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The Washington times., 1935-04-01
TOMORROW

cYPR1A g.: W. ElwelD. casablanca
April IA and Barcelona IS; Fifty-eighth
Street, Brooklyn.-Mails close noon.
Parcel post for Spain and Western Mo-
rocco.
EXETER (American Export), Gibral-
tar April II, Palma IL. Marseilles IS.
Naples Is. Alexandria IS, Jaffa and
Haifa 81, and Beirut 20; Pier F. Jersey
City-Mails close 1880 p. m.: sails p.
Gibraltar. Syria-letter mail for Irak;
parcel post
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA:
KENTUCKIAN (American-Hawaiian)
ports-Pier s. Bush Docks. BROOKLYN
m. (supp. mails p. ml. Mails for
Canal Zone. Narino Dept. of Colombia,
Panama, Bahia de CaraqueZ, Esmeraldas
and Mania in Ecuador; parcel post for
Canal Zone and Panama.
KUNGSHOLM Swedish American),
West Indies cruise via Port-au-Prince
April s, Cartagena S, etc.-Pier 81, N. R
(West ty-seventh Street). Mails close
$3.50 p. M; sails midnight. Mails for
Cartagena in Colombia and Haiti.
MIN (Booth American), from Jackson.
Vile to Para April IS and Ceara 80
Mails close p. m. and go by rail to
for Iquitos and Brazil; parcel post Greg.
istered mail closes 10 a. m.).
MONARCH OF BERMUDA (Furness
Bermuda), st. Georges and Hamilton
Bermuda April 4-Pier IS, N. R. (West
Fifty-fifth Street). Mails close 1890
p. M: sails p. m. Mails for Bermuda
parcel post.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
PEPCO EXPLOSION
INQUIRY IS BEGUN
Transformer Is Removed to
Benning Plant for In
vestigation.

The dealing electric trans
former whose explosion Saturday
killed four men at the Potomac Elec-
trio Power Co. Building was taken
to Benning power plant. where a
group of experts and officials of both
the company and the District govern
ment today began an investigation of
the cause of the tragedy.
The fourth death took place early
yesterday when Floyd Bennett, COL
ored, 81, OF 1926 Dix street northeast
died at Emergency Hospital. Three
other workmen died Saturday.
The condition of John W. Foxwell,
So, of Mount Rainier. Md. was re-
ported today to be about the same.
although he was said to be seriously
burned. There were some signs Of
improvement.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald is
withholding verdict pending the in
vestigation
Among those at the probe this
morning were Walter E. Kern, elec-
trical engineer of the District of Co.
lumbia; ]. S. Zebley, chief electrical
inspector for the District; c. Melvin
Sharpe, executive assistant to the
president of P. E. P. Co., and J. H.
Ferry. vice president and chief en-
gineer.
Sharpe said that the cause of the
explosion still was mystery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
50 FAIRGROUNDS
OPENED BY CITY.
More Than 100 Attaches
Assigned at Rally in Dis
triCt Building.

