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GREATER CAPITAL
_
Committee to Ask $50,000
for Work in Attracting
Visitors Here.
Washington business men will be
called upon, beginning Tuesday, to
raise a minimum of $50,000 to con
tinue for another year the work of
the Greater National Capital Com
mittee of the Washington Board of
Trade.
Lloyd B. Wilson, president of tha
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.,
Is chairman of the drive and asso
ciated with him are 15 well-known
business leaders as members of the
committee. Many other prominent
business and professional men will also
give their time and attention to the
campaign to assure its success.
The Greater National Capital Com
mittee Is beginning the fifth year of
its existence. The minimum budget
set for the coming year has been
based upon actual experience in the
past, which has seen the committee
broaden its activities and increase the |
scope of its work each succeeding i
year.
Based upon actual figures and re
liable estimates, the Greater National
Capital Committee's activities have
brought to the city close to $50,000 -
000 from visitors attracted here to
conventions, for sightseeing excursions
or for holiday visits. For the calen
dar year 1934 the campaign commit
tee pointed out that 200 national con
ventions brought to Washington ap
proximately $13,500,000; 2,400,000
tourists brought in $25,500,000. and
visitors here on business brought in
an additional $10,000,000.
These figures are based upon actual
data compiled on conventions, road
counts made by the committee, reports
from hotels and governmental agen
cies and from attendance records of
the Smithsonian Institution.
Leaders in Campaign.
Definite plans for the campaign for
funds were made at a luncheon meet
ing Friday at the Washingtoa Hotel.
Conferring with Chairman Wilson were
B. B. Bergunder, Lee D. Butler. A. C.
Case. James E. Colliflower. John H.
Davis. W. W. Everett. Robert V. Flem
ing. Arthur J. Harnett, Bert L. Olm
sted, John *Saul. F. P. H. Siddons,
Marcy L. Sperry. Charles H. Tomp
kins, F. G. Addison. jr„ and Robert
J. Cottrell, members of the commit
tee.
The committee has stressed the
point that $50,000 is a small invest
ment for the return of $49,000,000 to
$50,000,000 in a single year. Visitors
contribute more to Washington trade
channels than any other group except
Government employes.
“The Greater National Capital
Committee,” Wilson said, "does not,
of course, claim that it is solely re
sponsible for bringing every visitor to
Washington nor for every dollar spent.
“It does claim that it is responsible
to a considerable degree for the large
and increasing number of national
conventions each year, for the con
tinually expanding attendance, and
for the rapidly increasing number of
transient visitors.
“It also feels that by recognizing
the tremendous possibilities in this
second largest source of Washington’s
purchasing power and by definitely
promoting and protecting it in the
face of similar organized effort in
other communities, that it serves
Washington in a way that no other
organization is doing.
“It provides opportunity for a safe, j
conservative investment in a vitally
important community activity.”
Organized in 1931.
The committee was organized as a
division of the Board of Trade in
April, 1931, after several years of con
sideration of such a unit by the busi
ness and civic leaders of the city.
Curtis Hodges, its executive direc
tor, has served in that capacity from
about the time it was organized.
The committee devotes its efforts to
two things: (1) to increase to the
highest possible figure the number of
visitors of all kinds coming to the city
each year, and (2) to see to it that
the visitors are so well treated while
here that they will become good adver
tisers for Washington when they re- i
turn home.
Washington is advertised by the
committee through the use of printed
pamphlets, motion pictures of the city,
large posters, travel literature, radio
broadcasts, and the use of news and
feature material in the dally news
papers of the country and trade and
other magazines and publications.
Its largest single activity is in con
nection with conventions, and mem
bers of its staff travel from 30,000 to
40.000 miles per year and conduct a
voluminous correspondence with the
2,500 organizations of the country
which hold annual national meetings.
SERVICE ORDERS
ARMY ORDERS.
Biscoe, Col. Earl, General Staff
Corps, from duty in the office of the
chief of staff, here, to the Hawaiian
Department, about September 18.
Willis, Lieut. Col. John M„ Medical
Corps, assigned to duty at the Army
War College, here.
