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Evening star., 1935-12-29
TRAFFIC BUREAU
SHIFT ORDERED TO
A|DENFORCEMENT
Inspector Lamb in Charge of
New Set.up-Capt. Smith
Heads Division.
OFFICIALS BELIEVE PLAN
WILL REDUCE ACCIDENTS
% Officers, Including Is Motor
Cycle Men, Will Be Assigned
to Precincts.

A more vigorous and uniform en-
forcement Of all traflc regulations
was in prospect yesterday as result
of Police Supt Ernest NJ. Browns or
ders for a reorganization of the Traf-
fic Bureau, effective January /.
Offcials charged with administer
ing the decentralized bureau said last
night they proposed to give the new
plan a thorough try-out in an effort
to cut Washington's trafic death and
accident toll.
Inspector B. A. Lamb, who will
have the title Of District traffic in
spector, with supervision over all traf-
fic enforcement, was confident tbs
new set-up will improve conditions.
Lamb Sees Improvement.
"We believe the new plan will mean
not only more uniform but more vig-
orous enforcement in all precincts il
Washington" the inspector said. y
personally will be much surprised II
it does not cut fatalities and accidents
THE plan will relieve me Of some
routine duties and allow more time
to supervise enforcement generally
throughout the city. We hope it will
coordinate enforcement and make
for an improved morale"
The Traffic Bureau will function in
the future as a traffic division of the
department, with the same status as
a precinct. Twenty-eight officers now
attached to the bureau, including IS
motor cycle men and 13 patrolmen,
will be shifted to the precincts.
Inspector Lamb will have direct
supervision over every traffic ofhcer in
the precincts, as well as those re-
naming in the new trafic division
under command of Capt. Milton D
Smith.
In addition to having charge Of the
new division. Capt. Smith will super
wise the collateral records ofdce anc
the hack inspection bureau.
Capt. Smith Optimistic.
Can't. Smith said last night:
Mai. Brown and Commissioner
Hazen have devoted a great deal oi
study to the traffic problem and the
necessity Of reducing deaths and acci-
dents in the District. They have de-
cided upon this plan and 1t is up to
every policeman and every citizen to
back them to the limit.
1.-THE plan probably will improve the
morale Of traffic enforcement police
men, since the men assigned to the
precincts will want to show their supe-
riors records as good as those Of the
men who remain in the traffic divi-
sion.
"I think it will make the men keenef
in the discharge Of their duty"
Lamb to Make Inspections.
In addition to his other duties,
Lamb will inspect rush-hour posts at
school crossings previously maintained
and administered through the pre-
cincts.
The new plan calls for half-hour
set up of roll call hours in all pre-
cincts to permit as many policemen
as possible to be on duty at the be-
ginning of the rush hours.
Mai. Brown pointed out yesterday
that 80 motor cycle officers will be
retained In the traffic division for
special duty. including escorts for
President Roosevelt and for dignitaries
who visit Washington.
The new plan is along the general
lines of one discussed during the crime
investigation by a special subcommit-
tee of the House District Committee.
Evening star., 1935-12-29
. VERIFYING is in readiness at
l. the Capitol for the return Of
the SeYentY-fourth Congress

w. VERIFYING is in readiness at
l. the Capitol for the return Of
the Seventy-fourth Congress
- except q clock In the House
chamber-the one which Speaker
Byrns can't escape looking at four or
five hours day.
There are two clocks IN the cham
Der. The other is directly In rear Of
the Speakers dias. But that's al
ready in action and keeping fairly
good time.
The one on which the Speaker de-
pends, however, doesn't even look like
a clock at present. Its hands have
disappeared.
No one seems to know exactly what
happened 10 the clock hands, with
the exception, perhaps, Of Joseph
Sinnott, the House doorkeeper. He u
rather strongly Of the suspicion that
some souvenir hunter just plucket
them of and took them away one
day when the gallery guards were not
looking.
Anyhow, Sinnott has ordered q new
set of hands and guarantees the clocl
will be in first-class condition Frida!
when Speaker Byrns calls the Hous'
to order.
The clocks hands are not the onl!
things the souvenir hunters ar
blamed for taking from the Hous'
Evening star., 1935-12-29
FEDERAL TRIANGLE
FORSAKEN
Contract With Builder to Be
Cancelled as Result of
Decision.

