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ROBERTS TO OFFER
PLAN FMBWAY
Senate and House District
Committees to Get Defi
nite Proposal.
A definite plan for construction of
cub ways for street cars under Pennsyl
vania avenue with a line under Con
necticut avenue to a point above Du
pont Circle will be submitted to all
members of the Senate and House
District Committees by People’s Coun
sel William A. Roberts.
Using rough estimates now avail
able. he placed the cost at not to
exceed $5,000,000 for building of tubes
over a stretch of some 2 *4 miles.
The people's counsel announced last
night he is convinced the tube con
struction to be the basic element es
sential to any early satisfactory solu
tion of the problem of traffic conges
tion and the inability of the mass
transportation system to carry peak
loads.
Will Organize Groups.
He plans to organize citizens’ as
sociations and other groups in a de
termined drive to obtain approval and
financing for the projects.
Such plans would fall within the
scope of the self-liquidating project
requirements of either the Public
Works Administration or the Presi
dents new plan for a national work
relief program, Roberts contended.
If financing does not come from
these sources, he believes some other
means should be found because of
the need and the benefits to be gained.
He has in mind amortization over a
period of 50 years.
Roberts has written to the Boston
Transit Commission for estimates of
the cost of construction of a double
track tube of a type suitable to Wash
ington. After this is received he will
lorward his plans to the congressional
committees promptly, he said. He
will send the data also to the District
Commissioners, the Public Utilities
Commission and the P. W. A. and
the Federal Relief Administration.
Connection With Circle.
He proposes a subway starting
under Pennsylvania avenue just to the
east of its intersection with Consti
tution avenue and running to a point
near Twenty-first and E streets, with
the outlet on Twenty-first street. From
that point there would be a surface
connection with Washington Circle
for a turn-around or for turning cars
either west to Rosslyn or east to the
city.
The Connecticut avenue branch
would come to the surface approxi
mately one block north of Dupont
Circle. The plan would be to remove
the street car tracks on Connecticut
avenue below this point and also on
Seventeenth street south to Penn
sylvania avenue.
PALESTINE JEWRY
TO ASK AID IN U.S.
Leader Coming to America to
Launch Drive in Support of
Immigration.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, January 12.—A cam
paign in the United States for sup
port of Jewish immigration in Pales
tine, and the establishment of a Jew
ish national state there, will be in
augurated shortly by Vladimir Jabot
insky, president of the World Union
of Zionist Revision.
Jabotinsky will leave Cherbourg
Thursday for the United States, where
he will seek the support of American
Jewry for his world petition to the
British mandatory government to fa
cilitate this immigration. Zionist re
visionists claim that immigration is
the only hope for Jews now being per
secuted in central Europe.
To make immigration into Palestine*
practicable for Jews, says Jabotinsky,
t change in governmental policy must
be effected. Immigration bars must
be let down and the economic prob
lems of Jews dealt with.
Jabotinsky explained that Jewish
contentions for changes are based on
the fact that while Jews represent
only 22 per cent of the population in
Palestine, they account for 60 per
cent of the government’s taxation rev
enue.
BALLOU PLANS REPLY
Will Make Answer Wednesday to
Engineers' Complaint.
When the Board of Education holds
its regular meeting Wednesday, Dr.
Frank W. Ballou, superintendent, will
present the third in a series of answers
to the two engineers’ unions which
some time ago petitioned the board for
relief from objectionable working con
ditions in the school system.
The unions already have been
granted a hearing by the board, but
no date has yet been set for the work
ers to air their grievances.
Dr. Ballou twice before has filed
with the board partial replies to the
complaints.
VICE PRESIDENT PICKED
Special Dispatch to The Star.
LEONARDTOWN. Md., January 12.
—Mrs. Arthur Edward Meredith of
Charlotte Hall, Md., has been unani
mously elected vice president of the
P. E. Church Auxiliaries in St. Marys
County, and also been made a member
of the Executive Committee of the
Washington P. E. Diocese which in
cludes all of Southern Maryland. She
succeeded Mrs. Franklin Lee Metcalf
of Mechanicsville, Md., who held the
office for the past six years.
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In addition to the famous pediment above its front entrance, the
new huge marble home of the United States Supreme Court on Capitol
Hill will contain a number of other striking pieces of sculpture, which
are being rushed to completion by April 1. when the building must be
readv for use. Photo shows a striking view' of the frieze in the great
room where the court will conduct its deliberations, with a skilled work
man carefully applying the final touches to the group—Underwood Photo.
Defense Lawyer and Women
Clash Over “Paper”
Charge.
Bt the Associated Press.
POTTSVILLE. Pa., January 12.—
A young lawyer’s distrust of a woman
w itness, whom he charged with having
"something in her hand,” furnished a
tense moment today in the trial of
Joseph J. Bruno, former detective and
eldest of seven kin charged with mur
der in the election-eve slayings at
Kalayres.
