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Evening star., 1937-04-07
POLICE BOARD TRIAL
ESCAPED BY M'GRATH
Failure of Complaining Witnesses
to Prosecute Results in With
draWal of Charges.

Failure Of the complaining witness
to prosecute today resulted in with
drawal of four charges involving the
practice Of law against Officer Will
liam H. McGrath when he appeared
before the Police Trial Board.
McGrath, now attached to the ninth
precinct, formerly served as clerk Of
the Police Court branch of the cor
poration counsel's Office. His re-
moval from the latter job was effected
after the charges were placed against
him.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Matt
Mahorner, jr., made the motion for
dismissal of the charges, announcing
it was with the approval of the Dis
trict Commissioners. McGrath was
represented by Attorney James A.
O'Shea.
Concerning the possibility of Nc.
Grath being returned to his old Po-
lice Court post, Police Supt. Ernest
w. Brown said today: There is no
longer a vacancy"
McGrath was to face the Trial
Board on charges of making an un-
truthful statement before a court:
conduct prejudicial to the reputation,
good order and discipline of the police
force; performing legal services for
compensation in violation of police
regulations and accepting employ
ment which interfered with the proper
performance of police duties.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Ticket on S,ceeps
Worth $4,000 Lost
By Colored Maid
Thelma Landy Offers
$500 Re,Card for
Missing Stub.

From being one Of the luckiest per-
sons in town, Thelma Landy, colored,
has become one of the unluckiest.
On the morning Of March 16 a
newspaper reporter telephoned Thelma
with the information that she had
drawn $4,000 lottery ticket
Isn't it nice!" said Thelma, a
maid employed by Lieut. Col Howard
Eager. 3513 Rodman street. I'm all
upset"
Thelma wasn't a fraction as upset,
however, as when she went to look
for her ticket. She couldn't find it.
Today she offered $500 to the finder
or Whomever can help her obtain her
prize.
The ticket was lost, the holder be-
lieves. during change of residence.
She bought it from stranger while
working at the Home for 1ncurables,
put it away and forgot it until the
drawing in Dublin revealed she was
among the winners. Doing a little
chicken counting. Thelma planned to
fix up my fathers home and help
some poor folks" Then came the
realization that the ticket had dis
appeared.
Evening star., 1937-04-07

Terrace, clerk; Dwight E. Carlton, 40,
80 Charming street, post office clerk;
Harry Ehrlich, 81, 448 Newton place,
retired; James P. Geagan, 26, 915
Varnum street northeast, salesman
Frank Goodman, 81, 2132 Thirty-sec-
ond street southeast, building super
Alexander F. Hagedorn,
56, 1882 Biltmore street, salesman;
Robert T. Highfield, SO, 5335 Forty
second street, executive secretary OF
the Mount Vernon Liquidating Trust;
Benjamin S. jackson, 35, 1874 c street
northeast, salesman; George T. Long
pope, SIS, 2l4l Wyoming avenue, gen.
eral rate engineer; Jennings H. Racey
Is, 1888 E street southeast, window
trimmer; Ernest N. Reid, jr., Il, 364l
Eleventh street. butcher; Clarence j
Russell, 48, 1921 Monroe street north
east, printing shop foreman; Fred
erick Schwab, 33. 1000 Connecticut
avenue, real estate management, and
Samuel E. Woll, SO, 1910 Georgia ave-
nue., retail hosiery and lingerie.
Evening star., 1937-04-07

