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Evening star., 1935-04-27
HIGH MASS MARKS
IRIDIUM FOR PEACE
Ceremony Held in National Shrine
of Immaculate Conception
at Catholic University.

A pontifical high mass was cele-
brated this morning in the National
Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
at Catholic University to open WASH
ington's second day of the worldwide
iridium for preservation of peace,
proclaimed by Pope Plus XI. Most
Rev. John M. Mcnamara, Auxiliary
Bishop of Baltimore, was the cele-
brant.
Services at the National Shrine.
which were begun yesterday by Most
Rev. James j. Ryan, Bishop of Modra
and rector of Catholic University
constitute an appeal to God to en-
tighten the minds of those who hold
the fate of world peace.
The worldwide observance was
launched yesterday at the famous
shrine in LourdeS. France.
Another pontifical high mass will
be celebrated by Most Rev. Amleto
Giovanni Cicognani, apostolic dele.
gate to the United States, tomorrow
at 10 am. in the National Shrine.
Throughout the iridium. the host
is being exposed continuously by two
priests in relay shifts of constant
alteration. The three day plea foi
peace will be brought to an end al
s pm. tomorrow with a holy hour,
led by Very Rev. Edward G. Fitz-
gerald, o. p, and benediction of the
blessed sacrament.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
STADIUM PROJECT
ARCHITECT NAMED
F. P. Sullivan Appointed
as C0nSuItant on
Proposal.

Secretary Ickes today approved the
appointment of Francis P. Sullivan,
prominent local architect. as special
consultant on the stadium project on
the banks of the Anacostia River at
the end of East Capitol street.
Announcement of the appointment
was made by c. Marshall Finnan,
superintendent of the National Cap
ital Parks, paves the way for speedy
solution of the stadium problem. IN
the opinion of the officials.
Recently, Secretary Ickes appoint
ed Bremen Pond of Harvard Univer-
sity, outstanding landscape architect,
as another consultant on the stadium
lob. Later, an engineer will be named
as cOlSultant.
Sullivan and Pond will work with
the Finnan Committee which is
studying the stadium project and Is
preparing plans under Public Works
Administration allotment of some
$4,000.
Finnan announced today that Maj.
Robert w. Crawford, District engi-
neer for the War Department for the
Washington area. is going forward
with borines on the site of the pro-
pissed stadium so the Finan Com
mittee and the consultants will have
necessary information about the foun-
dationS.
An armory for the District National
Guard is to be included in the stadium
project and Sullivan will take promi-
nent part in drawing up plans for
this. He has long been an outstand-
ing figure in architecture in Washing
ton. He is assisting the Federal Gov
ernment in its Public Works Admin
istration program and has been head
of the Allied Architects here. He has
been president Of the Cathedral
Heights Cleveland Park Citizens As
sociation and makes his home at 1920
Rowland place.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
GRAND JURY GIVEN
FALSE CLAIMS CASE
Former Navigation Bureau Clerk
Pleads Guilty in $4,000
Government Fraud.

Grand jury action is awaited in the
case OF Roy H. Dale, 5000 block
Eighteenth street, who pleaded guilty
before United States Commissioner
Needham c. Turnage yesterday to
% charges of filing false and fictitious
claims against the Government in the
amount of $4,000.
Dale, former clerk in the Office
of the chief accountant of the Bureau
of Navigation and Steamboat Inspec-
ton Service of the Department of
Commerce, was arrested yesterday by
Department of Justice agents and
taken directly before Commissioner
Turnage. where he was held under
bond of $1,000. He was later released.
Entering the Government service in
1922, Dale first worked in the Bureau
of Pensions. From there he went to
the Treasury Department and War
Department before being transferred
to the Department of Commerce in
1927.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
Cherry Blossoms
Viii Be at Beauty
Peak TOMORROW
Double FLOlUers attract
CrOWds-ROck Creek
DOg,uOod Out.

A top-notch display of the double
blossoms on Washington's cherry
trees. found around the Speedway in
East Potomac Park, was promised for
tomorrow.
c. Marshall Finnan. superintendent
of the National Capital Parks, said
that the blooms will be glorious to-
morrow" Today they were approach
ing their zenith and were attracting
hundreds of visitors along the banks
of the Potomac River and the Wash
ington Channel
The large, fluffy, pink blooms OF
the double blossom variety were at
tracing the most attention. They
are particularly fine near the Tourist
Camp. There are still some white
blooms to be seen in East Potomac
Park, and even the pink present off
ferent shades of color.
An opposition floral display is COM
ing up in the dogwood that is begin
ming to show in Rock Creek Park,
along the Mount Vernon Memorial
Highway. Redbud, too, is another
floral attraction at this season.
The crabapple blooms in AnacoStia
Park also attracted hundreds of sight
seers. Many consider these flowers
surpass the japanese cherry blooms.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
BILL MAY END BOND
PLAN FOR D. C. HEADS
Measure Offered to Amend Or
ganic Act Passed go
Years Ago.

