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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
PRIVATE TOLL BRIDGES CALLED
MENACE TO u. S. BY ROAD CHIEF
Hig hway Bureau Director. Thomas Mac
Donald, Cites Growing Abuses Con-
fronting American Motorists.

| Several growing abuses confront
, American motordom, which, If not
! neutralized D. legislation or regulation.
/ Will remove q great part of the enjoy
mcnt John J. MotoriSt now has when
/ he spins over the highway behind the
wheel of his Simple Sin. - the view of
1 Thomas H. Macdonald. Chict of the
Bureau of Public Roads
/ Not many persons who drive motor
cars are aware of the gigantic part
/ played by this bureau in the good
roads movement or of the pers onality
/ and driving force of the magnetic man
who is its chief
1 But the Bureau of Public Roads. as
It's name implies, is the Federal agency
whose sole work is to further good
roads. Through this bureau is admin
istered the Federal road aid program
and to it comes a mass of data which
make it one of the few clearing houses
for such information whose chiefs have
no AK to grind or game to play. The
sole aim of the Bureau of Public Roads
IS better roads and more roads.
Mr.. Macdonald is a quiet individual.
who works with astonishing precision
and without any fuss and publicity.
But he gets things done, and seldom
talks about the job before it is nearing
/ completion.
He has some definite ideas about
/ hat vague thing called freedom of the
road a term that is not new to Mac
Donald. He believes it is as true as
! its meaning, but he also holds that
| the truth slowly is becoming more
nearly like fiction because of certain
growing evils which should be cor
rected before they become real menaces.
The more important of these attacks
on freedom of the road he lists as
| follows:
Franchises to build toll bridges
granted to private interests. Propa-
ganda promoting toll road franchises
for private interests. Ill-advised de-
mands for Federal highway transport
laws and regulations. Lack of desir-
able uniformity in State regulatory
laws. Traffic congestion. Lack of well
planned programs for road improve
ment adjusted to available finances.
Abuse and dissertation of our road
sides.
Toll Interests Growing Boider.
Private toll bridge interests are be-
coming holder and obstructing the Ma
TONS business" Mr.. Macdonald says.
They are attempting to defeat legisla-
ton unfavorable to themselves and are
obstructing the efforts of highway de-
| partmentS to carry on State projects.
Seventy-five Federal authorizations to
build toll bridges have been grantd to
private interests by the present Con-
greSs. The terms of these authorize
tons are wholly inadequate to protect
the publics interest
| "Basically all bridges on the main
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
DAMAGE GUARANTEE
BY LAW BEING URGED
Driver Would Be Liable IN to
$4,000 in Plan Sponsored by
Maryland Club.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALTIMORE. March EVERY auto
mobile driver would be responsible for
accident damages up to $4,000 in a plan
announced this week by the Automo-
bile Club of Maryland, which will be
brought before the Legislature.
Under the plan, the automobile COM
missioner would be required to send to
every automobile operator and chauffeur
in the State printed statement in
which the operator or chauffeur agrees
to hold himself liable for personal prop
erty up to $1,000 and personal injury
damage to the extent of $4,000 result
ing from the operation Of any motor
vehicle by him.
The operator or chauffeur would be
required to sign the statement and re-
turn it to the commissioner.
In case Of an accident. the driver
would be given 80 days in which to
settle. II payment is not made within
that time, the drivers license would
be revoked until final payment was
| made.
This measure is not compulsory
| insurance measure" Harry N. Abcr-
crombie. chairman of the clubs legis-
lative committee. said, but a measure
calculated to make the highways safe"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03

