Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1940, Page 23

Washi Site Approved For Coast Guard Headquarters Dock Facilities To Be Provided In Project A site for a proposed new United States Coast Guard headquarters at Seventh street and Maine avenue S.W. was approved today by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission. According to the latest of more than 25 studies made in connec- tion with the site over a period of years, the Coast Guard will have its own dock facilities across Maine avenue as part of the Washington Channel water front improvement project now progressing under the supervision of Col. R. S. Thomas, the United States engineer for the Washington area. The Coast Guard’s dock facilities, it is proposed at this time, will occupy the space now taken by the wharves of commercial steamship lines. The steamship lines eventually are to be moved down- stream 100 yards or so. Thomas S. Settle, secretary of the commission, said that because of the increased responsibilities of the Coast Guard, shouldered subsequent to the last presidential reorganiza- tion order, the service needs badly a new headquarters with expanded facilities, and intends seeking legis- lation to authorize its construction. The Coast Guard, the U. S. Army Engineers and the planning com- mission, Mr. Settle said, have agreed that the headquarters should be placed on Washington's water front, and have finally decided that the Seventh street and Maine avenue site is preferable. The Coast Guard Building itself, it was learned, is proposed for the triangular tract of land bounded by Seventh and I streets and Maine avenue S.W,, immediately south of the site of the new Thomas Jefferson High School and the Southwest Recreation Center. Ferry Slip Planned. Accompanying the Coast Guard wharf will be a Government wharf for general use and a ferry slip to house a small motor. ferry which, it is planned, will some day carry youngsters desiring to use the East Potomac Park swimming pool across Washington Channel. Norman C. Brown, the Planning | Commission’s land purchasing of- | ficer and appraiser, announced today | that in addition to a number of park | and playgorund purchases completed | yesterday, the commission had com- | pleted land purchases for the Hoover Playground at Deleware avenue and M street SW. Civic groups in the| Southwest area long have sought| completion and development of this | play area. Chairman Frederick A. Delano and the other members of the commis- sion today expressed their gratitude to Congress for passage of the inde- pendent offices appropriation bill with items of $850,000 for park and | planning purchases within the Dis- | trict and of $710.000 for the National Resources Planning Board, of which Mr. Delano also is chairman. Other matters which were to come | before the planning commission to- day were latest plans of the Civil Aeronautics Authority for approaches from the Mount Vernon Memorial | Highway and U. S. Route 1 to the new National Airport at Gravelly Point; latest plaus ot the District Alley Dwelling Authority for its proj- ects at Navy place and Alabama avenue SE.; a request from the Golden Gate International Exposi- tion for the loan of thc commission’s scale model of the central area of | ‘Washington, street closings and highways changes and several zoning requests from property holders along Washington stree: in Alexandria. After announcing the purchase of several important acdditions to the city’s recreation and -park system yesterday, the planners approved preliminary plans for the proposed Scott Circle underpass and the pro- posed grade separation at Four- teenth street and Maine avenue S.W. | Plans for the Scott Circle under- pass and the Fourteenth street and Maine avenue grade separation were presented to the commission by Capt. |, H. C. Whitehurst, District director of highways. The 1941 District of Columbia appropriation bill, when it went from the Budget Bureau to the House carried $15,000 for preparation of detailed construction plans for the Scott Circle project and authorized construction with Federal road aid and local gasoline tax funds. Tentative Study. The House deleted this item and the District Commissioners are now attempting to persuade the Senate to reinsert it in the bill The plans for the underpass were approved, but are in the nature of a tentative study only They provide for an underpass on the axis of Sixteenth street and not Massachu- setts avenue as at Thomas Circle. The grade separation project was presented to the commission in the form of a model, worked up by the Highway Department with 1940 ap- propriations. No additional funds or authorization for Federal road aid and gasoline tax construction are provided in the 1941 appropriation bill. The commission yesterday adopted 8 resolution against placing the Abbott Vocation School on the grounds now occupied by the old Tuberculosis Hospital. District agencies and the planning commission agreed that the voca- tional school should be placed in Brentwood Park, leaving the hospital grounds at Thirteenth and Upshur streets N.W. for the site of a new ‘Wilson Teachers College and a recreation center tor the neighbor- hood. A sketch showing how the college and play center would fit into the tract was approved yesterday by the commission. John Nolen, jr., the commission’s director of