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Evening star., 1932-05-05
UNIFORM TRAFFIC
LAWS ADVOCATED
Speed and Safety ReguIa-
tions Also Taken Up at
Conference Here.

Uniformity of traffic laws throughout
the various States and new regulations
to govern the speed Of motor vehicles on
the public highways, will be urged on
the Legislatures of the Eastern States
as an outcome Of action taken by motor
vehicle administrators in conference
here today.
Benjamin C. Eynon, commissioner Of
motor vehicles for Pennsylvania, intro
duced a resolution directing that a
committee be named to take up with
automobile manufacturers the question
of speed and safety, with particular ref
erence to the industrys responsibility
in reducing accident hazards.
The conference, which closes tomor-
row, is attended by State officials under
whose Offices come the administration OF
motor vehicle laws. Sitting in are Sec
retaries of State, chiefs of highway po-
lice, commissioners of motor vehicles and
other officers. The meetings are being
held at the Hamilton Hotel. Attending
are officials from Tennessee, Connecti-
cut, New Jersey, Michigan, Iowa, Penn
Sylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
The need for legislative action was
stressed at the meeting by Col. A. B.
Barber, director Of the National Con-
ference on Street and Highway Safety.
He directed attention to the certifi-
cate Of title law adopted by the Dis
trict of Columbia government, which is
practically identical with the uniform
anti-theft act advocated by the Ma
tional Conference.
Thomas H. Mcdonald, director of the
United States Bureau of Public Roads,
will address the meeting tomorrow
morning and tomorrow afternoon the
delegates will be guests of the Washing
ton Automotive Trade Association in a
sightseeing trip. The group were guests
Of the American Automobile Association
at luncheon at the Willard Hotel at
noon today.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
DR.. HARRY FOWLER
NAMED BY DOCTORS
District Medical Society
Elects Surgeon as Its
New President.

DR.. Harry Atwood Fowler was elected
president of the District Medical So
ciety at its annual business meeting
last night He succeeds DR.. Arthur
C.. Christie
Other officers chosen were DR.. Henry
r. Schreiber, first vice president; DR..
H. Gladys Kain, second vice president,
and DR.. Coursen B. Conklin, secretary
treasurer. All we're elected unanimously.
DR.. Christie, DR.. Harry Saul Bernton
and DR.. Janvier w. Lindsay were select
ed to serve three-year terms on the
Executive Committee and DR.. Daniel L.
Borden was elected to the Program
Committee for three years.
Hopkins Graduate.
The new president is a graduate of
the Johns Hopkins University Medical
School and is one of Washington's lead
ing surgeons. He is attending surgeon
at Emergency Hospital and consultant
urologist to the Mount Alto Veterans
Hospital. He also is vice president of
the American Association of THEOLOGICAL
Surgeons.
This morning the scientific assemblies
of the tWo-day annual meeting of the
society continued with symposium on
vascular disease This afternoon there
was to be a similar discussion OF cardiac
disease and tonight DR.. Haven Emer-
son of New York City will speak on the
Mutual Responsibility of the Medical
Profession and the Laity in the Organ
ization of Preventive Efforts in a Com
munity."
The address tonight will be the only
nublic session of the two-day meeting,
which is being held in the District Med
ical Society Building, l718 M street. DR..
Luther H. Reichelderfer, president of
the Board Of District Commissioners,
will preside.
Today's Speakers.
Those who spoke this morning and
their subjects follow: DR.. Leslie T.
eager. ''The Clinical Aspects Of Aneu-
r1sm of the Aorta"; DR.. H. Lynn Col
vim. THE Vaccine Therapy of Thrombo-
Angiitis Obliterans" DR.. Charles r. L.
HALEY. "Congenital Arterio-Venous Fis-
tulax": DR.. Harry H. Kerr, "Traumatic
Arterio- Venous Fistula Cured by Opera
ton" and DR.. Fred R. Sanderson,
Heart Failure Due to Femoral Arterio-
Venous Fistula Cured by Operation"
Those to speak this afternoon were
DIR. Margaret NJ. Nicholson, DR.. Edgar
d. Grimm. DR.. Wallace M. Yater and
DR.. Emanuel Libman of New York City.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
MOTHERHOOD CLAIM CONTESTED
AS WIFE FAILS TO SHOW CHILD
Washingtonian, Estranged From Wife, Denied Proof.
Case Argued in Florida Court.

award custody of the child to the
father or to hold that no such child
existed.
The attorneys say no birth certif-
cate has been found that Is considered
valid, and that they can produce wit
nesses who saw Mrs. Rouse walking
about the streets on the day she claims
the child was born.
Charles P. Rouse is a Christian Sci
ence practitioner here, with offices in
the Woodward Building. His sister,
Mrs. Ernest Lee, 2809 Chesterfield
place, stated today he went to Florida
last week. Rouse lives with his sister
and brother-in-law at the Chesterfield
place address.
Mrs. Lee said Rouse's wife formerly
lived in Florida. They were married
about a year ago and Mrs. Rouse left
here in September. She returned for
visit In January and then returned
to Florida. Mrs. Lee says Rouse b
not convinced the child exists.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
D. c. VOTE SOUGHT
IN DRY MEASURE
TydingS Urges Amendment
Providing Referendum on
Howell Bill.