tinuity is interrupted, he said, is at
Massachusetts avenue.
From the cost standpoint, he as
serted, it may be cheaper to build a
bridge, instead of constructing a heavy
fill in a deep valley, such as is now
suggested in the vicinity of Tilden
street. Nolen pointed out that large
openings would have to be left in a
/ fill for the maximum food flow of the
stream, for the park highway and for
bride paths and at the Tilden street
crossing for two park drives.
The prospective study by Col.
Daniel I. Sultan, Engineer Commis-
sioner of the District, and Whitehurst
would go into the question of bridge
foundations, approaches and other
pertinent factors. Only when this
information is available, Nolen said,
will it be possible to formulate esti-
mates for the trans-valley traf1c
artery.
In 1890, Nolen recalled, the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission made study Of possible
high-level crossings, north Of Calvert
street, where a new bridge across
Rock Creek Park was recently con-
| structed. One suggestion was to
connect Linnean avenue and Tilden
street on the west, with Upshur street
on the east.
The second projected crossing would
be at Utah avenue and Military road
on the west, with Madison and Ken
nedy streets on the east. This, Nolen
said, would eliminate the dip into
the bottom of the valley in the
present location Of Military road.
The third high-level crossing would
be at Western avenue. above Pinehurst
Circle, connecting with Aspen street
Subsequent studies, Nolen asserted,
have shown the possibility Of con-
Meeting the easterly approach at Up
shur street with the Park road bridge
over Piney Branch. The Piney Branch
bridge, said the director Of planning,
is due for reconstruction.
In the case of each of these pro-
jected high-level crossing, Nolen
said, advantage has been taken OF long
spurs or ridges that extend into the
valley park. Thus, he declared, the
bridge construction would be rela-
lively short span above Rock Greek
and the park drives. The exact loca-
tions and where best to place the
bridge in height will be a problem
for the Districts road builders to de-
termine, if the Senate and President
Roosevelt approve the 100000 item.
Capt. Whitehurst said he believed
the proposed Western avenue-Aspen
street connection "is out of the
question because it is too far north" "
Evening star., 1937-04-07
JUDGE |MPANELS
NEW GRAND Jury
Evidence Obtained in 40
Gaming Raids Will Be
Presented.

A new grand jury, to which will be
presented the voluminous evidence OBJ
tanned in the more than 40 recent
gambling raids, was impaneled this
morning for three months service by
Justice Peyton Gordon Of District
Court. Albert w. Tucker, Al, 1910
Locust road, chief auditor and statis-
tician of the National Geographic
Society, was appointed foreman.
United States Attorney Leslie G.
Garnett said he would seek gambling
indictments from the new grand jury
as soon as his assistants finish work.
ing up the evidence, which is ex-
pected to support charges Of q city,
wide gaming conspiracy.
-Four women are among the new
jurors. They are Mrs. Paula Chase,
81, 1713 Hobart street, housewife;
Mrs. Mary M. Edwards, 20, 1898 Geor-
gia avenue, housekeeper; Mrs. Marga-
ret M. Harry, 33, 4517 River road,
housewife, and Mrs. Rosa P. Lewis, So,
1924 Fifteenth street, also a house
wife.
Other jurors were:
Henry G. Athoff, 63, 234 Madison
street, manager Of the Riggs Market;
Francis A. Baker, 20, 30l8 Porter
street. tree expert; Richard D. Bar
rett, Sc, 1921 Euclid street, private &C.
countant; Chester F. Bernard, IS,
5000 New Hampshire avenue, clerk;
RHerman W. Bowen. 50. East Clifton
Evening star., 1937-04-07
EARLY REDUCTION
DOUBTED
Definite Future Program Not
Yet Mapped Out,
Ickes Says.

Despite the fact the Public Works
Administration must undergo gen.
eral reorganization before long, Ad-
ministrator Ickes believes that no i'm
mediate reduction in personnel is in
sight.
Due to the general let-down in the
P. w. A. spending program in the
past year, the administrative per-
sonnel has been reduced by approx
mately 1000.
The future size of the Nation wide
staff, Ickes said, will depend on the
nature and extent of P. w. AS future
program.
Ickes admitted that "P. W. AS job
is done" as recovery agency, but
pointed out there is still s10oo,0oO,-
900 worth Of projects under construc-
ton which must be completed.
Working Like "Artesian Well"
''P. w. A. did its job so efficiently
that it is now working like an artesian
we'll" he said, in speaking of the for
mer pump priming" for the durable
goods industry. The effect Of the
Presidents recent declaration OF a
new Federal spending policy, he said,
would naturally SLOW up" the P. w. A.
Ickes said he has advocated and
still advocates the continuance Of p.
w. A. in nucleus form as means
to provide recovery machinery in event
Of future depressions. Legislation is
pending in Congress to extend its life
for two years beyond June 80 and this
is expected to pass Congress.
Future Allotments.
Future P. w. A. allotments, 1ckes
believed, should be confined to COM
munities where there is plenty of labor
that can be taken from relief rolls.
Ickes received the press yesterday
afternoon for the first time in his
new executive offices. He said he had
an escape" elevator just outside his
door,
A huge basket of flowers, he said,
was a gift from his division OF inves-
tigation.
The press was escorted about the
new building and Ickes invited inspec-
ton of his private kitchen and dining
room. The doors, however, were
locked.
It will take the Interior Depart
ment 40 days to finish the moving
Job.
Evening star., 1937-04-07