The months-old debate on whether
or not to erect several ornamental
pylons and kiosks to mark the en-
frances to the Federal Triangle was
decided finally and definitely yes
terday in the negative A contract
with a builder accordingly will be
Cancelled.
Designed by Bennett, Parsons &
Frost of Chicago, the pylons and
kiosks were intended as parts of the
so-called Landscape architecture" oi
the triangle. Concrete foundations
for the pillars were built at several
places and on two of these founda-
tions dummy" pylons Of wood and
cloth were erected at Fourteenth
street and Constitution avenue to In
vite public reaction.
Objections by Park Board.
When the contract was let by the
Treasury Department and work was
started on the foundations objections
were raised by the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission. The
chief objection was based on the claim
that the ornamental pillars would
serve only as a menace to increas-
ingly dangerous traffic.
The battle of the pylors" ragged in
numerous conferences between Gov
ernment officials and finally the Fine
Arts Commission was consulted. The
matter was pending for many months
Foundations to Be Covered.
The dummy pylons, soon torn tc
shreds, were taken down after seven
weeks. Their presence seemed only tc
add fuel to the flames of opposition
Now that a final decision has been
reached, the concrete foundations will
be covered with top soil and planted
with grass seed.
The Industrial Fireproof1ng Co. hac
been awarded a contract for s64 ,974
calling for ornamental flag poles in
front of the new Interstate Commerce
and Labor Department Buildings in
addition to the pylons and kiosks
Foundations for the stats have been
completed. but the poles have not yet
been erected.
Evening star., 1935-12-29
D|PHTHER|A CASES
INSPIRE WARNING
DR.. Rutland Advises Parents
to Have Children Immun.
lied Against Disease.

A warning that all children should
be immunized against diphtheria was
issued yesterday by Health Oficer
George o. Ruhland, after invoking
quarantine for the Jewish Foster
Home, 32l3 @ street, following the
death of two of its wards at Gallinger
Hospital.
The children, Maurice Saposnekoo,
13, and June Franks, 8, succumbed
Friday night despite desperate efforts
to save them. In the unsuccessful
fight against the disease Firemen j.
H. Gately and e. ]. Brosnan Of No.
8 gave blood for transfusions.
The health oficer forbade any ad-
mission of new children to the insti-
tuition, or release of those now there,
or visiting at the place until the
present situation was cleared up.
sss Cases During Year.
DR. Ruhland revealed that from
January l to yesterday there were re-
ported 898 cases of diphtheria and
20 deaths. During 1884 there were
539 cases Of diphtheria and l6 deaths.
"It is to be greatly deplored there
should be so many cases and deaths
from diphtheria this year" said DR..
Ruhland. This Is particularly true
since both cases and deaths are abb
solutely preventable, If only people VIII
accept the benefits Of immunization.
Every child should be given i'm
munization after reaching the age OF
6 months, since the most dangerous
period is from the first to the sixth
year of age. Also, 1t should be re-
membered that adults as well as minors
may contract the disease and adults
with a case Of sore throat may have
the disease and pass it on to a child" !"
DR.. Rutland cited as a case in point
that there have been no reports at all
of cases Of smallpox in the District
this year, whereas this disease in past
years reaped large toll before i'm
munization was popularized.
1854 tuberculosis Cases.
Records revealed yesterday by Or.
Rutland showed that during the cur
rent year to date there have been re-
ported 1854 cases of tuberculosis and
500 deaths from that disease. There
are 6,150 cases now under treatment.
he said.
DR.. Rutland said there were 1918
cases of social disease reported to the
District so far this year and 100
deaths from this cause.
The records showed there have been
$50 cases Of epidemic meningitis re-
ported this year and 90 deaths.
Infantile paralysis cases reported so
far totaled IS, DR.. Ruhland said, and
out of this number there were 10
deaths. There are none under treat
ment, he added.
Evening star., 1935-12-29
DETECTIVES QUIZ
MYSTERY WITNESS
IN WILSON KILLING
Richmond Trip Believed to
Have Closed Loose Ends
for Grand Jury.
KtLLEEN PLAN TO SLAY
M'DONALD TO BE TOLD
Woman Charged With Formers
Death May Testify Beard,
Garnett Were Menaced.