Williams. Maj. Robert P, Medical
Corps, from the Army War College,
here, to Carlisle Barracks, Pa, about
July 8.
Giles, Capt. Barney M, Air Corps,
from Maxwell Field, Ala, to Langley
Field, Hampton, Va„ not later than
June 30.
Upston, Capt. John E, Air Corps,
from Maxwell Field, Ala, to Langley
Field, Hampton, Va„ not later than
June 30.
Serig, First Lieut. Howard W„ Sig
nal Corps, from West Point, N. Y, to
Fort Myer, Va„ about August 1.
McLeod, First Lieut. Robert D„ jr.
Chemical Warfare Service, from Aber
deen, Md, to Edgewood Arsenal, Md.
NAVY ORDERS.
Bureau of Navigation.
Clarke, Lieut. Comdr. William P. O,
detached Naval Academy, in October;
to c. f. o. U. S. S. Quincy and on board
as gunnery officer when commissioned.
Orders April 19 revoked.
King, Lieut. (J. G.) George E„ de
tached U. S. S. Breckinridge; on dis
charge treatment Naval Hospital,
Mare Island, Calif.; to Naval Acauemy.
Morrow, Ensign William J, jr, on
discharge treatment Naval Hospital,
Washington, D. C.; to home, relieved
all active duty.
Medical Corps.
Hsrbert, Lieut. (J. G.) Fred, de
tached Naval Hospital, Washington,
D. C, about June 1; to Naval Station,
Tutulla, Samoa.
Dental Corps.
Weigster, Lieut. Comdr. Charles S,
detached Navy Yard, Washington, D.
C„ in May; to U. S. S. Altair.
Warrant Officer.
Martin, Chief Pharmacist Robert,
detached Naval Hospital, Mare Island,
Oallf, about May 30; to Norfolk Navy
Yard, Portsmouth, ?».
Direct Drive for Greater National Capital Committee Funds
This group of leading Washington business men will direct the drive for funds for the
Greater National Capital Committee of the Washington Board of Trade, which will begin
Tuesday. They are seeking a minimum of *50,000. Left to right, upper, they are John Saul.
F. P. H. Siddons, Charles H. Tompkins, Lloyd B. Wilson, chairman; Marcy L. Sperry, J. H.
Davis and Arthur J. Harnett. Lower, left to right, Bert L. Olmsted, Robert V. Fleming, A. C.
Case, W. W. Everett. B. B. Burgunder, Lee D. Butler, James E. Colliflower, F. G. Addison, jr,
and Robert J. Cottrell.
—Harris-Ewing and Underwood & Underwood Photos.
TRANSIT COMPANY
10WIDENS /ICE
Substitution of Busses for
Trolleys to Rockville Will
Improve System.
BY JACK ALLEN.
Officials of the Capital Transit Co.
announced last night that the service
offered their Montgomery County pa
trons will be broadened greatly under
plans now being prepared to substi
tute busses for the electnc railway
line operating between Washington
and Rockville.
W. B. Bennett, assistant to the
president of the traction firm, said
schedules now in effect will be am
plified and a system of “fe >der" routes
worked out to give the Maryland com
muters a flexible type of service un
paraUeled in the history of transpor
tation in the nearby community.
Survey to Be Made.
An exhaustive survey is to be
started immediately to determine the
most effective set-up for meeting the
requirements of residents in the south
western section of the county, which
has been served by the railway since
1892.
Bennett declared the schedule of
thorough service from Rockville, in
cluding both the street cars and busses
that in recent years have supple
mented the regular railway schedule,
will not be disturbed, but, instead, is
to be augmented from time to time as
the necessity arises.
In addition, he stated, modern
busses will be placed in operation be
tween Washington, Battery Park,
Edgemoor, Alta Vista and other places
along Old Georgetown road to provide
residents of those communities with
greatly improved facilities.
To Await Abandonment.
A “feeder” system to serve points
off the main bus routes along Wis
consin avenue, Old Georgetown road
and the Rockville pike also Is to be
mapped out as an Important feature
of the survey and will be installed
where needed.
