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Evening star., 1934-07-01
Y. Y.W.C.A. RESERVES
MEET THIS WEEK
Conference to Be Held in
BaIIston, Virginia; Other
Events Announced.

Y. w. c. A. Girl Reserves of Wash
ington and nearby States will be in
conference this week at Arlington
Hall School, in Ballston, Va. DR..
Allan A. Stockdale, pastor Of the First
Congregational Church; Miss Mary
Alton of the Americanization School,
and Maj. Campbell Johnson, executive
secretary Of the Twelfth Street Y. NJ
c A. are among the speakers. Mrs.
Albert w. Atwood, president OF the
Y. w. C. A., will interpret the rela-
tionship of the Girl Reserve move
ment to the Y. w. c. A.
July 4 Celebration Planned.
Miss Bess Davis Shreiner will speak
on publicity ideas for Girl Reserve
Clubs tomorrow, and Otto veerhof
will give a talk on Stars" in the eve
ming. Miss Hettie P. Anderson, gen.
eral secretary of the Y. w. c. A, will
speak on the theme of the confer
ence Tuesday morning, while Phillip
Murray, assistant pastor OF the CAL
vary Baptist Church, will speak later
the same day. Mrs. Kenneth How
arth will give a program Of Irish
songs and dances for the program
on Tuesday evening. Independence
day will be celebrated with fireworks
and a special ceremonial for the close
of the conference.
Camp Stay-at-H Home will begin its
second week tomorrow with pro-
gram for seniors at $50 am, includ-
ing campcraft, dramatics and hand
crafts. The junior camp on Tuesday
will schedule swimming examinations
for the classes, beginning on Thurs
day. Regular days for seniors are
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays,
while the juniors are in camp on
Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Miss Katharine Wilfey, board men,
ber, will give a talk tonight at 7:30
o'clock for the Bible study group of
GA E street, which is beginning a
series of studies on the Book OF
Isaiah" Miss Amy Putnam will lee
ture at o'clock this evening on Ten
nyson's poem, THE Princess"
The community service group of GA
E street will meet for luncheon July
7, at 1870 pm.
Group Adds Playground.
The Children's Music Study Club OF
GA E street is adding to its program
a Summer playground. A library Of
children's books has been donated. and
Miss Blanche Fleming is assisting as
librarian. Each week the club will
be brought to Seventeenth and X
streets for a swim in the Y. w. G. A.
= r3ry ySr,rr
the children a bus trip each week.
This Thursday the trip will include
a tour of the parks and the speedway,
the bus leaving 614 E street at 3 pm.
The Y. w. c. A. invites friends to
join them on a tour to the 1884 Cen
tury of Progress, via the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad, leaving Saturday,
July 81.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
FINISH Of BRIDGE
APPROACH ASKED
Arlington County Citizens
Groups Unite to Get
Action.
sv a Staff CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

BY staff Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va,
June 30-In order that they shall not
be deprived of convenience for
which they have been working ever
since the completion of the Airing
ton Memorial Bridge, the civic organ
iZations of Arlington County are unit
ing in a demand that the Wilson
Boulevard approach to the Arlington
Memorial Bridge be completed within
the next two months.
Although the demand for this ap-
proach and the proposed Lee Boule-
ward approach has been inSistent for
the past several years, the immediate
prospect of the extension of the George
Washington Memorial Parkway from
the Memorial Bridge to a point be-
yond the Key Bridge in Rosslyn has
emphasized the necessity for a con-
nection to serve the most thickly
populated section Of the county.
Deadline Is September Is.
The new parkway project, with the
proposed highway to connect the two
bridges, is planned to make a con-
nection with the Lee Highway and
the Arlington Memorial Bridge, but,
1t is pointed out, this still will leave
the Clarendon, Ballston, Lyon vii
lage and Lyon Park sections Of the
county without direct approach to
the bridge.
Under terms of contract entered
into by the county and the owner OF
the property acquired for right-of
way for the Wilson Boulevard ap-
proach, this must be completed by
September Is or the land will revert
to the original owner.
Started With C. w. A. Funds.
The project was started with C.
w. A. funds and has been graded but
the county has been without funds
with which to complete the project
and no provision was made in the
budget, which becomes effective to-
morrow, for the expense in connection
with the surfacing.
The move for completion Of the
work out of next years contingent
fund was inaugurated in the execu-
tive committee OF the Arlington
County Civic Federation and full re-
port, with recommendations, Is to be
made at the federation meeting on
Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the Arlington County
Chamber of Commerce has gone on
record as demanding that the work
be completed by the county and it is
proposed to submit the matter to
every civic association in the county
within the next few days.
So far there is no indication as to
what the State intends to do regard
ing the Lee Boulevard approach. but
State surveyors are now engaged in
study of the project and it is the
hope of the many civic associations
interested that this matter, also in
controversy for several years, will be
Strengthened out in the next few
weeks.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Col. Mccain Transferred.

