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Evening star., 1934-05-04
USKASKS RAISING
OF FEDERAL SHARE
Seeks D. C. Supply Bill Be.
ing Brought Up to
SIS, 100000.

A request that appropriation items
in the 1885 District supply bill be
held down to the figures in the House,
but that the Federal share be restored
at least to the present level of S.
10000, will be made to the Senate
subcommittee, holding hearings on
the measure today, by Rufus S. Lusk,
secretary of the Washington Tax
payers Protective Association.
While more than a score of spokes-
men for civic groups in all parts of
the city have asked the Senate to
make provision for items that were
turned down either by the Budget Bu-
reau or the House. Lusk is believed
to be the only witness thus far in
general opposition to raising the ap-
preparation above the House total.
Less Than Recommendation.
As passed by the House, the bill
totals $32 $50, 900, which is less than
the Budget Bureau recommended,
and with a Federal contribution of
only $4,364, ,295, instead of the budget
figure of s5,700,000.
Lusk said his organization is asking
the Senate not to increase appropria-
ton allowances generally in order
that District taxes may be reduced
next year. In support of his argu-
ment. Lusk prepared tables to show
increases in per capita expenditures
for education, health, public welfare
and other principal activities over a
period of more than 80 years.
Per Capita Tax Shown.
He also had chart showing in
creases in the per capita tax pay
mentS.
A large number of witnesses have
appealed to the Senate subcommittee
for additional items for public schools,
Fairgrounds, bridges and for various
public health activities, such as ade-
quate provision for the treatment and
prevention of tuberculosis.
Henry I. Quinn, a member of the
Board Of Education, will urge the sub
committee today to raise the COM
munity center item and also to make
some provision for the establishment
of boys clubs in school buildings.
A seven-room addition to the Roose-
welt High School was urged by a
delegation from the parent-teacher
association of that school. They said
the school already has 1,750 pupils
and was intended to accommodate
l,500.
The group was composed Of Mrs.
Charles H. Bair, president of the
association; Mrs. B. G. McIlwee of
the Legislative Committee and Horace
j. Phelps of the Petworth Citizens
Association. Phelps also asked for
inclusion Of a small item to draw
plans for proposed Petworth branch
public library, pointing out that Pet
worth is next in line for a branch
Evening star., 1934-05-04

building in the library program after
Georgetown.
Funds for a Georgetown branch
library are already in the House bill,
and a committee headed ny Dorsey
w. Hyde, jr., will appear before the
Senate subcommittee to stress the
importance of keeping this item in
the bill Hyde represents the Cham
Der of Commerce and the Georgtown
Library Association.
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter and Mrs.
Belle Cutler Parker, representing the
Grant School PIT. A, will ask for
an appropriation to begin a new
school center for the West End Sec
ton of the city, to consist of a new
elementary school with junior high
unit. They pointed out the Grant
School is over so years old and that
children In that neighborhood have
to go 2 miles to a junior high. e~
DR.. George L. johnson Of the
Southwest Civic Association, will ask
the Senate subcommittee to allow
$4,000 for purchase of new fire ap-
paratus. DR.. johnson said the two
engine companies In the Southwest
section have old and slow apparatus.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Prettyman Tells Subcom-
mittee Residents Want
Protection.
RECOMMENDS SEVERAL
MINOR CHANGES IN BILL
Would Put Responsibility Upon
Owner Rather Than Driver
of Car.

Early enactment of legislation to
require operators of taxicabs and
other public vehicles to carry La
bility insurance was urged today by
Corporation Counsel E. Barrett Pret-
lyman at hearing before a subcom-
I fnittee on streets, avenues and traffic
of the House District Committee.
The subcommittee had under con-
sideration the Norton bill directing
the Public Utilities Commission to
require operators of public vehicles to
file bond or liability insurance poll
icy in the amount it may stipulate.
Prettyman declared the Commits
sioners and residents of the District
want this legislation as a protection
against careless and reckless taxicab
drivers.
Several minor changes in the bill
were recommended by Prettyman and
these were Endorsed by Dorsey w.
Hyde. secretary of the Washington
! Chamber of Commerce. The princi-
pal change would place the respon-
sibility on the owner instead of the
driver of the vehicle.
Ringgold Hart, representing the
Independent Taxi Owners Associa-
tion, Joined Harry C. Davis, president
of this organization, in urging a series
Of amendments to the bill. One
would authorize an individual or cor
poration operating a feet of cabs to
create a sinking fund and file with
the Utilities Commission a blanket
bond of $4,000 in lieu Of an indi-
UidI1oI TNO1irrr FOv-
Hart declared the insurance rate
for taxicab liability would amount to
81 day and that this rate would
constitute a hardship on owners Of
cabs. Under this arrangement, he
pointed out. taxi owners would be
working primarily for the insurance
companies.
Hart's proposed blanket bond amend
ment was vigorously opposed by Al
bert w. Jacobs, representing the City
Cab Corporation
He declared insurance rates are
fixed on the accident hazard and
that the careful driver could get q
low rate of insurance He also said
the proposed amendment would dis
criminate against the owner of q
7, small number of cabs.
THE effect of liability insurance
in Baltimore" Jacobs said, "has re-
suited in the elimination of irrespon-
sible and careless drivers because in
surance companies will not write a
policy for that type of driver"
Leon Brill, jr., of the Brill Cab Co.,
indorSed Harris proposed amendment
| and said the reason Jacobs objected
to it is due to the fact that the
company he represents has gone into
the insurance business in Baltimore
and is ready to operate in Washing
ton. He said he believed the COM
pany had found it could make more
money by selling taxicab liability in
surance than by operating taxicabS.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
PRISONER Identified
Id. c. BANK H0LD.UPS

