Evening Star Newspaper, July 31, 1937, Page 14

A—14 s ARLINGTON BOARD OPPOSES CLOSING OF MILITARY ROAD Airport Fight Keener With Demand Field Be Kept Taxable Property. HOUSE GROUP SEEKING EMERGENCY COMPROMISE Board of Trade Aviation Commit- tee Drops Gravelly Point to Support Proposals. District and Arlington County forces were lining up in opposition today over the Washington Airport situation, threatening further compli- cations in the congressional task of | HE first club house of the League of Republican Women of the District of Columbia will be opened officially on Monday, dedicated to entertaining visiting Re- publicans all during the year and de- signed to furthering the cause of the party with lectures and business meet- ings. According to Mme. Julia Grant Can- tacuzene. installed as president of the organization last May, there will be no official reception but the club will be open for inspection all day to mem- bers of the league and their friends. The first real home of the league, which has been occupying two rooms in a hotel, is the old McCagg house at 1301 Seventeenth street, with a long history of hospitality behind it. Mme. Cantacuzene, a granddaugh- ter of Gen. U. 5. Grant, personally solicited assistance from Republicans that resulted in the league starting off with & fund in the bank to cover rent for two years of the three for which the house has been leased. putting through emergency legisla- tion to end existing hazards at the local air terminal. | While the House Military Affairs | Committee was preparing to amen its emergency bill in an effort to placate rival interests and vet pro- duce a workable plan for improving eafety standards at the airport, the Arlington County Board went record in opposition to closing of Military road or removal of the air- | port from taxable properties of the | oounty. ‘The Washington Board of Trade Aviation Committee yesterday after- noon voted to support the airport in its struggle to obtain from Con- gress safety legislation, including the closing of Military road and the use of adjoining Federally owned land to increase the size of the airport. After a prolonged discussion, the committee agreed to shelve temporarily its 10-year-old fight for a municipal alrport at Gravelly Point so that unified support might be given to | the fight for emergency improve- | ment of Washington Airport. The committee expressed the view that | the District is financially unable at present to put any money into an airport. After a conference yesterday after- noon between members of the Arling- ton County Board, county officials and | Representative Smith of Virginia, in Bmith’s office at the Capitol, it was announced that the county was op- posed to pending emergency legis- | lation for Washington Airport and that Smith would fight such legisla- tion in Congress. Oppose U. §. Development. The board also voiced its opposition to the Federal Government taking | over the airport and developing it | in an effort to seek safety for airl transport passengers and crews. The | oounty, it was indicated, wants the | airport left in private hands so that | the county will not lose its tax in- come from the property, now the“ largest single taxpayer in the county. | At the same time, the county iz op- Posed to the closing of Military road to improve safety conditions at the Mirport unless the airport builds a satisfactory substitute road, it was pointed out. Attending the conference were William A. E. McShea, chairman of the Arlington County Board; County Man- oger Frank C. Hanrahan, County Engi- heer C. L. Kinnier, and W. P, Ames, P. Freeland Chew, Mrs. Elizabeth Ma- gruder and George Yeatman of the county board. The Aviation Committee of the Board of Trade, meeting in the Har- rington Hotel, adopted a resolution, in which it was pointed out that recent developments have “again brought the subject of a suitable commercial air- port for the District of Columbia | before the citizens of Washington and | the Congress of the United States us | &n important issue.” The board, it | was poinfed out, “has for many years been advocating an adequate centrally- | Jocated municipal airport for the Dis- | trict of Columbia, worthy of the Na. tion's Capital " Meeting at the Harrington Hotel, the Trade Board's Aviation Committee | sdopted a resolution declaring: | “It is a well-known fact that the| municipal finances at the present time | are in such a precarious condition as to make it not only improvident but, impossible for the District of Columbia | to allocate or obligate any municipal funds during the present fiscal year for airport purposes.” Favor “Auxiliary” Airport. ‘The committee took the attitude In its resolution that the Camp Springs, Md, site or “some other large but equally remote site”” would be valu- able “as an auxiliary airport suitable also for emergency blind landings,” but that such a site “would not meat the real needs of the District of Co- lumbia for an adequate central air- | port.” It was resolved that the committee recommend to the board of directors that the Board of Trade oppose “any and all measures that provide for ex- Ppenditures from municipal funds dur- | on [ ing the fiscal year 1938 to purchase, | construct, improve, or maintain an | airport.” Chairman Clarence A. Miller, in! opening the meeting, pointed out that the May bill. providing for improve- | ment of the Washington Airport situa- | tion, “is of great immediate impor- tance to us Solomon Blames Controversies. i Samuel J. Solomon. manager of ‘Washington Airport, said Washington would have had an adequate airport long ago “but for controversies among | local organizations.” He pointed out | that the only local airport projects | now before Congress are Camp | Bprings and Washington Airport lndW‘ that 1o inject any other issue would Jeopardize any chance for improve- ment of the existing situation He said that he is not satisfied with the May bill, as amended, but believes the Copeland bill, similar to the orig- inal May bill, would solve the situa- tion. The amended May bill, requir- ing the airport to pay $25.000 down in return for a 25-year lease to 3.7 acres of Military road property, is impractical, he said. “It is more than the road is worth and more than we can afford,” he said. “We would have to borrow the money at 5 per cent and it would cost us $40,000 in the end. Furthermore, this expense would not be justified unless we can get the lagoon area.!ure would be out of reach of the gervice ‘The lagoon feature was left out of the bill on objection of the National Capi- tal Park and Planning Commission | on an argument entirely without merit.” Solomon pointed out that under the amended May bill, the Becretary of Agrioulture is permitted to fix a rental for wse of the Arlington Farm ares and indicated his belief that the fig- | cott, Mrs. Charles Lea, Mrs. Mary | Equipment for the dining room and kitchen was purchased, but everything else was donated. A good deal of the downstairs furniture comes from the‘ old National Capital Club and Mme. | Cantacuzene provided the furnishings | for her office on the second floor, which is also the board room. There hangs a portrait of President Grant and autographed pictures o. President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. A litho- graph of Abraham Lincoln and pic- tures of President and Mrs. Hoover | decorate the main reception room downstairs, A plaque in the hall extends thanks | to those who made the club house | possible, including severa! local firms | that donated materials and labor to | repair and renovate the structure, and the following individuals: Miss Laura | Harlan, Miss Mary' Sheridan, Miss | | Maurice H. Thatcher, Mrs. Anne | Archbold, George H. Lorimer, Mrs. | David A. Reed, Mrs. Charles D, Wal- Logan Tucker, Mrs. Chester Castle Boiton of Ohio, Mrs. Ralph Owen Brewster, Mrs. George Burnham, Mrs. Chauncey M. Depew, Mrs. John Henry Gibbons, Mrs. Guy Despard Goff and Mrs. Charles M. Lea. Activities of the club will be initi- ated August 11 at a meeting of Re- publican national committeewomen | called recently by Chairman John Hamilton. Then the league will en- tertain the visitors, and be open all | the time so that both visiting and local women may come to rest and drink tea. A full schedule is planned for the coming season, acording to Mme. Can- tacuzene. Notables will be asked to speak on current issues at monthly meetings. Mrs. Walter White, chair- man of the Entertainment Committee, THE "Republican Women to Open Club House League to Hold Lectures and Business Meetings There and Entertain Guests. The new club house of the at 1301 Seventeenth street. is planning monthly bridge parties nr‘ concerts for the purpose of raising money. Once or twice a year a for- mal banquet will be held. Among members of officers arranging a full year are Miss Daisy Prentice, chair- man of the Auditing Committee; Miss Sheridan, daughter of Gen. Phil Sheridan, chairman of the House Committee; Mrs. Mary Logan Tucker, Mrs. Russell Harrison, daughter-in- law of Benjamin Harrison, who is on the Advisory Committee; Mrs. Dolly Gann, chairman of the Advisory Coun- cil: Mrs. Warren Auston, chairman of the Membership Committee; Mrs. Vir- ginia White Speel, national commit- teewoman for the District; Mrs. Ralph Brewster and Mrs. Ralph Church. Mme. Cantacuzene points out that, although District citizens are voteless, the league here is in a position to be of more than local influence. Infor- mation