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The Washington times., 1934-05-09
Chief Executive
To Entertain

The President will hold an
informal reception at the White
House this evening at 7 o'clock
for the chairmen of the various
committees which organized
balls in celebration of his birth
day anniversary on January 30.
The members of the board of
the Warm Springs Foundation
will be present this evening,
when the check for the full
amount realized at these va
rious balls is presented to the
Chief Executive, and he in
turn will give it to the founda-
ton heads, for these celebra-
tions were planned for the
benefit Of the foundation as a
gesture of esteem on the part
of the people of the United
States.
Following the ceremonies at
the White House this evening,
a banquet will be held at the
Shoreham for the ball officials.
The President and Mrs. Roose-
velt have issued invitations for
garden parties at the White
House on May IA and II.
Il 4
Mr.. and Mrs. Holland Duel1,
of Larchmont, N. Y, who are
in Washington until the end Of
the week, are at Wardman
Park Hotel.
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Spring Flowers on Tea Table

The guests wandered about
the reception rooms greeting
friends, stopping to admire in
one room an especially lovely
portrait of Nine. Espil-and in
another, one of the Ambassa-
dor, the work of Senor Don
Cesareo Bernaldo QuiroS, Argen-
tine painter.
Interesting books lined the
walls in one of the smaller
rooms, where huge white polar
bears skin covered the floor.
Rich hangings were at the win
dowS and large comfortable
chairs in contrasting colors were
placed about.
Many Distinguished Guests
Among those I saw were, the
Dean of the Diplomatic Corps,
His Excellency Sir Ronald Lind
say, Ambassador of Great Brit
ain: the Brazilian Ambassador
and Nine. de Lima Silva,
Nine. de Laboulaye, wife of the
French Ambassador, in a lovely
gown of rose and blue flowered
chiffon, with three quarter
length blue coat; the German
Ambassador, Herr Hans Luther;
Nine. Peter, wife of the Swiss
Minister. in black and white;
her shiny rough straw sailor
having a double bandeau Of
white; Nine. SimopouloS, wife
Of the Greek Minister. in a red
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grosgrain ribbon encircling the
crown; the Harold Russeks, just
back from New York and al
ready planning another visit to
the metropolis, lunching to-
gether and apparently oblivious
to everyone else.
Tell us why Senator and Mrs.
Kings invitation for the recep.
ton they gave for the Secrc-
tary of War and Mrs. Dern
read: "Mr. and Mrs. William H.
King. ..." Also, why Mr.. and
Mrs. Dern we're a half hour
late for the party. The guests
waited downstairs for the honor
guests to appear, and then de.
cided to greet their hosts, who
were waiting in lonely state UP.
stairs in the Sulgrave Club, for
the party to start.
X X X
In the quaint little Catholic
chapel on the famous Idle Hour
Farm near Lexington, KY,
Monday, Miss Margaret Brad
ley, of Philadelphia and Palm
Beach, Fla, was married Mon
day to Mr.. Frank Speno, Jr., of
Ithaca, N. Y.
The bride was escorted by
her uncle, Colonel Edward
Riley Bradley, master of Idle
Hour, and renowned turfman,
A 100-year-old bell in the chapel
rang for the wedding party.
Decorations were in the Brad
ley racing colors-green and
white - and the bridesmaids
were dressed in those colors.
The bride wore a gown Of
ivory satin with a deep circular
fischu of rose point lace. Her
veil was of the same heirloom
lace, held in place with a tight
fitting cap and her bridal bou-
quet was of orchids.
Miss Mary Kenny, Of New
York, served as maid of honor
and the bridesmaids were Miss
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Mr.. Robert Host
At Dinner

The Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, Mr.. Lawrence
Wood Robert, jr., entertained
at dinner last evening in the
garden of the 1925 F Street
Club.
The guests of honor included
Senator and Mrs. Walter F.
George; Senator Richard B.
Russell, jr.; the Governor of
the Federal Reserve Board and
Mrs. Eugene Black; Mr.. Harl-
lee Branch, Second Assistant
Postmaster General, and Mrs.
Branch; the Assistant to the
Attorney General, Miss Stella
Akin; Representative and Mrs.
Carl Vinson and Representative
and Mrs. Eugene Cox.
The other guests were the
Postmaster General, Mr.. James
A. Farley; Senator and Mrs.
j. Hamilton Lewis. Col. and
Mrs. Marvin Mcintyre: Mr..
and Mrs. Jesse Jones. Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank c. Walker, Mrs.
Lucille F. McMillin, of the
Civil Service Commission; Rep
resentative and Mrs. Homer c.
Parker, Representative and
Mrs. Bryant C. Castellow, Rep
resentative and Mrs. Malcolm
c. Tarver, Representative and
Mrs. John S. Wood, Represen-
tative and Mrs. Robert Rams
peck, Mr.. Harris Willingham,
Mr.. John Wesley Weeks, Mr..
and Mrs. Horace Russell, Mr..
and Mrs. Carter Barron, Mr..
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Entertain Envoy
At Dinner

The Ambassador Of Japan
and Nine. Saito were the guests
in whose honor the Naval At
tache of the Embassy and Nine.
Kobayashi entertained at din
ner last evening, in their apart
ment at Alban Towers.
The other guests were, the
Counselor of the Embassy and
Nine. Fujii, the Military At
tache and Nine. Tanaka, the
First Secretary and Nine.
Miura, the Assistant Naval At
tache, Commander YoSiyuki
Itimiya; and Mr.. o. Matukata.
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Today
At Legation

The Ambassador of Brazil
and Nine. de Lima e Silva were
the guests of honor at the
luncheon given today by the
Minister of the Netherlands and
Nine. van Haersma de With, at
the Legation in Fifteenth Street.
The company numbered 18.
Last evening, the Ambassador
and Nine. de Lima and the
envoy of Spain and Sonora de
Cardenas were honor guests at
the dinner given by the Minis
ter-Counselor of the Spanish
Embassy and Sonora de Yrujo,
at their residence in Woodley
Road,
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Entertain at "Oaks"

The former United States
Ambassador to Argentina and
Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss
will entertain at dinner Monday
evening at 1.-THE Oaks" their
Georgetown residence, in honor
of the Ambassador of Brazil and
Nine. de Lima e Silva, and the
Ambassador of Spain and Sonora
de Cardenas.
Today, Mr.. and Mrs. Bliss
were hosts at luncheon when
their guests included the Ma
tional Committee for the Wash"
ington Cathedral.
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Nina Louis Ball and Miss Helen
Schoff of Philadelphia; Miss
Louise Scanlan, of this city, and
Mrs. Mary William Gerst, of
Louisville.
A reception at the Ashland
Country Club followed the we'd
ding. Later the bride and groom
left for New York, where on May
IL they will sail for Europe.
The Director of the Mint:
Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross, was
glimpsed buying sweets at a
downtown store yesterday wear
ing a light blue tweed suit, the
revers and skirt of gray and
blue plaid. She wore a becom.
ing straw hat of blue, trimmed
with ribbon bows at the back.
Senator and Mrs. Vanden-
burg, of Michigan, send their
car ahead and briskly walk
across the Taft Bridge these
sunshiny mornings. Today Mrs.
Vandenburg wore a lightweight
brown coat over a brown and
white print dress and a large
brimmed brown bankok hat.
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Dinner at RidgeIands