Col. William A. Mccain, @. M. c.,
will relinquish within the next few
days his 4-year term of Office as direc-
tor Of the Army Industrial College.
He will become commanding officer
Of the Philadelphia quartermaster
depot and is expected to assume his
new duty July S. He will be succeeded
as director Of the Industrial College by
Col. Harry B. Jordan. who prior to
coming to Washington a few weeks
ago was on duty as ordnance officer
of the Sd Corps Area. with station in
Baltimore. Col. Jordan Is on tempo
rary duty in the ofice of the Assist
ant Secretary Of War and will assume
the director duties of the Industrial
College about July 5.
Col. Mccain is the only quarter
master officer who has held the Office
of director of the college. He sue
ceeded in that capacity Col. irving J.
Carr, who is now chief signal officer
Of the Army with the rank of major
general.
Evening star., 1934-07-01

ognizes that valuable practical
suggestions can come from those
who as volunteer workers have
been giving freely of their time
and best thought in working for
the best interest of the community.
In this connection it is again
suggested that The Star has re-
printed for free distribution the
series Of articles discussing the
proposals for the reorganization
Of the District government, fiscal
relations and also on national rep
resentation for the District. Copies
may be had by calling either at
room 339, Star Building, or at the
library of The Evening Star, on the
seventh floor. Many civic workers
who failed to clip these articles
are finding the "broadside" reprint
of decided value in studying these
questions.
Evening star., 1934-07-01

A 7 The last meeting OF Star Span
"a gled Banner Council, Councillor J.
E. Armstrong presided. Plans were
made for the contests which will
take place at the picnic, July 10, at
Marshall Hall Park.
Andrew Jackson Council met with
Councillor E. T. Harris presiding.
Election of officers was: Councillor,
P. S. Ferguson; vice councillor, F. w.
Green; chaplain, w. T. Perry; con-
ductor, w. H. McReady; warden,
Harvey M. Cook; inside sentinel, E.
r. Reynolds; outside sentinel, H. P.
Johnson; trustee, for the term of IS
months, c. T. Lacey. A special pro-
gram was held in honor of the ward
Of this council from the Tiffin, Ohio,
Orphans Home, Richard Sebastian,
program consisted of George o.
Sunday, master of ceremonies; Miss
Dalois Anderson and Master Jack
Mayhem rendered songs and dance,
accompanied on the piano by Mrs.
Mayhew; piano solo, Miss Lillian
Bayne. Richard Sebastian was in
troduced by Rev. w. M. La Roche, who
spoke on the activities at the orphans
home.
Benning Council met with J. r.
Doggett, councillor, presiding Ran
dolph Willis and Peter Cox were
initiated. The applications of Dennis
Morris, Edward L. Wings and Henry
M Man Uere received A large class
Of candidates from this council were
escorted to Pythian Temple Thurs
day evening, where the degrees were
conferred on them by Edward j.
Ross Councils degree and drill team.
The election Of officers resulted as
follows: Councillor, Robert Lloyd;
vice councillor, william Ketchum:
chaplain, Thomas Ingles; conductor.
Elmer Connick; warden, Anthony
Bright; inside sentinel, Ernest Lucas:
representatives to the State Council,
Alfred Van Horn, Clifford Long and
j. r. Doggett; alternates, E. s. Din
sey, Archie T. Gray and J. E. Dorsey;
trustee, for the term of 18 months,
Clifford Long. The Excursion Com
mittee reported on arrangements for
the excursion to Marshall Hall and
the moonlight. July 10. with Star
Spangled Banner Council.
Mount Vernon Council, with Mount
Vernon Council, Daughters Of Amer
lea, will give a moonlight excursion
July 81 at $50 pm. aboard the
steamer City Of Washington.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Radio to Pacify Tribes.

