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of. He was crushed by the right
rear wheel. Police said the driver
of the truck was Clarence Fairfax,
36. of 1917 U street NV
Chisley became the 28th person
to die in a traffic accident here this
year. The 9th fatality occurred
yesterday afternoon when a 7year-
old colored boy was killed. The toll
at this time last year was 38.
The youth who died yesterday
was William P. Brown of 1907 Fiji
teenth street NV, who was IA
tally injured as he attempted to
'hitch' ride on dump truck in
an alley in the 1000 block of Four
teenth street NV.
The boy, playing in the alley,
stepped out from behind a parked
car and ATTEMPTED to board the
truck running board, police said
Crushed under the right rear wheel
he was taken to Garfield Hospital
where he was pronounced dead upon
arrival.
Police said the driver of the We
hicle was John @. Thompson "a,
colored, of 2115 Ninth street NV,
who was being held for action of
the Coroner's jury. Following test
of the truck, a charge of operating
with a faulty foot brake was placed
against Thompson.
Body injuries and fractured
skull were received by 4-year-old
Joseph Hickerson of 817 Fifth street
NV. last night when struck by a
car as he crossed the street in the
400 block of I street NV. At
Emergency Hospital today attaches
said his condition was fair"
Also injured as he crossed the
street was Robert Mooney. S, of 3O8
Seventh street NE. who is in Cas-
ualty Hospital in an undetermined
condition with bruises about the
head. Police reported he was cross
ing in the 600 block of Sixth street
NE. late in the afternoon.
Norman Watson. 10, colored, of
l415 First street NV, received a
fractured arm when struck as he
crossed in the 600 block of Sixth
street NE. He was taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital.
Mrs Fred B. Mills, Al, of White
Oak, Md; her daughter, Eileen, Is,
and son, Fred, jr., 10, were injured
in an accident on the Colesville
pike at Four Corners, Md, today
and taken to Washington SAM
tarium in Takoma Park by the
Silver Spring Rescue Squad. They
were cut and bruised and their con-
dition was reported not serious.
According to Montgomery County
police. an automobile driven by
Mrs. Mills was in a collision with
a truck driven by Clarence E. Wes-
ley, %, colored, of 1857 Hayes street
NE. Mr.. Wesley was not injured.
Mrs. Mills and her two children
escaped with severe cuts and bruises,
although Mrs Mills was unconscious
when removed from her car.
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Drive 10 Seek
Traffic Safety
For Children
Summer Campaign
To Feature Three
Projects

There will be no more trafflc
fatalities involving children in the
District this year if efforts of the
District Recreation Department and
the Traffic Advisory Council are
successful.
In cooperation with the District
w. P. A., which is responsible for
one-third of the personnel in WASH
ington Fairgrounds, and which is
furnishing artists to design safety
posters to be exhibited throughout
the city, the Recreation Depart
ment and the Traffic Advisory
Council will sponsor an extensive
traffic safety drive among children
during the summer months, when
most of the school Fairgrounds are
closed.
The drive will feature three prof.
ects designed to demonstrate to
children the dangers of playing in
the streets and the substitution of
play lots in back yards and in alleys
safety Town Project.
- Safety Town" Project.
The first project will be the set
ting up of Safety Town." a model
city with streets, lights and even
toy cars, which will be exhibited at
various places all over Washington
Here children will be shown how
to cross the street safely by obey
ing police officers and traffic sig
nails. Employees of the Recreation
Department will be on hand to tell
the children of the hazards encoun-
tered in playing in the streets.
A substitute for street playing
will be demonstration of a typical
backyard play lot-project No. 2.
Complete with see-saWs, sand boxes
and other play equipment, this
model will serve to encourage par
ents to install similar equipment in
their own back yards in order to
keep the children of the streets.
The Pleasant Plains Civic Associa-
ton already has been exhibiting a
model backyard play area for COL
ored children on Hobart street be-
tween Georgia and Sherman ave-
nues NV. for the last month. In
addition, the association offers
prizes for the best play lot furnished
by children or by parents.
Prizes for Best Lot.
A backyard play lot for white
children will be established at OPP
portunity House, 78 I street NV.
Prizes also will be awarded to these
children for the back yard or lot
converted into the best playground.
Those wishing to enter the contest
may register their yards at the Dis
trict Recreation Center The time
for this particular offer is limited
to July /. After this date the
model play lot will be moved to
another part of the city for chill
dren in that area.
The third project-a model alley
and court playground for colored
children-will be exhibited in al
leys and courts where accidents are
most likely to occur, according to
police records. This project will
start on July /.
BY means of these projects the
Recreation Department hopes to
keep 1910 free of children traffic
fatalities. Thus far this year there
have been two traffic fatalities in
volving children, as compared with
seven such deaths during a similar
period in 1899.
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Roosevelt Signs Three
District Measures

