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Evening star., 1939-08-22
Peace Moves
Pushed in Two
Strikes Here
Joint PorIey May
Be Held Today in
Smoot Dispute

Continuation of intrafaction con-
ferences in the strikes of WASH
lngton plumbers and Smoot Sand
d Gravel Co. workers appeared like
ly today with little change in the
drastic building construction tieup.
Ernest S. OFT, business agent for
the Plumbers Union, Local No. S.
300 members of which walked out
yesterday for 81 per day wage in
crease, said the local committee
planned to confer with international
officers of the unions parent or
ganization, the United Association
OF Journeymen Plumbers and
Steamf1tters.
AT the same time, Howard T. Col
win, Labor Department conciliator,
who has been arbitrating in the
sand and gravel strike, said he plans
to confer individually with warning
factions In that dispute and there is
a possibility of a joint conference
later today.
The striking Smoot employees,
members of Local No. 22O75 of the
Sand and Gravel Workers Union,
have been away from their jobs for
more than week, bringing big con-
struction in the city to virtual stand
still.
Mr.. OFT stated that contracts have
been signed by the plumbers local
with nine individual contractors,
granting the increase from s12 to
S13 per day asked of the Plumbers
Guild. organization of plumbing
contractors, with which the general
agreement expired August /. Nego-
tiations have been under way be-
tween the local and the guild since
June l for contract renewal.
Contractors who have signed in
dividual agreements. Mr.. OFT said,
are working on projects mainly in
nearby Virginia, while plumbing
work on most of the District and
Federal construction jobs has been
abandoned
Both striking unions are afiliates
of the American Federation of
Labor.
Evening star., 1939-08-22
Counters Named
Pursue District
transportation Study
ID Electric Eyes
Also to Be Enlisted
In Gathering Doto

Highway Director H. C. White
hurst said yesterday "a men have
been selected as counters" in the
study of transportation habits of
Washingtonians now under way.
The men will stand at intersec-
tions and record not only the volume
but the type of traffic over a given
period of time.
In addition, Capt. Whitehurst
said, the Potomac & Electric Power
Co. is authorized to install IA "elec-
trio eyes" borrowed from the Bu-
reau of Public Roads. Nine portable
electric counters will be purchased,
he said. A sample one is being
tested in front of the District Build
ing.
The study is preliminary to
master highway study which will go
into all phases of highway planning
and construction such as under
passes, street widths, bridges and
others. 1t will take a year and
half to complete and cost about
$4,000.
Returns from the questionnaires
sent to 100000 Federal and nom
Federal workers should be coming
in about the middle of September,
Capt. WhitehurSt said.
Evening star., 1939-08-22

Freedmen's Hospital, the youth was
pronounced dead upon arrival Har-
vey Branch, 81, colored, of 1919
Ninth street NV. said by police to
be the driver of the truck, was re-
leased in custody of his attorney
pending coroner's inquest.
James P. Williams, 10. colored,
1881 Seventh street NV, was in
Gallinger Hospital today with in
Juries received in another accident.
A tire blowout was responsible for
a wreck on the Lee Highway at
Legato, Va, this morning, in which
two people were injured, police re-
ported. A truck, driven by Floyd
Stanley, 80, of Arlington, Va, got
out of control following the blowout
and ran head-on into a passenger
car.
j. S. Caldwell, so, of Riverdale,
Md, was the driver of the car. His
wife and a friend, Mrs. John w.
Mitchell, of College Station, Tex,
were treated by a private physician
for minor hurts, Policeman G. L.
Wells reported.
Evening star., 1939-08-22
Photographic Trip
To Fair Planned

Plans for a Photographic trip" to
the New York Worlds Fair on Dis
trict of Columbia Day, Saturday,
September 9, will be discussed by the
Camera Club of the Treasury De-
partment Recreation Association to-
morrow night at the Public Health
Auditorium, Constitution avenue
and Nineteenth street NV.
This was announced by Aubrey B.
Carter, club president, who is max
ing arrangements for taking large
party of club members to the fair.
The program tomorrow night also
will include four sound films and a
demonstration of enlarging pictures.
Evening star., 1939-08-22
Husband Identifies
Victim Of 8-Story
Death Plunge
Mrs. kincunnon Hurt
Seriously in Previous
Fall, Police Reveal

