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Evening star., 1934-11-21
TWO NEW TRAFFIC
PROGRAMS READY
Interstate Truck Route
Through City and Added
Lights Planned.

Two new programs. one embracing
the establishment of an interstate
truck route through the city and the
other the installation of numerous new
traffic lights, some of them on an en-
tirely new basis. were announced to-
day by William A. Van Duzer, director
of traffic.
The truck route Is being established
as a result of complaints from resi-
dents on Maryland avenue northeast
that the heavy vehicles make so much
noise during the early morning hours
they are unable to sleep. 1t will follow
the already established bypass for
United States Routes l and 2.
Route for Trucks.
Trucks entering the city by way of
Bladensburg road northeast will be
routed over New York avenue to Third
street, south on Third to Maryland
avenue and west on Maryland avenue
to Fourteenth street, where they will
go south across the Highway Bridge.
While officials admit there is no law
by which such a route can be estab-
lished, they believe direction signs,
which are being erected today, will be
generally observed.
The most important Of the new
traffic lights being installed is one at
Fifteenth and H streets northeast. 1t
will have an automatic control, vary
ing with the days of the week and
the flow of traffic, and is to be placed
in service Immediately.
This new light will operate differ
emily than the installation at Massa-
chusetts and Wisconsin avenues, which
is regulated by the flow of traffic
through an electrical detector buried
in the street. Instead of an electri-
cal detector. the new light will be
controlled by a mechanical timer
which will change the timing on the
lights at different periods of the day
and on different days of the week to
meet varying changes in the traffic
flow.
The timing has been fixed in ac-
cordance with the results of recent
traffic counts at different periods of
the day.
Traffic officials said the new light
"will do what a good traffic officer is
supposed to do in regulating the flow
of traffic"
New lights also will be placed in
operation at Eleventh and streets on
Friday morning and Eleventh street
and Pennsylvania avenue on Saturday
morning.
Double Red Light.
A light to be established at Seven
teenth and H streets will have as new
feature a double red light, one of
which will control street cars making
right turns If such a light is sue
cessful at that point another of like
nature will be placed at Pennsylvania
avenue and Fifteenth street.
Other lights to be installed are at
Thirteenth and Euclid streets, Con-
necticut avenue and @ and R streets,
a traffic button-control light at the
Peace Monument and another button
control light at Wisconsin avenue and
Albemarle street. If there are sufi-
cient funds remaining lights also will
be installed at Connecticut and Ne
braska avenues.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
16.7OOCarO,Uners
Face Delinquency
lnObtainingTags
Incorrect Address and
Unanswered Warrant
Cases Dra,U Warning.

Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer announced today there are ap-
proximately 16,700 automobile owners
who have not yet received application
blanks for tags for the coming year.
These, he said, either are persons whose
blanks were returned because of in
correct addresses or against whom
warrants have been issued for viola
tionS.
Since all application blanks have
been mailed to those entitled to re-
ceive them, Van DuZer issued a warm
ing that those who have not received
blanks are in danger of failing to get
1885 tags unless they appear imme-
diately at the Office of the director of
traffic in the Ford Building at 451
PENNSYLVANIA avenue.
OF the original 1000 persons against
whom warrants were outstanding
when the first application blanks were
mailed out. approximately 800 have
appeared and put up the necessary
collateral to obtain release of their
blanks. approximately $4,000 applica-
tions are awaiting correct addresses.
Issuance of tags through window
service at the directors headquarters
will begin Monday morning Tags
may be used after December Is.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
YACHT FIRE BURNS
FATAL FOR WOMAN
Miss Ethel Weakly Succumbs as
Result of Labor Day Boat
Tragedy.

Miss Ethel Weakly, 81, of the Am
bassador Apartments, who was criti-
cally burned Labor day when a gaso-
line stove apparently exploded in the
galley of 50-foot yacht aboard which
she was guest. died early today in
Georgetown Hospital.
Also aboard the yacht at the time
of the explosion were Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Martin, 2022 Sixteenth street.
and Hugh Smith, local attorney and
owner of the $4,000 boat, which
burned to the waters edge.
Mrs. Martin and Miss Weakly were
in the galley at the time of the blast.
They ran through a wall of flames to
the deck where the men pushed both
in the Potomac to extinguish their
flaming clothing and escape the
spreading fire.
They were rescued by the Coast
Guard cutter Fox and taken to Alex
andria General Hospital.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
FOOD PRICES RISE
HERE DESPITE DROP
i'm REST OF NATION
Gain of Seven-Tenths of |
Per Cent Puts Washington
in Leading Six.
FALL RECORDED IN 27
IN TWO-WEEK PERIOD
National Survey Shows Increases
in Butter and Eggs-Meat
Registers Decline.