President Roosevelt today signed
three pieces of legislation of inter-
est to the District.
First on the list was an amend
ment to the law regulating adoption
proceedings in the District. Second
was an act authorizing the District
Commissioners to provide for the
parking of automobiles in the
Municipal Center. Third was an
amendment to the act establishing
the Board of Indeterminate Sen
tence and Parole for the District.
Mr.. Roosevelt also approved to-
day an act authorizing transfer to
the State of Virginia of a portion
of the Quantico Naval Reservation
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U. 5. 10 Speed Recruiting
For Defense Jobs

Plans for the reorganization of
the Investigations division to speed
up recruiting of Government work.
ers for the national defense pro-
gram were announced today by the
Civil Service Commission, which
said it's work would be carried out
in close cooperation with the in
vestigative services of the Treas
ury, the Federal Bureau of Inves-
tigation and the intelligence serv-
ices of the War and Navy Depart
ments.
The commission is adding ap-
proximately 100 investigators, to
bring its staff to 200, who will be
under the general direction of James
E. Hatcher, associate chief of the
division. Mr.. Hatcher, field in
vestigator for the commission for
the last 10 years, recently has
been director of personnel He
will be assisted by William M. Nc
Millen as field training supervisor,
while Capt. Harry Dengler, in
charge of training activities for the
TTeaSuryS investigators, is being
loaned to the commission for train
ing the new men.
The commission recently an
nounceed that bund and Communist
members are not to be certified for
employment, and in expanding the
investigation service it was said
that as a matter of policy, where
there is doubt as to the background
of prospective employe. this
must be resolved in favor of pro-
tecting the Government"
In another new recruiting tack
today the commission prepared to
send out weekly to its local repre-
sentatives in 5000 communities a
list of the positions for which ap-
plicants are wanted.
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Street Improvement
At Chevy Chase View

improvement of Summit avenue
and Saul road was authorized by the
Citizens Committee of Chevy Chase
View (Md) at its June meeting last
night at the home Of George Cros-
sette. The work will start within
the next month. John Mcdonald,
engineer, will be In charge of the
project. Plans are to grade and
apply . binder.
r. Z. Engel was reelected chair
man of the committee and George
Crosette was named building in
spector for the village, succeeding H.
!. echiefer, whose tsrm has expired.
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Tonsey to Become Aide
To Construction Chief

Maj. Patrick H. Tansey, Assist
ant Engineer Commissioner, who
will complete his four-year tour of
duty here July l, has been directed
to report July to the Office of the
chief of engineers, United States
Army, to serve as assistant to the
chief of the construction section of
the Army Engineer Corps.
He already had been assigned to
report to the Army War College
September l, and, barring contin-
gencies, the new order is under
stood to be for temporary duty.
The War Department recently de-
tailed Capt. Beverly C. Snow, now
at the Army Industrial College, to
be an Assistant Engineer Commits
sioner, effective July /.
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Auto Accidents
Fatal 10 Two;
1o||'Goes 10 28
W. P. A. EmpIoye Run
Over Chasing Hat;
Boy, 7, Is q Victim

The second traffic fatality here
within 16 hours occurred today
when 24-year -old colored w. P.
A. worker fell beneath the wheel of
truck on which he had been
riding. The victim, James Chisley,
1898 Union court S.W., had jumped
off to recover his hat that had
blown off.
Chisley, riding on District gov
ernment truck loaded with lumber
for a w. P. A. project, was pro-
nounced dead at the scene in the
$500 block of Rittenhouse street NV.
According to police, the victim
was riding just to the rear of the
cab of the truck when he Jumped
Evening star., 1940-06-07
Farley Offers
Plan 10 Solve
Job Problem
Unemployment Must
Be Abolished, Says
Findings Committee

