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Evening star., 1935-02-17
Monday, February IS.

Interfederation Conference, 6 pm,
Scholl's Cafe. 1882 Connecticut
avenue. Program-Annual banquet,
after which a short business meeting
will be held; report and discussion
of District legislation before Con-
gress.
Lincoln Park Citizens Association,
pm, Bryan School. Program-Re-
port on a proposed northeast clinic
by Public Health Committee; discus
sion OF proposed compulsory automo-
bile insurance law; Laws and Legisla-
tive Committee report; Public Utili-
ties Committee report on proposed
subway under Dupont Circle; illus
trated talk by Capt. Richard Mans
field of No. precinct; refreshments.
Sixteenth Street Heights Citizens
Association, 8 pm. A. r. Shepherd
School. Program-Report from Irwin
Bolotin, chairman Public Utilities
Committee. on two express transport
tation meetings held in Petworth: ad-
dress by A. S. Shapiro, vice president.
Washington Rapid Transit Co.. and
William A. Roberts. peoples counsel.
on local transportation problems: re-
port on action of Columbia Heights
Business Mems Association for addi-
tional police force, by Earl Sapp,
chairman Police Committee.
West End Citizens Association. 8
pm, No. Precinct, 2014 K street.
Program-DiscuSsion OF proposed gas
rates adjustment; Transportation
Committee report on additional bus
service; action on resolution Of Dupont
Circle Citizens Association on smoke
nuisance law; report by j. H. Gerome
on proposed boys club; action to
secure new meeting place; action to
send representatives before Senate
Subcommittee on Appropriations.
Tusday, February 10.
Citizens Forum OF Columbia
Heights, pm. Powell Junior High
School. Program-Discussion OF plans
for increased police force; discussion
of proposed crosstown bus line
through Columbia Heights: action on
character education appropriation:
discussion OF delay in erection Of Pow
ell Junior High School boys gymna-
SUM; report on streets condition: ad-
dress by Linn G. Drake, District Boy
Scout executive.
Petworth Citizens Association, 8
pm, Petworth School. Program
Transportation night: report from
Washington Y. Boyd, chairman Public
Utilities Committee on two meetings
held for express transportation to
downtown; report from J. L. Carr,
chairman Laws and Legislative Com
mittee on the following: Small loans,
foreclosure of mortgages, condemna-
ton of unsanitary buildings, regula-
lion of rents, proposed lunacy bill, pro-
posed gambling measures.
Solltheast Co,lnct1 NJ CftiZenSs Az.
Evening star., 1935-02-17
APPROVAL GIVEN
PLAYGROUNDPL PLAN
Congress Heights Associa-
ton Wins Out in 20.Year
Fiqht for Recreation Field.

After a struggle Of more than 20
years to obtain a public playground
in their vicinity, the Congress Heights
Citizens Association has been in
formed by the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission that plans
for a playground submitted by the
association have been accepted and
indorsed.
The Park and Planning Commis-
sion is now engaged in taking over
part of the property formerly under
control of the superintendent Of st.
Elizabeth's Hospital. Work on the
playground will begin after compile
ton of the transfer.
Submitted by President.
The plans drawn up were sub
mitted to the commission by E. E.
Richardson, president of the associa-
ton. and E. j. Newcomb, chairman
of the Playground Committee.
The boundaries of the proposed
playground will be Nichols avenue
to the west, Trenton street to the east
and Fourth street on the north side.
Until five or six years ago the chill
dren of this area were permitted the
use Of Wilson Park, tract Of nearly
100 acres, on which was one Of the
finest sand lot base ball diamonds
in the District. This property was
purchased and developed by real es-
tate interests, leaving children OF
the Heights practically no place to
play other than the streets.
Bitter Fight Begun.
The association then started a
bitter fight to obtain at least 10 acres
of a 5O-acre tract of land lying in
the center of the community, but
under the control of the superin-
tendent of St. Elijah Hospital,
who firmly refused to give it up. It
was pointed out to him that Congress
Heights was built up on all sides
of the tract and 1t not only retarded
the growth Of the community by using
it for agricultural purposes, but made 1t
an extremely bad "eyesore."
Since the National Park and Plan
ming Commission has the authority
to transfer property, 1t was believed
it would come to the aid Of the
citizens, which it did, and now
the citizens Of Congress Heights are
pleased to know that the establish
ment Of a modern playground Is un-
der way.
Evening star., 1935-02-17
Civic Association Calendar
Interfederation Con- ference to Hold Annual
Banquet-Twelre Other Meetings Scheduled
for the Coming Week.

