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Wash LAGOON AREA USE EMBODIED IN PLAN T0BETTER AIRPORT gopeland Bil's Passage Would Provide Field Three New Runways. RAILWAY RIGHT OF WAY TO AID ROAD PROJECT Substitute for Military Highway Would Be Along Old Car Line. Enactment of the Copeland airport bill, pending in the Senate, would make possible construction at Wash- ington Airport of three new runways, two of them terminating in the Boundary Channel Lagoon area, it was revealed today with the comple- tion of a tentative airport recon- struction plan At the same time it was revealed that plans for the substitute road. which will replace Military road if the bill passes, would make use of the abandoned street railway right of way from & point near the southeast corner of Arlington National Ceme- tery into Columbia pike about one- | third of the way from Ridge road to United States No. 1 highway | Present plans contemplate the pav Ing of the street railway right of way, already graded except for o highway | connection at the north end of the | proposed substitute road. Washing- | ton Airport has agreed to pay $25.000 to Arlington County for construction of this road and also to install a traffic light at the intersection of Columbia pike with No. 1 highway. Importance of Lagoon Area. Publication of the proposed runway | lay-out discloses the Boundary Chan- nel Lagoon area is of vital importance and is the key to the two sorely need- ed cross-field runways which have been planned. Addition of the lagoon area is regarded by airport and air-| line officials as of more urgent im- portance than the acquisition of land in the Arlington Experimental Farm area. it was revealed. ‘The filling of the lagoon, the plan #hows, would make possible the con- | &truction of two runways, each nearly 3.000 feet long, in directions not served at present by any runway, one running almost east and west and | the other in a southwest-northeast line. Both would cross Military road, one at right angles to the present 4.200-foot runway. the other parallel to the taxi strip from the south end of the long runway to the passenger terminal building. | Addition of the Arlingtan Farm area, the plan shows, would make possible & runway more than a mile in length. | ‘This runway is regarded as of less importance at present than the short- ! r croas runways, because it forms only 8 small angle with the present long | runway and provides only negligible | improvement of the short cross-field | eondition. Opposes Use of Lagoon Area. Use of the lagoon area has been | opposed by the National Capital Fark and Planning Commission for fear it would bring the end of the runway | S0lution of the problem of procuring | too close to the Mount Vernon boule- ington News Making ready for an overn Girl Scouts’ Day Camp, Twen 11, 332 Se aton place northeast, AS HEAD OF UNION Army and Navy Group Urges War Veterans Be Given Preference in Jobs. John Russell, who is connected with Social Security Board here, is slated to be elected national com- mander of the Army and Navy Union at the closing session of iis forty- | eighth national encampment tomorrow. | Russell, national senior vice com- mander of the union and a former national publicity officer of the Ameri- | can Legion, served as a sergeant in the 5th Marines in France during the World War. He is in the information service of the Social Security Board Mark Steinke of Akron. Ohio, is scheduled to become national senior vice commander. C. Preference Urged. The organization adopted a resolu- tion today urging “preference to ex- service men in employment on all pub- lic positions.” “Aliens should not be employed by public agencies.” The closing session, at which officers will be elected, had been slated for | today but was postponed. More than | | 200 delegates, representing every State in the Union, went to Arlington Na- tional Cemetery this afternoon for a ceremony at the Tomb of the Un- | known Soldier. The resolition added: | he Zny WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DAY MORNING EDITION ning Staf AUGUST 13, 1937. LL L] “Roughing It” No Hardship for Langdon Park Girl Scouts ight hike from the Langdon Park tieth and Girard streets north- east, Jane Jones, 10, of 2710 Twelfth street and Eileen Boyle, roll their blankets. Archery is a favorite among the outdoor sports at the camp. After a session of target practice, Florence Pirie, 15, of 1216 Eight- eenth street northeast watches Kay Beaudet, 12, of 1016 Rhode Island avenue northeast check her score. Compton, 11, Building a fire and cooking over it was easy for Betty of 2815 Evarts Manglier, 11, of 2226 Perry street northeast and Mary Har- rison, 13, of 2216 Perry street northeast.