Branding unemployment as "a
major cause of war and poverty and
an indictment of our society" the
1nterfaith Conference on Unem-
ployment yesterday adopted series
of recommendations looking toward
the abolition, not merely relief, Of
unemployment.
The recommendations submitted
by findings committee headed by
Msgr. John A. Ryan, director of the
Department of Social Action of the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence, were approved as the confer
ence ended its three-day session in
the Departmental Auditorium.
Specific proposals in the commit
tees report urged:
That the Government call to-
gether commission composed of
representatives of consumers, farm
ers, labor, finance, manufacturing,
commerce, education and religion
to devise cooperative, democratic
measures to solve the unemployment
problem.
That religious bodies assume their
responsibility to educate, with the
| aid of informed laymen, in regard
to the moral and social aspects of
such questions as the kind and de-
gree Of taxation, the relative em-
phasis upon voluntary and govern-
mental leadership; the role of CO.
operatives for purchasing, credit,
marketing; the possibility of setting
up democratic economic planning;
| the Importance of preserving re-
ligious and civil liberties, and the
need for new social inventions to
deal with new conditions.
U. S. Leadership Held Needed.
Declaring governmental leadership
Is necessary to enforce and CO.
ordinate action by organized social
forces of the country, the conference
urged Federal authorities to estab-
hsh the unemployment commission
as continuing organization.
The report declared it is impera-
tive to attain just social relations
because economic desperation will
lead many well-meaning citizens of
all classes to great temptation.
Whatever may be the needs of
national defense" it added, "stim-
ulation of industrial activity through
the production of arms will not pro-
vide permanent method of abol-
ishing unemployment. 1t is
clear that we must search for sound
methods that promise more con-
structive economic results. The re-
ligious bodies have a vital interest
in what is socially constructive; in
reconciliation and healing; in the
arts of peace. Elimination OF un-
employment requires social thinking
of a high order and social collabora-
ton to work out the plans and put
them into effect"
Committee Personnel.
The Findings Committee was COM
posed of Msgr. Ryan. DR.. R. A. Nc
Gowan, assistant director of the
Department of Social Action of the
National Catholic Welfare Confer
ence; Carl P. Hensler, Wilbur La
Roe, jr.; Cameron Hall, Benson Y.
Lands. Rabbi Isidor B. Hoffman,
Rabbi Edward L. Israel, Rabbi Ely
Pilchik and James Myers, secretary.
The report was submitted to the
four agencies represented in the
interfaith conference, the industrial
division, Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America: the Social
Action Department of the N. C. w.
c., the Social Justice Commission,
| Central Conference of American
Rabbis, and the Social Justice Com
mittee, Rabbinical Assembly of
| America.
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they heard the radios blasting the
war news. There would be more of
that now, he admits.
But:
If I went back across the coun-
try now" he said, "the farmers
would still be thinking about how
they were going to meet the mort
gage. the sharecroppers would be
wondering if next year they would
be day laborers, the fishermen
would be worrying about the price
they would get for their salmon and
mackerel, the railroad men would
be worrying about their wages and
their jobs.
-"The personal lives of people don't
STOP" he went on, they wouldn't
even if we went into the war. The
war tosses people around, it affects
prices, it breaks up family relation
ships, but they still talk about per-
sonal things"
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Decision Is Due Soon
In Transit Bond Case

Approval is expected to be given
by the Public Utilities Commission,
probably next week, to the proposal
OF the Capital Transit Co. and the
Washington Railway & Electric Co.
for a means of settling litigation
over first mortgage bonds OF the
old Anacostia & Potomac River
Railroad Co. and the City & SUBJ
urban Railway.
A public hearing on the proposal
was held by the commission yes
terday. Commission officials said
they probably would render a de-
cision next week after the transcript
OF the testimony Is made available
for study.
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Norwoy's Envoy to Mark
independence Today

In honor of the 35th anniversary
of Norway as an independent king
dom, Wilhelm Morgenstierne, Min
lister of Norway, will give reception
to newspapermen at the Norwegian
Legation today. Though the Nazis
have occupied large part of the
country, Norwegian troops are hold
ing out against the German in
vaders in the north, and the Nor
wegian government, represented in
Washington by Minister Morgen-
Stierne is still in existence.
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Are You Counted?

