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Evening star., 1936-03-30
Births Reported.
Iames and Martha Lemon. boy

James and Martha Lemon. boy,
John and Ruth Wilson, sirl
Emzy and Lula Woodard. boy.
James and Helen Holmes boy.
Harold and Beatrice Rudolph. girl.
Thomas and Anne Reynolds. girl.
Philip and Lillian Rosen, girl.
Bernard and Susan MaitruS. girl.
Gilbert and Ella Richards. girl
William and Aetna Martin. boy
Wendell and Madeline Miller boy.
Chester and Anna Rector boy.
Lou and Margaret Chisholm. boy.
Hansel and Rosa Cook, girl.
Harold and Martha Collier. girl.
Andrew and Thelma Jameson. girl.
James and Amanda Harris. girl.
Eugene and Gertrude Lithgow. boy.
Arthur and Ada Houghton, girl.
Bryan and Ida Dorsey. boy.
Archie and Viola Fore, girl.
Moffet and Frances Settle girl.
Arthur and Geneva Wade. boy twins.
Walter and Ruby Jenkins. boy.
Norman and Ruby Simms. girl.
Capers and Eva Rivers. girl.
Robert and Helen Lee. girl.
william and Beulah Goodwin. girl.
Lloyd and Eliza Henson. girl.
Albert and Almeter Harrison. boy.
Curtis and Eloise Williams. girl
Ridseway and Helen Smith. girl.
Joseph and Hattie Henson. girl.
Richard and Rose Wilson. girl
Robert and Emma Brooks. girl.
Charles and Louise Francis, boy.
Evening star., 1936-03-30
Navigation to Resume.

Navigation on the Potomac River
past the bascule draw span of the
Arlington Memorial Bridge, halted
since the recent food, is expected to
be resumed tomorrow. High waters
had put the four s00-pound motors
that operate the span out of commits
sion
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FOUND.

BOSTON BULL-Male. light brindle and
white. rather old; also pup. part police.
male. with collar and leash; vicinity Silver
Spring, Call Emerson 5941.
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729 Fiji t e e n t h
street, since Oc-
tober. He former
ly had worked for
Boss g. Phelps
and Hedges &
Middleton.
Born in Fred
erick, Md, Mr..
McAlister came
to Washington
IS years ago and
studied law at
George Washing
ton University.
Admitted to the
bar on January
10 1915 he nrac-
Evening star., 1936-03-30

SUMMERS ALICE ELIZABETH On Nom
day, March 30, 1886. at her residence,
BIO 18th st. ne ALICE ELIZABETH
SUMMERS. wife of the late Charles p.
Summers and mother Of Charles E AM
drew E. Clarence r and Miss Alice
S.lmmers- Mrs. Martha r Linton and
Mrs Elsie M Means Funeral from the
above residence on Wednesday April |,
az p.m. Relatives and friends invited,
lQfermerf Cnn al Carnatarx
Evening star., 1936-03-30

%, 1876 a. prcTidence TGuH HOSPITAL. Mat
SAMUEL F. sMooT SON Of the late
William G. and Ella Smoot Of 401 sth
St. Sc Funeral from the James T.
RYAN funeral home 3I7 Pennsylvania
ave Sc. on Tuesday March 81 at ,
pm. Relatives and friends invited In
terment Congressional Cemetery.
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SCOTT. JOSEPH A. SR. On Saturday
March rs. 1896 at his residence. 46S
9th ST ne in his S5th year. JOSEPH
A. SCOTT. Sr beloved father of Ger
trude 5. Runyan. Harry r. Scott. Mar
gureitte Salisbury Joseph A. Scott jr..
and Ruth F. Young Remains resting
at his late residence. Funeral from the
Ninth Street Christian Church Tuesday
March 81 at IL am Relatives and
friends are invited. Interment Glenwood
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GarAH uf UhankH.