Bennett said that it is planned to
await until the street car line is aban
doned before making the changes, but
added that busses would be pressed
into service to augment present facili
ties if Improvement work now in prog
ress along Wisconsin avenue threatens
to delay in any way the street cars
now running to Rockville.
He explained that it is first neces
sary to obtain the permission of the
Maryland Public Service Commission
Derore abandoning the railway, which
the company expects to do by mid
summer. Bennett said that little
trouble is anticipated from this source,
however, because of the overwhelming
sentiment favoring such a move.
The traction company announced Its
decision to substitute busses for the
Rockville cars yesterday after the
Bethesda Chamber of Commerce had
appealed to that firm to co-operate In
the chamber's campaign for eliminat
ing a ditch being created in the center
of Wisconsin avenue by current pav
ing.
Tracks Left Low.
The railroad’s tracks and right of way
is being left in a dangerous and un
sightly ditch by the work of raising
the gTade of the street on either side
of the rails and paving the dual traffic
lanes.
Leaders of the Chamber of Com
merce now plan an appeal to the State
Roads Commission to remove the trol
ley poles, bring the avenue to an even
grade and pave it to a width of 75
feet from the District line to Old
Georgetown road after the railway
suspends operation.
Original plans of the State Roads
Commission called for the work to be
carried out in that manner, but they
were modified after the traction com
pany expressed its inability to join
in the plan and pave between its
tracks.
A committee from the chamber will
request Gov. Harry W. Nice and the
Board o( County Commissioners to
Indorse the plan and. il necessary,
urge the highway body to seek Federal
funds for completion of the project
in its original form.
Gov. Nice will be asked to examine
the ditch, which is one mile In length,
when he visits Montgomery County
on May 23 to attend a dinner to be
given In his honor by the Republican
State Central Committee for the
county.
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.
Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi Fra
ternity, University Club, 12:30 p.m.
Meeting, Federal Bar Association,
University Club, 8 p.m.
Dance. Tau Epsilon Phi, Hamilton
Hotel, 6 pm.
Meeting. Mercantile Club, Hamilton
Hotel, 1:30 pm.
Tea. Chi 8igma Sorority, Mayflow
er Hotel, 4 p.m.
Meeting, Advisory Counsel. Division
of Psychiatric Education, Mayflower
Hotel, 4 pm.
Tea, Tau Beta Phi Sorority. May
flower Hotel, 4 p.m.
Tea. Pi Sigma Tau Sorority. May
flower Hotel, 4 p.m.
TOMORROW.
Meeting, American Psychiatric As
sociation, Mayflower Hotel, 9.30 am.
Meeting, Cotton Textile Institute,
Mayflower Hotel, 12 pm.
Luncheon. Newcomers’ Club. Carl
ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m.
Dance. Helenic University Club,
Hamilton Hotel, 9 p.m.
Meeting. Graduate Nurses’ Associa
tion, American Red Cross Building,
8 p.m.
Rally. West Virginia Democratic
Club, caucus room ol the Senate, 8
pm.
Dinner, Jacoby Society, La Fayette
Hotel, 6:30 p.m.
14-MILE HEIGHT
|
Stratosphere Expedition Is
Ready to Leave for Base
in South Dakota.
By the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio. May 11—With
j high hopes of wresting new secrets
| from the outer rim of the world, the
! United States Army-National Geo
graphic Society joint stratosphere i
expedition plans to head west Monday
into the Black Hills of South Dakota.
The magnesium-alloy gondola of
the huge 337-foot-high balloon, in
which two of the Army’s foremost
scienticfic observers hope to attain a
height of more than 14 miles, will
be started overland by truck.
Capt. A. W Stevens and Capt.
Orvil A. Anderson, both veterans of
last year's flight which ended in Ne
braska. plan to fly to Rapid City.
S. Dak., proposed base, within a day
or two. Capt. Randolph P. Williams,
in charge of ground operations, left
here by air Iasi Tuesday.
Flight Slated for June.
The flight, if all goes well, is sched
uled to be made some time early in
June. Every hope—bolstered by what
scientists described as the most com
! plete and valuable array of instru
ments ever provided for such a ven
ture—points to bettering last year’s
altitude record of 60,600 feet, with
consequent expansion of man's knowl
edge of the realm beyond the air.