A bill to amend the Districts
organic act of 1873 to relieve the two
civilian Commissioners of the present
requirement of carrying a $4,000
bond each was introduced yesterday
by Chairman Norton of the House
District Committee.
Mrs. Norton acted at the request
of the Commissioners who said what
ever may have been the motive which
prompted Congress nearly 60 years
ago to provide that two of the Dis
trict Commissioners should give bond
is not now apparent. The Commis-
sioners then were clothed with
greater authority and responsibility
than they now have in the disburse-
ment Of funds belonging to the Dis
trict"
The bill also would relieve the Dis
trict surveyor of the requirement of
carrying a $4,000 bond. The Com
missioners explained that this official
does not handle any municipal funds
and is not the custodian of any in
trinsically valuable property of the
District.
The Commissioners also pointed
out that claims for damages against
the District for errors of the sur
veyor or his staff are rare.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
THREE ARE INJURED
IN TRAFFIC CRASHES
Clarendon, Va, Man Is Charged
With Reckless Driving in
Key Bridge Accident.

Three persons we're injured. none
seriously, in traffic accidents in the
District yesterday and early this
morning.
A charge of reckless driving was
placed against Ira D. Scott of Clar-
endon. Va. today after an accident on
Key Bridge early this morning. when
his car collided with seyenth pre-
cinct scout car. injuring Policeman
George D. Mcdonald Mcdonald was
treated at Georgetown Hospital for
bruises to his chest and both legs.
Emmett Anderson. 81, of 487 Mary
land avenue southwest, was treated
at Providence Hospital for a lacera-
ton over his right eye and an injury
to his right knee received yesterday
about $50 pm, when he was struck
by a car driven by Miss Marvin Breck-
enridge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs
John c. Breckenridge. 2507 Massachu-
SettS avenue. Anderson was struck as
he started to cross the street in front
of his home.
In another accident 8-year-old Rich
ard Stanton, GA Orleans place north
east suffered slight conclusion and
injuries to his scalp when he was
knocked down by an automobile driven
by Telmo Araujo. 2127 California
street, at Sixth and M streets north
east. The lad was treated at Cas-
ualty Hospital.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
COURT DEMANDS
ORDER At HEARING
Followers of Prof. Bragg,
Healer, Warned Against
Demonstration.

When Prof. Paul c. Bragg returns
to Police Court Monday to answer
charges of practicing the healing arts
without license. his devoted followers
will not be permitted to turn the
occasion into a demonstration in his
honor.
Judge Ralph Given warned that no
applause would be permitted when the
hearing is resumed after a large
and predominately feminine audience
cheered and clapped for the professor
in court yesterday afternoon.
Arrest Prevents Lecture.
Prof. Bragg's South Sea diet theories
have won an enthusiastic following,
although they are propounded at a
lecture series costing $40. it was tes-
titled yesterday. The professor was
arrested Monday night as he was about
to deliver another lecture at the
Masonic Auditorium.
The Government charged that the
professor has been giving diet advice,
handing out medicines and recon-
mending the purchase of other
remedies. Two types of medicine offered
by the prosecution in evidence we're
objected to by Defense Counsel Herbert
GrosSman and Judge Given will rule
on their admiSsability Monday.
After the hearing yesterday, Bragg,
a sun-tanned. vigorous man OF 4O,
was surrounded on the court house
steps by scores of persons pressing
forward to shake his hand. Speech.
speech!p some one shouted.
The professor raised his arm in
dramatic command for silence. Free
speech and the American flag he
yelled. Come to my lecture tonight!
Three cheers for Abraham Lincoln!
Persecution Charged.
"There never was an emancipator
who wasn't prosecuted" one of the
professors flock cried.
The district attorneys office in
Police Court has been beseiged with
petitioners seeking dismissal of the
warrant against Bragg. The court
room was filled to capacity yesterday
and the spectators jammed the corri-
dors out side.
One Representative in Congress,
court attaches said. telephoned a re-
quest that seat be reserved for my
wife"
Evening star., 1935-04-27
SERVICES CELEBRATE
BIRTHDAY OF GRANT
Sons of Civil War Veterans Spon-
sor Exercises in Union
Square.