So as to interest the Kurd tribes,
the Turkish government has arranged
for special series of educational pro-
grams. described as 'sugar-coated with
bright music" to be broadcast from
Radio Ankara. Portable radios are to
be sent out to the nomad tribes with
the idea in mind that where inde-
pendent tribesmen may be adamant
against attacks by gun and bayonet,
they may graciously yield to the
stronger influences of sweet music and
vaudeville wisecracks."
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Civic Season Ends;
Units to Carry on
Housing Campaign

Except for the Association of
Oldest Inhabitants, which always
meets regularly during the Sum-
mer months, the active season for
citizens associations closed last
Wednesday night with the meet
ing of the Rhode Island Avenue
group.
Several associations have tenta-
tive plans for outings, but no
further business meetings are
scheduled until September and
October.
Many groups. however. are
keeping committees organized to
act for the association-particu-
larly in regard to the Better
Homes Contest campaign. being
conducted by The Star and which
will close September Is.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Shepherds of Bethlehem.

THE last meeting of National Lodge
- was called to order by the COM
fnander, Miss Lillian Carrick. Mrs.
A. l.. Jennings was received into
membership with the degrees con-
ferred by Past Comdr. A. Don
Morocco. The next meeting will be
held tomorrow at 808 street at 8
p.m. for installation of officers.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Darkened Streets
Accidents and Crime.

DaA hCbSo ~ NSso
Accidents and Crime.
CEVERAL years ago organized
- civic Washington with prac-
tical unanimity agitated and
petitioned for better lighted streets
as a crime deterrent and as a
safety measure to protect pedes-
trians from accidents. A number
of fatal accidents we're directly
traceable to poorly lighted and
darkened streets. Cases of assault
and hold-ups were made under
cover of darkness.
So insistent was the demand
that there was begun systematic
improvement of the street lighting
system, which included the gradual
Punishment of gas as a street illu-
minant. Real progress has been
made during the PAST decade along
this line. but the job has not yet
been completed. Most OF the civic
organizations have committees on
street and alley lighting and they
are continually bringing to the at
tention of the Commissioners dark
places where lights are needed.
There is general CONSERVATION at
the prospect of reducing the num-
ber and power of the city lights as
required because of the extravagant
economy of the District appropria-
ton act for the next fiscal year. A
large crop Of complaints are ex-
pected from all sections because Of
the discontinuing of lights and the
reduction of their volume. The
Rhode Island Avenue Citizens As
sociation appears to be the first to
register a vigorous protest against
the elimination of 26 lights on
Monroe street between Twelfth
street and Rhode Island avenue
northeast. It Is thought that the
only reason other neighborhood
organizations have not yet regis
tered their protest is due entirely
to the fact that they have not
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Stars Better Homes Contest
Moves Steadily On.

"ANGIBLE evidences of the
steady growth Of interest in
The Stars $1,000 Better
Homes Contest are coming to light
continually. Already some COM
pleted projects have been filed
with the Contest Editor. The de-
mand for final entry blanks and
circular matter continues, indicat-
ing that home improvements are
In contemplation in many sections.
The contest editor suggests there
be renewed efforts on the part of
the various citizens associations to
sell the idea in their respective
neighborhoods. Where the litera-
ture and blanks have been distrib-
uted he feels some systematic fol-
low-up work will bring most grati-
Tying results. To be the associa-
tion turning in the largest number
Of completed projects will bring to
the association a cash prize Of
800. There is another cash prize
of Sl00 offered by the Board of
Trade for the best improvement
in landscaping of the grounds of
ones home. This is expected to
appeal particularly to those whose
homes do not need any special i'm
provement and to those who for
financial reasons may not be able
to make home improvements but
can improve their grounds.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Army.

Col. Alva j. Breasted, chief Of Army
chaplains, during July will visit
number Of stations in Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, and during August is ex-
pected to visit posts in New England.
During his trip West he will visit the
following stations: Fort Hayes, Ohio;
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind; Scott
Field. Ill: Jefferson Barracks, Mo-;
Fort Knox, KY, and Fort Thomas, KY.
OF the officers who will be COM
missioned first lieutenants in the Med
ical Corps of the Regular Army on
July /, one will begin his first Regu-
lar Army duty at the Army Medical
Center here. He is First Lieut.. Will
liam j. Power. Two others will begin
their first Army duty at Carlisle Bar
racks. Pa. They are First Lieuts. Nell
son T. Murray and Paul B. Refs.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Women as Presidents
OF Citizens Associat ations.