Frank Bruno, nephew of the de
fendant apd one of his counselors,
directed the accusation at Mrs. Mary
Krensavage, but he declined after
court adjourned to discuss it. Persons
sitting near him said he remarked to
fellow attorneys that he thought she
had a paper. She offered to let him
examine the purse.
The witness expressed resentment
with a snapping "What,” as she held
aloft the purse she had been ner
vously fingering.
Flag is Displayed.
The same session witnessed the dis
play of the Stars and Stripes, a flag
which the Commonwealth says was
shot through by part of the fusillade
which came from the Joseph J. Bruno
home and killed 5 and wounded 13 in
a parade of Democratic sympathizers.
Carl Vacant*, not yet 21, testified
he carried the flag in the parade. He
was not hurt. Both the flag and the
bamboo pole to which it was supposed
to have been attached were barred as
exhibits until the Commonwealth sat
isfied Judge Cyrus M. Palmer through
testimony that it is in the same con
dition that it was when the firing
/.enraH
Weapon Exhibited.
Through State Policemen Howard
Soule and Morgan B. Davis and Chief
County Detective Louis D. Buono, who
was the defendant’s superior at the
time or the slayings, Prosecutor Al
bert L. Thomas entered more exhibits
of weapons and ammunition. The
Commonwealth has offered more than
60 exhibits, the great bulk of them
consisting of rifles, shotguns, pistols,
dynamite, ammunition and photo
graphs.
William D. Stahre of Hazelton iden
tified an automatic rifle as a gun he
sold to Bruno last October.
CLAUS SPRECKELS, 3D,
DIES IN CALIFORNIA
Former San Diego Publisher Mem
ber of Family Identified With
History of Coast.
By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 12.—
Claus A. Spreckels, 3d, member of a
California family widely known in
dustrially and socially, died here to
day. He formerly was a San Diego
publisher.
Spreckels was connected with the
sugar business that bore the family
name and was a yachtsman and mu
sician. He was 47.
The Spreckels family has had a
large part in California development
history.
In addition to the widow, four chil
dren survive, Claus, 4th; Frank, Bar
bara and Claire Spreckels.
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Roper Says ‘‘Civilian West
Point” Would Supply
Personnel.
A civil service "reserve corps” in
schools and colleges from which Fed
eral. State and municipal govern
ments might draw- personnel equipped
to serve in executive capacities is
advocated by Secretary of Commerce
Roper.
He made this suggestion in a letter
to E. Claude Babcock, president of
the American Federation of Govern
ment Employes, in connection with the
National Civil Service week observ
ance fostered by the federation Janu
ary 13-19 to focus attention on the
merit system.
"We must be awakened to the truth
that our greatest need is not for
external defense, as important as that
is. but for internal defense, the
equipping of people with an adequate
understanding of and appreciation
for democratic institutions and for
keeping actions co-ordinated in ef
forts to preserve such institutions,”
Secretary Roper said.
“We have lone appreciated the im
portance of external defense, but we
are not adequately awake to the needs
of this better internal defense. West
Point and Annapolis have functioned
wonderfully In preparing for the
former; we need now to create civic
courses in our schools and colleges
and build a reserve corps of executives
to be recorded with the Civil Service
Commission or in the United States
Bureau of Education, a list of eligibles
on which those in authority in mu
nicipal, State and Federal govern
ments could draw with confidence,
both as to mental preparation and
with regard to the attitude of eligibles
toward our form of government.”
Commissioner Lucille Foster McMil
lin of the Civil Service Commission
speaks over WJSV at 4:45 p.m. Tues
day on the federation program.
K.OFC. DRIVE INITIATED j
45,000 New Members Sought in
Movement.
NEW YORK. January 12 UP).—A
movement known as the Knights of
Columbus Mobilization for Catholic
Action was launched tonight at a meet
ing of the Supreme Board of Direc
tors of the K. of C.
William P. Larkin, president of the
P. P. Collier & Son Co., was named
chairman of a committee of 200.
Larkin said the movement was
started to arouse Catholics in North
America to greater co-operation with
the K. of t. and to add 45,000 members
to the order.
New Farm Methods Urged.
Modern agricultural practices are to
be taught coffee growers In the Kona
district of Hawaii.
Reports Involving Promotion
Tests, However, Doubted
by Officials.
Although Civil Service commission
ers and high police officials were
skeptical over reports of a “leak” In
questions for the recent police promo
tion examinations, the United States
attorney's office was called upon yes
terday to conduct an Investigation of
the published charges.
Assistant United States Attorney
George McNeil was summoned into
conference with the Commissioners
and Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown and
Assistant Supt. L. I. H. Edwards, and
as a result, a three-way inquiry was
underway by nightfall, conducted
jointly by McNeil, the Civil Service
Commission and the police high com
mand.
Trial Board Would Act.
