Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1937, Page 19

Washi LEGALIZED RACING IND. C. 0PPOSED BY POLICE HEAD Maj. Brown Says 1t Would Cause Congestion and Add to Traffic Problems. HURCH FEDERATION GROUP ALSO OBJECTS Bociety of Friends, Through Charles M. Pidgeon, Is “Un- alterably” Opposed. BY J. A. O'LEARY. Legalizing of horse racing in Wash- gton was opposed by Maj. Ernest . Brown, superintendent of police, | 8 a Senate subcommittee completed jhearings today on the bill to allow orse racing in the District under e pari-mutuel system Senator Capper, Republican, of ansas, also placed in the record a | etter from Wilbur La Roe, ir., of the | ivic Affairs Committee of the Wash- | ngton Federation of Churches against he bill. Senator Reynolds, Democrat, of | orth Carolina, head of the subcom- ittee, forecast an unfavorable re- port. He said Senator Tydings, Demo- rat, of Maryland, the third member, not for the measure. With Capper plso opposed. Reynolds said he prob- pbly would file a minority report. He xpressed the belief the deciSion would close in the full committee, but if | ongress adjourns this week there is ot likely to be another meeting of he entire District Committee until ext session. Would Increase Congestion. Brown said he is against the bill | because it would add to the problems f the Police Department. Pointing | put that the District is a limited | rea in size with growing popnlauun‘ f 600,000, the police chief declared | race track would increase the con- Restion. The police chief said that while a | ace track would bring a good class | f people, it also would attract an | desirable element to the city. Dis- | 'ussing possible re-establishment of he track at Benning, Brown observed | hat there is only one main artery to | hat section—Benning road—and that he result would be a new traffic problem. “We have always had gambling and | suppose we always will,” the ma]or; continued. “But, while some say | rack track would do away with | bookmaking, I know it will not be- | ause the track would operate only part of the time. Those who want see the races have tracks near ashington now. rrom a police and affic standpoint, we oppose the bill.” When Senaior Reynolds referred 0 testimony yesterday to the effect hat police reports showed less crime prior to the closing of the local race frack in 1908, Maj. Brown said he umed the police statistics were less hen than now because the population f the city has nearly doubled. Like | very other city, Washington has | d an increase in crime during the | cent depression years, Brown added. Takes Issue With Brown. W. C. Murphy, representing the entral Labor Union in support of he billi, took issue with Brown, con- fending conditions here were not as | pad when race track was in opera- | ion. Maj. Brown recalled that Maj. Syl- ester, who was then chief of police, sed to issue special orders to the police during racing meets. From the Police Department report for 1903 he | huoted Sylvester as directing the force o be on the lookout for “criminal and obo classes that usually visit Wash- Ington during racing season.” Charles M. Pidgeon of the Society pf Friends went on record as “un- lterably opposed to horse racing™ peing established here. Mrs. Ernest Howard, jr., chairman pf the Police and Fire Committee of he District Federation of Women's lubs, said Mrs. Lloyd Biddle, pres- dent, requested her to advise the sub- ommittee that organization has not | pcted on the racing bill, but plans to ake it up at the October meeting. La Roe's letter said any statement hat Washington wants racing re- stablished is wrong. Testifies to Betting. It was testified yesterday that wagers pn horse races can be placed in any overnment department. John Paul Jones, an attorney and ice president of the District of Co- lumbia Federation of Business Men, pppearing at the request of the orgetown Business Men's Associa- tion, urging adoption of the bill, said: “There is not a Government de- partment you can go into where you an't place a bet if you want to. Now [l don't think you can beat the races, nd I'm not arguing in favor of bet- ing on them. But it's going on, all pver Washington, and by legalizing a ace track we can put the bookmakers put of business.” A race track for the District was ppposed bitterly by representatives of peveral large religious groups and others. Favoring the legislation, Mrs. Mar- garet Hopkins Worrell, president of he Columbia Heights Citizens’ Asso- ciation, declared it would help the burdened taxpayers of the District by Iproducing a large added revenue. “The gamblers are here anyway,” he added. “You can't get rid of them. I don’t say all Government mployes play the races, but certainly great many do.” Local churchmen opposing the leg- {slation included Rev. Ralph