Commenting on the part the tourists
have played in making this Russian viii
lage, the publication says: THAT is a
classic example Of the value of tourist
business to a community A man may
be content to live in a rundown, dreamy
and dirty town. but when outsiders
criticize it for being behind the times,
wrath surges in him. Rather than sub
nit to such ridicule, he will spend his
money and his time to make the place
beautiful and up-to-date. Pride on the
warpath is great builder"
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may hereafter be established
within this zone, except where the
occupation of such stands will in
terfere with the formation or pas
sage OF any scheduled parade or
ceremony.
Sec. go. Within the congested
section as defined in the special
regulations no dri.er shall turn
his vehicle about between the
building lines of interesting
streets.
Parking Restrictions.
Sec. 80. Between the hours of Il
midnight, March 3, and IL mid
night, March 4, parking of We
hicles will be prohibited on the
following streets:
Both sides of M street north.
west, from its intersection with
Pennsylvania avenue west IT,
Thirty-Sixth street northwest.
Pennsylvania avenue southeast
from the west end of the PennSyl-
vania Avenue Bridge extending
west to Second street southeast.
B street from Second street
SOulUGdSt W T liSt SLIeeL SOUTH
west.
First street from B street south
east to B street northeast.
East Capitol street from FRS
street east to Second street.
Maryland avenue from FRS
street east to Second street.
B street from its intersection
with MARYLAND avenue northe1S
west TO First street northwest.
First street from B street south.
west to Indiana avenue northwest
Fourteenth street from its in,
tersection with Water street nortf
TO Thomas Circle.
Nineteenth street from New
York avenue north to K street.
Pennsylvania avenue from Nine
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03
TOLSTOYS BIRTHPLACE
ATTRACTS MOTORISTS
Value of Tourist Business to City
Is Shown by Town in
Russia.

Yasnya Polyana, birthplace Of Leo
Tolstoy, the novelist, has become one of
Russia's most modern villages as result
Of worldwide interest in the writer,
says the American Motorist, official
publication of the American Automobile
Association.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-03

Special motor vehicle taxes pay but
IS per cent of the entire rural highway
bill and are equal to nearly all the cost
of main State roads.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
JOURNALIST AT 81 RECALLS
TOUGH TIME IN GETTING NEWS
W. H. Smith Began Career
in Indiana More Than
so Years Ago.
Reporter Who Covered Lin.
coin Speech Tells of
Early Days.

The newspaper game was hard
shedding" half century ago and re-
porters had to dig for news, William
H. Smith, probably the oldest news
paper man in the Capital, told a meek
cub reporter today, on the occasion of
his ninety-first birthday.
AS cub reporter on the Indian
apoliS Atlas. Mr.. Smith covered an
address delivered by Abraham Lincoln.
In those days" Mr.. Smith said, "a
man of public note was a bit timid
about interviews. One had to be strate-
gic in getting statement from them.
Nowadays everybody wants to see their
name or picture in the paper.
The veteran journalist commented on
the lack of a writer's personality in
news stories.
News stories are more or less stere-
otypic now" he declared. Years back
the public could determine at glimpse
just who wrote story by the style in
which 1t was written"
Began Career in 1868.
Mr.. Smith began his newspaper ca
reer in 1865 as a cub reporter on the
Indianapolis journal. He later worked
for the Indianapolis Citizen and the
Times of that city. He was employed
on the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
for IA years.
The remainder of his life has been
spent in writing editorials for leading
papers of the country. Mr.. Smith COW
cred the Capital for several Middle West
papers and said at that time there were
only eight reporters covering that as
Signment for the entire country. He
said they were allowed to gather news
on the floor of both the House and
Senate.
Wrote Several Books.
Mr. Smith is the author of half
dozen books, including two volumes on
The History of Indiana" THE His
tory of the Cabinet of the United
States" and Biographical Sketches of
Speakers of the House" He has written
several magazine articles under the pen
name of Randolph Wharton. In one of
these articles the veteran reporter re-
vived the agitation of bringing to
America the remains of John Paul
Jones. He has voted In ID presidential
elections.
Mr.. Smith covered the election cam
paign of 1896 at indianapolis for The
Evening Star.
He is now at work on a series of
sketches of early Indiana and Indi-
anians for the indianapolis News.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
WOMEN SELECTED
FOR LONDON TRIP
Many Surprised as State De-
partment Issues List of
AppointeeS.