An amendment providing for submis-
sion Of the Howell prohibition enforce
ment bill to vote of the people of the
District will be urged by Senator
TydingS, Democrat, of Maryland when
the Senate District Committee meets
tomorrow afternoon to act on the local
measure.
Senator Tydings said he is advancing
a referendum amendment to the bill on
the theory the States have the kind of
local enforcement laws their people
want, and he believes the residents of
Washington should be given an oppor-
tunity to say whether they want the
Howell bill.
The District Committee also will have
laid before it tomorrow a reply Chair
man Capper has received from Attorney
General Mitchell, who was asked by
the committee a few weeks ago to go
over the bill in its present form.
When the bill was first being drafted
two years ago, the Attorney General
took exception to the clause extending
the search warrant authority in the
case Of dwellings and one other feature
Of the bill. The search warrant provi-
sion has been modified.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
S1,529,3S1 PAID
ON CHEST PLEDGES
Figure Represents 50 Per
Cent of TotaI-DefiCit of
100000 Faced.

Approximately So per cent Of the
S2,415,715 pledged in the 1882 Com
munity Chest campaign has been paid,
according to figures made public yes
terday by Robert " Fleming, treasurer
of the Chest.
Payments up to and including April
80 have totaled 81 ,529, ,381.79 Mr.. Flem
ing announced. OF this amount $30l,-
69431 was paid by the Government de-
partments and represents 1851 per cent
of the 81 1,007 ,026.17 pledged by Govern
ment employees. Washingtonians other
than Government employees have paid
S727, ,687.48. or 51.65 per cent, of their
total pledges of 81, ,408, ,688.83.
The higher percentage of payments
on the part of Government employees,
Mr. Fleming said, IS due to their three
month payment plan, giving one days
pay each month, while the rest of
Washington almost universally sub
scribed on a 10-payment plan. Many
of the Government employees later
changed to the 10-payment plan, which
accounts for their contributions not be-
ing paid in full by now
Elwood Street, director of the Chest,
said the Chest already this year has
paid to its various constituent agencies
$4,000 more than had been paid at
this time last year. At the present rate
of expenditure, he said the Chest must
face a deficit of at least 100000.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
LIMIT ON MOTHERS
|. AID FUND ASSA|LED
Welfare Workers Present
Petition to Bingham, Ask
ing Revision OF Bill.

Groups interested in social and well
fare work today presented petition
to Senator hiram Bingham of Con-
necticut, chairman of the District Sub
committee of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, asking that the SIS per
month limitation per family on mothers
aid payments, written into the appro-
priation bill by the House, be eliminated.
The petition points out that of the
174 families now being aided by the
Board of Public Welfare under the
mothers pension act, So require pay
ments in excess of $50 per month. OF
the As States granting mothers aid,
according to the petition, 35 have no
fixed allowance per family.
The papers accompanying the petit
ton and discussing the reason for max
ing it, point out the object Of mothers
aid is to preserve a normal standard
Of living, above the bare level of sub
sistence, for those who, because Of con-
ditions in the industrial society in which
they live, are unable to provide that
standard for themselves.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
HAWLEY is INJURED
BY WOMAN'S AUTO
Representative Waves Driver to
Proceed, Not Realizing
He Is Hurt.

Representative Willis C. Hawley, Re-
publican, of oregon. was stunned and
bruised about the head and chest today
when struck by an automobile in front
of the House Office Building.
He was taken to his Office and ex-
amined by Dr.. George w. Calver, House
physician, who ordered him to return
home and rest. The automobile which
ran HaWley down was driven by a wom-
an. When she asked If he was badly
hurt, he waved her to drive on, the
Representative said, not realizing the
extent of his injuries.
Three other persons were injured, two
of them seriously, in traffic accidents
late yesterday and early today.
Joseph Piccolo, 38, of the 600 block
Maryland avenue southwest, received
serious head injuries when his bicycle
struck a Washington Alexandria bus
yesterday at Fourteenth and B streets
southwest.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
DINNER SPEAKERS NAMED