D. Smith of the United Methodist Group of ('Washington, Rev. Horace E. Cromer of the Washington Federation of Churches, and Rev. Justin Smith, Methodist pastor. The bilt also was lopposed: by Evan H. Tucker repre- senting the Northeast Washington Citizens' Association. / “If we in Washington,” said Rev. Justin Smith, “break down on great moral issues, we can't expect other cities to hold up their standards.” ‘Tucker, pointing out that the Capi- tal was a literary, historic and art center, added: “There are plenty of things to bring ington News Bars Monument As“Race Track” For Title Fans Challengers out after records must remember that the Washington Monument 4s a memorial and not & perpendicular race track. B. C. Gardner of the National Park Service called attention to the orig- inal purpese of the Monument after the old record for the up-and-down course was challenged by Paul 8. Mitvalsky, a nimble visitor from Arizona. “People are always wanting to run up and down the steps or throw base balls out the windows,” Gardner said. “I favor keeping the Monument as memorial and not an athletic stadium. There are rules against running up and down the steps. I think they should be relaxed only for scientific purposes.” Mitvalsky claims he made the course in 12 minutes, a record which the present title holder, Benjamin K. Morrow, 55, a guard at Lincoln Memo- rial, is inclined to belittle. “In that time I could climb the outside of the Monument,” he said. He claims he made the round trip in 11 minutes, 45 seconds, back in | April, 1936. “If T race it will be with official permission,” Morrow vowed, ‘“‘and there won't be any of this leaping up | three or four steps at a time—that's hurdle jumping.” THREED. C. BILLS AWAIT GONFEREES New Juvenile Code, Realty Licensing and Adoption Plans Pending. With final action on the Wash'mg- ton Airport improvement bill blocked | for the time being by Senator King's motion to reconsider in the Senate, three other local measures that have passed both houses await adjustment of differences. They are: The proposed new Juvenile Court | code, the bill to license and regulate the real estate business and measure outlining a new procedure | for the adoption of children. House and Senate conferees may get together today on the adoption bill. Meanwhile Chairman Palmisano | is studying Senate changes in the Juvenile Court and real estate bills to determine whether it will be neces- sary to send both measures to con- ference. The Senate made some im- cedure bill, but only two minor amend- ments were aded to the real estate license plan. Camp Springs Site Seen. The Copeland-May bill to enlarge Washington Airport and make it safer had passed both houses and been ordered sent to conference when King entered his motion to recon- sider, coupled with the request that the measure be returned by the House. As soon as the bill is returned, probably today, Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York is expected to ask the Senate to dispose of the reconsideration motion, since the bill will have to remain in the Senate as long as that moton is pending. There is no time limit within which a mo- tion to reconsder must be taken up, and, with Congress driving toward adjournment by Saturday the rush of last-minute legislation may pre- vent enactment of the bill. Senator King is chairman of the Distriet Airport Commisson, which recommended development of a new Government-controlled airport at Camp Springs, Md. A separate bill to carry out that recommendation has passed the Senate but has not been approved by the House. Changes in Adoption. King said he moved to reconsider the Washington Airport measure to give further study to the provision that would authorize filling the Washington Boundary Channel La- goon, subject to approval by the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Commission. There was a belief in some quarters that House action on the Senate's Camp Springs bill would hasten ad- justment of differences over the ‘Washington Airport measure, The adoption bill would require in- vestigation by the Board of Public Welfare of applications for adoption, the board’s report to be filed with the court. One House amendment provides such inquiry by the Welfare Board shall not be required if an in- vestigation has already been made by a qualified social agency or by re- ligious or other organizations having under their care minors for adoption. The bill also requires that the minor must live with the family asking for the adoption for six months before a final decree is entered, and there- after the records in the case shall be sealed, to be opened only upon court order. Another House amend- ment provides that the records of social agencies figuring in an adop- tion proceeding also shall be