—Star Stafl Photos. street northeast, Barbara RUSSELL IS SLATED NOTHER HAY SEK B RETURN OF CHLD | Mrs. Stransky’s Attorneys Study Legal Aspects of Case. Attorneys for Mrs. Anna Henry Stransky todav were considering pos- sfle means of regaining custody of her 6-vear-old daughter, Mary Peyton Stransky, who was spirited away from her East Falls Church home Tuesday by her father, Dr. Pavel Stransky, Czechoslovakian diplomat, now on the Atlantic en route to Prague with the | child. | Attorney Charles Pickett of Fairfax, | Va. said he expected to study legal aspects of the case with a view to instituting proceedings in Czechoslo- | vakia for the return of Mary Peyton | | to her mother. | Action May Be Dropped. | Mrs. Stransky, who left her husband | in Singapore about a year ago and | returned with her daughter to the | home of her father, Rev. J. B. Henry, | retired Methodist minister, has a peti- | tion for custody of the girl pending in | the Virginia courts. Pickett said he was uncertain as yet whether the action will be dropped. | Dr. Stransky drove to East Falls | Church Tuesday and took the child | without her mother’s consent. Father and daughter dropped from sight and | | their whereabouts was unknown until | This new device for par. tter Learn How to Park Before Drivin inM 1 | CIVIG UNIT FIGHTS GAR FARE BOOST |Marshall Heights Associa- tion Charges lllegal Acts to Transit Co. Protesting against the increase in street car fares sought by the Capital Transit Co, the Marshall Heights Civic Association charged the com- pany with illegal acts and the Public Utilities Commission has no jurisdiction over the company's rates. In a brief filed with the commis- | sion 5031 through George Central H. Ganaway. avenue southeast, | aszociation labeled the requested fare | diction, Ganaway 17 specifications of error on the part | He contended that | king tests cost nearly 20 Maryland people their driving licenses at Bethesda yesterday. Motorists must learn all the angles, if they are to qualify for Maryland drivers’ licenses. Ability to park a car, heretofore | given but little attention, now is one of the principal factors in the State Plans to find jobs for unemployed ‘ Dr. Stransky radioed from the liner | €Xamination for would-be operators. veterans were discussed today at the encampment. which is being held at the Willard Hotel Recommends Drive. John J. Crim, national | chairman, resommended that the or- | ganization “strive for a successful employment of & more permanent na- vard. Because of this objection a pro- | ture for all idle ex-service men and vision authorizing the use of the lagoon area for airport purpose was strick- en from the May bill by the House | Military Affairs Committee. The committee action was sustained by | the House when it passed the amend- ed May bill Wednesday. | To overcome the commission's ob- Jection it is understood that an amend- ment to the bill will be offered in the Senate permitting use of the lagoon area under regulations to be promul- | gated by the Bureau of Air Commerce Such regulations would safeguard the [highway adequately, it was claimed, end at the same time would assure the maximum benefit to airline op- however, it was revealed, would keep | erations. The tentative airport runway plan, the ends of the cross-field runways uch farther from the Mount Vernon (highway than the distance between | the end of the present short runway and No. 1 highway. Although the present short runway ends only 35 feet from the highway, it was ex- | plained by Samuel J. Solomon, man- ager of Washington Airport, there Mever has been complaint because of conditions at this point. The run- ways would be separated from the | Mount Vernon boulevard by a dis- tance of more than 200 feet, accord- ing to the present tentative plans. Routing of Substitute Road. Routing of the proposed substitute road over the abandoned rallway right of way has been discussed by officials of the airport and Arlington County eand is understood to be generally mcoeptable Since the plan involves little or no grading. drainage, bridge or viaduct construction, it is believed that the $25,000 fund would