planning, yesterday told the commission that “complete agreement” has been reached with the War Department as to the route which a future connecting link be- tween Columbia Pike and Arlington Memorial Bridge across the old ngton News Che WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1940. and President of the American Press Club today. EDITORS OPEN MEETING—Donald J. Sterling of the Portland (Oreg.) Journal Newspaper Editors, delivered his opening address before the society at the National Society of une sat down toge: Longs. Mrs. Roosevelt Sees Need for District Labor Deparfment Visits Two D. C. Boards; Deplores Lack. of Safety Inspection Mrs. Roosevelt found the District | “badly in need” of a Labor Depart- ment and industrial safety regula- | tions when she made a tour of the | District Minimum Wage Board and | the District Unemployment Com- pensation Board today. | She said she hadn't known that | the District had no Labor Depart- ment, and was particularly shocked to learn that the city also lacked an industrial safety inspection service or code of safety regulations. In the colurse of her tour, she also propounded an idea to the Congress- men’s wives who accompanied her— that if woman stockholders will read reports sent to them by their com- panies and knew what they were reading, they might find a key to a way to end the depressién. Favors Lucid Reports. She said she had been wondering how many stockholders ever study the reports to determine what indus- try could do to help put people back to work. Business, she added, should be educated to present reports that the people who read them could un- derstand. If an interest in human welfare and a knowledge of business could be brought together in the public, Mrs. Roosevelt declared, the road to re- covery might be found. Speaking of the lack of safety reg- ulations, Mrs. Roosevelt declared, “I should think that that was one thing that showed working condi- tions here need attention.” She said she didn’t believe the Unemployment Compensation Board | should be included in the Labor De- partment but that “the offices| should all be together for the proper service of the people.” It must bother people, she com- mented, that “everything should be | so scattered around.” 1 Low Salaries Criticized. Told that the seven staff members in the Minimum Wage Board offices received a total of $15200 a year, she pointed out that the rents in Washington are high and that people have families to support. She particularly criticized the low salary of a male employe who had been on the job 16 years and was making only $1,920. The provisions contained in the amendments proposed for the mini- mum wage law were explained by Mrs. William Kittle, chairman of the Minimum Wage Board. John A. Marshall, director of the Unemployment Compensation Board, told Mrs. Roosevelt he favored in- creasing the maximum jobless bene- fit from $15 to $20 a week and re- ducing the unemployment compen- sation tax on employers. Tax Declared Excessive. Told by Mr. Marshall that he be- lieved it was an excessive tax all over the country, Mrs. Roosevelt re- sponded: “Then that’s one place where in- dustry could get a rebate on taxa- tion.” Mrs. Roosevelt also pointed out that a Labor Department would Character development in most young people is determined by decisions made about 7 pm., A. ‘W. Gottschall, regional secretary of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, declared to- day at a conference of youth leaders of three faiths meeting in Barker Hall, Y. W. C. A. It is then that leisure time in- terests for most young people come into play, the speaker said at a luncheon meeting concluding the conference sponsored by the Washington Round Table and the Council of Social Agencies. United States Experimental F should take. e These decisions, he added, are to a large extent determined by & New Insurance Code | Lacking Training Federal Employes . Selling as Sideline Would Be Affected By JAMES E. CHINN. Government employes who pick up“ a few extra dollars selling insurance to their associates as a sideline would lose this income under pro-l‘ visions of a bill designed to set up a new fire and casualty insurance code here, it was disclosed today during hearings on the measure before ther. A.S.N. Newspapers have accepted “too, many blows below tae belt without taking a sock at the unreasoning | critic who confounds news with propaganda,” Donald J. Sterling, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, sid today. | Mr. Sterling, managing editor of | the Oregon Journal, Portland, de-| clared at the opening session of the | society’s 18th annual convention at| the National Press Club that this type of critic “prostitutes the very freedom of the press whose cause he professes to espouse.’ “Every reputable newspaper man | and woman holds freedom of the | the Insurance and Banking Sub- committee of the House District| Committee. | Col. Lawrence C. Crawford, presi- | dent of the Insurers’ Association of | the District, read to the subcom- | | mittee excerpts from an advertise- ment in a local newspaper urging Government employes to sell in- surance which emphasized the com- | missions they would receive. “We do not want the purchasers | of insurance to be at the mercy of agents who do not themselves know anything about the insurance busi- ness, or who are not subject to Government control,” he declared. Since enactment of the new life | insurance code several years ago | the District Insurance Department | as well as large insurance companies and brokers have sought similar legislation to regulate the under- writing of fire, marine, casualty and title insurance. The bill under con- sideration was drafted by repre- sentatives of these interested groups. Representative D’Alesandro, Demo- crat, of Maryland, the subcommittee chairman, announced another public hearing would be held on the meas- ure next Thursday at 10:30 am. At the same time he predicted legis- lation providing for regulation of the fire, marine, casualty and title insurance businesses would be ap- proved by his group in the near future. Father and Son Join Telephone Pioneers A father and son today, for the first time in Washington, had become members of the Telephone Pioneers of America together. They are Her- man W. Schrum, storekeeper at the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. warehouse, and James Henry Schrum, senior central office repair- man at the Columbia office of the company. Eligibility in the organi- zation is based on 21 years of serv- ice in the industry. have facilities for collecting District labor statistics. Accompanying Mrs. Roosevelt on the tour, which was sponsored by the Women'’s Division of the Demo- cratic National Committee, were Mrs: Thomas F. McAllister, director of the women’s division; Mrs. May Thompson Evans, assistant director; Mrs. J. E. Casey, wife of the Massa- chusetts Representative; Mrs. Ru- dolph Tenerowicz; Mrs. W. R. Poage, wife of the Texas Representative, anc¢ Mrs. D. Worth Clark, wife of the Idaho Senator. the training for leisure time in- terests in preadolescent ages. “The question we need to face is the evident lack of carryover of the spirit of sportsmanship, shown by young people in play, into other relations and activities of community interests. The job we will have to do will not be completed until we work out the methods and techniques of so- cial activities that will make this carryover effective.” Earlier the keynote address was made by Miss Ann Rose Kimpel, field secretary of youth, National Council of Catholic Women, who declared the church press to be a public privilege to be | cherished and not a private license to be exploited,” he asserted Mr. Sterling spoke before more | than 150 editors from almost every State who met for two days of shop | talk, conferences on how to make | their papers more interesting and off-the-record talks with President Roosevelt, Undersecretary of State | Sumner Welles and Rear Admiral John W. Greenslade Debate Scheduled. One of the high polnts of the meeting will be a deLate tomorrow night with Secretary Ickes, a critic of newspapers, and Senator Pepper, Democrat, of Florida, arguing for re- nomination of President Roosevelt to a third term. Glenn Frank and | Wendell Willkie, both prominent in Republican strategy, will debate in opposition. Those who find most violent fault | with newspapers, Mr Sterling cou- tinued. “cannot think straight about | the newspaper or anything else.” “They invariably are ardent apostles of a given point of view and not of facts. In their zeal they read into the newspaper story what they want to read into it, or often what is not contained in it and sound off accordingly.” Since newspapers “take other in- stitutions apart, it is in no position to dodge the searchlight of criticism directed against it with honesty of purpose,” he advised. “The reader, collectively, is in the best position to register effective and constructive criticism. The reader respects honesty of purpose, even if in disagreement witn shades of policy. The collective judgment of the reader is eminently dependable Integrity Average Higher. Mr. Sterling declared that the type of newspaper “whose cardinal creed was to ‘raise hell and sell papers’ is pretty much gone.” “Then, t00,” he added, “the aver- age of integrity in public affairs the country over is higher thanks in a large measure to a public opinioa aroused by newspaper vigilance. “The need for the newspaper to maintain its vigilence in the public interest and especially in the interest.| of the plain man, however, is as im- portant now as it ever was and that vigilance should first be exercisea in the home field. What good does it do to become indignant over some national incident while the gang at home is looting the city treasury?” Mr. Sterling paid tribute to Kansas City and New Orleans newspapers for having played a major part in the overthrow of the Pendergast and Long regimes. “In major affairs the newspaper has “a real place in a planned recreation program, linking the home, church and club.” “We have a real opportunity through church recreation to give to young people a practical appli- cation of the principles they pos- sess. To achieve this result we need a. wider interpretation of the word ‘recreation’ than many give,” she declared. No church, she addad, is vi- tally interested in developing star basket ball players, perfect dancers, good actresses or capable basket makers, but “rather in the develgpm'ent of well-rounded es.” | E. President Assails Asked to Ban Agents Illogical Newspaper Critics Free Press Is Public Priv‘ilege, Sterling Tells Convention Here | subject. Two leaders of highly successful newspaper crusades