closed to inspection, except with the consent of the institution or agency. REOPENING PLAN OF FIDELITY NEAR Shareholders, It Is Understood, Will Be Offered Proposal to Exchange Shares. Shareholders of the Fidelity Building & Loan Association soon will be pre- sented with a plan for reopening the institution as the Pirst Federal Savings & Loan Association, it was indicated today. While no official announcement was forthcoming, it was understood share- holders will be offered a proposal to exchange their shares in the old fidelity for shares in the new First Federal. Some cash payment would be available if the new outfit reopens the old Fidelity. people here without making our city the Monte Carlo of the United States.” & L] An official statement on the matter is expected shortly. the 3 |Pope had already had more than | that this portant changs in the juvenile pro- | @h WASHINGTON, MEMORIAL WORK MAY BE ENABLED IF3500.000 VOTED Appropriation For Jefferson Building Held Clearing Path of Obstacles. RENEWAL OF FIGHT ON MONUMENT SEEN Efforts to Prevent Erection of Structure, However, Thought Doomed to Failure. If Congress approves the $500,000 in the third deficiency bill for be- ginning work on the Thomas Jeffer- son Memorial and President Roose- velt signs the measure, apparently there is nothing to prevent the con- struction of the mooted monument on the Tidal Basin site. This appeared to be the situation today as observers studied the in- clusion of the $500,000 item in the third deficiency bill, reported yester- day to the House, which today began consideration of the bill. Representative Woodrum, Democrat, of Virginia, who was in charge of the third deficiency appropriation bill, said in the House today that the Appro- priations Committee approved the | initial appropriation of $500,000 be- cause the Memorial Commission was authorized to spend $3,000,000 on this | project, and had carried out only the authority given it by act of Congress. This item will be subject to discus- sion later this afternoon. Representa- tive Wearin, Democrat, of Iowa, who has opposed the plans of the com- | mission, has announced that he will | fight against House approval of the | | $500.000 appropriation. | The half million dollar figure is like- | 1y to provoke controversy, stirring up | | anew the hornets’ nest of opposmmw which raged some months back when | the New York architect, John Rus- ‘sell Pope, and the Thomas Jefferson | Memorial Commission made public the plans for the Tidal Basin site. Efforts Seen Doomed. Opponents of the project their fight on the allegation based that | his share of architectural contracts here; that the construction of the | memorial at the Tidal Basin would destroy too many of Washington's | world-famed Japanese cherry trees; would interfere seriously with the flushing process of the basin, which washes out the Washington Channel daily with the outgoing tides, and further, that the Nation's Cam-x tal already has its full measure of | classical architecture, and that mod- ern designs, truly representative of America, should prevail. Efforts were launched in Congress in response to the opposition heard in architectural quarters and else- | where to prevent the erection of the | Thomas Jefferson Memorial at theI Tidal Basin. But, with the adjourn- | | ment of Congress likely the end of | this week or early next, these efforts | apparently are foredoomed to failure | unless speedy action is obtained. Representative Treadway, Republi- | can, of Massachusetts vigorously ex- | pressed his opposition to the con- struction of the Jefferson Memorial at the Tidal Basin site. He intro- duced a resolution to this effect. It | was favorably reported from the Li- | brary Committee and now is pend- | ing in the House on the unanimous consent calendar. Whether it can be called up in time to be effective remains to be seen. Observers are dubious that this can be done and the resolution can be passed by the | Senate before the final gavels fall. | Chairman Keller of the Library | Committee is represented as being anxious to have the Treadway resolu- tion called up at the earliest possible | moment. Pope Redrawing Plans. At the order of the commission Pope is now engaged in redesigning the memorial so as to set it farther back on the land just south of the | Tidal Basin. This is designed to| meet the criticism that construction of the memorial at the originally selected site would destroy many of | the famous cherry trees and to pre- serve the present status of-the Tidal Basin. The new location, according to those in close totich with the com- mission, will be closer to the High- way Bridge, south of the original site, which was at the south shore of the Tidal Basin. Dr. Charles Moore, chairman of the Fine Arts Commission, one