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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
TRAFFICEDUCATION
URGED BY OFFICIAL
Cooperation of Public Is
Essential, Southeast
Council Told.

Educating the motorist and pedes-
trian to traffic regulations and the
enforcement of the law is paramount,
II trafic accidents and fatalities are
to be curbed in the District, Inspector
William H. Holmes told representa-
tives of the Southeast Council at
special meeting last night.
The law must be enforced and the
regulations respected by motorists and
pedestrians" he declared mo law
is worthwhile unless it is enforced. In
order that this may be done the public
must be educated to the seriousness
of traffic accidents and lend co-opera-
ton to the fullest in curbing this
atrocity."
The meeting was called by the Traf-
nc Committee of the council in an
effort to iron out traffic problems with
the Police and Traffic Depar tments
Of the District.
Problems taken up concerned taxi
cabs and operators, speeding and reck-
less driving improper lighting of au-
tonobiles. traf1lc lights at intersec-
lions and issuance and revocation Of
permits.
Eldridge Speaks.
NJ O. Eldridge, assistant traffic d.
rector. gave detailed report on taxi
cabs, in which he disclosed there were
5000 operating in the District. The
consensus among those present at the
meeting was that this number should
be curtailed to $500 Capt. Richard
Mansfield of the ninth police precinct
was of the opinion that only through
an act of Congress limiting the num-
her Of taxicabs to be used in the city
bridge then remarked that 60 per cent
Of the traffic In the downtown area
was the cruising taxicab.
Joseph p Gammell, representing
the Lincoln Park Citizens Association,
suggested an intelligence test for tax
icab operators.
The question Of speed and the reck-
less driver was then brought to the
attention of the group by Eldridge.
mo one can safely drive a car in
this city at more than 40 miles an
hour" he said.
Proper Lights Essential.
In reference to one-light driving or
the use of defective rear lights, In
apector Holmes said that the police
men should see to it that the condi-
ton Is remedied Immediately when
brought to their attention. If neces-
Rry, Holmes declared, the officer
should accompany the motorist to the
nearest filling station and see that the
light is repaired.
AS to permit issuance and revoca-
ton, the group decided an applicant
should be questioned thoroughly as to
his or her ability and in the cases of
wvocations that it be left to the dis
oretion Of the court II involving cases
Of manslaughter or negligent homi-
eide
Remarks on the subjects discussed
were also heard from George E.
Keneipp, manager of the Keystone
Automobile Club; Dean J. Locke,
stat engineer OF the Capital Transit
Co., and Howard L. Dove, division
superintendent of the company.
Besides those named, representatives
from the 10 associations affiliated with
the council also entered the discus
Gions.
The meeting was presided over by
William A. Maio, chairman of the
council,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
COAST BANK CHAIN
PLAN IS OPPOSED
1ransamerica Corp. Ready
to Act If and When Leafs
lation Passes.
B. the Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO, May l5-An
implied proposal to extend activities
of the huge Bank OF America National
Trust & Savings Association brought
vigorous opposition today from groups
opposed to interstate branch banking
Directors OF Transamerica Corp,
which owns 9965 per cent of Bank Of
Americas outstanding stock. yester-
day approved plans to distribute so
per cent Of the 100000 bank shares
to Transamerica stockholders
The distribution will be made as a
dividend, along with the regular cash
dividend July 81.
From A. P. Giannini, founder Of
the bank which has nearly $500, ooo,-
900 IN resources came the hint Of
extension OF the banks activities.
I'm the event Of passage OF a bill
recently introduced in Congress to
leealize branch banking throughout
each Federal Reserve district, Trans
america will be in = position to estab-
fish one OF the first largest district
wide banking systems" he said.
The corporation now Is interested
In national banks in all Of the seven
States comprising the twelfth Federal
Reserve district except Utah and
Idaho"
Taking Giannini's declaration as q
threat to preservation Of State unit
banking systems, DR.. Luther A. Harr,
chairman OF the Executive Commit
tee Of the National Association Of
Supervisors Of State banks, said his
organization was determined "Mr.
Gisnnini's program shall not prevail -
His ruthless attempt to drive
through Congress this legislation
which carries ruin in its train for
unit banks must be blocked" said DR..
Hsrr in Philadelphia. where he is
Pennsylvania State secretary of bank
ing.
Our committee will meet in WASH
ington during the last week Of May
to lay our plans to crush the McAdoo
bill"
Giannini, chairman Of Trans
americas board, told newspaper men
he believed the day Of bank holding
companies Is gone"
He indicated purpose to recon-
struct his financial firms to align them
with modern tendencies and recent
and potential Federal legislation.
His program will be submitted to
approval Of stockholders at spe-
cisl meeting. July 10, in Whining
ton, Del.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
NEUTRALITY ACT
EXTENSION URGED
Positive Duty to Place Pro-
hibitions on Germany and
Italy, A||inson Says.
Ey the Associated Press,