Washington's Summer playground
season started today when so play
grounds opened at O'Clock to provide
outdoor recreation to thousands Of
children and adults.
More than 100 men and women
were assigned their Summer duties as
supervisors and directors at the play
grounds and also at an additional "a
all-year grounds, at a rally this morn
ing at the District Building They
were given final instructions by Miss
Sibyl Baker, supervisor of Fairgrounds.
The "a Fairgrounds now available
to the public are four more than in
operation last year.
The 81 young women who will d.
rect the activities of girls at the play
grounds this Summer underwent a
special course of training this Spring
under the direction of Miss Maude
Parker. director of girls and women's
activities in the department
Richard S. Tennyson, assistant su-
pervisor of the playground system, di-
rected the courses taken by the 81
white and colored men who will have
charge of boys activities. These 116
supervisors and directors, who will be
given slightly less than three months
employment during the year, are in
addition to the departments regular
staff.
Miss Parker will direct the girls
and women's activities, while Tenny-
son, a veterain in the department, will
supervise the boys work.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
BYRD ACTING HEAD
AS PEARSON QUITS
M. i. PRESIDENCY
Regents to Meet to Name
Temporary Executive
for University.
COMMAND" OF BOARD
CITED IN RESIGNATION
Offer of Advisory Position Re-
fused-Withdrawal Ends
Long Controversy.
BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
BALTIMORE, Nd, July with
the resignation of DR.. Raymond A.
Pearson n the hands of its chairman,
the Board of Regents of the Univer-
sity Of Maryland is to meet within
the next few days to name his tempo
rary successor.
In the meantime Harry Clifton
(Curley) Byrd, vice president and di-
rector Of athletics. automatically ad-
vanced to the position of acting exec
utive head Of the institution.
Board members said today they ex-
pect to be called into session to accept
DR.. Pearscns resignation and mama
his temporary successor as soon as
Chairman George NJ Shriver is able
to arrange a meeting
In submitting his resignation. DR..
Pearson, who has been president of
the university for the past nine years,
declined an offer of the board to re-
main there in an advisory capacity.
His letter to Chairman Shriver said:
In reply to the command from
the State Board of Regents and the
State Board of Agriculture, hereby
submit my resignation as president
OF the University of Maryland and
executive officer Of the State Board
Of Agriculture. 1t is understood that
my active duties and responsibilities
cease at noon today July -.
I appreciate your proposal to Gre
ate the position of advisor on land
grant college matters, and the con-
ditional tender to me of the position
do not desire to accept such a posi-
ton, but wish to assure you that If
I can assist at any time in the way
indicated it will be a pleasure to me
to do so informally and without COM
pensation.
1T has been great privilege to
work for the people of Maryland
through a period of nine years.
The board, after a lengthy investi-
CATION of faculty and student charges
of low morale at the institution be-
cause of the presidents administra-
ton, had asked DR.. Pearson to reach
decision concerning his resignation
by today.
Mr.. Byrd, a native Of Crisfeld, Md,
was graduated from the university in
1908. He has been associated with
the institution as a faculty member.
athletic coach and executive for %
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01

section 1868, D. c. Code; Raymond E.
Forbes. violating section BAT, title 10,
U. S. Code, and German Wright, vio-
lating section 434-b, title 10, U. S.
Code.
Anthony j. Jones. Charles Edward
Young, Jerry P. Tilman, Theresa B.
Brown, Gertrude Jones, Teresa c.
Williams, William West, Samuel Le-
Roy Clements and George Roy Steven
son, forging and uttering Government
checks.
The following were cleared Of the
charges indicated:
Randall P. Spencer, HOUSEKEEPING
and larceny; James Darlington,
Luther Boggs. Silas Walker, Lawrence
Whittle, John G. Clary and Arthur
Warden, assault with a dangerous
weapon; Jack Kemp, assault with in
tent to commit robbery; Welby Carter,
Salisbury Bailey, Randall P. Spencer
and June LaRue, robbery; Lucian c.
Leonard, carnal knowledge; Dorothy
Tanner and Lucille Woolf, violating
Harrison narcotic act; Ernest H. Fair
burn, violating section 85l-B, District
of Columbia code; Stanley Dade,
violating section 81, United States
penal code; Henry A. Thorpe and
Jerry Strickland, false pretenses; Will
liam L. Bandler, embezzlement;; Nor
man Jones and Garfield A. williams,
violating liquor taxing act, and Robert
E. Sweeney, homicide.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01

In the quarter Of century of the
colony's existence, during which
scores Of artists have found the road
to fame, Mrs. Mcdowell has asked
only three persons to leave because
they were disturbing elements.
Don't give me credit for this"
smiled Mrs. Mcdowell I'm just a
mule-headed old woman with one idea
and one determination. 1t is the ar
fists themselves who have made the
colony place where worthwhile work
is created in harmony.
Such authors as Hervey Alleh.
Thornton Wilder, Du Bose and Doro-
thy Hayward have sought and found
inspiration in the quietude of the roll
ing, pine-clad New Hampshire hills
where the colony's Is individual stu
dos are located.
Studios Are Isolated.
Each studio is out of sight Of the
others, each equipped for comfortable
living and each supplied with lunches
during work hours from the central
inn.
Only about twu-score artists can
be accommodated for the four-month
season. Thus the enrolment will not
be enlarged, although the colony is
obliged yearly tc turn down hun
dreds of deserving artists.
What is needed, Mrs. Mcdowell
said. is an endowment to take the
burden of debt from the struggling
colony and make it self-supEorting
after the bitter years of the depres-
sion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
JULY RELIEF FUNDS
SLASHED $4,000

A seasonal reduction of $4,000 in
District of Columbia relief funds in
July was authorized today by Aubrey
Williams, assistant administrator Of
the F. E. r. A.
The District was granted a total Of
$648, 900 for. the month, of which
$3.50 900 is to be applied to general
relief of the 2O,500 cases on the roll.
Mary Alice Hill, director of the Public
Assistance Division of the local relief
administration, said the July reduce
ton was made in anticipation of fewer
cases during the month. Some cases
on the relief rolls are expected to be
absorbed by employment, she said, but
the Summer always brings slackening
demand for urgent relief.
Included in the total for the District
was $4,000 for the maintenance Of
transients and $500 to assist in
educational relief divisions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
NAVY WILL SPEND
$75O,OOO IN CAPITAL
Labor From Local Relief Rolls
Will Be Used on
Projects.