of the biggest boosters for the Tidal Basin site, is now vacationing in the Far West. He has contended the memorial to Jefferson should be placed at the Tidal Basin, the fourth cardi- nal point in the 1901 plan for the development of the National Capital. The Capitol, White House and Lin- | coln Memorial are the other major | points in this conception. Moore has sald that the Tidal Basin site, on the axis south of the White House, is “the last great monumental site in the National Capital.” President Roosevelt some time ago transmitted a request through the Bureau of the Budget to Congress for the inclusion of the $500,000 item for the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in a deficiency measure. o Lawn Fete Set for Tonight. FORESTVILLE, Md., August 17 (Special).—A lawn party will be held tonight on the lawn of Mrs. Thomas D. Griffith here under the auspices of the Sewing Circle of Epiphany Epis- copal Church. BAND CONCERTS. By the Navy Band at the District War Memorial in West Potomac Park at 8 o'clock tonight. Lieut. Charles Benter, leader; Alexander Morris, as- sistant. By the Soldiers’ Home Band in the bandstand at 7 o'clock tonight. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant. By the Army Band at Walter Reed Hospital at 6:30 o’clock tonight. Capt. Thomas F. Darcy, leader; Karl Hub- ner, assistant \ ¢ Toening Star Wl‘l‘h SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C ‘o Montana Avenue Underpass Opens ‘New Travel Routes UESDAY, AUGUST 17, View from air of the underpass for the Pennsylvania and B. & O. tracks north of New Y ork avenue northeast, which has bccn opened ]nr «r‘n ice At the snum it rmrnrrh with the m‘cr- 1937. FHH routes to the dow ——Siar Staff Pho CROUP 1 PICKED FOR GELEGRATION Committee Is Selected for Fete Marking Signing of Constitution. Organization of a Dmfl'u commit- tee to direct Washington's participa- tion in the celebration of the 150th | anniversary of the signing of the Constitutjon was perfected today at a meeting in the District Building Dr. George C. Havenner, chairman | of the group, was authorized to name an executive committee. He an- nounced subcommittees also would be appointed to plan various phases of the celebration, which will continue from September 17, the anm\' ary of the signing of the Constitution, to April 30, 1939, the 150th anniversary of the inauguration of George Wash- ington as the first President Dr. Havenner announced subscrip- tions totaling $15,000 would be sought to pay necessary expenses of the head- quarters staff, and contributions were urged on local business, hotel and transportation establishments by Com- missioner Melvin C. Hazen. Both Havenner and Hazen declared there was great likelihood the sub- scriptions would be paid, dollar for | the sale dollar, from proceeds from of tickets to pageants and other shows being planned for the period A military display will be staged September 17. On that day many | world War veterans will be in Wash- ington for a reunion of the American Expeditionary Forces, according to Ted Luther, national executive secre- | tary for the A. E. F. get-together and legislative chairman of the District | Department of the American Legion. Units of the regular military organ- izations, as well as the A. E. F. mem- bers, are expected to participate in a parade on the morning of the seven- teenth. In the evening President | Roosevelt is to address the throng | at the Sylvan Theater and the event | is to be concluded with a fireworks | display. Immediate formation of an Execu- tive Committee to take charge of the financial side of the program was pro- posed in a motion by Riley E. Elgen, chairman of the District Public Util- itles Commission, and was approved by the group. Dr. Havenner announced he would invite the following to serve and might name others later: C. Mel- vin Sharpe, Mark Lansburgh, Robert V. Fleming, Lloyd B. Wilson, W. W. Everett and representatives of the Ho- tel Association, the Board of Trade and the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As- sociation. iMAJ, WRIGHTWROTE RESIGNATION, DIED Park Service Employe Had Filled Out Blank 12 Hours Before Death. Maj. William Wright, 66, inspector of the guards of the National Park Service, who died Saturday night of a heart attack at his home, 1653 Ho- bart street, had filled out & resigna- tion blank, because of poor health, less than 12 hours before his death. This was not learned, however, un- til yesterday when the written resig- nation was found in his desk. It had been dated in advance, August 16, to become effective August 31. In the letter, addressed to Charles A. Peters, jr., assistant director, branch of buildings management, Maj. Wright said that due to poor health he had “reached a point where it would not be in my mind