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. May Is.
Extension Of commercial embargoes
and penalties Of the United States
neutrality act to the commerce of
Italy and Germany was given today
as solution to what one speaker be-
fore the Sixth Annual Virginia In
stitute of International Relations
termed indirect intervention by the
United States in the Spanish war.
Brent Dow Allinson secretary Of the
Council on International Relations,
Washington, told the institute yester-
day 1t was President Roosevelt's posi-
tive duty" to extend the neutrality
act to include prohibition OF passenger
travel by Americans on Italian and
German merchant vessels, if it Is es-
tablished their governments have pro-
vided military assistance to the Span
ish rebellion.
Allinson declared to the 200 men,
bers attending the opening session Of
the institute that the Spanish loyalist
government looked to the United
States "for military weapons and
supplies with which to combat wide
spread military conspiracy and armed
uprising, supported by the Italian and
perhaps also the German dictators 4"
However, he said, the non-interven-
ton agreement Of rs European states
to isolate the Spanish war constituted
a gesture in the right direction"
Speakers on today's program in
cluded DR.. Frederick A. Finch, editor
Of the Journal Of International Law
and assistant director Of the Carnegie
endowment division Of international
law; DR.. Lawrence Duggan. chief of
in-American affairs, the State De-
partment, washington, and Dr. Will
liam M. Manager, counselor OF the
Pan-American Union, Washington.
The institute, being conducted at
Fredericksburg State Teachers College,
will conclude today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
Sentences Youth He Seized,

MARION, Ohio (P.-Buster Cray,
is, stood before Juvenile Judge Oscar
Cast and was sentenced to the Boys
Industrial School at Lancaster. The
judge did not have to listen to any
details Of arrest or of Cray's confess
sion to having committed the bur-
Glaries. At 5 o'clock that morning the
s5udge had been awakened by tele-
phone tip, and, attired in pajamas,
robe and slippers, had gone to a near
by park and himself had arrested
Cray, who had escaped from Deten-
ton Home, and obtained the confess
sion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
80 BOYS ON BUS TOUR
OF HISTORICAL PLACES
woodward School Group Of Y. M.
G. A. Visit Winchester, Ante
tam and Other Points.

Thirty boys of the Woodward School
OF the Young Mems Christian Asso-
citation will return tonight from
375-mile bus tour to historical points
made in connection with the schools
educational program.
Leaving here yesterday morning,
their intinerary included Winchester,
Va; Cumberland, Md, visit to coal
mines and paper mill, the Antietam
battlefield, Harpers Ferry, Shepherds
town and Charles Town, w. Va, and
Hagerstown, Md. At the latter place
they were to visit what is said to be
the worlds largest pipe organ factory.
A visit also was to be made to the
Washington County (Md) Library.
said to have been the first free public
library in the United States.
Dr. A. L. Maiden, head Of the his
tory department Of the school, Is In
charge Of the trip.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
ALB|NO BISON CALF
is BORN ON REFUGE
Newcomer and Its Father Only
Such Rarities in Mon
tana Herd.

BY the Associated Press.
Federal wild game officials have an
nounced proudly that an albino bison
calf has been born on the national
bison refuge near Missoula, Mont.
Stanley P. Young OF the Bureau OF
Biological Survey said q pure white
bison was a rarity in tho animal
kingdom.
Young said an albino bison calf was
born four years ago, and when ma
tured it was segregated from the herd
with several cows. The white bull
mated with his mother and the Sec
ond albino calf, female, was born
several days ago.
Young said that white bison were
rare even in the days when countless
thousands of the native buffalo roamed
the plains. He said the Indians re-
garded the albino bison as big medi-
cine" and that the lucky hunter who
killed one WAS assured success.
Young said the new albino calf and
its father were the only white bison
in the herd OF the Biological Survey,
which now numbers about 1000 head.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
DRIVE ON DOGS OPENS
Chicago, Aroused by Rabie.
Threat, Starts Campaign.