sociations. 8 pm, Buchanan School.
Program-Report on 14-point traffic
safety program Of Lincoln Park Citi-
zens' Association: report from Lorenzo
Thompson, chairman Fairgrounds
Committee, on Fairgrounds facilities
in Southeast; survey Of school facili-
ties for the last 10 years by DR.. E. E.
Richardson. chairman Schools Com
mittee; report on proposed Pennsyl-
vania avenue southeast bridge re-
placement project.
Wednesday, February 20.
Chevy Chase Citizens Association,
8 pm, e. v. Brown School. Program
Discussion of trafic situation; ad-
dress by Burton w. Marsh, past
trafic engineer Of Pittsburgh and
Philadelphia, on local trafic prob
lens; report on local traffic fatality
rates.
Dahlgren Terrace Citizens Associ-
alton, pm, Crosby S. Noyes School.
reorganization to secure proposed
Franklin street northeast bridge in
1886 District budget; discussion of
hidden bar system; action to secure
transfer Of unexpended funds for a
fire house at Fourteenth street and
Rhode Island avenue northeast.
Randle Highlands Citizens Associ-
alton, 8 pm, 2407 Minnesota avenue
southeast. Program-Address by Mai.
George Oakley Totten. designer Of the
Connecticut Avenue Bridge, on pro-
posed Pennsylvania Avenue Southeast
Bridge replacement project; address
by Peoples Counsel William A.
Roberts: report by c. A. Barker,
chairman OF Parks and Reservations
Committee; action to secure the re-
opening of local post office substa-
ton: report on Southeast Civic Expo
sition; report and action on recon-
mendations Of Southeast Council Of
Citizens Associations.
Sixteenth Street Highlands Citi-
zens' Association, 8 pm, Brightwood
School. Program-Report on recent
order of the Public Utilities Commits
sion for express bus service for the
dIch, 4lOh ~ y. l IA AACA
on transportation meetings in Pet
worth for express transportation ia
cilities.
Southwest Citizens Association, 8
pm, No. 4 precinct station, 492 E
street southwest. Program-Repor
on acquisition Of quarters for boys
club at 472 street southwest; dis
cussion Of proposed bus line on
Twelfth street southwest.
Friday, February 22.
Association of Oldest Inhabitants
Of the District, 10 am, Old Union
Engine House. Program - Special
George Washington program-Speak-
er: Gratz B. Dunkum, past grand
master of District Masons; original
poem by John Clagett Proctor; musical
entertainment by Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
K. Sanderson; reading Of Washing
tons farewell address by Jesse G.
Suter.
Evening star., 1935-02-17
Police Change Asked.

A resolution asking for a readjust-
ment of the police force in northeast
and the stationing of one officer at
Eighth and H streets northeast at all
times. has been adopted by the
Northeast Citizens Association. A
copy of the measure was ordered sent
to Capt. Richard Mansfield Of the
ninth precinct.
Evening star., 1935-02-17

president; Julius Lully, first vice presi-
dent: Miss Emma Hahn, second vice
president; Mrs. Ruth G. Justus. sec
retary, and M. H. Pollen, treasurer.
Members of the board of directors,
in addition to Chairman Olmsted, are
J. N. West. j. Allen Praether. A. G.
Bacas, j. w. Merritt, Peter Borras,
Raymond Lurba, John A. Liggett. A.
@. Earnest, Mary A. Lindsey. Theo-
dore A. Sloat, Mrs. H. L. PEPPER, NIL
ton Hollander and Mrs. J. Pappas.
Evening star., 1935-02-17

M a n u ! acturerS
Association dur
ing the week
when they voted
to make their
business associa-
ton a trad e
branch Of the M.
d M. and elected
Bert L. Olmsted
as their first rep
resentative on
the associations
b ard Of gov
ernors.
Other officers
sci e c t e d are
H,,horf II Klllar
Evening star., 1935-02-17
BY JESSE C. SUTER.

M for legislative solution by
V the Districts all powerful
4 ' i and exclusive legislature,
but so far there has been
no great action. The>past week the
District, on Tuesday, had its Sec
ond day in the House, and the only
three measures ready were passed
without debate. These were a joint
resolution authorizing the making
Of all necessary preparation for
handling the large crowds during
the Mystic Shrine Convention here
next June; a bill authorizing a bus
company to lay a pipe line under
New York avenue northeast. and a
bill to authorize issue Of healing
arts license to a practitioner who
was absent from the city at the
time when applications were re-
quired to be filed.
These measures also we're passed
by the Senate on the same day.
The Senate also passed the bill to
regulate real estate brokers and
statesmen. This bill was passed by
the Senate in the last Congress,
but received no action in the House
and consequently died with the
Seventy-third Congress. It Is in
tended to protect the public in
real estate transactions. 1t has
the approval Of the Washington
Real Estate Board and other Or
Plantations.
The high lights Of the week were
the hearings on the proposed COM
mercial airport for Washington,
the unfavorable report by the Com
missioners on the proposal to elect
the Board of Education and the
increased and increasing activity
of the Public Utilities Commission.
Civic organizations continue very
active in pressing their needs on
the Commissioners, the Utilities
Commission and on Congress.
There appears to be little, If any,
evidence of a comprehensive legis-
lative program.
Evening star., 1935-02-17
New Chairman Is Named.