justice to the office to try to longer remain and only half way perform my duty.” He asserted further that he was following a policy he adopted when first appointed to the guard force that if at any time he was unable to per- form the duties of his office he would “not ask for retirement, but would Q BAR ON GOLUMBIA TAXICABS LIFTED Judgment Paid, Vehicles Back in Streets With Officials’ Consent. The 52 taxieabs of the Columbia Cab Association, barred from the streets two weeks ago by Traffic Director Wil- liam A. Van Duzer because of an un- | paid judgment, were back in operation | |today with the consent of traffic officials. Byron G. Carson, attorney for the association, announced the judgment had been paid and the suspension or- der lifted. An injunction suit to re- strain enforcement of the suspension | order was dropped under an agreement | with District officials that only those hackers actually named in the judg- ment would be required to post insur- ance bonds, as required by the motor vehicle responsibility law, Carson said. | $350 Judgment. Last June 11 George McNeil, 1454‘ T street, obtained a $350 judgment in | Municipal Court against eight Colum- bia Cab Association drivers and for-| | mer drivers. The suit named as de- fendants 15 drivers and “others trad- ing as the Columbia Cab Association. "\ Service was obtained, however, only on | eight and the judgment entered against that number. ) Proceeding on the theory that all members of the association were re- sponsible for payment of the judgment, | which had not been satisfied, Van | Duzer ordered suspension of permits and license plates for all 52 cabs. The drivers not named in the judg- ment protested and Carson obtained | for them a temporary restraining order from District Court, preventing enforcement of the suspension order, | except aginst the eight named in the judgment. $11,000 for Each Cab. Carson explained that if the origi- | nal order were enforced all members of the association would have to post | insurance bonds of $11,000 for each | cab. He said members of the Colum- | bia Association were in favor of lia- | bility insurance, but did not feel they could afford to subscribe to it unless | other cab companies did likewise. In order to adjust the situation peaceably, Carson had the Municipal Court judgment corrected so it | clearly concerned only the eight on | whom service had been obtained. When this was done he obtained an agreement from District officials not to press the general suspension, Car= son pointed out that only four of the eight drivers mentioned in the judg- ment actually were members of the Columbia Association at the time of the suit, the others having severed their connection. The four men still driving Colum- bia cabs posted their insurance bonds yetserday after the judgment had been paid and their license plates and permits were returned to them this morning. NEW TRAFFIC CHANGES STUDIED BY OFFICIALS Plans for Revamping Circles and By-pass for Georgetown Are Considered. Detailed studies of proposed traffic gineering projects considered in ngress in framing the 1938 District budget have been started, Capt. H. C. Whitehurst announced today. They involve plans for revamping of Scott, Dupont and Thomas Circles, a by-pass for Georgetown and a new cross for Rock Creek Park. For this purpose, Congress inserted in the appropriations for the year an item of $30,000 for engineering studies. The plans are to be ready early in the next session and the Commissioners likely will seek funds for starting work on some of the projects. Six engineers and surveyors have been assigned to the surveys by OCapt. ‘Whitehurst. !a hard time | doves,” | doves.” |Party Peace Doves To Be Given Air- By Hotel Manager Overrules Chef’s Desire to Make ““Pie ala Democrat.” By the Associated Press The Raleigh Hotel, Democrats recently dinner, decided today to give the gate to a couple of hangers-on—the party peace doves. “They're beginning to cause trouble,” said Manager C. C. Shiffler. “We've had them in the Kkitchen ever since the dinner, and the chef is where Senate | getting tired of them.” The two birds—which were released in the banquet hall when the dinner was at its gayest—were supposed to have been the white symbols of new- | found peace among the Senators Shiffler said he has been having | restraining the chef from converting the star boarders |into an inspiration called dove pie | a 1a Democrat. “I keep telling him they're poa(‘e explained the manager, “and he keeps telling me theyre feast | Rather than turn them over to the | chef, Shiffier has decided to hold a little ceremony on the roof and turn them out upon the world. RELIEF CONDITIONS HERE AT BY CLERIC Social Welfare Head Says Lack of Funds Cost Aid to 3,000 Persons. Declaring lack of funds