finance 8 heavy-traffic type of paving of the most modern type. The action of the Arlington County [Board in agreeing to the closing of Military road also has been supported by the Virginia State government, it is understood. R. E. Steele, director of aviation of the Virginia State Corporation Commission, has an- ounced the State has no interest in Military road and does not object to dts being closed. The agreement between the county and the airport relates only to the portion of Military road between the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge and the Highway Bridge approach. The National Airport Corp. has signed an mgreement with county officials pro- viding for the reopening of this sec- tion of the road or an equivalent con- nection, not necessarily over the same oute, in case the airport should be abandoned as a flying fleld at any ime in the future Bank Robbers Get $1,619. KANSAS CITY, Mo., August 13 (®). ~—The robber who held up the South- ‘west State Bank here yesterday got 81.619 with a toy “G-man” pistol. Ray Wittig, cashier, identified the women, their widows and orphan de- pendents. Claude Blalock, national employ- ment officer, will lead a drive to re- lieve unemployment among members of the organization and other former members of the Army and Navy The annual banquet was held last | night, with National Comdr. Oakey Rookstool of Akron, Ohio, as toast- master. MISSING GIRL IS FOUND Usher—1Is Taken to Woman's Bureau. Thirteen-year-old Irene Nadeene Vandergrift, missing since Tuesday, was found today when an usher recog- nized her as she walked past a down- town theater. Policewoman Dorathy Douglas took | the girl to the Woman's Bureau and said she would be transferred later to the Receiving Home. The girl has not Yet been questioned concerning her disappearance. Irene's mother, Mrs. Henry Vander- grift, said the girl disappeared after she had been left at their home, 5078 Sherrier place, to take care of her little brother James. Police were told she had been read- ing with ‘“great interest” newspaper accounts of the disappearance of Doris Major, cigarette girl, who has joined a circus. ROBINSON PAINTING The Senate adopted yesterday a res- | olution by Senator Caraway of Arkan- | sas_authorizing the Capitol architect to hang a painting of the late Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, in the Senate wing of the Capitol. A similar resolution by Representa- tive Keller, Democrat, of Illinois is pending in the House. legislative i WALKING PAST THEATER| Irene Vandergrift Recognized by | Deutschland yesterday that he and the girl were on the high seas en route | to Prague. Asks Wife to Join Him. The diplomat had stopped in Wash- | ington long enough to regain custody of his daughter while on his way to Czechoslovakia from China. In a radio message to his estranged wife | | he invited her to join him in Prague, Mrs. Stransky could not be reached for comment on the proposed recon- ciliation, and members of her family refused to say whether she planned to visit Czechoslovakia to see her hus- band and daughter. Since her return to her former | home Mrs. Stransky has been em- ploved in a physician’s office in Falls Church. MRS. M. A. DULIN DIES: RITES SET TOMORROW | Interment to Be at Savage, Md. | Il for a Long Time. She Was 69. Mrs. Martha A. Dulin, 69. died ves- | terday after a long iliness at the home | | of her daughter, Mrs. C. E. Cooley, 1428 Morse street northeast. Mrs. Dulin lived in Madison, Va., until about a year ago. Besides Mrs, Cooley, she leaves three other daug] ters, Miss Lucy Dulin and Mrs. Alice Pennington, both of this city, and Mrs. J. D. Browp, Culpeper, Va.; two sons, Edward Dulin, Fredericksburg, Va., and Joseph Dulin, Detroit; & brother, J. L. Fishback, Madison, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Clore, Brightwood, Va, and Mrs. Mark Weaver, Boston, Va., and 13 grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 11 a&.m. tomorrow in the Deal funeral home, 816 H street northeast. Burial will be at Savage, Md. GREEN TO SPEAK William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, accept- ed today an invitation to speak on Labor day at Dallas, Tex. John L. Lewis, chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, is slated to address a Labor day rally at South Park, Pittsburgh. Secretary Perkins probably will broadcast her Labor day message Sep- tember 6. 