against political corrup- tion met at the newspaper editors’ gathering when Roy Roberts (left), managing edi- tor of the Kansas City Star, and James M. Thomson of the New Orleans Item-Trib- Mr. Roberts’ paper was instrumental in breaking up the Pendergast machine in Kansas City and Mr. Thomson's paper fought the Louisiana e s e 'Trade Board Group Backs Modified Plan Of Sex Instruction never was in a better situation to expose public wrongs,” he said. “The | newspaper has the ability, the er- | ganization, the experience and the | punch. These are some of the ad- vantages of the stability and respon- sibility of a privately owned press. Reader Confidence Major Asset. “The alternatives to the privately | owned press—an eundowed press or| a publicly owned or publicly con- trolled press—could not and would not do these worth-while things.” The one substantial asset of any newspaper, he said, is reader confi- dence, the “accumulation of years of performance,” which is “not to be| idly booted away by calloused in-| difference to the puolic good.” “I am naive enough.” he added, “to believe that a newspaper must possess a soul, a realization that its power and influence come not from any pressure and dictation exerted | by it, but from an everyday practice | of the fair play that invites and holds the 1aith of the reader.” | Influence of advertisers as “a posi- tive factor in determining newspaper | policy is much overrated” by persons who see “the sinister shadow of the advertiser in the back seat of the newspaper car,” Mr Sterling said. “The advertiser's first interest in the newspaper is that it serves him as| an effective deliverv wagon for his merchandise.” Warns of Labor Practices. Sidney Jackson, Clevelahd at- torney, warned the editors that “al- | most any action of yours which al- ters or affects the status of any of your employes may be made the sub- ject of a claimed unfair labor prac- tice, and unless you can show that you have acted throughout entirely without regard to any question of unionization—and the burden will be on you—your acts may be held to be unfair labor practice and will be subject to the resulting penalties.” Detailing problems which arose in elections conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, Mr. Jack- son declared: “You are running a risk if you form or express any opinion or even confer among yourselves upon this Those are the things that may be dragged out months or years later to show your bias. It is practically suicidal for you to make a joke about the situation. - The combined anguished moments of ex- ecutives attempting to explain from the witness chair some quip or facetious remark that they had made or written would already span an ordinary lifetime. “Board employes are apparently selected with an eye to their lack of humor. The ‘real and earnest’ boys run this show.” He declared it was to the editors’ interest to try to make the National Labor Relation Act “workable” since it directly affected their daily oper- ations. “We now have had enough exper- ience with the Wagner Act so that we should be able to make a sane and sensible appraisal of its bene- fits and detriments,” he said. “It ought to be possible to keep the good and discard the bad. Improved ad- ministration could be expected to follow improvement of the act.” Edwin G Bernstein of the Jewish Community Center warned social workers to-be “especially. aware of inter-faith frictien and these tendencies in .com- munal life which cause discrimi- nation against minorities in the population.” There is a need, he continued, on the part of schbols and recreational agen- cies to emphasize American cul- ture and its resultant richness. “Unthinking persons,” said Dr. Eddy L. Ford, director of religious education of Foundry Methodist Church, “say leisure time active ities are ridiculous We know, however, that recreation teaching b Foening Staf WITHB SUNDAY MORNING EDITION kokok ok The only pretty editor at lady editor. the Houston Post, represented The editors are scheduled to have an off-the-record chat with the President and to hear Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles. Approves Report Urging Course in Physiology And Addresses A modified program of sex in- struction in the public schools was approved yesterday by the Board of Trade’s Public Schools Committee at a luncheon session at Harvey's Restaurant. The committee adopted a report of Gen. Amos A. Fries after a two- ‘hour discussion that forced post- ponement of other items on the docket to an unscheduled meeting next month. Specifically the report calls for: 1. A thorough course in the physi- ology of the human system for pu- pils from the sixth grade or eighth grade. 