CARTER. EMORY BRANCH The family
Of the late EMORY BRANCH cARTEE
many friends and relatives for their
services. sympathy and beautiful floral
THE FAMILY.
MURRAY. WALTER. Our thanks and sim
cere appreciation to the many relatives.
friends and co-workers for their kind
expressions of sympathy at the death Of
our husband and father. WALTER MUIR
RAY. THE FAMILY.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
Traffic
Continued From First Page.)

voided all arrests for violations of the
notices. Schuldt held that no emer-
gency existed.
A proposed new ordinance is being
prepared today by Vernon E. West,
acting corporation counsel, governing
parking during the snowy season and
giving the Commissioners power to
force property owners to clear their
sidewalks in business districts.
Col. Dan I. Sultan, Engineer Com
missioner, has proposed a licensing
law for parking lots, so the District
may control them and require un-
slightly areas to be cleaned and kept
in good order. The proposal also
would give the District supervision
over problems of parking that might
involve public safety or fire hazards.
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen IA
vors the proposal to have the Dis
trict heads held responsible for all
traffic regulations. He wants the
board clothed with the necessary au-
thority to proceed without having to
call on Congress.
There Is no doubt we can and
should handle all traffic matters, +"
Hazen said, without having to run
to Congress, as we do now. I be-
lieve Congress will see the wisdom
in such q change"
Evening star., 1936-04-09

Continued From First Page)
point in the conference, however, he
said if any Of the reports we're not
timely" they would not be made
public.
Saxon said he thought I'VE can
logically prove that many of the
New Deal activities have impeded
rather than forwarded recovery"
"On the other hand" he said,
there were many New Deal activities
that his division could approve" He
did not name them.
mo party test has been applied in
assembling the division" Fletcher's
statement said.
Saxon told reporters he, among
others, in the division had voted for
President Roosevelt in 1882.
Il regret it," he concluded tersely.
Fletcher said the committee hoped
the work of the new division would be
valuable when we take over the Gov
eminent next January" The material
assembled by the division would be
available to any candidate for the Re-
publican nomination, he said.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
RIDICULED IN REICH.
French Peace Plan Condemned ir
Press as Visionary,

y
BERLIN, April CP.-The Reicn
press directed a broadside of criticism
today against the French plan fo-
European peace.
So unanimous was the condemnation
by Berlin newspapers of the French
proposals, issued in rebuttal to those
by Adolf Hitler, that informed sources
SAID 1t was indicated this attitude was
ordered from somewhere higher up.
The Kreuz Zeitung headIined its
editorial, Frances Historic Mistake. -
declaring the French program for
regional mutual assistance pacts. sup
ported by an international army under
the League of Nations, must be re-
jected.
If France believes it can continue
to employ the same methods with
which it has suppressed people for
two decades, then this is not only an
error by its statesmen but a mistake
which must lead to catastrophe. not
only for Germany but for all Euro
pean nations, this newspaper asserted
The allgemeine zeitung described
the French plan as "skyScraper Of
pactS and visions for Europe"
The Voelkischer Beobachter, owned
by Adolf Hitler, who had proposed
negotiation of separate non-aggression
pacts as solution to the crisis arising
from Germany's violation of the Lo-
carno and Versailles treaties, said tie
French answer was "a document os
negative spirit"
Evening star., 1936-04-09