'Resident of No. This is Friday the 13th—jinx day to vou—but Louis R. Barr, 29, of 213 Ninth street, is going to defy every superstition he can think of. He plans to make a parachute jump from & height of 1,300 feet at exactly 6:13 o'clock tonight from Beacon Field, near Alexandris. Before boarding the plane, Barr will break a mirror, walk under a ladder, spill salt and carry out any other bad- luck measures any one can suggest. Yes, he'll take the third light from a match. “weapon,” found several blocks away. ["The. robber atill is at large. He'll also carry 8 black cat on his parachute leap. But to satisfy the - ’Chute at 1,300 Feet at 6:13 213 to Open Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, it will be a toy cat, In other words, Barr is inclined to scofl at superstition. Parachute jumps are no novelty to Barr. He's made plenty of them, al- though he’'s an amateur. He works for the Internal Revenue Bureau. Bob Ashburn will pilot the plane. Beyond Barr's deflance, Washington took the day in stride. The traditional unluckiness of the thirteenth is shrouded in obscurity, according to an encyclopedia, which adds: “In the folk lore of many na- tions, Priday is considered an unlucky day.” ’ Nearly a score of applicants for per- mits were denied their licenses in | Bethesda vesterday because this phase | of their training had been negiected Employes of the Motor Vehicle | Commissioner’s Office, who tour the counties giving driving tests, showed up with & new-fangled contraption to | be used in all examinations in the future. It cobsists simply of two pipe frames which the examiners set up on the street to create a parking area | —Star Staff Photo. II trifie longer than the length of an average size car. Applicants, before undergoing any other phase of their test, were re- quired to park their machines in the area between the two frames. Ap- proximately 20 were unable to meet the requirement and were denied licensex. One woman driver parked her ecar at the curb between the two uprights and was well on her way toward a license when the examiner ordered her to drive out of the space for the usual | road test. Losing control of the machine. she | z00med diagonally across the street, tore down a wire fence and post and ended up in the center of a large lot some 250 feet away. She, too, was refused a permit. PRESIDENT SIGNS NEW MARRIAGE LAW Measure Approved Raising Age of Consent Two Years for Both Sexes. The bill to tighten the District marriage law was signed today by President Roosevelt. The measure raises the age of con- sent for marriage from 16 to 18 years for males and from 14 to 16 for fe- males. It also requires an interval of three days between the applica- tion and granting of marriage licenses to discourage what its proponents call “gin margiages.” Another bill signed today clarifies the law relating to petit and grand larceny and raises from $35 to $75 the amount that must be involved before a grand larceny charge applies. This will religve the grand jury of con- sidering many cases which now may be tried as misdemeanors. A third bill signed by the Presi- dent is designed to protect the buy- ers of potatoes by requiring deal- ers either to indicate that they are graded according to Agriculture De- partment standards or to mark them as “unclassified” or ‘“ungraded.” Fire Carnival Tomorrow. FALLS CHURCH, Va., August 13 (Special) —The annual carnival staged by the Falls Church Volunteer Fire Department will open tomorrow eve- ning and continue through the com- ing week. BAND CONCERT. By the Army Band at the Capitol at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hubner, as- sistant. Program. March, “Law and Order” Rhapsody, “Slavonic No. 2, Friedemann Fox trot, “Satan Takes a Holiday,” Clinton Cornet solo, “Minnehaha”. (Albin Johnson, soloist.) Overture, “Triumphal”. Grand fantasie, “Home Sweet Home the World Over” -Lampe Rhythmic classic, “Sylvia”__._.Speaks (Request.) Saxophone solo, “Valse Caprice,” : Cosmey (Eugene Hostetter, soloist.) Nautical novelty, “The Tang of the Ses. March, “The Regiment's Return,” Crosby “The Star-Spangled Banner.” / PLAYGROUND SCENE OF REUNION TODAY Men and Women to Take Part! in Games at Garfield—Clergy Represented. Men and women who romped through games on the Garfield Play- ground in the last 30 years were to stage a gala reuhion there this after- | noon with a base ball game as a special attraction. The clergy was to be represented in the game