on measures before Congress is made available to other chapters of the organization, with headquarters EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, League of Republican Women —Star Staff Photo. in New York. She hopes to set up auxiliary Republican groups in local women's organizations this year. The third floor of the club house, on which there are four rooms, will be headquarters for the Young Re- publicans’ organization of the District Mrs. Cooper Rhodes, chairman of the woman's division, has been made a member of the league's House Com- mittee. Mme. Cantacuzene has a long his- tory as an active Republican. She was born in the White House when her grandfather was President, married Prince Michael Cantacuzene of Russia in 1899, became a Russian citizen and lived in Russia until after the revolu- tion there. She reclaimed her Amer- ican citizenship in 1934 At the moment she is not only president of the League of Republican Women, but is on the Council of Republican Women and is an honorary director of the pro-American group on the West Coast. TAX DELINQUENTS O’Mahoney Rejects $100 Bid for His Court Bill Note WARNED BY ALLEN Drastic Powers in Pending Bill to Be Invoked “to the Limit,” Assessor Says. Drastic new powers, which wouM be authorized by the pending tax bill, will be invoked “to the limit” against personal property tax delin- quency, District Assessor Fred D. Al- len warned today as the deadline for filing returns neared. Several thousand persons had failed to file returns when the tax office opened this morning. The time limit for filing returns will expire at mid- night tonight Allen said all returns received in | Monday's mail at his office which are postmarked before midnight to- | night will be honored. Twenty per | cent penalties will be assessed against all delinquents who fail to get in under the deadline, Allen warned. Close Scrutiny. The tax assessor pointed out that | the tax bill now pending in Congress will authorize him to summons to is office all persons who fail to file returns or whose returns are consid- ered inaccurate. In addition, he will be authorized to subpoena books and other business and private records which he deems necessary to determine an | accurate assessment. The tax eol- lector under the proposed new law would be authorized to levy against all goods, securities, bank accounts and other property of the delinquents. Personal tax returns will be sub- | jected to closer scrutiny this year | than ever before in the District'’s his- | tory, Allen promised. All returns will | pe checked against Federal mcome' tax returns in the search for un- listed taxable assets and he will not hesitate to demand records in any case where he believes taxable prop- | | |erty is not reported, Allen said. $1,000,000 More Expected. “We will press the authority which | the new law would give us as far as we can.” Allen said. “I am convinced that we will be able to increase rev-| enues from the personal tax by 81, 000.000." | Approximately 40.000 persons al- ready have filed returns. Last year ap- proximately 45000 returns were filed The assessor's office was crowded this morning with citizens clamoring to file theirs More than 1,000 dog owners jammed the office of the collector of taxes to- day in & last-minute rush to obtain new license tags for their pets. Monday the poundmaster will launch a drive against all canines running at large without the new 1938 tag. It was esti- mated that owners of approximately 8,000 dogs have delayed purchasing the new tags. Slavery, He Claims. TOPEKA, Kans. (#).—N. O. Reese, hotel owner, sent the State Tax Com- mission a bill for $45 with the sug- |gestion that unless he is paid for collecting the 2 per cent State sales tax the State will have violated the Federal Conktitution's ban on involun- tary servitude. — | atrport Chester H. Warrington, president of the Aero Club of Washington, opposed any support by the board for Wash- ington Airport, declaring that for the board to abandon its fight for Gravelly Point to support even emergency legislation ‘“‘would be to capitulate to s private eorporation in a matter of xwe interest.” | quest for it from the American Bar | which eliminated entirely the ques- | tention. He said today . Senator Plans to Keep Memorandum With Peace Points. A $100 offer for his famfous memq, randum which became the court bill fight peace treaty reminded Senator O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming, yesterday that Senator Logan, Demo- crat, of Kentucky, still had the im- portant littie piece of paper. At O'Mahoney's request, Logan re- turned it, and now the Senator from Wyoming intends to keep it forever among his most cherished possessions, despite the $100 offer from a