With the aid of labor from local
relief rolls. the Navy Department is
preparing to spend s750,000 here for
public improvements.
1t was learned today that President
Roosevelt has approved this alloca-
ton from the Works Allotment Board,
for work to be done under supervision
of the Bureau of Yards and Docks.
The department is awaiting word
from local authorities as to the steps
to be taken to supply the labor, be-
fore a decision can be reached on
starting the program.
The largest single item Is s270,0OO
for repair and improvement of build
ings, structural improvements, paint
ing, general repairs and extension of
the truck garage at the Washington
Navy Yard. For the repair and i'm
provement Of paving, roads. walks and
grounds at the Navy Yard. $l48, 700
has been set aside.
Other items in the program are:
Foundation explorations and subsur-
face surveys at the Navy Yard, SIC. 900 !;
construction of a new lunch room in
the west yard of the Washington Navy
Yard, 100000; repair and improve
ments of the railroad tracks at the
Navy Yard. $4,000; administrative
expenses at the Navy Department,
$4,000; repair and improvement of
paving, roads, walks and grounds at
the Naval Observatory. $4,000; repair
and improvement of paving, roads,
walks and grounds at the Naval Re-
search Laboratory, Bellevue, d. c.,
$4,000; repair and improvement of
paving, roads, walks and grounds at
the Naval Air Station, at Anacostia,
SOS, 1000, and for foundation explora-
tions and subsurface surveys at the
naval magazine, Bellevue, D. c.,
$4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
COUNTY TO APPEAL
FOR ROAD REPAIRS.
Montgomery Commissioners
Fear Heavy Loss in Stop
ping of Work.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md. July l.-Negotia-
tons for the resumption of road
maintenance work in Montgomery
County will be opened by members of
the County Board in a conference
with the State Roads Commission at
Baltimore tomorrow afternoon.
The work has been virtually sus-
pended for some time because of the
condition of the county's account with
the highway body, and many roads
are sorely in need of immediate re-
pairs.
Would Use Gas Funds
1t was said today the commissioners
will appeal to road officials to expend
part of the county's share of the
State gasoline tax receipts for the
necessary work instead of continuing
the practice of applying the entire
share to satisfy the debt
While the new plan would require
longer period to retire the obliga-
ton, which amounts to approximately
S235 900, the County Board will point
out that roads representing an invest
ment of thousands of dollars are
steadily deterioriating because of tie
lack of maintenance.
A complete examination OF the
county's account also will be made by
the commissioners to check on some
of the charges.
Error Revealed.
A cursory inspection made some
time ago by Joseph A. Cantrel, a
member Of the House of Delegates
from Montgomery County. disclosed
that the cost Of a road near POGO
moke City had been enormously
charged to Montgomery's account.
The commissioners will hold their
regular semi-weekly meeting here to-
morrow morning before leaving for
Baltimore and it Is expected that the
Fusion party bloc controlling the
board will appoint Oscar Foulk of
Takoma Park manager of the liquor
diSpensary system
It was first expected that Wilton T.
Allen of Chevy Chase would be ap-
pointed to the position, but it was
learned this morning that the Fusion
commissioners are in complete accord
on Foulk, who is superintendent of q
chain store concern at present.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
SIX POLICE SWORN
|NTONEW RATINGS
Promotions for Meritorious
Service, Maj. Brown Says
at Ceremony.