A new chairman Of the Police and
Fire Committee Of the Southeast
Citizens' Association was announced
st the last meeting. Orrin J. Dsvy
succeeds George Click In the o@cA
Evening star., 1935-02-17

of his regular
radio broadcasts
during the week.
The theme, as
usu al, was a
repetition Of the
Better Business
Bureaus motto:
Before you in
vest, inv yestigate.
r t h S C h lid,
W hile pointing
out that unlisted
securities are not
to be considered,
as a class, either
safe or unsafe,
warraed that ner-
Evening star., 1935-02-17
SECURITY BUYERS
WARNED AGAINST
UNL|STED|SSUES
RothschiId Points Out Pit
faIIs-CapitaI Literature
Goes to Canada, Mexico. :

Louis Rothschild, director Of the
Washington Better Business Bureau,
issued warning to prospective buy
erS of unlisted securities in the course
Evening star., 1935-02-17
Restaurateurs Organize.

Restaurateurs of the city organized
q new branch Of the Merchants and
Evening star., 1935-02-17
Delay Annual Election.

Store managers who are members OF
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association are so greatly concerned
with the N. r. A. codes affecting the
retail business that they have failed
to elect their representatives to the
associations board Of governors.
During the past week the section
met at the Raleigh Hotel to choose
1885 officers. but they found the sub
Ject OF codes was all-consuming of
time and adjourned without choosing
their leaders for the new year.
Sylvan King. however, who has
served in the double capacity of chair
man and member Of the board, will
continue adequately to fill the two
places until the store managers get
around to casting their ballots.
Evening star., 1935-02-17
OFFICE ROTATED
Hil1crest Executives Alternate in
Presiding Chair.

In order to familiarize all officers
with duties Of civic body heads. Pres
ident Rudolph Malth Of the Hillcrest
Citizens Association has begun q ro-
tation system Of presiding officers.
Last week Charles M. Foster, first
vice president, took the chair, and at
the next meeting the second vice
president VIII preside.
Evening star., 1935-02-17

sons buying or shelling such securities
should determine that they are buying
or selling at reasonable price. He
pointed out that some dealers in un-
listed securities buy from the sellers
for as little as possible and in turn
sell to new buyers for as much as
possible, the difference being their
profit.
He cited one particular case that
had come to the attention OF the
Better Business Bureau in which q
dealer bought an unlisted share at
40 cents and Immediately resold at 81.
Before being taken in on any such
proposition, Rothschild said, "investi-
gate, then invest
Washington Advertised.
In addition to the usual broadcast
of Washington's good points on which
the Greater National Capital Com
mittee of the Board Of Trade places
stress on all occasions, the commit
tee has become an agency Of historical
study concerning the seat Of the
United States.
During the month Of January the
committee mailed out more than 100,-
900 pieces of literature on Washing
ton, according to Curtis Hodges, exec
utive director, and large proportion
Of them went to small towns of the
United States, Canada and Mexico.
Many requests, Hodges said, came
from the two neighboring countries,
where interest in Washington is ex-
ceeded only by interest in their own
capital cities.
Along with the literature sent out
the committee answered more than
600 direct inquiries concerning such a
diverse range Of subjects as the loca-
ton Of a lost cousin, the longitude and
latitude of the Washington Monu-
ment and how many miles from what
Is the zero milestone. The new Fed
eral Building Triangle was also the
subject Of many queries.
As In virtually every month since
the organization Of the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee, the most
popular question in January was con-
cerning the cherry trees that bound
the tidal basin. At this time Of year,
naturally, people are interested in
when the trees will be in bloom, and
according to Miss Frances Stubbs of
the committees staff, two or three
such inquiries arrive with every mail
Evening star., 1935-02-17

Southeast Council Of Citizens As
Evening star., 1935-02-17

Appropriation for $3.50 900 for pro-
posed 10-room addition to Paul Junior
High School-Takoma Park Citizens
Association, Mrs. Mary Lamond
White; Brightwood Citizens Associa-
ton, william NICK. Clayton and
Charles w. Ray; Citizens Association
Of Takoma, d. G.
Proposed high level Chain Bridge
Conduit Road Citizens Association,
Clyde s. Bailey, Ellis r. King.
Proposed Petworth Library-Pet-
worth Citizens Association, Horace j.
Phelps.
Character Education-Forest Hills
Citizens Association, Mrs. Wilbur La
Roe.
Surface sewers in Southeast-Con-
Kress Heights Citizens Association,
Hillcrest Citizens Association. Ru-
dolph Malth, George Absher and w. L.
Bresnaham.
Funds for increased police force
Kalorama Citizens Association, John
p. Simpson; West End Citizens Asso-
eiation, Cathedral Heights Cleveland
Park Citizens Association.
Evening star., 1935-02-17