Frank Walker, "a, wanted as an al
legged participant in two bank hold
ups here, is under arrest in Jersey
City, N. J.. the Associated Press re-
ported today.
Walker, also well known as Henry
Libby, Harry Watson, Harry Sloan and
Harry Slattery, was arrested yesterday
as a suspicious character. Later he
was identified as the man wanted
here, and Inspector Frank S. w
Burke, chief of detectives, was noti-
fled. Burke sent Detective Sergt
Frank o. Brass to Jersey City to in
stitute extradition proceedings against
Walker.
The prisoner, Burke said, is wanted
in. connection with the $4,000 hold
up of the Woodridge-Langdon Saving,
g. Commercial Bank in September
1882, and the unsuccessful hold-up OF
the Connecticut avenue branch of the
Washington Mechanics Savings Bank
in October. 1892.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
THE Burroughs Citizens Associa-
ton believes an appropriation
of $4,000 now included in
l. the District appropriation bill

TINE Burroughs Citizens Associa-
tion believes an appropriation
of $130,000 now included in
l. the District appropriation bill
should be used to construct
bridge to protect school children from
crossing six railroad tracks instead of
''one to give better access to gam
bling house in nearby Maryland"
At its meeting last night the asso-
citation protested against the hazard
Gus crossing of the Baltimore g. Ohio
Railroad tracks by school children 60
ing to and from the Crosby Noyes
School, which is necessary to save a
mile walk around the
track section. The six pairs of tracks
crossed by the children lie in direct
line with Franklin street northeast, in
wooded gully between Seventh and
Ninth streets.
The bridge that would be replaced
under provisions of the District bill
now before Senate Committee would
serve chiefly to improve access to a
gambling house located approximately
100 yards away, Wilbur S. Finch
Clld1 SCu, LII PlOpNbclllS IildI q AC-di4ONd-
ton of the bridge fund be made.
The bridge he objected to is located
at the intersection of Eastern avenue
and Elm street northeast and is one of
Two routes used by persons seeking to
cross from Rhode Island avenue to
Bladensburg road. The other Is by
Eldridge avenue and Barney street.
The Eastern avenue croSs-cut runs
through a section that has few homes
The bridge is located about a fourth
of a mile from Rhode Island avenue,
not more than 200 yards from Bladens-
burg road, and has two-ton capacity
The association adopted Mr.. F1nch's
proposal
A survey of the concerned area
shows children living west of Seventh
street who attend the Crosby Noyes
School must walk in an opposite di-
rection to Fourth street northeast,
then go down Fourth street to Rhode
Island avenue and proceed east on
that avenue to Tenth street, then turn
northward several additional blocks to
Franklin street A bridge across the
tracks would save a full mile in dis
tance.
A beaten path made by the school
children crossing the tracks to and
from the school is clearly discernible
and on one side is dirt bank Of more
than feet.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
LOrtOn Prisoner
Who Escaped to
Be "Segregated''
Capturers Told He Fled
Hospital to Join
Other Escapes.