Declaring their trip was highly
successful" two Washington detec-
t1ves returned from Richmond last
night after questioning mysterious
witness in the murder of Allen B.
Wilson, newspaper route agent.
The police refused to disclose the
nature of the information secured
from this witness, but it was believed
it will enable them to complete the
preparation of their evidence for
presentation to the grand jury In
Rockville, Md.
Lieuts. John Fowler and Floyd
Truscott said they were well satisfied
with the information obtained In
Richmond, but both denied any one
was brought back to Washington in
connection with the case. The trip
was made by Truscott and Sergt. Ear
Hartman, who, with Fowler, have
been designated as the Wilson
squad"
Wilson was murdered last year by
eangsters who mistook him for Ed
ward Mickey Mcdonald, local
gambler.
Killeen Reported As Enemy.
Mcdonald, a numbers operator, had
been trying to expand the scope OF
his operations in Washington, and
ran afoul of other gamblers. Among
others, he is said to have incurred
the enmity of Edward v. Killeen, who
was killed last month by Mrs. Lillian
Maddox, his paramour.
Meanwhile, it has been learned that
Mrs. Maddox, who has been charged
with manslaughter. will testify at hei
trial that Killeen had planned tc
kill Mcdonald, United States At
torney Leslie c. Garnett and Sam
Beard, another gambler.
Garnett sara yesterday he had heard
Killeen had made threats against him
but said he did not take them seri'
ously. Several months before his
death the gambler went to Garnett
and accused the prosecutor of turning
local gambling rackets over to outside
interests.
Quarrel Follows Release.
Killeen and Beard were once friend
ly. Killeen. according to well-foundeo
reports, operated Boards gambling
establishments when the latter went
to prison on income tax charges
After Boards release, however, they
are said to have quarreled over money
matters.
The mistaken-identity murder oi
Wilson resulted in a thorough in
vestigation Of rackets and racketeer'
here and led finally to the announce
ment by police that the newspaper
agent had been killed by hired gang
sters headed by Tony (The Stinger)
Cugino, Philadelphia gunman, who re-
Gently committed suicide Several
other men we're arrested in connection
with the murder and are being helc
here for action of Maryland author
tiles.
Although declaring the case had
been solved several months ago, Maj
Ernest w. Brown, superintendent o1
police, explained there were severa
'loose ends" that had to be rounded
up before the case could 60 to jury
1t was believed Truscott and Hart.
man went to Richmond to interview
o witness believed able to furnish the
information necessary for this purpose
Evening star., 1935-12-29

Laughter and shouts Of happy chill
dren swept away White House for
mality yesterday at the annual party
for friends Of the Roosevelt grand
children.
From the President and Mrs. Roose-
welt to cooks and coat-checkers, the
Executive Mansions staff put forth
every effort to insure . merry time
for the young GUSTS.
Eleanor Dali, 8, and Sara Roosevelt,
4, were looking their prettiest and
acting their sweetest as hostesses to
the boys and girls who romped In the
huge and elaborate east room.
The Washington playmates Of
Curtis Dali, 5. were present at his in
vitation, but he was kept ct home In
New York by q cold. Many were the
queries, where's Buzzie?" and many
the messages sent to him through his
mother, Mrs. John Boettiger.
Cold weather failed to keep at home
the half-socks worn now-a-days b.
dressed-up children. Automobile afteI
automobile drove up to the White
House door to disgorge ctirly-heads
and straight-haired youngsters ail
Evening star., 1935-12-29
RECREATION UNITS
MERGER TALKED
Plan Is "FavorabIy Consid-
cred" at Meeting of
Committee.

Coordination of District playground
recreation facilities would take more
positive form next month with an ac-
tual physical merger Of the stats Of
two of the three related agencies, un-
der plans "favorably considered" by
the District Recreation Committee, 1t
was revealed yesterday.
If the program is carried out, one
responsible official said, the District
Playground Department will be moved
intact from the District Building to
quarters at Nineteenth street and Con-
stitution avenue.
Headquarters already has been pro-
vided there for Lewis r. Barrett, CO.
ordinator of recreation. He is the
designated agent of the District gov
ernment, the Community Center De-
partment of the public schools and the
National Capital Parks ONCE.
Center Move Denied.
The STAG of the Community Center
Department, however, will not be
moved from Franklin School to the
Constitution avenue building, 1t was
said definitely last night by school
Official Whether this would affect the
plan was not Immediately apparent.
If the proposed plan carries, at least
the service departments of the Dis
trict and the National Capital Parks
will be consolidated at the building on
Constitution avenue, it was reported.
has been adopted by the Recreation
Committee, but not yet adopted by the
District Commissioners.
The committee consists Of Com
missioner George E. Allen, represents
ing the District government; Henry /.
Quinn, the Board of Education; G.
Marshall Finnan, the National Capt.
tai Parks once; with Frederic A.
Delano, chairman of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion, as non-voting chairman.
Control to Remain Same.
The move was contemplated late
last Spring when the committee was
created. when 1t was announced the
plan involved merger" Of the service
stats of the three Government units
concerned with recreation control.
oficials said yesterday. however. the
plan would not deprive the District
or other units Of their individual corl-
troll over their own phases Of the
matter.
In other words, it was declared. Miss
Sibyi Baker would continue as super
wiser Of the District Playground De-
partment, although her entire force be
moved from the District Building 70
the ofice on Constitution avenue.
It is expected Congress this COM
ing session will consider the tempor-
ary plan under which efforts are being
made to coordinate control over
recreation facilities, with Barrett as
co-ordinator.
Evening star., 1935-12-29