Today is the 18th anniversary of
the birth of Gen. U. S. Grant. Mem
bers of military organizations COM
prising "the Grand Army Family" will
unite in celebrating.
Services were sponsored by the Will
liam B. Gushing Camp. No. 30, Sons
of United Veterans of the Civil War,
at 2:30 pm. at the Grant Memorial
statuary group in Union Square.
Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada,
the Rev. H. E. Snyder, commander
of George Washington Post, No. l,
American Legion. and Col. William p
Mac cCracken, jE., former Assistant Sec
retary of Commerce, are listed as the
speakers, with concert by the Ma
rine Band.
Tonight in the board room of the
District Building. the Warren G.
Harding Camp, Sons of Union Vet
Grams of the Civil War, will hold q
panel discussion as the main feature
of the celebration in honor of Grants
birthday. The speakers will be Eldon
P. King, special deputy commissioner
of the Internal Revenue Bureau;
Jerome F. Barnard, attorney, and
R. j. F. McElroy,. attorney. The meet
ing will start promptly at ESQ o'clock
Evening star., 1935-04-27
ANACOST|A GROUP
BATTLES BUSPLAN
Street Cars Replacement
Ruins Direct Route,
Citizens Assert.

Objection to plans approved by the
Public Utilities Commission for estab-
lishment of bus route to replace
street cars in the AnacoStia section
was voiced last night in a resolution
adopted by the Anacostia Citizens
Association.
Members asserted that under the
plan. scheduled to take effect July /,
they were not affored a direct route
into the downtown business section of
Washington. The bus, route, it was
said. followed Constitution avenue.
DR.. George C. Havenner, president
Of the association, appointed a COM
mittee of five to study the matter and
make recommendations.
Milton E. Diehl was appointed to
represent the association at the taxi
cab rates hearing to be held some time
before July /. The association favors
the present zone rates.
Mrs. Phyllis E. Plemmops, presi-
dent of the Ketcham-Vah Buren,
Home and School Association. headed
delegation of Is members asking
the association to aid in their fight
for better recreation facilities for the
section. The citizens association in
dorsed the action of the home and
school group.
A resolution was ordered sent Miss
Sibyl Baker, director of Fairgrounds
and other necessary officials, asking
for two Fairgrounds for the Ana
costa section. one to be north and
the other south of Good Hope road
southeast.
A House resolution was Endorsed
by the association, requiring that the
American flag be flown on all Gov
ernment buildings.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
WARNER BROTHERS
WILL BUILD z NEW
.THEATERS IN D. c.
Connecticut Avenue Gets
One and Pennsylvania
the Other. =.
TO HOLD 1900 EACH;
TWILL OPEN IN FALL.
"Streamline' Architecture Plan.
ned to Give Maximum
Sound Effects. .

Two new theaters, costing 81 900 900,
soon will be added to the Warner
Bros circuit in. Washington, it was
announced today by John j. Payette,
general circuit manager of the theaters
here.
The show houses, to be erected at
Connecticut avenue and Newark
street and directly across the street
from the present Avenue Grand on
Pennsylvania avenue southeast, will
increase the number of Warner
theaters in the District to IA.
The theater at Connecticut avenue
and Newark street will be known as the
Uptown and the one on Pennsylvania
avenue the Penn. The one on Con-
necticut avenue will have six stores
on the ground floor, the one on Penn
sylvania. five.
The buildings are to be of steel and
reinforced concrete with terra Gotta
finish and will have seating capacity
of approximately 1500 each Both
buildings also will have modern air
conditioning and refrigeration systems
for Winter and Summer uses. Oc-
cupancy is expected this Fall Work
is to start Immediately.
New Ideas Introduced.
"These theaters will present some
thing new to theater-goers in WASH
ington." Payette said. They will be
what is known as 'streamlined' in
architecture. which will give the
audiences much better sound effects
In both the screen will b enlarged in
keeping with NE modern trend"
Something new in Washington will
be seen in the new block sheet light
ing systems. Concealed lighting will
be the rule throughout the buildings.
The auditoriums of the theaterS
will be 1875 feet long and 81 feet wide,
and will be built with brick backed
with hollow tile, roof trusses being of
steel carried on concrete and brick
columns on the outside of the audito-
rum. The inside walls are to be
furred and plastered. hung with
handsome drapes which will cover the
built-in sound proofng.
Screens to Be Large.
Instead of the conventional or
thestra pit and stage, a flight of
curving steps will lead up to the
rostrum beside the proscenium arch.
which has an opening of So feet.
This will enable the use of one of
the largest picture screens in the city,
Payette said
The present plan does not contem-
plate the use of the theaters for stage
or vaudeville, but the stage block is
made sufficiently large to accommo-
date such shows if the policy should
be changed. The auditorium will seat
958 persons and the balcony 458.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
YOUNG DEMOCRATS
nominate SLATE
Four Candidates Named for Presi.
dent in Three-Hour Session
Ending in Battle.