CHICAGO, May IS R.-Aroused
BY q rabies scare, officials directed a
drive to rid the city Of stray dogs yes
terday.
As the first step in the campaign,
. squad of highway patrolmen secured
abandoned quarries near suburban
McCook, shot vicious mongrek, cap
tured IS others and took them to the
Illinois Humane Society's quarters for
observation and, ultimately. death in
q lethal gas chamber.
The call for action came from DR..
Herman N. Bundesen, president OF
the Board of Health, after his ONCE
reported dog-bite cases had reached
. 10O-a-day rate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
BANQUET-DANCE TONIGHT

The Warrington international Club
will hold its annual banquet and
dance 1T 7:30 o'clock tonight In the
Mayflower Hotel
The guests will include Representa-
tive Caroline O'Day OF New York.
Conrado Benetiz, dean Of the Univer-
sity Of the Philippines at Manila; Mr..
and Mrs. Clarence Picket OF Philadel-
phia, and Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent D.
Nicholson. Mr. and Mrs Felix Morley
and Dr.. and Mr.. Ernst Cocrell.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
ROOSEVELT PLANS
z H0L|DAYS AWAY
Hopes to Visit Hyde Park
Memorial Day and
July Fourth.

President Roosevelt Is planning to
be away from Washington on Memo
rial day and the Fourth Of July. On
both Of these holidays he hopes to
visit his old home at Hyde Park, N. Y.
Mr.. Roosevelt has not seen his 81
year-old mother for some time and he
Is arranging his plans now 50 as to
leave here on the night OF May 20 to
spend two or three days with her at
the old home.
The wedding OF his son. Franklin.
jr., to Miss Ethel du Pont is sched-
uled for June 30 at the Du Pont
mansion In Wilmington, Del. The
President and Mrs. Roosevelt and
other members Of the family Will 90
to Wilmington from Washington
aboard a special train and it is the
Presidents intention at this time to
continue on to Hyde Park after tho
ceremony and not TO return to WASH
ington until after July 4.
These are the only plans Mr.. Roose-
welt has to take him out Of the city in
the immediate future.
Inc PRESIDENT did not go TO his
desk in the executive office today, pre-
ferring to remain in his study on the
second floor Of the White House and
transact his business there. The only
engagement he had was to receive
Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie, who
just completed successful round trip
alrplane crossing of the North Atlantic.
Mr.. Roosevelt spent most of the
early part OF the day disposing of &C
cumulated mail and has arranged to
start the writing Of a message he will
send to Congress early next week out
lining national power policy and
recommending coordination OF exist
ing Federal hydro-electric projects
along with the proposal for new
regional developments that would com.
bine power generation with flood con-
troll and soil conservation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
AARON A. MEREDITH, so,
PLATE PRINTER, DIES
Rites for Bureau Employe to Be
Held Monday Afternoon
at q O'Clock

Aaron A. Meredith, go, plate printer
at the Bureau Of Engraving and Print
ing, died late yesterday Of a heart
attack at his home. 81 Rhode Island
avenue northeast.
For many years Washington resi-
dent, Mr.. Meredith was the son of the
late Capt. William NJ Meredith, at one
time director of the Bureau of En-
craving and Printing.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Elsie
c. Meredith; daughter, Margaret r.
Meredith, and three sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 2
pm. Monday at the home OF his
slster-in-law, Mrs. Clara E. Manches-
ter, 1926 Summit place northeast.
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
Pioneer Orchardist, "a, Dies.

HAGERsTOWN, Md. May IS
Especially George F. Miner. "a re-
tired pioneer orchardist Of Washing
County and formerly proprietor Of
the Leitersburg Hotel, near here. died
yesterday ut the home of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Luther Yingling, Waynes-
boro. Nine children, 80 grandchildren,
- great grandchildren and one great
great grandchild survive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15

was being sought
here by police to-
day on request of
his parents, MIR.
and Mrs. John
Schneider.
Schneider told
police mis- wife
had been "wor-
ried sick" since
the boys disap-
p e a r a &c e last
SUNDAY night. He
left home for a
fraternity meet
ing, but n e ver
reached there.
YAStardau fha
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
Guards to Hold Meeting

mass meeting will be held BY
guards Of all Government buildings
In the Woodmen of the World Hall,
s35 G place, at 8 O'Clock tonight. The
purpose of the meeting, it was an
nounced. is to organize q beneficial
association similar to that Of District
police and fkemen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
TELEPHONY.