When they first arrived here they
talked about restoring 1926 price levels
the pre-war parity of farm prices, ETC.
etc. The N. r. A, A. A. A, gold policy
and many another were based on that
theory. This objective has not been
reached. Latest figures from the Bu-
,eau of Labor Statistics disclose the
general price level to be 1913 per cent
of the 1925 level (week ended
March 28).
AnyUay, the brain truSterS do not
uant the 1926 leUel any more. They
realized that 1926 prices on 1886
WageS would soon Vreck everybody.
They soon dropped that fad and
took up one Uhich was more fully
thought out, the BrandeiS-Frank-
turter theory. 1t held that tDllat is
tUrong Uith the economic system is
bignesS, not prices. Considerable
breaSt-beating for the little man
then enSued. The last tar bill
teebly approached the breaking up
OF large businesses. The A. T. G. T.
Investigation was instituted. The
RobtnSon-PdtnlGn bill has been
pressed.
But now the turn of thought Is
swerving to the contrary approach. It
proceeds in the opposite direction of
low-cost marketing, low prices, anti
middleman, anti-little fellow.
Nevertheless, you may see it tested in
big or little way. provided, of course,
that they do not think of something
else first.
tcopyrisht. 1861
Evening star., 1936-04-09
FEE BY RITTER
HELD EXCESSIVE
Judge Davis Testifies Sum
Allowed Rankin Was
"0ut of Line"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Judge Fred Davis Of he Florida Su-
preme Court testified in the Senate
impeachment trial Of Federal Judge
Ritter of Miami today that he con-
sidered the $4,000 Whitehall receiver
ship fee Ritter allowed A. L. Rankin, a
former law partner, "out Of line"
Testifying under direct examination
by Representative Hobbs Democrat,
Of Alabama). House prosecutor, Judge
Davis said the fees for such services
involved "a matter of Judgment and
probably would be different as be-
tween Federal and State courts. He
said, however, he believed $4,000
would have been the outside amount
allowed by a State tribunal.
This statement followed a question
by Hobbs as to what he regarded as a
reasonable fee in case where the
services rendered by Rankin consisted
of the routine handling" of the re-
ceivership from beginning to end.
1T seems to me-" Davis said, "s75,-
900 would be unreasonable"
Recalls Judge Ackerman.
Before Davis took the stand, Frank
P. Walsh of defense counsel recalled
Federal Judge Alexander Alderman OF
Tampa, who had allowed Rankin a
SIS 1000 fee, which he testified yester-
day he believed was to be the total
fee allowed Rankin.
Akerman replied in the affirmative
when asked if he was familiar with
Judge Ritter's reputation for honesty
Davis testified he never heard of a
fee being granted in Florida for con-
serving the assets of property.
The defense contends the $4,000
allowed by Akerman was merely fol-
Rankin's services in conserving the
assets Of the Whitehall Hotel at Palm
Beach and that the $4,000 was fol
winding up the litigation.
Senators Quiz Witnesses.
Senators are interrogating witnesses
closely as the proceedings, compare.
lively rare in American history, 60 on
Pages were kept busy yesterday run
ming the Senators penciled interroea-
tions to the chair, especially after
Rankin testified he paid 500 of the
81 500 to the judge out of an advance
on a $4,000 fee Ritter allowed him
for services in the Whitehall Hotel
receivership.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
WAGNER ACT HIT
BY OIL COMPANY
Board Lacks Authority to Hear
Employe Dismissal Case,
Examiner Told.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The constitutionality Of the wag-
ner national labor relations act was
challenged today by the American Oil
Co. of Baltimore in a hearing on
charges of unfair labor practices in
the discharge Of two union employees.
Edwin H. Brownley of Baltimore
told John A. Lapp, trial examiner.
the board lacked authority to hear
the complaint because the act was in
valid. and, secondly, for the reason
that even if the law is valid, there
is not sufficient grounds for the ale
cations.
M. NJ Rowland. Ballston, Va, and
J. W. Hollidge. Alexandria. Va. dis
charged truck drivers, complained
through the International Brother
hood of TeamSters, Chauffeurs, Sta
blemen and Helpers Local $50 in
Washington that the company had
dismissed them because of union ac-
tivities. Counsel for the company
contended the men were discharged
for other reasons.
The examiner overruled objections
to taking of testimony on grounds the
board was charged with administer
ing the act and he had no authority
to pass upon constitutionality.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
d. c. Orders Study to Fix Policy
In Congressional Traffic Cases