Predatory hawks seeking easier
game preserves since the Winters
first snow are preying upon the friend
ly pigeons in La Fayette Square, pets
of children and bird lovers
! Edward Chase, who described him
self as "a friend of the pigeons" was
in the park yesterday afternoon when
he saw hawk swop down upon q
flock of pigeons. seize one in its talons
and fly to the roof Of the nearby Vet
erans' Administration Building.
Anxious to learn more OF the
pigeons fate, Chase stood on the paw
ing beneath the hawk and waited.
white feathers dropping downward
told him all he needed to know.
Once before. few days ago, CHASE
Evening star., 1935-12-29
king WILL launch
|PARO[ELAW STUDY
ION VISIT TOLORTON
Senator Also to Give Atten-
ton to Segregation OF
Young Prisoners.
BACKS la R0E'S STAND
FOR WAR ON GAMBLERS
Head Of Church Federation Com
mittee Urges Increase in
Police Force.

As the first step in study OF the
Districts parole law. Chairman King
Of the Senate District Committee plans
to visit the District Reformatory at
Lorton tomorrow, when he will give
attention also to the question Of sepa-
rating young prisoners from old Of
tenders.
Both Of these questions were men
toned, along with number Of others,
as local problems In need Of consider
alton by Wilbur La Roe, jr., head Of
the Civic Affairs Committee Of the
Washington Federation Of Churches,
in letter to Senator King yesterday.
Senator King also concurred yester-
day in La Roe's advocacy Of q re-
lentless war against gambling. The
bill to strengthen the laws against
gambling, including the numbers
game, passed the Senate at the last
session and is pending in House sub
committee.
Improvements Recommended.
In his letter, La Roe thanked Sena-
tor King for the manner in which he
has handled District affairs. La Roe
also had summarized favorable condi-
tions in the government Of the Capital
as well as the improvements he re-
CARDS necessary. An increase in the
size of the police force, more re-
strictive policy in issuing liquor
licenses and more modern method ot
dealing with inebriates were among
the corrective measures discussed.
Senator King is drafting a reply
thanking the oficial Of the church
federation for his comments and sug-
geStions.
In discussing trafic and transporta-
ton problems yesterday. apart from
La Roe's letter, Senator King indicated
he does not believe 1t Is advisable to
consider subways for Washington at
this time.
As to q general program of District
legislation for the session Of Congress
which starts Friday. Chairman King
has had preliminary conferences with
Corporation Counsel Prettyman on a
few bills. During the coming week he
Will have more comprehensive dis
cission with the Commissioners.
"A - Supply Bill Is Issue.
From local standpoint, one Of the
main issues Of the coming session will
be the annual District appropriation
bill. Ever since Congress departed
from the percentage ratio of fiscal
relations by fixing the Federal share
at lump-sum figure, the House and
Senate have been at odds over what
the figure should be, with the Senate
urging a more equitable amount.
In this connection, Senator Nye
Republican, Of North Dakota. a mem
Der Of the subcommittee which handles
the local supply bill, joined yesterday
in the view that the present IS, 700, ,00C
lump sum is not q fair amount. A
similar opinion was voiced Friday BY
Senator Capper, Republican, Of Kan.
sas. Senator Nye said he would like
to see an impartial study made Of the
fiscal relations problem.
In submitting their estimates fol
the next fiscal year to the Budget
Bureau In October, the Commissioner.
renewed their recommendation of las
year that the Federal payment be In.
creased to $8,3l7 500.
Evening star., 1935-12-29
Ha,oks, Made Hungry by Sno'c,
Prey Upon Pigeons in Square