Many feminine hearts in the State
Department were set a-fiutter this morn
ing by announcement of names Of those
fortunate young women selected for
the responsible position of accompany
ing the State Department delegation to
the arms conference in London next
month. Although the Navy Depart
ment announced last week the names
of those to be sent with its delega-
ton to London. the State Department
has retained a consistent silence, until
an official announcement was made
from the Secretary's Office this MORN
ing.
So we'll had the names of its honoreeS
been withheld by the State Depart
ment that many of those selected knew
nothing of their appointments until the
names had been released to members OF
the press.
The entire American delegation to the
conference was announced by the State
Department today follows:
Delegates-The Secretary of State,
Ambassador Dawes, the Secretary of the
Navy, Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Sen-
ator David A. Reed, Ambassador Gibson,
Ambassador Morrow.
AdviSerS-Admiral William v. Pratt,
the Hon. Hugh r. Wilson, Rear Admiral
Hilary P. Jones. Arthur Wilson Page, J.
Theodore Mariner, George A. Gordon,
George Rublee.
Naval technical staff-Rear Admiral
j. r, P Pringle, Rear Admiral William
A. Moffett, Rear Admiral H. E. Yarnell,
Rear Admiral A. j. Hepburn. Capt. w.
w. Smyth, Capt. A. H. Van Keuren,
Comdr. Harold c. Train, Lieut.. Camp
bell
Secretariat-F. Lamont Belin, William
H. Beck, ]. w. Ballantine, David A
Assistant secretaries-Noel H. Field,
Vinton A. Chaplin, Joseph P. Cotton, jr.
Michael j. McDermott, press officer;
Harry R. Young, diSburSing officer; Her
bert F. Wright, editor.
Capt. Eugene Regnier will accompany
the Secretary of State. James l.. Bates
will be assistant to Capt. Van Keuren.
Alexander J. Doyle, secretary to Mr..
Adams. Joe r. Brewer, secretary to
Senator Robinson.
Stenographers-MrS Pearl L. De
Maret, Miss l.. Adelaide Watson, Miss
Eileen McKenny, Miss Vernita Bronson,
Miss Mildred V. Deike, Miss Adele E.
Dix, Miss Blanche V. Rule, Miss Grace
z. Alexander, Miss Anna Belle New
comb, Miss Hurley S. Fisk, Miss Beatrice
L. Comeau, Nathan MedofSky, Mr. Will
sons Stenographer; Albert S. Browne,
Ambassador Gibson'S stenographer; Miss
Esther S. Schucker, Senator Reeds
stenographer; Mrs. Barni, Wilson c.
Wilmot
File Clerks-Louis E. Mundy. Mrs.
Dorothy K. Butler, Walter H. Anderson.
Code clerks-Henry P. Dugan, Clayton
s. Becker. Miss Alice r. Lucas, William
" Madden
Navy stenographic perSonnel-William
D. Bergman Miss Anne Worrall, Miss
Clara bod, Miss Marie L. Baker, Miss
Gertrude E. Baker, Miss Virginia B.
Jones, Miss Sadie M Crumb.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
BODY IS REMOVED
/. FOR DOUBLE RITES
Veteran Who Died in 1903
Brought Here From West
for Arlington Burial.

After lying in Arizona soil for 70
years, the body of Alfred Gulton, vet
eran member Of the QuartermaSter De-
partment personnel, was brought 10
Washington Yesterday for burial in Ar
lington National Cemetery tomorrow by
the side of his wife, Mrs. Mary A. Gull
ton, who died here last week.
The double funeral services will be
conducted with military honors at 10
bodies will be buried together in the
same grave in the field of the dead.
Honorary pallbearers will include Maj
Gen. John l.. Glen, Col. o. H. Old
royd S. H. Morsum, department COM
mander of the G. A. r., and Adjt. Gen.
Bonney.
Quit College to Enlist.
Born in London, a descendant of the
defender of La Rochelle during It's Seige
by Louis XIII, Alfred Guiton subse-
quently left college in England to jour
ney to this country to enlist in the
Union Army during the Civil War. From
his enlistment at New York May 20,
1862, until his honorable discharge at
Bladensburg, May %, 1865, MIR. Guiton
served in many engagements. He was
assigned first to the permanent COM
pany at the cavalry depot, Carlisle Bar
racks. Pa, and later was transferred
to Company A, 5th Cavalry OF which ne
became sergeant major.
During the Spanish American War
period Mr.. Guiton entered the Quarter
master Department service. 1t was dur
ing reconstruction work at the Whipple
Barracks, in Arizona. that he was
stricken with pneumonia and died Feb
ruary 8, 1903.
Body Placed in Vault.
Mrs. Guiton died at her residence,
1882 Sixteenth street, Monday, Deem
Der 8 and funeral services were con-
Quoted at st. Matthew's Church last
Thursday by Rev. John Coady. Follow
ing the mass at the church Mrs. Gui-
tons body was placed in vault at Ar
lington to await the arrival of her hus-
bands body.
Mrs. Guiton was one Of the first two
nurses to be sworn into the Red Cross
in 1898 and she was in active service
at Chickamauga. She was an honorary
member of Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent,
Daughters of the Union Veterans, and
she was a member of the Womens Re-
lief Corps of the Grand Army of the
Republic,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17