DR.. Richard C. Cabot of Harvard
University, former Senator Allen Of
Kansas. Senator Robinson Of Indiana,
Prof. Jacob Hollander of Johns Hop
kins and Mrs. Glen Shaver of West
Virginia will be among the speakers at
a law observance dinner at the May
flower Hotel May 9, it has been an
nounced by the Citizens Service Asso-
citation for Law and Order.
The dinner will be sponsored by a
group of women's national organizations
with the cooperation of the local
Service Association
Evening star., 1932-05-05
SCHOOLS ASK FUND
FOR EMERGENCIES
$4,000 for Repair Work Out of
Half Million Appropriation
Proposed to District.

The Board Of Education today pro-
posed to the District Commissioners
the setting up of a $4,000 fund for
emergency repair work, the money to
come from the regular $50O0OO repair
appropriation.
The School Board adopted the plan
at its meeting yesterday and proposed
that it become the fixed method of
operation" in handling school repairs.
The proposal was included in an IL
point statement Of policy" governing
repairs to District school buildings
Under the plan work of an emer-
gency nature would be executed prompt
ly and paid for out of the SAC, 900 fund,
the balance of which would automatic
ally revert to the regular repair ap-
preparation ct the end Of each year.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
G. 0. P. WILL OPEN
TWO MORE BASES
Bulk of Campaign Work Will Be
Carried on in Chicago and
New York.

Campaign headquarters will be opened
by the Republican National Committee
in Chicago and in New York soon after
the conclusion Of the Republican ma
ticnal convention, it was said today by
Robert H. Lucas, executive director Of
the National Committee
The National Committee headquarters
in Washington, however, will be main
tanned, Mr.. Lucas said, and some Of the
campaign work will be done here. The
great bulk Of the work will be carried
on in Chicago and New York. He
pointed out that this has been the
practice of the Republicans in past cam
paigns. In 1928 and 1924 extensive
headquarters were operated by the
Republican national organization in
Chicago and also in New York.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
District Democrats
Select May l8 for
Holding of Primary

District Democrats will hold
their primary May 18, it was
announced today by John B.
Colpoys, chairman Of the State
Central Committee in charge Of
the quadrennial balloting.
The filing day will be set to-
morrow, according to Colpoys,
who said that either the 18th or
18th of this month would be the
final date upon which candi-
dates may file, at the Central
Committees headquarters on the
sixth floor of the Home Life
Building, 1908 Vermont avenue.
The primary will select six del
egates and six alternates to the
National Convention in Chicago,
a national committeeman. ma
tional committeewoman and %
members of the Central Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
SMOKE SCREEN SICKENS
OFFICERS CHASING AUTO
Two .Colored Men, Believed Rum
Runners, Escape After Race
Through Northwest Section.

Employing chemicalized smoke
screen which made pursuing policemen
Ill, two colored men, believed to be rum
runners, eluded the officers in a spec
tacular chase in the northwest section
early today.
Policemen F. P. Martin and A. T.
Davis. third precinct, said the chase
began at Sixteenth and Church streets,
when a touring car with drawn cur
tains passed them and sped north. The
fugitive car and the police machine
turned east on U street, where the for
mer opened the smoke apparatus.
Davis reported that both Martin and
himself were i'll for more than an hour
after breathing fumes from the smoke.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
REPEAT HEALTH PROGRAM

Pupils Of Thomas P. Morgan School,
Eighteenth and California streets, yes
terday repeated their May day health
demonstration before a group of school
officials, teachers and visiting parents
and friends
Dance rhythms, singing games, run
ming contests, folk dances, marching and
other factors made up the PR gram,
under the direction Of Miss Edith A.
Lyons, principal, and her staff.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
ARSON PLOT BLOCKED
Employees Quick Action Saves Ga.
rage-Five Hoodlums Flee.

CHICAGO, May 5 [P-An arson
plot that would have destroyed a huge
garage and 90 trucks and passenger
cars was nipped by the quick action of
an employe early today.
Five men, after kidnapping two en-
ployes Of the garage, pumped 50 gal
Ions of gasoline onto the floor and
automobiles and had lighted a news
paper as a torch when another en-
ploye turned in police alarm and
fired through the window.
The five hoodlums took flight, but
Jack Sopkin, who held the torch, ran
into the arms of police. He has a
criminal record. frankie Levin, who
had loaned Sopkin his automobile, was
later arrested.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
Ru the Associated Press.