Candidates were nominated by the
Young Democratic Club of the Dis
trict after stormy three-hour ses-
sion last night which ended in bat
tie over the motion to adjourn.
Those nominated for president were
Paul Best. Edward J. Sheridan. Ray
mond Noonan and John Milligan; for
first vice president. Howard Stafford.
Andy Frost and Frank j. Loveless;
second vice president, Nancy Har-
field. Madam Russell. Josephine
Bowersox and Elizabeth Connolly.
For recording secretary, Gladys
Goeringer, Sylvia Walker and Lee
Kelley; for corresponding secretary,
Ruth Evelyn Madden, Anna Sylvert-
son and Eleanor Levy; for treasurer,
James D. Burns, Daniel p Mullarkey
and Cleve Clark. =
For chairman of District affairs,
John Mark. Aiva Patton and Joseph
Ginsburg; for the Resolutions Com
mittee. James Stedmon, John Bracken
and Dean S. McCune, and for the
Membership Committee, William M.
Churchill, Charles Borda and Carl
Paris.
The election will be held late next
month.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
B. & O. CHANGES CUT
Time TO NEW YORK

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will
put on a 4-hour schedule between
Washington and New York April %, In
a general speeding up of running time.
it was announced yesterday. This
means a reduction of % minutes.
The Columbian, leaving here at
Ais pm. will arrive in Jersey City at
8:15. The Capitol Limited, from New
York to Chicago, will have 80 minutes
clipped from its schedule, while East
bound the cut will be Al minutes.
For the National Limited, New York
to st. Louis, the reduction will be ~
minutes.
Practically all of the long-distance
trains are to be made up of air. r-condi-
toned equipment throughout.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
JAIL FACILITIES
HERE CRITICIZED
Cells Inadequate for 49,.
600 Arrested Every Year,
Executives Hear.

Cell and sanitary facilities in Wash
ington are entirely inadequate to care
for the 10000 persons arrested here
every year, James Nolan, assistant di-
rector of the Bureau.of Rehabilita-
ton, told the Executives Council at a
meeting yesterday in the Y. w. c. A
building. Seventeenth and K streets.
Nolan said that of the $4,000
arrests, so per cent are made in three
precincts, the first, second and third
All three of these precinct station
houses, he said, are 60-year-old build
ings, entirely inadequate.
The first precinct, with "a cells
averages 1900 arrests a month, Nolan
said. AS a result cells are always
overcrowded and sanitary facilities
highly inadequate" The prisoners
receive two sandwiches in the morning
and a bowl of beans or soup in the
afternoon, he said.
Men Found to Cell.
In the second precinct, Nolan said
he found 33 men and boys in eight
cellss0h one visit This precinct aver
ages 1,700 arrests month and its
usual average is 100 arrests over Sat-
urday and Sunday, thus crowding
the detention house beyond all rea-
son." 1t frequently is necessary to
move prisoners to outlying precincts
he said.
The third precinct averages 1000 ar
rests a month and has only six cells,
Nolan said. He also went into the mat
| ter of inadequate facilities in the Dis
/ trict Jail
Capt. Rhoda Milliken. head of the
Woman's Bureau, told the group tRat
! the detention house for women, while
adequate most of the time. suffefeo
over week ends by overcrowding ano
also lacked sufficient isolation wards
for housing prisoners with contagious
| diseases.
Bill Now Pending.
The executives were urged by the
speakers to support bill now pending
in Congress to provide better deten.
| ton facilities for Washington.
| Ray H. Everett, executive secretary
of the Social Hygiene Society. was
elected president of the council at yes
terday's meeting. Mrs. j. P. S. Neigh
head resident of Neighborhood House
was elected treasurer, and A. Boyc
Kinds, assistant director of the Com
munity Chest, treasurer.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
JOHN SAUL NAMED
TRADE BOARD HEAD
Morris and CoIIaday Are
Chosen by Directors to
Be Vice Presidents.