While retail food prices declined
one-tenth of per cent for the coun-
try as whole, Washington prices
recorded an advance of seven-tentts
of l per cent in the two-week period
ended November 6, according to DR..
Isadore Lubin of the Bureau of Labo-
Statistics
Only five cities in the 81 on which
the bureau bases its reports recorded
larger advances than the Capital. Thc
change in New Orleans was identical
with that in Washington. and onlv
Manchester, N. H: Portland, Me:
Portland, Greg; Los Angeles and San
Francisco had greater increases.
In the South Atlantic area, only one
other -Charleston-had an ad-
vance and that was one-tenth of l
per cent less than Washington. In
Baltimore. prices declined eight-tenths
of l per cent: in Norfolk there was no
change and in Richmond there was
decline of one-tenth of l per cent.
Decline in q Cities.
In the country at large, prices de-
clined in q cities; in l9 the prices
increased and in 5 there was no
change.
OF the AZ food items covered by the
report, Is of them advanced, l6 de-
creased in price and IL remained IN
changed.
Eggs led the way among foods goirG
to a higher level The advance fc.
the two weeks was As points, a sea-
sonal change. The largest declineg
were in the meat classifications, only
plate beef advancing as nine other
varieties dropped; sliced bacon, chuck
roast. sliced ham, hens. leg of lamb.
pork chops. rib roast, round steak AMI
sirloin steak.
Butter Also Rises.
In addition to eggs. advances Wcr1
made by cornmeal. rice. rolled oats
butter. cheese, fresh milk, pruncs.
onions. canned corn. canned tomatoes
tea. oleomargarine and vegetable lard
substitutes.
Declines, in addition to the meats
we're made by bananas. oranges, cab
bage, navy beans, white potatoes, coffee
and pure lard.
No changes at all were recorded foy
white bread, cornf1akes. wheat -four
macaroni wheat cereal. evaporste1
milk, raisins. canned peas, canned
pork and beans, sugar and canned rel
salmon.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
CHINA'S ENVOY TO SPEAK

Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Minister of
China and a graduate Of Cornell Uni
versity, will be the principal speaker
1T the luncheon meeting of the Cor
nell Club of Washington tomorrow.
Edward Holmes, president of the club,
will preside.
After a second address by Manton
NJ Wyvell there will be a group dis
cussion of arrangements for Cornell
alumni to attend the Cornell-Penn-
sylvania foot ball game in Philadel-
phia on Thanksgiving day.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
Both Pedestrians and Driuers
Blamed for ia Toll This Year
Analyses of Cases Charge Carelessness
and Lasiness to Former, OuercOnfi.
dence and Recklessness to Latter.

Of the year occurred on Connecticut
avenue when a street car and a coal
truck collided The motorman was
knocked unconscious. damaging the
brakes and air line so that the car
ran wild. One man was killed in
this accident and several passengers
who became frightened and jumped
from the car were injured. The truck
driver and the motorman were held
for grand jury action.
Traffic Director Van Duzer insists
many of these accidents are avoid
able. especially those in which pedes-
trians are involved. A recent scien-
tific study of accident cases, he points
out, showed pedestrians who cross in
the middle of a block have IS more
chances of being struck than those
who cross at an intersection.
Van Duzer points out. too, that the
speed of vehicle often is the differ
ence between an injury and a death.
A car operating at the legal limit.
he declared, might be able to stop in
time to prevent a fatality. whereas
the speeding car cannot.
Both Take Chances,
Determined efforts have been made
in recent years. Van Duzer said, to
educate both the pedestrian and the
driver, to observe the traffic regula-
tions for their own safety. but yet,
both classes will take chances.
One of the worst menaces on the
street, he declared, is the overconfi-
dent driver-the operator who con-
siders himself an expert But sta
tistics prove, he said, that in many
cases the reaction of this self-styled
expert is too slow to avoid an accident.
But pedestrians. for their own
safety, Van Duzer declared, must
cross at street intersections, where
drivers have learned to expect pedes-
trians. 1t may take a little more
time, he said. "but pedestrians can
not do as the farmer does, and take
the shortest cut to the barn" More
over. he explained. at no intersection
controlled by traffic lights will a
pedestrian be delayed longer than 80
seconds.
Death stalks across the street with
every pedestrian who takes a short
cut" he said. land so does death ride
with every reckless or careless driver"
Evening star., 1934-11-21
M|SUNASASSURED
TRIAL PROTECTION
Tri.State Gang Witness to
Get Heavy Guard to
Testify Here.