said he saw another hawk pounce
upon o pigeon in La Fayette Square
and carry it OF. He believes there
are several hawks seizing the pet birds.
He has noticed, he explained, that
the pigeons are getting jittery and
cautious. He informed The Star about
the danger to- the birds in the hope,
he said, that park officials might do
something to protect them.
Hawks do not eat the bones of their
prey, he said, and suggested that an
inspection Of the roof Of the Veterans
Administration Building would reveal
the last traces Of many pigeons.
The pigeon hawks, he said, are
grey spotted and light brown, with
long tails. They are very seldom seen
phere.
Evening star., 1935-12-29
LONELY AND J0BLESS,
MAN RETURNS TO JAIL
Chicagoan, Freed for Christmas,
Asks Judge to Send Him
Back to Alimony Row.
By the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 28.-The irst
Of II alimony row prisoners released
for Christmas last Saturday by Judge
Philip J. Finnegan was returned to
jail today at his own request.
He was Frank Z. Bosworth, 61-year-
old printer.
"I have tried to get job all week,
but was turned down." he told the
court. "I have had to sleep In door
ways and spent Christmas roaming
around park. My married children
don't want me"
Judge Finnegan gave him dollar
for cigarette money and sent him back
10 jail with q promise Of release any
time Q Job was offered.
Evening star., 1935-12-29
HURT BY SLED
BY a STAFF Correspondent of The star

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
BAREFOOT. Va, December 2s.-
Knocked unconscious by sled that
struck him as he was alighting from
a bus in front of his home tonight,
Louis Horton, 48, Of 4700 Eighth
street south, was taken to Emergency
Hospital by the Clarendon Rescue
Squad, where examination revealed
he had received slight conclusion
of the brain.
Police reported that the boy whose
sled struck Horton was one of q num-
Der ooasting on the Eighth street hill.
He was not identified.
Evening star., 1935-12-29
DANCE JOINT EVENT

Kyon Park Citizens and Women's
Club to Mark New Year.
epecial Dispatch to The Star.
LYON PARK, Va, December 26..-A
Nsw Year eve dance will be given
under joint sponsorship of the Lyon
Park Citizens Association and the
Lyon Park Women's Club for benefit
OF the Community Center, In Com
munity House, from 10 pm. to 2:So
am. Music win be BY the Kenmoor
Orchestra
Evening star., 1935-12-29
Ready to Risk Serum Death.

SALT LAKE CITY. December %
R).-Jack Abbott, Utah convict who
offered his LIFE to science for $1,000.
today announced his willingness to
submit to the Rockefeller Institutes
new tnfantale paralysis preventative
Evening star., 1935-12-29
p. W. A. HOUSING DIVISION
TO TAKE NEW QUARTERS
Organization Leaving Interior
Building for Offices in Remodeled
Potomac Park Apartments

bu1ldlng 1Or OmceS III nSuloocAco
Potomac Park Apartments.
Much Of the congestion in the In
terror Department Building will be
relieved over the week end by the
departure of the housing division OF
the P. w. A., which is moving into
its new home in the Potomac Park
Apartments, recently added to the
Governments growing list of rented
buildings.
The housing division occupies parts
of three floors of the Interior Build
ing and will spread out over six fun
floors in the former apartments,
which have been remodeled for busi-
ness purposes. Director A. r. Clash
will occupy Offices on the sixth floor.
The vacated space in the Interior
Building will make it possible to
clear the corridors of desks on some
of the more congested floors. 1t will
be several days before the entire
housing division is moved.
, 1935-01-03
Academic Ocurrido
Cerca de Harlingen
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NoPC@A6A H6Ao Al AANA oAAC
SAN BENITO, Enero 3.-La Sc
norita Olivia Gonzalez. de l. amos y
Felipe Moreno, u prometido. los
dos de San Benito, Sc encuentan re-
oobrandoSe en- Ell hospital Bautista
Ell miersoles en- Ia noche, deSpues
de que fueron sacramento lesiona-
dos cuando Ell automovil en- que via
jaban, que era piloteado por Ia Sc
norita Avila Cortez, sc volco dos
veces en- la ~carretera. cerca de A
dams Gardens, a las cinco de Ia
tarde del microbes.
La sehorita Zoila Montalvo. otro
de los companies del automovil y Ia
Senorita CorteZ, les fueron dadoS
tratamientos en- las cortadas memo
res y raSgunos. en ell hospital y fue-
ron conducidas a sus hogares. Todos
los tripulanteS del automovil que
Sc volco eran de SIN Benito.
De acuerdo con Ia version del a
genie de la patrulla del trafico,
Lawson Anglin. que inveStigo Ell ac-
cidente. Ia Senorita Cortez. deSpues
de paSar a un automovil. aplico los
frenos de Su automovil cuando vio
que estaba a punto de chocar con
otro automovil que Se acercaba. 10
cual cause que la maquina que pilo-
teaba sc volcara.
FL automovil. propiedad de E. de
Ia Rosa. comerciante, Sc incendio
deSpueS de ~volcarSe. pero los ocu-
pantes fueron extraidoS por Anglin
" algunos motoristas a tempo. G.
vitando que sufrieran quemaduras.
La sehorita Gonzalez Y Moreno
.esperaban casarSe el domingo.