stranger | whose name was withheld and a re- Association On the memorandum O'Mahoney scrawled the four points of peace which ended the court battle. O'Ma- honey gave the note to Logan to en- able the latter to refer to it in out- lining his substitute judiciary bill, tion of enlarging the Supreme Court. SLAUGHTER HOUSE FACES NEW BLOW Commissioners and Seal Due to Discuss Ickes’ Suggestions. The District Commissioners at a meeting next Tuesday are expected to | confer with Corporation Counsel El- wood H. Seal concerning new measures suggested by Secretary Ickes to prevent operation of the proposed Adolf Gobel slaughter house in Benning. Ickes warned the Oommissioners yesterday that he regarded it the Dis- trict’s “duty” to protect the new sew- age disposal plant, built with P. W. A. funds, from the harmful effect of slaughter house operations. A suggestion by Ickes that a special sewage tax might be imposed on the Gobel firm if it makes use of the treat- ment system was called to Seal's at- | he had not| heard of this law, which is effective in | Chicago, but would look into it im- mediately. Due to the final stages of the compromise in Congress on the Dis- trict’s tax program, the Commissioners have not yet referred Secretary Ickes’ sharp communication to the corpora- tion counsel. The latter pointed out today, however, that he has been con- sidering legal measures to prevent op- eration of the Gobel plant and would co-operate in any new suggestions by the Commissioners. The new sewage disposal plant is undergoing test operations. As Ickes ladvanrpd the funds for its construc- ! tion, he pointed out in his letter to | the Commissionors that the P. W. A. | has an inter-st in seeing that the‘ | public deviie. the benefits of the ex- | | penditura. For this reason he called | their atention to the Public Health report declaring siaughter | house operations in Benning would | contribute to water pollution. A e = Must Supply Own Metal. Italy's shortage of iron and copper is 20 acute that customers are re- ported to have had to provide these metals in order to obtain deliveries of products requiring them. |traced today by police, while he re- | hold-ups. KIDNAP SUSPECT T0 BE IN LINE-UP Police Trace Movements of " Marshall Since Release From Lorton. Movements of Charles Marshall, alias Barfield, sinee his release from Lorton Reformatory a week ago were mained in custody at the first precinct station. Marshall is held for investigation in conection with the kidnaping ‘Wednesday night of Aubrey T. Daly, candy store operator. Inspector Bernard W. Thompson, chief of detectives, announced Mar- shall will appear in the line-up at police headquarters Monday night to pass before the victims of several recent Marshall is alleged by police to have taken three revolvers from the Atlas sporting goods store, 927 D street, shortly before he held up Daly as the merchant sat in his parked automobile at 923 Pennsylvania avenue, where a Daly candy store is located. Daly said he was forced to drive around the city and thence to North Beach, Md., where he was released and allowed to return to Washington. Marshall was arrested later in a North Beach barber shop by Chief of Police Henry Haddaway. Policeman W. G. Grooms and Precinct Detective W. G. Fawcett brought him back to Wash- ington. Meanwhile, Edgar Hardesty, 222 Third street, another of Marshall's victims, appeared to draw a parallel between the Daly kidnaping and his own case Hardesty was returning from North Beach August 9, 1936, when he was held up by Marshall and Robert W. Morrow near Upper Marlboro, Md.,, and forced to drive into the District. | “Because I had only $10, they threatened to kill me,” Hardesty re- lated. His release came, fortunately, when an officer arrested Marshall and Morrow for speeding on Pennsyl- vania avenue southeast. Charges against them of robbery with a dan- gerous weapon were reduced to sim- ple assault and they were sentenced to one year at Lorton. “Marshall gave his age as 18 a year ago,” Hardesty said, “but while I was riding with him, he told me he was 22 or 23. He kept me covered with a spring knife throughout the nde.” HAGNER ESTATE LEFT TO WIDOW, WILL SHOWS Document Requests That Property Go Ultimately to His Three Children. Naming his widow, Mrs. Marguerite Colton Hagner, as principal benefi- ciary, the will of Randall H. Hagner, who died July 26, was filed for pro- bate yesterday in United States Dis- trict Court. The will directed that several heir- looms, including some old English spoons, a grandfather clock, an an- tique table and some testimonials to George Washington be given his old- est child, Alexander Burton Hagner of Warrenton, Va. The rest of the estate was left in fee simple to Mrs. Hagner, who