THE recent honor paid to Mrs.
Ella H Thompson in COM
memoration of her tenth con-
secutive year as president of the
Logan Thomas Circle Citizens AS
soctation is of special interest be-
cause of her being the first woman
to hold such Office in the District.
Prior to the passage of the wom-
ans suffrage amendment to the
Constitution very few associations
admitted women to membership.
One night during that time a
member of Petworth Association
proposed for membership a promi-
nent lady Of that community.
There were mutterings of disgust,
and while she was elected to mem
bership 1t was only because she
had on numerous occasions rem
dered valuable service to the COM
munity and to the association.
Now all associations, with the
single exception Of Georgetown,
admit women to full privileges.
The women have several times
tried to break into that associa-
ton, but without success. The last
effort made resulted in organiza-
ton Of the Progressive Citizens
Association Of Georgetown.
A number of the associations
admit husband and wife as full
members upon the payment of
single annual dues. which has the
effect of being a tax on bachelors,
spinsters and widows and wild
overs.
At present there are three other
women serving as presidents Of
citizens associations-Mrs. Mar
garet Hopkins Worren of Columbia
Heights, Mrs. Marie Moore For
rest Of Georgetown Progressives
and Mrs. Mary Lamond White of
Takoma Park, Md-District of Co.
lumbia. Other women who have
flled the presidency in these
associations are Mrs. Edna L.
Johnston, Kalorama; Miss Bessie
Warren, Washington Highlands.
and Miss Eta L. Taggart, Miss
Mary Lazenby, Mrs. Elizabeth Sui
Ivan, Mrs. Leon Arnold and the
late Mrs. F.. T. Du Bois of George
town Progressive Citizens Asso-
citation.
Woman delegates to the Fed
Grafton of Citizens Associations
were at first regarded as more or
less unwelcome, but now, with 13
women delegates, one, Mrs. Eliza
beth Sullivan, serving as second vice
president. and two. holding COM
mittee chairmanships. they are
accepted as a matter of course and
without comment.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Library of Radio Talks.

A library Of radio talks on chemical
subjects is being collected in the
Washington editorial Offices Of Indus
trial and Engineering Chemistry,
publication of the American Chemical
Society.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
'CENTERS OUTLINE
RECREATION PLANS
FOR THIS SUMMER
Public Facilities Include
Music, Libraries, Movies
and Athletics.

East Washington Community Gen.
ter, located at Eastern High School,
offers the facilities Of base ball field,
athletic track, stadium, and the Ii
brary service every day except Sunday.
The Washington Boys Independent
Band will play at this center each
Tuesday evening throughout the
Summer. and games of various kinds
may be played by groups of organ
izations regularly.
At Roosevelt Center, the Com
munity Club is open to all men and
older boys daily Except Sunday from
4 to 8 pm.
Plan Community Dance.
lexington Center will be open
Tuesday and Friday evenings begin
ming July 6. A community dance will
be held that evening from to II 80
o'clock, and on Tuesday evenings, be-
ginning next week. there will be movies
in the stadium at o'clock to which the
public Is invited There Is a branch
library in Langley Junior High School
Building open to the public at $50
on Tuesday and Friday evenings.
Central High Center will open Off
cially for the Summer season Mon
day, July 8, and on five days every
week thereafter the tennis courts,
swimming pool, track and other re-
creational facilities are available to
the community. The pool opens each
day at 1870 to 4:30 and again at
7:30 to 1890 pm. The Community
Center Civic Symphony Orchestra will
continue its weekly rehearsals Tues
day nights. Instrumentalists are in
vited to become members Of this new
organization. The tennis courts are
being operated and regular assign
ments are being made for the use of
the courts by groups, individuals or
organizations upon request to Mr.
Yauch. Columbia 7744, or at the ten
mis- courts in the late afternoon.
Music Glasses Held.
Community music classes are be-
ing held in Langley, Paul. Gordon.
Eliot and Powell Junior High School
buildings. Information is available
either at the Community Center Office
or at the music department in Frank
lin School Building. There is oppor-
tunity for additional students.
The centers in divisions 10 and 10
are also planning Summer activities.
Dunbar Center is open six afternoons
and evenings each week; Garnet Pat
terson open five nights each week for
community uses. and Terrell open for
the activities Of the Terrell Commu-
nifty Club.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Sewage Disposal Prospect
Source of Qualification.

"HERE is rejoicing among rep
resentatives Of the several
civic groups at the allotment
of the ss,oo0,oO0 just authorized
bv Secretary Ickes. Thomas J'
Llewellyn, chairman of the fedora
tion's Committee on Highways,
Parks and Waterways, is so juoi-
lant that he talks of arranging
some sort of an oper-air jollif1ca-
ton for those who did such good
teamwork for the accomplishment
of this improvement, which is ex-
pected to mean so much to the
health of the community.
In this connection there Is gen.
erous praise in all civic quarters
of Senator King, chairman of the
Senate District Committee, for his
continued interest and his urging
that these P. w. A. funds be
promptly advanced to the District.
Senator King believed the District
should have been permitted to have
the entire $2o,0oo,O0o advanced as
provided in the bill as passed by
the Senate. 1t is understood to be
the Senator's intention to continue
to urge other advances for the pur-
poses authorized by the act.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Citizen Views Sought on
District Reorganization.