John Saul. president of B. F. Saul
Co., was elected president of the
Washington Board of Trade at the
annual meeting of the board Of di-
rectors in The Star Building today.
Saul was elevated from the first vice
presidency to succeed Robert " Flem-
ing. president of Riggs National Bank,
who automatically became a member
of the board of directors.
Edgar Morris. second vice president
during the past year. was elected first
vice president. Edward F. Colladay
was chosen second vice president. He
served last year as associate general
counsel.
Lawrence T. Williams was reelected
secretary. Other officers rechosen
were Robert j. Cottrell executive sec
retary: J. Harry Cunningham, treas
urer; George Pitt. assistant treasurer,
and E. c. Brandenburg. general
counsel.
The election was the first business
transacted by the new board of di-
rectors. selected at the annual meet
ing at the Mayflower Hotel Thursday
night.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
Clocks to M0ue. Ahead an Hour
Tonight for Daylight Savings

against fast time, but there, too, the
principal cities will operate on day.
light time. Massachusetts goes on
daylight" under State law. Rhode
Island also will set clocks ahead.
Rochester. NJ Y, is one of the few
communities of the Empire State in
which referendum defeated fast"
time. Businessmen, however, have ar
ranged to readjust working hours dur
ing the Summer so that employees will
have the advantage of an added hour
of sunlight even though the clock fails
to show it.
The South, with rare exceptions
| Atlanta, Ga, and jackson, Miss,
among them-remains on standard
time. So does most Of the country
wet of the Mississippi,
Chicago and most Illinois cities will
go on daylight time. Michigan and
Ohio are in large part on Eastern
standard time the year around.
In CanaGa such cities as Montreal,
Toronto, Quebec and Ottowa will
operate on fast" time, beginning to-
morrow. Other cities plan to speed
their clocks later-some in May and
some as late as June.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
5000 SCHOOL CHILDREN
GET PAPAL BLESSING
Most Rev. Amleto Cicognani Off
ciates at Exercises at Cath
olic Mission Crusade.

Most Rev. Amleto Cicognani, apos-
tolic delegate to the United States,
yesterday bestowed a papal blessing
on more than 5000 Catholic school
children of Washington visiting the
exhibit of the Catholic Mission Cru
SADIE.
The apostolic delegate praised the
missionary exposition Of the Catholic
Mission Crusade, in which the work of
the various religious orders in every
part of the world is displayed.
The cadet corps of st. Johns Col
lege and Cadet Band escorted Rev.
Cicognani through the university
grounds to the exhibit hall.
Because of the large throngs at
tending the exhibition this week it
was decided to continue it through
Sunday.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
FIRST SEWAGE PLANT
UNIT TO START SOON
Construction on Blue Plains Job
Awarded New York Firm
for $37e,515.

Construction of the first unit of the
sewage disposal plant at Blue Plains,
D. c., will be started within three
weeks, affording employment for
about six months to 1873 laborers and
96 mechanics.
Contract for the work was awarded
yesterday by the Commissioners to the
Suburban Engineering Co. of New
York, the low bidder, for $379,515.
This is the first award under the
$5,500,000 in loans obtained by the
District from the Public Works Ad-
rfinistration for building the sewage
plant and the. tuberculosis hospital at
Glenn Dale, Md.
The first unit will include a pump
ing station. grit chambers and q
metering apparatus.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
DEALER KILLS SELF
BEFORE WIFE AND SON

Standing behind the counter of his
market at 1908 Eighteenth street,
David Israel. Al, yesterday shot and
killed himself in the presence of his
wife and >9-year-old son, Leonard.
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald is
sued q certificate of suicide.
According to police, Israel had ex-
pected his wife, Betty, to relieve him
at IL o'clock so he could leave the
store and buy some supplies. When
she finally came at 1:30 pm, re-
marking that she had stopped to talk
to some women, the husband, police
said. shot himself without further
conversation.
Evening star., 1935-04-27
PRESIDENT TO DINE
With CORRESPONDENTS
White House Groups Annual
Banquet Tonight Includes
Many Notable Guests.

President Roosevelt will be the
honor guest at the annual banquet
tonight of the White House Cores
pondents' Association to be held at the
Willard Hotel. A long list of guests
will include persons prominent in
official and political life Of the Capt.
tai, among them Vice President
Garner, Speaker Byrns and members
of the cabinet.
Francis M. Stephenson of the As
sociated Press, president of the as
sociation, will preside during the first
half of the evenings fun, ,~and Albert
L. Warner, New York Herald Tribune,
the incoming president, will preside
during the latter half,