by LUe ASSOSAdtC0 ACSo'
WEST PAL MBEACH, Fla, May 5.
Whether Mrs. Cecile Porter Rouse
became the mother of a baby here
April 7 was the question before the
Circuit Court yesterday.
Mrs. Rouse asserts she did, accord
ing to her husband, Charles P. Rouse
of Washington, D. c., who has been
separated from his wife for several
months. On receipt Of the news that
a baby had been born to his wife, he
told the court, he came here. but she
refused to let him see the infant.
He obtained a writ of habeas corpus
to compel his wife to produce the child
in court Monday. She appeared, but
the child did not. 1t was reported to
attorneys then that a relative had
taken the child out of the State.
Judge c. E. Chillingworth continued
the hearing until yesterday, but when
the case was called neither Mrs. Rouse
nor the child appeared.
Rouse's attorneys asked the court TO
Evening star., 1932-05-05
D. c. MAN ACCUSED OF STEALING
HIS OWN AUTOMOBILE IS FREED
Judge Sheriff Dissses Case Hyattsvie in Which Car
Was Attached in Civil Suit.

more, who was arrested by State Police
man N. G. Falkenstine. Kitchen was
also fined $40 for reckless driving. His
appeal bond was set at 81 900.
Oden Swami of Priest Bridge, Md,
who. according to County Policeman
Ralph Brown, had the drivers permit
CT a dead man in his possession, but
no permit of his own, was fined $40 for
operating without permit and $50 for
transportation and possession of seven
half gallons Of alleged liquor. He pleaded
guilty to both charges.
John w. Fredericks, 100 block of
Kalorama road, also arrested by Oficer
Brown for transportation, possession
and speeding, drew fines 'totaling SOL.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
~ a stan corrsspondent Of The Star.

BY Stan Correspondent OF The Star,
HYATTSVILLE, Md, May 5.-A man
accused of the larceny Of his own au-
tomobile was freed in Police Court yes
terday.
He was Harry N. Evans, 600 block of
+ street, Washington, whose car had
been attached in a civil suit and was
being held in a garage here. Defense
Attorney j. Wilson Ryon brought out,
however, that there was no evidence
Evans took the car and Judge j. Chew
Sheriff dismissed the case.
| A seven-month Jail sentence for sec
Fond offense driving while drunk was
appealed by John L. Kitchen Of Balti-
Evening star., 1932-05-05
WINS SPELLING MATCH

At the Capital City Spelling Club
match at Mt. Pleasant Library, Willard
B. Smith Of Clarendon, Va, won his
third consecutive victory last night.
The winning word which he spelled
correctly last night was "pantoum,"
meaning form of verse.
The next match of the club viii be
free-for-all contest to be held at the
same place, Wednesday, May ID.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
JUDGES HOME ROBBED

Burglars Get Clothing and $11O at
Cation Residence.
Burglars entered the home of Judge
Nathan Cation of the Municipal Court
at 2948 Macomb street early this morn
ing and removed clothing valued at
$3.50 and Sll0 in cash.
The Judge and his family, sleeping
in the house at the time, were undis-
turbed.
The burglar "jimmied" a rear win
dow.
Evening star., 1932-05-05

4 L youngsters in khaki, COM
posing the Linton Hall Mill
tary Band. broke forth right Justify on
variety of instruments, and the quiet
Virginia countryside resounded with the
theme of MontezumaS halls and Trip
oils shores.
six months ago not one of those boys
knew one note from another" explained
Sister Loyola, the proud instructor and
leader of the band, whose accomplish
ments constitute one of the unusual
features of an unusual venture in edu-
cation which the black-robed Benedic-
tine nuns are making at Linton Hall:
On an old Virginia estate outside OF
Manassas, which still retains the name
of the Linton family, whose homeplace
it was, this Catholic teaching order,
which for years mas maintained a
school there-first for girls and latterly
for boys-has gone step farther and
now is putting the establishment on
a military basis.
A military school should have mill
tary band. reasoned Sister Loyola, who
herself is not many years removed from
a Washington class room, so six months
ago she started to work, and the crown
ing achievement comes Saturday after
noon when the "bandsmen," who range
Evening star., 1932-05-05
ITALIANS VISIT HOOVER
Columbian Republican League
Plans Expansion.

The Columbian Republican League,
composed of Italian-American voters of
half a dozen Eastern States, will eX-
pand to a Nationwide organization, it
was announced today by the Repub-
lican National Committee. Delegates
who met here today were received by
President Hoover and heard Secretary
of Labor Doak praise Italians in this
country as leading all other foreign
groups in the acquisition of American
citizenship.
The committee said the league would
be extended to States having 90 per
cent of the Italian American popula-
ton of the country. Senators Davis of
Pennsylvania and Barbour of New Jer-
sey also address, the conference.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
AIR LINE BILL FAVORED
McNary Measure Provides Board
to Develop Foreign Trade.