DEOPLE'S COUNSEL w. A.
ROBERTS. in his capacity
as member of the special
committee of officials making a
survey of the District government,
invites the citizens to submit their
views on reorganization for presen-
tation to the subcommittee of the
Senate District Committee to make
a study of this problem during the
Summer. Questions involved are
not only changes in the present
set-up but administrative re-allo-
cations such as are necessary from
time to time in any growing busi-
ness organization. Duplication of
work and duties and obsolete
methods must give way to mod
ern methods for the more efficient
handling of District business and
for the greater convenience of
those doing business with the Dis
trict government. Many of the
civic bodies have been studying
the complex problems involved,
and Mr.. Roberts. as an experienced
civic worker who has been grad
uated into o public Official, rec
Evening star., 1934-07-01
Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
Merger of Trade Board and Chamber Long
Adyocdted- Protest Ddrkened Streets.
Women as Civic Leaders.

been appraised as to the reduction
of lighting in their particular Sec
tions.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
MARINE OFFICERS
FOUND OVER AGE
Corps Association Is Now
Celebrating Its 22nd
Anniversary.

The deliberations of the Marines
Senior and Junior Boards continue to
interest the corps personnel.
Hitherto compiled data evidence
that 100 per cent of the captains of
the corps are over age in that grade,
while SO per cent of the first lieuten-
ants are in the same status
No hardships will have accrued to
officers who have completed 80 years
service, in the event their age in
grade and physical aptitude necessitate
their retirement. However, commits
stoned officers with less than 80 years
service will, in the event of retirement,
not enjoy the full benefit of the pro-
visions of the retirement law grant
ing three-fourths pay and allowances,
but will have had their pay COM
puted under other provisions of law
covering retirement with less than 80
years of service.
Here From Pensacola.
First Lieut.. Peter p. Schrider, here
tofore on duty at Pensacola, Fla, is
among the newcomers reporting at
the Bureau of Aeronautics, headquar-
tiers. Navy Department
First Lieut.. Henry r. Paige and
Second Lieut.. Louis NJ. Heinrichs, re-
Gently detailed from sea duty and for
eign shore duty, respectively. to the
Quantico base, have been assigned to
the Fleet Marine Force.
Maj. Edwin P. McCaulley and Capt.
William F. Beattie have been detailed
as assistant quartermasters, effective
August /.
Capt. Leland S. Swindler, assist
ant quartermaster, heretofore at
tached to headquarters, will report for
duty at Quantico tomorrow.
Celebrating Anniversary.
The Marine Corps Association Is
celebrating its twenty-second anniver-
sary. The Board of Omcers comprises
Maj. Gen. John H. Russell, command
ant United States Marine Corps, presi-
dent; Brig. Gen. George Richards,
vice president, and Maj Joseph c.
Fegan, secretary-treasurer. Board of
Directors: Col. j. J. Meade, Lieut..
Col. E. w. Sturtevant, Maj. Harry
Schmidt, Maj. Robert Blake, Capts.
w. P. T. Hill, E. e. Hall, L. G. De
Haven, L. B. Stedman, jr Reserve)
and Reservist Capts. James c. jack
man, Harold M. Keller and Russell I.
Whyte: First Lieut.. L. C. Whitaker,
First Lieut.. T. M. Ryan, Second Lieut..
j. S. Letcher and Alvin c. burning
latter Reservist, and Chief Quarter
master Clerk Alton P. Hastings.
Evening star., 1934-07-01
National Traffic Safety Contest
and the District of Columbia.
THE safety driving campaig
inaupurated hy the Board

THE safety driving campaign
inaugurated by the Board Of
Trade with the sanction Of
the District Commissioners and the
cooperation Of the Police Depart
ment is considered by civic leaders
as one of the most practical plans
which has ever been devised to en-
courage careful and discourage
careless driving. The Commits
sioners and the Board of Trade ap-
peal to the public for hearty CO.
operation, and the appeal should
meet prompt response especially
from all of the divisions of organ
lied civic Washington.
To cut down the high accident
rate with its loss of life, bodily in
jury and property damage is a con-
test worthy of participation by any
community. and to lead the Ma
ton for safety of our streets would
be finer civic achievement than
being a beautiful city.
Evening star., 1934-07-01

Mount Vernon Council, with Mount
Vernon Council, Daughters of Amer
lea, will give a moonlight excursion
July 81 at $50 pm. aboard the
steamer City Of Washington.