yesterday forced refusal of relief to almost a dozen needy persons, Rev. John Mix- on, director of the department of social welfare of the Washington Fed- eration of Churches, today Washington citizens to become con- | scious of the desperate conditions | here for unemployed employables. “‘More than 3,000 persons have been turned down by various agencies over a period of the last few months,” he said. “The situation has been particularly aggravated by W. P. A. lay-offs, which have totaled a net o( 665 since July.” The private groups were trying to help unemployed employables un- able to get relief funds but generally have found the task impossible, he said. “The churches have helped out a lot in consributing several hundreds of dollars, and I hope they will con- tinue to aid,” he said. “We have been trying to have each member church handle the cases in its own vicinity.” Rev. Mixon felt that W. P. A. jobs should be made available as soon as possible under approved projects that await only the signature of Adminis- trator Harry Hopkins to be released. He also felt it was unfortunate that the public assistance division should be forced to spend only one-twelfth of its budget each month, regardless of needs at a given time. Citing cases where parents were trying to give their children away and where fathers were leaving home rather than eat any of the little food the family had left, Rev. Mixon said the District was creating expensive healthy and juvenile delinquency problems by its short-sighted relief policy. Business Change Made. ‘The paint and varnish businegs of Walter Morgan Co., Inc., a subsidiary of McDougall-Butler Co., Inc., for the last 10 years, has been taken over by the parent concern and will oper- ate as the Morgan division, it was | announced today. ’ held a harmony | urged | to Made From Gond;ear Blzmp | the “13" | tooed symbol on | ising z | heart above the numerals section of New York and West Virginia avenues, providing new | = sl town or Southeast sections Society and General PAGE B—1 ‘13 BANDIT GANG 1S STILL ACTIVE, POLICE BELIEVE Six Youths Arrested in Store Robberies and Snatching Linked to Band. LEADERS HAVE ARMS TATTOOED WITH “13” Capt. Morgan Says Group of Youths Grows Despite Jail- ing of Founder. With the arrest of six boys, two of them only 15 years old, in connection with three Sanitary Grocery Co. rob= beries and a $400 purse-snatching, po= lice expressed the belief today that gang—a band of young des- peradoes whose bond of criminal alle- giance is sealed with the cryptic tate their arms—is still active in Washington. On the arms of the leaders of the group of young store robebrs, accord= ing to Capt. Joseph Morgan of the fifth precinct, were tattooed the nu- merals “13” which have become ine creasingly familiar to police for the last five years. Several leaders and founders of the gang have been sent to prison, Capt. Morgan said, but the gang continues to grow It is composed largely of youths living in the Northeast and Southeast sections, Capt. Morgan said, | Enlist Scheolboys. Older members of the gang, accord- ing to police, enlist schoolboys and send them out to commit crimes, prom- them that if they perform a particularly dangerous robbery they will be entitied to wear a crimson 5 b i One of the founders of the gang, according to Capt. Morgan, was recommitted to Lorton Reformatory last week for violating his parole by as- “13" UNDERPASS BULT AFTER 25 YEARS New York Avenue Crossing | Now Links Northeast and Southeast Sections. saulting a policeman. Two years agn, Capt. Morgan said, this man, who wears the tattooed crimson heart on his arm, was shot through the neck when he drew a .45-caliber revolver on the policeman who had arrested him Round-up Started Week Ago. Round-up of the youths now in custody started last week. Those held and the charges against them are Joseph Petro, 18, three charges of housebreaking and one of rob- bery; Martin McCart 18, three charges of housebreaking, one rob- After a wait | century of nearly a quarter the District now has a new | housebreaking; | crossing for the railroad tracks north | | of New York avenue northeast, which | affords more direct connection be- | tween Northeast and Southeast sec- | tions. | The District last Thursday opened | to travel the underpass for the Pen sylvania and Baltimore & Ohio Ra roads on the line of Montana avenue. At the southern end the road meets the intersection of | West Virginia avenues | Engineers say it will facilitate travel between Brookland and neighboring | | areas to the southeast or to down- | town Washington via New | avenue. | Three vehicular crossings for the | | The robbery | | New York and| \ Harbor York | from ‘ran]mad were authorized by Cnnz'eui 24 years ago, but it took a long fight ‘m get the