If the warrant is issued the case will
be tried as a test.
George D. Nelson, assistant corpora
ton counsel in Police Court, who is
working with West on the matter, said
today he is undecided as to whether
the warrant can be issued and served.
Nelson has been holding up the in
formation for several weeks pending
study.
Senator Duffy contends he is i'm
mune from arrest, since the violation
does not involve a breach of the
peace.
Duffy's automobile was ticketed by
Policeman S. ]. Prophet on Connecti-
cut avenue, March 8.
Evening star., 1936-04-09

Vernon E. West, acting corporation
counsel, has assigned William H
Wahly, an assistant, to make a spe-
cial investigation of the Law to de-
termine if congressional immunity ap-
plies IN traffic violations, it was an
nounced today.
West said the future policy Of the
District courts will depend upon the
decision made in the case of Senator
F. Ryan Duffy of Wisconsin, charged
with violation of parking regulation
No warrant will be issued for the
arrest of the Senator unless the corp
Grafton counsel decides that members
of Congress are amenable to the law
Evening star., 1936-04-09
ALEXANDRIA MAYOR
OUT OF BANKRUPTCY
Dawson Pays Claim Into Court
as Second Is With
drawn.
BY stan Correspondent of The Star.

BY staf Correspondent of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, April 9.-Fol-
lowing full payment of one claim
against him and withdrawal of an
other. E. c. Dawson, mayor of Alex
andria, today was automatically re-
leased from the voluntary bankruptcy
petition filed by him last November is.
Frederick L. Flynn. referee in bank
ruptcy for the United States District
Court, announced shortly before noon.
Mr. Dawson, through his attorney,
Harry F. Kennedy. paid into the BANK
ruptcy court the sum of $4,000 yester-
day, thereby paying off the claim of
Robert c. Baldwin, receiver for the
Commercial National Bank of Wash
ington, Referee Flynn announced. The
receivers claim totaled S7,i0212.
A second claim. filed by Mrs. Laura
Hefin. daughter of Mayor Dawson, in
the amount of 81 400 has been with
drawn by her attorney. the referee said.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
SUTTON, M'DERMOTT
TRIAL DATE MAY q
Judge D. Lindley Sloan to Preside
Over Murder Case in
Allegany County.
Rv the Associated Press.


CUMBERLAND, Md. April 9.-The
judges of the Allegany County circuit
court have tentatively set May 4 for
the opening here of the murder trials
of Albert S. Sutton and Albert McDer-
mott of Washington, D. c., charged
with the mistaken identity" killing
Of Allen B. Wilson, Washington news
paper route agent. The case was re-
moved from Montgomery County. The
date is subject to change by the court.
and will follow the completion of the
Allegany County criminal docket.
Chief Judge D. Lindley Sloan with
Associate Judges Frank G. Wagaman,
Hagerstown, and David A. Robb, Cum
berland, are expected to preside at the
trials.
Recently four Washington papers
applied for permission to set up press
wires and instruments in the court
house here. This request will be dis
posed of by the court here later.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
Congress in Brief

