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Evening star., 1935-03-13
PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC
CONTROL IS URGED
Chairman Norton Says Bill May
Be Needed to Aid Police
in Plan.

Police control Of pedestrian traffic
at street intersections was urged to-
day by Chairman Norton Of the House
District Committee, who offered to
introduce bill for this purpose If
necessary.
Mrs. Norton reminded Commission
er Hazen that "the number of fatal
tiles in the District from automobile
accidents is appalling" She said
that from information available to
me the number of these fatalities has
increased from IS in 1888 to 135 in
1884.
Il am informed" she said, that
no small proportion of these tragic
occurrences result from a lack of
pedestrian control; that is, a tendency
on the part of pedestrians to cross
the street intersections against a red
light.
"If a law is necessary providing for
penalties when pedestrians cross
street intersections in the face Of
a red light, I shall be pleased to
sponsor such Q law"
Evening star., 1935-03-13
10 Policemen Face
Attorney Charged
With Orerparking
Warrants Finally Catch
Up With La,cyer in
Traffic Court.

Too many policemen resulted in the
downfall" in Traffic Court today of
Attorney l. H. Minovitz, 1881 6 street.
He was fined by Judge Gus A. Schuldt
a total of s33 on IL parking warrants.
The offenses, according to testi-
mony, occurred over period of nearly
a year and until recently the police
had been unable to serve him with
warrant.
Last week service was made in five
cases and he was notified to appear in
court the following day. In the mean
time. however. the notice had been
placed at the Traffic Bureau informing
policemen that Minovitz would be in
court the following morning and that
any other officers having warrants for
him should appear. Consequently.
when his case was called 10 police
men stood up instead of five.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
WOMAN ATTACKED
AND ROBBED IN ROOM
Intruder Takes $50 From U. S.
Worker-Screams Arouse
Occupants of House.

Attacked early today while asleep
IN her flfth-floor room at 1915 Six-
tenth street. Miss Iona Davenport
Internal Revenue Bureau employe,
told police she might have thought
she had bad dream, except for her
discovery that $50 had been taken by
the intruder.
Her mouth and cheek were reported
to bear bruises where the person grab
bed her Miss Davenport told police
she did not get a good view of the
intruder because of darkness and that
he ran from the room as she
screamed.
The robber is thought TO have gone
through a hallway and a bath room
to a veranda and gained entrance
through French doors to Miss Daven-
ports room which opens on the porch.
A young woman rooming next door
to Miss Davenport said she heard the
latter scream and also the noise of
a scuffle in the adjoining room. A
man living across the hall was
aroused and summoned police.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
SCHOOLHEADSMAP
BU|LD|NGPROGRAM
Plans to Be Drawn Today at
Special Meeting of Finance
Committee.

A definite school building program
through the pending District appro-
priation bill or the contemplated new
public works program, was to be
drafted this afternoon at special
meeting of the Finance Committee
of the Board of Education and Dr.
Frank W. Ballou. superintendent.
A tentative list of % building
projects and half-dozen purchases
of new building sites already has
been compiled by DR.. Ballou and was
included in national list recently
presented TO Public Works Admin
istrator Ickes by DR.. John w. Stude-
baker, United States commissioner of
education.
Some of the items, however. have
been included in the pending ap-
preparation bill and a subsequent
smaller list has been submitted to
District officials for inclusion either
in the current budget or in a de-
f1ciency request to be made to the
Bureau of the Budget.
The meeting today was called to
undertake to eliminate any possible
overlapping Of items. The committee
hopes to have all needed construc-
ton items included either in the new
public works list. the deficiency ap-
preparation or the regular appropria-
ton bill.
George M. Whitwell is chairman
OF the Finance Committee and as
soclated with him are Mrs. Philip
Sidney Smith and DR.. j. Hayden
Johnson
Evening star., 1935-03-13
SECOND PLACE WON
BY G. w. u. GLEE CLUB
Singers of D. c. College Partici-
pate in Eastern Music Super
visors' Conference.