President Roosevelt found on his
desk today copy of Washington:
City and Capital" 51a-pound vol
ume representing the most complete
and up-to-date guide of the Nations
Capital that has yet been prepared.
It represents the second work is
sued by the Federal Writers Project
of the Works Progress Administration,
which will be distributed for general
circulation April IS. Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins sent advance copies
of 1t to the President, members OF
the cabinet and a select group OF
Government officials.
Research and collection OF material
for this volume, Of 1,l4l pages. was
started IA months ago under general
supervision of Henry Alsberg, director
in charge of the Writers Project,
which is undertaking a historical,
economic, political and industrial MS
tory of all the States of the Union.
Editorial work on the Washington
volume was finished December IL when
it was sent to the Government Print
ing Once, after two months Of inten-
sified work.
Herbert Putnam, librarian OF the
Library Of Congress, who received one
Of the drst Issued copies, pronounced
Evening star., 1937-04-07

WEARS of nature lovers that the
~ sylvan beauty of Rock Creek
Park may be marred by deep
4 earthen "fill' to support new
east-west highway have been revived
by a 100000 item in the pending
District supply bill authorizing prep
aration of preliminary plans for new
arterial traffic routes,
In hearings on the District supply
bill, Representative Ross Collins,
chairman of the House District Ap-
preparations Subcommittee, suggested
possibility of filling in the Rock Creek
Valley north of Klingle road, such as
was done at Massachusetts, avenue, to
support a new highway.
officials of the National Capital
Park and Planning Commission to-
day expressed strong disapproval Of
such a project, declaring 1t would
ruin the open valley" beauty of the
park.
They we're joined by Capt. H. C..
Whitehurst, director of the District
Highway Department, who said he
believed construction Of "fill" might
be almost as expensive as bridge.
Grades Held No Problem.
Capt. Whitehurst said that there
is a possibility that construction Of
high-level highway might be found
to be unnecessary, pointing out that
grades such as are encountered in
Rock Creek Valley present no diff
culties to modern automobiles.
Rather than an earthen fill as q
base for highway, Capt. Whitehurst
said, he is inclined at the present time
to favor construction of bridges across
the deepest depressions in the valley.
There is a possibility, he said, that it
might be feasible to have short fills"
as bases for the approaches to such
bridges.
If the Senate approves the $4,000
item, Capt Whitehurst said, his first
step will be to send survey crews into
the park to make a complete topo-
graphic survey. Until that is done no
proposed plan can be discussed intelli-
gently, he pointed oul.
The purpose of the survey will be to
establish a route for a highway con-
Meeting Sixteenth street and Connecti-
cut avenue near or north of Klingle
road"
John Nolen, jr.. director of planning
of the National Capital Park and
Planning Commission, explains that
his commission feels that heavy fills
across stream valley parks are detri-
ment to the beauty of the park and
the feeling of continuity and seclusion
that those using the park have. A
typical example of where the con.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
POLICE COURT HEATING
BILL WINS SUPPORT
House Committee Reports Favor
ably on Measure to Tap
Heating Plant.

The House District Committee to-
day favorably reported a bill author
izing the Secretary Of Interior to fur
nish heat from the Government CEN
trail heating plant to the new Police
Court Building in Judiciary Square.
The District would be required to pay
a reasonable fee for the service.
Action was delayed by the commit
tee on a bill to regulate and control
BARRIERS. Representative Quinn, DEM
ocrat, of Pennsylvania, its sponsor.
plans to offer series of amendments
to remove objections raised during re-
cent hearings.
Representative Palmisano, Demo-
crat, of Maryland presided at the
meeting in the absence of Chairman
Norton, who is confined to her hotel
apartment with a severe cold.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Roosevelt Gets Aduar,ce Copy
Of ". p. Il. Guide to d. e..

the historical review of Washington
could not have been improved upon.
The volume will be sold at SO when
it is placed in general circulation. It
is bound in black linen and Is replete
with splendid historical pictures as
well as views Of principal buildings in
the District, taken by special w. P. A.
photographers.
Evening star., 1937-04-07

item would allow for a bonding COM
missioner, two assistants and stenog-
rapher. In this case, also, however,
a separate enabling act will have to
be passed before the municipal bond
ing plan could be put into effect.
Members of the Senate subcom-
mittee probably will wait until Dis
trict officials appear at the hearings
next week before giving any detailed
study TO these various new proposals
IN the pending btu.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Leesburg Church Elects.

