Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08
MAY ASK REMOVAL
OF UTILITIES BODY
Citizens Group to Confer on
Custer Plea After Clay
tons Attack.

A motion to censure the Public
| Utilities Commission for the manner
| in which it has functioned and to re-
quest Congress to impeach all the
| members OF the commission was intro
duced at meeting of the Columbia
Heights Citizens Association last
night, following criticism of the COM
mission by William Nick. Clayton,
chairman of the public utilities COM
mittee of the Federation of Citizens
Associations. The motion was re-
ferred to the associations public utili-
ties committee, Frank NJ. Barnes,
chairman, after Edgar e. Snyder had
insisted that 1t was too serious a mat
ter to vote on hastily.
The motion was introduced by A.
d. Fairbairn at the meeting in the
Columbia Heights Christian Church
after Mr.. Clayton criticized the com
mission for Compromising" with the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
in reduction of rates case. At the
present time, he added, the telephone
company lis the only public utilities
company in the District maintaining
its wartime rates."
He also charged that the commits
sion has failed to make a valuation of
the telephone company's property
when it has been authorized to do so
by Congress and been granted funds
with which to do it.
Storm of Protests Aroused.
Letters written by a certain real
estate firm to residents in the section,
urging them to aid in securing pur-
chaSerS for piece of property to pre-
vent its sale to persons undesirable to
people in the community brought forth
a storm of protest at the meeting.
One of the letters was read before
the association by Mr.. Fairbairn and
turned over to the president Of the
association, Alton 3. Carly, who said
the matter will be taken up with the
Real Estate Board. The real estate
company in question, however, it was
stated, is not member of the Real
Estate Board.
The association also adopted a reso-
luton to cooperate with the District
health authorities in securing the
muzzling of dogs during the Summer
months, after a report had been made
by l.. +. kebler, chairman of the as
sociation'S public health committee,
on the number of persons bitten and
the number of cases Of rabies. He
stated that sos persons in the District
have been bitten during the present
fiscal year. and that 95 dogs were
proven to have the rabies.
Various other resolutions were
adopted following recommendations IF
the special committees of the asso-
citation. They were as follows:
A resolution indorsing the report of
the committee on public utilities ask
ing that the request of the Washing
ton Rapid Transit Co. for a fiat 10
cent fare be refused; also that the
service-atcost plan proposed for the
operation of BUSES be declared unfair.
recommendations Approved.
Adoption in the form of a resolu-
ton of recommendations made by the
committee on public safety-to re-
quest the District authorities to desig-
nate Thirteenth street from Clifton
street to Park road as boulevard
and have stop signs posted at inter.
sections; motion to request the Traffic
Bureau to continue Harvard street as
a one-way street going east from
Thirteenth to Fourteenth street, and
that Kenyon street also be made one
way from Thirteenth to Fourteenth
SlToSIp Will par Mig IIlklISSSS OtI UOlH
sides of the two crosstown streets
named. The committees recommends
ton that Clifton street be designated
as one-way street was adopted, along
with other changes proposed. The
series of recommendations also in.
cluded one to request Congress to ap-
propriate all necessary funds for street
widening, with no part of the cost of
the work to be assessed the property
owners.
A report of the committee on streets
and alleys, w. D. Sutherland chair
man. was adopted. 1t included a re-
quest for the leveling of Harvard
street between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets to reduce the vibration
from buses, and other recommends
tons pertaining to the size stone used
in street repairing.
A series of resolutions offered by the
committee on recreation and amuse-
mentS were adopted, including one to
ask Congress ito remove the restric.
ton preventing payment of more than
125 per cent of the assessed value of
property sought by the National Capt.
tai Park and Planning Commission"
a resolution requesting the community
center department to make the Central
High School Stadium available for pub
lie playground purposes during the
entire Summer, and a resolution COM
mending those in charge of the May
festival given by the children of the