2. Addresses by thoroughly quali- fied doctors to groups of boys and girls in the junior and senior high schools separately, in which the dangers of social diseases are brought out and warning against self-treatment if the diseases are contracted. Overemphasis Opposed. In explaining the report Gen. Pries indicated his subcommittee which brought it in was opposed to overemphasis of sex education or of introducing it into the schools as a special course. He added that the recommendation for the physi- | ology course calls for study of the human system and not simply a study of animals or plants. Meanwhile the committee heard | Chairman George E. Keneipp brand as “disgusting” the fact that no funds were allotted for a new Wil- son Teachers’ College and that ef- forts were being made to locate the new Abbot Vocational School on the Upshur street tract instead of on a site in Brentwood Park planned by school officials. The members also voted unani- mous opposition to the transfer of the functions of the Board of Edu- cation to the.Board of Public Wel- | fare represented in the appropria- tion of $15,000 carried in the 1941 budget of the welfare board to sup- port home instruction to shut-ins. Minister Leads Fight. A minister, the Rev. J. Herbert | Garner of the Sixth Preshyterian Church, led a one-man fight in the committee for a course of sex edu- cation in the schools “not later than first year high school” and by “a thoroughly qualified and spiritually minded teacher.” “Children,” he said, “are going to learn something about it from some one. Why not teach them the right thing?” The Rev. Mr. Garner said the course should teach the “noble and socially constructive uses of sex.” He said it should be taught in sep- arate classes of boys and girls on the same basis that physical educa- tion is taught. He recommended Ray H. Everett of the Social Hy- giene Society, who addressed an earlier meeting of the committee on the subject, as one who would be qualified to teach such a course. Other members of the committee leaned toward the general idea in- cluded in the Pries report that a large responsibility in sex education lay with the parehts and supported a moderate program in the schools. can be real and effective.” Julius Bisno, executive secre- tary of Aleph Zadik Aleph, in outlining the aims of the Na- tional Jewish Youth organization, said: “We have assumed the re- sponsibility of making A. Z. A. the liaison officer between the rabbi, representing the synagogue, and the A. Z. A. chapter, repre- senting a cross-section of Jewish youth. Our group has made a good beginning toward developing a generation of understanding Jewish youth who will be a credit to American life.” ‘The ourrent program of Wash- ‘ington recreation - agencies, as Oveta Culp Hobby, executive vice president of Society and General the meeting today was its only the entire feminine contingent. —Star Staff Photos. Five Liquor Permit Applications Opposed By School Board Discussion Arises Over Business 1,000 Feet From Greenleaf | The Board of Education yesterday voted opposition to five liquor license applications as being too near | schools or liable to entice school youth. Some discussion arose in one in- stance where the applicant’s business was located some 1,000 feet from the was not too great a distance from the #chool. Col. West A. Hamilton. a colored meémber of the board, expressed the fear that if the board protested every application no matter what distance from the school, the eftect of a board protest would be weakened. Vice Greenleaf School 25 to whether this | B-1 Income Tax Receipts Off; Check Planned District Returns To Be Compared With Federal List District tax officials prepared to- day to begin soon a thorough two- way check-up on local income tax returns and payments, as the latest count of receipts showed they were almost $1,000,000 below the estimated revenue of $3,200,000. Assessor Edward A. Dent stressed that he had not made, last fall, any estimate of the revenue from the net personal and the corporate in- pcome’ levies, but that in compliance with the law he would invoke all available resources to check the ac- curacy of the returns and determine if any payments not yet reported are due the District. The deadline for personal returns was last Momday midnight. He said his agents would check District income returns against those made to the Federal Government and also against the old business privilege tax returns in the case of business and professions subject to that tax. Corporation Tax Receipts Down. The latest count showed that the District will collect, on an annual basis, only $1.324.226 from the 5 per cent corporation income tax, where= as some District officials had antici- pated the receipts would be around | $2200,000. The income tax agents have sorted out of the mail 2ll of the returns made so far bv business | concerns. These numbered 2,755 and | more than half, or 1.660. renorted no | taxable income and. therefore, paid | only the $25 filing fee. Mr. Dent said there werk about 200 business concerns .which had been granted extensions of time for filing returns because they operate on a fiscal year basis. | However, Mr. Dent said, there was little hope that the corporation pay- ments would exceed $1.500,000, which would leave the returns from the corporation levy roughly $700,000 short of the early goal Personal Returns Near Estimate. A much better picture is shown for the personal tax levy, with the | count at noon showing of $900,760. Mr. Dent said he felt sure the final returns would reveal a revenue con- siderably in excess of the estimated | $1,000.000. He said there were per- | haps 30,000 personal returns vet to be tabulated, although he had no way of guessing how many would { show no taxable income. Up to | now, out of 63214 returns counted, 42214 showed taxable income. | Should the District receive not much more than $1400,000 in the corporation income tax, this would indicate a tax base of some $26,000.