LEESBURG, Va, April 7 Especially q.
Three new vestrymen were elected
ut the annual meeting of st. James
Episcopal Church here. They are
Howard E. Cole, L. r. Lee and Angus
tus di zerega, jr.
Other vestrymen reelected were
I. M. Fendall, Frank E. Saunders w.
r. Thomas, J. R. Lintner, DR.. j. A.
Gibson, Dr. H. c. Littlejohn, H. H.
Trundle. A. L. B. di zerega and w. w.
ChAmblin.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
71ST ANNIVERSARY
OBSERVED BY G. A. R.
Department Comdr. Kline Says
Survivors Are Still Enthu-
siastic for Cause.

The seventy first anniversary of the
founding of the Grand Army of the
Republic was observed yesterday with
memorial services at the G. A. R.
Monument, Pennsylvania avenue and
Seventh street.
John M. Kline. department COM
mander speaking briefly for the Union
veterans, said "old as we are, and as
scattered as Is the little remnant Of
survivors, we still remain enthusiastic
for the cause for which 80 many true
Americans gave their lives that this
Republic might have . new birth OF
freedom"
Evening star., 1937-04-07
LIBRARY GETS FILM
Print Of "A Midsummer Nights
Dream" Given Folger.

A complete sound print of "A Mid
summer Nights Dream" first modern
movie made from a play by William
Shakespeare, was presented today to
the Folger Shakespeare Library by
Jacob Wilk, head OF the Warner Bros.
story and scenario department.
Library officials have expressed
pleasure at receiving the print, since
they believe 1t to be representative
of the transitional period in the de-
velopment Of sound pictures and In
the pictorial treatment 0 ehake-
speare's plays.
Evening star., 1937-04-07
BAND CONCERT.

BY the Marine Band Symphony
Orchestra in the auditorium at pm.
Capt. Taylor Branson, conductor
William F. Santelmann, assistant.
Program.
Overture, Barber Of Seville Rossini
"Scarf Dance" from the ballet
'Callirhoe" Chaminade
"Gems from Gilbert and Sullivan
Operas" Higgs
Solo for violoncello, "Adagio and
Tarantella" Goltermann
John Auer.
"Reve Angelique" ("Kamenoi
Ostrow") -----------Ru Rublnsteln
(a) "Canzonetta," Opus II, No. 4,
Herbert
(b) Dance of the Clowns" from
"Snegourotchka" Rimsky-
Valse de concert, Artists Life" Strauss
Suite from the ballet The Shoe"
Ansell
(a) "The Sabot."
(b) "The Ballet Shoe"
(c) "The Court Shoe"
(d) "The Sandal"
(e) "The Brogue"
1.-THE Marines Hymn"
=. 'The Star Spsrg'cd F"''~-~."
Evening star., 1937-04-07

TEARS of nature lovers that the
~ sylvan beauty of Rock Creek
Park may be marred by deep
Evening star., 1937-04-07
Program.

Overture, Barber of Seville" Rossini
"Scarf Dance" from the ballet
'Callirhoe" Cham1nade
Evening star., 1937-04-07

Seems from Gilbert and Sullivan
T,roroso Hi0CS
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11
LAUGH LIGHTLY AT HEJAZ

Western ways must stay out of Hejaz,
on no less than authority than King Ibn
Saud himself.
Recently when speaker called at
tention to the increase of coeducation and
western dancing the monarch exclaimed,
by Allah, if it come to my knowledge
that any of my subjects had adopted any
of these customs, | would wipe them out
of existence by this very sword"
Let's not laugh too loudly at the King,
who cited the Koran to justify his stand. 1t
hasn't been so long since devout Amer
leans themselves doubted the wisdom of
coeducational schools and not so many
years since some of our best people ac-
eepted the silliest gossip about any man
and woman who happened to be alone any,
where for a few minutes.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11
CHILDREN POISONED

News from Finland is that the gov
eminent is falling peasant folk who are
accused of poisoning their children whom
they are unable to provide for on account
of unemployment. Officials are taking
strong action to stop what seems to be a
criminal epidemic"
Reading such items reveals how thank
full the people of this country ought to be
although no one should get the idea that
such affairs are common in Finland. To
think, however, of people so poverty strick-
en- as to put arsenic in the food of children
they are unable to maintain is horrible, but
indicative of need for improvement in the
economic condition of the people affected.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11
WEATHER CONDITIONS

The eastern high pressure area
IS crested this morning over the
upper Ohio Valley and over
spreads most sections east of the
Mississippi River, and pressure is
moderately high over the Pacific
States; while the western low
pressure area has moved east
ward, being central over the
northern Plains States and extend
ing southwark to the Rio Grande
Valley. Light to moderate rains
have occurred snsce yesterday
morning in eastern North Caro-
lima, northern New England,
northern Texas, on the north Pa
cific coast, and in portions of the
Pains States and upper Missis-
sippi Valley. Temperatures have
risen somewhat from the Plains
States eastward over the southern
Lake region, and have fallen ii
the southern Appalachian region,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11
a TOWN DESTROYED