TELEPHONY.
~HIEFLY for its own amaze
I ment, the Bell Telephone Sys-
tenn has compiled stack of
statistics proving that nobody
is as busy as telephone lineman, no
organization so complicated as Bells
when comes the time to take stock of
material possessions.
The company finds that it owns
about 80,458,00 miles Of wire, enough
to reach from the earth to the moon
and back again more than 1853 times,
and in case it did We still would tele-
graph all our messages to the Man in
the Moon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15

The umpteen million miles of wire
are strung on more than 100000
poles, enough to build solid fence 30
feet high from New York nearly to
San Francisco, which wouldn't do very
much good, because all the cattle that
were fenced in would roam out almost
to San Francisco and sneak around
the corners where the fence stopped.
Last item We read, before firing in
the stretch and slowing down to q
walk, informed us that there are $685.
100000 duct feet Of underground con-
duit, enough to go through the earth
IS times from pole to pole, which we
think would be good idea because
we've wanted for some time to talk to
friend In China. Be that as it may,
what is a duct foot? Or is it a ducts
foot?
WARNING.
Sign on a truck from homer
farm:
THIS BOX CONTAINS
LIVE BEES.
BEEWARE!"
B-s-z-z-z- ooks, man, you're tell
ing u.s.!
SIGNAL.
A SIDE to Ugo Carusi, executive as
sistant to the Attorney General of
the United States: If you assigned a
Oman to the task of discovering why
your anteroom expert, Paris Houston,
often appears in your door before you
ring the buzzer for him, it wouldn't
take long to solve the mystery.
Alert Mr.. Houston knows that your
chair squeaks when you wheel about
to reach for the buzzer Hearing the
squeak. he beats the buzz
Never mind the thanks. It's moth
ing, really. Just bit of sleuthing
technique we picked up while hunting
for galoshes on rainy mornings.
X
SERVICE.
HAVING noted that the check room
girl in his favorite night club
whiled away dull hours by sewing,
a bachelor in this office carefully Sc
lected a topcoat with a torn lining
when he dressed for an evening out
this week.
Arrived at the club. greeted the
checkeress, said, "How's business this
evening"
Fairly slow" said she.
"How's sewing?"
Fine
Good" he said, mind sewing this
rip while I'm dining?"
Not at ALL" said she.
She did, too, neatly. beautifully.
ART CRITIC.
THIS seems to be our day for think
ing up new jobs for the G-men
If the w. P. A. will ask Mr.. J. Edgar
Hoover to lend 1t couple + first
class detectives for a few hours, they
will have little trouble in tracing
the whereabouts Of a couple OF w.
P. A. water colors that once hung
in the new press room Of the De-
partment Of Justice.
Solving the question will only lead
to wheels within wheels complica-
lions, however, because 1t was ]. Ed
gar Hoover who was responsible for
the disappearance Of w. P. AS arty
fixtures. Seems Mr.. Hoover came
in to inspect the press room after
its opening, saw the water colors on
the wall, said, Amt they awful?"
or words to that effect.
He said he thought something ought
to be done about 1t. It was. About
q week later he sent over. two en-
larged, tinted photographs Of ma
tional park scenes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
VIGNETTE.

=
Our tdporite street scene of the
,Deek:: A bedraggled, n,iddle-aged
refuse collector, standing on one OF
the Districts trash wagons, blithely
Tipping over the pages of that so
phisticated publication designed for
males, read largely by females.
X
FOILED.
BECAUSE of an indestructible be-
lief that atmosphere Is everything
In writing fiction, we were overjoyed
the other day to see that one Of the
airlines had put in schedule Of 20
round trips day between Washing
ton and New York. Long impatient
to get to work on a story about rid
ing the airliners, we decided 1t would
be = great stunt to make all 20 OF
the trips some day, keep shutting
back and forth on one plane after
another. observing the passengers in
various loads, eventually binding them
all together in some fantastic tale.
Felt sure this would produce quite
. work OF art (the last novel, written
while we crouched in q large trunk
in the attic is now reposing in the
trunk itself. showing how powerful
the bond between background and
works Of genius), until we began ng-
urtng out q schedule. It takes 80
minutes to get from New York to
Washington, or vice versa, or 1877 min
utes for . round trip. This would
allow only nine round trips land q
final stop At Dunk's Green, Pa in
a day. and nine plane loads of pas
sengers are not enough for an epic
novel. Besides. we were determined
to cover the whole schadule, 20 trips.
Since that Is imposs e In . day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
Just to Make Sure.