Bernard Layton Downey, who "just
walked away" from the Lorton Re-
formatory honor system, was headed
today for a period of segregation" at
the District prison and temporary ex-
clusion from the privileges accorded
well behaved convicts there.
Captured yesterday within So hours
after he had slipped out side door
at Gallinger Hospital, where he had
been brought for treatment. Downey
will be put in the Lorton equivalent
of solitary confinement-called seq
regation" by prison officials-and
then placed under close supervision
to make certain he does not repeat
his escape.
The prisoner, serving IL years for
his part in hold-ups of the Tolman
Laundry and the Plaza Hotel here,
was caught yesterday in a house on
the outskirts of the District after
Detective Sergt. Frank M. Allfgood
received information he was hiding
there Alligood. with Detectives
Joseph Sincavitz, G. A. Schreyer and
J. J. Tolson, went to the residence
and discovered Downey, dressed in a
new suit, hiding under a bed in an
upstairs room. He was unarmed. He
explained his flight was begun with
the intention of Joining other es-
capped prisoners"
Evening star., 1934-05-04

of his calculations the numbers and
density of observable nebulae in Sc
lected portions of the sky. For the
first time" he says. "the region OBJ
servable with existing telescopes may
possibly be fair sample of the uni
verse as a whole" At present about
100000 of these island universes have
been identified on the photographs Of
the Mount Wilson Observatory alone
and many others are reported from
other observatories.
X y y \
River Of Darkness
Coiling the Heavens.
A great river of darkness, which
seems to coil around the heavens, is
the most striking feature Of Dr.. Hub
ble's new map of creation, based upon
the latest studies of the Carnegie In
stitution astronomers.
He calls it the zone Of avoidance" /"
1t is belt in the heavens where none
of the island universes appear. Hubble
describes it as continuous irregular
belt along the Milky Way with two
small and significantly located ex-
terror patches. The general pattern
follows the distribution of known OBJ
scuring clouds. The irregularity Is
strong evidence that the obscuration
is due largely to isolated clouds rather
than to a uniform layer Of diffuse
material"
This belt Of darkness has assumed
great importance in recent astronomi-
cal explorations. Consideration Of its
existence has resulted in greatly re-
ducing the dimensions of the Milky
Way galaxy itself. Presumably it is
composed of great, thinly diffused
masses of star dust" Light Of the
Evening star., 1934-05-04
STEAM AND ELECTRIC TRAINS
TO COMPETE FOR SPEED RECORD

electric engine, however. the p. W. A.
has advanced a 100000 loan.
This is the second allotment for
high-speed train construction, the first
having been made to the New Haven
for a four-car articulated train to
operate between Boston and Provi-
dence.
Each of the Baltimore & Ohio's
trains will be made up of six cars and
locomotive. four cars being held in
reserve. Both engines viii be capable
Of speed from 90 to 100 miles per
hour.
The trains will be put into opera
ton for preliminary runs on some
other division Of the system at first, 1t
was believed, and then be placed
eventually on the route between
Washington and Jersey City. the Bal
timore & Ohio's New York terminus.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
WO0DRING APPOINTS
MCFARLAND TO BE AIDE
Will Become Executive officer
After July Now on Duty
at War College.

Assistant Secretary of War Wood
ring today announced the appoint
ment of Lieut.. Col Earl Mcfarland,
Ordnance Department, to be the Ex-
ecutive Officer in his office. He will
undertake his new duties soon after
July l. He is now on duty at the
War College.
1t will be Col. McFarlands second
tour of duty i'll the Office of the
Assistant Secretary of War. Col.
James E. Grain. who now occupies the
position of Executive Officer. has COM
pleted his four-year tour of duty in
Washington.
Col. Mcfarland, who graduated
from West Point in 1906, has had
service in the Philippines. in France
and in many posts in the United
States. He was awarded the Dis
tinguished Service Medal for his war
service in developing and producing
machine guns.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
.W|LMOT GUILTY
IN ASSAULT CASE
Lieutenant of Capitol Police
Convicted of Attacking
George L. Smith.