by Rev. Francis Cowhig and Rev. Francis Cormell of the Catholic Church and Rev. Elmore Kimball of the Methodist Church. Other participants were to include Southeast boys who have grown up and become policemen, firemen, law- yers, physicians and clerks. The Garfleld Playground, at Sec- ond and R streets southeast, was es- tablished in 1906. The program was planned by Richard Tennyson, assist- and director of the District Playground Department, who was director of the Garfleld grounds in 1918 LARCENY CHARGED Two Women Accused of Mulcting Department Store. Mary E. Weber, 45, and Nellie Benig, 24, both of the 6@0 block of Eighth street northeast, demanded jury trials when arraigned before Police Court Judge John P. McMahon yesterday on charges of larceny by trick. Bond was set at 300 each. Mrs. Cecelia Clarke of the Women's Bureau, who arrested the women in a downtown department store, told the court that since last March they had been purchasing merchandise un- der the names of persons having charge accounts at the store. While only four cases, totaling approximately $60, were presented today, Mrs. Clarke said the women had acquired approxi- mately $600 worth of merchandise in this manner. HOLIDAY FOR CHILDREN Eighty-eight children between the ages of 6 and 10 will leave Washing- ton tomorrow for s two-week vaca- tion at a camp near Brookeville, Md., as guests of the Central Union Mis- sion. The group, which includes 66 boys and 22 girls, is the fourth and last the mission will send to the eamp this Summer. boost “a daring attempt to burden the wage-earning classes.” Since the company operates inter- state, the commission has no juris- argued in one of of the company. the company has no basis for a claim to a fair return, because it admittedly adopted the $1.25 weekly pass volun- tarily, and this act is called arbitrary | and capricious. The service of the company is not reasonably competent, and the ecom- pany fails to employ uniform stand- ard of accounts, Ganaway charged. The brief charges also that erate and control all the electrical, gas and light utilities in the District, and therefore the District commis- sion has no jurisddction. Another charge 1s that the com- pany “by certain overt acts” had cre- sted & monopoly over certain streets, and that this was in restraint of trade | and in violation of anti-tmst laws. Before the commission acts in the case briefs are to be filed by the company and the commission's eoun- sel and possibly others, POLICEMAN FREED IN ASSAULT CHARGE Case Against Henderson, Accused of Beating Lawyer, Is Nolle Prossed. An assault charge against Capitol Policeman Myron Henderson was nolle prossed by Assistant United States Attorney Albert Goldstein in Police | Court today. Also dropped was a parking charge | Against Josiah Lyman, well-known at- torney, whom Henderson was ac- cused of striking with a blackjack during an argument in the guard room of the new House Office Build- ing. When the assault first came up for & Police Court hearing a week ago, Representative Virginia E. Jenckes, Democrat, of Indiana, appeared and told the court she would be respon- sible for Prliceman Henderson's ap- pearance in court today. She was at the Court House this morning. Henderson is a citizen of Jenckes’ home town, Ind. ‘The 2rgument between the lawyer and the officer occurred after Lyman was given a ticket for parking in a restricted sone at the Capitol. He said Henderson forced him to go to the House Office guard room and then struck him over the head with a blackjack as he attempted to use a telephone. Mrs. Terre Haute, e To iombny to Pick a Lock. Charles Courtney, master locksmith of New York City, has traveled as far as Bombay and Moacow to open “un- openable” safes and trunks. ROBBERS ENTER 11 L insisted | the | the | | company and affiliates actually op- | ES, GET§1.376 Manager of Clothing Store | Reports $600 Worth of Suits Stolen. Robbers broke into 11 homes and business establishments last night and escaped with loot valued at $1,576, police reported today. Two celored men escaped from the Pennsyvivania Railroad freight yards on Virginia avenue southwest amid a | fusiliade of bullets fired by railroad | guards after stealing a coil of cop- per wire. One of the bandits stum- | bled as though he had been wound- | ed, the railroad officers reported. After smashing glass from a rear window of the Marvin's Credit Co. xtore at 734 Seventh street, bandits