necessary orders to pro- | ceed. In doing so Congress redt d | ‘LHc requirement on the railroads | two crossings. viaduct near street ders for this last October, railroads have two years to comply. The cost to the District Montana underpass was less than $90,000, for the road and approaches not chargeable to the railroads. to | The other is to be a the line of Seventh but the in which been about $150,000. Just to the east of the Montana | avenue is a railroad viaduct over New York avenue, built by the Pennsyl- vania Railroad for moving freight cars avenue. TALK HIT BY LESTER | Central Labor Union Official Says Walkout Would Be “Illegal.” District garbage transfer station by Hod Carriers’ Local, No. 466, which he assailed as “communistically in- clined,” would be illegal, Robert C. Lester, financial secretary of the Dis- trict Central Labor Union and repre- sentative of the teamsters’ said last night. Lester told a meeting of the Cen- broe, business agent of the hod car- riers, had attempted to wrest juris- diction of garbage truck drivers away from the teamsters’ union. “The teamsters' union,” Lester de- clared, “would not countenance such a strike as Kimbroe has been threat- ening, nor would we permit a strike | of our members which would tie.up | District garbage collections and allow garbage and perishable foodstuffs to pile up in the city.” Threats of a walk-out at the gar- bage plant followed claims that em- | ployes there have been subjected to discrimination by officials. ‘The Central Labor Union voted to send a delegate to the American Federation of Labor convention at Denver, Colo,, in October. The union | also indorsed a proposed bill requiring two operators on all District street cars and buses. SAFETY BILL PASSED ‘The House yesterday passed a Sen- ate-approved bill authorizing the In- terstate Commerce Commission to re- quire railroads to install block-signal | and other safety signal devices. The measure went back to the| The | cost to the railroads is said to have | A strike allegedly threatened at the | The Commissioners gave or- | to the industrial area south of the | D. C. GARBAGE STRIKE tral Labor Union that James T. Kim- | Which now has 42.000 members. bery; Daniel Fitzpatrick, 22, two Charles Boyd, 19, two housebreaking; William Boyd. 15 (no relation to the older boy), robbery and housebreaking, and Claude M. Cu: 15, robbery. charges are based, po- lice said, on the theft of $400 from Miss Marie Tucker, 1901 Wyoming avenue, whose purse was snatched near the Shoreham Hotel several days ago, The vouths were arrested by Pre- cinct Detectives Watson Salkeld of the fifth precinct and H. H. Carper and E. M. Moore of the seventh pre- inct precinct police resumed dragging the Potomac River near Hains Point today for a safe stolen the Garden T-Shoppe, Eight- | eenth street and Columbia road, two weeks ago. Four colored men who police say admit four safe robberies, said they threw the strong box in the river. DEMPSEY FUNERAL SET FOR TOMORROW for the Prominent Labor Leader Will Be Buried in Dorchester, Mass. Funeral services for Fred J Demp- sey, 56, prominent labor leader, who died Sunday of a heart attack at his | Summer home, Ocean BIuff. Mass., will be held to- morrow at Dor- chester, Mass Mr. Dempsey who lived here in the Broadmoor Apartments, was general secretary- treasurer of the International Al- liance of Theat- rical Employes and Moving Pic- ture Machine Operators. He is survived by his widow, Mrs Katherine Demp- sey, several brothers and sisters. Mr. Dempsey began as a stage hand in Boston, where he joined a local union. Shortly thereafter he was elected business agent of the local, F. J. Dempsey. union, | Serving in that capaeity for 14 years In 1919 he was elected an interna- tional vice president of the union, He was elected as secretary- treasurer in 1930. general HOUSE UNIT 0. K.’S BILL ON POTOMAC POLLUTION Senate Already Passed Measure Permitting Four States and D. C. to Enter Agreement. The House Rivers and Harbors Com- mittee today favorably reported the bill, which passed the Senate yester- day, to permit Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and the | District to enter into an agreement for creation of a Potomac Valley conserv- ancy district for the prevention or abatement of pollution of the river. The bill has the approval of the War, Treasury and Interior Departments. It is pointed out that such compacts would become binding only when ap- proved by the Legislature of each of the States and by Congress. VERTTEREC Sunflower State Challenged. SHELBYVILLE, Ind, August 17 (P)—Here's a Hoosier challenge to Kansas. W. H. Strupe measured a sunflower plant in his yard yester= Senate with & number of minor amendments. ? day and reported it 12 feet 8 inches tall. He counted 28 blooms. -