Senate:
Meets half hour earlier than usual
to try Judge Halsted L. Ritter OF
Florida on impeachment charges.
Finance Committee considers war
profits bill.
House:
Considers Senate-approved rural
Identification bill
Appropriations Committee meets at
10 (executive) on deficiency bill.
Ways and Means Committee studies
tax legislation.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Continues impeachment trial OF
Judge Halstead Ritter.
Senate Subcommittee on District
Appropriations, 10 am, to hear Com
missioners on traffic problems.
Lobby Committee, hearing at 10 am.
Military affairs, regular weekly
meeting.
House:
Not expected TO be in session.
Patents Committee continues hear
ings on copyright bills at 10 am.
Subcommittee on deficiency of the
Appropriations Committee continues
hearings on deficiency bill at 10 am.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
SCHOOLGIRL KILLED,
ANOTHER is DYING
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
FREDERICKSBURG, Va, April O.
Eight-year-old Virginia Rankin OF
Stafford County was feared near death
at Mary Washington Hospital here
today from automobile injuries re-
ceived yesterday.
Katherine Embrey, also 8. died in
the same accident.
They we're struck by car police said
Willie Byers, colored, 35, drove He Is
held on a manslaughter charge.
Funeral services for the Embrey child,
daughter of William Embrey, Hart
wood, were set for today. The children
were hit as they returned to Berea
School from nearby store during a
recess period.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
REBUILDING LEGAL
ON CANAL s LAND
Park Commissions Attorney
Holds Permits Cannot
Be Refused.
B. a Stan Correspondent o. The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md. April 9-Efforts
to block the rebuilding of homes along
the Chesapeake 6, Ohio Canal damaged
by the recent Potomac River food ap-
peared doomed to failure under a de-
cision arrived at today by Walter w.
Dawson. counsel for the Maryland
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Dawson declared. after a study Of
the law, that the commission is with
out authority to deny building per-
mits to repair or replace homes To-
Gated on the strip of land between the
canal and river.
The Montgomery County commits
sioners and several civic organizations
had requested the planning group tc
reject applications which the flood
victims filed for permits to repair the
flood damage.
Evening star., 1936-04-09

HUST because you have not heard
of the brain trusters lately is
no sign they have stopped
thinking.
They have merely pulled the shades
on their minds.
Almost daily they assemble in
small groups for luncheons at clubs
Where priU0cy is assured. and also
at cocktail parties and dinners
at their homes.
In these exclusive confabs lately a
new economic philosophy has been
generated. You will probably not hear
about it for while yet; perhaps not
until after election. One reason is
that it is very, very secret These
remaining brain trusters live in a rari-
fed atmosphere of thought. which is
rarely penetrated by politicoes or news
men and seldom by the top Govern
ment officials. The ordinary herd
here is not only socially, but also
mentally inferior.
As every one knows, professional
thinkers are the only disciples of true
thought. Many are hired by endowed
institutions, and even political ones. to
advocate certain lines of thought, for
good fixed prices, but even these de-
cline to depart from their background
aura of exclusive, mental respectable
ity.. Money does not tilt their haloeS.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
Widow Freed in Scent Theft.

LOS ANGELES. April 9 R.-It
took two juries to do it, but Mrs.
Annie Hays, 7l-year-old widow, was
free today of charges of stealing a
6-cent jar of vaseline from a depart
ment store. ....
The first jury walked out and sub
stitute jurors quickly acquitted her.
No action was taken against the
Striking" jurors. .
Evening star., 1936-04-09
Pedestrians Form
Corporation to
Protect Rights
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April ga cor
poration designed to protect Pc
destrians was incorporated yes
terday by the State Tax Commits
sion. The full title of the nom
stock corporation is The Asso-
citation for the Protection Of the
Pedestrian, Inc" Its purpose
was listed as:
TO try to make the roads,
street crossings and thorough
fares safe throughout the State
of Maryland for the pedestrian
to walk on and to protect the pc
destrian's rights to the proper use
of such roads, street crossings and
thoroughfares and to otherwise
protect the pedestrian ."
Listed as incorporators were
Charles Gunther, Lansdowne, and
Stephen Synowski, Frank Ball
man and Harry Helwig, Hale
thorpe.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
CROWDS BRAVE CLOUDS
TO SEE CHERRY BLOOMS
Forecast Is Rain Tonight and To-
morrow With Rising
Temperature.

Despite inclement weather. visitors
continued 10 tnrong the walks around
the Tidal Basin to view the japanese
cherry blossoms today. Cloudy skies
and probably rain tonight and to-
morrow are forecast by the United
States Weather Bureau, but warmer
weather is promised for tomorrow.
More than $500 persons attended
the blossom festival presented yester-
day by pupils of Wheatley School,
Each grade of the school presented
dance or special number. and a spe-
cial dance in honor Of the spirit of
the cherry blossoms was offered by
Roma Lee Haun, in japanese cos
tune. The program was arranged by
Miss Florence Mortimer, principal.
assisted by the grade teachers. and
sponsored by the Community Center
Department and the Office Of the Ma
tional Capital Parks.
The minimum temperature during
the night was 80, degrees above
the previous nights low. The maxi
mum today will be about so, l de-
gree above the maximum yesterday.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
NEEDY CHILDREN TO GET
OPTICAL AID FROM CLUB
Silver Spring Lions Will Pay for
Examinations and
Glasses.
Special Dispatcn to rhe Star.