If you have been missed by
the 1910 census enumerator it
is recommended you write to
G. R. Brown, supervisor of the
census, First and M streets
NE, giving name, street, ad-
dress, city and State; also If
you have moved since April l,
1910, please list former address
and date of change. This notice
is published in response to a
request to the press by census
officials.
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WoodIey Road Extension
Proposal Is Rejected

A proposal to extend Woodley
road through the estate Of former
Secretary of State Henry L. Stim-
son, between Twenty-ninth street
and Cleveland avenue NV, was
denied today By the Commissioners.
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Truffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, l (pedestrian).
Accidents, 81.
Motorists injured. 3.
Motorists arrested, 372.
Pedestrians injured, 6.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control
regulations, 4.
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Secretaries Will Graduate

Commencement exercises of the
Washington School for Secretaries
will be held Monday at 8:15 pm. at
the Mayflower Hotel.
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nag mounted with Red banners the
~ away yson.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
Fear and Wonder
Recommended for
Today's Christians
Bible Class Association
Hears Dr.. Groy Urge
Rediscovery Of Words

Christians must set themselves to
the task of rediscovering the mean
ing of the two "lost words of mod
ern religious life-fear and wonder
DR.. Joseph M. M. Gray, chancellor
of American University, told more
than 400 members Of the Organized
Bible Glass Association of the Dis
trict at the organizations 11th an
nual banquet last night in Calvary
Baptist Church.
THE radiance of religion began
to fade when we lost the sense Of
wonder" DR.. Gray said. The peo-
pie who began the gospel for us
were captured by wonder when they
saw Jesus. But we have become so
accustomed to His name and to ex-
traordinary happenings that we
have lost the feeling Of wonder
and awe.
We must recover that sense Of
wonder and fear, not only for our
own individual experience, but for
the good Of our national life as a
whole"
The speaker said Christians today
know more of Jesus social ideals
and human sympathies than ever
before "and yet there is not much
flame in our religious life today"
1t is a mistake. he said, to say that
society is hostile to religion.
Pictured as Indifferent.
1T is merely Indifferent" DR.. Gray
said. "The radiance and wonder
and fear have faded Society doesn't
question whether religion is good,
but merely says. what of it?"
DR.. Gray urged the Bible class
members not to be so concerned with
the social obligation of religion as
with the. recovery of the lost"
words. Christianity was never as
intelligent as it is today, but there
is too much confusion, uncertainty
and bewilderment in modern re-
lgious life, he declared.
George E. Harris, executive Sec
retary of the Organized Bible Glass
Association, announced that 225
members of the ASSOCIATION already
had made reservations for the 18th
annual conference to be held at
Westminster, Md, on August 81,
september l and 2. The theme of
the conference will be Life and
Personal Religion"
Music Program Varied.
A highlight of the evenings pro-
gram was an entertainment program
which included community singing
led by William r. Schmucker; vocal
solos and duets by Thomas and
Granville Leaf, music by the Ma
tional Brass Quartet and more songs
by trio composed of Wilda Savage,
Madge Everett and Geraldine
Grumbly. Lucille Shannon Etchison
and William Bishop were the ac-
companists.
Page McKendree Etchison, presi-
dent of the association, served as
POSTMASTER. L. w. De Cast, general
secretary Of the Y. M. c. A., pro-
nounced the invocation and DR.. C.
E. Resser, president of the District
OF Columbia Sunday School Asso-
citation, gave the benediction.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
Westinghouse to Take
Port in Air PorIey

Many outstanding Washington
aeronautical leaders will take lead
ing roles in the Third Annual
Southwest Aviation Conference at
Tulsa, Okla, April 1928. Problems
of national aviation regulation, air
transportation, pilot training and
air defense are to be considered.
Chairman Robert H. Hinckley Of
the Civil Aeronautics Authority,
Clinton M. Hester, c. A. A. admin
istrator; Thomas o. Hardin, chair
man of the Air Safety Board; Rep
resentative Randolph of West Vir-
ginia and Gill Robb Wilson, new
president Of the National Aeronautic
Association, will speak.
Other Washingtonians participate
ing In the conference are Charles
Graddick, Post once Department;
Brig. Gen. Jacob E. Fickel, Army
Air Corps; Richard S. Boutelle.
Civil Aeronautics Authority Safety
Bureau; Earl Ward, Civil Aero
nautics Authority; Maj. A. B. Nc
Mullin, Civil, Aeronautics Authori-
ty; Thomas @. Beesley, National
Council of Business Mail Users:
Grove Webster. c. A. A., and Col.
John H. Jouett. president OF the
Aeronautical Chamber Of Commerce.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
Mrs. Reuvis Assumes
Party Publicity Duties