Alfred o. Wilmot, r., 27-year-old
lieutenant of Capitol police, was
found guilty in Police Court today
on a charge of assaulting George L.
Smith, "a. son Of Mrs. Elsie Jardine.
who had previously unsuccessfully
pressed similar charges against the
officer.
Wilmot, who allegedly beat the
youth at First and c streets north
east early on the morning of March
18, faces a maximum sentence of a
year in Jail. $500 fine, or both.
In finding Lieut.. Wilmot guilty,
Judge Ralph Given declared
THE court cannot get away from
the fact that two men who were total
strangers to Smith testified Wilmot
accosted them on the street and
threatened to punch their noses be-
fore the police officer became involved
with Smith"
Lieut. Wilmot testified that he saw
Smith emerging from an archway Of
the Senate Office Building in a mys-
terious manner and sought to place
him under arrest. From testimony
offered here, the court is convinced
that Lieut.. Wilmot was intoxicated at
the time and that the offense for
which he was arresting Smith was
purely imaginary, existing only In the
officers mind"
The court held that no justification
could be found in the evidence for
the fact that Lieut.. Wilmot had laid
his hands on Smith. Judge Given
withheld imposing sentence for four
days after Defense Counsel M. M.
Doyle indicated he would file an
appeal.
Lieut.. Wilmot was acquitted in
Police Court by Judge Isaac r. Hit
last month on a charge of assaulting
Smiths mother, who ran to her sons
assistance from their home, 119 c
street northeast.
In summing up the Governments
case, Assistant United States Attor-
ney Louis Whitestone declared that
at least eight disinterested witnesses
had testified that Lieut.. Wilmot was
obviously drunk, abusive and unnec-
eSsarily rough in his treatment Of
Smith.
The two men who told the court
that Wilmot had threatened to punch
their noses" testified that Smith was
standing on the corner, waiting for
street car, and had not been near
the Senate Office Building archway
Lieut.. Wilmot took the stand in his
own behalf and admitted he had had
two drinks of punch" but denied
that he was drunk. He declared he
saw Smith emerge from an archway
in the Senate Building in "skulking
manner" and sought to place him un-
der arrest with the idea of question
ing Smith at the officers Office IN the
Senate building. Wilmot declared
that when Smiths mother interceded
scuffle ensued, after which he or
dered her also to go to his Office. Sev-
eral witnesses testified that Lieut..
wilmot had threatened to shoot both
Smith and his mother If they did not
obey his orders
Evening star., 1934-05-04

Aided by a 100000 P. W. A. loan,
the Baltimore g. Ohio Railroad Is
preparing to put into competition on
its own lines the latest types OF
stream-line, high-speed steam and
Diesel electric trains.
While there is no official conf1rma-
tion, p. w. A. officials said today they
believed two trains eventually will op-
crate between Washington and New
York City. The tests, it was believed.
will decide the superiority Of steam
and electric trains.
The stream-lined steam train will
be the first of its kind in this coun-
try. The Baltimore g. Ohio is rebuild
ing the locomotive In its own shops,
with its own money. For the Diesel
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Milky Way Believed to BE One
Of Is, 900, 900 Island Uniperses
GALAXY of Which Earth Forms a Part
Consists of $4,000, 100000 Celestial
Objects, Carnegie Scientist Holds.

stars beyond it is dinnmed in passing
through it, with the result that it
seems to be coming from objects a
much greater distance away than they
actually are For distant celestial OBJ
jects luminosity is considered a meas
ure of distance.
The distance of some of the celestial
objects described by Dr. Hubble Is so
enormous that the imagination is ap-
palled before it. One of them is cal
culated as approximately 10000 ,0O0,-
600 900 ,000,0 900 miles away-about at
the limits of perception with present
apparatus. 1t is rotating at the rate
of $50 kilometers a second. Its mass
Is estimated as about three billion
times that of the sun.
Compared with this is one of the
earliest discovered, celebrated in as
tronomy as Messier 33. DR.. Hubble's
revised estimate Of its mass is about
90 million times the mass of the sun.
1t is a comparatively little thing
among the island universes.
X X X y
From the Very Great
To the Very Small.
From the infinitely great the cal
culations of the Carnegie astronomer
shift to the infinitely little.
With tentative mapping Of the
distribution and numbers of star sys-
TENS in creation it becomes possible
to estimate the density of matter in
space. Creation for all its vastness
appears an extremely tenuous thing
for the calculation turns out as about
forty-thousandth of an octrillion
of gram per cubic centimeter, which
is about as close as one could get to
nothing at all.
The stars and the systems of stars
are little more than dust specks in, a
vacuum.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
PEAK is INDORSED

Col. w. L. Peak, superintendent of
Lorton Reformatory, was indorsed to-
day by the Costello Post, American
Legion, as successor to Capt. M. M.
Barnard as head of the Districts
penal institutions.
The Endorsement was contained in
a letter sent by the Legion post to
Chairman Norton of the House Dis
trict Committee.
Capt. Barnard is expected to be re-
tired soon.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
ACCIDENT INJURIES
FATAL TO WOMAN
Driver of Automobile in Wreck
Held for Action of Cor
oner's Jury.