"If any officers either sold or paid
for advance copies of the examina
tion they will be brought before the
Trial Board immediately,” aald Maj.
Brown.
The charges were brought to
Brown's attention as a result of gossip
within the ranks that photostatic
copies had been made available to
certain officers who took the examina
tion last November 10. Gosslpers also
charged favorltsm had been shown In
the new system of rating eligibles for
"experience and fitness.”
After the conference yesterday at
the Civil Service Commission Brown
and the commissioners expressed the
opinion no photostatic copies had been
circulated, but that a list of questions
“such as might be asked in the ex
amination" had been offered for sale
at *2.50 per copy. This is not against
the law and several Individuals and
institutions specializing in coaching
for civil service examinations fre
quently circulate such lists of ques
tions.
The favoritism charge has been
ridiculed by Inspector Edwards, who
pointed out that prior to the last ex
amination the efficiency rating sys
tem was revised from a possible maxi
mum of 100 per cent to a high mark
of 88. Edwards said this was done
because the Board of Inspectors who
pass on the ratings came to the con
clusion no officer could be 100 per cent
efficient; that it was humanly impos
sible.
Among those who participated In
the conference at the commission's
headquarters were the three members
of the commission, Harry B. Mitchell,
president; Mrs. Lucille Foster McMil
lin and Leonard D. White, Police
Supt. Brown, Assistant Supt. L. I. H.
Edwards, L. A. Moyer, chief of the
Examining Division; James Q. Yaden,
chief examiner; Dr. A. R. Butler, ex
aminer, who prepared the questions,
with the assistance of Inspector Ed
wards, and Chief of Detectives Frank
S. W. Burke and Assistant United
States Attorney George McNeil.
Before conferring with the Civil
Service commissioners, the police chief
called upon two officers w-ho passed
with exceptionally high marks. Sergts.
Walter H. Thomas and Lawrence R.
Beall, and asked them if they had any
advance information as to the ques
tions. He said both denied they had.
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Stress Nee'd for Nurses’ School
Dr. Leo V. Schneider, resident physician at the Children's Tuber
culosis Sanatorium, and his wife, Dr. Rebecca Malkln-Schneider, physician
In charge of girl patients at the institution, who yesterday urged the
creation of a special school for the training of tuberculosis public nurses.
—Star Staff Photo.
CALLES ABLE TO MOTOR
Former President of Mexico Must
Undergo Operation, However,
LOS ANGELES, January 12 (IF.—
Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, who is here
for a major operation, was able to
leave his bed at St. Vincent’s Hospital
today for a brief motor car ride
through the city.
Physicians stated they had not com
pleted their diagnosis, but that there
was no question an operation must
be performed.
The former President of Mexico Is
suffering from a gall bladder ailment.
HOOVER HOME AGAIN
—
Visited Chicago on Private Busi
ness Mission.
PALO ALTO. Calif., January 12 (IP).
—Former President Herbert Hoover
returned to his Stanford campus home 1
here today after a brief "private busi
ness mission" to Chicago.
The Hoovers will entertain as their
house guests later this month Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Rickard of New York City, j
now on their way to San Francisco
by way of the Panama Canal, aboard
the liner Santa Elena. Rickard is a
mining engineer. I
ROOSEVELT HELPS
FIGHT ON DISEASE
President Sends Check to
District Tuberculosis
Association.
A personal check from President
Roosevelt for an unrevealed sum was
received yesterday at the offices ol
the District Tuberculosis Association
Mrs. Ernest R. Grant, managing di
rector of the organization, announced
•'The gift is welcomed as evidenci
tha{. the President of the whole Na
tioiii has at heart the welfare of Wash
ingtbn citizens,” Mrs. Grant said. "I
is also regarded as setting a fine ex
ample for all of those other friend:
of the Tuberculosis Association wh<
have not yet responded to the Christ
mas seal sale appeal to complete th<
fund so urgently needed for the work ■
to be done In 1935, If the Increasing
danger of tuberculosis in the Nation's
Capital city Is to be controlled.”
Some idea of the preventive work
that can be done to check the ravages
of the disease, if sufficient funds are
made available to the association, was
stressed from a new angle by two
members of the medical staff of the
Children’s Tuberculosis Sanatorium.
Speaking for himself and his wife,
who is physician in charge of girl pa
tients, Dr. Leo V. Schneider, resident
physician at the sanatorium, said:
"It is only too true that this sana
torium will soon be filled to its bed
capacity, as we now have 1,932 pa
tients and several others on the way.
Its limit is 150 beds. <
"Still very much may be done for
all of the other children in need of
| special care if only you can have spe
| cially trained nurses go directly into
| the homes of these children and show
the parents how to care for them and
protect them from infection, at the
same time trying to have all of the
. active cases hospitalized.
"This much at least you should do,
i but in order to develop this woric
> properly there should be a special
school for the training of tuberculosis
public nurses.”
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