Southwest Citizens Association,
pm, No. precinct station, 492 E
street southwest. Program-Report
on acquisition Of quarters for boys
club at 472 street southwest; dis
cussion of proposed bus line on
Twelfth street southwest.
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

SUCH was her astonish-
ment when informed in
court at San Francisco that
her former husband, Charles
w. Crockett, jr., is not le-
gally obliged to support
their two boys. The young
sters were adopted by her
second husband from whom
she was also separated. In
ternational News Photo.
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
CONVICT SLAIN
IN BATTLE AT
FARM HOUSE

YEATHERS, Okla, Dec. 6
Q.NSO.-Trapped by posse of
rs heavily-armed officers, Dan
Heady, escaped Federal prisoner.
was killed and two others were
wounded, one probably fatally, in
a furious gun battle in a farm
house near here early today.
The wounded men, Leonard
Short. shot near the heart, and
Dewey Gilmore, were given medi-
cal attention. Short was expected
to die.
Don Garrett, convicted prisoner
who escaped from the MuSkogee,
Okla, city jail with four Irish"
O'Malley gangsters, escaped the
whitening fire poured into the
farm house by poSSemen, fleeing
afoot. Officers expected to cap
ture him shortly, they said.
The posse, led by Allen Stan
field, Deputy U. S. Marshal, and
Sheriff Tom Jordan, received a
tip, from a farmer from whom
the desperadoes had demanded
shelter.
Leading the posse, stanfield,
who with two State prison
guards had captured Russell
Cooper, another of the escaped
Federal prisoners, yes sterda ay,
rushed to the farmhouse.
In the gun battle that fol-
lowed, Heady was shot and
killed, and Short was probably
fatally wounded, with a bullet
near his heart. Gilmore was in
jured slightly.
No officers we're wounded in the
battle.
The men had been the object OF
an intense search by State, Fed
eral, county authorities and Ma
tional Guardsmen since their es-
cape from the city jail at Musko-
gee, Okla.
Awaiting sentence following
their trial here for the double
bank robbery at Okemah, Okla
the men, except Garrett, awaiting
transfer to the Federal peniten-
tiary for a 7-year Mann act sen,
tence. were members Of the irish
OMalley gang.
The Washington times., 1935-12-06
.LIQUORGR0UPS
PREPARE FOR
DRY ATTACK

Repeal has worked out salts
factorily. Considerable success has
been met in the bootlegging drive
and overseas liquor smuggling now
is practically nil"
Bolstered by these favorable
statements by Secretary OF the
Treasury Morgenthau yesterday,
vets marShalled their forces on
the second anniversary of repeal
to meet the onslaught OF organized
dTys in the Capital.
Ready For Fight
Meeting last night at the Willard
Hotel under auspices OF the AsSo-
ciated Beverage Dealers OF Wash
ington, the vets warned that pro.
hibitionistS planned to cite the
Capital as "the horrible example"
of repeal results. heard A. D..
O'Connor, Secretary of the ASso-
citation, describe dry propaganda
as having no basis in fact.
O'Connor was supported by DR..
James M. Doran, one-time chief
of the Bureau of Industrial Al
cchol DR.. Doran, now admins
tlator of the distilled spirits insti-
tute, asserted repeal had brought
about "a definite improvement In
the Nations revenue with cor
responding reduction in lawless-
ness"
George w. Offutt, chairman of
TIE Alcoholic Beverage Control
Boaro, asserted repeal here was
giving three million dollars a
year in salaries to 1000 formerly
unemployed persons and was
adding two million dollars to Dis
ttict tax revenues. He told the
dealers that successful continua
tion of wet status largely de
pended upon strict obedience to
law.
DryS All Primed
Following the Offutt suggeS
tions, formation of a "vigilante'
committee was formed among the
members to report violations.
A warning by Representative
Everett Dirksen, Republican, o.
Illinois, that dry sentiment wa
crystalizing was born out by fou1
The Washington times., 1935-12-06

local churches that the dry knot
be tied upon the District even
tighter than in the days OF the
Sheppard bill.
At the Mt. Rainier Christian
Church, J. Raymond Schmidt, Of
the United Dry Forces. caStigated
liquor stores for employing girls
and asserted auto accidents in
creased followed repeal.
DeetS Pickett, Methodist propa'
ganda generalissimo, told Cal,
vary Baptist Church audience
that the country cannot support
the increasing liquor traffic. AT
Union Methodist Episcopal Church
Anti Saloon League Secretary
Laura Lindley asserted that jail
commitments for intoxication had
increased over so per cent. Al
! Zion Baptist Church vets were
again the object of an attack.
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