Mrs. Hazel B. Reavis, former news
paperwomen, assumed her new
duties as director OF publicity for
the women's division of the Demo-
cratic National Committee today
Mrs. Reavis' appointment was an
nounced by Mrs. Thomas F. Nc
Allister, director Of the womens di-
vision. Formerly with the Associated
Press in Paris and London for sew
eral years, Mrs. Reavis was a men,
Der OF the the publicity staff OF the
New York Worlds Fair last year
She will have headquarters in the
National Press Building.
Evening star., 1940-04-18
K. Of G. Dinner Dance

The 4lst anniversary of the
founding of Spaulding Council.
Knights of Columbus, will be cele-
brated at $50 o'clock tonight with
a dinner dance at the Mayflower
Hotel. M. j. O'Callaghan, grand
knight Of the council, is honorary
Evening star., 1940-04-18
20-40 Club PIoy

THE 20-40 Club Players of the
Mount Pleasant Congregational
Church, 1410 Columbia road NV,
will present comedy by Theodore
Packard, Grab Apple" tomorrow
at s:15 pm. The play will be directed
by Arthur Hacking.
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chairman Of the Arrangements Com
mittee and William G. MCGUIRE is
general chairman. The entertain
ment program is in charge Of Claude
Nichols.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

Mexico's motion picture industry
has laid an egg" Production was
halted early in the year by lack of
capital.
Evening star., 1940-04-18

Japan has 10000 different flower.
ing plants and ferns.
Evening star., 1940-05-15
Pianist Glenn Carow
To Present Recital

Glenn .Carow, Washington concert
pianist, teacher and radio artist, will
be heard in full length recital in
Epiphany parish hall, 1877 6 street
NV, the evening of Wednesday,
May 70, at 8:15 o'clock. It will be
q benefit recital for the new Chapel
of the Redeemer, now in construc-
ton at Glen Echo, Md.
Mr.. Carow, a native Of Washing
ton, has been playing the piano
since he was years Of age, and
his career as concert pianist began
when he gave a program for tho
first radio station in the District.
His first teacher was the late B.
Frank Gebest. MIR. Carow later held
q scholarship at the Peabody Con-
servatory Of Music in Baltimore,
where he studied under Alexander
sklarewski. While at the Baltimore
conservatory, he was the first re-
cipient Of the Elizabeth Distler Piano
Prize for excellence in piano play
ing.
The test Of Mr.. Carow's musical
ability came one evening in the fall
Of 1896 when, at about 9 o'clock, he
received a telephone request to rush
to Constitution Hall. An audience
of several thousand persons gathered
there had been waiting for the
eminent violinist, Fritz Kreisler, to
appear. A train wreck in New
Jersey had delayed his train. Mr..
Carow played several compositions,
winning . decided success with the
audience. After that experience the
young pianist was guest soloist with
the National Symphony Orchestra
In the Mozart "A Major Concerto"
Mr.. Carow is well known as radio
artist, broadcasting regularly over
National Broadcasting Co. stations
The program he will play in Epiph-
any parish hall will include works
by Tschaikowsky, Chopin, Lszt and
several OF his own compositions.
Tickets for the concert may be OBJ
tanned at the Dorsey Concert
Bureau.
Evening star., 1940-05-15

has a rainstorm), and no one even
bothers to look at you. They're
looking at the baby!" The baby in
this case is Miss Juanita Quinta-
nilla, who did that fine male -infant
impersonation in Forty Little moth
ers."
Ann Is soaked to the skin, but
the baby In her arms is dry. II
held doll for the actual raining. !"
explains Ann in q hoarse voice,
yeah, I've got laryngitis: caught it
the first day of the picture. They
played q wind machine on me that
day. and I can't get rid of it." Miss
Sothern is a shadow of her former
buxom self-and tells me, with q
Singe Of bitterness. IF you worked
as hard as I. do, honey, you'd lose
weight too." Something tells me
this is my cue-to exit.
George Brent in 1.-THE Sentence"
has little more vitality than Miss
Sothern. Hello, you in the top
hat" says George, and I think
he means me: Brent is playing
a crusading district attorney (what,
againD. The heavy" in the piece
is Richard Barthelmess, whose cur
rent toughness is slightly marred by
having to stand on a wooden block
to come nearer the height Of Brent.
Barthelmess. tells me that he has
definitely abandoned-or been aban-
doned by-leading- -man- lover -roles.
And from now on he concentrates
on heavy" characterizations "When
does an actor decide to quit the
leading for. a supporting part?" this
writer wants to know. From Brent
comes an emphatic. "Never!"
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