Police machine guns and secrecy
will shield Arthur (Dutch) Misunas
from possible underworld vengeance
when the confessed gunman is
brought here from Richmond within
10 days to testify against two alleged
members of the tri-State gang sched-
uled for trial on robbery charges in
District Supreme Court.
The district attorneys Office has
requested the Police Department to
arrange an adequate guard for
Misunas, whose States evidence re-
suited in death sentences at Rich
mond for Robert Mais and Walter
Legenza, the tri-State gangsters who
shot their way out of the Richmond
City Jail September 20.
Trial Set Next Week.
Some time next week. possibly Mon
day. John (Slim> Dunn and Sam
Berlin will 60 on trial on charges of
participation in the hold-up Of the
Heurich Brewery during october,
1888. Misunas has freely admitted
his part in the robbery. even going
to the brewery under police guard last
August to talk the case over with
the hold-up victims.
Misunas Is still awaiting sentence
at Richmond on his guilty plea in the
murder of a Federal Reserve Bank
truck guard, for which Mais and
Legenza were doomed to die. The
latter pair fatally injured one guard
and wounded two others when they
broke Jail last September
Misunas was arrested in San Fran
cisco in August, through the efforts
of the local Detective Bureau He
tried to commit suicide while being
returned to Washington by slashing
his wrist with a safety razor blade
Since that time he has talked freely
Of the career of the tri-State gang.
Escaped Pair Desperate.
Mais and Legenza are known to bt
desperate, and local police will take
no chances by exposing the man who
placed them in the shadow of the
electric chair to possible reprisals.
Of1cials of the Detective Bureau to.
day declined to say when or how
Misunas would be brought to Wash.
ington. His movements will be sur.
rounded by the greatest secrecy anc
a crew of picked men will guard him
at all times, armed for any emer.
gency.
Dunn has been held at the District
Jail for the last few weeks. and Ber.
lin is at liberty on bail. The pair alsc
are under indictment in the hold-ur
of Union Station mail truck guarc
last December. in which the guarc
was shot.
Misunas attributes this lob" Il
the tri-State gang. police say.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
BANK CASES REMAIN
FOR O'CONNOR ACTION
Controller Denies on Return From
New York That He Has
Resigned Post.

Controller Of the Currency ]. F. T..
O'Connor today had on his desk only
IL bank cases remaining out of the
,410 unlicensed banks at the close
of the bank holiday. On his return
yesterday from New York O'Connor
denied he had resigned
Having directed distribution to de-
positors since March, 1888, $3.50, ST.
470. there still remain only the IL
cases having deposits of s12,239, 900.
Banks reorganized under old or new
charters or absorbed by another ma
tional bank number 1,079, with de-
posits of $l,795,054,000, while 297
banks with deposits of S153 1886, 900
were placed in receivership, plans for
reopening having been disapproved.
From these receivership banks $43..
118,361 has been returned to deposit
tors
Evening star., 1934-11-21
BY the Associated Press.


The new White House china set
is going to cost the Government ex-
actly ss,3O120.
That's the contract price, con-
lectures that it might cost $4,000
Notwithstanding.
It's to be a 1,000-piece set, which
makes each dish cost little more
than 50. Rumors ran as high as $50
a plate for the largest ones.
The china purchase caused some
other rumors that brought correction
today. One was that the President
was going to use the Roosevelt crest
on the china.
It won't be the Roosevelt crest,
but the Presidents crest, which be-
longs to any one who chances to
hold the Office.
If the President had put Roose-
welt insignia on the china, he would
not have been without precedent.
History records that "as a matter of
record and to guard against theft,
the words Harrison, 1892 were
stamped on the reverse side Of each
Evening star., 1934-11-21
MOTHER MAY GO FREE,
State Urges Charges Against Mrs.
Mais Be Dropped.

ny Inc ASSOClateQ PreSs.
RICHMOND, Va. November 2l.-
Commemorative Attorney T. Gray
Haddon today requested the court to
nolle PROSE- murder charges against
Mrs. Elizabeth Mais, held as an ac-
cessory in the escape of Robert Mais
and Walter Legenza from the City
Jail as custer proceedings against City
Sergt. John G. Saunders were re-
sumed before Judge Don p. Halsey.
Haddon said investigation indicated
there was not sufficient evidence for
conviction.
Mrs. Mais was accused of having
taken to the Jail baked chicken
can." supposed to have contained the
two pistols with which Mais and
Legenza shot their way out of the
jail September 20.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
H. H. SHERIFF DIES
Farmer of Seat Pleasant
Area Stricken.