lives at 2339 S street. The will requested, however, that upon her death it be given in equal shares to three other children, Randall H. Hagner, §r.; Mar- guerite Colton Hagner and Isabella Louisa Hagner. Mrs. Hagnmer, George N. Ray and the Riggs National Bank were nn?d executors, D. C., SATURDAY VENEREAL DISEASE FIGHT INTENSIFIED BY D. C. OFFICIALS More Complete Program Sought by Health Department. ANTI-SYPHILIS DRIVE OF PARRAN BENEFICIAL Number of Tests Given in Local Laboratory Increases During Year, Records Show. The District Health Department is studying plans for closer co-ordina- tion of available public and private facilities for treatment of venereal diseases in an effort to develop a more complete program to combat syphilis and gonorrhea here. This was disclosed today by Dr. D. L. Seckinger, assistant health offi- cer, who said: “We must and shall put more concentrated attention to this problem.” Dr. Seckinger said the anti-syphilis educational campaign, led by Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran, jr., is arousing those suffering from venereal dis- eases to the necessity of seeking prompt medical attention. This calls for fuller utilization of all facilities to provide treatment for those need- ing it, he added. Unlike some cities, such as New York, which distribute free to private physicians the expensive drugs used in treating syphilis, the District now provides free treatment only for indi- gent persons at the Social Hygiene Clinic and Gallinger Hospital. How- ever, laboratory facilities are free for examinations necessary to detect any communicable disease, including syph- ilis, Syphilis Tests Increase. ‘The number of Wasserman tests for syphilis made in the District labora- tory has increased tremendously dur- ing the last year. Dr. Seckinger at- tributed the increase to the current Nation-wide educational campaign. A total of 16,872 Wasserman tests were made during the first six months of this year, an increase of 4,214 over the same period of 1936, and more than made during the entire 1933 fis- cal year. These tests have increased steadlly, from 15,992 in the 1933 fiscal year to 17,371 in 1934, 21.456 in 1935, | 23,500 in 1936 and 33.406 in the fiscal year ending last June 30. The number of new venereal cases | treated at the public clinic increased from 2,836 during the first six months of 1936 to 3,370 for the same period of this year. Total attendance at the clinic also has risen steadily during the last five years, jumping from 50,795 in the 1933 fiscal year to 56,184 in 1934, 68,094 in 1935 76,592 in 1936 and 90.506 in the last fiscal year. The attendance for the first six months of this calendar year was 46804, an increase of 7,739 over the same period of 1936. Clinic Reports Incomplete. Dr. Seckinger emphasized that these figures did not mean that'more people were suffering from venereal diseases, but only that more of the victims were seeking medical attention. He also pointed out that the clinic reports did not include s perhaps much larger number being treated by private phy- sicians. ‘The voluntary secret “syphilis cen- sus” being taken by Chicago should be of great value to the Nation as a whole, he said. It is the first time a large city has made an attempt to determine the exact prevalence of syphilis, he pointed out. There are no facilities for such a program here, he added. The Chicago program involves a poll of the population to determine how many persons would be willing to take a secret blood test for syphilis, to be followed by treatment through private physicians of those found in- fected. TRASH COLLECTORS ON NEW SCHEDULE Weekly Calls Shifted in Re- arrangement of Plan in North- west Area. Housekeepers in the Northwest sec- tion next week will have to learn new schedules under which trash col- lectors will make weekly calls. Trash collectors will operate under the following new schedules beginning Monday, it was announced at the Dis- trict Building: Monday—All territory north of Rit- tenhouse street and east of Rock Creek Park. Tuesday—The territory from Third street to Rock Creek Park, Ingraham street to Rittenhouse street, and from Blair road to Third street, Oglethorpe street to Rittenhouse street. ‘Wednesday—The territory from B. & O. Railroad to Third street north- west, Ingraham street and Riggs road to Oglethorpe street, and from Rock Creek Church road to Rock Creek Park, Buchanan street to Ingraham street. Thursday—The territory from Rock Creek Church road to Rock Creek Park, Shepherd street to Buchanan street. Friday—The territory from Rock, Creek Church road to Sixteenth street, Spring road and Rock Creek Church road to Shepherd street, and from Georgia avenue to Fourteenth street, Park road to Spring