ment Of interior announced that per-
mission granted to the Laredo Cham
Der of Commerce to issue tourist cards
for entry into Mexico would be
rescinded.
Inasmuch as Laredo is the principal
port of entry of American products into
Mexico and of American tourists into
Mexico. it was expected here the action
might serve to divert some traff1c hith.
erto through the city to other ports OF
entry.
Closing of the consulate meant that
merchandise entering Mexico through
Laredo must be approved by the con-
sulate at some other point, possibly
Corpus Christi, San Antonio or Hous-
ton. Similarly, tourists would have to
seek entry cards at some other city.
The foreign Office announcement said:
1.-The department of foreign relations
has sent instructions for closing of the
Mexican consulate at Laredo, effective
Tuesday, December II, as protest
against the acts of District Attorney
Walls"
Mr.. Walls, for many years prosecutor
in Laredo, named both Gen. Gales, for
mer Mexican President, and the late
Gen. Obregon in murder warrants,
charging completely in the death in
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1922 of two Mexican officers on the
Texas side of the Rio Grande.
He threatened that If Gen. Gales
ever passed through Laredo he would
arrest him and try him on the charge.
1t was understood here Gen. Gales
crossed into Mexico through Laredo last
night only because he held a United
States Department certificate of diplo-
matte immunity. Gen. Gales is just
returning from European trip for his
health.
The Mexican governments action was
accepted here as indicating in no way
i'll feeling toward the American Gov
eminent. but rather as step entirely
against Walls. who frequently is referred
to in the local press as the eternal
enemy of Mexico"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
MRS. W|LLEBRANDT
LISTENS TO PRAISE
Justice Stone and Rover Are
Among Speakers at Wom-
ems Bar Banquet.

Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, ten
dered a banquet last night at the Carl
ton Hotel by the Women'S Bar Associ-
alton, heard her work as former As
sistant Attorney General in Charge of
Prohibition lauded in the highest terms
by Justice Harlan FiSke Stone of the
United States Supreme Court, United
States Attorney Leo A. Rover and other
judges, lawyers and members of Con-
greSS.
In a brief address Mrs. Willebrandt
urged the woman lawyers and other
woman leaders of the country to answer
the challenge of civic Righteousness and
moral courage necessary to good citi-
Zenship today, concluding with a word
of appreciation to the men and women
who had faith in her in the discharge
of her public duties.
In conducting her duties with the
declared, Mrs. Willebrandt had raised
the standard of public service. Mr..
Rover asserted that Mrs. Willebrandt
had retired from official life with the
admiration of all right-thinking people.
other speakers who paid tributes to
the guest Of honor included Judge Pey-
ton Gordon of the District Supreme
Court. Judge Alfred Wheat, Judge Mary
O'Toole, who acted as toaStmistreSs,
ana MISS May blSeloW, president OF the
Bar Association, who presided. Among
the guests at the speakers table who
responded to toasts were Miss Jessie
M. Dell, civil service commissioner;
Representative Edith Nourse Rogers,
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, Rep
resentative Florence Pragg Kahn, Mrs.
Bernita Shelton Matthews, who offered
toast to Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey,
dean of the woman lawyers of the Dis
trict, and Mrs. Olive S. Gabriel, presi-
dent of the National Women's Lawyers
Association.
-e--
Old country dances are being revived
in Scotland
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17

More than one-third of the imports
into Chile in the last IL months were
from the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
Christmas Poem House TO Go.

NEW YORK, December II (P).-Raz-
ing Of the house which inspired the
poem beginning Twas the Night Be-
fore Christmas" is threatened for sub
way purposes. In the house at Elm
hurst, Long Island, Prof. Clement
Clarke Moore wrote the verses that
have thrilled generations of children.
Borough President Harvey suggests that
the house be moved to a city park and
preserved. 4lMn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
Lightning Strips Man.

While walking across a field near
Cowdenbeath, Scotland, during thun-
derstorm recently Thomas Fraser was
killed by lightning. His body was found
later. almost naked, his boots and cloth
ing being scattered over an acre of 100
yards. 1t is thought he was killed
through shock caused by the lightni~-
striking a wire fence nearby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
D. C. MEN HONORED.
Four From Washington in Foreign
Service Listed for Promotion.