George Washington University'S
Glee Club was awarded second place
in the Eastern Division Intercollegiate
Glee Club contest last night at Pitts
burgh, according to an Associated
Press dispatch.
The competition. held as the open
ing event of the Eastern Music Su-
pervisors, Conference. was won by
Penn State College Glee Club.
Other entrants were Denison, Union
College and Wesleyan University.
Twice in former years the George
Washington Glee Club has won honorS
in the competition. Entering the con-
test for the first time in 1880, it
was awarded first place, and in 1881
received third honors.
For the past IL years, the Glee
Club has been directed by DR.. Robert
Howe Harmon, an alumnus of George
Washington, with Mrs. Harmon as
co-director.
The music conference, with more
than 1900 delegates in attendance,
will continue until Friday. Ten East
ern States. the District of Columbia
and the provinces Of Ontario and
Quebec, Canada, are represented.
Evening star., 1935-03-13

The young chimp was to become
one of the best-knoWn citizens of the
Zoo. In his early days he used to
take Blackburne'S hand and 60 for
a stroll about the park Occasion
ally he enjoyed a runaway spree in
the tree tops. He presented such
ludicrous picture. walking about
with his hand in Blackburn'S,
that children began to gather
around and laugh at him. This en-
ragged Soko When he grew strong
enough to defend his dignity, he was
locked in his cage never to emerge
again.
Blind Rage Seizes Him.
Soko is anxious now to get out of
doors. He will be more so when he
sees the lions TUNED into their Spring
and Summer runways Then he will
begin to stamp his feet. shake the
bars and howl his disappointment
Sometimes Soko goes off into blind
rage. Dr. William NJ. Mann, director
of the Zoo. once thought this was due
to a blood clot on the brain Now
he thinks that tantrumS are fairly
general among captive monkeys,
chimpanzees and gorillas.
Among prisoners of higher order
there is another word for it-"stir
crazy"
But Soko's RACES are Of brief dura-
ton. The Zoe now is the only life
he knows and the keepers his only
friends. Perhaps it's the Spring
which gets into his blood now and
then.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
LIABILITY BILLS
VALUE DISPUTED
Hull of Wisconsin Shifts Po.
sition Openly to Oppose
Measure.

Opposition to the automobile LA
bility bill on the ground that, in his
opinion, it will not correct the traffic
situation in the District, but give Spe-
cial privilege to the rich. was ex-
pressed today by Representative Hull,
Progressive, of Wisconsin at a meet
ing of the House District Committee.
Hull previously had delayed action
on the bill on the ground certain
taxicab interests had not been granted
hearing and he had announced he
was prepared to offer an amendment
to meet the wishes Of the taxicab
people To-day he shifted his position
so as to stand directly against the
bill, which is on the House calendar.
Hull argued that if a rich man killed
or injured a person in an automobile
accident by reckless driving he could
pay the damages and his permit would
not be taken from him. whereas a poor
man would be forced to surrender his
registration card and drivers permit.
Chairman Norton urged Representa-
tive Jenckes, Democrat. of Indiana.
who is chairman of the subcommittee
considering the old-age pension bill,
to make a report to the committee as
soon as possible Mrs. Jenckes said
that she expects to bring this bill be-
fore the committee at its meeting next
week
Corporation Counsel E. Barrett
Prettyman called the attention of the
committee to the fact that those who
have sponsored the legislation author
izing pensions for the needy blind in
the District desire to have an amend
ment written into the old age security
bill to take care of blind persons over
SO years OF age.
He explained they are fearful that
the bill authorizing pensions for the
blind, which has already passed the
House, may not be favorably acted
upou in the Senate and in that event
they desire that the blind should be
definitely provided for in the general
OLD age security measure.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
amelia Earhart
Employed by US.
At 81 a Year Pay
Direction Finder
Equipment Tests to
Be Made Soon.

Amelia Earhart Putnam has been
employed by the Department of Com
merce as an aeronautical expert at 81
a year She is expected to go to
work making test flights with a new
radio direction finder equipment as
soon as overhaul work on her veteran
airplane is completed.
Miss Earhart already is on the
Government pay roll and is assigned
to the Bureau of Air Commerce. She
will be associated with Chester A.
Snow, jr.. of Washington. the only
other dollar-a-year aeronautical ex-
pert in Government service.
Miss Earhart, now at her home in
New York, has sent her airplane, vet
eran of two solo flights which have
made aviation history, to California
for a general overhaul following her
recent flight from the Hawaiian Is
lands to California.
When this work is completed, the
plane will be flown to New York for
installation of special Department Of
Commerce radio equipment.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
EMERGENCY UNITS
LIMITING Jobs TO
ONE PER FAMILY
Roosevelt Explains That
U. S. Sets Example in
Spreading Work.
CIVIL SERVICE AGENCIES
UNAFFECTED BY P0LICi
President Favors Plan, Worket
Out in Conference With Ma
tional Emergency Council.