Mrs. Ethel Linden, IS, of 636 Park
road. died yesterday afternoon at
Emergency Hospital of injuries re-
ceived three weeks ago when knocked
down by an automobile driven by W.
Clifford Hoag, "a, of Quaker Hill, N
Y, at the intersection Of Thirteenth
and Monroe streets.
Hoag was held for the action of q
coroner's jury.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
W|NCHESTERFETE
HELD DESP|TER RAIN
Queen Shenandoah and Her
Court Witness Great
Pageant.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpaJcn TO Inc otar.
WINCHESTER, Va, May 4.-Re-
gardless of menacing clouds that
gathered again during the night,
bringing other drizzling showers, after
skys had cleared late yesterday,
crowds poured into Winchester during
forenoon hours for the last days pro-
gram of the eleventh annual Shenan-
doah Apple Blossom Festival.
j. Pinckney Arthur, director general,
and other organization officials, at a
hurriedly called meeting, decided the
big days program should go ahead in
| spite of dripping skies. Mrs. John Hay
Whitney, crowned Queen Shenan-
doah" yesterday afternoon, expressed
ner willingness to cooperate fully with
| RAIN.
Police authorities estimated late
| forenoon crowds at 10000. Half a
dozen main highways converging at
Winchester were crowded with motor
cars on their way to the Apple Capt.
tal," while streets were thronged with
crowds in festive mood.
Children FinaIlr Parade.
Three thousand Frederick County
school children, who went home last
night after their parade had been
called off on account of steady driz-
zle, were on hand bright and early
today. and were cheered and applaud
ed by sidewalk thousands for their
pluck and perseverance.
With bands playing, the children
held their parade shortly after 10
O'Clock. 1t was the first big event of
the day, and it went off with military
precision. Girls wore costumes of fes-
tival colors of pink, green and white.
Boys were garbed to represent many
phases of apple growing and mar
keting. Home economic girls demon
| strated apple pie baking. while future
farmers of America boys staged a pie
eating contest. Numbers of schools
entered artistic floats.
Troop E, Sd United State Cavalry
Fort Myer, Va, Capt. L. K. Truscot:
commanding. led the procession
| through streets gayly decorated with
American flags and festival colors.
The parade was two miles in length
1000 Stage Pageant.
An hour later 1000 Winchester
school children staged their pageant,
THE Spirit of the Year" 1t was
witnessed by the queen and her court
in addition to many thousands who
swarmed over the Handley High
School campus. The pageant, directed
by Miss Virginia Hunter Boyd, de-
picted high lights IN Shenandoah
Valleys history and development
from earliest days. Participants wore
! costumes of bright and vivid colors
forming q spectacular picture with
the great school building and grassy
hillsides as background. The Hand
| ley Cadet Band, w. H. McIlwee, di-
rector, played the musical score.
The feature parade of the celebra-
ton, THE Trail of the Pink Petals, u
| estimated to be four miles long, and
led by Queen Shenandoah" was
| scheduled to move at pm. DR.
Lewis M. Allen. chief marshal, and
Jack r. Engle, parade director, or
| dered all organizations to be ready to
march at that hour.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

There are about 75,000,000 island
universes.
The system of stars of which the
solar system is a part-about 30.000,-
900, 900 celestial objects in all con-
stituting the Milky Way galaxy-is
Just one of them.
Each of the others is roughly Of
the same order of magnitude, the
general average being about the equiv
alent of six billion times the mass
of the sun.
This is the general picture pre-
sented by DR.. Edwin Hubble of the
Evening star., 1934-05-04

The Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Association has also adopted reso-
luton asking the placing Of bridge
at this junction to insure the safety
of the children.
In order to reach the school over
this wooded. gully track, child would
Evening star., 1934-05-04

eN
ton of Washing
ton. whose work
more than a dec
ade ago was
largely respons-
ible for estab-
fishing the ma
ture Of the gray
cloudlike patches
in the distant
heavens as inde-
pendent star sys-
TENS.
DR.. Hubble ar
rives at his lat
est estimate by
using as q basis
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Gen. Gilchrist to Speak.

Maj. Gen. Harry L. Gilchrist, U. S.
A., will speak on Common Miscon-
ceptions Concerning Chemical War;
fare" at a meeting of regular, retired
and reserve officers Of the Navy Med
ical Department, Monday at 8 pm. at
the United States Naval Medical
School, Twenty third and E streets.
Evening star., 1934-05-04
Mrs. E. M. Preston Dies.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mcdonald Preston,
widow of the late r. F. Preston, died
at her home in Preston estates, near
Bristol, Va, last night. She was q
first cousin of the late ex-Gov. Henry
@. Stuart of Virginia and a relative
of Judge ]. E. Price of Washington.
Evening star., 1934-05-04

enth street, proceed down stony hill
past a granite finishing plant, then
cross the six pair of railroad tracks
and proceed up the dirt embankment
and over another so yards of unlev-
eled, wooded ground, to a surfaced
but unpaved street The school is
but a short block from this point.