Mrs. Margaret Reed Kincannon,
81, who found death yesterday in
her second plunge from the upper
stories of a downtown Office build
ing, had been certified a suicide to-
day by Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald.
Mrs. Kincannon leaped from the
roof of the New Medical Building at
l726 street NV. and was killed in
stantly. Her husband identified her
body at the District Morgue some
hours after the leap.
Police revealed that she had been
severely injured in January in
plunge down the stair we'll of the
Transportation Building, Seven
teenth and H streets NV. She
dropped at that time from either
the fifth or sixth floor of the build
ing, landing on the second floor. She
recovered at Emergency Hospital
from her injuries.
This time she went up eight stories
to make her leap, her body landing
in an alley behind the Medical
6ulldlng. NO clue to her identity
was discovered until several hours
later. Then her husband, Pettus
Klncannon, TITS Chicago avenue,
Silver Spring, Md, read of the spec
tacular leap and went to view the
body.
Mrs. klncannon had taught dane
ing in the elementary schools of
Montgomery County, Md, and had
taught privately. She had been in
i'll health recently as the result of a
nervous breakdown, police were told.
She went with her housekeeper to
the Georgetown dental clinic yester-
day then slipped away downtown.
Before making the heap, Mrs. Kin
cannon went to the seventh floor of
the building, where she had received
dental treatment often. Then she
made her way to the roof.
Evening star., 1939-08-22
WMAl Taken Over
By Boy Scouts
After Luncheon
Make Station Breaks
Report News and
Announce Programs

The Boy Scouts took over Station
WMAL for six hours today after a
hearty lunch over a campfire in
Studio c.
Fifty boys, half of them from
Camp Roosevelt. the others from
various troops around the city, made
the station breaks" reported the
news and even announced the COM
mercial programs.
Each was assigned to duty about
the broadcasting station.
One conflded he was commercial
manager but he was little vague
as to what commercial manager
was. Another was chief engineer
with whole roomful of apparatus
at his command. That is, the actual
chief engineer wasn't taking any va
cations but the Scout was titular
head.
Boys to Put on Program.
Intended to give the boys an op-
portunity to learn the inside work.
ings of a radio station, the program
called for a studio tour, sound
effects demonstration and a 15-
minute program, written, produced
and acted by boys from Camp
Roosevelt at 5 pm.
After hearing one of the younger
boys ys~rehearsing news broadcast,
station spokesman admitted a
regular announcer would stand be-
hind him and pronounce the diff
cult words. So the radio audience
will get a childish treble alternating
with an adult baritone.
The youthful news broadcaster ran
into trouble when he encountered
sensation and unexpected diplo-
matte coup" in a broadcast on the
Nazi-Russian non-aggression pact.
Gather Early for Lunch.
The boys gathered early for the
lunch, which consisted principally
of a delicacy called kabob. The
youngsters had ignited the Goals
in charcoal brazier by the ap-
proved Scout technique where
matches are, of course, out of the
question.
The charcoal flame in the air
conditioned studio produced the ef-
feet of toasting the boys faces,
while their backs were chilled. Each
boy was equipped with green
sassafras stick, on which were roast
ed slices of steak, green pepper, to-
mato and onion. The Sassafras, it
seems, gives an added flip to the
kabobs.
After the kabob feast the Scouts
retired to their various assignments.
BY 6 pm, when it was all to end,
the Scouts and the station staff ex-
pected to be tired but happy. The
radio audience, of course, was some
thing else again.
Careless pedestrians cause three
f0UrfhO nf oil accidor<e
Evening star., 1939-08-22
E|dridgeFaces
Court Heariinq
In Crash
Three-Woy Accident
Was AvoidobIe,
Seal Believes