made off with 40 men’s suits valued at $600. David Stock. manager, reported. Patrick F. O'Connor, local bonds- man, awakened in his home at 5605 | Sixteenth street early today to find a robber in his bed room The intruder | fled with O'Connor's trousers, which | contained $27.50, and his wife's purse, containing $2.50. Bandits with musical aspirations but little talent broke into the Dunbar | High School, First and O streets, and | ruined a piano in clumsy efforts to | play it. The robbers obtained $5.70 | from the physical training director’s office. Damage to the piano was es- | timated at $50. Herman Cohen, 30. of 529 Lamont | street reported a pickpocket stole his | wallet containing $130 Jast night while he watched the American Legion parade st Thirteenth and H streets. Miss Olive Hurley, 214 Massachu- | setts avenue, reported a diamond ring valued at $400 was stolen from her | home. Jasper Parks, 1764 Columbia road, reported that a duplicate-key robber stole silver valued at $130 from his home. Accused of having broken into the apartment of Katherine Horton, 1744 Society and General PAGE B—1 D.CHEADS TORET REPORT WE:GHING SEWAGE PROBLEM Director of Sanitary Engi- neering Will Present Study to Commissioners. EARLY ATTENTION DUE TO BE GIVEN DATA Effect Estimated Future Indus- trial Waste Would Have on New Plant Discussed. J. B. Gordon, director of sanitary engineering. said today he has “'boiled down” for the Commissioners a “vol- uminous and highly technical” re- port on sanitary problems affecting the District's new sewage disposal plant The report was completed this week in the office of Capt. Don G. Shingier, assistant to Engineer Commissioner Dan 1. Sultan. It deals largely with the effect that estimated future ine dustrial waste would have on the efficiency of the sewage plant which the District built with $4,125,000 ob- tained from the Public Works Admine istration The report is expected o receive the early attention of the Commis~ sioners, who requested it in order to file an answer with Secretary of the Interior Ickes. P. W. A. administrator, Ickes had called to their attentjon another report, prepared by the Pup- lic Health 8ervice, warning that the disposal plant, which is a primary treatment plant, would be unable to cope succedsfully with the threatened overload of sewage from a slaughter house which Adolf Gobel Co. of New York has proposed to build in Washe ington Engineering Studies Only. In turning the report over to the sanitary director Capt. Shingler said he had presented engineering studies only. From these technical studies, based on the plant's capacity to deal with huge volumes of industrial waste, Gordon has prepared a final report Certain other legal phases dealing with the situation involved in the threat of nuisance industries in the National Capital are being prepared for the Commissioners and Secretary Ickes by Corporation Counsel Elwood H. Seal There was no indication today when the Commissioners would forward the reports to the P. W. A Since the P. W. A. financed the new sewage treatment plant through loans and a 30 per cent grant of Fed- | eral funds, Ickes advised the District he was interested in seeing that the public derives the full benefits from the expenditure. The main objective was to rid the Potomac River of & serious pollution problem Proponents Cite Time Needed. Corporation Counsel Seal has in- formed Senator McCarran, chairman of a Senate District subcommittee, that the proponents of anti-nuisance ‘lflnsla(lnn would require perhaps two days in which to complete their case when he reopens hearings on the King bill. Senator McCarran has not fixed a date but gave assurances yes- | terday he would consent to the re- opening of the hearings if it were possible to make the arrangements | The District has a number of points | to present to the Senate subcommit- tee, and it is possible the report on the sewage disposal plant may be used. There was no indication, however, Lamont street, and stolen jewelry valued at $1.300, Sylvester Davis, col | ored. no fixed address, was held with- out bond for the grand jury by Police {Judge John P. McMahon after he | pleaded guilty today. The robbery |occurred July 16. The jewelry be- longed to Miss Horton's sister, Miss Helen Horton. CARL LUTES, 50, D-EAD: VETERAN OF WORLD WAR |Power Company Cableman Was N ive of New Jersey. * Rites Tomorrow. Carl Lutes, 50, World War veteran, died in Providence Hospital yesterday after a short illness. Mr. Lutes, who served overseas with | the 5th Division, was a cableman for the Potomac Electric Power Co. A | native of New Jersey, he had lived | here for six years, residing with his brother, William R. Lutes, motor cycle officer of the Park Police, at 1828 Bay street southeast. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, Besides his brother, he is survived by his father, Prank Lutes, and sister, Mrs. Anne L. Erickson, both of Browns Mills, N. J. | Funeral services will be held at 10 | a.m. tomorrow in Chambers' southeast funeral home, 517 Eleventh satreet | southeast. Burial will be in Arlington Cemetery. Animals Shipped by Air. Living animals with no offenaive odor can now be sent by air express, provided they will not require food or water in transit. “Runners” for Shyster Lawyers Object of Police Court Drive Police Court officials have launched & “purge” against shyster lawyers' “runners,” who, like ambulance chasers, fatten on misfortune. Judge John P. McMahon fired the opening gun yesterday afternoon when he haled a suspect before him and made him the target of a stinging rebuke. Chief Clerk Walter F. Bramhall fol- lowed through today by summoning all belliffs and instructing them to clear the corridors of suspected “run- ners,” or “cappers,” as they are some- times called. . The “runners” are in the employ of shyster lawyers. In recent months they have been haunting Police Court corridors in increasing numbers. ‘Their method, eourt attaches say, i something like this: * 14 A “runner’ 'spots some unfertunate whose bewildered air reveals him as a first offender about to be called up on a charge, such as speeding. Al- though a lawyer is seldom a help and often & handicap in a traffic case, the “runner” offers to aid the defendant and convinces him he is in immediate need of legal counsel. The “runner” then brings into the case the shyster who pays him a commission, & practice condemned by reputable lawyers as well as court officials. While there is no law against the practice, “runners” get in their best work in the corridors, which are | forbidden to loiterers. | Bailiffs were under orders today to clear the corridors of suspects and others who lack s satisfactory expla- nation of their presence. M whether this report was favorable or unfavorable as it affects the treat- | ment that ean be given to estimated i industrial waste, 'GEN. BOSCHEN HEADS A. E. F. COMMITTEE Will Have Charge of Reception at Veterans’ Reunion on September 16-19. Appointment of Maj. Gen. Pred- erick W. Boschen, Army chief of finance. as chairman of the Reception Committee of the American Expedi- | tionary Forces reunion, to be held | here September 16-19, waz announced yesterday. Brig. Gen. G. B. Pillsbury, assist- ant chief of engineers, and Col. Allen | W. Gullion, acting judge advocate | general, were appointed assistants to | Gen. Boschen. | Among the A. E. F. commanders who have notified reunion headquar- ters, Raleigh Hotel, of their intention of attending the gathering are Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood, Maj. Gen. E. E. Booth, Maj. Gen. Stanley H. Ford, commanding the 7th Corps Area: Maj. Gen. Robert C. Davis, New York; Maj. Gen. George B. Duncan, Lex- ington, Ky.; Maj. Gen. John L. Hines, Maj. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, command- ing the Hawaiian Department; Maj. Gen. Van Horn Moseley, commanding the 4th Corps Area: Maj. Gen. Frank Parker, former commander of the 1st Division; Brig. Gen. William R. Sam- ple, New York; Brig. Gen. William ‘W. Harts, Connecticut; Brig. Gen. Palmer E. Pierce, New York: Col. Parker Hitt, Virginia, and Capt Ed- ward V. Rickenbacker. A feature of the reunion will be a military and naval banquet at which one prominent citizen from each State will be seated. The committee in charge of the arrangements for this table is headed by W. E. Hoff- heins, president of the All States So- cieties of Washington. = — GET WEST POINT CHANCE Trio Here Will Take Examina- tions Next March. Designation of three Washington residents at presidential candidates from the United States at large for the March 1, 1938, entrance exami- nation for admission to the United States Military Academy has been announced by the War Department. They are John Frederick Daye, jr.; Ulysses Grant Jones, jr., and Clar- ence Walter Richmond, jr. All three gave their address here as 1918 N street.