The Ambassador of Peru,
Senor Don Manuel de Freyre y
Santander, the retiring AmbaS-
sador of Brazil and Nine. de
Lima e Silva, the Minister of
Greece and Nine. Simopoulos,
and the Minister of Norway and
Nine. Bachke will be ranking
guests at a dinner to be given
this evening by Senator and
Mrs. Key Pittman, at Ridge
lands" their suburban home.
The Secretary of State and
Mrs. Cordell Hull will be guests
of honor at a reception to be
given this evening by the De-
partment of State at the
Chamber of Commerce Audito-
rum, which will be preceded
by a short musical program
to be given by the well-known
baritone, Reinald Werrenrath.
Dancing will be a feature OF
the evening.
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Dinner For Officers

The AMBASSADOR of Germany,
Herr Hans Luther, will enter
tain at dinner Monday evening,
at the Embassy in Massachu-
sets Avenue, in honor of the
commander and three of his
officers aboard the cruiser.
Karlsruhe" which is anchored
off Boston.
X X
Lieut.. Gen. Friedrich Won
Boetticher, Military Attache of
the German Embassy, enter
tained a small company at
luncheon yesterday at the
Carlton.
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Tor the Minister OF Norway and Nine.
Bachke, who are soon sailing for their
new post in Paris.
The first floor of the Embassy is
given over to small, less formal rooms,
with a card and recreation room at the
end of the long hallway which is COW
cred with rich red carpet. At the head
Of the circular stairway, the hostess re-
ceived the guests. She wore lovely
gown of flowered chiffon in shades of
blue and rose, with rather low neck in
back and long bell-shaped sleeves. Sc
nora de Urquiza, wife of the Counselor
of the Embassy, received with her, and
she was in a smart black and white
crepe gown, with a big black shiny
straw hat which had a white band.
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time to chat for several minutes. Nine Esp plays won
derul game of go and she had been for nine holes
yesterday morning How the wives Of the diplomats and
officials here find time for such hng-with all they have
to do besides-seems miraculous to me!
Finally, moved on reluctantly though into the dining
room spacious with lovely French blue draperies at
the windows held back to show pongee curtains. The
draperles matched the rug and particularly interesting
pantnga rural scene in shades Of blue and russell hung
the mantel
Spring Flowers on Tea Table
The buffet table, which had exquisite Vennese cloth
centered with tall silver filled with russetcoor gado
and white snapdragons Purple iris and tiny white flowers
filled another slender smaller table, and fruit
blossoms tucked larger bowls in various places
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The Minister of Hungary, Mr..
John Pelenyi, who has been in
Havana and Mexico City, where
he presented his, credentials as
Minister of Cuba and Mexico,
joined Nine. Pelenyi yesterday
at the Legation in Eighteenth
Street, after an absence of a
month.
The Minister and Nine. Pc
lenyi will leave washington the
latter part of the week to spend
a few days in New York.
Judge and Mrs. Clarence
Norton Goodwin will entertain
at luncheon on Saturday at
the Chevy Chase Club, later
taking their guests to the Ma
tional Capital Horse Show,
where they will share a box
with Mr.. and Mrs. w. Chat
field Taylor.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hurja
will be hosts at dinner this eve
ming, entertaining at their resi-
dence in Georgetown.
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Argentine Ambassador and Sonora
De Espi| Give Interesting
Partyfor Retiring Envoy.
q S@4 y ee"''~.

Yesterday the first time ia been to the Argentine EN-
bassy-that very mposngooking edce at the of
New Hampshire Avenue and Que Street. The Ambassador
Senior Dr. Felipe A. Esp, and his lovely young wife, the
former Miss Courtney Letts gave farewell cocktail party
The Washington times., 1934-05-08