Corporation Counsel ElWood H
Seal today directed his Police Court
assistants to prosecute both M. o.
Eldridge, assistant director of traffic
and vehicles, and Allan Whitlock on
traffic charges in a three-way ac-
cident two weeks ago at Forty fourth
street and Cathedral avenue NV.
in which they were involved.
The third car in the accident was
driven by Miss Kathleen Duncan,
who, according to the evidence,
anticipated collision and had
pulled up to stop. Her car was
struck by the Whitlock machine.
A passenger in her car, Miss Mary
Helen Dawson of 68O6 Forty-fifth
street, was injured.
Mr.. Seal said he had found from
his review of the evidence, heard at
a special hearing last Friday, that
neither Mr.. Eldridge nor Mr.. Whit
lock had exercised due diligence.
Assistants Findings Differ.
Mr.. Seal conducted the hearing
when it developed that one of his
assistants, j. F. Reilly, said there
was justification for prosecution,
and another, George D. Nelson, said
there were no grounds for case. 1t
had been reported that parties to the
accident had agreed upon a settle
ment out Of court as to the damages.
In memorandum which he today
sent to his assistants at Police and
Traffic Courts, Mr.. Seal said:
Il have given careful considera-
ton to the statements made by all
Of the witnesses in the Eldridge-
Whitlock collision case. It seems to
me that the accident occurred by
reason of the negligence of the oper-
ators of the Eldridge and Whitlock
cars.
The statements clearly show that
the vision at the northeast corner of
Cathedral avenue and Forty-fourth
street is obstructed by hedge feet
high, and it occurs to me that if due
diligence had been exercised by both
drivers, the accident could have been
avoided.
Copies Sent to Lawyers.
I'm view of this conclusion, appro-
pirate charges should be filed against
Mr.. Eldridge and Mr.. Whitlock. I am
sending a copy of this memorandum
to Rlnggold Hart, attorney for Mr..
Eldridge: John H. Pratt, attorney for
Mr.. Whitlock. and Stanley Fischer.
attorney for Miss Kathleen Duncan.
1 suggest that you advise Mr.. FL
drldge and Mr. Whitlock to appear
and make oaths to proper traffic
violations. at which time you should
issue informations based upon sec
ton % of the traffic and motor ve-
hlcles regulations for the District of
Columbia. which is as follows:
mo person shall drive a vehicle
upon a highway at a greater speed
than Is reasonable and prudent, and
due regard to the traffic, surface
and width of the highway, and the
hazards at intersections, and any
other conditions, then existing"
Evening star., 1939-08-22
Report Cites Lack
Of Adequate Space
AtHome for Aged
Need of Increased
Infirmory Personnel
Also Emphasized

Relief from overcrowding. more
lnf1rmary personnel, increase d
maintenance appropriation and
new boiler plant were listed as
pressing needs yesterday by Frank
B. Haskell. superintendent of the
Home for Aged and Infirm at Blue
Plains, in his annual report.
In submitting his statement to
Acting Welfare Director Paul L.
Kirby, Mr.. Haskell said the home
was overcrowded except in the
white womens ward.
The white mems ward is COM
pletely filled and IL are sleeping
in a sun parlor which has been
partitioned off to take care of the
overflow, he said. The men appear
to like the arrangement. he said,
but he was skeptical as to how it
will work out in cold weather.
If we get any more colored men,"
Mr.. Haskell declared, I'VE will be
compelled to resort to the same
arrangement in that section"
In emphasizing need for in
flrmary personnel, the superintend-
ent pointed out there are only 13
employees to treat 100 bed patients
and the sick In the wards.
These employees cannot properly
take care of this number he said.
when we have only 254 working
days of eight hours each"
Taking up maintenance, Mr.. Has
kel said food alone requires more
than half the appropriation.
when it costs only $211 or s212
a year to maintain and 5000 a bed
to house these aged people," he de-
clared, lit is holding the cost down
lower than it should be-"
The new boiler plant is being
sought in the 1941 estimates, he
revealed. The old ones are SO and
80 years old, he said, and were
second hand when installed.
The population for the last six
months has averaged better than
700 q day, he stated, and will prob
ably increase to $50 during 1910
and 800 by 1941.
Evening star., 1939-08-22
Legion Post Urges
Annual Soup Box DERBY

Establishment of the Soap Box
Derby, amateur coaster event for
boys, as permanent annual affair
devoted to the betterment of our
youth in the District OF Columbia, !"
was urged today by the Department
OF Agriculture Post, No. 36, of the
American Legion, in letter to The
Evening Star.
The Legion post praised the sports
manship training gained by the boys
IN the construction and competition,
and pledged its continued support
OF the Derby for the coming year.
Held this year for the second time,
the coaster race was sponsored by
The Star and the American Legion
Ia conjunction with Chevrolet
dealers.
Evening star., 1939-08-22
Hitching' Ride on Truck
Is Fatal 10 Boy, IS