road, and from Sherman avenue to Fourteenth street, Florida avenue to Park road. U. S. TO SEND DELEGATES TO PARIS ART PARLEY By the Associated Press. The State Department announced yesterday the United States would participate in the Second Interna- tional Congress of Esthetics and the Science of Art to be held in Paris, France, August 8 to 11. The American delegation will be: Dr. Royal B. Farnum, Rhode Island 8chool of Design, Providence, chair- man; Paul Manship, New York City; Dr. Richard Bach, Metropolitan Mu- seum of Art, New York City; George Downing, Brown University, Provi- dence, R. I.; Hugh Morrison, Dart- mouth, Hanover, N. H.; Dr. Edward W. Forbes, Fogg Art Museum, Ha vard University, Cambridge, and John Shapleigh, University of Chicago, Chicago. , JULY 31, 1937. Old Sedan Their Home ing Lot Rather Th Mrs. Margaret Butterwort for the husband and father, Cl N AUTOMOBILE may be a| machine for going places to you, but for four nights now and old sedan has been the only home—and a borrowed one at that—for young Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Butterworth and their 16-month-old daughter. hard for him to get and keep a steady job because his left arm has been partially paralyzed from child- hood. He lost his job three weeks from a rooming house in the 1000 block of Ninth street because he could not pay the $6 a week rent for their two rooms. The same day Butterworth landed a $l5-a-week job in an automobile only twice a month and there will be no money for him until Monday. What to do in the meantime? The Butterworths swallowed their pride | and appealed to welfare agencies for a place to sleep. But there was no place for them together. There was room for Mrs. Butterworth and the baby at the Salvation Army and for the husband at a mission. Refuse to Be Separated. Married nearly three years, the young couple—he is 23 and she 20— refused to be separated even for the few nights. 80 Tuesday night they went to a parking lot at Constitution avenue and John Marshall place, where Clifton had worked for a few weeks last Winter. People working on parking lots don't make much money themselves and there wasn't much Couple and Baby Sleep in Auto in Park- daughter Shirley are shown at the parking lot where they have been sleeping in a borrowed automobile until pay day Butterworth is a painter, but it is| ago. The family was evicted Tuesday | painting shop. But pay day comes | an Be Separated. h, 20, and her 16-month-old ifton Butterworth. —Star Staff Photo. they could do, but a colored attendant | did own an automobile that might do for a sleeping place. | It wasn't very comfortable, with | the baby Shirley curled up on the | front seat, Butterworth trying to sleep on the floor and his wife Margaret cramped on the back seat. “But g0 unless we separated,” Mrs. Butter- worth said simply to a questioning reporter. So the borrowed old sedan has been the only place the Butter- worths could call “Home Sweet Home" for the last four nights., Men in Lot Buy Food. Mrs. Butterworth told her story in a tragically resigned manner. The men working on the parking lot have chipped in a few cents each day to help buy some food—canned stuff that they can eat on the lot. She has tried to keep herself and the baby clean by washing at a nearby filling station lavatory. It will be (again when pay day comes—but “there’s no telling how long Clifton's Jjob will last.” James Anderson, the colored owner of the Butterworth's makeshift home, sald he was glad to help them by | doing without his car a few nights | because “I've beeg broke myself and the white folks always was good to me.” Sam Lovenbein, manager of the parking lot, was trying to arrange to get a room for the little family tem- porarily today so they would have some place other than the hot parking lot to stay over Sunday. PAINTERS' STRIKE HEARINGS T0 OPEN |Sessions on Laborers’ Com- | plaints to Be Held Begin- ning Wednesday. Hearing on union painters’ allega- tions that contractors on Government Jobs paid less than union wages in| violation of the amended Bacon-Davis | act will be open next Wednesday morn- ing at the Labor Department, it was announced last night. The hearings will be held in room 4217 of the department, at Fourteenth street and Constitution avenue, with Carl Schedler, attorney in the solici- | tor's office of the department, pre-| siding. B. P. Holcombe, business agent for the painters' union. said today he was | gratified the Government had started | | an investigation of his allegations, and | was hopeful for an early settlement of the dispute. Holcombe sent his men back to work on all Federal build- ings, except one, after a strike of two weeks, when the Labor Department agreed to make an immediate in- vestigation. The