Here, briefly, are the scientific hopes
of the expedition, as outlined by Capt.
Stevens:
1. Study of pressure, temperature
and air velocity.
2. Attaining several large samples of
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upper air for analysis by the Bureau
of Standards.
3. Measurement of ozone content of
upper air.
4. Measurement of sun, earth and
sky brightness.
5. Breadcasting on several short
wave lengths to determine relative
transmission at high levels.
6. Measurement of electrical con
ductivity of the air.
7. Measurement of ironization due
to cosmic rays.
8. Determination of direction and
number of cosmic rays.
9. Making photographs both verti
cally and obliquely of the earth.
10. Collection of spores through
apparatus carried for the purpose.
But with air—or lack of it—and
scenery such as few men ever have
gazed upon around them, neither
Stevens nor Anderson will have much
time to gaze idly as mother earth
gets dim beneath them.
They will be far too busy, what
with several score instruments, oxy
gen valves and control switches,
cameras, radio transmitter and re
ceiver and other scientific "gadgets"
snugly packed into the nine-foot
metal ball.
Two portholes, somewhat smaller
than a street manhole, will have
their scientific use—as well as offering
a means of entry and exit—in en
abling the crew to study such visible
phenomena as cloud formations and
color of the upper heavens. They like
wise will permit reading of instru
ments outside the shell.
IP ON POTOMAC
Moonlight Excusion Pro
ceeds Will Go Into Camp
Roosevelt Fund.
Washington Boy Scouts are eagerly
looking forward to the moonlight ex
cursion down the Potomac Thursday
evening on a Wilson Line steamer,
Scout headquarters announced yes
terday. Proceeds of the trip will go
to the Camp Roosevelt improvement
fund. There will be music, dancing
and singing.
In order that headquarters might
check up on the amount of actual
camping done by District Scouts,
troops have been petitioned to keep
records of camping trips.
The "Yipee" Club announced
through Its president, Thomas A. King,
that the proposed outing to Skyland
has been postponed till Pall because
ot numerous Scouting activities.
Bundle Week Set
Bundle week, sponsored by the
Junior Board of Commissioners, an
organization of young business men,
formerly Scouts, will be observed here
from May 20 to 27, it was announced.
Bundles of cast-off clothing will be
collected by Scouts and at the end of
the week turned over to needy families.
The Eagle Scout Association, at the
call of its president, Dick Miller, will
meet at Scout headquarters Tuesday
at 8 p.m. Dr. William T. McClosfcy
will speak on "Opportunities In the
Jamboree." Officers will be elected.
The resignation of G. G. Whitney
as commissioner of the Cathedral divi
sion was announced. Mr. Whitney will
serve, however, as a member of the
Training Committee. His assistant.
Yule Fisher, former Eagle Scout of
Troop 8, has been nominated to fill
the vacated position.
Manual Being Printed.
The Jamboree Ouides’ Manual is
now being printed and upon comple
tion will be made available to all
Scout groups desiring training for
guide poets. Those qualifying In a
test, after study of the instructions,
will receive the positions.
The next Court of Honor will be
held at Powell Junior High School,
Hiatt and Lamont streets, Saturday,
at 7:30 p.m. Court of Awards, where
Star, Life, Eagle and Palms will be
awarded, will be held June 15 at the
Powell School. Scouts are urged to
submit their applications for awards
for Eagle not later than June 4 and
for other applications by June 8. This
will be the last Court of Awards un
til FaU.
_
UNIDENTIFIED MAN HURT
Alleged Driver Arrested After
Car Hits Pedestrian.
Police were attempting last night
to establish the identity of a middle
aged man who was in Providence
Hospital in an unconscious condition
after having been struck by an auto
; mobile in the 300 block of Maryland
i avenue southwest.
George Viatson, 22. of 608 Maryland
avenue southwest, alleged driver of
I the car which struck the unidentified
man. was arrested and charged with
reckless driving. He was released un
I der $300 bond.
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