The administration has adopted the
practice generally of parceling out
political jobs" in the emergency agen-
cieS on the basis of one to a family
in ali effort to spread employment. it
became known today.
Exceptions however, may be made
in unusual cases" it was said.
The policy has been in vogue for
some time. President Roosevelt and
his advisers constituting the National
Emergency Council, feel, it was ex-
planned, that as long as the Govern
ment was calling upon industry to
spread work, it should set an ex-
ample Since it was instituted. en-
ploying offices have sought to estab-
lish if job applicants had other men,
bers Of their family-that is, living
under the same roof-already in serv-
ice before hiring them.
Civil Service Unaffected.
The plan is not being carried out
in the regular agencies, for civil Serv-
ice law permits two members of the
same family to have Government en-
ployment. Any change in this direc-
ton naturally would need the sane
tion of Congress, and there is no idea
of seeking this sort of legislation, it
is understood authoritatively
Discussing the subject at his press
conference today, President Roosevelt
said the matter was brought up for
consideration at meeting Of the Ex-
ecutive Council in the White House
three or four months ago. The Presi-
dent, in mentioning this. did not take
credit to himself for originating the
idea, but made it very plain that he
was in favor of such policy
Preferred System.
The President said at that meeting
the consensus was that something of
the kind should be done to spread
employment in taking on new Gov
ernment employees. He added that
with everything else being equal, those
applicants who do not have relatives
in the Government should be given
preference.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the matter pre-
sentS something of problem because
1t probably will be difficult to set a
hard and fast rule on just what con-
StituteS a domestic relationship. He
said. however, this detail would b.
worked out.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
HOWARD j. BOARD
To WEIGH CHARGES
OVER P. ". A. FUND
Trustees to Get Report of
Alleged Irregularities
in Expenditures.
ICKES Dimes TONIGHT
WITH DR.. JOHNSON
Faction Opposed to Head of UNI
versity Said to Be Forcing Issue
Involving Technicalities.

A special meeting of Howard UNI
versity trustees will be held in New
York City Monday to consider charges
of alleged Irregularities in the use OF
P. w. A. funds by the Howard admin
istraticn growing out of a recent 1nte-
rior Department investigation,
A report will be rendered by COM
mittee of six board members appointed
by George w. Crawford Of New Haven,
Conn, acting chairman of the How
ard trustees. The committee was
named some six weeks ago after the
announcement by Secretary Ickes that
Howard officials had expended P. w. A.
funds in numerous cases for purposes
other than allotments provided.
Secretary Ickes will be one Of the
guests at dinner tonight at the Will
lard Hotel. which Oscar L. Chapman,
Assistant Secretary of the Interior. is
giving in honor of DR.. Mordecai w.
Johnson, president of Howard Uni
versity.
At the time his report was rendered.
Secretary Ickes made it clear the vio-
Charges Technical.
lationS OF P. w. A. regulations were CT
a technical nature and involved no
grounds for criminal action. Funds
which had been allotted for repairs on
certain college buildings had been
used in part to defray incidental ex-
penSeS OF the university.
Interior Department officials said Il
faction in Howard University opposed
to the administration of President
Johnson is forcing the issue. Since
the Interior Department has no control
over the administration of the univer-
sity, any action as result of the al
legged misuse of P. W. A. funds will
have to be taken by the Howard
trustees.
Although it has no connection with
the investigation of the use of P w. A.
funds by the university, it was learned
today that $500 900 allotted to Howard
for new library was impounded when
President Roosevelt held up S275 000.-
900 in P. w. A. funds to meet pay
mentS for relief.
Plans Being Drawn.
The university was allotted S800.0 900
for the new library and 100000 has
been paid. Construction of the build
ing has not yet begun. but plans and
specifications are being drawn and the
work is expected to get under way in
the near future. The impounded half
million dollars is to be paid when and
if the pending workS-relief bill is
passed by Congress.
Secretary 1ckes and Assistant Sec
retary Chapman have expressed their
faith in President JohnSon's super
vision of P. w. A. expenditures de-
spite the alleged irregularities. These
expenditures it was explained. un-
6oubtedly were made as a result of
misunderstanding.
At tonight's dinner the guests will
include DR.. Abram Flexmer of Colum-
bia University. who recently resigned
as chairman of the Board of Howard
Trustees. Members of the Howard
faculty and others influential in COL
ored education and welfare also will
attend the dinner.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
DEALERS MAY BID
ON 1900 TRUCKS
Forest Service Program
Asks Purchase of Motors
for C. C. c. Work.