The six recently promoted police
officers. including Inspector Albert j.
Headley, who was advanced to the
grade of assistant superintendent of
police, were sworn in today in their
new ratings and administered the
oath by Howard E. Crawford, chief
clerk of the Police Department.
The ceremony took place in the
Office of Police Superintendent Ernest
w. Brown, who told the group their
promotions resulted from "meritorious
service"
Besides Headley the others sworn
in are: Inspector Edward j. Kelly,
Capt. Arthur E. Miller, Lieut.. Floyd
E. Truscott, Detective Sergt. Guy
Rome and Precinct Detective John o.
Curtis. Miss Elizabeth Motley. civil
liam employe and private secretary to
Maj. Brown, also took the oath as the
result of receiving pay increase.
Judge Ernest H. Van Fossen Of the
United States Board of Tax Appeals,
who has been conducting hearings in
the Andrew Mellon tax case. attended
and extended his congratulations to
the promoted officers. Maj. Browns
room was decorated with numerous
floral tributes. The local Chinese
colony was one of the donors.
Inspector Headley's new assignment
gives him supervision over the two
police districts. Inspector Kelly will
have supervision over the first and
Inspector James F. Beckett over the
second.
Capt. Miller assumed command Of
the third precinct, succeeding Kelly.
Lieut.. Truscott has been given the
assignment of night inspector. De-
tective Sergt. Rome becomes a mem
Der of Inspector Burke's command,
and Precinct Detective Curtis will re-
main as a member of the Traffic Bu-
reau force.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
Artists Offered Peaceful Hauen
By Widow of Edward M'DOlUelI
Colony of Composer Is
Carried on il, Hills of
Ne,u Hampshire.
Fellowship OF $500 Is
Voted by Alpha Chi
Omega Sorority.

Creative artists are not such tenn
peramental creatures after all. They
are merely out of sympathy with
their surroundings.
The starving poet jim his garnet may
be at war with society in general and
his landlord IN particular, hut try
him in a recent-free cabin n the
pines, where meals are laid three
times daily on lis doorstep.
The budding composer may tear his
hair and his notes, or roll his bat
tered piano down the staircase, yet
the same man will settle down and
produce the best that's in him, given
a setting and an instrument in har-
mony with his true self.
A city-bound, collector harassed
writer can very well develop into
novelist Of compelling power once
he can get free from constant inter-
ruption and petty anxieties to haven
OF peace where a typewriter and a
pleasant prospect invite him to toll.
Colony Established.
These things have been demon
strated in convincing fashion in the
last Is years by Mrs Edward Mac
Dowell. widow of the great composer,
who became imbued with her hus-
bands enthusiasm to establish a COL
ony for creative artists on their New
Hampshire farm and carries on with
fire and enthusiasm long after his
death.
Mrs. Mcdowell, a tiny, energetic,
grazing lady of advancing years, is
in Washington as a guest of honor of
the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority's trav-
cling convention, now in session at the
Shoreham Hotel. The sorority this
morning voted $500 for two years as q
fellowship for some deserving artist
at the Peterborough colony. which
represents Mrs. MacDowells lifework.
Harmony Possible.
Mrs. Mcdowell is convinced that
creative artists, composers, poets,
writers, playwrights. sculptors, paint
ers-can live and work and play in
harmony over long periods without
the temperamental outbreaks which
tradition attributes to them.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
BARRETT ASSUMES
RECREATION OFFICE
New Co-ordinator Silent on Plans
for Future in Tackling
WASHINGTON Job.

Lewis r. Barrett, Washington'S new
co-ordinator of lecreational facilities,
assumed his new duties today and
was provided an Office in the District
Building He comes from the recrea-
tional service If the P. w. A. Hous-
ing Division.
New to the Job in Washington,
but experienced as a former recrea-
tional director in Newark, N. j., and
Des Nome, Iowa, Barrett, who is
built like foot bal! guard, took off
his coat and rolled up his sleeves
in preparation for the somewhat ath-
letic tasks that await him here
THE first thing to do" he said
after assuming Office, "is to make a
study of the situation here and look
the ground over Until I have be-
come sure of MY ground there is
little I can say now"
At a future time he is expected
to be given an Office in one If the
new Government buildings. Barrett
has had much experience as a CO.
ordinator, especially in respect to the
ALLEGATION of leisure time, such as di-
recting various programs among
agencies. He sees that phase of
recreation as one of the most i'm
portant problems to be met today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
CAPITAL TRANSIT TOLD
TO BUY 60 NEW BUSES

Authorization for 100000 Pur-
case Given as Connecticut Ave-
nue. Plans Are Advanced.
In preparation for discontinuance
of street car service on upper Con-
necticut avenue, the Capital Transit
Co. was authorized by the Public Util-
tiles Commission today to purchase 60
buses of the latest type. It was said
the cost will be . little more than
$500, 900.
The new bus service. replacing street
cars north Of Calvert Street Bridge,
will be placed in operation September
/ with de luxe express service to the
downtown section. The new buses
also will provide local service, con-
Meeting with cars at the Calvert Street
Bridge.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
TWo-Day Recess Will Pre-.
vent Reconsideration of
Garnett'S Case.
CONSIDERATION is NOT
SEEN BEFORE JULY 10
Friends Of U. S. Attorney Hope
by That Time to Have Re.
moval Clause Eliminated.
BY JAMES E. CHM.