Landlord and tenant-owner
and agent-assignment Of sealed
instruments.
Babb and Nolan VS.. Homer
Parker.
The owner Of property may by
parole authorize a rental agent to
lease property and by signing the
lease, thereby confirms the
agency, and the agent may sue
the tenant on behalf of the owner
upon parole instructions.
The defendant in the case,
Representative Homer Parker, OF
Georgia, was alleged to have va
Gated a house he had rented in
Atlanta, Ca, without obtaining a
cancellation of the lease.
The owner of the property,
Mrs. Laura Gavan. had author
lied the real estate firm Of Babh
and Nolan to lease her property
and the firm had negotiated the
lease with the defendant.
When the alleged default oc
Cured, the owner, according to
the record, simply directed the
agent firm to sue for recovery Of
the balance Of the rental due
under the lease, by parole instruc'
tionS,
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assigned by the employe by ef
feet Of the statute, but held tina
in any event, it could not effect
the liability Of the third party
The opinion reads in part:
THE COURTS OPINION
"By virtue Of the statute,
the acceptance Of compensation
by the emplOye effected an as
signmeht Of the employees right
of action against the wrong
dOer, a third party. Since the
statute apparently does not ef-
feet in any way the liability
Of the wrOngdOer, and the fact
that the employer becomes the
owner by assignment of the
employees right of action
against the third party, does
not otherwise effect the liza
bility of the third party.
"If the employer should re-
lease the wrOngdoer during
the lifetime of the employe, 1t
would seem that there would
be no right Of action under
the death by wrongful act
statute, but If not, I see no
reason why the executor should
not maintain action. The mo-
ton for judgment on the plead
ings will be Overruled."
Controlling authorities in the
plaintiffs brief were Schneider
on Workmen's Compensation
Law, second edition, volume 2
page 379: "A dependant'S claim
to compensation arises upon the
death of the workman, and is
independent of the claim to
compensation Of the workman
Seagal Speciality Company VS.
Snyder, ISL Md. 10: Solomon VS.
Degmon Construction Company
1874 N. Y. S. 737 and CrippS case,
ZIG Mass. $50.
Nathan Needle and Thomas
Sharkey appear for the plain
tiff and Frank F. Nesbit and
Charles Pledger for the de-
fendant.
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GIANT LIZARDS
FOR D. .C.zOO

Washington's National Zoologi,
cal Park will shortly have the dis
tinction of displaying for the first
time two giant dragon" lizards,
nine feet long and descendants Of
a prehistoric monster known as
tyrannosaurus rex.
This fact became known when
DR.. William M. Mann, director of
the Zoo, received word from. Van
couver, B. c., that four Of the
huge animals have arrived safely
from their original home in Ko-
modo, a Dutch East Indian island,
and that two will be dispatched
here.
The lizards were trapped in the
East Indies by Lawrence T. K.
Griswold, of Quincy, Mass, and
William H. Harkness, Of New
York.
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40 EXECUTIVES
FACE PAY QUIZ
BY International News Service

For failure to answer a ques.
tionnaire of the Federal Trade
Commission asking for the amount
of salaries and bonuses paid by the
Nations big industrial concerns,
40 executives of a like number of
firms may be called here to tell
why they failed to reveal their
salaries.
This developed today after the
Senate Banking Committee IA
vorably reported a resolution ap.
propiating $4,000 for the use of
the commission in acting against
the concerns failing to report sala-
ries.
just what steps will be taken by
the commission when the appro-
priation becomes available was not
made known, although there was
possibility of court action in
some of the cases.
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u. s. employees
HIT CRITICISM