The destruction Of the Basque town Of
Guernica during the last week of April has
awakened considerable discussion with
Spanish rebels denying that the destruc-
ton was the work of their planes but from
other sources come allegations that the
town was mercilessly bombed by airplanes
Of German types
Described as an open town. by G..
l. Steer, correspondent of the New York
Times, Guernica was practically destroyed
by .bombardment'' which lasted three
and quarter hours, during which an es-
timated 5000 projectiles were dropped.
Mr.. Steer says fighting planes plunged
low s. to machine gun those civilians who
had taken refuge in the fields" He saws
that factory producing war material out.
side the town, was untouched.
Mr.. Steer is reputable journalist and
his description Of the ruin at Guernica is
worth reading. merely to understand what
might happen to any city in time of war.
Taking cognizance of denials that air
planes wrought the damage the we'll
known Journalist says that Il have seen
and measured the enormous bomb holes at
GuerEica, which. since | passed through
the town the day before, can testify were
not there then He reports that I'M
exploded German aluminium incendiarv
bombs were found
What happened at Guernica? Here
is what Dir. Steer records:
In the form of its execution and the
scale of the destruction it wrought, no less
than in the selection of its objective. the
raid on Guernica is unparalleled in mill
tary history.
Yesterday was the customary mar
ket day AT 4:30 p. m. when the mar.
ket was full and peasants were still coming
IN, the church bells rang an alarm =. Five
minutes later single German bomber APP
peared, circled over the town at low alti-
tude, then dropped six heavy bombs A
second bomber threw the same num-
Der of bombs About quarter of an
hour later three Junkers 52s arrived to
continue the work of demolition and from
then on the bombing grew in intensity and
was continuous, ceasing only at the APP
proach of dusk at z AS p. m.
''The whole town Of 1000 popula-
ton plus 5000 refugees was slowly and
Systematically pounded to pieces. For a
radius of five miles around, the raiders
bombed separate easerios, or farmhouses.
In the night these burned like little candles
on the hills
In subsequent dispatch Mr.. Steer re-
ports other bombings of non-military OBJ
jectives, the finding of unexploded in
cendiary bombs of German manufacture
and the persistent denials of the insur-
gents that their planes have been respon.
sible for the destruction, which is laid to
"Marxist' mobs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11
WEATHER FORECAST

9TH 7:30 p. M, Wednesday,
Key West and Vicinity: Fair
tonight; Wednesday partly cloudy.
possibly an occasional shower;
gentle winds. mostly easterly.
Florida Fair tonight and
Wednesday. except widely scat
tered showers on extreme south
coast Wednesday.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Gentle winds.
mostly casterIy, and partly over
cast weather tonight and Wednes-
day.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11

Someone has said that "home is the
place where you are treated the best, and
grumble the most" 1t is also true that our
loved ones often get the cross words. while
those outside, with whom we are in casual
contact, are treated with ceremonious
politeness. A little more courtesy in the
home would smooth out the pattern of
daily living.-St. Augustine Record.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11

Everywhere ordinances are being
drawn up against the trailer. 1t appears
that the rolling home is considered a
nuisance. Having no experience with them
in Key West, we do not know what the
objections are. We cannot see their UNI
desirability except on unsanitary grounds,
and these can be provided against without
great difficulty.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11

AZ many times in the long history of
the Jew, whenever the Jew has appeared
on the point of assimilating with his neigh
bors. an Antiochus or Ferdinand and
Isabella or Dreyfus case has arisen to
east him back on himself and produce the
inevitable reaction. In our days Hitler is
added to the list
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11

A Key West Rotarian hasn't missed a
meeting in Is years. Probably, in Key
West there was nowhere else to CO.
Tampa Tribune. You don't know Key
West For one thing, he could have gone
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of
Mexico. and not leave the city. No place
10 20, ehl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11

Crooks have fertile brains, or they
wouldn't be smart enough to ply their
nefariOus operations. There are instances
reported of counterfeit social security ac-
count cards being used for Identification
in eashing worthless checks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-05-11

lie who CANDLES is like one who picks
his own pockets, we are told. AS a mat
ter of fact he who CANDLES is like one who
picks his own pockets. and then permits
the other fellow to grab the money