Retired Farmer OF Seat Fleasant
Area Stricken.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
SEAT PLEASANT, Md, November
21.-Howard H. Sheriff, n, retired
farmer and lifelong resident OF tnls
section, died yesterday from hear'
attack in Pinehurst Sanitarium, Hy-
attsville, Md.
Eorn in old Seat Pleasant, Mr..
Sheriff spent much of his life farming
near here. He retired some years ago
following i'll health. His wife. Mar
garet S. Sheriff died several years ago
He is survived by one son, William
H. Sheriff of Washington; three
daughters, Mrs. Mary S. Penkert OF
Washington, Mrs. Dorothy S. Skillman
and Mrs. Rita s. Fugitt, both OF Seat
Pleasant, Md.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
Held Up by Bandits.

Wise Brown, 1926 Third street, to-
day notified police he was held up
this morning in an alley between !
and K and Fourth and Fifth streets
by two colored men and robbed of
s21 in bills, gold chain with key
attached and pass to the Govern
ment Printing Once. -..
Evening star., 1934-11-21
CRIME DRIVE URGED

Alabama JuriSt Speaks at Annual
Reunion of D. c. Veterans.
Judge Leon McCord Of the Ala
bama Court of Appeals last night
stated that the only sure method of
combating the crime wave Is to
spend sufacient money on crime pre-
vention. He spoke at the 36th an
nual reunion of the First Infantry
Regiment Of District Of Columbia
Volunteers at the Mayfiower Hotel.
Judge McCord advocated such
campaign because "the saving from
such a program would be suficient
10 pay the total Indebtedness of each
State involved in the drive"
Former Department Ccmdr. Rice
w. Means Of the American Legion
also spoke.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
Lions Club Hears Hoover.

Dickinson N. Hoover, assistant di-
rector of the Bureau Of Navigation
and Steamboat Inspection, addressed
the Lions Club at luncheon today at
the Mayflower Hotel. He discussed
the MORO Castle disaster and the
probable reforms that will result from
his Investigation.
Evening star., 1934-11-21

Traffic accidents have crushed out
ia lives in the District so far this
year Altogether, in 1888. the traffic
victims numbered 80 The record for
this first 10 months indicates fatalities
will pass the 1882 total of 1913.
What are the causes of this mount
ing traffic toll? Fundamentally, traffic
authorities, who have analyZed the
long list of fatality statistics from year
to year. place the blame squarely on:
l. The overconfident and reckless
driver.
2. The careless or lazy pedestrian.
3. Apparent defiance by both driver
and pedestrian of the rules and regu-
lations promulgated for their safety.
Here are some of the typical fatal
ity cases of the year. analyzed by the
traffic experts methods The mere
facts in each case present vivid and
impressive picture of the cause.
Blame Carelessness.
Case No. l. involved a 9-year old
boy who fell through hole in a truck
operated by his father. and was
crushed to death beneath the rear
wheels of the vehicle The weather
was clear. the street was dry. and the
accident occurred in the daytime A
coroner's jury described the boys
death as accidental
But traffic officials claim the boys
death was due to carelessness: care
lessness because the large gap in the
floor of the truck should have been
repaired.
Another accident. branded by the
coroner's jury as accidental. resulted
in the death of a 3-year-old boy. who
ran between two parked cars and was
struck by a taxicab. Here is a case,
according to traffic officials, which
clearly illustrates that a child of 3
should not be allowed to play without
the protection of older children or
adults.
Even older persons, however, take
the same chance, either absent mind
edly or, the traffic experts point out,
because they are too lazy to cross at
a street intersection. A case which
illustrates this situation involved an
86-year-old man who stepped from
behind a parked car on Fourth street
and was struck by moving vehicle.
Driver Held.
In this particular case, 1t was
dark, rainy night, but the street light
ing was said to have been good. The
driver of the car which struck the
man, however, was held for grand
jury action.
In another part of the Southwest
section, two drivers, both exceeding
the speed limit, collided, and a %
year-old woman, in one of the cars,
paid with her life 1t was a dark
night, but the street was dry and
the lighting was good. Both drivers
were held for grand jury action.
The drinking driver also is con-
tributing his part to the traffic toll.
Recently three men were killed, two
of whom were riding in car which
collided with bus. The car, accord
ing to traffic records, was operating
at an excessive speed. The bus was
travelling about 10 miles an hour.
A large percentage of the fatalities
however, have been among the pc
destrians who "jay walk" or walk
out from behind parked cars. Another
case of this kind led to the death
of an 88-year-old woman, who took
short cut" across Independence ave-
nue., near First street, and was
knocked down by car. At the time
it was dark, the weather was clear
and the street was dry. A coroner's
jury said it was another accidental
death.
Evening star., 1934-11-21