Many protests have arisen
among Government employees re-
garding an article in the Literary
Digest, entitled "Civil Service
sharpens It's Teeth" and organi.
cations of Government workers
have replied to the article in COM
municationS to the editor.
Not in a long time has more
indignation been expressed at an
article of the kind than with re-
spect to this. Both Luther G.
Steward. president of the National
Federation of Federal Employees,
and E. Claude BabeQck, president
of the Americana Sderation Of
Government Employees, have re.
ported numerous complaints by
members of their organizations,
and both have sent the publica.
tion messages refuting alleged
misstatements in the article,
which is written under the name
of Fred Arnold.
A matter of general protest is
the assertion in the article that
Federal employees pay no income
tax. Mr.. Babcock's reply says
that a good many of them do not
receive enough money to be sub
ject to an income tax, but those
subject to it pay it. s.,
Mr.. Steward makes a vigorous
protest against the assertion in
the article that State employees
are generally under the merit
system, and says that in only II
States are employees under any
thing even approaching the merit
system.
AS for the income tax, he styles
that a plain miSstatement of fact.
He adds:
81 challenge Mr.. Arnold to
produce any evidence showing
there is an undOubted tendency
toward an alliance between
Civil Service emplOyes-Federal,
State and municipal-and party
politics for their mutual advan-
tage,' insofar as Federal en-
plOyeS are concerned"
Both groups admit that Gov
ernment employees lobby for bet
terment of their conditions, and
Mr.. Babcock points out that they
were opposed during the cam
paign that brought about the
Government salary cuts by a
lobby Of wealthy men said to have
had a 100000 fund for the pur-
pose.
The aim Of this campaign, he
said, was to protect the incomes
Of the men who backed it. # it
is all right to campaign for re-
duction Of Government salaries,
he said, Government employees
should certainly be permitted to
defend themselves.
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Municipal Court Reports

The trial revealed that Repre-.
sentative Parker had. for a while,
indicated his intention Of set
ting with the owner, but when
the suit was brought, defended
on ground that the oral assign.
ment of the lease to the rental
agent, should have been in writ
ing and that the authority Of the
rental agent to negotiate the
lease. not being in writing, was
invalid.
Another important questio o n
arose during the pleading of the
case-that of whether a lease is
required to be sealed inStru-
ment-but Judge Nathan decided
in favor of the plaintiff without
going into the question.
Authorities cited were Brandon
VS.. Pritchett, 126 Ga. 1856; Baskin
VS.. Thomas, 56 D. c. App. 80:
U. S. VS.. Dunn, 268 u. S. 121;
Penns Mutual VS.. Blount, 80 Ga.
App. 642; Wilson VS.. Watkins,
% Peters 43. Compare Duke VS..
oulpepper, u Ga. $40.
The plaintiffs case was pre-
Sented by Lunsford Hammer. A
motion for new trial has been
filed.
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Group Seeks Widening
Of KenilW0rth Road

The widening of Kenilworth
Road from Douglass Street to
the District line, or as far as
District owned land extends, was
urged in a resolution passed by
Kenilworth Citizens Association,
meeting last night in Kenilworth
School.
The association indorsed the
proposed 20 million dollar PWA
loan to the District, and urged
part of it be used for the con-
struction of a trunk line sewer
through Kenilworth and Dean
wood.
Col. w. L. Peak was indorsed
for appointment as Superintend-
ent of District penal institutions,
in a motion by Sam K. Murphy.
The Norton bill, providing for
election of District delegates to
national political conventions, was
referred to the committee on law
and legislation for report. In
dorsement was given the District
Commissioners cleanup cam.
paign.
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RACES PLANNED
BYHUNT CLUB

Senator R. P. Melvin will be
Judge of the races to be held by
the Southern Maryland Horse
Breeders Association at st. Mar
garet'S Hunt Club, off Log Inn
Road, Anne Arundel, on May 10.
Other finish judges are to be
Charles F. Lee and Philip Miller.
Events on the program include
the Brice Farm Purse for Glass
B, nonthoroughbreds, a half mile
race; the Maiden Plate for thor
ouehbreds, half mile; the CHINA
mon Handicap for nonthorough-
bredS, six furlongs, and the
Southern Maryland Stakes for
thoroughbredS, one mile.
Major c. I. Murray, of the Ma
rine Corps, will be starter, while
the race committe has C. Carroll
Lee as chairman. Entries may be
made until May II.
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ELGEN TELLS CITIZEN GROUP CAPITAL TRANSIT EARNINGS MOUNT
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lar car stop at Bureau Of Stand
ards. 1t was claimed cars are
stopped at points not designated
as stops, thereby endangertng
school children.
The Public Utilities Commission
will be requested to make changes
in the taxicab stand at Connecti-
cut Avenue and Albemarle
Streets, in order to provide park
ing space for customers visiting
stores.
Representative Mary T. Nor
tons bill providing for the cleo
ton of delegates to national po-
litical conventions from the Dis
trict was referred to the law
committee for investigation and
report at the June meeting.
A reception was rendered J. o.
johnson retiring president.
The following were elected Of
ficers for the ensuing year:
President, L. A. Carruthers;
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D. c. Supreme Court
Decision Report