Complying with her final wish that
she not be buried alive the aretry Of .
woman was cut by medical student
just before she was buried At Pre-
toria, South Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
LEWIS HITS HIGH COURT
AS VARIABLE AND TICKLE
Says Organized Labor Expects
Congress to Adopt Presi-
AA~$S, D~~vA>1
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
John L. Lewis, In . radio address
last night, charged that the Supreme
Court Is unstable, variable, tickle"
Organized labor, Lewis said, expects
Congress to adopt President Roose-
velt's court reorganization plan.
Working people, he added, do not
desire that rights vital to their Every
life" should be at the "whim" Of one
or two justices Of the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15

BOY wired his parents that he had a
good job in this city, but gave no ex-
PLANTATION as to why he left home. He
was to have graduated from high
school in June.
Henry was described as being S feet
II inches tall, weighing $50 pounds
and having brown hair and eyes and
fair complexion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15

We are stymied, As every one and
everything in the book has to hap
pen along within "a hours.
Finally decided to give it up, stay
home and write = short pamphlet On
canoeing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-15
MISSING NEWARK BOY
SOUGHT BY POLICE HERE
Student, II, Had Not Been Seen
Since Leaving Home Sunday
for Fraternity Meeting.

Henry Schneider, II, missing New
ark IN. j. high school honor student,
Evening star., 1937-05-02

territory or jurisdiction OF the
United States, or its possessions, to
abstrain from every violation of the
provisions Of the joint resolution
above set forth, hereby made effec-
tive and applicable to the export Of
arms, ammunition, or implements
OF war from any place in the United
States to Spain or to any other
State for trans-shipment to, or for
the use Of, Spain.
And I do hereby declare and pro-
claim that the articles listed below
shall be considered arms, ammuni-
tion, and implements of war for the
purposes Of Section l Of the said
joint resolution Of Congress:
CHere follows listing of categories
to VII, inclusive. set forth In the
enumeration proclamation)
And I do hereby enjoin upon all
officers of the United States,
charged with the execution of the
laws thereof, the utmost diligence
In preventing violations Of the said
joint resolution, and this my proc
lamation issued hereunder, and in
bringing to trial and punishment
any offenders against the same.
And 1 do hereby delegate to the
Secretary Of State the power to
exercise any power or authority
conferred on me by the said joint
resolution, as made effective by
this, my proclamation issued there
under, and the power to promulgate
such rules and regulations not in
consistent with law as may be nec-
essary and proper to carry out any
OF its provisions.
In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States of Amer
lea to be affixed
Done at the City of Washington,
this first day of May, in the year
of Our Lord nineteen hundred and
thirty-seven, and Of the independ-
ence Of the United States of Amer
lea the one hundred and sixty-first.
(seaD
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.
BY the President:
Cordell Hull,
Secretary of State.
Evening star., 1937-05-02
200 MERIT AWARDS
MADE AT BOYS CLUB

More than 200 merit awards were
presented to members Of the Wash
ington Boys Club at the annual recog-
milton ceremonies Friday night in the
club house, 230 c Street.
The organization, which was founded
in 1885 and is affiliated with the
Boys Clubs of America, was addressed
by Ben Chapman, Nationals center
fielder. His talk was followed by the
Evening star., 1937-05-02
Walking or Driving.

There is one way by which traffic
accidents can be reduced. That is
for each one OF us to make up his
mind that they will be reduced. That
means a maximum of caution at all
Evening star., 1937-05-02

awarding of prizes by Charles M. Fyfe,
club managing director and acting
master Of ceremonies
The awards were made for excel
lence in various indoor and outdoor
sports activity and in woodcraft,
printing and public speaking. John
Dolph, club board member, and Ralph
Lord, club printing instructor. were
presented gold keys for their service
to the club.
Hailstorms have been causing great
crOp damape In South Afrjca