A 15-year-old boy, who was
crushed under the wheels of a five
ton truck was listed today as the
56th victim of traffic in the District
this year.
Eugene c. Dulaney, Is, colored, of
1877 Wallach street NV. was killed
yesterday as he hitched a ride on a
truck. He was riding a bicycle
and holding to a truck which was
moving north on New Jersey avenue
NV, police reported.
In front of 1927 New Jersey ave-
nue., the boys bicycle swerved into
the side of the truck and he was
thrown to the street. Taken to
Evening star., 1939-08-22
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, Nos. SIS and Sc of
the year "a pedestrian and a
bicyclisD.
Accidents, 38.
Motorists injured, s.
Motorists arrested, 229.
Pedestrians injured, 6.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, IS.
Evening star., 1939-08-22
Will See Worlds Fair

Catholics from Father Burgess
Chapter, most of whom are mem
bers Of st. Cyprian's Church, are
planning to leave September for
a pilgrimage to the New York
Worlds Fair to attend Catholic
day.
Evening star., 1939-08-22

Careless pedestrians cause three.
fourths Of all accidents.
Evening star., 1939-08-10
Heat Maximum Of IS
Predicted for Today;
96 Yesterdays Top
Years Hottest Day Caused
] Prostrotions; onieht
Will Be Cooler

Temperatures today will not go
over 85, the Weather Bureau fore
caster predicted this morning with
heavy sigh of relief. This would
be II degrees short of yesterdays s
record high of SO degrees.
The prediction for tonight was
cheerful, too. 1t will be fair and
slightly cooler during the night and
tomorrow will be cloudy, the fore
caster said
Yesterdays 96 tied the season S
record, established June Is, and
caused seven heat prostrations
One boy was drowned and another
was injured in swimming pool as
they sought relief from the heat
humidity.
The high temperature was reached
at 3:l5 pm, and was accompanied
by excessive humidity of Al per cent.
Showers fell later and sent the
mercury down. Gentle winds this
morning kept the heat within COM
Portable bounds, the Weather Bu-
reau thermometer registering IA at
8 am, rs at 9 am. and 78 at 10 am.
Rain Helped.
The rain that fell shortly after
sunset last night drove the mercury
down. At pm. the reading was
80, an hour later it had dipped to
83 and at 9 pm. was 70.
John E. Coles, 13. colored, of 1922
Swan street NV was drowned in
the Georgetown Channel at the foot
of Twenty sixth street, where he
had been swimming with two other
(See WEATHER, Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1939-08-10
Fred Snite, Man in Iron Lung,
Married to Long, ime Friend
Teresa Lorkin, rs,
Becomes His Bride in
Ceremony at Home

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Aug. 10.-Fred Snite,
jr, who has been fighting for life
in an iron lung" for three years,
was married today.
The smiling 29-year-old infantile
paralysis victim, who has refused
to let the handicap of an artificial
reSplrator interfere with his many
activities, took Miss Teresa Larkin.
25, of Dayton, Ohio. for his bride.
The ceremony which united the
widely known boiler kid" with the
Ohio girl was performed in the Snite
suburban home in River Forest by
the Rev. j. w. Morrison. Young
Snlte was in his iron lung as the
service was read.
Announcement of the marriage
was made by Mr.. Snite's father,
Fred, sr., who said the young couple
planned to take short trailer trip.
Mr.. Snite has a trailer specially
equipped to carry the apparatus
necessary to his life
Attendants for the couple were
Terrence j. Dillon and his wife,
Mary Loretta, who is young Snite's S
sister. Mary Loretta and Miss Lar
kin were friends at college and the
new Mrs. Snite had been a frequent
guest at the Snite home.
Evening star., 1939-08-10
Board Is Established
To Mobilize Industry
By the Associated Press,