Upper: View of the Sherwood
Playground from third story of a
house on F street northeast, look
ing toward G street. The two
houses in the left foreground have
been bought by the Park and
Planning Commission, but not yet
torn down.
Lower: Some of the property
owners who will protest tomorrow
to Chairman Norton. Left to right:
Mrs. Elizabeth Cross, 904 F street;
Mrs. William A. Bailey, 920 F.
street; Michael Foley, 642 Tenth
street; Mrs. P. S. Anderson, GOT G.
street; Mrs. F. c. Mann, 6l3 Ninth
street, and Mrs. B. ]. Futrowsky,
SAG Tenth street; all northeast.
Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1934-11-21
Dash Proves Fatal.

Then, there is the case of 30
year-old man, who attempted to run
across Sixth street one rainy after
noon in September, and was truck by
a taxicab. Accidental death was
the verdict of the coroner's Jury.
But one of the strangest accidents
Evening star., 1934-11-21

Who is alleged to have held two
Government jobs at the same time,
was released under $1,000 bond in
Police Court today for trial on No
vember 30. He was booked on
charge of false pretenses yester-
day and was said by police to have
admitted being employed as clerk
in the statistical division of the
N. r. A. and at the same time
working as messenger for the
A. A. A. The jobs were on different
shifts. He is 81.
The Washington times., 1934-05-04
Court Of Appeals Of the Dist
Of Columbia

Andrew j. Pembroke, petitioner,
VS.. Guy T. Helvering, commits.
sioner of Internal Revenue. Be.
fore Chief Justice Martin and AS
sociate Justices Robb, Van Orsdel,
Hitz and Groner on Petition for
Review of Decision of the United
States Board Of Tax Appeals, No.
6056. Decided April %, 1884. Al
firmed.
Allen H. Gardner, for petitioner.
Sewall Key, j. P. Jackson, E. Bar
rett Prettyman and John D. Kiley,
for respondent.
Chief Justice Martin delivered
the following opinion:
This case Involves income taxes
for the year 1925. The decision Of
the Board Of Tax Appeals is re-
ported % BTA 1176.
It appears that Andrew ]. Penn
broke, the petitioner, was the
owner of certain real estate To-
Gated in the city Of Columbus,
Ohio, described at 1920 North
Front Street, and that the prop
erty was held by him for invest
ment. In 1925, Pembroke leased
the property to a tenant for a
term of 80 years in consideration
of an annual rental, payable quar-.
terly in advance, Of $500 for the
first five years and $4,000 there
after. AS part Of this transaction
Pembroke also received from the
lessee a conveyance in fee Of GER
tain real estate described as 514-30
West Rich Street in the city of
Columbus, subject to a $4,000
mortgage. Pembroke received this
property as an additional consid-
Grafton for the execution by him
of the 99-year lease.
It is contended by petitioner
The Washington times., 1934-05-04

that the transaction was an eX.
change Of property within the pur-
view Of Section 203 Of the Reve-
nue. Act Of 1925 ga Stat. 90) read
ing as follows:
"Sec. 203. (b) ~. No gain
or loss shall be recognized II
property held for productive
use in trade or business or for
investment lis exchanged
solely for property of q like
kind to be held either for pro-
ductive use In trade or business,
or for investment. 20
The petitioner claims that in
this transaction he exchanged
the leased premises with the lessee
for the real estate conveyed to
him by the lessee, both of which
properties were held for invest
ment purposes, and that accord
ing to the provisions of the fore
going statute no taxable gain re-
suited to him from it. Accord
ingly he did not enter the value
of the real estate conveyed to
him by the lessee as a gain or as
income realized in that year.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue, however, held that the
transaction in question was not
an exchange of property within
the intent of section 203, supra,
but was simply a lease made by
Pembroke to the lessee in con-
sideration of the stipulated rental
and of the conveyance of the
described real. estate to Penn
broke by the lessee. In other
words the commissioner held that
the transaction was merely a
lease executed by petitioner Of
the leasehold estate upon con.
sideration of the annual rentals
reserved in the lease and the
conveyance to him Of the de-
scribed real estate by the lessee.