- | 000, whereas some officials in making early estimates of the possible reve- nue used a tax base of $44,000,000. | However, reference to the income tax returns to the Federal Govern- ment by business concerns giving President Robert A Maurer also raised the question as to whether a place that far from & school could properly be considered in its vicinity. Says Children Patronize Place. Supt. Frank W. Ballou explained | that the report from the Greenleaf principal indicated the applicant sold articles attractive to children and that children will patronize the establishment. John H. Wilson, a cclored member of the board. said he was opposed to | the application no n:atter how far | away from the school, if the school | children were going Lc patronize the | establishment. Applications opposed were for a class “B” license at 726 Seventh street S.W., across the corner from the Jefferson Junior High School; a class “D” license at 2700 K street N.W., in the same olock as the Mont- gomery School; a class “B” license at 1700 Euclid street, near the Henry | Wilson school; a class “D” license at | 3901 Benning road NE., near the | Benning School, and a class “B” |license at 1200 Third street S.W., | near Greenleaf. Two teachers were promoted to | teaching principalships. Miss Edith /M. Williams was named teaching | principal of the Shepherd School |and Miss M. H. Stonlman at the | Amidon. | Schools Consolidated. As of today the Health School at Thirteenth and Allison streets N.W. is consolidated in administration with the West School and Miss Katherine Doonan was named ad- ministrative prigcipal of the com- bination. She was previously prin- cipal of the West School. The Health School is to be remodeled for the crippled classes now taught at the Langdon School. Three new members of the ad- visory committee on vocational education have submitted their resignations and will be succeeded by Charles H. Tompkins, builder; Austin Donaldson department store official, and Mrs. Evelyn Bright Buckley. Graduations in the public schools will be held principally on June 18 and 19, with one set for June 20. The board also approved the re- quest of The Star for co-operation in continuance of radio broadcasts re- lating to the public schools over Station WMAL during the next school year. Youth’s Character Molded by Decisions He Makes at 7 P.M., Y. W. C. A. Conference Told related to the teaching of reli- glous, racial and cultural ap- preciation through leisure time, was reviewed by other speakers. They included Miss Anna Keady of the Christ Child Society; Charles Fyfe of the Boys Club of ‘Washington, Miss Eleanor Dur- rett of the Washington Girl Scourts and T. J. Anderson of the District recreation department. Loudoun Dog Trials Set LEESBURG, Va., April 13.—The spring field trials of the Loudoun Gun Dog Club will be held next Wednesday and Thursday at the | Jack Thomas farm near Round Hill. | District addresses indicated that for {1933 the tax base was $13.914.000; for 1934, $22.871,000: for 1935, $27.- 023.000; for 1936, $46,287.000. and for 1937, the latest year on which the District “has received information, $42.000.000. Explanation for Dron. District officials said they thought some explanation for the unex- pectedly low corporation returns might be found in the necessity of | making apportionment of income to | District concerns for business which they had done in other jurisdictions, as well as in the fact that while the | Federal income tax is applied to inter-corporation dividends, such in- | come was not taxed under the Dis- | trict law. | Mr. Dent announced that under a | ruling by Corporation Counsel El- | wood H. Seal any foreign corpora- tion furnishing during 1939 any ma- terials to the United States or Dis- trict governments for use in the District, either on bids or general contract. was subject to the tax on | the net income derived from such business. Union Seeks fo Open | Symphony Negofiafions | Officials of the Musicians’ Protec- tive Union have summoned members of the National Symphony Orchestra to a special meeting Saturday morn- ing to consider a plan for reviving negotiations with the Orchestra As- sociation Board, it was learned to- | day. | While no definite formula has been worked out for settlement of the dis- pute, which has threatened to dis- rupt the orchestra, it was understood union officials would submit a plan that might lead to reopening of ne- gotiations. The proposal to be submitted was worked out two days ago at a con- ference between Dr. John R. Steel- man, director of conciliation of the Labor Department, and representa- tives of the union and the Orches- tra Association Board. ‘The Board of Directors of the sym- phony association is scheduled to hold its monthly meeting next Mon- day. L. Corrin Strong, president of the association, said he didn't know what action would be taken. Program at Church Dr. John N. Link, member of the faculty of Westminster Theological Seminary, will recite poems of Edgar A. Guest at 8 pm. tomorrow in Calvary Methodist Church, Twenty- third and South Grant streets, Ar- lington, Va. Traffic Record The traffic record, as revealed at police headquarters for 24- hour period ending at 8 -am. today. Fatalities, none. Accidents, 29. Motorists injured, 1. Motorists arrested, 276. Pedestrians injured, 6. Pedestrians arrested for vie- lation of pedestrian control regulations, 2.