By the Associated Press.
A favorable report on the McNary bill
to establish and develop a foreign air
transport service was voted today by
the Senate Commerce Committee.
Under the bill, board of four cabinet
officers would develop foreign COM
merce by air, and the Postmaster Gen
eral would grant mail contracts for two
way routes in foreign commerce.
The contracts, for 10 years, would be
awarded to the lowest bidder with the
stipulation American-built ships be used.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
TWO FACE DRY CHARGE
Man and Woman Arrested on
Transportation Allegation.

Samuel r. Thomas, 81, and Margaret
Thomas, 10, both of the 100 block of
Seventh street northeast, were charged
with the transportation Of liquor today
when policeman, who halted their car
on Florida avenue near Fifth street, dis
covered nine cases of alleged whisky in
the machine. A charge of speeding also
was placed against the man by Police
man F. J. Rowen, Traffic Bureau.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
League Will Elect Officers.

BANCROFT, Va, May (SpeciaD -
The Bancroft School and Civic League
will meet tonight in the community
house here. Officers will be elected.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
TRAPPED BY PHOTOS
Autoist Fined After Bringing Pic
lures Into Court.

lures Into Court.
Frank M Doyle, 33, of the 200 block
of Thirteenth street northeast, brought
some convincing photographs into Traffic
Court today when he appeared to
answer a charge of disobeying an official
sign.
Doyle was arrested yesterday by OFF,
Ger Raymond v. Sinclair of the Traffic
Bureau for driving between two street
car leading platforms on Massachusetts,
avenue near the City Post ONCE.
Doyle subsequently took photographs
of the position of his machine when
he was arrested by Sinclair and sub
mitted them to Judge Isaac r. Hit
today. i
Doyle wM fined "a on the strength
of his own photographs.
Evening star., 1932-05-05
OFFERS BILLS MONDAY
$75, 100000 of e1-Day Notes to Be
Sold by Mills.

6OIu Dy MlIIs.
Secretary Mills has announced the
Treasury would sell $75,0O00OO of 81
day Treasury bills next Monday.
The bills will be dated May IL, and
mature August 10. They will be sold
to the highest bidders and redeemed at
face value.
The money received will be used 10
retire $76,000,000 in Treasury bills
which mature May IL.
Evening star., 1932-05-05

n A ND now" said Sister Loyola,
80 " play the Marine hymn"
II Whereupon some 20-odd
\ youngsters in khaki COM
The Washington times., 1932-04-14
BY ANTHONY ABBOT
BY Mnt Gross

scraWled in a large, bold hand:
Dear Mr.. Thatcher Colt:
II must talk with you at
once. You can save a human
life. Will you do it? I am in
my right senses; I never drink
and am not neurotic. I want
to talk with you on police buSi-
ness. Will you join Mr.. Row.
land and myself at our table?
Or will meet you outside if you
prefer. Mr. Colt, please!
LOLA CAREWE."
Dougherty had finished his
soup.
What's all that?" he quer.
led, fumbling for a mislaid
napkin.
Colt did not smile as he ex-
planned:
Miss Lola Carewe is desper-
ately anxious to give the police
some information. Join us,
Dougherty?"
For once, the district attor.
ney was jolted into utter sill.
ence. Blank-faced, he followed
through the throng. The dance
floor was still a Swaying mass
of jewels, perfume, and joy as
we three made our way around
the oval to the table of the
night club lady.
TO Be Continued Tomorrow
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The Washington times., 1932-04-14
1.-THE MURDER OF THE NIGHT CLUB LADY"

IContinued from Magazine Page
the source of her income. 7 seem
to remember that Clifford did
leave her about half a million
In life insurance"
But look what the creature
spendS!" cried Dougherty, his
gaze almost apoplectic.
DO you mean to say" de-
manded Colt in a low tone,
"that you have a real reason to
believe the widow of Gaylord
Clifford is mixed up in jewel
ring?"
Il dot" avowed Dougherty
with a positive shake of his
head.
The facts?"
I'VE have not investigated in
vain" returned Dougherty orac-
ularly. ITO establish a def
mite relation between such a
woman and the underworld is
not easy, and yet"
II think your mysterious
night club lady is just arriv-
ing" interrupted Colt.
To the table that had been
so valorously reserved, two
prancing walters now led the
night club lady and an elderly
escort. In my first glimpse of
Lola Carewe, I thought she
was the most dangerous beauty
had ever seen, l still think
so. Perhaps l am an overly i'm