by the ASSOClaLeC FIeSS.
Industry teamed with the Army
and Navy today in a revision Of
plans to mobilize the Nations re-
sources quickly in the event of war.
Six industrial leaders. economists
and business men. headed by Edward
R. StettiniuS, jr., chairman of United
States Steel, agreed to serve on a
new war resources board set up as a
peace-time counterpart of Bernard
Baruch's powerful 1918 War In
dustries Board.
Given only advisory functions in
peace time, the group in national
emergency would be clothed auto
matically with broad powers as an
executive agency of the Government
known as the War Resources Ad-
miniStration.
Its Functions.
The new board, announced Jointly
by Louis Johnson and Charles Edi-
son as acting War and Navy Sec
retaries, respectively, will:
l. Advise. the existing Army and
Navy Munitions Board on policies
pertaining to the mobilization of the
economic resources of the country
in the event of war emergency"
2. Review and perfect the plans al
ready being prepared by the NUM-
tionS agency.
Under these plans, some 10000 in
dustrial plants already have been as
signed tentatively such tasks as max
ing parts for shells and gas masks
in event of war
Since approval of the 1920 National
Defense Act. the War Department
has been at work on broad master
plan to mobilize the Nation quickly
and without the confusion that at
tended Americas entry into the
World War, but the new resources
group is the first to bet set up.
Detailed plans are complete, how
ever, for other agencies that would
undertake to control every principal
national function under temporary
military control
Another Board Approved.
President Roosevelt approved the
new board, 1t was announced, and
also another advisory board created
recently to advise Col. johnson in
placing some $16O0O,000 of "educa-
tional" orders with plants equipped,
to make specialized munitions.
Aside from Mr.. Stettinius, the
members of the Resources Board are
Karl T. Compton, president of the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Tech
nology; Walter S. Clifford, president
of the American Telephone & Tele-
graph Co; Harold c. Moulton, presi-
dent of the Brookings Institution;
John Lee Pratt, a General Motors
director, and Gen. Robert E. Wood,
chairman of Sears, ,Roebuck & Co.
One of the first activities of the
new board, it was said, will sbe to
seek the counsel of Mr.. Baruch and
other elder statesmen" of the
World War period.
More members will be added to
the board later. Col. Harry X.
Rutherford. director of the Army's
industrial mobilization plans, was
designated secretary.
Evening star., 1939-08-10
Brigades Clash
In Battles On
Bull Run Fields
Move Into Positions
Shortly After Dawn
For Engagements
BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON,
a

FIELD HEADQUARTERS THIRD
CORPS, FIRST ARMY, MANAS-
SAS, Va. Aug 10.-On the rolling
Virginia farmland where 78 years
ago boys from Virginia in the Gray
of the South and from Maryland
and Pennsylvania in the Blue of
the North locked in bloody strife.
descendants of those warriors, from
the same States and the District of
Columbia, in the khaki of the
Union, met today in two simulated
battles as part of their training
for the climax of two weeks of
maneuvers next week, when they
will unite forces to beat off a
simulated invasion of the United
States from the Atlantic.
Two-sided brigade problems be-
gan shortly after dawn today when
troops of the 28th and Doth National
Guard divisions began the march
from their camp areas to battle po-
sitions on the fields of the first and
second battles of Bull Run.
The brigades of the 28th are
maneuvering for positions of ad-
vantage on the field of first Bull
Run, where the armies of the
North and South met their bap-
tlsms of fire in the heat of July
day in 1861. Farther to the North.
IN the Groveton area, troops of the
29th Division, including the District
National Guard. were fighting
brigade against brigade. in the area
of the second battle, where II years
ago this month Gen. Thomas J.
Jackson, who had won the name
"Stonewall' a year earlier near the
same spot, maneuvered the retreat
ing army of Maj. Gen. John Pope
into battle on ground of his own
choosing.
More Training Needed.
Gen. George C. Marshall, the
Army'S new chief of staff, reported
in Washington today after inspect
ing preparations for the new Bat
tie of Bull Run that the troops
need more training for large scale
operations.
Gen. Marshall said the Army suf-
fers by comparison with foreign
forces, and with the Navy and Air
Corps, because of lack of opportun-
lty for war games such as will be
Waged here and in New York State
next week.
At the same time Gen. Marshall
noted that the mobilization here
disclosed impressive advances" in
fighting efficiency in the four years
since similar maneuvers were staged
in the East.
These large scale operations" he
said, "are the most valuable train
ing the Army can receive and there
(See TROOPS, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1939-08-10
Bahamas and Florida
Are Warned Of Storm
BY the Associated Press.

IS.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Aug. 10
The Weather Bureau warned the
Bahama Islands and the Southeast
Florida Coast areas today that a
tropical storm of moderate intensity
was moving in their direction.
ForecasterS said the storm was
central at am. E. S. T.. about 45O
miles east southeast of Miami, Fla,
and moving st-northWestward
about IL miles an hour into the
Southeastern Bahama Islands.
The disturbance had increased
from slight 10 moderate intensity,
but the highest winds so far report
ed were 45 to so miles an hour.
"If the present movement con-
tinues,' the Weather Bureau said,
the center will pass near Waiting
Island this afternoon and reach the
vicinity of Nassau early Friday
morning.
Caution is advised all interests
over the Bahamas today and tonight
and on the Southeast Florida Coast
late tonight and Friday"