Present plans of the House to take
two-day recess Wednesday and
Thursday will prevent reconsideration
by the District Committee this week
of the crime report recommending re-
moval of United States Attorney Leslie
C. Garnett.
The District Committees regular
meeting is scheduled Wednesday, at
which time it is planned to begin
reconsideration of the report, but if
the House is in recess on that day
the session will not be held. Chair
man Norton said she had no intention
Of calling a special meeting at any
time this week to consider the crime
report or any other matters.
As a result it will be July 10 before
the committee takes up the report.
In the meantime supporters Of Gar
nett hope to muster sufficient strength
to have a section relating to the United
States attorneys Office revised and
the recommendation for Garnett's re-
moval eliminated
Representative Randolph, Democrat,
Of West Virginia, who served as chair
man of the Crime Committee, is con-
f1dent, however, that no further
changes will be made in the report.
He believes that 10 Of the 81 members
Of the full District Committee will
vote to sustain the original action
approving the report. Ten others
are understood to be prepared to
vote for elimination Of the Garnett
recommendation. One member, Rep
resentative Fenerty. Republican, Of
Pennsylvania. is not expected to at
tend. According to Randolph's pre-
diction this would result in a tie
vote. automatically sustaining the
original action.
The only meeting on District legis-
lation this week will be that of the
Judiciary Subcommittee tomorrow at
1890 am. at which consideration
will be resumed on a bill to liberalize
the divorce laws.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
SELF.PH0T0 AIDS
IN NAMING MAN
Body Found on Railroad Tracks
Identified as "Ice-Box
Burglar"
By statf Correspondent Of The Star.

By STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
EVANSVILLE, Md, July AFTER
36-hour investigation, police yes
terday announced they had identified
the man killed by an electric train
at Huntsville on Friday night as Glenn
Dale's "ice box burglar" who had
been hunted intenSively since he
unwittingly took his own picture while
raiding an ice box last March. He
was Alexander Marvin Page.
Identification, Sergt. Ralph Brown
said, was made through fingerprints
and confirmed by members of the
mans family.
1t was an ingenious Photographic
trap contrived by Edward M. Woods
breakings in that community. which
set police on the trail of the man
in March.
Woods arranged the device so that
flash bulb would be set off, pic
ture taken and a. siren sounded if
any one opened the door of the
ice box on his back porch. 1t worked
TO perfection.
Although the face Of the man in
the picture was averted, William S.
Kreitzer. former Bowie district con-
stable. said it was Page as soon as
he saw the photo
The man found dead beside the
Washington. Baltimore & Annapolis
Electric Railroad tracks at Huntsville
Friday night had note book in
his pocket containing the name,
Frank Anderson. and an address in
the 1900 block of K street southeast.
Washington
Police were told no one by that
name was known at the address.
Sergt. Brown, who had been trying
to identify the man through finger
prints, later learned the man was
the long-sQught Page.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
PROSTITUTION BARRED

MADRID, July R.-A govern
ment decree yesterday outlawed pos
titution in Spain and all licenses were
annulled.
Violators were made subject to fines
and imprisonment.
The decree was part Of the govern
ment's "decency campaign" which
last week brought regulations ban
ming one-piece bathing suits or other
improper attire"
Prostitution long has been legally
sanctioned in Spain.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
2TH0UGHT SHOT HUNTED

Police today were seeking two COL
ored men, believed wounded last night
by policemen's bullets while running
away from building in the 1900
block of Half street southeast, where,
the officers report, they caught them
stealing gasoline from trucks and
tractors
The men were shot at as they broke
through window to get out of the
place when surprised by Policemen
J. r. Birch and H. L. Pearson Of No.
precinct.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
DR.. Alice Paul Returns.

DR.. Alice Paul, chairman of the
Committee on International Relations
of the National Woman's Party. ar
rived in Washington last night from
Europe.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-01
c. of G. Cancels Meetings.

BETHESDA, Md. July Especially.
The Bethesda Chamber of Com
merce has Cancelled its July and Au-
gust meetings and will reconvene in
September for resumption of its
business sessions.