Four men from the District of Column
bia were included in a list of nominal
lions for promotion in the foreign serv-
ice sent to the Senate for confirmation
by President Hoover yesterday. They
are:
James Hugh Kelley, jr.. to be ad-
vanced from class z to class 6; Joseph
H. Groeninger, to go from class 8 to
class 2; McCeney Werlich and Lloyd
D. Yates, from unclassified to class 8
and also to be consuls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
ACCEPTS NOMINATION.
olaya, Columbian Minister to q. S.,
to Run for Presidency,

BOGOTA, December, II (P).-Publi-
cation OF cablegrams exchanged with
DR.. Enrique Olaya, Colombian Minis
ter to the United States, offering him
the presidential nomination of the
Liberal party, which he accepted with
some conditions. resulted in great en-
thusiaSm among liberal followers here.
Ell TEMPO" morning daily, sup
ports the candidacy of Olaya and finds
the time propitious for triumph of the
Liberal candidate, owing to a Con-
sentative division over two presidential
candidates. The same daily published
numerous kilograms from different
cities of the country indicating en-
thuSiaSm.
The next election is in February,
1880. Dr. Miguel Abadia Mendez Con-
sentative, is now president.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
TRIPLE COLLISION.
Three Cars Seriously Damaged at
Wheaton Cross Roads.
BY stan Correspondent of The star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
SLIGO, Md. December 17.-Three
automobiles were seriously damaged in
a collision yesterday at the cross roads
at Wheaton, according to a report Of
Montgomery County Policeman Charles
T. Barnes. - ~
The cars were owned by Julian H.
Miller, 10l Virgilia street, Chevy Chase,
Md: Robert L. Pitts. 1015 Eighth street,
southeast, and Robert r. Pitts, 1924
University place. the last two of Wash
ington, D. c. According to the police
report. Mr.. Miller was making a turn
into the Brookeville road. when the two
other cars heading south, one in tow of
the other, crashed into the turning
vehicle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17
MEXICO PENALTIES
LAREDO FOR SCARE
Closes Consulate There and
ForbidS City Right to Is
cue Tourists Cards.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, December 1.-THE
Mexican government today struck back
at Laredo, Texas border city, for the
attitude taken by John Walls, district
attorney there, toward Gen Plutarco
Elias Gales, former Mexican President
The fortign Office announced that, eff
fective today, the Mexican consulate at
Laredo would be closed. The depart
New Britain herald., 1929-09-11

supper time, and then udGenly appeared with an invitation for me 10 take an excursion with him on Friday 10 London.
 l politely declined his suggestion without giving any specific reason. He seemed greatly disappointed.
 I found it hard to divine what Professor LaXton was, but perfect ly simple to divine he was not professor of archaeology. Some day 1 would discover his real profcs- sion. The scene in the cloistcrs on that Sunday night and the subse- quent hobnobbing of Professor Lax ton and Marling, when put to- gethor, gave me an uncomforta Ele feeling that l had been fooled 10 the top of my bent.
 In the same three days I saw d good deal. also, of Cousin John. In the quetude of the guest-room at Woodcot, he underwent a rapid change. He lost some of his feroci- ty. He civilized his appetite. He softenod his voice.
 When he had discarded the tramp's outfit in which he arrived and put on some of my clothes. Cousin John was relative l need not have been ashamed to display to the whole village But he firmly refused to be displayed to anybody except my mother and me.
 He would not leave his room. He asked for books and read a good deal. He asked me to buy him a pipe. He smoked my tobacco. He was glad 10 talk to either of us and would talk irtellgcntly about everything but himself. On his own identity Cn his past, on his inten- tons for the future, he was as dumb as a turnip.
 The only spark of light l struck out of him b yaccident came when he let slip the fact that he knew Blackwatcr and the district very well. Having seen that I cheWed this over, he tried hard to confuse my impression by displays of will full ignorance
 He asked for the newspaper each morning and studied it thoroughly. If he read the spoculations which it printed aoout himself, he made no allusion 10 them.
 In seemed on the third day as though Cousin John had been living with us a century and was likely to be ,here for a millennium.
 But the total duration of his visit was only three days and bit. Ii had begun sonsatiolally; it ended in a burst of excitement far more intense.
 Copyright, 1929, Wm. Morrow Co,
 Cousin Johns mysterious black bag brings Tom Grenofcn further concern. Read tomorrows chapter.