one building where men still are on an independent strike is the Bureau of Internal Revenue, where the union has flled charges against Willlam Wilson, contractor, for al- leged refusal to employ union painters sent to him by the United States Em- ployment Service. The painters’ union has filed a for- mal declaration against Wilson before the National Labor Relations Board, At its Baltimore office, headquarters | for this area. It charges Wilson re- | fused to employ union men. even after | a ruling by the solicitor of the Labor | Department héld that he must not dis- criminate against union men, | RECLAMATION BUREAU OFFICIALS ARE NAMED Roy B. Willlams Is Made As- sistant Commissioner by Ickes’ Order. Three major appointments in the Bureau of Reclamation, including that of Roy B. Williams as assistant com- missioner, were announced yesterday | by Secretary of Interior Ickes. Williams, who, until his appoint- ment, was construction engineer of the All-American Canal and Gila proj- | ects, with headquarters at Yuma, Ariz,, left the West late this week to take up his duties here. The other appointments were those of J. Kennard Cheadle, associate law professor at Syracuse University, as chief counsel and assistant to -the commissioner, and Wesley R. Nelson Wwho has been with the bureau since 1931, as chief of the engineering divi- slon in the Washington office. The C.U. PROFESSORS From Oblate Scholasticate, Fourth Coming Here. Transfers that will take three priests away from the Oblate Scholasticate of Catholic University and bring a fourth to Washington were announced today. Very Rev. James T. McDermott, O. M. I, provincial of the First Amer- ican Oblate Order, announced at Lowell, Mass, that Rev. John H Kennedy, professor of history in the | scholasticate here, would go to Buffalo, N. Y. to head the Juniorate at Holy | there was no place else to| fine to get a roof over their heads | GIVEN NEW POSTS Transfers to Take Three | Eims to Be Placed at Cor- ners of Mellon Structure, Planners Told. NEW EXPRESS HIGHWAY TO CAMP SPRINGS TOPiC Land at Sixteenth and Lamont Streets Transferred to Play- ¢ ground Department. A decision of the commission charged with erection of the National Gallery of Art, saving A row of fine old elm trees on Missouri avenue from destruction in connection with lande scaping plans. was praised by the Nasg tional Capital Park and Planning Commission yesterday afternoon as an example of “fine civic spirit.” The commission was informed that a comprehensive landscaping plan was being prepared for the gallery which Andrew W. Mellon, former Secretary of the Treasury, is bu National Capital on Constitution ave- nue between Fourth and Sixth streats. Members of the Federal planning group are authorized by law to ape prove the approach to the art gale lery. Thomas S. Settle, commission secre- tary, explained that eight large elm trees would be removed from one side of Missouri avenue embraced in the gallery site and instead of being des stroyed would be planted about the four corners of the building. “This will give the gallery a very fine setting,” he said. “It is very en- couraging to the Park and Planning Commission to realize that the fine civic spirit displayed by the commise sion in charge of the gallery has re- sulted in the saving of these trees. It is an example that should be emue lated by others, for there is a too-fre« quent tendency on the part of many builders not to prevent the unneces- sary destruction of trees.” Before the Planning Commission closed its two-day July session, it studied plans for an express high- way to the proposed airport site northwest playground site to the Dis trict and cleaned its slates of a nume ber of various local problems. It ap~ | proved also the landscaping for the | Police Court Building in Judiciary | Square prepared by Nathan C. Wyeth, municipal architect. New Playground Ordered. | The commission recently was ziven legal possession of a large vacant lo& | at Sixteenth and Lamont streets, after a court battle. It is in a congested area and near the Powell Junior High School and several apartments. This land was ordered transferred to the District for the use of the Playground Department. The disposition of a small triangle of 2.2 acres, sliced off the northwest corner of Fort Myer by the Lee boule- vard will be taken up Monday, aftere noon with the Arlington County au- thorities. The Secretary of War has agreed to turn the land over for whai ever park purposes may be decided. While Congress has taken no final action on the alrport problem, the commission reiterated its stand in op- position to filling in the marshy lagoon for the enlargement of the Washing- ton-Hoover Airport. It felt “Smat' “ed™ that the House