SILVER SPRING, Nd, April e.
Aidato group of needy children Of
the. community who were suffering
from impaired vision will be given by
theSSilver Spring Lions Club within
the, next few days, it was announced
by w. Edwin Warfield, chairman of
thesMajor Activities Committee, at q
meeting of the club.
Wsrfield said the children will be
given eye examinations by competent
opticians and then fitted with glasses.
In addition to the group which will
be taken care of now, several more
boys and girls are on the committees
list for future assistance as soon as
the funds Of the club permit, he
stated.
1t was announced that the next
meeting of the Lions Twenty-second
District Officers Association will be
held in Silver Spring late this month,
with the local club acting as host.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
MOTHER, ILL, UNAWARE
BOY BURNED BY BEANS

Unknown to his mother, who is
critically i'll at home, -4-year-old
Junior" Wallace, 663 F street north
east, is in Casualty Hospital with severe
burns received when he upset pot Of
boiling beans yesterday.
The boy, son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. w.
Wallace, accidentally jostled the arm
of his mothers nurse as she was taking
the pot off stove. His left side was
scalded painfully. but his condition
had improved today and was said to
be not serious.
Evening star., 1936-04-09
NEARS END OF JOURNEY
2OO-Inch Eye" Due at Lamanda
Park Tomorrow.

NEEDLES, Calf. April 9 Cp).-The
200-inch "eye," destined to become
the mirror for the worlds largest tele-
scope atop Mount Palomar, neared the
end of a cautious transcontinental rail
journey today.
1t was drawn into Needles last night
after crossing the California border
and tonight it is expected to reach
San Bernardino. The special train
that has carried the giant piece of
glass from Corning, N Y, factory
is scheduled to arrive tomorrow morn
ing at Lamanda Park, where unload
ing for the California Institute of
Technology at Pasadena will take
place.
Evening star., 1936-04-09

encampment to be
held here Septem-
Der "a to 26.
The veteran
commander W a S
accompanied by
Kathleen Flood,
secretary of the
org aniZa tion;;
Curtis Hodges and
Roy Miller of the
Greater National
Capital Commit
tee of the Board
of Trade.
Commiss ioner
HaZen is ex omcio
chairman of the
Evening star., 1936-04-09
Noah Beery's Hotel Burns.

PALMDALE, Calf, April 8 R.-
Fire Of undetermined origin last night
destroyed the main hotel and dining
room of the Paradise Trout Club,
popular rendezvous for film folk oper-
ated by Noah Berry, movie actor.
Damage was estimated unoffcially
at between $4,000 and $4,000.
Evening star., 1936-04-09

reunion committee and Offutt is gen.
eral chairman.
Nelson came to Washington in the
interest of the proposed appropriation
of $4,000 to assist in entertaining
and caring for the veterans when they
come here this Fall.
Evening star., 1936-04-09

VIII Degln 70 push HIlII acTUss On tIIt Ut1eT,
his fellow aSpirants flock to the business Of taking
the wind out of his sails
Gov. Landon's apparent lead has made him
a target and his opponents are sniping at him
from several angles One group criticizes him for
lack of virulence against the New Deal in his
speeches, another hints darkly at something to
do with oil that will make him undesirable.
The self-appointed exponents of liberalism"
suspect him Of being the choice Of the re-
dictionaries, and consequently their tool. The
Hoover element in particular is embittered by his
acceptance of Mr. Hearst's support in California.
rha ueakness of these attacks lies in the