellipse at 9 am. Mondav. Capt. Carroll announced that au- tomobiles with windshield stickers will enter the parking area by way of Sixteenth street and Constitution avenue, at the south of the Ellipse, The area south of Pennsylvania ave- nue, west of Fifteenth street, north of Constitution avenue and east of Seventeenth street will be closed to traffic. No parking will be permitted on Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets, between Constitution and Pennsyl- vania avenues. Parking Around Monument. Parking will be permitted, however, Capt. Carroll said, in the Washing- ton Monument grounds and in Po- tomac Park. The parking area im- mediately in the rear of the Navy and Munitions Buildings will be re- served for employes of these buildings officials said Parallel parking will be allowed on both sides of Constitution avenue through its entire length Traffic will be maintained north and south on Fifteenth and Seventeenth streets and east and west on Consti- tution and Pennsylvania avenues An ambulance and first-aid station will be maintained on the west side of Sixteenth street, north of Consti- tution avenue. Thre will be no change in the pro- gram, officials said. A patriotic con- cert by the Marine Band Monday evening will initiate the ceremony. At 7:45 o'clock the Marine Band will start the official march that will launch the proceedings actively. Rev. H. W. Burgan of Hamline M. E. Church, will pronounce the invoca- tion at 8 pm, and the Marine Band will play “America.” Commissioner Hazen, who is scheduled to preside, will lead the “Pledge to the Flag.” Senator Duffy of Wisconsin will de-~ liver the principal address and this will be followed by a selection from the Drum and Bugle Corps. Repre- sentative McGranery of Pennsylvania will read the “Declaration of Inde- pendence.” The Marine Band will then play “Hail, Columbia,” and a march by the Drum and Bugle Corps will follow. “Adjutant’s Call” and “Retreat” will follow and then the Marine Band will play “The Star Spangled Banner.” At 8:30 p.m. will come the “Retiring of Colors,” immediately preceding the shooting of the fireworks. Ordinarily, the Fourth of July fire- works display is held on the Washing- ton Monument Grounds. This year, however, the Boy Scout Jamboree is encamped on a large section of those grounds, making the holding of the fireworks there impractical. CHILD BEATING CASE ARGUMENTS CONTINUED Motion for New Trial for Mra. Theresz Cronin to Be Heard Thursday. Arguments on a motion for s new trial for Mrs. Theresa Cronin, 36, who was recently convicted of beating the 2-year-old child of Mrs. Ruby Adela Van Ness, 1500 D street northeast, was continued by Police Judge Walter J. Casey today until next Thursday. The continuance was granted at the request of Mrs. Cronin’s attorney, George Boden, who stated that he needed additional time to complete his investigation.