Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-14
Federation Delegates Re-
Ceive Official List of Can
didates for Six Places.
TWO PRESENT MEMBERS
DO NOT SEEK REELECTION
Most Interesting Candidacy Is That
Of William A. Roberts-0ne
Woman Seeks Post.

Fifteen candidates are in the field for
the six places on the Citizens Advisory
Council to be filled at an election by
the Federation Of Citizens Associations
April S. The federation delegates to-
day received the official list, which
contained the names of the following
candidates, with the citizens associa-
tions which nominated them:
DR.. william M. Deviny, Michigan
Park: John S. Driggers, Kenilworth
and Benning; Guy H. Johnson, Con-
Rhode Island avenue; Thomas e
Lodge, American University Park;
George E. Mcneil, Sixteenth Street
Heights; Graham H. Powell, Cathedral
Heights; william e. Rabenhorst, Bur-
roughs; DR.. Edward E. Richardson
Congress Heights, Hill Crest and Wash
ington Highlands; William A. Roberts
Conduit Road; Andrew F. e. Scheer
Dahlgren Terrace; Charles I. Stengle,
Petworth; Harry N. Stull, Stanton
Park; Eta L. Taggart, Society of Ma
tives, and John Walker, Takoma Park.
Composed of Nine Members.
The council is composed of nine
elected annually by the Federation of
Citizens Associations; two colored
members are elected by the Federation
of Civic Associations; the ninth men,
Der is the president of the Federation
of Citizens Associations, who is chair
man ex off1cio.
Two of the members of the present
council, Hugh M. Frampton, Cathedral
Heights, and F. Tracy Campbell of
Anacostia, are not candidates for re-
election. The other four who are seeking
another term are Lodge, Richardson,
Scheer and Stengle. Two other candi-
dates have already served on the council
in past ternS-RobertS and Stull.
Perhaps the most interesting candi-
dacy is that of Mr.. Roberts, who was
nosed out at the elections last year
after a bitter fight against the domi-
nant faction Of the federation on the
street railway merger issue. Roberts
actively campaigned for Walter I.
Swanton for president In opposition to
DR.. George G. Havenner In 1928, and
when Havenner won, Roberts was re-
moved from the committee on public
utilities, where he had done most Of
his work against the merger. The fol-
to succeed himself on the council, but
lost by q narrow margin.
Roberts Has Made Peace.
Since that time, however, he has
made his peace with the right wing.
He was put back on the public utilities
committee, and voted with the majority
on the issue raised by the prospective
nomination Of Gen. Herbert B. Crosby
as one of the civilian Commissioners
It is expected that he will win his seat
back.
If Miss Taggart does the unexpected
and wins place on the council, she
will be the first of her sex to have
done so, although there has been a
woman candidate at every election. She
Is conceded q chance by some Of the
federation prophets. It is freely pre-
dicted that Messrs. Lodge and Stengle
will be reelected without much of a
fight. The remaining seats will prob
ably go, according to present indications,
to Messrs. Deviny, Rabenhorst and
Powell.
This would give tie Eastern section
but two representatives on the council,
and the East last year was strong
enough to put three of its candidates
across at the election. Should they
show the same strength this year, one
Of the Western candidates listed above
would probably be displaced In favor of
Mr.. Stull, who has been O member of
the federation for years and is gener-
ally well liked.