Local automobile dealers today
awaited Department of Agriculture
action on recently submitted truck
bids that may brings them sl2,693,-
1893 worth of business.
The Forest Services purchase pro-
gram for Civilian Conservation Corps
camps now includes 900 trucks and
calls for 1900 more if the s4,800.-
100000 relief bill becomes law.
Estimates on the allotment of 900,
cost of which is placed around $685., ,4l9,
we're submitted by 10 bidders, includ
ing the Northwest Motor Co, Bethesda
Ford agency; Auto Car Sales & Serv-
ice, 1868 Thirty-first street, and the
Steuart Motor Co, Sixth street and
New York avenue.
Other Bids Received.
Other bids for this group purchase
came from Detroit and other manu-
featuring centers.
The allotment of 900 is divided into
three classes-200 half-ton pickup
trucks. 500 Decentralization stake
body trucks and 200 two-ton dump
trucks.
They are used by the Forest Service
to carry c. C. c. men from their
camps to their working places, and
for the necessary transportation of
material that goes with the c. c. c.
work.
Largest Allotment.
The prospective purchase of 1900
is the largest single allotment ever
planned by the department. The vast
increase in number of c. c. c. camps
and personnel carried in the works
relief bill will make this $12, ,lO8,3SO
purchase necessary.
Bidders on the Q0O-lot at the same
time made tentative bids on the larger
allotment. The 18,70O trucks would
include 2,400 half ton pick-ups, 1850
one and a half-ton stake trucks and
4,80O two-ton dump trucks.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
BLOSSOM FESTIVAL
PLAN ABANDONED
Illness of Hazen Is Factor in Fail.
ing to Revive Cherry
Tree Fete.

Washington will not have Cherry
Blossom Festival this year in spite of
the success of the first one a year
ago and the plan. announced then
to make 1t an annual event.
Illness of Commissioner Melvin C..
Hazen was given as the principal
reason for abandoning the celebra-
tion originally scheduled for next
month. Hazen named the commit
tee in charge last year and took an
active part in the pageant and the
series of social events that accom-
panied the appearance of the Jap
aneSe blossoms.
Claude w. Owens. who served as
general chairman last year, said he
was asked about a month ago to
serve again, but was forced be-
cause of pressure of business to de-
cline. Since then, he said, he has
heard nothing of any plans to re-
peat the performance.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
U. S. WORKERS INDORSE
BILLS RESTORING LEAVE
Other Labor Organizations Join
in Supporting Measures at
House Hearing.

Representatives of associations of
government employees and other labor
organizations today indorsed the two
RamSpeck bills for restoring 80 days
annual leave and Is days sick leave
uniformly and cumulatively through
out the Government service. They ap-
peared at a hearing before the House
Civil Service Committee.
Those indorsing the bills included E.
Claude Babcock, representing the
American Federation of Government
Employees; James Cook, the Customs
Service Association; James A. Murray,
the mechanical branches of the Gov
ernment Printing Office; Joseph F.
OLone, Typographical Union No. 101;
Charles Wahl, employees of the Canal
Zone; c. L. Rosemund, architects and
craftsmen in the Government service;
N. P. Alifas, the machinists' unions;
Frank Coleman, Central Labor Union;
Mrs. Margaret Hopkins Worrell, re-
tired, the League of Civil Service;
Arthur Lowell, railroad firemen and
engineers; w. B. johnson, railway
conductors. and H. Moore, represent
ing employees of the Alaskan Railway
Commission.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
ROBBERS GET $100
AT LIQUOR STORE
Clothing Store Collector Reports
Loss of $500 and Describes
Assailants.

Two armed men, believed by pollc'
to be the same ones who recently hek
up a Fourteenth street liquor dealer
last night robbed Jack Seigel. a liquo
dealer at 703 Seventh street southwest
of s100.
Seigel told police the men took SGT
from his pocket and $40 from tn,
store cash register, then forced him tC
lie on the floor behind the counter
while they made their getaway.
Two other robberies reported to po-
lice netted thieves more than $500
While in the basement of an I street
apartment house yesterday afternoon.
Michael Steinberg, 81. Of 43l Kennedy
street, a collector for a clothing es-
tablishment. was beaten by two COL
ored men and robbed of more than
$500. he told police. Police were fur
nished with the names of the two
men and a description of one.
Winfred Lucas, Chattroy, w. Va,
told police of being robbed OF about
SIS last night by two men in a
Twelfth street hotel. He accepted an
invitation to their room. Lucas re-
ported. and was robbed when he
changed a bill for one of the men. The
names under which the men were reg
istered and their descriptions were
furnished police.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
STAMP ISSUE TO HONOR
JUSTICE HOLMES ASKED