Workmen's compensation law
liability Of third party-release
by employer-judgment on plead
ings-assignment.
Allnut vs.. Bituminous Products
Corporation.
The acceptance Of compensa.
ton by the employe effects an
assignment of the employees right
of action against the wrongdoer,
third party, but it does not
effect in any way the liability
Of the wrongdoer under the death
by wrongful act statute.
The principal question involved
in the case, which came before
Justice Jennings Bailey on a mo-
ton for judgment on the plead
ings, was whether a release
signed by an injured employe be-
fore his death generating the
third party, could bar the suit
of his executors under the death
by wrongful act statute.
Injured by Auto
Frederick C. Freeman, the de-
ceased, died as the alleged result
of injuries he had suffered nearly
a year previously while he was
employed by the Corson-Gruman
Company. His injuries were al
legedly inflicted by an automobile
owned by the Bituminous Pro
ducts Corporation and operated
by it's agent.
The deceased accepted COM
pensation under the Longshore-
mans act and signed a release
to the third party. After his
death, suit was brought under
the wrongful act statute and a
motion for judgment on the
pleadings was filed, after the re-
lease had been placed in the
record.
Justice Bailey, in delivering his
opinion, did not pass on the
question as to whether the re-
lease was properly signed by the
employer, to whom it had been
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SESSION
Of LAWYERS

The District Bar Association
will hold it's first general business
meeting of the administration
year tonight at the Mayflower
Hotel and the meeting is expected
to be a lively one.
Several committees are ready to
make reports to the general mem
bership, among them are the
publications committee which was
designated by President F. Regis
Noel to investigate the practi-
cability and desirability of the
association putting out its own
legal publication.
The committee, headed by C..
Chester Caywood, has reported
favorably on the proposition with
the exception of one member, who
filed a minority report. Discussion
will be interesting.
The legislative committee will
be on hand with some encouraging
news and the domestic relations
committee, backed by Justice Ad-
kins' decision in the Holt case and
the United States Supreme Court
decision in the Loughran case,
published in this paper yesterday,
will show constructive progress.
The Senate Judiciary Com
mittee has favorably reported a
bill allowing an. extra judge in the
District Court of Appeals. Intro
duction of the bill, according to
committee members, is to provide
a relief judge to permit Justice
Charles H. Robb to take a needed
rest until he reaches the retire
ment age.
Washington is literally deluged
with lawyers this week.
First came the International
Law Society with a meeting at the
Willard Hotel. They remained to
meet their friends in the Ameri-
can Judicature Society, which goes
into annual session Wednesday.
Both will be shaking hands with
the American Bar Association ex-
ecutice committee which is in the
city now to plan the annual con-
vention in Canada next month.
All of them will be hanging on
the magic words Of the American
Law Institute which will be in Ses.
sion at the end of the week.
Of course, it is a timely coinci-
dence that the Department of JUS
tice Building will be dedicated
while they are all here and many
Of the prominent ones will partici-
pate in the quiet ceremony.
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ling in the public library, adopted
resolutions opposing the placing of
the Board of Public Welfare under
the jurisdiction of the District
Commissioners, and urged that no
change be made until after an
investigation now being conducted
is completed.
The association opposed placing
ban on all-night parking.
Resolutions we're adopted re-
questing the Board of Education
to erect high school on District
owned ground in Takoma Park.
George E. Sullivan, Jesse E. Suter,