Military Aff; mittee had agreed also to this plan In studying the airport question, commission was interested in a repog from Walter Wood of New York, & authority, who submitted comparative scale drawings of various airpos Wood informed the members that the great airports in Paris, London and Berlin had quickly outgrown their ca= pacity and are being doubled in size. | For this reason the commission fe:t that the Hoover Aigport was inade- quate for the future but Settle pointed out that it is not opposing enlargemen of the airport pending the establish ment of a large aviation fleld ample to meet futuse needs. Express Highw: Because of the X » Camp Springs, one of the sites being con= sidered, the commission gave detailed study to several plans for an express highway. “With such a highway, similar to the Mount Vernon highway between Angel College, while Rev. James C. Sullivan of Lowell will come to the | Capital as bursar of the scholasticate. | Rev. Francis B. Conlon, member of | the Mission Band at the Oblaie | Scholasticate, received notice of his transfer to the Mission Band at Colo- rado Spring. His work will take him into several States Rev. C. Wohlrab af the local scho- lasticate and Rev. James Kerrigan, | Buffalo, will be sent to the Holy Angel Community in Buffalo. Received Degree Here. Father Kennedy was ordained at the scholasticate here in 1923. He taught history from 1923 until 1933, meanwhile receiving his doctor of philosophy degree from Catholic Uni- versity in 1933. He then spent three years on the Oblate Mission Board at Buffalo, returning to Washington last year, again as professor of history. He is a native of Lowell, Mass. The Buffalo institution of which he becomes head is a preparatory seminary for | young men studying for the oblate. Father Sullivan took his seminary course at the cblate here and was ordained in 1929. He hes been sta- tioned since then in Buffalo and Lowell. Was K. of C. Assistant Chaplain. Father Conlon, native of Lynn, Mass,, was ordained at the scholas- ticate here in 1933 and received his master's degree at Catholic University in 1935. He has served as assistant chaplain of the Washington Council of Knights of Columbus and often has preached at Sacred Heart and St. Stephen’s Churches here and at the Baltimore Cathedral. Father Wohlrab was ordained here | in 1931 and assigned to Colerado Springs mission work. He remained there for five years and then returned | to Washington. He served the scho- | lasticate as bursar last year. Father McDermott also announced | the transfer of Rev. Clement Flynn, superior of the Oblate Noyitiate in Tewksbury, Mass., to lead a bBamd of missionaries in Richmond, Va. Fater Flynn was assigned to the Richmond diocese on fnvitation of Right Rev, Peter L. Ireton, Bishop of Richmond. —e Eamon de Valera, Irish Free State Washington and Alexandria, the dis- tance to Camp Springs could be trav. eled very quickly and conveniently, Settle explained Another problem which was takel up dealt with the renaming of stree's’ in the Mall. The commission reiter= ated its stand against changing the names of small drives—Madison, Washington, Jefferson and Adams— because of the historic associations of those names with the immediate sur- roundings, including the Capitol and the Supreme Court Building. It will inform the chairmen of the Senate and House District Commit« tees that the commission will be glad to confer with them on the question of restoring the names of Ohlo, Malne, Missouri and Oklahoma to other streets. < ‘The Peace Cross at the intersection\ of the Defense Highway and the Bla- densburg boulevard also was dis- cussed. It was decided to co-operate with the Maryland Park and Plan- ning Commission to arrange for im- provement at the intersection. Leaps Into Empty Reservols INDIO, Calif, June 31 (P)~Carif Addento, unable to sleep because of the heat, ran from his room to a large reservoir nearby and leaped in. He is recovering from painful injuties. The water had been drawn from the reservoir. BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in the band stand at 7 o'clock tonight. Jehn S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. Program. March, “Excelsior”__ __ Goldmad Overture, “The Triumph of Alex- ander” o 2 -- Richards Entr'acte, (a) “Sunday Morning st Glion" e --Bendel (b) “Springtime in Chinatown,* Renton Musical extravaganza, “White Horse TRisce S Popular, “Saddle Your Blues to a Wild Mustang - __Haid “Swamp Pire"__ Moquey, altz suite, “The Flower of Italy, Stefana three positions have been vacant for mkunn. President, was born in New York in 1882, N -Jewell “Oantry's Triumphal @tar-Spangled Banner.’ SAVING OF TREES AT GALLERY SITE LAUDED BY BOARD ag Camp Springs, Md.; transferred a ne; I