A campaign for a commemorative
stamp in tribute to the late Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes is being
launched in Washington.
The plan calls for design showing
the jurist's portrait with that of his
father, DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
physician. poet and philosopher.
Massachusetts, members of the
House will be asked to sponsor reso-
luton of recommendation to the Post
Office Department.
The project is scheduled to be, dis
cussed tonight at meeting Of the
Washington Philatelic Society at the
Hotel Carlton.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
''HObby ShO,u'' Is Planned Here
By Fiue-State Dental Clinic

DR.. ]. p. Bell of Baltimore, and several
Of the latter's inventions.
A display of woodwork will include
hand-carved furniture and 20-horse-
power auxiliary sloop made by DR..
Beekman, a reproduction of a colonial
dover chest made by DR.. Rath, and a
pair of homemade skis fashioned
by DR.. r. K. Thompson.
A number of early dental instru-
ments will be shown, along with the
first diploma issued by a dental school
to student
DR.. Rath is chairman Of the COM
mittee in charge of the exhibit. He
is assisted by Drs. C. T. Bassett, Ed
ward r. Cook, Krogh, Lucas, Motley,
Stone and Thompson.
The public has been invited to
view the exhibits.
Evening star., 1935-03-13

A 'hobbby show" with exhibits
ranging from oil paintings to hand
made skis will be a feature of the
Five-State Post Graduate Dental
Clinic to open four-day session at
Wardman Park Hotel Sunday.
Local dentists are arranging the
hobby show which will be set up in
the National Museum with other
exhibits of historical and scientific
interest to dentists.
Exhibits will include paintings and
sketches by Drs. D. D. Beekman, l..
M. Lucas, r. E. Motley, w. A. Rath,
c, N. Rodlun and E. r. Stone: photo
graphs by Drs. M. E. Brushart, H. W..
Krogh and DR.. Rath: flowers cast In
gold by DR.. W. Chase sculpture by
Evening star., 1935-03-13
G. w, U. TRUSTEES PLAN
JOHN JOY EDISON HONOR
Luncheon Will Be Held Tomorrow
Afternoon for One of city's
Most Distinguished Citizens.

John Joy Edison will be honored
tomorrow by fellow members OF the
Board of Trustees of George Washing
ton University at a luncheon to be
given at 1880 O'Clock in the board
room, preceding the regular meeting
of the trustees.
Mr.. Edison, one of Washingtons
most distinguished citizens, will COM
plete 20 years of service as a trustee
of the university tomorrow. Despite
his years-he was born March II.
l846-Mr. Edison continues his active
participation in the business and civic
life of the Capital and takes an active
interest in all affairs of George Wash
lngton University.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
Women's Bar to Meet.

The Women's Bal Association of
the District will hold its monthly
meeting tonight at z o'clock at the
Parrott, 1701 Twentieth street. DR..
william A. White. superintendent Of
ST. Elizabeth's Hospital. will discuss
the lunacy bill proposed for the Dis
trict.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
Play to Be Presented.

Neighborhood House will present
"The Bashful Mr.. Bobs" Saturday at
8 pm. at the settlement, 470 N street
southwest, to raise funds for the pur-
chase of a bus top for the automobile
chassis given the settlement last Sum-
mer. A dress rehearsal will be held
tomorrow evening.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
Homemakers Club Elects.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, March 13
Especially New officers have been
elected in the Homemakers' Club of
Plum Point as follows: President, Mrs
Robert Trott; vice president. Mrs.
Victor Freeland, and secretary-treas-
urer, Mrs. Pau lance.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
TRAFFIC HALTS AT FIRE
$2OO Damage Results From Blaze
at Burchell Building.

MONDAY traffic In the vicinity of
Fourteenth and H streets was blocked
for nearly half an hour today when a
tWo-alarm fire broke out between the
second and third floors of the Burchell
Building, BIT Fourteenth street.
The fire, of unknown origin, neces-
STATED the breaking through of the
floors In the front end of the building,
causing a damage of approximately
5000.
Between 400 and 500 persons gath
cred in nearby streets to watch.
Evening star., 1935-03-13
POLICEMAN SUSPENDED
Henry Matney Said to Have Been
Under Influence of LIQUOR.

Under Influence of Liquor.
Alleged to have been under the in
duence of liquor when involved in a
traffic accident early last night, Po-
hcemaD Henry A. Matney, Traffic Bu-
reau, today was suspended by Lieut..
w. T. Storm.
Lieut.. Storm said he found Matney
asleep at his home after report that
he had been involved in the accident.
Matney was traced through the license
plates of his automobile. The suspen-
sion was based on the report Of a po-
lice surgeon,